Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1861-08-21
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when we inform them that the editor, publisher
and owners of the Allegharian newspaper, are all
fanatical abolitionsts, who love niggeIs. and hate
the Lish and Dutch Well, what if they are?
Have Mt they right to be abolitionists If the /
principles of that party suit them certainly
they have. But they have no right to accuse US
with being a secessonist, without even sclntllla
of evidence to sustain the charge. The editor OF
that paper asserts that we have for weeks been
publishing partisan articles, and from this he ar
cues to prove that secessoniSt. And
has not the Aueghanian been doing the same
thing for weeks2 Did it not pitch into the Dem
ocratic County ticket as it nominat-
ed, and assert that it could not be elected |? Did
it not publish the Call of the Chairman of the
Republican County Committee, for County
Convention to place in nomination partisan
ticket, aud didn't it exhort all true Republicans
to attend the delegate elections Did it not en-
dorse and - hoist'' the7ticket that that Conven-
ton placed in nomination, and call on the party
to rally to its support Did it not prophecy
that its ticket would be elected If the fact that
an editor publishes partisan articles, is evden ce
sufficient to convict him of being a secessionst,
then the editor of the Aleghanian is as much o
a secessopist as 1t is said that the streets
of Jerusalem were kept clean, by every man care
fully sweeping every morning, the pavement
before his own door. 1t would perhaps be we'll
for the editor of the Aleghdnian to "do likewise
before pitching into us for being a partisan, and
therefore, according to his logic secessionlst.
! The editor of the AUeghdHiGn stated short time
ago, through the columns of his paper, that this
was staunch Union paper, and that it does not
favor the Southern rebellion. Last week he
stated that we are secesSionist, and that this is
a secession Journal; now, there is lie out on
side or the other. If his statement few
weeks ago was true, then he guilty OF
en1eavoring last week, to give currency to a vile
and malicious falsehood concerning us. He can
! take whichever horn of the dilemma suits him
best. We are equally Indifferent TO his praise or
his censure. We care not how frequently igno-
rant and fanaticaI abolitionists may charge us
with being secessionist, long as our conscience
| tells us that the charge is false Sc 1t matters
lttlen said great man. when stretching himsel:
on the block for the axe of the executiOner, chow
the head lieth so that the heart is right" So in
like manner, we can say that it is nothing to us,
how much abolition hounds may lie about us, so
long as we Icel every SlliOio Vi OuI iiedil 10
true to the Union. We have never published a
paragraph or line favoring the secession move
ment. On the contrary, we have always con-
demned it in the strongest language we could
command. We dare any man to prove that this
is not so. The fact that We have faithfully and
fearlessly stood by the Constitution, and boldly
uphold the principles of the Democratic party,
constitutes the head and front of our offending.
We have charge of dsloyalty to make
against the editor of the Aleghanidn. Detraction
is not our trade. 1t is not natural any citizen OF
PENNSYLVANIA should desire to see our free and
once olnrinls and harry Union, into frog
ments, whether he be Democrat or Republi-
can. A guilty mind is always ready to suspect
. others of being equally guilty. Being loyal our
self. we slow to suspect others of disloyalty.
We have no desire to get into a controversy on
this other subject with our neighbor-
! Towards him we have never entertained any but
the kindest feelings. However, if he forces us
: into controversy by his Infamous and malicious
charges against us, he will perhaps find before it
. is over, that what we have already said concern
ing him, was but compassion and lenity. We
. advise him to prudentlv husband his resources.
. Since the commencement of this unhappy civil
J., war, we have stood by the National Adminstra-
ton in all lawful and constitutional efforts it has
: made to put down rebellion in the Southern
a States. We have. it is true. condemned its as
saults on the Constitution and the efforts of the
= aboitonists to inaugurate crusade against the
# institution Of slavery. and intend continuing
to do so. In the words of James Russell Lowell.
IS 1--WE will speak out. we will be heard
Tb0urh all tba VII,
We will not bate single word
Nor take letter back
. We speak the truth, and what care we
% For kissing or for scorn
't While some faint gleamings we can see
t Of freedoms coming morn.
Let liars fear. let towards shrink.
1t Let traitors turn awav
st Whatever we have dared to think,
That dare we also say.