Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-09-05
What is the Fight.

It is now reduced to certainty that thepolit
ical fight al tie next election will iss between The
Democratic party and the KuDw- Netliines- The
Whiys in thi. county seem to stand aleof from
both organizations. So Far as the Wig party is
concerned. we rs Democratshaye not ono single
complaint to make against them. They do, as
they generally have done before, make their nonl-
iuations above board and publish their resolutions
to the world, and, tho they are in the minority,
must give them credit for fighting in what
they have always thought to be good cause
The cause that once had the advocacy of such
patriots as Clay and Webster. and host of others
whose love of country could not lie doubted by
any person inclined to do them justice We can
not say so much for the Know Nothing party.
We do not know who arc all their wigwam NOM
nations yet, we do not know what they are doing
in their dark lodges now, but some things that
they have done we do know. We do know,
that they have sworn a blind obedience to their
rascaly leaders We do know, that they have
sworn TO lie, by their denying that they belong to
the organization. We do know, that they have
sworn to disregard the constitution of the United
States and of Pennsylvania, by making a Ircli-
gious test qualification for Office. We do know
that they have sworn hostility to the doctrines
contained in the declaration Of Independence by
their war against foreigners. At their initiation
they have sworn to all these things. Now let us
see how they carry these things out. They en-
deavour to carry them out to the letter, and even
surpass them as soon as a favourable opportunity
presents itself. Look at their elections in WASH
ington City. in CINCINNATI, and in Louisville, for
a confirmation of this fact.
Will it be said that they would not do the same
thing here in Cambria county If they had the
strength and power to do 500 The Democrats,
the Catholics, the foreigners, are just the same
The Know Nothings are just the same kind of
men that they are in Louisville. There is an
adage, older than the Know-Nothing party, oder
than the discovery of America, older than the
catholic religion the incarnation Of Christ,
whose truth has lest nothing by its antiquity,
:. Coelum non a,,in,um maaia q,si trans mare
curr,na." Applying that adage here, we would
have the same description of Know Nothings in
Cambria county that they have in Louisville,
they actuated by the same motives. their feel
ings and interests are identical. They are ag-
ocrats as much as they are there. They have the
same reason to go into their dens and councils in
the dead of night and plot their treason here, as
they had there. Nothing prevents them here,
but fear of the consequences. They have not the
Judges, the jurics here yet, have they the
number er the courage to apply brute force at the
ballot box here yet. That force they never at
tempt with less than about ten Know Nothngs
to one honest man, that, there is very little
danger in this locality Of them ever attempting
that mode Of operations. They will, however
make desperate struggle this fall; it is their dy-
ing spasm. They are in the same predicainent,
that a feon condemned to death in a prison would
he, who at any time would attempt to kin the
keeper for chance of escape, tho he ran the
hazard of being killed himself in the encounter.
They are political felens, tried and condemned by
an indignant country and by the civilized world,
and only await their sentence at the ballot box
at the next election. n.a be is-z