The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1866-09-20


tiles were agriculturally too poor for slave
labor; condemned them to agriculture,
on this unagrieultural territory, and con-
signed them to unwilling ignorance aud
poverty-by denying capital and strang-
ling enterprise.
1t repealed the capital, energy, will,
and skill Of the free States, from the
free labor localities, by unmirieate1 irtol-
erance and cr;ption-thus guarding
the approaches to their slave domain
against democracy
Statute books groaaed under despotic
laws against unlawful and insurrectonary
assemblies aimed at the constitutional
guarantees of the right to peacefully
assemble and petition for redress of
grievances.
1t prescribed true democratic literature
as incendiary.
1t nutifeG the constitutional guaran-
tees of freedom of speech and The press.
1t deprived citizens of the other States
of the s'privileges and inmunities" in
these States, an injury aud usurpution
alike unjust to Northern citizens, and
destructive Of the best Interests Of the
States themselves.
Alarmed at the progress Of democracy,
in the face Of every encouragement, at
last it sought immunity by secession and
war.
The heart sickens with the contempla-
ton of the four years that followed
forced loans, impres>,rents, conscription,
with bloodhounds and bayonet. murder of
aged Union men, who had long laid aside
the implements of labor, bat had been
summoned anew to the field by the con
scriptiou OF their sons, to support chill rem
and grandchildren, reduced from comfort
to the verge of starvation the slaughter
OF noble youths: types of physical man
hood, forced into an unholy war against
those with whom they were identified by
every interest; long months of incarcera-
tOn in rebel bas.iles, Punishment from
homes and hearthstones, are but partial
recital of the long catalogue Of horrors.
But true Democracy, North and South
combined, defeated them. They lost
What did they lose The cause OF Oil
garchy? They lost African slavery d/
.s,dHle oaly. rs soon as the tocsin of war
ceased-aS soon as the clang Of arms was
hushed they raise the cry of ''inmodiate
admission" and with that watchword seek
to organize, under new forms. contest to
perpetuate their un6ridled sway. They
rehablitate their sweeping control of all
local aud State organizations. The Fed
eral Executive, easily scduced, yields IA
willing obedience to his old masters. Aid
ed by his nnscrupulouS disregard of Con
sfitution and laws, by his merciless pro
scrptnn of true democratic opinion, and
-, Ill o. i,
they now defiantly enter the lists in the
loyal North, and seek to wiring from free
men an endorsement Of their wicked de-
signs.
Every foul agency is at work to accom-
plish this result. Falsely protesting to
assent to the abolition of slavery, they are
conrriving to continue its detestable pow
er, by legislative acts, against pretended
vagrants. They know that any form of
servitude will answer their unholy purpose.
They pronounce the four years war
brilliant sword-scene IN the great revolu-
tionary drama, Proscriptive public SEN
timent holds high carnival, and, profting
by the example of the Presidential pilgrim,
breathes ont threatenings and slaughter
against loyalty, ignores aud denounces all
legal restraints, and aasails with the tongue
of malignant slander the cons;itutionaily-
chosen representatives, Of the people.
To still the voice o: liberty dangerous
alone to tyrants-m midnight co.flgrations,
assassinatiou5 and murders in open dav,
are called 10 their aid. y reign of terror
through all these ten States makes loyalty
stand silent in the presence o: treason, or
whisper in batcd breath. Strong men
hesitate openly to speak for liberty, and
decline to attend a convention at Phila.
delphia for tear CT destruction.
But all Southern men are not yet awed
into submission to treason and we have
assembled from all these States, dedcrmin-
ed that liberty, when endangered, shall
find mouthpiece, and that ''the Govern
meRt Of the people, by the people, for The
people, shall not perish from the earth
We are here to consult together how best
20 provide for Union OF truly Republican
States TO seek to relume thirty->ix stars
or the old flag. We are here to see that
ten of these stars are not opaque Godtes.
paiing their Intellectual fires beneath the
gloom and darkness of oligarchical tyran-
ny and oppression. We with them to be
brilliant stars emblems of constitutional
liberty glittering orbs, sparkling with The
life-giving principles of the model Repub-
lie ! fitting adornments of the Curious
banner of freedom
Our last and only hope is in the unity
and fortitude of the loyal people of Amer
lea in the support and vindication of the
Thirty-ninth Congress: and in the election
of a controlling Union majority in the
succeeding or Fortieth Congress-