A. .J, GEIRRITSON, Publisher. FOR DEII9CRAT. The Great Conspiracy of the Aboli- tionists against the Government of the 11. S. commenced in the days of Andrew Jackson. The "Protest of the American anti slavery Society," addressed to Andrew Jackson,resident of the 'United States, Dec.dated 266,1835, will now be bro't before the people for investigation, and the contest commenced between that old hero and the Abolitionists of America, must be decided in favor of one or the other of these combatants in this great war, for then it was that the war between the North and the South began. This Society commenced an attack up on the President, charging him with ma king false accusations against it, in "a document which was spread upon the journals of both louses of Congress— published to the nation and to the world —made part of our enduring arehives,and incorporated in the history of the age." This protest of the anti-slavery Society to the President said : " In your message to Congress of the 7th inst. are the fol lowing passages: I must also invite your attention to the painful excitement produced, in the South, by attempts to circulate through the mails, inflammatory appeals addressed to the passions of the slaves, iu prints and in various sorts of publications, calculated to stimulate them to insurrection, and produce all the horrors of a servile war !' " And you proceed to suggest to Con gress the propriety of passing such a law as will prohibit, under severe penalties, the circulation in the Southern States thro' the mails of incendiary publications,inten ded to instigate the slaves to insurrec tion. "Recent events irresistibly confine the application of your remarks, to the offi cers and members of the American anti slavery Society and its auxiliaries." Now let this fact be forever remember ed : that the members of the• American anti-slavery Society were introduced to the world by Andrew Jackson as a party of incendiaries, who were endeavoring to produce a. servile war. These Aboli tionists, thus accrued, proceeded to por tray the horrors of such war. " A servile insurrection," said they, "as experience has shown, involves the slaugh ter of the whites without respect to sex or age. And .is it nothing, sir, that we are officially charged by the President of the United States with wicked and un constitutional efforts, and of harboring the most execrable intentions? You have accused an indefinite number of your fel low ei , iz•ns with harboring intentions which could be entertained only by the most dcpral ed and abandoned of man kind. Y,ni assume as a fact that aboli tionis:s are inisereants--who aro laboring to effect the massacre of their Southern brethren. " Are you aware, sir, of the extent of! the reproach which such an assumption ! casts upon the character of your country. men ? In August last., the number of an ti-slavery Societies known to us was 263. We have now the names of more than i 350 Societies, and accessions are daily made to the multitude who embrace our I principles. And can you think it possible, sir, that these citizens are deliberately plotting murder, and are furnishing funds to send publications to the South intend ed to instigate the slaves to insurrection? Is them anything in the character and manners of the free States to warrant the imputation of such enormous wickedness? " And what, sir, is the , character of those you have held up to the execration of the civilized world ? Their enemies being judges, they are religious fanatics! And what are the haunts of murder? The pulpit, the bench, the hall of legislation, I e the meetinc , for prayer, the tempe of the Most High. But strange and monstrous as is this conspiracy, still you believe in its existence. _Be persuaded, sir, the rnO , ral sense of the 'community is abundantly sufficient to render this conspiracy utterly impotent, the - moment its machinations are exposed." There is a public confession, by the Ab olitionists themselves, that a servile insur rection would be instigated except by " the most' depravedand abandoned of mankind," and they complain that Presi dentlaploon should impute such " enor mous viickedness" to a body of American citizens ''rheY adMit that to incite the slaves to insurrection is to plot murder, and that tho President accuses them of that crime. " We are not indeed subject ed to the 'penaltkiif murder ; but need we ask you, ski what.must be the moral influe463 of your declaration that we have intended its perpetration,?" But.out of their owilinoutbs these Ab olitionists are. condemned. They have pronounced- their own verdict on their own characters, for it will bo shown that even in the pulpit—"in the Temple of the Most Eigb".-44.ha&beeti _taught to the people oft he North that it; was pleas ing to Gad — eais That it Was ' ' • Rio cOl 7 mand "that they should murder the Ow - - pie of the South.." It will be proven that President Jack son, in his military capacity, would have executed scores of these Abolitioniets,but as the civil ruler of the of the people he had no power to protect the people of the South from the plottings of these incendi aries, except to close the mails against the missiles of death ; and leave it to the States themselves to watch their prodeed ings. We shall see how they abused him fot this "arbitrary and despotic act" of foiling them in their attempts to excite the slaves to insurrection. They were like a set of ravenous wolves howling for the prey which had been snatched from their teeth. The merciful and fatherly hand of the President, who was placed over the whole people fur their protec tion, having interposed to save the lives of iose•who lived in the South, these "re ligious fanatics" turned their assaults up on the Constitution, which guarded the Southern States against all such vile in cendiaries. This strong bulwark of safe- I ty, erected by the founders of the govern ment., for the common defence of all A merican citizens, rendering them secure in all their rights of life, liberty and prop erty, was denounced by these vile con spirators, as a "league with death and a covenant with hell," for the very reason that they found it a barrier to their plans of breaking into the , Southern State's with an army of liberation, or of sending mis siles of death through the mails. But for this Constitution of our fathers, the South long ere this would have been given over to all the horrors of civil war, and St.Do ming° would have been re-enacted in the hitherto peaceful dominions of the Amer ican' Republic. It is important to know, before we pro ceed, if President. Jackson ever retracted the charges made against the Abolition ists, and ceased to warn his countrymen against them. " Strange and monstrous as is this con spiracy," said they to the President, "still you believe in its existence, and call on Congress to counteract it." Did he aban don that belief, and tell the people that that conspiracy had been broken up ? The message in which the above charges are found is dated Dec. 1835. Between that period and his retirement from of fice, he had two years in which to watch these Abolitionists, and their proceedings, and instead of bidding his people fare well without warning them again of these bad men, he rouses his fellow citizens to a renewed sense of their danger from the plottings of these': conspirators. Garrison and his followers were preach ing to the world that. the Constitution of I our fathers was "a league with death and a covenant with hell." " Nay, my fellow citizens," said Presi dent Jackson, " The Constitution has sue- I seeded beyond the brightest hopes of those who framed it. Every quarter of , this widely extended nation has felt its blessings, and shared in the general pros- perity produced by its adoption. It is no , longer a question whether this great country can remain happil y united and flourish under our present form of gov ernment. Experience, the unerring test of all human undertakings, has shown the wisdom and foresight of those who form ed it, and has proved that in the union of these States there is a sure foundation for the brightest hopes of freedom, and the happiness of the people. But amid this general prosperity and splendid success, against the, dangers of which the Father I of his country warned - us, are becoming I every day more evident, and the signs of evil more apparent." What were these dangers, and these evils, which rose up before this great pat riot—this old hero—and made him trem ble before the people, while lifting his warning voice against these " religious fanatics." Why, he heard the Cataliue of America, the leader of this band of con spirators, proclaiming to all the people that "if such a process were necessary to •restore liberty to the captive, he would trample the Union and the Constitution. under his feet, as soon as be would a per that stung him"—that "such a com pact was in the nature of things null and void from the beginning." I Alarmed by such treasonable senti ments, President Jackson tells the people that "each State hasthe ,. unquestionable right to regulate its own,internal con cerns according to its own pleasure, and every State must be the sole judge of the measures proper to secure the safety of its citizens and promote their happiness." That means that every Southern State had a right to expel every Abolitionist I from their midst, if such a measure was necessary to - secure their safety. Hunt I them, drive. them out. " Self-preserve tion is the first law of nature." The Pres -sdent continues: "All efforts on the part I or the people of other States to cast odi um upon their institutions (of slavery), and all other matters Calculated to die- Orb their rights of property (in slaves), or to- put,in jeopardy. their peace and I tranquility, are in direct opposition to the spirit in which the-Vnion was formed,and must endanger their safety: Rest-assured that the men found busy in this work, of discord, are not worthy. of our onfideude and deserve your sikongeit rerobation." Reprobation;-saya Webstermeana "the act of disallowing with detestation:" Re probated=-"disapproved With' abhor rence." Reprobate—" to die' approisi With detestation or marks.of extreme dislike; rejected." MONTROSE, PA., TUESDAY, FEB. 20, 1866. President Jackson says to the people, "these Abolition conspirators," these " religious fanatics," are unworthy of your confidence. Yon should detest them, abhor them, and reject them: How could he help telling them so, if he was a patriot, a friend to Washington and to the government of our fathers ? lie stood forth in his last farewell to the people, holding up the Constitution and the Union as a priceless legacy to all, while Wm. Lloyd Garrison was pronoun cing the Union a curse. " I know," said Garrison, "there is much declamation about the sacredness of the compact which was formed between the free and slave States, upon the adoption of the Constitution. I recognize the com pact with feelings of shame and indigna tion ; and it will be held in everlasting in famy by the friends of justice and human ! ity throughout the world. They had not :power to bind themselves and their pos terity for one hour by such an unholy al ' liance. It was not, valid then—it is not valid now." This man was the founder of the Antir ; lean anti-slavery Society, and he declared I to all the world that he was ashamed of I Washington and the founders of the A , Inerican Republic; that their work in es tablishing the American Union would be held in everlasting infamy, and that not a man in the nation was bound for one hour to obey such a wicked government as I they had founded. Then and there it was that these conspirators, with this Cat aline for their leader, formed the " Covenant with death, and the agreement with hell," which they ascribe to the fathers of this 'Republic. Then it, was that a solemn " league and covenant" was made that they would never lay down their arms un til the government of our fathers was • overthrown, and a new one Id . t upon its ' ruins. The conspiracy of Cataline had for its object the overthrow of the existing pow ers, and the elevation of a party from the dregs of the people. Thus Wm. Lloyd Garrison, in imitation of the Roman con spirator, resolved upon the overthrow of the government made by free white men, and placing their negro slaves over them. The conspiracy was written in blood. The conspirators resolved that the negro slaves should not only be set free, but that they should stand on the same platform of equality with the white race, and have all the rights and immunities which the white people claim fur themselves ; th.it• they should compete with the white man for all the offices of government from the highest to the lowest, and that this should be accomplished though all the white race should have to be extermina ted from the South, and every white ex terminated in the North who stood in the way of the completion of their schemes. Robespierre said " let the white colonists in St. Domingo all perish, rather than a principle." So said these Abolition conspirators of America. They resolved, also, that if Christianity stood in the way, they would overthrow Chi istianity. If parchments, laws, constitutions, - stood in the way,they also, should be overthrown and trodden under foot. They said : "We put negro equality in one scale, and the United States government, the Constitution and the Union. in the other ; i they kicked the beam, and negro equality outweighed them all." In 1839 these negro conspirators stood face to face with Andrew Jackson, defy ! ing him—defying the Union, the Consti tntion, and the Laws of both God and man. To-day they stand face to face with Andrew Johnson, defying him, trampling the Union and the Constitution of our ta thers under their feet, as though they were "vipers which had stung them."— ' They have waded through the blood of a million of their white brothers, in order to free four millions of their black brothers and sisters, who are now their chosen al lies ; and they are resolved to wade thro' I the blood of a million more, "if such a process is necessary," to complete their plans. President Johnson says, they will pro duce a war of racer•, but that the negro population would be exterminated in such a war. The Abolitionists will take sides with the black race, be the contest what it may. Garrison, whom we shall prove to be a disciple of Voltaire, who burned all the bibles in France, says : "My cause was inspired with the spirit and truth of God." The Abolitionists in Congress and out, who are bringing the great con spiracy to completion, declare the same. Such were the fanatics which Luther said " veiled their crimes with the cloak of the gospel, and claimed the sanction of the Almighty for their deeds of blood." Every patriot will stand by the Presi dent in this his trying day. In standing by him—they stand by Jackson—they stand by Washington and our patriot fa thers, who stood by the white race in St. Domingo, when Robespierre and bis fel low Abolitionists in France instigated the negroes to slaughter. In taking „sities.against the President and arranging themselves on the side of the, consptrators in Congress, the people 301liurn, their hands against their own race nnit blood,. when the fatherly Presi dentis now trying to save them, as Pres ident Jackson lilted his fatherly and saved the people trom slaughter by negro savages; and we will show how he saved them from the .tomahawk and scalping knife of the Indian savages of America, and what he did to white men who took the side of the Indians in their war against the white race; and that such is the way he would now teach the Aboli tionists, whose true characters will be brought to light in the following num bers. The Condition of the South. Whatever may be the aptitude and taste of the emancipated negro for politi cal pursuits, it seems that freedom has not inspired him with any zeal for vulgar manual labor. We have an authority on this point which cannot be questioned. It is brevet Major Henry C. Lawrence, now in charge of the Bureau of Refugees and Freedmen for Warren and Franklin counties, North Carolina. This gentle man is brother in law of Chief Justice Pierpoint, of Vermont, and brother of Judge Lawrence, of the Supreme Court of Illinois. Ile is an Abolitionist, but has written a letter to a private friend, under date of December 14th, 1865, concerning the state of affairs in North Carolina, which proves him to be a candid and hon est man, ready to tell the truth, no mat ter how unwholesome it may be to his political friends. This letter has found its way into print, and for the copy of it before us, we are indebted to the Balti more Gazette. Major Lawrence states that the district to which he was assigned by the Freed men's Bureau, at the time he was sent there, " had rather a bad reptitation as re gards the disposition of the people and their treatment of the blacks." But af ter a residence of three months and a vis it to almost every plantation in the dis trict, his mind was entirely disabused of this unjust and false impression. He says: talked to themthe negroes) in a body I on each plantation visited, and listened to what they had to say. The people, al most invariably, are kind and generous to the negroes to a degree that the North will, I fear, be slow to credit. They do not yet ask to be placed upon the footing of employers, and to do only what is just to the freedmen as laborers. They are forbearing and indulgent to their inexpe rience and ignorance.' Major Lawrence's account of the ne groes themselves is by no means so cheer ing, as ttis - notion of tor Into mugtorq. His sketch of them, if not pleasing, has the merit of being graphic and powerful : "I think they possess the characteris tics of tropical races ; that they are indo lent, sensual, false, and, when aroused, cruel. They are excitable, imaginative, and by nature brave. In a few years they will be the fittest material for a religious fanatic the world possesses; and another Mahomet may per haps arise, who will endeavor at least to marshal and lead them to conquest. But this is all speculation. I sat down to try to give you facts. I will remark, howev er, that if Brigham Young wants more converts, here is his field with this people, to whom polygamy is native. I wish he would lead them beyond the Caribbean sea. They have expected that govern. ment would give them land here, taking it away from the rebel owners. The officers of the bureau have labored diligently to disabuse their minds of this error, but with little success. All have told them in speeches plainly, what their position is, and of all they have said, when the speaker had finished—General Howard as well as others-93m no Yank; dat just some Reb dey dressed up in blue clothes and brought um here to he to us." But the most important part of the Ma jor's letter is that in which he discusses the aversion of the liberated black to work and his propensity to steal. It has been the theory of the Abolitionists, ever since they began the anti slavery agita tion, that freedom was all that the negro needed to transmute him into an industri ous, self dependent, conscientious laborer. If the black is slow indolent and dishonest in slavery, it is hlavery that makes him so, said they. Strike off his shackles and his vices will drop along with them. He is now free, and this theory which is held by tens of thousands of well meaning peo ple in perfect good faith, is in the process of being tested—Major Lawrence tells us with what success : "There is universal demand for labor at fair prices—largeprices, indeed, consider. ing what this poor soil produces, and what the labor is likely to be, and r made every effort I knew how to induce the ne groes to hire for next year. Being a far mer myself, I think I know what is a fair bargain. I do not think fifty had hired in my former district when I left it, two weeks ago. They are offered cash wages and shares in the crops. If they make a bargain, as some will for a short time, the chances aro five to one that they will not adhere to it. They are offered better sliares of the crops than us farmers ever give in Illinois. Meanwhile they are stealing enormously. I know- many plantations in Warren Franklin 'Valero three _ quarteis of the hogs and sheep have been stolen since last June, and the depletion is still going ori. I doubt if a year hence there will be half bogs enough to make meat for the people. It is very difficult to procure tees timony from one negro against another for theft. They seem to consider that a proper spoiling of the Egyptians. I don't know how they can be prevented from stealing to such a degree as to make it a serious matter to the planters. Drunken ness is of course increasing among them, and they are more addicted to it than I bad supposed. You know what their do mestic relations usually are." The Major, so far from proposing the extension of suffrage to these people as a stimulus to industry and an instrument of moral redemption, expresses himself in the following curt and severe style on that sickening and ever present subject: "Nineteen in twenty areno more fit for the political responsibilities and duties of a citizen than my horses. I wish Charles Sumner would come down here and oc cupy a position like mine for awhile. He would say nothing more against slavery, if he thinks it a fit school in which to ed ucate savages, for two or three genera tions, of the lowest human race, too, to discharge wisely and well the responsi bilities of a citizen in a government which can only exist on a • basis of intelligence and virtue. He should think most wor thily of slavery to justify his present course—or much worse of it, and then act more wisely." The remedies proposed• by Major Law rence for the evils to which his letter is devoted, are plain and practical, and the only ones likely to prove at all.effective. He says : "Now, what is to be done with this ig norant, degraded element, which may, if not wisely controlled, push back, if it does not overwhelm civilization here at the South ? While elevated and enlightened by all available means, it must, at the same time, be held in check in its evil tenden cies by sternly repressive laws. The children, homeless and deserted, or of pa rents unfit guardians for them, as most are, should be apprenticed. The men should be forced to enter into contracts and abide by them." This will not be palatable to the radi cals in Congress, and we fear that the days of Major Lawrence's official career are numbered. But he has written the kind of common sense which appeals to the reason of common people. He has told the truth, very much to his own dis advantage, but greatly to the enlighten ment of the Northern public. We com mend his letter to the Tribune, and all the score of newspapers engaged in print ing the scandal and tealioieue tattle of anonymous and irresponsible correspon dents as an authentic picture of the condi tion of the South. Katie Lee and Willie Grey. Two brown heads with tossing curls, lied lips shutting over pearls, Bare feet white and wet with dew, Two eyes black and two eyes blue ; Little boy and girl were they— Katie Lee and Wiley Grey. They were standing where a brook, Bending like a shepherd's crook, Flashed its silver; and thick ranks Of green willows fringed the banks, Half in thought and half in play, Katie Lee and Willie Grey. They had cheeks like cherries red, He was taller—most a head ; She, with arms like wreaths of snow, Swung a basket to and fro, As she loitered half in play, Chattering to Willie Grey. " Pretty Katie," Willie said And there came a dash of red Through the brownness of his cheek, "Boys are strong and girls are weak, And I'll carry, so I will, Katie's basket up the bill." Katie answered in a laugh, "You shall carry only half;" And then, tossing back herenrls, " Boys are weak as well as girls." Do you think that Katie guessed Half the wisdom she expressed ? Men are only boys grown tall, Hearts don't change much afterall. And when, long years from day to day, Katie Lee and Willie Grey Stood again beside the brook, Bending like a shepherd's crook— Is it strange that Willie said, While again a dash of red Crossed the brownness of his cheek— " 1 am strong but you are weak, Life is but a slippery steep, Hung with shadows cold and deep ! Will you trust me; Katie dear ? Walk beside me without fear ? May I. carry if I will, All your burdens up the bill ?" And she answered with a laugh, " No—but you may carry half." - Close beside the little brook. Bending like the shepherd's crook, Washing with its silver bands, Late and early at the sands, Is a cottage, where today Katie lives With Willie Grey. In the porch she sits, and lo ! Swings a basket to and fro, Vastly different' from the one That she swung in years igone= And has—rockers This is long, and'dat its side and w!ide, I VOLUME XXIII, NUMBER . The passage of the bill granting the right of suffrage to the negrdes . of the - District of Columbia is an act of peculiar significance. No one can pretend to say that there was any public necessity forit. The people of the District of Columbiado not vote, except for municipal officers. They have no voice in Presidential elec. tions, and send no representatives to Con gress or to any State Legislature. The , territory is under the control of Congress. Such being the case, there was dearly no public reason why the negroes ebotild have been made voters, after the whites had almost unanimously expressed their opposition thereto at the ballot box. Was there any strong partisan motive to induce the Republican majority in the House to act as they did in this matter? Had they been adding one or more to their majority in Congress, or even a member or two to the Virginia or Mary land Legislature, we could have seen sellie material motive for their action; but no such inducement existed. The bill was argued on the moral basis alone. It was repeatedly and boldly as serted by those who advocated it, that right and justice demanded its passage. No Constitutional impediment seemed to exist to the passage of such a bill, with regard to the District, as there fortunate ly's in regard to the States. That theact is really a gross violation of faith, and a flagrant outrage on the inhabitants of the District there is no question; but, then there is no plainly written clause in the Constitution of the United States protect ing them from the arbitrary power of the radical majority of Congress. Virginia and Maryland, when they ceded the ter-. ritory composing the District of Colum bia, were content to surrender such of their citizens as inhabited that territory to the care of the National Legislature, lit t'e dreaming that the time would soon come when an intolerant crew of fanatics would so causelessly and brutally outrage their plainly understood rights. If there was no public necessity for for cing negro suffrage upon the people of the District of Columbia, and no material par tisan advantage to be gained, why was it done ? To this question there can be, but one answer. It was intended to be as it is, a bold, open and authoritative enuncia tion of the settled political creed and pol icy of the Republican party. The leaders of this organization believe that there should be no legal ur political distinctions between Degrees and white men, and they are resolved to break down all such as do exist. The passage of the bill conferring the right of suffrage in the District of Columbia is nothing more or less than a solemn declaration of the settled political policy of the party now in power. It is, so far as they have power at present to make it such, a law passed by Congress to make the negro everywhere the political and social equal of the white man. As such it must be met and fought. No man who is not prepared to admit the negro to the ballot box, to the jury box, office and to entire social and political equality, can consistently vote the Repub lican ticket in any coming election. No one can any longer deny that the Repub lican party is fully committed to negro equality.—Lancaster Intelligencer. Mr. Fields, a London bookseller, is known for his wonderful memory and knowledge of English literature. It is said that, when any author in the neigh borhood is at a loss for any particular pas sage, he goes at Once to the " book store" for the desired information. One day at a dinner party, a would-be wit, thinking to puzzle Mr. Fields and make some sport for the company, an nounced, prior to Mr. Fields' arrival, that he had himself written some poetry, and intended to submit it to Mr. Fields as Mr. Southey's. At the proper moment, therefore, after the guests were seated, be began : " Friend Fiefs, I have been a good deal exercised of late, trying to find out in Southey's poems, his well known lines running thus—repeating the lines be had composed—can you tell me about what time he wrote them ?" "I do not remember to have met with them before," replied Mr. Fields; and there were only two periods in . Mr: Sou they's life when such lines could possibly have been written by him." " When were those ?" gleefully asked the witty questioner: " Somewhere," said Mr. Fields, "about that early period of his existence when he was having the measles - ':or . 'jutting his teeth ; or near the close of his life when the brain bad softened, and lie - bad into idiocy. The Versification belong's to tbe measles . period, but ,the eipreSSton clearly betrays the idiotie one." The quest ioner smiled 'faintly," but' dui' company reared. —Cot. William A. Tallman, Co. A:, 136th U. S. - colored troops, has been, dis. missed lima the . service -, , for making . practice of hugging and kissiug-a negro womaiiin the presence of other oiliness and edited mon. , This Ullman, to hie disgrace be it 'Aid, Wu Pennsylvanian, formerly of Allegheny county. Legislating a Principle. A Literary Biter Bit.