PHB WATEnmAn, - JOE W. FUREY, i P. GRAY MEEK, | Errors eps est mene * BELLEFONTE, PA. Friday Morning Sept. 26, 1862. = DEMOCRATICSTATE TICKET FOR AUDIT)R GENERAL ISAAC SLENKER. of Unien county FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL. JAMES P. BARR, of Alleghany county. COUNTY TICKET. ' FOR CONGRESS, WM. F. REYNOLDS, of Bellefonte. FOR ASSEMBLY, ROBERT F. BARRON. FOR COMMISSIONER, WILLIAM FUREY. FOR DISTRICT ATTONEY WILL1AM H. BLAIR. FOR AUDITOR, WILLIAM J. KEALSH. FOR COUNTY SURVEYOR, ALEXANDER KERR. Be Assessed. We hops our Democratic friends will see that EVERY VOTER 2s assessed in due time.-- Examine the duplicate and see that the names of évery DEMOCRATIC VOTER <n your district is on it. Remember the same unscrupulous foe, that has bat.led against the principles of De- mocracy for years is to be met in a few weeks. — Be ready friends to meet ths enemues of our glo- rious, free institutions, in such a way as will do honor to American citizens fighting for the preservation of thewr dearest rights. T0 WORK, DEMOCRATS. , We trust that from this time, every Dem- ocrat—every lover of the principles of Wash- ington, Jefferson and Jackson, in Centre county will be at his post, fully prepared for the coming contest. The election is close at hand, and it is the DUTY of EV- ERY Democrat to be up and doing. Re- member the past, when trusting to the just- ness of your cause, and the bright hopes that pointed ahead to an easy and brilliant triumph, you ‘lay supinely upon your backs hugging the delusive phantom of hope until your enemy had bound you hand and foot.”’ Remember the same sneaking, cowardly, midnight enemy that has ever sought to wrest from your grasp the liberties and enjoyments guaranteed by ‘he Constitution of our country, is rallying its hopeless hordes to a final conflict. The time for action, vigor- ous, energetic and sustained action has ar- rived. Then to work! work! WORK !— Make up yeur minds to give one full day to your country and your party. Be at the polls early oa the day of the election; ben ware of ‘spurious and counterfeit tickets : accept tickets from none but true and tried Democrats; and sure success will be the re~ ward of your spirit and caution. The ap. proaching contest is one of momentous char - acter—of vast importance. We have ever thing to gain, and interests at stake upon which rests the salvation of our broken, bleeding country. . Can a Democrat of ‘old Centre” be found at this erisis that will prove recreant to his duty, recreant to the glorious principles of our good old party, recreant to himself, his country and his God? We hope and pray not. TTT ee — Poor Abram has had to ‘‘cave,” the ‘‘pressure was rather strong for the old granny, Greely’s “prayer of the twenty mil- lions’ is answered, and the ‘‘country saved’ 80 Lay back folks, reat easy for awhile, The Inconsistency of Republicanism. Aree. In view of the great national peril that row besets uson everv side, the Republi can pay have heretofore professed to be in favor of throwing away side issues and mi- nor political differences, and of uniting with the Democracy in one grand organization to crush out treason in both sections of our country and to preserve, intact, the Consti- tution and Union as they were handed down to us by our fathers. This resolution, had it been made in good faith and with an hunest intention, was a very praiseworthy one, and would, no doubt, have been productive of much good to the country. But when we come to ex- .amine into the matter a little more closely, we begin to find an ¢ Indian in the wood~ pile” and to discover that this resolution was only intended to apply to those locali- ties in which Republicanism is in thé minori ty and where it is desirable to secure Dem- ocratic votes by specious reasoning and fair professions. We have & fair cxemplification of this fact in the late action of the Republican Congressional Convention which met at Wil- liamsport, on Friday last, and at which the Ilon, W. H, Armstrong was nominated for Congress. Notwithstanding the Democratic Convention, which met in Lock Haven a few days previousiy, adjourned without making any nomination, deeming it, as they said, “inexpedient,” thereby giving the Republi- cans a fair chance to propose a basis for a union of both parties in support of some truly constitutional man, this party, which impudently arrogates to itself the honor of being the only UN1oN PARTY in the country, believing itself to be in a majority in the District, changes 1ts tactics and suddenly advocates a strict adherence to party lines; and, in accordance with its new creed of duty, makes a regular party nomination and places before the people, as its candidate for Congress, one of the boldest, rankest and most outspoken Abolitionists in the coun try—a man who declares that -* we have no Constitution now,” and that ‘the Union must be restored over and not under the Constitation,”” which, he holds, has long since ¢“ exploded.” But we have neither time por room to multiply words. What we wish to show is that the Republican party are insincere ip their declarations of a willingness to unite with the Democracy on the basis of a ¢ no party” movement. Itis all a sham-—mere ‘sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Why if tney were sincere, did they not offer to compromise with the Democracy when our Convention adjourned without making a nomination ? Because they well know that this Congressional District is one of Arm strong’s own making, patched up whilst he was in the Legislature, for his own future benefit, and believing Abolitionism to be the creed of a majority of the people, there would be no necessity for them to solicit Democratic votes. This isthe true reason why they have made no attempt to get up a union movement in this District, and we hope the Democracy will bear this in mind in the future. For our part, we are utterly opposed to any union with the Republicans, nor do we believe the Democratic party would permit itself to be gold in that way ; and we mere- iy recur to these facts to show the palpable baseness of this hypocritical, abolition {ra- terny. Had this been, indisputably, a Dem- ocratic District, they would even now, be on their knees praying for that which they have just cast aside as of no importance. — But believing otherwise, and thinking they have the reins in their own hands and their heels on our necks, they scap their fingers in our faces aud tell Democrats to 20 to— Jerusalem. te AR A Tax payers beware! Two vears of Res publican-abolition rule, has loaded the country down with a debt that will mort~ gage the bones of coming generations to pay the interest on it. Are you willing fo try them still longer? Contrast the cons dition of our country now, with what it was then answer. Can any one tell us what benefit is to be derived from the election to office of the Ab- olition candidates on the ‘‘free nigger’’ tick~ et?- **Nary one” At home at last--Sambo in Abram’s bos See Abram and hig friends catch the Nigger. S0in. - vhder a Democratic administriaton; and "A Retrospsative Glance. far A year and a ‘half ago ago, civil war began in the United States of America. Its profess. ed object, as declared by a majority of the Representatives of the people, was the res- toration of the ULion. When the brave men of the North, believing the assertion under solemn oath of those then in. power, sprang to the rescue, as they thought, of the Constitution and the Union as they were, the spirits, hellish in their nature, who were chiefly instrumental in bringing about civil war, were equally loud and vociferous in their boasts of * whipping the South, de- stroyiog slavery and restoring the Union.” Loud and deep were the prayers of the anti- Slavery element of the North for the destruc von of property in a negro, and earnest, la- bored and long were their sermons; deliver: ed in holy places, denouncing the institution of Slavery as the sum of all villainy and a twin relic, with Mormonism, ‘of barbarity, and endeavoring to teach and persuade North erners that it was their {highest duty, reli- giously and morally, to do all that within them say, within or without the pale of con stitutional law, to abolish Slavery. For twenty-five years the anti-Slaveryites have been preaching and teaching the ‘sin of Slavery,’ and denouncing and cursing the people of the South as Barbarians.— Pulpits all over the North have been dese. crated to such purposes. Teachers of Com mon Schools have so far forgotten themselves as to endeavor to instil into the minds of their pupils the idea that Slavery was ** the sum of all villainies.” At last was formed a powerful party in the North having anti- Slavery for its basis—its fundamental and only priucipie. As a consequence, and one predicted by Henry Clay, section became arrayed against section. Anti-Slavery and sectionalism triumphed, in the election of Mr. Lincoln, over Democracy and National. ism, and, more direful than all in its circum- stances and 1esults. Oivil War and debt and destruction of life and property have taken the place of National existence, harmony, peace, prosperity and protection of life, lib- erty and security of person. Some of the fairest portions of God's beautiful Earth are being devasted and ruined- -our plains drenched with the olood and whitened with the bones of the fallen ones, Our placid rivers, destined by the Creator of all things for the benefit of man, are made red with the life-blood of fathers, sons and brothers shed in an unholy strife.’ What a state of affairs —what a sickening picture of degra dation nnd desolation for the Christian and moralist of after ages to contemplate, and what a sad commentary upon the present state of ‘chrigtianity and civilization in America! Historians will record, with hor. ror and condemnation, the condition of af- fairs now here existing. We have heard the wail of the widow and the cry of the orphan, lately made sueh by civil strife, mourning for lost ones who have sacrificed their lives under the wave of {a flag, now the emblem, practically, only of freedom.” We have heard of towns shelled and burned, of cities leveled and to be leveled to their foundations, and of coun- tries where the fruits of the Earth, the only recompense of the industrious laborer, were both wantonly and, in a military point of view, necessarily destroyed, and of valleys left 1n such a state of devastation and de struction that they cannot recover their for- mer condition in a hundred years. We have heard also of persons, public and private, citizens and soldiers, being arrested without warrant, imprisoned in gloomy dungeons without trial and after months . of confine ment, released without any explanation as to wherefore they had been imprisoned nor why released, and all this done, too, by the mere dictum of men who are entirely witha out authority for any such purposes. Can any one tell why these things are so? Ask an anti-Slaveryite and he will tell you it was a necessity. True, it was a necessity in the estimation of the usurpers of absolute power, but there never yet was a tyrant nor a despot who did ‘mot: oppress his people upon the plea of ‘necessity.’ Thank God! our Constitution knows no such necessity and we earnestly wish and believe that the | authors of these ¢‘ necessary’ acts of a des- potism worse than that of Russia may be severely punished. Certainly, the free men of America will not permit their rights and . {liberties to be invaded and trampled upon without an effort. Surely they have more regard for their own welfare and reverence or the memory of the departed forefathers of the Republic. and “the Constitution “be- queathed to us by them, than to allow such things to pass unheeded. But beware, Freemen! The clank of the chains of despotism have already been heard and you know not how soon you may suffer by the" strong hand of a- tyranny worse, to an American citizen, than death itwelf. + But what are all these things for? What fell spirit of destruction has seized upon the American mind, that would thus force it to destroy itself? Certainly, all good men —men who sincerely desire a Union of, the States, know that we are rushing to destruc tion faster than did ever Greece or ‘Rome, and that, worse than all, we arefoling upon, our own sword ! : ; Eighteen moons or more have filled and waned since civil war began, At the be- ginning it was asserted by the unholy ras- cals of the North who refused . peaceful re- conciliation upon any terms, that seventy five thousand ‘men would utterly annihilate rebellion in less than three months, and also accomplish their long cherished design—the abolition of Slavery. *¢Coming events,’ we think, did not *¢ cast their shadows be- fore” then, for instead of their predictions proving true, they have been false in every particular. Thirteen hundred thousand men have been sent to the field of battle. A very large namber of them have been killed: or died of disease or wounds—battles have been fought and ¢ glorious war’’ has been carried on in all its * circumstance and powp.” A debt has been created larger than any ever heard of outside of England, the interest of which cannot be paid by the whole revenue of the country. Still the whining. whimpering anti Slaveryites of the North cry *‘ earry ou the war!” when well they know that Slavery cannot be abolished by any power on Earth save that of the States, acting voluntarily, where 1t exists, and that a union of the States can never be brought about by means of war. Stephen A. Douglas said that “war is disunion—war is eternal, final separation.” And he was correct.” There is less likelihood now of & union of the States than ever. and the lon- ger the war lasts, the less becomes the prob. ability of a future union. Therefore, we say, let us arrange the matters in dispute upon paper, and not at the cannon’s mouth. datos aetl ffe R eemmee—— Congress, at it recent session, passed bills which, in the aggregate appropriated out of the Treasury, reaches §913,078,527,63. — At the extra session last summer, Congress appropriated $235.103,293,99. The total amount, therefore, for the two ses sions rea- ches the enormous sum of ELEVEN HUN DRED AND SEVENTY-EIGHT MIL- LIONS ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY ONE THOUSAND. EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOUR DOLLARS AND SIXTY-CENTS. Where i; this money with the interest added anually, to come from ? Tell us, ye who can. And then we will point you to MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS OF DOLLARS MORE that must be raiscd from the same source. What bright pros- pects loom up in the future, for the people of this country! What a glorious (?) “change’’ it was, that placed the Abolition party in power, aad loaded us down with a debt that can never NEVER be paid. Had there not better be an other ‘‘change’’ made this fall? We think so. Lost, Strayed or Stolen ! The much talked of “*back bone” said, to have been in the possession of ¢ ‘Old Ale» at the time of his election. FIVE CENTS REWARD and A COMMISSION TO FREE NIGGERS, will be given to any one returning | the same or on furpishing any information in , regard to its whereabouts P. S. The reward will be paid in United States postage stamps of the most approved style and “sticky‘‘ kind. Gov, Curtin’s last scare and Militia dem onstration cost our State over "FIVE MIL- L1ONS OF DOLLARS. What think you of that, TAX PAYERS of Centre county ? is “sour Andy,” the poor man’s friend ? is he and the party he represents fit to adminis- ter the government in the Keystone State at the present time ? 02 The Indians continue to he very troublesome in the West, and forces have been sent against them. W
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