Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1861-05-08
L. Tie cowardlr niscraar

Ess The cowardly miscreant who edits the
BlairsYiIle journal, thinking perhaps that he
had gone too far in publishing, maIiciaus
ia.shood concerning Us, stated last week. that
We had recanted that Is. after having en-
couragcd the Southern rebellion, we had back
ed down, and come out in favor of sustaining
the flag of our country and the patioual A.
miustration in Its efforts to save the Union
/ This Is adding insult 10 Injury AS We ney-
er encouraged armed rebellion against the
/ Government, we hal nothing 10 recaut -
/ Like Crittenden. Big!er, Buchanan. aud
! thousands of true patriots, north aud sautr.
| We were in favor of acJusIng our ratigual
difficulties, by an honorable compromise a.
lorg as there was any hope that such a thi"g
/ could be acconIpiIsed. But siuce the bomb-
ardmeut Of Fort Sumter, we have endorsed
I the course OF President Lincoln. aud openly
declared uurselt in favor of the national Gov
erumeut going to the full extent warranted
by the constitution and laws, to pnt down the
rebellion and save the Union To the truth
Of this he Ebensburg ALeghanian, an ultra,
but honorable Republican paper, bears testi-
mony We have always thought ard still
think, that Abolitionism was the great and
first cause" OF the Southern rebellion, and that
the citizens of that portion of the Republ:c
have been previously wronged, but Dot to au
extent which justihes an effort to redress them
by appeal to the sword by an effort to
throw of their allegiance to the national gov
ernment They should have sought redress
by constitutional. aud not by unconstitutional
means. Our country is as dear 20 Us, as any
man living. We were born in il. aud we hO-
pc to live and die In it. We have never fos-
tered the selfish spirit of sectiouaism whicL
recognizes North or Sou,h an East or
West, under the constitution, We have know
! nothing but our country, our whole country
and therefore the slave States have been a
dear to Us as the free States. and the fret
, States as dear as the slave States. Accus
toned to regard the Union as -he palladium 0
: american liberty, We have always opposes
every effort, come from what quarter it uig h
to ALLEVIATE any portion of our Country from
the rest, or to eufeeble the sacred ties Nhlcl
now link together the various parts. HavinI
t thus teen true to the Tn on in days gone by,
would i'll become US to desert Il now, that il
existance is menaced. Ii there had bee
fewer ole idea fanatics, North ahd South, iik
; the editor of the Journal, the country woul
now be tranquil and the Union safe. North
o crn Abolitionists OH the one side, aud South
ern fire eaters on the other, have done th
work, and iu the senseless clamor wh'c the
= have raised, it is impossible for conservatiT
, and Union loving men 10 get hearing. Br
Il Is 10 conservative men that the cOuOtr
mus: look for protection and support in thi:
the hour of her utmost need, and we think
4 Till not be long until they VIII obtain voi'
in the Government. The national Admiuis;ri
=, lion appear to be actusted by couSeryati'
aud patr iotic spirit, and determined to turn
deaf ear 10 the clamor of seuscless fanatics -
May heaven grant them the virtne Of peTsev
- rance in the right path. We trust the III
may never arrive. when cur country will
e placed at the mercy of fauaticll Aboliiionist
and equally fanatcal southern fire-eaters.