Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1860-08-22
For the Democrat and Sentinel.
THE TWO ISSUES.

IN regard 10 the only two questiOos mat nov d
agitate the country. The one Protection and 4
the other SiGrery.
Ist. Protection: There is annually a
great noise made in regard 70 protection. 1t
IS now argued that unless Hon. John Covoce +
and S. S. Blair are elected, we will have 40
protection. Well, they were elected and ser
we'd a term and yet there is no protection =
Their time was spent an discussing the mig
ger question" Let me say TO the voters of
Cambria County not to heed the repetition of
that argument this year; if they were re-elec;-
ed, the issue again would be Niggerism not
Protection.
Our Democratic Congressman from Penn
! sylvania. have always been quite as good tar
! if men as the members of the opposition =
When ir Congress, Hon Henry ID Foster
was strong Tariff man But if all the mem
! bers from Pennsylvania were unit On the ar
/ if, that will rot procure one livery section,
aud every interest in the country have their
representatives in Congress, and the Penn
! sylvania delegation cannot out-yote al Of
/ them
Further cry is that Abe Lincoln Is a Tar
! if man. This is doubtful, IS ne Is , Western
man, aud they are all free-traders. But sup
| pose ne is a Tariff man, what has President
/ to do with Tariff Mr. Buchanan recon-
mended specific dasies, but thai did no: pro-
cure them Neither can Lincoln. There Is
only one way to secure a Tariff, and thasis
to get Uotes enough IN both Houses to pass
the bill And the way 10 get votes Is not to
oppose, but to defend the Just rights of the
South Pennsylvania cannot get protection
on Goal and Iron. ;" as long as she sympa
thizes with John Bro5rn and helps TO run
away the property Of her neighbors. Let
Pennsylvania stand up as a great wall be-
tween the abolition and slave States, defend
ing the rights that our forefathers bargained
to give thea, and she viii soon get protec-
ton. But how can she expect the South TO
vote for her interests, while she Is trying to
crush the interests Of the South? Let her
people vote eIl-HlaSSe, for carrying out all the
wise intentions of the compact, and then she
will procure = tariff
/ 2i. .S1areTy. This i another subject most
fruitlessly and foolishly discussed. Slavery
1 In some form or other has existed In nearly
every government of the world ancient and
moder,,, including even the Jewish Theocrscy.
lis type is found in the animal kingdom =
There is alwsys a dominant tribe, or race,
and if an evil at all, II seems to be = neces-
sary one. Somebody must perform the labor
in the tropical climate. There Is but little
doubt that slavery viii exist no long as the
world itself, and though / would not wish to
OWN slaves. dwell with them, or compel them
10 labor, yet there are men found who viii
Il Is not saving too mnch to assert that some
of our Republican brethren would both oSn
and work them, If they lived IN tho sugar,
: cotton rice and tobacco climate. Some of
u them even acknowledge they Eouii- Slavery
has existed IL this country since 1919, anu u
+, the time the Articles of Confederation" were
i signed, were found in every State Of the Tn
ion. This Government did not create slave
~. it only found 1t and necessity compelled
/, It's continuance. The climate here vii gradu-
l ate It's growth and extension The pee pie
: ! need not trouble themselves about II. There
! will always be grades IN society, anu Il the
slaves were all abolished to-day, IN one year
: they would be slaves again
Grecian philosopher once divided oU
{ the land and property Of one of their colonies
: IN equal portions, but in q few years some
were rich and some were poor again So /
/ would be with slavery. There Is one differ
ence between slavery In the South aud labor
: in the North worth noticing After the mus
Z cles of the slave are worked out, the maste
keeps him. After the muscles OF the poo
III hard working man of the North are worke,
Y out, be is thrown away and compelled to keel
10 himself One half the slaves sufeTings i
% imaginary 1 once heard of lacy who il
aS the act of shedding tears over the imaginar1
re sufferings of the Hero of a Novel, suddeDl
i took offence at hired girl and gave her
A. tremendous hiding. So much for sym
pathy?
le Let slavery alone ten years. and there vi
&c be no more in Delaware, Maryland, Virgins
~ Missouri or Kansas. 1t viii die out as 1t ii
e In our State and other States of the Union
nc Where free labor can come in competion
must cease, and where free labor cannot
sc viii exist for all tiwe. We have nothing
u do with it, at any rate, here in Pennsylva
p, d ! MIA.
IN Now we have four candidates in the Sc
: for President, and one reason We should 20
Il for Breekinridge or Bell. in preference
, Douglas, or Lincoln, is to reassure the Sou
ie that we are their friends. and in that wa
H. we can get a tariff on ''coal aud iron"
- am candid enough TO suppose that any one
III = the candidates, if elected, and sworn to su
ID port the Constitution, would DO so witho
On any mental reservation. though l know o
'ui leading abolitonists always have a n1ent
reservation But either Breckinridge or b
h'i has the confidence of the South, while Dou
l'i- las and Lincoln have not, and TO elect theI
IL or one of them, will be to kindle up aga
= = the sm0uldering embers of the Kansas reb;
lion. Elect q Union man aud we will ha
II peace. Elect sectional man, or even a vi
on map, In whom there is no confidence, a
'"1 civil war will be waged, that may final
result in horrors not less terrific than t
fearful tragedy just transacting 10 Syr
n where hundreds of thousands. not long a
rtz enjoying liberty and peace, are now swelt
inc, ing si0e by side, nShrOuded, In ensanguin
oT graves. or what is worse, in the open fe