The Deinikratic Watchman,- BELLIVONTE, PENN'A. I P. ORLY MEEK, En troita. frioral ETO It ORR P. KITCHELL, Aiolocurn Eopon, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 20, 1868 T816163.-42,per you when paid in ad ♦atiee, 7,60 wbeti net paid in 'advance, and t 3,00, ielian net paid bergre the expiration It the dear Democratic State Ticket FOIL AUDlioii: GENERAL. iiON. CHARLES E. BOYLE _ of Fayette Calmly, • FOR i•WHYRYOR- 4 1E414 4 4in - - GEN. WEIziAN6r"PON 14. KM% of Columbia Oottnii. ~T iss Situation. She question now arises seriously in the mind of every man or setise, is there anything we can do to save our institutions, tram destruction? Men of who are not wholly blinded by fanaticism, feel the peril upon xis which many failed to see t)roaching,lafid some have sutik down in - the mute calmness of despair Even those who madly shout . with thi# - of` - party •gueresE, ar under the .mean and narrow viny tiveness of revenge, fed th e hear' g which agitates society to its depths, and with the instinct of the brute ichicli dreads the eotainLatorm, they tremble wjth terror of they know not what. We are verging to ttlioint when all party strifes will be forgot ten in the one universal mourning of 'he people fur the • libtill?1 whtek have teen torn from them. The evil which now titre-stews wr over, whelm all alike. Let' no man who has acted. with the Ilepublicau party imagine that ht haann immunity from the burdeni; which will be imposed upou all. " Only the few who ciotnpobe the oligarchy which now hobs with deltaic g2;at , p the powers of this yor- Aiwnwint, will he exempt from ',he woes which we nre to feel The in :trunionts rd the amblition of these wicked few wilf_ire vast, as so much uhbiah,amon get the masses they l&ve helped to en.laee - They are forging their own chains al: itell ours, and Will have in addition the mortification of knowing their fetter , : for their own handiwork. In this hour of awful Peril, we have a tew- word to key to those who have heretofore acted with another pohtical party than our, and beg them in the narm s of God and humanit, t VA: for one moment at the true situation, leg:iodic— of all party Coll•ltierm.l4,n, Ten Ntatef. of our once gloriou , union are erti,lool to the ritt , t. Ever yes. tige of liberty has heti' destroyed throughout the entire t-outli pot a solitary principle for which our rave has so l u ng struggled, bat i N tolated in the rule to which those are sub jected who , surrendered, to tpr, PAVOILABLE TEHID• \Nitwit WE MADE Ot:Ri.EIA'ES. Do not thru4 this subject from you a, one in which you are not personally intelesu.d. for the power which crushed thean, now stands in threatening attitude over us. Their rights and ours. re,t. .un preei-ely the wine hasp. Thu qitution is the only bulwark of de fence fur all 0, u- and when they al-- peel for its protection, the naked sword, dripping with human blood. is held out to tht•iti fur aubwet.— What defence have we which the South does not pusaes.- also? It is true, we have not 'Ewen crushed and subjugated as they have, but whgt is to hinder the same power which has mired thew from erecting military distrietti in the North as well ascin the South? 'I r not the constitution, which fails to protect, them. in the name of Heaven what guaranty have we that.the hand which lies so heavi ly upon their liberties will uot smite bum to the earth whenever it VeCOrns necessary for its own existence. The perpetnation of their own 'uthittillrY power is he only by which tluSsai usurpers arc contrcilled, and _uuderly- ing this is the poirerfal prineiple of self preservation, fbi they fettr'ilie peo ple oin, ltib . iro betrayed. Are RePub 'Beans going to allow themselves to be .10 by mon and selfish' partisan con sideraoens4to the support of this ir ,Tespolsitle find clangorous power 't Are they willing co entritst their lib erties to the mere caprice off' men who haie:gii , ea Such F 9 ii*inoing 'torpor . or theii Winona Poiret, to establish' 'des potism, . their treatment of our brethren in the Booth? Bat they, have gene farther than this. AO ttimnst annihilated one of the three brooches 01 , thigi minnent, ma tamped its PoilOra• — . Milo:l*VA? Jowiorow• personally we have nothing to say to Reptiblicons But of the lorio'iltnce and (Bin' ity of the office he holds, we ha•e• Whq! 1.41 M R -of, theAteastntS - watt Our Where dixided title, 'government into throe branches, and gatie to . each distinct powers arid duties, butAttst tremble with alarm, itlren they see an attempt' on the part of any one of them to dsurp or destroy the powers 1 of any other?... We cannot think 4,ta necessary to urge upon any citizen of this country the Ivitatv necessity tor this arrangement. Surely all know that without sonic power fulfilling the duties the constitution prescribes for the president, a rciprCsentative repub lic cannot exist at all. For the last three years, their has been an unceas ing effort on the* part of Congress to degrade aid destroy this office, and I fleetly they_have brought 'this man, erected by the people less thin years ago, to trial, for "high crimes and misdemeanors." this way be; gratifying to those wiiiihato the man JounsoN, but those who love the in titutionioPheir RQuutry trulat. take a wider view of the question. What ever he has been made to suffer 'fins been at the expense of the diguitil and imp 3rtanee of the ()Moe he holdt and if the office uiay be degraded and destroyed for his humiliation and punishment, a like result may folow every time a Congress is elected which 11614 , political opinions adver,e to glogo of the President. This would _ - - - - be equivalent to giving tire branch of the government the power of selecting a chief tua'glArate, the very thing which destroyed the splendid republic of Rome, and brought all it- . greatne, , , to ruin -- Republican, who have exulted when the rightful power- . of .fotn nv w, rc shorn from him one after another:, iefTtraTrn - WElTiviTt I exu, ration termourning and de,,Nir, if they follow the downward eour,e of Manic , - after the Tribunitial office itta, deAr,,yed, and the Semite b.:c!aiii , l at! in all. We urge upon our fellow-citizens, I espes:ially theme who hold different political optitioai, fruut our own, to ex tannic carefully the article- a un P`peuchtnent olgewhere in this paper) which have been preferr ed again•ht oikr President, awl t., re flect, that the design of those who urge qu the trial with such indecent hate. i, to remove from (diteo a man !de r t f .,l iy their nufiragc., wad place in his Acad a. bipphewing wrete , l o i whom you repudiated in your conven tion held the other day in Philadel phia. and-whom your party di-warded ,to In., own •tate of Olio. though it gave five titoumand majortty fur the Inept/Hie-an,. The articles of impeachment a re ten in nuinher, and if we adini that there i• evideuee to fully , u-tarn eve ry ode of than, there not the .had Ow gcon0(1 to has.• the ehartre of "high erinieq and Inv:demeanor,— upon. They charge inin with havinx Lone what all his predecessors in of lice, fr o m WAsitisi,ros to LiNc(ii.N, claimed the right to d o without tines- Lion from any one. It is manifeht to all, and is exultingly boasted of by those who are most interested, that the object of the impeachment is to remove JotiNsoN from Office, becau•c he stands in the way of a Republican triumph at the polls in NovernbAr next. Let any candid, fair minded Republican ask himself the question, if lie 1, willing to see the whole, pow er cif the executive merged in the leg islative branch of the government, for the mere satisfacti,,n of being able to elect uric Mole president to office , and wether their is not great danger to our liberties , when any party ,con sideration can influence men under oath to sell every principle of honor, decency arid self respect, thr the pur pose of teaintaining themselves in power. These are serious questions, and they demand theimost candid, care ful, un prejudiced - examination ofevery citizen of this country. It is.a pine now alien all 'mere party strifes. and the bitterness they engender, shoal, be lost sight of, in the other great question of how to regain the liber ties which have been violently torn from half our people. and which we hold only by the uncertain tenure of the uncontrolled will of au ambitious olio - roily:— tinkers - thr:A merino people rise up clout with tie3,oecasion, we may bid amen fotoier to the free dom our fathers won for ha, add sink down in what Judge 13LeCf4slii `!tdtp repose of 4espetian," ' -----13oyereor .aturr lives la a palatial residence, besides irhieh the homes of firmer Olcoc natal are hotels. TMs is provided"forlis excellency out of the . meneir taken . from pesPfe, nzerry of whom Ste nest door to star/ "Mien. What, a flpoilthisis iy to keep the tf pose man's party" hi per,"' , • nio Lasttli — attplal: , It is bard to bring one • mind to the aoknowiedgement"that mall; principles upon'Which our gov ernment is based aro not understood by the people. It is hard for us, who have so long boasted of the intelli gence of the masses, and vain-glo -rinusly paraded our fancied:superiori ty jp this. respect in the eyes of the world, to admit that it was all fustian, and that we really do" not 'knew as tnueh about our own 'Fundamental principles a, out ancestors did three huudre.d:yeais. It is hard, not only because it is humiliating to our pride, but because it is scarcely pos sible to believe that the descendants iorthose who wrought out the liberties of England„and afterwards establish 'ed here —a government free, have 4o fir degenerated as to 'clasp to their bosom as a friend the I foe whose hand has clutthed the very heart-strings of freedom. It ii he= cause of this difficulty that so many writers fail to reach the Mot, of the !evil which is destroying us. They I see the leaves and fruit iu full vigor —and far more deadly than those of the bohun upas tree—and , eck pen tinually to bruise and destroy these, i ‘ , rht!e the undisturbed mots , trike own deeply iuto the soil which once o ;nourished the tree of liberty, and con uttually scud up new ld i to be can :vcrted into new death In plain language, neatly all “ur ahle writer; have failed to the thciugh nopprtant prittetple, Of our government, tfeeatte it seetni lihno-t an incnlt to i•atimate that th. pciirild' do not under-tand them It would `OPIII like telling a ntidcllc u_•o luau burn bttn t„ L t ill by itu:.W.t- an cii-iitt(4,l ' , wow rrin-ibon, 1 , 1 that iirdiriatc briktiAt, the goverimi,tit %you d hull do• tilt lv strtipturt: into ruin Jti their vciy -iniiilicity, the !amt.! ple, which huvi• liven tit'oxiii, id by thc Anglo Saxon racii fur fits bun tfi,i pen, lc idicirin-titui 1, 1 :1 ,j ang i er 'l%lll . 1i t liic itch- theon, and, fight bu 1' - a nut t 6 onlypowci whit c,kii tic them: ' We have !tpent our time pleasantly within the _strong walk our fathers reared, like Belshazzar at the feast, while the n outer defences have been holly neglected, we have expended every effort in beautifying and enrich , ing the ulterior, while a bold, crafty aril unscrupulous foe was battering down the unguarded walls. In the horn that we dreamed of eternal re eurity the fo • carried by storm and now forcibly holds, not rod) the outer defences, 1-ett the very inner citadel of American iibero the question for us to decide is not ~uly whether we shall drive out this foe, but have we the power to do it' It is easy to talk about the people be ing sovereign, and about them not permitting themselves to be enslaved, but, when wt look about us for some means by which we may remove the despots who have usurped ourr powers, we find that they have forestalled us. and are actually turning against us the powerful machinery 'nnrfathers erected for our preservation • It scuinis well to talk about the people being too numerous and too fund of liberty to be ensilved by the few who now hold the y . ) . .;wer , "4 of gov ernment. Hut despotisms are always erected by the few over the many, and certainly the majorities which hive been so often crushed to the dust did not desire such a fate any more than we do. When we seek some hope to lighten the gloom which now surrounds us, we confess we find but little. 'Nearly all the avenues of escape have been smaght bit and securely closed by the einning foe, and tho"..on.iy glimmer of light which penetrates the darkness ie the remote 'Prospect that the holi est portion of the Republican party will see the imminent danger which we are in,'and unite- with us to avert it, The high,harided revoludOnary measures of the RumpOiagross must certainly 06°)dt-slime who have'here tafortsuPported, theta Linn of our perilous condition. This is, our oaf' hops MIT.. and .I,r the liberties of America are hopeless lost, --L-$V theptetiont'strstisetnent of the tipaucles Of thii °wintry, the goy airflows:it pays• the, bankers Atnimalty AWenti milriona gold for hur{liahiaggs witzy , p depreciated cspr xencY. If paper m tote issued,* all, why may .the government not tui well save this , oast amount . of itabilly by suing it itself?, 'Let the 'poor men frIAW, *hal)/ i arc egoitid, Lad 'Who coutinu9 Co Iltipportthe party which controls' the inanciii; seek an ansWer from that they serve. Tli•Ae - srid As far as the! go, we have ittle or nip - Think to abject forms so far put \ fnrtir by the gates representing the democracy of the several States that have held their state couvebtioas. They alf,efintain matter of great moineat; weighty . truths, which should, command tile serious attention of all men of.all par ties, sound principles, upon the tri umph of wilich and their application in _public affairs by any party in pow err depend the success and perpetuity deur_ ay_stem . of government. Wbat we' have to complain of, is not what has been done, but what has been left undone. -.They ,contemplate but one moans of resistance Lu the great ,wrongs which they enunkorate as hay: its beep - perpetrated by the party ill power, acting through its representa tives , in . 0)1-Tress, the quiet and peacefultueatui of the ballot ;* per usitting fresh aggressions upon , the constitution and popular rights to go on, in the meanwhile, unchecked, so that by the time the-ballot has been tried, if' we should fail iu that peace ful remedy, the usurpers wilt he so welt intrenchpd and fortified, as tic de fy our utmost efforts to dtelO'ilge t Min by any means whatever , or, if the lraltut iilicaddrAistadd agaiast thew: is It ea,onal:ll9 of dive reyo- . ! lutioidAs, who afe intent upon holding on to power that they will reliimittli it without a straggle r ? A n d yet uo means of meeting mieh an emergency has bjcn even , remotely; , no signal of danger ahead (.thee than moral inean4lo; overcome ; isy mote of preparat,44l l l,r_ i a -truggle that iiittst, if it comes, Le l amt bloody. ha , Iced!, :•44411111041 In spy letnoe . ratie Stain tlonvon lion this ha, vet a-4.010,10J lo this re.- {wet, the people aro far ahead of the politicians wit') have laid down plat form, for them , they are wi-or Weir conception of the , tern which the .aiggressMus of unlawful , power, growing more oppressive and exa , perating every day, inmo-e upon them, and le-s timid in accepting them with all their responsibilities and r drlis !vim weal that is so,-That. bravo hearts are quietly preparing for I deekiye mea.sure, and prompt action tking through the mist and in odd le of politics through the cam vioterrt and bitter as it will be, upon-which we are jest about enter tlmg, .no matter what re , nit the brisket may finally declare, we see clearly in the distance, not very iemotc,, .',,r think we -cc) the gathering of a Morro, the incipient signs that itiale mite a tempest furious and. wide spreading. a tempest Of war and cat. nage, a baptism of blood Otrougb which we must pass if ve would pre serve and bequeath what and untat - ) nished to posterity the fee iiistim time, which the blood of Jur fathei , won for us It is barely 14—,ible that sonic I OW.r position Or I'lo vilence, some event beyond the detection Iq' human prescience, may oomir tt a‘ert a conflict which now, with the nakcd facts of the day before us, and the lights of history to guide our Judg• went., sears to us to be inevitable. -- But inurinion prudenv forbids tis to rut to such poßsibilitios for p•afety (hir best security will be found in in stant and constant preparation to meet any crisis with the means, whatever they may be. which the crisis may re, quire. Banco it is we rejoice that the people are in advance of the politi cians ; that they see clearer arid far ther than their representatives , that they express their sentiments more boldly, and, feeling that, in the end, the Woe of the day must be decided by strong arms and bold hearts, are Teady for the conflict whenever it may come and whatever form it may *as. EIME2 —Let taxpayers remember that the Legislature cots this State a thousand dollars for every day it4fe in session. Let them then cast shout for the benefit the State at largo has received for all the outlay of this win ter. Let them turn throtgli the mon strous volumes issued by the last four or five sessions of the Legislatiire, known as "pamphlet,laws," and see hiiw much . good has resulted from it all, They will find that all the legis lation which the State really needed duptug four or five yuars,might have beep had in a mouth. AU the rest has been for the beeetlt,otprivate' in dividuals—Mongrel legislators and their friends. =I —Chief Justice CUASE once voted, in tho Congress of the United States for the tlissolittion of the union, and has always been a disunionist& It is fitting that he should sit in the trialof JOHNSON for trying to • restore the union, and . natnrist that he should be unwilling to try Mr. DAVIS, for trying to de'itroy it. Ad 'Absurd Ptitixt • ; ~ •,. ... The assumption set up by those ;who aro-br limw-of--4hittrart ate; Radicals towards the6buthero Sta ate ; that the negro needs the protection of the federal' government -to: presamei him from destrtMtion, bears absur dity on its very face. No ono certain ly can doubt that the object of the .southern pc/plebes been, and is now, to secure happiness to themselves and I their posterity. There can be.. no prosperity and .. no happiness in this I world withont labor. We mean real, solid labor, snob as is fAquirecl to pro duce from the earth' the many ma' terials which ate, heeeisery CO_ our consumption and wear. . The blacks of the south are its natural laborers. if they are destroyed on ptherwiic 1 lftevented from doing the wdrk tb.;ire, it is tiOiliUly - tliat - it WitttVdtillt - IR all, and the'imuthern people aro most iuterested.to care for andproteet these creatures, so strong of muscle and small and weak of hrain, beeause tbar ova. itoot9diate, .aelftslr interests dEpend on the ability of the negro to do the work. Even if the black pos sessed no more of the' chameteristidsi of the white man than'do the beasts lof the field, it is -altogether Intim, oral to suppm‘e for a moment that those who cannot prcr without:his ' help would strike 11 n down, either by law or without la w , any mole than we would be inclined to destroy our laboring animals. . This argument ought, to be stifft eient in itself to convince any candid mind that the pretexts of those who I desire to control the tiontheri States 44Y. ~,juilitaxykos,ure inert pretexts. It should not be forgottunt Southern people are made of the saint , material that we are, and that it is only.,a little while 4inee we-were proud nt can them brethren:- The i'ery hiime olijeets which have been held steadily in view by all humanlicings of all el:Lasts, ate -till cherished be the people Or the South They .eeek prosperity and happinet- , , and !their dr•iire to get their civil affairn t in-a propet Zhapic would naturally be ' ;nue') .tionwer than oure to have them id° nu, They lice she park,;_ inedteeli lreedy interested, and lii . couric would t be -timulated gle.iter exertion, than we pos,il,lv cm be The very ' fact t.f their'having carried on a long l aud desperate air for independence, in the mind- f right thinking men, , Is t h e StrOllCi st evidence arr!ir to coutt,il thetwelve4, and l aming,' al! their domestic relation:- I, • . better titan se can do it lint hein,w,en if we hroi a !Ali fel righ! of interfm mice with tn-m With what purrom3 did they carry t n time wet against over ti whelming nutnlicr4, and with a tell , aordleine devotion 4e'dom witnes•-ecl I in the world . ' Certainly for no other object than to m•cure tlonr libertie , to theinselvt- and preiterity. and to im prove their nandition.. 14 if not -tier ' fectly :tlemrl to somici , e that bmeau,c they failed in this, they ait! not rapa hi-. of • t oeratl •1 • • ( got In their own States much better than It can be dont by a government erect ed for another and different object. and which ha* no proper machinery I to carry out such a purpwie. But it in useless to reason a ith those vim Will not think, and if the people did !their own' thinking, there would be I no ocen,ion for MICII re awning Thousands of people who could !not ,ee the past any further bace than the "firing on Fort 'utupter," are getting their eyes open to the fact that the ' revolution commenced with thb elevation to power of the men who now boldly strAe over the constitution, and deliberately ari hilate ton of the coustituert parts of the Union. People arc beginning to fed what they rerftiS'ed to sea ; and the party which so long - preserved the ' government is daily receiving aeons sions to its rarike. Democratic prin ciples will yet save the'country, if the storm of fanaticism has not driven us so far from our moorings that it it beyond human power to return. The "reconstruction" laws of Ccrigress were prepared by titso. argvENs. He declared them to be unconstitutional, and every- one of sense who has ppid any attention to them at all, would sitive at the same colieution without his declarition.-= Yet the re,tolutionista who prepared and passed them, are hounding JonN soNforallegedviolatioBapt ooudtlt.u: tiop which they openly violate theta selyett• Tlry connt targely upon the ign.irance . aftlio peopli,and apparently the people . 4411, sot disappoint them. —Whatever may be the sestiituf gtir diflhOtiqa; the record of those ,Penoqratareaho opposed-the war from the outset; aran insistment;of rave- InAionlaui ruin, is one their,deseenti auto will. always be proud of. Thgk 1101Ciivd jefiftifity!', Patti Since the time when Christ uttered th e &rine. trutits recorded in the Nee Tecititment, the earth hornet suppe r ' ted from itq I fruitful bosoth a more .self-riglateons, boastful i. lying, deceit. fill; cruel and persecuting sect o f PhariSees than comprise the bulk of the mianamnd Republican party o r citir day. Wrapped up, not "inthe grandeur of their own sqlitude," - -h o t in the slime of their filthiness of heart, they imagine themselves the oracles of a Divinity, fashioned after their own false conceptions, and shock „the moral sense of community, a s did the Pharisees in Christ's day,bz their absurd pretentions and profane utter. anew), Only a few days ego a lead. ing - paper of that sect, which hag earned the position it enjoys by the - pentanitriand - umicropolpus niuncialtd• ty in which, under every change of editent, it 'habitually indulges, , °fared in substance—if not in the very *Sr& lie, quote - from tnemery—that "disguise or blink the truth its we tnaY . , it is nevertheless tripe That 064 41nii g lity.(lentands the conviction of Jotrtssolq" by the ermrt of hilpeachment now organized fl. trial This is, in hart at lea.t, the very language used in a leading edi torial contained in a late lininher,,r, Ole l.Larrisburg Telegraph, substance cativeys its exact weaning. . Struck aghast at the enot Anity of the crime which they ate about. coniiiiitting against. the Cent,tt tution, Justice and Libel Ly rat bur, fearing that nu web of try which , they nail weave, will be dense enough to cover from the pub ' reTiTri' Iliiratrocitref - fttertterverflit , f contemplate, or the animus by winch they arc prompted and propelled, the mit atnoless organ c•f - ti - Antriotegg 'Far ty, audaciously and profanely intro dnee9 the name of- a Deity into it , 'column of farge reason leg, Ptioli falsehood, and iuipionsly as.erts tla "Clod Almighty" and not the ramp House ii the impeacher of the lent. find demands his convittion' :the Senate, constituted as a Court in;peachinent ;•6 -la . ly4 anti uttp_ unprincipled and unwrupulour hie I were an exception to the generaln: of others engaged in the touue had cause, we should not note its !an guage note a,s a reason why good in,•:, should ponder well before they en' sent to follow where such lead , Uc the common language of the Ile publican pulpit and the Repnblical press ; it is the fruit of the 'mime, and infidelity horn of and natured New England Colleges, academie. anoi '..euitoririez. and thence sown broad ea-toyer the length and brea•li the land., creeping into our coulees' schools, reaching, through Yank , profe.-0:-s, our highest ited.itutiurei learning, and viatiating in- it , your— every branch of education, impulJ and select, mental and ,moral. It I for this reason that woccall tittentien to it, and implore those who act Intl the republican party only througl. fake notions of its aims, objects air' superior morality, to pause and r )1, star heron) they go further, v.lietlel a party which is constrained to bakt up its pretentious and tnaintaiirn. , 111014 flagitious actions by making the Deity nut only a participates but leading active aad comulandiug pint in/ them, is a party which is at all likely to reform either tho politic , ch the morals of the country. In the light in whiclitre look me , " it, it was to such as these that Chn , addressed the worth - is' "Woe Lt., you Scribes, Pharisees, Hypoont , * Ye serpents, ye genera lion of vipers ! flow can ye escape the damnation of Hell?" seems probable that Satan will not, aparelis servant—l Iltil) ., ST 6- VENN—long enough to aeo the con sumation of his life-long purpv , e the enslavement of the white peoph of Amerida. - —BE liVaDr.,:is'antious gct/ into, the [ its .bousei but 1e he L ceeds, he 'way be like ibe f ird which stryAglealo get • a gilded cage.—equally.inziona to et out again in safety. ----;-"Mengtef -- patriotism only ,as tends to' fi l e_ Ri ver Potomac. The patriotism of the Democratic .Party reaches fiom ocean to ocean, and from Abe St. Lawrence to the Gilt. —Wo bear many 'Mongrels °mu plain of this atignatin . 'a of business• Hove they yet to imixn,thsva 6oliintr/ asausot prdspor while its government is being revolutionised? -7 -Granny (}airy declines the Viee.Presidential _nomination of the radical party: Sour grapes:
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