|t Centre Democrat
" bellefonte, pa7~
Thursday Morning, Aug. 2d '6l. j
■ BIW ■■
. J. BRISBIN, EDITOR & PUBLISHER.
TV. W. BROWN, ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
-PEOPLE'S COUNTY TICKET.
ASSEMBLY.
SAMUEL McWILLIAMS,
OR FERGUSON.
ASSOCIATE JUDGES,
PETER WILSON,
OF GREGG,
JACOB BAKER,
OF HOWARD.
TREASURER,
C. G. RYMAN,
OF MIL.ESBURO.
COLFTLLSSIONER,
THOMAS HUTCHINSON.
OF POTTER.
%.*'
AUDITOR,
J. 11. McCLURE.
OF BELLEFONTE.
1 ' 1 -
ti<&- We were obliged to omit our notice
of onr county ticket, and several other edi
torial artioles in order to give place to the
article of H. N. McAllister, Esq., cn the
Watchman.
ggjy The men and preses who tire to-day
preaobing " compromise" and "peace," are
doing more to cripple the Government and
help treason than the rebel armies them
selves. We should hang a spy who sh.-uld
be caught prowling al out our camp to obtain
information to be used against ns; but we
mast tolerate, if not respect these loyal, trai
tors, who labor on the rostrum and through
the press to aid the enemy.
It is poor encouragement for the brave
soi.s of Centre county to go ft rth to battle
egaiDst the enemies of the country, while a
set of soulless and unprincipled politicians
a r o left at home, praying for defeat and
destruction to overtake those who are defen
ding all that is dear to us ann ion. Shame
tn such unpatriotic men ! They are worse
than the tories of '76. The least punishment
they will receive is the un'versal odium that
will be attached to their names foreveer.—
Coming generations will point to their chil
dren as the descendants of those who deser
ted their country in the hour of peril.
Gen. Fremont's Proclamation.
In another column ot to-day's paper will
be found the Proclamation of Or?n. Fremont,
declaring Missouri to be under martial law.
It is one of the most poweifnl and effective
blows, which treason has anywhere received,
lie deals with traitors just s they deserve,
and leaves no room for ary future doubt as
ti his construction and application of a law
of Congress declaring that the teal and f e -
sonal property cf all rebels should be confis
cated, and that all persons found with arms
in their hands within the lines of the federal
army, shall be tried by court-martial, and
if proven guilty of hostility to the federal au
thority, will be shot. Gen. Fremont evident
ly intends to show no mercy to traitors ; but
will deal out to them their just deserts.
Tax Payers.
It is of importance to you to know the
opinions of every man on the Republican
and Democratic tickets this fall on the war
question, as your Taxes will be inct eased or
lessened as this war is prolonged or shorten
ed and every man who is opposing tbe war
is adding strength to the south, by inducing
them to believe that a large portion of the
North is with them, and especially should the
candidates of ihe Democratic party be made
to desire their position on this question as it
is from that party that the south claims tc
have so large a sympathy, that they believe
the Government will be compelled to even*
tually recognize the independence of the
southern eta!* 8 : thus, forever cut ing off the
importance of tho Democratic party in the
North as a National party. Let the iiidepen
deDce of the southern states be acknowledged
to-day and were would be the Democratic
party? Could they ever elect a president?
Could they ever have any weight in Cong*
ress ? Would they not have a hopeless mi
nority fur all time to come? Were the ad
mininistration to-forget their duty and the
good of the country r-nd do precisely what
that portion of tho Democratic party, that is
uow opposing the Government and adminis
tration wants, they wcuid forever establish
the Republican party in the national *G .v
--erment: Secession Dem~cratg is this not
so ? Large portions of your party aro hon
est true union men and see where you are
trying to lead ibem, but tbey w ill not follow.
They understand that you are either try
ing to prolong this war and thus add to tbe
Taxes, of the working men of ihe north ; or
else you are trying to dos'roy the old Dem
ocratic party of tbe north at.d build up the
II -pub iean party as the ore and only oaion
al party of the country ; ar d it behooves you
each one to ask and know where your can
didates stnnd at this eiecMon, The South
says if it car. bold rut till October that it will
h* safe ; safe 1 How ? by your votes ?
Democrats of Centre County, Democrats A
Pennsylvania; Democrats of the whole Xi.rth
etop and think, a-k your candidates if they
are foi sustaining the Admioistrati >n, and if
they are not, do not touch them. It is said
that part of the Democratic Ticket in this
county is bittoriy opposed to the union and
the war, host To to tho administration and
desirous of forcing it to a eanipronti-e settle
ment that must recognize tbe southern con
federacy, fir no other o* mpromise can be
made. Will ycu support euch men and add
fo your Taxes, cr force a disruption of thij
Government that.destroy* your party in the
north for all coming tilue. ycqr answer at
ths poll* rnvfi tell.
A Blow on the Flank,
The autumn campaign says the World, is
opening auspiciously ; there are signs cf
vigorous and deeisive movements on 6very
band. It has has been inaugurated by a j
brilliant victory for the Union arms. The
expedition which sailed from Fortress Mon- :
roe a few days ago, under command of Com- '
modore Stringham and General Butler, has
succeeded, after a serious ergagement, in
obtaining posession of the forts in Ilaßeras
Inlet, near (Jape Ilatterap, North Carolina,
and in capturing over 6even hundred priso
ners, forty-five of whom arc officers, together
with one thousand stand of arms, twenty five
cannon, a large amount ot army stores, and
two loaded schooners. On ctir sido there
was no loss of life, and the engagement was
a success in every view. The only casualty
to record is the possible loss of the Harriet
Lane by running ashore in the breakers.
This achievement is important in many
respects. It will afford a ■point d' appui from
which to command the shores of North Caro
lina, aiding her ghips in clos ag up the inlets
on that coast, blocking in the privateers, and
preventing entrance by vessels in the sertiee
of the enemy, The seven hundred prisoners
captured here, increased by those in the
Washington jail, will probably give us an
equal number with the rebels, and may lead
to an exchange for the federal soldiers incar
cerated at Richmond.
The success of this enterprise illustrates
the fact that the weak point of attack of the
confederates is on their long and exposed
line of sea-coast. To roake an assault there
is to flank the army in Virginia. In the
euddenness of an attack to which the coast
is liable at any point from onr fleet, its de
fense would divert the stiength of as large
art army as the rebels have now in the field
A scries i f sp'rited and energetic movements
against Savannah, Charleston, Mobile, New
Orleans, and other southern ports, would
result in the virtual dismemberment of the
rebel army in Virginia. The lenders see
this disadvantage, which they cannot remedy
and it will induce them to strike an immedia
ate blow with their whole force against
Washington, or sm;e other important point
in the North, fur victory or for utter and final
defeat* The moral effect of a splendid suc
cess now, as a result of a last and crowning
efforts of their army, would be wor'h the
reckless risk which must be run in making
the attempt, W T e may expect to hear s n oo
of stirring events along the whole line of the
southern coast.
To the Male Teachers cf Centre
County:
I.EWISTOWN, Sept. 2, IBGI.
EDITORS OF CENTRE COUNTY.— Your at
: tention is respectfully invited to the foliow
! ing scheme. It is proposed by the teachers
; of this, Mifflin county, to raise a company
| of teachers, to be attached to Col. Irvin's
; regiment. lam authorized to raise such
| company, and.l ask the co-operation of the
; teachers of Centre and Huntingdon counties.
• Of the success of the enterprise there can
jhe no question. From 400 teachers surely
| 100 can be found that are rndy to take up
i arms for their country in its present trial.
! Nor nerd the schools stop, or receive any
material check even. The ladies can fill
their places, and they will do it gladly.
Respectfully, A. G. DICKEY.
The writer of the above communication
has, during the last two years, been teacher
of the Lewistown High School, and Principal
of the Kishacoqnillas Academy, and is now
the President of ihe Mifflin County Teachers
Association. lie is admirably qualified,
both by natural and acquired abilities, for
the enterprise in which he is engaged ; and,
so far as I can aid him, he shall not lorfg be
withont the company of brave teachers which
he is now raising. I trust there may be a
generous rivalry among the counties named
for the honor of.contribnting the largest
proportionate number ofjntelligent teachers
to the maintainance of oifr Government and
the defence of popular freedom.
AZARIATI SMTTH,
Co. Sunt, of Mifflin County.
Col Irvin's regiment will include three
battalions of 500 men each, and will have
attaciied to it a battery of six guns. Eleven
companies will be in camp this week.
Army Promotions and Appoint
ments.
The following gentlemen who are known
to our citizens have been appointed and pro
moted in the Regular Army :
First Lieutenant David McGregg of the
First Dragoons, to be Captain in the 6th Cav
alry frcca May 14th 1861.
J. Irvin Gregg of tbe Volun'eers to be Cap
tain in the 6th Cavalry from May 14tb 1861.
Second Lieutenant Jas. S. Brisbin of tbe
First Dragoons, to be Captain in the G.h
Cavalry from August sth 1861.
Evan Miles of Bellefonte to be First Lieu
tenant in the 12th Infantry from August oth
1861.
C. 11, Hale of Bcllefonfe, to be First Lieu
tenant in the 19tb Infantry frcin August sth
1801.
From Gen. Banks' Column.
BE BELS~ROUTED.
F?ANDT HOOK, Sept. 3.
The Massachusetts Thirteenth regimen;
surrounded ihe Charlestown Home Guards
Cavairy nbmit two o'clock this afternoon at
Better's Mill, two and a half miles above
Harper's Ferry, and took twenty ptisoners,
i haying first killed three and wounded five of
tbe secessionists.
The Massachusetts boys brought them in
| singing " Gay and Happy." ' **•
The Twenty-eighth regiment pressed the
i river from the Point oi Rocks this morning,
aud captnred thirty head of cattle.
From Louisville.
TBE REBEL FORCE IN YIRCINIA*
LOUISVILLE, Sept. 3.
A gentleman who has ju-t arrived ir this
city, from Richmond, informs the Journal
that he was ct-p'ured at Machine P c, q on
1 his way North, art! returned f r trial to
Richmond.
lis reports that a number cf Rebel troops
in Virginia are grratly exsgc■- i :c the
North and at Richmond. T'.o ? u ; .ru
bers vril! not reach 70,000 in th- 8' .-.any
of whom are down with siebnes sub
stance corroborating the statement of the
Southern papers, that fully fifty percent, of
the fighting force are in the hospital. lis
further says that, on Saturday last, Davis
was very ill, and little hopes were entertain
ed of bis recovery. At his trial, at Rich
mond, he proved that he was an Englieb
fubject, and was released.
THE CEIWTSIjS DEmQCOGRAT.
For the Democrat.
To Cyrus T. Alexander and P. 0. Meek, Editor*
of the Democratic Watchman,
GENTLEMEN:—
The public good, as well as a
regard for truth and justice, requires that I should
notice your report of the proceedings of the Union
Meeting held in the Court House last week. In
the discharge cf this duty I shall pass ovor the '
billingsats of your editorial. My personal ap
pearance, the color of my eyes, my jesticulation
in public speaking, upon which you have thought
fit to comment, are subjects, I presume, of little
interest to the citizens of Centre county. Certain
it is, however, their knowledge upon the subject
is quite as extensive as that of the editorß of the
Democratic Watchman, with one of whom I have
no personal acquaintance, and with the other my
acquaintance his been comparatively recent.—
With neither of you, gentlemen, have I ever had
the least personal difficulty. I spoke of you on
that occasion only as the editors of a public jour
nal, and condemned your courso as calculated
to discourage aud dishearten the army arrayed
under the banner of our country in support of its
Constitution and its laws, against armed traitors
in rebellion against the Government and in arms
around the Capital—as calculated to retard and
pievent the enlistment of the volunteers required
to £ll up the ranks f our "army, and as calcula
ted to afford aid and comfort to rebels and trait
ors at homo and abroad. The truth of these allega
tions I then and there attempted to establish by
reading from the numbers of your p "per issued on
the 15th and 22d of Aug. 1861. It untrue —if tho
quotations were unfairly made—was not the meet
ing the time and place to expose the falsity of
the cbargo and the disengeniousness of the quo
tations ? The President of the meeting was a
Democrat, which would have secured for you and
your friends a respectful hearing. -The subject
was proper for the consideration of the meeting.
If true, it was the duty of every good citizen to
bring the charges before the meeting. It false, it
was the duty, as it should have been the pleasure
of the Watchman's editors and the Watchman's
friends, to expose their falsity. Had you been
cowards gentlemen, of the rectitude of your in
tentions and the patriotism of your acts, you
would have gloried in the opportunity thus affor
ded. Tou remained silent. Why, your fellow
citizens will judge. Wa6 it because oftcr "Judge
Hale made a patjiotie and telling speech that act
ed like a charm," and- after the introduction of
the I?evolutions, which you say " wore just in
time ar d just in the proper languago to be heart
ily endorsed by jvery one present," to continue
j the use of your chaste and dignified language
! "blood and thunder McAllister thrust himself
| forward on the notice of tho meeting ar.d com
! mcnced his speech ?" Why, in making this charge
' of impudence and intrusion, did you with hold
; from your readers tho fact that McAllis
ter was Chnirmau nf tbo Committee, and as such,
made the report you so heartily endorse? But
| even if I had intruded myself upon the meeting,
: is that any reason why you and your friends
: should have sat in sileneo under fa'so charges de
[ dnced from two numbers <1 your own paper in tho
| hands of the speaker ? Was not the call for, and
j the inducement to prompt refutation increased by
: the impertinence of the speaker whom, in your
I (pinion, no one present desired to hear ? How
i easy, before such an audience,against such char
i ges, with truth on your side, to have achieved a
i triumph, aud yet yon were silent. If the charges
rere true you acted wisely.
That tiey leers true I shall nose proceed to
prove.
j In the Democratic Watchman of tho 15th ef
August, lS6t, the followiug appears as the lead
ing editorial :
Men ef the T'orth, Pause and Refect.
Wcr is disunion. War is final, eternal sepa
ration.—lSTEl'HEN A. DOUGLAS.
Fearful, indeed, are tho time? upon which we
have" fallen. The prosperity we have enjoyed,
the glory the nation has achieved, tho peace, the
security, the hept iness and honor which has
hitherto been bestowed upon us is gone, and we
fear, forever. Civil war is now raging within our
borders, and, although the beginning is scarcely
yet here, the frightful effects are felt by all.—
Scarcely four months have passed since it first
reared its head upon cur native so ; ], yet in that
short time, the beautiful form of our Government
i has been blasted—thg powerful arm of our public
I strength has been sini ien with imbecility—the
; glory of our name has parted, aud, as a'nation,
we lire disgraced in the tight c-i' the civilized
world. Not only as a body of people composing
a Republic, has this war told fearfully upon us,
but personally, Tho counting rooms
of our merchants—the deserted work shops of our
manufacturers—the dcnth-likostillness that reigns
I immolested about our furnaces—that silent ham
mer in our once busy forges—the desolated fire-
of our own friends—and the empty pews in
our churches, speak louder than words of what
is now going on. Were the men who brought
upon us this war the ones that would suffer by it,
then could we look upon it differently. But while
the honest laborer, whose every thought was for
our common country, is bearing the fatigues and
i dangers of the battle field, safe in their council
j chambers, or far away from the scenes of strife,
! in their desecrated churches, or sitting in their
' sanctums, manufacturing falsehoods to fill the
| columns of their prostituted presses, are the dam
agoges and fanatic?, whose wicked and unprinci
pled lust ef plunder, influence and" power, has
let, loose upon a peaceful land, the horrors and
iniquities ot fratricidal war. In their places of
safety they sit and rejoice over the ruin they have
accomplished, and chuckle at the prospets of fill
ing their pockets at ihc expense of toiling mill
ions. Their reelings of humanity have become
so sacred with the greed of gain that they hear
not the wailing voice oi widows and orphan--
they see not the mangled forms of thousands of
the'r own brothers upon the battle tielil. But,
heedless of the prayer of the people—disregard
ing the teachings of Christianity—they hurry on
the work of destruction ! "No ! Suffering and
death—want and misery—may take the pi.iee of
happiness and peace, prosperity and plenty, but
these unfeeling rulers care not. Speak of a res
toration of the Union by concession aud eomprO
! mtse. and they cry "traitor.'' Ask them for peace,
! and they say you are a "fool." Regardlea of
J the future, they seem determined to destroy for
ever tur Constitution ana our Union. Surely
there can he no one so ridiculously insane, as to
think that a Gcvrnmcnt pinned together with
hayone's sud cemented with blood, will be a type
of that bequeathed us by our forefathers.
Let the people stop—let them pause and RE
FLECT! The present invo ves the future, and wo
should not rush madly, blindly on to utter de
struction. "WAR IS DISUNION. WAR IS PINAL,
j ETERNAL SKPARATION"— for every blow that is
' struck but adds new fuel to the blaze of bitter ht
-1 tred. Ptop, then, we entreat of you. and think.
! The happiness of future generations depend upon
your course, and as sure as there is a Hod in
Heaven, a continuance of this war will destroy
forever the Union of these States.
Tell us not that Gere is now no power to stop
it ! 'Tis FALSE. Tell us not that in the butch
j ery of the millions, we shall be working upon the
i foundation of our fathers! 'Tis FALSE ! 'Tis a
| libel on their teachings—on heir memories—an,
| the f ot of him thatuifers it pollutes the ground in
which slumbers their ashes !
Docs the Constitution and laws demand the
! slaughter or conquest of millious of the people ?
INo ! Let the people say NO, in tones that will
- fall as the truuip of God u(Sun the ears of the ser
vants.
Does Christianity call the people to this work of
blood ? No ! 'Tis not the command qf Gnd !
'Tis not the teae,hings of Christ 1 "lis the doo
trics of Deviis ! Let the people thrust it from
them as they would fieuds that issuo from the bot
tomless pit ! Let them flee from it as they would
from the flames hat issue from the asouth of heli!
Let the people, on their knees in repentance be
fore God. seek for the safe path over this sea ot
fire that their servants (the rulers) have spread
for them!"
The language uttritutedto Stephen A. Douglas,
if ever used by him, was used prior to the attack
on Fort Sumpter j prior to the time at which
Washington was threatened by the Rebel army ; '
prior to the time when the prepositions for an
|
honorable adjustment of our national difficulties
were spurned with contempt by the representa
tives of seceoded Stateß, and yet you would palm
the quotation npon the readers of tbe Democratic
Watchman as the sentiments of that patriot on the
day of hi? death, and as applicable to the situa
of our couutry at the present time.
I have copied the article entire that every citi
zen of Centre connty, who will, inay read -it and
decide lor himself upon the proclivities and sym
pathies of the editors of the Democratic Watch
man —decide tor himself whether the tendency and
design of the article was not to discourage and
dishearten our soldiers, and retard and prevent
enlistments absolutely necessary to fill up the
ranks of the army. "Why else? With what other
motive and design did you contrast ttio iltssings
of peace witli the miseries of war, and attribute all
the evils of the latter to " unfeeling rulers who,
heedless of the prayers of tho people, disregarumg
the teachings of Christianity, hurry on the work
of destruction." Why else? With what motive
or dosign did you abuso the Administration be
cause they did not offer tho Rebels compromise
and peace ? You know perfectly well, and have
so since admitted by your unqualified endorse
ment of the first of the Union Meeting resolution;?
that " tho war was forced upon thecountry by the
disunionists of the South." You know perfectly
well, SLd have so since admitted by yourunqual
! ified endorsement of the second of tho Unicn
Meeting resolutions, that "the only hope for the
integrity of the Union and the restoration of an
honorable pence rests not in compromise, but in
! a vigorous and successful prosecution ef tho
j war."
| 'Why, then, prevaricate ? Why attempt to gull,
I deceive and mislead the people, but to divide and
distract them and thus to diminish the force, mor
al and physical, of the North? Did you really
] and honestly intend to excite military courage?
To fill up the ranks of the army? To nervo the
j soldiers arm in the hour of battle by impressing
! his mind that the war in which we are engaged is
! unconstitutional, unjust and unholy ? That christi
. anity forbids its prosecution? That the Comtuan
i der-in-Chief, the President of the United States
j and his Cabinet, are devils and fiends?
j But let us pass to the nest article, which pur
! ports to be editorial—entitled: "Serious Thoughts
: since the Dull Dun Battle," —the whole tendency
! of which is to discourage and dishearten the sol
diers and psople of the North by interrogatory
! Intcraliu you asJc, " What is to becomo of tho
| country? Where is all this to end? Have we
| net been mistaken in our estimctS of the whole
j subject ? Un.ve we not underrated the strength
{ of the South ? Cau we conquer it ? May not the
| expense of the war he mora crushing and longer
i continued than wo had supposed ? Cow are wo
I to raise money? Can wo continue to do it by
j borrowing, or will not ouorous direct taxes be-
I cotne necessary ? Will cur people for a long time
' submit to these burdens, ana can wo point them
to compensating benefits ?
Are these questions calculated—were they in
tended to iDspiro confidence and courage and to
' promote a vigorous prosecution of the ' war ?
| What would have been the result
!of our struggle for independence if
| Patriot Editors bad filled their journals
! with such interrogatories? Nay, what
I would have been the result if tory editors
j bad by our Revolutionary sires been per-
I niitted to discourage, and dishearten the
people by contrasting the horrors of war
with the blessings of peace—by contrasting
the biood and treasure the war would cost
with the payment of a tax of a few pennies
on tea ?
But let us proceed to the next article
vrhieh also appears as original. You say,
"Since the affair at Bull Run the abolition
ists are making desperate efforts to have the
war ascribed to the right cause—the aboli
tion of slavery. The country is not going
to destruction fast enough for them. But
when our nation is completely destroyed—
when the citizens become dcmortlized, and
the people ground into the earth by taxes
and debts, that they will not he able to pay,
then these men will be very innocent and
will wonder who brought about such a
state of atfairs! Democrats want, peace.
They never wanted blood, they are sick of
u-hat they have had already." If you and
your Democratic friends propose to aid in
the vigorous prosecution of the war by edi
torials and publications like this, God save
our country from your help.
How encouraging to our army this Dem
ocratic cry of "Peace, peace, we are sick of
blood, we have had enough already."'
It is a gross slander upon the great Dem
ocratic party of Pennsylvania to impute this
language to them as a parly. Since the
endorsement of the Democratic Watchman
and Centre Reporter by the Centre county
nominating Convention I shall not defend
them from the imputation. But Ido know
that there are many Democrats in Centre
county who condemn alike the publication
and the publishers, the treason aud the trai
tors.
The paragraph is befitting the associates
and admirers of 4 allandigfcam, and Bon.
Wood, and Breckinridge, Burnett and May,
who, with a very few others, opposed all
the leading measures of the last Congress,
providing for the vigorous prosecution of
the war.
This brings me to the laudations, bestow
ed bv the editors of the Democratic Watch
man upon these very men. In the same
number of your paper to which I have been
referring is a paragraph headed "Hon. C.
L. Vallandigham," introducing a letter
for the purpose of refuting a private slander,
you say, "A base effort has been made by
the Republican press to degrade this able
and chivalrie Democratic member ot Con
gress."
And in another paragraph beaded. "Dis
graceful Proceedings," you belabor the Po
lite of Baltimore, organized under military
authority, because they prevented the Hon.
John O. Breckinridge, the guest ■ f lion,
Henry May, from making a political speech
in the streets of Baltimore. Had you in
formed the patrons of the Democratic Watch
man that the Hon. Henry May was a seces
sion member of Congress from the city of
Baltimore, the only secessionist in Con
gress from the State of Maryland, that after
his election and immediately prior to his
taking his scat, he visited Jefferson Davis,
that he and Vallandigham, and Wood, and
Burnett of the House, had acted in concert
with Breckinridge of the Senate in opposing
every .leading measure introduced into Con
gress by Union men for the prosecution of
the war, and especially in opposing the
military occupation of Baltimore, even they
might not have considered tU o prohibition
"a disgraceful proceeding." Much more ra
tional would have been the conclusion that
you very gentlemen are in sympathy with
these very men and as public journalists
acting in concert with them.
It was in this connection that I referred
to and read a communication written from
the rebel camp at Manasses and published
in the Louisville Courier, a Reble pa
per, to the reading of which yon have taken
special exception. Of its pertinence let the
people of Centre county judge. The' por
tion read is in these words:
CAMP BARTON, August Bth, 1861.
"There is something intoxicating or in
spiring in the thought of our com ; ng in
possession of the scene of so much of our
old renown, wheie the footsteps of the young
nation were directed in the paths of virtue
and wisdom, hut, alas, where to-day, pride
' • I
and arrogance and all the meaner vices of !
mankind hold sway in the halls of legisla
tion, and the chambers of executive minis- ;
ters—Washington city our own, as it may
be, we could soon disenthrall unhappy and
down-trodden Maryland, and having posted
our picket guards well on to Philadelphia,
render the South a unit, audextoft from the
Lincoln Government a full and unreserved
recognition of our liberty and sovereignty
as a confederation of States. Ido not pre
tend to give this as a programme of the
campaign, but I feel an unbounded confi
dence in the success of our arms on every
field of importance and an assurance that j
within two months wo shall have driven the j
invader beyond Maryland.
The brave, defiant, and noble course of !
Hon. John C. Breckinridge in the United !
States Senate commands the admiration of ;
all loyal men. It presents a spectacle of ;
moral courage than which none mitre sub
lime has attracted the attention of men for
generations. lie is in constant peril, not
alone from the murderous and tyranjcal
government, but from the hired assassin of
the Federalists. Undaunted he breasts the
storm, calmly courts the danger of his
place, and in all things proves himself wor
thy of his noble lineage. The conduct of
j Henry C. Burnett in the lower House is ntj
1 less a source of congratulation. Wo of the
I Kentucky Battalion yet hope to place
| Breckinridge and Burnett in a triumphal
| car when we enter the streets of Washing
i ten."
The course of YalLandighnm ID Congress
(your chiralric.Demoor.it) afforded the re
bels such satisfaction that tbev have named
one of their military stations "Camp Vallan
digham."
The editors of the Democratic Watchman
arid the late representatives of the Demo
cratic party who have endorsed your publi
cations, justify and defend the conduct of
Breckinridge, Yallanuigham, and Burnett.
The rebel army do them honor for the very
same acts.
Should our National Capital fall into the
hands of the rebels, which God in his mer
cy forbid, who upon this showing but would
expect to see the admirers of Breckinridge,
Burnett, and Vullandigham North and
South, including the "editors of the Demo
cratic Watchman, tugging at the same tri
umphal car as ir. courses through the streets
of Washington, and shouting together in
Camp Vallandigham paeons to the "Chival
ric Democrat."
In your issue of the 22d of August, I read
thus:
"Wno BURNED HAMPTON ?—Our tele
graphic dispatches from Fortress Monroe
state that Gen. Magruder ordered the burn
ing of Hampton. Dispatches from the
South lay all the responsibility upon Gen.
Butler. It is acknowledged on all sides
that Gen. Butler did burn it partially on
the 27th of July, and one of the city illus
trated papers has a cut representing the
conflagration. The ruiestion now 13 who or
dered the last burning?"
This publication was made by you after
the rebels had attempted to palliate the
crime by attributing it to the drunkenness
of Magruder, yet you more than insinuate
that the infamous act might be attributed
to Gen. But'cr.
You attempt to excuse yourselves by alleg
ing that one of these articles was corned from
a Baltimore paper, an 1 another from the
Philadelphia Inquirer. The articles are not
credited to any paper. They every <>ne ap
pear as your own. I will not say that any
of them are yours. They are just what j
would expect from Ben. Wood and the New
York Dan Book. But I will say that the
fact of their not beinjs; original neither ex
cuses or palliates your offence.
Your allegation that the Democrats want
Peace, that they never wanted blood, that
they are sick of what they have had already,
I shall answer by an extract from an edito
rial in the Presbyterian of the 24th of Au
gust, 18G1—a religious paper with Demo
cratic sympathies. The article seems to
strike at you and those who approve the
course of the Democratic Watchman and
reads thus :
"This war has been farced upon u.°. Tt
must necessarily produce distress. As a
cit zen you may as well make up your mind
to bear a portion of the burden. You have
been accustomed to look exclusively efter
your personal interests, now you must en
large your views, and aid the public cause.
The very existence of the government, under
the shadow of which you have prospered, is
in peril; if it falls, you fall ; if it prospers,
you prosper. If, to-escape temporary sacri
fice, yon would patch up a false, factitious,
and dishonorable peace, you are unworthy
of the name of an American, and a free
man."
But I shall adduce other Democrat in au
thority and that too in the vorv words of
the lion. Joseph Ilolt, late Democratic Sec
retary of War in Buchanan's Cabinet, who
in a speech, made but a few days ago in the
city of Boston, said ;
"Fellow citizens: —lam gratified to say
that during the somewhat extended tour
that I ha ve just made, 1 have nowhere found
the public voice faint, or the public purpose
faltering, in reference to the vigorous prose
cution of this war untill the stars and
stripes shall float on. every' flag stuff from
which they have been torn. Nowhere have
I heard the word compromise, a word which
can now he only uttered by disloyal lips, or
by those speaking openly and directly in
the interests of the rebellion. So long as
the rebels have arms in their hands there is
nothing to compromise, nothing but the hon
or of the country, and the integrity of the
government; and who but lis who i 3 ready
to fill a coward's grave, is prepared for sub
mission to such humiliation as this ! If wo
falter we fail : and not only will Washington,
vour capital, be subjugated and sacked, but
your cities and your lields wi-il ho swept
over by an army carrying desolation senre
ly surpassed since the Goths stabled their
steeds in the palaces of the Oeasers._ The
fiendish tone of the Southern press, its ex
ultant threatening, and the events which
have already transpired folly justify ine in
this declaration. If, therefore, we think of
our land and gold, of our merchandize and
pleasant homes, or even of the blood that
courses in our veins—in contrast with the
honor and prosperity of our Government, we
are lost, we shall perish suddenly, irre
trievably, ignominiously. But, if true to
ourselves, as I verily believe we will be, if
true to the kindling memories of the past,
and to the grandeur of our mission as a peo
ple, year armies will assuredly triumph,
and that triumph the Union sentimen of
the South will render complete and endur
ing : and thus out of all this national tar
moil, and battle," and bloodshed and wring
ing anguish, there will in the end arise a
future for our country, bright as that rain
bow which spans the mists that rise above
the tortured hell of Niagara's waters. For
that future, that bow of promise and of
beauty may well he accepted as the appro
priate emblem."
But I understand you, aud those who justi
fy the course of the Democratic Watchmen
to allege that there are no secessionits—no
disloyal men in Centre county. Tried by tho
test which you wculd preseut, I admit there
are uonc—fried by the test presented by
lion. J. Ilolt, which I have just read, Oh
how many!— They are those who take, and,
taking endorse, and approve of the doctrines
of the Democratic Watchman, New York
Day Book, and other secession disloyal and
papers, secretly and stealthily circulated by
traitors among our citizens. To all such
Holt has said, the word " Compromise can
now be uttered only by disloyal lips or by
those openly or directly in the interests of
rebellion." To those who assert that there
is no disloyalty—he says "One of the most
fearful obstacles which has been encountered
in the successful prosecution of this war, is
the disloyalty found in our midst. This is
especially true in relation to Washington
City and the Border States ; but it is in a
degree true every where, and to this is
traceable much of'that discouragement un
der which the nation is now suffering. The
country is now rejoieing in those told and
decided measures which the president is
taking to subdue this fatal source of woak
ness and defeat." llow this language of a
Patriotic Democrat contrasts with the tone
of the Democratic Wathckman, and yet you
are compelled to admit that the war has
been forced upon the country by the Dis
unionists of the Southern States. Let us
ascertain when and how this was done and
the present situation of the war thus forced
upon us, that we may the better compre
hend the sum of your offending. On the
I 6th day of March 1801 the rebel Congress
i sitting at Montgomery, authorized Jeffer
> son Davis as President of the Confederate
I States ot raise an army of one hundred
! thousand men. On the 13th day of April
| 1881 Fort Suniter was reduced and on the
| same day. Walker, the Confederate Secre-
I tary of War, exulting in the victory said:
"No man can tel.l where the war this day
commenced will end ! hut I will prophesy
'that the flag which now flaunts the breeze
here will float over the dome of the old
Capital at Washington before the Ist of
May. Let them try Southern chivalry and
test the strength of Southern resources
and it may float eventually over Faniuel
Hall itself." On the 15th April 1861 Pres
ident Lincoln issued his call for seventy-five
thousand volunteers to protect the Capital.
On the 19th April, 1861, portions of these
volunteers, en route to Washington, were in
sulted, fired upon and murdered in the
streets of Baltimore by the very men whom
you complain John C. Breckinridge was
prevented from addressing on his return
from the extra session of Congress in which
; he harl opposed all the leading war meas
ures of the administration, and this preven
tion of public speaking in honor of a seces
sionist'of Kentucky, the guest of a seces
sionist of Maryland in the streets of a city,
for he safety of the government under mar
tail law, you denominate "Disgraceful pro
ceedings.
Prior to the call for volunteers we had
witnessed the seizure, by'rebels, of United
States Forts —the rifling of United States
Mints—the firing on the United States
Flag—the enpture of Uni'cd States sol
diers—the pillago of United States Arse
! nals—and the seizure of Unite 1 States Ships
and Revenue Cutters. Whilst the Federal
Government have entered upon Virginia
soil in defence of the National Capital, the
rebels have invaded the loyal States of
Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. They
have actually seized an arsenal in Kentucky
and striped it of its cannon and muskets,
and even now Missouri is invaded for the
purpose of forcing upon her people a
diposed and self exiled Governor, arid for
driving outof.the Union a State which pre
fers to maintain unimpaired her Federal
relations.
Congress, without distinction of party,
with a very few dishonorable exceptions
(among whom unfortunately for the Demo
cratic Watchman, and the late representa
tives of the Centre county Democracy were
your friends Breckinridge and Yallanding
liani.) voted five hundred thousand uien and
five hundred millions of dollars for the
vigorous prosecution of the war.
The President has called for men to fill
up the ranks of the army, deminisheJ by
the letnrn of sixty thousand three months
volunteers.
The rebel nrmv is pressing hard upon
Washington, and threatening from day to
day to pn*s the Potomac.
[n circumstances like these, endangering
our national existense, it is the duty of
every good citizen to speak to his follow
only words of cwonrayenieif. to urge him
forward to sustain and uphold the Govern
ment us ordaine 1 by God —to speak of the
war in which wc are engaged, not as of our
own choice, hut as a necessity forced upon us
by rebels and traitors —"a war in the suc
cessful issue of which rests our only hope
for thß integrity of the Union and the
restoration of an honorable peace"—to urge
the cnerge ic and vigorous prosecution of
tiie war as the discharge of duty to God and
man.
And, yet, you gentlemen, as Editors of the
Democratic Watchman, the mouth piece of
Centre county Democracy, say "Democrats
want Peace. They never wanted blood,
they are sick of what they have already
had." Y m say "Christianity does not call
the people to this work of blood? No! 'Tis
net the command' of God ? 'Tis not the
teachings of Christ ! 'Tis the doctrine of
devils 1"
Yours respectfully.
JI. N. MOALLISTEB.
Bellcffinte, Sept. 3d, 1801.
Troubles of the Democracy.
The follow'nwing speech was delivered at
a "fighting convention" of the Democratic
party in Westchester county N. Y., by Geo.
A Brandreth.
I endorse the sentiments which the Hon.
Daniel S D citenson has Isoly expressed.—
I believe those patriotic sentiments should
be the guiding principles of every patriotic
Democrat. It you eleet me as a delegate to
theSvraeu e Convention I shall vote for him
for Secretary of State. lam opposed to Pe
ter Oiagger and Dean Richmond, and, in
fact, nil Ben, Wood Democrats, believing
tficy are nothing but secessionists in disguise
and we never can succeed in putting down
this rebellion unless we first subdue secess
ionists a/ home. They are lending ail and
eomf rt to the enemy, and encouragcieg them
by their talk of liberal offers of peace. No
peace can b n made wiih tlje seceded states
without aoknow'edgeing their independence."
Do that and we surely lose Kentucky. Mary
land, and Missouri, and our Union dissolves
like a rope of sand, I therefore believe in
making no offers of peace, but I da believe
in a vigorous prosecution of the war, until
the rebellious states, like bad children, are
whipped into obedience. I think that the
late offer of the Republicans to join w*rh the
D 'tnoorats, and sink party issues for our
common welfare, magnanimous end wise ;
and if our Central Committee had not the
power to accept it they should have calied
their c nvention to assemb'e the same day
as the Republicans," and then the people by
their representatives could have settled the
master.
The secession Democrats broke up our na
tional convention, defeated Douglas, and
elected Lincoln, and now they say that his
election is the cause of the present war. I
say that the secession Democrats caus°d the
war and all onr present troubles, and they
should be punished and Subdued. Until
this is done we shall have no government,
and nothing about which political parties
can have cause to fight. The only issue now
is, for or against the war, and the support of
the administration. J am for the war and
sustaining the administration until we are
victorious, or so badly leafed as to be forced
to beg on our knees i'or peace. I will then
fight for the Democracy, hut until then we
should all tight for our coeutry.
Still Later From Missouri!
Gen. Fremont Strikes a Heavy
but Proper Blow
MISSOURI UNDER MARTIAL LAW.
THE TRAITORSrTO BE SHOT
Bebel Property Confiscated.
SLAVES OF REBELS DECLARED FREE
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 1, 1861.
The following proolamtiou wis issued yes.-
torday :
" HEADQUARTERS WESTERN DEPARTMENT, |
" ST. Louis, August 31. )
" Circumstances, in my opinion of suffi
cient urgency, render it necessary that the
Commanding General of this Deparfment
should assume the administrative powors of
the State. Irs disorganize condition, the
helplessness of tbe civil authority, the total
insecurity of life, and the devastation of
bro ertv by bands of murderers, and mar
rauders, who infest nearly every county in
the State, and avaii themselves of the public
misfortunes and tbe vicinity, of a hostile
force to gratify private ar.d neighborhood
vengeance, and who find an enemy wherever
they find plunder, finally demand the sever
est measures to repress the daily increasing
crimes and outrages which are driving off
the inhabitants and ruining the State. In
this condition ihe nublic safety and the suc
cess of our arms require unity of purpose,
without let or hindrance to the prompt ad
mmiatration of affairs.
"In order, therefore, to suppress disorders,
to maintain as far as now practicable • the
public peace, and to give security and pro
tection to the nrsons nd properly of loyal
ci izans, I do hereby extend and declare estab*
lisk martial lave throughout the State of Mis*
soirri.
" The lines of an a'tny of occupation in
this State are for the present declared to ex
tend from Leavenworth. W way of the posts
f Jefferson City, Holla ar.d Ironton, to Cape
Girardeau, on the Miss, sipr i river. All per
sons who shell be taken with arms in >heir
hands whirhir. these lines shall be tried by
court manial, and if found guilty will be shot
i'lte property, real and personal, of ail per ß
ens m the Ssate of Missouri who shall take
up arms against the United States, or who
shall be directly proven tp have taken active
part with their enemies in the field, is decla
red to be confiscated to the public use, and their
slaves, if any they have, arc Itetebt/ declared
free. t'.T.
" All persons who shall be proven to have
destroyed, after the publication of this order,
railroad trucks, bridges or telegraphs, shall
-uffw the extrem. penalty <.[ the law.
"All persons engaged in treasonable cor
respondence, in gi'ing or procuring aid to
tbe enemies of the United States, in distur
b'og the public rarquility by creating and
circulating false reports or incendiary docu
ments, are in their own interest warned that
they are exposing themselves.
"All persons who have been led awny
from their allegiance are required to return
to ttndr forthwith. Any such absence
without sufficient cause will be held to her
presumptive evidence against them.
" Trie object of this declaration is to placo
in the I.anna of the military authorities the
power to give instantaneous offsets to existing
laws, and to supply such deficiencies as tha
condi.ions of war demand. But it is not in
tended to suspend the ordinary tribunals of
the country, where the law wit! be admitfis*
tered by the civil officers in the usual roan
ner and with their customary authority,
while the same can he p'*acnixl>iy exercised.
" The Commanding General will labor
vigilantly for the public welfare and in bis
efforts for their safety hones to ob'ain not
only the a ■quioser.ee. but the active support
oi the pe >pla of the country,
(Signed) ''J.O.FREMONT,
" Major.General" Commanding."
I'rov st Marshal M.-Kiustry has issued
orders p remp'or ly forbidding any persons
passing beyond the limits of this countiy
without' a special permit from his rfiice, end
railroad, steamboat, ferrv and other agent
are prohibited from salting :ickc:s T o any one
not holding a pass Horn the Provost Marshal.
This order is aim" 1 specially to reach parties
1 aving the city for the purpose of commuai
ca iog in forma ion to the enemy.
A Peace Meeting nt Indianapolis.
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 1.
A convention of die sympathisers with the
peace party a--en, Sled nt the ccnrt house
yesterday afeinoen. Ai. hough there were
but few participant present, a large crowd
of exited people v. re -M-.enabled.
Hon R bert L. Wa] pole, of this city, was
made chairman, nd white addressing the
audieDce in denunciation of the Administra
tion and i's war policy he was interrupted
several times and finally withdrew from the
starwi, amid great confusion.
A man named McLe .n then attempted f o
harrangue the crowd rushed in and he was
rather roughly handled.
During the melee a number of fights nceui"
red, hut with nn serious results. Consider
able excitement was manifested throughout
tbe city all the afternoon, and in the evei i g
a large party visited the residence tf Mr.
Walpoie, and several other political men
whose liiyalry was questioned, and forced
them to take the oath of afiegiancQ to rfco
Un'ted Stotes Government. This was done
witnout further dis'uibance. Among those
who took the oath was tlio editor of the Sen
tinel.
Another Fight in Western Virginia.
CiNCtNNATTi, Sept. 2. —A flght took place
yesterday at Boone County Court House,
Virginia, between the Rebels and the Feder
al force, resulting in the total route of the
Rebels, with a loss of thirty killed and a
large number wounded.
, Forty of the Rebels were taken prisoners.
There were none killed on our side, and
but six wounded.
Our men burned the town.
Boone Court House is a small village, and
is the capital of Boone County, Virginia.—
It is situated on the Little Coal River, two
hundred and forty-five miles, in a direct
line, west from Richmond.
WHEELING. Va, Sept, 2. The Secession
ists encamped at Worthington. in Marion
county, four hundred in number, were at
tacked by Col. Crosman of General Kelley'a
staff, with two companies of United States
troops, a little after daylight this morning :
but the Secessionists were too strong for
him, and he was obliged to fall back with
a loss of two men.
The expedition to Fairmont, sent from
here last night had not reached the scene of
action at our last advices. •
Two pieces of artillery were sent to Col.
Crosman's rt lief, from Clarksburg, to day.
lie reports that he can hold },he enemy in
check until reinforced.
There was a rumor afloat in New York,
yesterday, sard to have been brought by a
pilot boat, from a vessle spoken at sea, thai
the Nay Yard at Pensacola had been captur
ed by the I nited States forces, and the Reb
els driven out. This news is not confirmed
by the United States steamer Rhode Island,
arrived from Galveston.