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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--
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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
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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.''
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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.
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