Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1861-03-07

people have heretofore been strangers-tbe
husbandman and the mechanic suffer equal
ly from the pernicious influence of it's false
teachings-public and priYate, State and Ma.
.ional, confidence is destroyed-the laborer
begs for work, while lis children cry for
bread, and there is none to relieve them
When lave times ever been SO hard, and Ia
Dor go cheap and scarce, as under Jas. Bu-
chanan's administration
The farmer offers his wheat for sale, and,
if he finds merchant with money, is offered
a pitifully low price. ruinously low price.
It was not so when Gen. Harrison was Pres
ident, or under the tariff Of 1912, and it will
not be SO ander President Lincoln, if he re-
mains true to the rights of freedom and free
achite labor.
The mechanic stands ready, with strong
arm and hearty will, to prosecute his art,
but the enterprising have no money TO en-
large business or to carry out schemes Of i'm
proyement. Poor mechanics, how little
these political leaders cf the pro- slavery
school care for .hem-they are only mud
sils ]" To please the nabobs of the South
the Democratic party have legislatsd for the
negro and his master until you, mechanics
and lAboring men Of Pennsylvania, are idle
if not worse than idle.
The earth yields abundantly to the efforts
of the the Industrious msn who till it's sur
face but the markets are PROSTATE and there
are few 20 buy:
Our manufactures ara nearly all stopped
for want of purchasers. and the merchant
finds his goods drug 10 the market;
The laborer demands employment bu
there is no work for him ; or if, perchsnoe, g
job turns up, ruinously low prices only ar,
offered.
ALI business is in q state of stagnatior
revolution and war, forced upon the country
by the "rule or ruin" leaders Of the Dem
ocratic party with all .heir horrors. stare u
in the fsce-the grim visage of dreadful wan
IS seen in the distar ce-aestructiou in every
phase threatens to overwhelm us, and mad
ness rules the hour because this corrupt ana
wicked party has been buried from power b.
an outraged, insulsed and therefore lndig
rant people, whose voice, spoken, as it wer;
in thunder tones at the ballot boz in favor c
free white labor, 1t is now unwilling to obey
The Democrats Of the South are iafatuated
but Old Abe" will soon bring them to theil
senses.
Farmer, what do you get for yeur products
Mechanic and Laborer, why do you not pur.
sue your occupation. and where and whaI
are your wages? Manufacturer why have
you ceased ope asions, and Merct ant where i.
your trade?
Democrat, as you call pre-slav-
cry agitater, as you are, why have you bro'i
all this upon our once happy and prosperous
counsy2 You have, either directly or indi-
rocly, brought all this evil upon the country
and upon free white labor simply because
your leaders prefer Slave labor and seek to
extend Slavery instead of freedom into the
national territory. Your sblest and most
patriotic statesmen, Gen. Lewis Cass, and
others known co fame, turn with CHASTITY and
Mortified ceun.enance from the evils your
doctrines have produced. Not satisfied with
the ruin you have alre ady wrought, you seek
now to force upon the Republican party the
unholy doctrines of the Breckenridge plat
form-in the guise of the Franklin Guthrie
Crittenden amendments, thus turning a deaf
ear to the will of the people as expressed on
the 9th day of Noveber last-to the dis
trees of the people you have so often betray-
ed, and to the confidence of the people which
you have so often abused. The leaders OF
this Democratic party in the guise of the
above named compromise now wish to make
the Republican party edious by compelling
it to carry out the vilsst of their measures,
for advocating, and insisting upon which, the
people justly and gloriously hurled them
from power. We tell you Dem ocrats, the
Republican leaders ard peerle will never
submit TO such an outrage, or suffer any such
indignity.
Democrats, again we ask you to look around
you and see what you have done, what your
party has done. Seven Democratic States
out of the Uniaa rather than submit TO the
majority? They have not been wrouged by
the Governments. Then .hy rebel against it,
and set at defiance its laws? Have we a
Government or have we not This ia the
first question to settle. 1t has been weaken
ed and almost irrepairably destroyed by tie
Democratic leaders. Will you still close your
eyes to ths fact Of history and vote with tia
wicked and unp rincrled patty? Or will
you not rather prefer the r. publican party,
advocating as it does, the liberty loving doc
trines of Gen. WASHINGTON, JEFFERSON, MAD
IsoN, MUNRoE, JACKSON CLAY, WEBSTER, and
all the distinguished and patriotic men of all
nations throughout the civilized world p
Honest Democrats of Centre county, of Penn.
sylvania, we ssk you TO lvok again upon the
ruin your party has inflicted upon the coun-
try, re race your steps and thus prove that
you still love your nation the whole undi
vided nation the Unien, the Constitution as
our fathers framed it, and the enforcement ol
the laws.