Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1858-12-08


umns Of newspaper at Ebensburg-that was
we'll understood and not expected.
It was expected, however, that the paper
should be reliable, consistent and bold, and
| should advance the interests OF the party /:
these conditions beyond all doubt, were
met. If I had attempted to make my
paper an instrument of private revenge, and
devote it to envy hatred aud all uncharltable-
ness, il and the editor would certainly have
bsen hooted out of the county.
Since that time, whether public sentiment has
changed do not know but l remarked the
publicat ion of mean little sheet-a sort of
"Jakey," which pretends to be Democratic,
and has stolen glorious name-just as
pirates have locker full of the flags of all
| respectable 1ations-with, as It's editor.
nondsscript streak of divine wrath, whose
carcass can be measured only by sign
post, but his intellect by parenthess.
When I left the Democrat q Sentinel the
Dmocratie majority in the county was rising
1900. am not now in politics but OBJ
serve by the papers, that slncc the establish
ment of the nuisance referred to, that ma
iority has in less than ten months, fallen,
or been siftsd from 1900 down to 800
Whether this result is due to the labors of
: the gentleman with the parenthctical under
!, standing, is moro than [ now have time 20
cipbcr out. The two facts are co-existent:
those who have propensity for mathematics
night derive certain conclusions from tn I'm.
You think that you will now conclude this
controversy. Not SO fast. my vamosing
worshipper up your wheeling Pegasus,
and let us have a friendly goodbye. Pity
! Al. ho, or1aS har
q horn-that would be more symbolical of the
e kindly feel NJ we entertain for another
and also of the dilemma in which [ left
o you above.
You have found that | am general IN the
mitia-let me use the privilege of that sta
e ton and "pass in review" the main incl
Y dents of the amcable discussion we have
o been holding together. before you ''fee
away and be at rest" l will make you aid
u for tie nonce AS the ''editor of Demo-
cratic paper" is it not occasionally your duty
r to 'review" also?
/ Well: few weeks since you commenced
the discussiod BY Safeguarding citizen be-
cause he had exercised that right which is
sacred and guaranteed to every citizen of this
c land-that of casting his ballot as he secs fit.
t Your hiqhness, "as the editor of Democrat
ic paper found it your duty to single me
out of the several thousand voters of the
: county, and apply to me such gentle epithets
e as .'traitor," and decree that | was. unworthy
n of confidence, but with surprising deicacy:
r Won Omitted to prore the truth of what you
4 said
You did not show that I had the in
Ii terests Of the party in my charge at the
l. time-you did not show that it was IN my
e power to betray anything, but out of excess
, of consideration, with ''Perlous Partially
I
l. irsensibe to The attention unapt in the appli
st cation of the epitbets: | did not call yo'
Te traitor, but I proced you to be such.
er showed that recently you had been selected
;. as the representative man of the Cambri
Democracy, that you were entrusted with tn
care of their interests-wcre the depository 0
E. their confidence and that at the earlies
ID possible moment, you deliberately, studi
=. ously, caref ully and completely violated tha
confidence and betrayed those interests; anC
that, lest your treason might admit of any pos
'u sible doubt, you attended when they had me
IL together, and ascertained their wishes so tha
? YOU could with the greater certainty do thai
~, which they told you not to DO and leave un
done that which they told you to do.
So true was my record of your conduct
en- that you have not only not denied my account
nd but have declared that you will stand o
all that record in all future time.
During all these proceedings, it was pleas
&C. ant to observe how brethren could dwell to
en- gether in harmony. The kindness of feelin
p aud benignity of manner with which yol
VS. could call an unoffendiDg citizen ''trator,
ro was absolutely enchanting, und convinced til
hearer that beyond all doubt you had moo
10 elled your conduct after him who, as tn
In Poet has it, 'could smile and smile and be
lat villain STILL
That YOU s'have not been actuated By
, single unkind feeling towards me personally
ou is clear Certainly you had none, 4 fe
ni- gentlemen up there around you. howeve
had. Not daring to show themselves opel
ct ly, they felt that they must air their indis
nation or strangle You philanthropIcai
offered yourself as sewer through which the
vas could discharge their filth. They used yC
ust as blind in this warfare, and now. fndir
ra- that you are likely to succumb under "tl
hat stings and arrows of outrageous fortune
they have caused you to beat retreat, at
:. ignominiously retire from a contest whi
you. or rather they through you, hare pr
of voked.
hen You had inspired an affection of SUI
on depth and strength that | cannot but col
plain of the ruthless destiny which is abo
mn to tear US asunder. Our Irritation was il
'rat reaching its crisis. By the successful a
per plication of the anti-clima1. [ had brong
its you from columns down to 2. and so
ON would have brought you to point. l ha
=, not been wanting in devotion to you, a
Inc have not deserved that you should aband
aph me- Why, cruel one, did you awaken a p
ud- sion only to crnsh it in its first flush of dev
+o opment? Does not your celebrated sec
~, science" reproach you with your infdelit
'ha' You are off-amid other enjoyments J
may be enabled to stiff the still small vo
be of the secret mon itor; but, let me impl'
t;on YOU think oh think what destiny is mi