The Demacratic -Watchman, BELLEFON P. tlairris BE K , EDITOR a PROTRIRTOR. ANN P: MiI i CEELL, ABBOCI•TB EDITOR FRIDAY MORNING, JAN. 11,. .1888 TERMS.-12 pet year when psid.in ed vanoe,11,1!!0 when not paid in ■dranoe, and 118,00 whitp not veld before tbei expiration of the year More About the Nomination of Can- didate for President. There are many minor reasons why a eiviliau4hould be nominated for President by the Democracy at the present time, in addition to the one grand season that a voluntary connec tion with the army which was waging war for the partizan puiposes of Now Ragland, after those purposes became apparent, surely implied a lack, of ,round Democratic' principle. It is scarcely to be doubted that we want a good and reliable Democrat riresent tci for the suffrages of the Democratic •masses at this time, an - a certainly there must be serious doubts in the minds of all men as to wLether one who bore a sword and held a com mission after the "late lamented— showed the cloven foot, in issuing the emancipation proclamation, call be such a Democrat as may be safely trusted under present circumstances. This ought to be a sufficient reason why the names of all military aspi rants should be excluded entirely from cur nominating convention. Surely tb. first and most important -qaalifi cation of a candidate of our party for any position ought to be that he is pl. the same faith with ourselves , and there are so many able and efficient men when, we can nominitte, that it seems the lotight of foolishness to talk about of whose Democracy has ever been in., But we have,, o,nk tuck) now which trod:wends in importance all others we' were ever called upon to perform,and in the selection of a candidate,especial 'regard should be had to this particu AT object. If we succeed in the elec. 'tion in November next, we will find ourselves in possession of a govern meat whose resources arc nearly ex hausted, and with the best producing portion of the country utterly pare( yzed. We will be obliged to keep up the treasury by the most careful man agement, andliidirally to bring the government once more into the situ ation it always occupied while in pus cession of our party in the past. But the great work we will have to do is that thing which abolitionism failed to accomplish by such an expense of blood and treasure as the world nev er before saw. After clearing away the debris which all their tremendous efforts have heaped in the road to true restoration, we will have to do the work which no other party on earth can accomplish, and reonite the severed, broken and Ic-ring Union as it was once united by our be there It is therefore important that we select as a candidate for president a man of known ability as a states man, and one who will invite the of tections of those whom Abolition bate hao estranged from us. In our esti motion it would be just as Improper to nominate and elect a geneial who fought on the part of the North as it would be to nominate and elect Gen eral Lek The one vtould be die tasteful to a large prOpertior of our people, and so also would the other. We could have no proper restoration of the Union, if' we elect a successful general, any inure than if' we elected an unsuccessful one, and if, as we firmly believe, our prosperity and happiness as a people depend upon the immediate restoration of the Union, that ought..to be the first ob ject of consideration, in our party convention, and every where else. If we are successful in the coming campaign, as nearly as we can com prehend the situation, we will find our hands quite full, oven with har monious and united action on the part of all our people everywhere,.and we eamvet afford to leave out of viewlhe valuable aid we ought to receive from the people of the South in the great work of restoration. We ought there fore to nominate some one who will unite diem of our political faith in one grand 'effort for the restoration of the ancient order of things in this country, if such a person can possibly be found. IL may be alleged by those who favor the selection of a military candidate that no such person can be found among those who opposed the late fratricidalstruggle during its pro gress. If we admit that a few, who are shallow enough to ,he carried away by the bloody faMe of one who ihas bathed his hands in the blood of hie fellow men, will refuse active sup pit to a true Democrat., the dissat. f4hotion will not be of a sectional charatiter.. A candidate such as we desire to have will recieve the earnest and enthusiastic support of all true DenMerats everywhere, while it must be utterly impossible cor the people of a large section of this country to support with any energy a mate who has ravaged theirland,and carried the bayonetand the torch to the heartaand homes of their people. Without any regard to the question of the proprie ty or impropriety of the "war for the Union," 'or the causes which led to it, or even admitting for the sake of ar gument that it was rightfully *aged, it must be plain to every man of sense now, that if we are to have restora tion in a form which is to be at all permanent, we must so arrange the different departments of the Govern went that the Southern people will at least respect, if they do not love us. It is quite manifest that they cannot but positively hatc a man who for four years employed his sword against them, and that we cannot have a peaceful and happy Union while one section elects an Ex9eiil - officer who has hunted tens of thousands of the other section to death. If we consider the causes which led to the unhappy difficulty between the North and South, it be comes still more apparent that no Man who has earned fot himself the hatred of a whole acetion of the coun try can be a proper person to . execute laws for the healing of the breach which triumphant sectionalism has created. All the great statesmen of the past, from WASIIINIITON down, wm-ned most solemnly that the tri umph of a party founded on geo graphical distinctions would sever the Union. 10 St;(), such a triumph oe curred, and the Union was immedi ately severed.' The triumphant par ty at once went to war against the weaker, and one of the most savage and bloody struggles the world 'ever witnessed ensued. But it failed to restore the Union, and if it had last ed twenty year,- longer the failure would only have been the more com plete. As long as a sectional party remain-. in pow-r the Union must re main divided, by a law as inevitable as any other law of nature, that hos tility and strife can never begot Union. Shall we than, the only par ty of the Constitution, nominate a man whom only a portion of the peo ple of one section of the country can heartily support? If we do, we need expect no prosperous,happy or united people to dwell together in peace un der our administration if we are sue cessfel in the election. MEE Sufficient Proof. It is said tl Mongrel "national" committee and stump orators, aro de termined to give poor Sarnbo the go by in their prosecution of the presi dential:cauipaign—if possible. We arp quite certain that them sanctified "God and morality Pharisees," who lie and deceive with a, goo; a t.we as, the devil himself, cannot gt.t rid on their black burden 111 , en:4ft.. as they imagine. It will stick to them a,, 1 closely as did the shirt of NKSSUA to that unfortunate intlititlual, and lx their death in the end, in spite of all the physic they eau take to work it off. We pity the negro. for those unfortunate sons of 11AM have chosen a dangerous guardian, in the Men gip3l party—a false, crud and subtle guardian who has already led them into the most imminent danger, and has still greater troubles in store for them They have been tempted to the edge of a precipice by their treacherous guide and unless soon pulled back and rescued by a power different from the one which now con trols and urges them forward, their next step will be over the edge into the rutboTletu; abyss --to actual phys ical death, to extermination in a war of races—a struggle for life in which not a hand of their false friends will be raised to help them. No better proof of the credulity, stupidity •nd ignoranoe of the negro need be re quired, than his unliMited trust in such a brotherhood of political cut• throats. —The Mongrels create new offi ces without the shadow of authority,. in order to pet more of the pi; to funds, Br.. WADK in now' dr ing the_ pay of Vioe President the United States, and in kno ds ;ha "eating Vice President." Na -office entirely unknown to (Mt. fruttitamentat law. Well, in, older to got much. they must steal good deal in a short time now, they can't, :44 long. • I —The practical operation of the reconstruction measures •of °engross is the beet electioneering scheme we could devise. Let the "reconstruc ting" go on, and the Democratic tri umph nest Fall will be beyond all - Precedent. . Stirring up: 're Strife. Every ma ' religious principles, if he have v, ought to so far control hie political action as to induce him to' acthonestly and conscientiously, as he shall amount to Gon for all his deeds. rnthis regard, and no other, ii - Man's politics ought to be a part of his religion As a general thigg i we have always been , opposed to any ap• peals which were made to the reli gious opinions or Prejudices of men, calculated t 9 influence their political action. As Gon has not seen fit to revei in His Word * what kind of civ il Government is best for mankind, and most pleasing to Him, it can be no part of,our obligation to Him to build up and maintain any particular kind of government. All forms which are not in open hostility to His laws, so far as we can learn,would be equal ly pleasing to Him, and we need only to consult our own sense of right in order to be right before God in our political actions. A political party once started in this country having for its avowed object the injury', and if possible, the destruction of the Catho lic Church. It is well known how the Democratic party struggled with and overthrew the Know-ijothing organi zation , and from that day to Hag, nod political party has ever attacked or advocated the peculiar religious faith of one. But there are dangers Threatening of which we deem it our duty to warn the people at the pres ent time. Pseudo religious journals and MIMI are socking continually tot keep tip4ll'e wicked and foolish pre-1 Mice which sonic sect, of Protes tant, hold against the Catholic reli gion. There can be no purpose in this at all unless it he either to ne• com plush sonic political end, or else to persecute those of our fellow citi zens who arc Catholics Tlwre was a time in the history of our country when men of every religious prestia sion could point to the clause of the Constitution which guarantees reld vious liberty to all, as thel safeguard from all threatening danger. But within the past few yea rs, \ that have been taught, by prkept-and ex ample that thti 'Constitution is as nothing in the way of a majority, and that the Imrer to do anyting is a suf- Ceient excuse for doing it. When •Abolitioniqn first began eobe talked I of in this country, the ronstitution of the United States stood an appa rently insurmouatable barrier to it interference with 'slavery and slaves, in States where it existed'. It was ackßpwledged by all that men of Che North could have no lawful pow er to interfere with the peculiar insti tution of the South, which was re cognized and protected by the onstt tution But we all knQ how mull regard was paid to the olemn provisionsof that instrument,whenver the fanaticisth of the North had run ,to such an extent that those who con trolled the mob dared to attack what it prointsed to protect. We know what the result was, that all of its mo-t sacred p-rev mow , . were .wept away, ar..! the Idlgioes and political right v-bp,h we had ai ways supposed to Le protected by our fundaments) law were at the im r e), of the swine who filled the p-b he offices. It is with a full knowledge of these things that the very same men who preached up h crusade against slavery are now engaged in preaching hate against a religious sect, and seek ing to air up that most. bloody of all monsters, religious intolerance. Many of the Protestant pulpits are tilled with men who became preachers only to "preach the Gospel of' murder," and now that their work is done.they find theuiselves unable to maintain their standing except by stirring-up more strife. Such pretended preach ers are the ones who are continually calling up the "unfortunate misunder standings which occurred between the two great Christian sects during the ages of' the past, and seeking to bring about openhostilities and blood shed. There is as much danger of their accomplishing their purpose in this as there was, when they_ first. at tacked the institutions of the country, of their bringing about a fearful war, and it is well for those who desire to prevent such a thing, to be warned in time, and continually to guard the great guarantees of the Constitution. ---The utter ineffinieney of the Mongrels in every department of the government becomes daily more and apparent, and teeny now holding of fice are struggling only to prevent an immediate eollap/A. 011 their hands. The people are just now learning by experience that the theories of the Demo-ratie party were right at all time*. —Do you want a paper ttati is notafraid to say what k thinks (?) sub. scribe for the WATCUMAN. Congress Working #or U• If we - iiiiilcihe permitted to choose a 'course for this' Mongrels which. would result in-their destruction as a party, we would not change in the least the programme which they have laid down for themselves, and have thus far followed. The most powe i rild weapon in the hands of the Democracy dining the campaign of last year was the practical operation of radical laws. One would suppose that such it defeat as they suffered then would be a lesson to them, and that they would seek by a more oon• servativo course to regain the confi dence of the !conic. But they have only drawn the lines the tighter, and strode another step forward in their mad am revolutionary course. Instead of receiving the lesson the election ought to teach them, they have been goaded into frenzy by the rebuke of the peoplq,, and now contemplate the usurpation of all the powets of tie I government. They have heretofore done all irtnir'Powei• to - override all crxemitive authority, and when the president outwits them at their own game, by the appointment "of 'such men as4rlattntocti,-to govern the des, potisms at the South almost as if they were republican in form, they seek to wrest from him the powers he holds under the fundamental law— the Constitution—and to confer upon some- unscrupulous military adventu . ror the power of an absolute monarch over the people of ten of oqr own States When the Supreme Court lof the United States proposes to in terpose its authority to secure to our own States and people their constitu- 1 tional rights, thjs fanatical and fren zied Congress hesitate. not a moment to attempt to trample out of its way the tribunal, which to all true Ameri can citizens stands next in authority to the Almighty Himself. In fact, the majority in emigres. has shown conclusively that they will stop at nothing—even the anoihilation of the government itself,—in the mad at tempt to carry out the crazy notions . vt_ agitated the brains of Mongrels for years They have shown an utter disregard for every principle of action 'which way ever recognized in the past, and have fu r;ously and openly attacked every safeguard which our fathers erected to preserve us from the encroach ments of arbitrary power It is well for them that the people do not re alize what has been done, or what dangers threaten as the results of the usurpations of Congress, for no radi cal member of the rump would Lx safe for an hour frog their ven geance. It is perhaps well, under the circumstances, that 'the people do not fully understand that greater danger is to he from an unscrupulous and tyrannical legislative assembly than from. any other power in the world, All history warns us against the 'tiny thing which stands at tlii•i hour in threatening attitude over the republic of the United State. But, it is perhaps better and safer to eiore,t these c% il, ,: :1 , hal lot-boz I..hui, by ihe hand, .1 ‘, ,lonce, ' and for th,.t 04.. i• it 1 1..1 .1 e•well that the people look i.r. ii, ...1 by and see the course nt* tiongr, • - , ithout fully comprehending its tendency. Radical legislation undoubtedly did more for Democratic success last Pall than any thing else, and ever since then,it has gone on from bad to worse, and the laws in operation have prac tically demonstrated the truth of the teaching of the Democratic fathers. We are now like a people enveloped in darkness and clouds and tempests, while just beyond, the bright sun is pouring his rays upon the peaceful earth The-only question is, can our institutions bear the fearful strain upon them until the Democratic tri umph comes, and we once more emerge into light and peace ? Let us spare no pains to keep constantly before all who will read, the unvar nished tale of the usurpations of Von gress, and we'inay count confidently on a complete turning back of the black and bloody tide of Mongreliam in the elections of the present year. —The La G ' roue roue Democrat aria tone GRANT "the national cigar;" and as we never heard of hie doing any• thing elae with any sort of ability, but smoke, we consider it the beat name which could be applied to him, to fairly describe his qualifications. We got a four years war by experi menting with a "rail-mplitter'. for president, we trust in Maven wo may not now be cursed with a huge "cigar" in the SLIM positiun. —We challenge any mien or jour nal of the Mongrel party, to point us to a single good thing which resulted from the triumph of Abolitionism in 1860, and from their continued tri umph from that time until the Au tumn of 1867. Do Him Justice. A mongrel organ in Washington has--Wriared and in type, ready for publication at Clio shortest notice,' a biography of elotien footed Sea al An the devil is said to be good to his own, it is uncertain at what .procise • moment the "great commoner," may give the world thq slip, apd we advise the editor, while Vett The breath re mains in'the body, to revise his biog raphical sketch, carefully, and make sure that, he‘has done full justice to his subject. There are many, very many incidents in the life of old THAD which would make his biogra phy deeply interesting. Among ot'i era the part he played in the "Buck shot war,' '—h is masterly retreat thro' the back window of the capitol—the ugly wound he received on that New ,- sion—his amours with the wench who is mistress of his heart and t home, and a thousand othar little things as cowardly and as degrading as these. Old Tann. has been 4t disturber of tho . tiiicuiretraicrTs. a - Grcifer of rais e lie , a plater of eVil,nand liar, all the days of his life, and while .we art far from wishing him a speedy exit from the scenes of his earthly career, we feel a strong desire to sec t when that event occurs, full justice done to his memory. only trouble that we see is the quitter is, thut-he has been so infatuouHy cor rupt., so notoriously debased,so filthy in his private, Ittc, and so trsasonablo in his public career. that no pen will be able to write hiiti.down just as he has been or to do justice to him or his deeds. BELONOB TO TIIICM.—We have ob served, of late, in looking over dal Congressional proceedings, that some Nhallow-pated noodles, of the Mon grel pursuasion who represent etfrtain dark corners of our country, for want of argument, use as weapons against their Detnocratic opponents, the once potent epithets, "traitors," "syrnpa thimer,' "rebel' ' and "copperhead.'; Have these beetle headed members yet tzt learn that the •only traitors in this country, are those who support the treasonable course of the puritan faction in Congress, so called ? Have they 'yet to learn that the wretches whose names will go down into histb ry covered with as much infamy as that of BgNEDICT ARNOLD, arc to be found at the head of their own Ott- OANIZA.TION —they themselves are the "traitors':—the miserable cut throats whose souls are black perjury, and for whose necks the gibbet is waiting. - SUMMER COLFAX, in a good representative of the party which has done him all the honor he ever had. A mean, low-blooded Yankee, elect ed to Congress from the State of In diana, he has always shown himself to be a fit exponent of the vulgar and ignorant fanaticism which has maintained him in position. With out, either education or extensive and sound reading. he is possessed ofleit sort of impudence, peculiar to 080 of his clahs in this country, which en ables him to keep on the surface when better men minx out, of sight'— Ile can make a spread-eagle speech such as school boys make at exhibi tions, and such as would bring, him into disgrace with any body but the ignorant fanatics ho is representing. The condition of the country is well indicated by his occupying!mportant positionS at•tho seat of Government, and we need hope for little improve ment until such as he are driven forth ith the vulgar, brainless herd to which they-properly belong. —Radicals can never get done talking about taii — inotistrous idea of paying the government bonds in "le gal tender" notes. Yet when Judge Sitattawooo made 4 distinction be tween Old and paper a terrible howl was raised against him. The Demo cratic party in in favor of paying our debts in the Qn I lIU sort of .money we receive , fur . have to much regard for the poor tuo favor the idea of keep ing a paper currency fur them and gold for the rich. Let all be treated alike. —No political, blunder was ever more terribly or swiftly punished than that made by the election of AintA. .04M LINCOLN in 1860. The whole country has been - scourged by war and taxation, as very few countries ever were before in the same length of time. How long will the lesson be reniembered ? —Under existing illWa of this State,pamed by the legislature of last Winter, a negro can insiston bleepitag in the sante oar wtth the most:refined ladies in the hind, and the oondnotos and rail-road company are •liable to severe penalties for any sort of inter ference with the riglitaof OWN* in this particular. —The whole ejfqrt_gt impeaohl meat of Presidehriommog; by the ramp, was a farce, and _those who urged it on, knew from the beginning that it would be so. They knew per fectly well that no. proper reason foe impeachment — iiisted, and that if they succeeded.tbey would do a great wrong to the piesidint _and to the people who eleote'd him. Yet the expenses of the Judiciary Committee of Congress in connection with the io peachturt question were $23,199. That is the way Mongrels are working to retinue the expenses of government. The country would be better off this day if that amount of money had been. thrown into the sea. " —The pc of vongresti—the Southern negroes—aro becoining dan gerous. We notice frequently hi our exchanges accounts-of wail rob beries by bands of wandering, desper ate blacks. Mongrelitnn has turned thorn tree to steal or starve, and the worst results are to be apprehended. From present indication, the whole Johnson administration contemplates cooling over wholesale to the Democracy, after having vain ly endeavored for years to induce the Democratic party to go to them, The Democratic State Con vent I ou-41.11tio,_tuttLat_eo bun, on the Nil inst., and unanimously selec ted lion. GEOROK IL PEN pIATON ilh their choice for the Presidency. We doubt whether a better nine can be found for that position. It is said that the Sc nate will make an effort to restore STANTON to office on condition that ho mediasely resign. A miserable at tempt to lot dawn easily a cut-throat, tyrant and murderer - of women, who will never feel safe from the just ven geance of a people he so long out raged. Since the above was in type, Mr. STiorroN'has taken posses s ion of the war office, and the "great cigar" walked out. What the•result may be we know not, as yet. The follow ing "special despatch . ' from the Post of the 16th inst., is the latest we have on the subject. • - All other measures of grittier or less importance are lost eight of to-day, and the Johnson Stauton imbroglio in only discussed. Ihe Rubicon is passed, and Grant 1 5 in the catnp of the Radicals. The newsboys pry on the streets, "Here's the erasing papersourreuder of General tiraut!'' Stanton took posses sion of the War Office this morning, Grant vacating in accordance with the programme arranged by his Radical keepers Mr. Joh neon alone seemed to have beau deceived lle was un willing to believe that Grant would abandon his poet without orders from his superior officer. It may yet become a serious queetioif how far Grant was justifiable in surren dering his place without orders retie•- tag him. The action of the Senate should have been certified to the Pres ident and nut to Grant, and it is charged thett the li.tter is guilty of a palpable •io:ation of the article war, and thus subjects himself to a po uft-mnrlia 1. _Airrtitoniou was escorted to the De partment by a body guard of Itsdioal Senators, who subsequently returned and reported to the Senatorial Wilton which bad assembled at the Capitol as a Committee of Safer', to take such se lion an they deem necessary, if the President hod offered any opposition to the reinstatement of Stanton. What will now be the !'resident's coulee seems not as, yet to be determined 14e...wi1l ignore Stamen entirely, and probably send a nomination to the Senate tor Sec retary-of War. Stanton told lien Wade lam night thu he irould tender hie resignation when• ever a suciceseor WWI confirmed by the Setisie,but this isbeld ar improbable by aloe, who know him It to more lbws likely he will el tempt to bold it until he etpolleil by legal force or course he WAR nut predent ut the Cabinet meet tog to-duty The President will transact oil busi ness of the War Department hereafter through Oeneral Grin% and. pract 'catty, Stanton will be merely n clerk without unite- 111 hie o YIII depsrtinent --The Louisiana mongrel/ List, passed an orainance making it a etude meaner for planters to disnharge nigger employers until after the ratification or the thing they hate °omit:toted anti call a constitution Employer& arm - therefore. to be burthaned with the support of • lot of lacy negro"s until the latter shall hare cast their votes against the plan tem By this arrangement every plan ter is to be forced. through fear of pun ishment, to feed and timirish perhaps a score of vipers within his household to turn upon him and sting him and all be holds dear to death whenever the mon grels of the eourention order It. By such infernal measures are the oarpel bag Radicals and the secret league ali mony laboring to bring on a wet of now. If much a war should be toads to malt in the extermination of them it would be a deserved penishMent and a blessing to the are to torsos of renouncing the present policy of the lioverstnant. If we are to have in the future two our tenet', we Would pay the soldiers' sad 'silo pensions lb sold. sold the bondholders In beset renders If there is to bo ik dletinetlos. lot it be le favor of lbe,roso who slaked - his life, and lost hie !hubs sod He health, la stead of the nun who really risked no thing, sod othertel9e was well paid for all he dld.L--Nooth Welters Ortnifesi.
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