Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-09-12

before our readers the eloquent speech of this
gentleman, deliver ed at the anti-K. N. meet
ing, on Tuesday, Sept 4th 1t is in his most
felicitous manner, and sbounds in happy hits.
As il was received with raprurous applause,
we presume that it win be read with interest.
Mr. PRESIDENT AND FEILow CIrIzESs -
Surrounded as we are by midnight conspirstors,
whose cowariice alone we have to thank for our
existence; who have the inclination but not the
courage to add the crime Of murder TO their other
manifold offences; traitors In practice and In
precept, enemies Of the human race, Stunned by
| all honorable and decent men, and abandoned 70
eternal desolation. by Him who came to redeem.
not to destroy vipers crawling into our walks,
lying in wait TO strike the death blow it behooves
all free citizens to make strong and vigorous ef-
fort Lrive the accursed reptiles back to the foal
and gloomy harnts from which they emanated
In anxiety and sorrow address you, having
lived half century in your midst, with my pa
rents and grand parents, actors in the Of In
dependence reposing in graves dug upon your
soil-ncver having naturalized ancestor, / feel
without any ostentatious sorrow that am to be
ostracised, treated an outcast, because belong
to the mother Of churches.
In early days, long before midnight conspfrators
prowled around our out houses In the dead hour
Of the night. we knew that the American people
were divided into two great parties, differing and
separating great principles Of government but
all loving the constitution and institutions Of our
dear country
Now the scene is changed! No thought for
honor, constitution country, remains among a
faction whose portentious advances are fearful.
1t is unnecessary to delineate the views and prac-
tees Of these wrctched enemies of the human race
Their trophies are to be found in the murders Of
Louisville, in the Staying of innocent men, women
and children-aye in conduct without parallel
in the history of Christianity.
| l said that my ancestors were here before tho
revolution aud took an active par. in it. No
credit do derive from this, but only propose
at the expense of being charged with egotsn,, to-
refer to certain distinguished gentleman, who
lately declared in Pittsburg at public meeting.
that he was proud to avow himself q meml or VI:
the secret order
allude to William F. Johnston, our late Gov
ernor.. Proud he is of his infamy and shame.
Proud he is to assert to pack Of cut throats that
his Irish father, born in Tyrone is object Of
scorn, hatred and contempt tohim- Oh! let HIM
revel in his pride, let him glory in his shame
but think he will not dare to meet his venerable
| old father and before him undertake to glory in
his infamy and his shame.
Honor thy father and thy motner.' How is
this command obeyed How many of the stable
fraternity have foreign parents now alive. or much
better off are reposing in the cold grave. where
neither the tongue the hand Of the internal
Know Nothing parricidc reach them
| their rest go
How fortunate it is for many Of the original set
| tiers of this once wild and dreary region, hoss
made iovely as the valley of Tempe by their per-.
scvering industry, to be reposing in peace in the
| country church yards, instead of now living to-
hear obliquy and infamy cast on their names by
their degenerate and pariciial deccndsnts.--,
Have Those wretched, guilty foes of the human
race reflected before they started in their face Of
enormityl Have they looked at a constitution,
outraged and contemned2 At all the bonds Of So.
cial feeling ruthlessly trrn assunder, and thrown
aside7 At the falsehoods they are bound
to their families and friends Oh. you vipets in
human form, how can you approach your neigh
Dor, or former friend, (for friends now you have
not). Wretches that you are in your foul iniqui-
ty, you cannot depend on others, and have
| friends.
! When Lucifer scluced one third Of the Heaven
| ly Host from their allegiance. and was consigned
to eternal reprobation with them ali- -friendshiP
ceased among them forever, and IN their eternal
torments, oae of their greatest causes Of misery is
elimination and recrimination So viii it be with
YOU. Hated and despised by man--detestcd and
doomed by thlt awful power which disposes of
the Just and unjust. like the Devil and his angels
YOU will never cease to curse other for inducing
YOU to become, not only the enemies Of Gods
| creatures, but Of God himself The memories of
the illustrous dead are desecrated by them---
They would glory in destroying all the monu-
ments erected by ilial piety oser the remains of
| their ancestors. Like byepas, In temper and in
heart, they would be delighted to scatter the bones
and ashes Of the illustrios dead 10 the winds of
| Heaven.
But the day of retribution is approaching-
81 Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days
may be long in the land-' A condition is attach
ed to the commandment; obedience to it will
make your days long in the land; disobedience
carries its penalty. 80
Their days arc numbcred-the hand writing Is
ON the wall.
II All who love their country, no matter whence
} their birth was cast, must, and am sure wiii
mite 20 drive the yandal horde to that wretlhed
obscurity from whence they came, and there let
the blood hounds remain, until the Angel Gabriel
.bau summon them before the Most High 10 re-
ce;ve the sentence Of eternal damnation.
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