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the candidates o
county.
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BELLEFONTE, PA.
P. GRAY MEEK,
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Friday Morning, Sept, 18, 1863
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Democratic State Ticket,
FOR GOVERNOR,
GEORGE W. WOODWARD,
OF LUZERNE.
| is sloughed off
geons, and whe!
all his life been
mire errs | under the plea
FOR JUDGE OF TIIE SUPREME COURT.
WALTER H. LOWRIE,
OF ALLEGHNY.
Ri MANET EEA 32 as
County Ticket.
TOR ASSEBMBLY,
‘C. T. ALEXANDER,
of Bellefonte.
and he even
emmy | ject of the d
80 plainly tha
of this kind s
¥OR PROTHONOTARY, Democ rats.
JAMES H. LIPTON,
of Milesbhurg.
FOB DRGISTER & RECORDER,
J. P. GEPHEART,
of Millbeim.
Democracy.
FOR TREASURER,
JOHN SHANNON,
of Contre Hall,
POR SHERIFF.
RICHARD CONLEY,
of Gregg Townrhip.
low pretense.
brance prove
you trust them
way.
POR COMMIREIONER,
JAMES FORESMAN,
«f Sncw Shoe.
TOR AUDITOR,
J. W. SNYDER,
‘ef Ferguson Townehip.
foreigners. No
FOR CORONKE,
JOSEPH ADAMS,
©’ Milesburg.
on the floor of t,
denied that he e
denouncing the
-
Drmocratic Meetings !
Meetings of the Democracy will behold at the
following times aud places:
Whisky Hollow, Friday Evening Sept. 16th
a, Saturday, 2 o'clock, P. M.. Sep. 19th
Centre Hall, Tucsiay Evening, Sept 22d.
Kebersburg, Wednesday, (2 o'clock ) Sept 28.
Independence Schl Dist. Thursday Evefept. 34th,
PLEASANT GAP, Friday, (2 o'clock,) Sept 25.
Pino Grove, Satarday, (2 o'clock.) Sept. 28.
John Ii. Orvis, W. J. Kealsh, W. F. Reynolds,
P. Gray Meck, Joe W. Furoy, C. T. Alexander,
Jolin P. Mitchell, Col. Reuben Keller and other
speakers, will moet and address the people at the
above naved localities.
against him ?
feat Woodward
ys
DEMOCRATS! RALLY!!
MASS MEETING!
A GRAND MEETING of the citisens of Cen.
se. Clinton and the adjoining countive, who are
in favor of the pupremscy of the Constitution and
the enforeement of the laws, and opposed to all
arbitrary srresta ard every other feature of ty~
yaany and despotism, will be held at
PLEASANT GAP.
Centre County, Pa., on FRIDAY Beptember
36th, 1863, at 3 o'clock, P. M.
HON. CHARLES R. BUCKALEW,
LOX, WILLIAM A WALLACE,
Jeux II. Omvis and C. T. Anxxaxper Esq
and other able speakers will be present to
address the Demcorucy. By orcer of the
COMMITTTE
Mass Meeting.
Me Weonwa
the country.
gentleman from
of last week,
A grand Democratic
MEETING
To ratify the nominaticn of
WOODWARD AND LOWRIE,
will be held in
Bellefonte, Centre, County,
ON BATURDAY, OCTOBER 84, 1863. Sita prolontio. 1
Let the Democracy turn out, | they will not do
en masse, from every portion of | pot tolerate it.
be mistaken in his politics.
opponents of Democracy.
Democrats be not Deceived.
Last week we announced the names of
f the abolition party of this
It will be noticed that among
them appears the nameg
Foster, of Miles t
Haupt of Spring township. An attempt is
Captain Harry
p, and Samuel
palm these men off upon
the people a8 Democrats of the war school
or ‘‘military necessity” kind, and they are
asking the people to vote for them as such,
w idea with the opponents
of the Democracy. Having no constitution-
because they ignored tke
Constitution long ago), at stake, they at all
times have shown a willingness to gobble
up all the corruption that from time to time
from the Democratic party
and make it tke idol of their party. They
hang out the bait of office to catch gud-
never a Democrat who has
after office, but has failed to
receive it, will bite at their bait, they haul
bim in and reise a shout of victory over
theirprize? In the last three years they
have twice deceived the democracy of this
county ty the supporting of such men
that they were Democrats,
Last fall they told us Hale was a Democrat
went so far as to give some
pledges in writing to that effect, but as
80.u as the election was over and the ob-
eception accomplished, he
showed the cloven foot of Abolitionism
t the people could no longer
Two lessons
hould be sufficient, and we
are very inuch mistaken if an intelligent
{ people can be deceived now into supporting
Foster and Haupt by the cry that they are
What party they have been
attached to heretofore can make no differ-
ence as by the acceptance of the nemination
they identity themselves with Abolitionism
they endorse the doctrine of that party and
frem that mowent cease fo be part of the
Democrats beware
men, Remember Forney and Ilickman and
the deception practiced upon you last fall
and do not be caught again by such a shal-
of such
Men who will accept a nom-
ination from such a party are no Demo-
crats but as instances within your remem-
the most violent, fanatical
These men if
will serve you in the same
rn GO - Ppmm
ITF The Central Press last week publish-
ed the speech said to bave been delivered
by Judge Woodward in the Convention to
amend the Constitution of the State of
Pennsylvania, against the naturalization of
w, do not the persons who
write for that paper know that Judge Wood-
ward never made that speech? Do they not
know that immediately after it made its first
appearance, Judge Woodward rose, and up-
hat Convent on emphatically
ver made any such speech,
whole thing as a fabrication
of one of the opposition reporters who took
down his speach, and as a base attempt to
injure his political reputation, and to preju-
dice the minds of the foreign population
Do they not know that it is
an infamous, base lie ? Of course they do;
but the contemptible hounds regard ncith-
er truth nor justice in their attempts to de-
and elect Curtin.
The following is what Judge Woodward
said in reference to this speech, which has
£0 often been quoted against him, We ex-’
tract from the * Proceedings and Debates”
of the ‘Penosylvania Convention, 1838,”
page 34, as follows:
RD explained that he did
not wish to be s/andered by any reporter or
misrepresented by any member on this floor
and he would not allow gentlemen to imputs
measures and sentiments 10 him which did
not belong to him.
propose to exclude the foreigners now in the
country, from political privileges, nor those
who should at any time hereafter come to
He presumed the gentleman
alluded to an amendment offered by him in
convention at Harrisburg, which “proposed
nothing more than an inquiry into the ex-
pediency of preventing foreigners who sho’d
arrive 1u the country after 1841, from voting
and holding office. That was an amendment
to a proposition made by the gentleman from
Chester, (Mr. Thomas) suggesting an uqui-
ry into the expediency of excluding foreign-
ers altogether from our soil ; and theamount
of it was to give the proposed inquiry a dif-
ferent direction from that proposed by the
He said he never did
Chester. The proposition
of the gen'leman from Chester being with-
drawn, Mr. Woodward explained, that he
withdrew his amendment.
ee tl er en.
da The “talyented buggers’ we spoke
have made appointments
throughout parts of the courty to stamp
in favor of Andy the shoddy candidate for
Governor. They will no doubt enlighten the
people of this county upen the peculiar
qualifications of Curtin and Agnew for the
offices of Governor and Supreme Judge,
If they delineate the portrait of Andy as
faithfully as d:d the editor of the Pittsburg
Gazelle, a gtaunch republican paper—they
will vindicate the character of their chris-
ike, men, but this we know
88 Andy their master will
It would be contrary to
the country, and show the tyrant | the doctrine and practice of Abolitivnists
ot Washington that the people
are yet jealous lof their liberties
and are determined to mamtain
them. Come with banners and
with flags, with sheuts and with tions and strifes
songs, and let there be such a glo- | envy, strife,
rious outpouring of the people as | perverse dispu
shall make the mountains and
valleys of old Centre ring again.
. himself as they
Hon. Geo, W, Woodward for a christian,
has expressed his intention to be ! for yourselves
with his Centre county friends
on this occasion.
Hon. W. H, Wirrg, Col. KANE
to run counter t
you.
minds and desti
that gain is godliness. From such men ag
these Paul exhorted Timothy to withdraw
to tell the truth and they cannot be expected
o its teachings. They are
beautifully described in the sixth chapter
of Paul's 1st Hpistle to Timothy as “proud
knowing nothing, but doting about ques.
of words whereof cometh
rallicgs, evil surmisings.
tings of men of corrupt
tute of the truth supposing
were men not fit associates
Democrats you can judge
under the ipstrugtions of
St. Paul whether they are fit associates for
RE
0Z"Let democrats remember when they
and S. H ReyNoLps Esq , will | are asked to support Foster and Haupt, as
v . y .
ositively be present t
the people, and other able speak. | ory wirsady,
ers mre expected. Hale deception,
w ' Democrats, that they have been twice de-
og address ceived in the same way, and by this same
Remember ths Blair and
Be Assessed,
177 Democrats, see to it that every dem-
ocratic voter in your district is regularly
assessed, at least ten days before the elec-
tion, Examine the lists of voters as posted
at the place of holding elections and if the
names of any of your neighbors or friends
Coes not appear on the list notify them at
once and go to the assessor yourself and do
not depart until you have seen their names
entered by the assessor. Every vote is of
importance for every democraiic vote this
fall will be u voice for liberty, for free
speech acd a free press, for peace, a restored
union and the constitution as our fathers
made it. *
The Abolition advocates of tyranny are
straining every nerve to carry the day and
while they do not stand the ghost of a
chance at a fair election yet it behooves
every democrat 10 be on the alert and do
his whole duty. “Eternal vigilance is the
price of liberty.” Be watchful therefore
of the liberty you still enjoy for if our op-
ponents succeed in carrying the election,
it will be the last State election probably
that you will ever see. They wish to do
away with State lines and state rights, con-
sclidate the government, take it out of the
hands of_the people, and establish a mon-
archy. If you don’t desire this—be as.
sessed and vote, and sae to it that every-
body else does the same,
QB asi.
I> Wien Forney, the liar of the Harris-
burg Telegraph, states in his yesterday's
paper, that Judges Woodward and Lowrie
were both seen in a lager beer saloon, on
Library street, Phiiadelphia. Well, sup-
pose they were! 1t does not require the
‘‘oldest inhabitant’’ to recollect the time
when Wein Forney was never seen anywhere
ese, savein the gulter! Ah, Wein, iit grieves
us to be compelled to revert to such unpleas-
ant reminiscences, but you are the last man
that ought to throw “lager deer’ in the face
or on the character of any one, and least of
all. such noble spints as Woodward and
Lowrie, Have you forgotten, good sir, how
you used to lay around this town, after you
had fallen from your high estate as editor of
the Democratic atchman, ané beg, ay, beg
for balf-a-dime to buy yourself a glass of
that same Zager deer or something stronger?
Surely, you cannot have forgotten these
things, already, for those were sad days for
you, Wein, and they vet make sorrowful
the hearts of those who were once your
friends, when they recollect how undoubted
was the evidence of yonr shame,
But you Fave reformed, they say. Ab,
well, thank God for his great mercy, and we
give you credit. Be a man ell your life,
hercafier, Wein, but never attempt to throw
a whisky slur atany one, for remember your
own sntecedents have been very unhappy,
We have read you this little lesson in all
kindness, Wein. May you profit by it,
—————— A Oe
Mark Them !—Fellow Democrats, every
would-be Democrat wko is not open and de-
cided in his support of the Democracy, in
this hour of Liberty’s peril, is against us.
Such only wish to stand aloof, and after-
wards hop along fr office with the * biggest
crowd.” The Democracy are bound to
come out victorious——but, victory or defeat
let us hereafter spurn all such who only go
with us when we win. He who professes to
be a democrat. and will not join in with us
to crush out, at the ballot box, this accur-
sed, plundering, negro freeing, white-man
casluving, tyranuical, and despotic avoli-
tion dynasty, is working with the enemy.
Democrats of Centre, the sooner our organ-
ization is purged of all such the better ;
milk and water men arc a dead weight. —
Centre Berichter.
So say we. And so says every Democrat
throughout the land. The principles ot
Democracy are pure and plain—its candi-
dates are honest aud patriotic, and the man
that pretends to belong to the Democratic
party, and does not tome out openly and
boldly, in favor of our principles, and in fa.
vor of our men, should be kicked overboard
at once, and left to founder and sink be-
neath the black waves of Abolitionism.
07 The past history and present policy
of the Republican party, should teach eve-
ry one that it is a Union party.— Abolition
Exchange,
It should eh! The past history you al-
lude to was we suppose, the deings of the
Tories, Witeh -burners, Hartford Convention-
ists, Blue Lighters, Anti-Mexican War men,
and John Brown raiders, they were united,
and there is'nt a horse thief, horse jockey,
Conseript officer, Provost Marshall, tax-
collector, shoddy manufacturer, govern-
ment contractors, renegade democrat or
Abolitionist but are united to-day and
marching under its pure (?) banner and
within its broad folds. A sweet union
party it is !
————e
Ler the tax payers of this county re-
member, that the abolition Admistratin at
Washington is spending over two millions
of dollars a day. Let them remember that
Andrew G. Curtin, is the tool of that
Administration, and endorses all of its acts
and measures. Let thenr remember that
they must pay for this extravagance, by
submitting to the most burdensome taxa-
tion. Can they vote for men who will a
low shoddy contractors to rob them of
their hard earned money ? Wa think not.
To RsPUBLICANS.—Those [of you wko
have been drafied and compelled to pay
well, do you hive made anything by a
change of Adminstration? Would it not
have been a thcusand times better for your
country andfor your purse, if both Lincoln
and Curtin had been defeated ? This we
beliere you can now see. Ifso, your duty
will be very clear at the next election.
To be honest te your country and to your-
self, yoa must go the polls and vote the
democratic ticket. By doing this, you
will save yourself still futher trouble
and expense
———— es.
p@=Gov, Curtin was one of the HIGH
PRIESTS of the Know Nothing party, —
He went into power upon the cry of “Down
with FOREIGNERS!’ and tried his bast
to strip them of those political rights which
Woodward and the Democratic party
have always battled to maintain for them,
[ZF At the Watchman office is the place
to get job-work done on short notice, in neat
style, and at the very lowest prices,
|A Signifieant Article from a ©
“Rebel
Paper. .
The following remarkable article is from
the Mobile Register, a paper edited by
John Forsyth, one of the ablest men in the
South. Let all true Union men vote with
the Democratic party—the only party that
can restore the old Union. The article
from the Mobile Register is as follows :
We thank God from the depths of our
hearts that the authorities snubbed Vice
President Stephens, in his late attempt to
confer with them on international affairs,
without form or ceremony. It has long
been kfown here that this gentleman thought
if he could get to whisper into the ears of
some men about Washington, the result
might be peace on some sort of wnien or
reconstruction, Te seemed to forget that
Douglas, with whom he used to serve, is
dead, and notwithstanding his mantle has
allen, by dividing it into four pieees, upon
Richardson and Voorhees, Vallandigham
and Pugh, still the Democratic party is not
in power now, and we may thank God for
it. The prospects looks gloomy for the
Vice President, whose infirmity of body no
doubt casts a shadow over his spirits, and
he said that one or two things must be
done : either some terms must be made or
the whole militia of the Confederacy must
be calied out and an immediate aliiance
made with foreign powers. President Da-
vis gave him full power to treat on honora-
ble terms, and started him off to the king-
dom of Abraham. But Father Abraham
told him there was an impassable gulf be-
tween thew, and the Vice President had to
steam back to Richmond, a bttle tap-fallen.
We hope this will put a stop forever to
some croakers about here, who intimate
that there are people enough friendly to the
South in the North, to restore the Union as
it was. And we hope the Government at
Richmond will not humiliate itself any
more, but from this time will look only to
the one end of final and substantial inde-
pendence. The North is not less set on a
purpose of final separation than we are.
The Republican party are not fighting to
restore this Union any more than the ola
Romans fought to establish the indepen-
dence of the countries they invaded. The
Republicans are fighting “for conquest and
dominion, we for liberty and independence.
There is only one party in the North who
want the Union restored, but they have no
more power —lepislative, executive or judi-
cial —than the paper we write on. ‘It is
true they makeashow of uvion and strength
but they have no voice of authority, We
know that ihe Vallandigham school wants
the Union restored, for he told us so when
here in exile, partaking of such hospitality
as we extended toa rcal enemy to our
struggle for separation, banished to our
soil by another enemy who is practically
more our friend than he, And if Vallan-
digham should, by acident or other cause,
become Governor of Ohio, we hope Lin-
coln will keep his nerves to the proper ten.
son, and not allow him to enter the con-
fines of tWe State. His Administration
would do more to restore the Union than
any other power in Ohio could do, and
therefore we pray that he may be defeated,
Should a strong Union party” spring up in
Ohio, the third State in the North mn politi.
cal importince, it might find a faint res.
ponse in some Southern State, and give us
trouble.
But as long es the Republicans hold pow-
er they will tLink of conquest and domin-
ion only, and we on the other hand, will
come up in solid column for freedom and
independence, which we will be certain to
achieve with such assistance as we may
now (after the refusal of the Washington
Cabinet to confer) confidently expect, be-
fore the Democrats of the North get in
power again, and come whispering ia our
ears, ¢ Union, reconstruction, Constitution,
concession and guarantees.” Away with
all such stuff! We want separation. Give
us wen rather like Thaddeus Stevens and
Charles Sumner. They curse the old Un-
ion and despise it, and so do we. And now
We promise these gentlemen that. as they
hate the Union and ¢‘the accursed Constita-
tion,” let them keep down Vallandigham
and his party in the North; then they
shall never be troubled by us with such
whining about the Constitution and Union.
as they are sending up.
Handcuffs for Freemen.
A few days ago we saw in the streets o.
this fair eity a sight calculated to fill every
heart with horror. Walking between a file
of soldiers, in one of the most crowded
thoroughfares, were five white freemen,
handcufied and strongly guarded by their
military escort. Over the iron manacles
that bound the wrists of several were thrown
handkerchiefs ; and the down cast look and
sorrowing eye of the conscripts told how
deeply they felt the degradation they were
compelled to suffer. These men had com-
mitted no crime. Their names had been
drawn from the fatal wheel; and, in the
agony of doubt, whether they should remain
with their loved ones in these sore times of
want and trial, or eagerly march to fill . the
ranks of the army in this “war for the Afri-
can and hus race,” they had not promptly
reported to the Provost Marshal's office, and
were called deserters, This sight, we are
informed, is no extraordinary one, Ft is-of
frequent and almost hourly occurrence, —
Oompelled to suffer the grossest indignities,
thousands are daily tortured with the galling
thought that in this land of freedom they
must meet the fate of slaves. But, be pa-
tient ! A few weeks more only must pass
away, before the freemen of Pennsylvania
will have an opportunity of smiting at the
ballot-hox the miscreants who are now stri-
ving to deprive them of their liberties. In
going to polls, remember, freemen, that
the Abolitonists of this proud city have
forged handcuffs for white men,and given
shoulder-straps to negroes !—Phila. Age.
The Abolition Leaguers are evidently
becoming very much alarmed at the
prospect before them. They see
that their notoriously unclean candidate
for Govenor cannot secure the votes of
the people ; that honest, conscientious men
cannot support him ; and that his defeat
cannot possibly be prevented without a
resort to desperate and . yoprincipled
means. They are therefore preparing
themselves accordingly, and lying stump
speeches, from unscapulous partizans, are
fo be among the orders of the ay from
now until the election. But all will not an-
swer. Their present alarm is but the hgr-
binger of the certain defeat that awaits them
at the polls. The mass of the people know
toa much of Cyrtin to be lied into his sup-
port; they have the evidence of his own
party friends that he is mortaly and politic-
ally unclean ; whilst the private and public
character of Judge Woodward is an assur-
ance to them that he is worthy of their
confidence and suffrages: s
aA Republican paper says:— «The.
great mass of the Democracy of Pennsylva
nia are not copperheads. Of course not ;
especially as we are on the eve of the elec-
tion, and some of them may possibly ke
honey-fugled into voting for Shoddy Ourtin.
The election over, however, and they will
all no doupt again degenerate into ‘‘cop-
petheads in the estimation of this Abo-
ition posay, Pool who ¥
”
Great Discoveries Made too late.
They tell us of & gold, a silver, an iron, 4
brazen and a dark age, The present is the
age of discovery. That of Columbus was a
Calvin-Edsouized cipher in comparison with
it. Let ug enumerate a little:
1. Greely discovered that the South was a
bill of expense to the rest of the Union, the
sooner it left the better,
2. The Abolitionists generally that the
South was a poor house and supported by
the North.
3. That the generality of the southern-
ers could neither read, write, work or
fight.
4. That we could neither kick the South
into a fight aor out of the Union,
5. That nobedy bat Keitt, or at
South Carolina would insurrect.
6. That the paupers would sooner secede
from the town farm than the South attempt
to leave the Union.
7. That we could quell the South ¢by
driving an old black cow down there.”
8. That the slaves would nse just as
soon as the white men left their homes
to fight the North. (See N. Y. Tribune of
1860.)
9. That one Massachusetts regiment would
whip the Scuth.
10. That three Massachusetts regiments
could do it.
11. That 75,000 thrze months’ men would
do it.
12. That 400,00 would do it.
13 That 700,000 men were more than
enough to doit, so we must stop volunteer-
ing. (See Henry Wilson.)
14. That 300,000 more three years
men would finish the job, [See Lincoln's
last,
15. That 300,000 nine month's men would
finish it anyhow.
16. That the Maine New York, New Jer-
sey and Ohio militia would do it,
i 17. That 300,000 drafted men will do
I
most
18. .That arming negroes will do Jit
4nse,
19, "That the whole North, from 18 to 45,
shall do it.
20. That ‘A. Lincoln” is the sole and fin-
al judge whether the country is mvaded or
in msurrection or not.
21. That when he says that it is the fact,
he has the power tu hang, roast, broil, ban-
ish or stew every person in the United
States. [See Lincoln to Corning and oth-
ers.
22. That if State Governors and Legisla-
tures don’t suit him, the Provost Marshal
“will keep them in order.” (See N. York
Times.)
23. That by “touching a bell” Lincoln
has more power than any one, aside from
the Almighty, ever attempted to «xercise on
earth, and that his pimpts have just as
much. [See Sewardto Lord Lyons and Burn-
side to the Judge.]
24. That it is the duty of white men to
marry sooty wenches, [Sce Hider Tilton.)
25. That all men ovght to have nig-
gers marry their daughters. [See Bishop
Junkins, |
26. That love for male blacks consists in
putting’ them where David pul Uriah. | See
Port Hudson and Morris Island. |
27. That Hannibal was a nigger. No al-
lusion to Hannibal Hamlin. (See Solicitor
Whiting.)
The corollary would seem to be that
when we die we shall go to Jampblaci hea.
ven.— Exchange.
ee een,
While George. W. Woodward, our Demo-
eratic candidate, remains quietly at home,
attending to the dutios assigned him by the
people when they elected him Supreme
Judge, and wheze he will remain until the
people call him to fil! ano ther station, our
provincial Governor deserts his Gubernator-
ial chair and is wandering about the country
forming political combinations, soliciting
votes in person, and: judging from the tonc
of his opponent, and trying to deceive the
people by professions of patriotism, in order
to carry out his own selfish ends. He claims
to be the peculiar friend of the soldier and
the foreigner, while 1t 18 well known that
he refased rations to some of our brave vol-
unteer militia, who went forth todefned our
borders against the recent raid, and belong-
ed to the proscriptive Know Nothing party
and served as Seretary of Stato under the
Know-Nothing administration of Governor
Pollock.
—ate et
The Traveling Candidate.—Andrew G.
Curtin has anounced to the public that he
will travel through Pennsylvania during
the present canvass, and beg the honest
yeomanary of the State for their votes on
the second tuesday of October. It could
not be expected that man like the shoddy
candidate for Govenor would have any
feelings of delicacy in thus obtruding him-
self upon the citizensof this Commonwealth ;
but the people generally hoped that he
wonld have shown shown some liitl regard
for the dignity of the high position he now
occupies, and been contet to remain quietly
at home, awailing the verdict of the
masses. Instead of doing so, he has deter-
mined to abandon his duties at Harrisburg,
and neglect the discharge of the important
functions which his official position require
him to perform. CurmINis now on the
stump. The iuterests of this great State
must all give way before his insatiate appe-
tite tor office. Can the freemen of Pennsyl-
vania cast their votes for a man who deserts
his post when a hand is needed at the helm,
and travels through the State to solicit
the votes of those whom he has basely
deceived and betrayed ?— Age
QuEsTIONS for ANSWER.— What Democrat
has labored to effect’ an original act of
revolution, by destroying a sovereign
State ?
What Democrat has argued in favor of
a dissolution of the Uniou ?
What Democrat has thanked God for
this war? .
What Democrat has apologized for a
violation of the Constitution ?
What Democrat bas tried to shield viola-
tors of the Constitution from deserved
punishment ?
What Democrat has said the Constitution
is a convenant with hell ?
What abolitionist has not approved of all
these things, and in his heart answered
these questions in affirmative, as his own
conviction of policy ?
Ber A grand democratic meeting was
held in the brick school house, near Pine
Grove Mills, Tuesday evening Sept., 10th.
Hon' Wm. Burchfield was elected president
and F. Krumrine, J. Neidich, J. Bottorf
and J. Kogan, Vice president, The meeting
was first addressed by A. A. Kerlin who
entertained the audience an hour, Colo.
Reuben Keller was then called upon and
Spoke in a lively and interesting manner
for overan hogr. The mepling wag one
worthy of the occasion, nearly one fourth of
the audience was republican but be it re-
corded to their credit, The prest, then an-
nounced that a meeting would be held at
Gatesburg, Saturday, Sept: 19th. when the
mesting adjourned,
H, M. Sxtpsg,
Sect,
[Written for the Watchman. |
Thoughts on the Crisis, No. a
The Democratic party to-day is not the
advocate of new doctrines, Its principles
are as old as the history of the American
Republic, which first gave thema “habitation
and a nate.” though prior to the establish-
ment of our preseiit system of government;
wherever opposition to tyranny manifested
itself the spirit of Democracy was striving
for a foothold ;—wherever one man raised
his voize 1 favor of freedom he was anima-
ted by that spirit which has since been
embodied in the Democratic platform, and
made of us the greatest nation on the
globe, °°
If a certain set of principles make, their
opposite will unmake ; if a certain party
creates, its opposite will destroy, is as un-
denible as thu great trath asserted by our
sagacious president, “that it is easier to
pay a large sum, than a larger sum.” That
an adderence: to the principles first laid
down by the great father of Democracy,
Thomas Jefferson, has made of us a great
nation, is evident to all who will examine
history and satisfy; themselves of the ract
that the Administration of the government
has nearly always been in the hands’ of the
Democracy. That its opposite will destroy
us cannot but be manifest to all who have
noted the rapid strides we have made in the
last two years, towards the yawning gulf
which has swallowed up so many republics.
That the party now in power is the very
opposite of Democracy,and the deathless foe
of all that has been our glory aud our pride
in the past, 1s fully shown, by the opposi-
tion they have made to every measure desir-
ed by the great men of past generations. for
our welfare. The very same party, under
other names, opposed Thomas Jefferson and
Andrew Jackson, the war of 1812 and. the
the war with Mexico ; every war, until the
fratracidal strife in which we have ever been
engaged, has been met by them with the
bitterest opposition ; and, in fact, they have
resisted every measure of every administra-
tion to whose record American citizens can
point with pride.—Tne Republican party
claim to have great respect for the memory
of Henry Clay and for the principles he ad-
vocated ; yet when the gallant san. of thet
great man was bleeding out his life, in de-
fence of our honor, and our flag, upon the
bloody field of Buena Vista, Lincoln wag
holding up the hands of those who would
have the Mexicans welcome our soldiers
‘with bloody bands to hospitable graves.”
Something over two years ago, the op-
position rallied all their elements, and the
Democratic party was ovezcome. We now
find ourselves in a most fearful situation. —
Every great interest of the country is in a
process of rapid destruction, and while we
gaze in horror upon the crumbling structure
of our government, which we deemed im.
pregnable, the mind naturally seeks the
cause. Yet we are forbidden to rearch for
the cause, or to expose. it when found, --
first destroy the effect, then seck the cause”
—is the language of those in power. It is
8 new system with us; out it is an old
trick of tyrants and usurpers, This **Mili-
tary necessity,” which has committed such
ravages upon our hberties, is the same mon-
ster which has overturned all other Repub.
lics that ever existed, and will as certainly
destroy ours, unless we arrest its destroy-
ing progress, at once and forever.— A milita-
ry necessity existed in France when Napo-
leon First wast First Consul, to.muzzle the
press. and to gag the freedom of speech--he
persuaded the French people to swell the
ranks of his army and Jet the historians in-
quire, why they had inaugurated Revolu-
tion. When, through the best blood of Eu-
rope,he had waded to a diadem and a crown
too plainly both cause and effect were visi.
ble ; but too late to destroy either. It is
only savages who blindly fight, without
knowing why and for what. Shall'a great
christian nation imitate them? Shall we
stand by until the whole energy of the na-
tion, its bone and sinew are concentrated
in an army to sweep away the last vestige
of liberty, after, ‘military necessity” has
bound us hand and foot, and the effect has
destroyed us forever, while, through cow-
ardly fear, we have neglected the cause ?—
We do not propose, at present. to inquire
for the cause; but only to assert our right,
as American citizens, to inquire into the
stewardship of our servants whenever we
please,— We wish to have our fellow citi-
zens realize what a fearful weapon this
“military necessity’ is, in the hands of
unscrupuious men for the subversion of lib-
erty, In turnieg over the pages of history
we are struck with the fact, that all repub-
lics of all times, have been destroyed in the
same manner. They haveall worked out
their own destruction, and gone down to
dust in blood, and shame, amid the horrors
of civil war, but, worst of all, from their
ashes have risen, the blackest despotisms
that ever disgraced humanity, When ty-
rants propose to subvert the liberties of a
nation. they do not proclaim their purpose
from the house-top. Their designs are dis-
guised by the most specious representations
by the most flattering promises,— Wher
Napoleon III. was strengthening the armies
of the Republic, and concentrating all her
energies within his reach, his avowed pur-
pose was the good of the people and the
extension of liberty, Ie bade the people
wait for the effect, and seek not the cause.
“Military necessity” was the instrument he
used, until his ends were attained, and then
military POWER was the engine which over-
awed the last murmur of dying liberty, the
sword, the instrument with which Freedoms
grave was was dug. And to-day while onr
energies are wasted in destroying each oth-
er. this man, who but a decade since was
the vaunted champion of liberty, blots
our sister Republic from the map of
nations, and erects, in its stead, the
first despolism ever reared upon our con-
tinent.
Is it possible that onr people cannot sce
how rapidly we are following in the path of
destruction ¥ Is it possible that the Amer-
can people are so ignorant as ¢> believe that
a Union of sovereign Stateg can be res!
or malutained by blotting out the $ Yestoled
ty of the respective States 7 Can oir Ji
tiea be stolen from us before ou Vory eyes
and that too, with all history open” before
us, {0 warn 08 of our darige; 7
ver Gromwell overturiied the British Goyerm.
ment, his progress Was not hal¢ so rapid
JS Sasipations not half so glaring ag have
0 that of the party which now
tis Se Tran Sersrtons
ur civil courts have been overty
Sovereignty of our States wiped ee ie
their authority scorned and Spit upon, and
worst of all, the last hope of America’ the
last defence of liberty—the Constitution of
the United Statas hag een not only set
aside as Jinadequate to its own Reo ;
but its most solemn compacts violated, jtg
Plainest principles scorned and its fragments
seattered to the four winds. Thig very hour
our governmentis overturned and our only
hope consists in wresting from the handg
which have betrayed us the trust confided
inthem, Still the Democratic partly advocate
no new doctrne, still do they resort to the
old tribunal of the ballot-box, and if inter-
fered with in the sacred right of election
the last right left us ; they yet advocats
nothing new, but the stern ‘old doctrine
that led their fathers through the smoke
and courage of the revolution—Lissrry OB
DEATH. ;
The citizens of Pennsylvania are called
upon, within the next mouth, to inaugurate
& policy which shall result in the overthrow
of the most dangerous party to which Dem-
ocracy was ever opposed and place in the
positions of Andrew G. Qurtin and Abra.
ham Lincoln, MeN and statesmen, 'I'he
question every citizen #5 called upon to an-
swer, by his voteis, whether our State
shall become a pillar in the temple of dos-
potism, which is being so rapidly reared or
whether she shall proclaim herself an im-
movable rock, round which the friends of
freedom may ally, in our own and sister
States for the protection of the Union
so fearfully threatened by the powers
at Washington and at Richmond; and for
the defence of the sovereignty of States.
without which Uunion is but a name. Three
years more of the administration against
which Pennsylvania has struggled, and
“military. necessity,’ will have accomplish
ed its work, the effect will have blottad our
republic from existence, while the caus ris-
es to glory and a throne above the body of
dead liberty. It is no child's play, in
which we are engaged ; we are toying with
the most dangerous instruments that ever
destroyed a human government. and are
progressing to destruction as certainly and
as rapidly as any nation upon the face of
the earth ever did. —WNo one who has noted
the course of Abraham Lincoln, and those
by whom he is surrounded, can doubt his
purpose. From the very first hour, that
the ‘higher law” —was proclaimed; up to
the present moment of peril to our ‘institu-
tions, his course has been a straight and
unswerving as the path of sia across the
summer sky.—end if allowed to follow it
out, it will lead us to destruction and death
as certainly as the sun sinks behind the
evening clouds,
Fellow citizens three years aj you elect-
ed Andrew G. Curtin to the highest position.
in the gift of our State, He has been the
willing tool of those who have been seekin:
to overturn our government, and has ha.
our people to blindly fight for their own fot
ters.—He stood in our count; -Reat, and ¢
boasted that his foot was upon the neck of:
the Democrats, and he intended %o keep it
there. The sweeping conscription in our
Democratic county proclaims how well his
word has been kept, If all do their guty.
Democracy will: put its foot upon Ais neck,
at the coming clection, and ring out “to the
world the old Latin Motto © Sc semper fy-
rannus,
Howarp Pa., 4 PX
Sept 14th 1863: §
I ————
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE GRFAT
American Tea Company,
61 VESEY STREET, N. Y,
Since its organization, has ereated a new; era in
the history of
Wholesaling Teas in this Country.
They have introduced their selections of THAS,
and are selling them at not over
Two Cents (.02 Cents) per pound
above cost;
Never deviating fromihe ONE PRICK asked.
Another Euhaiy of the Company is that
their Tea TASTER not only devotes his time to.
the selection of their TEAS as to quality, value,
and particular styles for particular localities of
country, but he helps the Tea buyer to choose ous
of their enormous stock such TEAS as are bess
adapted to his particular wants, and not only
this, but points out to him the best bargains.
It is easy to see the ¢ncaleulable advantage
pe Buyer has in this establishment over a}
others.
If he is no judge of Tea or the Market, if his
time is valuable, he hae all the benefits of a well
organized system of doing business, of ap im
mense capital, of the judgment of a professional
TEA TASTER, and the knowledge of superior sales
-men. .
This enables all Tea buyers—no matter if they
are thousands of miles from this market—to pur-
chase on as good terms here as the New York
merchants.
Parties ean order Teas and will be served by us
as well as though they came themselves, heist
sure to get original packages, true weights an
tayes; and the Teas are warranted $6 represented.
We iseue a price list of the Company's Teas,
which will be sent to all who order it; ocompri-
sing
Hyson, Young Hyson, Im erial. Guo- -
powder, Twankay and Skin.
OOLONG, SOUCHIONG, ORANGE & HY-
SON PEKOE,
JAPAN TEA, of every description, eolored aug
uncolored.
This list has each kind of Tea divided into four
classes, namely : CARGO, %igh CARGO, FINE,
FINEST, that every one may understand
description and the prices annexed, that the Com-
pany are determined to undersell the whole Tea
trade. %
We guarantes to sell ALL our TEAS at top
over TWO CENTS (.02 Cents) per pound above
cost, believing this to be attractive to. the many
who have heretofore been paying enormous profits -
Great American Tea Company,
IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS,
No 51 Vesey Btreet, New York.
Sept. 18, 1863—3m.
VV AICHES, JEWELRY, AND SIL
VER WARE.—
The undersigned would respectfully in-
vite your attention to his well selected
stock of Fine Gold and Silver Watches,
Fine Gold Jewelry of every kind aud variety of
styles—comprising all of the newest and most
beautiful designs.
Algo, SOLID SILVER WARE, 10 covr—
and the best make of Silver Plated Wars Rasch
article is warranted to be as rapresented.
S. Watches and Jewelry 6arefully repaired,
and satisfaction guavaptead. :
JACOB HARLEY,
Rsentsag to Stan, 4 Haviey)
No. 632 MARKET Street, PHITAD A.
Sept. 18, 1865—23m.