BELINONTE REPUBLIC.
W. W. BROWN,
B. HUTCHISON, j
Terms, $2 per Annum, in Advance.
lIELLEFONT.E, PA.
Wednesday Morning, January 27,1'69
The-Failure of Protestanism.
Our learned theological friend from
lowa, 'Michigan and Kentucky, who
furnishes political wisdom and pure
morals for •Centre county Democracy,
has last week further ventured into the
~;.deep waters of Politico-Religious-ITh
4.oricid Philosophy. And the astound
ingdiscovery he makes is, that one
Rev. EWER,—a ewer evidently filled
with murky water,—who has declared
-latterly that the Protestant religion is a
%&ilure—is right. Rear the wisdom of
•
•- - "!•-What has been the cause of the
. ' - i - cdeejine of the Protestant religion,let
thime answer who have prostituted
"it to all manner of secular uses and
" aliuses. For years the Protestant
"religion has been made the sustain
ing pillar in the fabric of politics.—
",brot . onlY in our own , Country, but
" - throughont the world, it has been
•"' prostituted from its original high
"aim to the uses of politicians, as a
" Stemoing stone to power and place.
"In .England Protestantism is a part
"of government, and its proscriptive
"legislation against those who differed
"with it, has recoiled upon the
4 1 . church of its authors, and it is sick
"'with the poisons of it own emissicm.
`-` Church awl State united is deuh to
both church and State. It i scarce
`ly necessary to refer, eve' in this
"zsticle, to its history in the United
States, as made for it by religious
• ='.and political fanatics.
U Fiom witch-burning on the banks
` - of the Connecticut two centuries ago,
"to the lowest depths of Black Re
" publican hatefulness all over the
"land; in the past ten years , _ have
.." ever been present and the chief in
- "struments of wrong mountain high,
• "the leaders and fanatics of the Pro
' " testant church. The late bloody war
" between the States,as well as the ma
"ny terrible wars which have preee
" ded it since the Reformation obtain-.
"ed Dower, are more or less attribu
"table directly to the interference of
Protestant fanatics in the temporal
affairs of governments and peo
.L I
That either Protestanism, or any
other form of Religion, has been made
a' " pillar in the fabric of politics," is
new doctrine. This is the first time we
ever heard politicians accused of being
'too religious. Our observation is, that
our politics in this section are general
ly guided by any other than the pecu
liarly-religious class, and. in our great
cities the rule is altaost universal;that
poiltiCA - IS the business of the men who
. are leak inclined to be devoted to the
Church. This is especially true of
Democratic politicians.
What has the union : of Church and
State to' do' the failure Protes-
? e.i where the Pro
testant religion is the national -faith,it
is no more failure than is any Re:
any other'land, similarly join-
ed : with civil authority •
The Catholic religion is . the religion
qfAnstria, Spain,
.France, Italy and of
.. ilie .. States of the Church - . Fortlentu;
rise Catholicism has held all power ec
' :clesiastical, and, indirectly, nearly all
that was civil in those countries. Yet
it has not been found, up to this time,
that the union of Church and State has
been death to either. There has been
- slespotism and oppression to aid in
maintaining them, persecutions, Intel
' erance, the enslaving of men's minds,
and all the methods used in all ages by
Ecclesiastical rulers to keep, men's
faith in one narrow channel by force,
but notwithstanding revolutions and re
sistance, those Governments and that
:Chinch are, neither of them, dead.
But these countries are being grad
ually forced to tolerate other Religions,
and the power of the Clergy in all
lands is being rapidly weakened.. In
Potestant countries, however, our friend
seems to . think that Church and State
are.dead together. But England,which
he cite's, has led all monarchical coun
• tries. inoxtending toleration to dissent
ing Churches, has removed religious
disabilities, and is now first in history
to relinquish Ecclesiastical authority,
and disestablish her Church in the
Kingdom of Ireland. And leading in
such movements and advocating such
doctrines in Austria, Spain:and Eng
land, .are to be found the liberal and
progressive parties, not the conserva
tive, the parties that sympathize with,
And are aided by the Republican party
of this country, the men who did not
hope for our defeat, but for victory in
.the war. :
Protesta.ntism a failure 1 Before the
Reformation, in which it took its rise,
-was there one spot. on this green earth;
where axEy man was free - to worship
God accord* to the dictates of his
own . CCOSCICTite. ? " Puritanism."—
Where were puritans taught intoler
ance;= and the use of force to propagate
religion, but by the Persecutions they
suffered for--their cause?:How long
did it take them to get up to the high
standard of religious liberty their sons
enjoy, sand . who planted and watered
the tree that on this soil has grown so
large and strong as to securely shelter
Dion in the worship of God, no matter
*what - tbeii . religions may be. - - And
since the Reformation • all wars have
been made by Protestant interference
with temporal affairs, have they? If
that means that it has grown so as to
draw upon it the vindictive attacks of
those who feared it, it may be, instan
.ees.eould be found to sustain its truth.
But the assertion is absurd. Half these
wars have been between Catholic pow
ers. . Some have shown alliances of
Catholic with Protestant, and both with
Mahcimetanism. The civil wars of Eng
land were for Crowns, and not Church
es, down to Cromwell's day, and he
fought for power and civil liberty. more
than for the Churches whose religious
zeal he managed to press into his serV-
That Protestants made all the wars,
is qUite the richest joke Ave have- yet
heard. But; the point that so gravely
.trinibles our contemporary, is - what - he
calls "the late bloody war between the
States, 'and it Was Protestantlfanaticism
that made that. Now, as but a very
small number of our Pretestant church=
es ever forbade slaveholclirig, and a&the
rebellion was made prinoipally to save
that institution from _ the advancing
tide of freedom and good morals, and
was warmly supported by the Protest-
ant South - there may be - some truth in
the 'charge that - Protestant fanatics
made this war, - for blinder fanatics than
the deVotees of slaye.rynever lived.—
But as our friend of . the Watchman
seems to forget that Catholics and Pro
testants alike took part in the war on
both Sides, that the Catholic, unlike
the Protestant Churches, alwayP. con:
demned slavery, that the Great Arch
bishop, Hughes, of New Yr:a.k; was one
of the most active and zealous of the
Mends of the Union, that the minis
ters of both churches, and of all, took
part on both sides, we cannot see that
Protestantism, as such, is responsible
for the war, and we can see that its
carnage an a l outrages, its blood arid
horrors, its losses and sufferings, its
crimes and woes are all chargeable to
Ord Democrats of the South, and their
pro-slavery and State sovereignty al
lies of the North, Catholic, Protestant,
Infidel and Heathen alike.
But is Protestanism a failure ? Are
our churches but relics of a Theology
that -has left no convictions in the
minds of the, people, but only the evi
dence of a grand structure deserted by
the Great Spirit of religion and pro
gess that gave it symmetry and shape ?
Our churches are still springing up on
every hand. Our 'Valleys are beauti
fied anew by noble temples dedicated
to the worship of Almighty God. The
people have not deierted their sanctu
aries, nor do they fail :to support, with
increased liberality, the ministers of
their religion: Centre county has ex
pended more money in the last five
years for religious purposes, than in
any ten of her history, and nearly all
for Protestant churches. Do our friends
in these quiet, moral, peaceful Valleys
believe the Watchman: - .§ declaration
that the religion of themselves and
their fathers is a failure? Why build
these temples? Why have a Sabbath
of religious observances? Why sup
port a ministryand Sunday-schools ?
The organ of Demcc?acy pronounces
this whole religious system of Protest
ant christianity a failure and a delus
ion. Who believes it? Or . does this
only mean-that the-style of Democra
cy represented by radical copperheads
and secessionists, must, to be consist
ent, overthrow religion, and especially
the free and enlightened doctrines that
distinguish the ..I?rotestant - church-from
others—tolemtion, .ethication and free
doinof
. oPinion.
Luther - did c riot preach in vain: 'Cal
vin and Melanctlion,Zwingle and Knox,
the fathers and :the martyrs did not
labor, and suffer, and die for nothing.
Protestanism has given us religious
liberty, free:schools, and been found
only where real and valuable progress
has .been found. In the same - number
of the {Watchman we find the follow
ing item
" The Bible isnowp rioted in over two
" hundred different languages."
The BrELF.God's best gift to man;
a compendium of all valuable wisdom;
a reservoir of all true morality; the
source of - all enlightened philosophy;
consistent with the truths of ,science,
aiid.beautif4 in its simplicity and elo
quence, as the Heavens whose Creator
it reveals. This Bible is printed in all
languages, and sent freely to all the
children of men. And by whom ? Not
by the Infidel, for he calls it a - fable;
not by the Greek, for his Monarch and
Priests call it a delusion to the way
faring man; and lock up the sacred
book, and turn over only their cullings
and garblings of its pages; not by the
Catholic church, for they deny even
their own translation to the free use of
their people, in every land where they
have power enough to do so, and dis
courage it even in this land where free
dom and progress has bent and swayed
even this ancient and stubborn church.
Who printed this book, the bible, in
two hundred tongues? Who has sent
abroad over the lands of the East and
the West, and the Islands of the sea,
God's word, not men's, just as they
were given to us? It is the Protestant
church. Protestanism a failure ! That
.a failure that brought religions liberty,
made this B,epublic,overthrew priest
ly-power, divided the Church from the
State, and gave it protection and free.
dom in all its forms !
Protestanism is not a failure. Chris,
tianity will not die out. Whether the
Protestant,. or Catholic, or Greek form
of Christianity may, in the: lapse of
time, include the world,. Or: another
form better, and nobler, and freer than
each or all, thie May tell; but our
modern redzhot. cleinocraEs will find,
though the doctrines of the churches
may antagonize their .political notions
of morality; -the party ; and-, not -the,
church, will be fonnd to have written
on-its banners, " Failure." We have
no quarrel with the churches. We
desire that they all may flourish and
irow. We have no concern With their
theologies. We have no complaint to
make of their morality.
We'do ;not
find them interfering, more than free
men have aright to, with our politics
We think a: Man who gets a pulpit, and
through it, the ear of the people,.lias
no right to take advantage of that to
serve a partizan faction; but he must,
if he be, faithful, teach his people to
perform all their duties, public and pri
vate. as christians. judging no man.
EDITORS.
and condemning not the',sinners, but the
sins that destroy them. And We have
often observed that our Democratic
friends find no fualt with the preach.
ers,who.matle the.pulpits of the South
platfolins, whence the crusade against
our Union Was most ably fireached,not
against men who, like Revs, Dean,
Burr and Chambers, preached slavery
and secession froth the Gospel of Jesus
Christ. The Watchman gaining a
hearing among our Democratic friends
by its position as the organ of Democ
racy has no more right endeavor to
destroy the faith of its readers in their
Churches, than has the Minister to use
the advantage his pulpit gives him to
advocate his personal or partizan doc
trines. And we opine that it will be
hard to convince the followers of Lu
ther and the "Reformers,- in Centre
county, that their religion is a deliisiOn,
their churches stained with all the
bloodshed since the Reformation; their
history ending in a disgraceful failure,
and that their leaders, and servants,
and martyrs of old, have labored and
died in vain.
"Brick" Pomeroy Unmasked—" When
Rogues fall out, &c."
A few weeks ago, the Assistant Ed- -
:tor of the Watchman announced, with
a flourish of trumpets, and a great deal
of modesty, that he had written a BOOK
entitled "Brick . PO3IEROY Unmask
ed.
"Oh that mine enemy had written a
book" said Job. So Brick POMEROY
prayed; but the prayers of -the wicked
are not heard. For this we hwire the best
of authority. So" Brick" only succeed
ed in getting, about half the manuscript
of a book; and, according to his own
statement, it was very trashy stuff. So
much so, that he published it and -of
fered it to the public at the very low
price of six cents per 'copy: - But we
will let " Brick tell his_own story; not
because we care anything about. the
book, its subject matter, or its author;
but on account of some of the nice lit
tle exposures of the Democratic BOND
HOLDERS, such as the: "World news
paper clique," BELAION T. Gov. HOFF
MAN & Co., who, according to Brick
POmEROY, must be a very count set
of villains: . -
. "On the third page of the Democrat
"this week we publish a little
° lively
"reading for the holiday SeaSon:„We
" had leardthat the World clique of
" this city, - aided by BEL.iioNT and his
" bonclholding people-robbers, intend
" ed.' to print such a. .document—they
" hav:rig found a supposed Democrat
" s_vOciently depraved to do their dirty
work, with )tope of gain—and gull
"-the public into paying fifty cents per
"copy-for the same.. Not wishing to
" see the - people robbed by bondhold
" have,- bYa prompt stroke of
" enterprise . and some strategy, been
" able-to lay the sane before our hun
dreds of thouganda of readers, long
" before it can be printed in book-form,.
,"and, instead of robbing the public
"with a charge of fifty cents per copy,
'" we farniSh-it with a 'Vast arainint, of
other. matter for six cents. per-copy.
"Inquire at the counting-room-of the
.i• Democrat, 166 Nassau street, New
"York; or of news agents everywhere. •
"As regards the teat of the book, we
"pr ipme to say . little: Its shallowness
us of the trouble of pronounc
ing it untrue, and we leave it to our
"friends and enemies, and every one,
"..to amuse themselves with. .
"If the bondholders, after attempt
" ing to bribe...uf!, think they willget
":rid' of us in this manner, they are de
" teidedlv more verdant than we sup-
If they think the several col
" umns of trash,renasii t;Cjiitat Radical
"newspapers have been printing for the
"past'folir years, will aid their .cause,
or damage the people's, then they are
"welcome to the benefit they &from
"its appearance in our large edition.
Theyshould he. thankful that in print
" ing it have saved their paying the
" sore-head who wrote it the price th ey
" stipidated. , he should have, and the
"public should thank us, not only for
" giving them an early perusal of the
" infamies of the infamous BRICK
" POMEROY,• but beciuse we have
" saved them from the swindles of the
" combinatiOn.
"We have printed the matter from
" the original copy, and the foreman
" of our newsroom will make affidavit
" that it has been done without the
" change of a letter Or word. 'We shall
" not print it in book form, and those
"who 'desire early copies of the bur
lesque should send in their names at
" once, as the increase in our subscript
ion lists is likely to exhaust the
"thousands of extra copies we. have
" printed."
After making a thief of himself by
stealing the manuscript of the afore
said book, i. e., if he did.steal it, we
think "Brick should have been satis
fied, and not added to.the meanness as
well as wickedness of his crime by at
tacking the personal character of its
author. But Brick ,is a blackguard,
and everybody knows it, and he has
become so accustomed to it that it is
second nature with him. "It is hard
to make a silk purse out of a sows lug,"
so we will have to consider " Brick" a
lost and hopeless case, permit him to
tell . his .own. story in his own vulgar and
ungentlemanly way,
`:A. man named KIEROLF, profess
" ing to be a Democrat, angry because
" lie - Was . not made managing or-assis
" tent editor of one of our newspapers,
" like the lying, unprincVed, dishonest,
"social, and newspaper guerrilla, oth
" ers besides ourselves-have found him,
" has been-advertising for some weeks to
"furnish, for fifty cents, a book called
" BRICK I'OMEROY UNMASKED.'-
"Ever ready to do dirty work for pay,
" he bargained with certain parties
"who hold bonds in this city to write
c a complete history of us from 1860 to
", 1868. For this he was to receive one
C• thousand dollars and a share of the
"book. On reaching New York we
"learned of the doings of this sneak
" and the boast of the men who hired
"him, and, by a little strategy, pos
" sessed ourself of the entire mann
" script for the great hoc* which was
"to squelch us, and enrich a dead-beat.
-" And so, while the wrier, who ran
" away from New.. York before our re
" turn, is waiting somewhere in Penn
" sylvania for the. proof of his great
" work-while the Mercer street pub
" lisher is waiting for a return of the
" copy while the artist is at work on
" the illustrations for - the book, we
" present .the entire inn SP of . rehash
" from Radical newspapers; toner read
" ers, with a caution not to trust us !
"The writer,:from his-retreat in an ad
"joiuing stall, where he - waits as Riff
" LEA did at Fort Fisher, to see the ef
" feet of his explosion , ._ Writes a letter, we print at the top of the arta
" cle, and proraise - S to send us an early
" copy 1 His letter tells the whole
story. * * * *
`` eunwlciZe,
read 'what a vi//abi• we
are
The following is a copy of the letter
that " Brick" refers to in the above,
and which he says.is a true copy:
" WRY THESE THINGS ARE."
BELLEFONTE, PA., Dec. 16, 1868.
Iff. M. Pomeroy :
" DEAR Su —lnclosed you' will find
"the copy of a card published this
"week, copies of which have been. sent
to you. I remained in New York
"three weeks to make known to you
", personally that I contemplated giv
ing to the public the biography of a
" biographer. - You can just - bet your
" loose change that I have done you up
"well—omitting, nothing. It may be
"that hereafter, you will
_see' the ad
" vantage of giving a, man a situation
"on your paper, especially when he
"has lied for you as - many times-as I
"have. I suppose you feel ..mighty
"smart because you have got rich. I
" will send you an early_copy of my
"book. .-
THINE FOR THE BIGHT,!: -
"ALF. S. KIEROLF."
We think`l3rick"'/-ies . -under
take when he says Mr. Krr,rtois sent
him this letter, but then
_there is no
telling, for it is 'an . old adage that "A
liar is not to be believed wben he does
tell the truth."'.. "It bUSiness of
ours, however,.-aufkbutfor the sake of
showing our readers, and especially the
intelligent portion of the Dethocratic
party, the kind .of Democrats . who. do
up their editorials, and assume to lead
the-Pemocratie party, we would „not
have written a ward. It will, howeVer,
aid in advertising -the - book-; and ena
ble us to close as we started " When
rogues fall out honest men get their
dues." lii the mean time .we are anx.
ious to , have Mr. KIEROth go on in
the work.of "unmaskfivikticK Pox-
ROY." • .
SHORT extracts from the • Watch,man
of last week. First :
".` BOOTY AND BEAUTY-'—" Lord
"FACKINGHAM fired the hearts of his
"soldiery at New Orleans with the
",promise of `. booty and beauty.' An
"Army made up of the same mate
"-rial—Yankee•tories, New England
"thieves • and Hessians, Englishmen
"and adventurers, succeeded in later
"'years, under the Stars and Stripes,
" and BUTLER and BANKS, in revel
" ing in what .P.AcKpialiAll failed to
" secure for h.isvagabOnds—"
Which.is not complimentary to the
fair daughters of Louisiana Demo
crats. The remarks about our sol
diers are aaracteristic of the Watch
man, but not new. You hive said
those things so. often; cannot you
think of something else? The few
soldiers' who have been enticed by
petty office to Your ranks, and tile few .
who are kept there by empty
ments,
_and old .prejud ices, are flatter
ed by your good opinion of.their serv
ices to the country. They can see
easily why you favor their nomina
tions for offices where there is no pos
sible chance of an election. • ;
"Tories," " thieves," "Hessians"
"adventurers," reveling amidst the
"beauty, and fattening on the booty"
of Louisiana. Of course you: will
nominate a soldier tor Governor. He
is certain of defeat and serves the
"Hessian thief" just right. Second:
`` STARS 'A - rii) STRIPES IN 1 61.8.-
" The stars and stripes' bunting dur
ing the fate war was the best sym
" bol of the cause of a drunken des
"
" potism:which could have been used.
The stars were visionary; being such
"as seen through red eyes and the in
" fluence of mean Northern whisky;
"while the stripes were for the slaves
" of power, as- well as to represent,
"not only streaked principles, - "but
" many-colored creatures who bore'on
"for spoils, a banner that -was dis
graced. by
_mongrels, and ghouls,
"and their pal asites."
Good ! Here we have something
more, and, may be, new. Has not the
Carpet-bagger of WisdOiasin, lowa,
Missouri and Kentucky been commit
ting to memory the list of epithets and
billingsgate that some ingenious
•fel
low collected to show the capabilities
of our language in that regard, in or
der to properly describe a Union sol
dier? How proud of their newspaper,
the Democratic soldiers of Centre co.
must feel? What pet names this ink
spattering adventurer 'fin journalism
applies to them. "Slaves," "Creat
ures," "mongrels," "ghouls," "par
asites." What have these - soldiers
done to KIEROLE ? • Did .any of'them
ever shave his head and drum him out
of camp, or anything of that sort?—
Here he goes again; look. Third :
"Hail Columbia! happy land,
"If we don't burn you, we'll be d—d !
"This was the buccaneer song that
" SHERMAN sung, when - he got his
" armed incendiaries into the town
"of Columbia, South Carolina."
There, now; he -bas all the old
Watchman words in except assassins,
murderers and Lincoln hireliugs.—
Won't SHERMAN and his men feel
badly when they read that:..
THANKS.- Our thanks are. due
Hon. P. G. 'MEEK', of the State - Leg.
islature, for valuable public docu—
ments.
Hon. ,Trio. H. STOVER, of the Na—
tional Congress, will also receive our
thanks for valuable documents.
THAT BANNER.—Our friends from
Liberty tp. are anxious to know . .what
has become of the BANNER that was
to be presented to the tp. making the
largest rains in the last election over
that of 1866? We are not booked on
this question and cannot answer. We
do know that Philipsburg, Howard tp.,
and we think Ferguson tp., were com
petitors for the FLAG. Who got it,
or who will get it, we are not able to
say. If it has not been decided, we
think it should have been before this
time. Delays are said to be danger—
ous, we know that they are always
unpleasant. , It not already present—
ed, we suggest that it be done on the
22nd of February. ,
Questions and, Answers.
Now that there is no political ex
citement to. divert the minds . of . the
people from the truth of history, we
propose to submit, for the consid6ra,
tion of honest, thinking men every
where, the. following questias and
answers, confident that no man can
gainsay or contradict them : -
Q. Who ruled in Pennsylvania from
1790 to ;R54?
The. Democratic party.
Q. What was the amount of debt
imposed upon the State by the Demo
cratic party ?
A. Forty-one millions of dollars.
Q. Who reduced• this enormous
Democratic State debt, since 1854, till
it is now less than Thirty-two millions
of dollars ?
A. The Union Republican party.
Q. Why did the people ignore the
'Democratic party?
A. Because it proved false -to the
teachings of the fathers, false to the
Union, false to the people, to liberty
and human rights.
Q. Where did the evidence of this
betrayal of principle become so mani
fest, that tens of thousands of people,
aird all the consciencious and christian
leaders forsook the party and went
over in a body to thellepublican or
ganization ?
.. A. In the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise and the Border F uffian
war to inflict slavery upon. the virgin
soil Kansas..
Q. Who endeavored to force slavery
upon Kansas regardless of the will of
her people ?
A. James Buchanan, a Democratic
President. •
Q. When, in consequence Of this
. teaching, James Buchanan was turn
ed out of office, and Abraham"-Lin
coln Constitutionally elected, who re
fused to submit to the will of the ma
jority, and to obey the laws of the
land 2•
A. The Democratic Party.
Q. What did the leaders of that
party do after the election, and be
fore the inauguration of President
Lincoln?
A. They declared in favor of a dis
solution of the Union; held seces
sion conventions; passed secession or
dinances, and compelled seven States
to withdraw from the Union and set
up a government of their own, with
Jefferson Davis as their President.
• Q. Was this Democratic?
A. No. Because it was the minori
ty refusing to be governed by the ma
jority.
Q. Who, then, brought on the war?
A. The Democratic party.
Q.- If the Democratic party brough t
-on the war, is it not responsible for the
-heavy National Debt incurred by the
Government to protect and defend the
National life and honor, to restore or
der and peace ?
A. Certainly_ . Every: school boy in
the land kno:.vs that the Democratic
party.is responsible for the N.a.tional
Debt; and every man who has any
knowledge of the rules ofLogic, knows,
-reasoning from cause to effect, that
'there is no possible way for that party
to shift this responsibility.
Q. Who, then, in this view of - the
case, is responsible for the Revenue
tax, the Stamp tax, the "cent-on-the
match-box-tax," and all the other
onerous taxes, growing out of the war,
of which we hear so much ?
A. The Democratic party.
Q. Who Wasted that they would
not vote a man nor a dollar tc put
down the rebellion ?
A. The Democratic party.
Q. Why did they refuse to assist
the Government, and at the same
time willingly give aid and comfort to
the rebels
A. Because these rebels were, or
had been, members of the Democratic
party, and were looked upon by these
Northern Copperheads as brethren,
not enemies.
Q. Who were the leaders of the re
bellion?
A. All Democrats.
Q. Who controlled the States in
rebellion ?
A. Democrats. Every Governor,
in every State that seceded, was. a
Democrat.
Q. What party in the North oppos
ed every measure of the Government
to suppress the rebelliOn ?
A. The Democratic party.
Q. Who filched from the National
Treasury all the money, leaving it
bankrupt ainhe breaking out of the
war?
A. The Democratic party,
Q.. Who resisted the draft, and ad
vised Democrats to die on their own
door steps rather than go into the
" Unholy crusade against their South
ren brethren ?
A..P. G. MEEK and all other Cop
perhead Editors of the Democratic
party.
Q. Who worked and vote& against
giving the Union Soldiers a vote while
With his regiment battling for the na
tion's life?
A. The Democratic party.
Q. Who organized, encouraged and
defended the treasonable organization
known as the Knights of the Golden
Circle ?
A. The Democratic party.
Q. Who called the Union soldiers
Lincoln hirelings, thieves, cut-throats
and robbers ?
A.—P. G. MEEK. and other rebel
sympathising Democrats.
Q. Who murdered Abraham Lin
coln ?
A. Wilkes Booth,a good Democrat,
and several others, tools of the Sur
ratt Democracy.
Q. Who fired hotels in Now York
with the intention of burning the city?
A. The )ninore of Detionntoy,
Q. Who hurned..Colored Orphan
AsYluma;. and murdered ~peaceahle
citizens in the city of New York?.
A. A r . ecognized . leader.of the .De
,mocratic party, and. his "friends,'
Q. Who endeavored tosmuggle into
the North small-pox clothing?
A. A good Democrat.
A. Who are the fiends calling them
selves the Ku-Klux--Klan?
A. Democrats, every- one.
Q, Who declared the war a failure,
and its results nothing but debt,
slaughter and disgrace? -
A. The Democratic party.
Q. Who villified Gen. Grant, the
greatest Captain of the age, before
the late election, and now declare that
they knew all through the campaign
that he would be elected President ?
The leaders of the 'Democratic
party. '
Q. Who are going - -to - get soundly
whipped in this County and State in
the coming fight for Couuty officers,
and the Gubernatorial chair?
A. The Court House clique, and
the Democratic party.
Q. Who will do it?
"A. The" intelligent, thinking, but
indignant people. Those who are op
posed to treason and Free Trade.
Grant, Colfax and the. Colored Dele
gates.
On the morning of the 19th the
committee of the Colored Men's Na
tional Convention recently in session
in Washington, called upon General
Grant by appointment. It consist
ed of John M. Langton, Ohio ; Rob
ert Purvis, Pennsylvania ; George T.
Downing, Rhode Island; William R
Mathews, Maryland ; Alex. Clark,
lowa ; 0. L. C. Hughes, Pennsylva
nia; A. M. Green Pennsylvania, and
0. S. B. Will, Ohio, Mr. Langton,
chairman of the committee, addressed
Gen. Grant as follows :
"In the name of four millions of
American citizens; in the name of
seven hundred thousand electors of Af
rican ilescent,who have braved threat,
who have defied intimidation, whose
members have been reduced by assas ,
sination and murder in their efforts in
the exercise of a franchise guaranteed
by American law to every one clothed
in the full livery of American, citizen
ship, to secure in the late Preside-atial
canvass the election of the nominee of
the National Republican party to the
high laces for W.ich they were nam
ed; We, the accredited delegates of
the .National Convention of Colored
'Meta, the seSsions of which in this
city, have just closed, come to pre.
sent to you our congratulations upon
your election to the Presidency .of the.
United States. . Permit us, General,
to express in this connection our con
fideuce in your ' " ability and deter
mination to so "execute the laws al
ready enacted by our -national-Con
gress, and to pre:erve and protect the
life, the,liberty. the. rights, .
,_ no, less of
the humblest subject. of the govern.
merit than those of the most exalted
and influential. Called'as you are to
fill the chair of State, your duties will
be arduous •and trying, especially
since, in this reconstruction period of
the Government, yoti will adminiAer
the government according to the prin
ciples of morals and law announced-by
the fathers in advance we bring to
you, General, as a pledge of our de
votion to our common country and
Government, the liveliest — sympathy
of the colored people of the nation,
and in theirname we express the hope
that all things 'connected .with the ad
ministration of the Government upon
which You are soon to enter as cur
Chief Magistrate, may be,urtder Prov
idence, so ordered for the maintenance
of law and the constunation of free
dom, that your name, written high on
the scroll of honor and fame, may go
down to posterity, glorions and im
mortal, associated with the names of
your illustrious predecessors in the
greatchati of state, Washington and
Lincoln."
To this address General Grant re
plied as follows : •
"I thank the convention of which
you are the representatives• for the
confidence you have expressed, and I
hope sincerely that the colored people
of the nation may receive every pro ,
tection that the laws give to them,
and they shall have my efforts to se
cure such protection. They should
prove by their acts their advancement,
prosperity,at•d obedience to the laws,
as being worthy of all the privileges
the Government has bestowed upon
them, and by their future conduct
prove themselves deserving of all they
now claim."
The committee were then severally
introduced to General Grant. After
leaving the headquarters, they pro
ceeded to the Capitol, where they de
livered a speech of congratulation to
Speaker Colfax, who replied:
" While I am gratified to receive on
behalf of the millionsyou represent this
expression of their confidence, I know
without this formal call how heartily
all of them rejoiced over the result of
last November. The great Republi
can organization then so triumphantly
endorsed, proclaimed that God help
ing them, this republic should stand
conspicuous among the nations of the
earth as one which recognized that
the greatest glory of • a government
was to protect to the fullest extent not
its mightiest and most influential citi
zens, but rather its humblest and
most defenceless. In that declaration
of human rights, proclaimed when our
republic was born, and for the sincer
ity of which our ancestors appealed to
the Searcher of all hearts, it was avow
ed that "all governments derived
their just powers from the consent of
the governed," in spite of dispute,
prejudices seemed in former years al
most ineradicable.
Our party has constantly gone for
ward at each advancing step in its
progress with the light of liberty and
justice shining upon its forehead, and
realizing that the world itself was not
created in a day. It has, like its mar
tyred President, whom you all remem
ber with so much affection, progress
ed as fast and as far as enlightened
and advancing public sentiment would
ratify and maintain. The late oleo•
Lion has proven, as often before. that
organizations based on temporary pop
ularity, and relying for their strength
on the poweror projudiee,, are like the
the house built on the shifting sands,
while those founded POpvirloitlte. and _justice and right are like the
built on a rock, against whieh the
waves of oppoitiott dash powerless
and in vain. I rejoice with you that
the day "has already' dawlied When,
fibre Sea, to sea, every one within our
borders shall have their rights main
tained .and• protected, ; and when we
shall realize as a nation, in the
degree, a
"truly republican form of gov
ernment.
-THE Watchman- devotes a large
portion of its space to a systematic
defaination and libelling of prominent
Republicans: This has long been a
favorite weapon in modern Democrat
ic warfare. Amongst others, CARL
SCHURZ, Senator elect from Missouri
is - denounced.as an Infidel. How lit
tle or how much truth there may be
in the charge; we know not. Its be
ing made , by, this newspaper is strong
presumptive, evidence that it is false.
But this an old game. Prejudice the
minds of the people)against men, or
they will listen to their arguments and
may find out their force and truth
fulness, has long been a Democratic
method of keeping their followers on
the paths that lead to public ruin.
We hold that a man's religious be
lief is Ms matter,and that his account
ability for it, is to God and not man.
In political life and civil government
we have nothing to do- with religious
opinions, but only with the character
of men's acts in public life and their
views in reference to public polie4'.
JEFFERSON was a Deist yet demo
crats hail him as the father of their
party. COWAN is said to be an infidel
yet some democrats desire to place
him on the Bench of our Supreme
Court. The same charge is made
against more than one of our promi
nent democratic leaders not far from
Bellefonte; whether with truth or
not we cannot tell, aud , evidence is
offered every day to show that many
men entertain opinions on Religious
subjects that policy prevents their
avowing because they differ so widely
from that of the mass of our citizens.
Will the Associate Editor of the
Watchman, declare in what his views
differ from those he attributes to
CARL Scuuuz? Or will he leave
theology, about which he knows very
little, to the Chttrehes, and attend to
politics and Brick Pomeroy? This
course he - Will'find affording him oc
cupation for most of his leisure time
during-same months to come.
THE Watplaizan insists, that Abra
:ham Lincoln is in hell. low does the
Editor know.? Has'he accurate dis
patches from his friends in that de
lightful region ? We hope .it. is .not
true,. for copperheads and rebels wor
ried the old man enough in this life
before they murdered him, to entitle
him to -be saved the torture -of pass-
ing an eternity in their company. If
:the majority - rules. down there, there'll
be no show for a Republican to ge t
even a"X: Roads Post Office. We hope
KIER oLF 'S 'dispatches -are false.—
Probably the devil is trying to make
him believe that there is a chance of
.his. some me- getting- into good com
pany. Dcet.let him fool you :that
way, ALFRED; he is a desateful wild
* ' •
We : Would jUst here suggest the fol
lOwiug very beautiful and peCuliarly
appropriate lines for the Editors of
the Watchman t o repeat each morn
ing and evening :
"And are we rebels still alive,
• - Ai - tilde' we still rebel,
0, is it not amazing Grace
That we are not in hell.'
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