Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-10-05
NUMBER 19.

been abolished among US, the deaths were
not all OF our first-born, but nearly one OF
every household; yet these deluded hosts
led Oh by hard-hearted and wicked Phara-
obs, as leaders, are still pursuing even into
the midst of the Red Sea Will not the
waters, standing as walls of safety to the
slave, return again and cover Pharaoh and
his hosts, and all that come into the sea
after them, until there shall remain not so
much as one Of them W
OUR CANDIDATES.
For Auditor General we have presented
the name of Major-General John f. Hart
ranft, of Montgomery county; and for Sur
veyor General, that of Colonel Jacob NJ.
Campbell, of Cambria. AS biographies of
these two gentlemen have recently been
published and circulated among their fel-
low-citzens, it is only remarkedshere that
they are both brave and gallant soldiers,
and especially qualified for a satisfactory
discharge of the duties of the respective
offices for which their fellow-citizens have
nominated them.
IMPORTANCE OF THE ISSUE.
1t is not to be disguised that there is
large numbers of persons, both at the North
and at the South, who have not finally aban-
doned the hope of the ultimate triumph of
the principles of the late rebellion. They
hope to secure by the success of their views
at the ballot box that which they failed to
accomplish by armed force 1t may depend
upon the decision of Pennsylvania on the
10th of October whether the war shall
prove at last, failure-whether its fruits
are to be only 'debt, disgrace and slaugh-
ter" or whether it is to have substantial re-
suits in the death and burial of slavery,
State sovereignty aud the right of seces-
sion.
1t is a we'll established fact that the con-
test was long protracted by reason Of the
hope and belief entertained by the South,
that they would receive aid and sympathy
from the North. 1t is now all-important to
the South that they should be assured that
this hope is fallacious, and that the North
will adhere unfalteringiy to the doctrines,
principles and views which carried them
triumphantly through the four years of
bloody war 1t is best to let them know,
at once and forever, that there is no hope
for the final triumph of the doctrines and
measures for which they contended in the
field.
We have seen that the men among US
who were first to urge upon the govern
ment to hold the rebels in the light of belli- |
gerents are now the first to strive to relieve |
them from the consequences and penalties
of their belligerency Those who were con-
stant in their predictions that the " war
would never end, and that the south could |
never be conquered" are now most ready !
to insist that the war is over, and that its |
objects and results shall not be secured but |
that rebels shall be instantly restored to all |
Aeir former rights under the constitution
and laws Of the country These same men
who are now appealing to the soldiers for |
their votes officially denounce as murder
ers all those engaged in trying and pun
ishing, by military commission, the authors
of the wholesale slaughter of their cOmpan-
ions in arms. All this and more they do, |
with the full knowledge of the law of ma
tions and the laws of war, which declare |
that these men have forfeited all their rights |
under the Constitution, and that they now
lie PROSTATE at the feet of the victor as
,Overthrown and subdued bellige-
rents, with just such rights, and no more,
as a kind and merciful Government may
choose to vouchsafe to them Let the peo-
pie rally to the polls and sustain by their
and sustained by the soldier in the field
The future will then declare that the "Great
W ar Of Freedom was not failure" but |
our children, to the latest generation, will |
learn to read with the warmest glow of pat
riotism those pages Of our nations history
which describe the skill and heroism of the |
officers and soldiers of this great struggle,
and never cease to venerate their memories
The greatness, power, ,resouI ces and energy
Of free people displayed in our great
struggle for the preservation of the nations
life, will only be equalled by the future
greatness, prosperity and success of the
nation, purified, regenerated and reclaimed
by the frey ordeal through which we have
ust passed
By order of the Committee
JOHN CESSNA, Chairman.