Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-05-22
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Democratic EaaDHrS.

BfOWnlOW threatens TO retire to private
Iife-with a cart-load of birthstone and a
chunk of fire. BY all means give him u
chance Judging from his experiments
in Tennessee he is well calculated to car
~ on a first-class hell. If BrOwnlow and
Stevens would make a joint stock concern
of it they could beat the devil at his own
business clean out of sight.-L0 Crosse
Wisconsin, Democrat.
The above is from a paper whose editor
was lately caught in forging letters pur-
porting to be from Gen. Butler, who re-
ioiced at Abraham Lincolns death, and
not long ago addressed a meeting of South
ern negroes at which he asserted that
democrats" were their best friends!
Now, if this circular had told the truth
we might publish it-for very large con-
sideration. II it had told lis that this is
simply a scheme for set of villains to
make money, and that their diamonds
rubes, pearls, &c, instead of being pur-
chased had been stolen from the South
ern people-as any man whit nree grains
of common sense knows they were-then
we might have commended its frankness,
while we condemned the rapacity of its
authors. As it has told an unmitigated
falsehood, however, we Will have nothing
to do with it, as we should dislike very
much to become possessed of any of the
prizes thus baptized in the blood of the
South, and stolen from their owners by a
horde of thieves and vandals, who hung,
like a curse, on the rear of the federal ar
my, and sucked, with vampires eager
ness, the last drop of life from the pros
trate body of a desolated country.-LOck
HdrCR Democrat.
The above are comments on the scheme
devised for raising funds to secure home
for disabled soldiers. Theeditor talks quite
knowingly about the diamonds being
stolen.
The TeDlpIQ1s' Purude-TheG Good Tenn
plars' parade at this place last week was
not q very imposing affair. There wert
quite a number of strangers in the pro
cessiOn, yet with all these the number in
the parade amounted to only 133-a mum
ber less than the members of this lodge
The large majority of those present Were
females, and to look at the males it had
the appearance more Of a political meet.
ing than Il Temperance Convention, fol
we do not believe there were five demo
cratic voters in the whole procession. II
was made up almost entirely of Radicals
All the speakers We're Radicals of the
blackest dye, and no one who has any
knowledge of the hypocrisy of the Radi-
cal party, of the leading spirits in this old
and oft repeated species of fanaticism, can
for a moment be humbugged by such q
paIpable deception as is here attempted tc
be practised upon the honest masses o
the people for the indirect promotion Of a
set of political scallaWags. \ o true friends
of the democratic party or of democratic
principles, be they male or female, will al.
low themselves thus to he made instrl-
ments in the hands of their political enc,
mics against their own political friends
The political issues before the American
people are of too much import to be SUI.
fered to be thus tampered with. We are
not fool enough to be inveigled by such 8
palpable imposition as this sudden tenn.
perance movement gotten up by Radica
politicians and by Observation-Disclosures wal
clergy. The same men who got up the
war are the same men who arenow at the
head of this temperance movement, ant
we r@mfet to see that some of our warmcs
friends have allowed themselves to bt
made cats-paws to build up their enemies
at the expense of their true frieuds.-,Se
Hl&grOUc Times.
This is a strange attack on Temperance
men, and taken in connection with otheI
movements on foot among the democracy
looks as if that party intended to make
general onslaught on that question. w,
soon expect to see the democratic paper
head their "victories' with the cut of ;
whisky barrel labeled 1.-The Eagle o
Democracy