intellfgencer & 3ournal.
Lancaster, August 3, 1852.
GEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR
FOR PRESIDENT:
N. FRANKLIN PIERCE,
OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
L. WILLIAM R. KING,
OF ALABAMA
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
WILLIAM SEARIGHT ,
OF FAYETTE COUNTY
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS
SENATORIAL.
GEORGE W. WOODWARD, of Luzerne
WILSON WCANDLESB, of Allegheny.
ADDITIONAL DISTRICT.
ROBERT PAriEltSoN, of Philadelphia
DLEITHICTI.
Peter Logan, I.i. H. C. Eyer,
Geo. 11. Martin, 14. John Clayton,
John Miller, 15. Isaac Robinson,
F. W. llockiva, 16. Henry Fetter,
R. McCoy, Jr., .17. James Burnside,
A. Apple, 18. Maxwell McCaslin,
N. Strick.and, 19. Joseph McDonald,
Abraham Peters, 20. W. S. Coliihan,
David Fioter, 21. Andrew Burk,
R. E. James, 22. William Dunn,
John Mcßeynolds, 23. J. S. M , Calmont,
P. Damon, 24. George It. Barret.
County Committee Meeting
The Democratic County Committee of Lancaster
linty will meet at the public house of J. G.
-ber, in E. King Street, in this City, on Wed
day, the 18th of August, 1852, at 1 o'clock,
M. Punctual attendance is req..ested, as buei
ea of importance will be laid before the body.
WILLIAM MATHIOT,
ttlicaster, Aug. 3, 1852. Chairman.
'The names of the gentlemen composing the
i l unty Committee will be published next week.]
Pierce and King Club.
A large and enthusiastic meeting of the Assn
i •tion was held at Scheirenbrand's•Hotel, in West
ing Street, on Saturday evening last—the Pres-
Capt. HENRY HAMDRIGOT, i n die Chair.—
sldresses were delivered by Messrs. SANDERSON,
ILLIAM S. AMWEG and HILLS, and a handsome
cession of new names was made to the roll of
embers.
The Z'lub adjourned to meet at BLICXES . STIF.Ft-
It's Hotel, in North Queen Street, on Saturday
ening, the 14th inst, at S o'clock.
irrAn interesting correspondence between a num
•r of citizens of New York and the Hon. JAMES
McLArrestor, of Congress, in relerence to the
fah patriot, T. F. MEAOIiEIi, will be found on our
at page.
Daily Pennsylvanian.
Arrangements have been made by which the
'ennsylvanian (a penny paper) will be served reg
iarly and promptly to subscribers in this city by
. l e Carrier of the Intelligences, immediately after
e arrival of the Cars roes day. Persons wishing
become subscribers to that paper will please
:ave r their names at this office during the present
eek, as it ie necessary to know what number of
o l piee can be disposed of
Cnoinia.!—A man named McLean, residing in
e upper end of West Orange street, in this City
l ed with a disease supposed to be Cholera on Sat
day. Another man, named GIMPER, residing
e l
xt door, and who assisted during the illness of
.e other, took the disease on Saturday night and
ied on Sunday. Report says that one or two other
:ses have occurred in that immediate neigh
I.rhood.
Our citizens cannot be too careful in their diet,
c. Strict attention should also be paid to cleanli-
Portrait of Gen. Pierce.
W. L. ORMSBY & Co., of New York, have just
.üblished a handsome steel engraving of our dis.
riguished nominee for the Presidency, representing
he General, mounted on his war .steed, with spy
glass in hand, and in full uniform. It is admirably
executed, and is said by those who have seen him
io be a correct likeness. The picture is handsome
iy framed and retails as folloWs : with the gilded
frame s9—without the frame, $2. Mr. THOMAS M.
Warmlr, of Philadelphia, has been appointed agent
for the sale of the engraving, and is now in this city
1 ,
attenaing to that business. Those of our Demo
-1 • t
Frolic fellow-citizens who may wish to obtain the
icicture, which, in addition to being a correct like
itiess of the next President of the United States, will
be an ornament to their parlors, would do well to
call upon the agent without delay, as his stay will
ibe limited in this city. We have one of the Por
traits hanging up in our office, where our friends
can have a sight of Gen. PIERCE "free gratis fur
nothing."
Canal Commissioners' Statement.
The Harrisburg Keystone of Wednesday last pub
lishes a statement from the Canal Commissioners
in reference to leasing the right of carrying passen
gers over the Columbia and Philadelphia railroad.
It appears to be a lair and full statement of the
whole subject, and we think is an unanswerable ar
gument in justification of the course pursued by the
Canal Commissioners, and fully establishes the fact
that in what they have done, they have been actua
ted solely by a desire 'to advance the interests of
the Commonwealth. Notwithstanding its great
length—neaily five of the broad columns of the Key
atone—we shall endeavor to find room for it in our
MEM
Whig Slanders
Many of our readers will recollect the foul sod
infamous slanders—theyeg Beatty and John Stone
breaker affidavits—concocted and propagated by the
Whigs against David R. Porter, the Democratic can
didate for Governor in 1835. The same course is
now being pursued against WILLIAM SEARIGIIT, the
Democratic candidate for Canal Commissioner, for
the doable purpose of defeating nim and carrying
the State for Gen. Scott.. They failed then in de
feating Gov. Porter, and we predict that they will
just as sigually fail now in defeating Gen. Pierce
and Mr. Searight.
. Vie have occupied a considerable portion of our
paper this week, with a refutation of these base cal
umnies against that good and true man, William
&aright. For the first two articles, with the ac
companying remarks, we are indebted to the Penn
sylvanian. The others have their appropriate cred
its. All are from amongst the most respectable
citizens of Mr. Searight's own neighborhood, and
constitute a most triumphant vindiration of his
character from the reckless assaults
.n of his un
scrupulous opponents, and brand with infamy the
author and propagators of the malignant and hell
ish slanders. We advise all our readers to give
these statements an attentive perusal.
Accinesm.—Mr. Amos E. Reigart, son of E
Eisigart, of this City, was seriously injured on yes
terday morning, at the Steam Saw Mill,on the Con:
estop, by being struck with a piece of timber on
the head. He was in a'critical condition at the
time our paper went to press.
Lundy's Lane.
This famous battle was fought on the 25th of Ju
ly, 1814, and now, after a lapse of eight and thirty
years, its anniversary is celebrated for the first time
by the Whig party. It was unquestionably one of
the bloodiest battles of that war, and the immense
lons of life on our side is to be mainly attributed to
the rashness of Gen. Scorn who commanded a brig-
ade composed of the very flower of the A erican
army: That Gen. SCOTT is a gallant soldier d
brave tn.in no one will dispute. His coup.ye as
been tepeatedly tested on the battle fields of his
country. But that he acted the part of a wise Gen
eral or a skilful commander at Lundy's Lane, is
what no one will allege with any degree of truth
fulness. But even if be had given evidence of true
Generalship, what was his rank at the time? He
was only a subordinate officer, and (according to
Whig doctrine as applied to his Mexican campaign,)
could not monopolize all the credit of the victory
There were other officers present in addition to the
commanding General &owls. There were Rtrimr,
and PORTED., and MILLED., and GAT rizs, and JESSUP
—all of whom acted a gallant and distinguished
part in the action, and who certainly behaved with
much more prudence than Gen. SCOTT, who held his
brigade in front of the British army and permitted
it to be cut to pieces before the main body of the
American army could be brought on the field. If
credit is due to any one officer more than another,
for the successful issue of the battle, it is to Col.
Mria.r.a who at the head of his gallant regiment
captured the British battery that had dealt death
and destruction to Gen. ScOrr's brigade, and with
out whose capture the battle would have been irre-
trievably lost
The following article from the Buffalo Courier is
so much to the point in reference to the battle that
we cheerl ally forego 'Any further remarks of our
own in order to give place to it. The editor—and
he speaks what he knows, and what every sensible
man knows who has any correct knowledge of the
history of that battle—says.—
" The. Whigs are making a spasmodic effort to
create a little enthusiasm in their flaggir , ranks by
celebrating the Anniversary of the battle, of Lun
dy's Lane, and turn over what of glory or credit
that that battle reflected on the American arms to
Gen.'zicott, to aid him in reaching the Presidential
We are the last to deny the merits, or to attempt
to abate from the reputation of any one who has
served his country long and well in any capacity;
but are equally averseito one assuming honors that
belong to others. Cdyrage and patriotism are nat
ural attributes of thelAmerican people, and to find
one possessing an opposite spirit would be an excep
tion to the general Ale. Gen. Scott, in common
with all his countrym l en, is a patriotic citizen. He
has shown h,ms.elt to be a man of courage—of per
sonal bravery, in a high degree—a claim which we
as a na , ion, set up before the world, for all who
have had an opportudity to distinguish themselves
upon the battle field, with scarcely an exception.
War has been the business of Gen. Scotee'life.—
For t,,is He was educated, and the camp has been his
home since early marinood. That he should be dis
tinguished in his profqssion is natural—it is a neces
sity which he could ep . t well have avoided, and not
utterly disgraced his citizenship.
But no mariis perfect—there isno man but what
at. soMe period of hin career-makes great mistakes
even in his chosen prpfessiott A general military
career may be glorious, while isolated points in it
may not be even criTlitable. We therefore think
that the celebration di the Anniversary of the bat
tle of Lundy's Lanejhas been illy chosen by the
Whips far the accontliShment of the purposes for
which it is designed. f There are two or three rea-
. .
snits why we hold th i s opinion.
In the first place, Gen. Scott waA but a •subordi
nate, acting under th orders of a superior officer.
It it is claimed that Gen. Scott shall bear off the
t
credit of this battle, t en what becomes of the glory
of the Mexican carpaign ? He did not fight the
battles them—subordinate officers did the Work, and
the same rule should apply in both cases. If Gen
eral Brown is to be despoiled of his laurels—if Mil
ler, Ripley, Gaines, Porter and their associates are
to be ignored, then we shall insist upon applying
the same proves to he Mexican campaign, and of
dividing its honors, at least, with those who won
them hand in hand with the enemy.
But there is anothdr reason why the selection of
this battle is unfortdnate. That Gen. Scott was
brave to rashness ins younger days, is well known
to all who are acqt anted with his career ontthe
hi
Niagara frontier. .re was ordered by Gen. Brown
to proceed nom the amp at Chippewa, to observe
the enemy, and to h Id him in check until the main
army came up., Hel advanced up the road and
~dep
loyed his Brigade vhich consisted of two Regi
ments, the 11. th and 22d, we believe—in front of
the woods within pint blank musket shot of the
British army under 'Gen. Riall. This precipitated
the action, and his hic , ade.was completely riddled
--almost annihilate before assistance could arrive.
There was scarcely lenough men lett orthe two to
form a skeleton Regiment ‘ in the rear of the reserve
which interposed between them and the British fire.
01 his own Regiment but few were left fit for duty.
It required a feat full sacrifice of life to retrieve this
error of Gen. Scott and to the heroic Miller who
led his invincible command up the declivity amid a
st.tirm ot n leadom r a in and iron hail" and captured
the British cannon, snore than to any other, belongs
the glory of that b l ank , . His immortal ' I'll try,
,it,.' was the turning point of that bloody battle field.
Nearly nine hundred toes lay bleeding and dead up
on that plain—a large portion of them slain because
of the premature and unauthorized -bringing on of ,
the battle by Gen. Scott.
In all this, we de not in the least impeach his
bravery or his pat4tism. But when bravery degen
erates into rashness it ceases to command our he- I
spect. It requireduperhuman efforts and a bloody
I
sacrifice, to prevent an utter defeat. In the battle all
behaved as Americlm officers are expected by their'
countrymen to behave. But the credit of its suc
cessful issue does not belong to Gen.Scott—Miller's
charge upon the ba l ttery decided the fate of the day.
Had that miscarried, all would have been lost. Of
this Gen. Brown was aware when he gave him the
desperate work to io. He said that the enemy's
cannon, which occupied a commanding point, and
which swept the field, must be•captured, or he could
tot maintain his position.''
Amongst the passengers lost b!.; the burning
of the Steamer Henry Clay, in the Hudson river—
an account of whi l fh will be found in another col-1
umn —was the wife and two children of our es
teemed fellow-citi f en, JOHN L. THOMPSON, Esq.,
District Attorney for this County. Himself, to
gether with another child and nurse, escaped. The
bodies of the two children were obtained and re-
cognized on Thursday morning, the - day alter the
calamity occurred, but that of Mrs. T. was only
found on Saturday, after. having floated some four
miles down the river. Mrs. Thompson was an es
estimable lady, and her sad fate is deeply mourned,
not only by a fond and indulgent husband, but by a
large circle of f i iends and acquaintances. Mr.
Thompson, we understand, is in a state bordering
on distraction, thd awful calamity with which he
has been visited 4ving completely unmanned him.
A Committee trout the Masonic Lodge of this City ,
of which he is a worthy member, proceeded to New
York, on Thursday, for the purpose of rendering
him every assistaiice and consolation in their pow
er. From .Mayo l Keifer, who returned on -Sunday±
we learn that the bodies of Mrs. T. and her two
children would intered at Princeton, N. J., (her
native place,) on fresterday.
11:7At the latest accounts 73 dead bodies had
been recovered fim the wreck of ;he Henry Clay,
It is supposed the number lost is very little, if any,
'short of 100!
A. WROLE MANUFACTORY COME OYEi.—The
Trenton True Almerican i states "that the hands of
a large manufac i turing establishment in Newark,
who
_formerly voited the Wliig Ticket will this Fall
vote for the Democratic nominees. The Southern
trade oi Newer has been severely injured by the
Woolly-head, aid Seward and Greely's candidate
will feel its effect, despite his epaulette. t.
- -
DA vln Wimuo i i r.—We observe by the last Potter
Luion that Hon. David Wilmot addressed the young
men's Democratic Club of Coudersport, on which
occasion Fie exyiressed himself well satisfied with the nominationslof Pierce and King, and declared
his determiriatin to give them his hearty and cor
dial nllpport
egren4l,—.The President hes ap
liemenant Colonel SAMUEL COOPIII
eneral of the Army, to fill the va
• by the death Of Gen. Jones.
A DJUTAAT (
pointed Brevet I
to be Adjutant
cane) , occasion.
Major General Patterson
It gives us pleasure to publish the following tri
bute of respect to Maj. Gen. ROBERT ParrsasoN
When the war broke out with Mexico he was sur
rounded by all the enjoyments which affluence,
family and friends could secure. He was also em
barked in the most extensive business engagements.
But he voluntarily left all behind to encounter the
dangers of war in the enemy's country and the per-
Basil exposure in an unhealthy climate. His conduct
at Vera Cruz and Cerro Gorda elicited the highest
praise, and his kind and gentlemanly deportment
towards the brave men unite! his command received
Their gratitude and regard. The.people of this city
well remember the temrs of commendation in
which these war-sworn citizen-soldiers spoke of their
commanding General during their temporary so
journ in this place, on their return from their vic.
torious achievements in Mexico:
The following correspondence between anumber
of our fellow-citizens and Gen. Robert Patterson, of '
Philadelphia, has been left with us for publication.
It is a matter of regret that Gen. P. should decline
partaking of the public dinner tendered him by his
numerous personal and political friends in Ibis city .
There is no man within the bounds of this Com
monwealth who is more deserving of the respect
and honor of its citizens than General Patterson, for
he has at all times been a devoted friend of Penn
sylvania, and has struggled untiringly to advance
the interests and prosperity of her people.
PITTSBURG, June 15, 1852
. Major Generel Robert Patterson.
SIR :—The undersigned, your fellow citizens, who
have long regarded you with high favor as a citi
zen, but whose esteem and regard have been great
ly enhanced by your noble and gallant conduct in
the war with Mexico. are anxious to offer you a tes
timonial of their respect and admiration. We there
fore respectfully ask your acceptance of ,a public
dinner, on such day as may suit your convenience,
during your visit to our city.
We are, sir very truly and sincerely,
C. Shaler, J. B Guthrie, Wm. Wilkins, Wilson
McCandLess, Samuel W. Black, R. B. Carnahan,
Patrick M Kenna, Jas. F. Campbell, L. Harper, An 7
drew Burke, Thos. J. Keenan, Geo. A. Keyser, Al
fred B McCalmot, H. Sproul, - ;en. P. Hamilton, J.
M. Davis, W. W. Irwin, Thos Blackmore, George
McCook, Z. Scott, Alex. Black, John Layton, P. C.
Shannon, Lynde Elliot, Thos. Phillips, Robert An
kerson, M. Knee, jr., John S. Hamilton, R. Morrow,
Charles Naylor, H. S. .Magraw, James B. Sawyer,
M. I. Stewart, Rudy Patterson, Charles Barnett,
Thos. Umbstactter, Charles Kent, Joseph Birming
ham, Wm. Trovillo, David Beeler, James P. Barr,
John C. Dunn, John D. Muter, W. S. Campbell.
PITTSBVRO,June 15, 1852
GENTLEMEN '.—Your esteemedfavor of this date
tendering me the honor of a public dinner, is re
ceived.
I am under renewed obligations to my fellow
citizens of Pittsburg for this additional "testimonial
of their esteem and regard," and receive it, es I am
sure it was• intended—not for me personally, or a
compliment to my poor services, but as the repre
sentative of the gallant officers and soldiers of the .
division it was my good fortune to command.
For myself, and on behalf of my brother soldiers,
I return you my most cordial and grateful thanks,
and regret that long absence from my family, and
the necessity for my departure in the morning, will
deprive me of the pleasure of accepting your kind
invitation.
I remain gentlemen, with the highest regard very
sincerely, your friend and obliged fellow-citizen.
R. PATTERSON.
To Hon. C. Shaler, J. B. Guthrie, and others.
We are pleased to see the above tribute paid to
one of our Pennsylvania generals who served in the
recent Mexican war, coming from the Western
portion of the Commonwealth, and especially so ,
as Philadelphia, under the influence of a little Whig
leaven, and a little Home prejudice, has endeavor
ed to ignore rather than to do justice to his admi
rable conchfct in Mexico. The Generalissimo of a
victory, is not the only officer entitled to credit
He represents only officers and men—and is often
like the Pound Sterling, no real coin, but made up
of an aggregate of other values. Maj. Gen. Patter
son stands high in the estimation of the volunteers
whom he commanded, whose comfort and life
might easily have been sacrificed, upon some bold
stroke, which even if unsuccessful would have
turned over to his name the courage of the slain.
At Vera Cruz and Cerro Gordo, his conduct de
serves the highest praise, and as an officer of high
rank and capacity, Pennsylvania may well single
him out, as brave in judgment as well as brave in
the field. Without a personal acquaintance with
the General, we have often heard him eulogized, by
the volunteers, the men of all others best able to
appreciate the leader most true to them and his
country.—Carbon Democrat.
Judges Black and Lewis
These two distinguished Judges of our Supreme
Court were invited, by the Democrats of Philadel
phia, to participate in the Anniversary Celebration
of the 4th of July. Of course they declined the
invitation; but at the same time wrote eloquent
and patriotic letters in favor of the Democratic
cause, extracts from which we gave in the Intelli
.gencer two weeks ago. This was a mortal sin in
the eyes of Federalism, and, for daring to advocate
the rights of the people, they have been taken sound
ly to task by some of the Whig prints. Amongst
others, our neighbor of the Independent Whig essays
to be very severe upon them--calls the writing of
those letters "Judicial Indecency - -and devotes
nearly a column to the abuse of these gentlemen.
He calls them ..demagogues," and stigmatizes their
conduct as an attempt to " corrupt the fountains of
justice," and further says that in this they have
shown in all their turpitude the baseness of their
hearts." He alleges that their minds are bloated
with prejudice and themselves drunk with bigotry,'
and winds up his tirade of abuse by saying that
" they are a disgrace to the Judiciary of the Com
monwealth which gave them birth," &c., &c.
Now all this is very severe on the part of our
neighbor, and shows a wonderful proclivity in the
youth for, dealing in ugly words culled from the vo
cabulary of billingsgate ; but still we are strongly
inclined to the belief that our two friends will sur.
vine this terrible onslaught, and that they will move
on in the even tenor of their way, regardless of de.
nunciation from that or any other quarter. The
Democracy of the Commonwealth know Judges
BLACK awl Lawns to be high-minded, honorable and
trust-worthy men, whose character as able and up.
right Jurists is beyond the reach of calumny or re
proach, and the people will abundarrly sustain them
despite all the infuriated ravings of disappointed
F ederalism.
The Portage Road
The following are the allotmenta of the work on
Portage Road, made July 29th, 1852, by the Canal
Commissioners
SECTIONS ,
10 Charles Carson,
12 .Andrews, Barr & Barr,
14
20 Burkholder & Co.,
22 and Tunnel, Morehead and Patterson,
23 McQuaid & Co.,
24 G. W. English,
25 Bailey & Co.,
26 Alexander McCammon & Co.,
27 "
28 Barber & Laughlin,
29 D. H. & D. Daugherty,
30 Hunter, Kirkpatrick, Anderson & Co.,
31 Hoover, Keach & Tamany,
32 Rockefellow & Hamilton,
33 Arnold & Barber,
34 Cummings & Painter,
35 Alexander & Hastings,
36 E. D. Gillis
37 Beck &
38 Arnold & Rhey,
39 Leisenring & Shriner,
40 George, Scott & Co.,
41 Daugherty & Murray.
TIMOTHY IVES, Sup , t.
Lock at Northumberland to Riddell, Sallada &
G o.
Lock at New Hope to James Burns.
. Lock at Ehulersville to Thomas Meelun.
Acqueduct and Bridges, Newhope, to Bitting &
G regor. _
Widening Canal at Nowhope to E. Picket
Erg' The Coal House, belonging to the Colebrook
Jr on Works, in Lebanon county, was burnt on
Miednesday lut. Lou estimated at 18,000.
William Searight
Testimony of an Honest Man and a L'Veichbor
in his foyer.
Mr. Searight, the Democratic candidate for Ca
nal Commissioner, having been for several days
confined to his bed by severe illness, the jackals of
the opposition have thought proper to embrace it as
a favorable time to attack his character for honesty.
and capacity in the most villainous manner: The
persons who make these attacks are utterly irre
sponsible : they have neither character nor property
to lose; hence their boldness in making and re
publishing such base, contemptible charges against
an honest man, while laying on a sick bed. It is
with pleasure we publish the following un s olicited
testimony in favor of Mr. Searight, from a neighbor
of his—a gentleman who is well known for his love
of justice and detestation of every thing that is base
and dishonorable. We ask our readers to ponder
over it and see how effectually it nails to the coun
ter the puny efforts of personal and political enemies:
UNIONTOWN, July 20, 1152.
To W. H. HOPE, Esa..,.Editor of the Pennsylva
nian :
Sin—Attention to my business called me to Fay
ette county, where I had formerly mainly resided
for about twelve years, and where I have many val
ued friends. On my arrival in Uniontown, I was
shown a statement published in the Pennsylvania,
Democrat, a Whig paper, written—or purporting to
have been written—by Hugh Graham, charging
Mr. SEARIGEIT, the Democratic candidate for Canal
Commissioner, with gross crimes, dishonestand dis
honorable conduct. I have been long and intirriate
ly acquainted with both these gentlemen, and al
though Mr. Searight and myself were in conflict
some years since as applicants for the same office,
and have personally not been intimate since that
period, yet I feel bound, in justice to Mr. Searight
as well as to the Democratic party and in truth, to
bear my public testimony to his high character for
integrity—for honor and truthfulness as a gentle
man. No man could stand higher in the estimation
of the community in which lie resides than does
Mr. Searight, in all points which constitute the val
uable character of a high-minded, honorable man.
As to Mr. Graham, with whom I am also well
acquainted, I have but two things to say—the one
the assertion of a fact, the other an inference which
I may fairly draw without rendering myself liable,
to the charge of unfriendly feelings towards him,
which I utterly disclaim. Although Mr. Graham
states that he is a Democrat, or a "Democratic vo
ter,- yet he certainly was not so regarded during
my residence in Fayette county—lie never had the
confidence of the Demaclatic party.
As to the inference which the reading of his
statement constrained ma to draw it was by no
means favorable to Fis motives. He has withheld
this statement until the eve of an important election,
when Mr. Searight is the candidate of his party for
an office of high trust and dignity. To have pre
served his motives free from just imputation, he
should have published it earlier or withheld it until
after the second Tuesday otOctober. He also ad
mits that the only aggravation he hal was his de
feat in a law-suit, in which Mr. Searight was not
personally the party, but acting merely as a public
agent. The public therefore, be quite likely,
instead of attaching censure to Mr. Searight, award
him praise and credit for faithfully guarding the
public intera.ts at the hazard of making a personal
enemy. Besides, the gentlemen who passed upon
the merits 6f this claim are gentlemen of the high
est character for intelligence and integrity, as I well
know
I make this statement not as a politician or par
tizan but in justice to Mr. Searight, a high-minded,
honorable man, With whom I was, some years
since, in honorable contest for the office of Commis-.
sioner of the Cumberland Road, and in justice to
the Democratic party, whose candidate he is, and
with no ill will towards Mr. Graham, who has, in
this instance, suffered his feelings to get the better
of his judgment, leading him to an act of injustice
towards a neighbor—an act which subsequent re
flection will cause him to regret.
Very respectfully your friend and obedient ser ,
W. M. F. MAGRAW
An Honest Plan Vindicated
A number of small irresponsible sheets of the op
position, controlled by reckless bad men, have corn
menced a violent attack on W3l SEIRIGHT, the
Democratic candidate for Canal. CoMmissioner.—
When this base work commenced, we denounced
it as a fabrication of the enemy unworthy the be
lief of any respectable man. We had, and still have
in our possessiOn, the best evidences that the letter
said to have been written to H Glill Kars, is a for
gery , and in the trial for slander, which-will soon
come off, against the wretches who are endeavoring
to defeat Mr. SEAutonr's election by circulating
villainous libels, it wilt be shown to be such ; and
we trust that the creatures who have endeavored to
rob an honest man of his character,' will receive
their reward.
We invite the attentjon of our readers to the fol
lowing card from the Pittsburg Post, of Friday last,
which shows the value of the despicable slanders of
SEARIGHT by his enemies:
SLANDER REFUTED
UNIONTOWN, July 17, 1852 ,
Messrs. Editors statement has been made in
the Federal organ of this county, for the purpose of
injuring the election of the Democratic nominee for
Canal Commissioner. A formal contradiction of
all thi ridiculous allegations made in this statement,
has been deemed unnecessary by the friends of Mr.
Searight in this cotnity, But lest some unfavorable
impression should be produced abroad by Graham's
malighant charges, we have drawn up the following
facts, which we desire yoM to publish in your pa
per, it having a more general circulation than our
local organ. Mr. Searight was the Superintendent
of-the Cumberland Road for several gears, and dor
ing that time Graham produced a claim against the
road for some $2.000, which was rejec ed by Mr.
Searight, beoause he believed it to be entirely unjust.
Suit was brought by Graham, and at his own so-1
licitation the whole matter was referred to the Trus
tees of the Road, who,'upon a careful examination
of the accounts, awarded him Fifty-two dollars and
75 cents. Graham was much enraged at being
thus baffled in his attempt to get his hands into the
public Treasury, and his professed friendship for
Mr. Searight, was turned into the bitterest enmity.
Immediately after his nomination for Canal COm
-1 missioner, he threatened him with publications, but
at the same time preferred to be quiet, upon the
payment of $lOO. Upon the indignant refusal of
I Mr. Searight to give him this' hush money," he threw
himsell into the embraces of a few of the Whig lea
ders of this county. We say few, because many of
the most prominent Whigs here support Mr. Sea
right out of regard for his private worth.
The time has been When Mr. Graham would have
scorned the authorship of his recent reckless pro
duction, but intemperance has well fitted him to be
come the pliant tool of Whig politicians. He
charges Mr. Searight with having forged an order,
which he (Searight) presented at the trial before
the Trustees. His proof of this is, that but one or
der was ever given, and that he (Graham) has it
now in his possession. Since the publication of this
charge, Mr. Graham has been shown another order,
Willett an ACKNOWLEDGES TO BE GENUINE; THERE-
HY CONFESSING TILE ENTIRL FALSITY OF RIS CHARGE.
This would be sufficient to show the reliance to be
be placed in Graham's statement, and convince ev
ery one of its folly. There are none so credulous
as to believe that a public officer would commit a
forgery that did not inure to his own benefit, but to
that of the public. There are few public servants
thus faithful.
Graham has also published a letter, purporting
to have been written by Mr. Searight to Hugh Keys,'
deed., and dated in 1840, which is a most ridiculous
caricature, gotten up for the purpose of creating an
impression, that Mr.. Searight is incompetent - as
well as dishonest. It is only necessary to say, thlit
no such letter was ever written by Mr. Searight, as,
will be shown upon the trial of the suit for slander ,
which has been instituted. Vie are convinced that
Graham's statement has been gotten up for the oc
casion from the tone of the letter, purporting to be
from Keys to Graham. We have examined the cor
respondence between:Mr. Searight and Mr. Keys,
subsequent to the date of this letter, and find that
up to the time of the decease of the latter, he ex
pressed the warmest feelings of friendship for Mr.
Searight, and are informed by the neighbors of Mr.
Keys, that Mr. Searight was his constant attendant
during his last sickness. If this letter be genuine,
Mr. Keys acknowledges and rublishes his own dis
honesty, which no one acquainted with him would
for a moment believe.
We submit this statement, after a careful inves
tigation of the facts connected with the whole mat
ter, • Respectfully,
A. S. Puller, Jabez Thorndell,
W. C. Mann, Wm. Thorndell, Sr.
Philip Gans, G. W. K. Minor,
Chas. P. Austin, Jacob Stahl,
W. W. Williams, Andrew Patrick,
Wm. A. West; Eli Sturgeon,
Simon Houser, B. S. Hunt,
William Beatty.,
EY" A National Union Convention met as Phila
delphia on Saturday last, for the purpose of nomi
Noting DANIEL WEBSTER for the Presidency.;
teen States were represented.
1113 - Mr. Hugh Graham, a proMinent democrat of
Fayette county, has a long article in a late number
of the Uniontown Democrat, in whiCh he assails
Mr. Searight, the locofoto candidate for Canal Com
missioner, with great fierceness. He charges that
gentleman with cheating him out of $lOO, by char
ging him that amount twice, as a contractort under
him on the Cumberland road while he only, paid it
once. He also charges him with forgery, and with
defranding orphan tildren. As this is a. family
quarrel we are content to stand by a..d see tie "Har
monious Democracy" tight it out among them
selves.—Reporter.
We are sort) , td;4otice the above paragraph in
the Reporter, or any other paper making the least
claim to respectability; for it is, beyond doubt, one
of the meanest and vilest slanders ever propagated.
An I who is this. “Hugh Graham,'' the "prominent
Democrat?'' And what, too, is the sum and sub
stance of the offence which Mi. Searight has been
gliilty 01 against common honesty, common justice
. or even the immaculate Hugh Graham ? cR hat, we
say, has that most worthy and 'es•imable man done
that the tongue of slander should be wagged to de
fame.the name and reputation of as pure, magnani
mous and noble-hearted a man as li4= s s ;all the
land We, will give you, reader, the answer in
few words, and about this matter we chanced to
have heard something years ago—therefore, we are
in a measure posted on tfe subject.
Whilst Mr: Searight was Com Missioner of the
eastern end of the Cumberland road in Pennsylva
nia, 'Hugh Graham, presented a claim amounting to
near' two thousand dollars for work alleged to have
been done on said road. As Commissioner, acting
under oath, Mr. Searight asked that the justice o
he claim should be made out in such a manner as
would warrant- the payment theaeot. This Hugh
Graham failed to do in the estimation of Mr. Sea
right. Subsequently suit was.ibrought by Graham,
and after adjudicating the matter for some time, the
Court of Fayette county referred it to the three
Trustees of the Cumberland road—Messrs. Fuller,
Hendrickson, and we.th ink, Marshall—all honest and
competent men. Atter giving the subject their care
ful attention and investigating the subject on both
sides, these gentlemen decided that Hugh Graham
was justly entitled to something less than two hun
dred dollars/ Now, in what light did that award
place the two parties—Hugh Graham, on the one
side, whose object was to plaster his pockets with
the peoples money, and Mr. Searight, on the other
side, whose only purpose was to discharge his duty
as the representative of the State? Certainly, the
latter was most triumphantly sustained, and it is
worse than; vain fur Hugh Graham, who is not
known beyond the limits of his own immediate
neighborhood, to assail the repptation or character
of a man who has discharged his whole duty in ev
ery station to which the people have called him.—
So much for the way in which Mr. Searight "cheat-
ed" Hugh Graham. Had he acted otherwise, in this
view of the case, he would have cheated the public
and perjured his own soul.
But, Mr. Searight is, also, chat ged with "forgery
and defrauding orphan children." We know not
what constitutes the foundation of these hase char
geS, yet it is fair to presume that there is not a scin
tilla of truth to sustain them; and the fact that Mr.
Searight has instituted a suit of sender against Hugh
Graham is proof that he courts investigation. It
a good character is worth any thing at all, no man
can believe aught else than that Mr. Searight has
been most outrageously calumniated and that too,
to gratify the malice of a vindictive individual. As
well might such charges be preferred against any
othet man in the State as William Searight., He
has lived too long and is too strongly fortified in the
affections of his friends and acquaintances to be in
jured by the shafls of malice or detraction. He has
done too many noble acts of charity and has estab
lished for himself too high a character for integrity,
to suffer from the malignant assaults of either per
sonal or unprincipled politiCal er..,nies.— Washing ;
ton Examiner.
113'We copy the following communication from
the last number of the Uniontown Democrat
Mn. EDITOR :—Justice to myself and to Mr. Sea
right requires that I should' briefly notice the com
munication of Mr. Graharriii your last paper, in
reference to the affairs of the late Mr. Keys and
-William Searight, Esq. Mr. Graham caused suit
to be brought against Mr. Searight, by the admin
istrators of the estate of Mr. Keys. I am one of
the administrators alluded to, but had no agency
whatever in instituting such a suit. Some time al
ter the death of Mr. Keys, but before the settlement
of our adridnistration account, Mr. Graham alleged
that a partnership existed between Keys and Sea
right in a contract field by-the latter for building an
Aqueduct over Elk Creek, on the Conneaut division
or the Erie extension, Pennsylvania Canal. No ev
idence, whatever, was furnished me, showing a con
tract or arrangement or "understanding" between
them, but although pained at a suggestion which if
true, would bring dishonor on Mr. Keys, I was nev
ertheless no more unmindful of the interests of his
' family than Mr. Graharg;and consulted John Daw
son, Esq., of Uniontown, the Attorney for the estate.
who assured me that there was nothing to justify
a suit, and that one could not be sustained. Mr.
Graham was not satisfied with this and I proposed
to consult James Veech, Esq, who fully concurred
with Mr. Dawson in opinion!
•
Mr. Keys and Mr. Searight had been painters
in some contracts on the National Road in this
State and , in Ohio, the books 'and accounts pertain
ing to which. were generally kept by Mr. Keyes,
he drawing the estimates for their work, and ma
king -the. distursements of the same. A settle
ment of all these accounts was made by the admin
ittrators, Mr: William Keyi, and myself, with Mr.
Searight, together with the private accounts of Keys
and Searight and a large balance was found to be
due Searight, atter crediting. Keys with a check on
the Erie; Bank for $l5OO and $5OO of cash to Sea
right by Keys. These are she sums which I pre
sume Mr. Graham alludes to and alleges were paid
to Searight-an the Elk Creek Aqueduct, but which
he erroneously makes $4OOO. According to the
books, these sums were due to Mr. Searight, with
out reference to that work? No evidence existed
showing that they were advanced, as alleged by Mr.
Graham, and I never heard such a suggestion until
it was made to me by Mr. G. more than a year at
ter the settlement.
Mr. Graham filed exceptions to our. administration
account, and Robert Roger* Samuel Evans and
'l'homas• R. Davidson, were appointed auditors.—
These gentlemen after a laborious and patient in
vestigation of the account arid of the settlement, with
all the booki and papers and evidence before them
which the Administrators had, and with the assis
tance and explanations of Mr. Graham and his coun
sel, unanimously , sustained the settlement made by
the administrators.
.Mr. Graham has impliedly, but no doubt unin
tentionally, assailed 'the correctness of the settle
ment. If he is right in his allegations that a part
nership existed between Mr. Searight and Mr. Keys,
and that $4OOO, or any other sum was advanced
on that work by Mr. Key's, then the settlement made
by the administrators was wrong—the auditorswere
wrong in sustaining the settlement, and the Court
wag wrong imconfirming the report of the auditors.
WM. F. COPLAN.
rEr The regular annual meeting of the Lancas
ter County . Educational Association will be held
at the Mechanics' Institute, in this City, on Satur
day next, the 7th inst., at 10 o'clock, A. M. The
members of the Association and the friends of ed_
ucation generally are invited to be present, as a
number of reports and essays will be read, and
subjects of interest be discussed at the meeting.
Book Notices.
THE PENNSLTLTANIA SCHOOL JOURNAL in its en
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The July No. commences the new series, and con
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and we have no doubt that, in his hands, the word
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Place.
Important Debate
In our last week's paper we stated that Mr. MA
sos, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Rela
ions in the U. S. Senate, had. offered an important
resolution on the subject of the existing difficulties
respecting the Fisheries. Subjoined it the resolu
ion with the animatertand interesting debate which
ollowed its introduction
Resolved, That the President of the United States
be required to communicate to the Senate, if not
incompatible with the public interest, all corres
pondence on file in the Executive, department,
with the Government of 'England or its Diplomatic
Representatives, since the Convention between the
United States and Great Britain, of Octeber 20th,
1818, touching the fisheries in the Coasts of the
British Possessions in North America, and the
rights of citizens of the United States, engaged in
such fisheries, as secured by the said Conventton—
and that the President be also requested to inform
the Senate whether any of the naval forces of
the United States have been ordered to'the Seas
adjacent to the British Possessions in North Amer
ica, to protect the rights of American fishermen
under said Convention of ISIS, since the receipt of
the intelligence that a large and unusual naval force
has been ordered there to enforce certain alleged
rights of Great Britain under said Convention.
MAsoti said: 1 have thought it my doh,
considering the present aspect of affairs, so far PS
they ate communicated to us by the public join -
nals. to submit this resolution, and ask that it be
considered immediately. We are informed unoffi
cially, but in a manner clearly indicating that it
is correct, that the British Government has recently
asserted rights under the Convention of 1518 in
relation to the fisheries in the north, which whether
they exist or not, they suffered from 1518 to 1541,
when the question was moved as to the respective
righti of British subjects and American citizens
under the Ti l eaty of 1515,—they still suffered to
remain in stabs quo. Sir, the British Governmeni
know well, that very large interests are embarked
by citizens of the United States, in these fisheries;
they know that the harbors and coasts and seas off
their p,issessio.,s in North America swarm at sta
ted seasons of the year—and this, as I am informed,
is one of the seasons—with these fishing vessels;
yet suddenly, without notice of any kind, we are
informed from the, public journals, and semi-offici
ally by a sort of proclamation from the Secretary
of State, that a very large British naval force has
been ordered into those seas for the purpose of en
forcing. at the mouth of the cannon, the construc
tion which Great Britain has now recently deter
mined to place on that Convention.
Now, Sir, 1 had supposed, in this civilized age,
and between two such countries as those of Great
l'ritain and the United States, that were it the pur
pose of England to revive her construction of this
Convention, and require that it should be enforced,
ordinary national courtesy would have required that
notice should have been given of that determination
on the part of Great Britain. But, Sir, when no
such notice is given, when, on the contrary, the first
information which reaches us is that Great Britain
has ordered into those seas a large naval force tor
the purpose of enforcing this alleged right, I know
not in what light it may strike other Senators, but
,t strikes me as a tar higher offence than a breach
of national courtesy—as one of insult and indignity
to the whole American people. This morning, in
the first paper I took up from the north, I see ex•
tracted from one of the British colonial newspapers,
printed at St. John's, NeW Brunswick, a formal
statement of the actual naval force, ,ordered by
Great Britain into those seas.
.ltl consists of the Cumberland, a 70 gun ship,
i commanded by Sir G. H. Seymour, who I believe, is
a British Admiral commanding on the West India
Station; and then follows an enumeration of steam
vessels, sloops of war, and schooners to the number
of nineteen, ordered to rendezvous there immedi
ately, and with the utmost despatch, for what pur-.
pose To enforce at once, arid without notice to
this government—so far as .I am informed, and yet
we have come information through the quasi proc
lamation of the Secretary of-State—at the mouth
of the cannon, the construction which the British
government places on that Conventibnl Ido not
know what view has been taken by the President
of that extraordinary movement, but I think I do
know what the American people would demand of
the Executive under such circumstances. It there
be official or satisfactory information with the Exec
iitiVe that this extraordinary naval armament has
been ordered by Great Britain into the North Amer
' man seas, for the purpose of executing instanter the
construction which Great Britain places on the
Convention, I say the American people will demand
of their Executive that all the naval force of the
borne station shall be ordered there instantly to
protect the American fishermen..
Sir, we have been told by the poet who most
deeply read the human heart, that, "From the net
t]. danger, we pluck the flower safety." And, if I
may be told that there is danger of collision, I
would answer at once, there is no danger; but if
there were, it becomes the Executive immediately
to resent that which can only be looked on as an
indignity and insult to the nation. I have no fears,
Mr. President, that war is to follow the apparent
collision which has taken place between the two
Governin'ents; but I confess I feel deeply the indig
nity that has been put upon the American people,
in the ordering of the British squadron into those
seas, without notice; and, if I read the feelings of
our people right, in order that the rights of our
people may be-protected. Sir, I do not profess the
power to construe the purpose, on the part of the
British Government, but I was very much impres
sed by S. despatch which I saw in one of the late
papers, (but which, unfortunately, I have not at
hand.) Within the last few days, a despatch was
seal from the Foreign Office of Great Britain to the
Colonial Office, advising it of this movement, and
advising that it was one requiring celerity and dis
patch, and requiring that measures should be taken
by the Colonial Office to procure concert between
the British naval force and the Colonial authorities.
The reason assigned was, that this measure was
taken on the part of Great Britain as preliminary
to certain negotiations.
Now what does this mean? I know not s‘ hat
these negotiations are, but if it means anything, it
means that we are to negotiate under duresse. Ay e,
Sir, at this day,—that this great people, covering a
Continent, numbering twenty-five millions, are to
negotiate with a' foreign fleet on our coast. I know
not what the President has done,—l claim to know
what the American ,people expect of him. I know
that it he has done his duty, the reply.to this reso
lution of inquiry 'be, "I have ordered the
whole naval force.of the country into those seas to
protect the rights of American fishermen against
British cannon." I hope it will be the pleasure of
the Senate to consider the resolution immediately.
• Mr. HAMLIN agreed with every word uttered by
the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign rela
tion's. He was grateful to the Senator for having
introduced the resolution. What the object of the
British armament, sent to the fishing shores was, he
could not say, but that it had some ulterior object
was certain; it had been whispered that it was con
nected with certain negotiations with respect to a
reciprocity trade
. with the Colonies; if this be so,
it was nothing more nor less than to compel the.
United States to legislate under duresse, and to this
he for one was unwilling to submit.
Mr. Cass gave his full concurrence to all that
had fallen from Mr. Mason, and heartily approved
of the resolution. lie was gratified at hearing that
Senator's remarks, which were equally Statesman
like and patriotic. He had never before heard ot
such a proceeding as that nosy adopted by England
No matter what the object of the force was, there
was one thing certain, the American people will
riot subinit to surrender their rights. This treaty
was now over thirty years old, and it recognized
clearly the right of Americans to fish within three
miles of any shore—this had been conceded for
thirty years; if there were any doubts of it, it could
be settled by negotiation; this Great Britain did not
do; she drew the sword and cut the Gordian knot
at cite; she settled the matter without notice by
force of arms. He regretled the recent publication
by the Secretary of State, giving warning to the
fishermen; it seems to imply a doubt that the rights
exercised by them under the treaty, and since its
ratification, were not well founded.
Mr. Davis said that from the newspapers it
would appear that the Secretary of State and the
British Minister who bad gone to Boston, were now
consulting on this matter, and he thought from this
fact that there was little apprehension but the-mat
ter would be settled amicably. He had no difficul
ty in arriving at the object of this movement.—
The Senator from Michigan,, he thought, hail
touched the key in the whole matter. He would
not hesitate to act on a bill proposing a proper and
suitable system of reciprocity. He however desi
red as much as any one to protect the fishermen
whom he eulogized highly.
Mr. BORLAND complained that the Executive had
neglected to send any information, or to communi
cate With Congress on this subject, while the Sec
retary of State, absent from the City, was carrying
on a newspaper discussion on the whole matter.—
He disapproved particularly of the tenor of the
warning to the fishermen to beware of the British
vessels. He read from a New York paper that
there was no truth in . the statement that Mr.
Crampton bad gone to Boston.
Mr. Szwenn would vote with pleasure for the
resolution. It was limited to two objects—to ob
lain information as to the diplomatic correspon
dence on the subject, and whether any naval force
has been sent to the seas.where the difficulty has
arisen—he saw nothing objectionable in this. The
importance of these fisheries was conceded by all,
and no one St ate was more interested in them than
another. It was well known that any attempt to
drive our fishermen from those fisheries would in.
volve the whole country in a blaze of war, in whict
case his State would be deeply interested. Ile dep
recated, as well as the Senator from Massachusetts,
all excitement on this subject. Whether the diffi
culty shall be settled by negotiation or the sterner
arbitrator of war, there was a necessity for avoiding
excitement, for keeping cool.
He deprecated, also, the complaints made against
any branch of the Government. All were aware
that that ; the Secretary of State, at this season,
seeks his native climate, to escape the severity of
the weather here, and he could assure Senators that
should the negotiations be conducted in the moun
tains of New Hampshire, there was nothing unpro
pitious in that locality to the liberties of the coun
try. In tharlocality was written that famous let
ter which startled the Governments of the Continent
of Europe.
Mr Boaz. said that if one object of this Naval
force by Great Britain was to bring about a reci
procity in trade, no matter how favorably he might
look upon such a proposition otherwise, be would
never give it his assent under the duresse of British
cannon. He thought this domineering spirit of
England ought to be met promptly.
Mr. ToncuT thonght the sending of thi- , force to
the fishing seas the most extraordinary initiative
towards negotiation Le ever heard of. He hoped
the resolution would pass. He thought it likely
that the Executive required prompting. He dis
cussed the terms of the treaty of ISIS, and denied
the validity of the British chnstruction.
Mr. Dawson deprecated all complaints of the
administration till farther information was received.
He asked, when the President had ever shown that
he required any prompting to discharge his duty
Who so competent or more likely to defend the
men of the North than the Secretary of State?—
He saw no cause for war in all this. He would
vote for the resolution.
Mr. BELL hoped most sincerely that the matter
would not lead to war. He did not believe a war
was possible at present between tho United States
and Great Britain—believing this, he rejoiced in
what England had done. She had done that which
would call public attention to the miserably de
fenseless state of the cannily, as well oil the Atlan
tic as the Pacific, and good results !night
At present we could not put twenty vessels afloat,
to compete with the force on the fishing coasts.
Mr. Meson said if the object of the British
squadron, in such unusual force, was to coerce ne
got iation, there ought to be no negotiation till it was
withdrawn. He would in such case Men - net the
American Commander to maintain the American
fishermen in those seas in statu quo, to secure them
the rights they have been enjoying for thirty years.
Mr. Pltal-r said this appeared to him more likely
to result in war than did the last difficulty. The
English Government has decided upon a treaty con
struction. England don't want to negotiate, tor she
has sent a large force to execute her construction
of the treaty.
Americans are to be expell ,l rights which
they have enjoyed for th; , .. r what their
Government has at all C.r d ow declares th
be the proper constructioi, ~„to., treaty. Ought
not a force to he sent there to plated( them in those
rights which this Government has declared to be
theirs? Certainly there ought. If this be done,
and the British officer executes his orders, a colli
sion must ensue, for no American Commander
will witness the seizure of an American vessel
without firing into the offended. He hoped the res
olution would pass.
The resolution was agreed to unanimously.
11 - 7 - The Independent IVhig, with brazen-faced
effrontery, denies in tote the allegation that Jews
STROII!d, when in Congress, refused to vote supplies
for our Army then in Mexico, and that Tom Con-
WIN, a Senator in Congress, advised the Mexicans
to welcome our brave soldiers with bloody hands
to hospitable graves! These charges have been
iterated and reiterated a thousand times by the
Democratic press from Maine to Texas, and never
before denied by the opposition papers, for the sim•
ple reason that they were true and could be fully
and abundantly sustained by the record. And did, ~,.
we for a moment suppose that any sane man in the
County of Lancaster doubted their truth, we would
produce the documents to substantiate all that has
been alleged against Messrs. Corwin and Strohm.—
But we apprehends that it would be an insult to the
intelligence Of our readers, for IN, at this late day,
to burthen our columns with the prools of the in
famy
of these men—especially as neither of them
are in nomination at the present time for any office
t t
We have other and larger game to fire at Just now
and the Independent Whig wil Ilabor in vain to di -
•vert public attention from WINFIELD SCOTT, to
such men as Corwin and Strohm. We never shoot
at flies when there are pigeons in the woods. Be
sides, that paper, we opine, tins local difficulties on
hand at the present time sufficient to engage all its
attention—therefore courtesy, not to say commis
eration, would admonish us from pressing the sub
ject home upon the .. Woolley Head " organ at this
important crisis in the affairs of the Whig party of
Lancaster County.
CAPT. SANDERSON :—Dear Sir—l had fully de
termined to take no further notice of " Reformer
in the Express, but allow him to expose his empty
vanity and harmless attempt at wit to Ina " last
word."
This resolution I am"compelled to break, on ac
count of him taking a contemptible advantage of my
intended silence by assailing me personally. The
coward becomes bold when Ife expects to escape
castigation or attention. When "Reformer" com
menced his attack upon me, his promises of" snuff
and sal" appeared so genuine that I was induced
to reply to him awhile, in order to "bring out" any
thing good he might accidentally "perpetrate," eith
er by way of argument or amusement. My hatch
ing (as the Express terms it) proved a complete
failure. Instead of giving a pungent rejoinder, he
'shut up" like a terrapin, and gave no saisfaction
whatever. Next I tried some of his own "snuff and
salt," but like his model his eyes and tail were so
closely housed as to defy an application. Lastly,
I placed a coal of fire upon his back, which has
produced a sickly crawl from the bushes into the
mire. For want of sensible argument, pleasantry
oni wit, to the point, or not to the I oint, like buz
zards reveling on carrion, he has stooped to vitu
peration and scandal.
Instead of treating upon the "question," he ens
deavors to injure my private characters in the mind
of fanatics, who like him, are governed entirely by
superstition, prejudice, and excitement; persona so
blinded by the spirit of intolerance, as to know
nothing about coo/ calculation, judgment, or that
"justice" Reformer intends to believe in.
Not being aware that Matthew says, Chap. vll. v.
I "Judge not, that ye be not judged," he accuses
me of being an intidel,Tom Painist, Fanny Wright
ist, and opposed to Temperance. This is what the
Maine law man would call "discussing the ques
tion upon its merits, without appealing to personal
prejudice." In reply to these barefaced charges
I will say that I have never read either of Tom
Paine's works ' either of Fanny Wright's works nor
heard either of her speeches or lectures. That I
am a true Christian, firmer believer and perhaps bet
ter read in the scriptures than himself, although I'
cannot find those Ten thousand flaws in the Bi
ble' that his Infidelity knows of Also, I will ap
peal to any honest man wh., tl,roughly know
each or us, that I am a ne•re ;:,roes! •:..•1 consistent
temperance man, lets acqu• .quors, have
drank less, do drink much h. , •., drink less
than "Retrmer." And, accordingly, I invite him
to stand from "behind the door," and let us test
above board, if his numerous " pains in the stom
ach" are genuine or not.
Still, like Thomas Jefferson, "I have sworn up
on the altar of God, eternal hostility to every form
of tyranny over the mind of man." I deny the
right or correct principle of prohibiting the use of
.zri article on account of its abuse—to restrict or
punish the innocent to save tne guilty—to physic
the healthy to cure the diseased. I insist, that every ,
man shall be accountable for his own actions, and
be punished for his own sins or crimes, without
including his neighbor. If " Reform " stands in
need of a prohibitory law to continue in his "good
works" without a relapse, or to suit those in the
same quandary, they are welcome to it; but then
let it be applied to those only who require it,
without including the rest of us, who happen to ba
constituted with well balanced minds, able to enjoy
the blessings of life without abusing them. For
these principles my private character must be
blackened by a Reformer, just as if it made a par
ticle of difference to the Maine Liquor Law what
"X X " thought of Religious matters. Well, I
might have known better., The vulgarherd always
do descend to garbage when crowded beyond the
latitudes of their shallow brain. The yelping curs
always descend to the heels. I San now realize
that passage which. says, " It is difficult to . touch
pitch and not'be defiled."
Yours, respectfully,
nionmoNn, Va., July 27.—The Wiustun tragedy
which caused such a painful sensation in this city,
has at length been explained. Jane Williams, the
slave, fully confesses herself guilty of the murder.
She says at the time she committed the fiendish
deed, her husband was asleep, and knew nothing of
it. She said she was actuated to the deed on ac.
count of bad treatment.
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., July 30.—The extreme
penalty of the law was executed today upon Mrs.
Ann Hoag, convicted of the murder of her husband,
and the colored man, Jonas Williams, for the mur
der of his step-daughter. They were executed in
the Court House yard, at one o'clock. The female
confessed her guilt,.and stated that a man named
Summers was her confederate in the crime.
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