i TT Smith until the simpleton arrived atlall about it wes to exciipste hom , Cw ces ony lage. The facts that wok place wiih Petrikin, whom the federalists + § J o the Democratic ite these men, I have stated inan affida-jcharged with it publicly. On engi : ranz.ab “vit subjoined nereto vy I found that the federali<ts bad more publicans of Centre and Bat that which is to affix the offencejto do with it than the democrais. Clearfield counties. {upon me, is that | gave Thurston a] With these remarks I leave my a7 - paix of shoes Now I grant that Ifcharacter and my prospects in lie Iu t: + be comes my duty to address youldid give him a pair of old shoes, but ) on 2 subjoct relating principally 10h ha, { had any other moive than tojcither to sink or swim, as they may myself Some few federalists m Bel eudip a poor man a tilling favor is{letermine. As for the federalisis, sfonte, fricnds and relations of Andrew pig. fle wasa mn whom I koewlithey wili believe the worst that can be Gregg, their candidate Hr Governor, when [ saw, and nothing more, Helsad, however groundless or false it hae made frequent declarations, atl, lates in his deposition precisely whatimay be. : s they would biacken the character of 100k place, and hie was not in ory of JAMES M. PETRIKIN. he PrRIKIN Familr, BY HOOK ojonper than 1 could take the shoes OR BY CROOK, so that they would qr yy hoots,and draw on the boots. IMCENTRE COUNTY. ss. be compielied to leave the Caunty® I je irifluig favors of this kind are to B. {ore me the order 0 attain this, they have com-| make those who grant them accessa-fsubseriber one of the Justices of the n | Peace for the county atoresaid, per re 4 EA nenced issuing Hand Bills, and mak | ieq to crime, 1t would be very strange 3 ing newspaper publications in other jhqeed, but none but such despicablejsonally came Grorce W. THIRSTON Jounties, charging members of thei 008 of wax as Humes, Waison and{of the state of New York, now of the family with every species of enormi-{payerqon would say so. One thivgliowaship of Spring in the sud county, ty ; even that Henry Petrikin DdRtovig cjoap, (hey will never be hangediwho on his solemn oath doly admis ot 3 of the Bellefonte Patriot, had been 1, 10g of charity, nor their candidaieliered according to law, saith, thal BA] ruilty of playing Cards in tie ChOYeh. eiijer, | would itke to have them|aath a certain kmowledge of all ‘tie Wico in very fact it was none other ooo came of Me. Gregg'sicircumstances aitending the making han MATHEW GREGG, son of CHARITABLE DEEDS. Perbapsland secting uh of an Lffizy in the Bo AxprEW GrEGG their candidate who a0 thay call upon WV ILLIAM AD {rough of Baticfonte called the © Feb ettetonte catiedgthe « Federal Can. the hands of my republican brethren, (old the deponent that he was going tolous slauders It ample Aecoh ° rake away our reputation is villianons ~1date” on the night of the 3d of Julyibevond all paralell. ‘They want you, inst. The deponent dpes not believe|democrats, to sanction by your voles it possible that Hg, or any ‘of hisitheir base calumnies. They have BROTHERS, could have koown anyland are nmking every endoaver, by thing about it, He further saith.practising on the viltst wreiches, to that it was George Thurston first thatisupport their vile, wicked and iofam- was deetinined a setitup; but Thomas Singleton wasisecret conclave, to destiey pur chars aol present, wor was the deponentiacier, inorder that the credit wf this present at the conversation meaddoned paper of which 1 am cditor, might be by Thomas Singleton, ia the Brickialso destroyed, Men have been found Yard. willini to lend their names to farther tie views of this villisnods combina- ‘lon. They are wealthy, and from the speciren we have Lad, a just idea may be firmed of the pov eitul agency rey int lol wealih in accompliching suy end, CENTRE COUNTY. ss. Ta you, democrats, we appeal for B fore the sub-lprotection, and I kuow that we do not scribar one of the Justices of thelappeal in vain, yeace for Cente County, came James x : oy i Perriciy, who saith on his sol H enry Peli iL ke emn oath, that he had no knowledge| July Slst 1823, whatever that Geo ge Tiueston or any other p=rson or prrsons, bad it 1 contempiation to s2t up an effigy of ithe w federal Cond date,” on the night SAMUEL LAMBERT. Sworn aud subscribed the 29.h July, 1823, before me in A JOSEPH MILES. WRETIR AAL SKE Ll Brat ENA ST To the Democratic le- publicans of Centre and had dove so, which Henry Petrik stands prepared to prove. For all this persecutine zeal the only excuse ,y AM3! Thisisihe naloriunate mii who had his barn purnt with its CONTENTS whereby he erAL CANDIDATE,” on the night otiof the 3d of Ju.y wisn, por did he d.e third of July 1ostant, and WHO assis, Or was ne in any manter con IT WAS THAT MADE AND{vected with him, or them, that did so SET UP THE SAME; thy JAMES And he further sqith, that when he Clearfield Counties. "eLLow CIrizeNs, lis that the ¢ PETRIKIN FaMILY" as was deprived of the means of pres p TH AM nw SAME: they say, ave favorable to the election oq pistence, and his only son Kil JM. PETRIKIN, THOMAS J PL of the democratic candidate for Goy- fed by hghtning, to whom the cold-{RIKIN and WM. PACKER w@ rv r “None other they can Bave, un joa fed pinless disposition of AD-|iz no way CONCERNED THEREIN, 70 is that 1 mysclt have taken an gq Gregg could refuse a centy be-thad THRY or EITHER OF THEM ay gctive’ part for the people, dn thelv gp he "was a democrat. ARNO’ lKNOWLEDGE THERE F OF CONN. TION dispute with the Turopike Company Geo had beep thirty years in offices ruErEwviTi, IN ANY Ww AY UR With some whose names appear tol B80 EC ay of stale; and MANNER WiIATSOEVER. : these Hand bills, we bave been 1oti-hi 4 J oiignd thousands, yet he could] The deponent farther saith, on his mate for some time, and never Save .fige a poor man, upon whom the solemn oath, that some considerable em ihe least offence. They bavel, 4 oF God had been heavily laid, atime afterwards he was in Bellcloute, in passing near the office ol 3 ! rtheless, engaged In this bases solitary farthing, or any (0 relieve hisiand : near d persecuting attempt to ruln our oo : JAMES M. PETRIKIN, was asked characters. So far as they have gone,’ pio agreed that they shall huntiby hm if the deposent WOULD Sank Providence, we have bad IU in 4 “Girne ses to prove thar I bad ASSIST HIM IN REAPING the olr power to show our innocence. on poor’ men shoes, &e. If they next day 5 thar i was iaining at thi A Hand billy to which is attached {fy only enquired at me, I could have ime and they both went into the fie. the names of Hamilton Humes, James gi coq (hem to more than they im-{when James M PETRiE(N commenc Watson, John Thompson, Wm. “aging, who would swear that 1 baveled taking of a flr of OVER SHOES Patterson, Jobo Holte and Wm Pat- given them hats, shoes, shirts, and’ from his Buots which he was abou on, has beeo procured and is in C= goon money in their disiresses. It isldrawing on. The deponeat a ked culation in these counties, charg ich reluctance I state (his, but neces [nim what he would take for rhe shoes James M. Potrikin with setting UD, OF gjiy compels me I am in very hom-to which he veplied that as he had causing to be made and set UP AD he oj cumstances myselly aud perhapsine use whatever for them furiher, the effigy calied the « Federal Candidate,” (ne avowed persecution of Gregy'sidepionent might have them without on the wight of the 3d. of July St paiives may make me still poorer, fay. And the deponent further saith in the Borough of Bellefonte. It 1s py oy prayers ave, that 1 may ever there was not a word passed about the pre'aced and concluded, with the bas- he able (0 give a man that is barefoot-, £ffigy, nor did the ‘deponent Zaow, Say to James Smith that be would en est vituperation, the most abandonedieq 5 pairof shocs, one that is bare-lov does he believe that it had come tc profligacy, and the most contemptibie/jeaded a hat, and one that is naked, the knowledge of the said JAMES, ilingsgate. We are confident, thatig,neihing wherewith to cover his at that time who made and set it up. Jon Holte and Wm. Patton, neveri,,jiedpess, and an exemplary citizen! “1 he d-ponent further saith on his jaw this Hand bill, either io manu-j, dolar when he has his barn buroed solemn oath, that WILLIAM POT. script or otherwise. They are note the act of providence and his only TER Esq. HAMILTON HUMES, capable of such consummate wicked-ig, kdled. If these are offences I and JOHN HALL, Jr. knew as ness and meanness, and 1 have rea lbumbly trust I never shall become so much about the making and setting son to believe that Mr. Thompson'poor by my own conduct asnot to be up of this effigy as James M Petrikin id pot sign it either. With theselygiliy of them. tor any of his Brothers, and more ; fn entlemen I have been particularly” | will endeavor to withstand the when tZey enquired at the deponent, intimate, and I ao uot believe that pepsecution of these men. I am considering them friends, he told they hold any such opinion, or would ft commencing the world, and must them all about it, bat they se med to say what is stated in the Hand bill. pest al.ogether for support upon my wish him to implicate others, who had It is altogether the work of Jamesisqccess in my profession, and as I nothing to do with it ; which be iejus- Harris, Usq. a fellow who has assum: {have done nothing heretofore to for- ed. ¢] the name of Dr. Curtin, and a few teit the confidence of my féllow citi-] And deponent aiso saith, that altho’ others, equally base and malignant,'zens so I hope I may pot hereafter. it may be that he is not entitled to o relations of Gregg’s, living in Bolie-] grant that I have, when employed, vote, yet he is friendiy to Mr. Gregg, fonte. W= doubt not, but H. Humes, taken anactive part 1n the dispute be-|baving no enmity for any one ; and has James Watson and Wm. H Patterson ween the Turnpike and people, and frequently taken bis part. agreed to sign it, for they are all mere j(},is together with an open and avow- And he further saith, that on the das noses of wax, fit subjects for ARCHled determination to su pport the dem-'on which THOMAS SINGLETON VILLAINS to work upon. Theyocratic candidate, J. A. Shulze, foritook his afhiclavit mentioned io are so illiterate and naturally stupidiooyernor, is the rock of offence. For Humes® Haod Bill, he told me in the that nothing short of supernatural a-fihese things, James Hairis, Esq. Dep presence of Thomas Caldwell, Mrs. gency, could ever enable them tolyry Surveyor &c¢. Hamilton Homes, Simpson and others that JAMES M produce even such ribaldry, I reallyljomes Watson and others in conjunc PETRIKIN WAS A DAMNED believe, that they do not understandliion with the relatives of Andrew RASCAL ; that he, the said JAMES the terms used in the production oi ege are to light down upon a young ad accused him ( Singleton ) «at Mr. Mr. Haris, and that they signed 1 gan, just commencing the world, and Watson's, in Bellcfonte, with taking a more for the purpose of inducing peo-{ url him to destruction. For these FALSE QATH once & he the said ple ata distance to believe that theylsfences he is to be driven from the JAMES should have seid that his could put such bigi-sounding wordsiCounty. For this exercise of a con. (" Singleton’s ) sister was a whore at together, than any thing else. Ihave irarional right, he is to be charged /larrisburg or Baltimore and the said never given them the least cause forlyith an offence of which he never was Singleton further said that the day jol- the attack upon me, and it arguesi,uilty, and his character blackened lowing the arbitration at Watson's, on'their part, a more than ordinarylynd destroyed. My situation is that the said Thomas Singleton and lus degree of moral turpitude and blacks} ,¢ every young man io the communi Brother John, had came to town to phearted malice, and it must be that) gv and every one is equally liable to flog JAMES. but that Pelrikin left ‘the men did oot understand what Wasise assatled, and in the same way too it when he heard that they were com read to them. In order to cut theft is an easy matter tor rich men to ing: and he further said THAT HE matter short, I will venture my that neither Humes, \Watson or Pat terson, can put two sentences of Lin- glish together in six weeks. In order to estublish this groundless I, TON HUMES. Heis a common and him first formed the and infamous charge, James Harris &lzavier, a wretched bugfuon, and con make this efficy, not onc ofthe Lam Curtin have procured the deposition ofl remprible tool. The common source berts were present in the Brick yard, Thomas Singleton and James Smith) ,f oid wife tale bearing—ibie laugh of as he asserts. And the depoacent for- 2 nephew of Harris’s. It room would) very company into which he intrudes ther saith, that when he went up for permit they should accompany this fhimselt—and a willing nose of wax Singleton, the only objection he made Io answer thereto I have procured the| ys to JAMES WATSON, I would was that he was tired ; but wished depositions of the only persons whi ast observe that 1 have never given that it were done—and it was done. could exculpate me, and who came him any reason to assail my character GEO. W. THIRSTON. forward promptly to doso. Iam noifin the base and wicked manner he and; Sworn & Subscribed the 29th Jaly disposed to comment upon the testi | Humes have doae. * * A.D. 1823, bclore me mony of Singleton and Smith. It re-|= * » * JOSEPH MILES. gnires nove. The declarations ol * * - —* This was in an argument to the arbitra. Singleton to Thurs'on, shews at once . * * reat were trying a sit in which i, what induced him to swear as he did * ¥ ras Tye be Be er ad about the Fellows Sater What James Smith is made to swear,|nOW among the first to step forward is equally untrue, and he knows it {to Yuin the characters of his neigh-| y YW hat makes it still worse on this poor|bors who have never done bim any CENTRE COUNTY. ¢s. ereatnve’s part, is, that he acknowled-finjury whatever. James Watson is aj Jefore the sub- ged to me yesterday ia the presenc of Thomas Lambert; s¢ that he had ne! IGCOD WILL SINCE. And the deponent further compli h any thing. It may be that some of my fellow] vied to Gregg’s daughter. peace for Centre County, came Say ead his deposiiion.” The fact 1s] If it be asked why I did not imme-{uer LaMperT, who saith on his sol he was deeuly implicated himself, anc jdiately, on it coming to my kaowl-'emn oath that JAMES M. Perrikiz he was prepared for any thing tha [edge who made the effigy, publish COULD NOT HAVE, NOR HAD woud shew to the world otherwise — {10 the world ? I answer that it wasitHE ANY KNOWLEDGE WHAT 4set up, it occurred to am inthe first, saith, Shuize succeeds. 3 | 4 . ey 3a WT AE .y . 3 ‘ ny ; ys : . . citizens are unacquainted with HA M- that when 7H0OMAS SINGLETO kx jand pledge myselfior all others of the (This bas been their song in these plan to tamily, that no wish of the . : | . tik LF Dorribiin : t=nant of Mr. Irvine whose son is mar {scriber one of the Justices ot the} Petrikin in in A Handbill sigoed 1 ' I i ¢ ¢ | {heard in the morning of the 4th of Ju-lo, : Sek oF j hed 5: : hy the commiitce of cotrespondence tly that such an effiiy was mads ant | Hriendly to the "dlection of Andrew rege is WM Chrculation, ig charging mes M. Peteiliin, a member of te instance, that it wes the federalis S11 | thems: Ives that had made ea a- 1p »mocratic Party, with seuting up an (oh Mes i Wg Mis Hp n Jedtizy styled the « Federal Gasd-date SJiOlher ol Jam?®s mit, Might ave tha toot Cie : Lay. known something about it, as she WAKE noi ol the : hi July ast, in the habit of mak ng effigies : andin iis (harscter daily ER order to ascertain it, as he federalis'sin: sracter of (Ke while Ded Hic bad accused: Thomas J. Peuwikin of party, and thereby Bact Va re a ity the deponsnt asked Jamess Smith, dohn A. Shuts Js Cand dad ria Vin I Kean Ww oxh you he, teliow ; ns : os s1UIIZ2us, 0 €Xaunee the evidence Hd a it, upon ! ih I PASI Io.ttipily aed you cannot but concluie smiled, an? replied, that H the depo. 4, To5° MM: Petileats 3 : nent « WOrLDNT SAY ANY THING, 1 hated ili : ifn pis Rhos |WOULD TELL WIM WHO MADE 11° Codi SR Ra Ly He then said it was GEORGE Jie Wid fate Yarra i Nou PHURSTON and THOMAS SIN {10s at or nee the toms i ns GLETON who made it, for thatthe {£2 Siinncan. he mere atk 2a had been talking about doing So EARL Sola EL The depovent did tell James Smith ie (estimo vy of (hell own wi that he at first believed that it wasj, they have endeavored to inp - some of the federalists who lived 10) ave James M Petiikin, : Fown that made it ; but be p1D NT! There is something in this mater 0 which we would call the attention four Republican Brethren. This Rev was called ¢ the GANDIDATE. but Mr ‘ehenas say that he is not the Jederal Candidate, that Mr. Shulze is the fed- ¢rai candidate 3 now who for a mo- nent can believe any thing else than ‘hat this eflizy, being made by per- sons ficndly to Mi Gregg, was not nade in derision of Me. Shulze 2 Uisey perhaps wished to have the people believe, us they do, that Mr. Greue is pot the federal candi- late, but they find otherewise, and Www thoy endeavour to shew (hat this fligy was made to ridicule Mr Greg, titho? re was s yled «+ the Federal Cane lidate,” and they opealy deny such 1s the {act. As to Mr. Shalze having deputy Bovernors in this, or In &ry o fer {county in case hie succelds, it is all 3 nade at, or near WO Wilpesses, deavour to put it upsn them Thi deponent further saith, that he did no’ mect Thomas Singleton in going 10 Singleton’s house, ou the 5th of July. that he does not know where Single. ton lives, and never went knowingly in that direction, That sometime al ier the reiurn of the deponent fron Clearfield Couartybe met Singleton it Bellefonte and told bam, withont any further conversation with Lim, tha he ought not to bave done ity and Sin gleton did pot deny 11; but rathe appeared. pleased that the deponen thought be had been concerned in i. The depouent never told Singleton he would put it on the Gregg men ; no did he ever tell James Smith sn JAMES M. PETRIKIN. Sworn and sub-evibed July 29, 1823 belore BENT. WILLIAMS, WD § Coes When the communication charging the federalists with having set up the effigy, was published in the Pauiot, James DL Petrikin was absent a Clearfield court, and Henry Petrikin was in Lycoming county. Tie pape: was aliogether under my direction,— Tae latter left home on the 2ad of July, and did pot return until the 12th ‘The paper issued on the 9th. "ume did not know any thing about the com imunication, alluded to in Humes’s ‘handbiil. Any person desiious of ‘seeing the original munuscript, can be Giegp's that that filiacious. Heiss as well, if not beter qualified to fill the executive chair as he man they so much adore Ii be does succeed, we have the hopes that there will be no more midillion leaps rom cay Banks. le will endeavane ro pay the immense jublic deét into which the state has goulen, without mereas:ng it. He wil endeavor to study the Inierest of the pecple ma bis policy. If sch had hecn done by vp Greeg, the farmers, and most of as profess to be of that cluss, would 2 not tave the fear of State Tux hanz- gratilied by calling at the Patriot of fing over their heads in time of pace. lice. A aes [t isto the farmers who will have this T- J. PETRIKIN. |burthen to bear that we appeal. ' et re The federal party bave been inthe The {ederalists, Homes and others, habit of crying out that |bave 2sseried in their Hanpiin that £/0°s” are the leaders of, and ithe 1? Cul is wish to life, procure affidavits, for wealth can ac- NEVER OWED PETVRIKIN AN b§ ithe « Prrrigin’s want to bold the of rule the demnciut'c pasty ; this they Mr. ldo thinking that perhaps it will (asa | myself, jus from the support of cur candidate, Gees” in tis county, in case I state for G heretofore, and tlis ever expressed or entertained by any year. Examine for yomselves feliow of us. Ido not intend, and never did |citizens, and you will sce this matt» contemplaie asking Mr. Shuize for an jin its true lighy, yon can sce that i appointment ol that orany other kind; jthe shoe does not fitys neither of nor will I, or one of us, ask or recetveicandidates necd put it on. at his hands avy appointment wiat- | ever, kind was counties 15 Go tie As an attempt is making inthis way 1 am now in my 27th year, yet ito bjure the reputation of James MM. I consider inyself quite 109 young to [Petrikin, Thomes 1. Petrtkin end aspire to any station in public lite [Henry Petrikin, the latter of whom is other than that of au humble editor ef the Editor of the Ddllcfunte Hatriu, a country newspaper. Il ama demo {we deen it our deiy a8 members of c at from principle, and 1 have no in-jthe party to which we belong 10 state, terest in the election other than that jth t thelr motai characters are uncs- | which every democrat would feel in iceptic nable, and suffers no Cisparage- the triumph ot republican priuciples iment in com parison with that of any Gregoss sons-in law have declared that other sober, industrions young men. they will persecute aud diive out of |The WO:st that can be said of thera is the county, before two years, every that they Lave to exert themselves for DesMocuar,! It re-jalving. seen, whether you wil tsuffar us to be sacrificed on the alter of cderal persecution. We do not 28k you to d termine on this matter without evidence. We have present {mains to be JACOR KRYDER, MATTiEW ALLISON, JOHN RANKIN, JOHN M’CALMONT, JOHN PATTON : FEDERAL ¢ Both these men are federalists, and the potorious advocates of Grega’s elect: Smith, and I would not betray it— jon. Gregg was the guardian of Jud My geason or making apy €nquily al WAY CONCERNED, with the sei-{to prove all tigit we have asserted.— ing up an Lffigy in tae Doiough oft The mycaus tcsorecd to, in vrder tol ‘oid to me in confidence by James|EVER, NOR WAS HE IN ANYled to you. and can present, testimony "Democratic Canmittee of Cor. resfion dence for Centre Coun {ie A - Rpm WETTER Ne
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