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GOOD, A'1"1( IRN EY AT LAW, Office: No. rot East King Street, Lancaster, Pa J. DICKEY, 1 .-1 • Arrn IBN EN" AT LAW. 4 IFFicE—SOUTII QULEN Strcrt, SpCl Old haus( below the •• I'ount:olw 1n,.. Lancaster. Pa. J. B. LIVINGsToN, A ri"ri .EN EY AT LAW V )FFIcE—No.IIN( Ir UNE Street, NV,,Z `Ade, 1101111 of the Court I.;,livi;ster..r:l. P. D. BAKER, AT LAW Livnti.;Nt.m, NOILIII 1)1.:E1 Pa. B L. KREADY, , lIN Ey AT LAW. )rFicE—Witli I. E. fii• I:K1 St t, uc:u• the Court Ilounr, L> u u•a,tcr. Pa. iIIARLES DENT: E. k Ayr , )itN t•I v AT LAW, or . ricE—No. 3 S JL Tn KEStreet, Lanc:Mer, B F. ];,IE It. Arr.;;NEB AT LAW, 4 , FFicE—No. at.TII DUKE St rvet, Lanca4 Mil LEAMAN, A"I"I'i)E.NEY Al' LAW, tiFFICE—NO. 5 7.s.:oliTit DUKE, Strort, Laucar , - If'r. Pa. INT \I- K . It - 1; TTER, . A'FfultNEY AT LAW, "FFICE-With Gen,' al .1. W. li,her, NORTH E Start, Llowastcr, Pa. EDGAR C. REED, .A•rr HNEV AT LAW, lIFFICE-NO. Di NORTH DUKE Strc.t, Lancas ter. Pa. B. AFIV AK E, J. I • ATT. }lt NEY LAW, IFFICE—No. 4 SOUTH QUEEN Street, Lancas ter, Pa. T W. JOHNSON, J • A'IIIIRNEY AT LAW, ir . FicE—No. 25 SOUTH QU EEN Strect, Lan caster, l'a. T N. FISHER, ATT()ENEN - AT LAW, orricE_No. 30 IcultT I. I>UK E Street, Lithea: , ter, Pa. A MOS IL MYLIN, ..VrTORNEY AT LAW, E—NO. 8 SO trii QUEEN Street, Lancas- MEE . 11.0131ir I i , N 'O ' V K'NEY AT LAW, OFFICE—No. 28 NORTH DUKE Street, Lancas ter, Pa. JOHN H. SELTZER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, No. 135 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia JOHN P. - REA, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office with O. .1. Dickey, Esq., No. 21 South Queen street, Lancaster, Pa. MARTIN BUTT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, office of the late Pon. Thaddeus Stevens, No. 26 South Queen street, Lancaster, Pa - - READING AD VERTISEIIP TS. H MALTZBERGER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, No. 46 North Sixth Street, Reading, Pa TGEORGE SELTZER, . ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, - No. 604 COURT Street, (opposite the Court House) Reading, Pa. HORACE A. YUNDT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, No. 2$ NORTH SIXTH Street, Reading, Pa FRANCIS M. BANKS, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC, No. 27 soitrii SIXTH Street, Read ing, Pa. DR.WILLIAM lIARGREAVES, ECLECTIC PHYSIC AN AND SURGEON, No. 134 SOUTH FINTII Street, Reading, Pa. TILE pro-rebel papers are consoling themselves with the idea that Vermont and Maine will go 'Democratic' in twenty five or thirty-years, if it 'keeps on.' This is hardly probable, as the number of school houses and churches are increasing rather than diminishing. IT is a mistake to suppose that the Democracy has adopted the Grecian bend. Its present peculiar position should, in reality, be attributed to the fact that it is trying to recover the wind which was knocked out of it by the terrible ftlisctlianteus. Before, Ditriliff, Since. EV A PATRIOT Though thou that art betrayed do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case Of WW. -Si, (Ili . 041) eare. THAfTou.—One who, in the breach of trust, delivers his trust to its enemy. One who be trays his trust.—Wcbsfer. When S(Httlirons in their cherished hate, 11-hdved On separation, Arid claimed that every Federal State Was, in itself; a nation, Where storm! Ibwatio Seymour' Anil Mien they caused wide-spread alarms, By their assumed transeendanee, And madly sought, by forcii of arms, Co ,tin their independence, What said Ibwatio Seymour? And when ()hi ithe," the l'rositlent, 711‘ , st kitttlly apprise them, II t ilia not at owe repent, s'arely \vouble - aa.stise them. What did llorati , ) Seymour? And when tt len , .4tlt the war holt,an, And patriots feared ;tt..11 trembled, Whi,lt was the party—who the man, Thot in that hour di, , ..emhied \Va. , it Ihrr.tt:o Seymour Anti Nyliftit Nrw 5' I!1: I l itleous 111;1 ,1, Ilv molt N. ' LIU Wilt) wat, ;t tip!' trit:•4 iwtntved, ‘ll,)\v“d W 1,4) . , \ 4 111)111.titI S,,V11),1111.? lil.l \yip!, thion:2,lo)Rt t1o• li~,ut'ul strife (nu. ;;,)‘s in v,ort, W1,(1 much !.1),.(,•11 NN'a, it 11, wit' i.) S...inrqtr When ( v(af , Its intrixy. Witii was it -.11.11‘011 lid(' t 1111‘.0 Ot moll a liberal ? dust ask lloratto And whet: itt eiOtteen, siyity-tour, So many •• were elwatod, .fly being tlw war Was nits., tilat per wore iletkttell, What said I foratio Soym‘mr ? Alai Cleve. Wlllll t ;rani, till' PIO Vh() Setalltal that it was so, And mourned his friends condition? l'icast‘ a.k Ilora!io ties inonr. And since the ••rac;" were forced to yield— Their ol ‘Nailltro. ended Siuee they ‘s wit contoleretl in the field, IN - ho haN - . , their cause berrientled? Just :tsl: II i' n t'o Scylla-au% 'it'd while the Congress guards with care The iidere..ds of the nation ; Who seek to force a second war, I halking legislation Again ask Blair and Seymour. When rebel hands are stretched across The grav es of fil!edom's martyrs, In hi ;pi s to reineily their loss By ballots, force or charters, W here stand both Blair and Seymour? 'Mien Northern ' , /ttiis' and Southern rebs - Arc in affiliation, As Nvaip awl woof in weavers's webs, Who irnil the close relation 2 Jett' Davis, Blair and Seymour. LEE, August, I [ Utica //Pratt/. Gen. Dix for Grant. PATRIOTISM . ABOVE PARTY ! We call attention to the following let ter from Gen. Dix, our Minister to France. The General is a Democrat— not a Copperhead rebel. lie is the same man who was Secretary of War under Buchanan, after the traitor Floyd had re signed, and delivered the celebrated or der : If any man attempts to take down the American flay, SHOOT HIM ON THE SPOT," much to the disgust of the North ern dough-faces and rebels, and who wrote to Seymour, when Governor of the State of New York, during the bloody and incendiary riots of July, 1863, in the city of New York, "that he had men enough to take care of the rioters, and you (Seymour) too." lie was on the wrong track for awhile, and presided at the celebrated "Bread and Butter" Con vention in Philadelphia, in August, 1866, has since been a supporter of Johnson's policy, and was sent as minister to France last winter by that Great Criminal. But read the following : PAms, Sept. 4,186 S.—My Div). Sir—lt was toy hope that my distance from home would have saved me from all participation iii the political excitement prevailing there. But 1 notice in one of the newspapers that I am heart and hand with Mr. Seymour. lam not aware of anything in the present or in the past winch could righttidly subject me to such an imputation. I have been acquainted with Mr. Seymour more than a quarter of a century. He is an amiable gentleman, of unexceptionable private character, and respectable talents. But you know as well as I that he has not a single qual ification for the successful execution of the high official tnist to which he has been nominated, and he is especially deffcient in that firmness of purpose which in critical emergencies is the only safeguard againt public disorder and ca lamity. He has been twice at different times Governor of the State of New York, and he has in neither case Lad the talent or the tact to keep the Denineratie party of the State to- LANCASTER, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1868. his election at this juncture, when stemilneAt of purpose, decision and soli-control are so much needed, as use of the greatest calamities that could Wall the country. Moreover, he has been put in nomination by a Convention which has openly declared the purpose of those it represents to pay the greater part. of the pub lic debt, contracted to preserve the Union, in depreciated paper. Such a measure would, in my judgment, be a palpable violation of the publie flail, pledged under (ileum:ft:awes which should have been binding on all honorable men. Mr. Seymour has made public spoteelnis to show that it is our duty to pay the debt in specie. In accepting his nomination to the Presidency lie adoers the declaration that it ought to be paid in paper. I know nothing so humiliating in the history of American polities as this toegiverste ion. It was, perhaps, not unfit that Mr. Seymour, after presiding in loqf4 over t h e Chieaeo Con vention, which declared the tear a fliilure, should preside over the Convention of ItsG.s , in Mill it proposition to discredit .the debt con tracted to v.irry on the war was received with -tremendous cheering," and that he should be the chosen instrument to execute this act of national turpitude. I do not believe that the wishes or opinions of the great body of the I)emocratie party are fairly eXPIVSSCiI in these proceedings. Tlwy lace nothing in common whit the statesman like crew of policy and the high sense of na tional holler which guided the pally when Martin Van Buren, - William L. - ..Niare, Silas Wright, Lev, is Cass and Stephen A. Looteltis weee among its J c bat ow , <iii iii ul .riot/ fruit the. ruuntry u nrir-r r.ri.niinq eircum. , l,t;wr,. uttrl Ate js G, tie roi ()ii his decision ef china: .1., good sins:.. nunhu ititiou awl iliSilltCC c4(.(l patriotism, 4 bellrlYe the South will have a far better hope of regitining the position in the Union to which it is entitled, tha.t nutlet. it Illitit whose pOlit lea! carver 11i1S been in nothing 'note conspucionsly marked than in an utter infirmity of purpose. luilepindently of all these considerations, 1. should be greatly surprised if the people of the United States were to elect as their Chief Mag ist ran' a man who was making, at the Academy of Music, on the 4th of July, 1503, a swech de ficient in all the characteristics of an elevated love of country, at the very holt'. when General I:rant was carry iirho victorious arms of the Union into Viekshurg, and when thousands of etu Elliot!' countrymen wen , .pottring out their blood on the plains of Gettysburg, iti detiinse of their homes and the government. which Mr. Seymour was doing till in his power to embar rass moil discredit. I ain quite willing that you should show thi, letter to :tny friend who may tal:e an interest in nth opinion in regard to the coining election, and 18111 p:oticularly (10,irous o f retuoying the impression, if it exists, tlmt 1 amt iu lhvor of Mr. Seymour. Or tilt' rt•hutliutiol of any portion of the public debt. I au:, dear sir , ver:,, , truly y o ur s , 'Iwo; A. 1)1x. An Eloquent mal Forcible Appeal. We publish the concluding sentences from the great speech of Senator Morton, of Indiana, delivered in Philadelphia, on Thursday evening, last week Let every one read and act upon it : Let me appeal to the soldier, the L'iMm sol dier, to stand by his great leader—to stand by the party that rejoiced in his victories, a n al wept over his defeats; that fed a n d clothed him during the war; that nursed him when sick and wolinded ; that will love and honor Lin while living, and mourn over him when dead. Let t h e appeal to the laboring imui to stand by the party that would make labor honorable, and give to it its just rewards ; that would place the burden of taxation upon the rich and upon capital, and make smooth and easy the path that leads flout labor to wealth. Let me appeal to the banker, the merchant, the manu facturer, the man (it' capital, to stand by the party that will give repose to the country and stability to business everywhere ; that will im prove the currency, that will maintain the public faith, and protect every man in the enjoyment of his property. Let me appeal to the selfishness of those who love neither their country nor their kind, but are wholly devoted to their own interests, to stand by the party that will prote.t alike labor and property, and that will defend the rights of every man before the law. Let me appeal to that great class that love liberty, truth, Justice, and humanity to stand by the party that alwlished slavery ; that will secure to every man the enjoyment of life, liberty and property ; that preserved the Repub lic ; that would now bind up the bleeding wounds of the nation ; that would lift up the weak and lowly, and restore the blessings of peace to all the land. When the fierce tempest has twisted and crushed the forest, and the swollen rivers have risen over their banks and carried wreck and ruin through all the valleys, the rain suddenly ceases, the winds are hashed, the clouds break away, and the sun shines forth in all his splendor, drying np the tears rf nature and making the land bri g ht an d h appy. So when the storm of war ltas passed, when the sword has been beaten into the plough share and the voice of angry faction is hushed, the smut of peace will shine forth, making the hearts of all men to rejoice, and causing hap piness, prosperity, progress, and power to spring up like thrifty plants in a virgin soil." THADDEUS STEVENS.—When Senator Sherman, of Ohio, was in the House. he served on a committee with Thaddeus Stevens, and the latter, on several occa sions, asked him to frank some letters for him. Upon an inquiry why Mr. S. did not frank them himself, it appeared that he was enclosing small sums of money to various poor people, but did not wish to be known to them as their benefactor. Such was the quiet - benevolence of the READ IT ALL Democratic Alphabet. A—Andersonville, a place where the Democratic rebels starved 12,000 Union prisoners to death. B—Bull Run. the name of a battle where the Democratic rebels defeated the Union soldiers; the anniversary of this battle is always a source of joy to the Democrats. Beauregard, a good Democrat, who wrote to the rebel Democratic Secre tary of War at Richmond, in 1862, that it was time to hoist the black flag and kill the Union prisoners by the garrote. C—Canada, an English province, from where raids were made into the United States by Democratic rebels. Chambersburg ; a town in Pennsylva nia, which was nearly burned down by Democratic rebels tinder Mc- Clausland. D—Jeff Davis, the head of the Democratic rebellion. Fort Donelson, where I'. S. Grant made his first speech to the Demo crats who were in possession of that place. E—Emissaries were sent during the re bellion by the Democrats to France and Englood to persuade those gov- Nlinients to help destroy our Repuh lie. Early, Juba], a re hel Democratic general, who was rather roughly handled by a Union !veneral named Phil Sheridan. F—Forrest. the butcher of Union prison ers at Fort Pillow, is a good Demo crat, and was a delegate at the Dem ocratic Convention, New York. G —Guerillas—Democratic partisans— who hung Union prisoners &rine• the war. outraged the wives of the same, and burned their dwellings. ll—Hunger, which Union soldiers, as prisoners of war, were made to sutliT by Democratic rebels. I—lndians, employed by the Democrats at Pea Ridge to scalp the Union prisoners. J—Johnson, the renegade ; a good Demo crat; the author of the New Orleans massacre, in 1866, when Union own were murdered by Democratic rebels. K—Kuklux is the name by which the Democratic murdering bands are known. Many thousand Union men have already been murdered by these Democrats. L—Abraham Lincoln, murdered by that good Democrat, J. Wilkes Booth, becan?4e he was true to the Union. M—Murderers were the Democrats in New York who struck down inoffen sive people, burned down orphan asylums, and were addressed by the Democratic candidate for the Presi dency as "my friends." N—Nigger ! to nigger :1! is one of the Democratic arguments against the party of the Union. o—Organization and arming for a new rebellion is now preached by the leaders of the Democratic party. P—Payne, one of the conspirators, and a good Democrat. Q—Quantrell, a good Democrat, and who, during the war, hung hundreds of Union soldiers, and murdered de fenceless old men, women and chil dren ; destroyed nearly the whole of the town of Lawrence, in Kansas. 11—Rebellion against liberty and human ity was the battle cry of the Demo crats in 18C4, and is so again in 1868. S—Semmes, a Democratic pirate, who burned many merchant vessels during the rebellion. T—Taxes! Taxes!! Taxes!!! is one of the great words used by the Demo crats, but they never say that these taxes were made by the Democratic rebellion. U—Union is only hated by Democrats, and they were the only ones who en deavored to destroy it. V--Vicksburg is the place where General Grant made his second speech to a Democratic mass meeting. AV—Wirt is the name of a celebrated Democrat, who was the executioner of thousands of Union soldiers. X—The substitute for a signature used by the majority of Democrats (who burn down negro school-houses) to make a mark, because they cannot write their names. Y—Yancey ; the name of a Democrat who was a rebel Democratic commis sioner in France. Z—Zeal was displayed by the Democratic rebels in hunting down Union men with bloodhouiuls. -T~.~ -- Seymoar's Statesmauship. THE Oneida (N. Y.) Di vat eh has found out why Seymour is a statesman: Be cause he is a war man in time of peace, and a peace man in time of war. In peace he is invincible, in war he is invisible. Ile never had anything to do with national affairs, but to oppose the draft and to denounce the Union soldiers as "invaders and Lincoln hirelings." iiJtS LIWU A Speech From Colfax: Our noble candidate for Vice-President visited the Union League in New York, on Thursday evening. lie made a short and brilliant address, from which we ex tract the concluding noble words: GENTLEMEN—I say to you, and I feel that, I am invading no confidence in doing so, that I have it, front the lips of our chief. that, when elected President—for I feel that it has been decreed that he will be President [applause], no matter what his administration limy produce above all things else—we shall have the s:rong, :um of the Executive, representing the will and majesty of a mighty people, declaring and in suring to every citizen, black or white, rich or poor, be lie humble or exalted, the satbguard of the nation, and protecting him from every wrong with the shield of our national strength. [Great applause.] Ile will use American power for the protection of the American peo ple—to protect the American citizen in the savannahs of the South, as well as the prairies of the \Vest, whether lie stands by the Atlantic that surges along the Eastern coasts, or by the Atlantic that surrounds the foreign countries of Europe, so that he may tbel, as to American citizenship, like l'aul felt even amid his ()lie' lilies, that none may lay finger upon him, for he was a Roman citizen. [great applause.] Then we shall have no more Mil'. 110 more dishonor, 110 1111110 liiIFI'II . IICOS I/01{1'0111110 All111.1111Strati1)11 :11111 /110 reprt'SVlltiltiVl'S of the country. Every Itteller in the land will he protecteli—tlluierhis own vine a3lll 0 \VII rig -tree, With no traitor I , l' 4'lll'llly to molest or make him afraid—the national honor a ill be defended., the national faith ohseried, the laws of the land will be 1till! from these swiftly-coming days of peace, our Austerity, blessed by our labors, and rich tl it h all that we have sacrificed, will realize the most magnificent future that ever opened to a people, and a destiny l'CliPSing in its grandeur, its happiness, its public poisperity and private virtues, ;di that we find written in the records et the pas!. It treat applanse.l 1 Sh ort Democratic Catechism. Who fired the first gun of the rebellion ? Democrats. 11rho have always favored a dissolution of the Union? Democrats. Who were the leaders of the rebellion ? Democrats. Who controlled the States in rebellion ? Democrats. What party opposed every measure of the Government to suppress the rebel lion ? The Democratic party. Who caused the immense debt of our country. Democrats. Who have always declared the war a failure ? Democrats. Who are now butchering Union men in Texas by the hundre,ds? Democrats? Who are the leaders of the Ku Klux Klan ? Democrats. Who went to New York a few years ago with their carpet-bags tilled with combustible material, and attempted to destroy that city by fire? Democr‘ts. Who callee Union soldiers hirelings, dogs and lawless cut-throats? Democrats. Who say that if Seymour and Blair are elected they will win what the South was fighting for? Democrats. !'he Height of Impudence It is the height of impudence for Wade Hampton, or any other paroled rebel, to tell the people of the United States upon what terms they can have peace. It is the height of impudence for either branch of the Copperhead party to com plain of a national debt created and im posed upon the country by one portion of them taking up arms to destroy the Union, and the other portion encouraging them in the effort. It is the height of impudence for the Copperhead leaders, South and North, to prate against disfranchisement of a few individuals on account of treason, when their avowed purpose is to disfranchise four millions of people mr account olcom plexion. It is the height of impudence for George 11. Pendleton to oiler to pay the national debt in ,greenbacks after predict inn., as lie did in 1562, that the entire issue ()I' 1. sited States notes would become worthless in the hands of the holders. It is the height of impudence for the Copperhead party to take the sacred 1111111 C of law and Constitution on their lips, after resolving in their National Convention that the acts of Congress, passed in the manner prescribed by the Constitution, are "void." It is the height of impudence for the Copperhead party to present any claims upon the confidence, or even the fore bearance, of loyal men, after expending half of their strength during the space of four years in an attempt to destroy the Union, and the other half in an attempt to prevent anybody else from saving it. Is there an Irishman who does not know that the free labor of this land is the redemption of his own land ? The Irishman who votes the Democratic ticket is voting that it is a curse to have free NO. 18.
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