The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1863-06-11
The 'Unterrlfled Democracy,
To the Editor Of The AReghanian

grand rally of the Democracy of Cambria At
an early hour, the faithful began to gather at
the Court House, until quite q sprinkling had
congregated at the grand siMass Meeting."-
The house was called to order by the selec-
ton OF one of the .'wheel-horses" to ell the
chair, and three knights of the quill to note
the proceedings. Then followed such q NOM
ination of>yice-presidents as made the plat
form fairly groan beneath their weight. After
this, the ''spouting" time came.
The first speaker on the carpet was r.
Milton Speer of Huntingdon. After vocif-
erous cheering with will and yell, he
began, in his fiery Indignation, to hurl mis-
siles thick and fast at the head ofthe President
As he warmed with the subject, his wrath
knew no bounds, as he stamped and talked
of the tyranny Of the Administration. The
Emancipation Proclamation and the suspen-
sion of the writ of hd6eas corpus were the two
bugbears which, in his eyes, ranked as ''un-
pardonable SINS. In his estimation, the
Proclamation wasnothing but a ''bull against
the comet" and in commenting upon the
habeas corpus there was much talk about the
arbitrary arrest of peaeeable citizens at the
hour of midnight-meanng, of course, the
arrest of that villainous traitor, yallandig-
ham.
The next speaker was Cyrus l.. Pershing,
the exponent OF the Shamocracy of the county.
He began unrolling his armful of documents,
until it was truly awful to behold And the
''unterrifed," with staring eyes and gaping
mouths, looked on in blank amazement. He
being unable to manufacture an original
speech out of "waole CLOTH" was forced to
fall back on Republican documents to help
him along. After fumbling over his pile of
papers, he edited his audience with yolumi-
nous excerpta from fugitive papers and gar
bled extracts to carry his point. The faithful
yet how dare they dispute the judgment of
this political magnate! The drift of his speech
was O. reaffrmation of the preceding one,
with few variations. He demonstrated one
thing clearly, if nothing else, that he did not
relish the appellation of "Copperhead," even
if he were one. After long, numbering rig
marole of stale hash, which seemed as if it
would never be done, he subsidized and gave
the Democracy time for long breath.
te-, former candidate for the governorship
of Pennsylvania, but who was not elected
because he did not get enough uotes! He came
and his presence seemed to
inspire the faithful with fresh enthusiasm. His
speech vas received with great gusto, coming
as it did from such high authority. Before he
closed, however, but one sentiment pervaded
the few Union men who were left, and that
was, to thank God most devoutiy that Andrew
G.. Curtin had been elected our Governor in
stead of Henry D. Foster.
Take it all in all, there was very bad at
mosphere perrading the entire meeting. Bad
and bad Democracy make very
crazy man, and, whether it was from the
effect of the former Or the latter, there was
audible evidence somebody's stomach was
affected with ,:ausea! There was no denun-
citation of jeff Dayis-no voice for the war
no sympathy for our noble soldiers but
there were many curses, loud and deep,
again st the Administration. One thing must
have been evident to every observer, that
while the vituperation against the President
was appauded most vocferously, the cheers
for the flag were faint and ''few and far be-
tween"
And this is the Democracy which is to be
the "salvation" of the country May God
have mercy upon US when we fall into the
hands of these Philistines. No, gentlemen,
your tricllery is played out. The people
begin to discover your hypocrisy, and they
will bow tie knee to Baal no longer. The
reading public cannot be hoodwinked by your
perversons of the truth, and will not submit
to have them crammeG, unconditionaty, down
their throats They prefer healthy food. 1t
is frequently sounded in our ears by these
tricksters that the army is disafected, and
that our soldiers opposed to the policy of
the Administration. We cannot better an
swer this, or close our article, than by giving
an extract from the private correspondence of
a gallant officer of the lo1st regt. p ":
"Consciously and Intentionally, or uncon-
sciously and ignorantly, the wicked shriekers |
of compromise and 'peace-on-any-t terms are |
this war-keeping US from our
friends and the homes we love. 1t would be |
the lofciest exercise of Christian charity to
suppose that these stupid asses had been re- |
duced by decree of Heaven to the mental !
imbecility of a natural fool-it would be
greatly to their credit if this proposition cod |
be proven.
"sPeace on any terms is spurned by the |
army with loathingand disgust. May heaven |
pity them in years to come, for surely they |
will be remembered, and their name and |
will be weighed beneath the accumu-
lated curses and merited execrations of all |
the generations of earth, until the loud and |
telling notes of GabrierS trump shall disturb |