Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1857-07-01
VOL. 4. NO. 35.


absolute personal Independence. Nc, gen
tlemen, my only regret is for your disaprOint-
ment, and for my inability rightly to evince
my gratitude to the devoted friends who gave
US their generous support. l am sure you
will allow me to say that Westmoreland will
remember their kindness to one of her citi-
zens, and will repay them if it is ever In her
power.
1t is at least in our power to prove, by un-
wayering devotion to the party, that we merit
the confidence of our friends. And how
proud is the position of that party! What
is it but the embodied Patriotism which has
guided the destinies of the Republic from
feeble infancy to the maturity of National
manhood-which made our homes happy, our
rights secure. our arms triumphant
has insured domestic tranquility, and protec-
ted from foreign violence-which has cal
ried us in safety to the highest point of earth
ly prosperity-which has demonstrated the
capacity of man for selfgovernment-
has taught tyrants to tremble, and warmed
with hope the hearts of the oppressed
throughout the world.
We know no new political faith. We stand
where stood the founders of our freedom-on
those principles which have united TIE wise
and good from the beginning until now, and
which will remain the shield of the nation
until the salt of Democracy shall have lost its
SAVIOR, and the days of the Republic are num-
| bered.
Since the sages of the Revolution proclaim
ed the immortal maxims, which are our true
bond of concord, factions without number
have sprung up, whithered and died. Every
crude political notion. every sectional inter-
est, has had its supporters; at one time reli-
gious faith has been revlled, at another the
accident of birth has been deemed crime,
now exaltation of the negro is the temporary
test, the Constitution is disregarded, the very
name of Republican is degraded. Amidst all
these ever shifting phrases of folly, we remain
on the firm platform erected BY our fathers
The Democratic creed-unaffected by locality.
unchanged by time-the same yesterday, to-
| day and forever. Heavens holy truth for
mans social happiness, it is lifted far above
the passion and prejudice by which reason is
blinded and error strehgthend. 1t holds out
no bribes to particular interests, no favors to
| any exclusive class. 1t proclaims, in the lar
guage of one of its heroic champions, that
the blessings of government, like the dews
of heaYen, should be dispensed to all men
alike to the high and the low, the rich and
| the poor"
1t breaks down the barriers raised by tyr
amy, and fraternizes citizens so that they
become one great national family. full of love
and hope.
| In doing this it commands US to sacrifice
our personal preferences to lay all minor diff
erences on the alter ofour country greatness,
to say creryhiag for pa'fy-rotaimg for
men,
No man Is true Democrat who will oppose
the party. He who fails to give hearty sup
port to the candidates when once nomina ted
wages intestine war, and is traitor more dan
gerous than an avowed enemy. It is by abso-
lutte and effective union on par ty candidates,
| that Pennsylvania has so often shone conspic-
| uous in the constellation of Republican Sow
ereignites. This was the means by which
she made JEFFERSON President and discarded
British influence, by which she made JACKSON
President and purged country of usurpers,
by which she made BUCHANAN President and
saved the Constitutian
Be it ours, my fellow citizens, by our la
bors in the common contest, to preserve the
purity of our principals, to rescue our State
from bondage. to defend our free Constitution,
to elevate still higher the Democratic faith,
which is the glory of this country and the
hope of humanity throughout the world
God to our keeping has committed the sacred
fame of liberty. Let us be true to our trust
that our path through life may be illuminated
by Its rays. that our children may possess the
heritage of freedom, that the Nations may re-
joice in the light and life of the Democratic
truth.
Impressed with these solemn considerations,
before which all present personalities sink into
insignifcance, let us 60 to our respective
homes, and endeavor to diffhse, in all parts
our country. the high political marality of ,
| party, pure in Its origin. action, sentimentl
and tendencies. Let US cultivate the spiri
, of concord among ourselves. and charity tow
t ard our opponents. Let reason reign, ans
truth will be inyinclble
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