Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1856-06-25
VOL. 3. NO. 35.

that bill, were true to their pledges. true to
their instincts. true to those immortal Demo-
cratic principles which we all love and cherish;
and those Wings too, then and now, stand
firmly and proudly by these same principles
embraced in the Nebraska bill, stand where
Clay stood, where Webster stood :; by the prin-
clpies that were consecrated by the death Of
Clay, and in the grave of Webster. Old
Line Wings are ROW asked TO abandon the
faith of their party; they are asked to repudi-
ate the principles of Clay when yet the grass
is hardly grown over his grave: they are as
ked to repudiate the great Constitutional
principles of Webster, while yet his family
are wearing the weeds of mourning, and they
are asked to do this in order to join with those
who not only despise the Whig leaders, but
denounce Washington, a Jefferson, and
Madison, and all the great patriots, in conse-
quence of their having lived in the Southern
instead of the Northern section of the coun-
try
1t is simply a proposition to be decided
whether we shall be governed BY sectional
lines or Constitutional principles The poll
icy of the Abolitonsts is to array the North
against the South-sectiop against section
State against State-until civil war and disu-
mon shall be the consequence. / ask, are
you prepared to engage in such controver-
in a brothers blood Voices never,
never" Did our Fathers of the Revolution
make any distinction between Northern and
Southern army? ("No. no.') When they
made Constitution, was there any line drawn
between Northern and Southern Patriot
and are we now, when the Constitution is as
sailed, to enquire whether it has been assailei
on its Southern or its Northern border? What
matters it to me if that great Instrument is
assaiied, whether it be upon a point that af-
fects the rights of the South or the rights of
the North? 1t is enough for me to know that
that great palladium of American Liberty has
been rudely touched by sacrilegious hand.
[ ask. if a foreign enemy should land an army
here to invade our country, would you stop to
enquire whether the invasion was made upon
the line of the Northern Lakes, or upon the
Gulf of Mexico, or upon the Pacific coast p
Would IT change your patriotism whether it
Northern or q Southern invasion? NO,
no. Then, why will you hesitate, when the
Constitution is infringed, to enquire whether
the Infringement is upon the Southern mans
rights, or the Northern mans rights? Our
motto is 80 The Constitution as 1t Is the U
MON 1t made, as it is now and as it
shall be in the future, and these are the
principles endorsed on the platform of the Cin-
cinnati Convention.
All men who believe in the integrity Of the
Constitution, and the perpetuty of the Union.
arc asked to rally under these principles which
are essential to the preservation OF either
Can any sectional party, animated with sec
tional prejudices, safely be entrusted with the
preservation of this Union? [Cries of "no,
no
Has any other party sloughed off all its isms.
and received the reformed, regenerated, puri-
fed principles which ensures the preservation
of the Union, like the Democratic party? Has
any other party such claims to nationality.
What other party has assurance enough to
cross either the Potomac or the Ohio. and car
ry their principles foremost on their bannersg
And yet you are asked to trust party whose
sole aim is dissention instead of combination.
hostility instead of fraternity, disunion instead
of Union.
Now, my friends. these principles, these is
sues are all involved in the present election.
Never had an American so much to animate
his soul and inspire his patriotism, as in this
contest. With platform that is our our own,
expressing principles, cherishng and sus-
tanning all oar feelings and desires princi
Piles which ensure peace and domestic traqul
ity at home, and whose policy if carried out
will command respect and honor abroad With
a compact so formed, can even calumny itself.
with Its thousand neduS, dare TO STAIN the prI-
vate character of either?
With Buchanan as our leader, and gallant
young Breckenridge second in command, we
have representation which commands the
entire respect of the whole country Let mo
say to you, believe not that in supineness We
can achieve an easy victory. Do not be lullcd
into Indifference and lethargy; but remember
that our enemy is an arch iiend, who has sown
hatred discord, heresy and scbisms among
men, Brethren, without the name, and dres-
sed in different guiscs in each separate local
ity-in one place a Native American ulinc
America by Americans--in another. Black
Republican-in another an Abolitionist-in
another, Free Soiler, aud in another an An
IT, Nebraska man-changing his name and his
colors wherever he goes-but he is the same
insidious enemy of Democracy wherever ho
may be found. anu whatever his name. Tap
plausc
l have often said and now repeat, that all
of these different factions and these factionists
are akin to each other They wilt fuse and
act together when the time of election comes
That's so. Hence we have to fight them Is
an allied army. aud when we get the Democ-
racy in line. with such an army to back us
as we have tonight with the Know Moth
ings and Aboitionists, and all the other schlsrns
in front of US, toll you rake them down.
l care not which of them You hit Cap
plause.) Our object is not only to elect our
men but to bury Aboiitionism, with all its
cpncomitant evils so deep in the grave that
there will be no resurrection for them. We
ask you for a majority that viii be recorded
upon the eternal pages of history We wish
the keystone State to pile up such majority
on tho ton of the kev of the arch as will for