BEDFORD INQUIRER. • . ■"> I BEDFORD, Pa. Friday Morning, Aug. IT, IS6O. FEARLESS ANDTKEE." . OVER—Editor aud Proprietor. FOR PRESIDENT, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, OF ILLINOIS. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, HANNIBAL HAMLIN, OF MAINE. ELECTORS. HON. JAMES POLLOCK. HON. THOMAS .M. IIOWE. jl3 F. B. Penniman. M Ulysses Mercur, ils George Brissler, 16 A. B Sharp, 17 Daniel O. Gehr, jlB Samuel Calvin, 19 Edgar Cowan, 20 William M'Kennan, {2 1 J. M. ICirkpatrick, ,22 James Kerr, 23 Richard P. Roberts, 124 llenry Souther. 1 E J ward C. Knight, 2 Robert P. King. 3 Henry Bumrn, i Robert M. Foust, 6 Nathan Hills, C John M. Bromall, 7 James XV. Fuller, 8 Levi B.Smith, A Francis XV. Christ, It) David Munnna. Jr., 11 David Taggart, 12 Thomas K. Hull, 25 John Greer, ron GOVERNOR, ANDREW G. CUR TIN. OF CENTRE COUNTY". 4'OrXTlf TiCRHT. ASSEUHLV, ft. \V. ASHfIOM, Broadtop Township, ti. M. SOHROCK, Somerset County. FROTHOKOTART, JEREMIAH K. BOWLES, Bedford Tp. SHERIFF, GEORGE S. MULLIN, Napier Tp. COMMISSIONER, JONATHAN FICIITNER, Londonderry Tp. POOR DIRECTOR, SAMUEL SC'UAFER, Union Tp. AUDITOR, D. I>. ESHLEMAN, Middle Wood berry Tp. CORONER, JAR ED HANKS, Southampton Tp. TIIE TARIFF. t rwelfth Resolution in the Chicago Platform, on which Lincoln and Hamlin were nominated:] " That vhile providing revenue for the support of the General Government by duties upon imposts, sul .\i> POLICY REQUIRES SUCH AN AD JUSTMENT OF THESE IMPOSTS MS TO ENCOUR HIE THE DEVELOPMENT OF 77//-, INDUSTRIAL INTEREST OF THE WHOLE COUNTR V, AND WE COMMEND THAT POL ICY OF NATIONAL EXCH JXGES WHICH SECURES to THE WORKING MEN LI HER AL WAGES, TO AGRICULTURE REMUNE RATING PRICES, TO MECHANICS AND MANUFACTURERS AN ADEQUATE RE WARD FOji THEIR SKILL, LABOR AND ENTERPRISE, AND TO THE NATION COM MERCIAL PROSPERITY AND INDEPEND ENCE." Locofccoism and Free Trade. [The following is the Free Trade plank of the ■Cincinnati Convention, which wag re-adopted by the Conventions which nominated Douglas and Breck inridge, who have both been always violent Free Traders.] Revolved. That there arc questions connected with the foreign policy of this country, schieh are inferior to r.o domestic question whatever. The time has come for the people of the United States tc declare them selves in favor of free seas ami PROGRESSIVE FREE TRADE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, and try solemn manifestations to place their moral in- Jiuence by the si-ie of their successful trample." THE VOICE OF CLAY. ".is long as God allows the vital current to flow through my reins, J will never, never, never, by void or thought, by mind or will, aid in admitting one rood v f F REE TERRITORY to the EVERLASTING LTRSK .or HUM JIN BONDAGE." TSIF. VOICE OF W EBSTER. '•/ feel that there it nothing unjust nothing of which any honest man can complain, if he is intelli gent, and 1 feel that there is nothing of which the civilized world, if they take notice of so humble an individual a myself, will reproach me, when I say, as I said the other day, that I have made up my mind, for one, THAT UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE WILL I CONSENT TO THE EXTENSION OF THE AREA OF SLAVERY IN THE UNI TED STATES. OR TO THE FURTHER IN CREASE OF SLAVE REPRESENTATION IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. •■'Sir, whenever there is a particular good to be Jane—whenever there is a foot of land lobe staid back from becoming slave territory—l AM READY TO ASSERT THE PRINCIPLE OF THE EX CLUSION OF SLAVERY." MISS MEETiXG op • THE PEOPLE. A meeting of t| ie People's Party of Bedford County will be held at the Court House, iu Bedford, on the evening of Tuesday the 4th day September, next, leing the Tuesday evening of Court week. The members of the Party throughout the County are earnestly requested to <tl-ud. Turn out, friends of Lincoln, Hamlin and C'irtin, b'p-akers from a distance are expected to address the meeting. By order of the County Committee. S. L. RUSSKLL, August 1., 1860. Chairman. Our young friend, Frank D. Saopp, has our thaok# for several copies of the St. Louis Dem ocrat, * strong Republican paper. Frank has got to be a warm iiepuhlieau. How ominous lor Locofoooism—nearly every young Democrat that goes from this county to the West, no mat tor bow strong a politician he may have been, becomes a Republican. It shows which wav the wind blows. The Republican party is Ifie party for the living and ambitious young man —-it is the co y live party of the day. Bedford Hail lioad. Our readers are aware that a couple of weeks ago, we published an article in relation to tho Bedford Ilail Road, in which we &tatcd that "the majority of the board, at the mere request of the contractors, agree to pay '.hem an extra amount not exceeding §IO,OOO, provided they do now in four months what their written con tract rtquirid them to have done several months ago'" and that "it is a transparent scheme to fleet Mr. Schell to Congress by thus making a present of the §IO,OOO subscribed to build the | road, to his political friends, Collins & Doll, | and thus leaving the Company §IO,OOO less means to complete the road to Bedford than ; they otherwise would have bad." In reply to ; this tLe follow ing Card appeased In tha Gazette J of last week. Bedford, Aug. 7th, 1680. 808. W. P. SCHKIX, — Dear Sir : W'e have read the article published in the Bedford Inquirer, of the 3d mat., in relation to tho recent i contract with Dull, Collins d Co., for the coruple -1 tion of the graduation and masonry of tho Bedford i Rail Road, and we say unhesitatingly, that_what | ever merits, or demerits, there may be in the con ! tract, you took no par* by word, or deed, to our knowledge, in the adoption of the same. We dec] ire tiiat you never spoke to any of us in favor of the proposition of Dull, Collins Sc Co.— that you never, to our knowledge, advocated it— and that you di t not vote for it. Yours truly, JACOB REED. E. L. ANDERSON. NICHOLAS Li'ONS, SAMUEL L. RUSSELL, W. T. DAUGIIEKTY, VAL. STECKMAN. If this Card i* an an* ver to either of the charges, we have failed to discover it, and wc opine it would require/a telescope as powerful as that of Lord Ross, for any other ordiuary mortal to do so. All of the gentlemen, whose names are subscribed to 11 is Card, except Mr. Stcckurau, voted to mike this present of §lO,- 000 to Collins & Dull, and the stockholders | coroplaiu that as (he Directors were so gener ous, they did not give it oat or' a their own ; pocket*, instead of.out of tbo Hinds of the ! eutnpauy, which are airea iy small enough.— : As to this part of our charge—it is not an ( swercd, neither do they attempt to answer it. jlt therefore stands uuimpeached. The other ! charge, in regard to its being doue to aid Mr. i Scbell's election to Congress, is denied only, j so far as it relates to Mr. Sohell's giving that . reason to either of the signers of the Card.— | it is uot probable that iic would electioneer in 1 such away as would be very likely to find him J out. He would not give this reason to any : Directors belonging to our party. How easy i would it be to have a convenient friend to do this iu a quiet way ? That some argument was usod by some person or persous is plain, a? we know that a short time before the meet ing of the Board, at least one of the Direc tors who voted for presenting Collins & Dull the §IO,OOO, expressed hiiuelt against it.— The anxiety of Messrs. Russell nod Anderson for the completion of the It iad, and without their thinking of the consequences, may easily account for their action in this matter. Mr Anderson is a liberal, high-toned and honora ble geutlauun, is no party mm, aud extremely anxious foi the success of the road, and we do | not blame him for his vote, or for signiug this | Card, whioh it might have been known by an j ordinary politician would be used by the Lo -1 cofocos. Mr. Schell did not vote for giving away this •? 10.000, to Collins & Dull, because he is the President of the Board, which officer only , votes in case of a tit ; but it may easily be presumed hud (hat event happened, that he would have voted for the gift, as he was pre sent, sut quietly by—"silence gives conseut" ' —wlieu, if he had uttered one cord of op. position, all know it would have been defeated. In the same paper is an editorial headed "Bedford Railroad,evidently written by W. j P, Schell, in which he states that our last ; charge, (the first is uot denied,) is an "cnormt i y,'* "outrageous,"' "ridiculous" and "talse." j We are glad Mr. .Schell siys this, and are | willing to wait to see whether ;ime will cor ! iyber,te his charge of falsity or not, although |we must confess wc have our doubts on that ! score. One strong reason for the supposition that this was the intention, was that one of these political friends of Schell boasted hare that "tbey were going to give Schell a large majority in Bedford County this tall." This charge of ours is not alluded to by Mr. Schell, in his editorial, or in Lis Card, which he ap ! peared so anxious for Directors to sign. It | certainly made the matter look suspicions. iu an important umtcr to the Company, such as giving away a sum not to exceed -910,000, it it cert-iiuly a li'tle strange that they hid uot a fuiier Board. In addition to the pcrsous who were present, Messrs. Michael Lutz, J. Burns and John Sill, reside in this Coun ty, and ought, to have been there, and if the President, or whoever# duty it was to iuforui them of the meeting and its object, did not inform them, they deserve censure. It might, (although we don't pretend to know,) then, have devolved on Mr. Sche'd to give thu cast ing vote. The fling at us by Mr. Schell, in the latter part of his editorial, is simply uot truo. We are a truo friend of the Oompauy, we want to see the road piogrcss, and we also want to see its funds husbanded, and not squandered.— We have, wo venture to say, without fear of successful contradiction, subscribed, according to our moans, teD time 9 as muoh as Mr. Schell, and probably have pud a larger proportion of pur stock, although we do not draw from the iunds of the Company §I,OOO per annum, as B3SBFORB IMdUiREE. be does. And thus we drop the subject for the present. MISSOURI. We stated Inst week that Frank Blair, for Congress, was defeated, for the short term, but elected for the long term, it turns out that this is not correct. lie is elected for both terms. The correct vote for the short term is Blair, 11,178; Barret, 10,844. Blair's majority, 334. For the long term, Blair, 10,159; Barret, 8,704 Todd, 3,825; Blair's uiaj. over Barret, 1,455; over Todd. American, 6,434. It appears that there were several hundred votes for Blair, which by some mis take woro not counted for him, by counting which he is elected for both the long und tho snort term. Tr.ts is glory enough—the elec tion of a Republican congressman in a slave city, by the large majority of 1,455. The Republican party is rapidly gaining ground, even in ihe South. James S. Rollins, the Union candidate, is elected to Congress, in the second district. The other five, it is supposed, are Loeofoeos. The Sfate has gone for the Looofocos, although Gardenuiro, the Republi can candidate for Governor, in a letter, advi sed his friends to vote for Orr, the American candidate. How different from the course of Atuericaus in some other places; they unite with Locofocoism to defeat the Republicans, whilst bore, tho Republicans, to a gieat extent, voted for the American candidate, to beat the common foe of Loth—Locofocoism. This elec tion in Mi osouri knocks the last hope from the Rell party, aud clearly shows that tbev have no hope. Every vole for Bell, counts one for Locofocoism, and aids the keeping in power of 'he most corrupt party that ha ever wielded power in this country. Ret all true Ameri can-'', then, that desiro to see a change for tho bet'er, cast their votes for Lincoln, where it will tei 1 widi more effect against corrupt Ln- cofoooi-ij). FULTON COUNTY. —At the County Conven tion, -i Douglas Resolution was offered —it was voted down, only receiving two votes. At a County meeting a mild Douglas resolution was voted down, almost unanimously, al'hough J Cessna, Esq ,of this place made a speech of several hours in defence of Douglas. It wouldn't do, however, the party there ars for Breckin ridge. Lust week, whilst J. B. Sarisotn, Esq., the ed'tor was at Cresson, the Democrat ap peared, it Inning taken down Douglas and Johnson, and hoisted Breckinridge nud L-ue. In a long editorial, Ihe juuior of that psptr, the brother of the senior, assumes .the respon sibility. \Vo believe ibis was ail a sham, how ever, and that >t was the manuer in which the senior editor was to crab out cf his present position in etq port of Douglas, by shoving the responsibility on his brother. As he is the owner of the paper, an I can do as its pleases if he don't this week fak" down Breckinridge aud put up Douglas again, our assumption will be pretry nearly proved correct. Wo pity the sorrows of the "unfcrrificd." The following dispatch was telegraphed from MeConnellsburg to the Philadelphia papers: MCCONWELLSBURG, Pi., Aug. IL.— The De mocracy held a county meeting here last night, at which a regular skirmish was indulged in be tween the Douglas au i Breckinridge parties. Much litter teehug prevailed, and the meeting lioke up in a row. During the absence cf the Editor of the Dem ocrat, Mr. Sanson), at Cresvm, the Breckin ridge party entered the oifice of that newspa per, mutilated the form*, run up the Breckin ridge flag and issued an edition of tho paper under that banner, and the affair has created considerable excitement. A personal recontre ulso took place last night after the meeting, between Mr. Sanson) and G A. Smith, a Breckinridge attorney. Sanson) gave Smith the lie, when the latter collared him. The parties were then separated. Prothouolary. Biuce writing our former article against Ma jor Tate, charging him wish taking more fees thau auy of his predecessors, wo here been making further inquiries and are now nolo to give the following additional items : Tor en tering sn 1 filing a transcript from the docket of a Justice of the Ponce, Mann, Noble, lleed and Washabaugh, all made the uniform charge ot 374 ets., whilst Samuel H. Tate, with the law unchanged charges 78 ceuts ou every such transcript. .Maun, Noble, lined and Washa baugh each charged thi uniform fee of G24 cents for filing and eutoriug judgment ou a judgment note, whilst Samuel li. Tate, with the law unohangeJ, uniformly charges §1,03 for the same thing. Ihee two items together, we are credibly informed, make up at least three fourths of all the entries ou the dockets of the Court of Common Pleas, and the dockets them selves show that the ch irges are as wo have here stated. It thus appears that in the one case Major Tate charges mo.t than double s ui toll fees as any Prolhonotary ever did before him, aud in the other case he charges ulmogt double or 40ft ceuts more, for every entry ; and we have not been able to heir of a single instance in whicti he charges any less fees than auy of tbo oihers. Is not one term enough for such a Prolhono tary as this 1 If he ha not had two terms yet, he has about doubled tbe fees of bis office, thus nuking ono term yield about as much as two ought to yield. We venturo to say tbo people will toacb MAJOR EXTRA-PEES such a lesson next October us lie will never forget. Congressional Conlerencc. The Congressional Conference, for this Dis trict, will meet in Chambersbnrg, next Tues day to place in nomination a candidate for Con gress. Lincoln on Negro Equality. In the great debate between Lincoln and Douglas, in 1858, during the content for Uni ted States Senate, the littlo giant, with his usual boldness and recklessness, consumed a good part of Ins time in making false accusa tions against Lincoln, and misrepresenting his vi-ws. Amongst other things be charged Lin colti with being iu favor of negro equality and negro suffrage. For a time Lincoln treated the false accusation with contemptuous silence; but fiodiug that the bold and frequent repeti tion of the charge iuduced some of his friends to doubt his position on the subject, he took occasion, at. his great speech delivered at Cltarleacown, Sept. 15, 1858, to answer the false accusation, and he did it in the following gallunt style : •'While 1 wis at the hotel to-day, an elder ly gentleman called uoon me 'o know whether I was really in favoi of producing a perfect equality between the negroes and white peo ple. While I had not proposed to myself on this occasion to say much on that subject, yet ss the question was asked me, I thought I would occupy perhaps five minutes in saying something iu regard to it. I will say, then, that lam not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about iu any way the social and polit ical equality of the white aud black races, — that I at not, not ever have been in favor of. making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to inter marry with white people; and I will say in ad dition to this, that there is a physical differ ence between the white and black races which 1 believe will forever forbid the two races liv ing together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and 1 us much as any other tuan, aui iu favor of hav ing the superior position assigned to the whhe race. I will add to this that I have never SOPH, to my knowledge, a man, woman or child who was iu favor of producing a perfect equal in*, social and political, between negroes and white men. 1 recollect of but ouo distinguish ed instance tint I ever heard of so frequently as to 1 c entirely satisfied of its correctness — and tint is the case of Judge Douglas's old friend, Col. Richard M. Johnsou. 1 will also add to the remarks 1 have made, that I have never find the least apprehension that I or un friends would uiatry negroes if there was no law to keep them from it; but as Judge D >up las and hi- friends seeui to be iu great appre hension that they might, if there were uo law to keep th.m from it, I give hi.u tho most sol emn pledge that I will, to the very last, stand by tho law of this State, which forbids the marrying of white people with negroes. I will add oue further word, which is this : that 1 do not understand that there is any place where an alteration of the social und political rela tions of the negro and white man can be made except in tho Statu Legislature— not in the Ooii.greap of the United States—and us 1 do not really npprehcud the approach of any such thing mysel', and as Judge Douglas seems to be in constant horror that some suth dauger is rapidly approaching, I propose us the beat means to prevent it, that the Judge be kept at home, und placed in the State Legislature, to fight the measure."— -Joint Debates, page 136. Fusion—"Bargain and Sale.'' The iaOcofot'O Slate Committee met at Cres -on, list w<ck, and recommended a Fusioo, Bargain and Sale Electoral Ticket. Many Democrats in all parts of the State oppose it and there is no doubt but it will bo defeat ed by 50,000. John W. Forney, the leader of the Douglas forces in this State, in a long article opposes this ticket. The following is an extract from the article iu the Press of the 1 Itit inst. : "This last action of the State Committee speaks for itself, and would excite universal surprise and indignation, if rim manner in which tint body is constituted, aud the mate rials of which a majority of it is composed, were not fully appreci&'eu by tho citizens of Pennsylvania. No political otgtinizition or combination, large or small, ever more richly earned the contempt of men of every party than the controlling spirits of that committee. Their action is oat only dishouest, but foolish, •ltxl their potty plans and 'projects to over throw Ihe organization of the National Demo cratic party, and to steal power frou, the peo ple to use it tor uuworthy purposes, are as im potent and ridiculous as they arc unjust and infamous. "The only practical change in the origiual "2d of Ju:y' proposition which was made ut Cresson, is one which gives the Democrats if the Stale an opportunity to express, by their votes, their preference for Douglas or Breck inridge. Dis true, this may be to many a sourco of satisfaction, as it would eleatly de monstrate the weakness of the Secession forces in our State. But, ou the other hand ; if the Fusion electoral ticket should bo elected, it is possible, although by no meaus probable, that a contingency would arise under the arrange ment proposed, if it was cjrriod out in good faith, which would sink the whole Democratic party of Pennsylvania deeper thin plummet ever sounded. "it was decided at Oceeon that the elector al vote of the State should be cast tor any man muting as a Democrat tvboui it could elect. Now, let us suppose that out of a to tal vote in Pennsylvania in November ucxt of 500,000, 251,000 houki_be polled for the Fusion electoral ticket, and it should thus be sncccHsful—that of the 251,000 thus polled 201,000 should be given for Douglas, uud but 50,000 tor hreckiaridge— thus showing that hut oue-tf nth of our voters favored tho elec tion of the latter; if tho vote of Feunsylvmia could elect the Di-uuion nominee, under tho terms of the Cresson resolution he would re ceive it. AuJ, in despite of noisy partisan professions of a regard for "the will of tho ma jority," and for the right of the people to gqg crn themselves, the Democracy of the State wouid so arrange their political machinery as to elect as President, by the electoral votes of l\e State, a man supported by less than one tenth of our voters, and opposed by more than nine-tenths of our citizens! "An act of perfidy like this, if by any pos sibility it could bo .-uecessfui, might, it is true, reyew ibe terms of tboec Federal officials who have •■> basely prostituted the power they poa ees, but it would forever seal the doom of the Democracy of Pennsylvania, and consign them to eteroal defeat. Those who are too unprin cipled or too obtuse to see the force of this fa tal objection to the nation of the Cressou Com mittee are beyond the reach of argument of any kind."' THE BOROUGH TICK ET." Congress, Wui. P. Sohell, of Bedford Borogouh. Prothonotary, Satu'l H. Tate, of Bedford Borough, Sheriff, John J. Cessna, of Bedford Borough. It appears that there are no Democrats in the country fit to hold a good rffice, therefore the Borough leaders nominate themselves, and give the country the ones not worth having.— The only way to prevcut this in future is for Democrats in the county to vote against the whole "Borough Ticket.'' The Fires Still Blazing Brightly. On Tuesday night, the Lincoln Club, of Bedford, met io tho Court House. There was a very large number of the voters of the town and vicinity in attendance. HOD. FR. JOR DAN made a very able and powerful speech. Immediately after lie concluded, quite a num ber joined tho Club, und among the rest a young Democrat ciuie out boldly and signed the Con stitution. The fires are burning brightly, thou sands aro leaving the sham-Democracy—all over this State, and throughout the country, and we hear of quite a nutuboi iu various parts of Bedford County. .MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE ! §IOO REWARD ! ! \—The Literary Gen t/email Jrom the Country " wis in town on Wednesday night, the 15th inst. His myste rious disappearance on the following morning, has caused considerable anxiety among his Iriends. Inquiries Lave been numerous, and the above reward will he paid to any person knowing and giving reliable information of his whereabouts. Snmo are of the opiuiou that he is seeretly engaged in a conspiracy and cru sade against tho South , others that he is at home, among the 11 Pigeon Hills," quietly har vesting his Huckleberry crop ! Our frieods in different pirts of the Couuty. when they organize a Liucoln and Curtin Club, ought to send us the proceedings, and the uanies cf the officers. Organize a Club, friends, in every election district iu the County. A thor ough organization, and u fire ail along the line, and we will elect every man on our State, Dis trict and County tickets. "Then, wuit for No vember, and we'll all take a ride." Meeting in St. Clairsriile. Our friends in St. Clairsriile and surround ing country, !iad a rousing meeting last Fri iav evening. It was addressed in quite a lengthy speech, by our friend, I>. S. Riddle, Esq., of New York, but formerly of this County. Our friends there say the speech was eloqueut and argumentative, and couldn't be beat. If our friends in other parts, do as well as that part of the County, we will have a majority of 300 thir fall. Alt's well, boys, only do your duty. to oniTku;\os. We need money—we must have it. We have a number of debts to pay by Court Week, and we hope our Iriends in the country, who owe us for subscription, job work and adver tising, when they come to town to attend Couit will not forget us. If any who owe us don't come to town, just seod the "needful" with their neighbor, who does come. Don't forget, wiil you ? We loarn that John A. Mowry, the Post Master in this place, who has been an avowed Dougl is man, for the last couple years, has sud denly changed his views, and come out for Breckinridge. Had Gen. iluwmio anything to do with this change,or had the "flesh-pots" of oflioc too sweet a savor for him, to risk tlio lo iosing of them, by supporting Douglas ? The Douglas men would like to know the reasons for the change. ONE TERM ! It is said by uiiny Democrats that Maj. S. H. Tate pledged himself to one term three years ago. They intend 10 hold him to this now, es pecially ns by doubling bis fees he has made as much out of the office in three years as other Prothoootarys would have done in six. EDINBURGH REVIEW. —This excellent quar terly is now on our table. There are quite an unusual number of excellent articles in this number, written by some of the first writers in the world. Price §3 year. The Edinburgh Review and Blackwood's Magazine, are ouly $5 r. year for the two, or Blackwood, and the whole four Reviews for SlO. "D—D DUTCH. This is the epithet applied to the Get mans who voted for Judge Taylor, a few years ago, for Treasurer, by Maj. S. If. Tate. Will hon est Germans vote f->r the man for Prothonotary who stigmatized them as "D—d Dutch?" (ien. Cameron's Speech. We call attention to the speech of Geo. Cameron, in he U. S. Senate, on 15th of' June last, on the Tariff, it is one of the host speeches ever delivered on that question, and should be road by every one. Read it and hand the paper to your Locofooo neighbor. "Don't Waul Whigs to support Him." Maj. >. 11. Tate, a few years ago, in a speech at Bloody Run said that "he never wanted a Whig to support hiui." Stick this at him when he asks yon to vote for him. In a letter dated Austiu, Texas, July 31, 1860, Gen. Sam Houston explains his position iu regard to the Presidency, lie says that •'the tiny of conventions and their chicanery is past." lie will continue a oaudidate for the Presidency. The Locofcco party is in a bad fix "Another Forgery " John Gowna's Gazette , lost week contained an article under this caption, attempting to hold us up as guilty of Forgery, because we inserted in an article taken from the Gazette, ;of 23tl December last,(like Stephen A. Doug j las.) In this article, the editor of that paper was evidently aiming bis arrows at Douglas, as Ihe bad been long before, and wo inserted in parenthesis the words "like Stephen A. Doug | las ' the persou he was firing at, under cover- I bis is usual with editors, and our placin? t|w parenthesis marks at the beginning and ending j of the words, showed that we had inserted i\ but not to deceive any person whatever. One eo virtuous, should not be guilty of the iike himself, or of u-orse, which we will now prove on that editor. In his paper of July 20th, last, he copies an article from our paper of the 12th of Nov. j 1858, in which we were speaking of the elec j tion of Douglas to the U. S. Senate, and the war on him by the Duchatisn Administration. The Gazette man insert* the word Douglas in this article in bracket* thu*': [Douglas] in the ninth and tenth line, from the top of the second column of the first page of that paper. The word was not in our article at all. Was this a Forgery ? A little further on in the same article, in the last paragraph which reads thus : "In our own towu the sympathies of the opposition were as much iu favor of Mr. Doug 1 iS 'n his war with the administration as they were for Mr. Lincoln " The Gazette in tbi< arlieie commits a downright forgery, for it in serts a wont Hint was not in Me original, and does not put it in 'n nek eta or parenthesis. Jt copies it thus ; "in our own town the sympa thies of the opposition were as much in favor ;of Mr. Douglas, in his last war with the ad i ministration, as they were for Mr. Lincoln." ; The woru last was not iu the extract as written ibyus at all, us our files will prove. It wiil be seen that it considerably chutges the sen tence. in t ho words tb iwe placed iu tho extracts we used marks to<>bow that we did so, he commit- <liliberate Forg'-ry by leaving theui out. Ir> his own chaste an 1 elegant words wo would say, that "an editor that eould perpc i trate sub a diabolical trick, in order to mi*. represent a eo.'emporary, is worthy ouiy of being :at tho head of a"' locofoco "newspaper, lie wouid cheat his own brother ; pick the dimes out of a dead mother's reticule ; rob a hen-roost | and sell the chickens to the owner ; or do anr j thing else tint is too low and vile for any com -1 mon rascni to he guilty of. How can any man believe him ?" The following article is from the Davenport (Iowa) Gazette. It was written by John* A. Blodget, Esq., weli known for many years as one of the leading Democrats in Bedford County. It will be seen that he has lost none of his aueient style of peculiar and forcible writing: Propfrly in Wan. Thou shah not see thy brother's ox or bis sheep go astray, ami hole thyself from them, thou shah in any case bring tinm again unto thy brother.- Dedt- 22, 1. The excellence of the foregoing mandate, independent of the Divinity attached to it, is so apparent that the principle fiods ;t adoption into our system of human ethics without cavil. God gave to man dominion "over every liviug thing that movetb upon the earth." Gen. 1,28. The word "thing" is here used in its only true, proper and primitive signification, in coutradis tiutttion to tho word "man;" therefore tho word "thing"—tho synonym oi chattel in legal par lance—means such articles as are placed by Divine authority under man's control or "Jo minion"Let us make nnn iti our own image, after our own iikeoc. Let them have domin ion over tho cattle and over all the earth."— Gen. 1, 20. Here are letters patent from God to man by which he derives his title to things inanimate and to animals irrational, and when reduced to his possession, should sueh piopcrty "go astiy," the right .if the owner to reclama tion is unquestionable. Here the claimant exercising dominion is a man, the property sub ject to that dominion is a theng. Here, "in its true, primitive and original sense, we find that the word thing is not h man, much less can man, the image of God, be degraded into a mere thing or chattel. .Man is by Divine tight the owner, the thing is the subject or object of that ownership! '•Ob! all the above quotations are derived from nothing but the Bible, an old book dated long before our Auno Domini commenced, and therefore, in this enlightened age of pure ethics and morality, oon.-idered of no authority—en tirely obsolete, and at w ir with the genius, spirit and fashion of tho age." 1, however, like the text —and being con vinced that it is orthodox, uiurt have a little more t f it! Thou sbait not deliver unto his master the ser vant which is escaped from his master.— DUCT. 22, 15. Hero is an express commandment! imperative as the mandatory power of Deity could make it. Why Dot return the escaped servant to bis master? The answer is plain: the quasi mis or was a tresspasser from the beginning; for hiv ing no dominion by Divine right over his teilow man —that right being limited to "cattle aud things"— he never had a title to his services or his person, and having no title to lose , oan have no right of reclamation or recaption. What a death-blow to the "Fugitive t>lavo Law!" Hero the Fugitive Slave Law is de precated, condemned and forbidden just as strongly as the eomtnaudiuent upon which bur humau laws of larceny are bated, "Thou shalt not steal." If the iatter ooaimandmeut is worthy of our regard and adoption, why not the former? Both mandates aspire to the saui-i paternity and origin divine! The above doctrine is, to be sure, rather ami cottou, and uncongenial with Southern sen timent, and may be a little treasonable against the j>suedo principles extra judiciously crowded into the Dred Scott decision: but sti.l L think the Bible pretty safe authoiity, and when I find that authority repudiated by a mere finite creature like myself, although wcariug tho ermine that mantles a person of a Chief Justice, 1 choose to fall back upon the Bible, and rest my fait it upon tho higher law! And 1 feel pcr
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