The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-08-19
READ Ind REFLECT.
A SECTIONAL ISSUE.

AAiS dOIioA VI eAS fhlS NOiA'Nh O. D@i'A-
more in the nomination Of Gen. Scott, and the
subsequent tone of the Northern Wing press,
justifes the belief that they have given up all
hopes of aid from the South, and that their de-
sign in the nomin alton of Scott to create a
purely sectional Issue and depend upon the
North alone for success. Those who have
watched the history Of parties in this country,
since the time Of the elder Adams, the days of
back-cockades and Alien and Se6iton laws,
must be satisfied of one thing and that is the
constant attempt of the opposition to the Dem
ocracy, matter by what name it was called,
to create discord and disunion between the
members Of this confederacy, and thus induce
the necessity for strong armed central Govern
ment, which would soon blot out all idea of
State sovereignty, and reduce the people of the
country to state of vassalage and dependency
similar to that of the monarchies of the old
world. If proof is wanted of this design on the
part Of the opposition to the Democracy, look at
the declaration of Fisher Ames, of New York,
prominent Fedcralist, who contended that ''the
people were divided into two classes, the better
born and educated, who should govern and the
lower classes who should be governed" This
same SAtNSS " UI ICSStS LGlilO-
cratic doctrines, favored a life Senate, and all
the other monstrous aristocratic measures, from
which the people had just escaped by the blood
and treasure of the Revolution, and which if en-
tailed upon them again would have rendered the
struggle useless, and the Declaration of Inde-
pendence miserable farce without point or eff
fcacy.
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tempts OF the old Federal party, to introduce in
to the Constitution and politics Of this Republic
the'germ of the monarchcal rule of Europe
that the eventful struggle tool, place which re-
suited n the triumph OF Jefferson, and the up-
rising of those bold and radical principles Of
Democratic progress which are the foundation
stone Of the Democratic party of 1852, and
which have been the procuring cause OF the un-
exampled rise and progress of this Country in
all that enriches Nation in point of wealth,
and people in intelligence and political free
dom and equality. From the elevation of jeff
erson until the breaking out of the war with
England, during the administration of Madison,
the old ultra Federal party, which had always
dlstrusted the people, and repudiated the doc
trine that all power was vested in them. had si-
lently and secretly been at work to sap the con-
hdence of the masses in that Constitution which
they had adopted and spread among the people
a dlstrust of those whom they had chosen to be
their rulers. When the war broke out, and the
Democratic administration of Madison boldly
proclaimed the American doctrine of Gree
Trade and Sailors Rights, and bearded the IL
ON IN his den, rather than submit to the humili-
atI Yif re IL.
on the Old Federal party true to their feelings
OF hostility to the country and its free institu
tions, sided with the British and refused to sus-
tain the war, or the army when it was fighting
the battles of their country and protecting their
homes and iresides from the outrages of a for
eign soldiery. Josiah Quincy, then rank and
bitter Federalist, afterwards modern Wing,
who was rewarded by being elected by that par
ty, Mayor of Boston, denounced the war as un-
holy and said that ssif the enemy were thunder
ing at the gates of the Capitol he would not stir
to aid the country" On all sides the war was
stigmatised as Democratic measure, and that
fact was pointed to by the Federal party as an
evidence that the people were not capable of
self government and that they should have a
power to rule over them that was not subject to
their direct control.
The result of that war, however so glorious
to American arms, put but partial extinguish-
er on the doctrines of the old Federal party; for
though it prostrated them for time, still it did
not remove the venom that ranked in their bo-
SONS, against that system, and those means by
which they had been defeated. After the war,
the opposition to the Democracy gradually un-
derwent change after change, until it assumed
the present name of Whig. But at no time has
their principles underdone revision, or-ap-
proximated step nearer the true political plat
form on which the permanent peace and pros
perity of the country is based. After the crush
ing defeat that fell upon them for their treach
cry to the country, by the Hartford Convention,
and its kindred measures, they essayed the
game of the friends OF the monetary interests OF
the Republic, and under the cry Of National
Bank, endeavored and for time succeeded in
hood-winking the people into their support; but
tllis was, in its turn swept away by the current
of truth and popular demonstration, and they
were again adrift upon the sea ofspeculation as
an expedient to creep into Power and place.
the National Government, that was started by
this party, was another of the measures by