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

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II rendered and sustained by the Republi- /,
can members. Hence the aohole RESPONSE
6'tlty OF oar disagreement, and the only diff
Guilty OF an Gmicable adjustment, is loiM the
Republican party."-Jan. 8, 1861
The Peace Congress was another means
by which the border States strove to avert
the impending strife How the Republi
can leaders then conspired against the
peace of their country may be seen in a |
letter from Senator Chandler, of Michi- |
gan, to the Governor of that State:
" To his Ercellency, Justin Blair:
"Governor Bingham and myself tele- |
graphed you on Saturday. at the request of |
Massachusetts, and New York, to send dele |
gates to the Peace or Compromise Congress |
They admit that we were right and that |
they were wrona; that no Republican
State should have sent delegates; hut they
are here ard cannot get away. Ohio, Indi
ana and Rhode Island are caving in, and
there is danger cf Illinois; and now they
beg us for Gods sake to come to their res
cue. and save the Republican party from
rupture. hope yol. will send stiff backed
men or none. The whole thing was gotten
up against my Judgment and advice, and
will end in smoke. Sill hope as a matter
of courtesy to some of our erring brethren
that you will send the delegates.
Truly, your friend,
~. CHANDLER.,'
"P. S.-Some of the manufacturing
States think that a fight would be awful
Without little blood-letting this Union
will not, in my estimation, be worth a rush
WAsHINGToN, Feb. IL. 1861"
In Pennsylvania, too, the same spirit
prevailed. Ii was not seen how necessa-
rily her position united her interest with
the border States. She has learned it
since, from contending armies trampling
out her harvests and deluging her fields
| with blood. Governor Curtin sent to the
Peace Congress Mr.. WiImot and Mr..
/ Meredith.
| Mr.. Wilmot was chiefly known from
| the connection of his name with the at
tempt to embroil the country by the
90 ilmot Proviso," baffled by patriotic
/ craftsmanship, i'll which Clay and Web
ster joined with the Democratic leaders !;
just as Clay and jackson had joined in
the Tariff Compromise of 1888. Mr..
Meredith had published his belief that the
mutterings Of the rising storm were what
he called g stridulous cries." unworthy OF
I the slightest attention.
BY. Mr.. Lincoln's election, in Novem-
Der, 1860, the power TO save or destroy
the Union was in the hands of his party
and no adjustment was possible with mer
who rejected the judgement OF the Su-
preme Court, who scorned conclllatior
and compromise, and who looked to {
. little boodletting to cement the Amer
I ha / mo
men of the South had controlled, will
little difficulty, the small but restless clas
among them who desired a separate ma
tionality The substantial interests o
the South especially the slaveholding in
tercst, were drawn reluctantly into seces
: SION Gen. f. T. Blair of Missouri, al
/ eminent Republican, said very truly, il
: the last Congress:
Every man acquainted with the fact
knows that it is fsiacous to call this
} Shareholders rebellion?
l closer scrutiny demonstrates the contrary I
f be true such a scrutiny demonstrates tha
8 the rebellion originated chiefly with til
| non~slaveholders resident in the stronghold
:. of the institution, not sprlnging. howeve
J from any love of slavery, but from an al
: tagonism of race and hostility to the idea
: equality with the blacks involved In slmp
: emancip alton"
1t was the triumph of the Abolitionis
II over the Democrats and Conservatives
s the North, that secured a like triumph
!. the secessionists over the Union men
U the South The John Brown raid w:
n taken as a practical exposition of Il
II doctrine of Z" irrepressible conflict III
exultation over its momentary success
o the lamentation over its failure, had bee
swelled by the Abolitionists, so as to see
/ general expression of Northern teelin
Riots and rescues had nulified the cons,
tutional provision for the return OF +
W gitives, The false pretence that slave
e would monopolize the territories in whi
= it could exist, had been used as mea
. of constant agitation. against slavery
u u the Southern States. A plan of :
- tack upon it had been published in "H
c per's book" formally endorsed and
3 commended by the leaders of the par
that was about to assume the Adminlstr
II ton of the Federal Government-lead'
H. IL who openly inculcated contempt for
- Constitution, contempt for the Suprel
at Court, and professed to follow a "higl
n, law" Thus the fame of revolution
"a the South was kindled and fed with Fl
a furnished by the Abolitionists. 1t mis-
N, seem superhuous to advert now to wha,
,,s. mast and ;rrecoverable, were it not that is
M against the same men and the same
N. Hucnce.. still dominant in the councils