Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-06-24
From the Philadelphia Age.l


From the Philadelphia Age.
For some time past the Chestnut street
temple of gu unconditional loyalty" has
buen convulsed with the discussion of sew
eral important questions, which almost
threatened the disruption of the institution
1t is well known that the Jacobin League
is composed of heterogeneous particles.
Notwithstanding the efforts of shoddy aris-
tocracy to keep out of the corporation those
who Z" are well enough in their sphere,
but not amongst the most respectable " in
the ranks of the Jacobins, they were COM
PEELED to the force of circumstances, to
admit within their refined precincts, quite
number of uncongenial spirits. For a
time the proposed introduction of "bil-
lizards occasioncd serious alarm among
the faithful; but they were finally exclu-
ded from the "rooms ~ after much
weighty consideration and exciting argu-
rnent Then numberless questions of
etiquette arose, rs to the "cut direct"
and the "cut indirect - which the Ja-
cobins were to administer to the wicked
and disloyal "Copperheads ," which
were eventually settled by the adoption of
a stringent rule to rebuke, in the most
marked and decided manner, all those
who came /" betwixt the wind and their
nobility" Other points of difference,
too numerous to mention >" followed in
quick succession, and Pandora, with her
mysterious box, seemed to have found
her way into the stately mansion where
the unconditional loyalists" p" most do
congregate.
But at length their intestine troubles all
passed away, and new light dawned
upon the Jacobins. They found at last
real sensational rallying point, around
which they all gathered in peace and bar
mony. The African entered the League,
and dispelled the clouds which hung
around its members. Inspired by the
momentous occasion, the poet-laureate in
voked the Muse, and in glowing numbers
sang the praises of their new found ally
And, in order to remove all doubt upon
the subject, on Monday evening last they
made a public profession of their faith,
and graciously adopted the sentiments of
Col. LAFAYETTE BINGHAM, IL. S. A,
and MORROW b. LOWRY, of Pennsylva-
MIA
The addresses of these two Jacobn Or
ators, which were applauded to the echo
by the members of the League, are per-
haps the most remarkable utterances that
the present time has yet produced. Col.
BISGIIAM, "who has devoted himself al
most exclusively to the organization of
co!ored regiments ;" thus delivered him
self:
90 We have existed as a nation about
eighty years, and we have told the world
that we were free people, protecting
those who came from foreign lands to
seek shelter on our shores, and that the
flag of our country was the symbol of
civil, political and religious liberty, wa
wing for the protection of every man who
claimed its shelter, and all this while we
have fostered in our midst a national in
stitution which has enchained millions of
our fellow beings For this, God has
humiliated us rs a nation. The wicked
ness of the people has gone up and down
the land without redress, and now, Mt
: the close of more than two years of
this present strife, we find that out of ont
million four hundred thousand men who
have gone out 10 battle for their country,
seven hundred thousand have fallen by
r their country's affairs, and scarcely seven
y hundred thousand men are left in the ranks
r of the army. In this crisis the nation
: proposes to organize colored troops to
e. serve in the armies of the Union, to up
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