The Democratic Watchman, BELLEFONTE, PENN'A P. GRAY MIMIC; Itnrron t Piarturron JOHN P. MITCHELL, AasoccATE Kpirop. FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 31, 1868 TERMS.—t 2 per year ?Then paid in ad- ranee, 2,50 when not paid in advance, and 33,00 when not paid before the expiration nf the year National Democratic Nominetions FOR ritAIDENT, HOU ATIQ SEYMOUR OP N$W TORE tm. VICE PRESIDENT FRANK P. Bi.Allt 07 MTSSOURI Democratic State Ticket FOR AUDITOR GENERAL, HON: CHARLES'' t. BOYLE, • 4, of Fayette County. rOR SURVVYOR GENERAL, 1.0;N,. :WELLINGTON IL ENT, or Columbia County. County Convention The democratic voters of the several Dor .lighs and Townships in Centre county, will meet at the oaf's' places of holding elections in their respective districts, on the Afternoon of Saturday, August 13, 1363, and elect delegates to represent said Boroughs intl . Townships in a county convention to Le be held at Bellefonte, oh Tbesdaf, insult 11th, 1869, at 2 o'clook P M. , which convention will pat in nomination one anddale BilCongrese, subject to the decis ion of the District conference ; one eandi - late for President Judge, suljeet to the de. Antion of the District Cosfaxence , one can didate for Assembty ; one candidate for Distriet Attorney : one eandifiate for COUP ty Serve, qr • one candidate for Count? r i ommissionet and one candidate for Comity Auditor, alai truteset, each other business .r may come before tbam. nat./abet of delegates to which each district is entitled under the last afrortionmewfqt a faltows Bellefonte bor. 3 line and Howard tirp oston Liberty • Marion " 311 ilea " !alien " Peen Potter " Raab " in'w Shoe " Ppring IT w ay ler " Elaine " 3 alker • Militsburg " Philipsberg iTnionvine . •• Benner tiwp. 3 Boggs .. 2! hainside " Coin 1 erguson (lreigg MEI II al (moon ' 11132:12 mishit:, 1 Ei=3l3 my s Zotaila Mob. OHN H. °gym, By order of the Cott The Work to Do The popular idea of self-government sq one of the most complete delusions that ever took possession of a human being. It is the moist common thine in the world to hear -.men daily talk about self government as though Such and evety individual in the country was capabld of governing himself, and if called upon, perfectly fitted to take a pOmition in the public councils. It was this loose and vague idea about government, and ideas equally loose about liberty and the union, which got us into our present troubles, and now threaten to leave us without any liberty at all. It was common in this country, for nearly every speaker who addressed the people to speak of our superior intelligence and our su periority in every other respect, until the idea became deeply rooted in (lie minds of men, that there was no diffi • culty at all in making and administer, hitt a government, Wet that the thing would almost run of itself when once set in motion. Pur fatinws,with almost superhuman foresight and wisdom, had devised a system of govern:tent with such care that so lqng as the fundamental law established by them reinained unviolated, it was almost impossible for their' work to fail. :However foolish or destructive a parly ,platform might be, the moment men came igto power upon it, the oath of support to the constitution which they , were required to take,netattalined the evil and prevented its Sonsatnation. All political parties which existed be fore the formation of the Republican found respect for the Censtitntion of the United States and veneration for the men who constructed it,and when they attained power, they 'always en deavored to administer the govern ment in accordance With thette - idens, so that however- greatly they might be in error, there was no serious dan ger to the Constitution and Unioa to be apprehended from their triumph.' It was this feet, and not the intelli• gence cf the people, whldh Inn* preserved the splendid legacy due fathers left , us. It was their 'wisdom and fotisight, aioti 14(tufthWitiail. saved nese long as 'the oonoitution they mide for us remained perfect, and the spirit which animated them :found a plane in political parties. But in 1856, a party was organised in open hostility to the constitution and laws, Whose sworn purpose it was to overthrow the institutions of the fathers, and establish in their stead something which they delighted to call th'e "higher law."' Then the ea jrneity of our people was brought to the test, and after four years struggle the pemocratic power was forced out of,poWer and the "higher law" be came the rule of action. The very existence of such a party tit all was plainly revolutionary, and. every ogre of sense looked for strife to follow its accession to tower. The foolish course of the Demo. erotic party in diJiding upon minor issues, enabled those who were bent upon revolution, disunion, civil war and centralization, to achieve success at the polls, and the cowardly submis sion of the Northern Democracy to the abolition despotism against Which their brethren were gallantly strug glingsin the South, enabled' them to sten their revolutionary system upon the country. - If the Northern people had boon more fully instructed in the true prin ciples of free government, arid had heard less nuusen.se about their owu capacity to govern, they would not have been so easily led to assist in destroying the liberty of their breth ren, and thus lead the way to the destruction of their own. The fact is that the Abolition party, always greatly _in - the minority, had the shrewdness -to get. our assistance to overthrow the only power on this con tinent which at that time stood up for genuine freedom, and, after the most tremendous struggle of modern times, we forced the Southern people to sub mit to the chains of a de •potisin to which we had bowed our necks with out striking a blow. Mongrehsm en slaved us by strategy, and with our assistance, enslaved the South by the force of overwhelming numbers. But no sooner is that despotism ciun pletely established in the ten states which so bravely and nobly resisted it than we find that the whole country kin equal danger from the same power which subjugated them. We have - not referred to these facts for any , purpose of calling up old ani mosities, or of making issues which do not properly come into the campaign. The most vital and important issue of all ii that of the test3ration of the Union and in this the Democracy North arid South have a common cause. We must put down the des potism which threatens equally both sections, it whatever cost, and we mast not allow any minor issues to divide us, or lead us from the one great object until that vi accom plished. We must overthrow the power which is wielded by the rump Congress, aid there can be no safety and no permanent peace until this is done. Cke.nooe4. The quicker the minds of mrn are made up to the truth the bitter, and the truth is that we are not seeking to carry an election against a political party in lawful and peaceful posses sion of the government, but against a revolutionary faction, which holds its usurped. authority b 7 ithe might of the sword, and which can only be driven out by physical tome. It is two, wemay carry the election against them so overwhelmingly in November next that from foar'they will abandon their position, but it will_ be the fear of actual force, and not any respect or regard for the constitution and laws which trey have already defied and overthrown. The white freemen of this country must make make up their minds either to crush Mongrel ism out of existenoe by whatever means may be required, or else to tamely submit to the meanest despot ism the world ever knew. Thb Contrast -General WADE ILIMPEON, the hero and statesman, who fought nobly and honestly, and yielded like a man when ho was overcome, is a representative of the Democracy of the South. Ex-Governor Sanwa of Geer• gia, a miserable poltroon, who talked war and blood and carnage, bet took good care to keep out •f it; starved Northern soldiers, and then tied his state, like a thief and Judas that he is, represents the Repnbli eau (?) party in the South. BROWN was in the Chicago'' convention from Georgia, sent there by aiggers and carpet-baggers. Gen. Llawnow was in the New York convention from Roma Carolina, sent there by white men and natives of his state. Let any man, whatever his prejudices may be, compare -the two together, and see which he admires most. Surely there can be but one con olusien. the same difference' extends througitout the parties, at the North ad 'well se at the South. Arming the Nligro. Aa will be seen by refers:ince to our news column, we report this .week several cases of outrages perpetrated by Southern negroes upon-'women. The daily papers are filled with diode reports, and the details of some of thein a 1.9 horrible beyond anything we have ever read. 4 We seldom no tice then in our columns, for surely it is not a pleasant subject to call before our readers; but we like occasionally to present to them 801110 of the effects of RadiCal rule at.the South, and the frequency of these outrages now, which were scarcely ever heard ofbe for the war, proves that the freedom of the slave and the enslbvenieut o the freelas had at least one most ter rible effect. Of course there are many negroes in the South who have behaved them selv'es much better than the Yankees who have been amongst thern,and in cited them on, but it is impossible that more than a very small propor tion of thew are fit to run at large at all without some power to control them. Yet seven hundred thousand of these black barbarians have been made vo ters, and stand this day upon a per -feet political equality with white men, a - nd in tVecouang election 0161 votes are meant to weigh as much as the votes of an equal number of northern white men. But this is not the worst of it, Putting the ballot into the hands of Such eroatures, and giving over the government of a great-coun try to them ( and the whites who are worse than they, is a wickedness such as the world has seldom seen equalled. Rut a crime is to be committed by the Mongrels besid4 which ,this sinks in to nothinglic,s,`and all the doeds of all the monsters of history are fail ly outdone by the Rump Congres, The white people of the South without arms. They surrendered them after being defeated in open, Lair and honorable battle, and sub mitred themselves to the power which controlled the North.' They are de fenceless, and even now almost at the mercy of the negroca. !But these black and merciless beasts, these highway robbers, barn burners, rav ishers of women and murderers of man are to be armed at the eipense of the - government. In fact many stand of arms have been distributed among them already, and Congress is determined that every ne gro who desires to murder, bUrn or ravish, shall be provided with the means of doing the deed and of pro tecting himself from the consequences. We have not the heart to comment further on this monetmus If the people of this country will en dorse a party which is guilty of snob a thing, then they are worse than we think they are. We do not believe that any respectable number of those who have 'hitherto supported Con gPess can continuo to do so .?..hen this thing becomes known, and we trust that Democrats everywhere will not let it rest, but‘keepit continually be fore the minds of men that the Radi cals propose to arm', and turn loose upon an unarmed and defenceless population, hundreds of thouaands of ignorant, savage and beastly nogroes, controlled only by their own lusts and evil impulses. Their Several Ability The nomination of Gasrrr and Col, RAE is a direct insult to every intelli gent man in the Radical party. It is conceded by GRANT himself, and by all his friends, that he has not got a single attribute of a stitesintin. and those who runs man for • great civil office simply on a military record, wait suppose that the people are conaumate fools. COLSAI 'never did anything in his life to distinguish himpelf in q.ny way. He never orig inated anything, but followed like a sheep where such men as THAD. BTR vstrs led.' His district in Indiana happened to be as Wei as hades, rind he was as black at heart as the district, so they kept, bins in Congress year after year, .not IMAM" of any. thing he did, but because of _what he was mean enough . to do if he had had the ability, and this is the whole of it. Two beautiful s.e , imens th se • isk the American people to support for the moat important offices in their gift. ----How Gunn says Tam). STZVZNI3 isa insindier, and TEIAD.V torts by calling the' tribune a "Ball seoession' paper, end declaring it to be in do paiy of„tlke bond Forzymeia foiror. ot paying the bonds in irreenbaelte.- • • --0 n tha 02rd iistßasat Bona opposed the•adjourameat of Congress until measureijawf lien takes' to sei cure Gamer's elation. If they wait until that Is secured they will never adjourn. The Deserter Act. '''The Supreme Court of this State has 'decided - the act 'disfranchising ,certain of our oitizeqs to be unconsti tutional. It is the first time the 'question has boon fairly before them, and the decision is very plain and em phatic. The Court says that it is be yond the power of the Legislature to fix other and different qualifications than thqse fixed by the fundamental law ; that the clause of the constitu tion fixing the qualifications of an elector is affirmative, declaring that certain perAnns RI:0i be permitted 'to vote, and that any attempt by the Legislature to prevent such from vo ting is usurpation; and of course void. The Court also held that if the power were in the Legislature to puniQh de serters by disfranehisement,such pun ishment could not be lawfully 'inflict, ed uetil there had been a trial and conviction for the Prime. We trust this settles the matter in this state, and that lawfully qualified voters will ,riot hereafter be obstructed in the exercise of their rights at the polls. The law is now too rlain,minco the Supreme Court has pronounced upon it, that no election officer can possibly doubt what his duty may he in such cakes, and there can be question ab - out his convietion if tri«l fur refusing the vete of a qualified elector. .Many cases are now pending in Pennsylvania under this act, suits having been brought in the civil courts, as well as in the quarter sea : situ's, by men desirous of vindicating their rights, and this one decision ought to settle them all. And if any partisan election officer excludes the vote of any citizen hereafter, on the gr mind that, he is a deserter, we hop, that no mercy will be shown the of fender, but that tha extreme penalty of the law will be evicted. Most of the Legislators who voted or this law were we 44 aware that. if was unconstitutional and wrong, and passed it for thu sole purpo.e. "of coin , !pitting a grievous outrage wherever the Radical party had s majority' of the election offierf;, knowing that Democratic clef/Lion , boards would scorn to take advantage of so mean aihopportunity of advancing their party interests, and having the prom ise of a partisan goveruor that he would pardon those who were con visited of the crime of refusing the votes of men duly qualified In pur suance of this promise. GEA par• doned all such persons, until the ac tions began to be brought in Vie Coutra of Common Pleas, which were beyond his reach, and more directly under the care of the Supreme Court. The result is as above stated. 1860-1868 History repeats itself. During the year 1860, when the "lurid clouds of war" began to obscure the horizon, the great democratic party appealed to their political opponents to pause in their rash and wicked career, that the country might be saved from the eesolation of civil strife," But the en emies of our party and of the country were mad with hatred towards the South, and delirious with tLe pros pect of office, power and plunder. They sneered, and contemned all our counsels'as`the driveling. of "Unionf savers," and rushed the country madly into a war which lasted four long, weary, bloody years. A million of graves and n.ore than three +pillions of debt are - nly a small portion of the penalties this people must suffer for their madness, folly and crime, when one wad of conciliation andcomprom ise would have preserved peace. .Again in 1868 war darkenathe hor izon, and we see the same exhibitions of madness and folly. Congress has already declared war against the white people of the country I Already have they begun to distribute aqua t 6 the black savages of the South I Already are their n3oruting officers penetrating every township in the North, to in veigle men into the "Grand Army of the Republic," who in leas than a year will be called upon to make com mon came with the negro against the the whitmen of America. And for whist? That the Csatsnotts,the BUT- Liras, the BINOUAIIIB, and thousands of other thieves, out—throats and attn . erersmay liird office and in crease their ill-gotten gaism by again plundering the people. - -Another war 0' 1 1 4 ! oar O'Ontr'y if, the people do not amnia theinsel yea aad rebuke the men who ore nrsigg it forward. 7 ,--A negro nairketi, Luisa •Moore waslyncited in liarford oo.,Maryland, on the 22 L d inst., for attempting a rape upon' a highly respectable girl. Stared hip night. --- , -Tuicopoar, J. RANDOLPH is hew nominated by the Democracy of Nfiw jersey for Governor: - He la an able man, and will give strength to the electoral ticket of hie state. Radical Extravagance. Since this month.of June 188.5,m0re time TWELVE ntINDRED MILLIONS OP DOLLARS have been collected from 'lhe people of this emmtry, yet we have in creased our indebtedne s s instead of diminishing it. Just think of it tax payer. , There has been perfect peaeo au ovcr the land, hnd no neeeasity•for any expense, except what is ordinarily required for the cost: of government. Yet the Radical party has in same way managed to dispose of this vast sum of money, besides running us many millions into debt. If this ex travagance continues, how long will it be until the government utterly fails from sheer poverty? How long can a people bear such a burden ? and how are we to hope for a decrease-of tho vast debt upon which wo• pay in terest, if our expenses-continually ex eeed our income? We hope every body-will think seriously over the fi nancial danger which threatens us with ruin, for we have come top point when such a danger is very iminent, and IC the policy of the Rump Con gress is continued, it will not bo long until it is fully upon us. ,No limn who thinks the subject over, and takes into consideration all the vi t t-cum:iances, can come to any ether conclusion than that we are-be ing motit, k•hamefully robbed by the party in power. Tho aniountof mon ey - raised by taxation and from the sale of government bonds in the past three years could never have been honestly anposed of in so short a time. • It is high time the people were opening their eyes on this subject. "The Negro of the South." We invite attention to an able arti cle uncle, thin caption, from the Rich mond,f;nouirer, which we publish on our inside this week. Itis a common thing to say that the Abolition party is the friend to-tha black race but a, foe to the white. We alwayii lnew and declared that they were the ene my to both, and that the hour which saw their purposes aocomplished would be equally disastrous to the ne gro and. to the white man. The tes timony from every one who has any means of knowing the condition of af fairs at the south is to the same effect and there is no doubt that "emanci pation" has been the worst thing which has ever befallen the negro in this country, and that. the war which gave him his liberty was as great a curse to Biro to to the race which fought it through. We call the attention of every philanthropist to this article, and trust that all may read it. The ad• tbority of the Enquirer is indisputa ble, and its testimony is corroborated by every paper in the South. The truth is daily becoming more manifest that the "reconstruction" measures of Congress are fatal to every human creature where they are put in opera tion, and that even the poor oegro is doomed to suffer fearfully at the hands of those who'have used hi.n to accomplish their partizan ends. Alas, poor Cuffce. JUDICIAL CONIIIIENCIL -Our neigh bor of the Clearfield Republican sug gests that the conferees to nominate our next President Judge meet at Tyrone, Blair county, outside the dis trict. We see no imaginable reason for going out of the district. Ever since the district existed in the pres ent shape the conferees have meet in Bellefonte, this being the middle county of the district. We would therefore suggest in accordance with the long established usages of the party, that the confeiees meet here in Bellefonte, and suggest the time. Tuesday, August.lB, 1868. —Old BnownLow has con vened the 'Legislature of Tennessee in as extra session, and asks them to put into MS hands the military power of the state, in order that he may carry it for the Mongrel candidates this fill. Thui it becomes bore and more apparent every dal , that the only hope for the Radioal party is in negro domination and military des potism —A year or two ago, it waB takeir to be told that his party nut in fevor of negro suffrage. Now, nearly a million of blacks are voters, and their rotes aro counted either fpr or against the very same men sod measures ** 'Ole fof or against in the North. Will soy Republicin deny now that his patty is for need . miffing:a". —New York, Penneyltenis and Ohio are sure to go for Sintotnt and BLaut ; all the.' Ridieals give theni up, end henoe theirssuietyia itigind to the "reconstruction", of the econth. They are determine& thatriftlie negro ttit4 the ballotcatniiit orontrol elec tions fotOwni,the negro with 'ballot awl bullet,sliall. Congreee.--041. John ft. Hunter. At the bust eleation,the majorityagainst the Demotieacy'in this, the lath district, amounted to but little over I2OQ. .With the proper candidate and toe right kind of's fight we can easily overcome that. To insure success, however, we must choose ai a standard-bearer, one' who eon command the eritire strength of the Democracy, as well ea the respect and confidence of their'opponents—a man of the people—a candidate for the maws— a Demlre. The other counties of the District, course, present candi dates, end if we do net present one of our strongest men, there will be no hope of his repoiving a majority of the votes in the Congressional, Conference Let ns then oast compliments aside, and go in as one Man to the support of 'Capt. dews A. linemen, of Half Moon, wile la deeidetlll,, ono of the befit man our county has to b6attt of, and around whom the people will rally with such an enthusiasm as will secure his election beyond a doubt. Capt. Iluicren does not seek the position. lie is not now, and never was an Aspi rant for political preferment. lie has been and prefers to remain a work* 113 the ranks of the Democratic organiza tion, but when the times demand our braitiet and beiit men, and when the masses of our party order him to the front as leader in the greet contest, that _wit are/thou!. aotatieg tzpon,--aza know him too well to think for a moment that he would refuse to comply with their diimande, or fail to occupy any position the goad of the cMintry and the party would require. ?or the position for which we have named him, Capt. Hus e riga is the strongest man in Centre coon- With such men as he upon the - ticket, we can give one thousand of a majority against republicanism, and in sure the success of the party in this in trict 1 DICIIOCRAT OP Gamut .--County Commissioner El/N. WATCHMAN Gente:—.o. the tivuo is near when the County Convention meets, we thought it proper for us to express our preference fur a candidate for County Commissioner. The name'• of Joseph MaClosky, of Curtin township, has been a good deal talked of by the people in this loeal ly , and we think we have claims upon the Dertiossrany of the County which ought to be respected. Mr. SloClosky is a good democrat, a man of good jddgtnent, and would bean ethnical Commissioner. Our part of the county has bad no Commissioner for num) , years. and Curtin township has never had candidate for any office. We hive hod much opposition to contend against here, and the name of Mr. MoClosky would greatly strengthen the tiokirt in this part of the county. IiiIIIOOII.ATS or CUIRTIII TOWIIIIIIIIP BLOISOORG, 'Flogs Co., Pa. 1 July 2r, 1888. f DCAN. WATCHMAN :—Thinking that a few lines from thie place might not he unacceptable, and having a few leisure momenta, 1 have concluded to open up a line of communicatiorwith my ' , lease of supplies." The weather here has been at a fever heat, and now Omit the heated term has been cooled by the showers of the past few days, people are begining to talk politics, until the probabilities are that in a short time politics will be as warm as the weather has been. Where everrhave been since leaving Bellefonte, I have noticed that the political tide all setts in one direction and that. is for Bet' shour and Blair, equal taxation and s re stored Union. Locally, the Arst movement of the De • mocraoy here, was the • nomination, en the 24th init., of M. F. Elliot, of Wells boro, as the can didate of the Tioga De mocracy for Congress in the 18th district. • E. is a young mui of tine abilities, and it is the earnest wish etch. Democrats leers that he should be nominated by the confertloe. They are sanguine that with him they can largely decrease the radical vote both in this eounty and Potter. Tioga has never been honored by the candi dacy, and it is due hor that in thus pre- minting an unexceptional' candidate than her claims should be favorably consid ered. the political skies look bright and promising• Will write you again in a Law days. Lax. Mason, 2s, 1868 DIOR EA47011-:-Wl, AO doubt are in your mind, far away from Jou, but we Itreretill uear,yes we are vroilang also for ready So lend i helping hand. , hifirelf.* quilet little village in ktiftlin county, !Assiut erptalsed a Mob, a true DentOoratia club, and called the "Jeffer monism Dointporaltie Club" of Milroy Its ()Mows an Owen Oeplin es Progidenl, Andrew Mayblu and Wm. Cromwell Vice Proiidenteolohn Rairstanflootetjtrif and Samuel Worley Treasuror.- -- Th is or . Ph!ted to expound more readily the true deMrlcbeemoerseYP th°d " whooveree to our cause and seem • iave a strong feeling of antipathy agalost us. The defunct Know-nothings of this place haft tried to organize, but they exploded. "Vshadyinlrt." Tout* troly:' • buys* Caowwsic.
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