Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1853-12-23
viii it arise Again,

VIII 1G arise again,
The wing party-thc great wing Tarty-tlc
defunct wing par;y-will it have a resurrection
That is the question. Not that it matters
much, one way or the other, as faras its throcs
and bunting endangcr any thing-least cf all the
pillars of democracy; but this is day of great
antiquarian research, and for tho sake of saving
much wearisomness and labor, in future digging
and disentombing, we should Ike 10 have the
question answered, so that if it be indeed down
forever, we may notice it historically, or pre-
serve above ground for curious inspection, some
e!itS most popular idols, lest like the uncxhumed
foies of Babylon, Herculaneum and Pompeii, and
the cities of the plain, they might, to great cx-
tent become irrccoverably lost, beneath the ac-
cnmGlated incrustations Of ages.
few years ago there were many ambitious
whigs-some of them Of very clever pretentions
too-who were vigilant watchers of the times.
and considered, and aspired to nominations for
offices ofstate, as something to be desired, and
which might lead to an election. The infected
atmosphere, and poisoned dcws of antimasonry,
which drew from the political soil such fungi as
Joseph Ritner and his more wise, but more wick
cd, rctainers, had also the effect of turning the
ii~'NNA oA klIOn IHe OBSCURE ana
illiterate to the prominent and learned) towards
the goal of state preiermcht, by aroad, which had
once, at least, been demonstrated to be possible
The unhappy aspirants, however, were doomed to
come short, whether from the manner of run
ming, or the character of the wav we shall not
now inquire. Marle and Irvine show the same
lSnonmious fate. Cooper left the track and was
moro lucky in another. Stevens had wisely gone
aside some time before, to seek elevation where
his friends were fortressed and his foes hopeless
ly cnSironed. At last the Fates, those inscruta-
bic lottery yenders, by the removal of Francis r.
Skunk, cast upon one, inealIy descended from
democratic stock, but deeply apostate, the care
ol The Keystone The universal enthusiasm then
sweeping the land for that brave, generous and
good old man, Gen. Taylor, enveloped as with
cloud all minor heroes and as after his battles.
the clouds vanished from the field and found
him, and those with him, victorious, so after
the election contest, the sun disclosed him eleva-
tod to the dizzy height of President of the United
States, while under the protection of his right
wing, covered in ambuscadc by small majority
of two hundred and nincty-scyen votes was found
the then resurrectionist of the Whig Party ofthis
State.
This luck was cIninently fortuitous, baseIess,
indifferent, without vitality, and of consequence
short lived.
y new hobby was invented and Col. ". F.
Johnston of the - Militia was rcmounted but
this time, not upon . old Whitley" The Sinking
Fund-a great wing hobby, indeed, was withall
not hobby-h0rss, and the gallant Col, though
OFT mounted, from a stump, could not trot in
Year after year the voice of the state has been
tuned to the solemn dirge of whigcery. The ca
nal board has been purgod ofthc last of the tribe
All the state officers are democratic. Scott the
greatest Of the Philisnes, Captain General of the
Federal Hosts, has pronounced the national Jequi-
tseaf, and to hft the PAIL in search Of signs of re-
manning life might be attended with the emission
OF unpleasant odors of decay.
Not long ago circus company were drawing
large crowds to their exhibitions, the greatest
humbug of which was, the theatrical feat of
staying the dragon" by a certain saint The
monster came forth, breathing fire and terror
the timid rctreated; but the gallant saint soon
stood triumphantly unharmed, upon the trans
fixed body of the beast. All pronounced him
dead The soldiery assembled to remove him,
when suddenly desperate flourish of his tail,
caused great mirth and contempt by the con-
scously hoaxed audience while the pantominic
players pretended to exhibit great dread that the
dragon, whose life they had created and taken
away, should live AGAIN
Thus we regard the great whig party. y hum
bug institution, which having no inherent pro-
pulsion, distended mostly with wind, without the
living spirit of principle to animate and preserve
it, has become the unfeared representations of
that destroyer it was calculated to produce, and
whose occasional shuddering of any or all its
muscles, can only bestir the momentary ggglc Of
the frivulous, and the sneeF OF the composed
thinker.
Little IS said, and perhaps less felt, in regard
to their nominations for State officers Such GER
tam defeat renders The position CT a whig candi-
date most unenyiAbe, save for these whose van
jty counts the trump Of notoriety
VIII it arise again We think not-we hope
iot. Adieu old bygone, ike The bad Indian