Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1864-08-10
The seyv Yankee Cook Book.
(From the Philadelphia Age.)

(F1'on, tie PhiladeLpha Agc)
1t is beginning to be grave question
with the mass Of people, not ,0hat they
shall eat, but whether they shall eat at 0H.
Those of our laboring population who
have not been given 10 the grave or the
hospital, in the prosecution OF this aboli
ton war, are left at home to contend with
the wolf which hangs about the poor
mans door-to face the spectacle, rs hor-
rible rs carnage, of starved wives and
ragged children, clamorous for the bread
which there is no money to buy. OF the
thousands of millions which this war has
cost, and for which the laborer IS taxed,
not a penny finds its way into his pocket
New England contractors and manufacture
crs daily grow inOrdemtly rich on the price
Of blood, and the mass Of people who
work for their bread, hour by hour, grow
poorer and still more poor, marching
steadily downward from common poverty
to downright bcggary, and from be@gary
strai1htway TO starvation. The worst
has not yet come, but it is fast coming.
-Four years ago every house in the land
was Hooded with Abolition tracts, dem
onstraring, that slavery in the South op-
Grated to degrade labor and to keep down
ihc wages OF the free workingmcn of the
North. Many Il poor man whose family
sat around Il well spread board, whose
wages suiii"cd not merely to support them
III comfort and 10 dress them in ncatncss,
5ut yielded 4 surplus to be laid by for a
rainy day, WAS seduccd by these lying ap-
peals to Ills passions and his pride, to vote
for Abraham Lincoln. lie has now had
four Years OF that glorious and miIlinial
rule which the Abolilionists pictured out
for him i'll their camp IGN documents
If he has been fortunate enough to escape
the iangs OF conscription, II hc has not
blcd and rUltcd like his brother or son on
some t.uitlcss battlefield of the South, ii
his wit, is not yrt Il helpless willow and
his children orphaned bcggars, II he has
been rcspitcd from these horrors until
another call for troops summons him
to the bloody shamblcs of Abolilion-hc
has been reserved for fate not much
better.
Ii is fact that even the bold mcnda-
city Of the Abolitionists dare not deny.
that the means Of living, of purchasing
commoncst necessities OF life, (its snallcs,
luXurics are out of the question. are fast
getting out Of reach Of the man who earns
his bread by the sweat of his brow. But
ter has been given up by the poor man
long ago. butchers meat, with the ex-
ceptions of the p Gees which in Democrat
ic days were fed to dogs and cats, has
become luxury hopcIessly out of his
reach Tea and coffee are practically us
far beyond the capacity of his purse us
Champagne or johannesburg The pipe
that solaccd his intervals of rest must be
put away. The time is at hand when he
must either feed like beast on the offal
of the markets or not feed at I'LL. His
wages it is true, have .nominally advanced
but he is paid in deprecated paper, not
worth forty cents or the dollar, and the
miserable rags which are counted cut to
him for his weeks work, are the only
chcup things lie ever secs. WclI may he
cry out III his distress:
Oh, God, that bread should be 50 dear,
And flesh and blood SO cheap!
This state Of things is truly alarming.
The sutlcrings and cries Of some nations
may be stitiled by the bayonct-a genera
tIOn reared from infancy on Crusts, NAV
patiently eat crusts to old age-but Il peo-
pie like ours, habituated To the comforts
OF life, fed in plenty on its meats and
fruits, cannot be trained to st;lrvc in de-
cent submission, or to die bcggars in loyal
felicity. The mutterings that are to be
heard now III every workshop and on
every street corner forcbode storm which
Is assurcdiy coming, and which cannot
long be delayed. God help the heads on
which lis ightnings break
Ihc 1ankecs are not unmindful of this
state OF things, not forgetful of the fact
that we are indebted to them for its exis-
tence' They have made good thing of
tins war. The treasures of all the rest Of
the land have been poured into their
yawmng pockets. They have done their
lighting chiefly by proxy, and under pre-
tence oil elevating the black, are represent
ed IN the field to day by hordcs of rgiscr
able negroes, kidnapped from the planta-
tons OF the border States, and marched
off to be butchercd for the 'ESons Of Pill
grims." They are bounding on the war
because it pays them in money and costs
them nothing III blood, They are richer,
better fed and more Independent than at
any period since the MayfIowcr spilled its
load OF malignants upon Plymoth Rock.
But this crafty people are wise enough
to see that the general distress among the
poor, which is becoming more manifest