Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1861-09-19
Treason in the Wild Cat District


If there is place in the world where the
people should be loyal it is in the Wild
Cat District" The very romance and high
land character Of the country should make
its people loyal. We believe they are. The
masses of the people we know, of all parties,
are always honest and loyal but there are
always, III every community, few design
ing men, political trieksters and schemers
ready TO deceive and mislead them. The
people do not like to be led, but nevertheless
they suffer it sometimes 10 be done without
their own knowledge and almost without
their will or consent. This We believe the
leaders Of the Democracy in the Wild Cat
/ District thought they could do, and hence
they adopted in their Convention a series of
resolutions, reasonable and false, which
shoald not fail TO sink the authors so low in
the estimation of the loyal men of that Dis
triet that years of repentance would never
wipe out the disgrace or restore them again
to the confidence of the people they have so
wickedly betrayed.
We are glad to believe that the gsmo of
these leaders are played out. The free
schools-the peoples colleges are doirg a
glorious work. They are educating the
masses-the young men of the country
raising them above and beyond the power of
designing men, and mere trucking polit-
clans and contemplate dishonest cliques.-
Equal and exact justice to all men," is the
peoples motto, and the motto for the people.
This they want, this they will have, and
for this thousan of Cur sons, our brothers
and our friends have enrolled their names
under the glorious stars and stripes, left
their homes and their comfortable fresides,
and gone to fight the enemies of the country
who seek to abnegate this glorious doctrine,
and place the aboring men of the free Ssa;es
upon an equality with their slaves. From
such leaders, from such Democracy, We say,
God save the country.
Forney'S Philadelphia hess-a Douglas
Democratic paper in speaking of the reso-
lutions of the Wild Cat Democracy contains
the following strong, truthful and logical re-
marks:
"These resolutions are most amusing spec
linens of rolitical literature, or rather they
would be amusing under other circumstan~
ces than those which now exist. We hardly
thought that there was in Pennsylvania a
company Of men degraded enough to print
and publish such unblushiBg sreason as is
here recorded. There seems 10 be no degra-
da,ion too deep for these people. They have
lost every idea Of Northern honor, and are
anxious to yield to the most extreme and IN
tolerant demands of the Southern rebels
State pride and national honor, nor even the
PRIDE aud honor Of manhood, are nothing -
! Every consideration of patriotism is ignored.
and words seem TO fail them in the publca :
ton OF their infamy.
/ This is ctr 'pg language. but is it not JUS
4 titled { Let us ses what these resolutions
teach. Here are few sentences:
We most solemnly, and in the name OF
1 humanity, Justice, and Christianity, protest
against the late acts of the Administrator,
which have for their object the sukiugation
of the South ana the betrayal Of our 6rare SOL
diers into acts Of ldwleSsnesS, and opposition
to the principle and feeling which aetuated
them in their march for the defence Of the
national capital.
. We deeply deplore the recent slaughter O
Americans in Vwginia. We pity the North
ern widow and the Northern Orphan; we
pity the Southern widow and the Southern
orphan And we swear again, that we viii
stand together, and strive by the use of al
honorable means to bring about peace, and