GRR Ty np A eh MET : i ?. GRAY MEEK, bs Et Editor. BELLEFONTE, PA. ‘Friday Moriing, April 17, 8868. PT or ————— Demoorate Heeting. A woesing of the Democracy of this County will take plaee in the Court House on TUESDAY EVENING ‘38th inst., (Court weok.) Hon. W. H. Witte and other able speakers from _» distance will be present and address the meet: rz. Al those who are in favor of a restoration of the Uuios under the Constitution as it come toe from our fathers, wre respectfully invited to : 8. T. SHUGERT. ‘iimnan Standing Committee, Gn atl A API en To We Het Beat Them ? Wo auppees the Britisheas sre satisfied, They have rejoieed with exceeding great joy crer the milrpiege of that eprigof *No- bility, * the Pringe of Wales, and gloried in the prospects of being taxed a millivn or so tore tn Support another “royal” house- told. Ascording to the reports of the daily jupers the wounded and slain slone, on @uturday, the day of the jollification. ssounted to more than thet of many a hard aught battle field. Crushed to death by the wrowd, trampled to the earth by the vehi- cles, bruised umd beaten by each other, and -a'l for the sake of “royalty.” For one day xd one night were the cities held in terror “indies honor.” ruffianism reveiled in all its glory brutality and wielence reigned in their streets, windows ware smashed, pockets ri- “ed, persons muimed for life, and sll “in hii honor,” Wheat more? Let the stark and hideous corpse of the strangled thous- 5 ds tell, they were “butchered to make a British holiday. In speaking of this re geand display.” the Ligh Nulien rays : attend “When all the gas pipes have been taken | down, when ail the tawdry ders have been removed lige the relics of a night's debauch ane relly permanent memorial of the dis- play ulose will remain. The shattered win- dows will be mended. Bruises will heal, and wounds will cicatrize. But the murder. «1 dead will shout no more for Prince or Ring. The wounded and slain in Londen wlone cn Satarday--killed and maimed by he Prinec's pagent—is greater than that of many a bicody battle recorded in the aunuls of wer. Dublin, too, has its hos- pital Ist, though it cannot cope with thal of London, 1% “loyalty” satisfied ¥ 1lave homes enough Leen widowtd —have victims enough been offered to this Moloch of flunk- eyisw ¥ ” But what of that? Why should we, as Smecivans think. airangs of (ha noor ignoir- wis, imopious, besotted creawures of the great cities of Fuogland, who believe in the ‘dis vine right of kings.” and that by the grace of God,” & “‘a tuady,” of the *‘royal fami- ty” is called (0 govern them, rioting and re- veiing for one night ‘in his honor,” when we, ourselves, have, for two ycars been butehering our own brothers--growing drunk on the blood of innocent women and children —desolating our land and glorying i» We orgies of war, all “in honor” of Sam- bo of the South—all to degrade ourselves to ® level with the negro # Why need we g8e in astonishment at these miserable, half starved beings, white slaves of Kng- land, doing *‘honor’ to the small-brained- kid-ploved-acion of ‘royal’, blood, knowing, se they west that their aweat and toil, alone will procure the luxuries and grandeur of a mew palace for this conceited pair, and their progeny; when we, to destroy our own Gov- erument. are carrying on a wal jthe expenses ot which, in one day, are greater than the whole amount expended to furnish “flumer jes*,and ‘fixings for them for ONE YEAR! Ts not the ‘patriotism’ that is actuating the pecple of the North to suffer privation »nd want—-to crush themselves to the earth with taxes to carry ona war for the free- dom of the negroes a good deal like the “«Joyalty’’ which induced the laboriag clas- ses of England to make buftoons of them- solves on account of the marriege of the Prince of Wales? We may turn in disgust from such scenes as were cracted in London and Manches- ter by the miserable, degraded gatherings «hat wero dung honor to the ‘‘royal pup- pet,” wa may look with pity, and even con’ tempt, upon ihe wretched beings who would (has aweat and toil, and grovel in ignorance, want and misery, to glorify ‘royalty :” wnt how fmuch better are we, as Americans, who are taging, toiling, sweating and fight- mg to glorify a few degraded beings of an inferior race 1 rel ol Orns Ox Last Saturday night the Wide- Awakes na # calling themselves the Union Leaguers held a meeting in their Lodge rosa for the avowed purpose of defending the Cocserip- sion sel, and other radical measures of the atalitionists, One of. the speakers we are ad denounced the democrats in unmeas- ured terms. Yetit is said, Judge Linn was present and took an active part in the proceedings. ‘There has not been a speech made in the * League'’ from its first start (hat has not been intensely partizan ia its character, and tending to defend the aboli- 140nis.8 in their most obnoxious measures, — And yet a man will have the effrontery to stand up ond say that the league is not a * politieal association. “Shame on such _pare faced hypocrisy as the Leaguers. are guilty of. We wish for the honor of tle judiciary, that Judge Linn had never per. mitted higuell to be inveigled into such company. Ye wish that departinent of our government whether administered hy dem- orats or Regpuhblieane, could at least rajn- tain resprotpbllisy 1m the eyes of sil gand nea, ‘siding and comfort} ‘luevitable or cowardly “It Must®@ometo Blows.” nenlly stated thut ‘the time We have f «was not far distant when a collision ‘must tgke place between the loys men of the Pree States and the traitors who prowl in every town and hamlet, borough and city, Dying the insidjous work of ng rebellion. That blows were submission unavoidable any man who had grit and sight could plainly un- derstand.— Thar time is herc now, and these ‘blows ars now about'io be struck —Harraburg Felopraph. Then at is remembered that these cow- 1ardly, lying. whitelivered, black-hearted vipers denounce all Democrats as ‘traitors,’ and ‘‘comforters’” and ‘‘aiders” of the ‘‘re- bellion,” it is easily known against whom the *‘blows” are to be “‘strack.” Wo can tell the hungry Hessian of the Telegraph, that go far as the Democrats of *0ld Cen~ tre’ are concerned, they are ready and wil- ling to meet the*‘blows™ at any ‘time. If you have an army, though it is as !argeas that shipped by England from Hesse, to murder our ancestors in the Revolution. send them on. There bones will be lft to bleach on the hills and in the valleys of our own Btate. Turn your hell hounds loose; let their lank jaws and craving stom:chs long for the blood of honest patriots; let their red-mouths howl for lives, and their ‘beny fingers clutdh at the throats of their imagin- ed victims, we'll shrink not from them; Justice and ‘ruth, God and the right, are with us, and spurning, scorning, contemn- ing your cowardly threats, we spit them tack in your teeth in defiance, tn cn cn ll) Ape Al pn Sry VERY Sore. —The woo!ies became furious over the card of Dr. Mitchell in the last WaTouMAN, and denounced him most bit terly. Why was this, gentleman? The Dr,, merely said he was a © .mocrat, and on sober reflection, was sati fied that your League would wun into party politics, He used no harsh language, applied (o you no offensive epithets, Then why tear and pitch in the style you do? But you say, “if Dr. Mitchell wanted to be a Democrat he liad no business to join the League!” Oh, ho! own up this soon do you, that you have been lying to the people about your objects, and the character of your or- ganization ? Bat “he had no business to publish a card!” Ilad’nt hey * Then you might have deceived others, in the same way. Leaguers, lying won't work: your game is blocked, and you might as well come out boldly and admit this to have been your old trick, tried over and over again, of obanging your nume, denying your princi- ples and identity to catch those of our party who were unwary. The net was deceptive, bat in your first haul, yoa caught one who was not a gudgeon, and he broke through your meshes. Know-nothings, Republicans, Wide-Awakes, Abolitionists, come out in your old uniforms, and get a good threshing in the coming campaign. Don’t sneak be- bind your Leagues, and cry “no party,” that is about played out. Tf you have not the manliness to stand up and defend your “rotten principles and infamous practices be- fore the people, have the frankness lo cry craven, and leave the ring to your masters, the unterrified democraey. But this sneak- ing around the issue by assuming a pew disguise, 18 A WIT toe mcan business for white men to be employed in, and news 134 niggers and nigger-worshipers would be guilty of it. ————— Om Tre war news for the past few days, has been anything but encouraging to the ad- vocatesof coercion and subjugation j the Federal fleet that was to capture Charles- ton has get -‘drubbed” completely, ‘and driven back across the bar, with a lose of several yessles, and wé suppose a great many men. Gen Foster who was’ tg keep North Carolina in the ‘Union,’ and *‘crush out” the “rebellion” in that State, has been entirely surrounded, and has doubtless before this time surrendered his command to Hill and Petigrew of the Confederate Army. Admsral Farragut is reported to be shut up the Red River, between some +. e- bel” batteries which prevent, hia from mov- ing either one way or the other. The Guenl- 113 in the West seem to be making strikes of considerable importance to themselves the past four weeks. Federal trains and scouting partics have been captured almost without number. 1t is reported that two new Iron Clads, for the Southern navy have but lately left England and that others for he same purpose are now building, Ix tne LAST Press is given what purports to be the proce: ings of the Union League in the town at the first meeting, including the speech of Judge Linn, How did the editor or secretaries of the meeting get a co- py of: that speech # Was it taken down in short-hand at the time? If so why wer, not the other speeches also reported ¢ Or did the Judge, like a school boy, write ous his speech beforehand, commit it to memo. ry, and recite it to the wondering and gape- ing Leaguers? We presume this splendid offort of genius was preserved in neither of these ways, bat two weeks after it was de- livered its author undertook to reproduce something as a reply to the articles in our col- ums touching the subject, Its correctnes might well be doubted on general princi- ples; and persons who heard the speech delivered say the one printed in the Press is not a correct report in hardly any partic- ular. Ve gt ee We should like to kuwew why “‘our Gov- ernment” wants to take Charleston twice. It wag esptured, accorii gz to ¢ official dis- patohes,” just before the Connecticut elec- tion, and we home guard waniors of the North rejoiced no littie over the news. Now we have accounts stating that ‘‘our fleet” attacked the city and was compelled to re- turn with gevere loss. Tn the name of high Heaven what is “our fleet” trying to drive sour forces,” that took possession of the doomed city but a few wecks since, out for. Can any one explain, So far as we are con- cerned, we are opposed to having Federal soldiers fighting Federal soldiers ; ard ad- vise the “Government’’ to be careful that such an affair don't soon occur again. We rather imagine the first news was a hum- bug. [low was it (ireenbacks ? -# Praitors.” * Copperheads.” Itihas become "habitual with very neurly il persons who are in favor of a continuance of this unholy, uncalled for and suicidal war, to denounce all others timt do mot ‘be. lieve their idiotic immaginings, as ‘‘trai- tors,” “secessionists,” “copperheads,”’ «&c, To these gentlemen (?) who assume all the feelings of patriotism, of devotion to the country’s welfare, and love for the old flag: and yet, whose actions prove them to be Ia- boring for the extermination of slavery” and the degredation of the white man tos level with the negro—who are in favor of increasing our public debt—enlarging our burdens of taxation— and by sustaining this Adminstration in its crusade against the institutions of the South, and doing all" in their power to *-wipe-out™ the Constitution, overturn the Government estatilished ander it, and substitute in its places central des- potism,the asheme of which will be to force social and political equality between the white and ‘black races. we have a Tew words of plain Saxon truth to speak. You know in the innermost depths of your hearts, that it was a Democratic spirit which actuated the brave and ‘hirdy men who endured the hardships of the Revolutionary war, and fought it through to a successful termina- tion, You know, or ought to know, that the advocates of this Democratic spirit were afterwards organized into a political party by Thomas Jefferson, whom you, would now fain claim to be one of your teachers. but who never, anywhere or under any cir- cumstances, tavght such infamous doctrines as yours. You know, also, that the party formed by this great and good maa, the father of Democracy «in the New World, held the reins of our Government for wore than eight-tenths of its existence. and that under its wise and benifizent sway, the States grew from weakness to s rength, and in the short space of eighty years become one of the most powerful of Govercments, with peace and plenty everywhere abound- ing. You know that whatever the emer- gency, there never was any considerable public debt, and that no direct fares were levied upon the people by Federal aulhori- ty. You know that in the history of the nations which have existed or do now exist, there can not one be found, that has pros- pered 50 rapidly mn all of the sources of pe- cumary wealth and in the intellectual ad- vancements ef its people, as we have done. You know that np Government has ever ex- isted with as few wars, and have carried them through, when they did come, as suc- cessfully 2nd at as little expense as have we under the role of the Democracy. You know that no Democratic Congress ever pas- sed laws in open violation of the most im- portant provisions of the Federal Constitu- tion ; this you'have done. You have placed in the hands of Lincoln and his Cabinet more power than is possessed by any crown- ed head of Europe, and with your sanction, they are now using (hat power to change the eternal decrees of the Almighty by at- tempting to force the negro from his normal condition of inferiority, to an cquality with the white, and to change our present Repub- Military despousm or Mcuarcny . We can tell you plainly, supporters of the war, that you can not abolish negro ser- vitude or “slavery,” w'th all the powers you cau bring to bear against it ; you may destroy the lives of hundreds of thousands of your own brethren in such butcherings as you prepared for them at Fredericksburg, you may waste millions upon millions of the treasures of the people and oppress them with innumerable burdensome and nn- just taxes, but you cannot ‘‘wipe out” “slavery.” It is the natural condition of the negro race and cannot be permanently effected, Unless the people awake to a sense of the dangers that enviren them, you may be able to succeed in your second object : the estab lishment of a Monarchy upon the ruins of our Republic. Ambitious demagogues, as- pirants for crowns, can accomplish much while a people sleep, and who will say that you cannot blot out one portion of the Con- stitution with the fame impunity that you can another. There are men, we know, claiming to be Democrats who support your war, many of whom can be induced to join your “Union Leagues,” others that will aid yea in your general policy, but snarl and snap at some things you may do of minor importance, they are the ones to work upon, but remember you are accomplishing noth- ing vy calling men who stand by the PRIN- cieLes of the Democratic party ‘‘copper- heads,” “traitors,” &c. It has becoome an honor to be stigmatized as such. It is the “Copperheads’’ aud ¢‘traitors” of to-day that will save our Government if it is ever saved, it was their ancestors that gave it birth, and nourished it from infancy to man. hocd. So belch forth your mnvectives, whine away you blue bellied devils, Democrats have principles to stand by that no names can change ; your epithets pass us by as idle words. POO (17 WisooN.1N has elected a Democratic State ticket by ten thousand of a majority. The township elections throughout the whole west have gone largely Democratic, Wii the Black Vipers crow over this news as an Administration triumph? 07” The ‘“U. Ls,” Unmitigated Liars alias “Union Leaguers,” of this place ere considerably down in the mouth. Paor fel- lows, we pity them. Couldn't Ye, get som- thing up that would gull people a little fas- ter than that ? Try it ““Greenbacks !” “Tae Ace,” is the title of a new Demo- eratic paper just started in Philadelphia, For true Democratic doctrine, general news, and the latest telegraphic dispatches, it is second to none in the State. We would be- speak for 1t a liberal patronage. rr Pn . Frou the papers of W ednesday last, we learn that Gen. Foster 15 abont heing reliev- { ed of his command, at Washiagton, N.C. | Gens, Hill and Petigrew, of the Confederate | army, are going to take charge of it. lican form of Gevermmest into a Central ar The Comeeticut Election. ~The most remarkable politeal contest that has ever taken place in this country has just closed in the State of Connecticut. The De-’ r ocracy went inte it on the distinct plat- form that the war policy of the present Ad- ministration never could and never would restore the Union, and that a cessation of hostilities and a resort to pcacelul measures afiord the only possible way 16 bring aboat that result, A proposition go self evident ‘as this'would, if party spirit were luid aside, be universally accepted. It, of course, gave a direct challenge to the Administration.— It touched them on their tender point. If. Connecticut, an Eastern State, should con- demn the war policy on a straight-out issue, how could this plundering, despotic Admi istration any longer pretend to the civilized world that their pohicyis sanctiened by the American people T The last subterfuge would have been exployed, and henes they bent every energy aad employed every - cy to effect the defeat of Thomas ‘H. mour, sud the galiant mea who stood 1- der to zhou!der with him, 1a defence of the Constitution of their country. ‘The mode by which hey defeated him will forever form the most shumefyl chapter (a Aweris can political history. We will very breifly detail the facts, 88 they have come to us from the most rella- ble sources: Both parties, about two weeks previous to the election, eompleted their ean- vass of the State As it is a small one, it is comparitively an easy matter to com. w ith- in a few votes of the exact resut. Un this oceasion it was ascerained, and acknow!- edged by leading Repubiicans, thut their canvass gave the State to Mr. Seymour by about 2 900 or 3.000 majosity. This esti- mate did not differ three hundred votes from the Democratic canvass. The men, at all times anxious to visit their families, embraced the opportunity, and received a fourteen days’ furlough, up on the distinct understand that they would cast, their votes against the Democrat- ic candidate. The follow extract from the letter of a soldier in the Let Connecticut Artillery, at Fort Scott, Virginia, explains how it was dove. “We were yesterday thrown iste great excite- ment by the report that coo Aundred of cur regi- ment were to be sent home $0 wove #8 the election; and an order did come to ‘plek TWENTY GOOD RELIABLE REPUBLICANS frem our company.” Our officers told usthad the Quarter- master-tGeneral of Connecticut came on to Wash- ingwn and had an interview with the head of the War Department, Mr. Stanton, and stated to him ‘that Connecticrt would be sure to go for Seymour, unless the soldiers could go home and vote.” And they wade an agreement thatus many as could be spared should home and vote — Mr. Stanton asked how long it would take for the furloughs to go throogh the regular chan- i Aud being told it would take three days 6 said: — ‘SEND THEIR NAMES TO ME, AND I WILL PUT THEM THRVUGH IN THREE HOURS. . And the men were accordingly PICKED out men that were ‘sure to vote for Buekingham;' no watter if they spent their time in the house, if they ‘wore sure to vote right,’ enough. But, as youmay well suppose. t was , We, whe were nct of the same political way of thinking. did not like it,” It has been accertained, by counts kept at the railroad station in this city; that 3, 000 soldiers were thus sent home ? The Abolitonists feared that many of the man would cheat them, and 50, to make assure ance double sure, they sent more than they really needed. Thus was the. army used t, defeat the expression of the will of the peo- ple at the ballot-box. To comment upon such atrocious conduct in words becomming he enormity of the crime, is simply impos- sible. If the Commander-in-Chis! of the army can use it when he pleases —for fighting the South in the field and for crushing the North at the ballot-box—our liberties are all an empty name. If he can throw five thousand Republican voters from the army into Connecticut. he can throw fifty thous- 18nd into Now Vork, Ulhty thouvand inte Ohio, and €o on. If this is the programme the game is ended. The argrment is ex- tinguished. There is no peaceful way to get rid of this Adwiniasiration, if such acts§are tolerated by the people. AR persons who intend to hve freemen may as well look these facts sternly in the face, When the ballot-box 1s a mockery, a snaré, a cheat and a sham, men who do not intend to be slaves will be compelled to appeal to the eer- tridge-box. To this terrible ordeal this Ad- ministration is now slowely but shurely dri- ving the North. At present the people are cheated into the belief that the elections are fairly conduet- 2d. They see the outward forms complied with, and like the Romans, when despotism first stole over the Republic, they do not yet feel that its life is departing, Thought- ful men, however, do see it,and they stand aghust at the temerity, folly and wicked- ness of this Administration, which seems to suppose that it can crush forever the liberty of American citizens without bringi itself a retribution, and upon the i revolution more bloody than any yet recor- ded in the history of time, Liberty is the normal condition of the white race, and sooner od later it will have expression, and, surging through all bonds, and chains, and bolts, and Bastiles, tear and rend a country if need be, from centre to circumference, bat it wil| assert its supremacy. Vainand foolish are the men who suppose they can arrest cr annihilate it. 1t woreas easy to annihilate the Creator. ¢ But,” say the tricksters and trimmeps “tif Seymour had gone for the war, he would have been elected,” To which we replgs «Well, whatof it? What is the use of having two parties of the sume princip es — If the war policy of the present Administra. tion 18 right, 1t ought to be supporied.— Don't tell us, therefore, that Mr Seymour could have beer, elected by supporting the present Administration. ~ We : know very well that he could bave been, They wosld have been rejoiced to get so honest and “so popular 8 man in their mioking party. But that is not exactly what the ‘trmmers,’ mean. They mean if he had only pretended to be for the war, while all the time he was secretly opposed to it, he might have been elected. We donot believe this, however. On such a platform we believe he would have been defeated Ly 10,000 votes. We rejoice, however, that he did not try ft. — The Qonnecticut Democracy stand upon a noble and glorious issue. They have not been defeated. They have . been swindled. Thev have gained all the subswan- tial elements of a victory. for they have cut down, in face of all the combined power of ‘the Administration, with its “greenbacks,’ and its ‘soldiers’ votes,’’ the Abolition ma- jority of 8.000, two years ago, to 2.500.— Wha is better still, their record is clesr— They have not got the millstone of this ac- cursed war around their necks, to drag them down in the future. They have fought with the wild beasts at Ephesus, and they will not fear the next encounter, Ther glorious example will inspirit others;— Above all, the responsibility of the war is left just where it belongs, and just where we wish to gee it remain. We desirs to see no Democrat stain his hands with an abeli- tion crusade, abhorrent to every impulse of Christianity and civilization—a war degen- Siating into a massacre of women and chile ren. For Heaven sake, let the party now in power have th? whole responsibility of such a war—let no man ever claim to be a Dem- ocrat who can so much as look upon it with } any other feelings thun:thosedf unuttergble Connesticut Democracy, who Imve washed their hands of the wile thing, for though “cast down they are not destroyed,” and “wiil yet rise again to vindica' e the principles of American liberty, now temporarily crush ed beneath the heel of a military despotism, if not 80 bold, ot least as effctive as that which to day stamps the heart's blood from the prostrate form of long-suffering and bleading Poland. - Caucasian. Thayer's Coloniza'ion Boheme. er, to col nial. in which he forcibly says: tion, e! most of all injure the into a mere dee our enemies, went. o M ee ly AY Mm Is this a Federal Government. existence. ty of soil and climate, she stands unrivaled among the nations of the earth; and, until recently, her brightest jewel was the free- dom ef our institutions, the fame thereof” had penetrated to ** earth’s remotest bound,” and from eyery nation humanity had throng- ed to place themselves under shelter of our Eagle's wings. Now, Americans can glory in the past only, blush for the present and trzmble for the future. A civin WAR, the most gigantic that ever marked its bloody footsteps upon this earth, is raging at our doors, and threatens to convert our land into one vast Golgotha and everturn every principle that has distinguished us in th the mind naturally seeks the cause. Tha ug through until the end of time. Wha net which. How strangely have they for- stand or fall together. cate, as are we in ours. pation is mourning sbove the graves of her slaughtered sons, while a million of our brethren are yet in the destroyers path, while American hberty trembles on a hair, we gey, palsied be the hand that seeks to make the strife more bitter. Despotism, that subtle end fatal enemy of Republics, bas raised its head amongst us, and with ruins of the Constitution is weaving a crown for a tyragts brow. In an hour like this could any voice be raised to inflame the sentiments thst were not, m his opinion, calculated for the good of all! a curse a na- tion's curse will follow him forever. Many and bfoody have been the battles for which this people must account to God ; the tide of victory has surged (0 and fro, the North to us, to every true patriot. all has been ruin, desolation and defeat. When the eivife {3 over, all will be mourning and soriow; as the children of Israel, when they had ¥an- quished their brethren of the tribe of Ben- jamin, 8 wail will go up from the whole people for the desolation they have wrought. Hon. Caleb Cushing, «of Massachusetts, ‘having been reported as approving of the ‘rascally, but visionary scheme of Eli Thay- Florida, writes a letter of de- «This new Emigrant Aid Company be longs to that base brood of pestilent schemes of policy towarll the insurgent _ | Biates —subjugation, colonization, confisea- pation, devastation, extermina- tion which sound like the delirous ravings of Bedlem let loose —which, if carried into operation, would, in their ultimate effect, loyal States, and which tend to cause a great national upris- ing, entered upon for thewaintenance of the Constitution sad the Union, t» sink down rate struggle of suicidal blind rage of self-destruction—the abolition of the'Congtitution and the overthrow of the ‘Union by our own fatal hand, not that of This Gospel of Death, this radical destrustiveness, is the only practi- cal disunivgism existing among usin the loyal States. Though it makes believe sup- port, it flereel ; opposes the Administzation; it is in deadly hostility to the ircedom, pros- perity and happiness of the people, it is treasongble conspiracy against the Govern- God in bia mercy confouna all such disloyal eounse!, that thus—for “thus only can it be—the Union shall be strengthencd and shielded to pass unscathed through this, its second baptism of lod and fire, and our suffering country be enabled to re- pose once more in peace under the broad {shadow ef the.Constitution.” memes SAR, SORT orem all the tloodshed that has occurred in oer puposely dor.e by those who hope to rise to country. Iu the ose case, an understand ing of the matter would sheathe the sword, drippiug with the blood of brethren, in the other, the genious of American Liberty ought to rise up and burl the monsters to perdition. The great questien of moro fm- portance to our existence than all others, is, is this a natiunal or Federal Government ? We wish to place before our fellow citizens a few ideas on this subject : if any one who believes differently from us, may favor our poor arlicle with a perusal. we hope they may read in the same spirit it 18 written ; we love our whole country, the Constitution has taught us that, through its great sup- porter, Democracy. We try hard to leve our fellow men, the Bible teaches us that, oni our sentiments are honest and express- they are wrong we would be glad to be put right, if they are correct, will any one dare in such an hour as this, refuse to receive them ? ‘ We hold that Americans know no such thing as Nationality. We are a nation, bat * | & nation of sovereigns, not of subjects.— When the present Constitution was framed, all the States preserved their sovereignty unimpaired, helc all the rights they had wrested from Great Britain, excepting those delegated to the United States, That those who formed the Constitution intended to make this a Federal, and not a National lowed them through the Convention in | whioh it kad its birth. Is it not absurd to suppose that the smaller states would even they would appear as mere cyphers 2 In glory and a throne above the grave of our ed only with the hope of doing good. If Government, i8 evident to all who have fol- have given up their sovereignty, and become When we look over our proud country, | merged in a General Government in which every American must be proud of the pro- gross she has made 1 the brief years of her In extent of territory, in varie- the Convention which formed the present Government we find three parties: at the head of one stood Alexander Hamilten ; Edward Randolph led the second, or war one of its most prominent members, and the third was led by Mr. Dickinson of Delaware, and to him, and his supporters, do we owe our present syetem. Hamilton, as every- body knows, advocated a Monarchicat Gov- ernment. 1le proposed a Governor fi life, and a 8enate for life, he plainly advocated the doctrine that the British Government should be their model, and in his own words, « the nesessity of establishing a goverement which would annihilate the state distinctions and state operations.” All know that his past, or on which we can hope for the future In contemplating our present and past con- dition, and observing the fearful contrast, we have grown up in a time unprecedented in all history, does not prove this to be the greatest goyornment that ever eXis- ted. Mushrooms will spring up in a night, rail-plitters grow into Presidents in a brief space, but shat does not prove their strength, both may sink into oblivion as rapidly as they sprung into notice. Shall we then conciude that our institutions have no sta- bility ; that they cannot survive the first blast of adversity 7 Far from it, we deny it utterly, Democracy pins its faith to the immovable Constitution of our fathers, and an adherance to that instrument oar carry say the enemies of Democracy, of our coun- try and of God? ¢ Aetions speak louder then words,” 18 an old maxim and a true one, what say their sections? That our Government ips not the strength to protect itself, that a tyrant’s hand must be inter- posed between a citizen and his rights, that 8 servant is higter than those who empluy him, that the Government as our fathers lefc it, & oonfederation of sovereign. states, has, by some mystic process, been welded into one masg. In short, by their actions, they have proclaimed to the world, that we have been living for three-quarters of acen- tury under a Constitution that is no more than the paper on which it is written, and can be spit upon by those whom the people have hired to protect it, that the Government must be destroyed to save the Union, or the Unioa to eave the Government, they care gotten that the Union and Constit ution must ‘We propose to examine, 80 far as we ars ‘eble, some of the questions that now agitate the people of the different parties, and we doit in all kindoess. We have nothing personal against any ono who may differ from us in vpinton, we believe most of them to be us honest in the principles they advo- Far be it from us to seek to stir np strife in this hour of our Oountry’s sgony and awful peril, When a the bones of our murdered countrymen is bujlding ® throne for his favorite, of the minds of eur people? Could any one utter has been victorious, 0 has the South, but € t | state distifictions. ment as it is, t if they were empowered by their states to form for them any Guvernment they choose, or if they were not all required to form a Fed- eral Union by an improvement of the old ar- ticles of Confederation. These 1nstructions as given by the slates proposing a union, certainly are the source of this Government, they declare it to be Federal, and such it certainly is. If any one on earth, is expec- ted to know the character of our institutions those who formed them must have under- stood them, by the fact of their rejecting the extreme policy of Hamilton and even the milder form proposed by the National party, it is evident to all huw zealously the guarded the rights of Siates. Bat is our Government conducted to.day upon such principles! The monarchy advocated by Hamilton did not grant half the powers now violently se’zed by those pretending to administer the Government. Rights grant ed by European Monarchies, in their dark- est days are rcfused to American citizens; rights granted the States while colonies of Great Britain are refused them to-day. We could enumerate a score of instances, but all are familiar with them ; despotism has stolen upon us silently but surely, and its iron grasp is beginning to be felt. The term nationality, ard the idea it represents, is one of the principal causes of our present conds- tion. We know no such thing ; we owe al- legiance to no power on earth but through our State. 1t assisted in the creation of the General Government, it existed before the Constitution and holds all the powers it ever did excepting those granted {or certain purposes. As citizens of Pennsylvania, we are bound to assist in carrying out those purposes, no mere, no_less, and we do not find the abolition of slavery enumerated among them. 1f we go upon the high seas, we are protected by the flag of the United States, because our State is a member of that Confederacy, because she has agreed to assiet the other States in protecting their citizens do they lend their aid for the pro- tection of hers. This Government, as it came from our father's hands, is, to borrow a beautiful figure, exactly like the solar sys- tem. It, (the Federal Government,) like the Sun to the plansts, is the source of life tu all, but each has its own separate exis tence independent of all others ; each regu- lates its own affairs, yet each is Jnecessary for the existence of the system. While each follows the laws prescribed for it, there can be no collision or confusion ; but with a rail-sphitter or a fool to guide their great centre, how soon would they be dash- od against it and hurled into jruin. Per. 4 Wa beligre, hosestly and sincerely, that ne the question may be asked; do we jus- war will amhwwwrer wide; (bb two portiopa | Uy ¢ State in withdrawing from & Union of scheme met with few supporters, and he and bis followers threw themselves nto the ranke of a party advocating a government nearly as strong and equally destioctive of That party was compos- ed of delegates from the large states and Ted by Randolph of Virginia ; the design of his plan was to erect upon the ruins of the ola Confeders ion a strong Central Govern- ment : for a time, this plan had the ascen- dency. But the wisdom of onr fathers fail- ed nut to discover the danger of trusling man with such a power over his fellow men and the National party, sharing the fate of the Monarchists, was overthrown and utter- ly routed. To the small states, but more particularly to Delaware, through her dele- gate, Mr, Dickinson, do we owe our Govern- Ho requested the delegates to carefully read their instructions and see I TIE TIE loathing and horror. All hoor, then io the | of this nation, we believe that the sword is | which they have becoms members ? We dealing doth to our institutions, and that answer, we do not ; we have our own ideas {upon that question 9ise ; bat fee! that now country in the last two yesrs, hes been, { is aot the proper time to present them—it either the result of a mistaken idea as tof is being tested by mor: iclent hands— we the character of our government, or has been } leave the theme for a mightier pen than ours, but right or wrong, certain it is, that vio- lence can never restore the order that vio- lence has destroyed. A union whereof a portion i3 in unwilling subjection to the rest is sometking that never had ahd never can have existence. “The Union,” says Jack- son, ‘‘exists only in mutual confidence,” — that lost confidence can be restored by force of arms, that a human being or any num- ber of human beings ean be whipped 1ate loving us, is an absurdity too palpabie for & moment's consideration. How then, says one, can it be restored ? That it ever can ‘be, now, we do not possess sufficient knowli- edge ef the future to assert. but if it ever 15, we are confident in saying it will be by other means than that now employed. We have so long enjoyed the blessings of freedom that we have almost grown into the idea that liberty is the spontaneous pro- duction of our soil, and can no more be de. stroyed than our eternal mountains can be leveled. But we should remember the aw- ful price of tears and blood it cost our an- eestors to purchase for us our liberty, that man trusted with power is the most de- structive of all animals to bis species, that ours is a human Government, that all his- tory, with its pages hideous with the blood of slaughtered millions, points out to us the danger of war. The facts, the fearful fact that despotism is even now upon us, ‘stares us in the face and speaks in tones of thun- der, telling us that * eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” J. P.M Howarp, Pa., April 9, 1862. The Ball Still Rolling. A large meeting ot the Democrats of Fer- guson township, was held at the White [Tall School House, on Friday evening, the 9.h inst. Jacob Neidigh was appointed President aud Frederick Kramine, Ihomas Strouse. Jacob L. Roup, Daniel: Stover and others, Vice Presidents, and Joseph Gates, Secretary. The meeting was ably address- ed upon the issues of the day by Geo. M. Keplar, Wm. E. Meek ane James Snyder, Esqs., after which the following resolutions were read and unanimously adopted: resolved, That we endorse the Peace meetings of the citizens of Penn and sur- rounding townships, and that we are fur peace, Resolved, Thai we are opposed to all se- crel political societies, believing them to be —— injurious to any free Government, nnd that we will never assist in elevating to office of trust £ ud person or no i mav belong to way League or scerei ory zation which has Tor is purp carry- ing out of ihe neiarious plans of the pre- sent Admimstration mm its abolition pro- gramme of the war. Resolved, That the war has been changed ¢ Las the Union, to a war of subjugation —and if itis not waged to restore the Union as it wag, we will resist the draft. believing it to be unconstitutional aud unjnst. Resolved, That we are in favor of passing a law prohibiting the immigration of ne- groes into the State of Pennsylvania. Resolved, That we endorse the resolations passed by the Democracy of this township, ai tie Bwartzville school house, on Tuesday last. Resolved, That we endorse the course of the Dexocratic WarenMaN and Cealre Be- richter, and hereby warn all persons not to attempt to interfere with cither of the pres- ses in a mobrocratic or forcible manner, but if the editors of either have violated any law, to convict and punish them according to law. Resolved, That these resoluftions be pub- lished in the DescraTic WarcAMaN and Central Berichter. 07 Iron City CoLLBGE—TESTIMONIAL. —The following unsolicited letter from one of the firm of Bener & Burgess rays a high, but decided compliment to an institution which numbers amorg its graduates many of the mest intelligent and success{ul business wen in the country : ] Professors Jenkins & Smith—Gentlemen; I have long felt it ny duty to express to you the high opinion I entertain of the Iron City Uolle ge as an institution fit in every respect to prepair young men for active business. : I can most unhesitatingly say, that I can conceive of no way, by which to make the course of study more thorough and prac tical than that so long pursued by you,and which has been so fully attested by the un- varying success of your students. What 1 regard as one of the most admira- ble, important, and never. to be forgotten features of the sshool, 1s the constant and and watcHful care bestowed by the various Professors in behalf of their pupils, ani I feel as though I could never repay the Fac- ulty for their efiorts in my behaif while a student there. These feelings, together with a deep sense of daty, have prompted me to pen this note, and I shal! never fail to say young men contemplating a commercial course. “Go to the Iron City College, if you whish to require a perfect knowlzdge of the science, and beeome successful practica book-keepers. Truly, yours, B. I. Bex gh Eri, Pa., March, 18, 1863. i A A A Mp 37 A single woman has generaly’ but a single purpose ; and we all know whas that is. eri Si (= A gester will often boast of & “good hit.” when, if it isn'v ali in his ege,iv ought to be. ee A A [7 The prescription of medicine is some- times good, its proscription is generally better. eines lA IA rrr Father is the ring of light around the eclipse we call death. re ee ————s Ler the Democrats throughout the coun- ty organize thoroughly; there is nothing like being prepared for any emergency. from its original purpose—the restoration of 2