Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1864-11-02

that approaches to it at all, was in India.
At the time Warren Hastings was Cover
nor of that country, his exactions became
50 intolersble that Hyder Ali in the Car
natic, consumed everything by fire from
the mansion to the lowest blade of grass
on the soil. and left the Governor to make
his collections from the denuded earth
Hyder Ali was heather. No Christian
since or before, until the days of Grant
was guilty of such vandalism.
There might be some excuse for con-
duct of this kind, if the Government were
consistent in endeavoring to annihiate
them and crush them out of existence,
but that does not appear to be the object
of the Administration. If they have kept
an agent employed all the time, for the
last two years peddling goods to them, of
every description, even to the rebel gray
cloth that they wear for their uniform.
Would it not be better to let the rebels
use their own food, and feed our men,
whom they have. imprisoned i'll Richmond
and other places, than wantonly destroy
it, and have our own men suffering with
hunger. But Lincoln and his Admins
tration have their own p1a. of doing
things, and it is not for us to dispute it.
This is truly good plan of union, the
people OF this valley, should feel a good
deal Of anxiety to get into a Union with
such benefactors as these. After running
their grain crops, their standing corn, their
houses, their pictures and family relics
laid in ashes, they will surely be inspired
with Union sentiment, if they had none
before, and lay down their arms and beg
to be admitted into the Union with brave,
magnanimous men, who have taught them
what it was to have power and not abuse
it. They surely would not be unchristian
enough not to lay down their arms, and
love their enemies, and pray for them that
despitefully use and persecute them.
This double-faced Government of ours
can no longer hoodwink the North or the
South. The South knows they are fight
ing for subjugation to get their soil, and
free their negroes. The North knows they
are carrying on and prolonging the war for
the sake of plunder and the disf:anchise-
ment of the Democratic white race both
North and South.
These Abolitionists hate the Democra-
tic party with a hatred SO intense, that
they would prefer the incarceration of a
prominent Democrat to victory over the
rebels. There is money and power in the
war for them, and they would not like to
have it finished very soon, whereas the
election must be attended to immediately,
and can't be postponed. They hate Val
landigham, they hate Seymore, they hate
Mcclellan, worse than they do Jefferson
Davis, Beauregard or Lee. Because they
are further separated in politics from the
former than they are from the latter
They have always wanted dissolution of
the Union if the negro could not be freed
They have changed no sentiments yet
They still hold to that doctrine So far
as a dissolution of the Union is con-
cerned, there is no diversity of opinion
between the Government of A be Lincoln
and the Rebels. 1t is only the negro they
are quarreling about. Whereas ;he Demo-
cratic party and the Abo!itionists are as
far apart as the North and South pole
In no one item of governmental policy do
they agree. The Democratic party want
the Union as it was and the Constitution
lived up to as it is. The Abolition party
don't want that, any other government for
them, sooner than the Constitution of their
country. They are entirely demented on
the subject of the blackman. They have
got the war and the plunder, and they in
tend to hold on to it, until they are driven
from the public crib by the force Of ballots
or the force of bullets.
Hr The Catholic younu Ladies Of IL