Year: 1868

The State Register is intended primarily
rs an advocate of the principles OF the dem.
ocratic party We believe that in the ad-
vancement of those principles every citizen
Of the United States as such is interested.
We believe that in politics there is no law
higher than the constitution, and yet we be,
lieve moral and religious considerations are
higher and nobler than any political theo.
ries or platforms. But as political news.
paper, it is not often than anything beyond
political discussions find place in these
columns and especially is this true when as
now the country is in the midst Of the
struggle incident to general electon.-
But there are occurrences and occasions
which induce US to cease for the moment
the discussion of political and partisan the.
cries, aud consider the moral principles
which should serve as a base for the politi-
cal action of every man who desires to act
for the best interests of the community and
the country. Such an occasion seems, in
consequence of recent occasion, to present
itself now.


On Saturday last some young men be-
longing to the Tanners club, of this city,
were on their way to political meeting in
this county, and finding on the road another
young man who disagreed with them in his
political views, compelled him at the muz.
zle of loaded and cooked revolver, and by
threats of instant death in case of his refu.
sal, to cheer for General Grant, the radical
candidate for president of the United States.
Proceeding further, the same party met
another young man, to whom they gave the
same order, and upon his refusal, they fell
upon and beat him 80 that it IS feared he
may never recover. Such is, in substance,
the account given in the local columns OF
this paper. 1t may be proper to remark
that some of the incidents are denied in the
local columns of the Journal, but that the
main facts are correct, there can be no
doubt. Some of the perpetrators are IN jail
at this moment, others are secreted TO AVOID
arrest, and warrants are out against all OF
them. Now, these young men were heard,
before they left this city, to declare that any
Seymour man who was present at the meet,
ing should hurrah for Grant, or should be
beaten and elected from the grounds. Some
of these young men are connected with re-
spectacle, God fearing families IN this city,
and others are the young vagahonds who liz
fest our streets. How is it that young men
who have been brought up in religious fam.
lies, who have attended Sabbath school and
church for many years, who have attended
family worship, and who have in short had
the benefit Of the most approved religious
training, how is it that they are found con-
sorting with young rutfans and rowdies,
tlrca.euiug one person with pistol and
beating and matreating another, in the
style of the Ashantee savages? The party
| with which these young men are in political
affinity have for a United States senator
from ibis state Richard Yates, man Of
| ability aud generous feeling, who has prost..
utel his mind 70 The vice OF strong drink,
and TO Il still more debasing passion. The
candidate of that party for congressman at
large is John A. Logan, who is this day re.
! covering from the effects of weeks of de.