Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1864-09-28

try to carry them out He never made
a promise but to break it, and he never
made a show of maintaining law but TO
betray people whom he made his dupes.
! When the war broke out the issues were
clearly defined. Never in ancient or
modern history were issues so clearly
made In other countries there have been
wars for boundaries and for claims TO ter
! ritories, or the right Of an heir born TO
| the throne F.; but here we responded TO the
! call of country and law, and that Is
precisely what Jefferson Davis and his
| advisers did. They got up Confederacy
! for the purpose Of overthrowing the Gov
! ernment, and that is what Mr.. Lincoln
had TO meet. The people came forward
TO sustain him with united purpose and
a united purse. They rallied to the stan
dard, and they placed in the field armies
never before precedented. You may Think
! of the fabulous armies Of the olden time,
of Xerxes, with his million men; you
have given Abraham Lincoln over two
millions of soldiers, more men than he
had votes in the presidential election.
The first pledge Mr.. Lincoln made TO
the people of the North and the South
was that the war should be prosecuted for
the sole purpose Of putting down rebellion
and maintaining the unity of the nation,
and for this purpose you put your sons
and your brothers and your fathers into
the field. They went forth for a cause
as holy as ever soldier invoked his
sword. How long did it continue? Why,
-. =. 4 II
to reOrganise our armies. The whole of
sixty-one was spent in preparation. The
campaign Of siXty-two was opened under
the auspices of Mcclellan, and Buell., and
Grant; and Fort Donelson, Shiloh, York
town and New Orleans proclaimed the
victories Of our arms. Almost an empire
was redeemed, 20 mighty was the terri
tory restored by our armies. The rebels
were everywhere routed, and loyal hearts
looked with glad anticipations of a speedy
peace. So that summer the rebellion was
broken. The rebels were retreating
everywhere. All Kentucky, all Missouri,
all Tennessee, nearly all Louisiana and
West Virginia were under the control of
the Union armies In the general rejoic-
ing of the times, L went to Tennessee at
the special instance and commission OF
Mr.. Lincoln, to make an amnesty pledge
and appeal to the people of the State
Men and women came for fifty miles to
meet me. | read to them the propositions
of Congress, the declarations Of the Presi-
dent, the proclamations of Generals Nc
Clellan, Buell. and Grant, to prove that
the support of the war in that State did
not mean the freedom of the slaves In
less than ten days seven thousand of my
neighbors came and took the oath Of al
legiance to the Constitution of the United
States, and went home glad to believe
that the rebellion was over. Mr.. John
son, now a candidate for the Wee Presi-
dency on the Abolition ticket, proclaimed
to the people of the State a general am
ncsty. and many of the rebels took it.
The people of Tennessee accepted the
amnesty rendered to them. by Mr.. Lin
coin through his military Governor, and
in support of it they sent thousands and
tens of thousands of their sons into the
Federal armies Then Mr. Lincoln chang
ed the issues Of the war. From that day TO
this he has employed the military power
Of the North for the purpose of blotting
the Southern States from the map OF the
world, making the war upon their life as
unholy as the war that jefferson Davis
has made against the Government of the
United States Tremendous cheering.
And in pursuance of the universal policy
of transforming the best Union men Of
the South into rebels, in Nashville the
week before last, Andrew Johnson, the
satrap of Mr.. Lincoln, with the loyal
leaguers of Nashville, declared that no
man should vote in the present election
unless he would take an oath to oppose
the Chicago Convention, to oppose armlS-
tice, amnesty, peace, in word, to oppose
George b. Mcclellan, and vote for Mr..
Lincoln. (Cries of "shame,' groans and
three cheers for swapping horses.)
Now. to-day, when the people of Ten
nessee would return TO the Union, TO
which they were always faithful, and re-
new their allegiance to Government
which they never deserted, Mr.. Lincoln is
irving to keep them out of the Union, or
at best to get up a bogus election, SO that
he can count of the votes of the State
How is it with Maryland? A few days
ago a convention met at Annapolis.
That convention was not elected by tine
people. The delegates were elected by
Lincoln's bayonets. They framed a con-
stitution, and they submitted it, not too
the people of Maryland. Instead of sub
mitting it to the people of Maryland, as
! the laws decided, they concluded that