111 The Democratic Watchman, BELLF.FONCE, PENN'A. P. ORLY N E 6, EDITOR J P ROPRIRTOR JOHN P. MI LL, ASSOCIATE EDITOR FRIDAY MORNING, JULY i 7, 1868. TERMS.—f 2 per year when paid In ad rasseo,S,So when not paid in advance, and OA when nod paid before the expiration of tie yeas. *ikons! Democratic NominajlOne FOR PRESIDENT, HORATIO SEYMOUR OF NEW FORK FOR VICE PREf3IDENT GEN. FRANK P. BLAIR OF MISSOURI .‘t Democratic State Ticket.. FOR AUDITOR GENERAL, HON. CHARLES E. BOYLE, of Fayette County roR SURVEYOR GE:ggRAL, O$N: WELLINGTON H. ENT, of Ccilumbia Campy: Ors Candidates We plane at our mast head this week the names of the Candidate nominated by the New York Con vention, Hon. Mamie SEYMOUR for President, and Gen. FRANK P. BLAIR for Vise Prenident. We shall not here give any extended notice of the lives of these men, as we will, in our ne=t issue, present • brief, succinct, and authentic biography of each of theta: 4%r Converg,ion did wen in pre senting for oar ikupjsqA a Slatesuum fog President' Our country is sadly in need of statennaeship at this-time aid no mere soldier; however braver heroic or patriotic, could supply the wants of the country We have no wars . to wage, ino campaigns to plans mo battles to fight. We should flow beatthe sward into the plough-char, and the spear into the preening book, and learn war no more. The traoe of war sheald be obliterated and the arm, of peace fostered. Statesman . ship alone can acoomplish thin. In selecting lion, Mean° Smsotra, the Convention took the most able and experienced Statesman probably new living is America Twice Gov ocior of New York, and for a bag tram ieGmately acquainted with national pdlities, be i 1 in every way fitted to osioupy the highest official position in she country. As for onmelves, iodi vidially, we would halm preferred IFlnsmugrors, as he was the aatlier•of the ;rest finaacial ideas incorporated into ehe platform. But. in suppertidg Swamis. we •know we are supporfang an .honest, pare and capable states- man, whose administration will re deem the country from the efeeta of radial liemiastion awl redact peat credit epos oar party. Gert:St.ata, the nosaime for vice President, is n3w a citizen of Missouri sod may bedewed as a War Democrat- Although be cooed with the Repabli can party before the war, and buckled on Lis sword for the contest. vet, when the moat/tern people laid down their arms be was in favor of folfilliag atl the promises and standirig by all the irranistees *hi& Lad been Nasal. Whets the Abolitionists commeseed to igmere the resolution of icily 22d, 1861, which declared drat fbe war was to be waged for the reatoratien of the Union and for so ether purpose, and insisted spas putting -4 eight mil, lions of bites in the Mouth ender the loaf mimeos of negroes, Gen them, wad, for =arty fowr :pan, ha■ waged a ceasokaa and fearless war against the itallieals • 4t Nissoar That he y wrs holiest and sib in this •course is demonstrated 1/ tip fief ...that, in pursuing it, Iv' Shiest all .the chances for idniniering which those who adhered to tke revOkdidh 217 /Wier so thoronaltly put le otper- Attlee. No Dermieret need imitate because Buda was ewe a itepubli erne. Re, like many who newer left our pm*. believed elarer7 wsawrong, but that is an issue of the past. The Platfonn, upon which the candidates are placed, has the true Democratic ring in it.. We, think it is the beskone promulgated by any convention for many years.' We pub lished it in full in a supplement is sued-..by vs last week. All should read it and carefully study the great principlesit lays down. _ The one thing in the proceedings of the conventiou to which we do most I seriously object is the false position in' which Penosylviinis was placed. Through the maneuvering of a few men like Mount, Mt= and PIOLETT Pennsylvania appeared as ,little in New York as Btu. MAN and his fel lows made her Met it. Mew,. It is time that such tamp&ing with the rights and wishes of the people should cease. 'Unless it. does, such men will soon be taught • lessen which they will not easily forget. The Judgeship. The resignation of Judge LIFT has made it nece•sary for the people of the '2sth Judicial diettict to choose his successor at the election in Octo her. While the judgeship should nev i be considered a political office, end while all must admit that something higher and more worthy than mere political ability is required-in the per son who shall occupy the .responsible position which has just been vacated by Judge LINN, the course of that gentleman while in office should be a warning to Democrats, never more to be gulled into supporting for any im portant office 'a member of that party which is Mended upon the most nar row and one sided principles, and in whioh no man can distinguish himself without displaying the most unyield ing prejudice and stubborn fanati cism. While we do not ourselves think, nor wish to convey the-im pression to other'? that Judge Lfst's has wilfully used his position for mere party purposes, we do think that the prejudice and intolerance naturally belonging to members of his party, have led him into many grave rir, and.serionsly soiled the repa imam his eminent legal abilities would otherwise hive won for him. It behooves Democrats now to be on the alert, and make sure of a man for president judge of this district mho is well gambled for the office in a legal point of view, and who is above all prejudice when dealing with the right, of his fellow men. Up to this time the names of three men have been talked of by the peo ple, one from each of the counties *composing the district; Judge BAR. Barr of Clearfield, C. A. MAYLR, Eeq of Clinton, and Jon?' H. 061118, Esq., of Centre. While we have no objection to urge to either of these gentlemen and will most cheerfully support the one who receives the nomination, wg think that our county and our candidate have claims which should not be overlooked, and which, were spectrally urge upon the Damoc racy of tie District. of s OBVIS is too well known to the people to need any commendation at our bands as an attorney. His le gal ability all admit to be of tha high est order, and it would only be truces vary to refer to the records of the Su preme Court to show that his triumphs have not been gained merely by ap poale to the feelings and passions of inrora,,hut t t4at his genius and thor ourh knowredge of law have placed him in the front ranks of the profes sion. He, is no mere case lawyer, who wins by crafty tricks and a skill full arrangement of analogi.a and pre cedents, but bases his arguments in variably upon the great principles of law, drives them home with irresietie ble logic, sod thus snake eases by which those of lets genius and learn ing may direet their course. lie is remarkable alike for substantial legal information, sad for calm, unbiased judgment. and no man -who knows him, whether Democrat or Replabli can, would esek dream of receiving aught but impartial justice were to rrilifii - theT "Baur in *peaking thus highly of Mr. OILVIB •either o are OI,VIr 0311 7 Jidates. Mr. Luria has had con siderable pnwti is the courts of this county and is well and favorabl , known to our readmit, while "Judge BAutterr is aletiady eminent both as a lawyer and a judge- But if we pu Mr.Onits mangy oa 'la equality in . this respect with hureompetitors-- ' Which, we are quite certain is not over rating !tins - -there are •other sound 'reasons why he ehotdd be oar eaad (late. • We do notolaint that politica I ser vices, however giest, ought to en title a man tatthe,ltillormi important ef figy. (nom the party be has served. not we do claim and insist that adeb services'ought to entitle . hien to eon sideratinn above what is given to oth ers no(any * letter qualified for the Oft flee, who have never 'performed such services. No man in Pennsylvania has worked harder for the Demeoratic party during the dark - rind discour aging years through wi ieh we have just passed than Mr. Omits, and in all that time lie had no personal in. -terest to serve, has neither asked nor expected office, and has never resort ed to any means to secure success which ivotild dishonor hint as a pub lic man or private gentleman II is success on the stump and its the for um are attributable to the same cause , his thorough knowledge of principles and his ability in reaching the under standing of others. Neither of the other candidates for-the ,nomination have as strong claims updti the pto ple in this regatd as he tas, and we nage more insist that other-t'Angs be ing equal, such services should have a strong influ'enoe in our nominating conventions. Since he has been chairman rf our County Committee , our majority has been increased from less than two hundred to over six hundred, and the Democracy put upon a footing in this coanty which makes it one of the bulwarks of the Corumonwealt h The'.e are a Tew of the claims we put forth for the candid ate of Centre county, we have some to urge for the county Itself. The location is in the middle of the District, malting it easy of access front and to either of the other counties. Clearfield and Lock Eleven are separated by more than a day's journey, and thus neither is suitable for the residence of' a judge for the di-tract. Clinton county and Centre are in the same Congressional district and Clinton has had the can didate for two terms, she had the del egate to the New York convention, has the Presidential eater, and asks no the congressional candidate again. One would think she ought to be wil ling that' a sister county, fully her equal in Democracy, should have the I only nominatitm kite has asked for' . years w' the candidate we present is unexceptionable. Clearfield has had the delegate„ut large for the state, h is a perpetual state senatorship and everything else but judge, and ought not to insist iltrongly upon the claims of a man who is already President judge of the =.41 judicial district, which he has now held for twelve years with a term of eight year's yet before him No man can examine the question . with unprejudiced mind aqsl not con(clude that ours is the County add the candidate for the domination, and wu trust that the rest of the district may be willing to do as simple justice. In conclusion, we have only to say that we have full confidence in the Democracy of the several counties, and are perfectly satisfied that such conferees will be chosen as will give ns a nominee every way worthy of oar opport, and what we have here writ ten is simply intended to remind our neighbors on either hand that in our opinion we have just anirvalid claims upon them. Behold the Result T Carpet-baggers are manning in the South, and organizing the negrues in the "reconstructed" data to over. balance the white voters or the North. We ask all men who have thenght of supporting Gaaur and CourAx to look at the condition the country has got into under the control of the pantyhose nominees they are, and no honest' man who will acquaint himself with the facts can use his .in fluenoe to continue them in power. Vire have had a tearfill civil, war which destroyed millions of lives, laid waste mirky of our fhtest states, over turned civil liberty and entailed tipon us a debt which threatens us with ut ter ruin., An these things are admit ted by the Mongrels. They never'st-i, tempted to deny theta. When they were practiced, the only excuse was that Vast good was to be seam— plished for the whole eonstry. Now, behold the result I Ten states a vushed out_d_oziatenot good and great citiaeos are tlisfnin- beryls of negroes, and thieveA, eut-1 throats and escaped felons swarm: tiler the country to control the whole rote. 'What a remit to &Um!, en that we have suffered: Al? theAlirttti last, all the mow expended, aft ttid evil which has bocci done to 0nr,*,0 7 - taiione has ailailienisinitelia nlkilblitical power in teu states into ' 'the toads Of Sorthern • ,abo#o,4 whom" 'fikeir own I party ate .ashamed to r"Piti* *k i f igi f V6 l l- i l Vit exPeotth Qua bus 'porta 42. limes tivdo betterin Idt,e ? • lryoo *A4ttf l ootiiiiiafc Polar, the wbsle eoustry.,Goilemr der the blight Adak hae ataiokinabit South Our xpemes: We learn' by o Oral statement tiel the publib debt of -the United States was inertia ed during the month of Mey NEARLY TEN MILLIONS OF pat,- LARS, Is not this sufficient to alarm those who are bound to pay the inter e't of every dollar of the public tick, and whose children's bones are mort gaged for the principle ? Is not this striding towards bankruptcy and ut ter financial ruin at most fearful speed? Our debt is already so vast that many of our people are in despair, and pay no regard to its.increase. We have become so accustomed to speaking of an expt-nse , of billions of dollars that an addition of duly ten milliont seems too small an item to make any note of it. And in fact ten millions of dolllhrs, although it would buy all the real and personal property in Centre county,' is a small sum, when compared with the overwhelm ing and incomprehensible amount of money which - eight years of mongrel domination have cost the country ; and it is not to talk about•titt vastness of the sum that we have introduced the subject, but to bring to the attention of our readers the utter recklessness and dishO'besty of the Radical party in the disbursement of the money wrung from us by the most crushing taxes which weryver imposed upon any people on earth. What have these ten Aliens of dollars been ex• pended for? What itj there in our present condition to require the thous andth part of this expense? And it must be borne in mind that this does not comprise all of the expenses of the month of May. This is only the octet, amount which has been added to our funded debt, and upon which the people must pay interest. Q ur expenses were neatly three times that amount, great as it is. Now we have alwaysAisliked to appeal to the m ere selfish itterc e ts of the people. We have always thought that men who aspired to carry on a system of free government mast be influenced by higher usetives than— thew whieft ap peal to the pocket alone. Bat here is a subject appealing directly to the selfish and monetary interests of every moan in the country, and also affecting the very life of the republic. It is a subject which may reach the meanest and most mercenary miser, and also seriotudy alarm the pureset and lofti est statesman. Our government ean• not be carried on without money, and at the present rate we will soon find ourselves without a dollar, and with out the means of raising it. It is high time for the people to look carefully and seriously at this subject, and hurl from power the men who are plunder ing us Now what can there be in the ad ministration of this government to re quire such epormotui expense? We can easily point oat whereiand how the money is expended, bat we defy the world to show us the necessity for it. We have a large standing army, which must be paid, fed and clothed, and the ranks of which swallow up thousands of producers, converting them into consumers whose necessi ties mast be supplied by the lal►or of others. This accounts for a heavy annual expense, but is this army nec essary for the good of the country Has it performed any service which resulted in the good of the people sines the Spring of 1865, or is it likely to perform key while we are in a state of profound peace with all mankind? There can be but one answer to these questions, and all to whom it is sug gested, if they vote- honestly, must vote against the party whose policy it is to keep up this standing army to carry out their owneyil purposes. Then we have the Freedmen's Bu ,reau, by means of which millions of lacy negmes are kept at the expense of the honest laborers of the North. We have thousands of offices crea for political favorites W fill, and eon ferring no good ufren the people. We, have tens ofthoumedi of thieves • every hand, who Meal the very, bread from ihe tnogtku of the Do' lased isceive only commendation from those, in a —l. • We might enumerate hnedred i ways in which. the people'. money is Asa thume_awity. Bet , t matters Bole how it is done, algae ft M per featly plain te , jal that le aottie,way • re than tee &Ilan • axe expended than tee mutt* one ottget,t4Comdlos. It is a simple feet; whieb all—oughtr to no-: I deratixid and apirMiLite, that under! Mongrel rile monatomic, are ten iimat qatt# eat a, !hey fitighttg be, and it mat, ,(.rattle to eta Iwo the expeme if in- onow.itzt. • , 14K people hive found trasinst, and thger are oohing i n thousands to ridks cf Party they ]pow tk e i, can trust in the future as they did t i lfe pnikpeinon days of the past. The name and fame of no military leader, *ere it NApor.a6x himself,dan ea dim icht their eyes as to make them forget the cries of the naked I'l4lh:wiry all around them. 'They are moving now for self-preservation, and we warn all who rippomsthem to stand out of the way. ' - G. A. R. These letters are alleged by the in itiated to stand for :"Grand Army of the Republic," which fancy name is assumed by en organization of scrirvy Radical politicians who acted the part of bummers to the.Federkl artny du• ring the late war, with that miserable '4cullion John A. Logan of Illinois at its head. The pretended purpose Qf' this secret society is to benefit the sol diers by organizing a band df broth ers, who will support one another, se cure employment for their members, and in every respect patronize each other, rather than any who were pot soldiers. If the projectors of the scheme were hone st , arid sincere in this purpose they ought not to impose upon many What sensible soldier does not-know that if the peoplewere di vided into two associations. one on the soldiers plan and the other in oppo sition to it, that it would be the worst thing that could happen - the soldie& Any thing which tends to antagonize the soldier and the citizen, under whatever pretext, is ruinous to the scAdier. But this is not the real pur pose of the "G. A. It." ft is to form the solrers in to an oath-bound, Secret society so as to manipulate them in politics. Or in' other words it is a miserable, dishonest ilrolition dodge to deceive the Democratic and Con servative soldiers. No decent soldier, unless himself deceived, Would be a party-to such a transaction. We are inFunred that a scallawag yelept,Col. Trimming Gault" is trav elling over the country organizing "Posts" of the "Grand Army of the Republic," . .and lying to Demoentje soldiers by telling them that this is not a political but a benevolent society. It is only a repetition of the trick practicedAin 1t454,-under the name-of "Knog-Nothingism ," in IF6O as "Wide.Awakea," and in 1 , 463 and 1864 as" Union Leaguex,"when SAME.. LINN befouled the judicial ermine by pledging his honor as a judge that there was nothing political-in, the "Union League! l" We warn all Democratic soldiers to have nothing to do with th is . fraud, and if any one has already been inveigled into it. let him come out at once and expose it and its trickery. - —The discharge of Join H. SttaitArr by the court in which he was indicted, is a square admission. that his mother was illegally hung. The testimony before the military commission which condemned her leas much stronger against her son. Public sentiment has greatly changed on this subject and the time will come when every one concerned in the shedding of 'her innocent blood will be loathed agd execrated by every body else. —lf a farmer in this county de sires to obtain a little money to kelp him through harvest, the banks will charge him from ttedoe to fifinfn per oent., and if hecornplains they tell him "money is so very scarce they cannot possibly do better " We know that more than one farmer has experienced this, and they cannot be gulled' by the cry of the Mongrels that we dare not further inflate the currency. When the best of paper is discounted at twelve per cent, a few more greenbacks could be used to advantage. —The same men who denounoed Judge SUA [CAWOOD last fail so bitterly, for deciding that greenbacks were not legrl tender in payment. of debts contracted to be paid in gold, now raises the my of reptediation against vs for desiring to pay in greenbacks a debt contracted to be paid simply in swaey• A oonsigtent party they are who were ready to hint everpbody who bad not perfect faith in paper money a year or two ago, and now dose everybody who-item -- - and swearthrongh the beat of the slimmer, mere earning what will keep the wolf from the door, remember that one 'half` your earning go) to support some geasy, lazy negro ) who lolls at hts ease and draws subsistence from the, Freedmen's Zuresu, thee twelve tw rememberet i -Ae.polls the Ratty which areatost . .tise b au. oppositroa to suchmen as Stanzassar and CIARIZ in the Naito Senate, *ben nominated by the pres ident for 'Attorney General, is 'the meanest eziabitipn of partisan malig nity on rimiest. They pro hated and abuied bytho- miserdle fanatics in Congress because of their ability soft integrity. A Rump Outrage We had almost made up our minds haver aguin to illtde to the outrages perpetrated or to be perpretrated by the rump Congress. We have f or some time been fully satisfied that its sitting at all was only tolerated by the people became the time is so near at hand when the elections will quietly and peicably place in power a lawfully' constituted congress representing th e whole country. If the term of a mein: ber of Congress was for life, then, we doubt nA, the people would long ago have risen up and shortened the term with the lives of the tnaitors who have overthrown the governme n t But the term being so short, we are better satisfied.as it is. We are eon. fident that the people are awaitin g e opportunity which she fall elect Lions will Afford, and that lon the fourth of next March a Constitutional body will assemble in the capital, taking the place of the fanatics revo lutionists and - traitors now' uxurtong the name and the functions or a Con gress of the United States. The high handed and outrageous measures of the ruin') have been s o numerous and are so well known to the people that we scarcely consider it worth while to allude to them.asa general thing. But recently a thing was done tor manifestly unjust that we cannot forbear calling the at:en MM Lion of our readeN to it, fore mutely the 'nowt fauatiml supporter of Moo srelism cannot tail to see the wrong done and be disgusted with thole who have perpetrated it. A Mr. You was elected to (;,,, greas from a district in Keutucky, and on appearing to take his seat a was alleged .that he was "disloyal" and not fit to eit in that body So far all might have been fair enough, for it might be alleged that under the authority given by th Constitution to Congress to judg the '!election qtuitifleation and •re- turn" of its members it had a right to reject a man for the crime of "dis loyalty " But they did not stop here-, they admitted to seat in the rump the competitor of 11dr. YOusti, who had noclaim whateier to it and who had been defeated by an loverwhelm- ing vote. They might just as well have taken any other man in the State of Kentucky and given him a seat hi Congress. A more infamoui outrage was never perpetrated in cos country. THAD. STEVENS, and the teen other Republicans, voted against it wittrlthe Democratic minority, he remarking that he "did not icon why the House should give man a seat there who had not recei ved a majority of the votes of the people." We simply desired to call this mat ter to the attention of our readers It needs no comment. BCIitIYLIER Coursx first be came known to the American people by hie endorsing and approving the infamous "Impending Crisis," a book which did more to bring on the war than any other one cause. We Lief) , any one to show us that he ever orip• masted an idea in his life or that he ever did a thing to show himself to be ai,ything but %shallow, sharp, no- scrupulous and fanatical Yankee p r o ter Near his home in Indiana no oae thinks of hie possessing one 9f the at. tributes of Statesmanship. =lt is reported that CHASE will be in the field as a candidate for the presidency. We do not. know bow good the authority may be upon which this repo r t i n f oun ded, but would not be surprised if it, were true Such a movement would seriously shake the Radical - party, and would not at all affect ours. With such a man as Sar►toua for our candidate, there is DO Democrat who 001.11 d. be induced to vine for any otherr..and the sirpporters of CHAISE, roust come from the ranks of the opposition: --When the reeord abode that wherever a party has perfisot poier it oppresses the white race for the benefit of theblack, it is only reason Ode to conolude tltst will.do the ate—itiroir -seqttim palter. The • Midi& complete control • , • ortrfitifittion ! " of that stricden region' is* fair spec imen of what the wheie country will be if they are not driven from their position. Tuo LAND We Love for July oontaiot many articles from UM best writers of tiro-floteth.• The-endow etf..ADectay 'of Re ligion at the Boutb" one treated in a masterly manner. Cicero's Oration for Ilaroellna" le • sprightly classical arti cle over the well Nom do phrase of R. b. C. Dr. Ramsey completes his interesting history of the Mita of Pranklin. Miss Porter gives a pleasant *eq. The poetry is from Mrs. Preston, eit Vim Mrs. Davies., of Paternity, , e • of North Carolina , and the ,Ilknen t ?" floury Timrcifl, the tact piece ever writ by him.
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