The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1863-06-11

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| emn duty-to maintain the Government
The greater our unanimity the speedie,
the Gay Of peace" These are among the
| last recorded sentiments of that pure and
unsullied patriot. And yet it is attemp
ted to give color and force to the designs
of reasonable organization by quoting
STEPHEN A. DoUGLAs as having been
opposed to the war @! shame, where
is thy blush!
Mr. j. advises Submission to the Con.
scription Law. This is more than we
anticipated, seeing that few short weeks
ago the gentleman made the grand rounds
of the county, preaching up the law to be
unconstitutional, denouncing its authors,
vilifying its upholders, and threatening
that it should be resisted to the death,
provided it be decided unconstitutional
by the Supreme Court" Reason is eyi-
IDENTIFY resumlng her sway.
Mr.. spreads himself considerably
when he comes to talk about the Con-
scription Law being a rich mans law,
oppressive to the poor, &c. Now, should
the Secretary of War practically annul
the $500 clause Of the act, as it is said he
has in contemplation, and require every
man, rich or poor, to 90 to war when
drafted, or find his own substitute, would
the law be any less Oppressive" to the
poor than it now is :? or would it bear
the harder on the rich !? Of course not.
The fact is, this cry that the Conscriptiou
Act discriminates between the rich and
the poor is mere political clap trap, with
no merit whatever attaching to it.
Mr.. j. says he "respects the South" !"
We believe him for, although his speech
abounds with abuse of the North and its
rulers, we find that the South is let off
with a gentle a6mixture of flattery and
nonsense
This meeting, whereat Mr.. JOHN
sToN SO freely unbosomed himself, was
called for the avowed purpose of protest
ing against the recent demolishment of
the Non'tor printing Office, of Hunting
don, by party of returned soldiers. We
see by the papers that these soldiers were
all Democrats-membe Of the same po-
litical organization that the lHonitor and
Mr.. JOHNSTON belong to-and that the
r:otous demonstration was totally discon-
nected with politics. 1t was merely
question OF loyalty rersus disloyalty. One
set Of Democrats imagined another set to
be unfriendiy to the Government, and
took the unlawful method of showing their
of the course of the latter
by ''gutting" printing Office. For the
life of us, therefore, we cannot see why
the attempt should be made to hold the
administration accountable for the out
rage. The infamy oc the transaction
would certainly appear to be monopolized
by the Democratic party itself. We are
no apologists for mob law on the contra
ry, we contemn and despise the system.
Yet we cannot help thinking that this
Indignation Meeting has proven farce
productive of more evil than it was
intended it should work good. It's result
has been to add fuel to flames already ig-
nited. Had they speakers contented
themselves with denouncing the guilty
parties in the affair-those who really
destroyed the Office, and who shoulder the
blame-we should have rested satifed
But to make the occurrence of riot
gotten up by few irresponsible persons
a pretext for assailing tho Administration
and the war, strikes us as being very bad
policy, to say the least of it. We can
only account for the untoward circum-
stance upon the hypothesis that the
speakers, Mr.. JOHNSTON among the rest,
were afflicted at the time with that sim
gular disease known as cacoethes loque,,di
"a desire to hear themselves gabble.
Two UNION MEETINGs.-A tremend-
Gus gathering of the friends of the Union