CARLISLE, PA.,
Thursday Morlllng, July 18, ISUflt
FOR GOVERNOR, i
HIESTER- CLYMER,
OF BERKS COUNTV.
DEMOCRATIC PMTFORH.
1. The States, whereof the people wore lately In
rebellion, are Integral parts of the Union, and are
entitled to representation In Congress, by men
duly elected, who bear true faith to the Constitu
tion and laws,and In orderto vindicate the maxim
that taxation without representation is tyranny,
such representatives should be forthwith admit
ted.
- 2. The faith of the Republic is pledged to the
payment of the National debt, and Congress
should pass all laws necessary for that purpose.
3. We owe obedience to the Constitution of the
UnitedStatesl Including the amendment prohibit
ing slavery) and under Its provisions will accord
to those emancipated all their rights of person
and properly.
4. Each State has the exclusive right to regu
late the qualification of Its own electors.
5. The white race alone is entitled to the control
of the government ,pf the Republic, and we are
unwilling to grant to negroes the right to vote.
6. The bold enunciation of the principles of the
Constitution and the policy of restoration con
tained In the recent anual message and Frced
men’s Bureau veto message of President John
son entitles him to the confidence and support of
all who respect the Constitution and love their
country.
7. The nation owes to the brave men of our
armies and navy a debt of lasting gratitude for
their heroic services in defence of the Constitu
tion and the Union; and wllile we cherish with a
tender affection the memories of the fallen, we
pledge to their widows and orphans the nation’s
care and protection.
8. We urge upon Congress the duty of equaliz
ing the bounties of our soldiers and sailors.
JOHN W. FORNEY
If there are depths of personal jtnd po
litical degradation deeper than others,
John W. Forney will be sure to find
them. From the hour when he first as
sumed a prominent part in Pennsylvania
politics he has played the part of a sup
ple and conscienceless demagogue. He as
sailed the, administration of James Bu
chanan so soon as he discovered that he
was defiled the privilege of selling public
positions to greeny applicants at so much
ahead. He professed the warmest friend
ship for the lamented Douglas, and pre
tended to give him a zealous support in
the presidential campaign of 1860, but be
trayed him for gold. It is true he con
sistently sustained the administration of
Abraham Lincoln, but to-day he is worth
his millions. When Andrew Johnson
became President, the cringing sycophant
Importunately sought the portals of the
White House day by day, in the expecta
tion of making yet nthne millions hy the
control of federal patronage. During
this time his papers, the Washington
Chronicle and the Philadelphia Press,
were filled to overflowing with fulsome
eulogies on the character and services of
the new President. Forney’s subservi
ency was so apparent and disgusting that
many consistent and honest Republicans
for that reason., discontinued their sub
scriptions to his paper. But Andrew
Johnson knew the inan ; he wanted nei
ther Forney’s company nor his counsel,
and turned a cold shoulder to the whim
pering hound. At once all the batteries
nf his malignant nature opened upon the
devoted head of the Executive. All that
slander could suggest and invective could
sharpen was hurled against the character
and exalted patriotism of Mr. Johnson.
In self defense, and to show the perfidy
of this man Forney, President Johnson
has given to the public the following let
ter, written so late as January last;
~ ~ ’ New-York, January 2,18(10,
My Dear Mb. President: I have boon in this
city for two days, and now write under an Im
pulse which I cannot restrain, because I feel it to
be fpr your own good and that of the country, I
take It for granted yon are resolved not to bo un
mindful of your own fame, and that you will not
allow your friends, who heartily sustain your pol
icy, to feel that they are without your aid and en
couragement. Whether you are a candidate for
President or not—and if you are not, I shall be
greatly surprised, with the wonderful favor
THAT HAS CROWNED YOUR RESTORATION POLICY—
you should not allow the great offices logo to indif
ferent men, or those clearly in the interests of
your foes. Ineed not repeat to you that I am now,
as ever, for twenty years shown in my wrUings, and
since your great act of patriotism in 1860 especially,
your open and avowed FRIEND. Where lam
to-day ray two newspapers both dally show to
the world. Hence, In what I now say, I speak
no idle words, but mean nil I say. The Collec
tor’s office at New-York City is apost that you
should dispose of outside of all the politicians ; not that I
mean, to defy them, but to select your own man,
WHO SHOULD BE FREE ONLY‘TO HELP YOU AND
serve the government— one they could neither
attack nor use. Such a man Is * * * of this
city. He was elected to Congress in • ♦ ♦ as a
Democrat, but, likeyou, refused to follow the par
ty Into treason. He served a short time with
great distinction, and resigned on account of ill
health. He.waa a member ol the Committee of
Ways and Means, and won great applause. He
is a very able man, educated to finance. Intense
ly national, honest and independent, and could
furnish millions of security. He has an organiz
ing mind, OS* WOULD MAKE YOU A PAR
TY, or fight your battles single-handed.—
HhIS.AN ANDREW JOHNSON DEMO
CRAT,-®! In short. I write in the knowledge
that he would accept, and that his appointment
would be balled with Joy by this whole comma
nity.
„ Yours, truly, J. IV, Forney.
To the President, Ac., Ac.
In reply to his own letter, Forney pub
lishes a'long communication to the Pres
ident. Outside of its invective and scur
rility, there is but one point attempted
to be made, and that is that when the let
ter of January 2d was written, the Presi
dent had not taken a stand in open an
tagonism to, the Republican party. The
letter is its own sufficient refutation. If
there was no break between the Presi
dent and the Republican party, why does
Forney recommend for the important of
fice of Collector a man who had been
known 11 as a Democrat," who had “an
organizing mind” and “ would make you
a party or fight your battles single-hand
ed,” who “in short is an Andrew John
son Democrat. ” The letter is based upon
the very assumption that there is‘a diff
erence between the President and the
Republican party. If we place that fact
out of view, it is nothing but meaningless
twaddle. Why does he recommend the
President to go “ outside of the politicians”
and choose for the position “one they
could neither attack nor use,” if it were
not from the' fact that the Republican
politicians were notoriously opposed to
Mr. Johnson’s reconstruction policy? If
the President was In perfect accord with
the radicals at that time, why does For
ney urge his friend because he would be
able to ” make a party” to sustain the
President, and why especially does he
urge “ an Andrew Johnson Demooratl”
No fair-minded man can read this letter
without coming to the conclusion that its
very substance is the recognition of this
dlfferende between the President and the
Republican politicians.
If other evidence were wanting to prove
that Forney’s attempted defence is noth
ing but a lying subterfuge, columns of ev
idence might be adduced to show that so
early as J he recognized the dif
ference between the President and the
radicals on the question of negro suffrage
and both in his editorials and his Wash
ington correspondence he has lamented
that “theloyal men" and “ the earnest
men of the country” were compelled to
part company with their President. No
reader of the Press for the last year can
convince himself that Forney was ignor
'* the split in January last; gad when
he asserts that he was he is simply scree
ning himself from his own record behind
a refuge of lies. •
This published correspondence reveals
all the contemptible littleness of For
ney’s character. He is willing to be and
do anything for’place, power and pelf.—
Had Andrew Johnson given him a sin
gle smile of encouragement he would
have betrayed Sumner and Stevens as
cheerfully as he betrayed James Buchan
an and Stephen A. Douglas, as willingly
as he has betrayed every friend he ever
had who would not pander to his inor
dinate avarice and ambition.
This man Forney has announced him
self as a candidate for the United States
Seuatorship from Pennsylvania. It will
be a sad day for the honor of the common
wealth tyhen such as he fill the seats now
occupied by Charles R. Buckalew and
Edgar Cowan. A man of no fixed prin
ciples, of no political or moral consisten
cy, a miserable trimmer for place and
gower, a man who can be bought and
"sold for a handful of gold, a malignant
political bandit preying on friend and
foe as avarice and ambition may dictate,
the Gaffer Hexam of American politics—
when Pennsylvania can find no better or
more honorable men than he to represent
her in the national councils, she had far
better be in the condition of the South
and remain unrepresented forever.
A SLANDER UPON JEFFERSON.
Ever since the fanatics of the New Eng
land States whipped the old Whig party
into the support of their treasonable and
abhorred political dogmas, it has been the
habit of the new organization to affect
great respect for the sayings of the old
fathers and departed Democratic states
men. Thus has it been with every new
faction that has been spawned into exist
ence. The Know-Nothing party, that
sprung into life in a night, like a rank
and poisonous fungus, and went down
as quickly, was in the habit of quo
ting Washington in support of their
proscriptive and wretched principles!—
Aye, they tried to make the people be
lieve that the Father of his country was
the “ first Know-Nothing,” and that he
favored the persecution of men because
of their religion and birth-place! This
was not only a slander upon the memory
of Washington, it was sacrilege. But
If the lenders of the defunct Know-Noth
ing party were null tv of *»
in attempting to make it appear that
Washington bad expressed sentiments
similar to theirown, what must be thought
of the wickedness, the downright impu
dence of the present depraved, treasona
ble, disunion faction attempting to make
it appear that Thomas Jefferson, the
apostle of liberty and the founder of the
Democratic party, was not only a crafty,
meddlesome Abolitionist, but that he fa
vored the idea of reversing the position
of the races and making the ignorant ne
groes the “ ruling power of the land ?”
The Charahersburg Repository, a radical
disunion paper, conducted with ability,
and whose senior'editor is recognized as
an oracle of his party, makes this blister
ing declaration. In its leading editorial
of last week, speaking of our national
sabbath and the founders of the Repub
lic, the Repository says:
The author of this Immortal document (the
Declaration of Independence,) was horn and
reared under the dominion of slavery, but ho ab
horred It, and ceased not until his death to de
mand its extinction. Hemeantjust whathesald
when he wrote the noble sentence we quote l -" We
hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men
are created equal; that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienable rights; that
among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness;” and with prophetic pen he delinea
ted the Inevitable evils which must result from
the perpetuity and growth of bondage. Ho saw
in It not only discord and Internecine strife, but
he looked- even to the day when the majesty of justice
might reverse the positions of the races, and make the
oppressed the ruling power of the land degraded by
The writer of the above pays a poor
compliment to his numerous readers when
he attempts to mislead them by placing
before theivseyes the stuff contained in
the paragraphwe quote. Think of it —
Thomas Jefferson in favor of making
the negroes the “ruling power” in the
Southern States! A more palpable, evi
dent, positive falsehood was never con
ceived much less uttered by man. Pray
tell us, Mr. Repository, where you got
your authority for this scandalous calum
ny—this festering slander ?
Now, a word or two in regard to that
great patriot, statesman and scholar,
Thomas Jefferson. Like all Southern
men, he regretted that slavery had ever
been introduced into this country. His
great heart bled when he noticed that the
men of the New England States were im
porting tens of thousands of slaves and
selling them to the South, at enormous
profits. With “ prophetic pen” he wrote
againstthetrafflein humanflesh in which
the forefathers of the Sumners, the Wil
sons, the Spragues and the Buhlin
games were engaged, and expressed the
hope that slavery, as an institution, might
be quietly abolished or die out. But, to
attempt to quote' Jefferson as holding
opinions in consonance with our modern
Abolitionist, is a libel upon his charac
ter, a slhnder upon his memory. It is
equally a perversion of his language to
try to make it appear that he had the
slaves of the country in his eye and mind,
when he wrote, in the Declaration of In
dependence, that “all men are created
equal.” He was writing for white men,
and the negro slave never occupied his
great mind. A slaveholder himself,, ft is
not at all probable that he intended, in
preparing his immortal document, to re
buke himself as well as those old patriots
who. were his colleagues, nearly every
man of whom owned slaves.. No, no
Jefferson meant while men when he
wrote that “all men are created equal.”
ETe was no negro-equality man, no advo
cate of miscigenatinn.; and if he could rise
from his grave now,, in command of all
his talents and power, he would speak of
the present leaders of the disunion host—
the Stevens,' Sumners, Wilsons, ct id
omne genus —as he spoke of thelr.grand
fathers in.the days of the Revolution;
he would, brand them ns traitors, and
their defenders as aiders and abettors in
treason.
•Murder op Barnwell Ehett.— The
Hon. Barnwell Ehett, a distinguished
citizen of riouth Carolina, wasshot on the
afternoon of the 3d inst., while going to
his plantation, near Charleston. He re
ceived two loads’from a double barreled
shot-gun, one load breaking his arm, the
other penetrating his side and entering
his lungs. About twenty minutes after
receiving the wounds he fell from his
horse and died. It is not known defi
nitely who the murderer was, but is sup
posed to be a negro who had expressed
strong animosity against the family.
TRICKS OF THE RADICAL DMUNIONISTS.
The industry manifested by the radical
dlsunionlsts to disseminate their accur
sed dogmas, and at the"same time depre
ciate and ridicule the efforts of those who
oppose them, has been one of the notice
able things ever since that spawn of cor
ruption, wickedness and scoundrelism,
the so-called Republican party, was or
ganized. Every device that the ingenui
ty of man or the cunning of the devil
could suggest, has been, resorted to in or
der to break down opposition to this beast
that has been feeding on the vitals of the
nation for thie last five years. From the
very' hour that Lincoln was nominated
for the Presidency in 1860, down to the
present day, the same system of persecu
tion, proscription and falsehood'has been
carried on by the remorseless vultures who
managed the political organization of
which he was the chief. To the observing
man the fact was discernible that the pro
gramme of the bold bad men who stood god
fathers to the new political organization
was the work of many meetings andmuch .
labor. To get hold of Uncle Sam’s money
bags was the primary object of the new
party, and to retain them for many years
was also considered indispensible.
When Lincoln assumed the duties of
President in 1861, war threatened, but
yet a word from him was all that was
wanting to avert the impending and fear
ful storm. The Peace Convention, so
called, was then in session, and the South
ern delegates in attendance begged the
President to give countenance to the ef
forts of those who deprecated war and de
sired peace. They (the Southern men,)
did not ask —as has been falsely asserted
—for “ another compromise.” They on
ly asked Mr. Lincoln to assure them
that their rights should be respected—
this was all that was wanting to secure
peace. The President pretended to yield
to their reasonable reguests, but it was
observable that 'his political adherents
both in Congress and in the Peace Con
vention, opposed all pacific measures and
appeared determined, at all hazards, to
plunge the country into war. Stevens,
Sumner and other bad men feared that
without war the Republican party would
break to pieces under its own weight.—
Others desired war that they might ob
tain place and plunder. Bully Chand
ler cried out in a wolf-like growl, “let’s
have a little blood-letting.” Thus, it was
evident tlmt the President was playing
fast-and-loose, and that a bloody war was
to be the feature of his administration. —
When the rebels fired on Fort Sumpter,
the administration and its friends jumped
with joy; they could see in the prospect
ive power and pelf, and they licked their
lantern jaws and whetted their teeth like
tigers scenting blood.
• To retain power for a series of years,
was the next thing to bo thought of. —
Democrats were appealed to for their mo
ney and their blood, to aid in a “ waV for
the Union.” The deep dark objects con
cocted and agreed upon in the recesses of
the White House were kept a profound
secret to all except a select few. With
apparent indignation did the Republicans
deny that the objects of the war were the
emancipation of the slaves and the ele
vation of the negro to social equality with
the white -race. It was only after the ar
my contained a half million of men—two
thirds being Democrats —that the devil
ish designs of a devilish party were bold
ly avowed. Then it was that a system of
persecution and tyranny such as had nev
er been witnessed even in the darkest
days of the dark ages commenced. Dem
ocrats were persecuted in every conceiva
ble manner—assailed In their business,
maligned, imprisoned, shot down in the
streets, mobbed and nicknamed. Th,e
pulpit was employed to retail slander and
give currency to sweltering lies; one
horse colleges selected their speakers for
the Commencement season from the low
dens of political depravity, and these
speakers belched forth their insults and
their infamous lies, to the disgust of ev
ery decent man. Even our Common
School exercises were used for politi
cal purposes, and brats of boys, at the
public examinations, read off little ad
dresses (that had been prepared for them
by older heads,) filled with low, grovel
ling, libellous epithets against old, grayr
headed statesmen. Nay, more, even our
Sabbath schools were invaded by these
imps of sin, and instead of books filled
with morality and truth, we found them
to contain lying stories about the won
derful talents of little velvet heads, and
long' essays on the necessity of negro
equality. Schisms have been fomented in
churches, in synods, in the prayer-meet
ing and in the schools, by these infernal
fanatical, thieving politicians. Men have
been bought with the people’s money, to
turn their political coats, and mis-named
ministers have been seduced from the
cause of Christ to the cause of the devil,
for a chaplaincy “ with the stealings in.”
Even the Infidels had to be appeased in
consideration of their support, and for
the first time in the history of our coun
try an open and avowed Infidel was elect
ed as Chaplain of the House at the request
of the President, and scores of others en
tertaining the same religious views were
appointed to positions of honor and trust.
And now, after all this wickedness,
persecution, deviltry and swindling,
what do we see? A majority in Congress
declare the Union dissolved, and they
swear it shall remain dissolved until the
people, North and South, avow them
selves ready and willing ifco endorse ne
gro-equality, and accord the negro the
'right of suffrage! “The negro is the
coming man,” they say, and until the
white man falls upon his knees and wor
ships the black idol set up by Sumner,
Stevens and Satan, wel' are to have no
peace, no union of the States.
People of Pennsylvania! John W.
Geary is the representative of the ne
gro-equality party. He is the candidate
of that party for Governor. Can white
men support him ? We think we hear
ten thousand voices reverberate through
out our valleys and mountains —no, nev
er 1
The Union Men all for Clymeb.—
The Clarion Democrat says, that ata large
Johnson meeting heidduring Coilrtweek,
at which Hiester Clymer was heartily
endorsed, a number of the prominent offi
cers were gentlemen who had not before
acted with the Democratic party. It de
clares that hundreds ofEepublicans in the
county have openly declared their inten
tion to repudiate the Eadical doctriq.es
and their candidates. As it is in Clarion,
so will it be throughout the State before
October.
GO WITH THEM.
If you .want to be taxed to support the
negroes of the South in luxurious idle
ness—go ?with the radicals. If you are
anxious to pay for a swarm of useless of
fice-holders to engender and perpetuate
discord between the Southern negroes
and their employers—go with the radi
cals. If you think the families of “ freed
men” should be supported out of the
Treasury, while the widows and orphans
of white soldiers who fell in the war for
the Union are left to provide for them
selves—go with the radicals. If you
think negro soldiers “bear the palm” in
suppressing the rebellion —go with the
radicals. If you want negroes to vote in
Pennsylvania—go with the radicals. If,
you want eleven States stricken from the
■flag of the Republic—go with the radi
cals. If you want wealth protected at
the expense of labor —go with the radi
cals. If you want agitation and strife
prolonged, business paralyzed and the
country bankrupted—go with the radi
• cals.
NO MIDDLE GROUND.
Let no man flatter himself that in the
approaching political contest there is a
middle ground. Those who attempt to
sustain such position will be ground to
atoms. Upon the Democratic side are
those who are contending for the Union,
the equality of the States, the inferiority
of the negro, and the Rights of the Peo
ple; with the Radicals are those alone
who believe in disunion, State suicide,
negro suffrage, and an untaxed privileg
ed aristocracy. There are no other par
ties for men to act with ; they must unite
with one or , the other. No reasonable
man should hesitate on which side to
place himself. Past prejudices should be
forgotten, and the welfare of his country
and his own personal interest and hap
piness alone considered.
THE READING MASS MEETING.
The Democratic Mass Meeting, to be
held at Reading on the 18th -lust., prom
ises to be the largest meeting of the kind
ever held in Pennsylvania. The Democ
racy of old Berks will turn out in full
force, and large delegations are expected
from twenty or thirty other counties. —
Excursion tickets will be issued on the
Reading Rail Road. Those along the
line of the Cumberland Valley Rail Road,
oy taking the early train'oh 'Wednesday
morning, can reach Reading in time for
the grand demonstration and return to
Harrisburg the same evening. We trust
there will bo a full attendance from Cum
berland county. Some of the ablest
speakers in the country are expected to
address the meeting, and a grand old
Democratic revival may be expected.
Radical Rascality. —The world nev
er witnessed such gigantic and unblush
ing frauds as have been perpetrated by
the Republican party in every election
which has been held in this country since
the war began. In some of the strong
holds there has been but little check up
on the rascality of officials. They have
had no scruples of conscience In regard
to the villanies they practiced. The lat
est specimen of tins kind of rascality
which has fallen under our notice, hap
pens to have occurred in Crawford county,
in this State. This time it is thief pluck
thief, or Republican cheat Republican.—
They have applied to each other the tac
tics they have been employing against
Democrats. The Harrisburg Telegraph
gives the following doleful account of the
doings of its party friends in one of the
Radical strongholds:
At the recent contest in Crawford for the coun
ty and district nominations, the most disgrace
ful facts transpired. The party was actually dis
graced, and its friends all over the State humili
ated. Two tickets are now in the field, each
claimed by its friends as thogenuine, and one
berating the other as bogus. To show how the
voting was done, we will Instance the result in
a single district, which, we are told, is a fair
sample of the polling in other districts. In the
borough of Tltasvflie, there were more votes
polled, by a single contestant for the Congres
sional nomination, than the combined vote re
ceived by Lincoln and McClellan, In 1805, Har
tranft received, In Titusville, 01 and Davis 60
votes—total. 111. At the contest for tho nomin
ation of Congress, just referred to, one of the gen
tlemen polled 470 votes—three times more than
the aggregate vote polled at a regular election.
That Is a fitting commentary upon the
political honesty of 1 ‘ the party of great
moral ideas.”
ATbaitok Silenced.— Hersohell V. Johnson
■was recently talking very blatant treason. In the
presence of sundry gentlemen. One of them fi
nally Interrupted him and told Mm he could not
talk so In Washington. Mr. Johnson said that
he had been pardoned by the President, and he
knew of no power which could prevent him'from
expressing his sentiments. The gentleman re
plied that he did know of a power which
could prevent him, namely: the presence and
strength of a loyal man who would not tolerate
the utterance of treason In his presence. Short
ly afterward Mr. Johnson prlvotely Inquired the
name of the person who had so abruptly silenced
Mm, and was told It was MaJ. Gen. Jno. W. Gea-
We find the above editorial in the last
Carlisle Herald. It is the same article
that appeared in the negro-equality pa
pers more than a year ago, and was got
up by Geary himself, in the same man
ner that he had been in the habit of get
ting up accounts of desperate battles that
he had fought, but of which nobody but
J. W. G. knew anything. Thestory about
HerschellV. Johnson having had a
difficulty with Geary was pronounced a
lie by. Mr. Johnson himself as soon as
his attention was called to it. Nay, more,
ho said he had never met Geary in his
life, and had never heard before that such
a man lived.
Conscience Monbv.— The ' Baltimore
San says, we still note the receipt of
small sums of “ conscience money” at the
federal treasury. On Thursday the con
science fund of the Department was aug
mented by the sum of $25, contributed by
a gentleman from Philadelphia, on ac
count of non-payment of his internal're
venue tax. Another recent contribution
was $22, sent by au ex-officer of the Uni
ted States army. Why do not the big
thieves disgorge? Have they no coni
science? Or do they think, contrary to
holy teaching, that for a large theft, they
can afford to lose every thing else ? It is
but poor praise to human nature that con
science should be supreme only when it
costs little or nothing to obey.
H@“The friends 'of negro suffrage in
Pennsylvania will all vote for General
Geary. He is known to be in favor of
that measure, and is thoroughly endorsed
by all the advocates of negro equality in
the State.. Voters who are in favor of a
white man’s government will bear this
in mind at the ballot-box.
B®* The Rump Congress has already
passed a bill giving bounty to negroes
who were in the federal service, which
will require twenty million dollars , but
has failed as yet to equalize the bounties
of the while soldiers.
ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE!
Tfio Conservative Members of Congress
Approve of the Call for o National
Union Convention.
EQUALITY OF THE STATES I ! !
Tlie Constitution to bo Maintained and
Pence to Blcm the Whole Country.
THE PEOPLE MUST COME TO THE RESCUE!
To Vie People of the United States.
■ Dangers threaten the Constitution, The cita
del of our liberties Is directly assailed. The fu
ture is dark unless the people will come to the
rescue. In this hour of peril, National Union
should bo the watchword of every true man/ As
essential to National Union, wo must maintain
unimpared the rights, the dignity, and the
equality of the States, including the right of
representation in Congress, and tho exclusive
right of each state to control its own domestic
concerns, subject only to the Constitution of tho
United States. After a uniform construction of
tho Constitution for more than a holf & century,
the assumption of now and arbitrary powers In
the Federal government is our sys
tem and destructive' of liberty. A free inter
change of opinion and kind feeling between the
citizens of all of tho States is neceessary to tho
perpetuity of tho Union. At present, eleven
stales are excluded,from the National Councils.
For seven long months tho present Congress has
persistently denied any rlgut of representation
to the people of these States. Laws affecting
their highest and dearest Interest have been
passed without their consent, and in disregard of
the fundamental principles of free government.
This denial of representation has been made to
all the members from a State, although the State,
In the language of the President, “presents itself
not only in the attitude of loyalty and harmony,
but In the persona of representatives whose loy
alty cannot be questioned under any existing
constitutional or legal test.” The representatives
of nearly one-third of tho States have not been
consulted with reference to the great questions of
tho day. There hasbeen no nationality surround
ing the present Congress. There hqa been no in
tercourse between the representatives of the two
sections producing mutual confidence and re
spect. In tho language of the distinguished
Lieutenant-General, “ it Is to be regretted that at
this time there cannot bo a greater commingling
between the citizens of tho two sections, and par
ticularly of those interested in the law-making
power,” This state of things should be removed
at once and forever. Therefore, to preserve the
tho National Union; to vldicate tho sufficiency
of an admirable Constitution; to guard the States
from a covert attempt to deprive them of their
true position in tho Union, and to bring together
those who are unavoidably separate, and for
those groat national purposes only, we cordially
approve the call for a National Union Conven
tion, to beheld in tho City of Philadelphia on
the second Tuesday,(l4th) of August next, and In
dorse the principles therein setforth, Wethere
fore, respectfully but earnestly urge upon our
fellow-citizens in each State and Congressional
District of the United States, and In the interest
of union and In a spirit of harmony, and with a
direct reference to the principles contained in
said call, to act promptly in the selection of wise,
moderate, and conservative men to represent
them in said convention, to the end that all the
States shall at once be restored to their practi
cal relations to tho Union, and the Constitution
bo maintained, and peace bless tho whole coun
try. (Signed,)
Reverdy Johnson, L. S. Trimble,
Thos. A, Hendricks, John L. Dawson,
William Wright, Wm. G. Nlblack,
James Guthrie, Anthony Thoreuton,
J. A. McDougall, Michael C. Kerr,
Garrett Davis, / Qeq. 8. Shanklin,
Wm. Radford, Henry Grider,
S. 8. Marshall, Thomas E. Noell,
Myer Strouso, Samuel J. Randall,
Ghos. Sitgreaves, Lewis W. Ross,
S: E. Ancona, Stephen Taber,
E. A. Hubbell, John Humphry,
B. 0. Ritter. John Hogan,
A. Harding, B. M. Boyer,
. A. J. Glossbrenner, Tennis G. Bergen,
E. R. V. Wright, Charles Goodyear,
A. J. Itogero,- Chao. BC-Wlnttom,
H. McCulloch, A. H. Coffroth,
F. 0. Le Blond, Lovell H. Rousseau,
William E. Flnck, Philip Johnson.
Destructive Fire on the Ith nt Portland,
Maine.
One half of the city of Portland, Maine,
is reported to be in ruins, Including all
the bussiness portion and public proper-"
ty, every printing office and every bank.
The telegraph says:
“ The fire has completely swept through
the city from the foot of High street to
North street on Mountjoy, destroying
everything in its track so completely that
the lines of the streets can hardly be trac
ed, and a space of oue-and-a-half miles
long by a quarter of a mile wide appears
like a forest of chimneys with fragments
of walls attached to them.
The wind was blowing a gale from the
south, and a tremenduous sheet of flame
swept along before it, devouring every
thing in its passage, and the utmost ex
ertions of the firemen, aided by a steam
er and hand engines from several other
places, could only succeed in preventing
it from spreading in new directions.—
Many buildings, perhaps fifty, were
blown up, to check the flames, but the
inhabitants could scarcely do more than
flee with their families to the upper part
of the city, saving such goods as they
could carry with them, though every ve
hicle in the city was employed with ex
cellent effect in movinggoods. The Cu
stom House being fire proof, escaped,
though greatly damaged. The court re
cords, in the upper story, are probably
destroyed.
The splendid city and county building
on Congress street, which was nearly
fire-proof, was considered safe, and it
was piled full of furniture by the neigh
boring residents, and then it was swept
away with all its contents. Half the city
is destroyed, and that half including all
the business portion, excepting the heavy
business houses in Commercial street, —
The fire commenced a little below the
foot of High street, in a boot shop.
S®* The Democratic press of Pennsyl
vania should not permit the fact to be
overlooked, that the Badical party, with
Geary for its Pennsylvania head, is the
only disunion party in the country. The
members of that destructive organization
admitthat “ Peace reigns overourUnited
Country,” and yet they won’t permitthe
Southern States to be represented in
Congress. Let the Union men of Penn
sylvania remember this.
GENERAL NEWS.
—Every trade Is represented In the N. Y. Stole
Prison except prlu ting.,
—Eight hundred and thirty seven divorces were
granted in Ohio last year.
—Two elopements from one family In Louis
ville took place In less than a week
—Six childred are dangerously 111 in Wallace,
C. W., having been bitten by a mad cat.
—A little boy In Nashville crledjiiraself to death
recently, over the death of his Nowfounland pot.
—There has been fighting In various places be
tween the Prussian and Austro-Federal troops.
—ln Austria the olreussos have been compelled
to close up, because the Government needs all
the horses.
—Five murderers In the Effingham County, Illi
nois, Jail, awaiting to be hanged, becamo impa
tient, and left. •
—The citizens of Chicago have presented each
member of tholr fire department with a life ac
cident Insurance policy.
—The estate of the late Coloneljgolt, of Hartford,
amounting In value to about ls now In
process of distribution.
—The city auditor of St. Louis has absconded,
leaving many creditors In the lurch. Ho lias al
so left three wives to mourn his loss,
:“—The Cometry at Anderson vllle— the charnel
house of the South—ls the largest In the country.
It contains 12,927 graves.
—About the 10th of July next, another attempt
will be made by the Atlantic Telegraph Compa
ny to lay a cable between England and the Uni
ted States.
—The son of Henry G. Gunn, oMtflss., ran ofT
two weeks ago with his father’s second wife. The
young "son of a gun” has not been heard from
since,
—The curious may bo Interested In knowing
from the official Austrian report that the cost on
the malntalnance of the Austrian army IS $OOO,-
000 a day, or 5210,000,000 a year.
—A Judge of oho of the Now York city courts
was in his earlier days not only a sailor, but ac
tually a pirate. Ho was then quite young, and
being taken prisoner by some buccaneers, was
Induced to serve with them for a time. .
—A man escaped from tbe Ohio State Prison
four years ago, but returned to the Institution a
short time since and expressed a desire to serve
out the remainder of his sentence. He spld ho
had been married .while out of prison, but made
no further explanation.
—They do things In a hurry in California, as
witness the following programs of a “ pleasant
little affair”: San Juan Nevada stage robbed at
fi A. M. of 83,000; reward offered at 7 A. M; rob
bers shot and oil the money recovered at 2-P. M
corner’s inquest at 3 P. M.: funeral of the thieves
RtOP. M, . ■. .. rr
JOHNSON, fILVMBR,
AND THE
U N I O N.
Call for a State Convention,
OF HONORABLY DISCHARGED
OFFICERS, SOLDIERS AND SEAMEN
OF PENNSYLVANIA.
The Soldiers* Convention which met in Pitts
burg on the sth of Juno lost, and which pledged
their comrades in this State to the support of the
radical measures of Congress, In opposition to
the Just and constitutional policy of President
Johnson, add which promised their votes to
John W. Geary, the radical candidate for Gov
ernor, misrepresented the sentiments of the greo,t
mass of the officers and soldiers of Pennsylvania.
In order that a true expression of opinion might
bo had from the late defenders of the Govern
ment in the field, and to counteract the injury
attempted to be done to the cause of the Union,
it was deemed advisable by the late officers and
soldiers of the Federal army In this State to hold
another Convention.
' A preliminary meeting of returned officers and
soldiery, with this object in view, was holden on
Thursday, the 28th of June, when It'wni resolved
to hold
A State Convention at Ifarrlsburar, on Wed-
Deader, the first day or August Proximo^.
at 10 o’clock, A. M. f to be composed of such hon
orably discharged officers, soldiers and seamen
of Pennsylvania, as subscribe to the following
doctrines, viz:—
1. Who are in favor of carrying out, in good
faith, the* Joint resolution of Congress, adopted
July 22d, 1861, which declared that, “ This war Is
not prosecuted on bur part In any spirit of op
pression, nor for any purpose of conquest or
subjugation, but to defend and maintain the su
premacy of the Constitution and to preserve the
Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights
of the several States unimpaired.” These were
the conditions of the bond the soldiers signed and
scaled in blood with the government, and a re
fusal now to carry them out is a gross violation
of a solemn agreement;
2. Who ore in fervor of restoring the States late
ly in rebellion to all their constitutional relations
with the Federal Union as they stood before the
war broke out, according to the humane and
constitutional policy laid down by President
Johnson;
8. Who are in favor of representatives from
the South, loyal to the Constitution and the laws,
being immediately received by Congress;
4 . Who approve President Johnson's vetoes oi
the Freedman’s Bureau and Civil Rights Bills;
5. Who are opposed to any interference, by
Congress, with the rights of the States reserved
by the Constitution, and who are opposed to the
rlghtof suffrage being conferred upon the negro;
6. And who are in favor of the election of Hies
ter Clymer, Democratic candidate for Governor
of Pennsylvania, the representative of the con
stitutional and conservative doctrines stated
above.
Each comity -will bo entitled to send seven del
egates to the Convention; and where a county
has more than one member in the House of Rep
resentatives, such county will be entitled to sev
en delegates for each additional member. The
delegates are *to bo selected by the honorably
discharged officers, soldiers and seamen of the*
counties respectfully.
In addition to the delegates selected, all other
honorably discharged officers, soldiers and sea
men who sympathize with the object in view,
are invited to meet at Harrisburg on that occa
sion.
W. W. H. DAVIS, Colonel lOith P. V.
OWEN JONES, Colonel Ist Pa. Cavalry, '
JOHN P. LINTON, Lieut. Col. 64th P. V.
J. WESLEY AHL, Lieut. Col, 201st P. V.
R. P. McWILLIAMS. Captain I2Qth P. V.
C. B. BROCKWAY, Captain Ist Pa. Artillery.
The call is also signed by over three hundred
officers and privates, among whom we notice the
following from Cumberland county t
Col. James Metzger. 55th P. V.
Capt. Jacob Dorsheimer, 107th P. V.
Capt. T. P. Singlser. 20th Pa. Cavalry, •
Isaiah if Graham, Ist P. R. V. C.
“ J. A. Graham, I3th Pa. Cavalry.
Lieut. Samuel Wagoner, Sd Pa. Cavalry.
Capt. A. 8. Woodburn, 3d Pa. Cavalry.
Private A. B. Brougher, 180th P. V.
John G. Helsef, 7th Fa. Reserved.
Serg. A. R. Bowman, 20th Pa. Cavalry,
POLITIGAI*.
—Senator Wade Is acandldate for President pro,
tcm. to succeed Foster. '
—Speaking of Forney an exchange says, “let
the slaughtered fowl rest in peace.” But he
won’t.
—Tho democrats and conservatives of the thir
teenth district of Ohio have nominated Gen.
George W. Morgen’ for Congress.
—Why Is Andy Johnson like a bank cashier?
Because he is a good judge of bad bills.
—'The Bepublicans of Green county have nom
inated Lieut. James A. Woods for Assembly.
—The Democrats of Beaver county have nomi
nated Samuel Bigler, for Senator, and John Ed
gar for Assembly.
—John Morrissey, the pugilist, is sald£tobeo
candidate for Congress from the fifth district in
New York olty.
-Ex-Speaker Galusha A. Grow Is* among the
candidates for tho Republican nomination for
Senator from Pennsylvania.
—TheDemocratlo Congressmen have issued an
address endorsing tho Philadelphia National
Convention.
—lt is now believed that the Colorado bill can
not bo passed over the veto, and tho measure
may be regarded os at rest.
—Tho Democrats of Northumberland County
have nominated J. Woods Browne, of Milton, for
Congress; and Charles W. Sharp for Assembly.
—The Dlsunlonlsts of Westmoreland county
have nominated “ Honest” John Covode for Con
gress and Col. T. F, Gollaher for Assembly.
—A new paper is about to bo started in Boston,
‘■to support the President’s Union policy.
—Secretory Harlan has dismissed 40 civilians
from his Department, who are said to belong to
a Johnson club.
—Conventions have already been colled in
Georgia, South Caroling and Alabama, to elect
delegates to the Philadelphia Convention.
—lt is reported thot Minister Hale, at Mfiftrid,
has asked to be recalled, and that Gen. Siokels
will be nominated to succeed him.
—The negroes In Philadelphia ore holding in
dignation .meetings, because they are not allow
ed to ride In the street cars.
—Uriah D. Meehan has announced himself os a
Johnson candidate for Congress in opposition to
Mr. Washburn, In the third district, and Alex.
McCoy, in opposition to Judge Ingersoll, in the
fifth.
—Thomas L. Kane is a candidate for the Re
publican nomination to Congres in the Erie Dis
trict of Pennsylvania. Wllilam H. Koontz has
been nominated by the Bedford County Repub
licans for Congress.
—The Democracy of Cambria, at their county
convention on the 27th, nominated Lt, Colonel
John P. Linton for the assembly, to succeed Hon.
Cyrus L. Pershing. For Congress the same con
vention selected Robert L. Johnson, Esq.—a ster
ling Democrat and able lawyer—subject to the
approval of the 17th district conference.
—The Democracy of Clarion county have ap
pointed ' Congressional Conferees, and instruc
ted first for Win. L. Corbett, Esq., and second for
Gen. A. B. M'Calmont, as the choice of the coun
ty for Congress. . -
—The Democrats of Armstrong county have
nominated Jacob Ziegler for .Congress, E. S, Gol
den for President Judge, and Simon Truby for
Assembly.
—Gen. Sol. Meredith, ez-Congressman Kilgore,
and David Gooding, have called a Johnson Con
vention, In the Nineteenth Indiana District, Geh.
W. T. Splcely declines a nomination to Congress
In the Second Indiana District. Ex-Gov, An
drew, of Massachusetts, Is spoken of for Congress
next fall.
—Gov. Worth, of North Carolina, Is candidate
for re-election, in October. Gen. G. W. Morgan
Is Democratic candidate for'Congress, In tho
Thirteenth District of Ohio. Geo. H. Pendleton
Is announced as the Democratic candidate from
tho First Ohio District.
A Train Leaving the Disunion
Track.— The erraticGeorga Francis Train
has again changed his coat. He stump
ed Nebraska for the Democratic ticket—
The following is an extract from one of
his speeches:
* ** so-called Union party Is a disunion par
ty. The conservative party wish to do as Mr.
Lincoln did—forgot and forgive.. Tho Bepubll
can. party , want eleven Hungarys—eleven Po
lands—eleven Irelands in the south, The Demo
restore tho s uaw»!’« 0100011 Btruot th * Union and
OUR WASHINGTON
s^ru %%
Afltoet. Uu Hontn-Wt". prh
Don’t wlib to Try
Correspondence qf the American Valuator
. . 'Washington, j ul '
Probably the moat Iniquitous of nil is ’’ ***
tons tariff bills passed by the American o la,R -
Is the one now under consideration
and sectional Is It In Us provisions th t
tlon of the country Itf willing toaoknowJ’ 01 *
paternity of tho monster. The north* I®l 1 ® 1
putos It to New England j Now Emrhum* 11
atesltand throws tho responsibility of I' 1111
the north-west. Yot both sections win ttw
it on the final passage/ Of one fact thor
bo much doubt, tho mass of. tho neonl,>' CS * ~
posod to it, and If it docs pass, will not°
long to disgrace our statute book. per, BJU
to force such on Iniquitous measure i, 4l *'**
people by tho radical majority must , A
their overthrow at tho coming election'™ 11 '
people of Now England do not ask for Its n
neither do the people of the north-west n"
majority of tho Representatives from th ’' l
sections, with Stevens, Kelly and Moore?* 11 '
Pennsylvania, ore either personally Inter *
Us passage, or have entered Into a com?? 111
once with the Interested parties to put nth .
The measure Is being carried through with**
old of money, ond Stevens oudthe
once more agreed to “throw consciencesT
DovUand stand by their party.” Sprain "*
the other .cotton nabobs of Now Enel.??
make millions out of this now schemeJ®
dor. ■”“'olpi®.
, I learn that the President has slgnlacdhi '
ton tlon to bo present at the laying of Hbm
stone of tho Douglas monument at ChlcJ?,?."'
ceremonies are postponed' until after* a
Journmont of Congress, audit Is also .taw.S
Hr. Seward has oooepted an invitation lod.ii
the eulogy on the occasion. ueuni
As a set-off to the national convention
is called to moot In PhUadelphln, ne« J
the radicals contemplated holding namJ?'
ond formally bringing out General Grant u
candidate for tho Presidency. They waited on™
the General and told their errand j l n
told them that he would accept a nominally!
from no party whatever; that he was towT,
for the position, ond although he might havaa
plratlons for the Presidential Chair, eight „
twelve years after this would bo time enough u
talk about that. This Interview Is said tohVi
put a quietus upon the project for holding a nj.
ical convention.
In the Senate, on Saturday, Mr. TrumbuU.’ofD.
llnols, reported from the* Judiciary Committee
bill to limit the President’s power of appoint
ment to and removal from office, I undersUni
that it Is the design of the majority in Congra
to force this measure through ere the close oftl*
present session if possible. It is, of course n
proved by aU office-holders ond their frlea£
and its passage is urged upon the ground that!
wUI prevent the President from exercising ft
power of removal during the approaching re(«
of Congress. The Chronicle (Forney’s paper) t
dorses it, and says: “It Imposes some wholeaoa
restraints upon the Executive In making
polutmeuts and In removing officials withoa
Just cause. If it becomes a law, which we typj
it will before Congress adjourns, it will be’aaeri.
ous obstacle in the way of the success of u m
policy.”
Yesterday I met an intelligent business nu
from the South, the President oi one o(&
principal railroads there. He represents b
feeling of Insecurity In that section, growings
of the threats of confiscation and disfronehie
ment, and other manifestations .of hostility bj
the majority in Congress, or theprominentUat
efs among them, as having a most injurious*!
feet on the enterprise and industry of the con*
try. He says that the violent language indo!s
in by the leading Republicans, together wlttilbi
general tenor of hostility towards the South tt
hibited by the Radicals, has caused a generally
prehension that If this party succeed In corrylsf
the Northern elections a now scene of percep
tion will open on the South; that even upon lb*
subject of pardons the. impression Is that tbf
will have no effect if the President is defeated*
the result of all of which is an unwilllngm*
among a large portion of the business men oip
country to engage in important , enterprises, s
they think it best to rept on, their oars and U
watch the course of events, especiallyas any is|*
nal success in acquiring fortune might only sub
ject them, to more danger.of persecution. An!
have not the South cause, ample cwaße,lot IhJ
feeling of Insecurity? Do not the parly leado
in possession of the legislative denartmentoilhi
Government constantly denounce the President)
aoblo and profound policy of magnanimoa
statesmanship? Have not gome of the chlehof
that party openly threatened confiscation of ill
•South ? Did not General Butlef, In a memorial
address to the Soldiers’ National Associate
point out how their services might be reqnilti
by starting with' confiscation at
going South 7 Are not the organs of this ptff I
constantly circulating a religion of
the South ? I
Some persons who have been constantly coft
plaining of the President for notmanifestlogn|
dclent zeal in bringing .traitors to panhlunto
might, perhaps, discover that there are otbff
high functionaries.who certainly do nooppe*f
co put themselves in any degree out of then!
for this purpose. Certainly It most be admltid
that the Chief Justice of . the United Stated
not exhibited “ any hot haste” in bringing kt
Jefferson Davis to the bar of .his court kM
it has been constantly understood that the Cttf
Justice refuses to preside on the trial of Mr-D*
vis while there Is any show of military aatbos
in the State of Virginia. And yet we beards
complaints from the Radical ranks of Mr. Cbs»l
action in the premises. We submit that the si® l
charity should be extended to the President
this regard. It la not in the power.of
dent, if so inclined, to force on the
Davis. This Is a question for the court and ih?
Jeers.
It would seem from some circumstances w*
. have occurred, that tho Chief Justice is nottff
much enamored with the privilege of preside
at the -jQavls "trial* Can it be, as has heen.Kf'
gestedln some quarters, that the Chief
discovers a certain awkwardness in the Biw*
tlon, In view of certain very profound ophw®
expressed by him in the course of his poliuw
career on tho subject of State sovereignty T 0®
very memorable occasion, when the Chief Jo*
tlco was Governor of the State of Ohio, and tu
question was whether the fugitive slave
should be enforced, he said, 11 as long as I re P
sent the sovereignty of our State, I'will see
the process of our State courts shall not he in
fered with, but will bo fully enforced. W* l *
called.upon to act IwUXacV' • • tlflß
Now, this looks very much like nnujw* .
and secession, for each are both the Wen :
State “sovereignty.” The argument of ®
cessionists was, that each State was, as uo
nor Chase pronounced it,
as there can be no > power superior to a •
eignty,” the sovereignty has the right Into■ .
resort to determine the mode and measure
dress. And they constantly insisted, tb&
the State saw proper “to act,” 011
were bound to obey her action. The Go
at a period of great excitement, when k ...
and Federal authorities were on the vetf®
Uslon, and civil war hung trembling ih »
lance, said the process of the State courts
notbe Interfered with, and that, representor
“sovereignty” of the State, “when couw* -
to act,” he would “act,” Fortunately ,
peace of the country, the State Saprek o
refused to nullify the fugitive slave
Governor Chase, abandoned by his hlgb&.
court, was obliged to subside. But if
no actual violence,'no resort to armed rfl jf
it was not owing to thewaut of such ao !rit if
the Governor. Suppose tho Supreme G®
Ohio had sustained the popular cry o ®* J*
fugitive slave law, then, if “ called upon
Governor Chase stood pledged to “ act;
words to raise the State banner, and, 08
resentatlves of the “sovereignty"
to resist the enforcement of the
Hon. A. J. Glossbrenneß.'
Washington correspondent of the .
County Democrat pays the “‘ - nil
well-merited compliment to our a .1
attentive member of Congresa> S° D '
Geossbrenner. Most heartily
endorse every word contained
paragraph below:
Your Representative, Hon. A. J; Gi®
Is proving himself one of the most us eB f.
hers that the District has ever honor
eotlon. He la a working member. 1 aWjfj
this that whUe he always votes rJgtu. »»■
faithfully to the wants of his °°P„ addtUon S
spares no efforts to serve them. Jn,nd
his Industrious habits ho possesses a. _ sno K
to those who call upon him an obiigms^piv
fable disposition, and a tho'-ougb.
mlslng constancy to in hem
desirable qunUtlcuf .ffls immeof™ F*
was found to b« wofOUy deflelW/