The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1865-08-31

Oaoulu inns fdll, our whole national debt
would next be repudiated and the country
ruined
Shall all this be avoided? Much of a
correct answer to this question may de.
pend upon your action to day Every
dollar OF debt, municipal State and ma
tionai, contracted for the suppression of
the rebellion, must aud shall be paid at
all hazards. Not one cent of rebel DEBT,
damages or pensions shall ever be assumed
or paid, upon any pretext or for any rea-
son whatever.
Our present loyal and patriotic Presi-
dent, Andrew johnson, has submitted to
these people policy which challenges the
admiration OF the world. 1t will stamp
him through all time to come as mag.
unanimous, mercifu! and kind-hearted rul-
err In his efforts to carry it out, he must
and will receive our hearty and Jealous
cooperation and support. But should
these people continue, as they have al
ready commenced, to treat his offers Of
mercy with scoru and contempt, and pre-.
sent to the country and tie world an ex-
hibiuon OF fJily, madness and wickedn
unparalleled, let rs here procl i'm to them
and 60 our chosen ruler that we vii, one
aud all, stand by him, in seizino and
holding ;heir Own territory by the militia
ry power OF the country, and that the
grasp of the military arm shall not be re-
laxed until they satisfy us, 5y their prac-
uces, that they are ready and willing to
accept IN good faith the results of the war.
1t was OF their own seeking and of their
making. They have no right TO ask the
advantages of trial unless they mean to
submit TO the verdict. The war has not
ended until the conquered party has fair
ly accepted its results, and the Govern
meat has not only a perfect legal right,
but 1t is her solemn duty to enforce those
results by the military arm Our four
years waf, the most gigantic In the worlds
history, must not be in vain. Let the late
rebels accept in good faith the policy of
our President, and We will gladly welcome
them a@alL as brothers into the folds OF
our Union. Let them reject it, and we
Will stand by him and Congress In COM
pelilng them to acknowledge our triumph
and their defeat. Slavery is dead, and
must aud shall be buried. The spirit OF
slavery must die and be buried with it
The aristocracy OF the South, which has
io,tered and upheld slavery, and which
inaugurated he late terrible civil war, must
he shUrn of its power. Already it is at
work stirring up opposition to the policy
of the Government and creating hostility
aud bitterness among the people. For
two years We carried on the war without
striking at the cause of the war Indeed
We rather guarded and protected it. At
last Abraham Lincoln, when his time had
come, on the memorable first day of JAM
uaEy, 1868, struck at slavery. The result
is before Us. Aud vet it still seems as ie
no lessons are sufficient to reach the au-
thors OF the rebellion. 1t is fast becom-
ing manifest that no permanent peace,
even with the death of slavery, can be
secured until the authors and supporters
of slavery are Subdued. In the words of
oar present patriotic President, fThis ar
lstocracy Is autagonistic to the princi-
pies OF free democratic government, aud
the time has come when this rebellious
clement OF arlstocracy must be punished
The time has come when their lands must
be couiScated; the aristocracy must be
put down, aud their possessions divided
among the worthier laborers OF the land"
This result will throw into our Nation
al Treasury many millions of dollars,
justly forfeited by the treason of their
former owners. What loyal man can OBJ
ject that by means of this fluid few of
the comforts, If not the Injuries, of life,
should be added to the tables of those
Widows throughout the land whsoe fresides
have been made desoiate by the war, or
rather by the treason which caused it p
Who will object that the bouuties and
pensions of oar soldiers by whom the vic
tory was won and the nation saved, should
be increased aud trifa added to the pc
cunlary compensation so justly due them
for ti.e sacrifices made VINO can object
that by means of these funds so Justly for
feted large portion of our national debt
should be extinguished, aud thereby the
taxes of all classes OF our people diminish
ed, and u part of the heavy load imposed
upon the shoulders of our people by trea-
son thus removed By treason itself?
Having proclaimed the freedom of the
slave, let US not weaken ourselves or en-
danger his condition by any controversy
among ourselves about his present posi-
ton or the extent of his privileges, but
carefully and surely provide that the free
dom thus proclaimed shall be firmly and
irreYoeaby established and secured 1hro'
all time TO come.
Let unity of action and a cheerful ac-
quiescence in the decision of the majority
mark our deliberations-let the glory,
perpetuity and success of our common
country, aloue, be our object, and all will
oe well.
R@r Several fairly executed cou1ter-