The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-08-22

acter and his failings, we had thought that
years would teach him discretion, and that
he would feel it his interest, which with
him is the most powerful motive, to act in
concert with those who had heretofore be-
friended him. But, he showed the white
feather in the appointment of his confer
ees. This created suspicion among his
friends, and when he was mainly instru-
mental in defeating them on an occasion
IN which success was of the utmost i'm
portance to them, he was then regarded by
every one as having acted in capacity
familiar to him-that Of traitor. Having
voluntarily thrown himself into the hands
of such political demagogues as Mcguire,
Potts, Linton, Adams and others, who were
known to be the worst enemies not only
of our party, but the friends with whom
he had heretofore acted, he should not be
astonished if we began to look for another
Cambria county man, better qualified and
more worthy of the office, who did not
sustain the character of being capable OF
| cutting the throats Of his friends.
Let us examine the political character
of the men with whom he is now acting
IN concert, & who are now endeavoring to
force him upon the people as a pure demo-
crat. His principle aid and abettor in this
whole transaction is man known as the
Buffalo who has made interest his ruling
star on all occasions. A man who never
hesltated a moment about deser;ing his
friends or his party either if he was salts
fed that such course would contribute to
his pecuniary benefit. A man who voted
for James Nj. Power, the whig candidate
for Canal Commissioner, because he had
the promise, if elected, he would be the
Clerk of the Portage Railroad. He has
never been known to support the demo-
cratic party only at such times as he felt
it his interest to do so. Matthew M.
Adams, we belive, is the next most
efficient assistant. If we are not mis-
| taken, this same Matthew NJ. Adams
whose talents are known to be more in his
heels than his head, al the time Col. NJ
Donald was elected Prothonotary, rode
the northern part of the county election
eerng against him, and has on all occa-
sions set up his individual opinion against
that of his party. Yet fellow feeling of
plunder now brings them together.
In reference TO Messrs. Linton and
Potts, their political sins are too we'll
known to the people of Cambria county
to require repetition at our hands. 1t is
such men as these that are now endea
voring to sustain Col. M'Donald, and are
endeavoring to force him upon the people
of the county neieas Uoiens. There are
few others 1t is true, composed of men
who were disappointed in getting Clerk
ship Oh the Road, and others who were
no longer permitted TO suck at the public
teat. We would ask any candid man to
look at the list of those men who are
now urging the nomination of Col. NJ
Donald, and proper regard for truth will
compel him to say that there is not SIM
gle one amongst them who has not been
directly or indirectly defeated in some
scheme by which he expected to get his
finger in the public purse. There are
several men now to be found supporting
M'Donald, who are known to be his DO
litical enemies, and they do it, not because
| they hate Nj Donald less but because thev
hate Campbell more.
| We can assure our readers that every
word contained in this statement is the
truth, and nothing but the truth. We
should not perhaps have given it to the
! public, but circumstances have made it
necessary, and the more especially, as
Col. M'Donald has on several occasions
abused and vilified us because we dared to
assert that we had better democrats and
men more deserving the nomination for
Congress within the ranks of the Cambria
democracy than he was.
And now, in the name of truth, Justice,
and democracy, we call upon the hardy
yeomanry of the county TO attend the
meeting on Saturday next for the purpose
of administering proper rebuke to this
band of plunderers who wish to usurp
your rights: It. says little in favor OF