The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1867-01-24

Greets you. Suffered 20 sink into slumber
and silence on the eve of great election
whose result was glorious Union victory,
it has yet arisen, phenix-like, from its
ashes, and now stands revealed before you
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possessed in other DAYS.
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founded upon that immortal maxim of
the Declaration of Independence which
afirms that all men are created free and
equal, and are endowed with certain
inalienable rights, among which are those
of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happi-
ness. In support of these great principles.
the Republican party took issue with the
barbaric institution of human slavery, and
after a aprotracted struggle, succeeded in
extirpating the accursed thing from the
land. So that, the republic IS to-dav
indeed free republic, and no more a
Kissing and by-word among enlightened
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emerged all torn and bleeding, yet purified,
from the fiery crucible of war, is the
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spirit becoming its gravity anG import
ance. In its own good time, neither
progressing with undue haste Dor tagging
with snail-like pace behind, it will not
only so join together the discovered ele-
ments of the Union fabric, wisely and
well, that Its stability will be assured for
all coming time, but it will also perfect
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Odious and TO punish traitors" but not
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