The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1864-04-28

Davis is ready to murder his neighbor
on account ofthe imaginary rights that
this village traitor has taught them
they have suddenly lost .o-
TIE CONSTITUTION AS IT'S.
The great Webster said in reply to
Hayne,- -"Having constituted gov.
ernment, and declared its powers, the
people have further said, that since
somebody must decide on the extent Of
these powers, the government shall it.
self decide" But designing traitors
and the ignorant, say that our enemies
must interpret and decide for us IT.
therefore, the Supreme Courtwill not
decide what honest men think to be
right, and will not carry out the object
Of the Constitution, as it is to secure
the blessings of liberty. we have no
remedy until the Court be converted,
or its members So changed that it will
decide according to the spirit of the
age, The horrors ofwar and the man
Hesitation of divine wrath are fast
working such conversion. When that
conversion takes place and the Consti-
tuition shall be truly interpreted as il
is, in the spirit Of justice and lchriStiani-
ty, instead Of being, as heretofore, the
fortress of slavery, the Supreme Court
will then indeed become the bulwark
of freedom.
BE NOT DECEIVED. -.
To awaken true sense of freedom
and justice in the mind of the masses,
seems to require great sacrifice ard
atonements, such as we have had, and
many more are in store for us, unless
we heed their admonition. Remember
the fate Of Pharoah, he would not heed
the still small voice of justice, nor the
warnings of Moses, but headlong he
went in his career of oppression until
he and all his hosts were overwhelmed
beneath the raging pillows, by the hand
of the supreme arbitrator from whose
decision there is no appeal, These
negro robbers now are trying TO gull
the timber jointed with the argument
that slavery will die out Of itself; let
me warn you against that insidious
tale. So they said and lulled the hon
est into that belief when the Union
was formed and caused them to toler-
ate the accursed iniquity and give the
question kind of 60 by. How dear
ly have We paid for the want of firm
ness in our fathers. Verify do we un-
dcrstand the meaning of visiting the
iniquity of the fathers upon the chill
dren unto the third and fourth gen
Grafton" If our fathers had crushed
the head of the serpent then, we would
have had no war now; but in atone
ment for their mistake, six hundred
thousand of our countrymen have
! been sacrificed upon the altar of this
molock of slavery, and still its appe-
tite for blood is not appeased. File
after file, platoon, regiment and legion,
sink forevermore, ra
Faint in his wounds, and shiyering IN the blast,
Our country soldier sunk, and breathed his last,
Imperial prdelooks suen on his plight
viii you behold-nor shudder at the sight ~ ~
Will you let foolish prejudice over
ride your common sense, justice and
: religion ? You all know who it is that
is giving aid and strength to this un-
holy rebellion Who is it that is sym
pathizing with the thieves who are
numbering your sons in the name OF
slavery? You cannot be mistaken
they set every conceivable trap; they
assume all manner of disguises and
names; they profess great loyalty
they are for their country with an
off" but mark them ; they attempt
to stab their country by clamoring
continually against our authorities
!, who are doing their best to put down
the traitors. Slavery's imps are steal
ing into high places by protesting the
most thorough Unionism They know
that the people are right, and they
cannot get into Office except by this
deception. As soon as they are safely
in Office, the first step they take is to
attempt to lead tho people into col
lision with the laws of the land, and
thereby aid their masters of the South.
) Watch them; don't trust them; Nor
;, gan's thieves are entitled to more Gre
: dit than they. Put no man in office
that you have any doubt about. You
have been tickled and fooledto too often
: and surely you will not be caught
), again with the same bait All who
have proved treacherous to you have
gone the sameroad- -slavery-slavery
: Look at them-WiclSlif. Robinson
Davis, Mallory, Guthrie, and host OF
!, others. And some latter day saints
had, as they thought, another nice traE
set for you baited with niger, but
= thank heaven for the good sense of The
! people, they would not bite again al
= = that stale, old, sinking bait, and they
. who set the trap with their sworc
presentations and reasonable proclaim
!, ations had to humiliate themselves be
y y fore the awful denunciations Of Ken
. tucky's freemen.
: THE LOUISVILLE CONVENTION DEFEATED
d The Louisville Convention which
|, appointed the Central Union Com
s mitttee, have been betrayed by th'
= said Guthrie, Prentice & Co., but, for
d tunately in time to open our eyes,
It They attempted to hand you over to
n Copperhead Convention at Chicago
: They knew that they were betrayin:
n that Convention, for that convention
Q hissed down the Copperhcad cravens
e at the same time that it appointed thi