The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1851-05-29
ADDRESS.
TO THE DEMOCRATS OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.

adjourned.
ADDRESS.
TO THE DEMOCRATS OF CAMBRIA COUNTY
FELLOW CITIzENs:-The County Committee
upon having been called together for the purpose
of transacting some important business, and to
adopt such preliminary measures as the welfare
of the party might demand, upon the opening
OF the ensuing campaign, deem it also but prop
er before separating to address you briefly
1t is well known that difficulties have existed
in the party in this county for some time past
and the notifying spectacle has been presented
of seeing the party united in support of the
State ticket, giving it majority of hundreds,
whilst some of our best men placed upon the
county ticket have occasionally been defeated
merely to crafty the personal or local feelings
of different factions which have existed This
course if continued must place the party
IN the county in a humiliating condition. In
stead of its energies being directed to uphold
the principles, measures, and policy of the
party, to unite in the support of our candidates
at home as well as abroad-in the support Of
mon who would faithfully endeavor to advance
the interests of the party-we should see those
energies wasted in the contentious of rival fac
tions. Our contests instead of being based upon
the support of particular principles, must de-
generate into mere local or sectional quarrels,
or the party be forced to take sides with indi-
yiduals who may be actuated by personal or
vindictive feelings, and by thus abandoning all
principle our elections would result in a mere
scramble between men, to the entire destruction
of all party organization.
This state of things we desire to arrest, and
if possible cndeavor again to restore union and
harmony to the party The results of the past
We refer to with regret, but the lessons we have
received ought TO admonish us sufficiently to
induce every democrat to calmly reflect upon
the present state of affairs in our county, and
induce him to aid in preventing their recurrence.
Our county is decidedly democratic, as is proven
by the large majority which is annually given
to the State ticket. Occasionally some men,
bers of the county ticket have been defeated,
owing to our dissentions, much to the gratifca-
ton of our opponents, who well know that it is
only by keeping the party distracted and divided
that they can succeed. 1t must also be admitted
that these dissentions have in some measure
knowing that the result must rebound to their
advantage.
The approaching election will be one of the
most important that has ever occurred in our
Commonwealth. The republican principle of
an elective Judiciary has been adopted by the
people, and for the first time they will be called
upon to select Judges of the Supreme Court for
the whole State, as well as President Judges in
the several judicial districts, and Associate
Judges for the respective counties. The selec-
ton Of candidates for these several stations will
require ordinary care, and when we reflect
that the interests, property, and even the lives
of the citizens of every county of the Common
wealth may be entrusted in the hands of the
highest tribunal of the State, the selection of
good and competent men to discharge the duties
of this high judicial station becomes one of no
ordinary interest.
The. selection of competent men ''lcarned in
the law to preside in the several judicial dis
tricts, and of their Associates to attend to the
local affairs of the different counties, will be
more Immediately felt by the people, and ought
| to induce them to calmly reflect in selecting
their agents by whom these nominations are to
be made, as the interests of whole community
are involved in the selection of good Judges,
and it is well known that partial or incompetent
men upon the bench are curse to all whose
property or lives are entrusted to their care
The election of Governor and Canal Com
missioner will also have to be made this fall,
and the democracy have only to be united in our
own, as well as every other county of the Com
monwcalth, to enable them to achieve glorious
victory, wrest the government of the good old
Keystone State from the hands of the present
whig and abolition rulers, and secure the as
tendency of democratic principles and measures
We have no fears of the result,-the people
have already in their primary meetings thro'-
out the length and breadth of the State, witt
extraordinary unanimity nominated Col. Wm
Bigler as their standard bearer, and the Read
ing Convention which viii shortly assemble vii
only go through the form of ratifying his nom
linaticn