44,fatiter Abraham."
CIRCULATION OVER 4000
E. H. RAtCII, Eurroizs
THOS. B. COCHUAN,
LANCASTER, PA
FRIDAY, JULY 10,
"I Sid all hare uo pol:ey of my men to en
force against the trill Of the peopic..'-6 RA N T.
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
TIONAL TICKET.
" MATCH 'EM."
President:
Gen. ULYSSES S. GRANT,
OF TIIE UNITED STATES
Vice Presidetat:
SCHUYLER COLFAX,
OF INDIANA
STATE TICKET.
Auditor General:
Gen. JNO. F. HARTRANFT,
OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY
Surveyor General:
Gen. JACOB M. CAMPBELL,
OF CA3IBRIA COUNTY
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OF
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Information Wanted.
Some very strange reports are current
about the pay and mileage of members
and officers of the last Legislature from
Lancaster county. We can scarcely be
lieve that there is any truth in them, but
still it is a matter of importance to the
people, as well as to the representatives
and officers themselves, that the truth
should be known. Who will enlighten
us?
Reineiitber
Frauds, forgeries, false naturaliza
tion papers, and, if needs he, MURDER,
will be resorted to by the Copperheads
to succeed next fall. The blood of the
poor Irishman, Casey, in Clearfield
county, because he testified against the
villainies of the Copperheads in the 14th
Senatorial District last fall, is evidence
of the means they will resort to. Be
prepared for thent, Republicans!
IF there had. been a Democratic Congress at
Washington during the last three years, six
hundred millions of dollars would have been
saved to the tax payers of this country.—Bed
ford Gazette.
At least one hundred millions of dol
lars were stolen from the Government
during the last year by the Democratic
whiskey ring, and there is not now a sin
gle Democratic Congressman who is not
an agent and interested counsel for the
ring at Washington.
Oun circulation is now fully four thou
sand five hundred, being an increase
during the last week of four hundred. As
this is fourth of July week, and people
busy in the harvest fields, this increase
is very large and encouraging.
WE take no notice of anonymous com
munications.
A ilephs Ontittg Incident on the
One of the Sunday Schools of the city
of FZetlino. (pie - lir:tied the Furth. as
usual. in a beautiful grove about a mile
below town. on the south side of the
Schuylkill river. Within a hundred yards
of the ground stands a two story brick
house. and a well of excellent water in
I the yard. The premises belong to and
are occupied by an old woman—a true
representative of the generation of old
I school democrats who are about passing
away. By means of padlocks and chains,
she had fastened the gates to the yard
and obstinately refused to allow a single
drop of water to be taken away for the
use of the children. The committee of
' fered to pay her liberally for any wear
or damage to her property, but all such
offers. and all appeals were answered:
Ich du's net ;" "ken droppa," " bleib
mer yusht fum &e. (" I won't ;"
not a drop ;" "just keep out of the
yard !") Whilst one of the committee
men was making his most eloquent plea
for water—in the name of humanity—an
individual who just happened to be along
ventured to mix in, and by pretending to
sympathize with the old woman, succeed
ed in gaining her confidence. The dia
logue was as follows :
" Ei mommy, du bisht (loch au Demo
krat ?" (Why, mammy, are you not a Dem
okrat "Ei uf course bin ich, un geaya
all des fort-of-July un shoola un all so
deifelei wu yusht sblechty sacha in (-hen
na kinner ehra kep dut." (Of course I
am, and against all this Fourth of July
and school deviltry, which only puts evil
into the heads of children.) " Awer,
mommy, de doh sin yoh all uf eier seit—
des sin louter demokratishe kinner un
mer sin all down uf de frei shoola un so
shtuft." (But mammy, these are all on
your side—all Democrats, and down on
schools and the like.)
" Doch now net! Well, dont', nemmt
so fiel wasser das der wellet, for der sind
welcome—aver bleib mer yusht week
mit all dem ferdeivelta frei school shtuft.
(You don't say ! Well, then, take as
much water as you want, for you are
weicome—but away with all this devilish
free school stuff.)
Of course, a bountiful supply of God's
pure beverage was gratefully accepted
by the thirsty hundreds in the grove, and
the slight ;departure from strict truth,
which induced ,the intensely Democratic
old lady to open her gate, if not her heart,
was, after some discussion, deemed ex
cusable as an act of necessity on the glor
ious Fourth.
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3.50
6.50
8.50
The National Copperhead Conven-
The National Convention, representing
the Rebels, Traitors, Blacklegs, Repu
diators, Whiskey Rings, Infidels, Prize
Fighters, Shoulder Hitters, Bounty Jump
ers, Assassins, Forgers of naturalization
papers, and Copperheads, under the gen
eral name of " Democracy," assembled
in that cesspool of nations—New York
city—on Saturday . last. The day was
spent in organizing temporarily, appoint
ing committees, &c. Sunday was phit
through principally in and around the
groggeries, dens of prostitution and sim
ilar democratic institutions. On Monday
the Convention reassembled, and Hon.
Horatio Seymour, of New York, was
chosen Permanent President. Among
those who figured prominently on the
floor of the Convention, was Hon. Hiester
Clymer of Berks. On Tuesday, after
adopting the "platform of principles,"
the first ballot resulted as follows :
Pendleton, of Ohio, 105 ; Johnson,
(A. J.) 65; English, of Connecticut, 16;
Hendricks, of Indiana, ; Johnson, oft
Maryland, ; Doolittle, of Wisconsin,
13 ; Parker, of New Jersey, 13 ; Packer,
of Pennsylvania, 26; Church, of New
York, 33 ; Blair of Missouri,l.
On the 18th ballot, on Wednesday
evening, Hancock had 1441 ; Pendleton,
561. ; Hendricks, 87 ; Parker, 3 ; A. John
son, 10; Doolittle, 12, and Hoffman, 3,
when they adjourned until 10 o'clock yes
terday morning.
TILE LATEST—Just before going to press
we received a dispatch, announcing the
nomination of Horatio Seymour, who
avowed himself the friend of the burners.
of the colored Orphan's Home, at New
York during the copper-rebel riot of 1863.
Give us a Registry "Atm.,.
The terrible howl raised by the Cop
perheads throughout the State against the
Registry law—at the time of its passage
—and their great joy over the decision of
the Supreme Court, declaring said enact
ment unconstitutional, (on account of a
mere clerical error) should satisfy all in
authority that our only safeguard against
the most stupendous Copperhead frauds
at the coming election is the prompt pas
sage of such a law, so framed as to leave
no doubt about its constitutionality. We
are glad to learn that a number of Re
publican members of the Legislature are
petitioning our patriotic Governor to call
an extra session for this purpose.
.1 1 A_ rE AB .AHA M.
Forn•th
ERNA
Impeachment.
On Tuesday last, lfon. Thaddeus Ste
vens presented to the House live addi
tional articles of impeachment, arraigning
President Johnson for overt illegal acts
committed during his , actininistration.—
The articles present a compcnd of the
numerous and flagrant acts of the Execu
tive in violation of his powers and duties,
and in contravention of the functions
with which the Constitution has clothed
him. Mr. Stevens supported the articles
in an able speech, in which he reviewed
his history of the impeachment remedy
in England and this country. Tie then
passes in review the enormous crimes the
President has been guilty of against the
country.
The concluding portion of his speech is
an enunciation of his faith in the perpet
uity of that government where public vir
tue is esteemed. The speech as a whole
is a masterly effort. Although it is not
the purpose of Mr. Stevens to have his
resolution acted upon immediately, as its
temporary postponement indicates, nev
ertheless the substance of the articles
and the tone and tenor of the speech
serve to show the American people how
guilty their Executive has been, and what
a great criminal the disaffection of a few
weak and foolish men has allowed to go
uuwhipped of justice. We regret that
our limited space prevents us from giving
this masterly speech in full. We clip the
concluding paragraph, which will be read
with great interest :
"Mr. Speaker, Providence has placed us here
in a political Eden. All we have to do is to
avoid the forbidden fruit, for we have not yet
reached the perfection of justice. While nature
has given us every advantage of soil, climate,
and geographical position, man still is vile.
But such large steps have lately been taken in
the true direction, that the patriotic has a right
to take courage.
"My sands are nearly run, and I can only
see with the eye of faith; I am fast descending
the downhill of life, at the foot of which stands
an open grave ; but you, sir, are promised
length of days and a brilliant career. If you
and your compeers can fling away ambition
and realize that every human being, however
lowly-born or degraded by fortune, is your
equal, that every inalienable right which be
longs to you belongs also to him, truth and
righteousness will spread over the land, and
you will look down from the top of the Rocky
Mountains upon an empire of one hundred
millions of happy people.
"Still, we must remember not to place our
trust in princes, for we have seen that in the
richest heart, the most highly cultivated mind,
adorned with every literary grace, keen in ar
gument a.s the Stagirite, and Ibrtified with an
outward shield of bronzed austerity which
seemed to t4bid Abe approach of levity or cor
ruption, this richest composition of human
mould may be the abode of malignity, avarice,
corroding lust, and uncontrollable ambition, as
the owl, the prairie dog, and rattlesnake nestle
together in loving harmony in the richest soil of
the prairie.
If Salmon P. Chase is not utterly
abandoned, that last paragraph must
have made him wriggle like a skinned
eel, if he ventured to read it.
Besser Sag Nix Der foo
When some wealthy men in New York,
shortly after President Johnson's accession to
office, tendered him a valuable carriage, the
President declined the present, because it would
be an impropriety in him to accept private
gifts. Gen. Grant has no such nice sense of
propriety.—Reading Gazette.
Ilow about that gold watch which the
colored people of Tennessee presented to
A. J., when he promised to be their
Moses ? And how about that lot of
Berks county whiskey which was shipped
to him not long ago by the whiskey ring
of Reading—about the time when the
senior editor of the Gazette—Congress
man Getz—was engaged "fixing up"
that little matter between the whiskey
ring aforsaid and the Revenue Depart
ment at Washington ?
Treasury Robbers.
How many more millions have been stolen
from the people "by collusion" among Radical
officials, will, perhaps, never be known.
Enough is already known to prove that the
only way to save the Treasury from wholesale
robbery, and the nation limit financial ruin, is
to remove the Radical thieves from power, and
put good Democrats in their places.—Reeding
Eagle.
Will this Berks county organ of Deni
cratic honesty and purity inform us
whether its Congressman, Maj. J.
Lawrence Getz, did not aid and assist,
before the Revenue Department at 'Wash
ington, in hushing up a number of whis
key and beer frauds perpetrated by his
Democratic constituents of Reading, and
whether many thousands of dollars were
not " stolen from the people" by Demo
cratic and Conservative officials and pol
iticians in and for Old Berks ? Come,
gentlemen, toe the mark !
The Great General.
The Copperheads are constantly parad
ing the assertion that General Grant
recklessly sacrificed his troops. The
fact is, before he took command, the
army of the Potomac lost in killed, wound
ed and missing, principally under Mc-
Clellan, on the Peninsula, and through
Fitz John Porter's treachery at second
Bull Run, 145,118 men, whilst the losses
under Grant, whose lighting crushed the
rebellion, amounted to 106,501 men.
The Copperhead Platform,.
The platform, as presented to the New
York Convention on Tuesday, and swal
lowed whole by that body, ought to satis
fy every person who, during the war,
was, disloyal, and who either fought
against the national flag, or rejoiced
whenever it was defeated. Briefly stated,
the platform is this :
Immediate restoration of all the States
—that is, that the States which were in
rebellion shall be allowed to resume all
political privileges, without indemnity
for the past or security for the future.
Amnesty to all offenders--that Jeffer
son Davis, John 11. Surratt, John C.
Breckinridge and John C. Braille ought
not to be persecuted for their little pec
cadilloes. Also, that the said individ
uals, and all offenders against the laws,
ought to be admitted at once to full poli
tical rights, so that the same men who
rebelled because they could not rule the
United States may be insured the priv
ilege of control once more.
Repudiation of the public debt by the
substitution of currency for payments
meant to be, and which were rep
resented by the officers of the Govern
ment should be, in gold.
Equal taxation of all property, includ
ing Government bonds. This is non
sense. Equal taxation is not desired,
and it would be unjust. The design is,
by taxing the bonds, to assist further in
the scheme of repudiation.
Equal currency to all classes, &c., means
repudiation, also, under another name.
Economy in administration, reduction
of the army and navy, abolition of the
Freedman's Bureau, &e., is a declaration
that the nation ought to weaken her
hands so as to allow Southern insolence
to ride high once more, and to give over
the blacks to their old taskmasters.
The declaration in reference to econ
omy in the collection of taxes, &c., are
really declarations against taxation, and
in favor of unlimited repudiation.
These are the chief planks of the plat
form. There are numerous others, which
are made of similar wood, the whole of
the resolutions being broad and deter
mined declarations against national hon
esty, national honor and national justice.
The people will again, as they have
so often done before, repudiate the plat
form and its rebel builders.
Organize! Organize : I
It is time that our Republican friends
should understand that, if they expect to
make their majority of the votes of this
State effective at the polls in October and
November, it will be only accomplished
by perfecting their organization and in
augurating an active and thorough can
vass. We can assure them that, at no
time have the opposition laid their plans
of operation broader or deeper, or with
a more determined resolution to achieve
success in some way and at any cost.
The habitual, traditional tactics of that
party are gross outrages against the laws,
and flagrant invasions of the purity of the
suffrage. They enter upon the canvass
this year with a determination to carry it,
and to this end they not only mean to poll
every vote lawfully within their reach,
but will repeat the villainous frauds of
the last autumn, on a still more extended
scale. They will colonize in one district,
repeat in another, and everywhere that
they can will swamp the boxes with fraud
ulent and forged certificates of naturali
zation. The Clearfield villainies of 1867,
to this day unpunished, will be repeated,
with confidence in a continued impunity,
in other localities of the Commonwealth,
and wherever unlawful votes can be forc
ed into the boxes, men will be found and
the effort will be made. In short, the
Copperheads intend to carry Pennsylva
nia, not by a fair poll, for they know that
to have been for eight years synonymous
with Copperhead defeats, but by the un
sparing use of every outrageous fraud
that experience, impunity and nerve can
suggest. Then meet them, friends of
Grant and Colfax, by honest, earnest, ef
fective ORGANIZATION.
Infamous
The Intelligencer copies with great gusto
a sketch of celebrities attending the rebel
copperhead convention at New York.
Read the following
"One of the most noticeable men in the con
vention is Gen. Napoleon Bonaparte Forrest—
the hero of Fort Pillow—tall, well-formed, ner
vous, and evidently not disinclined to attract
attention."
"The hero of Fort Pillow" indeed
The cold blooded murderer of Union sol
diers after they had surrendered. And this
bloody scoundrel is complimented by men
—no, not men, nincos—who in the same
paper have the unparalleled impudence
to claim the support of the brave "Boys
in Blue" for candidates nominated by
such cut-throats as Forrest, Hampton,
3losby and the like. Can impudence
further go ?
Attention Cops!
We would direct the attention of the
Saur Kraut Gorillas and others to the
following card :
U. S. GRANT. ScHUNTER COLFAX,
GRANT & CW.FAN,
TANNERS, Washingtun, I). C.,
Respectfully inform the people of the United
States that they I\lll be engaged in tanning
some (Ad rotten Democratic hides, until alter
the 10th day of Noyenther, IStts.
The senior member of the firm, having con
siderable experience in the business, thinks
that, by the help of his partner, all work will
be done in a satistlictory manner.
Reference—Generals Buckner, Pemberton,
R. E. Lee, and other distinguished persons of
the same persuasion.
The Black Flag
The platform of the Ku-Klux Wilkes
Booth Copperhead "Democracy," is RE
PUDIATION. This is its practical feature
—all else is clap-trap and demagogery.
REPUDIATION—bare, bold and unblush
ing—is the black flag under which the
party of treason will sail. We accept the
issue, and "will fight it out on that line."
father
, Bb,rallant's Kips.
FELONY is the distinctive badge of the
Copperheads—a party of crime and fraud.
Heretofore its most efficient argument
has been ASSASSINATION—now it is RE
PUDIATION of honest debts. A precious
set of villains !
THE dough-faced Wilkes Booth Ku-
Kluxers at New York dared not own the
soldiery of the Republic in the presence
of the leaders of the rebel Confederacy.
How Hampton and the bloody murderer
Forrest (who the Intelligeneer styles a
hero !) must have despised the trembling
cowards who thus denied their flag and
its bearers ! They must have dreamed
themselves back on their old plantations
before the war, when they saw these
"Democrats" (heaven save the mark 1)
as they never saw the negro soldiers, at
Fort Pillow or anywhere else—cowed
JUDGE WOODWARD, the man who de
cided as Judge of the Supreme Court,
that soldiers in the field had no right to
vote, was the man who presented the
committee of soldiers to the Copperhead
National Convention. What a friend of
the soldiers these Ku-Tiluxers are
THE Ku-Klux Wilkes Booth Cops.
have not a word to say in their platform
for the country, or aught a patriot holds
dear. Not one word for a land saved and
freedom gained, and most damning of all,
not one word of gratitude or thanks to the
soldiers, who squelched treason and trai
tors. And yet this party of rebels and
their sympathizers have the hardihood to
claim that the soldiers will support their
candidate ! Can impudence and assur
ance further go ?
A FELLOW named Ewing, who was a
General in the Union army during the
war, said in a speech at New York that
he wanted to " asssociate with thousands
against whom we fought during the war 1"
meaning, of course, rebels who starved
Union soldiers at Andersonville and
other hell-holes in the South. He'li a
pretty representative of Union soldiers,
truly 1 How do you like him, brave Boys
in Blue ?
THE Lancaster Intelliyencer calls the
butcher Forrest, the hero of Fort Pillow,
and styles Gen. Grant a butcher ! Can
any true Union soldier stand that ? Let
us have a look at him
ROBERT E. LEE and his Democratic
Generals met in council on the 4th of
July, 1863, near Gettysburg, Pa., and
unanimously resolved to " git." Pem
berton and his generals met in council at
Vicksburg, July 4th, 1863, and unanimous
ly resolved to accept the polite invitation
of General Grant to surrender " uncon
ditionally." The meeting of Democratic
Generals in New York on the 4th of
July, 1868, will be followed by the great
final triumph of Union, Liberty and Civi
lization over fraud, tyranny and treach
ery.
THE North Carolina Legislature hav
ing organized, both Houses adopted the
14th Amendment to the Constitution of
the United States. The Legislature of
Louisiana has also adopted the amend
ment.
I NEVER was in favor of general am
nesty until the time should come when it
would he safe to give it.—Grant.
I STATED the law was binding upon
me, constutional or not, until set aside by
the proper tribunal—a doctrine that will
do to stand by.—Grant.
•IF chosen President, I shall have nd
policy of my own to enforce against the
will of the people—Grant.
Tun notorious Toombs, of Georgia, is
organizing the Democratic party of that
State, composed principally of the men
he recently commanded in the armies of
the rebellion.
THE New York Tribune predicts that
Grant and Colfax will receive more votes
than were ever given before to a presi
dential ticket, and a larger majority than
Lincoln received over McClellan.
THE Springfield Republican avers that
there are thousands of Democrats who,
notwithstanding the clamour against.mil
itary Presidents, like a general who
knows and minds his own business better
than a Chief Justice who don't.
The new Democratic campaign badge
—the apple blossom—is to be worn on
the nose.
THE Tallahasse (Florida) Sentinel has
changed proprietors and hoisted the
Republican flag. Long may it wave!