Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-09-13

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sary consequences be to render the homes and
the fresdes of nearly half theD parties to it
habitually and hopelessly insecure. Sooner
or later the bonds Of such q Union must be
served" ls ~ ..51 .2-sig i:.l stJ l4
50 And, though he deuied the constitu-
tiOnal right Of secession, 2 he told 1.-the
South, which, at moment, was takicg the
preliminary steps to sec EIDE, that, if the
r'sspersonEi iiberty bills" of some of the
extreme Northern States were net repeal
ed, -Eis Z, bIsaer a9dt 90 -;asm
an that event, tie injured States, afte-
having first used all peaceful and constitu-
tional means to obtain redress, aotld be Jus
tfed IN REVOLUTIONARY RESISTANCE TO THE
GovERNMENI ,oE THE uSIos." ssi =5trE
We'll might Howell Cobb say, in con-
ideutial letter to a Georgia editor:.aJ
81 repeat to you tia. the administration of
Mr Buchanan is tie most thoroughly identi-
ied with cur principles and our rights of any
that has ever preceded it, and am Willing to
stand to the fail upon the issue
After this hideous Invitation. to REBEL
ion in the solemn state papers Of, our
N.sional. Chief Magistrate, furthe. proof
would seem to be supererogatory, but a
few iitterances By other party leaders may
be admitted to show that this doctrine
was accepted by the Democracy, and vas
continually promulgated both before and
during the whole course of the war. .,-.
Thus, on December Is. 1860, while. the
secession Of South Carolina vas rapidly
maturing, Judge Woodward, the most
prominent and trusted Democrat in Penn
sylvania, profaned the sacred precincts Of
Independence Square With the follow
Ing :- .s,r ....ss~ 90
"Wc must arouse ourselves and re-assert
the rights cf ,,e STAKEHOLDER, and add such
guarantees to our Constitution as will pro-
tect his property from the spoliatiou of re-
ligious bigotry and persecution, or else we
must give up our Constitution and Uhon
Events are placing the alternative plainly be-
tore Hs-constitutional union and liberty ac-
cordrig to American law; or else, extinction
Of slave property, negroe freedom dissol'i-
ton Of the Union. and anarchy and confusion
We hear it .ait Let South Carolina go out
of the Union peaceably. say, let her go
peaseably if she go at ALL but why should
South Carolina be driven out of the Union By
an irrepressble conflict about slavery"
And not only was the speaker endorsed
by receiving the Democratic p, nomination
for Governor Of Pennsylvania in 1868,
but this speech was declared in the ,ad-
dress of the Democratic State Central
Committee in August, 1885, to have
"been viniicated ty subsequent events,
as signal exhibition of statesmanliko
sagacity y !, :gas reprinted by that Com
mittee and circulated throughout the
State he thousands, as the purest embodi-
mehtf Of the Democratic creed, with a
preface in which the Chairman of that
Committee, Charles J. B;ddlc, declared
his belief that no intelligent man viii
tail to see in it the wisdom and foresight
of statesman such as the Commensealth
now needs in the direction of its affairs"
In the same spirit, the address of the
Democratic State Genital Committee in
1868, assures us, that
% Tbo s,,hs,G-;,;ol :.s... \ ~. q 1T.
the slaveholding interest, were re-
tgetantly dysea into secession On the
other hand, the Atcliticnists - counted on an
easy triumph through the aid OF revoted
slaves, and, in this reliance, were careless
how soon they provoked n collision To
cover up their own tracks, they invite us to
spend all our Indignation upon Southern
traitors but truth compells us to add that,
in the race cf treason, the Northern traitors
to the Constitution hadthe start.'ee s7--'.t
So, on the 10th of January, 1861, the
Democratic Party Of Philadelphia, as
senbled at great meeting in National
Hall, while State after State vas desanly
passing ordinances of secession, and seis-
ing forts, arsenals, dockyards and eSstom-
houses. They had no word of % reproba-
ton for Southern treason, but, fn the
series of resolutions adopted, they de-
clared their party faith, to be that the
citizens of Pennsylvania should 1,i
Determine with whom tEeir lot Should be
cast; whether with the North and East whose
fanaticism has precipitated this misery upon
us, or '~ith our brethren Of the South, tchose-
'0roRSs ire feel as oGr orr" ~ t' 9'.- .'S---
.hSo, the Detroit Free Press, a Demo-,
cratic organ, April i6, 1852: sa,--ga y E
.. History willrelate that we,,,,' (the ,North)
g manufactured the conflict, forced it to host
bed precocity, nourished and invited ii. ~
So, too, Edward Ingsrsoll,, in an ad-
dress to the Democratic Central Club of
Philadelphia, delivered June c13, 1868,
When Lee was; on the borders of Pennsyl-
yania :.agoi S4I y .as.. % s,7f :
luss Until the spirit Of dsunion ard hatred,
which is Abolitionism, is pat down in our
midst, government. which alone can give us