Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-07-29
The Radical Element.

| No"'y" 'io Sio'ei'tiiu uH Dette7') deserves
the credit OF being consistently mischievous.
Ii the energy, zeal and perseverance with
which 1t wars upon the institutions of the
country, as they we established bv our
fathers, were directed to laudable ends. If
would challenge our highest admiration.
Great vices, when blended persistent zeal
and high courage, have something in them
to mitigate our adherence, in the inyoI-
untary homage we render to the qualities
which make them potent Milton has
touched this chord in his picture of Satan
unrepentant and undaunted in the burning
mari, and Schiller, in his portrait of
Charles De Moor has made this disposi-
ton OF our nature subsidiary to the success
| of that character. The radical element
IN this country is not without its claims
to this gloomy respect. Its brain never
wearies in its evil work Its heart never
sottens. Its hand never forgets its baleful
cunning The object of all this direful
labor OF intellect and physical force is as
vast as the prosecution is tireless 1t is
| no less than the revolution of our entire
political system, the breaking down of all
| the distinctions between the races. and the
erection of a centralized government over
| the States and people
Io effect these great changes it has
operated upon the mind Of the country in
thousand potent ways, eliminating at
last III this gigantic war
Ihls was the first step. The next link
IN the chain Is the abolition of slavery in
the South, and the institution of a LARGE
standing army
The negroes are to ''hold the balance
OF power" and by their votes keep the
radicals in possession of the government.
Upon one preteXt or another, the States
are 10 be stripped of the rights which they
reserved TO themselves i'll the formation of
TINS government, ard as a corollary. the
lmmunitles, which the people defined for
their protection in the amendments to the
Constl!tution-not inaptly termed A
Bill OF Rights, are also to be gradually
stricken down. Over this wreck of the
system which our wise and good ancestors
deemed almost perfect, the 'sstrong 90
vernment of the radicals is to rise with
ITS vast enGinery Of physical force. We
defy any unprejudiced man to study the
career OF these people, from the time when
small faction they began to interfere
with the local institutions Of the slave
States, through all their efforts in press.
school-room, public discussion, literature.
and even the pulpit, TO make the different
sections of the country hate each other,
down TO the time of this war, when they
have steadily assailed the plain rights of
'c|tte men, and clamored for sweeping
rotations Of oH lar, without admitting
that our statement of their policy and de-
signs is true in letter and in spirit.
Consider their ceaseless efforts to make
Abraham Lincoln forget his pledges and
turn the army which had enlisted TO save
the Union into an engine for the establish
ment OF a negro republic in the largest
half OF the country
Consider their violent appeals for a
Dictatorship throughout this entire strug-
gle.
Recollect Summers proposition to abol |
ish State lines, and Thad. Stevens threat |
that ''there should never be a Union |
again with slavery"
Consider their tireless hate of MCleI- |
kan, because he as the type Of the tar a5icli,aq
sentiment Of tie people
Mark their furious antipathy to Gov.
Seymour for the same reason.
Mark their rage in Missouri. at the
act passed in that State. be-
cause it is gradual
Observe their dangerous appeals to the
soldiers to make themselves the dispensers
y offices in the country.
Recollect their cries for Committees
If Safety and spy system, and their
lypocritical denunciation of secret socie-
les, while they were banded together in
eagues calling themselves 'Loyal" and
St''scts7'tg persons not members, and even
Ioove all these outward and visible tvpes.
bserve their almost frenzied attachment
the abstract idea of force as the true
ever OF government, and distyuSt of the
eQpte as safe guide of action, and it is
tterly impossible to escape the conclu-
ions which we have suggested.
Let the people be careful that the
chemes of this very destructive element
e thwarted. There is in the Republican
arty conservative feeling which will
ide with the Democracy in such a strug-
ie' 1t shrinks from the ruin of SO many
aiuaole interests to promote the narrow
ieas of a feverish fanaticism. 1t will. as
has already done, dissolve companion
hlp with its terrible associate, when the :
of evil is proposed There are
undreds of public men in the ranks of
nat party who will not sacrifice this grand
ountry to appease set of wild anarch-
rs, crazed with vicious dogmas.
In this hope, and in the conference of ,
he Democracy. we rely for the safety of +,
Ut nation. I
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