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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 ‘<greer.backs,” while
he wss still holding an important office as
the gift of that party; and IT assure you,
Democratic friends for desiriog to plage me
in such questionable company,
Marry EroNe.
too severe—and vauntingly Joasted that he |
The valorous capling was over heard last |
And Union and gladness the land are adorning,
| ty compositors employed, all denouncing it,
| and the proof reader, Mr. Hamilton Kerr,
| also an editor of the Keystone, ook part in
| the discussion, but no one intimated that
| the speech was reported incorrectly. If it
had been, or there had existed a doubt, or
had Mr, Wcodward been absent, his politi-
cal frien’s who were the printers and edi-
i tors of the Demccratic organ, would have
had it corrected during the two weeks the
revise sheet was open for correction,
‘The speech was reported correctly, and
i Mr. Woodward's denial of it now only sat-
| isfies us that he will Jie, and act the part
| of the unprincipled politician to make his
| election. We have the fitth volume of the
| debates before us from which we copied the
| speech.
| —We now present our readers with the
following full and complete contradiction of
the above infamous fabrication:
(From the Patriot and Union.)
Messrs. EpiTors :—A copy of that vile
sheet, the Harrisburg Daily Telegraph. the
organ of Shoddy and Horse contract rs, and
| all the other ‘“loyal” thieves who are now
| sucking the life blood of the nation, fell ace
cidentally into my hands the otherday. It
! is dated September 17th, and I find in it ap
article purporting to-be copied from the
. Huntingdon Globe, headed ** Woodward and
his Know-Nothing speech.” In this ariic.e
Mr. Lewis 1s represented as saying that he
was foreman in the Keystone office on the
Debates—that he handled, corrected, and
revised every sheet—that Mr. Woodwara’s
speech was reported correctly, and much |
else not worth noticing. The article is so
ful of bare faced falschoods thatI cin
scarcely believe that it ever appeared in the
| Globe, and more particularly 50, as the edi-
| tor of that sheet knows just as well as I and
| a number of the old printers of this place
| know, that Mr. Wiliam Lewis never was
‘foreman on the debates of the Reform
Convention,” that he never handled ‘every
| page and corrected and revised every sheet’
of the work ; that there never were ““twen-
I ty compositors” employed on the Debates
' at any one time. and that no forms were left
| lay for wecks before they were worked oft.”
| I turther know that the aforesaid William
Lewis worked on the Lebanon Courier at
the time the Debates were commenced, and
that he went to Columbus, Ohio. before they
were finished ; and as Mr. I's memory can-
not be so treacherous that he has forgotten
all this, I feel confident that he never could
have penned or permitted that article to ap-
| pear in his paper; butin case IT am mista-
I ken in this, and that Mr, L. did really rub-
| lish this string of silly falsehoods, then all
| I have to say is, that he isina very good way
| ¢f catching up with his Abolition Shoddy col-
| leagues in lying; and, inasmuch he is a
| ““ faithful convert,” he may be somewhat
| excusable for his zeal in villifying honest
| men and distnguished Democrats.
i Let it be remembered that I have resided
| in this place for the last thirty years, and
that I was engaged in the printing of the
| Debates from the beginning to the end of
the publication. If any further proof were
required to show that the article alinded to,
is (nll of unmitigated falsehoods, I could
refer you to a number of gentlemen of this
city, ana among them to Mr. R. H. Adams,
the efficient foreman on the State Printing
for a number of years past. ’
AN OLD PRINTER.
Harrisburg, Sept. 21, 1863.
—e
Keep it Before the People
That a monstrous corporation, under the
acts of an Abolition Legislature and with
the sanction of Andrew G. Curtin, stripped
the State at one fell swoop of nearly TWEN-
TY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS! The repeal
of the tonnage tax took out of the State
Treasury THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOL-
LARS annually, besides relieving the Rail-
road Company of s hundred and sixty
thousand dollars, which was collected by
them from shippers of freight and held in
their coffers, and due the State.
KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE
That Governor Curtin favored and signed
this bill repealing the Tonnage Tax,” al-
though he confessed it was ** afrociously
wrong.” That he signed the bill with * in.
decent haste during a recess of the Legisla«
ture ”’ notwithstanding ** he had given the
most positive assurance that it should be
vetoed,”’ and notwithsianding he ** was sol-
his assent.”
Keep it before the piople that there was
a‘ private mortgage or agreement in writ-
ing, wade by Thomas A. Scott, for the com
te.
pany i pay the gin of 875,000 per annum : Written fur the Watchaian. |
into the treasury, which agreement he (Cur- | id
tin) concealed from the people and Ser. | Thoughts on the Crisié;
wards surrendered to the company. without —
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even preserving a copy of it’ + When in-
terrogated at the next session upon this .
pomt. he admitted the fact himself of the ; og
agreemtient; and its surrender *’ and excused | Turd fo histofy end see what the Dem
himself on grounds which were proven to | CFAtic party has done; ther: to our present
be unired. | terrible condition, and see what has been
Keep it before the peojiis that Eovernof | accomplished by tha opposition. Democratd
Curtin was the intimate friend 6f Chiatles | poior gop any one to believe ¢Helf dader od
M. Neal and Frownfield, who swindled tné ad) 3
soldiers in shoddy and shoes, and that the unatistained by proof, tor do they attempt td
committees of investigation, were managed | compel mea to supgott them. They ash nc
to cover up and smooth over the fraud. | support only because of promies for the fu-
b 1 " 1 | kr =
Keep it before the people that the Pitts | ture. We point all men to the doings of the
burg Gazette says in view of these things | 2 .
that the masses believed that the Governor | P2St: Wherever a bright pageis found in
had “sold the people, and betrayed the | our history, it was written by the Demo-
State, and that ton. S. A. Purviance, his | craay, wherever a dark page is 87en, is wag
Attorney General, handed in his resigna- | When the Demo-
Attor made by the opposition.
tion in words as follows: | cratic A po ;
*« For reasons which appeal to my self re- | ©) 'C PATLY Was prosperous, so was the na-
spect 1 cannot consent to continue any lon- | tion, when the opposition triumphed, the
ger in connection witk your Administration. | nation mourned.
1, therefore, tender you my resignation of | The cloud which first lowered over us was
the office of Attorney General.” | ;
Tn commenting upon this sction of Mr. | the War of 1812, its shadows were deep,
Purviance, the Fittsburg Chronicle, a Re- | but it had a silver lining, it fell in darkness,
publican journal, thus wrote: | but was dispelled in undying light. And
“We are ft a Je Fiat hes there, away back in the infancy of our Re-
reasons are ; rh is state : :
that oll OER gr hat ind ey pba te Demberscy recorded its first great
ty ot the Governor in those scandalous ' triuteph, which will stand forever, a monu-
contract transactions through which the ment which neither time nor envy can dis-
State Pas been Swindied id of immense troy. And there, too, is adark page, a
sus of money, and our volunteers sabject- | “0 4 : :
ed to a series of hardships — recs | Page, the perusal of which will call a curse
ces which rone but themselves would haye 10m the lips of all who love “the Union,—
had the patience to tolerate.” ; Then a blot was placed upon the echutchon'
Keep it before the people that be is now | of Massachusetts which a century of good
rase, an example was set
traveling over the State and stumping it | geeds cannot e
which South Curohina followed in 1832. and
for himself, and at the same time drawing |
pay from the people for services which he is | . ji
not rendering. which has since been carried out and been
Keep it before the people that motwith- | productive of more misery and shame to
standing he was Governor of the sovereign our nation than all other causes combined.
State of Pennsylvania, he had so yielded ; : 5 :
Hs sovereignty. thay whe the State was in- | During most of our struggle with Great Bri.
tian, the New Englana States, not only
vaded, he could only say, I am power- |
less,” “I am powerless,” and dared do threatened secession and took all measures
nothing for the State defence, except as or-' tq carry their threat into execution, but af-
dered from Washington. Vote for George i ;
W. Woodward, a man who is honest, up- | forded aid and comfort to the en2my through.
right and true, Tot only to the people, but | out the war. Canit be denied? John
to the Constitution, the sovereignty anc the Quincy Adams was a native of Massachus-
Jgniry of the great State in which we | etts, in his writings he declared that the
Keep it before the people that Andrew G. > 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
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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.
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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