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

exposition OF Its creed. lie was coarse
low rufiian, who for years had followed
no business but that of horse thief. and
he had committed many base and treach-
erous murders in the Western country.
He went to Canada, and there, with a
few confederates, he planned conspiracy
to overthrow the Federal Government and
conquer the States, and enterprise in
which he hoped to succeed mainly by Or
ganizing among the negroes a general sys-
TEN for the butchery of their masters
He sneaked into a peaceful Virginia town,
and at midnight began tc plunder the
public property and shoot down the un-
armed and deienseless people. He was
taken and hanged but it seldom hap
pens that the greatest benefactors of the
honors as the Abolitionists bestowed on
John Brown. They amounted almost TO
an apotheosis. From poets and orators,
from clergymen and politicians, from sena-
tors, governors and statesmen of every
class, from primary meetings and legisla-
tive bodies, the expressions of admira-
ton and sympathy were boundless. Ever
since that time, the most popular music
they have, consists of hymns to his MEM
ory, and hallelujaks to his great name.
Whence came all this ecstatic reverence
for the character of such a man2 1t was
not given because he was a murdered;
other men have have committed murders
without being worshipped for it. 1t WAS
not merely because he was a thief for
they have among them many others,
who have stolen on far more magnifi-
cent scale than he did No, they loved
him because he was like themselves, a
deadly enemy to the Government. Consti-
tuition, and laws of the land because he
plotted to overturn them because he was
the boldcSt apostle. and the earliest mar
tyr of that Higher Law, which was des-
tined to work out our political ruin. In
their estimation he was a greater man
than President Lincoln himself, because
he preceded Mr. Lincoln with ''procla-
nation of freedom" and besides it came
out of him without any ''preSsane." 1t
may be said that am citing the words
and acts only of their ultra men. Take
then the uttcrances of the most moderate
among them the careful, sober minded,
reflective secretary Of State. He has
many times avowed his devotion 10 the
Higher Law, and speech OF his in Mas
sachusetts, during the canvass Of 1860,
pledged Mr.. Lincoln as disciple Of the
destructive tendency Of Higher law
Did he mean peace and union and the
harmony of the States No; III his
Rochester Speech, he told US truly
what would be the effect Of his doctrine
- an irrepressible conflict between the
opposing and enduring forces of the
North and the South, which conflict OF
force was TO last until the Higher Law of
one section should put the legal rights OF
the other under Its feet.
Now after all the solemn warn
inGs we received from all the great states
men of the Country, that Abolitionism
would be fatal TO our peace, and after we
heard the admissions OF their own leaders,
that it was their very purpose aud de-
SIGN not to administer the Government,
but to destroy.it, what right have we TO be
astonished at the prodigious ruin which
surrounds US! We may lament it, in
came in the natural course and sequence
of things.
But are these calamities of so long a
life that they must have no end Is
there no chance of restoration The an
swcr is that our hope depends on the
number of votes we poll for George B.
Mcclellan on the 9Th of November. As
they will press the Higher Law and we
can have no more order or justice. But
Mcclellan has said that he will make the
Constitution the guide to his path and the
lamp to his feet. IF he is elected he will
also swear to preserve, protect and defend
that sacred instrument against all oppo-
sers, come from what quarter they may.
Those who know him have no shadow
of doubt that he will faithfully keep and
perform his solemn covenant with God
and the country. He is not the man to
plav fast and loose with his oath. Then
the Higher Law will give place to the
law of the land. l am as thoroughly
and profoundly convinced now, that peace
and Union will be the result OF M'Clel-
lan's election as was four years ago that
disunion and civil war would be the con-
sequence of Lincoln's.
But If the South, after all their rights
are conceded, should still refuse to per-
form their duties, then the coercive power
of military force will be legitimattly,
fairly and most efec.ually eKerted to COM
pei them I am not only no believer In