SPEECH OF HON. JAMES BUCHANAN, To a DcmocraticMass Meeting- } in the city of Wash.- ingloji, on Friday evening last. .J&r. Bucuanan, after having returned his ac knowledgements to the numerous and respectable assembly of democrats for the honor which they had conferred upon Him by visiting him at his own mansion, proceeded -to address the meeting as follows: Permit me to congratulate you, fellow-citizens, ; upon the cheering news from Ohio. We have reason to rejoice that the democracy of that noble State, under the lead of the gallant and accom plished Weller, although they may not have quite succeeded in electing hijn governor, have yet achieved a triumph in the gqgeral result, which gives us firm assurance oi_a still more glorious victory in November. ... Ent what shall I say, to you of Pennsylvania? I know the object of your visit is to learn something of the prospects of the democracy in that great and good old Commonwealth, from one of her most devoted sons. The fact, I regret to say, Can no longer be dis puted or denied that she has elected a whig gover nor. Longstreth, our candidate, and a democrat every way worthy of this high office, has been de feated by less, it is believed, than 200 votes; but to counterbalance this misfortune, Painter, a sterling democrat, has been elected canal commissioner by a majority of about two thousand. The worst aspect, therefore, which our election can present, is that of a drawn battle. The decisive action will be fouglU on the 7th of November. On that event ful day, the democracy ot Pennsylvania may have to decide the question for the Union, whether their long-cherished principles shall continue to prevail in the federal government, or whether these shall be entirely overthrown and„reversed by a -whig ad ministration.. Shall the Keystone democracy still bear aloft in victory the glorious banner uu which are inscribed, in characters of living light, the names of Jefferson, Jackson. Snyder, Shunk, and a host of other worthies; or will they suffer it to be pros trated in the dust? I do not intend upon this occasion to speak of the high personal character and the eminent qualifica tions of Cass and Butler. With democrats, candi dates for office are but the representatives of our principles. We are not men-worshippers; and yet, it might be truly said, that throughout the whole extent of this broad Union, no more able or worthy repicse'ntatives of these principles could be found. The contest in Pennsylvania will be severe; but with proper exertions on our part, I cannot consider it doubtful.. In deciding this issue, trig with the fate of the country, we know that we have no human power on which we can rely but ourselves. Unmocrats can never coalesce with native Ameri cans, abolitionists, 01 factionists bearing any other nmno. IT they cnnM do this, they must abandon their principles, timUeoiis-oqucntly cease to be demo crats. They have no other reliance than ttpun their own iiiilmmtuble energy fm victory over the utlieil forces pf the npponilinn.. This will imt dt?* Mil them in the hour of m-ed, The greater die pm*in*i‘, the MrffiiHct will he the renctmn. The umpire.; me bmiruhle, Prom the hills niul ulleya nl I'emisykmiiii, every mail now brings me chttfi* lul note* of pi’r'|miutiuii Aroused, nut dUhearton ed, by the impending iluugor, they have resolved to redeem the State, and to hear the Hag of Can? mid Butler through the approaching eon diet. They have determined to adopt a mure par ted organization, and to bring every democrat to the polls, Should they accomplish this object—ill we have an unquestionable majority of the voters —victory, a glorious victory, will rewaid their ellbrtF. Let no democrat lay the flattering miction to his foul that the administration-of Men. Taylor would not lie a proscriptive whig administration. Ami her let me observe, thut even to sei-me the election of Cum and llutlei. I Would not utter n disrespectful Word against' iien. Tnyliu, At the head o| inn brave troop?. lu< has pertotmed must brilliant and efficient ci<rviee&, in a pud, iici'eatai v, and Micceasni) wui, 111111*111 that pn*bijyn ha? greatly vuntribuud to elevate the I'h.tradPr oi the country ihrmighnut the world to a p..jm which it had never reached before. It U, however, no disparagement .iti Itnu to say, that hitherto lie ha? been nothing but a mere soldier, lie has lieu 11 a man of war. from Id? yuiith upward?. Unlike Washington, Jackson, and Harrison, lie has never had any, the least, experience, in civil affims. You might as well employ me, as a mechanic, to construct a steam engine, as to expect that General Taylor could himself exercise a controlling influence in administering the vast and complicated concerns ot the federal government. The thing is impossi ble. Like the fabled .love, he would have to sub mit to his destiny. A whig himself. elected by whigs, and surrounded by a whig cabinet, he would be compelled, by the necessity of his position, to carry into effect whig principles and whig meas ures. Indeed, Ik* would prove faithless to his party should lie pursue any other’ course. Wc all re- roUec.t, that previous to tin* election of Harrison and Tyler, the whig party were solemnly pledged "to proscribe proscription." For the manner"in which they redeemed this pledge. ! would refer you. in no unkind spirit, to the Hon. Francis Gran ger. formerly the Postmaster General of the United Democracy is iuunded upon the eternal princi ples ol truth ami justice. As all men are equal in the sight of their Crea.or. so it regards all, whether poor or rich, as equal before tiie laws.—! Hence it always resists the grant of monopolies and p. ivileges tor the benefit ot the tew. and consequent ly at the expense of the many. It respects the individual man and seeks to elevate his condition. Fettered by no ancient and absurd prejudices, it is in its \ery nntuie progressive. It believes that the people aye their own best friends, ami not their own worst enemies. It leaves man to his individual exertions, restrained by no power except that ol just and equal laws, and thus inspires him with an energy which nothing can resist. Democracy. o\ en by tin* confession 0/ its enemies, is eminently patriotic. It never deserts the country 1:1 time of war: but dings the closer to it in the hour of ilangersuid disaster. Like the pine of Clan Alpine— * ‘•Ours is no nuphng, chance-sown bv the fountain, Blooming at Beltane, in winter to "fade ; When the whirlwind lias stripp’d every leaf on the mountain'; The more slmll I'bn Alpine e.uill urlier aliaje. Moor’d in the retted rock, • Proofln the tempest's shock, dinner lie meets him, the ruder it blows. - And what has be,-ii the Imi! of a policy based upon Mich principles > With the * exception uf a tew brief years, the democracy have administered the general government ever since tlie commence ment ol the present ceritutv And where, since llir Almighty first placed rrnin upon the enrlb. has there been any nation to compare with ours in irtpld and substantial improvement/ It | m s , JDW heepmn the wonder, as well as the mudel of the world. Our pio=j»ri ity has known no ebb Hi Us ‘Weeping eomsi': except imm the expansion* and - • o ofi : hciiitils <tl nm : paper cm : Fem<y ; and tbe indb vidnal niin.-wlttcb this li<t= m'casiniied:. j''ni Ifmpwrary revnUiou= we ate imlelded to whig policy. And j/ven i»m .them, to a great efttenf, ilemncrnry lm= Innud a preventive m mmffi abused independent treasuiy. Whilst thiartffetraiitf wild speculation mid over-trading on the pair uf banks ami individuals, it has at the same time «f- Jurded the best and surest protection m domestic manufactures—a great and growing interest which .must bo over dear to the country. During this long period of unexampled prosper ity, the whigs have been crying out, ruin—ruin. According to them, we have been ruined by almost every prominent democratic measure which has been adopted. We ruined by a refusal 'to recharter the Bank of the United States; ruined by the odious independent treasury: ruined by the Mexican war; -ruined by the acquisition of the vast and fertile Territories of California and New Mexi- co; and just at the present moment we happen to be irretrievably ruined by what the whigs cal! the freeArade tariff, which nevertheless imposes a duty of thirty dollars upon the hundred on nearly all foreign productions which can come into compe tition with our domestic manufactures And yet we have survived all this ruin, and still continue on the high road to unexampled national wealth and greatness. Indeed, at the present moment under the guidance of democratic -principles our country has attained such a character throughout the world that it has- become the envy and the admiration of all nations. Every steamer which arrives from Europe bear 3 this intelligence to om shores. Rest assured, tbe democrats of Pennsyl vania will never abandon principles which have yielded such fruits in prosperity, greatness and glory. The whigs are prophets, ever foreboding ills which are.never realized. Their political for tunes depend solely upon the panics which they can excite amongst the people immediately before an important election. The whig party, at the present moment, calcu « late upon 'carrying Pennsylvania by a division in the democratic party in regard to the question of slavery in our new territories. In this expectation I am convinced they will be disappointed. Demo crats will never abandon their principles and the candidates of their party upon a question merely transient in its nature, and which, no matter how it.may.be ; decided by Congressman never produce any practical result—can never, in point of fact, introduce slavery .- either, into California, or New Mexico. For my own part, more than a year ago, m a published letter to Berks county, I strongly rcconj mended the settlement of this question on the an cient basis of the Missouri compromise. I believed then that this would best promote the peace and Harmony of the Union; and I have since seen no cause to change my opinion. Although I still prefer this compromise, yet I should not object to the compromise which was reported by Mr. Clayton, and passed the Senate, at its last session, leaving the j whole subject of slavery in the new territories,'to j be decided as a question of constitutional law by , the Supreme Court of the United States. I have said that this question is in its nature transient In California it must be finally decided within a brief period by the authority from which, under our constitution, there can be no appeal. All admit that the people of that Territory, when as- ! sembled in convention to frame a State constitution, | possess the sole, the exclusive power to determine j whether slavery shall or shall not exist .within its limits; and the tide of population now flowing into j it fully justifies the belief that California will be j admitted as a State into the Union during the next i Congress. But what will l>e the condition of California du- - ring the brief intervening period? When we ac quired it from Mexico it was free territory, both in law and in fact; and free it must remain, unless its present condition shall be changed by the posi tive enactment of a competent legislative authority. : Such being the clear law of the case, what is the state of the fact ? Time and more correct informa- ' tion from California have fully demonstrated that | this is no longer a practical question. Slavery never ! will exist in California. Both the will of its people ; and the laws of nature have decreed the exclusion ! of slavery from that territory. The people already there are nearly unanimous upon the subject; and j the emigrants who are now crowding into this fine 1 and fertile territory are chiefly from the Middle and j Northern States. Besides, the soil, the climate, and i the productions of California are all opposed to i slavery. Nature is thus opposed to It, and the act , of man can not carry it there. The power of j Congress cannot legislate it into that territory. ; They may adopt the Wilmot Proviso, the Missouri j compromise, the Senate's compromise, or resolve \ to db nothing, and the practical result will be pre* j cisely the same. Besides, does any man doubt, from the character ai id known opinions of the people, that when they come to frame their constitution, they will forever prohibit slavery in the new State? This question is. therefore, transient in its nature, and not of the least practical importance. It will settle itselt , within a brief period, both in California and New Mexico; and this is most propitious for the peace i and perpetuity of our Union—of Union —which we should never name without heartfelt gratitude to Almighty God, and \Vhich can never be endangered by any other question than that of slavery. This wilt, fortunately, be a final settlement, becnuse we possess no more territory to which the question can be at all applicable, As a practical question, all the excitement which has-been raised upon the subject has been worse than useless. For my own part. I respect profoundly the led • ings nf those democmts in my imtiu* Slate who have pui'luU’ii in this excitement, I know them to be a* intelligent, und u* devoted to the great uml glorious principle* of the party, a* any democrat* throughout thi’ laid It i* lor tin* reason, 1 think 1 may veuim" to u**m e j on that they will never peril the<epi'jurjplt3»inr the sain )Hii'pQ*ooi'exdmling*la v cry from n territory where,from the nature ul thing*, it never cun i«xb»l. They will not auflbrtheßiieienl and time-honored bnnner ol democracy, which Ims waived over them in triumph throughout so many wyll-lought fields, to be trailed in the dust ahd tram pled under foot by their old political enemies, tor the sake of a mere abstraction. If they should act in this manner, bitter would be their regret upon finding a whig administration installed into power, by their desertion of the good old cause at the pres ent critical moment. Sad would be their reflec tions in beholding their undent adversary engaged in the work of destroying ull those wise measures uf de-muemlic policy which they themselves hnd contributed to establish, and in substituting for them the oiWvplmied measure* of the whig parly, which they, all their lives, had loudly condemned and resisted Yen may test assured, my fellow* eitdens, hurt we shall never witness *ueh a speeUu cle in good old Democratic Pennsylvania, Hut there is another aspect m the Presidential question which ha* always struck nte with the greatest force. What would be the effect of Gen. 1 Taylor s election, as a precedent, in after times ? Fioni Gicsur to Cromwell, uml from Cromwell to Xupoteou, all powerful republics havebeendeatroyed by investing successful generals, fresh from the fields of their glory, with the highest civil power. The history ol the world has, therefore, taught re publics to be jealous ol standing armies. For this reason, we have adopted it as a maxim, that* the military shall always be in strict subordination to the civil power. it would beTinjust to say that distinguished mil itary services should have no weight in theselection of a President; but our Presidents ought to come, as they have done in all times past.directly Irom the ranks of the people, and not from the ranks of the army. Washington was a farmer, Jackson was a farmer. Harrison was a farmer; all three had been nothing but fanners for years before the American people elevated them to the highest civil trust. Kaeh one of them had long before retired from the army and engaged in civil pursuits. The election ol General Taylor would, therefore, establish an entirely new precedent. A major gen eral, who had been all his life in the regular army, would thus be immediately transferred, without even an intermediate breathing spell, with all the habits of a camp life fresh upon him, from the ac tual command of one of our military districts to the head of the civil government. Although we all know that Gen. Taylor would form no designs ugainst the liberties of his countryj. yet, in alter limes, under the sanction of this precedent, other generals, animated with the spirit of a Czesar or a Cromwell, may reach the presidential chair. In the mean time General Taylor s election will encourage a spirit throughout the land hostile to the pursuits of peaceful industry and commerce. Our aspiring youth, finding that the path to mili tary glory is the road to high civil distinction, will be ever ready and anxious to involve the couutry in foreign wars. Under this precedent, too, officers of every grade in the regular army, whilst actually holding and exercising their military commissions, may be come’candidates for civil office before the people of the different States, and engage actively as parti sans to secure their own election—an event which but three short years ago would have been deemed impossible in this country. Upon the whole,.my fellow-citizens, as the lime is but short between this day ami the 7lh of No vember, I trust you will redeem it by using all hon orable means to secure the election of Cass and Butler. Should victory follow, as 1 have eveiy reason to believe it will, this of itself will be ait ample reward for all your patriotic efforts. -riii) Opinion ol Clay ou ERvutlnu Mllltur.v OlileftuluM to tlie Preal ilency. " Itepfillpss nl all liii|iiilaiinii? : amt (uoiiil uf ihe'omim'iuitily or ftw tuuj immiFuiiied intereoorte with all my ielloiv-fitlKeio). if i! were nhytiually liiwililu, and ywii|ißlilile will, my affirm! ilutirs, 1 waiihl visit every Hiitlo, yit to every town ami hum- In, unit itdilresa every nmn in’the Union, Mid entreat them, liy their lave «f country, by their love of liberty, far theeakfi at themselves tttul their posterity, in the name of their venerated ancestors, in the name of the human family, deeply interested in the fulfilment of the trust committed to their'hands, by all the past glory we have won, by all that awaits us as a nation, if we are true and faithful, in grati. tilde to Him who has hitherto so signally blessed* us, to pause, solemnly pause, and contemplate the precipice which yawns before us. If, indeed, we iiave occurred the Divine displeasure, and it be necessary to chastise this people with a rod of vengeance. I would humbly prostrate myself before Him, and implore Him,'in His mercy, to visit onr favored land witli war, with pestilence, with famine, with any scourge other than military rule, or a blind and heedless enthusiasm for mere military renown.'' Horace Greely’s Taylorism. In consenting to support Zachary Taylor for the Presidency, Horace Greely made the following statement, which must be exceedingly interesting to those who .shut their eyes and “ go it blind "But I have not changed my opinion of the nomina tion of Gen. Taylor. 1 believe it was umciie and UNJUST—for Gen. Taylor personally, I liave ever spoken with respect; but 1 believe a candidate could and should' have been chosen more deserving, MORE CAPABLE, more popular. 1 cannot pre tend lo support him with enthusiasm, FOR I DO IS OT FEEL ANY”. Hear him ? Freeman H. Morse, late a whig congressman from Maine, recently addressed the 'whigs of his district, and in the course of his remarks spoke of their nominee for President as follows: “What has Gen. Taylor done for the country that connects his name with any principles? Ido not want a man who will run as the candidate of the Native American party, or the free-soil party, or the locofoco party, or,any party that may take him up. :} intelligencer & Journal; E. W. HUTTER, EDITOR Lancaster,; October 44, 1848. FOR PRESIDENT, (Sen. Tetois Cass, of Michigan FOR VICE PRESIDENT, Sen. fcOilligm (D. Butler, OF KENTUCKY ID* Democrats! All Remember, The Seventh of November! On that day, one nnd all, GO TO THE POLLS, and vote the following Electoral Ticket, pledged to the support of LEWIS CASS and WILLIAM 0. BUTLER: DEMOCRATIC ELECTORAL TICKET. Sexatohial Elec runs. WILLIAM BIGLER, of ClearfaM. DAVID D. WAGENER, of Northampton. District Electors. '• HENRY L. BENNER. * HORN R. KNEASS. ISAAC SIICNK. AUGUSTUS L. ROUMFORT. “ JACOB S. YOST. ROBERT E. WRIGHT. WILLIAM W. DOWNING. HENRY HALDEMAN. “ PETER KLINE. ■ , BERNARD S. SCHOONOVER. WILLIAM SWEETLAND. JONAH BREWSTER. JOHN C. KING. •• JOHN WEIDMAN. ROBERT J. FISHER. *• FREDERICK SMITH. JOHN CRESSWELL. CHARLES A. BLACK. GEORGE W. BOWMAN JOHN R. SHANNON. GEORGE P. HAMILTON WILLIAM H. DAVIS. TIMOTHY IVES. JAMES G. CAMPBELL. ID” We are indebted to the Washington Union for early proof-impressions of the able impromptu speech of Mr 81-cii.isax, contained in the Litdii- eetucr of to-day Official Vote. We had expected to be able to publiib a table to-day, containing the full vote of the State for Gov. emnr and Cunul rimioiisHouer, But as several counties ure still wanting, we juelei to delay its publication until out next, JoiixstoXs olllciul umjuiity will he about non.. Ihtsi'mis lur Canal I 'niniiiinbuucr will be Iroiit 11 to ItOOO. Male l.cuiNiutui'f. The next HmiM'i.r Uepteiientatlver. in thin State w ill Maud exactly a lie —An Deniuvreta, t,tt Whigs. Ibis will uiiike the uigani/.iition interesting, if not Democratic Courage. M e lowe yet the llrst Democrat to meet, whom the result of the Oetobe, election ill this State has in the slightest degree disheartened. All ate eager lur the November contest, and eubiident ol success. Non' Ibr ditNN mid lliilicr. Heinoerntsl to your posts and yum duly I The ealtse mid the piinelples ol |)eii]o<jruey*=yoiu : own leputaliiili mill that nl'oitr tfltllitnl Stutr, depend oil your exertions, it thisinnl the Ith nflS’otem. her. I lie eyes itud the hopes ol' the Poiunentey of the Union jib upon yon. Let-tint those hopes be disappointed—those eyes have cause to weep over your dcgentrucy. To the rescue! Up, guards, and at them! Israel Painter, Esq. Ihe Democratic (..'anal Commissioner elect is a citizen of Westmoreland county, and one ot our safest and sternest republicans. He is still a young man, not lar lrom thirty, but his mind is singularly practical, and his habits those acquired by an in dustrious and active life. He will stand fast to the interests ol the State, and will prove a most efficient auxiliary to the able and intelligent Lo.nustukth. The election of Col. Paintku at this moment is a valuable advantage,'and may save our State from millions of new debt, and relieve it from the curse of that balelul example which prostrated it so completely under the last Federal State adminis tration. Boz-and the Whigs. Ibe story ol the Lamplighter, in Boz, forcibly illustrates the premature crowing of the whigs in Pennsylvania, over the supposed election of Nkr MjiJiJLKswARTU as Canal Commissioner, ami the threatened removal ot the Democrats holding office on the Canalsand Railroads. “I am told, gentlemen, by the bye,” remarked the Lamplighter, “that the philosophers stone would have been discovered a hundred times, at least, to speak within bounds, if it wasnt lor the unfortunate circumstance, that the apparatus is always sure to blow up when it s on the very point of succeeding.” If we mistake not. the whigs will realise this laot over again in No vember. They now count confidently on currying Pennsylvania tor Taylor, but the apparatus will be sure to blow up again, when on the very point of succeeding. Rouse tbe Committees! This day two weeks is the day of election. The denouement of the campaign takes place, and the curtain falls. It is beyond all question one of the most important slruggles which has ever taken place jn the United Blates, and the victory must fall to the republican party if they do their duly in the short itilervul belween this and the day of file election, House the cotiiinittpes! we repeat. Let every Democrat of every eoitiity ruiisi* ti|i=-tso tu the pnlU and fairy his neighbors with him Let every man write, let every man talk, and let every man wink, thr ’’eternal vigiiunee is the priee «f liberty. 1 We null upon onr rtqmblmau iriirnda in all quartern af the l-itate m bestir themselves, D» they believe the whigs will be as|uep i p 0 tfipy believe that they are not scattering documents through till the lamJ-r-thut money, of which their rich capitalists in their towns, the manufacturing men, the bank men, the men of every species of incorporation have so abundant a share, will not be poured out like water ' No ; let ti* not deceive ourselves. We must put lorth alt our cnergies.and overthrow them by our better cause, and our supe rior enthusiasm. ! Taylor—.Tlie Wflmot Proviso. j 10* At a meeting of Taylor Whigs in Paducah, Kentucky, ou the 27th of September, in reply lo the question of Linn Boyd, Mr. Bailie Peyton, of Louisiana, suid that FROM GEN’L TAYLOR S FROM HIS POSITION, HIS INTER EST AS A SLAVEHOLDER AND A COTTON ■PLANTER, HE (Mr. I>.) BELIEVED, AND .HAD NO KIND OF DOUBT, BUT WHAT GEN. TAYLOR WOULD VETO THE WILMOT PRO VISO, IF IT SHOULD PASS THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. Alarm Bell in Readings Tlie Berks County Press recommends the pur chase of an alarm-bell by the public authorities ot the city of Reading. We trust it may be procured —and rung so loudly on tbe. 7th of November as to be heard over the whole of Berks county.. The Difference. : The Columbia South Carolinian calls upon the Charleston Democratic Taylor men to publish the letter Gen. Butler addressed to them. It is under stood he has refused the use of his name along with .Taylor. Heads Up! Shies Bright! We have never known a period, when the Dem ocratic press of Pennsylvania breathed a more con fident tone, than it now does in reference Vo the coming contest. So far from exhibiting ihe least discouragement under the unexpected result* of the' 2d Tuesday of October, they are nerved to a reso lution to labor with increased vigilance for the success of Cass.'and Butlxb on the 7th of Novem ber. We quote from some of the leading Demo cratic journals. The York Democratic Press says: The whigs succeeded in reducing the democratic majority in Work county by a quiet and effective organization, while our friends permitted themselves to repose in false security. 1 That the whigs used every exertion to secure an unusually large vote is evident, for circumstances have transpired since the election to convince us of that fact, and when we take into consideration that there are aooo v oters in this county who did not vote at the last election, we are not over sanguine in expressing a belief that at the Presidential election, .when a full vole unll be polled, Cass and Butleh will receive the usual ma jority in Old Democratic York. Our friends instead of being discouraged at the result of the late elec* tion, seem determined to go to work with increased energy and perseverance." Ihe Beaver Argus holds the following encoura ging language: "The Abolitionists voted for the Whig county ticket in a few districts only, but threw nearly their entire strength in the county for Gov. Johnston, which explains his majority of 37G over Judge Longstreth. -Their vote cannot, by any reasonable calculation, be given to Gen. Taylor.'' The Danville Intelligencer remarks in reference to the vote oi‘Columbia .county: ‘-Let no democrat despair for a moment, of the result in November. Many of the causes that operated against us at die late election, will not exist in November, and it will be utterly impossible for (he Federal party to effect as strong a union of all the opposition fac tions upon Taylor as they did upon Johnston. Lv every township in Columbia county our friends are sanguine they ma improve the Demount t> vote upon the ne.it trial. As far as in their power, ever)’ whig was at home and at the polls, on Tuesday last. Let every Democrat resolve to vote at the next trial, and we are sure to win. We have the strength, it all vote, to carry Pennsylvania, and it can and it will be done.” The Berks County Press says of the prospect in that Gibrultar of Democracy: “It is useless to cry over spilled milk, or to moralize upon the unex pected turn matters have tuken, We trust it will be u warning to the Democracy of old Berks, to turn otit iu their might iu November, ami give 0000 HHtjnriiy ini Cass und Hutuih, This we are sure they eun do it' they will but tty, There are at least £OOO Deiimeratir vulph In the county which were not polled at the late election. Hut there must he uo folding uf hands, no Mipineueufi’ no indolcjiee nu their pint. Kvery inmi must come up to the work, und act as if he thought that the result of the contest depended upon his single vote alone." The lie#/ Chester Republican ‘0011163 to hand freighted with the most Stirling appeals to those Democrats in .tliut vnuuty. who remained ut home in November, The Intelligent und lnlliumttol editor of the Repiiblimn says; "We can say to our Dene oomiio frietuls abroad, that though the Democrats uf Chester vnuuty eonsider themselves del'eated= liadly heaieit=ut the late eleetliui, they are not at all disheartened by the result, either in comity or '‘'late, hut are Inspired thereby, with a spirit ami determination which will prompt them to the grtmh est possible effort* to redeem their own character, and secure the State for laasaud Hutler in Novem ber. Since Tuesday last, we huvo met with Dem ocrats from ull parts of our county, and we are pleased to say that the’response of all was—we can and will do better at the Presidential election. We have this from both townships that did well in the late contest, and those that failed in their duty; and we cannot but feel encouraged by this bold, manly and determined bearing of our friends, under defeat.” The Harrisburg Keystone .says : " Wc are confident the late election will serve to arouse the Democrats ol the State to redoubled action. We are not de feated—the contest was so qlose that it can be re garded in no other light than as a drawn battle, with a large portion of our forces not in the field- Efficient organization in every county, by which the entire Democratic vote will be brought out, is all that is required to overwhelm our opponents in November/’ J he Washington Eramiucr, after accounting lor tlie peculiar causes which gave to Johnston 117 majority in that county, says: “We now feel confi dent that Washington county will give Cass am! Butler at least 300 majority.” The Easton jjrgus says: “Whipped, or not whipped, we must never surrender. If we are beaten now, it will be by a very small majority, and we must go to work and. fight nnuh harder for Cass and Butler-. Under the existing circumstances, Johnston was much stronger than Taylor everwas. or ever will be, and we can easily cany the Mato for Cass, if the Democrats do their duty. ‘ The Pennsylvania Register, published at Mifflin town, says: ‘-Juniata has clone well, but she will do better in November.” Gen. Taylor’s Democracy. The Federalists, alias Whigs, in their false docu uments, which they have circulated by tens of .thou sands, to deceive and defraud the honest people of Pennsylvania, assert that Gen. Taylor is a Demo crat. This is the cap sheat of deception. Gen. Tuylot. in his early letters about the Presidency, said, 11 In ho rune ran l permit myself to he (he nunfi date nf tiny party." l<ee his letters Id .1. W. Taylor, Muv IN, INI/, to I’etm K .Uily il, lM7;to Dr, Wilfnjf, July s‘k IF»47‘, and to many others during llioi jimi ABctnmining Hum Itw Whig litemU that he might obtain the nomination of the Federal, alias Whig National Convention, he ehanged his tone, and tm formed J, ii Ingersoll, J. H. Allison tmd miters, liy letters, that he, % Taylor, had also been a Whig, although he had never voted; but if he had vut<*d at the lust Presidential election, he would have voted for Clay. Although lie solemnly pledged himself not to accept u party nomination, he eagerly accepted the nomination of the Native and Whig Conventions, thus scattering to the winds his plighted fuitfi. Can such a man be trusted l Certainly not. Hr an steered the If Vugs and Natives that he fordittlly accepted their nomination, alter repeatedly telling of the Uni ted States, that he would not permit himself to be the candidate of any party. His Federalism can no longer be doubted. Where did the Money come From? We have ascertained from the very best author ity, says the editor of the Easton Jlrgus, that Mox e y was freely used by the federalists of this county at the election on Tuesday. On some of the election grounds, men who were known to be penniless, flourished hands full of notes, with the avowed pur pose of electioneering for Johnston and the federal ticket In one township particularly, was this ob served to be the case. Now where dul this money come from* We cannot believe that it was raised in Northampton alone. It was brought or sent here from abroad, and may have been part of the fund of $200,000 which, some of the federalists boasted had been raised to help the election of Gen. Taylor. This may be the secret of federal success 10" Gen. Cass, while Governor of Michigan and Indian agent for the Government, secured by friend ly and bloodless treaty with the Indians, nearly one hundred million acres ofiand, worth at the lowest estimate, moje than $300,000,000! Gen. Taylor and the Tariff. Amongst other falsehoods published by the Fed eral Whigs, in the German copy of the life of Gen. Taylor, is the assertion that he, Gen. Taylor, is a Tariff man. This, of course, was intended to de ceive the fritads of the Tariff of '-12. It is a villain* ous:cheat to represent Gen. Taylor as aTariff man. i General Taylor w a cotton planter, residing on tke banks of the Mississippi, and by the aid of his numer ous slaves makes up twelve hundred bales of cotton yearly. His friends in the South press Gen. Tay lor's claims upon the Southern anti-Taridites.on the ground that “ his interests and his feelings are alltcith them, and that , as a large slaveholder and cotton plan ter, he cannot be a tarijjiic." - Old Virginia. The democracy of Virginia have recently a State Convention to organize the democratic party preparatory to a great democratic victory in No vember. Among the committees appointed on the occasion was one whose duties were to ascertain and report upon the prospects of the success of the democratic ticket. The committee on the subject made a report, stating, that,' after a most liberal allowance to the whig vote, the committee had arrived at the conclusion that the democratic ticket would succeed in Virginia by 70,000! Gen. Taylor at Home. .The Nav Orleans Courier gives the strongest as surances that Louisiana is safe for Cass and Butler. That paper says: “ A tew there may be, whose personal acquaint ance with and reganLfor Gen. Taylor may render them indifferent to party obligations. . These are, however, known to be few and far between. It is. certainly not very flattering to his personal' influ ence to know, that m the very neighborhood where he resides,'his political opponents outnumber his political friends nearly Ow> to one." South Carolina. The bubble recently blown) up by the opposition in regard to the late election in South Carolina, will soon explode, as we expected. Jt appears from the Charleston Minvry that there were not enough Taylor candidates miming, had all been elected, to give the electoral votes of the State to Taylor. Our readers will recollect that Presidential electors in South Carolina are chosen by the Legislature, not by the people. No doubt need be entertained about the Palmetto State. Vote for Lewi* Cass. One of the ablest writers in the country i? LKWIS CASS. One of the moat EMINENT statesmen in our country upon political nffairs', and the bent acquain ted with our institutions, is LEWIS CASS, One of the truest Democrats, radically committed to Democratic principles, is LEWIS CASS, One ol’.tho best hearted men uf the great Wm— honest, kind, and devoted to right, is LKWIS (.'ASS. One of the purest putriats, who luts done morn for his country than most public men, is LKWIS CASS. A true hearted, a whole hearted AMERICAN, is LEWIS CANS.— York Gazette, Another Soldier Gone I Major Samubl Huitx, enys the JHuston Jhgw, an old resident of tills borough, died on Tuesday morm ing, from a disease contracted in Mexico. In the war uf I hl'J, he Joined the army uml fought bravely under Gen, Scott at Lundy's Lane ami in other battles, When the Mexican war broke out, he Joined the Mauch Chunk company »« a drummer and heat his drum at most e ,; ery battle from Vtjra Cim to Mexico, On Ida return home he was taken sick, and reached home hut to lie down uml die. His remains wore interred in the old Lutheran burial ground, with military honors, ilia funeral was attended by the Easton band, thtr Easton Ar tillerists and about -U) returned volunteers. Tlie A\e at Work! We omitted to mention in our last the following appointments and removals in the State Department at Harrisburg.-made immediately after the election: Sanmel Aileman. Chief Clerk, in place of Col. Jacob Seiler. Frederick Fenn, Chief Clerk of the Common School Department. William Hickok. of Susquehanna county, Clerki vice Joseph Innes. D. P. Haines, of Chester county, vice A. M. Clark. Colin McCurdy, vice William Sample. - Secret Taylor Letter. It is stated that the whig candidates for electors in Virginia have a secret letter, from Gen. Taylor, which they exhibit to their friends, to prove that Gen. Taylor is opposed to the Wilmot Proviso! In Pennsylvania they are running the General as a friend to the Proviso. Oh ! the duplicity and chi canery of politics. Congress District XXIV. Alfred Gilmore, (Dem..) is elected to Congress by -100 majority from this district, composed of Indiana. Armstrong, Clearfield, and Butler. 'Phis is a democratic gain. The Bitterness of Partt.— Before General Cass was brought forward as a candidate for the Presidency, he was spoken of by men of all parties, as a statesman who conferral honor on the Amer ican name. The North Ameritan Reviac, the lead ing periodical of the country* thus spoke of Gen. Cass in 183*/ . “The history and science, as well as the social prosperity of Michigan, are not under greater obli gations to •any individual, living or dead, than to that distinguished soldier, scholar and statesman. Deafen, but not Ooutiucred I Lei this be the motto uf every Democrat uf' Pennsylvania, Ihmt the present time till the Mb of November-=we ell on the lyih of October, a via* tiiti foovef:(iut)iiileuge==oui vote was uvt whllM that of the foimy mini He dUhonetfly combined with all the laelioitM}!' the State to overthrow m t and lie hueeeeded. 11m our fall ia uuly temporary, Prom our lumber earth let it** ii>»« refreshed and resolved tu get out one whole volt, for Cask,and BuTMtll. Let every Democratic voter of Pennsylvania awake and arouse to his duty. —Reading Press. Taylor In doomed to certain, in evitable and disgraceful defeat/’ So spoke John M. Butts of Virginia to his New York friends; and the stern reality of the remark in now within a few weeks of its positive verification. Still the whigs are holding on—some of them apparently in earnest, too; and one would almost conclude, from reading their papers, that they even at this moment actually believe it possi ble to reserve Bolt's honest confession, as if it were not to be realized; but they will very soon learn the full force of the prophecy. Painful and Fatal Accident. An accident of the most painful character, — which seems to us purely the result of carelessness, as, indeed such occurrences usually are, —took place in this city on Tuesday evening last, at the residence of Mr. Hexht Baumgardner. The fol lowing are the particulars; After the lamps were lighted in the evening, the servant-girl, an adult, was about replenishing them with camphine, while still burning—the blaze was communicated to the can, causing it to explode, and throws its contents in all directions, covering the maid and a little son of Mr. B's., in his third year, the only persons in the room, with flame. By the assistance of a neigh bor, the flames were extinguished; but not until the child was so severely burned that it died after a few hours of intense suffering.. The maid, altho’ in a very critical condition, may possibly recover. — Fmmer. ADDRESS OF THE DEMOCRATIC, STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. To the People of Pennsylvania ■ Before again addressing you on the political U sues now pending before the country, the Demo cratic State Central, Committee have preferred ;to wait until the result of the October election could be ascertained definitively. The extraordinary closeness of the vote for State officers, has delayed the fulfilment of this purpose until the present pe riod. The uncertainty in which the issue was for some days is; now to a great-extent re moved, and we are enabled to present a more de finite view of the results, and of the causes that have produced them. Notwithstanding the premature exultation of our opponents, the official returns establish, that the Democratic candidate for Canal'Comimssioner, [sraei. Painter, is elected by between two and three thousand majority. This is a tribute, due not less fo a consistent and well-tried Democrat, than to the sterling county of Westmoreland, which has so often gladdened our hearts with its splendid majorities. We regard this event as affording just cause for general felicitation, as it preserves our lines of Internal Improvement from the hands of a party, that has never wielded them, except to the public detriment Already had they battened in prospective on this department of the State pa tronage, threatening to visit every democratic in j cumbent, however, capiablc or honest, with peremp tory dismissal from the public service. This pro scriptive spirit is now happily frustrated, and our canals and railroads are preserved from serving as the instruments to wreak the revenge of proud tiud embittered partisanship. As compared with October, 1840, wo have gain ed a member of Congress in the Vlth district* (Bucks and Lehigh,) by 320 majority. We have gained another in the A'Vlth district. (Cumberland, Franklin, and Perry,) by about 160 majority.— We haje gained another in the XXIVth district, j (Butler, Armstrong, Indiana and Clearfield,) by | from 2to 300 majority. We have lost but a sin j gle district, viz: the Hid, (Philadelphia county,) bv | reason of the amalgamation between the Whigs, j Natives 'and Abolitionists. The XXth district* | (Washington and Beaver,) has been decided against |,us by barely 58 votea, and tjie XVIIth district, ! (Huntingdon, Blair, &e.) by only about 60 votes. I M e have no duubt that the official results will es tablish, that on the Congressional vote the Dvmto , I'i‘utshave a decided majority, 1 The Shite Senate retnuins for the time being in the hands- of uur opponent*, ehielly by reason of those holding over. Kmler the most unfavorable view, tlie Mouse of Bepreientatlves stand* a fit, This hit* heen effected by the |u** of eight mem* | ber* in Philadelphia comity, by reason of the , amalgamation—two in Luzerne, one in Cambria, one in Cumberland, and one In Washington, : through local divisions—and the further loss of I t\yo in Schuylkill, from causes of which we shall speak hereafter. If our anticipations have not been realized in the vote for Governor, it has resulted from no ' want of confidence in uur worthy candidate, Mint* tits LusiiMTnfcTHj uud less from the real mitneri* eul preponderance of our opponents. On the eon» : trary, the result is distinctly tracetible to causes wholly different. The history of all parties ha* es tablished that it is not a pamdu* that their own strength is sometimes an element of weaknesip ; conducing to undue and dangerous security,=- ! Never Ims the truth been more strikingly exem* | plifiod than in the recent election. The Demo- I eratic party entered into the contest, so entirely i free from doubt ns to the issue, that thousands of ! Democratic voters have not deemed cither their 1 exertions or their suffrages necessary to secure a victory. The figures, compared with previous elcc tiens, demonstrate ineontestibly, that the Democra tic party, if beaten at ait , owes its defeat, not to the superior strength of the foe but their own cri minal supineness. Whilst ours was a condition of most unmaster . Iy inactivity, the minority, stimulated by a com mon hostility to the Democratic party, have formed I every species of artful combination, compound ing the most heterogeneous materials into one uni ted and harmonious whole. By the-superadded ; efficacy of a general and thorough organization, i extending into every house and hamlet, the more j effective because secret and unsuspected, they have - j achieved results, which they have never accom ! plished before, and which, we promise them, no art l j or artifice shall enable them soon to accomplish i i again. We attribute the Governor’* vote mainly to the pernicious self-security of the Democratic party* Butother causes powerfully co-operated. In some ot our strongest Democratic counties, the par ty was more than usually distracted In refet> ence to the choice of local incumbents. Under the State Constitution, the people triennaliy elect their Prothonotaries, Registers, Recorders, Clerks of Courts, and in many counties their Sheriffs. These are always, on both sides, more or less, the subject of excited competition, but as the De mocratic party is in the majority in fully two-thirds of the counties, the disposition of this local patron age always necessarily affects them much more in juriously than their opponents. When discontent pervades a county in reference to the local nomi nations, the vote for State officers is always cor respondingly affected. Time and space forbid ex tended details—hut rarely has the Democratic party in this State aft/Vered so severely from this cause, ns in the present year. None of these mis* diievous local quarrels will distract us at the Pre* uidenllul electiun in Nuvembeh hi despite nf nil these miitivumble chetum-Uiu'es, the inajoilty fur the Federal eandhlate lor Governor is merely imminal: hi n vole h| probably more than iinij.iiuu, his wHtiwtl majority eawist much e*eeed, ii it juij, This it more than eenm ter-halam>«d by the alleged palpable fraud* on the efrutjve iVanchUe in Mutylkill and other enuntieu, which defy all explanation on fair and honest prin ciple- Iruitwi of the miningdistrtieU of Schuyl kill, the increase of the Federal vote, compared with last year, is SEVEN HUNDRED AND SEVEN 1 \-ONE, whilst the Demorrutiifincrease is barely SEVENTEEN! When it is remembered, that our opponents allege.that the ruinous tarilT of 18-lii has compelled them lo discharge hundreds ol operatives, this increase is as extraordinary as it is improbable and unnatural. We do not say that we will u treat the election as if it had jtd'er taken place." We do not advise a resoit to the soldiery of our State, armed with u buck-shot and ball but we do affirm, that the peaceful provisions of the law wifi be resorted to, for a thorough and searching exa*J ination ot these inexplicable results. It it is our deliberate conviction, that Mourns Lonostueth has been chosen by the lawful suffrages of the people of Pennsylvania as their next and if such result shall appear on the legal investigation to be insti tuted, neither the civil or military power of the State can prevent him from exercising for the next three years the Executive functions. To our fellow laborers throughout the State, we say be of good cheer / Wc discover in the recent results no cause whatever for doubt or despondency —but much for hope and encouragement. All that is necessary to carry our State triumphantly for CASS and BUTLER, is' that every Democrat shall go to the polls and deposite his ballot. For their apparent victory, our opponents, not to speak of the Schuylkill fraud, are literally indebted to the fact that thousands of Democratic voters have remained in the quiet pursuit of their avocations, instead of coming up to the ballot-boxes. Shall this be re peated in November f Patriotism and duty forbid t. The honor and good name of our ancient Com. jjnonwealth forbid it. The safety and perpetuity of glorious Union*forbid it. 'Surely,now that the 5 perseverance, the energy, and zeal of oiir foes have been >o .ummstajk'&bly displayed, no Democrat will consent a second time to the neglect of the sacred right of suffrage. ’General. Taylou may not have ■voted for fortyVyeariy but this is not n fit example forouj- imitation. Every consideratioiywhich can cause a single chord'in the human heart to.vibrate, impels us to different conduct. We have candidates worthy of,the high places for which they have been named, and our principles are those that have guided the Republic from weak infancy to its pres ent proud and powerful rank in the list cf nations. To our Democratic co-laborers in other States, we impart the confident assurance, founded on the most reliable intelligence, received since the late election, that no single State in the Union is more certain for the Democratic nominees than Pennsyl vania. It has passed into a proverb, that the Dem ocratic party oi this State, has never been beaten twice in succession. Whenever defeated, from any cause 1 whatever, it has invariably, at the very first opportunity, risen in its offended majesiy, and pros trated its political foes by overwhelming majorities. We ieel safe in predicting, that the present year will not constitute an exception to this rule, but will add another brilliant example to establish it as a truism. The unconquerable legions of Old Berks will alone save the State in November.— Already is the note of preparation sounded. Al ready is the consecrated Cross of Fire sped from hand to hand, summoning the Democrotic clansmen to the field of action. Already have the high pm - i jKises of our Democracy passed with electric sym pathy from heart to heart, until from the borders of the Delaware to the shores of Lake Erie are heard only the tones of- indomitable perseverance, confi dence. and courage. Whatever ;the issues of tha examination oi the vote for Governor—and into whatever degrading depth the temporary useen* denoy of Federalism may sink our State.it does not intend to be instrumental in entailing a similar catastrophe on the Union. Pennsylvania will rise, like Phoenix, from the ashes of her late disaster. Like the giant cast to the earth, she will gain fresh vigor from the fall, and return with redoubled energy to the struggle, irom which she cannot fail to emerge the victor. From being beaten, she will learn to beat. We repeat to our sympathising friends elsewhere —Fear not for Pennsylvania. — All is well! Profiting by our recent reverses, every Democrat will engage in the coming content i\9 his own personal concern* and rush with alacrity to the perservatloti of the republican citudel. Let other States tlu as they may, as for Pennsylvania, she wilt jffl'r her tivtnty*h EhUwat votes to Lkwh Cass ami William 0. Butdhi. —- Kenpeetlhlly your bVllow-ciluens, E. W. tIUTTKR, Chairman. Mnri'iw 1), Holbrook, Prunei* A, Tlmimm, Solomon Dompfr#. .1. A, Philips, Lewis Pelouze, John Roberts. Ji,, John W, Ryan, lieuige Plitl, Wm, H, Uutikvii, Hugh Clark, Win, J. Leiper, Owen Join's, Charles Kuglcr, John Hickman, John Johnson, 1,. |\ Hitchcock, A. K. Wright, Geo. H. MEariasd, Robert M. Barr. Win.'AL Heiitir, John C\ Myers. Peter Bowman. J. R. Af rilntock. John Dunn, John Coyle, ; Rmly Patterson. Henry 8. APGiaw. H. (\ Hale, George tUihii, James R Buchanan. Dr, Luther kilty Hamilton AlrlcU Christian Seiler, Jr, Henry IMiier, Isaac G, APKinley, Jacob Haab, ,!«■ Lesley, Dr. A, Patterson, Chunks, 11, A, Lamhertou, A. D, \\ iNmi, B, T, Sloan, “ nuutrii-iiiHf-iioi (iuii. Taylor’s letters i McConkey, present poini defy imitation or explain ture and on this: Gen. Taylor to Mr. Dc- lancy. It is a right inherent in every freeman to pos sess himself ♦’ .pol itical principler pin ions of those lose hands the adini Lion of the (ioverm nay be placed.” Gen. Taylor at tlie Soutli. At a Taylor meeting\in Charleston, S C., Wm. Gilmore Simms, an ardeiit supporter of Gen. Tay lor, dec-fared, that he was\‘ : a Southern man who has a home, and children, ahd slaves among us, and these where the pledges of fidelity. As a Southern man lie could not stand up among the friends and influences which accompany him and sacrifice our dearest rights to the fanataci&m of the North.'' Ihe Natchez (Miss.) Courier, \i Whig paper published almost, in Gen. Tayior'sX neighborhood says of the charge, that he would siki a: tt’iimot Proviso bill: \ ‘-Tills, monstrous assertion—so entirely at war With the character of the man and the tetvor oi his whole life—could only have been made by'political leaders when in the last stages of desperation— when they saw that everlasting political rout and ruin was approaching them as fast as the couke of time would permit." „ \ Cass aud the Constitution. lien. Taylor s friends take credit to him he says that the Constitution will be his guide it' \ elected President. He is avowedly ignorant of the operation of that great charter. He does not understand its provisions or principles. And more than this, he has emphatically said in one of his letters that he will not interfere with the action of Congress'" unless in cases of a clear violation of the Constitution.” Was there ever a candidate who said he would not he governed by the Consti tution t Was there ever a President whu did not believe (iial he was uctlng in conformity with ils provisions I Head the binning ami eluiptenl winds ol tlen Hewitt Cash, intimating his atluchnient and veil" rallnn Ibr Hint blessed liislfimieiii-Hl'roin'essfon and t'liinpionilei': ”If we ate inn shuck with judicial blindness, we shall ding lo this Conalilutimi as Ihe mariner eliilgs In the last plank, w hen night amt the tempest clnse around hint—Cuwn. Vote of New YorK. The New Haven Remitter does justice to New York, and says that she ‘ has generally gone for the democratic candidate;” but adds,.that "it is a mistake to say that never was a President elected against her votes." In IHI2, fo r example, she cast her 2(1 votes for On Witt.Cli xtox in vain against Mr. Madison. It concludes its article With the following compliment to the Keystone State and the Old Dominion: “New York has generally stood firm, and when sire faltered other States have come to the rescue • untoward events only can make her otherwise then democratic Virginia has been true os the needle to the pole from Washington to Polk; and so has Pennsylvania, with one exception—the boozy year, when lost their reason. These States, the West, the East, and the sound portion of the South, will do their duty, and go right this time. ■ Mark what we say." A Quekr I.vcnjEXT. —A gentleman of St; Louis while going up the river fell overboard, but beiiw - a good swimmer, got safe out o't the water. ' He ' put his hand in his pocket immediately and found that his wallet containing seven hundred dollars was gone. How it went, was the mystery, unldss it was stolen before he fell into the water. Political Amins is Ohio.— The Whig State Central Committee ol Ohio, have published au address calling seventy-five political meetings to be held in various sections of that’State, commencing to-day, and closing on the 3d of November. Gov ernors Corwin, Bebb, Letcher, Metcalfe, and other distinguished orators, are named as.-the 'speakers There will be warm times in Ohio lrUm now until the 7th of November. inly” < <>n#lM< ll( \ , to Air. Uqlituiiy uml Air. its of consistency, which utiou. Look on this pie- Gen. Taylor to Mr. Me Conkey. “ I have laid it down aa a principle not to give my opinions upon, or prejudge to any way the .various questions of pol icy now at issue between the political parties of the country.”
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