Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1864-08-10
Governor Cuctin.

nations, calling on the people to organize
for the defence of the State. The procla-
nations are very ambiguous. The men
are called out for the emergency, and get
transportation, uniforms and equipments
from the United States. We can't tell
what disposition will be made of these
emergency men if they were collected to-
gether in the State. But it is likely they
would receive the same fate of the other
brave soldiers of Pennsylvania-gobbled
up by the Secretary of War and sent to
help Grant. Our State, that was once
the pride and keystone Of the Union,
since the incumbency of our present Gov
ernor, has become, so far as defence Is
| concerned, mere province Of the United
States The Governor, who should have
a well regulated militia force at all times
at his command, sufficient for the defence
of the State in any emergency, seems to
| have forgotten that there is any such
! clause in the Constitution. He cries to
| Lincoln and Stanton, always, when the
rebels make their periodical visits TO our
| fertile State. He sometimes calls on the
! Governors of New York and New Jersey
for relief, and these copperhead Govern
ors did not Withhold it from the loyal
| Curtin. Lincoln and Stanton could not
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! sylvania from ruin, notwithstanding they
had got from Pennsylvania regiment upon
regiment, and battalion upon battalion,
/ and besides her sons are scattered around
among every regiment OF the federal army.
Not Union soldier to protect her soil
from invasion. Who is to blame for all
this? Are the rebels to blame entirely
for these incursions? They are certainly
to blIme for acts of vandalism and cruelty
when they commit them, because no ac-
ton of our soldiers, however base and de-
graded, even is a justification for acts of
barbarism. They have burned down a
great part OF that beautiful and opulent
town of Chambersburg, situate in that
fertile valley of the Cumberland They
had visited 1t twice before, and behaved
as honorable warriors would do: took
what they wanted, end destroyed moth
ing. But at this time they declared they
would give them small taste Of the mode
of General Hunters warfare 1t is not
TO the rebels we are to look for protection,
it is 10 the Governor, and there is no cx-
cuse for him whatever. Why does he
not now, after Pennsylvania has been
thrice disgraced by the rebel visits with
as much impunity as if they had the war
rant of Abe Lincoln in their pockets, tell
the Administration that they should not
have another man from our State until
her own soil would be protected He is
the executive Of a sovereign State, OF
once a sovereign State, and holds his office
with as firm tenure as Abraham Lin
coin does, none of them would be there
except by the provisions of the constitu-
tions they are now trampIing under foot.
Perhaps Curtin likes not to disobliee
Lincoln and Stanton, as the latter boasted
it was he elected him, as he sent thirty
thousand soldiers to Pennsylvania at the
last gubcrnatorial election to vote for him
and he had only fifteen thousand of 6
majority. Could he only spare five thous.
and to watch that war path near Cham
bersburg, we would not have these peri
odical humiliations that we are getting Sc
well accustomed to-