2 P. GRAY MEEK, ma BELLEFONTE, PA. Friday Morning, Nov. 21, 1862. “ Slavery va. Emancipation. + Editor. It will not bo necessary for the people of thi country to wait a century to learn the result and feel tho effect of Lincoln's ewan- cipation proclamation, provided he ard the tocls and fanatics of the North who sustain It, aro successful in carrying it out. For cur part, wo have no fears that the old usurper, with all bis siders and abettors, will be ble to succeed either with dogmati- eal orders or balls and bayonets, in giving {recdom tosthe four and a half millions of blacks io the South, which, ifaccomplished, would ruinat Jesst threo quarters of this Union commercially, and revolutionize one half of Europe, not only commercially, but politically. Every civilized nation on the globo recog- vizes the nicessity of such productions as negro “slavery” alone creates: and to de- 8 roy these productions, would bring want and famine to one half the white population that lives by Isbor. The world cannot exist without the institution called “slavery.” It must prevail somewhere apon tho globe, It has existed from the beginning, and will continue to exist until tho end of time, and tf negroes are not held in that position, the lat oring whitcman mast be. Labor, alone, ia the source of ell wealth, and the me jority of mankind have no dispo- sition to labor if they can possibly avuad it. Ne man, no comunity, no nation, no race of men, have a right to hve upon the earth without creating more than he or they con- sume. A man, or a class, earning less than enough to clothe and fecd them, come an- der the denomination of paupers and va- granig, and are taken by the strong aim* of tho law, and made-to work in alms houses and prisons. As society hes progressed, it has mado customs which daro not now be overstepped, which forces those who are naturally indo- lent and lazy to labor not only for their own support, but to increase and add to the wealth ofthe world, and it is now consider- ed unwise and impolitic by all enlightened governments, to permit a class of beings to exist without their productions, showing a surplus over their consumption, Nations have no right to be a stumbling block in the path of civilization, or to exist upon tho earth a foul blot ; but when, in addition to the fact that the black races do 0 exist—that they are steqped in the grossest and foulest idolatry—coupled with debauchery and ciimes +00 terrible, too shocking, to depict, when we Anow from history that for a thou- sand years Africa has had the means of en” lightenment and civilization, and still to this day herinhsbitants revel in heathenish cer- emonies, sickening atrocities, and idolatrous butcheries, at each yearly festival, tho wisdom of taking tho whole nation and con- verting them into useful beings by making them American “slaves,” no sane mind can for a moment question, . There is no one will deny that tho mind of the Caucasian ia naturally progressive, “and but fora few, who aro followers of Greeley and Phillips, but will admit that tho wind of the negro is stationary, capable only of considering the limited wants of his ani- mal nature. While under the control of the white, ho i tractable and obedient-—-among fits own taco, whenever He gets the position of superior, bois cruelly despetic. Many yeard bave passed sinco the existenco of su- perior and inferier races was discovered, and by the great and universal governing law, each has assumod the positions God in- tended hiey should. As far back a3 commerce can bo traced in- to the earlier periods of East India history, wo find that 200,000,000 of frugal, obedient slaves had been for almost countless centu- ries creating enormous wealth throughout that part of the world. All ths nations of thie East thrived upon the spoils of that vast country for ages. Alexander tho Great, feught long and bloody wars for a chance to <on‘rol ils egmmeres. The Duteh, the Por- tugese, the French, and finally the English people, tapped some portion of that great Ewpire. and reaped large results. From 1757 to 1830, histd¥y tells us Eng- land alone received over 200,000,000 of dol- lars of India’s slave-created wealth. Great a5 was this pablic trade, it was nothing in comparison {o the transfer of private for- tunes from those slare-enriched provinces to tho shores of Great Britain. From 1561 to 1833, England was engaged mv tho slave trade herself, and in that length of time, realized from India the enormous amount of §5,600,000,000 of wealth. Then the world learned of her greatness and pow- er. Her population, in a few years, don- bled itself. ler industry was improved, and the condition of her people bettered fo such an extent, ‘that their former poverty could vot be recognized. - In 1807, they discontinued the black slave trade, and in 1837, abolished it completely, but inaugurated in its stead a system of white slavery, upon almost the sama prioci- ple, intermixed with a little more tyranny, which secures a more miserable existence to the white laboring classes in manufacturing. districts and coal ond tin mines, than was furnished her black slaves while held as property. In ten years after abolishing black slavery, England saw her mistake but could not remedy it. Her islands were be- comipg desolate wastes, and her richest spots dreary deserts, and to save from entire destruction these dependencies, she institu- ted the Coolie System to do work that the Yrood Yaz vevroes would not, ELSE YS 2 ome xy TS ingland, to-day, as well as France and Germany, are dependant Gpomsthe American “slave” labor system, to give «mployment to a large proportion of their people. That system destroyed, strikes a blow that will be felt throughout all Christendom. Jt is a well known fact, that 10,000 . women and children are starving to-day, because cotton cannot be had to keep them at work. If Lincoln succeeds 1n turning loose upon soci- ety the negroes of the South, where then will be the cotton crop ? England has four millions of her subjects depending upon the cotton trade for subsistence. Every ether avenue of trade in that miserable kingdom is Llocked up with human beings, striving, not for an independency, but for a mere prolongation of life. lier rich men have £350,000,000 of capital embarked in cotton manu factories, depending upon the “sla- very” of the American’ negro. They have nothing else in which to invest that capital. America is her best customer. “Slavery” wiped out ruins America, and ruined Amer- ica ruing England, France and Germany.— No “‘glavery’’—no cotton, no tobacco, no rice, no naval stores, and, as a natural con- sequence, no exports nor imports. During the year of 1800, we sent abroad only $40,000,000 products, Siuce then, we have had to build ships at the rate of one wn to every bale of cotton grown [rom that date to the present. If we *‘wipe out’? “sla very,” which produced exports during the year of 1860, to the amourt of 200,000,000, what use will we have for the ships ? The simple businegs transactions between the North and South, in times of peace, puts in circulation $1,000,000,000 yearly. No ‘sla- very’ blots out that. And now, when expe- rience has proven that the culture of cotton in India is a failure, can the North afford to rob the South of the only labor that can pro- duce this great and imporiant crop ? Slave” Jalor haa built and sustained by its products, a powerful Northern mercan- tile marine, and furnished an extensive mar- ket South for Norti.ern manufactured goods, ‘Tho negro has been rendered useful and hap- py, and the white man, who dare not work where the negro can, kas been made pros- perous in his busmess, And now the poor old imbecile at Washington would destroy this source of wealth, and render a future commercial and political Union impossible, Provided he is able, will the people permit him to destroy the relation of tho‘ ‘slave to his master—iuflict a monstrous outrage up- on humanity — beggar this country and half of Europe, by this insane attempt to place tho negro in a position his creator nover in- tended be ghould occupy —over-ride the Con- stitution and law of the laad—crush out the rights of States, simply to gratify a desire as idiotic as it js wicked ? Llistory tells tho world, in language as strong and mighty 8s the thunders from Mount Sinai, that the negro is unfit for the state of freedom enjoyed by the white man, England’s experiment has failed. ler is- lands are running to waste. Jomacia is fast relapsing into & tropical wilderness, — The black onco under the control of the white, us«ful and profitable to the world, is now free to the degree of licentiousness—liv- ing upon Iruits which grow spontaneous— nearly as naked as when he camo into ex- istence, and alinost a3 beastly as his com- panions, the apes and monkeys | Lot us now ask you, readers of the Watch. man, how much wealth the Northorn free oegro addsto the world ? what he contrib- utes (ewards the prosperity and happiness of the peoplo 7 where do you find him com. mercially Tako up the criminal and: pau- per reports, and sco tho enormous proportion of tho raco in jails and poor houses, see where he stands morally, Look into the statistics of mortality, and wi'ness the evi- denco that with him freedom 18 death, while a like examination South shows you unmis- takeably that what is called “slavery,” 1s lifo, increased vitality, longevity, indicating a healthy and nalural condition in harmony with God's laws, sod tending to tho well be- ing of mankind. War or no war, peace can never be re- stored by turning loose upon the people of tho North, the negroes of the South, and if Lincoln wants tho negroes and abolitionists effectually “wiped ont,” blotted from Amer- can soil, let him but succeed in his infamous designs of destroying the relation of “slave” to master. If it was tho will of the Maker of the Universe, that the negro should fill the place designed for him by the fanatics of the North,. such a thing as servitude would not now bs known to exist ; but Ile created the negro ag ho is, an wferior being, calculated to serve the white man; and Abram Lincoln, [forace Greeley, and all hel} cannot change hiro, ttre GP S- A VarvasLe Discovery.—We have re- ceived from 11. Howeon, Bsq., a pamphlet copy of a paper read by him at the monthly meeting of the * Franklin Institute,” at Philedelpaia, Oct. 16th 1862: The paper is a very valuable little document, and ex- plains in a very interesting way, the highly important advantages which may result to the world, and especialy the world of let- ters, from the happy discovery, by W. "J: Cantelo, of the valuable properties of the ¢* American Jute” or plant kuown as the Hibiscus Moscheutos. 1t seems that Mr, Oantclo, by numerous and successful exper- iments, has been led to the discovery that the fibres or outer covering of this plant may be used with great success in the man- ufaclure of paper, cordage, texile fabrics &., —a discovery which is certainly of great utility, and which may lcad to the most im- portant results. This plant grows in abun- dance m the swampy lan of Penns: lvama, New Jersey and New York, and requireg littlo or no cate in its cultivation. Time und space forbid us noticing this valuable revelation {further at present, but we may allude to it again. {7 "here should be leagues formed in oyery township througout the couatry, to protect liberty and resist the tyrany of those in power. See to it (reemen, that the doors © of Northern Batiles are op ened, £hall it Continue ? Scarce an exchange have we received, for months past, but contains the announce- ment of the seizure and imprisonment, with- out warrant or trial, of some Democrat, whose brave heart scorned to succumb to the despotism of those in power. We had hoped that the voice of the people, through the ballot box, would have ended these fots of usurpations and tyranny ; but it seems oot. Illegal arrests, unwarrantable seiz- ures, and false imprisonments, are still the order of the day, and, although the people spoke out openly and boldly agsinst such violations of law, and outrages upon the rights of citizens, yet the minions of an ab- olition tyranny seem determined to disre- gard their yoice, and disrespect heir wish- es. Shall these things continue ? Democrats, itis for you to say. By your votes, you asked them peaceably to desist ; but they heeded you not. By your strong right arms and brave hearts tell THEM THEY BOALL.— Were they acting with any lawful authority or wag any good to be derived by the coun- try from their proceedings, we should not counsel! forcible resistance, but when these arrcsts aro made, as they are, without #hadow of law or wile of justice, we believe it to bo the duty of every lover of American freedom, to resist to the bitter, bloody end. Resistance to them will be resistance to nei- ther government nor law, and if a man shoots down the miscreant that attempts to deprive him of his liberty, when Le does not pro- duco hig legal written warrant under forms of law, no LAW of the land can punish him for the act, though be comes with tele- graphic dispatchis from Some truckling, to tho tyrant at Washington. The abolition traitors that are thus ear- 1ying out the wishes of their despotic mnas- ters, have no more right, legally, to make these arrcsts than has any private citizen, who hag the muscular power, to take his neighbor and confine him in a dungeon. Again we ask you, fellow Democrats, are you willing longer to subuwit to these acts of despotism and tyranny ¥ Are you will- ing that your fricnds shall be tern from their beds at mid hours of pight—from their wives and children—from their homes and business —their fortunes ruined and charac- ters Llotted- -and immured in loathsome Bastiles, and pestilence-breeding dungeons, without causo—without warrant of aw— without charges being preferred, or trial by jury We hopo not. Tho time has como when the ery of “moderation” should cease, until right triumphs-—until the doors of the gloomy political prisons throughout the North are opened and their suffering inmates restored te liberty and their families —until the rights and privileges of the people aro respected by those in power, Abram Lincoln, Andrew Q, Curtin, and others, wero not placed in the positions they now occupy, to dictats to a free people, or usurp authority, and crush out their liber- ty. They were not clected to the offices they now fill, to violato the law and consti- tutionul obiigatiens, but were chosen as the SERVANTS of the people to obey their orders and carry out their wishes. Are they doing this? No. Through the ballot box they have been told plainly and pointedly, the course they should pursue ; but they have heeded not the voice. Lot the people, the sovereigns, speak to them now in tones that they cannot fail to heed. Let them gather from cvery ficeside in the land, meet in convention, and demand of the tyrants the cause of tho arrests and imprisonments of their friends and neighbors. Let them not slop until those now pining in dismal cells of dark prisons, far from home and loved ones, are permitted a fair and impartial tri- al by jury, as the law directs, or until those who robbed them of their liberty meet the falo thoy so richly deserve. European Peace Address APPEAL OF TUD MEN OF ECIBNCE T0 MB. LINCOLN» [From the London Times, Oct. | The subjoined address to his Excellency ‘Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, has been signed at Brus- sels by eminent men of almost every nation in Europe, in the hope, perhaps too sanguine that it might have some influence in termi- nating the terrible war now raging in Amer- ica. Ye much fear that the philanthropic object which those gentlemen have in view will be marked by disappointment. The following is the document ; : “SIR : A number of the members of the Association for the promotion of Social Sci- ence, now assembled in Brussels, and rep- resenting most of the European States, ven- ture to address the President of that great people in the Western World, in whose prog- ress and prosperity they cannot but feel tho decpest interest. : The melancholy strife which is now ra- ging and devastating so large a portion of the NorthfAmerican continent has in its ori- gin- and progress given irrestiblo proofs of the energy and excltement with which the opposing sections have contended for the opmons and principles which cach has ad- violated. Now, we fairly doubt the sinceri- ty of both ; but itis not the purpose of (his friendly cor munication to wound the sus ceptibilities of either. Blood enough has been shed, treasures enou; h have been pi ur- ed out ; and it isin the hope that the pray- e1, hitherto but faintly uttered, but which, nevertheless, represents the almost unani- mous sentiment of your European brethren —the hope that tho prayer for truce— for peace, may find a concurring response in the Western World, that we venture to breathe it from this side of the Atlantic. We dare not propose to a people go self- Supported, so advanced in civilization, ‘whose feelings however s'rongly excited, cannot be uninfluenced by the course of events and the teachings of experience —-we dare not propose any particular modus vrocendi by which thé grave question and difference may be pacifically solved ; but if suspension of hostilities could be obtained asa preliminary measure, timo might be given to consider by what instrumentality the present disastrous conflict might be bro’t to an end. If the will exist—which we would for a moment doubt—rthe means may be found more prae- ticable than they at first appear. "The whole civilized world would rejoice in so happy a consummation, and if we can in any way contribute towards it we shull indeed not have appealed in vain to patriots and Chris- tians. Here follow the signatures which are LUMCPOUS, [Prepared expressly for the Wateaman. | 0 Man, Whe Art Thou? on iin REFLECTIONS OK, PACH AND WAR, BY JUSTICH. (Continued from last Number.) It has been the gencral practice of inan- kind from time immemorial to call on the aid of the Supreme Ruler of the universe, in their sangumary conflicts, to persuade them- selyes that He is personally interested in their quarrels, and to return thanks to Him for their success in the butchery of bis ra- tional and accountable children. The sa- cred names and attributes of Deity have be- come associated with the scenes of tho bat tle ficld, and the favor aud blessings of heaven are jmplored on the actions of wick- ed and malignant spirits. War 19 accom- pavied with the forms of devotion ; snd un- der the brind infatuation that the God of Justice, mercy and love lends his sanetion to the scenes of blood and carnage, which have desolated the nations of the earth, Ar- mies meet in tbe field of battle, prepared with murderous weapons {o execute the work of death, the signal for action is given, tho roar of cannon, the clashing of arms, the agonizing shricks of the dying, tell that this work is going on with horrible rapidity; a host of angry passions display their fury : the moans, the curses the imprecations of the wounded and dying, mingle with the ‘confused noise of the wairior and garments rolled in blood.” .Go to the battle ground when the engagement ia over, and see if there bo anything which heaven can rejorce in there. The ground is covered with the victima of war, lying either cold in death, or expiring in the midst of excrucia- ting pains, imploring death to put an end to their miseries. Tho wounded, the dying and the dead are heaped up together. BMul- titudes are often left on the field, day after day, without food or drink, or shelter from the inclemencies of weather, linger out a miser- able and painful existence, and to die at last, shut out from kindness and consola- tions of friends, without receiving so much, in tho hour of need, as a cup of cold water to moisten their, dying lips. But the horrid scene does not clos, here, To be acquainted withthe calamities of war, wemust go to a besieged city, whose inhabitants are cut oft from the sup- plies of food necessary to support life, we must witness the agonics of thousands dying from hunger, we must witness the sacking ot such a city after it is taken—sco tho in- habitants butchered, infants stabbed at their mother’s breasts—the dwellings of the inhabitants®™irea —and thousands who had been reduced to the gates of death by starvation; including the aged and the sick perishing beneath the smoking ruins. Add to all this, the widows and orphans, mothers sisters and children who are left to mourn in hopeless solitude for the loss of a husband a father, or a brother, and we have yet but o faint picture of the accmulated misories and evils of war. + Humanity sickens at the contemplation of these scenes of confusion, and every prin- ciple of religion recoils from such exhibi- tions of depravity. The spirit of war drives the finer feeling of man’s nature into exile ; it shuts out the sentiments of love from his soul. We cannot seriously consid. er these things without being impressed with the horrors of war, and deploring the con- tinuance of such a desolating evil, Shall then our estimate of the charactor of God be so imperfect, 80 contracted, so limited, 23 to things could be in the ordering of his wis- dom, or that ho should command, sanction or approve this work of destruction, devas- tation and death, by which millions after millions of human being are hurried to the world of spirits under the influence of de- praved and revengeful feelings, and the sum of wretckedness and misery augmented to the living ? Such an idea of tho will and character of God, appears to mo to bo an awful delusion, and 1 beliove it to be a clear and positive duty to treat it as & demorali- zing and hurtful superstition® The | ropo- gation of such a a doctrine is fraught with immense mischief to the human race. It opposes the spreading of the Gospel of peace subjects religion to the snecrs and sarcasms of thejunbelicver, and isemmently calcula- ted to drive men to infidelity and atheism on the ono hand, and to a belief in a ro- vengeful and malevolent Deity on the oth- or. * Were it not that this absurd opinion was Interwoven with the deep rooted prejudices of education and tradition, which are often mistaken for religious convictions, calm re- flection would be sufficient to show, that it is wholly founded in error, and that nothing but a perverted viow of tho divine nature, could induce any one, either in ancient or modern times to believe, that the Sovereign of the Umverse ever’ commanded any peo- ple to destroy their fallen creatures, or that he now lends his sanction to the crueltics of war. For the mystery of iniquity doth al- ready work. —2nd ThHgssALONIANS, part of 7th verse. Ah! yes, and always his Leen at work, and with all our boasted advance- ment of literature and science, our country teeming with numerous churches, and much zeal manifested by all them, 1n promoting the cause of the Prince of peace. The mys- tery of iniquity, notwithstanding the numer- ous professions made for t he cause of Christ has beenin the ascendency, as the times now prove, for almost two yoars have we been engaged in a horrid butchery. Had the humble teachings of our Saviour been truly carried out, this awiul demon war could not now be in our once happy and peaceful country, causing death and des- truction among brothers. God 1s mot the author of *‘confusion, but of peace.” lie does not delight in the death of the wicked. He has no attribute that can rejoico at the lamentations of the widows, or the cries of helpless orphans, which are made by war He does not call into action the deplorable passions of madness and folly, without which wars and fightings are - impossible. — He does not £11 the human bosom with cru. lead us to suppose for a moment, that these i elty, malice revenge, hatred and ambition, and the thirst of military glory. These are the “lusts” from which the Apostle * {James has said “come wars and fightings,” If Divine Goodness commands or sanc tions war, he must as certainly authorize and sanction the dispositions by which it is carried into execution; and before men can associate such tempers and passions | with the unchanging attributes of the divine mind, they must haye become vain in the imagination, and their ¢- foolish hearts are darkened, they change the glory of the in- corraptible God into an image like unto corruptiblo wan, and his truth into a hie.” Surely the mystery of iniquity 13 now doing its work, breeding death, destruction and misery among us. Such distorted views of the Divine will and character, have led sman- kind into idolatry, aud shrouded religion with error, superstition and darkness. And Jesus answered him: The first of all the commandments is, Hear O Israel, the Lord our God 18 one Lord. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength; this is the first commandment, Aud the Second is hike, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself ; There is none other commandment greater than these.—St. Mark x1 30 31. : (YO BB OONTINUED.) The Republican Presa and tho Late Elections, [From the Lycoming Gazotte. | ¢ 1t ig chiefly from the Republican ranks that the army has been created. The Dem- ocrats stay at home to vote and get offices, while the Republicans go to fight the bat- tles of the country” —Philadelphia Bulle- tin. Is this true 7 Have Democrats remained at home while Republicans went to fight ? We might appeal to the personal knowledge of every man who reads this paper —to the Democratic fathers and brothers—and to the firesides made desolate in every township in the North, for a full, an ample and an over- whelming contradiction of the vile slander. Democrats, while they believe that this war could and should have been avoided, are as one many in favor of sustaining the Constitu- tion aod the laws. While they were oppos- ed to a sectional party, having but a single fanatical object in view, and warned their countrymen against the dangers of such an experiment, they nevertheless recog ize Abraham Lincoln as President of the Uniced States, chosen according to tho forins of the Constitution, and to that Constitution and the laws they are loyal. Let us test their loyalty by the touchstone appealed to by the Republican cditors themselves. They say that they lost the late clection because *‘the Republicans had gone to fight tho battles of the country.”” Let us see how the matter stands. Of course, the counties giving the largest Republican majorities beretofore will be those which have furnished most men and will be most affected. low stands the ro- sults then in Bradford, Tioga, Potter, Ches- ter, Lancaster, Lawrence, Indiana, Craw- ford, Allegheny, Erie, Somerset and Susque- hanna counties ? All know that these coun- ties form the backbone of the Republican party in Pennsylvania, and if the Republi- cans were in the war, of course they were carried by the Democrats. Let us examine a moment. The same Bulletin from which we make tho exiract above, contains the of- flicial returns from all the counties in tho State except four. By turning to them we find that Bradford county gave For Cochran, Republican, +t Slenker, Democrat, 5,824 1,761 Republican majority, 4,063 Protty well done, considering the ** Re- publicans were all fighting the battles of the country, and the Democrats all at home.” + Next we turn to Lancaster county, and wo seo that it stauds For Cochran, Rep. se 474 ** Blenker, Dem. 6,532 Republican maj. 4,942 About the largest majority ever polled in Lancaster county. 1f they can roll up such majorities when the Republicans are all away fighting the battles of the country, ang the Democrats are all at home, they had better keep their friends away. _ Now let us see how the Republicans have fared in Old Ohesfer, with their friends all away. We find that Cochran, Republican, had 7,284 Slenker, Democrat 4,870 Republican majority 2,414 Pray, Messrs. editors of the Dulletin, when did Chester ever give sucha majority as this against the Democratic party ? Now let us look at Allegheny the Republi- can Gibraltar of the Werk, We see by the same paper that it stands For Cochran, Republican Slenker, Democrat 12 323 7,805 4.428 What a pity the “Republicans were all away fighting the battles of their country, and the Democrats all at home !”’ Lawrence county 100, is a Republican stronghold in the West, The same paper shows that it stands For Cochran, Republican Slenker, Demacrat 92,551 1,050 Republican Majority 1,501 Not a bad majority for a small county, under the discouraging circumstances of having the “Republicans away fighting the battles of their country, and the Democrats all at home!” Woe next turn to Crawford county and find that it stands : For Cochran Republican 5,006 3,589 Slenker Democrat Republican majority 1.417 About 500 more than it usually gives. Now turn to our / neighbors Tioga and Potter: We fiud upon examination, that they stand Cochran, Rep. Slenker, Dem, v 802 Tioga, ,702 Potter 1,103 226 Tolal. i: | 3,805 1,132 Republican majorities in Tioga and Potter counties 2,763 !'1 out of 5,000 votes polled ! What smashing work the Republicans of Tioga and Potter might have done if they had not been ‘away fighting the . Lattles of the country, and the Demosrats all at home.’ We next call attention to Somerset. Indi- ana, Susquehanna and Lirie. The Bulletin shows that they stand thus : Cochran. R. Slenker D. Somerset 2475 1.415 Lndiana 3.396 1,506 Susquehanna 3,945 2 746 Erie 4.255 2.12 Total 14,071 8,380 Republican majority in the four counties named, 5,598. How much larger would it have been if the Republicans had noi been ‘away fighting the battles of their country, and the Democrats all at home,” we leave’ our readers to conjecture. By way of re-. glance how terribly the Republicans suffer- | cd in their strongholds at the election by being ‘away fizhting the battles of their! country while the Democrats remained at | howe.” Cochran's Majority in | Bradford was 4 003 Somerset, Indiana, Susquehanna and Erie + T tal 27,220! ! at home #7 Perhaps the editors of the Philadelphi Press and Bulletin can satis- faciorilly explain these returns, so as to re- concile them with their assertions that th.y prove that the Democrats are disloyal, and remained at home to vote. To every un- prejudiced mind. they establish Lesthe truth of a very different hypothesis, Republican radicals, “everywhere, hear- ken to their admonition and beware! They are the handwriting upon the wall seen and perfectly understood by the party in power. The Republican press by no subterfuge can avoid the deep significance of the glorious victory gained by the friends of the Consti- tution at the late election. Let those who have the control of public affairs profit by this lesson, and bow submissively to the will of the people. Coming events are but casting their shadows before—for, as sure as thereis a God in heaven, {o this complexion will it come at last. It is the part of wisdom to be forewarned, But the editor of the Bulletin also says, ‘the returns do not include the army vote.” What is ment by that 2 Can it be that while Democrats, relying upon the Constitution and laws, as expounded by our Supreme Court, have refrained {rom asking their fel- low Democrats in the army to cast their votes, that base, mousing, owling conspira- cy has been concocted and set on foot sec- retly and clandestinely to carry this clect- ion, by fraudulently and illegally casting the vote of the Republican portion of the army only ¢ Is that the case { Are the Constitution and the Laws of of the State about to be utterly disregarded and tramp- led upon by those in power ? If #e, we have but to say, Ler tex TRY 37! If they think they can thus place their foot upon the ueck of the people, they will find their mistake when it is too late. If they sow the wind, let them beware of the whirlwind ! The Country Versa the Adminstra- A001. [From the Freeman's Journal. | Behind every offect thero is an adequate caure, beneath every strenous exertions an equal impulse. In the res>lute struggle of a people there is a moving power, an ides, a moral principal. In the despicable form of a serpent the de- il deceived our first parents.In the meanshape of New England ideas, propagated with dia- bolical industry and by diabolical craft, through tho Press, bythe pulpit, and on the lecturer's rostrum--by all the trickery of Barnum-New Enc'and—the Yankee fanatics succeed in elccting Abraham Lincoln to the office of President of the United States, ac- cording to the letter of the Constitution— hence ‘ail our woes.” Intelligence—the light of heaven—was thus perverted from its right lines. Infrac- ted, distorted, it fell at an angle on the wi- sion of an unwary people® Cause produced its effect. - The devil, garbed as angel of light, deceived, a duped people. He has paid them with his own fruits—apples of S.dom, that have turned to ashes on their lips.— The effect has answered to the cause. Two years have rolled round; and the people of the North have again—refusing to be overawed by their creature—their erea- tion—the Federal administration—the peo- le Lave again expressed their will. We ave heard it. “From the Iudson to the Mississippi, the great Central States’ of the North, by their votes as States, and by their thew, and all alike, uttered their wishes and their determinations. This was the programme of recuperation that we announced, a8 the cnly one possible for us, so soon as, last spring, the g-.sp of Federal executive usurpation was so far with- drawn as to have released our person from unlawful imprisonment, and our paper from the lawless prohibition of its circulation, through our Federal servants, the mail car- riers. The programme has been complecely carried out. 1t has been secured that next Congress, dating from the fourth of next March, will, in the popular house, be under Democratic auspices, What is even more important, it has been secured that the Gov- ernor of the Empire State of New York will, after the first of January, be a patriotic, law abiding statesman—not a mercantile trader in shoddy contracts. The full mean ing of these effects, and the evidence of the causes that have produced them, will devel- op hereafter. But, directly upon the Federal Adminis tration, what ought to be the effect of these elections ¢ According to the letter of the Constitution, though by a munority of the Popular vote, Lincoln was elected President his weak and wicked advisers, he supposed that the people of the United* Siates had elected him to carry out the plot of the Chi- cago piatform. He has. this autumn, heard another voice. Already, in the deep roar of cannon, he has heard from Virginia, from the two Carolinas, fiom Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and Mis- souri. That he has not heard from Mary- land, the silent calls of Fort Warren, filled with her imprisoned statesmen, and the heavy tramp of Federal soldiery on Mary- land soil, sufficiently explain. But, now he has heard from States of undisputed “loyalty.” Even little Delaware, defying the array and the assaults of lawless sol- diery, has uttered jer voice—declaring against his radical policy. His own State of Illinois, notwithstanding the hosts of her Democratic soldiers doing the bidding of his Generals, has poured out a tremendous ma- jority against the policy of hisadvisers. In- diana has uttered a terriblo voice against it. Obio has been revolutionized, even into the strong-holds of fanaticism, ecanting and denouncing the radical policy. Pennsylva- nia joined in the chorus, and says she, like the others, is for the Constitution, and against the radical administration that en- compasses Mr. Lincoln. New Jersey, alone “Faithful among the faithless found,” in: the general defesgion of two years ago, re-utt.rs her voice inore imperatively for the Constitution and the laws, and against rad- icalism. Finally New York: the Empire State, in the most ove rwhelming mannet, re capitulation, we give the majorities for thes Republican candidats for Auditor General tintous in the counties referred to—to show a: a sweeping from office withont a single excep- Lancaster Chester Allegheny 4.428 Lawrence 1,501 | Crawford 1.417 Tioga and Potter 2763 5,191 | State voice raised in his behalf ? 27.220 | go poking among the inlets of the Lakes on Majority in twelve Republican counties | the Canada coast, to find what comfort’ ho Who for a moment could have | 0an in the marshes of Michigan, jo the bleak believed, if they had not been informed by | winds of Wisconsin, or on the snow-clad tho sapient editors of the Republican papers | prairies of Minnesota—and find his retreat that such an overwhelming majority could, have been rolled up for the Republican | stricken lowa. t counties, when at the same time the Repub- | New England States, and foar or five of the licans “were away fighting the lattles of | newest and sparsest in the North west, their country, and the Democrats r emained | among the Northern Lakes, are all that re- | main, to give a word of comfort, as States, Congressional elections, have, every one of of thirty-three Umted States. Listening to | bukes the madness of the Administration, and demands that its course be changed. — The city of New York, whence the encour- agement for the administration to incur far- ther debt has been drawn, has, in a por- manner, by a two-thirds vote, tion every so-called *‘Kepublican” it could reach, said to the President that he must change his policy and his advises. In the radical policy he has been pursu- ing, where can Mr, Lincoln now lock for State support ? lle has heard the united 4.947 | voices of all the Central States—of all the 2.414 great States of tae North, For countenance in farther pursaing that c urse. he must look to the already broken vote of poverty- | pinched New England —that uneasy corner of the Continent—and even there he will {ind Conneticut against him. Outside of those pestilent Stites, where is there a He must cut off when he has gotten through famine- Four or tive of the little to the policy of the man who was elected President of thirty-three Sovercign States, stretching across the content, and from® the Lakes to the Mexican Gulf—abounding in all manner of riches. The country has pronounced against the © radical policy of Mr. Lincoln’s present ad visers. Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. Governments are for the people, not peo ples for governments. Rulers—Governors, Presidents, or what- ever else —when they disregard the duly ex pressed will of the people among whom they bear ralo, and when they add to this, per- sistent violations of the Constitution of their country, are despicable and execrable. In an orderly manner, according to ‘con: stituted forms, all the great States of the North have spoken. From the Hudson, from the Atlantic, to the Mississippi, one is an angry voice! Let its demands be listened to. The people are accustomed to _ demand, not to beg of their official trustees. That demand is that the Administration return into obedience to the Constitution, and strive, henceforth, to avoid the wanton and disloyal violations of it, that have rous ed, and almost united, the North against it EE JOE PARSONS OF BALTIMORE, Joe enlisted in the 1st Maryland regiment and was plainly a ‘rough’ originally. As wo pnassad along the hall of the Military - Hospital we first saw him, crouched near an opon window, lustily singing “I’m a bold soldier boy ;’ and observing the broad band age over his eyes, T said, ‘What's your name, my good fellow ¥ * Joe, gir,” he answered, ‘Joc Parsons.’ * And what is the matter with you ¢ * Bind, sir : blind ag a bat? “In battle 2’ * Yes--at Antietam, Both eyes shot out at one clip.’ : “ Poor Joe was in the front, at Antietam Creek, and a Minnie ball had passed direct- ly through his eyes, across his fl destroy- ing his sight forever, Ie was but twenty years of age ; but he was as happy as lark ! ‘Tt is dreadful,’ I said. ‘I'mvery thankful I'm alive, sir. kt might ha’ been worse, yer see,” ho contin- ued. And then he told us his story. * [ was hit,” he said, ‘and it knocked me down. I lay there all night, and next day the fight was renewed. I could stand tho pan, yer see, but the balls ‘were flyin’ alt round, and [ wanted to get away. I could n’t see nothin’, thongh. [ waited und lis tened ; and at last I heard a feller groanin’ beyond me. ‘Hello? seys I dlello, yourself,” seys he. ‘Who be yer 2’ says [— ‘arebsl ¥' ‘You'ro a Yankee,” says he.— ‘So 1 am,’ says I. “What's the matter with you ¥’ ‘My leg's smashed,’ says he. ‘Cant yer walk I’ ‘No.’ ‘Can you see? ‘Yes. ‘Well,’ saya I, ‘your's a d—d rebel, but will you do me a little favor 3 ‘I will,’ says ho, ef I ken.” The. I says, ‘Weil. ole. butternut, I can’t see nothin. My eyes is knocked out ; but I ken walk. Como over yere. Lets git out of this, You pint the way, an I'll tote you oyer the ficld on my back.” ‘Bally for you,’ says ho.- Wo shnok hands on if. I took a wink outen his can- teen, and he got on to my shoulders. - [ did the walkin for both, an he did the naviga- tin. An ef he didn’t make me carry him straight into a rebel colonel’s tent, .a mile away, 1'm a liar! came up, an says he, ‘Whar d’yer como from, who be yer ?' I told him. He said 1 was done for, and couldnt do no more shootin ; an ho sent me over to our lines. — So, after three days, I came down hero with the wounded boys, whero we're doin protty well, all things considered.’ ¢« But you will never see the light again, my poor fellow,” 1 suggested, sympatheti- cally. ¢ That's 50,’ he answered, glibily ; ‘but 1 cant h Ip it, you notice. [did my dooty —got shot pop in the eyo —an thats my mis fortin, not my fault—as the old man said of hig blind hoss. But— ‘I'm a bold soldier boy,’ he continued, cheerily renewing kis song : and wo left hin in his singular merriment. Poor, sight-less, unlucky, but stont-hearted Joe Parsons !—ZLetter from Alexandria, Va. LL ee Tar GrrAar Woor, Case: —It will berecol- ted that a large quantity of wool, on its way from Montreal to New York, wasgscizad at Green Island a few days ago. It §as char ged that the wool had been entered at tho custom house at less than its value, and competent judges inspected each bale and made an appraisal. On Friday last the in- vestigation terminated. Foty-one bales, valued at $7,000, were confiscated and sent to the custom house at Plaitsbmg, where they will remain until sold for thé benefit of the United States. t The remainder of the wool, valued at a. bout $35,000, was released and forwarded to its destination, —4/bany drgns. ———— ee 07 Blank checks, on W. F. Reynolds & Uo., from five cents upwards for Sale af this Office, united organized voice has been raised. Et Howsever, tho colonel | § | -
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