ntelligencer_ , Sr , Journal.
Lancaster, September 14,1552.
GEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR
FOR PRESIDENT:
EN: FRANKLIN PIERCE,
OF NEW IiAbiPSIIIRE
FOR VICE PRESIDENT, • .
COL. WILLIAM R. KING,
OF ALABAMA
SUPREME JUDGE.
GEO. W. WOODWARD,
OF LUZERNE
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
COL. WM• HOPK INS,
OF WASHINGTON
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
SENATORIAL.
GEORGE W. WOODWARD, 01 Luzerne
WILSON WCANDLESS, of Allegheny.
ADDITIONAL DISTRICT.
Roßeier PArrEnaori, of Philadelphia
DISTRICTS.
I. Peter Logan, 13. H. C. Eyer,
2. Geo. 11. Martin, 14. John Clayton,
3. John Miller 15. Isaac Robinson,
4. F. W. Bockius, 16. Henry Fetter,
5. R. McCay, Jr., 17. James Burnside,
6. A. Apple, 18. Maxwell McCaalin,
7.. N. Strick.and, 19. Joseph McDonald,
8. Abraham Peters, • 20. W. S. Colahan,
9. David Fieter, 21. Andrew Burk,
10. R. E. James, 22. William Dunn,
11. John Mcßeynolds, 23. J. S. M , Calment,
12. P. Damon, 24. George R. Barret.
COUNTY TICKET
CONGRESS.
Dr. N. W. SAMPLE, Leacock
FOR ASSEMBLY.
JACOB L. GROSS, Ephrata.
SANDERS McCULLOUGH, Drumore
CYRUS S. HALDEMA N, Conoy.
EMANUEL SCHAEFFER, City.
JACOB R. LONG, City.
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
JOHN WHI'tESIDE, Colerain
DIRECTORS OF POOR
HENRY STAUFFER, E. Lainpeter
HENRY GORRECHT, City.
AUDITOR.
B. F. HILLS, Ephrata.
PRISON INSPECTORS.
ROBERT M'CLURE, City.
JOHN HOLLINGER, E. Donegal
The County Ticket
We point our readers with pride and pleasure to
our county ticket, and ask the voters of Lancaster
county—Whigs as well as Democrats—to look at
the Democratic candidates, scan well their merits
and qualifications, and then say whether they are
not, mentally and morally, taken as a whole, vastly
superior to their opponents on the Whig county
ticket. We court—nay we anxiously solicit, the
most searching and thorou ;h investigation of the
subject, feeling,confident that our candidates will
come out of the trial with additional claims to pub.
lic favor. Wl] s o
are they?
For CongresS we have that veteran Democrat,
Dr. NITHANIEL W. SAMPLE, whose intelligence and
integrity are undisputed, aril whose whole life is a
sure guarantee that, if elected, he will honestly and
faithfully represent the iliitrict in the Congress of
the Union.
For the Legislature we have Messrs. Gnoss, Mc-
CULLOUGII, HALDEMAN, SCHAEFFER and Loan—all
of whom are well known to the people as amongst
the most intelligent, active business men in the
county, with characters, moral and political, pure
and unsullied by a single stain, and who are in all
respects deserving the esteem and confidence of their
fellow citizens.
Then, for County Commissioner—by the way,
the most important office in the county—we have
presented to us for our suffrages that sterling man
and undeviating Democrat, Mr. Joan WHITESIDE,
of Colerain. His intelligence, integrity and business
qualifications peculiarly qualify him for the station,
and could he be elected, his presence in the Board
would be a certain pledge to the people of the
county that their interests would be faithfully and
energetically attended to.
The Democratic candidates for Directors of the
Poor, Auditor, and Prison Inspectors, Messrs.
STAUFFER, GORRICHT, HILLS, 11 . CLURE and HOL-
Ltrrozn, are also among the choice men of the
county, admirably qualified for the respective offi
ces for which they have been nominated, and in
every respect superior to their Whig opponents.
Such is the Democratic County Ticket, placed
in nomination by the County Convention with the
greatest unanimity and good feeling. Such are the
candidates—and we now ask the voters of Lances.:
ter county, of all parties, to say whether, Irom'
their excellence and general qualifications, they arel,
not just such men as were worthy a Democratic
nomination, and whether they are not well deserves'
ing the confidence and support of their fellow.citi.',
zens. Every Democrat in the county will, of course
vote the ticket, and we feel confident that there are
hundreds of honest Whigs, tired of the trickery and
corrur lion of their own party leaders, who will be
glad of the opportunity to throw off for once the
shackles that have bound them for years, and vote
for such honest, upright and capable candidates, as
the Democrats have placed in nomination.
lErThe communication, giving an account of the
"Whig Mass Meeting of Drumore," is in type, but
crowded out for want of room. It shall appear in
our next
Berko County.—The Democrats of this Gibrali
ter of Democracy have nominated the tollowinF
excellent ticket :
Congress—Henry A. Muhlenberg.
Senate—William Hiester.
Assembly—lsaac Yost, George Dengler, Danie
Zerbey, Jacob Wicklein.
127. GOMM ahead again. The October(double)
number is already in the field, a full length ahead
of all its rivals. To say that this is a capital num
ber, splendidly embellished, would be hut repeating
a thrice-told tale. We advise all our lady readers
to procure a copy of the work, and then they can
judge for themselves.
11:r B100IIIT" is the title of an admirable
Democratic-Campaign paper, edited and published
in New York, by G. J. Gallagher, and furnished
weekly to subsiribers until the Presidential elec
tion at 25 cents per single copy, or to a:club of five
subscribers at $l,OO. Each number will be embel.
lished with an engraving, humorous or otherwise
illustrations of the political movements of the coati-
paign. The numb& before UB contains,' in additioU,
• to likenesses of Messrs. Prisms and KING, a picto,
rial representation of Gen. Scorr's predicament in
regard to naturalization.
113" The Sarum" is the title of a newpaper
recently started in New York, to advocate the pe
culiar views and principles of the Order of United
Americans. It is a large and well filled sheet, and
is furnished to subscribers at $2 per annum.
Messrs. Woodward and Hopkins.
The MontrOseDemocrat, one dile ablest jour
nals in Northern Pennsylvania, thus speaks of the
candidates upon our State ticket: •
The utmost harmony characterized tl4: - whole
proceedings, Mr. ' c Wconw.,urn being nominated
unaliin..xialy and Mr. Hems/lion the third ballot ;
To our readers, the name fame, and parson of Judge',
Woci ard are well known. He is at present hold-:
ing a pace on the Supreme Bench by,the appoinW
men't of Governor Bigler, and his reputatian as a
Jurist in this State is everywhere -acknoliedged;
and appreciated, as - Second to no man ih thearnnis
monwe.ilth. His election will tOng to that, the
highest branch of our JudiciarY, the learning and
talents so indispensible to its adornment.
Mr. Hopkins has long been ranked among the
most prominent and influential DeniociatS in the
State. He served a long period of time in the Leg
islature,—was Speaker of that body during the
evermemorable "buck shot war" of Gov. Ritner,
and'vvon for himself a high reputation as an hon
est and a sagacious Legislator, an able debater, and
an active, learned, and ready presiding officer.—
Haying been thus: intimately connected with the
political affairs and general interests of the Cam
moriwealth, and being withal one of the most ac
tive and successful of business men, his election, of
which we have no doubt, will bring to the Canal.
Board that strength and active energy, so necessary
for the prompt and prudent management of our
complicated and extensive system of public works.
Probably no man ever presided over the delibera
tions of the House of Representatives when nerve,
decision and force of character were tried in equal
degree with that of Mr. Hopkins. On the other
side was a clamorous and determined Administra
tion, sustained by the whole Whig party of the
State, tanning riot with revolutionary projects and
puiposes. The election was treated as though
never held,—members elected beyond a- question
were turned from their seats, and the military of
the Commonwealth called to the Capital to enforce
the mandates of the administration, and overturn
the order of things established by the people. Never
before or since, has the spectacle of a civil usurpa
tion, backed up by a military force been wit
nessed in this government. Never have the Repre
sentatives of the people, in discharge of their duties,
been surrounded, by the sword and bayonet, and
never have the streets of a capital in this nation
been sentineled with -armed men and threatened
with pillage and bloodshed, in support of the will
of the Executive. None but a man of inflexible and
positive character could ever have resisted the
coercive power employed on that occasion as Mr.
Hopkins did. And for the noble and patriotic
stand he then took in defense of the rights of the
people,—the successful and vigilant protection of
those rights and the suffrages of the citizens, he
will now be rewarded by the most triumphant
election.
Jacob Hoffman.
Whilst in Reading attending the Democratic
Mass Meeting, we made someinquiries in regard
to the character and standing :of Jacob Hoffman,
the Whig candidate for Canal Commissioner, and
found that he was a small lawyer, of the pettifog
ging order, whose practice generally had been of
a peculiar character, such as the great lights of the
bar would never permit to come into their offices
—that almost all his business has been of the spec
ulative, intriguing kind, and that he was by no
means particular in reference to the manner in
which he' managed cases, always acting on the
principle that the end justified the means. Indeed
we heard of several cases, which, in our view
would have justified any court in which he prac
tised, in striking his name from the roll of Attor
neys, as being unworthy of having the business of
honorable men placed in his hands, and in one case
he passed so near the line of dishonorable dealing,
that it required all his cunning to save his bacon.
His whole life seems to been have devoted to a
system of low intrigue and finesse, and he is as
celebrated for failing to meet his pecuniary engage
ments as some distinguished Whigs in our own
neighborhood.
It seems that this Mr. Jacob Hoffman; at a quite
early day conceived the idea of managing courts
land juries; according to his notions of propriety
and if they failed to come up to his ideas he endeav
ored to Intimidate them by denunciation and abuse.
According to the records of the court of Berks
( county, Mr. Hoffman was engaged in the case of a
certain Wm. Degrummond, when the Hon. Garrick
,Mallory was President Judge of that court, and
after the: trial of the said Wm. Degrummond, Jacob
Hoffman had a conversation with Thos. Elder, Sr.,
of our bOrough, in a public Hotel in Reading, in
which hp traduced the court in a most vile and
disgraceful manner, alleging, among other things,
that the:Judge was improperly influenced by the
prisoner giving his Honor the Masonic sign.
This conversation, it seems was heard by the Judge,
who on the 14th of November, 1835, entered a rule
on Mr. Hoffman, to show cause why he should not
'be stricken from the roll of Attorneys. This would
have been the ruin of poor Hoffman, and at the
January term, 1836, he came forward and made
the retraction published below, which was entered
on the records and still stares him in the face.
The infamous character of the charges may be in
ered from the broad and comprehensive retraction.
The following is a copy from the records of the
Berks county court in this case:
In the Common Pleas of Berks county, Nov. 14,1835.
The Court order and direct a Rule on Jacob Hoff
man, Esq., a member of this court, to show cause
why his name should not be stricken off from the
list of Attorneys. _
January Term, 1836.
In answer to the above rule, the undersigned re
spectfully begs leave to state that he had no inten.
tion or design of committing a contempt of Court
or of charging the said Court with improper mo
tives, or of inducing the public to withdraw their
confidence from the-same.
And the undersigned, further begs leave to state,
that to revive the friendly feelings which have here
tofore existed between the said Court and himself,
he waives any queition touching the jurisdiction
of the Court in this matter, and is also pleased to
have hin is power to state that he was misinformed
in several important particulars, and knows of noth
ing that can in anywise impeach the honor or integ-
rity of this Court.
And further, that the record in the case of the
Commonwealth vs. William DeGrummond, does
not warrant the statement made by him to Thomas
Elder, Esq. He is satisfied that nothing improper
was done by the Court in that case.
All ol which respectfully submitted.
J. HOFFMAN.
Perks County, m:
I certify that the above is a true
. 1 / 4 5-ftr r : P ls copy of the original, filed in my office,
,q \J.,. January 13, 1836. •
Witness my hand and seal of office,
September 18, 1848.
' PETER STROHECKER,
This is the character of the man the Whigs have
set up in opposition to the Democratic candidate
for Canal Commissioner. A man's public charac
ter is to be judged of by his private transactions ,
and if the whole life of Mr. Hoffman has been spent
in low scheming, disgraceful trafficking and man
aging cases, as Thaddeus Stevens wished to man
age father Montelius, by throwing conscience to the
devil, the people can readily imagine that he would
manage the public works on precisely the same
system.—Democratic Union.
New Railroad to Lancaster.—We learn that the
Chief Engineer, W. H. Wilson, Esq., has completed
hislsurveys and estimates for a road from Phcenix
ville to Lancaster, for which charters were obtain
ed last winter. This road is also to connect Phila
delphia directly with Lebanon and the rich country
surrounding that wealthy place.
The route leaves the Reading Railroad at Phce
nixville and follows French creek to its source at
Springfield, and thence by Churchtown to a point
near Hinkletown, where it diverges to Lancaster
and also to Lebanon, by seperate lines. The dis
tance from Philadelphia to Lancaster by this route
is 73 miles. There will be no grades on it exceed
ing 40 feet per mile, or a curve of lees radius than
2000 feet.' The maxium gradient on the Colum
bia road is 50 feet, and minimum radius of curva
ture 620 feet. This route can be placed in com
plete operation for not exceeding $1,200,000, and
when finished, may be run from Broad street to
Lancaster in from one and a half to two hours.—
Philadelphia North American.
IT? About twenty death occurred during the last
weeks, in Chambersburg, from Cholera. The dis
ease has again abated.
137 . Co! JOHN W. FORNEY is about to become
one of the editors of the Washington Union.
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DEINCILIIIC COUNTY CONVENTION.
„ •
The Delegates repretwanting the various Wiiids,
Boroughs and T , ownships of the County of Lan
caster,. met Convention,in this City . , on Wednes.
day, Sept. 8,.1852, at 11 o'clock, A. M, at the Na
tional. Rouse, (Zeigler's. The. *lowing named
delegates presented credentials of their election, and
were 4mitted : PD seatikip the Convention„viz :
.//tan sidlo;ir--Johli Eehternacht, Abrm. Kegereis,
James Yoter.
Bart—John S. Morton, William Dungan, Thos.
Murphy, William Kunkle, Jacob Eckman, jr.
Brecknock—Not rgresentesi,
Cornartion—Jacob Westley, James Neal,!Dr. B.
F. Bunn. Evans Bogem tephen. G. Bickham.
Co/erainAtidrew' B..MCGraugh, James P. Wil-
son, William A. Barkley, F. P. Ryland, E. P. Dare.
Columbia S. W.—Jacob Auwerte:, Dr. N. B.
Wolfe, Dr. F. A. Thomas, John Yearnish, Chas.
M. Stiehl:. •
N. W.—Jacob M. Strickler, J. S. M'Mahon, John
Slack, Jeremiah G. Hess, John K. Eberline.
Cocalico .E —Col. Andrew Ream, Reuben Share
man, Cyrus Ream, Samuel Bucher, Adam Ruth.
Cocalico W.—Jesse Reinhold, Peter Kegeries,il2o.
Bard, Cyrus Bruner, Henry Opple.
Conestoga—Adam Kendig, Christian R. Herr,
Michael Zercher, Daniel Conrad, jr., Chas. Melhorn.
Conoy—Cyrus S. Haldeman, John H. Smith, J.
B. Hamilton, John Kohb, Peter Emerick.
Donegal E.—John Hollinger, Thos. J. Albright,
John Houseal, Nicholas Clepper, Sampson Reese.
Donegal W.—Not represented.
Diumore—James Barnes, P. W. Housekeeper, S.
B. Moore, W. W. Steele, Thomas Moderwell.
Earl—Lot R. Williams, J. S. Palmer, Dr. I. L.
Winters, C. S. Hoffman, Peter Reem.
Earl E.—James Hammond, Jacob Stambaugh,
John W. Landis, Isaac Foltz, Solomon Messner.
Earl W.—John Forney, Mark Connell, Samuel
Reemsnyder, Jacob Buser, Hiram R. Hull.
Ephrata—Jacob L. Gross, Benjamin F. Hills, Dr.
Henry Reemsnyder, Samuel R. Nagle, 0. P. Gross.
Elizabethtown—George W. Boyer, Benj. F. Bare,
H. M. Breneman, Jacob Redsecker, Emanuel Hoff
man.
Elizabeth Twp —Peter Martin, Martin Irvin, L.
R. Hibshman, John Kegeries, Jacob Boffinmoyer.
Fulton—James M'Sparren, George Hillies, Dan
iel D. Swift, James Hanna, Wm. F. Jenkins.
Hempfield E.—W m. Martin, Henry Hoffman, Ja
cob Hershy, Benjamin Luti, Dr. Samuel Parker.
Hempfield W.—Benjamin Myers, Jacob Sneath,
Jacob M. Greider, David R. Kaufman; John M.
Kolp.
City N. W. W.—John L. Keifer, John Dorwart,
George Yeisley, Henry C. Wentz, John A. Scheir
enbrand.
N. E. W.—Thomas Cox, Dennis Marion, James
L. Reynolds, Thomas C. Wiley, Capt. John Som
mer.
S. W. TV—William Mathiot, Philip Fitzpatrick,
Samuel Huber, Henry W. Gantt, Col. Wm. S. Am
weg.
S. E. TV—Henry Gorrecht, William A. Morton,
Capt. William R. Leonard, H. W. Fedderson, John
C. Rote.
Lancaster Twp.—Hugh M'lntire, Maj. C . Nau
man, B. Huber, Frederick Dase, P. A. Fisher.
Lampeter E.—Christian Erb, John M'Sorley,
Henry A. Miller, Henry Stauffer, Henry W. Gara.
Lampeter W.—George Raub, Christian Hess,
John M. Miller, James C. Ewing, David Fulmer.
Leacock—John L. Lightner, Molton R. Sample,
Eli Rutter, John Reed, Jacob R. Ecicege".,
Leacock Upper—Mark Connell, jr., Dr. Isaac C.
Weidler, Hiram Kolp, Michael Roland, John B.
Raft.
Little Britain—Williams Peoples, Samuel Shade,
James Patterson.
Manheim B.—N. S. Worle, Dr. J. M. Dunlap, J.
M'Mullen, Benjamin Donaven, Simon S. Young.
Manheim 'Dep.—Col. S. C. Stambaugh, Richard
M'Grann, John Bear, Benjamin Eaby, Benj. Ruth.
Manor.—George G. Brush, Jno. E. M'Donald,
George S. Mann, Isaac Habecker, John Kilheffer.
Martic—Dr. Go. W. Smithson, James H. Pagen,
William Wentz, Mifflin Elliot, Mathias M'Comsey.
Marietta—John Shields, Charles Kelly, H. S.
Libhart, H. Rollin, George W. Rinehart.
Mount Joy Bor.—Henry Shaffner, Jacob P. Long,
John Reem, Joshua Leader, Henry Miller.
Mount Joy Twp.—Not represented.
Paradise—Sample Slaymaker, William Hamil
ton, Joseph Hamilton, A. Carpenter, Samuel Eby.
Penn—Jacob Neavine , , David M. Eberly, Henry
Fulmer, George Garber, Samuel Plaster.
Rapho—Not represented.
Sadsbury—John 80011, Samuel J. Boon, Jacob R.
Townsend, Eber Ray, C. T. Welsh.
Salisbury—Thomas S. M'llvain, David Kurtz,
T. W. Henderson, James H. Houston, Geo. Diller.
Strasburg Bar.—W. F. S. Warren, Jas. M'Phail,
Wm. Echternacht, Joseph Bowman, John Steele.
Strasburg Twp.—Jacob Neff; Daniel Magowan,
Geo. Withers, Miller Raub, Franklin Clark.
Warwick—Benjamin M'Cutcheon, John Martin,
A. J. Sturgis, Uriah Etmyer, Dr. Levi Hull.
Washington—Dr. A. Bitner, John A. Brush, Jo
seph Ross, jr., John Shertzer, George Greeu.
On motion of William Mathiot. Esq., Chairman
of the County Committee, Dr. Lovr HULL, of War
wick, was unanimously elected President, when
the Convention adjourned to meet in the Court
House, where the organization was completed by
electing the following additional officers, viz:
VICE PRESIDENTS.
JOHN FORNEY, W. Earl,
THOMAS C. WILEY, City.
0. P. GROSS, Ephrata,
Was. HAMILTON, Paradise,
Dr. N. B. WOLFE, Columbia,
JACOB NEAVELING, Penn,
C. Hass, West Lampeter,
JAMES MCPHAIL, Strasburg borough,
N. P. WORLEY, Manheim borough,
JOHN REAL, Leacock,
JACOB MARTIN,
JACOB M. STRICKLER, Columbia.
Col. JACOB SRAEFFER,
HENRY ROLLINS.
/SCREW:IIES.
Thomas J. Albright, E. Donegal,
William A. Morton, City,
T. A. Thomas, Columbia,
Dr. H. Reemsnyder, West Earl.
On motion, the following Committee was ap
pointed by the Chair to prepare resolutions expres
sive of the sense of the Convention, viz:
Col. Semi. C. Stambaugh, J. L. Reynolds, Req.,
Dr. Isaac C. Weidler, James Patterson, Dr. Samuel
Parker, George G. Brush, Esq., Peter Martin, Esq.,
W. F. S. Warren, John Echternacht, Samuel M.
Eby, Dr. N. B. Wolfe.
The Convention then decided unanimously to
nettle a ticket, and proceeded to make nomina
tions for the various offices. The following nom
nations were then made:
Thomas Welsh,
Dr. N. W. Sample,
Dr. N. B. Wolfe,
Dr. F. A. 11f ahlenbarg
Prothonotary
Jacob L. Gross,
Emanuel Scheaffer,
C. S. Haldeman,
George Withers,
John S. Morton,
Dr. Levi Hull,
Wm. H. Elder,
Sanders McCullough,
Jacob R. Long,
Joseph M. Watts,
John McClure,
John Gross,
James Black,
William Hays,
Wrn. J. Steele.
David M. Eberly,
Samuel Slocum. •
COUNTY (OMI4IIII3IONER
John Whiteside,
Samuel Custer,
Henry Stauffer,
Hugh 114'Intire,
William Dungan,
Henry Gorrecht.
B. F. Hills,
John S. Gibbons,
Nathan Worley,
Charles Kelly.
Henry Shaffner,
Benjamin Workman,
Robert McClure,
J. M. Strickler,
John Hollinger.
At the opening of the Convention several of the
nominees named in the above list, withdrew their
names—amongst others that we now recollect (tor
we have not seen that portion of the official. pro.
seedings,) were Dr. Wolfe, for Congress, (by letter,)
PEEWIT/13T.
Dr. LEVI HULL
EMI=
17=
DIRECTOELS OP POOR
AUDITOR
PRISON INSPECTORS
and_ Dr. and Mr. George . Withers, Mr_
_ ..
and Mr. John S. Gibbons-for Auditor.
The Convention proceeded tore ballot, which re -
autted,in the following nominations, viz:
Dr, F. A. MITILLENBERG, City.
JACOB L. GROSS, Ephrata.
SANDERS MeCULLOUGH, Drumore.
- C. S. HALDEMAN, Cono - •
_ EMANUEL SCHAEFFEB, City.
'JACOB R. LONG, Mount Joy.
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JOHN WHITESIDE, Colerain.
DIRECTORS Or ,POOII.
HENRY STAUFFER, E.Lampeter
HENRY GORRECHT, City.
AUDITOR
B. F. HILLS, Ephrata
PfIUON
ROBERT McCLIIRE, City. '
JOHN HOLLINGER, E. Donegal.
7 Dr. Muhlenberg having declined the nomi
nation, the Convention again proceeded to ballot,
when
Dr. NATHANIEL W. SAMPLE, of Leacock,
was duly nominated for Congress, he having re-
eeived 29 votes, T. Welsh 9 votes, and . Dr. Levi
Hull 5 votes. The nomination was then unani
mously confirmed.
After the ticket was placed in nomination, Col.
&mush C. STAMBAUGH, from the Committee on
Resolutions, reported and read the following, which
were unanimously adopted by the Convention
The representatives of the Democracy of Lan.
caster county have again assembled in Convention,
in conformity with time honored usage, for the
purpose of nominating a ticket, to be voted for at
the ensuing October election. That duty has now
been performed—and although our Democratic cit
izens enter into battle, in every county contest,
against feartul odds, yet it stimulates a glow of
honest pride to witness the untiring energy, the in
domitable courage and perseverance, with which
they march up to their duty, in every struggle with
their powerful and haughty enemy. The old ad
age is thus fully verified, that although by fraud,
imposition, or the power of numbers, "the Demo
cratic Party may be beaten, yet it will not stay' beaten."
In Lancaster county there is a sturdy phalanx of
over eta THOUSAND true hearted Democrats to ral.
ly upon—and, although it has been for many years,
and is still, beyond human effort to elect any of
their own members to offices of honor or emolu
ment, yet their weight is seriously felt in counting
the united ballots of the "Old Keystone," when
she is called upon to put forth her strength at a
State or National election. But the " signs of the
times" plainly indicate, that " there is a better day
a-coming," even in the old Federal county of Lan
caster, and her hardy Democracy does not despair
of ultimate success. Ours is a party of PRINCIPLE,
standing erect upon a broad, firm platform, every
plank and rivet of which is boldly and proudly ex
posed to the People's scrutiny. It has never
changed the PRINCIPLES upon which it was created,
or the great name it received at the baptismal font
of our Revolutionary fathers. It stills bears the
proud, unchanged and unchangeable name of the
"Democratic Republican Party."
Let us reverse the picture, and look at the party
opposed to us It is a party without principles.—
Since its usurpation of the Revolutionary name of
" Wale," which was, fixed upon in conclave as
the crowning "gull trap " to catch the unwary, af
ter its passage from Federalism through Indepen
dent Republicanism, National Republicanism, Anti
masonryism, and various other isms.to its present
title, it dare avow none. But it is the old Federal
party still, without its honest boldness, which never
suffered it to disguise its principles. In every con
test with the Democracy it fearlessly avowed them,
an principle then battled against principle for 'the
ascendency. In the first change of name, it lost its
honesty, and with that one virtue it lost many of the
best men belonging to the party. It is a party
whose leaders have always looked upon the masses
as ignorant tools, to be used for their own selfish
purposes—whose declarations, in early times,
against the Democracy is still vividly remembered,
especially its standing denunciation of the Democrat
ic Party of Pennsylvania; as being made up of "the
STUPID DUTCH and TURBULENT IRISH !" A party
that dares not, at a State or National election ; when
matched against the Democracy, when principles
and measures ought to be relied on for victory, put
forth a standard bearer with the principles of
"Whiggery " inscribed upon its banner. On the
contrary, in every such crisis it never fails to resort
to "expediency" instead of "principle," and select a
candidate on account of his AVAILABILITY, without
the least reference to his principles, capaci:y, integ
rity, or fitness for the office to which he is to be el
evated. We then frankly ask the honest, upright,
intelligent yeomanry,of Lancaster county, whether
such a party—(held together by such tenure—
whose heart is false and conscience rotten—whose
leaders buoy it up by fraud and falsehood, practised
upon the unitiated, and then gloat in their triumph
over their betrayed followers, many of whom are
as good and upright men as libe)—can or ought
to hold its position among them any longer?
It will be recollected that, atter battling for many
years with a majority against it of more than two
thousand, at the first election that General Jackson
was a candidate, the Democratic party obtained an
impetus which struck down its powerful opponent,
and carried Democracy into the ascendant. This
position it maintained until 1829, when the fell
spirit of ANTI-MASONRY exhibited itself and
was immediately= clasped in the embrace of the
Federal Whig Party, then playing for the first time
the favorite trick since so often resorted to, of fan
ning into flame every faction that can raise its head
and be used for party purposes. The trick was
skilfully and successfully played, and fora brief
time the Federal Whig party fought under the
name and banner of Anti-mammy. Many—very
many honest men—good and true Democrats as
well as Whigs, were deluded by that "gull trap."—
' The Federal Whig party, under the name and guise
of Anti-tnasimry not,only regained this county, but
afterwards carried the State. But no sooner were
the purposes of the leaders accomplished, than the
name of "Anti-masonry " was loathingly thrown
aside, and the name of "Whiggery" re-instated.—
This party, however, was very soon again over
thrown in the State, by the giant power of the De
mocracy, and it at once resorted to its favorite
stratagem by stimulating to violent action Native
Americanism, Free Soilism, Abolitionism, and every
faction that could seduce votes from the Democrat
ic party. The arms of Whiggery were always
open to embrace these factions and. use them for
their own aggrandizement. But the intelligence
and integrity of our sturdy, common sense People,
will not suffer them to be hood-winked any longer
by unprincipled and profligate leaders. They are
fast throwing off the shackles with which they
have been held as bondsmen and slaves, and are
joining with heart, soul and strong arm, the Dem
ocratic army, which will at the ensuing October
and November elections prostrate forever the hum-.
bugging government of modern Ithiggery. The
people no longer will or can close their eyes to its,
bold and reckless acts of embezzlement of the peo
ple's money, to fill the pockets of its leaders and
especial favorites—its monster schemes of advan
tage given to one class of business over all others
—its mammoth chartered monopolies—its stupen
dous Bankrupt laws—all of' which were pre-deter
mined to make "the rich richer and the poor poorer
—to benefit the spendthrift millionaires at the ex
pense of thehard toiling millions !
It is the opinion of this Convention that the par
ty fighting under the banners of Whiggery, made
up of the shreds and patches of all factions, is on
the brink of dissolution. The old gull-traps of the
leaders are no longer of service; they can catch
no more of those they termed "the ignorant com
mon people." Hauling through the country log
cabins, cider-barrels ' coon-skins, and singing "Tip
pecanoe and Tyler too, ,, affords no more amuse
ment. The people have become disgusted with
these ridiculous shows, and now look in astonish
ment and wonder at the manner in which Whig
victories have heretofore been achieved. During
the last Presidential contest, principles and mea
sures were entirely cast aside by that party, and all
argument thrown to the winds. If the leaders
were asked to define the political position otaGen.
Taylor—to inform the people concerning his opin
ions upon the Tariff, Internal Improvement, Slave
ry, or other great National Measures, the only ans
wers were, " Huzza for Old Whitey," "A little
more grape, Capt. Bragg," " General Taylor never
surrenders," " Hurrah for rld Rough & Ready."—
Every cross road in the country; every street of every
city, town and village of Pennsylvania, witnessed
the parades, with banners and flags bearing these
and similar inscriptions I Is it a matter of wonder,
therefore, that the people, after calm reflection,
looking back at this mummery, should feel them
selves outraged, and indignantly cast off the im
pudent leaders, who have •been thus treating them
as spoiled school boys, with toys and play-things,
by which to coax them out of their votest
Thus it is, that these same leaders are now
striving in vain to get up " soup houses, plates
and bowls," to wheel over poor, ignorant old Penn
sylvania with wagon loads of pictures and picture
books representing Gen. Scorr with his drawn
sword, cocked hat and tall feather, not only the
Hero in every battle fought under the American
flag since the war of the Revolution,,but even in
that old war itself,notwithstanding it closed some
few years beforiklettt*as born. But, alas, the scep
tre has departe4 2 . l 4li days of" fuss and feathers"
and gun-poiliar`ixcitomant are gone by, and have
lost their charm ; theycan no- longer- cOntrol..-the
lodgments of our honest, common-sense-people.
The candidates now presented' by the Democracy
of the United. States fur the high places of Presi
dent and Vice-President of the country, are
Faun:t r ot Purace, of New Hampshire, and Wm
'LIAM R. Krim, of Alabanta. They are the condi
datOof a party who battlefor planetaria . ; and not
for 'ken.; Their, eountry , evecord establishes the
exalted - charncier of these distinguished citizens,
for patriotism, sound democratic.principles, fidelity
to the Constitution, and devotion to thehest inter
ests of the country. .That record hati:,been;-cn
domed_ by the veteran Hero; of tie Hermitage„„by
President Polk, James Buchanan, Lewis Cass, and
a host of other illustrious men who served with
them in the ,Councils of the nation, and with our
gallant standard bearer on the field of battle. Gen.
JACKSON,, when President of the United States,
in a letter to Gov. Hunzian, of New Hampshire,
said: " You.have a young man growing up in , your
State, young FRANKLIN PIERCE, that will be,
before he is sixty years of age, be a man for the DE
MOCRACY, without the demagogue!" President
POLK, who -formed his estimate of Fitsimaan
Pirates, whilst serving with. him in Congress, at
the formatiob of his Cabinet, wrote the most kind
and pressing letter to him urging his acceptance
of• a place in that Cabinet as one of his Constitu
tional advisers. That place was declined by the
young Statesman, who has nodes yet sought, but al
ways refused to receive office, when he c2uld with
propriety do so. Again, when the country was
called upon for volunteers to march to Mexico,
and Franklin Pierce had enrolled himself as a pri-
vate in a company raised in his town, President
Polk availed himself of the opportunity to show
his continued confidence in the patriotism, skill and
ability of his esteemed friend, by commislioning
him a Brigadier General—using, at the time he
signed that commission, these words : "I am now
commissioning amen who will one day be Presi
dent of the United States." Our own Buchanan,
in the first letter he wrote after the nomination of
the National Convention, speaks of the distinguish
ed nominee as follows: "I know General ['mica
well ; he is the very man for the times;, he has al
ways commanded- the attention of the American
Senate when he spoke, and he has the intellectual
qualifications necessary to render his administra
tion of the government wise, able and successful."
With such testimonials in favor of our Candidates,
we deem it superfluous to say more on the present
occasion, except that this Convention hereby de
clares, as its solemn conviction, that the democracy
of Pennsylvania cannot fail to achieve a glorious
old-fashioned victory at the ensuing October and
November elections, and that PIERCE & KING
will obtain a majority never equalled in the "Old
Keystone," except by those given to ANDREW
JACKSON, Therefore
' Resolved, That the Democratic Party of Lan
caster county, have always cherished, and will con
tinue to cherish and maintain the glorious princi
ples adopted by the Democracy in the days of
Thomas Jefferson—principles which have given
light and life to our great party ever since—re
adopted and strengthened by the National Demo
cratic Convention at Baltimore in June last, and
promulgated as the grand national Pwrsciais upon
which the Democracy must conquer or be conquer.
ed in the coming conflict.
Resolved, That the Democratic party of Lancas
ter county congratulate their brethren of the State,
on the nominations made by the Convention assem
bled in Harrisburg on the 26th ultimo, of candi
date% for the offices of Judge of the Supreme Court
and Canal Commissioner. The reputation of Gro.
W. WOODWARD, who has been nominated to sup
ply the vacancy on the bench of the Supreme
Court, occasioned by the death of Judge Coulter, is
known throughout Pennsylvania, and stands with
out a blOt or a blemish. As a ripe and accom
plished scholar, a sound Jurist, with mind and heart
balanced like the scales of Justice whose motions
he is called upon to direct, he has few equals, and
no superior of his age. WILLIAM HOPKINS, too, is
well known to the people of Pennsylvania, and is
universally esteemed and admired for his sterling
virtues, as well as on account of the great ability
and success with which be has performed the high
and responsible official duties, heretofore assigned
to him. His birth, early education, habits, and in
dustrioua business propensities, emphatically con
stitute him one of the People—a man made by his
own capacity and energy—and the very man the'
people want as Canal Commissioner.
Resolved, That the Ticket nominated this day,
composed of a candidate for Congress, members of
the State Legislature, and candidates to fill the va
rious county offices, are true, faithful and energetic
members of the Democratic party. They are
known to the people, and will receive the cordial
support of every citizen who values the pure and
patriotic principles of democracy.
Resolved, That the democratic party of Lancas
ter county, still cling with undiminished affection
to their distinguished statesman and beloved fellow
citizen, JAMZS BUCHA.RAN t Their hearts were (len
terd in his nomination for the Presidential chair--
but, as the claims of the "Old Keystone" and her
candidate, was submitted to the decison of a Na.
tion Convention, we as democrats, holding in rev
erence that great principle which directs that the
will of the majority shall kovern," acquiesce in
that decision, and go with undivided hearts and
.hands for FRANKLIN Parma and WM. R. Kisto,
as the chosen candidates of the Democracy of the
Union, for President and Vice President of the Uni
ted States. '
Resolved, That the able, firm and patriotic course
pursued by Governor BIGLBII since he has filled the
Executive chair of this Commonwealth, has met
with the entire and cordial approbation of the Dem
ocratic party of Lancaster county.
Resolved, That as Democrats we hold in rever
ence the provisions of our Constitution, that no re
ligious distinctions shall exist in the political policy
of our government, but that every man shall wor
ship God according to his own judgment. And
that as members of the Democratic Church, we
know no distinction between Catholic, Presbyterian,
Lutheran, Methodist. or any other sect of worship
ing christians, but hold them alike dear to us in
thy bonds of common brotherhood.
Resolved, Thatwe hold in abhorrence and detes
tation the attempts making by the Whig leaders of .
Gen. SCOTT, in their insolent and barefaced attempts
to seduce our Catholic fellow citizens into the sup
port of their candidate, by circulating slanders
against the gallant, the true-hearted and able stand
ard bearer of the Democratic party, FRANKLIN
PIERCE. But, these base and wicked attempts to
array religious denominations against each other,
are recoiling upon the propagators with fearful el
lect. Our adopted fellow-citizens, as well as very
many of those who have heretofore been arrayed
against the munder,the party name of "Native Amer
ican," look with loathing and contempt at the un
blushing efforts now making, by Whig leaders and
their Military Candidate, to flatter them into his
support, by profeSsions and promises made to each
separately.
Resolved, That we adopt and will maintain the
patriotic declaration made by our distinguished
Candidate for the Preitidency, FRANK. PIERCE,
that, in this our happy country, there should be
"no north, no south, no east, no west, under the Con
stitution: But a sacred maintenance of the common
and, and true devotion to the common brotherhood."
[Signed by the Officers.]
The Address and Resolutions having been
adopted, a committee was appointed to invite the
Hon. J►slss Buculaust, and a similar committee
to invite Col. Rain Fa►zea to address the Conven
tion. In a few minutes Mr. Bucaoris appeared
and delivered an able and eloquent address, which
was warmly applauded by the multitude present.—
He was followed by Col. Faszta in his usual in
teresting style, which also received the marked ap
probation of the assemblage.
At the canclusion of the speeches the Conven
tion adjourned sine die with three cheers for
PIERCE, KING, WOODWARD, HOPKINS, and the
Democrtitic County Ticket.
Abduction.—Considerable excitement was crea
ted at. Christiana, in this county, last week; on ac
count of the- sudden disappearance of five young
men and boys from that place,—sons of Wm. Nee
lings, Chandler Wilson, John Crowl, Ezekiel Rees.
They were induced to leave their homes to go on
a Whaling Voyage, by a man named Joseph Davis,
and had got as far as Philadelphia before recovered
by their anxious parents: Davis was arrested and
brought to the Lancaster Jail for trial. It appears
he was to receive $lO a piece for • them.—Davis
was recently employed in one of the foundries of
this city.
0— A Temperance Coirity Convention is to be
held in this city to-morrow, for the purpose of;de
termining whether or not to settle a county ticket.
Tssuraezrca CORVENTION.—DeIegate elections'
were held throughout the county, on Saturday last'
by the friends of Temperance. The Convention
will meet in the upper room of the Court House
(instead of the Mechanics' Institute,) to-morrow
morning (Wednesday) at 10 o'clock, A. M
117 - The FirtemEN's Paßana, which was to have
taken place in this City to-day, has been postponed
until October to suit the Baltimore Firemen.
ET Rev. J. ABELL BALDWIN, of Long Island,
hail been unanimously elected Pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church of this city. He is expected
to enter upon his pastoral duties early in the ensu
ing month.
Mr. - Brichantiles
The following is the corrected copy of the remarks
delivered by the- Hon. Jamas:Bucaarris,:upon asser
ming his duties as President of the great Democrat
ic State Masi Meeting, held at Reading on the 4th
int& The reported speech, as first. published, is fit.
correct in severakparticulars—hence the necessity
of, - giving a correct version of what he did say
upon thathaterestieg occasion. Mr. B. remarked
:
FRIENDS AND FELLOW CTIpENS:-1. return you
my molt cordial thanks for the enthusiastic cheers
with which you have greeted me as President of
this volt, this imposing assembly. Well and wise
ly 'did the State Central Committee determine that
Old Dirks should be the spot for the first grand
rally of the Democracy of the State, in the present
most important Presidential campaign. The glo
-ions •Democracy of this County are eminently
worthy to give the first impulse' to the ball, which,
with the aid of her sister counties, will roll on to
certain victory in .good old Democratic Pennsyl
vania.-
It is now about a century ago, since the county
was first established; and from that day until the
present moment, her sons, in all their successive
generations, have ever been devoted to the
=Se of human liberty. In the dark days of the
Revolution, they went forth in great numbers to
fight the battles of their country, and were then
distinguished for their gallantry and their patriot
ism. In our second war for independence against
Great Britain, her people were animated by the
same spirit. , And in the Mexican war she offered
to the service of her country a greater number of
troops in proportion to her population than any
other county in the State; and, as they could not
all 'be' accepted; the contest among themselves
was not which of them should be permitted to re
main at home and enjoy the ease and comforts of
domestic life, but who should be selected to brave
the-perils and privations of foreign war. All hail
to the gallant Democracy of 'old Barks! This im
mense meeting is a certain presage that they will
do their duty, as they have ever done, in the .ap-
proaching elections.
We have assembled here this day, not for the
purpose of raising shouts to a military hero, not tor
the purpose! of establishing " Soup Societies," or
"Fuse and Feather" Clubs; but for the glorious pur
pose of promoting the good old cause of Democracy
and the election of Pierce & King, our worthy and
well-chosen standard bearers. This is the object
of the meeting.
And now, fellow citizens, I should gladly avai!
myself of this occasion to discuss before you the
great principles involved in the present Presides'
tial contest; but, under existing circumstances
this would be unpardonable. There are many dia
tinguished democrats, whose names are well known
to fame, now present from our sister States, and
prepared to address this meeting. We are here at
home, and coartesy requires that Pennsylvanian.
should give place to our friends from a distance.—
From them you may expect a rich repast of argu
ment and eloquence.
Before I resume my seat, however, I desire to
say a few words to you on the importance of our
State election on the Second Tuesday of October.
This will bear the same relation to the Presidential
election, which General Jackson's glorious victory
of the 23rd of December bore to his ever memora
ble victory of the Bth January, at New Orleans.—
Should we succeed, as I do not doubt we shall, in
October, this will 'prepare the way for triumphant
, Bocce's in ,November. Should we fail in the pre
liminary State election, as we did, in 1848, the
same disastrous consequences may follow. I there
fore invoke every Democrat within the sound of
my voice, by the love which he bears to his coun
try, to the time-honored principles of Democracy,
and to the prosperity and perpetuity of our Wailed
Union, to do his whole duty on the Second Tues
day of October. Our State candidates are' emi
nently worthy of our support. Where is the jurist
within our broad limits who stands higher for legal
learning, purity of character, eminent ability, and
sound Democracy, than the accomplished Wood
ward 7 Who more worthy of our suffrages as a
Judge of the Supreme Court, a station which he al
ready adorns
And what shall I say of William Hopkins, our
nominee for Canal Commissioner in place of the
lamented Searight 1 His name is already well
known to the people of the State as an able, sound,
practical business man, of the purest integrity and
the moat unflinching firmness. He has ever been
a consistent Democrat from his youth upwards. A
more suitable individual could not have been se
lected to perform the very arduous and responsible
duties of Canal Commissioner. His character was
displayed by his conduct in the ever memorable
Buckshot war. You all remember thin famous
war. At one period it assumed a portentous as
pect ; but it was in fact the mountain in labor from
which at last crept a ridiculous mouse. This
happy reoult is,
in a great degree, attributable to
the firmness and energy of William Hopkins.
Our Anti-Masonic Whig Gov,ernor had been de
feated by Governor Porter at the election in Octo
ber, 1838. His official term had, however been
extended, by our new Constitution, until the 3rd
Tuesday of January. 1839. The Legislature met
on the first Tuesday of December, 1838. The
Legislature would of course be in session more
than six weeks before the end of Governor Ritner's
term. The Anti-Masonic and Whig allies in the
meantime had their Governor. If they could obtain
a majority in the House of Representatives, they
could then pass laws to elect the Canal Commis
sioners, the United States Senator, and other
officers, and to govern the State and perpetuate
their own power in direct violation of the constitu
tionally declared will of a majority of the people.
There would have been no danger of the Gov
ernor's veto. There was no such Governor then
(turning to Governor Bigler) as you are now. You
would deserve the name of "Old Veto," if you
were not so young and good-looking.
But how was this insurrection against the rights
and liberties of the people of Pennsylvania to be
rendered triumphant t The ready answer was, by
treating elections as if they had never taken place.
Accordingly the then Secretary of State, assumed
the awful responsibility of withholding from the
House of Representatives the regular official re
turn of the election for Representatives in the
County of Philadelphia, which had been transmit
ted to him, according to law ; and, instead of this
regular return,"he delivered to the House a return
prepared for the purpose, electing eight members
who had been defeated by the people of the coun
ty by a majority of more than 500 votes. This false
return was made by only six of the seventeen re
turn Judges from the county of Philadelphia, and
embraced only the votes polled in six of the sev
enteen election districts of thifrcounty.
On the day of the meeting of the Legislature
these eight defeated. candidates• appeared and
claimed the seate of the eight regularly elected
members. Both Houses—the true and the spurious
—met together in the Representatives' Hall. This
was a trying moment in the history of our State.—
The insurgents proceeded with reckless boldness.
Both parties stood in hostile array against each
other in the House, and in such an emergency the
instincts of mankind pointwith unerring certainty to
the leader best calculated for the crisis. William
Hopkins was accordingly elected Speaker by the
true House. But the opposite party had anticipated
them, and their Speaker, Mr. Cunningham, was al
ready in the chair. This was the decisive moment.
Had Cunningham reedited, the two parties would
have come into physical conflict,and God only knows
what might-have been the result. At this critical
moment, Hopkins advanced to expel Cunningham
from the chair which he had usurped. All eyes
were intently fixed upon him in breathless anxiety.
fie moved forward with a firm and determined
step, energy and high resolve in his countenance,
and ascended the Speaker's platform. Cunningham
quailed before him ; and after a moment's pause,
rose and retired from the chair, leaving the law
ful Speaker in possession. Such a man is William
Hopkins, your candidate for Canal Commissioner.
From the moment Hopkins took possession of
the chair, the Buckshot war was in effect ended.—
It is true that the spurious House, having reti
red from the Hall, continued to hold their see
tions for some weeks in a room of Mathew Wil
son's Hotel. And it is also true that the insurgents
afterwards made a desperate effort to terrify the
Democracy. They summoned the aid of buck-shot
and ball for this purpose. At the call of the Gov
ernor the Capital of our peaceful State was filled
witk armed soldiers to shoot down all opposition.
Meanwhile the unterrified Democracy of Pennsyl
vania had rushed from the hills and the vallies to
repel this revolutionary movement and to defend
the constitution and liberties of their State. But
boldness is necessary to success, especially ip a
bad cause ; and the moment thatCubningham yield
ed the chair to Hopkins, all danger had passed
away. The spurious House lingered for a short
time and then expired. Thus ended the attempt to
govern Pennsylvania by a minority of the people,
as all such attempts will ever end in this free and
glorious Republic, by overwhelming every agent
who had been employed in it with popular indigna
tion.
Now, I believe, I have said all I intended to say.
The Democracy of this Country is a party founded
on principle. We have always presented our prin
ciples in bold relief before the public eye. The
generations of mankind rise and sink and are for
gotten; but the principles of Democracy have as
broad and as deep a foundation, as the granite
mountains of Pierce's native State. The Whigs
have never succeeded in electing a President for
two successive terms. They have always undone
themselves in four years. In conclusion, I enter
tain no' more doubt of the election of Pierce and
King, should Providence prolong their lives until
the second Tuesday of November, than I have that
the glorious sun will arise in the firmament of Hea
ven on that auspicious day.
Mr. Stronarcert sat down amid peat and enthu
siastic cheering, which he had received throughout
the whole course of his remarks.
Escaped from Prisms.—Nelson Hildebrand, the
notorious young horse their, escaping from the Lan
caster county prison on Monday night week by
creeping through a space less than six inches wide
—being the hole cut in solid stone for the purpose
of ventilating the cells.. Ha had posit:tautly reduced
himself by severe bleeding.
Great Dellintratle Meeting.
Nery large and enthusiastic meeting of the De
mocracy was held at the public house of Allen
Summy, Gordonville, on Saturday last, the 11th
inst. On motion the following officers were ap•
pointed, via: President, Dr. Adam S. Bare, Upper
Leacock; Vice Presidents, Mark Connell, jr., Upper
Leacock, Jacob K. Eckert, Leacock, Wm! McCas
key, do., J. G. Leber, Lancaster city, B. F. Holl, In
tercourse, Hiram Kolp, U. Leacock, John Lefevre,
Paradise, John Zellers, Upper Leacock; Secretaries,
Reuben Weidler, U. Leacock, John Leber, do., Sam-
uel liitus, Paradise.
On 'motion, a Committee of five was appointed
to draft resolutions expressive of the sense of the
meeting, when the Chair appointed John L. Light
ner, John B. Raff, Samuel Eby, Washington Sim
mons and Cyrus Miller.
The following resolutions, reported by the Com
mittee, were read and unanimously adopted :
Resolved, That the gallant Fassx PIERCE, of
New Hampshire, who received the largest number
of votes in the Baltimore Convention,. receives our
cordial and undivided support with these mottos to
govern us; “divided we fall, united we stand"—Prin
ciples are eternal, while men are as the fleeting
shadows of a noon-tide day—that he ranks high
amongst our statesmen, that the Democratic party
venerates and esteems him, as an exalted Democrat,
elevated statesman, and devoted patriot.
Resolved, That we approve of and ratify the nom
ination of Wse. R. KING for the Vice Presidency.
His services to the country as a statesman,' for a
long period of yeara,.in the Congressional Halls of
our beloved country, justly entitle him to the sup
port of every Democratic citizen.
Resolved, That our standard bearers, FRA.NRLIN
Pillion and Wse. R. Elmo, are the embodiment of
the Democratic principles enunciated by the Bal
timore Convention, as the Democratic platform, and
that we cordially endorse those principles, mount
the platform, as the only stand, whereon we can
defy the assaults of whiggery—and will achieve a
glorious victory in November next, and vindicate
our principles by the voice of a majority of the
American people.
Resolved,' That the adminiStration of the present
incumbent Of the Gubernatorial chair, Wm. Bigler,
is worthy of the support and admiration of every
democrat in the State. His vetoes on the famous
Bank omnibus bills are admired and applauded, his
messages beat upon the face - ol them the evidence
of a statesman and political economist.
Resolved, That we have every confidence in Wm.
Hopkins, the Democratic candidate for Canal Com
missoner, and in Geo. W. Woodward, for Judge of
the Supreme Court, and that we will give them our
hearty support at the polls.
Resolved, That we endorse the action of the coun
ty convention, that we admit the expediency of a
county ticket, and that we unanimously approve
the neminations then made, and the ticket shall re
ceive our undivided support.
The meeting was then addressed by Messrs. San
derson, Reynolds and Mathiot, at the conclusion of
whose remarks a beautiful wreath was presented to
each of the speakers by the Ladies who were pres-
ent.
The Paradise Brass Band wai in attendance, and
discoursed sweet music at intervals.
The meeting adjourned with three hearty cheers
for Pierce, King, Woodward,' Hopkins, and the
County ticket.
OLD CONOY AROUSED
A large and enthusiastic meeting of the Democ•
racy of Bainbridge assembled on Thursday evening
at the house of Jno. Filbert, at which strong and
patriotic resolutions were passed favorable to
Prance and KING and the preservation of the Con.
stitution and the Compromises of the Constitution.
Also resolutions endorsing the nominatint of the
Hon. G. W. WoonwAnn and Was. HOPKNS.
There was no notice given of the meeting until
after 6 o'clock, P. M., on the evening of the meet
ing, and strange to say by 8 P. M., about 120 Dem
ocrats had assembled to interchange sentiments and
confirm each other in the good old principles of the
great National Democratic Party.
J. B. Hamilton, Esq., was called to the Chair, and
P. Hachenberger,
Jno. HOrkman, N. Esworthy, J.
B. Miller, L. Filbert, Jno. Filbert, sr., John Harts,
sr., A. Collins, Jacob Miller, Jno. Fisole, C. Fisole,
Jno. Kobb, Emanuel Will, C. S. Haldeman, John
Haldeman, M. W. Smith, A. Smith, P. Frollinger,
J. Longenecker, and Col. H. Haldeman as Secretary.
On motion of Dr. L. Filbert, a Committee of 13
was appointed by the Chair to draft resolutions.
During the absence of the committee the meeting
was addressed in true'democratic style by our old
townsman, G. F. Spayd, now a resident of Berks;
and he handled the positions which ho assumed in a
masterly manner, fully proving the inconsistsncy
of Gen. Scott upon all the great questions of the
day, especially his doubtful position in reference to
the slavery question. He concluded after passing
a high eulogium upon the statesmanship and pat
riotism of Gen. Pierce. After which the meeting
adjourned with 3 times 3 for Pierce and King,
Woodward and Hopkins, and 3 for the speaker, to
whom a vote of thanks was tendered.
For Mc littelllgenoor.
COLEILLIN, Sep. 9th, 1852
Geo. Sanderson, Eeq.—Now, I am not in the habit
of troubling you good natured editors much, but
you must indulge me this time. Ido not wish to
relate a story of heart-rending disasters by sea or
by land, but simply to state that Thaddeus—yes,
good natured, kind hearted, generous !—has deter
mined that Colerain shall not remain in ignorance
of such speeches as Fowler's, of Mass., Chandler's
and his own to edify them on the subjects of Sla
very, Tariffs and Baltimore woolly-head platforms.
Thad. unquestionably knows that Colerain is Dem
ocratic, for which reason he will readily imagine
why we think he supposes us to belong to that por
tion of creation (spoken of by his distinguished but
now lamented friend) known as the "rest of man
kind."
Imagine this political sodomite turning his whole
fort upon Colerain, sending the above speeches by
the bushel, franked to black men as well as white,
to those that have been dead for months and years,
as well as the living of all colors. Jim Cooper,
Mike Books and other "jemmen" of color have now
a decided proclivity to Thaddeus, and contemplate
waiting on him by Committee to thank him for his
marked attention! The deuce of it was they had
to get the P. M. to haul out his dusty old Scandi
navian Dictionary to interpret the beautiful auto
graph of the Hon. M.- C and much'lun bad been
had at Thad.'s expense., "A little laming is a dan
gerous thing" surely, else those tarnul I'. M's at
Chesnut Level, Mechanic's Grove and I?useyville,
wouldn't have troubled our worthy post master for
his Scandinavian text book, and endangered the fu
ture happiness of such worthy citizens as Sanders
McCullough, Moses Brubaker and others by letting
the speeches to them addressed (in the finest Scan
dinavian text,) pass beyond their destination to be
irretrievably lost beneath the rubbish of demolished
bread, meat, and potatoes! To expedite the delivery
of these precious speeches the P. M. generally di
vides the piles with the applicants, and Mr. Editor
it would amuse you to hear the varied remarks
about how Thaddeus came by all these names.—
Some say he has gained warm side of our Assessor
and copied all his old duplicates, others that he has
been among the toomba (not of Georgia) but of
Colerain, Bart, and parts of Chester co„ &c., &C.—
He has addressed persons that the 'oldest inhabitants'
never heard of in this quarter, and some think that
he meant that they should be handed over to the
depot agent of the under-ground Railroad,-who re
sides about a quarter Stretch this side of Andrews'
Bridge, for the benefit of all woolly head passengers
on their pilgrimage to Fred. Douglass and Horace
Mann. Now, we Democrats might have felt our
selves a 1(0 honored had it not been our names
were put on a level with the negroes of the twp.,
for it is not ovary day a M. C. condescends to no
! tine the clod-hoppers of the land. But being as
sociated with ,unpleasant and uncongenial compa
-1 ny, and at this particular juncture in political mat
ters too, we are rather suspicious of Thaddeus'
courtesy, and shall not forego the opinion that he
means to beseige us and carry us by storm at the
approaching elections. PIKE.
FT Persons desirous of purchalsing a handsome
and commodious city property, within less than
half a square of the new Court House, in E. King
street, are referred to kr. John F. Heinitsh's adver
tisement in another column.
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