The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1864-09-22

National Union nominees. But they ask
Tor and will acquiesce in no peace that Is
not founded upon the integrity of the I'm
ion and established upon the principles of
the Declaration OF Independence. They
recognize greater evils than war, such as
this is in which the nation is plugged
Divide the nation geographically, and to
what end do We inevitably gravitate p
| With the precedent and justice of seces-
sion established, who can presume to say
that we shall not repeat the Lumiliating
history of Mexico and the South American
States? United, the common danger was,
and would continue to be, our common
security. Divided, the land would groan
with the wreaking out of individual ven
geance. Divided, the torch and brand
would never be idle along the line of di-
vision. The country would at last awake
TO the bitter knowledge that open, vigor-
Gus war, prosecuted with high purpose,
is thousand times less to be dreaded than
an armed peace.
As an example, little more than year
since, when Lee, with his rebel army in
vaded Pennsylvania, and when the fate of
the Republic was decided by the battle Of
Gettysburg, how prompt wicked and de-
signing men were to inaugurate the insur-
rection in New York city, trusting
in the hope that the Government was not
able to maintain the supremacy of the
| Constitution and the laws. It will be
! long before the blackness of the crimes
committed by that conspiracy will be OBJ
| liberated.
As another example, take the recent
conspiracy discovered in the northwest
the banding together in secret of large
number Of men, the concentration of tbir-
ty thousand stand of arms and large
supply of ammunition. The papers of
| this conspiracy, which were seized, evi-
dencing too clearly that their design was,
and is, the overthrow Of the Republic,
trusting that division and anarchy would
shield them from harm, but In utter dis
regard of the concomtant wrongs to the
people-murder, robbery, arson-in
word, desolation for the time.
Now, fellow citizens, in both these ex-
amples the moving spirits are prominent
men in the Opposition, and controlled the
nomination and platform at Chicago.
Yet it is to such a peace as this that
our opponents invite you. They ask your
suffrages for man who either is pledged
to such peace, if elected, or who is de-
termined on war grander In scale and
bloodier in results than the world has yet
witnessed. There can be but two Issues
out of the present difficulty. The intelli-
gent freemen o. Pennsylvania need not to
be led like children. They will net fail
to com mprehend the nature of these issues,
and to choose between them. In so choos-
ing, they choose for their children and
their childrens children. They can do
nothing of public nature in these preg
nant times that shall not cause coming
generations either to revere or Gespise
them. The re election of Mr.. Lincoln,
and the election of Andrew Johnston as
his associate, will indicate to the chiefs Of
the rebellion that the war for union ard
permanent peace must 60 on until those
ends shall be attained. 1t will also sgni-
| fly to the nations of Europe that the people
I of the whole United States will, soon or
late, become an united people, and the
government remain, as it has heretofore
| been, star of hope to all the oppressed
peoples of the civilized world, and an ev-
erlasting monument to the wisdom of the
grand old heroes who conceived it. If we
could afford to basely abandon the strug
gle now, the world, mankind, could Lot
afford the sacrifice. If ICE could afford to
bear the shame, and wear the shackles of
defeat so cravenly invited, our children
could not stand erect under the 6eathless
reproach of our behavior. AS men, as
freemen, as patriots, we have no choice
but to stand by the government as admin
istered. The alternative presented by our
opponents is disunon and dishonor, which
is national death. If man reco gnizcs
ths existence of the principle of Eternal
Justice, he could not despair of the repuo-
lic There may be some in whom the
principle of hope maintains but feeble
existence, unless stimulated by uninter-
rupted success Such must be encouraged
and sustained by the example of the more
hopeful apd enduring. They must be
assured of what the philosophy of history
and of events teaches, that danger lies in
turning back, as security lies in pressing
forward. The desolations, and bereave-
ments, aud burdens of war may be, nay,
are terrible, but the tempest which rava-
ges forest and field, destroying the increase
OF labor, and even human life, is also ter
rible. Yet it is benefcent. With unva-
rying calm, the atmosphere would degen-
crate into putridity, and the earth would
revolvo in endless night. So war involves
nations in its fearful vortex that social
and political renovation may follow. AS