THE HENTINGDON GLOB l, A DEMOCRATIC FAMILY SOER\AL, DEVOTED. TO LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS, &C. THE GT,O iiE. Circulation—the largest in the county LogT,:rnaw. , .--c.3c)T - 8,, Pir.X„. Wednesday, August 6, 11356. • FOR PRESIDENT, JAMES BUCHANAN, of Pennsylvania FOR VICE PRESIDENT, SOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE, of Icy FOR CANAL CO3IMISSIONEI, GEORGE SCOTT, of Columbia county FOIL AUDITOR GENERAL, JACOB FRY, Jr., of Montgomery co Democratic Delegate Elections The Democrats of 'Huntingdon county, are requested to meet at the usual places of holding elections, in their re spective districts, (except Murray's Run district, which will meet at Donation School House,) on Saturday the 9th day of Auglist next, for the purpose of electing delegates to a Democratic County Convention to be held at hunting don on Wednesday the 13th day of August, at :2;4 o'clock, P. M., for the purpose of nominating a Democratic Ticket to be supported at the ensuing fall elections, arid such other, business as may be nece>sary. SAMUEL T. BROWN, Chairman of Democratic Countzt,Commith,,c July 15, 1856 Single copies of THE GLOBE done up in wrappers can always be had at the office. Price 3 cents. Circulate ~ The Globe !" TEE GLOBE will be furnished to subscribers at the following rates :_ For three months, payment in advance, C 4 "...one year How many new subscribers shall be added to our list during the approaching Court weeks? Remember, THE GLOLL is the best paper published in the county. The Democratic County Convention. On Saturday next, the Democratic voters of the county, are expected to meet at their usual places of holding elections, for the pur pose of electing Delegates to meet in Con vention in this place, on Wednesday, the 13th of August, to put in nomination a Democrat ic County Ticket. We hope to see the De mocracy of every township and borough in the county, ably represented in the Conven tion—harmonious deliberation—a strong tick; et—and victory will be ours. OUR TRIP TO lIOPEWELL, BEDFORD COUNTY. —On Thursday last, in company with a num ber of our citizens, and capitalists from Phil adelphia, we jumped into the handsome new car on the Huntingdon and Broad Top Rail Road, and in a short time, we were landed at Hopewell, where a large crowd of persons had collected for the purpose of purchasing town lots. The sales amounted in the aggre gate, to- $9,500.- Some lots went as high as $OOO ; some at $lOO. From all we could learn, and the advantages the place has over all others, on the route between Huntingdon and Bedford, we could not avoid coming to the conclusion, that the town of Hopewell must become the most active business place on the route.- Several large buildings are now being finished, and others will be corn- - me-need immediately. The old buildings are generally small, but their occupants have hearts as big as an ox—nc person came away empty—the latch string of every door was on the outside. The Railroad is now completed to Hope au ) well, d a more pleasant road to ride over, can not be found in the State. The scenery too, along the whole route, is more grand than on any other road. By the construc tion of this road, a grat country has been opened out to the pleasure seeking inhabi tants of the cities, and capitalists generally, and as soon as they are sharp enough to find itout, we may expect to see the cars crowded with - passenger's for the Broad Top Region. READ! READ ! ! From, the Huntingdon Journal of this Wednesday morning. "In regard to the statement we made that the publisher of the Huntingdon Giobe. "owed his present freedom to ex ecutive clemency," we have a word to say. Lewis has had a notice in his paper for several weeks, denying the asser tion, and offering to wager $lOO we cannot prove it. We cannot " bet" fur several reasons—we am morally opposed to gambling; we could not take money made in the man ner the above named individual has his; we will not stake money on a blackguard. We assert that our statements are entirely correct, and shall substantiate them by pub lishing a brief history of this immaculate Wm. Lewis— commencing in our next; from the pen of " one who knows." We shall prove every word we have spoken." The reader will observe that Brewster &Whittaker have not included in their "state ment" their former oft-repeated but false as sertions that we are " a pardoned convict," "-a Roman Catholic," " a Jesuit," &c., &c., but they assert that their statements are en tirely correct, and that they WILL prove ever✓ word they have spoken ! Now, all we ask of them is the proof to sustain their assertions—or EITHER. or THEM. But they say they " are morally (!) opposed to betting and gambling." We, propose no betting—no gambling 1 Our proposition is to give, to bestow, the $lOO in case they suc= coed in proving their assertions to be true ! They refuse the proposition! We will make them another, since_• they have become so "'moral," to which they cannot object as be ing: immoral We now propose that they select dcommittee of five persons—members of their emu party and their ow church—to investigate the charges they have made against us, and if said commute report under oath that 'said charges are true, we will pay the said committee and Brewster and Whittaker and witnesses ; for their time and trouble, and will aliocontribute the sum of one hundred dollars towards the erection of the Presbyte rian -parsonage • house. 1n case they refuse to accept this; our last proposition, or to re tract,. we 'pledge ourselves to give them both more than they have contracted for. In the meantime we demand of them the - publication of the " brief history" they have promised, by "one who knows." Every city and almost every large town in, N ew England has its political priests. They, arc men who love distinction, and who cannot obtain it by preaching the Gospel. • So they join hands with infidels and spiritualists, and feed their flocks with denunciations of democ racy, and abuse of the government, to which they are indebted, more than to their own good behaVior, for protection. With remark able unanimity they are fighting men. They want to sec civil war, and are therefore loud in their - praises of Sharpe's rifles and bowie knives. We will give specimens of the reli gion of this class of them. In the Pittsburg convention, a few months ago, the ,Rev. Mr. Brewster said: ~~a. " He, for one, was in favor of using fire arms and fighting for freedom in Kansas." The Rev. Mr. Chandler said "He believed that Sha - rpeis rifles were the best peace-makers; there was no danger too many of them would be introduced into Kan sas." The Rev. Mr. Lovejoy said: "He was willing to go either as a captain or private. He would use Sharpe's rifles, and fire with good aim." In the North Church, soon after, the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher said : "1 hold it, to be an everlasting disgrace to shoot at a man and not hit hint !" The Rev. Theodore Parker said lately in his own church : "He thought the people should rise at once in their might and by sUch a revolution as was never before heard of, sweep the myrmi dons of a corrupt obligarchy front power by the strong arm, of physical violence." At a Kansas meeting recently held in Bos ton, the Rev. H. James, of Worcester, said: "There had been plenty of meetings and resolutions in favor of freedom. The best way would be to ram the resolution clown with, powder and bull upon the top of it For his part, he-was ready to suffer, to go into the jaws of martyrdom, to save Kansas and his country. He knew not but that before this question was settled the country might roll in blood ; but he was ready to enter the breach." $ 50 1 50 Much more of the vme treasonable sort we might quote, and perhaps may quote as we find room for it hereafter. This howev er, will show the religious mood of these politi cal preachers. But our readers should not get the impres sion that the priests are now dabbling in pol itics for the first time. In the time of Jeffer son the same class of hypocrites were as deep in the political mires as they now arc ; and during the war of 1812 they fairly foamed at the mouth with pious indignation. We will give a few sentences froth some of the most patriotic of their sermons. April 7, 1814, the Rev. Elijah Parish, D. D., of Bayfield, said : "How will the supporters of this anti- Christian warfare endure their sentence—en dure their own reflections—endure the fire that -the burns—the Worst r which never dice—the hosannahs of Heaven—WHlLE THE SMOKE OF THEIR, TORMENTS AS CENDS FOR EVER AND EVER." The Rev. David Osgood, pastor of the church at Medford, in a discourse delivered June 27, 1812, said : " If, at the command of weak or wicked rulers they undertake an unjust war, each man who volunteers his services in such a cause, or loans his money for its support, or by his conversation, his writings or any oth er mode of influence, encourages its prosecu tion, that man is an accomplice in the wick edness, loads his conscience with the black est crimes,brings the guilt of blood upon his soul, and, IN THE SIGHT OE GOD AND HIS LAW, IS A MURDERER." The Rev. I. S. J. Gardner, of Boston, in a discourse delivered July 23, 1812, Said : "It is a war unexampled [ll the history of the world : wantonly proclaimed on the most frivolous and grocndless pretences, against a nation from whose friendship we might de rive the most singular advantages, and from whose hostility we have reason to dread the most tremendous losses." And again, in the same sermon: "THE UNION HAS BEEN LONG SINCE VIRTUALLY DISSOLVED: AND IT IS FULL TIME THAT THIS PART OF -THE DISUNIONED STATES SHOULD TAKE CARE OF ITSELF." This will show that political preaching is nothing new. And we may add, that •it is nothing to be frightened.. at. The American Union and the democratic.party have survi ved it, and will survive it while there is a spark of patriotism in the breasts of the American people. But of political preaching and political preachers, how can we better speak than in the language of that greatest of English statesmen and modern philoso phers, Edmund Burke ? The following are his words : "Politics and the pulpit are terms that bare little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the voice of healing charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion , by the confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to, them, are, for the 'greater part, ig norant both of the character they . leave and the character they assume. ' Wholly unac quainted with the World, in which they are so fond of meddling, and . inexperienced in all its affairs, on, which,they pronounce with so much confidence; they know nothing of politics but the, passion they excite. Surely the church is the place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind." TRUE LIKENESSES.—Mr. GEO. 11. AUXER, has taken a room in the Court Ilouse, whore he is now ready to take Ambrotype and Da guerreotype Likenesses of all who may de sire to have a true and beautiful picture of themselves or their friends. His specimens are numerous, and can be seen by any per son'calling at his room. Now is your time if you want a correct likeness of yourself or friends. Call' and examine. specimens. From the Providence (.11.1 - .) Feet The Political Priests ! From the Cleveland Plain Dealer Oro.er'lleigns in ICansas--The Wars are over=4he torder . Ruffians Gone. ' Unless Lane with his banditti can kick up a muss, Kansas will-now remain quiet. What new scheme the "screeohers" will yet, get up to make blood-and-thunder capital out of, remains to be seen. The New York Tribune's special correspondent, July 6th, writing from Lawrence, says: "Never did the Free-State cause stand: in greater jeopardy. We have more peace now than we have had for many months, and the lull witnesses an activity in agriculture, build ing and business affairs. *_ * * * "This morning the work began on thenew hotel. A considerable number of men went to work removing the rains to clear the site for the new building. Three hearty ,cheers for the work were given before they began. Taking advantage of the peace for the last week or two, buildings have been, going up very rapidly, and Lawrence again presents a eurishing aspect." 'There's truth for you! There is peace in Kansas! Think of it! And this puts the Free-State cause in jeopardy—i. e., the elec tion of Fremont. What: will the sectionalists do? Look out for some new card? The only thing that can minister'to the diseased Free-soil cause is a fresh batch of murders, burnings, broils—a new rebellion—some thing to stir with—anything horrible. Look out! The dreadful, condition of the slavery agita tors suggested to the Jersey Telegraph, the following mode of relief: `.`Wanted.—Some half dozen smooth.faced Aminadab Sleeks to station themselves some where on the Missouri line, to manufacture `border-ru4ian outrages,' of the steepest kind, for 'down east' consumption. Full employ ment given until November 4th, 1856: "For further information apply to Ward Beecher, at the Church of the Holy Rifles, or of Horace Greeley, at the Tribune Office. "P. S.—Political preachers preferred who are accustomed to 'shrieking for freedom' and 'bleeding Kansas' in the sacred desk on the Sabbath." The Son of Henry Clay for Buchanan. Our readers will remember that we stated, in a late number of our paper, that there was no truth in the allegations of the oppo sition that "Mr. BUCHANAN was the slander er of HENRY CLAY," and that their personal relations were of the most hostile.character. In substantiation of our position we gave the rumor that a son of Mr. CLAY was favorable to the election of Mr. BUCHANAN - . Below will be found a verification of the rumor. Can any one, after reading the following, doubt that the most friendly relations existed between those two great cotemporary states men? Could the son support the slanderer of his father? Is not a son the most watch ful guardian of his father's reputation? -- And had that reputation been injured would not the son resent it? Who will say nay to either of these interrogatories? Who will- attempt to deceive the public in reference to the re lations existing between Mr. B. and C., after reading the subjoined extract from a letter addressed to the Lexington Statesman, by JAMES B. son of HENRY CLAY? There is also a statement copied into the Observer and Reporter of the sth inst., "that I hail been heard to say that I was not for Buchanan." I may have said that Mr. Bu chanan was not my candidate, or was not my choice for the Presidency; but I have not said that I should not vote for him. I prefer Mr. Fillmore personally, and if lie stood upon the same principles he did in ISSO, I would vote for him ,in preference to any man I know. But I expect to cast my. vote for that candidate who, in my opinion, may have the best 'chance to 'defeat the' Candidate of the Black Republican party, and, "as at present advised, I think Mr. Buchanan has the best chance to do sb. I wish it, never theless, to be distinctly miderStood that if I shall think it my duty to vote for Mr. Bu chanan, I shall vote as an old-line Whig making a choice of what he believes to be evils, for the good of the country, and that whenever the Whig standard shall again be raised, adhering alWays to the principles which 'I have been instrumental in asserting at Lexington, and at Louisville, on the 3d of July, I shall be ready, fairly, honestly and fearfully, to battle against those principles and practices of the Democratic party which conflict with my own views. -Maim HELP—Tun Wnios.—We-quote the following extract from that popular and in fluential paper, the Spectator, published at Erie,' P. It will be seen that the Spectator has always been, and now is, an old-line Whig. That in the present campaign, "there bein'g no Whig candidate" in the field, it finds it self impelled by. every feeling of patriotism to support Mr. BUCHANAN, as a man alike worthy of the honor, and the Only one who can defeat the nominee of the black conspira tors. The Spectator views Mr. Fillmore in the light in which he views himself, as hav ing abandoned the Whig party, and having formally joined the American party. "The proprietor of the German Erie Spec tator would respectfully announce to his pa trons .that for the past eighteen years he has published a paper invariably devoted to the promotion of Whig principles. That as to the correctness of those principles his opin ions remain unchanged, but in the present presidential canvass (there being no Whig in the field) his services shall be devoted to the success of the most experienced states man of this nation, Pennsylvania's favorite son, James Buchanan. Believing that sec tionalism forms no part of his political creed, and that all the diversified interests of this country would be faithfully protected under his administration, we cordially invite the co-operation of our patrons under his banner for the sake of .the Union." Tta.Old Mr. Singlestick mystifies a tea- Wrty by remarking that women were facts. hen - pressed to explain his meaning, he said— " Facts are stubborn things." Another Important Letter from William B. Reed, Esq. Tiu DANGEROUS CHARACTER. OF BDACK. REPUB • LICANISM EXPOSED. The Democratic Committee of Ryanklin county having extended au earnest invitation to William B. Reed, Esq., of Philadelphia, to address the people at the mass meeting of the Democracy at Chambersburg, on 7th August next, that gentleman makes the following re ply, in which he presents . most conclusive reasons for sustaining Buchanan and Breck inridge PHILADELPHIA, JULY 26, 1856 . _ GENTLratEN—Absolute inability to speak in the open air will prevent me from uniting in your Mass meeting on the 7th of August, for I am very sure you will not be able to com press within any room built by hands all who will be with you in doinc , honor to Mr. Bu chanan. Franklin county, if I mistake not, was his birth-place. Thence he started to win his way in life, and those„ and the child ren of those, amongst whom he was born, will gladly and resolutely come forward tO sustain' him now. The intelligent, thrifty men of your county, descendants of the ro bust Scotch, Irish and German pioneers of the Cumberland Valley, - will not be wanting at a crisis when civil and religious liberty and the Union of the States are endangered. To the multitude which will be, sure to assemble there, I could not speak—much as wish it —but my written words of sympathy and en couragement—of earnest anxiety for the suc cess of the Democratic ticket at both the ap proachina. elections, (one scarcely less impor tant than the other,) I cannot withhold. I shall have my abundant reward if they influ ence a single reader. Take them, I beg you, for what- they are worth. They are at least sincere and disinterested. I have some associations* with Franklin county which are peculiar. I have had friends there, in public and private life who, as con temporaries, were dear to me, and as my se niors, honored me by their counsel. Many of them have passed awaythough some are still surviving. I was in "the Legislature, on the same side of politics, too,—for I am not ashamed of my antecedents, and you would despise me were I to deny them—with David Fullerton and Thomas G. IVlcCullok—and I am very sure, if they were alive now, they would be neither Know-Nothings nor Aboli tionists, I served long with Thomas Carson, of Mercersburg, an honest and independent man,—and if there be any one whose private worth and dignified public integrity, I have been taught especially to respect, it is he who still lives honored,and esteemed among you —George Chambers. These are the personal associations which affect me. May I allude to some others. ' I remember, years ago, on a bright sum mer's afternoon, toiling up the turnpike road on the Cove mountain, in your county, and when I reached the summit, turning to gaze on as beautiful scene as ever gladdened my eye—the valley of peaceful beauty which stretches off to Maryland and towards the Potomac. It is a familiar scene to most of you. To me it was new, and its impression has never faded from my mind. As far as the eye could reach, there was fertility—the signs of tranquil industry ; all was beautiful was peaceful—it looked, as it was, like the abode of a happy and united people. The political line, separating Pennsylvania from Maryland, traced by those old fashioned sur veyors, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, was visible to no eye. The trees on which they marked it had long been felled or disap peared. Many a farm was separated by it, but, except in the eye of the law, no one knew it or cared about it. I have often—for painful thoughts are thrusting themselves upon me—recalled that scene of actual beau ty and united interest, mill realized what it would be—What your condition will be—what must be the condition of every county of this Commonwealth lying on the Maryland line ; Chester, Lancaster, York, Adams, Franklin, Fulton, Bedford, Somerset, Fayette and Greene ; if disunion be forced on us, and the fracture be, as it would be, between what are popularly but falsely called the free and the slave States, between us and. Maryland. I wish every man could be made to understand what a frontier is, even that of civilized life. Its daily, hourly vexations and dangers—its line of custom-houses to keep the smuggler in and out—the crowds of fugitives from jus tice and labor, infesting every avenue and concealed in every thicket—the murderer striking down his victim to-day and flying with the fresh blood on his hand to a foreign territory to-Morrow—the bickering, the strife, I the hot blood of conterminous dispute—all this would be the daily doom of every South ern county of this State ; and across the beau tiful valley I have spoken of would be dis rtressingly visible, the actual, broad, perhitj... t bloody line which.disunion must trace. This is true though, hard to conceive. Pennsylva nians, and you, citizens of Franklin county, have so long reposed in the very centre of the Union, that you cannot understand how I you become a frontier and how you will suffer when you do. There was a time, before the Union was framed, unless my reading of history much misleads me, when these fancied dangers I were realities. Let the Union be broken, and, I they will be realities again. I read in the history of your own county (and it applies to every border county) words which it is well to think of, for they may become truth again to-morrow : " It surpassed," says a writer, "the powers of the settlers to curb the wild and lawless spirit of the traders and frontiers men. The Conocechcaque settlements were infested with bands of desperate marauders and counter feiters, who bade defiance, to all laws. They had an organized line through the Cumber land Valley into Virginia. They drove a brisk trade by stealing horses and cattle.— After the British retired, they carried on an extensive trade amongst themselves by steal ing horses at the South ;, passing them along the line to the North where they could not be recognized, and exchanging them for other stolen at the North. The long narrow val leys and secluded' coves of the : Blue •Moun tain afforded a convenient route and secure hiding places. These were no shabby villains; they wore the finest dresses, sported - the best horses, and could display more jewelry than any others in the settlements, and though the source of their sudden wealth was suspected, no one dared to prove itngainst them. When not engaged in stealing, they resorted to coun terfeiting Continental money, and sauntering round the towns, passed it on travelers. If any one resisted or threatened to bring them to justice, his barn or crops were destroyed by fire." This is history, aLid why may it not become history again? It is the Union and the Constitution alone 'which. prevent it —and you are asked. to put-them, at risk. • This is no rhetorical exaggeration. It is the ; sure fore-cast of an inevitable truth—and reiaggerate as little when I say, that never until now, have I felt the danger of disunion to be•imininent. I tremble, in no imaginary panic; but on sober conviction, when I think how• near, it may be—how sure in one event it must be. Let me in temperate and guard ed language say why I think there is danger and how Mr. Buchanan's election can alone avert it. • There now lies before me as I write, a few words of prophetic wisdom, written long be fore the present - division of - parties- arose, which are very striking. They are the words of John C. Fremont's father-in-law : "The substitution," says Mr. Benton in the early pages of his "Thirty Years," 'of geograi?hi cal parties discriminated by - the• slave line would, of course, destroy the. just and proper action of the federal government, and lead eventually to the separation of States!? wrote Mr. Madison nearly forty years ago,. when the danger was very far off, a state of parties should arise founded on geographical boundaries, what is to control these great re pulsive masses from awful shocks against each other ?" Now if these be words of wis dom, if such are to be the probable conse quences of geographical parties strictly drawn, may not the trial of the Union be at hand ? In speaking of geographical parties, no sane man means to say or 'ever has said, that the mere fact of the candidates for President and Vice President on a ticket, being from one section of the country, makes a party section al or geographical. Our political history shows this is not so—and it may admit of some question, (Mr. Fremont's residence be ing rather ambulatOry,) whether his is-in this sense a sectional party now. No one yet knows exactly where the Vice President is to hail from. But that which makes a party sectional and geographical, is the principle which underlays it, the influence that con trols it—the aggregate men that compose it, the flags that are flying over it ; and looking at them now, when was there a party more intensely and malignantly sectional, more of fensively geographical than that which in the last coinage of counterfeits, dares to call it self Republican. I have not time, nor is the work congenial to my taste, to point to the proof of this, so far as individuals are con cerned. There is not a leading Abolition ag itator in Pennsylvania who is not . enrolled in the Republican ranks. You know it in your neighborhood. I see it in mine. The cam paign is conducted on purely Abolition prin ciples, and those principles are avowed to be, hostility to Southern interests, and insult to Southern feelings. Nay, further: so confess ed is this sectionalism, that this Republican party does not pretend to ask a single electo ral vote, or venture to circulate on an electo ral ticket south of Pennsylvania. It is meant to be an absolute triumph of the North over the South. Nothing less will satisfy those who control it. Now when it is said or foretold that to this the South cannot submit, and that in this re- flisal, the Union breaks, asunder, I appeal to candid conservative men in the North, is there not reason iu it ? If, the converse of the proposition could be stated, you'll the North submit? Certainly nut, and that which is called disorganizing rebellion and treason now, would be -honorable resistance then. It is painful to write or talk about such things, but we cannot shut our eyes to them. Au Executive administration elected on die principles of the Republican party, and influenced by its spirits, could not organ ize itself—and when the hour of distraction and disunion comes, it will require a wiser and calmer intelligence than fanaticism can furnish to compose the storm—a hand strong er than. that of an. adventurer to hold the helm. The danger is before us and around us.- - As a citizen of the North, I have sought to conceal it from myself, but it will not down at my bidding. l do not draw this inference from the language of extreme men; but when I hear a Senator from Kentucky—a Whig Senator—a moderate and conservative man, within this month, in his place in the Senate, say—"l have never paid much attention to the talk about a dissolution of the Union; but I have often thought on the subject, and my conviction is that the election of Fremont, or any man. of that party, is the knell of the Union"—(speech of Thompson, National In telligencer, July 17.) When such words as these are uttered, not by the heated South, but by the temperate and loyal Wrest, we have a right to say there is danger and very great danger too. The South on this sub ject of the Presidency, is not violent or loud, but its silence is very ominous and most im pressive. Mr. Buchanan stands before the nation— and this is the ground over which conserva tive men should come to his support—as the representative of the principle which alone can avert their evils, that of repression and extirpation of all agitation on this subject of slavery, let it come from what quarter it may. lie has said. in simple and earnest language, that this will be his aim. It must, for the good of the nation, come to an end. It can only be put an end to, by the strong moral power which a national man can exercise, and at a time when the relations of the Union are not disturbed but harmonized and recon ciled by the expression of the popular will, rebuking decisively fanaticism of any sort; —and this rebuke the Northern and Middle States are bound to give. Without this co operation, Mr. Buchanan may strive, and atrive, unsuccessfully to stay this noisy current of political agitation. With it, his success is easy, and the peace of the nation is secured. It is the conviction of this—aside altogether from personal regard that has brought me and thousands like me to his support. For a Pennsylvania man—for one whose earliest lesson was reverence for the great principle which William Penn enunciated, and whose habits of thought and education make him adverse to secret or intolerant po litical organization, there was no other path open. That into which some inconsiderate people are now seduced, of what is known as the "American" organizations, can have no attraction for me or any conservative man.— Believing as I do, that Mr. Fillmore took more than ono initiatory. , oath in a Know Nothing Lodge, by which • he bound himself to proscribe politically his fellow citizens who professed on.-e form of christian faith, and those who happened to have been born abroad, and to conform his opinions and regulate his political action by the decision of a secret, oath-bound, political club, I cannot vote for him. My antipathy to this secret and un constitutional organization is no new feeling; I spoke it out long ago ; I shall never change it. As one of the leaders of this party of intolerance, as one who gave to it the author ity of his name and past position, I hold Mr. ' Fillmore responsible for a deep wound to the cause of political morality. If there is one thing about which the people of this country are and ought to be sensitive, it is their right to worship God as they please. They claim to worship God under such forms of ecclesi astical discipline as they choose to enforce upon themselves,—with such ceremonial, sim ple or elaborate, as they please, on such days, and. in such plaCes as they choose, for them selves, and this great privilege of religious duty, the Constitution guards and protects. It is equally the privilege of all. There is not - a Protestant -who is not as much interes ted in guarding this constitutionar right as the Catholic Christians whom Mr. Fillmore, and his secret confederates have sworn to proscribe. It was,. I repeat, the worst wound. ever inflicted on political morality - in this. country, when these secret oath-bound asso ciations of religious intolerance were. crea ted. It was a sad spectacle when a states man like Mr. Fillmore joined them. Regretting once more that I am unable toe be with you, , and. to say what I have thus-, - written, I am - very respectfully, your friend, WILLIAM B. REED. To Messrs. , Brewer, Rea Nill, McClin tock, Sinsiny, Democratic E.xecutiN t e Commit tee, Chambersburg. • The Hards and .Softs United NEW YORK SAFE FOR BUCK, AND BRECK.- Both wings of the Democracy of the State. of New York met in State Convention last' week, and harmoniously agreed upon a State ticket and the Cincinnati platform. The Pennsylvanian says: "The State ticket was named by acclama tion, and it is one of which it may be said' emphatically, that "the offices have sought' the men." In a - word, it would be difficult' to conceive a more satisfactory result. But' the feature of the reunion that is most grati fying, is, that it is based upon the princVes of the party proclaimed al Cincinnati. The hearty good will with which the national platform is endorsed, will send a thrill of congratulation throUgh_ every Democratic or ganization in the land. This action of the Convention at Syracuse has ,§wept the great stronghold of the Black Republicans from under their feet. They are not left the shadow of a chance to carry New York_ The great party which carried victory on its eagles in '32, '36, '44, and '52, is again in the field in ono body, and animated by one mind. There can be no doubt as to the re sult." Patriotic Old-Line Whigs At a democratic ratification meeting held in Springwells, Michigan, a few days since, Judge Bacon, an active and zealous old-line whig, was called to the chair. The Detroit Free Press says: • "Upon taking the chair the Judge stated that he had heretofore acted with the whig party; that he had been a warm and earnest supporter of Mr. Clay; that he had loved the old party and revered its gallant and patriot ic leader, and that it was with regret that he found himself, in common with thousands, without a party. He had witnessed the old whig organization broken into fragments, each of which was warring directly or in directly against the Union. In this national crisis—when there was danger - threatening our confederacy=-he found but one course to pursue, but one party- with which to unite, and that to-day he identified himself with that party which professed an earnest and sincere desire to preserve the Union at all hazards. With it he would take up his political habitation, and with it remain so long as it proved true to the constitution and. the Union." So they come—so they will- continue to come—these patriotic old-line whips! WAS HUG 11 CORRIGAN Al URDERED ?—Not withstanding the elaborate inquisition into the cause of the death of Hugh Corrigan, it is not clear to the minds of all, that the un fortunate criminal actually committed sui cide. The Greensburgh "Argus" intimates that he might have been poisoned in order to prevent the completion of a confession which he was making, and which it was al leged, would implicate citizens of Westmore land county, in murders and robberies. The "Argus," in referring to the-verdict of the jury, says: "The 'true intent and meaning' of this verdict is that the jury was not satisfied that - Hugh Corrigan committed suicide, in the le gal acceptation of the word. That the poi son was prepared by scientific hands, all are satisfied, and that some of the poisonous sub stances found in his stomach are not to be had or kept by physicians, and all only in extensive drun• t' stores. Any one of them was sufficient to destroy life, yet it was pos sible for one or more of the poisons to be taken into the stomach, and that organ to be in a situation, to permit the poison to lie dormant for a considerable time, or be eject ed without fatal effects. Antidotes might have been applied and life saved. But with the compound of deadly poisons found in his stomach, death is inevitable and fearfully speedy. "It is well known that the deceased had told several gentlemen that he knew of sev eral robberies and murders that had been. committed in ,this neighborhood. That the guilty perpetrators were not far off, and were not suspected. One was that of John. Winn, who died many years ago in Blairs ville, from the effects of arsenic administered to him by a person he refused to name, Winn was robbed of a sum of money. "Another was a pedlar murdered in Derry township and five hundred dollars of money taken from him. - He denied all participa tion in the murders, but said he knew the perpetrators. He said that if he must be hung, there were three or four in the county that ought to share the same fate. Mr. Kee nan had written from his own lips a history , of his early life,- and he had made arrange ments to make a clean breast to Mr. K. on Sabbath. and Monday. Our own opinion is that the deadly compound was prepared for him by some skillful hand, at the instance of some one who dreaded further develop ments, and to whom it was all important that his lips should be more speedily sealed in death, than the • law contemplated. The deadly compound, serreptitiously conveyed to him by some one permitted to visit him in his cell, and told by them, that it would soothe and calm the nervous excitement under which he was laboring. This opinion is supported by the fact, that on Saturday eve ning, he desired Mr. Keenan to visit his cell on Sabbath morning, and complete his biog raphy." Premont's Biography A millionaire without a dollar—a states man without a speech—a legislator almost without a vote—a military chieftain without a battle. Make room for Col. Fremont—the gentleman who is never in the right place att the right time. En
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