Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1859-02-02

unaided genius can accomplish in spite OF the
efforts Of envy and poverty to crush. and sup
press it.
~ 1t is impossible for sincere member OF
the Democratic party to contemplate with silent
patience, the course certain self styled members. |
and would be leaders Of the party are now pur-
suing When the English Bill'' passed Con- |
gress we confidently hoped that the war of fac |
tions y ould Immediately cease, and that in few
onths we would hear nothing about Lecompton
or Anti-Lecompton. But we have been disap-
pointed The men who disorganzed during the
last session of Congress. seem determined to be
disorganizcrs still and not to rest from their abors
until the Democratic party is numbered among
the things that were. They are constantly
whining over their private grievances, real or
imaginary, and seem to think that because they
or their friends have been disappointed in OBJ
tanning share of the spoils of Office, the Demo-
cratic parry must be broken up and destroyed.
They seem to have adopted opposition to the
National Administration, right or ,croag, as the
test of Democracy. This state Of affairs should
continue no longer. We have been wranging
and quarrelling among ourselves too Ing already,
and "Union and Harmony should now be our
Motto. If we go into the next Presidential con-
test with our ranks divided and dis 1rganized, it
will be vain for US to hope to triumph over the
united hosts of the opposition. All should re-
member that the Democratic party has higher
and holier mission to perform than that of elevs-
ting certain men to Office. 1t is the guardian of
our free Institutions of government, and the only
of tba fba affr} of he
sectional organization, called the Black Repubi-
can Party, to weaken and destroy the league of
love (which binds this fair broad Empire, Stat
| by State" All sincere members Of the party
should therefore at once manifest disposition TO
! forget past differences, and unite beneath the
banner under which they battled in days gone
! by. If we wish to prevent Sectionalism from
triumphing over the principle of Nationality, we
must at once unite and prepare for the contest.
John w. Forney is the leader of the disorgan-
! izers in this State, and by the open falsehoods
and misrepresentation of facts he is constantly
promulgating through the columns of his paper,
many honest Democrats. The following article
which we clip from the Pe"nsyluaniaa, is well
timed and will repay a perusa.
The feverish and wild articles of the Press
day by day indicate that the Editor of that
journal is in an unhappy; distempered condi-
tion of mind We pity the man. 1t is a
common and familiar thing to hear others say,
that he is to be pitied. What but some kind
of monomaDic can induce him to annoy his
readers and distress the public with violent
and exasperated decfamations about the Pres
ident? The public care nothing for his pri-
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that the misfortunes of our friends are not al
ways unpleasant to us Cannot the Editor o.
the Press take some thought and wisdom
from this saying of the FTenchman? Can be
not see that if friends not displeased with
his troubles that enemies may be pleased
By this course he not only exposes that which
a prudent man would wish to conceaI-he no
only shows how much he is displeased witt
himself and how much he is punished by hi:
own tormeE ting thoughts, but he also give
color to the idea that he is sometimes unde
the influence Of other more vulger excitemen
He is fast drifting far away from the power O
self f-control. He is delivered over to his ow,
passions, his unaspeakable hatreds; had asso
Citations with bad men, bad habits that CAV
4 a tone to all he says and all he does that vii
:, sooner or later reduce him low enough in tn
a bublic judgment, as be perhaps is now in hi
i own esteem. Take his own version of bis ow
e wrongs. He tells us that he is a cast-off in
! strument- neglected and degraded by tbos
: he has been the servant Of; and then he pull
fishes to the world the secrets Of those VIII
;" employed him, and divulges the private affai
g of those under whom he held place. Madl
o be halls. like discharged steward or bailii
angry that he is removed, and full of vulg;
d spite. Indeed We pity him. Other me
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: from mean places in life and put in exalte
n posts, and like him they to have forcotts
il themselves and been undutiful to those wh
:, honored them-honored them with rank ar
~ station, and all for favor. Such low me
~ thus promoted are always presumptuou
10 | MENsCHIKoFF was kitchen boy The gre
TO rnler of Russia fancied him, and by his fav
es and countenanoe soon advanced him to ii
III dignity of a prince; but the Gear could n
n endow MENsCHIKoFF with the qualities o
r noble With all his titles and dignities
ed was but scullIon, rapacious, indoleDt, was
- full, icentious and drunken. He conspir
against bis master and benefactor. He cou
- not even attemyt to poison him with the sla
. ders of his pen, but be could plot against |
as life Discovered aud degraded he vas Sc
II to Siberia TO learn there in those gloomy so
nd tudes that submission and obedience and scr
n, of duty he had violated. Let the editor
he the Press read this, our well-meant homi
Perhaps this may teach him something ii
Ter will benefit him, as the consciousness of
,st merited punishment may deter and restr,
IL him from bis present excesses.
~ U We clip the following item from
=: Johnstown Tribune Of last week :-"As We
to press we learn that three young fellows