INTELLIGENCER & LANCASTERIAN.
GEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR
A. SANDERSON, Associate.
LINOASTER, PA., JULY 29, 1856
CIRCITLA.TION, SOOO COPIES: I
FOR PRESIDENT,
JAMES BUCHANAN,
OF PENNSYLVANIA.
FOR VICE-PRE,SIDENT,
JOHN C. BRECKINRIDOE,
CANAL COIMESIONER
GEORGE SCOTT, of Columbia County.
AUDITOR GENERAL:
JACOB PRY, Jr., of Montgomery County. !
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
SENATORIAL
Char/ea R. Backelew,
EMEME3
1 George W. Nebinger, .14 Reuben Wilber,
2 Pierce Butler, 'l5 George A. Crawford
3 Edward Wartman, :16 James Black,
4 William H. Witte, 17 H. J. Stable,
5 John McNair, 'lB John D. Roddy.
6 John N. Brinton, 19 Jacob Turney,
7 David Lanny, 20 J. A. J. Buchanan,
. 8 Charles Reader, 121 William Wilkins,
9 James Pattelpn, . 172 James 0. Campbell,
10 Dam Blanker, 23 T. Cunningham,
11 F. W. Hughes, 24 John Keatly,
12 Thomas Osterhout, .25 Vincent Phelps.
1.3 Abraham Edinger, 1
lar Pr OM my soul I resped the laboring man. Labor m
Iht foundation of Me wealth of every country; and the free
laborers of She North deserve respect both firs their probity
and their intelligence. Heaven forbid Mat I should do them
wrong! or alt the countries on the earth, we oesyld to hare
the mod consideration for Me laboring man.—BLCILANAS.
W Should Ibe placed in the. Eututive chair, I shall use
my best exertion' to cultivate pence ond friendship Leith' all
nations, believing this to be our !HOLIEST POLICY, 04 welt as
OUT Matt DILPIaLTIVE DUTY.—BUCaAILLY.
DEMOCRATIC
CONVENTION RE-1S-
SEDIBLED
The Hon. TIMOTHY IVES, having'witbdrawn hie name
as a mndldate for Surveyor ileuentl, in a communication
addressed to the Democratic State Central Committee, at
its last meeting in Harrisburg, &resolution we ailoptej.l by
that Committee, calling upon the officers and delegeti . ci
the last Democratic State Convention, to assemble ut
CIIASiBEItSBUSO, ON WEDNEsDAY,
The Sixth day of August next,
•
At 10 o'clock, A. 3L, to nominate a candidate for Surveyor
General, to fill the vacancy created by the declination of
Judge Ives. In pursuance of this action of the Deruocrati
State Central Committee, the °Ricers and delegates of the
last Democratic State Convention, are respectfully rtquest.,l
ad to meat at the time and placeabove mentioned, and ha
the pima.> elated.
JOHN W. FORNEY, Chairmnn
G. G. WLSTCOTT, I
arseel.
leuc G. 31cKist.hy. —cr° `
july of
Democratic papers throughout the Shoo will phase
'097.
OF THE
DEMOCRATS OF• PENNSYLVANIA
"The Union must and shall be pre.verved."
--JACKSON.
The Democracy of Pennsylvania, and all others in favor
of preserving the Union of the States ' now seriously en
dm:tiered by a sectional organization, led and controlled by
the open enemies of the Pedant! Constitution, and conduc
ted upon the alarming idea of repudiating nearly one-half
of the States of this Union, are respectfully notified that
Han Slirritlce will be held at the following times and
places, of the friends of JA3IES BUCHANAN for President,
and JOHN C. BRECKINKIDtIE for Vice President.
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At•CIIASIBERSDURG, Frauklin Gmnly, .011 ill
DAY, the 7th day or Augmt, 1.r1n6 tilo day att. t . I h.•
Democratic State Convention.
At ERIE, Erie County, on it ED] LSD.% V. 'be '27 t
uf August, 106,
At GREENSBURG, Wunmerelood Cltilif,, In W -
NESDA.Y, the Rd of September, I set..
At BELLEFONTE, Centre Grout ue Ct CD.t Est..% V,
the 24th of September.
At HARRISBURG, (the Capital ..1 the ctnl, , , ,•tt W ED
NESDAY, the lot of October.
And at PUILADELPIIIA, on In o; ,opo.nilwr
1838, being the Anniversary or the Adoption .d" the Ctin,ti
tution or the United State,
Eminent Democrats, from tour own other :inter, will
hlt present et ell these meetiugt, to .ehlr, their feileo•
citizens.
By order of the
County Committee Meeting
The Democratic County Committee of Lanewter County
will meet at the public how, of Emanuel Sholier, in the
City of Lancaster, on FRIDAY Up , lot clay of Auguat.
at 11 o'clock, A. M. Every member I. earneAly desired to
attend, as business of great importance connect l ed with the
afproaehlng campaign, will demand the consideration of
the Committee. 11. B. SIVAItR,
Lancaster, July _,'Sod.' Chairman.
The following named persons constitute the Counnitte,
IL B. Swarr, City—Chairmau.S. 11: W.—James Peoples.
Adamstown—Samuel Stork. S. E. IV.—Janice H. Barnes.
Drecknock—Ephraim Shober. N. E. W.—Jas. L. Reynold',
Bart—lsaac Sharp. Gutcatkr hcop.--.T. G. Brenner
Osrnarron—Dr. B. F. Bunn. Lan:peter E.--Jolin It. Miller.
Clay—Harrison Ellser. Lankinger IC—Samuel Lone.
thiamin—R. B. Patterson. I..acock—John L. Lightner.
Mum-bk./V. M. ‘Vatts. LoGIILLY:k U—Dr. A. S. Bare.
" S. W.—P. A. Kimburg. Little Britain—Jas. Patterson.
tbealieo E—Dr. R. Ream. Man/tetra Bor.—A. J. Eby.
apstissi S{—Dr. S. Wrist. Jranheim tinp.-Benjmuln Eby
Cbnestoga-ssJohn Kolp. Manor—John Killheffea
arnoy—John 11. Smith. ifortic—Col. David Laird.
Donegal E . —Jamb Spies, Marietta—Nelson .Maloney.
Donegal WV.—John Gross. Mount Joy Bor.-J. Leader.
Drumore-Dr. C. M. Johnston. Mount Jew hnp.—.l. Sheatfet.
Fart—lsaac Hull. Paradise—Geo. Pondersmitli.
Ema„--Geo. Buchman. Penn—Samuel Plasterer.
40. ri West—Mark Connell, sr. Pequa—John Sener.
Zphrata—Samuel Gorges. Providence—John Tweed.
Blizattethloson—B. F. Baer. Rapho—llenry B. Becker.
Elirabeth—J. H. M'Causland. Strasburg Bor.-W. T. McPha il
A/en—Robert Montgomery. AYrasburg hop.—James Clark.
Altlton—Samuel Wicks. Stlbsbury—Thos. S. 31•11 vain.
aempteld Hoffman. .kadtburyisiac Walker.
Hemplield /P:—J. M. Weller. Ithrudek—Dr. Levi Hull.
City, N. IC IY:—J. B. Kaufman. IVothington—J. A. Brush.
Tl 4 Examiner Repentant
The Exaniner is evidently getting tired of
the company in which it is found—and espe
cially as it discovers that the old line Whigs
of the county cannot be transferred to Tun,-
DZIJS STEVENS and the Woolly Heads. The
Whigs proper of Lancaster county are Nation
al men—in favor of the Constitution and its
Compromises, and sincerely opposed to Aboli
tionism, Black Republicanism, Infidelity and
Disunion. They will never consent to follow
the lead of such traitors to their coun
try and their God as Theodore Parker,
Horace Greeley, Fred. Douglas, &c.,
They have not forgotten the patriotic
teachings and dying injuctions of Wash
ington, and Clay, and Webster, and the host
of patriots and statesmen who have passed to
the grave, but whose memories are cherished
by every friend of his country. The Exami
ner once followed the lead of these distin
guished Statesmen and patriots, and zealously
combatted against the pernicious and treason
able doctrines of the Abolitionists and Dist'.
monists. But the tempter came—and in an
evil' hour for its good name and influence, it
yielded to the seductions of the enemy, and
is now found aiding and abetting the very
men, in their work of treason and disunion,
who but a few months ago received its loudest
denunciations !
We do not wonder that some compunctions
of conscience have seized the editor. It could
not, in the nature of thinks, be otherwise,
when he looks at the company'he now finds
imself in, and the principles he is forced to
inculcate. To find himself playing second
fiddle to such men as THADDEUS STEVENS, J.
M. WILLIS GEIST, Dr. Mmtaur, 0. J. DICKEY,
ALEXANDER H. HooD and TREOPUILUS FENN,
is rather an unenviable situation for a high
minded, honorable man, such as Mr. Darling
ton has heretofore been considered, to he found
in. And his situation is the more galling,
doubtless, from the fact that while Many of
his old friends are deserting him, he finds the
Black Republican cause in which he has em
barked, declining every day in Lancaster co.
Even the similar apostacy of the weak and
wishy-washy Vollesfreumi brings him no con
solation.
Another Portrait
Last week we noticed a portrait of Mr. By
ctuNAN,-by M'Master, of New. Xork. Anoth
er was subsequently taken by JOHN R. Jolts
wrox, Esq., of Cincinnati, for the National
Democratic Association of that city. The lat..
ter portrait *as not entirely finished when
Mr. J. left—but it will be completed by him
upon his return home. - It is a beautiful pic
ture, and, as near as we could judge in its
unfinished state, and with a view by candle
light, a correct likeness of the distinguished
original. Mr. JOHNSTON has our'thanks for a
present of a very handsome likeness of Von.
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS.
sar An excellent address, delivered by our
young friend, Mr. W. Seeger Darrow, at New
, Hcalsnd, on the 4th inst., will be found on our
first page—published by request of the "Read
ing Association" of thit
commodore Stockton Declines
onizaodore Stockton has declined the nom
ination for President. This secures the vote
of New Jersey for BUCHANAN and Baecst-N
-mon, by a large majority.
The last number of the Saturday &pros,
a sheet so notoriously vile and infamous as to
excite feelings of loathing and disgust in the
whole community, contains nearly two col
umns more of filthy abuse and defamation of
Mr. BumAsAN—a portion of which is made
up of ribald and lying attacks made upon him,
by a paper in this city, some four or five
years ago.
We shall not insult the intelligence of our
readers, by formally denying or contradicting
the abominable falsehoods of the Express. The
infamous character of the editor of that sheet
is such, that no denial is necessary on our
part. We have a rod in pickle, however, for
the fellow, that he little dreams of, which shall
be used hereafter, if occasion requires, and
which will enable us to expose him in his true
colors to the people of Lancaster county. To
the credit of the press of this city, be it spo
ken, that he is the only editor amongst us,
black-hearted and villainous enough, to , im
pugn the moral character of Mr. BUCHANAN.
But this is nothing strange in the history of
humanity. The man who is most deeply steeped
in crime and infamy himself, is the very first
to attempt to pull down the honored and the
virtuous to his own filthy and disgusting level.
The attack of the Express upon the editor
of this paper we pass by for what it is worth,
with the simple remark that Stir we have
never been guilty of forging the note of a re
spectable citizen to pay a poor widow woman a
bill in boarding Whether "all honest men
abhor, and every member of our own church
condemns" us for thus acting honestly towards
our fellow-men, we leave the public to deter
mine—not excepting the editor of the Express,
and his "Chri.xtian" advisers and counsellors
who are members of our own Church.
Wilson McCandless.
infidelity of Black Republicanism
The Philadelphia News, (a Know- Nothing
organ,) of Tuesday last, closes an editorial un
Black Republicanism as follows, and which
we copy fur the special benefit of certain
prominent church members, in this city, now
in our mind's eye. How any christian man
can follow the lead or such notorious, foul
mouthed infidels as Parker and his co-workers
in iniquity, is more than we can divine, and
we sometimes strongly suspect that their garb
of religion is nothing more than a cloak to
cover their hypocrisy. This is plain talk, but
we speak what we think and honestly believe,
and, let those whom the cap fits, put it on and
wear it. We repeat, that we suspect any
man's religion, no matter what his professions
may be, who is led, politically or otherwise,
by such blasphemous wretches as Theodore
Parker, and others of that ilk now busily en
gaged electioneering fur Fremont and Dayton.
But to the extract:
Independent of this broad and unqualified
objection to all such political movements, there
is another reason, conclusive in itself, against
the Republican party ever receiving our coun
tenance and support. That reason consists iu
the fact, that the Republican party is made
up of all the prevailing isms of the day, and
that many of its prominent leaders are ,rotu
rious infidels, with whom we never could as
sociate or co-operate, politically, socially, or
otfierwise. Read the following declarations,
recently made by one of th'ese leaders, no less
a distinguished one than the Rev. Theodore
Parker, of Boston. It speaks for itself
"T du not believe in the miraculous origin of
the Hebrew Church, or the Buddhist Church,
or of the Christian Church, nor of the mirac
ulous character of Jesus. I take not the Bi
ble for my master, nor yet the Church, nor
even Jesus of Nazareth for my master. lie
is my best historical dial of human greatness,
not without the stain of his times, and, I pre
sume of course, not without sin, fur men with
out sin exist ill the dreams of girls."-
Are the good people of this country prepa
red ti place a party in power, many of whose
prominent and most active men are known to
be rank infidels, and who boldly and unblush
ingly avow sentiments like those uttered by
Parker? We hope and we trust not.-
The N. York Herald and Its Exchanges
One of the means by which the New York
Herald attempts to bolster up the sinking
cause of Black Republicanism, is to parade a
list of its exc.h urges, and then give, what it is
pleased to state, their circulation. Its aggre
gate is 172 papers, with a circulation of 295,-
763, for BUCHANAN ; 188 papers, with a circu
lation of 474,968, fur FREMONT ; and 58 pa
pers, with a circulation of 95,391, for FILL
MORE. To show what little reliance is to be
placed in this statement, or any thing else the
Herald may say, politically, we shall only
call attention to the fact, that it gives the
Reading Adler (Dem.) a circulation of but
700 copies, whereas it is well known that its
circulation is abou t it., thousand.' The Her
ald also sets down the est Chester Repub
lican as a fl'hiy paper, when every body
knows that it is the old and steadfast organ
of the Democracy of Chester county
These are but two samples of the numerous
firls.ehoods and misrepresentations of the New
York Herald in its table of exchanges. They
are sufficient to show the unscrupulous means
resorted , to by the Black Republican press to
mislead public sentiment. • They will, in their
desperation, grasp at anything—no matter
how false, holy vile, or how infamous, to keep
their heads above water fur a little while
ge,r. The New York Hc•old and Philadel-
Bsilletin, have employed an unpardoned
coon'' front the Dauphin County Prison to
write scurrilous and lying -ornumnications
from Lancaster, by which to mislead their
readers and deceiv4 them as to the true state
of public opinion in this county. This un
principled fellow, who is not permitted to
exercise the right of suffrage on account of
his intimacy with a prison cell, is a tit corres
pondent of two such lying and infamous
nigger-worshipping sheets. We hope they will
continue him in their employment—indeed,
they will have to do so, we presume, as it is
not at all probable that they could secure the
services of any respectable white man in this
community to do their dirty work.
VS— The Saturday Express has entirely
given up its advocacy of Temperance. That
used to be the burden of its song—the one idea
with which its editorial columns were filled
from week to week' nd from month to month.
But now it is perfectly mute on that subject.
Drinking and drunkenness go unreproved.—
The new idea that has crept into its cranium
is Niggerism, and it is going that with a per
fect rush ! low do its Temperance readers
like the Black Republican doctrines with
which their stomachs are dosed for the last
two or three months ? Can they digest them
readily, or will they not rather have a tenden
cy to produce nausea and dyspepsia ?
M. The "Bradford Times" is the title of
a new Democratic paper, just started at To
wanda, Bradford county, by D. WKINLEY
MASON, Esq. It supports with ability and
zeal the nominations of Bt CHANAN and BEECH:-
INEIDGE, and gives promise of great usefulness
and efficiency in the present campaign. We
wish the "Times" all sorts of prosperity—and
hope it may be able to trip up the heels of
that arch. traitor and demagogue, WILMOT,
who has done more misch r kf in Pennsylvania
than any other man in the Commonwealth.
An answer to "VILLAGE BIILLY1511"
has been received, which we decline publish
ing—for the reason that both sides have had
a fair tilt at each other, and no good could
possibly result from a continuance of the con
troversy between neighbors. We advise a
burial of the hatchet and a smoking of the
pipe of peace all round. It is always better
for neighbors to be friends than enemies.
The Convict at Work!
The Missouri Compromise.
WHO COMPELLED ITS ABANDONMENT?
How the Northern restrictionists disregard
ed the Compromise, within twelve months
after its adoption, by the resistance which
they made to the admission of Missouri, we
had occasion to notice recently.
An opposition, similar in its character, was
devolved in 1836, to the admission of Arkan
sas ; but without success.
The truth is the compromise represented
the general , policy of the government on the
subject of Slavery in the territories. This pol
icy was the policy of dirision—prohibition
above the line and freedom of choice below it
—a policy not easily defended upon principre
—not acceptable to the entire North or the
entire South--but acquiesced in by the major
ity of the country for the sake of peace. Wise
men were unwilling to reopen the slavery
question, because they knew how difficult it
would be to close it again ; and they preferred
to hear the ills they had, rather than to risk
new dangers and uncertain results.
Hence, when Texas was annexed to the
Union in 1845, this same policy was applied
to Texas. Mr. Buchanan was then a Senator
from Pennsylvania, about to leave Congress
for the Cabinet, and he expressed his satisfac
tion that the old adjustment had been contin
ued. On this subject of slavery, fully realiz
ing, as he did, all the dangers which might
grow oui; of its renewed agitation, Mr. Buchan
an was. always a man of peace. No statesman
did more than he did, to prevent that distur
bance of the compromise policy, which the
northern prohibitionists finally succeeded in
accomplishing.
Soon after the Mexican war began, and
while a bill was before the House, making a
war appropriation, Mr. Wilmot, of Pa., moved
a proviso to the bill, that no part of the Terri
tory to be acquired from Mexico should be
open to the introduction of slavery. This was
the . Witmot Proviso.' It was out of place,
ill-timed, powerless fur good, and prolific of
evil. It fomented a new slavery agitation
wholly without necessity, aimed a blow at the
compromise policy, in advance of expected
acquisitions, and although it failed of adoption
at last, it was a most successful mischief.
The bill organizing the territory of Oregon
came up in the House at the same session.—
The whole of this territory was North of 36,-
30, and slavery was excluded by the Compro
mise. But the South had taken alarm at the
" Wilmot Proviso," and in order to take the
sense of the North directly upon the question
of abiding by the policy of 1820, Mr. Burt, of
S. 0., moved the following amendment to that
clause in the bill which exelqed slavery from
the Territory forever, viz :
Inasmuch as the whole of said Territory
lies North of 36.30, north latitude, known as the
line of the Missouri Compromise."
For this amendment, and in recognition of
the Compromise, every Southern Mall in the
House voted. The ayes were 82. The noes
were 113, and every man was from the North!
The amendment failed and the Compromise
was rejected. The bill itself failed at this
session and Oregon remained unorganized.
Another bill to establish a territorial govern
ment of Oregon crime before Congress in 1848.
Again, the anti-slavery clause was put into it,
and again the Missouri Compromise was pro
posed, this time by a distinct proviso, which
carried the line of 36,30 to the Pacific Ocean.
This proviso passed the Senate, every
Southern senator votingAr it, and twenty-two
Northern senators voting against it. The
House refnsed to concur, yeas 82, nays 121.
The South was unanimous in favor of it. As
Oregon, however, was wholly above the line of
36,30, the Senate yielded, and allowed the
bill to pass; with the prohibitory clause, and
without the proviso for extending the Compro
mise line to the Pacific. President Polk ap
proved the bill, but explained his reasons fur
doing so in a special message. He referred
to the position of Oregon, as being all above
36,30., to the compromise, as having given
quiet to the Missouri controversy, and as hav
ing prevented a fierce agitation upon Texas,
and then added :
" And it is because the provisions of this
bill are not inconsistent with the terms of the
Missouri Compromise, if extended from the
Rio Grand to the Pacific Ocean, that I have
not felt at liberty to withhold my sanction.—
Had it embraced territory south of that com
promise, the question presented for my consid
eration would have been of % far different
character, and my action upon it must have
corresponded with my convictions. Ought
we, at this late day, in attempting to annul
what has been so long established, and acqui
esced in, to extend sectional divisions and
jealousies ; to alienate the people of different
portions of the Union from each other ; and to
endanger the existence of the Union itself ?"
This appeal was addressed to the Northern
prohibitionists, who were then the only prace
tical opponents of the Missouri Compromise.
But it had no effect upon them.''The Sewards,
and Giddings's, and Rawlins answered sub
stantially to this question—" We OUGHT "
and pursued their war upon the policy of
1820. They had abandoned and spit upon
the POLICY OF DIVISION, and had adopted the
policy of the " WHOLE OR NONE." At the close
of the war with Mexico, new territories were
acquired, as had been expected, and the pro
hibitory policy was urged upon them without
delay. In vain, the Missouri Compromise
was proposed repeatedly ; in vain the South
expressed its willingness fur a division of the
territories ; in vain a portion of the Northern
democracy invoked a settlement on the old
bask ; the blood of the prohibitionists was up,
and they would make nu terms. Every one
remembers the agitations that ensued. The
two sections stood in hostile array against
each other. Ordinary legislation was
suspended. Men began to mutter dt'sonion.
The agitators rejoiced and clapped their hands.
But good and wise men mourned. California,
contrary to every prediction of the Wilmot
ices, had formed a free-state constitution and
now applied for admission. But, as in the
cases of Maine and Michigan, she was delayed
in consequence of the demands of the prohib
itionists. WHAT WAS TO BE DONE? The
Missouri policy had been overthrown. What
was to supply its place? Then it was, that
the great principle of POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY
was invoked by Congress. Why debate we
here, ibis said, about what shall be the local
institutions of the territories ? This is what
the British Parliament might have done for its
American Colonies ; but why should an Amer
ican Congress undertake to do it for an
American territory ? LET THE PEOPLE OF THE
TERRITORIES DECIDE FOR ruEusuvEs I This
solution was so much in conformity with the
theory of our institntions, that it was impossi
ble to resist it. The venerable Case had pre
figured it in his Nicholson Letter, and it was
now to be practically inaugurated as the terri
torial policy of the country. Seldom was the
baptism of a principle attended by nobler
sponsors. Clay and Cass and Webster united
at the ceremony—Clay, with all the glorious
patriotism of his youth and all the matured
wisdom of his ago—Cass, venerable in years,
weighty in judgment, and rejoicing at a con
summation which he had approved in 1848—
Webster, majestic in intellect, renowned in
reputation, and now giving evidence of a
broader range of thought and a more deeply
patriotic heart, than his political opponents
had ever thought he possessed. That speech
of Webster's was, perhaps, the turning point
of the occasion. He spoke "vera pro gratis"
—the truth, whether palatable or not—and he
said:
" I am against agitators North and South.
I am against local ideas North and South, and
against all narrow and local contests. lam
an American, and I know no locality in Amer
ica. My heart, my sentiments, my judgment,
demand of me that I should pursue inch a
course as shall proniote the good, and the har
mony, and the union of the whole country.
This I shall do, God willing, to the end of the
chapter!' ,
Under such auspices was adopted 'the Coe
paoxisr. of 1850. The Missouri Policy had
been killed off—not by Southern slaveholders,
but by Nbrtbern prohibitionists—and the NEW
POLICY—the policy of popular sovereignty—
the policy of trusting the people—the policy
of the Kansas bill—was substituted in its
place. This policy was approved. or acqui
esced in by every man who endorsed the
territorial measures of 1850, by every man
who sustained the democratic platform of 1852,
and by every whig who supported General
Scott upon the whig platform of the same
y ear. This IS TOE TRUTH OF HISTORY. The
democratic party did not kill off the Missouri
policy. THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE RECEIVED
ITS DEATH-BLOW FROM NORTHERN FREE-SOMERS!
—Portland Argus.
Disunion and its Disasters
Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Silas Wright
James Buchanan, Lewis Cass,—WASHINGTON
and other revered sages and patriots have
told us that "disunion" was a word that
should never be uttered by American lips ;
and the fact never be contemplated but with
abhorrence. The names that we have men
tioned have stood foremost with all the great
parties of this country except one. And that
one is the party of disunion and civil war.—
Were Washington, Clay, Webster, Wright
alive, does any one doubt where they would
be found ? They would be found where Van
Buren, Tyler, Reed, Randal, Preston, Ewing,
Case, Marcy, the son of Clay, the son of Jack
son, and a host of others heretofore of various
parties, but now rallying with earnest energy
to the onlygreat•national party, and casting
into the scale the weight of their influence,
their eloquence and wisdom to crush down
the stupendous conspiracy of what Col. Ben
ton calls "a pack of political knaves."
Washington foresaw and warned his coun
trymen against the peril that is now at hand.
His warning words are history now. Clay,
Webster, Wright, Cass, Buchanan foresaw the
approaching crisis, and poured forth earnest
and eloquent words to prepare the public
mind to meet it firmly. That crisis has come;
are the people prepared for it ; or are they yet
deceived? Are they blinded by the flood ut
base and of unparalleled falsehood, or the
glitter of the conspirators' gold? The great
issue must be decided, the great peril met in
the present contest fur the Presidency. Let
but this vast conspiracy succeed—let a sec
tiwitil president be elected entirely by the
votes of one section of the Union ; and disu
nion follows as surely and as necessarily as
night follows the day. We are now in the
midst of a day of national freedom, prosperity
and happiness, such as no 'Mier nation over
enjoyed. Let but disunion come, and this
bright day is followed by a black night of dis
aster and crime and bloodshed, utterly fatal
to our national interests, and to the cause of
human liberty.
And whence comes this peril to our institu
tions ? Front the abolitionists and demagogues,
of New England, Its Greeleys, Stunners,
Lloyd Garrisons, Beechers, Colamers, Theo
dure Parkers, Chases, Wilsons, head the grand
conspiracy. Those States are fiir removed
from the scene of disaster and conflicts that
must follow it dissolution of the Union. They
imagine themselves safe from those evils that
would come over Pennsylvania and Ohio like
a flood ; and they ask Pennsylvania and Ohio
to juin them, and give success to their foul
conspiracy against the Union, and the cause
of human liberty. And this crime, like many
another, is to he committed in the name of
liberty
But let us look for a moment at two or three
of the consepences of a dissolution of the
Union to Pennsylvania. We speak not now
of the vast commercial interests of Pennsylva
nia with the South ; and the vast market for
our products and fabrics that enrich our State.
Let all that pass. But since the working men
are appealed to to aid in this vile conspiracy,
let us see how disunion would affect them in
Pennsylvania. It is a border State. It has
already a negro population of sixty or seventy
thousand. Within one year after the Union
is divided a hundred thousand runaway slaves
would be within our borders, without a dollar
apiece fur their support. They must have im
mediate employment or fill our poor houses.
They cannot much longer go to the Canadas,
fur the Canadian provinces are moving for a
law to exclude them. They must remain
here, and must have work, or support as pau
pers. Remember, the negro worshipping
conspirators contend for the entire equality of
the negro with the white man. Give them
the power to destroy the Union, and they will
bring to our State one or two hundred thou
sand negro laborers to compete on equal
terms fur employment with the white free
working men of Pennsylvania. And while
the laborers in our State are thus increased,
the demand for our products and fabrics is
diminished. What will the workingmen of
Pennsylvania gain by that? Nothing but a
ruinous competition with negro laborers who
will work for half price or a mere subsistence..
Do they not know that abolitionists would
generally employ negrocs in preference to
white laborers, when they can get them so
much cheaper, and their sympathies are with
them? And would not the same be the case
throughout all the northwestern States? Such
is the reward, then, provided for the working
men of the Middle and Western States, if they
help the negro worshipping conspirators of
New England to succeed in their base disuni
on design.
And do simple minded people doubt that
the destruction of the Union is their design
Banks, the "Republican" Speaker of the House
of Representatives, says, "Let the Union
slide." Judge Spalding, a leader in the Re
publican Convention at Philadelphia, says "I
ani for a dissolution, and care not how soon it
conies." A Republican political clergyman at
Poughkeepsie, says, " I pray daily that this
accursed Union may be destroyed, though
blood be spilt." And Wm. Lloyd Garrison
says, "The Union and the Constitution are a
league with hell ;" and he publicly burned a
copy of the Constitution at it meeting. And
Seward sap, " There is a higher law than the,
Constitution." And Greeley says, "The
Union is not worth preserving." And Beecher
pledges his church for rifles to curry on a civil
war. And Sumner wades through a two
days' speech to create such bitterness and an
imosity between North and South that a uni
on would be no longer possible: And a writer
iu the Tribune says: " I have no doubt but
that the free and slave States ought to sepa
rate." And Republican Clubs in Maine are
raising banners with sixteen stars, to represent
the sixteen States that are to form a Northern
coufederacy; and they fired sixteen guns at
sunrise fur the same purpose.
If any one doubts that the design of these
New England conspirators is to destroy the
Union, he must be incurably blind. It is
openly avowed by their leaders. It is sym
holed on their flags. It is urged in their pa
pers. It is the inevitable result of their suc
cess, if success were possible. And the peo
ple of Pennsylvania are asked to aid them !
And their stupid orators are sent here to per
suade us to do so. This wicked purpose, this
base design should be sternly rebuked by the
yeomanry of this commonwealth; and by none
more emphatically than by the working men.
—Pi itsbury Post.
Safe 'Harbor Buchanan Club
At a meeting of the Buchanan and Breckimidge club,
held at their Hall In Safe Harbor, on Tuesday evening--
the President, John Kolp, Eeq., in the chair. A Constitu
tion and Declaration of Principles were adopted.
The Club was then addressed by that eloquent. young
champion of Democracy, W. F. S. WARREN, Esq., of this
city.
The next meeting of the Club will be held this evening
Churchtown Buchanan Club
At a meeting of the Democrats of Ciernarvon township,
held at the public house of Mrs. Ann Allbrght, in Church
own, on Saturday evening, the 26th Mat, for the purpose
Of forming a Buchanan Club. On motion of Thos Edwards,
the Constitution of the Wheatland Club was unanimously
adopted, and the following gentlemen elected permanent
officers:
President—David Williams.
Vice President—James Landis.
Recording Secretary—Dr. Levi Rlngwalt.
Corresponding Secretary—Thomas Edwards.
On motion, it was Resolved to meet on next Saturday
evening—also that the above proceedings be published in
the Lancaster Intelligencer.
A HEAVY Cotivaicr.—The contract for the
construction of the Northern Central Railroad
Bridge over the Susquehanna, at Dauphin, 9
miles above Harrisburg, has been made with
Messrs. DAMIAN, DOUGHERTY & Co., and the
contractors will at once commence the work.
This bridge will be the largest in the State,
and is to be built in the very best style. It
is thought that it can be completed in about
two years.
His New Associates
We direct Mr. Darlington's attention to the
following articles taken from a paper whose
lead he now follows in the stippoit of the
Black Republican nominees. As they are
selected from a paper of his own kidney, we
hope he will give them a place in the Exami
ner, for the benefit of his Whig readers in
Lancaster county:
A LOOKING-GLASS:
IVK BENNETT OF THE NEW YORK
From the New York Herald, No 2. 24, 1855.
The same thing will occur on a grander
scale, should Mr. Seward ever succeed in be
coming President or placing a creature of
his own in the Presidential chair. Disunion
would of course follow, and the South would
at once require, for its own safety and the
preservation of its property, to make war
upon the North. Slave property would not
be worth holding on the northern frontier of
the Southern Republic without some provision
for the re-capture of runaway slaves, which
the South could not extort from the North ex
cept at the close of a successful war. But,
besides the South, the West would in all prob
ability fall away. Divergent and hostile in
terests would spring - up between Wisconsin
and New York. Ohio would refuse to be
governed by Massachusetts, and would in
virtue of its superior population insist upon
claiming a preponderance in the councils of
the Northern Republic, which the smaller
States would refuse to concede.
From the New York Herald, December 24,
1855.—Bennett's picture of the success of Fre
mont :
If the last two years have not been enough
to show how utterly demoralizing and para
lytic are the results of domestic agitation; on
the subject of slavery—if they have not
served; to exhibit by their influence, that the
government has been weakened —how it
has been disgraced—how it has been made
the plaything of foreign diplomacy—
how it has alike distracted our councils of
legislation, weakened the executive arm, in
troduced into our entire . political system the
elements of anarchy—how it has arrayed sea
tion against section, impaired the public con
fidence, and caused distrust and suspicion by
one department against another—if these fruits
are not enough to teach the people the, fully
and madness of further agitations, and of the
great necessity of returning to the Federal
Constitution as the guide of their actions, then
experience is thrown away and national mor
ality and wisdom aro utterly dethroned.
From the New Yurk Herald, November 18,
1855.—Bennett rebuking and impaling Ben
nett :
TILE SEWARD POLICY—IT MAKES Two PAR
TIES AND Two GOVERNMENTS.—The distinctive
Seward Abolition party is essential disunion.
It is based only on principles whose tendency
is and whose effect must be, the destruction of
the Government and all its interests—its com
merce, its railroads, its manufactures, its me
chanic arts, its telegraphs, its moral power,
and, above all, its position before the world as
the representative of liberal ideas and popular
rights. These are the sacrifices required, of
the American people to give effect to the Uto
pian policy of Mr. Seward—to his mad cru
sade against the Constitution, with a view of
effecting his anti-slavery purposes.
The question comes home to existing party
subdivisions with peculiar force it'an a citizen
of the United , States—an American—occupy
any other ground than that of hostility to the
Seward movement and do his duty to his coun
try That movement looks to a dissolution of
the Union. Those, then, who regard facts
and nut forms, must see that in reality there
can be but two parties in this countrythose
who support the government, and those who
seek its overthrow. The Black Republicans
occupy one of these extremes ; the bards, the
sorts, the Americans, the Whigs, in truth oc
cupy the other. P . they do not—if individu
als of either party make the Republican tenets
an article of their creed. they, in fact, are
Abolitionists.
There are, in fact, but two parties—those
who, with the Black Republicans, attack di
rectly or indirectly, on the question of slavery,
the federal constitution, and those who sustain
that compact. All intermediate ground is a
compromise between right and wrong—a com
promise which cannot be sustained, and which
must be surrendered as the contest advances.
The constitution is the only basis—the termi
nus of all ethical and all just political deduc
tions from the premises.
We have come to that point in our domestic
affairs when it is necessary, and absolutely
necessary, to know alike our friends and our
enemies. Parties are to be known by these
designations as much as in time of war. On
the side of the government is enlisted the rep
resentatives of all our material wealth and all
our productive industry, whose tenures are
found in order, and the faithful discharge of
public duties. We have also enlisted against
the agitators the patriotism of the country—a
patriotism that achieved its independence, and
that now as vigilantly guard 4 its honor as in
the days of the Revolution.
If ever that hardened wretch has felt ma
emotion of shame,—if ever he has felt a sen
sation of humiliation, will he not feel it now,
when he sees his own opinions, like AcrEAN's
dogs, tearing him to pieces, and rending him
away from the only part of his experience
which preserved him from universal detestation
and scorn"
From the New York llerald, February 8,
1856.—Bennet assails Seward and Lloyd Gar
ison, at present associated with him on Fre
mont :
THE MASSAGIIILSETTS ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY
—TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING.—We
publish this morning, at length, the official
report of the proceedings of the twenty-third
annual meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-
Slavery Society at Boston.
Women's rights and African equality are,
of course, maintained by the society. Mrs.
Maria Weston Chapman, Abby Kelly Foster,
and other white women, meet upon the same
common platform Abolition philanthropy and
amalgamation with Box Brown, the do
vent liumbugging fugitive, " Miss Frances
E. Watkins, a young colored woman of Balti
more," and those hoary old infidel sinners,
Lloyd Garrison and Wendel Phillips. "Mingle
!" What a sweet and attractive
batch, of social and political saints is this !
And yet, between the defiant, open-mouthed
treationi of this Lloyd Garrison asylum,
and the smooth-faced hpooritical pretences
of Seward and his allies, driving at the same
objects, the former is less pernicious and less
dangerous to the Union and to society than
the latter, in the exact degree in which the
open enemy is t.referable to the insidious and
plotting traitor. Garrison and his gang are
in the open field ; 'Seward and his set are
bush-fighters, infesting the skirts of the high
way. We may stoop to pity the insane ravings
of the Garrison finiatics, but the stealthy
movements of the Seward alliance require
incessant watching and active resistance at
every point.
Read this anti-slavery report, and mark how
naturally , these disgusting doctrines of our
infidel woman's rights and white and black
amalgamation philosophers end in blathering
lunacy and impotent sedition. Another visit
or two from Mr. Toombs, and these unhappy
creatures at Boston will probably become a
charge upon the State.
GARRISON now extracts from BENNETT, and
SEWARD praises him as a ",'a converted sinner."
What a picture this is of dishonesty, profli
gacy, and falsehood! BENNETT and his Herald
now in compact with these agitators, white
and black, male and female, to put down the
very doctrines he has eo long pretended to
advocate!
The Editor's Book Table
HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, for August,
is well tilled with a great variety of Interesting and
Instructive reading matter. Amongst other article.,
"The Valley of the Connecticut," "Passages of
Eastern Travel," "Daniel Webster's Social Hours," "The
Great Epidemics—Aslatic Cholera," Ac., Ar., will be found
unusually "attractive. The Illustrations are numerous and
excellent.
Each number of the Magazine contains 144 octavo pages,
in double columns. The circulation Is now 188,000 copies
and the Publishers pay to contributors and Artists alone
over $30,000 a year!
ARTIITIR'S NOME MAGAZINE, for August, is embel
lished with a beautiful engraving, representing the "Sol
dier's Dream of Home," and several other very line illus
trations. The reading matter is of such a choice and in
teresting character as cannot fail to please all the patrons
of this excellent periodical.
Da- The Democracy of Paradise and the
adjoining townships raised a BUCHANAN POLE,
at Kinzer's, on Saturday afternoon. The
meeting is represented as having been very
large and enthusiastic. It was addressed by
JACOB Mirmu, Esq, of this city, editor of the
American Press A Republican.
CITY AiiiD COUNTY ITEMS.
Franklin and Marshall College Commence- Railroad Clig e flett i tiib i w t. i r t it it i. oading and
„„"i_L a yi ng of tbrner Stenco.—The Commencement of Musa& EDITOSS:--; la a surprising fact, but one which
Franklin and Marshall College took plam Not week. The I nevertheless is true, that while other clue, and town, are
I occasion brought to our city a large number of strangers. rapidly file
Lacaater r fil uii in Por i i n ula t tioni e w ar e i sl o tt f i t egd ri l e tzta A nce, -
On Tuesday morning , Dr. Taint. Onera. et Easton, de- I
1 cultural distr ict in tho, Union, with a wealthy, large and
livered the Address before the two Literary Socie I rapidly Increasing population depending upon it. remains
ties. at Fulton Ball, in the presence of a large, intelligent
' , me Illtd„ry abl A i nd t w it l a ty ti nTlt Is bec
a we have very poor Railroad
• and appreciating audience. His bubject was,
1 connection with the eta - rounding country, and more in '
or the•Beetutiful in Liberal Studies, - and it wa s a chaste particular with the Iron and Coal districts; and, couse•
and beautiful production, abounding In the most lofty i fluently, all th , at m l,nn o cAt::: hiss co to ty de i lgt i lumn e is ry th ilr e e. Ag t ;
imagine tiring of thought. and eliciting the admiration of all hat not su g fil e ln i t e el themselves to build up a place °luny
present. ' importance. It to true , that there are two Railroads con-
on Tuesday afternoon the corner 'tones of the two So
ciety halls, at the College jr,rounds, on James street, were.
laid with appropriate and interesting ceremonies. An ad
dress on "Education" was delivered by Rev. F. W. KREMER,
of Lebanon. The subject was treated with great ability.—
Mr. K. is a very agreeable and entertaining speaker, and
wasinterrupted in his interesting address by frequent biuuts
of applause. Rer. Dr. SCRAPE', of Mercernburg, delivered
an exceedingly able and eloquent extemporaneous address
on the Condition of Education in America. The De', fund
of humor is inexhaustible, and it did not fail to have A
happy and pleasing effect on the large audience assembled.
Among the distinguished gentlemen present nes the Hon.
.L.e.seta Bronawow.
On the same evening the address before the Alumni
Association was delivered by Joust W. KILLINGER, Esq., of
Lebanon. He chose for his theme, "The Statesman not the
Politician." His remarks were exceedingly inappropriate,
and would have suited better the Black Republican squad
which meets every Friday evening, on the fourth floor of
Fulton Hall, than the highly intelligent, but not appreci
ating audience, which listened to him.
The Comalencement Exercises, on Wellnesday, at Fulton
Hall, were attended by a crowded and brilliant auditory,
among which:we noticed many strange faces. lion. JAXES
Becasztan, who is President of the Board of Trustees, was
preeent, among the Beard. on the stage. The grads.
acing class numbered fifteen, and the Faculty and Board
of Trustees have great reason to be proud of them, for, in
our humble opinion, a more proficient class never gradu
ated in this College. at lout sines it has been located in
Lancaster. .
The addresses of the graduates were not only well written,
but ware delivered with an easy gracefulinoe of manner,
which bad the effect of enlisting the undivided attention of
the audience. The Valedictory, by Mr. W. E. Krebs, of
Winchester, Va., was a magnificent production, abounding
in the most elegant and pathetic thoughts. Mr K. mlide
a deep impression on the audience. The ladies showed their
appreciation of the young gentlemen's abilities by the
numerous bonnets showered upon the stage.
The following Is a list of the graduates, upon whew the
degree of Bachelor of Arts was conferred
William White Davis, Sterling, Ill.; Joseph 11. E. Dubs.
Allentown,Pa.; Calvin Mark Duncan, Cashtown, Pa.; Semi
S. Frederick, Marion, Pa.; Frederick A. Gast, Lancaster, Is;
Adam C. Kehdig, Conestoga, Pa.; Welter Edmund Kroh.,
Winchester ' Va.; Cyrus V. Mays, Sclefferstown, Pa.; John
'
It. Orr Orretown , Pa.; Van Lear Perry, Cumberland, Md.:
John Montgomery Porter, Alexandria, Pa.; Herman It.
Rhoads, Allentown, Pa.; John M. Ruby, _Mechanicsburg,
Pa.; John W. Steinmetz, Scluellerstown, I'e.: A. Sidney
Vaughan, Raineburg, Pa.
The exercises were concluded by au address time the
President, Dr. Gtenuarcr,' to the graduates, en -liarneNt-
nem," which was ably written and well delivered
Throughout the day the exercises were Interperned 141111
music from the ieueibles' Band.
Thle Commencement, of Franklin and Marshall College
excited a greater dogroe of interest. among our cider,.
than any which has preceded it. •
Well Deserved.—The Columbiit — Spy speaks
In the highest terms of the kindness, gentlemanly bearing
and efficiency of JOHN S. HU,E, Esq., conductor on the
Railroad between this city and Columbia. We cheerfully
endorse every word of It. ytr. Itsna le one or the moot at •
tontive and obliging conductera on the Road, end this is the
testimony (dell who travel with him.
Didinguished —M r. BI:CMANAN
visited the Ephrata Mountain Springs on Friday last, m
company with lion. Winner .1. {TALKER, fRERIREIT Secretory
of the Treasury. He returned to WhORIIIIII,I on Saturday
etoo ug.
The Standing Num ber.—flie FREMONT
Cu:n met on Friday evening—that being their stated meet.
lug. There were not more than twenty persons present,
Including the officers! Mr. OADIVELL, as usual, addmssed
the meeting. It was truly a " beggarly account of empty
kytches." Black Republicanism, whatever it may be els,
where, is "no go" In the city or county of Lancaster. Of
this fact our friends abroad may be well ageure4l—notwith
standing the lying reports to the contrary, circulated for
effect. The heavy vote ler JAMES BeetraNaSt, that will be
cast on the 4th of November next, in this county, will as
tonish both frlmnl and foe in other poets of tho Common
wealth.
Acrident.—Our young friend, Eskridge E.
Lane, of this city, had his leg fractured just above the an
etc, by being thrown (rota his carriage, on Wednesday af
ternoon last. The accident occurred about a mile above
Millerstown, in Manor township. The fracture was
promptly attended to by Dr. A. Cadaiday, of Millerstovrw
and we era pleased to know that he is doing well. Ile was
brought to town on Friday, and is now under the rare of
Dr. F. A. Muhlenberg, of this city.
heatland Club.—The tneeting of Wheat
land Club, ou Saturday evening, was largely attended.—
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and ap.
proved. Several committees, appointed at former meetings
reported, and their reports were adopted.
A Committee on Documents, &e., was then appointed.—
This committee will have charge of all documents, news
papers, Sc., sent to Wheatland Club, and Clubs in the
County wishing to be supplied, will please address, by let
ter or otherwise, the Chairman, or any member of the Com
mittee. The following is the Committee:—Francis Gilles
pie, Chairman; Sebastian C. Masser, William A. Morton,
Henry It. Fahuestock, Alfred Sanderson.
A large number of nattier were enrolled. cud the greatent
enthusiasm prevailed.
WHEATLAND CLUB.—A stated meeting of Wheatland
Club will be held at the Head Quarters, (City ILL 11,)
on Saturday evening next, at 8 o'clock. All the members
are requested to be present. and also those who are desirous
of enrollng their names.
Business of importance will be transacted, and several
addresses will be delivered.
SAM'L WEI,CHENS, President.
JOHN M. aOIINSTOS, R. S.
•
THE “WHEATLAND GLEE CLEW' is requested to meet,
at the Hall of Whealand Club. on Friday evening next,
at.B o'clock precisely. J. T. 31'00NIGLE, Pretit.
l'ole Raising in the "Ramie). Mire —Great'
Enna...sm.—On Saturday afternoon last, the Democrats
of the glorious S. R. Ward, assisted by a great many of their
brethren of the other Wards, raised a splendid hickory
pole, over 90 feet long, at Watkins' Mansion House, corner
of Vine and South Queen eta. The weather was Intensely
warm, but the "unterrifled" were present in large numbers,
and there was no lack of enthusiasm.
After this ceremony had been gone through with ; the
persons present assembled at the rear of the hotel, on Vine
street, and organized a meeting by the appointment of the
following officers
President—Gen. GEORGE 31. STEIN3IAN.
. .
Vice Presidents—lttensun 3FORANN, Sr., JACOB. L. tiaoss,
MICHAEL BARRE, JACOB SEINER, PATRICE 3PEVOT, CHARLES, E.
WENTZ, JAMES C. DOWNEY, JACOB CAMBER.
Secretaries—W. F. S. Warren, 'Esq., Dr. A. C. Freeman.
The President on taking the chair made a few neat and
pertinent remards.
• A committee was then appointed to draft resolutions ex
pressive of the sense of the meeting.
The meeting then adjourned until 7.34 o'clock I'. 31.
EVENING MEETING--GRAND RALLY GT THE FRIENDS Or THE
CONSTITUTION AND THE UNION.—The meeting re assembled
at 7% o'clock. The crowd in attendance wall very groat—
the street, In front of the hotel, being : fairly blocked , up
with people. In the absence of the President, GEORGE W.
sl'Eutor, Esq., was appointed President, who, as Chairman
of the Committee on Resolutions, appointed in the after
noon, 'reporh,l the following, which were unanimously
adopted:
Wurnuas, The present &slating crlsia, to the affairs of
the Republic, requires an increased amount of vigilance
and energy on the part of all true friends to the Union of
these States, who desire to sea'our free institutions handed
down unimpaired to posterity, and the glorious fabric
which has been reared by the blood and toil of our Iteco.
lutionary antestors, perpetuated in all time to come, there
fore be it
Resolved, That we have undiminished confidence in the
doctrines and truths of the Democratic party ea taught by
Thomas Jefferson, reiterated by the immortal Jackson, and
carried out by the long line of Democratic Presidents, who
have been honored with the Chief Magistracy of this Na
tion, and we will continue to support them, believing them
to be the proper foundation of the republic and, the only
hope of freedom in this country and the world.
Resolved, That in the Hon. James Buchanan, our candi
date for the Presidency, we recognize one who is worthy
the support of every Democrat in the country, as well for
the services he has rendered the country at home, as for
the distinguished honor he has conferred upon it abroad;
and we hail his election as a certain guarantee that the
dissensions, difficulties and troubles, which are now agi
tating the country, will be amicably adjusted, that the
Union of the States will be preserved, and the unbroken
interests and prosperity of the, Government perpetuated.
Resolved, That our candidate for the Vice Presidency,
Hon. John C. Breckinridge, is equally unexceptionable,
having been tried in the school of Democracy and never
found wanting: that we recognize In him a Statesman of
distinguished ability, and eminently qualified to occupy a
position in the confidence and consultation of such a ;non
as Mr. Buchanan.
Resolved, That we repudiate all sectional platforms—the
Filmore party as persecuting and proscriptive, waging a
war against freedom of conscience and the right of men
to worship God according to the dictates of their own
minds, in attempting to restore again the same laws which
originated in the days of the elder Adams, and which ran
dered his administration injurious and odious, by attempt
ing to impose an unjust and oppressive term for the natur
alization of foreigners, thereby defeating the object of our
Republican organization, which defined our country as the
land of the free and the asylum for the oppressed of all ne
Lions.
Resolved, That we prefer the Union of the State,ale groat
palladium of our liberty, to indulging in •n Insane and
uncalled for sympathy with the wooly beaded negro, and
therefore conilder the nomination of the Rocky Mountain
adventurer, Fremont, as a decided farce, which will be
played off to a thinly settled pit and empty boxes.
Resolved.. That the proceedings of this meeting be pub
lished In all the papers of this County favorable to the elec
tion of Buchanan and Breckinridge•
The reading of the resolutions was hailed with the most
enthnslutic cheering.
The meeting was then addressed In an able, eloquent and
spirited manner by Col. Beah Frazer, George W. M'Elroy,
Esq., Col. William B. Amweg, who spoke in German, and
W. F. 9., Warren, Esq., all of whom were greeted with loud
and tumultuous applause.
The meeting adjourned at 10% o'clock, amid great and
prolonged cheering for Buchanan and Breckinridge, and
the principles of the great Democratic party.
Throughout the afternoon and evening the proceedings
were enlivened with music from the Feneiblea' Band.
116.0ongress will adjourn on the 18th
of August.
COMMUNICATIONS.
necting at Lancaster—the State Road and the Lancaster
and Harrisburg Road—but they are of very little import
ance, if any, for they bring but littlb trade to Lancaster,
and melte a mere stoppilig place of It.
11 - hat we want then to a Railroad connection with the
Coal and Mineral districts of the State, and that can be
accotuplished by building a Railroad to Beading. If that
result was brought about, the exhaustlesa Ore beds of
Lebanon, and the Owl Mines of sehuylkill and Northum
berlaud Counties would be opened to Lancaster enterprise
—and when Lancaster . enterprlra undertakes anything,
who doubts the result? We Would also have trav
eling communication with theigorthern part of the State,
which can now only be reached by a round-about, long and
expensive route; and as the Road would pass through
very populous country, the travel on it would be very
large. But the principal things to depend upon is the
transportation of Iron Ore and Coal.
The amount of C 0. ".. used In Lancaster at the present
time, is 100,000 tone r;annum, and the demand is yearly
increasing. In the course of a few years a large amount
will be required for the use of the County—for Wood is
v e ry scarce and expensive, and the supply rapidly de
creasing, consequently Coal will have to be used In Its
place; and, it is safe to day, that by the time the Road could
be completed the demand would not fall short of 150,000
tone. And as the proposed Road would be a Lancaster en.
terprize, and the Schuylkill Mines the nearest, the whole
amount would be transported over the Road.
Baltimore, by the proposed Railroad, eta Conestoga Nay.
lotion and Tide Water Canal, would be twenty-five miles
nearer to the Schuylkill Coal Mines, than by any other
existing Raid; and as Coal must be transported cheap, it
will naturally conk the shortest route. It could be tranat'
ported cheaper by this route than by any other; for the
Conestoga Navigation which is eighteen miles long, and
connects, at Safe Harbor, with the Tide Water Canal, and
the amount of capital invest et In it is but $BO,OOO, so that
if Coal would pay a tonnage of only 15 cents per ton, It
would pay all expeudee of the Navigation, and also pay the
Stockholders a handsome dividend. It would then be safe
to estimate the amount of Creel which would be sent to
Baltimore, by the propoaetl Railroad, at 150,000 tend per
RUUUM.
The cii,-tam, trout (leading to tirleff's Landing, In Lan
caster city is 3.3 miles—but say 35 miles, and the cost of
the llea , l, to be ceindrooted in a good, substantial manner,
kwlth double nark.) would not exceed the following esti
mate:
Cenbtruction tuilei doable track, includ
ing iron rails cud right of way, at $.35,000
p r mile
Depots
300 (17.,.1 Cars, $3OO per car
10 Engines, $lO,OOO per lingiun
l'a.moug r and Fr...ighti Cam SSOO per on
Eogineering and Mircellritwous
Alter the Road would Le completed iind in good working
condition, the following ratlmate could be depended upon
. heing eorreet :
ktn.unn Tons Coal, tin cents per ton $180,0(41 .
.50,0401 Tons Iron Ore, :Ali cents per ton-- 15,000
2:,,tion Tons Freight, r 2 per 'An 50,0011
3lntl, 35 tulles, $201.1 per mile 7,000
/MOW
Working esporres itril repair, fa) p, eeut
Nett profit
$lBl,OOO
Which is equal to 11% per cent. uu the cost. The above
estimate will stand testing, us It is hased on good icuowl.
edge of the Business and Ilesourcos of Lancaster.
The above Is respectfully prevented to property-holder.,
nod business wen of Laminnter, Reading and Baltimore.
• LANCASTRIt 31EltCHANT
I..tseinTtn, July 21, IS4LI
The True Elemehts of Itepublienulern.
Whilst the (lemon R.Spublican papers labor to show,
with artfully absurd 'interpretation, that the Republi
can party occupies a post don hostile to the Knew Nelhlng.,
end their hatred to foreighers, the English Fremont pipers
publicly proclaim the confession that they, front the very
tirut, re ma n ded the Philadelphia Convention merely se
combination or union of the Knots-Nothings with the its
publicans, and that the Republicans would have nominated
any Know. Not hi ug with the same readiness and unanimity
as any Republican. The Know'-Nothings were not to sir.
ritice their prl.iples; °Li the contrary, this Republicans
Intended not oven to ask any concession, nor would they
dare lu any way oppose hostility to foreigners. All they
desire is, that the :nest dilutions Connie be pursued with
regard to citizens of foreign birth, who. unconditionally
may have surrendered themselves, lest offence should be
given by desiring them to forfeit their rights to citizenship.
lu order that all the supporters tf Fremont may see and
know of what the Block Republican party is composed, we
will give - nn extract from: the chief Fremont paper of the
country, the New York Tribune, by which the public in
general, and the Fremont voters of Lancaster county in
particular, can see that the Know-Nothings have the entire
lead in the Republican Mtge, and we hope they will not
overlook the conspicumut position assigned the -high
priest" of the Lancaster Know-Nothing lodges STEVENS.—
in noticing the letter of deorge Law, the Tribunei Nuys
"Now the vital error in this is its assumption that the
Philadelphia Convention Was exclusively “Repubilcan. - -
The fact is exactly the reverse of this. The call Invited all
who oppose the }schlemiel and policy respecting Slavery
embodied in the Nebraska'bill; nu opponent of that meas.
ure was excluded; and 1 point of fact several of Its must
completiOUs members ' with scores of undistinguished, were
"Americans" ( Know -'Nothings.) THADDEUS STEVENS to an
eminent example.
"Nobody ever questioned the perfect right of Anti-Ne.
braska Knots Nothings td choose and be chosen to that
Convention. And no one 'ever hinted that an Anti-Nebras.
ka - Know-Nothing was not Just as. eligible as a “Ittopubli
cats" to nomination at its hands.
"The Anti-Nebraska Know-Nothings having been early
and earnestly invited to to) represented in the Convention,
on terms of perfect equalq with the Anti-Nebraska "Dem
ocrats" and "Republicans it was deemed superfluous to
treat as strangers, allies or guests, those who had the tonne
rights and privileges In the body of the Convention with
the rest of us. Perhaps this wad a mistake, but we cannot
see it in that light. At all events, no discourtesy, no repulse
was intended, and we trust no lasting offense will be taidm.
All we ask of our North American (Know Nothing) friends
is, that they will not askl us to proscribe (Italicising our
own) or repel from the support of Fremont citizens of Eu
ropean birth, who feel with us respecting Kansas and
Slavery Extension ' and art willing to act with us on a fair
footing. They make no.shpulations, demonetize pledges, ask
no furors!'
Thus we can see that Know-Nothinglam can assume ey,
cry phase imaginable, But a fear months ago hostility to'
foreigners was the cardinti/ feature of the party; now for
eigners are incited to come and aid Black Republicanis,
and Know-Nothingism corabined, but on the egudltion that
they "demand no pledges,"l and, above all, “ask no favors."
In this form the Fremont party adopts the proscriptive
spirit of Know•Nothingisni. Foreigners are courted to as
sist, but their service mus , be gratuitous—they must "ask
no fa oors."
Thus has the Fremont party, at this early day, been
brought to the humiliating alternative to appeal to the
Know-Nothing Chief, George Law, and pray him lobe cau
tious and for the present not to give "lasting offense" to.
Foreign Republicans . All this early day has It become
necessary to address all naturalized Republicans in the
following language--Ton have unconditionally surren
dered yourselves; wo will On this account allow you to vote
with us, but you must "cark no favors," you must not ex
pect that the rod will bele@ elide for you. The rod remains,
and is Fremont made President you have the beet prospects
for it. -Cur candidate, if elected, must satisfy both Repub.
been. aaa Know-Nothings; he must be hair Republican
and pail Know Nothing, and it be has regard for ancestry,
he Must confer the most Idlstlngulsbod houors upon the
Know-Nothing and Aboillion parties, the parents of the
rampant, amalganutting, huckstering, trafficking child,
Black Republisanism.
lie must redeem his obligations to us Republicans, by
going in for the colored rake; and be must redeem his faith
to you Know-Nothings, byl proscribing all foreign born cit
izens, by informing them, before hand, that they may vote
for Fremont on the express condition that they "ask no
favors." OBSERVER.
MOUNT Joy, July 22nd, 1856.
DEMOCRATIC I CLIIII MEETINGS
Old Earl in Motion 2
•
In pursuance of a call, previously Issued, the Democracy
of Earl met at the public house of Mr. John Slyer, in the
Village of Sew Holland, on Monday evening, July 21. The
meeting wan large and erOusiastie, and characterized by
the utmost harmony and ananimity of opinion prevailing
In favor of the Democratic nominees.
The meeting organized by selecting Peter Ream to Mild.
ate es President; Anthony', Carpenter, John Dick, Wendel
Holl and F. Thompson as Vice Presidents; and John 11.
Hull as Secretary.
W. Seeger Darrow then Isuldressed the meeting in a neat
and eppropriate speech, eating the object of the meeting
to be, to take into consideration the necessity and propriety '
of forming a Democratic Cob. His remarks were strongly
recommendatory of the step, to the point, and were well
received by the assemblage. '
Mr. Darrow then offered 'resolutions, which were adopted
unanitnously, expressive of the approval of the Democrats
of Earl of the Cincinnati Platform ; their confidence In the
Democratic nominees, and their determination to use all
fair and honorable meant and heartily co-operate with
their fellow Democrats, of he different townships, to secure
for them a handsome majority its the hitherto strongly Li • •
Democratic County of Lai:Master.
A committee was next appointed to prepare a Constitu
lion and Dy.Lewa for ill ‘ Club; after which the meeting
adjourned, with three he rty cheers for Buchanan and
Breckinrldge, to meet again, at the same place, on Saturday
evening, August 2, ISOO. ,
The proceedings wore Ordered to be published in the
Intelligencer, and American Press & Republican.
PETER REAM, President
Jonv IL lint. Secretary.
Mount Joy Buchanan Club.
At a meeting of the DeMoemts of Mount Joy Borough
and vicinity, held on Thu raday evening last, for the purpow
of forming a Buchanan fr. Brockiurldge Club. the following.
gentlemen were elected pelmanent officers:
President—L. Ricksecker.
Vico Presidents—Willi:lM Pinkerton, John M. Culp, John
Siegelmilch. John Kennedy, Dr. 11. B. Dunlap, Joseph Ito
gendobler, A. S. Hackman . ; Michael Gormley, William Mc-
Neal, James Barlow, Dr. N. Watson.
Recording Secretaries. W. Johnson, J. K. Waltman,
J. 3111 tor; Mays.
Corresponding Secretary—John 11. Brenneman.
Treasurer—Joshua he.tder.
Executive Committee—S. C. Pinkerton, William Saylor.,
Henry Shaffner, John Benin, Joseph Detweller.
During the meeting eloquent speeches were made by MI.
Henry Shaffner and Dr. N. Watson; the latter gentleman
was formerly an active and Influential old lino Whig.—
The speeches were received with great applause.
A Constitution and By ILaws having been adopted, au
opportunity was afforded In all desirous of becoming mem•
bars of the Club, when 91 persons came forward and signed
their names.
A resolution wa. al, p sited that this Club raise a pole
on Saturday, 211 of Angus , at 1 o'clock P. 31.
Salisbury and Sadu ' ry Union Buchanan
Club.
This - Club was permanently organized on Thursday eve
sting last, at the "Gap," Ily the election of the following
officers ' viz:
.:
p reg id en t—col. Joseph B. Baker.
Vice Pweidents—Thomis S. 31clivain, Jacob R. Towns
end, D. F. Houston, David T. W. Henderson,. George
W. Wernts.
Recording Secretary—John S. Mclivaln.
Corresponding Secretaryl— Samuel J. Bonne.
Treasurer—James Hopkins.
Chief Marshal—lsaacgWalker.
Assistants—Truman VOlace, Ell Rutter.
Over sixty names were subscribed to the Constitution,
and great enthnsinaca provaled. The meeting was ad-
dressed by Col. Baker in a . few pertinent and appropriate
remarks—and several verses of poetry, composed by Mr.
Isaac Walker, were read aid loudly applauded.
The next stated meetlni of the Club will be held at the
"Gap " on Saturday evening next, the 2d of August, when
spWters are expected horn , Lancaster. A Buchanan Pole;
will be raised at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
Parkesbarg Buchanan Club.
A Democratic meeting, Called by the Buchanan Club, of
thet place, was announced ito be held at Parkeaburg, on last
eving, to be addressed i y Capt. Geo. Sanderson, of this
city. The fires are burnin brightly.
Elizabethtown Buchanan Buchanan Club.
The Buchanan Club of Elleabethfown met on Saturday
night, and was achireased, in his usual able and convincing
etyle, by June L. Etriuturni, Esq., of this City. Great en
thusiasm prevailed. Twerityllx new names were added to
the Club, amonget whom ♦were three old line lifts! So
we go. The ball is rolling on.
4;1 228 OW
"5,000
90,u00
lOU 000
28,H1nl
81,280
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