Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1856-08-06
0OluItal.
Another Important letter
The Dangerous Character Of Black
ssep;ibIicaEa5sEAl Exposed.
FROM WILLIAM 3. REED, rs


county having extended an earnest invitation
to William b. Reed, Esq of Philadelphia,
TO address the people at the mas meeting OF
the Democracy at Chambersb1rg, on 9TH of
August next, that gentleman makes the fol-
lowing reply, in which he presents most con-
elusive reasons for sustaining buchanan and
Breckenridge =
PHILADELPHIA, Jnly Goth 1856
GENTLEmES-Absolute inability TO speak in
the open air will prevent me from uniting in
your Mass Meetings on the 7th of August,
for am very sure you will not be able to COM
press within any room built bv hands all who
will be with you in doing honor to Mr. Bu.
chanan Franklin county if | mistake not,
was his birth place. Thence he started to
win his way in life. and those and the chill
dren of those. amongst whom he was born.
Will gladly and rcsolutely come forward TO
sustain him now, The intelligent, thrifty
men Of your county defendants of the robust
Scotch. Irish and German pioneers of the
Cum berland Valley, will not be wanting at
crisis when civil and religious liberty and tue
Union Of the States are endangered. To the
multitude which Will be sure to assemble there
| could not speak-much as [ wish it-but
my written words of sympathy and encourage
ment-of earnest anxiety fer the success of
the Democratic ticket at both the approach
ing elections, Cone scarcely less important
than the other | cannot withhold. ] shall
| have my abundant reward if they influence
single reader. Take them, beg you, for
what they are worth They are at least sim
cere and disinterested.
| have some associations with Franklin
county which are peculiar have had friends
there, in public and private life who, as CO.
temporaries, were dear to me, and as my sem
iors, honored NE by their counsel. Many of
them have passed away-though some are still
surviving. | was in the Legislature, on the
same side of politics too,-for I am not a
shamed of my antecedents, and you would
despise me were to deny them-with David
Fullerton and Thomas 6. McCullok-and
am very sure, if they were alive now, they
would be neither Know Nothings nor Aboli-
tionists, / served~fong with Thomas Carson,
of MercersbuTg, an honest and independent
man.-and if there be any one whose private
worth and dignifed public integrity, I have
been taught especially to respect, it is he VINO
still lives honored and esteemed among you
George Chambers These are the personal
associations which affect me May | alude to
some others.
remember, years ago, on bright sum-
mer's afternoon, toiling up the turnpike road
on the Cove mountain, in your county, and
when [ reached the summit, turning to gaze
on as beautiful scene as ever gladdened my
eye-the valley of peaceful beauty which
stretches off to Maryland and towards to Po-
tenlac. 1t is familiar scene to most of you.
To me it was new, and its impression has
never faded from my mind. a. far as the
eye could reach, there was fertiity-the signs
of tranquil industry; all was beautiful all
was peaceful--it looked, as it was, like the
abode of happy and united people The
political line, separating Pennsylvania from
Maryland, traced by those old fashioned sur
veyors. Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon,
was invisible to no eye. The trees on which
they marked it had long been felled or dis
appeared Many a farm was separated by it,
but, except in the eye of the law, no one
knew it or cared about it. l have often-for
painful thoughts thrusting themselves up
o n me-recaled that scene of actual beauty
and united interest, and realized what it would
be-what your condition will be-what must
be the condition of every county of this Com
monwealth lying on the Maryland line I, Chee-