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BELLEFONTE, PA.
Friday Morning, Oct, 9, 1863
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Democratic State Ticket,
FOR GOVERNOR, #
GEORGE W. WOODWARD,
OF LUZERNE.
FOR JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT.
WALTER H. LOWRIE,
OF ALLEGHNY.
County Ticket.
FOR ASSEMBLY,
C. T. ALEXANDER,
of Bellefonte.
ET
—
FOR PROTHONOTARY,
JAMES H. LIPTON,
of Milesburg.
#OR REGISTER & RECORDER,
J. P. GEPHEART,
of Millkeim.
FOR TREASURER,
JOHN SHANNON,
The Great Democratic Mass Meeting.
‘Saturday last was a day long to be .re-
membered in the history of the Democratic
party of this county. The outpouring of
the people was immense and the enthusiasm
beyoud expression. The abolitionists were
terror-stricken, and their knees smote to-
gether worse than did ever Belshazzar’s of
old. It was truly a magnificent demonstra-
tion and was an earnest of what the Dermoc-
racy intend to do on Tuesday.
Vehicles containing enthusiastic crowds,
commenced t) arrive early in the day, and
the town was soon alive with people. But
the grand entree did not take place till about
11 o'clock, and then, ye Gods! what a spec
tacle !
Cheer after cheer rose from the hundreds
shout rose up from the assembled thousands
for Woodward and Lowrie, as made the very
welkin ring again. The delegations were
very imposing, that from Pennsvalley being
a mile and a-half in length. All the dele;
gations were large and would have been lar-
ger had it not been for the great rain of the
day before, which threatened to spoil the
meeting altogether. As it was, the turn-
out was astonishing, and the display of flags
and banners, with patriotic, Democratic
mottocs, was inspiring and glorious 1n the
extreme.
Judge WoopwaRD arrived about noon, and
stopped at the Pennsylvania House. As he
alighted from his carriage he was greeted
with three tremenduous cheers, and esger
crowds pressed around him to take him by
the hand. All were gratified at the noble
presence of the man; many remarks were
passed, such as “What a splendid looking
man be is,&c. And Judge WoODWARD'S
personal appearance is, certainly, much to
be admired. He is six feet and two inches
inches in height, built in perfect proportion,
with a brow as lofty and massive as ever
graced the proudest Senator of = ancient
Rome, His deportment is always graceful,
dignified and manly, and his manner kind
and winning. It is no wonder that the mere
‘sight of the man awakens the enthusiasm
of Centre Hall.
FOR SHERIFF.
RICHARD CONLEY,
of Gregg Town:hip.
YOR COMMISSIONER,
JAMES FORESMAN,
of Sncw Shoe.
YOR AUDITOR,
J. W. SNYDER,
6 Ferguson Townahip.
FOR CORONER,
JOSEPH ADAMS,
o! Milesburg.
Cur Tickst.
We have already noticed, at somo length,
the admirable ticket that stands st the head
of our paper, and we feel a pride in saying
to-day that no nominations have ever been
received with such universal satisfaction by
the Democracy of Centre county, Our can-
didates are not a promiscuous pack of citi-
gens. made up without respect to qualifica.
tions or principles—they are no worn-down
political hacks, who care for nothing but
the loaves and fishes or the spoils of office,
but are men, every one of them, and are
Democrats because they believe Democratic
principles are right, and are our candidates
because the people desired that they should
be such. They are men eminently fitted in
every respect to fill the various stations for
which they have bec nominated, and in
whom the people can place their trust with
out fear of being deceived.
Qur friends from every part of the coun-
ty assure us that the people arc awake and
determined to exterminate every vestige of
ABOLITIONISM in our midst. The same
spirit that characterized the old Jackson
campaign has been rekindled in the botoms
of our people, firing them with a firm re-
golve to throw off the shackles of despo.
tism! We are assured, too, that hundreds
of conservative Republicans, disgusted with
ABOLITION rule, have joined our ranks
and are now fighting shoulder to shonlder
with the Democracy in behalf of CONSTI-
TUTIONAL LIBERTY ! They. in common
with the Democratic party, have been base-
ly deceived by the imbecile administration
at Washington—they sce no hope of restor-
ing the Union and a speedy return of peace,
but in the success of the Democratic party ;
and, 8s in the palmy days of the old Whig
party, they rallied around their noble lead-
ors, Webster and Clay, so now they rally
arourd the Democratic standard to do bat-
tle for our common country. Fhere is but
oneisentiment, the election of Woudward
and Lowrie, now ammating the minds of
our people. We urge our feliow- democrats
therefore, to be vigilant and active. Let us
not be satisfied with the election of our
Ticket, even by the handsome majority of
$00, which we had last fall. OLD CEN-
TRE CAN DO BETTER THAN TIIAT, and
she will do it. To your posts, then, fel-
low-democrats, and let each*bne do what he
ean in the good work, remembering that,
“1A false usurper sinks in every foe,
And Liberty’ returns with every blow.”
Jot the UNION and the CONSTITU-
TION be your rallying cry, and animated
Ly this noble sentiment, let us go to the
polls with the determination that the
RIGHTS OF THE FEOPLE must be main.
tained! Once more unto the breach, fellow
evuntrymen, and on the thirteenth of Octo-
ber we will thunder forth such a majority
a8 will drive the hosts of Abolitionistn in
coafugion before us, and redeem our proud
old Commonweslth from their tyrannical
yale!
g7= Citizens of Centre county ! Do you
want a Governor in Pennsylvania who will
hold his own rights or permit the people of
the State to hold theirs at the mere will of
the National Adminstration? If you do,
of the people and hence we were not sur-
; prised at the gratifying reception which he
| received ineBellefonte.
| Mr. Wirre arrived also about the same
| time, and was handsomely received. Col.
| Kane was unavoidaoly aetained and did not
get Liero at all.
But we have no room to elaborate the
proceedings of the meeting, It was organ-
ized by the election of Hon. 8. 1’. SuuGerr,
a8 President, assisted by a large number of
Vice-Presidents and Secretaries, whose
names we are sorry we have no room for.
The introduction of Judge WoopwARD to
the immense audience was the signal for
most uproaricus and long continued Lursts
of applause, which Judge WooDwARD grace-
fully and repeatedly acknowledged, while
everyhiody pressed closer and closer to the
stand in order to get a good look at him and
hear what he had to say.
In a speech of about ten minutes, Judge
Woodward explained that ke had not come
here to make a pclitical speech—that it had
been a rule of his life never to discuss po-
litical questions upon the stump, while oc-
cupying a judicial position. He had come
here only for the purpose of seeing the peo-
ple and of letting the people see him. He
merely alluded to the state of the country,
and hoped that honest men of all parties
would think seriously over it, and then vote,
as their consciences, before God. might dic-
tate. Me stated that although his position
ag a member of the judiciary, prolibited
bim from discussing the questions at issue
before the people, yet if he should be elect-
ed Governor of Pennsylvania, those ques-
tions should Le discussed freely, bolily and
impartially.
The Judge then retired, the immense and
densely packed assemblage giving bim cheer
after cheer.
Hon. W. H. Write, one of the ablest
stump speakers in the Union, was then in-
troduced to the meeting and was received
with three hearty cheers. His specch was,
probably, the ablest argument in favor of
the principles and position of the Democrag-
ic party, ever delivered in this town, His
hearers were frantic with delight, and he
was frequently interrupted by tremenduous
bursts of applause. For three long hours he
held that mighty assemblage speli-bound by
the power of his eloquence, and when he
ceased, the pent-up enthusiasm of the peo-
ple burst forth in loud and lomg-continued
chee, s.
Mr. Joux II. Orvis was then called for,
but as it was almost night he declined to
add anything to the remarks of Mr. Wirrs,
and the meeting then adjourned with nine
cheers for Woodward and Lowrie and the
Constituticn.
The ladies had the stand handsomely dec-
orated, which added much to its appearance.
The rain, however, of the day before, inter-
fered sadly with the arrangements of the la-
dies, and they were not as well prepared as
they inteuded to have been.
The Lock Haven and Boalsburg Brass
Bands were both in attendance, and dis-
coursed most excellent music.
So ended one of the most enthusiastic and
imposing demonstrations that ever took
place in-Central Pennsylvania. May we not
hope that it was but the shadow of that
coming event which is‘to overthrow the
whole abolition dynasty ?
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Don't Scratch you: Ticket.
Democrats don't scratch your Ticket, vote
for every man upon it from Geo. W. Wood-
ward downto Joseph Adams, You only
assist in electing some Abolitionist by
scratching off the name of a Democrat, and
give the opposition a chance to glory over
you after the election. Remember that ev-
ry man on the opposition ticket is an Abo-
litionist at heart, no matter what his pre-
tensions are, Stick to your ticket than ev-
ry man upen it is worthy ef your sup-
Andrew €, Cartin will just suit yon,
port.
It did our souls good to witness it.
that lined the streets, and were taken up:
by the crowds in procession until such a!
What We Charged Curtin with, and
What They Dared not Deny.
Voters and tax-payers of Uent-e county-—
charged by journals of his own party, as
¢t CORRUPT AND UNFIT TO BE CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Railroad, whereby our State was robbed of
over EIGHTEEN MILLIONSOF DOLLARS,
and his friends
DARED NOT DENY IT.
They charged him with stealing the agree.
ment, by which that monstrous corporation
was to pay the annual sum, into the State
treasury, of seventy-five thousand dollars,
from the office of his Attorney General,
and delivering it up to the Vice President
of the road and his friends
DARED NOT DENY IT.
They charged him with calling out the
soldiers and then «* farming ’ them out to
contractors, at se much per head, and his
friends
DARED NOT DENY IT.
They charged him with olothing the soi-
diers with shoddy and rotten blankets, and
feeding them on stinking beef, and his
friends
DARED NOT DENY IT.
We charged him with taking an oath to
proscribe FOREIGNERS, ALIENS or CATH-
OLICS, and to prevent them from ever hold-
ing office and his friends
DARED NOT DENY IT.
We charged him with being the first Sec-
retary of State under a Know-Nothing
Governor, and of traveling over Pennsyl-
vania organizing Know-Nothing Lodges,
and his friends
DARED NOT DENY IT.
We charged him with willfully neglecting
to have proper credit given for the number
of volunteers furnished by this county,
thereby permitting the conscription act, to
rob eur citizens of over an hundred thou-
sand Jollars, or force them into the ranks,
when our county had an overplus of over
three hundred soldiers—and his friends
DARED NOT DENY IT.
freeing the negroes—in favor of allowing
them to enter and depreciate the field of
white labor—in fayor of reducing work-
man’s wages to the standard of negro la-
bor—in favor of allowing negroes to vote—
in favor of allowing negroes to hold office—-
in favor of suspending the writ of habeas
corpus and of arbitrary midnight arrests—
in favor of violating Constitutions and of
giving up our State rights to the General
Government-—in favor of a military despot-
ism—in favor of a war with Fugland and
France—in favor of a New Union in place
of the old Union of our fathers—in favor of
disunion forever rather than agree to a com-
promise with the South--1n favor of Con-
scriptions—in favor of high revenue Taxes
—in favor of eviry wish and desire of Abe
Lincoln and his corrupt crew of plunderers
and thieves-—NOT in fuvor of tke Constitu-
tion as it is and the Union as it was, and
NOT in favor of your rights as freemen or
your welfare as people! and his friends
DARED NOT DENY IT,
All these, and more charges, blacker and
more infamous than any of them, have we
made and proved to be true, here at the
home of Andrew G. Curtin, among his rel-
atives. friends and partners in business,
and no one has dared to deny them; even
his own organ, the Press, owned and con-
trolled by his personal and political friends”
has not attempted to refute a single charge
laid at his door ; its Editors Anow that they
are correct—knrow that he bas committed
the offences for which we have arraigned
kim, and consequently fear even to state
that they are incorrect. Can the honest
farmers and mechanics and hard-fisted work-
ing men give their support to a man who
bas proven go recreant to a trust reposed in
him? (Can they cast their vote fcr Andrew
G* Curtin, who has knowingly and purposly
signed bills that robbed then of millions of
dollars 2 If so they deserve to be robbed
they deserve to have an imbecile for a Gov-
crnor-- they deserve to be taxed and drafted.
B7s>= Democrats, be earnest
and united in your efforts to
elect Woodward, Lowrie and our
whole county ticket.
To Work !!
To Work, Democrats; remember that
on Tuesday next one of the most important
clections ever held in the State will take
place—yon have no time to idle or pass
away casily, for the enemy are at work,
using every means within their reach, to
d feat our noble candidates, triumph over
our gloriops principles, prolong the war and
prevent a reconstruction of this Union as ig
was given us by our fathers. Arouse then,
white men! Would ye be fieemen longer ?
would ye have the name of our country
again made mighty, and preserve its bless-
ings for your children? Would ye hurl
from power violaters of law! Usurpers of
authority ! Truckling minions of tyrants!
Fawning sychophants at the foot-stocl of
Royalty ! Robbers and plunderers of your
public treasury! Despoilers of your Goy-
ernment and enemies of your liberty ! then
arouse and to work! -¢ Eternal vigilance
is the price of Liberty,” and energetic, de-
termined action can only assure you of suc-
cess. Wait not for others to move, look not
to leadurs to see this man or that, but go
yourselves and speak to him as you would
to an erripg brother. Tell him of the terrible
dangers that envjron our land—tell him of
the fearful consequences of a continuation
in power, of the miserable faction of disu-
nionists that now hold office and wield the
sceptre,—tell him of the frauds and corrup.
tions of those who now fill high places, to
the disgrace of pur country. Stop not then,
go to the polls and vate early, make prepe-
vations, and have every vote there, and be
sure that none are left bebind. To woxrk
then, freemen, and suecess is cevlan!
We charged him with being in favor of
Soldiers, Read.
We again refer to the subject of the sdl-
diers’ vote 1861, that the returned .soldiers
out by the court.
1n 1861, Judge Thompson, Ahoiitionist,
ponent, with the vote of the citizens at home
and in the a~my, bad a majority over Thom-
son, and received the certificate of election
and entered upon the duties of his office. —
Thompson’ contested the right of Ewing to
hold the position, in the Common Pleas of
that city, on the ground of the wnconstitu-
tionality of the soldiers vote! The court
dexided in favor of Thompson. The matter
was carried up to the Supreme Court, and
Judges Wcodward, Strong and Lowrie,
Democrats, and Read, Abolitionist, affirmed
the decision of the court below. Judge
Wodward, then must have been governed
wholly by legal corsiderasions in his decis-
ion and not by party motives, for if the lat-
ter had had any controlling influence with
him, he would not have sustained the infer-
tor court, and Ewing Democrat, would have
retained the office of Sheriff —the emolum-
ents of which are nearly equal, if not alto-
gether to the salary of the president of the
United States. It was the cupidity of an
Abolitionist that forced such a decision and
and hence cast aside the soldiers vote and
thus disfranchised them, Will the abolition
journals, in their ravings, tell us whether
legal and Constitutional motives governed
Judge Woodward and majority of the Bench
in the matter of Thompson vs. Ewing, or
political codsiderations and prejudices ?—
Which ?
Abolition Tactics.
Democrats, keep a sharp look out for Ab-
olition stool pigeons who claim to be Demo-
crats. These fellows are sent out as decoy
; ducks to draw you into the Abolition trap.
t Again, beware of Abolition wire workers
| who ask you to trade some man on the
Democratic for some one on the Abolition
ticket whose election they desire. The tac-
tics of the enemy are at present to strike at
yone or two of the Democratic nominees.
They are very anxious to defeat our candi-
dates for the Legislature and Register & Re-
corder, and to accomplish this purpose they
will resort to almost any means, lies will be
circulated of the blackest kind, tickets with
the names of Forster and Haupt inserted in
| the place of Alexander and Gephart, will
be given to you, offers will be made to trade
them for some other candidates, and in fact
every species of political trickery will be
tried to defeat them. Be on the look out
all the time, believe no reports they put in
circulation, and be certain to examine your
ticket before you vote, see that every name
is upon them, and that every one is spelled
right. The only way to defeat the tactics
of the Avolitiomsts is to VOTE THE
WHOLE TICKET, AND NOTHING BUT
THE TICKET.
M'Clellan for Woodward.
In his speech on Saturday, Mr- Witte sta-
ted BY AUTHORITY, that Gen. M’Clellan
was for Judge Woodward. And we learn
since from undoubted sources, that M:Clel-
lan is now in Philadelphia, working quietly
but earnestly among the soldiers for Wood-
ward’s election. What think you of that,
ye soldiers who have returned home to vote
for Curtin 2 Will ye follow ‘‘Beast “Butler”
to corruption and shame in Andy Curtin’s
arms, cr Gen. M-Clellan to glory and honor
in the triumph of Judge Woodward and
Democratic principles? M'Clellan, God
bless him, the man you ALL love, and
whom Andy Curtin bates, has never yet led
you astray! Soldiers, will ye trust hin
now ?
Remember.
Remember! that DANIEL AGNEW, the
Abolition nominee for Supreme Judge, voted
and spoke in the Convention which framed
our present State Constitution to allow NE-
GROES THE RIGHT TO VOTE. White
men remember this! 1t is true, snd cannot
be denied.
Remember ! that CORTIN 18 completely
pledged to support the administration of ;
Lincoln in the Negro war policy. There
will be no change if he is elected. The last
man in the country will be drafted before
they will yield, if by their votes, the peo-
ple elect Curtin. Remember that: every
vote for Curtin is 3 vote for the negro war
policy.
ee _cosoe=——r:
Ay Inpayous Lis.—Some of the lying
Abolitionists are circulating the report
through parts of the county, that our Can-
didate for Register & Recorder, Mr. J, P,
Gephart, advised his democratic friends to
go to the polls early on next Tuesday morn- !
ing aod vote and then shoot down any abol:
itionist that attempted to deposit his ballot.
This is one of the most infamous falsehoods
ever set afloat. Mr. Gephart pever said
any such a thing, he is not one of that kind
of men, and the person that starfed the re-
whatever. Mr. Gephart is a gentleman, a
scholar and a patriot, a good Democrat, and |
well qualified to fill the office, to which
the people will elect him on Tuesday
next,
fois pia mi
17" Under D:mecratic Administrations
the people were blest with peace, prosperi-
ty and happiness, under Abolition rule the
country has been cursed with civil war, ro-
ined credit, enormous taxes, and a remorse:
less conscription, The former struggled to
protect the many, and secured to all class- |
es of American citizens, at home and abroad
the rights and privileges of freemen, the
latter lias assailed the liberty of speech and
the freedom of the press, and has estab-
lished the worst despotism the world ever
saw. The Democracy are for the Union
and the Constitution, the Abolition-
ists are opposed to both, Which will you
choose ?
Are You Ready?
Democrats of Centre, are you ready ?
remember when you go to the polls on next | may know through whose instramentality | ARE YOU PREPARED FOR THE GREAT
Tuesday, that ANDREW G. CURTIN has been | the soldiers vote of that year was thrown | ISSUE? It comes off next Tuesday.—
Every district should have its committee to
stir up the voters and bring every Democrat
OF PENNSYLVANIA "—remember that they | received a majority of the votes of the citi- | and conservative man to the polls | Let this
charged him with signing the bill commut- | yong of Philadelphia, at home, for the office | not be neglected. Every man should be
ing the tonnage tax on the Pennsylvania | ,¢ Sperift. Mr. Ewing, Democrat, his op- | brought out.
We want an honest man for ‘Governor.
Work for Woodward and the whole ticket.
Be at the Polls.
Democrats, no matter whether il rains or
shines, be at the polis, and be there before
they are open. Talk to your friends —talk
to your enemies—tell them the truth— con-
viction always goes hand in hand with truth.
When the Polls Open
vote yourself and them LOOK OUT FOR
THE REST. Be on hand all day, and if
there is a Democrat missing,
Start out after Him,
Probably he may be backward with his
farm work, and unable to loose the time
required to go to the place of voting.—
Send him along and WORK FOR HIM
YOURSELF. Do anything that is fair and
honorable to GET OUT THE VOTERS.
THE CONTEST!
now is near at hand ! Are you all ready ?
Rally from every hill and valley, from your
workshops, your firesides and your counters !
« Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,”
NEW ASSOCIATES.
There are scores of men who never voted
with you before that will do so now.—-
% ELCOME THEM into your ranks, and
ask them to work with you.
and all will be well.
Get the Vote Ready!
Make arrangements so that no Democrat
will be permitted to stay at home.
selves, and see that every Democrat does.
Old Men,
be ready. Your hair is blossowmg for the
grave,~-give your dying blessing to your
which alone can save your country.
which abolitionism is plunging us. God
knows, that they have nearly ruined the
country already. Wil) you trust them fur-
ther. To do so would be criminal in the
extreme.
Young Men,
You have life Lefore you, will you choose
the destrnction of your Constitution and
your glorious country ? Will yeu suffer
yourselves to be made equals of black men ?
Will you destroy yotr labor? Will you
vole away the right of trial by jury ? Will
you vote despotism upon your own heads ?
Will you peril all that is dear to you and
your country ? Rather rise while you have
the right and speak through the ballot-box
like men, and when jou speak, let your
voice be for Woodward, Lowrie and the
whole ticket---for your Constitution, your
Country and the interests of the homest
sons of toil.
20 nu han
The Contest— Arouse.
Democrats, you are sure of a complete
victory, if you all turn out to the polls,
but will all be oat? Democrats, are you
sure that your neighbor will be at the
election? If not, make yourself certain of
it.
Democrats beware of opposition tricks,
and falsehoods—the opposition do not ex-
pect to win except by trickery. The reme-
dy against all this is to get every Democrat
to turn out to the election and vote the
whole ticket.
VOTE EARLY.
Democrats go early upon the election
ground and fight for your ticket ; in doing
so you are sustaining the cause of the Union,
the cause of your couatry. Be not misled
by the false representations of your politi-
cal opponents.
Let every Democrat and every ‘‘Republi-
can’’ who wants to have a change in the ad-
ministration of public afiairs, turn out to the
election. If the people want to suffer—
suffer—suffer—till ruin rides rampani over
every hill and valley in the land, let them
stay at home and permit the reins of gov-
ernment to remain in the hands of the Akol-
itionists. Oa the contrary, if they want
our country to return to peace and prosper-
ity let them TURN OUT and VOTE THE
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
pe Voters, Remember that Harry For-
for Assembly, 1 this county, is in favor of
freeing the slaves of the South and bringing
them North to compete with us for labor,
steal our property and fill our Poor Houses,
Jails and Penmtentiaries. If you want thig
State ot affairs, vote for Harry Forster ; if
you dont want it, vote for Cyrus T. Alex
ander,
mmo Mp A i.
[== Democrats can you vote for men
who haye betrayed your party and deserted
your principles for the sake of office ? Fos:
ter and Haupt have done 1t. Can y ou vote
for men who endorse all the infamous acts
of Abram Lincoln and Andrew G. Curtin?
Foster and Haupt do. Oan you vote for
men who are opposed to this “Union as it
was under the Constitution ag it is?’ Fos-
ter Haupt and the whole abolition ticket
are.
ees Semone
8@ Vote the whole Democratic Ticket.
Middle Aged Men,
you have property and your children to pro-
tect, will you not vute to save all that is | it was when governed by the Democratic
dear to you from that gulf of rem to | party you must vote the Democratic ticket.
Gen. McClellan— Judge Woodward.
It is somewhat remarkable, yet it isa
fact, that in all parts of Pennsylvania, the
men who sustain General G. B. McClellan,
the gallant and successful commander and
favorite of the brave soldiers in the Army
of the Potomac, and defend him against the
slanderous attacks and unjust acts ujon
him by the Lincoln-Curtin Abolition leaders
at Washington, are the friends of Judge
Woodward, iE
If we look around us here. or turn our
eye to other quarters, we find that the men
who misrepresent and abuse General Mc-
Clellan, as ‘a - traitor,”” ‘‘a sympathizer
with the South,” &e., &c.. are the men v ho
apply the same terms to Judge Woodward.
The Lincoln Administration, while it per-
mits Butler, who has never fought a great
battle, or proved himself a soldier, to travel
over the country, making stump speeches,
repudiating ‘¢ the Union as it was,” and to
draw his full pay. as Major General, has
forced the patriot McClellan, whom the
soldiers love and the people admire, from
active duty, and re*ired him from service on
half pay! This outrage is approved only
by the Lincoln-Curtin Aboliticnists ; the
Democracy—all the friends of Judge Wood-
ward everywhere—condemn and dencunce
it as infamously unjust.
The Lincoln-Curtin Abolitionists hate
Gen. McClellan, because he is a sincere
friend of ‘* the Constitution as it is, and
the Union as it was ;” and they hate Judge
Woodward for the same reasom. [hey op-
pose General McClellan because he believes
with the late Senatsr Douglas, that the
Government formed by Washington and his
fellow patriots of '76, was ‘¢a white man’s
Government,” intended ‘: for white men
and their posterity forever ;’” and they op-
pose Judge Woodward because he enter-
tains the same belief. They proscribe Gen.
Mec lellan because he, at the head of the
army, prosecuted the war as a war, not for
the negro, but for the white man, the white
—s0 i8 it in the security of your principles. | man’s nghts and for the white man's Gov-
ernment ; and they would proseribe Judge
Woodward because he sustains General
McClellan.
The friends of Judge Wosdward, in one
of the Western counties of this State, have
Do your duty | declared for Gen. McClellan asa candidate
for the Presidency, in 1864; and it is a
common occurrence for the Democracy to
ciose their public gatherings with eheers for
the Constitution as it is, for the Unien as it
was, for Generzl McClellan, and for Judge
Woodward. The man who would prepose
cheers for the Constitation as it is, the
Rain oc | gnion as it was, and for General Mc@lellan,.
shine, cold or warm, go to the polls your: | in a meeting of the Lincoln-Curtin Abeli-
tionists, would be very promptly suppressed
by hisses or carried out, as ‘* a trailor,” ** a
sympathizer with seeession,” or ‘“a esppes-
heud.”
In this hastily penned artiele we have bat
briefly cited facts—facts generally known
as well to the private soldiers who do the
children, by voting for the great principles fighting on the battle field, as t. the people
at large.—h est Chester Jeffersonian.
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What Will You Have?
If you want the country restored to what
If you do not wish to have yourself and
your sons drafted and carried away to fight
for the freedom of the niggers you should
vote tke Democratic ticket, If you want
the Constitution and the Union as our Fath-
ers made them, securing personal liberty
and domestic happiness to all, von must
vote the Democratic ticket. But if you are
in favor of continuing the war until slavery
is abolished and the old Union is destroyed ;
if you are in favor of still increasing taxa-
tion; if you are in favor of more widows
and orphans; if you are in favor of being
drafted and having your friends drafted,
then you will, of course, vote the Abolition
ticket. These are the issues to be decided
at the ballot-box next Tuesday.
Keep it Before the People.
That Andrew G. Curtin, the shoddy can-
didate for Goyernor, signed the bill for the
repeal of the Tonnage Tax on the Pennsyl-
vania Roilroad Company, against the re-
monstrances of Hon. S. A. Parviance, his
Attorney General, and Eli Slifer, his Secre-
tary of State.— Pittsburg Gazelle, July 22.
That he signed it ** upon a private agree-
ment in writing, made by Thomas A. Scott,
for the company to pay the sum of $75,000
per annum into the Treasury, which agree-
ment he concealed from the people and
afterwards surrendered to the company,
without even preserving a copy of it.”
That he signed three acts of a Republi-
can Legislature, *¢ Stripping the Sinking
Fund of at least EIGRTEEN MILLIONS
OF DOLLARS !”—¢ 'FHAT HIS NOMINA-
TION WOULD BE DISGRACEFUL TO
THE PARTY, AND [1IS ELECTION IM-
POSSIBLE !"— Pittsburg Guzette, Aug. 5.
It is only necessary to remind the reader
that the journal making these bold and
monstrous chaiges is the ablest and most
widely circulated Republican print, west of
‘| the Allegheny mountains.
B= See, Democrats, that
none of your Democratic neigh-
bors are left behind on election
day.
Remember.
That no man who has not been a resident
of 12e election district in which he offers to
vote, len days prior to the election has a right
to vote.
Remember that uiless a mon has paid a
State or county tax within two years, he
cannot vote.
Remember that a man formerly a citizen
of another State, mast have been a resident
of this State one year Lefore he can vote,
whilst a former citizen of this State, who
had lost his residence here, by living in an-
other State, regains his citizenship and
right to vote by remaining here 6
months.
Remember these things, as the Aholi-
tionists intend to colonize veters from other
States and districts at our elections—sol-
port knows thatit is without any foundation | gter, the abolirion-admibistration candidate | diers and officeholders ‘who never were
citizens of Pennsylvania. Such men
MUST BE PREVENTED FROM VOTING.
Upand at Them,
On next Tuesday is election day. Have
you talked with your neighbors and im-
pressed them with the ruin and: disaster
brought upon the country by the abolition
party #7 Have you reminded them of the
good times we had under Democratic rule?
Have you seeu that all who are entitled to
their naturalization papers have procured
them ? Have you impresse’ upon the
doubting that fo restore liberty, peace and
prosperity to the country the peoples must
reinstate the Democratic party? In short
have you done all in your power to save
yourself and your country from ruin ¢ If
you have keep on, do not grow weary in
the good work, If you spend your time
and your money and save your country,ycu
have gained more than any peeple have been
rewarded with since the foundation of the
world, Work one! Work all! Let not an
hour be lost.
!
Stand by each other
ini,
Democrats when you go to the
polls on Tuesday morning next go o
with the intention and determina-
tion to vote, go peaceably and
quietly to the window, deposit
your ballot, and. then. see. that
your neighbors vote too, Don’t
attempt to get up a muss; :have
the election pass off quietly
and plesantly as possible and if
it is within your power let mo
bitter feelings tbe engendered.—
Do your duty simply .as; gentle-
men and christians, and all may
be right, but if any bullying, bel-
lowing Abolitionist, attempts to
impose upon any of your demo-
cratic brethren, do not stand by
and see them abused ; stick to
each other, and show the enemy
that you are determined to have
your rights and will defend
yourselves at all hazards and
under all circumstances.
Beware of Lies,
Driven almost to madness b
the certainty of defeat, the aboli~
tionists will resort to any means,
no difference how disgraceful or
low to get votes for their'doomed
candidates. We Tear that all
sorts of lies, about the private
character of our worthy candidate
Judge Woodward, are circulated
throughout the county by his
miserable defamers. We would
warn our readers against them;
Hisenemiesare afraid to make the
charges public but like contempti~
ble cowardly sneaks: go about
whispering them in the ears of
persons who are not acquainted
with Judge Woodward. Listen
not to them, is not a word of truth
in them. Judge Woodwards pri-
vate character is above reproach
and no decent man man will say
otherwise. Even his bitterest en-
emies who regard the truth will
tell you so. ’
Caution. -
x
We would warn our friends
and readers against lying circ
lars and flaming hand bills, sent
out just on the eve of the election.
Not a stone will be left unturned:
by the abolitionists, nol a trick
that they can resort to but will
be tried. So beware, put your
neighbors on their guard, and
stard firm! Listen not to their sil-
ly appeals, look net at their lying
circulars ; the charges made in
them are so false that they feared:
tomake them while there was
time to contradict them..
The Germans of Pennsylvania.
«t Germans attracted at an early day be
fore the fame of Penn; came in great num-
bers from the fatherlané, and settled in
‘Pennsylvania, and have always formed a
large and most respectable portion of eus
population. Though mixed with people of
different habits of thought and action, who
have displayed in Pennsylvania all the ao-
tivity, energy and enterprise that belong to
thd tch, Irish and Yankees, yot the Ger-
mans have maintained their ascendes
both in wealth and in social and political ia-
finence. Love of country—patient indus-
iry—sound judgment and inflexible integ-
rity, are characteristics cf this people, and
how these qualities haye impressed the pec-
ple of other extraction in Peansylvanis,
may be seen in the fact that our chiof exe-
cutive office has been entrusted to Germans
for more than half the time since the aop-
tion of the Constitution of 1790, Snyder.
Heister, Shultz, Wolf, Ritner and Shunk.
were all Germans. In our legislative halls.
and in governmental departments, the Gei-
mans have always bad a large representa-
tion. In the development of the agr.culta-
ral resources of Pennsylvania they have led
the way and done more to demonstrate the
wisdom and profitablencss of good farming
than any other class of our people. - They
love goad land, and they know bow to make
good use of it. :
Where on our continent—where in our
world will you find more independence, con-
tentment and solid comfort than in the Ger-
man famiiies of our limestone valleys? It
js » Pleasing thought that a race of Gover-
nors has Seen nurtured amid the rich luxur-
iance and exemplary virtues of these.valleys
—a pleasing thought it is too, that we have
come, at length, to erect in the bosom of
one of the layliest of these valleys a monu-
ment to one of the noblest of German *Gov-
ernors. That people may well love Shunk
and hocor his memory, for he he wasan expo-
ent—ap embodied expression of the charaer
teristic of his race—and they may look op
this monument as peculiarly theirs—as »
memorial of what they have done for Penn-
sylvanis—a concrete tribute to the viffhes,
the manly independence and the ster) re-
publicanism of Pennsylvania, Germans.’ ~
Address of Judge Woodward at the grave of
Gov, Shunk, Jyy 4, 1851. :
ten p—
ANDREW G' CURTIN was Secretary ‘oj
State under JAMES PoLLOCE, who was eles
ted Governor by the Koow-Nothing party
in 1854. Durfng that year he traveled over
the State organizing Know-Nothing lodges,
nd took a solemn oath not tq vote ‘for or
use his influence in behalf of any nian whe
was of foreign birth er a Roman Catholie,
He wns known to be one of the hittepest,
most intolerant Know-Nothings in thig Com«
monwealth. The adopted cntigens of Penp-
sylvania will not forget the infamods ree.
ord of the shoddy candidate.
a lp pg
B&> Be out tothe polls
Let ng Democrat remain at home.