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P. GRAY MEEK
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Editor,
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BELLEFONTE, PA. _
Friday Moraisg, Dee. 25, 1862.
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“ "Who is the Traitor Now?
Tn the issue of the Democratic Watchman
of July 25th, 1861, while the paper was un
der the control and management of Mr. Al-
exander and. ourself, we nadertook to sic.
codsively set forth our views upon this ‘‘re-
bellion,”’ and portrayel what, in our judg-
ment, wo thought to be the object of ‘this
Administeation, in reference thereto ‘n' the
following language :
« Aa the:means best calsnlated to effet a
restoration ofithe Union with-as little injury
to our country as poassible, we beg leave to
expresa our opinion. We have done this
heretofore, by duclaring ourselves in favor
of an honorable settlemsnt. We repeat it
now —if thera be trasson in this, inlict us.
Wo have said, heretofore, that we bel eved
it would taka years of carnage and blood to
subdna the “rebellions” States, and bring
them back to their allegiance by force of
arma; an that, ten to one if. his had to be
dae, we would. befure throigh with the
wask, have destroyed tho most vital princi-
pals of the Goverum nt we are preteading
1 maintain. © We ropeat this now —if this
bs treason, indict us. We haye sail, and
say now, that wa believe it to be the desire
of maay of the mun in high places, to make
this war the pretext ror the aholitio 1 of sla-
verge We have said that wate in favor of
m.iataing ‘the Union just “as it is, and the
Coustiantion just ay our fathers gave it to
us, with all its mstitdtion. slavery and ‘all,
snd therefore opposed to a war for the des
struction of the constitutional matitniions
ot our Government, ' We have’ said that
5 Agiep TONITE XYOWS | principles of three
fourths of the Republican members of Gon-
greaa, that they would nyt be "willing * that
we should have our national diffi 24lties get
tled upon aay terms save war to the exter—
minatioa of slavery. we have opposed the’
unoaastitutionsl acts of tha present admin
istration, because we believe, that in times
like these, we should be on the alertand ex-
peso the first step towards the destruction
of tha rights of"tha paople. We have said,
that this Union cannot be restored by arm-
ol force, and itz dismembered fragments
pinned together by bayonets to mske one
harmonious whole.” s
These positions were a3samed by ue, and
published to the world at a tite when men’s
hearts quaked wih fear of armed mobs, un.
der Republican regime, laying hold of their
persons to inthat sniamary punishment for
the expression of such opinions. * Although
wa then apoke but that which way the hon-
est eonvictions of our mind. and that which
the history of events has gince proven te
have been correct, we were denonnsed as
““{raitors” lo our country and constituionly
liberty by a mercenary press, and a packed
Grand Jury was set upon’ our trail by some
power behind the throns to hunt us down, —
Their grand (7) opinion went forth to the
world ander the “instructions of a bigoted
and partisan cotrtiin the shaps of a pam.
seXTUENT, that was intended as & seal upon
the mouths of a free people’ and alen to
blast our nume and honest occupation with
the name.of *‘ traitor.”
‘I'wel7e months had rolled around and the
same pawer hired a pareel of blackeuards
to attack us on the street, and then to
shield their cowardly designs, influenced a
bay to swear that we were discouraging en-
listments, and had us arrested and held to
bail for pur appearance at Court, thus at
tempting again to stifle the *orse that was
still raised in favor of peace and in" opposi-
tion to & war that wa believed. and time hag
proven, to be nothing more than a gigantic
Jolin Brown Raid against the people of the
Seuth and their institutions.
Eighteen months have now elapsed since
the wise Abolition solons first sat in judg-
ment upan she case of Mr. Alexander and
sursell, ‘and gave their opinion in writing as
the resultof their inquisatorial Star-Cham.’
ber investigations, that we were in sympa-
thy with the *“ enemies” of our country,
and yet no oneof all that immortal thirteen
bas signified a willingness to assume the ro.
sponsibility of a prosecution. The power
behind the Throne that set ou foot this un-
holy proceediag, as is usual in such cascs,
skulks and hides a8 a eraven should, in the
dark places, that his name be’ not known ;
while the injured and persecated, conscious
of having committed no crime, are left with-
out opportunity to disprove his allegations
sad without a prosecntor eut of whom to
oMain redress :
If we were guilty of the crime imputed
to ws, why has not soms of all that loudly
professing host of Abolition self-assuming
patrista that were exultant over this edict
of a pet jury, volunteered as a prosecator ?
If we were guilty at the time of the pro
sen. nent or later, when arrested, we insist,
in the name of our bleeding country, that
we should bave been tried and adequately
punished. All we ask is a fair and honest
trial before am unprejudiced and unbiagsed
jury. Let the renting Abolitionists who
have hounded us all along, who seem to
wonopol'z» all the pa'riotism of the .Jund
and have the Government in their own keep-
ing, como on and prove us guilty of the
charges they have preferred against us.—
Will they do it? No! for the signs of the
times havo loomed up too brightly on the
distant horizon for the oppressed and perse-
auted The hand-writing on the wall has
been seen and a modern Daniel
cratic masses) has placed an interpretation
upon them that causes weak-kneed Aboli-
tionism to
taught, and are still teaching the American
uake for fear wr the wrath to
ad & :
y ghtoen months have been preg-
mportant events which have
people a lesson to which memory will cling
for ages, and in future times, when the gen.
erations of men who witnessed the scenes
ered millions that will {,
upon the history of the present, and as they
erwise bright pages by the abolition-admia-,
istration party of to-day; they, too, will
learn a Lisson that will serve to guide them
Government to the end of time.
The history of these days will then be
recurred to only to cali ‘forth imprecations
upon the heads of the guilty wretches who.
‘in their mad zeal and false philanthropy for
the Afiican race, are undermining the toun-
dations of civil society and tearing to atoms
the. Constitution of our country, the only
safeguard of Republican liberty: Yes, the
signs of the times are already written on
the distant heavens in letters of hving light
and ss cach day rolls by, hurrying into
eternity its scenes and ‘hundreds of human
beings, and passing with it new acts of us-
urpation and reskless disregard of consti-
tutional law, they brighten and grow more
unmistakeable in their significance, Look
at them, ye craven, fanatical Abolition fools
who, a short time ago, sought without shad-
ow of right or justice, to incarcerate us
within the walls of a prison, and who, in
your imagined negro paradise, fancied yon
saw us dangling, from a gallows, look at
them, we say, and read there the dirzes of
yoer own fuuerals, The slumbering liin
has been awakened in the hearts of a free
people by your acts of cruzlty and. wrong ;
the dreary shadow that the black night of
your African paradise cast over the unsus
pecting citizens of our country, has been dis
pelled end reason has again resumed her
sway. The people have seen the ‘deep per-
dition into which vour false teachings would
have hurled them, and you, unless the God
of merey interfere in your behalf, wall pay
the forfeit of your treacherous * teachings.
Tt is neither a waking fancy nor a pleas-
Le a cen vaca pot ous Tedlty that telis
us that the dawn of ithe second morning: of
Liberty is upon us, and the dark night of
Abolition despotism is about to be dispel’
«d. The thander-tones of an awakened
people, speakinein unmistakable language,
give hope that Right will yet triumph.--
They have discerned the trath of what we
told them: eighteen ‘months ago, that the
war was not so much for the restoration of
the Union as: the freedom of the negro—
that the Republican party would not ac:
cept peace upon any terms save the destrun-
tion of the institation of slavery. They
have discovered that the conquering of four
williong of freemen is more than a * break.
fast job,”' and that in the effirt to destroy
Southern institutions, the most vital prin-
ciples of a free government have been trod.
den under foot—that the t Constitution has
been ignored and set at naught, while inno-
cent men and women have suffered for
months in Northern bastiles, prisoners of
the reigning despotism—that millions upon
millions of the treasure of the land have
been stolen and squandered —that thousands
upon thousands of lives have been lost up.
on the blood-stained flelds of the South,
and yet we aro no nearer the promised end,
save that we are so much nearer the end of
time. They have discovered the incompe-
tency of Abram Lincoln and his advisers to
bring us safely out cof the difficulties into
which their fanaticism has forced us, and
know that te rust longer to their ‘dictation
i8 made ess and folly. They see now that
Campromise was the night remedy for ex
isting troubles as we proclaimed it eighteen
mouths ago—that Compromise at last will
be the only method of puttingan end to this
horrible butchery, and that we cannot even
now settle it on as favorable terms for the
North as could have been dove at the be:
ginning of the trouble, Is it strange, then,
that we witness every day, mighty changes
taking place in the minds of the people 2
No. Is it strange. then, that the brawling.
pretentious patriots of last year, who ex
erted every effort to break down those con-
neeted with the Watchman, should be re-
garded now by the Teople ag enemies of
their country # No. The past has shown
that we were right. It has proven who
were the traitors. ¢ Curses, like chickens,
are coming home to roost."
———— A me cen.
[= A regular black-hearted Centre ¢oun-
ty tory was in town last week. There
was some talk of giving him a new suit—of
tar and feathers. — Lewistown Gazette.
Very likely, for Centre county has some
as <“ black-hearted (abolition) tories ”’ ja it
as any county in the State, and no doubt
‘some of them were in Lawistown ‘last week.’
Why: the old tory of the Gazette should thro-
aten to ‘‘ tar and feather ' his brother we
eannot imagine, unless they differed about
which one would get to embrace * dear Di-
nah’ first.
OP em
Waar Forry,—There can be nothing
more ridciulous than the sending of a Com-
mittee of Congressmen to Fredericksburg to
to inquire into the disasters of the battle
succe:8in the Senate and Honse, the Pres-
office of General-in-Chief Halleck.
pron inently guilty pares are all there—
aties, and obeying the fatal orders of an ig-
norant and oewildered President and a con. | I
War Secretary. P
SE ——
Bavoxer Miaunezrs AND ABoLtioN CoN-
GRESS.—The infamous BurLkr, under the
orders of the President, has elected two ahol
ition members of Congress from New Or
leans. Other similar elections are ordared
and will go on natil the next Congrsss is | [
(the Demo- | Mr. Alex ander and the Abolition Meet
copies,
ceited but incompetent Genoral-in-Chiet and | Manship ; a statesmanship capable of com-
10g
had Ny —— “
To the Editor or Those having charges of
“dhe “Central Press hs Bs >
Sims :—I see, 1h your issue of Decem-
ber 15th. the published proceedings of a
wecting, held in the Court House on tho
4 ugéday evening of Court week, to which
my name appears as onc of the Secretaries
This fact somewhat astonished me as 1 was-
not aware of having been elected: Secretary
that ae now aps have passed | of said meetings and conscious Tam that {
{away, the ufnumb !
then throng this busy world, will look back | astonished when the inteligauce first reached
me through ‘the eelumns of your paper, that
behold the dark stains placed upon the oth- | sour Republican friends had conferred upon |
me the: distinguished honor of a secretary-
ship of 2 public meeting, which was honor-
ed by the presence of bis cxcellency the
in the proper administration of Republican | Governor.
ever acted in such capacity. I was truly
Had I been informed of the fact
a: the. time or in reasonable time thereafter
I might have felt quite elated at this distin-
mark of Republecan preference ; but, the
news not reaching me until three weeks had
elapsed since that eventful night, it come to
me stale and insipid. "The intention of your
Republican friends may have been all right
in the matter,and I,of course, presume it was,
Permit me, therefore, through the columys
of your paper, to thank them for this mark of
their high regard, to which allow me to add
the request that they confer no more
ors, of this character, upon jour
gervant. Yours, truly,
(Signed) C. T. ALRXANDER.
P. S.--By the way, I had almost forgot-
ten to inquire how that report reached you,
as I never saw it before it reached me in
‘print, and I am loth to believe that theother
honorable Secretary would transmit you the
report without consulting his colleague.
CT. A.
It would seem proper that we should
add a word of explanation to the above.
Our readers will remember that the call for
the meeting, above referred to, was upon
the Union men, irrespective of party. Tt
will also be remembered that the meeting
Lion-
humble
was 50 organized, men of both paiitical nar-
ties coustitutng the officers, With ns
object in view, our friend, Alexander was
nominated as one of the Secretaries, We
thought that no man who was a“ friend to
his country and the Union, and who had a
heart that could sympathise with the sil
dies m the camp and in the field, could pos-
sibly object to being indentified with a large
and respectable meeting having theses ob-
TL view dpe appa
understood through our columns that he 1s
thesexcepition, to thé benefits of which he is
heartily welcome.—Central Press.
It would seein to us proper that a word
of explanation ” be added to the comments
of the Press. "The editor says that the call
for the meeting * was upon the Unicn men!
respective of party.” Well, supposing it
was, What was the call for? «Ty speak
words of encouragement to those in power,”
To cucourage Abram Linc:ln in violating
the Constitution—to encourage him in 1m-
rrisoning honest, patriotic Democrats; to en-
courage him in trampling upon the rights of
the people and in carrying on a war for
the freedom of the Negroes—to encourage
him in the butchery of American citizens to
gratify the infidel Abolitionists of the North
—to encourage contractors and speculators
in robbing ihe treasury and impoverishing
the country —to encourage quarter-masters
in starving the soldiers and drunken drug-
gist clerks in murdering them.
The meeting above referred to, like all the
rest gotten up in this place, as Union meet-
ings, was called for no other purpose than
to give a few crazy Abolitionis's a chance to
dencunce Democrats and democratic meas-
ures. Mr. Alexader has made a® move, in
the right direction. Let all Democrats deny
publicly, any affiliation with the d1s union
whelps in their war meetings, and they will
£00n cease using their names in connection
there: ith. Those who do not and by their
silence show that they endorse the resolu-
tions and proceedings, should be held re-
sponsible.
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to furnish all with the paper who desire it
Subjected as Tur CAvcasiay has been, to
the persecution of the misguided men in offi-
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fidently appeals to all friends of a ‘free
press” and requests that earnest efforts be
made if every locality to extend its sircu-
lation.
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Sen
Next Governor
In speaking of the next nominee for
and ascertain who was to blame.—The 1n- | Governor of tnis State tke Carbon Democrat
quiry, might de prosecuted with far better [S875
The people will demand that our standard
identtial mansion, the war office and the | bearer shall be not only a ‘man of undoub-
The | ted ability, but one who had the coerage to
*‘charze home upon the enemy.’ We want
the only crime of the commanding General | & candidate who can take position side by
was listening to the clamor of Abolition fan- | Side with Horatio Seyyour and his class of
statesmen. A man ot clear head. and Loy
1eART. The times demand courageous states
rehending our position, and a heart brave
enough to assert and maintain the right at
any hazard, and against any odds,
‘a!
So say
aA
Gen, Burnside takes the reponsibility of}
|
the masacre at Fredricksburg, upon himself.
£0ld Abe does not remove him, the people |
abolitionized. This isa free eountry, of |8
\ course decidely free.---Clisis, 8
hould take the regponsibility upon them-
elves of attending to both their cases. i
Prepared expressly for thy Wateaman.]
0 Yan, Who Art | (hou?
TONS ox Af wR: “ h
REFL
Ex 4
precepts of Jesus, together with the valua-
ble accouat,of bis gure spble: asx,
ample before them; in this advanced age of
civilization and refinement, laboring _ under
these sorrowful delusions, ealling’ on. the
Deity to aid them in their sanguinary con-
reed we wonder that the ancient Jews who
lived man age of greater darkness, should
havecntertainod “the belief * that “the Al
mighty sanctioned their conflicts with the
natiops around them; and that he comman-
ded them to destroy” ‘their éfemies. “0
man!’ © Those who were mads in the image
of thy creator, reflect for a ‘mAment thy
place among men, view the precepts and
examples of Jesus, as recorded 1n the Scrip-
tures, and then say with these injunctions
teaming forth from the Prince of PEACE.
that wars and fightings are agreeable to the
will of Deity. Bagild : t
No you cannot, you dare no% #ay 80."
© The God of Love,” to have guch an imiin-
tation from the dips of those profess
followers ol the Son of God, are ind’ hetter
than Jupas, who betrayed his master with a
kiss. On dear Saviour grant that thy ex-
amples and precepts may be with true zeal
and energy sought after, With'praying minds’
and devoted hearts! But, says thé advocate
of war: a AAS
‘+ Tho scriplures say ¢ there shall be wars?
and rumors of wars,’ 2? &e. Notso. The fact
of these things being spoken of in the Posta-
ment, does not prove that any” such a ides
fio 6 be
when ye shall hear of wars, and rumors’ of
wars, be ye not troubled, for such things:
must needs be, buc the end shall not be yet:
-St. Mark x41, 6th and 7th verse. Thus
reads the saying, and when ye shall hear
of wars &2., instead of there shall b2.No
such languaza ag this fell from the lips of
our Saviouy, saying these things must needs
be according to. the will of God, Bat '«rhy
Sweor is Simple, and v8S¥ Ur cUIMYTCLENSION,”
can any careful reader of the scriptures come
to the conclus:on that war cannot: be avoid-
ed and that: God in his providence! hag
brought these things upon us; no, certainly
not, at least po sane mind, can ‘arriv#e’ at
any such conclusion; ‘Ah here ig the "an-
swer, INIQGITY. These things * inast
needs be; is but the awful eonseqnenses ‘of
the dissobedience of man to the will of (od.
For any devise of man to endeavor ts bring
the scriptures to his aid in sustaining the
Demon war, itis but to plange himself ‘deep-
er m the slough of iniquity, and’ it ig only
through dissebedience of man to the ‘will of
God, that wars.and fi shtings are among us,
at the commencement of this war that we
are now plunged in by the wicked * acts “of
men filing high places. A certain old man
made his appearance in Unionville,” Centre
county and an appointment was made by
the friends of that old man, (though to all
appearances he was au entire stranger in tha
neighborhood yet he seemed to have some
very warm friends and admirers in the
place.) to lecture in the Unionville church
on temperance, and the general stato of’ tho
country. He said but little on the ‘subject
of temperance, butlabored with much ‘zeal
and effort lo make it appear that this war
and righteous war that God had brought it
upon us for a noble purpose, the lestirer
placed particular stress upon the” &crip-
tures of the New Testament to prove - that’
this present war was sanctioned by Deity,
man was a stranger to many, those present
who had friends in the army were consol-d
| by him thus to te of good cheer, (hat if
their sons, hnsbands, fathers or brothers
fell by the sword they were sare of IIEAV-
EN, and so continued this old wroteh for the
space of an hour, when he concluded for the
evening, with an appointment for next day,
(Sunday,) the next day came, and the old
man and his disciples also came, but ‘the
dogr of the church. was closed against them,
followers retreated to the public sehool-houge
and in hig lecture these heolosed np his” gre’
(gument by repudiating ths seriptare, ™' T
speak of thse circumstances simply because
I saw and heard them, mow reader, just:
such lecturers and Preachers as this, have |
paved the way for Satan’s works, and. Sa
tanical corruption, according to his argu-
ment ail who die by the sword are fure of
Heaven. How doss such sayings corres-
pond with the following ¢ «* Then said Je-
sus unto him, put up again thy sword into
its place, for all they that take the sword,
shall perish with the sword. —Sr. Marre,
xxv 52d verse. [s not this command just
the same to-day, as it was the day it was
given, will any pretend to say that Christ
is not the same now, as he was then, nor
can we find any act of Deity to modify or
repeal this command of our Saviovr, if so.
where will we find it. If the churches wera |
kept closed to every thing only the preach
ing of the Gospel in its purity, what a hap-
Py people we might be to-day, but painful is
the confession to be made. “ Churches”
and the professors thereof ina very large
majority are co-mingled with that contami-
nating power, POLITICAL CORRUPTION,
which has become the great harlot and se.
duger of man‘ and for almost two years war
the great demon of human = destruction is,
and has been, and now is doing its hellish
work, not quite two years have elapsed
| since this curse has been upon us, and
about ONE MILLION of human beings have
been destroyed: Where or whence cometh
these things? ah, what m'sery, weeping and
S0rrow, are now in our beloved country,
You who preached no compromise, you who
would not cross a ““ ¢,” or dot an *¢ j."—
Study where you now stand in the estima-
tion of human justice, you are and have been
the means of bringing on the greatest mis-
cree over was commanded by Deity. © And
read, for such things must needs be, ‘thaan:!
of thousands and teas of thousands will be
oad-cast “in human
gore to gain political ends and filch your
‘hands with filthy Tuer; you who have been
the means of having innnecent men dragged
im, [fiom their homes at the hour, of midnight]
my ey Heit, EGER. By hy ie ‘miles =
ned in FORTS and" DUNGEONS “and for
what, simply because they uttered the
trath; deny’it if you can, think ye ‘that
these thing can go on withrimpunity. ‘Nay,
verily: not, the “day is fast approaching
when the fears ofthe widow and the 'eries
of the orphan will demand ‘a ‘reparation for
the suffering you have caused to be brought
upon them, you may enieavor now to cover
these things from your mind, but mark the
words ‘of the sacred page, but the time will
soon come when the rocks ‘an1 mountains
will refuse to hide you from the tear sof the
widow and the cries of the orphan.
Wien we see writers of modern history,
| recording their deeds of slaughter: in «such
| & manner as fo to induce the belief that the
Deity guided their counsels: and strength-
ened their hands, inthe destructien of their
enemies, need we wonder that the authors
of the jewish history, Who were men of like
passions with other men, should. under the
| influence of the same mistaken views of the
nature of God, have entertained the belief
that lle fought their battles for them? =
lived in an age of great dariness, and ina
very low state of spiritual . adyancement, in
which condition they were incapable of em=
bracing higher and purer, views of the divine
nature, or of the Gospel dispensation, that
forbids wars and fightings and this 18 urged
45 a reason why, theresis «ne inconsistency
in, their having received. a divine command
to destroy their enemies. p a
The same things may be: said of a large
‘portion of mankind in _ the present. day. —
Does this circumstanan fmmiols amy aig um ay
whatever, that divine goodness should com-
mand them to do things 30 much at variance
with his attributes of justice, mercy, and
dove? That which men do. under jthe influ-
ence of ignorance, prejudice, and benighted
views of the pa:ure of God, may not bring
the same degree of condemnation, which
the manifestation of greater light would have
unquestionanly produced, but we cannot
reasonably, infer from this, that their con-
duct is erther approved or commended by
the Deity, or that ITe required them to do
evil, for the sake of producing good. ¥
The false but popular nation that the
Almighty brings “good out of evil ” has
been frequently appealed to in order to
show that the Deity makes use of the angry
passions of men to preduce a. general ‘bene-
fit to the mass of mankind, and in this Way,
the evils connected with the destruction of
the Canaanites by the Jews, is conceived to
be comparatively small’ and to be overlooked
and reconciled with the benevolence of the
Creator, on account of the good that was to
result from it. There is no truth in the ax-
iom, that ‘good comes out. of evil.” W hy
then do ¢vil in hope of producing good ?
+ But it is true, that blessings often follow
great afflictions, or that great good: follows
or of the evil —he brings upon himself afflic-
tion and distress, while God in his mercy
brings his goodness into the evil, and. less-
ens or disperses it. He.does not bring the
good out of evil, for there can beno good
2d - v . . "
the house was well filled with hearers, the {éthere. Thus his providence is: constantly
producing blegsings in the midst of man’s
vindictiveness and ignorance from which it
tslevident that the benevolence of God tri-
umphs over the wickedness and folly of man,
‘and if His, “will was dope on earth as it is
in heayen,” His blessings would all be real-
ized without one intervening evil,
Again, it is said that. the wickedness of
the people of Canaan was such as to justify
their exterm® nation, and that their: destrue-
tion was an act of goodness:and benevolence
after some very grave yemarks, he ‘and hig{ion the part of the Creator, that the Jews
were merely the. instruments employed by
the Almighty, in the chastisement of a guil+
tymnd idolatrous nation. Af “the wicked-
‘néss of a nation ever was a sufficient reason,
why the Sovereign of the universe should
give one part of the humane family a com-
mission. to destroy another part, there is
nothing unreasonabje in . believing that he
may still employ the same means in the
punishment of nations equally wicked and
idolatrous with the ancient Canaanites.—
And if so, there is no more ‘impropriety in
a Christian having such a command, than a
Jew. But christianity positively forbids
war under any aud every circumstance. —
Its precepts, <‘Love your enemies Do
good for evil,”’ can never be made to har-
monize with a disposition or command to
destroy them. . = $2 bom 4
There is no evidence that the inhabitants
of Canaan were actually more wicked than
other nations had been before them, or “have
been since. « They. were. guilty, 1t is tro)
of gross idolatry, and greatly addicted to the
practice, of offering humane sacrifice,
The laws and institutions of the Jews
were intended to preserve them from ‘idola-
try, and from the wicked, practises of the
nations around them, and it is unreasona-
ble to believe that they should be comman-
ded to abolish one evil practice hy introdu-
cing another equally inhuman and - cruel,
which they must have done by their dreadful
massacres of men women and children.
from ancient history ito show the wickedness
of man 2 We may talk about the doings of
man in ages gone by, and hold up to our
view the deplorable condition of man centu-
ries ago, but, says the historidn, that was
in the dark ages. What could be expected
of him in. his ignerance? And he was fall of
blindness, and knew not what his real path
It is sometimes said that the ancient Jews:
Lgreat evils. We should ascripe . the good-
was sanctioned by Deity, that it was a holy {10 the source of ull good. Man is, the sath-
ment of stealing until January, 162.
But why need we dwell on facts collected | -
sequently his condemnation
& that of nations living in a more
Very true, or rather it
ble with manto p ne
present we will leave this por-
ject rest, but will refer to'it
ture ti “e, should we live.
The year of oar Lord onethousand eight
it ho Bare the advantage of knowing the cuse at the BAR OF GOD, where the blood hundred and sixty two will now soon b> ta-
ity, wh e the 3
bled with the past, and what is our condi-
a witness against you. Nay, sou. sould. | tion at this moment? War, the fruit of that
great Ha-lo,t Political Corruption, for al-
most two years has been and now is spread-
ing desolation, death, and destruction among
us. Go view the last battie-fisid m and
-about-Fredericksburg.. Ah. youare stuck
with an awful feeling — your whole frame is
quaking —yon shudder at the awful sight. —
But what! can you not speak ? Ba: there is
a voice speaking 0 you. It is that voice
which is tinmistakable, it cannot be miscon-
strued, and what has this still, small voice
told you ? Deny 1t not. Nay, verily, you
cannot deny it, though you shake as the as-
pen leaf. It is the voice of truth—and with
faltering lips, you say, ‘behold the WOTKS
of the mystery of Iniguity, Ah, yés, the
mystery of Inigmty. Men and hor. es one
‘promiscuous pile of ruins , in mangled heaps.
Blood of brother mingled with blood of
brother ; but we will not undertake. to dee
scribe this awtul s:ene, your eyes are now.
beholding this vast humea slaughter shop,
and you whose eyes are now beholding the
slaughtered thousands, whose blood bas
been poured out here, subjezt to the decla-
ration of man under political motives, now
while your eyes behold this awful mass of.
human beings. sent into everlasting eteanity
under as false a delusion as that by which
the inhabitants of Jerusalem were massacred,
your eyes now behold this sight, you hava
had ample time to contemplate over this aw-
ful theatre, bnt you turn away. Why not
investigate all 2 Ah, the cries ot the orphan
have struck your ear, mingled with the
tears of the widow. you burry away, but
go where you will, these sounds haunts yoar,
ears. But why do these things haunt you ?
Ah, yes! you are ene of the number wh.
preached no Compromise ; your vote stands
upon the statute bork recorded against the,
Peace measure.” “Then Judas, wkish
priests and elders, saying, 1 have sinned in
that T have betrayed the mnocent blood, —
And they said, what is that to us? See thou
io that. Aud he cast down the pieces of
silver in the templs and departed and went
and hanged himself.” sr. Marmew xxvii.
3rd. 4th. and 5th.
(Tv be continued.)
———ter
Revolution in Public Sentiment.
The New York Freeman's Journal, in the
course of a review of politieal events; and,
the great change taking placs in the politi-
cal sentiment of the people of the Nothern
States, concludes as follows. :
We might note “other great chan-
ges in the toné of the Black Republiean
press.
The moneyed interests of New York ‘find
here and there, an expression through
them, to the effect of the recorganization of
the old Dem icra‘ic party, on its. own old
principles, is to'be ‘hailed with satisfaction,
Yes, Black Republicans are tound ready to
abandon their ‘politics, when they see that
their property is fast going to the devil in
consequence of that politics! All these
things indicate the prodigious change that
is going on in pupliz opinion. This change
must, of necessity, go on. Tt will, from
time to time grow stronger and 's ron-
ger.
It is nearly eighteen months ago that we
said on the first shapings of this Adminis.
tration, that tte Republican party could no
more manage our Federal Government than
a:monkey could run a locomntive on a rail-
road.” That the best could happen, would
‘be that on getting frightenad, by an indis-
ertminate snatching and pulfing of all the
cords and wires, it:might stop it. ‘It was
but a few months afterwards Wwe were com-
pelled to add : The Repablican party can
not manage this war! Neither of theso
assertions require proof or illustration now.
We have, at present an other declaration.
The Republican party cannot end this war,
without ruin to the "Couatry, beyond the
permanent disasters now incurred, there
must be a change of adminstration and of
wen. Any change of measures, or any-
thing deserving the name of measures or
#dministration, is impossible with the men
Abraham Lincoln has about him as his ad-
visers, The Daily Times and other radical
papers have galled out to. depose Lincoln,
or for him to. resign. We do not call for
this, though we believe, a Congress faithful
to the Constitution will impeach him, An
matters stand we call only for a change of
advisers. Th: overwhelming sentiment of
the country is preparing to call for the same.
It is a political necessity, -and may soon be
a ‘military necessity.’ :
Free Stealing.
The first session of the presant Qougress
(1861-62) anxious to give a fair phn to
the dominant party to steal largely and with
out danger of investigation or punishment
passed the following act, which the President
approved July 17th, 1862:
“Be it enacted by the senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of Amer-
can in Congress assemblee, That the opera-
tion of the act, entitled *An act to prevent
and punish frauds on the part of officers in-
trusted with the making of contracts for the
Government,’ approved June 2. be, and the
Monday of January, eighteen hundred * and
sixty-three.”’ “
‘Approved July 17, 1862.”
This it will be ~preceived, suspends the
operation of the law providing for the punish-
No
wonder the administration is so warmly sup
ported by all the public plundereis—no won.
der gross fratids have occured in all the de-
partments—no wonder contractors and spec
ulators, thieves and robbers, have grown
wealthy and impudent, Who ever before
heard of free stealing being enacted by Con-
gress and approved by the President.— Pat-
riot & Union.
Vllsidighan Polke
published a spirited prece of music, the com.
§oition of Branmuller with the above title.
t is greatly the rage out West and we are
not suprised, as, in addition to the. masic
the frontispiece is an excelent lithographic
likeness of the handsome, as well as distin-
guished, statesman,
We take this occasion to correct a very
had betrayed him, when he saw thathe was |
condemned, repented himself, and brought |
again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief
same,is hereby suspended until the first :
A. C, Peters &:Co. of Cincinnatia, havé |
i pronunciation of this name
reputation. We hear it
vced : Vallap-dig-ham 7 How it
have been so taken by people familiar
old English namos 1s tard to imagine.
irmin, B, Frothinghan, Coldenhiam
ter, the aceent is on the ante-penult :
ndsighdm.” = When the turn mes
2 Ohio to nta Democratic President
the “sappers and miners’ who will lay seige
to him will be sure to “land” and bore him,
but they must not DIG him."'— Frecnans
Journal, FEY
The Raising Storm. !
The Washington Republican, the central
origan of Abolitionism, says :
The excitement in the city consequent
upon the Frederickburg massacre is on the
increase. . Wild and. alarming rumors
follow each other ‘in rapid succession liko
waves upon a troubled sea.
Nor is the excitement confined to the na-
ticnal metropolis, It prevails in all the
great cities of the loyal States and is rap-
idly extending tJ the towns and hamlets of
the interior. :
It would appear that this Tast evidon:a
of treachery ‘or 1ncompetency, in some
braneh of the military administration, was
all that was wanting to fill tue cup of bit-
terness full to the overflowing, or that it is
80 unmistakable and conclusive as to ad-
dress itself irresistibly to the understanding
of alt classes. Be that, however, as it may,
there can be no'doubt that the people of the
loyal States are thoroughly aroused thorou-
ghly alarmed, and not a moment should bo
lostin allaying the popular excitement by
announcing a satisfactory change in the mil-
itary administration.
All history teaches the danger of nego-
tiating or despising such unmistakable
signs of a raising populac tempest,
On the same subject the Lancaster In-
quirer, a paper of similar political procliv-
ities, remarks :
The feelings of the country are terribly
strong upon this subject, and instead of de-
creasing, are daily becoming more intense.
We assure those in autherity that it will ba
dangerous to trifle with them. * * * =
It will not do to shift this responsibility
one head to another. Congress must bring
forth the guilty party, that he may receive
the maledictions and the justice of the coun-
try, Ning thousand heroes killed and woun-
ded n.vain (an! no in vain!) demand it.
A hundered and fifty thousand bravesouls,
who for a long day breasted the iron storm
of the rebel artillery, demand it. A coun-
try and a yeople Suflering fearrfully, will
compel it. Neither the heroes de aa nor the
heroes living, nor the country in general,
would begrudge the blood necessary te save
the Union. But it must not be forever shed
in vain.
For SALLY!
A sorrel Mare, four and a half
yoars old, kind and gentle in harness—a good
farm beast and a very speedy traveler. Will bo
sold cheap. Apply a this offica to,
P. GRAY MEEK.
Dee. 25, 1863.
: op ma —enryiciienpteet oso see tmtiiniieiuan
It THE COUTT OF COMMON PLEAS
OF CENTRE COUNTY. — Alias Subpoe-
na in Divorce.
Elizabeth Emery
by her next friend,
John Campbell,
JOHN H. MORRISON, the commissionor arpa
‘ted to take testimony in this caso. will atisnd to
the duties of his anpaintmont on MONDAY, thy
TWENTY SIXTH DAY OF JANUARY
NEXT, at the office W. J. Keslsh, Esq., in Belio-
fonte. at ten o'clock, a. m. 3
Doc. 35, 1862. JOON H. MORRISON
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
iE Auditor's report in the estate of Brice C.
Brisbin, Leing referred hack for corrastion
of errors which are apparent on its face, I have
appointed Friday, the 24th day of January, 1543,
at 2.0'clock, P. M,. at my office in Bellefonte.
where I will attend to said duties. and whore all
persons interested are Ioquasind to attend.
i - KEALSH, Auditor
Dec. 25, 1862.
} versus Josaph Emory.
STRAY.
Came to the residence of the suh-
scriber, in Patton township, on or about the 15th
of November last, a RED BULL, one ear eropp
"ed and supposed t> Le about three years old.—
The owner i3 roquested to come forward, prove
property, pay charges and take it away. ocher-
wise it will be disposed of as the law directs.
+ Dec. 25, 1862—3t. G.W. F. GRAY.
APPLICATION FOR LICENSE,
"NOTICE is hereby given that the follow-
ing named persons have filed their pe-
titions'in the Court ot Quarter Sessions of Centrs
County, and will make application at the Janua-
ry Term of said Court to sell liquors:
R. D. Cummings, Tavern, Tellefonta.
JOHN T. JOHNSTON,
? Clork of Sessions.
Dee. 2, 1852.
(QPPHANS COURLSALE.
The subscriber will offer at public
sale, on the 26th day of January, 1863,
(Court week) at the Court ilouse, in the
Borough of Bellefonte, abough twenty acres
of land, belonging to the Estate of W. A.
Day dson‘dec’d, situate in boggs Township,
Centre County. adjoining land of Jacob
Kidel nger, on the East, Bald Eagle Creek
on the South, the Bellefonte & Philipsburg
Turnpike road onthe North, and other lands
of said Estate on the West, with the line
of the Bellefonte & Snowshoe § Bald Eag.e
‘Valley Rail Road passing through it, mak-
ing it a very desirable location for manufac-
turing purposes. Having the advantage of
the water off the Bald Fagle, the] Railroad
and the Turnpike.
- Terms of Sale, one half the purchaso
money on confirtnation of the sale, and the
residne in one year, secared by bond and
mortgage. JOHN f. HOOVER,
Bellefonte, Dec. 24. 1862 —4¢ Adm’r.
JOHN S. LENTZ,
FINES & ARGVORS
No. 230 North Third Street,
PEHILADELPYTA
__A. 0. FURST,
AYLORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFOYTB, PA.
W JILL practice in the several Courta 6}
A Centro and Clinton counties. All legal
1 asiness ontrusted to his care will receive prompt
aitontion.
OFFICE—On the North-west corner of the Di
awmond.
- DR. Z. VW. TEOMAS,
“PHYSICIAN AND BURGEON,
MILESBURG, CENTRE CO., PA,
Respectfully offers his services to his viends
and the public. Office on Mill sine
the National Hotel.
Refersto Drs. J. M. McCoy,
- . ‘8. TuoMrsox,
£ . “oT. C. THOMAS.
March 20, 1862—1y
DH. J, BD. WINGATE,
] bi " "DENTIST.
Ofifce and Residence dircotly North ot
Court Liotise portico,” At his office except tw
wee'ss in euch month, beginning with the fing *
Monday of the month
BoMefonte, May 1st, 1862.- Iy.
tho