Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-02-25
}. s. TODD, Editor & Publisher,
wednesday FED. Gs. 1858.
The Abolition Policy.

papers, that Secretaries Stanton and
Wells are ID be removed from the Cabinet
and that Gen. Mcclellan is to be recalled
to take command of the army; adding
that we may now look forward to the
dawning of peace by a speedy crushing
out of the rebellion. To this long de-
ferred hope and oft repeated promise, we
cannot look in so fattering light. The
mere change of commanders or of Cabi-
net officers, has long since ceased 10 in
spire US with new hopes of any end TO our
difficulties, while the absurd po!icy of the
Administration, which has stultified our
Government, outraged the sacred rights of
its citizens and ruthlessly violated the
great bulwark of our liberties, is adhered
TO. If ever the rebellion be completely
crushed out, it will not be by the apeish
stratagems of Mr.. Lincoln, suggested by
the wickedness of Phillips, Lovejoy and
others, or the fanaticism of Greeley, but
it will only be done, By at once renoun-
notions of ''higher law and ncgro equality,
which have not only served to weaken
the North, bu; have greatly augmented
the rebellion by uniting the people of the
South against US. From present indica-
tions, we have little to encourage us in
the belief that the present party in power
have any honest intentions whatever, of
endeavoring TO bring this war 10 close;
for by SO doing, they we'll know that they
would abscind the remnant of power they
now so wantoniy abuse. They well
know that the grave Of eternal infamy is
already dug, wherein the Abolition party
and its unhallowed ringleaders will be
buried so deep that they will not rise
until the last horn of the resurrection shall
wake them to just Judgment, and in
order to avert the certain doom which
most surely awaits them, they seek to
subvert the Government, and inyciglc
us in war with France. Most surely
the sold rail splitter as running
the machine While Mr. Lincoln
has proved to the world that he is
nothing but = mere plant automat;on,
Secretary Seward has not sustained that
reputation. for craftsmanship for which he
has unjustly been credited but ike
trucking pettifoggcr or 4 small beer
politician he has been playing into the
irrePressib!e conflict = party, with
shrewdness that none but himself could
assume 50 between the President and his
Cabinet, assisted by an equally fanaticaI
Congress, they have succeeded in running
the machine until it is almost exhausted,
they have % run the machine - until they
have plunged the nation 50 deep in debt
that the people. Tor generations to ccme
must feel the weigh.-the curse; they
have ''run the machine until jeff.
Davis has strengthened a rebellion against
the Government, which they have proved
incompetent TO subdue they have run
the machine until they have driven all
the gold and silver currency cut of the
country, and instead have inundated TIE
people with false deprecated paper cur
rency, based upon nothing that is sub
stan;ial they have run the machine, "
until the American government, once the
most powerful and most respected nation
upon the globe, has become Il sreer- and a
mockery among the Empires of the earth.
Who. we ask, after taking glance at
the affairs Of our unfortunate country as
they now stand, viii contend rilat Cabinet
changes, which we admit are needed, can
do any good, or that General Mcclellan
although we believe him To be the best
General we have. can save the Union,
while the Executive and Congress are
rotten to the core and while they madly
pursue policy which cannot fail to bring
disaster and defeat upon our armies. let
them be ever 50 well Generated. No,
it is madness, ii is superlatiye folly, TO
suppose that Gen Mcclellan or anv
other equally good man, can save the
Union, while he remain subordinate to
ti'e dictates q ~ Abolition policy which