Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1862-08-27

tionism, which have sent desolatiOn from
hearthstone to fireside and furrowed with
sorrow the checks of countless parents.
Thus these hypocritical and i'll advised
solons came back, not with their former
avowed measures of Cancellation and peace,
but with fire and sword, bending the Con
stitution to the shrine of the negre, and
discussing doctrines the most utopion,
have created heresies against freedom
which are gaining new proselytes in the
Northern States, and which if not stopped
will soon number the days of American
liberty. If the rulers of the nation do
not hurl from their councils these wicked
propagators of unconstitutional doctrines.
and steer by the landmarks set up by our
forefathers. we shall soon have lost the
great object for which we are contending,
the perpetuity of a free Government, for
which so much blood and treasure have
already been wasted. And instead of
united North, we shall see the worst
species of anarchy, national confusion aud
sanguinary warfare, that ever desolated
the homes of a civilized people; we
shall then experience the Jacobin days of
France, and in sorrowful reality feel the
sad calamity of indi~criminate murder and
, rapine. We do not wish to draw a pic
! ture too dark, but we say to YOU fTeemen
I of the North. that the block of the gullo-
| tine has already been laved in Abolition
/ ism, and if YOU be not aroused, if while our
brave volunteers 90 forth to fight South
F ern foe, we at home do not fight the dra-
gon of fanatacism. which is distracting
( the North. we shall become accessory to
/ the issue which Will soon spread the dcs-
! pots absolute power, over the liberties we
now enjoy and if we do not seize the OPP
pOrtunity and engage in the good cause.
the irrevocable time shall have past. '.for
. the night cometh on when no man can
work, and then we shall grieve under the
reprOach, of having negligently let slip the
blood-bought liberties, purchased by our
fathers-of having bartered away, by our
lethergy, the inheritance of our children:
responsibility rests upon every loyal citi-
zen, TO meet and face the issues which
will be presented this fall, that while our
heroic compeers are battling with rcbell-
ion, we at home loose not the great prin-
ciPle for which they are bleeding: the Oc-
tober election Is the fulcrum upon which
our beni9htcd Government will turn. and
it is only by electing conservative and
honest men 10 fill the places of fanatics in
the guidance of the nation. that we shall
be able to overbalmce the foe, for if the
rulers thereof &c s;cadfast and answering
in the prescribed injunctions of equity and
right, the folly of rebels can never destroy
our Government. Frecmcn be not deIu-
ded. for the inevitable fate of our country
hangs upon single thread, and at the bal
lot box this fall YOU may save or loose all.
| If YOU reinstate the old Democratic
party you may yet preserve our free insti-
tutions; but if You retain the Republican
power in Congress, your Government and
Its sacred privileges are gone, gone forev-
, er, carrying with it. into the vortex OF
anarchy, the only legacy of the DYING
: poor man to his children, freedom OF
| speech and the liberty of conscience.
Then Democrats and loval Republicans.
let us throw aside the twittering simper.
r of discOrd and unite upon the great ma
| tional platform of Democracy. the only
organization now in existence, embodyina
principles broad enough to meet the issues
coming out of this fearful crisis of ON
. country's history, that we may wrest
from wicked hands and from the verge o.
/ ineXorlble rum, the only free Gove,nme
on the segments of the globe. Let u.
: elect upright men TO represent us in Con.
gress, that by sound enactmcnts they NAV
t iieve is yet disposed to do that which i
, right, if guided by wise legislation let IL:
prosecute this war vigorously against trea
son, in the spirit of the Constitution. anc
we shall disarm rebellion and join togeth.
: er distracted North in unity of pur
l pose This Is the only way, now left. by
= which we can restore the Union and pre-
4 serve TO postcrity the Government of ON
fathers. And again we say TO you, free
r men of America, if You let this opportu