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" BELLEFONTE, PA.
Editor.
Friday Morning, Cet. 31, 1862. |
Democrats Be Armed.
Democrats of Centre county—of Pennsyl-
vania—von have donc nobly. Bravely have
yeu batiled with the enemy —boldly have
you withstgod the onset of a vindictive and
determined foe, and "gloriously have you |
rupported your rights at the ballot box —
The pure hearted old Democracy of W asia
ington and JEFFERSON, are again conquerors
of the ficld—-bloodless as yet, it is true, but
nut the less a victory for that—not (he less |
sublime and impressive--not the less solid
and cffuctive. Like giant hickories in the
grand old forest, you stood, proudly defying
the storm ef fanaticism and folly that swept
howling by, scattering
totten limbs and putrid trunks |
in massy heaps about you.
Misfortunes did not discourage, nor threats
disheaiten, epithets intimidate, nor dismal
cells in damp, daik Bastiles frighten you. — |
No ; the will to po and DARE was a8 deter
winced as that of the Patriot Fathers who |
satan council EIGHTY SIX YEARS AGO. affixing |
their names to the immortal! Declaration of |
Independence, staking their “lives, their
fortunes and their sacred Lonors,’ to give
the worid & new people, ard to that people |
the liberty God designed they should enjoy.
: Althoogh you then fulfilled your duty to |
Your God, yourselves, your country, and
your party, setting an example of manliness
and courage for coming generations (0 proli.
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uatirmg enerey
—although your commensurate zeal a
oi the coming future aid shed a ray of | pe
that gladdens the hearts of * the true and |
brave all over our couniry, ycur work is not
et done, Bullets and bayonets may have);
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to asgeit ihe priaciples you have preferred
at the Lallos box, Bleed may have to flow |
to vindicate the rights guaranteed to us by
the Constitution of our country and the |
darkpess suny yet be wore dismal, that
light, pure and vusuilicd, may shine forth,
This may cven be so, and we would ad- |
vise, ask and entreat of you, followers of |
Washington, Jefferson and Jackson —worthy
sons of illustrious sires, whose blood yey
colors the red {i«1ds of the Revolution, to be
ready prepared for ANY BMERGENCY. The
same unscripwious, unworthy and wicked |
foe that met you at the polls, is now, by |
trickery and corruption, both unconstitus
tional and unjust, attempting to deprive your i
legally constituted representatives, both |
Stete and National, from gecupying the po-
inch you have righifully assign.
ed then.
One 3 cur ago, the Supreme Court of Penn
sylvania decided that the votes of the army
\ By that very decis..
3 are holding lucrative offi
We, a3 Democrats, sub
were unconstitutional.
n
“ion, Abolition
@ Age
LCe8 in this Ste
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mitted quietly, and seen the places the peo
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ple gave good men filled with army thieves
and treasury plandercrs— yet the law had de- |
cided and we must submit. Now the people
have spoken again, spoken in terms that
cannot be misunderstood, that Avolitionism
SHALL GO DOWN ;
nous trailors and perjured villains, to main-
tain political supremacy, would force into
the efficialaclurns a bastard army vote, ob
tained only from the regiments known to be
tinctured with abolitionism. ad there
«been a fair, honest, open vote of every Penne
“sylvania Regimert in the service, we should |
say nothing biit to permit a proscription of |
the Democratic voters, and allow red mouth-
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but they, the infe-
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ed Aholiliomsm thus to tiinmph over the |
honest verdict of an enlightened people, is
more than we hope will be tamely submit~
ted to. f
Although they have treated our constitu-
tions as ropes of fand, and Supreme Court |
decisiuns 2s mede gossamer threads, and we |
Lave Loked quictly on, preferring %bridged i
liber y and violated nights to revolution at |
Lome, Yetare we willing that this last |
aitewpied outrage shall be inflicted upon us |
without a show of resistance 2 No, never * |
is the sentiments of every Democratic |
voter of the “Old Keystone.” The man who
attempts to help a seat, either in the State |
Legislature at Uarisburg, or the National
Legislature at Washington, on the Abolition |
vote of the army, should be hurled from (he |
place, not by force of opinion, but of Anus! |
Lut but one dare to occupy an office ob. |
tained in this manner, and he will learn and
paobably profit by the knowledge, that the
Reign of Terror is over, and that nether the |
guillutine nor bayonet can frighten the peo-
ple into quict submission to such outrageous |
wrongs. :
Again we ask Democra'c to vo
for the event— prepared 10 meet and resist |
great and mighty nation, whose territories
| Certainly not where we 81007 before,
| the prestage of our once gre
| bling criminal,
| persistently pursued object is self destrucs |
has lightened the darkness
i debt. Oar plains are being drenched with
| wan for hundreds of years destroyed. A
[is it not more like the usurped power of
| Faas 4
| William the Conqueror, of Normandy, in
{fore eof arms, succeeding as during the
v : an
red | campaign of 1802.
: Our Country.
| A glance at the-past and present condi
| tions of cur Country, truly, is saddening in.
ts effects upea the mind of every reasonable
A few brief months avo we were a
extended from the Atlantic to the Paciicr|
and from the Northern Lakes to the Gulf of
Mexico. The effects of our Power was felt
in every po.tion of the Globe. The Stars
| and Stripes, under whose wave, mo man
['dared to oppress and tytanize over Ameria
| ean citizens, was wafted by every breeze, —
| The moral and political influence of our in-
stitutions was felt in every nation with
| which we hd any intercourse ; and the
| crowned heads of Europe, some of these less
| tyrannical than the present Chief Megistrate
| of the dis-uniied States, by that we ry mfla
ence were made to tremble upon their
thrones, lest their people would become ac
! quainted with the true principles of Govern-
| ment, and throw off the yeke of an unholy
| and unauthorized power.
Our commerce was more extensive than
that of any nation which has ever had being
and our internal (rade was immense. Our
Country was the asylum of the oppressed of
every land, and the beneficient effects of our
| glorious Government, as it had been con
ducted, were plaialy evidenced by our un
precedented prosperity, In eighty years
we grew ftom thirteen Colonies, poor in
money and sparce in population, to thirty
8, nich and powerful where the
Colonies were poor and dependant, hav
ing (he advantages and blessings of a Con.
i and Government made by the
founders of the Republic and most assured-
ly just in ther operations upon every citi- |
zen. |
But what is the condition of American af~
fairs now prese Where
do we stand ia the eyes of the world, as a
free, independent and civilized people 2— |
No! |
it, happy and
prosperous nation has departed, om glory
has fled. and we are now before the interna-
tional Bai of Judgment, standing, as a trem
whose prede ermived and
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tion, Instead of being a great snd happy |
living in peace, harmony and unity, |
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we are broken, distracted, contending frag- |
its, each one striving to take the other's |
life.
War in its worst fora is upon as. with all
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endant calamities of destruction, death,
the blood of woble men, and the industry of
rational debt crushing in its effects upon the
Lonaet laboring men of the Conntry, has
been fastened upon us, and is being increas-
ed enormously cvery day. Forts buiit for
the defence of the United States, have been
changed into Bastiles, where 18NGeceNtT men
are imprisoned without cver having been
arrested upon warrant—without ever having
been ‘ried upon the presentment of any Jus
ry—wiihout ever having been convicted of
any crime, and withou. ever knowing the
cause or reason for their punishment.
Unfortunately for the people of Auwerica,
12 Revolution has commenced with the erce
: * nolitical prisons, whilst in France
a country nearly al: ¢ under deg notic rule
began by tearing them down. )
But this is not all—a system of internal
“~*ional police, something similar to that
wade use of in Russia, has been created by
the Administration. Piovost Marshals, as |
they are officially called, but who are noth- |
ing more nor less than spiss upon their |
neighbor's actions and words, are as numer. |
ous as flies in Summer. Ifa man express
himself as opposed to the policy of the Ad- |
ministration, hes at once pronounced ‘trai-
tors,” and if of ¢ nsideralle influence in his
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community, is at once dragged to the gloomy
cells of some damnable Abolition prison,
and left there without knowing the cause of
his imprisonment, or when, if ever, he will
be released.
Look upsn this state of things, Freemen,
and answer in your hearts, whether the rule
of the Administration now in power is the
same as that intended by the founders of
the Geverntent 2 Is it in accordance with
the Constitution or Constitutional laws, or
ngland, or Cortez of Spain, in Mexico ?
ere
{7 The news from the army about Wash-
ington is unimportant this week. We hear
of no battles— no forward movements of the
cgrand army”—-no disastrous defeats nor
utter annihilation happening to the enemy ——
nothing but the sterrcotyped sentence, Call
quiet on the Potomac.
to be resting —the Federal, we su ppose, on
account of inability to proceed farther south
se able to hold its
It is more than likely that the
contending forces wall go into winter quar-
ters on the ground they now decupy ; the
“Union army’ crecting its tents and sheds
a few miles farther North than las: winter.
Thus it goes on ; anciher year of bloody,
expensive, desolating war—and what is
gained ¢ Let those who can, calculate what
it will cost the North, with all its boasted |
wealth and power, to restore the Union by |
Both ariics seem
—the Contederaie, bec:
position.
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In Kentucky, Morgan, tac bold and dar- |
the attempt to the bitter bloody end. This | ing Guerilla chieftain, is still doing consid
13 10 time for mineing matters
10 use soft terms or purer,
tis no time | erable damage to the property of the ¢ Une
ve words, We | ionists.” The capture of Federal bag zage
TT A SR a
The Diaft in Maryland.
£00 nl r—
However contrary may have been the pre-
vious impressions of ‘many, there can no
longer be a doubt that the Government will
enforce the draft in Maryland. [udeed the
work has alicady commenced, and mm Bal
timore city and in several of the counties it
has been completed. Among the names
drafted m the count es, we notice those of
severgl prominent and influential citizens,
many of whom are of krown, State Rights’
principles and strong Southern proclivities,
The object of the Government in introducing
this element of discord and disaffection into
the army of subjugation, is, to us, inexpli-
cable. It may be simply the promptings of
ma’ignity at work, or, perhaps, ‘wilitary ne-
cessity” demands such a measure. Under
cither view of the case, the Government has
committed a gross wrong upon the people of
Maryland. They had no voice in the inaug-
uration of this war, and such of them as are
Lostile to its policy, should have free exs
emption “from participation in it. ' hey
stand before the world neither as secession-
ists nor coercionists, and this position is
well defined upon the record. They have
favored, from the beginning, a pacific ad-
Jjnstment of the ational trouvles, and all
they desire to day is, that the sword may be
sheathed and harmony and fraternity re-
stored to the country. If Mr. Lincoln and
the North prefer war, bloodshed and des-
olation, shall they demand that we, of Ma-
ryland, shall become criminal participants
in their folly ?
or humanity are we called upon to bear arms
against a race, kindred to us in interest and
institutions, against a people bound to us by
past ties and associations, who have done us
no wrong, and who oft-r us now an ouly
asylam from the oppressions visited upon
us ¥
Now, we ask, can the Government c xpect
to employ us profitably mn the position it
proposes to assign to us 2 It is true, the
conscript forces of Napoleon once controlled
the destinies of Europe, and, we may add,
the consciip s of the South have given am-
pie evidence of cflicicney ; but, it must be
remembered, that the former only made war
upon an alien enciny, and that the latter are
battling against a ruthless invader. In an
internecine strifs there is no place for the
conscript. An appeal to the passions is the
only means by which brother can be arrayed
against brother, and the son against the fa
ther. But reason, like justice, is a stranger
to Mr. Lincoln. He has “put his foot
down,” and his decree is final. We are to
aid in the extermination of our kindred, or
become fugitives from the home of our na
tivity. And, even this choice of evils is not
left to us. We must steal away, like a
thicf in the night, or the strong arm of the
hireling will be iaid upon us. And this is
free institutions and Republican rule 2 This
is the fate of a people who have scoffed
ar Princes and derided Kings? Let the
classic mounds of St. Mary's be shorn of
their verdure ! Let the trunk of the Old
Mulberry be riven! Let the bricks of the
Old State House crumble to dezay, and be
heard no move forever ! !'! Let not these
emblems of the past haunt posterity in. af.
ter years. Rather let the past be entombed
with the ashes of our ancestors, and let us
| confess, that we are no longer the freemen
of America, Lut the slaves, the menials or
serfs of an autocrs.—St. Mary's Beacon,
| Maryland.
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Just 4s Wg Exe 0.—The correspon:
dence of the Philadelphia Press, from Wash.
ington probably Forney himself, in the js-
sue of the 25th ult, says :
Letter From Senator Sumner.—-A letter
was received here to day from Charles Sum
ner, in which stress is laid on the point that
it will be necessary now to afiord some sort
of employment to the + cgroes, as they be
gin to tlook into our lines.”
Here is the Abolition programme reyeal-
ed. I'rec the negroes and then pension them
on the government! [rishmen, Germans,
Americans, poor laboring men ! how do you
like it 2 “lhe negroeg begin to Hoek into
our lines.” Yes, and it won't be twelve
months at this rate before the whole North
will be overrun with them ; and not such
negroes as those who have been brought up
in the North, but those who know nothing
about taking care of themselves — negroes
from the plantations, ignorant, degraded
and thriftless, lis with such that North-
crn labor hss got to compete - such to be
supported in our peor houses and jails, — Zz-
change. . :
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The Renegades Rewnred,
The renegade John Rowe, late Speaker of
the Heuse, has been elected to stay al home.
The same 1s true of Ross, *Chatham and
Bushy, all of whom acted with the Aboli
tionists last winter, although clected as
“Union Democrats.”
The Patriot & Union, speaking of the de~
feat of these renegades, says: “The lesson
will not be fruitless. With the stamp of
apostacy upon their foreheads, we shall see
these traitors, henceforward, sink lower and
lower in the estimation of honorable men of
all parties.” And again: «© They will
share the fate of their late leader, Forn ey,
and become, it not wanderers, at last po-
litical vagabords upon the face of the earth,
shunned and abhorred by all who have not
fallen as low as themselves.
ti Leas
Singular Coincidence.
Grow, the Abolition Speaker of the pres-
a eA " oa SE
Under what law of justice |
have done that long caough. Stand up then, | trains and the destruction ot rail roads m
Demecrats, for your rights, and let the vio- | the employ of the U. 8. Government, seems
1ators of the law in oc ovn old State know | to be his particalar * fort,”
that there will be war, WAR IN EARN--| Gen. Bragg has left Kentucky and is sap
EST, if they attempt to carry out any such | posed to be marching upon Nashville, Ten
tricks. ? { nessee, which le will in all probability com-
Any Democrat who is willing to permit | pel to surrender, unless reinforcements are
the Abolitionists thus to override him, de- | dispatched immediately to Gen. Negley, who
serves uot the name of American, and should | is in command at that post.
be potuted out with the fioger of scorn, as | Geu. Buell we learn, Las een removed,
an pbject of white livered cowardice, and | and his command given to Gen. Roseeranz.
cringing sycophancy. The reason of the change is not stated.
crt Serer tmnt] ADT Gta se wen
ent Congress, is defeated by an overwhelm.
ing majority.
Hall, the abolition Speaker of the State
Senate at the last session, is handsomely
beaten by that sturdy Democrat, W. A.
Wallace, of Clearfield,
Rowe, (the renegade) Speaker of the last
House of Representatives of this State, is
beaten in a strong Republican district.
ete —
I7Gold is now selling in New York City
| at 33 to 40 on the dollar. This extriordinary
TF . Democratie State ticket is electen Ly | - 0IZ7Fhe Philadelpnia Inquirer's Peace | PCF C80%, is caused by the vast amonnt of
from 2.000 .0 3,000 majority, we give the
ollizial returns elsewhere. [he net made their appearance.
Comuiszicners—like Greeley’s 900,000 men | PAPE money in circuiation. This
is" the
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‘ change.
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| Prepared — ~ oe Wate man.]
0 Man, Who. Art Thou?
Hh se
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ACE AND WAR
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REFLECTIONS ON
BY JUSTICE.
the most prolific causes of misery and
ploring the consequences of that warlike spi -
rit, which is now at work in our land, 1ap-
idly spreading the evils of intemperance,
immortality, fraud debauchery, corruption
and crime, does it not behoove the followers
cate the cause of his master without fear,
whatever, what profit is that world to mun
when confusion is rife througout the land;
therefore stop ¢ @ Man” study who thou
art, remember thou art but man, does it not
become a duty of every church professor to
calmly pause and prayerfully examine him:
self tura to his Bible and carefully read the
great law of laws, after so doing what must
be the conclusion. Why to bear his testi
mony against every practice and opinion,
which tends either directly or remotely to
to encourage war, if any of the viewsadvan-
ced should come in conflict with the existing |
prejudices and delusions which prevail on |
the subject of war, it is hoped they will be |
liberally examined, rather than hastily jcon.
demned. |
‘Opinions founded in error, will sooner or
Tater be overthrown, The trath has nothing |
te fear from opposition.
Wher: we cousider the calamities which |
war inflicts upon mankind, the millions of |
human beings that it has sacrificed to the |
passions of ambition and revenge, the scenes |
of desolation and horror it has produced, and |
the crimes and immortalities that follow on
its train, we are induced to conclude that it
had its origion in depraved lasts and pass.
ions, and that nothing but gross moral de
lusion, could ever have made it popular am
ong rational beings. A custom which mil
itates much against the peace and happiness
of our race, by extending the reins of ma-
lignant passions, extirpating the feclings of
cumpassion and mercy, and rendering the
heart of man callous to the feelings of Eu
mauity, cannot be viewed with indifference,
by any one who desires the improvement of
human nature, the progress of peace and the
feelings of genuine christianity, Ithas been
estimated that the lives of between fourteen
and fifteen thousand millions of human be-
ings hive been sucrificed in war. This is
beiween eighteen and nineteen times the
number of inhabitants at’present on the globe
and is equivelant to the destruction of the
inhabitants of about asimany worlds of the
same population as ours. If this estimate,
(which is gathered from history)be correct,
it follows that the average annual number
who have perished by the ravages of war
for the past six-thousand years, exceeds
TWO MILLION TIREE HUNDRED
THOUSAND: Ifa famine or pestilence
were to visit our planet, and destroy the
lives of ail its inhabitants once in every 333
years, it would not be a greater calamity
than the human race are actually inflicting
on themgelves by the horrible system of
war. What an awful picture is here pre~
sented of human folly and depravity | What
a tremendous system of miquity must that
be, which has sacrificed the lives of so ma-
ny millions of rational and intelligent be
ings andby which they bave been massa”
cred, mangled butchered and slain in a
manner too horrible.and shocking for ha-
manity to contemplate, When _we consider
the improvements in science, the refine-
ments of civilization, the schemes of benevo-
lence, and the effort to promote the religion
of Jesus Curis, of which the present age
boasts. it is truly lamentable to refiect, that
this work of destruction and misery is still
tolerated, the art of war is still learned,
hat pica after plea is still urged in its favor
the passions which lead to war are still ex-
cited in the human breast, that was design~
ed to be the abode of humanity, justice mer-
¢y and love, If the practice was confined
to those nations and families of the earth,
who, sunk into the lowest scale of ignorance
superstirion and darkness, continue in the
barbarous practice of offering human sacri-
fices to their idols,—there might be reason
able grounds to hope, that as the light of
civilization and christianity advanced and
shed a benign influence over their bemghted
condition, these clouds of moral darkness
would soon be dispelled, and all the nations
of the arth join in maintaining universal
peace. But when we reflect hat christian
nations and christian profess s of the sub.
line gospel of peace, tolerate the custom of
war, and employ the advantages which civ.
ilization furnishes in the application of sei-
ence to this art of destruction, the conglusion
to which we wust come iss humilitating
88 it is irresistible, that the largest portion of
the professors of christianity, stead of ad-
vancing are retarding the period when the
“ Sword shall be beaten nto a plough share
and the spear into a pruning hook, when na-
tion shall no longer take up sword against
wretchedness to the human family, and de.
of the meek and lowly Nazerine to advo-
or intimiCation from all and cvery source |
a A Th »
| To offer human sacrifices to false noti
| of National honor, or to the ambition or av
aries of rulers, is no better than fo offer
| them to Moloch, or any other heathen deity,
‘and as soon as the eyes of the penple ean be
opened to see that war is the effect of. delu~
Believing the custom of war to be at ari. | sion, it will then become as unpopular as
ance withthe christian religion, and one of any other heathenish mode of offering human
sacrifices. For where envying and strife is
there is confusion and every evil work,—
| But the wisdom that is from above is first
{ pure, then peaceable gentle and easy to be
| entreated, full of mercy and good fruits.
| without partiality and without hypocrisy. —
| And the fruit of righteousness is sown in
| peace of them that make peace —J ayes, 16th
| 17th and 18th verses ; 34. Chapter.
We are shocked when a single murder 15
| committed, we pursue the murderer through
(all bis hiding places, and by the laws of the
| land he is made to expiate his guity deed
| at the dearest of all prices—the sacrifice « of
his own life. If the midnight robber enters
| a dwelling and destroys the lives of its inno-
, cent and unsuspecting inmates, itis consid-
| ered one of the highest crimes that can be
| committed against God or man. But when
! thounands or tens of thousands of human be-
| ings are to be indiscriminately butchered by
| war, what becomes of all this scemring sen
sibility to the destruction of human life,—
When a company of men trained to the
work of destruction, enter a city put men,
women and children to the sword, set fire to
their dwellings, and consume their half dead
bodies in the smoking ruins, is not this mur-
der and robbery in their most terrific forms ?
The guilt of it cannot be removed by a de~
claration of war, which is falsely considered
a kind of indulgence to commit these crimes
| with impunity. Men make wrong distinctions
between the deeds of the midnight assassin
and the slaughter on the blood stained field,
where brother lay mangled with brother, but
but in the sight of the just Judge of all the
earth how can there be a difference. The
halo of glory which human pride and ambi-
tion may throw around the horrible cruclties
of war,—the delusive opinion that when war
Is declared, individual responsibility and
crime cease, and the absurd notion that
robbery and murder and violence
may then be committed in an enemy’s ter -
xitory without restraint,—may serve as a
cloak to cover the demormity of human de
pravity, but it can never change the immu
table laws of Eternal rectitude : for God i8
not mocked, sach as men sow, such shal
they reap.” War is a system of * legalized
brutality, robbery and murder, and if robs
bery and murder are deeds that are offensive
in the Divine sight when committed on a
small scale as in the case of of a single mur-
der, how much more offensive must they be
when tens of thousands become their view
tims 2 Do we suppose the will of God to be
Su capricious, that whathe justly abhers and
forbids may be changed by human decrees
and declarations so as to meet bis approval.
Are his justice and metey so pliable that
they may be made subservient to the vile
purposes of military . glory or lend , their
sanction to the atryicities or war. God is
not mocked, such as ye sow, such shull ye
reap.
Remember oh man who thou art, did cv.
ery saan rightly concider the force of this
expression, and carefolly remember that |
for all lis actions God hotds him personally
responsible, he would see then, that perfect
Justice is is not deluded by the’sopeistry of
men or the brilliant appendages of war.,—
he would discoyer no justffication for his
conduct. because the great mass of mankind
are engaged mn it, or because the popular
doctrine teaches him that war is justifiable ;
as far as it relates to himself hie would dis~
cover that all the honors and exploits of the
battle field—all the victories obtained in
war would be a miserable substitute for
the joys of that eternity on the ocean of
which his immortal spirit must soon be cm
barked.
He who rationally hopes to enjoy the so-
cicty of Heaven in the next world, must ab,
stain from the commission of acts repug.
nant to the justice and goodness of God in
this life. or it will be an awful and irre-
trievable delusion, if at the da= of final de-
cision, our hope shall be found to he the
“the hope of the hypocrite,” which it is de-
clared “shall perish,” i
Love worketh no ill to his neighbor, there
fore love is the tulfilling of the law.—Row,
¥ verse : xii Chapter.
(TO BR CONTINUED.)
Errecrs or Paper DEPRECIATION. —A
Telegraphic Despatch from Washington,
says :
The depreciation of paper 18 inconvenient-
lv felt by the government in its transue-
tions, meluding the difference 1m exchange,
to pay the navy and civil agents distant
from where United S ates notes can be made
available,
From a similar cause many contractors
will be involved in heavy losses, if not bank-
rupicy, owing to the largely increased prices
of the agficles which they have obligated
themselves to furnish. Already it is said
they will apply to Congress for relief.
It is the fault of the government that it
suffers. it has blundered as weil in the
management of the finances as mn the direc
tion of the war—in short, the Adminis'ra~
tion has beer: a magnificent blunder from
nation, neither shall men learn war any
more.” We see among the various profess-
ors of religion, a great display of zeal for |
tLe conversion of the heathen—their human
sacrifices are held uy to view in the strongest
ianguage that imagination can pictara, in or-
der to arouse in our bosoms the most « thril-
ling sensations of abhorrence at the perpe-
tration of such inhuman deeds.
| peals are made to the
sympathies of the
community to aid in the benevolent prospect !
of publishing the precents of the gospel |
among them, in order to dispel the clouds |
of superstition, idolatry and mental darkness |
|
Strong ap- |
with which they are enveloped, Bat why is |
|
it there is not the same or a greater zeal
and effort made to eradicate from among pro-
‘fessing christians themselves, an evil as |
much to be deplored as any heathen custom |
with which we are acquainted : Bo we sce
the mote in our brother's eye, and yet en-
deavor not to cust out the beam whick is in |
our own eyej: if 80, we are guilty of hypoc- | open the door of his bastiles.
risy,—Maz. vir: 5th.
beginning to end. As to the contractors,
most of them are old public plunderers, and
nobody pities them ; if they should all
break, it would be just retriution. They
took their chances with the rest of the peo-
| ple dealing in government shinplasters, and
Congress has no more business to relieve
them than they would have te pass a general
relief law.
rt. 8
Cur Acknowledgements.
The Democracy of this County and State
return their sincere thanks to those: gencr-
| Ous conservative men of other parties who so
| nobly assisted them in achieving the great-
est political triumph on record. They more
than filled the places of the treacherous ren-
ezades who basely deserted the Democratic
party in the hour of its severest trial, and:
will be held in gratefal remembrance in all
time to come.
027 We would suggest to Me. Lineoln to
The people
1 have given him a hint to that cficot.
OT,
I NES IR pms cS SIO
= The Next Legislature.
Hn The Senate.
These marked thus* are the nei
members. ciffe
Ist district—Philadelphia = Jeremiah Nic
chols, Abolition, Jacob B. Ridgway,* A..
YANIA ELECTION- OFFI
x oA ELECTION OFFI
owing is the official vote on the
1the conntiog received at
ment up to this time :
House of Represantatives.
Adams. Henry J. Myers, D,
Allegheny. John Gilfillan, A. A. 11.
Gross, A; William Autchman, Ae Alfred
lackk, A.; Peter ¢. Stanuon, A. .
McCullough. D.; Samuel Wakelield, D.
Richard Graham, D.; ‘
Beaver and Lawrence. Willam Henry, A.;
C. W. White, A.
Bedford. John Cessna, D.
Berks. Wm. N. Potteiger,
A. Kline, D.; Daniel K, Weidner, D.
Blair. R, A Murtrie, A.
Bardford. Bartholomew
Dummer Lilly, A.
Bucks, L. B. Lahar, D.; J. R. Heileau,
Laporte, A.
D.
Butler, 11. W Grant, A; II. CO. M'Coy
A.
Cambria,
Carbon and Leghigh.
Thomas Craig, jr., D.
Centre. R. I'. Barron, D.
Chester. W. Windle, A..: P.
Smith, A.; R. L. M'Clellan. A.
Cyrus L. Pershing, D.
Samuel Camp, D.;
Frazer
D.
Clearfield, Jefterson, M’kean, and Bik. (C.
R Farley, D.: J. Boyer, D.
Clinton and Lycoming. John B, Beck, D.;
Amos C. Noyes, D. ’
Columbia, Montour, Wyoming and Salli
van, George D. Jackson, D ; John C. Ellis,
D
‘Crawford and Warren, II. C. Johnson,
A.: W. D, Brown, A.
Cumberland. J. P. Rhoads, D.
Dauphin. James Freeland, A.; Thomas
G. Fox, A. -
Delaware. Chalkley larvey, A.
Erie. Jobn PP. Vincent, A; B. 'W
Twitchell, A.
Fayette. Daniel Kaine, D.
Franklin and Fulton, Jonathan Jacoby,
D.: Willam Horton, D.
Greene, Patrick Donley, D.
Huntingdon. A. W. Benedict, A.
Indiana. J. W. Hustin, A,
Jumata, Union and Snyder. G. W
Strouse, A.s I. K Ritter, A.
Lancaster, Benjamin Champneys, A
A. C. Lehman, A.; Nathanicu Mayer, A;
H. B. Bowman, A.
Lebanon. G. Dawson Coleman, A,
Luzerne. S. W. Trimmer, D.; Pete’
Walsh, D,; Jacob Robson, D. -
Mercer and Venango. J. C. Brown, A.:
M. C. Beebe, A.
Mifflin. §iolems M'Clay, A.
Monroe and Pike. Geo. i, Bowland, D
Montgomery, S. W. Wimley, D.; H. C.
Hoover. D,; Joseph Rex, D. :
Northampton. D. C. Nieman, D.; A. CO.
Hess, D.
Northumberland. J. Woods Brown, D.;
Perry. John A. Magee, D.
Philadelphia. Thomas J, Barger, D.;
Samuel Josephs. D.; Samuel C. Thompson
D.; Richard Ludlow, D,; George A. Quigley:
D.; James W. Hopkins, D.; Francis M’Manus,
D.; Albert R. Schofield, D.; Jefferson S
Young, D.; Wm, Foster, A.; Joseph Moore!
A.: Thos. Cochran, A.; James N. Kerns, A.;
S. L. Parcoast, 4.; Luke V. Sutphin, A.
W. F. Smith, 4.; Edward G. Lee, A.
Potter and Tioga. 4. J. Armstead, A.:
C. 4. Brown, A.
Armstrong and Westmoreland, J. A;
D.; Charles
Clarion and Forest. W. T, Alexander!
: Counties, « AU ny at
— Parker, A. C. M. Doaovan, Dem. Geo, | Ser. hi ret
Connel, * A. (re-elected. Toren tonuan, Bare Bow.
11 —Chester and Deleware—Jacob S. Ser | Adumns . 2958 2055 M08 2587
iil, A Alisgheny, RBs 12933 vaey 1g!
» Ade rmstrof Tr §
1IF1—Montgomery —John C. Smith D. Beaver. "Ec a au 5335
1V—Bucks— William Kinsey D, Bodferd, 2320 1679 2322 1g7y
¥- -Lehigh and Northumberland— Geo. W Bots, 10451 . i850 is 4551
Stein, D. ul, 804 o 9¢ 2473
’ Bradfi Tl $ hy
VI—Berks—Hiester Clymer, D. fragt, a poet Be 259
V1i—Schuylkill — Bernard Reilly, D. Butlor, 2515 2170 2635 277)
V1li—Carbon, Menroe, Pike and Wayne | Cambria, 2734 1585 2141 1517
Henry S. Mott, D. oman, 1607
IX—Bradford, Susquehanna, Sullivan and | 40 HE 2 a ol
Wyoming — William J. Turrell * A, Chester, 4870) 7934 4887 7228
X—Luzerne—Jasper B. Stari, * D. Clarion,’ 2255 1306 2317 1382
X1—Tioga. Potter M’Kean and Warren— | Clearfield, 2167 1315 2160 1305
F. Smith, * A. neal slo NS fal 1%
3 3 i 3 i 239 : 1i0
XII Clinton, Lycoming, Centre and Un- Et 3580 1 2 1m
ion—Henry Johnson, A. Cumberland 3515 2671 3519 2069
X11L—Snyder Northumberland, Montour | Dauphin, 3276 4150 3280 4137
and Columbia—Frank Bound, A. Delaware, 1461 2772. M61. pe
X1V-—Cumberland, Jamata, Perry and oy e713 4255 es
Miflin—George I. Bucher,* D, he i i
XV_—Dauphin and Lebanon—Amos R. | pranklin, 3140 3157 5162
Coughter, A, Fulton, 1009 726 726
XVI—Lancaster— William Hamilton Jno. | Forest, J
A. Hiestand, A. Greene, - 2869 919 966
1 sre : 1 Huntingdon, 1823 2466 267
XVII—York—4A. Hiestand Glatz D. Indiana 1596 3306 2339
XVIIl—Adams Franklin and Fulton— Jefferson, 1483 1412 1414
William M’Sherry,* D. Juniata, 1344 1094 1095
XIX —Somerset, Bedford and Huntingdon | Junesnesn, i 4 11482
-—Alexander Statzman,* A. ld 9 os 2345
Ale: T Stutzman, . . | Tiobanon, 213 3045 3056
XX —Blair, Cambria and Clearfield—-W. Lehigh, 4750 2306 2507
A. Wallace, * D. Luzerne, i . 5768 6043
XXI—Indians rone—I1. | Lycoming, 14521 - 2608 2608
HE Sn aud Armstrong—I1 ne "isa Nos i
INCLY NRT % sia Mercer, 304 3421 3418
XXII—Westmereland and Fayctte — Smith Mifiiin, 1370 T1683 1460
Fuiler, Au . Monroe, 2118 456 442
XXII— Washington and Greene—George | Montgomery, 6765 5118 5117
¥. Lawrence A Montour, 1239 765 760
ARS hy A | Northampton 4160 1969 1967
XXIV —Beaver and Butler —MeCandless, | Northumberland, 3063 2085 2062
bs | Per.y, 1917 1916
Mo . Philadel phiy, 35121 36130
XXV—Allegheny-—John P. Henney, J. L. | Pike, 135 123
Graham *A Potter, Eh 1085
aham * A, 548 5483
XAVI—-Lawrence, M rcerand Venango — 1592 1603
James II. Robinson, A wn a
ames 1) son, A. 27 28)
XXVII—Eric and Crawford— Mowry B. | 3015 3054
ior 2792 2791
owry, A. | Union, 1580 1602
XXV1IT—Claion, Jefferson, Forrest and | Yoni Ins 7
HY 2 $ 86
Elk—Chattes L. Lamberton, D. |W tons 3 3734 roe
RECARITULATION | Wayno 2760 1819 1818
’ | Westmoreland 5040 3693 3690
Abolittiin, 20 | Wyomirg 1315 1154 1162
wali a! York, 7396 4310 3 4317
Democratic, 13 | a :
— | Total 218200 214713 207862 204927
Abolition majority, 7 hii saaninly oi
«There is a difierent return from Venango,
which, if correct, would reduce Sienker's
mi jority to 3,350, and Bart's to 2,765. We
estimate Elk at 311 for Slenker and Barr,
and Cameron at 75 and Forest at 60 for
Cochran an’ Ross. They will not exceed
this ; so that we may set it down as certain
that the majority for Slenker will not be
less than 3,520 and for Barr 2,941.
ee ep ++ GBD +O meee
Frem the Providenee (R. I.) Post.
Where Are Wo Drifting ?
As the Buft. lo Courier says, it is well oc<
casionally , to recer to original landmarks.
to see where we are drifting ; and with that
view we publish some extracts from the De-
claration of Independence, and from the
Constitution of the United States :
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE,
The history of the present King of Great
Brittain is a history of repeated injuries and
usurpations. all having in direct object the
establishment of an absolute tyranny over
these States:
Ue has effected to revder the mijitary in~
dependent of, and superior to the civil “pows
€
r.
He has combined with others to subject us
to a jurisdictien foreign to our constitution
and unacknowledged by ourlaws, * * *
For depriving us in many cases, of the
benelits of trial by jury.
For transporting us beyond seas to be
tried for pretended offences,
_ CONSTITUTION QF THR UNITED SPATFS*
Article 1. Section i+ Al Jegislative pow +
ers herein granted shall be vested in a Con~
gress of the United States, which shall com-
sist of a Senate, and House of Representd-
tives.
Art. 1. See.8 The Congress shall have
power * * * to provide for
the common defense, and general welfars of
the United States.
ry and proper {or carrying into’exceution the
foregoing powers vested by this Coustite
tion in the Goveanment of the United States
or in any department or officer thereof,
Art. 1. See. 6. The privilege of the writ
of habeas corpus shall not be suspended,
unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion
the public safety may require it
andl
A correspondent asks, the question, ¢ has
the Drafting csmmissioner and surgeon any
authority for charging $2,00 fee for certifis
cate of exemption ?”
We can not answer for c:rtain whether
they have authority for doing so or mot,
but do know that the government, ‘allows
. .
them FOUR dollars per day, as drafting
officer, and that 1t is their Jusiness to exam-
ne all who may make application and
not able to stand the privations and hard~
ships of camp life. The Harrisburg Tele-
graph the mouth piecc of Gov. Curtin, says :
« They are entitled to no fees whatever,
and it they have been exacted, the Gov.
ernor will, upon the production of evidence,
see that just punishment is awarded them’
Would it nat be well for those interested
te mforw Gov. Curtin, of “the manner in
which this busines 1s conducted.
That it 18 necessary for a an t¢ hold a
certificate of exemption after his name is
stricken from the roll, we do not belive.
> 4 » ou
To make all laws which shall be necessax .
Strike from the roll of militia, all who are
York. Joseph Dellone, D.; A. G. Ramsey,
D
RECAPITULAT.ON.
Dem. Ato:
Senate, 13 20
House, . 54 46
67. 5.7166
Democratic majority on joint ballot 1
Ee —. ———_—
1ndiana, and Ohio have gone Dems
ocratic by a large majority.
———— OO mn
The Democrats have elected fourteen out
of twenty four Congressmen {rom this State,
Schuylkill. Bdward Kerns, D.: Conrad | Tne Sraxe Law. —The stamp law went
Graber, D.; Adam Wolf D. » into effect some time since-and ‘according to
Somerset—— A its provisions all documents and ‘papers
Susquehauna: D. D. Warner, A. must bear a government stamp, for the om-
Washington. Wm. Hopkins, D .; Wm. | ission of which a penalty is provided, ma-
Glenn, D. king it a seriong affair. © The stamps not
Wayne. Wm, M. Nelson, D- having yet been issued by the government
of course the penalty could not be enforced
but to make assurance doubly sure, the
Revenue Commissioner has officially notifi-
ed the public that “no penalties will Ro
acted for their omission until the
ment provides them.” As soon
are issued the law will be enforced,
penalties exacted accordingly. = After the
first of January next, no mstrument of wri”
ting wil be valid and binding unless a stamp
be affixed, but previous to that timie, the
same penalty will be exacted for the onmass
ion, though the instrument is valid. These
are the main points of interest,
a