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

that it Is sup ported by corporation Sis alive
with factories, foundries and machine establish
ments-I supp rose that state no new thing when
L say that maIiy operatives, in matters of this
| sort, act under a species of moral restraint.
What indua cement sufficed to bring Mr.. Coo
ney all the ay from Albany, to help the Cath
olics of this State to settle their own affairs,
| VIII not stop to inquire. Perhaps he is person
| ally nterested Il in the defeat of Pierce. Per-
haps Mr. Robin son is-for he, also, although he
has part or OF with Us, kindly undertook a
journey from Ne W York to New Hampshire, that
we, Catholics Lnight understand that we had
been badly treated by Gen. Pierce-a.thing we did
not understand before, and which cannot,
with all the pains Robinson has taken,
derstand . .-...-.-.- .-- ~
The counter certificates were, believe, writ
| ten by Protest ants. Perhaps of them
not. Independently of external evidences, there
| are phrases and expressions in them which be-
tray their Protestant origin They may have
been, and pI obably were, copied by Catholics.
| An Irish name, the Pilot says, will command
any price-certainly any promise-from politi-
clans, until November next Why Protestants
betray such tender interest IN our welfare and
why those Protestants happen to be interested
| in the com ing election, is phenomenon which /
do not pro fess to explain.
The person who was employed in this place to
obtain signatures from the operatives, rs per-
son Of uhose equipocaI catholicity 1 aeiH not now
sag ,cord. Few of the signers understood the
| names. Some called upon TO sign IN the pre-
sence of their employers. Two persons, in one
shop-to give only one instance-were morally
forced to sign. Some were told that the docu-
ment petition for the establishment of the
ten hour system. Others told that the mills
would be stopped, and they, in consequence,
throuu out of ,rork, if Pierce were elected
/ Some were told that it sort of naturatizd
! tion paper. Others were told that it was doc
ument to level at English influence. Some were
fa~I tl,a<, for r,rhk
Others signed it simply because they were ask
ed to do We need not wonder at all this
Messrs. Editors, for such things occur frequent
ly, also, among persons who claim to be better
informed. The monster petitions we so often hear
| of, are, am pursuaded got up in similar way.
Petition bearers commaSly find that the general
run of people will sign any paper. l am conf
dent, after investigation of the matter, that not
more than some half dozen persons knew just
! what they were doing when they signed the
Cooney document l know that some here refu-
sed to sign the paper, and yet found their names
appended to it. se..re1 F-rs---g
! Nevertheless, there were intelligent and
| spectacle Catholics, whose names were required
but who would not sign the paper. Yet these
| names were requisite. So the cOncoctors, after
most of the names had been obtained, changed
! the whole document, the first of OBJ
jectional character. A few names were obtain
ed to the second document, and then the bulk
j of the signatures ,cere transferred by the concoc
tors of the paper, and without leave, to the new
document. l call it neac document, because it
differed, in several material respects, from the
old one 1t different document There
FORE nearly all the signers before the public,
acere forged. Persons signed the second that
! would not sign the first. Most of the persons
whose names appear, never saw the second.
Then, the concoctors in company with the ed
itor of the Whig paper came to to certify
that all the signers were Catholics. l could not
do it. True, l certified to the White signatures.
But they were few, and knew all of them
whereas I do not know half the signers of this
Manchester document, admitting that all the
names appended to it names of persons real
ly existing. Secondly because l would. in sign
ing that paper, certify to untruth, inasmuch as
no true catholic wonld be guilty of signing paper
publicly slandering any man, much more man
now crcum mstanced as Pierce is.
knew that, on reflection, the first two names
on the first column, and the first the second
column of signers will repent if not before the
election excitement is over, at least after, for
having endorsed the public defamation of man
who has tried to befriend them and theirs-who
has been acquitted, after thorough examina-
tion of the charges they bring against him by
the Catholic papers-by Mr.. Brownson, who
says, in the number for the present month"; that
4 Pierce is no bigot, and tha3 he is well known to
have exerted himself for the abolition of the
test and that he has the most boundless con-
tempt for those who try to get votes for Scott
by laying ON the shoulders of Pierce the blame
for the revised Constitution. Archbishop
Hughes tells us that both candidates are wor-
thy of equal support. Nay, the respectable
Whig papers scorn to notice this new false issue
presented to Catholic voters, and even the pa
pers which started the story are beginning to
own that is not true. .-as s.r sss,s--s
have something to say of the Concord docu-
ment To be brief, they who signed it labored
under the same misapprehension, and were i'm
posed upon in the same way with those who
signed the Manchester rehash. Nay, more, Mr..
Cooney is also responsible for the Concord doc
ument-Mr. Cooney, all the way from Albany,
ed nothing that Robson had not already twis-
ted and after asultation with certain free soil
, notables, it decided that another document
should be prepared. By the aid of a partizan
postmaster and certain mill-agents at Fisher
: | ville few 1rshmenwere morally coerced to sign
the paper. These persons assured me that they
h7aeao not Chat the paper contained. They would
have caused the erasure of their signatures but
s l did not think it worth while; convinced,
am that the document will do no HARM
) At West Concord Mr.. Cooney and his aboli-
ZIONIST friends find few Irishmen. The names
of John Gallagher and John Lynch were in the
, Concord certificate signed by me ; and two men,
/ also bearing these names, live at West Concord.
These were asked whether they signed the
White certificates, endorsed by me. No, said
they. Go to Concord, and you will find another
4 John Gallagher, and John Lynch. The concoc-
, tors professed to know such men in Concord,
| and that such would be found. So that John