The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-10-07
DEMOCRATS OF CAMBRIA
TO THE POULS!!!


On next Tuesday the State and county cleo
tions claim your presence at the polls. The en-
emies of the Constitution of your country, and
its Compromises are busily at work in their eff
forts to defeat your Democratic State Ticket,
with the view of creating the impression in our
sister states that the s'Old Keystone will, in
that event, cast her vote for the whig Presiden-
tial candidate. Do not allow yourselves to be
led astray from the path which duty and love
of country urges you to follow. Be firm and
immovable in support of the nominees of your
party and through them show your attachment
to your principles, principles that have made
our glorious Union what it is, principles that
can alone perpetuate the Republic.
First in nomination you have Hon GEORGE W.
WOODWARD, your candidate for Judge of the
Supreme Court. The whig party admit his ca
pacity, his talents, his legal abilities, his erudi-
ton, his private worth and the Harrisburg
Telegraph, the organ of the wing party in this
state, says that ''the present incumbent Judge
Woodward, ''fills the Office to the satisfaction Of
air. and preferred that no nomination be made
against him. We do not think this whig testi-
mony worth much, and refer to it only to show
what the opinions of the whig press were then,
and what they are no1C, after lapse of four
months. The only charge made against Judge
Woodward is that of Native Americanism by the
penny-a-liners of the whig press and their as
sociates in Misrepresentation, the whig speak
ers. They sag that in the Convention to amend
the constitution of this state which met in 1887,
Judge Woodward, member of the convention.
do
He was wrongfully reported by the reporter
John Agg, an unnaturaized Englishman, and
a whig. This speech was said to have been de-
Evered in November 1887, while the convention
was in session at Harrisburg, and from the
length as reported would have occupied one
hour in delivery, while James Clarke ESQ, late
Canal Commissioner, and who was member of
the Convention, says that Judge Woodward did
not occupy over fee minutes. In January 838.
two months afterward, when the convention re-
assembled in Philadelphia Judge Woodward
discovered that speech which he neger made
was published by this whig reporter, and in re-
ply to some remarks of Mr.. Earle of Philadel-
phia, Judge Woodward then, on the 18th day Of
January 1888, IN tie conrention only teco months
after the Native speech was said to have been
made, denied the charge and so stronglv refuted
the allegation that not one member of the con-
vention dared to reiterate it against him In
the Debates of that Convention, vol 10, page 81.
will be found the denial of Judge Woodward, in
these words
''AIr. Woodward explained that he did not
wish to be Slandered by any reporter or misrep-
resented by any member this floor, and he
would not allow gentlemen to impute measures
and sentiments to him which did not belong to
him. He said HE NEVER DID PROPOSE TO
EXCLUDE THE FOREIGNERS NOW IN THE
COUNTRY. FROM POLITICAL PRIVILEGES,
NOR THOSE WHO SHOULD AT ANY TINE
HEREAFTER CONE TO THE COUNTRY"
And in the face of this denial, in the face of
several denials since, this whig party, fresh
from its affiliaton with the Native Americans of
Phila. for years, attempts to traduce the char
acter of our candidate by such base and unwor-
thy charges. The blush of shame should man.
tie your cheeks, your tongues should cleave to
the roof of your mouth ye who are guilty of
making so untrue charge against an honorable
and innocent man. Democrats look at the l.
facts and judge, and when you go to the polls
vote for Geo. w. Woodward and rebuke the men
who so malieiously SANDER and misrepresent
him.
Col. VIM Hopkins is your candidate for Can
al Commissioner. a better, more steadfast,
more deserving Democrat could not be found
When speaker of the Penna. House of Repres-
entatiyes during the Buckshot War; he main
tanned his position, in opposition to the wings ;
who desired ''to treat an election as it had new
er been held,'' and did not swerve from his du-
~ lie will not swerye from his duty as Canal i