Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1859-09-28
THE SENATORIAL CONTEST.

The efforts which the opposition leaders are
now making in every portion of the district
to malign and misrepresent Mr.. Durbiu,
should cause his friends to be active and en-
ergetic in his support In spite of the COM
bined efforts of his maligners, he can. and
will be elected by large majority, if the en-
tire democratic vote of the district is polled on
the day of election. We will not attempt to
reply to the calumnies and SANDERS which
have been circulated concerning him since be
was placed in nomination by the Democratic
Conference. There is not one of them wor-
thy of refutation, for they are all alike, vile
and contemplate. The Hollidaysburg Wing
opened the Campaign by asserting that he
was vender of rot gut whiskey, in Munster,
and that he ''couldn't keep hotel" The
Johnstown Tribune asserted that he was a
boorish and ignorant individual, and no filter
than an old boot to represent the people Of
the district in the State Senate. These SLAM
ders were SO ridiculous and SO utterly destitute
of truth, that the AAeghaniam one of Mr..
Halls respectable organs, fatty contradicted
them, & very politely informed the editors Of the
Tribune and the editor of the Whiy, that they
had asserted that concerning Mr.. Durbin
which was not true. The editor of the Hol-
idaysburg Register, determined that his pa
per should not be behind the Tribune aud
Whig in slandering Mr.. Durbin, last week
insinuated that If Mr.. Durbin was not enga-
ged in excepting Hotel" it was because he
could not obtain Tavern License" from the
Court He also insnuated that Mr. Durbin is
the enemy of the system of education by Com
mon Schools. 1t is true Mr.. Durbin some
eight or nine years ago did keep Hotel, and
kept good one too: But it is false that he
ever applied for a License and was refused by
the Court. We have yet to learn that Hotel
keeping is disgraceful calling. With all
due Difference to the venerable editor of the
Register, we beg leave to inform him, that il
our opinion. it is infinitely more honorable to
keep respectable Hotel, than to edit smut
machine which circulate falsehoods concern
ing respectable citizen, which the editor
knows or ought to know at the time be il
giving currency to them, are false. 1t i
false that Mr.. Du-bin is opposed to the sys
tenn of education by Common Schools. l
elected he would do more to sustain it, thar
Lewis W. Hall. his Know Nothing opponent
Such falsehoods may be possibly believed b.
few of the citizens of Blair county who d,
not know Mr.. Durbin. But tho people O
Cambria know him, and treat these low cal
umnies concerning him with the contemI
abandon cher favorite Son." on the secon
Tuesday Of next October, merely because th
Know Nothing editors of the district malig
him.
According to the Know Nothing papers
the District, Mr.. Hall, Mr.. Durbins oppc
nent, is very great and remarkable mana
embryo Statesman and orator, who is ''de
tined for till rise" Now it may not be o.
of place to inquire,
Upon what meats does this our Cesar feed
That he has grown SO great"
We have been credibly informed that he
principally remarkable for making long spe
ches in five dollar cases before the Altoo
Sqnires, and is great on hifatutin. He e
dorses the bigoted principles of the Kne
Nothing party asand upholds the dangero
and sectional doctrines of Black Republica
ism. He is one of the disciples of Nathan
P. Banks, who is willing to 'let the Uni
slide" aud is one of the frmest advocates