Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1866-03-22
STAND BY THE PRESIDENT.

We copy the following able and patri-
otic article from the New York Observer,
the organ of the Presbyterian Church, and
one of the ablest and most influential pa
pers in the Union. These words of So
berness and truth, coming from such a
source, will have their effect among reli-
gious people, and will have much to do in
turning the popular tide in favor of Presi-
dent Johnson. The Observer says:
1t is high time that the Union men Of
the whole country made their sentiments
known in voice Of thunder at the doors
Of the National Legislature. With a pa
triotic and intelligent President, called TO
his high place by the voice of God and
the people, the country is in danger of
having its will defeated by the action of
Congress. 1t is the right of those who
are unconditional men from the beginning,
and who have never given place for an in
stant to the heresy Of disunion, should as
sert the rights that we, as a majority of
American people, have under the COnsti-
tuition, which has now been established by
the SWOIu, aS OIlCc lIOIc Int law VI illc
whole land
Andrew johnson was nominated and
elected to the Vice Presidency, whence, in
the Providence Of God, he has been eleva-
ted to the Presidency, from the State of
Tennessee. If it was and is out of the
Union, he was not citizen of the United
States. Tennessee has, under all the
forms known to our laws, reasserted her
own rights to an equal standing in the I'm
ion with her sister States, and has sent TO
her Congress and ours true and tried I'm
ion men, who, like the President, have
been true to the old flag through the long
and bloody war. Those men have a
right to 90 into the hall of the House Of
Representatives, present their credentials,
aud demand their seats. They are as
fairly entitled to their place as Andrew
johnson is TO his! So the President says
and so we say. Mr.. Speaker Colfax may
as Mr.. Representatives Hawkins, who
has fought gallantly on the field of battle
for the right that is now denied him.
That he, and such as he, are refused ad
mission, is defiance Of the Constitution
and laws; notification by the House Of
the law of the land a resistance of the
will Of the people as expressed by the ell
ection of Mr.. johnson, and by the ratiti-
cation of the Constitution. This is a
high ground, but it is tenable. 1t does
not invade the right of the House to judge
of the qualifications of its members. 1t
may tender the loyalty oath to each Ten
nessec delegate, and he must stand or fall
by it. But Tennessee has as good
right to-day to be heard on the floor of
that House as Massachusetts or New
York. If she has not sent true Union
men, she can send others when these now
waiting are found wanting. But she has
her rights, and this awful war has been
all in vain if, in the morning of peace, we
are to have the rights of the people tram
pied in the dust by the men whom we
have sent to rebuild the shattered walls of
our glorious republic.
The question, and the only question, is
the integrity of the Union. Has it been
Dissolved? Was secession an accomplish
ed fact If not, then the States are there,
and the restored Constitution is their pro-
lection and the bond Of our Union. We
whose watchword in all phases Of politics.
and in al disaster and desponding hours
of the war, has been, ''The Constitution
as it is and the Union as it was,' will not
abandon that watchword now that peace
and order reign from the St Lawrence to
the Gulf