Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1865-04-12
What Y. III President Lincoln do!


In view OF the recent Federal victories,
II may safely be affirmed, that with the
exception of government contractors. Pro-
vost MarslalS, Draft Commissioners and
their innumerable horde Of undcrstrappers.
all other classes OF society in the North,
desire and demand peace II is fatal
mistake 10 suppose, that the fall OF Rich
mond will, of itself, produce peace 1t is
the beginning OF the end and will hasten
that result. 1t cannot be disguised that
the Confederate governments; has ceased to
exist and that the idea Of separate in
dependent Southern Republic, has vanish
ed into thin air. Although the Southern
Contcderacy is no longer power on earth
and although it has no longer a capitol, it
sill has an army; an army Of veteran
soldiers, well organized and disciplined,
but greatly dispirited by recent reverscs
Thst army may yet be concentrated in
South Carolina or Georgia, under it's
ablest and most trusted General, and al
though it could not hold the country per-
maEently, against the advance of the Fed
cr:Ii forces, it could prolong tie war Il
cannai bc expected, that the South will
disband its armies and return quietly into
the Union, with all the disabling and un-
constitutional legislation of Congress, for
the last three years, staring it in the face.
II Is true, that II is in the power of the
government now, TO impose any terms it
plcases upon the Southern people; to re-
ceive them back into the Union, with
their personal and poli:ica! rights preserved
or to break up their State organizations,
and treat them as conquered provinces
Bat will that effect what tile people have
nearest &c their hearts, an Immediate and
permanent peace. They devoutly pray,
that the gates Of the Temple of War shall
be closed and that the carnival Of death
shall cease. VIII the President prove
himself equal to the occasion IL left to
his own unbiased Judgment perhaps he
might But it has been his misfortune,
or rather his weakness, for the last four
years, TO be surrounded and controlled, by
radical and destructive faction in his
own party, which has adhered to him
with the same fatal tenacitv, that the
- Old Man of tie Mountain " clunc to the
back of Sinbad the Sailor If the coun-
sels CT such blood thirsty patriots as Sum
ncr, Stanton, Wilson, Chandler, Stevens,
and men of that sangunary mould, in
whose veins there does not course q sir,oIe
drop OF the milk Of human kindness are
permitted now TO prevail, then NAV the
people bid a long and perhaps a last fare
we'll 10 peace. The first named of these
American Dantons, has gone. doubtless un-
invited, to infuse his subtle poison into The
car of President Lincoln, at Richmond.
lie is bird OF i'll omen and will H,n his
sable wings and croah like raven. while
ieasting on lis prey. Who wants to see
The South, led back captive into the Union
with rope around its neck and the exc
cutioner ready to perform his dutyl Who
wishes to see her citizens, become the vas
s;.ls of centralized government and an
overshadowing, military despotism Such
policy will destroy and can never restore
tie Fnirn. Thar. /. 4 ccnservn.ive e,a-