Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1854-11-09
EBENsBURG, NOVEMBER 9, 1854.


ment is bound to maintain. The savage rule,
that might makes right, and that only, can
be made to reach the object of this new or
ganization. But certainly such doctrines are
not TO be countenaneed in our enlightened
age We natiye-born citizens have no more
right to combine. together to take away the
civil rights of adopted citizens than we have
to take away their goods and chattels.
The obligations made by our forefathers
should be faithfully observed; the faith of the
nation as pligLted in the constitution should
never. and he trusted and believed never
could be violated The only legitimate in
auiry on this subject, said Mr. b.. must have
I 7 lsrssce TO slse future A proposition to
change the conditions on which the people of
other countries shall hereafter become Ameri-
can citizens is fair subject for discussion and
inquiry However much we may differ in
opinion as to the necessity for change in
our naturalization laws, no complaint can be
justly made that the question has been pre-
sented Such a proposition could work no
wrong to either the native or foreign born
citizen. Those who affect to believe that our
country is being harmed and our institutions
endangered by the influx of foreign born
population should direct their efforts to this
point, and to this only. They should seek to
accomplish their purpose by taking rather
than breaking law
Those who would prescribe men from civil
Office because of their religious belief. should
also take notice that the direct tendency of
their doctrines is TO a unity of Church and
State. In no other way can their doctrines
have practical operation The Democratic
party are opposed to any such unity, as they
are against any and all attempts to bring the
power of the civil government to bear upon
matters of religious belief and church oTgani-
zation. Nothing, said Mr.. B., could be more
preiudicial 10 cur civil government or so well
calculated to retard the advance of Christiani-
ty If this doctrine is TO make an issue
against the Democracy, let it come We shall
stand by the Constitution, and by the great
est of all the distinguishing characteristics of
our government-religious liberty. He had
no fear as to the result; the people viii main
tain our republican institutions Us they are
Mr. B said he fondly hoped the recent
election in Pennsylvania had not created the
impression that She had permanently fallen
from her ancient faith He felt assured that
she had not-that she viii hereafter stand by
the rights of the individual citizen as well as
by the constitutional rights of the several
States of the confederacy- she viii dis
NctittAuHSS eit4 &tsCH' Pc " VI
phical parties, and extend under all circum-
stances, patriotic support to the Union.-
The receut election furnishes no evidence that
her Democracy have changed any of their
former views ON great national questions.
The defeat of the Democratic party, said Mr.
B must be attributed to the power of the
secret societies to which he had already re-
ferred all other agencies and influences
would, 10 his opinion have failed to accom-
plish the end we have SEEN
Mr. B alluded briefly to the course of the
opposition press toward President Pierce. Il
is teeming with decunciations, and yet that
press has utterly failed to eontrovert the doc
trines and principles of his public documents.
Tirne and experience will vindicate the policy
and principles he has advocated; and the OPP
position, as in times gone by, viii be again
compelled to confess the utter futility Of their
assaults upon Democratic policy, measures
and men. The most violent of these, how
ever, said. Mr. b.. have not assailed the mo-
tives of the Presidential admit the purity
of the man, and the justice Of his Intentions