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

less it is to obey our incompatible Presi-
dent IN all his wise measures 10 conquer
glorious peace. True, we have among
us croakers and Copperheads-silly,b brain
less men-who are so unwise and unpa-
triotic as TO question the wisdom of
our interchangeable President. If you have
any such in Memphis, you should de-
nounce them as in sympathy with the
rebels; you should send them To their
friends down South" or to the Dry
Tortueas, which is understood by many
TO be place where everybody is tortured
with thirst for rifed whiskey, and not a
drop can be obtained. No good Union
man will complain Of the conduct OF the
wise men who direct our public affairs
They should be taught to remember that
sccutdei,m Uld.yJ.atdp was formerly high
crime-it IL a most heinous offi.nse now
and nothing saves such copper-colored
wretches but the Christian charity of our
most pious President
Al your proposed meeting You should
40 arrange matters as 10 secue a list of all
who refuse 10 attend or omit TO render
suitable apology, and you should adopt
resolutions Of the most s'loyal - kind.
Allow me to suggest that the committee
on resolutions be selected from contractors
and oflice-hoders. particularly suggest
one Cooper, who has recently been APP
pointed assessor for the large, rich and
pupu!uuS district Of West Tennessee. He
WAS originally from New York. True,
he was never in West Tennessee until sent
from this city on his official GRAND, but
he no doubt knows 10y intuition the true
value OF goods and chattels, lands and
tcnemcHtS, etc, of a people he never
knew. and in II country in which he never
lived But he is 50 loyai-so much 80
thar | doubt not he Is better fitted for tie
office than any one Of the native born
sous, brothers, or fathers OF the thousands
of soldiers, which, before the 22d of last
September, West Tennessee had furnished
tlie Federal army. Let the committee
initiate thc 'EI.ny;il Leagues of Baltl-
more and rcSohe that you not only alD-
prove all the p escnt wis. and patriotic adj
miIistr;,tiun ms done, but that you will
sustain and uphold it III every thing 1t may
hereafter do. let the committee make iii
elaborate report, accompanied. with rcso-
IutlouS d, nouncing all who find fault with
our most excellent President. For IN
stance. tll. last Congress (in July, 1862,
passed Il law To confiscate the property OF
cer:ain rebels. That Congress, though
very wise BODY. did not possess as much
aggregate wisdom as our great and good
President. In proof Of his We need but
refer 10 the fact that the Congress aiore-
said proyidcd that under this law, trial
should pI-.c,1lc conviction and forfeiture,
and that nuilt should be proven, not pre-
surncd. Worse still, it offered an amnesty
to repenlant rebels: 1t mcrcltuily gave
them sixty davs in which 10 accept If, and
proyided further that our most noble fresi-
dent might suspend for Il period the ope-
rations of this law is our armies advanced
southward. SO as to afford all an oppor-
tunitv TO accept pardon. Worse still,
this law actually applied to no one but the
rebels. And il is astonishing that 1t ap-
pIied 70 everywhere North and South III
Sprinotield. Illinois, as well as Springfield.
Tennessee. But worse still ; 1t did not
wautonlv effect the rimhts or property o
I-nion men. women and children, or luna
tics, in any section of the country
! That Congress. strange rs If may seem
:, did NOT De-ceive that the way 70 end th'
= rebellion and restore affecti"nate relations
. between the sections was 10 place th'
Union men. women, and children, ant
= the insane upon a perfect footing o
? equality with the vilest traitors IN tn
land That Congress believed that TIN
crime or refusing obedience to the usurpa
; ton of Jeff Davis & Co, in Mississippi
Arkansas, North Carolina, and elsewhere
= amid the terrors of military despotlsm
did not merit the same or worse punish
:, ment than that they had denounce
:. against fitted and official traitors! Ina
A Congress spared the women and children
also shielded from harm the Union mel
who still adhered to the national symoa
of protection What weakness bu
CONGRESS- had adjourned What was I
:. be done? Thank heaven, our saSaclou
y. President was found equal to the occa
~ sion.
,e You will perceive that on the first
o. January last, under this so-called conh'
- cation law. the slaves of every rebel
: the limited States who had not accepte
70 the amnesty therein provided were de Ia'
!, free But how were we to end this n
~ belIion If the Union men, women m
=. children I'm the so-called Contedera
9 States were left in undisturbed posse
o- sion of all their legal and constitution;
* rirhts /, If this policy were adopted, Il
, rebels might have became angry vii
:, ,boso monuments of Federal .mcrcy, III