Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-11-01
"SCHRECKENZEITEN. "

a number OF years ago the headlnS Al
Ter, whenever there vas danger OF defee-
tion among the democracy of old Berks,
used to regale its readers with fabulous
account Of the horrors of the alien and Sc
dition laws and other bugbears, which sell
dom failed to frighten the disafected into
the ranks again. But people finally got
used to the humbug, and at the present day
" Schreckenzeiten" are of no avail there.
In Miffln county, however, there still must
be those among the patent democracy who
have faith in the old prescription, for We
find their organ, the Lewistown Democrat,
Of late so filed up with horrid sayings and
doings, principally manufactured for the
occasion, that to read that paper one must
imagine any other rule than patent demo
cratic to be ruin, and that majority are no
longer capable Of choosing their own Pres
idents and Governors. Thus, if an aboli-
zionist or some other fanatic, within the
past hundred years, has uttered some OBJ
noxious sentiment; if some low-lifed poll
tician has attributed language to Burlin-
game, Giddings, or some one else =; ifa DEM
ocratic white knave has published a card in
viting the colored men to meet for the pur-
pose Of forming a Lincoln club Gas was the
case lately at Pittsburgh ;)-it forthwith
sends it forth as Black Republican doc
trine-a rather singular term to be appli-
ed to party advocating the claims of
WHITE MEN to those vast regions west
ward where there is not now single ne
gro, by the very men who allege that ne
groes have right to be taken there under
the constitution We know these publ
cations fall almost harmless, for so many
have found themselves misled of late years
by trusting to democratic statements that
canards are now worth but little still, to
show how utterly reckless statements are
made, we will notice few that lately ap-
peared.
There is one in relation to certain John
W. Wilson, said to be on the Lincoln cleo
toral ticket in the State of Massachusetts,,
when on examination of said ticket, no
such name is to be found, nor is any man
of that name known in the State as a pol
itician. Another we see equally absurd,
purporting to have come from a certain
Elijah w Green, of Ohio, who is charged
with general onslaught on the German
voters of that State, and for which there is
not a suggestion of reason. While they
are charging the Republican party with ey-
cry conceivable effort to secure the German
vote for Lincoln, they are simple enough
to accompany this charge with such state
ments as those to which we have referred;
and this under the most bungling arrange
ment. In one column, under the head,
g Who is Carl Schurz 2" you will read an
article fully setting forth the feelings ofthe
democratic party with respect to intclli-
gent Germans, and in another an article
purporting to have come from Elijah w.
Green, and mark the contrast. In the first
article you will see that the greatest effort
by garbling and misquoting to present this
eminent German orator in the worst posi-
bic point of sight is made. He is repre-
sented as a low fellow, an infdel in religion,
bigot in everything, a fool in politics, and
bears the mark all over his frontispiece of
an arrant knave and impostor, while by the
other article they wish to be understood
as sympathizing with these same Germans
in the grlevous indignities cast upon them
by this myth of an Elijah W. Green, of
whom nobody knows, and whose speeches
nobody ever heard These are all of
piece with the double scull" story, doc
story and other fabrications sent broadcast
over the State against Col Curtin.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.