lntelligenter Journal.
GEO. SANCiERSON, EDITOR.
Lancaster, August 16, IEO4.
FOR GOVERNOR:.
WILLIE BIGLER, of Clearfield Ccaity.
JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT:,
/BEIM B. BUCK, of Soinorset County.
FUR CANAtCOMMiSSIONER
BHT B. MOTT, of Pike County.
Office of the Intelligencer.
In Kliniand Ill'Clure's Buildings, Duke
streep, 8d door north of E. King, and di
rectly opposite the east entrance to the
new Court Bouse.
entinty Cominittee_Meeting.
The Democratic County Committee hf Lancaster county,
will meet at the public house of Mum= Sums, In N.
Queen street, in this clty, on Wednesday, (he 16th of Au
gust, 1864, at 1 o'clock, PAL Punctual attendance is re
quested, as business of great importance will be presented
ttib4un., acti onof the body. H. B. SWARD,
August 1,1864. Chairman.
COTTNTY CO3I3IIMR.
H. B. Swart, City—Chairman,S. W. W—COL W. S. Amweg.
Adanulown—WHlhun Bloat. SE. W.—Walter G. Evans.
Breekrunk—lsaac Messner. N. E. W—J. L. Essynolda.
.Bart—Thomas Murphy. " Lancaster tap.-Philip Fisher.
aersutrvors—Lot Rogers. Lennpder E.-John U. Miller.
ady....y o h n pnw ir , Esq. Lampeter W-Bamnel Weaver
Cbkrain—Abro , Whiteside. Leacodo—B. F. Holl.
Cbiumbia /Y. W—T. Welsh. Ze.acouts o—Dr. A. S. Bare.
S. W—J. S. Olven.Littleßritain-Wallace Hays.
Coealico E.--,CoL A. Ream. Manheins Bor.-Andrew J Eby
Cbcalied W—Col. J. Reinhold.Manhenn hop-Benjamin Eby
Omsstoga—Adam Kendig. Manor—John Killheffer. -
Onsoy—John H. Smith. Maroc—CoL David Laird.
Donegal E.—Jacob Eiplese. Marietta—John J. Libhart.
Donegal W.—John Grose. Mount Joy BOA -IL B Mativain
Drumore,John Hastings. Mount Joy trop.-J. Sbeaffer.
Eari—Janies Darrow. Paradise-Joseph S. Lefevre.
Ear/ East—Geo. Duchman. Penn-Aaron Longenecker.
Earl Wed—Henry Kaffroth.Pequa—Benjamin Rowe.
Ephrata—Dr. H. iteemsnyder.Proridence—John Tweed.
.Visabethteum—B. F. Bear. Bapho—Henry Ebersole.
Elisabeth—L. B. Hibshman, Strasburg Bor.-W. T McPhail.
Potion—Oliver Caldwell. - Strasburg tup—Jacob Neff.
Hempfteld E.—H. Hoffman. 'Salt/bury-Thos. B. Mel:train.
HxmpffeSsi W-Dr. A K RohrerSadsbury-Samnel Maxim.
City— - Warwick-Dr. Levi Hull.
M W. W—H. Bllckensderfer. Washington—Dr. A. Dither.
The County Committee.
We hope every member of the Democratic
County Committee will endeavor to be pres
ent, at the meeting tomorrow, as business of
great importance to the party, connected with
the present campaign, will necessarily come
before the body.
'The second Address of the Democratic
State Central Committee will be found on our
first page. It ie a truthful and powerful revi
sion of the public career of Governor BIGLER,
and also notices, with great force the Merits of
Judge BLACK and Col. Morr, the other nomi
nees on the State ticket. We commend the
Address to the careful perusal of all our read
ers.
-Will Gov. Bigler be Re-elected?
To be sure he Will, maugre all the predic
tions and hopes of the opposition. And why
should he not he? With a clear majority of
over twenty thousand in the State, the Demo
cratic party can elect any candidate they may
be inclined to set up. And what has Governor
BIGLER done, since his elevation to the Guber
natorial office, that should have the effect of
driving a single Democrat from his support?
We know nothing, and should he obliged to
his enemies if they would point out any act of
his which, all things considered, deserves the
less of a single Democratic vote. Has he not
been faithful to the interests of the Common
wealth, faithful to the pledges of his inaugu
ral address, and faithful to his party ? and is
he not one of the most laborious of all the
Executives we have ever had? Then why,
we ask again, should he not he continued for
another term in the office lie has filled with so
much dignity and ability? We . apprehend
there can be but one answer to this question
from the honest men of all parties—and that
is in favor of his re-election.
But we base our calculation on his election,
from the general . harmony and unanimity in
the Democratic party. 'Tis true, that herb, in
Lancaster, and two or three other places, some
little disaffection has manifested itself; but
that is RS a drop in the bucket compared with
the great mass of Democratic voters, But, we
confidently expect large accessions to our
ranks from those who were formerly arrayed
in opposition. There are hundreds 'and thous
ands of Whigs throughout the State who, now
that the benefits resulting from Governor BIG
LER'S administration are beginning to be felt
and seen, are disposed to "let well enough
alone," and continue the reins of government
in his hands. The dissatisfaction, too, that
has existed amongst Democrats in certain lo
calities is rapidly disappearing—even in old
Westmoreland the party is once more united,
and not a spark of disaffection now exists in
the western part of Pennsylvania. The same
feeling predominates in the centre, and at the
north and south ; and by the time the election
arrives the Democratic party from one end of
the Commonwealth to the other will act as a
unit in support of Messrs. BIGLER, BLACK and
MOTT, the nominees on the State ticket.
Our Democratic friends, therefore, need not
be alarmed at the 'insane and reckless boast
ing of Know Nothing Federalism. The can
didate of the pie-bald factions will be so far
distanced on the second Tuesday of October,
by the " Raftsman of Clearfield," as to com
pletely astonish and dumbfound the motley
crew who are opposing his re-election.
The Lager Beer BM.
The objection to this bill (which the Gover
nor has not yet signed) does not consist in
the fact of its compelling venders of beer, ale,
porter, and other liquors to apply to the Court
of Quarter Sessions for a license ; but because
it gives to the county Treasurers the authority
to grant licences to reailers of foreigti and do
mestic goods to sell such liquors by the quart
or otherwise.
The acts which the Governor signed, and
which apply only to the counties of Chester
and Tioga, simply require venders of beer,
ale, porter, &c., to apply to the Court of Quar
ter Sessions for a Ticense, and so far they are
similar to the above-mentioned bill; but they do
not give the County Treasurers of those coun
ties authority td grant licences to retailers of
foreign and domestic goods to sell liquors by
the quart or otherwise, and this is it which con
stitutes the great difference between these acts.
Is our neighbor, Uncle Jacob, satisfied?
16y. Our opponents—we have no name for
them as a party—have in this political cam
paign abandoned all the great issues which
have heretofore separated them from the De
mocracy, thus tacitly admitting that our party
was right and their's was wrong. Where now
is their National Bank, their Protective Tariff,
their opposition to the Veto Power, and many
other similar supports upon which they here
tofore based their claim to public confidence?
All gone—not even alluded to,—swallowed up
in the one idea of oppositio, - o to men born upon
a toil foreign to our ow - n! Opposition to the
WRITE FOREIGNER &Id love for the AFRICAN,
now seem to be the only things worthy their
attention, and. upon. these they hope to build
up a party strong enough . to control the des
tines of the Commonwealth.
m. The Whig County Convention, on Wed
nesday last, passed a resolution in favor of
Judge ;POLLOCK, but entirely omitted to en
dorse the nominations of their candidates for
Supreme Judge and Canal Commissioner !
What is the cause of this omission? Are
Messrs. SMYSER and Daum to be traded off
for the Native American candidates ? It looks
very much 111ce it.
The Homestead Bill.
WASHINGTON, August 5, 1854.
n the Editoi• of the Union
Ai chairman of the committee in the House
of Representatives who reported the Home ,
stead bill, .I have received many: letters im
pressing an earnest desire forits passage, and
for information as to the rear state, of the
question. In answer to such inquiries, I beg
the privilege of publishing this letter in your
paper.
The first session of the thirty-third Congest
is closed, and our favorite measure remains
still to be carried. After having twice passed
the House of Representatives by a decided
vote, and apparently haying a majority of
friends in the Senate, that body has been
pleased to postpone it in favor of other meas
ures. It vc.nrininfi upon the Speaker's table,
and will come up again for consideration, in
the House of Representatives, early after the
meeting of the next session, when it must be
remodelled and restored to its original home
stead features.
It is true that the Senate professed to have
adopted the House bill with amendments; but
.that which, according to the title of the bill,
is but accidental and subordinate to the Home
stead, has usurped the place of the principal,
and makes the Senate bill, in fact, a bill for
the benefit of States and railroads; and but in
the j most subordinate and limited degree ben
eficial to the actual settler.
The provision of the eighth section of the
bill, as returned from the Senate, allowing
"every head of a family, or male person, of
the age of twenty-one years, to enter a quar
ter section of unappropriated public land," is
upon the condition of payment according to a
graduated scale of twenty-five cents per acre.
But even this encumbered grant is narrowed
and restricted by the privileges conferred .up
on States of pre-empting the whole of the pub
lie lands within their limits, and also by the
privileges conferred upon railroad corporations
or wealthy contractors.
Should a State choose to purchase the lands
within its limits, and raise their priCe, she can
do so, which, you will perceive, would nega
tive the rights of the actual settler, unless the
State Legislature should choose to adopt the
legislation of Congress, and, by re-enacting it,
restore those rights to the settler.. Should a
State, by chartering corporations for the con
struction of railroads, or by contracts with in
dividuals, secure the grants of 7,680 acres
within 12 miles of the line
.of road, for each
mile thereof, she has the power under this bill
of restricting the rights of the settler to that
extent. To what a degree 'this may be car
ried, in these days of bold speculation and
reckless financiering, it is not difficult to con
jecture.
The settler, therefore, is under the control
of the States in the first instance as pre-emp
tors, and, in the next place, under the control
of the States, in connection with railroad cor
porations, which makes the privileges or fa
vors that.the settlers shall enjoy entirely de
pendent upon the control that speculative in
terests, or, on the other hand, the principles
of just legislation, may exercise over the State
legislature.
The advocates of the Homestead have no
special war to wage against grants to railroads
Their hostility is confined in the conflicting
position in which works of that character are
placed by the Senate bill to the actual settler,
to his great injustice and disparagement.
Very little sagacity will enable us to fore
see what would be the result of the Senate's
provisions in behalf of railroads, should they
become a law. Who does not know what a
scramble would ensue in the land States
amongst incorporated companies to get pos
session of the lands, of which that which has
been carried on in Congress would be but a
magnified reflection? Who does not see the
innumerable charters which, under the in
fluence of log-rolling in the legislatures,would
he brought forth to absorb for railroad purpo
ses all the lands in those States, to the utter
exclusion,of the settler, which would cause iru
immense quantities of bonds to be spawned
over the country, make the competition. for
money unparalleled, and increase the rates of
interest to an unprecedented extent?
The starting of so many immature and im
practicable schemes, by creating a fictitious
demand for labor and the necessaries of life,
would be most pernicious in its influence; lit
tle by little the gigantic bubble would contin
ue to swell and glisten till it burst, and bank
ruptcy in its most stupendous form would be
the sequel. This is no picture of fancy, but
one with which the American public are, in
fact, unfortunately too familiar.
It will be thus seen that the settler, in the
general contest for the public lands which
has been lately going on within our Capitol,"
has been lost sight of, and the claims, looked
upon as unworthy of consideration.
.While the popular branch of the national
legislature has reflected fairly the opinions
and wishes of the people, in the other and
more remotely responsible - branch these opin
ions and wishes have failed of recognition.
But it has ever been so. Great movements
to obtain the establishment of popular rights
at the hands of power have always had to
work their way slowly against class interests,
prejudices, and the efforts of foes to encumber
them with odium. These influences are per
mitted to obtain for a while, even with those
whose unbiased judgments would acknowl
edge the justice of the measures, and receive
their enactment with cordial welcome. It is
known to those acquainted with the leading
events of the past half 'century how long, and
with what apparent success, measures of salu
tary reform were resisted by the British Sen
ate long after they had received the sanction
of the Commons. My allusion is more partic
ularly to the reform in the elective franchise,
and to the legislation for the amelioration of
the corn laws. In America we have seen how
long and bitter was the warfare before the
friends of democratic principles were able to
obtain an a'orindonment of the system of high
duties, anti also before the custody of the na
tional treasury was secured in the hands of
the gowarnment; agents only after two suspen
sions c,f specie payments had demonstrated its
necessity.
I would, therefore, have the power behind
the throne—an enlightened public opinion,
which is greater than the throne - itself—to
speak out, in tones bold and loud, like that
which so long sustained Cobden in his oppo
sition to the Lords, and finally enabled him to
carry in triumph one of the most beneficent
Ineasures of which the history of legislation
bears record. This is the conduct which the
present exigency demands. Let not past fail
ures discourage our friends, but rather let
them stimulate to greater struggles for success.
The friends of the Homestead bill should per
mvere, and they will yet witness the triumph
, of the measure at the next session of Congress
for which they have been so earnestly contend
ing—a measure which is based in justice to
the'settler, which is founded in a wise policy
for the nation, and which no measure can ur
pass in the glory of its merits.
I am, very respectfully,
your obedient servant,
JOHN D. DAWSON.
A CONGRESSMAN ROM:D.—Hon. F. McMul
len, a member of Congress from Virginia . , was
robbed of 818,000, in Hanover county, while
on hie way biome from Washington on Tues
day last.
Judge Pollock a Know Nalg, „"
To the cltitige made over and over again,
says the Pittsburg llnion, against Judge Pot-
Loot.of having joined the Know Nothings, the
Whig papeai - of Philadelphia, where he was
initiated, are dunikas statues;; They try,
deed, to turn_ the thing, intiridiCule . Viaying
that den. Cass,SuclgeDonotiii„ &Ger . . Bicisa
tried . to become xnenthers, and were refused
admittiince. But thiirkind of small deception
and trickery - willnot suit the occasion. The
question is a serious one, and mit to be trifled
with. These "distinguished Democrats, like
the party to which they belong, have taken
open, direct, and manly ground in opposition
to this anti-republican organization. The
party in Pennsylvania took the earliest occa
sion to enter their protest against every at
tempt to proscribe a citizen of the Republie,
because of the accident of his birth, or of his
religious convictions. Where, let us ask, have
oar opponents taken their stand against this
dangerous and corrupting association? Look
at Philadelphia, and• what do we behold?—
Why, a Mayor, the son of an Irishman, pro
claiming to the thousands who assembled to
hear him, that no man, not born on this side
of the Atlantic, could be trusted, even in the
most subordinate public place under the city
government. This is the main idea of this
new order of oath-bound Know-Nothings—in
discriminate proscription of all who differ from
their religion, and of all who were born upon
a foreign soil. This organization Judge Pot-
LOCK has been charged with joining. The
time of his initiation, the place and circum
stances have been frequently pointed out, and
neither he nor his political friends in Philadel
phia have pretended to deny the charge.
The Philadelphia Pennsylvanian, determin
ed to probe this organization, and expose all it
can gather from its midnight conclaves, pub
lishes the following article :
"6-15-8,
REMITS IiCRA DNA ETNIN FO RENROC 'TSAR
HERON."
As this is Know Nothing language, wo deem
it to be our duty to explain to our Democratic
readers what it means; for from what we have
learned of the nature of the order and the blas
phemous character of the oaths taken and pro
ceedings had during their initiations, we are
satisfied no Democrat, who has any respect for
himself, after becoming fully acquainted with
its object and character, can belong to that or
der.
The explanation of the above figures and
characters is this:
6 is six month or June; 15 is the day of the
month, and 8 is the hour in the evening. The
next line giving the place is read backwards.
James Pollock, joined the Know Nothings
on June 15th, at 8 P. M., at the "North East
corner of Ninth and Arch streets."
By whom was he conducted there? By Rob
ert T. Conrad, Mayor of Philadelphia, and
Samuel Allen, High Sheriff of Philadelphia..
Beautiful employment for two high functiona
ries of a large and wealthy city, and one who
aspires to the high position of Governor of
Pennsylvania.
The characters by which we are informed
of the place and time when Judge Pollock
joined this intelligent order will also enlighten
us as to the mode and manner of calling their
meetings. It is done by a written notice, nev
er sent through the post office, but delivered
to the member or his wife in person. This
notice contains the time and place written in
the same manner as above explained, and' on
occasions when business of great importance
is to be transacted, the notice also contains a
piece of white paper about 11 inch square,
folded diagonally.
• The mode of giving public notice of - a meet
ing is by posting on the corner, on a lamp or
sign post, a piece of waste paper about three
inches square, folded diagonally and opened so
as to-leave the creases. Any member of the
order seeing this makes inquiry of some mem
ber by asking him " where am I wanted ? If
the member interrogated knows, he tells, if
not, they both go in search of some one "book
ed up," so that in a very short time all the
members find out what is the object of the
posters. •
These posters are very seldom used by the
order, and in Philadelphia have never been
put up but twice. The first occasion was when
there was a public meeting in relation to the
School Bill under consideration at the last ses
sion of the Legislature. The other was in re
lation to a meeting giving an expression of
opinion when a certain Foreign Ambassador
was in Washington.
The object is always, when a town meeting
is called for any purpose at any particular
hour, to have a sufficient number of Know-
Nothings present in advance of the appointed
time to control the voice of the meeting.—
When they meet thus under call to control a
meeting, as soon as the doors are opened they
rush in and get possession of the seats. They
then get the sign, which is by opening the
right hand, the thumb inclined into the palm
of the ~hand, and the little finger extended
above the others a little, then drawing the
edge of the hand over the forehead as though
in the act of rubbing off .perspiration and let
ting the hand fall carelessly by the side.
CIF YOU'RE COMING, WHY DON'T You COME
ALONG ?—lf.it really was the intention of the
Whigs, says the Harrisburg Platform, that
their candidate for Governor, Mr POLLOCK,
should stump the State, and challenge Gov.
BIGLER to meet him before the people, it is
high time now that such intention was carried
out. Gov. BIGLER has given the challenge,
and if the Whig party has no concealments to
make, or has no connection with the various
isms of the day, they should at least signify
to the people what they really intend to do.
It comes with an ill grace from them to talk
of the impropriety of candidates for Governor
going through the State holding political meet
ings and exciting the community. They were
the first to commence the system, and they
ought not to be the first to hack out. The
people are anxious to propound to Mr. Poi.-
LOCK a few questions touching his late conduct,
and there could be no better place to gain an
answer than in a public meeting composed of
all parties It would be an admirable oppor
' tunity for Whigs to show that their attach
ment to the Union and the principles of the
Constitution, are paramount to the dogmas of
faction, and that their candithite is above all
connection with any other party than " Old
Line Whiggery."
,-We hope the Whig press will call on their
candidate to come out and define his position.
It does not look well for Whig editors to be
cracking up their candidate for six weeks at
one stretch, and then hack down without a
word of excuse.
What say you, neighbor Darlington ?
"THE PLATFORM."—This is the title of a
spirited little Democratic campaign paper, is
sued twice a week, at Harrisburg, by A. Born
HAMILTON, Esq., on the following terms, viz :
Single subscriber, 50 cts.
5
15 00 copies (single address) -1, "
2,00
30 " 4,00
50 " _5,00
A portion of the sheet will he published in
German.
litirWe are again indebted to WILLIAM H
WELSH, Esq., Private Secretary to Mr. Boca
&NAN, for London papers of a late date.
oar The semi-annual interest on the State
debt was proinptly paid, by JOSEPH BAILEY,
Esq., State Treasurer, on the Ist inst. So
much for the charge of mismanagement brought
against Governor BIGLER'S administration by
the more reckless of the Whig press.
Mir The steamship Empire City, from As
pinwall, arrived at New York, on Friday
bringing the California mails, 400 passengers
and over a million dollars in gold.
463- The 11. S. Navy Yard Foundry, near
Washington City, was destroyed by fire on
Friday last.
Judge Pollack and the, Whigs
Viafter - of - Moe' io Certain gentle .
men in Sullivan County has been aptly, term
ed
‘‘a legal and political curiosity:" Ita legal
Atiogiriesalid ita , political' bearing certainly
present a difficult. problem! It contains a
variety distinct and dogmatical assertions;
with* Unfortunately for tie author,' 'gird s not
consistent with each other. J'
.For instance, he assumed that !an ! aqt of
eongress, passed' n 1820, fixing the Misaouri
line, should and has the pliwim ; to determine
*local policy of the - territories, so *I as re
lates to slavery, regardlessof the will! of the
people or the power of the' leixal goveriulient.
In this lie clearly recognizes' the right of Con
gress to legislatelon the subject; and we wish
the reader to bear this impOrtant fact in mind.
In another part of his letter be says,i "Con
gress has no power to establish, directly or in
directly, by positive act,' or by penitission,
under the plea of non-intervention, slavery in
any . free territory in the United States." This
is simply denying to Congress any poiver to
legislate on the subject, and is in direct conflict
with the preceding position. We agree, that
Congress has no power to "establish by posi
tive act slavery_ in a free territory." lint we
'do not agree that Congress has not got the
power to do any thing on the subject—tO adopt
the principal of non-intervention. We.do not
agree that Congress cannot permit the people
of a territory to do as they please on the ques
tion. The only way therefore, that Congress
could carry out Mr. P's doctrine would be to
preserve the territories a !wilderness to keep
the peopleout of them. But what is still more
singular, Mr. P., in the same paragraph, al
leges, that an other act of Congress, similar to
that of 1820, or the same act re-instated, would
"necessarilly exclude slavery from those ter
ritories, and the unconditional manumission
of slaves then there could not be regarded as
a legal or moral wrong to any party." Here
he claims for Congress the highest degree of
legislative authority, and avows a doctrine an
tagonistic to the teachings of the preceding
paragraph. We can see no possible way of
reconciling these positions with each othei.
Surely Judge Pollock will not !contend that
the power to create and to destroy the institu
are not identical—that the power to create
may proceed from one source and that to des
troy from another. That Congress could es
tablish and not abolish the institution, or,
vice ,versa.
But he says that Congress cannot permit
slavery "under the plea of non-intervention."-
Henry Clay and Daniel Webster thought
otherwise, for they both voted for the laws
organizing the territories- of Utah and New
Mexico, containing precisely this principle of
non-intervention in reference to slavery.
• Again he says, "slavery can have no legal
existence in those territories either by act of
Congress or under the false pretence of popu
lar sovereignty."
The inquiry is at once suggested to the
mind, then why all the clamor against the
Nebraska bill? If slavery can have no legal
existence in those territories, under the laws
as they now stand, of course it will not go
there. But the Whigs and Abolitionists say
it can ,and will go there. The Whig Press
say that Congress has legislated slavery into
those territories. Mr. Pollock says Congress
has no such power. Who is right, the W higs
or Pollock? He says that if "slavery enters
those territoties it will be there without author
ity of Constitutional law, and in violation of
all law." The Whigs and Abolitionists gen
erally assume that the law of Congress 'has
authorized it to go into these territories. It
is clear that some body is befogged. But, in
all candor, we would enquire, what does Mr.
Pollock mean by assuming that popular sover
eignty may be a false pretence. Surely he
does not mean to say that the will of the peo
ple of a territory or a State expressd in refer
ence to the institutions under which they live,
is a false pretension —that it is an assumption
of power which theydo not possess. We are un
willing to attribute to him such an unjust sen
timent, and yet his language will bear no'other
construction. If the power to establish slave
ry, or abolish it, is not in the people and the
local government, it can have no existence on
the face of the earth, and all clamor on the
subject should cease. Mr. P. denies the power
of Congress and the pretensions of the people,
and then settles the whole question that slave
ry cannot extend into the territories of Kan
sas and Nebraska. Hereafter therefOre, when
the Whigs give vent to their virtuous indcg
nation on this subject, we shall promptly in
terpose the doctrine of their own candidate
fwainat their ravings.. They will not thank
Mr. Pollock for thus splicing their only gun.
But we think Mr. P. was peculiarly unfor
tunate in assuming that popular sovereignty
might be "a false pretence." Itwas thatpower
which abolished slavery in Pennsylvania, and
yet the authority has never been disputed. If
it should decide in October that some other
man than himself should be Governor, he
would not contend that the pretenee was not
real. If it should demand a prohibitory 'li
quor law, will he say it is a false pretence. , It
is just that absolute sovereignty which can
make or unmake local institutions—can accept
one public man and reject another. It is the
legitimate source of all governmental power,
simply the principle of self government, the
basis of all our republican institutions. There
was a time when British Statesmen and
American Tories regarded this doctrine as a
false pretence, but we had hardly supposed,
that at this time in our history, any man
could be found hardy enough to declare such
a sentiment.
But we have done with this rich letter for
the present. It is one of two or three we have
seen from the same source, and we think they
indicate too clearly that Mr. P. is willing to
" stoop to conquer," and contain some evi
dence that he is a " KNOW NOTHING " on
some subjects.—Bedford Gazelle.
The Temperance Movement.
The Prohibitory County Committee held an
adjourned meeting in this City on Saturday,
and passed the following preamble and reso
lutions :
WHEREAS, It is all important to the inter
ests of Prohibition that the full vote of all who
are opposed to the present Odious license li
quor system should be brought out ".For a Pro-
hibitory Liquor Law," at the ensuing October
election, we, the representatives of the friends
of Temperance in Lancaster county, convened
in County Committee, do hereby resolve :-
1. That we do not deem it expediqiit to call
a convention of the friends of Temperance for
the purpose of nominating an independent
ticket.
2. That every friend of Humanity.is hereby
earnestly urged to use all honorable means in
his power to redeem Pennsylvania from the
thraldom of the licensed liquor traffic, by se
curing the blessings of a prohibitory law.
3. That each member of this committee be
instructed to take immediaCe measures to or
ganize an efficient sub-committee for his town- .
ship, ward or borough, which shall be called
together as soon as possible to devise measures
for the furtherance of the cause—to attend to
the collection of funds, the distribution of
tracts and other documents, the arranging of
public meetings, the assessment of voters and
securing their attendance at the polls, and
such other measures as may be recommended
by the County Committee.
4. That the officers of this Committee have
power to purchase tracts, employ speakers,
print and distribute our Address and tickets,
and to transact such other business as the
emergencies of our cause may demand.
Resolutions were also adopted directing the
officers to employ, if possible, Mr. VAN WAG
NER with his "Big Tent," also a German Col-'
porteur for the northern districts, and to in
vite clergymen, lawyers,. and other public
speakers of this city and county, to co-operate
with the Committee in spreading light and
truth on this great question.
It will be seen by the above resolutions that
the temperance men do not intend to place an
independent ticket in the field, but will direct
their efforts to carry the county in favor of
Prohibition on the general question in Octo
ber.
ser Commodore JoEm . DowNEs, of the U.
S. Navy, died at Boston, on Friday last, after
a brief illness. He entered the service in 1802,
and, at the time of his deceise, was the third
oldest Captain in the Navy—Commodores Stew
art and Morris being his seniors in commis
sion.
UNITED STATES SENATORS.—In Massachu
setts, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, N.
Carolina, Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas, Indi
ana, Illinois, Missouri, taws and California,
the Legislatures to be, chosen at the ensuing,
elections will each choose a U. 8, Sanator.. 1
, .
- Pollockss*now Nothhigillm ' . The Ostlie Of Dr. LacheillOW. -
The'Weat oii ..- itei...6 inCl:ns feat- i'. The,whig press are again catching at straws.
.
i.g upon Mr. . Names :commotion - with ; They are now, denouncing' Governor Blount,
:I iow Nothingisrd,' pointedly "and truthfully : without stmt 'CrMeasure, for releasing from
a ys:,— - , . ,; , , .-- • ' . . prison Dr.. e !'l -I (aliettnur7 ; tbriVi.Cted ' several
.1 '
We have been,dis,,posed to le& upon Judge I Monthsago,intheNorthamptonCountyCourt,
' , llock as. an honoiable gentkatan,, wholhad of comp - irac • yl to defrankaisisenteneed to pay
, .
his zeal and to for Whig,..party; I con,
: , tedto laf the ss4rifice for that party in the a,fine, of $,251r; and undergo aniniprisonment
`A , :11, t Maripaigiriglint When we see hini urn o f tares: ' months. -- • / ,
ll z thee tciwards,tlie citytOf PhiltdelPhis MI- -' Th e. De/ataractic Union, hat had access to
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5 iSdiately on' the.'receipt of 41r - neWaof the the record inlthe &)(3rtArn3t of the Common
! wtion of ConiML: the Know Nothing Mayor, .
wealth's office, and givesthe o o nlg
state
✓ , d when there unite himitelf with these
u etestalit Jesuit:a,: we are fdreed to the con- meat of facts, which completely takes the
5 sicin that there is somethinglradi, cally Wrong wind out of the opposition sails :
1 1, the constitution' of the num. If helad • Dr. Lachenour , with James Stevenson, and
• one to that, city .to unite hi use f With an 1 two other persons, were indicted for conspira
ionorable society whose views of political ' oy. Being tried together, they were all found
1 hey were open as the day, no exception guilty, Dr. Lachenor being sentenced to three
vtuld be taken telthe step. !He could then months imprisonment in the county jail, and'
lity se openly platted hiraselfaponthe platform a fine of $2500. The others were sentenced to
openly promulgated principles, and if they longer periods of confinement in the peniten
• ere worth sustaining he , certainly had enough tiary.
.ility to eommend them to the good opinions The only evidence of Dr. Lachenonr's par
his fellow citizens. But this unfortunately ticipation in the conspiracy was in the - testi
:l,r his previous reputation, i s not the case. mony of his co-defendant, Stevenson, who had
1 e connects himself with a body of men ,turned states' evidence. If we are correctly in
"thout knowing what he is expected to do, formed, the only facts testified to by him were,
( say, or believe. He steps into the darknesi that he saw Lachenor through the window at
. 'th but a single idea in his mind, and that is Dr. Fields' office, and heard some declaration
here are votes to be gained which may pos- of Fields. These facts were contradicted by
tibly give me some remote chance of beingthe several witnesses.
Governor of the free old Coinmonwealth of But the objection to Stevenson's testimony
ennsylvania. Without some hidden strength was of a much more controlling character,and,
If this kind, my prospects are utterly hopeless. we think should have excluded his testimony
am a mere sacrificial offering led out by the entirely. He was a convict from the western
: isruptured Whig party,be placed as penitentiary, having been tried and convicted
, L nother victim on the Democratic altar. And in Washington county for conspiracy, the
;et all these things will avail him nothing, same offence with which he stood charged in
'6r there is a Mordecai sitting at the gate, Northampton county. Now it certainly seems
ho the people will still sustain; and the rep- strange to us, that the testimony of a convict
,esentative of the new phase of Jesuitism will ed felon, who was otherwise 'shown to be of
.ave to swing from, the political crossbeam notoriously bad character, should go to a jury.
which has been carefully erected for another. .But we are informed the court admitted
Already are the people issuing a bold and his testimony, and decided that the fact of his
. anly condemnation against the new order. conviction should not be given in evidence to
It has even at this day passed the zenith, and affect his credibility. If this be law, it is
k (3 waning star Will go down,' and be lost in surely more worthy the age of Jeffries than
L a e clouds of popular indignation, almost in' the nineteenth century.
"he hour of its appearance in the orient. The The court, in its charge, virtually admitted
trder of Ignatius Loyola was driven forth, and the insufficiency of the testimony against
11 xecrated by every nation of Europe, where Lachenour, and appeared to act on it, by im
;hefty and equality was nothing more than a posing a much more lenient punishment. We
', ere fiction—an unsubstantial dream. How have also been informed that the counsel for
tuch rather then should every sovereign man the prosecution admitted that he could not
:`,f this Republic, where we enjoy the substan- have been convicted on a separate trial.
'ird, practical workings of liberty, put his foot So much for the facts, as we have learned
: rmly down on, and crush out this new organ- them'. The pardon was pressed by a very
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zation which is totally unworthy of ever lafge number of the most respectable citizens
~ aving gained a foot-hold on these shores, sa- oflNorthampton county, men who would not
: red to the holiest aspirations of tbe exile, fly- ntentionally, we think,mislead the Executive.
ng from the rigorous tyranny of foreign des- We are told that the Hon. James M. Porter,
otism." Hon: Richard Broadhead, Garrick Mallory,
TALKING OUT B9LDLY.—The lion hearted De
iocracy of Clarion county are preparing with
eal and earnestness for the coming contest.—
Tisy are determined to administer to the fag
o w l s of all factions now opposing us such a
reloike as will long be remembered. The edi
lor o f the Clarion Democrat, who is thorough
, y.acquainted with the, tone and tendency of
.alike sentiment in that county, who makes
its calculations with groat care and circum
.petion; and is rarely deceived as to the pop-
lar vote, says:
"We are sincere in What we say, and we
redict that Gov. Bigler will have the majori
ygiven to Judge Knox, which was 14.26!
Ye give this as our count, provided the vote is
s.large as it was last fall, and we have good
eason to believe that it will be much increas
•d, and in proportion to the increase, we add
o the Democratic majority."
A large portion of the population of Clarion
ounty consists of men whose fathers, too
horoughly imbued with the principles of re
ublicanism to live beneath the sway of the
yrannical governments of Europe, crossed
he wide and stormy Atlantic to make their
omes here where the hand of welcome was
-xtended—where equal rights were guaran
tied to every man who became a citizen in
.accordance with the constitution and law of
e
The doctrines Of Know-Nothingism, to
which the Whig party now look for success
against the:Democratic party, would proscribe
all such men, both the emigrants and their de- ,
sCendants, Woind - crecuiro fill any
position of public resPonsibility, and would
mark them out as objects of distrust and sus
iAcion to their fellow citizens. For thiS reas
on, the Whig party, at the coming election,
will receiwe a terrible scourging in Clarion
county, and we are confident that the majori
,ty for Bigler th4e will not be less than 1500.
—Pittsburg Union.
WASHINGTON'S POLICY, OPPOSED TOTHE POLI
CY OF THE NATIVE. AMERICANS.—The following
extract which we take from the Weems' life
of Washington, clearly proves how much the
policy of Washington, in regard to foreigners,
was opposed to that of the "Native Americans
and Know Nothings" of the present day. It
is a fact well authenticated, that the cruelty
and barbarity of the Hessians who were brought
to this country to fight against our liberties,
were the results of the ill-grounded dreads and
l i fears which had been etseited in their minds
by the vile misrepresentations of us by the
British. After the tattle of Trenton, large num
bers of them were taken prisoners, and Washing
ton immediately determined to disabuse them
of the great errors into which they had fallen.
Accbrdingly,from the moment they fell into his
hands they were treated with the utmost hu
manity and tenderness, and were visited by
the Dutch farmers from the country who con
versed with them in their native language.—
They were much gratified with the attention
paid them, and at length our Dutch farmers
proposed to them to quit the British service
and become farmers. At this the Hessians
paused a little and said something about
parting with their country.
.Thur countriPl" said the farmers, "Poor
'fellows! where is your country?,You have
'no country. 'To support, his vow and
'pleasure your prince has torn you from . your
'country, and for 301. a-bead sold you like
'slaves to fight against us, who never troubled
'you. Then leave the vile employment and
'come live with us. Our lands are rich. Come
'help us to cultivate them. Our tables are
'covered with fat meats, and with milk and
"honey. Come sit down and eat with us like
"brothers. Our daughters are young and beau
tiful and good. Then fjhow yourselves worthy
'and you shall have our daughters : • and we
"will give you of our lands and cattle, that
"you may work, and become rich and happy
"as we are. You were told that General Wash
"ington and the Americans were savages and
"would devour you. But from the moment
"you threw down your arms, have they not
"been as kind to you as you had any right to
"expect?"
"0 YES !" cried they, and a thousand times
"more kind than we deserved. We were told
"the AmericanS would show us no pity, and
"so we.were cruel to them. But we are sorry
"for it now, since _they have been so good to
"us; and now-we love the Americans, and will
"never fight against them any more !"
This vas the plan which Washington adopt
ed to remove from the minds of the poor delu
ded Permute their ill-grounded dread, and
hate of the Americans, and most sAMirably
did it succeed, for within a short time there
after hundreds of them deserted the British,
to join the American standard, until at length
they were not trusted to stand as sentinels.
The' Late Elections.
lOWA has gone, as usual, for* the Demo
crats by a large' majority. .
NORTH CAROLLNA, which was in doubt
for several, days, comes out right side up. The
Democrats have elected their candidate (Blum)
for Governor, and a majority in both branches
of the Legislature—thus securing two U. S.
Senators.
MISSOURI looks bad. The quarrel in,the
Deniocrati. l c party has resulted in throwing±he
State into the hands of the Whigs and Know
Nothings.l Bennett, the Whig candidate for
Congress, lin St. Louis district, is elected
over Col. Benton by about 1800 majority.
The Whiii will have a, majority in the T.egie
tine. ,i
is \
Esq., certainly one of the ablest 'lawyer of
the state, and who was concerned in the eau e,
Peter Baldy, Esq., district attorney, the she -
ill of the county, the editbrs of the Eastonian,
of the Argus, and of the Whig, and a very
large number of others.
The boon granted, after all, is but a small
one, there being less than a month of his term
of imprisonment remaining. As to the fine
and costs, the Farmer is mistaken. There is
no remission of the fine, and the Executive
has no power over costs. Dr. Lachenour is
still liable for the fine and costs, because the
pardon does not remit the fine, nor was it so
intended. A mere pardon does not carry
with it a remission of a fine, unless it is ex
pressly set forth.
The constitution gives the governor the
power to "remit" fines and grant "pardons."
He may do either, or both; but granting the
one does not necessarily include the other. If
Dr. Lachenour is worth the money, we see
nothing in the way of collecting it, ifThe peo
ple of the county desire it.
PUBLIC LAWS.—Among the laws of a public
nature, passed at the last session of the Legis•
lature, we find the following which are of in
terest to Justices of the Peace and Consta
bles:—
An Act relative to the duties of' Aldermen and
Justices of the Peace.
SECT. I.—That from and after the first day
of July next, the Aldermen and Justices et
the Peace of the several counties of this Com-
Monwealth, shall be required to return to-the
Clerk of the Quarter Sessions of the Peace of
the respective counties, all the recognizances
entered into before them by any person or
persons charged with the commission of any
crime(excepting such cases as may be ended
before an Alderman or a Justice of the Peace
under existing laws), at least ten d. j . bcftrre
the commencement of the Court to which they
`are made returnable respectively; and in all
cases where any recognizances are entered in
to less than ten days before the commence
ment of the sessions to which they are made
returnable, the said Aldermen and Justices
are required to return ,the same, in the same
manner as if this act had not been passed. Ap
proved May 8, 1854.
Pay of Constables for attending elections.—
By an act approved March 31, 1854, Consta
bles are allowed one dollar per day for attend
ing general and township elections—to be
paid out of the County Treasury.
A Supplement to an Act to alter and amend the
Fee Bill passed February 22d, 1821.
SECT. I.—That the tenth and eleventh sec
tions of the Act entitled "An Act to alter and
repeal the fee bill," passed the twenty-second
day of February, 1821, are hereby i repealed
so far as they affect Justices of the Teace and
Constables of Mifflin, Allegheny, Erie, Wash
ington, Lancaster, Dauphin, Chester, Leban
on, and Bedford counties; and the fourteenth
and fifteenth sections of the act of 28th day of
March, 1814, entitled "An Act establishing a
fee bill," are hereby revived so far as they re
_late to The said counties. Approved May 6,
1854.
An Act relative to the revival of Judgments be
fore Justices of the Peace.
SECT. I.—That from and after the passage
of this Act, no execution shall be issued on a
judgment rendered before a Justice of the
Peace or Alderman, after five years from
the rendition of such judgment, unless the
same shall have been revived by scire facial
or amicable confession. Approved May 5,
1854.
ASHAMED OF THEIR COHPAYF.—The Know-
Nothings have been openly repudiated by
Whigs in Philadelphia. See the following res
olutions passed by Whigs at a late meeting
held at Nelson's Hotel:
Resolved, That whereas extraordinary ef
forts have of late been made by certain parties
in this community to dissolve the great Whig
party into sections of a dangerous and destruc
tive character; and whereas such sectional
parties have now boldly declared their great
object to be the proscription of all citizens not
of their own organization, or not born on the
soil, or who do not worship God according to
their peculiar notion; and whereas the late
municipal election has fully developed a, deep
rooted secret organization, the object of which
is the transferring and committing of the
Whig party blindly to the support of the per
sons and principles of such secret order—
It is therefore resolved by the Convention
that Whig Associations shall be formed in
every ward of the city, for the purpose of re
organizing the Whig party on the good old
pure and enlightened principles of Henry
Clay.
Resolved, That whilst the said Societies
pledge their unbounded support to every pure
and untainted Wing, they pledge themselves
not to vote for any person for a political sta
tion who is willing to proscribe his neighbor,
either for his religious opinions or the place of
his birth.
Resolved, That the members of said ASSO
ciations will give no support whatever either
for the nomination or election• of any person
who they have good reason to believe belongs
to any secret political organization whatever:
Resolved, That the refusal of any nominee
to answer whether he belongs to any p)her
political organization, and to explain what
are its principles, shall be held sufficient for
the said Whig Association not only to take
such person's name off the list of nominees,
but to deposit their votes in opposition to him.
,06"' Judging from the fact that the ticket
formed by theWhigConvention of this county
has the name of a "Know-Nothing" at its head
for Judge of the Court, we incline to the opin
ion that the Whigs of the Old Guard have not
yet repudiated their Native American allies•
Mir' A bloody riot occurred at St. Louis on
yesterday week, (election day) between a
portion of the Irish and Native population. It,
commenced by a light between an Irishman
'and American, in which the - latter was stab
bed. Some ftfo . groggeries and groceries,
kept by Irishmen, were destroyed.; and several
lives were lost. A large military force had'
to be called out before the riot could be sup- 1
pressed. About $30,000 worth of property
wwleetroy4 laths' brief space of *tee rum.
CITY AND COU.
, ,_ _ ... ..._
IV' The P. M. General - has 'appoihted RI W.
1 1 0
isl a
ap '
Rwrirzitsoft, Esq., P. M . a Quarryvi le, in this
county, in place of Georg i W. Heise! Esq,
1:17 - Mr. R, IL ;V:ranks, ii a been.rated con
doctor on the passenger I ins betwe n Philadel
phia and Harrisburg. Mr. : isan obliging and gen
tlemanly lEtcer, and hisap ointment will meet the
approbation of the;travelli g public. . .
. . .
Holism SToxsx.--On ednesday ight 01 last
week, a black horse, of m l d ie size, six years old.
with a star on his iorehe d, was stolen from the
pasiure geld of Mr: Staufle in Leacoc township.
DHATH DT LIGHTNING. M. John pinnershitz
of West Cocalico, Lear lceneck was killed by
lightning on Wednesday t io weeks. 1 He was at
tt ,
work - in a field spreading anure, when a thunder
storm arising he sought sh Iter under J. ,tree near
by. From. the aWaranc •ot the b.+ it would
seern'that the unfortittia,te an had placed himself
with his back against the tree, and in that posi:
tion received the stroke w ich termin. tell his life.
(CT The following is only one of'se eral letters
of a similar kind that'we h ve received within the
last tour weeks. It was al l private letle'r, but we
think no barn] can result frptn giving publicity
Mousy Joi, August I Fh 1554.
CAPT. SAPfDP.TISON :
Dear Sir—Enclosed I rr;
which you will please cons
the •Intellieencer,' and seer
lowing address—Meow Jo
ismit 'hero ]dollars, for
der me a sObscriber to
i it regularlai to the fol.
r, Laucasterico. Pa.
Mr. 1..e.i.1er, of this
l
,i . exammint , the eol•
e time, and here say
lith tne emu e you par
' ) ou ad.voya,-e; and here
Through the kindness 'o
place. I had the privilege
umns of your paper tar so
that I am highly pleased n
sue and with the principle.
let me ask, what true Del
Here I feel inclined to bra,
words in regard to the pr
Whig patty as it now PXIS
liriunism, Native-America'
Nothingism, or in some 61
bigotry, selfishness and lac
However, you mai expect
can find time.
l ocrat can bpi otherwise!
ch out and 'say a tew
•Sent ChnrAtOr ui the
sin the for t na Abo.
,rn, Know
er I rya evresence of
ion, but' , tittle lorbals.—
to hear Iroin me as I
I F r. ,most: le. ecfliillv
1 - For thojijtolligencer.
.nr Sir—ln (he Laiteas
he.sthinst4 sum,
jaun
. tho cogneitten of "An
ing with 01 and yen
blindneis In serpents,
during certain seasons,
Ica., at curry and any
CAPT. SANDERSON :-D&
ter "Know Nothing" or t
diced correspondent unde
ti Papal Power," overlli
om, reminds me of simile'
caused, as some folks ass l
accumulation of poison
from the striking right an
iiin reach. rtitier endea
;rent Democratic party,
•ope—assenting that our
IlathOlicH; callin g Judge
t esides much more froth
through hie ignorance,
object supposed to be wit
voring to annihilate the
by alleging its sale to the
Country is ruled by Irish i
Campbell an Irishman,
and moonshine, he (uprise
one of the great secret of their drder. The
"Know Nothings" pretc d that their lio!tlity is
only to Foreigners 'holdi g office, while we con
tend their war of extern nation iv drily against
Catholics, both native bor and adopted. The on
ly objection ever offered cigainstJudge Campbell's
appointment, was becaselhe was a !.:ittholic, al
though native born. 'I her whole action and as
sociations prove that they value a raw Irish Or
ange man, as entitled •n greater privileges than a
native, who worships G d in a different manner.
In proof, we will quot from his own language
to see. how the "cat jam s;" he sacs: "Where
are the educated Germ ns polite ;Frenchmen,
sturdy Englishmen, and oilier Requblican and
Protestant foreigners that should be in bffice 1, Echo
answers, where I" Therb is no objection to Prot
estant foreigners holding, office. Ott t i no, but he
says distinctly that they m ould be appointed. •We
might here ask where Republican Englishmen are
expected to come front; when we alf, know *g
land to be the most Anti-[republican Nation übon
earth, 'who have never s pa t ted their "British Gold"
in endeavoring to, overthlow every iftepublic of
ri
modern times by secret e missaes rind hired de
famers like their subject 0 r, (the seltlttyled Angel
Gabriel) and his Know N thing friends, who are
hired to traverse the coui try to incite mobs and
riots, burn churches. intrder our citizens, and
prove to the world that our Model Republic in
unable to enforce the laws, and her IConstitution
bust he broken and condemned 14 these oath
bound, secret societies th' oughout the land.
He makes another c ntradiction; where his
"feelinks" bubble and "b sly' overflow their shel
led' course and spread int into a half yard of
"powerful" soap-suds al in a row, With capital
letters at the head, just an if "Anti-Papal Power"
was a "pole," wherein he Willi us t.'u be brave,
and not burn churches. liarldi I '.
"Americans, hear! he wine he brave, .
Rise, to conquer, and to save ;
Rise to - sa,ve our bleeding land
From the.?rampart, and the bland."
These, if that" Power" has not strength enough
to overthrow Popery Reel'', •I don't 'Know Noth
ing.' Perhaps, as church horning WMa the death
i
of Native Americanism, t e "pot.," is fearlbl the,
new hydra may continue the burning started in
Maine, and die the 'am death, and under the
great excitement and a itation at the thought,
aqueezed out the vertical line of capital letters.
It is amusing to see fro the "Citiien" how bit
terly they.feel their disaptointment illi
not securing
the abolitionists to their r nks—just - 8 if they, af
ter struggling for years to relieve suff ring human
ity from bondage—would in the thee of their prin
ciples,',
unite with a body of political t icksters who
are doing their utmost to reduce a po ton of their
white brethren, and Christian worshipers, into a
bondage morally and pot tically little better than
the negro slave. Because Mr. h f.everiiii, true to' his
principles of opposition t all neereti, societies of
whatever nature, after using his utmost exertions •
against Masonry for years, which, although a be- .
- nevolent order, he was fearful of becdming a pow
ertul engine in politics, certainly it cannot be ex
pected that now, (even it he is a Wbig,) he must
renounce his old feelingd and join a: Hemet oath
bound society who, avnwitheir purligse to be po
litical. Yet for this he is most vilely deinpunled and
abused by these low-bred; irresponsible hirelings
of c•llritish Gold," so much so, aa to almost cream
a suspicion that perhaps,l Thaddeus Stevens is an
Irish Catholic after all. ;
The Citizen forgets thei" boot was; on the other
'leg" a couple of months back, when it fawned up
on the satne party they now despise,] and curried
favhr by most despicable lick-spittle imaginable.
This paper says : ofJunell7th, "Except the single
item of slavery (the continuance of which, or at
least the extension of which,. results' from the im
placable enmity of Irish 'and German laborers to
the negroes, as illustrated by the selection of the
Irish Militia to keep down the American people at
Boston lately; by the Mali and the 'foreign votes
for every pro-slavery candidate for Congress, &c.,)
all that contributes to our Nationalldesgraco we
owe to Foreigners." 1 . I
Here they admire the course of thci molter mur
derers led on by alew libellee tyWopenly avow
their hatred and oppositnin to the Constitution and
laws of our Country; the very seine class of
"American citizens" whit burnt the Constitution of
the United States at Farmington, Massachusetts,
on the 9th of July! Thii admission ' I V the, stupid
editor of the Citizetris rtither unfortUeate tor their
cause, as proof that ouri adopted Citizens are a
much better and more patriotic clads, than many
of our "Native born."
i
Who was the mob composed of, i
nless it was
what they call " Americans!" and hy wc.ro the
Irish soldiery called out 40 enforce t 1 ] l 7 le laws 7 Sim
plyii because every naturalized citiz has sworn
obedience to the laws of dur country, nd to cherish
and protect our glorioud principles of Liberty;
while a large number of our “Americans" arc
sworn 1.1 undermine the '
very foundaiton of these
laws and principles; Secretly raising' questions of
religious prescription and persecution, most ex
pressly torbidc'en by our Constitution! Now when
ibis body of Know Nothings publishl to the world
(in addition to their sworh vongeancb) their sym
pathies for mobs, law-brbakers 'andi murderers—
they denounce a body cif courageor and honest
citizens, for answering ihe call of heir country
promptly and surely, and merely dot g their duty,
by enforcing the laws th4y have sworn to protect.
Cannot every good and well disposed citizen see
the necessity of turning Ihis honest j face against
this race of mid-night sneaks, who! fear nothing
so much as day-light; and that they may be knoWn
as "Know Nothings," none but the Must depraved
and worthless among thErn will adtdit their iden
tity. Yo rs truly, I
,- LINCH PIN."
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COLUMBIA, August 8. i
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THINGS FORGOTTEN Y Kliow NOTHINGIS.II.
—When King George bf England, during the
Revolutionary war, dellllllnnnnnnanded forty thousand
men of Ireland to send to Amerida, the Irish
Parliament peremptorily refused Ito vote men
or money. Although! the Know Nothings
may forget this, Franklin said .4erica would
uot; nor will she.
When Catholic Carroll, of Cat4olton, signed
his name to the Declaration of f dependence,
John Adams said it was NYorth "half a mil
lion." Kno* Nothineisubconsi ers it a re
ploach to associate, in 1854! wi Catholics in
the quiet and peaceable enjoy, ent of the
right to worship God according to the dictates
of conscience; but it f rgets that Washington,
Jefferson, Madison, H. ncock, and Henry con
sidered it no reproach to consult !with' Catho
lics about the liberties of the colonies and of
the world. 1
nt.-Preiident Pierce
e, says hisljudgment is
system of internal im
. rks further : "I shall
.n me to present to the
next session, a% ma
lie subject, to j endeavor
iy at least and accor
itions, wi l lt appropria
the general govern
ts of the United States
n will adniit and sane
to 60 1 11 1 1 10 0v4 13 4
..,e differences of both
ilMedienkti.
RIVER AND HARBOR
in vetoing this naeasu
opposed to a general
provements. He rem!
consider it incumbent
present Congress, at i !
tared view of the who I .
to define, approximit -
ding to my own convi
tiOru3 of this nature, b
ment, the great intere I
require, the constitutil
tion, in ease nci substi i
capable of,reconoiling
proonstitutionc4ity tor
T.Y.ITEMS.