The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-10-21
THE PRESIDENCY.

md wbip parties will be decided at the Polls
That there will be afavorable decision and all-tc-
be-prased victory in favor of the eternai truths OF
Democracy and the standard bearers of the par
ty, PIERCE and KING, we firmly believe. The
recent hard drought battle in the Keystone State
so happily terminating in the success OF the de-
mocratic candidates, by an increased MAJORITY
not only has had an excellent effect in our sister
states where we find the Democracy since the
reception of the glorious news battling for their
principles with renewed energy and confident
hopes, but gives to the indomitable Democracy
here the prestige of still greater triumph IN
November next. In many places leading wings
are abandoning their party and enrolling them
selves under the Democratic Flag, and from the
rank and file of the opposition accessions are
daily occurring. These 'ssgns of the times"
are significant and denote the utter prostration
that will inevitably occur to the Federal whig
| forces on the first Tuesday of November. De-
feat, certain and overwhelming must and will
result to the whig party and its military candi-
date.
Against the military character of Gen. SCOTT
we urge nothing, and we would be the last man
rightfully belongs to him. He has proven him
self good soldier and has fought the battles of
his country well. So has many another man
about whom there is not so much fuss made
He is vain, irritable and over-bearing, as the
history of his life shows from the time OF his
quarrel with Gems. jackson and Wilkinson, to
the difficulties he had with his brave compatrl-
OTIS in the Mexican war. Exclusively military
man, having no high commanding civil quail
ifications should be a potent reason why he
should not be elected to the Presidency. With
his military character we have nothing to do,
but with the opinions which he has placed on
record we have all to do. And it is because
those opinions are at variance with the princl-
piles of the democratic party, and dangerous to
the interests of the country and the rights OF the
people, that we oppose Gen. SCOTT and fur
ther do oppose him, because he is the ma
chine in the hands of the Northern Agitators
and Abolitionists, Seward, Johnston, Vinton,
Greeley s. Co., to be used at their pleasure for
the advancement of their nefarious schemes for
the dissolution and dismemberment of the Union.
That Union which the Democratic party has so
earnestly labored for the stability and preserva-
ton of, and which can be perpetuated only
through the workings of Democratic measures
and by the elevation of Democratic candidates.
Gen. SCOTT has written that if he had been q
member Of Congress in 1912, he would have vo-
ted for a National Bankrupt Law an act which
if in force would allow the wealthy to escape
from the just payment of their debts, while the
laboring man is held to strict accountability.
Cen SCoTT has yxrittap that he wOnld vote for
establishing National Bank, to rob and plum
der the poor as did the old United States Bank
and if elected he would recommend such an in
stituton to be the means of corrupting the cleo
tive franchise of the country, as it did in the
time when Old Hickory put his heel upon it
Gen. SCoTT has written that he is in favor of a
Distribution of the Proceeds of the Public |
Lands among the States, scheme for the en-
riching of spectators by means of the labor Of
the industrious and the thrifty. Gen. ScoTT
has written several letters concerning the down
trodden and home-oppressed foreigner, who
seeks asylum in this free land, where he can
honestly earn a livelihood ''by the sweat of his
brow and worship his Creator according to
the dictates of his own conscience" In 1914, |
Gen. SCoTT ''fred with indignation against
the foreigners, and went for TOTAL REPEAL
of the Naturalization Laws. In 1914, he was
the candidate Of the Native American party for
President. In 1874, under the signature of
Anericus Gen. Scott wrote as follows:
ssWe are liberal enough, to open the door to the |
children Of foreigners WhO may be born here, aotth
out atlosoing their fathers to here to help goU-
ey7a u.s."
Query We should like to be informed how
the children are to be born here, if the fathers |
not allowed to come. This slight mistake is an
evidence of the Generals great craftsmanship !
In 1852, when the General is candidate for
office, he loves to hear ''that rich brogue,'' as
he said few weeks ago in Cleveland, Ohio +;
but in 1914, when the General was ''ired with |
Indignation" and sat down, as he says, in s'my |
parlor in the Astor House, New York. to write
a letter for the purpose of rallying Native /
American Party, and claimed to be the FOUND
Err and PROTECTOR of the American Party,
''that brogue' had no charms for him, it grated |
harshly his ears and he loved it not. We
greatly mistake the character of those who have /
been born in Ireland, or who are the descendants
of lrishmen, if such s'blarney'' from the ''indig-
nation'' candidate, does not ruin his prospects
With them. AS one descendant we are free and
proud to acknowledge that against General ScoTT
we will vote with a right good will, and in that
manner contribute our share to rebuke him FOR
the manner in which he .'butters them four Irish
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