The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1864-10-22

family or tribe, Human nature fows
in rivers and streams in the vast ocean
Of humanity but its waters mingle but
tlowly--sometimes they never mingle,
nndit cmeraes again, like the Rhone
from the Lake Of Geneva, with its own
taste and color. Here is, indeed, an
abyss of thought and meditation, and at
the same time a grand secret for trg'5-
I,tors. As long a, they keep The spirit
ofthe ruce in vi'e,o they succeed but
they fail when they strive against this
natural predisposition mature as s'ron-
ger than ,h,y are.
But why thus enlarge upon topic
which has undergone go much, and such
frequent discussion Why-because
this idea of working out negro equality
on the part Of our opponents as me
v,ry basis Of our present political struggle
Let no man be mistaken. This IS really the
leading issue at the present moment between
the two parties. To carry out thus ided has
come al last 10 be the ruliny, # not the sos puT-
po,s of N, ,car wlich is n0w deIuJtag the land
NTH fraternal blood For this, the Constitu-
ton an the reserved rights of the States
and the people have been mockingly tram
oiled under foot; for this, both impcrious
and imperial edcts, such as would send to
tho block any monarch in England, have
hoon issucd by the President, and sought to
be enforced for this. Secretary Seward's
boast 10 Lord Lyons-"l can touch my office
bell Mt rpy moment. and order to be arres
ted any citizen Of this country'-has been
all too frequently realized
The extent TO which the party supporting
the President are willing 10 go in negro
hfiliation, finds memorable illustration in
the proposition made by Secretary Cameron
the first of the several occupants OF the place
of Secretary of War under President Lin
ccin. lie cody proposed, in his hrst ana
last annual communication, to free anu then
to arm the whole black population OF the
South, and turn them against their white
masters in work Of ndiscriminale BUTCH
cry This truly internal suggestion was
not adopted by the President when first pro.
posed. hu' has since been acted upon IN
more i.si.u.- ham one.
We hay,caag-r1 the party at present in
poTc; te!,5v.Ci..tcn>. with tyranny anu
usuru.u.n. ,'a now go further, and sol
emf. r.-.r, nJg belief. that there is deilb
cr4-s Ie.ign to Change the character, If not
T.. VI
pa ,rs in the support of the administration
openly advocate modification which
will place greater powers in the hands Of the
President and if their advice should be
adopted by the people, in "A short time the
chains will be firmly rivcted and our liber-
,ies completely subverted. The Philadel-
phia Press not long since remarked
"Another principle must certainly be en-
bodied in our recognized form of govern.
ment. The nell who shape the legislation
Of this country when the war is past, must
remember that what we want is power and
strength The problem uiH be to combine The
forms Of Republican Gopsrnmsnt NTH the poW.
srs ofd Monarchical Government.
About the same time, as il by concert, We
Ead in the North Amerioaa
.'This war has already shown the absurdity
of a Govsrament Nth limited po,cers; ii has
shocn thIt the poVsr Of every Government
ouqht 10 be and must Be UNLIMITED"
Such doctrines as these would have met
with rebukc even at the hands of the elder
Adams but they were the natural precur'
sors of the ''war power" which has been
made to override the most explicit doctrines
of the Constitution. The very wrongs, in
fact, complained of by our fathers, an' emu
meYsted in their declaration against the
English monarch havebeen revived upon
their sons. This administration has viii.
fully violated its own oath bound pledges,
and sought "prstsrts Of innovatton upon the
established principles Of the Gocerament;' It
has fosered spirit of cncroGchmem Which
tr,,ds TO consolidate all the departments Of the
Government in one, and this create, lchatever
the forms may be, real dssponSm. 1t has
rendered "ihe military superior to the etut
IL -, ,f
lawless force the security prescribed by law
against seizure and Imprisonment "~'th-
out due process Of law." 1t has yer ly "cred'
ted a multitude Of new Offices, and sent dmony
u .v1rns Of officers 10 h1rass our people and
rat out their substance" By an iniqutous
Conscription law, il haa distributed its
agents among the people, backed by bayo-
nets and clothed with discretionary powers
.ovor the liberties, if not the lives Of our
0itizcn9 1t "has gu trtered large armies Of
troop; laonqstus. 1t has "mpoSed tdnes on
~ lo.ti5u, our consent" Finally, its chosen
and purchased .dvocates are now clamor
GUS tor a stronger Government, that ''our
charters may be taken apdy our most rdt"a6le
Iavs abolished, and the poWers four Govern
ernment altered Fundamentally. These we
submit, fellow citizens. are all Of them feat
urcs fairly exhibited, Of that stronger Gov
ernmeat," which our fore fathers, appealing
"to the supreme Judge of the world, eigh-
BY years ago, pledged "thcr lives, their for
tuIes and their sGcred honor" to put aside
forever.
We have before spoken, fellow citizens,
OF the depressed condition of the coun'
try. The mountain of debt which has
been piled up so recklessly, cannot be
less than three thousand millions Of dol,
lars, when all is fairly counted. Oh
this. Pennsylvania share will be at
least op 9,tcnth of the whole, or $500,
100000. The annual interest upon
this sum (more easily estimated thar
paid) will be about eighteen millions oI
dollars. This, added to the annual III
terest of our former debt, makes au az
gregate of interest now, aud henceiorth
to be borne 10y the people of this Com
ymonwealth, stated in round numbers, oI
twenty millions of dollars f. We canno
heighten this picture of the stern reality
which an inexorable arthmetical calcu
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