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THE DEMOCRATIC WATCHMAN,
VOL. 7. BELLEFONTE,
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FRIDAY, OCT. 8 1862,
NO. 88.
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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.