INTELLIGENCER & LANCASTERIAN.
GEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR
A. SANDERSON, Associate.
LANCASTER, PA., SEPTEMBER 26, 1856
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FOR PRESIDENT,
JAMES BUCHANAN,
OF PENNSYLVANIA•
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
JOHN C. BRECBINREDGE,
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS
SEZiA'TOBIAL.
arks R. Backalew,
DISTRICT.
1 George W. Nebinger, 114 Reuben Wilber,
2 Pierce Butler,l ls George A. Crawford,
8 Edward Wartman, ;16 James Black,
4 William H. Witte, 117 H. J. Stable,
6 John McNair, OS John D. Roddy,
6 John N. Brinton, 09 Jacob Turney,
7 David Laury, 20 J. A. J. Buchanan,
8 Charles Kessler, 121 William Wilkins,
9 James Patterson, 122 James G. Campbell,
10 Isaac Blanker, 23 T. Cunningham,
11 P. W. Hughes, 24 John Neatly,
12 Thames Osterhont, 125 Vincent Phelps.
13 Abraham Edinger, I
CANAL COACWTSSIONER
GEORGE SCOTT, of Columbia County
AUDITOR GENFRA L
JACOB FRY, Jr., of Montgomery County
SURVEYOR GENERAL
JOHN ROWE, of Franklin County
sAkir From my soul I respect the laboring man. Labor is
thefoundation of the wealth of every country; and the free
Laborers of the North deserve respect both for their probity
rid their intellzgence. Heaven forbid that I should av them
rang! Of all the countries on the earth, we ought to hare
he most consideration for the laboring man.--/Sucusris..s.
Kr'Shotdd .1 be placed in the Executive chair, Is hall use
vsyhest exertions to cultivate peace and friendship with all
nations, bcticving this to be our mouses rotas, as well as
otcr =Oa
"If 1 Avow myself, lam a politician neither' of the
Fart, nor of the Ma, of the North nor of Vie South-1 there
fore shagforecer avoid any &egressions, the direct tendency
of which must be to create sectional jealoueies, sectional di
visions, and at length disunion, that worst' of all political
oalamitia."—Bcciuzum
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET
Congress.
Hon. Isaac E. Mester, City_
Assembly.
George G. Brush, Manor,
Jesse Reinhold, West Cocalico,
H. 11, Breneman, Eden,
William Patton, Columbia,
William T. McPhail, Strasburg Bor
Associate Judge.
A. L. Henderson,.Salisbury
District Attorney
J. B. Amwake, City.
County Commissioner
John B. Erb, Clay.
. •
Prison Inspectors
Henry Shelly, Rapho,
William Pickel, Bart.
Directors of the Poor.
John Roberta, Earl,
Frederick Kreamer, U. Leacock
County Surveyor
Daniel Fulton, Pequea.
Auditor
Amos A. Hauck, Parajise
ONE UNION! ONE COUNTRY!!
ONE CONSTITUTION AND
ONE DESTINY!!!
GRAND M ASS ME Pal .7.1" G)
OF THE FRIENDS OF
BIICHANAN and BRECKINRIDGE
in Lancaster County 1
DEMOCRATS AROUSE! COME ONE! COME ALL!
Let every Township and Borough be repre
sented. Getout your Wagonsand Teams.
Come with Music and Banners. Let
there be a grand gathering of all
the Democrats and Consti
tution-loving med in the
county—of all who de
light in the perpetua
tion of those great
principles upon
which the Re
public was
founded.
THE DEMOCRACY of LANCASTER
COUNTY, and all friendly to the election of
BUCHANAN and BRECKINRIDGE, and the Demo
cratic State and County Tickets, will hold a
Grand Mass Meeting, in the City of Lancas
ter, (the home of BLCHANAN,) at - 10 o'clock,
A. M., on
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER Bth, 1856.
The Democracy pf the surrounding counties,
are cordially invited to meet with us on that
occasion; and we expect' a large representa
tion from our sister counties.
The Committee of Arrangements will spare
no exertions to make this one of the best
regulated meetings that has ever convened in
this section of the State.
Mir A correspondence has been opened
with some of the most distinguished speakers
in the country, and favorable answers have
already been received from several of them.
The following named gentlemen are confident
ly expected :
HOWELL COBB, of Georgia.
JAMES B. CLAY, of Kentucky.
WILLIAM PRESTON, "
C. R. BUCKALEIT, of Pennsylvania.
E. B. SCHNABEL,
WILLIAM B. REED,
JOSIAH RANDALL,
SAMUEL W. BLACK, "
WILLIAM IL WITTE, "
GEORGE R. RIDDLE, of Delaware,
WILLIAM ALLEN, of Ohio,
and several others.
i. B. SWARR, Chairman Co. Corn.
$lB Per Diem I--Mr. Roberts , Record!
On the 15th ultitho, the 'House of Repre
sentatives, by a vote of 101 to. 98, passed a
bill to pay themselves, instead of what Con
gressmen have heretofore received, ($8 per
day,) a salary of $6,000 for_the term, and
mileage the same as formerly, the bill to date
back so as to include the p‘resent Congress.—
Counting the term of Congress (both sessions)
at eleven months, which is a fair average,
this new bill gives members of Congress
• air EIGHTEEN DOLLARS a day, includ
ing mileage, instead of the. $8 per day, here
tofore allowed! This bill adds to the expenses
of Congress for the last session, $773,-
0001 and for this iniquitous measure
ANTHONY E. ROBERTS. the member from this
district votedl By the operation, Mr. ROBERTS
will have put into his pocket, on the 3d of
March next, when his term expires, about
$3,300 over and above the sum that has
always heretofore been received by a Repre_
eentative in Congress! What think you of
this, tax`-payers of Lancaster county ?
Mr. ROBERTS was one of those who refused
to vote an appropriation to pay the Army of
the United States, and to keep up the fortifi
cations, armories, Br,c., where thousands , of
mechanics and laboring men are constantly
employed ;—but he willingly voted to put the
above-mentioned large amount of money in
his own pocket I Think of this, working men
of Lancaster county, when you come to de
posite your votes in the ballot boxes on the
14th day of October.
ice. By reference to our advertising col
umns it will be seen that there are several
very fine properties, in city and county, offered
at pnblio see, which merit the attention of
capitalists I
The Congressional quesClon.
Now that the prominent parties of the
county have settled their respective tickets, it
may not be amiss for the intelligent and inde
pendent voter—unshackled by party ties--to
look around and ascertain which of the tick
ets thus settled is most worthy of his support.
Premising that the immediate representative
of the county in the National Legislature is
paramount to all others, we propose in this
article to have a plain, calm and impartial
interchange of opinion with our readers, rela
tive to the claims of the two candidates for
Congress.
First then, we shall start out with the old
time but somewhat out of flishion inquiries,
"Is he honest?" "Is he capable ?"
In regard to the first question, we are free
to admit that both candidates are unexcep
tionable. In this particular they are well and
favorably known to the community, and were
it the only qualification necessary, both can
didates would stand before the public without
either having the vantage ground.
But in regard to the second inquiry, how
.diies the matter stand? With an admiration
for Mr. ROBERTS' social characteristics second
to none, we have yet to learn that he possesses
the first essential qualification necessary to a
well informed and enlightened legislator.
In proof of this, we have but to turn to his
Congressional record. What act of his claiming
the respect or admiration of his constituents
stands ecorded there? Beyond his bald and
naked vote of yea, or nay, there is nothing to
indicate that he had ever a Congressional ex
istence. Fur all the practical and useful pur
poses of legislation he was, and still is, a mere
cypher, of easy disposition, and ready to be
moulded in any shape that may suit the ulte
rior and ambitious views of the able but dan
gerous men whose lead he follows.
We do not disposed at this time-to refer
.to all his votes in. Congress. The investigation
would prove an unpleasant if not an unprofit
able one. Out/readers are familiar with them,
and therefore comment is unnecessary. Suffice
it to say, that, from first to last, he has inva
riably voted with the enemies of the country
and the constitution. Sectional in his feelings
—bitter in his prejudices—the blind and wil
ling follower of Thaddeus Stevens, he was,
and is, the mere echo of that bold and bad
man's opinions, and hence by his votes has
ever outraged the feelings and the intelligence
of the gteat mass of his constituents. ThE,
crowning act of his political infamy, however,
was voting himself THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS
A YEAR FOR lIIS CONGRESSIONAL SERVICES.—
This, if nothing else, should forever damn him
in the eyes of a Lancaster county constituency.
What think'.-the sun-embrowned, hard-fisted
sons of the soil, of this extravagance? Eight
dollars a day and mile'age insufficient for this
would be patrician Representative! But let
the man and the deed go. Both, if we do not
mistake the intelligence and honesty of the
people of Lancaster county, will be emphati
cally condemned at the polls on the 2nd Tues
day of October next.
Turn we now from the record of this imbe
cile Representative to his immediate predeces
sor and present opponent. From Mr. HIES
TER'S fiat debut on the floor of Congress, to the
time he left it, he commanded the, confidence
of his friends and the respect of his political
opponents. Of acknowledged talent, he at once
entered the arena of debate, and by his intel
ligence—his unswerving fidelity to the inter
ests of his constituents—and his manly espou•
sal of the Right and condemnation of the
Wrong, carved out for himself anational name
and reputation, no less honorable to him thin
it was to the County and State whom he rep
resented. We challenge his most inveterate
enemy, to point to one single act of his con
gressional career inconsistent with the duty
he owed his country—N l orth and South—his
constituents, or the oath which, as a Union
loving man, representing a Union-loving peo
ple,he took to support the Constitution and
the laws.
Wilson McCandless
While serving his first term in Congress,
Know-Nothingism . raised its Hydra head in
New York, and from thence spread rapidly
through the whole country. Old party lines
were broken, party ties sundered, and Air a
season the new found faith spread through
the land with the width of an ocean and th e
rapidity of a torrent. In its onward course
some of the best men in the country, North
and South, were swept away. Others, refusing
to leave the landmarks the fathers of the Re
public had set, turned aside and let the rolling
mass of corrupt ion and infamy sweep on. A
few shrewd and unprincipled politician's, al
ways on the alert for something new, mounted
the.wave and rode into power. Mr. Roberts
was one of these. In the first flush of Know
Nothing success in Lancaster county, he iden
tified himself with the order and became one
of its most bigoted and vindictive ministers.
To the honor of Mr. IllEsrsa be it said, he
opposed first, last, and all the time, any fel
lowship with it. With thousands of other
good men, Whigs and Democrats, he set him
self firmly against the new sect, and as a conse
quence, was obliged to go down. His party
in this county went with him ;—that party
which for a period of over twenty years had
never known defeat.
Our readers are familiar with the events
which followed the disruption of the Whig
party in Lancaster county. Ilundreds of its
members, warm hearted, noble minded men,
of undaunted patriotism, and therefore unable
to take side with sectionalism, sought fellow
ship with the great Democratic party. National
men, they planted themselves under the folds
of the Democratic banner, determined to help
bear it aloft at all peril and all hazard.—
Among this noble band was Mr. MUTER. The
Democratic party of Lancaster county, finding
in him all the requisites of an able legislator,
have unanimously placed him in the field as
the NATIONAL, ANTI-DISUNION candidate for
Congress. Will the free and independent
voters of the county ratify this nomination ?
or will they once more inflict a lasting disgrace
upon the county, by electing, as their Repre
sentative, a man notoriously incompetent,—
a follower of the peculiar die-union and aboli
tion doctrines of Thaddeus Stevens,—a Rep
resentative who thinks EIGHT DOLLARS a day
no adequate compensation for his yea and
nay services in Congress. Let the people
decide !
Religion and Polities
The Methodist Episcopal Conference, which
has just closed its session at Medina, N. Y.,
amongst other acts, as we learn from the Eve
ning Bulletin, of Thursday passed the follow
ing resolutions without a dissenting voice:
1. Resolved, That we view with intense
solicitude and profound alarm the present po
sition of the slave power.
•2. Immediate, determined and persevering
efforts in the Pulpit, through the Press, before
the Throne of Grace, and at the BALLOT BOX,
are demanded and shall be put forth.
3. That the great issue before the nation in
the approachittg election is Slavery Extension,
and we are called upon to set at the elec
tion with direct reference to that issue.
If this is preaching "Christ and him cruci
fied," the great mission of Methodism in the
world, then have we totally misunderstood
the position of the church of our choice. .
The third resolution which alleges that the
" great issue in the approaching election is
Slavery Extension," is false from beginning
to end, and the Reverend politicians who en
dorsed it knew it to be so when they made the
lying assertion, or else they were too ignorant
to know what they were talking about.
Iltate - and'County Ttekets.
In our great antiety for the election of Mr.
BUCHANAN "and the preservation of the Consti
tution and the Union, we must not lose sight
of the fact that the result of the State election
on the 14th Of October will have an important
bearing on the Presidential election. The fact
is now as clear as sunlight that there will be
a fusion, to a great extent, of Premontiem,
Fillmoreism, Abolitionisth and Maine Dawisrn
against the Democratic State and County tick
ets. We mast beat the piratical hordes—these
Goths and Vandals—who would pull down
the pillars of our glorious Union, and intro
duce anarchy and civil war in place of law,
and constitutional liberty.
Rally then, Democrats, everywhere, and let
your cry be, from this to the close of the polls
on the 14th, SCOTT, Fey, Rows, and the Demo
cratic county tickets.' Let us show our oppo
nents that fanaticism has not bereft the people
of Pennsylvania of their proverbial sober
sense, and that there still exists an army of
freemen in the old Keystone powerful enough
to quell the treason and preserve the Union.
Motley Crowd
The great Wool Gathering—alias Fremont
Mass Convention—was held at Pitts
burg, on the 18th inst. The Convention was
large, but did nut come up to the expectation
of the leaders who gut it up. The Post says
that the number of voters was not equal to the
Democratic Mass Meeting which was held a
few days previous. That paper has the stib
joined estimate (taken by six different persons)
of the numbers in the Procession :
Men, 5,308
Minors over 14, 1,027
Women,l 4 9
Little irls, 523
Little Boys, 834
Negroes, 107
Infants at the breast, 13
Whole number,
An Infamous Sentiment
"The times demand that we should have an
anti-slavery Constitution, an anti-slavery Bible,
and an anti-slavery God !"
This infamous sentiment was uttered, it is
said, by the notorious Abolition Congressman,
Burlingame, who is announced as one of the
" distinguished speakers" who is to address
the Fremont Black Republican mass meeting,
to be hel4 in this city on the Ist proximo.
Such, tbllow-citizens of Lancaster county,
is one of the leaders whom you are advised to
follow by Messrs. Darlington, Stevens & Co.,
and who is taken by the hand by clergymen and
religionists wherever he goes! May Heaven
preserve the country from the influence of
such Infidel Abolitionists. The Preachers
who are aiding and abetting them are doing
infinitely more harm to the cause of Religion,
than all the writings of Tom Paine, Rosseau,
Volney, and the whole host of Infidel writers
have ever done, or ever can do.
Great Meeting In Philadelphia, in Inde
pendence Square! and Torch Light
Procession I Sept. 17, 1856.
This was the greatest demonstration ever
made in Philadelphia. Large ' delegations
from Lancaster, Chester, Delaware Bucks,
Montgomery, &c., &c., and from New Jersey,
Delaware and New York. The Pennsylvanian
estimates the number of persons present at
50.000 I The meeting was presided over
by GEORGE M. WitAirroN, Esq., (an old line
whig. ) Amongst the Vice Presidents and
Secretaries, we notice such old line whigs as
Wm. B. Johnston, Theodore Cayler, Wm. B.
Norris, Benjamin Gerhard, William Geisse,
Isaac S. Waterman, John Shaffner, Josiah
Randall, Thomas Snowden, Frederick Fraley,
Joseph Ripka, William Shippen, Wm. F.
Boone, Stacy Barcroft, Alexander E. Browne,
William Sergeant, (son of the late John Ser
geant,) and David Longenecker and William
Carpenter, both of Lancaster; and J. IL Ber
ryhill, of Dauphin.
The speakers were Messrs. Cobb and John
son, of Georgia ; Lowe and Stuart, of Mary
land ; Preston, of Kentucky ; Floyd and
Meade, of Virginia; Churchwell, of Tennessee;
Riddle, of Delaware ; McKeon, of New York ;
Riddle, of Massachusetts ; Brodhead, of Penn
sylvania ; Moore, of Texas ; Wilson, of Cali
fornia; Lane, of Oregon; and Schnabel and
Magraw, of Pennsylvania.
An immense Torch Light procession, about
five miles long, and numbering many thou
sands, took place at 8 o'clock in the evening—
accompanied with several splendid Bands of
Music and innumerable transparencies.
A splendid display of Fire 'Works took
place in Independence Square at the time the
Procession was passing that consecrated spot
—the last piece of which represented the
Constitution over an Eagle, in the centre, with
Democracy on the one side and Union on the
other.
Take it all in all, it was a tremendous out
pouring of the masses, and the immense en
thusiasm manifested shows that the people are
alive to the vast importance of the ap
proaching struggle for the Constitution and
the 'Union.
The Wheatland Club of this city, attended
the great meeting, and attracted much atten
tion. Their beautiful banner took the palm
upon the occasion. The Club was accompanied
by Hepting's Brass Band.
Coming Down.
The Black Republicans have been boasting
very loudly that they would carry Crawford
county by an overwhelming majority. They
are beginning to cave in however, and now, after
having gradually diminished from 2000 major
ity, they admit that the Democrats may carry
a portion of the ticket. The last number of
the Meadville Sentinel says:
Sometime ago, the lowest estimate put upon
the majority for the Republican ticket in this
county, by the leaders of that party, was two
thousand ; and some even went up so hip as
to claim twenty-five hundred majority. More
recently they came down to fifteen hundred;
and still more recently, the same individuals
came down to one thousand, and this they de
clared was as low as they would fall, let what
might take place. But, after the Democratic
nominations were made last week, these same
gentlemen were forced to admit that the Dem
ocrats might elect a portion of their ticket.—
Surely, this is " coming down !" This shows
how much sincerity there was in the game of
brag which they have been playing at so
strong for the past few months. That game
and the game of reporting good Democrats in
various parts of the county as having gone
over to the Fremont party, are too shallow to
win. You may as well give it up, gentlemen.
Your dissolution schemes won't succeed in this
community.
The rapid change which has been guing on
for the past four weeks in favor of James Bu
chanan and the Union will not stop till Craw
ford county is redeemed, and the entire Dem
ocratic ticket triumphantly elected.
YORK COUNTY Fem.—The annual exhibi
tion of the York County Agricultural Society
will be held at York, Pa., on Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, the let, 2d and 3d days
of October. The Society have made every
preparation for a creditable exhibition. The
premiums offered are quite liberal, and induce
ments are held out to competitors without re
gard to locality. All articles intended for the
Exhibition will be transported by the several
Railroad Companies free of charge, and it is
expected that visitors to the Fair will ,be fur
nished with tickets at reduced rates.
Significant
At the recent election in Alton, Illinois—
r the home of Senator Trumbull—the Demo
cratic candidate for Mayor was triumphantly
elected. )4
Be Assessed.
We again call the attention of our friends
to the great importance of attending to the
Assessment: , in the several wards, boroughs
and townships of the county. The assessments
must be made at least TEN DAYS DiSysts the
election in October. But don't put it off until
the last moment. Tov,nship and ward com
mittees should see to this thing without delay,
and be sure that every friend of Buehanan
is duly and regularly assessed on or bet •;-..
the 3d of Octobs,, Don't neglect this imp ,r
-tant duty a day longer.
Whig Doctrine
8. The series of acts 'of the Thirty-First
Congress, commonly known as the Compro
mise or adjustment, (the act for - the recovery
of fugitives from labor included,) are received
and :tcquiesced in by the Whigs of the United
States as a final settlement in principle and
substance of the subjects to which they relate:
and so far as the acts are concerned, we will
maintain them, and insist on their strict en
forcement, until time and experience shall
demonstrate the necessity of further legisla
tion to guard against the evasion of the laws
on the one hand and the abuse of their powers
on the other—not impairing their present
efficiency to carry out the requirements of the
constitution; and we deprecate all further
agitation of the questions thus settled as dan
gerous to our peace, and will discountenance
all efforts to continue or renew such agitation,
whenever, wherever, or however made; and
we will maintain this settlement as essential
to the nationality of the Whig party,,,and the
integrity of the Union.
The above is one of the planks in the Whig
platform of 1852, and the only one relating to
slavery, as adopted by the Whig National Con
vention,of that year. How our neighbor, Mr.
Darlington, who so strenuously contended then
that the principles embodied in that platform
were correct, can conscientiously claim that,
although he now advocates the Black Repub
lican platform with all its heresies, he has not
changed his principles, is beyond our compre
hension ! Politics, it is said, sometimes make
strange bed-fellows—and it is a truism so far
as the editor of the Examiner is concerned.—
It is certainly strange to see E. C. Darlington
laying quietly down in the same political nest
with Thaddeus Stevens, J. M. Willis Geist,
Alexander H. Hood, Dr. Gibbons and the whole
tribe of Abolitionists and Disunionists which
have infested Lancaster county for the last
eight or ten years
The Truth well Spoken
The subjoined dignified, truthful, and emi
nently Christian article we copy from the
Baltimore Patriot of the 13th inst. The mad
ness which now rules the hour—the perversion
of the sacred calling of so many modern
divines, some of them in our own State, and
not a hundred miles from our own city—the
melancholy attempts to divert the sacred vol
ume to unauthorized and unchristian purposes
—to substitute for its teachings of peace and
love a warrant of sedition, strife and discord,
or to discard it entirely—are candidly and
dispassionately alluded to, and the fearful con
sequences to Christianity itself strongly de•
pitted. The present practice of too many
clergymen, in leaving the spiritual wants of
their flocks to the tender mercies of the prowl
ing wolves of infidelity, and forgetting almost
entirely to "preach Christ and him crucified,"
is becoming apparent to all in the decreasing
interest with which the ordinances and insti
tutions of religion are regarded, and their
growing inefficiency upon the spirit of evil
which everywhere afflicts society. The extract
below is from a letter of an eminent and dis
tinguished Episcopalian clergyman of New
England, but applies with equal force in all
the States north of Mason and Dixon's line,
and is not inapplicable in the city and county
of Lance - sten Present appearances would
seem to indicate that this country is rapidly
tending to the moral condition of Revolution
ary France, and the cause is fully set forth
in the following extract:
I think I foresee that one of the must un
happy results of the political agitation we are
going through will be the demoralization, or
rather the de- Christianization of society here
at the North, through the shameful Prostitu
tion of the pulpit to political purposes. This has
now been carried on so long and to so great
an extent, that great moral effects must inev
itably follow. The claims of all the members
of the human race to personal freedom every
where, and under all circumstances, have
been so long and so vebemently urged from
the pulpit that the belief in them has become,
with not a few, a second gospel: claims quite
in conflict with the actual gospel oT our Sa
viour, and with the examples of slavery in
the Old Testament, not only authorized, hut
commanded by God himself. The question
then occurs inevitably to the fanatical mind,
which gospel am I to receive ? Then, again,
there has been the unholy alliance of the three
thousand clergymen of New England, with
the unhallowed crew of Atheists and Deists,
male and female, all working harmoniously
together to establish this new gospel, and to
assert a principle in morality not recognized
by the Old. On the same platform with the
3,000 are the men, Mr. Speaker Banks among
the rest, who affirm that "if God authorizes
slavery, we must have a new God." What
pollution in the very contact of a Christian
minister, with such creatures as Garrison,
Wendell Phillips, Theo. Parker and others of
the same tribe ! and what are the people to
think when they see their pastors fraterniz
ing with the open and sworn foes of all re
vealed truth on the same stage, and making
common cause with them in a crusade against
government and law? Why the multitude
cannot help losing their reverence for Christ's
religion and its supposed ministers, and this
is precisely the process which -is now going
on. Such causes operating so widely as they
are now doing, and have been doing for sev
eral years, must tell on the public mind at
last. The fruits will appear by and by.
Black Republican Creed
The following is a just analysis of the creed
of the Black Republicans. We take it from
the Cincinnati Enquirer. The proof of its
justness may be found in all their words and
acts :
" WHAT THE BLACK REPUBLICANS BELIEVE.-
1. The Black Republicans believe that the
people of the Territories should not be allowed
to make their own laws. They have no confi
dence in their capacity for self-government,
and insist that the Congress at Washington
better understand the wishes and interests of
the people of the distant Territories than they
do themselves.
" 2. They think that the voters of the States
can be induced to believe that the Democrats
who are in favor of popular sovereignty for
the Territories, and who would give their eit
zens freedom to form their own institutions,
are in favor of the extension of slavery.
"3. They believe they can instigate civil
war in Kansas, and by their tools—Lane and
Reeder—make unprovoked attacks with armed
men upon peaceful settlements, and then by
dint of unscrupulous falsehood actually obtain
political capital out of a circumstance which
ought to condemn them to general execration.
" They believe that an organization founded
entirely upon geographical lines, which has no
existance, and can, from its very nature, have
no existance in half the States of the Union,
whose triumph vests all power in the North
and makes the South its vassal, can sway the
government of the confederacy without danger
of its dissolution.
"5. They believe that the province of Min
isters of the Gospel is to dabble in party poli
tics, instead of preaching the word of God.
" 6. They believe that free negroes are a
more desireablo population than emigrants
from Europe, and would confer political priv
ileges upon the one and withhold them from
the other.
" 7. They believe in a smaller confederacy
of sixteen States, instead of the old one estab
lished by Washington and Jefferson, which
has already thirty-one, with Territories enough
to make as many more, and would east off the
South because she is guilty, in the estimation
of these fanatics, of the sin of slavery.
"S. The Black Republicans believe in the
Maine-liquor law, and in all the one idea
measures of the day, which have been engen
dered in the hot-bed of fanaticism, ignorance,
and folly."
Eloquent Sentiments.
At the recent Tippecanoe Battle Ground
Convention of the friends of BUCHAAN and
BRF. , KINRIDGF., that '• old Ina', el4nent,"
Geo. Co..ai spoke at , tollows i,
General Cass being introduced tol the ae-
semblage was received with hearty applause.
Ile said that he felt it god to be t4re. So
great an outburst o 1 the popular hear, he had,
scarcely efpected to see. Behold your corm
try's flag which here and on many another
i I , NA-stained field our fathers gallantly de
fended. Be you faithful to them, and de
fend the flag of the Union, whcih Y'ou have
inherited from your ancestors, with n fidelity
equal to their's. •
is. . •
My countrymen, the Union 14 ninnitient
danger. If 1 had uttered such a senOinetit as
this at the commencement of my', political
career I would have had no hearetzl. But'
times have greatly changed in my day, and
now you listen because you know ,that my
language is that of soberness and truth.— ,
Years ago when I visited this spot, having
come down the Wabash in a birch canoe, the .
siience was supreme and impressive ; but now
I behold about me a vast concourse ofearnest 1
and excited citizens. Th:s change is but typ
ical tf what has occurred over the brohd lands
of all the North-western States. , 1
No idle curiosity has called you forth to
day. You have come to manifest that attach
ment to the Union and the Union party which
animated our patriotic forefathers, and made
them rather bite the dust than see that Union
dishonored ur endangered by foreign and
domestic foes. (Great applause.) 1 .
1 hay e just come from the halls of le slation,
and. if you had been there and witnes ed what
I[
I saw and what I heard, not one among
you could think the cry of the Unidn is in
dangerlpne of false alarm. No ! yen would
have seen the Wheels of Government (blocked
by a party, and for no better or othei reason
than that the army was sought to be paid for
enforcing the laws of the land.
This is the fourteenth time that yin have
been called upon to elect a man to I preside
over the destinies of the United States, the
freest and happiest Government on the globe.
You are called upon to choose one of two can
didates, and in making that choice you should
bear• in mind that all your goverhmental
prosperity and happiness you owe ito that
Democratic party whose opponents htive been
in power but one year in four. [Great ap
plause.] I
Many of our people seem to ignorelthe exis
tence of a rule, a golden rule, whiCh says,
" mind your own business." It is . l a most
excellent rule and almost worthy of being the
thirteenth commandment. By its recognition
our fathers prospered, and our country has
prospered, but a now sect has arisen whose
motto seems to embrace the minding of other
people's business as well as their own.
But what is the cause of all this angry die
sention and strife. Why we are told ft is the
Nebraska bill. And what is that? 'Nothing
in the world more or less than the exttinsion of
the same right to the people of NebraSka and
Kansas, the same right which you, the people
of Indiana, enjoy.
Is there one here who objects to thi ° Who
thinks that Massachusetts ought to control
the local institutions of Kansas? • pioices
"No," "not one."] I know there hi not my
friends. If any, let him leave the assemblage.
I don't want to talk to such: Let him go to
Massachusetts. That is the place forl him.—
What is thefe in man that rendersim less
capable of self-government in a Territoy than
in a State? Nothing in the world.
The General alluded to the late House of Rep
resentatius, saying that, though they tried
hard to starve the army, whose only crime was
that it had endeavored to enforce tl# laws,
they took good care to vote a handsome appro
priation to themselves.
The General dal ' • ' -
_.re
as follows
I
am an old man, having passed thO' age of
three score years and ten, and I tell y'ou, aye,
repeat it again and again, that the Union is
in danger! Let me entreat you by th blood
of your forefathers, shed on this and on scores
of other battle-fields---by your present pros
perity—by all your hopes for the future—by
all that you hold most sacred and dear—hold
on to the Union—hold on to it in life and al
most in death ! It has made us prosperous and
happy, and placed our country's fame high
among the nations of the earth. If the Union
is lost, all is lost. Anarchy first will ensue,
then despotism. Oh, my friends, Nware—
beware ! Think, pause, and again think, be
tore giving countenance to those wliose 'patriot
ism embraces but a segment of the cOuntry.
We have here to-day a son of Henry Clay who
now sleeps in his grave. The son reminds me
of his father, my friend, and as noble a patriot
as ever breathed. It is to me a source of great
consolation, that though we differed on! almost
every political question, .I never spoke a dis
respectful word of him. He was my friend
at his death. 1 attended his dying couch, and
caught almost the last accents that fell from
his lips. He said that Mr. Fillmore Was his
first chOice for the Presidency, but if he could
not be elected, he preferred to see the Whigs
unite upon a Union Democrat. These were
alinost his last words, my friends, and most
earnestly would I commend them to Our con
sideration.
•
Who Supports the Government
The disunion traitors who are incessantly
slandering the South, aesert, because the rev
enues are principally collected at northern
ports, that the South pays but little into the
treasury and is a burthen on the government.
This is unjust as well as false. The revenues
are derived from duties upon importe whic
are paid for by the products of the com
The furnishers of the products are thos
whom the burthen of the duties ret
whatever amount is paid in duties is s(
deducted from the quantity of Comm
received in exchange. Look at the au
figures and see who pays the vaunted re
collected at Northern ports.
The following statement has been
from the reports of commerce and nav
for the year ending June 30th, 1854
EMCEE]
Exports Me exclusity products of the south.
Cotton $93, '6,220,
Tobacco 11, 66,000
Sugar "0,000
Molasses and spirits molasses : ',OOO
Tar, pitch, rosin, turpentine, &c. 2,11/66,000
Rice • 2 , 641., 000
Whole amount of exclusive pro — l7 ;
ducts of the South $111,277,220
H. - -
.sere is an export for a single year of arti•
Iles exclusively produced by the South,
amounting to $111,277,220. For the same
year the exports, the exclusive prodticts of
the North, amounted to $33,218,383.; But
here are the products common to the North
and South for the year ending June, 30th,
1854 :
Products of the forest, staves, lum
ber, masts, barks, $5,514,397
Skins, furs, beef, tallow, hides ezc. 2,757,000
Porkf bacon, lard, &c.
Wheat
Flour
Indian corn and meal
Potatoes, hemp, spirits from grain
Salt, lead
Manufactures of cotton
Gold and silver bullion
Raw produce not manufactured
Whole amount of prodncts com
mon to the North and South $107,5 4 1,397
Deducting the share produced at the 'outh
of these exports coming from both se Lions,
and it will be found that over two thi s of
the foreign imports are paid for by Sothorn
t.
products. Who then supports the govern
ment? Who pays the revenues? How much
would be collected in Northern ports if South
ern products were not sent out to pay for our
imports ? What would become of the foreign
commerce upon which the prosperity of the
great Northern cities depends, if the south
were to `withdraw from the Union ? Lei this
resource be cut off, and how long before bank
ruptcy would overwhelm these Northern
cities, bloated by the products of Southern
labor.—Keystone.
Ita. A DEMOCRATIC MASS CONyEN—
TION was held at Dayton, on the 17th
which is said to have been the largest assem
blage ever convened in Ohio. The number of
persons present is variously estimated at from
0 0,000 to 100,0001
1 CITY. AND, COUNTY ITEMS.
HON. HOWELL COBB, OF GEORGIA.—This die
tiugobthed gentleman will address the Democracy of Lan.
caster Clty, THIS EVENING (Tuesday) in Centre Square ,
at 7% o'clock.
GREAT Sesesrfm.—The Democracy of thii
city Wive been favored with the services of several fine
speakers from a distance recently..
On the evening of .the 10th inst., Dr. W. F. Shorrod, of
Indiana. entartaintid an immense audience in Centre
Square, forovaii.rohcinrs, in an able and triumphant 'vin
dication of the great principles of the Democratic party.
which was greeted with rapturous applause by the multi.
tude present. •
And on Thursday evening last, also In Centre square, we,
in common with a vast multitude of our fellow citisens, had
the pleasure of listening to Dr. E. B. Outs, of Ohio. in the
ablest and most thorough and convincing argument In
Laver of the Constitution and the Union, and the great
doctrine of popular sovereignty as embodied In the 'Zebras.
kaKanas art, that It has been our fortune to hear. Men
of all parties were present, and the universal sentiment is
that the Dr. acquitted himself with masterly ability
and In a way tochat which none could take offence. Lie
was repeatedly interrupted by the most Yociti,ms cheer
ing.
The meeting was also addressed by Governor CURRY. of
Oregon, and by that distinguished hero of the 31exican
war, Gen. Jusssu Lott, now of the same Territory. Both
of these, gentlemen acquitted themselves handsomely, and
were loudly applauded by the audience.
At the conclusion, throe hearty cheers were given for the
distinguished speakers, and nine more for BUCRANAN and
BaacsuranxiE.
COTTON SEURTINGS.—We received, a few
days ago, a handsome present, being a very fine bale of
Conestoga unbleached shirting, the production of Mill
No. 1, to this city. The cloth is of a most excellent texture
and quality, and is highly creditable to the establishment
es a home manufacture. The Lancaster Cotton Mills turn
out the most substantial kind of goods—indeed, ten believe,
they are not to he surpassed at any of the marinfactories
in the Eastern States. These goods have established tor
themselves a reputation all over the country, and the East
ern, Southern and Western merchants look to this quarter
for a Supply.
MR. BUCHANAN'S MOVEMENTS.—Mr. BUCH -
.I,NAN left home on ThuAsday last, on a short visit to his
brother, Rev. E. Y. liccitaxax, at Germantown. Ile spent
Friday at the 31erehants' Hotel, and was visited by th , m,
ands of his fallow.eitizens. On his arrival the day pre eion,,
he was rolled upon by the Young Men's peniwratic Club, of
New York, and serenaded by their Band. Th.• greatest
enthusiasm prevailed. Mr. BCCHANAN returned home on
last evening.
WHEATLAND CLUD.—A stated hasi 11 es,
meeting of Wheatland Club took place at Concert !1011. N.
Queen street, on Saturday evening. The Committee of
Arrangement was directed to en-operate with the County
Committee, in reference to the grand Democratic Moss
Meeting, to be held in Lamustor on the Sth of Oetober.—
A Committee of Finance, consisting of the following gentle
men, was appointed:—Col. Cyr. Carmany, Charles M.
Howell, JallieS Peoples. Sebastian Musser, William A .
Morton.
The next meeting of the Club will be held on Saturday
evening, at the Head Quarters, City Hall. It in desired
that every member should be present. m, bus ness of great
importance will be transacted.
N. W. WARD.—The N. \V. Ward Dein,
crag() Association will meet at Wheatlar.d (Joh Ilead
Quarters, City Hall, this evening . , (Tuesday.) at 7 o'clock.
POLE RAISING.—A Democratic Pole Raising
will take place iu the N. W. Ward, at the corner of.tainos
and Charlotte streets, on Saturday afternoon next. at
o'clock. Let there be a glorious rally.
A GRAND FIZZLE.—The "FiLL.tioRE MASS
MEETING," in this City, on Thursday last, M. composed of
less than two hundred persons! The procession in the
afternoon was a very slim affair, and the meeting after
night MO very little better. The whole thing was a pert .-t
fizzle!
DEMOCRATIC MEETINGS
as..At Relnholdsville, In West Cocalice township, on
Saturday next, the 27th inst., at 1 o'clock, I'. M., and In
Schieneck the same evening. The meetings will be ad
dressed by Jonas D. Bachman, Jacob B. Amwako, W. F. S.
Warren, William S. Amweg and J. Lawrence Gem, Esqrs.
A band of Music will be in attend...co.
anguag near y
the'
Jii%- At tlib "Green Tree," In Bart township, on Wednes
day the Ist of October, at 10 o'clock A. M. Addresses will
be delivered by Col. Beall Frazer, Capt. Geo. Sanderson, 11.
B. Swarr, Esq., D. Dougherty, Esq., and others.
11. a.. At Churchtown, on Tuesday evening, the 7th of o c
totter, at Albright's Hotel. Messrs. Sanderson and S. 11.
Reynolds will address the meeting.
IM. At Adam Black's Tavern (Centro Square) on Sat ur
day afternoon, next, the 27th inst.
Ile At Lemon's Hotel, in Salisbury township, on Satur
day evenjng, October -111. •
Art,- At the public house of Samuel Llchtenthaler in
Litiz,on Saturday afternoon next, the 27th inst., at 2 o'clock
P. M. The meeting will be addressed by Robert Tyler.
Esq., of Philadelphia.
e_. At Columbia, this ovoning, (Tuesday.) The meat
ing will be addressed by IL A Lamberton, Esq., of ILarris
burg, and Capt. Geo Sanderson, of Lancaster.
la. A large and enthusiastic Democratic [tweeting was
held at Herr's. Hotel, in the borough of Strasburg, on Fri
day evening last. The Lancaster Glee Ccub was present
and added much to the enthusiasm of the occasion by their
excellent and appropriate singing. Speeches were deliver
ed by James L. Reynolds, Jgeob Myers, B. G. Herr, (the
latter an old line Whig,) and Dr. J. K. Itaub. The speeches
were excellent, and that speakers were repeatedly cheered
by the large assemblage present.
.IQ-- A very large and spirited meeting of the friends of
BtiCIIANAN and BRECKINRIDGIL was hold at Faulek's Hotel,
Williamstown, Va Saturday evening last, which was ad
dressed by Wm. T. McPhail, Col. Reah Frazer, Capt. Gco.
Sanderson, and Mr. 13. F. lbaeh, Paradise township will do
nobly at the approaching elections.
'M. A very large and enthusiastic Democratic meeting
was held at Mountville, at Bletz's Hotel, on Saturday af
ternoon, at which a handsome hickory pole west raised.—
The meeting was addressed by Col. Reah Frazer, 11. 11.
Swart' John Kolp, C. S. Haldeman, P. S. Pyfor and George
H. Bardwoll, Ka m's.
ell_ A large Democratic meeting was held at Gantz's
Tavern, Itapho township, on Saturday afternoon, which
was addressed by Col. Wm. S.Amweg. Jacob Myers, Joseph
S. Keener and John W. Meckley, Esqrs.
A Democratic meeting wag held at Neffsville, nu
Saturday evening, which was addressed by Nathan Wor•
ley, Egg., and Cul. Wm. S. Amweg.
4d3- A Democratic meeting will be held at the " Spread
Eagle," in Providence township, on Saturday evening next,
the 27th Inst. George W. McElroy, and W. F. S. Warren,
Dela., will address the meeting.
. A Mass Meeting of the friends of BUCHANAN and
BRECEINRIDGE Will be held, at Samuel Leamon's, near4Cam
bridge, in Salisbury township, on Saturday, the 4th of-
October, at 1 o'clock, P. 31. The meeting will be addressed
by Hon. John Hickman, James L. Reynolds, S. H. Reynolds,
Jacob Myers, &qrs., and others.
try.—
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fig.. The Safe harbour Club was addressed on the lath
inst., by H. d. NORTH, Esq.
The Democracy of Safe Harbour and the adjoining dls.
tracts will hold a meeting orf Saturday afternoon next, the
27th inst, at 2 o'clock. The Meeting will be addressed by
Col. Wm. B. RANKIN and GEO. A. COFFEY, Esq., of Philadel
phia, and others.
Cause and Effect.
'Coming events cast their shadows before
Moons. EDITORS :—Permit me to mike an extract from a
letter I received from a gentleman visiting his family in
Dubuque, lowa, in August last; but who has himself been
for more than four years past a resident of California, and
who is there at the present time. The gentleman has been
an old line whiff., is intelligent, and well booked up in Cal
ifornia affairs, including its politics. Being a moderate
9lan,9nd one whose opinion is a tolerable reflex of the po
litical views of a large and influential class of the citizens
of California, it may serve to show in what estimation the
three candidates before the people for the office of President
are held, and what would likely be the effect should the
Republican candidate be elected, and particularly the po
sition which that far off State would be likely to occupy.—
Writing from Dubuque, he says.
"I think Fremont is likely to get this State, (lowa.) for
which I feel regret. Between Buchanan and Fillmore
there is with me but little choice—though Fillmore's pro
clivities towards proscribing foreigners make him more ob
jectionable than Buchanan. In Chlifornia Fremont mil
hare no show. He would be in a singular position—a Pres!
Meat elected withouta single vote from fourteen or fifteen
States. Suppose then the South sends no more members
to Cougrem, do you not, then, think disunion would soon
follow think It would, and in that case also, the Pacific
states and territories would set up for themselves. The
people on the Pacific care little about the slavery question
—sure, sensible people:'
It is quite apparent from this extract, that the Repub
lican nominee receives very little countenance in Califor
nia, and should en excessive and unwise manifestation of
"nigger" sympathy elect hlm; dissolution of the Union is
one of the events that would be likely to follow—which is
no doubt the ulterior aim of a band of morbid and fanat•
leal self styled philanthrophiste In the country, who sup
port him. But in their construction of a grand northern
confederacy, they would not be so successful ea they imagine;
for the Pacific States seem to have no sympathies In 'com
mon with them, and would, therefore, rather "net up for
themselves" than fraternize with them in their African
proclivities. California is already jealous, seeing that all
the time of Congress Is absorbed in the dlscussionii of
questions and disputes 'growing out ofethe agitation of the
slavery question, and no time can be obtained, for a fair
and impartial consideration of tho various Rail Road routes
which are so necessary In binding the Interests of those
remote portions of our Republic with those of the Eastern
States. But heaven forofend that any of those disunion el,
manta should gain the ascendency in our country, for In
certain contingencies it is very easy to conceive how such
a thing as dismemberment could take place. Should the
Free States alone elect a President, and one for whom the
Southern States had not cast a vote—and should the South
refuse to send members of 'Congress to Washington City,
or accept office of any kind under the government, would
not a refusal to contribute to the revenue of the General
Government follow and who would or could compel them
to do it? Who would volunteer in the army to march into
redlote states to compel them to obey laws, or pay tribute
to a government which they had virtually repudiated, and
In which they had not the least interest or participation?
We may well ask the question who would? for it is a
practical and a probable one—rand If no one would volunteer
or enlist In a service Involving the liked of his fellow citi
zens, then by a common consent there would be a virtual
disunion of the Staten. If the troubles would end here It
would seem peaceable enough—but local Jealousies would
arise—border ware about runaway property either of men
or boasts, would inevitably ensue. Poet office restrictions
and examinations would follow, and a system of espionage
and passports adopted, that would render our beloved own
try Infinitely more annoying and unsafe to travel through,
than any of Europe or Asia. To prevent all these evils
there is but one course to pursue, and that is, like the
writer of the above extract, to forego all party predilec
tions and vote. for the Democratic nominees—for JAHZEI
BUCIIA.NAN and Jolla C. Mamoru:Doz.
LANCASIZa, Sept. 15, 1056.
THE NEGROES AT WORK.—Let Giddings,
Burlingame, Clawson and Beecher rejoice, th e
real coal-black negroes are at work for Fre
mont and disunion• throughout the West,
as The following will show :
Colored Men on the Stump.—The Columbus
(Ohio) Statesman says that two colored men,
named Jenkins and Langston, are stumping
the State for Fremont.
CO3UII;i I NIOA.T/0841.
•
Buchanan Campaign Papers.
NO. By '97024"
, .!---
Dem.rata, the stritstg for the mastery goes on. No
scheme is left untried by' which the opposition may hope
to gain a 'vote.. As the contest approaches Intensity,
they resort tomeaner and still lees meritorious party tricks.
With such soli and energy do they labor, and with the
semblance of reality do they Invest their actions, that we
are constrained to caution the moat strenuous vigilao
on the part of all those iveho hold cured the ties which
bind us together as onejmighty nation—the noblest the
sun ever shone upon. Rr once again have they borrowed
the mantle of truth to clover the fiction of their espousal.
Can any reasoning man doubt this? If he does, let him
but erlnpare the doings, with the theories of this party
which glories openly andl avowedly in its opposition to the
Democratic party. But then the day of retributive Justice
is dawning. Deluded minions, wo do not expect to convert
you—you who have ent.ired into a combination to defeat
the Democratic ticket—no-you have become too deeply
imbrued in the wild schemes of wilder schemers. You are
doomed to hating shanitithrough the machinations Of your
worse than fanatical leaders. They have entered into solid
compact for the purpose 10 dissolving this glorious Union,
and you are aiding theili In their unholy work. Do you
know that this is Treason! and do you also know that
Arnold did no less? The finger of scorn was pointed at
him when he was In Ilti Majesty's' domain, and you have
been taught to hiss his name through compressed lips in
your Infancy I and now you do the very deed you were
taught to hate! What mad infatuation has led you thus
away from the laws of !justice to yourselves and fellow
men Is this the manner you repay the kiudness of your
lamented sires of revolutionary memory? Shame—shame
on yon traitors! thus to betray your oountryby aiding and
abetting the.conspiraters!of the Black Republican party.—
Any patriot, be ever so limited his abilities to discuss this
question, will tell you at once that the whole plot is con
cocted for the purpose elidividing, distracting and tearing
asunder the ties with which we hare been so long held
together as a Nation! Ile would say British gold here, as
in Aruold's case, is at thti bottom of this movement which
the Black Republican ?stay has espoused, and that you are
rho dupes of this fanatical office hunting pack. Fine sen
timents of philanthropy cover the exterior of one part of
the opposition, while the other presents so revolting an
exterior that we scarcelycau lied words sufficiently toler
ative sot to wound the tine sensibilties of the patriot and
Democrat with his vengeance on us for the bare mention
of it. Treason of the deepest dye—Tory principles of Eng
land's nursing, and ovate rebellion to the j eat and equita
ble laws of our country—their. country, go to make up the
tteories and practices of the ether part of this hateful op.
position, and what will Sooner endanger the Union and
our liberties than this spirit of rebellion and disunion
which lice spread like au!evil genii thmugh the land!
We said that it wan lint our intention, from its utter
hopelessness, of moving th man, who, through the Wiles
Orp.ditiClll tricksters and renegades, have been led to es
pouse those tient:unable 'doctrines, and who have enlisted
in this unholy crusade against the Constitution and the
country. No, their narrow conceptions will not allow them
to comprehend the beautiful principle of Democracy. 'Choy
horn been taught by, aud listened to men whose minds aro
bigoted, until they have become as bigoted on their teach
ers. They do not crown:Medd the freedom which the Con
stitution :notratitees to them—that of popului eZ,voreignty
in the ferritories of the United Stales, as well as the prin
ciple of State rights. They have got to learn this. But ou
the contr.n • y, they have been taught to believe that as
aa a citizen of PetillaylEatila, Nov York, or tiny other
State, steps on the soil ofiKausas or Nebraska, so soon does
he lose all his rights, auld that the General Government
has absolute power to sayl and proscribe to hills such laws
as it Illay Scent lit. ilidelattidola of what he tinny nay, how
ever much it may conflict with his interest. Now the
Deni,ratio principle is, in recognize tile rights of its eiti.
Soli-. any where in the behndaries °Ube United States, an,
eolleedes to the iu LnbiUtuts, of any portion thereof, the
tight to establish such pea and equitable laws. they ninny
desire, pp,vided they do not conflict with the Constitution.
But we hope to reach those whom the foul breath of A 1..,
fatten has nut yet mared-rthose who have not yet decide,'
for ' whom they will cote..' The principles of the Democratic
party Ity declared in the; Cincinnati platform, 'and upon
which JAMES BUCHANAN kends ' a monument of bravery,
wisdom and statesmanship, is it ' ll that could toe whaled by
any nine not prejudiced to a fr. government. To this
plain rat, Its principles ' and JAMES BUCHANAN, we point
every one, because Ws believe that in this combination
n ill - be fund that whichialone Can save the country. Far
it is only too true that the Union is menaced by a Sectional
clan. c. he have set up the
gaudy Fremont, and hope to
eloct him because of hill rent wealth; aud alt this is to be
done iegardless of the sequences which this act would
entail—and further, they boast it abroad, through their
no.ittlipieces, that if t . hoy, tail, then insurrection, civil war,
lire and bayonet shall enforce and perform what could not
be dont, by Der through tbb ballot box! So dimming a deed
can be none other than ' detestable to every Union loving
citizen To such we appeal to /taro the country train ruin
—to save the country of Washington, Jefferson,, and our
wed theirs, nom the blight which Black Republicanism
seeks to entail. It de easy, to proveutthisif we but take the
right course. I. r. by casting our votes tor the
liontinors 14' nine Cincinnati Convention. Will we do this . :
--m, the Union loving, Union preserving citizens of Peen
sylveania? We have no reason to doubt that anything will
influentd us to the contrary—and, 0, this end, will we all
labor. faithfully and steadfastly, till we have triumphantly
routed all the hated 'slits fif the day, and placed Ileimasas
k BILECKINaIiaIE at the holm of the Ship of Statio—it place '
that their meritorious acts justly qualify them to grace.
Great Fillmore Demonstration!
MESSRS. EDITORS :—tVe had a rare time hero, last night'
After supper our town Was invaded by the Bu-da, Band,
discoursing its mellifluous thilishibs. Some were delight d,
and hundreds amused, by the grand nourish of tile big
`tooting things." The object of all thin was to gather a
crowd to hear the scels,ra-ted French S. Evans, ex-Preach
er, Fillmore II eniont-Dayton-Dobelson-spouter. Well a sort
of crowd was gathered, but such a crowd! Veil have read
of Falstnir a Army—how old Fatty was ashamed of his
own ...Idlers, etc.? Well, si l would Fillmore have been, had
h e set eye upon the motly crew. The ex-reverend gentle
man held forth at the Market House, and I must essay
some kind of report of the proceedings. The Gas having
been lighted, a southern Wind blew it out, when red Dave,
the carpenter, and others voluntoerrd their hats for lampc
shades. One fellow brought a lantern, but, f,,r all they
could do, the spirit of darkness would prevail. Thu orator,
ostensibly a Fillmore man; started off in an appeal fur the
Union ticket, which in this county, as you know, is com
posed of nine ports woolii, to one part American 2 ileaven
save the mark! Ile splike of being in Philadelphia,
and having he; a bell billed in the Ihnnooratic procession.
Upon this, he tried hard; to be witty, explaining how he
felt, and what he thought of that matter. lie was cock
sure, that ly. was but the ''passing boll for the Cincinnati
platform," Which was "to be buried in November," over the
grave of which should inscribed, "ra-kes.cat-in-pacy."
That was exceedingly frill y, and brought forth peels °finer
riment, as Indeed ft short . You can eds . ily perceive, that
the learned gentleman n cant to quote Latin but every
body didn't know that, rom his pronunciation. In the
crowd, wore to be seen OM members of a celebrated, learned
and patriotic family of Cherry street, whose "Ilays" and
niloomys," aided by loud taps on gin big drum, did much
to enliven the meeting, and elevate public sentiment.
A deaf and simple felleiv, in the crowd, lent also his aid,
r li
cheering uproariously, li ghing at the orator's pathetice, c ,
and looking extremely g ye at his vvitticiarns. Ills conduct
was worthy of admiratio , and to me highly edifying. The,
orator took occasion to allude to the free schools, (a norill
entity.) and their influebee upon society; pointed out a
very dirty little fellow, with something not unlike a whitey
brown handkerchief,protfuding from a runt in his robes;
his head crowned with a rimless beaver, and a flirty face,
bearing unequivocal mares of a recent catarrh, as being
very likely to act as a futire President of the United States.
The little fellow was hilly elated, wiped his nose with a
sniff, and great glee, wh it several full grown Americans
gathered round, looking noon the future President with
au air indicative of great respect, somewhat akin to awe!
Others openly expressed a concurrence with the speaker's
views, and thought the rheumy little chap's chance afl good
as that of Mr. Fillmore. In this, your correspondent fully
'agreed with them. The preacher, in calculating Mr. F.'s
chances, came to the conclusion that ho was sure of at least
four States, which, you know, would go a great way toward
making him President, before the rheumy little boy should
have a chance to get thrdugh with the measles, chicken
pox and mumps. The atlempts of the ex-reverend at wit,
were extremely frequent and spasmodic, but °ldly lu want
of point; so much so indeed, that Miss Miller, (a colored
lady, and strong-minded premontor,) openly expressed her
disgust, and retired from the meeting, notwithstanding t'ho
great attract/one of the
, iDu.da Band, de. Two or three
members of the legal fr ternity were present, and tried
hard to laugh off their diepair, as boys whistle away fear
in a dark cellar. Davy, t o grocer, expressed unboundod
confidefice in the stateraonts of the orator ' giving as a
reason, for lain faith, that Preachers wont lie!! Simple Davie! 1
The
one Tow-Gill delegation was extremely lively, its mem
bers jumping about like patients under the influence of
the "poker," in the pursuit of "rattran' things." The Fish
town delegation was alp there; Tltsley,—the cat-fish
trapper, and ex-oysterman, "hooraying" with'teil his
might. A Marietta chap', with en immense crop of wool
upon his mug, took the place of the "Captain "in the "Irish
Lion;" his "dem'd folne, 'however, going °rein the shape of
" Good!" "Good!" The orator took great pleasure in as
suring his audience that Millard Fillmore was "rocked In
a sugar trough," and seerned very sorry that he had not
been fed upon ants and reaches, In order to lose nothing,
when compared with the great devourer of graoebopper
pine!
In conclusion, Messrs. trilters, this was one of the meet
ings! liaised by an immense expenditure of drumming
and tooting,—a strong effort—a mighty pull, to make it a
"demonstration worthy of Fillmore and Done Dun," it ended
a simple farce, as looolly as Miss Miller herself could desire.
Ilow any Irian ' protessing to be an American, could stand
by; and suck in the woolly pill tendered by the Reverend
renegade, is more than I can comprehend. It masa grand
Ozzie, Messrs. Editors, a i,corious humbug; and the conclu•
elan of the matter Is the the Fillmore party of Columbia
has been sold, body and, all, and must succumb to the
worshippers of Congo and Pompey ; bowing the knee, not to
Baal, but to the woolly Horse ! Its leaders will get 'but
" Buzzard, - In the division of spoils, and conservative
Americans bo forced to exclaim
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'Call our cares, fears;which will in time break rule
The locks o' the Senat , and bring In the crows
To peck the eagles."
ronix says that the nan a of the unfortunate candidate of
the American party, is d rived from " Philcma"—a kiss;
and•is indicative of the Menne to be used in effecting his
ruin. The "woollies," with the assistance of ouch apolitical
Judas as reverend Evans, re doing all in their flower to
fulfil the omen.
Cotogtua, Sept. 19, laik NIPPER.
P. S.—flurrah for the U iop ticket—it will haven strong
support! Laughing Isaac lay be expected to address the '.
next meeting of the party, (in company with the Dimmer°
Shoemaker,) his head to first powdered to represent a
cauliflower, and thus re Move the fastidiousness of such
Americans as hating wool, yet support the Fusion. “Nip.
per" will tei there with his note book, and a determination
to give faithful reports.
The Disemision in Eden
' MCSI,II-S. EDITORS :—The discussion noticed some tit. ago
: in the papers to take place in Eden township, between H.
11. Brenoman and Robert Montgotnery on the Democratic
side, and Dr. W. H. Boone And James Collins on the Black
Republican side, mme off ut the appointed time. Tile
meeting won large, and among the assemblage wore quite
a number of Abolitionists if the Garr'eon and Fred. Doug
.. lass school. who kept sneering at the Democratic speakers
in u style that plainly alto red the defective organization of
their mental faculties. TlO question was stated "Is the
Cincinnati Platform Natio al and Constitutional?" Brew.
eman and Montgomery . tuitted themselves nobly, in a
fercibla and eloquent men' r—sshowing that they were well
prepared to defend the lei at Democratic doctrines of the
day. Their arguments in defence of the nationality and
constitutionality of the I sition of tile Democratic party
in this momentous issue were irresistible, and left un
answered by the oppositiol . They carried terror Into the
ranks of the enemy. Er ''Scribbling Yorlck," of the
Examiner, and "Justice"f the Whig, staggered inneath
them. The arguments of B one and Collins were ex trienuly
lame and the gentlemen t minselves felt that It was a de.
chid failure. Dr. Boone vo his history of the Missouri
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Compromise and the save I rentrlctive slavery measures
before and since 1620.m0re garbled and erroneous
string of statements I has never hoard In public. Collins
gave a terra!, eloquent . betel" for freedom, utterly dis
regarding the question as stated (or discussion. After the
discussion was over a coal enge wee thrown at Mr. Mont
gomery, to discuss the q cation on another day by "a
faro:3pr from a different p rt of the county"—a large red
flasieofrfaced carrot/y.7mo heefeasing tooting specimen
of the genus hone—allaa H. S. of the Examiner—familiarly
known in some regions as o man who can scent the trails
of Lucretia Mott, Abby Kel y, Lucy Stone, and the like; to
perfection—who imbibes I the isms of the day, among
others that one that ties his own nose to Rumba's apron
string. Mr. Montgomery accepted the challenge, but the
••stranger" backed out, napes ho was allowed to bring a
Lawyer from Lancaster to assist him. Mr. Montgomery
agreed to the armnghneriL On Monday, the 29th inst., I
understand a discussion is to take place, in Georgetown,
by the same parties, with the addition of Dr. .1. K. Raub
on the Democratic aide, and It. J. Houston on the Black
Republican side.
More anon,
Buchanan at Home I
s.locsr Jor,_Sept. 18, 1856.
CapT. SANDERSON—Dear Ste On the 16th inst., in Rapho
township, Mr. Benjamin Bre baker was . raiding a large Barn,
at which eighty men in all were present. A proposition
was made to take a vote on pito Presidential question. The
result was 79 (or Janis nocriamas—the other would not
vote, but finally imid he viould give Boas and BREOS a
hoist too! The vote was thlen taken for Congress with the
following result—tires en, o—Enasars, 0! This is passing
strange, is it not, in a district which.fortnerly polled a
heavy majority against the Democratic party r So we go.
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