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ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, No. 606 COURT Street, (opposite the Court ]douse) Reading, Pa. HORACE A. YUNDT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, No. NORTH SIXTH Street, Reading, Pa R F ANCIS M. B4CASTKS, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PITRLIC, No. 24 NORTH SIXTH Sheet, Reed it*, Pa. TAR. WILLIAM HARGREAVES, ECLECTIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, No. VIEW= ran( Street, Reading, Pa. THE address of the Democratic Com mittee of Pennsylvania speaks of the experience that• party is gaining in the "school of adversity." The Democrats have been in that school a long time, and *Nally deserved the flogging just. received far paving learned so little., The most Stilnikthrople of the. opponents of corporal punishment will notinterpose in behalf of such blockheads. " BLAIR badges" are the last names for the rosy Bush at the end of old topers' noses. When I'll Vote for Seymour• ants When 1 tOrget the blood we shed, The taxes that we 110 W MC paying; \Vtwtt I forget the brother, dead, 1 charge the Democrats with slaying ; When I target the friend, so true ; Who always met me with a smile, With many another "Boy in Blue," Who starved to death down at Belle Isle ; When I target the first Bull Run, The, comrades shot down at my side, The marches through Virginia's sun, The Wilderness, where Charlie died; When I tbrget old Early's flight, The ride ofglorious Sheridan, (Still nobly fighting for the Right, In spite of Andy's power and ban) ; When I forget how Thomas fought For Freedom down in Tennessee; When Grant's great victories are forgot, And Sherman's grand march to the sea; When I forget this empty sleeve, Which dangles with each breath of air, Then, my dear friend, you may believe vote for Seymour and tbr Blair. —Trenton Sottiuct. A LAnonING man thus writes to the editor of the Toledo (Ohio) Blade, mani festing his disgust for the clap trap and falsehoods of the Democrats in endeavor ing to deceive the mas,-;es into a support of their heresies. The writer below gives evidence of being fully able to put the qnestiou fairly and squarely: EDITOR 13 LADE : Some time ago you noticed a communication in a Democratic paper, from a laborer, contrasting the prices of certain things in 1859 and 1868 1, and showing their relation to prices of labor in these years. This is all very well, and against that kind of argument it is not necessary to offer any other answer than a few shots from the same locker. 1, too, have a chaptor of contrtAsts to otter, and I select, as one of my points of cianparison, the years embracing the winter of I S:18-:19, and the other, this year-1868. I select the year 1838-9 because it is a central point of a term of about forty years preceding the Demo cratic rebellion, and the price of labor that year was about an average of the price for the whole period. And, besides, the Democratic party was in the full tide of success, flushed with victory, carrying everything before it with a high hand, and putting into successful practice the favorite dogma of the party, "To the victors belong the spoils." Martin Van Buren was in the midst of the Presiden tial term ; Wilson Shannon, of odorous memory. had been elected Governor of Ohio, and everything from Dan to Beer sheba, was intensely Democratic as the most radical of the " unterrified" could wish. Then, the wages of :t common laborer was seventy-live cents per day ; he boarded himself', for fifty cents per day, the em ployer furnished the board ; and many a day hath this deponent swung the scythe and wrought in the hay and harvest field, from " early morn till dewy eve," for fifty cents a day. Mechanics then, as now, obtained a little higher wages— lbout a dollar a da-- \V. about a o ar a uay. lu 1838-:19 a laboring man could buy a barrel of superfine dour finr the labor of twelve or thirteen days ; in 1808 it will cost him the wages of five or six days. Then he could buy a barrel of mess pork for the labor of thirty days; now it will cost him fourteen days' labor. Then a dressed hog of 200 pounds would cost him twenty-one days' labor; now he must ex pend the wages of ten days to purchase the same articles. Then the laboring man could buy a dress pattern for his wife, of eightyards of 'Merrimac prints, for the labor of three days ; now, in order to procure a pattern of the same kind of goods, a little larger, it is true (our wives nave grown since ren,) say twelve or fourteen yards, he finds it necessary to invest the proceeds of the labor of one whole day. 0! the taxes, the taxes! the bloated bondholders, and all the tribe of cormorants who have fastened themselves upon our vitals, and are sucking the very life blood from our veins—who shall de liver us from their terrible fangs? But, in 1838, one day's work would procure five pounds of good brown sugar; now he must be content with twelve pounds. In 1838une day's labor would purchase four pounds of loaf or crushed sugar. now it will only purchaSe eleven pounds Then one day's labor would purchase four pounds of Rio coffee; now it will buy but seven. Then Abe, laboror could buy one pound and a half of tea for the labor, of one day ; or, if he was very fas tidious in his taste, and 'must have the best, one day's labor would buy him half a pound; now the day's wages will only PrecuPe one pound of the :one or two P9unds. of . the other. Then .one day's tabor would purchase three to six pounds of butter; now, it will buy but seven or eight pounds. Then a reasonable good suit of clothes would cost the labor of about fOrty days.; now such a suit will cost fifteen. Theft the labor of four days would purchase a pair of good, substantial, thick boots ; LANCASTER, PA., FRIDAY, OCT sliscrilatiesus. Blair • 4011. Then. and .Notv. now it will require three days to accom plish a like result. Then the labor of eight days would suffice to purchase a pair of calf, sewed boots ; now it will re quire six days. Then the labor of twelve days would buy a keg of 10d. nails ; now they will cost two days and a half. In 1867, the laboring men paid no taxes, unless he had taxable property. But how is it now? Will sonic black Republican, Lincoln hireling answer? ANOTHER LABORER .411. ("Week iBnl for the Times. Who have always favored a dissolution of the onion? Democrats. Who brought on the war? The Dem ocratic party. Who have aid and succor to the rebels ? The Democratic party. Who boast that they would not vote a man or a dollar to put down the rebel lion ? The Democratic party. Who were the leaders of the reoel lion ? Democrats. Who are the leaders of the Democracy now ? Ex-rebels, like Wade Hampton, Forrest, Preston and Vance. Who controlled the States in rebellion? Democrats. What party opposed every measure of the Government .to suppress the re hellion' The Democratic party. Who have always declared the war a failure ? Democrats. Who made the Treasury bankrupt at the breaking out of the war ? The Dem ocratic party. Who muraered Lincoln ? The tools of the Democratic party. Who are the fiends calling themselves the Ku-Klux Klan ? Members of the Democratic party. Who burned colored orphan asylums and murdered peaceable colored men in New York? The "friends" of Gov. Sey mour. Who fired hotels with a view of burn ing New York? The minions of the Democracy. Who tried to smuggle into the North small-pox clothing? A good Democrat. Who tried to fasten slavery upon Kan sas, and perpetrated the villianies there ? The Democratic party. Who say that if Seymour and Blair are elected they will win what the South were lighting for? Democrats. Who' tried to make t". S. Grant the leader of their party? The Democratic party. now vilify and traduce, him? The Democratic party. Who called our brave soldiers " Lin coln's pups and hirelings ?" The Demo- CraCV. Who predicted at the breaking out of the war that all the fighting would be on free soil ? The Democratic leaders of the North. Who are those worthies, Brick Pom eroy, Vallandighan►, Forrest & Co.? De►nocratic chieftains. AVIm are trying to dishonor the nation by repudiating the bonds ? Democracy. Who murdered white men for teaching colored children in the South The chivalry of the Democracy. Who after deluging the country in blood and saddling the nation with an enormous debt, now cry out against taxation? The Democratic party. Where are to be found the late leaders in the rebellion? Where they always were, in the Democratic party. Who are going to be badly whipped by the men who whipped them in the army? The Democratic party. Who put down the rebellion ? The Republican party with the aid of the noble soldiers. Who sustained the soldiers in the war? The Republican party. Who destroyed that curse of civiliza tion, slavery? The Republican party. Who will be overwhelmingly defeated on Tuesday next? The Democratic party. An Eloquent Appeal! A monster . meeting of the war Demo crats and merchants of New York city, favorable to the slection of Gen. Grant, was held at the Cooper Institute last week. Judge Edwards Pierrepont, a war Demo crat, and until lately a proinment leader of the Tammany Democracy, made a powerful speech z an extract of which is subjoined. It will repay persual : "And now I ask upon this issue, who will vote against Grant? Will Mr. John Q. Adams, after his recent letter and speech of just rebuke to the South, vote against Grant? Every rebel hater of our free governmentwid vote against Grant. Every cruel jailor who exposed, starved and robbed our prisoned soldiers, will vote against Grant. Every eider in those crimes against humanity and against civilization, perpetrated at the Libby and Anderonville, will vote against Grant. Every contemner of our flag, despiser of our Government, and violater of its benign laws, will vote against Grant. Every rebel raider from Canada, who robbed and .murdered the defenceless people of St. Albans. Every inhuman wretch who plotted to poison your waters, burn your cities, and intro duce pestilence in all the North, will vote against Grant. Every traitor, every BER 30, 1868. conspirator NOM aided in the murder of President Lincoln and the assassination of Secretary Seward, will vote against Grant. And some good men, blinded by party prejudice or held in bondage by party fears, may vote against Grant. But, tell me, will ally father, the blood of whose only son was shed in his coun try's cause, vote against Grant? Will the surviving soldier, who endured the perils, and now shares the glories of successful war, vote against Grant Will the trus tees of the widow and the orphan and the humble laborer, whose little all is ill some saving's institution, dependent wholly upon income derived from Govern mont bonds, vote against, Giant? Will any Father in the Roman Catholic Church, looking to the welfare of the children of that Church, whose earnings are deposited for safety, and drawing in terest from United States securities, vote against Grant ? Will our adopted fellow eitizens, upon whose advice millions of foreign capital have been invested here, vote against Grant? "Will any intelligent man of business, merchant, banker, manufacturer, salaried clerk, or day laborer who wishes stability, security and prosperity for himself and his children, vote against Grant? Will any man who does not wish the nation humbled, treason honored, mid patriotism insulted, vote against Grant:' Consider it well, fellow-citizens—vote deliberately —vote consientiously—vote down the patriot—vote up the rebel if you will ! vote Grant a failure, and Lee the hero of the war. Before you thus vote, tear down these mocking monuments erected to your patriot dead ; demolish every mem orial stone at Gettysburg, and in every place where ()grateful nation has reared a soldier's tomb 1 Level three hundred thou sand little hillocks, under which sleep three hundred thousand young men of the country, they died to save ; the )rrass is very green, so watered by mother's tears, and the roses 1)10(1111 well, which mourn ing sisters and bereaved wives have planted on those graves ! Trample them in the earth—they are all a moekery the sleepers died in an ignoble cause, and well deserved their doom—and the rot toning prisoners of the Libby, and the starving, tortured soldiers at Anderson vine, had hut their just deserts! Vote against Grant; mid when you see the rebels, all red with the blood of your mother's sons, holding high revelry in the Capitol—and confusion, dismay and anarchy in the land—go tell your chil dren : We voted for that !" I=l The Moral Effect, of the Election. It is almost impossible to form any adequate idea of the effect the recent contest in Pennsylvania, Ohio and In diana will produce upon the remaining States. The Republican majorities which have been rolled up in these States may be compared to the ball of snow gathered on the mountain-top, the proportions of which, as. it descends, first with slow, noiseless movement, gradually assume an immensity commensurate with its vel ocity, until finally it rushes with the speed of the wind toward the plain below, over riding all obstructions. Beginning with Nev York, we may take it for granted that the result of the recent elections will produce a marked effect upon the canvass in that State. New York can not afford to assume a secondary part in the programme which has been marked out by the events of the last few days. The instincts of the com, mercial classes of that great State are in imical to majorities. They will never for a inoment, contemplate anything which may he construed into a quiescent resig nation of the power they have heretofore exerted, especially when the instinct of self-preservation warns them to beware of the evil effects such a course would en tail upon them. To take no higher view of the question, we may safely predict that the large body of independent Con servatives in New York will throw the weight of their influence in favor of GRANT. They have the power in their own hands, and it is morally certain that they will exercise it. New York will give GRANT a large majority. Follow ing Nely York, the remaining States will wheel into the line for GRANT, swelling the Republican majority until it rolls over the land like a mighty wave, bear ing upon its crest the glory of a govern ment founded upon the eternal principles of truth, liberty and justice, and upheld by the united voices of an army of free men, such as the history of the world has nevea recorded. Eloquent and True. The Rev. De Witt Talinadffe s of ,? . Phila delphia in a sermon delivered in his church on Sunday the 18th inst., gave utterance to the following passage. Its truth and force cannot be questioned: " God has over and over again, in the last ninety years, shown that he means to have this country for himself. Was it the, greatness of Washington, and the bravery of . Kosiinisko, and the devotion of Marion, and the sacrifice of Warren, and the_ patriotism of our fathers that saved this land in Revolutionary en counter? No I It was the God who in the awful winter nights at Valley Forge, looked upon our troops, and roused the heart of the Pole till lie mine to B i ght for our cause, and drove up the surges of battle to the top of Bunker Hill and en kindled our ancestors to do and die for us, their children's children. It was Jeho vah, that, at Lexington and Yorktown and Monmouth, unsheathed his sword and exclaimed to the trembling Colonists, •• Forward! I will make thee a great nation, and thine ettetnies shall lick the dust !" "Many years passed on, and God look ed down upon the nation and said:— "Let my people go out of bondage." We came out of our commercial houses at the North, mid up from our Southern planta tions, and said :—" This shall never be." God sent upon the nation awful scourges of Asiatic cholera and yellow fever ; and through the reeking hospitals, with still inure emphasis came the committal— " Let lily people go!" No! answered the warehouses. No! answered ninety-nine of the hundred pulpits. No! exclaimed Congressional hall. No! answered Pres idential chair. No ! No I No ! exclaimed all the ballot boxes, North, South, East, West. God came again and said :—"Let iny people go!" And this time he pros trated the nation with great financial panic. Down went ten thousand busi ness firms. New Pork, Philadelphia, lostoi t , Chicago, New Orleans, Savannah in ruins. Millionaires turned into pau pers, and vast populations with no work to do, and no bread to eat. " This will soon blow over. This is the long credit system. We must be more prudent," and soon the factories, roared with new activities, and the exchanges grow noisy with quick bids for railroad stock and government securities. God came again and said:—"Let my people go," and the black cloud of battle hovered over the land, and their was dead in every house, and wafflings of David foe Absolem, and cries of Ratitel refusing to be comforted, because her children were not. Long, deep trenches, reaching frooi Baltimore to Corinth, and from Florida to Gettys burg, into which was poured the blood of a million men. Woe I woe I woe I At last the nation went to its knees. "Let the bondmen go !" exclaimed all parties and all sections. The work was done, and God showed to scoffing England and chagrined France, and confounded des potisms, that Ile meant to have this land for Himself.'' =II The J'resellt• Danger. The fact that the panic-stricken Democracy are bewildered anti contused by the demorali zation of their leaders, should not be allowedto make Republicans indifferent or careless as to their vote. It should never be fingotten that voting is a business with the great body of the Democratic party, who will perform that duty just as well without a Presidentud candidate as with one. It will make no difference whether Blair and Seymour lx off or on the ticket, the Democrats, as a body, will go to the polls just as they will their dinners, or n the free lunch at the legelar rime. There will, there tbre, he a weessity for the Republicans to go to the polls. Let Republicans not suppose that the election “ViT; it will require a full vote and the most untiring exertion to complete the good work c.)iiiinenced last Tuesday.— Chicago Tribune. Let every Republican everywhere—in Pennsylvania especially—heed the warn ing. The Democrats are relying on our supineness, and even now are animated by the hope that there is yet a chance for them. Chairman Wallace has dis patched his secret agents and circulars throughout the State, assuring the party that the confidence of the Republicans is likely to prove their ruin. Ire counts confidently on being ahle, by making .a sudden and vigorous assault, to carry the day in November. Republicans every where) what say you? Democratic Love for the Soldier. As the so-called Democratic party is asking for the votes of the Union sol diers, we would ask these soldiers to carefully weigh the following: What party was it opposed the hill providing for the issue of rations to sol diers at the commencement of the war ?. What party was it who, at the the when our soldiers most needed eaet*- : agement, said: "Not another man nor another dollar for this war?" What party was it that, when our army needed reinforcements, 9- posed recruiting and the draft, and in cited riots? What party was it. that disfranchised the wounded and crippled soldiers who are inmates of the National Military Asylum (Soldiers' Home) at Dayton, Ohio? These men have a permanent home there, and are under the laws of the. State of Ohio, entitled to the elective franchise. If a soldier who has lost his health or a limb, in defence of oar com mon country is not entitled to vote, wba is ? Some rebel, we suppose. What party is it .that is now ettaetesinr, ating Union men every day (or at they are too cowardly to .do it during the, day) in the Southern States? WE have keard of persons preaching their own funeral sermon but believed it a reality until Horatio Sey mour started out last week. NO. 22. T' -
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