Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1864-11-02

division of goods and lands, can any body
doubt that civil commotion would be the
consequence The foundations of order
would be broken up; the rich would re-
fuse to part with the half of their proper
ty; the poor would think themselves IL
ccnSed to plunder it all, and the agents of
the Higher Law would do as they have
done elsewhere, rob both classes alike
Apply these plain and simple principles
to Abolitionism. In doing so let US con-
. cede that party TO be (what it Is not or
thodox on every subject but that of Afri-
can slavery. Assume, also, that the rela-
ton of master and servant, in the South
ern States, is wrong, morally and religi-
ously. Nevertheless, it is ''fixed con-
stitutional fact" that the United States
are furnished with no legal power to in
terfere with it; and any attempt by them
TO do SO is y,so .j5,cto destruction of the
Federal Government, for while 1t is en-
gagged in the execution of the Higher Law
it cannot perform the proper functions ac-
tually assigned to it by those who made
it. We are therefore without a Govern
ment anarchy spoliation and bloodshed,
contiagratiou, terror and tears, come In
! the place of Government and law.
Every one who reflects will admit. that
if this perversim of the Government to the
! purposes of Abolitionism. or any other
purpose inconsistent with its laws, had
! taken place at 4 former period, or under
an earlier President, the same disastrous
consequences must have followed. The
time never was when we could run our
vessel Oh such o rock as that without
making it a total wreck. Nor is there
single man, with understanding enough
TO raise him one single degree higher than
an idiot, who does not know, that if
Democrat had been elected when Mr.
Lincoln was. the course of the country
would still have been onward and upward.
1t is clear beyond possible doubt. that
the American people had their choice III
1860 between the government of their
fathers, with continued peace and pros
perity on one hand, and on the other
Higher Law inconsistent with the Govern
ment accompanied by a train of devilish
horrors 1t was blind folly to expect that
the law and the Higher Law would reign
together, for Higher Law will bear no
brother near the throne It's mission is
to tread down whatever opposes ii. In
every age, and in all countries, it has been
intolerant, dogmalic. demoniac in temper,
inexorable in its demands, reckless of law,
and ever ready to carry It's ends by brute
force. 1t disdains all compromise-it
carries no olive branch--it takes both
hands to WELD its merciless sword. 1t
makes its appearance on every theatre Of
its action with the foot OF Mars,
And at its heels
Laashcd in like hounds, fire, sword, and
famine
Crouch for employment"
Our present experience is enough, and
more than enough TO prove all this.
While the Federal Government was adj
ministered according to It's own laws, and
while its existence was threatened with
no serious danger OF Higher Law, our
country was prosperous beyond example
Her ways were ways OF pleasantness, and
all her paths were peace. When the
Abolitionists came into power, disaster,
disgrace and dlscord came with them.
Bloodshed, spoliation and anarchy, de-
rannement of finances, public debt and
enormous taxes, corruption and treachery,
conflagration, have followed their foot
steps ever since BY their fruits we shall
know them.
But we ought to have known this with
out learning it in the dear school of ex-
perience We were sufficiently warned.
Every statesman of all parties and sec
tions who had hand in making the Gov
ernnent, told us that ii would last SO long,
and so long only, as it was confined to
the proper and legitimate purpose for
which they intended it. We We're told,
not by the Democracy only, but by chiefs
of the great party opposed to us, that the
success of Abolltlonism would be fatal to
the Union, and peace of the ration.
Moreover, the Abolitionists themselves
did not deny that the overthrow of our
political system was their object. They
admitted that its overthrow was their de-
liberate aim. Their chief priests de-
clared that they could reach their purpose
only by marching over the ruins of the
Federal Government and Christian
Church. The greatest of their orators
claimed it as highest honor that he was
not only an infide! to the religion, but
traitor to the Constitution of his country.
One of their principle newspaper organs
particularly denounced the Federal COM
pact as covenant with hell, while an
other maligned the flag of the Union as
Haunting emblem Of lie. Another Shit