American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-10-12

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peace, lest you might set themagazine o
slavery on fire; this magazine is now ex
! ploded, and if you support this Govern
ment she will soon be free indeed. Yor
talk of the abridgment of your rights
and yet you have more rights than evel
you improved. You have right to fight
for the Government that has protected
yoI, but you prefer to lay around and
curse Abraham Lincoln, and the Admin.
istration
i have seen your brethren in Virginia
and Maryland, robbed of everything that
they had on earth, by war, aud yet they
remained loyal to the Government. But
you who have never seen or felt the des-
troying hand of war, curse the very man
who has protected your self and family in
the peaceful enjoyment of all You have.
5 oppose your country OF o. v.si | by the
enemy. Here they come, YOU are in bed,
presently your house is occupied by the
enemy, every thing valuable is carried
away. Your children cry around you for
fear-perhaps you are arrested aud car
ried away; if not, you so ont in the NOR
ming on your once beautiful farm-you
have no fence, no corn, no grass. your
horses are stolen; of your cows, pigs and
poultry, you see nothing but the hide
and feathers. Your garden is demolish-
ed, your orchard destroyed, your smoke
house emptied OF the last ham and the
last herring" you see one man with
yDur oCat on .n,t I,,. ,ri+ l. ,-,,,r b,t N,,,,.
children cry for breakfast, but your -four
Is in rebeldom an hour ago. But the bu-
Gle blows, and in fifteen minutes your
democratic friends are gone. You walk
out and your family follows to view the
deaolation. All is gone save the large
pot and it contains the bones Of the last
turkey. Here lies your old pocket book
but mary Il red" Here lies your public
and private papers torn, mutilatcd and de-
stroyed even to the deed Of your place.
Your daughter finds part Of a letter from
her Dear Danuie" uampled in the mud
with her Sabbath-school bible, but his
likeness is lost. Your boots are gone but
you make a barefooted pilgrimage to the
family graveyard. No neat fence now
impalcs your noble dead, no sweet flower
blossoms on the grave of your little An
pic" And the marble blocks reared to
the memory Of your ancestors have been
broken down, while your hearts are bro
ken dner. and you weep over the graves
Of the depa,ted You behold (qs did the
cjti.ensof ChamLcrsbu,yl your house in
flames. Oh the barbarians Great
heavens :. The barns On fire -. What
s5aR do ? Repent ofyour sins, believe
in this Union, support this government,
vote for Abraham Lincoln and thou shalt
be saved, The picture is not colored,
these calamities have beflilcn your brcth-
rem and may soon befall you. 10 guard
YOUR homes from such barb -rism, Abraham
Lincoln declared to them, that they
SHOULD be protected in all their rights
under the Constitution" that they could
have no war, uulcss they were themselves
the aggrcssors;' but they became the az
grcssors. Since that, he has enlisted SOL
diers, called for volunteers, called for mil
itia, drafted men, built ships of war, de-
clarel a blockade, proclaimed freedom to
slaves, paid bounty to volunteers, armed
the negro fortified our cities and guarded
our rivers, all to defend you from such
barbarsm, and restore the peace and hap
p.ness of this Union. He is now after
these rebels, he has just chased them
through Winchester and Atlanta, and
your brave sons and brothers. who have
marched without rations, fought without
sleep, and slept without covering, bled
without a sigh, and died without a groan,
now look down from the good soldiers
rest on high, and ask your protection for
their graves, for the cause and government
for which they died. And now in the
name Of himaooy, in the name of all
that is near and dear to humanity, in the
name Of the God Of humanity, | ask of
you not to vote against your chief maeis-
ttatc and his noble army, who through
perils and sutferngs yow hao,c aotot have
defended your lives and property from de-
struction, your families from misery and
want, your altars from desecration, and
the green graves OF your sires from dis
honor.
PEACE.
wonder if any of you men have lived
in land of snakes all the days of your
life, and don't know that when a Copper
head cries peace, he means to bite you
| have often spoken to you in times gone
by, and many of you are sorry you did not
listen to my warnings, but to-day remem-
ber ! tell you this cry for peace means
secession, means a division of the United
States. The Copperheads see this rebel
lion nearly run down, they sympathze
with it, they think if they casnot fight
forit, they can stand back here and call
the dogs of war away Where does this
cry Of peace come from? Does it come
from those who desire to see this Union
preserved, and this ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ted? Does it come from those who are
fighting for its preservation No! 1t
comes from such men as Pendleton, who
always voted against coercion, and such
Democrats as voted to rob the soldier of
his right of suffrage We have 10000
prisoners to-day, in Georgia, suffering all
that humanity can suffer, offer them a re-
lease if they will sign the Chicago Plat
form, and they will tell you like true sol