Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1861-12-11
Barker,s AbOIfIioBism.


tor of this paper. arrayed in the choicest bill
limgsgate of the deputy editors. As they
are the only individuals who can possibly
be in iured by their present course, we can
well afford to despise their personalities
They every week furnish alb undant proof,
that they are possessed of weak heads, as
well as malicious hearts; onsequently they
mistake vulgarity for wit, fish market slang
for refined and pointed sarcasm, and super
lative nonsense for pure logic. They there
fore naturally suppose they are witty when
vulgar, ,sarcastical when dealing out low bill
lingsgate by the column, and logical when
boring the public with long rigmarole OF
absurd nonsense. Fortunately, they are the
only individuals in this county who think so,
if we except the ignorant but egotistical
old Mountebank, who pays them for their
trash and trys to make the public believe
that it is the legitimate offspring of his own
brain,
Mr. Barker through his deputies, d-nies
that he voted for John Tyler in 1910. We
heard him on a certain occasion, as we stated
two weeks ago. declare that he supported
Harrison & Tyler in 1910, and opposed Van
Buren and johnson. We are not positive
that he said anything about voting for Tyler,
but supporting man in political cam
| paign amounts to the same thing. An ener-
/ getic politician, can do infinitely more for
| candidate by electioneering than by voting
! for him. Mr. Barker still seems to hold, that
! it is impossible for us to have once sustained
! a man for an important Office while he was
| still loyal citizen, without becoming trai>
! tor when he became one. Well, sir, you
! once supported John Tyler, now a promi>
! nent traitor. You must, therefore, according
! TO your own logic, be the worst traitor in
! Pennsylvania. By our neighbors course OF
argument, 1t would be an easy matter to
prove that the Apostles were all traitors, be-
/ cause they Cnce recognized ami associated with
Judas Iscariot as brother, and that Gen.
I Washington was an enemy of his country,
because Benedict Arnold once stood high on
his list of friends. What profound philoso>
phe-s and acute reasoners, Barker and Lis
deputies are
But enough on this point. Let us now
proceed to one of infinitely more importance
Mr.. Barker denies that he is now, or ever
was an Abolitionist We know that he Is,
and always has been an Abolitionist Of the
John Brown chOol. We have never made
any charges against him with regard to his
! Z. III ~ e
prove, and we will prove them ali when he
is once fairly in the field for Congress. The
people shall then be fully posted with regard
to the incendiary and fanatical principles
of this i;norant demagoeue, who is impu-
dent enough TO aspire to a seat in the high
places of the Nation. We will then prove
that this fellow, Barker, at a meeting in
Chest Springs Borough, in this County, said
in speech which he delivered on the occa>
sion, " 1 AN AN ABOLITIoNIST FROM THF
CROWN OF MY HEAD TO THE SOLE OF MY
FEBT.''
But it will probably. even at this early
day, be asked by whom we will prove the
utterance Of the above words. We are rea,
dy to answer. Daniel Litzinger of Chest
Springs, man whose reputation for truth
and veracity, we think even Mr.. Barker will
admit, is second to that of no man in The
County, is our authority. He heard Barker
utter the words which we have designated
by quotation marks, and placed in big let
tiers. Will Mr.. Barker dare question the
veracity of Mr.. Litzinger? When he doe.
so we will be prepared for him. Mr., Bar.
ker has been vile and malicious enough tc
charge us with being a Secessionist. Let
him produce evidence to convict us of the
charge. like that which we are prepared tC
produce to convict him Of Abolitionism
We dare him to the encounter. While he
was fanalical Abolitionist. we were q
Union loving patriot. While he was labor
ing to elevate the negro to an equality with
the white man, we were battling for the
American Constitution as it was transmit.
ted to us by Washington and his compeers
While he maintained the cause of sectional
ism, we adopted as our motto, and the mot
to Of the Democrat and Sentinel, which Mc
then edited, the immortal words of Rufus
Choate-'' will attach myself to no party
that does not Garry the flag and keep step t.
the music of the Union" While Barker
was nothing but fanaiical niger worship
per, we were among the bol6est defender:
of the Constitution. When Barker is nomi
mated for Congress (of which according &c
the boasting of his friends aronud town shc
has sure thing') we will have something
more to say concerning his Abolitionism
although the evidence of Mr.. Litzinger a:
we have produced IL in Tins articIa ,roul5