0 8 FM MI iiSI The Democratic Watchman, BELLEFONTE, I! ENN' A P. GRAY MEEK. Eniron eloaorntErott JOTIN 3iri{:llll.:l,4AssocitTr. Entron 'FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 15, 1868 TERSls. l 42'per year when pail it, a i vane., 2,50 when not Onid in ndvan.•o, wad $3,00 when not paid hafori Van, p irsitaot of the year Democratic State 4ric.ket , FOR AUDITOR 61• N ER AI ! . HON. CHARLES 1301-1.1 of Fayette Cottoty. FOR :4 RV'. Yolt GENERIL, GEN. NVELLINGTON 11. E.YI of Columbia County, le Self Government a Failure ? The indignities and outrage , wht , Ir are daily heaped upon the South are such aswould not have been borne by 014 monarchic-al England a thou,- and yetrs agn The utter :•-elfi+hnc+s of the ncrthern roplo who are fully aware of the enormity of the wroii4 , , which their biethren on the other aide of an imaginary line ale 011)1411 ed to submit 10 i- to the moot di, COUrflising proof that we hate really degenerated until we are not capable of maintaining fn•c government. During the era-li and thunder of the great conflict. we did not wonder much that men'i, judgment., wt.reper verted,and wens ready to excu , -,:i many excesses of the people, on the ground that their passions had for a time ob tained the mastery over reason. But we expected whey the crash of arms had ce.a=ed to convulse the land, and blood bad •cea.-ed to flow, that tb good !germ of (lie people would di rect them into the old pathQ, and that the civil law would become ths_ru'e of action from one end of the land to the other. Bat we ha:ye-been sadly disappoint, cd. The people have never stopped to think for themselves, but bay/ blindly followed wicked and corrupt leaders, and trampled under their feet nearly every principle which men of our race have held dear in the past. We need take hut ono example. There is perhaps nothing, which has been clung to more tenaciously by men of Anglo Saxon blood than the the right of trial by jury. There is nothing for which more has been risk ed find sacrificed, and nothing so vi tally essential t t the maintenance• of fret:dm - I.On any country. It is an In stitution of our ancestors so old that its origin is lost in the dim shadows of antiquity, and has been prized in dearly that more than once old Eng land has been convulsed in the most sanguinary wars, forthe defence and protection of this sacred right, which has been handed down from sire to son from the earliest ages. It is older than the Constitution of the United States, and when that instrument de clared that it shall never be infringed it simply added an additional security to a right which the people of that thy would have allowed no one to question in any event, It is older than the United States—older than any individual state—older than the government of England itself, and in all the long, long years it has been in existence no power has ever dared before to encroach upon it to the ex tent we daily obse4ve in a large por tion of our country and that without a movement to prevent it It may give great satisfaction to some vindictive and narrow-minded men of the north, to see the south thus-deprived of one *thither , rights they inherited in common with our selves from a common ancestry , but not so did those from whom we had our liberties look upon stick an offense against them. The right ~ o f trial-by jury was by them regarded as a thing too sacred to he questioned by any power cn earth, her friend and foe were alike entitled to and received a fair and impartial trial, whatever might be the nature of the offence with which they were charged. ft is useless for us to, enlarge upon this, for surely no one who 'will tax his mind fora moment on the subject will fail to remember when it was made our pride and boast, and the strongest ev. idenoe of the enduring nature of our government, that trial' by jury - was universal here, and a right which no man ever dreamed of questioning. Yet, look for one Entrant south of the river Potomac, and see that right stricken down more completely than it ever was in &gland Maori the days of Urdu) the Great, and is it not cutlet to cause ode to despair of the capacity of the people for self govern /eat? This denial of the dearest ruthk_of freemen, and the establish ment of the worst form of tyranny is the work of the people of a govern. went which*, boa 4t.s of its n eedorii,and a party which arfogatas to `itself the name of "the party of progress." If the people really' know that all civil law is struck down at the south, and that ten of the finest states of the union are governed by military law as arbitrarily as the camp of WELLINn TON was and yet do not know, that their own libettiesand rights alit. en dangered equally with those of the southern p'opi', then they arc not capable of that-I.;etaroal vigils which one dour great statesmanAe dared to be "the price of liberty." If they do not kilo* the eondition of affairs, with the pearls of knowledge they now possess, such apathy ,would indicate an equal inerapaoitry fot self government. We, have hut one hope remaining in the people. That is based" on the fact that for Iwo years they have had no opportunity of changing the bad, corrupt aml revolutionary, men, who nts - premnt - col7 rol this - go v ourtmt, 1r bettersones, and molt of the high handed and flagrant wrongs which hax:e been perpetrated on the south hay; been conceived and carried out within that period.- At the time the present Congress was elected s‘e were still on the highest wave of the ficti tious pro'-perity created by inflating the currency, the radicals promised a pelt restoration of the old condi tion of thing;, and re,,orted to every artifice Mid fraud which, in the word: of WE\ nut: Pnll.timj at the time, could aid them to "tide over the de c . tions The policy they have since pursued had not even been flleshad owed at the time, and the pcbp/e be lieved then that they were voting to sm4,tain the very policy which :MAN! sost has attempted to earn ( ut. Jr: this our hope consi-o.s. (;)r a plc as-great as ours may be b:r a time de,%ived by deoigning 411C11 4i1 , 1 pe ciou+ promises . but &they now sus tain the radical revotntion which has been inaugurated and partly carried out, wo will give up all hope of main tainimi republican government over so I large an Citent or country, and hope for protection to liberty only throuvh the goregnment of separate states. The coming election is unquestion"- ably to test to the ullehnost the form of gcvi rimient reared by our fathers, and we •hall look upon its result as a final ikeiNion of the experiment which they conducted with careful 'lands and transmitted* us to complete If the present revolutionary movements arc sustained by the votes of the peo ple, the fate of the Union is forever sealed, and our only chance will be in struggling for and maintailiing the ptinciplex of liberty in individual states. It is a fearful issue we arc to decide, and we trust the democracy everywhere win be equal to the emer gency Our Financial Condition No Country which had any prospect of a continual existence was ever in a worse condition, financially, than ours is now The situation of the finances is in a great measure owing to the misers* legislation of the Mongrels, and partly to the gigantic robberies which are „continually perpetrated upon the goveiiiment by the thievish politicians who control that. party. Et is not very often that we appeal to the pockets of the people, for we have always believed that they were 'influenced by higher and nobler mo tives than the mere desire to fill their pursea,and then to avoid all demands upon them by the government. Btu when taxation becomes so crushing as it now is in this.. country, robbery so fibtorious and on so vast a scale, and the actual expenses of government so very great, the questions of finance really transcend all others in impor tance, for there is danger of complete stagnation of all-business,• universal poverty among the pcorer classes, ac tual starvation to many and a general wreck of all the material forces, With out which the government cannot live at all. And in our ppinion, all of these dangers threatep us imminently at this moment. We propose to take a brief survey of the crushing load under which we are staggering to ruin.- In the first place, it is well to see what *mount of useless expense we are supporting, for until we stop the leak which is continually draining our coffers, there is no use of proposing means to fill them. Ten of the states which formerly belonged to the Con federacy are to a great extent support ed by the government,-and a vast amount of money is annually expend ed to keep them in a condition which will require us to support them. II wets es annually fully one kg. ndred fifty ntillinns of dollars to sustain the standing army which is crushing lib erty at the souch,to support the starv inr, Xople wbo are - prevented froin producing anything for themselves, and to feed, clothe and educate the vagabond negroes. into whose hant, those States have been forced at the point of the hamlet. This amount of money is not only uselessly expend ed, but is actually employed to pre vent the southern people from getting into such a condition as Will enable them to sustajn themselves and pay a licayy proportion e - fthe annual taxLs t They are capable of, roducing rt tines Sis.avunt of exports which produced at then - ortlid great source of wealth is entirely cut off by'the action of those who pretend to be representing us in Congress. We might point out many other leaks, and show thAt fully two-thieds of the money annually wrung from the oppressed reople is either stolen or worse than thrown away: Our ex penses now nir.ount to over thirty mil lions ofdollars per month, and yet nle are in a state of protOund peace, and ought by-this time to have fully re covered from the depression ' caused by the war. Therro,is no-doubt in the mind of any person who has paid any attention whatever to political affairs, that alter the south had lost in battle the independence for which she tough t she accepted the situation in perfect good faith, and would long ago have been in a contlitten 'to pay her full share t f the'-taxes if force had net been employed to prevent her. is it potsilile that the people can be delu ded into further supporting the party which has done this thing, and keep ing in power men who do not` I)OS4CSY an idea of finance, or of anything else but revenge . upon - men of nobler minds and the maintaining of themselves in the positiOns they have disgraced ? We do not believe they will, but if tftey have net yet had their eyes open ed to the dangers which must result Loon the policy which has been per sued. there is a clangor alno).1, upon us which will he a lesson to the most ignorant, it would be well to have learned beforehand. The figuret show (hat oar exprosrs exceed (hr antrautt of revenue pat . ,/ into the treasury by wpm!, million«, and it must be manifest to any one that we cannot long survive %licit a Condition of Otings. Governments, are subject to the same laws in this respect s o b in dividuals How long oould a business man maintain credit, if it wa. s known that his expenses greatly exceeded his income? or how long would it be until he was wholly ruined by an ab solute failure of all sources of revenue? We leave these questions to the read er. and propose to say more on this subject hereafter. and present some figures which will probably startle those who fancy we are collecting a fund with which to pay the principle of the war debt. Dirrettmsee between the two creat-parties of this country is, that the democracy seek power For the purpose of carrying out principle, while the opposition pretead to favor certain principles for the sole purpose of maintaining power. The first seek to win in order that they may make a great people happy and prmiperous ; the last that they may rob and enslave them. In the one case, it ia a noble, self-.acrificing contest to secure liber erty, justice, law and order. In the other, it is the mad struggle of ma rauding scoundrels for purposes of plunder and self aggrandizement, and Must result in despotism, injustice, anarchy and ruin Let the people choose which condition they ptefer,am their action at the pore will determine which they are to have. net of congrelis was passed recently to protect the cod-fishing iis terests of New England, wiiich will Cost the country mom than all the cpdfish New England will ever catch are worth. It is thus these sneaking thieves have always been living at the expense of other people, and fbr this reason they struggle so desperately for power. Many Western Congress men voted against thsilivi, and thus indicated that a breach between the Mongrels of the east and west is su to come sooner or later. The inter ests of the west, are identical with those of the south, intiit is evident to those who have paid attention to the workings of the government that New England has been "sowing the wind to reap the iv birlyind . ," and that the storm will soon burst upon her. —.ltrege Wooow.tap has done himself great credit in Congress, and has even added to the laurels ha bad already won. We know of no one whom ire would sooner Import for any position which required States. manlike ability. , . —The laboring and business *R ees of the country must ,of necessity pay all the tuxes, for there is: little tax on aocumulated erePertY, while the wholo burden is laid on articles of oonsum Ora aglitter:"utri — n per inini see the point? Look at This Tax-Payers ! 14 - interest on government bonds costs the people of all the States, Thirty millions of dollars annually I Pennsylvania pays one. tenth . of this amount, or three milliohs of dol lars per year, Conde county bears the one hun dredth part of the expenses, of the State, which - makes as share of this bondholders interest. Thirty Thi - SHis the amount the working, and busine, , s-mon of the country pay to Olt public. ()cones, who have in vesttd their wealth in bonds in order to escape taxation—it' is the amount that is wrung from the sweat of the day iltboret, and the troubles add toils of the man of business, in order to enrich the few who clamor for the maintainatiee of the ''faith of the government - --a government, the ex peogOn of ...71tiell they bear not oilf. cent /ACK at it I Ponder over Thirty thouiand dollar+ annually from the toiling tax payers of the county, to buy nice carriages and good horse.. fine clothes, and old wines, ease and idleness for a few familios, who consider • that this world and all it contain 4 Iva+ ninth for their e4pecial benefit, and that ue who labor for a living are hut 'fit to be ,their slaves--created Only ta dig and drudge, toil and lie taxed to maintain a goiNrnment to protect diem and theirs..! Look at it agan, tax payer, The millions of dollars in bond:, exempt Iran taxationjs looney locked up in the coffers of the feu) and ben efits thC country in no way, shape or forte It buildl no houiirr'r - It make Ann pnl lir improvement- , ' It add , nothing to the value of property Ct huildq no factorio to give labor to the poor' It create.: nvnarkets fir grain of the produce of the farm. It pays nothing to our pttbri: schools ' Nothingsfo keep our paupers ' Nothing to repair our roads Nothing to anything that is of %al ue to any nody There are many.honest,industootts, well meaning parsons throughout the country, who have money invested in these bonds. They are willing that justice shall be done, and that the bonds shall be taxed, and will vote with the Democracy, next raft-to tax or repudiate them. ' Will you. brother working man do the same ? Will you cast your prej udices aside for the once, and assist those tw)o are laboring for your, as Well as their own interosts ? Will you vote to throw off the load of debt and taxation that is impoverishing you—that is keeping your "nose to the grindstone" all the while—that is preventing you educating your chil dren as they should be—that is work jug the life out of you to keep a lot of nabobs in elegance and abohtion thieves and plunderers of the poor. in office ? If 90, Earriti up and tell your neigh bor, that you intend to take care of your own interests—that you will be a slave no longer, for the tax exempt ed bondholder. but that you will vote with the Democracy to make him pay his proportion of the taxes, and if he won't agree to that, to repudiate his bonds a!tegether. —Nine out of every ten. ptomi nent Mongrel politicians in the South ern States, are escaped convicts, or penitentiary birds who have served out their term of imprisoninent in Northern prisons, and then emigrated to the South, to take charge of the lo n tajleaguers and the interests orthe Slongrel party, They will every one go for GRANT for president. —Jim NYE, the Mongrel senator from Nevada, was raving mad with • . ireniens during the greater part of last week. He eaw snakes, devils, hobgoblins, and an innumera ble number of things, that the leaders of the "God and Morality party," will become well used to, before they are • •oe with "time And eternity." —lt is said that tileic are 200,060 men out of employment in the United States, and a million of persons suf• faring for the necessaries of life. How is this, in a country which was (reining with ahundance ip 1865? le rt not, manifest that the government 'has been badly administered ? . —As kng as theatres are kepi up. LINCOLN will be remembered, and 'as boas as pawn brokers buy old clothes, 1016. LINCOLN will not be forgotten. It is these only, that will keep the name-of-the smuttyjoker, from being the Infain - 1 thiff climb tali many infamouL; acts. Impeachment! The final vote on the impeachment Of PItERIDINTJOHNHON, \Ala was to have taken place on Tuesday last, was upon the motion of the impeachers, postponed until tomorrow, ( Saturday. ) As the matter now looks it is more than probable that impeachment, will fail. Mongrelism is terribly down i n he mouth. Where the Soldiers Are With consummate impudence, the Mongreltistill keep the story afloat that the '`boys in bite" all run with their machine.' Every officer of distinction who isipessessed of the honor of com mon manhood is actin with the de mocracy, and every !tiddler of anwih tellikence has repudiated with scofn the party which refuses to thewsouth ern people the terms on which they surrendered to the northern army. So far as our own knowledge extends, we know that a majority of those who vsere deluded into thr army by the false cry of "war for the union." are now enthusiastic democrats, deter mined to restore t.c the south the "dignity, equality and rights" . which Congre•- solemnly promised the sol dierA should not becinterferrd with as a consequence of the victory they should win, and which. despite that solemn preuii,c, have hecn inhuman ly, dishonestly and dishonorably trod den unqer foot. flow could an honorable soldier. who loin -tly , fought to restore the union. under the con , titution, continue to act with a party which openly and defy antly declares itself to be acting "in violation of and outAidp of tice consti tution ?" What more open and dead ly insult could ho offered to any man" !than to pro;ure his ,ervices to over. , throw an armed force, I,iy the most solemn pledge-, and a., soon di the work was pert;irinc,l, t t violate every pledge, and use the victory his valor had won I;,r exactly the purposes they declared they did not wi.6 to accorn- VIAbl" - rust aiicurtut tot- diet of Irmo-, or even possessing coin mon deceney,who Lnew what purpose he fought for and know what policy_ the Mongrel, pur,ue, can act irliTi at party. "-Ita for those who fought from a savage thirst of blood or with fanati cal ideas of vengeance, we doubt not, they will follow the fanatical, blood thirsty,vin lietive mongrels,who strike as cruelly and Hindi). 2.4 without looking at the motives or conpequence,., or caring for either We thank Heaven that such fiends can find nothin,ti,Joniental to them in else democratic party. If they could, we would feel that we bad degenerated fearfully We want them not. We I are glad 'to nee them tread with their chosen party the road to ,perdition, and are happy to in helping them on the way. We have nine tenth of all the honor, patriotism, intelligence and decency which lately belonged to the army' and the mongrels are welcome to the little that i left, together wit the murderers,tlic yes , ravishers,eow arda and bummers who digraced the army,and now disgrace even the Mon grel party. How We are Represented. The attempt to establish negro suf frage in 80111 e of the most radical northern state• and the signal man ner in which it has failed, is a con vincing proof that the doings of the rump Congress are not sustained by the people Northern men w do not desire to go to the polls o an -equality with north emu negroes. do not wish to have their iuhghbors, rel atives and friends do so who emigrate South. Men who never dreamed of emigrating to Kansas were excited to frenzy by ,the cry of "no more slave territory - in 1860, because,said they, our children may desire to emigrate. It is not possible that these same men would not be influenced by the very• same motivd to oppose the :ne gro equality schemes of Oongrese, for no new territory ever invited emigra tion from the old states as the South ern stator now do. l'he fact is the Rump is repfesenting none but them selves and in doing so have repudia ted the whole people, as well as the constitution. The drunken thief who pretends to represent our own Congressional district is s fair *wimp le of how the whole north is represented, There are not fire hundred men in Centre. Clinton and Lyooming counties, who endorse the miasnres 'he supports, yet he olaints to represent us aIL In fact, he represents only the God forsaken, ignorant, region included in Tioga and Potter counties, and only the most Godless and ignorant of the people there. What beautiful things tits sommating conventions of - the Morszez hare sot to be. Substanoe and Shadmi The party which can trifle. or try doubtful experiments with t•lre liber ties of a great people, is ndt fit to to trusted with noiver. That we had a government, which secured all the blessings governments aro intended to secure no one presumes to deny, an d to ritik all in the crazy= -pursuit of a . better t gem. ifs the lit supremo folly. Yet this is exactly what is he ing4lone . by. the Radicals, for they tell us that if their present plans do not succeed they will try others, thus ad mitting that there is a probability of failure. Arc the people of this come trl willing to risk-nli they have en. joyed in a foolish attempt to secure more? or Would they not display bet ter sense by returning to the old pro ciples which secured to us all that frenincn could (lc; -ire to enjoy ? The old fable of .iEsop, about the . dog and the :,liadow, will apply well in the pre'sent case. A dog had cc cured a piece of meat, large enough to satisfy his appetite, but in crossing a Gamic with it,.he observed his own shadow in the clear 'oat% and think• ing it was a nother dog with an equal. ly large dinner, he made a. grab fur the Prize and let ,;,:o his own which immediately sank out of sight. The nnithern people and fu a fair Way to di, hs foolish a thin 4 as tbiqloolhl i dog did. They were in p rises sion or th, most perfeet .of government in the world hot in at tempting to take from their lireth rel.) an equal share, they are in illnii• iftint dan g e r of hedri, their own In grasping for Aiailowl, we may drop the iitilutaileo, —The principle question to he de cided at the polls at the coining elee tion, stiall the bond holder heir an equal proportion of the burdens of the govcriiinent, or u.uet the plow-holder bear diem all, or shorter, must the poor continue to pay the taxes for the rich? —Whenever northern mongrel~, _or.sauthera bastards_ fwd a _negro in the southern states whom they cannot control. or who wants a share of the stealings and offices, they murder him outright, and then to cover their trucks howl Ku Klux. greenbacks could not, pre vent penitentiaries from receiving those they were built to accomodate Pennsylvania, would not have a sen ate to vote for the impeachment of JouNsom. - --The Ku Klux Klan is fright ening the Mongrels half out of their wit.. There is an enemy in hot pur suit, far more dangeroun to them than the K. K. K ; that ivthe Democrat ic party. Netu abbertioements DR. J. F LARINER PHYSICIAN .4ND Statflif,ON - Olft , ewlth Dr Bee Y. Harris, High street, Belle fonte, Pe. THE PLACE TO GET SINES! EVERYTHING NEW ♦ WARRANTKU P MdiFFREY & COl5 WhoLii•u h ILITALII. 100 T I $lOl highs, [One door above Iteynold'o Bank I Have just opened the most comploto sortmeot of everything in the Socit cud Shoe line ever brought to Bellefonte. Their 00 tire etoek, latch is tile largest ever .opened la this plain, was madd In ordlir from Of beit material. It wail purchased fns cash and will he mold much lower than soy 00 * can afford Irbil hays on tikes, They are practical workmen, and everything sold will be guaranteed as repieiented. Repairing and custom work promptly attended to. IS-20 ly - - LIMB, COAL COAL AND LUMBER. The beet. WOOD 00AL , BURNT LULL can be hid at the Bellefonte Lime Kilos. en the Pike leading to Milasburg, at the lowest prisms. We are the only parties In Central Pen's. who ham In Mir? FLAKE KILN, 11411,0 h prolloodis tbi BUT WIIITI-WASII AID PIASTER, LNG LINIZ, Ward to the trade. The beet illuuseltin sad Wilkesbarrio Authrselto sad, prepared espreesly for 4014 use alosi BILVEM IIiOOKIPOUNDRY COAL at lowest prises. Also a lei of diet sad sec ond quality. BOARDS, BROAD RAILS PLAIN, 811INGLIEI sad Outsides lath for sal* sheep. Oise sad yard; sear Beath and of Bahl 8111011,TLIDGX, 1340 dJ B ateuits ri•
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