Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1861-09-25
MOrren and his man Friday.

MOrrell and his man Friday.
Morrel's man Friday, who edits the Johstown
Tribune. last week, thorough the columns of that
interesting sheet, charged Us with. being seces-
sionist. This is what expected. 1t has be
come fashionable to charge every Democrat who
adheres in the present campaign, with manly
frmness to his party, with being traitor
and a seceSSiOnist, AMI we have no right
to complain because we have been compelled to
share the common lot 1t is 4 matter of little
importance to Us, what Daniel J. Morreli's Jour-
nal may say concerning Conscious that we
love country. we allow the charge of treason
which it has made against US. TO pass Fy us as
the - idle wind which we regard not" We think
it right however to cali Oh the editor of the Tri
6Une to sustain his charge Prove from the col
unns of this paper, that we ever countenanced
the secession movement. You know in your own
heart, you dirty, lying lick spittle Of your keep
er, that the charge is false, and you only gave
currency to it. because you were paid, and well
paid for 50 doing. We dare you to point to any
article paragraph, which ever appeared in this
paper, sustaining in the slightest degree. the
Southern rebellion. We are not ashamed of our
record on this subject. From the first. we stood
10y the Government, and in our humble sphere.
labOrei zealously to save the Union, and steadily
repudiated the idea, that it can in any event be
abandoned. This the files of the Democrat and
Sentinel prove. They are in this off ce and
open to the inspection Of all who may feel anx.
ious TO examine them. The fact that we are
Democrat, constitutes the head and front OF our
offending. If we were fanatical abolitiOnisi, if
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claimed old John Brown to the world as a mar
tyr in the cause of humanity. and alb owe all. if
we had voted for Andrew CT. Curtin for 'Goven-
or, and Abraham Lincoln for President, last fall, ,
Morrell's man Friday. would entertain no doubt
with regard to our patriotism. But merely be-
cause we have been true to first love, because
we have faithfully stood by the party that has a.
ways carried the flag, and kept step to the music
of tie u ion,' q e '' Tepubli, organ" regards
itself as justifahe in charging us with being
seccssioDis:. If we are secessonst, then is ev-
cry Democratic volunteer. who left the soil of
glorious little Cambria, to defend on the field of
| battle, the Union and the Constitution of his
country, while every ultra abolitiOnist like John
NJ Bowman RENAL ned snugly at home, also a
secessionist. Are Easily, Linton, Suter. Noon,
! White Carroll, Litzinger, Lewis, MCoy and
! she hundreds of other brave Democrats, from
| this County, who are, or have been in the pres
ent war, secessonists2 2 They are Democrats and
| therefore amenable to the charge of being sc
cessionists as we are, Democracy and secession
| ism according to the logic of Morrell's man Fri
day, synonymous terms, and yet he cannot
but know, that in the present war, the Democra-
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loyalty of devotion and love for the Unicn and
the Constitution, than their Republican fellow
citizens. When the cali 'to arms was heard
throughout the land, who were the patriots that
| flocked 10 arms? We confidently answer the
Democracy. Where were the wide awakes Z?
| Where were the companies behed parading
through our streets last fall, decorated with caps
and capes, and with their clamps burning
and their vessels filled with .ile?' They were
called upon, but it was like calling spirits from
the vasty deep. No reSponce was heard from them
They were very loud at street corners in de
nounci ng Democrats as Secessionists. but wer,
very slow in putting down their names as vol
understand if they chanced to do so, were the
| first to back ont when the company to which
they belonged, was ordered to march to tn,
seat Of war. These are facts, and facts as every
bOdy knows. g are stubborn things
During the dark days of last April, when shad
Ow Of gloom rested over the land,
''Like the darkness at noontide,
That fell on the pallid mother weeping,
By the Crucifed,''
it was the DemsG.tc volunteers who " hasteneC
to the rescue" and with wall of bayonets pro
tectde the National Capitol from the assaults o
jeff Davis and his traitorous myrmidons. But
for them, Washington City would now be in
possession of the secessionists, And yet, we
because e fearlessly uphold the principles
which those gallant volunteers believe to be right
must be dekounced secessionist, by Nor
relPs mau Friday.
We appeal to the subscribers of this paper, t.
those who have perused it every week since
took charge of it, if we ever published an articl,
farvoring the dissolution of the Union2 On th,
contrary, has not this been among the loyaIes
Of the most loyal of the papers published in the