a
Dh Muse.
{Written for the Watchman. ]
PARTING.
BY WILLIE. .
Good bye, dear lady, since tis so
The time has come that we must part,
Give me one kiss that I may go,
And enter life with fearless heart.
Often {though my path be clouded
With many trials, dark and drear,
Tirm I'll he—my heart enshrouded,
1n the smiles you gave when near.
Strong temptations may aasail me,
Trying me from good to turn,
Yet they may not, cannot change me,
While thy thoughts within me burn,
The gentle words that thou hast spoken
Inhappy times I spent with thee,
Of evil they will give betoken,
While they guide and counsel me.
Then fare thee well, my lady dear,
One word of courage only give ;
Then I shall not the cold world fear,
For intby smiles and love I live,
Aaronsburg, Rep. 5th. 1863.
PM AN ABOLITIONIST.
BY “BRICK’’ POMEROY.
I'm an Abolitionist, and glory in the name—
A nigger revolu tionist without a bit of shame!
A sweet amalgamationist who in wedlock would
be tied
Toa thick lipped niggeress who'd be my petted
bride! .
I'm an abolitionist—
One of the oily crew:
I don’t care a curse, I don’t!
For the damage I may do!
I'm a secessionist—if the nigger can’t be free
The ruins of this loved land, is home enough for
ma,
I glory in the nigger—he is my only Cod,
And dead be all the white men burried ‘neath
the sod.
Tam an Abolitionist —
One of the ranting kind !
While brave men to battle go!
I eneak and stay behind.
I’m an aboliticnist—fur one nigger dear to save
I’d soe a hundred white men thrown into a sol-
dier’s grave—
Blood running red in rivulets from prairie to the
sea—
White men killed or slaves
could be free.
I'm an abolitionist,
Oue of the Devil's pride—
And when the call to arms comes
I'll slink away and hide.
made Jif the nigger
&
I'm an Abolitionist—TI glory in this war,
For I know when it is over I cannot show a soar.
1’ stay at home and glory in ths mischief I
have done.
Stay until I am drafted, and then Zura tail and
Tun, .
T am an abelitionist—
Of that there’s no mistake
4nd want some wench to kiss me
Just for my mother’s sake.
~ AMiseellangons,
READ, TAX-PAYERS. THE RECORD
OF A. @. CURTIN.
Our readers will remember that we have
published, during the past month several
articles, from the Pittsburg Gazette the lea-
ding ergan of the Abolition party in Wes-
tern Pennsylvania, proving the corruption
and imbecility, of Andrew G. Qurtin, We
give another one below from the same
source which we hope every voter in the
county will read. After such evidences
against him from men of his own party,
who have stood side by side with him du-
ring the whole of his administration, let
the honest laboring tax-payers whose hard
earned dollar was taken from him ang giv.
en over into the hands of that mammoth
Corporation, the Central Pennsylvania
Railroad Company say whether he will
support A. @, Curtin, the corruptionist, in
preference to the honorable, honest, and no-
ble Geo. W. Woodward.
Tho Governor and the Tonnage Tax.
We have already treated our readers to
a curious chapter 1n the history of the ad-
ministration of public affairg of this State
under the auspices of Governor Curtin, —
Whether it was calculated 10 recommend
him for a second tern they will be able to
judge for themselves.
But there was an other act more damag-
aging by far, and that was his signature of
the infamous bill to repeal the Tonnage Tax.
He knew and confessed that it was atroci-
ously wrong. He could not but know that
that it was procured—as hag since been
shown by the report of committee of the
House—corrupt and illegal influences. He
was solemnly admonished, as was the Leg-
islatur® that it would be ruinous to the
party .& himself, and that the men who
voted for it—outside of Philadelphia —would
be left at home by their constituents. Ife
admitted the probable consequences, as to
the party and himself, and was solemnly
and repeatedly pledged to refuse it his as:
sent. He signed it with indecent haste, du-
ring a recess of the Legislature, under the
pressure of the principal counsellors, Thom
as A Scott and A, K. McClure, in opposition
to the remonstrances of his Attorney Gener-
al [the Hon, S. A. Parviance, now of this
city,] and hig secretary of State, and after
having given to thoge gentlemen the most
positive assurance that it should be vetoed.
He signed it too, immediately after these
assurances were given, without the know-
ledge of the former gentlemen, who were his
constitutional advisers and upon a private
ne
Scott, for the Committe to pay the sum of
$75,000 per annum into the Treasury, which
agreement ho concealed from the people and
afterwards surrendered to the company,
without even preserving a copy of it. When
! interrogated at the next session upon this
point, he admitted the fact of agreement and
its surrender, and excused his conduct on
the ground that the Company was actually
| paying more than that amount in taxes to
| the State already, and that of course it was
of no further value to the people. The re-
cord showed that they had not been pay-
ing the half of that amount, and the whole
statement was contradicted by the testi
mony of the Attorney General himself who
swore before the Hopkins Committee that
the paper was given by Scott, and placed
in ls hands as an official document, that
it was afterwards demanded from him by
John Edgar Thompson, President of the
Company, on the ground that Scott had no
right to give it, that he refused to surren-
der it for the reason that 1t was a Public
Record, and that it disappeared from his
office, without his privity or any knowlege
ps in writing, made by Thomas A.
{on his part as to the way in which it was
withdrawn! These facts were before the
Hopkins Committee, and ignored in their
report, the Chairman (Mr, Hopkins) consen-
ting reluctantly to their suppression, for
the purpose of securing a unanimous report
which he could not otherwise have got
from a Committee, whose good will the
Governor, if notgreatly misrepresented, had
spared no pains to secure. They are still
of record, and well known to the copper-
heads who favor his nomination, and will be
duly paraded, of course, if the Union party
of this State should be so unwise as to in.
vite it, by selecting him as their candidate
—& step which, by the way, neither the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company nor hiscon-
fidential advisers and managers, who as the
newspapers tell us, have been so recently
resummoned to; Harrisburg on the occasion
of the invasion of the State, nor any other
of the parties who took so much in-
terest in securing for im the prom-
ise cf foreign employment, would be likely
to desire.
The same legisiature passed three other
acts, all part and parcel of the same !gigan-
tic scheme of spoilation and domination—
one robbing the Treasury of seven millions
of dollars, in the name of the Sunbury and
Erie Railroad company —and the other two
to perfect the whole arrangement by author-
izing either the merger or transfer of (hat
road itself to the Pennsylvania Central
Railroad Company, which has smece been ef-
fected under the form of ninety years’ lease.
Governor Curtin, with no apparent will of
his own, approved . them all, apparently,
according to programme, thereby stripping
the Sinking Fund of at least eighteen mil-
lions of dollars, aud waking this monstrous
corporation the permanent master of the
State and its Legislature, Whether it owns
them now or not, may he judged by the
fact, that although it had been solemaly
found by a committe of the House, that
this legislation was procured by Thos. A.
Scott by fradulent and illegal means, that
he had evaded the process of the House, and
that the President of the Company had de-
clined an examiration on a doctor's certifi-
cate, a second feeble effort to repeal the law
was baffled and defeated at the last session,
and no attempt wasmade to direct a prose-
cution, or even to revive the inquiry, and
bring the defaulting witnesses before the leg
islature !
These facts wil be 50 new and so start
ling to many of those who have been inno-
cently, because 1gnorantly, advising the re-
nomination of the present incumbent, as to
male it necessary, perhaps, to furnish the
evidence of them. We accordingly subjoin
the message referred to, the Report of the
Auditor General, and the testimony of the
Hon. 8. B. Purviance, in regard to the facts
attending the signature, The first has
no precedent, we venture to say, in legisla-
tive history. The last is equally curious
as illustrative of some ot the peculiarities of
the Governor, and his eminent unfitness
for the position, All will be useful, by way
of reference, in case any one shall be dis.
posed to‘press his claims in the face of such
a presentation. —Pittsh” “g Gazette
———
———ig-
REPEAL OF THE TONNAGE TAX.
THE GIGANTIC SWINDLE.
Tax-payers of Centre county ! 30u have
an account to setttle with Governor Curtin,
The Legislature of this State, in 1861, re-
leased by law, the Pennsylvania ‘Railroad
Company from the payment of Tonnage
Tax, which deprived the State of a just
revenue to the amount of some 4ree hun
dred thousand dollars a year! Nay, more,
at that time the Railroad owed the State
$700,000 for the two previous years tax.—
The Legislature in a section of the same
bill repealing the Tonnage Tax, wiped out
this debt ! So by this one act of the Leg-
islature— which was then composed of a
two thirds Republican majority in both
Houses— the State sustained a loss of the
Tonnage Tax, then amounting to $300,000
a year (it would be a million a year by this
time) and also the $700,000 that was due
her !
Governor Curtin engineered this plunder-
ing bill through the Legislature and placed
his signature to it. Remember these facts,
people of Cen're, when you go to vote in
es a I mii.
October.
THE PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER
DEPRIVED OF HIS VOTE BY TH#
ABOLITIONISTS]
The hypocritical -Abolitionists, at the
present time, are affecting great sympathy
with the soldiers, who, under the Constitu-
ton of Penusylvania, are not permitted to
vote while absent from their'State, That
they should attempt to impose upon the peo-
ple with professions of friendship for those in
the service of their country is utterly amaz-
ing,” when the history of this important
question’ is well known, and is so entirely
of the “soldiers’ friends,” We propose to
refresh the memories of our oblivious Jaco-
bin friends by faithfully recalling the past,
and plainly showing the persistent manner
in which the Aboiitionists labor to deprive
the soldiers of the exercise of the elective
franchise. ;
In 1861, when the returns of the elections
held by the Pennsylvania volunteers were
cpened, they were found to contain a forged
return from a regiment alleged to be eom-
manded by a certain Col, Wi, Shimpfeller,
which gave the Abolition candidates in this
city, a majority of over eight hundred votes.
This return, although a palpable forgery,
would, with others equally fradulent, have
been certified to by the return judges, (a ma-
jority of whom were abolitionists;) and
would have been made by them the basis of
certificates in favor of their candidates, had
not an injuction been obtained from the Sa-
preme Court, then in session at Pittsburg.
Foiled in this attempt to overcome the genu-
ine vote of the volunteers, the Abolitionists
then resorted to another scheme equally
base and fradulent They ascertained that
a large number of the officers in command
of companies which had voted, had not re-
ocived their PAPER commission from Goy-
ernor Curtin, and they endeavored to use
this as a pretext for withholding their re.
turns of these companies from the return
Jjudges—the result would have been that
the Democratic majority in the very few
companies in. which the commissions had
been sent to their officers, would not have
been sufficient to overcome the Abolition
army and home vcte. The prompt and
fearless uction of Judge Ludlow then hold-
ing the Court of Common Pleas, prevented
the execution of their nefarious project, and
the Prothonotary was compelled to lay be-
fore the return judges the whole legal army
vote, as the law plainly directed him to do,
But the disgraceful efforts of the Abolition-
ists to have the soldiers’ vote rejected did
Bot cease here, and the majority of the
Board of Return Judges refused to count
the votes of the companies in which the offi-
cers had not received their PAPER commis.
sions, This refusal led to proceedings in
the Court of Common Pleas, by which, un-
der a peremptory mandamus, the return
judges were compelled to perform their duty
and count all the votes. In spite of this uc-
tion of the Court, and in violation of the
plain letter of the statute, the Abolition ma-
jority of the return judges, after uniting
with the Democratic minority in giving
certificates of election based upon the whole
legal vote cast, met in secret session after
the adjournment of the regular board, and
made out certificates in favor of the defeat-
ed Abolition = candidates.—Tnese latter
fraudulent certificates were, of course, re-
jected by the Court, but not without the
presiding Judge, Altison, indulging in some
complimentary remark in reference to the
parties to the foul conspiracy,
The failure of these criminal attempts to
disfranchise the soldiers only redoubled the
the exertions of the Abolitionists, They
immediately filed petitions contesting the
election of the Democratic candidates, in
which every alleged omission of the most
insignificant details in conducting the elec-
tious in the various camps was taken hold
of, and every infamous charge which parti-
san malice could invent was made against
the ‘men for whom they now pretend so
all, they insisted that the statute confering
in direct violation of the Constitution of
Pennsylvama!
Whilst these petitions were pending, it
was ascertained that a case would come be-
fore the Supreme Court, from Luzerne coun
ty, which involved the decicon of the con-
stitutional question raised, and al] further
proceedings were suspended to await the
higher court. But it was afterwards dis-
covered that the Luzerne case involved a
point of jurisdiction and that, possibly, the
Court might not be compelled to consider
the constitutional question. This was a
new difficulty’ which required prompt atten-
tion from these Argus-oyed patriots. The
plan hit upon by them was certamly novel,
if not ingenious. Tt was alleged that a
soldier named Kunzman, who had returned
to the city from the Army of the Potomac,
Nad voted at the election held by the Penn-
sylvania regiments, he being at the time an
unnaturalized foreigner. An indictment
was framed against him in the Quarter Ses-
sions, and he was immediately arraigned.
Unlike defendants generally, who perverse-
ly insist upon giving the Commonwealth the
trouble of proving the charge against them,
and after the facts in the case have been
proved still avail themselves of every im-
perfection of the law under which they are
arrainged, the accommodating Kanzman
admitted the facts alleged in the indictment,
and by a demurrer based his defence solely
.
adverse to their spurious claims to the title’
much concern and sympathy. —But, above $
the elective franchise upon the soldier was |,
upon the unconstitationality of the law un-
der which the election was held. Here, then
‘was the opportunity of making the Supreme
Court face the mosic. The liberality of
Kunzman had relieved the District Attorney
of the difficult task of proving that he was
born in a foreign country, had never been
naturalized inimny of the Stafes, and had
voted at an election held hundreas of miles
away ; and the only question presented fop
argument was the very one desired to be.
brought before the Supreme Court, shaped
in such a way that it could not be evaded.
Accordingly, on the same day on which
Kunsman was arraigned and demurred to
the indictment, the constitutionality of the
law authorizing the soldiers’ vole was
argued before Judge Allison in the Quarter
ter Sessions by counsel, all of whom, in-
cluding the District Attorney and counsel
for the parties, who, in the election cases,
were endeavoring to have the election law
pronounced unconstitutional. The decision
Was a summary one. The learned Aholi-
tion Judge did not invite the attention of his
associates to a question of such grave im-
pore as that declaring void a solemn actog
the Legislature, nor did he require time for
deliberation, but, when the argument was
concluded, promptly pronounced the law un-
constitutional, and gave judgment for the
defendant. The Commonwealth appealed
to the Supreme Court, The record was
hastily made up, and the District Attorney,
not waiting for the next session for Phila-
delphia cases, submitted the matter at once
to the Court when engaged in hearing coun-
try cases. As no oral argument was de-
sired, the Court acceded to bis request, and
took the case into consideration. At the
ensuing term Judge Woodward delivered
the opinion of the Court, holding that one
who was not a citizen of Pennsylvania could
not be indicted for an offence committed in
the State of Virginia, and that the con-
stitutionality of the law allowing soldiers to
vote was not necessarily inyolved in the
case, il was unnecessary to express any
opinion upon that point. The Luzerne case
had in the meantime been argued, aud as
the constitutional question was fairly pre-
sented, it was squarely met and decided by
the Court. The decision made was received
with intense delight by the Abolition party
in this city, and the benefits resulting from
that decision, outsting as it did a Democrat-
ic Sheriff, are now enjoyed by the Abolition-
ists, including McMichael and Forney. Of
the Judge who heard the argument and took
part in the decision —Chief Justice Lowrie
being absent—none was. from the outset,
more emphatic in expressing his opinion
against the constitutionality of the soldiers’
vote than the Abolition “member of the
Court, Mr. Justice Reed. We have thus
endeavored to present a plain unvarnished
statement of the case, and we ask the honest
judgment of the men of all parties upon the
shallow and miserable hypocrisy of the Ab-
olition leaders now claiming to be the ex-
clusive friends of our gallant volunteers. —
Age.
—_—t
7 If you want ‘negro equality’’ vote
for Curtin,
[7 If you want hard times to continue,
vote for Curtin.
[ZF If you want the country to go the
devil, vote for Curtin.
I= If you want to defeat a pure, upright
and honest man, vote for Curtin.
2&5 If you want to crush out all kope
of ending this war, vote for Curtin,
Be If you want to elect a sycophantic
and unprincipled demagogue, vote for Curtin
IZ If you want to elect the rea? “soldiers
friend,” vote for Woodward,
IZ If you revere the Constitution of our
fathers, vote for Woodward.
[5 1f you want to give a death-blow to
aboli tion-niggerism, vote for Woodward:
UZ If you want the Union restored as our
fathers made it, vote for Woodward.
[=~ If you have any regard for the wel
fare of your posterity, vote for Woodward:
157 It you want peace, plenty and pros-
perity fo reign in the land, vote for Wood-
ward.
027 If you want to elect the purest man
since the days of Frauk Shunk, vote for
Woodward.
[= If you want to kindle ahope in the
hearts of the people that the country . may
yet be saved, vote for Woodward.
127 If you love God and your country,
vote for Woodward,
I= InPorTANT.—Robert Dale Owen, Jas.
Mclsane and Samuel G. Howe, announce
themselves as appointed by Government to
ascerlain Nigger Statistics, as to whether
mulatto females usually have as many chil-
dren as white females. This is the pro-
gramme of amalgamation of course.
SB BOP
177 A Republican who professes ‘not to
be an abolitionist, but supports the abolition
paity, is like a tad pole, merely in a state
of transition, He will losa his tail'by and
by.
TTT Rr DP.
Let every Democrat when he writes a let-
ter to a soldier, encloge him a Democratic
ticket and and ask him to vote 1t.
TT Pp nn:
[I Since the beginning of the war a
great majority of the Wide-Awakes have
become fast asleep, and cannot hear the call
to arms, )
hi gle al dL
A Yankee TrAom.—Free the negroes and
make slaves of white men.
~ LET FREEMEN REMEMBER,
That the country was iwarned for yearg
that the tridmph of the sectional, disunion,
aboli'ion party would give a civil war and
dissolve the Union, :
LET THEM REMEBER
that as soon as this abolition Darty came in
power, the Union crumbled, and that while
democrats wero in favor of the Crittenden
compromise, which the South ‘promised to
accept, the abolitionists were opposed to it
and voted it down against the petitions,
the protests and the votes of the democratic
party—thus throwing us into this stupen-
dous cil war.
LET THEM REMEMBER
that the abolition designs of the party in
power, were soon after developed, by try-
ing to strike down the freedom of the press,
of speech and by the adoption of the uni-
versal emancipation and awalgamation po-
licy.
LET THEM REMEMBER,
that the party in power have plundered the
government of millions upon millions of
dollars, have made an odious and oppres-
sive system of taxation, have burdened ug
with a most stupendons national debt have
created scores of new offices for the benefit
of their favored partizans, have quartered
troops upon us without cause, and have
shown the most astonishing profligacy and
extravagance to enrich their own partizans
at the expense of the country,
LET THEM REMEMBER.
that the party in power, after making the
most solemn promises of free press and
free speech, and keeping the motto stand-
ing 1m their papers, have since shown their
disregard of all pledges, by trying to des-
troy by mobs and brute force, these great
rights of freemen.
LET THEM REMEMBER
that their promises to the poor man, like
all the rest, were false and deceptive, as
the poor man must now pay double prices
for all he consumes, must compete with ne.
gro labor and be classed by this administra.
tion as a negro’s equal. and not only that
but must, because he has not $300 be fore-
ed by bayonets, away from his family into
the army, while the rich do not feel the loss
of the price which exemps them.
LET THEM REMEMBER.
that this is the old Know Nothing party
with Cartin and Know Nothing at 1ts head,
In favor of breaking down the sovereiguty
of the States, and erecting a despotic form
of government, in which the wealthy and
aristocratic shall have a monopoly and rank
above the laborer, as in despotic countries
in Europe. * Can the poor man aig them by
his own vote to destroy his own liberty? if
he does, he is not worthy to be a freeman,
and will not be one long.
LET THEM REMEMBER.
that Andrew G, Curtin is only a Know
Nothing, in favor of denying forcigners
rights which he would give to negroes, but
that he is reported as having once asserted
that th Pennsylvania Dutch all had
“DOUBLE SKULLS?”
and that he bas favored the violations of
both State and National Coastitutions by
arbitrary arrests, and has favored mobs,
outrage and riotings by pardoning rioters
and ruffians, after they were tried and eon-
victed for vatraging decency, law ‘and hu-
manity: This he did in the Columbia Cp
riot case, and in the riot ease in Muncy,
and yet he asks law abiding and Constitu-
tional men to give him their votes ! They
will give him an invitation to leave Harris-
burg:
LET FREEMEN REMEMBER
all these things when they go to vote on
the 13th of October, and cast their votes for
Woodward and Lowtie, men of character,
who respect the law and obey the Constitu
tion, who hold principles of equality between
the rich and the poor, and who make no
licing promises to the people as the abolition
party have done. Let them remember that
deniocratic principles do not change—that
a a 2 an = = SRR
WHO WILL VOTE FOR GEORGE W.
WOODWARD.
The Bucks county Intelligencer having
asked the question, “Who will vote for
George W. Woodward 2’ the Doyelstown
Democrat, (owned by Colonel Davis, who |
has showu his patriotism and valor upon
many hard fought fields since the war began)
thns answered the question +
1. Fivery soldier who was provided by An-
drew G. Curtin with shoddy uniform —with
worthless shoes, and with defective blankets
in order that the friends of that distinguish-
ed patriot could make large contract profits
on which the Governor would receive his
commission.
2. Every soldier who was seduced into
the service of the United States for six
‘months, upon the pledge, solemnly given by
Andrew G. Curtin, that the man 80 volun-
teering should be exempt. from the draft 7.—
A pledge which was violated almost as soon
agit was made.
3. Every member of the gallant Pennsyl-
vania Reserves, who, after performing pro-
digies of valor, were tetained in the Federal
service without being allowed to come home
and recruit, while New England regiments
were farloughed ; because Governor Cur-
tin had not manliness enough to demand
this well earned reward of their faithful
services.
4. Every mechanic who ig compelled to
take orders upon his employer's store, in-
stead of receiving cash for his services, will
vote against the man who vetoed the bill to
remedy this evil, which wro ngs the laborer
of his hire,
6 Every farmer in {he Cumberland Val-
ley, who was robbed by the rebels, be-
cause Governor Curtin had not the manli-
ness and the ability to do his sworn duty
by the Commonwealth of which he was the
Executive Chief,
6 Every tax payer who fully understands
the great robbery perpetrated by the bill
repealing the tonnage tax, which Govern-
or Curtin gigned after he was pledged to
veto it.
7. Every man who believes that a State
is an independent sovereignty within its
constitutional sphere, and who is unwilling
that State independence should be sacrific.
ed to gratify a Federal despotism,
8 Every honest man who knows all the
corruptions practised "by Curtin and his
friends, which were 50 gross and monstrous
that his Attorney General, Purviance, was
forced to resign his office, desiring to remain
an honest man, :
9 Every naturalized citizen of Penusyl-
vania who recollects that Andrew G. Curtin
was the Iligh Priest of Know-Nothingism in
1854-5, when he was Secreiary of State to
Gov. Pollock.
10. Every mon who has had a son, broth-
er or friend drafted, or who wag dratted
himself in October last—when Govornor
Curtin permitted Pennsylvania to be com-
pelled to furnish by draft a surplus over her
quota—when other States, which had not
furnished their ful] number, were exempted
from conscription.
11. Every man who believes 1n personal
liberty, free speech and a fice press—that
great triad of rights which Governor Curtin
has suffered the generalgovernment to {ram-
ple under fot in Pennsylvania, in defiance
of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of
the United States,
12. Every man who believes shat this gov-
ernment is a government of whize men,
and1s opposed to the negro equality —the
great end and aim of Gov. Curtin and the
Abolitionigts.
, 13. Every man who believes in the Union
as our fathers framed 1t, and who locks to
this war as a means of preserving the
latter and restoring the former, and not
as the great machine by which States shall
be turned into provinces and negroes into
equals,
14. Every man who is in favor of peace,
based upon a restoration of the Union as it
was, with equal rights in all the States, and
they have blessed the nation with peace,
plenty and prosperity in the past and will
do so hereafter, Remember these things
and vote the democratic icket.— Northum.
berland Democrat,
te
Republicans are Monarchists.
As an evidence that the Republicans are
in favor of a monarchy, it is only necessary
to refer to the following facts :
1, They strike at the very root of human
the inherient rights of free men preserved
and perpetuated.
These classes will give George W. Wood-
ward at least thirty thousand majority in
October next,
MURDER BY NEGRO
WHOLE FAMILY MAS-
SACRED.
SHOCKING
SOLDIERS —
A correspondent of the St. Louis Dally
Union thus describes {the following revolt:
liberty by denying the citizens the privilege
of the writ of, habeas corpus.
2. They have imposed stamp duties such
as the colonies refused to regard,
3. They introduced the conscription act,
the offspring of the bloody Jacobins of
France.
4. They have inaugurated a censorship
of the press.
5. They claim that all power is in the
President, and ‘that the people have no
rights save such as he is willing to bestow
upon them. : .
6. They whip men at the etake as in the
days of old John Adams.
7. They pardon mobs and justify them in
tearing down papers and riding men on rails
for their opinions. :
8. They are proscriptive in religion, asin
the case of Know-Nothingism,
9. They trample Constitutions and laws
under their feet, and resort to despotic pow-
ors.
ing scene :— A most shocking butchery was
perpetrated about half past nine, A. M., on
the 4th inst. at Beckham's Landing,in Ten-
nessee, opposite Point Pleasant Iilinois,—
Twelve negroes, each of them armed with a
revolver, musket and bowie knife, went
that day to the house of Mr, Beckham, a
well know merchant, who had for years
kept store at that place, and who gave came
to the landing. There were in the house at
the time Major Becicham, his son Frank,
and the four children of his son. All them
were first tied by the negroes, and then
butchered, the fiends cutting off the heads
of some of the helpless victiins and stabbing
others. Tle lifeless bodies were then drag.
ged to the river and thrown into the water.
A safe in the house was broken open, and
every thing in the dwelling destroyed, —
Mrs: Beckham, wife of Frank Beckham, with
one of her children was absent at the time,
This fortunate absence saved their lives, as
Can honest men of freeman sustain them
by their votes ?
they did not return till the murderers had
left. A niece of Mr. Beckham wag passing
by the Louse just as the murderers had tied
his hands. He ordered her t, run for her
life. She did 80, ard althongh the villains
fired eighteen shots at her, she succeeded in
making her escape, being mounted on a
mule, which bore her out of reach of danger.
She gave the alarm and the whole neighbor
hood turned out after the murderers. Nina
of them were captured, half way be'ween
Island No 10 and the landing, by Lieuten-
ant Felson, The other thiee iad not been
heard of up to the evening of the 4th. The
arrested negroes all confessed the deed, but
declared that they were ordered 65 commit
the murder by Captain Thomas, comman-
ding the contraband at Island No. 10. There
is something mysterious about the whole
affair. The negroes were contrabands from
Island Ne. 10, brought thither from Cairo,
about four months ago. They could not
leave the Island without passes, and they
could not have been so completely armed
without the knowledge of the officers. Its
said that Mrs Beckham held a negro girl
whose mother had escaped to the Island. —
There are also two stories afioat of cther
depredations committed by the white offi-
cers of the two negro companies, on’ the is.
land. Be that As it may, the atrosious
deed has spread among the inhabitants of
the neighborhood, who believe that the
long expected massacre has commenced
Some are preg aring for fight, others for ven-
gence.
———— A saeco
“THE SOLDIER'S FRIEND."
The Tnguirer anhounced a few days since,
that Gov. Curtin, while in this city, had
been ealled on by several members of the
Savitary and Christian Commissions, who
had not seen him since they had met on
various battle-fields.” This is truly rouch-
ing, Tender, indeed, must have been the
meeting between Andy and the pious gen-
tlemen, parting, as they had done last,
‘‘apon various battle fields,” But there iy
Something puzzting abou the statement,
What m the world was Andy doing on these
battle-ficlds ? Ife was not there fighting, for
we know that in spite of his promise to head
the forces of Pennsylvania duting the recent
invasion, he maintamed a Secure position in
the rear, He 13 willing, like Artemas
Ward, to sacrifice al his able-bodied rela-
tives, down to his wife's brother in the good -
cause, but has no idea of exposing his own
precious person to rebel bullets. We pre-
sume therefore that the battle-fields on
which Andy met his sanitary and Christian
friends were fields on which the bloody
work was already done. Sad indced must
have been the spectable, to Andy, of men
maimed and slain, piled in gory heaps, with
no shroud save the shoddy rags with which
he had ciothed them.—Many a son of Penn-
sylvania, for whose comfort the country had
made every provision, marched to the field
in tatters, that Curtin and bis confederates
might be enriched. Many a brave boy slept
cold under his rotten blanket while Aboli-
tion 10bbers filled their pockets with the
money which the State had paid to buy him
a warm and good one. And the man who
sanctioned these outrageous frauds, and
profited by them, goes wanduring over the
country on the hunt of battle fields ; shecs
crocodile tears over dead Pennsylvamang
whom ke kept hungry and ragged while
alive ; shakes hands with the Christian and
Sanitary Commission ; wipes his eyes with
a cambric handkerchief, and snuffles about
being “the soldiers’ friend.” (Jod save the
poor soldier from the murderous friendship
of this battle-field tonic !
BOB Omen
[77 The Democratic party, called into ex-
istence by the **Alien and Sedition laws"
and other attempts to abridge the rights of
the peopic tinder the elder Adams, has sl.
ways been the sturdy champion of liberi
rights of the States or individuals, and
have rolled back the waves of oppression
which threatened to oversheln us jn the
past,
It was the Democratic party that repealed
the odious “Alien and Sedition laws,” and
maintained for the people the constitutional
right of diseussing the acts of their rulers,
and condemning them whenever they trans-
cended their delegated powers.
When the Masonic fraternity were perse-
cuted under the leadership of the notorious
Stevens, it was the Democratic party who
stood up against every species of persecu-
tion, and maintained the right of all per-
sons to enjoy their peculiar beliefs, so long
as they did not trench upon the rights of
others, or violate the laws of the land. —
And when in 1838 the proscriptive policy of
the Anti-Masonic party under Gov. Ritner,
culminated in an attempt to *streat the elec-
tions as though they had not been held,”
and {o retain their power by force, it was
the indignant Democracy that rose up in
defence of constitutional rights, and res‘or-
ed the supremacy of the laws,
When the Catholic Church was assailed
by bigoted New England fanatics, and
when, through their teachings, a besotted
mob was raised fo burn a nunnery near
Boston, at the midnight hour, and drive out
innocent and d:fencelesss women and chil-
dren naked into the inclement night; and
when, through. the same teachings, Anti-
and two other children were at school.
Catholic mobs were raised in Philadelphia,
churches burned, houses broken into, prop-
erty stolen and destroyed, women insulbed
and outraged, Luman lives sacrificed and
every species of outrage and wrong practic.
ed, it was the Democratic party that rallied
to the rescue, defended the persecuted, put
down the mob, punished the ‘offenders, and
bringing order out of chaos, restored peaco
and an acknowledegment of the constitu.
tional right to worship God aftey the dictates
of our own consciences. — Patriot and Un-
ton,
and law, They, bave always resis 47 tia 7 op
enc ouchhidus ar power No Die th Ast: