Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1858-07-21
THE M0UNTAINEER' AND IT'S EDITOR.

lire long"
Thus spake Bardolph to Sir John Falstaff,
and we invountarily gave utterance to SIM
liar expression, on perusiug the editorials ID
the last Nountaineer er'-P Philip, you are SO
fretful, you cannot live long, The amount
of i'll nature, and irritability, which he dis
plays in an article less than column in length,
headed Cool" is truly astonishing in one SO
Young, and who has known but little of the
cares and sorrows of life We beg leave to
assure him, that we DO Tot intend following
his example. We will not deal harshly with
him, but
Take him up tenderly,
Ard lift him with care"
The privilege of beholding Philip while
engaged in perusing the late numbers Of the
Democrat and Sentinel, would have certainly
been worth quarter at least. How wither-
ing must have been that s-n-e-e-r, how
dignitfed that smile of contempt. Great
men have always been remarkable for stand
| ing on their dignity, and We are glad to find
that the editor of the Mountaineer has not pro-
we'd an exception to the rule. But bark ye,
! Philip, do not be astonished if you discover IN
few years, that dignity will not always an
swer as a substitute for good temper, and
small sprinkling of common sense; and remem
| Der also, when you pompously talk about your
sneers and your smiles of contempt the ma
| jority of your readers will shrewdly suspect
that you are blessed with very large prom
incLcc on that part of the Uranium, where
Phreuologists locate the bump Of self-esteenl.
| Philip, observations of this kind are exceed
ingly unpleasant, but they are appropriate to
the occasion, and we humbly hope you will
profit by them.
We have taken occasion more than once,
to expose the shiUy sha1lying vacillating
course Philip has persued, since the appear
ance of the first number of his paper, up to
the present time, He started out by assert
ing that the Lecompton Constitution was a
fraud a swndle, and that the National Ad-
ministration was endeavoring to "chtseP the
people of the territory of Kansas out Of their
rights He signed and published a call in bis
paper, for meeting to denoupce the Kansas
policy of the National Administration, to the
great edifcation of the Black Republicans ol
the county. He afterwards published A set o
Anti Lec0mpto resolutions as the voice o.
the Democratic mass meeting last March
court, which lie knew WELL were not adopted
He seemed for 4 time to have adopted the
Press" edited by the renegade Forney, a.
a sort of political BiJIe which con ntained ''tht
| truth, the whole truth and nothing but tn,
truth" Almost his entire paper was dcdi
Gated to he abuse of the Kansas policy Q
| NJ Buchanan. He could talk about nothing
but the Kansas swindle; the outside of hi
paper was devoted to speeches, the inside, t
editorials on that subject. When Montgom
ery's amendment was adopted ~ the House
: he joined the Black Republcan papers il
shouting over the supposed defeat of tn
Democratic party lie was louder than evel
= the Johnstown TriJHne, in rejoicing owe
. what he styled ''the victory" When tn
i Committe of Conference reported the Com
t, promise bill to Congress, better known as th
t English bill, he denounced it as being NOR
!. an open barefaced attempt to bribe the peOpl
h of Kansas to accept the Lecompton Constitr
ia ton In the next issue of Lis paper, h
81 backed down from his original position, al
a retracted all he had said the week previou
O. thus proving to demonstration, that he w;
- not an admlrer of the Jewel, called consi
he tency After this, he manifested extraord
,S' nary reluctance to allude to the subjects
bleeding Kansas, tie 'eiU IF the majority a
ire popular sovereignty, once his favoritc theme
ly He evidently desired .hat the past should
ice at once, 'in the deep bosom of the Gee
ry buried He hoped that the Democra
So would at once forget the past, and their du
to sutain the President of their choice.
this, he and his aiders and abettors were doc
49, ed to a woful disappointment. The Democra
County Convention, which assembled in Il
place on Tuesday of last week, unanimou:
te- adopted, among others, the following re.
OF lutions:
We Reso7ced, That we have undiminished &C
re idence in the patriotism, ability and thorou
he democracy of James buchanan, President
the United States That his public acts mi
our cordial appreciation, and demonstr
Ice clearly that in urging his claims for the Pr
cir idency, Pennsylvania placed proper eS
The mate upon the merits of the man.
be Resolred, That no preceding National I
Il ecutive within our reeol ection, assumed
=" functions of Office at a time when section
U.s. strife maddcned by fanaticism ragged nj
en- fercely, or when external foes by intrigue a
uc- menace, by the complications of Diploma
and the undisguised insult to our natio
oe flag, alike threatened the institutions of
Government. And that whilst we feel pro
eu. of the past political history of our Chief n
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