Gil - The Dembicratic Watchman, ELLEFONTE, PF N N PJ ORGY !Mika. Efirroß JE PROPRIETOR JOHN lk-itrrOlikaAp,./MoCIATs Cotton, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 3, 1868 =I ragsrs.—s2 per year when paiJ ad vance, 2 o be when—not paid In edvantT, and $3,14 when Tot paid befUre the asp irelion of the year. Demooratio State Ticket ' "FOR A tfiITTOR CENERAL, LION. CII6ARLES 'E. 110 YLE of Fayetto County. - ?Olt SURVVY-Olt. ORNERAI., OEN. WELLINGTON 11. 1•3 NT, Of Columbia County Are we to have a Dictator ? There has been in the Conduct of Gen. Grant, ever since he %Vas first seriously spoken of in connection with the Presidency, - a certain something which puzzled uc and appeated to puzzle everybody else. For a long 4„imO the man •cerned to be itipene frnble. His reticence, when papers and politicians wels calling upon hint for oven the slightest hint as-to itia principles, Was absolutely painful. Occasionally a report would reach the-public through the press that the "great (?) man . ' had opened his lips to a very intimate Friona and express etla wish that the politiciaus Mould let him alone—that he had no ihAire to be President, and that if tun seated to be a candidate at all, it !oust -be as the candidate of the people and not of a party. And this i • ab: of ttcly all we know, or rather all" we could hear in relation to the General's feel inge on the subject. It was indirect inforination, which could not tie re lied on, and up to the time of his quiet evacuation of the War 'Depart ment to let Stanton re-enter and le .lisanme duties, it. looked likely enough thah i if a can late at all, he would not be the candidate of a for reither party was willing to trust him. "That act, hbwever, and his subsequent breach of friendly iela tions with the Prehident, nut only threw him into the aims but estab lished him in the confidence of the pseudo-republicans, and whatever may have been his previous dkerini nation, it seems now to be well settled that he is to be the Presidential nom ince of that party, and that lie will' accept the nomination Whether or 1 nit he will accept their platform is a! question that will be settled hereafter Up to this timelt is pretty vermin they knew no wore of his peculiar views in regard to public attains than they knew a year ago, and that their present confidence in him is based en tire)), upon his conduct in the affair of Stanton and the President. They are willing to run their chances, and we are willing they shaV-but, tf we 'are not very far wrong in our estima - tion of the character of the man, they may enjoy the triumph of his election, but, after that—nothing. We advise theM to clip the wings of their bird before they let him out of their hands, or he,will fly away from them Much as, in common with others, we have,been at times per pinged by this man's strange conduct, and at his stubborn silence, amount ing on some occasions almost to rude - nese, he has never been able to hide from us altogether the indications of an ambitious spirit. The very pains he took to conceal it, waS 4411encii enough to satisfy us of his yokiniugs for the Presidency; but how he in intended to reach it without the af filiation with one or the other of,tlie great political parties was a mystery to us. Tiniejs a great revettler of secrete, and . often makes clear many things that were long obscure. The innova tions upon our simple system of gov ernment wade by the party in power, their utter disregard of the constitu tion, and their manifest intention to :establish a strong central system Which will control the States as an autocrat controls his provinces, or as ,thy now control the ten Southern States under the law of Congress, has Awakened in many& bosom, probably, throbs of. unholy ambition which only an opportunity such as the policy of 'tl p&eudo-re publican party presents, ,enitld ever Inive ;roue& The out 'raie *hioit • they are now porpetra l tin& at Ni'ailifigioti iblendcd .tfnlog the Prpsidential dice.intocoo-, 'tempt; the liSzt step,—and it ',,atfiasy one if "the People *leen on - will be to abolish it altogether; and ,than what? A strong kivernment of •nome kind--a king or a military din 'tater. (Jr shall it, be an oligarchy with the reins irrtbe hands Of Stevens. Ittfler, tlingham, Sumner; Wade & Co.?=To some AA complexion it must come, and come soon, too, un less there be a sudden turn in the tide of public affairs. We shall prob ably go—through -the forms of one more Presidential - election. One more Think of that. The Great Republic is tottering to its--4-11, and who shall be the head or the next creation..whatPver it .may 110 ? King —h:mpernr—Dictator—who shall it big.? Has grant been dreaming of these forthcoming event'sduilug his liys or apparent drowsiness ? Ilan the big butcher who did not, teem to court t he linuoret n Presidential nom ination, been watching through his half dosed. lids the current nt events, and laid his plans to niako himself. dictate e when the Presidential three is phrred out ? We shall see. More •im probable things have happened , and en the F-Uppot4tion that it is so, AT have the key to his retrjence and J tr,pgo (\on duct. The Truly "Loyal." • 'Phew who are continually flouting f 1"lovalty, - and denouncing abler and piper and more patriotic and unsel fish tutu for the want of that senti -1 mem - 7 in what doe- (1""r• loyalty ‘‘on ,.,ibt , 1,0 . y alLy, lit a political ; enhe, I ha i a fixed and definite 1111'101111g -It siwii,fies fidelity or faithfulness to a king licit 35 in this country we have not 3et is long. to whom or to what does the citizen owe this senti ment;' Es it to the shadow of a king which we ste loornimg up in the dis tance, and to shish the .i.aity, in power 'a preparing as fitst as pohsible to give form and substance. , that we ' crwe t his feeling so _lllll , 11 5'111'11k . ! Or by every grade and e Inci :111,1 type or 1 the pseudo reptiblieans. (loin the iscurvicst rogue to tho 11104 exalted Isrottrisitask- in 4-heir -rank:'-' Or wllat I doe, the term signify in their vocabu lary ? If they tell us that loyalty 1 with them ineah: devotion to the !government, then we arc as touch in 1 the dark as ever, for they themselves seem to have no fixed idea of what i constitutes 'the government. ~.) that (loyalty is firepteitod frourthry to. day Ito know where devotion 141111 e. They !Weill to entertain a sort of crude no tion that the thing calliiirgoverninent 1 1 is not IL fixed I/1St:411110(1 created ftir l certain well defined purposes contra eing . the gia,) , l of all, but, a sort of un definable something that has no set tled form or place, and" may ho shif ted and changed and timed front time to time t I meet the necessities ,if par ty. just iii they lased it to meet the necessities of war. Front MI to, ISM" loyalty with these pseudo repub licans meant implicit confidence in ABRAHAM LINCOLN and unqualified approbation of all his acts Ile icon then the . government as they under stood it, and dolussosi would to-day be their Eoverament it he had proved to be the traitor and scoundrel 'they took him to he when they elected him Vice President. But he was found to have a grain of honesty in his com position which ,revolted at the infa mous policy proposed to him, and "party necessity," which- could not bse him to accomplish its litany and monstrous vihianies, rejected him, , and the rump Congress, vile enough for any deed, "murder and treason not excepted," beewne at once, and yet continues to . .be the pseudo repub lican government. If it is disl7al or treeionable to hate and spit upori, to repudiate arid oppose ruck a govern- Mont, then, thank Ood, we arc dis loyal, a traitor in heart anti in deed, ' and we* envy not the thoughtless fools who are running, blindfolded, their necks into a halter. that contrary 'sentiment of which they so omistant jy and foolishly boast. With Dem • ocrats there is but one government in this country -the government of the Constitution. To that, and no other, every democrat is devot4'yd. As to that gang of usurpers sitting as Con• gress, and claimed by the pseudo-re publicaus to be the government—the 'curse of every bonest .man and true patriot in the country' now rests upon them ' • and heaven's, if it, be not al 4.eadylaunehed, may soon follow ; fur p4ondo-ropnblioan policy an ere see it daily unfolded is A erluse against lioavoz,and man.- .. 1 The Cancer et the Public Heart, Who dare deny that the people a the lYnitiidlitaile hirippinpet disestrpuely failed iu two of their peitiiie citifies; 'Bret; In not Witting the goodiemen Oche couo• try into office, and soronet In not keeping the bed men oat Upon no pots'-of ti" disputed gees tione between kingly goreroments 'end republies, luice--titC-frietttia °Lille !slier tett more Sure than UP9II -ate Petit', that free goiernialints liould; keep' In authority , better, ant 'abler teen than royalty. Jeffersonanti Fsneklisteeted cm. beaitallugly upon.tbe faith, that all tbat would be necessary to put a 'man into °llse in the United States Knee the peo ple should mores* the isierAire iranoHhie t would be to show his kiikpicity;intry and iritlhignesh to aers,c. How sadly mistakikn.late these puke statesmen to us their posterity. We have not only' failed to provide" means for promoting proper man to publio sta tions, but have &Mutiny established in stitutions, by which the' wicked obtain power and supefier man ari effectually ellesedgeL_ selves from kingly favoritism. buf We have ohainea ourselves lq, a tite arbilrfiry will of party leaders. There is something ludicrous, ac welt as lamentable in the political condition of the people of the United litotes.— They have in effect universal !suffrage and universal elieibilitv, if the statute laws are cow n lucre conicallonnl mucus the power ot, to every few of our citizens About a hundred men in liamilton county control the entire voting power of over'Bo,ooo voters; and ot.the 6,000 men fit for °til os@ in our county, at least-4,900 ore ab solutely excluded, while who are eligible, are constituted of anything but the beet. material But the worst is not told,loe .2.1 the remaining 26,00 shoed who ,arc- totally, unsuited to exercise public authority, about t;;Lloo iu nutn bur, wield in one party or another, all the political pester , Jar themselves' and frieulls Who . have linen our sheriffe, treasurers, recorders, Adzes of the Pro" .ate Court, our legislator's, congressmen and what kind of men fill our City Coun cil, cur aeverel oily !Aloes nut who are our policemen? Why did the Repub lican party nominate Lincoln" Why Johnson' What was (nut porly'm object in nominating CILBfI Anti Pierce, and Douglass and McClellan Po not both of our parties keep back.lhoir beet !lieu ' Do not both put forth "f men Evidently-, titers-44re, while we have by constitutional law, enlarged the frati• Aloe and the , sphere of eligibility, we have practically,' however; dwarfed the the populhr forces and diminished the sphei eof public men Wo have strick en nirra from Iho fist of qualibeat ions to ofbee, and have now but one yoke, which our candid Ates must pass, and it is to pylive to the party !enders, that they •irsf w tiling be their Moto There newer was a more irresponatble, illiterate, brutal, prelucliced and oligarchical_np pointing pnwct , than that now enercis og nn horny of our politic-it par k••+ flexible back Nine and envy virtue in money matters is neeesioiry for !he` e,indidale ; (dear eyed inmolimee are Co for t [lc convent Inu delegate and word leader - SYeall recalled _Fratikliti%t anecdote shout the nee, ridiculing a property qualification, Which he nhowod, really exercised the elective franelliae But recollecting it, and applying its mural to oereelveti are two,very different thinge. It is 110 longer one ass that rotes, hut all the asses vote for all I be men of our land, led by dome oho o. iwu foxes, and to day the fundamental - quintion o' -all re potshots, to , wat_i iLe curbiog of bad am bitianfia as much' unsolved as ever in these United States We are all caught in the blind alleys of our patties : What's the refftedy' Onr political fools would rush into thir or ihat measure, or keep voting one party in and then again vote it out, but .what avail all such works without aor. motion 3:' public sentiment? Our vo ter. 'went to like to be deoei•ed. They seem to hdnger and thirst for flashy speeches, and they seem to admire men who prom ire much and do nothing Withal, our voters ire proscriptive of men of inde pendent mind. With such a public morality, all reforms in our Government are impossibilities. The remedy therefore lies in our opin ion, sn giving back to our public mind its moral Lone; that tone, which made a certam judge, with • very femiliar name io the Demoo-atio party in this county, sink, as if he was shoLiato nothingness, when asked a simple question about a former deed. There is no other remedy in a free Government, except the moral iaation of the people. In monarchies, if the king is wrong, all is wrong: in re publics; if the people are bail, all is bad The experience of last fail proven, and that of this spring will confirm, that as our politics are now erganized, any bad man can force himself into office, and there is no use of uppealing from Philtp drunk to Philip sober, for Philip don't get sober. All of our voters belong to some party • we say belong. fur the leaders own them Every party preju• dice is cultivated: every sound thought is suppressed and from President down to our Constables, the only thing a party wants of their favorite*, is, that they shall be slaves. Johnson the Intended victim of party bigotry, is not a man after our own heart,. Yet one important truth must be spoken of him, viz he reeves would have fallen 4/ha had been a mealier, man Thf little independence he bad, coif( him his high ,position, lied be, like Lincoln, differed, bnt truckled, he would be as much the god of the Repub lican party to day as he was when he hung Mrs Surratt. Ho offended the the better elemerits of the Itepubliusu party by his Nulls, and he made ene mies or the wicked men thereof by ob• stinately adhering to fragments or lle• moorecy, Bleated to be a teal, he pre• mimed to be a part of a man, end be now stands before a court of Impeachment, that ail our public men May learn the lesson that they must bow the knee to their party. ft is no longer a certain degree of virtue that constitutes the qualification for office; it is a certain degree of vice. _Our parties wilt forgive a man who is below it, lent never one above it. This lathe stutter at the pub lie heart; in it lip all our misfortunes. —South and. Wes!. 'When Rogues yell Out, 8,0 A spicy osrreepprodouce bet wiles Messrs Ramsey . : and , Donselly members of Congress from thla State, le publish, liehed intle.fit. Paul pager's: - -Both or these genre want to, be elected U.S. Senator by, the neat legislature, and have cionnen?o, 1.1101 work of showing lhfiblts•Noue Uenuitio without "COHTAS'` Signature. 1111/-2.50. an& 500. else. kept by all druggist' AVMies Rent by mall on reioalpt of price 3 pate fur any three $1 liter by El 'ram' Ilifir*Sbpaii"for -bp-Expraa 4 112111.-Yor Bale by . P. P. GIRBSN, „. Bellefonte, Pe. 1111)..BoTd )y all Wholinnln Phlladelpbia, PA.; , And in all large Cities. 13,13-Bto 1 . , , I / Address JIBNRY R 008T88, 842 prosdatay, N.Y.