Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1860-09-12
Is not this equivalent to

calls Disorganizers. Is not this equivalent to
charging every Democrat in ,he county who
intends voting for Breckinridge. and voting
against g. N Smith next fall, with being
nothing better than Know Nothing and
Black Republican? And, remember Demo-
Gratis, that the man who is responsible for this
charge, was himself covert but working
Know Nothing few years ago, and that
| nearly every Democrat in Ebensburg loathed
and despsed him as such. Remember, that
while you were endeavoring to uphold the
banner of Democracy during that dark and
| trying hour, he was secretly endeayoring to
deprive many of you Of your rights as free
men, because you worsbipped God according
to the dictates of your own consciences. A
pretty individual truly, to attack the politi-
cal integrity of the oldest and most devoted
Democrats in the County! The friends of
Douglas should hang their heads in shame,
for allowing such political renegade to take
charge of their organ in little Cambria.
Mr.. Lloyd will probably deny the truth of
| the charge that he was a few years ago
Know Nothing. But by doing SO he cannot
shake it off. 1t is true, and will therefore
| cling to him like the poisoned shirt to the
back of Nessus. The Democracy of EbeDs-
burg have not yet forgotten his course during
the times THAT tried the souls of men," He
avoided and kept aloof from the Democracy,
and his only political associates were the
recognized leaders of the KEow Nothing par
ty. All his aid and comfort" were given to
the enemies of the Democratic party, and all
of its members who knew him branded him as
Know Nothing. We learn from reliable
source, that Captain Alexander M'Vicker, of
Cambria township, has stated publicly sever
al times, that he met Mr. Lloyd in secret NEE
tings of the Know Nothing order more than
once. He did not know whether Mr.. Lloyd
had assumed the vows of the order, but at all
events he was present in its secret meetings.
He was there aiding and abetting ''the move
ment." When he discovered that the days
of the Know Nothing party were numbered,
he called himself once more Democrat, and
endeavored to attain to respectable position
in the ranks of the party once more But he
can never do so. Byron in one Of his i'm
mortal poems, describes woman who appear
ed in the evening to one who gazed on her,
the embodiment of all that was beautiful,
lovely and pure in her sex. That night she
became a murderess, and appeared before him
ere dawn, with faint streak of blood on her
forehead, avowlng her guilt Her angelic
beauty had all vanished, and she stood before
him, an object hateful, loathsome ard odious;
s'That spot of blood, that light but guilty streak,
: Had banished all the beauty from her cheek.''
And SO it is now with the responsible Editor
of the "lNountaiaeeT." 1t may be that his
record as Democrat YVES pure and faultless,
up to the time he became Know Nothing
But by that single act, he tarnished it forever.
S His political reputation has lost all its beau
ty, and he can never regain the confidence of
those who once regarded him as Democrat
in whom there was no guile" He can ad-
e duce no excuse to extenuate the act Many
of those he then attempted to prescribe and
: deprive of their inalienable rights, bad been
t the friends and companions of his boyhood
t and youth, and ''had grown with his growth
and strengthened with his strength The
v act was unworthy of a true Man, Patriot,
b. Neighbor, Companion and Friend. We trea,
S the illusions msdo to US in the notice which
he published of the Breckenridge and Lane
o meeting on Monday evening of last week,
Y with contempt They are all as false as the
# malicious heart of the miscreant who penned
: them
e We have said this much with reluctance,
- and only because we have been compelled tc
y do so In selfe defence. The responsible Edi
e tor OF the NountdiReer having undertaken tc
prove that we and the paper which we edit
: are allies of the Know Nothing and Black
= Republican parties, we have reciprocated
s the favor, by proving that he is not Demo
: crat and that he is unworthy the support and
= confidence of the party. No more at present
+ my Dear Mr.. Lloyd. Give our respects t.
" all inquiring friends, and may Heaven bles
II you.
hS We deem 1t unnecessary to 60 into al
, elaborate reply, to the grossly personal, un
gentlemanly and unprovoked attack in th,
last Mountaineer on Messrs. John A. Blair
!, Judge Kinkead, Edward Glass, Geo. C. X
Zahm and others. If the lfountaineer cliqu,
think they can gain any thing by calumnia
= ting respectable citizens. they are very mucl
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