Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1866-02-14

Old stump orators of that party de-
scanted with fourishes of rhetoric high
as Haaman's gallows. With here and
there an exception there was then no
subgerviency, no bowling of the knee
TO the arrogance of slavery and slave
power, and the dangerous doctrines Of
John G. Calhoun were looked up
on with Jacksonian eyes Us criminal
and revolutionary. As the leaders of
that party became more corrupt, equal
rights were gradually yielded to South
ern despotism until in 1S60-l james
Buchanan capped the climax OF north
ern copperheadism by declaring that
there was no power in the general gov
ernment to coerce a State, or in other
words, TO put down and punish treason.
Thousands and tens of thousands of
honest democrats left that party as
these suicidal doctrines were inocula-
ted in its creed; but the leaders still
persisted, and now the party styling
itself democratic is nothing more than
q faction held together by the expected
plunder of office, and to attain that end
are willing to receive at once, without
probation, the entire rebel communi-
ties OF the South into the halls of Con-
gress, and we have no doubt whatever
thousands would not hesitate to vote
for Gen. Lee, John G. Breckiuridgc Or
any other perjured traitor for President
should Falandigham, Ben Wood, An
coma. Denison, Buckalcw, and other
choice lights Of patent democracy
succeed in nominating either. Such
at the present day is the party claim
ing to be descendants Of Jackson dem
ocracy.
At this time also the papers in
the interest Of the Southern conspira-
tors are weekly filled with the most
absurd denunciations Of everything
that is said or done by Congress. One
OF them, now before Us, stamps the
following section Of Mr. Trumbul'S
bill as arbitrary, tyrannicai, and un
just, and yet it simply provides that
crime shall be punished alike without
regard to color TO illustrate this, let
US ask what would be thought of
Legislator who would get up and fer a
bill providing that in Pennsylvania two
sets of laws should be in force against
criminals, one for whites and another
for blacks and mulattos Would he
not be set down as fool or a lunatic?
Yet this is what JEFF Davis's northern
disciples are now advocating by de-
bouncing such legislation as this, which
will prevent such barbarous laws from
being enforced in the rebellous States:
There shall be M discrimination in civil
rights or Immunitie> among the inhabitants
Of any State or Territory of the United States.
on account ut race. COLOR. or their previous
condition of slavery; but the inhabitants of
every race and color, without regard TO anv
previous condition Of slavery or involuntary
serEltnde, except IS a punishment. for crime.
whereof the party shall have been duly con
VIcted, shall have the same right to make and |
enforce contracts, to sue the parties and give |
evidence, to inherIt purchase, lease, sell !
hold and convey real and personal property, !
ana 10 the full and equal benefit of all laws |
ana proceedings for the security of persons /
and property, and shall be subject TO like !
punishments, pains and penalties, and to
none other. any law. statute ordinance recu |
iauon or custom 10 the Contrary nUtwithstand
ing"
IA case III point, we copy the fol |
lowing from the Nashville Press and
Times Of the 9th, with the remark that
We might weekly fill our paper with
accounts Of similar outrages in all the |
rebel States from Maryland to Texas
intelligent persons from Robertson cnun |
y give depIorable account Of affairs there |
Some two months or NOR. since. Th,mas |
Payne, an old and respectable Union man |!
hVlng few miles from Mitchellsyille. who |
had been hiding for many months from his |
reconstructed neIghhors, was hunted up in |
one OF his helds BY a rebel named Foster. and |
shot down IN cold blood, and again shot when |
be was dying.
"A negro man heard a certain person tell |
Foster tha, Mr., Payne had returned home a,
las, and heard Foster reply that he would 90 |
straight and kill the - old Tory. The negro |
started of to warn the old man, who WAS at |
work in his field, a mile off of his danger. |
lie came in sight Of the sppt just in time to |
see the old man murdered
The murderer then went 70 the house and |
called for the oldest member nf tbs C.r,;t,,
A daughter. who had looked on and se.n ,Ts |
murder Of her father, replied that her mo.
ther was not at hnme. The fend tb.n caII.d
for the next oldest of the family. The poor |
glri replied that she herself was the pert ola, |
est lie then demandad .tI.. - - - w