Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1864-08-17


Davis are base liars and slanderers. 1t
is apparent to every thinking man, that !
their statement is truthful one. and that |
it was humiliating on them to have to |
come out against man whose Admins |
tration they adhered to so closely. We
see that history is repeating itself and the
dark days of barbarism may yet be the
fate Of the American people.
--4se----
To AH whom Ii May Concern.
We wish our readers not to lose sight
Of the precious document from the Prcsi-
dent, bearing the above caption. He
boldly declares that he would entertain no
propositions Of peace without the aband-
onment of slavery, as an indispensable
prerequisite. He declares that this war
is an abolition raid, waged for the freedom
of negroes, and not for the restoration of
the Union. He declared in his inaugural
address, after seven States had seeded
from the Union, in the face of the whole
people who were Hstning TO him, that he
had no desire to interfere with the insti-
! tuition of slavery in the States, and if he
had, he had no polrcr to do so.--
Where has he got the power since? He
| knew then, and he knows now, that he
had no legitimate power, except what is
derived from the Constitution, that he
was sworn to support and defend. He
cody calls for five hundred thousand more
cattle to be put into his shambles to be
butchered to satisfy his fanaticism-ffve
| hundred thousand more able bodied men
taken from the work bench, the anvil.
the loom and the plough, where their in
dustry is absolutely necessary to supply
the wants Of society, and procure food for
the youth, the aged and decrepid. Five
hundred thousand more to be torn from
their peaceful homes, from their wives
and children, who will be left without
protectors, to beg or starYe, or search for
daily bread in the abodes of vice. Five
hundred thousand more to be inundated
on the altar Of abolitionism-to swell the
list OF widows and orphans, whose lamen-
tations appeal to Heaven and assail the
earth with their voices Of woe Many a
father and husband is now looking at his
little household, aud thinking that he may
not long be permitted to commune with
them in the brief houls Of respite from
his daily toll. The future to him is dark.
He has before him the terrors Of an un-
just and Illegal war, and an unmarked
grave, or flight from the country he loved
50 dearly. That abandoned old function
airy cares little for the shricks of the dying
or the sobs OF the bereaved. '.The
sounds Of revelry by night as it was in
Belgiam's Capital, still goes on in Wash
ington. The old Caesar has an abolition
sentiment and day Of Thanksgiving TO
suit the preachers Of blood and freedom
! for negroes. He has a rbald joke for
the liccntious, and accommodations for
the debauchee. He hears nothing else.
nor will he listen to anything else Wives
and mothers and daughters may weep on.
fathers and brothers and sons may perish
by the thousand at the dictate of this
traiilckcr in human gore lie heeds it
not, he cares not. 1t seems to US he was
raised to elevation by the powers of the
devil as a scourge to the human race for
their iniquitics, and that Providence, in
his wisdom, has abandoned him and the
country into those hands for a season.
At the next November election the Devil
and Abraham will both have to retire,
through the irresistible force of the Dem
ocratic party.
GA new rebel vessel called the ToIIa
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