Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-08-29
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or the Democratic state Central Commit
tee to the People OF Pennsylvania-

or the Democratic state Central Commit-
tee to the People OF Pennsylvania-
FELLOW CITIZENS:
Among the duties assigned to us by the
Democratic party, we are obliged to address
you, setting forth in plain and simple man
ner the issues that will be submitted to the
people at the approaching election. A pro-
per regard for the opinions of men requires
that we should endeavor to explain ia the peo-
pie the reasons why the Democratic party
again ask them to combine in one common
cause in support of its principles and chosen
men.
The Offices to be filled in the coming cleo
ton, may not, of themselves, be of sufficient
consequence to excite popular interest, yet
that of Canal Commissioner involves large
public trusts, which should only be confded
to q man of known experience and integrity.
For that Office the Democratic party have cho-
sen as their candidate, ARNOLD PLuMER, whose
past life. both public and private, justiies us
in saying that he possesses the experience,
firmness and unblemished integrity, which
pre-cminently fit him for that office, and rem
der him worthy of your confidence and cholce
But far beyond the success of any candidate
or the obtaining of any Office, are the subjects
now before you to be examined and discussed.
and BY your determination, probably forever
settled.
Their infinite Importance, not only to your
selves and to Pennsylvania, but to all the pco-
pie and States of this confederacy, should stim-
ulate you to Jealous support of the princi-
plies and candidates of the Democratic party.
We cannot abstain from dwelling upon these
subjects and by our appeals to your reason
and sense of duty to your country and to hu-
manity, we shall strive to rouse you to an ef-
fort that shall be worthy of the occasion and
your past history.
The Democratic party of the United States
is the great conseryator of this vast political
organization, stretching from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, and covered with teeming mil
lions of freemen. To its guardianship has
been confided the custody of the simple ele-
ments of political truth which are at the basis
of our institutions In all the changes of
public affairs it has been the proud privilege
of that party to stand by the Constitution of
the Country and to rcsrain all attemps to per-
vert its provisions corrupt its principles.
1t has been, and still is, the citadel of our
liberties and the bulwark of those just doc
trines, to establish which the people rose as
one man, and with the sympathies of the
whole civilized world overthrew an aristocrat-
ic and Legislative despotism and established a
government, which by its mild and human
temper, offered to mankind the hope that, in
one land at least, there should be refuge
from oppression and intolerance. This has
been the duty of the Democratic party. and
with unfaltering fidelity has that party kept
Its sacred trust From the first moment
even before the organization of this govern
ment-and while the States were celebrating
upon the adoption of the Constitution of the
country, the great men who were afterwards
to become the leaders of the Democratic party
exerted their powerful energies and truthful
intellects to secure upon firm foundation, as
upon a rock. the principles that are incorpor-
ated in the body Of the Constitution and in
its subsequent amendments. Again. we say
to the Democratic party belongs the duty of
standing resolutely and un6inchingly by that
Constitution and by the purest and most holy
of its principles.
The earliest history of this government was
identified with the contentious between the
great parties whose doctrines were the SUBJ
iects to which the houghts and labors of the
statesmen of those days were devoted. The
Federal party were anxious TO establish q
strong consolidated government, made for the
people, and to be controlled by the men of
property, and education and social condition
The Democratic party resisted this scheme of
grand nationality to be raised upon the ruins
of independent States, and at the cost of pop