•THB BEDFORD GAZETTE
M FOBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING
BY B. F. BEYERS,
At the following terms, to wilt
$1.50 per ann U in, CASH, in advance.
- $2 .00 • " if paid within the year.
$8 .SO <f €< if not paid within (he year.
oubtcription taken forles* than six
ar-So paper discontinued until all arrearage,
•re paid , unless at the option of the publisher. Jt
he* teen decided by the United States Courts that
the stoppage of a newspaper without the payment
ot arrearages, is prima facie evidence ot fraud and
•S ■ criminal offence.
OT-The courts have decided that persons are ac
countable for the subscription price of newspa
pers, if they take them from tbepost oliice, wheth
er they subscribe for them, or not.
KEEP IT'BEFORE THE PEOPLE.
That the tax which! will he assessed and
collected after the election is a Republican
tax.
That the tax bill was drawn by Thadde
us Stevens, an A.boLtion Republican ot the
blackest stamp:
That it in for 8150,000,000. which at 6
percent., in the interest of $2,500,000,000,
which must have been what the Republican
Committee of Wtjys and Means supposed
the national debt to amount to, or what it
Would amount to before the close of the fis
cal year.
That of this tax tltc people of Pennsyl
vania will have to pay at least $15,000,000
yearly, or about s2l 50 to each tax payer,
supposing the number to be 700,000.
That if the debt wan $2,500,000,000
last winter, or if it will be that by the iirst
of Julv, on any basis of calculation assu
med by the committee, it will be at least
$1,000,000,000 more at the close of the
war, if it should close within a year, mak
ing a grand total debt ot $5,500,000,000,
and adding $1>0,000,000 to the tax bill;
making Pennsylvania's share §31,000,000,
or thirty dollars to each tax payer, to be
handed over to the collector every year.
Assuming the national debt, then, to be,
at the ,closc of the war, §3,500,000,000, the
Stale's share of it would be about $350,000,-
000, to which add the existing State debt,
and we have about§3!)0,000,000"as the grand
total of State indebtedness.—§l3o to every
man, woman and child in the Common
wealth. Arid remember fuither, that
Abraham Lincoln, Republican, or, which
is now the same thing, Abolition President
of the United Statos, La's issued his proc
lamation declaring his purpose to emanci
pate all tho negro slaves in the U. Stales—
those of rebels to be freed without compen
sation; those of the loyal to be paid for.
There will, therefore, be at least one
fourth of the slaves to be paid for—that is
about one million. These, at the compen
sation paid to slave owners in the District
of Columbia, (three hundred dollars,) would
cost the nation three hundred millions of
doliars more. And men* President Lincoln
i 3 determined to colonize the negroes—four
millions of them in all. How much more
would that cost, supposing that it could be
accomplished ?
Not a cent less than $1,000,000,000.
Keep it before the people, then, that
The WAP DEBT and the NEGRO
DEBT that this Abolition Administration
will entail upon the nation, if it is not check
ed by a change in Congress, or by other
means, before its designs arc accomplished,
will not be less than
§4,500,000,00011!
Of which Pennsylvania's share will be about
§ 150,OOO.oOJ!!!
On which the yearly tax would be
$27,000,000111
In addition to the Slate tax now imposed
to pay the expenses of Government and the
interest on tho forty millions of dollars State
debt.
Or, in round numbers, each tax payer
Would have to pay yearly thirty-eight dol
lars And iifty cents national tax, imposed by
this Abolition-Republican Administration.
Keep these facts before the people, and
lte4p before them too, the disgraceful fact
that the President of the United States, an
, Abolition Republican, declares in his Eman
cipation Proclamation, that this Government
if ill do no act or acts to repress slave rebell
ion. These are his words:
"That on the Ist day of January, in the
yea* of our Lord one thousand eight hun
dred and tixty-ihree, ail persons held as
slaves within any S ate, or any designated
part of a State, the people whereof shall
then be in rebellion against the United States,
shall be then, thenceforward and forever
free; ancT the Executive Government of the
United States, including the military and
naval authority thereof, will recognize and
jtoaintain the freedom of such persons, and
vnll do no act or acts to repress suck per
sons, or any of them , in ANY EFFORTS
THEY MAT MA KE for tkeir actual
freedom f"
Remctnber that tills cqJJ-blooded invita
tion to insurrection and butchery comes from
•^theßepublican President of the U. States,
apd that every vote cast for Republican
udndidfttes for Congress or the State Legis
lature, who stand pledged to a blind, un
questioning support of the Administration,
will be a vote in favor of this atrocious dec
laration, and of increased debt and taxation
to maintain the supremacy tuid infamous
pohey of the Abolitionists.
People of Pennsylvania awake! Arouse
to action! Strike down the nefarious, incen
diary, blood-thirsty Abolition parjy! Strike
for Congress, for the Legislature, for the
Constitution and the Union, as they came
from the hands of the Fathers, and as you
ahonld transmit them to your posterity!
Patience ia exhausted, the country trem
bka-npon the very brink of ruin—the con
stitutional liberty of the white man is threat
ened —the equality of the negro i 3 proclaim
ed/ Strikes then—strike all, and strike
home!—Harrisburg Pat. <St Union.
Orbfurfr Mmttie.
VOLUME as.
NEW SERIES.
MAJOji JACK DOWNING.
This old gentleman—(for tho good old
man is not dqad,)—writes for the iS. York
CAUCASIAN, lie lives in the White House
now, with old Abcy just-as lie did with old
Ilickory, in 1832-3(3, and he renders the
following nS the result*of a recent conversa
tion of his "with Linkin:"
Applying the Principles of Negro Equal
ity—Lincoln has the Floor.
"The truth is, Major Downing, we Re
publicans have been talkin about the grate
principle of the cqiuility of all men, ineludin
Injiiis, niggers, Chinees, and so on, and
now they want me to apply the principle,
and I'm goin to do it. I think there's some
humbug in it somewhere, but I don't ex
actly see where, arid as they will give me
no peace, and will never be satisfied onny
how until it is cluri, I'm goin to put it thru."
"Wal," ses 1, "Kernel, go alied, but look
out for squalls."
Perhaps, ses I, you never heerd the sto
ry about Xenas Humspun "applyin the prin
ciple." 1 liojie you won't hcv as bad luck
as he did. No, ses Linkin, I never heerd
that story. What was it? Wal, ses I, Xe
nas was a goodnatured feller, who lived in
Downingviile, and a wonderful inquirin sort
of a chap, allers ail forever pryin into things.
If ho bought a clock he'd take it all apart
with his jack iiifo jest to sec how it went to
gether. So about the time that a telegraph
was started and an oflis was set up in our
town, Zenas was eenaiiiost puzzled to dcth
to get the hang of the critter, as he called
it. One day lie went to the offis an axed
the feller to show him all about it. The
chap was very perlite, an explained to him
the great principle on which it worked, but
Zenas didn't exactly see thru it, an kept ax
in questions an botlicrin the feller till lie got
clean out of pashms. Finally ses he to Xe
nas, 'Perhaps you'd like to see me apply the
principle.' Xenas sod he would, of course.
Wal, ses lie, then you jest take hold of them
brass knobs an stick to 'em tight. So Xe
nas grabbed hold of 'em like all possessed,
but he hadn't morc'n fairly got hold before
be lay sprwvrlin on tho iioor. The •princi
ple' had knocked him clean over. Now, Ze
nas was a tcrribul feller to smoke, an allers
carried his pockets full of Lusifer matches
to light his pipe with. It so happened that
he had a hull box full in his coat tail pock
et as he keeled over on the floor, an as he
fell they scratched agin one anuther so strong
that they all got afire. It warnt but a lit
tle while afore Zenas' coat tail was all in a
blaze, an afore it could be put out it had
burnt an orful big hole in the seat of his
trowser.% an scorched him thereabouts ama- j
zinly. Zenas yelled an hollered orful, an
sed lie didn't want to know enything more
about applyin the principle. Now, ses I,
Kernel, I hope you won't have as bad lack
as Zenas did, but depend on't, this applyin
principles you don't exactly understand, is
dangerous business. If you don't git burnt
somewhere it will be a wonder.
WHO MADE THE NIGGER?
Wal, scs Linkin, Major, you're a cute
chap in tolJiu a story, but now tell me, do
you think the nigger an the white man didn't
enrn from ihe same parrient? Now, scs I,
Kernel, that's axin a deep question. You
see it's onpossibul to tell what the Croatur
may have done. He might have only one
kind of man at fust, and then altered their
constitushins, an complexions, an brains af
terwards. You see everything is possible
to the Creatur. Or the nigger may have
cum from 1 lam, who was cussed for his sins,
but then I don't sec that it is enything agin
the scriptoors to believe that all the kinds of
men were made at the beginnin jest, as they
are now. Rut it don't make eny difference
how they cum so, so long a3 they are dif
ferent. You can't eny more make a white
man out of a nigger now than you breed a
lion out of a pole cat. You see/ it's clear
agin naiur to expect to make the nigger eny
thing but a nigger. You can't get a peach
out of a crab-apple, nor a pumpkin out of a
water-melon, nor eagles out of duck's eggs.
Y'ou can't raise chickens from egg-plants,
or produce goslins from gooseberries. You
see, Kernel, everything in natur must go
accordin to natur. If the nigger had been
intended to be cquil to the white man, and
the very fact that he ain't made so, is proof
positive that he wnrn't intended to be put
in a while man's place. Tryiu to make a
nigger act like a white man is jest like old
Sol Hopkins, one year harness in his otf ox
an his boss together to plow corn. The ox
was lazy as he could be, an the boss was a
young, high-strung nnimil, nn sieli a pull in
an haulin team you never did sec. It al
most killed both. Y'ou see it was workin
agin natur. It was tryin to make ah 033 an
ox, and an ox a boss, neither of which things
can be did. Y'ou see, Kernel, everything
in natur must gotaecordin to natur.
Wal, scs Linkin, there is a good deal in
what you say, but then the people don't be
lieve it. They think the nigger is only ac
cidentally black, an if he lacks in mind an
capacity, it's all owin to slavery, an they
won't believe eny other way until they see
for themselves. I tell you, Mojer, the prin-
Freedom of Thought and Opinion.
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 10, 1862.
ciple has got to be applied, no matter how
many coat tails or how many trowsers are
burnt.
Wal, ses I, Kernel, I guess there are
other folks who think jest as you do, for
somebody has sent me some verses in re la
shin to the next great emancipashin ball
which is to cum off, cut from some noospa
per. I will read 'em to you:
The Emancipation Ball,
GIVEN TO FOUR MILLIONS OF NEGRO US, BY THE
GREAT REPUBLICAN P-A-K-T-Y.
Another Great Ball is soon to be,
l)e like ob which you nehlier did sec,
De bids is out, I's seen a few,
l)e guests I know, and so do you.
Lubly Rosa! (Sambo come!
Don't you hear de banjo ?
Turn! Turn! Tutu!
De fust on do list is Mistah Snow,
An do nox is Joe men an Dinah Crow;
Chalk en ivory! heels aa shins!
White man wait till de dance begins!
Lubly Ilofci! Sambo cornel
• Don't you hear de banjo ]
Turn! Turn! Turn!
Pompey Smash, an his lady fair!
You may bet your lifo (ley will bofc bo dare!
And Mistah Ducklegs—bully for he!
Such a gizzard foot you nebber did see.
Lubly Rosa! Sambo come!
Don't you hear de banjo] /
Tuui! Turn! Turn!
An Gumbo Squash, wid his bressed grin,
His curling hur, an his ebo-shin—
De lviug ob Hearts will come to de Ball,
Let de gals look out for dure feckshuns all!
Lubly Rosa! Sambo come!
Don't you hear de banjo ?
Turn! Turn! Turn!
010 uncle Ned. frnw down dat hoe!
An Dinah drop dat kitchen dough!
All Dixie's free, wid nuilln to do
But to dance all night, an all day too.
Lubly Rosa! Sambo come 1
, Don't you hear de banjo?
Turn! Tumi Turn!
De whim triifct* l,uA it..C.u .ft, an.., ,
But to work! work! an de taxes pay;
While, de bressed darkies dance dere fill,
Let de white trash foot de tiddler's bill!
Lubly Rosa! Sambo come!
Don't you hear de banjo?
Turn! Turn! Turn!
While men! White men! Sure as you're born,
The crows are going to take your corn!
They surround your ficjds on every tree,
And they blacken the sky as far as we sec.
Lubly Rosa! Sambo stay!
In the land of Dixie
Far avvav.
Linkin laughed at it when I got thru, an sed
it done very well for some sore-head Dimtny
crat, but that Whittour could write one on
'tothor Ride that this wouldn't he a primin to.
I tolled him Whittom* might make liett r poet
ry, but I doubted whether there would be as
much truth in it as this had in.
Four Millions of Slaves Set Free —One
Million of Them to Come to Pennsylvania.
It is proposed, and intended, to liberate four
millions of .Southern slaves. What is to become
of them? Jl is i lie to tulk of colonizing them,
even if they would consent to be sent away.
We have not vessels enough, if all we had should
ho employed for the purpose, to transport so ma
ny people. Allowing that out sea-going vessels
would carry an average of 2o<) negroes each, it
would require sixteen thousand vessels to trans
port all theso 'Tr< edincn" at one trip. One thou
sand vessels would have to make, each sixteen
trips, five hundred, thirty-two; two hundred and
fifty, sixty four, etc.
But we will not impeach the reader's intelli
gence further on this point. Everybody knows
that if the negroes are set free they will remain
in the United States. And when it is consider
ed that Abolitionism will have taught them to
believe that the Northern free States arc the ne
gro's paradise, it will he evident to all that the
lilacks, when freed, will immediately set their
faces hit her ward. Indeed, the very circumstan
ces of their changed situation will b get a desire
for further novelty. Besides, the theory of the
emancipationists in this business is, that the ne
' grocs will, as they must, fight their way through
toour lines—that, on hearing that Massa Lincoln
has set them free, on papers, they will avail
themselves of whatever weapons may he within
their reach, and will slaughter such old and de
fenceless white men as have not gone to the war,
murder the women and children, and make off'
for the federal lines, marking their way with
butchery and blood. So, the conclusion is in
evitable that if the four million of Southern
slaves are set free, wo shall have them swarm
ing into the Northern States, numerous as the
frogs and the flies, the locusts and the lice of E
pvpt. This will be the curse put upon onr I'lta
raoh and hit people, not because of their refus
ing liberty to the children of Israel, but because
of their giving lilierty to the children of Ham!
Now, leaving out California and Oregon, we
have seventeen free States. To which of those
will the most of these negroes probably come?
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New
Jersey and the States bordering on the (present) i
slave States. New England, by its remote sit
uation, its uninviting climate, and its sterile soil,
would, to a great extent, cscapo the ourso whioh
its policy will entail on the other Northern States.
New York and Michigan will receive a consid
erable portion of the "freedmcn," Wisconsin and
Minnesota not so many; Kansas, we believe,
I hps passed a law calculated to prevent such nil
influx of negroes—but that State is under the
Abolitionist*** rule, and of what account is law
when it runs counter to their purposes; Illi
nois has stringent laws against permitting ne
groes to ootne to resile within its borders, and
we believe the laws of Indiana place some iinpe
• diments in the way of negroes immigrating to
j that State. So th" probability apjiears very
[ strong that when the four millions of negroes
are let loose upon the North, Oliio, Pennsylva
nia and New Jersey will be the chief recepta
cles of tbem. But, suppose we divide them
equally between the whole seventeen States—
this will give to each State two hundred and
thirty-five thousand two hundred and thirty-five
(235.235) in addition to the stock already on
hand. But, as we have seen, there is no prob
ability that there will he aa equal division of
those emancipated negroes amongst the North
ern States. Pennsylvania nnd Ohio would lie
likely to receive one half, at least, of the whole
four millions. The proclamation of the Presi
dent, if its purpose he fully realized, will very
probably add a million of negroes to the popula
tion of Pennsylvania.
'lUuk of this, laboring men! Think of it,
Our fields will bo black with ne
gro laborers; our factories and workshops and
wharves will fairly slink with ill 'in; our pris
ons and poor houses will have to be enlarged to
hold the vast increase of criminals and pau
pers that they will furnish us, and our taxes
will have to be increased accordingly.
Southern prod yets will he vastly abridged,
and the prices of cotton goods, sugar, tobacco,
rice, etc., which our people want, will be pro
portionally increased. Already these things
are nearly double in price what they were two
years ago. When this negro exodus troin the
South shall occur, and the negro laborer is trans
planted to Pennsylvania, a poor man wall not
be able to afford the luxury of a muslin shirt,
nor of sugar in his tea or coffee —indeed, he
may have no tea or coffee to put it in
A million more of negroes in Pennsylvania!
Ten hundred thousand more of negroes in Penn
sylvania! Think of this, white laboring men,
and remember that these imbruted Africans, will
not only be your peers in the field and in the
factory, but, if Abolitionism be carried out to
its legitimate (or illegitimate) results, they will
be your peers at the ballot box; and, in locali
ties where they may settle so thickly as to have
a majority of votes, they w ill be officeholders,
of the Peace, Constables, etc. And,
if negro equality ,' i to prevail, they will he can
didates for the hands in ni.'O'riage of your daugh
ters and sisters, and, the force ot this negro de
lusion may become so great that, ere 50 years
elapse, your blood and the blood of these en fruit'
nchised slaves may be flowing in tho same veins.
Think over all these things, white men.'
Republican Opinion of Lincoln's Procla
mation,
The Now York 'Times, commenting on the
President's Emancipation Proclamation Says:
"From now till the first of January—the
day when this proclamation will take effect—is
little over three months. What may happen be
tween now a id then, in the progress of the war,
it is hard to say.—We earneitly hope, however,
that by that time, thtfrcbellion will bo put down
by the military hand, and that the terrible element
of slam insurrection may not be invoiced."
This, we take it, is a virtual acknowledge
ment that the proclamation aims at a ''slave in
surrection" in the South, with its accompanying
horrors —the indiscriminate slaughter ot white
men, women and children, with the accompani
ments of arson, rape, and all the hellish crimes
which Giddings and his associates have for
years been desiring to see perpetrated by the ne
groes upon the whites of the South.
The Philadelphia North American , does not
doubt that this proclamation will lead to "a rev
olution in the rebel States," which means insur
rection and its infernal concomitants.
The New York Tribune , the organ of the
traitorous radicals, is rejoiced—it is in ecstaoies
over tho proclamation. It says, "It is the be
ginning of the end-of the rebellion; the begin
ning oif the new life ot the nation. Got* BLKSS
ABKAUAM LINCOLN !"
Grccly is satisfied now; he will no more com
plain of the President; he has accomplished
his purpose. Even Phillips will be pleased now.
The President has "proclaimed a policy," which
pleases these life-long enemies of the Govern
ment —of the Union.
"God bless Abraham Lsncoln /" will he repeat
ed by all the tribe of negro worshipping fanat
ics, fools and fiends in human shape who have,
for so many years, been reviling the memory of
Washington and stigmatizing tlie Constitution
(which he helped to frame, and which he heart
ily approved,) as "a league with death and a
covenant with hell."
Greeley has given them the cue, and they will
all take up the cry: " God bless Abraham Lin-'
coinP though, hitherto, they have execrated
him, and pronounced him a "mud turtle"—the
"Illinois stare hound" etc. They arc conciliated
now, and one of the purposes, if not the main
purpose, of the proclamation is already accom
plished.—JloUiilaysburg Standard.
MOKK 810 Grxs.—The Fort Pitt Works are
turning out the immense fifteen inch guns now
at the rate of three a week. These guns weigh
each, in tho rough, about seventy thousand
pounds, and apart from the difficulty of cast
ing, the labor of handling, turning, and finish
ing such a mass of metal is immense. There
are four of these guns now in tho lathes, and
by the time these arc out others will be ready
to take their places. It is the intention to turn
out three a week for the balance of the year.
They nro intended for the new "Monitors" and
are the most formidable of their character in
the world. Arrangements are now in progress
for casting a twenty-inch gun. This latter gun
will throw n ball of one thousand pounds, and
is expected to have n range of four miles. 1
WHOI.E HUIREB. 8093
Beeeher Put to the Test.
According to the statement of Robert V.
Fitzgerald, First, Sergeant, Fifth Regiment Cor
coran Legion, (formerly of the old Sixty-ninth.)
I published in one of the Brooklyn papers, the said
• Serjeant was in search of recruits tor the war,
'in Fulton street, in the City at Churches, on
j Monday, last and then and there meeting Beocb
i er—whom he did not then know—asked him
ito enlist under the Stars and Stri|K?s, to fight
! for the Union. Beeeher was shocked, and de
nounced the recruiting sergeant as ''a scoun
drel," who "ought to have known that he (Beeeh
er) did not want to enlist."
The patriotic Irishman had evidently fallen in
with the wrong customer —a man who held any
one for a scoundrel who took him to lie a patri
ot. Had Fitzgerald read his blaspheming ser
mon, published in the Herald of that morning,
he could not have made such a mistake, if he
hail only known the person of Beeeher; for,
while in that profane discourse the clerical ac
tor compares liimself with Christ, and intimates
that hanging him and a few other radical lea
ders would have as great au effect in defeating
the rebellion and securing the abolition of sla
very as the crucifixion of the Saviour had in o
vcrthrowing Judaism and establishing Christi
anity, Ijc confesses that lie thinks too much of
his life to sacrifice it in uiiy such cause. Beeeh
er, Greeley, Garrison and Phillips do not want
to fight for the Union. As the Richmond Dis
patch, in au article we published yesterday,
well observes: "The Union is the god of all
parties alike, except the ultra abolitionists, who,
strange to say, are the only men in the North
willing to 'let it slide.' The war has been car
ried ou from the beginning by the conservative
classes, and scarcely an abolitionist is to he found
in its armies."
Greely, indeed, lately boasted that, though
jhey numbered 900,000, not one of them had
I ever smelt battle. No doubt, like beecher, they
would one and all dunounce as a scoundrel any
man who should invite them to" fight for the
Constitution which Beecher holds to be a worth
less "sheepskin parchment," and for the Union,
which ho denounces as "a monstrous outrage
upon human rights."
But the draft will fetch them up. Sergeant
Fitzgerald suggests that Beecher, who "insulted
the flag he bore and discountenanced enlistments,
ought to be watched by the Government, as his
conduct is very suspicious." We entirely agree
in this opinion, and the whole traitor tribe re
quire the exercise qf the utmost vjgjjanoe on
the part of the President.— W"■ Yur'k Herald.
Mortgaged to the Devil.'
That the old fellow who presides over the re
"ions below must be driving a thriving businessin
taking mortgages on the souls of many of our
people is too self-evident to deny; and if he
does not foreclose on the,7l ere the war is ended,
he will certainly soon thereafter demand a ful
fillment of the bond. The revelations of th'ir ras
cality almost fails even toexcite a remark ninong
tho people, for it has become so common they
have come to regard it as a matter of course.
The late demand of the Government for ad
ditional men has brought tolight the astounding
fact that the Paymasters and Quartermasters'
rolls contain the names of two thousand men
who have never api>eaml or been represented
by a living personification of a human being.
Their names being on the pay rolls renders it
certain that some person or persons have drawn
the salary of these two thousand myths, and that
the people have been grossly robbed out of their
hard earnings; and thc.ir names appearing on
the rolls of the Quartermaster, renders it cer
tain that their rations have been drawn by some
individuals, and sold for filthy lucre, as there
were no mouths to eat them. This, however, is
not the main injury the Government and the
people have received ; but when the service of
these men was wanted, and the insurgents were
pressing hard upon our worn out and tired sol
diers, these two hundred thousand men were
needed to ta-nt back the enemy and nssist our
soldiers in the unequalled fight; but they were
not there; they were myths, and the President
was deceive J, and the people were deceived,
and our soldiers were % murdered because they
were not there to help thein. A heavy load of
guilt rests upon the Leads of the wretches who
have thus robbed the people and slaughtered the
nation. We would rather have a millstone tied
to our necks, and he east into the middle of the
sea, than to be compell d (o answer before God
for a deed so atrocious and foul. That the devil
has a mortgage on their souls there can be no
manner of doubt; and it can never bj obliter
ated, for it is an unpardonable sin.
The perpetrators ol' this monstrous crime
should be ferreted put at once, and caught, the
President would receive the plaudits of the
whole country if lie would cause these fellows,
to be Constitutionally arrested, tried and hang
ed. Mercy to sucli creatures is cruelty to the
whole people and to the lovers of liberty in all
parts of the world. To hang them is to deal
leniently with them in comparison with their
crime.— Greensborg Argus.
STRAKOK BUT TUBE. —Capt. Klotz, of Clar
ion, came to this city yesterday with a company
[ from Clarion county, composed of ninety-seven
men, every one of whom is a Democrat. A
company from Clarion could not well be any
thing else than Democrats, but it is singular
that there should not be a single Republican in
tho company, especially when the fact is taken
into consideration thnt the Republicans are pa
ving the way for a defeat this full by declaring
that all their voters have gone to war!—Liar
risburg Union.
AN apothecary's boy was lately sent to leave
at one house a box of pills, and at another
six live fowls. Confused on tho way he left,
the pills where the fowls should have gone, and
the fowls at the pill place. Tho folks who re
ceived the fowls were astonished at reading the
accompanying directions:—"Swallow one ev
ery two hours."
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VOL. 6. NO. 10
A Religious View of the War.
The following communication is from one of
the most gifted and discreet clergymen of a Bor
der Free State:— Catholic Mirror.
Messrs. Editors:
"Pure religion and undefiled before God
and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and
widows in their tribulation," &c., Jam. 1, 27.
If this be the ease, as infaliible truth hath de
clared, what must we think of clergymen—■
ministers of "the meek and lowly Jesus"—who
in the temple of the living God can proclaim,
"that it is humanity, it is mercy' to send down
upon the unfortunate and erring South, hun
dreds of thousands of men armed to the teeth
—to destroy, to annihilate human beings of our
own race—misguided, it is true—but still rc
claimable, not incorrigible, not beyond the pale
of conviction. It is lamentable to think that,
in our philanthropic age, such language should
be used by u class of men whose calling is peace.
If this language be held by one, high in spiritu
al position, it is still worse, more censurable, as
it encourages others in inferior grade, to depart
from their vocation of mercy and good will to
all. How unbecoming for one elevated to lofty
dignity, in "the House of God," to oppose the
philanthropy of- St. James ; so that his words,
instead of exciting men "to visit the fatherless
and widows in their tribulation," are calculated
to make orphans nnd widows on a large scale
indeed. Whatever we may think of lay-politi
cians, (for they are of the work!) there can be
but one opinion as to a religious man or a Chris
tian minister, whose position the Prophet thus
describes; "gild yourselves and lament, Oye ,
Priests 1 Howl ye ministers of the Lord, go in
sackcloth, ye ministers of God, because sacri
fice and libation are cut off from the House of
your God."
It becomes the ministers of the Most High to 1
be jieace-makers, to weep over the tens of thou
sands slain, "in Israel," overtaken by sudden
and unprepared-for death. "The man of God"
can never hound on men to death, or exult in
their destruction, unless there be a well groun
ded hope, that their death is "in Jesus," or ac
cording to all human appreciation that their
lot will be with the saints—"in bliss."
It is worthy of being remembered that the
Church of which its highest and lowest' func
tionaries are, after all, but mere officers—has
decreed that any one high or low who contri-
I butes to blood-shedding, is irregular ; which, if
1 the party be of clericul order, means that he is
i debarred the exercise of his official powers.
r t' | j':s 'uufji ilunt OOT.VK
Lib. V. Til. XII "Dam euutain homoridti irreg
ularis e<t." This decision is illustrated in the
Canon Law by the condemnation of a Deacon
who had been tire occasion of a homicide and
on this account had forfeited the right to pro
motion—".Vo Videtur ad sacerdotunn promo*
vendue." If then, in consequence of imprudent
| sermons, from high or low, in the Church, tor
| rents of blood should flow, wo ask, are not
j those concerned in this calamity, irregular; and
| if so, how can they exercise their functions—or,
at all act consistently if they concur to blood
shedding. It is an admitted axiom—"Ecclt
j fia (ib/iorrct a sanguine, " that is, the Church
| detests blood-spilling. Let them all reflect up
on this tendency and requirement of the Church
and act ifi conformity to her expanded views of
philanthropy. NEMO.
As lINFn.RILR.En PROMISE. —Gov. Andrew,
j of Massachusetts, in a letter to the Secretary
! ol' War, promised that if the war for the Union
were turned into a war l'or emancipation, "the
roads would swarm with the multitudes that
would pour out to obey the call." Well, the
President has issued an emancipation proclama
tion, and how stands Gov. Andrew's promise T
A Boston paper says:
"Since the President's emancipation procla
mation was published—whether owing to that
or some other cause is not known—recruiting
has almost entirely ceased. Even Ward II
(where the foreign population reside) has con
tributed no men during the last three days."
Just as we expected. Abolition prophecies
and promises are alike bosh —nothing. When
t tic proclamation appeared, Forney cried, "The
rebellion is ended!" But, as far as we can see,
it is now about as formidable as ever. Greely
cried, "God bless Abraham Lincoln!" Beecher
responded—and the whole Abolition crew shout-
I ed Amen ! For such poor compensation as this
the President forfeited the respect and confidence
of more than half the North, and made himself
ridiculous in the eyes of the world.— Patriot 4r
Union.
"Neddy" MoPhersonv
This little "Thimble rigger" last week adver
tised his through a card published
in the Republican papers of the district, announ
cing that he had volunteered his services as aid
to (trig. Gen. .Reynolds and consequently could
not meet the people of this Congressional Dis
trict in "popular meetings." This week it
"Presto Change," and another card appears from
him advertising himself to speak at live or six
dliferent points in this county during the pres
ent week. We respectfully suggest to this po
litical demagogue, that the people of this coun
ty generally are fully as intelligent and well in
formed on the political issues of the day as he
himself, and are fully competent to do their
own voting without being bored by listening to
dry and prosy speeches of two hours and a half
in length. The people of this district have
weighed Mr. MePherson in the balance and he
is found wanting. They want an honest man
to represent them in the United States Congress
hereafter. They have had enough of a man
who talks one way and votes another, pretend
ing to be a conservative yot always voting with
Thaddeus Stevens and Owen Lovejoy. The
Hon. Edgar Cowan of this State, remarked lart
winter to a gentleman of our acquaintance, that
"ho could never understand that, man McPbtur
son; lie talks right, hut invariably votes wrong."
The people of this district will vote wrqag tot
htm on the second Tuesday of this moeih, we*
opine.— Vaiky Spirit and Tnrm.