Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1864-06-29

ing for the Union.
"Blessed are the pure in heart for they
shall see God" Are the men of this
generation clean of heart who are hover
ing around the public treasury watching
for the drippings that fall from this great
plundering machine. Those shoddy rob-
bers of the public treasury who are turn
! ING the blood of their fellow-citizens and
the tears of the widows and orphans into
money to enrich themselves, regardless OF
/ the affliction of their unfortunate country,
are certainly not clean Of heart, they are
wallowing in the mire of their own cor
ruption, and will not relax their grip on the
public treasury until they are forced from
IT by some means or other.
Are those Republican members OF Con-
gress who billet their doxies on the Trea-
sury Department as clerks and get the
Government to pay them salaries. Are
| they pure of heart, no, He'll must be filed
with such purity of heart.
! uOu Sllttlt mol steal Ills tAuullIl-
! istration is den of thieves. They steal
| everything that is portable, from piano
down to Il wooden leg Indeed some of
our Republican friends stole gum elastic
leg i'll Fredericksburg, that was said to
belong to lady there, and this wanton
depredator for his dexterity in thievery
was shortly afterwards rewarded with a
lucrative government office. There are a
great abundance of pianos gracing the
parlors of the North stolen from the South
Even the ibrary's of the war preacher of
the North have received large accessions
from the stolen literature.
Thou shall not bear false witness
against thy neighbor,' that is thou shalt
not lie. This administration is the most
lieing of all ages and nations. There is
one other government that probably might
compare with this, but it is not of earth,
and its ruler is called the father of lies.
Lincoln, Seward, Stanton and the whole
fraternity of those at the head of affairs,
lie as gracefully as if they had been
brought up at the feet of his Satanic ma
jesty. Before this unholy administration
/ got into power an American gentleman
/ was expected to tell the truth and to tell
him he lied in his presence was generally
answered by Il blow, but now the whole
country is become 50 degenerate that false
hood from high places is become the order
of the day. To look for the truth in the
Republican newspapers now, would be as
nonSensical as TO look for the state of the
weather III last years almanac. So that
the high-toned truthful bearing of the
country is gone, perhaps never to return.
This moral decay of the country is to be
regretted as much as its physical. Truth,
honor and public virtue has been wasted
away, as well as our blood and our treas
ure by this unholy government of ours
''Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not
steal, thou shalt not commit adultery,
thou shalt not covet thy neighbors goods,
nor his OK, nor his ass nor bis man-ser-
want nor his maid-servant &C We find
every command in the decaIogue trampled
under foot by these blood-thirsty minions
OF power as well as they have trampled
on the constitution of our country. We
suppose that this cannot be successfully
denied, but we suppose they will justify
II by the plea of military necessity
This plea is as silly and untenable as
their acts are gross and diabolical 1t
may be that the Divine author and dis
poser of nature has handed over this |
government for season to his Satanic |
Majesty or that he has permitted him for
season for his own wise purposes to have
an undue influence over this unfortunate |
dynasty. Let us however trust that |
righteousness may yet reach their blind |
ness, and that the Lord will soon again |
take the country under his divine protec-
ton, by infusing into their minds a
knowledge of their iniquities and folly.
The Democracy of the country will have
to do their part, The country is dying by
inches and if they have it not MORALLY
wounded before the next election, we
must make n grand effort to restore it.
though 1t never can be what it was. it is
like stout athletic man VIII has had a
violent fever, he may be restored in some
cases though almost always leaving
ing some marks of the disease lingering