Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1860-08-08
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''Alas they had been TRENDS In youth,
But whispering lounges can poison truth;
And cOHstancy reigns In realms above;
And life is thorny and youth Is vain;
And to be wroth with one we love,
Doth work like madness on the brain.
But never either found another,
To free the hollow heart from painng;
They stood aloOf the scars remaining.
Like cliffs that had been rent asunder,
A dreary sea now flows between,
But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder
Shall wholly do away, l ween,
The trace of that which once hath been-"
Our amiable friend of the Johnstown Echo
last week informed "all the world and the
rest of mankind" that Charles d. Murray,
Editor of the Eoensburg Democrat and Sen
tiaet always hated him. Now this is news to
US. and we presume it will be SO to all who
have been in tbe habit of perusing this paper
since we became its Editor Since the fall of
1857, we have never failed, until recently, in
defending his course. through the columns of
the Democrat and Sentinel against the as
saults of open and concealed foes. We have
now in our possession a letter from him in
which he thanks us in warm language, for
| two editorial articles in his defence which had
appeared in our columns. These same edito-
rial articles were copied with laudatory in-
troductory remarks into the next number OF
the Echo. We defended him against the as
saults of the scribolers of the Mountdineer in
the spring of 1858, and for so doing he al
least pretended to be not ungrateful- We
never abandoned him until he abandoned US
and our friends. and made common cause with
the men who for years had been his politica
enemies. 1t may possibly be gratifying tt
him to now hear his maligners in days gone
By, lauding his course at Charleston and Bal
timore. But the illusion is as feeble and vi
substantiated as air, for if he consults his owl
heart, he cannot but know as well as we do
"That the few who loved him once have fled,
And they who hatter scorn him."
He says that we always hated him. Th
files of the Democrat and Sentinel prove tha
this charge is untrue. We defended hir
when those who now profess to be his friend
were assailiDg lin with bitter malignity ovid
Splashboard's communications signed G. Ner
tune Smith. IN the Mountaineer of the sprin
of 1859
5 Captain Smith stated last week that we a
ways hated him, This charge is inconsiste,
with his declarations three weeks ago. II
{ then said that some two or three montl
: since we had In an editorial article high
: eulogistic of himself, urged him to be cal
: didate for assembly at the approaching ele
: ton, and announced him as such. But the
: you know kind reader, that Captain Smi
}. has never been model of political consiste
: cy. Being new and improved polite
e weather cock, he always turns the way
e thinks the wind blows the strongest.
y Il is Lot true that we ever hated CAPITA
Is Smith. We have too much veneraiion for 4
h cardinal principle of the Christian Religio
If to entertain an unkind emotion towards a.
E. being formed like ourself in the image a
m likeness of his Creator; and if Captain Smi
h entertains any unkind feelings towards us
lie are ready to say to him in the mild and ber
is violent spirit of Christianity; "kind frier
b why should we hate each other. Is not {
in world large enough for thee and me?"
of But it is evident that this talk about {
ID hating him, was gotten up for the purpose
to adording an excuse for not replying to |
2 facts concerning his political career conta
m ed in ou- paper during the last three weeks
lg In editorial articles which we recently D,
le lished. we proved that he has been dis
ic ganizer, and Inconsistent politician since