The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1864-09-08
a Short NOttce.

The Democrat d: Sentinel is evidently
drunken with madness. Week after week
its columns groan with curses loud and
deep against the ''Illinois rail-splitter"
and the Tennessee tailor" We are sorry
that it deals in such unlicensed assertions
as it go frequently gives vent to. We are
sorry the Democracy of Cambria county
have no better oracle to expound their
doctrines. We do not willingly seek con-
troversy: ard yet sometimes silence ceases
70 be virtue. Neither do we desire to
stir up angry debate, or add fuel to heated
passion, but rather to appeal to the better
judgment and the understanding Of the
people
To the course of its illy-advised remarks,
the Dem Dc Sent. is profuse in historical
illusions and classical quotations, but it
seems 20 be very unfortunate in some Of
its comparisons. In recent number, it
labors hard to show the exact resemblance
between Xerxes and Lincoln, but we are
afraid the comparison only exists in its
own heated brain, and not on the page of
history. For instance, We think it would
be difficult to prove Xerxes ''usurper."
But rs we have no desire to retrieve .hc
character Of bad man, let us admit be
was "usurper;" yet where is the COM
parisoa between kipgly government and
a kingly accession and Republican gov
ernmcnt? Was not Abraham Lincoln
fairly elected by the sufrages of a free
people? The Dem. 6 Sent. slyly hints
that he .'disregarded tie rights of his
elder brother, who was lawfully entitled to
the accession" Who was this 'felder
brother" neighbor? We suppose you
will answer--the Democrats party. Ex-
actly so! CHATS what's the matter" >
This is the Artabazanes which has so long
fec at the public crib-this is the "elder
brother" who ought to have had the tat
Offices; and, just because one little cir
cumstance was in the way, to wit, a lack
Of votes, why Lincoln is Xerxian "u5ur-
perl Oh, logic incontrovertible
Then, one Pythius is paraded up, to
expose the "cruelty of CONSUMPTION" =
Will the Dem. 6, Sent. produce the ",aw
and the testimony" that the sons of Pyth-
ius were drafted? But suppose they
were, where has ever such cruel deed as
this Been pe-petrated under this Admin
is,ration, that you have to "go back far
behind the birth of Christ and of John
the Baptist in historical record" for
parallel? There is also an indirect allu-
sion to our army's s'ravaging and burning
cities and towns and villages" but not
word Of !disapprobation against the sack
ing and destroying Of Chambcrsburg! 81
length, Xerxes comes to the "Straits of
Thermopyle," and this, according to our
astute historian, is "Bull Run or Balls |
Bluff" Do you hear that, ye brave
hearted Northern soldierl You are COM
pared to the barbarous hordes led on by
"RufIian" to "earry on war of aggressiopi
on nelshboring countries, for blood-thirs,y
cruelty" But the unkindest cut of all |
is, the Southern chivalry" are compared |
to the "Spar,answ Aye, these cut-throats,
guerillas, and traitors are toasted by the
Dem. d Scnt as "Spartans," while the
Union soldiers ahave not the cause of the
war ct heart" Oh, the foul imputation
is enough to make the heroes dead at
Bull Run and Balls Buff turn 10 their !
bloody graves We are forced to the con-
eusiou, after this startling array of mis-
representation, that the caption of the |