Cfje Centre Democrat.
BELLEFONTE, PA."
Thursday Morning, Aug. 22d 'CI.
J. J. BRISBIN, EDITOR & PUBLISHER.
W. W. BROWN, ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
THE People's Party of Centre county, and those
in favor of sustaining the National and State
Administrations, the Constitution, the union of
the States and the enforcement of the laws. Those
who desire to see rebellion punished and our na
tion 1 honor vindicated, are requested to meet on
Saturday the 24th day of August, in their respec
tive Townships and Boroughs, at the usual plaoea
of holding elections, and choose by ballot, three
delegates from each Township, whose daty itshall
be to meet in County Convention at ihe Arbitra
tion Room, in the Borough of Eellefonte, on
Wednesday evening, the 28th, (Court Week,) at
1 o'clock, P. M., to nominate candidates for the
several offices at the general election. The elec
tion for delegates to be opened at 4 o'clock, P. M.
and to be kept open until 6 o'clock of said day.
EDMUND BLANCHARD,
Chairman of County Executive Committee.
Union Meeting.
A meeting cf the ci tizens of Centre, will be held
at the Court bouse in Bellefoute, on the evening
of Monday of the August oourt, to discourse the
importance of a hearty and unanimous effort on
the part of the inhabitants of the loyal states, to
proseetite with becoming vigor and deferrniuatio-n,
the present war for the suppression of rebellion,
the preservation of the Union and the mainte-.
nance of the Federal Constitution.
As this is a subject in which all persons aro
equally and deeply interested, all are earnestly
invited to come and participate in the proceedings
of the meeting. Let no one who values the liber
ties of this free republic, no one wh does not de
sire the overthrow of our beloved and cherished
national institutions, no one who seeks the con
tinuance of our wise and beautiful system of gov
ernment —no one who hopes that the blessings
long enjoyed by a free people, of equal righ'ts, and
wise BRJ wholesome laws, may ascend uponfuture
generations—no one who seeks to preserve and
perpetuate the-glorious union of the states in one
great federal compact—no OLe who is willing to
foreg party prejudice, and party interests and
party ties, that he may serve the higher ani bet
ter interests of a whole nation, now engaged in a
fearful and terrific struggle for national existence
in short, let no patriot be absent. But let all
come and discuss freely and in a spirit of true
patriotism and fraternal kindness and syrn
phathy,'the great purposes which the nation
his resolved to accomplish.
Let no trifling ard selfish interest detain you in
times like these, but put aside your plough and
your hammer and your plane, close your work
shops, your stores, your offices and your places of
business, and come up. together as a people should'
come whose liberties aro assailed by tae strongest
and most alarming rebellion the world has erer
known*
MANY CITIZENS.
Every person paying his
subscription, to this paper, during
Court Week, will secure the ad
vance terms. Tumble in, friends,
and save half a dollar.
Good News for Freemen.
The U. S. Grand Jury have presented
the Day Book, the Journal of Commerce,
the Daily News, of New York city and the
Brooklin Eagle, ae traitorous and disloyal
publications,. injurious to the cause of free
dom-
Preparing for Emergencies.
With a view of meeting all contingencies
wbieh may arise, the Administration bos is*
Bued orders, for the forwarding to Washing
ten of all the troops in the States of Penn
sylvania, New Jersey, New York, Conneeti
cut, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island,
New Hampshire, Maine, and Michigan,
whether such volunteers are armed, equip
ped, or uniformed or not.
Let There he No Mobs in the
North.
Our readers will remember that we noticed
last week, the destruction of two or three
Tory papers in New Hampshire and in
Maine, by the insulted and infuriated three
months soldiers who bad returned from the
war. We are pleased to see that the N. Y.
Tribune, the best and most reliable paper in
the United States, truly argues that this po'
licy is in the end injurious. "We had bet
ter bear even grevious evils for which the
law affords DO remedy, than violate laws
which in the loDg run are the safeguard oi
us all. It is true that no Union paper is toU
erated where seoession prevails; but it is
our boast that 'error may be tolerated where
there :s like freedom left to combat it.' "
The right way, says the Lewisburg Chron
icle, to get rid of papers whieh—under the
false colors of Democracy—are working hand
-in-glove with the rebels, is to cease pa
tronizing them; to frown down their treason
by social contempt and the omnipotent voice
of public opinion ; and above ali to SUPPORT
NO MAN WHOM THEY PROPOSE. Many of
these papers are sickly concerns, sustained
by funds outside of their honest resources,
and court hostilities that they may gain
sympathy or noteriety. Let them alone se
verely, and they will soon die out wherever
the United States Flag waves."
The Pniladelp hia Bulletin a first class dai
ly, in refering to this subject has the follow
ing excellent language : •
"Ttie U. S, Grand Jury have presented
four newspapers published in New York ci
ty, and one published in Brooklyn, as dis
loyal, and guilty of furnishing aid and Com
fort to the enemy. The Jury state in their
presentment that they are aware of the great
liberty of speech and of the press allowed
in a fiee government, but they urge that
there is nevertheless a limit;
' If a person in a fortress or an army were to
preach to the soldiers submission to the enemy,
lie would be treated as an offender. Would he be
more culpable than the citizen who, in the midst
of the most formidable conspiracy and rebellion,
tells the conspiritors that they are right, encoura
ges them to persevere in resistance, and con
demns the efforts of loyal citizens to overcome
and punish them, as an "unholy war If the
utterance of such language in tho streets or thro'
the press is not a crime, then there is a great de
fect in our laws, or they were no', made for such
an emergen ey,"
This question has not been considered
with sufficient seriousness. In Maine and
New Ilampsh.re, disloyal presses have been
crushed out by mobs, we know ; but that is
not an equitable method o r treating treason
able printers, and is. besides, liable to a
thousand abuses. What is wanted is a final
settlement of the question—Whether rebel
presses are to be legally allowed to veDt their
spleen. One disloyal press iD the North can
accomplish more than half a dozen regiments
of rebels in the field, and should like to see
the matter tested on a legal basis. Let the
U. S. Marshals in this city, in Baltimore,
ai.d wherever treasonable sheets are issued,
take up each case at ODce, and place the
matter before the courts without delay. The
people will sustain the action, however se
vere, provided it be legal; and the vast mass
of our citizens will rejoice in it as another
sign of determination and courage on the
part of the Administration. The arrests of
Muir, Serrel, and Faulkner have been loud
ly applauded ; equal gladness would be man
ifested, were every disloyal paper in the
North promptly and justly dealt with."
We copy the above opinions from these
three reliable papers —and could increase
the number—to show our readers, the good
and loyal citizens of Centre, that we are Dot
alone in our opinions. We have roceived
letters from different parts of the county,
from men of all parties, condemning the
course of the Democratic Watchman and ask
irg us what should be done with it. Our
answer has invariably been, refrain from mob
violence I And we now say to our corres
pondent, "A Union Democrat of Harris,"
resort not to force, this would please them
too well. This thing carried out would ac
complish for us to some extent, just what
Jeff. Davis and his Southern*rebels want, a
divided North.
If the Watchman is guilty of treason, it
should be proceeded against in a legal way.
If its dcctrines are not treasonable, and are
in no way aiding or abetting treason, then it
is jntitled to go on, entitled to all the free
dißi of speech aDd of the press. But this
question should be determined soon. We
would, therefore, call the attention of Judge
LI.VN to this fact. Let him, ID his charge
to the Grand Jury, next week, define what
treason is, and if it falls upon our neighbors
of toe Watchman, let them be reported to
the proper authorities and let them be dealt
with according to law. But let no mab vio
ler.ee be used !
Ia our humble opinion those who own
a paper are as much responsible—in a mor
al point of view—as those who edit it. And
these who take or support a treasonable
sheet, no matter where it maybe published
are the aiders aud abettors of and sympa
thizers with treason. Now we charge not
treason against the Watchman, but that it
has a qitzer way of showing its loyalty to
the Government, all loyal men must admit.
If its course dees not ; suii the proprietors
of that paper, why do they not so control
as to make it at least loyal.
We are in the midst of a great rebellion. —
Every loyal heart is distressed on account of
the condition of the country ; and every loy
al citizen knows that this war was forced up
on the country by Sou hern cemagogues, who
all their 1 ives long acted with the so-called
Democratic party. That there a;re thousands
of good loyal 'Denrocrats no one can doubt,
tbat there are whole regiments of them now
fighting for the Stars and = Stripes is equal
ly true. But admitting all this why is it
that the Watchman has not ODG word of
praise for these men, or for such noble and
oval Democrats as Hon. Andrew Johnston
of Tennessee, aDd Hon. Jos. Holt of Ken
tucky? Why is it that it does not rejoice
over the great Union vote of Kentucky, and
eontinues to abuse Union men in- Baltimore,
and everywhere else, who will not shout
poms of praise to the perjured traitors Breck
inridge and Vallandigham? And yet these
men are deceiving the people by calling
themselves democrats. Sacred name, how
bast thou been abused ? llow long desecra
ted and employed to carry out the most in
fernal schemes by the very nigger driving
rebels who have at last taken up arm 9 against
the Government, and forced us into a war to
maintain the very life of the Government
and Constitutional liberty throughout the
world. God grant that that the whole North
may lay aside their prejudices, beeome fully
aroused to the great work that is befere us,
to wit: the salvation of the Union. Better,
far, sacrifice all we hold most dear —families,
farms, money—than to see this blessed Union
dissolved, dissevered, and we reduced to an -
archy, a military despotism, or a negro driv
ing monarchy. Let the people arouse. Nest
week we willpublish the names of the Pro
prietors of the Watchman. The people should
know who they are ; for certainly if the
Watchman is odious to loyal citizens, these
men sympathize with it.
Delegate Elections.
Republicans of Centre, by reference to the
call of Mr. Blaocfcard, chairman of the coun
ty Committee, you will see that next Satur
day is the time appointed for electing Dele
gates to the Republican Convention on next
Wednesday. Republicans, Union loving men
of Centre, let us appeal to you, not to Deglect
the delegate elections. We hope every man
ofyou will be found at your post, so eoon a9
the polls are open. Elect none as delegates
but good and true Republicans, men who
know their rights, and knowing dare main
tain them —men who are in favor ol the war
and pressing it on to a speedy and honorable
conclusion—men who are unwilling to apol
ogize in any way for voting for Abraham
Lincoln, the constitutionally elected head, of
this Government, men whose motto is " Death
to Traitors" wherever found.
Elect good.active, and if possible talking
men, and to save trouble and hard feeling
afterwards, we would suggest that you in
struct those delegates to vote for your choice,
who ever he may be. This is the best, and
the only sure way, to prevent dissatisfaction
after the nominations are made. We shall
interfeie in behalf of no particular man,—
This is your work. Take it iDto your own
hands, aDd see to it that you do it well and
are not cheated by pclitioal tricksters and
convention Borers.
We are willing to vote and work for any
good man, who may be nominated, and who
will not hold out a bribe for the people's votes,
either before or after the nomination, in short
we can vote tor any honest man who can
endorse the following Platform to wit?
" We are for the Union as it is, and the
" enforcement of the laws as they are, until
" every Rebel lays down 7iis arms, is killed in
" battle or hung— until this wicked rebellion
"is crushed out. We are for no compromise
" with armed traitors, no truce with rebels,
" no pardon for pirates, DO complicity with
" thieves, and no parley with murderers.—
" We are for the party (and no man need be
" mistaken in it) which will stand by the
THE! C3S3WT3RK X>3EMOCRAT„
" country, sustain the Government, and not
" think of with-holding meD or means until
" the nation has asserted its independence of
' organized mobs, and ics power to crush this
" great conspiracy. We are for the party
" which inscribes on its banner, ' No com
" promise—no delusive cry of peace ; the na
" tion shall be preserved. Whoever subscribes
" this doctrine is of our party, we care not
" what political name he has borne heretofore,
" or what one he proposes to bear. 1 "
lie who cannot support candidates upon
such a platform is certainly not a .Republi
can, is certainly not a loyal citizen. The
man who would cry peace now is as much a
TOR\* or traitor to his country as was the
peace party of the Revolution, or of the War
of 1812. They were called Tories then, and
we call the peace men of 1861 by the same
name, and can have no affiliation with thena.
Republicans of Centre to work then for our
glorious principles, and the best Government
the world ever saw. Be up and a doing, and
Ist the convention on Wednesday evening
next be a complete success. Let your war
cry be as above the Uuion, the constitution as
it is, and the enforcement of the laws.
"Let the people stop—let thompause and BE
FLECT ! The present involves the future, and
we should not rush madly, blindly onto utter des
truction. 'WTR is DISUNION. WAR IS FINAL,
ETERNAL SEPARATION,' —for every blow that is
struck but adds new fuel to the blaze of bitter
hatred. Stop, tben, we entreat you, and think.
The happiness of future generations depond upon
your course, and as sure as there is a God in
Heaven, a continuance of this war will de-troy,
forever, the Union of these States.— Watchman.
Yes, Stop, think, reflect 1 Hot-headed,
black-hearted traitors have been concocting
plans for the last half century, for the des?
truction of our Union. These plans have
been completed and are now being carried
out. Our Union has been dissolved by the
secession of Southern States; these States
have formed a Confederacy and the people
of this so-called Confederacy are up in arms
against the Government. They have stolen
our property and murdered our ;
they have broken the laws and defied the
authorities who endeavored to enforce them.
They desire to be "let alone" in their ras
cality, and why should the men of the North
or the Government ehject to it—certainly it
is nothing but the enjoyment of their 'South
ern Rights/ Why should we not compro
mise quick, aDd acknowledge at once that
the Republican form of Government is a bad
form and of no avail to the country in an
our of peril, that* the people are not capable
of governing themselves. Stop, pause, re
flect ! and let the rebels go oa in their hel
lish work. Stop, pause, reflect 1 and lei the
rebels take Washington ; let them gain the
ascendency in the North as well as in the
South, "War is dis-union. War is final —
Eternal separation." And to let these reb
els go unpunished is disunion, separation,
destitution, dishinor, disgrace, defeat, and
death to the greatest government on earth.
Abraham Lincoln, stop, pause, reflect I
Gen. Scott, pause and think ! Congress, do
not permit this thing to go any further!—
Call an extra session, for thinking I Don't
carry on this "unholy war," against the
wishes of the Watchman! Oh! Mr. Lin
coln, call the soldiers together and rell them
to hurry home, that it has been decided that
"War is Disunion. War is final —eternal
"separation," Northern men for the sake of
humanity, don't stand up against rebellion
any longer ; get right down, on your kDees
and lick the Just off the feet of traitors. Let
them keep what they have and give them
all they want. Compromise on any terms.
Let them have anything they want —if your
principles, let them slide ; if your rights,
do not dare to maintain them—for if you do
the war will contiune, and the Watchman
says "as sure as there is a Goi in Heaven a
continuance of the war will destroy, forever
the union of these States. "Let the people
stop—let them pause and reflect 1"
fi©* We take pleasure in calling the at
tention of our readers to the card of Chauney
Hulburt, iD another column. Mr. Hulburt
was formerly a resident of this place, and
was noted for integrity and business tact,
and we feel confident-, that in the business he
is now engaged, he will give entire satisfac
tion to those that may patronise him. From
his long connection with the wholesale trade
of Philadelphia, he possesses all the knowl
edge requisite for successful competition with
others, and understanding the wants of
country merchants, they will undoubtedly
find i'. to their advantage to call upon him.
Possessing great energy, with every facility
for the transaction of business, he will sue*
ceed.
" Surely there can be no one so ridiculously
insane, as to think that a Government pinned to
gether with bayonets and cemented with blood,
will be a type of that bequeathed us by our foro
fathers.— Watchman.
Our fathers resorted to the bayonet and
poured out their blood to establish this gov
erment, during the period of the Revolution.
In 1812 they resorted to the bayonet and
poured out their blood to maintain it. Shall
we, their sons, not take the same weapon in
our hands and pour out our blood in its de
fence, when necessary ? This Union must
be preserved, peaceably if possible, forcibly
if must.
Pictures! Pictures!! Pictures!!!
We wish, once more to call the attention
of our readers to the important fact that
Mr. Sohriber is still in town, tahing pic
tures, as low as 25 cents. People coming
to town next week will do well to call and
have their "faces taken," as Mr. Schribor
intends to leave town shortly after. Call
in, call in, only twenty-five cents for a real
good picture.
S&" David Todd, the old wheel-horse of
Democracy, in Ohio, said in a recent speech
at Cleveland, " I am frank to confess thet I
heartily endorse and approve every act of
Mr. Lincoln sioce his inauguration, j wpuld
support him as soon as I would Andrew
Jackson." How different from the bastard
Democrats who are secretly and underhand
edly trying to prejudice the people against
the Administration.
AN IMPORTANT QUESTION. —Shall three hun
dred thousand Slave-holders in the Rebellious
states rule and ruin Thirty Millions of people
for the benefit of slavery ? Disguise it as you
may, this is one important question now be*
fore the American people. Having failed to
do it with ballots, they are now resorting to
bulletß. Shalt tbey succeed ? Every patri
ot will thunder NO 1
Freedom of the Press,
Under this bead the Watchman of last
week notices the suppression of one Union
and two rebel newspapers. It first speaks
of the Democratic Standard, published in
Concord, N. 11., which was mobbed, carried
into the street and burned. Of course it
dis approves of the act and calls it the com
mencement of the reign of terror, and im
plores the help cf God on those who "fall
victims to the drunken mobs of abolitionism."
Next, it notices the suppression of Brown
low's Knoxville Whig in the following brief
manner :
"We learn that the secessionists have suppress
ed Brownlow's 'Knoxville Whig,' a Union paper
published in East Tennessee."
And that is the amount of the notice the
Whig receives at the hands of the editor of
the Watchman. Not one word in opposition
to this act. No "terror" in that. It is all
right as far as they are concerned. They
have no word of objection to utter against
the destruction of a Union paper, by the reb
el mob ; they must spend all their ire upon
the Union men for destroying what they are
pleased to term "Democratic anti -war jour
nals." For this we do not blame them much.
It comes natural for them to defend their
own kind. If they were to say that it was
right to destroy these rebel offices, it would
be a kind of a "dog eat dog" arrangement;
and if they were to reprove the secessionists
of East Tennessee, it would only be an in
stance of "satan reproving sin."
Then comes their notice of the Bangor,
(Me.) Democrat, another "Democratic anti
war journal," and in this paragraph is an
attempt to say hard things about the men
who engaged in this "damnable outrage,''
perpetrated by the hired tools of mobocrate,
upon the rights and liberties of American
citizens," and says that "hell will be to cool
and the devil too kind to these miserable
minions of despotism."
We draw two conclusions from their noti
ces of these three papers. First, that because
of their disunion sentiments, they are ter,
ribly "riled" because the Union men of two
different places became so disgusted with
papers like the Watchman that they "stop
ped" them. And secondly, that tbey were
greatly pleased with the manner in which
Brownlow, a Union man was treated by the
rebels. It would be their chief delight to
see the office of every Union man in the coun
try dostrcyed and their places filled wi:h
the advocates of Rebellion. The Freedom of
the press is a glorious thing, but no more
does it sanction the publication of treason,
than the law allows murder or theft, because
the perpetrator is a free man. We do not
consider it an infringement on the freedom
of the press, to suppress rebel newspapers.
For the Democrat.
MB. EDITOR :
I would respectfully suggest
the name of Ed. Blancbard, as a suitable
candidate for the State Senate on the Repub
lican ticket. Mr. Blanchard has loDg shown
himself to be the uncompromising enemy of
that suieidal policy that has at last brought
the country to a civil war, and arrayed sec
tion against section and traitors against the
Government.
Mr. Blanehard is now the Chairman of the
Republican County Committee, and as such,
is well known all over the district; he is a
firm friend of that Government that must bo
sustained if we are not to have civil and re
ligious liberty blotted from the face of the
earth.
Give us Mr. Blanchard and you will see
such a Udion vote polled in this district as
will make the few secession traitors amongst
us forever bide their tory heads.
A REPUBLICAN.
Rebels Don't Like Germans.
The following precious article appeared in
a Kentucky Secession paper, a short time
ago. Speaking of the Germans at Cairo, the
Editor says:
" When the bow-legged, wooden-shoed,
sourkrout-stinking, hologne-sausage-eating
hen-roost-robbing Dutch sons of from
Cairo had accomplished the brilliant feat of
taking down the Secession flag on the river
bank, they were point-d to another flag of
the same sort, which was flying gloriously
and detiantely about two squares distant (and
which their guns did not cover,) and defied,
yea, double big, black dog dared (as we used
to say at school) to take that flag down. The
cowardly pups, the sheep-dogs, the sneaking
skunks dare not do so, because those twelve
pieces of artillery were not bearing upon it.
And these are the people who are sent by
Lincoln to 'crush out' the South I"
For the Democrat.
Associate Judge.
MR. EDITORS :
You will favor the people of Ilalfmoun and
the Townships in the upper end of county
by announcing the name of Samuel Osman
Esq., as a candidate for Associate Judge.—
Mr. Osman is one of our best citizens, a hard
working, intelligent mechanic, speaks both
the German and the English language fluent
ly, and if elected, would honor not only the
office, but the great republican party. Please
announce his name subject to the decision of
the Republican Convention to be held in
Beilefonte en Wednesday EvoDing of the
August Court.
IIALFMOON.
Attention! Attention!!
A company formed in Pennsvalley of the
Cameron Infantry and Scott Guards, we
learn, have excellent prospects of filling up
immediately, and we are compelled to say
that we see no company whose prospects of
success are better. The extraordinary good
feeling and measure of success, which the
company which went from that section en
joyed during the three months service, ar
gues weli for this company. The company
is to meet at Pine Grove on Saturday after
noon, August 24th. Capt. 11. Stevens, who
is at the head of this company, has served in
the regular army, and duriDg the Mexican
war. Turn out 1
ARRESTED FOR TREASON. —Hon, Thomas
A. U. Nelson, of East Tennessee, who has
peisisfently opposed the action of his State,
was arrested on the charge of treason in Lee
Co., Va., on the 4th. He was on his way to
Washington to claim a seat in Congress. lie
will probably be tried.
That is the way Union men are treated in
the south, but here in the North traitors and
secessionists preach disloyalty and treason
with blazon impudence, and when the Gov
ernment attempts to stop them in their trea
sonable work their sympathizers cry out that
the liberty of the press, and freedom of speech
is being violated ! llow much loDger will
these things be allowed T
Eor the Democrat.
MH. EDITOR :
Strange times hare befallen us.—
Wars and rumors of wars have taken the place
of peace and harmony. But a few months ago
and the pages of American history bore the name
of but one traitor, and you had but ask the smal
lest school boy in the land to ascertain that that
name was "Arnold." How changed the scene !
Thousands of traitor s are up in arms against the
Government j thousands of arms are raised to
strike at the great heart of the Union. What
ingratitude—children striking at the heart of the
mother who has sustained them. And where are
these men—these traitors, to be found ? In the
South alone ? Would to God there were none
elsewhere; but while our fathers, our brothers
and our sons are going forth to swell the ranks
ef the Unicn army, while every loyal man is do
ing all in his power to save the country from des
truction ; there are men in the North, and even
in our very midst, who are willing to sacrifice
their country, for the supposed interests of men
who have proven themselves traitors to the best
government on the face of the earth—men who
sympathize with them in their ungodly work
and who aid as far as they may in further
ing their nefarious designs. How long shall this
be so ? In the name of high Heaven, shall these
traitors in disguise, be permitted longer to wear
the Union cloak to hide their black hearts f
Shall they longer prate about the rights of the
South and enumerate the wrongs they have en
dured ? Shall they be permitted to libel the Ad
ministration, and charge honest, loyal men of the
North with bringing civil war with all its horrors
upon us, when they know in their very hearts
that it was caused by their friends of the South?
I have been led to these thoughts by reading
tho Democratic Watchman, every number of which
is filled with articles better suited to a more
Southern community. Such a publication would
be no curi sity in South Carolina, the hot bed of
Secession. Its sentiments would be more readi
ly endorsed by the cohorts of Jeff. Davis than by
the citizens of Centre county. Its course sinee
the commencement of this war is condemned by
every honest Union man in the country. Every
week this paper is filled with long articles and
short articles, written articles and stolon articles,
all of which contain sentiments more or less trea
sonable, and every one of which express the sen*
timents of its editors. It makes it a special duty
to express its indignation at the manner in which
the Administration is dealing with the traitors
of the South ; to deprecate the continuance of
this war, which they declare was brought upon
the country by the "Black Republicans," and to
cry for "compromise" with traitors.
Now, Mr. Editor, as well you know, I have al
ways been a Democrat; but if this Watchman is
a democratic paper—if to be a Democrat is to be
a sympathizer with and a defender of traitors,
then lam a Democrat no longer. But this is
not so ; for many of ns are good Union men as
well as Democrats, and I do hope that the people
of Pennsylvania do not judge of the Democratic
party of Centre county by what claims to be its
organ. It is true that many honest Democrats
of our county have been misguided and led estray
in these matters by the Watchman, the Day Booh
and other kindred sheets. It is also true that
prejudice has much to do in this matter—there
are many who are so prejudiced- against every
thing in the shape of opposition to Democracy,
that, like the secessionists at the South, they
condemn before they give a trial. lam not one
of that kind. I think it right to 'prove all things.'
I think that the South should have given Abra
ham Lincoln a trial as President of the whole
Union, before they seceeeded. If they had done
this I believe their would have been no secession
and of course no war. Yet many of us are loyal.
Some of us have Deen in the army fer three
months, and are willing to go again if necessary;
but ii is rather hard that our friends must leave
their homos and endure the privations of a sol
dier's life, while there are men in our own coun
ty who are in favor of the rebellion, which we
are trying to crush out, men who would, were
they in the South, take up arms against us. I
think', myself, that editors should not be allowed
to publish, or citizens to speak treason in the
North. W ere a Union man to go South and talk
in favor of Union, we all know what would be his
fate.
The Union feeling is very strong in Harris tp.,
and I have heard men of responsibility, threaten
to go down and demolish the printing office of
tl e Watchman, if its editors do not change their
course. lam in favor of a free press, tut I am
not in favor of allowing men to publish treason,
and I hope that the Union men in the county will
take this matter in hand, earnestly, and inform
these editors that such conduct will not be allow
ed any longer.
There are a few men in Harris township, who
are not exactly sound, but then, yon know, igno.
ranee must be pled in behalf of a great many men-
We sent a company of as brave men to aid the
Government as ever' pulled a trigger ; they did
their duty and returned when their term of en
listment expired. There are but few of us who
are not willing to die for the old flag
If this is acceptable, I may write again.
A UNION" DEMOCRAT OF HARRIS.
For the Democrat.
BEILEFONTE, August, 1861. .
MR. EDITOR :
Since my return from the
seat of war I hear so many and widely dif
ferent accounts of the capture, by the ene
my, of a part of the company whiah I bad
the honor to command, that I deem it an act
of simple justice to myself and friends, and
the friend& of those who still remain in the
hands of the enemy, to ask permission to
give through the columns of your paper, a
brief account of the unfortunate transaction.
On the second of July the sth Brigade,
commanded by Gen. Negley, crossed tbo Po
mac and took up the line of march for Win
chester, Ya. After proceeding about a mile
from the river the first regimental honor—
that of acting as the advance guard of the
moving column—was given to my company.
I marched my company to the position as
signed it at the head of the column and mov
ed forward, the column following, on the pike
leading from Williamsport, Md., to Martins
burg, until we arrived at the road—a cir
cuitous one—leading to Martinsburg byway
of Gainesville.
Before arriving at this point I had asked
the Colonel commanding our regiment for a
guide, and a Lieut. Smith of the U. S. Topo
graphical Engineers, being highly recom
mended, as I afterwards learned, to Colonel
Oakford, as a gentleman of some military ex
perience, he was sent along with the guide,
and by special order was made my superior
in command for the day. The column and
the advance guard being at a halt, while the
artillery and cavalry were being placed in
their positions in the brigade, I asked per
mission of Lieut. Smith, to deploy the com
pany as skirmishers, at short intervals, on
the right and left of the road, and in that
manuor moved forward when all was again
ready to movo. Lieut. Smith, however, was
not in favor of this disposition of the men,
but threw out flankers, twelve in number,
on each side of the road, instructing them to
march in pairs at a distance of one hundred
yards in rear of each other and two hundred
yards from the road on either side. We had
proceeded in this form about two miles when
I observed two mounted men who seemed to
be reconoitering our position from a point
distant about three-fourths of a mile. One
of them was armed with a sword and seemed
to be using a glass. While the men marched
slowly forward, I ran ahead and reported
what I had seen, and suggested to Smith the
propriety of returning and making a recon
noissance of the supposed enemy through
his glass. This he refused to do and ordered
us on, assigning that the persons we saw
were scouts thrown out from Gen. Keim's
division which he supposed was, at that time,
advancing on the other road.
We maicbed on, perhaps half a mile far
ther, and halted the reserve corps in the
read. The left flankers at this moment were
out of sight, having penetrated a deep wood.
I never saw them afterward. They were
met by at least twelve times their number,
and resistance would have been worse than
madness. A braver set of men than they
were do not live, nor was there a more prom
ising officer of his age in our brigade, than
the one who commanded that day, viz : 2nd
Lieut John B. Hutchison. Just as we halt
ed, and evidently but a few moments before
they were made prisoners, one of the men
was sent in by Lieut. Hutchison to say that
two or three dragoons had been seen, but by
order of Lieut. Smith he was sent back to his
post.
Notwithstanding Smith's constant assu
rances that there was no enemy there, and
that the party seen were a part of our own
cavalry force, I deemed the position that we
theu held an unsafe one, and intimated to
Smith that we had better draw nearer the
column, as it had halted also, and was now
about half a mile in our rear.
This did not seem to him to be necessary.
Adapting a ruse, that here suggested itself
to my mind, by which we could draw nearer
the column when it again advanced without
seeming to disobey my superior. I left
Smith with the meu in the road and went to
the head of the flankers on the right with the
intention of instructing the Lieut, there in
command to hold his men in check, when
we again advanced and marched forward but
slowly while I would dress the' centre on
him and thus before proceeding far wa
should regain our proper position within
three hundred yards of the head of the bri
gade. I had scarcely commenced giving
these directions when a brisk firing com
menced in the road. I looked around to see
what was wrong, when-1 saw Lieut. Smith
and the guide coming in full flight, hotly
pursued by two or three of the enemy's cav
alry. Ten or twelve of my men, ai,d Lieut.
Haskings were now near me. We formed
them, and occupied as soon as possible an
advantageous position, and awaited an attack
from a portion of the enemy's cavalry who
were maneeveriog in one of the fields sepa
rating us from the main body of our troops,
and holding a position that entirely cut us
off. lie evidently expected to draw our fire
at too great a distance to insure accu acy of
aim, and then, being superior in number,
and well armed, charge upon us acd make a
whole company job of it. This, however, I
did not permit him to do, and our own cav
alry being momentarily oxpeted, his position
became a dangerous one and he rapidly re
treated. The guide since told me that he
and Smith saw the party approaching thro'
the fields on the left of the road. There was,
he supposed, between sixty and seventy in
□ umber, bat upon examining them through
bis glass Lieut. Smith observed that they all
wore the U. S. cavalry's uniform, and be
thus mistook them for our own troops.
My anxiety to avoid an action with the en
emy's scouts on that day arose from the fact
thai my company had been placed in such a
position that in case an attack from him on
either flank it would have been impossible to
have rallied the men on the right or left, or
centie, and, consequently, it would have been
impossible to withstand an assa-alt or even
to retire in order. The men in the road, at
the time they were attacked had net ground
ed or stacked their arms, they were not away
from their guns as some simple fellows pre
sume, but on the contrary were at their posts
in ranks. I know the men 1 had the honor
to command, and when on duty tbey knew
nothing hut duty.
Viewed in a military light alone, it was
an unfortunate aff lir, though a common mis
fortune of war. Viewed in a social light it
wag sad indeed. Parents are left to mourn
the loss of affectionate, do uing sons ; sisters,
the absence of their loved, brave brothers ;
and little children gather around a maternal
parent's chair and vainly ask when a long ex
pected father will return. But the keenest
reflection to the hearts of their patriotic
friends is that they are rot only debarred
from the pleasure of their association for a
time, but that a suffering country has lo9t
their brave support. -And deeply do I sym
pathize with them all. All that I can do to
insure their speedy release—which is simply
to re enlist and return to the seat of war and
aid in subduing our common enemy—shall
be done. I cast no reflections on any one.—
The great error that led to such a disaster on
that day has.since been committed bv others.
They are before a gererous publij. T © peo
ple shall deduct their own conclusions.
FRANK. W. IIESS.
Proclamation by the President.
Whereas, A joint committee of both
Houses of Congress has waited on the Presi
dent of the United States, and requested him
to recommend a day of public humiliation,
prayer and fasting, to be observed by the
people of the United States and religious
solemnities, and the offering of feryent sup
plications to Almighty God for the safety and
welfare of these States, his blessings on their
arms, a speedy restoration of peace; and
whereas, it is fit and becoming in all people,
at all time* to acknowledge and revere the
Supreme Government of God, to bow in
bumble submission to His chastisements, to
confess and deplore their sins and transgres
sions, in the full conviction that the fear of
the Lord is the begining of wisdom, a**d to
pray with all fervency and contrition for the
pardon of their past offences and for a bless
ing upon their present and prospective ac
tions ; and whereas, when our beloved coun
try, once, by the blessing cf God, united,
prosperous and happy, is now afflicted with
factious and civil war, it is peculiarly fit for
us to recognize the hand of God in this visi
tation, and, in sorrowful remembrance of
our own faults and crimes, as a nation and
as individuals, to humble ourselves before
Him and to pray for His mercy ; to pray
that we may be spared further punishment,
though most justly deserved ; that our arms
may be blessed and made effectual for re-es
tablishment of law, order and peace through
out our country, and that the inestimable
boon of civil and religious liberty, earned
under His guidance and blessing by the la
bors and suffrages of our fathers, may be
restored in all its original excellency. There
fore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the
United States, do appoint the last Thursday
in Septembor next as a day of humiliation,
prayer and fasting for all the people of the
nation, and I do most earnestly recommend
to the people, and especially to all ministers
and teachers or religion, of all denominations
to all heads of families, to observe and keep
that day aocording to their several creeds
and modes of worship in all humility, and
with all religious solemnity, to the end that
the united prayer of the natisn may ascend
to the Throne of Grace and bring down plen
tiful blessings upon our own country.
In testimony whereof, &0.,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President,
WM. 11. SBWAKD, Secretary of State.
Secession Outrages in East Ten
nessee.
Ihe Knoxville Whig's Protest against Nelson' 3
Arrest—That Journal to be Suppressed—
Tyranny of the Southern Confederacy-
Parson Brownlotc's Loyal Declarations.
The Knoxville (Tenn.) Whig of the 10th,
which will probably be ttfe last issue for
some time, observes of Nelson's arrest:
The treason of Mr. Nelson consists in hie
having advocate the cause of the Union, and
the Stars and Stripes cf his country, in oppo
sition to the heresy of Secession. To thie
grievous offense he has added the unpardon
able sin of permitting his fellow-citizens to
elect him to Congress. To be consistent,
and to carry out their principles, they ought
now to arrest and send on to Richmond,
every man in the district who voted for Nel
son.
We have but little to say, now. respecting
this arrest, and the hot haste with which the
gallant and patriotic Nelson has been hurri
ed off to Richmond. We shall await the
action of the authorities there, with some de
gree of interest, as will the thousands of
Union men in E ist Tennessee. Before dis
missing the subject, however, we will take
occasion to congratulate the people of Rich
mond in this, that tvhen they cast into their
filthy city prison Thomas A. R. Nelson, they
will have more brains, patriotism, honor and
chivalry in their prison, than can be found
in their Rump Congress.
ABUSE or POWER BY THE SOUTH —GROSS OUT
RAGES ON THE PRESS.
For weeks past, wiih our large list of sub
scribers, cur weekly expenses have exceeded
our income, and hence our paper has been
carried on at a pecuniary sacrifice. Our ex
change papers are kept back and not allow
ed to come to Knoxville, Our letters are
broken open and robbed in all directions
and our newspaper packages are laid aside
or destroyed, so as to keep them out of tbo
hands ot our subscribers.
At Cumberland Gap, or the office near
there, we are informed upon reliable authors
ity, there is a large pile of letters, to say
nothing of papers, addressed to us, which
secessionists will not allow to come forward.
These letters no doubt, mostly from Ken
tucky, contain several hundred dollars for
subscriptions- At Bristol, we are informed,
our paper is thrown aside, and not allowed
to go further east.
One contemblible puppy, who fills the dig
nified positiou of loute agent on the railroad,
boasted in this city, that bo intended to de
stroy the papers sent out by bim, because
they were incendiary ibeets. Similar act of
perfidy are committed all over the country,
by a set of unprincipled vidians, who handle
and mail matter, and whose only title to<
public favor and confidence i, that they
have the honor to wear around their necks a
cotiar, having upon it this inscription : I
AM JEFF. DAVIS' DOG-WHOSE DOG
AHE Y U,
In addition to all this, the fact has come to
our knowledge, and from different reliable
sources, that thr confederate authorities at
Richmond haye ordered that our Knoxville
Whig must no longer be published, or trans
mitted through the mails to subscribers.—
The order has not yet been given, but we are
in daily expectation of it, unless it be rescin
ded, and it of course closes us in busmess.—
We rresume that those who are destroying
our mails, and cur packages sent off, are
acting under this order.
Is this the boasted freedom of the press, of
speech, and of conscience, we hear of in the
new Southern Confederacy ? And does th'i*
freedom, guaranteed by the constitution ot
Tennessee, unrepealed as yet, enter into this
war for Southern Rights and Independence?
If so, may God deliver us, and our Union
countrymen from su< h freedom, aud the en
joyment of such rights f
PERSECUTION OF ENION MEN.
Leading men of the Union party, of unified'
ished character, must be rudely seized by an
armed band of men, to gratify the maliee of
leading secessionists in Knoxville. torn from
their families, and rushed off upon the cars
to Richmond, and there thrown into a loath
some prison i The only press they have *
must be muzzled, its batteries silenced, and
its readers bnd lriends required to take the
false statements of secession papers for the
Dews of the day 1 Large bodies of armed
men must be thrown into our country, and
put in possession of all the principal towns
and throughfarcs of the country, but no
wrongs are to be inflicted upon the people
of east Tennessee, nor are they to be deprived
of any of their rights ?
Can all this mean anything less than a
declaration of war against East Tennessee?
Is it not opening the ball, and inviting blood-'
shed in East Tennessee? What the effect of
all this will be are wholly unable to say. It
will either depress the Union forces of this
end of the State, and cause them to cower
like dogs, or it will make them frantic in
defense of their gallant leaders, diwo-trod—-
deu because of their principles, and arouse a
thirst for vengeance and brave deeds ! What
Union leader after all this, can any longer
meet bis friends, aDd urge them to peace,,
and moderation, as we know they have been
doing ?
PARSON BROWNLOW'S DECLARATIONS.
Parson Brownlow publishes the annexed
card :
So far as we are concerned, we can sus
pend our publication, in obedience to the
dictates of tyranny and intolerance—we will
yield to the demands of an armed mob —turn
over to tbem our office and what little prop
erty we have—deprive ourselves and a help
less family of small children of the necessary
means of support—and beg our bread from
door to door among Union men who are able
to give—but we shall reiuse, most obstinately
refuse, to the day of our death, to think or
6peak favorably of such a Confederacy as
this, or to agree that honor, patriotism, or
love of country, have influenced the men at
its bead, who have plunged the country into
this revolution !
And whether our bumble voioe is hushed
in death —whether our press is muzzled by
the spirit of intolerance at Richmond, mak
ing this our last issue of a journal we have
edited for almost a quarter of a century, we
beg all who may come after us and our pa
per, to credit no Secession falsehood that
may represent us as having changed our
principles from those of an exalted devotion
to the old AMERICAN UNION, and of undying
hostility to those who would pepetuate its
dissolution !
THE PRESIDENT ENDORSED BY CONGRESS.—
There are those who still try to arouse parti*
zan prejudices by quibbliDg at the acts of
the President. Why don't they picture the
other side of those who r6ly on them for in
formation ? Every act of the President was
endorsed by CoDgress. He called for 400,
000 men ; they voted him 500,000. He ask
ed for four hundred millions of money ; they
voted him five hundred millions. No assem
blage, save the Continental Congress, will
live more honored on the pages of history,
MARRIED.
On the 30th ult, bv the Itev, Mr. Warren
of McEyansvillo, Rer. T. B. Riddle, of Can"
tre Co., and Miss Mary 0. Packer of Sua
bury.
DIED.
On Friday the I6ih inst, in Beilefonte
Mrs, Rebeca Hart aged 41 years.