The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-08-12
The Proof Given.

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The Proof Given.
The Sentinel charged the Johnstown Cambrian,
a Whig paper, with hostility to the Compromise
and Fugitive Slave law, which that paper denies
in the following words and asks US to prove our
charges
''To arrive at the point at once, we deny that
we are opposed to the Fugitive Slave Law, and
that any remarks which we have made upon the
subject will bear the construction which ha; been
placed upon them. We challenge the proof ne
ccssary for the substantiation of the SeHttnePS
assertions. If this cannot be given, viii the ed
itor please make the dH1ende honorable, by re-
tracing the statements which head this arti-
Gle
So says the CdHs5riaa of the 30th July. The
same paper, under date of July 9th, in referring
to the resolutions eff the Baltimore Democratic
Convention which endorse the Compromise Mea-
sures and which takes strong ground against
any repeal or change of the Fugitive Slave Law,
said as follows:-
s'We have no particular objection to the first
resolution. We leave it with the good sense
and intelligence Of the people, merely rensdrkuqg
that the act concerning the rendition of fugi-
tive slaves is considered .fHality, a stopping
place, perfect standstU Il, the tcay Of emancipa-
ton. This doctrine IS not IN accordance 1cith tie
spirit Of the age; IL has nothing to do tritA the
sarit Of philanthropy blolcs object but blind
tdotatry 10 the Institution Of fSLaUe5y and equal
ty blind subserUieHcy 10 Southern dictatioa.''
Now the editor of the CamJrian, if he does
not consider the above language as in opposi-
ton to the law in question, certainly ssivos
words construction that we cannot place upon
them, and to exhibit still further the design en-
tertained by him of agitating the slavery ques-
ton and thereby modifying or repeating the law
we annex another resolution of the Baltimore
Convention and his remarks upon it -
Resolved, ''THat tie Democratic party aoiU re-
sSst all attempts at ree1oing IN Congress or out OF
1t, the agitation Of the Sla0eyy question, unde-
'ghaterer shape color the attempts may be made 4"
The Cam5rian says in regard to this resolu-
ton =
The resolution we have italicised for the pur-
pose of specially citing the attention of our
readers to our proof of the assertion concerning
the palsying of the s'wiu of the constituent .
Our readers viii recollect that in the second of
the series of resolutions, an attempt is made to
1 fasten this calumny upon the Wing party, but
now we assert that 1t is Democratic measure to
| palsy the viii of the constituent - which we
orove by the italjci8ed resolution Read it care
fully Opposed to ''agitation," opposed to the
freedom of thought, of speech and of the
PASSS, upon u SuDJecI OF Il vast ana vital ImpOr-
tanee Who HOlC seek TO ''palsy the Will of the
constituent, in not allowing him to think and
speak upon momentous subject 20
The summing up amounts to this The edi-
| tor of the Cambrian is not satisfied with the
Compromise and fugitive law as they stand. He
will ''agitate" them, ''speak' about them,
''write' about them, until he has them er ealed,
modified, changed, altered, or amended If he
is satisfied with them why not join us in ssre
sisting all attempts to agitate the question:
lie says 1t IS a ''momentous subject one of
''vast and vital Importance and that he is in
favor of thinking and speaking about it. For
what purpose We take it ne goes for a repeal
or modification because as a northern man he
could not possibly be for making the law more
stringent. He says that in the resolution above,
an attempt il made to fasten this calumny THAT
of renewing agitation) upon the Wing party
No reference is made in the resolution to any
party but the editor of the Cana5rian thought
the shoe would fit and he wears IL