. . RA ~ ,__. . • ,1„ . ... ~ ~.. . . , . ~, . .. ... • [44' T :.. 1 . I ; ! . i 4 . ;.. , : -. , - , . ...), 7 .' . Jim Ts:-: .::-...: ~ . „ . OSE ..iii n 'V . :: - 4. ' '1 ' '''. '' 0 A. J. GERRITSON, liroprietbti roe SQL XO4ITOST. tolliroCUAT. 3131 C X 03 10 1 CA Mk o the Great Struggle between Liberty and Despotism for the last Ilaadred rears. THE REPUBLICANS TRUE TO FANNY WRIGHT, TH EIR LEADER, Miss Fanny Wright, the social reform er, the first public preacher of negro equal ity in America, the founder of the "party of progress, and of grand moral ideas," delivered her parting address to her dis ciples in July, 1830. The scene is thus described by the New York Inquirer " The parting address of Miss Fanny Wright at the Bowery Theatre was a singular melange of politics and iniquity. The theatre was very much crowded— probably a thousand persons were pres ent. When Fanny first made her appear ance in this city as a lecturer on the new order of things, she was very little visited by respectable females. At her lecture in the Park Theatre, about half a dozen ap peared but they soon left the house.— There was a good deal of theatrical dis play in her proceedings. In opposing the sacredness of the Scriptures, and with holding that volume from the hands of the people, she has shown some knowledge of human nature, by substituting something in its place. On Wednesday evening, a copy of the Declaration of Independence on a single sheet was spread upon the ta ble. When she reached that part of her address in which her scorn (and it was bitter enough) was expressed against the Bible, she exclaimed "this is my text book," slapping the Declaration of Inde• pendence, ' this is my ho'y bible—theholy bible of American independence,and must, soon be the holy bible of all' the earth."— This was received by a tremendous_shout of applause. The bitterness towards priests, clergy, politicians, colleges, and the present order of socity, is bold and palpable. She declaimed with vehemence against everything religions and orderly. The great red harlot of infidelity is stalking over the city, and making rapid progress her work of ruin. '.Two years ago,' •ay her followers, twenty persons could scarcely be found in this city who would openly avow infidelity,—now we have t wenty thousand.' " Americans ! You here behold the lea der of the " party of progress," every step', of whose path has been "progress in a work of ruin." The "great red harlot of infidelity" was the pitcursor of this great war, which a pious English divine of the last century describes as a " fiery dra g,,n,.a full figure of Satan broke loose,and fighting against every redeeming virtue of the Lamb of God." These infidel lectures in the Park and Bowery theatres of New York, and the Fanny Wright societies formed in the Eastern states, were the' forerunners and direct cause of the assassination of Abra ham Lincoln in Ford's theatre in the capi tal of the nation. The negro school of Fanny Wright in Memphis, Tennessee, was the foundatidn of the freedmen's bu reau, all over the South, and the war of races at Memphis and New Orleans, are but the outbursts of the second scene of i St. Domingo—the natural and sure re sults of the teachings of the French phi losophy. Fanny Wright, the infidel reformer, threw away the Bible with bitter scorn, and took the Declaration of Independence as a subMitute therefor. The Republi cans are true to her teachings. They de clare that this war upon the South was to compel the Southern people to receive the Declaration of Independence as the stand ard of all truth ; and they claim to be in- I fallible interpreters of that truth. The es tablishment of the Republican party over this nation is the establishment of the great dogma which they will force the whole nation to accept—that of negro equality. This dogma they do not pre tend to find in the Bible, but in the Dec laration of Independence, which says "all men are created equal." Hon. Benjamin Wade, who is to take the place of President JAnson, if the im peachment managers win the victory, says to bps great speech last October : " How is it that the Republican party to-day are reigning triumphantly over the once proud Democratic party ? It is ; be cause God is just, and because the Reptib-' lican`party have traveled (progressed) ac cording to the dictates and principles laid down by Him, while the Democratic par ty have served the devil. Now that may be a harsh expression, but it is literally true." Thiiitif.glaihe at/demi:mil is well fitted to serve the' ptrpolie 64 . - the ,Republicans, who will use him gamy as au instrtan - ent to consummate their designs. The Dem i ocrats have served the devil, and of course are heretics worthy of death, 'because thdy don't believe in Fanny Wright. 111 r. Wade says, " Why don't the Demo crate try to find but what: has dwindled them down to nothing, and bUili . us up a power ?" The true answer to this question was given two years ago by ThaddetniStevinif. He said if the Union was restored the Democrats would come into p,conrer; and the Republicans would be • driven' out, , a. therefore the Democrats mtlirt be actin L'.4l r.f.' chised, and the negrpes tabs their plice. Bat Mr. Wade says :. k, It is the great spirit of• righteousness permeating and pervading the Republi can party. The Democrats don't seem to understand why they have becomea hiss ing. hnd ft by-Word among men. Why is it ? It is becanse they have departed from every principle of Republicanism.— They pretended to act upon the principles of Thomas • Jefferson—glorious old patri ot. I revere him as much as the best of them. He laid down the principles we have taken up, and carried forward so tri umphantly (slaughtering a million of hu man beings in the progress), because they were founded in 'righteousness, and with the favor of Almighty God; that is why we are triumphant, and why we shall not fail. If the Democrats gain the victory, they must plant their batteries very high —they Must storm the Sebastapol of the Almighty, and shell Him from His throne, before their principles 'can: predominate." In the next number ^we will prove that, if Thomas Jefferson's, principles were car ried out there would not be a negro left, in the United States ; that he repeatedly declared that if they were set free and left. among the people of the South, a war of races would begin, which would never end but in the extermination of oneor the other race. If Thomas Jefferson's princi ples were founded in righteousness, as Mr. Wade affirms ' then he and his party are committing blasphemy in such asser tions as the above, and are the followers indeed of the "great red harlot, of infidel ity," which appeared in the form of a fe tna.e named Fanny Wright, who came to preach the gospel of Robespierre to the benighted Americans, and indoctrinate them with the "idea" of negro equality, discarded by all the patriots of 1776. What Hinders Them. • What binders the Radicals in Congress from thrusting ,ne.,, , rro equality upon us in the North precisely as they do with the aid of the army in. the South ? Nothing else. They encounter no dan gers, :it present, the South, with the Southern whites disarmed and military and nemro power guided by Radical can ning, holding down and preventing all attempts of white men to free themselves front a hated thraldom. Give these Rad- . icals au inch they Will take an eel. -Give them the apparent support of Northern people iu favbr of their extreme measures and they will do precisely the same in the North as they are now doing in the South. The remedy is iu the hand of the people of the 'North. Let our reprehension of this vile unconstitutional tyranny go on as it has commenced, and• the cowardice of Radical tyrants will soon show itself, and the cure for the present misrule begin, and never cease till Radicalism is buried. JOSEPUINE.—So far as the intrinsic in terest of the facts is concerned upon which Miss Muhlbach bases her story, this la test production of her pen may be said to rival any of its predecessors. Nowhere in all history is there a tragedy so sweet and sad as that, of Josephine—woman, wife, empress, and worse than widowed. The skilful romancer has gathered the facts from all known sources, and woven them into a• compact and glaaming web. Miss Muhibach is accused of high coloring; but what tints can be too bright or too dark by contrast for the light and shade of such a marvellously chequered career as Josephinif's? This tale isrwell translated and the graceful, characteristic style of the author duly preserved. In the art. of gen tly beguiling the reader from page to page by the charm of style, Miss Muhl bach has no superior living ; though, in this instance, the dramatic arrangement of the stirring incidents is so ingenious and captivating that a more barren style would still have left the work highly in teresting. We are glad to see the " Em- Tress Josephihe" worthily illustrated. here can be no disputing about the claims of such lovely designs as the vig. nette. Marie, Antoinette, the night be fore her execution, the beautiful Hortense meditating in a garden, the divorced Em press, and, Josephine's stolen interview with the little Napoleon. Gaston Fay is the author " these exquisite sketches, and, unless we mistake, he has the stuff in him for the making of a first class reputa tion. ~► - - - r —This is. the way the radical military canvassers'conducted. the election in Ar kansas. In Clarksville ninety eight votes were registered as in favor of the consti tution. Next da y one hundred and eigh tx citizens made affidavit that they voted against it, and that the returns made no mention of it. Negro women dressed in Men's clothes voted repeatedly. Negroes were votesi at one window and afterwards registered the same day under new names and vdtet over and over again. --The most corrupt set of villians in this 6nnvry, are perhaps found in the New York 'Legislature, where the mem bers charge and get s7sofortheir vote on a 'reasonable bill If the members of the Pendaylvatiia Legislature 'were" caught at this business, they would, Cot get leave to thie.competitionfor: his place 4iontti . Coe great. Poor;' miserable N'ew York ! Happy Keyst6ne -- state ! MONTROSE, PA., TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1868. The Cannibals of Africa. M. du Chaillu gives the following sketch of a cannibal tribe of Atrica, called the Fans : • I never before saw snob wild men. They were all armed to the teeth with spears, poisoned arrows and knives. Their bod tee were tatooed all over, their teeth were dyed black, and they looked more like ghosts than men. On the ground were skulls of dead men, and bones were scat tered all through the streets. The women were the ugliest I ever saw, and were smaller than the men. The king did not want to see me, being afraid that he should I die if he saw a spirt. The men did not seem afraid, but the women did. I saw one of the latter run into one of the huts with the leg of a man just cut off. This made me feel uncomfortable, and my on ly consolation was, that I was very thin, and not worth much for eating. At length the king came to me, surrounded by his warriors. He was dressed with the skins of wild beasts, and held a spear in his hands. He looked at me with wonder, and I did the same with him. He said he was not aft-aid of me when surrounded by his warriors. I put a bold face on it., and said that spirits were never afraid, also. They gave me a hut to sleep in, but I did not sleep that night—the woman with the leg depressed my spirits. In the morning when I arose and went out at the back door, I met with a grand reception. Can nibals from every part of the country had come to see me. They got accustomed to me iu time, and I to them, and we became the best of friends. After a few days the queen came to see me. She was a lovely creatnre—teeth sharpened to a point— body tattooed all over. Cooked plantains were brought me to eat. I told them I never ate cooked food, for I was afraid that men's flesh had been cooked in the same pot before. The cannibalism of the people is of the worst kind. They eat the bodies, not of their enemies only, but also of their own people. A man, however, does not eat the body of one of his own family, but families exchange their dead with each other. In one case that I knew of, a corpse, five days dead was sold for food. They like their game high. They all agree that a woman is tenderer than a man—not the heart mere ly, but the whole body. Boys, too, are tender, but. old men very tough. I my self could see no diffeence in the appear ance of the flesh of the men and that of the gorilla, except that it was a little fin er in texture. But in spite of their cannibalism, they are in many respect& the finest tribe in that country. Their houses are built low, not more than five feet in height, on ac count of the tornadoes. The Walls are made of the bark of trees; they have a lit tie door in front and a back door, but no windows. Polygamy is common among them, and the more wives a man has the happier he seems to be. Slavery is known but is not much practiced, because men are scarce, and they prefer to eat them rather than make slaves of them. They work iron in the most beautiful manner, make knives, spears, and very sharp axes. They are exceedingly given to fighting, hence their fondness of working in iron, and their aptness at it. Nothing from the coast reaches them, except a few beads and pieces of copper. They cover the handles of their knives with skin ta ken from the bodies of men. On parting the King had made me a present of one of these; it had belonged to his father, and was covered with human skin. One day, as I was lying in a forest, I got waked up by an army of bashiquas— a strange kind of ant. I was so. much bitten by them that I was half dead. An antelope had been killed the day before by King Bongo, which I had intended to eat. But it was now covered with, oh, millions of ants ! They are the most won derful insects in the forest. They are the plague and dread of every living thing. When they attack a village the people have to light fires, pour hot water around, and strew burning ashes around to get rid of these little beasts. They are real ly wonderful—always in single line, and sometimes the line is miles upon miles in length. The line is generally two inches in breadth, there are officers-throughout the entire length keeping watch, so that none of these ants get out of line. I watched a line passing one particular spot, and it was twelve hours before the last of those ants had passed. And as they go through the forest, at a certain signal they spread themselves out and at tack everything that comes out in their i way. They will even go to the tops of trees; and the insects and everything else fly away before them. Elephants, ante lopes, gazelles, snakes,' scorpions, all run away as fast as they can. In fact, many a time have I been warned ofqbe coming of these bashiquas by the insects and oth er creatures flying away in an opposite direction. I got ready , for them by hay- I ing the fires lighted. They are the most. voracious little creatures you can imagine. If they found a dead elephant on their line of march they would attack it, and in a very short time nothing would be left but the bones. Sometimes the chiefs will have a man tied up to a tree, and in an hoar or two nothing would be left of him but the skeleton. They certainly are the most voracious creatures I ever saw. One. singular circumstance connected with them is; that they are afraid of the sun. If they come to a part of the forest where the sun is shining, they dig a tunnel un der the spot and pass it by that means, and so continue their march through the forest, in a single file, as before. Is General Grant a Drunkard ? This important and interesting conun drum is now going the rounds of the rad ical press—"ls General Grant a drunk ard ?" The Independent says he is : the Anti-Slavery Standard says he is; the Rev olution declares that-he is a drunkard; all of which is direct-testimony that General Grant is a drunkard. But the Tribune is the most willing of all these witnessss. We find in that journal yesterday an ac count, of an interview with the President, whetein General Grant's habits, in respect of inebriation, were fully discussed, and from which we learn that the President, in his trip to the West, "didn't drink as much as one or two others about whom nobody" (excepting the editors of the Tribune, Independent, Revolution, and 8o on) " dares to say a word." The Tribune further intimates that when General Grant left the Presidential party at Cleveland it was not because the General was disgus ted with the President's politics, for in fact" he wasn't in condition to know much about politics just then." To besure, the Tribune has heretofore taken the other view of this affair at the West., but then it has expressed diametrically opposite opinions in the same week with regard to its own circulation in that region. But in respect of Gen. Grant's drunkenness the Tribune is explicit; it publishes the state ment that the General has called on the President "so drunk that he couldn't stand on his legs; bpt that is nothing; Grant_at the head and front of the Cran berry patch party " couldn't stand on his legs" in Connecticut last Monday; only it is cruel for the Tribune to mention it. But it is magnanimous in the Tribune to come to the defence of the President against like charges, though it cruelly stabs Grant in this very defence. " Some men," says the story in the Tribune," will be amused like the devil" (the Tribune might have drawn it a little milder, but its loss of subscribers in the " Land of steady habits" has made the journal reck less) " for drinking a glass of whisky and water, while others in equally important stations may almost roll in the gutters, and not a word is said about it," excepting in such journals as the Independent and Tribune. " Some" means the President; "others" is an allusion to General Grant. But seriously, is this fair warfare on the part of the Tribune against General Grant? If he is really the staggering and gutter rolling drunkard the Tribune shows him to be, ordinary charity should cover the shame with silence.— World. The Radicals Exposed.---Speech of General Carey. Ron. Sarpuel F. Carey, of Ohio, has oft en been heard on the stump in this State, in opposition to the Democratic party. He was one of the most popular and ef fective Republican speakers in the coun try, drawing large audiences wherever he went, and arousing to a high point the enthusiasm of his hearers. Last, fall be was elected Member of Con gress from the Cincinnati district, on au independent ticket. His course in Con gress has been such as to meet the appro val of the masses who voted to send him there. On Monday he was in Cinncinati, on a flying visit, and his friendsgave him a splendid ovation at the Opera louse. The immense hall was filled to overflowing with earnest men, anxious to express their satisfaction of the course of their faithful representative. Mr. Carey's speech was a scathing ex pose of the radicals in Congress. He glo ried in the fact that he voted against im peachment—a measure that was carried through by Caucus dictation, as were all the other measures affecting the interests and character of the nation. "Let the result be what it may, the time will come when every man, I care not to what party be belongs, will see that this is a terrible wrong and fearful prece dent. It so happened that I was the on ly Republican member who voted against the impeachment.' This, I suppose, was because I was not in caucus, and I don't intend to be while I live; and I am happy to know that there were men who were in the caucus and voted for the impeach ment, who are now heartily sorry for the act. One of the best and purest men in the House, after the articles were passed, came and sat down by me and said : 'Ca ry, your vote on the question was right. I would rather have given my right arm than vote as I did." Oh, thetyranny and despotism of party 1" He said if the people could have seen the indecent haste with which the impeach went resolution was hurried ehrough, how like a mob it was carried in the house of Representatives, they would have felt ashamed of our National Legislature. Alluding to the fact thdt President Johnson is impeached for trying to follow the advice given to Mr. Lincoln by Sum ner, Wade and others, in the case of Montgomery Blair, General Cary said; " I say he ought to act upon their ad vice- For no matter whether the'Presi dent is a Democrat or Republican, his ad visers should be in harmony with him. He should not have a man in his Cabinet who refuses to speak to him, and who will not sit in the Cabinet council. The President had not violated the ten ure of office law. He did not appoint Stanton. He had only done what every President before him had done, and if An drew Jackson had been President, Stanton would have been kicked out of the war of 6ce long ago. Stanton ought to have re signed when Sherman and Grant both ad vised him to do so. But Sumner and Wade said stick !" The Radicals sought not only to strike down the President, but to destroy the Supreme Court, and build up an oligar chy. They were already distrusting chief Justice Chase, and some of them were saying if Chase did not " stand up in this hour of trial, d n him, we will im peach him." . The only reason these hot heads could give for impeaching the President was that he had betrayed his party—and that he ought - to have been kicked out long ago. The whole moyement was purely political, and the nation was to be con vulsed and disgraced to gratify the ambi tion of designing and aspiring men ! Im peachment, in any case, was a dangerous precedent, and we might better bear the ills we have than fly to others we know not of—Johnson was not guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors under the Con stitution. If Benjamin F. Wade recorded his vote on impeachment, he ought to be spit up on and hissed by all the civilized world. " I believe there are Senators who will not be willing to put their names on the roll of infamy by impeaching the Presi dent. They will not be willing for their children to read in history that their fa thers, Senators of the United States, sit ting as a Court of Impeachment, convic ted a President on mere political grounds just for the sake of controlling a few of fices and a little money." Such was Mr. Carey's position and he maintained that be was proud ofit. But his friends had said to him : " Ah, Carey, you are hopelessly lost—gone over to the Democrats 1" His reply was : " I stand, my countrymen, where I have always stood, upon the side of the right, as an in dependent man, and there I intend to stand as long as I live. He said we were standing upon the threshold of revolution. ary times, and that whatever the result of impeachment might'be, he called upon the people to vindicate their rights and inter ests. The workingmen of the country must step forth and protect their own rights. Remarks of Rom, Chas. E. Boyle. In order that the readers of the Demo crat may understand the position occu pied by one of the men selected as a stan dard bearer of the Democracy, we give the remarks of our candidate for Auditor General, which he delivered at his home in Uniontown, in response to a serenade. With such men as representatives of our principles, we cannot fail to command success in October and November in the old Keystone State. After a few local re marks, specially designed, for his neigh bors and friends, he said : Gentlemen, we stand upon the thresh old of the most momentous political strug gle in which the people of this country have ever been engaged. It differs from all that have preceded it in this; that while they involved questions of govern mental policy, many of them, it is true, vastly important, upon the result of this depends the existence of the government itself. It is not now a question what the government shall do, but rather whether it shall be preserved from destruction. It is evident that the party which sup ports Congress is carrying forward a rev olution. The Constitution of our fathers established a government of three distinct branches—each supreme within its own domain, and each intended to operate-as a balance to the other. The powers of each were clearly limited and defined; and un til within a brief period, therights of each were scrupulously respected by the oth ers. But the party against which we are contending, fatally bent upon its perpet uation and aggrandizement, and finding itself unable to obtain control of two of the branches of the government, is at tempting to concentrate in the one which it does control, all the power which should be distributed among the three. Con gress enacts laws plainly unconstitutional, and then undertakes to deprive the courts of their clear right to so declare them. It strips the President of powers conferred upon him by the Constitution, and assum es them itself,,or bestows them upon its adherents. Not content with that,. it prefers articles of impeachment against him, puts him on trial for the commission of no offence; and not improbably will de prive him of his office and fill it with one of its own members. It has even been i proposed to abolish the office altogether. It dissolves the Union by not of Congress, after it was preserved by the best blood ! of the land. It destroys ten States, some of them of the original thirteen, and usurps the powers which belonged to them alone. It refuses admission to Sen. store and Representatives for the illegal.' commission of offences, and . immediately.'' thereafter admits its own partisans, noto riously guilty of the same acts. i VOLUME XXV, NUMBER 18. ‘ This, I say, is revolution—this destroys the government of the Constitution, and sets upon another totally unlike it. Shari this revolution be consummated, or will the people arrest it, and restore and4irel serve the government of the fathers, the establishment of which has always" been regarded as the grandest achievement of human wisdom ? There are other great, questions in volved in this great struggle —none greater have ever been passed up= on by the American people—but this one overshadows them alt. Shall the revolu tion be arrested ? Shall the government be preserved ? I wish to speak with no unnecessary asperity of those who hold opinions dif. ferent from my own. There are good men, and honest men, and men who love their country devotedly who do not view the coming struggle as we do. If we are right let us hope that reflection will show them their error, and the evils likely to result therefrom, before it is too late, The " Israelite," the Western organ or the Jews, has dragged to the light, the well remembered order of General Gratit in relation to that class of people. It calls upon the Jews throughout the nation to condemn he author at. the polls. We air prebend, that there is not one of that sect, who will give his support to a man wha could thus wantonly insult and proscribe " this people." , Headquarters 13th Army Corps, Dept. of the Tennessee, Ox ford, Miss., Deo. 17, 1882. • General Order No. 11. The Jews, as a class, violating every, regulation of trade established by the Treasury Department, also department orders, are hereby expelled from 'the de partment within 24 hotirs from the receipt of this order by post commanderk' They will see that all this craSs of peo ple are furnished with passes and'required to leave; and any one returning after snail notification will be arrested and held in.- confinement until an opportunity oceans of sending them out as prisoners, unlebs furnished with permits from these head-, quarters. No passes will be given this peopie'tos visit headquarters for the purpose of ma. king personal application for trade per: , wits. By order of Mai. Gen. Grant, JOHN A. RAWLING, • • Assistant Adjutant General • General Grant will discover that these men, whom he expelled from the Depart ment of the Tennessee within twenty four }fours from the receipt of this order by the post commanders, boor him sent such a flagrant outragk The Jew". are a power in this country. Many. of them possess immense wealth and exe,r-. cise a large influence. Their support as a denomination is not to be lightly estima ted. Immediately upon the publication' of this order, Mr. Pendleton, then a 'mein-• ber of Congress, introduced, in the house of Representatives, a preamble declaring the order "tyrannical, cruel and clOSing with the resolution, "that the said order deserves the earnest Condemnation of tbiii House and of the 'President las Commander in chief." It was tabled by a vote of 56 to 53, Mr. Colfax, the pres ent Speaker, voting in favor of the reso lution and thus expressing his censure of Grant's conduct, President \ Lincoln, when convinced that Grant had really:is sued this order, revoked it, and took oc casion to express his hearty Indignatieaa4 the outrage. The article in, the Israelite . ; closes as follows : "We have to say this: As a Jew, wii! cannot and will not vote or a man , 'who> has done us a more shameless injustice than any man in power, in. this century has done in any civilized coutry. There fore, we hope and expect that the entire Jewish press will come out, boldly and justly against the movement to rrominate General Grant as President of the United States. The city papers announce that Mr.. S imon Cameron has received a communica tion, signed by the Goveinor and radicar members of the Legislature of Pennsylva nia, asking him, upon the contingent, suc cession of Wade to the Vresidenoy of. the .. United States, and upon the reorgltniza , tion of the Cabinet to recommend, on be. half of the State of Pennsylvabiai his transfer from the war to tbe-Treasnry'de partment. But Stanton issues a 4 card," declining; and says he does not wish any office, and, only awaits the confirmation of )is sic: cessor to retire to private life '-`‘ " 4 - '" PRACTICAL.' ECONOaIY.BIT I . Washburne of Illinois, the especial friend and champif on of General Grant, has been , lecturing" the House very earnestly this session on, the importance of economy in the matter of appropriations for the service of the government. •It is observed, however,. that he uses a government horse nearly , . every day to transport him to and from the Capitol. The _ animal belongs to Grant's " honshold," but is, owaeitcnnd fed by the government., 4, additmn the horse, Mr. Wastihtirriei generally rides with one of Grants orderlies .behind, him. Grant and the Jews. Another Office for Stanton.