Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1862-10-29
j. S. TODD, Editor s. Publisher
wednesday OGI. 29. 1862
The People Speak.

Notwithstanding the Keen lash OF power, |
the menacing threats and the devilish |
reign of terror with which the Abolition |
lists tyr3lnicalIy endeavored to awe the |
people into Il tame submission TO their |
wicked purposes, the honest masscs-thc
true and legitimate sovereigns of a Demo-
cratic Government, the people, have firmly |
and quietly resolved TO think and act for
themselves, and to come back from the |
erring schism of Abolition to the early |
truths of Democracy. They have seen,
within the short space of two years, the |
devastating r3vages of New England ia
naticism and they have beheld, in bitter
ness and in sorrow, the dastardly attempts
of that poison-fangcd faction to crush out
freedom and TO amihilate the faircst form
of popular government, that ever raised
the expectations, or animated the hopes OF
fallen man. The people of Pennsylvania,
= Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa, have spoken in
unmistakable tones of rebuke and rctri-
bution-whose triumph has carried hope
and consolation to disconsolate millions,
as it holds cxtant the harbingcr of peace
to our beleaguered nation, and perPetuity
to It's benign institutions. 1t is most gra-
tifying to reflect upon the important revo-
luton which has been wrought at the re-
cent election, which clearly demonstrates,
that, although Democrats, without wait
ing for explanations or to fix the respon-
sibilities of the war, rushed eagerly to the
standard of their country, and throwing
partisan feelings aside, manifested will
lingness and patriotism TO serve their
country, and 10 assist the President in his
seeming efforts TO put down rebellion, that
they are not willing that the war shall be
perverted from its legitimate end, to be
turned into fierce and relentless crusade
against negro slavery, to the dctrimcnt of
the white man, for the purposes of graft
flying the whimsical promptings of a few
unprincipled demagogues, whose contami-
made of Abraham Lincoln wiley prose
lyte to that worst species of sectiOnalism
against which the fathers of our country
50 repeatedly warned us to shun The
result of the last election comes down. Ike
a mighty avalanche, upon these devoted
miscrcants of mob law AMI misruIe. and
like everlasting truth against faSchood.
has upset their calculations and sent dis
may and CONSERVATION through thcif,
ranks. SO far our triumph has been glo-
rious, realizing the most sanguine cxpoc-
tations of !he most scrupulous.
Let Us take a glance at the vote of Ohio
which, last year, gave an anti-Democratic
majority Of %, 600, and now gives us
5000; besides decided majority of her
Congressmcn elect are Democratic: and
this too against the tyranny and threats
of those who by the lavish of power en-
deavored TO spread the bugbcar of terror
throughout her entire area. And the
N'tS''N VI Altilstii't top. WHICH III 1oDt gave
the ''old rail splitter majority of %
900, now rcpudiates his sectional procliv-
isics by majority of, at least. half that
number together with a majority of all
the county and district ofiicers.-Eyen
Iowa, which was supposed to have been
lost in the clutches of Abolition enthraIl-
dom, and which, two years ago, gave Mr..
Lincoln upwards of 10000 of majority.
this year bursts the bands of enslavemcnt
and rebukcs his Administration by about
$4,000. These, together with the result
in Pennsylvania, will fail not, 20 have a
telling effect upon the coming elections OF
Illinois, New Jersey, New York. Michi-
gan, Minnesota, Massachusetts. Missouri
and Wisconsin, which hold their elections
on the first Tuesday of next month.
Now, that the people have spoken. we
trust and may reasonably expect that the
President will Immediately harken to the
voice which comes to him from all sides
from the West and the Northwest. de-
manding, in unmistakable terms. the fuI-
filment at those pledges which have been
di>r,Earded; and as Il means. first and
foremost, in order To again secure tb..