The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1851-10-02
Address
TO THE DEMOCRACY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.

been regularly nominated, and that they are all
eminently qualified to discharge the duties oil
the respective Offices they have been selected 10
fill. You, fellow democrats, know this fact;
and it would be useless for your committee TO
enforce it by a lengthy address. Your convlc-
tions of right your esteem for democratic prin-
ciples, your associations in former political con-
hicts, all cOnspre to fasten you to the democratic
county ticket, and induce you to stand by your
own county nominations throughout
There is another question of awful import
involved in the approaching election: the ques-
ton of who shall be the next Governor; wheth-
er the integrity of this good, old State, to the
behests of the constitution shall be maintalned,
or whether she shall array herself under the
black banner of abolition and disunion. Our
democratic candidate, Col. Bigler, is the avowed
and true friend of the democracy, and the friend
of the Union His opponent, Vim. F. Johnston,
has done all he could to disgrace the character
of the State and weaken the bonds which unite
this glorious communion Of commemorative,
over which "the stars and stripes have hitherto
waved as their proud ensign.
Fingers, dripping with the blood Of murder,
and damned with the ignominy of treason, have
been lifted to invoke abolition aid to arrest the
falling fortunes of VIM. F. Johnston. Your eyes
and ears have been opened to such appeals
Democrats, our county has been flooded with
nameless, countless documents, German and
English, tending to show how much OF the
State debt had been paid, through the sagacity
and financial acuteness of Governor Johnston.
According to whig representations, Johnston
has lessened the taxes Of the people, and in
creased, vastly, the receipts in the treasury.
Fellow citizens, these representations are BADLY
and palpably falsei You, as taxpayers, know
the fact, that your taxes have been increased,
since Johnston's induction to the Gubernatorial
chair: your money, your substance, fellow cit
IL. g he
of the State; and your Governor claiming the
exclusive credit Of producing the receipts which
legislation has abstracted from your pockets.
You paid the nsoney-JohastOn proclafHas ii, and
takes all The credit and honor 10 ht1asslf.
The union of the States has already been en-
dangered by the conduct Of Johnstcn-his name
is the synonyme of abolition and iisunion
wherever it is known-his efforts have tended
directly to stimulate opposition TO the laws Of
the United States, and disgrace and degrade the
character of our noble Commonwealth. Shall
this good old Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
be marshaled under the banner of Negroism?-
become the rallying point of Fred Douglass, the
Negro Incendiary! Shall she forget that her
interests are nidissolubly liked ia the Union,
which the blood Of patriots has cementedg The
democracy of Cambria county will answer, en-
phatically, no. Let her voice, through the bal
lot-box, proclaim her devotion TO the Union
her opposition to negro demagogues, and factiOus
traitors,-and her determination 10 stand by the
interests Of the whole country, which would be
ruined by the fatal policy Of Governor Johnston.
The danger Of dissolution Of the Union, and
of a seryile war among the States.-Whieh would
be the inevitable consequence,-the wings dis
card as q Wild chimera- Their eyes appear 10
be shut 10 the consequences Of their treasOnable
temerity: and only likely TO open 70 the
realization Of their principles, when they shall
have Buck Negro nomination for the northern
Presidency, and Miss Abby Folsom, or one Of
her ''iIk" gracing the ticket Vice Presiden-
tial appendage.
From the contemplation Of such spectacle
the common feelings Of all parties shrink with
an unconauerable repugnance; nevertheless,
the direct tendency Of Governor JOhnstons
doctrines IS TO reach this immediate result.
In the name of democratic principles, in the
name of our common country, from the reeol-
lectiOns of the past the hopes of the future, and
the recorded glories that history shall chron-
icle-we invoke you to oppose the election of
VIM. +. Johnston, save the character of your
State, by repudiating the political apostate who
seeks to tarnish it. Save this democratic Com
monw ealth from the odium which an executive
DhO has not been clear an has great
office has cast upon the Keystone State
From your mountain homes, speak by your
votes; tell by your detestation of abolition,
how contemptuously you regard the efforts OF
their leader, VIM. f. Johnston. Oppose him at
every risk Vote for the glorious exponent of
democracy, your own worthy candidate, Bigler-
the friend of the Union-the sterling democrat
the true patriot, who has borne your banner
in triumph thus far, and whose election will re-
deem the State from the thraldom with which
VIM F. Johnston's abolition administration has
degraded it.
The democracy of the State have nominated
Seth Clover for Canal Commissioner. He is
eminently worthy of your support. He Is an
intelligent and practical man, and will discharge
the duties of the Office with integrity. The
Cambria democracy will support him enthusi-
astically. The voters of the county will support
him-not only on account of his intrinsic mer-
its-but on account of his comparative claims
upon the mountain people.
John Strohm is opposed TO him! When the
sons and brothers of many of our people were
fighting the battles of this country in foreign
land John Strohm did all in his power to starye
them to death. He refused them supplies. His
vote is on record; it shows the cold blooded
malignity of his heart, and has stamped his
name with the impress of infamy, which will
not be effaced so long the soldiers or their
friends have the power of recollection. His
conduct was infamous, cruel, and unmanly!
His nomination, by the wings, was an outrage
upon your feelings and the feelings of every
American citizen. Many of you cannot but
think of the dear friends whom the fate of
war has consigned to graves on the plains
of Mexico. Contemplate, then with horror,
the conduct of John Strohm, whose purpose
indicated a wish to starve the American
army in that country. Voters of Cambria
county, you will not, you cannot, forget the
beastly conduct of Strohm to your brothers and
friends, ere the green sward has had time to
velvet DER the graves in which their ashes are