Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1866-08-08

. been elected ueltgdtSS 10 t1IS JOHNSON
Convention, and rather unfortunate in
alIuding to them at all. Those parties,
with others, have issued a call for a State
Convention to be heli tomorrow at Sara
toga Springs to appoint delegates, and
that call, over their signatures, concludes
with the following significant paragraph:
BY the language and spirit the CALL,
il will be perceived that those who refus-
ed their support to the government in put
ting down rebellion, and those who an
prove of the action of Congress in kcepinu
loyal representatives out of their seats and
| loyal States out of the Union. are ercJ,,-
ded from the i1iUjtdtiOn, and are NOT ex
pected TO participate in the DreliDii10zzl
meetings, or to take seats IN the c0nrey-
ton"
According to this, while these rich men
do not want Stevens, Summer. &C. there.
neither are they willing to admit north
ern copperheads or suffer them to partici
pate in the delegate elections. 1t thus
appears that about one-haIf of the democ-
racy of this county would be excluded.
1t is Of course an easy matter for a cor
respondent Of the New York Herald to
get up an announcement" that a def
cheney of $50, 100000 has been discovered
while Mr.. Chase was Secretary of the
Treasury, and equally easy for the Demo-
crat to assume it as fact, and then init
mate that Harper's Weekly, Leslie.s III
ustrated, &c. We're bought to be loyal
The Harpers and Frank Leslie will hard
ly sleep soundly for the remainder of
their lives after this discovery of the
Democrat
1t appears to us the correspondent of
the Baltimore Sun who, by his own ac-
count, spent one day III Fredericksburg
and discovered that contract burying
party, put not less than three and as high
as seven bodies into a box the size of
musket box, must have seen more than
double under the influence of tanglefoOt.
His happy conclusion that ''i7' the con-
tractor gets paid for seven collins instead
Of one, it is a good thing for him, is CON
elusive for the Democrat, and itswallows
IFS as sound democratic gospel
Nothing however can better illustrate
the unfairneSs of the Democrats position
than merely admitting a single case of
cruel inhumanity against the blacks
south. Ever since Johnson's 22d Febru-
ary speech every daily paper has fur
nished abundant evidence that hundreds
if not thousands of former slaves have
been murdered in cold blood, and the
murderers left unwhipt by justice. The
10
at New Orleans, demonstrate that we'll
disposed people do not rule, and prove
also that such state OF society is totally
untitled for regulating itself, much less
making laws for US.
BE- We last week corrected a state
ment in reference to Mr.. McCOrd's Ala
bama school, and since then have re-
ceiyed the following note from him in
reference to the paragraph as originally
published. After stating he was not mott
fed not to return, and referring to what
We did not say, he continues
Certain children of Alabama who ex-
amined my scholars on their way to and
from school, told me that they never
knew white children TO learn so fast, and
wanted to know If l thought darkies
could learn faster than white children
[ told them that [ thought white children
could learn faster. My own school de-
mOnstrated my position. Mulattos learn
faster than full-blooded Africans. Those
who have the most white blood i'll their
veins learn faster. But the blackest
among them can learn, and more rapidly
too than many think they can. There is
great field for missionary enterprise to-
day i'll the South. No other field prom
ises so rich, so sure, so ready harvest.
Not only the black men, but the poor
whites ofthe South need our aid and claim
our sympathy.
If we would reap any benefit from the
victory we have gained we must educate
all classes, North and South.
r. H. McCORD.