Tuan, Friday Morning, March — 20, 1863. 07 Well, Mr. Pettifogger, we suppose you cousider you have done it up gloriously utterly demolished and entircly annihilated us, straightencd np the religions communi- ty and turned Mr. Sanford’s niggers into moral lecturers! Well, be itso. ¢ Conceit is ag good for a fool as a physic.” No doubt you feel considerably relieved after spewing out your balderdash through the columns of the Press. We hope you dn, for had there nt been some medium whareby yoa could ontain rehef, there certainly would have been a frightful explosion, followed by a fearful collapse, which night have ended your valuable existence. You feel “kinder sorter” sore, do you—a “wee Lit” ashamed of your christianity? No wonder! We wonld, too, had we acted as you have done, after making the professions you do. You ask us if 1t is wrorg to laugh? Cer- tamly not—aor you will be held: responsible for the commuission of a great crime in fore- ing people to laugh at yoursilly attempt at ridicule. Again, you want to know, if we w re furnished with a compl imen!ury ticket? Yes. Mr. Sanford presented this office with ten. and all our hands and several friends besides, were admitted upon them. ' But pray. Mr. * Christian” — mecker of rdligion, w: mean what has that to do with your conscience, or the fact that the professors of religion in this town were at the Opera,” applandirg low and obscene performances, when they should have been an their closets beseeching God to have merey upon their cong brothers and friends, who are now risk. ing their lives that vow eouals, the negroes of the South, muy be turned loose? What | has that got to do with the principles you have jrofessed to espouse. and bellow in the ears of all who are will ng to listen to your fnpocyiti-al prayers in your pews on the Sabbath day 2 What has that to do with the fact that the PEOPLE OF THE CoUNTY built the Court Honse for the special purpose of holding Courts, and not for you and your kind to hold revels in with riggers and blackguarls ? But we lave no time to bother lo-ger with you now. The method you take to di- vert the attention of righteous people from your conduct, will fail. The medium thro’ which you pour firth your slang, is quite Vecrming your cause, as mager shows, pros. tirutes and Aypocrites all find a place to ad- vocate their claims nits columns. At for Mr. Sanford patronizing this office, we ean tel you that he paid us like a gentle- man for his advertisement and notice, and he has our best wishes for his future suc- ces. If you and the balance of the long- faced-hypocritical church-memhers who back you up, would stick to your professicn as closcly as Mr. Sanford does to hig, you would sct a better example to persons out- side of the pale of your churches. a Will Hale Resign? Petitions are being circulated 1m every part of this Congressional district, asking Judge llale to resign his seat in Congress. We are informed that these petitions are be- ing signed by hundred and thousands of the men who voted for him. In fact, the peti- ticns are from his recent supporters exclus- ively. We have obtained a copy of this dncument, which our readers will find in an- other column. It will probably be signed ty nineteen-twentieths of those who voted for Hale last fall. No Dame crat can refuse Lis signature uniess he is satisfied with Hales course, and if he endorser that, he is no Democrat. But then. will the Judge re- sign 7 Certainly he will, if he has any hon- or or pride left in him. Ie cannot, with any decent appearance of propriety, retain the office in opposition to the almost nnanimous wish of those who elected him. If he was actuawcd by any higher mstives than a de. sire to receive the salary, and obtain the profits of contracts which his official posi- tion enabled him to control, he will not hes- itatea moment about resigning the trust which he received om the people, when they are dissatisfied with the manner in which he has executed it. But we refcr our readers to the petition Brack Granns,—Abe Lincoli, lias now a large number of white soldiers who were en- listed to fight the battles of their country, de'aile to serve as his toly-gusrd in inita- tion of the tyrantsof Europe. These, how- ever, are to be superceded by the lst Regi- ment of Black Volunteers from Massachu- setts, organized under the auspices of Gov. Andrews. We shall soon see the White louse and Capitol surrounded with nigger soldiers, when whoever wishes to have an jaterview with ‘Massa Lincum” will have to get a permit from some buck nigger with epauletts on his shoulders. De Monsiy G.—Instead of mobbing the Watchman ofti~e, would it not be as well to mob those houses from which were hung flags with only sixteen sturs, in 1856 7— Would that hart some of the immaculates ? oF Lincoln is buying up all the negro slaves at $300 a head. }le hasalso enslav- ed all white men, and now asks them to re- A Word to the People. Nothing can be more startling to the peace-loving, law-abiding citizens of the North, than to witness the rapid growth of the spirit of mobocracy which has, of late, manifested itself in so many parts of the country. During the past three weeks, there has been mo Jess than six newspaper offices sacked and destroyed—Demnocratic meetings have been troken ap—peaceful cit- izens have been trutally murdered — houses have been burnt to the ground and othr outrages without number, commiited by the tools of tyranny. We had hoped that the time for these things had passed, when the ballot-box proved that a majority of the people were still in favor of law and order, but it seems not. Atrocities, blacker and bloodier, have been committed within the last few weeks, than was dreamed of during the reign of Terror in the summer of "61.— How long they will be continued, God alone knows. Those in power will not check these miserable outlaws in their hellish work; they have never yet punished a man that en- gaged in these riots and mobs, and never will, for they are their friends and support- ers— their tools, who but do the bidding of their master. To look to them for deliver- ance, would be but walking into the flre to escape from being burned ; it would be fool- ish. idiotic, ridiculous. No help 2an be de- rived from that quarter—no protection cx- pected from the tyrants who rule. It is in another power that the pecple must place ther trust—to another source that they must look for aid and and protection. Their strong arms and brave hearts alone will save them in this dark Lour of our country's trial. To Democrats kere, as well as elsewhere, we have a word to say. When you had con- trol of the reigns of Government, the lives, persons and property of your political oppo- nents —the abolition mobocrats of to-day— were protected as sacredly ag were those of your own friends and supporters, You were careful that they enjoyed all the privileges which the Constitutions of the State and Federal Governments guaranteed them.— You saw that the laws were enforced ; that each man, without distinc'ion of party, should receive justice. But how is it to- day ? The passions and prejudices of men are permilted to go unrestrained. —Constitu- tions and laws are set at defiance, freedom of speech is demed you —freedom of the press is denied you,—the right of trial by jury is denied yon. All, everything that is dear to citizens of our once free and happy Amerie, 1s denied you by those in power, and your very lives and property are lef: to the mer:y of mobs and midnight assassins. Will you linger submit quietly to these out- rages? Will you, coward-like, remain si- lent while the despoiler is pillaging, burn- ing and desclating the homes of your own neighbors Will you see your friends and brothers murdered in cold blood on their own doorsteps, and offer no resigrance to the fiends who commit the deed We hope not—re know you will not! You have rea- soned with your enemies, but it has availed nothing ; you Lave borne with their inso- lence and outrages until longer forbearance is cowardice, and cowards deserve “to be slaves ; and it now becomes you as “worthy sons of worthy sires” to stand up for your rights. When the laws of the land are not permitted to protect you, it is your duty to protect yourselves. If abolitionists assail you with arguments. meel them with arga- ments; if they assail you with clubs, meet them with clubs ; if they raise a mob, let another mob be raised to meet it. Tt 1ll be. comes the majority of the people to knuckle to a few ‘“higher-law’ men, or to permit their bloody, brutal followers to override them and trample upon their rights, It has been dene leng enough, Democrats, see that it stops. Be not the attacking party! Stand entirely on the defensive, and meet them with their own weapons——the Jallut, the bludgeon or the knife! And now, advocates of mob-law. gloaters over the ruin your administra-ion has ac- complished, we have a word for your ear.—— Never. since public issues made political parties, have the Democrats attempled to in- terfere with any of your privileges, or de- nied you any of the rights they claimed for themselves. Mobs were never hissed upon you to destroy your property or take away your lives. Your lips were never locked, nor your pens shackled. On the contrary, you were protected in all the privileges and rights claimed by American freemen. Why is it, then, that when the power is entrusted to you, with the iron heel of despotism you would crush us out ? Why is it that you deny us the r ghts which we, as a party, guaranteea to you? Why attempt to inau- gurate another and more fearful civil war? for remember that your present course, if persisted in, will inaugurate it in less time than you are aware. Then, woe betide you: blind, bigoted fools! Itis you that will be made to atone in sackcloth and ashes for your many deeds of darkness; it is your property that will ascend in smoke, and yoar blood that will bespatter the streets. Itis an easy thing to start a reyolution, but none can tell where it will stop. So we warn you in time to desist from your fatal course, which is sure to bring ruin upon yourselves and your families. We, as Democrats, do not intend to assa:/ you. Remember this.— Bit the consequences be upon your own heads 1¢ YOU AS2A1L US: for feartul will be the retribution that will be meted out to you. 3 er 17 Although the conscript act includes negroes, it has been determined by the ad- ministration at Washington, not to draft them, but keep them to perform the labor of the country which the poor white men who will thus be forced into the army, have heretofore performed. a 7 Welearn fiom reliable sources that deem thowmselves at his stated price for nig- | gts . i reser | r7 + Fighting Joe Hooker” has had the | fghiing dispagition taken out of him effec- | tua'ly hy being appointed to the command | of the Army of the Potomac. J agents of the Lincoln government in Phila- delphia, are orgatiz'ng and arming the ne- groes asa ‘home guard”, to be used in en- forcing the Conscript Act upon the white iaboring classes of that eity. ee Tor Coming— The Conscription. | shin-plaster. What is Coming. | And he will further learn that there is power left to crush treason in the South, and gag every traitor in the North, and hang high every copperhead whose envenom- ed sting has poisoned the mind of any citi- zen.— Press. In the last clause of the above sentence | we have foreshadowed, the desperate pro- | gramme and wicked intentions of those who | think they will control the policy of this government at least for two years longer.— ' Although the article from which we quote the above is from no respectable source, the | author being a mere sewer through which abolition filth is poured, it still indicates to | what extent malign influence which actu- !ates the abolition leaders have permented the whole mass of what was once called the ! republican party. When we remember that the term ‘* copperhead” is apphed by these miscreants to every democrat, ard that by | + poisoning the minds” of men they mean teaching the principles of Jeflerson and | Madison, we can understand pretty well | the bloody purposes they have in view.— | They will hang every democrat, in a county | with a thousand democratic majority ! Pray | Mr. Editor, when will you commence ?— | Neither you nor any of your poor miserable | cowardly partizans dare lift a finger against | one single democrat in old Centre, ncr lay | your vandal hands onone article of property. If you do, let us tell you calmly and plainly, | not in any spirit of bravado, but speakirg | from what we know, what the consequences | will be to you. The moment that you or any mol, or any of your provost marshalls, | shall raise an impious hand to harm one . democrat either in person or estate within this county, you will give the signal for a movement which will send all of your souls I troc ping to their destined infernel home, {and apply the torch to your buildirgs as | your fit funeral piles. This is no die threat. | Democrats are peaceable and law-abiding, and under no circums'ances will they ever | inaugurate civil war in our midst. But you abolitionists have driven us to the wall, and there we intend to inake a stand. We are ! now ready for whatever may come, and if | you sct the example of mol law here as you | have elsewhere, the consequences must be upon your own heads. If you do not waat | this town laid in ashes, if you do not want | these streets slippery with your own blood if you do 1.ot want fire and the sword to { sweep over this county, leaving no vestige | of abolitionism behind, 1f you do not want | your valleys to be like the valleys of the | Carnatic behind the destroying hosts of 1ly- "der Ali ; we warn you to desist from your insane attempts to set the laws at defiance, !'and inaugurate anarchy and civil war. Philadelphia Evening Journal. Charles N. Pine, E«q., well known as po litical writer, has become proprictor of the Philadelphia Evening Journal. He was editor for six months previous to Mr. Boi- leau’s arrest, and avows himself * the wri- ter of most of the articles deemed treasona- ble by the traitors in offico at Washington,” and closes his annunciation of the new pro- prictorship as follows: If it be treason for a public journalist to insist upo» a strict observance of the funda- mental and supreme law of the land by men in office, and to condemn all officiais who violate that and their oaths to observe it. then the undersigned desires to be deemed a traitor. That such eonduct constitutes treason, according th the decisions of the adminis- tration and its friends, he is well aware, and he enters into the business of publishing and editing this paper with the full knowl- edge of the risks incurred by a journalist who ventures, in these times, to demand for the people what is right, to condemn what is wrong, and to publish political truth. — But he intends to do all this, and is willing to take the consequences. Cuarres N. PiNe Phitadelpkia, March 12, 1863 1t requires a bold, fearless man to con- | duct a Democratic paper in this Abolition « Reign of Terror,” and we belisve Mr. P. is a man of that character. He bas our best wishes for success. Very Prerry.--The young squirt who in ! his fourth of July splurge in 1801, repeated Capt. Brown's patrictic invocation, ¢* I will not say go, but come, boys,” and afterwards feigned sickness Tonce, and twice left the county to keep from being forced into the ranks by public opinion, is now going around this town inviting honest white men to join an oath-bonud band of traito's under the ! name of the Union League. This puppy. who is afraid to meet a foe in the open field, { and openly admits that he will pay his $300 : instead of going, if drafted, is trying to en- | tice men into a military society which 18 to be fully organized and drilled by the Pro | vost Marshals, for the purpose of enforcing the conscript act upon those who are too | poor to raise three hundred dollars. Bah! ! on such pimps! - vee oe— 07 Last week, in conversation with a promicent abolitionist of Illinois, Lincoin said the white men of the North would not willingly submit to the conscript act, and the other measures passed just before the adjournu.ent of Congress but with the assistance he would have from the free ne- groes of the North and contrabands from the South, by G-—d, he would force those measures down the throats of the people. ee tr A ee 17 Young America is outdone. A French political candidate, stating his claims to of- fice, in an address to the electors, says :— -At the age of six years 1 fought a duel in order to save the reputation of the daughter of a brave officer killed in the service of his country, which an artillery student was about to compromise.” 17 Itis stated that the President receives his salary in Gold. At the present rate of premium on gold, this would Le (quivalent to about $37,000,1n * greenbacks.” If the President 18 paid in gold, so ought the sol- diers. [It isa poor rule that will not work both ways. | EE 37 We think some enterprising young. fellow might do a big business in these hard | times by advertising the exhibition of a sil- | ver coin--price of admission a fiye cent To James T. Hale, Esq., MeasER oF CoNGREss Eruer prox ThE 1873 CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVA- NIA: We, the undersigned, Democrats and con- servative Republicans, having supported rou for Congres at the last election, do re- spectfully ask you to resign the office to which you were then elected by our votes. for many reasons, among which are the fol. lowing: : : 1st. We hold it to be a fundamental prin- ciple of Republican Goverament, ‘that all representatives are hound in honor and con science to fu'fil the known wishes of their constituents. That however small a major- ity may be atany lection for representa- tives, upon distinct issues deliberately form- ed by opposing parties before the people, that majority has the right to require their representative faithfully to carry out their views as (xpressed at such election, or de- mand his resignation, that another may be elected who will obey the voice of the peo- ple. : 2nd. During the last campaign although you were remarkably reticent for a politi- cian, yet between you and Hon. Wm. IL Armstrong, the Republican candidate, the issues were distinctly formed, and your sup- porters led to believe that you would, if elected, in goo faith carry out their views and principles as expressed in those issues. In the resolutions adopted at Jersey Shore, when you were first proposed as a consery- ative-union canaidate, it was declared :— ¢ That the Constitution as it is. end the res- toration of the Union as it was,” was the platform upon which you were asked to be a candidate. In accepting the nomination, you stated that you concurred in these sen- timents, dnd if elected would faithfully serve those who entertained them. lu various let- ters to prominent Democrats in the district. you said that you were in favor of restoring the Union in accordance with and under the Constitution. and not like the radicals, over its runs. You stated to many persons that you would support the Administration in any constitutioval and comservatiye ieas- ures, but oppose all of ts radical and uncon- stitutional acts You also expressed deep regret at having been compelled by party al- Tegiance, to vote for several objectionable measures at the previous session, thus leav- ing the impression that you“twen differed from the republican majority in Congress, and if elected upon other principles you would s'and by your new supporters as faith fully as you had previously stood by the Re- publicans. 3rd. In opposition to all these intima- tions, promises and pledges, you have during the kession of Congress just ended, stood side by side with Gur'ey, Lovejoy, Hickman. Thad. Stevens, and all the other violent and revolutionary abolitionists of the House, in support of all their radical and unconstitu tional gchemes, with ene or two exceptions. Among the many ultra measures which you have supported since the last election, in op- position to the wishes and expectations of those who voted for you, we enumerate the following, as particularly obnoxious: I. The Indemnity Bill by which you ap- proved and legalized as far as possible, all the arbitrary arrests, and other unconstitu- tional acts of the President, and his appoint ees, the very acts and measures which du’ ring the last campaign, you affected to de precate, and promised thereafter to oppo-e, By this act you convinced all candid men that your pretended conservatism was a mere snare to entice men to vote for you who were too patriotic to support the rank abolitionism of the Lincoln dynsaty. 11. The Act dwiding the State of Virgin- ia, without the consent of her Legislature constituticnally convened, andin direct con, flict with the federal *“Coustitution as it is,” thus rendering “the restoration of the Un- jon as it was,” an atter impossibility. In this you were not only guilty of a fraud up- on your constituents, but showed yourself forgetful of the obligations of the oath you had taken to support the Constitutidn‘of the United States. * il : IIT. The Conscript Act, by which you give the President (who has shown himself unscrupulous 1n the use of power) sufficient military authority, without imposing any checks or restraints, to make him as perfect and unlimited a despot as was ever Napo- leon, or Nicholas of Russia, or the veriest tyrant of the House of Hapsburg. By this act you also made an unjust discrimination in favor of the rich, by allowing in lieu of personal service the payment of a sum o money sufficiently large to be beyond the reach of nine-tenths of the laboring men of your district, IV. The Act authorizing the President to suspend the Writ of Habeas Corpus, by which you gave to Lincoln unbounded li cense to arrest and imprison law-abiding men during the continuance of this war, even in those States where neither war nor rebellion ever existed ; and you deny te your fellow citizens their constitutional right to appeal to the Courte for protection against this executive persecution. V. You voted for tabling ‘the resolutions offered by Mr. YeamaN, of Ky., condemn. ing the President’s Proclamation of Sept. 22, 1862, as unconstitutional and impolitic; therebr giving your approval to that aboli- ticn manifesto, which, if carried into ef fect, must render the dissvlution of the Un- ion perpetaal. VI. You contented yourself with giving a simple vote against enlisting and arming negroes, and placing them in the field side by side with our sons and brothers. We do not know that you possessed any influence in Congress beyond the cantio! of your in- dividual vote, but you should have openly and manfully protested iu the name of your constituents, against this outrage upon our soldiers and insult to all white men, in at- tempting to cegrade them te the level of negroes. For these and many ather acts and omis- sions of yours since the election, we ask you to resign the office you obtained by misrep- resentation and deccit, that we may select a representative who will honestly and bold- HEIRS ER AR RENT (For the Waichman ) Is Democracy Treason? In conversing the cther day witha Re- publican friend, on some of the important questions which now agilate our nation, and threaten its life, and in trying. by sound ar- gument and fair reasoning, to convince him that the present Administration had deser- ted the Constitution of the United States, -and that those who wera chosen to repre- sent this people in the National Congress had most foully misrepresented us, end laid at the feet of incompetent men the privilege to crush out the spirit of American Liberty; I held the ground that freedcm of white men was more important than emancipation for the Southern negroes. As a matter of course [ waa called a traitor With you permission I will, through the columns of the ** Watch- man’' define clearly the position [ occupy, 80 that all who may read this article who shall afterwards call me a traitor, will know he is a liar. Fist then, I weuld ask the question, what-constitutes loyalty to a government ? If it be to bow submissively to every act of a corrupt administration, to sustain despots in every measure they may adopt for the purpose of enslaving our people, then, in- deed am I a traitor and proud of the title. If to be loyal, we must rejoice when those whom we have chosen to guard our liberties are selling it for the miserable satisfaction of turning loose upon our people a starving horde of slaves, happy but for their interfer- ence, to rejoice to see our fellow citizens of- fering up their lives on the battle-ficld$ of our border, that tyrants may rule, ard cap- italists coin money from the peoples blood, then do L lay no claim to loyalty. But I am happy in the belief that thie is not loyalty. As T understand it, loyalty consists in a strict adherence to to the Con- stitution and to the principles upon which the government was established, If Thom- as Jefferson was amongst us to day, and dared to raise his voice in favor of the rights for w Lich he pledged his ** life, liberty and sacred honor,” rights, which so many of his co-workers sacrificed their lives to maintain, rights, which are now invaded by those who are sworn Lelore God and man to protect and defend them, Ae, would be stigmatized as a traitor and consigned to some gloomy for- tress. - It is a notorious fact that if we bnt ask the rights guaranteed us by the Constitution we are called traitors, and for that mighty deed of daring many of our most loyal men have spent weary months in military pris- cns, In the position [occupy [ am willing to abide by the Constitution of the United States, and to submit to tvery law pass d as that instrument provides, any law out side of that I am not bound obey, and I will fall a martyr to principles, rather than cringe to every mandate of those who at- tempt to govern us outside of that noble in- strument provided for us by those who fought and t1 d for its formation. 1 thank [leaven that [ can distinguish a differenee be- tween a government and an administration. Our Republican friends cannot discover any difference, and for their benefit T will give them the opinion of Mr. Webster on the sub- ject. A government is that form of fun- damental rules by which a nation or state is governed,” an administration ** the per- sons collectively, who are en'rusted with the execution of the laws,’ Now any one who claims to understand this language, cannot fail to sce the vast difference be- tween the two; Heaven have mercy upon us, if no such diffaence existed. The to a government having the name Liberty, without a single particle of its spirit. Is any one £o ignorant that they can:ot seca difference between the Jaws of a state, and the persons who in prutending to guard those laws succeed only in violating them ? If the name of ** traitor’’ should be given to any one, it is certainly to those who prac- tically admitted the weakness of the Con_ stitution, by proclaiming to the world that a « military necessity’, existed which justi- fied them in going beyond it, Demueracy has always denied that such a necesity ever existed ; enough blood and treasure have been expended to restore the Union as it was, without a single violation of the Con- stitution, and the Democratic party would long ago have done it had they been per- mitted. The very first principle of Dem- ocracy is ‘“ equal and exact jus.ice to all men” —it is born of Heaven, yet in attcmpt- ing to carry it into practice, under Repub- lican misrule, they have been exposed to insalt and imprisonment. But the time is coming when our oppressors will call for the hills and mountains to fall upon them and hide them from the retributive justice of an insulted and outraged people. “Tyrany Is far the worst of treason, Dost thou deem None revels except subjcots >? The ruler who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than tke robber chief.” Ww. P.M Howarp, Pa, March 14th. “To CORRESPONDENTS : — Ajaz—We do not publish anonymous communications. Patriot—The quotation you spesk of was taken from Washington's Farewell Address. Justice—Your article will appear next week. ] S. 8. T'—We are under many obligations for the interc at you have manifested in our behalf. Mrs M.G. B.—You lines were received tool te for this week's paper. They will appear in our next. Battle-Axre—We were not born lo be frightened by * threats or intimidated by words. So fire at some other mark. Jacob—We won't. trol the Press— they are ready for anything, no difference how mean or contemptible, J. W. H—What we said was correct- - you can rely ujon it. ee — eee {I= 1f President Lincoln wishes to exer- cise a direct control of the army of the Po- ly represent the interests of free white men Lal tomac, perhaps he nid better go and take command of 1t bimseif.—~ Prentice, Go to those whe con- | blackest despotism in Europe, is preferable | Democrats Organ ze. The Democrats should at once arouse themselves to the importance of the cam- paign on which we are about to enter in Pennsylvania, and prepare for the contest | on the result of which will largely depend the salvation of Constitutional Government in these States. Let the old Keystone rank | herself alongside of New York, New Ji rl sey, Indian, and Ulinois by the electi n of the Democratic State ticket in October next, and all may be well with us again: the Constitution vindicated, Despotism re- buked, War terminated, all tne States mn the Union, the people sceure in the enjoy, ment of their rights, and prosperity peiva- ding all our borders, These are the aims of the Democracy. The Abolition Republicans are very busy in some parts of this and other States with their ¢L. L.'s --U. L.s” and B. B.’s”’ ana the ruinous, destructive, however, their efforts must be in vain. Th the evils which it could have avoided, it ha recklessly prepretrated. The mourns and suffers under its ble ruin. We trust the Democraay will be up an doing. Democrats cverywhere—all me who wish well to their country and truly devoted to the Constitution and the rights which are guaranteed to the States and the people---should organize and prepare them- selves to meet and thwart the Abolition dis unionists at every point, and in all their partizan, sectional and despotic movements. Democrats, and all true constitutional men, should know each other, they should have an organization: in every district, their club or association, by whatever name known, s'.ould meet not too frequently, but as often as the general convenience will ad- mit, at these meetings, subjects of interest to the people can be talked over and dis- cussed ; set speeches, or speakers from a distance, are not necessary ; the safety of the people, the ccuntry, and the Cause of Free Government, now, rests not *o much ling patriotism of the honest masses. | many counties in this State, and particu arly in Westmoreland, Washington an Fayette, the friends and advocates of The last number of the Genius of Liberty gives the proceedings of no less than seven, meetsn3s recently held in Fayette, all con- ducted by the farmers, mechanics, and lab- oring men of the districts, and the voice which thay utter is in checring harmony with the doctrines and spirit of the freemen of ‘87 and ‘98. In conclusion, we again say : Democrats, ORGANIZE, and let your mo‘to be —The Constitution, the Union, the rights of the States, and the Constitutional yights of ALL wittte MEN. — The West Chester Jeffersoran. caooe— — What the President's Proclamation has done. Tt has divided the North. It has created discontent among the sol- dirrs of the Union army. It has raised the premium on gold to over 170, per cent. It has strengthened the Southern Confed-- eracy by proving tothe loyal people of the South that tLis is a war not for the Union, but for Emancipation. It has placed two of the Western States in an attitude of determined hostility to the Administration. It has rendered foreign powers still more unfriendly to the Union. It bss falsified the pledges given by the President, that the institution of slavery should not te interfered with, on the ground that he, the President, had no thority in the matter. It has reduced the Constitution toa lity by a direct violatin of its p.ovision regarding slavery. It has put a premium of twenty per cen upon the lowest coin in the coun try. It has made the Administration con'em the very fact that it is inoperative. Abolitionists can be induced to fight. It has established the precedent tha on the plea of ‘‘military exigencies” ed ry. It has public servants at Washington are determin ed to act’ in defiance o their clearly ex pressed desires. It has established the fact that the abeli liberties of the white man. Union has resulted from its promulgation But there is one thing more it has done tion or draft utterly inoperative, no mat ter what may be the action of Con gress. — Metropolitan Record. ing at IJ. Ward’s Store, Ady. Philad’a. The Two Kinds of Union, of another element. political economy ? Natural philesophy recognized two kinds of Union, mechanical nd chemical —a union by force. and a unien by asfinity. firstis artificial, and muy endure as long as the mechanical force continucs, provil- ed a chemical action does not set in, but no longer ; the other is natural, and can broken only by violence, or by the presence If dissolved by anoth- er element, reuzion is hopeless unless the element be removed: if broken by violence, we have only to place the parts (r+ periicles 80 that the natural laws can operate upon them, and they will as readily cohere as they did at the foundation of the first un- ion. The be Fromsthis illustration, furnished by nat -r al philosophy, can we not learn a lesson in A union by a mechan- are openly secretly at work in support of unconstitution- al, depreciating, :ax-paying, negro policy of the party in power. We feel confident, Lincoln Administration, in all its phases, has proved itself a curse fo the country and the people. The good that it might and ought to have done, it would not do. and country terrible blun- ders ard failures in War and Finance, and the desire of all good citizens should be to save the country from total and irremedia- ical force, which may even dissolve by chemical action, is a perfect illustration of a despotism, which may crumble to pieces because of its inconginous elements, and which naturally and inevitably falls apart as the coercive force is suffl:iently weaken- ed. ’ A union by chemical force aptly illus. trates a pure democracy, in which the strength of the union depends upon the ex- isting mutual affinity, and the dissolution of which can never take place except through some positive violence or inter- ference with gghe operations of natural laws. The Union of the free and sovercign Sta‘es of America was form-d by mutaal attraction. Selfe-delense and commercial advantage were the incentives to the Union e S d n them inoperative. and brotherly love was the cement. present administration has destroyed the cement of brotherly love: by pouring upon it the acid of Puritan-abolitionism, States hve fallen apart, and the vile pres- ence of this dissolving element has removed the incentives to Union—-self-defense eommercial advantage —or, a least rendered Now the administration is foolishly trying to restore the Union by pouring on more acid and using force, were possible to succeed in this it would require a tremendous and constant pressure to keep the antagonistic elements together, while there would be the ever present dan- ger, sooner or later to of a terrible explosion. The the - and Ific result in calamity, Now, does not common sense, as well as in speeches for educated and el quent ora- tors, as in the gnod common sense and ster- the constitutional rights of white men appear to be alive to the demands of the hour. — science, teach us that there can be no Union as long as the acid of Puritan-abolitionism aud war 18 used in the place of brotherly tove 7 Remove the offensive element, and the original incentives, self-defense and commercial advantage, will again operate, a8 of old, to reform the Union, and broth- erly love will again cement it more firmly than before.— Caucasian. n = d 148 Regt. P. V. ewe. — 07 President Lincoln has many men into cocked bats, and too few out of ‘them.— Prentice. eo — We had the pleasure of taking by hand Ajdt Lipton and Lieut. 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WARD THE COMMERCIAL LIST lawful an- nul ptible in the eyes of all sensible men, by It has rendered the organization of an- other army utterly impossible unless the the supreme law of the land can be suspend- it has proved the Administration to have been guilty of the most cruel deeeption 1n enlisting men to fight for the Union, and in sacrificing them to the Emancipation thco- rendered useless the immense amount of treasure and the seas of blood othat have flowed since the war began. It has proved to the people that i AUDITOR'S NOTICE. tion of slavery is of more consequence in the eyes of ‘‘our rulers,” than the interests and And while it has done all this® we defy even its most strenuous advocates to prove that a single bsncfit to the cause of the winistration to render all laws for conscrip- 77 Millinery & Straw Goods now ope - Read LETTER-SHEET “PRICE CURRENT” ARE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, BY X - STEPIEN I. WINSLOW, Fo. 222GOLD STREET, S t PHILADELPHIA. BIOGRAPICAL SKET HES OF THE MERCHANTS &MANUFACTUR'S OF PHILADELPHIA, THE OPULENT AND THE INDIGNENT, t| SECRET OF THEIR SUCCESS AND AD- VERSITY, WILL BE CONTINUED. ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE. Letters cf Administration having been granted to the subscriber on the estate of Jno, Merritts dec’dlate of Howard towaship. He roquosts all persons knowing themselves indsbt- ed to said estate to make immediate payment, and those having claims to present them, daly authenticated by law for settlement. Murch 5th 1863,+-6t EPHRAIN GLENN. ‘I'he undersigned, an Auditor ap- - | pointed by the Orphan’s Court of Centre county to make distribution of the balance in the hands of the Administrator of the Estate of John Scholl, dec'd, will attend to the duties of his ap- ointment on Wednesday. the 25th day of oh. 863, at his office, in Bellefonte. EVAN M. BLANCHARD, Auditor. AUDITOR'S NOTICE. The undersigned, an Auditor ap- pointed by the Orphan’s Court of Centre county, to make distribution of the balance in the hands of the Administrator of the Estate of Margery + | Warnock, dec’d, will attend to the duties of his , Sppoinment on Thursday, the 26th day of March, i : , at his office, in Bellefonte, when and where and which should not be omitted. It has| persons interested may attend, so far estranged the people from the Ad- EVAN M. BLANCHARD, Auditor. Mareh 8, 1863—06t, DMINISTRATORS SALE, Will be exposed to pu'lie sale at the sale of Daniel Shank’s, on the 23 day of March, 1563, one Black Stallion of the Hiokor breed, seven years oll, also one twist cut Rifle al- most new. Sold ae the property of John Merritts deceased. EPHRIAM GLENN. Howard march 13 1863.---3t. Administrator.