The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-08-19
EDENSBJRG, THURSDlY, AUGUST 10, 1852.

consequence than the perpetulty of those free
institutions under which we live, and which we
shonld transmit to our posterity? AS polit;-
clans, looking to the safety of that system of
political ethics by which we are governed, we
should not fail to denounce all such attempts to
| impaiTsae bond of union between the States
as full Of mischief to the welfare and happiness
| of the whole people. As business men, we
! should deprecate the mad schemes by which the
kind and friendly relations that exist between
! the two sections Of the Nation, will be disturbed
and the ira aeSaverted to other and foreign chan
nelz from whfsp no profit can be obtained Al
ready has ths ffade of our sister cities suffered
by the wild attacks of this band of political ban
dts upon the rights and property of their neigh
bors, which is guaranteed to them by the Con-
stitut;on, and if this wholesale scheme, is con-
summated by the election of Cen Scott, and
the induction into Office of such men as those by
whom lie viii be surrounded, the effect viii DC
still more fatal and disastrous
No o1fer candidate acas eUsr presented for tie
salRpoTtof the american people, soho scas the ez-
clusive candidate Of a section Of tie country All
others have united the hardy North and the
blossoming South the wood-chopper of the
forests of Maine. and the sugar-boilers of the
plains of Louisiana, and that because they all
united upon the Constitution, and recognised
all as brothers. But rcith Gen. Scott tie case is
dif5reEt The line acds drq,cn-the North or No
aiiag. A5olihonisna, detachment from the Fed
eraJ Fgrty. This was the test, and those were the
reasons why the nomination was a sectional one,
in obedience to the command of those who rule
the des'inies Of that faction. They are to have
the bad eminence that a successful termination
of this bold measure would bring with it, and
the misses in the North are to vote the ticket,
and leave the consequences 10 the aIl-enguiph-
ing future. If the American people are prepa-
red for this, if they viii rest satisfied and see
the temple of liberty Frustrated by the hands
of those impious jugglers, if they can be cajo-
led by such transparent tricks as those concoc-
ted at the Federal Wing Convention at Baltimore
and vote for Gen Scott, then shall lose some
Of our faith in human nature, and in the march
Of general intelligence among all classes in this
Nation. But of this result We are not fearful,
if the Democracy but do their duty, and show
up this whole attempt in it's true light. Do not
let the minds of the people be distracted by the
bugs, that will be started to lead off upon
wrong issue but let the real points in the con-
test be presented, and that in so bold, plain
manner as that none can fail to see and under
stand them. Let the Sectional Issue they have
made be the only enc they shall be tried upon
and see if the ingredients of the poisoned
chalce does not end in the death of its concoc-
tors All around, from the North and South,
the East and the West, let the voice go forth
that the Federal Whig party, true to the princi-
pies of that band of Tories from which they
sprung, has, at this late day, made an open at
tack upon the Constitution and peace OF the Ma
ton, and like the army Of Rhoderick DlN, thou
sands OF brave men will spring into life from
every hillside and valley to rebuke their mad
attempt and crush them into political nothing
ness.
ssIIe that diggeth pit shall fall into it, says
the good book, and the hand of the same Prov
idenee that led the armies Of the Revolution a
mid the SHOWS of Valley Forge and the ice Of
Trenton, viii make the application of this truth
to the impious attempts of the Federal Wing
party to lay their unclean hands upon the Ark
of their countrys liberty. Here is the sole
fuge of the exile from tyranny and oppression
This country has sheltered Kossuth and Meagh
er and their brother patriots from the of the
headman or the rope of the gib6et, and yet for
the purpose of gaining polite power the Federal
Wing party are willing to blot out the stars
from our flag, and destroy this only city Of re-
fuge for the down -trodden in all the world IF
General Scott is elected this aciU be tie consunaala
non, for to this are Le bold, bad jy setoa- he
as surrounded pledged and they aoiU redeem their
scor9 Look then to the consequences Of this
Sectional Issue which the Federal party has
conjured up, and cling to that old party, which
was the originator of the Constitution, and has
ever since been its protector and defender
Gen. Pierce is the candidate of that party,
and his election viii be guarantee to the
whole world that the experiment of mans
capacity Cor self government has been success
full here, and that the principles of the Decla-
ration of Independence are still the guide Of the
Democracy in their contests against the Feder-
al Wing party and their Sectional Issues.
Philadelphia Argus.
s3-A village pedagogue, in despair with
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