Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1858-04-07
VOL. ). No Fl.

show that have been slothful, or timid, or
unfaithful soldier, will ask for dismissal.
You are destined, gentlemen, TO another
disappointment--the failure of your fancy
scheme-you cannot get up a faction fight at
least not with my name as 4 war cry. l un-
like yourselves, am not applicant before
the people Cor any Office. I am not endeav.
oring to be conspicuous, or to be meddlesome.
have not of.n led the people, in any way;
you cannot make them parties in the mon
strous injustice you are eoing me, and induce
them to join IN the hue and cry of per-
secution against al individual who asks only
to fe left alcIe in tic ujCntIt If the
essential tights of ,nan--Life, Liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness.
The issue which you are trying 70 force, while
it is unmatche IL walton malice. is equally
impolitic. Dii it ever occur 10 you, that you
hight raise devil you cannot lay" Yoa
certainly know ,hat We unsophi>ticated DEM
ncrats who live in the woods, have beeu mos.
patient ana o5cGient to the commands ofa few
Of you gentlemen who dwell in the atmosphere
Of Olymp!aa exclusiveness up there in Ebens.
burg; when you annually deign to descend
into proximity to the comp,0a herl, so tha.
wc may hearyour high commands. have We no,
always bowel in obedience. Ike tie Su.tan's
vassei, even though the unpisying edict fo..
ced Us to submit. our own recks 20 the bow
-tring; you have mixed up many bitter doses.
still we have always swallowed ther,-and
/ Z. =.
/ cal politics OF the county," you would force
us into hostility. You would drive into op.
position the very men whose votes you need
TO rsach the fat Offices for which each and ev-
cry one of you is applicant now and in the
future. Do not forget the terror conye yed in
the fgura,ive language of Loly writ Thou
shouldst not muzzle tie o1 that trea6est cut
the corn
now say to you. Mr.. Noon, that 1 have
done with goa. have spent sufficient time
in controversy with the lachey In the future
would desire to turn my attention to the
masters | shall henceforth let your abuse
rass by uhheeded. trust that YOU viii posr
it out without stint; i. is more desirable to
me than your praise Although indifferent
to me. it may Serve to amuse the public, who
will look upon it with that plying curiosity
; with which We re gard other alterations of the
human intellect,
/, II conclusion, let me call the attention Of
yourself and of the men whose cool you ara.
1 to the following picturesque aphorisms which
t are to be found in modern author, who is
t destined to notoriety if no. celebrity. They
I are these.
! '-Truthfulnos5 has. at all tunes, been con.
0 siiered one of the bright particular virtues o.
i an honest man. The falsifer, no matter how
c talented and accomplished. no difference what
= his position in society. however sacred may
: be his calling profession. whether rich ol
: poor. humble or exalted, is curse to the
y community in which he moves Fraud is such
Il an evil in itself that its nercst touch is con
t elimination"
e That your heart may be opened to an ap
s probation of the moral beauty of these sen
d tences, is the prayer cf
It Yours, &c, RICHARD WHITE.
; Hen,lock. March 81. 1858