•• - :-V v...- • vc ]*>s . ... ► | & { . | CHANIICLEER CROWS TOO SOON, HE WAKES UP THAT SAME OLD CO OIN Sit §rifetl faquir?*. - BEDFORD PA.. SATURDAY, OCT. 21, 1864. FOR PRESIDENT, ABRAHAM LISCOLJf, of Illinois. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, AXDREW JOHJfSOX, of Tennessee. "THE Union must be preserved at all hazards," mouth McClellan. Pendleton boldly declares, "If these Southern States cannot be reconciled, I would bid them farewell so tenderly that they would forever be touched by the recollection of it." MR. FILMORK.—Some of the Copperheads pre tend to be exultant over the accession to General MeClellan of ex-President Rlmore. They seem to forget that as early as 1856 he declared the elec tion of General Fremont would be justifiable cause of secession. MCCLELLAN was nominated by the Chicago Con vention simply because he was a failure. If he liad succeeded as a soldier, he would no more have been nominated than Grant would have been, or Sherman, or Sheridan, jtfo? Convention did not want a fighting man—-it wanted peace man. Giving rr Up.—The N. Y. JleraLi "Little Mac s' especial champion, in view of the reccpt elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, gives ; up in despair, and says that there is now no doubt of Lincoln's success in November, OLD CLO'. —Jas. Russell Lowell never penned a : more graphic or wittier sentence than his descrip tion of the late Democratic gathering at Chicago : "The convention was a rag-bag of dissent. All the odds and ends of personal discontent, every shred of private grudge, every rag snipped off by official shears, scraps of rebel gray, the leavings of Union blue—all had been gathered, as if for the tailoring of Joseph's coat. That a Hebrew should be chosen to call such a motley collection to order, was a matter of instinct." GEN. DIX said, "If any man hauls down the American flag, shoot him on tho spot." Gen. McClellan practically says : If any man hauls down the American flag, "exhaust the resources of statemanship" to induce him to haul it up.— By the way, has any conservative tr copperhead brass enough to say that the south "exhausted the resources of statemanship" before she went to war to humilliate the flag of the nation ? THE RESULT. We can congratulate our readers upon a great vic tory-at the ballot box. Pennsylvania is true to tho Union and Liberty. Her vote on the 11th, makes unmistakable her hostility to disunion, rebellion, McClellan, andja base surrender to treason. Her vote for the Union will be largely increased next Novem ber. ()bio gives sixty thousand majority against se cession. Indiana, claimed by the copperheads M their stronghold, repudiates them by a crushing majority of twenty-three thousand. The new con stitution is adopted in Maryland. Henceforth, she yanks as a free the Union. Let these cheering jfsults animate us for the November struggle. Tfie secession, statu rights, peace, McClellaa par ty in this county are endeavoring to stir up a feel ing against tho getion of the military authorities, in regard to the soldiers, oharged with shooting Mock. Instead of delivering them for trial to the civil authorities here, they have been sent to Chambersburg for trial, before a military commis sion, as provided for, by the following act of Con gress, passed March 3rd, 1863. This act is of course regarded by the state rights party, as, a monstrous "usurpation" of power by tho Govern ment over its own soldiers in time of war. They would seem to believe, that the United States can exercise no control over its soldiers iq time of war and insurrection, other, than that flowed by the separately. According to this doctrine, an army of fifty thousand men, more or less, might in the face of' an invading foe, be arrested, and held for trial by the civil authorities, or informa tion of any body who chooses to charge them with committing offences liable to such arrest and trial. . SEC. 30. And be it further enacted ; That in time of war, insurrection, or rebellion, murder, assault and battery with intent to kill, manslaugh ter, mayhem, wording, by shooting or stabbing with an intent to commit murder, robbery, arson,; burglary, rape, assault and battery, with ap infest i to commit rape, and larceny, shall be punishable j by the sentence of a general court-martial or mil- ! teary commission, when committed by persons j who are in thn military service of the United States, and subject to the articles of war, and the punishments for such officers shall be less ! than those inflicted bv the laws of the Ht&u.. 'JV ntory, or District in which they may havo ' been i committed. I ITR ASIEUIOAST BOAHU F)."J RUN AIING/ RGOFT At the late session of the American Board ni Worcester, the liov. Albert Barnes uffered reso*' lutions of which tho following is the soul : '"Resolved, That in connection with tho purpose ■ to spread the Gospel through the world, the re sults of the contest on the cause of missions, and in view of diffusing a religion that shall be every where adapted to sustain just civil government and the principles of liberty, and that shall tend to deliver the world from the oppressiouofslavery, as well as in tho relation of its members to the Government of this land, and their duty to sus tain that Government, this Board expresses its hearty spmpathy in the efforts to suppress the re bellion, and gratefully acknowledges the Divine interposition in the successes which have attended the arms of the nation, as an indication that we shall again be one people, united under our glori ous Constitution, and united in our efforts to spread the Gospel around the world.'' "Whereupon," says an eye-witness, "inntcadjof referring the resolutions to a committee, as is u suaJ, they were at once put to the house, and the immense and most densely crowded audience sig nified their assent to them by rising in a body, and then, while standing, without any previous con cert or direction, as if by inspiration, struck into America,' and sung it with a mighty voice that niade the house shako. All through the proceed ings, tho slightest allusion to the Government, the war, and our Generals, called forth cheers." Letter from DuuielS. Dickinson to (ion, Cass. 1 The Detroit Tribune says ; Qpe of oui most ' promineut oitisens, into whose hands it had fallen, kindly permits us to publish tho following cbarac- i teristie letter from Daniel Dickinson to Keener- i al Cass; BINUIUMTO.V, Sept, 26, I>C4. . - v .'/ I bar General.-- The Presidential cam- 1 paign is again upon us in fearful earnest, and l have ' no doubt you would unite with me in praying ' that, it possible, at such time as this the cup might pjiss, But the question cannot be put a- i' stda, ana must be mot with all its responsibilities j I have no attachment to either of the candidates.' nor any antipathies against them, to move rue a hair either way ; and I am so filled with disgust at the mean selfishness, the prevailing littleness • ane downright knavery of political parties, that, were there no question beyond those of ordinary moment, I would not oross the street to turn the scale tor or against either, But I regard the present struggle as vi'al and essential to National honor —yes, existe^.. ' It seems that Baltimore and Chicago have Iramed.sspe* for us, and Mr. Lincoln and General McLleilan are sand must lie the representatives, respectively, pf these great antagonisms, and that as a people we mpst stand or fall by the result However much Mr. Lincoln may pretend to be peace or General MoClellan to be war before elec tiou, we all kuow that good faith, ami common honesty win force the one elected to carrv out in the administration doctrines laid down "by the Convention which placed him in nomiuation Should General MoClellan be elected, all will, in iu # \ judgement, be lost! Ihe Patriotic, self-sus taming, reliant feeling of the Union men will be overthrown and crushed out; rebellion will be rampant and intoxicated with success ; tlr; worst elements that the loyal States cun produce will be in market for boutheni purchase, and foreign in ter i ere nee will oome with all its hypbcyi ileal inso lence, and, under the pretence of slaying the effu -81011 °f hiood, will storotly destroy us. I hope you will concur in my idea that it is the duty of evoyj patriot, and ol uone more so than Demo crats of the Jackson school, to espouse warmly the Union side. Audi hope you will let your voice be heard and your views knowg at an early day. lam sure they will exert* powerful and Ilea,my lnfinajjoo upon thy public mind. "I send yotj herewith a sketch of some remark made by me recently, on taking the chair at a U nion mass meeting, and from them you may fath er my opinions aomewhat in ext. MO. I have been kindly invited to Detroit, and if I can find time fora brief trip, mean to aooept, but it is very un certain indeed whether I euu do so 'Sincerely yours, "'D. S. DICKINSON. THE STATE ELECTIONS! Pennsylvania Gives 20,000 Majority for the Union OIIIU SPEAKS l\ 60,000 MAJORITY! Indiana True to liertteirb; 000 Majority. A UNION GAIN "OF TWENTY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. The Legislatures of all the States nave Union Majorities. The Returns from Pennsyl vania. Cofftotb, Kimmeli and Meyers Defeat^, Although we ore till without full official returu, from the-different counties of ting State, and alw from the army, (the latter vote will not be officially declared until the 3rd Friday in October,) sufficicm ha* been received to announce that thia State ha, w least given Fifteen Thouwand Majority for the Union members of Congress. The folio*, ing gentlemon have been eleeted without doubt, vis; UKIO* MB* KMCCTIO). 2nd District, Charles O'Niell, 3rd " Leonard Myers, 4th Wm. D. Kelly, 6th '* M. k. Thayer, 7th 44 J. M. Biooimdl, 9th 44 Thadeus Stevens, 18th " Ulysses Mercur, 14th '• George F. Miller. lth 44 W. 11. Koontz, 17th 14 A. A. Barker, lth Gleai W. Scofield, 20 th 44 Charles V. Culver, 22nd 44 J. K. Morehead, 23rd 44 Thomas Williams, 24th 44 George V. Lawrence, J'BOSAUI.Y CXIOK MKX Ci.to ki, SY THK HOIJUBB*' Volt 12th District, W. W. Ketcham, 21st 44 Smith Fuller. DBMOC'KJIVS EI.ECTRD, Ist District, Samuel J. Randall, Oth 44 E. L. Ackor, Bth 44 S. E. Ancoria, loth 44 Myer Strou.se, Hth 44 Philip Johnson, 16th * 4 A. J. Gloslirenner. Union, certain, Id Union, doubtful. 2 Democrats, certain, d In the present Congress the delegation stands: Union 12 Democrats, 12 A certain gain of 4, and in all proUbility mem bers of Congress. CONORKSS OFFICIAL VOTE. The following is the official homo vote for Coc gress in this District. Koontz has about one thousand majority in the army, which eloots him. C'offroth. Koontz. homerset 731 Bedford 1570 Fulton 28S Franklin 60 Adams 411 T0ta1,,,,... ... 1429 731 Majority ior C'offroth, 698. PRESIDENT JUDGE—OFFICIAL. The following is the official home vote for Presi dent Judge. King elected by the ariuy vote. Kimmeli. King. Somerset 701 Bedford d3*j Fuiton ;;;;;;;; osi Franklin U2 "" Total ]oo fi "91 Majority for Kimmeli, 235. The Senate. The Senate will stand 20 Union to 13 Democrat, including two doubtful. We shall have certainly a majority of seven in the Senate, if not nine, last year our majority was one. The House. The House will stand as follows: Union 60, Democratic 40, with a probability of a gain of 4 more in Lycoming, Union, Snyder and Arm strong. Ohio for the loiou to the Core. On the Congressional tickets the work in this State last Tuesday was'aluiost 'complete. Ohio's last delegation to Congress stood five Union to fourteen Copperheads. Its next will be senettcm to two I The following is a list of the suoeewJ'u) Union candidates ; Ist District—B Eggleson, Union. 3d R C Schenck, Union. 4th 44 Wm Lawrence, Union. 6th 44 R W Clark, Union. 7th 14 Shallaberger, Union. Bth " J R Huboell, Union. 9th 44 R P Buckland, Union. 10th " J M Ashely, Ijniou. 11 th 41 H S Bundy. Union. 13th 14 C Delano, Union. 14th 44 M Walker, Union. 16th 44 T A Plants, Union. ~ J A Bingham. Union. 1 'th £ R Eckley, Union. |Bth " R p Spalding, Union. 19th J A Gerlano, Union. .k T e n tW ° su ooessftil copperhead candidates art the following, both re-elections: fith District—F CLe Blond, Copperhead. 1-tJ 1 Win E Finck, Copperhead. Union men in the next Congress. „!T Copperheads .2: A gain of 12 Union men, Indiana True to tbe Union* In Indiana our majority is over 23,000, and wo gain /our Congressmen. The present House has 4 Unionists and 7 Democrats ; the next will be a Union and 3 democrats. Ws count Voorheea aa elected, but he will be thrown out on the ground of irregularities. In that case the figures would be 9 to 2 Democratic, In tbe fim three States the "Democratic Vic tory" on (kutgress is as follows. THIS CONGRESS, NKXT CONORKSS. Union. Dent, Union. Dem. Pennsylvania 12 12.. 17 1 p h j.° i4::::::::::::IT 2 Indiana.. 7... S 4 Total, 21 23 42 12 Showing a ciear Union gain of 21 members, out of u total of 54. Let the copperherds rejoice ! Maryland a Free State- The returns of the recent election are' all in i the home vote foots up for the Constitution 11,246 against 12,820, showing a deficiency in the home vote of 1, 574. The soldiers' vote thus far recieved 18 2,463, making a miyority for the new Cons tit* tion of 889 votes, which will lie increased, it is thought, not less than 500. Thus the Constitu tion is clearly adopted, and Maryland, henceforth, ranks as a Free State.
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