Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1857-03-25
CoTey on Eonks.

Mr.. COFFEY stated similar frauds perpe-
tratcd in the rural districts at the late cleo
ton In Washington township, Cambria
county, for instance according TO the election
returns, the Democratic majority was larger
than the wholo number of taxabes in the
township. Again, he had been reliably in
formed that some two Monks were packed in
Monestry in Cambria county, all Of whom
voted on ten days residence, and then were
OF. 1t was a great mistake to suppose the
amendment Of the Laws vas not required in
the country districts.
Mr.. Cofey, who made the above remarks
in the State Senate on Thursday, the 10Th
inst, is from Indiana county, and is well
known in Ebcnsburg lie is an understrap-
per of Know n othingism. butas that political
organization has been effcctually wiped out of
existence, he has taken refuge under the
black flag of Rcpublicanism, and is now one
OF the active spirits Of that mischioyous aud
dangerous faction.
1t is somewhat singular that Nr Cofey is
the first man, who has discovered that frauds
wero perpetratod, in Washington township,
in this County, at the last fall elections His
political associates in that township, polled
Mirty-tArce rotes, and it is but fair to presume,
that if any fraud was practiscd, they would
be the persons most likely to know it. They
have remained silent since the election, and
20 far as We know, have never asserted that
illegal votes were pollcd in that township If
Mr.. Cofey's political friends in Washington
township, were satisfied with the result, it af-
i IL
fairly held, and it docs not become him, as
member Of the State Senate, to mako such
vague and unwarrantad accusation, against
the political honesty ana integrity Of the citi-
gems of that township.
But Mr. Cofoy, true to the base instincts
of The Know-Notbiag order, asserts that
% Some t,co Monks toerc packed in MoaGs-
tery in Cambria County, ali Of 'chons roted
OR a ten days,resiio]eace. and Me1s tcere o6"2-
We quote Mr Co9oy's words, precisely as
they are reported in the proceedings of the
Senate He may have made more streeptng
charge against the i" l0nks," and it is posi-
ble was not reported correctly. BE that as it
may. Ike FalstaT's twenty men in Buckram,
with whom that Prince of liars, according to
his own story, had such bloody fight they
have dwiudled down to some tsco"
We will i4form Mr.. Cofey, that there are
no g Monk" in Cambria county, and that this
part of his speech, is a base and unmitigated
falsehood. There are two religious orders O
the Catholic Church in this county; one is
located at Loretto aud tie other at Carroll
town. Very fcW Of tho n.ealbers Of The order,
ut either place, are entitled to . vote, aud
those wAe ayei very seldom exercise the right
They attend to their ogn business, and IN.
that respect. diaer materially from the & Three
dousand Nsle England Clergymen," who
protested in their celebrated petition to Con-
gress, against the passage of the Kansas and
Nebraska bin One of these political par
sons, tie Rev Mr., Kalloc,, has reeently been
indicted fur high c-i,;.iaal og,aoo, and vii
sOou have his ease decided $ jury Of tie
State Of Massachusetts. Others have long
since disgraced themselves. a1d are now wan
dering vagabonds throughout the land Mr.
Coffey need not be at all alarmed about the
- NoliIts'' in Cambria they need net disturb
N.i-st44IS " SILL POLITICAL
preferment. Tbey will pursue, as they have
heretofore done, the even tcner of their way,
eschewng politics, and permitting every man,
under their influence and control, TO exercise
his full and perfect freedom In matters of Flee
sion- 1t is not very long since. that this same
Sir. CofIey, in a speech in the Senate, protes
ted most vehemently against the appointment
by Gov. Pollock. of TIE Rev. Mr. Dewitt.
Presbyterian Clergyman in Harrisburg, as
State Librarian la bis speech on that occa-
sion, ha.denounced Mr.. Dewits as a Demo
crat. and as being slavery man; welded to
the interests of the South, and therefore oppo-
sed to his (Cohey's) peculiar notions of Re-
publicanism. He asserted in the same speech.
that in his district, they had 10 clcrgymen of
that sort meaning, that they prostituted
their ministerial functions to the base pur poses