The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-08-19

which they hoped to obtain 6 hold on the conh-
dence of the people for their ruin and the des-
tructon of the whole system upon which the re-
public rests.
Failing in all these measures, as desperate as
they were to, obtain the reins of government
and seeing that day by day the people un-
derstood fully the doctrines of State Rights,
upon which the whole perpetuity of this Union
depends, they clung with more devotion to the
Democratic party-they at last seized upon the
expedient of agitating the Slavery question as
a most fruitful measure by which to ALLEVIATE
portion Of the confederacy from the other,
and thus break the chain by which the Democ-
racy had always triumphed. This was most
desperate and fratracidal step; but that party
which had sided with the Tories Of the Reyolu.
ton, and the British in The war of 1912, was
used to desperate means, and if they could but
reach the goal of their ambition, they were not
disposed to be over nice as to the instrument
by which the work was to be accomplished
Acting then this plan they rallied around the
old Abolition feeling which had existed from the
commencement of the Government, and by Sc
cretiy tanning the flame, soon spread its balefnl
light far and wide over the country. From a
mere local matter that did not reach beyond the
village school-house in which it was promulga-
ted by some half demented but harmless phlan-
thropist, it soon assumed political aspect and
thrust its brazen and portentous front into the
halls Of Congress, and thundered at the doors
of the United States Senate for admittance.-
Petitions were presented filed to the brim with
infdelity to the Constitution and unfaithfulness
to that compact by which the Confederacy was
formed and men were found who advocated
their acceptance and spoke in favor of the doc
trines they contained. The old Federal party
which had been scattered by its opposition to
the War of 1872 now saw the moment for it's
re-organiz ton and the means by which thew
could be accomplished and seizing hold of this
new and dangerous element leaped into the sad
die, and with he war-cfy of Abolition;sm led
on the attack upon the Constitution and the
rights of the individual States. As National
Republicans they soon collected all those who
were opposed TO the progress of the country un-
der that Constitution which had been given
them by the wisdom of Franklin. a jefferson
and Madison, and their fellow Democrats. and
the abolition of all service or labor in the South
ern States was to be the watchword.
Thus was the Sectional Issue framed by the
National Republican party and from thence it
descended to their Representatives, the present
Whig party, whom, with Seward, and his high
er law doctrine, and Greely, with his ieers at
the constitutions, have ripened it to its present
fullness. Heretofore, they have cloaked their
designs under the garb of some more favored
principles; but in the nomination of Gen Scott
the mask has been thrown away, and the open
and naked platform of disunion presented TO the
people of the country. Seward declares that to
him there is law higher than the constitution
which he is bound to obey, while Greeley spits
upon the resolution which endorses the peace
measures OF the last Congress, and declares war
to the knife upon the Constitution and its plain
requirements. For days this band of fanatics
stood in the Baltimore Convention, and balloted
for man for the Presidency, who they knew
to be with them in spirit and in feelings and af-
ter accomplishing his nomination, they PASS a
series of resolutions, which they now laugh at.
and then come back to commence the war upon
a Sectional Issue alone. In the Eastern States. I
and in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, the
great battle is to be fought, while Truman Smith
and his forgery committee at Washington are to
make a feint upon the South by the means of
documents sent to those localities What but a
perfect knowledge that this was the game to be
played, and that Gen. Scott was a fitting instru-
ment to be used for the purpose, would have in
duced such men as Thaddeus Stevens, and Ex-
Governor Johnston to join in the swindling res
olutions of the Wing Convention at Baltimore,
or take the stump for the success of the Federal
Wing nominees now? Both Stevens and Johns
ton are known to be the unprincipled agents of
the higher law junta in New York, and both of
them aided and abetted in the Christiana out
RACES in our State last fall, the one by refusing
to act as the Governor of the State until suffi-
cient length of time had elapsed to allow the
culprits to escape; and the other by tempting
the people of the locality in which the affair
took place, to acts of hostility TO the authority
of the National Government Both these men
are now at the head of the Sectional Issue par
ty, and where they are, you my be sure they
are satisfied that the company is with them.
With this fact, then. staring them in the face,
will the people Of all parts of the Union pause
for one moment, and look at the consequences
that must follow the success of this mad attempt
on the part of the Federal Wing party, to dis
member the Union, and throw down that Cons
titution which was hequeathed Us by the wisdom
of our fathers is the success Of that party,
risicb has opooSad the xvaIf.,.a IF H.