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. P. GRAY MEEK, + Editor.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Friday Horning, ipril 10, 1868.
Democrats Beware—Labtoring Men be
on Your Guard!
We weald egnin warn our readers of the
stiempts of the abolitionists to reorganize
their demoralized factions under the name
«fF *Union Leagues.” Brokenand scattered
wi Wher fanatical hordes now are, there in ne
poscible hope of salvation for thew, unless
‘they euce ed, as heretofore, by treachery
and deceti. The leaders of the opponents
of Democracy know full well thateas a po-
hitieal organization. the late abolition-repub_
lican party is dend and damned so deep that
even the Tromp of Gabriel will not resurrect
it; they feel that the righteous condemna-
tion of an honest people is upon their heads
ead thet the preot mass of volers spurn
Uigir privcipies and teachings as degrading
to while men and destrveiive of American
hberty.
It is not necessary fur us Lo revert to the
constitution which Linds these 8Svcret assas,
#03, tog which epen'y denounces the mem-
bes of the good od Democratic party —
wen who have stood by the Cots titution of
our country and upheld the laws under sl}
€ reumsiances —as *irartors’’—it is not pe-
evgeary ior us to slate t'at their fundamen-
tal principle is the wagualificd support of
ibe present Adminisiration, in all its acts,
RIGHT OR WRONG —it is not necessary
for ua to point to the men who have already
signed (heir vames, paid over their wouey
and become members of this “Star Cham-
ber’ gssociation, Lat simuply to recollect the
originators, Andres G. Curtin. Morton Me-
Michael, lcrace Greely, Thad. Stevens,
Wendell Phillips and others of the ilk to
p1ofe that it IS a political organization of
tbe blackest and bloctiest kind.
Wille Democrat, 8 disziple of Jefferson
aud Jecksun, Madisen and Monroe, enter
the derk hall and place his name among
these of the enemies of his liberties ¢ Will
he vir-ualiy take an oath to support Abra-
bam Lincoln iu his erusade against the Con-
alitution and rights of the people 7 Will he
mingle in political caucuses with (hose who
have labored for years to destroy the Awer-
resn Union and lavish his money to flood
the county with abolition papers § No. A
few contemptible knaves, the scum of po-
litical parties, who Lave claimed to be Dem.
ocrata, way imagine that they can purchase
populerity or procure an office by joining
this new fangled abolition organization, but
they Ans Nor DawoceaTs, and those who are
true to their principles and party should re-
member this.
Tho laboring wen of Pennsylvania, irre-
spective ‘of paity, should remcinber that
dasuce of the most vital importance to them
have been sprung upon the public by this
treasvnabls organization. It has brougtup
the greal question of Capital and Labor—
has arrayed the rich and domineering against
the poor and oppressed. In Philadelphia
where Arisiocralic manufacturers distate to
their white slaves how to vote, and carry
the clections to suit their own wishes, poor
men are excluded from the Leago s by enor.
mous initiation fees. Here in Bellefonte, it
may be different, although the Abolitionists
have alwags gloried in the title of the‘ ruf-
ficd shirt party” and boasted openly of their
wealth, they do uot own labor enough to
give them the power, and they are compell-
«d by force of circumstances. in order to
to succeed in their criminal designs to admit
the day laborer and wiechanis into their
Lodge. Were they numervus enough to
“ontrol the ballot box here, a8 in many oth-
er places, the laboring ciuss of voters would
riot be taken a3 members, but excessive fees
would bar their entrance. This iz no false
couclusion, it iy a serious fact, and ere long
these nigger worshipping nabobs with their
Banks and building corporations and monop-
lies, will boldly avow their determination
fo crush out the rights of the hard fisted
worsing men of the country. Give them |
© the power once wore, and their purpose will
he cffceted,
Who oirigivated the organization ?
Who control it throughout the State?
Those who produce the weslth of the coun-
try or those who enjoy it? We answer,
tho latter class almost exslusively ; it was
gotten up by them, and they alone will reap
the benefits.
ls the money that is paid over nightly
§iven Lo lessen the price of the necessaries
vi life for you, laborers of Pennsylvania ?
1s it given to relieve the wants of your guf-
tering fawilies, or that you may rest for a
day frum your wearisome work 7 Is it giv-
en that your burdens of taxation may be
lightened and that peace and plenty tha
once reigned about your humble homies may
be reternud ? Is it given that the wounds
receive! in battle will be plastered over, or
tha: tse families of soldiers will be provided
jar, at other, than your expense 1
No. Your sons, your brothers, your
fothers and friends way sufter for want in
the army, may be rendered helpless for life
by the vicisitades of war, the blood may be
drippiag fresh from their lacerated Jtumps
of arms and legs, that point pitifully to you
for assistance~your wives and little ones
way perieh for food and clothing, may dio
of starvation and want; yet nota penny of
that whole fund will ve expended for thair
benefit. not a cent will be given to relieve
their wants or emouth their way Ge
we
one of these men who bave #udseribed so
liberally towards the “Union League ;’ ask
bim for a few doliars to assist you in bring-
ing the uncovered body of your dead son or
brother from the Lloody battle field, to bury
him decently among friends in the quiet
grave yard at howe ; see what be will an-
swer. "**I am not able.” He is not able to
contribute of his riches chat a Zaboring min
‘who bas fell in a war provoked by abolition
aristocrats may receive a decent burial; he
| i8 not able ta give that yon may enjoy, but
has dollars without number to purchase abo-
lition newspapers which seek to degrade you
to the level of the negro. Be warned in
time, WORKING MEN! You whose labor
makes the rich richer, who build great cities
and produce the wealth of the country ; for
if vou permit yourselves to be deluded into
their societies, influenced to support their
measures, lulled by the voice of the tempter
into their Union leagues, when it is too
Jate, you will awaken to find that capitai
tas trismphed, and the laboring classes of
whites are no longer freemen, but slaves,
tee
Wuar the Admicistration its aiders and
abettors, expect to gnin by the unexampled
lying that has characterized their reports of
expeditions, battles. &c., that have cccurred
lately, we do not know. It has been but a
few days since we heard news of the ‘*‘bril-
lamt success” of the Yazoo River Expedi-
tion, latte by little the truth has leaked
out, until we learn that in place of a “bnl-
Isint succesr,” it was a disastrous failure,
Vicksburg has Leen falling, according to
federal reports for months pst, and now it
1s decided .to be “almost impreguable,”
stonger than ever. We have very serious
dsubts whether it will ever fall into the
hands of its enemies, The whole popula-
tion ef llorida, we have been told, were
“unconditional Unionists,” that the Florida
regiments hud rebelled and refused to do
duty in the Confederate army, and yet “the
Federal trooy s have been eompelied to abun -
don and burn Pensacola. We bave news
ae day of the fall of Charleston and the
next we learn thal tho “Jaiontsts"” have
landcd cn an island near the city —the next
wo see that’ they are making preparations to
land and attack the city, and later news in
forms us that sowethng has gone wrong
sud the srtack will not be commenced at
present. Se it goes, one lie after anotner,
and then a dozzen of less oues to smooth
over the first. Who, we ask, can have any
confidence in aa Administration that will sO
misrepresent the true state of affuirs.
Davy Too.—Th® truckling, tyranical
Governor of Ohio, was arrested by the
sheriff of Faufield count, on the lst inst.,
for kidnapping Dr. Edson B. Olis. He was
permitted to give bail for his appearance at
the pext term of the Fairfield court. We
should like to koow why the writ of Aabeas
corpus wag not suspended in this instance.
las Governor Tod rights that does not be-
long to Dr. Olds or other citizens of the
Forth? Are the courts to be open to his
case and not to Democrats who are arrested
foruo offence whatever? We should like
to know how this one sided business is con-
ducted ? If the court at Fairfield discharges
its duty faithfully, it will wake an example
of Tod which msy be the means of bring-
ing the tyrants who rule to their senses.
CorpermeADs.-~They turn boys out of
school in Connecticut for wearing the Uop-
perhead or'Buadge of Liberty. Nevertheless
every body scems to bz anxious to don the
ensign of freedom. The badge gotten up by
Bromley & Go., of this city, is the neatest
aad most artistic we have seen, and even
the ladies in our city are wearing them -—-
“The Copperhead,” is evidently destined
to be the most popular hit of the kind that
wag ever made. The abolitionists wade a
bad speculation when they thought they
would injure Democrats by applying to them
this term. Every name their party Las as-
sumed they have ruined and disgraced,
while every name which they have derisive-
ly applied to Demeorats has become honor-
able and even noble. Democrat was at first
a tern of reproach. So was Loco Foco.
Now it is Copperhead. All hail, thew, Cop
perhead! The man who will not accept to
1t is not quite a Democrat. — Caucasian.
Ir is well enouga to have everything plain
ly stated, Here 18 the Conscription Ast
Just as it passed Congress by an abolition
vote, alihocgh the words are different the
meaning is the same. 3
Be it enacted by the Congress of the Uni-
ted States—That any able bodied man, be-
tween the ages of twenty and forty-five, who
shall, from any cause be to poor to pay
taree hundred dollars on demand shall be
seiz:d and conveyed to serve in the ranks
as a private soldier, for the full term of
three years —any provisions in the Federal
or State Constitution to the couutry not-
withstanding:
dk rhe
Ir 18E THING, We know not whether it
wears petticoats or pants, perhaps both,
that controls the organ for the abolitionists
of Clinton county, wishes to have its paper
advertised in the WATCHMAN, it must send
up the ‘‘chink.” We charge dauble our
usua ; rstes, forty cents per line, for noticing
a concern of this kind. If there was any
decency, truth or respectability, whatever,
about the editor of that contemptible sheet,
we wight condescend to nodice it further,
but we drop 1t, kuowing thst he who
“‘bandles a carrion earries the stench.”
The African vipers are rejoicing with ex-
ceeding great joy over the result of the late
election in Rhode Island. Well lot ‘em re-
Joice if furloughed abolition soldiers, © Green-
backs,” Army Contractors, Niggers, and
shoddy Manufacturers, backed up by the
“ Government’ as the * Loyalists” of to-
day call old Abes administratien, could’nt
earry that poor pinched up corner of crea-
tion, we don’t know what they could do.
re A ee.
"07" We would call the attention of our
readers to the able and eloquent speech of
the Hon, Benj. Wood, published in the
aut side of to-days paper. It will well repay
a careful perusal.
: te of) AAS Br om
= Wake up, Copperheads ! fine, weath-
6 om thir? rsarkes.
ike
The Rightsof Workingmen:
‘There is annually a good deal of gasoon-
ade expended about the righis of the peo- /.
ple, of the toiling millions, ete.. bat it us
nally takes place about election time. and
is indulged in by demagogues- and public
plunderers, in order the mora surely to cov-
er up their nefarious designs, The work-
ingmen are beast by two enemies. First the
cogfbpt legislator who gets into office to
steal their money outright from the public
treasury by fraudulent centracts and Com-
mon Council swindies, and secondly, the
capitalist who seeks to use the Federal or {
State Governments, one or both, to advance;
his own particular interest. To both of!"
these classes of people, honest workiogmen
should register an oath of eternal hatred. -
Beth of them are robbers. Both of them
snatch the bread out eof their children's
mouths, Both of them cajole and flatter
them about election day, in order the nore
easily to fiich from ther their hard earnings.
We are glad to gee ihe spirit of orgamiza-
tion now prevalent among the laboring
classes. We have urged it in these columns
now for a year, with great earnestuess.-—
There is no reason why a few wren in Wall
street should presume to decide all ques-
tions for the country, simply becaute tacy
Lappen to have money, The effort is now
being made to use the “Government” to
build vp the power of capital. It is ths
that must be resisted. A man of wealth
may be a true Democrat, and if so, he does
not wish to make use of the “government”
to advance his own personal or selfish
ends,
ile is willing to take his chances. «Equal
rights to ali,favors to none,” is the Demo-
cratic motto. But such is not ihe feeling of
your rick man, educated in Federal ideas. —
He desires to use the “Government” to ad-
vance (0 his own interests —to build up spe-
cial privileges- to centralize power and, as
hie succeeds in this, he, of course, tramples
oa the rights of others, crushés the poor,
and places ‘sruflcial burdens,’ on the shoul
ders of the working classes. These abuses
can best be corrected by efficient organiza-
tion, and we rejoice 0 see that movements
are on foot to accomplishit. It isa true
but striking fact that the majority of the
people of this city, €o not rule at, Lock at
its daily press, Nearly all arclon the side of
the money chargers, owned by stock job-
bers, speculators, contrastors and capitalists
They will not even report a workingmen's
theeting with more than a ten or twenty
line notice. But if some Aboliton or nig-
ger lectures comes along he gets several col-
umns ! To correct these abuses the work-
ingmen wust make their influence felr, —
They must remember that ‘eternal vigilance
is the price of liberty.” Men who will not
stand up and contend for their rights will
lose them. The hand of the oppressor and
the tyranny of the gicedy capitalist will
smite down every man thus faitaless to bim-
self. Selfishness has no conscience. 1t will
rob the poor, plunder the defenceless, and
roll in its ill-gotten splendor, while poverty
groang 1n anguish on its very door steps.—
Yea, if allowed, remorseless capital will
keep on in this country making the peor,
pocrer. and the rich, richer, until we reach
the position of Eup lard, which hus just wit-
nessed the hoiritle pageantry of a little
Priuce married dining at a table cover.
ed with £10, 000,000 of royal piate, while
bundreds of working people were starving
in, Lancashire! May God save our eoun-
try from such a fate. Let every working-
man remember if it is to be saved Ae must
do it.~—-Coucasian.
i et Berns
Copperheuds aud Blacksnakes.
The bleck snakes reproach the copper-
heads with ali conceivatle charges of enormi-
ty, and tremble in view of the dreaded ca-
pacity of the latter serpents to use them up.
This leads us, as naturalist, to notice some
of the characteristic difference between the
the two varieties of snakes. The copper-
head is a peaceful and well-behaved reptile,
with exceedingly brilliant eyes, indicating
the highest order of serpentine intilligence.
He is a well-deported snake, never restoring
to the diabolical device of ussassination, or
that deceitful strategy which is the favorite
means of operating amonyz the meaner ~var-
1eties of his race. In favor of good order
in the grass and the gungle, he is quiet and
makes ho attacks ; but when assailed he 1s
found to be prompt at resistance. He strikes
a sudaen” and mortal blow. The black
snake had better let him alove.
The black snake is deceitful and treach-
erous He has thequalities of an assassin
and a thief. Ile delizhts to use his infernal
tallent to draw smal! birds into "his devour-
ing jaws. He lies in ambush and waits
and watches for mice, frogs, and toads,
which he fraudulently catches aud swallows
while they are off their guard. He never
offers fuir fight to the weakest adversary,
but seeks to evercome him by the cowardly
process of winding his black and flexibie
folds around his body and limbs, and thus
stifling all attempts at defence. The cop-
perhead is the more powerful and respecta-
ble snake, and will kilt the black snake .f
tho latter does not let him slone.— Wayne
County Democrat. ~
‘ Starvation ” atthe South.
We gee fools are once more comforting
themselves with the ide of starving out the
South. Just to comfort their Yankee giz-
zards, we will re publish A passuge from
planter in Georgia, who wrote us a letter
that we published in the FREeMAR of March
23, 1861,
+ “By the middle of May, if we choose, we
can have Irish potatoes sufficient to feed all
our people. First of June we can have new
flour in your New York market. Same
moath, peaches and apples. Middle of Au-
gust our field-pea matarer, that fatten
everything, froma rat up. By the middle
of September come Indian corn and swet-
potatoes * * * # 444 yet a Southern
farmer, with all these great provision, looks
upon them as no food at all and when re.
fering to his stables never includes these,’ —
but only bacon’and corn, of various kinds.
By all kinds of means, let the Yankees go
to roost on the peaks of the White and of the
Green mountains, and try to keep from
freezing while waiting for the South to
ftarve out, on their fertile savanas. And
the New York dailies jingle their bells, and
cock their foolscaps, and amuse their Yan-
kee crowd with such ideas.
Only (hink ofit ! Six weeks from now
the Southerners eating new potatoes, and
grinding new wheat, and in New York dai-
ly sheets—- Herald Tunes, Tribunc—-gloating
over the idea of the women and babies of
South starving.— Freeman's Journal, N.Y,
THE REPUBLIOANS SECRETLY ORGANIZED,
—Theee Gentlemen prefer darkness because
their deeds are evil. So they have got up
secret military organizations, all through
the Northern States. There has come to
light abundauce of evidence of this fact. —
Cowardice,more than anything else, has un-
doubtedly led them to thus organize and
arm themselves in secret—--thouy h they an-
ticipate a time when they will be able to
intimidate peaceable citizens into submis-
ston to the order of despotism which the
monarchists design to forze upen us. We
do not by any means recommend secret or.
ganizations #0 counteract these dastardly
influences, the right to keep arms is a
Tar TTT Ss
(Por tha Demoeratio Walchmaz, |
Facts Are §-ubborn Things, A
We can trace back all cur national trou-
Liea of ‘the presont day to that erroneous,
fanatical idea which seems to have misled
80 many ; and under the guise and robe of
phila othropy, has caused millions of dollars
to be raised in its support, or for its further-
ance, 8 theory. of a3sumption rather, which,
if carried out, would not alone destroy our
free institations, but eur civilization. 1t ls
acaumed that theyre. is only a mingle buman
race or specicn: or that the negro 1a na-
tarally entitlid to (be liberty of the white
man ; the doetiing of impartial freedom,’
Preachers bave left thair calling and pol
luted the pulpit by preaching this false phi-
lanthropy instead of the gospel in its purity,
and in cosnection with the demagogues and
fanatics of New England and elsewhere. the
public mind in the North has become so im-
bued with this wicked doctrine, until by a
pusely sectional vote, we see a President of
the United States elected to rule our whole
Union, having pledged himself to this doc.
trine by the ayowal that “this Ucernment
cannot endure half slave and half free;
and we ure now witnessing the work of de-
struction of this Government, and the eter-
nal dismemberment of these once happy
States by means of civil war, brought about
by a blind and foolish effort to apply this
th eory to the politics of the country, We
are ail equally inferested in this question
about the negro in our country. Let ua
look at the facts, and, as men, rise above
the unmanly passions and prejudices of par-
ty politics though it does prove that we
have erred, and with honest and patriotic
fevlings strive to arrive at the truth. We
are twenty-seven ma'hons of Caucasians or
white men, and we have four mill:ona of ne-
groes :n our midst, whose aescendants must
remain au element of our population for cver;
and the (ime has cose when their relation
to the white citizenship and their “status”
in American society must be decided. This
point was settled aad quiet until the present
abolition party began its agitaten; and
there is but one way of settling the point,
and that is by facts and experience. Where
can we flod men of like integrity and virtue
with the fathers who framed che Constitu-
tion 7 or where cen we find such unexam-
pled prosperity and happiness as the Ameri-
can Uniea til late presented, and this was
all with the Constitution unimpaired, recog-
nizing and protecting slavery. Every one
that reads, knows that slavery, at one time,
existed in all the States with one exception;
and with all thie, witneds the national pros-
perity and happiness. Why the theory of
abolishing slavery is absurd and nonsensical
as that the stars can be plucked from their
places ; and the blind and mistaken people
who believe in this foolish theory are only
refuting the everlasting order of God hiwm-
self. Ide has made the while man superior,
the negro subordinate, and all that the party
in power may a ttempt nn order to attain
their diabolical object, must therefore prove
a failure. Suppose you let those four mil-
tions of negroes free, what then? They
are no more fit to take care of themselves
than so wany children ; and even theo, sla-
tistics show that to set them free is to exter-
minate them. The Boston City Register
for the last five years, shows three hundred
and seventy-six deaths with one hurdrel
and twenty-four births, and supposing no
wore imigrations of these people, a haun-
dred years heuce they will be extinct, or
nearly so, So those would be pious philan-
thropists who give them the most “rights,”
or who would force them to live out the life
of a white man—destroy them most rapidly.
But this doctrine caunot succeed. Slavery
must exist till the end of time, or God’s
word must be incorrect. Revelations 6,
12:17, in speaking of the laet great day,
says: ‘And the kings of the earth, and the
great men, ang the rich men, and the
chief captains, and the mighty men, and
every bondman, and every freeman, shall
be there. They shall say to the monntaing
and rocks, fall on 6s, &c.” Bat let us take
a glance at scriptural authonty, because of
the many would-be-preachers who are en-
gaged in this anti-slavery crusade, First,
then, the descendants of Ham, who, as his-
tory intorms us, se'tled Africa, were cused,
Gen. 9, 25:25, Noah said: “Cursed be Cu-
naan ; a servant of servants shall he be uute
Lis brethren, &e.” ‘Cowmbhiators say *‘lhis
curse is pronounced on Capaau rather than
his father Ham, because ic was not to take
effect except mainly on the descendants of
Canaan.” They ‘will probably answer that
Noah was under the influence of wine at
the time. Refer to Gen. 6, 9: “Noah was a
just man and perfect in his generations, and
Noah walked with God.” Abraham, the
chosen servant of the Mest” High, wag the
lawful owner, at one time, of more slaves
than any cotton planter in the South, and at
his- death, he willed them, with his other
property, to bis son Isaac; Gen. 25,5;
again, Ex. 12, 44, God spake unto Moses and
Aaron: “Every man's servant that is bought
for ‘money, &c., sball eat thereof” And
again, when the slave Hagar was running
oft frum her master, did the Angel assist
her in making her escape? Refer to tbe
clause, Gen. 16, 8:9: “And he said, Hagar,
Sarah’s waid, whence comest thon? And
she said, **I flee from the wrath of my mis-
tress, Sarah.” “Aud the Angel of the Lord
said unto her, ‘Return to thy mistress, and
submit thyself to her hands.” Again, Joel
3,8: “And TI will send your sons and your
daughters into the land of the children of
Judah, sud they shall sell them to the Sa-
beans, to the le far oft, for the Lord
hath spoken = 5 Clare. on his com-
ments, informs us that not less than thirty
thousand were sord«first to the children of
Judah, and then to the Sabeans or Arabs”
—a people far offi - The geography of the
country shows they removed them about as
far from their kindred and friends as the
southerners do their negroes when they take
them from Virginia and the Carolinas to
Alabama, Mississippi and Lousisua, Solo
mon’s Temple was reared alone by the hands
of slaves. And the Ten Commandments
eomnstitutional one,
given by God himself, ordaius slavery,
where, in the Teuth Cowmendwent, it says:
DT ET RG
“Thou shalt not covst thy neighbors man-
servant, nor maid-Servant, &c.;" for the
word servant, according to the best authori-
ty, in Scripture, means slave, from both the
Greek and Hebrew. The Scriptures teach
us that God especially authorized his pecu-
liar poople to purchase bond men forever,
and if to be in slavery forever does not con-
stitute slavery as perpetunl as American
slavery, thon we yield the point. When
Christ came into the world, he found the
Juwish people subject to the Ruman King-
dom; bat in no instance did he counsel the
Jows to throw off the Roman yoke, as do
the Abolitionists, but he conseled slaves to
te obedient to their masters: 1st Tim 6,
1: ““Let a3 many servants as are under the
y vke count their own masters worthy of all
honor, that the name of God and his doc-
trine be not blaspnemed, Dr. Ec wards, in
his comments, says “the yoke spoken of
here means the yoke of servitude or bond-
age.” in the second verse of the same
chapter, Paul charges Timothy: * These
things teach and exhort.” Rev. Dr. Ed-
wei ds says of this “ministers are bound to
teach that christiaus in bondage, when
wrongfully treated, whether in accordance
with or in opposition to human laws, should
possess and manifest the humble, patient,
peaceful, forgiving and obedient epirit of
Christ, whether those who hold them in
boudage are christians or heathen, and that
they try to promote their interests more
cheerfully.” Again in lst Peter, 2, 18.
“Servants, be subject unto your masters
with all fear ; not only to the good and gen-
tle, but also to the froward.”” Again, Ephe_
sians, 6, 5: “‘Scrvants be obedient to thew
that are your masters according to the
fiesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness
of your heart, &.” Dr, Edwards, in his
comments, i:forms us that this clause has
implies those who huve power to force their
slaves to serve them according to human
laws. The whole Bible and Testament are
full of proofs that God himself sauctioned
slavery. Christ says of a Roman centurion,
slaves, “I Lave not seen go great faith, no,
not in Israel.”
4nd yet, p'ain as it scems to be, there is
a visionary notion of piety existing through-
out some parts of the country, and, we re-
gret to sec it, n great many long faced
preachers of Christ's Gospel trying to evade
the above passages of Scripture, violating
them, breaking the Tenth Commandwent,
by stealing from their southern brethren
their men-servants and maid-servants, and
running them into what they call free terri-
tory, resisting the Fagitive Slave Law, and
not only this, tut they are trying by their
preachings to pollute others with these
wicked and false ideas. But, as we said at
first, God has created the negro and inferior
being, and so he must remain, even if sla-
very would or could be atolished to-mor-
TOW.
What ig the condition of the (ree negro
of the North as compared with him in his
normal condition in the Suuth ? Here in
the North he is denied all the social advan-
tages, all the respectable employments, all
the honors, and even the pleasures of life,
by those even who profess to be full of sym.
pathy for the *‘poor down troaden African.”
He cannot enter a bar-room, nor an omni.
bus, nor a church, nor any other place fre-
quented by whites, without being scorned
at. 1o New England he must ride on deck
of stage coaches in rain er shine. In New
York he has been thrown out of the cars,
and the Court held: that the conductor
‘served him right.” Industry is closed to
them and they are compelled to live as ser-
vants in hotels, or Le barbers, boot-blacks or
chimncp-sweeps. They must have their
own own churches, their own hospitals, their
owu schools, their own cars, upon which is
often written in large letters, FOR OOL-
ORED PEOPLE, They must even, in some
places, have their own grave yards, They
are not allowed to mingle in society with
white people, and are scoffed and seorned
at wherever they go.
Bat not so in the South. There they
occupy the samo churches with their mas-
ters, who watch over them and thus christ.
ianize and tame them. They occupy the
same cars and bave the same charch-yards.
Hundreds of thousands have the gospel
preached to them every Sabbath, and hun-
dreds of thousands have attached them-
selves to the charch of Christ; as many in
proportion to the whites. According to a
late statistical account, there were connect-
ed with the different churches, as follows :
Methodists, £00,000
Missionary and Baptist, 170 000
Presbyterians, 18.000
Cumberiand Presbyterians, 20 000
Episcopalises, 7.000
All other sects, 26,000
Methodists in Virginia and Mary-
land included in Northern Metho«
dist Church, ; 25,000
Total in South, 466,000
This shows that slavery, instaad of being
such a great crime, as our modern Aboli-
tionists would have it, has been the, best
atate 1n which he could have been placed.
But again, slavery cannot be abolished,
unless by the total overthrow ef the Con-
stitution and laws; by the entire gubver-
sion of our happy system; for, although
the President may send forth one procla-
wation after another till dooms-day, sla-
very will not suffer by it, unless he can
coerce enough into the army to annihilate
the entire white population of the South-
slavery cannot be anolished, and if accom
plished then, it will bo over the ruins of
the American Union. George Washington,
himself a slaveholder, was Pregident of the
Convention that formed that heaven-ordain
ed, sacred instrament- -the Constitution of
the United States, and hear what it says:
“No person held to service or labor in one
State, under the laws thereof, escaping
into ‘another, shall, in consequence of any
law, or regulation therein, be discharged
from sach-labor or servios; but shall be
delivered up on claim of the party to whom
“such gervice or laber eball be due." This
13 certainly in nocordance with the, pay-
suges of Scripture sboye quoted, and on
direct reference to slavery, inasmuch as it:
upon his confession to him that he owned |
2
this the Dred Scot! decision of (he Supreme
eion which confirms the principles set forth |
in the Declaration of Independence and |
which otherwise would be bat little better |
than “‘squnding brass or a tinkling cym-;
bal.” Inthe Declaration of Tnudependence,
slaves were looked upon as property. This
is evident from the fact that they did not
take pari with the Americans in any hat-
tlea. When Washington assumed the com-
mand, he left his slaves at_home, and no-
where can it be shown that he marched to
meet the foe with an army of negroes.” This
construction has been confirmed by the
Dred Scott Decision and has thus become
the law of the land ; and this Constitutional
law is what every patriot in the land should
stand up for. «EAST END.”
RuperPBURG, Maror 18, 1863
Bellefonte Democracy.
At the meeting of the “Democratic Cen-
tral Club” at their rooms, on Saturday
night last, the following preamble and
Constitution was unanimously adopted.
PREAMBLE.
We, the undersigned democratic citizens
of the Borough of Bellefonte, in pursuance
of the recommendation of the Democratic
Standing Committee of Centre County, do,
hereby, associate together for the purpose
of supporting and promulgating the time
honored principles of our party, the aban-
doning of which has involsed onr country in
the unhappy and deplorable condition in
which we now behold it. [In order that the
public may not be deceived by the arts of
designing men a3 to our political principles,
wo here give an abstract of them: © Equal
and exact justice to all men, of whatever
state or persuation, religious or political ;
peace, commerce and honest friendship with
with all nations, entangling alliance with
none : the support of the state governm:nts
in all their rights, as the most competent ad-
ministrations of our dom.stio concerns, and
the surest bulwarks azamnst anti-republican
tendencies: the preservation of the general
government in its whole constitutional vig-
or, as the sheet anchor of our peace
at home and safety abroad : a jealous
care of the right of election by the
people ; a mild and safe corrective of
abuses, which are lopped by tho
sword of revolution, where peaceable reme-
10 the decisions of the majority, the vital
principle of republics, from which is no ap-
peal but to force the vital principle and 1m-
mediate parent of despotism: a well discip-
lined militia, our best reliance in peace, and
for the first moments of war, till regulars
may reliove them ; the supremacy ef the
civil over the military authority ; economy
in the public expense, that labor may be
lightly burdened , the honest payment of our
debts, and sacred preservation of the public
faith : encouragement of agriculture, and
of commerce 88 its handmaid : the diffusion
of infor mation, and arrangement of all abu-
ses at the bar of public reason : freedom of
relsgion ; freedom of the press; and freedom
of person, under the protection of the habeas
eorpus ; and. trial by juries impartially se-
lected.”
To the faithful maintenamse of the above
political creed, 'we mutually piedge to each
other our sacred honors ; and hereby ordain
and establish the following constitution for
our government :
CONSTITUTION.
Any, 1st. This Association shall be call-
ed the ¢* Democratic Central Olub.”
Arr. 24. The officers of this Club shall
consist of one President two Vice Presidents,
one Recording Sceretary, one Corresponding
Secretary, and one Treasurer, who shall hold
their respective offices for the term of one
year, and shall be elected on the night of
the first regular meeting in each and every
year.
Art. 834. It shall be the duty of the
President to preside at all meetings of the
Club when present, to maintain order and
discipline, to sign all orders on the Treasu-
rer for money, to appoint ail committees,
and generally to do and perform all the oth-
er duties of a presiding officer of & deliber-
ative body,
ABT 4th. It shall be the duty of the
Vice Presidents to assist the President in
maintaming order and discipline, and 1n his
absence one of them shall preside in his
stead.
Arr, 5th. [tshall be the duty of the Re-
-cording. Secretary to procure a suitable book
at the expense of the Olub, io which he shall
enrol the Corstitution, and all by-laws which
may from time to time be adopted, and in
which, also, he shall keep a record of all the
official acts of the Club. It shall also be
his duty to attest all orders drawn by the.
President upon the Treasurer, to receive all
moneys belonging to the club, and pay the
same over to the Treasurer, taking his re-
ceipts for the same in a hook to be provided
for that purpose ; to safely keep and deliver
to his successor in office, all books, papers:
and documents belonging to the Club, and
generally to perform ali the duties of a re-
sording sacretary.
ART. 6th. It shall be the duty of the
Oorresponding Secretary to receive and an-
swer all letters addressed to the Club, to re-
ceive, and under the direction of the club,
distribute all political documents.
Azrr. 7th. It shall be the duty of the
Treasurer to receive all moneys from the
Secretary and safely keep the same, paying
out none but on the order of the President
attested by the Secretary, He shall keep at
all times a true and just account with the
Club, and at the end of his term of office pay
over the balance in his hands to his succes-
Sor, and at the same time deliver to his suo-
cessor all books of gccount belonging to the
Olub which may be in his possession.
Agr, 8th. This Olub may adopt such by-
laws and ryles of order as a majority of the
members present at any Stated meeting may
think advisablo. BE
ArT. th. This copstitution may be
amended by the vote of two thirds of the
members present at a stated meeting; Pro-
vided, that. notice of the proposed amend-
ment shall have been given atleast one stated
mscting before the sate shall be voted ou.
Court of the United States 13 based, a deei- | -
dies are unprovided ; absolute acquiescence |
’
A CARD.
‘BELLEFONTE, APaiL 10:h, 1863,
Mz. Epiror :—It is known to this com-
wunity that I identified myself with the or-
ganigation of. a Union League in Bellefonte:
I did s0, under tho belief, that it would be
free from, and independent of political bias,
83 an aid to the concentration of Constitu-
tional efforts in the in the suppression of the
Rebellion. I still ope that such may be
1s objects, and motives. Bat proper refiec-
tion jnduces me to believe that tho orguni-
zation will naturally drift into party politics
and this impression is strengthened by the
result elsewhere. As I do not desire to he
identified with any political organization
other than the Democratic party, which
believe to be sound and loyal to the Consti-
tution and the Union of the States, I here-
by withdraw myself from membership of
the ¢ Union League.” And not wishing to
be placed in a false position, I take this op-
portunity to say that I am a Democrat, n
law abiding and law observing Democrat,
opposed to secession and separation,
* J. B. MITCHELL.
i
Signs of the Times,
At a constitutional Union meeting of over
one hundred citizens of Ferguson township,
ut the Swartzville school house, the follow-
iog officers were chosen, and’ resclatiors
adopted :
. lH. M. Soyder President
Sarauel Corl and others, Vice
‘Jas! W, Enyder, Secretary. Ou motion, the
Constitution was read, when speeches were
wade in both the English and German lan.
guages. On motion, the Penn township res-
olutions were read and approved. The fol-
lowing resolutions were unanimously adop-
ted :
Resolved, That we endorse the peaco
meetings of the citizens of Penn and sur
rounding townships.
Resolved, That we are opposed to all se-
cret political societies, believing them to be
-| 'njurious to any free government.
Resolved, hat we are opposed to a draft
in Pennsylvania, and will resist the same
with all lawful means, until the President
shall adhere to the constitution ag it is, and
until all the other Siates have furnisaed their
fall quota.
Resulved, That we regard th + recent leg-
islation in Congress, as reckless and viola-
tive of the constitution, in granting the Pres-
ident, the power, that if carried out, will
convert a free, and independent people, to
a level of the serfs of Russia.
Resolved, That the suspension of the writ
of habeas corpus, the emancipation procla-
mation, the division of the state of Virginia,
and the unlimited and reckless schemes of
governmen. finances, are measures that calt
forth the undivided condemnation of every
conservative and loyal citizen.
Resolved, That we regard the freedom of
Speech, and of ths Press, as guaranteed s
the constitution, to be the palladinm of all
our liberties ; we, therefore, will never sub-
mit to any power whatever, North or South
that will deprive us of thes: two estimable
privileges,
Resolved, That we believe what Presi-
dent Jackson said; “that this country
formed as it was, in love, charity and good
will toward each other, could never be kept
together by the sword alone.”’
Resolved, That we aro opposed to eman-
cipation, and a war for the liberation of the
negroes.
Resolved, That we are for peace.
Jas. W. Snyper, Sec.
{THe New U. 8. Sraxp Duties. —Mbs-
ara. T. B, Peterson & Brothers, 303 Chest
nut Street. Philadelphia, have just issued &
new card, containing the offical list of the
‘New Stamp Duties.’ imposed by the Act
ot Congress, on March 34, 1868. The card
will be found very convenient for reference
by ali, and should be at the side of every
storekeeper, merchant, manufacturer, bro-
ker, banker, attorney, or any man of busi_
ness, as it shows st a glance the amount of
stamp duty or tax to be paid on everything
in every day business, as well as the Penal-
ties of the Law, and tines for trying to en-
vade each and every one of the Stamp Taxes
imposed by Congress, on March 3d, 1863.
It is entirely different from the old Stamp
Duties, and this card is copyrighted, and is
the only correct and: offisial edition
published in the country to meet thy wants
of the community, It will save us & world
of trouble to every siore-ke sud busi-
ness man to have scopy for reference at
their side, Price ten cents a copy, or three
copies for twenty-five cents, or one hun-
dred copes for six dollars. Copies will be
fent per mail everywhere on remitting. the
price for quantity wanted, to T B- Peterson
& Brothers. Phijadelphia.
Cper
[7 The ‘election returns from every sec-
tion of the State show overwhelming Dem-
cratic gains. We have carried cities, towns
and townships that always went Abolition
before. ‘Tho “copperheads” are rapidly
increasing everywhere. .
EE a
Tae President, in compliance with the re-
quest of the Senate, has desigaated Thurs.
day, the 30th of Aprii, as a National humil-
iation and prayer,
07” A friend of ours says he h
notice
ed one curious fact, tnat the -called
“War Democrats” scldam go to the
war.
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IT” Both branches of the Legislature
have agreed to adjourn sine die on the 15th
inst.
en A ee
The Boston Journal announces that it has
lately been pringed on paper made from
wood ai Royer’s Ford, Pa.
rts:
Mechanics and chemistry are handmail
arts ; one furnishes the instruments, the oth-
er supplies the materials.
tet A A A wg.
T*Why do the- Administration men of
this County owe allegiance to an Aboli-
tionist # Ans. Because their King isone.
Eo ne———————
T> The best Unioa League—~THE COX
STITUTION,