Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-08-22
A Strong Article.

THE article following has particular value
from the fact that it is from a paper which
has been, until within the last two or three
weeks, the strongest and most in1teGtial
Know Nothing paper in the West. 1t IS
from the Louisville Courier:
WHITTIER ARE We TENDING Newer since
the organization of this government has the
political horizon been so overcast with dark
and lowering clouds as at the present time.
When we compare the questions that were
discussed and decided during the earliest days
of the republic with those which now stir the
feelings, and awaken the apprehensioDs of all
true patriots, of whatever name or creed, We
sometimes are led to trenble for the destiny
of our country; and were it not for the conf
dence which we feel in the overruling care of
Divine Providence, we should despair of
ever seeing solution of the political problems
now before the people of the United States.
The present is the first time in the history
of this country in which a political party,
having any claim to nationality has dared to
make mans religious creed the test of quail
ification for office the first time that any effort
has been made of political Jesuitism, and
secret espionage two-fold more obnoxious than
that of Rome the first time that the Protest
ants of the United States have endeavored to
prescribe Komanisin by political disabilities,
while at the same time they have engrafted in
profcssed Protestant organization the most
obnoxious features of the thing they would
prescribe and destroy. But, as we have faith
in the intelligence of the masses of the people,
and as heretofore their .ssober second thought
has been in the main about right, SO we be-
lieve that the seal Of their condemnation viii
most emphatically be placed upon the present
anti-American, Republican, proscriptive.
and Jesuitical policy of the Know-Nothing
organization.
We repeat that we have confidence in the
great body Of the American people, and that
they will ultimately stand by the principles
and practices of w Washington, Jefferson, Mad
ison, Adams, and jackson, to the utter dis
comfture, and overthrow of Know-Nothing-
ism, as now constituted, with the herd of polit
! ical loafers that follow in its wake. Already dt
we discover signs of a most decisive reaction
In every quarter, calm and rejecting meI
who, at FIRST, sympathized with what they be
lieved to be the objects of the Know-N Nothing
party, are now ranging themselves in opposi
ton to its anti-republican principles. Patri
otic men Of all parties are protesting agains
the policy Of adding the fuel of religious hat
to the fame of political discord.
| Christian men are asking whether it ac
cords with the spirit of the Master that they
should link themselves with secret, oath
bound political party that is rousing all the
evil passions of human nature in order to ar
ray man against man, brother against brother
and father against son. In the North ant
the South, in the East and the West. th'
feeling is rapidly pervading the minds of al
good men, regardless of religious creed o.
/ political party, that all free-born AmericaI
citizens should. on no condition whatever
surrender their freedom Of speech or thei
freedom Of political or religious power, te an,
foreign prince or potntate, on the face Q
the earth. So that in this country, hereafter
political Jesuitism is 20 be simply an impossi
bility. We hope that all Of our namerou
readers win act with irmness and decision a
the present important crisis. aud that ever.
true man will vote upon the issue now tender
cd by Know Nothingism to the people
Kentucky in accordance with the honest dc
tates Of an unbiased judgement.