Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1854-09-21
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THE CONTRAST.

An effort Is now being made throughout this
State, by unscrupulous combination of poll
tical bandits as ever dishonored the of re-
publican liberty, to deprive our adopted citizens
OF their constitutional guarantees, and to doom to
political ostracism, every member of a particular
religious faith, who asserts his indefeasable right
b worship God according to the dictates of his
conscience. This unholy and nti-republ-
can purpose is not sought to be accomplished by
open and publicly avowed means, but through
the operations of secret oath-bound association,
whose members meet like conspirators, in the
dead hour of the night and devise the ways and
means by which their dastardly designs may be
carried into successful execution. In view of this
we'll known political, religious organization, and
the disastrous consequences to the peace and well
being of society, which must result from its tri-
umph, we regard the approaching state election
as the most important one that has ever been sub
mitted to the people of Pennsylvania for their calm
and deliberate decision.
The elevation of this man or that man to the
Executive chair as the representative of certain
well defined political rinciples-the mere tempo
fry triumph of the democratic or the whig par
ty, sinks into utter insignificance in comparison
with triumph of Know Nothingisn, which would
De the utter and complete destruction of the well
recognized rights of our adopted citizens as well
AZ the demolition of the very pillars upon which
the structure of our religions freedom rests The
one would be mere triumph of one great politi-
Cal party over the other, and like all former sue
eesses of the same kind would soon pass away
and be forgotten in the general acauiscence of the
People-fhe other would be triumph of fanatic
ism-a triumph of political assassins who COM
nune together at the hour of midnight: whose
deeds arc evil and hate the light of tay-wbose
aVowcd aims are insult to our revolutionary
ancestors and whose success would cause heart
ournlngs, not only throughout Pennsylvania but
throughout the Union not easily to be healed or
soon to be forgotten. We speak what We sincerely
believe. We speak from what we have seen else
where as the result of the triumph of the faction
To which we have referred and we know that like
causes always have and always will produce like
effects.
The principles which govern political parties
can only be ascertained from the public deciara-
tons Of their candidates or the exnositons of ,bo
newspaper press. judged by this standard. how
and
ths dsm1;ratic press an JAMES Pollock and the
Wing press, on the subject of Know Nothingism
question which rises superior to all other poiti
cal considerations-The democratic candidate f,r
Governor, has publicly in the presence of the de-
nocracy Of Susquehanna County, repudated al
connection with it and has denounced it in bold
and unqualified language the democratic press
of the state with one united voice from tbe Ala
gheny to the Delaware, has proclaimed its bitter
anu unceas;ng hostility to it its candidate fol
Canal Commissioner has declared over his own
signature, that he never desired to have and has
not now any connection with it its candidate
for Congress and the State Legislature, in every
Instance in which they have been interrogated
have put away from them the unclean thing and
have planted themselves upon the Constitution
add the laws of their country.
There has not been public nesting of thc
democratic l.ar'r 10 Fcar<yivania. sinco Know