——— Ways The Wat gh. i TT XT P. GRAY MEEK, Ee eee - BELLEFONTE, AAA AA AAAS PASIAN er Friday Morning, Oct, 2, 1863 Democratic State Ticket, FOR GOVERNOR, GEORGE W. WOODWARD, OF LUZERNE. FOR JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT. VATE LOWRR County Ticket. C. T. ALEXANDER, of Bellefonte. = Lo cain ¥OR PROTHONOTARY, JAMES H. LIPTON, of Milesburg. . POR REGISTER & RECORDER, J. P. GEPHEART, of Millbeim. FOR TREASURER, JOHN SHANNON, of Contre Hall. - POR BHERIFF. A Liar Nailed. We are informed, and we believe cor rect- belching forth their infamous doctrine in the school houses and churches through- out the the couniy wheiever they can find any one to listen, are making the statement and asserting it, to be a positive fact, that Mr. Alexander our candidate for Assembly, has always refnsed to contribute auything towards the support of the wives and fami- lies of the volunteers, or for the purpose of paying the cost of transportation of troops to the Railroad Stations. Had these asser- tions been made by McAllisters boot black, aud the mellow headed beauty (?) that acts as chairman of the abolition County Conven- tion, we would consider them of too little importance to notice, but we are informed that Edmund Blanchard, a dignatary in the Presbyterian Church of this place in a speech made in the church at Port Matilda a few cvenings age, and from the sacred, alter made the above declarations, and asserted that they were positively correct. Now we never did believe there was any trithin an Abolition orator, but we had some right to expect that an Elder in a christian church would at least have some respect for his christian profession, and for the fair fame of his church, and that the pretended holiness or Edmund Blanchard, would at least keep him within respectable distance of truth, but how have we been disappointed. To damage a political opponent, this truckling Abolitionist, this hypocritical pretender, will tell a deliverate and wilful Lig as the cer- titicate of Mr. Moran, Clerk to the County Commissioners which we publish belowwill show Blanchard knew that he was telling an untruth when he .made the assertion, because he was well informed as to who were subscribers to the volunteer Relief fund, and he knew that Mr Alexander, according to his means, has given more than any Abolitionit in the county. Head the certificate and then say if a man who will tell such a falsehood, can be belicved at all or not. Centre County 8S. S. I John Moran clerk of the Commissioners of said county hereby certify that there remains, on file in this office an origional subscription pa- perto the volunteer relief fund, dated April 17th 1861, and that C. T. Alexander RICHARD CONLEY, of Gregg Township. subscribed on said paper the sum. of one hundred dollars an equal amount to that subscribed by the firm of C. & J. Curtin, Saml. Lion, James Gordan and other men of wealth, and I further certify that Edmund Blanchard’s name does not appear upon said paper. . Given under my hand at the office of the Commissioners in Bellefonte this 20th of Sept, 1863. FOR COMMISSIONER, JAMES FORESMAN, of Sncw Shoe. FOR AUDITOR, J. W. SNYDER, of Ferguson Townahip. JNO. Moray, Clerk to Commissioner. Mr. Alexander, as will be seen Las giv- en as much as the wealthy firm of C. & J. Curtin, as much as Judge Linn, as much as Jas. Gordan, and more in proportion, than any Abolitionist in the county, and iv will be seen at the same time that this thing Blanchard, who is worth perhaps two dol- dollers to Mr. Alexander’s one, DID XoT GIVE 4 CENT. It must be remembered that Mr. Alexander is not wealthy—-that he Las no contracts fromthe “government” —that he ES has no particular friend who has robbed the treasury of millions of dollars, and expects some to-day. to have the spoils divided with relatives—and that it is against his inster- FOR CORONER, JOSEPH ADAMS, of Milesburg. cp ————————— , oe Li 15 grand Democratic Rally! A grand Democratic MEETING To ratify the nominaticn of WOODWARD AND LOWRIE, . will be held in Bellefonte, Centre, County, ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3d, 1863 Let the Democracy turn oct, en masse, from every portion of the country, and show the tyrant at Washington that the people are yet jealous of their liberties and are determined to mamtain them. Come with banners and with flags, with shouts and with songs, and let there be such a glo- rious outpourmg of the people as shall make the mountains and valleys of old Centre ring again. Hon. Geo. W. Woodward has expressed his intention to be with his Centre county friends on this occasion. Hon. W. H. Wirts, Col. Kane and S. H. Reynorps, Esq. will positively be present to address the people, and other able speak- erg are expected. The Lock Haven and Boale- burg Brass Bands will be in at- tendance, g@y~ The aboli ionists are endeavoring t> «cate the impression that Judge Wood- ward will not be here to-morrow,’ We can assure our friends that this is a base false- hod and is only gotten up to keep them away from tte meeting. J udge Woodward wiLL be here, and is now on: his way, He will come by way of Lock Haven, and is ex- pected hero to-night. The Lock Ilaven and Boalsburg Brass Bands will also be kere, and good music may be expected. me et Messrs Arwoop & DEiSE.— These staunch and ableexponents of democracy have been canvassing this county for about a week, doing able service for Woodward and Low- rie. | They left their homes in Lock Haven to came here and help us battle for the ss of our county ticket, and are de- ianks of onr Centre coun- Our principles find able and for our Sesett in i . our cause will, in a consider — Sn be indebted to them. 5 Let 1s Democracy of this county remem 5 with gratitude, the services of Messrs. wed and Deise in this campaign, ad Shotid the opportunity ever present Rell, ef he n be rewarded with somes halii¥El ora of that gratitude. success 0 serving of the tl ty Democracy. advocates in thew, est, as well as against the interest of every tax-payer in the county except those who have *‘a hand in the pot’’ to have this war continued- We know Mr. Alexander to be a liberal, high minded gentleman, a man whose patriotism is as high above that of the howling “loyalist’”” who denounced him ag a traitor, as heaven is above hell, and now jn conclusion we challenge Blanch- ard, or any other of the pimps of Aboli tionism, (0 compare amouuts contributed to the soldiers Relief’ fund or any other pur- pose of the kind, with Mr, Alexander. — Come on ar swallow your words. an een ret) A Gf eeen Remember. Bey Tax-payers rembember before voling for A. G. Curtin that he signed the Bill commuting the tonnage tax on the Pennsyi- vgnia Railroad, whereby the tax-jayers were notonly robbed of over EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS, which was due, and for which the Aitorney General of W. I. Packer had obtained a judgment, but! also of over three hundred thousand dollars, | for kacit and syeRy YEAR, for all time to come, wiyeh in twenty years would have amounted to over SEVEN MILLIONS OF DOL- Lars. This three mill tax was increasing every year, and would now amount: annu- ally, to over five hundred thousand dollars of the eight hundred thou sand dollars justly due the Commonwealth, and the annual in- come of over five hundred thousand dollars, the tax-payers of Pennsylvania have been robbed, by the man, who has now the auda- city to stand up ang ask them to continue him in office. Not only has he robbed them by signing that rascally bill commu- ting the tonnage tax—but in an hundied other ways- He appointed contractors who supplied the soldiers with rotten blankets, shoddy clothes, and shoes with pine shav- ing soles, paid them exorbitant prices for their worthless trash, and continued them in office, even to this day, Soldiers remember before voting for Cur, tin that he is responsible for the shoddy swindles which so disgraced our State in 1861. Rembember that the Pittsburg Ga- zelle, a leading Repullican journal, makes the charge ‘that he farmed the soldiers out to his friends and then demed that he had employed them,” Yel ai the same time he followed them round from place to place presenting flags (which he could easily do, as they were paid for by the State) and making speeches, with the sinister motive of making them believe he was their friend, in order that he could use them to secure his election, They will all recollect the shoddy swindles and Cartin’s truckling sub- | gerviency to the federal administration, and a —— EL The Nation.s Life. The election is fast approaching, and nev- ly, that some of the Abolition blasts, that | er did there rest more responsibility upon the people than at the present time. The Union League, or in-league-with-the-Devil- party, (it matters bat little which name you ‘may call it.) are busily engaged in dissem- inating the principles of their NO PARTY patriotism. They feel the criminal respon- sibility of their conducting this war upon unconstitutional measures, and they know that freemen will arise in the majesty of the powers that are delegated to them in the Constitation, and cast aside the fetters which biuds them. Never did the majesty of the principles which have bound us to- gether as a nation present a more sublime spectacle. We have on the one hand a par- ty that is endeavoring to build up the great principles of eternal truth and justice, the principles of civil and religions liberty,— chose principles which have formed the very theory and the essence of our government throughout the whole history of our coun- try. The Democratic party, which is the advocate of these principles, is now strug- gling for the life of the nation against the terrible dominion of patronage and corrup- tion and jobbing, and the infamous speca- letion Of shoddy coutractors. It is strug- gling for the preservation of the dearest rights of a free people in opposition to op- pressive taxation and usurpations of power, The Democratic party built up, nurtared and sustained this government through ad- versity as well as prosperity, and in this hour of her sorest trial it is the main sup- port. lt emblazoned the Constitation and the Union upon its banners, engrafted them to its system of government, and intends to sustain them through all coming time. Cast aside the Constitution and we have NO Union—nothing but the desolation of homes, civil war, anarchy and despotism. But George W. Woodward is the true and faith- ful exponent of Democratic principles—true to the principles of the Coustitution and a restoration of the Government. On the other we have a party of no principles, urging on a war of subjugation to the extermination of the institutions of the South, seeking to remedy the unconsti- tutional evils of a “rebellion” which they precipitated upon the country by pursuing other measures which are equally unconsti- A party professing nothing but unconditional loyalty to an administration which has not the nerve to stand up in de- fence of principles which it believed to be right on ihe breaking out of this war, A party of unconditional loyalty to the thiey- ing and roboing propensities of the leaders of the Lincoln dynasty. This is the extent of their patriodsm, and they care not what befalls the country. This has been mani- fested in the prodigal use of *¢ greenbatks,” tutional. by machinery and turning out upon tle country-in the place of the gold and silver currency which was so abucdant under Democratic administrations. Oppressive laxation, with nothing but the dark and gloomy prospect of a national debt swelling up with gigantic proportions, | is what is in store for the people of Penn- | sylvania, unless arrested by the wisdom and | the poiicy of the Demscratic party. Sup- pose we take a look at the picture of finance on this war question in Centre coun. ty, and see how digestable the matter is with honest men of all parties. We see from official reports, that do not incluce ALL of our liabilities, that the national war dent is estimated at TWO THOUSAND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. Pennsylvania, then, is about one tenth the Union as it was. This would leave her portion of the war debt at TWO HUNDRED MILLIONS. Centre county, then, in point of population, is equal to the one hundred and fifth part of this amount, which leaves her portion of the debt ONE MILLION, NINE HUNDRED AND FOUR THOUSAND, SEVEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-TWO DOLLARS. Voters of Centre county, how do you like the shape of things into which we have been precipitated by this uiholy, infidel, abolition party ; precipitated, too, in opposi- tion to the protest and solemn warning of the Democratic party ? All this bas been brought upon the country in a little more than two years of Abolition rule. Are you satisfied then with this Administration, with Andrew G. Curtin at its head, through whose neglect the people of Centre county had to pay out over onz hundred thousand dollars as commutation money upon the counserip tion act, Remember that A. G. Curtin is responsible for Centre county not geting credit for the number of soldiers which she furpished more than her quota, which defrauded you thus out of the means which you had acemaulated through years of honest toil and industry. Let the people cast the responsibility where it properly belongs, by voting for George W. Woodward, the Democratic candidate for Governor, and hurl those minions of despotism, of which Andrew G. Curtinis the head and front, from pow- er, in a constitutional manner. at the bal- lot-box, This will save the country from the inevitable destruction which seems to be hanging over it, if any power on earth can avert the danger. The Democratic party is the Nation's life. Cartin's Platform. Three Abolition patriots recently made speeches in favor of Andrew G. Curtin, the shoddy candidate for Governor. One was Thaddeus Stevens, who playfully said, *¢ The Union as it was and the Constitution as it is—God forbid it!” The second was Wm. H. Armstrong, who coolly informed his hearers * that it was better to lose a battle in the field than the election in Penn- sylvan.” The third was the notorious Benjamin F. Butler, who boldly announced to kis abolition audience that *¢ he was not for the Union as jt was.” As these three worthies were employed to help Curtin, by Mr. Wayne and McVeagh, the Chairman of the Curtin State Committee they undoubt- edly expressed the opinions of their shod- dy leaders. Those who are willing to en-| Mr. Kditor, I am under no obligation to any | émuly and repeatedly pledged to refuse it dorse the treasonable and disgraceful senti- ments quoted above, will cast their votes the cheat practiced upon them by Andy (for Andrew G. Curtin!— Hollidaysburg before voting. Standard, ] Infamous Sentiments! Bill Lewis's Charge. An Abolitionist in this town remarked & | A poor, miserable, drunken, thieving ren- a few days since, in the hearing of several egade, named Leivis, who publishes a pa- respectable men, ‘that be wouLb RATHER per at Huntingdon, a short time since made HEAR OF ROSECRANS’ ARMY BEING ANNIHI- a statement in his paper in relation to a LATED AND MEAD 8 WIPED FROM 1HE FACE OF speech alledged by the abolition press to THE EARTH, THAN THAT THE DEMOCRACY HAD have been wade by Judge Woodward in the SUCCEEDED IN ELECTING WOO0ODWARD Gov- Reform Convention, in 1837. The article ERNOR OF PENNsYLvANIA.” What do the | was copied into the Press last week, in or relatives and friends of those who are risk- | der to show that our denial that Judge ing their lives on the terrible battle field, | Woodward ever made that speech was un- think of such expressions, and yet it i8 | true, and to leave the impression that the nothing uncommon, and is but the feelings of Judge did make the speech. Now, to prove every abolition leader in Centre county. | that the contemptible pettifoggers who con- They care nothing for the soldiers—nothing trol the columns of the Press, will deliber- for the Union, so that they can succeed in ately attempt to deceive the people, not- continuing in office their imbecile idol, A. withstanding their pretended christianity, G. Curtin, Only two days since the Chair- aud to show that Lewis is one of the most min of the Abolition County Committee, | wilfal, bare-faced liars in the State, we pub- said out openly and boldly that he did lish bis article in full, and shall then show * NOT WANT TO SEE TUE UNION RE- | by a letter to the Patriot and Union, from STORED AS IT WAS” And he told the | a respectubie and responsible citizen of Har- trath, not a man among them, that wishes | risburg, whose name can be given (at any the government of our fathergto exist—not time, that it is a most unmitigated and base one amoug them that wants the Union re- | falsehood. The following is Lewis's state stored--not one among them that wants the ment as we copy it from the Central Press: war to ocase or to see the war-worn soldier | Woopwarp Axo His Know NOTHING return home, except it be the few they can ! Speecn. —Some of the bogus Democratic induee to vote their ticket, and then send Papers, and Woodward himself, now deny | that he ever made the #peech in the Reform them back to bear the hardships and dan- | oon ii0n which we published last week. gers of the battle field. Can the honest vo- | We know that the speech published was ters——men who would have the government, made by Mr. Woodward m that Conven- which sprang from the blood and dust of | tion. It was in the year 1837. Wm. F. - | Packer, Benj. Parker, and O. Barrett, now the Revolution, perpetusted.men who { one of the editors of the Patriot and Union, would see this terribly cruel war ended, and had the prmting of the debates of that Con- their sons, brothers and friends returning | vention. The same gentlomen also pub- home to dwell in peace and security—vote | Tied Bs Domaraue A for en Whote Warley firends aha shogeft | the office on the debates, and bandled every representatives, docs “not desire to see | ;a00 and corrected and revised every sheet this Union restored as it was?’ We think | of the debates. We know that Mr. Wood- not. ward and all the other members of the Con- vention were furnished with revise sheets Johan McAlmont. to make afiy correction in their speeches i | they mifght think proper. We know that We hope the friends of the Rev. A. J. | the forms were not worked off for weeks af: Patterson will not forget that John Mc- | ter the revise sheets were taken, thus giv- Anioat. 2h : f the Abolition par- | 10g every member of the Convention full mont, We nominee of the ADOUNON PAL | opportunity to make corrections. We know ty, for County Commissioner, was one of | yng Mr. Agg, stenographer to the Conven- the men who denied them the pleasure of | tion, was not the kind of man to be guilty hearing him preach in the Court House, | oF pine 0 bape hah i By ha : not said ; and we know too that ha r. This was done, too, wholly on the ground ‘Agg reported the speech incorrectly he of sectarian prejudice, and in opposition to | would have been discharged by the Con- tae express wish, as Mr. McAlmoont knew, | vention, but he continued at his post until of some fifty families, the friends and rel- | all the debates were published. We know : : i : | too that when the manuscript ot Mr. Wood- atives of Mr. Patterson in this county. OF. rh Ce nos And what makes the matter worse, the | gopgigerable discussion amongst the twen- Perma is which the Admiaistration is manufacturing | Court House had not only been used, pre- vious to that time for public worship, but political meetings, concerts, theatrical ex- hibitions, negro dances, and cv ery other purpose for which application had been made to the Commissioners for it. 1n ad- dition to this, a few years ago, when a similar charge was made against Thomas Hutchinson, he thought the chastisement | had just as much to do with denying the Jriends of My. Patterson the Court House as Mr. Hutchinson had. > It this is the spirit that characterizes Mr. McAlmout’s Christianity, we have about as much faith in that as we have in | kis Abolition political principles. Both | are black encugh to damn any faith or | principles to all eternity. We hope that a charitable and liberal-minded people, will ‘remember him on the second Tuesday of October. —— eee Song of Billy Blair. wees late nt night, as he was 1eturning from a communion with niggers, and nigger worshipers humming in a maudling voice the following very appropriate verses. We are informed that Billy claims to be the au- | thor of them, but we are inclined to think | Dan. Dickenson or Ben. Butler is entitled to hat high honor. Iowever Blair is said to sing it with much pathos and evident fce- ling, I'd be a Democrat, while they're in power, But office ie pleasant, and lucre is sweet ; So to the Woolly Heads now I will cower. And sings like a slave in the dust at their feet. Interest’s my principle; money is power, [’1l never etand by my friends in defeat ; Honor and freedom, are grapes turning sour, I'll butter my bread at my task masters feet. I'd be a Democrat, &e. Let them prate of their Washington, stupid old sinner ! He’d rather have starved, than deserted his ag, In Arpold’s bold game I am sure to be winner, So Greely I'll help to “halfsmast’’ the old “rag. I'd be a Democrat, &c. They founded the Union, they gave it its glory, But « care not for both if I’ve honor and elf; « So Ait wheedle the people, with plausible story To put Washington Democrats high on the shelf. I'd be a Democrat, &c. When the sunlight of victory, light as the morning, Caste its bright beams on their bannars once more, I’'11 be a Democrat, brave as before. I'd be a De nocrat, while they’re in power, But office is plesant, and lucre is sweet, So to the Woolly Heads now I will cower, And chringe in the dust, like a slave at their eet. A Card. To vee Eprror oF TAE WATCHMAN :—I1 noticed in an editorial 1n your last paper a challenge to Capt. W. H. Blair, late of the « McAliister Rifles,” to meet me in public discussion on political questions, between vow and the election. I take ihis meaas of informing the public, that this challenge was given without® my knowledge or consent, and though ever willing and ready to defend my political | principles against ihe attacks of any re- | spectable assailant, yet feelings of SELF- | nesPECT will not permit me to meet Capt. | Blair on terms of eggality. I cannot con- sent to hold any personal intercourse with an individual guilty of political treachery and perfidy, with one who would deliber- ately attempt to sell out the Democratic party for any sum of ‘ wi catastrophe; the dismemberment of Curtin was one of the High Priests of the the Confederacy, was only averted by the Know-Nothing party—opposed to the free- receipt of intelligence that peace was con- dom of religion and to giving foreigners the cluded by the treaty of Ghent, rights of freedom. | Aud such is tho record from that day to — this. In 1820, the mad fanatacism of those 1 : 1 | : A Sovsraor of peutey Tena Should be | who opposed Democracy had carried us’to ida | the very brink of ruin, and again the party All good citizens —truly honest men of of the Coustitution triumphed, and saved us all parties—will at once agree with us, that | from destruction. Those who Oppose us s i 1 Je Gonemar of Pennsylvania should be an | how, pretend great respect for tha memory Is Andrew G. Curtin such? What hon- | f Andrew Jackson. But where were they est and conscientious citizen, who has any | in his time? Who called up the fearful knowledge of Gov. Curtin, can stand up | storm through which he labored for eight before God and man, and say that he be- | __. .. : a Andrew 6 ie honest ?— | Years? ‘The very same party which has Not one. he odor of rascality was about since roused the demon when there is no and upon him, before elected Governor, and Power (0 bind him, except in the bands of since his election, his.acts have but added those who wish him tQ ravage and destroy, to its strength and offer.siveness. Directly | gh very same party that threatens us with after the commencement of the war, he, | Thi os y . 3 through his special friends and co-plunder. | ¢Struction row. They proclaimed him a ers, Nea! and Frownfield. grossly wronged murderer then, they call us traitors now, and the soldier w.th ¢ shoddy?’ clothing and men have spent weary months in gloongy worthless shoes, and thereby fllled their RBagtiles for teaching the same sentiments own pcckets at the expense of the army : En and the Government, So flagrantly out- to-day that be taught then, rageous was this conduct, that izany of the As Massachusettts set the example (f Republican papers could not refrain from | resistance to the laws in 1814, so in 1845, Fag og Bp i and his A gore tens we find her setting another of secession. eral, tion. 8. A. Porviance, felt himself | aug compeiled by a sense of self-respect to cut | Yoon the REneRAGh of Texas, to the Ua- { loose from the Admnist-stion. The fol- | ion was talked of, the Legislature of Mass- flowing is his resignation published at the = achusetts, by solemn resolutions, ‘declared time : . ! that if Texas were annexed she woald dis- His Excellency. Andrew G. Curtin : | Tnion* i For reasons Lh appeal to my self respact, I { Solve ie Unio ® We const reRr 10 tis cannot consent to continue any longer iu conneo- | t0 justify any State in following the perni: tion with your adminisiration. I therefore tender | | | you my resignation of the office of Attorney Gen eral. S. A. PUrviANCE. Curtin’s conduct in the repeal of the Ton- age Tax was a still more bold and exten- sive swindle ; it was a virtual robbery of the State of about eight hundred thousand dollars then due, and of annual revenne (increasing every year) of four bundred thousand dollars. But for this robbery the State tax drawn, annually, from the far- mers, mechanics and werking men, weuld now have been at least half a million of dollars less than it is. The Carlisle American, as black a Repub- lizan paper as is printed in the State, said in 1861, in reference to the passage of the bill repealing the tonnage tax, &e.: that our State Legislature, on Saturday last, passed shrough the lower House, a bil releasing the mortgage to the State on the Sunbury and Erie Railroad, and also a bill for the repeal of the ‘lonnage Tax on the Pennsylvania Kailroad.— By these acts, cho State is plundered of freer mallions of doll rs, and burthens to that extent Commonwealth, for the benefit of soulless €orpo- rations.” Curtin (who had previously pledged him- selt to veto any repeal bill) signed both these bills, by which, as this Republican paper alleges, the State was ** plundered of fifteen miilions of dollars, and buithens to that extent fastened on the necks of the tax-payers for the benefit of soulless corpo- raticns,”’ : No wonder that with conduct such as that of which we have briefly spoken, auother Republican journal should say : ‘We think we do not go too far in saying that the administration of Governor Curtin has gath- ered’about the capital a class of men whose press nee is anything but a wholesome one, or a favors ble index of the state of public morality there. There has been no time in the nistory of this oper and shameless during the session of the Legislature.” ~ Such is Governor Cartin, and such the character ot his administration,—notorious- ly dishonest and corrupt, even according to the reluctant admissions of men and press- es of his own party. « Now, what of Geo. W. Woodward ? He first appeared in public life, we believe, in 1837. dicial to his private or public character ? No one. He stands forth, now, before the opponents to be—an honest man ! i parties—do you desire an honest man for Governor? If you do, choose ye between Curtin and Woodward. — West Chester Jef- fersonwan. ————-—-e ee B&y~ Curtin has belonged to all the fac- tions, which, ¢ ince he attained his majority, | have been arrayed against the Democratic party. ile has been Whig, Know-Nothing, Republican, Abolitionist by turns; and- stands ready, to-day, to throw himself into | tke arms of any other organizat on that may | arise, strong enough to elect him and grati- fy his ambition He is mentally weak and morally unprinciplod—the dupe of rogues, or himself dishonest ; in either of which cases he is unfit to govern the great Com- monwealth, —Sunbury Democrat. Sab 2 g&=Come to the Democratic meeting to-morow, | sh an We record with shame aud unfeigned sorrow, | fastened on the necks of the tax-payers of the ' State, when profligacy and venality wero more | Who, of any claim to truth, has | ever dared to utter a word or a hint preju- | people—admitted by his life-long political | cious example, but only because that is a | black page in our history written by the op- | position of Democracy ; and because Massa? chusetts is the hot-bed of Abholitionism and disunion, and the spot which gave birth to to the monster which is Lcommitung such fearful ravages upon our liberties. From the first hour of Democracy it planted its standard upon the Constitution, and da¢lar- ed unconditionally for it, before all other -. considerations, it-has. had a host cof ene- | mies. Upon the one haid it has had to | meet those who contended for grea er pow- j ers than that instrament granted, and, upon | the other with those who would retake the | powers it really gave, Both of these par- tivs are extreme, and therefore wrong, boih are outside of the Constitution, one on one side and one on the other, and in the eyes of all who love justice and right both are ; wrong. ~ With both of these enemies, grown { into the giants upon each otheers blood, the Democratic purty is contending. If either | can be overcome, both will fail together and i th: government is saved, if, on the contrary, | the Democracy is overcomo -by either of them, we are lost, Our Nation will become a battle ground for these opposing elements, aud go down in blood and tears te the grave | of Republican institutions. They ask why | the Democrats make war upon this disun- ion element at the North and sy nothing of that which has been carried into practice in the South. For twenty years the Democrat- is party kas kept the marmurs of disunion quiet 1n the Southern States. The voice of | every Democratic orator was raised to warn | thep eople from the path of death until they | earned the name of “Union savers.” On - | the questions of Union, State rights and the | Constitution of the United States, we stand in the very footprints of Thomas Jeftorson and Andrew Jackson. {This Fall, for the first time in our history |a contest is fairly presented between princi- ple and corruption. I'wo men are before the people of Pennsylvania asking for the Jhigh- | est office in their gift. One, after having | Leen in public lifs for many years, has not a | spot on his record, his enemies seek in vain” | for something evil against hun and in des- | pair of finding it, content themselves with the foulest slanders not upon Judge Wood- | ward, but upon the Supreme Court of the | State. The other candidate has also been considerably in public life and is his record too, unspotied? Welook in vain fora sin- Folers tax DaVers=- . | gle bright spot all is dark as erebus. Ile oters —tax-payers—honest men of all | has spent the three I 2 years that he has been of our State in gratifyingZhis private malice in binding our Commonwealth band and foot and laying her at the feet of Abraham Lincoln. : > : For many years it has bean a mooted question whether man is.cipableof selt-govs ernment, the 13th of October next will de cide that gestion, so Taras the old Keystona is ‘concerned. If Penndyvanians will ~ re-el- ‘ect a manwho hag scld them;whe has stood by with folded aims while every species of indignity and outrage has been” committed upon them, Who did not dare to defend the State over ‘which ‘a people’s sins had called him ‘o rule and who fled when no wan pur.ued, they certainly are blind and unfit for self government. But wo confi- dently'await tie issue. The Hand of the Lord is over his people, ard is more power ful than than Ablitionism and te devil. Howard Pa. yp ~, . Sep. 20th "93. PM