The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1863-02-12
letter from "GcGskOuaI.'

WAsnINGToN, Feb, 5, 1868.
1t is fortunate thing for our beloved
country that the wicked couasels of bad
men are subjected to the alemoic of reason
aud reflection Ii the sudden resentments
produced by these counsels- were allowed
to sway the public mind, there would be
neither order, nor law, nor security, in any
one Of our thousand communities That
the elements OF anarchy are now at work
in these communities, daily proofs sufh
clently testify. Thank Heaven, they are
no longer operating in secret The out
side cloak O.. professed loyalty has been
thrown aside, aud he must be blind in
deed who canuot see the hideous machinery
of treason moving on with steady and
unpausing system The citizen, at his
fre-side, who is endowed with ordinary
faculties. can study the danger thus
frankly disclosed to his judgment and his
vision He must be an indurated partisan
indeed, if he cannot apprehend. from the
Vaccinations of the now unconceaied- enc
mics OF the country, his whole duty to
himself and that country. L care not how
he may have heretofore voted how bigoted
his politics how trenchant his prejudices
against 4 Abolitionists Of the negro-if that
citizen honestly loves the government and
desires its preservation, his mind must
lead him 20 the conclusion thar the self
constituted managers OF the Democratic
party hope for and toll for the dissolution
of the Union | forbear q repetition OF
facts establishing this result They
abound Oh every hand, and regularly sup
piled with ostentatious boldness by the
guilty chiefs o. the disorganizing move
ment of the hour. There Is one aspect of
our preseut aud passing experience which
cannot be too carefully observed, 1t is
the key to the entire conspiracy against
the Republic. and should open every loyal
heart to an overwhelming sense OF the
impending danger aud that is, that by no
one word or sign is the government assIs-
ted By these leaders, in and out of Con
gress, in its efforts to put down the rebel
lion. Accepting this an indisputable
truth, it teaches US a fearful lesson and
imposes an instant duty. We must not
stop TO ask if other men could have better
administered the Governmen. and conduct
ed the war, In the midst of such nnparal
lclled and novel complications. Our only
effort should now be to strengthen those
who have the Government IN charge, and
to pose and PROSTATE those who are
opposing and weakening them Does any
Common sense man suppose, for Instance,
that if loyal Democrat had been President
when the rebellion broke out, he would
have hesitated at any remedy to arrest it
That when he saw the traitors resolved
upon biooCished, he would spare them
| in any OF their resources That, when
he was convinced that they existed and
grew strong upon slavery, he would allow
slavery to live and grow sttoug? Mr..
| Lincoln has acted upon precisely this
experience, neither more nors less.
| | contend that he has taken no one
/ step that would not have been forced upon
| Democratic President. How nonstrous,
for instance, TO attempt 10 prosecute war
against shareholders. upon the condition
that their chief grauary Of wealth and
! power, the institution Of slavery, should
be exempted from the casualties Of such
an event Such madness would only be
eG ualled 10y the faulty that refrained from
taking captured enemy's ammunition
aud stores. Mark well, in the same con
nection the clamor in favor OF constitution
al rights raised By the sympathzers with
Secession Not your rights, or mine, but
the rights Heaven save the mark y of
the authors of the rebellion and their aid
ers and abettors in the free States Do
you ever hear of loyal citizens rights
Ilsing in danger? And is every school
district, town and borough, and ward in
our happy country, to be convulsed, and
the whole object of the war obstructed.
because men who care for neither country
nor Constitution are punished by the Gov
ern nent they seek to undermine and
destroy And this of every other clamor
and complaint of these men. They know
what they iutend 1t is the anniblation
Of everything we have held sacred aud
inviolable. 1t is the disruption OF every
political and social tie. 1t is the downfall
of credit. 1t is the separation of States,
OF counties, ana of families. 1t is TO make
of this Republic another. Mexico, where
there is neither real religion nor last
ing law; where every year sees Il new ru-
Ter elevated upon the 5ayonets of sue
cessful army where foreign despots wish
to divide what we were too weak and
corrupt to save, and where good mcn.sce
no rescue from disgrace but in death or
exile. God, in His Infinite mercy, save
our happy country from that dreadful
future, when we shall see
.sThe rich men despots. and the poor banditti;
Sloth IN the mart, aud schsm in the temple
Brawls fostering TO rebellion; and weak laws
Rot;ing away with rust in antique sheaths.9
Aud If it is to be saved at all. it will be
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