Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, January 15, 1864, Image 2

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FRIPff MORNING. lik.littAßY 111,J854"
la UTERI D EM OCRATIC COUNTY CON-
IlteillVittOil...r4 meeting of tho delegater
to the ontl.County Contention win be
Itint.ttit 2sth
net., tiPilifiefdgegatom to attbod the State Ctm
vention at Barrbburg . . at ouch time as Phall Le
bentliftes named, which will meet to elect dole
galena the National C,mtention 14 nominate
•esadidatiteJbe President and Vire Proddent of
the Uninikt_States., It JO espeded that every.
Inseam of the Contentionwill be nie4m.
ELL,ER„
*Am 8,15i14. _
Thd
Assam work, and nothing importitetfromthe
Pity) Gim'eral blonde still oFettpies his 'nl.l po
sition Orsua still romans huntivo et flat
s/loom and °Moose is pegging see)"
at'Cbarkefon, without produripg any effeot. •
Thu Swrlllu Deem to beslise auger-it/41.min' g
the linoleum:mei of the weather.
Gan. Hancock, It is it ported. kor lon the ar
my of the Autotimer, orrie sucoeiAleml by Gen.
Urge numbers at tramps ire snaring towards.
the lakes. General Terry with a bl'hoole froze
the Phtalnao. pasiod through Wheeling plortli=
ward + en tnoutlay ‘ last. • The Aye remarka, that
there le evidently some trouble et Johnstou's
Nand, .
What we can do
The party which, by a subversion of,
tho very foundations of our government,
is now dominant, spares no pains to pro
dace the impression, everywhere, that
they Gold both the purse and the sword,
cud that through these two , great do
usual of power they will again triumph
idea is eiriefully and insidiously spread
and is on that account, more dangerous.
It is done in order to discourage the
brave hearts who so nobly breasted the
storm through which we have just posed
and induce in them the belief that ac
tion is, not only useless, but euioidal, and
tints complete theilestruetion of our an.
lion, not because of a lack of abilhi and
power on the. pagiNot_ita, defenders, but
for the want of a proper use of that pow
er. They wish to intimidate. the men
who defied the chains and dungeons,
banishment and , imprisonment of the
past two years, by threatening them witth
the terrors of a power they puce held ;
.but which the elections of 1 563 wrested
from them forever. They would terrify,
by the brdying of an a.sa, men who quail
ed' not u, the glance of a lion. We , fear
that many Democrats Meth taken the
bait, and-given up the hope of carrying
an eleatio4,end ptieserving whoit yet re
mains of ouitince 'prima republic. This
is all wrong and is just the impression
,enr enemiet*ish to make upon us. We
,fipayutterlifithE either the purse or the
, awed are in the hands of the Abolition-
iaaci a tt by tke syrrranaiet of the
ic Party. What amount of the
wealihketthe North is in the hands of the
&Wet Itunclred thousand men who brave
ly and openly dared to vote the proserib
oitioket. of the Domoenttie, party in last
fall's elections? - What amount of the
pOWeraowaitielaled by the Abolitionists,
gm* tie Arniy, is made by .11emo
trade hands, who have been most foully
eheited Ude the support of what their
rotas darted?. Let the members of the
ell ptly of the Constitution withdraw
from the army, let the wealth they are
masters of, be witheld from those who"
have squandered it so shamefully, and
the purse and sword ,upon which, the
Republicans so exultingly depend will
vanish from their hands ip a day. The
idea that alatlion and a half of men will
shrink lmek Fom any kind of contest
which may be forced upon them, is ab
surd ; less than half of that number, in
the hands of an able leader, once revolu
tionised Europe, and Shook. the globe to
its very centre, and for inch a number of
men to yield a contest so important as
the one ininw approaching. without stri
king a blow for dying liberty, is coward
ly in the highest degree. Let this elec
tion be carried against ns, and no power
on earth can save ns flout despotism,
except through the bloody paths
of rec
°indi which are always crereinely dan
gerous, and often accomplish the very
thing they are called up to. prevent.—
They may destroy our enemies; a
whole nation mustoshare in the general
ruin. 'Our last hope of a petiFsful
toration of the government, uvalthe over
throw of those wite_liave usurped pow-
'ON it never gaVe, lies in the Presidential
fleetion of ltro4, and we CAN carry that
!derit l ion, deeirite_all apposition, if all
Deentoeratqdo their duty fully, individu-
ally, and Collectively. There are Woos
awls and,teitm of thousands,
who, through
the weakness of flesh. feared to veto
the Petriocriftic ticket , at the last election
tirelkpot. fear to swell the ranks of
=410) band:ety& nankin sad a belt
014tetlear to rebuke the.
i r tirt!iltelterlille'tfie:a4rerdl,ef big power
treta : them- ifirrib6 that
itforerwiesltucertintpretet —au eleltiort
could - 04y be tarried by corruyitieh Arai.
l~aitdr arnica the frailarere eaiocked aW
OA Pa!" joixtke*, t e liFFattOtot beipelea,.
at 4 1 , - • • \ •
41eclows &fa 114, - of 1863, of
they boast uolpadipr, Abell :
tiliftylisfksitil i ty,ef a crime aireinat
iihteWlififirde) lnialem blistery.
1 *or* sookthat, no eleetitia
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8.4044.7.1 item antii+e 'pit
iPllMllefk** 4 4 l4.o o; fogliAlied
Watimitst2tikr4
tai-
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mviting What biebus kit bit.
t,d
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their righte in thtr - enni. I mams: -and-
kinsingiktigt te! 0 1 430.11 1 kent? -4
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kaa
certain.andinfailible teat.' - te en o
the people, a Republicila government can
live, but when it &Alio be that, in their
dstimation, it must either meriii into - a
Willigrd*Lic- itilit4M--l_n_lit.l."._
governments,is: in-the prominent of
,God, there must be a eupreulte power,
Which cannot err, but Which must always
be right, and the Veit tribunal to . which
we can appeal Fin 316 - narehieel govern
ments this power is either a single indi
*ideal or - a snialrbodi of inditittuala--L .
.In 'the Anicriean Republic the people
has always lawn that power, and the mo'-,
in'ent a full exprmaion of their wishes
cannot be obtained It CeitScii tube &Dem
ocratic . government.""The aim' wham
the people have , placed in authority, not
wily stqz,e the powers which belong ex
clusively to. the petiple, but deny them
the right to put others in their places,
by subverting the orrtirst principles of
Republican governMent. The operation
of : the CemAitutional-govomment iscom.
&Itch , nos mud d, anti no . civilized na-
tioti-miWf the earth is under so
despotic a title aq ours. ;But our PEUN-
C I PLES are not lost, and the Democratic
pasty it coiled upon to rrqtorn rho ancient
order of things, and they CAN DO IT.
They have the ability and strength, and
wait only for a leader, Whit), will appear
in the proper time: LEA the thunder
bualts be forged and a Jupiter will be
found to hurl them. In all the annals
of time no more important crisis was ev
er upon any people. We are making
history more startling, than any age ever
is I prcrinnorl haltnr. girtpfirationi,
will look upon us as the actors in the
most importa_nt scenes the world ever
saw. Let us stand boldly up against-the
storm and if we must fail. let us go down
like the defenders of Theraopylte; and
leave none to tell of our defeat. We
struggle for the existence of our Party
and-the principles it embodies, and if'
this is not enough to nerve us for the
contest nothing evii can. We CAN save
the country yet, ml 3 by God's help we
WILL, or elseßepublicanism will distil)-
pear from the earth forever. Let us or
ganize and not only "strike while the
iron but tuate it hot by
striking. and •if we fail, history_will at
least say of us that we held out in the
sacred cause to Ac last.. '
The Right Policy
Quite n number of our Democratic ex
ehtlnges areWlClVAeitt, engaged in dis
cussing and fixing up a line of POLICY for
our party to pursue in order to succeed
in the coming campaign. All seem de
sirous of accomplishing the same pur
pose, yet scarcely any two of them agree
on the mode or means of bringing 'about
the wished for end. One says" our plat
form and candidate must declare so and
so, another; that they must avow direct
ly the opposite, and another that they
must stand between the two ; each one
acting as though our good old party that
wrested American- Liberty front the des
potic grasp of George 111—protected it
from the machinations of tortes, saved
our country from - the Nilo plotaws of
pdritan Abolitionists, for eighty years,
and is to day battling fur its preservation
has no object or desire, except at the
time of an election, or when offices are
empty and vacancies to be filled.
If our party was like the one nowt lay
ing waste our country and murdering
her citizens, devoid of honor, principle
or patriotism ; If it was a conglomerated
mass' of political mountebanks, knaves
and unthinking followers clamoring for
'Office and spoils; If itrwa.s but laboring
to obtain the ascendency in order that a
particular number might feed and fatten
ou the people's money ; had it no good
to accomplish, us landmarks to direct
its course, then this extreme anxiety to
have a platform fixed up exactly right
tar this particular time would c •
be desirable to all interested in the race
for office. But when ourpartytas fixed
tenets, pure, plain and uricontrovertable
PRINCIPLES, upon which our government
has Even administered, uutil,the terrible
triumph of Abolitionism, to talk of ma
king platforms, resorting to EXPEDIENCY
or POLICY, is,g,Weids) allskpow - ardly.
want no platform, but that laid
'Mown by the founders of our party the
Kgmrt:On' and VIRGINIA szsoLtrriorls
of 170-otr. STANDING BY TILE PRINCI
PLES CONTAINED IN THEM IR THE ONLY
POLICY WE M($T pURI4I.IZ; upon them
we tn l umphedland our country prosper
ed; allow them alone tan we again suc
ceed or hope to restore unity and con
cord, to ourigeeding land.
As to Our candidate, he must needs be
a believer in the doctrines of Tlios. Jefferz
son, with the ability and determination
Ito uphold them. No "expediency" be
ing; senseless enough to suppose
,a Re
publican government can be 'preserved
by,force,we•that blood will
cement the States, now torn and discor
dant can gel the votes of the defenders
"Orthe there. of the republic.
. .
Wird,/ raid, in tlib united
States Senate; a few years ago, that it
was a fact fixed by history, that Any con
tfidera,ble namber of Americans could
neverbifoonspellatto do what they didnot
wish to.— He now hoirls war, emancipa
tion and , annihilation se lo udly as any
one. Be has -proved ilipet;lf to be eith 2
or al* or a demagogue,
ortail*ea, aid an Abolitionhe $o boot,
isidplciPraibieallatifid Mir to i/dMission
intritito fasaterinks.of, .Administra
tion party, without farther lion.
MMITE,
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inee th
parkeklijav uptilstrotttelligko prsse
e 0.54i1if,
es 4 • Mob . shed "mol e , nathbugh Ate
partly lines . %been Intwi nilite
tigTltty l l'and ivtiiiiak 16031411 githrn
a.. latter, lye 'liner - 4,0 diiiiiti; 'hi* %hi)
.:. ... ,
y loyal party, of violone* to thbse
whb differ from them In political views..
In fact, pine the election, the. spleen of
tie; Abolitionists appeara to have r heen
'vented upon the delinquents of theft...own
heads have been permitted tonrawl frMi
their holes, and hisiont their poison, and
bask in the sunshine of father Abraham's
magnificence unmolested.Whjf' it' is,
we can scarcely tell ; yet we have our own
private ()pillion upon the subject, which
ske,4o not Fare to expresiplililiely, upon.
occasion. .
ItMay be that a million and a half .of
"serpents"' in the opinion of the `l6yal
iota,' are not to bo , trodden upon in'etfe-,
ty; It maybe that the muttering's. 6
the storm have aroused the oppressor to
a sense of the truth that his usarpelau
thority i; held by a very precarious ten
ure ; or that the shook of contending
parties has awakened the sleopins.
ties of—the - ipindniatration' to - flee fiiet
that-thesword•O Damocles trembles a
bove them : or worse than all, FORTIFEM,
that their 'fraudulently obtained victory
has lulled them into a funded security,
from which they will arouse to learn that
den a "coppe -11 , 14bt'.', _has
bryken loose upon them; to overwhelm
and destroy, and rear their standard
aloft, as the brazen Borpent ottroses
was erected in'elin wilderness," 6o tluit all
who look uponit may live.
We recollect that we once read of a
party in Old England, which sprang up
and grew, despised by its opponents, and
knowaby the name of " Roundheads"--
that in blood and
shame they brought their proud oppres
sors to the dust, and wreaked upon them
sivengennee which will stand upon histo-
Ty's page forever, a warning to those who
rob the people of 4heir rights
nptlpfter
amrd, mock' thra with their humiliation.
The name of "Roundhead" was Writ
in disgrace onec,but when the soldiers of
Cromwell bore it through the carnage of
a score of battles, and Europe shook to
its centre withthe thunder or his voice,
when the proudest armies. - of the world
were scattered like chaff hefwe the once
despised Puritans, the name of "Round
head:' wasworn awn title of honor, and
its po,,sessors were envied by those who
had given it in derision. Can the mem
bers of the "Loyal League" snake the
application •
It is amusing as well as interesting to
witness the efforts made by a few would
ne leaders of the Democratic party to
drag it into a false position. _and make.
the issues between it and Abolitionism
indistinct and unimportant,. To listen
to theii clatter or reed their barren ar
ticles, one would be led to Believe that
tha only difference between the two par
ties, is the mode of conducting the war,
or, the General that shoykl have control
of its °mutations ; whether eirttoli and
niggers should be stolen from this - loan,
or tobacco and niggurs from that ; -wheth
er the Army should move by way of Fred
erkksburg, or adopt 2rEcUlellan;s plan,
a nd try the and other indisl
criminate matters over wlirch they can
have no possible control.
The condition of affairs to-day, when
the substance of the country is being
eaten up in a war which is not certain to
a ecomplish any great or lasting good,
prohibits the rises,if any issue except the
one forced upon trio people by the party
'in power of " weitor PEACE." Between.
these two, every American must choose.
If ho believes the war is right and benetl-.
eial to the country, then he should join
the pilrty conducting it,-and-use his 11111-
COCO to make it successful. If he believe
.the war to be wrong, and will bring only
disgrace and ruin ; it it his duty to 'op
pose it to the utmost of his ability, and
use all his powers bo stay its bloody
course. With the party wielding the
power remains the issues that arise from
the moaner of carrying it on. It is for
mum to decide whether this General - or
that, shall have control of its operations,
or - whether this way or that is the best to
" Richmond." l'or Democrats to cavil
about these minor phints over which they
have no inAuence, is useless and nonsen
sical:
Even if there Was NO principles at
stake, nothing but the crude calculation
of chances, there are good. reasons why
the Democratic party should assume
boldly and fearlessly-. a Toney policy in
the coming campaign. A second hand
war-party at this into day will not work ;
persons in favor of supporting Tuts war
will support the party that began and are
now controling it. Another platy' run
ning a candidate and howling war,' war,
with nothing ttipOinise but a change of
officers:a distribution of offices, and per
ehanee, a slight variation in the pro
gamine of extuducting- it, would stand
about as much, chance of succeeding as
the Aboliidonists Wing a — ,'White
man out of a nigger.
death of Archbishop Hughes
It is with feeliMrs of regret that we
announce•-y'the death of Archbishop
Hughes, the highest and most influential
Prelate of the Cathblio Church; in this
country. For acme-time he had beeiil
failing.health, and his demise, whiehoo
mitred on, Sunday the 3rd but, is, there
fore not unexpected.
He was born in Ireland, in 1708, • and
came to this Ootintry . st the age of• nine
teen -
land; was webbed a pliant• and — eitiled
in Pkiladelphiain 111016. 1n . 11130-311 hi
The issue.
—The Secretary of War says the 'drift
bee been entoroed in only twelve Statei, and
that, it bee yielded 50,000 mon and $10,000,-.
0011 Out of 600,000 called to the. Adminie
tritiosobtained only 509,M, mew The Ten
ure would be rietealtutei Nth. 'W/ 0 / 0
*ere not nigh a °Ohne. -But*: was sawnea.
fel in owns t. bled the adnisdatrie.
-to c - e r uti4
llowe the most et this,
linervanoe nut On pocket! of the worldst
was'enguikiiitlk-44- . itei`c4h, B 1 , - '
inridge, of Kentuloki In d ‘ tw n i .. t h e
quedrot; -- wli --- the - ito . --tt egad
Church in . . . hs.l4 its . ' ' ' p i li , liand
doetrines •. • ~:P' 1 , 4,aivil roligiiiits
i
liberty '?" ..:..•, ~ L L -Nut Bt.Aohn'ai
•church, of w , ; 7 1,..?7,'' wasj: z tectoi;undi
1837, when he iraa ^ remifirgril&•New
York, as the ocadjutoi of Bishop Dubois.
14 . 1842, consequent: upon the death of
Bishop Dubois, Mr. ifughes was raised
1 by the Pope to that -dignity, which, • in
/8 5 0, witazaPPlemented by his
_protrio-
Viiiiiistho rank of .25trbfibia4107713telf
in brief, is the epitome of his life. •
By his death the Catholic church has
lost a brightlight, :the world a great
1 Mllll7llard - ottrtwantry a Warn' Mend.—
Although alCT:will Co which •• he be
longed hesanany able and.skilful divines
within its communion, yet 'we -doubt,
"Wheihnr fro& theta 411 a sucbesser, pos
sessed of higher natural powers, a keen
er and clearer intellectual force or a
' vivre dexterous aptitudit"?orthe manage
ment of things which are really impor
tant, can be chosen, to fill the place now
vacant. ' .
O
Turkey 1
It is with feelings of not much regret
that weonnounee-tie,arrest of his "Loy._
al higlinesp," W. W. White, Provost
Marshal of this district, on 'WeduesdaY,
tft! ttb inst., by JudgeAdvocallitt Turnei,
accompanied by another commissiondd
- offiror ”od guard _ltumbr is
_rife _as 44;1
the crone of the arrest, but as yet the .
!moire of the charge* against -the Mar
shill is not known. Wore the traits
in his character not known to the people,
of This county, twiny might be led to be- •
lieve, judging from the principles of the
men into whose hands he has fallen, that
it was because of honesty of a, desire to
deal fairly with all who came within his
. .
well-known to suppose any such a thing
of him, we 'pat baturapy conclude' that
there is ifoillielhing More thanitaxav
the mattel: this time. We hope his 'loy
alty" will ups be affected by the trifling
,inconvenimice the government imposes
upon him, or his faith in Father Abra
ham and . Abolitionism diminished. A
safe trip and a long stay to his "loyal
ch "
—A breath of wind will extinguish
a taper. but a fire upon the hearth will
survive a 'fierce blast and burn the bright
er because of it. ,
The principles embodied in thi Demo
cratic party are the light of liberty, the
the hope of humanity, the citadel of re
publiCanism ; if they are. extinguished,
the world is left in the darkness of des
potism, never to emerge from the shad
ow. The teeniest and the storm are un
availing to extinguish a well kindled flame
but seatter the brands, and the flame dies
out Of itself. Let us learn a lesson from
nature ; in "union is strength,"and 1,1„ , a
combination of all our elements, we make
our party linesimpregnable as Gibralter,
and our pr , %rens irresistible an the Veeau
tide.
—Not more insidiously Was the goy
tlnt of Englund overturned,. and (41-
ivcr Cromwell -placed upon stye ruins
of its throne, than the party now in
power is stealing away the hopes of mao
in American Government. We give the
leader in these movements the orodit of
being as cowardly as King John, of Eng
land ; crafty as Richelieu, of France, cru
el as Caligula, and Wood thirsty as the
king of Dahomey. But all those quail
.
ties will not she him from the vengeance
of the people he has outraged and insul
ted. God's vigilance does never sleep,
and his retributions are sure and terrible,
slow though they may be. Ctesar had
his Brutus, Richard 111. his Richmond,
and WILLIAIt .1", SEWARD may PROFIT
BY THEM ,EXAMPLE.
The Confederate Winter Campaign. -
.
A captured prititte letter, written from the
headquertqlothe rebel army, in Virginia,
says :—" " lay be beaten, but cannot!' he
conquered. Even now, when the Yankee
journals come to us overladen—with stories
of our broken spirit, our destitution, our pi
tiable.sufferings from cold and hunger, and
our desire to crawl in under the antuesty of
fered by most gracious and generous Abe,
1 4
there is an entertainme prepared and on
the eve of being set' up that will. make
the readers of the a orementioned pretty ,
stories believe quite sincdrely that all is not
truth which is printed in Yankee newspa
pers. Oh ! I wish I. dared to Write all I
know ; and you are aware that I am in a po
sition to know s great deal. _But letters
sothetimes do miscarry or get into wrong
-bands,, and if mine-were to go astray the con
sequences would-not be delectable. I will
say, however, that our grand old chief has
mitered, and is about carry,: to Ire con
summation, seseriee ormancouvers--and, id
belt. bloody battled, too, combining strate
gy of so brilliant a nature, and results of ISO
comprehensive -and dennitive•re character,
that the developmentthereet will girds the
Yinkeesee front a horrid dreim. And we
have the means in men and MATEIMIL, to car
ry the plans out to the letter-x-notwithetand
log that the liokspittle penwipers et the'peat
Yankee journals have vniiten ourlind,
Southern army down its naked starred dia. l
piritod and demoralised. ' Notwithstanding
our Interebianiitgioation has been effectually
destroyed, (iidaYanTee oommentator* calks
results of Averill's raid, and It was rttally a
clever raid), my horse proudly our* me
every day theeugh_ther camps of the -. stron
gest and bestospuptiedarmy-the: • ...... ... : 2i
oy bee yet concentrated, end among them
the , greybaolcs' end daahlng eyes of Long
street's noble eteran_Jisroes. This glor
ious army has work to do which must and
will irrevocably place our belovbd country
in its proper and well earned place 'id the
roll of nations, and the work will be welrend
thlthfully done. and While theyear is young,
very young.
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It Is 7 . ..goys:Staid for - io
dt.hil
for melt .
eyes of their - OM,
tude heat once the meanest and most
teMptible of all moral mimes, go. much
greater will be the Warts nocessaity mule ,
by those conscious of tide crime to wyert 'd
esalt:retro= thedr sad condition. kitr.--
ble Method, adopted the D..'
a . r. - .fed std end tradhoi E. , 144 is
generally ,preferred, because it briuz, and
requires notiting but mendacity itdr reitera
tion to eilattre 'amen. The maculation
ie that by' oonetantly thyowing •tautt
.4tonta
must stick. Hull ibthd Manner of attack
on the Democratic party, end such is gener
al!, the chantoter of their .neeitilente. For
Ate knotioeablelact that those presses, and
those persons who - have never belonged to
the party, have always, in their contentions
with it, treated it with the reepest which Its
historic character and its power demanded,
whilst thrum who' did not content them
selves with denying , its doetrines but
applied every epithet which a matigttnt•
spiti and a disappointed sourrilty could did
tale. -
The eldef atomic' of these renegades; is,.
that the party has changed, and net they.
It is accused of caorifioing its prefeianies
and its-principles, and of becoming sectional
and anti-national. It is strange that these
derelictientLeAlhositely tore never obser
ved, v(hilst it.had influendeand Place, and
power for its maligners. It is strange that
it 'meanly when inordinate self-aasnrance
was not estimated by the Demi/brad& party
at the high value it placed on itself that.
those things which fer years hael.be e n fi nig ht.
--Ikn-rend-preaehed-forrand-proolainnulaiiWe
..gospel pf truth, should on a sudden be din
covered to 'be wickedness incarnate. The
Democratic party, the party of a section ?---
T 9 state such a proposition is to refute
Show us a time In lebioh a Democratic nem--
• toes for the Oresidknoy did not receive Totes
in every State of the thirty-four I When
that can be done, we shall agree to call it sec
tional. The Democratic party anti-nation
al ? If by national is meant the fusing of
all State lines, the agglomeration of
Mica Intereeriai-the-eonsolidatlouot Ale inot
Vdricrwratifiutsrufte-mtig"Tr4eilabilMrl.4ll7
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potion' lled a strong government, if that
be tuesint,then f the Demmicatic party has
been, is, and always will be, anti-national.
But if these calumniators mesa; tciiiitY - I.lFiat
the party which raised this country from a
poor weakling, begging at the doors of the
community of nations themselves, whose
power Was feared whilst her respect was
courted; which carried them thfough two
foreign wars, each time with renewed glory,
which left no Scant of debt ; which
never arrested or molested a man for his op
position to them, then will the words of men
who, even whilst they talk, are living on the
wages of their.political prostitution, have - to
be token against the recorded verdict of the
world.
The Democratic party is a party of princi
ples. It is the appointed evangel of oertatin
malitical truths and As such itbannotchango.
'From 1792, when JEFFSHBON first contended
against lIAMMTON for Republicanism against
monarchy, down to the present moment,
when his followerave repeating its contests
with the okoriar s himit of the present hour,
the positiothif the Democracy has been one
and identical. Its fundamental doctrines
are enunciated in the Kentucky and Virginia
Resolutions of 1798, the forintr drawn by
Tiros. Je.irensom and the latter by MADE
PON, and have beep declared and re-declared
ns suclPin ntlarliVitery Democratic Presiden
tial Convention. The first Kentucky reatol 7
cation is as follows:
' • • ',-
Resolved, "That the several States composing
rho United Stated of America, are not united on
the principle of unlimited submissjon to their
general government, hut that by compact under
the style,and title of a constitution for the Uni
led, Staten, and of amendments thereto, they eon
atituted a general government for special purpo
bee, delegated to that government agitate - de
finite powers, reserving, each State to ifself, the
residuary 113110111 of right to their own seltgov
ernment and when coerce the General Govern
meet assumes undelegated / powers, its acts are
unatheritativin void end Milo force ; that to this
compact. each State acceded as a State; and in
an integral party; that title government, Orel'''.
ted by this compact, was not made the exclu
sive or final Judge of the extent of the powers
delegated to itself ; since that would hare tirade
its discretion, sad not the Constitution, the 01C11.-
sure of its powers; bet that as in all other oases
of compact, among partied having no common
Judge, each party has as emi . al right ie./edge for
iNeff as well of "Tractions as of the Mode and
measures of redress."
- Has the Democratic party of the present
day departed from this doctrine? Is that
not the doctrine which is now called, ?ado
accursed doctrine of State rights?" and is it
got because the Democracy will not blench
or secede from their old-land marks that her
eons ere celled Traitors. Not follew the
doctrines ; of Jeffeireon indeed I Are not
these his dootrines 1 Who has changed ?
They who, till they could make more by
opposing than by befriending them, shouted
loudest for these tirinolplut and than dmded
their master, or those who quietly, persist
ently, in the face of all danger, in spite of
all columny and detraction, pursue the Ma
id:mugs of their ancient faith, eonflcitintin its
integrity rind its purity.
Neither is it true, as bus been eilligedi
that the beet men of the Denifferatio party
have left• hie fold. Doubtless those who
have gone think they were the best, but
that opinion is shared by - no- one -ales.---
Strange as it may. soon to snob gentlemen
the Democratic party Atli survives to a 4
its part for good in the future destinies c 7
the country. When a powder-Monkey
jumps overboard he (toes not thereby mate
erially impair The efficiency of a full armed,
manned and equipped man-of-war.—The
Ape.
116' What a noble instinct is that which
prompts the indridiel, when filled with the
comforts of life, to feel for the sufferings of
others lgafavorod than himself! Aalllustra 7
tive,of this virtue, a contemporary relates
that the other night he came across a young
man stunting well btred spinet' a lamp
postoquising Wits ..What - will the
poor (hio) do this hard (Mc) winter Gin is
(hie) ten . meths At (ldo) iglus
04) gfi e e4 ,tents a glass Jr-lord help the
(hie) poor r. ,
AdnitenUoe is the ordeL titthe ill.
In everything . All isphoddy. It you dy
groceries, your ot lAA, sager, even pep.
•itpd. a', adultarato& iput You_
pay double and puible prioee, and in
put off with an adulterated article at . tint.
Every thing is adulterated—even maw
self. Midetr.thp reign of Abolitionhget the
very fountain!' of liumanity are filled with.
hypocriay, cant„ and reringe. ,The crea
tures that we used to call devils, we now leek
among uses "en. This is the reign of Ab
olitionism. .
.-- , ..lleerythlliij lei •AdlidatotOlt :tdrtio
in Washington went oir aa merry an
: slags bell on Newiretioe.
not be happy ? aqt'of raft 404
dbitribttters, writ* meiliOnal,end &tied
bore vaigatainfla, - noir iraUpirtortlrp to their
eyealitUtlliv of thil larAdT . Binoi thoi *odd
tiON'illithigo ol o.l l3 . o V' ' '
s.• befOril; - !NUN* •
story+, lAttit *Min ; ,
Justbse sleeps, tratlh • •
:Who remembers — ~etl grin. }front
from um AfainmediJokirlWifirsOdl7l4ll&
I l e Tip-such . olertold dignity", taddinch so-
g: titbit, who then en. there eubscribad for
a Sharp's , And who needs to be sr-
Minded dile. ether, fly.¢istitlemOdll3-indrii
eminent jester whose latest Joke is ilmoet.
daily,rortgaitt.lllOPMcatiolatifil I st
theme men'then-whe fiend' ht this -damning.
war upon ds here their Jokier; if they , wilt
For ourselves, we are in Too Ether a mood,
for that.; and we repeat, Mit we are *lnsist
at nothing like wit in tbeykord Which stand
at .the bead einewreve_ki, but we use the
word beetanse We e thinh th et 14, better thou
any other, indicates the Outage which has
barreled to a great reorle l end ao - Also tne
real and sole canna of their, present. troy-'
bles,. If there was ever a people in the
world whowera u n der,a &moue it Is "the-
Ameritme people to-day—the glamour of
Abolitionism, or in any ether words, negro
money. The sorcerers ,who have conjured
them into this their sire% of dialmlimn end
wit:then" whether wild, misguided, fume ,
dos who have thought to overturn's-law tit
naturo, or political blacklegs wholtave made
their pilo obt of the quelthm; orittrmrint, -
bleod-thirsty priests whe'deify ,rourderers
like John Brown, 'these once' Wed all have gin
eueceesto their inoantetions bi the lieu . of
Are negro, and -nothing elite. Only shout
Marty years since, thietreler, began AO
farmed.ood-inett.tabehteduoed-into-11,--- •
for more than half thef t tline shunned as a
whirling nutelstorm by all but the Merest
handful, it now includes within its fatal on
, cticiference a large portion of the same peo
ple, who having once so hated and spit upon
it, now love, and embrime and worship it;
call their children by he name,. who in turn
christen their toys.kfter it t . enthrone it in
every piaci of honor or ofinfinence, is the
pulpit, the rostrum, the soltool-room, and in
short swear by it, theli new God whom they
• • _aa4hey never swore by say
. .
the identical thing Mint so loathed and fear
ed when they could not only predict Its ab
ominations,they now hug to their bosoms in
the very hour when *ma obotninatione are
being actually committed, nay, when the
'predictions are far exceeded by the atrocity
of the performance.
Now, why and .wheice Ihie elinngg—a
change in the movat world faster_ nod
mole astounding than it would: be in lhe
inateriia 'World; iltOuldn new continent sod
denly be up heaved out of the' hoeom of the
Atlantic? Is ' , slavery" anything else than
it always was? Has it undergone any
(stump) since we politically assetii et - to it',
commercially participated in it, and in do
. 'a /ifs -without stint , enjoyed its prod
ucts?
We stood god-father, to the eltild, We
through long years contributed to the growth
of that child. Ditall that time know* that
the 'child - was a monster, and did we intend
►t fit time to rise ged strangle .14-4114,is to
say, so soon as we could- AM:lrd to "do so
without hurting ourselves. Tbeso priests*
who now preach exterminatiou,"tind who so
suddenly ?--founti out 'the enormity of slave
holding, but a little while ago coiled upon
us to thank God fur-giving us such a -glor
ious country, so, far exceeding, as they said
sill other countries. Were ifey in tlin habit
of putting in a savage clause on account of
"slavery? Or again, is the present race of
preachers' so touch more godly, so much
more endowed with heart, or soul, or drainv
that they, so conscientious, forsuoth, are
foroed by a higher sense of duty to anathe
matize end unoliureh the 'Wino slavehulder
witb•wbom their fathers lived in fell coin—
menion.
' We ask them again—why this change ?
And when we put this gnostic& we mean
why this change in the people? Evident
enough is it, why the sorcerers have churl
ed. It is their business TO cbangc
Witch
es and wizards, and sorcerers all. live nr
change. This, is their gi ft , just as the
camels foot is his 'gift, ar, strength 9,f pinion
to the vulture, his. , But in you ,you are
not the soreerers or ma bans--youwho
have hitherto made, and who in the .com
ing days can make nothing out of the ques
tion,at explains this change Buyout We
say, nothing out of the question. We should
havosaid, nothing but taxes and slaVi
submission to a shoddy iristecraoy, and
humble obeisance to the title wealth, or ti
tles will follow, make you sure of it ! What
makes this change in yin ? Shalt we tell
yrru? Glamour. Yes, glamour, and, noth
ing else but glamour. You are under
spell, It is now some thirty years since
this veil commenced. Once you shunned
it am you would a deadly infection. But by
tao*" degrees you have become its viotini.—
Like a whirling, devouring maelstrom, it
threatens to draw you in its greedy" vor
tex, will you get awake! Will you yet
Mike "orieltiPitruggle, and SO - diosEPVII ,
those shatp-clawed, sharp beaked- furies,
who
.would drag you down, !Down, DOWN
to irremediable penlitiOn? !This, is a,
question whioh concerns yourselves and
which„,-yoummlyes must Fonda—N. Y. Day
Book.
•
Fiewa4, 31r: Chase; aril the wise
-- matibfilibltepublican parryrhavo the - cheek
_to deeloraihat laboring men are doing well,
bee Mme they have, plenty of work and good
wages. The silly varlets do not comprehend
that the - tiCib 'watins is a cheat, for there
never was a time in-110 a country, since the
failure of the Coritinential money, when a
man's wages would so small an
amount of the nhoessarieti of life as now.
Dry goods have increased in price -from 10
to 409 per oentum. Men's. clothing 70 pe.
centuw. Boots and shoes 00 peg cent
feats and vegMabled go per cent., Coal,
126 lier gent. For an average, we may say
that Chemeoecsarim of life have titer/teed
100 per Oent,'While the wages of the labor
ing classes have inereesediess than ten per
Gent; so that t,boodde bottom s ', --Democratio
and Republican thrift is 90 - per cent spinet
the laborer.
, These art the Lind°ln good times.
--The 'toyel Laid.," !kir tlie New ,
Yoek Times, b fpur tbouiliwil lee' toutdred
:coitneiii iti the lopai'iltateOrttk ri re:Oilier
. o 411) of ilia thrdevuOdrilotk*lgoti: Such
Jethe outset sea. pi**, brae VAIL okra
political °tent:4lo:4* oir~ to 4estitrol
the.wezt PrwOdentbroliall6" 7 .
,ireilf le *t .
l'iroonittney - itotwa—the, Olinitivatto* - ha •
Union, and-the;ibiitiouLaiiit eights Ottee
peolile, it would, 'itot tuitOtl - ,mitielirOitiOt•
ertsq' -i , , : ~ • . • - • ;
' ---24si , 6tit,
,444: • 4;AVdoltniikum, on
:ha patroller nigh vie loizithat'somp sec
-sate prelusion.; • littlo Afies JAM-
Ar t l / 4t.
illAtt; - mei ?WM ' " 4 t°
Camp Cluuse-Fleur . 0
sat epekuliglit 000 I ldriteuy, Altik . _ 04 8
of OWN, as weenie A
kgiV leaI ea 'du t witirso
tillootk botoreaAm - .. - .
-=-- , Tki ant wink; tho• nottiv..l4)
swear to support tile abolltloopoi woke
tZv ito teliiroailaiCiuk ii glise -for woad
_ k ikoSplok 100 l tko wit 4 4 -iii'
uniittkocr ore *amid o lki.
to -itlitiona.7
' Osld Iwo': -
r lloultl ustripsiMa i , ' the wit 74
--ClisioragitorsAi '7." xi •ri ; ' 4 '"..."" i
let usefilaidoloo just
jointoodtorudght -
ijot I bey ate all orthodox uisamo,
8m o Alanti,7l . VIA_ • .411100 t. -NOW. lab
4.4.-buiapheakoult
you'irapt to be' • • 19 " f or 01 °
!Isar watargpl‘iror the !Aett..ll Adj.
.14 , 4tir • 4.
A . ltoll ter
litts'iniooratobi al icagob e c e
United Statis t sai
s! - s = eit
thrs el =a
pasty has *chief great Sroidraiies. -It is
au eseellentgraii.ddiripC.Ats gratoyerda
In the South will be verbatim( supassursta
it its skill id tfistlipe: *ad tem iswi ng
those graves, it has net bad to borrow sub.:
Jed.. 4lt hasilly drat* wpm sew own
vast resotutiee i a thetlrfate; it tioatits that
the dratroleeile elt. Id* si musk, eloet.
setibliehetl in thii 8014. tiVeriTial Mid with.
the bodies of our otnanoithisitiields.. They
are our sons, tithe* oft , until/mut our
neighbors and Madrid, who also „thane—
Whl o the foiciintl Th e strive abilltrited ore. dr heads.° .
An their hones artli lie, ohjeeta litioath
"nivand- acorn -to m -that Cheerful
thoughtlethoew northemt faunas, whole
dead have been generously bpried by the
benevolent Repubhcan pasty: the reerlast
log etbaument'or t4iii party 4 4 4 . rh e its,
gratieltardc-. -Day Book: 4
Republican enduing° pipet h road ,
ing the people a leskon_andaty, find admon
ishes them to be cement with solesAtp•kave.
but, sir, if ditty allow you fe ll ows" to go on
with this war, you:will soon kayo to admon
ish-them to breontent v11.4)044 gm Mott
not.
LiamOW wkyll that lOtoriass
will honer the present thsess thiltrolit *a
top Yes sir, and it will be Ipursit for its
great pillage, too. •
'pa
Corrected Weekly far Mit Wisitigt*.er Hof
er Brother'.
White . Wheat, per bubei,..„:... „II 1,4 0
Rye 1.• ' do 140
,
Corn in car 5,....,;;.: ' de.,...,.......,.... ........ 1,04
Oats, 40 .
.
Barley AL .....
Bnekwheat, de,.....
Claxer Sued, di,
Potatoes,
Lard,..
Bacon,
FM
Tallow, da....-:....., ..... -....,. 12
Rafter do • - 25
Riga, per d0ur,......... • 20
Elute!, grotiud j .....spg ter1w....4,...............14,00
rt 0 UHT.PROCLAMATION. -
Whernaa, the Honorable Samuel UM.
Preaktentof the Court of COlitißall Pleas in the
25th Judicial District, containing-of. Hie wen**
of Centre!Clearfield and Clinton, madVos Hon- -
°rabies John B. Pruudfoot and Samuel Strohm:At
or, Esqs., Aseociate Judges In Conn* County,
,having boned their precept, to RIO dinged, for
holding a (Watt of Oyer and Tornaintir anqien
oral Jell pelivery, at Bellefornie,(or the County
of Centre, and to oontatenee on..tho fourth Mon
day of January, (being the Stith day) HMI, and
to continuo two weeks.
Notice is therefore hereby giesai to the Cozen
er, Justices of the Peace and Constables of the
said Comity of Centre, that they he then_and
there In their ip their properponsons, at 2 e'elock
in the afternoon of said day, with their records,
inquesitiene, examiaShasse add 'their other re
nuonbranestu, to do thew thidgs Which to their
offices appertain to be done; and thee who are
are bound in rocognissaces to prosecute against
The prisoners that are or shall be in the Jail of
Centre County, be then and there to prosecute
against them as shall be just.
(liven under my hand, at Bellefonte, the 6th
day of January ) in the year of ear Lord one
theurand eight hundred and sixty-four, and in
the eighty-eighth year of the independence at
the United States RICHARD CORLEY
Relnatrree OPINION, nen".
-Jan. 6,1864. I
F AII.III FOR SALE.
The Nulauviber will offer at public sale
at the Court thrum, in the Beroagizefßellefenti
on
TUESDAY A WEDNESDAY AFTERNOONS,
of the week of the Janne/7 Otault,,a valarble
farm of tryst of laud, eonialu m brj a ii r ti Undyed
acres, situate in Snowshoe to entre co.
adjoining land formerly °weed Williams;
Baird. Aboat eighty acres of the above tract
are well timbered, and ribald oleos by Beird's
saw-mill. The blame . * of the land hi ander a
high state of cultivation, and Wm embed there
on a TWO STORY FRAME ROUSE and out
buildings. A splendid yoing orchaall'af choice
fruit and a well of good water are near to the
buildings. Pomade's gives hamediately, If de
sired.
Tenni.: One-loaf the purchase tnone s * to be.
raid on eonAnnation of the safe', the in
six month thereafter. Fu • Anther particulars
inquirer of the Bobseriber in Bellefonte.
Jan. 15,, 1804.-tf. EDWARD ORA HAM.
STA7:6S ITNIO= ROUE. .•,
•
6011 and 608 .llos I.rt Street,. Ph iludelpht
eau. at. 5 laLMOND, MAVAGAR
Tote 'old and well kuorroMotel is, located in
the immediate vininity and mitre bovioess,
and to.ronntry merchants and - others clotting
Philadelphia on mailers of trade or plosion% it
la one of the most deeitsble Motels 10 the city.
It ic costreulet n 4re oteatabont end
ti 111
rooldepooCallibte try city oars
from ell parte o be eity. rooms are airy,
and ApiKbria, and ,the tables viikkersys oapplled
with' theliest thi tearlitit egad& , :Se Manager
smarm the int& that no iflbrt will be
On part to make the "Ilium ilaries,"=
Nitpick, pkaamit and twistable ‘oisis guests.
The terms ere OrlyPAO per &v.
"a• ,
A _It i PORWIR4IOOI4" •
21: - - "Thellinforoijnat
'Omitg7r•Vieeis of Rail*
conetn !na
to b ‘!‘tirtrait `beet_
in
the howls of Jimtat
of Emily Dendatbrdit• 4owskohip,
deo'd, wit" Attend to the dodos Or Ms sppobt- ,
wont oilideoilleothljalefonto, at. g o 011ock, P.
AL, on SatordovAllii Sid Alay Otfmtiost7,lB64.
whooLambwigoooll poroooshotat.-
te
J * on It *TOM* proper, J. BARK li.
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DMXISTRAITORS_ 110"1103.:
Lenore of AtebiWe**the Seo
of Yid Pow deeeseettists 0114114
bitting been
ee waited to the
tHlierittM , ,
tete to sake •hotoodjr . ,
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Jea 8a113016.111.-3. • , Admr%
r
A DAng 7,7Leriale-• -,„,.
taN of iehat*i . 42 4't
having been tad • . 4._ •
herald , . 5t4014
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ma =
liqtate Wages """"T"'"'
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