Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1861-09-25
Sustaining the Preside Mt.

'CaY go" that baetin3 Of yo" friends ? 4
plague on such q backing. ."-Falstatf.
We have heard great deal of talk during the
last five months, from Republican newspapers,
about the necessity of unanimaty mong the peo-
pie of all the loyal States in sustaining President
Lincoln in the measures he might see prop
er to adopt in his efforts to put down the South
ern rebellion. If Democratic newspaper du-
ring that time, ventured to find fault with any
act or measure Of the administration, it was at
once denounced as a secession sheet, although
perhaps more firm and steadfast, in defending
the Union. than the abolition Gemagogues who
made the charge against it. But it is a singular
fact as we proved in an editorial article two weeks
ago, that while the lash being held mena-
cingly over every Democratic paper in the land,
the Republican press was left unfettered. Such
influential Republican newspapers as the New
York Tribune. Philadelphia Inquirer, New York
Times and Pittsburgh Dispatch, repeatedly as
sailed with both bitterness and erceness the most
important measures of the Administration, in
editorial ar ticles which if published in a Demo
cratic newspaper, would have secured for its
editor, comfortable quarters in the new Bastile
called fort Layfayetie From this it would
seem that the fact, that a man is a Republican, a
follower of Horace Greely and William H. Sew
ard, places his patriotism high above suspicion.
and ne is therefore free to write and speak
what he pleases-but the fact that a man is a
Democrat renders him a very suspicious charac
ter, and if he ventures to write or talk as free
man, the gag must be forthwith applied to him
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mont directing him to modify his proclamation
so as to conform to law, has drawn upon his
head, the fiercest denunciations of the ultra Re
publican press. All the leading papers of that
party, in New York. Boston, Pittsburgh, Chica-
go, Cincinnatti, &C., denonce and repudiate the
letter of the President, and sustain Fremont
Call you that sustaining the President? And
! yet we are told by the Republicans everywhere,
/ that a newspaper which refuses to endorse and
sustain the policy and measures of the admins
/ traticn, is a secession organ and should be sup
/ pressed. Then why not suppress the Republi-
| can papers that have denounced Mr.. Lincoln s
Fremont letter 2 This is a matter worthy of the
serious attention of Mr.. Post Master General
/ Blair. If it he right to suspend Democratic
newspapers for opposing certain measures of the
administration, it is certainly right to suspend
! Republican newspapers for doing the same thing
/ Why this discrimina tion in favor Of Republican
newspapers. 1t certainly does not look like
strict and impartial justice, and would lead one
! almost to believe, that 8 there is something rot
/ ten, in tn is kingdom of Denmark" Ministers
is incarcerated in a Jail for opposing the Govern
ment, whilst Grcely who has been time and agair
eq-ally fierce in assailing it, remains at large.
" Can such things be, and overcome us like {
summer cloud
Without our special wonder 2"
1t affords us not little pleasure, to be abb,
to sustain the President in this matter and to de
fend him from the assaults of his abolition NAL
igners Is the Johnstown Tri5aoae, with al it