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The TW atchm an.
Thursday Morning July, 10, 1862.
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
"JOR AUDITOR GENERAL,
ISAAC SLENKER,
OF UNION COUNTY.
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FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL.
JAMES P. BARR,
OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY.
ne ren
Arother Change.
Mr. P. Gray Meek, formerly in connection
with Mr. Alexander, one of the editors of
this paper, having purchased the irterest of
the latter gentleman in the Democratic
Watchman, this week again becomes con-
nected with it in the capacity of editor. In
forming this new connection, we think we
are safe in saying that, so far, at least, as
Mr. M. is concerned, it will be a permanent
one, inasmuch as he has thus become one of
the owners of the concern. Being a young
man of talent, enterprise and industry, and
withal, a Democrat of the strictest sort, we
have no hesitancy in saying that the chair
vacated by Mr, Alexander will be, at least,
not unworthy ly filled. ’
We do not deem it necessary to sag much
in regard to the course which the Watch
man will hereafter pursue. As far as its
measures be Constitutional and right, it shall
support the Government, and as American
citizens and lovers of our country we would
fain hope that those measures might never
be aught else. Come what may, however,
we shall endeavor to do our duty to our
country and our party, trusting, that
the forbearance and indulgence which
have thus far been extended to ns, may be
continued, and that we may merit the pat-
ronage of the good peopleof this county, and
«specially of that portion of them whose
proud privilege it is to array themselves un
der the glorious old banner of the Democrat-
ic Faith. °
Iu parting with our talented and good-
natured friend, Mr. Alexander, we have on
ly to bear testimony that we have always
found him a gentleman and a patriot, and
that we give him our editorial ‘good by,
with much regret. He is a good fellow,
a faithfol friend and a jolly companion, and
we trust that his future life may be one of
prosperity and ot unalloyed happiness, * and
that his promising abilities may be proper
ly appreciated here or in whatever commu.
nity he may hereafter choose to reside.
JOE W. FUREY. !
© VALEDICTORY. |
A little more than a year ago, I became |
connected with this paper as one of its edi |
‘tors, and as my connection with it in that |
capacity has now closed, a duc
ats patrons demands that ny reasons for so
doing should be made known. When Mr.
Barnhart retired from the Wtchman sanc-
tum, an arrangement had been concluded |
with.a gentleman who was a Bemocrat by i
‘birth and education and whose profession |
wag that of a printer, to take charge of it. i
Aa unforeseen cortingeney, however arose, |
that prevented the consummation of the |
contract ; and for two weeks the paper was |
left without any ostensible editor. Under |
these circumstances and through the solici- |
tations of its proprietors and a number of |
my democratic friends, [ consented, al
regard for
though againstany own inclination, to play !
the part of editor until some practical prin-
ter and reliable demaciat could be procured |
to take charge of it. That time has now |
arrived. My contract is, therefore, fultilled,
and; corseious of having done my whole di |
ty to the best of my ability in the promises, |
I this week turn over to Mr. Meck and Mr.
Furey the editorial chair, and accerding to |
the custom of retiring editors, bid adieu to |
our mary patrons. i
C. T ALEXANDER.
i go
J President Lincoln, in his late letter to
the Governors of the Northern States, sayS
this is an © UNXEsessany and injurious
civil war.” There ars Democratic editors
to day, confined in loathsome cells of Amer-
ican Bastiles, for sayiug the same thing.
there are the ruins of Democratic presses,
destroyed by abolition mobs to be scen in
every State under Federal jurisdiction, for
telling the people the same thing; there are
dozens of Democratic papers which are at
this time prohibited the uge of the mails,
simply for opposing this UNNECESSARY
and injurious civil war,” and yet we as
Amcrican citizens, tameiy submit and allow
this spirit of despotism to stalk unmolested
over our once free country. Why the peo-
Ple will endorse and support ; why they will
permit themselves to be loaded down with
taxes by this administration, to carry on an
¢ UNNRCRSSARY and mjurious cil war.”
we know not.
eater
[IZ The editor of one of our Republican
exchanges says, he empties his brain to fill
his stomach, Pity of the poor fellow —for if
there is not more goes into his Stomach than
comes out of his brains, he must by this
time be nothing but a shadow.
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0Z7Tt is said that in the late . retreat of
Banks’ division before tne Confederate Gen-
eral Jackson, negro contrabands were car
ried in the wagons and wounded soldiers
were compelled to walk !
i the same proud,
| what a clange !
titernal blo od 1?
the wail of our widowed —onr
| all descendants ofthe same forefathers wi o
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SALUTATORY.
In ugain becoming connected with the ed-
itorial department of the Watchman, I have
but little to say by way of introduction to
the reader. Whether the change that has
now taken place be for the * better or
worse,” time alone will tell, and T may here
state that I do not expect, neither can I
hope to fill the place made vacant by the
retirement of Mr. Alexander, with the same
ability and with as much satisfaction to the
Democracy of this county. It is well known
that the changes which have taken place in
the management of this paper within the
last two years, have been anything but ben
cficial to its reputation bath politically and
financially. And ii is honestly hoped that
it will be necessary to make no more changes
so long as the Democracy of ** old Centre *
give us their support and encouragement.
With the aid of Mr. Furey, I shall strive
‘0 make the Watchman a true exponent of
Democratic principles, such as they were
taught us by Washingten, Jefferson and
Jackson: as they arc enunciated in the
Virginia aud Kentucky Resolutions and lat-
terly set forth in the Cincinnatti platform —
principles upon which our government grew
and flourished in the short space of eighty
five years, from a few beggarly colonies to
one of the mghtiest nations of the globe;
and upon which a/ore the American Union
can be reconstructed. In the deep disgrace
that is now resting upon us, we are but
reaping the rewr ed of the repudiation of
those principles and the thrning away from
the doctrives taught us in our national in<
fancy. And if, in times like these, when
American citizens, for the mere expression
Of opinion; are dragged from their homes to
fill the gloomy Bastiles and loathsome Pris.
ous that disgrace our land—when presses
are muzzled and the lips of freemen locked
by the *“ powers that be "—when, in fact,
the most wicked and wanton outrages are
inflicted upon the rights of the people, and
their liberties trampled under foot by a des.
potism more fearful than that which curses
the soil of Austria—if, T say, inZtimes]like
these, a paper can be free, fearless and inde-
pendent, the Watchman shall be. Tt shall
stand as a sentinel upon the watchtowers of
our couniry to warn its inhabitants of any
encroachments upon their rights either by
foreign or domestic foes, an unyielding ad
vocate of the ** freedom of speech and of
the press’ believing that these, the only
safesgnards of the liberties bequeathed us
by our ancestors, should be maintained and
defended at all hazards and under all cir
cumstances. [It shall support the govern-
ment only as a government of white men
established for the exclusive benefit of white
men; combatting the vile heresies of mod-
ern abolitionism which seeks to reverse the
laws of nature by placing the negro race up-
on an equality with the white—and cor-
ropting men’s minds with the infamous doc-
trines of amalgamation. It shall be the
mouth piece of no clique, crew or faction,
laboring only for right, for our God, our
country and our party.
P. GRAY MEEK.
ger
The Fourth of July;
With what a thrill of joy the approach of
that sacred anniversery was wont to be
| hatled everywhere a// over this once happy
From Maine to Louisiana
glad feeling, vibrated
through millions of (rec American hearts,
which beat in unison with holy fraternal
sympathy, and gratitude to God for tte
innumerable blessing of liberty and national
The Fourth of July, 1862!
With what strange emo-
tions do we hail this natal day of American
freedom! what a different scene docs it
shine upon! © God forbid I” said Daniel
Webster in his great outburst of eloquence
om a memo alle occasion in the United
States Senate, ¢ that my cyes should ever
lwk on the broken and dissevered fragments
of a once glorious Union —on States discor-
dant and bell gerent—a land rent with civil
fucd. and drenched it way be, with fra-
How has the dark and des-
olate picture been realized 7 [ow many a
heart which beat responsive ty the nob'e
sentiment of the great expounder of the
Cunstitntion survives to witness the desolas
tien which he depreciated! And how many
a patriotic sprit would gladly have died to
avert the sad catastrophe upon which this
day has risen !
The Fourih of July 1862! [low differ
ent aust be its celebration from all that
has gone before! Peans will be sung, and
salvos will be fired, bat the former will be
ard uw ited land.
prosperity !
; mingled with the groans of the dying, and
countrymen
rendered this day glorious—and the latter
will be echoed by guns which hurl the death
dealing missiles through kindred ranks!
Oh! beloved countrymen—would to God on
that day the healing spirit of peace could go
forth on angel wings to touch your Learts,
that strife might cease, justice triumph, and
the blessings of amity and concord be once
more restored | — Constitutionai Union.
Nuven SurreNDER.— We admit the truth
of the following, which we take from an able
article in the Albany Argus, addresse® to
the Democracy of New York ;
Fellow-Democrats, have patience, stand
‘ast by your principles, calmly endure the
flippant reproaches and mistepresentations
with which partizan demagogues, or it may
be, honest but weak and unstable political
fricuds assail you. When the storm of vite
uperation shall have passed, and the noisy
pretentious patriots of the day: shall have
shrunk away from the dangers which now
impend over us, the last hope of the nation
will rest upon our courage and firmness,
grounded upon an intelligent political faith,
which will be equal to the terrible ordeal,
and the salvation of your country will be
wrought out by your own hands. Cherish
your political principles, preserve your or-
ganization, patiently struggle for the right,
and prepare for the hour when the work of
re-establishing the Constitution and restor-
ing the Uuion will by common consent, be
committed to your hands.
7 0One of our exchanges, in a long edi.
torial tries to prove that * wool is king,”
but he don’t say whether it is the wool on
Pittsburgh Female College.
We copy the following notice of this ex~
cellent institution from the Pittsburg Ga-
zette, of the 3d inst.
The Seventh Annual Catalogue of the
Pittsburg Female College has just been laid
upon our table by the President, Rey. I.-C.
Pershing. We confess that we have exam-
ined its contents with a degree of satisfac-
tion amounting almost to pride as we have
marked the fact that we have in our midst
one of the most vigorous, well managed and
successful institutions in the land, We
question much whether one in ten, even
of our own citizens, has any real conception
of the status the college has reached, or the
grand and glorious work itis to day ac-
complishing. The recent commencement,
at which nineteen young ladies received
their degrees, gave evidence not only of
woman's capabilities, but alse of the superi-
or facilities afforded by the college for their
development. The entire commencement
was a brilliant success and reflected the hgh
est honor on all concerned,
As an evidence of the prosperity of the
college we need but slate the fact that the
attendance of the past year reached the
large number of fwo hundred anc forty
eight, gathered from nine States. In order
to accomodate the constantly increasing
number of pupils, an addition has been made
to the Faculty, which now numbers fifteen.
Most of the old teachers still remain.—
Among the new ones are Miss Martha C.
Cole, a young lady of large experience, and
for some time a teacher in the celebrated
school at Mount Holyoke. Mass. ; and Miss
Fanny A. Fish, who has earned such an en
viable reputation in our community. The
utmost care is taken in the selection of teach
ers, and the present Faculty will compare
favorably with any in the country.
We are pleased to learn from President
Pershing that an effort is now making to
put up an addition to the building. The
design is to add 40 feet to the chapel, divide
the second story into a library and Reading
room, and also a Hall for the Browning As~
sociation, and devote the entire third story
to the purposes of an Art Gallery and Cab-
inet. The design is a noble one, and we
trust it will be carried out.
The next term will commence on Tues-
day, September 2nd. We need hardly urge
upon our readers to patronize the College.
If fine buildings, thorough equip ment, a
very large and able Faculty, and earnest de-
votion to the work of christian education,
€an give claims to patronage. then has the
college claims which are second to none.—
We advise our readers so send fora cata-
logue.
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No Wonder We will have to pay High
Taxes.
An exchange says :
Washington city is swarming with
emancipated slaves. They are a lazy, rag.
ged, homeless multitude. Their former
masters refuse to employ them, The poor
house and jail are crowded with them. —
There are hundreds of free negroes starving
avd unemployed, as well as poor whites. --
‘The Administration has rented from Duil
Green a block of fine brick dwellings, in
which from one hundred and fifty to two
hundred emancipated slaves are fed, lodged
and clothed at the expense of the Govern-
ment. Every Abolitionist in the Union
ought to have his property ‘confiscated’ for
their support. Verily, the wickedness of
the present Congress is without a parallel mn
all former times. They have copious tears
for their colored brethren, but none for the
deceived and betrayed white man, whose
wife and children this war has sent begging
their bread. No sympathy for the people
who have to pay taxes to support these ne
groes in idleness.”
While churches are taken at Washington
to be used as hospitals for our brave men
who have become sick and wounded in their
self sacrificing efforts to second the Govern-
ment :n crushing ont this unnatural rebels
lion, houses are rented in which to quarter
the contrabands and the people taxed for
their support. Would 1t not be well also to
take possession of some of the churches this
side of Mason and Dixon's line, where abo
lition, the twin sister of secession, is daily
preached, and devote them to the holy use
of hospital purposes? Tf this was done, it
would be doing God and man, and our
country much better service than to let
them be used for the unholy purpose to
which they are now applied.
Abolition should no more be tolerated in
its present covert efforts to break up the
greatest and best government the world eve,
saw, than secession.
3 SL —
Parson BROWNLOW AND THE REPUBLI
¢ANs.—The Alolition papers are publishing
some things that Parson Brownlow formeriy
said about Democrats. Here is a morsel
that he dropped soon after the Chicago Con-
vention that they do not publish :
“The Black Republicans at Chicago, af-
ter a stormy session, some fighting, and
muchabuse of each other, have, in the midst
of liquor and much hard swearing, nominat-
ed Abe Lincoln, the Illinois Abolitionist,
who was supported by Buchanan’s Admin
istration eighteen months ago, for the Sen-
ate, in opposition to Douglas. On the ticket
with this Administration pet is Senator
Hamlin, of Maine, an Aholitionist of the
Jobn *Brown-Helper School—1jman who, for
mind , reanners morals, features, mouth,
nose, dark skin, and woolly head, could . be
sold for a negro !”’
- The above was published by him in the
Knoxville Whig.
esse tn
“WHAT We ARE ComiNG 70.” —Under
this caption, the London (Madison county,
0.) Democrat of the 5th'inst., has an arti
cle from which we clip the following : :
f¢ Our own country is already beginning
to enjoy the first fruits of the * good time
coming.” We are informed that a few days
since a certain farmer, not many miles dis-
tant, had discharged all his white farm hands
and had employed eighteen of the negroes
sent hitherward by Col. Moody. at twelve
and a half cents per day! Laboring men
of Madison ! this is only a foretaste of the
blessings in store for you.”
Sure enough! What are the white labor-
ing classes of Pennsylvania coming to ?
etl Asset
“07” I'll take the responsibility.” as
Jenkins said when he held out his arms for
a sheep's back, or on a niggers pate.
the baby.
* The Constitutional Union,”
THE CONSTITUTION AND THE UNION, ONE AND
INSEPARABLE, NOW AND FOREVER,
wt
With a view to meet a universally admit-
ted want, the undersigned will issue, on Sat-
urday, June 21, 1862, in the city of Phila-
delphiu, a large double sheet, "Democratic
paper. It will be issued weekly, and each
number contain 48 columns of valuable read-
by Batter
he great mission of the Democratic par~
ty, which has ever stood as the bulwark of
the UN10N and the champion of the Cost.
TUTION, renders itg entire unity and bold at«
titude in this hour of National peril, a mat-
ter of vital concern. The pending struggle
is not less for the maintenance of a united
country, than for the perpetuation of Dem-
ocratic principles, as expounded by Jeffer-
son and Jackson. The most momentous re-
sults hang upon the issue. Mere party
questions are for the time by common con-~
sent abjured. Tug pasTIS DEAD, save in
its lessons of experience.
The Democratic hosts have not shrank
from their full share in the responsibilities
and dangers of the emergency. They have
rallied with one accord around the standard
of our common country. But the occasion
imposes other duties. ~The Government will
receive the willing support of every patriot
in its efforts to vindicate the National honor
and re-assert the National authority ; but
the PRESERVATION OF CONSTITUTIONAL Liss
ERTY rests more with the people than with
Congress and Cabinets. Vigilance and Un-
ity are therefore especially requisite in the
present juncture.
The true Union party of the present day
is unquestionably the "Democratic party.—
The life record of our glorious Union and
the sanctity of the Constitution fully atest
this declaration, as under its prudent sway
and judicious government the UNION was
made a blessing, and the CoNsTiTUTION a
happy bond of equality and national happi -
ness. To that party alone are conservative
citizens now louking for relief and a happy
return to the proud days of our grand Union.
‘The spirit is abroad mn’ the land to emulate
the noble deeds of our fathers and to firmly
fix in the hearts of the people an undying
love of thut CoNstirurioN which gave us a
UN1ox, the strict observance of which can
alone restore and save it.
It is the purpose of the proprietors tc make
«Tue ConsmruTioNaL UNroN,” in every re-
spect, a firstelass Journal. The Democraey
of the whole State feel the need of a bold
and vigorous paper ; and no effort will be
spared to render “Tue CoNsrirurioNar Uy-
TY" both popular and efficient as a news
paper, and as a fearless exponent sof the
great principles for which the Democratic
Party have ever contended and which are
now so unhappily imperilled, In this conv
nection we desire to state distinctly and un-
equivocally our entire freedom from all
cliques or factions, resolved to steer clear,
and with a steady helm and determined
hearts to serve no interest save that of our
God, our Country, and our Party.
In this enterprise wo look to the Dexo-
CRATIC MASSES for support, and shall labor
to make <Tue Constrrurionar. Union’ in
every way worthy of their confidence and
support. Confident of success, we are de.
termined to merit it, and at an early day is-
sue “Tur CoNsTITUTIONAL UNION" a8 a first
clsss daily paper.
TERMS : —Single copies. $2.00.
copies, 33,50. Five copies, $7 50. Ten cop-
ies 312,50. Twenty copies, 20,00.
= Al subscriptions to be paid in ad.
vance.
THOMAS B: FLORENCE & CO.,
No. 130, South Third St. Phila.
Two
The above prospectus clearly indicates
the purpose and aim of the journal we here.
with present to the public. 1t has no other
ohject than the preservation of Constitution-
al Liberty under a Constitutional Union :
and discarding all heresies, it will fearless-
ly follow and vigorously uphold the great
truths and undying principles which under-
lie and give vital force to our system of free
goverment, and which were never dearer
to the Democracy of the country than at the
present hour. The Union is mn peril ; and
with it all those institutions which have
given us National freedom, and a proud pre-
eminence among nations. These institu-
tions, our liberties, our greatness as a na-
tion, are the growth of Democratic Princi-
ple, and it was the high and sacred mission
of the Democratic Party, to make these uni.
versal. The Constitution and the Union, as
handed down by the patriots of the Revolu-
tion, have ever been to the true Democracy
“of the country, a sacred legacy, ‘onc and
inseparable ;” and as, when disunion was
first threatened, that great party, speaking
through the immortal Jackson, declared
that “rie UN1oN Must, AND SHALL BE Pri-
SERVED !”’ so to-day, the Democratic hosts
forbids the sacrilege that traitor hands are
threatening.
Disunion and Democracy are enemies. —
They have ever been. The past attests it,
The present attests it. They have ever been
in conflict. They are now in arms. The
issue cannot be doubtful. Six hundred
thousand gleaming bayonets reiterate the
Democratic watchword of thirty years ago.
“The Union must and shall be preserved ;’’
while millions of free men are giving their
best effe- ts to the guardianship of a common
Conytitation, as the only safe-guard of our
liserties. © The work iy a great one. [t is
higher and holier than any mere partizan
effort. It enlists every feeling of patriotism,
and many sacrifices. The old landmarks
must be restored ; but in this work the
Democratic party must take an active and
prominent part. It needs no new platform.
It can recognize no principles but those of
the Constitution. It is to advocate these,
and these only, that we purpose to devote
“Tue CoxsrirurioNaL UNIoN,” and we shall
give to the work whatever of fearlessness
and ability it has pleased God to allot us.
We shall give to the Government a cordial
and willing support in all its efforts to main :
tain the Constitution inviolate ; but we shall
claim the privilege of fearless criticism, and
of freely canvassing all public measures, in
any manner effecting the rights and interests
of the people. It is this, which is at the
present time dewanded, and we hope to
commend the **CoNstiTuTiONAL UNION’ to
the public, as much for its ability as an ex-
ponent of the true principles of Democratic
government, as for its fairness and impar-
tiality.
er ———
J7=The influx of ‘‘contrabands’ into
Chester County this State has been so great
that farmers are having their grain harves-
ted at © ten cents a day.” What think you
of that laboring white’ man ? These ‘are
Republican party.
the good times promised you by the Black |
Democratic State Convention.
This body met at Harrisburg on Tuesday,
the fourth inst., in accordance with the an-
nouncement previously made and published
in all the Democratic newspapers in the
State. The Convention was permanently
organized by the election of Hon. Francis
W. Hughes, as Chairman, with a number of
Vice Presidents and Secretaries, and was
ectirely harmonious throughout the whole
session. The result of its deliberations was
the nomination of Hon. Isaac S. Slenker, of
Union county, for Auditor General, and of
James P. Barr, of Allegheny county, for
Surveyor General. The names of these gen-
tlemen we place at our mast-head to-day,
and intend to give them a cordial and hearty
support. As the entire proceedings are too
lengthy for this week’s issue, we only give
the resolutions adopted by that body, leav-
ing the full account of its transactions for
our next paper.
Democrats, our candidates are now in the
field, under the broad banner of the Consti-
tution and the Union, Let us rally under
the good old Democratic flag once more, and
make a mighty effort for the triumph of our
principles over the vile cohorts of Abolition~
ism, who are now ruling this unhappy land
with a “high hand and an outstretched
arm.” The following are the resolutions :
RESOLUTIONS.
The committee on resolutions having con
cluded their labors. reported through their
Chairman, Hon. Arnold Plumer, of Venango,
the following series of resolutions, which
were read by one of the Secretaries, Col.
Jacob Zeigler = :
Waereas, The American Constitution
was ordained and established by our fathers,
in order to form a more perfect Union, es-
tablish justice, insure domestic tranquility,
provide for the common defense, promote
the general welfare and secure the blessings
of liberty to posterity, therefore
Resolved, That the only object of the De-
mocratic party 1s the restoration of this Un-
ion as it was, and the preservation of the
Constitution as it is. .
Resolved, That to the end that the Union
be restored and the Constitution and laws
enforced throughout its whole extent,. we
pledge our hearty and unqualified support
to the Federal Government in the energetic
prosecution of the existing war.
Resolved, That the trae and only object
of the war is, to restore the Union and ‘en-
force the laws ; such a purpose alone is
worthy the awful sacrifice which it costs us
of life and treasure : with sucha purpose
alone can we hope for success, and those
who from sectional teeling or party or pri
vate motives would give any other direction
to the efforts of our armies is unjust and un-
worthy to be entrusted with power, and
would cause all our exertions, extraordinary
and unparalleled as they are, to prove fu.
tile in the end.
Resolved, That we justly view with alarm
the reckless extravagance which pervades
some of the departments of the Federal Gov
ernment, and that a return to rigid economy
and accountability is indispensible to arrest
the systematic plunder of the public treas
ury by favored partizans ; and that, in view
of the recent startling developments of frauds
and corruptions at the Federal metropoli-
and throughout the country, we hold an en-
‘| tire change of administration to be impera-
tively demanded. |
Resolved, That the party fanaticism or
crime, whichever it may be called, that secks
to turn the slaves of the Southern States
loose to overrun the North and enter into
comp: tition with the white laboring masses,
thus degrading and insulting their manhood
by placing them on an equa ity with negroes
in their occupation, is insulting to our race,
and merits our most emphatic and unquali
fied condemnation.
Resolved, ‘That we denounce northern ab-
olitionism and southern secession as the cos
operation sources of our present calamities,
alike treasonable to the Constitution and in-
imical to the Union. The only way to a re-
stored Un'on and a respected ~ Constitution,
with returning peace and prosperity is thr'o
the overthrowing of both.
Resolved, That the Democracy of Penn-
sylvania is equally opposed to all sectional
legislation and geographical parties, which
base their hopes for continued partizan sic-
cess on the aggragrianism of emancipation
and hypocritical philanthropy —abolition :—
because neither 1s known to the Constitua-
tion, and both are intended to aid mn sub-
verting the Constitution and to prevent the
restoration of unity, peace and concord
among the States and the people.
Resolved, That the Constitution and laws
are sufficient for any emergency, and that
the suppression of the freedom of speech
and of the press, and the unlawful arrest of
citizens and the suspension of the writ of
habeas corpus, in violation of the Constitu-
tion, in States where the civil authorities
are impeded, is most dangerous to civil hib-
erty, and should be resisted at the ballot
box by every freeman in the land.
Resolved, That this 1s a government of
white men, and was established exclusively
for the white race, and that the negro race
are not entitled to, and ought not to be, ad-
mitted to political or social equality with the
white race, but that it is our duty to treat
them with kindness and consideration as an
inferior and dependent race ; that the right
of the several States to determine the posi
tion and duties of the race is a sovereign
right ; and the pledges of the Constitution
require us as loyal citizens not to interfere
therewith.
Resolved, Tht Congress has no power to
deprive any person of his property for any
criminal offerce unless that person has been
first duly convicted of the offence by the ver-
dict of a jury, and that all acts of ‘Congress
like those lately passed by the House of
Representatives, which assume to forfeit or
confiscate the estates of men for oftences for
which they have not been convisted by due
trial by jury are unconstitutional and lead
to oppression and tyranny. It is no justifi-
cation for such acts that the crimes commit-
ted in the prosecution of the rebellion are of
unexampled atrocity, and there is n> such
Justitication as State necessity known to our
government or laws.
Resolved, That the Constitution, the Un
ion and the Laws must be preserved and
maintained in all their proper and rightful
supremacy, and that the rebellion now in
arms against them must be suppressed and
put down ; and that it is our duty to aid in
all measures necessary and proper to that
end.
Resolved, That the soldiers composing our
armies merit the warmest thanks of the na-
tion. Their country called, and nobly did
they respond ; Ziving they shall know a na
tion’s gratitude, wounded a nation’s care,
and dying they shall live in our memories
and monuments shall be raised to teach pos
terity to honor the patriots and heroes who
Fd their lives at their country’s altar. —
heir widows and orphans shall be adopted
by the nation, to be watched over and cared
for as objects truly worthy a nation’s guar-
dianship.
The resolutions were unanimously adopt-
ed,
The convention then immediately proceed-
| ed to nominate candidates for Auditor Gens
eral and Surveyor General, to be voted for
at the next fall election.
The first and sixth ballots for & ‘nominee
of the party for the former office resulted'as
Jacob Zeigler, Butler,
Franklin Vanzant,
Isaac Sleaker, Union, 18 75
Tne nomination of Isaac Slenker of Union,
was declared unanimous. %
The balloting for a candidate for Surveyor
General, resulted in the selection of James
P- Barr, of Allegheny county, on the second
ballot, that gentleman having received 79
votes— a small majority over the whole num-
ber cast.
It was unanimously resolved that the
chairman of the body, Hon. F. W. Hughes,
be appointed chairman of the State Central
Committee, with power to appoint the mem-
bers thereof.
The convention then adjourned sine die.
An informal weeting of the body convened
at 34 o'clock in the hail of the House, when
several addresses were delivered ratifying
the nominations.
24 (withdrawn.)
20 3
The Tribune on the National Flag.
The New York Tribune is doing nothing
new in boldy proclaiming its disunionism,
and its desire to blot the word negro out of
our Constitution, so that the whole colored
race may be admitted to equality with the
whites. It has ever had an affection negro-
ward, and beenready to sacrifice the Union
toSambo. Even Phillips has scarcely exce-
ded Greely in the madness of his assaults
upon the Union, for whether in politics,
Philosophy, Fourierism or Poetry, a hated
Union and a hateful flag have ever been po-
tent in exciting the Tribune’s wrath. As
long ago as 1854, the Tribune brought the
Muse to its aid to insult the glorious ‘stars
and Stripes,’ by the following characteristic
song, and it was rumored at the time, that
Greely forwarded at the time, to the late
National Song Committee a copy of this
offensive 1yric, as evidence of his con!inued
spitefulness and hate. It is interesting now
only to show Greely’s sentiments in 1854,
and how consistent are his disunion profess
ions :—
Hail to the Stars and Stripes.
All hail the flaunting Lic !
The stars grow pale and dim.
The stripes are bloody scars —
A Lie the vaunting hymn.
It shields a pirate’s deck,
It binds a man in chains,
It yokes the captives neck,
And wipes the bloody stains.
Tear down the flaunting Lie! —
Half mast the starry flag!
Insult.no sunny sky
With hates polluted rae !
DESTROY 11 ye who can!
Deep sink at in the waves !
It bears a fellow man
To groan with fellow slaves.
Furl the boasted Lie !
Till Freedom lives again,
To rale once more m truth
Among untrammeled men
Roll up the starry sheen
Conceal its bloody stains,
For in its folds are seen
The stamp of rustling chains !
If further evidence of the rank disunion
purposes and desires of the Tribune were
wanting, it could be found in almost every
issue of that journal for the last five years.
In 1860 it held the following lauguage : —
[From the Tribune of November 9° 1860. |
if the Cotton states shall become satisfied
that they can do better out of the Union than
in it, we insist in letting them go in peace.
Th¥ right to secede may be a revolutionary
one but it exists nevertheless. * * # * *
We mast ever resist the rights of any
State to remain in the Union, and nullify or
defy the laws thereof. To withdraw fiom
the Union is quite another matter. and
whenever a considerable section of our
Union, shall deliberately resolve t go out,
we shall resist; all coercive measures de-
signed to keep it in. We hope never to
live in a Republic whereof one section is pin-
ved to another by _bayonts.
[From the Tribune of November 26. 1860. }
If the Cotton States unitedly and earnest-
ly wish to withdraw peacefully from the
Union, we think they should and would be
allowed to do so. Any attempt to compel
them by force to remain would be contrary
to the principles enunciated in the immortal
Declaration of Independence, contrary to
the fundamental ideas on which human lib
erty is based,
{From the Tribune of December 17, 1860.)
pire of three millions of colonists in 1776, we
do not see why it would not justify the
secession of five millions of Southerners
from the Union in 1861,
@ [From the Tribune of February 23 1861.}
We have repeatedly said, and we once
more insist that the great principle embodi-
ed by Jefferson in the Declaration of Amer
ican Independence, that G8vernments derive
their just power from the consent of the
governed, is sound and just; and that if
the Slave States, the Cotton States, or the
Gulf States only, choose to form an indepe..
dent nation, they have a clear moral right
to do so. * * * Xx Whenever it shall be
clear that thé great body of the Southern
people have become conclusively alienated
from the Union, and anxious to escape
from it, we will do our best to forward their
views.
~~ —
Sap INCIDENTS. —Says the Easton Eu-
press :—Two sisters who had barely escaped
the flood with their lives, at Penn Haven,
one having been pulled out of the water by
the hair, came to Mauoh Chunk yesterday
afternoon on their way home. The father
had just arrived in town to see if his daugh-
ters were safe, and finding that they were,
he started for home. A short time after he
was gore, the daughters got into a boat to
cross the river, and while they were sitting
in the boat a young man jumped in to cross
with them, ‘when the boat upset. and both
of the girls were drowned. Their bodies
were recovered in a few hours after and by
the time the father had reached home he re-
ceived the news of the death of his daugh-
ters.
A woman was found drowned a short
distance from Mauch Chunk, she had a child
in her arms, also dead. The child was re~
ceiving nourishment from its parent when
overtaken by the water, as its position on
the mother’s breast when found proved.—
The complete history of the recent disas-
trous freshet will never be written. Many
a heart has been wrung by it, and many
homes rendered des olate by its ravages.
——— AP en.
177 The Federals are a very pushing peo-
ple—cpecially with the bayonet, — Prentice,
follows :
1st ballot. 6th ballot. |
Rich. L. Wright, Phila, 39 39
Wm. P. Schell, Bedford, 24% - 17
{From the Luserne Vaion] :
A Few Plain Questions.
Mr. Haxxuy :—I perceive that a sheet
called Record of the T:mes is fond of ques.
tions nowea days. I propose to propound a
few for the consideration of the controlers of
that paper, and less the answers may puz-.
zle Wm. Penn, I append them also :
Who denounced Democrats as Union ga-
vers becsuse they advocated the rights ofl:
the States under the Constitution ?
Republicans.
‘Who preferred a dissolution of the Union
rather than a continuance of slavery ? Who
passed and sustained personal liberty bills
which contravened the Constitution 7
Republicans.
Who openly nullified the acts of Congress
and councilled armed resistance to the en-
forcement of them ?
Republicans.
Who nullified the decision of the Supreme
Court of the United Statzs and appealed to
the higher law ?
Republicans.
Who would allow the negro an equal voice
in the government with the white man ?
Republicans.
Who * loath and detest all laws which
give or withhold political rights on account
of color 2”
Republicans,
ho ate “ proud to livein a commons
wealth where every man black or white, of
every clime and race is recognized as a man
standing upon the terms of perfect and ab.
solute equality ?
Republicans.
Who destroyed Democratic presses with
in one year ? .
Republicans
Who threatened the destruction of the
Luzern Union, but were prevented only by
fear of a terrible retribution ?
Republicans.
Who threatened to hang men because
they would not renounce their political prin-
ciples ?
Republicans.
Who suspendsa the writ of abeas corpus
in defiance of the Constitution and law ?
Republicans.
Who robbed and plundered the govern-
ment in a single year of a larger amount, to
use Mr. Dawes’ language, a Republican
Massachusetts member of Congress, than
the previous admmistration had required to
conduct the whole for four years ?
Republicans.
Who incarcerated hundreds of men in the
Bastiles for months in defiince of law ?
Republicans.
Who six years ago advocated a dissolution
of the Union.
Republicans.
To determine whether the white or black
race is superior, who ‘¢ proposed lo wait
until time shall develop, whether the white
race shall absorb the black, or the black ab-
sorb the white 2"
Republicans.
Who advocated the irrepressible conflict ¢
Republicans.
Who four years siice inscribed on their
banners * the States must be made all free.
and under it will march on to victor y. alter
vierory, conquering and to conquer 2
Republicans.
Who carried to the election in the bor
ough of Wilkesbarre, a few years azo, a man
of the Union, with sixteen” States blotted
over with black ink. and jecred and sneered
at one half of the Union ?
Tories, who now call themselves Repub-
licans.
Who are m fivor of an anti slavery cone
stitution, an any siavery bitte and an anti-
slavery God 2
Abolitionists. and syme Republicans.
Who declared the constitution to be © a
covenant with death and an agreement with
hell 2”
The supporters of Abe Lincoln.
Who justified the John Brown raids and
proclaimed him as a hero true to his con.
science and true to his God 27
Republicans.
Who, to achieve the freedom of the slave
¢* would not hesitate to fill up and bridge
over the chasm that yawns between the
hell of slavery and the ‘heaven of freedom.
with the carcasses of the slain 2”
Republicans.
Who denounced slaveholders a8 more
criminal then common murderers ¢
Republicans. (See Helper.)
Who, six years ago, denounced our ** goy-
ernment worse than that of old King Gieorge?*
Republicans. Frogs.
————— etm
If it, (the Declaration of Independence)
| justified the secession from the British Em-
Important Military Movement,
The Army of Virginia— Fremont, - Bank's
and McDowell’s Armies Consolidated —
General Pope in Chief Command— The
Reinforcement of General McClellan.
WasniNeToN June 26.
The forces under Major Generals Fremont
Banks, and McDowell, have been consolida-
ted into one army, to be called the Army of
Virginia, and Major General Pope has been
specially assigned by the President to the
chief command.
The force under Gen. Fremont will con-
stitute the first army corps, to be comman-
ded by General Fremont,
"The forces under General Banks will con-
stitute the second army corps, to be comn
manded by that officer.
"The forces under Gen. McDowell will eon-
stitute the third army corps, to be comman-
ded by Gen. McDowell, .
General McCall's division, 10,000 strong,
which formed a part of Gen. McDowell's
corps, has reached Gen. McClellan by water
and another division is to follow immediate.
ly in the same way, while General Pope
will also operate against the enemy at Rich~
mon’,
Besides McCall's division, (Gen. McClellan
has received other 1ecinforcements, to the
amount of several thousands, since the bats
tle of Fair Oaks.
WasnINGN, June 26,
The consolidation of the fo ces under Ma-
jor Generals Fremont, Banks and McDowell
to be called the ¢- Army of Virginia ” with
Maj. Gen. Pope as the chief commander, is
hailed with delight as an earnest of the de.
termination of the President to act with ref-
erence only to the public welfare, while it
is not doubted that all of these officers will
cheerfully co-operate in the performance of
their patriotic duty.
Resignation of Gen. Fremont.
Maj. Gen. Jobn C. Fremont having re-
uested to be relieved from the command of
the first army corps of the Army of Virginia
because, as he says, the position assigred.,
him by the appointment of Maj. Gen, I. &
as Commander-in-Chief of the rmy of Vira
ginia is subordinate and inferior to those
heretofore held by him, and to remain in
the subordinate command now assigned him,
would, as he says, largely reduce his rank
and consideration in the service, it is order-
ed by the President that Maj. Gen. John (.
Fremont be relieved from his command ;
second, that Brigadier General Rufus King
be, and is hereby assigned to the command
of the first army corps of the Army of Virs
ginia in place of Gen. Fremont, rolicved hy
order of the President. ”
(Signed) Eowiy M. Srantoy,
Secretary of War.
IZ Weather pleasant and crops finely
growing.