by eo. w. now may. NEW SERIES. 5111 ct{J oc t rtj. THE SHADOW OF THE JIAND. How varied are life's flowery paths, With varied pleasures strewn; But there where duty points the track, Is happiness alone. Thus musing, as in fancy, far My footsteps seemed to stray— Methonsht some strange mysterious power Impelled them on their way. It was a shady path J trod, Vet beautiful to see: For there were flowers upon the turf And birds in every tree. 1 loved the flowers, their form, their hue, Their fragrant", faint and rare; 1 iovedvthe birds, whose plaintive strains, Harmonious, till'd the air. The clustering shadows of thetrpes Upon the ground were cast: They seem'd to change their forms, each time A breath of wind went past. Vet still methonght,— a<= if the path Were some good angel's care, — The figure of a hand 1 traced Among the shadows there! A hand, that ever pointed me Along that peaceful way ; Away -n happy, strange 'twould seem, That I should wish to stray ! Vet oft, too oft, I knew not whence. Gay sounds would reach mine ear, Of music, mirth, and revelry, And f woatd pause to hear : And through the treps. on either side That shady path, would gleam Bright eyes, and glittering forms, —such sights As happy lovers dream ! And they would call in wily tones, That sounded sweet and low, — Anil wave to me their snow-white arms, Unfit I long'd to go. But, while the shadow of the hand Upon the greensward lay, 1 could not turn to right or left, — A charm was on the way! I felt, beneath that hallow'd spell,— Xew life mv being thrill.— Ami all things lovely seem'd to take A lovelier semblance still. The air breathed purer,— from the flowers A rarer fragrance given. Ami through the leaves above L saw The blue and ijuiet heaven. All was so sweet within that path, I would not from it stray. And leave that shadow of the hand Heaven sent to point my way. There may be sunnier paths afar, U'i'h flowers more bright ami rare; But w hat of them, unless that hand Have ca-t its shadow there ? Nor fortune's brightest beams I ask Around my path to play. If duly, w ith its guiding hand, But point my onward way. HORRIBLE, MOST HORRIBLE, We earnestly invite men of all parties, and christians of all sects and denominations, to r-ati the following compilation of the teachings now to be had in the churches of the land.— We beg them to pause, and ask their hearts if it be sale to entrust the government of this country to the reckless hands of men who ut ter such sentiments.— Chicago Times. lu Danville, Ohio, a "republican" preacher il-clared, a short time since, while in his pul pit, that any man who voted for James Bu chanan Would surely go to hell ! A Reverend Plummer delivered a political abolition discourse from the pulpit, in theUran ny s Creek, (Ohio) Methodist Church, a few Sundays ago; a large number of his congrega fi'a lelt their seats, highly indignant at such! * irked desecration. Reverend John Lamb delivered a political <-, ri!:or:, Sundav before last, in Mount Vernon, "Ho, in the course of which he took occasion to denounce the pro-slavery party of the coun ty as he pleased to t sty le it. A member of the church, Mr. M. Rineheart, arose and de manded of Mr. Lamb to say what party he w-ant. The Reverend gentleman said he "'•ant the democratic party, whereupon Mr. H it-hart pronounced the charge a falsehood. Lamb then became highly excited, and '•eclared that "Hny man who will stand upon ''' f 1 incinnnti platform, his face and heart are ' black as hell anil damnation." Thereupon a "limber of d emocrats in the congregation, who c'd not wish to hear any more of such reckless falsehoods arid blasphemy, arose and left the tlOUse, In Brown township, Knox county, Ohio, a cnan s political opinions are made a test to qual him lor partaking of the Sacrament of the •-"rd's supper, any person who is not a black -"Publscaii is excluded from the holy ewcha ru! J Die Elinira (N. Y.) Gazette says thai Mr. A. * minister, a prominent black republican in county, recently gave utterance to the ■ owing; "He'll he Damned if there is a ' " ?.vn>an in the United States, who honestly the sentiments of his church, who . 1 ' not support the nomination of FREMONT &. mox; and if there is a clersyrnan in the '■ 1 who refuses to advocate the principles of ■"republican party, who is base enough to re- Js e to preach from the pulpit, and in his in - course with his church, disseminate the doc rines of the FREMONT parly, he ought to be to hell, and discharged from his pastoral From the Philadelphia News. Black Itcpiiblicaßi Doctrine Boldly Avowed. The Black Republicans have hailed with in tense satisfaction, the open adhesion of Fred Douglass, the negro Editor, to the cause of Mr. Fremont, arid have welcomed his paper which now hoists the Fremont and Dayton ticket, and struggles manfully to secure its success, with joy into the party ranks. Mr. Douglass had no sooner given in his welcome adhesion to Re publicanism, than he was put upon the stump by the Central Committee, and sent forth to make new converts throughout the State. He was cautioned, however, to moderate his denun ciations of the South, and to conceal as much as possible, the extent of his confidence in the Republican party as a party of abolitionism and disunion. This negro supporter of John C. Fremont on Thursday last attended the Jerry Rescue Cele bration at Syracuse. There he appeared in his true colors; and while urging upon the assem blage, the claims of Col. Fremont, and advq£a ting the principles of the Republican party, he offered the following resolutions : Resolved, That while we most ardently de sire peaceful emancipation, arid will continue to labor earnestly and faithfully to bring it a bout, we will not conceal from the guilty slave holder, nor from his trembling victims our de liberate and solemn convictions, that "resistance to tyrants is obedience to God"—that an en slaved people have the undoubted to gain their frepdom, "peaceably if they can, forcibly it they must"—that the life of the oppressor should not stand in the way of the slave's fioe dom : that in depriv ing the slave of all rights, the slaveholder has forfeited all rights: that in killing a slaveholder to secure freedom, the slave is crime, but should be regar ded as the rightful executor of Divine Justice and a friend to the full liberties of Mankind. Resolved, That while we deeply oppose the ! necessity of shedding human blood, and the de stroying of human life, W£ SHOULD I!C --JOl'CE IX A SUCCESSFUL SLAVE INSUR RECTION. WHICH WOULD TEACH SLAVE-HOLDERS THE WRONG AND DANGER INVOLVED IN THE ACT OF SLAVEHOLDING, and the num< •rous outrages which slavery necessarily inflicts upon its vic tims. Resolved, That since the trafficers in the bod ins and souls of men have resolved upon the endless enslavement of their victims, and, with diabolical meanness and wickedness, have de prived them of all power to procure arms, with which to win their freedom in an open and hon orable manner, the saves are justifiable in the use of any or every secret process for destroy ing the life of the oppressor! hy which lie can rensona! ly hope to secure liis liberty. Resolved, That the Slave-holder should be node lo dream of DId.IT 11 in his sleep, and to apprehend denih in his DISH and TEJi-POT. FIRE SHOULD MEET HIM IN HIS BED, U\L) POISON SHOULD MEET HIM AT lIIS TABLE! and the silent .In ai lof Death should every where he invoked to affright him in the midst of liis slave-holding reveliy. X/^What American—what Christian man —can tea ! the above deliberate sentiments of one of the leading supporters of John C. Fre mont, expressed in and upheld by a Fremont assemblage, without feeling the deepest indig nation—a shudder of horror. And yet what is this but the Higher Law doctrine of the Fre mont papers practically carried out; and what is it but Black Republican principles boldly a vovved? And this is the man for whom FR. JOR DAN is using all his energies to have made President ot the United Stales. Whilst Jor dan was making the most solemn professions of friendship for Filmore, he now boldly avows himself the advocate of Fremont, as proved by bis acts in the late fusion Convention at Phila delphia. Such political infamy lias never he fore been witnessed in this country. THE DAUGHTER OF A FREMONT ELEC TOR MARRIED TO A NEGRO. The following is from tlm Craw fordsville, In diana paper. Read it, and learn the true prin ciples of Black Republicanism: "The doctrine that has been so boldly advo cated by the leaders of the Abolition party dur ing the last year, "that a NEGRO was as good as a white man," has become with a majority of the members of that party, a fixed fact. No longer than last week, a man residing in the vicinity of Oberlin College, in the State of Ohio, gave his oniy daughter in marriage to a sooty African who has been educated at this Abolition Institute. This man, we understand, is a State Elector on the Fremont ticket, and regardslhe negro as his equal. The young lady is described as b"ing extremely beautiful, anil hut sixteen years of age, while her dusty lord is blacker than the darkest midnight. WIFLIAM ARBISON SENTENCED. — William Arrison, convicted of manslaughter upon an in dictment charging him with murder in the first degree by killing Isaac Allison by means of an "infet nal machine" or "torpedo" was brought up before Judge Parker, at Cincinnati, on Mon day lat, and senterrced to thp extreme penalty of the law— ten years' hard labor in the peni tentiary. was also inquired to pay the costs of prosecution. Speech or Iflon. .PAS. B. CLAY, Delivered at Lancaster, the. Home of James Buchanan! Mr. CLAY advanced to the front of the stand, and was greeted with great and protracted ap plause. He said : Fellow Citizens of Lancaster, and men of Pennsylvania :—{ come here to-day to address you, under circumstances more extraordinary, perhaps, than ever surrounded any plain citizen who ever before had the pleasure to speak to you. A fanner, as yoil are, Avhen at home, men throughout the length" and breadth of this land have heaped upon me loads of abuse and revilepient for an honest and free expression of the sentiments which I have entertained. Yet 1 fear not, for truth ever lends its votary the courage requisite for its vindication. lam here upon a Democratic, stand to speak*to you ; and I am glad to be here, because upon it stands with myself the son ol the man who stood by my fattier—the son of the great .expounder of (lie Constitution—the sonrol the revered and lamen ted Webster. (Immense applause.) We stand here together—and why? Does lie come here to ask fur your votes for himself? I)o f come here on any such mission I Does he come to ask your Mr. Buchanan for anything ? Do we come to ask anv favors from the Democratic par ty ? -No! I tell you a thousand times, no! I a-k none, and 1 believe Mr. Webster asks lor none. We are here for our country. (Ap plause.) We came here in the cause of the Un ion, which is sanctified by the eff'ortgof his fath er and mine. Though in their graves, Ciav and VV ebster are not dead. Such men can never die. 'I hey have left their words as an inheri tance to us; and although the mantle of Mr. Webster has not fallen upon his son, and al though the mantle of Clay has not fallen upon me, his son, yet both of them have left their record for you and me and all of us to stud v.— (Applause.) What have they told us? What do their writings tell us now? What did the Father of the Country tell us in davs long agone. U ashington warned ns against sectionalism.— He hid ns beware of"all parties arrayed on sec tional issues. Mr. Clay was interrupted by delegations, which marched into the Square, with bands playing and banners flying. Three cheers were proposed and given for the son of the Sage of Ashland, and three more for the son of Daniel Web-ler. Mr. Clay resumed liis remarks :—Fellow citizens, I thank you fur the honor of your l lieers. I"h"*v con e tr<'in vunr Irii.-otu) honest hearts. They are not forme ; they are lor him who, though gone, is yet amongst you. (Ap plause.) J had commenced to tell you why i! w as that lam here to-day. J have referred to what Washington has said. I told von how lie warn ed yon against sectionalism; against the draw ing of geographical party lines, and esperially against demagogues and the ranctidates ol sec tion. Other men followed him, — men \on used to love. You used to love two farmers—the farmer of Marshfield, and the farmer of Ashland. (Applause.) Tin y followed in the wake of W ashinglon, and they reiterated what he had told you. In 1820 they gave you a solemn warning, ami told vou that the country was in danger. Standing together by your help, be cause your Union-losing people were with them, those men saved the country limn. They thought that it was saved for ail time to come ; that this miserable question of slavery was put forest for ever: but they were deceived. In 18i>0 the black cloud again hung over us. Hut they feared not. They hauled bravely for the l.Tiion and the Constitution, arid they were suc cessful once more. Thev did not fight alone. I iu y were surrounded by patriots of every sec tion : and together they presented a glorious and ennobling spectacle. The day that Webster and Clay, and Cass and Buchanan, and all the great men of the country stood side bv side to save this Cnion—that was a great dav for liber ty. (Applause.) They warned you against the sectionalism which would drive your breth ren of the South from you. They told vou that the ,-ame people who originally accomplished our independence, still lived in their descen dants and limy implored you to keep them uni ted. (Applause.) And what do we see now ? Planting themselves on a miserable abstraction, a hollow pretext, sectionalists have aroused the North thank Cod no! the whole North. (Cries of no ! and cheers forth" Cnion.) They inarch tmder a flag with but sixteen stripes ; under a banner with the inscription, "No Union with slaveholders." Thf-v n*k vou to put our slave-holding breth ren out of the Union—not that they have done anything wrong, but because they have in their midst an institution which they did not make for themselves—an institution the existence of which many of them regret as much as you do. [Applause.] The Kansas-Nebraska bill was passed f y Congress, and they told you that its object was the extension of slavery. I say there is nothing oftfu" sort in the bill. They told you that the Cincinnati platform is design ed to extend the area of Slavery. It is not true and the men who tell you so have not read that Platform. (Applause.) The princi ple of the Cincinnati Platform is the greatest principle of the Compromise Measures of 18:)0. which emanated from the greatest minds of modern days; that the people every where are capable of self-government. (Loud and pro tracted applause.) The Cincinnati Platform announces that the people of Pennsylvania had the right to form her own domestic institutions; because her people were a free people and that the people of the Territories ought to have the same right of self-government. (Applause.)— The Democrats of Cincinnati proclaimed their adherence to the principle that when the peo- Freedom of Thought and Opinion. FRIDAY MORNING, BEDFORD, PA. OCT. 24, 1856. pie of any territory presented themselves at the halls of Congress, with the requisite population, and a Republican constitution, they had the right of admission as a State into the Union, with domestic institutions formed to suit them selves. Ami the man who says that the Cin cinnati platform has for its object the extension of slavery, never read it, or if he did, had not the capacity to understand it. (Laughter and Applause.) Many persons say they would vote for Mr. Buchanan were it not for this platform. They have confidence in him as a man but he is bound hv the platform. I have already said what 1 think of this platform. It is not a dec laration in favor of the extension of slavery, but determines to leave the question of freedom or slavery in the territories to a majority of the peoplt* in framing a Constitution prejiaratory to their admission into the Union as a Slate.— This is the doctrine at the root of our free in st it ut ions. It is, I repeat, the doctrine of Clay and Webster, and of all the old leaders of the Whig party. Let me read this part of the plat form : "Resolved, That we recognize the right of the people, oj all the Territories, including Kansas and Nebraska, acting through th v legal ly and Joirli/ expresse.d will of a majority of ac tual residents, and whenever the number of their inhabitants justifies it, to form a Constitu tion with or without domestic slavery, and he admitted into the Union upon terms of perfect equality with the other States." Now what is the response of Mr. Buchanan to this resolution, in his Utter of the Kith July last, aceepting the nomination? It is as fol lows: " I he agitation on the subject of domestic sla very has too long disturbed and divided the ! people (T this Union and alienated their affec tions from each other. This agitation has as sumed many forms since its commencement but it now seems to be directed chiefly to the terri tories ; and judging from its present character I think we may anticipate that it is rapidly ap proaching a 'finality.' The recent legislation of Congress respecting domestic slavery, derived, as it has been, from the original and pure foun tain of legitimise political power, the w ill of the majority, promises 'ere long to allav the dangerous excitement. This legislation is found ed ujion principles as ancient as free govern ment itself, and in accordance with them, has simply declared that.the people of a Territory, like those of a State, shall decide for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits." 'I lie Kansas-Nebraska act does no more than to give force of law to this elementary principle ot seil-govt rniiient, declaring it to be "The tiue intent and meaning of this act, not slavery into any Terriforv or State, nor tu exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the U urted States." 'I 11 is: principle will surely not be controvert- I ed by any individual ot any party, professing devotion to popular government. How utterly illusory would any other principle prove in practice in regard to the Territories. Mow, K'llow-citizens, 1 am no Democrat; I have never been a Democrat, but lam not the man to do the Democrats injustice, and especi ally when I have a glorious C' untry, and that country to he saved. (Cheers.) We are all in the same ship, and mv love for the Union is greater than my love for party. Drive the gal lent ship through the breakers and upon the rocks and every man of us is lost. 1 have not come Ironi South of Mason and Dixon's line to indulge in the weakness ot some Southern men who have tried to frighten you in talking ot a dissolution of the Union. The people of my country are opposed to it, and thank Cod, the women too, are in favor of Union to a man.— (Laughter and applause.) We, of Kentucky, know where we stand. We know precisely our position. We know there are at the ex treme Sooth fanatics on the subject of Slavery. We know also there are fanatical Abolitionists at the extreme North. And we of the Centre, slave States as well as free, have to save this Union, and save it we will. [Applause.] How ran we save it ? Can you Fillmore men save it ? I suppose there are some here. What chances have you—men who fight under the banner of Mr. Fillmore, you who advocate the doctrines of his great Albany speech—to save it? Are you not now pursuing a suicidal course? Are you not killing yourselves? You know that you are a fragmentary party here; that in Pennsylvania the Fiemonl Abolition parly is stronger than you are, yet you suffer them to delude and cheat you into a shameful fusion.— [Applause.] Fillmore men don't you (eel this to be so ? [Laughter.] A few weeks ago the fusion was a great thing, you were going to ci pher up all the officers, and all that sort of thing, hut don't you sicken of it now? It was a trick, that fusion was a vile, miserable trick of the politicians. They did not come out bravely and boldly and show their hands. They did not say here is our ground and upon it we will fight to victory or death. The fusion was not even manly. What have you Fillmore men gained by it ? You say you love the country and the whole country. You say that your leader, Mr. Fillmore, is a great man. Then why have yon not listened to him ? Why have you not hearkened to his voice ? Was not his speech at Albany a gcat and noble effort ? It was, and in that patriotic speech he goes so far as to charge moral treason upon those engaged in the cause of Fremont. Yet when you loved him so much as to lake him without any platform, when you hold that he himself is a good enough platform for vow, whv is it that you are now seen fusing with the Black Republicans whom fie most earnestly warned you against. I ap peal to you in the matter. 1 know you think you are right. The mass of the people are nearly always right. I know the American people, and am sure they are everlastingly in | favor of the Stars and Stripes. (Applause..)— | Fillmore men, beware ot demagogues. They jhave led you away from the doctrines of your leader. lam free to admit that he is a good inao ; that 1 admire and respect him. Igo fur ther—l believe that the country would be safe I under his administration. But the Fijlmcre i men must not be led away front their own ground—from their own principles, and those jof their leader, by designing politicians, unless they wish to have the long finger of scum point ed at them. 1 came here to-day to speak to two classes of j people. The Buchanan men are all right. I | cannot touch them, or stir them, and 1 want to ido neither, because they are right, (Great aje | plause.] One of the classes to which I wished I to talk was the Fillmore men, to whom I have : talked, because they were at one time like me, Old Whigs. But there is another class in this county of Lancaster to which 1 came hereto talk. Now, do you men of Lancaster suppose, because I live away off in Kentucky, that I did not know this farmer people?—these men who raise cattle and grow grain—tlie.se men who ' stood so honestly and faithfully by IPV father.— [lmmense applause.] 1 have known you and 1 feel at home in your midst. Jt is to these 1 Old Whigs 1 wish to appeal : to these men who | stood by my father through thick and thin even against the man of their own county —the statesman of Wheatland, and who gave him and ibis party thousands and thousands of majority. | Is it not strange to you that the son of Henry j Clay comes here and implores you by the mem lories of his fattier, by the love you bear vour ! wives and children, and bv your own happy ' firesides to support the man of Wheatland.— ! [Applause.] It may appear extraordinary, but j iam marching in the strict line of my duty.— [Great applause.] Since IS4B, we Whigs have rio party : but we have a Union to save which is above all parlies. [Renewed applause.] I take up the game where my lather left it. Did he not leave off with the Compromise measures of LSoO ? Did he not die with Ihe harness on ? Did he not die a Senator? The last days of his life devoted to the Union above all parties. And do you think 1 would dare to come here this day to make the appeal I do for Buchanan, i unless I believed I had his sanction? (Immense I applause.) Do you not think it was a hard | tfiing for me to tear passion and prejudice from jmy heart and lay them a sacrifice upon the al tar of my country? Jt was hard. But passion and prejudice are had things in themselves, but they are ten times worse when tlmy statu] in j the way of duty to our country. When at last I knew I had tiie patriotism to make the sacri tice, 1 looked back and found encouragement, i It was as though a man were patting me on the* back and saying, "go on, boy, you are doing right." I had seen my father standing side bv I side with the democratic leadeis—ail freeing themselves from party trammels, and embark ing, as he expressed it, in the same OMMRUS in which there were neither Abolitionists nor nullifiers, but Whigs and Democrats, who had by common consent come together for the sal vation of the Union. And are you Whigs a -1 Laid to do now what was done then? (Cries of no, arid cheeis.) What have you to iook to unless you take this couise? l)o we not all Struggle for union and against disunion? Cer tainly we do, and we should reflect on the fact that there are extreme men in both sections, who by their violence may force us to do what, upon sober reflection, we would not do lor our lives if we could avoid it. We are one people with one history, which is crowded with recol lections of gallant and glorious deeds. The hones of an uncle of mine Jay upon the bloody fu Id of the Raisin, and the field of Buena \ is ta was watered by the blood of a brother. A gentleman now on the stand assisted me to j bring home his remains for sepulture. These are my memories, and they are with trie far above all platforms. They are above Kansas Nebraska Bills; they are above any thing except the Union. They gave their I lives, tiny gave their fortunes, and they would ; have given every thing hut honor for their j country. That sacrifice of honor they were ; never called upon to make. They gave their j lives, patriots as they were, and they believed | that it was sweet and proper to die for their ; country. Fellow WHIGS I appeal to you to lay aside j your passion and prejudice as 1 have done. I j appeal to you all to join heart and hand with me to save this Union. [Cries of we will do it! and cheers for the Union and lor Clay.] Now you do not like our southern institution of slavery. That is right enough for you, and if I lived amongst YOU I would not only not 'own a slave, hut I would not have a M ono a mongst us. Tlut we have them in our midst and we cannot help it. We appeal to you to , let us stay where we are until Providence in j his wisdom shall send that we too mav sav ; there are no slaves amongst us. 1 thank you kindly for the attention with which vou have listened to me. (Cries of go ! on.) Mv voire is not strong enough tor Anther i speaking, and you must excuse me. If I could I speak to you in trumpet tones, J would tell you , preserve the Union and the Constitution. 1 jhave done. I Mr. Clay retired amid a shower of boquets, and the almost deafening plaudits of the crowd ed assemblage. A Live Suakc iu a Live illaD. •—'— l A gentleman, whose name we did not learn, I says the San Francisco Golden Eagle, ariiveii | in this city from Bird's Hill, lor the purpose of : procuring surgical advice in relation to the pos sibility ot removing from the stomach a large ; snake, which has inhabited that locality for the past fifteen \ears. Exactly at w hat time the | leptile was taken into the stomach the sufferer is not aware. lie felt its presence in the vicin :it v of the kidneys many vears ago; but the pains experienced, although sometimes acute TERMS, 82 PER YEAR. VOL XXV. No). 8. i and troublesome, occasioned no alarm until a bout two years since, when, one day feeling quite unwell, be placed his band upon his bowels, ami distinctly felt the crawling within him. Since then it has grown enormously, and has attained a length ol at least fifteen inches, and a size round the middle of five or si* inches. Its proporti ns can b" pretty accurately as certained, as its entire shape is fearfully obvious to the touch. It is quite active, and |>ossesses an insatiable appetite, judging from the amount I of food and water consumed by the sufferer, who is continually parched with thirst,and not > unfiequentiy requires from three to lour gai - lons of fluid daily. Through the recommen- I daf ion of an Indian, he has lately found con * aiderable relief from the incessant thirst by , drinking water lib-rally diffused with vine > gar. He has made several inefTeclual attempts to , dislodge the "varmint" by stai vat ion and the ! free use of stimulants. On one occasion he ab i stained from boln lood and water for three days, in the hope of bringing the occupant to some sort of terms. The first cay, the snake I became uneasy ; the second, boisterous ; and the ■ third, furious : but s*.il! the man held out. At i the end of the third day, however, his snake ship commenced an attack upon the walls of • his pjison, u ith what appeared to be a tolerable full set of teeth, and the result was an iir.inedi diate supply of food more agreeable to both par ties. As may he supposed, the man is reduced to a perfect skeleton, under the extreme torture of mind ami body preying upon him night and day, but he does not despair ol finding a surgeon in tiie city sufficiently skillful to make an inci sion in the abdomen and remove the reptile.— W'e iiave read of similar cases: but this is the first that ever came under our own observation —and we hope it may be the last, for we have felt "all overish" ever since. Tin; m;siLT. Threp days ago, the united oppositon forces of Fillmore Americans, Johnston Americans, Free Soiiersand Abolitionists were confident of carrying the Fusion State Ticket by a majority of twenty thousand. Every possible element of hostility to the Democratic party was engaged in the contest. Money was lavished profusely. A portion of th- German press was enlisted in the cause, for tiie purpose of seducing adopted citizens into the support of candidates who had sworn to proscribe them. Pamphlets were circulated, appealing to Catholics to support the iniquitous combination in some localities : and in other localities speeches and presses denoun ced Popery in the oft repeated Know Nothing ; vulgarity of 1851. But, discordant as were the elements, they for a day suspended their ; furv against each other, and nave it ail full vent against tiie Democracy. Ail with one accord voted the fusion ticket throughout the State, ar.d ail alike contributed time, money and labor in the desperate attempt to oveithrow the Democratic part v. Every inch of ground in the State was fought as it had never been fought ; before, It was lilterally flooded with Suin i ners speeches : and the Massachusetts Senator was kept on the mountains to excite sympathy, while lying reports -re circulated about his critical condition. A dozen speakeis were brought from Kansas to scatter over the Stale their wholesale lubrications. All the aid that tiie emigrant societies ever gave the Territory was amply repaid by the returned emigrants.— in every tow nship in the State the spectacle of ■ bleeding Kansas was held up before attentive crowds, by pretended eye witnesses of border outrages. Ilut New York hied as well as Kan sas, and money was liberally supplied to pay speakeis and defray the other expense? of the attempt to revolutionize Pennsylvania. The press of tiie opposition, which was numerically strong, was made still stronger bv bribery, and journals under the guise of neutrality took up the cry of the disunion fanatics and published as true every manufactured rumor of the sufferings of tree State men in the west. Formidable as these efibits appealed, they were tendered still more fearful by the notori ous fact, that some ministers of the gospel for got their hatred calling, and desecrated the pul pit bv exhorting their congregations in terms that could not be misunderstood, to vote with the opponents of the present administration, arid that of the Democratic party. Never in the history of that party has theie been such a seemingly powerful combination arrayed against it. Never was resort made to such extraordi nary exertions as have been made to defeat James Buchanan, the statesman, the pure minded | utriot and benevolent man, in ins na tive State. Against these desperate means—against these combinations of fanatical factions—against the union of sectionalism and religious intolerance —against the reckless machinations ofpoltlical tricksters, there was still something to sustain the cause which was thus so desperately assail ed. With a firm reliance in the omnipotence of truth, our forces took the field. We wish our limits would permit ns to notice in detail the names of the gallant orators from other States who kindly volunteered to aid the Dem ocrats cl Pennsylvania in their struggle. But the result is not to be attributed to them alone. We had thousands of active working men in the. State who, each in bis.own ward or town ship, rendered efficient service. We had hun dreds of speakers on our own soil who gave up lor a time their business and their pi ivate inter ests, to take an active part in the defence of , the constitution against the disunion elements which threatened it. There was a high-toned Democratic, press that never ceased its efforts in liehalf of the Union, thejrulh, ami the right.— But, more than all, there was among the honest conservative masses of the people a deeply sealed veneration lor ti:e institutions which our lathers founded, and a consciousness (if the dan ger which threatened the country from the in sane efforts of a sectional party. 1 lie result
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