Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-07-08


in that event the spared monuments
aforesaid might cling more closely to the
Federal flag. This division among the
people might cause a still more unhappy
state of affairs down in Dixie; our
friends there might have to bear addi-
tional indignities. AS before remarked,
our merciful and considerate President
was found equal to the crisis. In long
conversation with some of the inspired
apostles from the sanity city of Chicago
a place where Onderdonking and other
worldly amusements are unknown-the
President candidly confessed that he
was endeavoring (he did not state the
meslns) to ascertain the will of the Lord
upon this difficult question that so soon
as he learned the Divine pleasure he
verify would do the will of the Master
doubtless, ''by due course of mall it
amounted TO this: that in portions of
Virginia and Louisiana, in Delaware, in
Maryland, IN kentucky, III Tennessee
and Missouri, it was lawful for traitors
who had accepted the amnesty provided
by the confisc;.tion larw, and all other
persons, 10 hold slaves but that IN the
tide-water regions of Virginia, and i'll
that part.of Louisiana which had not been
co,,secTated to sitscey Jy tie military occapa-
ton OF Gen B1tier, as also in North
Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Geor-
eia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and
Texas, II should no longer be lawful for
the Union men, women, and children to
hold our African fellow-citizens TO service
or labor. And yet there are those of the
- Copperhead persuasion " who profess
not to see the wisdom of this great mas
ter-stroke OF our most noble and exalted
President. Sir, did it not immediately
divide the South and unite the North
Were not our camps forthwith crowded
with countless myriads of bold and an
dent recruits Have not :.our Ameri-
can brethren Of African decent" crowded
by thousands into our ranks, inspiring eur
soldiers with a wild enthusiasm, and rem
tering night vocal with the songs of en-
fianchised Dinahs and muling and pu-
king Sambos And have not our arms
been victorious everywhere since the
dawn of the negro millennium OF 1868 /!
Br;tyman, who commands i'll your Vi
cinity (at Bolivar Tenn-,) are guilty OF
AbSurditiis Of speech, which affords the
enemies of our sagacious President eN-
cuses for complaint and criticism. For
ins ilIce. on the ith of last March that
officer, then III command If Bolivar,
wrote ,.s follows liz regard to tic Procla-
nation OF Freedom, with which our II
ustrious and E,r-seeing President greeted
the advent of the new wear: 1.-The
loyal man is equally helpless with the dis
ioval-in fact more 50 for the rebel takes
his slaves South, or hires them i'll tho
army in which he himself serves, while
the loyal men flee to our camps beyond
rcclamation Under this process tn,
rebel hoitis his slaves by carrying them
into a State in which they are declared
free. while the law-abiding citizen loose:
his by retaining them in State where L
is ht~fm to hold u.e,a. As it is now, til
lo,r,tty aud good c03adHct c} these n'en ara
them aotSang."
LII speaking OF the elevaiing effects o
this system upon our armies and the ne
orues. Gen Braymen shocks our sensibiii
ties bv the use of such language as this
Their expense 10 the Government l
enormous 1t requires soldiers to guar
them. They sicken and die IN crowde'
and filthy corrals. They become debasc
and demoralized. They deJase and de
E denao,ullee the army"
Now among the resolutions you Wi
: adopt at the Memphis meeting ther
should by all means, be one censurin
Gen. Brayman for the use of language S
insulting to ''our felow-citizens OF Africa
descent and 50 justly calculated to IL
: cesne the slave-owners in Tennessee wf
have so stnbbornly refused to join th
t rebels.
WHY, sirs. this license of speech mu
l be Suppressed What right have me
i who do not support the present wise an
t efficient administration to criticlse |
0 policy OF the consequences of it Witt
$ in the last few days have heard persoI
: in this citv-in this capital which bea
the sacred name of Washington, al
f which for the presen, is the home of OF
= ilustrious chief magistrate-draw seer
n inciy invidious distinctions between Il
{ fate of Jesse ID. Bright, OF Indiana, Al
. that of John NJ Bolts, of Virginia.
: How my blood ''boiled with pious indi
q nation when. few days ago, l heard
e certain individual of the straightes. sc
: of Copperheads discoursing thus: g Jes
4 ID Bright. of Indiana, was expelled fro
20 the Senate of the United States last ye
h charged with reasonable practices.
ID then owned farm and negroes in he