The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1866-03-22
The Georgia Senators.

his organ, as entitled to immediate ad-
mission regardless of the law Of the Ma
ton that excludes him. He has consented
to serve; "nothing but an extraordinary
sense of Duty" he declares, "could have
induced me to yield my own disinclina-
tions and aversions." Having, in obe3i-
ence to like imperative sense of duty,
exhausted himself to destroy the govern
ment, he now very generously proposes to
discharge the new duty of directing the
destiny of the reunited Republic To
this end he has made another speech
before the legislature of Georgia, on the
same day that President johnson harau-
gned the rebels and copperheads of Wash
ington, and Seward sought by beautifully
rounded phrases to mislead the Union
men of New York, and the New York
Times pronounces it "wise and statesman
like" The late rebel Vice President and
wOuld-be Senator says that his only object
now is "to see a restoration, if possible, of
peace, prosperity and constitutional liber-
ty in this cnce happy but now disturbed,
G9itdted and distracted country"
We fully agree with Mr. Stevens that
this was once "happy," but is now a
try" How the spoiler came; how the
demon of discord and death cast his terri
bic shadow over people once happy, but
now bowed In mourning, rent with dis
sensions aud crushed with iebt, Alexander
II. Stevens can tell On The 9Th of Feb
ruary, 1861, wher no voice nlenaced the
South when the entire North prayed for
peace, and when the government under
Mr.. Buchanan was unwilling to make
even the feeblest effort to preserve its
own existence, a Provisional Congress of
traitors, who had made no effort to redress
real or imaginary wrongs within the
Union, assembled at Montgomery, Ala,
and elected Jefferson Davis President and
A. Fl. Stephens Vice President On the
following day, MIR. Stephens voluntarily
appeared before this assembly and took
the oath to serve with fidelity the cause
that aimed to dismember the Union and
has bewildered the world with its wanton
sacrifices. He accepted the traitors task
with alacrity. When he took the traitors
oath. he said >-'
"The committee requested that should
make known to this body, in verbal re-
sponse, my acceptance of the high position
[ have been called upon to assume, and
ttis l no,o do IN this august preseace-be-
fore you, Mr.. President, before this Con-
greSs, and this large concourse Of people,
under the bright sun and brilliant skies
which now smile so felicitously upon u.s."
By this movement the Cotton States
were plunged INTO rebellion-the "once
happy" people were disturbed, agitated
and distracted" aud driven into open war
upon their own priceless inheritance. But
the Border States still hesitated. Virginia
had Union Convention fairly elected By
her people in spite of the treason OF her
leading officers and politicians, and the
Old Dominion had to be defrauded into
the vortex Of secession and civil war
Diplomacy and trickery had to be en-
ployed to accomplish what the people had
resoiutely forbidden, and A Fl. Stephens
was commissioned to consummate the
monstrous crime against Virginia and
against the Nation. He performed his
task only too well, and returned to the
fountain OF treason with Virginia as an
offering upon It's unholy altar. His subtle,
deep laid ana skillfully executed treachery
succeeded in defying the popular verdict
Of Virginia, and she was made a withered
waste by his triumph. He bore to the
Cotton States the fruits of his victory, and
on his return to Atlanta, on the Both of
April, 1861, he appeared before the peo-
pie to boast of his success in starting
another star in the galaxy of States wildly
from its sphere, to hurl itself into the
bloody jaws of internecine strife. Ga
that occasion he said
ga threatening war is upon US, made
by those who have no regard for our right
We fight for our homes, our fathers and
mothers, our wives, brothers. sisters, sons
and daughters and neighb ors; they tor
money. THE hire2iRys Of the North are all
hand to hand against you!
GAS told you when [ addressed you
few days ago, Lincoln may bring his
10000 soldiers against us; but seven times
10000 men can neUer conquer u.s. We
hare nOD 1Naryland, Vrgiqia, and al the
border States ,eih US. We have ten mil
lions Of people with Us, heart and hand,
to defend US to the death. We can call
out million of people if need be, and
when they are cut down We can call out
another, and still another, until the last
man Of the South finds a 6loody qraUe,
rather than submit 10 their foul dictationP P'
On the 4th of July, 1868, Gen. Lee
was retreating with his defeated and shat
tered army from Gettysburg back upon
the Potomac ana Vicksburg surrendered
to Gen. Grant. The best army of crime
was broken in prestige, in spirit, in hope
and in power, and the Mississippi became
the Western boundary of the dominious
of treason. Then for the first time rnanv