The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1863-04-23

seen, the very blamelessness Of his pure
character having made him once influen-
tial, it was the cause of increased vindic-
tiveness toward him and his family,
wife and two grown-up daughters-grown
up, not simply in that fair outside which
pleases the eye, but in that faith in lib
erty which animated women of the Amer
lean Revolution; whose suffcrings they
were doomed to realize by experience, and
whose herosm they emulated.
As the Arch Fiend is fertile in expe-
dients, SO his proseiytes in the South were
not ut a loss for logic to support their plans
to prop up shambling government,
founded in fraud and barely sustained by
unrig ghteous plunder and under the spe-'
cicus plea Of punishing "alieus," they
hastencd to confScate their property, to
feed the monster Of scdition by the beg
gary of wealthy patriots.
Gamault became victim. Nearly all
he possessed was one day wrested from
him--houses, lands aud money-and the
family used to aflluence, found themselves in
sudden indiSence, aud the occupants of u
humble home, if home it might be called,
where the neccssaries of life were scarce,
where vcnomous spies kept guard, and
traitors, with tireless malice, made the
place disagreeable and unsafe.
The people grew more and more hostile
to the still firmly patriotic family. Their
efforts for the means of life were crampcd
by unfriendly employers, They were
insulte6 as spies when they went abroad.
Social intercourse with them diminished
and grew cold. Looks of hate and scorn
greeted them on every side. On their
native soil, they felt the pangs of exile,
made more poignant as they considered
that their martyr1onl was inflicted by
their own countrymen, and that their
nearest neishbors were their worst Of foes
The civilized world will yet blush to learn
of the unparalleled extent of that system
of cruel and unnatural persecution, coun-
-tenaueed an tiris u..e and country, and
practised against Southern patriots by
their parr:cidal fcllow-citizens. Oh! that
it should be reserved for priveleged
America to add such pages to condemn
ing history.
The small house-melancholy refuge
for that once happy family-was pointed
at BY day, and often besieged by night
with ribald songs from -trcasonable gangs
South was several times nailed in mock
cry at their door; and placards calling
for volunteers were posted there.
But still, though thus prosecuted, the
family were reluctant to fly from their
native State, and hoped for better days,
tho new agencies came with every morrow.
sWe shall yet be rightcd," Gamault
would say to them Justice will be
done at last to all, though slow-footed
now. Heaven cannot have designed this
country TO be the empire Of IN ignorant
aud savage bauditti. They are making
their greatest efforts at the outset, the
more Zea,eusly because their leaders know,
that unless they meet with speedy and
wide success, their means WI! become
exhausted, and the people they have
ard be taught by bitter rrivations, the
way back to the path of duty and reason
Think God and the warnings of Wash
ington, we have never left ii; and if VIC
must yet fly from Tennessee, though We
shall go poor, we shall so with honor"
Exasperatcd by the determined spirit
of Gamault, the community at last com
lnanded him to leave the State, or join
| the Confederate forces, or make use o
his ability as speaker in their behalf =
Al these mandates he refused to comply
with, until preparations were made iol
tearing down the humble tenement where
he lived.
81 am now forced to comply and leave,
said he to the molly crew, 'ahd we shal
be beyond the perverted rule of thisStatt
within twenty -four hours. We shall beal
witt us nothing-for you have stripped
me of all except my wife and children
nothing, save the principles of truth tt
the Union, which you lave violated, ant
the abiding hope that VIC shall soor
return, when victory shall restore peace
and reason"
"Hans you, for preacher - sneerct
his rcvilcrs. spack up aud go. GOOD
! riddancc. You arc welcome to the pleas
| urcs of banisliuient in the North. !"
A few stray missiles were hurled a
him by the irrascible by-standers, wle
thus provoked him from his customary
equanimity. Stung by this last vile act
he retorted
| "Your acts are worthy of your cause
rogues You talk of banishnent. You
who are banished already from the hearts
of all honest men. Let me say tc you
in the words OF others Friendship lives
| hence, and banishmcnt is here 'Yol
common cry of ours. I Danish you; there
Is world elsewhere. !"