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OUR FLAG.
•Now our flog is flung to the wild winds free,
Let it float o’er our father land,
' And the guard of its spotless fame shall be
Colombia’s chosen band.
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL:
ISAAC SLEKKER, Union County.
s’ FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL:
JAMES P. BARR, Pittsburg. ■
MEETING OF THE DEMOCRATIC CO.
COMMITTEE.
The Democratic County Committee met for the purpose
of organization at Shober’s Hotel, in this city, on Wednes
day last,' at 11 o’clock, A. M., and was called to order by
H. B. Swale, Esq., Chairman. Mr. 8. said that he was
glad to see so large an attendance of the members, and
especially at this terrible crisis; it was an earnest that
the Democratic party was yet alive to the interests of the
country, and was ready at all times and nnder all circum
stances to devote its energies and organization to restore
the Union as It was and maintain the Constitution as it is*
He hoped the proceedings of the Committee would be con
ducted with harmony and for the best interests of the
only Union party of the Nation—the great Democratic
party. Mr. S. was heartily applauded daring bis remarks.
On motion, Mr. Hiram R. Hull, of Penn, was chosen
temporary Secretary.
The roll was then called, and the following members
answered to their names.
John J. Eeylor, Bart; David McColm, Brecknock.; John
Kiser, Esq.,Clay; William N.Galbraith, Colerain; Henry
E. Shitnp, East Oocalico; George Bennett, Conoy; Sanders
McOullongh, Drumore; William Dangan, Eden; J. H.
Bletz, Elizabethtown Bor.; Lawrence Hippie, Fulton; S.
C. Pinkerton, East Hempfield; John M. Weller, West
Hempfield; Samuel Long, West Lampeter; Andrew J.
Stelaman, City, N. W. Ward; H. B. Bwarr, N. E. Ward;
Dr. Henry Carpenter, 8. W. Ward; William A. Morton. 8.
E.Ward; George Diller, Leacock; George W. Linville, Up
per Leacock; James Patterson, Little Britain; Benjamin
Workman, Manheim Twp.; George G. Brush, Manor;
Henry Shalfoer, Mount Joy Bor.; Amos Rockey, Paradise;
H. R. Hull, Penn; Erankiin- Clark, Strasbarg Twp.; R.
R. Tshudy, Warwick.
The Chairman then stated that tbe first business in order
would be the election of permanent officers. He called Dr.
Carpenter to the chair, and, in a few neat and appropriate
remarks, Mr. Swarr thanked the members for the uniform
courtesy extended to him as Chairman of the County Com
mittee, during the long period he had acted as such. He
respectfully declined a re-election.
On motion, Mr. Richard R. Tshudy, of Warwick, was
unanimously chosen Chairman.
Mr. Tshudy, on assuming the dnties of the Chairman
ship, made a few pertinent and eloquent remarks. He
said the mission of the Democratic party was a grand, a
noble one—that of maintaining the Constitution as it is
and restoring the Union as it was. That is the motto
which is emblazoned on our banners in letters of living
light. He trusted that past dissensions were entirely for
gotten, and past feuds buried. The position to which he
had been chosen was an arduous one. He thanked the
members for tbe confidence reposed in him, and would
endeavor to discharge the duties faithfully and energeti
cally. Mr. T. was greeted with much applause throughout.
On motion of Andrew J. Steinman, Esq., the unanimous
thanks of the Committeo were tendered H. B. Swaeb, Esq.,
for the able and faithful manner in which he had dis
charged the duties of Chairman.
On motion of Dr. Herey Cahperter, Andrew J. Stein
mar, Esq, of the city, was unanimously chosen Secretary.
On motion, it was
Eesolvtd, That the Chairman be requested to issue a cail
to tho Democracy and other conservative men ot the
county, those who are for maintaining the Constitution as
it 1b and a restoration of the Union as it was, and opposed
to sectionalism both North and South, to meet in their re
spective wards, boroughs and townships on Saturday, Sep
tember 6th, and elect not less than threß nor more than
five delegates to represent them in a County Convention,
to be hold at Fulton Hall, in the City of Lancaster, on
Wednesday, September 10th, at 11 o’clock, A. M., for the
purpose of placing in nomination a County Ticket to be
supported at the ensuing election.
On motion, the Committee adjourned.
TO THE DEMOCRACY OP THE CITY
AND COUNTY OP LANCASTER.
In accordance with the resolution of the County Com*
mlttee, adopted at their meeting on Wednesday, July 30th,
you are requested to assemble in the several wards of the
city, and horonghs and townships of the county, on SAT
URDAY, the 6th day of SEPTEMBER next, theu and there
to elect the nsnal number of delegates to a County Conven
tion, to be held on WEDNESDAY, the 10th day of SEP
TEMBER next, at 11 o’clock, A. M., at Fulton Dali, in the
City of Lancaster, for the pnrpoee of nominating a ticket
to be supported at the ensuing October election, composed
of the following officers:
A Member of Congress.
Four Members of the House of Representatives.
A District Attorney.
One County Commissioner.
Two Directors of the Poor.
Two Prison Inspectors.
One Auditor.
The township committees are requested to give early
notice in their respective districts of the time and place of
meeting for the election of delegates.
All persons favorable to the maintenance of the Consti
tution as it is, and the restoration of the Union aa it was,
opposed alike to the heresies of Secession and Abolition
ism, and believing that the perpetuity of our principles
of liberty' and free government depend upon a middle
and conservative course between radicalism and sectional
ism,'are most cordially invited to attend.
"“By order of the Democratic County Committee.
R. R. TSHUDY, Chairman.
Andrew J. Steinman, Secretary.
Lancaster, August 2d, 1862.
[The list of Township Committees will be published next
week.]
MR. HUGHES’ ADDRESS.
We publish in to-day's paper the first ad
dress of the Democratic State Central Com
mittee. It is from the pen of Hon. F. W.
Hughes, the able and accomplished Chairman,
and was unanimously adopted by the Com
mittee at their meeting on Tuesday last, in
Philadelphia. It is a lucid exposition of the
origin of our National troubles, as also of the
principles which divide the two political
parties, and will be read with intense interest
by every well-wisher and friend of the Union
and Constitution, whether belonging to the
Democratic party or not. Mr. H. is one of
the greatest intellects in the State, and his
selection as chairman of the State Central
Committee, by the late Democratic State Con
vention, was a judicious one in every respect.
*§fThe Address of the State Central
Committee, and the correspondence between
President Lincoln and the Border State Con
gressmen on the subject of Emancipation,
occupy considerable space in our columns this
morning,- and exclude several other artioles
which we'had intended publishing. Their
great importance, however, w iH fully jastify
their insertion at this time, and we bespeak
for both a careful and unprejudiced perusal.
THH COUNTY COMMITTEE,
The new Democratic County Committee; as
will be seen by reference to the proceedings
elsewhere, met and organized on Wednesday
last, H.' B. Swaee, Esq., who so ably and
faithfully filled the position of Chairman, with
si brief interval, for the past nine years, re"
; speotft.Uy declined a re-election, and Mr.
Richard B. Tshudy, of Litiz, was chosen his
successor. We, cannot help but congratulate
■ tte Committee on the admirable selection they
- 7 ®. mada - Mr - T. has the requisites of
- youth,-energy and talent, and is well versed
•M-'ftSP.afSWt as well as English languaees
Weiprndict that he will make “S
. Chairman. *
TBS WAR StBKTIHS.
The Comity War Meeting held in this city,
on Saturday last, was tolerablywell attended
from town and coanjxy; but, as wo have not
been tarnished with a copy of the proceedings,
we areonable to give either the list of officers
or the resolutions,; this-week.' The meeting
was presided over by Dr,;P. A MoHUNBCBOf
of this oitjr, and spoeohes were jnado by Col.
John W.'FoßNjiy and MoaroN McMichaxl,
Esq., of Philadelphia, Rev. Alfred Cookhan,
of New York, Rev. Dr. ScHAFF, of Meroers
burg, (who spoke in German) Rev. Mr. Con
bad, of this city, and Col. 0. J. Dickby. The
-first two speeches' (especially 'McMrc hael’s)
were strongly tainted with Abolitionism ; and
Col. .Forney could not let the opportunity
pass without making repeated thrusts at, and
abusing his former patron and friend, Mr.
Buchanan. Col. Dickey made decidedly the
most sensible and appropriate speech of any;
for he told tbose present on the stand and
around hi™. in. snbstanee, that this was
no time for talk—that the time for
action had arrived—that they ought to
say “ come boys,” instead of “go ” when
they asked others to enlist—he himself
was ready to enrol his name, and he wanted
others abont him to do the same thing, &o.
&c. His remarks created the only real en *
thnsiaam that was manifested in the meeting,
for they were pointed and apposite.. Of course
they were not relished by the noisy patriots
present—some of whom were on the stand—
who don’t,go to the war themselveß, hut prefer
staying at home to abnse better Union men
and better citizens in every respect than them
selves.
We Bhall publish the resolntions, &0., next
week, when we shall have more room and may
take occasion to give onr opinion more at
length in reference to the objeot intended by
the prime movers in the affair. In the mean
time we trust that reoruiting for the army will
go forward vigorously, and that the Regiment
will be filled up this week, notwithstanding
the “ wet blanket ” that was thrown over it
by the wire-pullers and managers of the meet
ing on Saturday.
LANCASTER COUNTY AHEAD !
Reoruiting has been very brißk in this city
and county since our last isßue. Upon inquir
ing, we learn that over seven hundred men
have been sworn in—enough to constitute the
eight companies required in the call, and the
good work is still going on. We have no
doubt that, by the close of the present week,
enough names will he added to make ten foil
companies—a Regiment. This speaks well
for the patriotism of the Old Guard, and is
worthy of imitation by every other county in
the State.
Captains Franklin and McGovern are
busily engaged in getting ready to form the
enoampmont, and in a day or two everything
will be ready to move the men into quarters.
When the Regiment is formed we hope to see
Capt. Franklin promoted to the Colonelcy and
Capt. McGovern to the Lieutenant Colonelcy.
No better selections, nor better qualified or
more popular officers, could he found any
where .
RECRUITING.
The Government is urgently pressing the
enlistment of men. They are needed without
delay— noto. It is only recently that the real
heft of the public enemy—its powers and its
numbers—has been ascertained. We have
lost valuable time in learning that men from,
a southern latitude can fight and fight well.
We must now accept this as a fact, and pre
pare at once to act upon it. Hence more
men should be put in the field—and that
quickly.
Above all, the Government is urging the
policy of filling up the “ old Regiments.”
This is its real policy. These regiments are
under good and veteran Commanders, and the
interests of the service as well as the good of
the men, gives to this branch of enlistments a
decided preference.
We are gratified to state that the recruiting
in this county ie going on with great alaority;
and we expect that during the present week,
the full complement will be ready.
THE NEW REAR ADMIRALS,
For the first time in its history, the Amer
ican Navy now has a rank above that of
Captain. The President, on Wednesday last,
pot in execution the late act of Congress
creating the rank of Rear Admiral. On the
Retired List he commissioned the veterans
Stewart, Read, Shubrick, Joseph Smith, Sto
rer, Gregory, Lavalette, Stringham and Paul
ding, each of whom has contributed to the
renown of our navy. On the Active List he
appointed Farragnt, Goldsborongh, Dupont
and Foote. The country will be pleased with
these selections, and it is certainly well pleas
ed at having the new rank established. Here
tofore the officers of the navy have had no such
chances of promotion as those of the army,
simply because the highest recognized rank
was that of Captain. Now the President may
select, from among “ those captains who have
given the most faithful service to their coun
try,” men to bear the rank and title of Ad
miral. The awkward phrase “ Flag Officer ”
will bo more, rarely heard now than it has
been. Admiral Dupont, Admiral Farragut,
Admiral Foote, and Admiral Goldsborongh
will have a more agreeable sound.
THE INDIANA DEMOCRACY,
Our thanks are due to our old friend, Mr.
Alexander Wiley, of Fort Wayne, Indiana,
for a copy of the Indianapolis Slate Sentinel,
containing the full proceedings of the monßter
Mass Meeting of the Democracy of the State
of Indiana, held at Indianapolis on the 30th
ult. Addresses were made by Hon. Thomas
A; Hendricks, Hon. C. A. Wickliffe of Ken.
tueky, Hon. John S. Carlile, D. S. Senator
from Virginia, Col. William A. Richardson
of Illinois, and Hon. D. W. Voorhees. A
letter was received from the old patriot, John
J. Crittenden, regretting his inability to be
present, but stating that his heart was with
the Convention, and that he heartily endorsed
the movement. 50,000 freemen were estima
ted to be present, and the greatest harmony
and enthusiasm prevailed. The Democracy
of the “ Hoosier State ” intend giving a good
account of themselves at the October election.
IMPORTANT CORRESPONDENCE.
Wo publish in this paper the correspondence
between the President and the Representatives
of the Border States in relation to his Eman
cipation Scheme. We trust no one will fail to
read it. That scheme may truly be character
ized as a plan to aid the rebellion and render
the restoration of the Union impossible. That
would be its certain effect, and the persistent
recommendation of it by the President has un
doubtedly given more aid and comfort to the
rebel leaders than anything else except the rad
ical legislation of Congress.
We do not propose to discuss the great ques
tions raised in this correspondence, but simply
desire to direct the reader’s carefnl attention
to two points in the letter of the Border State
men—that showing that the great strength of
the rebellion is derived from abolition agita
tion, and that relating 'to the abolition “ pres
sure ” which the President is unwilling to re
sist. A thoughtful perusal of this correspon
dence will be profitable to all; and it may
give to Some new ideas in regard both to
the rebellion, and the hopelessness of its sup
pression npon Mr. Lincoln's emancipation’
polioy.
THE SHIMPJL ASTER CONGRESS.
One of-the last acta of the present Congress
.before their adjournment, was to pasa a bill
-making postage and other stamps currency, as
money. Previous legislation had authorized
an Issue of'Government'paper money to the
j amount of over three hundred millions of dol
lars, inlargerdenominationß,bnt tblglaststep
redaces it dawn to fveomt shmplastere l ;
In the X 'commercial crisis.* of 1857, whidh
pressed heavily, not only upon the banka hot
the entire community, it was proposed by Mr.-
Buchanan’s administration that the Govern
ment should issue, not three or four hundred
milliofisjbut only twenty millions of treasury
notes, in denominations of fifty dollars-and
upwards, for the purpose of relieving the
people, and. the country. When the
proposition was before Congress, it was vehe
mently opposed by the leading Repnblioans in
both booses, as unconstitutional and impolitic.
Read the following extracts from the speeches
of some of these men at that time, who are
still in Congress, and who now go the whole
length in flooding the country with shin
plasters :
Senator Collaheb said:
“The moment there is difficulty, the moment
there is any peonniary pressure which is felt
by the treasury, however slight its pulse may
be, immediately the bottom u knocked out of
your system by this hill; tbe whole of it is
utterly disregarded and broken down. What
is substitute# in its place ? To begin with:
the hill provides for the issue of $20,000,000
I will not nse any vnlgar names, hat I will say
$20,000,000 of irredeemable paper; that, is
paper which no man who holds it oan get the
money for by-any legal demand he may have,
short of one year; and as the treasury receives
these notes in the payment of revenue, they
are to be re-issued, with a provision that no
more than $20,000,000 shall he out at one
time.”
Again:
“ It is said that the object is to pay debts
which we now owe. We have not the money.
Then borrow the money like an honest debtor
and pay interest for it. Go and bay gold, put
it into your treasury, keep up your suh-trea
snry, do not abandon yonr constitutional cur
rency. Yon oan to-day obtain a premium for
six percent, stocks of having
any reasonable length of time to ran. Yoa
will make money by borrowing gold for your
stooks. Why this shrinking back from the
borrowing of money when yon owe a debt, and
ought to pay it ? Why not honestly and
Bquarely say, “ we will preserve the constitu
tional currency; we will preserve oursub-trea
snry; we'will not tbrustour paper on the people
against their consent and oblige them to get it
cashed ; but we will as honest men use our
credit to borrow hard money, and nse it as we
have agreed to do, in paying our debts.”
There is no other honest way of acting on this
ocoasion ; all other modes are evasions, incon
Bistent with your previous principles. The
issuing of these notes is an abandonment of the
constitutional currency, and the more you make
them circulate the greater is the abandonment.
You deny that we have power to establish a
national bank. We once had such a bank,
with a capital of $30,000,000, and you Baid it
was a great monster. Here you are making a
national bank without checks, without any
hypothecation of securities, based on nothing
except the public credit. You are creating
a bank with power to issue $20,000,000 in
one day, and to reissue it from time to time,
and at the end of the year, after you shall
have issued this paper three or four times,
your treasury will he in the same condition as
now.”
Again :
“ I say, then, that this whole proceeding is
unprecedented in its nature, unfair in its prin
ciples, a violation of the whole idea of the sub
treaßury, an abandonment of the great const!
tutional currency.”
Senator King said:
“ Fifty dollars is a convenient sum for paper
for circulation. In my judgment, it would
have been better for this country, if there
never had been a note under that denomina
tion in circulation as money ; but I think, OF
ALL THE PAPER WHICH IS TO CIRCU
LATE IN THIS COUNTRY, A§ MONEY,
THE WORST IS PAPER BASED ON THE
CREDIT AND FAITH OF THE GOVERN
MENT, AND NOT UPON COIN. I would
rather have the responsibility of individuals
than that of the Government, because they are
limited by the courts, and by their liability to
be brought up by a stronger power than them
selves, and when they become insolvent there
is an end of them ; but the Government has
no end to its credit except an utter prostration
like that which resulted from the issue of con
tinental bills. The issue of Government paper
does not require means ; by a simple determi
nation of the representative body, the Legisla
ture, to increase the amount of their circula
tion, the capital of the bank oan he doubled.
It depends on the judgment and opinion of the
legislative body ; and I think that the most
dangerouß mode in which paper may be issued
for circulation. It has been tried by most of
the Governments of the world, and has fail
ed.” -
•Lovejoy, of the House, said :
“ Sir, what is paper ourrenoy—irredeemable
paper currency 1 It is a falsehood. When a
bank bill goes abroad in the country, and says,
“ I am twenty dollars, or I am fifty dollars ; I
represent so much specie,” it is a falsehood
upon its face. It does not represent'what it
purports to represent. It often represents
nothing. And when we put forth paper cur
rency of treasury notes to the world, purport
ing to represent so much specie in the treasury,
or other places of deposit, when the specie is
not there, it is deceptive. It is like the Credit
Mobilier of France. It represents not specie,
but the oredit of the country. And, if the
present Administration follows in the footsteps
of the last Administration for the next four
years, I do not think the credit of the country
will he worth much. Sir, all these attempts
to relieve these commercial disasters, or to pre
vent them, by new issoes of irredeemable
paper, are like the polioy of tho man in Scrip
ture, who built his hpnse upon the sand ; and
when the rains descended and the floods came,
and the winds blew and beat upon that house,
it fell. I tell you that all the cobweb attempts
to keep off the storm will he unavailing. Your
bark may sit calm and beautiful upon the lake
while itß waters remain unruffled, but when the
storm comes it will be capsized and will sink.
And so, when you undertake to build up na
tional prosperity, by means of a paper curren
cy, which does not represent dollar for dollar,
and is not convertible into specie, it will not
stand. But, sir, when yon build it upon hard
money, upon a metallio currency, you have
built your house upon a rook, and it will stand
the test of all the stormß that may beat upon
it. Sir, I repeat that this system of potting in
circulation mere promises to pay instead of the
money itself, ie always unsafe and unsatisfac
tory. This kind of a currency is always found
wanting when we need the cash.”
Again:
“ I object, finally, to this bill, because it is
unconstitutional. Now, it is said to be out of
taste; and to be unparliamentary, to say any
thing about conscience here. Ido not know
hat it is unparliamentary to say anything about
the Constitution ; but I hope not, because we
have sworn to support the Constitution. I
want the chairman of the Committee of Wayß
end Means, or any other friend of this bill, to
point me to that clause of the Constitution
which authorizes the issue of treasury notes.
There is the power to borrow money npon the
credit of the United States, it is true; but what
is the use of whipping the Devil around the
stump ? Why not eome out frankly like men,
and say they want to borrow money for the
Government, and not ask for authority to issue
treasury notes.
“ The truth is, there is no constitutional
power to issue treasury notes. I know that it
will be brought up as a plea—the precedents •
that we did it in 1837, in 1842, and 1847 ■
and now cannot we do it in 1857 ? In
the language of Young with a slight varia
tion,
“ Once more the fetal precedent will peal.” ,
‘‘We have done it three times, and why not
do it a fourth ? EVERY REPETITION OF
AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL ACT END AN
GERS THE COUNTRY BY MAKING A
SUBSEQUENT VIOLATION MORE EASY
and soon yen will find the good national ship
unmoored, and floating away, in a very ocean
of precedents, with the Constitution almost
submerged, and hardly able to keep above the
angry billows. And here, from my place, and
upon my responsibility as a member of this
Honse, I want especially to warn those who
live in tho country—for
“ God made tho country, and man made the town,”
and I like man’s workmanship the best—l
want to warn the mechanics and laborers, and
the industrial classes of the country, that this
Administration, which I said waß hat an elon
gation of the preceding one, is endeavoring to
convert this Government, in the name of Demo
cracy, TO A DESPOTISM; . AND THE
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, under the
guise of treasury notes, XNTOI ONE GRAND
BANKING SYSTEM.’*:
MS* We leave every reader to make his own
'Comments on those the curtcnoy
action of the Republietm Congress of 1862
hearing in mind, however, as we have already
stated, that the proposition on which these
gentlemen were speaking in 1857, was, not to
put in circulation a Government paper cur
rency, bat simply, as a relief to the commercial
and business community, to issue twenty-'
millions of treasury notes,'of no denomination
below $5O.
THE NEWS.
Officers who left. Gen. McClellan’s army on
Tuesday, report that some important move
ment was then hourly expected. On Monday
Gen. MoClellan issued orders for all the
troops to be ready for action at a moment’s
notiae.
On Tuesday a body of two hundred Con
federates invested the town of Mount Sterling,
Kentucky, and demanded the surrender of the
place. The demand was refnsed, and they
then attaoked the town, bat were repalsed by
the Home Gaard. Tbe Confederate lose was
eight killed and forty eight taken prisoners*
The Federal casualties were only three men
wounded.
It is' reported that the Confederates took
Russellville, Ky., on Tuesday, and snbse
qnently left the place on the approaoh of a
force (Sf Federal troops. Russellville is in
Logan county, on a branch of the Louisville
aDd Nashville railroad, forty-one miles North
of Nashville.
Gov. Magoffin, of Kentucky, has issued a
proclamation calling the Legislature together,
for the purpose of explaining the extent of the
power of the military board, and to consider
President Lincoln’s emancipation policy.
General Pope with his staff arrived at
Warrenton on Tuesday, and assumed com
mand of his army in the field. The citizens
remain within the lines, refusing to take the
oath of allegiance or go South, alleging that
General Pope dare not enforce the order to
that effect. At Luray Court House, however,
on the same day, all the males of the town
were arrested and imprisoned, preparatory to
administering the oath. Madison Court House
was occupied by Federal troops on Saturday
last. A skirmish occurred near the town, but
the Federals suffered no loss. Madison Court
House is northwest of Gordonsville, and not
far from the Confederate Gen. Ewell’s lines at
Stannardsville. The Confederates are still
lying quietly along the Central railroad, thirty
or forty thousand strong.
It is reported that a large of guerillas,
from Arkansas have entered Missouri, and are
now encamped in Howell and Texas counties.
The town of Hannibal is almost deserted by
its inhabitants, fearing the forays of the
guerillas.
A body of nine hundred Confederates were
defeated by a force of six hundred and fifty
Federals at Moore’s Mills, near Fulton, Mis
souri on Monday. The Confederate loss is
stated at from seventy-five to one hundred
killed and wounded. The Federal casualties
were forty-five killed and wounded.
The Confederates have captured a dispatch
steamer about one hundred and fifty miles
above Vicksburg. They took quite a large
number of prisoners and destroyed the boat.
By the arrival of the steamer Australian at.
New York on Wednesday, we have European
advices to the 20th ult. Mr.*Lindsay’s motion
in the British Parliament, in favor of media
tion and for the recognition of the Southern
Confederacy, was called up on the 18th, and.
gave rise to a debate.' The resolution was
finally withdrawn, at the suggestion of Lord
Palmerston, who appealed to tho House to
leave the matter in the hands of the Govern
ment. Lord Palmerston “ treated the issue
of the war,” we are told, “bb a foregone
conclusion, saying that the only satisfactory
termination that could bo anticipated was an
amicable separation.” He thought, however,
that this result “would be impeded rather
than faoilitated by debates in Parliament.”—
He contended that the recognition of the
Southern Confederacy could give no cause of
offense to the North, but .thought that the
present condition of the contest would not
justify any such action on the part of the
Government.”
IS THE PLATFORM A FAILURE 7
The following is an oxlrnot from the Chica
go Platform:
Resolved, That the people justly view with
alarm tho reckless extravagance.- which per
vades every Department of the Federal Gov
ernment ; that a return to rigid economy and
accountability is indispensable to arrest the
system of PLUNDER .OF THE PUBLIC
TREASURY BY FAVORED PARTISANS ;
while the recent startling developments of
FRAUD and CORRUPTION at the Federal
metropolis show that an entire change of
Administration is imperatively demanded.
Undoubtedly there were great rogues in
office under former administrations, but the
Chicago Convention was to remedy all that.
A new party in power at Washington would
bring about a condition of things somewhat
approaching tho millennial period. Now what
iB the result ? Let the Albany Evening Jour
nal, edited by Thurlow Weed, tell:
- “ There has been peculation. Weak men
have disgraced, and bad men have betrayed
the Government. Contractors have fattened
on fat jobs. Adventurers have found the war
a source of private gain. Moral desperadoes
have flocked about the National Capital and
lain in wait for prey. ‘ The' scum of the land
has gathered about the sources of power and
defiled them'.byjits reeking and offensive odor.”
5®- Senator Chandler, of Michigan, pro
poses to raise a regiment and take command
himself. If he should be ordered to the Poto
mao, General McClellan will probably place
him in a position where he can enjoy a ‘‘ little
blood-letting.”— Exchange.
There is no danger of Mr. Chandler’s takiDg
the field. Mon of his stamp are not the class
that do the fighting. They prefer to stay at
home, and abuse those who are periling their
lives for the welfare of the Union. We havo
Chandlers by the dozen in this city, and by
the hundred throughont the county. Some
of them were prominent actors at tho war
meeting on Saturday.
Parson Brownlow’s Book. —We are in
debted to ‘ the Publisher, George W. Childs,
G3O Chesnut St., Philadelphia, for a copy
of this somewhat noted hook—containing
" Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Declihe
of Secession ; with a Narration of Personal
Adventures among the Rebels.” The volume
is fully illustrated, handsomely hound in
muslin, and contains upwards of 450 pages.
Price $1,25. For sale by the Publisher, aud
at all the Bookstores in this city.
j®- Bergner, the editor of tho Telegraph
and Postmaster at Harrisburg, has Boed the
editors of the Patriot & Union for libel. We
have known Bergner for the last twenty-four
years, and never supposed it possible for any
body to slander him in any particular, unless
on the principle of “ the greater tho truth the
greater the libel.” His own paper, the Tele
graph, is one of the most abusive and slander.
ouB sheets in the Commonwealth, and there
fore, we think, he is about the last individual
who should oomplain at anything publiehed
against him in Democratic papers.
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
Assigned to Dutt.— Oar young friends,
Dtfc JofliPH Dotmr utd Fubx Q.Aibbighi, of city,
havtng ptffled very creditable examinations before the
Btate Medical Born, bars been asrintd to duty—-the
fwwrjltf ttrimßaitaMC CoLsSSa^hTSdthe
.latter with the 7Kh fegiuenVG&Hambright! .
Tiff ComreNCMffNT.—Tbe Annual Com
movement of Franhlinand Oollwe took place
on Wednesday .last, at Snlton Halb in presence of a crowd*
red audience of strangers and dflwu Th o <rradnatos
numbered twenty-eiflbt. a* a general thing
wm excellent, well timed and wiSßddlTeted. Everything;
passed off pleasantly and to the entire of all
-concerned. *.
: ''AVthe annual meeting of Board of Trustees, ex*
President Bdchasas tendered his resignation as President
of the Board; but at the request of a number of the mem*
hen he withdrew it, and was unanimously re-elected.
Arrived Homs.— Sergeant Georgs M. Batt
hah, of the Union Goar da, who was taken prisoner at the I
second day's fight before Richmond, arrived at hia home
in this city on Wednesday last, direct from Richmond via
Fortress Monroe. He left at the latter place George Ochs,
John Weldel and Calvin L. Murphy, of this city, and
Junius B. Potts, ofStrasburg.. He brings also an item of
most gratifying intelligence, in relation to Wm. H. Bnhb,
who was reported aa killed, but whom the Sergeant saw
on the 7th of July alive, but suffering with a wound in
the hip, and heard from hia surgeon on the 22d that he
was doing well and in no danger. John McClain, who was
reported from many sources aa dead, left Richmond in
health, in company with Martin Keller, on the 23d. Thos.
Zellers died in the prison at Richmond on tbs 21st. So
far as he can tell, all the other Xaneaster hoys who were
taken are “all right.” The Sergeant will report himself
at Annapolis, in obedience to orders, in a day or two.
List of Petit Jdrors to serve in the Court
of Common Pleas, commencing Monday, August 2Sth:
George Boyle, Columbia.
George W. Buckley, Salisbury.
Martin M. Brubaker, Elizabeth.
A. N. Breneman. City. -
Joho Dorwart, City.
Abraham Dicdore, Upper TeynA,
B. D. Doner, Peon.
Martin Erwin, Clay.
Abm. Espenshade, East bunpeter.
Benj. Eby, Manheim.
Martin Erwin, Columbia.
Abraham Eshleman. Strasburg.
Henry Ely, Upper Leacock.
John Friday, West Hempfield.
Amos Groff, (Sty.
Henry Hershey, Colombia.
Isaac Haines, Colerain.
Isaac Hollinger, East Hempfield.
Samuel Houston, City.
John Hess, Conestoga.-
William Lowry, City..
Wlatt W. Miller, Conestoga.
John Miller, Manheim.
William McDannel, Mount Joy.
Henry Mosßelman. Btrasbnrg.
John G. Offuer, Paradise.
H. M. Penny, Drnmore.
John Rohrer, West Lampeter.
A. E. Roberts, City.
Mahlon Ruth, Leacoek.
N. E. Slay maker, Paradise.
H. K. Snyder, Earl.
Jacob Swarr, East Hempfield.
Samuel Truscott, Columbia.
M. B. Webster, Fulton.
G. M. Cahm, City.
List or Pirn JtJEosa to serve In the Court of Common
Pleas, commencing Monday, Septembor Ist:
'Henry Bechtold, Mount Joy.
John Bitts, City.
John Bitzer, West Earl.
J. W. Cotrell, Columbia.
Emanuel Cassel, Rapho.
John Doebler, Lancaster township.
John Devlin, West Hempfield. * ;
Samuel Dyer, Mount Joy borough.
Peter B. Eckert, Leacock.
Jacob Esblemau, Paradise.
Henry L. Frantz, East Hempfield.
Curtis Frey, Ephrata.
ThomasFarnias, Little Britain.
Benjamin Good, Conestoga.
Jacob B. Garber, West Hempfield.
James J. Henderson, Salisbury.
Henry S. Hostetter. Manheim.
Christian 0. Herr, Manor.
Edward Hibshman, Ephrata.
Levi John, East Cocalico.
George Long, Manheim borough.
Harman L*gbtuer, East Donegal.
Andrew Mebaffy, Pequea.
Jacob Miller, Mount Joy.
John M’KUlips, Leacock.
William Martin, Colerain.
Henry Martin, Conestoga.
Henry Neff, West Hempfield.
Christian M. Rohror, Conestoga.
Rudolph F. Rauch, City.
Horace Rotter, Leacock.
Otho Reynolds, Fulton.
Samuel Bhartzer, Washington borough.
. Barr Spangler, Marietta.
David Weidman, Penn,
j David P. Weaver, East Earl.
CINCINNATI CORRESPONDENCE.
Editors op Intelligencer: The moat melancholy feature
of war is the great suffering of the sick and wounded.—
Almost daily there are some poor but heroic soldiers ar
riving here, whose emaciated forms and excruciating pains
plainly tell that their “ sands of life ” have nearly all run
out. We never realize the great evils and horrors of war
until it is in our midst.
This is truly a thing that accords with the sentiment of
the poet that u distance lends enchantment to the view.”
It is pleasant to read the pages of Homer and Virgil, and
reflect on the heroic deeds of these godlike men; it is
pleasant to trace the events of those brilliant campaigns
in modern times so vividly pictured by the historian ; it
is pleasant to speculate about the different manoeuvres of
the troops io the field and trace the successful operations
of thousands of meu to a plan which emanated from one
mind; but it la not pleasant to participate in tho
hardships and sufferings incident to war, and have practi
cal experience of the scenes and effects It has on a country.
The sabject divest's itself of all poetry, brilliancy and
speculation ; and nothiog bat suffering, horror and death
stare you in the face; and scenes present themselves far
beyond the reach of the most lively imagination.
Our city was thrown in a most intense state of excite
ment by the advances of Morgan and his party in Ken
tucky. and it was really feared by our “ wisest heads ”
that Cincinnati was in great danger of being captured by
the Sccesh under their daring leader. The first notice we
had of the advance of Morgan was from Gen. Boyle, of
Louisville, stating that the rebel band was marching on
LexiDgton with a force of three thousand men, and asking
the Mayor to send all tho available force ho could com
mand. • Mayor Hatch immediately called a meeting to
take measures for raising a force to defend our sister State
from the inroads of the enemy.
This meeting was addressed by the Mayor and several
others and a Committee was appointed to.make some ar
rangements to raise volunteers for the emergency.
This was Saturday night (12th) and the Committee was
to report the next morning at 9 o’clock. Long before the
meeting the streets were crowded and the highest state of
excitement prevailed. Gloom and melancholy were de
picted on every countenance,- and fearful apprehensions
were'entertained that the Confederate flag might wave over
our city in the coarse of two or three days. The Mayor
appeared and read another despatch from Gen. Boyle,
urging more strongly the necessity of sending assistance,
as the Rebels were then near Lexington without any force
there to repel them, and that their destination was evi
dently Cincinnati.
The greatest excitement and confusion imaginable en
sued. Some swore vengeance against Morgan and were
< ready to shoulder an old shot gon, broom stick or aDy
bther instrument of warfare by which they could do most
horrible execution and cross the Ohio river to repel the
invaders. Others were more deliberate 1q their opinions,
and thought such a mob could not effect much to step the
progress of such daring men as John Morgan and his
clan. The result of the meeting was, the sending of all
the Police force of the city that night, and the calling out
ol all the Home Gcards to organize properly and be ready
for duty the next day. Bat it was discovered afterwards
that Home Guards were very scarce* and many of the com
panies carried out practically the resolution of the Bung
town Rifle Company, “ Resolved , That this Company dis
band whenever war is declared.”
However, recruiting offices were opened for enlistments
for ten days, and before evening several companies were
ready for duty. The same day a regiment of troops ar
rived from Camp Chase, and tbe streets were filled the
whole day with recruits marching, or troops from the reg
ular army. In the evening the Police force and two or
three companies of regular troops were sent off, and the
city felt somewhat relieved that there wonld be at least a
small force to check Morgan’s coarse if he should march on
oar'city.
Many of the churches snspended divine service, and the
city assumed the appearance more of a military camp than
Cincionati on a pleasant summer Sunday.
This Sunday will always be remembered by onr citizens
and some will associate It with, tbe idea that it was near
the advent of the Confederate rule in Cincinnati. The
excitement quietly subsided until Friday morning, when
a despatch was received to tbe effect that oar force had
been defeated and all captured, and that Cyntbiana was
in the handa of theßebelß, which is only about fifty miles
from here. The wildest excitement ensued and many of
tbe bankers removed tbeir money from tbe city. The
cities of Covington and Newport were pat under martial
law and many arrests made of supposed seccessionlsts.—
Onr telegraph offices were crowded all night expecting
some favorable news and the streets resounded with mar
tial music, and every preparation was made to contest the
progress of the enemy to every Inch. The next day two
regiments of troops arrived here and the citizens felt con
fident that tbe city was ont of danger. The excitement
gently died away, and niany expressed themselves that it
was merely a 44 big Bcare.”
Yesterday eight hundred Federal prisoners passed
through here en route for Camp Chase, where they will be
exchanged for Sscesh. These were a part of the two: regi
ments captured at Murfreesboro’. They evidently showed
that they had been in active service and did not altogether
receive tbe bee£ kind oi treatment.
There was a grand Billiard match last week in one of
onr fashionable saloons, between Fred Meyer of Memphis
and Phil Tiemann, the champion player of the West. The
game opened most brilliantly. Meyer taking the lead,
made three hundred and fourteen points, while Tieman
made two hundred and fifty. The others ranged from
thirty to eighty points.'
After a few rounds Meyer seemed to meet with bad suc
cess, .and finally found himself one hundred and fifty
points behind Tieman out of a thousand. However few
men play with more precision than Meyer does, arid no
doubt he will be one of tbe first players In the country by
more constant practice. The defeat was in nc way dis
couraging to him as he made several more sacces6fnl feats
than had ever been made in Cincinnati, and his friends
urge him to.play another game with his victor.
Basiness Is improving and merchants are laying in a
heavy stock of goods for tbe fell trade, and no doubt they
will realize their highest expectations. Everything shows
that Cincinnati merchants will redeem the time they have
lost daring the last year, and may probably make up for
losses sustained during this rebellion.
For Tba Intelligencer.
THE EFFECT.
Tbe War MeotiDg on Saturday last was called ostensibly
for the pnrpose of filling np the new Lancaster County
Regiment, bat tbe real object of tbe leaders was soon made
apparent after Fobnxy and MoMichazl commenced their
speeches. Tbe inßane ravings of these two political weath
ercocks had tbe effect of deterring enlistments, and but
very few men were obtained on Saturday after neon. In
deed, Forney and McMichael, by their ultra Abolition
talk, drove many conservative citizens away from tbe
meeting, Republicans as well as Democrats. Why not ar
rest Fobney and McMichael as traitors to tbeir country,
who are giving “aid and comfort” to the enemy ?
1®- Send them Back. —The Philadelphia
Bulletin says that the army of the Potomac
haß been more depleted by furloughs than by
battle and sickness. A letter from Waßhing
ton says that it is stated on unquestionable
authority that 30,000 soldiers once belonging
to the army of the Potomac are now loitering
over tho free States as well aB they ever wore.
It is not explained how they all got away, but
tho statement is made, by the same authority,
that a single member of Congress had succeed
ed in, getting furloughs and discharges for
three hundred soldiers during tbe recent ses
sion of Congress. There are 230 Senators
and Representatives; if each-of them has been
ah active as this one, then they have got fur
loughs and discharges to tho enormons amonnfe
of 69,000 men. But suppose they have only
averaged one half that number, we wonld
still have a loss to the army, by these means,
of 34,500 ‘men.
TO THK D K*OCRJLT», /UTO AU 9U
OTHER FEUBBDS OF. TWR COSBTI.
vasia* 1 AHD 01,1011 111 rannu-
TholhflnoentieBftt.OnitalOainmtttM.ddnsyon op. \
on subjects of the gravest mbment Tbe lift of our beloved
°^ nD ?7 “ danger. The nation writhes under the throes
of widespread dvH wwv .AH oor patriotism, all our 1
'ratth'.ur our physical powers, all of whatever virtue ex- I
tow in the BepubHala invoked, and should he promptly
afforded to save the Hattons! Constitution end the Union i
of the States fromutter overthrow.
: Is there a Pennxytvanlan'who values the title of Amer- 1
can citiaen—who reveres-the memory of the men of the
, Revolntion-who vjdnesjdvil and religious liberty—who.
abhors anarchy oar despotism -or, whoclaima to possess a'
manly, pairioticheart, that la hot prepared to pledge lift. 1
fortune and sacred honor for Ms country, in this, her hour
of greatest need and peril. None can withhold such as
surances of a just estimate of the Importance of preserving
the existence of onr Republican Institutions. We approach
you with the full conviction that the hearts of the great
body of the people of Pennsylvania are with their country -
in this great crisis of her destiny; that all that is needed,
Is tn h» jtaHcflert r>f ft faarfUfl mode of relief and
and of the most Elective organisation to oomhlue ; all the
farces that can he applied to speedily and effectually yield
the happy fruits of returned peace and prosperity.
To dearly indicate the mode of relief it would appear to
he proper to first determine the causeor causes of our
present difficulties. Understanding the causes, it would
seem to he la the order of nature that restoration should
follow upon their removal. It is not compatible with the
practical efficiency of an address, -such as this, to engage
in any elaborate exposition, or historical account of the
gradual progress of antecedent causes, that have at last
culminated in the dreadful results we now behold. We
snail, therefore, necessarily be brief, and best discharge
our purpose by a statement of facts, which you will all
*? correct, and by the assertion of propositions
and *^ n S2S onß *? h,ch maintain, cannot he successfully
introverted. The troubles that are now upon us are those
.P 1 * 8 foresaw might arise upon
the decay of patriotism, and against which they undertook
to guard by the Constitution of the United Btates, and the
establishment thereby of what was deemed by them—an*
Ims, tmtil recently, proved to he the harmonious action of
the States and the Federal Government—in their defined
and just relations to eaeh other. Washington, in his fare
well address, pointed out these dangers; and, above all.
indicated as the evidence of a waning attachment for the
Union and as the precursor of its fall, the creation of sec
tional partes. It was in view of prohable.efforts in this
direction that he appealed to his countrymen “to indig
nantly 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 link together the various
parts.” Had the countrymen of Washington sufficiently
appreciated his patriotic warning, the widespread civil
war that now afflicts us would never have existed; hut,
on the contrary, we should, at thto lime, under the sup
port which a most bbuntifh! Providence is extending to
us, be in the enjoyment of a degree of prosperity and hap
piness (we venture to assert) unequalled in the history of
nations. Most unfortunately, sectional parties have grown
up, begetting sectional bitterness; and already the title of
American citizen begins to pale before the invasive pro
gress of such titles as Northerner and South artier.
Tears ago men in the North, then a very insignificant
combination, began to assail our Constitution and our
Union. This faction basing Its opposition upon a mis
guided sentimentality in regard"to the servitude of the
negro race in the Southern States, and allowing that sen
timentality to swallow up all true feelings of patriotism,
and all duty as citizens, boldly proclaimed their hostility
to the Constitution and the Union, which they rightly
claimed recognized and was pledged not to invade the con
trol of the States respectively over the institution of do
mestic slavery. Disloyal declarations, such as “ better no
Union at all than a Union with slaveholders,” became the
axiomatic dicta of this faction, then and now (in its formid
able proportions) best known as Abolitionists. Without
dwelling upon the progress and growth of this faction, it
is too lamentably true and well known that proclaiming
through its leaders their chief object to be “ the ultimate
extinction of slavery” it attained to snch consequence
that the people of the slaveholding States became alirmed,
and began to form counter combinations to resist the
threatened overthrow of what they claimed to be rights
that were intended to be sacredly guarded by the Consti
tution of the United States. At the same time there had
existed an Insignificant, and of themselves powerless, band
of disnnionists in ohe or two of the slaveholding States,
who seized upoa the opportunity tbns afforded by the ag
gressive action of the Abolitionists' to stimulate these
counter movements. These efforts were too successful;
and materials too, for snch efforts, were being continually
supplied by the successes of the Abolitionists. Abuse and
obloquy against the slaveholder streamed out from some
pulpits in the North, where the virus of Abolitionism had
been infnsed. Retaliatory epithets were indulged in by
pnlplts tn the South against the Abolitionists. Church or
ganizations in the Union were split up into organizations
North and South. Nominations for the Presidency were
made upon issues, In fainter or bolder terms, involving the
question of the existence or limitation of the area of do
mestic slavery. The decisions of the Supremo Court of the
United States were resisted, its integrity assailed, and Its
remodelling avowed. These were followed by outbreaks,
as illustrated by the raid of John Brown into Virginia.—
Meantime the retaliatory and disunion movements in tho
South, crystallized and proclaimed tho monstrous heresy
that the Union was but an alliance of sovereign States,
and that any one of its meflibura might, in the exercise of
an unlimited sovereignty, which was claimed for it, with
draw from such union. N :TMs.Jberesy was designated, and
as we all know, is familiarly-colled Secessionists, and, un
der its banner, a great and formidable party In the slave
States was rallied.
Thus were confronted two great sectional parties—the
Abolitionists North, and the Secessionists South—the very
antipodes of each other in their sentiments; they met on
the common platform of Disnnion. Each, alike, tended to
overthrow the Constitution and the Union. Each, alike,
are the enemies of the Republic. The Secessionists, claim
ing to act from the apprehension that the threat for “ the
ultimate extinction of slavery ” would be put in execution,
succeeded by bare majorities in some cases, and by the
more efficient organization of probable minorities in others,
in pr' curing the adoption cf ordinances of Secession, or for
Cincinnatj, July 28, 1862.
the withdrawal of snch States from the American Union
ss are now baoded übder the designation of the Confeder
ate States. Obtaining, thni, the .formal organization of a
government, they set at defiance tho Constitution and
laws of the United State?, and undertook to resist their
execution within the pretended jurisdiction of this revo
lutionary government. The Government of the United
States, in strict accordance with Its powers, undertook to
enforce these laws and to demand obedience to them—
armed resistance was at once inaugurated on the part of
the Secessionists, and thus began a rebellion and civil war
that has become onfe of gigantic proportions, and for many
of its characteristics ono of tho most formidable that ever
existed among a civilized people. At its outset, the appeal
was made to the loyal mon of tho North to fly to arms, in
order to nohold the Constitution and laws, and to main-
tain the Union. With the rapidity of magic this sppeal
was responded to with unbounded enthusiasm, and an
armed force of over 700,000 men stood ready to obey the
summons to meet the foes of the Union. President Lin
coln, in his inaugural address, bad said:
• “I bavo no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere
with the institution of slavery in tho States where it ex
ists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have
no inclination to do so” * * * *
The Congress of ihe United States, immediately after the
battle of Ball Run, in July, 1861—
“Resolved, That the present deplorable civil war has been
forced npon the country by the Disnnionists of the South
ern States, now in arms against the Constitutional Govern
ment, and in arms around the-capital; that, in this na
tional emergency, Congress, banishing all feeling of mere
passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the
whole country; that this war is not waged dn their part
in any spirit of oppression, or for any pnrpose of conquest
or subjugation, or pnrpose of overthrowing or interfering
with the rights or established institutions of those States,
bnt to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Consti
tution. and to preservo the Union, with all the dignity,
equality and rights of tho several States unimpaired; and
that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war
ouaht to cease.”
Thus, the faith of tbe President and Congress was
pledged to every loyal man in tbe North that the war was
to bo carried on for the Constitution as it is and the Union
. as it was. Under the inspiration of this high, patriotic
and holy purpose, oar gallant countrymen have marched
to the battle field, keeping step to the music of the Union,
enduring privations and sufferings that wonld h&vo utter
ly appalled les3 patriotic and devoted soldiers Tbe enemy,
although massed in formidable bodies, and supported by an
energy, skill, and munitions of war that evinced an in
creased concentration of sentiment in behalf of the rebel
lion, yet, before the mighty shock of onr arms—inflicted
by the soldiers ofethe Union—they were for a time van
quished ; their forts, towns and other strongholds were
rapidly taken, and, amid the shouts of the exultant and
triumphant soldiery who had enlisted for the mere pnr
pose of re-establishing devotion to, and the protection of,
onr proud national ensign, the star-spangled banner there
again spread out Its folds. At the beginning of these suc
cesses much attachment for the Union was developed
among the people where such successes occurred. It was
hoped and believed that, witti a few more similarly impor
tant blows Inflicted npon the rebellion, that its force wonld
have been spent, and that tbe people of tbe rebellions
States, being assured that the pledges of the President and
Oongresa would be faithfully observed, would have relaxed
their efforts in behalf of their usurping government, and
that the Union men orthe South, and the returning sense
of the inestimable value of the Union to all divisions of
population there, wonld complete the restoration of respect
and obedience to the Constitution and laws of the Federal
Government. These hopes have not been realized, and
the explanation of this disappointment, In a great degree
at least, is fonnd in the evidence afforded of the terrible
fact that the Abolitionists of the North are determined
that the white population of the Bonth shall be extermi
nated. or held in subjugation, and that onr Government
shall be overthrown, and the Union ot these States finally
and forever broken np. Yea 1 exterminate the whites of the
Booth, or govern them as a subjugated people; and over
throw the Government and destroy the Union, is tbeir pur
pose. And we ask your candid consideration for a mo
ment, nntil we present to yon a few points, from which
yon will see*that the inference is irresistible that this is
the design of this .most disloyal band.
The Constitution and the Union were early regarded by
the Abolitionists as the barriers that stood in the way of
negro emancipation. Hence, such Constitution was by
them denounced as 44 a covenant with death and an agree
ment with hell.” So late as the 15th of June last a portion
of the members of this band, at a meeting in Massachu
setts, passed a formal resolution, viz:
44 Resolved , That as Abolitionists, devoted to the great
work of overthrowing slavery, we renew and repeat onr
old pledge, “ No Union with Slaveholders.” No support to
any Administration or Government that permits slavery
on any portion of its soil—and we value this war only as
we believe it must lead to emancipation by order of the
Federal authorities, or to a dissolution of the Union, which
must speedily produce the same result.”
It Is unnecessary to even sperify the prominent evi
dences that, from time to time, havo been afforded that
the Abolitionists had firmly resolved npon the destruction
of this Government. A few of them are found in the un
constitutional, so called, “Personal Liberty Billa” of
several States; tbe repeated declarations of prominent
party leaders, even in tbe last Presidential campaign, (see
the speech delivered by Frank P. Blair, at Franklin Hall
In the city of Philadelphia, on the 2d of October, 1860, one
week before the election,) in which he, quoting still higher
authority, declared .that the object of the Republican party
was 44 the ultimate extinction of slavery.” In the avowed
determination to resist the decision of the Sapreme Coart
of the United States, in the Dred Bcott case, and in such
declarations as made by Senator Wade, “ a Union where
all men-are equal, or no Union at Acting upon this
original pnrpose, and npon the conviction that a return to
Congress of Senators and Representatives from the South
ern States wonld result in their political overthrow, the
Abolitionists in the late Congress have pursued a policy
that has alarmed every loyal man in the North, and forced
the conviction that onr gallant armies in the field, and the
whole nation were to be thwarted fn their patriotic pur
poses. The resolution above quoted, adopted by Congress
lo July, 1861, Immediately after the Bull Run disaster, it
was sought to re-affirm in the present Congress, through a
resolution offered by Mr. Holman, of Indiana in the fol
lowing terms :
“Resolved, That tbe unfortunate civil warlnto which the
Government of the United States has been forced by tbe
treasonable attempt of Southern Secessionists to destroy
the Union, shonld not be prosecuted for any other purpose
than the restoration of the authority of the Constitution
and welfare of tbe whole people of the United States, who
are permanently involved in the preservation of onr pres
ent form of Government, without modification or change.”
This resolution waa defeated by a motion to lay it npon
the table, made by Mr. Lovejoy, by the following vote, yeas
60, nays 58. Of those wbo voted to tbns defeat the reso
lution 59 were Republicans, while every Democrat except
ing one, and every Border State* representative, whose
vote is recorded, voted in the negative.
In co-operation with this most significant. declafatlon,
by the Federal House of Representatives, we bad the mili
tary emancipation proclamations of Generals Fremont and
Hunter. Along with these we' had the project of Mr.
Sumner, in the Senate, to blot ont the State governments
of tbe rebel States, reduce them to a territorial condition,
and to govern them as snch. Then followed various eman
cipation schemes, and among them the project of confisca
tion of slave* nominally* bnt ready a bill to emancipate
them. We cannot probably better prove the operation of
saeh measures npon the Southern mind, than to quote tbe
following extract from the reply of twenty ont of twenty
eight representatives from the Border Slave States to Presi
dent Lincoln, in reference to hU appeal to them to adopt
his project that the Federal Government should aid them
with money to pay the' master for his negro upon his
emancipation, viz:
“The rebellion derives its strength from the union of all
classes In the insurgent States; and while that union lasts'
the war will never end nntil they are utterly exhausted.
We know that at tbe inception ot these troubles Southern
society was divided, and that a large portion, perhaps a
majority, were opposed to secession. Now the great »
'Of Southern people are united. To discover why they are
so we snnst.glanee at Southern society and notioe the
classes into whlrii It has bees divided, and 1 which still die
A UNION MAN.
tingotoiL it- Tbty are la onto, bat not b fit m
object; Vbtj are moved to a oommon and, batty dtftreat
and inamsuient reasons. The leader*, which casprelMDds
what vu previously known as thc BteiM Rights party,
and to maui the toreer ribas, feek to ipoak down
Independence and ret dontiuma. WUh them It
■ to a war against due to istitnif,
as it sapposea,tomaintain and preeorve Itorighfr qf
property and domestic safety, which. Uhas beta to
believe are esreUed by thto Government. : TMa totter dare
are not dtovhkmtoteper to; they:are so only because they
have been laade to believe that thto adudaistrathm to in
imical to their righto, and to making warbfe thetodomeetlo
As long as these two classes act together,
theyjrlll never atoep tto a peso* The poUey. then, to ba
pursued taobvioua., q?he former olaarwu) aevfer he recon
ciled, bat tiie latter may he- 1 'Remote their apprehensions.
Satiety them that no harm to Intended to them and their
Institatibn*?. that - tide Government to not war on
their righto of .property, but to simply defending its legiti
mate authority, and they will gladly return to their
allegiance as soon as the pressure of pillitary flAmtwtnw
.Imposed by the Confederate authority to removed from
tham,
“Twelve months ago both House* of Oongress, adopting
the spirit ofyourmessage, then but recently sent unde
clared with singular unanimity theohjeota of the war, and
the country Instantly bounded to your tide to assist yon
In carrying it on. If the spirit of that resolution had been
; adhered to we are confident that we should before now
have seen the end of this deplorable conflict. But what
have we seen! In both Houses of Oongrem.we have heard
doctrines subversive of the principles of the Constitution,
amd seen measure after measure founded In substance on
those doctrines proposed and carried through, which can
hare no other effect than to distract and.dlvide loyal men,
and exasperate and drive still farther from us and- their
duty the people of the rebellious States. Military officers,
following these had examples, hare stopped beyond the
just limits of their authority in the earn* direction, until
in several Instances you have felt the necessity of interfer
ing to arrest them. And even toe passage of toe reeolution
to which you refer has been ostentatiously proclaimed as
the'triumph of principle which the people of toe Southern
States regard as ruinous to them. The effect of these
measures was foretold, and may now seen in the
indurated state of Southern feeling. *
“To these causes, Mr. President, and not to our omission
to vote for the resolution recommended by you, we solemn
ly believe we are to attribute the terrible earnestness of
those In arms against the Government and toe continuance
of the war. Nor do we (permit usto say, Mr. President,
with all respect for you) agrto that the institution ot-slave
ry is “the lever of their power,” but we are of toe opinion
that“ toe lever of their power,” to the apprehension that
the powers of a common governnfent, created for common
and equal protection to the interests of all, will be wielded
against the institutions of toe Southern States.
“Signed by,
O. A. Wicxum, Chairman.
Gabeitt Davis,
B. WiLsoif,
J. J. Crittshdiit,
Jno. 8. Caeltlx,
J. W. Cekvixld,
J. S. Jaceson,
H. Groce,
John S. Phelps,
Francis Thomas,
Charles B. Oalvs&t, .
C. L. L. Leary,
Edwin H. Webster,
H. Mallory,
Aaron Harding,
James S. Rollins,
T. W. Menzixs,
Thos L Price,
Q. W. Ditnlap,
Wh. A. Hall.”
In farther prosecution of the emancipation project of
the Abolitionists we have the proposition to arm and en
list the negroes as soldlere. indeed, we are informed,
from official sources, that one General In the army has
already organized a fall regiment of negroes. We'forbear
to diecass.the question, whether such soldiers (T)are not
a burlesque upon the name, and whether clothing and
arming negroes as such, beside the waste of clothes, arms,
and other supplies, is not exposing us to defeat in battle,
from the clearly established fact, that the negro is utterly
dlsqualifled by natare to stand the musketry and artil
lery fire —not to speak of the bayonet charge—of modern
warfare. The subject has infinitely greater proportions
when regarded in its offect to discourage enlistments by
onr own race; resulting from the commendable repug
nance of the white man to be placed upon an equality of
military rank with the negro.
Bat not the least objectionable consideration Is the feet,
that this inferior race having their minds and passions in
. flamed by the tales of real or imaginary wrongs which
Abolitionism is too careful to impart to them, will, with
arms in their hands, perpetrate the atrocities of “ the In
discriminate slaughter of all ages, sexes, and conditions "
—barbarity in warfare—of which o.nrancestors complained
against Great Britain, who had employed against them the
“ merciless Indian savages.”
The history of negro wars and insurrections in Bt. Do
mingo, and other West India Islands, is replete with the
barbarities of rapine and slaughter of helpless womon and
infants, that shock the sensibilities of the lowest develop
ment of humanity in the white man. -"And yet. should the
negroes in tho Southern States be employed and armed by
tho Federal Government against the white population,
then the atrocities of tho West India Islands we may
naturally expect to be repeated here on a vastly more ex
tended scale. Against such a fiendish policy would not
only *he moral rensibilities of all the whirls of the North
ern States who havo not become brutalized by tbe devilhh
cess of Abolitionism, bo most painfully shocked, but the
whole civilized world would condemn us. and probably, in
the cause of humanity, rise to stay atrocities bo disgrace
ful.
But what sane man can doubt that under such policy
the .last spark of Union sentiment in tho South would bo
extinguished, and the entire Southern population become
united as one person agrinst the Government? It were
the merest folly to suppose otherwise! How then would
such flgliting bring back the revolted States into tho
Union ? Can the 8,000.000 of white people be held there
under our republican form ofGovernment, in subjugation ?
Is it believed that the peoplo of the North can bo madden
ed into the effort for the extermination of eight millions
nf people wi‘li whom we havo hitherto lived in a Union
hold togeihor by f.atemnl bonds, and most of whom are
dow bound 1o members of our own population by tho
closest ties of consanguiuity ? If we were to exhaust all
our physical resources and all oar pecuniary means, could
we if we would, accomplish such purpose of extermina
tion ? Can we hold the Southern States or people in sub
jugation without overthrowing .our Constitution and the
Union; without, in fact, establishing a government the
most despotic ? '
We need no*; answer for you these inquiries. We know
what mmt to the respome of every mind not domqnted by
Abolitionism
Have we not shown, then, the policy of Abolitionism,
if carried out, is to the overthrow of our Constitution and
Union ? That Abolitionists are the enomies of the Repub
lic? Relieving we havo done so, it remains to inquire:
What is the relief for ns In this our hour of gloom for our
beloved country? We answer: Remove tho causes: re
move Abolitionism and Secessionlsm. Put down tho for
mer at tbe ballot bos; put down the latter (backed by
arms) by force {farms.- In the execution of the latter,
insist that the Government shall stand by its plighted
faith—to conduct the war to uphold the Constitution and
the Union, and rn*. as Abolitionism wonld have it, to
make disunion complete and to overthrow the Constitu
tion I As Pennsylvanians, you have possibly a greater stake
in the preservation of tho Union than the people of any
other State. Should the cooperative, yet, in aome sense,
hostile movements of Abolitiouism aod Secessloniem suc
ceed, aDd disunion become an establislwd fact, Pennsyl
vania, owing to her peculiar geographical position, wonld
be exposed to the desolation and become the battle field of
tho conflicting forces that might undertake to settle all
questions that would remain as the heritage of disnnion.
These, however, wo forbear now to contemplate; for wo
are unwilling to believe that “ that Qcd who presides over
the destinies of .nations *’ will permit such a terrible dis
pensation to befall us. We are unwilling to believe that
the people of the free States will ever become so maddened
as to aid the spirit -of Abolitionism, that seems now to
brood over ns like tome evil gonias, that would control ns
to our deduction. It cannot be that we are to have a
doom worse than befell Babylon after she had 44 become tho
habitation of devils and the hold of every foul spirit.”
Tbe only excuse offered by Abolitionism for its policy, is
tbe plausible fallacy that 44 slavery is the canse of onr
threatened disnnion.” To those who look only to immedi
ate and proximate causes, this position is captivating; but
to those who remember that toe original Union, which
waged the war of the Revolution, was made of thirteen ■
staveholding States; that the Union at the time of the
adoption of the present Constitution, consisted of twelve
elavebolding to one free State, it is very plain, that instead
of slavery producing disunion that, unless it had been re
cognized and the faith of tbe wholeseopie pledged for its
protection, this Union wonld have never existed.
It would be as reasonable to argue that houses and
money should be exterminated, because so long as they
exist there will be incendiaries and thieves, as to argae
that slavery should be destroyed, because so long as it ex
ists there will be Abolitionists. Houses and money are
not more clearly and decidedly recognized by the Constitu
tion and laws of the Federal Government, as snbjeot to
the laws and protection of the States where they exist, as
is the right of the master to the service of his negro slave
in States where negro slavery is recognized. Incendiaries
and thieves no more violate the recognized rights of others
when they born houses and commit robbery, than do Abo
litionists, when, by the underground raihftad or other de
vices, they deprive the slaveholders of the South of that
property to which the Constitution and laws ef bis State,
as well as those of the United States guarantee protection,
if in the attempt to commit arson or robbery, life is taken,
it is morder in the first degree; so tod it is murder of the
tame grade.to tike life in the unlawful attempt to deprive
the owner of his rights in the service of his negro. And
here, too, we will remark that tbe present war, if Abolition
ists should succeed in diverting it from its proper pnrpose
of upholding the Constitution and tho Union, and prosti
tuting it to their cherished object of freeing negroes by
hilling white men, wonld become an atrocious murderous
war, that wonld jastly subject all who give it snch direc
tion to the penalty ot the law imposed against the highest
of crimes.
The policy of Abolitionism, therefore, is not only unsup
ported by one tenable ground, even for its palliation, but
judged by Its objects and its effects, It is in the highest de
gree criminal and disloyal. By eradicating Abolitionism,
we remove not only sectionalism from tbe North, but the
caose of sectionalism in the South.
The fall of Abolitionism we verily believe, would in a
short time bo attended by the fail of Secesslonism. Al
thongh the imaginary advantages of a Southern Confeder
acy, entertained by many in tbe revolted States, has
secured for it unconditional supporters, yet the desolation
that has already attended upon tbeir efforts at separation,
the continued press ore of onr arms, and the recollections
of the blessings of the Union, will, upon the removal of
the cause of Southern Sectionalism, revive their senti
ments of nationality.
, We beiievo that upon the substantial extinction of Abo
litionism, the Union certainly can be restored, bnt that
without such extinction it never can be. It Is, therefore,
quite as essential that the energies of the loyal men of the
North be directed against the Abolition foes of the Union
as it is against Bects?ion foes. It remains tbe efore only
to inquire in what way can these energies bo most effec
tively directed to accomplish the desired pnrpose? We
reply only by rnpporting the organization of the Demo
cratic party. There is no other thoroughly loyal party in
the land; it has always been national; it is the only party
that has no affiliation or sympathy with sectionalism—
North or South—lt is the only party In Pennsylvania, that
is sot In the sympathy or support of such friends as Wade,
Sumner. Greeley, Phillips, Lorejoy and Wilmot. The
national men who supported Bell and Everett In the late
Presidential canvass, we believe, may now be coanted in
the rauks of the Democratic party. The only other politi
cal organization in this State is the tnfemy. of the Demo
cratic party, who has rallied once more under the designa
tion of the People’s Pajty. This party held their Conven
, tion at Harrisburg on the 17th Inst, and their true char
. actor Is abundantly shown in that in their resolutions
they eulogize and sosttin Senator Wilmot while they con
demn Senator Cowan, totlr by tho homage paid Mr. Wilmot
and by refusing to Mr. Cowan even the meed of * faint
praise.” The distinguishing feature In the political coarse
of these two Senators, it is well known, is, that Mr. Wil*
mot has supported the extremost Abolition measure# of tho
present Congress, whilst Mr. Cowan has won tho admira
tion and confidence of every Union loving patriot in the
land by his honest and fearless opposition to these meas
ure?—measures that tended to make Disnnion perpetual.
Can any loyal man in the State, therefore, hesitate which
of the two’political organization's entitled to hfs support?
The standard bearers selected by the Democratic State Con
vention are in every respect deserving of your confidence.
Isaac Slxhkxb, Esq, oar candidate for Auditor General,
is a gentleman of distinguished ability, and spotless repu
tation. .Ho is a native of York couoty. Pennsylvania
born of German patents, and who were tille s of the soil.
The early political course and well tried Integrity of Isaac
Sleeker, is known to many of the people of Pennsylvania.
In 1884 he wes elected to represent Union and Northum
berland counties in the Senate of Pennsylvania ; and while
too many Senators in that body' yielded to the Influences
that were employed by tbs late Bank of lha United States
to obtain us-charter from a Pennsylvania Legislature,
Isaac filenker, with eleven others, as honeet men, resisted
there influences, and won tha deputation of feUbful among
the faithless. He was upon the Judieiary Commlttee of
the Senate, and took an active part in the revision of our
civil code. At the expiration of his Senatorial torm, Mr.
Slenker retnrned again to the practice of his profession as
a lawyer, and since then has been out of publio position
except that 1856 he was oneof the. Presidential Electors on
the Democratic ticket in tliis State. . Mr. Slenker4s a gen
tleman of commanding abilities; highly exemplary in hto
habits of life; of great industry and purity; Qf,character.
Col. Jahzs P. Basil, onr candidate for Surveyor General,
is the editor and proprletor of the Piitshnrg JfciA a news
paper that since Mr. Barr's connection with ever
been tbe advocate of sound National principlei," Daring
the pr«ent<dvll war toeibtt had ably advodateft (he prose
cution of toe war for; the suppression of tse rebellion, and
the preservation of the Constitution' anff-thi Union. At
the same time it has been pniparing inlto hostility to that
disloyal potty or combination thathas sought toproatitnte