The Democratic. Watchma
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P. GRAY MERE, EDITOR A PROPRIETOR
10Ini P. MITCHELL, Assoc's:no EDITOR
FRIDAY MORNING, JAN. 3, 1868
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To Our Patrons
A happy New Year to all! A ten
fold happy one, to tho thousands of
bravo, true, Deoperats who Bbotl - by
us through the dark days of mongrel
mobs and puritan despotism ! To
Om kind friends, are we indebted for
that success which enables us to-day
tio s send forth the WAYoirtArt, equal
if not superior, in size and apiiear
ance to any paper in thq State. We
hope as it comes to your firesides,
again enlarged and improved, that
you will remember that it was your
support that has helped us make it
what it is. For that support we most
sincerely thank you—thank you in ali
earnestness, because it was bestowed,
willingly, freely and cheerfully, with-
out bnying'it with promises or seen
ring it by pleading poverty.
' As to the luture counli.of our pa
per we give the past as a guarantee.
We intend to cmitinue improving it—
we intend that it shall be free, fear
less and plain spoken—we intend that
it shall do a full share in the great
work of restoring to our country its
former gramlucr and greatness—we
intend that t shall he a perpetual re
menrberanei the tools or tyrants
and niiscrabh wretelies who outraged
liberty and justice under
their heels, of their infamous acts,
and brutal proceedings, when hanging,
mobbing and murdering in the name
of "loyally \re have not forgotten
the drunken nobs and street brawlers,
who did the dirty work of dirtier pol
iticiahr during the reiin of the "late
lamented, — nor do we intend that
they shall forget them.
We arc not going ti) Aoek in
ANDREA' JOHNSONS policy—we arc
Dot going to throw up our bat fur
military candidato dr paicy politi
cians—we ass not going to' speak of!
wench mu-shill2r- treasury robber.,
bawdy house tniitners, puritan hyn-
Omits, constitution violators, and the
whole hot of blackguards, black-legs
and fools, who lead the block army of
niggers and mongrels, a- gentlemen,
patriots or oven respectable citizens.
We shall say what Wir. think and to
words that any one can understand,
and if thileskitocd individnalq, of
puritan pursuaiion, or even those of
our own way of thinking', who labor
harder to please their political oppo-
nents than to put in practice the prin
ciples of Democracy, do not like it,
they can take the leis of it
We profess to be a freeman, and we
intend that our paper shall be free
—free . to condemn the wrong, free to
support the right —let who
. may
of denounce. I pen this plat
form we stand and male uur fight.
How do you like it friends? If it
suits you, put your shoulder
.to the
wheel, and help increase our lists of
subscribers--help to put out Fpoken
Deunsciatic papers in the hands of
every one who will read—help to
spread Democratic truths, and thus
secure Democratic victories.
—Two or three of our Democrat
ic exchanges, are out fiat-footed for
Gen. Hancock for President, beemise
he is a military man. Tho very rca
son why we would oppose his mni
nation. We have had enough of mil
itary men during the past six years:
Every attempt they made to iamictit
the country only got it into deeper
diffu3ulfy, audit will take some sensi
ble, honest and patriotic civilian a
long time to build up abet these
wearers of blue coats and brass but
tons tore down in a very short tlme.
-- -A lea of the hlaityr Joao littow:i,
Was last wtek, placed In toe lasane asy
lum, at Columba, uhlo.—A&viir
cAntogr.
If all the fullowors,of the old.;,liori•e
-thief,'lnurdernr and fanatic, were with
Lim iq the wa t rtu elimate . ,be is now en
-0011)14;49,r with" his son in the lunatic
iinyium, it wouhrjbe n blessed tiling
fbr;tbe country.
4ervint iti?Af ?"
The mongrels complain bitterly
tliiit - the - Snufbari - people treat with
....
respect and consideration the men
who so gallantly led ' their' in their
brave, but unfortunate struggle for
independence. This is only anoehor
proof of the sliallftness of those %vim
pretend to be trying to restore, the
pinion, and shows to all reflecting men
that they are utterlylLicaliable orun:
deratanding- the treat-- pri,nciplas..
which must naturally unite the
States of this Union; if they are uni- 1
ted at all. Wks anybody in the North
fool enough to suppose that the
Southern people would be whipped
into loving New England' so that
they would lick the hind which
smites them ? Did any one think
that if the armies of the Confederacy
- were overcome arose who had 'filled
and led its ranks, would love us any
bettei than before-they had bed
whipped? Surely.mot, for this is-not
usually the result of 4 fierce and re
lentless strife,
There NU but one proper es.Misi ,
for those in power to pursue,
.and if
they had adopted it, the -Union--
would long ago have been restored,
and the-leaders of the late Southern
Confederacy would not have stood
half so high in the estimation of the.
people they tried to save from des
potism. That course should have
been simply to allow the laws ef the
United .States air ady in force to go
~
intToperktion in II parts of the Un
ion as soon as ho tility to their au
thority ceased.. his would have re
stored the Unid at once, and the
Southern States would long ago have
been taking care of theirown people, ,,
black as well as white, instead oleos- 1
ting the North many millions or dol
lars every year. There is no doubt
whate6r, that most of those who
took part in the late revolution great-.
ly preferred the old government to
any other in the world as soon as
they were convinced that, they couhl
not estaidiTh 'one of the'r sw there-
fora the very yen who most actively
and ably led the armies of the South,
with props treatment, would have
at once become the most active and
able Union Jaen as soon as they . saw
that an independent confederacy wma
beyond their reach. -Tlve: miserable
wretches who were at that time con
troling the government
_realized this
tact as well as any one, and hence
their indicent haste to throw
ides in the way in orders to prevent
the Inion from being restored at all.
IThe difficulty belweon the North and
South would have been settled long
ago. and the goi'rritment would now
loNe been ill 1 , 1'1'4 harmoniously' and
pette d :fully the resistance ou
the part of the liadicids to every of
,fort on the . pai. -if the Executive J o
put the law , country in opera.
thin
of those in power
been trxnetly ealeulated to r•e'.er the
Union ne,re widely than ever. aml to
de;t10) forever the great natural ties
which formerly held it together.—
The course of the government should'
have been such as would convince the
czouthern people that they were nos
taken in the fem.+ of the Abo'itiuniz
ed North, and that they had een
falsely instructed by those who had
led them A mild, conciliatory, con
stitutional aourse would have accom
plished this very thing, and' the lea
thers 4-the Confet'erate States would
have en lessening -:n the estimation
of the people from the day of their
defeat until now But the actions of
Coagress has been such as to convince
the potpie of the South and the
whole world that their leaders were
right in fearing the great and grow
ing power of the North and that their
only blunder was in underating our
ability to carry on war. Of course a
party which crushes and tyranizes
over a great people — Taw failed in as
gallant a Atruggle as the 'world ever
witnessed, would have done the-same
without war if they Inta•Lk9hcs , to the
power. When the onlffesults of the
triumph of the North are - u dissever
ed union, With toe portion held in
subjection by the laryimets of the
other, with the nepro turned loose to
outvote his master in all the Southern
States, and with every vestige of a
Republican form ofgovernmene utter
ly obliterated in ten of our States, it
pitchy begins to be very manifestant
the party which doe's these things is
hostile to the people of the" South.-
Of course the people thus crushed
down turn with resliect to tha men
Alio risked their lives and fortunes
to prevent such a state of thiuga,and
bei4ie the respectful mannerin which'
the leaders of the late CtMfederate
Status are treated by their people,
It was in the power of the North
to leave i•estored the lfrion and thus
to have phozn the Southern , people
that their fears wore grAndless and
thoit leaders blameable for rushing
into war. Tkolqogle*d this "Ivor
tunity, and pursued ad hlifiduite
()nurse, and they alone are to bleep
tliiitie a ffections of the people oftbe
South are more widely alienated from
us than ever, Thee are not dogs, but
"men, high-minded men." and their
conduct, under the circumstance's,
has been just what it ought to be.
The Presidential Nominee,
Much s'peoulation is just now being
Indulged - in by our - egiteiiiPorfirids, in
regard to the next nominee of the
Democracy forthe Presidency. While
it may be well enough to canvass the
fitness of this or that aspirant with
an earnest desire to sClect the best
mall, for lhat'high pa4itiOn, it is the
merest folly to attempt to predict Who
the choice of out party will be. Our",
PPonents meet 4n,custwention, in Clii•
cago, in MN next, to put in nomina
tion a man to be supportea by bond
holderst wench-worshippers, thieves,
and mongrelsgenerally. Should their
nominee be a military man, and the
individual whom they talk about
now—the butcher loader of, the last
Peninsular campaign—there is such a
tendency as Doesticks would say to
"daniphoolery," in the breasts of the
American people, and in the so gall
ed leaders of the Democratic party,
that our convention may be manipu
lated in such a manner as will sAure
the nomination of a nilitary man, in
order, as "policy" preachers will ar
gue, to counteract the evil influence
which the mongrel nominee, will be
supposed to exercise over that class of
people, wile look only to military no
toriety as the culmination of states
manlike ability. So that there is no
counting noses before the"ennvent ion
meets and all speculation as to who
the man will be, amounts to simply
speculation and nothing mare.
For our part, wo are fin. the nomi
nation of a mau l who' can stand on a
Drmwrolic plot cent —a phit . ,'"orm ul
nhbtinu princip6 a man who has
bad no hand in,,,the bloody work 'of'
murdering American citizens, in or
der tadestroy the Union of our lath
ers—a man who can be relied upon
as a statesman . a man who has (lie
courage to do right under all eircum
stlences ; a man who beliem; that
this government was "e,tabl imbed by
white pelt for white men"—in the
soverci=ty of the states, the liberty
of our citizens, egnal taxation, and
the immortal princtryieN of Demacra
cy, as taught by the founders of our
Republic. 'I he country has grown
sick of' military men—tired of bom•
bast, buttons and shoulder ;traps;
and we hope that those who control
our party , will heed the voice, and obey'
the wishes of' the people If they do,
blue coats, and brass buttons, will ex
ereise bat little influence in the selec
tion of a candidate. We will have a
man of true and tried principles, of
known ability, integrity and honor,
who the people earl rally around, with
the firm belief and assurance, that he
will be able to resene the country froth
the ruin that military tutu have
&ought upon it.
We have every hope, that—our
"leaders" have Seen enough of the
workings of "expediency," to - „pen
their eyes to the fact that a man, who
was in no manner Connected with the
bloody abolition crusade, carried on
al a "War for the Union,'' is the
only proper person Jo receive the
Democratic nomination for the Presi•
deney. And while therg i.s evey
prospect of our mongrel oppoients,
meeting in convention in confusion
and adjourning in despair. with such
a man as Tilos SKYWOUIt. or
GEo. ii, PcsioLz-roN, as our eoulinee,
we may confidently count, on obtain
ing at the hands of the people, a re
indorsement of the Constitution, so
long despised, and a
,President who
will see that the lows of the land,
enacted under a strict observance of
that Constitution, aro faithfully exe
cuted in the true npiiit of justice and
right, which actuated the framers of
our rysteui and.form of uroverninent.
CAN'T IVIN.—Our townsmen, Ex
(loci. CURTIN, is said to be waking
mast strenuous efforts to secure a
complimentary vote from his party
in this. State for •vice president.
ANDY that all together understand
the enormous weight that the old
winebago, has fastened upon the
shoulders of his political aspirations.
lie hardly believes that CAMERON
will,bave him laid out flatter than a
busted bladder, long before the meet-,
ino of the Mongrel colivention. But
he will. Gov. Onwrim stands no
wore
4 gliance ortetung cle mongrel
nomination for Vico President, or
oven a complimentary vote from his
party in this state, than a buszard
would of flying to the North pole with
ita wings clipped and a "fitly 'lke:.
hung .to each leg.
—The WATCHMAN —the whim
awl's paper. •
,rIY W.Will ba Sustained.
_ _
The people of the' United States
have always loved the Union of vrhioh
the constitution ip the bond. The ab
olitionists who desired to destroy
the government, declared years ago,
through the Mouth of lITILLW4 H.
SEWARD, that they would delude the
people to its aestructio'n b'' the my of
'•Unioar" How well this purpose was
accomplished, the torn, bleedieg, des
olated condition.of the - country attests.
If the people of the . Northern States
hid deliberately intended to do just.
ghat the war did d0,.0r 'it' they had
teen aid appreciated the purpose .of
the loading AbolitiAsts who corn
' met - teed and carrien it , ou, at*still
continued to support Mai, we would
utterly despair of ever restoring the
Union older fathers. It is true the
result has been disastrous, but the i
character of men is notAlways.indica
ted by the result,; their efforts at:cow -
plish, for with the best motive in the
world men may ere. Ail the tneans they
employ, and acecomplish nothing but
evil. This is just vyhat we think has
been done by the people of the North
ern States., and our hope for the fu
ture is based on the honesty of their
motives, now that the work they did
rises up before them in such ugly
shapes and huge proportions.
The Democratic party had been so
long 141 power that the people forgot
that no other could properly adminis
ter the govern ment,,and supposed that
Isom,great success at home and abroad
was entirely owing to some intrinsic
tuer;t, in the form of the government
,They did not realize that with
out n part:) , which understood and be
lieved the principles on which it was
based it was a mere body without a
soul ; Or if hold posses.siOn of ny a
party having opp isite principles, it
became a terrible and •dangcrous in
strument for the destruction of all it
was erected to preserve. By craftily
working on all the weaknesses of ho
man nature, the-Abolition leaders got
false and wicked ideas widely dissem
inated, and believed before any but
the wisest and most far-seeing dream
ed of danger to our institutions They
next induced the people to believe
that their doctrines could be carried
out without interfering , with our gov
ernment at all, awl fiuulJy perbuaded
them to do the work,ef disunion and
dopotism iu the Very names of union
and liberty. But the very fact, that
this kiiiTof artifice had to be employ
ed, that the judgm-nt of men had to
be perverted in order to get them to
confound good with evil convinces us
us that their hearts are right, and
that all will be well in the future. •
If the whole North had ru,hc , l to ,
arms against the South, simply be
cause of a blind and bigoted hatred
to them, awl ha waged a savage and
bloody war, wilfUlly intending to ac
complish the only ends which were
attained, we might just as well cease
to struggle, and perniit the republic
to drift in to some sort of monarchy,
and the Hiongr the better. But the
armies of the North were mostly
composed or tnell iv to wore honestly
fighting for the Union," and the
people would not 11,.‘e burn the bur
den, of the war a single day if they
had not been firmly convinced flint it
was being waged to maintain our in
stitutions
We believe now that dame who
honestly fought under the deltown
that war. could restore n Ilnion which
violence had turn asunder, and who
gave their money, as well us their
live., with the hope of preserving the
g6vernnieut of our lathers, will vote
Huh and fur the only party which
over was really for the Union, mid
which experience shows to be the on
ly one under whose administration
all parts of the country flourish It
was not a matter of much surprise to
UN that the party which had waged a
successful wkr should bit( sustained
while the people believed they were
roing to reap its fruits, which they
had been told would be a periptly
febycd Union, and tiniver.git liiiiToo
ity end peace throughout the country.
But when after, three years have
been wasted in efforts to carry out
' the Abolition programme, and the
Union is .yet more widely severed
than when the army of lion. LE. E.
surrendered, it ought to convince
all that the whole • otliing is a gi
gantic failire, and many are being *4l
convinced every, day. The recon
struntiou measures of Congress and
the condition of the South under
them are driving - thousands into our
ranks who foclowly opposed us.
, !
All wholem , stly bustiiitiell the -4 wit
for the Union," must and will now
support the party which has been
demonstrated to be the only ono un
dar
w`iieh the Union can, nmr
we confidently expect that the Dem
ocratic candidate for president in
1868 will melee the largest vote of
any man who was ever a candidate
fur that office.
Theo Curse of,colordloe.
,The great curse of the Detuobratio
party for years bank, has been the
cowardice of its leaden—is leek of
courage among the men who controll
ed its organisation, and spoke for it
at meetings and through platforms.
In place of meeting questions !breed
upon them in an honest open man
ner, rises' have, whenever possible
"beat obeli. the bush," and shirked
every - issue that it required any cour
age to make.
When abolitionism first left its black'
foOt-marks over 'country, in
place of showing up its hypocritical
philanthrOphy, its infamous designs,
and the wickedness of the idea that
nature had done her Work wrong in
placing the African in an inferior ph-
salon to the caucasian, and fitting
hini only to wee, ninny of our
speakers and writers, fearing to do
what was right would try to evade
the issue, bysdmitting that 40-dolled
"sloven , " was wrong, but that we had
no right to interfere with' it—thus
hoping to please the poor fools who
could be converted to any belief by
the hypocritical tears'of New England
puritans, as well aithe,niassea of our
people who at that time had no idea
of thinking that Almighty God, had
made a mistake in creating one race
to care for and protect another. It
was this cowardice on the part of
Denucceratie politicians, that first gave
abolitionism not hold by leading
weak-minded and unthinking pepple
to believe that it was right because
those opposed to it feared'to show
that it was wrong. --
Again when the opponents of the
Democracy forced upon them the
question. of tariff, in place of meeting
it. as honest, brave men should—in
place of assailing it as a legalized sys•
tem of robbery, whereby; the man
ufacturcrs of thl! country was to be
fed and fattened at the expense of the
con , unters—they conipromisA and
became ostensibly tile warmest sup
porters of the measure, thus again
loading hundreds of well meaning
men, who looked to them as the
proper persons to express the Dem
ocratic opinions 'on public questions,
to believe that tarriffs.ollust what the
country, and the tax payer need.
And when abolitionism succeeded
in inaugurating itsl infamous war
against the people and in;tit talon 4 of
the Southern State, notwithstan ling
the fact that the would be leaders' rif
the Democratic party had time and
again warned the , people that such
would be the result of the success of
their opponents, 'and, had openly
pledged therusulvo, to resist it to the
last..--to oppose it iu every way, shape
and form, ..as unconstitutional, un
just, unholy . calculated only to des•
troy the Union, and, trample ',craniall
liberty and state sovereignty, under
foot , as soon as-they lied' d the fanat
ical cry of 'Wur-for the Union,' there
was none who howled it louder,or made
more vigormis efforts to have it sur
eveil—simply' because they believed
suede a course would be popular and
could result in their attuning place
and position. It was poliQi they said,
and what was principle when policy
demanded its sacrifice ."Let I v+ °nee
get into power" said they “and then
we cum administer the government
according to Democratic !thus.'
But the trouble was, this time ser
ving popularity seeking, policy, wily.
Imrhundreds of thousands to believe
that the war was right and con-e
-quently the party that maugerated it
received their support, and i4 , LIY
onoqh, was the men who would have
succeeded on 'a fal•e platform, de li
feated.
Ilave we, as a party,dearned a lei- 1
~ ott from the past? }lave — the do
feats brought upon our cause by cow
ardly shrinking from the issues of
the day, taught us, that it is best al-
W . l3'N to stand up for what wo believe
to be right, whether it newt popular
or not? !f no, -nothing can prevent
us from succeeding iu the near future.
141 e people ..i4.1 right, -Thy Lure
lad there e)e3 open to the filet •that
in the success of the good old Demo
cratic doctrine after all, lies the only
hope of the couotry, and all that is
wanted, is for our "leaders," -- the
man who mute oi!. puminations—to cut
loose from military Gods, reconstruc
policies, and everything that savors
of the ireasonably
.prsctiees of those
who recognise the acts of an illegal,
treacherous body, styling itself eon
gran, as binding upon the country.
URN. ORD, ono of the military sa
traps, who was at ono _tienit'supposed
to be a deeent.men and tor a while
gave some evidence of liberality, bits
boon deposed from the little Rover )
eighty ho exercised its the South by
the President. Roaaoh—he wasn't
lit for the position on aecount of his
tendency to.mix black pepper in . large
quantities in white mail's. soup. He
will not be regretted by ikeybnay.
• cisegt4ol4/0411M,L, Fine .Of the
editors of' the La "'Orono Democra t
,was killedin the Pita railroad disas
ter near Angola, New Ir.prk, his re.
maibs being recognized by a ring on
'his. finger marktd "C. L." The
last jmbor of the Democrat makes
its appearance . e draped in • mourning,
with.ad editorial in whieir - Mr. Post-
NROY announces the sad fate to his
readers. Mr. LOBDELL Was on his
way east, whore . he intended ,to cele•
brace the holidays by getting married
and the sad fate which has overtaken
him, leavetrhis -intended bride in an
agony of despair. Poor LonnELL!
As "Brick" says "Poor Charley !"
Ho was a young man-:--a writer of
much nbility and versatility, and of
greatyruturo promise. The Democrat
will' miss him sadly, and its readers
will realize that a pleasant and fami
liar penis absent from its post. But
let ns hope that he is gone to a better
land, and that, though his stay hero
was brief, ho may find more than.the,
realization of his hopes of earthll
glory in that.other world where we arc
told 'there is no darkness, and that
neither sickness nor sorrow can eater
therein.
JOHN Port:, the cowardly braggart
Of whom the President said that he
"substituted tyranny for law," has
been removed by Mr. Jottrosors front
the command of the district composed
of the Suites of Alabama and Geor
gia. This removal will be generally
commended by the public, and is a
just retribution upon one who thought,
it brave hnd manly to maltwat and
oppress a defenceless and inoffencive
people. Ile has been. ordered to
report at, -lieculquarters for further or-
eri. What those orders will be. is
not known. They should be to stiip
•hint or the uniform he has disgraced
by his brutality and cowardice, and
to associate hinr in the private ranks
of the army with the niggers he 'has
attempted to elevate over the heads
of the free,white men of his arn race.
Posterity will cursel - i - m fors thieving
poltroon, and history will write hint
a "scoundrel, whom 'twere bane flat
tery to call a villian."
Foa Hiner --The last Mau
her of the La Crane lhanocrai, cornes
br us dressed up in an entire new suit
o - f
type, and enlarged to a fo - ity &alit
column paper Enterprise and pluck
is what Int, secured the success that
enabitio- our Wisconsin -cofeinporary
to corne•out looking as neat arid pros
perou, us it does. nail it bowed the
knee to the abolitton baal, or cringed
before puritan tyrant)), we'll bet Our
hat that it wuuld..not count hundreds
nerd it now has thousands 1)r subscri
ber, We
_say succe:ts to '•l3rick''
and llry inimitable paper.
- --The abolition it t. were either liars be
lore ...leaflet; alien, or they are knaves eases
L,,,,,! 11'0 Loa,
Yeti aced not bother yourself, Itien
eral, ut tieing to decidevthich of the,,
two iµ their lending characteristic. 1'4..
we itf tlu North, who have been downi
ed to live among them fut years and
years, c,or swear as often as you want
us to, that we I. nqw the leaders of that
party to be both , and besides, to be
the bifigest harm and mint consummate
knaves, that the good Lord ever put
breath into There, is no discount on
their ability or willingness, to lie,
cheat, steal or 4,0 any other mean con
temptible act.
1.1, SOO!; , 1 LEA VE:--Iteport4 from
WaNhinvon; state that the health of
THAD. hilwENs yo, rapidly
that hi 4 death at any unto Mould not
surprke his friends. While it might
not be a surprise, ft would certainly
be an unhappy event for one ,of them
--the devil,---for after the ohi 'clov
en foot, "shuffles off the mortal
coil," there will bel but little peace
for him and bk. Eliill will be in a
constant uproar, or STEve:sni will be
the most miserable soul among the
damned.
Herren Not 111/. yr.—The l'etin
sylvania Legislature meets nu -Ives
day next. 'flint the people will he
benefited by its legislation there iv lit
tle hope. k would be better fur the
tax ...foyers if it would not meet at
AP.
lieNF,ltetift NiEADE and Meltownt.
have been appointed by the Provident •
to succeed Pow , : and ORD; recently
removed. These generals tirQ sup
posed to in:towns getivi common nurse.
We will Noon see whether that sup
poaition is correct.
—lf °KAN! stock einitinues fall
ing us it has ,ihr the past five weeks,
at the and of six months it will be so
low that a streak of lightning couldn't
overtake it in an age. •
--One of the ap,icicat ablest and
luosl fearless Democratic 'pliparii that
we have had the, phinsure of receiv
ing, is the Philadelphia ..lisiclayMer—
cury.'