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Wednesday, August 6, 11356.
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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
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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
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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:
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" 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."
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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
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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