Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1860-02-01

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orgunizution-I'he Reputtfagns could elect
The irepressibe confict-Au Democrats
should unite DC.
To day is balmy and lovely as June. and
were you to judge from observing the gaily
dressed ladies and gentlemen who throng the
Avenue, and noticing the bright and beaming
smiles. the piercing glances of the eje, you
would rather presume that, instead OF the
Union being dissolved, more Unions are up
on the tapis; for at every step one sees the
eye sparkle and the trembling lip speak vol
umes, demonstrating attachment to some of
earth's creatures | notice many members of
the House meuadIng-ventilating them
selves after the arduous labors of the week.
NeiiLcr the House nor S, nate are in Session
to-day, having adjourned until Monday. If
you recollect the campaign of 1910, you will
remember an old story which went this way;
''Oh what has caused this great commo-
ton, commotion.
All the country through; lie.
The rest as Hamlet says of an old proverb is
some what rusty; now what has caused the
present commotion In the country? First the
invasion by fauatical old Brown upon the
right of a Sovereign State, and an att, mpt to
carry the real teachings of the ''irrepressible
doctrine" of Seward bv the rush of guns and
pixies. Second the Official endorsement of the
Helper Book by sixty odd Republican mem-
bers of Congress; book calculated to inocu-
late into the minds of the youth of our coun-
try, certainly not into the hearts of the adults
of the nation who should have better spirit,
bitter, unendleSs and malignant hostility
against our Southern brethren. These two
things have produced dead lock upon the
proceedings of the lower House Of Congress,
aud SO far as an Organization has been iupos
sible. Southern men will not tamely submit
TO the indignity that Sherman the uuderta-
ker of work which would devastate their
homes With blood and carnage aud place the
knife at the throat of themselves, their wives
aud children should be the Speaker of the
most deliberaiive assembly in the world -
Northern men look upon it as detrimental to
the state of Society, revolutionary to the
Union and equality of the States. and preg-
nant with inconceivable evils. that the endor-
ser Of such treason should i'll 81 high
position Yet the conflict goes on
The Republicans viii not yield, although they
co1ld elect Carrier, Pennington or +. Joy
Morris. They seem determined to stand up
on the ''hazard Of die" and therefore delay
the organization when they have it in theirpow
er to elect. au1 for this the country sho'd hold
them responsible. The Democrats failing to
concentrate sufficient votes upopthsir nominee
Bocock of Virginia, withdrew him. with the
| hope by selecting new man, without the
stringency of caucuses, the Southern opposi-
ton, and the Auti-Lecompton Democrats
| would vote for him But, SO far, this has
proved ''dcad cock in the pit" as no con-
centration of these discordant elements could
be made upon a Democrat, and rice uersd.-
Repeatedly I have been upon the floor of the
House and there, and in other quarters. have
urged and suggested to members the propri-
ETY. of renominating Democrat standing fair
and square up for a member of the party. as
an unit. And why? Because the Republi-
can members were elected in opposition to the
Democracy upon the Slavery issue. Because
the Southern opposition were elected against
the Democracy upon what they style The cor
ruptions of the Administration aud because
our Acti Leeompton friends were elected
against the Administration upon one issue
alone. Here then are the parties, elected
against the Democracy, and all opposed tC
them, and as hold, should the Democrats
stand fair for their nominee, they place th'
responsibility upon the opportunities for. th'
non-organization of the House
L am not one of tLose men who say augh
E against any member of the party for differing
upon single point OF doctrine.
hold that it is right that there should be va
riances of opinions in the camp. because it i
r Democratic and tends to keep alive the spirl
: of the party Therefore | am not disposed
and never was, as my acquaintance will bea
j., me record, to exclude any man from tn
u organization, and while | stigmatize the de
: sertion from the party of Hickman, Haskiu
:, (of pistol notoriety) and Swartz. (who hav
a gone body and breeches over 10 the Republl
:, can nominees as being act of IN gratltud
of the basest description, yet 1t is consoling t
know that the severest rebuke which Mr.
a Hickman received for bis treachery cam
e from Mr.. M'Clelland of Illinois, an Anti-Le
n compton Democrat who acts with the party q
the present time, as he considers that all pa:
- issues are dead and should be forgotten :
The other members of the party who agrc
II with him. namely: Adrain. Reggs, Rey
II nolds, John g. Davis aud Horace f. Clarl
will vote for any democrat as against R,
peublican, declaring that although they di
fered with the Democracy upon eaequestis
that shall not send them adrift from the pa
eft ty.
al The Charleston and your State Couven.ic
ID will soon occur, and will you permit a su
a gcstion from one who loves the Democrat
y party as his own life, viz; that we must stal
square upon the doctrines, the Cincinnati pla
form in both Conventions. that the people
the territory whore they came to form the
domestic Institutions for themselves, th
Id is when they form State Constitution, sh'
e say whether they do or do not desire SLAYER
:. This is my Interpretation. and always was.
the Cincinna platform, and trust that eve
Pennsylvania Democrat is prepared to sta
upon it.-and should there be any dlfferen
of opinion in regard to the right of terrific
to pass laws regulating the institution of $
OH very, that is settled by referring to
Snnreme Court. according to Cover