Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1864-10-19

IN TINS spirit or determined loyalty to
the Constitution and the Laws, the De-
mocracy of the North, with scarcely an
exception, relying upon the pledges given
by President Lincoln, yielded him their
ready and efficient support. What were
some of those pledges First, in his oath
OF office: ~ will support the Constitu-
ton of the United States, so help me
God" Then in his inaugural Address,
and with this solemn adjuration fresh upon
his lips, he said:
do not quote from one of my speeches
when | declare that g hare no purpose,
directly or indirectly, to interfere acjM lie
Institution Of sLare1y in tie States achere it
criSts. l BELIEVE l HAVE NO LAWS
FUL RIGHT TO Do 50. AND HAVE
NC INCLINA ALTON TO Do SOP Those
who nominated and elected me did so with
full knowledge that made this and similar
declarations, and have never recanted them
nOlc reiteratc these Seatime2ts and in do
ing 90, | only press upon the public atten-
tion the most conclusive evidence of which
the case is susceptible, that the property,
peace and security Of no section are to be in
any wise endangered by the now incoming
Administration. I add too, that all the pro-
lection which. consistently with the Consti~
tuition and the laws, can be given, will be
chcerfulIy given to all the States, when law
fully demanded. fjr whatever cause-as
cheerfully to one section as To another.
These repeated public pledges brought
voluntarily to the standard raised III behalf
of the Union, hundreds OF thousands OF as
brave men as ever breasted Il bayonet.
The armies thus raised were precipitated
on the South, with varied fortunes Of
victory and defeat and war, civil war
almost the most. bloody Of all human
strifcs-has ever since ragged over some Of
The fuirest portions of that unhappy re-
gion.
But the long cherished schemes of IA
naticism for the extinction OF African ser
vitude could not he given up. No matter
if Massachusetts, sixty or seventy years
since did sell slaves to the people Of the
Southern States, under the guarantees Of a
Constitution which she helped to form
still, Massachusetts meddlers, both IN
Congress and out Of it, now determined,
since they could not "rail," they would
rc1.d 'Ethe seal from off the bond" The
gallant three thousand cIergvmen Of
New England '-(worthy disciples of the
Prince of Peace ,)-raliicd to man, in
The new crusade Of tanaticism, and
wrought, side by side, with intidels, who
have for years been in the daily habit of
sneerins at the Christians faith, rilicuIing
the Christians Bible, and blasphcming the
Christians God!
The fears of our timid and facile Presi-
! dent were worked upon, as well as his
vanity and desire Of reelection, by the
| extreme and radical members of lis party.
and the emancipation and confiscation
! measures were forced upon him. and
made part Of his policy in the conduct
| of the war. Every effort of the friends
of peace put forth in Congress was de-
feated The hostility Of the Abolition
leaders to serfdom in the South-to en-
ploy the words of the lamented Douglas
''was stronger than their fidelity to the
| Constitution" They believed that q dis
ruption of the Union would draw after il.
as an inevitable consequence, civil war,
servile instructions, and finally. through
these, an utter extinction Of slavery in all
! the Southern States and, II would seem.
Look at the record: On the 18Th dav
of December, 1860, Senator Crittenden.
| of Kentucky, the bosom friend of Henry
| Clay in his life time, introduced into the
Senate OF the United States n series of
resolutions, as basis of settlement he
tween the two sections Of the Union The
secession of South Carolina took place on
the goth of the same month. and her
members of Congress retired from their
places. We are thus particular in refer
ence to this subject. because our onnonents
| through their Central Committee in this
State, have introduced it into late a,l-
dress to you; and there is a specious
effort made in that address to turn aside
from the Republicans, the lust obIoquy
and reproach which the defeat of Senator
Crittenden's proposition has fastened upon
their party.
The offered compromise would, in
terms, have sealed more than three-fourths
of all our territorial domain against slave
| ry forever-placing about 100000 miles
under the provisions of the Ordinance of
1877, more recently known as the 90 Viii
mot Proviso leaving the remaining
100000 miles subject to whatever laws
those who settled upon it might establish
for themselves, whenever they became a
State. All the other features of the pro-
posed compromise were nothing but re-
affirmances OF the plainest powers and