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XEK-MS: BdMOßlptiox.—Two Dollars if -paid withla Ho > «'!, and Two Dollars and Fifty Cents, if not paid within the. year. These terms will bo rigidly ad hered to in every instance. No subscription dis- Continued until all arrearages ora paid unless at the option of tbo Editor, ' : ✓ ApTEßTisßUENxs~Aco6tnpanida by thocAflir, and •o* exceeding ono square, frill, bb hfstfrtodi'tWao k i i?i H i i and. tw was prostrate under recent ueieat, which, respited from its own, unfortu nate divisions. But whata.grand and in epiring .spectacle was presented ;on hearing -ae .first thunder of -rebellious arpial Politi cal andipartisan; feelings; even in .that hour ?.t part” humiliation, were all laid upon the mtar of the country, and tbo.snn -of Heaven "ever abone upon a,people,more united, reso ?iute* determined than these pf.tbe.Nqr , States |»t,tho,peried wo refer to. , , a '"hetever inigbE have been the views of ne Northern Democracy in" regard to the eusos wbjeh uitimAtely ongendored this un- SSWirtrifeq. bow.ov Crimuehjn. their. inmost, riob a,-5?; dcfil° re d the ,mad. and reckless car Ham , Apolitioufam ; however deep was'their eohrse of those party ,load thii ii ’ i' a .been for-years sweeping tipnil lurkin B braids.of bigotry , and fa •M>d;-direptt?g their vilqet offer,tq. of interests, apd institutions ; * nnriiA qut i? e r ?l people—still, tho attempt of • brent , n of that people in consequence, to i Vllr thown r q ou ? hor ffy. of ;til®Oonstitution 1 w# warns country, and destroy lb* led- i oral compact* was a criminal act which could' not bo tolerated or justified. The. amplest remedies for. the wrongs complained of -wore I “°* onl y - w »thin hope, hut at hand. Two tmlnons of voters had just recorded their bal lots in ;a general ’popular election against Abraham Lincoln ana the oni million who supported, him end his policy. There was besides, a Democratic majority-in one, if not both branches of'Congrtifcs, winch would ren der hifti powerless to inflict any permanent evil on the country. « secession, claimed by the ‘South ‘as the remedy lor their grievances, is- a v *f)oljtlc|il hhfesy,. condemned by Madison with his latest breath, and by many others of our ablest statesmen in all sections of the Union. Call tho Constitution a compact, if you will—as does Jefferson in the Kentucky .resolutions of 'tJS—-but it is & compact of sov ereign States, made with each othor as such, having no right of secession “.nominated or .constituted in the 'bond." Tho Union thus formed was in its nature, if not in terms, per petual. Secession, then, in view of the com pact, is simply Revolution • and tho breaking .‘up of the Union our fathers had bequeathed ; ps, was under all'the, circumstances we have detailed, a pd_the thousand other considera tions ‘and consequences which must crowd every intelligent and patriotic mind, not on ly treason at law, but against the best hopes tff M .marikindv* iWo could not then —canfibt now—and never will consent to it. In of determined loyalty to the Constitution and the Laws, the Democracy of the North, with scarcely an -exception, rely ing upon the pledges given bv President Lin coln, yioldpd him .their,,Vea.dy and efficient support'. ...What tfere.aftoie-of'‘those pledges? First, in hifl oath-of office: “I-will support the Constitution of the United States so help me God." Then in his Inaugural Address, and with this solemn adjuration fresh upon his lips, he said : “ fdo hut quote from one of my speeches when It declare, that * Tkave no purpose, di rectly or indirectly, to interfere with the insti tution of slavery in the States where it exists. I BELIEVE 1 HAVE NO LAWFUL RIGHT TO DO SO. AND ! HAVE NO INCLINA TION TO DO SO;" Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I made this and. similar declarations, and have never recanted them, inoio reiter ate the sehtifhenis ; and in doing so, I only press upon the public attention the most con clusive evidence of which the case is suscep tible, that the property peace and security of no section are to be in any wise endangered by tho now incoming- Administration. .1 add too, that nlhth'd protection which, consistent ly with the Constitution and the laws, can be given, will bo cheerfully given to all the States, when lawfully demanded, for what ever cause—as cheerfully to one section as to another." These repented public pledges brought vol untarily to the standard raised in bebulf of the Union, bundl e is of thousands of as bravo men as ever breasted a bayonet. The armies thus raised were precipitated oh the South, with varied fortunes of victory and defeat; And war, civil war—always the most bloody of all human strifes—has evar since raged over some of the fairest portions of that un happy regiori. But the long cherished schemes of fanati cism for the extinction of African- Bppvitdd.e could not be given up. No matter if Massa chusetts, sixty or seventy years Since, did sell slaves to the people of the Southern States, under the guarantees of. a.Constitu tion which she helped tu_ form—still, Massa chusetts meddlers, both in Congress and out of it, now determined, since they jOofthl not “rail,”:they.would rend " the seal from off. the bond.”, 'The gdllant “ three thousand olorgymon of Now England”—(worthy disci ples of the Prince of Peace!—rallied to a man, in the new crusade of fanaticism, and wrought, side by side, with infidels, who have for years been in the .daily habit of sneering nt the Christiania faith, ridiculing tlie Christian’s Bible, and blaspheming the Christian’s God 1 The fears of our timid and facile President wpre worked- upon, ns well as his vanity and desire of re-election, by the extreme and rad ical members of his party, and the emancipa tion and confiscation measures were forced upon him, and made a port of his policy in •tbeconduot of the war. Every effort of the friends of peace put forth in Congress was defeated. The hostility of the Abolition leaders to serfdom in-the South—to employ the words of tho lamented Douglas—“was stronger »than,their fidelity to tho Constitu tion.” _ They believed that a disruption of the Union would draw after it, as ah inevita ble consequence) civil war, servile insurrec tions, and finally, through these, an utter ex tinction of elawyiu all the Southern States; and-; it.Vvould seem, they acted even, on this terrible belief. ■ Look at tho record: On the 18th day of December, 1860, Senator Crittenden, of Ken tucky, the bosom friend of Henry C.lay in liis ;life-tim<3i introduced into tjiq Senate of the United States series ofj’eboltitioni; as a ba sis of settlement between the two sections of , the Union. The secession of South Carolina, took plscC on ■ the 20th of the same month;. and her members of Congress retired fronj their places. We are thus particular in ref erence to this subject, because our opponents, throilgh their; Central Committee in this State, have introduced it into A late address • to you ; and-th'ero is a spßoiouS effort .made; in that addrAsa to turn.nsida. fro Ortho.llepuh-. licans, the just obliquy and reproach.which the defeat of-Senatur Crittenden’s proposition has fastened- upon their party.. Tho offered” compromise would, in termsj, have sealed more than three fourths of all our territorial domain against slavery forev er—:placing. about 000.000 miles under the provisions of the Ordinance of 17?7> more recently known as the “ Wilmbf Proviso”—• leaving the remaining 300,000 miles 'subject tO'.whatever.laws those who settled upon it might establish for themselves, whenever they became a State. All the-other features of the proposed? compromise were notliing but i TS-affirmancos of the plainest potters and pro- i visions of the Constitution, save, possibly, the i lair and equitable stipulation that slavery 1 should-not be abolished, in the Distriot of I Columbia, as long asjt: existed in Maryland and "Virginia, the tivq States which 'hnd ceded ( that Distriot to the GenernrGovoramfent. • i „ On the 15th of January, 1861,. Senator 01arke, n leadingßep.nblioan, moved to amend the Crittenden proposition,by etrioing out all of the material provisions—certainly dll that contained the olive" brunch of peace,'and-In serting a single resolution "breathing-, war and threaiS'tqWpid the.South.',.'This amendment was carried ii vote,of 25.jo,favor, ; a|i fta pubiioans, against,23 Democratic Votes. But says the address of"tho Bopublican Commit tee—"six Southern. Senators refused to. state at alien the proposed umendmcnt :” and the.n, with a degree of..cool.assurance, remarkable even in these times, i), goes on to.toll the,peo ple. of Pennsylvania it that had,.- thea.o .plx;. Soutbefß meiiToted agaiast the Clarke atuead- Went, it would havo been defeated, and the Crittenden Compromise might hare boon ta ken up and carried by the same majority/' General Cameron, who puts forth this address/ cannot be very proud of hia own sbare in this record, op lie woQld not have kept out of view the fact that he himself voted for this very Clark amendment, and the sortie day moved a r6oonsidbrft.tion; and, tbeh/'whotk this question was called up only three days afterwards, he voted against his Own motion to reconsider , It was carried, however, with the aid of at least two (Johnson and Slidell), of “ six." tunned, and the Compromise was again in statu qiio before the Senate. Jft whs finally taken up on the 3d of *Mnrcb, and' defeated— many of the.Soutliorn SenaWshav ing withdrawn, from* I tho Senate in the into riiu, .their States having seceded froth the Union. ’ ,1 N° w > dJenoralCamoron, who issued the Ad • dress, knows just as well ns did Senator Cam , eroD, who sustained the Clark amonment, that . it required a two-thirds vote to give vitality . to the Crittenden Compromise. Tie knows, ■ too; that every Republican vote, including- hie own, in the Senato was given against the measure,, in effect, from first to Igst. Ho knows further, that the Republican Senators refused Senator Bigler’s proposal to submit this question to n vote of the people ns ■instructive.,, of Congress.. Ho knows also that Mr. Clemens, of Virginia, on the I7th of February, before that State adopted secession, endeavored, ib the House of Repre sentatives at Washington, to obtain a similar arrangement in that body to test the question of compromise before the people, and it was voted down by 112 Republicans against 80 Democrats—every Republican in the House voting in the negative. They would not— they did not dare to trust the people, the leg itimate source of power,on this question! At t 1.6 hazard of furnishing unnocofisarv proof on this point, wo beg attention to the t 9ienr B and explicit ovidence.of Senator Pugh, ti eotemporar.y of ,the author of the Address, in the Senato of the United States. In the, course of his speech in the Senate, in March, 1861, he saysi .? “Tiie Crittenden proposition has been en dorsed by the almost unanimous vote of the Legislature of Kentucky. It has been endor sed by tlie n,oble old CoimnouVrealth of Vii. it has boeb petitioned for by a larger, rum mer of the nlootoijs, of the United States than any proposition that whs over before Congress. I believe in my heart to-day that it would car ry an overwhelming majority of the people of my . State, use, sir, of nearly every State irf tlie Union. .-Before .the Senators from the State of Mississippi left this chamberi I beard one of them, who assumes at least to bo Pres ident of the Southern Confederacy, propose to accept it. and Maintain the Union. If that proposition could receive tlie vote it-.ought to receive from the other side of. the -cham ber. Ihornfore, all of your propositions, all of your amendments, sincerely. know ing that the historian .will write it, any time hefoi-S the , l’r.sL. of *1 ano(ry, a two? thirds vote for the Crittenden-resolution ,ih I this chamber would have ,ev'ery Slate iu the Union except ’South Carolina. Geor gia would he here hy her representatives, and Louitlana—those two groat States—which at leant would have broken the whole column'of Secession— Glqfye, page 1300. .. UpoJa the same point, on the same day, the clarion voice of the patriot-Douglas bore.tea imooy as follows: "The Senator (Mr. Pugh) has said that if the Crittenden proposition could have beep passed early in the session, it would haye saved all the States except South Carolina. I firmly believe it would. While the Grit- tendon proposition was not in accordance with my cherished views; I- avowed my readiness and- eagerness to except it in order to save tbo Union, if we could unite upon it. I can confirm the Senator’s declaration that Sena tor Davis himself; when on the Committee of Thirteen, was ready nt all times to compro mise On the Crittenden proposition, I will go further, and say that Mr. Toombs was al so—Globe,page 1391.” How preposterous at, this day then, this attempt of one of the leading aotors in t.llat eventful drama thus to stifle conscience, and so seek to rescue his co-onhspirutors from the recorded verdict of history, and the deserved and inevitable condemnation of a betrayed people F, The controlling spirits of the Re publican . party never meant peace—never sought peace from first to last, at any time or in any,form- save upon the one drear and devilish condition of turning loob'se upon our land throe and a half millions of black semi-, barbarians , under the specious pretence of freedom; while in reality, it was only to tear so many of those poor creatures away from their homes'of comparative, happiness and peace, to find starvation, misery and death in an inhospitable clime 1 President Lincoln has but recently declar ed, in very definite terms, ho will listen to no preposition for pence which docs not in clude this African millennium, notwithstan ding. those plain. of nil right oh. the part of the General Qov rnmont thus to itervene. Which he himself, with tho oath of office fresh n'pon bis,lips,- declared lie. “had no legal right and no inten tion” to disregard i If wo were to credit" the ravings- of the chief advisers of the President; or, at least,- those who seem to influence him most fully— Sumner, Beecher and Phillips—human rea son hap been making such rapid progress in those latter days; that the haven of, human perfection must be near nt hand.But'alas I whon we look hopefully for tbe blessed gale Which is to bear us onward in its course, we hear nothing but the loud breath of the tem- pest; See nothing All.around us b.nt the.an gry and troubled. sea, everywhere sparkling.' with foam and Surging in Us madness"; and' wo-are tempted-to ask, can this i ndeed be;— > T he-u-itul and -tbo -atoriu fulfill; rig.his .word I’.*- f. Tlrescmon are mistaken Sand mad, of are. traitors of the .despest dye, deserving,a.trai tor’s darkest doom. -This equality ofthe .blapk and white races which they are seeking to establish in this,country is an absurd and idle dream, which a brief contrast cf their prog ress and.peeiiliaritiea must dispel ftom evary, thoughtful jnind. ■ ,- ~, .. A little inure tlurn. two centui’lefißince. when oiif fathers first planted a few germs of onr race atsoattefedpoints alongthe Nirflh Amer- ican coast-, the whole hamperipf that race in. the.'Old world-did .not.egeeed six. England, Scotland and VValea. tben.a nuqi befe'd fewer inhabitants than Now York, Pounsyliania uud Uluo do now. , Mark the progreffl: in North Anihpioaht this time in cluding a wholesome-Celtio'infasioni) there are at least Hxir-ty millions, and -in the whole World (oonfesaing - there also the .same Infu-* sion,) from eighty to ninety millions of nen plo, eubstantially AnglivSaxo'n in their 6fi gpj.i .-We are everywhere" thus displacing the more sluggish races, or hemmingthein-in _OD| every side; and at this ourrertt r-ale of in crease, ip otio hyndyeid and fifty.ye^ra.frcra this time, will toil a'p‘to «ijht hiiadred taill- IX BE CARLISLE, PA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8,1864. f ■/:*' i ion# of hmnnn beings—all speaking the some language, tfijoioing in the name high intolloo culturo, and exhibiting the same iaho ' an( l inalienable characteristics 1 . On the other hand, the African race has never, anywhere, any proof nf its ca pacity. for p self sustained civilization. Since the son .first shone on ftiat continent it has remained in the same state of mental gloom. Cruel, brutal, voluptuous, and indolent by nature, thoi African ,has nfcvor. advanced a ?jns) o . sfc ep beyond his own savage original. Slavery has ever been x and to this hour contin \ies io be, .his normal condition , throughout 'every dime he can call'his own I Arid yet they , have bad as many opportunities of im provement as the inhabitants of Asia or of Europe. Along tho .shores of tho Mediterra nean was. once conceWhited the Literature and Science, of Qgrtlinge, the ri val of imperial Rome in dt tiie iirta Of com merce and. civilization, existed for many years on the African border. • The.Saracons, the most polished race of their time, founded and maintained, for. centuries a, contiguous empire,- Still,' for all this, the African has continued to prowl on through his long ni*ht of barbarism ; and th*Us, in all human proba bility, he will continue forever. Toll ns not that his want of progress in civilization is the result of long established bondage. So, for centuries, was our own race bound to the earth under various modifications of predial vassalage. But the -white soul expanded, and mounted above all its burthens and trammels, arid finally, in this country, reached the full^fruition of republican free dom-, ; .We grant;'this men ft) inferiority of the Af rican—(wo forbear, in the spirit of sobriety, any physical contemplation or contrast) — does not give a dominant race the right to convey him frqra his oftn benighted land to a foreign bondage, .even under the forms of a purchase from his Afghan master. But this natural inferiority be-considered by the statesman in ffaimhgglkwa; and 'adopting Constitutions for Iranian government. In Pennsylvania wo baVe always affirmed .this infdriority incur fundamental laws ; and the same has been done in. almost all the free States of the Union—generally excluding the African from the right of suffrage. This ne cessity of duly regarding the law of races, is thus forcibly commented upon by Lamartine (a scholar and a statesbian, always in., favor Of man's largest liberty) in a recent work : “ The more I have traveled, the more I am convinced that races of men form the great secret of men and manners. r Man is nut so capable of education as philosophers imagine. The influence of Government and laws has less power, radically, than is supposed, over the manners and instincts of anj people. While the primitive constitution and blood of tho races have always their influence, and manifest themselves thousands of years after wards in the physical formation and habits of a particular family or tribe. Human na ture flows in fivers and streams in the'vast occati of humanity; but its waters mingle but slowly—sometimes they never mingle, and it emerges again, like the Rhone from the Lake of Geneva-, witli its own taste and color. . Here is,.indeed, an abyss of thought and meditation, and at the same timiT a grand secret fur legislators. As long as they keep the spirit of tho race in view they suc ceed j. but they faiL-Vf.fi'oa tJiey strive ngtinsc ■this natural prpdispubiticn; batur’o is .stron ger than they are.",-. But why thus enlarge upon a topic which has undergone Iso, much, aud such frequent discussion? , Why-r-becauso this - idea of working nut negro equalitg on the. part of our opponents is the basis of our present po litical struggle. ob,qt no-iitan be mistaken.— This is really the leading issue at the pres ent ipnment between ■ tho two parties. To carni out this idea has come at last be the 'ruling, if not the sole purpose nfihe mar which is now deluging the land mtk/raternal blood / For this, the Oons'titution end the reserved rights of the States and the people have been mockingly trampled .under foot; for this, both imperious and-Imperial’ edicts, such as would send to the biodfr otiywionnreh in Eng land, have beep-issued by the President, and sought to be enforced'- for this. Secretary Seward’s boast to Lord Lyons—'• I can touoli my office feel! at any moment, and order to he arrested inly oitisen-of this-country" has been ail too frequently realized 1 Tho extent to which the party supporting the President are willing to go in negro af filiation, finds a memorable illustration in the proposition made by Secretary. Cameron, the first of tile so'vora! occupants .of the place of Secretary of War under President Lincoln. He coolly proposed, in his first And last an nual communication, to froO, and then to arm the whole black population of the South, and torn them against their white masters in a work of indiscriminate, butchery 1 This truly infernal suggestion was not-adoptod by tho President when first proposed, but it has since been noted upon in more instances than oiiai '. .. We hove charged the party iU present in power, follow-citizens, with tyranny and usurpation. We now go further, and solemn ly assert our belief, that there isa deliberate design to change the character, if not the form of our government. The leading papers in the support of the Administration openly fidvocato a modification which will place greater powers in the hands of.the president;. and if their advice should bo adopted by thb people, in a short time thd bhuins will he firmly riveted, and our liberties completely subverted. The Philadelphia Frest not long since remarked : “ Another principle most certainly be em bodied 'in our reorganized form of govern ment. The men who shape the legislation of this country when the war is past, must remember that what we want is power and .strength. The problem will bo to combine the forms of Republican Government with the, .Dowers of a Monarchical Government.’’ : About the some time, ns if by concert, we find in tlio North American: . The war has already shown the absurdi ty,of a Government with limited powers ; it has shown that’ the power of every Govern ment ought to-.bo and.must he UNLIMITED,” .. ! Subh doctrines ,as - those, would have met wlth,rehufcp pyep-.at; the-hands of the older Adam's; btit they were• the; natural preour pors .of the “.war power” which has been made to overridie the most explicit doctrines bif ■ the Constitution. ’ The very wrongs, in faldt, complained-of by Oiir fathers, and enu merated in .their declaration aga'n.it the fja glish monarch .'have been revived upon their spns. Tbis.Admlhisfration has willfully vi olated it's- osn' bath-bound pledges, and bought “pretexts bf innovation upon the es tttbUahod-prinoiples;of: the Government;” it has fostered a “ spiritpf encroachment which tends to consolidate .all the departments of the Government; in ,one, .and thus create, ydmtevpr the forms . may . be, a real despot ism.” If has rendered “the military.supe rior .to themlvil .power.” .It has superseded in t leigirof-fcwlui force the seourity pt«- DM Iho’ favored capltalict, who hda money to lend to the Administration, gets his bonds, upon which thero'is no taxation ;.and thus is increased the burdens of the laboring and m-ddle classes. But we forbear to pursue this melancholy train-of facts and-reasoning; and turn to the more grateful consideration of how wo can do something for the correc tion of these evils.. It must be- plain, fellow-citizens, the only hope that consorvative men can have of sc v.ng the country from impeding anarchy and ultimate ruin, is by uniting with the Democ ratic party—the only party now loft that is truly national in -its character and conserva tive in its aims; the only party in the coun try that has ever been able to govern it, for any length of time, to th 6 satisfaction-Of the people at large. •• - This party has now presented for the Pres idency, and Vice Presidency, two nien of the most unspotted lives and unhlemishedrepu tationa—every way unasaailod and unassaila ble, except by the corrupt and mercenary creatures in the pay and promise of the exis ting Administration. . In regard to GEORGE B. MoCIIELAN, we shall not pause hero to .write his history. That is already engraved on the hearts and consciences of a grateful people. We feel confident, also, that liia admitted ability, in tegrity and independence, the madly, firmness ho has always exhibited, and especially, and above all, his heroic devotion in the darkest hours to the true principles of tho Constitu tion, will draw around him now, the nation’s confidence. This confidence, reposed in such hands, would never be betrayed. fie stands at -present, as be has always stood, wholly aloof from intrigue. ' He is al lied by no ties or contracts with mercenary adventures in political life. Ho seeks not tho office for which lie has been named,- - but has all along held “tho noiseless tenor of his way,” free from the embarassuionts which trammel tho,active and ambitious candidate fur office. Even if defeat should fall to his lot in this contest, (which we cannot believe,) ho will be consoled with the consciousness of having implored no man’s aid ; pledged in advance, no places that would be in liis gift, if elected -; and that those who had espoused his cause even from the beginning, acted from sympathy with a brave, persecuted, and;pa triotic man ; noted from a principle ahd love of country, seeking no reward or future fa vors. No one-.who has been named for the Presidency desires it less ; no one, certainly, has courted it less, and this, is an additional reason why he should be, and Will be,.pre ferred by the thoughtful and the -uprights ji The varnished reports of rivals • dri''Com mand ; the suppressed and distorted facts .of a partisan eommitte of Congress; tins -con stant jealousy and malignant opposition at every .step-of,those-who, feared his.- sueoes es and dreaded his popularity, have all-failed in b'asting his military reputation. .Intelli gent men 'everywhere, in every lend, have read the libels upon this accomplished soldier, only with a sickewiug sedSfi of thoirjnjus.tioo and venality-, ,In this country, they have penetrated the hearts of our soldiery and peo ple at large, only to kindle, there a.broader and brighter flame of devotion to their intend ed victim ; and the world, ere long, will wit ness with approbation the reward which they will me mete but to a national benefactor, * The eminent statesman who has been nom : inated for the second place on our ticket, has long been conspicuous in the legislative branch of the Government. Honjcinboring his years, few men in our country have ever reached a higher position in the respect and confidence of the-public. No man in the present Congress posossesto.a greater extent those gifts of oratory rind aqoo|nnlishment«,of statesmanship, that amply justify the wide popularity and esteem with which ho is re ; garded in everjr section of the Enron that gave him birth. He, like our Presidential candi date, emphatically belongs to. the toung uen of this country. These nominations are es sentially, their nominations. She fact of youth should give a deeper interest; if possi ble; to this class, in the struggle now at hand. Tho whole of active life,is before them, with all its pursuits, hopes and enjoyments, let them weigh well! recent and'passing events, arid mark the rapid coilingof despotic! power; let them resolutely,see to it, that tho wise and beneficent institutions, of the puce, men of-.former .times, become their awn sure heritage, and that of itheir children. . .Finally, fellow citizens of Pennsylvania, of all classes and conditions, it is inyoup power to dieaolvo.the oloudsiwhioh hoyv threaten to. overwhelm all oar brightest hopes, and, bring aoribed by law against seizure and imprison ment “ Without duo process of law.”. It has verily " oroatod a multitude of new offices, and sent among us swarms.of officers to har jass our people and oat out their substance." -y “J 1 iniquitous Oonscriptiou law, it baS distributed its, agents among the.people, backed by bayonets arid clothed with discre tionary powers over the liberties, if not the lives of our citizens. It “has quartered large arsines of troops amongst us." It has “imposed taxes on us without our consent." Finally, its chosen and purchased'' advocates are now clamorous for a stronger Govorn inont, that “our charters may bo taken away our most valuable laws abolished, and the powers of our Government altered fundamen tally." Those, w.e submit, -fellow.-oitizons, are all of them -features fairly exhibited, of that “ stronger Government,” which oar fore fathers, appealing “to the Supreme Judge of the world,” eighty yours ago, pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to put aside forever. _ Wq have before spoken, fellow-citizens, of I .the depressed condition of the country. The. mountain of debt which has been piled up so recklessly, cannot he loss than three thousand millions Of dollars, when alias fairly counted. Of this,.Pennsylvania’s sluißewill bo at least one-tenth of the-whole, or §300,000,000. The dnnnal interest upon this sum (more eas : ly estimated than.paid-) will-.be about eighteen millions of dollars. This, added to thean nual interest of bur formof debt, makes an aggregate of interest now, ahd henceforth, to be borne by the people of this Commonwealth, stated in round numbers, of twenty millions of dollars I Wo cannot heighten this picture the stern reality, which an inexorable arithmetical calculation gives. Some- make even a- deeper debt and a darker prospect of the future. ' - Taxation always falls lieaviert upon labor; it will now grind the poor to the' very earth. I An l vet tun mock philanthropists ot the day - are increasing the taxation, and urging on a i system of measures, which, under the pre- ■ tense of ameliorating the condition-of tire Af- I rioau, will, if carried hm much longer, practi cally enslave the laboring white man and starve his family. And besides this, if the forcible abolition of bondage at the. So'uth should succeed, it will only b 6 to bring the white working men and women of the North into competition in the same paths of labor i w-ith tho African they have been taxed and beggared to bring here and-support amongst upon our country a long night of storm and darkness. Against the usurpations and evils, which wo are conscious of .having but too im perfectly depicted, let uearray ourselves in combined strength. The election of our Con gressional, Legislative and County tickets in October is of the bighost importance, if we jr’ould succeed in the Presidential contest in Success hero will inspirit th'fi Conservative men of other States. Defeat will alarm and dishearten. It is the burr of X\\o Pennsylvania Democracy, and those who unit'd, with .as..to* caupv this election, 5f wo would not bring on prematurely, that which is sure to follow in the end, if finally, wo fail 111 November —“ The despair which welcomes despotism, or the raoe which welcomes atiar ch\t” Lot our bo War (if we must have it) for the true, legitimate objects of Huch a war, and none other; for peace the first moment that peace can restore to us the common heritage of a United country; for the pnper]rth?iblo_£lory of the.o!d_ Union and_tho. Constitution unimpaired ; with - sympathy f.>r our Bold ers in the field under tlioir trials .and dangers—ready ever to aid and to honor t icm—which' bo bettor done, than in*giving odr best efforts in endeavoring , to bo modify the groundo of the Rti ngglo they are maintaining.as that it shall appear pure ly just before- men, and in the sight of God I Wo implore, then, all who love peace and order; to see industry success ful and property'secure ; all who are willing .fo support wise legislation, public virtue, and constitutional diborfcy v-ull, who wish to lead prosperous lives themselves, and enjoy in quiet the fruits of their ovyn industry; all who wish to transmit their property and the bless jngs of free institutions to.*tlieir children,-wo ’ ibrploro all these to finite with tis. . IVO go for the country,‘the wnrfi,E country —for Union, Lideutw and Law.' If a*tmajuri- PC (?p IQ will thus be true to thenisolvea, we may liope soon to see our country resum ing.; with renewed vigor her glorious career ■ PRCE » PROSPEROUS AND lIAPPV tho'prido Of her own citizens, and the, admiration of the world 1 - ...» By ovderof the Democratio State Central Committee: . % - C. L. Ward, Chairman. K. j, llehpiiill, Secretary. COME OUT PEO.II AMONG THE FOUL PJIiTT, Fob Little, Mao akd tue^Uniok. Shoddy is dying! Every day brings fresh evidence of shoddy losses and Democratic gains. The corruptions and incapacity 'of thodbminant Jmrty are driving all the con-, sefvative, honest, true Union men to the standard of M’Clellan. The followingtara a few of those who have left the foul paity and have joined heart and hand in the noble work ,pf elevating the gallant Little, Mao to the position which Lincoln disgraces: Ex-President MILLARD FILLMORE, el ected on the Whig ticket with General Tav lor,-in IS4B, is ardently supporting M’Clell on and tendlcton. v Gov. BRAJILETTE, of Kentucky, who was elected by the Republicans, or/ at least, whoso election was claimed by them as a Lincoln victory, is supporting M’Clellan and Pendle ton. ■ Hon. AMOS KENDALL. Gen. Jackson’s i ustmuater General, is one of the most drdeat supporters of M’Olellnn and Fendletdn. ' Hon. REVERDY JOHNSON, of Maryland the oldest member of the United States Sen ate, who was elected to hia present 'position by the Republican party, has come out square in a letter fur M’Clellan. Ho says of Lin coln : j.. ** How can an honorable ihnn’belioya that one who has so signally -failed 1 fur almost four en tire years, can bo successful if another four years be granted him. No one in Congress, certainly. • Hot twonty.nvembers believe him equal, or at all equal to the mighty task. Ha has been tried and found wanting.’’ Hon. EDGAR COWAN, United States Se nator from this Slate, aud one of the few good men in the Republican party, is opposed to Abraham Lincoln and favorable to Gen. M’- Clellan; ' ’ T , j Ex-Gov.-WASHINGTON HUNT, of Now York, formerly Whig; an 1 heretofore silent, supports M’Clellan and Pendleton. ■ Hon. O. H. BROWNING, late United ‘-dates Senator from Illinois, and always a steadfast Republican, has coine out in favor of M'Oloilnn. In a speech lately made by hint at a M’Clellan ratification meeting at Qnincoy, Illinois, ho said ho “ regarded M’- Clcllan>as the best General- our.country had produced, and his election would give him entire satisfaction.” Hon. ROBERT C. WINTIIROP, of Mas sachusetts. 'formerly Whig Speaker of the Ilouse of Representatives, and heretofore not with the Democracy, is out strongly for M’- Cloilan; ' f ‘ JAMES T, BRADY, Esq., the distinguish ed Now York lawyer, who has zealously sup ported-Mr. Lincoln, is stumping New York fur Rl’Clollan; ■ He spoke at the M’Clellan Constitutional meeting at New York on thd J7th with groat force. Hon. D. M. WOOD SON, of.lowa, many yeitrs Judge of the Ist Judicial Circuit in that State, openly declares his endorsement of, M’Clellan aud the plat huin. Ho has- heretofore always opposed the Democracy. _ In Murgau, Scott and Greeuo opuhtlds ho is a 1 ‘ towor of strength,” Gen. LESLIE COOMBS, of Kentucky, and Hon. M. UNDERWOOD, of the same State, are now strong-supporters .of Littlo Mao.' GEORGE H. HILLARD, of Mass,, the Essayist aud Historian, wlio has heretofore opposed the Democracy, is mw enthusiastical ly in favor of M’Clollon and Peadloton, to save the country.' . ~ . t : JOHN VAN EU&UN, who some thing more than a year ago wept over to Lincoln’s support and took nn'active part against the nomocracy lust fall, innovr giving all his.energies to the election.ot LittlaMao. ■ JAMES S. THAYER, the most eloquent orator of New York,, and onceitho bosom friend and political partlakn of Henry Clay, has turned in as an enthusiastic supporter of the Democratic nominees. GEORGE D. PRENTICE, for many years, the leading opponent of tire Democracy, in Kentucky, is out strong in support of M’- Glellan. .. , ,*• ; . Hon. E. 0. SEAMANi Republican Sense tor 6f Michigan, -has ci-inmeuceU a most vig orous campaign for Little Mao. , JOSBI’II B. MORSS.iseveu: years editor of the'Boston Traveller, and for many years editor of the Nowbu'ryport flerd/d, in oppo sition to thd Democracy, is now in the ranks of the gallantM’Clellan.i ‘ , -■lion. WM. B. OGDEN, Republican State Senator Bf Hlinois, is supporting iHClellan and PendletOd, ■ , . •■= . , 'Mr. OSBORNE, Prcsident-or the Illinois Central P.ailrqdd , a, prdtnlnent Republican tIos 80 t * lo M'Clellan rants doing good sec* FRANKICm T. BACKUS, of Ohio, who WAS the Republican candidate' for Supremo Judge,, in 1862, i 8 out for'M’CleDan U u o.I!K(ITBS J, CliATf; of tha old Kei,- LitMo lVIno' 2 ?- °° k ’ h ° S tukoJ ths stuQl P fur NELSON FRANKLIN, a forriier Repub* iioan bepator of Ohio, is out, fur McClellan. - ' Oen. EOSEORANS, is said to have made ft speech at a McClellftri and Peudleten rati* ncfttion meeting in St. Louis on the Bth inst in the course of. which hetotik occasion to say that he had been raised a democrat and was a Democrat now, and he was determined that there should be a free election in Missouri.— lie was heartily cheered. ; . Co , l - , A - W. BREWSTER, of Mass., ha. joined the rants with his old .commander— Little Mao. 1 . /I ?• A • Col. WM. H. IRWIN, for fwo years com* mander of the gallant 49tb P. V., and a bit ter opponent ot the' Demqpracy, is now ma king speeches for - - M’Glollan. . M'lii General MoCLERNAND, of Illinois is .or Little Mao. ' , Gen. ROBERT ANDERSON, of Fort Sum ter fame, isfor Little -Mao. ■ ■ • pI -Iv G J iOIIGG W. McCOOK, of the fight* Mao Mot ' oolt farall y>stumping for Littla • A' McCOOK, of the flnmo atook, 1 IB witb hißfbrother in tiie good cause of the Umon and Little Mao. " • • lf Maj. Sgn BUKNSIDE is not for Mo Weliau, the following-is what he said of him in .meeting in.ttew : Yock: . I have known Gen. M'Glellan most iuti- as students together, as soldiers m the field, as private oitikens. For years w« have lived in Che same family, and.l knoVr him as well as I know- any* human being on' llie face afUhe earth, and I know that no mot® • ;'"? Bt ', c ?“« cio ‘rti6ua man-exiata than Gener al McClellan. 1 knew that no feeling ol am bition, beyond that of the good 1 and the suo ceas of our cause, ever enters bio breast. All that he does is with.asingleeyo, a single view to the success of the flurerement, and thd breakmg'down of.this rebellion. I kubw that nothing Under the suii will over induce that man to swerve from what he knows to be his duty.; He is an honest Christian likeondoon soienuous mah; end let mo add dne thing, that he has thcr aoumlest head, and the clear est_ military perception of any man in the United Stnlas." . , KallecU is hot in favAr of lileOlolian, bat ho wrote to him, when,Pope’s defeat had pla cod Washington in danger: ’ ■ b ®S.yon. to assist mo in this crisis with your ability and experience. lam entirelv tired out," • ■ _ r . J ,', The • Cincinnati 'Commercial, Republican, although not-aupporting hicClellan, said : ’ ‘ e * l onomios must concede to hini abilities as a commander superior to those of a dozen or more officers how holding import nntrpoaition."; 1 Aniong the long list of influential newspa pers which have come over to the support of the-Democratic Oundidatea, are- • • ... T |*.» ' NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER; Washington, D. 0,, the-old and dignified or‘ gr.n of tlie_Wh.ig party, which, sinoo the brea king up of that partythaa been idepahdent, has-ojoinod its vigorous and valuable labors 1 with the Democracy in the cause of Little Mac and Pendleton. ■'-•i f l -,', , , The LOUISVILLE JOURNAL runa uh the names of M’Olellau and Pendleton ahd has opened fire against the Vfhashington Dis* unionists. ' ‘ , £ Th «. SOMERSET lIERALD, Maryland. Republican, Tuna up Mao and Pen, and reph dmtee Lincoln and Johnson. *• • ’ , The NEW LONDON CHRONICLE,. Con no^ tl p a^oB Lincoln 'and puts up j^Eao The WESTCHESTER MONITOR,'Now York, denounces ehoddyisrq-.and comes out iu support of McClellan and’ Poridletou. . Ihc ANN ARBOR JOURNAL, of Mich igan. Republican, runs up the names of Me tleiliin and Pendleton, ,api joins in the fichl for the Union,,.-* , - .-‘Thei CINCINNATI YOLK SERE UNO Gar-' tarn Republican, run's up the Democratic tick et and outers upon its support “ with all ita energy and convictions.”- - The ST- LOUIS A NZIEGER, German Re publican, abandons Lincoln and advocates McClellan, saying that “ thousands of Repub licans will desert the incapable, corrupt and perjured Lincoln administration* and gather under the-banner of McClellan to save the Ronublio." 1 The WOOD COUNTY INDEPENDENT, Ohio, repudiates Lincoln, whort it hni here totiire supported, nuddomea out vigor, ui y for McClellan. ~ •„ . The SUFFOLK HERALD, one of the most influential Kepu jli'hjui papers on Long Islut 4, W. Y., takes tlie a liulcnnoro. canditates from its columns and supports McUlePdu. ' r ‘ ie HIGHLA.NI) BOTEi'fqlluwing'thestbpa at the Cincinnati VoU:.*f’cund, has taken du.wn the names of Fremon t and Cuchrane r and sub stituted those of McClellan and Pendleton. The lOWA BANNER.Gei *nmn llepubli can, declares fuj M’Olellait and Pendleton, , j-hc foregoing list of.emihent men who have abandoned the cause of Shoddy and dis union could-bo largely extended, as oould al- so the list of newspapers which have patri otically recanted from the support of the Shod* dy candidates and conio over into the ranis of the hero of Antiocam. For one instalment the foregoing.will ho found anlTiciontly unpak atable, no doubt, to-the Shoddy office holders and contractors, and will help them to con template the' doom they already more thaii 'suspect at the November election, . Tap SonniEas oppose God Abe,— The laski number of the Huntingdon Monitor, printed in Huntingdon, contains this paragraph; James-Glasgow Esq., of Union township* this;county, went into the atony Igst Spring asa volunteer in tt battery; goon after ft. entered the service, ha Wrote to his. brother. t>. i. Glasgow, Esq., of Oldy township, that here were m men in the battery, and that they were unanimous for Lincoln's rs- : eleciion. Bbt tost wee'k; his brotnep roeived' another letterfroin him; in which he stated tbp,t there ■were. ihree men in the.whole baUery that would .vote for Ljnoolnl ter any hersbpswho maytioubfc thiVstatatheht tb S. L : Glasgow, !Esq.;-from tfhoin wa jrecai'f* el it." He and his brotbor havebeeplifs, long Republicans,, and, James was the-Repub lipau oandidatq for Prothdhdlary, of thiiacmo* ty in 1857. "From this fadt, tha ptopis ! can see which way the wind bIOWS;-' i .:: ■ Tab Issue.—McClellan andipeaainpon the, basis of the Union ayaihiri! AbraiaiklLliioolh and war; until eteryislaVe in the Bo'uth i»k4| free.'* ’.The case WiU scoh gp to.tht Jtns" ’ ■ NO 17;