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WIIAT WILL HAPPEN.—ShouId Sey
mour be elected we may expect nullifica
tion and revolution in every rebel State ;
we may expect that all that has been
done will be undone. The negroes will
be delivered up to the tender mercies of
their former masters, stripped of their
political rights, and most probably re
duced to slavery. Every Union white
man will be driven from his home and
his property into exile as a punishment
for his fidelity to the - Union. War will
become the chronic condition of the
country, and, in all probability, will not
be confined to the Southern States, but
will be ertemled to the North.
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Y~r¢Uun¢aixz.
"Let us lfare Peace."
I.Y RPY t E. TAYLOR
Let us have peace ! No more of strifii
Our stricken hearts may eer endure ;
No wrangling words, nor rumors rife,
Nor passions roused to wrath impure;
No wasteful hemorrhage of life,
With ills and griefs tune cannot cure ;
LET US 11 AVE PEACE !
No more let fierce red-banded war,
With torch and terror homes invade ;
Nor Sorrow, showiiig wound and scar,
Lament the all or flashing blade ;
Nor Love, 'mid carnage near and fitr,
Stand weeping while Hate's price is paid
LET IS itivE PEACE!
Enough the voice of brother's blood
Fn no Christian ground to I leaven has cried,
Linitigli in conflict's purple flood
Cithauldas guilty skirts are died;
Enough has ANcr's 'hateful broiiil
The hope's of Freedom crucified ;
LET us PEAtE
Our flag. iz . s crimsoned stripes complete,
Shall 14d its i.;oltien stars shine firth ;
Its sky outspread God's sky to meet,
Entreat iL 1 ace of heay.ll thr Earth ;
oui its gentle folds to greet,
Shall cro\v(i (lef:11(lers South and North:
ELTI s 11AVE PEAT'E!
(;real (,o;1! 'Pion solo omniscient Guido,
Our St(llS confirm in tvi.s(loin's way, ;
Dia rage jo)purtions hide,
Porpt.ttlatt. Ow ;
S9.)LIP! acre, t s'.volling pride,
And grant a lil , .ssittg \\Mile All' 'gay
LET rs HAVE I'EACE
The Last Fight of the War.
Once snore rings out the bugle call!
Once in re the banner flies!
Once more the boys are gathering .
Beneath the autumn skies;
For treason makes its final fight
Against, the rights of Man!
the flags tir. rise, as in other days,
And tirant is in the van'.
We've heard the rebel yell hefive,
We've heard the traitor table—
When riot roared in the Bowery
And Lee had crossed the line.
But victory came in a blaze of dame,
That scorched the Rebel clan,
For the boys and blue were stout and true—
And Grant was in the van'.
Still raged the war ; and grass grew green
O'er many a soldier
'Till peace came, air as a morning star,
After a night of storm.
And shall we now the fruits of peace
To treason tamely yield?
Not while a soldier wields a vote,
And Grant is in the field ?
So close up ranks and forward march !
'Til the crowning fight is won!
While the sweet old music fills our hearts
With the soul of battles gone.
Our cause is blest; we cannot fall
Who strive for the Rights of Man!
The stars in their courses tight for us—
And Grant is in the van !
[CS icago Tribune.
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The Stampede for Grant—Demo
crats Everywhere Leaving •
the Party.
Below we give a number of additional
facts in regard to the Democrats leaving
the party of riot, murder, and rebellion :
Edgar Hill, one of the leading members
of the Washington county (N. Y.) bar,
heretofore a leading Democrat, is out in
favor of Grant and Colfax.
Dr. Schutz, of New York, a leading
Democratic German, has declared for
Grant and Colfax, and is doing a . good
work among his German fellowcittzeus.
The Germans is Indiana are turning
over in large numbers for Grant and Col
fax.
Jndge Lindsay, the Democratic nom
inee for elector in the VIIIth district of
lowa, is now stumping for Grant and
Colfax.
Hon. Dennis McCarthy and Gen. David
S. Wilson, both prominent Democrats of
lowa, have taken the stump for Grant
and Colfax.
Major General Gordon, of Indiana, one
of the leading Democrats of the State,
and strong in support of the party until
after the New York Copperhead Conven
tion, is now openly for Grant and Colfax.
General L. D. Campbell, Democrat, is
sick of his party, and supports Grant and
Colfax.
The Maryland Conservatives, who
have heretofore supported Swann, are
resolved to support Grant and Colfax.
Robert N. Hudson, of Terre Haute,
Indiana, a very prominent Johnson man,
has announced that he will go for Grant
and Colfax.
The San Jose (Cal.) Patriot, a Demo
cratic but a loyal and national paper, is
unable to go Seymour, and comes out for
Grant and Colfax.
Colonel William Brown of Kentucky,
who was a delegate to the New York
Convention which nominated Seymour
and Blair, having had fighting enough,
announces in a speech at Nicholasville,
in that State, made since the State elec
tion, that he would support Grant and
Colfax in November. lie thinks Sev-
LANCASTER, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1868.
moor and Blair's programme means
bloodshed and anarchy.
Calloway Nossler, Esq., of Crawfords
ville, Indiana, a life-long Democrat, and
very influential in that section of the
State, gladdened the hearts of loyal men
in his vicinity by announcing that he
would unite with the Republicans this
fall. He thinks, no doubt, that the revo
lutionists of the South would control Sey
mour, if elected, as they controlled the
New York Convention.
The Butlido Commercial says several
prominent German business men of that
city, who have been heretofore regarded
as members of the Democratic party,
alarmed at the revolutionary projects of
the Copperhead leaders, will oppose
Seymour and Blair with all their energies,
Boyden, the only Democratic member
of Congress from North Carolina, who
voted with his party last session on every
question, has announced that hereafter
he will co-operate with the Republicans
in supporting Grant and Colfax.
Chief Justice Pearson, of North Car
olina, a well-known "Conservative,"
prefers to support the Republican candi
dates this fall, because he sees danger in
their defeat.
Mills J. Shinn, a leading Democrat in
Wayne county, Indiana has made a
speech in favor of Grant and Colfax at
Richmond, Indiana.
General. Lemuel Harris, formerly
Mayor of Cincinnati, who has been a
bitter opponent of the Republican policy
acknowledges his error, and will aid in
securing its success this fall.
Eighteen members of a Democratic
organization at Muncie, Indiana, called
the "White Boys in Blue,'' and four
members of a similar organization at
Anderson, in the same State, have de
clined to support Seymour Blair, and
have joined the real "Boys in Blue" of
their respective towns.
One hundred Jews in Chicago, who
were Democrats IT to the nomination of
Seymour and Blair by the New York
Convention, have come out for Grant and
Colfax, and joined the "Tanners"' clubs
in Chicago. -
The Detroit Tribune publishes a letter
from Gen. A. L. Williams, now United
States minister to St. Salvandor, and
who was the Democratic candidate for
Governor of Michigan in 1866, in favor
of the election of Gen. Grant.
THE secession of the Hon. James T.
Brady, the distinguished New York
lawyer, from the democratic party, has
already been announced. The list of
this class is growing daily. Among the
latest additions are Hon. Henry L. Wait,
of Albany, formerly a Democratic mem
ber of the State Assembly, and a highly
influential man in his district; lion. J.
McLeod Murphy, also of New York, and
lately a Tammany Democratic State Sen
ator, elected by 5,000 majority. Michael
T. Gibbons, for twenty-five years a prom
inent Irish Democrat of New York city,
has also left the party, believimg it
unworthy of his support.
A vote for Hartrauft secures a con
tinued reduction in the State debt.
Tax-payers remember that the admin
istration of General Campbell will save
the State Treasury about $20,000 this
year by transcribing the list of liens under
act of 4th of April, 1868.
Jacob M, Campbell was not backward
in arming for the defence of the Govern
ment. The soldiers who followed such
men as he on the battle field, will re
member Campbell at the ballot-box.
The Chester County Journal, published
at Downin,gtown, heretofore a neutral
paper, has hoisted the Grant and Colfax,
H.astranft and Campbell flag, and is doing
good service in the Republican cause.
Land-holders and farmers if you want
patents for your lands made out with
neatness and correctness, vote for Gen.
Jacob M. Campbell, the present experi
enced and faithful Surveyor General.—
Remember that an error or omission in
official papers may cause a lawsuit here
after.
Make a note of it, and vote accordingly,
that the administration of General Camp
bell has brought up the unfinished bus
iness of all his predecessors in the Land
Office, and that the people will be incal
culably benefited by this work in perfect
ing the titles to their land, and the State
Treasury enriched by over a million of
dollars.
The Democracy now propose to tax
farms, houses, lands, and every species
of
: property.
"EQUAL TAXATION OF EVERY SPECIES
OF PROPERTY," 18 their cry. Repub
licans like John F. Hartranft, urge the
repeal of all land taxes, and he it was
who worked until the tax on real estate
in Pennsylvania was repealed. Farmers
must vote for Hartranft if they want their
farms saved from direct taxation.
It has been reserved for the Repub
lican party to pay the debts either con
tracted or caused by the Democratic
leaders. John F. Hartranft, as Auditor
General, has been reducing the debt o
Pennsylvania / accumulated by the Dem
ocratic administrations which held power
in the State, at the rate of a quarter of a
million annually. Defeat Hartranft and
our debt, under Democratic rule, will
Poets for the People
accumulate, instead of decrease, at that
rate annually.
The Republicans who voted for Hon.
George Sharswood, last year, on the
ground that he would be an impartial
judge, and would disdain any and all politi
cal rulings, are just now sadly reading the
terrible details of the way in which votes
are made in the Supreme Court under the
eyes of that over-praised jurist.
John F. Ifartranft, as Auditor Gen
eral, laid the way for the repeal of the
tax on real estate by securing the col
lection of all outstanding taxes on cor
porations, and the payment of moneys
due the State by collectors and sureties.
Ile it was who induced the Attorney
General to sue out and save for the State
thousands of dollars which would other
wise have been lost.
The Temper• of the South.
Riot and bloodshed prevail throughout
the rebel States. Organized secret soci
eties arc attempting by murder, conflagra
tion and robbery to drive into exile the
Union white men and all who do not suc
cumb. In a recent speech at Atlanta,
Mr. Toombs pointed out the course to be
followed. The 1 nion white man was to
be treated as a political and social ene
my. The physician should not allow him
self to be called into a Union family ; the
lawyer should not take a fee from a Union
man; the mechanic should not shoe his
horse or nicud his wagon ; the merchant
should not sell him a pound of coffee or
a yard of muslin ; they should not be his
neighbors, recognize himupon the street,
speak to his family, or in any respect
treat him as a human being. Wade
ITampton, soon after his return from the
New York Convention, proclaimed the
policy which was to be pursued toward
the negro—which in short was coercion
by starvation. lie said that unless the
negro would vote the Democratic ticket he
should not be allowed to live on their plan
tations ; he should not receive from them
any employment ; he should be deprived
of every means of putting bread into the
mouths of his wife and children. They
presented to him the alternative of sur
rendering his political rights and return
ing to his dependent condition, or of star
vation for himself and his family. What
was the poor negro to do ? l'urned off
one plantation, he could not go to the
next ; he could not live on the public
road ; he had not the means of getting
North ; they knew their terrible advant
ages, and have
_proclaimed their purpose
to use them. Human nature, weak and
frail as it is, never appeared to worse ad
vantage than in this proposition of Wade
Hampton's. The King of Dahomey never
adopted a policy more fiendish or inhu
man. In the presence of such a propo
sition,
the boasted civilization of the
South sinks to the level of a scandal and
a reproach.
Work Work Work
But a few days remain before the elec
tion. Every man who loves his country
and her institutions, every man who de
sires the success of right over wrong, of
truth over error, of Godliness and purity
over sin and corruption, ought to be active
until the polls close on Tuesday evening
next. Freemen of Pennsylvania! but
two more working days remain. Is your
district thoroughly canvassed? If not,
see to it riow. We have a clear majority
of 20,000 in this State of loyal votes, but
the Copperheads have again resorted
to their usual tactics of fraud. Fraudu
lent naturalization papers have been
issued and circulated in large numbers,
and the loyal people of this State may
be overcome at the ballot-box if every
vote is not polled, and the greatest vigi
lance exercised. Be on your guard.
Work unceasingly from now till the polls
close on Tuesday next, and victory is
yours.
Repudiation.
The success of the Democratic party
necessarily involves the repudiation of
the national debt. The Northern wing
of the Democratic party is composed
chiefly of the men who opposed the war,
who sympathized with the rebellion,
(many of them giving it actual aid and
comfort,) who opposed the creation of
the debt in the beginning, who declared
that the legal tender notes were illegal
and worthless, who not only refused to
lend their money to the Government,
but endeavored to prevent others from
doing so, and whose every prejudice and
feeling is now hostile to the payment of
the debt and to the men who own it.
The Southern wing of the party is com
posed of the actual rebels; the men who
waged war against the Government for
four years; the men who invested their
property in Confederate stocks and bonds
and lost everything; they were subdued,
and are now impoverished, embittered
and desperate. Is there any man insane
enough to believe that if these men were
placed in power they would tax them
selves in common with the people of the
United States to pay our debt or the in
terest upon it? In a moral sense, it would
be impossible for them to do it. Repudi
ation would follow inevitably from their
accession to power.
The Rebel Prisons Remembered.
A private letter from a lady in Utica
contains the following off-hand account
of a recent conversation in a railroad car,
in the course of which some good reasons
were given to show why votes should
not be cast for 'Horatio Seymour :
" A gentleman, formerly a Democrat,
with a clear smooth, telling voice, gave
his views to some gentlemen with him,
in such a way as to interest all the pas
sengers in the crowded car. The first
part that attracted me was the following:
' My county, which is Erie county, gave
in the first Lincoln election something
over 1000 majority for the Republican
candidate ; in the second 1,700, and now
I am prepared to say that she will give
at least • 3,200 for Grant.' There was a
sensation. Some one said he had no
grounds to go upon, and asked him how
he counted ? 'Thus wise,' he replied ;
`not one Democrat who gave one drop
of his blood, or his children's, in the late
war on the Northern side would vote for
Seymour. Not one man who rejoiced
when our_ army gained a victory would
vote for Seymour. Not one man who
had sons or relatives who died from star
vation in the Andersonville and Libby
prisons will vote for Seymour. They will
all vote, for Grant.' At this moment the
lady next to me said : You may be sure
of that. My brother died from starvation
at Andersonville ; no Democratic friend
of his would vote for Seymour. My
brother-in-law likewise died in the ser
vice; and no friend of his would vote for
Seymour. They were laid in their gin ves
skeletons. They had no 1111 to decay ;
they were starved.' "
The Difference.
REPUBLIcAIi POLICY
The Republican party presents to the
country for its adoption the policy of
completing the work of reconstruction
upon the basis upon which it has been
carried forward—the basis of equal rights,
of equal and enact justice to all men. It
presents the policy of peace, repose and
stability; it presents the policy of protec
tion to American industry and of placing
the burdens of taxation upon the rich
rather than upon the poor, upon capital
rather than upon labor, upon the luxur
ies instead of upon the necessaries of
life. Financially, it presents the policy
of a return to specie payments at the
earliest practical moment, and of main
taining the public faith by the payment
of the national debt according to the very
letter and spirit of the contract. It pre
sents the policy of reserving the public
lands for actual settlers, and giving them.
to every man who will make a farm and
a garden where before there was a wil
derness.
" DEMOCRATIC " POLICY
The so-called Democratic party pre
sents for the adoption of the country, the
policy of nullification and revolution.—
They propose to nullify the reconstruc
tion laws of Congress, and to overturn
by military force the new State govern
ments that have been increased in the
South ; they propose to undo all that has
been done ; to retrace all the steps that
have been taken towards the settlement
of our national troubles, and to place the
country in a condition compared with
which it would have Peen infinitely bet
ter for us " had we let the rebel States"
go and suffered the Union to be dismem
bered. They propose the equal taxation
of all kinds of property whereby the
articles of prime necessity, which are in
dispensable to the poor and to the larbor
ing men of the land, shall be taxed
equally with those articles of luxury used
only by the rich, and which enter only
into the pleasures and dissipations of
life. They present the policy of repudia
tion, of national dishonor, which, accord
ing to the lessons of history, has proved
fatal to every government which has
adopted it.
Loyal voters, choose between them
Who Can Vote.
For the purpose of instructing those
who may not know the law on the subject,
we herewith publish the qualifications of
electors in this State. Here is the law :
'•To quality a person to vote it is ne
cessary that he shall be white, of the
age of twenty-one years or more. 2.
Shall have resided in this State at least
one year. 3. And in the election district
where he offers to vote at least ten days
immediately precedinc , the election. 4.
And within two years have paid a State
or County tax which shall have been as
sessed at least ten days before the elec
tion. A citizen of the United States,
who had previously been a qualified voter
of this State, and removed therefrom and
returned, and who shall have resided in
the election district and paid taxes as
aforesaid, shall be entitled to vote after
residing in this State six months ; while
white citizens of the United States, be
tween the ages of twenty-one and twenty
two years, and having resided in this
State one year and in the election disniet
ten days, as aforesaid, shall be entitled
to vote, although they shall not have to pay
taxes."
NO. 19.