Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-12-02

the same Acknowledgements of transgressing
agents, that they oace thus much.
We dare not blame the prudence of any
HHne having values in these States, Il, be-
coming frightened at the certainty of ap-
preaching ruin, he exchanges those values
for greenbacks or &c bonds" and, the same
day, at the ruling rates, gets what gold he
can for the paper, and gets that gold out
of the country before "the Government
Abe, S. p. c. & Co.-seize his gold as
6 military necessity" exchanging for it
some farther " certificates of indebted
ness''
On what does this currency" depend?
The Administration has substituted its
promises and its certificates that it is in debt
for the gold that capitalists owned Cap
ita has thus been made partner and
supporter of this new-fangIed "Govern-
ment," unknown to our ancestors If it
happens that, next year, or year or two
later, the peoples of the States of New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wis
consin and Michigan should conclude to
''let the Union slide," in the classic Ian
guage of Major-General Banks-should
the peoples of these and other States,
acting each in their highest, unalienated
and inalienable capacities as organized
and sovereign communities, determine to
disown and discard the Federal agency
that had, without constitutional warrant,
incurred overwhelming debts-should they
by simply refusing to recognize or send
Representatives to Congress, or Electors
to Colleges for the choosing of Presi-
dent, let the Federal power lapse, with
nothing to depend on but its army, and
that army made up of people of the States,
and paid only in Federal greenback paper
If these things should happen, VIII at
would be the fate of those foolish moneyed
pumpkins who have exchanged their gold
and their real values for the shinplasters of
Messrs. Lincoln, Seward and Chase7
Reduced to simple terms the matter
stands, that capital, a cowardly thing, and
handled by low order of intellect, places
its hopes in the artillery and bayonets OF
a usurped Administration of Federal
Government. Capitalists feel and see
that what they have loaned to these
Washington people are 'slpermanen invest.
nents!'' They do not hope ever to ge
back their capital. So they try to com
fort themselves with thinking that thi:
capital can be made funded stock, OF
which they can draw interest. They make
consolatory reflections on the British deb
forgetting two things; first the essen
TALLY different constitution of English SO
ciety, and, second, that the government 0
England is not, like that of the United
/ States was, an Artificial arrangement
drawn up on paper, and agreed to b,
States having a distinct and natural sever
1 eighty Independent of paper Constitutions
= In the end, the reliance is not on constitu
tions, not on law, not on right, but on tn
, brute force of armiesl Their only hop
, is that capital will be able permanently t
: hire soldiers enough to stand with bayonet
? pointed at the breasts of the laborin
: classes, to compel the latter to keep q
: work, at starvation prices, SO as TO pa
: the interest on the two or three thousan
It millions of dollars that capitalists hay
e loaned to Lincoln, Seward and S. +.
o We can tell these capitalists, whose il
:, tellects, by addiction to money-hoardin:
II have been blinded to higher order I
% ideas, that their hopes are vain. The
have put their trust in lies, and have mac
,e falsehood their refuge. The overfowir
j. scourge will assurcdly carry them ava,
,r We hope, but we are not assured, TIN
5. enough of the political virtues of our for
I fathers remains to save free institution
b. among u.s. But, if not, the despotis
c. that is to succeed is, in no case, going
er be founded on the vulgar, ignorant, shod'
We class. who, because they keep carriage
n and bedeck themselves with expensi
he eew-gaws, fancy that they can form
Elf aristocracy.
ia AS sure as the sun continues to shl
ga in the heavens as sure as muscle co