The Denincratic Watchman, BELLEFONTE;.PENN'A P. ORA.TIIBEK, EDITOR 411 PROPRIITOR JOIN P. MITCHELL, A ..nociATK Novron -- - FRIDAY MORNING, JAN, 10, 1868 ..7511.M5 . .—.52 per year when paid in -Sa vona°, 2,50 when 'not paid in *draw% and $3,00 whin niit - putid - before the expiratibn of the year. Let us Nominate a Olvillan There is no question of greater in terest to the Democratic party at this time, than the nomination of a candi date for the very importantoffica-ef President of the,llaited States. It is said by some that it is not a prop er theme far discussion now, and that we should await--I,he action of the nominating convention. We think differently, and hold that no' is the very time whelti the subject should be 'mot thoroughly discussed, that 'a prner conclusion may be arrived at before the assembling of the conven tion. We believe that the Demo cratic party can investigate and de termine arty question relating to its own interests without engendering any ill, feeling or creating any Adiscord within our own ranks, and we pre- , .potic to aev,,te a portion of our time and space to the -discussion of this question until the nomination is made. In what we shall say, we speak only for the WATnnst,i i p i _not as the organ of any clique or paiTy,and the editors of this paper are alfine responsible for the opinions to be expressed on this subject. In the first place, we arc' opposed /(..o having oar nomivations depend in the slightest degree on what is done by the Ra4;eals in their convention. Ifnare st .igglieg to maintain prin ciples, no a. ~ r i of the opposition can Change our ry in that regard, and whomever .1.: nay nominate, we arc bound to se:ert and support the.- man who can heat carry them out Some may be disposed to quote the old saying that "half a loaf is better than no bread," and contend that for the sake of "expediency - it is better to *Feet e-half-way Dowoonit than to be defeated with a good one. If we could understand hoW any one can be a half-way Democrat we might admit the application of the saying, but we could not be induced to believe that one who is the friend of both sides could unite all the elements of strength held by either. All who love their country :41 desire to see the Union restored, and who believe that Radicalism will destroy our in stitutions, will vote for a straight out' and sound Ditnocrat, just as quickly as for a man who tries to belong to both parties and belongs to neither. It is now• well understood by all in telligent voters that the issue between the political parties of the country is one of life and death, and all who are convinced that Democ . ratic prine;ples can save us from impending ruin will vote for the Democratic nomineee,let him be whom he will. It is vastly importent to us at this crisis to have a sound and reliable candidate, who will, if elected, maintain the princi ples we advocate at all hazards. We do not think there are many men in our party, or even pretending , to act with us, who for the sake of expediency would be willing to batter a single one of our gforious and time honored principles. But there are some who derire to delude or bribe unreliable men into supporting our candidate, by nominating some one who has in sonic way, at some former period, induced trio world to doubt the purity of his principles, but who pill now if elected carry out the most radical Democracy. We are decided ly opposed to thi4, as well as every other species of demagegueinin. AN DREW JOHNSON is an example, fur nished --trs-by-the enpetrition;--ef their working of this system And even if we could succeed in this way our Success would be a perpetualteproach -to us, for whenever we cannot have a fair, free endorsement by the pee plc our party cannot rightfully main Lain itself in power. We are not en- . gaged in a mete scramble for office,. and no 'tnere party success is , wth-th the effort required to obtain it. Many good Democrats, who stood firmly .by out ancient principle* through all the dark hours of the past six years, now favor the nomination of a Military man for Preddent, in case .9f the nomination of General GRANT - 17y the Radicals; not because an army otheer is likely to make a more efficient executive than a civil ian, but because they hope to dazzle the people by the brass buttons and blue uniform. We are Sorry that men of Weight in our party favor this idee,7and if they prove strong enonith to, control our convention, they too will he sorry before long, for their 1 blunder. 'After the_difeat' of "- Clellan, in 1864, it was geherally eon: ceded, even by those who urged his wmiinatiqrt. that aby able civilian in our milks would have rut as well eh he, yet he had the merit of lav irlg kicked out of an army which his Democracy never led hive into While we are perfectly willing to con cede the capacity of any of the Gen: er4ls_w_iio_ar_o_talked_tif far_ the_ nom load* we can ne,vervonsent that our party shall heap honors upon those who deserted us in our darkest hours, and whose bayonets were turned against us in order to impris'On or banish our 'sury "best and purest men. __— When the late civil War first broke out, there wasetome exouse for those Democritts who filled and led the Northern'armies.. Under the 'resolu tion of Coruiress7 of July 2l,st, 18(11, deelaringthe' object of the war, all who did not know that lying was an important part of Aholitionipm,might be excused fur being deceiver'. into th e army . , and . the ninny thousands of brave young Demoertits who compos ed the rank and file of the Northern army are to be pitied. rather. titan blamed, for the results Of the ptrith ; for they could only escape by, deser tion from the service which thek had sworn, 'before the object of the war became apparent / to perform. But what can he said, in excuse of those who held commissions and could resign at pleasure? Were they carrying out Democratic principles when they wore swords for -the pur tmse of murdering, ravishing, burn ing and destroying the people and property orthe South, with no other object to be accomplished by the sac rifice than the the freedom of the negro and the enslavement -of the white man ' 9 And witch Northern Monocrats were being persecuted, murdered, condemned to death with out trial, imprisoned with o ut lr w and banialted without a shadlw of author ty, were those who wore swords in the service of the military despotism which committed these outrages, then earning the reward which they now ask the Democrats to give them'? If they were, they certainly earned it well.. and it. is-proper iL should be conferred upon them. But if it is proper that those who ''hear the cross shall wear the crown," that those who do the labor shall reap the re ward, then we say that every pimp of dettotionia shall be repudiated, and_ t hat ihose wire were persecuted for the purity of their principles shall now be rewarded ftr upholding them. No man wholkeld a commission and did not resign it alter the purposes of the war were mad , • manifest., is worthy of the support o airy Democrat for any important po-ition. and we hope our convention will terse no such person upon us. s k , - Let us have an able civilian nomi nated for the great and important position of President of the United Stat,Cq, and from Maine to Cidifornia, we will once-more sweep the North in a grand rally for the ancient princi ples of our Republic We will have more to say on this subject in the future, and will not take up any more spree in discuss ing it A line of battle is forming on the ground won in the skirmish of last fall with the enemies of our in stitutions, and if we get for a stat,d ard bearer a man and statesman, nothing can resist the grand Demo cratic charge which will he made next November, to wipe out all the defeats we have suffered in the past, to rewire the Union, and to establish the supremacy of the constitution over all our vast domain Let every Democrat consider himself a recrui. ting officer, and enli.t men for the greaj, contest which is to be waged the cowing year in the only way con tests can be carried on "for the LT l he military derv, who lately so ga tly misintained his position on the shoulders of some fools who carried him,.has got down, and is al most lost sight ikf. The people have had their Phil (ill.) and are not like ly soon to trouble him again for any purpose. The coutl.e of General HAN • COCK as a military Governor, if per• severed in, may induce the people to overlook his career 714 a leader in the late crusade for "cotton and niggers,'' but, never to trust him with an impnr , tart office. --Clem A. C. DokiE, of Burl ington, lowa. is talked of by the western Democrat.. a, a candidate for the vice-presidency. He did not win his military title by the slaughter of his political brethren, and his uomi• nation would probably give satisfae tion to as many Democrats as that of any other wertertt man. Cause pied Effict It was a favorite saying of VASIL ) INOTON that an act is best proved bye its result, and while few may _have thought of this in the terse style of that'great.man,all admit it. truth, in one form or another:-----4f the'result of unvthingis nothinglint evil, litt . who *serve it must conclude that the thing itself is wrong ; And' in every. dailife the irutleTiiiiti is generalY admitted. The only wonder tir us is that while thclrcople practically make this an important rule of lift in ordi nary affairs, they should sometiines so long 'Tie sight of it altogether in 'polities! ' We havo..often— wondered why it; was that thei did not sooner apply the rule to the affairs of gov eminent, which so largely controls them in eveeything else Subjected striefl7 l to it, the Mongrel party of this country could not for a moment maintain tleir standing before the peortte, and would be repudiated by them at the first proper opportunity. Since the -day that the Abolitionists went into power, they have not ac complished a single good or valuable object for any body in the world,and it is a matter of wonder to us that they have been so long supported by the people. \'pars ago, when Northern hostility l in tire cniohitution of the Union first 'manifested itself, the ablest wen of the country of all parties foresaw the evil which would flow from a success by the Abolitionists, and most sol entnly warned the- people) against them. Bat Yankee cunning isuceed ed against. the good sense of the mas ses„and the government fell into the hands of its encruies. .lust as 'had been foreseen and foretyld, a fearful war i nimediately ensued, and the whohl laud was scourged by the tri unipli of sectional bigotry and hate. The Southern people, by adopting what we regard as an improper seine dy for a reA.l evil, gave their foes and 1 , ours the very _opportunity tiler desir 'ed, arid under the pretext of putting down insurrection against the autho rity of the government, they delibe rately over turned 'the most vital of its principles. If result., correctly test the nature of _ acts, or if, in other causes produce like efTects,the acts which led to the late war will all its misery arid blood, must have be m of the very worst kind. The author. lot the war undertake to escape iron o.lll)...rusponsihility by charging ittipo • their victims, and hitherto they hay . been only too successful jn getting pi ) pie to believe their false tale. Their attempt to escape the judgment of risen in this way is about like a man wlio would hurl a tire-brand into a magazine of powder, and seek to ex cuse himself by alleging the combus tible nature of the povyder, after a fearful and destructive explosion had occurred. The fact that the South was willing to take up the guantlet which the North throw down, does not change the guilt or responsibility of those who offered the provocation to war. Uwe admit that the South' was equally to blame with the North, it does not elect the tent which we are now applying. All the great men of both sections had for years warned titi.pennie against the election of a sectional przsident,'and predicted,,as the inevitable result uf sueli au elec.- tion, civil discord and separation of' the Union The beinocracy of the North, in partiefular, had exhausted every effort to pervade their breth ren not bo support a sectioual candi date, and solemnly warned them that the consequence of the triumph ofl Abolitionism wou4id be disunion midi civil war. But they were deaf to all! warnings and entreaty, and delibe-1 rarely endorsed the sectional and din union candidate of t..!ie abolition corn vention which met at (I'licago in 1800. The result that immediately followed is too well known to need wore than a mere reference. The se cession of: i the southern states and five years ollire most bloody turd ter rible war the world over saw geoid not have occurred if AilitAiiitst LIN coI.N had been defeated in the elec tion. The fact that he became presi dent under the forms of the Constitu tion, which we admitx,does not in the least elf.ect our present • inquiry. Se cession and war were the results of acts, commitu3d by the Abolifion party against the solemn protests of the wisest men of the country , and under the rule of WASEGNOToN that 'row Its wore acts'' surely t he acts Must have been had indeed to produce I such fearful consequences. ....After they /pad involved rim, coun try in war, the Abolitionists suddenly pretended to have become the most zealous supporters and defenders of - tile Union. Onco. mure the people allowed themselves to bo deceived, and supported with might, and main the party which was carrying on the war tin the part of New England. In this , atilt . ' every other instance', re sults have . proved' that 'Abell tionisry or Mongrelism can atfeem , plisg 'for this country nothing but destruction. They succeeded . in getting better won to fi ght th w e at for them, but took good care t, they alone should manage it. ' All men of iiitelligeneamm.laok for them• selves and see what has been aceetn plished-by it, and answer to their own satisfaction whether or not any hut bad acts could lead to.sucb evil con bequences. Thg..war has now been over for nearly three years ; the Mon grels, according to their own declara tion, have been all that time "reap ".its results, and what aro they ? Debt, faxatfrin, starvation, degrada tion, free slaves, enslaved freemen, disgrace on all hands and ruin staring us in the ratio but no unionoci pros perity, no restoration df law and or der, arid not a single good thing as the result of all our expense of money and blood. Under the ..ripplication of the rule referred to, how does all this agar? What must have been the nature of the causes which have led to 'such terrible results ? And will the people apply. the same rule in this ease which thertio in all others. and repudiate the partykwhich has so long imposed ii,bon them, and accom plished no good thing for anybody in the world ? Let the elections of EEZEI33 An Outrageous Sentence We notice by our daily exchanges that Wat M EESEII., ESQ. , publisher of the Philadelphia Sunday Mercury, convicted a few weekssince of libeling MU, MANN, has been sentenced to pay a fine of SAO, and undergo an imprisonment of nine numths. 'Had ;11R.MES.sm.% been found guiltS of li beling any decent, respectable citizen the sentence would be looked upon not only as unnecessarily harsh, but outrageous Put when a public *character, ub noterrionskran-Al as BIM, MANN, collies into the gees ion, and is to be bolstered up in such a manner, it looks to us more like an infainou.l wrong inflicted upon a vic tim, than an attempt to have justice done' all men. In a proper accepta toti-of the feriii it would b. " possible to libel the bloated carcass the miserable wretch who acts District Attorney of Philadelphia as it would for an artist to add deeper shade to the chimney walls hell. There has been no trick in po itics but he has been guilty of, n malfeasance in offize but could C keyed against lsm ; no crime di he has riot covered himself with, an no corruption that has not tainte him. In tact, publicly and politica ly, he is the embodyment of all th, is impure, nasty, stinking, dimgmc fel and vrlluiubua, and was it iustic that was tieing meted out, ninety times nine months imprisonmer would be the sentence pronounce upon him. in place of - Tune 111011L1 upon his victim MA. MEEKER --- Many millions of Dollen, are annually wrung froze the poor. labor• ing men of the North, in theashape of taxem, to be expended in prevent ing the Southern people from teak- ing their own living, and in foolish attempts to elevate the negro to an equality with the white man. Those who pay the taxes have grown weary of it, and will repudiate the party which permits and encourages such robbery and outi age. The Democracy of the whole country was never in better conditrin thett,at the present moment. There is perfect hariuony in our ranks, and our people to a man are determined that the "Union must and shall be presemed " We never had a inure glorious purpose to accomplish, and were never in better condition for contest, and unle , .s something not now foreseen occurs before next fall, nothing can stand between Ls and complete victory. --The few Democrats who are in tho Legislature of Tennessee voted for old Brownlow for United States Senator. We thought this very cu rious until informed by inquiry that he is in very feeble health, and'they . entertain strong hopes of his removal early in the term, to a warmer climate, when they expect to have` the votes of white men and elect a Democrat. —• Wherever military govern ments have been established tinder the reconstruction,. acts of Congress, the Radical; ate twist heartily sick of them. They ure like hiltless words. wounding worst the hands that, wield them. A What tho Bible is to the Christian or the magnetic needle to the tnaritiir, so ought a written con stitution to be to Oh people in A country Ilse ours. RIIIIIOSI ,Disturbitioes. The mongrels are popping-avtay at eaoh other in every direction; and if their hands wore only a- little more steady when they shoot, wo would soon be entirely rid of a good-proper ,n of thein. A ease ouourred in Nashville:Tennessee, some time ago which fairly illustrates three things, to wit : the miserable uranneas of Northern radicals, who &Oro to keep up an idea at the• North that th Southern people are dissitisfied and turbulent ; the blood thirsty disposi tion even of those mongrels we were afraid to enter the army, and 'the thievish propensity of the hangers-on of every department of the govern ment unddr the adinleistratin or "the martyr." , We all recollect that a month or _ . two ago a story went the rounds Of all he radical papers that a quarrel bad acourred in the billiard saloon of the Stacy House in Nashville, in which a young man had been shot, .and in several instances, editorials were writ ten eallinvatention to the turbulent and rebellious condition of things in that city. On a recent visit to that Place, we took pains to aseortuip the truth in regard to this shooting affair, and ,discovered that the quarrel took Nage between two Northern men, li'ho had been connected with the quarter master's department during the war, and were Of eoui,,e exces sively "Ioya! Meeting in a billiard salobnehigh `words nceured betwech them, and each got to telling of the a/Aydin/7.0f the other while in the em ploy of the government. The result was the drawing of a pistol, and the firing of a shot, which drew "loyal" blood, but produced no fatal result. I his is the true version of the affair as told us at the house where it cured , and we can testify from our own knowledge that nu city in the North is more quiet and peaceable than the city of Nashville. Bruwulow and his legislature attract little atten tion, and the people regard all the rev6lutionary movements 110 W going on as a were farce which is very near ly "played out." Judge Busteed, ;mother very "buy ' wau„ was ulau shut recently .by rother "loyalist" iijrwed Martin. 14„, seems that. Martin had ken engaged in some whiskey frauds, and a pre sentment having been made by a grand Jury the case was to come be fore Busteed fur trial. Martin was acting District Attornky and Busteml the presiding judge. Two shots'were fired, one taking effect in the breast bone and the other in the leg. It is feared that the judge will recover. Thus it goes. fhe only vtolenee which is occuring in the South is from the hands of the Radicals them selves, and their pets, the negroch It is about time this state of things would stop, and the people are going to stop it within the coining year. --We ob,erve that a few of our Democratic e.otemporarie's are filling in with the Abolition idea of cal ling the emancipated blacks of the South freedmen. We are oppo,ed to any such thing. Let them be known by the pane, which best describes them, of negro. The difference in color, contrasting black with white fairiv represents the difference between the two races, in every particular. The word negro means black, and no other should be employed to soften the idea con4eyed to the mind of white. men by it. Let every man who believes ours to be a superior race, use lan guage in speaking of the races which will best represent and keep up the marked distinction betweeb them. —Much has been said in regard to the separation of Senator SoittrEtt and his wife, and the causes which led to it. All who know what crime ua% truthfully charged against hitn by Mr Voottiims. will nut wonder that a woman of spirit refuses to live with him. the --ebarges trade against the Democracy by the oppo sition in isr,o was that of extrava gance ; yet, a2cording to the testi mony of Radicals themselves, we paid all the expenses of governnient from year to year with les:i money than they aw/idly steal. We challenge all the Radical papers in the country, to publish in their coluntusw single clause of the `•reconstruction acts'• ,of Congress Which can by any p.sssibility, work for the benefit of any white-man on earth • :- - --PoodietotO ehetml!, for the Demo. cradle nomination for Wil'res idea ay , are considered rood by hie friends in Ohio.— Xzeatinge. • And if notninated him chances for an election are conmidered good, by the poor tools ofp bonded aristocracy who win oppose him. A Game that Won't Whir On Monday last, as we: have been reliably Informed jogn J. PATTEtt sox., and •his- tool JAME* ROBINSON, went to Ilairisbuil, hilly armed, and "equipped to contest. the seat of , Ito N.. Is: T. SIIIMERT. That their 'efforts will'inntulit to anythhil,Thut an ex posurt( 'of Some of their own villian n'aP Ads; ' 'thnrnS ono enough to believe. If eve; any one, • as elected honorably and fairly Ms. Stitrosei was, and the simple fact that every respectable opponent he had in the entire district, hoots at the idea of contesting his seat, is proof of this assertion. But with him in the Kanto, PArrEnsox, stands no chance of making his '`ten thousand dollars''-no clltince .)f bleed ing parties who may want legislation -44th clianee of filliek the positiot;' of scnntor without being responsible for the acacias of one. Jotirt J. PATTER SON knows as well as does any one,. that there is not the slightest ground for even a suspicion. ofunfalrnesS in the late Senatorial election in this district. But what does that knowl edge amount to with him--a I man without character, principle. truth or common, decency, a poor diseased, bloated being, whose' chief employ ment for the past seven years, has been stealing from the public corn tnunity, perjury and swallowing Bal sam copahia. Ile, is aboui at the end of his string however. Already with one foot in the Penitentiary, he needs ut Go push on his efforts to thwart the will of the people of this district a little farther, when a few facts will be made known that will. open the eyes of many of our people, and close those of JanN J. to all but the beau ties of the State prison. The Vtrguun Ilegroes had a sur feit of brutality on Christman day.-- From ageounta so far recieved, a negro named Williams shot and mutilated a whit. , man mauled Edwards IU a most shocking manner, in Solithamptoti coun ty. At Manames a large body of ne groep wadi an attack upon a while tuan,, but finding him prepared, they finally slunk - away. At Lynchburg there is a deadly feyri between the Uhiltti titmice goldieraAnd tile negriien, wMeti nearly took the shape Of .i battle me•erni runes during the day. la Richmond, to the evbning, it. etruattatimterFrir Ue - c - irtii - e in - volireil in a fight with a mob of negroes, but. before Rauch damage was done the police and a squad or armed noldtera •r -ri•ed and mopped the light On Thurs. day another disturbance occurred be tween them but the auldiern, being in the minority, weru oomp.elled taretreak before tae mob of blacks The latter followed, armed with putrola and clubs, uttering lurid ohs of -kill um—kill the d—tt bide corals !" 011 Friday night, another row occurred, but. wit soon quelled by tine prompt notion Of the mil itary officers and police These are but a few of the inoloired reset; of outrage and bloodshed.—Erri.op.se. BREAK 1111` MILL old preacher in Weetern NeW York, who wee being persuad,d by tome of hie church men during the political excitement in that Mute Net Nit to join the Radical pwrtr,eald "No. toy brethren, I can't join that party, because all the Abolitionists In toe country are in it, and A bolu.torristn. my bretht en, hoe dune n wonderful sight of harm among the people It has hurt many shepherds Intl scattered many Hocks It got into the Methodist church and broke thitt. up, It got to among the l'resbytrrions and split them in two ; and it got into the gerrernment and broke the old Union Into pieceie And, my brethren. l don't know of anything IS is good for, but to break down said break tip Anti if 3,1)11 have any enmity against the old boy, I Sllrine you to mend Aboli tionism intrrhl,, domtntor, and it will break tip hell itself in leas then three weeks.—Exclaanye. When the rubject of companion 11411 fur the Nervier/1 nit the delegate• to the Negro Si .te Cotiveui tun of Virginia max up in th•tt bud) the other day, one ..f thr the black Republican, went in atroug for the highest figure • It.' said he " you (lOU I pay a fellow enough lie will have to slu.l , and then he will qii hi e nuue II tie piipers."— Whether the negro memo alai an a men see-oe not hoe mil been nonerininad Probably he had heard Lathe uirtbuil by laic) toettibrre ci thu Penneyl- ICU Leginliiitire mitring,' In get rich, a id not mend 11/ 'be pnoot bi of a root on a a ialg en 000 p.-. -, Rx chafty • , Tsseivui--Irfaur.—The 81. Joseph says -This slimness of the- Moo critic party means war." This Is terrible—if true The Demo orate have ..sucomedeii" in Conneetient, CaWorn's. Kentucky, Delaware. Penn sylvania, New :Cork. got pos session .if the Legislature iif Ohln. upset Republicanism in -loyal" Ilini.tnn, with the assunance of some hard- l asted allies, - wiped It out In Pittsburgh, and carried •vsr so tnatly suniller rii,r. betides. Anil all tl.i. rnrnru rrnr !" This le ter /Mho 1 What is the country coming tb ? —.M. Ims. terimblienre --- Old ~rownlnw claims Or Itaal l eAI nominittm for Visti. Trent.lout on the ticket with Grant, on the /ground OW be can 000trol the veto. of Towner •ee There io stroug«x oleirn than that. It will reqabhe it doable quantity of RAW toelieht In the Vioo pe t ,ifhpot t a bend!- date to mike up ler Grautirdeflotenotee in that nopeot. and who IN fuller of gall end 'flitonlii) 111,,n 4 0 .1,1 primidone.- 1 - Iffehange:
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