Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1858-04-07

tue chairman OF tue committee was used IN
the first place without his knowledge or con-
sent? How gentleman redolent of Kan
sas, snuff and niger" had the Black Repub-
lcans drilled or mustered up to help your
How the great Stokes was to deal death and
destruction upon the Administration, how
you were on hand for "a chance" and how
the live thuader, lcapiug from the summit of
the Alleghanies. was to shake the Capitol
from dome to base and cause the occupant of
the White House to awake with terror? and
how j. G. Noon took the wind out of your
sail and beat Mr.. Stokes time by making the
adjournment? And yet you have discovered
that lit WAS agreed that it should be adjourn
eG without doing any business" If that meet
ing was unne cessary why was it called? What
was the use of holding a meeting, if as you
say, nothing was to be done at it2 Why
hunt up men ald bring them together mere
ly TO tell them that they were not needed,
and might go about their business?
OF a verify, the writer of the article in your
paper Of March 25th, possesses a talent tor
indiscriminate falsehoods, which. if properly
cultivated will cause Baron Nun Chausen,
,, Joe Smith and all the great PROFESSIONAL
I liars to sabscond into re shadow
Apropos. \ remark here in the interest Of
/ your readers. may not be out of place Those
who read only your paper will imDibe fear
fully mixed up notions of things generally,
unless you adopt some plan to guide them,
I y fto of
/ truth which imparious necessity may occasion
ally compel you to insert There is an an
ecdote told OF an Indian Chief, with whom,
in former times, governor of the then Pro
vince Of Pennsylvania, had directed several
treaties to be made. The Indian went thro
all the forms. but Systematically violated all
:he agreements. Finally the Governor went
in person. had big talk, and concluded {
treaty with the rcd skin; the ink with whicl
the instrument was drawn up and signed hap
pened to ber.d. The chief being asked if he
would consider the treaty mentioned, as more
binding than the others, answered that h
would, because when he made his marks will
rcd ink, it n'eant something said he, "blacl
ink no good for Indian, ugh and BOUNDED
off into the forest
f Now how would i; be were you to act o.
this hint, aud adopt the Indians plan Whe1
you priut what is true and honest and reliabl
use red iuk-then your readers will under
, stand where they are. TIE red ink, it
,sne, would be expensive !; but then, yo
know, you have occasion for SO little of it .
Similar extracts from your record might
multiplied to great extent. but it would b
useless. Beyond ali doubt enough has bee
i produced to show clearly as matfematic.
demonstration, that an assertion found i
n your paper, is not, in the absence of olhe
f evideac,, entitled to any credence.
: Now then. what becomes of yonr charge
; at was therefore Gen Richard White wh
threw the apple of discord into the ranks
O The record shows it to be wiltul, deliberate
: malicious faisehood, uttered to screen your
: self from the consequences of your own in
: prudence or venality.
t Your course aud object has been a my.
terry to me cannot believe that you has
undertaken this crusade against private ci
q zen, of your own motion that supposito
/. would violate probability and the laws of h,
u man nature. Until the publication of yor
L first attack, was your friend and you kuc
it, You coufied in and counseled with mt
S politically assisted in making the reput.
d tion which you had l never gave you eau:
9 of quarrel, openly or secretly, directly or in
: pliedly. No man can believe that you bega
II this hostility. wherein so much bitterness
g manifested, merely because could rot ST
IS eye to eye with you on question in regar
It to which yourself says: .'NIen could and di
honestly differ"
i If your object was to break down Mr.. 81
i chanans strength and popularity in the cou
e ty, by crushing his friends. why did you si
e gle me out? He has friends in this coun
d who have been with him in sunshine and
n storm, through good and evil report, Tor mo
J., than century-who have grown gray fig
&c ing his battles, and some of them know 4
q near and ought TO be dear to you. He b
;, friends here who have been such, far long
a than have been-who have been more a
4 tive in his behalf-who..wer more caIable
u cf aiding him than [ am-who are more ab
1t to direct public opinion than l am-men
: whom the people Of Cambria always look
,r advice and council, whose names arc hou
v hold words in the county, and who are
IS boast, ornament and pride abroad.
j. During the brief existence of your pap
it has been characterized by steady oppositi
N to the policy of the National Administration,
r remarkable for the violence Of it's onslaug
g. upon myself. Every other friend of Mr.. B