Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-10-25


alternative but to stand by each
other at home or die in the
Slaughter pens" along the borders 1
1t is easy to imagine which they I
will choose, and what the effect
of that choice will be. Anarchy
and confusion IS but little dn the
advance, destruction and death but
await their time, and nothing but /
Withholding the mercilesS hand OF
conscription can turn them aside.
Let Abraham Lincoln and his ad-
visers take warning. It Is no false
alarm that is sounded, for the de-
termination of the people is fixed
and this bloody butchery must
cease. If they are determined to
force them to the point when for
bearance ceases to be virtue,
upcn their heads will be the re-
sponslpility. Let them awake, for
the danger Is near-as close as
the 5th day of September-and they
alone can avert 1t.
Another editorial in the same issue
read:
ALL FOR WHAT.
This nation in the day of its great
est prosperity clamored for "a change"
None knew why. 1t was peaceful, it
was happy, it was great, but the
demon spirit which now rules the land
sowed the seeds of discomfort and
wanted change. They made change,
and hundreds of thousands were rush
ed to war. Rivers of blood have been
flowing from that day to this. Hun
dreds OF thousands have been slaugh-
tered or clippled, billions of debt have
been created, immense sums have been
extorted, and all for what? The ad-
ministration is today stamping, tax
ing, conscripting, dragging husbands
from their wives and families to be
slaughtered, and all for what? To
crafty an ignorant administration and
to liberate the niger. This Union
never would have been destroyed but
for their unconstitutional action. 1t
might have been compromised but for
their madness. Peace might today be
acquired but for their fanaticism. How
long must the nation suffer to crafty
the vanity Of buffoon?
MEEK AND HIS ALLIES.
Not content with his own treason
able editorials in the Bellefonte DEM
ocratic Watchman during the days OF
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freely from the most rabid copperhead
Democratic newspapers throughout the
country. The organs of the Democ-
racy were in sympathy with the south
ern rebels, and they undoubtedly pro-
longed the war many months.
In the issue of Meek's paper Of July
%, 1864. was quoted this editorial from
ka Ca Do \
THE TREASURY HAREM.
Father Abraham deserves to be pit
led. 1t seems the jokes are not all re-
served for him. Every now and then
his pets and favorites will play the
joke upon him. Thus his contractors
will steal, his custom house officials
will engage in the blockade trade, in
the south his civil officers will engage
in the cotton business, his electioneer-
ing schemes in Florida and South
Carolina have come to grief. and, last
but not least, the sanctified spot where
greenbacks are generated has been
turned into a harem.
From evidence now before the coun-
try we learn that the treasury building
the greenback room especially-has
of late been the scene of such nightly
orgies and moral defilement as will
shock and shame humanity. The evi-
dence is that two of the pets of Secre-
tary Chase, superintendent of the
greenback department. have been in
the habit of getting young women en-
ployed under them in their private
apartments late at night and there
furnishing them with intoxicating
drinks, through which they have man
aged to commit deeds of the most out
rageous and defiling character. A
mere recital of the evidence as ad-
duced is too indecent for public print.
1t is a burning shame that our public
edifices should be turned into dens Of
vice and that the authors of the infamy
should be retained in their positions.
Where now are our pious war clergy,
who see glory In cOnfiscation and
emancipation. in negro equality and
the loss OF white mems rights? VIII
they not ask that the country may be
delivered of the Augean stable of the
treasury department?
Where, too. are our virtuous aboli-
tion contemporaries with their hot
blasts OF fiery Indignation? They see
much Of sin in slavery. Do they see
any in the greenback room? Or will
they excuse their doings as a military
necessity or joke on Old Abe? II
they be the honest patriots they repre-
sent themselves to be, let them ex-
pose these defilements. let them purge
the temple OF mammon. let them urge
the removal of these violatOrs and de-
bauchers of female virtue.
We repeat. The great joker Is to be
pitied. lie has found himself In bad
company. lie may try to do the hon.
est thing. but the rats are numerous
and ravenous.-Carbon County Demo-
erat.
LINCOLN CALLED A BLACKBOARD.
In the same issue OF the Meek =
Democratic Watchman this quotation
from the Lewisburg Argus appeared:
"BLACKGuARDs." What Is Par
son Brownlow. one of the delegates To
| the Baltimore convention. but vile
blasphemer and a "blackguard?"
What Ii Jim Lane. an abolition SEN
\ .sae bstt N 0lthy u.aut n at kla ha