The Democratic Watchmap, BELLEFO NTE, PEN N' A P. GB.L.Y MOSK. Knrroß' R AprallTon JOHN P. mrrcuELL, A SROCIATX EDITOR FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 29, 1868 TE I RMS.—S2 per year when paid in ad vent:4,2,60 when not paid in ntivAnce, and $3,00 whoa net nniti before the expirstion of - the year Democratic StataTicket FOR AUDITOR GENERAL, HON.' CHARLES E. BOYLE, of !layette County. 1 POR SURVIFYOR. ONISIERAL, • (MN. WELLINGTON H. ENT, of Columbia County The Bond-Queetbn. The platform of the Mongrels, pre pared in the recent convention at Chicago, while carefully avioding the question of tiegro suffrage at the north, fully commits the party to the financial policy it has heretofore pursued. The bonds arc 71(d to lre paid in greenbacks, nor arc they to be hired bp the noccrnment This is ex pressed most emphatically in the plattliFm, arid to that every men who supports the nominees of the Chicago convention is pledged. Now, ire hold that no poor man can vote for such a policy without vo ting directly against his own interests, and that no one holding government sectiritiea can afford to support a par• ty which proposes to laurden labor to such an extent as will utterly patellae the strong at MS which are, after all, the ott'y source of wealth. The men who 'belong to the bond aristocracy, and who control the ac• tion of this party which culls "National Republican," have much to say about the "faith of the govern -meat," and the dishonesty and injus tice of either paying off the bonds in greenbacks or of compelling those whti.hold them to pay a proportion of 'the tales of thecountrr. The Democratic party , has no such scruples. It has ever been its end and aim to burden lightly the laboj upon which all wealth depends, and to throw the heaviest weight upon those who handle the capital and en joy the benefit of the toil of the poor. If an unscrupulous Congress, composed of fanatics, gamblers and wholesale robbers, has promised that a great proportion of the wealth of the country shall be exempt from all burdens, we plainly see in it an argil meat why such unscrupulous and dis honest men should be hurled from power by the people, but no reason why we should not place in authority men who will go to work in a Consti tutional way to right the wrong under which we sutler, and to lift up and protect the poor who have Leen crushed under the feet of Mongrel ism. We have in our party many thousands of men who hold govern. went securities who are perfectly willing that they shall be made to bear their full proportion of the taxes imposed by the government In11”t the most sagacious of these men are anxious that this shall be done, for they plainly see that if the tolling, millions are ground down to the earth with 'a load greater than they can bear, they will rise up and REPUDIATE 1.10,11 principal and inter est of every one of these bondsforthey possess the power if they choose to exercise it. The allegation of those who hesire to continue the present system that the faith orttie government is pledged to the holders of the securities that they shall be paid, principal and in terest, in a currency whieh the peo ple never get n eight of, and that they are not tube taxed at.skl, comes with a bad grace from a party which has not, hesitated tq violate the most solemn pledges, to disregard the most sacred obligations, to vurjure them helves' before high Heaven, and to trample upon the futidatuental law which gives the governing* exis tense. This cry of theirs is not an honest one on their part, even if' it had anything in it, which it has not. If we elect men to office jrho see fit to remodel the law in this respect, and to tax the bonds which were ptir chased at a time when there was no tax upon them, we cannot see any thing in it more dishonest than there is in the repeal of any law by the pee. sage of a new one. It is a rule as old as leVolition itself; that no parlia mentary body can *matt a law which a future parliamentary body holding precisely the same powers, may not repeal. This rule is no more than common sense,• without which a gov ernment like ours would become a perfect silent). of oppression. The holders of bonds took them subject to this ruler -they did - not imagine that Congress would cease to-exist or that it would not exercise its rights of legislation as long is it did .exist, and they cannot now compl@in• if such a rule is carried into operation. If a Congress of tho United States was so ignorant as not .to know the extent ofits own powers, or so unscru pulous as to wilfully-transcend them, and pass an unjust and- irrighteous act, it is responsible for" . the wrong done, and not 'the Coness which corrects the evil. If the 4111 e. sought to be applied by the 'Mongrels in this MC O t t's carried out ,generally, it would prevent the correction of all bad legislation, and force us to revo-' lutiou every time anjevil law was to be done away with, because, for sooth, some person• or class of persobs was greatly benelitted under the old law at the expense of the masses of the people. If bond-holders have been deceived to their hurt is no reason why a mint outrageous wrong should be contin ued to the oppression of the whole people, and to the great damage of the real interests of the country. Heretofore. the Mongrels have de nied their own policy, Or pretended to be in favor of the Democratic ideas on the subjert N,ow, the'Y'lave put it in their platform and given us a square issue at last, aud we are mis taken greatly if the, people do not supnort the -party which seeks to summit and protect them. We have more to saY on this *toe-I lion 111 future, Results of Amalgamation Two hunrired years ago Spain was one of the most powerful countrie , on the globe,and throughout the civilized world there was no prouder title than that of a Spanish cavalier Now she has fallen so low as to be the niece sport of all Europe, ryid each year sinks lower in the scaly, Thertl is notlt.ing more true than that "history repeats itself, - and the causes which have been at, work eith er th elevate or ruin our species in other parts of the world will Just as stwalif work the same good or evil to The whole history of man warns us that it is impossible to blend together different races without degrading both, and ncarly, all nations which have achieved greatness and •then gone down to ruin have owed their 'fall to a disregard of this warning, and an attompt to do violence to the laws of nature. Even when both races have been great and powerful, yet different' in essential characteris tics, amalgamation has Produced a progeny' wholly unlike either, and without a single one of their good qualities. The poor, begging organ: grinder. more t.esemblirg the monkey which usually &doe/panics him, than the mighty men of ancient Home, is the true deseendant of the CICERO'S, the CIF;SAR'S, the CArn's and Asro wv's, whose fame ha filled the world for eighteen centuries, and he is a living exponent of the, truth that men of different blood cannot mix without destroying both races, The mingling of the blood. of the great race which ruled the world from the seven hills of the "eternal 'city" with races almost equally great, produaed the miserable beings who now oecti , py the fruitful plains of Italy, or tarry harp and organ and plaster im ages to delight the children of those who descended from the barbarian race which refused to amalgamate with Route. ' Two hundred years ago, Spain in her greatness conquered the Moors, and the two races have blended to• 'ether. The characteristics which made both great have wholly disap peared, and thus we have in our own times an -example of the pernicious effects of amalgamation. yet we have now in this country a powerful party seeking to put upon an equality witii luta race so low dial no other people on earth beforO have ever been willing to unite with them in any' capacity whatever. To give them an equal voice in the govern ment is but a step towards the con summation , w hick is complete amalga mation and the destruction of both races. Let the people think this o'er. We have only presented an idea or tiro on this subject, but it id enough to set wise men, who love their race And are proud of its achievements, to thinking,, and if people are willing to think, they will not be long In de stroying the party which is bringing them to ruin. -001,4 x is said to •be a high tariff mad, which simply means that he favors the taxing of the farmer, mechanic and laboring man, for the benefit of the capitalist. High tariffs are nothing more or less than — Money out of the pockets of the poor, anJ into the coffers of the rich. Sonic+ ',good Aooompllshed' E by Im- pesohment, One thing the trial of JouNsor brought out prominently .which we were pleased to see. It had long seemed strange .us, and a fearful - commentary on our fbrm of govern ment, that a party so large as that which repeatedly, carried every impor tant state of the north, against the most tromendious opposition, shouV. not have one leading man who bad any,reipsrd•for his country or his God, or who evezl c omprehended v a single one of the greai.prineiples on whigsh our republic is based, For. years none such had been able to attain the ninny important positions which were held by their party. Not a solitary great man. not ono whose patriotism or virtue reached beyond the contrac ted lines of a fanatical party, had reached a position where he could do credit to himself or .his country, or redeem his . party from the odium un der 19}1101 it must fall, in the judg ment of all good men, when present prejudices have passed away. It type no satisfaction to us that so large a party of our countrymen was led only by the most unscrupulous and wicked men—in many instances thmv who had been repudiated from the Dem ocratic party for the foulest crimes against the people. It was often a question with its whether a- govern. men like ours could possibly live with so great, a number of its citi zens banded together as a political party, yet not possessing a man of ability or one who rose above the low meanness of filling his own packets. avenging rcral nr supposed injuries and perpetuating himself in power: Our political opponents had teen for years in complete power without hav ing done one act to show that they had 50(11 a man in their ranks. But the'impeachment trial hos shown that they really have patriotieMen among them, and some who, upon occasion, can almost rise' to the me of statesmen. The opposition Senators who voted for acquittal are not the only persons who showed themselves to have an ides higher than party prejudices, or who- shed a ray • light on the black darkness of Mon grelism for the first time in many years. The President's counsel were men who have heretofore acted with the Radicals, yet some of them have shown themselves to be giants in in tellectual strength, lawyers of the very first rank, and their argumen - will shed lustre upon the dark and bloody peri . od through which we are passing It is epcouraging to us to know that there are such men in the opposition, even though their party is too ignorant, too narrow minded or too bloody in ita inatinets to put t. at the head of affairs. • i The impeachment trial has fitraish ed the people a first rate opportunity to see the contrast between the men the Mongrels elect to office and those who have no voice in political affairs, and the effect will undoubtedly be a very good one. We have often urged upon the tank and file of that party that their organization was perfectly corrupt. and that however honest and patriotic they might be, the men who repre sented them were totally different, and they were the individuals who controlled the action of the party. Evcr since the consolidation of the element„ which were opposed. to the Democracy, and the formation of the Abolition party, it has been the poli cy of those who controlled it to nomi nate and elect obscure, fanatical and weak men, who could be controlled at will by such revolutionists as TURD &rev wive. SUMNER and others of their kind. They dared not choose others. They ROWitUMEO LINCOLN because of his weakness., and they used him to a most terrible purpose, and they propose to carry out the programme until the government is completely subverted. • The people muse come out from such a party or go down to ruin with a ruined country• The Democracy is determined to put its beet represen tative men in the field, the people #0 assured of our purposes when we ask their support, and they know they can count confidently on our carry, ing them out to the ktter. We invite the most rigid examination of all our positions on all political ques tions, and with such examination on the part of the people, our success is not doubtful. —The impeachment farce will coat the country, all told, over three mil. - lion dollars. Dive down into your pockets tax-payers And haul out that amount to foot the bills saddled upon you, to give Buytza anti Bina- Mtn and it3TEVINS, and a re* other cut-throats an opportunity to spit out their venom at a public officer they do not admire. IS is the way Mon grelism rules. Their Plittform—Read It Not a word for you laboring i n:ien Not a word for any but bondholders and southern negroes! Read it and see. See that Mon grelimm in its platform upon which it has Placed the big butcher GaANT and the -,7enoh-worshipper COLVAX, has not a word of sympathy for your aching limbs and blistered hands— has hot a word of eondhuak.ion for the infamous thieves who ha= bed the government you are taxed to support of murc o i l lollars than they have hairs upot atoll. heads—has not word of promise that the reck lessness, npndission and... profligacy that has tolled any moment of the administration of Mongrefism, shall be stopped—has words-of hope for no one but negrocs acid bondhol ders. linv.v. You itt:AD ur ? Did youlce anytitingthat pledges that party to stop the terrible bur dens of taxation that are bearing you to the ground by making the bond holder bear a portion'of the expenses of the government? Gould you find anything in it that pledges thaC'partv to stop taxing you to feed, clothe and educate the millions of doele4s, worth less, negroes of the South? Did yen see a word favorimg the abolishment of the military governments through out. the south,kept up for the benefit of lazy office 'holders and lazier tic grocs at an expen.e of one hundred and fifty millions of dollars yearly? Did you find a word in it in Opposi tion to negro suffrage? Did you it, fact find a sentence or a syllable that will allow you to believe that that party will ever attempt to better your condition by stopring tbe.e enormous expeoditures of money, that you are taxed to pros Me ? No air You may bare studied it from be ginning to end, and if you are honest you must admit that it, is nothing but a cunning way or covering up their in famous acts, and of I:Blistering over with plausible wotds the festering scabs that slick 'out from every side of their rotten organilation. if Mtingrtlisiti in in favor of so-ad ministering tim-goverimtent that we, the toiling, taxed masses may be benefited a 9 well as others, why has it failed to say o? I 1 it, is in favor of compelling the bondholder to pay his share of the taxes, why does it not say so ? If it, is in favor of lessen ftrrourtaxes by lessening the public expenses why does it not say so ? The simple fact is, it is in favor of nothing that will benefit the laboring white man: Its record and its noncommit tal platform both prove that it favors only The bond-holders interest ! Negro Suffrage ! High Military Governments I Thieving Officials ! Freedman's Bureaus Perpetual Disunion! Enormous Public Debts ! Treasury Plunders! ' and the whole catalogue of crimes, and outrageous acts that have robbed you and yours, for the benefit of the pimps a few politicians ace proper to pander to. Read their platform,and if you can find anything in it which you really believe that a party, led hv such men as BUTLER, STEVENS, UotgovEtt, and CAMERON, will carry out, that will benefit you, then march up to the polls and vote for the man who mur dered more men as a drunken officer, 'than he can get votes as a presiden tial candidate! The Radical Nominees The Mongrel convention,which met in Chicago last week, put in noinina- Lion as their candidates for President and Vide President, IJI.YNBRN S. GRANT and SeIIUYLIR COLFAX. The nomination of GRANT was expected by everybody ; because his course of action for the past year has shown him to be a fit candidate for such a party. Be has shown himself to be devoid of all honor, decency or patriotism, and a perfect ass, who would allow himself to be used for any purpose the revol tionists controlling the Mongrel party might desire: They wanted an automaton dressed in the uniform of a major-general, and they have got hiw. SOBUYLKRCOLVAX his different sort of a man. He has a geed deal of the sharpness of a, jwnkee, and is well qualified for an nnerupnieus and suc ; easeful politician, but he.has not got a single attribute ofs statesman, He is exceedingly narrow and illiberal in his views, and his whole'--education and habits or life are such as totally disqgalifiy him for taking, anything likes statesmanlike view of the affairs of our distracted oountry. Both together are fit men to repre sent the Mongrels and niggers who nominated them, and to be defeated by the Democracy at the polls. The Mongrel Platform. In order diatom readers may, judge fore themselves, we give below, in full the platfopm of the Mongrel pa4„ .. - 7 If the laboring classes—the farmers, mechanics, Miners and other can see in it any inducement to sustain the party putting it forth; they can see more than we think they can. it is emphatically a platforni for, bondholr der and niggers; and for nobody else except iliOTteiiVo — Witli to be ruled and ruined by them. The National Republican Party of the Uni ted States, asnenibled in National Coneen lion ut the City of Chicayk on the 21st day of May, 1868, wake the fofteirine Deefara tion of Pi ineiples I. We congratulate the country on the as sured success of the Itecorutruotion policy of Congress, as evinced by the, adoptiue. in (be majority of the States lately in rebellion, 'of Constitutions seta hg Equal Civil and Political Eights to all, and it is the duty of die Guyyrnment to sustain thihe institutions and to prevent the people of, such Stites from being remitted to a state of anarchy. - 11, The guaranty by Congress of Equal Suffrage to all loyal men at the South was demanded by every consideration of public safety, or gratitude,, and of justice, and must be maintained; while the question of Set% frage in all the loyal States properly belongs to the people of those States. 111. We denounce all forms of repudia tion as a national crime; arid the national honor requires the payment of the public indebtednuis In the utmost good faith to all eicditurs al home and abroad, not only se cording to the letter, but the spirit of the laws under which it was contracted. IV It is due to the Labor or the Nation that taxation should be &painted, and re duced cc rapidly - Is the na , toral faith will permit. V. The National Debt, contracted, its it hue luecti, for the preservation of the Linton for all tune to come, should be extended of cr a fair period but redemption ; and it is the duty 2 . 1 . Cougresa to reduce the rate of ititereA thereon, whenever it can twhowtP ll l done. 'VI. Thaf.iho beet policy to diminish our bunko of debt is to so improve oar' credit that capitalists will each to loit us money at lower rates . of interest than We now pay, and must continuo to pay as long as repulti• mion, partial or total, open ser covert, is threatened or suspected. Tho Olveroment of the United States should be administered with the strictest economy; and the corruptions which have been PO shamefully nerved and fostered by Andrew Johnson call loudly for radios! reform. VIII. We profoundly deplore the Untime ly and, tragic dee . % of Abraham Lincoln, and regret the accession to the Presidency v( Andrew Johnson_who has acted treanher outly to the people who' elected him and the cause he Ives pledged to support ; wh ) has usurped high legislative and judicial func tions ; who bee refused to execute the laws; who has used his highelliee to iodises other otteers to Ignore iiia — nicAfiktbe lee*: 06 has employed his ex cutive powers to render insecu• e the property, the peace, liberty and life, of the citisen , who has abused the par doning power; who baa denounced the Na tiont Leginittre na unconstitational ; wbo has persistently and corruptly resisted by every means in his power, every preset attempt, at the reconstruction of the States late.y to rebellion ; who has per v erted the public patronsge.into an engine of whole sale corruption ; and who hue been Hotly impeached for high crimes and usiseltmenn ore, and properly pronounced-guilty them"( by the vote of thirty five Senators. IX. The doctrine of Great Britain and ' other BUIVFIISIII powers tbzif, because a men it once a subject he is 'deep so. must be resisted at every hazard by the United Stelae as a relic of fend_al times, not authorized by the laws of nation., and at war with our eationel honor and leilependeoce. Natural iced citireni treed' I d to protection in as their rights of cirlten.hip, as though they were native-horn: and no citizen of the United states, native or naturalised, meet be liable to arrest and in,prltonment aey foreign power for sots done er wards spok en In this Gauntry ; and, if is° attested and imprisoned, it it the duty of the Govern meat to interfere in his behalf. X. Of all who went faithful in the trial. of the late war, there were soul entitled to more especial honor than the brave told Ion and seamen who endured the hardship. of eampaign and cruise, and imperiled their lives in the service of the country; the bounties and pension. provided by the laws for these brave'defenders of the ,nation, ire obligation, never to be forgotten the wid ow. and orphans of the gallant dead are the ward( of the people—a meted legacy be queathed to the nation'. protecting care. XI. Iftreigo immigration. which in the past has added so much to the wealth, de velopment and recoiirces end increase or power to this Republic, the asylum of the oppressed of all Mations, should be fostered and ibtoouraged by a liberal aed just policy. XII. Thief lion declares itself in sympathy with all oppressed people atrug gling for their rights. Unanimously added, on motion of (lea Schurz ile•olred, Thet we highly nominee the spirit of magnanimity and forbearance aith which men who have *erred in the rebel lions, but who now frankly end honestly co- 1 1 operate with us in restoring the peace of the country and reconstructing the Southern Etategovernments upon the basis of impar tial Justice and Equal Rights. me received back into the ouotteunlie of the /oral pew pie; and we favor the removal of the dis uulifications and restrictions hemmed upon the late rebels in the same measure as limit spirit of loyalty will direct and as may be oonsi.tant with the safety of the loyal poo— p le. llemoload, That we recognise the great principles laid down in tie immortal Decla. ration of Independence, as the true founda tion of the democratic government; and we hall with gladness every eflurt toward mak. int theite . prlaolphis n Ilylpg.Lsuillty pb svg ry inoit of American soil. —While , mongrelism had any quantity of sympathy for negroes and •bondholders there to express in their Chioago platform is not one word in it favoring the interests of the poor white man and laboring dames. New Publications. Tax atuao.—We have so ofte'n spoken in terms of commendation of tiOst Mauna demociatie daily, and so fre quently copy from its pages, that, our readerirmust be quite familiar with lie merits. It scams almost useless for as to speakin.pralee.' of a peridioal which has world wide reputation of the very high est hind. Mongrelisin cowers finder its reutirsa shackles, and "prefix and alfiz" Democrats bide their fa . ces in shame in the presence Of thtle most able exponent of Democratic prinettples as they were tin , derstood by ourlathers. The Old Gunhf, together with the other periodicals leaded bi Van Eyrie, Horton k (in., have done more to preserve our ancient faith through the gloomy and bloody period of the war and the equally gloomy 'period since, than any other publications in the land., All honor to those who held out banner aloft:when to do so was to belie flounced by weak friends and persecuted by triumphant foes, when the besid e Turned for these who did it, and mob violence threatened with destruction their pers'ons and their properly. The ON Guard stood firtir. - - There was no wave, lug. no retreat. It told the truth under all circutnatancen,let who Would he offen ded, and its editors ran point with projo to the volumes they Oiled through the darkest tend bloodiest period of the Nita, grey war, and navel once tiliowed the while feather. We liwee a coinplete of them, and prize them most The ntimber for June, NOS, we regarii as the bent of the current year. 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