The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1851-10-02
THE "vALLEY. WREATH.y


monthly sheet has o'erstepped the modesty of
his nature Can it be possible that he has of late
assumed a character heretofore unknown to him
self and at variance with the established opinion
of his friends and admirers? We fear he has.
We always supposed him to be q man, amiable,
kind and gentle, but are wofolly surprised at
finding him to be choleric, irritable, rash and
rascible. He attempts TO be sarcastic, and en-
deavors to strike terror to our heart by calling
.'a questionable shape" that we doubt whether
the humane, kind, and consderate Mr.. Foster
ever penned them, and would exhibit no sur
prise, if, at some future day, we were informed
that the author is O certain climb of the law"
who in taking up arms against such ''sea of
troubles" as have been presented to his view
upon reading the Sentinel, may discover that the
time of the Wing party .is sadly out of joint, !"
and that ere he quits the field we may cause him
to digest the venom Of his spleen.
In the Mountain Sentinel of 18th ult., in re-
ferring to the recent tragedy at Chris tiana, we
severely censured Gov. Johnston for his dis
graceful conduct, and said that those persons
who violated the laws of God and Of the land
by shooting down Mr.. Gorsuch, who was in
search of fugitive slave, did SO "because they
had received aid and comfort from the abolition
party Of this State, and because they have q
friend in the person of VIM F. Johnston, the
abolition whig candidate for Governor of this
State, who openly and boldly proclaimed his
opposition to that law" The HreaM says:
GA greater number of hes nsyss asas compressed
within the same amount of words than is con-
tanned in the above" AS proof of our posi-
ton we quote from Gov. Johnston's Lancaster
speech, as published in the Hollidaysburg Whig
OF July 9Th, to show his hostility to this law
The Governor said: ''If had been in Congress
l would have voted against several of the ad-
justment measures. l would have voted against
the fugitive slave law, as almost all northern
wings did" Daniel Webster says this law and
the other measures of the compromise "scere
essential to the preservation Of the public peace"
Therefore, Gov. Johnston is opposed to the pres-
erpation Of the public peace. viii the Wreath
deny all these thingss
"Where is the evidence that auy white citi-
zens were engaged in this riot" asks the Wreath.
The Lancaster Examiner, whig paper, says,
''four white citizens of Salisbury township
Elijah Lewis, Joseph P. Scarlett, James Hood
| and Castner Hanaway now in prison, charged
with treason and murder at Christiana. Their
passions had been inhamed by abolition ha-
rangues and the circulation of finecndiary speech
es, until they had come to look upon treason to
the laws of their country as moral duty, and
upon murder as no crime" We think this Ian
guage clearly indicates Johnston as the author
of abolition harangues, and Thaddeus Stevens
as the circulator of incendiary speeches. Does
the legal editor of the Wreath deny it? The
Wreath says zoe did "not give a full and manly
statement of the facts, and that all the people
get from this truth-loving and truth-telling edi-
tor is editorial comment" II he will read the
whole article he will find the first paragraph
giving the entire accounts received up to the
time of it's publication taken tcord for trord from
the editorial columns of the Philadelphia Inquirer
The leading aehig paper of that city. He charges
our article as false, ergo the Inquirer is false
But they are both correct the circumstances
show. The editor of this paper "'does not regret
the publication" of the article as il contains so
much truth, and must certainly be severe, or
the Wreath would not denounce il so strongly
The Hreafh says that Sin the northern coun-
ties Col Bgler is the peculiar friend Of David
Wilmot, and that there Gov. Johnston is opposed
because he is the friend Of the Compromise mea-
sures. here because he IS the friend Of the Abo-
litionists." Col Bgler, in his speech at Towan-
da, the home of WilmOt while he was present
ayOwed himself in favor OF the Compromise, and
Wilmot afterwards addressed the meeting and
said he was his friend upon every issue except
the Compromise, but as the good outweighed the
bad he would support him for Governor, as he
liked him much better than the demagogue
Johnston. The last part of the above assertion
of tho WTeah IS incorrect, as Johnston is sup
ported in the northern counties because he is an
Aboliuonist and a opponent Of the Compromise,
10 prove which, we copy from the Potter county
Peoples JOurraa! the following article.
"Goop.-It is well known that Fillmore
whig, from Philadelphia, offered a resolution
In the Lancaster Convention, TO sanction the
Fugitive Slave Law and the Fillmore and
Bigler papers tell us that Gov. Johnston told
the delegates Of that Convention, that if the
resolution passed, they must look for some one
else as their candidate for Governor The
resolution was voted DOWN.
There is some of the stuff that Jackson and
Taylor were made Of, in Gov. Johnston, and no
mistake. He was determined not to be '6,lllied'
by the cotton lords"
Gov. Johnston is known to be an aboiitionist
of the deepest dye and is supported by such men
as Stevens, Howe, Sullivan and others-his re-
election is deprecated By eUery Southern ,chig or
democratic paper except the Washington Republic
and ,ce challenge the Wreath to disproue it-whilst
his election would be hailed with triumph by
Fred. Douglass, Garrison, Thompson the En-
gish abolitionist Seward, Giddings, Hale and all
others Of that stripe, and would reopen the
wounds which the compromise intended to heal.
1t this does not satisfy the Wreath he is blind
to the truth.
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