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~@he Democratic
atchman,
VOL. 8.
BELLEFONTE, FR
IDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1863.
NO. 34,
dhe luge,
Written for the Watchman.)
LINES TO MRS. S8.F.R. M.
BY JOHN P, MITCHELL.
My sister, ever beam thine eye as joyously agnow,
May time and sorrow never cast a shade across thy
brow ;
_ May grief a stranger ever be, and pleasures only
fall
And cast, when storms of life aro loud, their man-
tle over all.
Life’s richest blessings cluster ‘round thy voyage
down the stream,
And not a tempest o’er dispel thy girlhood’s bright-
est dream.
May holy spirits ever have thy happiness in care,
And o'er thy heart, when shadows fall, keep guard
against despair.
For shadows will come stealing on, and sorruws
will draw nigh,
And all the pleasures life can give aie borrowed
from on high.
The brightest temple man can rear still casts a
darkened shade ;
The sweetest pleasures life can give, at Timo's
cold touch, must fade.
Bome eparks we have of bliss divine, struck from
the lamp above,
And time and change, in vain, have tried to
wreck the joys of love.
May life for thee be filled with love—thy bosom
never know
The bitterness of friendship dead—tho spirit’s
deepest woe.
May friends forever throng around and charm
away all care,
And when thou hast to Heaven attained, may
they all meet thee there.
Xf, in life’s dark, tempestuous track our barques
are sundered far,
Ob, may we meet, when life is o’er, where endless
pleasures are.
Ilowarp, PA., Aug. 4th, 1863.
———
TO THE TYRANT AT WASHINGTON.
BY OLD HICKORY.
Priest, tyrant, advocate, or king
Of Africa’s barbarous race—
Brother or demagogue—or thing
Of meaner; dark disgrace.
A creature of deceit and guile,
Liks scaly monster of the Nile,
Are you, you 8ooty face ?
What land ia this your footsteps tread,
‘Where sleep the free-born mighty dead ?
Can they not hear ? Are not their sons
Onedient to their cry ?
Shall they not wake taeir stormy drums,
‘Waen traitors hover nigh?
And stand defiant of the throng,
Whose blackened hearts engender wrong,
And strive to break the tie, .
Whioh breake the honest hanis that toil,
And binds the treeman to the soil ?
No traitor can pollute our sight,
But he whose poisoned heart,
Would break the charter of our right
To act some tyrant part—
Who'd cringe at shrines where freemen stood,
And curse the land with shame and blood,
By discord’s rankling dart—
And make a den of slaves of all,
To avenge the sable heathen’s fall.
Whose doom can be more desolate,
Than his, among the Tree, |
Who brings oppressions damning weight,
To [1h a on knee ?
Or, in his fevered rage of hate,
‘Would draw the darkest bolt of fate,
Upon his country,
And call it with a madman’s zeal,
A blessing to the common weal ?
Back, back to where your soul should be,
To Russia’s tyrant piams;
@o from this garden of the free,
And court the despots chains ,
There treagon meets the deadly blow.
And thy vile head would soon lay low,
And marked as black as Cain’s,
Aud all would smile, and all be well,
Decause a slavish traitor fell !
Foul-hearted wan ! Goto thy doom,
Unblest, unwept, unsung—
Go, like the hebrew tothy tomb,
Accursed by every tongue—
And feel, before that hastening hour,
A nation’s gcorn a nation’s power,
As over Arnold hung— 4
To drive there, with a slave's despair,
From ue; to die an outeast there.
IMiseellangous.
For the Watchman.)
FRUM THE PYNE REGUNS.
Letter Numbar 1
MysTOR PRYNTUR—
You, what puts the letturs
& Kommunykashun (that’s orful big word)
in the Watch-a-feller, yure Papur—wont
you kind of let a old Montyneer wryte a fu
letturs too you once & a wyle to let no how
we fellurs what makes down pyne trees &
hemlock trees, & then saws them, and peals
them & .bausls them, & scales them, &
floats & rides them, and saws them agam
makin boards Shyngels, lathe, and so on
&soon; of wich your town fellers bild
youre Eouses and ly in cumfortbly,’& go to
spekalatin on our “Onest Industrey” (as
old Cimun Kamrun, says in his “great
‘Work,’ gainst fellurs Stealin) & imagyne to
yureselves you no more than awl creashun,
and think you can shove off on us old
Mountyoeers eny kind of yure got up law-
ger-beer many-factyoured articlus (Nuthur
big wurd) and sich like, and frust it down
our throwts as Konstytushua. or sich like
I sed you Town fellurs, and wot I mene by
that, is, all you fellure wot*dont have a hab-
utashun on the Mountuns or Pyne Reguns
or a hankerin (hurafter. Now, understand,
I dont include any Dymecrat in this
“flote”, or any Dymecrat what you sell
youre Papur—The Watchafellur to—but I
mean allithem fellers®what takes a hanker-
ing arter Linkun, or Kurtin, or Jerry Butts
and sich like—fellurs, wot would steal the
Lord’s Supper & then hide behind the table
to wait fur brekfost—comonly nown as ab-
urlishunists, who think a mgger is as good
as themselves, pmviding the niggur dont
drink or giton the fense, speshually, the fense
wot Abram Lincoln Split the rales fur--you
understand ?
Now as you understand that let “Old
Zeke Flick” (thats my honvrable name, I
had it ever since I had a mamma) splain
wot he wants to say. Now heres fur you,
as Linkvns Konskript Notusses say.. On-
derstand, ¢Old Zeke Flick” aint no skolar—
he aint hauled logs on the roads whar
klassicks & military necessitys bilt, or whar
pyuneer Stanton, the Shuperiur of Lord Ba-
ron, the great universal, no-every-thing fel-
lur, went found fust and trampling down
the laurels he might of won tracked cut a
B. Line for a log rode to the State of Marsa-
chusets which is about the same thing.
But understand Old Zeke Flick, is a plaine
blunt man who deals ie facts and figurs and
leases the larnin and Eddykashun for Suw-
ard to devour and the fun & follies for
Linkun t> tikle the {Forurn Powers witk,
Old Zeke can read and rite and that ar the
extent of his skule larnin, farder then that
Zcke dont claim honor—So Mistur Printur
you must xcuse bad spellin, mind it aint
the shape of the ;words Iam after its the
meaning of 1t—Onderstand. That is, it
aint the lonks of the luttur but its the kon-
tents that I want printed, so gs he who runs
away to the Aministration (nather D-n big
word) may read and head—Onderstand ?—
In the fust place this ar the year of 1863
besides the year of Lincolns great universal
slawter of white men in order to make way
for the Elewashun of his own race—the free
merican of african scent, as he sey hissclf.
In the sekund place Andy Kurtin wants us
Montyneers—we wood choppers, loggers,
kolyurs kole diggurs & Raft fellurs to come
to his relief--as he told the legislatur he was
too sick to be Guvurnur longer than this
fall, A+ Linkun war gone to send him to a
forin kuntry for his health and sich like.
Wich tickled Glory-to-God Kovode so much
thac re-akshun took place verry suddenly
sumwhar—Onderstard. If yer dont I wil]
tell yer in my next lettur to yure papur—
Next week.
Yer see when Andy Kurtin told the Leg-
islater last winter he wodent be govurner
any longer'he didnt mean to tell a lie—Aa-
dys onest, 80 is Abram, so is Simon, so is
«Old Ben" of Nu Orleans Notryity, and so
is—so is the Devil —but indeed Andy’s hon-
est. He didn't mean it in the way we
Mountyneers onaerstand it. Now we Onaer-
stand he wanted to but wus 'fraid thar war
too many votes goin into the Dymocrat box,
and Poor Andy being a black man, Kor-
dingly, and akordin to the Dymokrat Kon-
stitution and the Konstytution of Unkle
Sammy —which are the same thing he war
no Jongur ehgible and konsequently kouldnt
be lected. Hence, Andy took sick (?) Si-
mon. [Do yer know Simon ?] That old Kam-
eron—what playad the Scketary of war biz-
ness to years ago, and played it out at that,
the only game he ever played out in his
life ; caws you know the trumps then were
in his own hands and the balanse of the
pack in his pocket. Well, this same Simon
didnt like Andy K. and strange to say Andy
didnot like Simon! Now hyurs a pooty
ki ttle of black fish, or as that old Wurgin-
pey Senetur, John Randolph sed, here was
too dead political hacks that ¢Stunk and
shined and shined and stunk like a rotten
mackrel by moonlight, and the hull naybor-
hood of the Aberlishun party was becomin
effected by the bad smell; hence Simon
fearin Andys Corruption more karruptibul
than his own, got some of his friends to see
Linkun, and made Linkun git Andy not to
run for Governur in Pennsylvania any more,
in “Consideration whereof’ as Jim Hale,
seys-—(D—n Jim Hale) he Linkun war to
giv Andy a foren Mishun that would pay
better than guvernur. That's just what
suited Andy. Well thething was akordimly
did last wintur, And, Andy being promised
a fururn Mishun konkluded to tell the leg-
islatur of the appointment which Linkun
had promised him ; And as a matter of alove
scik girl's taste when!she deklines to receive
kompany she’s afraid to keep, he talked of
bein “sick” and sich like, Onderstand!
Now yer see Andy didn’t lie—No “Andy is
an honorable man.” as Mark Antony sed of
poor ded Seizer—(D—n pity Andy hadn’t
been in the same fix of Julyus Seezer when
Mark Antony sed thatt Wudent Glory to
God Kovode have played the Mark Antony
Now in the Campayn—Eh—Onderstand ?]
Well this all bein did, “Glory-to-God Ko-
vode” made Kackelations to the Guvernur
of the 01d Keeyston—and bein a fellur artur
Lincoln's own heart in the niggur bizziness
he expected to karry all kreashun even the
Mountyneers. The thing worked well nntil
the Dymakra/s in a konwenshun at Harres-
burg Nominated a MAN for Guvernurin the
in the purson of Judge Woodward [That
“Wood” part of it is what takes tvith us
Mountyneers] well, Andy got at once his
appointment to a forun Misshun, It was
Konsulto Afrika. with speshul instrucshuns
to make a kareful and kritical xamination
of the Baboon & negro races, and to watch
karefully the various kontortions of their
faces, and if thar whkar any of them sich as
Andy koulnt imatate, then he were to report
immediately to Linkun, who woud issue
forthwith a proklamation on the Subject de-
clarin them all Konfiscated.
Yer see Linkun is a joker, and he knew
Andy was a great fellur to Mimic anybody
or anything, so he thought he would try him
on in Afrika.—But Andy's health got better
immediately, he declined —Went fishing fcr
delegates—then Glory-to-God Kovode took
sick—Simon raved and the Pittsburg Ga-
zette flustered and —Onderstand !—see my
next
Yures, afeckshunately,
Op Zeke FLICK.
HON. GEO. W. WOODWARD.
TESTIMONY OF A DISTINGUISHED OPPONENT.
The following sketch of the Democratic
candidate for Governor is from the pen of
David Paul Brown, Esq,, the great Fhiladel-
phis lawyer, We copy from a work of his
entitled The Forum, published in 1856, Mr.
Brown is an Abolitionists of .the strictest
sect and therefore his testimony in behalf of
the ability and great moral worth of Judge
woodward will not be doubted by the oppo-
sition to the Democracy :
“We shall for the present draw no compar.
isons, but regulating our anticipations by
our experience, there would be little hazzard
in saying, that in all quallifications of the
judicial character, extensive legal learning,
sound morality, and most urbane and
agreeable manners, there have been but few
judges in the State, perhaps in the ‘country
who at his age, have given promise of great-
er excellance or eminence, than the Hon.
Geo. W. Woodward. Let it not be said our
praise is too general in regard to the mem-
bers of this court to be acceptable or valua-
ble. This is nothing to us. If there be
general merit, there should be general ap-
proval, We borrow no man’s opinions, and
ask no man to adopt ours. Truth is more
desirable and more valuable and more last-
ing than popularity, We do not mean to
say that all or any of these judges are with-
out faclts, but we leaveit to others to find
them out, and trust we shall never manifest
that very questionable virtue, of secking for
vice or blemishes where they do not betray
themselves.
* * * * *
Judge Woodward is now about forty sev-
en years of age, and an agreeabie ; face and
graceful person. He is upwards of six feet
high, well proportioned, always, appropri-
ately apparled, and ever kind, attentive and
dignified iu his deportment. Calm, patient
and meditative, he closely marks the pro-
gress of a cause and the course of the argu-
ment, exhibits no freatfulness. rarely inter-
rupts councel never jumps to conclusions,
but always bides his time. In his charges
av Nist Tus, and 10 nis vpnnvas ul DANG
and moral tone of, his mind. In his person
as we have elsewhere said, he strongly re-
gembles Chief Justice Gibson at his age but
there is very little resembiance in the struc-
ture of their minds, Judge Gibson’s attain-
ments were more comprehensive and diver-
sified, but less concentrated and available,
his mental grasp was stronger, but it was
not so steady. - Judge Gibson struck a har-
der blow, but did not always plant it or
follow itup eo judicially. Judge Gibson
sometimes rose above expectation, Judge
Woodward never falls below it. Judge Gib-
son’s industry uniformly equaled his talents
Judge Woodward’s talents are, if possible
surpassed by his industry. Judge Gibson
wss, perhaps, the greater man, Judge Wood.
ward the safer Judge.
A Goop Name.—The Abolition party has
a good name. Itis an abolition party in
fact.
It has abolished the Constitution of the
Umted States,
It has abolished the good feelings which
bound the North and South together.
It has abolished the Union of States.
It has abolished the habeas corpus.
I: has abolished the right of trial by
jury.
It has abolished gold and silver coin from
our midst.
It has abolished low prices for articles of
of domestic use.
It has abblished the lives of tens of thous-
ands of brave white men.
It has abolished the peace and security
throughout the country.
It has abolished the respect we command-
ed abroad as a nation.
It has, in fine, abolished about all it can
abolish, and the next thing it will abolish
it self.— Somerset Union. :
(IC™ The great State of Massachusetts,
that but a litfle while ago declared the
present disastrous civil war, to be her war,
has so far furnished about 800 men under
the draft, and some of these, after arriving
at camp have skedaddled. It is suggested
that it will take a thousand good men,
volunters, to prevent the remainder from
running away.
el A A A Apes
“0 PersoNAL.—The wife of the “Gov-
ernment’’ was in Troy on Monday, on her
way to Manchester, Vermont.
I The last mentioned novel published in
Paris is the ‘Memories of a Kiss.” It is
said to be a sweet thing.
[= Rev. J. Anderson Kelley, assumes
the duties of Financial Agent of the Uni-
versity at Lewisburg, the 1st of October
next.
IZ A wounded man loses his pension on
re-entering military service.
rene A OP eat
0 Much ery andlittle wool ; a ‘“nigger”
GOVERNOR CURTIN.
The following article we copy from the
Pittsburg Gazette of July 20th, an Aboli-
tion sheet of the darkest dye, which shows
the estimation in which he is held by a
large majority of his own party. An artist
from the infernal regions is not likely to
paint the Devil blacker than he is, and we
may fairly infer that it is a correct likeness
as far as it goes, and that the history of the
balance of his misdeeds, which the writer
says be has “scarcely yet opened,” would
exhibit this reckless aspirant for new Gu-
bernatorial honors (and perhaps new shoddy
contracts) in a still more unfasorable light :
“We have already suggested that we
would regard the re-nomination of Governor
Curtin as a great calamity to the party and
to the country, for the double reason that
we should expose ourselves to the imminent
risk of a defeat, if we did not even show
thereby that we had deserved it, and that
we should render a very doubtful service to
either, by electing him. We now proceed
to assign some of the reasons for that opin-
ion.
“It cannot bs dispuled, we think, that
his administration has proved eminently dis-
astrous to the party which Lrought him mto
power: That it has been an unfortunate
one for the State, the present condition of
her plundered sinking fund and dilapidated
revenues wiil abundantly attest. It is not
clear that it has been a wholesome one for
the country. It is but too clear, that it
has been a damaging -one for himself
—80 Gamaging that it is more than doubt-
ful whether the Union sentiment, strong as
it unquestionably is, would be sufficiently
powerful to override the unfavorable opin.
ions so generally entertained of his integrity
and wisdom, notwithstanding the more than
charitable reserve of the press, which has
flung a mantle over his faults, and perhaps
encouraged his friends and himself to be-
lieve that the history of his administration
will continue a sealed book, or Le forgotten
amid the clangor or arms and the strife of
the battle-field.
“He came into office less than three years
ago, with a huge majority, and a Legisla-
ture of which nearly three-fourths of both
branches either were, or claimed to be, Re-
publicans. At the end of one session he had
thrown all that majority away.”
* ® * *
“Entrusted with the priviledge of expend-
ing the first appropriation made by the
egiglatu r the. ~~ > % -=a. hg pay
Lesigiatire for he es the pawer or ie. gare
*
no man cap fail tolpreseive the lofty, legal, | contracts, as his private agents, in relation
to articles with which they were entirely un-
familar, to the great injury of the soldier,
who was victimized by their unskillfulness
or fraud. This fact was found by a com-
mittee appointed by himself, under the pres-
sure of a public clamor, which grew out of
the treatment of the volunteers who.had as-
sembled at Harrisburg. Those brave young
men who had responded so generously to
the first call of their country, were in rags,
with shoddy vestments, shoes whose soles
wore stuffed with shavings, and blankets
almost as thin and transparent as a window
pane. It was reported and believed that
they have been given over to the tender
mercies of a few heartless speculators who
were then hovering about the Capital, The
officers at Camp Cartin, justly indignant at
what they saw, drew up a spirited remon-
strance to the Legislature, which was pre-
sented to the House, at their instance, by
one of our own members, 1t suggested to
him the propriety of an inquiry as to the
nature of the contracts made for supplies,
and names of the agants, through whom
they were made, and ‘he offered a resolu-
tion accordingly, He wished to know, and
to let the public know, whether it was true
that sundry individuals then loitering
around the Capital, who were pointed out by
the tongue of rumor, and known to be en-
tirely unfit for the purpose, had been actu-
ally commissioned by the Governor, as Ais
agents, to make contracts for the soldiers,
“One of these individuals was a certain
Chas. M. Neal, an active ward politician, and
Acting Commissioner of Philadelphia, who
was understood to be an intimate and confi-
dential friend of the Governor. The an-
swer of the Governor ignored the fact of his
employment, although tire record shows that
on the very day proceeding or following
his message to the House, he had endorsed
and approved a contract for clothing made
by the identical individual with the Frowen-
felds, of this city, in that special capacity !
On this contract Neal was afterwards in-
dicted here, and it was while that dict
ment was depending that the Governor felt
it necessary, in order to appease the public
clamor, or divert it from his own head, to
raise a committee of his own appointment, to
inquire into hit own conduct. That com-
mittee proved, very unexpected, to be a fair
one—=so fair that it was deemed prudent to
withhold its report from the Legislature at
the ensuing session of that body. Itfound,
however—although it passed over the Frow-
enfield case because it wasjdepending in the
courts—that ‘the soldiers were in rags’
With every disposition to deal gently with
the Governor, it condemned his appoint.
ments and ‘the mode pursved by the gov-
ernment in making its purchases.) It de-
clared that ‘the absence of a strict super.
visory power had been the eafise of much of
the mischief that had befallen the State.
It remarked, in observing upon the charac-
ter of the Governor's agents, that ‘it could
not for a moment be supposed that there
baby.
were not men in Pennsylvania, whose ser-
vices could have been commanded, and
who, by education and ability, were equal
to the occasions that had arisen, and that
the appointment by an Execative, from per-
sonal or partisan motives, of incompetent
agents to offices of great responsibility, is,
at all times, a grave dereliction from duty,
never more 80 than in great public emergen-
cies, when the disasters resulting from the
ignorance or incompetence of the agents, for
whose appointment he is responsible, will
mevitabiy excite suspicions of fraud, and
return home to the Executive in humiliating
charges of collusion.” And it closed by ob-
serving that ‘they also report, in general, as
the result of their investigations, that they
have found instances of ignorance, of incom-
petence, of sharp dealing never praise-
worthy, and here eminently disgraceful, of
bad appointments, which, although under
the peculiar circumstances of the times to
be expected, are none the less to be con-
demned.’
“The judicial investigations of the Frow-
enfeld case having proved a failure in con-
sequence of * * * the disappearance
of the witness and the thght cf one of the
defendants of the Legislature, by. which it
was found, among other things, that the
case as shown by the absconding witness,
who had afterwards returned, was ‘a clear
case of fraudulent complicity between the
contractors and {Chas. M. Neal ;’ that the
clothing furnished to the soldiers ‘could
have been afforded at 3 50 per suil less
than was given, and yet have left to the
contractors a profit of $1 50;’ that ‘a large
portion of it was entirely unfit for the use
of the soldiers, aud much of it fell to peices
in a short time after it was worn by them;
and ‘that the flight of the Frowenfelds was
almost conclusive evidence that they, at
least, were conscious of having, defrauded
the State.” Our readers will judge of the
quality of this committee when they find
them adding, that while the testimony of
Murphy seems to excite a strong suspicion
against Neal, the testimony of Neal him-
self, one of the parties implicated, scems to
clear him from all Jut ‘a great want of judg-
ment in his purchases and musapprelension
as to his duties,” and that his testimoney
shows that he did not consider himself bound
to inqnire, cither into the actual cost of the
goods used, or fitness for the purpose intend-
ed, Tt is rather surprising that they did
not hunt up the Frowenfelds themselves as
a clear case of it for the defendants. In
convicting them alone they forgot that the
offence charged was one which either in-
volved the complicity of the other party, or
did not exist at all, and therefore furnished
no occasion for running away. They do,
however, Set down the case &s one of a fail-
ure of justice * * * We are informed.
however, that the confidence of the Gov"
ernor in Neal has been in no wise shaken by
these traneactians. He still continues to be
among his most timate and cherished
friends.
“But enough for the present. We shall
return to the general subject which we have
scarcely yct opened.”
ep eeet-0849 Prem.
WOODWARD AND THE FOREIGN-
ERS.
The Franklin Repository, in its first is-
sue, “hoped in its first issue to he able to
do justice to the platform and candi-
dates of the Democratic party.” —When the
second nnmber appeared we. were sorry to
learn that ‘‘the review of the Democratic
State Convention, its candidate and plat-
form,” had been unavoidably postponed.
We were anxious to know what the editor’s
peculiar sense of justice would prompt him
to say. Tho long expected article appeared
in last week's issue, and as a fair sample of
this desperate attempt at justice, we quote
the followirg exploded libel upon Judge
Woodward, which, alter being successfully
refuted on several occasions, has been again
trumped up by the Repository, for use dur-
ing the present campaign. Its charge
against Judge Woodward is in the following
language :
« Judge Woodward 1s a man of conceded
ability, and as subtle and dangerous as he
is able, His official carcer commencd by
his electiou as a Delegate to the Constitu-
{ional Convention in 1837, in which body he
was.one of the youngest members. Ile took
considerable part in all the able debates
which characterized its proceedings, and
and made his mark especially in his earnest
efforts to disfranchise all foreigners in Penn-
sylvania. He made one of his ablest
sifeeches in favor of incorporating the denial
of suffrage to all foreigners with our organic
law, but he failed—so that the Irish and
Germans who vote for him in October, can
do so with the satisfactory assurance that if
Woodward had succeeded in his efforts to
amend our Constitution, they would now be
without even the right to vote at all.”
It appears from the puSlished procced-
ings of the “Reform Convention,” which as-
sembled at Harrisburg, in May, 1837, that
Mr. Woodward was then a young man of
twenty-eight, was a delegate to that Con-
vention from Wayne county.—In the course
of the deliberation of that body, a resolu-
tion was introduced by Mr. Thomas and
and seconded by Mr. Konighmacher, both
Whig delegates, directing ‘‘that a commit-
tee be appointed to enquire into the expedi-
ency of so amending that Constitution of
Pennsylvania, as to prevent the wture im-
migration into this State of foreigners, free
persons of color, and fugitive slaves, from
other States or Territories,” This resola-
Whigsin the Convention, andprobably would
have passed, had not Mr. Woodward with a
view, as he bimself has since stated, to
bring out the true character of the measure,
and at the same time defeat it if possible,
proposed an amendment, which compelled
the withdrawal of the original motion, and
thus saved the foreigners from dis-
franchisement by their pretended friends,
the Whigs. The remarks imputed to Mr.
Woodward, in. the support of his amend-
ment, were not taken down by the regular
seerctaries of the Convention, who records
the facts we have justgiven ; but by a sten-
ographer, who gave him no opportunity for
their revision, but incorporated them,
garbled and perverted, into the “published
debates,” lis true position on this
question may be learned from his reply to
Mr. Earl, in this same Convention, on the
tenth of the ensuing January, when he made
use of the following words :
I never did propose to exclude the for-
eigners now in the country from political
privileges ; nor those who should at any
time hereafter come inlo the country. * * *
My Amendment was to a proposition made
by the gentlemen from Chester, (Mr, Thom-
as, ) sugggsted an inquiry into the expedien-
cy of excluding foreigners from our soil,
and the amount of it was to give the pre-
posed inquiry a different direction from
that proposed by the gentleman from Ches-
ter,” >
And it may still further be gathered from
the following letter written by him to the
Wayne County Herald, in 1851, in which he
said:
“I am not going to profess any new-born
zeal to foreigners nor to Hatter their pas-
sicns or prejudices, J am going to treat
them as T always have treated them—as
American citizens entitled to equal rights
with myself, but no more entitle? to make
war on me for sentiments imputed to me by
political opponents, and according 10 which
L have never acted, then I have ty make war
on them. I am no Native American, and 1
never was, either in sentiment or action. I
have no hostility to foreigners, and I never
had. They and I have friends amongst
them whom I value above all price, and no
intrigueing politicians or unscrupulous edi-
tors are to be permitted to array us in hostile
attidute.”
Again, in 1845, Judge Woodward was
promised the vote of the Native American
clection to the United States Scnate, in case
he would pledge himself to support the
twenty-one years naturalization law. He
spurned the offer, and 1n consequence there-
of was defeated by those votes. Did this
indicate hostility to foreigners ? Not only
this j during the existence of the Know-
Nothing party, Judge Woodward was ex-
plicit in his denunciation of 1ts principles
and designs ; and in numbers of private let-
ters, and in all his'public course he has re-
peatedly condemned the progressive spirit
which would deprive a man of his political
privilegct on account of the place of his
birth. In view of these facts of history,
which cannot be refut-d, is there any polit
ical justice, or truth or honesty in the dec-
laration of the Respository? «If V/oodward
had succeeded in his efforts to amend the
Constitution the Irish and Germans would
now be without even the right to vote at all?
He was the very man who preserved that
right for them, while, even at that t'me,and
on and mislead persons to whom the truth
is unknown. We would, therefore, soliert”
from you an expression of yourviews on the
sutject, if your time will permit, not doub-
ting that every candid wind will thus be
satisfied, that by no act of your life have
you been justly chargeable with having en-
tertained men or measures favoring an illib-
eral or proscriptive policy towards adopted
citizens on account of the place of their
birth or their religious opinions.
Very respectfully yours &c.,
Edwin M. Stanton,
Charles Shaler.
Samuel W. Black,
Jas. Ross, Snowden and others.
AUDGE WOODWARD'S REPLY.
+ Gentlemen ; ~The offical duties which
brought me to Pit sturg. kept me const.
ntly engaged My answer (o your letier
must therefore be brief.
From my earliest youth to this present
moment, I have heen an earnest and hearty
supporter of the Democr.tic party, ard sn
equaly zealous opponent, so fur ag my polit-
ical action could decoronsly and properly
80, of whatever has opposed it. Tam not
and never have been a ‘Native Ameri-
can” in any political sense any more
than I am or have been a Whig, Anti-mason
or an Abolitionist.
The charge of **Native ig attempted to
be sustained by a motion made by Mr.
Thomas, a Whig member from Chester
county, and was calculated to compel hig
party [who were in a majority in the Cop-
Convention] to came up to the mark or back
out. They chose the latter branch of the
alternative, ana my motion having answer-
cd its purpose, was witdrawn. The 8in
of introducing the subject into that bo-
dy lies at the door of a Whig, and not at at
mine.
The speech so often quoted against me, T
am not responsible for, It was introduced
into the debates by a Whig reporter in vio:
iation of the rules of the body, which re-
quired him to submit it for revision before
publication, and which he never did. I
made some observations explanatory of my
amendment to Mr. Thomas’ motion, but
that speech is not a fair report of them - -
My other speeches were submitted for re-
vision, this one I never saw till the book
was printed,and I have ngver ceased to ccn-
dewn it.
During the session of the Convention,
ficmber in debate'alluded fo the motionnot
the speech, as indicative of hostility to for-
eigners. I promptly denounced the impu-
tation there, in fihe face of the Convention
as | have done many a time since, as =
gross misrepresentation, Sce debates of the
Convention, vol. 10 page 33,34.
I bave retained the undiminished confi-
dence of the Democratic members of the
Reform Convention, several of whom wero
adopted citizens, and all of them opposed
to Nativism. Would this have been possi-
if.the Whig reports of my saying and do-
ings had been true ¢ The Native Ameri-
can party itself is my witness. Seven
years agol was the Demoerstic canens
nominee for United States Senator. The
county of Philadelpkia was represented by
natives.
They asked me, whether, if elected by
their votes, would favor their measures for
changing the gaturalization laws. Tare
swered them NO,and they threw every vote
they could command against me, and ras-
ed a shout of trinmph over their glorious
victory.
You refer to statements in the Whig pa-
pers of this city. One of them was shown
duging the later days ¢f Native American-
ism, the political friends of the Repository
were seeking every opportunity to s'rike a
deadly blow at that and every other sacred
right which the Irish and Germans fled to
this colintry to secure. This libel on the re-
cord of Judge Woodward, which is so irten-
ed to prejudice the German and Irish vote
against him, will have but lit le eflect when
it is remembered that it is made by a party
in whose platform proscription of foreign
ers has for years beencardinal principle,and
who through their recognized organs, are
this day denouncing them as *‘off-courings of
the earth,” ¢ the vomitings of the jails and
voor-houses of Eidrope, who are sent to this
country to breed dissention and riot,” “of
whose barbarism and ferocity the New
York riot is but a fitting exhibition.” This
effort to injure the standing of Judge Wood-
ward among the adopted cit'zens of the State
will fail as signally as it has done in time
past. Khey will shun the poisonous embrace
of their old enemics as they would
the touch of a leper.—Chambersburg Spirit,
JUDGE WOODWARD ON KNOW-
NOTHINGISM.
The following correspondence was pub-
lished in 1852, during the campaign of that
year, when Judge Woodward was a candi-
date for the Supreme Court. It speaks for
itself ; and conclusively refutes the old lie
revived by the renegade Forney, his hire-
ling Pearce,and other unprincipled Abolition
partizans. a
Hon. Geo. W. WoobwARD :
DrAR Sir :—The undersigned members of
the Democratic party beg leave to call your
attention to certain charges now frequently
made by the Whig presses, against you in
regard to your views upon the naturaliza-
tion laws, and alledged hostility to the rights
of naturalized citizéns. We are aware that
you may justly regard your life and condnct
in the high station you have occupied, and
the boundless confidence of the Democratic
party which you enjoy, as a sufficient an-
swer to such calumnies.
to me a few days ago. in which was a gar-
bled extract from a letter written by mo
about a year ago. in which 1 repelled the
imputation of Nativiem as destinctly as
eny it now. Yet the cditor told his rea-
ders that the letter contains an admission
that my sentiments were at the timeadverse
to the right of the foreign born citizens. —
A copy of the le ter misrepresented hy the
Pittsburg Gazette. [ send you herewith in
the Keystone of S p. 28, 1851.
When men will allow their political pas.
sions to get the better of their veracity so
far as to impel thm to acts and associations
like this, it is easy enough to understand
how and why I was misrepresented by a
reporter of the Convention, whose mctives
for doing 0 were just as strong am
these which actuat® my political opponents
now.
Another allagation, that [ opposed Judge
Campbell last fall, is as false as any other of
the numerous misstatements recent'y made
against me. I never opposed any nomince
vn account ¢f his birth or religion, and i sup-
ported no nominee last fall more heartily
than I did Judge Campbell.
It is with infinite reluctasice T appear be-
fore the public at this time, even in self-de-
ence. ‘A candidale for a judicial office is,
perhaps more t .an any other candidate, re-
quired to await quietly the decision of the
people... Taw as sensible as any man can
be, that politics ought to be kept away as
for as possible from judicial clections but
the terms of your letier leave me no choice
but to answer. 1 have answered by giving
you briefly the truth. Igive it because it
is the truth and 7 accompany 1t with no ap-
peal to party passion or prejudice.
If industrous defamation can succeed
in representing me as having ever sustain-
ed any illiberal or proscriptive ism, then
the Truth and life are powerless against
slander.
There are some presses, and many men
opposed to me in political sentiments, who
are disposed to treat me fairly, and “yp.
will not descend to low appliances * | accom-
plish s[party purpose. Such =n and press-
es command my respe*{, Against athere
who are less 6eruP’lous, I have no shield
but the truth and my life, and relying an
these, I can afford to await in patience, the
verdict of the people. Thanking you,
gentlemen, for the kind feelings mani- -
fested in your letter, 1 am, with great res-
pect, :
Your obedi.nt servant
tion was sustained by a large number of
But the charges are intended to operate
Gro. W., Woopwaan