Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1862-08-06

'ieoo Sieat ana wise measures, II has tried
10 establish measures of an opposite charac-
ter lhe men composing the party of the
opposition tried to institute an unjust and
lIliDeral naturalization policy, any they fall
ed; they tried to inaugurate a very extended
and very complicated system of currency.
and they failed; they have endeavored TO
originate and establish measures of domestic
policy, without utility in them, and have
tallec; they sought to abridge the rights of
foreign born citizens, and citizens who pro
fessed a religious faith differing from their
own, and thank God they failed in that:
they made traitorous opposition to the war
of 1872, and did all in their power to en-
barraSs the Government under the admins,
tration of President Madison and failed; they
gave laid and comfort" to the enemies of
our country in that war by furnishing their
army with provisions, by displaying friends
ly signals for the benefit of the enemys'
ships of war on our coast, and by trying TO
toment discord and discomfort among our
own people respecting the war, and failed
They then attempted, also. to dismember
the American Union by organizing a seces>
sion Convention at Hartford, composed of
delegates from all the New England States,
aud by there passing resolutions declaring
that ''JrheII emergencies occur IrhicL are
mails. or too pressing TO ddD,u Of the delay in
cideRt t9 their forms, States. ,rhjch hare no
common umpire, must he tier o,rn ju4ges
and erecute tjr o'ra decisionsi" But, thank
Heaven. they failed in this alsol They tried
to establish an unequal and unjust revenue
system. and failed; they bitterly opposed the
purchase OF the great Louisiana territory.
and failed; they opposed the war with Mex
leo and cXertei Themselves to the utmost tn
cripple the Government during that war.
To discourage c@listmcnts, and to disparage
the heroic men who maintained the honor of
our country AMI its flag in that contest. but
they most ignnniniously failed. In short,
the old Federal party, under its prop r name
and the numerous cognnmens under which
IT las ever been known, has opposed every
measure that was right and advocated every
one that was wrong. The people. after
having due time tn discuss and fairly under
stand the principles involved in the various
questions at issue. decided against the oppo-
sitiOn. utterly wiping out from the record
and the statutes, every important measure
which that party ever succeeded in enacting
into law-thus showing that that parry was
unfit tn govern the country and that it had
not the confidence of the American people.
Thus, it is seen, the opposition to the De
mocracy has ever been pre-emincntlv party
of faiIure-it has faile.i in everything Or
if it has ever attempted anything of impOr-
tance and has not faied-signally failed.
then have | read the history of this Govern
ment ami the history of parties in vain
lApplause.
But how has it L. en- with the Democratic
party? In all that it has attempted. it has
succeedCd-GiOIiuusly succeeded, and the
magnificent results Of its own success have
made our country prosperous and powerful.
great and glorious, far above and bevond
any example in the WORLDS history. TCireat
applause. Before the Onward march and
beneath the strong arms and the wisely di-
rpcted efforts of our party and its policy,
the primeval forest have given place To cul>
tivated fields, to smiling villages and -four
isll;ng cities, and the wide wilderness of the
mighty West has been to "blossom as the
rose" to swarm with teeming millions of
prosperous and happy people drawn togeth-
er from the -four quarters of The EARTH" the
surplus of whose immense agricultural pro
ductiOns goes far to feed the world and to
augment the general wealth Of the country,
while tens of thousands of brave and stall
wart men from this region of recent wilder
ness, rise up and ay to arms at the call of
their country. As the followers of Roderick
Dhu splang from every bush at his whistled
signal. Fairy-like the Democratic party
has waved its magic wand over the great
western wilderness and millions of happy
and prosperous people have as it were,
sprung into being; the forests have vanished
in twinkiing, and a very ocean of cereals
flown in. its waves swelling and rolling in
golden glory over imperial tracts larger in
extent anC more fruitful in life sustaining
products than some of she principal nations
Of the Old World. Upon the gulf. on the
Pacific, in the great valley between the ALI
leghenies and the Rocky Mountains, new
empires have been founded and additional
rights and privileges granted TO the people.
from time to time, under and by the power
of the Democratic party-nOt single State,
| save one. has been added tn the great Con
federacy-not single star. save one, added
to our glorious flag since 1900, but has been
the work of the Democratic party.-Every
one of these new States, with the single ex-
ceptiOn mentioned. came into the Union
| with two Democratic United States Sena-
tors, and with these a constitution liberali-
zed and popularized, but just and wise in
| all its provisions.
| From the beginning the Democratic party
has been the successful promoter and defen>
| der of the rights Of the people and the pros
perity of the country. 1t made the judiciary
elective; it protected the rights of married
| women. it secured the homestead of the citi
zen against seizure: it secured to the foreign
immigrant the rights of citizenship against
the narrow and bi9oted policy of the Oppo-
sition, by making the period of residence
| preparatory to tie full exercise of free.
mans privileges as short as practicable and
prudent. lin some nf the States this perIoC
was reduced t. only six saonths) At al
times and 10 al matters ,he Demccrac!