Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-08-26
A ID ID II T. s S
OF THE
lnocratIC STATE Central Com
mstteS.
E People OF PENNSYLVANIA
OF THE

ne People OF PENNSYLVANIA
An important election is at hand, and
%ues involved in may now claim
attention. The tide of war has been
| a back from our borders and with
nss to God, and gratitude to the skill
ya!or which by his favor, achieved
prompt deliverance of our invaded
nmonwealth, we may now give our
emn consideration TO the causes that
We brought to its present condition a
la,ry once peaceful, united and secure
now the scene of great civil war,
.Seen States that lately ministered TO.
ch others prosperity in a Union founded
their common good. 1t was this
lion that gave them peace at home and
spect abroad They coped successfully
ith Great Britain on the ocean,
d the "doctrine uttered by President
lonroe warned off the monarchs of
arope from the whole American Con-
bent Now France carves out of it an
|pP;rc, and ships built in England plum
7 our commerce on every sea. A great
1!ir debt and a conscription burden the
yf.c. The strength an wealth of the
1on are turned from productive indus
and consumed in the destructive arts
war. Our victories fail to win peace.
a'onghout the land, arbitrary power en-
peaches upon civil liberty.
What has wrought the disastrous
FnEe' No natural causes embroiled
North and the South. Their
archanyeable products and COM
tliles, and various institutions, were
Fces OF reciprocal benefit, and excluded
apetition and strife. But an artificial
Use Of dissension was found in the po-
hon OF the African race and the as
Fadancy in the national councils of mer
adSed to an aggressive and unconstitu,
nal Abolition policy, has brought oul
lnlry to the condition of "the house
'ded against itself" The danger t.
Union began where statesman haC
'seen it; it began in the triumpht O
etaonal party, founded on principles o
To,utonary hostility TO the Constitution
ID the laws. The leaders of this part,
n pledged 20 a conflict with rights re
!nlzed and sheltered by the Constitu
~. They called this conflict SIRE
eSs'ole' They counted on an cas-
anpn through the aid of insurgen
l'cs, and, in this reliance were careles
!" soon they provoked a collision
enocrats and Conservative strove t
7 The conflict They saw that Uniol
the paramount interest of thei
:[n'Ty, and they stood by the great bon
Union, the Constitution of the Unite
-N lhey were content to leave do
""oe Questions under it to the high tri
-pai framed to decide them; they pre-
E'ed 1t to the sword as an arbiter bt
on the States they strove hard
at the title which their opponents gar
'aa IN scorn-the title of Unions:
~ We will not at length rehear
81 efforts. In the Thirty-sixth Coz
- 'he Republican leaders refused the
Sea' to the Crittenden Compromis
lis point the testimony of Mr.. Dou
VIII suffice. He said:
| believe this to be a fair basis of an
=. ss1luStment. If you of the Repub
aoe are not willing TO accept this, n
Poposltion of the Senator from Re
rY lNr. Crittenden), pray tell US wh
~; :. are willing to do7 I address the i
!, s,,'y 70 the Republicans alone, for the re
+. nat IN the Committee Of Thirteen.
"ag' ago, erery member from the Sou
6Ii'ng hose from The cotton States Ness
~. .s ana Ioonbs), oppressed their rea.
s. Ps @ the PTopes,,,on opss.sI ", " my t.s y