Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-08-26

tile administrator, tnat an appeal is now
| to be made to the Intelligence of the peo-
| pie. The Abolitionists deprecate these
illusions to the past. To cover up their
own tracks, they invite US TO spend all
our Indignation upon " Southern traitors"
but truth compels US to add, that, in the
race of treason, the Northern traitors to
the Constitution had the start, They tell
us that slavery was the cause of the war;
therefore, the Union is TO be restored by
waging war upon slavery. This is not
true; or only true in the sense that any
institution, civil or religious, may be a
cause of war, if war is made upon it.
Nor is it a just conclusion that if you take
from your neighbor his * man-servant or
his maid, or anything that is his" you
will thus establish harmony between you.
No danger to the Union arose from sla-
very whilst the people Of each State dealt
calmly and intelligently with the question
within their own State limits. Where
little importance attached to it, it soon
yielded to moral and economical consider
ations, leaving the negro in a position OF
social and political subordnation no where
more clearly marked than in the Consti-
tuition and laws of Pennsylvania. The
strife began when people in States where
it was an immaterial question undertook
to prescribe the course OF duty upon it to
States in which it was question of great
importance and difficulty This interfe-
renee became more dangerous when at
tempts were made to use the power of the
General Government, instituted for the
benefit Of all the States, to injury and
1 prescription of some of the States. 1t
was not merely danger to the insti-
: tuition of slavery, but to our whole po-
litical system, in which separate and dis
tinct colonies became, by the Declaration
: of independence, ''free and independent
States" and afterwards established a
II Federal Union under the Constitution OF
= the United States. That instrument,
e with scrupulous care, discriminates the
c powers delegated TO the General Govern
) ment from those reserved '' TO the States
; respectively, or to the people" And LET
n it be noted, that in speaking of the powers
T. SO delegated and reserved, we refer to nc
le vague doctrines or Dretentions. but to the
Al clear provisions of the written instrument
ol which it is the duty of every citizen, and
especially of every public functionary, tc
d respect and maintain. The protection o
y American liberty against the encroach
ments of Capitalization was left TO th'
IN States by the trainers of the Constitution
u Hamilton, the most indulgent Of them Il
'h Federal power, says: $ 1t may he satei,
a received as an axiom in our political sys
L TEN, that the State Governments will, IL
Dn all possible contingencies. afford complet
Ill security against invaslons OF public hbert
SS by the national authority" Who can b
a blind to the consequences that have tollowe
OF the departure from the true principles c
n our Government 'sAbolition vie
IS with . secession" in sapping the yer
an foundations of the structure reared b
III our foref;,thers In Pennsylvania, til
party on whose acts you will pass at tn
cts ballot-box has trampled upon the great {
a personal liberty and the freedom of I'll
A press. which every man who can rea
10 NAV find asserted in the Constitution
li lal the State and the Constitution of tt
lie United States The dignity of our Con
or monwealth has been insulted in the on
m RACES perpetrated upon our citizens.
of Philadelphia and at Harrisburg, propri
pie tors of newspapers have been seized
midnight and hurried off to military pri
sts ons beyond the limits of the Stat
of Against acts like these, perpetrated beto
to the eyes of the municipal and State a
of thorities, there is neither protection n
vas redress. The seizure of journal
the West Chester was afterwards the subje
The OF suit for damages in the Suprer
,ss. Court of Pennsylvania. 1t came TO tn
cen before Chief Justice Lowrie. Reheal
em ing the ancient principles of English al
NO. American justice, he condemned the az
sti- of the Federal officers as violations
fu- the law that binds alike the private ci
cry zen and the public functionary. He sal
,ich ss All public functionaries In this la
ans are under the law, and none from 1
in hirhest to the lowest, are above it" Ii
at patient at any restl aint from law, par
Iel- san majority in Congress hastened to p;
ra- an act to take from the State courts
,rtv the United States courts. all suits or pro
ira cutions 's for trespasses or wrongs dc
5ers or committed by virtue or under color
the any authority was derived from or ex
eme cised under the President of the Uni
,ber States - and such authority was decla
of 70 he full defence for the wrongdoer
fnel any action. civil or criminal. The Anne
iobt can Executive is, as the word imports.
at is erecator of the duly enacted laws
is is the pretension is made that this will {
in take the place of the laws. The hber
: of the character of every citizen, IS put