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OUR 7' la .A. a , -
Now our flag is flung to the wild winds free,
Let It float o'er our father land,
And the guard of Its snakes fame shall be
Colombia's chosen band.
"CLING TO THE CONSTITUTION, AS
THE SHIPWRECKED MARINER CLINGS
TO THE LAST PLANK, WHEN NIGHT
AND THE TEMPEST CLOSE AROUND
HIM."-DANIEL WEBSTER.
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
FOR GOVERNOR:
GEORGE W. WOODWARD,
OF LUZERN& COUNTY
FOR JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT
WALTER H. LOWRIE,
OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY.
COUNTY COIIILLIITTECE DIEKTING
The Democratic County Committee of Lancaster county
are requested to meet at Shnber'e Hotel, to this city, on
SATURDAY, the 6th day of SEPTEMBER, 1563, at n
o'clock, d. M. Thaniness of importance • will be promoted
for their consideration.
S. R. TSHDDY, Oluttrman
A. J. BTIMIAN, Secretary.
LABOASTIB, September let, 1863
TO THE DFCINOCRACY OF THE CITY
AND COUNTY OF LANCASTER.
In accordance with the resolution of the County Com
mittee adopted at their meeting on Thursday, August 6th,
you are requested to assemble in the several -Wards of the
City, and Boroughs and Townships of the county, on
SATURDAY, the 12th day of SEPTEMBER next, then
and there to elect the usual number of delegates to •
County Convention, to be held on WEDNESDAY, the 16th
day of SEPTEMBER next, at 11 o'clock. A. M, at Fulton
Hall, In the City of Lancaster, for the purpose of nomin
ating a ticket to be supported at the running October elec
tion.
The Chairman would respectfully call attention to the
sot, that by the past rules and asagea of the party, dele
gates are elected from Wards, Boroughs and Townships
only, and not from election districts.
The Township Committee. are requested to glee early
notice of the time and place of meeting for the election of
R. R. TBHI3DY, Chairmen
d_ J. BTZINMAN, Secretary.
Laitaasna, August 6th, 1868
Democratic Ratification Mass
Meeting
THE UNION AS IT WAS--THE CONSTI-
TIITION AS IT IS
RALLY ! RALLY ! ! RALLY ! ! !
In accordance with the resolution of the
Democratic State Central Committee, and the prior
action of the Democratic County Committee and
Democratic Central Club of the City and County of
Lancaster, a State Mass Ratification Meeting to en
dorse the nominations of WOODWARD and LOWRIR,
and re-affirm the everlasting principles and truths
of the great Democratic party, will be held in the
CITY OF LANCASTER,
On THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1863,
AT 1 O'CLOCK, P. M.
The Democracy are, therefore, requested to rally
in their might, on the anniversary of the birth-day
of the Constitution of the United States, the only
power to which the Democratic party swear alle
giance and loyalty.
The following eminent speakers—from several
of whom favorable responses have been received—
have been requested to address the meeting :
Ex-President PIERRE, of New Hampshire.
Hon. D W. VOORREL, of Indiana.
Hon. JexEs BROOKS, of New York.
Bon. Casabas R. BIICKALEW, of Pennsylvania.
Hon. Witaaeu A. Poevran, of Philadelphia.
Hon. WILLIAM H. WITTE, of Montgomery.
Hon. BIZSTEM Cvnesn, of Berks.
Hon. J. Glamor JONES, of Berks.
Hon. CHARLES W. CARRIGAN, of Philadelphia.
LEWIS C. CASSIDAT, Esq., of Philadelphia.
JAIUSS BtroneieeN, Jr., Esq., of Philadelphia.
R. R. Mousonau, Esq., of Chester.
Jona H. BRINTON, Esq., of Chester.
Hon. GEORGE W. WOODWARD, GUS distinguished
nominee for Governor, will be present with his
Democratic fellow-citizens on this occasion.
Bally, rally, friends of the Union as It was, and
the Constitution as it is.
By order of the Democratic Central Club.
SAMUEL WELCRENS,
ABRAM SHANK,
WILLIAM A. MORTON,
HENRY WILIIELhi,
E. BOkid.EFFER METZGER,
Ziecuti►e Committee.
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I'Demooratio papers in adjoining counties are re
quested to copy.]
The War News.
There is still nothing definite from
Charleston. The bombardment was
continued at last accounts, but the
result is not yet known. Its ulti
mate fall is considered certain, but
it may require longer time to reduce
it than was at first anticipated.
Stirring news may shortly be ex
pected from the bouthwest.
A Great Meeting.
A monster Mass Meeting of the
Democracy of Chester and Lancas
ter counties was held on Saturday
week, at Cochranville, Chester coun
ty, which was presided over by that
veteran Democrat, DANIEL SwiFT,
Esq., of Lancaster county. The
meeting was addressed by J. W. F.
SWIFT, Esq., of this city, JOEL CooK,
Esq., of Philadelphia, and Jourl H.
BRINTON, Esq., of West Chester. The
meeting was enthusiastic through
out, and adjourned at six o'clock
with three cheers for WOODWARD,
LOWRIE, the CONSTITUTION and the
UNIoN, and three more for General
MCCLELLAN. The last was proposed
by a Democratic soldier. Quite a
number of Democratic lathes were
present.
SUSPECT= ROBBERY.-It will be recollected
that the steamer Ruth was recently burnt on
the Mississippi, baying on board a number of
paymasters and $2,500 000 for Gen. Grant's
army. It is now suspected that the money
wall not Surat, but stoles, and the boat fired
to corm the robbery.
Woodward Stook High lip.
Everywhere throughout the State
the Democracy appear to be confi
dent of a triumphant victory over
the cohorts of Abolitionism. A
visit to Cumberland last [Court]
week gave us an opportunity of see
ing and conversing with a large
number of the leading and most in
fluential Democrats of nearly every
township, and they, one and all,
gave it as their deliberate opinion
that WOODWARD'S majority would
reach 1000 or 1200 in the county.—
The rebel invasion has greatly dam
aged CURTIN in that valley. The
people very justly charge him with
neglect of duty in having failed, to
protect them, and intend to hold him
responsible for the defenceless con
dition of the State. The same feel
ing, we are credibly informed, exists
in Franklin, Fulton, Adams and
York counties, as will be apparent
when the ballot-boxes are. counted
off, and all along the Southern tier
of counties the Democratic gains
will be unprecedentedly large, and
astounding to the Black Republi
cans.
We have never known the Demo
cratic party of this State in as good
trim as it is at the present time. It
is everywhere a unit in support of
WOODWARD and LOWRIE, and it is
daily and hourly gaining accessions
from the conservative portion of the
Republican party. We have every
reason to anticipate an old-fashioned
Jackson majority in Pennsylvania
on the second Tuesday of October,
and, in addition, the Democracy ex
pect to carry Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
lowa and Wisconsin to boot. The
skies look bright all around the po
litical horizon, and the days of Abo
litionism are numbered.
GEN. FITZ JOHN PORTER
Hon. Reverdy Johnson, U. S. Senator from
Maryland, has prepared and published a re
view of the secret argument of Judge Advo
cate Holt, by which the President was in
duced to approve the atrocious sentence of a
corrupt and prejudiced court against Major
Gen. Fitz John Porter. It will be remembered,
says the N. Y. Journal of Commerce, that
Senator Johnson was the counsel of General
Porter in his remarkable trial, and that con
trary to all precedent and all propriety, the
counsel of the prosecution having in open
court declined to answer the argument of the
accused, furnished a private review of the
case to the President, to which the counsel for
the defence had no opportunity to reply.
Therefore Mr. Johnson has taken this oppor
tunity of vindicating his own confidence in
the innocence of the brave and persecuted
officer, whose personal acquaintance he first
made when he became one of his counsel. It
seems to have been a pure labor of sincere and
earnest admiration and sympathy for a man
made the victim of injustice, and it is a labor
well performed. No one can read it without
perfect satisfaction in the innocence of Gen.
Porter. That gallant officer, brave among the
bravest, faithful above all his maligners,
stands clear 'of guilt in the mind of every
honest American who reads this reply, pre
pared by one of our distinguished statesmen
and lawyers. We believe the day is not far
distant when Gen. Porter will need no de
fenders, so high will his reputation stand
among the people for whom he has fought,
and the soldiers whom he has led to victory.
Every day that passes, while the passions of
men grow cooler, adds to the number of those
who believe him unjustly condemned by parti
san malice. The secret history of the days
when Pope was defeated, and of the men who
sought to shield themselves by diverting at
tention to Porter, is certain to see the light
before long.
" BULLY FOR GRANT."
The lowa Legislature passed a law allowing
soldiers to vote, and the Governor has ap
pointed a commission of forty black politicians
to superintend the elections in the several
regiments. Reasonably suspicious of foul
play, the Democratic State Committee propose
to send a Committee to watch and contract
the partisan games of this commission ; and
as a preliminary step they addressed a letter
to Gen. GRANT, asking whether a free election
would be held, and whether their Committee
would be allowed proper privileges and facili
ties in the matter. To this letter, Gen. GRANT
replied as follows :
In reply, I will state, that loyal citizens of
Northern States will be allowed to visit the
troops from their State, at any time. Elec
tioneering, or any course calculated to arouse
discordant feeling, will be prohibited. The
volunteer soldiers of this army will be allowed
to hold an election, if the law gives them
the right to vote
.; and no power shall prevent
them from voting the ticket of their choice.
That is fair and just, and all the Democrats
ask. " Bully for Grant," we say, who is the
only commanding General who has the cour
age or the disposition to act independently and
to square hie conduct by justice and the Con
stitution, in political matters.
A HABEAS CORPUS FROM THE SII -
PREME COURT
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, sitting
at Pittsburg, issued a writ of habeas corpus,
week before last upon the Provost Marshal,
to produce the body of a drafted man who
had been exempted by the Examining Board
and a certificate to that effect given him, but
who afterwards had been arrested, examined
and pronounced fit for duty, the allegation
being error in the first examination. On a
partial hearing the District Attorney obtained
leave to amend the return in order to put in
a plea against the jurisdiction of the Court,
contending that the State Courts had no
jurisdiction over questions arising under the
new conscription law. On the subsequent
hearing that plea was abandoned, and the
argument was confined to the point above
stated. After a full hearing Chief Justice
Lowycis ordered the discharge of the man,
holding that, from all that appeared by the
return, the Board had exhausted their power
when the certificate of exemption was granted,
and that they had no further control over the
prisoner.
ss THE SOLDIERS FRIEND."
The Abolition papers are in the habit of
speaking of Andy Curtin as " the soldiers'
friend." He showed his friendship by placing
half a million of dollars that was appropriated
to clothe the Pennsylvania Reserves in the
hands of his particular friends, who provided
the soldiers with blankets that they could see
through, shoddy coats and pants, and . shoes
that had soles filled with shavings. In two
weeks the brave men were bare footed and
nearly naked. A pretty " soldiers friend," to
be sure. How much of the proflts Curtin
pocketed the public never discovered.
Ora PARTY.—The Wheeling, Va., Regis
ter says : " Oar party,' says a Union ex
change, 'is a Union party.' Yes, it is a
Union party—a Union of shoddy contractors,'
horse contraotors, army jobbers, navy supply
furnishers, railroad monopolists, postmasters,
collectors, appraises, revenue officers, paymas
ters, &o. They join a Union in order to keep
the treasury of the Union under their control.
The Democratic peace party, without any
patronage, is the Union party, for it labors to
restore, as our fathers intended it should
a perpetual Union of willing States!"
JUDGE WOOD'PrARDIS SENTIMENTS.
THE lINIOV.
" These States are glorious in their indi
viduality, bat their collective glories are in
the Union. By all means, at all hazards, are
they to be maintained in their integrity and
the full measure of their Constitutional rights
—for only so is the Union to be preserved—
only so is it worth preserving. It is the per
fection of the prismatic colors, which blended,
produce the ray of lieht. It is the complete
ness of these assembled sovereignties, lacking
nothing which they have not lent fur a great
purpose, that makes the Union precious.—
This word Union is a word of gracious omen.
It implies confidence and affection—mutual
support and protection against external dan
gers. It is the chosen expression of the
strongest passion of young hearts. It is the
charmed circle within which the family
dwells. It is man helping hie fellow-man in
this rugged world. It is States, perfect in
themselves, confederated for mutual advan
tage. It is the people of States, separated
by lines, and interests, and institutions, and
usages, and laws, all forming one glorious
nation—all moving onward to the same sub
lime destiny, and all instinct with a common
life. Our fathers pledged their lives, their
fortunes, and their sacred honors, to form this
Union—let ours be .pledged to maintain it."—
GEORGE W. WOODWARD, JULY 4, 1852.
WHO IS THE SOLDIER'S REAL FRIEND?
Extract from the decision of Judge Wood
ward sustaining the Stay Law passed by our
Legislature in favor of the soldier:
"Now, if a stay of execution for three
years would not be tolerated in ordinary
times, did not these circumstances constitute
an emergency that justified the pushing of
legislation to the extremest limit of the Con
stitution ? No citizen could Le blamed for
volunteering. He was invoked to do so by
appeals as strong as his love of country. In
the nature of things there is nothing unrea
sonable in exempting a soldier's property
from execution whilst he is absent from home
battling for the supremacy of the Constitu
tion and the integrity of the Union. And .
when he has not run before he was sent, but
has yielded himself up to the call of his coun
try, his self-sacrificing patriotism pleads,
trumpet-tongued, for all the indulgence from
his creditors which the Legislature have
power to grant. If the term of indulgence
seems long in this instance, it was not longer
than the time for which the President and
Congress demanded the soldier's services."
" I am not and never have been a ' Native
American' in any political sense, any more
than I am or have been a Whig, Anti Mason
or .an Abolitionist. * * * The
speech so often quoted against me, I am not
responsible for. It was introduced into the
debates by a Whig reporter, in violation of
the rules of the body, which required him to
submit for revision before publication, and
which he never did. * * * I
promptly denounced it, in the face of the Con
vention, as I have done many a time since, as
a gross misrepresentation. * *
The Native American party itself is my wit—
ness. Seven years ago I was the caucus
nominee for United States Senator. The
county of Philadelphia was represented by
Natives. They asked whether, if elected by
their votes, I would favor their measures for
changing the naturali, ation laws, I answered
them NO, and they threw every vote they
could command against me and raised a shout
of triumph over their victory."—GEOßGE W.
WOODWARD, Pittsburg, September 14, 1852.
POLITICAL PREACHING.
At recent meeting of the Congregational
Association in Hartford, COllll., it was stated
by one of the committees that the Episcopal
Church baptised five children to their one ;
that few additions were made to their church
membership and that there was a lamentable
dearth of interest in the cause of Christianity.
The reason for all this is apparent enough.—
It is political preaching. The Christian
churches cannot prosper, so long as their
houses of public worship are turned into po
litical caucus rooms. The N. Y. Journal of
Commerce, speaking of political prel / ching
from the pulpit, for the past few years, says:
" The people in some parts of the land have
been wholly without clergymen. The latter
have turned into political orators, and have
been making the temple consecrated to wor
ship, a place of brawling and contention. We
heard a clergymen preach a sermon on the
Lord's prayer, in which he said that we had
no right, nor was it our duty to forgive our
political enemies, and that the prayer for for ,
giveness as we have forgiven others, was not
based on any trespasses other than of a person
al and private nature ! This horrible distortion
of God's word was actually made to defile the
atmosphere of a New England church on a
calm summer morning, a church in which men
were accustomed in other and better years to
hear the pure word of God from lips undefiled
by the passionate wine of man's wrath, which
makes drunken so many in our day."
HOW GEN. JACKSON WAS PROVED
A COPPERHEAD AND TRAITOR--A
GOOD STORY.
The editor of the Tullome (California)
Democrat lately put as original, at the head
of his editorial columns, the following :
" But the Constitution cannot be main
tained, nor the Union preserved, in opposi—
tion to public feeling, by the mere exertion
of the coercive powers confined to the General
Government. The foundation must be laid
in the affections of the people ; in the secur
ity it gives to life, liberty, character and
property, in every quarter of the country ;
and in the fraternal attachments which the
citizens of the several States bear to one an—
other as members of one political family,
mutually contributing to promote the happi
ness of each other. Hence the citizens of
every State should studiously avoid every—
thing calculated to wound the sensibility or
offend the just pride of the people of other
States.
* * * * *
"If such a struggle is ever begun, and the
citizens of one seotion of the country are ar
rayed in arms against those of another, in
doubtful conflict, let the battle result as it
may, there is an end of the Union, and with
it an end to the hopes of freemen. The vic
tory of the victors would not secure to them
the blessings of liberty. It would avenge
their wrongs, but they would themselves
share in the common ruin."
His Republican neighbor immediately
branded the author of such an article as that
as a "traitor" and a " Copperhead" of the
worst stripe. The Democrat then stated in
its next issue, that the author was Qeneral
Andrew Jackson, and that the extracts could
be found in his farewell address to the Ameri
can people on retiring from the Presidency in
1837. It added that heretofore people had
regarded General Jackson as a patriot, and
that it remained for the Abolitionists of to
day to asperse his memory by denouncing
him as a traitor.
ley' The Abolition papers are constantly
denouncing the Democracy as " traitors " and
enemies of the country. If this is so, the
Providence Post says "it is certainly wonder
ful that the Abolitionists should be striving to
get so many of them into the army. In New
York they proposed to take about nineteen
Democrats to every ten Republicans drafted,
and in this State every member of the Repub
lican ' Union League' who has been drafted,
has been willing to accept a Democratic sub
stitute. It is said, upon what we consider
good authority, that the Union Leagues here
embraced three-fourths of the Republican
voters in the towns in which they were
located; yet we think' it cannot be shown
that a single member of that organization out
of the whole number drafted, has put on
Uncle Sam's uniform, or that one of them has
volunteered as a substitute. They seem per
fectly willing to trust the defense of the
country to ' the enemy '—the copperheads."
THE " STAR OF THE NORTH."—William H.
Jacoby, proprietor of the " Star of the North,"
has reoommenoed the publication of his paper,
after an absence of nine months in the army.
He raises the Democratic flag and is now fight
ing the Abolitionists for the success of Consti
tutional Liberty and the White Man'e Gov
ernment. The names of WOODWARD and Low -
m; float at the head of the " Star of the
North."
GENERAL JIM LANE.
The destruction of the town of Lawrence,
Kansas, and the massacre of one hundred
and eighty of its inhabitants is one of the
bloodiest episodes of the war. To understand
this sanguinary proceeding, we must go back
to the early Kansas troubles, and the intense
hatred engendered in these conflicts between
the Kansas Abolitionists and their pro-slavery
neighbors in the border counties of Missouri.
The ferocity of Atchison's border ruffians
found a counterpart in the savage atrocities
of the Jayhawkers under Jim Lane, Jenni—
son and Montgomery. The latter carried his
tactics into the Department of the South. and
at the head of a negro brigade plundered and
devastated thercountry, culminating with the
wanton destruction of the town of Darien, Ga.
Tillages reduced to ashes and fields laid
waste, the work otthese Jayhawkers, inspired
them with the fiendish spirit which wreaked
such bloody vengeance on the town of Law
rence. Among the residents of Lawrence at
the time of this attack was the notorious
General Jim Lane, that great Abolition war
orator, and General, who every few months
is about to organize an expedition that is to
wipe out the South. . At the commencement
of the war, Lane received a commission from
the Government; and planned some expedi
tion. The expedition never set out, because
Lane and the President could not agree as to
the correct method of conducting the cam
paign.
Lane proposed to liberate all the negroes
and to avoid any future trouble with the
white population of the South he designed
roasting them in their own houses, as
he went along, effectually clearing the way
for the immigration of a more loyal set of
people. This benign plan being rejected,
General Jim Lane sheathed his sword in dis
gust and took to stump speaking. He came
this way not long ago and indulged in a vio
lent speech. He was still attached to the
autodafe style of disposing of Southern
Rebels, an amendment to hang every man in
the Northern States who voted the Demo
cratic ticket. Well, when Quantrell's band at
tacked Lawrence, what did this mighty war
rior do? Simply—he ran away.
The report says, he "escaped on horse
back," which, of course, is a mild way of
putting it. It is possible that his horse
might have ran away with him, as Lord Car
digan's charger did at Balaklava. If so, it
is a remarkable coinoideno of animal sagacity
—both animals took the direction in which
safety lay. But what was Lane doing on
horeback at that particular time? When
last heard from, this Abolition Bombastes
had rallied twenty men, and was in pursuit
of the guerillas, but not in the slightest dan
ger of getting . hurt. So much for Lane. He
is a fair specimen of the Abolition leaders
who have been spouting blood and thunder,
fire and fury, breathing rapine and slaughter.
When the moment for action arrives they
" escape on horseback." Greely, in a sub
terranean restaurant, hiding behind a greasy
bill of fare during the New York riots, and
Lane "escaping on horseback," from the
sack of Lawrence, would make a pretty pair
of historical pictures, instructive and enter
taining.—Brooklyn Eagle.
ANOTHER ABOLITION OUTRAGE
WRITE MAN FLOGGED I.
Lincoln's Provost Marshal of Allegheny
county, arrested an alleged deserter, by the
name of Hagen, the other day, and without
warrant of law had him lashed with a cow•
hide until his back was like a piece of raw flesh,
and he sunk down in utter exhaustion. Read
DR KING'S STATEMENT
"The first I knew of this affair Captain
McHenry entered my office, which adjoins
the provost Marshal's office, and seizing the
man Hagen, who was sitting on a chair near
me, said ' God d—n you, we want you ; come
out here." Hagen was then taken out to the
foot of the stairs, where Mo Henry said to
the Sergeant, " Take him up stairs and give
him twenty-five lashes," and after a pause,
added, " Yes, God d—n him, give him fifty."
Hlso told the Sergeant to put the hand
edger' on him and get the cowhide. Hagen
wasJthen hand-cuffed and taken up stairs.—
I followed to the head of the stairs, but I could
not bear the idea of seeing a white man
whipped, so I turned and came down. I saw
the, man after he was flogged and dressed his
hie wounds yesterday and to-da.g. His back
is all cut up, along and across. I should say
from the appearance of his back that he re
ceived from Sixty to seventy lashes. There
were several persons by when ttie flogging
took place, and McHenry told me himself to
day that he held the man while the stripes
were being laid on. This is all I know about
the matter."
SERGEANT MORRISON'S STATEMENT.
" I belong to the Provost Guard, and had
just came down from the " Girard House,"
when Captain McHenry told me to put the
hand-ouffs on Hagen and take him up stairs
and give him twenty-five lashes. I said that
I was not very well, and that I was not strong
enough to do this. I did not,like the idea of
flogging and would rather leave it to some
body else. Capt. McHenry then told Corpo
ral Palmer to flog him. I put the hand cuffs
on Hagen by McHenry's orders and brought
a cow-hide with which to flog him. Hagen
was then taken up stairs. There was a pillar
nearly in the centre of the room, and he was
placed standing with his arms around it. The
hand-cuffs had by this time been taken off.—
He was stripped of all but his pants and shirt.
A soldier named Alfred Fogle was ordered by
McHenry to hold his hands around the post
while Palmer flogged him. Fogle seized his
hands as desired, but after the first welt, Ha
gen broke loose, and then McHenry seized
him and held him till it was all over. The
man cried out while he was being lashed, and
made a good deal of noise. Before he was
flogged, he begged that he might be shot
rather than whipped. I did not count the
lashes, but I should say that he received be
tween forty and fifty. Near the close he sunk
down by the post, but he was not unconscious.
Palmer did the flogging."
Verily white men are being made slaves.—
Oh! ye philanthropic Abolitionists, where are
those Crocodile tears you used to shed for
black slaves? Have ye none for the white
slaves of this Abrahamic age ? In your insane
efforts to free the slaves, you enslave the white
race in the most galling servitude that was
ever witnessed on earth. Taxed I drafted
flogged I What next, Abolitionists?
oar Gen. MEADE has issued an order allow
ing the soldiers of the Army of the Potomac
to take such newspapers as they please. The
abolition " loyal " demagogues have labored
hard to get Democratic newspapers excluded,
and have at times been partially successful.—
But Gen. MEADE has ordered as follows :
For the purpose of - living full freedom of
choice to the army in the selection of news
papers, it is ordered that any officer or enlisted
man whishing to purchase any daily journal
not now furnished by the agent appointed
under the provisions of the circular of June 2d,
may give notice thereof to the provost mar
shal of the command to which he belongs, who
shall forward the same through the provost
marshal of his corps to the Provost Marshal
General, who shall instruct said agent to fur
nish the same without delay, and a neglect on
his part to comply with such instructions shall
be held sufficient cause for vacating his ap
pointment.
stir The friends of Curtin—his Harrisburg
organ included—place him decidedly upon the
Abolition platform. They support him main
ly upon the ground of his advocacy of negro
emancipation, equality and fraternity. We
have no objection to meet the issue squarely—
to fight the battle upon that single question,
if they desire it. The contest is then nar
rowed to this : Shall the negroes of the South
—4,000,000 of them, and not half civilised—
be sent free and made the equals and com
panions, the competitors in labor of the white
men of the North ? Shall we be overrun by
this horde of semi-barbarians of a different
race and color, and wages brought down by
competition? Comm is for this—Woou
waan against it. Let the white men of
Pennsylvania decide which of the two they
will choose. We are content to abide the
Abolition issue.
THE CROPS IN laziatro.—An English paper
says there has not been a better or more abun
dant crop than that which now covers the
earth, in the memory of any living man. The
potato, one. of the most nutritious, and per—
haps the most useful of all esoulents, is so far
free from blight, and appears to have every—
where roomed much of its natural flavor.
I AL DEPARTMZNT.
EIXOMPTS FROM THE DRAFT.
AUGUST 22. -
1088 John; Stark, Warwick. two of same family and.
household now in military service
1099 Wm Wright. 13 W Ward, physical disability
1090 Frederick Yost. Marietta, only son and support of
agod and infirm parentx
1091 Henry II Harr, Penn. physical disability
1099 Harrbion Helm Warwick, physical disability
1093 Joserlh Orr, W LaMpeter. alienage
1094 Johmatrnbaker,BApho. father of three motherless
children under 12 years of age
1095 Predk Dasher, Providence, over 35 years of age and
marsied
1096 JUG! Rice, Paradise. physical disability
1097 Job& Young. Bapho, substitute In service last draft
1098 W Leidigh. Paradise, physical disability
1009 Ali/vistas Gab's. Penn, only son and support of aged
and infirm parents
1100 Mini L. Herr, Strasburg twp. physical disability.
1101 Kliaa'Hurtz. Salisbury, physical disability.
1102 Jacob Copeland, Manor, physical disability
1103 Jacob X Hershey, Manor, physical
1104 Hiram Brubaker, Warwick, substitute in service last
drift
1105 MU* Shutter. Washington bor, phys'l disability
1106 Chridt'n Burkholder. Warwick, physical disability
. . .
AUGUST 24..
1107 Will 'aim. Lamy, Penn, physical disability
1108 JohniE Hershey, Paradise, physical disability
1109 Henry It Witmer, Manor, physical disability
1110 Henry Farnnm, Rapho substitute in service last
1111 Martfn Singer, Penn. substitute ineervice last draft'
1112 Jacob Rise, Washington Borough, under 20
1113 Johall Britton, Paradise, over 35 years of age and
ma f led
1114 Dania Hess, Pegnea. physical disability
1115 Robert P Mclivain, Paradise, physical disability
1116 Wm TAlninger, Penn, physical disability
1117 Thetis Shaeffer, Caernarvon, only eon and support
of aged parents
1118 William Ludwig Paradise, physical disability •
1119 lean ` Gilbert . Sadsbury, father of two motherless
children under 12 years of age
1120 Amo3Longnecker, B Lampeter, only support of aged
mother
1121 Alexander Grande, Marietta, alienage
1122 Franklin blylin, Politica, physical disability
1123 Jacoh AI Rice, Paradise, two members of same tam.
Ily and honsehold now in military service
1124 Jacob' W Weller, W Hempfield, only support of
agmf,parents
1125 Thetas Armer, Paradise, only support of aged
mother
1126 Abraham /Darer. Rapho, sent substitute last draft
1127 Uriath,Hummer, Penn, only support of aged parents
1128 Jacob B Herr, Peguea, physical disability
1129 Issaefickmiur, Pequea, physical disability
1130 David %reamer, Providence, physical disability
1131 Henry J Shirk, Providence, physical disability
1132 Bliss'%een, Providence, father of motherless chil
dren under 12 years of of age
1133 Joseph B Snyder, Rapho sent substitute last draft
1134 Illister,Sherer, Rapho substitute In service last draft
1135 Johni Wisher, Sadsbnry, only support of aged
father
1136 John P age, Rapho, physical disability
1137 John Borland, Sadsbury, only support of widowed
mother
1138 Remy 8 Bush, Sadsbury, physical disability
1139 Joseph B Snyder, Rapho, substitute to service from
last draft
1140 Jacob Connelly, Rapho, over 45 years
AUGUST 26.
1141 Isaac:Brandt, Rapho, sent substitute list draft
1142 Abrabi Lehn, Rapho, physical disability
1143 John 33raybill. Hsi:Metro, alienage
1144 Christian Brubaker, Rapho, over 35 years of age
and Married
1145 Frederick Rahm , Mount Joy township, alienage
1146 Irian B Newcomer, Manor, sent substitute last
draft
1147 Conrad Ottenderfer, Ephrata, alienage
1148 Washington Rise, Washington Borough, only son
and 'support of aged mother
1149 Aaron Peffer, Rapho Phy,ical disability
1160 Joseph El Poled, Strasburg borough, over 35 years
of age and married
1161 George R %barman, 8 W Ward, physical disability
1152 Edward Baptist, Sadebury, father and only support
of motherless children under 12 years of age
AUGUBC 26.
1153 Abraham Quamony, Manic, election of parents
1164 Jima Moss, Mantic, over .95 and married
1165 Lawrince Markley, Sadsbury, alienage
1158 Christian Sanders, Salisbary, physical disability
1167 Joseph H Simes, Sadsbury, under 20 years
1158 Benjamin Lehman, Manor, residence in Snyder .
county
1169 George W Diller, Leacock, election of father
1160 Samaal Green, Salisbury, residence In Carnarron
tow4ship
AUGUST 27.
1161 David S Clark, Salisbary, physical disability
1162 Levi Plank, Salisbury, under 20 years of age
1183 Johnlit. Wertz, Manor,election of father
1164 Cyrni B. Barr, Salisbury. physical disability
1185 Otorae W Hopton, Salisbury, only eon and support
of aged widow
1168 Robert 8 Mollvaine, Salisbury, physical disability
1167 Harrison Ross, Salisbury, physical disability
1068 David Him. Salisbury, physical disability
1869 Benjamin Will, Conestoga, physical disability
1170 Henry H Leopold, Warwick, over 35 years of age
and married
1171 Beal P Holtzhouse, Providence, Iwo of same family
and household now in military service
1172 Andrew Ritenmiller, Strasburg twp, /Menage
1173 Johnl W Palter, Warwick, in service March 3,1863
1174 Elias Brtch, Warwick, furnished substitute last drall
1175 P B Stoltenbach. Warwick, physical disability
1176 David Bitner, Washington bor, substitute in service
last draft
1177 Beni tßarge, Washington bor, substitute in service
last draft
AUGUST 28.
1178 Thontae Linton, Drumore, &nonage
1179 Christian Morrie, Washington bor, resides in Manor
totanship
1180 Henry Speidle, South West Ward, phys'l disability
1181 Franklin Heck, Marietta, physical disability, sur
gecat's certificate
1162 Eli IL Hacker, Pens., physical disability, surgeon's
certificate
PotrricaL —The chair of the Democratic
Central clitb, on Thursday evening last, was ably filled by
Capt. Joule Wm. The first speaker of the evening was
WILLIAM W. BROWN, Esq., who spoke for about three quar
ters of an hour in a profound, historical, eloquent, logical
and convincing manner on the cause of the rebellion, and
the utter ibability of the Abolitionists to make the negro
the equal 6f the white man. He spoke boldly of the con
duct of the Administration in perverting the war from its
original purpose, viz: the restoration of the Union and
mainteriarice of the Constitution, to a war for the freedom
of the negto. Mr. 13. spoke to a Democratic County Con
vention, DX Fulton Hall, abopt eighteen months ago. and
the very whrds he then uttered as to the rouree and cause
of the warfare now confirmed and verified. He concluded
by speaking in glowing terms of the undoubted success of
our nominees in October next. ree'Suas warmly applauded
by a crowded audience.
H. B. Ethan, Esq , followed in an interesting speech on
the formation and success of the Democratic Central Club.
His remarks were also warmly in favor of our standard
bearers, and he was justly indignant and eloquent on the
counts of the present National and State Administrations.
He spoke; derisively of the Abolition party and Its
"Loyal" (7) Leagues claiming all the loyalty, etc., and
charging the Democratic party with disloyalty. He con
cluded with a stirring appeal to the Democracy to main
tain and distend their rights.
Messrs. A. Z. RINOWALT, CHARLES G. DEAL, B. J. Mo-
GHANA, J4Oll B. EVERTS and Lewis ZECH= were appointed
a committee to make the necessary arrangements for the
participation of the Club in the procession on the 17th.
ToWN MEETING IN FULTON HALL —The Democracy of
the city will assemble In town meeting, in Fulton Hall,
ou Thursday evening next, at 8 o'clock. They will be ad.
dressed ontthis occasion by Hon. MYER STROUP., of Potts
ville, Meniber of Congress elect from the Schuylkill dis
trict, and ity COI. EDWARD MCGOVERN, of this city, late of
the 122 d Ititgiment, P. V. Both these gentlemen are able
speakers, and of course an Immense audience will be pros
ant to heart them proclaim the truths and principles of the
great Demecritic party.
MUTING AT COLIMIIA.—The Democracy of the Borough
of Columbta and vicinity will meet In the Odd Fellows'
Hall, Ole evening, (Tneeday,) at 8 o'clock. The meeting
will be aohlreared by Hon. lILLAC E. Munaa and others.
Mll'lll, - 601 EAST L&MPltr.ll.—A. meeting of the Denaoc.
racy and conservative men will be held at the public home
of Mv. Henry Keneagy, In East Lampeter township, on
Saturday neat, September 6th, at 4 o'clock, P. M. Ad.
dresses will be delivered by Hon. ISAAC E. 1111sTilt, D. G.
EeinamiN4Egq., J. W. F. SWIFT, Esq., In English, and Mr.
D. E. SCHGMLuI, In German.
rdstmamior THE DEMOCELTIC CLUB or 110IINY Jor.—This
Club met it Henry Shaffner'. Hell, on Saturday evening,
the 16th Dist. The announcement made a few days pre
vious to the meeting that BEESIIEL H. REYNOLDS, Esq., of
Tancitster,krould address the Club caused the Hall to be
well filled , y the Democrats of Mount Joy and vicinity.—
A few of the inquisitive Jacobins also came to bear him,
one of whdm took a front seat, and as soon as the meeting
was opened commenced taking notes. Judging by his po
eltion, it as his evident intention to intimidate the
speaker; it however had the contrary. Mint, and the
speaker wits no doubt bolder and more fearless than be
probably Would have been had the intended insult not
been giveth
Mr. RiTif OLDS is a calm, deliberate, impressive and elo.
quent speaker, and hie speech was received throughout
with marked attention and applause. He boldly and ale.
quently advocated the Jeffereonian and Jacksonian prin.
ciples of Democracy, the Constitution or the United States
as it is and the Union as it was. He convinced the audi
ence that the present Administration la incompetent to
adminlatei, the affairs of this Government in times of peace
and much rises in times of war; in fart he did credit to
himself and the cause which he so boldy - and nobly advo-
cated. r
Mr. R. Was followed by Dr. fientrat WILCELINII, of Lan
caster, who addressed the Club in a patriotic, and eloquent
style. It Was Indeed a reel pleasure to bear how the Day
ttir — wrnered the Republicans, by graphically holding up
lodoilit - their eyes the broken promises and the glaring con
tyldfctionetof which they are guilty. His remarks were a
Just and fearless condemnation of the rotten Aristocracy
in Washington and the corrupt Administration of Andy
Curtin, this so-called soldiers' -friend, and the would be
choice of the people.
After a Vote of thanks to the speakers, the Club ad
journed.
I have never attended a more orderly meeting in my
life, and I ins satisfied, J edging from the attendance of the
Democrats et the few meetings I have been at lately, that
on the sechnd Tuesday of October next our candidates,
Woodward' and Lowrie, will be triumphantly elected.
I delayed sending you this report until the Jacobin re
port should make Its appearance; but I have waited in
vain, for Itihas not yet appeared, and I fear it will no:. I
prestime that by the time the reporter analysed the
speeches he heard and had taken notes of, he found noth
ing to condemn. The speakers proved all their positions
as they wept along. BOtzka.
Monier Jisr, Aug. 26, 1863. •
/, Ang. 20,
Worm Oix Alava AND IN MOTION!—On last Friday eve
ning, the 2Sth Inst., a very large and enthusiastic meeting
of the Penh Township Democratic Club took place at the
public bom4se of Samuel Myers. Telling speeches wore
made by Dr. H. B. DUNLAP and the veteran HVIRT SHAY/-
Nun, Seq., of Mount Joy, who were followed in a few brier
remarks 14 R. R. Tsumir and Jostew S %zzaza , &gra ,
In the German language. Penn township will show a good
record in Ontoberl
OLD WARWICK ALWATS OUTNITHDLICIED, RUT NEVER VAN
QUISHED 1-4110 next regular meeting of the Warwick Dem
ocratic Club will be held at the public house of Peter Rat
froth, in the village of Millport, on Saturday evening next,
September Lth. The Club will be addressed by Col. Enwean
McGovaxst land William R. WiLsow, Fag, of this city.—
The work goes bravely !
A TERRIBLE AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—On
Wednesday afternoon last Miss Mary Solider, a young lady
employed at Shoberts Eden Paper Milt, was instantly
tilled. She was passing along the outer part of the mill,
when her areas came in contact with an iron shaft run
ning marl* horizontal from the water wheel. to the mill
gearing, and about twelve inches from the outer edge of
the building. In an instant she was wrapped around this
shaft, and whirled around at the rate of fifty revolutions
a minute, her body at every revolution striking the build.
log. The 1?ody was horribly bruised and mutilated, and
presented A sickening eight.
LITERARY.-
GODXY'LI tiLDY'S Boos, for September, contains as its
principal einbellishment a line engaving of landscape and
figures, " The Happy Party, " a double page colored
Faahlon Phite, containing five figures in full dress, and
over fifty engravings, illustrating new styles of drosses
and bonneth, patterns, trimmings, ac., Ac. The literary
contents are of the first order—in fact each successive No.
of Godey'a incomparable 'Book,' is an improvement upon
all previonerisimes. It is emphatically the Lady's Book of
the country', and no lady or housewife should be without
it. Terme $3 a year.—L. A. Hodey, Philadelphia.
Pantasoar,s Maelazose, for September, hew a beautiful en.
graving, ''Bdith," and the latest Parisian fashions, em
broideries, 4e., ite. Its reading matter also is very choice
and intereating, and nothing seems to be omitted by the
enterprbfing Publisher to make the Magazine second to
none in the , eountry. It Is well worthy . 71 place on every
eentre-tablei,
Ma. to! E. SCHCIIDLZR, the Berke County
Orator, it again in this city, where he will hays his head.
Quarters until the present campaign ls over, and when all
thump wlohlos to oonintoutiosto with him will plow 'd
ewLha
Tin "LOYAL" MEIT'SNLEGATIMIETTNOS.
—The "loyal" (1) men had a rough time of It at their dele
gate meetings, in one or two of the city wards, en Saturday
evening lest. In the Southwest Ward (the glorious old
"Shaughai,"which the "loyal" (1) Men always come within
160 or MO votes of carrying) a leader of the "loyal" (t) men,
a veritable Lieutenant Colonel, who was never in a battle,
and never even emelt the burning of powder, one who is
as savage as a meat axe, but not near so dangerous, was
exceedingly boisterous and furious, and swore terribly, as
much so as the celebrated army did in Plandere! This
sotogerour officer, by his bravado and blustering, succeeded
in carrying the ward by Volts majority—but his opponents
say that it was by the grossest cheating and fraud. But
among them be it—lt's only a family quarrel! The eondnct
of the individual alluded to will, of course, not be men
tioned In the "loyal" (7) papers. That would be treason
able! If it had only been a "Copperhead," how nirfuoutdy
indignant they would have been I
In the Southeast Ward the delegates of the redoubtable
Colonel Price, who Is anxious to serve hls country, not on
the field of battle, but as a State Senator, were elected over
those headed by Major Thaddeus Stevens, Jr. What in
the world are we coming to, when the =Wary leaders of
the "loyal" (?) men have commenced fighting among them
salve./ The cane of "the Government," "Mrs. Govern
ment" and the 'little Governments" =uncertainly suffer,
for by such conduct they are giving "aid sad comfort" to
the "Copperheads"
In the Northwest and Northeast Wards, as far as heard
from, "everything was quiet along the lines!"
What a beautiful party these •9ayaUets" are! All the
d axnw y, (J) honesty (?) and respectability (?) have found a
resting place in their ranks I
IMPORTANT •TO DRAFTED MEN—THE $3OO
COMmirrArrow.—The following opinion of Hon. Thaddeus
•Stevene, in regard to the effect of the payment of the $3OO
commutation by a drafted man, sets forth the Law of the
case in so clear a light that we cannot see why there
should be any conflict of opinion on that point The con
clusion arrived at is not only law but it is common sense;
and laws ought certainly to be construed in accordance
with common sense:
LANC6BrnIt, August 27, 1863.
Dxea BM: In answer to your inquiry, my opinion is that
the payment of the $3OO commutation and the furnishing
a substitute have precisely the same effect. Either of them
frees the drafted man from further draft for three years
He is in effect in service, either by himself or another—
The payment of $3OO makes the government his agent to
procure a substitute. The government has consented to
act as such agent The taw says he may "on or before the
day fixed for his appearance furnish an acceptable substi
tute, or pay such sum not exceeding $3OO for the procura
tion of such substitute, and thereupon the person furnish
ing the substitute, or paying the money, shall be discharged
from farther liability under th tt draft." No one doubts
that turni king a substitute excuses for three years. To
give a different effect to the payment of the commutation
seems to me little leas than so absurdity. It is a very
mischievous misconstruction, which, if need be, I have no
doubt Congress will correct
ED REILLY, Esq
STATE SENA TORBH IP. —Messrs. Editors: AB
the Democratic County Convention will soon be held, it is
not unadvisable for us to begin considering who should be
candidates for the various positions to be tilled, but the
importance of having a good selection for the office of State
Senator cannot be overrated. We need talent, ability and
integrity; a man whose patriotism and regard for the true
welfare of the country has not been sunk in the uncondi
tional loyalty of Abolitionism. We need one who will be
a 'true and undoubted representative of Democratic policy;
for with that be will be identified with the only policy
that can save the nation.
HENRY SHAFFNER, Of Mount Joy Borough, combines the
requisites for the place. He is honest and incorruptible;
a fearless, unalloyed and undoubted Democrat; a fluent
and ready debater, and having a sound judgment and good,
practical sense. His sterling character and tine social
qualities have won him hosts of admiring friends and
made him deservedly popular. He Is emphatically "a man
among men," and if selected to fill the position would do
so with honor to himself, credit to the party, and advan
tage to the public interests. J.
11100 NT Jo:, Aug. 11th, 1863.
PASSENGER AND MAIL SCHEDULE.—The dif
ferent Passenger Trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad
leave this city as follows:
LEAVE EASTWARD.
,
Through Express 3.30 a. m.
hiount Joy Accommodation 8 40
"m.
Lancaster Lancaster Accommodation 9.00 "
Fast Lino 725 "
-
Fast Mail 2.20 p.m
•
Mount Joy Accommodation, No. 2
5 48
Harrisburg Accommodation " •
8.03 "
LEAVE WESTWARD.
Through Express 1.21 a. m
Fast Mail 10.55 "
Mount Joy Accommodation 11.05 "
Fast Line 2.23 p. m
Harrisburg Accommodation o 08 "
Lancaster Accommodation 7.44 "
Mount Joy Accommodation, No. 2 7.50 "
The mails arrive and close at the City Post Office as fol
lows :
eaniveas.
Through ?Jail from the East-1-21 a. m. and 223 p. m.
Through Mail from the West-3.30 a. in. and 2.25 p. to.
Way Mall from the Eaat-10.55 a. m.
Way Mail from the West-9 a. m. and 225 p. m.
Southern Mail from Baltimore and Washington, 2.25 p. m
MOlnts FO CLOSING MAILS
Eastern Through Mall, for Philadelphia, 1.30 p. m. and 8
p. m.
Way Mail End, for Philadelphia and intermediate otlioes,
at 8 a. m.
New York and - Northern and Eastern States, 1.30 p. m.
For Harrisburg, and Cumberland, Franklin and Perry
canaries, at 10 e. m. and. 8 p m.
Northern Central, Juniata and Western New York, at 10
Way Mall West—For Landisville, Balunga, Mount Joy,
Elizabethtown Middletown, Highspire, Elempfield,
Mountville, Wrlghtsville, Maytown, Bainbridge and Fal
mouth at 10 a. in.
For Columbia, York, ac., at 10 a,lll.
For Baltimore and Washington, D. C., at 1.30 p. in. and 8
P. m.
Pittsburg Through Mail at 1.30 p. m. and 8 p. m.
For Columbia, York, Marietta and Harrisburg at 10 a. m
and 5. p. m.
For The Intelligencer
At this moment, while contending armies march to bat
tle, it becomes necessary to attend to matters more domes
tic than the cry of civil war.
Much has been said as to the origin of the conflict now
waging. Some have attributed it to slavery, some to the
manner in which the Northern agitators have attacked
that peculiar institution, some to climatic differences, and
others to the natural Jarring of commercial interests and
a greatly and rapidly increased material pros
perity. But so vague are the inferences, none, perhaps,
that would settle down into a conviction, that any one
of these causes, alone, could have such an unequivocal ef
fect, and many would doubt that all of them together
should eventuate so thoroughly in sock a wide-spread die
rend.; but all seem to have acquiesced in the belief of
a disaffection, or, at least indifference to the Union, or the
Government, as the nearer result from which the present
acerbity and disintegration has sprung. Lot ns descend
from the general to particulars.
In the county of Lancaster we find apparently two po
litical parties The stronger for a quarter of a century,
though frequently changing its name and professed ob
jects, we observe ever rolling, sometimes slowly, some
times quickly, into very nearly the same inevitable and
certain majority—the weaker, still its like, always In a
decided minority. In the popular apprehension the former
was, also, under its various transformation., yet the same
party. With slight exceptions, through slight individual
changes from one to the other, the same men composed
Its. bulk, and the same moo, or their successors, were un
der each aspect its identical leaders. First, the Whig.,
then the Native Americans, now the Republicans. And
yet scarcely anything can be more politically distinct,
than the last named and the old Whig party. Even that
pert of the elder political creed—one term for the Exacta.
tive office—which had been adopted by the country, and
which had become already a custom, has been repudiated
by the late Republican Convention, which has ronomina.
tad the present Governor for the succeeding executive
term of the State of Pennsylvania. Here let us ask, does
any one believe that an honest principle was the ground
work of such a uniform and easily accomplished prepon
derance in every changing alternative?
What has been the consequence of this invulnerable and
everlasting majority? It gave certainty to the arrange.
manta of the initiated and active managers, and power to
enforce their decisions. Every one knows the settling of
the ticket was the election. The voters of their own faith
were called upon to record their approbation of that which
had been resolved, had already been done, and to endorse
the edict, not less commanding than that of an emperor,
which was sent forth, and set before the gaze of the mul
titude, and to which these could only cry "amen;" while
the party In opposition were permitted to perform a sera
mony, to go to the polls, as hopeless of result from their
act as one that would throw a brickbat at the moon—a
mere ceremony I Such a spectacle might in.pire curiosity,
or it might be witnessed as an imposing pageant, but the
pnblic could take no real interest in ft. There might in
deed some momentary excitement be brought about, some
artificial Impetus, to serve a momentary purpose. It would
prove a clamor only, and would soon fade away, to leave
the participants es barren as all pageantries do, when they
are expected to answer beyond the hour of their appear
ance. To all but the expectant.: to them such a scheme
is highly convenient. Through a series of years continued
and perfected, such a machinery become, so apt and adap
table that theiapplicant for office, honors and emoluments
has comparatively little trouble. He makes his terms
with individuals instead of the masses. As told' abilities,
they will not be invidiously inquired into, If he is docile
and gives sufficient assurance that he will not disturb the
harmony of things: that is, of this peculiar authority and
system. upon which alone he Is dependant, and not upon
the public. At least, he is not held in a long suspense.—
He does not hazard much in au open chase; and if there
should be no room for him among the recipients, he will
be made acquainted with such good reasons, or he may
bide his time, though not indefinitely, thathe will hardly
have it in himself to be much mortified at his circum
stances, in degree only, not in kind, lees enviable than he
had perhaps imagined.
Meanwhile the man successful, perchance in bargaining,
appears in an advertisement, or in the proceedings of a
deliberative body, as a candidate. None know why, what
claims he advances, what his deserts are. Neither
will he ever have any Intercourse on the ground of per
suasion with the one that is to choose; he will never con
sult him. But the voter is aware that the matter is fixed.
And he is himself rather satisfied than the contrary, since
he need not Concern himself. Heretofore, if he has in
quired, moat probably, be has found the individuals pro
posed good men, very good men. perhaps. They who really
selected them were not unmindful of popular appearances;
inquiry is lulled, and superficial requisites are suf.
ficient. Now convenience is in itself desirable, but ludo
lance is not to be recommended. This easy mode may
even seem plausible, bat there is no vitality. No man in
the common walks of life is tempted in giving or in re
ceiving a bribe; no man's conscience appeals to him in the
choice between the representatives of more or less doubt
ful principles, nor are his feelings wrought op In the
close issue between those for whom he has on the one side
a preference of friendship or favor. The elected, to obvious
perception, amid like Inducements, is moderate and
cafe; if he does no mighty good, he does no ostensible
evil Is it wonderful that, amid such languid relations,
the Government, however it is, whatever it is, wherever
it is, and the public are at loggerheads? This Is in truth
alienated, that is independent, but stands alone. Thus It
has no other elenient of animation left but that of force
and fear. And if something'of the same habit has obtained
or obtains now throughout the land, as in this particular
district mentioned, we may believe that the preeent doubt,
difficulty and apprehension in reference to the wonted
progress of the country are not altogether Inexplicable.
But it may be contended that the conditions thus held
preferable would lend more latitude to intrigue, which
could not but be deprecated. What can be more effective
intrigue than that which removes, annuls everything that
can counterbalance or hinder in? Besides intrigue would
be better than inanity, for where there is no life there can,
be no worth. It error must fall before reason's freedom,
so intrigue may apprehend exposure when it deals in the
open day and with the popular element, instead of shield
ing itself under set forms and perfectly regulated organ'.
rations. The public will and public opinion, however
operated upon and influenced, inspire our institutions,
and if these ere cast aside the whole fabric of them crum
bles, and such a remarkable inconsistency predominates
as cannot but eventuate in utter discordancy. They may
be erroneous; they will most likely be corrected. They
may be tyrannical; 'twill be only for a season. For there
is this vast difference between individuals and cliques in
popular respects, that the public has never an Interest in
the continuance of public wrong, perversion or destruction;
just the contrary. No doubt the mechanism alluded to
would still in part exist, nay, be necessary; but it would
not monopolize the essence of political action. No doubt
many a one would be sorely creased in his views; but the
hindrance might be preferable to a lethargic success, cal
culated and dull. Besides, does not Fortune animate all
human affairs? If fortune were excommunicated from
mankind, what a wretched, lingering, Languishing exist
ence were infallibly theirs! Fortune—that is the very
spur of all emotions In the human breast, the mystery,
the surprise, the happiness of that which is not so much
a working as a finding! The popular misapprehensions
might leave room for repentance or emendation, or if
beyond a remedy, they would yet be the least of two evils
in the pathway on which the nation must needs go or be
foiled. If in a battle all the spoils were beforehand enum
erated; if the slain, the wounded, the captured and the
escaped were in anticipation numbered, and such and such
designated for each condition, what sort of a martial spirit
could we Imagine thence to be evoked by such an artificial
contrivance? Not lees will the same Infelicity, non-natur
alism, if not impossibility, hold of other antagonisms in
their dame, which partake of the nature of a contest
when conducted according to such a stultifying process.
We might yen sot warssionsbly hope fora sonar re.
salt hem the elective franchienexircised on anathralluils,
than from many a moral conflict which may be wielded,
impelled by fanaticism or a mistaken zeal, where the polo
slots are atttimes appealed to and enlisted more than the
understanding, and from whose ferocity there is some.
times to adequate protection; whereas a popular election
may be considered as a patriotic game, wherein, though
the passions have scope, when the play is ended, (a play
though for a good and efficient purpose,) they are set at
rest. and the fury expires with the occasion, to be again
resuscitated as a means of dissipating all bitterness, in
place of treasuring it up from year PS year, and multiply.
log its venom without knowing when the epidemic will
have Its stay, or to what fatal finality it may at last lead.
But in the ease hare contemplated in this particular
county, where a few only, if any, realise the true meaning
and intent of an election, where rotation in office, width
Is the very cement of our Constitution, is but partially Isg•
amplified, political parties are practically no longer parties.
Their bad qualities alone remain. They become only fee•
dons; and If the element In which they have their being
prevails, the Government will unmistakeably lay the baud
of authority upon them, or tire versa, since it is Melon.
dent, and they are without interest in it, and therathre
adverse; and it cannot live without Its proper connections,
no more than the head In an animal body without the
heart. That spirit or essential nature of any constituent
expunged or neutralised, the constituent becomes lifeless.
Thence comes force; and they shall have to bind them
to one another by the fear of danger and through the prin
ciple of coercion, till they find means of a nearer relation,
and interests not separate but united. Otherwise, they
they shall have to yield all that the country'. fathers con.
tended for, and mankind rejoiced in hoping—namely, that
a brighter day was dawning, which Would still make pro.
grew toward a more enviable hour than had yet been for
humanity. Where the blame ilea the writer of this will
not pretend to say. Others may be better advised than he.
But in his opinion, and if the foregoing be admitted, It
will require an occasional minority instead of a stereotyped
majority, especially where parties carry out only the ex
istent policy and evolve no new hypothesis, to give °spree.
idols and offset to the vital principle herewith advocated.
From a slender sprig springs a large tree, and some dele
terious plants, have they but a single rooting, can gamely
be eradicated; so an unprofitable order of things, though
the seal, of lie operations be confined, may thrive to large
proportions, and may affect with harm many a one beside
those at first and immediately concerned. G.
LANCASTER, August 29th, 1863.
Masons. EDITORS: it Seems tome thatint he'pro
grass of the present political campaign too little stress
is put by onr newspapers upon the most important dif
ference now existing between the two political
parties. Surely in the midst of a Civil War, such as
this is, no subject can be of more interest and im
portance than that which relates to the conduct of
the war and its speedy and honorable termination.
If we give our money and our lives without stint, as
we of the North have done since this war began,
who will deny us the right to know for what the war
is waged? The object of the war is surely its very
soul and body. As long as this is praiseworthy and
noble so long is the war justifiable and right. Why
did the whole Country, men of all parties, rush to
arms in 1861? Because we all were willing to give
our life's blood for the preservation of the Constitu
tion and Union of our fathers. It was a holy object.
No nation in the world's history ever fought in so
sacred a cause. The new President, although be
had many enemies, made them all friends by his
patriotic and statesmanlike actions in the early part
of his Administration Bat, alas! why were the
good men of the North soon compelled to take issue
with the President? Why were they driven to the
organization of an opposition party? Because he
abandoned his policy, proved false to his pledges,
and gave himself up entirely to' the control of the
ultra-Abolition wing of his party. Because he lost
sight of the only object of the war—the restoration
of tee Union, and lined himself with the fortunes
of those men who in the very halls of Congress gave
utterance to treason suoh as this : " Who, in the name
of God wants the Cotton States, or any other State
this side of perdition, to remain in the Union, if
slavery is to be oontinued?"—Binghans. " The
Union never shall with my consent be restored under
the present Constitution as it is."—Stevens. " This
.war is for the African and his race."—Lowry.
These, Messrs. Editors, and other speeches without
number, found no echo in the hearts of the real
patriots of the North. They love their Country and
the Union, and were in duty bound to oppose, with
all their might, the prosecution of the war for such
objects as these. Now, in the coming election the
people of Pennsylvania will decide for what object
this terrible war shall be waged. Whether the blood
of their sons and brothers in arms shall be spilt for
.the " African," or whether in the sacred cause of the
Union. Those who vote for Judge Woodward will
put their seal of condemnation upon the attempt of
those in power to make this a war for the negro,
while they who favor the re-election of Gov Curtin,
will give aid and comfort to those men who in their
hearts do not desire a restoration of the Union, bat
who, to deceive the people and thus gain power,
shout loud for it and establish Union Leagues.
THADDEUS STEVENS
HISTORICAL COM PARIRON OF TRES
REIGNS OF TERROR OF '99 AND' 63.
Ma. Inv : As a native of Pennsylvania,
born and bred in the good :old Jeffersonian
and Snyder's school of DEMOCRACY in old
Berke county, I cannot but feel rejoiced and
encouraged to see once more the Democratic
spirit of '99 aroused in my native State. ''Old
Democratic Berks," was the first county in the
State and the Union, to which the true- De
mocracy arose in '99, to 'oppose the Reign of
Terror inaugurated by the Federalists under
the Administration of the elder Adams. The
Alien, Sedition and Gag laws—which made
it seditious and criminal for citizens to meet
peacefully to express, or print, or utter any
sentiments opposed to or censuring the
national Administration or any Federal officer
was, first attempted to be enforced in the arrest
of Henry Snyder, and the suppression of his
German Democratic paper in Reading. This
Federal, tyrannical usurpation, aroused at
once the Democratic spirit of a little Spartan
band of noble patriots headed by John Frees
and John Miller, who held a Demooratio
meeting at Miller's Mill, in Eleas township,
some 5 or 7 miles northeast from Reading,
and passed resolutions disapproving of the
Federal Administration and the arbitrary ar
rest of Snyder and the suppression of his
paper, and asserting their inherit Constitu
tional right to the freedom of speech and the
press. Government soldiers were at once
forwarded from Philadelphia, where the seat
of the Federal Government was at that time
—to arrest this noble patriotic band of Demo
cratic freemen. Miller made, however, his
escape by hiding under hay in a barn, and I
often beard him declare and say, to use his
own words: "that he felt the cold steel of
" the Federal sword on his very body, run in
"to the hay under which he laved, by the
Federal bloodhounds," as he called them—
who knew that he was somewhere in the
barn, but could not find him. " But Frees
" and eight of his compatriots were arrested,
" dragged or forced to Easton, and there
" locked up in a dark cellar, knee deep in
" water and mud, for 48 hours," and then,
under a strong guard of Federal soldiers drove
like cattle to the slaughter to Philadelphia
and imprisoned, where they soon received a
mock-trial. Frees was condemned to be hung,
and the others sentenced to the Penitentiary,
some for 8 to 9 and the others from 1 to 5
years. But the Federal usurpers in power,
did not dare to hang Frees. The true De
mocracy arose in Pennsylvania and the whole
Union in their blight and sovereignty at that
fall election and hurled the Federal tyrants and
usurpers from power. Thomas M'Kean was
elected Governor of Pennsylvania, and Thomas
Jefferson President of the United States, with
overwhelming majorities, and the Federal
Administration did not dare to execute their
sentence upon Frees and his compatriots.—
And the very first official act that President
Jefferson performed, after his inauguration,
was to pardon Frees and his fellow victims of
Federal persectition and tyranny, and when
they were releaSed from their long confine
ment, the people met in a large mass meeting
before the jail,and constructed a high platform,
on which they carried Frees, high above their
heads, through the streets of Philadelphia,
amid the shouts and buzzes of thousands of
Democratic freemen.
Thus ended the Federal tyranny and mis
rule in 1799 and 1800. The Alien and Sedi
tion laws were repealed ; the freedom of the
press and speech, and the rights and liberties
of the people, and " good will among men,"
were once more restored and preserved by
Democratic men and measures in the adminis
tration of the Government for sixty years,
until the present Abolition Administration
came into power ; and now we have in 1863,
a Reign of Terror, teu thousand times more
tyrannical, despotic and degrading to free.
men than the Reign of Terror in '99. It is
enough to make the patriotic blood boil with
indignation in every honest Democratic heart,
to see at this day, the base, malicious persecu
tion and tyranny of some of the very imps of
these old " Federal bloodhounds," now in
power, in arresting, abusing and denouncing
the very sons of those noble Democratic
fathers who are unwilling, as were their patri
otic sires, to bow their knees and necks to the
present Abolition tyranny. J. M.
CINCINNATI, August 25.
The steamer Lady Madison was being
loaded with ammunition at Vicksburg, and had
received nearly a full load, when a negro,
carrying a percussion shell on board, let it
fall, causing an instant explosion.
The boat took fire and communicated to the
ammunition. The steamer was entirely de
stroyed. Out of one hundred and sixty men
on board, only four are known to have escaped.
The steamer was a large side-wheel boat,
owned by Capt. J. S. Neal, of Madison, and
worth about $40,000.
By the 95th section of the act of Assembly
of the State of Pennsylvania of 2d July, 1839;
it is enacted that
" No body of troops in the army of the United
States, or of this Commonwealth, shall be pres.
ent, either armed or unarmed, at any place of
election within this Commonwealth, durd►y thi
OM Of =oh election."
For T4o Intolligencer
From the Somerset Democrat
DISASTER AT VICKSBURG.
TROOPS AT ELECTIONS.