INTELLIGENCER & LANCASTERIAN.
GRO. SANDERSON, EDITOR
A. SANDERSON, Associate.
LANCASTER, PA., OOTOBER 7, 1856
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FOR PRESIDENT,
JAMES BUCHANAN,
OP PENNSYLVANIA.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE,
OF KENTUCKY
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS
arise R. Backalew,
DISTRICT.
, 14 Reuben Wilber,
15 George A. Crawford,
'l6 James Black,
17 11. J. Stable,
18 John D. Roddy,
19 Jacob Turney,
{ 2O J. A. J. Buchanan,
121 William Wilkins,
James G. Campbell,
{ 23 I'. Cunningham,
'24 John Beatly,
125 Vin'cent Phelps.
1 George W. Nebluger,
2 Pierce Butler,
3 Edward Waltman,
4 William H. Witte,
6 John McNair, •
13 John N. Brinton,
7 David Leary,
8 Charles Kneeler,
9 Jamee Patterson,
10 Isaac Bleaker,
11 F. W. Hughes,
12 Thomas Oaterbout,
13 Abraham Edinger,
CANAL COMMISSIONER
GEORGE SCOTT, of Columbia County
SURVEYOR GENERAL
JOHN ROWE, of Franklin County
AUDITOR GENERAL
JACOB FRY, Jr., of Montgomery County
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET
• Congress.
Hon. Isaac E. Hiester, City
Assembly.
George G. Brush, Manor,
Jesse Reinhold, West Cecelia,.
H. H. Breneman, Eden,
William Patton, Columbia,
William T. McPhail, StrasLurg Bor
District Attorney,
J. B. Amwake, City.
Associate Judge.
A. L. Henderson, Salisbury
County Commissioner
John B. Erb, Clay.
Prison Inspectors
Henry Shelly, Rapho,
William Pickel, Bart
Directors of the Poor.
John Roberta, Earl,
Frederick Kreamer, U. Leacook
County Surveyor
Daniel Fulton, Pequea.
Auditor
Amos A. Hawke, Paralise
ONE UNION! ONE COUNTRY!!
ONE CONSTITUTION AND
ONE DESTINYM -
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GRAND MASS ME P:TI G 5
OF THE FRIENDS OF
BUCHANAN and BRECHINRIDCH
in Lancaster County
DEMOCRATS AROUSE! COME ONE! COME ALL !
Let every Township and Borough be repre
sented. Getout your Wagons and Teams.
Come with Music and Banners. Let
there be a grand gathering of all
the Democrats and Consti
tution-loving men 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 BRECKINttIDGE, and the Demo
cratic State and County 'l'ickets, will hold a
Grand Mass Meeting, in tlie! J City of Lancas
ter,-(the home of BUCHANAN,) at 10 o'clock,
A. M., on
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER Bth, 1856.
The Democracy of 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.
ter 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. BUCKALEW, of Pennsylvania.
E. B. SCHNABEL,
WILLIAM B. REED,
JOSIAH RANDALL,
SAMUEL W: BLACK, "
WILLIAM H. WITTE, "
GEORGE R. RIDDLE, of Delaware,
WILLIAM ALLEN, of Ohio,
and several others.
H. B. SWARR, Chairman Co. Com.
111. Turn out Democrats—in town and
oountry—to the Great Mass Meeting TO
MORROW.
Democratic Head Quarters
We are authorized to announce, by the
the chairman of the County Committee, that
the Democratic Head Quarters on the night
of the October election, will be at the Hotel of
Cox & BARNETT, near the Railroad, where our
country friends are requested to report on the
night of the election.
Get Your Tickets
The Democratic tickets are now ready for
distribution. Our friends from the different
districts will please call on Mr. SWARR and
obtain their supplies.
va. 64 JACK SCUTCHER'S " communication,
giving an account of the discussion at Quar
ryville; i unavoidably left out this week. It
is atter impossible for us to publish one-half
of the c mmunications, tic., that we are daily
receivin and therefore our friends must bear
with us• e communication above alluded
to will not spoil by holding over till next
week.
Messrs. Clay and Webster
We take great pleasure in announcing to
our friends throughout the county, that both
JAMES B. CLAY, Esq., (son of Henry Clay ( )
and FLETCHER WEBSTER, Esq., (son of Daniel
Webster,) will be at our Mass Meeting in this
City, on to-morrow, and address the people
on the great issues involved in the present
contest.
Who Employs Darkles
Not the Democratic Mayor and Democratic
members of the City Council, as the Express
would have the public believe ;—but Mr.
ROBERT H. LONG, a Fremont man, who, as a
member of the Council and Chairman of the
Committee that has the work in charge—he is
the man who employed, on his own responsi
bility, a Negro to do the public work which
the Express wants to charge upon the Demo
cratic authorities.
sea Mr. ROBERTS denies having signed the
Fremont circular published in our last issue,
and says that his name was used without his
knowledge or consent Who, then, perpetra
ted the forgery? Mr. Ronzeve should have
the matter investigated, and let the public
know who did it.
BEWA''E OF SPURIOUS TICKETS.
Democrats—friends of BUCHANAN in Lan
caster County—look well to your tickets on
Tuesday next, and see that the right names
are upon them, and thnt they are all correctly
spelled. Tha Black Republicans will resort
to every foul means to deceive the people, and
already there are thousands of spurious tickets
in circulation all over the county. Read your
tickets carefully, and see that the following
names (all friends of BUCHANAN) are upon
them:
STATE OFFICERS
CANAL COMMISSIONER
George Scott.
SURVEYOR GENERAL.
John Rowe.
Wilson McCandless
AUDITOR GENERAL
Jacob, Fry, jr.
CONGRESS.
Isaac E. Hiester.
ASSEMBLY.
George G. Brush,
Jesse Reinhold,
Henry H. Breneman,
William Patton,
William T. McPhail.
C(JUNTY OFFICERS
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Jacob B. Amwake.
ASSOCIATE JUDGE.
A. Lightner Henderson.
COUNTY COMMISSIONER.
John B. Erb.
PRISON INSPECTORS.
Henry Shelly.
William 'Fickel.
DIRECTORS OF THE POOR
John Roberts,
Frederick Kreamer.
COUNTY SURVEYOR
Daniel Fulton.
Amos A. Hauke.
Election on Tuesday Next
Are the Democrats—are the friends of
JAMES BUCHANAN all ready for the election on
Tuesday next, the 14th inst. Go to the Polls
early, and see to it that every Buchanan vote
in the county is polled for the Democratic
State Ticket—for
These are all true Union men, of excellent
moral character—competent and deserving—
in every way the superiors of their Black Re
publican Abolition opponents, Messrs. COCU
RAN, PHELPS and LAPORTE. .
Every friend of time Union should vote the
Democratic State ticket, as its success will
settle the Presidential question.
The Extra Compensation
We give below a list of the yeas and nays,
on the final passage of the extra compensa
tion bill, which added about one million of dol
lars to the expenses of Congress for the last
session of Congress alone, from which it will
be seen that ANTHONY E. ROBERTS not only
voted for the bill, but that.his rote decided it.
Had he cast his vote in the negative, the bill
would have been defeated. We copy from the
Congressional Globe, page 2161, as follows:
Ykas--Messra. Aiken, Ball, Barbour ' Barclay, Headley S.
Bennett, Benson, Bishop, Boyce, Brooks, Broom, Buffington)
James 11. Campbell, Cufuthers, Chaffee, Bayard Clarke, Ezra
Clark, Howell Cobb, Comins, Covode, Damrell, Henry Win.
ter Davis, Timothy Davis, Dean, Denver, Dickson, Durfe,
Edwards, Eustis, Evens, Florence, Foster, Henry M. Fuller,
Thomas J. D. Fuller, Giddings, Gilbert, Greenwood, Robert
B. Hall, J. Morrison Harris, Thomas L. Ilarris, Harrison,
Herbert, Hickman, Thomas It. Horton, Howard, Hughstou,
Kelly, Kelsey, King, Knapp, Kunkel, Lindley, Mace, A. K.
Marshall, H. Marshall. S. e. Marshall, Maxwell, McQueen,
Killian Miller, Millwaid, Moor, Norton, Mordecai Oliver,
Her, Pearce, Peck, Pelton, Pennington, Perry, Pringle,
Purviance, Iticaud, hollillas, Sage, Savage, Scott,
Seward, S. A. Smith, CLiieeL:, Swope, Thorington, Thurston,
Tratton, Trippe, Tyson, Vail, Vol Wakeman, Walbridge,
IValker, Warner, C. C. IVashburne, Watson, Welch, Wells,
Wheeler, Whitney, Williams and Woodworth -IW.
Nava—Messrs. Albright, Allison, Billingliurst, Bliss, Bo-
cock, Bowie, Bradshaw, Branch, Brenton, Burnett, Cad
walader, John P. Campbell, Lewis L. Campbell, Carlile,
Cookie, Clawn,n, Chi:minim, IV. It. W. Cobb, (Max, Cragin,
Craige, Cumback, Lica ' Dodd, Dowdell, Edie, Edmundmn,
Elliott, Emrie, English, Etheridge, Faulkner, Flaglor, Gal
loway, Goode, Granger, Grow, Harlem Haven, Ilulloway,
V. B. Horton, Houston, G. W. Jones, Kidwell, Knight,
Knowlton, Knox, Lane, Leiter, Leteher, Lumpkin, Matte
son, McCarty, McMullin, S. Miller, Morgan, Murrill, Mott,
Murray, Andrew Oliver, Parker, l'ettit, Phelps, pike, Por
ter, Powell, Puryear, Quitman, Ready, Richardson, Ritchie.
Ruffin, Sandidge, .app, Sherman, Shorter, Simmons, W.
Sinith, - Wm. R. Smith, Spinner, Stanton, Stepimus, Stewart,
Stranahan, Talbott, Tappan, Taylor, Todd, Underwood,
Wade, Waldron, E. B. Wasliburne, Israel Washburn°,
Watkins, Winslow, Wood, Woodruff, D. B. Wright and John
V. Wright-7U.
Mr. Buchanan in the War of 1.51:4
The land warrants for 160 acres of land
each, fur military service rendered at Balti
more in 1814, have just been issued by the
Department to Dr. F. A. MuttLEN-BERG and
EMANUEL C. REIGART, Esq., of this city.—
These gentlemen both served with Mr. Br-
CHANAIsr, in Capt. Shippen's Company of Vol
unteers who marched to the defence of Balti
more in 1814, all of whom continued in the
army until honorably discharged by the Gov
ernment. Mr. BUCHANAN'S name was the
first enrolled in the company, and he is also
entitled to a land warrant, but declines ap
plying.
We mention the above facts merely to give
the lie to the story started by the opposition
that Mr. BUCHANAN never marched to Balti
more in defence of his country.
Row this World is given to Lying i
We clip the following telegraphic despatch
es in the North American and Daily News, of
Thursday last, in reference to the miserable
Black Republican abortion, in this city, on
Wednesday. Such extravagant falsehoods
and misrepresentations are almost too silly to
notice :
From the North American.
Republican Sleeting in Lancaster.
LANCASTER { Oct. 1.
There was a grand mass meeting of the
friends of Fremont and Dayton, held in this
city to day, being the largest and most enthu•
elastic gathering ever convened in this part of
the State. Delegations were present from all
parts of the county, and there were over one
thousand carriages in the procession, one hun
dred six horse teams, and five hundred on
horseback, besides eight bands of music.—
Gov. Hamlin, of Maine, and others, addressed
the multitude. The enthusiasm was very
great.
And a letter writer for the same paper esti
mates the number of country people alone at
the meeting at over fifteen thousand! This
is even a whopper of more gigantic dimensions
than the preceeding lie.
But hear the Daily News :
[Special Despatch to the Daily News.]
The Union County Convention.
LANCASTER, Oct. I.—The Union County
Mass Meeting, held in this city to-day to rat
ify the Union County and State Tickets, num
bered at least twenty thousand persons. This
county will give the State Union ticket from
six to seven thousand majority.
Da. Comment on the above is unnecessary.
We are satisfied now that the leaders of the
Nigger-Worshipping party of this county have
long since "thrown conscience to the devil."
Stir Be it remembered that Bartholomew
Laporte, who is for Fremont and is on the op
position State ticket for Surveyor. General,
that he, (Laporte,) while a member of the last
Legislature of Pennsylvania, voted in favor of
Mr. Smith's bill, giving the right of suffrage
to negroes, in the face of that provision of the
State Constitution that none but white citi
zens should enjo'y this sacred right.
la. A large and enthusiastic Democratic meeting was
held last Friday evening, the 3d inst., at White Oak Stras
burg township. It was addressed by the Hon. John Apple.
ton, of Maine, in a powerful and effective speech. He was
followed by A. J. Neff, Esq., Dr. J. K. Baub, B. F. Ibach,
Wm. Patton, H. H. Breneman and W. T. McPhail, in an
able manner. All is well in that locality.
•
*st... The Democracy of Marietta raised a tine Hickory
pole in that Borough, on the 27th ult. The meeting was
ably and effectludy address. d by Thomas J. Albright,
CYrtis S. Haldeman, J. G. Peters, Henry Shaffner, Charles
Holly and Octavio Pallor, Ewa:
AUDITOR
Canal Commissioner,
GEORGE SCOTT.
Surveyor General,
JOHN ROWE.
Auditor General,
JACOB FRY, Jr
The Extra Pay Question
A futile and lame attempt is made in the
last Independent Whig to excuse Mr. ROBERTS'
vote for the extra compensation bill, on the
ground that members of -former Congresses
voted themselves $l5OO worth of books apiece.
which Mr. ROBERTS did not get. Even if this
were true, the figures show that Mr. ROBERTS
still voted himself about $l7OO more than he
would have received under the old law, books
and all included. And if Mr. JoRN COTODE,
(a Black Republican member of Congress who
who also voted for the extra compensation,)
who publishes a calculation for the long ses
sion, had added another for the short session
which commences on the first Monday of De
cember next, *this fact would have been appar
ent—but it did not suit his purpose to tell the
whole truth ; he suppressed a material part - of
it.
But the book excuse is neither true in letter
nor spirit. It was the practice in Congress
for many years to vote the members, on their
f irst entry into the House, and once only in their
Congressional career, whether elected for one
term or ten, an assortment of books, compris
ing State papers, Diplomatic Correspondence,
Debates, &c., costing the government about
$l,OOO. These were given to qualify members
for an intelligent discharge of their duties,
for reference, and for the use of their constitu
ents as well as themselves. It was considered
DISGRACEFUL AND A BREACH OF
TRUST to sell them. Mr. WESTER voted
against appropriating these books, but they
were sent him from Washington, and he re
tains them as well for the use of the people of
Lancaster county as himsell.
If, however, Mr. Roberts had voted himself
the $l,OOO worth of books instead of the $3200
EXTRA PAY, the book business would have
ended with his first term. No re-election
would have brought more books; but under
his own law, every re-election brings $3200
more additional compensation. If he should
be elected again, he will_ have at the end of
his second term $6,400 cash, instead of the
books which are of little use to any other
than an active politician.
The present Congress has already voted
itself as much in books as any that went be
fore it, even charging the $lOOO lots to former
Congresses. But is there anything to prevent
the members of the present Congress from
voting themselves these very books in addition
to the Extra Compensation? True, they did
not do so last session, but they may do so next.
And certainly there is little to hope from gen
tlemen who solicited an office at MIGHT
DOLLARS DAY, and AFTERWARDS
VOTED THEMSELVES MICILIVIIIEN.
More of It!
Mr. ROBERTS' vote carried the extra com
pensation bill, which was passed, by 100 yeas
to 99 nays. Had he voted in the negative the
bill would have been lost. Under his own
vote, therefore, Mr. ROBERTS receives for his
term :
Pay,
Mileage,
Under his implied contract with the people,
whom he agreed to serve for $8 per diem, and
which was deemed amply sufridcent by all his
predecessors; he would have received—
For the first Session, which lasted
259 days, at $8 per day,
For the second Session, which can
only last 91 days, at $8 per day,
Mileage as above,
Taking this from the other, leaves a differ
ence of exactly $3,200, which Mr. ROBERTS
voted into his own pocket, beyond what he
undertook to serve the people for, and to which
he had nut even the shadow of an honest
claim
Again, at the time of the passage of this
bill, Mr. Roberts had actually served the first
session of his term s under the old rate of eight
dollars a day.
At the end of the session, therefore, there
was due him from the government, as already
seen, $2,072 ; instead of which he voted him
self $3,000, being $928 EXTRA BACK PAY FOR
TIME ACTUALLY SERVED UNDER IRE FORMER
Three Thousand Dollars a year would be a
large compensation for the whole time of our
best men ; but the duties of members of Con
gress occupy on an average only half the year,
and Mr. Roberts rendered no services which
any other intelligent citizen of Lancaster
county could not have performed as well.—
Dividing this pay among the days of each
year give sMr. Roberts TWELVE DOL
LARS for every day of the First Session,
and THIRTY-THREE DOLL IRS
for every day of the Second Session, Sundays
included! But this is nut all, Mr. Roberts
still finds time to attend to his duties as Treas
urer of the Lancaster Savings institution, for
which he receives $l2OO per annum. So that
the people do not even get his whole time during
the sessions of Congress for Three Thousand
Dollars a year.
Observe too, the difference between the pay
Mr. Roberts is willing to take from the Sav
ings Institution and what he helps himself to
out of the U. S. Treasury. He agreed to give
the Institution his WHOLE TIME for $l2OO a
year, but will not devote HALF HIS TIME to the
Unitec! States for $3,000 a year. There is
some difference between getting pay from
others and paying oneself:
Mr. Roberts did not vote this Extra pay to
himself alone, but also to more than Three
Hundred other Representatives, Senators and
Delegates in Congress. The entire amount of
this Extra Compensation at the late session of
Congress will appear by the following extracts
from the Appropriation Bill :
" For additional compensation and mileage
" of Senators $178.128.
"For additional compensation and mileage
" of Representatives and Delegates $773.-
432."
It has been seen that the additional com
pensation of each Member amounts to $3,200.
Continue this rate for the future, and every
Congress will cost the General Government
in round numbers $1,000,000 more than
heretofore.
IT WAS EMPHATICALLY MR. ROBERTS' OWN
VOTE THAT TRANSFERRED THIS MILLION FROM
THE U. S. TREASURY INTO THE POCKETS OF HIM
SELF AND HIS ASSOCIATES
ISAAC E. HIESTER is OPPOSED TO THIS
INCREASE OF COMPENSATION, AND STANDS
PLEDGED TO VOTE FOR ITS REPEAL.—
Having once served the country in Congress
for eight dollars a day, without complaint, he
is ready and willing to do so again. The is
sue between him and Mr. Roberts is fairly
made. Will the people choose ISAAC E.
HIESTER AT EIGHT DOLLARS A DAY, or AN
THONY E. ROBERTS AT A RATE WHICH
AVERAGES EIGHTEEN DOLLARS FOR EVERY DAY
OF THE TWO SESSIONS.
SS— Cr. Cutter, a Yankee lecturer on Kan
sas troubles, at a recent fusion meeting in
Montpelier, Vt„ let the cat out of the bag in
such a way that none but the wilfully wicked
or hopelessly blind, can fail to see the animal.
He said—
"IF YOU WOULD CARRY THE ELEC
TION NEXT NOVEMBER KEEP BLOODY
OUTRAGES IN KANSAS BEFORE THE
EYES OF THE PEOPLE: YOU HAVE NO
OTHER PLANK. SETTLE THIS QUES
TION AND YOU ARE DEFEATED."
For the Intelligeocer and Laueastertan
A Word of Warning: and Counsel from a
Working Man to the Farmers, Meehan
les and other Working Men, in relation
to the present state of parties in the
United States.
As an old Mechanic having an interest in
the welfare of the Republic, and more anxious
about having the country well governed, than
about what particular party shall control its
destinies, I have looked on with deep solici
tude, for the result of the contest for the
Presidency, now going on.
I am no office holder or office seeker, and
would not accept office under any State or
National Administration.—l • prefer to be in
dependent, and to support myself and family
by my honest calling.
I am no slaveholder, no friend to slavery as
a system, nor do I desire the further extension
of slavery—and yet lam not willing to enslave
the white race, in an attempt to confer freedom
on the black.
For a quarter of a century I have been an
observer of the attempts periodically made, to
get up sectional agitation fur political pur
poses—and men who have cared less for the
slave than fur their own advancement, have
used this question of slavery as a stalking
horse, and have flooded Congress with peti
tions, have desecrated the pulpit, and profaned
God's holy Sabbath, by attempts to alienate
one section of the country from another, by
appeals to the well known anti-slavery senti
ment of the people of the free States.
When the occasion has passed, a dead calm
has ensued, and the hubby has been laid by,
until it should be found necessary again to
bring it out, to compass the attainment of
place and power.
And thus from time to time, the public mind
and heart has been stirred by ambitious men,
who regarded as little the warnings of Wash
ington's Farewell Address against sectional
and geographical parties, as they did the Sa
viour of Mankind, "the Prince of Peace" who
said "a house divided against itself cannot
stand."
All the time this agitation has been going
on, the hearts of our countrymen have become
more and more estranged. and further re
moved from that spirit of compromise and
conciliation, in which our noble fathers laid
the foundations of this government, and built
up this splendid temple of Constitutional lib
erty.
You are well aware that this Union or Con
federation of States, could not have been
formed without the clear and explicit acknowl
edgement of the perfect equality of all the Slates,
and the equal rights of the citizens of all the
States—that they were equtil, and not unequal
parties, in this great co partnership of inde
pendent sovereignties. The same admission of
equality—the recognition of equal rights—the
same affection and confidence, are indispensa
bly necessary to the continued maintenance of
this great Union.
T hese States can never be kept together by
force, and I do nut see how we can long enjoy
a liberty and Union worth the name, unless
we shall agree to adopt the sentiments of
Justice McLEAN and of Gen. CAss in his
" Nicholson Letter," and leave the entire con-
trol of the question of slavery and freedom with
the people who shall occupy the Territories,
procured by the common treasure or blood of
the people qf all the States—and remove this
disturbing element entirely from the Halls of
Congress. This was the ground taken by
Hon. Messrs. CABS, CLAY, WEBSTER and
FOOTE, in the adjustment measures of 1850,
and set forth in the Platforms of the two great
National parties, in the contest of 1852; for the
candidates of the Whig and Democratic parties,
stood upon the platform of Congressional non
interference, and for them nearly the whole of
the American people east their suffrages in
1852.
This adjustment, made by the patriotic men
(some of whom are gone to mingle in the soci
ety of the fathers of the Republic,)was resisted
fur weeks and months by most of the leaders
of the present sectional party—and it is for
the honest and conscientious working men of
the country, to determine whether they will
follow the lead of the patriots who quieted the
agitation in 1850 so far as they were able, or
the lead of those who, at the very time of the
passage of those healing measures, vowed be
fore God and the country, that they would
keep up the agitation, and seek their repeal
by every possible means, and who issued a
pamphlet from the Capitol, addressed to the
pulpits, and churches of the North, dated upon
the Sabbath, and bearing date three days ear
lier than the proposition to amend the Ne
braska Bill by the annulment of the geograph
ical line of 36-30--thus showing a settled
purpose to keep up agitation and, if possible,
to defeat that Bill as they had attempted in
1850 to defeat the Bill to organize the Terri
torial Governments ot Eutaw and New Mexico.
This was the pamphlet, in response to which
the celebrated and anomalous Protest, in God's
name, of the 3000 New England clergymen
reached IVashington—thousands of honest,
well-meaning people have been made to
believe that the agitation arose from the prop
osition to annul, or abrogate, the Missouri
restriction, but the records will show that the
agitation took precedtrice, in the order of time,
to the proposition to `amend the Bill, by re
moving that restriction.
The forebodings of the immortal author of
the Declaration of Independence expressed in
1820 and 1823 in regard to that geographical
line, bids fair to be realized, if this agitation
is longer continued—l refer to the language
of Mr. Jefferson's letter to Wm. Short; of
April 13, 1820, in relation to the passage of
the Missouri Bill:
" The old schism of Federal and Republican
threatened nothing, because it existed in every
State and united them together by the frater
nalism of party. But the coincidence of a
marked principle, moral and political, with a
geographical line, once conceived, I fear never
more would be obliterated from the mind.—
That it would be recurring on every occasion,
and renewing irritations until it would kindle
such mutual moral hatred as to render separ
ation preferable to eternal 'discord. I have
been among the most sanguine, in believing
that our Union would be of long duration. I
now doubt it much, and see that event at no
great, distance, and the direct consequence of
this question." * "My only comfort
and confidence is, that I shall not live to see
this ; and I envy not the present generation the
glory of throwing away the fruits of their
fathers' sacrifices of life and fortune, and of
rendering desperate the experiment which was
to decide, whether man is capable of self gov
ernment. This treason against human hope,
will signalize their epoch in future history, as
the counterpart of the model of their predeces
sors."
In Mr. Jefferson's letter to John Holmes,
of Maine, dated Monticello, April 22nd, 1820,
just nine days after the above, he holds the
following striking language in regard to the
passage of the Bill drawing a line on the map
for freedom and slavery, known as the Mis
souri restriction :
" But this momentous question, like the
fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me
with terror. I considered it at once the knell
of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for a mo
ment, but this is a reprieve only, nut a final
sentence. A geographical line coinciding with
a marked principle, moral and political, once
conceived and held up to the angry passions
of men, will never be obliterated, and every
new irritation, will markit deeper and deeper.
* * * * * * *
Of one thing I am certain, that as the passage
of the slaves from one State to another would
not make a slave of any human being, who
would not be so without it, so their diffusion
over a greater surface would make them in
dividually happier, and proportionably facili
tate the accomplishment of their emancipation
by dividing the burthen on a greater number
of coadj u tors.
An abstinence, too, from this act of power,
would remove the jealousy excited by the un
dertaki❑g of Congress to regulate the condition
of the different descriptions of men composing
a State. This certainly is the exclusive right
of the State, which nothing in the Constitution
has taken from them, and given to the General
Government."
And yet, small politicians have told the
country in effect, that the sage of Monticello
was no statesman—that the repeal of this
measure which he considered as putting the
Union in jeopardy, and worsting the slave
has been a "Pandora's box" filling, the land
with all manner of evil. That wicked and
designing men now, as in 1820, have taken
occasion to agitate the public mind and chafe
the bonds of the Union, is undeniable, but this
was no legitimate or necessary result of the
repeal of the Missouri line. And Mr. Jeffer
son, in his letter to Lafayette, Nov. 4th, 1823,
throws some light upon the designs of the ag
itators of his lime; and perhaps their illustri
ous successors, who now foment strife, may see
their picture drawn by the hand of him who
drew the Declaration of Independence. To
Lafayette he says—" On the eclipse of feder
alism with us, although not its extinction, its
leaders got up the Missouri question, under
the false front of lessening the measure of sla
very, but with a real view of producing a ge-
ogrzphicall division of parties, and thus en
sure their, r e Presitient. The people-. f the
North went Li n.ll i,,r the snare, following
their leader- with a zeal truly moral
and laudalile, until they became sensible
that they w- e injuring. instead of aiding the
real interests .if the slaves; that they had been
used merest :to nsils f•r electioneering pur
pose- and tit at tr ck of bypwrisy then, fell
as Gui.:kly as it had been gotten up."
lei* the honest airus of toil look up.in this
picture, at then turn and tear off the mask
by which the leaders of the present fiction,
attempt to rover their real intentions—i. e.
"pr.dueing a •;.eographical division of parties,
to ensure their next President"—and not. out
of any desire to benefit the slave, itraid eman
cipation.
As regards the mere question of political
power in this country, the free States have it,
and must always have it, as any sensible and
candid man may easily perceive,
,when it is
considered that the Territory now covered by
the Free States, and the Wilmot proviso, is
one thousand square miles larger than the
Territory covered by the Slave States—and
that more than two thirds of the white popu
lation of the country ocogpy the Territory now
acknowledgely free. With this large prepon
derance of territory and population, it is ut
terly impossible that the balance of power
should not be with the free States.
_ -
If Kansas should agree to tolerate slavery
when she forms a State Constitution, (which
is altogether unlikely) Nebraska, Eutaw, Or
egon, Washington, Minnesota and New Mexico
will beyond doubt ask admission into the Uni
on as free States—thus giving six free States
and 12 United States Senators fur one slave
State and 2 Senators. A man who can look
at these facts and still fear for the cause of
freedom, might well be frocked and set down
in company with the well meaning, but timid
old ladies who consented to believe that the
election of Mr. Jefferson in 1800 would lead
to the burning of their Bibles, and with the
purblind of the stronger sex, who were fright
ened from their propriety by the acquisition
of Louisana from the French by Mr. Jefferson
in 1803—and in agony at the annexation of
Texas in 1845.
Mr. Jefferson was well aware that the Mis
souri line of 1820 violated a solemn compact
made by our Government with France 17 years
before—for the Treaty of Cession by which
we obtained Louisiana, by its 3rd Article,
bound the United States to protect the people
of that country known us Upper and Lower
Louisana, in their property—l quote the words
of the Treaty, Art., 3d: "The inhabitants of
the ceded Territory shall be incorporated in
the Union of the United States, and admitted
as soon as possible, according to the principles
of the Federal Constitution, to the enjoyment
of all the rights, advantages and immunities,
of citizens of the United States, and, in the
mean time, they shall 'be maintained and pro
tected in the free enjoyment of their liberty,
property, and the religion which they profess."
See the United States Statutes at large, Vol.
8, Page 202.
In an able article by that wise and pure
man, Judge McLean, published in Gales'
" National Intelligencer " at Washington,
Dec. 1847—he says, "In the Treaty of Cession
of Louisan°, the United States bound them
selves to protect the property of the citizens.
Slaves in that Territory were considered as
property, and were within the Treaty."
And in view of the solemn obligations of
this Government with France, Congress in
1820 had no more right to put the people of
the Territory of Louisana under political dis
abilities fur their property, than they had for
their religion.
And it is high time, that Congress had
ceased to exercise dou'btful powers—and that
this festering and irritating sore growing out
of slavery - agitation, had been healed by the
clear recognition, North and South, East and
West of the doctrine of popular sovereignty—
the " powers not granted to Congress by the
Constitution, are reserved to the States and.
the people."
I look over the persons now engaged in this
great battle on which depends more than " the
fate of Cmsar and of Rome "—and I ask how
can this tempest be arrested, which puts in
peril the ship of State, and threatens to drive
the Constitution on to a lee-shore? How can
the ark of our Union and liberties be snatched
from the crater of this volcano ? And I espy
among the persons of this contest, a staid,
sober, discreet and long-tried statesman, who
has been always equal . to every task his coun
try assigned him, at home or abroad—who had
the confidence of Jackson, and stood by him
in his great war of capital against labor, when
the men who now glorify Jackson were as
much addicted to villifying him, as they are
now to misrepresenting his original friends,
and who were more iu earnest then in the cause
of the money power, than they are now in the
cause of fanaticism, and who then were on the
side of treason to the rights of honest labor,
as they are now to the equality of the States,
and the people of the several States.
•LANES BUCHANAN has had the manly frank
ness to avow himself upon all the great ques
tions now agitating the public mind and heart
—and he is the only candidate, so far as I have
been able to perceive, that has openly avowed his
opinions on questions most vital to the peace
of the country, and to the maintenance of the
Union and the Constitution. And as I desire,
with the great body of the working men of our
great country, nothing but to see the greatest
good of the greatest possible number, secured
by a wise administration of the Constitution
and laws, so that like the dews of Heaven, the
blessings of good Government may fall alike
on all—l shall go for the man whose private
and personal character is above reproach, and
whose public record is legibly written upon
the pages of his country's history for the last
thirty years.
A JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
DEMOCRATIC MEETINGS
There was a glorious turn out of the Democracy at the
"Green Tree," in Bart township, on Wednesday last.—
There were at least one thousand of the hardy sons of
Bart, Coleraine, Little Britain, Eden, Strasbtirg, Salisbury
Sadsbury, Drumore and Fulton townships present—accom
panied with appropriate banners and flags. The Strasburg
Brass Band was there also, and enlivened the scene by
their excellent music.
The meeting was organized by the appointment of the
following officers, viz:
President—Thomas S. Wllvaine.
Vice Presidents—C.l. Joseph B. Baker, Abraham M'C,on
nel, James Patterson, Dr. S. B. Fox, Dr. John Martin, Wil
liam Dungan, Clarkson Jeffries, James 11. Houston, William
Hayes and Robert Evans, Esqrs.
Secretaries—William M'Canna, R. B. Patterson, Robert
Montgomery, 11. U. Breneman and Isaac Sharp, Esqrs.
The speakers were Hon. John K. Findlay, of Philadelphia,
Hon. John Hickman, of West Chester, Thomas C. Fields,
Esq., of New York, Capt. Joseph A. Yard, of Trenton, N. J.,
and Col. Reah Frazer, of Lancaster—all of whom acquitted
themselves with great eloquence and power, and with a
happy effect in favor of the Colon and the Constitution.
Our friends elsewhere may confidently expect a glorious
vote for the Democratic State and County tickets, from
that portion of the county represented at the "Green Tree"
meeting.
There was a glorious meeting of the friends of Bu
chanan and Breckinrldge, at Rawlinsville, on Saturday
afternoon last. The following named officers were appointed,
viz: President, Henry Busk, Esq.: Vice Presdents, Joseph
'Lerner, John Hildebrand, John Wentz, Michael Winters;
Secretaries, H. L. Thompson, David Laird. . The meeting
was addressed in a few appropriate remarks by William
Ellmaker, Esq., of this city, (an old line Whig) assigning
his reasons for being on the side of Buchanan, the Union
and the Constitution, The meeting was further addressed
by Capt. Geo. Sanderson, Hon. John Appleton, of Maine,
Col. Roak Frazer and Dr. John K. Raub. The speakers
were repeatedly and enthusiastically cheered and every
thing betokened a glorious revolt in Mastic township on
Tuesday next.
The Infidels Were Here!
The great high priest of the Abolition party,
ANSON BURLINGAME—the man who proclaim
ed that " the times demand an anti-slavery
Constitution, an anti-slavery BIBLE, and an
, anti-slavery GOD "—was • here, at the Fre
mont Mass Meeting, on Wednesday last, and
gave several shrieks fur Freedom and Free
Niggers. To say that in his harangues in the
afternoon and evening he used any argument,
would be an insult to the intelligence of those
who listened to him. His whole effort, from
beginning to end, was an appeal to the passions
and prejudices, not to the judgments of his
audience. We had the old stale slang about
the " clanking of chain" and the " lash of
the slave-holder." We had honeyed words in
abundance, all intended to cloak the real de_
signs of the Abolition filction. Piteous ap
peals were made for " bleeding Kansas "—all
for the purpose (illy concealed). of trying to
divert the attention of our people from the
unholy and wicked doctrines that lie at the
foundation of their organization. And even,
at times, this blasphemous Infidel talked
piously of the Christian religion and the doc
trines of the Bible! and several of his pious
hearers would ever and anon show their ap
probation of his hypocritical remarks by
shouting and stamping!
We should have no objection if the Fremon
ters would get this Infidel Yankee orator back
again to Lancaster, and keep him here until
after the election. We are satisfied his
presence and speeches would add hundreds of
votes to our State ticket and to Mr. Bucusivert
at the ensuing State and Presideniial elections.
CITY AND COUNTY ITEMS
THE DISUNIONISTS IN COUNCIL!
SAM SWALLOWED BY SAMBO !
A Great Noise and much Wool!
Wednesday laSt was an epoch in the history
of Lancaster county: ono that deserves to live enterer in story
and in song. Never, within the lut half century. was there
seen upon Unproductive soil st)ch an assemblage of political
tricksters and knaveish-minded men. A great feat of leger-
demain was to be accomplished, and to do it all he ac
complished charlatans in the county were summoned to
the field. Black spirits and white, blue spirits and grey,
men of every political hue, shade and color, were impor
tuued..coaxed and bribed to take part in the august affair.
The whole county woe summoned to witness the conversion
of the great Whie party to the new faith of Abolitionism.
For the last four weeks every nook and corner of the county
wee explored by scaly-looking adventurers:—every fellow
who bad strength and meanness enough to blow a three
cent Lute horn wits employed to visit the people and urge
them to attend the GREAT - MASS MEETING!
Yankee school masters and sweet smelling Babes of Grace
from the land of wooden nutmegs,—brieflees lawyers and
quack doctors,—Maine Law fanatics and Abolition tract
distributors,—measly pork inspectors and lantern Jaw'd
horse jockeys, were engaged In hunting up the lame,
the halt and the blind, and persuading them to attend the
GREAT MASS MEETING !
Huge posters printed In the largest kind of type, and
embellished with a hairy representation of the Woolly
Horse, appealed to the people. Whigs, Democrats and Amer
icans ; Sam, Smut* and Muster, to join in the grand caval
cade that was going to offend the GREAT MA S
MEETING!
Men from abroad,—men of giant height and goddik
intellect,—men who could mould the popular mind as the
Totter moulds his clay were promised to be to attendance.
and harangue the people at the GREAT MASS MEETING
Burlingame and Wilmot, Tom Corwin and 'not Juhn
Smith, Ford and Reeder, and even the small end of the once
famous Tape Worm Stevens, were advertised to be exhibited
to the gaping crowd, without money and without price, at
the GREAT MASS MEETING:
Well, the day for the great Moss Meeting Conn!. as greet
days will Come, and therefore It becomes us, as a faithful
observer and recorder of passing Crests, to give our resters
Isome idea of what we saw and what we heard.
At early dawn the tramping of horses' feet and the heat
ing of drums gave token to the weary end yet nnSillintfitut
sleeper, that the prelude to great show was about com
mencing. Eager to be among the first lookers on, we vett
lured forth and beheld a sight grander than over crossed
the vision of the world's great dreamer, Bunyan. In front
of the National House, drawn up in martial array. stood
a file of horsemen, in holiday attire. Decked out in ribbons,
red, white and blue, with tawdry sashes and dilapidated
lute, they were the simplest looking set of fellows thAt eye
ever saw or ear ever heard tell of. Since the time that the
redoubtable John Falstaff reviewed hie comp:soy near the
bloody field of Shrewsbury, until the present day, DO roe
hath seen such scare -crows% Had the immortal Barnum
been able to catch and cage there, at s penny n sight, he
would retrieve his fallen tortenes in a twelve month. After
exhibiting themselves a sufficient length of time, and chat.
longing the admiration of idle school boys sad red arni'd
chamber maids, the Chief 51arshal, his side unit adjuncts
moved on amid the breathless silence of the ad miring crowd.
Arriving In Centre Square, another halt was called I, give
the barber boys and huckster women assembled there on
opportunity of witnessing the imposing pageent. These
satisfied, the cortege moved on to eseort the delegations
into town.
First came the delegations from Manheim, Warwick and
Mount Joy, composed of several hundred men and half as
many women and boys. They manifested but little en
thusiasm, while their banners bore tame and spiritless
devices and mottoes. Among these delegations we obse, veil
several old line Whigs, who looked, an we ever imagined
aman might look who was caught in a very use,,,, and des.
picable'act. The loudest freedom ehilekers in this crowd
were several old stagers, who have grown grey and become
spavined in their hunt for office. They have boxed every
point of the political compass, and if niggerism fails them
now, they are gone forever. Acting as one of the Marshals
was our good looking friend Lori, of Warwick. lie looked
quite as woolly, only a little more sheepish than he did
when they slaughtered him at the Negro County.conven
tion, which lately assembled at Fulton Rail. Hold on Levi
—when you have once solved the problem of how the milk
gets into the cocoa nut, you may ha elected-as a Legislator.
After these delegations had passed. came the one from
Elizabethtown, embodied in a solitary old stager who, Mr
the last fifteen years, has been a standing candidate for
Recorder. He is a broad-shouldered, big-faced specimen of
humanity, who gives many and awful shrieks for free
Kansas and free niggers. Upon this occasion he was con
soling himself by reading the "Sorrows of Welter," and
listening to the advice of Dr. Markley and the ghost of the
Express.
Next in order came the Manor delegation and . the Mil
lerstown Union Club, composed mainly of the friends of
Fillmore. This delegation made up in noise what they
lacked In numbers, and proved themselves shriekers of no
ordinary kind. John Brady, the American Eagle Orator,
of Millersville, was the Marshal, and, to his own,opinion.
the greatest man upon the ground that day.
Space will not allow us to enumerate or mention all the
delegations as they arrived. The lower suctio9 of the
county, particularly those townships where nlggerism
flourishes like a green bay tree, sent their howlertt in con
siderable numbers. But while the fanatics of the South
were thus represented, the cool-headed, conservative Union
loving men of the Northern townships were nut in attend
ance. Penn and Rapho, Elizabeth and Clay, the Bonegals,
Ithe Cocalicos, Ephrata and Brecknock, the bortitughs of
Marietta, Columbia, Strasburg and Manheim, had few, if
any, of their citizens in the ranks. The freemeni of these
townships and boroughs have ever been distinguished fur
their hatred of sectionalism, and their opposition lb
fanati
cism, and the 2nd Tuesday of October will prove that they
remain steadfast to their principles and their faith:.
The great feature of the day, however, was the Sillisbury
delegation, composed of donkeys in harness and 0001,y5
In broad cloth,—follows who at a free shriek or it a free
ink are not to be beat, even In the great Stale of •Var-
mount.' Most of the delegation carried a little: muslin
.anner in their hands, and a booby's head In their hats.—
The hair on the head of many was curled so tight that they
ould not shut their eyes, and thus, from necessity, they
ere kept shrieking for freedom: The -Marshal was a
arrow-minded, bigoted, brick-top woolly head, rejoicing
n the euphonious title of Fool Nat.
The delegations having been safely escorted Into city,
reatly to the pleasure of children, and the Chief Narshnl
•nd hie aide, were allowed au hour's time to recuperate
after which they were formed into line and marched to the
place of meeting. We shall not take the trouble toirecapit.
plate the appearance on foot of the various delegations, but
hall only say that the number of persons in line, 'as they
passed the corner of East King and Duke streets, was about
rine thousand.
Arriving at the place of meeting we found lh stand
decorated with banners, flags and evergreens, while high
"above them all waved the Disunion Flag of the Freitenters.
rhie flag contained 31 stars, but divided by a wfde line
eaving the 16 stars representing the Free States upon one
side, and the 15 stars representing the Slave Stags upon
the other. It was a sad sight to see In this mirden of
America.,—this land of Fenn,—the black flag of secession
‘‘ml disunion milled over the heads of a LancasteriCounty
Audience. But such was the fact, and we blush to virite it.
iAfter 'the organization of the meeting, the 401:l. Mr.
Hamlin, of Maine, was introduced to the crowd arffi spoke
:for about two hours. Ills whole speech was a 4soue of
falsehood and misrepresentation in regard to the causes
'Which led to the difficulties in Kansas, and alsoregard
hi the democracy of Jefferson an I Jackson. The miserable
Old renegade knew he was lying, and hundreds of 41s
ars knew it as well. The only thing original which:the old
'Political weathercock said, was when he told the' crowd
that if they but looked at him they could easily she that,
so far as he was concerned, he was a real black rep4blican.
The audience understood the bit, and this time ,ut the
laugh and hurrah in at the right place.
Finally, after a great flourish of trumpets and blowing
of noses, during which Bart :I:iieffer burst his Moots and
Omrge Markley cried amen, the great Mr. Burllngat rn e took
the stand. His harangue was in the usual style— I bo
imst and fustian, and exciting the envy of all the college
boys and boarding school misses on the ground. A reporter,
from New York, on the stand, mid he had repated the
lame stuff three times before, and he would be d , +l . if he
Tould do It again. When he concluded, the multituile gave
even shrieks for free Kansas and free 'riggers, arid. then
Left the ground.
Notice having been extensively circulated that: David
Wilmot would be present and address a meeting at• Fulton
ilall, In the evening, a large number of perspos assembled
to bear him. But when the hour arrived for °perking the
meeting it was found that Mr. Wilmot was not present.—
Although this was a sere disappointment the audibi;ce bore
patiently and listened to another two hours' ha'rangue
from the man that challenged Brooks, but did no . t. fight
4im. Finally a motion was made by somebody, who was
ashamed to show his face, that Thaddeus Stevens iiddress
the meeting. Tho motion was put and carried, and:with a
"Lump, thump,
Thump, lump,"
the old heathen took the stand.
Thus far we have written in a spirit of pleasantry and
goal will, and are willing to bear testimony to the bourte.
ons and manly bearing of Messrs. Hamlin and Burlipgamo.
Whatever they may be politically, socially they aro gentle
men and acquainted with the requirements of decent so
ciety. But truth and propriety alike demand that we
notice the speech of Stevens as it deserves. A more dis
gusting, malicious and offensive harangue never fell from
the lips of any decent man. From first to last, It was
couched in language which no man but Stevens could ate
°sive, and no man bat Stevens give expression to.' How
any man, claiming to be respectable, could endorse it:passes
our comprehension; and yet Axrnoxr E. Itookars and
BILLY WRIGHT were loud In their applause. The ;whole
vocabulary of Billingsgate slang was exhausted, ere the
black hearted maligner of Jawas BUCHANAN took tiff seat.
If, In the lowest sink of moral depravity, there be onp man
fo l und more vile and degraded than hie fellows, that man
can justly claim to be the peer of Thaddeus Stevens. A
tiling and moving mass of political infamy and ;moral
corruption, he stinks In the nostrils of every decent man.
Let the unclean thing alone.
DISTINGUISHED VISITOR.—Sir Henry 401-
1,,,,,d, physician to the Queen of England, was a visitor at
Wheatland, Mr. Buchanan's residence, on Wedneedaj• lest.
DIE FENCIBLES.—The Fencibles, Calitain
Decnitaa commanding, made a full dross parade on 'ester
d' afternoon.
Tim KEYSTON2 Ctun.—This. noble body of
Democrats, of Philadelphia, will be present at our. Mass
Heating, to-mcurow, In full force. They will be iscopmpa
by Beck's celebrated Band.
ARRANGEIviCENTS
roa THE
GRAND MASSjIEETING ,
ON WEDN AY.
PROGRAMME
Chief Marshal,—Col. MRCS CAII3LANT.
Aida.—Major T. H. Pearce, ChasJ AL Howell.
Assistant Marshals,—H. Hambright, Wm. Cog, H.
Schaum, M. U. Locher, Richard McGrann, Jr., Leah Hal
dy, Joseph Altic, Jacob Foltz, Capk Joe, Somers, H. Mc•
Lenegan, J. W. Mackley, Ju0..1. .r.sialeman, Jacob Hart
man. Jarob Herzog, M. H. Wearer. Charles IL Fralley,
W. H. Mi 1, H. M. Rawlins, Dr. J.l. Raker,- Wm. S. Am
weir, S. H. Reynolds, 11. Nagle, John Reese, Parker Spring
and George W. 13,,,vu.
GENERAL ORDERS
The City Delegation and Wheatland Club. will form at
the head of North Queen street, aft 9 o'clock, 1. M. All
the delegations from the North. New 11011,md turnpike.
and from the Railroad East and West, (con aaa ti whi d,) will
meet them at J a m es wrest, and fall into line. Then pas
in a body, slowly down North Queen street. to Centre
Square, where all the delegations from Eastand West, con
centrated at the heads of East King and West King streets,
will fall lute line ; then down South Queen street, when all
the delegations from the South, corrtrated at the head
street, South Queen strt, will fall into ine as the main procee
eon passes up Middle street to Ens King.
All the delegations being in line,ithe following route will
be taken, viz .—Down King to Charlotte, up Charlotte to
Chesnut, down Chesnut to North Queen, up N. Queen to
Centre Square and dismiss.
The Procesalon, (all on foot excepi. Marshala,) will again
form at I o'clock, P. M., ha East King street, the right
resting on Centre Square, and march. out,Weet King to
Charlotte, up Charlotte to Orange, down Orange to Duke,
up Duke to the Orchard, where addresses will be delivered.
ASSISTANT SI ARSH/L..S' ORDERS
All Assistant 31arshals ar. to repdrt themselves at Head
Quarters, (J. & I). Reese's Ilotol,) at 7 o'clock, A. M., when
they will take their stations ae follows:
First Divialeu.—llambright and Cox,—PLank Road Del
egations.
cham and Locher,—Harrisburg Turn•
pike.
3lrOrann, Foltz and Fralley,—Utiz and
Reading Turniike.
Somers and Spring,—New Holland
Turnpike. 1
Reese, lialdy and Herzog,—Locomottve
Rorke.
Baker
.
•
Baker and Cagle,—llarrisburg Turn-
(Railro.ict.)
The above Marehal;;Sl COLICOO rate their Delegatlo.
corner James end N. Queen sts.
Second Division.—Reynolds, McLenegan and Moakley.—
Philadelphia Turnpike.
The above Divilkion will fall into lllue at•Centre Square.
Third. Division.—Altic and lbertutan.—Millerstown
Road.
Amweg and Itawlins,--Columbia Turn
pike.
Wearer and Brown.—Marlette Turn
• pike.
The above Division will fall into Hue at Centre Square.
Fourth Division .—KslileinanstiNiller,—ltuck Road.
This division will fall Into li no, at3llddle, in S. Queen Street.
The Delegations coming from the East in the can will
stop at the Lancaster Locomotive Works.
The Delegations Boni the Weo firers will stop at Ilan
risturg Pike. -
Both the above Delegations will; remain at the places
mentioned until they are met by the Marshals.
By order of CYRUS CARM.ANY, Chief Marshal.
The WIIEATLAND CLUB, and all other
Democrats of the City, will meet in' front of the City Hall,
on toonorrow (WEDNESDAY) 'minting, nt a o'clock, for
the purpose of marching to the heastof North Queen street,
to join in the general procession. •!
A MENDS.—In our last wiek'a iesue, in no
ticing Rev. Mr. Locke's Female Inethute, we, unlninten•
tionally, did Injustice to the professional standing of a lady
of tine talents, and highly esteemed by our citizens, and
who has been, until lately. a tracker in the school. The
article in question wits furnished its by a friend, and was
pul•lished without our being aware. of the misrepreeenta.
lions it contained. Baying been tint W pesseasion of the
fart: of the eime we cheerfully make this 'correction. We
understand that Miss Wright. the lady referred to, is about
to give lessons in Music and Drawing, and Wo trust she
will receive the encouragement which, from her well known
ability, she so well deserves.
DinliAliOn Boldly *vowed I
At the Black Republican Mass Meeting held
in this City, on Wednesday last, there was
one banner displayed which should, of itself,
be sufficient to oink the party beyond hope of
redemption, and which was!an outrage to the
community in which it was exhibited. We
allude to the Disunion Flag, curried for a time
in the procession, and subsequently fastened
to the Platform on the left Hide of the Speak
ers' stand. The flag was a field of cloth with
thirty-one stars upon it, bearing the semblance
and intended-to represent Ithe "Flab; of our
Union." But this "National Flag" of the
Black Republicans had drawn through its
centre, from top to bottom] a pale stripe of
opsr „14440 inches wide, on one aide of which were
SIXTEEN and on the other FIFTEEN
STARS!! Yes, Citizens of Lancaster County
and of Pennsylvania, the Black Republicans,
emboldened by the presence of their Preaching
Infidel Missionaries from Maine and Massa
chusetts, ventured upon the &secretion of the
Flag of our glorious Union; by drawing the
broad line of separation through the centre!
_ Gracious Heaven, has it dome to this—that
here in the old City of Lancaster—the early
home of Revolutionary Heroes and Patriots,
and the present home of the great standard
bearer, who proudly floats upon the banner
of the People, whose candidate he is, the glor-
ious inscription, "OUR UNION—IT MUST AND
SHALL BE PRESERVED!" .That here, in Lan
caster, where canting hypocrites profess to be
the disciples of WASHINGTON, and have
made their candidate insult the memory of
the great Father of his Country, by promising
"to walk in HIS foot steps," they have dared,
in open day, to erect "THIi BLACK FLAG
OF DISUNION ! !" Hovering over the corner
of the platform, like a thing conscious of•its
loathsome aspect, the Hon. Hannibal Hamlin,
of the great "liquor law" Stite of Maine, and
the right Honorable DUELIST Burlingame,
stood beside and upheld the infamy and treas.
on it portrayed, by harangues of hours in
length, for the purpose of enlightening the
benighted citizens of Lancaster County ! Such
men pretend to be the disciples and followers
of GEORGE WASHINGTON ! Shame,
shame upon such . a
gross profanation of his
name and principles.
WASHINGTON'S Farewell Address has, doubt
less, been oftentimes read by, most of our peo
ple. His wise counsels so solemnly impressed
upon his countrymen, in that incomparable
paper, ought never to be forgotten or neglected.
T hey arc invaluable at the present moment !
lie warns his countrymen
.against the wiles
and artifices of bad men in future, who will
assail the stability of the UNION. His voice
and counsel were prophetic-Lthose times and
those men are now upon In speaking of
our UNION as "the palladium of the political
safety and prosperity of the people," he utters
the following solemn words of command:
iger• "Discountenance whatever may sug
gest even a suspicion that it :[the U.stoN] can
be abandoned! And indignantly frown upon
the first dawning of every attempt to alienate
any portion of our Country from, the rest, or
to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link to•
gether the various parts." —FM(
This was the counsel and command contain
ed in the Farewell Address of the "Father of
his Country" to his children; It was deliver
ed on the 17th of September, 1796—sixty years
ago, and when our UNton, as it now exists
under the CONSTITUTION, was nine years old.
Yet, now at this day, when universal prosperity
and happiness prevails among our people
under the working of that Constitution and
that Union, the leaders of the Black Republi
can—Fremont party—professing to be follow
ers of WASIIINGTON, have raised a flag in
our midst bearing thirty-one Stars, purporting
to represent the whole thirty. One States in the
Union, with a broad stripe dt..stinelly drawn,
having on one side of it SIXTEEN and on the
other FIFTEEN stars. Yes ! there stood the
mutilated constellation of ourglorious stars—
clearly marking a separation of the States !
It was a bold venture—but Would not win.
The exhibition of that flag has lost the party
that supports it thousands ofvotes. - Several
of the most respectable suppoiters of Mr. Fill
more, should lie be a candidate, have declared
that the Black Republicans will lose at least
five hundred votes in this county, at our Octo
ber election, by the infamous exposure of their
"cloven foot "on Wednesday-last !In truth,
if we can judge from the murmurs of discontent
heard on the day of its exposure, and the looks
and actions pervading our reflecting masses
since, that " disunion flag " tiro put the black
seal upon all the hopes of Brack Republican
ism this quarter.
To be sure, " the flag " was stealthily taken
from the Stand, near the close 'of the meeting,
in obedience to secret orders, land not after
wards exposed in the Procession t But it was
too late—the polluted thing hid been seen- by
too many, and nothing is left but to face the
music of Disunion. God save Fremont Black
Republicanism from Re— '