The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1863-04-30
EBENSBURG:
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The ssDenOcratic Club Rediv-
ggcrs''---PeaCe.

Saturday cveping last, with ye 'talented
buTgher," NJ. HAssoN, Esq in the chair.
The attendance was about as usual-very
email but verysselect
DIR. r. S. BUM was the first speaker.
After stating that the assertion that he
wasn't much os an orator could not be
successfully gainsayed, he forthwith pro-
eccdcd to favor the audience with an
elaborate physiological, moral and politl-
cal analysis Of the Niger. He handled
his. fragrant subject both with ard without
gloves. He surveyed its features and
personal proportions, and voted them
beastlike and british he weighed its
brain, and found it wanting he dissected
its constituent parts, and discovered them
to be an abortion he kicked its Sims,
aud. .they-even they-were malfprma-
tions. With skillful hand, he turned
the nigger-fro side to side, and unfinch-
lngly laid bare his every failing and de-
formity He even almost quarreled with
the Most High that such monster of
blackness and darkness had been created
to curse our fair earth. In brief, his
entire speech cast its weight toward
damning etcrnally, socially and morally,
here and hereafter, the poor, unfortunate,
defencelcss niger. That the Doctors
remarks were not altogether unanswera-
bic, that they were neither miracles of
argument nor gems Of logic, but, rather,
shat they were mere ratioc:nations of a
mind bound up in one diminutive idea,
was the prevalent impression of unbiased
lookerson. What his purpose was in thus
Juggling in the niger TO disturb the even
tenor of the Club we can hardly imagine.
"Mr. President ~ said member in an
out West legislature, when some bill rela-
tive to swine was before the honorable
body, "NIr: President, when you come to
talk about hogs l am perfectly at home,
for, you see, the fact IS, l have been
brought up among hogs" Now, the
Doctor is not scion OF the "sunny
South, but a native Pennsylvapian, we
believe, SO it were unfair to presume that
ho has been brought up among niggcrs.
The only hypothesis, therefore, upon
xhich We can account for this uaseemly
digging up and dragging in of the savory
and despised niger before an intelligent
audience is the one that it was, perhaps,
n topic upon which the Doctors kuow-
edge OF the science Of surgery woald best
tend to the enlightenment of those other
than the sons Of Ham. The Digger has
for number of years been derisively
Republican party; henceforth this must
be different, for the Democrats have seen
fit deliberately to appropriate him. Stating
after a fifteen minutes rodomontade that
it couldn't possibly be expected of him to
talk further without descending To pro-
ianity, the Doctor resumed the pine
bench.
P. S. Noon, Esqs next took the floor.
he spoke for the duration of about an
hour, in sentiment exactly coinciding with
his address delivered at ,Iohpstown few
Nights since, as We find it reported in the
.Iohnstorn Democyut. He had a great
deal to say about the Democrats being
patriots and the opposition traitors, and
about .he hypocrisy Of those in power,
but these were mere oratorieal fourishes,
"full Of sound and fury, signifying moth
ing" About the only proposition in his
speech worthy Of remark was that where
in he came out fairly and squareIy for
peace. He said he was peace man, anl
he didn't care who knew it. The time
had arrived when peace should be de-
mauded in trumpet tones from every hill
top and valley in the North. This war
has already been carried on for two years,
and cm bono What advantage have we
xsiDed over the Traitors We now occn-
py PRECISELY the relative positions We did
when war was deelarcd-we are as.badly
off and the enemy as we'll off as ever
From the which it woala appear that Ms
- has forgotten that the Union armies
have recovered and now hold large per