The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1861-09-26

", at the request Of the gentlemen composing
tie Repubhcon ticket, prepared and sub
mitted to the Democratic Chairman, the
following proposition
TO IRWIN RUTLEDGE, Esq.,
Chairman Of Democratic County Committee
SIR am requested by the candidates
composing the Republican ticket recently
nominated by the Republican Convention OF
Cambria county to make to you, as the rep
resentative of the Democratic party of this
county, the following proposition:
l. That the candidates upon the Republican
ticket aforesaid agree to decline their respec-
tive nominations, prouided that the candidates
upon the Democratic ticket agree to do the
same
2. That the proposed action of candidates
composing the two tickets above named shall
be taken IN view of the fact that, in the pres
ent crisis impending over the country, where
by the existence of the Government and the
liberties we enjoy are imperilled, 1t is unwise
and unpatriotic to inaugurate anew the par
tisan strife of former years.
3. In the event of the acceptance Of this
proposition by the Democratic candidates
aforesaid the Chairmen of the Democratic
and Republican County Committees shall
unite in a call for Union County Conuention,
to be held at the Court House, in Ebens burg,
on TUESDAY, the 18th inst, said Convention
to be composed of Two delegates from each
election district in the county-one Demo-
cratic and one Republican, and the duty of
which Convention shall be to place in nomi-
nation ticket for Legislative and County
offices, to be composed of an equal number of
Democrats and Republicans.
4. This proposition to be accepted or re-
jected within three days from the day of the
date hereof-said acceptance or rejection to
be conveyed to the undersigned in writing.
Respectfully NJ. S. HARR,
Chairman Republican County Committee
EBENsBURG, Sept a, 1861.
The above proposition is so eminently
fair and lust that no reasonable man could
object to it, especially in crisis like the
present, and it is so pointed in its details,
that no man possessed Of the smallest par
ticle of common sense, could mistake Its
meaning. 1t was handed by Mr.. Harr to
Mr. Rutledge, on the morning of the 4th
of September-the second day OF the first
week of Court-and three days were al
lowed for reply, thus giving ample time
to the latter gentleman tointerrogate every
man on the Democratic ticket, because he
and they with probably one exception,
and that for one Of the lowest offices.)
were all in Ebensburg at the time. 1t
would have been an easy matter to have
answered this proposition. The acquies
cence in it of all the Democratic nominees
| would have been cause for its acceptance ];
the dissent from it of a single one of them
would have been cause for its rejection.-
| Common decency, to say nothing of cour
| tesy, required that it should be accepted
or rejected in accordance with its terms.
| But the pompous Democratic Chairman
would seem to be devoid of both these
characteristics, and he quietly contents
himself with carrying the document in
| his breeches pocket, not for three days
alone but for more than three ,ceeks =
meanwhile the editor of the Democrat q;
| Sentinel undertakes to furnish an answer
for him.
And now, what says this drawling, self
conceited editor-this whilom apostle of Sc
cession, and apologist of rebellion? Why,
a great many things, to be sure. He begins
with the usual highfalutin exordium about
Democracy, Constitution, etc., etc To
this, of course. we must submit He then
reviews, with his wonted profundity, the
action of the two County Conventions
travels out of the record to indulge in
coarse and vulgar abuse of Messrs. Nor
rell, Harr, and Swank-gets off some wit
| of the lower species-enters into legal
disquisition on the rights and duties of
Chairmen of County Committees-take
especial pains to place Mr.. Harris propo-
sition in ridiculous highland finally
concludes, that Mr.. Rutledge was right in
rejecting it without giving it moment S
consideration" We submit to the can
did of all parties, that this sort of balder-
dash is not a fitting answer to the propo-
sition in question. We submit to all whom
it may concern, that, in his efforts to make
that proposition ridiculous, the editor has
only made himself ridiculous. And we
submit to the editor himself, that, by his
personal abuse of private citizens-men
whose only offence consists in being in
favor of Union ticket-he has exhibited
more of the assinine qualities, than OF
the characteristics of gentleman
But the editor of the Democrat d; Sen.