II The Qemocratic Watchman, BELLEFO NTH, P ?IN ' A P. GRAY tof gEK, .K6sToR t PROPRIE7OR JorN P. MITCIIIML, AISOCIATIK Eorron FRIDAY MORNING,4AY 22, 1868. TERMS.—S 2 per year when paid in ad 'rimed, 2,50 when not paid in advance, and $3,00 when not pni , l before the expiration of the year Democratic State Ticket Vnt GENERAL; 'HON. CEI s ARLES K BOYLE, of Fayetts County FOR SI7RV! ( YOIk OENERAi I , GEN. • WELLINGTON H. ENT, of Columbia Count What we can fib.for the Cousitry There is now every prospect of per fect harmony in the Democratic Na tional Convention, which will secure the nomination of able and patriotic statesmen for the important posi'tions of President and Vice President of the United States. It. is conceded by the most agavious leader, of the oppn , ition,• that the choice of such men for our condi (bite ilviTli:ecure us the victory in No vember over any man they can put in the field. For the first time in eight yenrs,we -wigentof 4.l+a flAki an equal chance with our• opponents, and theVliemocracy has never yet failed to Min under such 6cent/imam CeS. It well, just at this time, to take a brief view of what will fall to us and upon us its a result of victory in the coming election. For eight yenta we have been wholly vilthouepower. The "machine, - which Laticot.si said he would "run as he found it," has been all that time in the hands of the party which proinieeti so much for the poor, and - won tens of thousands of honest men to their support bide glittering hopes held out lo item of bettering 'their condition. Now', 'grown sick with hopes deferred, crushed to the earth with taxes and lorded over by a bend ariatoeraey,thecheated,naked, suffering, starving people turn once More to the party which never prom i'ted what it could not do, but always fulfilled what it did promise, and im plore us to give them once more the free, happy, prosperous and peaceful government which for more than half a century we maintained again , t ev ery foe. What can we do towards fulfilling their wishes, and what shall we prom he them as a result of our success? We do not desire to deceive, nor to raise hopes which can never be real ized, and what can we aceotnplish with the divided, distracted, despot ridden union which eight, years ago went into the control of the Abolition ists ? If the reaction at the North is great enough to eive us a contr6ling voice in the Congress of the United States, as *ell as to give um the executive de partment of the government, there is no doubt that we ran recover the country from its perilous position in a very short time, and_ put it once more in a condition to protect, in stead of to crush and destroy, our own people• On taking a cau . sual" look at the unpromising condition of everything 3longrphsui has touched, it seems almost a hopeless labor to undertake to right' all, that has_gone wrong in their hands. But when we reflect that the- mere removal of their minions from office 'will take away the cause of all 'our troubles, and give the country a chance to work its awn cure, there is reason to hope that with the powerful aid of the wioe and patriotic statesmen who loaid the dernneracy, we may still be saved from ruin. some. of our opponents complain that we deal too much in generalities and do not state squarely what we propose to do. Many of tbein are willing to Oink that they are about at a standstill, and cannot stir how we are to get along any better. We will state a few of the changes we would make if qe were in power. In the firat•place, we would remove the despotism which is crushing all prosperity as well as all liberty in ten of our best States. We would allow the Union to restore itself, and the southern people to rule themselves and help us pay the taxes. This alone would reduce our expenses much below our present ipeome. We would next aseertatn the amount of our indebtedness, stop the monstrous thefts which are going on, tax the bonds of the rich and take, a pro portionate burden off the poor, and having by these means got the "ma chine" into- a condition in witieb - we can handle it, we wodd carry out fully the principles which never yet failed to bring peace Jiappincis and pros perity to every portion or the country: It..would be unreasonable for any one to ask us now to promise more. In the very nature of thillgs, we can— not fail to restore the government if the above prergramme is faithfully eaftied out, and at present I t is the ra\ all important duty. LINCOLN nder— took to run a Democratic gover went on anti-democratic principles, and the result now plus() upon us is ruin. The "machine," which went into his hands in perfect order,is crushing the people beneath' its ponderous wheels. We propose to put them on ,t)sp after we have carried the November elec tion, and they propose to help us car ry the election. __ "Democratic Intolerance !" Democrats am) very tolerent people. The Savvonah Anheruser, a Democratic paper, advoics its patrons to drive ont of employ - rner and if possible, out of the city, all men white or colored, who vote the Repub lican ticket 2 -4 learfiefil Raficnon'a And your Ui issbeing gored now is it? The tables are turned, and the whining, driveling wretches who TO: juiced ortr the outrages inflicted up on Democrats in the name of "LIN COLN and loyalty," are getting a taste of their own doctrines? Well, thank God, though iustioe• has slept it is now awakening Wo are not rindie , tire ; we don't care about wounding the feelings or sensibilities of others, but we do beleive in paying our hon• cot debts,' principal and interest, and aveltottut t lad f u lt . _ 1! abolitionistu,Voi the many infamous and outrageous acts, comukitted du ring its brief reign, l ive imagine 3.0 u will be very well satisfied that the matter is over. But bad your party the least f cri ck of honor about it—had it a , to,:ch pluck as falls . to the lot of the most cowardly thing that crawls- -you would have nothing to say about Democratic intolerance. Now tong has it been since you who are now howling about toleration, refused to patronize democratic merchants and mechanics—refused to hire democrat ic laborers—discharged those who voted any other than the "loyal yeu nion" ticket—closed your churches on ministers who would not preach doubled-distilled abolitionism—kept your children from achLls taught by Democratic teachers,. and in every way that tjte devil could invent and you carry out, attempted to proscribe threse whom you now ask to "toler ate''. the tools ymi used to inflict your cowardly blows? How long has it been since you not only drove out of our cities and towns, but dragged outs in chains— out of their beds at the dead of night -out front the arms of their wives and children—out from home, friends family and business, into the filthiest dungeons you could erect, into the embrace of disease and death—unof fending, honest citiz,oris ; guilty of no other crime (?) than that of refusing to bow the knee to the baal of Mon grclrsm ? Talk not of intolerance while the bastiles you have built for the imprisonment of innocent men, are to be seen in every section of the country. Talk riot of "intolerance," while the chains of your victims are still rattling in your ears--while the blood-of those you have murdered for opinions sake, is dripping from your red hands—while the widows and or! plans your intolerance has made are to be c9unted by scores in your riwN COUNTY—even at your very door Why sir, were it not for the tolera tion of Democrats, the trees of your forests would hang thick with the skeletons and carcasses of petty spies, key hole-peepers, informers, long tounged-loyalists, and oppressors of the people of which your county was so prolific during the war. Can you look at the gray-haired Democrats of your own county, whom your party kept immured in the dir tiest prison-pens it could find for months,. and 'months, add months, and then talk about the intolerance of others? Can you look upon the young nrSn of your oounty, - whom you sent ougrom their home in chains to long Termsof imprisonment be cause they would not. enter your thieving crusade and not, blush wiles you speak of "toleration ?" Can yon have the impudecce to look upon the graves your intolerance has filled and then complain, when those who have felt and suffered.sill the outrages your party could inflict, offers you the first installment of the debt they owe you?' Wait a while ustajnistice comes nearer haste —Thirty thousand per year is what the mule rider, whom mongrel ism expects to ride into the white bow over the graves of the thou sands his drunkenness has Murdered, believes should be imposed upon the Isibetitig — Me n - of - Centre Bounty' '1 the benefit of the bond-holders Mistaken Enthusiasm Tire rerrdutionary tiolitited party of the north, by the abolition element, enlisted the morbid religious senti tuent of thousands of persons, who consequently voted for that party; without hying at any ,time familiar ized. themselves with the structure and form of bur everement: They supposed it was aril easy mat ter to pick out and abolish one thing which they regarded as a defect in die primary law—and that, of course by revolution—and go on with the rest of the machinery of' government as thongh nothing had occurred.— They consulted only their own morbid excited, and falsely educated feelings, and quite forgot to examine the re meltable, ' intricate and .eiakorate winner() from which they proposed to violently tear a component part. They . forgot also that, while their own motives migh be perfectly honest toil pure, the power which their combined actin would put into 'the' hands of Icaders might be wielded by Men who were wieked,eorrept mid i di-- honest ; tit while they might be guided by a- Sense of religious duty, the num they put in power might lie altogether ilthmid of religious princi ple, and Ivlion bent on serving Satan. This was, in fact, exactly the case. While ministers- and religious cut Int sia.ste were rousing members of all denominations to free-ay , in the name of God,. cunning and comfit leaders were taking advantage of their work and using it in the service of the limit: -'-glittle-4e{lllPfl4•4P4OUVAAL positions of emolument and -profit. and cared not a fig, as Lisn't its; said, whether "slavery went up or down." The bloody and awfully destructive .civil - oat a hich desolated the land was not foreseen by the deluded fit- naties who caused it, and when et-- ere-v.l as its authors, they held up their hands in horror, end appeal to 1 their honest motives, and the manner. in which they had sought counsel of God thrcug,hout their whale carves. They quite forget that while the men at the oars of a boat supply the pow er which• moves it, the man at the 1 1 helm guides the ‘,:s-el whither he wills. Thos ahu have controlled the action it the Republican party, arc men who acknowledge no God, and despise all the works of man's wisdom ; who consulted only their impulses, and make their own ideas their,uide in political matters, in defiance of e God and the Consti g,N ' tution wKeh t sir followers veherate. , But how onest men, with any moral or religious principles whatev er, can continue to support these ne farious heaven-defying leaders, when their designs are so manifest that a child ought not to be deluded by them, is unaccountable on any prin ciplo known to us. Think of the wickedaess and enormity of the schemes they have inaugurated by which they intend to enslave the high-minded, honorable, patriotic and christian white men of the *south. After crushing them by the sheer force of over numbers, not skillfully 'needled, ,they now keep them down by the same brute force, and talk about"restoring the Upion." Sueh conduct is vastly wore than the imposition of slavery upon the south, against -her solemn protest, Illy Gag avaricious and mercenary pi rates of Old and Mew England. The vengeance of heaven must sooner_ oN later overtake all who participate is this shameful iniquity, and religious enthusiasm, or honesty of purpose will be no excuse to those whose op portunities were so numerous to learn better. Disgraceful We do not recollect an instance in the darkest days of English despot ism when b 0 outrageous a crime against liberty wits perpetrated by any ono clothed with authority, as that committed by the Mongrel mob in Ala Senate of the United States, in adjourning from day to day, for the avowed purpose of securing autaide pressure to convict the President of high crimes of which he was innccent. in our county courts, common decen— cy prevents people from using any outside, nfluenee, even in the most trivial cases. -Yet in the "High Court of Impeachment," such influ ence is invited and begged for by members of the court. "Oh', shame, where is thy blush I" —The greatest exploit GRANT ever accomplished, was riding a trick mule in a circus, and getting drunk and vomiting his daddie's bat full of bad whisky and boiled eggs. —Blackguard Brownlon- of Ten nessee; has had a stroke of paralysis from which it t is thought he will nev er recover. flad this Judgment been sent upon him years ago, ow muck blasphemy, billingsgate' and beastli. eas - would have -heea—preventedi there is do use of trying to tell. Something for Tax-payers. , The Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. M'cCutoott, is greatly alarmed at the condition of the finances, and the ltiOitne notion of Qongress in regard to taxation: We aro in danger of an absolute failure and a general break d)wn for the want of funfds. Con gtess is so careful of the rich men of the country and has already; thrown so great a burden upon the poor, that it is imposible to wring an/ more from them. Legislation hay been of such a character as to •paral ize all business, and the revenue re ceipts have been so reduced anti our expenses for the pm;ent year will in onto by forty millions e u x w e n e y ed ..... our of dollars, according to Radical testi , If is but a few (lays siTate YrOßltt if, the great Mongrel financier from Vermont, in the United States Sen ate, in replying to' some assertions of Senator tFlotAti, said I one willing In hare it put upon the reword Poll the rlefeit ill:ilea& of truly st.rteeat millions, gill be- MORE titan FOILTY MILLIONS, the present year.'' What do you think of that honest tax-payers? In a time of 'profound peace, with every thing you eat, drink, wear, ,ee, touch, firnell or think of, tamed to the utmost far thing, and yet your government ex. penses CO enormous, that the autlay eiceeds the income Partv 10iltion3 a year ! Do you ask 119 why this is' 7 j.l ja L0r.71.0 )11V0 _,DIOCeiI power a set or ineti who have no morelden of honesty than a skunk has of Christianity--a net of men who plunder your treasury, and impover i,ll you, to enrich thoimNelves and mailman' then , pomitionm —a set of rn Irhn.r.rharatter, education and I.titn•ln lit them only for the tent iftry or gallows A few facts will very easily ex law .hy we are ye . arly running behind— gettiagll deeper into debt. The public revenues', from rrenyisourre, amount to lea than FLVE HUNDRED minions annually Qukof this is tck belutid, one *hun dred millions to griverrimeni °Theists' Fifty millions 16 feed, educate an'd clothe, southern niggers One hundred and fifty millions ier keep a standing arruy and petty ofi corm in the south, to keep the ,people of that section in idleness and want ! One buudied and fifty millions .fur bondholder's interest' , Millions for tooth picks, cologne, whisky, cards, and eti um pets for Congressmen I Millions for hypocritical col portcurs and thin legged_ school marms from New Englanrlo enable thorn to populate the south with young mu lattoes I Millions for the bottle holders, pet ty politicians and professional office seekers, who hang on to the coat tails of the big thieves about Washington! And millions upon millions to go into the pockets of Mongrels scattered here and there over the couritry, who furnish the villains to swear that party out of its troubles. These are facts, honest tax-payers It is where and for what your money goes. One hundred millions a year will bear the expenses of this govern ment. Eighty millions was what it cost under Detnocratic administra tion, while Mongrelism is making it oast you over five hundred millions Think Aver these facts. The Chlong° -Convention The five thousand offioe seekers, professional theives, lackeys and trai tors that met in Chicago is the Mon grel national Convention, on Tuesday last, after conliderable wrangling succeeded in getting organized, and nominated the big butcher, and mule rider--Gen. USELESS SLAUMITER GRANT, to carry their black banner during the coming campaign. lip to the time of going. to press wo have not learned who they placed on the ticket with him as their candidate for Vice President. WADE, HAMLIN and COLFAX seem to have the inside track for the position, and "Gun ANDE"is left so completely out itm the cold4hat he is h4rdly heard of in the proceeding orthat body. It don't matter much - who they put in with GRANT, they•are bound to be beat oust as soon as the pe6ple do their duty. —lt is estimated that the expen ses of the overnment last year aver,,, aged' nearly a thousandAbliattS per Minute. The platform whit& LincoLti was elected 14pliirezi that a reduction in the expenses of gov ernment was an absolute necessity. They have made a redution, but it win the kind we used to puzzle over lower-school arithmetic azilikr" - a - s - - osading reductio'n." Attempted Aseisitsinatlon Attar having been guilty, of nearly all the crimes known to' history, the Mongrels have nt last reached the very 'thickness of infamy which the world hail not witnessed since the age of the BORMAS. After laving used all the powerful machinOry el which their party has obtained' - possession, many years of fraud, treachery , , nd treason, to secure tfie conviction of President JOHNSON,' they at e last resort to the agent which was'employ ed so efficiently in the fifteenth cen tury to destroy democratic govern ment in Italy. The illness of Senator tintms, at the very tithe when his vote was needed to. save JOHNHON from an unjust conviction, and our country from ineffable disgrace—per haps utter ruin—can be accounted for on no other, hypothesis tlran that lie was (!eliberately poisoned by the sav age and blood-thirsty mongrels, who thronged the capital, invoking all the powers of earth and hell to secure a verdict of guilty. But the old F.itmator from lowa, who has dune ru Machete cover him- Self with the black and bloody infamy at?ehing to Abolitionism in all iti Plia' ,o q, has in this ease set a star in the black flag under which he sailed, which will shed titre upon his grave long after the patty 'he lia, served has been trampled in the dust. In spite of the severe indisposition under which he :-uffered, be went almost fainling to the Senate eham her, and recorded his-verdict of NOT • •0, LVVI ulityg the iisas , ins who would have silenced him by death if they c•.)uld. The whole impeachment trial has been a complete exposure of the ugly and dangerons - designs -whichunderly the smooth surface of Mongrelise), but nothing has row to light so damning to the '`party of great moral idea.," lig this attempt to poison a man who had Lech one of their most able tenders, because, for once in his ' l ife,l he remembered his conscience, his country and his God. The people live observed it and -they are thinking it over, They are coming thoukanda to our rankn, and victory is cowing to the right at the November election. ."RscosiOruction." fhe Rump Congress is so mean they will even cheat the pcior ncgroea to whom they have given the ballot. The constitution of Arkansatrarirs de feated by a majority of over ten thou. sand votes, yet Congress has forced it upon their equals —t lie blacks—against their will, as expressed in the late election. This is why old Twat). would not allow anything to be said aboute admission of that statc,even by his own took Ile was afraid the country would learn that even the miserable few :who are decided to be "unconditionally loyal" are not to be permitted to rule in the "reconstruct ed" districts. They must- vote as Congress wishes them to, or vote in , vain. Something to Boast of The Mongrels boas t i ',hat South Carolina is now poll cally in the hands of the Republicans. It is cer tainly in the hands of negroes, just as we said it would be if the war suc ceeded. and we admit that our oppo nents have something to crow over. They plunged this country into a fear ful war, slaughtered a million of white men, burdened us with a debt we can never pay., crushed civil liber ty wherever they could, and tho only result they have to exult ovoris that they have made the hash‘rious, ig norant nigger a voter. Surely they ought to boast over so great a tri umph. The Convention A few cowards and camp followers met in Chicago this week, and claim ed to represent the soldiers of the country, Old peppy GRANT made himself very ridiculous by attempt ing to make a speech, and the con vention recommended °warns the bummers candidate for president. The regular mongrel convention had not matte a nomination at latest advibeebut after heavy, contest, the most extreme men in tho ,party had gained the ascendency, so that the result may be anticipated in the choice of men who care for nobody but thigerselveB. '. 1 6- 44 01tex has made little use of '• , ial position except to inflate bind to pardon the (Amin* Alt 'Whom ho has long eel:toenail. NO isivernar of our state has over used the pardoning power to such an extent yet only those of his Own party have been able to secure his serviees. ---"Our Aar Vas gone - Whim old uncle Nod-went to.—politically ESSME On Saturday nioruing last,the Sen ate, sitting as a Court of Impeach ment, took a vote on the eleventh ar ticle of itupeahhmitnt and rendered a verdict of acquittal. Senators FOWL FERBENDEN,GRIMKELIIENDERBON, AN WINKLE, TRUMBULL /LISS, Republicans, voted'with the •I_) aio . crats for acquittal— As this, article Was the only one on which the Radicals had any hope of convicting the President,the adjourn trl;:t of the Court until tho 2tith inst. nm nothing bat that thdy were ton sick of the farce to play it out juit now. • . While tba Doinocrasy its a party had no particular interest in the trial of an official against whom they dull voted in I Wet: our love of justice and our country bids us rejoice that the right has triumplieci against (he most overwhelming clfirts for its over throw. _ ' - Thuseven Senators above name comprise some of the very ablest 111 I) in the Mongrel ranks, but since they have heen ,uspeeted ofk hitvirm con sciences; the party tyltich has noire, through all its or gaits, haq iiiii , hhteil them fr There arc very few pdop`le in tin 11nittil States who do not leheve the nurrxra..i.unaaraidu_saLiturrJrinir- =jib gently the duties of an American oar zen. The Caucasian raco everyavhdre has always held that opinion, and the experience of makind has demon. strated its correctness_ • ' , There is but a small minority of the Republican party which desires to make tlik black man a full citizen, with all to rights and duties n hich the whites havo heretofore held ex clusively. The great mass of that party is undoubtedly opposed to this polici Rh - they do nvt control the actrrn the party. The minority which favorsnegro equality comprises ho very men who usethe whole-pow er of the party as they please', and no man can vote with them without vo ting for all the measures they are in favor of, and the continued success of these leaders will just as certainly es tablish nogro suffrage everywhere as their present success has established it wherever they had power to do so No respectable number of Republi cans really desired that the South should pastrit"to the haudsof negroes, yet this has been done in spite of them and now the Mongrel Oilers boast of it as a triumph of their principles. It 'is in fact the only purpose they now have to accomplish, and those who voted with -them heretofore can no longer support them without support ing negro suffrage and universal equal ity of races throughout the whoa country wrrm The following is from the New York Evening Post, edited by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, and one of the old est and ablest Radical papers in the Union. Let those who read it reflect that this same BEN WADE is one of the most prominent men in the Mon grel party,and for aught we know may be their candidate for' Vioe President before this leavcs the press: 'ought a party which is controlled by (- such men to be supported by an honest people? "Mr Wade—From. the origin of trial by Jury, from the very beginnings of our ,rti coon law, It hii4 been the Inalienable right of en 'wedged person to be tried before jade• tie and jurors who can have no interest in the mint. There is not in 'history an hi stance of a judge so lost to decency as to lit and act upon a trial, on the result of which his own highest ambition directly depended. This is the settled and essential law of every judicial proceeding ; the law which was not expressed In the Consitution only because its authors did not conceive of the possibility of its violation by a public man the law which is clearly Implied by that in- Moment in forbidding the possible succes sor of tie President even to sit in the chair of the Senate while deliberating on impeach ment. This law Benjamin F. Wade hae lied and broken. Be already ham his appro priate reward in the failure of his disgraceful attempt, and will doubtless be made by the people a negative example to all American statesmen for the future." And again, in another leading editorial, the Poet says : "The only disgraceful rote cast on Satur day was that of Mr. Wade, who, with a reckless abandonment of decency and pro priety, voted for conviotion, and for his own elsratiokto the Presidency, when it was believed by himself and the other support er' of Impasehmeat that conviction would be obtained by only a single vote. We shall be surprised Whir. Wade's flour • In this mat ter does not drive him out of public life ; I t has certainl,y lost him the respect and con fide... of all Impartial =lade." --Since the farce of impeachment pliiyed out, we have heard' ,nothiwg of the war, that was to be kicked up instanter if the Senate refused to sond Jourisorr adrift. How is it ? Did the ours. e of Mongtelism ooze out in in its valorous attempt: to Poison —. GRIMES ?
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