The Democratic Watchman,
BI LLEFONTE, I'IINN'A.
P GRAY VEER. 'EDITOR• PROPRIETOR.
rOHN P. MITCHNLL, ASSOCIATE Katti;la
FRIDAY MORNING,- FEB. 14, 14611
1111,118.-112 per year when paid in ad
s'eumer2,s4.whata not paid is advance, and
4 , 3,00 when not paid haste the expiration
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iiannimucte. Pa.. Jan. 8. 1868.
The Deumetstle Stare Committee of Penn
aylvenis have dud' WEDNESDAY. THE
•VOITETH (4thl DAY lEd YARCHi 118011:
at 12 o'clock. Ir., as the time, and the Hall
of the Emilie of Reprerentstives, et Hectic.
bins, as the plies for holding the annual
Convention of the prrty.
It is ordered dun this Convention be cote
posed of ens member for midi Senator nod
Iteprenntothe, who sMdi, ips 'dieted is the
usual swum and deep will meet at the tare
an d plies ercrenifi, for thi purpose of nom
'nation autdidatus for the ogees. pf Auditor
General sad Os. ..r Sagami, sad sf so
tooting Delootos to CM listloual
Ceetan
lion FM the nominstien of candidates for
President and The President.
The members arid cewealtless • of the er
garshation and all wagonette's oiliness who
can onlurerith us in the support of *easel
tailwind prinelples are requested to preeee4
Co the election of detainees in their revue
tire dirtriets.
By (trier of the Democratic State Distrait
Committee.
WILLIAM A. WALLACE, Chairman
O. 0. Dam. Seq.
Nasdaq of the Domooretio Nations
Committee.
Bomar. Doc 21. 1•11 t
A meeting of the Natimeal Democratic
Committee will he Mid at Weaklagtoiz, D.
C., on Saturday. rainier; 74.120. at 12
o'clock. a., for /king the time aid - place of
holding the next flatienel Democratic Con.
e elution, and for the trawl... tion of awl'
other properly eome . before
the Committee.
FREDERICK 0. PRINCE,
Fees', Nialonal Domoorntle C41160104*
We Can Win if we Will.
It is perli.-tly evident, to any one
who will takt the trouble' to inguire.
that the' part ) .4 Lit+ is standing in
the way of the restoration of the
union, and caching all the trouble we
have in the country, are in a misera
ble and hopeless minority. In the
Noithern states alone, " - giving them
the advantage in every instance where
no erection his been let* held, they
have not got a euffictent majority to
entitle them (Dan excess of more than
ono iilireseitative inTizingress over
,us. The whole country taken togeth
er gives so vast
. a majority in favor of
the Democracy that it a 'ems 1.1 erbi
est cowardice for us to stand by and
see the government Volt down about
onr ears without an effort tot its
preservation. Are we to be frighten
ed from our duty by the hubbub
which fear of us creates in the camp
of the enemy, and to see the great
principles of the government utterly
destroyed rather than run the risk of
being called ugly names by our un
aerupaieux fow? Now that the elec
tom of anew Congress and a new ex
ecutive is so near at hand, we say
first-to the polls, but if we fail there
by reason of the gerrymandering of
Congressivial districts throdghout.
the North, let us be prepared to give
them a taste of the majority rule they
talk so much about, and wrest from
them by force the power they have
o'htaiued by artifice and fraud. Let
us go ;nto the contest determined to
win ; one way or ,the other, and we
will leave nothing of Mongrelism to
ever 4,rouble the country. more. Let
no one overrate the power of our ene
my. They are only powerful by our
permission. Th ere is no necessity to
get a hatchet td break open an egg
with, and no need to use any power
but that now in our hands to utterly
destroy this revolutionary party front
the face of the earth. It is a serious
wo are well aware, to be oblig
ed to deal so hardhly with our breth
ren. But, we must do as a man does
with a favorite dir.nesturanimal. If
hlungrelisrn proves to be hopelessly
mad, we must knock it on the head.
The Only One
_ It is simply ridiculous for Mongrel
orators and editors to talk and write,
as if in eeriest, about their tarty
principles• In the name of —oo,we
shall not profanely write Heaven in
this connection—but in the name of
that fallen spirit by whom the mon
grel party is actuated in all their
movements. tell us what these princi
ples are ? We have puzzled Our brains
for several years past, exhausting all
known sources of information on the
subjecteapd am no wiser to-day than
when we started. We •Itnow, of but
three principles to which the mon..•
greli esn honestly lei claim—these
aro plunder,protligscy, and "rule and
ruin ;" if they have soy other than
those, they are like a oegroes wool, so
fu I of .kinkt and • twists and snarls
that human ingenuity, Aided toy the
best each yet invented, can't unravel
them. .
Oisintegntitt' OT the Mongrel Party'
No one who is old enough to read,
and understand political matters, has
yet lorrotten the situation of affairs
in this country in 1880• It will be
remembered that at that time ' the
party which triumphed in the presi
dential election was composed U 1 at
least two demerits, very unlike each
other, and uniting only 9n a single '
to wit : 'hostility to the' ex-
tension of slavery-to the teiritorles of
the United States: The line of dem
arcation between these two elements
was very distinetly marked through
out all the years , of the war, and it
was only by the utmost entleavors of
the fierce and uncompromising lead
ere caFed the' "Union
Republican party" that r any' Sort of
cohesion was kept up lictween the
two at all. By tar the largest of these
sections sass compiled of the ocnser
*wive men or the .party. Men who
honestly believed that slavery was a
great wrong, who sincerely desired to
see it abolished, but believed that we
were precluded from any effort at its
abolition through the machinery of the
goiternment, by the solemn compacts
of our fathers. These became con
wined that we could lawfully and
properly 'prevent the extension of
slavery, and as abolitionism held the
same doctrine, the union wee firmed
between the two, though the class of
men composing each were s idely diff
erect in their characteristics. and the
objects they had in view were as diff
erect as night and day.
Any one 'who will take the pains to
recall political events during the !arc
war, will reccllect that the two elp
meatier which we hate 4 poicon were
often on the very eve -D' disaolution.
and that the conservative portion of
the great Mongrel party did not sub
mit to the high-handed revolutionary
measures of the fanatical disunionisu ,
without many protests, and were only
kept in rank at all by the severe-I
party pressure. In 18fi1, this conger
-ratline was very strong, and procured
the passage of the famous resolutioh
of Congress of duly 21st of that year.
But like a wave which, driven by a
fierce tempest,da.ihes high von some
barrier and is thrown back, so, from
the very hour of. the passage - ofthat
resolution, the power of the conserve
Veft. continually grew weaker and
eater, until finally the whole ortpo
sition to the Democracy became a eon
solidated and vectorial mass appear
antly deterinined to utterly uproot
and destroy every principle of gov
eminent, which we had been taught
to venerate and respect. But while
these elements all united In hostility
to us. they were still widely different
from each cher, and the strung,
spectacle wa, presented of'a meag e
minority leads g, moulding and con
trolling the whole action.of a very
powerful party, a vast majority of
!those members were positively op
posed to the measures they wore car
rying out. The mass of the part)
were led step by step. from the posi
tion they took after the battle of Bull
lion first opened their eyes to the
magnitude of the contest they d
engaged In—when they
,• rolemnly de
Oared, by the unanim ous voice el
Congress, that the war was waged
solely for the restoration of the Union
and not to interfere with the rights
or institutions of states—until they
were brought to consent to every vio
lent and revolutionary scheme that
the crazy fanatics of New England
could devise for the ruin of thereat I,f
the country. 'First, in order to ap
pease the loud murmurs from the
men of bone and muscle who had voz
ted them into pewer, as well as to be
guile unsuspecting democrats into
thejr army, they adopted ground from
which they could almost touch hands
with those men of our party who lin
gered farthest in the rear. This war
what they intended to accomplish by
the famous Congressional resolutions
already referred to. Next MOO the
trick by which they were brought to
consent to the
,emancipation of the
slaves of the Booth, and well do We
all remember that the proclamation
of emancipation was murmured
against greatly by theisoldiers in the
army, and by a vast majority of the
so imlled Republioan, party, and was
deflcnded by its friends solely as a war
measure, which would be altogether
unjust and unlawful in tunes of pence.
Thus from bad to worse the people
have been led on,unt lie:ivory landmark
which was dear in their eyes a short
time ago is now entirely lost tOitt
and we are wildly driven upon the
ahoreless sea of revolution.
But whip that wing of the ( )arty
which we have called' conservativee,
were finally oowed into submission to
the outrageous measures ofthoir more
powerful, though less suinerous, co
workers,
_and althfiugh the work of
revolution went on and still goes on as
though fully acquiesced in by every
member of that party, yet there were
teeny thousaidaln their rinks who
never approved the went of their
Measures, and disliked the leaders ori
the Mongrel organization lets only
than they did those whom they de
nominated "copperheads." In the,
elections of 1866, we hoped almost
against hope—in view of alLahe cir
cumstances - that the honest portion
of the Mongrel organizatiod would
give#p all party considerations for,
the sake of their bleeding, distracted
and suffering country, and stand
shoulder to shoulder with the men of
the only party under which the gov
ernment of the United States has aver
flourished. But the tide was toe
strong for . "us then. APpearanees
*ere in favor- of-a party which had
just conquered a great people, and by
promises of a speedy restoration of
the Union, and by the most unmerci
ful 'mitt of the party lash. a sufficient
number of the comervaiives were kept
in bounds to defeat the DemoJraey.
But in 1867, the disintegration of the ,
once formidable Mongre) party had.
gone to Hui an extent that we 'carried
everything before us, and the future
of the country looked" bright And
promising once more.
We believe thet in the Fall of 1867
the worst party that ever ruined any
country received a mortal blow at our
bands. The separation of the great
elements which differed so widely and
quarrelled so Eloquently from 1860 up
to that time, was an eternal one. No
power on earth can win back to des
potism those who have once take') the
alarm. The moment the mask is re
moved, the hideous features of Non
graham terrify forever those who have
.nhouently supported it. There is no
use of their trying to hold together.
a party which has lost all cohesion.
The separation must continue to grow
wider and wider, until the honest
- Re publicans," who have been the
lupes of the bloody revolutionists,
loath, dock and abhor the very
names of those who deceived' them.
The present great stir they are keep
ing up is but the last effort of despair,
and like a whale in his "flurry," they
are exhausting the last spark of life
for the supreme - effort. But the
weapon has been well hurled home.
and after the elections of this year,tlie.
Ism struggle will be over.and the most
destructive and bloody party which
ever had an existence ire this country.
will cease to be forever
Northern and Southern Rights
In South Carolina, measures Lavo
!ready been taken ,to have negroes
sit on juries, and as they are in a met
j wit ) , in ikat State, they will hold the
balance of power in all jury trials.—
Northern mon, who are so wanting in
all proper feeling as to see no inter
-st but their own, and care for no
wrongs not irlicted directly upon
themselves, may ace nothing in this
fact.which can pork evil to them, and
so they-may tarn-f•oin this announce , '
ment without a second thought. But
the effect of all.tho so called "recon
+truction'• legislation of the Radical
directly against all the interests of
the Northern people as well as thilse
of the South. There has not been a
-ingle clause of any net of Congress on
this subject since the surrender of
LEE'S ariny,•which has accomplished
anything but evil, either for the
white or black races, North err South.
We defy all the advocates •of the
monstrous theories of inongrelisto to
point us to a minglosood ,thing which
has resulted from theirnomplet4 pos
session of all the power of the If nited
States, state mini federal, for nearly
eight years. They can point to noth
ing but disuiiion and civil war, strife,
misery and blood, as the results of
their perfect triumph. Not a thing
have they done to make any human
creature permanently more happy, or
to make the country more prosper.
ous, the government freerer and safer
from the dangers which alwayi ,
environ republics, or more worthy
in the eyes of men, of the seeptamt of
money and blo . od demands of them.
The legislation which would give
half-civilized negroes the right to,try
and convict white glen of crimes, or
to settle civil causes acioording to their
Amu of law, justice and right, is a
fair specimen of the kind which has
done so much already to ruin us and
will utterly obliterate every vestige of
republican government from
. amone
us, if the blind and crazy fanaticism
which causes it is permitted to have
its way.
And it is not only, 6hu people of the
'South who are affected by these se
gro jury laws. Thousands of North
•rn men had contemplated emigrating
to thil w lesouth, where land will be
plenty tad cheap, and the moment
they put foot ou . aoil t•hioh ono / be
longed to the Confederacy, they be :
come no better off than the veriest
"rebel" in the South. If they go to
South . Carolina, they .way be seised
on the road and robbed by thegroes,
and be sent for justice into court
where the confederates of the robbers
themselves compose the juries;, for tt
Northern Wan, hoWever "loya+," - nan
claim no higher "privileges than those
accorded the state in which his lot is
east. • He must consent to vote with
negroes. to sit on juries with them, to
he tried by them, if accused of crime,
to have all hisciiirrights depend upon
their wills, and in fact to be governed
absolutely by beings just out of slave.
ry, who under no possible eireumstan•
ces could ever be capable of maintain.
ing any , form of government for a sin•
,
glo year,
To men of any principle,-it is just
as much of an offence against liberty
to deprive them of the right to enjoy
any privilege as it would be to pre
vent them by physical fort* from en
joying it. It is one of the rights of
Northern mon to go into Southern
States, and enjoy the privileges and
immunities that citizens of those
states enjoy, and they can claim no
more.' Whenever,therefore,any right
of southern people is interfered with,
it is equally an interference with-the
rights of men' of every part of the
country, for when a right which we
claim as American citizens has ceased
to exint, in any state, of course wo no
longer hai , e it in our power to enjoy
it any more than those for whose pun
ishment it was destroyed. * long
will a deluded and shOrt sighted peo
ple continue to support a party which
oontinually threatens their dearest
rights !
Their Desperet lon.
...-
Never was any party in a more des
perate strait than that now occupied
by the Mongible. They dare not at
tempt to discuss any question with
the Democracy, for they are instantly
driven to the wall, they dare not lie
still, for tliey are continually urged
forward by their sufferins dupes, who
still have Mich ip the power which
has brougth theni to ruin , they dare
not gn forward, for another step will
plunge them and their whole corrupt,
croaking party machinery to destruc
tion ; and in their desperation they
flounder in every direction, only to
meet new difficulities at every turn.
The results• of their own evil deeds
are upon them, and no effort they can
!mike will enable them to hide from
the people The true and fearful condi
tion of affairs. Even the negroes of
the South, whom they calculated to
control, have turned against them,
and there is little probability of their
being able to sustain the miserable
and fraudulent system which they
devised to secure the ballots of black
men at the South-to-make up for the
lose-of those of white men •at the
North. Disaster follows disaster
wherever they have reached with
their baneful legislation, and they
seek now only to escape from the ruin
which they have pulled upon them
selves. Itut like all ;nett who are
struggling for life or death, they
struggle desperately. We must be
up and a doing everywhere, and con•
tinue to attack them at every expo
sed point. Let us give them no
time to prepare for defence, but as
sail th on continuously, and we may
count confidently upon being able to
number their last hours at the No
vombor election, though they employ
all the weapons of the Devil against
PLAYttiu A PART.--We once heard
of a 1111111 who was fixed' up to rem.
sent some kind of a huge fish, and
when spectators came to examine too
closely, be produced, by means of
chemical preparations, so horrible an
odor that no one cmxld get nigh him.
In this way be imposed for many
years upon the people. This is ex•
aetly the way the Mongrel party has
ac}od. When any one attempts to
examine into any of their acts, they
raise the cry of traitor, and lash about
ri e s tremendous rate. When Judge
81 flAtty WOOD punctured their bubble
of finance,they were terribly indignant
at hiin.and lately,when Judge WOOD.
WARD exposed the weakness of their
financial policy, they hurled at him all
the ugly names they have been able
to coin in nix or eight years. But
like the man who played fish, they
know very well that they are playing
a part, and hence do all in their pow.
er to prevent investigation, knowing
that it will expose theta to turn.
---The wrongs of white men, both
North and South, are righted by the
State governments, and at the ex.
pen,e of the oounty in 'which the
wrong is perpetrated. Why should
not the negro's . wrongs, if he has sub
bored any, be made right in the same
way? Why should' the white men of
the North be taxed to vindicate the
rights of any one.tn the South when
the States there aro eompetent and
anxious to do it , thelusel.e, ?
The Ricoh Man's Party
If thp United States goverrtment is
to issue any paper money at all;-aihy
is it that they do not issue all .that is
needed for a eiroulatirig Medium, and\
thus save the vast RUMP which
are annually paid to the rich specula•
tors who run the national banks ?
Here ins a question it would be well
for, our...groaning sweating millions
to carefully consider before the elec
tions of 18118. Wo charge upon the
party in, power, that they have so ar
ranged thp finances of this country
that the rich annually rewire mil._
lions upon millions of - dollars for
which they give ntr equivalent, and
which- is wrung.. direetly from _the
pockets of the poor. Wo oould go
ihrough columns of figures to demon
stzato the truth of what we allege in
ova), department of the governioent;
but it is only neeesaary to refer any
man of intelligence to the arrangement
by which the rags and ink,.which we
are compellod to accept as money, is
brought into airoulation. If the
amount which is put is circulation by
-ths national banks is not actually
needed for the business of the country,
then it is positively wrung to imuelit
at all. If it is really 'needed, then
why not print greenbacks to reach the
whole amount, and thus save to the
government the percentage whieli is
pocketed by the rich bankers ? More
ithan one leading Mongrel has been
stumped by this question, and many
them, for want of a satisfactory an
ewer to it. The fact is, that the poor
man has been oompelle44ll the lime
to bear the burdens whie - li this bloody
and extravagant party has heaped
upon ?a, while the wealthy have en
joyed the offices and gathered in - the
billions of dollars which we have had
to pay. During the war, the rich
man bought exemption from the ser
vice in which the poor man or his son
had to die, and that too with the
very money which the sweat and
blood of the laborer hadwon. Since
the war, we have been burdened with
a debt larger - than that of any despot
ism of Europe, and the craft of the
Now England Yankees has been fairly
exhausted to deviiie moans by which
the interest upon it shall be extracted
from the little pittance of the poor
ind added to the overflowing coffer,
of the rich. Lot the men who toil
from morning to night in rags, to
barely keep themselves above starva
tion, answer how well Yankee cun
ning in this ease succeeded. Let the
men who under Democratic rule
were rising rapidly to affluence ans.
wer how the load of taxation wa,
heaped upon them and dragged them
to the earth, hopelessly to grovel tan
til they die in poverty,and levy° their
wives :mit - children in 'nristry - and
want. Oh, we would that all the
toilers of the land could but know
how the crust is snatched away from
their children'A mouths that shoddy
may rovel•in -.luxury, that the interest
on an taxed bonds may be paid in gold
that the bonds themselves may be
paid in the same currency, that the
r.ch way grow into a great and crush
ing aristocracy, and bind the poor
men forever in chains, and that all
this is done by the party they have
kept in power as the "poor inan's
party." But they are learning rapidly.
It isqt severe lesson, but will long he
remembered.
—The Rump care-4 am little for
'LH OWO laws a. it does for the ConAti•
lution. The so called reconstruction
acts having failed to accomplinh what
*as expected of them, and the Mon
grels findiog it. very difficult to control
the half ravage and mulish negroes,
they now propose to permit Alabama
to be represented in Congress withoht
complying with the conditions which
they have themselves e;itiailialled. If
the people fa' low to see the ut er
absurdity of all the "reconstruction"
',denies of . Congnes there is 110 MO of
dreaming any longer about maintain
ing free government.
—We shal' give a history of the
individuals engaged in attempting to
thwart the wishes of this senatorial
district, by throwing Mr. SHUUEILT
out of his seat., shortly, which will
open the eyes of our readers conside
rs*. A more villiauous batch of be
ings, never ran together outside of
the State Penitentiary,
Jolts HICK MAN, t Mon
grel of this date urges an amendment
to the constitution to give negroes all
the rights and privileges of white
men. He is goknowledgci as the
ablest man they have in the lower
house,aud has made a lengthy steech
urging his party openly to adtfidcate
whet they are all at heart in favor or
GRANT'S ttiiifittiett.--,AGe stated
lirfewyeekt ago that General GRANT
MO too fond of whiskey; in fact, that
le was in the habit of getting beastly
drunit, - and we have been taken, to
task for our assertion by some who
seem to doubt our means of informa
tion on the suhieet. We did not make
.the statement on the strength of any
flying rumor,. or mere newspaper gee,
We have direct, positive *testi
mony on that question from a gentle
man of undoubted veracity from whom
GRANT begged many a five cent
piece with whi-h to omenre liquor,
when he was a low, beastly sot about
the streets of dalena, Illinois. Lot
any one that doubts this, ilo !ls we did
—investigate. - They irPlinti that the
reputation of the "coming man" of
the mongrels was shoat equal in 1861
to that of the low bummers who soak
about dirty aalocins in the towns
around us. The gentleman from
whom we have this information, gave
Gar spending money when he wa s
at West Point, and furnished him
with the moans to enter the army
respectably as a colonel in 1861. We
ran give his name, and propose after
while to do so. At present we will
say no more.
—The recent correspondence be
tween General GRANT and Presid.ma
Jetiasom, which was called for by a
resolution and read in the Federal
House of Representatives, leaves
GRANT no ground to stand upon
whatever. In the opinion of every
man who has a principle of honor
about him, he must appear as a dis
honored thing, sold out body and soul
to a miserable political Tactic:in. It is
well known that we have never ex
pressed any very strong friendship
for the President ; but we must say
in the present instance, that he has
covered himself with glory in his tilt
with the redoubtable hero of Pitts
burg Lendiag. We still think how
ever that if he would write less, and
act a little more it would be heifer for
himself and the country. Instead of
waiting words on GRANT, he ought
to have plated him under arrest for
in ,übord
cheer
lure in
that it
1, will
toyed
Scu.hwr ler m Democrotio sue
ceases, are reported from ali quarters,
and though some of them are only in
municipal elections, they indicate
that the tide ie running strongly in
our favor. Last week wo recorded the
fact that Wheeling, Va., had given
us a fine majority a few weeks ago,
Pittsburg was' redeemed, and now,
the news comes to ui by telegraph,
just as we go to press that Binghamp
ton N. Y., has wheeled into line, and
a o her gun-for Elio campaign of sixty
eight sends its thundering reportovor
the stricken land. Hope looms up
brightly for us in the future, and the
great government of our fathers may
yet be saved _
-- President Johnstm is again
threatened with ithpeachment be
cause he has performed his duty un
der his oath of office. But we are of
o,,inion that this talk about impeach
ment lute no real meaning at all The
Mongrels may affect to believe them
selves very povsprful, but they will be
careibl enough not to provoke a phys
icsl contest with a party - which is
uteri' than a mill i on in the majority.
-Two thousand negro voters are
kept in thi district of Columbia, by
the means famished &y out money, to
vote for the mongrels and entble them
to control the district. What do t'io
tanayers think of that? Is the
Fredmen's bureau bill still as popular
with them as it was in ni6o,lwhen
ttoy elected the presetlt Congress'.
The party which denies that it
is in favor of negro Auffrage, .a'•dles
upon this country one third more
expense annually tha,n the whole colt
f the governmeut antmuht cid to under
Democratic rule, fbr the purpose of
voting the barbarous uegroes of the
South.
—The national debt was inereatied
in the month of January last, twenty
millions of dollars. r How long will it
take at this rate to uouvioe the people
that the government ought to be en
trusted to_ other hands than thole
whioh have robbed and ruined it. •
--The Ratiosls in this 'section
are trying again to dodge the ismue ‘ Of
negro suffrage. If they are not in
favor of that, what do they oxist at
all for If they hate not that pur-
Post , to uocoutplish..upon what issue
will they go before the people ?
—N•e call especial uttentimi to
the letter of' la• Governor !JERRY, of
South Carolina, and ask every one to
read it, and then say whether radical
legislation is good where it has unob
structed sway.
—The "Free railroad law" passed
thedlouse of, Reproaeotatiyea, at Har
risburg last wok without a dissenting
'voice. It now goon to the Senate.