Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-05-23
They Have oonsl

At last the Legislature of this State has
adjourned, and senator's, and members and bo-
zers gone home. We feel assured the people
will become freer and easier at this circum-
stance, and thank God that the reform Legis-
lature, which the foulest deception and hypo-
crisy ever practiced In any country brought
into power, did not, while perpetvating all
manner of rascality, deliberately = skin the
people aliue." Never within the history of this
State, have such set of men been called to-
g:ther By the public will For fraud, specu-
lation and villainy, it is without precedent,
and God grant it may have no fellow. We
admit there were men in both the Senate and
House wko nobly stood upfor the rights ofthe
people, but they were powerless. The time
IS even now when their efforts are duly appre-
ciated, and we mistake the public mind if they
will not be respected and esteemed as faithful
public servants when those against whose
schemes of plumber they fought, win be dis
carded and despised.
Fanaticism has had its day, and there is in
this State such a revolution going on, as viii
bury in graves so deep as to be beyond the
hand of resurrection those who have stood at
the head of all this political villainy. Well
may they cry out now when public Indignation
is visible in every quarter; Help as Cassius,
or acc siak,D but the deed has been done and
the responsibility is with them. Let them
answer to betrayed, insulted and injured
people.
There is a disposition in some quarters to
plaster up the late anti-license law, passed by
the Legislature, and make it appear as the
first step of moral reform in the State of
Pennsylvania 1t win not do. Such work
in an up hill business, and those who are en-
gagged in it will find too soon that they have
mistaken the people of the .'Old Keystone"
The Legislature which has just closed its
session, was hailed from one end of the Com
monwealth to the other as reform Legisla-
ture," and the people were taught 70 believe
that g milk and honey" without money and
withoutprice." was 10 be profusely dispensed;
but what has been the result; There has been
more villiany perpetrated than can be undone
in the next ten years, and the anti-license law
is fair sample A law to make drunkards
by the wholesale, is fit enactment to oemanate
from men whose feelings of justice and right
have been effectually swallowed up by the
meanest kind of fanaticism.
Once for all, we state that the people of
this State will not stand such laws. The
time has come for action. So long as fanati-
csm merely introduced itself into the political
arena, as a kind of '' balance Of power to
overawe and deter. parties whose existance
was established upon broad. comprehensive
principles of National and State policy it was
well enough But now, that it has assumed
the form of law, and the bone and sinew of
the country are seeing the bad effects of its
workings, a condemnation as lasting as e i
deserving awaits those tricksters who have
basely traded off the public good, to crafty
mean and sordid disposition.
Men may laugh and talk, and say this is al
exaggeration. But we say in time to all, stand
from under !" Long before the second Tues
day of October arrives, there VIII be witness
sed public Indignation of such laws and law
givers as will make even the boidest Of them
all tremble. The honest yeomanry Of the
country viii not sanction the proceedings of
the late Legislature. They cannot do it, un-
less. indeed, they countenance vinainy inpref-
erence to honesty.
To those members and Senators who have
nobly battled for the people, we say well
DONE" Return to your homes, An affec-
tomato welcome awaits you, and an honest
constituency viii reward you by requiring your
services again.-Democrotic Unipn-