2 iU4 I democrat anb JSrntiiuL W. H. M'ENRUE. Editor & Publisher. EBENSBURG, AUGUST 30,::::1SGG. STATE TICKET. FOR GOVERNOR. HIESTER CLYMER. DISTRICT TICKET. CONGRESS, ROBERT L. JOHNSTON, Ebensburg. Subject to decision of District Convention. COUNT!' TICKET. ASSEMBLY, Col. JOHN P. LINTON, Johnstown. REGISTER AND RECORDER, JAMES GRIFFIN, Johnstown borough. ASSOCIATE JCUGES, JAMES MURRAY, Ebensburg borough. GEORGE W. E AS LEY, Johnstown. COMMISSIONER, JOHN FERGUSON, Blacklick tvv'p. l-OOIt HOUSE DIRECTOR, HENRY BYRNE, Carroll township. CORONER, THOMAS MBREEN, Ebensburg boro. AUDITOR, " D. A. LUTHER, Carroll township. . The Coming Man. The nigger caucus is over. Daniel is the man. Not Daniel the Prophet, but Daniel the receiver of profits. Daniel the manager of the Cambria Iron Company, the oppressor of white men, the friend of negroes, the endorser and sustainer of the " Rump" Congress, the enemy of Andrew Johnson, the tool of unprincipled men, the slanderer of Union soldiers, the stay- at-home patriot, who was willing to sac rifice the " last man and the last dollar," in defence of the Union, rather than sac rifice his own precious life. He is the Radical candidate for Congress in this District ' lie claims your votes." He solicits your influence in the coming cam paign. Can you support Lim. Will you support him iclate freemen of the 17th Congressional District ? These are ques tions that must be answered, not through the Radical organs of the District but through the popular voice of the people, on the Second Tuesday of next October. As yet we have no candidate in the field ; but ere another week shall be recorded on the annals of time, a name will be pre sented by the Democracy of this District that will meet with the approval of every white citizen. We have no idea who will be nominated. We would prefer to sec Daniel's opponent a resident of this coun ty. One who has labored for the success of the Democratic party since Know Nothingism, Republicanism and Radical ism have taken possession of the county. One who has stood by the Constitution fearlessly and defiantly in the last six years, and who now upholds the restora tion policy of President Johnson, with the greatest firmness. It would afford us extreme satisfaction to chronicle his nomi nation ; net only for his qualifications as a legislator but as his popularity as a citi zen. All that is required, all that is de fined is his nomination and it will be the harbinger of victory. Victory that wi'l redeem our country from the shoddy lords who now rule our land, and who are op pressing our citizens with taxes and negro appropriations. At the request of many prominent Democrats, we withdraw from a contro versy inaugurated by us a couple of week's ago. It was our intention, in this week's issueto give the proprietors of the A lie-, 'jftanian the Lenefit of the largest portion of our paper. Wc have the material on hand ; but not wishing to make enemies of friends, and friends of enemies, we re frain from giving publicity to facts. We will now stand on the defensive. We made the attack, or at least' it was con sidered an. attack, by them. Two or three small local notices aroused their an ger, and they pitched into us to an alarm ing extent. In conclusion we would say that it is not through fear that wc relin quish the subject We are capable of taking our own part without the assistance of friends. We write our own editorials, collect our own locals, and ask no man to assist us. Although any communication of a political character will be thankfully received by us at the present time. If the controversy is resumed it will have to be commenced Ly them. As we stated be fore, we now stand on the defensive, and await the re-opening of the " ball." Al though we would have willingly continued the subject, if by so doing we could please all our readers and further the interests of the party, upon which wc depend on for support and patronage. Grand Rally of the Citizens of Johns town and Vicinity. Over 2000 Pctioni In Attendance The Greatest Enthusiasm Prevails- Hon. IXelster Clymer In Attendance. Agreeably to announcement, the De mocracy of Johnstown and vicinity as sembled on the public square, on Satur day, the 25th instant. The meeting was organized by calling Maj. James Potts of Johnstown to the chair. The Major responded in an eloquent and appropriate address, suitable to the occasion. After which he introduced Hon. 1 leister Cly mcr, the Democratic candidate for Gover nor to to the vast audience. lie was re ceived with loud and continued applause. After thanking the audience for the man ner in which he was received, he proceed ed to address them. lie unfolded the doings and actions of the Republicans in Congress, in such a thrilling and eloquent manner that it must have struck ter ror into the hearts of the Radical by standers. Of his adversary he said but little. Whether it was that he did not think him worthy of a passing notice or through respect for his high qualifications as a statesman or his daring feats of arms at Chapultepec and Snickerville, we could not say, but judging from the hopeful manner in which he speaks of the coming election, we suppose it was the former. After entertaining the audience for about two hours, he retired to a seat on the speakers stand, while the eyes of every person present seemed riveted upon him. Our fellow-townsman, R. L. Johnston, Esq , was next called upon, and received with deafening cheers. lie addressed the meeting in his usual happy style, and was often interrupted with bursts of applause. So great was the popular excitement while Mr. Johnston was speaking, that a stran ger coming upon the ground and hearing that the next Governor of Pennsylvania was in attendance, would have readily supposed that he was then addressing the meeting. After the conclusion of his speech, he was loudly applauded. The meeting then adjourned until half-past seven. When it was again organized. Speeches were made by lion. Cyrus L. Pershing, Col John P. Linton and Capt. Woodruff. The meeting adjourned with three cheers for Clymer and the whole Democratic ticket. Taking everything into consider ation the meeting was a success and re flects great credit upon the citizens of Johnstown and vicinity. We think wc have never seen a more orderly or respec table gathering in Johnstown. There was a striking contrast between this meet ing and one that assembled there some three years ago, when citizens were mob bed and abused because they would not sustain the President, and sing " Rally Round the Flag Boys." The Democracy are now sustaining the President, and rallying around the flag of Liberty, car ried by Ileister Clymer, for the protection of every white citizen, whether he be of English, Irish, Scotch, or German origin. Congressional. The Democratic Congressional Con ferees for this District will meet in Hun tingdon on Saturday the 1st inst, for the purpose of nominating a Congressman. The Conferees of this county are Hon. C. L. Pershing, Mr. Philip Collins and Sheriff Myers. We hope they will do their business well. 3- Those opposed to President John son ask, why dont he punish the traitors? We answer, for the simple reason that he has not got the power. " According to the Constitution, Congress has power to pun ish treason in individuals," and when it met, President Johnson had nothing to do with the punishment of Jeff. DavTs or any other leading criminal.. Congress adjourned without even sanctioning the trial of Jeff. Davis. Now, what was their reason for so doing, if they had no j sympathy lor traitors. Hut President I Johnson has to take the blame. This is unjust Let Congress take the blame for not making treason odious. Glolx. - The Geart Meeting at Reading. The following, from a Lebigher " a member of a band who was at Reading, w hose eye was blackened, and whose horn was broken, explains, ia his way, some of the "pleasures" of that gather ing: " Now guck amoldo do. Ich hab im mer so gute uf mi horn achtgeva, und now sane wie es verbrocha is. So eppes stand ich net . Es war anes von sella kerl mit da roda hossa. Ich verlos die band, wan ich so getreat soil werra. Des isgewiss immer und ewig zu arg bo en ding zu verhausa." -Patriot and Unioru The Work Goes Bravely On. The great conservative gathering at Philadelphia, did their work well. As the New York Times remarks difficulties no doubt remain to obstruct the easy work ing of the movement and crippling its usefulness, but none that should occasion serious apprehension. The formidable task of organization having been comple ted with marvelous ease, the minor labors that arc before us ought not to excite fear or even uneasiness. The work is trans ferred in detail to each of the States and Territories, and upon the people of each depends the question of failure or triumph. To secure the latter beyond peradveuture, all that is necessary to manifest or. a small scale the forbearance, the sagacity, the hearty unanimity of the Philadelphia as semblage. Let this be done, and the na tional Union movement will sweep every thing before it. The battle of the Union, be it always remembered, must now be fought on Nor thern ground. The danger to our national existence no longer comes from Southern politicians or soldiers, but from sectional Doliticians amon" ourselves. We are not required to fight theoretical Secessionists, disciples of Calhoun, but. instead, practi cal disunionists under the cuidance of Northern Radicals. It is not a struggle between sections, but a struggle between the Unionists and the Disunionists of the same section, and that the Northern. By a revolutionary usurpation of power, the disunionists have excluded the South from the arena, but the sympathies of the Southern people are cn the side of the National Unionists, whose duty it is to prepare for purifying and nationalizing Congress. This is the work which de volves upon us, and these are the circum stances under which we are required to besin it. We, of the North, are called upon to maintain the integrity of the Union and supremacy of the Constitution ; and to do this effectually we must expel the radical disunionists from Congress, and elect loyal Unionists as their suc cessors. The. process is simple. As matters stand, names and nicknames amounts to little. We are fighting for the substance, not the shadow, and can recognize only the distinctions that rests upon reality. Is a candidate for the Union, as defined by the Constitution, or for disunion after the fashion of the Radicals ? This is the one overshadowing question. In the States where nominations have already been made, there can be no hesitancy in deter-' mining as between the candidates, He that is not for the Union as established by the fathers, is against it, and should be dealt with accordingly, under whatsoever pretence he solicits votes. In the States where nominations are yet to be made a moderate degree of attention to the spirit which animated the Philadelphia Conven tion, and the principles it enunciated, will secure alike harmony and success. The people of the North have the issue in their own hands, and we will not libel their patriotism by doubting the result. Pitts burg Post. Gearv at Newville. The . hero in still another point of view. The Perry county Democrat relates the followinx of Geary's visit to Newville. " The Negro Suffrage candidate Johnny Geary O, visit ed Newville a few days ago, personally begging for votes. He walked the street hat in hand, kissing the babies and flat tered their mammies, and was sweet on the poor people generally. He presented the abject spectacle, the first seen in the history of our State, of a candidate for the first magistracy soliciting votes from door to door. Sensible men, even of his own party, were disgusted, and he foiled to create-the enthusiasm that his gallant (?) achievements in Mexico and at Snick ersville might have warranted. He went into the tailor fahop of our friend C, and meeting there some six of the white '"boys in blue," he inquired " well, how many votes will I get here?" There was a general smile on the countenances of the boys when one of them who had formerly served in the redoultabls General's regi ment and knew of his tricks at Chance lorsville and Lookout Mountain, and how he skulked and then claimed honors that belonged to others, replied, " can't sec it, General, you might male a good Provost Marshal but you are oo well known to be made Governo' The rest joined in the laugh and te negro candidate bolted. He had cncJgh." . In reply to the falsehoods constant ly rinted by Disunion organs that Presi- tnt Jnson 'ias been and is appointing uemocrats and rebels to otiice, and that he is constantly besieged by them, the Washington "special" of the Philadel phia "Inquirer," under date of the 22, says that representatives of the Democrats from all the Northern States have called upon the President within the past five days, and they unanimously concur in the reccommendation that Federal offices should be bestowed upon Conservative Republicans only. He says further that " The Democrats do not ask for office, but request Mr. Johnson to remove such office-holders as oppose the policy of the administration or abuse the President per sonally. And it may be added here that the Democrats are not applying for ' pre ferment, and as, yet, none have been appointed." Soldiers' Friends. Forney bawls loudly for ihe nomination of soldiers by the Republican party, but he has not yet brought forward a soldier for the United States Senate. He propo ses to take that position himself. He thinks soldiers good enough to fill the coun ty offices, but in all this great Common wealth, which sent from two to three hundred thousand men to the field, he has not yet found one soldier as well fitted for and as well entitled to a seat in the Senate as himself ! Modest Man ! Great friend of Soldiers ! Curtin is afflicted in the same way. His friendship for the soldiers is unbound ed. There is nothing he would not give them, except what he wants himself, lie would aive them the right to vote along side of a negro ; to sit in the jury-box with " American citizens of African de scent," or to send their children to school with piccaninnies. He would even allow them to be elected to the Legislature, if they would pledge themselves in advance to vote for him for the Senate. But out of the thousands of officers to whom he issued commissions during the war, and out of the hundred and thousands of pri vates whose names are enrolled in the Adjutant General's office at Harrisburg, Curtin has not been able to find a single man whom he prefers to himself for Sen ator. Disinterested soul ! With all his bad health, he is wilting to take upon himself the labor of representing Pennsyl vania in the United States Senate, rather than see the position imposed upon some poor soldier ! If these reDubhcans were sincere in their professions, would they not propose some soldier of distinction for the Senate, instead ol strujrmmir to secure their own election ? Lancaster Intelligencer. Thad. Stevens on Foreigners. "After having been nominated for Con gress Thad. Stevens made a speech from which the following is an extract : We have not yet done justice to the oppressed race. We have not gone as far as the Emperor of Russia, when he ordered the freedom of thousands of his oppressed people and endowed them with the r'mht of citizenship. We have been too much governed by our prejudices. We have listened too much to those whose cry is "Negro Equality" " Nigger "- "Nigger" "Nigger?" We are influ enced too much by those persons from foreign lands who, while in search of freedom, deny that blessed booa to them who are their equals." There is a plain manifestation of the real feeling of the Radicals toward the foreijrn population of this country. If they could they would deprive every adopted citizen of the right to vote, and confer that sacred franchise on the negro instead. While some men are trying to deceive a few simple-hearted Irishmen into the belief that they are the friends of green Erin, "Old Thad" comes out at his own home and speeks the honestsen timent of the Radical wing of the Repub lican party. He boldly declares his pre ference for the negro over the foreign- born white citizen, and avows his belief that the negro is superior to the Irish or the German races. Is that enough for naturalized citizens? Do they need more convincing proofs that the infernal spirit of Ivnow-Nothin"isni still exists in the heart1? of Thaddeus Ste vens and all his followers? If they do, let them vote for Geary, himself an ori ginal Know-Nothing, and they will repent ot their tolly when it shall be too late. v r i ... n o ioreign-uorn citizen can vote lor a radical candidate unless he is willing to be reduced to a condition below the nero. . o lhat is what Stevens and all the Radi cals wi;-h to see done. Lancaster Intelli gencer. C3 We stated, shortly after Geary was nominated, that being an ignorant and illiterate man, the campaign would be conducted for him entirely upon clap trap tactics. The result has demonstra ted our prediction. At York a bir cake enabled the General to master the "situa tion : " at Mechanicsburs Mrs. Ge?irv t j as brought up as a reserve: and at Reading, when he got into his usual blow about his "achievements," two aegimcnt al battle flags were brought out and plant ed on each side of him. Of course these things are supposed to pro ricrht to the soft places in the heads of the ignorant and simple-minded masses ; taking the place of sense, reason and principles; and re lieving the candidate of all-the 'pressure, while, at the same time, they 'fbrin" down the house." Then the " Boys in blue," (some of whom never smelled gnn powder,) with their nice clean toggery, is another piece of clap-trap, intended to latje the place ot Geary's brains. Hum hug certainly is a great thing when "done up brown and if Three Thousand Dol lar Jordan and Negro Regiment Collis and Court Marshal Owens don't under stand that, then Phineas T. Barnum don't know anything about wooly . horses and Fejee mermaids. Patriot $ Union. A wrathful husband publicly horse whipped a - traveling photographer at Plymouth, Conn., a few days ago,, for distributing photographs of his wife, which had been disfigured by the addi tion of whiskers and moustaches. Tha artist went to law, and was comforted to the extent of six cents." '-" The Rejection of Yankee Schoolbooks, An Evidence of Treason. By virtue of having "conquered the South " the Disunionists assume that tne North and especially iew i.ngianu must be allowed not only to nave sole political control ot me peupie m. r ....... i- r. .1 1 tn octahli.cli their religion lor them shape the minds of their children. Here is a case in point. The Richmond Vhig lately stated that a Southern publishing house was issuing a new serious of school books, which it advised Southern families to use, because, as it said : " Two-thirds of the schoolbooks are gotten up in New England, by radical politicians, whose aim it is to poison the minds of the young against the South, Southern men, Southern women, and Southern customs and ideas," and for the reason that "it is our duty to see that our youns peo ple shall not bo corrupted and poisoned j bv New England infidelity, radicalism j and heresy." This gospel truth and sterling advice, which should be profited by in Pennsylva nia as well a3 in Richmond, is quoted by the Armstrong Republican, " to give the reader an idea of the working of the President's plan of reconstruction in the Southern States !" Great God ! Must the Southern people submit not only to the confiscation of their property ; to the deprivation of legislative representation ; to disfranchisement ; to grievous taxation and to the government of negroes and demagogues, but must they also be corn- pelled to throw their children beneath the grinding wheels of the juggernaut of New- England niggensm ! les, this is the de mand of the Disunionists. To all this must those people submit, and more. They must not have separate church or ganizations from the North for that is "treason." They must not refuse to sell the remnant of land left those of them who have escaped confiscation for t Fiat is "treason." They must not set up manufactories to supply themselves with cloths, wares and machinery for that, too, is " treason." They must not refuse to employ Yankee schoolniarms for that is " rank treason." They must not re fuse to receive newspapers and books printed at theNorth, for that exhibits " latent treason," evidencing their unfit ness for self-government. They may have children, but New England must have the training of them. To live, to breathe, and to move in circumscribed circles are about all the rights to which a Southern man is entitled, according to the code of Disunion. Thus we see these Disunionists, while welcoming the negro race from the " black night of bondage," consigning the white people of tho South to a condition of slavery equally as bad, if not worse. Are they philanthropists who talk and act thus for one race and against another? Most assuredly not. The true philan thropist is the friend and helper of all the hater and enemy of none. Patriot and Union. A Persecuting Spirit. Thaddeus Stevens appears to have an insatiable appetite for persecution. He is happy only when he has somebody to worry. He first made himself conspicu ous in Pennsylvania by jersecuting the Freemasons. An emigrant from the fro zen hills of Vermont, he had hardly got warm in the nest of hi adoption before he entered upon a crusade against a be nevolent order that was distinguished for its charities and for its favorable influence upon the cause of morality. In this cru sade he acted as Provost Marshal Gen eral, lie ordered the oldest and best men of this commonwealth to be arrested and dragged before his inquisition, and the order was executed by his satraps. Insults that must have made their blood boil were heaped by this Yankee inter meddler upon the heads of native citizens of Pennsylvania, whose locks were whi tened with the snows of more than sixty winters. To such an extent was this persecution carried, that for many years a large number of the Masonic Lodges in the State were closed. His utterances against the members of that order, very many of whom were among the best men in the whole country, were as fiendishly malignant as his denunciations of the Southern People at the present time. Ihe attitude of unrelenting hostility that he has assumed towards the South, is but a fresh and more malignant mani festation of the Satanic spirit of persecu tion that animated him in the days of anti-masonry. Growing more cruel as he has grown older, he dclijihts more than ever in the use of his hot ranchers Uo would torture the subdued and repentant people of the South merely to enjoy their misery. He would goad them into a new rebellion, if 6uch a thing were possi ble, in order to get an excuse to massacre the whole of them. Against this infernal spirit of persecu tion every honest-minded man in the Union ought to set his face. The boast ed enlightenment of the nineteenth cen tury should not bo. disgraced, in free and Christian America, by deeds that would have shamed a darker age. lie who catches and shares tho malignant temper of Thaddeus Stevens, in. effect burns his nioie.and. blots all its precepts from mind. Lancaster-- Intcibgenceri : his The People Must be Trusted. The Brooklyn Eagle discusses the lion of "What are the True Iu,.; fore the Country 7" It charges, Teat truth, that the more moderate I , bKcai journal s, which still acknowH, leadership of the liadicals who Z. ruined their party, attempted to dv; ; their readers by reiterating that the j in the elections is on the adoption cf tL 1 proposed constitutional amendment; ! Every man knows lhat these anienlm?r;5 ! were not satisfactory to Congress. TLr, ; were adopted in the hope lhat the th-cu j could be carried upon them. If the Sj. I ners and Stevens receive a populsir j- dorsement, they will go further. Tlrt ... a - . I - will be emtoluened wun a renewed i, of tower, to lay down their ultimatum which is, avowedly, that the Sju;L-.n States shall not be controlled by the pie who live in them. If only the cit stitutional amendments were at stake, would be impossible to get up a Le political campaign upon them. Ti amendments provide for the national Jtt; for the repudiation of the rebel diht, Kj for a pretended equality in represcntjitix Now upon the first two questions twrfg no difference of opinion. Cor.grc.- ccj not have asked any pledge that the .s would not have acquiesced in on two J, these three points. Is it pretcn;! J if the South will be unfaithful hi 1:? gallons to support the Constitution. theie is any guarantee for future safctvii the proposed "iquality in rt-prtHi.u tion ?' The amendment proposes that h !(:: ; Stateg m wli5dl ,my distinc,-K,n is nu:- betwecn their inhabitants on accoui.;. color, the class laboring under politic disabilities shall not count as a ba.-i.-t representation. In every Northern-Sut with two or, perhaps three exceptir.?. : distinction is preserved The rii.t ( guch State to ra.lke guch ,ii:,t;ncIn i never until now been questioned. the Radical policy, no induceiiM-nt wlii L held out to the Southern Slates, to aj.i their negroes, under certain qualities;:.:, into the ruling political body. To s the ii;:lit that Pennsylvania nowti;; South Carolina must enfranchise In r :. grocs en in-je. If I Vnnsji Ivania, !.'.: has lit Id no negro slaves for twj i: r. tions, deems it wise .ti!i to make a ' tinelicn on account of cohr, i it : ask South Carolina to purchase her . : cal rights in the I'nion by comp liii'r to enfranchise hundreds of tho:i-!-necroes utterly incapable, as evirv i i :. man must admit, of exercising th" J.:L right tf citizenship ? I t us hrin; t. question home to ourselves. Wuu'.J if residents of South Carolina, ho v.ii.j to vest the political power of thru v in the hands of necroes cmbratc-l slavery from which they have juM i eninncipited ? But suppose the South v itidei to amendment. What additional gnarnr:' for the public safety would the n -.' meat secure under it ? The repress: lion of ihe South would be reduced:'.. seventy-six to fifty -eight members o" : House of Representatives. If tt is i tructive to admit seventy-six mcmhet?. we secure full safety in letting "ml:;: eight ? Does the future safety of : country depend on the exclusion oli. teen Southern members of Congre.-s ? is not for this petty advantage th:.t : Radicals dissevered themselves fivci'. President yielded reluctantly the lev., and fishes, and staked their poiitiea! ' ture on the chance of defeating the l'rs- ident before the people ? Does anv L .-' est man believe it ? But if it is th.r-"r ous, as the liadicals pretend, to aJa:i; 5 full representation from the Fou'.h or, floor of the House, how will it be Senate, from which it is not proper: -exclude the Southern Senators- The truth is the liadicals do not J; any settlement between the section.-. I the States in which they hold control :Lr have taken no steps to endorse the f-: stitutional Amendment. It is inter.:, for a political issue and for no:!.;::,: If the Radicals succeed in this, the o:!; schemes will follow, so long as the pe are content to wrangle for the benefit ol faction. The New York Tnlunc is h-ft"-' enough to declare that it will be sat.-s with nothing less than negro equalitj, k . . n . .... .... u ians to tell its readers that nnl;;ar' vernment will be required iu every is outside of New England to niainixs Less honest Radicals than Greeley they will bo content if the governracs: the Southern States can be placed in hands of the so-called Unionists. know that this scheme involves nr.!' governments, for there is not one cly States in which the men whose patriei "' was displayed in running away from section and seeking place in anoit' would be able to support a government fc an hour unless they were backed outside force. Military government & the Southern States is, under one prt or another, what the liadicals waul, they rejoice in every disturbance affords a pretext for them. The Presid"': on the otlier hand, proclaims the brtf Republican doctrine. " The people ff be trusted." If they cannot be, l!ef lican government is at an cud m country. Ix?t us not concede as nrj:" until we make tho trial at all event" Pittsburg Jirpu&lic, CS- Ileury Ward Beecher rcturc? income of S'jjOOO in