The Demotratic Watchman, BELLEFONTE, PEN N'A P. GILT 11113EK, Enema t PR9PRIZTOII , ,JON. MITCHELL, Assoolikin FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 24, 1868 TERMS.—S 2 per year when paid in ad YaIICO. 2,50 when not paid in advance, and $3,00 when not paid before the expiration of the year Notional Democratic Nominations. FOE ]'RESIDENT, TIOR ATIO SEY11101:111, OF NEW YORK FOR VICE PRESIDENT GEN, FRANK P. BLAIR OP MIRISOORI Democratic State Ticket FOR AUDITOR GENERAL, HON. CHARLES 4 E. BOYLE, of Fayette County YOB, SURVVYOR OHNKIKAL, (lEN,, WELLINGTON H ENT, of Columbia County County Convention The democratic rulers of the I Bor ouglu and Townships, - in Centre county, will meet• at the usual places of holding elections in their respective districts, on the altliThooti Of Saturday, August 8, 1868, sod sleet delegates to represent said Boroughs and Towiiships In a county convention to be be held at Bellefonte, on Tuesday, Augus"llth, 1868, at 2 o'clook P M. ; which convention will put in nomination one candidate for Congress,riibJect to the decis ion of the District conference ; one eandi• date for President Judge, sutject to the de cision of the District Conference one can didate for Assembly ; one candidate for District Attorney : one candidate for Coun ty Survey or ; one candidate for County Commieeioner and one candidate for County Auditor, and transact such other -business as may come before them. The nu.nber of delegate, to which each district is entitled under the last apportionment is as follows Bellefonte her 8 Howard twp. 'Howard — " 1 Huston " M ilesburg " I Liberty Philipsburg 2 Marion Uolonvtll " 1 Miles Benner wp. 3 Patton " Boggs " 2 Penn " Burnside " 1 Potter •' Curtin " 1 Kush " Ferguson " 4 in'w Shoe " (arm 6 Spring Haines " 4 Taylor Halfmoon " I Union Harris " 3 laltter Worth townsh ip By order of the C. .1 ate Ootemittee. OLIN ORVIS, Chairman The Campaign. What, we want in the present cam piigtf is square, downright fighting. We must - take the aggressive and keep it.. We must seize the monster Mongrelism by the throat and squeeze the life out of it. We must resolve that the white men of this country are going to rule it, and in spite o negro votes and disfranchised white men, we will dee:, and inaugurate .a white man's presiileiit and vice-presi dent of the United States. Le order to do tAir work thoroughly and surely, we must organize clubs, circulate documents, and talk our prieciples wherever men are willing to listen. It is not at great meetings the . men are induced to ohmage their political views , fireside and neighborhood talk, and the reed ing and discussing of political papers in the home circle and among friends. has a far greater influeuoe than all the noise and roar and confunim of monster mass-meetings. The issue between Democracy and Mongrelism is so squarc,and so easily understood that the most humble cit izen may learn and talk.our principles, aid irresistably assail the opposition. Every Democrat who can read ought to be prepared to do this. He ought 1.0 read and carefully study the plat form prepared by the N. Y. Conven tion, awl 'be is fully armed for his share in the greet struggle. There never was a campaign in which the opposition had so unsay weak points W assail and in which we were so well prepared for aggres sive :warfare. The whole policy of blunder ever since the war oloeed. ' They cannot point to a single good thing which they have done. 'They have involved the country in a debt which is incalculable ; they have forced negro suffrage upon unwilling people wherever they hawk had pow er ; they have overridden the civil law and cstablished l iespotiam ; they have enslaved the laboring men of the country by crushing them under a load of taxation such wine other peo ple ever bore, they have 'destroyed the nice balance which oar fathers fixed between the different depart ments of the - government ; they have uttqrly ignored all law and all author ity, and consult only their own will; which they enforce by the exercise of despotic poWer ; and they now hive in full operation a legislative despot• ism preeisqly srroh• as has destroyed the liberties of all the republics which have gone down to ruin in the past, and under which no people can long remain free. In short, they have done everything that our fathers warded us not to list anybody do, the only question with them ,is one of power, and they hesitate at nothing which they can acoomplish, right or wrong. All this is perfectly plain to every one, it Is susceptible •of demon stration, and it is our duty to keep it constantly Before the minds of the people. Lot them not be swsyed as they have often been heretofore by the false cries of the opposition, or by the skillful introduction into the con test of issues with which we Levi; nothing to do at,the present time. In contrast with ,the revolutionary and destructive course of the Radicals, the constitutional and consistent principles of the Derpoeraey ought al ways to be kept prominent in the eyes of the people. We are determined that wbite men shall rule America that states shall exercise their rights under the constitution , that the Union must be restored , that an burdens shall be lifted from the poor, and planed equally upon all , that no wealth shall be exempt from taxation, and tll%t the government shall stand as it did in the days of our fathers, a bulwark of defence and protection to all classes of men, and an instrument of oppression and wrong to no human being on earth. It is only necessary to keep them; things prominently before the people, and we will sweep , the whole country like a whirlwind. Wherever organi zations are not perfected, they ought to be at Once, and every community should be thoroughly imbued with the - principles of Democracy. It is the policy of the Mongrels to carry on a crafty, underhand campaign, to swear men into secret orders, by tel ling them deliberate lies, and thus like a subtile poison, to spread widely and destroy the undttr-currents of BO - c iety , wkile the surface is not stirred. We have not the machinery for such work as this, even if we desired to employ it, and we must force the op position to give us battle upon an open field,by continual and unremitting at tacks, and after thesm'ke of the con testelears up, we will have the satisfac tion of having overcome and utterly destroyed the most dangerous foe which ever threatened the govern ment with ruin. s, We must work. We must go into the contest to win. We want no temporizing, no dallying with the opposition, no foolish concessions or compromises -with doubtful men, who are sure t, go against us, noth ing, but square, downright blows, must be struck, we will charge the enemy at all points, neither ask nor take quarter, and thus settle the fu ture destiny of our country in one great decisive battle, to terminate next November. 2 I 2 2 , . t_ 5 1 to 7 3 2 3 1 . I 3 —The most carefully writsee &len meet ever prepared by GRANT, was his report to the President on the condition of the South, immediately after the war. In this, he alleges that those who had composed the Confederate artifices had accepted the situation in perfect good faith,, and that the leaders of the "rebellion" were anxious to return to self govern ment, within the Union as loon as possible. To amuse the mongrel ■omination,he denied his own rebid, and consented, to inaultand humiliate the foe who, in his own words, "ac ted in good faith." Thus we have the man who aspires to be president, in the position of accepting the sur rendered sword of a defeated foe, and then plunging it intc his bosom. -GRANT has been sent off west by his Washington keepers, for fear that he will say something. Never was a party in such i dilemma. If GRANT keeps himself stupidly drunk, there is • cry from those Who are doubtful of his full conversion to mongreham for some one to stir him ■p, and make him talk. If he talks, ;inise summate sax that he is; Kr be has been dent away to keep him out of sight and hearing of those who might sell what he ie abeut. —CoLPL' is not at all popular where he is well known. To our cer tain knowledge, he is regarded by those who have known Lim for years as a very small man. His standing in his owe town of South Bend, In diana, may be' known from' she fact that since his nomination, the demo • is have gained - one hundred and seventy-nine votes at a charter elec tion. A Word to Labpring Men. -• PoOTWflitelnen are ,falling victims tb the beat all around us, as they toil, toil, toil frr daily bread, cad for 'mon ey to give the tax-gatherer. Thousands of poor felioks have left their fami lies at home in WC morning, gone forth to provide for the . next day's neeeasities,'and never returned. A paragraph in a newspaper records the fact that a man has been sun struck, or it may be that, scores are included in a few lines, and it is said, "the cases of sun stroke were very numerous." Down Scinth, the thick-skinned, thick-skulled negro,- who could bear any amount of heat without serious inconvenience, and certainly without danger, is taking his ease, or doing the voting fur the whole pountry. He is not working at all. badly as his labor is needed, yet ho is living at the top of the heap, and getting into legislatures, where laws are made to govern white folks. How is this? Who hits reversed the order of nature, and who is paying the expense of enfiee's sub sistence? The poor white laborers who arc falling in the heat of the sun arc supporting blacks and whites both. They are..-hearing the whole burden of the eiiuntry ; they are not only keeping the lazy negroes, at the South, supporting the army which is quartered there, and keeping up the carpet-baggers who swarm in that af flicted country, but they are also pay ing millions of dollars in gold to the capitalists of the country, who pay no tax at all. Every day the poor man must work harder and grow poorer, w'itle the riph man works less and grows more wealthy. Yet, the party which promised so much for the poor has been in complete power for eight years, and all the changes which have taken place have been the work of their hands, and not of ours. If the laboring men, tone and sinew of the country, have re ceived any benefits from their admin istration of the gitivernment, let them have full credit fur it, for we certain ly had no hand in it. But if, on the contrary, the poor man has been drag ged from his home and set up as a mark to be shot at, if his taxes have been increased, if the price of living has been doubled, if all together the poor have been oppressed until they are sinking from exhaustion, we bear none of the blame, we had nothing to do with it.. Itiongrelisai did it all, and has fairly won all the praise and all the blame which can attach to their eight years administration of the government. But it is time laboring men were *likening up to their interests.. We propose to liehten their burden at least one half the first year we have complete power. Will the people give us power? Are they tired of feeding and clothing cegroes,and sup porting armies to keep their brethern from exercising the rights of men'? If they are, let them stand forth in the dignity of manhood. and place in power a party which never betrayed nor oppressed them in the past, and which alone can save them in the fu ture. Repudiation. When the Mongrels raise the cry,of repudiation against us, they expect that if they can get the people to be lieve them they will certainly defeat us. They had better take care, for we believe there is no more certain way for us to win, than to have the people believe we are in favor of shoji. ing off the load which a revolutionary party has fastened upon us, and start ing anew in the race. Repudiation may be it terrible word to gamblers, shoddy-brokers and bond-holders, but it itas tie terrors for a peoply ground down under a load too great for mortal man to bear. Whilethere is nothiLg in our platform,or out Of it, conuuitting the Democratic party to any sort of repudiation, the mongrels had better be careful how they labor to convince the people that we are in favor of repudiating a debt for which the government never received half `Value, for they will only increase our majorities iT they succeed in their ef forts. istrate in a time of the greatest peril we have ever been, a stupid, drunken, ignorant man with brass buttons and stars, or shall we have a tried and perfeet statesman, who has more than once fully illustrated his ability. The opportunity of voting for either is before the American people, which will the . " choose 1, a con --Reports from every quarter are most favorable, and if the tido con tinues 'to•rua os it is now natil the Novembei election, the - triumph - Of the Deinocracy will be the most com plete that ever sweat the country. Fairness vs, False H bods It must be very humiliating to the more decent and respectable readers of abolition newspapers. to see what course the leaders of tileir party pur sue towardsihe Democratic nominees, Suvidinft And BLAIR. Fatrneas ttnd honesty, of purpose in the conduct of the supporters of any cause, however erroneous, gives it an air of respectability r and naturally begets fair treatment in return. On the other hand, fraud and falsehood, dissimulaticfn and unfairness, tegroy all respect for and sympaliTy with the advocates of any cause, however meritorious in itself, and promote the desire for the overthrow of the cause fought to be uphold by such nefari ous means. Nearly every abolition sheet in the land is attacking Gov. SF:42lolft( in the most false and brutal manner, charging him with throwing" impedi ments in the way of the general gov ernment in its conduct of the war while he was Governor of New York, and with being responsible for, and actually heading the New York riots in IFIII3. And yet, every one of there "narrow minded bleckhprids," knouts these charges to be false. IstricoLN and STANTON both, in the most lavish terms, thanked SItiI.IIIOCIL for his prompt and energetic assistance in sending twenty thousand New York militia into Pennsylvania during LEK'S invasion of 1863, before CUR. TIN oven had one regiment of our militia in the field. While, inomedi. ately after the suppression of the New York riots, every abolition paper in that state praised SEYNIOUR for his prompt action in declaring the city under 'nattierl law, and using the ne cessary means to quell ithe rioters. But. then be was net the Democratic Candidate for President. in the sarie unfounded and shame less mariner are the radicals now slandering General BLAIR, whom a few years ago they beslimed wish praise almost equally disgusting. It has ever been 'thus with this miserably dishonest party. " Their sole purpose in each eaurpaign is sim ply to achieve_ ietnporary success, at whatever expense or honesty, decency and self respect, and thus they are frequently obliged to deny their own record, and vilify what they had pre viously endorsed and praised in the most fulsome manner. Like a human being who has long been under the secret influ ewe of some terrible and loathsome disease, but succeeded by desperate means in presenting only a fkir exte rior to the public, until the very fountain§ of life were dried up, this party has long deceived and hood winked the people, until now, when the disease has reached the surface, one after another of the loathsome ulcers which have eaten away its life become visible, and the only wonder with the people is how they could so long have been deceived The doom of the party is written, but its foul mouthed leaders are determiaed that it shall go down to the grave with the howls of a demoniac, and expose in its last ravings every ugly secret which, for shame r . ike, they ought to guard sacredly. Position of Judge Obese It seems to be :lineation of much interest t:o Home how Judge CHASE will mused in the coming presidential contest. We cannot see that it makes any material difference how he sots in the premises, except that it shows that all the old !ceders of the Repub lican party have become utterly dis gusted with the violence, wickedness and folly of the radical Rump, and are resorting to the democracy as their only - hope. The Washington letter writers say that CIIARK is certainly for SEYMOUR and Rusin, and CHASE himself said, in a letter recently written by him; "four more years 91. the rule of snch men as are now Om laming Congress will leave us little of morality and Republicanism worth preset vi ng." This ought t be a suf' &lent answer is the question as to whether Mr. CIIAISZ will support the Democratic nominees. —Official' figures chow that the aWif tit Wriiiiiien or t.e wont of May, a ere over forty.five millions op dollars. This makes our annual expenses more than FIVE lIUNDIULD AND FORTY MILLIORN OF DOLLARS, A Democratic administration carried on a foreign war, and presented it to a stmeesstul termination on lees than one half of that expense in four years Now, will any Mongrel tell us what there is to make our burden so exoes• siveiy heavy, when am gauntry is in a state of profound peace, and every body anxioue that sit diffioalties shall be settled - at once f There Is no 'ne cessity for such an expense, and the people are going to put a.stop,to it. "Lett/s have Pcsoe." (len. Gnom Says "let us have peace." He must have been sober when ho said that, for it is the first sensible idea lie has expressed• since his nomination. Wheneverthe Gen °rill is sober, his old democratic feel ings control )+im, and In spite of all the radicals who have him in oharge, ho will at such times speak out his true sentiments. This is first rate democratic doctrine, and if ho keeps on "on that line," 'whale wo will tool bound to defeat him in the election, wo will gather him into the democrat ic fold, and preserve him from his friends, who are all the time getting him to show the country how much of an ass ha is. We want peace too, and as eight years of trial has shown that there can be no peace while the present par ty is in power, we are going to elect an administration under which the whole country may have a littlurepose, after the long period of war, blood• shed, wrong and suffering. which fol lowed the advent to power of a sec• tional party. But (f RANT ought to know, and if ho don't the old jackass who was wri ting his biography for the Ledger can tell him, that if ho wants peace he is taking the wrong course to get, it. All the statesinen.of the country, from WABllltiliTON down, have warned us of the. danger which must follow •the election to power of a sectional party, and the triumph of abolitionism in I S6O, and the fearful results which folio`-etl, ought to be experience enough to last us through all time. 'Phcre never has been peace while, there was a party controlling the gov: °ftment which had no adherents in a vast and important section of the country,' and it is impossible that there should be. Since tbe Whig organization went out of existence, the democratic party has been the only U nion party, the only - one which knew no geographical distinctions, and the only one under which it. was possible to have peace. During the first five years of' Mon grel rule, the hind was drenched in blood, the best and bravest of our young men fell in battle, and the fairest portion of our domain was des elated with fire and sword. Thon,the weaker section was treacherously in duced to surrender to the stronger, and from that day to this, it has been the constant labor of the malignant, cowardly, crazy fanatics, who control the federal - Congress, to devise ways and moans to oppress, humiliate, and, if possible, to utterly distroy the South. A standing army has been kept up there, all civil liberty has been destroyed, all vestiges of free government have been swept away, white men have been forced to sub mit to the domination of negroes, lately slave,s, the hand of despotism is laid, in an inexorable grasp, upon the throats of those brave and lion,)r able men, who struggled lung and desper ately, for liberty, and finally sur rendered upon honorable terms,which have since been denied them, and now GRANT, standing at the head of this military despotism, says, "let us have peace." Surely he cannot be in earnest, for if he is, he must be even a bigger fool than we thought he was. He, is the candidate of the party which wields the whole power of purse and sword, which- has-turned the sharp edge of the latter against our own people, and whose policy it is to drive to desperation those whom they have already ruined. There is nosgther power in the country which has any military organization, or which is ca• pable of making immediate war ; then. if peace is desired, why is it not se cured at once, by simply sheathing the sword, and withdrawing our sr •i Mies from the South ? If the General is truly in earnest, he had better be careful how he a:- Presses his desire, for the party whose candidate be is,don't want peace, and GEtiELY, COLFAX, RAYMOND, and all the host Dr Mongrel leaders, will say as ugly things about him as they did before his nomination. lie may soak himself in whiskey to his heart's con- tent, and smoke Reigate till hertoes off in smoke, ant they don't care ; but he must beware hoer he expresses a de— die briD thirst! am migThiilTO - allTriti• cowards whose company he has , into. or ,they .will slaughter him without wenn'. —All the best sad ablest men who stand by LINCOLN sod his ad ministration, have abandoned the Radical party. Many left voluntarily, and some *ore forced out, .beoanse they were known to bo,teck honest and oonsoientiohs for the soottodrels who o3w oompoee that party.' —TI?o name of "earpet-bagger" luta gut to ,be odious that decent men are amhamed to be eseght in the South tvith a carpet-bait. OurPositiOn Defined The mongrel leaders have alway s 'shown an aptness at iquig and a wit. lingness to do it, bat since the Demo cratic convention in New 'York, they have fairly outdone themselves.— h'very one of their papers, from the Tribune down, are absolutely insult. ing to their readers, for the lies they U.ll are so gross and positive, that a n y ono who is not a fool can detect them. The editors of these papers must calcUlate either that their readers are stupidly ignorant or else that they are willing to resort to the most dishon orable means.to gain advantage of an adversary. One of these lies only we propose now to nail,and we trust th a t whets any impudent radical untie'' , takes to shot that we are in favor of any sort ofropuditatiob, any democrat who may be present, will convict) him cf falsehood, by a simple reference to our platform of principles, adopted at the convention lately beg •in New York City. The finances of the country are referred to in three planks of that platform, and we give them in full. They deserve a place in every issuer every Pemocratta paper, and upon them alone we would be willing to risk •our cause with the people. , Third. Payment. of Orb pohltedebt- of the United States as rapidly as practicable, all moneys drawn from the people by taxation; except no much as is requssite for the neces sities of the government, economically ad ministered, being honestly applied to such payment, and where the obfiyor,on a of the government do not expreahly tdnte upon their fore, or the tow under which they leer/ ioelied does ;sot liromde that MILT 92IALL Si PAID . , In Cole, ?MIT OVIIIP, 11 RIGHT •/11/ in jug. 'MN, Di PAID IN 11111.AWYUI. 111/TET or ill, UXIT•D &AM. Fourth, NI/lIAL TAXATION or AVM' opt. cm OT PROPIRTY •CCORDINIX TO ITN OVAL TALUIAINCLUDINO (10VSRNMENT BONDS AND OMAR PORLIC IRCORITICR. P/ilt, One currency for lb. govcrnme and the people, the laborer and tho offne bottler, the pensioner and the soldier, the producer and the bondholder. This is plain,unmistakable language, in strong contrast with the wavering, ambiguous platform which the Mon grels made at Chicago, and vrhich is explained to mean everything or netting, as it happens to suit. The Democracy declared its principles emphatically and unequivocally, and they are such as will receive an equal ly emphatic and unequivocal endorse merit from the people. The Negro hall not Rule Us. The design o the Mongrels to over power the whi vote of the' North, by means of the Negro voters at the South, is now plainly manifest. The rump Congress and its supporters are perfectly frantic, and will stop at nothing. Let them go 0n.,, bat we warn them to tread cautiously. Who ever forces the question of negro su premacy upon the people of this country had better never have been born. If the wl►ite men of the coun try elect a white man's president, they will see him inaugurated in spite of Rump Coygress, nigger bureau, ear wit baggers, and all the swine of hell. Those *ho would overpower ius by the votes of black men had better con- Hider well before they make- the at tempt, for the halter or the block awaits thear. The minds omen are fully made up in this great con• test. If we are fairly beaten at the polls, we must submit to Radical pol icy for years to oome ; but we are not to be defeated by Yankee tricks or any sort of Mongrel chicanery. If the ballots of white men give'us the victory, we, will reap the fruits of its need be, at the point of the bayonet. If it be the will of the white freemen of this country that the Democracy shall administer the government, they will administer it, and woe be to }Aloe whq stand in the way. A Union Ticket Some of the Mongrels papers Beim to thinir it a bad thing for our tioket that it gives satisfaction to the South. Now in our estimation, and in the estimation of every true Union man, this is a thing indispensible in a ticket nominated for the whole country. The Democracy kept the Union together for seventy years, and is now the sole bond of real union be" tween the states. The satisfaction expressed by the South With our candidates and our platform, proves t. at we ave Follovietribit. adiWor VitgliiNClToll. and svoUsti genirraoh ical diatipotions in laying , down our prinolplre, and biro rapwaittal s °°' tionaliam in aaleatios such anatdatoes as will be gctiOrned by Co um° end narrow prejuditma t bat will bits)r for the prosperity, peace and happi ness of the whole 0911/147. — Thom Ifol4,4,DeitOorata who were afraid the gretrubsoftproposition of Mr: PRIIDLIOTON efrould not take with the If nat Awl taken alma bY the Unprecedented enthusiast' with yi hioh out plittforiit bits beep every where reoeived. •
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