A Cr | THE DEMOCRATIC WATCHMAN, VOL. 7. BELLEFONTE, ET FRIDAY, OCT. 8 1862, NO. 88. — . Dalf- Sheet. 0= We are again compelled to issue a Ealf-sheet. We have no hands yet and it ig uncertain when we will be able to get any. Probably not till after the election. » Who was Killed at the Second Battle of Bull Run, fought August 29th, 1862. Many are the hearts that feel sad at the announcement of the death of this noble young man. He was greatly beloved by a large circle of arquaintainces and his loss will be severely felt by many whose delight it was to call him friend. His native and unstudied attractiveness of manner had greatly endeared him to those with whom he associated, but his amiabili- ty of character and agreeableness of man- ners were the least of his virtues when compared with the strength and beauty of his mind, A retentive memory had accu mulated a store of useful knowledge, which he imparted with great success asa teacher: Though young, the fires of patriotism had already blazed high in his manly bosom, and when he saw the ominous cloud, charged with all the elements of civil strife, lower upon the political horizon of his beloved country, he sought by every means in his power to avert the impending danger. Like a true patriot he supported conciliatory measures as the surest coarse to quell the rising storm. But the muttering thunder of the coming tempest grew louder. He saw the fearful contest hastening on, but an instinctive dread of imbruing his hands in the blood of his own countrymen, caused him still to pause, and it was only after he saw the fear- ful earnestness of his country’s enemies in their endeavors t> destroy a Government which nature had taught him to love, that he went forth to battle for the Constitution and the Union. And now he has falien!— Far away on the bloody field, without a ten der hand to ease the dying posture, his noble spirit took its flight. The realization of his dearest hopes bave been denied him. The restoration of peace to our distracted coun try, for which he so ardently looked, his eyes have not seen ; but we trust he bas gone to that happy land where *¢ nations learn war no more,’”’ and where peace and happiness abound forevermore. In his early death his parents mourn "the loss of their youngest child. Who will wonder that their hearts are almost dis- tracted with grief, that t'ieir almost sights legs eyes send forth torrents of tears, or that their gray heads are bent down with sor row ? But let those of us who survive him em- ulate his virtues, and trust that his early removal, on account of which we feel so sadly bereaved, is his infinite gain. W. A.M serrate lA pr I= “Give usa rebel ictory, let our ar- mies be destroyed, iiaryland conquered, Washington captured, the President ex- jled and the gover ment destroyed ; give us these and any o:zcr calamities that can result from defeat »d ruin, sooner than a victory with McC! lan as General.” Reader, you may be surprised at this infamous sentiment ; and would natural ly think that it originated in the latitude of Charleston, bnt this is not the fact. It was coined in the loyal State of Jllinois—the «Rail Splitter’s” own State’and by the Pres- dents leading organ in that State —the Chi- cago Post. We wonder where a Democratic newspav per would land if it would utter such lan« guage in reference to an Abolition General? 1t is very remakable how careless these new “Union savers’” are in the choice of their language. * Tag Point oF 'DirreruNce-One of our Democratic exchanges thus points out the difference between an abolitionis: and a *‘reb el”: © «The difference between an abolitionist and a *‘rebel’’ is, that a ‘‘rebel’” wants to set up a new Government, and the Abolition- Protest To Hon. JorN A. GamsLe. President, and the other members of the Democratic Congressional Conference. : GENTLEMEN: —The undersigned. conferees from the counties of Clinton and Centre, re- spectfully but earnestly protest against the action of the Conference, both as to irregu- larity of proceeding in detail, and as to its refusal to make a Democratic nomination. We protest against the action of a major~ ity of the Conference in permitting a Con- feree from Lycoming to cast the two votes for Tioga conaty. The absurdity of such action was fully demonstrated in the Con- ference when four of the other Conferees voted for the candidate of Tioga county, who was defeated for nomination only by the Ly~ coming substitute of Tioga casting the votes of that county against its own nominee, aud in violation of its instructions. We protest again, that the Conferees were elected to nominate a DEMOCRATIC candidate for Cengress, and for no other purpose: as 1s fully shown by the fact that the Demo- cratic appointed Conferees to assemble tog- ether for the the purpose of agreeing upon a candidate and cach (except Potter) named a Democrat as its first choice for the nomi nation. It was not proposed in any of the County Conventions that any other but a democrat should be nominated, or that no nomination should be made. The Conferees therefore, who voted against making a nom- ination,ceased to represent the authority that eppointed them, and their action thereafter could have no binding force upon any person. We protest against the action of the Con- ference, in refusing to make a nomination, because the avowed object of such action was to induce Democrats to abandon their party organizations and vote for Mr. JaMEs T. HaLg, the present Republican member for re-election to Congress. thus, in effect en- dorsing and approving of the action of of those Democrats who, at the last election, joined the so-called Union” organization, and who were therefore denounced by near- ly the whole of the Democratic party in Clin- ton, Centre and Lycoming counties. We further protest against such action as would make Mr. Hair the candidate of Democrats, because he has neve: belonged to their party—has never supported one of its principles or measures —was the biter and vindictive reviler of ANDREW JACKSON, of James K, Pork, of Francis R. SHUNK, of SrepneN-A. Dougtas, and of all the wen who sustained any of those distinguished patriots or the measures which they advocated —be- cause te was always an Abolitionist, and we believe is so still—because in Congress he voted for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, to the great diszust of all Southern Union men, and to the delight of the Rebels— and he also voted for (or res fused to vote at all) revolutionary, incendiary and s-cession measures— because he failed as a Representative not only to resist these measures, but also neglected to oppose the corruptions and frauds commited by Govern- ment agents, the evidence of which had been reported to congress by committees <omposed of members of his own political party—and because h's course in Congress was gene~ rally injurious or of no service to his district or the nation. ; We protest against your action because for Democrats to vote for Mr. Have would be to afprove and endorse his course in Congress, which would include an endorse: ment of all the corruptions of the Federal office-holders which he neglected and failed to expose. We have not the record in our possession, but we believe he. even refused to vote for the resolutions censuring CAMER on and WELLES for their wholesale plunder- ing so ruinous to the National cause, and to the soldiers who fight our battles and the people who pay the taxes. We protest against action which presents Mr. HALE as the favorite of the Democracy, because he has ever been their active, effi- cient and virulent opponent—always active ly supporting their antagonists, whether known as Whigs, Know-Nothings, Ameri cans or no-party men, or by any other name. In extenuatiod of these objections it is urged that Mr. HALE desires to effect a junc- tion with the Democratic purty —that he has almost or quite lost confidence in the abili. ty of the Republicans or any other but Dew- ocrats to govern the nation, and that he en- tertains the utmost contempt and disgust for .Abolitiomsts. But no evidence has been given to the Conference that this is true ex~ cepting the declarations of those of the per- sons who are pressing his cause who have had private conversations with him. Before we do any act that will commit the Demo: cratic party, on such grounds, we want the information in such shape that they and we can see or hear it, and well weigh the terms in which it is couched, in order that there may be no misunderstandiag. We protest against this HALE movement because, if we must have a Representative who is not a Democrat, the Republicans and not the Democrats ought to be responsible ist wants to upset the old one. The Democrats are for the old Government: for his action. Jt is just that those who elect a Representative should be held to a strict accountability for his acts; and as Democrats we object to being held for the politica! or official acts of any but Demo: crats. We protest against any refusal to make a nomination, because the Demecratic party is desirous of continuing the work of con- vincing the public that its tencts are true, and ought to be adopted —that its members are sincere wien they assert that none but Democrats can save the Nation, now plunged into anarchy and threatened with destruc: tion, in a great measure, caused by the po- litical follies and incapacity of the men Mr. HaLg labored so earnestly to put into pow- er—because the Democracy desire to show that they work for principles, not for office or a temporary political triumph—and be- cause, as the experience of the old Whig and other opposition parties amply proves, such attempts at fusion, bargain, trick and humbug. are and ought to be, destiuctive of any party. : We protest against any adjournment until a Democratic nomination is made, because the Confereces were appointed for that very purpose, and had no other business in this body. We protest against the action of the Con ference because we believe that a regular Democratic nominee stood a fair chance of election, and that to have made a nomina- tion would have only represented the wishes of the party that made us conferees. Respectfully submitted. : H. L. DIEFFENBACH. C. T. ALEXANDER. ee eA Pe perme Picture oF NaroLeoN. In Marius we have the following picture of the great cap- tain: He was everything. He was complete.— lle had in his brain the cube of human fac- ulties. He made codes like Justimian, he dictated like Caesar, his conversation joined the lightning of Pascal to the thunderbolt of Tacitus, he made history and he wrote it, his bulletins are Iliads, he combined the fig- ures of Newton with the metaphors of Mo- hammed ; he left behind mm the Orient words as grand as the Pyramids ; at Tilsit he taught majesty to Emperors; at the Academy of Sciences he replied to Laplace ; in the Council of the State he held his ground with Merlin ; he gave a soul to the geometry of those and the trickery of these; he was legal with the attorneys and sideral with the astronomers ; like Crompell blow- ing out one candle where two were lighted, he went to the temple to cheapen a curtain tassel ; he saw everything; he knew every- thing ; which did not prevent him from laughing a good man’s laugh by the cradle of his little child ; and all at once startled Europe listened, armies set themselves in march, parks of artillery rolled along, bridg- es of boats stretched over the rivers, clouds of cavalry galloped in the hurricane, cries, trumpets, a trembling of thrones every- where, the frontiers of the kingdoms oscil- lated upon the map, the soond of a super- human blade was heard leaping from 1ts sheath ; men saw him standing erect in the horizon with a flame in his hands and a re~ splendence in his eyes. unfolding in the thunder his two wings—the grand army and the old guard—and he was the archangel of war ! —o A Protest. We enter our most solemn protest against the Proclamation of Abraham Lincoln, Pres- ident of the United States, bearing date the 24th day of September, A. D. 1862, as in violation of the Constitution, and as not warranted by the circumstances, if it were clearly in accordance with the Constitution. We protest against it as an invasion of indis vidual rights, as a blow at the personal libs erty of the citizen, at the liberty of speech and of the press. We protest against it as an act of despotism unwarranted and un- called for, arresting the administration of the civil law, and subjecting us to military arrest, trial and punishment. In the name of the Constitution and of civil Liberty. in the name of Reason and of Justice, in the name of Peace which it threatens, and Blood which it mvites, we most solemnly and fer- vently protest against it.— Pat. & Union. THE “STAR” IN THE EAST The Maine State election on the 8th inst, carried by the Republican, of course; but their majority of last year was reduced more than one-half, and the Democrats elected one member of Congress, (Mr. SwgET, which is more thau they have had from the State for several years, This is andication of pop- ular sentiment which cannot be mistaken. The great reaction. has commenced in the East, and it will go on swelling and increas- ing in magnitude, until every vestige of Abo- litionism is rooted out of the councils of the Nation. Then, and not till then, will the o'd Union be restored, and peace and tran- quility re-established in our borders. 07 Orpheus C. Kerr, wishes to know why our people cannot realize that a nation, like & cooking stove. cannot keep up a steady fire without a good dreft.. A Tyrant's Order, A MILITARY DESPOTISM ESTAB. LISHED UPON THE RUINS OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC. ABRAM LINCOLN DICTATOR AND THE PEOPLE SERFS. Whereas, It has become necessary to esll into service, not only volunteers, but also portions of the militia of the States, by draft, in order to suppres the insurrection existing in the United States; and disloyal persons are not adequately restrained by the ordinary processes of the law from hindering this measure and from giving aid and comfort in various ways to the insurrection; Now, therefore, be 1t ordered, First—That during the existing insur- rection, and as a nesessary measure for sup- pressing the same, all rebels and insurgents, their aiders and abettors, within the United States and all persons discouraging volunteer enlistments, resisting militia drafts, or guilty of any disloyal practice, affording aid and comtort to the rebels against the authority of the United States. shall be subject to martial law, and hable to trial and punish. ment by courts martial or military com- missions. Second —That the wtit of habeas corpus is suspended 1n respect to all perscns arrested, or who are now, or hereafter, during the re- bellion, shall be imprisoned in any fort, camp arsenal, military prison or other place of confinement, by jany military authority or by the sentence of any court martial or mil- itary commission. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this 24th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and six- ty-two, and of the independence of the United States the eighty seventh. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President : WiLLiax H. SewArp, Secretary of Stabe. — ee nee AA Br er State Rights In Vermont. A speck of trouble has arrisen lately for the Government in a quarter whore it was least to be expected. There is a posibility of a contest in Vermontbetween the Govern~ ment and the Federal Judge of that District. It seems that some parties had been arrested by the United States Marstai for discourag. ing enlistments, and were put in jail in Bur- lington. A writ of habeas corpus was isSa= ed by Judge Smalley in behalf of one of the men. The Marshal reported the facts to Washington, and received the following dispatch from Judge Advocate Turner: “Pay no attention to the habeas corpus for the hberation of Lyman, Barney and Field, and if any attempt be made to liber- ate them from custody, resist it to the ut<’ most and report the names of all who at« tempt it.” On the return of the writ on the lst inst., the Marshal returned that he had arrested the man unde the order of the Secretary of war, of Aug. 8 directing the arrest of all per~ sons discouraging enlistsments, and that all their cases be reported for trial before a military corrmission, and that the n:an was beld under another order suspending the habeas corpus in such cases, and the order above set forth. The suggestion was made that the procced- ings should lie over till the authorities at Washington could be further heard from, but, the prisoner’s counsel opposed it, and the Judge decided that the return was msuf- ficient, in as much as the Secretary of War could not suspend the writ. He accordingly ordered the Marshal to produce the man within four hours, or he would make an order that the Marshal show cause at the next term of the Circuit Court why he should not be punished for contempt of Court. The Marshal, choosing to obey the order received from Washington, did | not produce the man, whereupon the order to show cause was made, The next term of the Court is not held until October, and many changes may take’ place between now and’then. It remains to be seen wether the Government or the Judge will yreld.—N. Y, Times. — 8B Cry Secesh Liks the Devil. A Perry county gentleman informs us that be met a ’Union’’ (?) man from Spen. cer county, last week, who accosted him in language something like this : : How are things going politically up in Perry county?” «All for the union in Perry county,” said our informart. «How is it in Spencer.” « Well, we have some Union men down here in Spencer, and I am’ afraid the d——d Democrats are going to beat us ths fall; our only chance of defeating them is to cry secesh like the Deel.” Such is, doubtless, to be the programme throughout the State.
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