nie'Democratic Watchman, BELLEFONTE,' PENN'A. P. , VEIL Otirtglike paoPauroa. JOHN P. MITOHILL, Alit/CUTS Simon, FRIDAY MORNING, FEB. 21, 11188 TERMS.—S 2 per year wheii paid in id• vanee,3,so when not paia to adianoe, and when not paid tiefdre the expiration et the year bemooiatio State anventroli. 11•110111111.171413. Pi., Jan. 8, 1868: syleania have fixed WRingiftlDAY. TDB FOURTH (4th) DAY .07 MARCH, 1868. .at 12 o'clock. m.,'as the time, and the Null of this Reese of Repremotativeseat Harris •lang, as the place fur holding the annual Ootivnettion of the prrty• • It is 'ordered that this Convention be ootn . pillow' of one member toil spelt Senator and Representative, who Anal be sleeted in the 'UMW manner ind they will meet at the time lad Plots efortioniJ, for thepurpose of nom lasting tundidites for the offices of Auditor General and Surveyor general, nod of se lecting Delegates to the NatiMmil Conven tion far - the remiestienr of candidates for President-And Vim Prosidint. ?be members and eomokittees of the' or -lonisation and all.e+nservative chitin's who oan unite with us in the support of oonati el:Monti principles are requeoted to proceed to the election of delegates in their respire. dui diTtrieta. By order of the'Demoeretle State Central Committee. WILLIAM A. WALL&CS, Ctukirukan ti. 0. Daum Sec y. Meeting of the Democratic National Committee. Bosroo. Deo. 29,1897. opting of the National , Dom icratic Committite will he held at Wash melon, D. C., a Sidanday, February 22. 1868. at 12 • o'clock, m., for Ilibms the time-and place of buiding - th. nett - Natlmmt Reumenscia Can voptiop, end for the transaction of such °they binteloass as will property came before the Cohimittee. FREDERICK 0. PRINCE, „ e Becr'y National Democratic Cenimittee Have Patience "Don'tim so ultra—have patience —all will come right- in time I" are exclamations which we occasionally Lear from some of our friends whoni Heitman- aerament s and dispositions more placid and equable than our own. - • , Patience under, many conceivable circumstances is certaiikly a very ex— eked andiesirablovirtne; but wou:d any one have us exercise it when a madman or munialachad_ualuilis grasp, with a pistol pointed at our head or x dagger placed at our throat., if out mind suggested at the moment a way of sue.,essful resistance ? \V ho would fed like looking on patiently if he raw an incendiary in the very act of setting fire to his premise*, or detected a burglar using his toots to effect an entrance into hie dwelling c.r place of business? In cases like these patience would be both cowardly and criminal, and he who would exercise it, would deserve to have his braids blown out, Lis throat cut. or his premises burned or plundered, as the mum might be. Well, we are part, and parcel of this great nation, interested in its _ relfars. d ofcd .t. 7. its free inKtitu tions ; it is, in fact, .11 property of which we are part owner, having, in common with every other citizen, a title in fee simple, ar absolute. un conditional conveyance, written on the parchment of the drum-heads of the „revolution and signrd with the blood of the heroes of Bunker's Hill, of Saratoga, of Moninoitth and Trenton and Bradywinc and EutattanAl town ; and this property we want to 1 old, and preserve in its . good condi clog as it was when it Fame to us from the hands of the grantors. It. is an invaluable inheritance, dearer to us than gold, or silver, or, houses, or 4=d ;'nay, even than life itself. sow, looking from our stand-poiut at the gamG which desperate political gameaters,and speculators, traitors and tricksters, fanatics and foolaare play- soy, we see this rich inheritance tEreatened with great danger , a dan- ger .ffir imminent that only instant re sistance can gate it. Wait shall we do? . Yon moderate, forbearing and pa tientifrienda, wbaewould you bayous do ? 13ball.wc sit down calmly, with fol ded Anne, keep our tongue silent, and cease from the labors ofour pon,whorn we see, with the clearness of prophet ic vision, not only- isolated willisos Isere and there, but formidable drill ed band, of madmen, murderers, in• oendiasies and burglars plotting to takethe hfe of the nation, 'to destroy, an if with fire, its free institutions, to bursterionsly enter the very temple of liberty, our political "holy of bol- ies." and rob "you and I and all of us" of our lakeritance of 'freedom Shall we trust to chance, or circum stances, yet CO occur, or arm' Yeovil- dance tO l daTest the damnable 'machi nations of &loon(' of knavish Anmi e,* when is is limo* the. work of our own bads and beartsaini hands ? ,us, 0 1 most protbud pliers— Who Tho' s frenep like _Quid contentedly , Nig your modicum of Suashine n your own tubs though the earth Mould -.he shaken to At. foundations . and the Heavens rolled up as a soroll—wake from your unnat ural slumbp, from your foolish dreams of safety arid repose, and us. in the name of truth and -patriot ism And rty, what is the duty of the citizen when treason threatens the republic ? • Is it patience or action--. 7 subm ission or resistance? At this-91. y instant, while riot are hugging the delusive phantom safety to yourcrednlous hearth, and looking on gum ly, paastvely and pati nt y, the "laine devil" of the House and his•legion of subordinate fiends are battering down the'i►sils and sapping and mining the foundations of the citadel of liberty. When a setiiir unscrurfulous dem agogues calling themselves a Congress usurp all the powers of government and. deliberately. boldly and traitor ously set to work to establish new forms in order to preserve their poll tical ascendency—when the are back ed by a strong and Drell organized • party and command the ant of the limy and Freedmen's fluroau. we ask, In the tftme oreommon sense, is it Patience "sitting on a monument smiling at grief,"that will move them from their arbitrary courses and turn them aside from the path or revolu tion and destruction they AM t - 'el ing in ? When a milk-pail is upset or a pitcher broken at the well, then pa. iion'ee is discreet and comirtendable_,; for no effort of the unfortunate suff erer can restore the milk to the vessel or put the broken- fragments of the pitcher together ; but in times like these, when infametei men are plot ting the destruction of-ell the patriot heart holds most dear. and when timely action may prevent the consu metier) of the plot., patience is out of the question. It has ceased to be a virtie and has Weenie a crime. We have borne and forborne too much and too leng already. It :s time that we should act like men, and meet encroachment, with resis tance—mural resistance: while there is a hope that it, may prove success ful physical resistance the instant it becomes necessary Let the timid shrink and the coward tremble, it is not for us, a sentinel of the people", to flinch from duty or danger. Like - the war horse we "snuff Clie battle afar off." and shall leave not hing unsaid or undone to prepare the hearts of the brave for the final trial, the "baptism of blood," which, sooner or later, must take place between the conflicting ideas of Democracy and Republicanism We use no idle words when we say that a time is coming, and is now al most at band, when the souls of men will be tried as they never were trial before, and when it had been better for him who falters, nr folds his arms in patience of spirit, , that a "mill iitone-fiad heen - tiel - rieFe and he been cast into the sea." Trusting to the efficiency and rtrength of their loyal league organi sations and military-political associa• lions, in the power incident to their position as the ruling party, in the money which they can squander by millions (having stolen it by hundreds of millions,) in the Freedmen's 80, reau, with itsnunierous southern ram ifications coutroling every negro vote, and in the frauds which they will practice at the next elections, (as they have habitually dune at: every election since the second year of the war,) they intend to endorse all their "dart. - and damning deeds" through the ballot box next fall by what they will elaim to be a "popular verdict." In short, they have resolved by any and ail means tp elect the next Presi dent and fix themselves in ‘ power for four mina years. But this they can only do by counting the negro vote of the South. Now, the question is will the white men of the country permit that vote to be counted and quietly submit to the consequent es ? Hitherto these mongrel conspirators against a white man's government have bees bold because we have been cowardly. We have, se far, resisted none of their infamous 'spa revplu tionary acts except by words-and, judging of our probable Suture action by our, past course, they are net Vrith• out good ground for believing that we will bear the installation of a negro 7 elected President with the same cow ardly composure that we have borne all their preeediag outrages. Can it be possible that they Judge uiriihtly? Are we, reality mink I eo tow in the scale auf talatiltaed, !it'd hive we %comp eravewheated Mid White-livered as to submit 0. the installation ad siocerameat *ea ll gro elated Presideut, rather. thes appeal to art& and chess a bi 1.4440144 or, if' eed be, an Oesian: of Wood 't° preserve the suprema6i'lad honor of our race and "keepfiain eh° Pages' of history so foul a stain on ear sational reputation ? God forbid I 'Wed° hot yef bar ber so Mean an opinion of Our fettle* citizens. The Caucasian race was created to ruts, and it will rule. The Norman Saxon, the Anglo Saxoo,the Teutonic and 'Milesian blood - that flows so largely in our veins will sub mit to no forced equality with a meaner and different race....ln this country we will have no negro rule nor shall the worse than negro, the *bite man elected by negro votes and alTC:looting negro suffrage and negro equality, ever govern without first subjugating the white race by force of arms. Let no ambitious awirant to Presi— dential honors through the disgrace ful rocas of the black ballot ' lay the nattering unction to his soul" that,' 4 successful, he will be permitted to take peaceable possession of the White' (louse. The white people of the United States have borno with scarce a murmur a heavy and.grievous load pf wrong and outrage since the mon• grel negro party tame into power, but the election of a negro President, •-or or a white President by negro t otes, and half of them fraudulent, would be a feather too much. Rather than submit to a degradation so mortifying to their pride as a race and as a na Lion, hundreds of thousands of white freemen wou'd rise in arms, vindicate their superiority and their rights, and wipe not the %volt in no blood of the tnivcreants who offered it_ fThr judgment and our feelings would alike endorse •iteh a eourao . for we hate lived •too long under free in " stitution. and white non's goy : i•rnment to yield them up with - out. a struggle, although that strug- I ale, —sltuuld • inactive. • -all- •1,110 her. rors of prolonged and hintrly civil wat Rio nth er people would-have suffered a,, long and as much as we I have suffered, without rising and crushing the pourer that inflicted the wrong ; anti 'whatever ',therm of less sanguine temperanwni than ours may • say about 'inotioration" and '•lnt• Lidice... anti that kind of stuff, we are certain that in their and in all trne hearted • and clear-headed man's minds we are sinking ifi our own esti mation every day that we defer the cry'af war against the horde of trait ors and scoundrels who have linked themselves with the devil and the black barbarians of the South Monier to strengthen their hands for the work of destruction and • despotism upon which they are bent. Let us endeav or to retrieve the errors of the past dry a braver and nobler course here after The day which will "try men's souls" is drawing nigh ; and when it comes who will be base enough to shrink from its duties, its trials and its perils ? Let the note or prerara - tion be sounded at once--let the cry "RE READY I" go forth throughout the land, loud, clear and inspiring as LfiCtiota Orthe - buTtte the charge. "To your tents, C) I Israel.'' Dishonest 011LojaIs—Revenue Frauds. lb really seems as though, in its application to public men and affairs, the word komesty had become obsolete. In almost every department of the Federal government the grossest neg ligence or dishonestyt(in some instan ces both, ) seems to prevail. Espe cially is this the case at present in the TreaSury Department, in consequence of which- the government is yearly defrauded of millions of money which flow into it from two or three sourtos of internal revenue, better able to bear the hoyden than any Ptliers.— We complain of this not because we either admire or approve the system of taxation' adopted by the mongrels in power to meet the extmvagancies of their polioy, but because the a mount estimated to cover interest on the,national debt, current °xi:Kinser! of government and appropriations, for carrying out -party measures must, be realized, and any deficiency on the part of any particular source of reven ues, mast, in the °ad' be met by more ezeessive •taxation on other sources, already tazod to a point almost be yond endurance. • One would suppose that the' army of remove (Amnia the employment of *e Secretary of the TreausurY was large anOwith'ts forret out all delin quencies sad- fraudeand see such Jus tice to the ovetinniet as the revenue laws eoetemplate strictly •and that °uglily dose. Ent the !hots do not seem to bear out •the supposition. Every °aunty, city and considerable villMe is *ha whole oouatry. literally swarms with thosellteido yi aolisetorsi vPh4 llll, detectives,, special Atacits,',aukster , kiseto.• tiocillooterheso the& *wads without number are perpetrated, sent the /mount of reveitte mottived Treasury• every yEar decreasing by What ie the motet of all this ' ? No one is fool enough to believe that; if the agents of the Treiteno were, 'as they ought to be, capable and henest, such Fronde could be perpetrated qr such deficiency occur. The fault is evidently, in the Deportment ,itself and in its agents; and the question narrows down to simply this : Are gee'retary McCuu,ottutt and his.sub "o'rdtriiites merely ineompentent, or arc they dishonest,? ft would beiicAulig short of_presamption_h/. us, to prononce incompetent a - mac who bears the rePution of the Score- tort as an able financier and practi carstatesman; anti we are. therefore reduced-to the alternative -of- believ ing him to be gifted with a very poor knowledge of men, or of ascribing W him a criminal negligence of his su perintending duties, as chief of the department.. over his agents,- or (which is worse) of overlooking or conniving at their -venality; for it seems impossible that the mercenary and corrupt conduct of the Treasury agent,, which is übvious to the very dullest -von' prehension of the mniti should have..entirely escaped the ckb..ercktion of 'the 'clear-minded am 7 keen-sighted head financier -or: the nation. Tc • sny noting (kf the frauds perpe trated in their returns . by the large manufacturers of all descriptions of articles, of wear and tear, there •ir a deficiency 'in the tax on whisky alone which is so immense as to attract al most uttiveNat attnittion, and Which seems to increase • yearly, notimith i standing the apparent efforts of the Trcusurii department to detect and prevent the frauds through which it OCCUTt. We cannot, if we would. wbut, our eyes to the fact that the rev enue laws impose a cal of two dollars per gallon upon whisky, and yet eve• ry day it 19 openly said on the streets of Philadelphia, New York and Brooklyn at prices ••• • • • • • low as se dollar and ton cents ,up to one dollar and fifty_oents per gallon. in the face and eyes cf all Secretary Mello ,i,e, u'w regeltr and Special agents, under the very noses of asses- ROTS, collectors and- inspectors, The secret of all this is; the revenue of - ficers, from highest to lowest are bri: bed ; and although the Secretary has had the evidence of this crirruptiOn of his agents brOught to his attention time and again. he has neither re moved nor brought,to trial a single delinquent except CALLtru-rr; and the CMe of that mercenary scoundrel will, we /inspect, be so adroitly !palm ged by the government attorney as tp Slidir no information of consequence, and he will finally be permitted twos - cape punishment and return to the practice of his villanies as the dog returns to his vomit. Indeed, why should district attorneys hesitate to favor defendants, in such (lases. with the temptation of a _large fee inviting diem to sisinaonmeniairtify,when the fact is potent that the highest law officer of the Treasury accepts a fee, or present, or bribe ( which ever term may suit best) of some thousands of dollars from the party interested, for securing a claim of large amount against the — govermnent. But it is not only in the great eastern cities we have named that these frauds upon the revenue are practiced. Every where throughout the couhtry where tt ere are distilleries or rectifying es tablishments they prevail to a greater or less extent. winked at by faithless officials, ►aho are not.slo* in learning that more money is to be made by serving - the manufactures than t 9 government. In Now Orleans tte system seems to be carried on to greater extent mid with more adroit ness and muccesa than elsewhere. There the inanafleterers appear to understand thoroughly the business. They have for.ned what is termed a ring, or association, every member of which must pay a oertalp monthly tax, the purpose of which is to bribe the Treasury agents to blindness and silence. l'hus they pay to the collec tors one thousand dollars monthly, to the assessor three hundred, dollars, and to subordinates in proportion.— fn this way they manage to get off by pacing one bartni out of every Rout-- teen lb a bonded warehouse, one dol lar per barrel paid to the-inspeoter securing the proper branding of the thirteen barrels which haVe never been in bet& In ene•single inetenco by comArinetßiftheeetribed officials, the government is said to have lost at least one million of dollars ; while it appears by the, records of an aMeneor in ri dioiribt r ia which lafrooty-five.dis 'Meths tad as taaorioadifying 'stab liSam6o3 itbre in but •swestptaroti borrow of whisky nu ' a dperbilli Orli; tobottot. sae ?seta ar i a wiall Imam d Aber itternutury of the Treaanty, mid yet he Lae up to this time taken so eikeient meaeuree-to punish the - guilty Irk oiale, 'prevent a repetition of the ,Crende and eelleot theyevanne. As Ire said before we :are no admi. rer'of any portion of the policy of the Mongrel-negvo,government by which we are now unfortunately cursed ; but there are certain revenue labs under which a tax of hundreds of millions'is annually assessed upon thi people, and which sntot be made. If it fall abort ItlYtigh_frauds.pratitice4 .y distrikis 'rectifiers of' whisky. Or manufacturers of any article what ever, it n net eventually' he_ extor ted , from others who have hon eatiy paid what was assessed against them. It ieTor flit - Friesen that wa arraign the Secretary of the Treasury for unfaithfillness to cloth : for tenni" ving at the corruption of his agents, and permitting one portion of the taxable, best able to pay, to gel off, with less than a tenth of their fair proportion oftax, while the other pontiff), with far narrower means- of 'payment, must eventually bo compel. led to make up the deficiency. But what avails complaint, arraign ment or expostulation so long as the rottenness of Republicanism is in the ascendant and dishonoety b profligacy and venality rule? Vettahty and plunder- 2 -thege arc '-the talismanic words, which hold together the mon grel-negro plYty. It is these "open sesame's" co sudden Wealth and vol uptuaaVenjoymente which have ,ut traettsi to their standard, the vile and debauched of - Of !Wets and itsities, and the, pqley of the leaders is but a reflectitin of the in eitininirtpitipeitsi. ties and depraved appetites of the hungry and thirsty vampyres. leeches, I profligates, thieves, mendicants and • tatterdemalions who follow them. Jo long as tAis party rules_we can look for honesty in no department of the governmont ; and, for any rela tion the word hears to thorn or theirs, it might as well be stricken from the dictionary and forgotten the Differenoe There is one way of testing the rel ative merits of the t.e great outage ' nistic - Parties' now - sppeali rig to IN people fur a verdict, which, without arousing the paSsions or offending the prejudices of either aide, wit' point out clearly the course proper to be "pursued by every friend of free, con ' stitutional government, in the coming struggle for the Presidency. The two great parties may be prop erly distinguished as the Democratic and the Mongrel Negro Bor. liblican parties. Their ideas of government differ as widely asAlin 11&111430 by which they are respectively - known. The Democratic party have always been distinguished for their rigid ad herence to the restrictions and re quiretnents of the Constitution , for the integrity with which, when in power, they conducted the govern ment in all its branches ; for their economy in the appropriation and disbursement of the public funds ; for theinsupport or the rest rved rights of the States,and for this observance, in official station, of the easy courtesy and simplicity of form which best be come the character and genius of our free institutions- The history of Democratic adminis trations, fro:n the inauguration of THOMAS J mums down to that pe riod when sectionalism triumphed and the mongrel ntgro Republican party was installain office, clearly shows that such wore the principles and pritctices of the Democratic par ty. Always acting in consonance with the Setter and spirit of •the Contititu tion and the clearly expressed will o the people, all the rights ofStates and individuals were recognised and supbortaid, wise and impartial laws were enacted and administered, trade flourished, commerce expanded and generaVpro•tperity contentment and happiness gessed the land. • Far different in their principles (if they have any) and in their ideas of government are the Mongrel Negro Republicans Who_now hold the reins of power, and are using the most oor repta‘.tmitorone means and instrumen to retain them. Over the actions of 'thirr party the constitutiou exercises - no controlling power. They nee or reject it as it happois to accord with or Van' titan ter to their purposes. They hold it iu no vane:v/4)11_4s a , sacred helmet from the fathers, 'or, as a, cafe snide 'through the labyrintk path? . of stattsmanship and'. orpromea4.„ Ip fact they contemn sad Jikepiie it be. cense .it implicates emston of/quits. ble democratic resentment, too sin' las tbr ,thoJr INisk, 'tot. MOO ' in its powers for altar ambilioi.- All their officio; • it 000 • they .enure greeted to as end—the nndetminipg and .fiiui de. struction of the systoon. and the me.: tion in itsittead 01'4 Oorrareid Central pvernment, undo -less restrictive re piblican cheeks, of icrtimatohY, sup ported Ly en. aristocracy - and en attny. Their administration has been "characterized by ever, sot thist may deflne.tyranny." • They have tramp. led the constitution 'the abet: they have passed arbitrary and oppressive laws ; they have arrested inn - ocent citizens:withont warrant, swdAtitpris. tined them without hearing ; they have illegally condemned citizens t o death birmilitaryttibutnthvand exe cuted them, they have deprived ten States of civil government anti, aub. jeeted them to military rule r they have taxed them and refute them representation ; they have- deprivid the white inhabitants of these States of political power by wholesale die frrechisetpent, and conferred that power upon the blacks; they have' curtailed the power of the President, and aim at destnring it'altogether so as to prevent- him from defeating their designs; they have aimed a blow at the Supremo Court for the same purpose they have crushed commerce and destroyed trade by unwise legislation; they have Klima dered the public, frauds upon fawning veonhants sod the knaves,, end weigheddnwil the people with taxes to teen the wheels of government in motion: '^A4l these things they Ma done, and we have their worrifm• it that they' not go back in their course." The differentia twiteistin the two parties is as great as that, between light and darkness. if the people want the Union restored and our siin. rile form of govermpent pet petuated if they wart etutitahle and ceo nomical administration and proqier 'ous Limes ; if they want negro equal' ity ignored and rights of white,. eiti zenit secured, they have but nne course to pursue—they mast rally under the Democratic flag and elect a 'Democratic President and COngrreiv • If on the contrary, they want a con tinuation of the "reign of terror" and destructiln ; if they want to see the government • changed, the country ruined, and themselves the slaves or deripotie power, their cairn is equal ly clear—let them rally under the black banner of the mongrelnegro- Republicans, elect (hinter, or CIIAMN, or BuTtErt, or whoever else the devil may put into the heads of their Con vention to choose, and they will anon realize all their fancies pictured to them of a model government. The Renegade. The most infernal whelrs in the w'snle yelping pack of mongrel-neer hell-hounds are -ther — protnintmt eOll vcrts from the Democratic parts made by bribes of military commi, sion', or the prospect of plunder do ring the civil wars—as, for instance. the trimmer and tyrant STANTON, who was made Secretary of War, and exercised authority in a manner for which despotic is a mild term; lints. whose blood-thirsty disposition evin eed Itself on every occasion of trial tri court nmrtial or military commission in which he took part ; BUTLER (the beast) who was made a general, with out capacity, played the blackguard tyrant and *ler at Heir Orleans, bet tied hitaiteir at Dutch Gap, and is now ono of the meanest wretches and most contemptible scoundrels- that compose the catalogue of homes that form the present "infamous Con grass ; ' Looms, of Illinois. who ( as Mrs. Lincoln alleges,) was bought by Colonel's commission, a low fellow, without talent, genius or prineiplc. whose timeie . almost wholly absorbed in doing the, slang talk and general dirty work of the party; he, too, is 4 member of the present "infamous" rump, which Vas 4one its worst to subvert the gevemment and subject the country to negro domination and military rule. These and such as these, renegades from the Democratic ranks, are foremost among the very lowest and worst of the bad men who are !low riding the country to lee ru in. Bat there is some comfort in the thought tbat the day off their mis-used power is drawing to a close, and that they will soon be called by the people to a final ( and perhaps bloody) settlement of amount& They'll rae their rhea sa did the Fi•Deb triumvirs, Atad,o►n belltiad a hems thoir seat erti ris; Lou bold o t heart, but pester ist hi sem The devil at fait wlll pt bb \ s purt doe. —,Large loam ire ixiisig disoov . ia 4impnvetva ohm -L6 in 'aid that the isliaqueedikenwre ismer ly appoisieee dad "lat. lamentpl."
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