y&V. !e ! JPHIdi/<■ VV/ ! ° * ' T ' ' H mm ti N-Hta?' f.r! -jo belim H *n im-no .nr • .<■ J SRff. it, tßm. I VKXN KKin BIiHMLN WAIK FO-f}VliOB, fbni- / MAJ. SEN. JOHN W. GEARY, (t Pi >IO.P ; jo,& .... •-•*/ i Ot <CI MBHffILANJ) CQ.VNW. M.Jf tw.et WtM tU MfiTMCT TICK-Elhi iI. ...I. i'' CONLBKKSi - lien. WM. 11. KI)<)NTL (f sLNAi Whf Hon-Jill.ibXA3sf>fcii Ml)lTJitohlitfoffib nt* • i irr 'be; itr A9®iBL¥, •> W (A,i: irET.UER. JOHITf RTHFTWR m< Ht BWWf." , •; COViNA V 'I'IGKE*. .!> ■ pg||fliMfOffaiH¥p o '■ .e..! -T W. LI NOEN FET/f ER, of Bedford Bor. SHERIFF, Uapt. N. C. EVANS, of Colerain. associate juboe. Capt: A. WEAVERIjING, Bloody Bun. COMMISSIONER, SAMUEL SHAFFER, of Uniou. POOR DIRECTOR, HENRY H. FISHER, South Woodberry. AUDITOR, JAMES 11. O'NEAL, of Monroe. gMON I'OLICY OF UEt OXSIRI tTIOS. "Itimlvtd, By the Senate and House of ttopre cntatives of the United State? of Amc/v-a, in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both llousc.- eon' tirring. That the following article be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three fourths of he said Legislatures, shall be valid an a part of t lie Constitution, namely: • AnTiCLi —, Section 1. All persons bern or itiUralixed in the United States, and subject to ■he jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United Stales, and of the State wherein they reside. No .-fate shall make or enforce any law which shall ibridge tho privileges or immunities of citizcrs of fhe United States. Nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Section 3. Representatives shall bo apportioned among the several States according to their res pective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not tax ed: but whenever the right to vote ei any election for electors of President and Vice-President, or for United States Representatives in Congress, executive and judicial officers, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other crin l ". the basis of representa tion therein shall be reduced in tho proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear tn the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in that State. "Section 3. No person shall bo a Senator or Representative in Congress, elector of President md Vice-President or hold any office, civil or military under the U. S., or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to sup port tho Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof: but Congress may, by avote of two-thirds of each House remove sueh disability. "Section 4. Tho validity of the public debt of the United States authorized bylaw, including debts incurred lor the payment of pensions and '""untie 3 for service in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned, but neither the United tates nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrec tion or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss ®r emancipation of any slave, but all such debts, obligations, and claims shall bo held illegal and void." "EOI ALITY FOR WHITE MEN." With characteristic mendacity as well as the stupidity naturally belonging to its fa vorite long-cared, braying brother, the Ga .rtk of last week utters one of its "Negro Equality" howls over our article of the pre vious week under the caption of "Equality for white men." It is an easy thing for the Gazette to cry "abolition lies," "humbug," Ac., as long as it keeps no account of truth; but it fails to show that a single statement made in our article is untrue, and for a very good reason, it couid not do it t "It is entirely, utterly false that the South' cm States have greater proportionate repre sentation in Congress than the other States, on account of three-fifths of their negroes be ing counted in the apportionment. THEY HAVE LESS PROPORTIONATE REP RESENTATION FOR THEIR NEGROES I'HAN PENNSYLVANIA HAS.—Gazette. flere is a statement deliberately manufac tured by the Gazette, made to appear as if coming from our article and then pronounc ed to be utterly false, which we will not de ny, as it is far from being the only thing ap pearing in the Gazette, which we believe to bo false, and the Gazette ought to be aliudge of its own productions. But we deny that any such statement appeared in our article. What we did say was that "A Southern slave driver, before the rebellion, possessed about twice as much power in the Govern ment as a Northern white man by reason of the three-fifths representation of the ne groes." And this wo now propose to substantiate by facts and figures gathered from the cen sus reports and which we dare the Gazette to publish or deny. In IJSOO South Carolina, with a population of 291,388 white persons and 422,234 ne groes, had seven representatives in Congress, or a representative for every 48,564 white persons in the State; at the same time Pennsylvania had twenty-five representa tives with a population of 2,849,266 making one representative to every 113,970 of her white population, or making each white per son in South Carolina equal to more than 2i white persons in Pennsylvania. This preponderance was all the result of the throe fifths representation of the slaves, as every intelligent citizen knows, whether the editor of the Gazette doos or not. The appor tionment of representatives on the basis of the census of 1 <6O, still retaining the three fifths representation of the slaves, would have given South Carolina hut four repre sentatives, or one to each 72,847 other white population, wliiic Pennsylvania was given 24 representatives, or one to each 127,000 of her white population, and would still have left to each South C'aroliua slave holder about twice as much power in die govern inent of the nation as a white man in Penn sylvania. The Gazette again savs: . ''But three-fifths of their colored popula tion are counted in their apportionment of members of Congrfess. IN PENNSYLVA NIA AND ALL THE NORTHERN STATES, ALL THE NEGROES ARE COUNTED IN THE APPORTIONMENT —not three-fifths, but ALL of them. In Pennsylvania we do the voting for one hun dred thousand negroes." .Here are two direct falsehoods, whether Lade through ignorance or design we do not pretend to know. The first, that hut three-fifths counted in tn<Btr Riclwu t m ning to the third scrtionjof tthfc firßkt ticle of I States. The fact is that lite free dblorcd j population not only of Pennsylvania and the Northern States, but also of the •South ern. is fully represented in tha iw>pm Vtpo- < im-oJ. of members of Congress, and it is <>nl£tht <t!awe pof^utat^" l that is limited to :> tb-iwi fi'f ll " r..piyjenljU,ii.f?, Xlie ovteOlid, jUiat irr Pennsylvania we do the voting for <W httttdiW iff aHoecthcr unpav •iyiiaT<ii On page 1-1 of the prolim ; inary rdjtort of the cansufl of 1860, it will hp J found that Ml tire negroes in Pennsylvania tk jltat tihie (and itis on this report that our prevent representation is ntimbered but 56,841', uuUve.sanie page it WW be found, that the wholeUiHHiber of free negroes in the United "States at that time was but 47ft,- 536 of which tut 225,879 were in the free states while 259,787 the larger number were in the slave states and as fully represented as those in the free states. We said iuither | that "now Northern doughfaces and coppcr- I heads combine with Southern rebels to de mand for these same slave driver® each , about three times as much power as each Northern white man." 'Die slaves have been freed and instead of the three-fifths representation of them as formerly the South, nnless the Constitution be amended as proposed by the Union party, will hereafter have the whole negro (form erly slave) population represented, thus giv ing twelve additional representatives to the Southern States and agninr increasing the proportionate power of each white man in the South to 2.1 times that of cash Northern white man. Thus South Carolina will again have five representatives with her white population of 291,388 or one to each 58,277 while Pennsylvania will get but 22 for her 2,849,529 or one for every 133,700 of her white population. IS THAT EQU ALI TY FOR WHITE MEN WHEN 58,277 WHITE REBELS IN SOUTH CARO LINA ARE ALLOWED AS MUCH POWER IN THE NATIONAL GOV ERNMENT AS TWO AND ONE- THIRD TIMES AS MANY LOYAL WHITE MEN IN PENFS YLYAN IA ? I* that the way to punish traitors and make treason odious ? The Gazette may attempt to deny, this, and forits edification we quote, what the Gazette seems to be quite ignorant of at present, the "Constitution an it is," Arts 1, See. 3: "Representatives and di rect taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included with in this Union, according to their respective numbers; which shall be determined by ad ding to the whole number of free persons, in cluding those bound to service for a term of years and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons." As above stated this will give a full representation to over four millions of negroes to.be wielded by the Southern whites and making each South Carolina rebel equal to free loyal white men in Pennsylvania. It is this gross injustice and inequality that the Union par ty desire to remedy by the proposed mondmonf in tVf pAncfihifmn Anil WA reiterate let copperheads and rebels cease their cry of "Negro Equality" until they arc willing to acknowledge, that rebels and traitors are no better than loyal white men, by adopting that amendment. MR. SHANNONS RECORD. Let Loyal men Head and then conclude whether they can support him ! It is reported that Mr. Shannon is en deavoring, and we have no objection to his endeavoring, to secure the votes of Repub licans to re-elect him to the Prothonatory ship. Socially, Mr. Shannon is a very clov er fellow, but politically he is the veriest demagogue alive, we have seen him do dirty work on election days for the purpose of securing, or rejecting a vote that wc would shrink from as from the touch of a leper. He was as firm a believer in the cause of the South as Jeff. Davis, and until the day that Richmond fell beneath the ponderous blows of Grant, he contended openly, and secretly, that the North could not, and should not overcome the South, and his influence was directed in such a manner as to make the national cause odious, and in this respect he was in great part responsible for the ill-feel ing and antagonistic spirit which prevailed in this county. With these truths, which cannot be suc cessfully contradicted, it cannot be possible that any person whose sympathies were with the Union cause can now turn in and support Mr. Shannon, who was as much a sympathizer as Jake Thompson or George N. Sanders, neither of whom took up arms. But we desire to present Mr. Shannon's record as mado by hixuoclf. Mr. Shannon made a speech in the Court House, before the Bedford Lyceum, some time in January, 1861, in which he was reported by the IN QUIRER to have said that he would go South and point his gun at the people of the North; in a card in the Gazette , in reply to this report, Mr. Shannon says: "Every person who heard me, the Editor included, (I don't know who the reporter was) will bear me out in saying that I aidn t say one word about going South, nor of pointing my gun at the people of the North. I DISTINCTLY SAID, HOWEVER, THAT I WOULD NOT FIGHT AT ALL IN SUCH AN UNNATURAL WAK-TUATI WAS LIKE 190MEOF MY "REPUBLICAN" FRIENDS I WOULD PREFER STAYING AT HOME. BUT IF I WERE COMPEL LED TO PULL TRIGGER I HOPED IT WOULD BE WHEN THE MUZ ZLE OF MY GUN WAS POINTED NORTH." Here is the secret of the organizations to resist the draft and the non-reporting of four or five hundred men. Union men, you who have lost sons, brothers, and relatives in the late war for the Union, if you can vote for Mr. Shannon you could vote tor McCausland or Harry Gilmor. Vote for J. W. Lingcnfelter, who was also a Democrat, but could not allow the duty which he owed to his country to be overcome by any party ties. He sacrificed his party to his oountry, as every other true patriot in the land did, and for this he deserves the united support of every patriot in the county, DEXI XT IF YOU DARE ! W such are the facta ? 9w e i 10e the mark.-—! Gazette. Sept. 14. ~v wwdiiiW deny in the premises, hen. Geary served lioldy in flu United Staff% Army with TIV'O HUNDRED THOWLOW STtTOKS'I'M of Fred. Douglass ten,? * U.~ 'H. Rundaipk. . 'IM while u*4 tfix noneJteii xhonldfr to , shimldery stbsmed the ' (rnrrriiefi fhbriMPfoh'ckfl)"' *Me %'side. obitf CHEERED TIIE SAATE p WHEN irr was ele^ato . P T triu^Xi; White and.lda dr minpted to yet hie tnV death, ■martyr*M fab ctttottrtf*' ernim- THEY STOOD CEON r THE SAME PLATFORM THEN ice hw% the must uuntterolJe contempt for the man tcho could not listen to the pleadings of these men who gear their 11 lives and their fortunes." for the sacreel eaioic in which we iccre then engaged. Fred. Douglass is a National character, famous throughout the civilized world as (he champion of the down-trodden African race. "Were he to visit Europe to-morrow, lie would be received from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, and from the Atlantic to the Dardanelles as the representative of millions of people, while those who scoff at white men that have the manliness to listen to the wants of those in whose behalf* lie pleads so cloquendy, would not be received as de cent representatives of the Plugs, Thugs and Dead Rabbits, that disgrace our cities. He is the representative of morepcople to-day in the United States than declared their in dependence of British domination m 1776, and yet the men that hear him in behalf of his constituents arc tobe scoffed at, forsooth! It is about time that the leaders of the op poeitioulearncd that in the United States men are men, and as long as not taint ed with crime, have aright to be heard, and up to this time, we are happy to tell them, that the people have decreed that they shall be heard. Will the Gazette elevate this to its mast-head and nail it there ? For the last ten years it has harped upon the Negro until its party have been tauten in every State in which Slavery did not exist, and we hope that it may continue it until every township in this county follows in the footsteps of the States. RADICAL LOVE for the SOLDIER." The Copperheads are circulating great quantities of a card among the soldiers with the above heading, which represents Black soldiers applying to a paymaster, for s3oo crt.ro bounty, who meets them with "all right, my brave men, here is your money," while opposite are crippled white soldiers approaching a pay master who i s reading a newspaper, the leading soldier ad dresses him with —"I came for my extra bounty of $100." The paymaster replies —"I am very sorry, but Congress has made no appropriation forjou." Now, in the first place, to exhibit the un scrupulousness, or ignorance, of these Cup DC-rboada. Congress never voted. any extra bounty to colored soldiers. The original act, which authorized their enlistment gave them the same bounty which was given to a raw white soldier under the Joint Resolution of the loth of January, 1863. The bill which authorized their enlistment, expressly gave them this S3OO, provided, they were muster ed as free on the 19 th day of April , 1801. A large number were enlisted, whohad been free from infancy ; through the carelessness of the officers, this entry was not made; without having this record made upon the muster-rolls, hundreds, who were entitled to the bounty, were mustered out without receiving the bounty to which they were justly entitled. It became apparent that additional legislation was necessary to do justice to.these black men. Mr. Wilson, of Massachusetts, introduced a Joint Reso lution, authorizing the Pay Department to settle these claims regardless of the omis sion. This resolution was cot satisfactory to the Pay Department, and Mr. Sebenck, was obliged to introduce another Joint Res olution explanatory of the one introduced by Mr. Wilson. This passed finally, and was approved on the 15th day of June, 1866, and this is the only legislation on the sub ject of bounties for colored men before Con gress since the passage of the original bill. Secondly, the bill granting additional bounty was rclerrcd to a commission to scrutinize its provisions, which has only reported a few days since, and it is thought that the powers that-be will with hold all payment until after the October elections. The following denial of the matter con tained in the card referred to above, by Col. Jordan, will set this matter at rest : ROOMS UNION STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE, 1105 CHESTNUT STREET, PH'I.ADELPHIA, Sept. 18, 1866. C. W. Ashcom, Esq., Hopewell, Pa. : DEAR SIR : Yours of the 11th iustant, is duly received, enclosing that shamelessly false card on the subject of bounties given by Congress to white and colored soldiers. Our political adversaries are acting upon the adage, "A lie well adhered to is as good as the truth." As military agent of Penn sylvania, at Washington, for more than two years, I became familiar with all the laws of Congress, granting bounties to soldiers. I most positively affirm that no actor acts ef Congress discriminate against white soldiers or in favor of colored soldiers. All assertions to the contrary are falsehoods, intended to mislead and to deceive. You are at liberty to make any use you please of this communication. Yours, truly, ER. JORDAN, Chairman. THE NATIONAL FMOY PARTY. The National Union Party is destined to meet with no better success than the old Copperhead party, if the avalanche pre cipitated upon it hy Maine the other day, goes for anything. Ah, you poor tinfrrr tunates, you must quit howling "Nigger 1" "Nigger!" "Abolitionists," "Wooly heads, "Negro Equality !" "and sich." and take bred. Douglass by the arm anil swear that you wore the original Abolition ists and that we were the pro slavery men. It's popular,yoy seo! You might.just as well do this as call us rlisunionis&s, after our par ty put down the rebellion. Jump in ahead, until you do, you are hound to be left in the mud! Can't you halloo for the Negro? If you can't, why go under, that's all ! AR# Tin: FRIKVDS OF FREEWOII 'IISR PLJ EPA RED Ktu mber that you have only iwf •wcefi| front U£ >.&T icsday, to do all the work tliftt has'u<st < done. A \fery brief if we take siderationhow little has been done. Let the sub-school district committees meet at once and report the condition of each sub 'stilio# diikfidt 16 {life iSfrfl'aifce dofohiifwfefc/of their respective townships, and make ThTuilgdnifciitklci hike oml vrrmrln their tpsttciUivc tmh-districtis-vm the distridi is t4i|u.s nvrang!ed, ,eywy Republican toter ih the oeatityi will bo brought to the polL. These eetrnnittet s nave their instruc tor!" . ahd Wherever ihdi4 is it deficiency in getting O.Ut the VOUIS the Sili>-illsll ict colo- Jtiittaes will be entitled to, tud should justly receive, the censure of tlie party for dere liction of duly, while ort' the other hatid, where our vote.-is out to a man tlie commit tees will "be entitled to all credit. Go to work, then, and do not let your efforts cease until 7 o'clock on the second Tuesday of October ! ! "NOW, WHAT NEWS on the HI A I/TO?" The Gazette cast about it last week for "Glorious News !" to off-set the news from Maine. First it had "California Redeem ed," since which tiuie there has been no intelligence from that "Golden State." On examination ii was ascertained that there was no Congressional election, nothing but a local content in which it is probable several constabios were elected. This followed by "Great Democratic Gains !" in Wilming ton, Delaware, in which it really figured up two hundred, while the FOURTEEN THOU SAND of Maine were not mentioned. Then came "Colorado !" which was claimed for Hunt. Now without fear of contradiction, we say that Chillcott, the Radical candidate, had 108 majority, and that the Board of canvassers gave him the certificate of elec tion. This is our last effort! Is it satis factory ? In conclusion, it claimed the del egate from Idaho, who has no vote in Can gross! The reader will see that all those triumphs were very "/. fetched" and axe without foundation. If Mich pap, thrown out to the Copperheads, will satisfy them, all wo have to say is they are very easily satisfied. THEY GIVE UP CLYMER We assert it without the fear of successful contradiction, say- the Harmburgh Tele graph, that the Copperhead State Central Committee has secretly, but formally, given up the election of Hiester Clvmer. Senator Wallace (decidedly the ablest and most saga cious of all the Copperhead leaders), chair man of that Committee, has the positive in formation in his possession, that Clynier's defeat i a certainty. No fiui ther effort will be wasted endeavoring to counteract this in flucnee. Wallace i- clearly of the opinion that the best thing which the faction he leads has now any prospect of accomplishing is the election of Congressional Representa tives. Clynier's withdraw! has been sternly urged, which he has as resolutely resisted. In thia Jileuiuui, and his Coun'dt tee have determined to abandon Clymcr to his own fate— in met, have given him up to defeat. Henceforth, the whole force of the Copperheads will lie turned onpaitieuiar Congressional and Senatorial Districts, in the hopeof making gain- therein. But their prospects in that hope will prove as barren as in the case of'Clynier. GO TO WORK, FRIENDS ! Our friends will see that every man is as sessed, on or before the 2 , .ith day of Sep tember. From many of the districts wc hear that our friends are pfepared for the election, but in several districts we are not satisfied that every man has been seen and arrangements made to get out the last Republican vote. Particularly is this the case, in .St. (..'lair and Middle Woodbcry town-hips. We have a clean majority of 25 cafes in St. ('!air township, if Ol.'R MEN WILL ONLY SEE THAT THE VOTE IS OL'T. We know this to be tlic case. In Middle Woodborry, we have clearly 100 ma jority, if every vote is out. We hope that our friends will go to w>rk at once. Let men be appointed to attend to all who arc slow to sec the interests of the conutry. All we desire, is, that every Republican in Bed ford county does vote, ar.d we will have a clear majority in the county of from 100 to 200 rotes. The Sheriff stiff die-fuse# to Incor fwrate the l>:nfranchishte/ Act in hi# Proclamation. Ihe Secretary ol the Commonwealth has furnished the High Sheriff of Bedford county, under the broad seal of the State, a copy of the Disfranchising act, as passed by the Leg islature and approved by the Governor, but he obstinately refuses to insert it in his Proc lamation, thus setting at defiance a laic on the statue boohs of Pennsylvania. It is the only instance that has come to our notice in the Stale. We expect to announce, in our next issue, that, in accordance with a resolution passed by the Hcjjublican County Committee A PROSECUTION FOR MISDEMEANOR IN OFFICE WILL HAVE COMMENCED AGAINST HIM. THE SAME PENALLY SHALL BE SITED UPON EVERY OFFICER OF ELECTION BOARDS. OR OTHER PERSONS, WHO SET THE LAW AT DEFIANCE, and the matter shall not stop here-, WE SHALL GO TO THE NEXT LEGISLATURE AND SECURE A CHANGE OF VENUE, AND TRY THE CASES IN SOME COUNTY WHERE COPPERHEAD JURIES CANNOT SCREEN THEIR FRIENDS. The President to Recognize a Rebel Congress! Where do I'on Stand, Mr. Sharpet The New York Times, edited by the "Lit tle \ illain. Raymond, the author of the address of the 1 Itli of August Convention, suggests a plan for the recognition of a I louse ol Representatives, composed of the Copperheads of the North and the rebels of the South. The people want to know with which House Mr. Sharpe intends to act. Come, Mr. Sharpe, tell us whether you are a candidate for the rebel-Andy Johnson House or the regular and legal House With which House, Mr. Sharpe? °"~WOBK! WORK!! WORK!!! The tyte Republican triumph in Maine, which b said to have surprised the Republi cans as badly as it did tliq- tlop)ierhead|j, was accomplished bj every man doiny lib , Let tins be, aajkssotj, and an example to "VUr Redfords : wSbnty < Republicans? io ' 'work while it is yet to day, the morrow cometh when no man" need work. It is a small matter to sacrifice a few days, or a 'f<bv'dollafsi'foV'the salvation bt ychfr noun* try. Hundreds of thousands hare spent iyfcars and given their lives, while fcWs ! tf thousands can be seen with mr empty sfccrc or carefully hobbling about on ciulelu -. tho victims of a horrible rebellion, you arq not asked Ixs sacrifice as much? No, unless you \ refits; to do your duty and allow a new re bellion to'fie inaugiri-afed' ten-fold more hor rible than, the former- Nothing hut an overwhelming defeat at tlie ballot box will deter Andrew Johnson from inaugurating new revolutionary measures. Arc you pre pared to leave tiie rebels triumph at last through Andy Johnson ? If you are not, : then it behooves every man of you to put ! your "shoulder to the wheel, pray to God for success, and move ou thecolumu !" "WHAT IS THERE IN A NAME I" HEAD, DEMOCRATS, READ! A few days ago an old man was overheard to say that he had voted the Democratic ticket since the days of Jackson, and he resolved while he lived, never to vote any other ticket; he confessed that the resolve was not. the most wise and judicious, hut excused himself on the ground that he had become wedded to the Democratic party in his tender years ; he had learned to believe that. the party could do no wrong, and though the position of the party during the war was altogether unpatriotic, yet he con sidered himself bound to follow it against his better judgement, but the late 14th of August Convention had entirely relieved him from any further responsibility to that Party. If he understood the matter, and he thought he did, that Convention had submerged the old Democratic party, and iu< n who never were in any way connected with the Democratic party were put at the head of the new organization. How true. "RING THE DELL, WATCH MAN !" Mr. I)ickerson. it is said, seriously con templated employing, prior to the glorious news fiom Maine, the whole corps of skce daddlers in this county to stand in the vari ous prominent places in the different town ships to ring bells and cry "Nigger!" "Nig ger!" "Nigger Equality!" "Negro Suf frage!" "White man's Government!'. and "Freedmcn's Bureau!" believing that it would be economy, as printing is very high now, but Maine did the bu-in - for them, and m>w the wlndc Copperhead party must lie veered ahotit. and wheeled into line for the negro! The first step in the new move ment i- the hearty support given to Colonel Filler. Mr. Diekerson is making up to the colored fellow citizens in the finest style. Wc saw him on the side walk the other day while two of the dusky sons of Africa passed down on the opposite side of the struct. Verily, things arc gelling mixed ' What Coppa•heads Thought While the Rebellion Jntsted They now Si/ Boldly! Lot it he said to the eternallnfamy of the party, which is now struggling with the wildest desparation, to seize the reigns of Government over the heads of those who overwhelmed and conquered its enemies, ihat it has applied every epithet to the loy al men who assembled in Philadelphia, on the 3rd instant, to express their grievances. These men stood firm to the old flag, when treason ran mad, and for this they are stig matized with every vile cognomen, to which those who have been schooled in the choice est billingsgate can give utterance. Why is this ? Because these men resisted traitors, and are determined that they shall not he preferred to those that were true to their country, they are thus reviled and malign cd. Copperheads speak out now what tlicy thought during the rebellion. *0 HOPE FOR CLI.HER! The New York Hen-aid in view of the Ver mont and Maine elections says:— "The Democrats of Pennsylvania, in nomi nating Hicster Clymer, a peace man during the war, against General Geary, one of the most distinguished Union soldiers of the war, did for the radicnls the very best thing that could be done. No one supposes that there is a ghost of a chance for Clymer against Geary , and no political philosopher has yet risen to show that while Clymer cannot save himself he will strengthen the Congressional ticket in any part of Pennsylvania. In short, he is a dead weight upon his party." These frank confessions by the Copper head papers of New York, of facts that are patent to all the world, outside of Pennsyl vania, arc exceedingly embarrassing to onr Copperhead cotemporaries. They still at tempt, once in a while, to make people be lieve that their is hope for Clymer in order to keep their courage up, but it won't do; the case is hopeless, as the Herald states it. The second Tuesday of October, will open the eyes of the blindest to a vivid realization of the fact. Ilenry Ward Beecher on the Members of the late Loyal Philadelphia Convention. A Committee of the loyal Southern Con vention, was selected to follow in the wake of Andrew Johnson and wipe out any impres sions which he might make in regard to the effectiveness of his policy. These gentlemen visited New York last week, on their way West, and were giveu splendid entertainments. A number addressed the people at Cooper Institute, while others spoke in Plymouth (Beecher's) church. Mr. Beecher has beeu claimed by the Copperhead party as a convert to their notions. While speeches were be ing made by the loyalists, called mulattoes and negroes by the Copperheads, the follow ing dispatch was received from Mr. Beecher, which we hope the Gazette will publish: PEEMCILL, N. Y., Sept. 11, 18tki. To Edward Com/ and George B. Lincoln; I regret that health will not allow me to nay my grateful respects to those Southern heroic men, who stood faithful among the faithless in bloody trial. God bless them. Their country honors them—history will per petuate their names among the noble. With all my heart I welcome them to Plymouth Church, and give them the right hand of fel lowship. HENRY WARD BEECHER. ANDREW JOHNSON'S DESIRE TO RECOGNIZE A REMSI CONGRESS. Tl ie New York Tiiftet give, the fol lowing UlustralJou of"; i '%^jlicy' - in the eTcJit of the failjiii of ■ Republican party huUHl f ml [ twenty-one mehjU.-rs *>t he next iiouov. tives: x "By law Congress thus consists of two hun dred and forty-one members, and by law, al so, a majority of the whole' number, or one hundred/,and twenty-one members, consti tute a quorum. Suppose that members elec ted from the Southern States should meet in D&*Al*ftbi;M*7,.VWd be t-Houeh. added to Northern liie.inberj u/hn 1— f 11'VI J ill lln-ir ri^hi to representation, and who would meet with them, to <g*jstkul|; jt jjnofu|nj qnd suppose the Northern members wliotlo not believe the South entitled jtpj?epte#entation, and who would not meet with them, should meet by *&!##♦£? tM, llwu.# 'jyorttift w the? otiVdofiat nrMr. : f he Chron icle begins to see the possibility of such an of-citfeWe': and 'ft' also sees that the Presi- ! dent will be under the necessity of recogni zing one or the other of these bodies as the valid, constitutional House of Representa tives. lie must send his message to the one 1 or the other. Ho must sign bills passed by j the one or the other. lie must treat one 01 i the other as a branch of Congress, elolhed with the power of making laws, and the oth er as_ having no such authority. And under the cirouinstances assumed, there can oe very little doubt, in view of his known opinious on the subject, that President Johnson will recognize the numerical quorum- -the body which contains a majority of all the members —as the only body authorized by the Consti tution to make laws for the United States, lie will probably send his message to that! body: he will sign the bills they pass, if con curred in by the Senate, and he will not re cognize the acts of the other as valid in any respect. The Senate, 011 the contrary, will recognize a majority of members from all the States but ten, even if they are a minority of of the whole, as the real Congress, and as clothed with all the powers of legislation.'' Here we have it boldly proclaimed by the President's special organ, that he has deter mined to subvert our government fin case enough Copperhead Congressmen can be elected from the North to make a majority, of what would be the whole numberof Congress men, if the rebel states were re-admitted,) in order to place rebels iu power, and enable them to rule the whole country as the reward of treason and rebellion. While deliberately declaring these revolutionary designs, they have Urn hardihood and effrontery to accuse the Union party of threatening another war. Thus out of their own months they stand convicted of deliberate falsehood, and at the game time threatening to inaugurate a new revolution and war for the purpose of regain ing power. This is the sa'me kind of logic the party used before the rebellion. Let Union men see to it, that these plotters of mischief are so overwhelmingly beaten in October, that they will no longer dream of forcing red-handed rebels into power, or re sisting with arms the will of the majority. It is high ti me that Copperheads North as well as South, should begin to understand that this is a Republican Government, that the will of the majority as expressed through the ballot box is the law of the land, that the American people are not to be intimidated from a free expression of sentiment by threats of an appeal to arms, and that the only re sult of such an appeal by a disappointed mi nority will be their own inevitable destruc tion. NEW JERSEY O. K. The New Jersey Legislature met in extra session on the 12th inst. and promptly pass cd the Constitutional amendment. On the ISth A. G. Cattell, a thorough going Union man, was elected United States Senator to fill the place of Stockton, rejected. This gives one additional Union vote in the Uni ted States Senate. Well done for the "Jersey Blues." lIOW is IIEECIIEIIt The Gazette will, pleaso let us know the state of >, t. Beeclier's pulse. Couldn't it publish several of his late letters in addition to the one it published last week? lIOW NOW. SOUTHAMPTON ! The Republican Union party can poll from seventy to eighty votes in this town ship, if the vote is out, which has not been the ea-e for years. Sec to it that every Republican voter is brought to the polls, on the second Tuesday of October. THE GAME OF BRAG. Brag is a good dog. but Hold On is a bet ter. The Radicals will experience the truth of this adage soon enough.— Gazette , Sept. 14. You are perfectly welcome to hold on to all you have got. But if the news from Maine is to be taken as any criterion, and the N. Y. Herald says it is, even this poor consolation will be denied you. ASSESS! ASSESS ! ! ASSESS !! ! The Vigilance Committees will see that every voter is assessed on or before the 2'Jth day of September. In Copperhead districts it would he advisable to make the assessor give a certificate of assessment which the collector is bound to receive when presented to him. Make your assessments at once! - _■ .■ "LITTLE BERKS IS ALIVE ! The Union men of Cumberland Valley are alive with enthusiasm. They will eon test the field closer than any other district, except Bedford Borough, in the county. We will have more votes in this district at the Coming election, than have ever been received for a party outside of the Copper head Party. Friends, do not relax your effort*! WANTKD. —Some boys to fill the wagons for the next Radical Mass Meeting.— Gazette, September 14. This won't doj Mr. Dickerson ! One ma chine is about as many as you will find it convenient to run, as you will discover to your coat, about the 2nd Tuesday of October. Mr. Cessna has charge of our machine and says that the boys that filled the square on Tuesday night of Court week intend to be on hand until the winding up ! Ax Aroi.ouY. —e owe it to our readers, as well as ourselves, to apologize for the ap pearance on our first page last week, of an article entitled "A Conservative Prayer." Our aim has always been to exclude from our columns everjuhing of a profane or immoral tendency, in short anything that could possi bly offend the moral sense of the purest and best, and it was with regret that we found our first page marred by the article above men tioned. A friend had laid it upon our table, whence, accidentally becoming mixed with our outside selections, it was taken by the compos itor without our knowledge,and was only dis covered when it was too late to reiaedy the mistake. bjWJUL IS LOST! SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MAINE !', FLECTION 1 ■We Wind SWeiTciertsii, to En-,, 1f Johnson, his Policy, and ali° their Supporters. The New York Uctald Interprets the "Stubborn j'acts." ' y IPnrhlof Writiirtfyy _Jho general of the Mainuc'Wi'.n "re very decisive and very significant-. Mey are startling and incomprehensible to the and indicate a POPUL \ R GROUND-SWELL WHOLLY UNEX PECTED by the radicals themselves. It i | manifest to us that this remarkable election j turned more upon the exciting political j events of the day, North and South, than upon the exact political i-sues presented be- I twi ti the Southern restoration policy of | f 1 Johnson and the reconstruction re ;■ of Congress. Extraordinary results ••r generally duo to extraordinary causes. • fad ti c Republicans simply had something iike their standing majority in Maine, the result could have been explained by the sim ple statement that tLe lattle was fought be tween the Union party of the war and the old Copperhead peace Democracy, BUT THE ENORMOUS GAIN TO THE RE PUBLICAN VOTE THROUGHOUT THE STATE REQUIRES A LARGER EXPLANATION. V c conclude that to the exciting political cv tnts of the day, and especially to the deplorable tragedy lately enacted in New Oil cans, we must look for the exciting cau ses which have resulted in this UNPRECE DEN J ED IMA EAT of the Democrats and Conservative in Maine. However guilty Northern abolition radicals may have been in fomenting the Now Orleans riots, the ugly fact stands forth in gloomy relief that Southern whites and negroes sympathizing with the Northern radical party were DE LIBERATELY Ml 11DER ED by Southern desperadoes and municipal officers who had been notoriously active as SOUTHERN REBELS in the late rebellion. Gen. Sheri dan's dispatches upon this bloody business have evidently left an impression upon the X orthern mind prejudicial to the cause of the speedy reconciliation of the two sections. Those ruffianly elements of the South which had so much to do in precipitating the Southern States into the abys- of the late rebellion, against the wishes and movements ol the groat body of the Southern people, have been again at their diabolical work. And so we find the generous and acceptable restoration policy of the President turned into contempt by squads of Southern vaga bonds, here and there, playing into the hands of Northern radicals and fanatics in sucli scenes of lawlessness and bloody vio lence as those of Memphis and New Orleans. Such ghastly scenes of disorder are, we are satisfied, as REVOLTING TO THE MASSES OF THE SOUTHER X PE< )PLE AS TO THE PEOPLE OF TH E NORTH; but in the stubborn fact that such scenes are enacted in Southern cities with the conni vance of the local authorities, aud that THE GUILTY PARTIES ESCAPE WITH OUT PI NISHMEXT, the Northern mind is naturally drawn to the conclusion that 1 resident -Johnson s magnanimity is thrown aw 33', and that the intractable spirit of the rebellion still prevails throughout the South. We have heard it said that the New Oilcans massacre was a godsend to the Northern radicals, and so, in casting about for the solution ol this Maine election wc are com pelled to recognize it. If the moral effects, therefore, -hall prove to be tbe TRIUMPH OF THE STRINGENT RADICAL PCIL KA of exclusion, against the President's generous aud conciliatory policy of Southern restoration, the Southern people may charge it to those vicious and rebellious elements among themselves which Southern political leaders have permitted to be used by Nor thern radical agitators lor their party pur poses. 1\ hatever may have been the real causes, however, operating to bring about the ex traordinary results of this Maine election, it is tmi decisive against the Democracy and conservatives to belimited to Maine. H'c apprehend that, as in all our political con texts of the past of a national character, the result in Manic indicates the general drift of the > lections coming after it throughout the Northern States. The prospect now of a conservative majority in the next Congress is very doubtful; the prospect of another radical Congress is better than it has ap pearod at any time since December last. In short, this Maine election of 18GG will prob ably mark another NEW CHAPTER IN OUR POLITICAL HISTORY, and per haps ANOTHER REORGANIZATION OF PARTIES AND ANOTHER RE CONSTRUCTION OF PARTY PLAT- I'ORMfe for the Presidential election, begin ning with the close of the coming elections of October and November. CHKEKINU NEWS FROM Ol'il STRONG HOLDS• \V e hear most encouraging news from Bloody Run, East Providence, West Provi dence, Broad Top, Hopewell and Union, the friends of Congress are at work in those districts, but friends do not hesitate or cease your efforts for'a single day until after -un set on election day. . Every district that we have enumerated can do better than it did last year if the work is properly performed. Work! Work! FRIENDS, HE UP AND DOING! How is the cause progressing in Napier, Harrison, Londonderry, Juniata, Coleraia, Liberty and Snake Spring? Are the friends of Congress doing their whole duty? We think they are, but you can't over do it ! We expect a reduced majority in all these districts, avo Harrison, and here we have 20 majority, if our friends will only see to getting out the votes. £>gy*Tke New York Keening Post , which finds itself in tho anomalous position of sup porting the President's policy, but not the President, says of Mr. Blair's recent effort in Boston: "Mr. Montgomery Blair is speak ing through New Knglaud, and seems to be under the impression that he is supporting President Johnspu. Whatever he may in tend, however, if we may judge from the reports of his Boston speech, he is in reality disgusting all sensible and liberty-loving men.*'
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