Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1864-10-19
vsrted. The Philadelphia Pres not long
.ince remarked

since remarked:
Another principle must certainly DC eni>
bodied in our reorganized form OF govern
uent. The men who shape the legislation
Of this country when the war IL past, must
remember that what We want is power and |
strength The problem uiu be TO combine the !
forms .of Republican Government rth the |
,orcers of a Morarchidl Government.
About the same time, as If by concert,
wa find in the North american:
This war has already shown the absurdity
Of Government scih limited potcers 1t has
sho,cn that the po,rer Of ern-y Government
orqht TO be and must UNLIMITED.
Such doctrines as these would have met
with rebuke even at the hands of the elder
Adams but they were the natural pre-
cursors of the "war power" which has
been made to override the most explicit
doctrines Of the Constitution. The very
wrongs, in fact, complained of by our
fathers and enumerated in their declara-
tion against the English monarch, have
been revived upon their SONS. This Ad-
ninistration has wilfully violated its own
oath-bound pledges, and sought "prate1ts
Of innoratlon upon the established principles
of the Government )" it has fostered
Esprit Of encroachnaent ,chich tends TO con-
sohdate all the departments Of the GOrer'n-
ns<nt m one, and thus create, ,0hatever the
forms may be, a real depotism." 1t has
rendered "Me nahtary superior to the c',R
po,rer. 1t has superseded in reign of
lawless force the security prescribed by
law against seizure and Imprisonment
" without due process Of n,o." 1t has
verify ~ created n multitude Of ncV Offices,
and sent among US S,carnls Of officers to
harass our people and eat ont their sub
sance." BY an iniquitous Conscription
law, it has distributed its agents among
the people, backed by bayonets and cloth
ed with discretionary powers over the
liberties, if not the lives of our citizens.
It has "9urrtered large armies Of troops
amongst us'' It has imposed tareS on as
.cithom our consent" Finally, its chosen
and purchased advocates are now clamor-
GUS for a stronger Government, that " our
charters may be taken aacay, Our most vdiu
able la,os abolished, and the po,cers Of our
Government altered Fundamentally" These
we submit, fellow-citizens. are all of them
features fairly exhibited, of that " stronger
Government" which our forefathers, ap-
pealing "to the Supreme Judge of the
world" eighty years ago, pledged their
lives, their fortunes and their sacred
honor" to put aside forever.
We have before spoken, fellow citizens,
Of the depressed condition of the country.
The mountain Of debt which has been
piled up SO recklessly, cannot be less than
three thousand millions of dollars, when
all is fairly counted. Of this Pennsylva-
MIA. share will be at least one tenth of
the whole, or $500, 100000. The an
nual interest upon this sum (mOre easily
estimated than paidD will be about eigh-
.een millions Of dollars. This, added to
The annual interest of our former debt,
makes an aggregate Of interest now, and
hsnceforth, TO be borne by the people OF
this Commonwealth, stated in round mum
bers, of twenty millions Of dollars! We
cannot heighten this picture OF the stern
reality, which an inexorable arithmetical
calculation gives. Some make even a
deeper debt and darker prospec; of the
future.
Taxation always falls heaviest upon
labor it will now grind the poor to the
very earth. And yet the mock phiran-
thropists of the day are increasing this
taxation, and urging on a system of mea-
sures, which, under the pretense of anne
Horating the condition of the African,
will, if carried on much lougcr, practical
iy enslave the laboring white man and
tho forcible abolition of bondage at the
South should succeed, it will only be to
bring the VIII ite working men and women
of the North into competition IN the same
paths OF labor with the African they hay c
been taxed and beggared to bring here
and support among us!
The favored capitalist, who has money
TO lend TO the Administration, gets his
bonds, upon which there rs no toration ;
and thus is increased the burdens of the
iaboring and middle classes. But we for
bear to pursue this melancholy train Of
facts and reasoning, and turn to the more
grateful consideration of how we can dc
something for the correction of these evils
1t must be plain, fellow citizens, the
only hope that conservative men can have
Of saving the country from impending
anarchy and ultimate ruin, is by uniting
with the Democratic party the only
party now left that is truly national in its
character and conservative in its aims
the only party in the country that has
ever been able TO govern it, for any length
of time, TO the satisfaction of the Of the
people at large.
This party has now presented for The
Presidency, and Vice Presidency, two
men of the most unspotted lives and un
blemished reputations-every way unas.