The Democratic Watchman
BELLEFONTE, PA.
FRIDAY MORNINO, FEB. 14, MB
Deplorable Condition of the-South
Ea-Governor Pe'rry, of South Caroli
na, at all times steadily opposed seer--
sten and the civil war. There was no
where a more eirnest.friendof the Union.
Throughout the national troubles his in
telligence and moral reotituderommand
wi the reepeet of contending faction, and
bore him through the tempest with a
.reputation _untarnished. Ilia veracity
and humanity no one questions. We
Icereolirgtite-plice-wrthe-felhowing-les
ter from him written to a former citizen
of South Carolina, now fesiding in Bal
timore, under the sincere,bellet that thei
facts Which it narrates are strictly true
ind entirely reliable—that none of them
are exaggerated or shitded . by false . cot-
oring.
It is bat too true that the South is
overv-iTaiiieirivith poverty and wretch
ednellit; immensely increased sines the
close of the war by the miserable policy
of' Congiese Instead of lifting up and
restoring the •anquished, and meeting
them with magnanimity when they in
good faith sought to return ro their con
stitutional duttea, Congress met them
with measure , ' of oppression, intuit and
impoverieliment ; and this under the ab
sured plea that only by such treatment
could the southern people he made reli
able friends Following the example of
the English method or making friends of
the Inch, Congress by humiliation, disa
bilities and nil the wanton provocations
by which a people can be imbued with
hatred and, despair, have reduced the
South to the delorahle condition de
scribed by Oove or Perry; and in do
ing so, have doubled the taxes of the
people of the North:
Oentevitt.e, N C„Jahunry Ist, 'fiB
t EDQ.—My Dear ,Veread :
Jn •our letter to my eon you nay that
the Northern people are not aware of the
true condition of tar Souibern Suttee,
and that you wish me to write something
on this 'Plubject for publication. I am
willing, as I always bare been, to do
anyttitug abd everything in my power to
enlighten the Northern mind as to the
frightful and appalling condition of the
South. But it does teem to me that I
can fey very little
. not already known,
tiveostit pubtle press, to the who!e
reading community.
It is well looms to the world that ten
of the Southern States have been tit ripped
of every ventige'of republican liberty.
and placed, by the wicked and uncon
stitutional legislation of a radical Con.
tress, under • military deepottem, for
partisan purposes. It is equally well
known that negro onn•eni ions have been
ordered in all those Slates, for the put'-'
rep of entablisbing to them negro nu
premacy In order to accomplish this,
a very large port ton of the moat intelli
gent, •irtuous and patriotic of the white
race have been drefranohised, and are
hereafter to be governed by their former
slaves and unprincipled adventurers
from the North! These facts are well
known, and their consequences every in
telligent Mind may well anticipate
When slavery was abolished in the
Southern Steam if the people had been
let alone in their State legtelatiou and
restored to the Union. all would ha•v;
been well They would moon have re
covered from their exhausted and crush
ed condition, and been once more a hap
py and prosperous people They would
base added hundred,' of miliont, entival
ly to the wealth of the republic instead
of coettbg it, cc they now do, a hundred
millions every year, through the freed
meu's bureau and a standing army. But
the unjust. unconstitutional and suici
dal legislation of Congress has paralyzed
them forever I fear The negro is no
longer that industrious, useful, and civil
laborer which be once was, but an /idle
drone and pait to society. Inflated with
his new and marvellona political impor
Lance, be ham abandoned his former in
dustrious habits and spends his time in
attending public meetings and loyal
league gatherings by day and by night
The whole race seem disposed • to quit
heir work and resort to the towns and
villages, where they may eke out an idle
and wretched existence in pilfering and
begging
The consequences arc that our field.
and plantations are uncultivated, the
country pauperised, at the point ofster
nation and filled with every grade of
crime. Nut a day passes over our beads
that we do not hear of same theft, burn
log, robbery, rape or murder 1 will
mention one or two instances out of
thousands that might be enumerated
Fion.negre men, last week, in Darling- ' ,
hod district, went armed with gnus to a
cousiry store, robbed the store, killed
the clerk, shot a woman in the house.
and went to the dwelling of the owner
and killed him. A short time Omni. a
parcel of negroes placed obstructions on
the Berth Carolina railroad, which threw
off a train of cars in the night time
Again, at another point on the same
road, a parcel of negro.s fired into the
fain. sad came very near killing
'wagers. Last fall, at Pickens court,.
even or eight negroes were convicted of
Meier, aid seventeen others sent to the
mirsitentiary. Highway robbery, an of
Awe which was hardly heard of is South
Carolina for 'years past, hit-become a
ver47tommon crime In the neighborhood
eillilkens and villages. In' the century
Becht leilmose impossible to raise hop,
glid cattle. A gentlrmen told me
da s y he th e st
t he , ba i t lo n s u l m t e e r last i
stem ify4e neg p ro , e t :. . 7
*pother geetl a e-
Sonvideelind been Governor of Qteflesti,
prtAinsiesbet be bed eishfillee
Ail e awl they were stolen
epees except levee.
sidlidipof so merry prisoner. and
4111011titi , dierjalls and penitentiary' 4,
tweed*" sismotag. Ire shall not long
f *sun; nor will lbw pais.
s Ot uib 1 ito iR, 0414, 4 The townie y Is „
q that it te dilleny for
the negroes to get emplciimeni, it they
really wished to do. Co. The failure of
the"edtton crop throughout tho - United
titstes, with the government tax and low
price of the staple, has rendered it im
possiole for the planters lo continue
their business the present year: The
2g
difflo.„,., in, gelling the megrim to
work diving he poet per has discour
aged and
4 ited a great may. A
way lame eat crop *as planted latu
'pram. gold a at effort wee made by
the planters to retrieval noir fortunes and
give employment to the negetrra,-buLuni
venal failure sand bankruptcy have en
sued. lam not able to state the falling
off of th• cotton crop this Year, but the
rice crop has fallen from one kondre..
and thirty or forty thousand tierces to
twelve thousand ttercee.
The presen4 year every one will have
to devote hilt idtetiliob to the raising or
a provision crop. Ile will not require
**Amy labaracs.444-a0u1it.944 -014144
to feed them if be did. The negroes
have nothing to live on the present year,
and are unable to make crepe by them
selves. They will have to steal or
starve. This greatly discourages farm
log in the Southern Slates at this time .
If you make a good crop of provisions.
you have no security that it will not be
stolen or burnt op by the negroes
1p regard to the political condition of
the Southern States i am in deep des
pair. and have no hope except in a re
turning sense of justice on the part of
the Northern people. The idea of pla
cing thp government of ' these States, in
the tricnd of negroes is preposterously
absurd None of them have• property,
and not ono in five hundred can read or
write In the recent election for mem
here of a convention Nanny Of the negroes
hail forgotten their Mimes, and scarcely
one to a hundred cott'd tell after the
election for whom he voted They were
'controlled blindly by the loyal leaguesl
The tickets were printed in Charleston,
with it likeness of l'reident Lincoln on
them. There never has been such a
wide field opc 7 ned for the demagogues
and unprincipled aapirants to office.—
The negro is the most credulous being
in the world, and most enmity imposed
on by the wretches who are disposed t o
pander to Vie ignorance- and paesion --
Eintssaries from the North, white and
blast(, have come here and prejudiced
hint against te white rare lie has
been told that nless he voted the Haiti
cal ticket he wo Id not hays I. nil. and
mules given him, but that tic.' would tt
he did ;me Villa titket. to some lb
nittocel the nrgroas actually take with
them bridles to take their mules borne
with them
Ily military order in South Carolina
negroes ate to nit on juries In some 01
the distrittitof this State the neoro pop
ulation is Co inuchlitrger than the white
that they w:11 compoee almost the entire
fumes flow it will he possible to ad
minister justice with such juries, in
o,rtiplicated caves, iv more than I can
tell. 4- am equally at 14 101111 to knew
how the offices 'of the - State are to be
filled. The ••iron clad oath" excludes
from office 01 who are competent and
worthy This difficulty was foreseen by
General Nickles, and he requested of
Congress the retnoval of the oath Gen
eral Meade has r•centry suggisled iJe
acme thing in Georgia It will be im
possible fur the nesroes and the worth
less whites to fill, some of these officee,
or give the security required by law
Property of all kinds. and especially
real estate. hamileprecloted in nlueoue
half or two-thirds during the past year
No doe in disposed topurchsse anything.
and foreign capital has been driven out
or deterred from coming bare foe Invest•
merit Property sold 'by the sheriff
brings nothing The rnarshall of this
titie told we the other day that he sold
a plantation. well improved, containing
two thousand acres, in horny district at
public auction, to the highert bidder.
for five dollars. Janice brought only
fire tiollsre a piece
A great many persons are moving from
the lower country, where there are mo
many negroes, and that section of the
State iv destined in become awl tem:me
The same thing must occur in many por
tions of Mississippi and other Stilton A
gentleman just returned from Mississip
pi tells me that lands, which rented lost
year far fourteen dollars per acre, were
now offered at two dollars per acre. and
no one would take them
Unless ;here is a reaction at the North.
and better legislation for the Southern
Staten, they will be an incubus to the
Union. utterly destructive of the; whole
republic. The present military force
Will have to be kept up to maintain twee
between the two races, and there is no
certainty of their ability to, do th i s l o n g .
I have for some time thought that when
the negro government went into opera
tion it would .be impossible to pre
serve the peace of the rtnunory A war
of races must mane, and it will be the
moat terrific war of exterminatton that
ever desolated the face of the earth In
any age or country
am, with great respect and esteem,
yours. truly, dtc 13 F. Pinot.
—Battler and Grant are having
nice time of it in their own way. But
ler, so a Washington dispatch inform•
us, is engaged at present in getting up
proof that Grant has hap seen stagger
ing drunk in the streels We ■hould
not be .surprised if Butler came out ahead
of the Bribing Ibis time. Grant has al
ways had a predeliction for the bottle,
as you'd be seen by his using the ex
pretision, "corked up in a bottle, ' when
speaking of Butler at Bermuda Hundred.
Butler no doubt wants to show that he
is as good at uncorking as .:corking up "
Before the war Grant was a confirmed
drunkard General Buckner, who 'cur
rendered to him at Fort Donaldson, re
marked at the time, that it was the dm
time be had the pleasure of meeting
him since he picked him up out of the
gutter in New York City His own
frilpds attempted to account for hie men
riTobliquily in the late Stanton imbro
glio, by saying tliwt 'be was somewhat
obfuscated at that time. A ..pretty eon
didate for the God and morality partyd
The sumptuary teetotalers, and other
moral people belonging to that party,
will have a bitter pill to 111,1.111011,111 ease
1.1 8. G. gets the nomination for the
Presidenoy.- , Genius of Lan iy. •
—Beatty. 1144h05., was elected le
Oeuvres. by 829 majority, at the -pools
eleotign in the Bigbth Obio Diviriot,leat
Monday. Hamilton, Runes , . vas_ tfro•
teal last fall a year by 18b2— N
a iko
°ratio /sin of over 1,000 in a Has more
than one fur.
1 .
1 Staving White Labor* -end 'Tat
teaming Negro Vagabo .6.
-
Gil Bias lie Bantillaae. delimit .is
'travels and - adventuree, - ;eneountered
pbilantbruphist, who -was i watedng rich
by the nutasetnent of a Oarit i t fluid ;
itid kis; of many million. for' e sup
port in idleneetiof hundredtlf t sands
Of lisp blacke r hit}t pinziiiit so• rants.
seous to the Radical pagiy, i , t it is
proposed, to barter sou p hit' ige for
azio•her year! The policy which dic
tates this humanity is as disinterested
as the hospitality displayed by Polyphe
mus, King of the Cyclops, to unfortu
nate travelers who fell into hie bands
Ile fed them as cooks do cooped chick
ens, and when they were in good condi
tion, he roasted and devoured them.
' In November next, the Radical party
will sorely need all the Meek voters who
can be driven to the polls, and although
41Tho , 5ation la,trasessiairneatva-oad,4
1 patient at the thought of giving mill/one
' to the support of idle AfrioadS, yet they
must4t.e supported until after the next
Presidential election. Then entree hay
ing fulfilled hie mission, will be kicked
out of doors and ordered to take oars of
himself. If an ox, or a bog, or a male
could be made a suffragan "by set of
Congress" and then placed under Radi
tai management, a Bureau would at once
be established for the support of the
aforesaid quadruped 'voters, until they
bad been made useful "to the party "
At the negro of all men is the toast
disposed to work so long as he can pro
cure bread, withot labor, and as he is
indlfferent to the comforts of life, which
are earned by the sweat of his brow, (if
a bore sub.istence is afforded hirh,) the
policy of the Bureau Is rendering him
utterly worthless as a laborer As long
as the white men of this country are.
taxed to fill hie battered old kerosene
can with soup, he is content to spend stx
hours a day sirfigglimg with five hundred
other tagged and lazy black beggar, for
precedence at soup kettle receptions of
Brown and his associates
A quart of pouage and blt of corn
brand can buy the votes of tho
million of white laborers wlto have been'
thrown out of employment by the insete
policy of the dom:nant party. Reno..
'II ;ben unfortunates, who are of the
Caucasian race, and who cannot obtain
work, t'ungress gives nothing. Nut n
atapruee to the starving while matt, who
behold. bls w:fe and children per'ishing
fur boil and freezing in ihe filtby hovels
of the gre,it Ailunlic cities, but ten mill.
lone to the block vagabonds who laugh
contemptuously at the thought of work
ing while they have . daily access to the
soup boiler. of the Freedmen's Bureau
. lu all•seotiona of the North we read 01
delicate white females toiling foUrrEfir
hours a day, to earns shilling. to each,
of whom llood's•••Song of lb° Shirt" ha
s terrible significance 4lf these unhap
py sisters of our rave there are fifty
thousand to New York, twenty-are thous
and In Roston. " In eight of the palatial
mansions of Radicals who have grown
nob by contracts and specutaton, (Ilene
wretched women are daily driven by
hunger to utter ruin of body and soul;
but no sleek Buren i officials press fOod
to their famished
But the fat, impudent and lacy black
vapabond, who day before yesterday
robbed a' ben , soost, yesterday applied
the torob to a pillaged barn, last nigh'
tore an iron gate from its hinges. or is
package from the hands of a terrified old
woman, can-to-day take trts (In bucket
to the agents of tl Buieau and have it
filled with food at lb. expense of the n&
lion. And time it happens that famine
is stalking through ,ihe South, because
the nation is taxed to feed idle and thie•
teh blacks
By thin encouragement of the negro to
lead a life of vicious idleness, the right
of suffrage once regarded with pride hae
deem degraded It warlheld up to the
white man as the highest prize of citi
zenship. but now it is the reward of
idleness and •ice The negro is 11111110 a
pauper and an idle vagabond by fho very
agencien which made him a voter
II 0 w long will , the neglected and intpc•-
entitled grotto laborer of the North eon
emit to be the victim of this mdnstrous
outrage upon the white race, which bee
already brought ruin and absolute weal
to his own door? now long will he pa
tiently see the burliness of the country
paralytied and the machinery io the fac
tories. whose owners once gave him lib
eral wages, meting from diens° because
the lia.licale have ruined amble ouetom
of the North ? If his own starving wife
and children apply for admission to the
aims houses of the North, they are re
Lured, because they have an "able-bod
ied head of the family " But the
bodied" black rascal who will not work.
and who laughs at the simplicity of the
termer who offers him good wages, can
tali into the line of negroes in front of
the Radical soup houses, together with
his equally lazy wife and children, and
al/ eon be fed
Where is thin diet inction betweeu the
white laborer who ban been thrown out
of employment by tbe policy of the RN , '
teal party, end the negro who is auppor
ted in iilleuese, to end ? 'ls the clay dis
tant when the starving and infuriated
victim's of th te conspiracy to Africanise
the South will rice and ewe. p away lazy
negro voters and the clerk and prosper
one agents orthe Freedmen's Bureau. to
gether with their codfish, old clothes,
meal bilge and soup boilers? We be
Ilene the d•^knees which DOW envelopes
the land, and the chill of despair which
is benumbing olur energies, are the pre
corpora of the early dawn of that day
when the authors of all the woes yhichr
now afflict us will be milled to a most
terrible reckanine —Richmond Ritgutrer.
Do nor Ileum tr !--dome persons
this State will not belive tbst In
Kingston. preen Lake county, Wiscon
sin, two white WOlllO7 at • pa« for one
dollar each kissed • negro servant man
in the kltchen.-Buob is the Not never
theless. The latii.s name, are Cases
Boynton, daughter of • blue-bellied
Vessiout Itepettlioan bondholder, •nd
Nellie Woodward, daughter of • ihoe
mokee, Ripublican in politics, and of
iioe-bunter continually. Tke fathers
are respectively Ma Boynton and J.
P. Woodward. Tits nigger want( the,
girls to give bhu bait the money. and
tbey Till not. If two white girls kiss a
nigger for a dollar, bow much of it
would ibey give him to—kiss them back
again?
—Joshua Baker has boon appointed
Governor or Louisiana, else B. F. Flan
ders resigned.
General Grant and Military Despotism
In the debate on the reconstruction
bill or the 20th ult., General cary, Con
aerveliVe. tram Ohro, prop - et:lnm some,
carrell to ,141 r. Bingham, which are
wo by of mature delibera tion at this
time,Nt i setral eery stated he •hatt net
'fully de bedlow to ,toto nott, the
quatiou suejet thirinnifir
colleesue to '1 interrovitories elated
would satisfy hie Ind es to the course
he should take. questions were,
first, if General Grant bboll neglect or
refuse to exercise the pilroii inns of title
law, or if in Its execution he (mid act
in an oppressive end cruel "ma rr, to
what tribnnel would he. be stmenithis,for
his non-renitence or mil-feasance t &c
-ond. •As by the terms of the bill the
President Cannot Interfere, can the Gen
eral be tried by a court martial" and if
so,'who can order and who shall coned
b it a
intftboe r, canieit*ritfte
if so, by whom and before whet tribunal?
Fourth If he cannot be arraigned by
any tribunal, is he not mode an absolute
despot?
Mr. Bingham did nut answer these
questions They were too pointed anti
Reaching. A diecusetlon of the Gotten-
Boutwell bill from These standpoints
wduld have made the country still better
acquainted with the'litot, that all the
acts of the Radical party tend to emelt
list' a military despotism in this Repub
lie. If this is not their determination
why were the civil governments of the
Southern States destroyed the Govern
ore deposed, the Courts elt s-al the Leg
islatures prevented from 'Naming lace
nd entori3ing them upon the people,'
At the clove Of the war the Inhabitants
of the South at once took steps to asetime
their old constitutionel relations with
the. dertil government. Not a demand
was made by the North, having for lie
objet and intention a reunion of th. ,
:itates. that was not promptly anti cheer
fully accepted, Ao force was necessary
to keep the people in subjection, or dont
poi them to respect and obey the lows
They elected 'Representatives to Con
geese, chose members of the United
duties Senate, and. in this manner ex
proceed a reef ice! and earnest
for a union resting until. the Conetitii
Gen and having turiii Itfe principle-it.
grand American idea that in time of
peace the intlittrry force of flit; counirt
snail he subordinate to the civil power
Rot this progretnine wee not abeepted i
by the Itedical party They would not
agree Ilia the States s h ould be restoteil
on this basis of the Contottotion. The
system they proposed was a inePtiary
, ine. It 'red ed solely uponeforoe. Toe
hayobet wan made more potent and con.
'rtnctrtg - tirvin - t •
reprented States a military pan of tie
t ion was put in operation, and the ewer.'
employed instead of the ci it law to set
tle questions and adjust disputes Mr.
Strvf•ns inaugurated those ineaeures
which he declares are itoutehie of the
3onstitution;" Riau/ linen were obliter•
sled, and the territory merged too mil
itery districts; brigadier generals pia
ord over ibis people, armed with extiat
brdinary power, and the President (tom
maded by Congress to abstain from any
interference wi h so a ofthese twittery
tyrants. Tue Upson 13 iutwell bill is in.
tended to reach a still UWE' advanced
point on the road towards • complete
military despotism. By the provisions
of that hill General Grant is made the
utiles{ Commend-r-ii of the Army
and Navy of the United States, and th e
execution of time laws in one meetings Of
the Union placed in his hands
It was to display so the country the
despotic character of the power placed
it, the bands of General Grant. that
General Cary, propounded his questions
to Mr Bingham. If General Grant can
not he cited to appear before sems tribu
nal for non-feasance or inal-feasence iu
office, is be not an absolute tyrant ? Mr
Binghein failed to show that there was
any emir' provided to meet IhI N ea se II
the Radical Tarty ere not in favor of
of eating a military de.politon, why
have they_ raised a military chieftain
atio•e nil law in this country ? The
Upson Boutwell bill prevents the Presi
dent from exercising any authority over
tee General of the Army The head
quarters of the army are at Washington.
Gen . eral Grant cannot be ordered to an
mine semi in of the cotintry, and it is
impossible, according to the theory of
the Ititlicale, to constitute a court to
try him for charges. even if dbey were
preferred Inapeachme .t applies to civ
officers They are to I e reached by
this process Military men cannot he
tried iu +be manner laid down to regu
late erveitelfaira The President may be
impeached if he disregards the duties of
hie Oboe. General llrent cannot
At (hp point the lam question of Gen
era) Cary comes in ,eiih telling force; if
General Grant cannot he arraigned by
any tribunal known to tke civil or mili
tary lawn ot the country, to he not made
an abeolute Amino' ! A•sureilly he in.
That is the goal reached by the Upson
Bout well hill. The Radical party know I I
their whole reconetruntion scheme le
—outside of the Constitution,", that lei
will be 'littoral:l'lo pieces whenever th
lance ot'lhe supreme Court is laid in
rest to meet the issues rained But they
mean to retain power. Right or wrong,
the sceptre of authority must be wielded
and benoe they elevate General Grant
over the President, over. the Supreme
Court, over the Constitution, over the
laws, Roil clothe h:m with despotic
power The President way be impeach
ed. do may the Judges of the Supreme
Court. Not so General Grant. Ire kan
neithet be court- martialed riorimpeaohyd
according to the pro•iaioni et the, bill
now *ending in the Benate. If that
trill passes, General Grant is a military
despot as absolute as the Czar" bf. Eue•
els or the Emperor of Austria, and the
Radical, mean to make him so, in order
to enslave white American free-men.—
WM the descendents of the ...men of
'Pr submit to this 'infamous degrade
tionl—Age.
—The Connecticut Demoofatio Slate
Comtaittee has nOmldated the whole
Stale ticket of last sear. That's right;
hold fast to that whioh Is good.
—A well antheroloated rumer pre-
Yalta in Congressional circlet, that Mr.
Adams has resigned hie poldtian se Min:
later to England... -
--.--Fifteen hundred Miesiesippi freed
men want to go to Liberia. They and
they can't live here without work •
The Last Remp.lntamy.
. .
The Rump Rectottairuolleniste,terrified
at the warm reception •tbetr Supreme
Court gag bill met tirlifiAoil
lenlie ople,
r t
,hardt.Ainged theit model, The room
ovilbee here reported another bill intend
ed to'himp OOP san3o efloot;but in a man
lier Oak i bey]) o,pnWill bil Wig repulsive.
to, tile"topsoil It provides, that the
spolletojurisdiation of the Supreme Court
shall not &vend to oemesetriotog under
the Reconstruction laws, and the acts
of the military commanders done in pur
suance of these taws shall not be subject
to judicial review ,
The destruetives take the ground that
the cote of Congress, while engageall lit
reoonstruoting, are clOne under the war
t , wer (!) of.Congreas. wholly, outside of
the Constitution, slid that the
,onurte
have right to interfere for the prom).
tion of • dilute.
S ut tie dootrin revail, it would
ear e
the soldier. Th 'eople of Wisodonin
would he as eomple ly subjugated and
enslaved as the Soothe es who ere gov
erned by the black-and tab conventions.
While the Supreme rribabal remains
unimpaired, there 1.1 still is-viliftenee a
great bulwark of-oivil liberty ; But the
Supreme Court shorn of ire power lii - tbs
1 manner forshadowed by the bogus
Recon.itroptioniste ' would practipally
amount to but little Mire than a Mere
Court of Aprealmj hawing jurisdiction
only in civil OitePS i or, in other words,
it would simply he a convenient motile.
Ate the atl i justment of dollar-and cent
ottntroversies between the citizens of dif
ferent Swett .
This fast Congressional infantyhr a step
in advance 01 any of their asennipt ions
illegal power. It will deprive even the
Northern States of the protection of the
Bopreme Court, to which -civil liberty al
vyn looks for pro; PO , ion if prushed and
iioore.l by the other branches of the
overtim..nt and tends to reduce us to
piti. t hle condition of the Setteh
The whole ontititry is divided into
‘tilititry Domicil; It in as much will(
to the province of Dull Run Pope. who
i. iu CIinIMYT)II at Detroit, to arrest a
niiit•li of Onto. amt decilitre mortisl law
ih it State on it is for Meade or Scho
ti.dd to do the same thing in Oelorgios
or Virginia
It may he 'mitt that the lieoonstruo
lion law+ oi'eood only to ON South
ern States, hut any Military Satrap to
he North, who w•.wfd can arrest 0114601
..f a Democrat is Slate, would takeadvan
•age of the Reeonstruotion legislation.
,n the ground (hit 'much State had not a
Ropesheue form of go' , ern Meat He
would he emote ned by the Rump, and
the Supreme four', forbidden to inter-
much the some condition in which the
Southern Staten now are
The introduction of this bill is n
R•ssion 01 the--unoenstitutionnhty of the
notice'. ao•e of so salted Reconstruction
Toey fame tha condemning decision_ dr
the high Jo hotel teihum4l. and like the
prisounr, confess their crimes end inn•
natty to stand the 'trial The passage
of the bill vindicates old Thad. &COMM
who 1:14s long contended that the Radl
c4ls were SO , jug •titside the Constitution
which the Radicals hove publicly en
deavored to
Tyranny end despotism never go beck ;
ward 'rbeir cour , m is !treight ahead
No people ever submitted ea petiefilly
to their eneroac .meats an have the
American' people. and - no people ever
etteneeded in preserving their liberties
who were patient under the restrictions
atbitrery power
The Uurdixo knot of Radical legiolo
tion met only be steered by the sword
It is plainly the design of the Desiree
tins at W a shington to g tad the people of
the North to resistance. in order to have
a plausible excuse fur carrying out their
schemes rut a centralized military des
pot len'
The nnfy hope now ie in the peopN—
where lie the hopes and foundations of
ell free governments. This tea weapon
placed to our hands by ihe II ad kale
, hem.eiree. and like the bootnerrng ii
ill fly beck to them with .destructive
orce,—/.a Crone Democrat
The Cloud in the West
The foolish llondbnldere, on the Allan
c coast, have not the fatritepd idea of
how terribly in earnest the great North.
Weet is about paying oft the public in
ilebiedners to the same currency in whiob
it Wag contracted. It will be the part or
wisdom. in the liendho'dont, to compro
ime. end to . tnke their pay in greenhacks
not more tlrpreointed than these were
n 1863-61—when so muoh of the debt
well contracted We aru in favor of pay
ing them off honestly, in greenbacks at
not less than an average worth of fifty
cents on the gold dollar. Thus will be
handsome profit for old, money-bags,
who bnu lit three obligatione at intriy
cents on the dollar, Anti tam been drawing
gold interest al par, ever ttinots
The Nlartott County Illsok-Republioan
Convention. in Indiana, (Indtanipolis,
the capital, is in Morton CounPy,)lise
peened very strong Rebointions, that the
Five-twenties 'and other such bonds.
ouyke he paid off in greenbacks.. The'
Fort Wayne, kind ) Democrat.—next to
the huhanapolts lleratdAhe most influen
tial Democratic paper in that State. pre
dime that the Black Republican State
Conven i • of bsitants w II end. rue the
propositton that the Hoods shell have
po other payment than the kind of cur
rency promised for them.
We recommend the shoddy Bondhold
ers to look out for the Locomotive when
the hell. Hoof
—The morning mongrel says it is ab
surd io the Pittsburg Gazette to charge
Senator Connell with a desire of "doing
that which the Constitution of the S late
disqulifies bim from doing," that is,
from getting appointed petroleum in.
Spector. The same organ says,however,
that "SeillatorConnell bad a perfect right
to Gooiest. ter the honmr"—of being 4114§et•
e 4 State Treasurer, Would not the
Constitution have disqualified Mltlf also
from bolding that Ade? It is the
morning mongrel whieb is "ahem@ "
Certainly iJ &baler Colleen bad been
elected State Treasurer be would haw
resignen his position -as Senator; ,
should he get the promised •appointine
of petroleum inepeetor (the Ossette says
so)—an owes worth,at the least Intlealr
tion,one hundred „thousand donors...,
wouldn't be resign, and that, too, latent
as quiet as "greased lightning?" We
one's so.
. The "Plainelit Polley." ,
Ever since Centigram' has been under
Radical control legislation, whip not di
rectly Peed for ,partisan purpose'', has
been made themes's. of private spen t .
lotion. The many financial measufee—
ao.oalledi-i.lre • been but: so pin ny .
eoltemea te'ptil money in the pockets of
a "ring" of political capitalists, wh o en
joy the coefidence, if they are not really
the partners, of ,Bump Coogreenteen.
The contraction not lately passed he the
latest of these speonfations. It is said
that the "ring," by buying up gold an
early advices of the certain passage o r
,that bill, have made several million dol
lore by the rise which has liken place
It is now intimated that another-grand
epeoulatfon is in tmlbryc—the) furthe r
depreciation of the currency by the ad
dition of about three hundred million
dollars more to the greenback cireula
lite. Whether or not this meaeur AAtfill
goLlTSMTrinWirlfliTT
ministrWfu in the Rump Congres, and
their friends of the ••ring," but, should
it he puehed through, there will be no
estimating the gains of the initiated or
the losses of those whii toil for a living
To the Radical view, the public seems
to be only si_ggeat goose provided to be
plucked by those who are so fortunate
as to gat into Congress and the "ring.'
Tlxat private specuraticn alone is et the,
boilm of all the finanoitel measures of
the Ri p Congress in evident from the
le \tvzil
vacillati gaol contradictory . character
of its policy, In chat - respect for the pest
three years. '-The leoding politicians
may call their ?measures experiments,
end attempt to
_Orally their action by
awing that the couneey, to in a etrenge
or stemma! ,us condition, hot this is btu
a lama end insufficient jiiiitifiention -
Even if it be true. they hese rist,rtetit to
ignore the plain precepts of political
economy or telose'their eyes to tho tereqx
legs of history, either to experiment de,
to speculate If eoundneen and stehilt
ty to required in anything, it to in the
matter of the finanoes ti , ) unsettled is
the -'policy"etti on di ix aubject.however,
that general thaeruet prevails and, non
sequently, almost generel,lose and die
trees amongst honest ni , ouflhoturere
producers end workers There is nod,
ing to prevent the adoption of a settled
soil just policy, and the people will le
content with nothing lees than ewe
thing tangihle ; something not Wised
upon paper promieee ; something that
will give no seroest of a return at some
future time—near or distant —to 'Teel,.
payments .--Parrriet 4' Union
Negro Supremacy
The war has etmancipato 1 the notro-v
all fbe Southern States liar . ° ratified the
(Plosion, and po•sed awe of emancips.
don In every State the negro has civil
rights In every way the .tiegro hat
been benefited, if he had the intellt
reence to know it There are about trio
hundred thousand recently
_freed male
negroes between the ages of 18 and tlrt
years, Fir each of these eniancipated
I:v.o°pm there has been offered up n
whit) American citizen. More than six
hun ;red thousand victims Blimp in their
graves for the emancipated negroes
Spread over the whole North are sorrow
fog relatives for those who bare given
their lives to put down secession and
eradicate slavery .But this is not enough
for the Radical appetite. They would
invoke more sorrow and greater desola
tion to ',hobnob negro supremacy Is it
not time that some reeling should be
roused for the suffering white men,
North and South
The ruin inflictid on the planters
the South cornea back upon the laboring
North By feeding the negroe■ from th.
natbnal treasur?. ihrough the Freed
men's Bureau, they are encouraged in
Idleness at our expense. It in a curse
to them an well an to the whiiee And
where is to be the end 1 Can any Radi
cal tell the enneenueneee which are to
result from such legislation ? Do they
believe it right or proper to subject the
whites of the South to negro rule ? le
there any man who supposes the negro
constitutions now forming at the South,
supported by the bayonet against public
opinion. can be enatained ? A standing
army in each State may uphold them for
a time. hut it cannot be permanent And
a standing army gotta be paid for by Or
labor , ng North, now already overtaxed
No one can suppose that the people of
this country are so demented an to-sub- •
mu to these Itadiewl impositions and
wrongs.
An organ of approved loyalty per
Unaptly inquires—• Under any other
rule than the strong arm of military
force. let us ark. where would be the
Republican party ?" We reply that. in
the briefest _possible lime 'it would be
numbered among the defunct tyraticier
of the past. This Radical party (elle
named Republican) cannot exist without
buyonctti: it cannot ffourich among free
inciiiiitions; it is germinated in wreett,
watered with tears, fanned by the •et
oett of 'coffering. and its poisoned fruits
are ripened in barren wa-tee where
wretchedness and de aki have mad • their
aim Ir i , The people need not hetolti that
withoffr "am string arm of mi nary
fore(' the infam its plague—theitattioal
party would cease to exitt. They know
it as well as do the leaders of that par
ty ; hence at every State election during
the past year they have demanded that
the military power be made subordinate
IA the civil power, and they will not
cease theiclefforts until that'result is at
tained pail tlt Radical despotism des
troyed.
—Tb• "I•,it" eonvention of black
and !Wm, engaged In dlegraolog the
"mother of •Eiliatee and of Stemma,"
proud, glorious old Virginia, voted down
th• other day a clause, deolaring (bat
State oo equal with the rest of the States
of the Union. We venture to say that it
Was the only sensible, (unwittingly el? , )
sot of that profoundly black body !
ginla withci military bound-of.a satrap
presiding red ruling, where ono. the
American Statesmanship shone
with splendor and refulgettoe, 1 . 110 ‘l s "
equal of other sovereignties ! No I We
was too much even for the roulade
Ounaloutt and hi. black °row.
—Tke truly "loll" convention of
Georgia, refused to pass • section of
their Cobstitution making it a penal
offends to earrr eelcoalled weapons•
weakillt agree with &NOW& 141 4 ° ° f
freedom, to be reatraitted from oprryleg
• Weapon to defend hie loisttited dignity
when naught stealing his late masters
'Whew 1-11 x.