Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1856-10-22
Senatorial Electiou.-QEcial.
Ciessweil's maj. 5e2.
Democracy.

erty, as the dove returning to the ark. because
amidst the waste of waters it could not End
rest for the sole OF its foot So liberty seekingo
expand its pinions over this hemisphere, often
returns to the bosom Of the Democracy, bleed
ing with the shafts which its enemies have
there it hath solace; there it hath disciples
who worship liberty that is immortal.
We sre in tho midst of the nineteenth cen
tury of the Christian era; in the tweutieth
We shall Re dust. without tribute or memo
rial 20 our memories. /" The path of glory
leads but to the grave" but Liberty will sur
vive us, and before the dread tribunal Of pos
terity We shall be judged according to our
present devotion to the essential principles
which underlie the foundations of human
happiness and prosperity. Present success is
not material: the arts and diplomacy of ephe-
neral politicians may not have been bequeath-
honors the children of the future will bestow
it.
Since 1t is plain that the 6rst, last great
duty of man is to foster Liberty, and to DIFF
fuse it, and to give it a habitation everywhere
let US emulate the example of the heroes
whom history has placed among its defen-
ders.
- Oh LIBERTY What crimes are committed in tLy
name"
Those words were uttered ulon scaffold.
in the eighteenth century it is a hundred
years later and We repeat the cry which that
martyr put up to heaven We arc moi sur
rounded by tha accessories of death, the
beam, the mufied drum, the funeral bell, the
scafiold; hut We are surrounded by the enc
mies of human liberty, who would precipitate
moral and physical death upon us if they had
the power to do it.
The Know Nothing party has inaugurated
its natural reign in this free State, By equal
lied imposition of taxes, acquittal of criminals
embezzlements of public moneys. employment
of spies, ostracisns and prosecutions of pub
lie officers They have put trammels upon
reason and thought, and freedom of action,
and like the holy inquisition. they deny to
free born man the imperceptible right of act
ing according to the dictates of his own con-
science. They have shackled him with oaths
repugnant to the spirit Of liberty, and have
deliberately violated that provision of our
Magma Charta which made the soil of Ameri-
ca an asylum for children of every cline.
But death has laid his hand upon the Order ::
and the organization which betrayed the ex
istence of traitors among us, is approaching
its fall. A weed of unnatural growth-a vile
and obnoxious seed, thrown by some unfriend-
ly hand into our domain of freedom-it can
not flourish beneath the shadow of the tree of
liberty, but it decays and dies The sun of
reason and reflection has dispelled the mists
with which the tempters yelled the intelleets
Of our free born youth Absolved once more
from their hateful thraldom-restored to their
original station among their fellow-men, they
press forward to swell our ranks and shout
our battle-cry
Throw wide the gates Of oblivion, that it
may receive into its bosom the debris of this
fallen order, which carries upon its front the
brand which God placed upon Cain-or let it
wander, like NaEarine, in the deserts of the
earth, without home to shelter it. without a
pillow to support its dropping head, without a
garment to cover it, withou. even the power
to die
The grave which the Democratic party has
dug for Black Republicanism is broad and
deep enough for that also WIthout tba as
severation made by Macbeth, to Banauo's
ghost, We will fight the monster of faction in
any shape material or incorporeal Know
Nothingisn, Black Republicanism, Native