The Nimocratic Watchmail = MEZMIII AI ELLEFONTE, PA. FRIDAY MORNING, MIRY 22,1868 Ornolel Plundering and Revenue De elining. - The office holdere of this country to day were the snpporters of the late in fernal civil war. The reward of "loyal ty" was the spoils. Those' spoils,nre simply thefts; sums tit-money stolen from the treasury of the people by the hordes of inane scoundrels who havF thus 'been paid for destroying the Union and turning the South into a howling wilder ness. The internal revenue of the United' States is r inantpUlated by thousands of common thleyes. Wriknew whet we as sert. The vex reprobates, whose sin ful carcasses are clothed in purple and fine-linen, JILI d who fare sumptuously ev ery day, are now systematically ?fibbing the over burdened tax-payers,mid plung ing Me Northern workingman into ab ject poverty by abstrectiug three-guar tore of his earnings', while, at the same lime, manhood, womanhood and child hood down Smith are being murdered by inches, through the,damnable despotism of lite legion of thieving mieereauls wfiu make up the dominant party. Facts bear out what we assert. So disgrace ful ati exhibition of-universe] olboial malfeasance was never witnessed before in any country tin the globe Look at these figures The Secretary R! . the Treasury last week sent to Congress a statement of the amount of income deriv ed Nom the tax on Metaled @pinto lie testifies that the sum of $12,000,0i11i a year only is obtained on an iit4lt that .464, ... L uz correctly as sumed could be made to pay al lea $50,000,000 per year. it dues pay a vast deal more than that, probably doub le that mini, but the receipts arc 'Mien— we repeat it., stolen—:by the officials ap pointed by the Washlngtesn Cabal, to •-faithfully collect and faithfully pay over" these taxes. There are transac tions going on weekly, conneeteJ with these revenue returns which should con sign their actors to the State Prison,and these Acton! are the government office holders They are robbicr the treasury of the country to the extent of many mil lions of dollars In this city are men•tu the revenue service who here Bolen themselves rich, while the poor tax-pay ers are sweating and toiling to furnish the money to the departmant,which these wretches have stolen and fattened upon. Public officers, who have become pub to tifieves, May be seen ju fine carriages in ,the Central Perk on any fair day, with their familted,fiannting in silks, satins and diamonds, who, is year or two ago, were in cotupialtive poverty. Parttime* are not male in a day by publ'e servants, who are honest and faithful to their du ties. We see that the nesrierly tax col lections are leap and less, while the pri vate aoctupulations of these official , thieves augment in like ratio. The whit- I key interest the United States Alas been plundered to death by the official scoundrels appointed to collect the taxes upon it No less than forty millions a year have been stolen by office holders, while twelve millions only have been turned into the treasury • and so t hold have these public pirates become, that many of the capitalists in whiskey man ufacturing, have closed their concern■ One half the distilleries-4n the city of New -York to-day have abandoned the linetneee. - Between the enormous legal exactiourt of the government, which could not he complied with and llve, and the coat of evasion, which the whiskey m e n p a id to the rascally officials appoint ed to watch them, there was little to choose It was ruin either way The "buying up" system was evidently prac ticed to an enormous extent, and the re sult is, twelve millions of taxes to the treasury and forty to sixty mations to the pockets of the official thieves [low long. tax-payers; are you w Biting to see abject poverty, starvation, utter ruin in the South, and a paralysed com merce, general depressioo,and desperate struggles for a bare living in the North, on the part of the people, while men en trusted with allele) place and power sys tematically plunder and rob, where there ts-senyt - Itiog to steal, and where there is • not, as in the South, play the role of atrocious despotism, with the brutality of a Nero' Are these thingstio be con linued Do you mean to sit patiently under these outrages year after year Are you resigned to the task of wasting your bone and muscle in creating wealth to support these base scoundrels who have mounted upon your shoulders' The bond-bolder loaned you forty cools In paper. He claims one hundred in gold, and six per cent interest The office holder steals the taxes, which are ex pected to keep up the interest . on the bond-holder's claim, and you are made to pay double by-and-by, to make good the deficiency. How long, oh, patient, Overloaded, tax ridden, poverty.striceen voter, before you will open your eyes to your condition, and gird your loins for the condiox to change it I—N. F. Dap Bock. WHAT It Costs.—The Impeachment trial will eolt the workingmen • round auto. It will be all found is the hill. It will Gaunt ip the lei .levies. it is stated that the printing of the tickets ofadmis sion cost no less than $6,000 The ex pects* of th•artal least down la $4,000,- 000. Certain 'Meese, ooet the country $6,000 seek- General, Rouseau netted $9,000, a., pod Job. The sum of ten cents a mile aid ten dollars a day, was allowed for attendance. This is a-pies array of Rims to make the to; -payers of the country 11W041 for. This is 'beauti ful snot Iota) to fleece from the aired, over• burdened wealth-producers. Aro the revolutionary spirit* at the seat of government to be allowed tale en from onilsot of Infamy to another, without being ribaked by an outraged people, too long patient endow growing despot ism? fide, independent honest, voters —strike Ibroogh the ballot-box, and hurl these miscreants from powei.—Ex, Darius a Rump House debate, on Wednesday, upon tit Peeled Railroad bill, Yobll Coendosatd "That fifty-three men mould be bought ebeepsi than two hundred,. se he had tied It on." We ..nppose the pasP._ , ,ffl gator" retest ed to his Westmoreland "corn-topple' remtnimonoes. . Democratic and Conservative Docu ments. There never wag so generic, a call up- I on C ogreaemen andpolitiosl committees, .here fbr Demeoratim documents as at present. The mid measures of the Rad ical majorities s in both liaises of Conroe have warmed the people, and whetted their appetite for Demooratio or Conser vative Speeches, illustrative of current topics to a degree not only unprecedent ed, but quite beyond the nbility of Con gressmen to supply lie deemed. A Congressional (.3ointilittee has been raised for distribution cf campaign doc uments, and their cat d has been publish ed, with a list of speeches, and the pr t cee at wbieji they can be furnished. IVa. understand that this cominittee are in receipt of numerous °nth's, hut that not more than half of them are accompanied with remittances to pay fur what it or dered. indi•idual members of Congress also receive appliontions from every part of the country for speeches, which they are expeotel to fut melt gratis'. A wile spread misconception 'prevails among the people in regfird to the pub• Iteration of epeeolleg It to a:most uni versally supposed That they are printed et public expense, and that members are only taxed to (milk and send ilietif out , whereas the fact is, that members pay for their own speecvlies, and others, the same price that other people &recharged for them It to only rich document' are printed by order of one of itie Douses, of Congress that are printed at public The Agricultural Reports, the 'ongressiunal Globe, and ii(Ttrllllental papers generally, are Instances of public printing end the4e are fuentehed to Weill here in limited numbers, but the speech• es of members are never °Nei ed by the Houses to lte, printed in pamphlet lorm, and are 'dwelt brought out at the expense of individual subscribers. Stereotyped ttrstirre nereveopcatc.u.L.spauclum—eam be multiplied indefinitely, and tire fin' furnished at prices that barely quit the cost of production, but at those prices are paid for by the member ordering them, every member expends several hundred dollars each cession for speech- ES to send to biecousutuent.. But when they have taxed themselves us largely as they feel able to briar for the benefit of their immediate mmsictliont-, n great void still remains to b. filled Ali the Southern Slates arc 1711,110111 n illlllo,lV ic Reprehentatire +ln ran,tri , 1113 one of the six New Englin.l stet., 1., a single representative on tilt ii.or of eitoer llouity,and several IVisturn Staten have not one In other Staten that are partially represented by Democrate,there are many districts which at the late vice tines gave Liege Democratic majorities, and yet others with immense Democretic mtnorit les, that are unrepresented Now, to require men:there of Congress to buy speeches to supply all these numbers Derrtetrata and Consetrativott in ALIA di•tricts, besides supplying their imine , dime constituents, Is" unreasonable Neither the Congressional Committee:nor mili•idual members not utthe cnmm ptu ought to beer se unreasonable a bur thee: nor would they be if the people underJtood the fact. as they exist, and it is the desire of members that thel)nrn cramic neWspapers in the country 'bill explain these facto to the people Everywhere more or lean organization prevail, among Democratic There are State and county committees throughout the whole country who might with very little effort, raise in their re apective spheres money enough to buy a full stock of the speeches which the Con gressional Committee advertise.and which they would b. happy to send Loony local committee on receiving the money they will have to pay to the pr nters Fund. so raised would burden nobody Any Democrat or Conservative who is worth) to receive a speech gratis front represen• tati•es of other dietricte than his own would not object to paying ore or two cents for a pamphlet copy Nay, he would he gild to do so ir his local corn mutes would organize • chance, and it is net doubted that the local committees would take action in the premise. if the facts and circumstances which we have brought. to view in this article were well understood But to make them under• stood, the local presses should explain them, as we doubt not they will do We commend this subject, therefore.ip the instant attention of Democratic news paper. everywhere, in ouies, towns, and country, and reaper:Mull? urge them to explain to their readers now, before the campaign opens, bow cheaply speeches can be obtained through - the Committee, but how unreasonable it is to expect in dividual members of Congress to pur chase and distribute them at their sol. expense The trouble of franking and sending them will be cheerfully borne by Congressmen, but the cost of purchasing ought not to be superadded to their other burthens —National Intel !former. A Summing Up A writer in the Bridgeport (Connecti• cut) Paivier thas,sums up whet he., and what has not been accomplished by the war. He says: "I was one of (hose patriotic cusses who considered it to be his duty to tight for the Union. I was always very (one of the Union litlerrtre. }Miter:6o'nd I sup posed that all that was necessary to re store it was to lick the rebels Candor, however compels me to admit that I have been mistaken. Meal, tower, bee been acoomplised end tunably, if not more, has not been seeoispltebed. We will elate it thusly.: Accost,Lanz', Rebels licked like thunder -Five bundi•ed thousand men killed. A ew more disabled. The desolstioupd detestation of the South. jIUUI7Tf I lidos of the white people of the South also the abilities of the Constitution o tie UniteKlitatee. An inelgoideszt debt ; lay two or thiee dhoue►ou winless. Heavy, Nip. sitlftsit ?inn rapreseatahon in Congresa, Ardeseisaticni, intseernation, ate. 110 T, AOOOMTLIIIIIIID The reetoostion of the Tilton These, lbws. Editors, are buts felt et the objects *hid 'shave sooompilth• el by the wwc for Ole Widow I I finest sire, that lefetere yea will not haw e sudselifie — elsimibef uthe war lac s failure." A Singular and Terrible Story Soon after Gen. flaucook took com mand, lien. Mower wan ordered to Ship Island in commend of a negro belle Ile wan soon tipire joined lirhie , one of which was a daughter of about seventeen yearn, very in:twitting and ac• oomplisbed. Alvelya brought Ur belietve -that a negrg woe as good an a White man, and in inariftbinge emperior,she of course ihought:k no harm to encourage the ad •aneen ofvune of the ebony race. Accordingly She saw and admired one of the soldiers of her father's command, Clandestine meetings Were had, and an progres•ed from ono men to another, un- Ileac last the colored vinitor is discovered occupying the sanivouch with ber,wh'ere rumor rta3n. he had been (or ten °unfree utita 1110119. Gen, Mower arrested the offending negro. and wti hoot trial, pen tensed him to he hung Preparations were made Immediately, and while the rope was around •his neck, behold the whole negro hattelinn broke out in meet in g and teieaoed Ihn prisoner,scized Oen. Mtver, anti under pain of deslh eitorre from him an oath not to ever hereafter trouble thrir-comrade, or ever mention this occurrence to a living 'spill —after which the General was released Subsequently it was discovered that [lrene interviews had been kept up for wo or thfee menthe previous; rind, to horror to horror, the daughter wan diqcovered to be in au interesting condi turn. toner, which hint , the General line brought her to the city?' We c on j u d ge fur what p0rn0...! I tlo not Touch ire tlnt triiihfullnturm of tut above I t ;n•e it to you uo l received but ono Ilia( it. generally ME= believed r u t now for I hrs fad! sho u t th e time General Will relieved a negro wt. ttted in Carrolton, Jellersob county, anii convicted before theltiatt Ak ik . „4 . .ictiirt. of lane on a ghee Igal, 00. l .eateacin—r, tentence wqm Hiihnittle I to Sheridan for otJroval, nod eply was I eau see c c ,gun ~ , hy the +cuter a of the Court Itould :Jot lie executed Thl.4 wall about the Imo lie took him leave,an 1 the p%pera were left with Mower, who after vrtird9 revolted Sherulan'm apprOval and the sentence of the Court, and ordered ne x , ro to lull for ten years „t en ,' Man) , at that I WN le the 5" iver. that Ju.ty, might r 11 , ; , it., t Nl•lvrPr ) sad if the story rI ti 1 . certain ly Turippd La.,) Cyr I V.,7li,rer Farewell Bondholder Your tom- is up. Your days of ease wd luxury are over, you must go to rorl , - the people ore speaking The I , ,reat debt will ho paid in greenbacks. We know you don't it, but yours ord remedy is see c o ppi o pi m id, traitor and repudiation—yell till your ti.ronts are s,,re,you cannot prevent hen -0,4t men from paring the notional debt. 110 will pay it off in greenbacks.the game money you-bought them with The people say so, and you know whet the people say must be done. The people of Connecticut say, pay off ihe bond. in greenbacks ! . The people of Chicago say the name tLiug so do the people of Pekin. Free rirt, Quincy. and hundreds of other eli te.., all swell the shout— 'Here's your 1.711 lender, bring nu( from your iron box and your bonds ! Count up the in (crest, ond.we'll now pay you in legal money of the country or not a dollar Listen to us while you can hear, for you Lett to take - your pay while you have au opportunity, we'll rates such a thunder about your ears that you will not ti. ‘ble in hear yourselves think You cannot and shell not tyranite ever the geople ally longer • it's have paid your interestin gold until you have received au amount equal to your principal. We are tired of pay ing this way We can't stand it .We do not make enough on our forms They are now advertised for taxes . we can't, we won't, and by the Eternah we do not intend to stand this thing asy longer If you want to save this nation from repudiation, take the same kind of mon ey that pays the widow, orphan and la boring man. If It is good enough for them. L. is good enough for you Here's your greenbacks, hand us over your bonds , if you don't you may lock them in your safe, and hand them down to your great grandchildren as precious mementoes of the insane folly of a race of ancient fools Greenbooks, or-not a dollar '--Rx =EI A GOOl , STOUT ON BUTI.XI.-A South ern corropondent writes There ie a loose darkey. about Wilhard's hotel named Tom You can brihe Tom to do anything The other day there was • diaper party given by • New York con tractor at which it was understood that lieu nutlet would be a guest Some disloyal wag, without the fear of Con gress before him ? got hold of Tom. fed him liberally, and.put him up to a pieoe of outrageous and treasonable tomfool ery. After the plates were served the boot said,•"That will do, Tom : you can go " But Tom did ant go Observing that hie orders were not obeyed, the contract. for repented. "1 told you to go, Tom ; it I want you ring for you " Still Tom. hong about the door and did not retire. At last very much wor ried at his contumacy, New York tufted .upon Ethiopia and said sternly. attract. Ing the company, have told you tivtoe to leave the room. and by—, I'll be obeyed or put you -oat myself." • Tom approached the table humbly. and replied in a subdued tone, but loud enough to be beard by all present. "If you please, sir"—with subinission—"l can't go ; I'm Obliged to stay," . "The h—lt you are I What. for I" "Well, seh, if I must tell, I must. I ate. Mare Butler's pardon, but. I'm 'eponilble for de Ippon@ Dem 'poem Is silver an' I wee specially set to watch' 'em, I can't go, sale. IVs as meek as my place is war. sah " The sequel eau better be imagintd Chau deseribed.—Es. —The Bergeabt•at-arms of the Sen ate, subpconsed all the wit in lb. impeachment trial by telegraph, ind then °barged In Dente a stile triveling expenses to and from the plass of rest donee. His dispatch is 'Gen. Russian, Ga - Orseoli — trut -- $l - ,100 - I.clngwkw - _ The people foot the bill• , The Battle, the Battle-field and The Candidate. 1 4 The great issue of the pending con flict is shall the Government crested by • 'constitution be perpetuated, or AIM It be supplanted by a cenliallted orgtrrt ism 7 Subordiniste to this and connected therewith aro the questions of mon airnotion, of negro supremacy and of national finance. gedical lenders Pee in 'hese the means or to ettninment of their great end. .Staten arc coerced into the support of this project ; negro comae me •nlucless hut for this object, and patronage and place, hanke, treasury and financial agencies ore rude to lend their powerful influence to the preserva tion of Radienl rulg,' to the centraliza tion of the overzfertent an the over throw of the Constitution. The battle to he waged involves the •7ality of our institutions. The battle-field in this great strugz,le, ,IR Pennsylvania In Presidential use r tests for seventy yeses, the Keystone has invariably voted with the majority. Her vote in October 114'4 always been the certain precursor of her verdict in November., NUCCCF.4 in October is inva riably followed by SUCCOPS in Noreaber ; deliest in October •ie the herald of defeat in Noebmber tier voice in October. is potential with oilier Commonweilihe fur New York and New Jersey usually follow her lesil, ond'always chow sympathetic action Our victory _in October, 181;7, swelled the majority in New York in November. To lose the October election. is to lose Pennsdvsnin' The love of Pennsylvania is the 104 of One Moil The loss of this battle is the destruction of the Government Herr is our Thor mop r ; the — Mel'. of October deter mine oar destiny To win this contest every energy should he bent ; to insure success every extraneous aid should be yielded us , to' compel this victory our bretlo en ecrrylelle, e should aid us -- 44.44.4LAALatk.-11es. k Coivj lion in its selection of a candidate, will be potent, in 118 bearings for good or evil upon our e•tUnP, in October, and that groat party, it Amami of the last re sett, should heed the voices of our coon celotx, and nttenyively ponder the views of the leading men of our delegation Pennsylvania is uncommitted ;' she will anemlice :o n. Huecess ovary thing. but ptlnctple. Wo ex- teen, souses II -re in October viral to emcees> throughout ills Union in NoTern her . 11,11 thy will 111110. 11p011 the CllOlOl. of tliAr estolnhite who will most esaen I tally nil its ;to ' carry log our Stare, and that they will resist with all honorable means, .the nomination of any one whose antecedeitie or present posi tion will tend to make that result many ilogree problematical Wo believe that they will regard the prestige of a greet name or the most faultless party record' as o f no weight, if it be rndered clear that SILICre9.I in jeopardised by the aeleo• lion - of their - pus/raver- - • T-be hour is in opportune for the requital of party err times or the elevation of party idols Our first duty is to the Government and we mistake the character of those great men who are how prominent for the nomination at New York, if, in the spirit of self•sacrlfice, they, do too, not say "everything for the cause, nothing for men The choice of a candidate is not difficult, when an invincible will fur the preservation of the Government, a spirit of cordial em-operation for success and a determination to sacrifice our per sonal prefer'encee to the common pod, are brought to' the task The mass of our Democracy are deeply imbued with these sentiment., but they regard suc cess here as a vital pre-requisite to final victory, and therefore they ihiiif Upon the nomination of one who oan assuredly carry Pennsylvania. There are such teen, both soldiers and civilians, men of large minds, thoroughly trained in the logic of our government system end in the traditions of our party, of soldiers reputation, of unblemished party record, and surrounded with the prestige of success. Give us one of these, and our matron to victory will be an easy and a triumphant one —Clearfield Republiean• o irdtad Stevens' Blasphemy. Thaddeus Stevens said in the coo roe of his speech on the trial, that Johnson's treason to the Republican party was "baser :than the betrayal by Judas Iscariot, who only betrayed a single tads 'canal " That blaephemous expression, made in presence of the Senate of the United States, and in the hearing of the whole American people was no moretban might have been expected from the hlird ened old infidel who use it- boring all his life. Thaddeus Stevens has openly scoffed at the Christain religion A few years since, while irtng a case at a town id another pert fff this State, be and Some other lawyers were conviersing one evening, when one of the party ad duced the bible,as authority for some statement he had made. "06," said Mr Stevens, '•the Bible la no authority. It is nothing bra Me obsolete htstory of a barbarous people." W• had the above from the lips of one of the beet lawyers to the State,in whose immediate presbnoe it was uttered. In deed such jeers at religion have been habitual with Thaddeus .Btevens all his Me That is a well known fact, and I hose who have been most intimate wit, him know that such tam been the cue. Though now totteringen the very verge of the grave, and suffering with •diseass which may prove fatal soy hour, he still clings to his infidelity and awoke at all which the ofirisilin world hold sacred. Cpolidos' friend related to us how the qld Stretch meta minister with • pro fane joke, when he was iytog on hie bed eppearotly past reoovery. The story as told to so was guile obersalprietio of him. Yet this is the mae we h eeeee en laud ed to the skies In the groaosaf certain Christian denominations in this eountry. In their eagerness to abase themselves at the defused of a political party. these professedly religious journals have heap ed their laadations upon Thaddeus Stev ens. ft has not mattered to them that he has lived all his life in utter disregard of the obligation" of morality. and been ep &Yawed infidel, _and an ,open gaoler at the and Chilitisnity. How leading religions people reconcile enet active with the profusion, they make, is peat our comprehensions. Bute It is that 'opal of those who profess to he teachers of morality and religion In wee-lettudayar-ave-fikeinently-esaght acting very It rsogely. 'Th6 Swag-Belled'Dutah." Emulous of the infamy of John H iok mac,. who the other day , . hi Ate House of Representatimse, pored out bin sot.' perilous bile upon the devoted heeds of the Irish Catholios. gr. Senator Fisher of Lancleter, be of the unkempt looks and rum-blossomed nose, regaled the Senate with a string of Rpittkian.rpirci anathemas against theft:taiga-born citi zens ol? 'Pennsylvanian He spoke of them as •.ignorant, bog-tiotting Irish men," and swag-bellied, lager beer Lllutclimen." Senator Landon, of Brad ford,it another repres s tative of the Radi oat party, declared, t t the negro "in better enticed to th elettive franchise than the frishitan " .. Gettaaris, Irishmen, foreigo-born citi• tens! Do you not see the malice these men bur Ileward you ? Must you be told tint they seek to dlefremoblie 'the white people of the South ? rim infamous Registry Law which has just been pass et!, is intended to rob you of your rights Organize! Rring sodr friends forward land have then ",nsisralized! Look up your naturalization papers, fur you will need them, If your here loot them, np ply of once to the Clerk of the Courts of the county in which you.were naturaliz ed, for a certified copy Do (die at once en that you will be ready in time Your liberty to at atakr and If you would pre serve it, you • must bestir yourselves.. There are tense( thousands-of foreigners among our very beet people, many of whom nerved in the army or the Union, who not naturalled. Democrat. eve rywhere should look into this metter'end see that such persons rimier° the proper papers. There will he but two sessions of Court between thin time nett the elec tion, and tlio•ft ile•lring to be naturaliz ed should attend to the matter at ones. —Bedford G'o,7rue Short lute. The situation grows brighter. The stet of liesnocr - acy 14 in the ascendant. The elections in New York and Connet tient hire been followed by teiumptis . in the West hilly oe significant. - The grip of the bendholders upon the industry of ins-ti ud is gradually relex ing . . The hump is In sure tribulation—they know not what to do with the President —his conviction by a parttaan cute with out a prrticki••+f evidence against him. would be nearly as dlaastrotia to the Radical■ as big acquittal The grand politic raligious effort that wax •et up in the Giant interest, has lover 01) failed thus far _ The preachers are too busily engaged with the she lamtal of ;heir floeke, to de rote nuteh time to the interesta..of the drunken butcher rhe Nigger Ilrgfra lies ands of greasy blacks are wending - their way Northward. •nd..it is noticeable that they are ft hundred per cent lazier, sau cier, and flitter than blacks who came North immediately in the wake of the returning soldiers Three years of free.lom has utterly de moralized and ruined them The North ern communities that they infest will be seedily cured of their sickly liking for the African. all save the thin legged Puritan schoolmarms and the snivelling oolporteurs. A thousand signs of the tunes go to chow that with au hone.it candubte, and • square • : Democratic platform, we can sweep the etaintry like a tornado, and send Washburn's Ilyens back to his rot gut and tobacco, there to remain till the Caucasians get control of all the depart , ment• of the g 00000 met& when a proper disposition will be made of the bermeti catty sealed carcass of the butcher /As cross, Democrat • • Prophecies of Mr. Clay and Mr. Cal- houn In 1843, henry Clay, who led the Whig hosts in the esinpaign of 1844, made the following proplieoies, The agitation of silvery in the free States will Isl. Destroy all harmony 2d Lead to dtvisiosa :int: To poverty 4th To war k bth. To the eztermination theblaoll race. 6th To teldimate depot ism. Charleston papers republish Calhoun's prediction of 1828, attaching to it much signiffcance. It is as follows . The blacks and the profligate whites that might unite with them, would be come the principal recipients of the Fed eral offiloesi and paironge, 'and would, in consequence, be raised above, the White; of the South in the political add social scale We would, in a word change ()Jr condition with them, a degredation greater than has yet fallen to the lot of a free and enlightened people, and one from which we could not escape, should emancipation take place, (wbioh it oer leanly will if not p ted) but by flee• ing the homes of our ancestors, and abandoning our country to our former Olives to become the permanent abode of disorder, anarchy, poverty, misery 'and wreloheOnesa. We ask the careful reading of ev er( qualified voter of either party of the following quations Why is the burden of taxation so op pressive, and employment soiree t Why are there to-day hundreds ofthous ands of white men and women in the North Dribs in dread ofetarration with , in the present year ? Why are thirty millions of white men 'taxed for the spoeitil benefit of a claps who ply no taxes on the great bulk:Of, their property Why should there be over two thong and millions of doily' exempt from tax ation,' Lf negroes are lit for freedom,why has great poorhouse system -for their _sup port to'be kept up at the expense of -Northern Industry If the war was prosecuted for the pros ervation of the Union, why are ten Stokes kept out of It Let the answer as your own heart and intelligent* suggest, be_giveir next Oc tober and November.—Exaiongo. 7=—Thad Stevens wants to amend the constitutions of the Afirionnised 'States, because 'cinema clears were adopted bj the cemustissuers. thcitt order* • • the strointisber. Presentiments of a Coming Civil War Hon. John Forsythe, in a letter from Washington (April 22) to the Mobile Register, says : As au observer or the march of events at this focus of political sentiment, r should fall short of duly 'as a faithful chronicler, ,did I omit to note the all but universal feeling that the revolution now in progress will culminate in anoth er domestic war—this time not a sec tional, but a civil war. All Intelligent Democrats have ceased to doubt that it is the design of the Radical revoluti on _ isle to hold on to the power of the gov ernment, under all and any circumstan ces. ft is with this - flay ~„, en ini4nt on driving Mr. Jaknson from the ExectitiVe seat and pl+cing there. , selves in full possession. of all the d e . partmente of the Government when the critical hour striker. They will manip ulate the votes of the electoral college to give themselves a majority, and they will foroe upon the Democrats the len ful responsibility of inaugurating ci vi l was to sustain their eininfs justly result 'log tram a constitutional majority of th e people If tho Democratic President elect is a man, Of weolt and nCitvele a , character, they expect an easy eintnis and octitilesence in their ti , yrpoi ton. hence the genernl Pernocrniic desire to, select n leader who with ho judwrnent, in daring, and in the confi dence of the people, to the great I fuer gency 'l'hc need is fur hoth it states man and a soldier. 'and probably the qualities of the :atter in a bighead stern de"gree will be nil eneentinl to oren ihe path for the exercise of the °Metal dual tem of the first And perhaps, too, tr the right man is in the right plire— keine Matt or fhck,,rliou !Hap r Radicals may he f om de forte, which,nnue doubt it Is tbeir purpose lo tempt. It remains to he said that f base not met Ilia first Demo • •maaeusea -I.lta-dazigtie ihe responsibility. hesitates to de clare that his mind is mode no lo (hp solemn dilly or Merlitir thy as presented, and of into gyrating, a 1 ... ., point of the bayonet, the white l'ret-i Lot elected by a majority of the white in,-c Of the United States. Upon these preen ism+ being correct. Washington will hr a very lively place about the (mirth• of next MariVISS. .t civil war would be a de plorable calamity iu this country, where the energetic character of the peeplo c.impel+ them to do with alt their taught whatever they put their hands to And once begun, no man cost lit forecast the end. It might outlast the thirty yeers• perninn war, or go until slaughter sur vived the reeollection+ of the is.tiee and principles upon which it was of-Iwo-111y urged Rut there are worse thin , . than war in Ito most sanguinary and iftrtic live form The freedom of it nation like this is pee-lees beyondall sacrifices ; priceless above all earthly boons Ni reason the anti-Radical men, and'in the spirit of the argument. thery declare they have made up their minds tt act. ALL MLR BORN FRIA ANI. Ectokt. -- In 1828, in the Senate of the United States, that eccentric Statesman, John Ram4olph, declared . -That in regard to this principle, that all are born free and equal, if there is an animal on earth to whom it dote net apply„ that iv not born free, it is man Ile is born in a must abject state of want, and a mote of perfect ignorance and helplesstiee.. The echool men were as well employed in disputing, as Iludibran tells un they were to his day, as to whether Adam 'wee born with a 0 naval, am they here been dieputing about this abstraction That race of philosophers it. not dead yet The entire Radical party have built up their faith upon this ahstrac• non an a platform , and to prove it, plunged a whole nation into all the hor rare of a wicked civil strife, destroying millions of iivee. and destroying millimpeti of dollars' worth of property, and en. tailing upon an Innocent pOiterity the most onerous national debt the world has ever known A certain set •,f the same-struck philosophers, just like our modern Radicals, indulged in the same kited of lunacy, and the result was a picture of horror such as the world had never gased upon before The famous Academy of Lagadit presented a fair specimen of a country governed by mad• men and star-gm:ere from light-houses in the sky ; and this country - presents , us with another Academy of the same kind at Washington It Is' mournful, while it to ludicrous.—Rx. DINATII WON ' T Savo You,—lt hits been decided that death won't save ♦ man or woman of taxes Assessors are iostrue red that "Incomes of persons who died after the 31st of December, are taxable, and shoald be returned by ezecutorn, end misspell ineomes which accrued in 1867, to persons who died ,within that year. Incomes accrueing after deceased should be returned by heirs." Thus tt is seen that the insatiate tax-geaiberer toilet's a man in his coffin, sits ht the portals of the tomb, plants himself by the side of the grays digger, as be drops the clods upon, the mortal remains, and dogging the carriages of the mourners, stalks home uhf a spectre, end enters upon his book, the et:peeled income the Treasury Is to derive therefrom. What • blessing is a public debt I—Day Rook ---The Radicals claim that General Grant favors fording negro suffrage on the Routh. This is possible. for Grant has certainly shown • willingness to adapt his principles to those Of • ruling party. Two years ago ha stood the oth er way.. Senator Doolittle, in a recent speeith in Conneotfsut, said : "Two 'years ago, General Grant authorised me to say,' that If Congress Insisted upon negro suffrage s a' condition of the Southern States being *dm ltted into the Union, there would be a war of raoot, unleers standing army- was kept there permanently." Grant was honest sod right thew, but that was before he sur rendered Lithe Radios's. Tits Viols Pasunamor.—A Writer in the New York Nevoid, says, Colfax and Wilson, of Masssohnsetts, have bibbed teams and arepining against Wade, and that General Grant Is urging on Colfax. Wads is laying his nets to secure ma- Juity of the Chicago delogation,iiiid will ' • era •awaltalAy•--Patiosaftw—r-whall_ he gts ft—to make sure of the tot bit.—Rx.
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