The asMOcratic Watchman; 0 BaLLEFONTE, PENN'A. P. Q.44.Y.!.!Ei1C, Eprrof L PROPRIZTOR JOIN P. iIiTCAELL,ARIOCCATII EDITOR FIUDAY MMININI3, MAY 8, 1868 pritsfs.—Et per year when paid in ad vow, 2,40 when not paid in advance, and AO when not paid before — the e xpiration of all year. Demociatiti Stet* Ticket FOIL AUDITOR GENERAL, HON. "CHARLES E. 6 BOYLE, of, Fayette County. YOR SURVFTOR GENERA(., GEN. WELLINGTON IL ENT, of Columbl* County The Impeachment-et the President. • Men of candor and good sense, who have examined the testimonypro and i2na during the progress of the dis g ceful trial of the President, must convinced that on the part of the (?) Managers it. in a coinnleto failure—an stoorti-1 attempt to ac complish an r injusti6able end In all the history of small and great trials, there was never a more , ignal and disgraceful failure on the part of prosecutors, It is true /Vilius . JontistrN had no business to be found in the ranks of and fraternizing with that revolu tionary, unscrupulous and wretched party ; but when by the formk, of our • government, which is one of law and not of inn, he beearec the acting President of the United Statos,‘the people are bound, in duty and in hon or, to Ettstaiu him in all his efforts to protect and &fend the Constitution. lt matters no who voted for or against him, or whether he was elected fairly sir unfairly, be became the ,irting president, and is the - only person known to the peopie as their chief - Magistrate, and whom they are bound to sustain so long as he honestly ad ministers the government in accor dance with the fundamental ? Inw -- Nom, mgo:ask-ist siliariousness, have. the people, the toiling millions, the bone, sinew and tnnsele, either asked ,or, ,desired Congress to impeach the president ? We all know they have not. The people were satisfied with his policy, for they repudiated the dogmas of Congress' overwhelmingly last fall. Then, who did demand his impeachment, and for whit purpose was it done ? We answer, a few de signing, wicked and revolutionary leaders did it of their own motion, and for the accumiilishinent of two purposes. Fiat to gratify a vindici- Live, malicioninind revengeful spirit.. and secondly to remove from their path a formidable obstacle to their schemes of revolution and de.potmm. A.revolutionary party al raiiito must continuo revolution in order to main tain power. Joavnittim, whether from !God or bad motives, refused to go with them in their schemes of wick edness and anarchy, refused to be yoked to the ear of juggernau which was to crush ihe life out of liberty, and grind our institutions to powder. They therefore determined first to pus its ponderous wheels over him. But the American people were well known to be dangerous to trifle with when their bleixl was up, and an at tempt to deceive them by the forms of law became necessary The Constitution gave Congress the power to impeach the president, l and to remove him front office on convic tion. They would impeach, h int legal ly, but convict htin with law or with out, by means of a perjured Senate. This was the scheme which was to deceive and hoodwink the people, and which a . Republican member of Congress declared to be "bold, bad and damnable." Being one of their number, he knows with wtiat adject ives to qualify their scheme, and we know that men. capable ofconcoeting, maturing and carrying it out ere well entitled to be qualified by the same adjectives themselves.. They are dangerous men to follow, and if sus- tamed, must lead us to utter and ir retrievable ruin. . That "when the wicked rule the Nation mourns" is not strange ; hut is it not surpassing strange that the people do not see, as with one eye, the utter ruin of all they hold dear, if these leaders arolnot rebuked, re• pudiated and hurled from power? But to return to the impeachment. To say nothing of ihe important position hold by Mi. .Tontatow,which 'Snail* degraded by what ever de grade him, he has rights as a Gideon of this republlo y rights which his an- Gators ale' ours fought 'for, which might to le near turd dear to every : American heart. Let. us look •Sit, the Dimmer of tie trial from this s tud. .point; - keepiog wind that his eon.. viction is intended to ha followed by a punishment worse than death._ To appreciate the position, let any one ask himself the following questions and answer them candidly to his oni mind. Bow would ho ilrlc'to have/Chosen as his chief prosecutor a man whom all tho world concurs in denouncing as a beast, apd_whom another of these same impeachers openly, in the halls of Congre4 brands a thief. If he were arraigned for high crimes, how would he like to have all the brutal .ounning which a beast may possess, ,all the arts which a thief has studied that he may escape` ITiejiiii: ishment of crime, employed before a partisan tribunal to prevent the aim i?le truth from being' known*, when the simple truth would be acquittal itself? How would he like to feel that it was not truth, justice or right which His prosecutors sought, bu t simple conviction, right.or wrong,tid the. infliction of A fearful punishment? Where is the man who would not cry out against such a proceeding 'o his own case, and demand the rights which his &mestere fur a thousand' years had stintggled for and maintain ed ? Yet it is said that Bng. lirri.mt is prosecuting for the people Did the people have an opportunity, what on indignant and universal' repudiation they wmold give the traitor, coward, murderer, thief and Pottled up beast, who could not get a single respectable paper in the whole north to defend him, The fact is, the people arc not represented at all in the great that which involves RO many interests of theirs. They have hod no opportu nity yet to net on the question, except Sr. they can express their disapproval by repudiating the party to which the impeachers belong, and this they have done overwhelmingly wliemyer an election has oce&vred It is a well settled rule of law that all men are presumed innocent until proved guilty ; also that a Common wealth never desires the conviction Of - its citizens of crimes and luisdemean ors. purely the people of this great country are not desirous that the ehia 1011astrate showki be- - pciavtaa guilty of such offences. liticy an , disgraced as weltsetit he should such be the resnit i ef the j trial , they are well aware of this, and hence arc strongly desirous that he be tried fairly and receive justice, which will acquit him. We deny,thetefore i that the managers tit the impeachment, before the High Court of impeach ment, are representing the wishes of a high minded, honorable people at all, when they are unwilling that he shall have a fair and honorable trial, such as the meiatut =win the land is entitled to when charged with rifira2 The fact that BUTLER ham been chief manager in the prosecution,and (hat he has been unwilling that the whole Jowl should be told on the trial is to discredit to any One but Btrrts.u. himself, the fanatical and crazy constituency in .Massachusetts which elected him to office, and the wicked, vindictive and revolutionary faction which selected him asir. pros ecutor , for these only have been consalted, and the wishes and desires of the people have been no more re garded than though they had no in terest in the matter. Thus has the impeachment of the president of the United States been conducted from first to last. AU truth has been suppressed which pos sibly could be, and all the falsehoods which could be coined admitted. Yet, at this hour, ne one dreams that Jonsson has been proved guilty pr any offence whatever against the law and those who desire his removal from office, hope for it solely on the ground that there are Senators who will disregard their solemn oaths ; and the rights of the president and people, aad vote for oonviotion for the single purpose of serving their party, and perpetuating is in power. It is a sad reflection that so much has been done by these men which was revolutionary and wrong, that no man presumes now to diny that, they will be guilt, of this4et greater in iquity. Btt ire am.epoident that the people will 'not bear it. They have been watering to trial with intense interest, and let it go ae it, may. they kaye seen enough' to con vince them that tbey dare not longer trust with power, seen so unsiirupu lons and dishonest. Their doom is already sealed. —We are payiag vast aume of money every year to , feed, cloth and vote lay, soad-for•aotking negross, and sustain atirmligg ; in or der to beep the &id' from restoring civil governaesat i ,'aisd paying their proportion of lhe.thgoe. ',ll this is 14.h:indult* be contin ued fa powaff.', We oan Rule.Oursetves • We noticed repently, in a Radical daily which wadrave.alwalre regarded as among thi'meici decent of its class, a long article, landing to the skies the plan of reconstruction - (so-called) of the Rum n Congress. We would have paid no attention to it if the . editor hid contented himself with speaking favorably.of tiro schemes he support ed, in getreffil terms„ for ;kis he was bound to 16, under fear or the party lash. But he most particularly spec ified certain features of these Mongrel schemes, and while praising the' men w'th black hearts who lievtlabored so earnestly to degrade ireir toil FiCti; he went beyend himself in praise of those with black faces also. He re newenhe old slundei oethe soldiers I of the north, that they werr -unable to conquer the south until they receiv ed the assistance of the blanks, and in the same sentence glorifies Coffee for stepping in With the to settle the terms of the peace which he had so nobly conquered with-the bayonet. We do not propose now to disetAs those monstrous measures,which even old Titan for considered black enough tho the fiend he serves. We have said a groat deal about them in the past. and have a great deal more to say about them in the future. But we desire new simply to 5.a1l the attention of white men who love their race, and are proud of its achieve ments to the low depth which has been reached by even the niore coo servative and decent of those who have yoked themselves to the -car of. mongreliam. In 1861, we' found" ourselves gud• deftly plunged into war. Whatever may be said about the causes of thif war, direct and remote, it was evi• dently only the bursting forth of a 10:catio which had 'wig bureNl with fierce internal fires. It was the result of: long, •long antagoniSms between members of the white race Yt was a white man's war, and the negro had no more to do with - rt .than the car cass for which the wild beasts con lend has to do in deciding which it is to fall to. He was a contented, happy slave, and - knew and eared no more About Lhe struggle which the whites_ were carrying on about "slavery," than lie.did of that almost equally bit,- ter contest in regard to tariffs This, we think, will not be denied. Taking it far granted that the great civil war which convulsed the world for four years, was brought about by white men, and that their difficulties were to be settled by it, what do men of Anglo Saxon blood think of the asser tion that we could not fight out our' quarrel without calling to our assis tance the degraded race, which had never exercised the slightest weight in the political affairs of the world in six thousand years. The Egyptians, the Orecks, the Romans had fought out their own quarrels, and partition ed out the world, without consulting entree any more than they did the rocks and hills and valleys which they contended for, and divided amongst them. And even when Rome had swallowed up all other nation», and began to totter to her own fall, when the barbarian hordes of Europe, Asia and Africa were pressing upon her from every side, and dividing out her rich sp3il, the race of Canaan made no motion towards the common centre of spoliation, but lacked even the courage and energy of,the cow ardly hyena, to press in and devour the feast which a more lordly raoe had left in their quest of more Arid when these barbarians were erecting the foundations of the modern gov ernments of the old world, the negro was consulted a» little and regarded leek thin he had been by the ancients. In fact, the whole history of man re cords the same fact. Prom the days of Nosh until now,tho descendants of Canaan have made no history of their own, they have invented nothing,they have been nothing but what the old patriarch declared they would be, "a servant of servants unto their broth- And yet in this progressive ago, in the progressive American Republic, I it is apoged by the wonderfully pro gressive yankee, that men of the most noble race which 'Europe has produc ed, could not settle their own quarrel without calling in the assistance of a race so low sod mean that the lowest. and meanest men who, ever had ca pacity to maintain any form of gov ernment whatever, ectir . Oed to ask or weir° their assistance against even the meanest foe. What do White men think of this Is it true duct a million 'of white men could not mowed in a white mane war without, tAo ,ot the,,blacks? Do the soldiers who oerried the mid het and the sword for roar long yearn endorse this allegation, Air do the Mende of those who'll, aittim in thin, assertion? _Amain tiOette .Nit wren niter Simla had conotere4 the peeve, r us, we could not settle obr politi -1 affairs without his ,valuable aid ? White men of Pennsylvania, of the reat states of the North, do you be-. ieve it? Will you. acknowledge the .egrading thing? Did the negro do or our race what we could not do our • I yes ? We can easily anticipate the nsicet. The descendants of the men ho wrested Rome from the Romans - America- from the saVa4e and yranny,while the negro took no more • art In the-ratter than the monkey of is native wilds, reply with ond - kindig aut, No ! White wen can and wil le thcsiselves, in peace and in war, • • • r pblieieal inTerences may be, will not Consent that our pow er ;hall be employed in any event to degrade the white man beneath 'the black. - - We know what the sentiments of our people are, and we wonder only at their blindness. Their heart; are all sight, bat they have allowed them selves to be led by men unworthy of the trust. Turn to the number ,of the Pitts , burg ('ornmerrial of the Ist ; and vcu will find the article wt allude to in which the efforts of white) men to, settle their owti quarrel are disparag ed, and the assistance of the 'dub Iliadie all in all. All of the Radical papers do it, whether they believe what they allege of not. and those who lore the white race cannot con tinuo too follow them without partici pating in. the grime against brethren of our own blood, and against our own posterity. The very same party which employ ed the ballot of negroes in the South to overcome the whites, has even greater reason to employ the same aid iu the North, for here they have a toe as uncompromising, and far more powerful Will the honest voters of the country assist them in their work of Iniquity? We already hear the murmur of the emphatic Nor I which in November next will crash over the land in tones of thunder. Indecency in Congress LooAN and itstitsT &Tuts, two of the impeachment managers, Wsstv auntie., theineper Dcrstsrmax a Radical Congressman, have recently been furnishing exam ' ples of the ''propriety or speech," for failing in which JouresoN is now on trial. Old Congressmen of their own political party declare that such inde cency was never before heard in the !louse. These clowns are like the monkeys, which being elugantly dressed and masked, appeared at a tine partv,and danced beautifully and to the great admiration of the company. But some one discovering the trick, thrgw an orange on the floor before them, when they forgot in a in oment their clothing and dancing and commenced a deadly struggle for the possession of the fruit, by which their real char acter became apparent to every one in the room, and they were immedi ately expelled. It is just so with all the Mongrel members of Congress. They are re ally a very vulgar, ignorant and beast ly pack. But fixed up in the finery they have stolen from the people, they were able to make a passable appearance, until something arose to excite their low and' brutal passions. Then forgetting all they were fixed up to represent, they plunge at once into a- disgraceful scramble which would nett be tolerated at an Indian council-fire. Bat they have beenan masked 'before,the people, who Jill complete the pirallel with the danc ing monkeys by hurling them from the society of decent radii. RZAD IT.—We publish-on another page of to-days paper a letter from Gen. JAJ. 13. BRINBIN,, formerly of this county, in relation to the nomina tion of "Oua ANDY" for Vice Presi dent, also a letter from one of the "rank and file," in regard to thtGen eras atatda and feats. There is eon siderably more truth, in both the let ters than many may imagine. MUN- I:Tee letter espeCially, is anything lint airs. He knows Otrartm—has reit ton to know him well—published his home organ for him, when he - was fitht candidate for Governor,—did hie dirty work generally about this place. perhaps, knows as much about the moral and political integrity of our aspiring towneman,as any man in the state. We are no friend of Bats- BM's, we know him well, and have as little respect for, him politically, as for anything that walks on two legs, htit when he tells the truth, plainly, as he does in this inetanoe,he deserves at least-a fair hearin . --The bloodluttl•thunder stories about the K. K, K., with which jtnarel Inputs areled, if true, are A /9rry oeututeut upou the theory 'of Witlitatlrnieraltsra • o-.- —JAY Comm, who is engaged in selling the bonds of the government, says in a circular addressed to the people, that the capitalists of the country refused to take these bond!, and he therefor comes diredtly to the people. Who is likely to know most about this matter, men whOhave made such things the study of their lives, or the people who know little about financial affairs? Something must be wrong with the credit of the govern ment when men with overflowing cof fers refuse `.to let it have their money at a heavy rate of interest. When we remember that Congress does nothing but legislate for the ,negro Tresttlent;—iwz stzad of divising means of raising revenue and relieving the• overbur dened people, we cannot wonder at our condition. —LottaN and BUTLER two'of the managers Who arc prosecutigg the president for lanuage used by him in public speeches. recently- had an' altercation in the House of-Represen tatives, in which the epithets of liar; coward, cheat and thief were freely interchanged. pretty set they aro to talk about unbecoming language, anfl what an improvement we would have on Jmnvsosi in the person of BEN WADE, who prefaces every Ben tenoo with an oath, and concludes it with vulgarity. —One of the beautiful results of Radical reconstruction, (so called), is, that jail birds, gamblers; and scoun• drels generally, who have been driven from the north for their crimes and villainy, go South and get elected to Congress by the negroew and black hearted whites, and thus aro made legislators for the people of the whole country, north as welt as south. One satisfaction is that they will get into congenial society in Washington. —No Definierat ought to buy or countenance the cirenlation et any of Harper's publications They are of an incendiary character, and their pictorials are calculated to do great evil amtmg • the ignorant-- clawses. Every effort possible ought to be made to put them down, and if the patronage7.ff - Tre - t - u - ocra withdrawn from them, it will go far towards doing this —With money going out of the treasury at the rate of over a hun dred and fifty millions per year faster than it is raised bT the m_ist crushing taxation, what becomes of ther.bnant of those who said we would MOOll re duce the debt after the war 9 Those who hold that n "national debt is a national blessing" ought to give us an answer. Can they see the way out of the threatened anancial difileul ty. —What hope is there for the poor man under the rule of the party now in power ? In the name of suff ering humanity, what inducement can the down trodden and tax ridden people see to mu wport Mongreliam any longer ? The ast is an index to the future, and .ve are daily treading a step lower in the gulf of-misery, pov erty and ruin ? What say the people to again trying a change ? —The party which a few years ago desired to disfranchise all foreigners however intelligent and honest. and sought to prevent them from ever holding office, now forces the ballot into the hands of barbarous negroes, and forces them into office. Will white foreigners support them ? —There will be a lively time in thr Mongrel camp in making their nominations, and there is a good pros pect of a permanent, split ica•their ranks. "When thieves fall out, hon est. men get their dues.' ' —Report says that there is a great political revolution going on in the West, and the prospect is good for valuable aid from that quarter in electing a white president next No vember. —There are said' to be eleven Republican Benitore who are accused of having conecienctia, and there is a fearful pressure on thew to force them into voting for the conviction of JOIINEION. The Rude of this district have had little to say about ,t 2 twl3ttutiticr ease sine the public:jun of Mr..Bsttki ltßeB address to the people, WADE proposes, **soon as he becomes president, to establish a per manent standing army in mul of the southern States. —About fwd thirds of the money woos from the people, is expended uselessly or openly stolen. Nun stook is, held st low 'lute j -ut now., se - , —lt is reported of a certain pub lic functionary, • once notorious in Pennsylvania politics, that he was' endeavoring to perquade one of his associates of the propriety of certain measures, when the ()they replied that they, were dishonest, thinking that was a sufficient reason w r hy th ey ought not too be adopted. The first flared up at this, and broke forth with "honesty ! I hate the word, it cramps genius and makes men poor." The Mongrels of the present day hate honesty as much aA did, but still there is a little display of genius, and fen thousand men become poor to make ono rich. We think the gen. • • alladud -ter-imrst---intyr—but!n - mistakent iLegat Notices D I LSOLUTION OF PARTNRRBIII Notice is hereby given that the pat tnership heretofore existing between th e undersigned, doing business under the name f Leonard Marken k Co.,' has thin day been dissolved by mutual consent. All par. tie. indebted to sold lfrm will piva4e pay such indebtedness to C., Alexander, AleXander, se.' 411-parties having accounts against aald firm will present. them to him for Thl manufacture of "Sunny Hide him." wil be continued et the old place, under the tire, Mame of.latneo It Alexander 4- Co. O. T. AIAXAIVJEK, L. MACKALL, 11elleianta, Aptil 24, 1888 :IL , _ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE Letters of administration, ,41 entitle of Morglth Melees, into of 13,,i g , township, deosased, having Imo granted tr, the undersigned, all persons knowing them. selves indebted to said estate will make 111.1110 dials, payment, and those hal mg clam, agal.rwit the sates will present them duly YU thenticated f , r settlement. MAIM A RET MA LONE, 13 14 Ilt Administretri s IN BANKRUPTCY. In the District Court of the rotted Statee, Whatern District of Pennsylcsoo t . In the matter of Witliato Reed, Bankrupt In Bankruptcy. Western District of Pena sylvan's, so • At the Borough of Bellefonte, the 28th day 01 April, A. I) !Ins To *born it may concern 't The Undersigned isereby gives notice 01 hie _appointment as Assignee of William Revd, of 31ileshurg borough, in the county of C;ttrerand state of Pennsylvania, *tail • said istret, who bee been adjudged • bankrupt upon hi s owe p, talon, by the District Court of said Uistritt. NORMAN M. HOOVER, 13-18 3t Aasignee. A DMINISTRATOR'S NOT I C Letters of administration on the estate of David Broderick, deceased, hiving been granted to the undSsigned, antics im hereby given to all persons knowing them selves indebted to wait estate to make in •-• • • • • Lacing daunt against Übe same to present, them duly au. Giant catsed for settlement. CIIRISTAIN 13-IR 61 Adm In ator. MO IN BANKRUPTCY. . In the District Court of the toad tales, Western District of Penn's.. In the matter of William L Musser, Baukrupt. In Bankruptcy Western District of Penuiyl rants, cc • At the Borough of Bellefonte, the 28th day of April. 1. I) 1888. To whom it may concern • Tbd undersigned beret', glees notice of his appointment as Avrigne« of William 1i Musser, of the township ”f Penn, in the county of Centre, and smite Pennlylvania, within said district, who has been adjudged • bankrupt upen hid own pe titbit', by the District Court of raid Din. tract. NORMAN %I HOOVER, ku gore 13-18-3 t FOR SA I.E. Valuable Faun for Pale b or d ering o n the town of Ilablersburg, in Walker town ship. Centre County, within Ere miles of railroad and two mile. from eiial mine &bent 0746 HUNDRED AND Vila 1 AClllitS, Mewed and in a good Mate of eulti ration. The balance well tioiberrd, the whole tractie first rate lime stone land with an apple and peach orchard, t herein of tea acres beating yearly, two dwelling 110.1, thereon, a well of good water at the door, a large bank barn, with power house &umbel Alm) an elegant water power fora grnt nu or factory and plenty of iron ore therei-1 For further information call at the premier. 13-113-3 m ANTHONY VARNER IN BANKRUPTCY. It this District Court of the Uaited States—ln the matter of RitZMILII rf Keller, Bankrupts. Wagtail: District of Penns!? cania, is ^. At the borough of Bellefonte, th• 28th day of April, 1888. The undersignci hereby give notice of their appointment a• assignees of altanari .8 Keller, of the pug: ty of Centre, and State Zif Pennoylvanial within said District, who bare been if, judged Bankrupts on creditor' petit'. I , the District Court of said District. LB 19 :it DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP. The partnership heretofore es rbung between A. H. Hutchison and 1 4 Claris, li. the Ineuninoe Agency at Bellefonte, , le hereby dissolved.—A. 11. Hutchison, ,elll settle up all matters connected with (he bu siness, and continuo the elms. 12 18 3t 11 UTCIIIBON • CIA BIC W OLL PAPER, WALL PAPRR ' The Nobler Der tallies ole►tare In Worm ing his patrons and the public generally, that he 6LN just received a NZ W ASSORTMENT • of tie LATEST STYLES OF WALL PAPER, which he is cellinrat city retail prices lie has the LARGEST STOCK OF WALL PAPER, la the county, and i► selling ►t such flgureA as defy nompetition. 18-10 7m• JOHN BRACIIIIII,L. RIMMED PRICZEI. shabertypee taken at the Eze•lsior Cu by the'Court House as low as ._ TWENTY-FIVE CENTS. =!MS2I ONE DOLLAR, Whoa sold by the dosed the oharge will be low ao TWO DOLLAR& AND PIM CENTS. J.' B. BARNHART. Ifareh 18 '6B em / 1 10 RENT, A two story'Stors Neuss well loos -tad foilpusinsso, to nat. Apply to D r 8. - DIMMEE, - 86111plibuig, Pl 6 ADAM HOY. .1 G. LAAIMER Aui
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