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SANDERSON.. Associsits.
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° OUR FLAG_
Now oar flag Is flung to the wild winds free,
Let it float o'er our father land,
And the guard of Its spotless fame shall be
Columbia's chosen band.
"CLING TO THE CONSTITUTION, AS
THE SHIPWRECKED MARINER CLINGS
TO THE LAST PLANK, WHEN NIGHT
AND THE TEMPEST CLOSE AROUND
HIMP-DANIEL WEBSTER.
TO THE •DEMOCRAC.Y OF THE CITY
AND - COUNTY OF LANCASTER.
In pursuance of authority given the undersigned by a
resolution at a meeting of the Democratic County Corn.
mittee, held on Thursday the sth inst., you are requested
to assemble in the several Wards of the City, Boroughs
and Townships of the County, on SATURDAY, 21st day of
MARCH, to elect not lima than three, nor more than five
delegates, to represent such district in a general County
Convention ; to be held on WEDNESDAY, 25th day of
MARCH, at 11 o'clock, A. M., atFulton Hall, in the City
of Lancaster, for the purpose of electing six delegates to
represent the Democracy of the County of Lancaster in
the coming State Convention, to be held at Harrisburg, on
Wednesday, 17th day oS.June next
Also in'accordance with a resolution adopted, and in
pursuance of the same authority, the Chairman would
most earnestly recommend to the Townships and Boroughs
of the County, to effect a thorough and convenient organi.
zatlon, by the formation of Democratic Clubs in their
several districts.
By the established usage of the party the several die•
tricta will each nominate one person to serve as a member
of. the County Committee for the ensuing political year,
and also nominate Ward, Borough and Township Com
mittees, being particular to designate their names in their
respective credentials to the ensuing County Convention.
R. B. TdRUDY, Chairman.
A. J. STEISINATI, Secretary.
LIIICASTEII, Match 6th, 1863
Delinquents Razeed.
We have given notice from time
to time, for the last three or four
months, of our determination, as a
matter of necessity, to strike from
our list all delinquent subscribers to,
THE INTELLIGENCER. We have al
ready erased a number of names,
and shall continue the process from
week to week until we have the job
completed. Those who have not
received the paper for several weeks,
or who may not receive it hereafter,
will know the reason. Delinquents
who are able to pay, but who neglect
or refuse to square up their accounts,
will have costs added from and after
the first of April. At the present
enormous price of white paper we
cannot any longer afford to furnish
the printed sheet "free gratis for
nothing." This is our ultimatum,
and no further indulgence can or
will be granted ; nor would it be
fair to our paying subscribers, nor
just to ourselves, that mom time
should be given.
The Delegate Elections
It will be seen by the proceedings
of the County Committee that Sat
urday, the 21st inst., is fixed upon
for the delegate elections, and Wed
nesday, the 25th, for the assembing
of the County Convention, to ap
point delegates to represent Lancas
ter county in the ensuing State Con
vention. At the same time the
names of persons to compose the
County and Township Committees
will be handed in, and the prelim
inary steps taken for a thorough or
ganization of the Democratic party
in Lancaster county. In view of
the great issues of the day, and the
vast responsibilities which are de
volving upon the people, if they
would save the Union from the
hands of the spoilers North and
South, we hope every Democrat and
every conservative man in the coun
ty will attend the primary meetings
on Saturday week, and elect such
men as delegates who will fearlessly
and faithfully reflect their sentiments
in the County Convention.
The Conscription Bill.
The Conscription has now become
a law, and therefore the people may
as well prepare for its enforcement.
To say nothing , of its sweeping ob
literation of State rights, and its
concentration of all the military
power of the country in the hands
of the President, there is one other
feature in the bill which we consider
decidedly objectionable—we allude
to the commutation provision. It
will be seen from this that the bill
will raise an army exclusively of poor
men, who will be compelled to leave
their families for the field, whilst the
rich will be exempted from service
by the payment of the comparative
ly small sum of $3OO. This will, of
course, yield the Government an
enormous amount of revenue, but
the hardships and perils of actual
service that will have to be under
gone by the working classes will be
vastly more burdensome than the
payment of the re-Venue by the rich.
It is well enough to have some pro
vision for the payment of an ex
emption, for many can do the coun
try more service by paying an equiva
lent in money than by taking the
field; but it ought to be equable, so'
that the military burdens shall fall
upon all classes alike, and the com
mutation provision be graded in pro
portion to their means of paythent.
As it is, the law will prove unfair
and an instrument of oppression—
the poor must, of necessity, go to
war, and the rich will go scot free.
MR. BUORALEWS LETTER.
We direct the attention of our readers to
the letter o f Senator Bucumsw,-on our first
page. It has the ring of the true metal in it,
and merits a careful reading.
. The "Union Leagtie."i
This is the new name the 'oppo
nents of Democracy have assumed
to cover up their Abolitionism and
all the other heresies of the so-called
Republican party. They had a
meeting a week ago last evening at
Cooper's Hotel, in this city, l and
ofganized by electing officers, &c.,
as follows :
President—Dr. F. A. Muhlenberg.
Vice Presidents—Thos. E. Franklin, Benj.
Champneys, Wm. B. Fordney, Gottlieb Setter,
Peter McConorny, C. Hager, James M. Hop
kins, George Martin.
Standing Committee—Dr. Patrick Cassidy,
Jacob B. Amwake, S. W. P. Boyd, Geo. M.
Kline, Johh J. Cochran, Amos Henderson,
Peter Martin, John Sheaffer, John M. Kelly.
Treasurer—Rudolph F. Ranch.
Corresponding Secretary.-James L. Rey
nolds.
Recording Secretary—Amos Slaymaker.
The officers were unanimously elected, and
Judge Hayes, and Mr. Cochran appointed a
committee to inform Dr. Muhlenburg of his
election.
On Motion of Thomas E. Frank
lin, Esq., the following preamble and
resolutions were unanimouslradopt
ed :
FUNDAMENTAL ARTICLES
The undersigned agree to associate under
the name of " TEE UNION LEAGUE or LAN
CASTER," and to adopt the following funda
mental Articles of Association, to wit :
1. The condition of membership shall be
unqualified loyalty to the Government of the
United States, and unwavering support to its
efforts for the suppression of the Rebellion.
2. The primary object of the Association
shall be to discountenance and rebuke, by
moral and social influences, all disloyalty to
the Federal Government; and to that end the
associators will use every proper means, in
public and private.
These " fundamental " articles,
which are to be the supreme law of
the Association, are, first: Unqualified
loyalty to the Government, which
means, if it has any meaning at all,
a full endorsement of all the public
plunder, illegal and arbitrary arrests
and imprisonments, the suspension
of the great writ of habeas corpus,
the freeing of the negroes of the
South at the cost of the tax-payers,
the arming of the negroes and plac
ing them on an equality with the
white race, and all the other mon
strosities of the last two years.—
Secondly : The primary, or leading
object of the Association is avowed
to be to discountenance and rebuke,
by "moral and social influences," all
disloyalty to the Federal Govern
ment ; and to that end the associa
tors will use every proper [and im
proper] means, in public and private.
In other words, and this is the plain
English of it, they discard all social
intercourse with Democrats, which,
of course, includes business inter
course—for we take it that where
there is no social intercourse between
parties, there can be no business
transactions either. And they are
going to carry out this resolve both
in public and private. If they cannot
injure a Democrat in his business
and social relations publicly, they
bind themselves to do it privately;
or, to use a common expression, they
will, assassin -like, stab in the dark
where they are afraid to do it openly
and in the light of day. This is
Know-Nothingism revived and in
tensified.
We ask the Democrats of this
city and county to mark these men,
and all who connect themselves with
such an organization and subscribe
to such principles. If these exclu
sives and would-be Aristocrats can
live without the Democrats in.a so
cial and business point of view, we
suppose the Democrats will have to
try to get along without them. We
do not believe that the Republicans
as a body can sanction such princi
ples, nor can we believe that all the
gentlemen whose names are men
tioned above will endorse them ; but,
be that as it may, wherever and to
what extent it is done, let the Demo
crats take note of it and pay them
back with interest. We have pro
fessional and business men enough
in our own party to attend to all our
wants, and therefore need be under
no necessity of seeking business or
social relations with men who avow
such infamous doctrines as their
standard of faith and practice.
pip= The readers of the filth sheet
in South Queen street must be a
gullible set of people if they believe
the " cock pad bull " stories pub
lished in its columns of Thursday
and Friday evening last—the first in
reference to a colloquy said to have
taken place a day or two before on
the street between a prominent coun
try Democrat and the Mayor; the
second in relation to the conduct
of the Mayor and certain rowdy
boys in Chesnut street, on Thursday
evening. These stories contain a
very small grain of truth, covered
up with a huge mountain of unmiti
gated falsehoods and misrepresenta
tions. This is all the reply we have
at present to make to the base and
infamous scoundrel who penned
these malignant, unprovoked and
unjustifiable attacks upon us. A
man who would be guilty of com
mitting the high crime of forgery to
cheat a poor woman out of her hon
est dues, cannot be expected to have
any compunctions of conscience
about slandering his neighbor. The
next time we may have occasion to
notice the scurvy fellow, we shall do
so by publishing a certified transcript
(now in our possession) of a Docket
Entry in the Quarter Sessions of
Dauphin county, of August Sessions,
1847, in relation to a little business
transaction in which this pink of
hone!ty was engaged. When this is
done it will open the eyes of the
good people of Lancaster city and
county, and they will then see, in
its true light, the character of this
self-constituted censor of morals, and
know where to place him for the fu
ture.
AO GRANGE
At a meeting of the Democratic State Cen
tral Committee, 27 members being present,
held in Philadelphia on Saturday evening
last, a motion to change the time for - holding
the State Convention was disagreed to. The
Convention will therefore be held at the time
originally fixed, the 17th of June.
SPRING ELECTION.—The election of Town
ship and Borough officers, will be held on
Friday, the 20th of March. The choice of
thesO officers is a matter of grave importance,
and should be carefully considered. Let our
Democratic friends take efficient steps to do
their duty at - these elections.
STATE /ELECTIONS.
The New Hampshire election takes plaoe
today—the Conneotient and Rhode Island
elections on the let of April.
A Few Words in Reply.
Two weeks ago we copied an arti
cle from the Pottsville Standard,
without note or comment, as a com
pliment tothe Reverend gentleman
who is the subject of•the notice. A
few days thereafter he was in this
city, and in the course of the week,
it would appear that he paid a visit
to Mr. GEIST, whether; to do penance
or not we do not pretend to say.—
But certain it is that he called upon
him, and the result was the follow
ing article in the Express of Satur
day the 28th ultimo:
«A PATRIOTIC CLRRGYBIAN."
We notice that among the religious intelli
gence in oar local column, it is announced
that Rev. J. FRANCIS MEREDITH, late of the
Army of the Potomac, will preach in the
Duke street Methodist Church to-morrow
evening. This gentleman is a brother I f the
Pastor of that church, and moreover, happens
to be the "patriotic clergyman," whose prin
ciples were so grossly misrepresented in the
Intelligencer of last
,weeE, in the following
article copied from a Copperhead journal of
Pottsville:
"A Patriotic Clergyman: Rev. John F.
Meredith, Chaplain of the 50th Regiment of
Pennsylvania Volunteers, preached two ser
mons in Minersville on Sunday last, in which
he took occasion to give his audience his
views on the manner in which the war has
been conducted. Mr. Meredith has had ample
opportunity of, observing the evil effects of the
policy adopted by the abolition administra
tion, and does not hesitate to speak his mind
fully and freely on all subjects connected with
the war. The removal of General McClellan
he regards as one of the most suicidal acts
that could have been committed. Mr. M.
went to the war a thorough-going Republican,
and we are glad to know that he has detected
the hypocrisy of the abolitionists, who have
arrogated tt themselves virtues which they do
not possess."
Mr. MEREDITH IS now on a visit to his broth
er in this city, and we had the pleasure of
forming his acquaintance to-day. We there
fore. know, personally, that the above is a
gross misrepresentation of his views and prin
ciples. We have always regarded the present
worthy and patriotic pastor of the Duke
street Church as being as thoroughly loyal
and earnest a supporter of the GovernMent
in its present policy for crushing the rebellion
as the most loyal man could desire ; but his
brother, who is the subject of the foregoing
extract, is, if possible, " more so," and if any
one doubts it, they should see and hear for
themselves. The Pottsville Journal of Satur
day, however, in replying to the Copperhead
slander, thus authoritatively defines Mr.
MEREDITH'S position :
"This gentleman, who is Chaplain, of the
Fiftieth Regiment, P. V., Col. B. C. Christ,
yields to none in warm support of the Ad—
ministration in its policy for crushing this
hell-born rebellion. Mr. Meredith admires
Gen. McClellan as a soldier and a man. He
also pays the highest compliment to Cal.
Christ, who is an able, attentive and kind
officer, much beloved by the men of his com
mand. To a man like Mr. Meredith it is un•
doubtedly somewhat. annoying to have his
sentiments misrepresented, as they were by
the Copperhead organ of this Vorough in its
last issue. We are authorized to state that
the remarks attributed to him by the smut
machine as having been delivered while
preaching in Minersville recently, are utterly
untrue. Mr. Meredith is a strong friend of
the Government, and heartily endorses the
President's Emancipation Proclamation. To
give our readers some idea of Mr. Meredith's
real sentiments, we will state that he preached
recently in his brother-in-law's church in
Tamaqua, and in the course of his earnest,
eloquent address, t; said, in allusion to leaving
this county to enter the service, " I went
away branded as a black abolitionist. I come
back more so." So much for the Copperhead
organ's veracity in the matter. The infamous
lying character of that sheet is so thoroughly
appreciated in this community that the libel
upon a respectable minister is hardly worth
the space we devote to its refutation; but we
make it in justice to Mr. Meredith and in
order that not a single person may be de
ceived in this matter."
But the Pottsville Stand2rd is not
disposed to let the Reverend gentle
man, and his Abolition organ of
Schuylkill county, off so easily. Ac
cordingly, in its issue of Saturday
week, we have the following rejoinder
to the Journal, which will speak for
itself:
REP. JOHN F. MEREDITH.—The Viper and
black snake organ of this Borough, a paper
known only for its infamous mendacity and
its gross violations of all the decencies and
proprieties of life, has had the unblushing
impudence to attempt to deny the truth of the
statements made by us in relation to the ser
mons preached by the Rev. John F. Meredith,
at Minersville, on Sunday, February Bth,
1863. The editor of the viper and black
snake organ, says that he is authorized to
state that the remarks attributed to Mr. Mere
dith, are utterly false. Who his author is,
he has carefully concealed from the public.
In speaking of the sermons of Mr. Meredith,
we did so in general terms, and did not pre
tend to give the language used by him on
those occasions. We are authorized how
ever by some of the most respectable citizens
of Minersville to say that Mr. Meredith said
much more, and used much stronger language
than that which appeared in the Democratic
Standard. He said in substance that When
Gen. McClellan was removed, the heart was
taken from the army of the Potomac, and the
only way to restore that heart to the army
was to restore General McClellan to the com
mand. He further said that he believed that
the President was honest, but he had very
bad surroundings. Halleck and Stanton were
spoken of in a contemptuous manner. The"
Emancipation Proclamation he could endorse
as an oct of humanity, but as a military
measure he was not prepared to venture an
opinion. We have also been informed by a
gentleman, who ought to know Mr. Mere
dith's views in relation to the war, that he
(Mr. Meredith) does not endorse the emanci
pation proclamation as a military measure;
and also that he shed tears over the removal
of General McClellan. The statement of the
Viper and black snake organ is a tissue of
lies from the beginning to the end, with the
exception perhaps of the remarks made by
Mr. M. at Tamaqua. If Mr. Meredith thinks
that he has been misrepresented by us, why
does be not come out over his own signature
and deny the truth of our statement? Then
we should feel called upon to make use of
such evidence as has been placed in our pos
session. We despise duplicity.
The issue is now fairly made up,
and if Mr. Meredith comes off second
best in the controversy between the
Pottsville papers, it is his own fault,
not ours. He has chosen to step
into the arena of politics, and has
caused an onslaught to be made
upon us, through his honest and
veracious friend of the Express, with
out any provocation on our part.—
Had he called upon us we should
cheerfully have consented to place
him right on the record; but as he
did not see proper to do so, but pre
ferred making his confession else
where, he will have to put up with
the consequences. If he has return
ed from the army more of a black
Abolitionist than he was when he went
away, and his Pottsville defender
puts that language in his mouth,
then all we have to say is that Lan
caster city is not the place for such
doctrine to be proclaimed from the
pulpit, whatever may be the case in
Tamaqua.
We have a high esteem for a Min
ister who, in the spirit of his Divine
Master, preaches the gospel and that
only ; but we entertain the most
sovereign contempt for any one who
will convert the pulpit into a politi
cal rostrum for the purpose of belch
ing forth his insane and impractica
ble ideas on the subject of African
slavery, and other kindred subjects
whicl , enter so largely into the heated
pi gal discussions of the day. A
clergyman has a right to be either
an Abolitionist or a Democrat, but
he has no right to take advantage of
his position to make known his po
litical sentiments from the pulpit.
We.have made these few remarks
not out of any personal hostility to.
Mr. MEREDITH, nor because we
deem his opinions on the war of
any moment one way or the other,
but simply to place ourself right
on the record, and to answer a
vile and uncalled for attack which, we
have good reason for believing, was
prompted by
,that gentleman him
self. If we are wrong in our belief
we shall take pleasure, when con
vinced of it, in making the amende
honorable; but not until then. W hen
struck at unjustly, we are very apt
to strike the aggressor back, be he
minister or layman.
RESTORATION OF THE UNION
" A majority of the people of the rebel
States would doubtless gladly assent to a res
toration of ' the Union as it was ;' but the
Richmond despotism has already told us that
it will do nothing of the sort."—.New York
Tribune, Feb. 12.
The Abolition papers have for months been
singing the song that the people of the South
ern States did not and would not consent to
a restoration of the Union in no event—that
for nothing but a recognition of the Southern
Confederacy, as a separate government, would
they consent to a peace or close the war. In
this, the Tribune confesses that its party was
playing its characteristic game of deception,
phich they have constantly played since this
conflict commenced. The great oracle of the
Administration party at length blunders into
the truth, and declares that a majority of the
people of the Rebel States would doubtless
gladly assent to a restoration of " the Union
as it was;" which it and its coadjutors in
Abolition fanaticism would consider aYgreat
calamity. They admit that they do not want
the Union restored as it was ; they want it
forever dissolved, unless the black race is
placed on a social and political equality with
the white; they want no Union where white
men are equal one with another ; they don't
want the Union restored unless the doctrine of
State rights, and the right of the people to
govern themselves, in their own way, is °bro_
gated, and the country governed upon the
bigoted fanatical theory of New England
Puritanism, and their love for the negro
is on the hypothesis that they can always
control the black votes to carry the elections
in their favor and thus perpetuate their
power.
The Tribune's side issue that the " Rich
mond despotism has told us that it will do
nothing of the sort," has nothing to do with
the subject. The majority of the people of
the Southern States must take care of their
own despotism. This they would be able to
have done long ago if it had not been for the
aid that " despotism" has consrantly been
receiving from the administration at Wash
ington, and the radicals of the north. It is
the people of the Southern States that the
people of the North have to deal with. It is
the people of both sections that must negotiate
and restore the Union if it is ever restored at
all. Neither the despotism at Richmond or
at Washington will ever do it, or ever bring
either section again to that state of peace, pros
perity and happiness the country once enjoyed,
when the will of the people was respected,bsr
its rulers. Neither despotism reflects 'the
sentiment of the majority of the people of the
two sections. The people are sick and tired
of this war. They do not believe it can res
tore the Union, or come to any good result.—
The Southern people are weary of drafts and
conscriptions. The Northerners are weary of
the same thing, and are oppressed with high
taxes. • They are alarmed at our depreciated
currency. They are sick of paying twenty
five cents per yard for calico, fifty cents for
brown muslin, and similar increased prices
for everything they consume in family use.—
They want to see sugar, coffee, tea and other
groceries once more brought within reach of
the poor, who cannot now afford them at war
prices. They want to see the loved ones now
in the army, and about whom they are so
anxious, restored to the family fireside.
.They
want the Union restored as it was, not as
Lincoln or Jeff. Davis—not as the Abolition
ists or Southern traitors would restore it, but
upon the basis of the Constitution, under
which we so long lived and prospered. Let
the people act, North and South, and they
will do it in spite of all the despotisms on
earth.
SCUTT vs. ➢IcCLELLAN
The Abolitionists, in their anxiety to dam
age the fair reputation of Gen. MCCLELLAN,
have published a letter written by Gen. SCOTT
to the War Department, dated October 4th,
1861, in which he complains that Gen. Mc-
CLELLAN did not advise him of the arrival,
number and distribution of his troops, and
that he was in the habit of communicating
with the President, Secretary of War, and
other officers of the Government direct, instead
of making him (Gen. Scorr) the channel of
communication. This letter received no at
tention from the War Department at the time
it was written, and for very good and sufficient
reasons. It was notorious that Gen. SCOTT'S
son-in-law and private Secretary, Captain H.
L. SCOTT, who had his father-in-law's entire
confidence, and who was advised by him of all
the important movements of the Federal army
was a sympathizer with the rebels, and stron
,
ly suspected of holding secret correspondenee
with them. The plans of General McCLELLAN
which belied submitted to Gen. SCOTT, were
revealed to the enemy, and according to Gen.
SCOTT'S own statement he had not communi
cated them to any one save his private Secre
tary, H. L. SCOTT. Indeed, the circumstantial
evidence against Captain SCOTT was so strong
that the old General deemed it advisable to
take his son in-law to Europe where be will
probably remain 'until the war is over. That
was the reason why General McCLELLAN did
not make General SCOTT the medium of com
munication with the War Department, and
his course was doubtless approved by the
President and Secretary of War.
DECLINE IN GOLD
The adjournment and expiration of the late
Abolition Congress, has had the effect to re
duce the price of Gold from seventy per cent.
down to fifty. This fall in the price of
Gold is clearly traceable to the fact that the
monied men of our large cities, have always
regarded the Abolitionists as dangerous and
fanatical men, whose object has been to carry
out their sectional views at the expense of
our Republican institutions. Capitalists and
business men were afraid to trust the Aboli
tionists - of the late Congress. This one fact
speaks louder than language can express. It
shows that the business men of the country,
have settled down into the belief that if the
rebellion is to be suppressed and the Union
restored, it will have to be done by the Demo
cratic party. The decline in Gold is proof
positive of the fact. No better evidence is
needed of the patriotism and loyalty of the
Democratic party, than the fact that the
accession of the Democrats to power in the
lower House of Congress, has had such a
favorable effect upon the money market. We
hope the Abolitionists will make a note of this
fact.
LOCAL DEPARTIdENT.
A GLIIRIOI7B DEMONSTRATION—ORGANIZA
TION OF THE DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL CLUB OP THE CITY RID
COUNTY or Leactorru--;The meeting of the Democracy in
the large hall (second floor) of Reed, McOrann & Co's
Banking House, on Wednesday evening last, was a glorl•
on, demonstration. The hall was crowded, ea well as the
antechamber end stairway leading thereto. with the nn.
flinching and unconquerab'e Democracy of this city. A
little after 7 o'clock the meeting was called to order by
HENRY C. Winn. Deci , upon whose motion Dr. HENRY
CARPENTER was called to the chair; and upon motion of W.
W. Blows, Esq , ALFRED SANDERSON was appointed Setae
tart'.
The object or the meeting was briefly stated by the
President on taking the chair.
H. B. Swoon. Esq., then arose and moved that a com
mittee of five he appointed to report permanent Officers for
the Club, abich wee adopted. Committee—Messrs. H. B.
Swarr, George W. Brows, Henry C. Went; John H. Ref
gart and Dr. D. McCormick. The committee then retired
for consultation.
R. R. Tenon, of Litiz. moved that a committee of five
be, appointed to draft a Constitution and By-Laws for the
goiernment of the Club—the committee to report at the
next meeting. Adopted. Committee—Messrs B. IL Teludy,
IA H. Reynolds, W. W. Brown, Capt. John Wise and A. Z.
Rtngwalt.
. During the absence of the former committee B. H. MIT-
CoLna, , was called upon to address the meeting. Mr.
H. briefly responded in a happy and eloquent manner, ex
toeing himself from making any extended remarks on ac
count of the soreness of his throat-
The committee then returned, and through Mr. Swazis,
Chairman, reported the following officers:
President
Gosi. ISAAC E. RIESTER.
Vice Presidents :
Dr. Hinny CORPLNEES. S. W. Ward,
ADAM Thom., N. W. Ward,
Joint DEANER, S. E. Ward,
Ms.toris, N.E. Ward.
Treasurer:
Gen. GEORGE N. STEINMAN.
Recording Secretary
dIFILED A.LNDERSON.
Cbrresponding Secretaries:
• R. R. 'Dintruz,
Caeauts E. Wscirz, City.
The report was unanimously adopted, and greeted with
much applause. The same gentlemen were also appointed
a committee to inform the officers above named of their
election.
Mayor SLNDZILSON, who was in the back part of the hall,
was loudly called for, and came forward to the platform
and briefly addressed the meeting. His allusions to the
Union League were appropriate and to the point, and his
remarks throughout created great enthusiasm.
H. B. SWAIM, Esq., was called out and briefly respmded.
He paid his respects in the right style to the principles
enunciated by the stecalled Union (I) League of this city.
His remarks were greeted with great applause.
Capt. Joint Wigs was neat called for, and responded in his
usual happy style, making the fur fly from the backs and
the wool from the top of the heads of the Nock-snakes and
nigger -hinds. The Captain was warmly applauded.
Dr. CARPLIVITA closed the speaking with a few happy,
eloquent and well-timed remarks, which were well received
by the'meering.
Mr. Alizarin= PATTON moved that a committee be ap
pointed to congratulate the Democracy of Trenton, New
Jersey, then assembled in mass meeting, on the demise of
the 37th Congress, and also on the recent municipal vk.
tories in New York. The motion was adopted amid much
applause, and the following committee appointed Messrs.
Alexander Patton, H. B. Swart' Bernard. McGrann, Col.
John Rankin and William Cox. The committee sent the
following despatch at 9 o'clock, P. M, by telegraph:
"The Democratic Central Club of the City and County
of Lancaster congratulate the Democracy of Trenton, N.
J., in mass meeting assembled, on the demise of the 37th
Congress, and also on the recent municipal victories In
New York."
The despatch was sent to Judge NAAR, the gallant and
veteran editor of the Trenton True .American, and the fol
lowing reply by telegraph was received on Thursday
"The Democrats of Trenton to the Democratic Central
Club of the City and County of Lancaster, Greeting
May the fate of the 37th Congress be that of all other ene
mies of the Constitution and Union, viz Political death
and oblivion."
The Club adjourned, with three rousing cheers for the
Union and the Constitution, to meet on Thursday evening
next, at 7 o'clock, at the same place—the hall having
been rented and fitted up expressly as a reading room and
for the meetings of the Club.
Among the prominent Democrats present on this occa
sion was our glorious old friend, Col. JOHN RANKIN, former
ly of title city, now of Williamsport. The Colonel wan
warmly welcomed by hie old friends, and invited to take
seat on the platform.
"CROW, CHAPMAN, CROW!"—A GOOD OMEN.
—On Tuesday afternoon last, whilst Mr HENRY WILHELM,
Janitor, and several other gentlemen were engaged in fit
ting up the hall of the Democratic Central Club, a Rooster
(belonging to a Democratic lady) deliberately walked into
the building, up the stairway. into the hell and up to the
platform, and there flapped hie wings and crowed! He
staid there for about an hour, in the meabwhile crowing
several times, and then as deliberately left. Surely, a
good omen! The ball was properly christened.
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DEMOCRATIC PURPOSES
" THE FEDERAL UNION—IT MUST AND SHALL
BE PRESERVED."—Andrew Jackson.
"WE MUST PRESERVE OUR LIBERTIES OR
PERISH IN THE LAST DlTCH. " —Andrew Jackson.
The above words of the Patriot and Hero.
ANDREW JACKSON, describe the whole end and
aim of the Democracy every where in their
present struggle with the hosts of abolition
disunionism. The Union is in danger both
from rebels in arms and their allies who con
trol the policy of the administration, and both
must be put down or that Union will be
destroyed. Our liberties are menaced by the
men in power at Washington, and they must
be rebuked by the people and induced to
change their course and policy, or we shall
cease to be freemen. To the preservation of
the Union and of our liberties the efforts of
the Democracy are devoted; and in this great
and glorious cause they invite the aid and co
operation of every patriotic citizen. Every
true friend of his country and every man
worthy of the name of freeman cordially con
cure in the above noble sentiments of JACK
soN ; but it is not enough that they concur in
them, they must do something towards car
rying them into effect. There is but one way
to do that. It can be done only through the
ballot-box ; and much may thus be done. A
'Democratic victory next October in Pennsyl.
vania will do more towards preserving our
liberties than has been done by all the fight
ing of the war. And if the glorious old
JACKSON was now alive, we have no doubt
be would say so. We must preserve our
Union and our liberties by and through the
ballot-box. There every man can do his part
and exert his proper influence. Now is the
time to strike an effective blow for the Union
let no true lover of his country fail to do his
duty.
REIGN OF TERROR--GOOD ADVICE
The Abolition press, secure, as it fancies,
under the military protection of Abraham the
First, indulges, says the Harrisburg Patriot,
at times in most diabolical threats against
those who refuse to bow the knee to the idol
of its party. Very often it holds before our
eyes the prison and the gallows to deter us
from a'free expression of sentiment. Nay, it
has even threatened extermination, to drench
the gutters of the Capital with Democratic
blood ; and in this city the very negroes have
pledged themselves to aid their white Aboli
tion brethren in massacreing those whom
they are pleased to designate as Northern
traitors and secession sympathizers. The
New York Times, one of the most venemone
of the species, has recently been threatening
to play the Robesperian game with the unter
rifted of New York, who refuse to cry " long
live the King." Thereupon the Express, in a
very cool manner, volunteers the following
excellent advice, which the coadjutors of the
Times outside New York, as well as in it, will
do well to profit by :
" If the editor of the Times has in contem
plation any imitation here of the French cut
throat guillotine models, we would advise him,
first, to make his peace with God, strong and
sure, and next, to insure his establishment
against all the perils of war in the richest of
fice in the city. The Faubourg St. Antoine
here is Danocratic. Forty thousand majority '
of the ' Hage Paws,' in sound of the City Hall
bell, now protect the majesty of liberty, on
this side of the river alone."
THE CONSCRIPTION
It is a notable fact that all the Abolitionists
who are loudest in their laudations of the con
scription act are either over age or have got
money enough to purchase exemption! These
are the patriots who are getting up "Union
Leagues" to crush the Constitution, prevent a
re-union on the old basis, and establish a
despotism on the ruins of our republican in
stitutions. Let them be marked and re
membered.
For Tbelntelligeneer.
THANK GOD: FOR THE FOURTH OF
MARCH, 1883.
Mamas Enrralts: Never was there a more devout thank
God! uttered than was raised from thousands upon thous.
ands of patriotic and honest hearts within the borders of
the Northern States, as when the light of Heaven dawned
upon the 9th of March. 1883. On that day the Thirty-
Seventh Congress explied, and with it the power of a party
which for the last two years has been dragging the country
at lightning speed into bankruptcy and ruin. The em
bodiment of all the corruption and infamy, which has no-
cumulated from the birth of the party until It. found Its
grave in the bosom of the mighty past, the last Congress
Mss written for itself a page in the history of na ti ons
which will carry to the latest posterity the conviction that
in it culminated all the elements of rottenness, political
chicanery, sectional, fanatical tom-foolery, and infatuated
Abolition iniquity that the country was capable of pro
di:lring. or that could find birth or position In the mind of
m•n.
The sad condition of our beloved country at this moment
is principally attributable to the faithiessnees and corrup
tion of the Republican party, in and through its President,
its Senators and its Congressmen. From the day that
gave it an organic existence, until the present hour, it bee
lived and breathed a mass of deception and perfidy. Its
whole life and ultimate success rested In its duplicity, for
in a fair, open avowal -of its principles and purposes it
never mold have mustered a corporal's guard to its sup
port as a party. Its very name is a monstrous fraud, for,
if honesty had been an element In Its formation, Its
leaders would have given it the title of the Abolition party,
and in an open, manly contest would have sought its sun.
cess upon its merits, and not under the guise of a National
name, for sectional purposes.
For the lest two years the Republican party has exer
cised the full powers of the Government, and In no gov
ernment, upon earth has there been the same amount of
corruptien, reckless legislation, and disregard for the
power of the Constitution and the will of the people as
upon the part of the present Administration and the Con
gress that has just closed. And as a consequence of their
ruthless conduct, the country is loaded with a mass of
corrupt legislation, which it will be found exceedingly
difficult to put into practical force, or if such can be ac
complished, it never can reach the end for which it was
ostensibly designed.
By reason of the change which has been made in the
object of the war, there has been what they regard as a
"decay of patriotic sentiment," and as manifest withhold.
lag of the means necessary to subdue the rebellion—and
thus it bas been shown that the legislation referred to is
a necessity. This is an adroit stroke of policy, and designed
no dcubt to extricate them from the maze of difficulty
their conduct might have thrown around them
without such excuse. But with the people the matter
!tends differently. The silence maintained is not an ac
quiescence or quiet submission to their perfidy and politi
cal charlantry; but the enormity and boldness of their
conduct in the face of the Constitution, and in-the midst
of a free and patriotic people, has caused public sentiment
to stand aghast, and to be stricken almost dumb with
amazement at the presumption and impertinence of the
powers that be.
Two years ago an Emancipation Proclamation a Negro
Soldier bill, and a Conscription bill, which practically ig
nores the Constitutions and laws of the several States,
would have called down upon upon those now ire power
such a torrent of universal anathemas as would have hurl
ed them from power. Now, however, after having schooled
the country into a tact submission to their acts, they can
find it perfectly convenient to pass bills not only of the
character of such as above enumerated,. but others fully
as offensive and of a character equally pernicious and de
structive to the true interests of the country.
Atjhe commencement of the war the rebellion was held
in such utter contempt by the Administration that it re
fused to exchange prisoners, lest by that act It would be
obliged to acknowledge the Confederacy as a belligerent
power. The cartel of exchange since arranged has evinced
a great change in its policy, and now it holds precisely
the position it then indignantly repelled.
Then the prevailing sentiment North was that the
lettere of marque and reprisal issued by Jefferson
Davis was a monstrous crime, and that the privateers sent
out by each letters were pirates, and their crews and offi
cers when arrested were tried and convicted as pirates -
-Now they can feel a safety and comfort in passing bills in
Congress authorizing the President to issue letters of
marque and reprisal, the very thing for which they held
such holy horror in the beginning.
The proclamations of Fremont in the West, Hunter and
Phelps in the South, freeing the slaves of men who were
in arms against the authority of the Government, and the
report of Cameron, while Secretary of War, recommending
the arming of the slaves for the suppression of the rebel.
lion. called down upon the Administration such an ava
lanche of public indignation that it became necessary to
remove two of the offenders and to issue a counter procla
mation upon the part of the other. Now a sweeping pro.
denotation, reaching as far as the rebellion itself, covering
far more ground than all the others pat together, and
usurping the very same powers, setting at defiance the
very earns public sentiment, and outraging all the guar
antees of the Constitution, can be issued by the man who
then appeared alarmed at the rapid pulsation of the public
heart, as it swelled with indignation and rage at such
ruthless disregard for the very elements of life and pros
perity, and the very cornerstone of - our great Republic as
it was laid by the founders of the Government.
Congress, too, with the same nonchalance, can feel it
perfectly safe and proper to make soldiers of the negro,
arm him to the teeth, and even encourage him to deeds of
the most horrible barbarities, notwithstanding the pres
sure in the Northern States which hurled Cameron from,
power for simply recommending such a course.
Then the thought of a draft was an outrage upon the
courage and patriotism of the people, and the conscription
resorted to in the South was a monst rous! piece of tyranny,
characteristic of the despotic tendency of the "slave oli
garchy" of the South. Now the Republicans, who rem
posed a majority of the Congress which has just expired,
can force upon the people a bill containing every offensive
feature of lbst in operation in the Southern Confederacy,
and, in addition, delegates to the President not only all
the powers constitutionally belonging to Congress and the
Judiciary, but invests him with supreme control over the
laws and Constitutions of the States, thereby annulling
States' rights and the organic principles upon which they
hold a government pent - Mar to themselves, and for their
own cl:re.tir direction and safety.
- . . .
hut why ell this change ? How is it that In two short
yeas every principle upon which we stood in oar common
nationality as a great Republican Government has been
subv.rted and dragged into the whirlpool, which Is rapidly
carts ing,,is into ilia dark chambers of a hopeless despot
ism' If the party now in power had started out with the
avowed purpose of dissolving the Union, and destroying
th,, Government, what steps could they have taken more
effectually to accomplish that object, end effect that result
than those they have token
Have the sentiments of the people changed in regard to
the practicability of self-government, or the powers of the
Constitution to reach and control every principle upon
which our Government was founded, that they thus eu•
pinely slumber upon the very threshold of national rein,
and b Israte a full development of the conduct of men who
ha, been laboring for twenty years for the overthrow of our
republican institutions, in order to wipe out t,l3e slave power
and give force and efficiency to a system of moral ethics
which has ever beon hostile to dectrines which would In
the least compromise its idea of a system of
government other than its own idea of the guidance and
rule of the Saints, and can form no permanent attachment
to civil liberty, except on it squared with what It conceived
to he the teachings of the Covenant?
We can unhesitatingly utter a solemn and earnest nega
tive to all this, and pint t the uulookod.for and unex
pected change in public sentiment, as evinced in the elect
tions of last fall, and as developed in the Legislatures in
some of the Northern States which are entering their
solemn protest against the stupendous strides to despotism
which are, and must necessarily be, the result of the
infamous legislation the„hist Congress has loaded upon the
people.
Too mock praise cannot be given to the little band of
living patriots who composed the minority of that Con
gress, and who rendered themselves immortal for the
manly and courageous manner in which they met and on.
deavored to resist the tide of corruption and rotten profli
gacy that rushed upon them from the floodgates of Black
Republican rule. Th.y aff..rded the only light in the gen
eral gloom, and will receive the great reward the people
have in store for them as good and faithful stewards, when
the dark waters of eternal oblivion shall have closed for
ever over the miserable demagogues who have destroyed
our country and ruined our prosperity and happiness es a
people. OBSERViIt.
March 4th, 1863.
For The lotellfgencer
"THE UNION LEAGUE."
The spirit of eentimental fanaticism In oar midst, which
seeks to elevate the negro to the social and point.' equal.
ity of the white man, failing to convince the public mind
of either the feasibility or practicability of such a heresy,
by the only means justifiable in a free government, viz:
reason addressed to the Judgment of men, has resorted to
a new method of accomplishing its wicked, unholy and
impossible purposes by the establishment of what it is
pie tsad to term a UNION LEAGUE" The professed object
of this Union Lenge° "is'• to discountenance and rebuke
by more/ and social influences all disloyally to the /Meru/
Government. and to that end the association toiQ use every
proper roams in public and private" With men auffici
nutty narrow minded and bigoted, to become members of
such an association, loyalty to the Government means
the support of all the despotic and unconstitutional mean.
tires of the imbecile administration of Abraham Lincoln.
Irk their estimation the present National Administration
is the Government, and every person is disloyal who is
taught to believe in those principles of Constitutional Gov
ernment adopted by the framers of the Constitution, and
which, up to the period of the accession of Abraham Lin
coln to the Presidency, were strictly adhered to by every
Chief 31agistrate of the Nation. The whole Democratic
party of the country being of that belisf, every individual
member composing it is, In the estimation of this " Union
League," disloyal, and the members of the League are
pledged to use every means, public and private, to die.
countenance and rebuke Democrats. No business transac
tions are therefore to be had by Union Leagneists with
Democrats. No social intercourse Is to be had between the
families of members of the Union League with the families
of Democrats. No Democrat is to be empleyed profession
ally by a member of the Union League. No Democratic
merchant is to receive any patronage from members of the
Union League. No mechanic or laborer is to receive em
ployment from them, if he is a Democrat In politics. All
clams and conditions are to be brought under the ban of
reproach, to be rebuked and discountenanced • morally and
socially, in public and private, for the offence of being
Democrats. This is the real and professed object of the
association just formed in this city.
What has become of our boasted institutions of freedom
Where is our high civilization? Have they all fled from
the laud? And has fananticism usurped the throne of
reason, and impelled respectable men to commit them
selves to a course of conduct of which, when the political
passions and prejudices of the preseot day shall have
passed away, they most feel heartily ashamed? No Dem
ocrat lives la oar midst who cannot conscientiously claim
as high and unfaltering devotion, and feel as fervent a
mal for his country, ea any member of this Union League.
The Democratic party is influenced by no principles or
meareires of policy but such as spring from an intense pa
triotism. The form cf government adopted by our fathers,
the Union under the Constitution, and the laws made in
purananre of it. are dear to the heart of every Democrat,
and to sustain them he is willing to make every sacrifice.
It is his loyalty to his country that induces him to oppose
with his whole power the acts of tho mad and evil spirit
of Abolition which, since Lincoln's accession to the Presi
dency, have sought to destroy the -Union of the States cre
ated by the Constitution, and to erect in its stead a cen
tralized domination, whose controlling genius is the eman
cipation of the slaves in the slaveholding portions of the
Delon.
As the blood of the mertyrs in the seed of the church, so
is this persecution of Democrats the means of increasing
their power and influence, to enable them to again have the
legislation of the country placed in their hands, when
they may restore peace and harmony to our distracted
country, which the fanaticism of the party to which all
Union Leagueints belong has convulsed the country in the
throes of civil war. Then and not till then will the time
honored emblem of our nationality again float over a
peaceful and united people, which is now, by the action of
Union Leagueiets, made to sadly float over bloody fields of
civil strife.
In the meantime the principles adopted by the members
of this Union League, In pledging each other to discoun
tenance all Democrats, compels every Democrat, through
self respect, to accept the issue thus voluntarily tendered.
Hereafter if a Democrat wishes to employ a mechanic or
laborer, let him seek out a Democrat upon whom to bestow
hie employment. If he has occasion to purchase dry goods,
groceries, coal, or any thing else, let his patronage be be
stowed upon a Democrat. If he has occasion for the ser
vices of a physician or a lawyer, let him employ none but
a Democrat. Let the Issue be accepted as broadly as the
members of the Union League have tendered it. It has
been forced upon every Democrat, and none will be so
craven as not to accept it. Junica.
GREAT REACTION
The town elections in New York have re.
salted everywhere in favor of the Democracy.
The New York World is of the opinion that
the Democratic party will carry that State
next Fall by 100,000 majority.
ger The lady who called at our office yes
terday, is requested to call again, as we wish
to obtain her name, so as to be able to inform
the people who it was that brought us that
box of Bryan's Pulmorio Wafers, for it re—
lieved no of a severe cough in is few lima.
Amocious worm.
Let the people of Lancaster county read the
following from the New York Tribune, and
then ask themselveS whether this is the devil's
work for which they have sent forth their sons
and brothers to (mann the hardships and
incur the dangers of the camp and the battle
field :
We have from our special correspondent at
Port Royal the startling announcement that a
force of 5,000 negroes, led by whites and sup
ported by regular troops, is just ready to enter
one of the most densely populated districts of
the Department of the South, in order to sum
mon its emancipated blacks to arms. Com
munications have been established with the
negroes, and they wait only for the appear
ance of the liberating force to spring to arms
and rally under the National flag. :Sudden
and irresistible as an avalanche, this blow will
fall where preparation and defence are alike
impossible. The Republic is at length about
to strike at the heart of the Rebellion, and the
Proclamation of Freedom, hated and derided
by every enemy to the nation, shall be heard
in trumpet tones on the plantations of Caro
lina, and echoed on the battle field by the
cannon's opening roar.
The Tribune gloats over the anticipated re
sults of this infamous expedition with devilish
satisfaction. But let honest and humane peo_
ple reflect upon it. We have been assured
that under the sweeping conscription of the
Confederate G)vernment, all men able to bear
arms are with the army, and that none are
left at home but the feeble and the aged,
women and children, and the negroes upon
whose labor these subsist. This negro raid,
led by whites and backed by regular troops,
is to be made into a department "most densely
populated " by feeble women, 'aged and sickly
men, and young children. " Preparation and
defence are alike impossible," and the district
is to be given up to the savage rage and brutal
passions of the negroes and their white
leaders I
We are told by the Boston Journal's corres
pondent from the South that these negroes are
"debased and ignorant"—that they are "semi
barbarians." Yet an army of these savages
are to be let loose upon thousands of defence
less women and children, and encouraged to
gratify their brutal passions in all the atro
cities that the mindsan conceive. Yet the
scenes of brutality which must inevitably
follow, end at the thought of which the whole
civilized world must shudder, are anticipated
with fiendish satisfaction by the Tribune and
its philanthropic followers
$> Wendell Phillips, in a public lecture
at Brooklyn several days or nights ago, thus
referred to Mr. Lincoln:
He has sat for thirty years at Springfield,
Illinois—to the north of him was a portion of
the State free, educated, and republican. To
the south was Egypt—ignorant, pro-slavery,
worse than dough face— [laughter] —Southern,
servile, dark. Mr. Lincoln has been balan—
cing his life between these two elements to he
popular with both, and he is the result of the
balance. [Laughter.] This was his educa
tion fur thirty years—no crime—because he
lived there he ertic' not help it. [Laughter.]
He has succeeded in being the favorite of that
Mosaic State, Illinois, and the result is Abra
ham Lincoln.
* * * * * * * *
If we are saved, we are to be saved in spite
of the Administration. If we are saved, I be
lieve we shall be saved because it was not possi
ble for Abraham Lincoln to ruin us. Now, I
say it, notwithstanding I afluw the honest
purpose of the man.
Such are the thanks Mr. Lincoln gets
for yielding to the " pressure " of Phillips
and his associates. Mr. Lincoln will evidently
have to turn over very seen a new leaf of
some sort with these insatiable anarchists.--
They have already pricked him to the extreme
margin of the present leaf, and they aro still
plunging their sharp sticks into his midriff
with unabated fierceness. Isn't it about time
for Mr. Lincoln to prick back? If he will
begin in good earnest, we promise him a whole
people for his backers. We respectfully sub
mit the suggestion to his private considera
tion.—Louisville (Ky.) Journal.
General Hunter, President Lincoln's favor
ite negro General, has been enforcing the
Abolition policy with a high hand at Hilton
Head, South Carolina. He evidently intends
to degrade every white officer to his own level.
They are to be compelled to fight with ne
groes or be - arrested, tried by court martial
and shot, or dismissed the service. Dates from
Hilton Head to the 20th ult. furnish these
particulars of his recent action : Gen. Thee.
J. Stevenson, of Massachusetts, was arrested
by Gen. Hunter on the 16th ult., for publicly
declaring that he would rather be beaten by
the rebels than fight with negroes. Gen.
Stevenson was recently promoted for services
rendered in North Carolina, at the instance
of Gen. Foster. Gen. H. has also ordered all
Gen. Foster's staff officers out of the Depart
ment of the South for the utterance of senti
ments tending to create disaffection, insubor
dination and mutiny—in other words, for
censuring the negro policy, and refusing to
go into battle with negroes.
FOREIGN NEWS
We have news from England to the 19th
February. In the British House of Lords,
Lord Stratheden gave notice that he would
move for copies of dispatches from Mr. Mason
to the English government, relative to the
recognition of the South. Meetings endors
ing President Lincoln and his emancipation
proclamation were being held all over
England. One held in London condemned
the action of the Lord Mayor in inviting Mason
to his dinner. $200,000 in specie has been
sent to England to pay interest on the bonds
of the Alabama. Rumors are .afloat that
France considers the blockade of Charleston as
raised.
A FIENDISH Acr.—A fiendish transaction
transpired on Tuesday last in Upper Saucon,
near Pleasant Valley, Lehigh Co. The par
ticulars as far as ascertained are as follows :
A man by the name of Jacob Brinker, a poor
but very industrious man, purchased a horse
some time ago, for the purpose of huckstering,
from one of his neighbors, giving his note fOr
the same. Long before the maturity of the
note, the owner of the same called on Mr.
Brinker and demanded' the payment; which
was refused upon the ground that the note was
not doe yet, when some angry words passed
between the parties and they separated. On
Wednesday morning, the day following the
conversation between the parties, as Mr.
Brinker went to the stable to feed the mare,
he was horror stricken to find the animal ,
lying dead with her throat cut, and worse than
all, the demon in human form. had ri,pped
open the body of the poor creature and tore
out the unborn colt of some six mouths old ;
on the dead carcass of the mare lay a letter
addressed to Mr. Brinker, stating that if he
said a word about the affair he would be served
the same way. Tracks were seen in the snow
indicating `that there must have been two
persons engaged in this act. Suspicion rested
upon a person upon circumstances that were
so strong that a warrant was issued for the
arrest of the party and placed in the bands of
the Constable who arrested Herman Yeager,
the former owner of the mare ; the second
party, a young German in the employ of Mr.
Yeager, bad left for parts unknown, and has
not as yet 'been arrested. Mr. Yeager has
given security for his appearance, at Allen
town, for a final hearing. Whether the proof
is strong enough to convict the party, time
will show.—Easion Express.
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