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- JOE W. FUREY, i
P. GRAY MEEK, | Errors
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* BELLEFONTE, PA.
Friday Morning Sept. 26, 1862.
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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’
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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