Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1866-10-18
Democrat anS gmtmel.
w. H. M'ENRUE. Editor & Publisher.
EBENSBURG, OCr. Is, :::::;:::1s66.
The Result.

Geary Is TO be the future Governor OF
Pennsylvania. What a thrill of horror
passes through the hearts of the freemen
of Pennsylvania at this dreadful announce
ment. How the poor and needy tremble
at the fate that is ere long awaiting them.
John w. Geary, Governor of Penn
sylvania - Oh, God! will you not look
down upon an afflicted people, and take
them to yourself ere this tyrarical wretch
shall be their lord and master. Better,
far better would it be for the citizens of
Pennsylvania had the most detestable
ruffian been chosen TO fill the Gubernato-
rial chair, than this soullcss wretch, who
obtained the nomination of a party whose
records are more damning than that of
Probst the murderer or Butler the fiend,
who confscated the hoop skirts of the
ladies Of New Orleans. We say better,
because in some cases either one of the
above mentioned individuals nigh: have
had a forgiving spirit but Geary has
neither the spirit of Il man nor the cour-
age of brute. His ability to fill the
Gubernatorial chair is equal TO that of
Fred. Douglas, whose names have been
lauded to the skiessby niggers and crack
Drained Abolitionists.
The future of our country looks dark
and gloomy. a Governor without soul
"a Congress without principle-a
Legislature whose detestable acts will cast
the black pail of darkness over the citi
zens whom they represent. This is the
picture of Pennsylvania for the forth
coming three years: Anarchy, despot-
ism, villainy, fraud, corruption and bank
ruptcy, might be included in the catalogue,
but it is unnecessary. The people can
perceive at glance the dreadful fate, that
we have been plunged into by knavery,
fraud and villainous men who glory in
the name of christians. Men whose deep
and deyilish guilt will long be remember
cd in the hearts of the people. They are
marked as imps Of darkness and recorded
in the annals of an oppressed country, as
candidates fit only for a region where
darkness reigns supreme, and devils wor-
ship in ecstatic delight.
How the people of Pennsylvania could
have the moral courage to support such a
detestable being as John w. Geary, we
can scarcely imagine. Did the conven-
tion which nominated him ever dream:
that his nomination was equivocal to an
election Did this convention honestly
imagine that he would be elected? We
scarcely think it possible. A dangerous
ship generally requires a good pilot in
order that it may anchor in harbor of
safety. Was John w. Geary the proper
person to pilot the sinking ship of Radi-
calism into such a harbor? Undoubtedly
not; but it seems it was necessary TO
nominate a bold, bad man-one who
would stoop to any meanness-one who
NOuiu SaSiiiiCC hoiiOi, iauiC, WS1iIl anu
conscience to keep in power the dastardIy
wretches who have for the last six years
fattened on the blood of our citizens.
We care not how socn such men may
be brought to grief. The people of Penn
sylvania will not be tampered with in
such manner. The tyranny and op-
preston like that, which in all probability
will govern the future course of Geary in
Pennsylvania was at one time in our
nations history resisted by heroic band
of patriots. Our forefathers fought be-
cause the British colony would not con-
cede them rights and privileges that were
necessary for the maintenance of them
and their offspring. We shall hold out
for the privilege guaranteed to US by the
Constitution, regardless of the result If
civil war is again to be inaugurated, we
exclaim in the words of true and tried
patriot, "let it come" But God forbid
that such an evil should again visit us :;
we have had enough already to satisfy
the people, or at least to satisfy that por-
tion of them who bore the blunt and
iardships of a three years campaign,
fighting to preserve the Constitution which,
our political opponents now declare in
valid and fit only to be used as a docn-