The Democratic--Watchman
1314.1.1;LEFONTE, PA
FRIDAY MORNING', MAY 29.1868
Truth Elrontly Told
The follOvring" extracts are from a /Teed'
delivered by Hon. D. W. Voorhembecore
the Democratic Slate Convention of Indi-
12112a111
in ilia midst of these darke'ning days,
when the laborer goes about the striate
id quest of bread; 'and gvinding is low,
'and skeleton want,Juoks et the doors
undwindows of many an honeAt household
you are taxed by Congress (or the support
of a standing' army beyond what any
other endure beneath the sun.
The people of the United States are
paying over five hundred millions of an
nual revenue. lifore than one half of
that enoriota amount is shadowed up by
the Congressional poitdy of reconstruc
tion. If the farmer or mechanic:, pay
twenty dollars to the tax-gatherer, ten
of it goes as a tribute to a vast military
government, which exists In plain, opeb
and confessed violation of the Constitu
tion. If your property is advertised on
the trees at the cross-roads;-and on the
doors of public houses for delinquentand
unpaid taxes, remember that they would
not have been half so heavy, and you
might easily hove paid them. if the
standing army had been .abolmhed and
the expenso of govern!ng the Southern
States left where It belongs, with the
people of those States.
I=l
And the generous and growing farms
those plantations of more than oriental
magnificence, from which all this start
ling wealth wan obtaintd, and which
havo been so much derided by the disci
ples of New England, what was their
value? They were worth over one thou
sand four hundred millions of dollars,
while all the real estate of a similar
character in New England was apprais
ed at four hundred hod seventy millions.
Where now is the mighty wealth of the
South ? Whete are her corn, her cotton,
and her catne" Why AD her inexhaus
tible acres lie barren and unbroken
Why do 'her gigentrn resources invite
none.of the capital of the world Why
does business enterprise turn away from
title natural paradise of trade! Why
does the emigrant, in search of a home,
go to colifer, harder and poorer regions'
There, you can look and behold the rea-
COOL for yourselves. The Radical Con
greed has killed the life,the hope end ihe
prosperity of the most fruitful portion of
the Republic.
Once it pouted tuto the hip of a foster-
Jug add proteelhig government a stream
of treasure as deep and strong as thecur
rent of its own Illissiesippi Now it bangs
like a paralyzed limb, a helpless incite'
brance, a poor pensioner and burden up
on the patience and bounty of the rest of
the body Its fields are smitten with an
unnatural puerility Every production
has withered and died, as if some vast
upas tree hat. east its shadow over all.
A fatal and desolating blight is —upon,
the land, upon the mountains, and upon
the corn, Lotrupon 1116 new wine. And
upon the oil, and upon that which the
ground bringeih forth, and upon men,
andispon cattle, and upon the labor of
hands " In her ancient glory and
strength she could meet one halt the
taxation which now darkens the face of
the land. She could take from yo
shoulder one-half the load W 1 , ow
bends you to the earth The Soul on a
natural condition Spropperity—the child
of protection ine•ead of oppretieton—an
object of love, and not of hate.spoliat ion
and vengeance on the part of the Gov
- ernment,could pay two hundred and fifty
millions a year, as the public revenue-
Under the present murderoua policy,
however, toward her, it costs two lion
Bred and fitly millions a year to govern.
crush, and destroy her—makirtg a differ
ence of five hundred millions, am amount
almost equal tcithe entire expense of the
Government. The Radical policy has not
only set fire to and oonsumed one-half of
the graisilriee, the stacks rod harvest
fields of the United §tates,but it likewise
taxes whai•is left to keep a standing nr
mrover lys ghastly and smouldering ru
ins It has made.
But I may be told that the destruction
of slavery is the cause of the destruction
of tie much wealth t the fisma
which I pave produced from the census
of 18G0 were based upon slave labor. At
that time the South contained a white
population of 4,1504,000 Its black pop
ulation numbered 3,896,000. There thot
population, trained to labor. remains to
day. v. ravages of star and the results
of emaincipat ion have been made up, or
nearly so,by the law of natural increase.
,The statesmanship of the country finds a
vast laboring population in p ion of
the most fertile and productive region of
the earth, and by its policy, turns that
region intif,s barren desert and a howl
ing wilderness. The rich lands
there. The brawny and stalwart labor
is there, and actual want is there but
the miderale and‘ incendiary politkotati
of the North is also there ; the infamous
Union Letgue with which to seduce the
negro to his rain, is there ; a vast. and
appalling military despotism, created
tad used by a political party for pur
poses of party abomination, is there;
the Fteedmen's Bureau, that guarantees
out of your pockets that the negro may
live without work, is there, with Ile
mighty clan of petpieionsmoiennous em
'merles; and theMmkness, reptiles,NlO
ousts and plagues were not more fatal to
Egypt than are these gigantic, evils to
that ruined land. We heat the dreadful
or. of actual starratip . n coming up at
this moment from a country' richer far
that tlrs.deltsof the Nile. A loan of
thlrtp.soillions, to be paid by you,_ iii
contemplation by the Akers of the Freed
iiteds'Eureau at Washitigtonorith which
le maintain a people who Will -hot weal
melet others work in thit gardei spot of
creation. Is this the bawouet. to which
you. were invited by thelbolitien pf sla
very T Is this the resit of good thittel
to which you were bidden by the aholi-
CCM emlisaries
kA DICA L rill VOUS
Thus Radios' reeonstraotlon prodeed ,
sad it Is the open end avowed purpose o f
Congress to admit these States 'thus I n
the hulas and unfler•the nontroi of tit e
negroes before this session closes The
great crime itt.pressed.imw each day and
hour with fierce desperation And who
is so blind as not to see the odious pur
poses. .'"A Prealdentrel eleetletn Is at
hai.d, a ntiti the flrat fruits of this accurs
ed conspiracy are to be seventy electoral
votes deposited for the Radical candi
date by the hands of negroea. The ne
groes of Georgia, in their dense barbari
ty, are to out vote the freemen of Indi,;
ana in the choice of n Chief -Mugistrate.
The negro on the levees of the Mtssissip
pi is to drown the voice of the intelligent
farmer of the North. I speak advisedly.
The Radical lenders, shine the late
elections, expect to carry but Cent of the
Northern Stales They despair of con
trolling uuy Jongor the white vote of the
country. They seek so longer to goecrn
this mat Republic by *it white man's
influence. They yield all that to Ibli
Democratic party, and denounce a white
man's party as an intolerable offense.
But with seventy negro electoral votes,
and to them added the votes of Tennes
see, and Nlissottri,botli bastard offsprings
of.the bayonet, they are Vreparing to rob
the people of their sacred rights, and
openly defy the legally expressed public
will. The Oct sf reconstruction is un
constitutional, if there is a Constitution
in the land ; it is a fraud on the purpo
ses and objects of the war, if that word
has not lost all its meaning ; it 'upheld
by perjury and duress, if there ' , e such
a crime; and yet we are exto.cted to
quietly yield to ire claim, that the negro
shall make the next President
Negro Voting in Georgia
The spectacle presented to the gate of
the people of thiscity, on Monday morn
ing, the first day of the recent election,
says the Augusta chronecle and Sentrjel,
Is one which will linger in theii memo
ries for years to come They saw a long
line of sable voter+, headed by a 'ring
master" on horse-back, brindishing an
old cavalry sabre, and nil marchi4 to
tbe invigorating music of a wheezing fife
land the dull thud of a Irroken-headed
drum. These were the •oters—the in
telligent law makers and executive and
legislati•e creator . ; of the county o f I
Richmond It will scarcely be doubted
that not a stogie son e f Item who toil
fully trudged the streets in t bat 'molly
procession could read or -wive, or hod
the least idea of the chanicier I.{ IL blll ti t
or who or what he was shout to vote, I
save that Captain Bryant and the boss
drivers" had told him he inu•t vote 01-
the Radicals. As this long line of ig
norant, vindicitive and defiant negro vo
ters passed through our principal thor
oughfares to the City .llall. where, the
mockery an election was going on,
every right-minded white men must
have felt that representative government
foutided upon such suffragins, was not
only a mockery, but a crime against vir
tue, law,,order, peace and human liber
ty The alacrity with which each mem
ber of the fantastic procession conformed
to the different and frequently repeated
orders fron the ••boss drivers" showed
how completely they were under the
control of their nishters, and how much
they esteemed .it a privilege to be thus
driven like brutes through our ntreete
Upon reaching the City ha ll, ballots
were placed a their hands, and they
werehrgpteil to hand them to tne same
man and fn the same manner their dr'.
ver disposed of his And this to what
is called manhood suffrage, the basis or
constitutional liberty and the salvation
of free government'.
--They nay in Illino;s, since the
last proceedings of the Court of im
peachment, that Yates drunk in better
than Trumbull sober -- , Pittrhury Corn
MeTCIOI, Rild4C4ll
That in Radicalism defined It needs
no better definition . it prefer.' a drunk
ard, a bloat, a pest to 'society, an lode
cent man, that will rote for and ■saint to
carry out all of their Jacobin measures .
to a statesman, •t jurist, an it right man,
one whose moral character to above re
proach Senator Trumbull has Come re•
gard for his oath and judicial standing
--to hive that he cannot rote for all
'bat radical ptoobininin deniren, hence
the above slur, or that radicalism pre
fern drunken debauched Dick Yates, to
the statesman and upright man Lyman
Trumbull. And the party that makes
this preference professes to have all the
"morality, virtue, decency, religion and
temperance there in to the country,"
within its folds It is the party that
prefers '•Yates drunk to Trumbull so
berr " A nice party that for ;bite cra
vat gentlemen to lab:r Air; and de
nounce the Democratic party. If the
Oriatium religion and obristimm 'example
was of no more account than theee white
cravat gentlemen who prefer the party
that "prefers Yates drunk to Trumbull
sobe" are, then they would be in appto.
priate businese. Let the above par's
prsph from the Commercial be the text
for next Sunday morning'. sermon of
every political preacher in the country.
It will be appropriate. His hearers can
then see the political party their minis
ter In laboring for —Sieubrneille (0.)
Os
uUe
--Two flagmen who cannot read or
write' have been chosen to represent a
county in the SouttloCarolida Legislature.
TheYreednian's Bureau agents are rep
resented by a correspondent of the New
York Times as suspicious of every man
with a white skin, who offers himself as
• voter, White voters are treated by
theta pampered Federal of f iciate with
great insolence. The Radicals intend to
retain power by twain tett,,Afrioanized
States into the electoral scales, ten
States In whleh • woolly pate end •
lampblack evade shall be qualifications
enough to make their caner • votek.—
Floats are marching on rapidly' to a die
°Mee consummation of stun sort.—Po rt.
----A-pathetle correspondent of the
New York BAn ley@ Mr. Masbate_ drew
tears from many in the audience when
he epok• of the Gerrit case, "where the
ma s er murdered her babe to prevent Its
return to slavery,". We etippoile the
case of thibabelhat Wag murdered be
cause It weuld not say Its prayers, bad
nettling pathetic In it, or epßld not be
used to prove that Mr. Johns ought to
be Impeaelted. As.amlog coarse people
the broadest Poke, ie most eifeetive, so
among a people'stuttlded by -false sent',
meat, the most aunghlgsted, hypoerasy
fs the most eagerlj relished.— Pair erten
(Texas) News.
The Republican Party the Know Noth
r _ irlg Party.
The Republican party. whileit p;ofet
see a great love fur our Toreiknborn citi
zens, is at heart and in fact a Know
Nothing party. The lenders of the Re
publicen party have fo'r the last few
yearn professed great friendship for citi
zens of foreign birth, and by operating
upon the Mate prinolplee of' liberty,
which pervades the,breast and warms tip
the soul of men who have fle'd from op
promotion and came to this ooqntry that
they might enjoy liberty, by their con
stant howl about the equal rights of mon,
and professing to be infitvorof making all
"equal before the law, without regard to
color, birth or religion," have made the
foreign born citizen believe that the Re
phblican party is the true part j m of free—
dom, and that the leaders of party
where the champions of Lb i b ofitiressed
of all nations, and that theirs was the
only party which advocated the rights
of mei to life, liberty and the pursuit. of
happin Coo.
While the Radical party was weak.
and needed the assistance and votes of our
foreign horn citizens, it managed to keep
hid from their vies their an'i-republi
can dogmas and their hatred of foreign
ere But now when it is strong, and
thinks it can afford to lose the •otes of
those who they call '•hog trotting, ig
norant Irishmen, and, svravbellied lager
beer llutch,•: (hey let their true princi
ples come to the surface, stud show to
the world that instead of being a: party
of freedom, they are advocates of intol
erance and proscription, and would, had
they the power, prevent every foreign
born citizen in the land from exercisim,
the elective franchise, end thereby have
any voice in the laws and governinent
of the country which taxes him and de
mands his services iit its defence, and
which to his naturalization lit, took a
solemn oath to support
Irishmen, Germans, and oth r foreign
born citizens, do you doubt
,this • If
you do, the following /extracts from
speeches made by prominent Republican. ,
might to remove your doubts
Ilitiri.ng the discussion, in thol'ennnyl
vent% Legislature, on the question of
striking the word white out of the Con
etitution, and on the Registry bill, John
Hickman, fornu rly a Radical member of
Congress, awl now n Radical member of
too leigt‘liture from Chester e-,unty,
I 1113 V r , ,,sibly nee the day that I
may ICC side by site With a cohsved
woman I have seen a great matiy
colored women that I would rather wa lk
with than a great many white men I
known a great tnany negroes who I think
are better entitled to •ote , b.s moment
than a great many white men who do
vote, and have long exercised the Iran
chive "
Again he said:
..An intelligent ie baiter. than
pn Irish Cathalla,%,.l uttitisai to •
•ote,"
A C Reinital,white-niggor from Liu
caster, remarked
"If Democrats give the right of suf
frage to foreign paupers, to whom a
spelling book is a sealed mystery, and
who still smell of bilge watet,'and from
whose garments the Celtic aroma or the
Teutonic fragrance of the fatherland
has not yet been removed by the pure
nir of freedom,why should not thecolfee,
colored dricentlants of the first families
of the South have a voice in reconstruct
ing the States of their forefathers "
Fisher, same stripe, from Lancaster,
declared:
:.The Democratic party was composed
of bog trotting, ignorant Irishmen, and
swag-bellied, lacer ben. Dutch "
Latigdon, or the Bradford district re
marked that.
"Negroes were better entitled to the
elective frenehtse than Irishmen
The leaders of this part, who say that
they are in favor of equality before the
law, and of conferring the right of suf
frage upon all persons,without regard to
color, birth or religion, falsify their own
word, and
,object to the "bog-trotting,
ignorant Irishmen, and the swag-bellied
lager beer Dutch." enjoying the right
of suffrage, and why Because they
were born in a foreign:land Not only
so, but they say an "intelligent negro is
holier than an Irish Catholic, and is en
titled to vote " Hero is another falsi
fication of radical professions They ob
ject to an Irish Catholic's having the
right to •01e, , n0 matter where he was
born—they object to him on account of
his religion, and they would object to a
German Catholic, a French Catholic, or
any other Catholic, whether American
or foreign-born, for the same reason—
They have found Gut that they cannot
hdodwink the foreign-born citizoqukity
longer, agill beam) it is that• they prp
pose to put thi ignorant aegro above
them Tbey hope by franchising the
negro, to be able to vote-out the fore
ign born citizen, and by that means
keep themselves in power, until they can
pass and enforce Islet oarryinz out their
Known-Nothing principles. —Council
Bluffs Bugle
---Such Northern Republicans as
refuse to allow ihli negves to vote at
home, osonot without the most flagrant
"illiberality," insist on foiling negro
sufilmil upon the people of the South
As these Northern voters claim the right
to decide it fir themselves &Ira home
question, Nullity and Gainless requre
that they should concede aro same right
to the people of other States. Moreover,
eight and invitee are of pal I obli
gation ; If the negroes have a right to
vote In the Southern States, And this
right is superior in all local opposition,
than they have a right to vote every
where In ',Ott, of local opposition No
maw Gan constantly vote against noire
suffrage in Miohigan, affil coatinutp •ta
act with'• party, the cornerstone of
whose polioy Ir negro mirage is the
Southern States. So far as this ques
tion is a:twinned, the Deutoeratio party
is 10 sympathy with a majoriti'of the
Atieriean people.—American Volunteer
Grisly is now for Grant, but he wasn't
If.heo. be Wrote the following: "More
soldiers were uselessly slaughtered In
the late war throughthe blunders of
tirunkea odious than by bullets of the
tee." When the editor of the Tribune
dealt Grant this blow between the eyes
he wu for Chase ; but boring gun} over
to Grant, we dethand to knot► whether
the Tribune change has oleo wade Grant
any less • drunkard 1 Wkil tile Tributio
answer this polite question!
The AOrobat C i andidate for tho Pres
denoy.
The stuff purporting to be written
about Grant's boyhood, by big fallier, is
evidedtly sheer invention, or if it is not,
Grant was as great a reseal and cheat'as
a baby as be, le now as a' man. For In
etnnoe, the booby is said to have won a
wager by the following deceit :—lie
bet half a dosen marbles, that h. would
jump twenty-five feet tit- a single leap
The bet was taken, and the incipient to,
bocce-pouch and Ashiskey•barret won it,
by jumping from a perpendicular bluff
twenty-five foot high,landing on a bed
of soft mud, into which he sunk up to his
Middle, where lie Stunk fast until pulled
out by his father. How prophetic this
of the moral leapn'tbis juvenile cheat liar
was to take into the-depths of' mud and
slime unfathomable ! The trick by which
ho cheated robiLput of hie Tialfdoxen
marbles was thing but a forerunner
of the dec, ptio wh hill die has just prac
-1
tioed upo the l osident, to cheat him
out of th control one of his own See
rettrier And. his heat leap into'-these
nasty depths of Mongrel filth and negro
equality in the tilling conclusion of a
life whioh began ;n the ditiplay of sutoh
moral turpitudellut there is a difference
he could be pulled out of the mud lard
which his boyhood cook such delight in
leaping, hut what hand eon extriosite him
from the bottomless mire into which - be
is now sinking?
But these silly Ties about Grant's boyhood
havo a far deeper significance than spear
_upon the face of them. They look simply
like foolish, hartnleen lies, disgusting
enough**. every person hello is not it fool,
bnt they evince II congoloptAneem of pope.
tar depravity in the unscrupulous pub
Inhere who put forth such demoralizing
trash At any former period of our his
tory such lying pictures of kyinictua boy,
hood would have been redelied with un
speakable diirgiist by everybody, hut now
they areput cot ..:1 as the eupposed most
ityailabit'lgielts to place- a min in the
Presidential chair. Another of the sto
ries which the paredt Grant relates of
his brutal boy is, that "he once rode a
mule in a circus, with a monkey stand
ing on hie shoulders hanging on to his
hair," atni, it is added, -there was not
a renter in his nerves " Of course not
The mule, the monkey and the boy were
so near of a New, that there was no
occasion for tremor of nerve?. Now all
the anecdotes, ..hel her true or false,
.imply allow the boy to have been a lit
tle brute. All wax evidence of the dawn
ing of the lowest attributes, without a
single ray of that mental light which
promises sagaeity and nobility ofthar.tc
ter, At any former period ofrour history
toe man who should have published slice
stuff as a means ef elevating a mule•moo
key hero to the Presidency, iiculd, have
been hooted out of all rispectible iteciety
There wife a time when a paper contain
ing such abominable trash could Ito
have found adre.,:ttanee into a thousand
families In the whole United States It
would have been deemed an insult to the
ritspectabtlity and dignity of the Atitert:
can people to have named ouch a kind
red companiou of monkeys aid mules
in connection with the Chief May ietracy
of the United States. If a people are to
be judged by the ektiracter of their can
didates for high acne, what is to be
the verdict of history upon the Ameri
can character of the present generation!
It brings the glow of shame upon the
cheek of the respectable man to think of
it.—Day Book.
The Radical Break-up
The breaking up of the Radical party,
which reflecting men have long foreheen
as inevitable, hen been greatly hastened
by the anxiety of Certain notorious iudi
•iduals who bare been- leading it, and
who foolishly fancied they could go on
leading and maintaining party success.
Warnings they heed not. because they
would rather fail to en attempt, howev
er base, than yield ti.e control to more
honest and more temperate counsellors
We prognosticated that the day was not
distant when men thus banded together
on no good principla, seeltiig only per
sonal aggrandizement anti pecuniary
gain, roust divide and destroy each oth
er. We claim no prophetic vision ; we
claim nothing more than the . exercise of
common manse founded on the general
experience of mankind , we claim' that
the 'vast majority of the American people
are honest, and mean to deal fftlrly, man
to man; upon this we establish such
opinions cud views a hive characterized
our journal during the preseut memora
ble period of Radical misrule If our
assumption could he proved false. then
Radioalism might astatious ad infinitum:
we weetuld not know where to find the ful
crum or the lever with which to over
throw It
But being true, the fall of Radicalism
wee, and le, just as certain as anything
oan•be in this country, which reels upon
falsehood, misrepresentation and tyran
nical acts. A party may, through the
force of overruling oirounistanoes, flour
ish upon these for a time ; but necessa
rily, in the nature of things,it could not
last without corruption in the great
m ; and this we believe hos never
•minted, and in this land
The corruption has been, and *amongst
the political leaders ; and as the messes
of the people find this out,they will leave
them just ay rats desert ■ sinking ship,
The fact that these political leaders are
blind to thle_obvions truth, cannot stop
the sound judgment of the popular mind
&Rhona it renders these leaders more
obstinate and self-willed. The march of
light_ and truth will soon sweep the last
vestige of Radioal usurpation from a re
stored Claim The party of truth and
Justine has nothing to Tear.—Pi:esburg
Post.
—The Mongrels of Milano's are
In a bad way. No respectable man want
ed to be Moir candidate to &hare an Ig
nominious defeat under the nirtwAT. " 4-
terdsmallan flag of "Grant and victory."
Grant', victories, Ia all the States were
elsotions have been held sines his name
Gas been emblazoned on the Mongrel, ban
ners has been such a reeord ofreduction
of former majorities or of absolute over
throw. that MC known.onezwre frighten
ed already it “Grao,lMld.vietery ."
—A disgusted 'Midler writes to com
plain that the Mongrels who were so full
of ieve'for the "boy. in blue," while the
war wut going on, are new utterly re
gardless of ►lt their protaittei. The rea
son le, that the Mongrel love, for the
"boys to blue" hoe referred to the boys
to block.
The way They Dodge Taxation
- We have hedrd lately of a dodge re
sorted to by heavy oparatere, to avoid
taxation, which present. another cir
oumstance shb4ing the iniquity of the
esemptien of government bends from tax
ation.
'Men in the habit of—handling large
sums of money for speculation and othifi•
purposes, to avoid being taxed, go to a
banker, or some other patty fielding
bonds, and known to the assessor to be
such holder, and get'll certain athount
of bonds upon some terms, upon the un
dergitanding that they are to be returned
after the assessors are got rid of. When
the assessors dome round, they are told
that the man of money has been invest
ing his funds in bonds, and to prove it
the bonds are produSed, This settles
the question. and begets rid of taxation.
After the danger is o•er y the booth are
returned to the party who previously
held ihfm. That party also escapes tax
stion,hs he is one who Is.knewn to he a
permanent holder, and the assessors do
not' trouble him
this way and by similar dodgps and
covers, it is, that wealth escape& taxa
tion, and almost the whole burden falls
cfpon men of stmill means, and upon the
laborers of the country. if we were
governed by just and equal laws, snob
things could not take place.
• Will we not have such
_laws? Shall
not labor be shielded from these abomi
nable trends and evictions of capital?
Will we not again make our country free
and strong, by unfettering induetry, and
making it it land of bold-hearted, honest
minded, working Oita freemen, instead
of subdued, down-trodden, bond ridden,
wealth-owned slaves?
"111 fares the hind, to hastening ills u prey,
Where wealth nreuinuJoteo and wen dehy,
rrineen and lords luny flourish, or may fade . ,
A breath ran make them a a breath has
made.;
But a bold"
.seoinunry,
pride,
"their country's
When "nee. de+troyed, can Dover be eel
-1,1 (,'r... 1).1 Ot I t.
What a Working Man Thinks,
In a recent eperch, Hon.• John A.
Bingham, a member of Congrebe from
Ohio, exclaimed —Thank God there is
no such a'tbing as equal taxation."
on this a Montpelier I Vermobtd working
man, says the Argus, not formerly ft
member of the DeinocrAtic party, corn
inertia as tollowi
tlf course Bingham and hut party rep
resent the bondholder who has his
horses. 1414 carttages, lire wine parties,
line plate his bonds
I am a working man.. I have my tin
dinner pail, my tool cheat, and my hard
palms, and tired bones at night. aud. my
hasty breakfast in the uturontg. a lean
purse, and n tax rtrceipt at the. end of
the year. •
When quarter-day comco,-the bondhol
der cuts uti 1116 coupons , and draw■ his
interest, and thankstiod there is no such
thing as equal taxation.
I draw my puree and pay my rent
And when the year hi gone be counts
up hie gams, rustles his bonds, and has
a wine supper And when the year is
gobe, I look at the great rubber, the tax
receipt, go to bed With an aching hear ,
to dream of Democratic tunes, light and
equal taxation
the bondholder does nothing lie in
supported
I pay State taxes
I pay county taxes
I pay village talcs
I pay lowa boxes
I pay revenue taxes
I pay direct taxes
I pay taxes on every thing
I pay taxes to Support Congress
pay taxes to support the (lovers
meet.
I pay taxes to support the bondholders
who pay no lazes for any purpo,.e what
ever
I eisall vele for equal taxatson, nod
down with the party who '•thnuke (od
that there to euelt n Otng 11.11 equal tax
atton.—Ex.
--Some of the timid Mongrels are
frightened it the feat That etveral nug
roes from the South will be members of
the Chicago Convention. But that is
fooliskr-squestnisirnAss on the part of any
Mongrel The Chicago Convention ought
to be composed entirely of negroes of
the blackest and •wooliest type. But still
Cuffee would, be It disturbing element
there. The "royal" soldiers especially
will kink and swear terribly all over the
country when they see uegroes helping
nominate Grant Grout is not popular
with soldiers generally, but when they
see him nominated by negrobs, he will
be more etiodorons than eVer,
7he New York Tribune call* the
defeat of its party in Connecticut '•a se
rious break in the Presidential line "
Rather it's the first twist in 'the cord
which is to suspend by the neck Grant's
Presidential expectations. We trust
there is little danger crihe line break
ing
Me NZORO PARTY. —Forney says,
"the election in South Carolina has re
sulted in a great Republican viotory."
The pblacks were victorious, and the
whiren were defeated. This is the Jesus
before us. Jiball the black man triumph
over the white? What say you reader?
—Virtuous llossacbdsetts has repu
diated wornau suffrage. Bub if any
body should tell at-New Englander that
the latter did not love as well, and- re
spect at highly, the women ae the po
grom he would feel highly offended.
—Dan Sickles charged the Mongrel
'State Committee of New Hampsitire $250
a speeob, so they concluded, to dispense
with his services. Dan took off hls cork
leg and stood on crutches while speaking
for effect, but the triok did not save him
from being publioly denounced is "a
murderer" by a woman.
CoKvattriot PLeven.—Thfrty-eight,
negroes were appointed delegates to
the repbullean convention, which was
held (Wednesday) list Jo Chicago,
Of course their "loll" pale face fellow
equals will bays Mein furnished with
meals lop' veto apartment. The editorsef
the Herald ought by all means be there.
— The ' imP9 l loraent expanses .are
set doiroot $500.000.
Then and Now,
The Impending .contest between th„
Syr° great parties of the country will be
(treated with more than ordinary inter.
est. Pre i rettius to the year 1860, It made
but little difference to the people wbi o
flarty, succeeded in carrying Ole Nati.,
dential eleotion. The nautili political
olap.trflp was resorted to on both aides,
of (MUM; but, after it wee all over, and
the ' , result known, the people nettl e d
quietly into their accustomed harmony
and repose.. -Before the election, Igo,
neither party teared that the success of
the other would result to' the nuo urmi
injury of thereouutry. 00icial comp_
tion was rare, or. if it existed at all, th e
amount in•olied Tins so small nm to
he deemed insignifloent and unworthy o f
mention.
To-day how different ! The present
pail) , in power has swindled the peopl e ,
in the seven years of ntp rule, oui of
more money than it before cost to Corey,
the expenses of the goverment for ten
years. It is natural to conclude, loin
the past history of , the "Republican"
party, (hat the eorrupti•na snit frank
which have distinguished it will i mt
only he continued, if it remains to
power, but will be greatly incanted,
piling the burden of debt sail taralton
upon . 'the people until they sink bencnilt
its enormous weight, or throw it al
togeiher —by repudiation.
The success of the opposition, 0 ,,, t
fall, would also have a more ditegeretei
effect titan mere pecuniary losses and
burdens. The rights of the people, on
der the constittilien. have l're - en grades'
ly but surely diminishing tinder ihe run.
of Jacobiniem, until the person and
property of the American eit arc ere i.
longer safe from the encroachments nal
insolence of despotio power; ht., house
tio lonfier a castle, safe from ntrnemo
by the spy and informer , nod Ito deAr
eat rights are trampled under hot by
the government inquisitors
Then, 130, statt.outon only were
' , jarred worthy to hold the highest Oh,
In the gat of the people ow the op
positron propose to put in the he'd
candidate remarkable only for ha 00.
Iktlity and look of statesmanlike pull
; whose military career may 6• cam
toed up in-the -11iMeirtient - - that he oin
!pushed is foe of IC's than one Lurch
numerical strength, at is sacrifice of
more men than the enemy possessed
who seeks to cover up hit polities! ig
Ildhinee by a grim silence, and situ
Penns behind a cli ud ol smoke, the
confident l i tclitif that the people will yet
call him to assume the reigns of nitloary
dictatorship Much is the man whole
the apposition loves to hawse, nod In
WiIOPO 'grasping hands- it proposes to
place the destinies of a free people
Freemen of America' your liberties
are in danger lbespolistn stands ready
to cosh beneath its iron heel the free
dim', the rights and the privileges WTe,
te.l years ago from the hands of tit tinny
If you are not true to‘yourselves add to
'our country, and do not put down, at
the ballot hos, the Oendisti glint tint
waits and watches for your dent ruction.
another year will wilt/ems the downfall
of the net:Subtle itentembertug !tat
"eternal vigilance Is the price 01 liher
ty," be ye ready, with ballot or Millet,
to maintain your sacred rights, or the
darkness of despotism will eetAte
gloom o•er the laud.-- l'on'tarh 111tru
dacksontan
rOOll MIEN AllO NOT TAO T.l/...--“l'Oci
men are not taxed, ..—eirtitit deluded wort
ingman , "they can't tax me, because I
kill starlit nothing!" Can they not* lie
(ore the war, you pelt! less Mon one hsl!
for all you rot, drink and wear, Ihett you
pay now, itriti,„diefore the war you had
not the adpport of five millions of itig
gems to provide for, who now eel , drink
and *ear at your e xpett•te T.ik log the
cost of supporting life to do). And
reckless, wicked wealth, destroying ad-
ItWil rat 100. and the poor whita vuier in
the routed States, wit t to not worth a
dollar in the world, is the hea•manozed
mortal on God's earth Sleeping or
waking well or id, at labor or at rest,
week dap, and Sundays--the toles Are
being piled on hint wheY is not worth a
dime, by those aboYe him in the scale of
property, who are worth thousands and
hundreds of thousands ltemember,you
moneylesA,honest itliler,if you eat drink,
wear clothes—if you are wdrined And
sheltered,you are thug made - to phy your
own taxes and the taxes of the capital
jets of the country also. They are lab
recrly . Chub paled upon you. The great
public debt is a curse to you. if tot
currte'to the capitalist. itetnembei
when you go to the polls next November.
—Exchange
---The Southern Home Journal pub
Hebei' at Baltimore, one of the west
high toned literary paper, in the coun
try, pays iu a recent issue, the WWI"-
ing well-merited and deserving cameh
meat to the lion. George ft. Pent!letos.
It rays : • I
"It is remarkable that Mr. l'emf e llon
has none of that coarseness or eseese
usually attributed to the Western poll
Goan His appearance is singularly cut
tisated, his dress decorous and hetom"
log, he suggest redollections of the o ld
gObool..getitlemau, and in hie style he
bas the merit of reviving the graces of
literature It; politics. lie calls to mind
those better days of the itepublie, when
ihe politician was also the gentleman
( and the scholar. We name him conk -
&sonny as tße but living model in Amer
ica of a pure and lofty literary style to
party polities, in abstinence from per
sonalities and tow fauoist:in (UP IT
in well-knit and justly-adorned language ,
he btu no equal among the public speak
ers of day,' -
DgATu WON'T 811.V1 Y01.7. -It Las been
decided that dying won't sem man or
woman from the payment of taxes. As
seism% are inetruoted that the "Income'
of person, who died after the Blat of
December, are taxable, and should be
returned by executors. and also incomes
which accrued in 1881, to 'persons ti,ka
died within that year, Incomes socrulbg
after decease should be returned by
heirs. Thus it is tern that the insatiate
tax gatherer follows a man in his coffin,
rite at the portals of the tomb, plants
himself by the side of the grays•digger ,
as he drops the alone ur on the rucrtal
remains, and after dogging the carriages
of the mourners, stalks home like •
spectre, and 'enters upon his books the
expeoted inoome the Treasury ip to de
rive therefr4m. What • blessing i■ •
public debt.—Es.