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

OUR PARTY.

IHc DenOcratic party mas DeeH iTonl inc
beginning, and must always be, the party Of
equal rights. The broad doctrine of equality
is the foundation on which Democracy rests.
/ How is it at the present crisis? What party
except the Democratic at this time upho,ds
/ the cause ofequal rights and impartial pro-
lection, and bids defiance TO the secret as well
open enemies of the Constitution: Not the
Whigs-not the Aboitionists-st less the
Natives All these parties or factions are cog
INFANT of am organization among us, grand
oath-b bound conspiracy 10 disfrancbise and
prescribe large portion of our fellow-citizens
because they will not abjure the religion OF
their ancestors, were not born within GER
tain lines of latitude ahd longitude And do
these factions denouncc it? Do they oppose
it. Not one of them. On the contrary, they
are at this moment engaged i'll abetting the
yillany, and bargaining with the conspirators
for their votes and influence. five could sup
pose for a moment the success at the polls of
these combined factions we should find them
prescribing every Democrat within their reach
in every possio lie manner, socially as well as
politically. Every adopted citizen, whether
native born or not, no matter though he had
always been an adherent to the Whig party
would be as completely, deprived of all share
in the enacting of laws, and the administra-
tion of public affairs, as if he were subject
of the most bsolute Depotism on earth
1t is duty of every true republican to reflect
for himself, and to urge upon his neighbor -
consideration of this matter. If the cause Of
corruption, igno rance and bigotry is TO tri-
umph? if the Democratic banner is 10 be al
lowed to be struck down, and the principle of
republican equality torn from the Constitu-
tion, or even tampered with without rebuke
from the people no man living, can forsee the
consequences? but it is clear that civil war
might readily be one ofthem. The American
people will fight, if need be, in defence of the
equal and inalienable rights of man. Yes, it
might, in the contingency supposed, cost the
present generation as severe a struggle to re-
store liberty as it did our ancestors originally
to establish it.
Let every good citizen remember that in
the Democratic party alone is safety. In it
alone is hope The anti-Demoeratic party,
composed as it at present. of every discordant
faction, is entirely corrupt, and cannot be
trusted Doyou want proof of this? Look at
the Wings. Mark their conduct toward Mr.
Chandler, man who has efficiently served
them in various ways for quarter of cen
tury. 1t so happens that Mr. Chandler, some
years since, become a Catholic, or married
lady who belonged to that communion. This,
We venture to presume, he had perfect ri BIT
to do: and for this the bigOted ''Know-Noth-
ing" conspirators have decided that he shall
not again be nominated for Congress; and the
Wing delegates did not dare to give him q
single vote. Their masters, the Know Moth
ings," cracked the whip. and they crouched
in obedience. What base corruption or cow
ardice, or both, was this on the part of the
Wings.
The Democratic party has never been gull
ty of such baseness. 1t neither buys nor sells.
1t shows its color openly, and always stand
by them; and it is the only party in cur coun-
try that docs so. The Democratic majority is
large majority of the Ameri-
can people. When united, it is always victo-
ious; but the danger lies in division or supi-
neness. Let divisions, ifthey exist, be heal
ed, and supineness be shaken off. 1t is, at
this crisis of political affairs, the especial duty
Of every man to give the Democratic ticket
hearty support Let all minor consideration
be set aside
The Democratic party can always be relied
upon in times of danger 1t is the nations
right hand in war and her refuge of safety
N peace Democrats contemplate the his
ory of the past Think of the Alien and
Sedition Laws, and the immortal Jeffesson---
If the United States Bank and the glorious
Jackson. Then think of the proscriptive.
'ulgar ''Know-Nothing" tyrants, and resolve
Is one man to crush them into nothingness
But We must cast off all lethargy, and pre-
,are in earnest for the conflict Remember
he momentous consequences that are staked
Ipon the contest, and doubt not the victory
Be resolved above all, be united We shall
hen place heel upon the head of the foul
monster, religious intolerance; crush in the
gg of an ignorant and vulgar aristocracy.
nd scatter to the winds one of the most odi-
us conspiracies that ever disgraced a free
ountrv. ..Awake arise or be forever