The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1867-09-05
:sDEAD ESSUES.''


able power and eloquence. He met the
CIV OF the Radicals that the Democratic
party is welded to ''dead issues,'' by Il
mastery vindlcation of our political policy
in standing firmly by the fundamental
principles of Republican government. We
invite the close attention of our readers to
the annexed extract from the conclusion
Of Mr. Pendletou's speech ON this very
point:
They tell US we Democrats will cling
to dead issues" The integrity of the
Republican government, the preservation
Of liberty, the maintenance of our Consti-
tuition and government, the happiness of
mankindl Are these dead issues Our
love for them may be dead, our fidelity
may be dead, our worthiness for them and
our enjoyment may be dead, but the issues
viii live Till they are settled in their full
!ru,lon and the principles which underlie
them are as durable as the eternal throne,
They tell US that, like the Bourbons, we
will forget nothing, and learn nothing
We will not submit to accomplished facts.
Il Is a mistake. 1t were wicked folly TO
resist the inevitable, We would bow rev.
errntly in it's presence But who shall
open the book Of fate and say of any course
of events, or Of any condition of things, it
Is fixed forever. Who shall with pro-
pheLfC power read the secrets of the AL
mighty, and repeat in another connection
the words which only once uttered through
out all ages reyerberate along the course Of
eighteen centuries ''H is finished" The
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interchangeable. The decroes of destiny are
hidden from its view, that its aspirations
may not be checked, its efforts may not
"a pafsied. When William Pitt came
back to the ministry, ho formed with in
credible energy and exertion the Continent
al Alliance, II required The labor of two
years. Napoleon broke up his camp at
Boutogne, marched his heroic legions to
the Danube, and in one hundred days
captured an army at Ulm, and shattered
ths coalition on The bloody field of Aus
teTfttG The great statesman was bowed
70 the earth-his hope was gone-his
courRge brokcn-his efforts at an end.
Broken hearted he exclaimed, "Roll up
the map Of Europe for half century,"
aud died, GelfeyiDg that Napoleon had at
tanned to universal dominion. Austria
was dosPOIled of her fairest possessions.
Jena followed, and Prussia was humbIed
10 tie dust Friedland followed, and the
monarch of the north bowed his naughty
head before the imperial eagles. Napoleon
was mighty. His fiat vacated the throne
of NaPsVs. He pronounced the sentence,
The House of Braganza has ceased to
reign, and that family went fugitives from
Portugal to Brazil. Louis was King Of
Holland, Joseph was King of Spain
Murat was King Of Naples. The confed-
Grafton Of the Rhine guarded his frontier
The Dukedom Of Warsaw and the King
dorn Of Westphalia were the props Of his
throne. Here seemed to be An accom-
: ~ rss.aa fact. But England refused to
accept the situation" and in less tLan
three years Austria was in arms, Prussia
was recaPerated, Russia had become hos /
ille, aud IN less than three years the en-
oPire of Napoleon had passed away-the /
fabric Of his power had been dissolved
Europe was re-estsbllshed within its ori- /
gnal limits, and he himself languished a
prisoner in the Island of St. Helena. In |
1850 the compromise measures were pass.
ed. They consisted Of the admission of
California, the amendment Of the Fugitive
Slave Law, tie establishment Of govern
ment IN the territories. They command
ed tbe support Of the leading statesmen of
both great political parties. They were
declared TO be an honest, honorable, final
settlement Of the issues Of slavery as con-
nected with the Federal government. The
national conventions of 1852 both ap-
proved them. The people thoroughly en-
dorsed them. But Chase, and Sumner,
and Giddings, refused to ''accept the
situation, and on the repeal Of the Mis-
soun Compromise they recommended the
agitation, which ended in war, and has
oblterated from the statute book not ONLY
those laws but the very principle on which
those laws were based. Who shall dare
to say what facts are ACCOMPLISHED
W no sLall predict the F'ways which are
past finding OUT To ''accept the situa-
lion, II 1t be wrong, is the cowardice of
tlmld spirit, or the weakness ofa wearied
one. Lrror Is never fixed, wrong is never
established, the courses of evil are never
accomplished. Truth wages against them
perpetual war. 1t never wearies. Its
SpIrI never flags, and it is immortal. ''The
eternal years of God are hers" Let us
be her soldiers and emulate her virtue.
Let US accept nothing as accomplished
unless our Judgments and consciences
approve the result as right Let US stand
by our Constitution which we believe TO
De night, and maintain our form of gov
!. which we have found to be bene-
hclent Let US accept no result as final
which accomplished their overthrow. Let
us be unwearied in this contest, and |
Oeiieve we shall save our institutions to
oiesS our children even as they have bless