The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1864-08-25

BREATHINas-OUT OF SLAUGHTER
We have read the story of the muscular
Milesian who was the possessor of coat
with tail appendages of prodigious length,
the latter of which he was wont to drag
sauciiy at his heels at fairs, and wakes,
and the like, with the request that any
body as wants wee bit y an Elegant ba-
ting manifest his desire by tramping on
the same Weare also not unfamiliar with
the history of that other muscular indi-
vidual who, when the spirit of unrest took
possession of him, eased his pertnrbed
feelings by placing chip on his shoulder
and going about in quest Of some man
with courage enough to knock it off! As
parallel to these lively little episodes, we
now have the case of the Johnstown DEM
ocrat This high-spirited journal seems to
have provided itself latterly with coat of
unparalleled dimensions as regards the tails,
and chip likewise, and for the past two
or three weeks it has kept standing
challenge touching the tramping on the
one or the knocking off of the other
This challenge, which is directed to the
world in general but to all soldiers in par
ticular, has not been accepted, and stands
not the ghost of chance of being accep-
ted. By this We do Eot wish to be under
stood as meaning that no person in this
bailiwick possesses the nerve or dash re-
ouisite to tho undertaking. No. But
the fact is, it is generally understood that
paper has been failure from the begin
ming, and constant drain ON the pens
and purses of its proprietors, hence it is
"spiling tor fight" that it may get licked,
to the filing of big bill in its own behalf
against the county for damages, and the
manufacture at the same time of certain
amount of political capital" And hence
it is that neither the world in general nor
the soldiers in particular will harm it.
The coat-tails aud the chip of the Dem
Ocrat not having been disturbed, like
very Falstaf it wakes sanguinary and
vauntful thereat. 1t tells US what would
have been the result had anybody presu-
med to have laid hand on it in anger. 1t
would have visited "sure, quick and sweep
ing vengeance" on suci an one-torn him
up, root and branch, from the soil of his
nativity, and scattered him broadcast to
the four winds-wiped him out, annihila
ted him, utterly demolished him. All
this is very startling, to be sure. The
Democrat furthermore says it is in dead
earnest in thus declaring. Which makes
the matter positively terrifying to weak
nerves. For the welfare and prosperity
and general beatitude of society, we feel
superlatively thankful that the Democrat
'an coat-tails were not tramped on nor the
Oenocratian chip knocked off. Blood
she'd must have been the result. A war
would have been inaugurated to which the
Southern Rebellion would bear about the
tame comparison that fish hook does to
four horse wagon. In such an event,
"a scaly gauntlet with joints of steel, in
stead of kid, would be the prevailing
style Of glove; bloody noses and cracked
crowns had, aud passed current; our peo-
pie demonized; and our fair fields conver-
ted into vast cemetery-for we suppose
the Democrat man would bury his dead in
the vicinity Of his bellipotent exploits
This is portion Of the evils which would
have descended upon us had the coat-tails
'Sa the chip of the Democrat been inter
tered with. AS the newspapers used to
say about the military situation, truly the
peril cnvironins US was most imminent
aud awful
Blessings on that spirit of forbearance
which so encompasseth the hearts of the
people that the coat-tails and the chip OF
We Democrat are things laughed at and
hdspled, and at the same time given a
Sias berth to, instead oe things seized
sph as the pretext for popular outbreak.
Nv does the Democrat any good to faunt
rs eOat-tails or carry Its chip, why not in
aage it in the peculiarity? We think
= Would be the essence of wisdom to not |
why allow the largest latitude to these
"nieitions of eccentricity, but to request
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