The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1864-11-24
EBENSBURG:
What the Election OF Abra a III
Lincoln Will Accomplish.

The election or 4 0raham Llncoin may
be termed the great hinge upon which
depended the destinies Of the Republic.
That event cannot but result in the over
throw Of the rebellion against the Nation
al authority, and the establishment OF
peace upon an enduring basis between
the conteDding elements. Why? Sim
ply because the rebels will see in the pop
ular verdict lately rendered at the polls
unmistakable and overwhelming evidence
that the war must go on until it culmi-
mates in the downfall of treason. In a
trial of strength of endurance, the rebels
we'll know anc everybody of common dis
cernment knows that N the end they are
sure to be overcome. Hence, finding US
resolved to fight on and fight ever, they
will see the utter folly of prolonging
contest which must prove hopeless, and
will retire from the field. Some of their
leaders may not acknowledge the force of
this argument, and to save their own
necks from the halter may try to keep up
the struggle against The fearful odds
against them but the considerate portion
of them, the masses, will acknowledge the
i'm practicability of such course, and
hasten TO cast about them for path lead
ing back to the old Union.
The election of Lincoln defeats the
reasonable schemes of Northern traitors.
With Mcclellan as President, the admin
istration of the government would have
been placed in the hands of such men as
Vallandigham, Seymour, Fernando Wood
The Benedict Arnolds and Aaron Burrs
of the present day. The sole hope by
day and prayer by night of these is South
ern independence and Northern anarchy.
Their secret plans and Vaccinations to
that end extended even to the inaugura-
ton of civil war with all its attendant
horrors throughout the entire North
Our streets deluged in blood. our cities
and towns burned and sacked, and the
whole North converted into ar unproduc-
tive waste-tkese formed part of the pro-
gramme of these Northern traitors In
the interest of the South Thank Heav-
en- ! their Internal schemes against God
and the Government were discovered in
season to be nipped in the bud, and the
triumphant election of Abraham Lincoln
places The seal of eternal condemnation on
the foreheads of these miscreants.
The reelection of Lincoln gives the
Flushing death blow to slavery on the
American continent. Slavery, once dead
in the whole United States dies out in the
Western hemisphere. Mcclellan stood
pledged to the restoration O. slavery
Lincoln, to its final destruction. The
people hare decided the question. The next
House will be sufficiently strong to give a
two-thirds vote IN favor of the total and
final abolition of slavery in the Union, by
an alteration of the Constitution to that
effect. Lincoln will approve such an act
of Congress-M' 'Clelian, had he been
elected, would have vetoed it.
Lincoln's reelection is q direct indorse,
ment at the pallot-box, by great majority
of the American people, of the war meas
ures of the National Administrations
prominent among which stands the Eman-
cipatiou Proclamation. For four years,
Mr.. Lincoln and his administration have
been ON trial. and during that time have
had to pass through greater trials and
difficulties, and more fierce and fiery
ordeals, than ever fell to the lot Of any
preceding administration. He has had to
contend with Southern rebels in front, and
Northern traitors in the rear. Every kind
of strategy that wicked men or devils
could invent, has been brought to bear
against him and the Government as by him
administered. The great trial came on
the 9Th day of November, and Abraham
Lincoln, like the three worthless of sacred
history, came out Of the furnace with not
so much as the "smell of fire upon his
garments"
The defeat Of Mcclellan settles the
question that we are hereafter to have a
ehole country, without single star ex-
plunged from tho old flag. His election
involved a permanent division of the
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