Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-06-13
A Glance at the Times

a GldQce al the 1llu6S.
Let us take glance at this beloved country OF
ours, and see how it must appear to the thinking
portion of mankind, at this particular time. Be
ginning at the East, we find Neal Dow engaged
in a cruel and unrelenting war with the citizens
of Portland, in the State of Maine. A war between
fanatics and drunkards, by which they have sent
one man to the other world, and prepared seven
others to follow in few days, beyond the hopes
of recovery Bad as the drunlxard is, (and in all
conscience he is bad enough) still, he is not such
a wretch as the fanatic. The drunkard is gener-
ally a good man, when in sobriety, or in lucid
intervals, but never can the fanatic be a good
man. he has no head to think, nor heart to feel,
nor to hear, eye to smile; nothing, but the
one idea of dreary desolation to the wine-bibber,
the publican, and sinner. Such is Neal Dow, and
from what we can learn, there was no necessity
for him to shed human blood, the exigency of the
case demanded it not. If we go to the far West,
we find in Kansas, the tents of the pro and anti
slavery parties pitched there, and war as hostile
and as deadly, as the war of the bottles in Port
land, waged and carried on with yigor on both
sides. Several men hare already lost their lives,
and more will follow in a short time. The Mis-
mythology. if the Kansas Emigration Society do
not their agitation, and keep the peace, they
will settle them by the most effeetual of all adrno-
nitions, the rifle bullet. On the other hand,
Massachusetts,, that land of fanaticism, bigotry,
bibles, and bed bugs, are busy in the shipment OF
Bowie knives, Minnie rifles, revolvers and Aboli
tionists to the scene of action. What the result
will be, cannot tell, but we win sit quietly by
and look on. One thing certain they have enough
to do in these localities, to keep their minds diver
ted from Know -Nothingism for the time being
In New York, too, they have partially forgotten
the Pope and the foreigner, and preparing for
the deadly fight Of the whiskey struggle. In
Pennsylvania, too, the whiskey and fanaticisrn,
may occupy space in the politics of the next
fall election, than is generally supposed at the
present time. Our opinion is that Neal Dow il
his blood thirsty fanatieism has done the cause of
temperance more harm, than all the money of all
the liquor dealers in the United States could do
In Washington City the Know Nothings are tur-
bulently writhing under the castigation they have
received at the hands of the Democracy of Vir-
ginia, by the election of Henry A. Wise. Glory,
honor and praise be to that true hearted democ-
sty. Surrounded as that State has been, by ev-
cry recollection of our country's grandeur, in men,
in arms, and in intellect, it was meet that her
democracy should be the first to stem the torrent
of the dark lantern marauders. Her democracy
is like the pine of Clan Alpn,
3. Moored in the rifted rock,
Proof to the tempest shock,
FirIner it roots in, the ruder it blows
Away in the Utah Territory, Brigham Young
is preaching to his brethren, his wives and chill
dren, glory to the great jehovah high, and
peace on earth to men of good will, telling them
that they the little Joseph Of the family of this
Union. That they loved their patriarchal parent
with devoted flial affection, and that their pa
rent sat doing in an old arm chair. while their
brethren were prosecuting them and endeavoring
to sell them into slavery, and now. that they have
been driven to the Egypt of the Union, may
day be able to take their father and their brethren
out of as hard a difficulty, as Joseph the son of
Jacob did.
In our own county, Qast week being Court
week. battle was fought between the temper 4
ance men, armed with the Buckalew law, and
the grand Jury, armed with honesty and common
sense in the contest the Jury were victorious, and
drove the leaders of their antagonists into durance
vile, there to admire the beauties of creation
through the ten of diamonds.
These reflections would lead us to suppose that
country is travelling fast into the regions Of
corruption, decay, and desolation, and such will
be the case if the pure unsullied democracy of the
country do not arise in the majesty of their power,
and save the country. as they have often done be-
fore, from utter annihilation.
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