such a cause. This statement was publish-
ed in the Pittsburg papers, and of course
the attention of Major Woodward was soon
called to it. The character of the slander
love for soldiers which certain parties
parade so constantly. That love must
be sincere indeed which, while it over-
lays the soldier with fulsome adulation, | of some of the sayings and doings of Ils
, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 2, 1863,
EE TART RE
|
| CURTIN §'PICTURE, AS DRAWN BY
Fr
BEHOLD HIS RECORD:
We this week commence the publication |
A POLITICAL FRIEND.
« Pennsylvania has long been called the
Native Afaeiican parly iiscif 13 my wit
pess. Seven years ago I was the caucus
nominee fur U. S. Senator: The comaty of
Philadelphia was repfesenfed by Natives. —
A GLORIOUS RECORD.
Ve give in connection herewith a few
extracts frem speeches, letters and charges
SHER
ics A
et quick all that be holds near | hy Andrew G. Curtin, *¢ provision-
Gro. A. WOODWARD, ts
Written for the Wa tchman. |
0, NEVER SING THAT SONG AGAIN!
| Keystone State, and she has deserved thei po noble candidate, Ion. George W.
| name. Any one not blinded by prejudice |
: y Dred | tp ; ve Gploniive
must have accorded this to her, in thé late Woodward. The lovers of the Union given
They asked whether, if elected, by their
votes, I would favor their measures for
left him no alternative. It was due to him-
self and to his father that the statement Governor of Pennsylvania.
s | 1 tat 5
; 3 : Lato Lieut. Col. Cumdg- 2d. Penna. Re-| + ugh Gov. Curtin has been allowed by ; | JE
BY JonN ©, HEEL hould be immediately contradicted, and ac-) : ! en EN : 3 ; | changing the nataralization lass, [ answer-
1 Tagly i at onge Vn he Yootor of | SCTVES: “| the Jacobi administration at Washington | unhappy scenes through which our country | “8 by our fathers, will see that no be ter| A FE Li! ther threw a ; .
; : : , . : : : I ! ; ie : : ed them D t oo ohare
on a Tpke, # Soy abioien ih Wo cannot ite Major Invalid Corps. to draw his salary as such, {rom the Treas-| has been called to go. The resolutions of | Union man lives, moves or bas being. The Wey could oa oY an Cay es
ts words I would not hear, whic es Nn Y. - nl eee Bh es . % | g Ce Ci Vn ; ? : 4 xainst me, sud rand
; i : ; - ury of Penosylvihia, he 5 wot been | our Representatives, pledging the support! $ > see 5 : 5 ;
Its never sang without a sigh, call in the history of partizan warfare a DEMOCRATIC MERTING. y of Penosylviia he has in fact been |our Represcutalives, pledging pport | friends of the soldiers will see that ho is, shout of trinmph oves their Fic ory."—
| sotblng but the suppliant tool of the pec-
| ples masters at Washington,
| Sat : 8 , Federal Gov- | : Y i
and credit of the State to the Federal GOV- | { heir real friend ; lovers of law and justice
| ernment, together with the simultancous |
» . Vis; .
The rebellion crushers are just now try-| uprising of the people to furnish an army at : 5% {
ing (o prove that Judge Woodward holds to | fo assert its commands, did more to re-es- | Judge ; foreigners and naturalized citizens
Nor heard without a tear. Gro. W. Woenwany, Piltshurg, Sept. 1,
18
more disgraceful outrage opou the feelings
of un honorable gentleman than this fabri-
cation of Bigham, and we very much mis-
A grand rally of the Demiocracy of Pot.
ter and adjoining townships, was held at |
|
Centre Hall on the evening of the 22d 1st. |
; ill see n iS Unri: arless 03.
"Twas Mary sung that song for 129, will see tbat he is an upright, 1eariess | Du
When all was fife and joy,
ser as
i SS ps5 on oi
take the character of the people of Pennsyl-
vania if this und other kindred attacks
not recoil upon the beads of those from whom
they emanate. Engaged inan effort to throw
off the restraints of the laws and the Cons-
titution in the matter of government, these
people seem to be equally regardless of the
obligationa of honor and truth. To atlain
their object they shrink from no villainy :—
and unfortunately they are not always ex-
posed as completely as they have been in this
instance. Major Woopwarp,who was prac-
ticing law at our bar when the war broke
out, is a gentleman of high caaracter and at-
tainments, aud we are happy to know that,
gince he has been mn the service, hehas done
as much bard fighting as any officer in the
army of the Potomac. Ia. selecting him
as tho weapon with which to wound
Judge Woodmard, Mr. Bigham made a very
bad choice, and committed & great blun-
der.
1t should be added that as he statement,
which is thus contradicted, has been exten-
sively copied, common decency demands
{hat the Republican organs should give equal
publicity to this letter, in contradiction of
it. We trust, however, that none of our
renders will suppose that we expected to see
common decency exhibited by Governor
Curtin cr any of his friends in this contest.
Convicted forgers and confessed slanderers,
they will not be so inconsistent with them-
selves as to aid in the exposure of false-
When naught of care or misery,
Qur pleasures could alloy. do
How sad to think the faizest rose
That bloomed throughout fair May,
Is withered first by Autumn's blast, {
And borne from earth away.
Tno tale’s too sad for lipa to speak ,
But reorn it those who my,
Tho noblest ueart that tarcbl'd on eurth,
18 hushed tn death to-Qoy. 1
Meinory brings too greut a giief
Yor human hearts te"veur;
Lo star that lit my path through life
Has set in deep despair.
You'd never wake that strain again
Of joys forever gone,
Knew you but half the grief it brings
To be ar again that song.
But Mary, from Lex horao of bliss,
Hath sont a wora of heer;
Her angsl-volce breathes soft tho words:
«Pll sing it for you hers!”
‘The truest heart must ceago to throb,
And ench glad hope must die; .
For all that's known of bliss below
Is borrowed from on High!
For each sad care the heart hath known,
Yor every sigh that's given,
For every tear that trembles down,
A joy Is found in Heaven!
~
The loving heart that grief hath broke,
Hath strains too fad to hear;
Bat mortal tongue hath never spoke
The language of a tear. hood,
‘hero's cne bright hope to cheer mo oi 0 Hzapquarters Depor Camp INVALID )
i i . JORPS
When life's sed dream is o'er: ) : i
oh Meripian Hiv, D. C. Sep. 23, 63
To dwell on High, in love and peace, z y ep. 23, 03.
5 Mr. T. J Bigham, Pitsburg FPa.:
with Mary, evermore
BELLEFONTE, PA.
cnt
watten for tho Watchman. |
RIND WORDS.
Respectfully Inscrited to Miss S C. Hi of
Bellsfonte, wish the best wishes of the Author.
Sin: I have noticed in the newspapers a
report of a ass Convention held at Pitts-
Lurgh on the 16th instant in which you
are tepresented to have said, ia response to
an inquiry of one Mathews, as to where
Woodward (meaning Judge Woodward, the
Democratic nominee for Governor,) was
when Cwitin was attending to the sol
diers’ wants ; ‘that when Judge Wood-
ward's gallant Son came home from
Gettysburg, wounded in both legs, his fa-
ther told hin he might be thankful he got
oft so well-—that he ought to have been
wounded in tho heart for fighting in sucha
cause.’
As wy only brother capable of bearing
arin, who has made two campaigns with
the State Militia, has never been wounded
{ presume that I am the son of Judge
Woodward alluded to in the foregoing state-
men t- which statement { desitc to brand,as
you knew it to be when you mace it a
BY JOHN P. MITCHELL. *
When prafee, weil earned, is kindly
[tis a bleasod thing |
A fower which has its birth in haaven,
Whepeo all our blessings spring
given
Dut flattery has a blighting power,
And o'er its sweetest amilo
The darkest shades of falsehood lower,
To ruin and beguile,
Kind words are only worth hestowing,
1 hen prompted by the heart;
W hen from the goul’s pure fountain flowing
Without a touch of art. wicked and deliberate falsehihood. A cause
80 JI: ns to need such assistance must be
Kind werda, thus sent, have magic power weak indeed. A man so lost to honor and
decency as to use such means for partisan
ends deserves to be drummed out of respec.
table company.
As the Lieutenant Colonel commanding
the 24 Pennsylvamia Reserves, I participa
ted in the battle of Gettysburg, but was
fortunate enough to escape unharmed, ex-
cept a slight injury to my right foot, in
which I had been wounded during the Pe-
ninsular campaign.
Just after the fall of Sumter,in the Spring
of 1861, finding that war between the two
great sections of cur common country wis
inevitable, under the cail of the President
for three years’ volnnteers I raised a com-
pany in Philadelphia, which afterwards ve-
came incorporated with the 3d Regiment
Pennsylvania Reserves. Any one familiar
To iull sad thoughts to rogt;
To brightly paint life's darkest hour,
And goothe an aching breast.
With fadeless lustre, dying—never,
As ligkta that burn on high,
Within the heart they live forever
When transient pleasures die.
And though this heart ne'er feel the pleasure
Which from long friendship eprings,
Kind worda of thine it has in treasure,
Which thrill its deepest strings.
W ben other pleasures all are dying
That other sources give,
The blighting hand of death defying,
Buch words as thine will live.
The house was called to order by John | the in
Shannon, Bsq., who announced the officers |
of the meeting, viz :
President—1on, Samuel Strohecker, of
Miles township.
Vice Presidents—Maj, John Neff, Potter
township ; Robert Potter, Harris township;
John Rishel, Esq, Gregg towuship; Johu
Mallory, Spring township.
Secretaries — ferry Dasher and Samuel
F. Foster, of Potter township.
‘The President then introduced Hon. G.
0. Dice, of Lock Haven, to the immense
audience, who were becoming eager to hear
some of the confutable acts of the Govern-
ment, Abe Lincoln.
Mr. Dice then proceeded to address the
audience, and every word spoken was
caught with expressible eagerness by the
attentive crowd. The speaker revealed a
number of the pernicious acts of the infer-
pal Abolitionists at the Lead of our Gov-
ernment. He also showed the bravery of
the inflated Andy when Stewart's cavalry
made a 1aid into Peonsylyania, in estab.
lishing his bead-quarters in the army and
his hind-quarters at Harrisburg. (By the
way, his head-quarters were invisible by
the soldiers in the army, but his hind-quar-
ters wera always visible in the saloons at
Harrisburg.) After the speaker had han-
dled Andy and’ his coadjutors at Hairisburg
thoroughly, he lighted upon a suspender
man in B e, (who is generally known
as suspender jerking Mac.) and told the au-
dience of his immortal deeds of valor and
the heroic bravery which compels him to
share the toils, dangers, turmoils and con-
stant exposures at home instead of the gay,
happy, prosperous and jovial life at camp.
We lament his (ate, and we would fain see
him sheltered in front ranks in the army of
the Potomac.
After Mr, Dice concluded, the Ion. N. L.
Atwood was called upon to address the
meeting, The speaker dwelt principally
upon the conduct of the war and the ina
bility of the Executive officers to rule the
affairs of this Government. Facts were
brought forth that defied contradiction, and
which made the heart shrick from the
thought of the diabolical course our rulers
ave pursuing. In short, our rulers were
plainly proven secessionists and traitors to
that Government which they were sworn to
protect and defend. The whole speech @-
posed the diabolical acts of our rulers, and
entreated every Democrat to arouse and to
keep the ball rolling.
After Mr. Atwood had concluded, Mr. A.
A. Kerlin was called upon to address the
meeting ; butas it was getting late, Mr.
Kerlin made a few brief remarks &pon some
of the most important issues of the day,
and concluded by rigging up a Democratic
team, with Judze Woodward fer the driver.
The audience then gave three tremendous
cheers for the Constitution and the Union,
and the whole Democratic’ ticket.
Adjourned. Harry,
a
—The following from
the Easton Argus, comprises the whole
vaso
Tue WHOLE STORY.
with the business of raising volunteer or-
ganizations knows it be an expensive un.
dertaking. Ivery cent that wy company
cost, with the exception of the small amount
| that my limited means enabled me to devote
| to the purpose, came from my father, Judge
May (riends be on thy path forever, Woodward. . During nll the time that elaps- |
And fill thy life with love; eJ before my eompany was mustered into |
And may each tie that death shall fever, { service, [ lived in his house, and had, eo
Po formed, onge more, ABOVE! | jae as I needed it, his co-operation in my
8 a a | enterprise.
Howauo, Pai, Sept. 35th, 1863. As Major of the 2 Pennsylvania Reserves
{ participated in the Peninsular campaign,
and was wounded at Charles City Cross
And when life's Ocean threatens loudest,
And deepest is the maze,
Above the storm will gleam, the proudest,
‘Lhy words of kindly praise.
~ PMiseellaneous.
wT
in Richmond, and, after being paiolled, was
taken lo my father’s house in Philadelphia,
where, for four weary monthg I was confin-
ed to my bed, suffering intensely, but with
that suffering allevia'ed end finally relieved
by not only the best medical skill, but also
by the constant, kind, anwearying attention
of my father, mother and sisters. During
NAILED TO THECOUNTER.
Judge Woodward's spponents are not con-
tent to employ ordinary methods of mis-
representation in their warfare against bim.
It is base enough to publish garbled ox.
tracts from a long speech, and, by suppres-
Roads, in the right foot and left leg, —by |
which wounds 1 am enppled for life—was|
taken prisoner, confined in the Libby Prison |
matter m a cut shell, We are willing to go
before the people in the next a
election with nothing else than a fair com-
parison of the candidates.
the State knows that Judge Woodward is
onc of the purest men it it—while enough
of Curtin is known during the past three
years to engulph any man or party in ine
famwy.
George W. Woodward is ss far above
Andrew Curtin in all that makes a man
a
Woodward is hon-
liis own party pa-
oil lamp in brilliancy.
est Curtin is corrupt.
pers tell us this, Woodward
minded statesman, Curtin is a Jow-bred,
clap-trap demagogue. Woodward’s repu-
tation for integrity is above suspicion and
above attack. Curtin has been surrounded
by a pack of unprincipled thieves ever
Every man in|'0PtP
plies.
| tions at
cod and great, as the sun is above a con! Itisa sad commentary that while thou
is a high- (Governor
i of crackers and pork.
famous doctrines of defunct Ameri- I tablish confidence in the Union and he m-
n and as though their shoddy candi- ! herent stabili 1
| the action of any State or people. Pennsyl- i
held, or advocated, that Koow-Nothing de- | vania has earned ancw the right to her]
lusion. proud title. Whilst all this is so, and more |
We bere present our readers with the whilst cities, counties, boroughs, volun-|
first act of the drama. | teer organizations and private individuals |
Tug OAT TAKEN By GOVERNOR ANDREW | have pledged their credit, and contributed |
G. CURNN WHEN HE JOINED THE DARK | most liberally to furnish our brave volun-
LANTERN oR Kxow-NorwiNg Parry, | teers with a complete equipment, and place
FIRST DEGREE them in a position ready 3 vindicate alike
In the presence of Almighty God and the State and National fovyrhiam we are
these Witnesses 1 do solemnly promise and pained by the report of official neglect and
swear that I will never be ray any of ile pecu lation. More than this, we have scen
secrets of this society nor communicate | our noble comrades miserably clothed, and
then even (0 ie Fropee SaATatay, except | hoti badly and scantily provisioned by those
within wl coun of the orders AL) ig, and wel gud, io so 0 tes npr.
this society to be written, or th any other rant covsiderations. We held our peace
manner to be made legible except for the | when, recently, we were cognizant of the
fact that the Quar‘ermaster of our own
purpose of official instruction ; that 1 will
106, Yore.iDor give my inflieose for eny man company was under the necessity of pro-
viding himself with a pair of scales to pro-
for any office in the gifs of the people, un-
less ‘by an American born etizen, in favor : .
tect the company against the rapacity of
an officer, and when we heard the loud
of Americans ruling America, nor if he be
a Roman Catholic ; that [ will in all politi-
complaints of the *¢ Bucktails” on account
of outrageous treatment, because, in the
cal matters, so far as this order 18 concern-
ed, comply with the will of-the majority
though it may conflict with my personal ! Rs
one case, we thought it the villainy of a
mithor officer, and the necessary delay, in
the other, of an overtaxed Administration,
preference.”
SECOND DEGREE.
«1, of my own free will and accord, in |. OL
the presence of Almighty God and these All this, it seems, was but the beginning of
Witnesses do solemnly and sincerely swear | gigantic fraud, as though the nation and
that T will not, under any circumstances, | ¢he State had not been so disgusted by the
disclose in any manuer, nor suffer it to be perildy of recent Administrations that it
harled them from power more for that cause
. Ned |
canis 1y of our political system than |
dats in common with theinselve
s, never
done by others, if in my power to prevent
it, the name, sign, pass w , or other se-|
cicts of this degree, except in“open Council | than any other, The man who makes the
for the purpose of instruction; that [ will | resent effort of the people to “reserve the
suppore in ail political matters for all polit-|,,,
ical oflicers, members of this order in pref-| : L
erence tc other persons : that I will when |/¢ rs an occasion to rob our soldiers and
elected or appointed to any official station enrich himself, 1S AN EX£MY WHOM IT
conferring on ne the power to do so, remove | WOULD BE CHARITY TO HANG. We
all foreigners, aliens or Roman Catholics | care not who is the guilty party. le who
from office or place, and that [ will in voy. 0 gunly py . . y
cave appoint such to any office in my gift. defrauds our brave soldiers is worse than a
I do als promise and swear that this and | traitor. We do not know who is immedi
all other abligations which T have previous-| ately to blame, but this we know, THAT
Iy taken in this order, siil ever be kebt| GOVERNOR CURTIN CANNOT ESCAPE
through life, acred and inviolate. Alb} SURE Either he is impli :
this § promise and declare as an American a dihot lous amp cated with
to sustain and abide by without any hesita- | these public thieves, and receives part of
the plunder, or he is guilty of appointing
men to oflice who deserve the execration of
tion or mental preservation whatever, sO
help me God !”?
The intense hate therein expresscdagaiost | all geol citizens, He may take which Lorn
foreign born eit'zens and Catholics, has no | of the dilemma he may please
[tion of affairs renders official peculation
doubly monstrous. Have we just fled from
parallel in this country, yet Andrew Gf
Curtin and his shoddy patriots, after swear-
corruption to corruption—from one vile
Administration to another viler? Many
ing away what little Christian charity they
voted for Gov. Curtin Lo avoid corruption,
possessed, now attempt to prove that Judge
AND HAVE THEY LINKED THFM-
Woodward is as much of an ingrale as
SELVES TO ROTTENNESS? If the in-
themselves.
Lerests of this country are bound up with
But we mast hasten along. We here
produce good aboliuon authorily, for the
the success of Republican piinciples, as
enunciated in the Chicago platform, as we
purpose of showing in what estimation
believe they are, it becomes the paity to
Curtin was held one month ago by cue of
purge its ranks of THESE VILE MEN, and
his thief toady organs, and we have not
heard of his conversion since that time.
let the STIGMA OF THEIR VILLAINY
rest on them alone, and not on the party.
AWAY WITH TRAITORS AND MEN
| WHO SPECULATE ON PATRIOTISM,” —
Gettysburg Star and Banner, (Republican,)
May 31, 1861.
jes fought for and achieved by our
The posi-
Enormous frauds upon the Government—
Millions of Dollars taken— Prominent
shoddy Politicians under arrest.
HanrissorG, July 30.—Considerable ex-
citement has been created by the discovery
of enormous frauds upon the government in
fixyegion, Gonsequons upon Li rebel raid | yop 16 Riga. — Hon. George W. Wood-
I'he amounts are stated at millions of dob | ward isa Supreme Judge —payed by tha
a
lars, A number of State politicians have | oe ople for his services, ile does not take
been placed under arrest, and the subject |p) 0 gimp —thoogh a much abler speaker
wiz Perrys the most searching investigation | yp. Cuitin. Me gives the time for which
by the War Department, The most €or |, ig paid fo the State, in the performance
ractices have prevailed iu horse con-| (epee quties.
Andrew G Curtin is ulso
4 i ing 5 sistenc 3 . s 5
and in clothing a Silistente SUP- | aid by the State to perforin the dati of
' i i big 3 ah
They throw the shoddy Opera: | (iivernor Ile takes the money but spends
Harrisburg, in the summer of 1861, the time for whicly He
tracis
paid, in making |
seLF — this defraud |
entirely 1n the shade. Many of the sac geyp sperer
SOR 1)
tog are Iipplicated, No rs wh
parties are implicated, and the gangs Who | pe he tax payers and
: i ‘eeciving woney for
have infested the Stale Lapital 1 the win | service which hie dues uot perform. Which |
ter have reaped a rich summer harvest, of the two is acting in the best faith to the |
payers of the State ? i
sands of brave men rushed to arms to de” | :
fend the State from invasion, and while the
was tickling them with honeyed
words, his minions and followers were per
mitted like harpies, to deprive them of food
and to compel them to make long and wea-
ry marches, without even the poor luxury
It 1s a matter of
ano
se Natura lized Citizens Rewember that
elected in 1854,
Naturalized Citizens Remember, that An-
drew G. Curtin, traveled the State organiz-
ng Know-Nothing Lodges in 1854.
| world. 1t is States,
| Andrew G. Curtin was the first Sceretaiy | to do so by appeals
| )
of State under the Know-Nothing Governor. | country.
| hothing unreasonable in exempting
THE HORRORS OF WAR.
will see that he is their friend and protec.
I'he exec itions in tho Army of the Po-
tomac have recently become quite numer.
tor. We chalienge and defy any of the
blat bering abolitionists of this county, or
8 ; : :
ous, in some cases vight and ten being exe-
cuted at the same time, These sad exhi-
bitions are now of almost daily cecarrence
in gvery corps, and are olen attended with
horifying. creams
their organ, to show half as fair a record
for their + Shoddy Candidate.”
The Seldiers’ Right to Vote.
When a soldier returns to Lis election dis-
trict, he resames all the aivilrights of citi. |
zenship, and his residence being unimpar-
ed by his temporary absence, he has a right
to vote on clection day, but under the Cons-
titution to which his fealthy is due, he can
acquire no right to vote elsewhere, except
by a change of residence from one district
to another. * #* * The learned judge
deprecates a construction that shall DISPRAN.
crits our volunteer soldiers. It strikes us
thet this is an inaccurate use of language. —
The Constiiation would disfranchise no
qualified voter. But, to secure purity of
election it would have its voters in the
place whero they are best known on elec-
tion day. [fa voter voluntarily stags ab
home, or goes un a journey, or joins the
army of Lis country, can it be said the Con-
stitution has disfranchised him ¢ Feur of
the judges of this court, living in other
parts of this State, find (hemselves, on the
day of every Presidential election, in the ci-
ty of Pittsburg, where their official duties
take them, and where they are not permic.
ted to vole. ilave they a night to charge
the Constitution with disfranchisivg them?
Such is our case and such is the case of the
volunteers in the army. ‘The right of suf-
trage is carefully preserved for both them
and us, to be enjoyed when we return to
the places which the Constitution has ap-
pointed for its exercice. Guo W. Woop-
WARD,
tancis. Ad late letter
from the sry notices the execution in the
3d division of two substitutés who had de-
serted. Their names were Edward Llhot,
aged twenty-one, belonging to Connecticut,
ani Charles Eastman, aged twonty-three,
from Cornish, They conversed
freely before their exceution, admitted heir
fault, and felt keenly the distress that most
result at homo from their sad fate. The
list zeenc of tis execution is thus dex-
cribed :
Maine.
“The Rev, Mr. Stevens knelt dow. tak-
ing cach of the men by the hand: they and
the Rev. Mr, Murphy knelt beside him and
joined inv fervent prayer. Captain Fields
now came up aad bandaged the prisoners’
eyes. Klliott sat back on bis eoffin,; as .
man knelt in prayer. Ih voice was audi-
ble above the click and sound of the guns
as they were brought to -* present.” The
word ** fire" having been given, Elliott ell
back gently on Lia coffin, only wounded,
while Eastman jun ped up and tore the
bandage from his eyes, : vidently unfoucliad.
The reserve was ordered up. Eastman ap-
peared as if electrified, and placed his han is
before his eyes to shut out the horrid sight.
The men again missed. The Provost Mar-
shal during "this, in mercy, pulled out bis
revolver und shot him through the head,
he also fired another ball through Elliott's
head. After the two unfortupate men were
pronounced lifeless the troops were marched
Tho Univn: by the corpses.
ar A letter from Thibodeauxville, La, to
the Providence Press, relatvs the cifemli-
stances of fhe consolidation of the 22 Rhode
Island and 1st Louisiana Cavalry Regiments. »
Some of the men protested, and hesitated
when ordered to fall into line, whereupon
the Lieutenant Colonel, who was in com
mand, threatened to shoot any man who did
not obey promptly, The letter then
u
in their indi-
viduslity, Lut their collective glories are in
ths Union. By all weans, at all huazzards,
are they (o be maintained in their integrity
and the full measures of their consutution.
al rights— fur only so is the Union to be
preserved — only so is it worth preserving
It is the pafecton of the prismatic colors,
which blended, produce the roy of light —
{t is the completeness of these assembled
sovereiguties, licking nothing which they
have not lent for & great purpose, that makes
the Union precious. Tus word Unica is «
word of gracious owen,
dence and atiection— mutual support and
protection against external dangers. It is
the chosen expression of the strongest pas-
sion of young hearts. 1b is the charmed cir-
le within which the family dwelis. It
wi helping his fellow-man in ths rugged
themselves,
coniederated for mutual It is
the veople of States, separated by lines, and
interests, and institutions, and usages, and
laws, all forming one glorious nation —all
“These States sre glorious
goes
<
“That this was no idle thrést, wo found
out afterwards. The men slowly fell int
two Richard Swith alias
Morphy, from Boston, Massachusetts, a har-
ness maker, and William Davis, were taken,
their hands were tied Lelind' them, aud
then led over to a field in fro b of the camp.
They then marened us over there and fle
men of the lst Louisisna formed on our
right and left, at fight angles with us, thus
forming a square open on the side where
the two prisoncrs stood guarded by two
squads of men. Their eyes wore bandaged
with red handkerchiefs, and every prepars-
Although
we could not believe at the tne that they
would stout these men for having simply
line; the last,
It iwplies coufi-
is
perfect in
i
advantage.
tion made fo ther execution.
moving oaward to the sume sublime desti-
ny, and ail
Our fathers pledged thei lives, their fur-
tunes, and their sacred lionors, to form this
Union —let ours be pledged to mainiain it
Grokas W. Woonwakp, July 4th, 1863.
Who is the Sold
instinct with a common life,
dared to show that they wore not sans tied
with being thus tasstared {om Rhode
Island to Loviana, and thought that they
would Le reprioved at the last moment, yet
¥ 3
fers’ real Friend? the seene was so terrible that there was
- : not one whose heart was 1ot beating ad bly
Woub
WARD sustaining the stay law passed by our
| rigiuent.
Extract (rom tae decision of Judge vin secing Liese preparaiions for the death of
two wen who were generally liked in the
A squad of
and at Lou paces from enh prisen-
Logslatare in favor of the soldier: men was placed:
opposite
CFL
time, and asking, I suppose. the nates of
W hea he had finished, the
signal — the sabre s aoke- for the fist ple-
for thice |
y
const?
“Now, if a stay of exceation
: ¢
d in
wind Jutant spoke to Chem [uF some
years would not be tolerat
clrcumstances
the push-
1mes. ui t these x 2
times, did not these : a LL tailed,
{ute an cwergency that justified
gisiation to the extremest limit of
the Constitution 2 No
blamed for volunteering.
ing oi toon to tire, was given, and Davis fell over
citi coud be I a
5 bickward, as it seemed 10 us kil dd idstant-
fle was invoked ts : }
. : : 1 At the sépettaon of the igual, the
as strong as his love of
who hnd
b » nature of things there is ; .
Ih ths natare e . | sod fimmoveable. although te heard hus
a sol
| second 1 atoon fired, and Smith,
D Ea comrade fall, fell, shot tirough the legs
for's property from execution whilst he 13 y : ?
dier’s property from ex Both bodies could now be seen to move,
pt hee J > phere although we had thought Davis dead. -
cy of the Constitution an ents They were finished by the adjutant and the
all that time, as indeed during my whole ‘record that while these contractors weve
sing the context, Lo convey a false notion
of his meaning, and it is mean enough to
{orze recommendations for a candidate, and
to bolster up his weakness by bogus certifi-
sates from men of character and position
but it #as worse for N. B. Browue to claim
a long Sutimacy sithJudge Woodward 17
order to give currency to the slanders, and
it was still more infamous for Mr. T. J. Big:
ham to invent a conversation between Judge
Woodward and his son, Major George A.
Woodward, such as is spokenof in the
letter which we publish below. A better il-
lugtration of the utterly unscrupulous char-
acter of the assaults upon Judge Woodward
could not be had than is given 12 the slan-
ders of Dr. T. J. Bighaw, Ata large Re-
publican meeting, which was held in the
city of Pittsburg, on the 16th instant this
men asserted, of his own knowledge, that
after the battle of Gettysburg Judge Wood-
ward told his eldest son that instead of be-
ing wounded in the foot he ought to lave
Leen wounded in the heart for fighting
life no father could be more kind, mire so-
licitous for a so.’s welfare, than was mine.
Almost daily conversations occured between
us, in which the war, and the present and
the future of our country were discussed,
and although he freely criticised. and often
condemned, the manner in which the war
was managed by the Admimstration, never
did he atter a sentiment in sympathy with
the doctrine of secession, nor a syllable of
approval of the course taken by the people
of the South, and never did he say ought
which was not calculated to encourage
2 in the performance of my duty as a sol-
ier.
1 have been thus full, sir, in my refutation
of your slander, not because you need or
deserve this kind of attention at my hands,
but because this refutation must be made as
public as was the calumny, and I desire the
public to have the exact truth in regard to
this matter.
In conclusion, sir,I will remark that it is
poor encouragement to our soldiers in the
field to find that while they are toiling and
fighting for their country lying politiciansat
home are using them as the iustruments of
for
their partizan malice, and such an instance
as (his is a fair illustration of the pretended
since he has been in Harrisburg. To elect
Judge Woodward our Guyvernor will be to
return to the days of Simon Snyder and
Francis R. Shunk,
eel le
Tug people of Pennsylvania must not
overlook the important fact that Daniel
Agnew, the abolition nominee for Supreme
Judge, is 1n favor of negro suffrage in Penn-
sylvania. Whilst a member of the Reform
Conventjon, he persistently voted to confer
the right upon all colored men in the Com-
monwealth. Heis the (ricnd of Andrew
G. Curtin, and running upon the same tick-
et; their views and opinions are identical.
Can the white freemen of Pennsylvania cast
their votes for the candidates cf shoddy and
negro cquality ?
are AAA
«If slavery is to be continued in this coun-
try, we want the Irish and Catholics to fake
the place of the negroes, and let the more
intelligent and more virtuous blacks be
LIBERATED,"--N. Y. Post Abolition pa-
per. ,
Naturalized Citizens Remember, that An-
drew G. Curtin’s Sceretery of State, was au
aid of his then and now.
receiving enormous sums, the gallant Phila-
delphia soldiers were placed on an allow-
ance of a cracker a day for several days to-
gether, thanks to the neglect aud corrup-
tion of the executive department of the
State of Pennsylvania, — Philadelphia In-
quirer®July 31st 1863.
We take the following extract from a
speech made by Gov. Curtin, it this place
es
Have you heard the news from Maiue,
shout the abolitionists. Yes we have heard
the news, the State has gone republican by
about five thousand less than ic did last year
—-giving the straight out democrats a gan
of about 5000 votes. Good enough for
: : : Maine. No democrat expects anything
in 1860, a few days after the election.— from thi New England nia ny ove
Feasth im! SAT , | always been opposed to the Constitution,
« BEfIOLD YOUR CONQUERER.”|; (jpion and the spirit of progress and
1 have you under my feet. 1 will fight you | liberty.
for three years and the odds will be on my
side.
voter
A Docakn Goon Insa.—-We suggest to
oor every man in the country who has a dog to
Nor Trug—The poor story that Judge | name— whether »
Woodward was opposed to foreigners in 18- «« Mongrel, puppy, whelp or hound;
39. Tt is a wholesale LIE. Bul that Andrew Or cur of low degree,”
| G. Curtin WAS one of the chief priests of | to call him * Forney.’ This is the name of
KNOW NOTHINGISM is true, and every | the President’s dog ; and let it be a dog's
one will remember. Let these facts Le born | name forever. We make the snggestion in
in wind. earnest.
\
I is uit be-
the Union, And when he has not run Be |, q00y sergeant of company F, Ist Lous:
¢ i iel himself !
fore he was gent, but has yielded hing thin med fries alike
up to the call cf his conutry, his’ self-sacri- 4 5 8
a . charges of their revelvers into thew.’
ficing patriotism pleads, trumpet-tongued, :
from all the indulgence from his ereditors| (ops motto--the words Be used on
which the Legislature Ha¥s power n grant. the stump in 1854--must net be forgotten
hd iar of inddigencs Seer, op . by our German fellow-citizens. [ris this:
this instance, wy no longer than 5 €! «\ 1 Dutchman is not like another person,
time for which the President and Cut ho hist We
gress demanded the soldiers services.
o
Native Americanism.
skulls, and in order to get an
idea iato his Bead, you must first mash one
of his skulls I" Andy used tins language
‘Native | at a time when votes coulc be made by
re | abusing the Germans and Irish.
«J am not and never have been
American’ in any political sense, any mo
a : ee et
th am or have been a Whig, Antimason . y : Ss
an Sh tars > *” “he speech Wi will arrest the irrepréssible conflict,
: ii we are not ready to give up Constitutional
so often quoted against me, Lam not res-) y ! : !
ponsible i It was trotted into the de- | liberty for licentious liberty, we will not
bates by a Whig reporter, in violation of | sacrifice nl the a of the past, and
tho rules of the beay, which required him | afl hopes of the future for negro freedom.
to submit for revision Grora W. WooDWARD,
before publication, |
and which he never dil
* * * [ prompt-| TET
. prosny | Gen. Cass is said to be so feeble that
ly denounced it, (
vention, as I have done many a time
in the facu of the Con-i * Eh 8
since, | he cannot hve much longer. Ie is in his
{as a gross misrepresentation. * x
lr Pm es
The flat gear.
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