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P. GRAY MEEK,
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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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