The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1864-11-24

shall be bygones-if bygones are bygones
our country shall live in peace hereaf-
ter" Are we not able to offer them that !;
are We not strong enough do We rot
stand with union enough to be able to
offer that to the leaders and to all?
There might have been some complaint,
l think, among proud and chivalrous
people, that they would not desert their
! leaders in answer to the amnesty procla-
nation of President Lincoln but now, as
| we come to them and say, ''Come back,
| and you shall find the laws the same save
and except as they are altered by the
/ Legislative wisdom of the land" are we
not in condition, not taking counsel Of
! our fears and weaknesses, but from our
--strength and magnanimity, again to make
| the offer, aud the last time to call on
them, and then shall we not have exhaus-
! ted all the resources of craftsmanship in
| the effort TO restore peace to the country 2
And who shall hinder this, and if they do
not come back who shall complain?
l ask not for the Rebel to come back
after he has fought as long as he can and
then chooses to come back, but state some
time--perhaps the Sth of January, 1865,
| for the association will be as good as any
and when that time shall have come,
every man who shall scout the preffered
amnesty of great and powerful nation,
speaking in love, in kindness, in charity.
in hope of peace and quiet forever, then /
say Of him, who then scouts the proifered
love and kindness, '.Les us meet him with
sharp, quick. decisive war, which shall
bring the matter to an end, and to the
extinguishment of such men wherever
they may be-" And how is that 70 be
doneY 5fi 80 c saE.T
Blood aud treasure have been poured
out without stint and without measure,
until, taking advantage of the depletion
of treasure, bad men have banded together
by specializing in that which should be
the circulating medium, and have raised
upon every poor man the price of tie Goals
upon his hearth and the bread upon his
table. Letsom measure DE aakeh 20 stop
that. and better measure than any OF her
isto le; it be understood that hereafter we
pay no more Eyunties from fhe taxes of
the North, but taking counsel from tire
old Roman method OF carrying on war, to
say to our young men, Look 90 the fair
fields Of the sunny South, and unless hey
take our amnesty, let US go down South,
and you shall have whatever you get m a
fair fight" and we viii open land Offices
wherever our armies march, and dislrib-
ute their lands and divide them among
the soldiers, to be theirs and their heirs
forever. --1" 80 ID --t1 -'s, u +.
This is harsh measure, everybody viii
say, but Is it not quite as just as tharwe
should lax ourselves anew, and raise the
price of the necessaries OF life for the
purpose Of paying bounties for the support
of the soldiers 70 fight these men whom
we have three times offered and called to
be our fliends, in 1862 and in June 1868,
again in December 1864. again by the Sth
OF January, 1865 and when the clock
strikes the knell OF that departing day,
then oil hope OF return to those who lave
not then made progress 10 that return
shall be cut off forever, and they will have
to go to Mexico, or the West Indies, or
some place which / will not name, be-
cause [ know not any land bad enough 10
be cursed by them. At all events, they
shall never come here again. $50 7.G p
/ look with some interessto to what be-
lievei to be the present results Of this
election, and / believe first that we have
settled the war by determining that the
people are strong enough to carry on the
war, and | never expect to see in arms or
In council a greater victory than the one
we have just achieved, and think we are
now strong enough to make them and Of
fer such one that he most sgueamish of
our friends will go with US when they end
that we have exhausted all the resources
of statesmanship, and that we are now
ready to make peace, and are therefore
prepared to make war to the hilt There
fore, say look upon this victory as one
which has decided the war-aecided It
not in military point of view, but in that
overpowering civil point of view which
decides the fate of nations everywhere.
To this it may be answered, and desire
for a moment to that answer to cali your
attention, SO that every man may work
out in his own mind the problem that if we
carry on the war with the strength and
istringency which have suggested, how
shall we ever live in the same land with
men whom we thus fought against? Let
us go to the teaching of history, and there
draw also from the. history of that land
which we are proud to call our mother
land, England. Every considerable estate
in the land of England under Cromwell
passed through Courts of Confseation;
and yet when the King came TO his own
again after time, the nation came togeth-