EIME
:.•
"The printing presses shall be free to every
person - who undertakes to examine the pro
ceedings of the legislature, or any branch of
government; and no law shall ever be made
to restrain the right thereof. The free com.mu
nicalion of thought and opinions is one of the
invaluable rights of men; and every citizen
may freely speak, write and print on any sub
ject;-being responsible for the abuse of that
liberty. In-prosecutions for the publication of
papers investigating the official conduct of offi
cers, or men in public capacities, or where the
matter published is proper for public informa
tion, the truth thereof may be given in evi
dence."—Consditution of Pennv/vania.
FOR PRESIDENT :
MAJOR GENERAL GEORGE B. M'CLBLLAN,
OF NEW JERSEY
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
GEORGE 11. PENDLETON,
or OHIO
ELECTORS AT LARGE.
'ROBERT F. JOHNSO*. of Cambria.
RICHARD V A
X,
of Ph
DISTRICT ELECTORS
Tht. Wm. Loughlin, 13th. Paul Leidy,
3d. E. 11. Helmbold, 14th. Rob't Sweinford,
3,1. Eir'd I'. Dunn, 15th. John Ahl,
4th. T. M'Cullough, 16th. Henry G. Smith,
sth,,Edward T. Hess, 117th. Thaddeus Banks,
6th. PhllipS.Gerhard,llBth. H. Montgomery,
7th„Geo. P. Lepier, 119th. Jno. M. Irwin,
6th. Michael Seltzer, 220th. J. M. Thompson,
9th. Patrick M'Evoy, '2lst: Rasselas Brown,
10th. T. H. Walker, Mn!.t Jas. P. Barr,
11th. O. S. Dimmick, 2.3 rd. Wrn. J. Koontz,
12th. A. B. Dunning, ,2441. W. Montgomery.
To the Democracy of the City and County
ESE=
In pur'suance of authority given the un
dersigned at a meeting of the County Com-
Mittee.,hejd on Thursday, August '2.sth, you
are reeip , sted to meet in the several Wank
of the city, Boroughs and Townships of dik
e sltor , lay, 2-Ith day ofSeptethber,
to elect 'not less than three, nor more than
tivC delegates to represent such district in a
general County Convention, to he held on
Wednesday, 2Sth day of September, at
o'clock, A. M., in the Hall of the Young
Mee's Democratic As,oi•iation, in the city of
Lanenster, for the purpe.e of nolliinaliw..; a
ticket to be supported at the ensuing 4"0-
her election.
11)111 , 1 11, ,, t earnestly re
commend to th. 2 and Borouvhs
of the county, to eiliwt a thorough and eon
vonient by the formation of
DPI/lort,lt ( in their several districts.
To \viiship Connitittees are requested to
uive early 1100( . 0 Of the time and place of
me eting; for the election of delegates.
It. 'l - 511 Chairman.
A. J. STE' NuAN, l-ieeretary.
A Disappointment
Not a few of our readers will regret to
learn-that it is doubtful whether Mr.
: V.ibbANDuitt.AN will he with us,.at our
great meeting, on Saturday next. It is
alleged that he awls smile fault with
' General MeCblibb.-i.x's letter of accept
ance, and thereforedeclines makingany
speeches during the campaign. IVe are
sorry to be under the necessity of mak
ing this announcement, as we, in com
mon with thousands of others, would
have been gratified at seeing and hear
. lug the di , linguished gentleman. But,
notwithstanding his probable absence,
livid, and it promises
to he one of the largest and most im
posing demonstrations ever witnessed
in this city. Other eminent,speakers
Will Inc in attendance, and the great and
• leading principles of the Democratic
party will he ably discussed. The great
mass of ties people 11.1: with Oeneral
INIc - 'l'l.l-11.1..ifc. heart and soul, twit the
• dineetion of no one man, however promi
nott. a space he may have heretofore oe
ni in the >niblie eve, will he SUM-
eicut to their Inith in the iiurity,
eon,ervittivelir-in
eipl,os our noininee,
eer will it provent ai iriuutph.wt elec
tion to the l'resideririll
A Patriotic Pledgt
The fir-t re-otution or the ,erie , adopt
ed by the Dena - Tr:lt ic Convention at
Chicago reatls
12,3.50/4:ed. 'chat iu the future, it, in 111(
past-, we will with itii:werviiii4
IV to the Union nut er t .n1 , 4.1(1111011 at ,
1110 only solid tl,undation o u r stitpiluth,
st., , tir . ,ty, :up! Itattt , tll 4 — ,, as I,oult an t as
intnie o.,rk tz,Vernitiont .111114 ctlll
- to the vtulittn: and pr , rsplity of all
115 lt.ltaf ,, , !rub Northern and Southern.
In t luE.. , e plain wont: , have the Denloe
raQ) through their authoriztal repre-
seutatives at Chicago, pledged them
selves to the Union. ''his pledge de
rives value fruit the fit that tho„4 , wlm
have given it luive a/tcogs heel' Union
men. It \-as they who sounded the
al::: ni wile!' the use of a sectional party
In 1:<,0 threatened to (lestroy the har
mony of the Flutes. It was they who
warned the country that the triumph
of pally would endanger
the Irnion and perhaps (le-troy it. It
was they who earnestly besought their
countrymen 11,4. to ina(ily pull clown
the glorious'.struclure which the hand
of WAsHINGToN had helped to rear.
How were their utrorts to avert the
dangers that threatened the [7nlon
ecived the Repuldicans, who now
cull themselves the " Union puny
Who does not runientl,er with what hit
terness of tone these same Itepuldicans :
sneered at Dem ocratsus" nion-savers?'
At that t ime t hey (lid not vent areopenly
to assail tll, , rnion itself, but they
soup:ht to hritcz it into contempt by
sneurint..c . at its recoznized friends as
1.11i,11
I)oni(wrnoy nceepted the political
noinenciatLtre 1 up.,11 thent
their oppoitiiiit- and they
not lipoilimi• Tlicy \very calleii
claim to
['hey (liil
I=lll
save ilie and - Him feirly
ei7dea-I the title the Ilepuhlieens
had bestowed upon t Men. They tried
to seN.-e it in Mit ncood. now,
in to/Minted by the seine patriotic
sentinKnts that buoyed them up in for
mer desperate struggles for the Union,
they have given to the eountry a solemn
pledge that they will make another
eflhrt to save it.
mde of Lanue-ter ,eounty—all of
yon, with the Cxemition or one or 'tw o
of the holdest and worst or the Itemil,
n leedm.s, pl.lo!'e-o , tope no• I,', Union.
Von k tle • the Union reit:nine,' un
1111,1er Idr patties till the Itepubs.
helm patty came intmpower. Von have
seen it split ill twain in the hands of
that - perty. There ar , .. but two parties
left out of all that have existed in this
country—the _Democrats and the Re
publicans—the Union sitvrrs and the
u n i on The Democrats pledge
themselves to" adhere With unswerving
fidelity to the Uniont - and this pledge
is supported by the great fact that the
party malting it has already adhered to
the Union. The Republicans profess
to be for the ti nion now, but their pro
fessions are worth nothing in the face
of the great fact that the Union has
fallen apart in their hands. l's7o man,
therefore, who is truly devoted to the
Union, ought to hesitate about making
up his mind to act with the Democratic
party at the approaching election. The
Republicans, after four years of trial,
have proved their inability or their un
willingness to close up the breach which
was opened by their accession to power.
Give the Democrats a chance, and they
will close it in less than six months,
with honor to the whole country, and
in a way that will carry joy to the heart
of every true Union man.
Supw Thirty Cents!
, Thirty cents per pound is the Hon.
THADDEUS STEVENS' price for sugar
„which used to sell for eight. Mechanics
and laboringmen who would rather pay
thirty cents than eight for their sugar,
will vote for Mr. STEVENS.
The Price of Coal.
All poor men who want the price of
coal raised, can have their wishes grati
fied by voting for la.wcorac.
Lincoln and the Negroes.
If the white people of the United
States have not made up their mind
to exchange places with ,the negroes,
and allow the latter to become the ruling
race, they had better cast their votes at
the next election for a man who will
not hob-nob with negroes in the Presi
dential mansion. The ambitious black
amoors who have been permitted to shed
their perfume in the gorgeous apart
ments of the White House, need but
a little more encouragement to induce
them to lay claim to the highest . offieial
honors of the land.
Near the close of the last session of
Congress, and the first time in the his
tory of the country, a negro made his
appearance at one of the " receptions "
given by the President, and was re
ceived by Mr. LINCOLN with marked
cordiality. With an air of conscious
superiority he elbowed his way through
the mass of " white folks" then and
there assanbled, his flaming eyeballs
rivalling the brilliancy of the chande
liers, and his double row of shining
ivories looking like a new steel trap.
- _
On the Fourth of July last, the spruce
young darkies connected with the seve
ral African Sunday Schools at Wash
ington held their " celebration " in the
beautiful grounds of the Executive
Mansion, by permission of Mr. LIN
vot.N. The whit , Sunday School scholars
had to betake themselves to more
tunt and less agreeable quarters.
Some weeks ago it was stated that
Mr. Liscoi,N had invited a negro to
ride with him in his carriage, hut we do
not know whetlwr this was true Or not,
and therefore wc will not assert it as a
feet, though it seems probable enough.
But that a delegation of Baltimore
darkies was reveived at the White
House last week, by the President,
dirt. Notice or the intention n 1 the
ncuroadmirersof Mr. I.INCot,N ill Bahl-
More TO present him a '4)l(..inlidly hound
copy of the WaS given ill the
Duper: some time ago, and it appears
front the following from the Washing
ton Sim - , that the presentation took
place one (lay last Week:
I'ItE,ENTATI"N ru I . I2E , IPENT
tin W,thlttschly fl
111 ,, lucid ,40. , •1" , •(1 td 11,1-
tittittro. ottt,t,tiritz - Ilt•v. Bishop \\lttyttiatt,
Hoc. lh•v. W. 11. lirutcu, \V.
Frttitch, anti A. (;. Carittitl, tipttit
Prttsitlt•nt Liiivlthi, at the Whit , 11,itt.tt, and
presenitttl him it'itha hawhinuv Bildk and
t t, n Ittl:tlltx resporl
gratitude.
Th, pr, , ,ohli ion pnsi
deur,: orr,,, the ion ‘‘.:, intro
,l,,(l to Mr. I.ine”ln liy li. St,,ckett :\lat -
Hie \vs, hail., orth, Third coo,r,,,iolti
ri,t or NI nryhold. s. i o,•-
sent,d the hook to the Pre,illeni, saying
it was p re .sented to Mu'. Lineelit 1 . ,r hi. dis
tingliklied ,eryiee , In the tzreat eau-, el
enianetpati , ll.
['pm he el•lielusi , m the IZe‘ . Ir.
Chase's retlutrk , , ts‘ 1/1.1111• h,tna
ell the 1),,,I; tip the l're•-•ident, which he re
and al.k.111,0,q1;2:1,1 in 11,
II \\ , 111141 bk. 11 vory tilting (~,:isi)n
make :1 leng11 1 1 ,,111011 1 1 1 101 1 11.1111 "
address yon have just mod,. I wmild
so it prepared. I 1,5111)1 1110111 i s, cull to
mule :1 1 . 4T1y in ,V1'11111 . .:111 -,111,1 . 11111r , 1ay,
11:1,11101 I'XI)t . 1 . 11 . 110 4, 1:111,r111 111:11 1 NVOIlltl
bt• ;11)1e 14, 1.,011 11. I can nnlc say 111,1,
as I have 4)1 . 1511 L1 . 11W,, if
1),•11 a , I'lllllll , lll with 111 111111:111 111:011:A116
SllOlll , l 11 , free. No far as 1 11:1Vt• 111,11 111115,
tar as. eamo ‘vithin my sphere. I have al
ways acted its my onnseiems , t,,ld me was
right :lull just. •1 lin 1 e 41,11, in I , llll', and
(I,,euments sent 1111111 fr 1,11) this mile,. ex
pressed myself 1,, , ,ter tic))) 1 5111
" In regard to the greid i yolk, 1 have only
to say it is the whirl, 1;011 has over
given limn. Bat for this 1.01: Nvo
riot. 1:1)1,1 right l i rnin r'mg. .\ll
things man are , eminintiii
gated III) ii it.
I return thank- i'm• v,ry
elPg:lnt ...Ty , r ;•,,t lnn,k ~C y.T
,•c•
'1;110 1)(),k. i , llll 1111114 . 1 ' 1 , 1 , i11,1'1 , . 1,,111111 111
V , •l\ ,•1,111.•;,,,q1 inin 111,cl: NV:I
', 11111 4 . 11,,, Li l+y 11
tho 1,1,1, 1,, n2..,;11p1;11.., ,N ;11 , 1,11 , ,1 , 111 , 11 , •-
111 niriiiiill•rninin. ‘, i,i,•11
reprii , iiiiiiivz; I i Pro- , l4lnnt in ill.•
sirikinu tho tll•i
,pther 111 , ` ;-.
1 , 1111 . :Mil 1 1 1 , NVitit . , ‘',1,••11
" 1, Alll,lllllll
1,111,U111, I h"
j 1110 loyal nolorn,i a
1 token of r0,,,C1 ~n+t graft win, Jilly 1,.
It is to he regretted that the .‘,./or ha,
not uiven the plthlio a , -I(eteh of the re
' mark, , nttttle he The
lIANNIRAL ( . 111,41:. on I•ll,elit
ink t h e Book to Mr. LIN( ,o.y. ,o that
they inip.ht, by coloparinL7. it With the
reply." laths' th, of au Af
rican ‘if some 11(0(0 . :11 ...I:::(rtne , - , 10 he
(.10110 11 ,Licce,-(((r (,f 1.1•:,, (0 y 10 111(2
\Vliil(. 1 - rouse, \\ARIL
hateaue~:ec~letllll
intijority of the V.llil4_ . Ift I ie Or flee
country up to the huliol . that n,.2 . 4,, ,
ought to he alh)we,l to V01(' :;11 , 1 hotil
0111(•e.
Prt'Sidellt'S 11:om
lieightene , l the effiflcitipt NVlti , •ll
(le[egall,:!) itogrne,
Itztve heen tati,,Lht the
to reganl whit, folks" generally. It
is as a \\ - I.;w:tr , l 11 , his :id-
tit Iclurth
preparytl. Thp p.or Haul Wn ,
oVermlitt , a thl• iwlffir
done him hy crican !hat
he was nnal it 1,, sitital.l,. rr, lc
without tirm , fm• rroparath,it ! hhtt
,ave hint-ell from 1 . :Wh0 : 4 too Inc in the
estinhttion of hi, ,able frion4-, lie-
Ill'lll III:II he had
often, in lotto'' , -out
forth from thy r, , ont thy:: 11Iell
Is tier dint MI
)11! liw ontoy of I hi , t--
surance w, an. 11j , 1,11 , (41 111 lILlt-111,11,
wt . 111.1Ve 11,V,1' yet ,oen a ',tier, ;.t doeu
tnentor a AlrelTil I
Via , not ,li,ert ditable to a per•ott occu
pying hi- exalted tw -iti, , , 11 . It
whether a ,-entente
Lfood EnLrii , ll could he ,iooeztal oat of
if he were put untie'. a (shier
or run through the Univenial
Wringer."
Tile Right Talk
Tiu• l nirnt NVil, on f,tritit,l liv the
exttrei.., of a spirit of cotteilint ion nth I t•ot ti
promise. To coats„ and pre-wrt.s• i t, th e
• mite ,pirit tut-t. pro \ ail in our ,•itttrit,
atilt in the heart, o; , r , •ll‘
,Ift•Clelif 01, Li'M•i•
It was Lv driving the blessed spirit of
conciliation and compromise out of the
hearts of a majority of the Northern
people, that the hepublican leaders
brought on this terrible war and it is
hy attempt hie: to stifle every manifesta
tion of that spirit, that they hope to
keep up the war-fever with which the
country has 'teen afflicted for three long
and weary vea•s.
In the midst of this loud roar of stay
at-home patriots fir a iiiintinuance of
war, how gratefully must Iteneral Nic-
Ci.m.f.A.N's invocation of the " spirit of
conciliation and compromise" fall upon
the ears of every man in whose bosom
there heats a heart alive to the emotions
that do honor to human nature.
This gallant soldier has seen enough
of war to appreciate its horrors; and
whilst lie would tint shirk front the
most trying duties of the military pro
fession to which he has been bred, his
good heart and his equally good ]lead
lead him to give " conciliation and com
promise" the preference over the sword
in the adjustment of our national
troubles.
WE re-publish in another colunm an
editorial from the Nutional IntaligPnCCl
on the nomination of Gen. McClellan.
This able, time-honored and always
courteous journal has been the organ of
the Whig party and of Whig Presidents
at Washington for nearly half a century.
We commend the article to the Old
Line Whigs of Lancaster county as es
pecially worthy of their attentive con
sideration.
A New "Government Stamp."
It is said that "the government" (A.
LINCOLN) stamped his .foot violently
when he heard of Gen. AICCLELLAN'S
nomination.
Mr. Slum and Public Debt.
We gave, the other day, an incident
in the public life of the Hon. THAD- i
DEUS STEVENS, which we found record-
ed in the first volume of the `! Proceed-
ings and Debates of the Convention to
Amend the Constitution of Pennsyl
vania." We now give another from
the same source
Theappointrnent of Committees being
Under consideration in the Convention,
Mr_STEVENs Moved to raise " A Com
mittee on tin' subject - of Public Loans
and the State Debt," and upon this
motion he made the following remarks . :
Mr. STEVENS said that I l e thought this
was as important a subject as any that had
been brought helot , • the I 'on vent nd
as it was the determination of the body to
introduce all important matters and refer
them to the state ling committees, he thought
he might as well bring in this one and have
•it take the same course. Ile thought it WaS
high time that WI, should ask the people of
the Commonwealth whether it was not pro
per to add some constitutional limits to the
burdens, in the shape of debt, which the
Legislature had imposed upon the people
and their posterity. Ile• thought that it
ought to go to a committee. in order that
the subject shouhl be iuquired into. He had
no hesitation in t•X lirliSSing his opinion that
a constituttomn Unlit should be placed to
the State data attire the Legislature should
increase it.
Mr. Cox, or Somerset, warmly sup
ported the proposition of Mr. STEVENS,
remarking that if the Legislature should
"go on for the next six years as they
had done at the last session, appropriat
ing immense sums. the State would lie
in debt to the amount id! fifty millions!
Then the que,ition arose, land it was a
tter deserving of scrious
ether that amount was not t(g) much
for the people to have hanging over their
heads '2"
NVe have not at hand the means of
stating what was the amount of the
State debt at the 0111 e When Messrs.
:. 4 1 - EvENs and Cox prorostql to lin - lit : it
by a constitutional impediment to its
expansion beyond certain bounds. It
was probably not over thirty or thirty
five ; but it was or sufficient
nnuznittnie to give serious uneasiness to
these gentleimli, Nvhilst the possibility
of its increasi. to tiny millions created
in their minds the gravest apprehen
sions for the welfare or the people.
They were right. .\ debt of fifty mil
lions was a thing to be .Irezuled. Hatt a
;
tar heav ie r ~cot t h an that ;now hang
ing over our Ma:, and increasing at a
fearful rate, :tint yet - Mr. STEvrNs per
nutsit to go on piling up mountain
high, without ',quoting one note or
warn i ng to t h e people over whose in
tereF-,ts he exercised such a wifichful care
in 1537. Nay, more :Hid averse: He pro-
rosiis to go iin it lir four or live
years longer, and three or four thousand
millions higher, not for the restoration
of the Palen, but lot tile ono single
purpose of aholishing slavery.
The national debt at the close or Ai r.
LiNcol,N's term on the f,)111'111 of :March
next, will not I n oue dollar loss
/his thoUsMid ,ioi/iiore. If he should
re-elected, :mil should adhere to his
present determination to make the alio
litionof slavery it condition precedent
to thtextiterdaininclit or propositions for
],cane; the war will go on till the end of
his s'zi.vond term, at which time the pub
lic debt will have increased to six thou
, s,tucl :nil the breach lietA - een
the twin SUCtiOIIS will have hevonie so
wide as to render iv-union impossible.
The interest on this debt will then
have to he !mid by the North :done, and
it will have to he r for by direct
taxation. The Constitution of the Un-
ii,(l States priiviiie , t 1 t " direct. taxes
shall he apprti , ,nell ;mmiu the several
States ~elei(h lea lug inelndetl within
this Uniiqi, their respe
tiVe 1111111bers. " that is, ili•eririling tI
th, p•pulatimi a what
the ;"
:silo will have of the
national debt nil,: will put a
burden pit Inv I, : wk Ti10t•,,..\
of whi,/, will M .41r"/ ! Thu,:
she will have akffit inuvh iut• re of to
pay royy mtotth. t t, a= the prinoipul of
her debt auotooteti to in lon it
g:IVC Mr. S'r EvES•s -o nitwit convent
that lie In•ula to ,tiq, it, increase hy
a 4.l:Lus(2 in Ulu 'SUtte Constitution
1,a111•:141 . 1' eounq iuntains abollt the
1111 e I %Vol part of 111, , population
of l'enn,ylvania, :it ]cast a fair pro
i,ortioll of the wt , :t1111. IL r share p;*
national dela would tliert;-
f u r, Lo
• preckciy the
a1114 , 1111t our ticht hay ,tomi at for
lly .•tuttnnt lin/rie St Oil
i 1 •11 NV.ii i 111` /WOlure'
lnut
iic Itow long
wcinlct it tilt o tliitt to rob
tLytin anti ;101l itfittitty of "tilt ,
111pp:11111y alright
I.:lnca-Mr county would
do \\ ell to think .t.t.eritontly over this
matter. It is one of tremendous 'nag,-
nituth•. II they tio not lay it to their
hearts no \v, it \\- one day come home
o than in a \vtly that ci ill (arry cm - I-
N - Mt:ton vtit.ll it. Any man or any hu h '
echo hes learned to cilihet, Cali take hi.
' , late and I Will•il and WOl'k out the .ame
result that NN 11:1\'k ;11TiVt'd Mr.
ho 11:1(1 lu cu
\ - ENs eau \ VOrli it ()111 Nvithout the
zikl .1' a slate (,r
Facts and Figures for the Proplt
Under a DemoNatic zulministration,
farmers, mechanics and laboring men,
who work hard for their money, could
buy (tool 1•1016,' ut tWelVe cent° per
pound, guiod ukrht cents per
and good syrup at twelve and
fifteen cents per quart. 1 inlet' the
miserable Republican administration
that has turnoleverything upsidedown
in the country, these haro-working peo
ple have to pay tiny-live cents for
coffee, thirty for sugar forty for
syrup! "fliese 111(1 other articles that
are needed in every house cost four
times as much now as they did when
the gl•ver11111011I Was administered by
the Democrats.
But it will be said that the farmer gets
more for his flour, and the mechanic
and tric—ift , ioring man get higher wages,
than they did under Democratic rule.
This is true. But the farmer don't get
nutr tittles as touch for his wheat, nor
does the mechanic or the laboring man
got four times as much for a day's work.
Therefore the rise in prices is unequal
and operates to the disadvantage of the
farmer, the mechanic and the laboring
When wheat was one dollar and coffee
twelve and a half cents, one bushel of
wheat would buy eight pounds of coffee.
But with wheat at two dollars and a
halt, and coffee at fifty - -five cents, a
bushel of \VhCal will buy but little over
four pounds of coffee. And so with
wages. The man who got one dollar
fora day's work tinder Mr. BUCHANAN'S
administration, could buy nearly twice
as much coffee, sugar, syrup and mus
lin with the proceeds of his day's labor,
as can be bought by the man who gets
t wo dollars a day under Mr. LINCOLN.
The only three Ex-Presidents now
living are with the Democracy and
M'Clellan, namely : Millard Fillmore,
Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan.
The administration of all these worthy
and honored gentlemen was character
ized by peace, prosperity and general
happiness. It is certainly a cheering
sign to see all of them arrayed on the
side of that party which is the only true
Union party of the country, and the
only one capable of bringing back the
country to its pristine condition,
Four years ago. It is but a little space
in time, and yet what a weary length of
years it seems. Who does not feel, as
he looks back, that it is the longest,
dreariest period of his life? Why, it
seems almost an age since this war be
gan. Four years ago this was not only
the freest and the happiest land on. God's
green earth, but the most peaceful. Four
years ago States, new "discordant, dis
severed, belligerent, and drenched in
fraternal blood," were united in friendly
ties—component partiOf a most perfect
Government composo of independent
States, banded togetar by common con
sent. Four years ago this nation was
strong enough to bid defiance to a world
in arms, and had never cowered before
any foreign foe. Four years ago the
men of the South and the men of the
North were brethrO, all united and
linked together into one 'family by in
numerable kindred ties. Four years ago
no hostile armies Were arrayed ln con
flict, and no brother had imbrued his
hands in a brother's blood. Four
years:ago more than a million of stal
wart men, who hive died in the shock
of a most unnatural strife, or from dis
eases incident to the camp and field,
were brimfull 'of vigorous and lusty
life. Four years ago many thousands
of women, who now wear the sad dra
pery of a widow's weeds, sat in calm joy
in happy homes. Four years ago many
More thousands,•who have since been
made orphans, rejoiced in a father's pro
tecting care. Four years ago thous
ands c ot' fond parents, who mourn
brace sons lost, looked forward to
their future with hope and pride.—
Four years ago this land knew not what
debt or taxation meant. Four years ago
the currency of this land was gold and
silver. Four years ago wages were hot
ter, in proportion, than they are to-day.
Four years ago a day's labor - would huy
ten yards of muslin, and other things in
proportion. Four years ago! Who can
enumerate the blessings of four years
ago, or picture properly the contrast
with the miserable present? Four years
ago a sectional party had not triumphed,
and Abraham Lincoln was not Presi
dent.
"Dick Bang the Weaver."
Hon. Tit ADDErs STEN' ENs di trers very
essentially from that famcars hard-shell
Baptist preachor, who,"played on a harp
of a thousand strings." Mr. ; . STf: \*ENs'
harp has but one-string, and it seems to
he :.tdapted to tut one tulle. At the prk-s
-elit time its mcludy is stirred only by the
spicy gales that How Irma the rtitintled
.1101. es of ..-I.frica. Twenty-live years :leo
it played a tlitrerelit tulle, as the fellew
int; extracts l'reiti the lirst valuate af
" preeeetiings and debates of the Yell-
vention to anienil the Constitution of
Penri,iylvania " will show:
:";TEVEN , 01,11 1114,Veni allit•litili1 , 11I
In - :ttllinr those tctuil:: ...\ rnnnuittoo lan
the sllbieet (I'sol•ret
:\ Ir. STEVE:Cs bellevt. , l sV”itl(l be deemed
gat :iil hand.- that thi, ;t Slthieel \V t,llll\*
the cllnsitiel,lti , ) ll ui the ~•11V1.11(it)11.
'Phis or
gona welt, ,11!‘" in this
try, but in ev.•ry ,aunt r}' tit Eitrk,p,. It
was e.iisid,r,d ,ir snitirlout import:to— in
England to hI reeCrlslllo 11 1,11,11611 t, ur
Purlia mom, :L11(1 thin i11(11 rt.—
contly brunt:slit in a report on the subject ;
:111i1 1).1 NI El. 11'1 . t,,NN
tit . Trish liberty, hc perceived in
the journals of the (100, ;nude it poiverntl
speech to the people tin the sub
jet•t, within the last two 111,11 LIN.
\Tr.T'ottrr:;,ut Northanipton, thought the
tit tl e had gml.• l.y WileTlSllbjecl , rf
would filld their Nvay into holies like this.
l'or the lust few ycal, nu 0110 “poll an
Anti-nuisonic newspaper, ur listen to an
Anti-Inasoitie speech, Inn he would litei the
same statements of what tho Entpetior of
Russia, wonnell, or the Kilns. or
Spain, was doing atfuinst the 111 - 101. Frv-
Alasens. It red inded him of the tiddler
aSkt2ll to play any tune, no mut
ter NV Lint, ended it with " Itiek hung
the keeltVer. - It 5e4 , 111,11 Ihre Wort'
1111 V, lilt hang the Nveaver -
STEvENS knows Its well how to
ithty " I/ick bung the weaver," now as
he did when itulge PtitcrEt: so happily
hit oir his inti-Inasiatie holiby in the
Iteform Convention. But let him
" Lattig" aNt - ii . v. fie hangiiil at ..1111i-
the e((t/ i liter, se
A Good Sign
Four Years Ago.
masonry till he hanged it to death, and
we have izood reason to believe that II i•
and llradicale`i Will ll,' out
the Republican party this
Gen. George R. 31eflellan.
Since the ilay:.4 (d . ANPutit\ti .f.kek,soN
no Inuit Itas taken stielt a fast hold on
the popular heart, is t ietteral
LA N. This earn Is mainly ati•ntnitril
tior in G nu • ways: First, the exalted :Ind
irreproaeluthle private :And public char-
actor or our candidate; secondly, the
bitter and unjustifiable pet:scent:ion
waged against him by a profligate and
imbecile AdmillistratMn, which is al-
Nvays calculated to enlist the sympathy
of the inasse : thirdly, the recklessness
of life and extravae:anee of the party ill
pn , ,v(nr who have control of the men
and neans of the
.Nation; and, lstly,
the unconstitutional and tyrannical acts
Igninst the rivht , and lihertie , (. f th(
people by the l'resident and hi , - tiallinet
auul the military satraps \vim In tIH it
bidding.
These, we opine, are the principal
reasons (tithe ahtiost unpreeedented
popularity of our patriotic and di,-
tinguished standard-hearer, and it re-
quires no stretch of the imagination to
predict that he will he borne into the
Presidential chair with a majority of
the popular vote scarcely equaled since
the tierce and bitter contest which re
sulted in the triumphant elevation of
cleneral.lAck'soN in Is2S. The changes
in every direction are unprecedented in
the annals of our history as a nation.
The peofile have become disgusted with
the conduct of our rulers, and are heart i ty
sick of the war and its attendant hor
rors, and in November next will show
by their votes that ABRAHAM LuNcotts
has been weighed in the balance, and
found wanting—that he will uolongerlie
permitted to di,gracc the Chair of State
once occupied h . t.- the F It her of his Coun
try. On the Fourth t,f March next, if
he lives, fikoatiE It. McCLELLAN will
take the oath as Prest4iunt of the United
States, and then, and not till then, will
the American people once more breathe
the pure atmosphere of constitutional
liberty, and we shall again begin to en
joy the blessing, of a restored Union,
and a peaceful and happy country.
We Cannot See 11!
Some of our Democratic friends are
inclined to the opinion that General
McCLELLAN, in his letter of accept
ance, repudiates the platform adopted
the Convention which nominated
him. We cannot, for the life of us, see
'any disagromnent between the two. If
there be any at all, which we do not
admit, it must be a " distinction with
out a ditThrence," and it would puzzle a
Philadelphia lawyer to point it out.
Both are for peace, compromise and a
restored Union under the Constitution
—differing somewhat inphraseology, it
is true, but both aiming at the same
glorious result. There is no conflict be
tween the platform and the letter, and
we are very sure nothing of the kind
was intended by General MCCLELLAN.
Negro Catchers of White Men
At Elmira, New York, a squad of
President LINCOLN'S negro soldiers am
engaged hunting up white incn who have
been drafted. The darkies carry a high
head, as, with gun in hand, they drag
white men from their families and
march them off to camp, to fight for
the freedom of Southern negroes who
don't want to he free. All who like
this picture can vote the Republican
ticket.
Fox MCCLELLAN.—GeneraI Robert An
derson, of Fort Saunter celebrity, is a warm
and enthusiastic friend of General "McClel
lan for the Preeideney.—Cincinnati En
quirer.
The Cry of " No Compromise."
Our opponents seem to think they
can carry the coming Presidential elec
tion by howling for a continuance of
the terrible war into which they haye
plunged this nation, and by continually
crying out "no compromise with
traitors." Now, as in the past,: they,
preach a gospel of hate alone. They
denounce the traitors of the South and
those whom they characterize as "home
traitors" in the self-same breath, and
think to terrify the Democracy, and
dragoon the people into the support
again of the wretched creature who has
forced himself upon them as a condi
, date, by cursing "copperheads" with a
rapidity of utterance, and an unvarying
style of terms and tone of - voice which
would do credit to a parrot educated by
a swearing sailor. The harangues
which we hear from their orators are
brimfull of wordy fury and sounding
war cries, but utterly destitute of rea
son. They boast of their devotion to
the Union, but constantly exhibit a
spirit of intolerant bitterness,whose ex
istence in the _Northern mind, if recipro
cated in that of the South, would of
itself utterly and forever preclude any
hole of a future reunion of the people
of the Note, now so unhappily divided.
They flippantly ery out, Hang every
Traitor," when they very well know
that their mad policy of universal
emancipation, and their miserable
schemes for the elevation .of the negr
have mole the people of the south a
unit, and transfohned almost every
man, woman and chill in the whole of
that land into what they call traitors.
With their cry of " no compromise with
traitors" how can a re-union be possible
under such circumstances? 'What are
we to do when we haVe to deal with a
vast region entirely filled with traitors;
when, too, the problem is to unite that
people Willi us again under a represen
tative Mrtu of government? Is that a
wise course of policy which, while seek
ing a re-union with them, continues to
enkindle to ;:reater fierceness the Fires
of hatred which already born so in
tensely in their hearts? With the con
tinued cry ()I' " no compromise with
traitors" how can any torn) of re-union
become possil4l under existing. circum-
stances?
\V hen the di tli‘rent Southern States
seceded We all 1.;110W that there was a
very strong Union sentiment ill every
one of them, and we can all remember
how confidently it was claimed by every
itepuldican paper_in the land, that in
every one of the seceding StateS, except
perhaps :--otith Carolina, the ordinance
of set ession hail been forced upon the
people by the leaders, against the will
and wish of a majority of the voters.
In the early stages of this war, in the
days when it was declared to he a war
Mr the Union alone, :1101 wlien it was
not opposed, hut aided by the Demo
cracy of the North, We heard much
about the rupture with which the mi
-1
• pearance of the old flag was hailed 1i2,;
enthusiastic thousands wherever our
to mil's advanced. It was realty so. There
was then a strong Union element in the
South Nt hick toirlit have well made the
controlling sentiment hy a wise system
of public Dad the war' been
carried 1111 for the single and simple pur
pose of restoring; the Union, it would
long . since have 'wen happily ended.
It was the emancipation policy of the
party in power, their infernal schemes
for elevating the negro, which cannever
he done except at the expense of the
white race, that divided Northern senti
ment, while it crushed out all Union
feeling in the South ; made that whole
people a unit against us; increased the
Southern armies by many thousands;
kept their ranksconstantly full; inspired
them with that hatred which added to
their formidahle character as a foe ; pro
longed this eruct war, gave to it a fero
city it would not otherwise assumed ;
cost us the lives of multitudes of brave
men who might have been spared;
turnlll (my victorie, , into defeats; ren-
tiered our conquests of no avail ; in
ereased our debt to its present enormous
magnitude; rendered necessary the
grievous taxes kith which the people
are now oppressed ; and is that alone
which 11110 St:lll,k ill the way of an
honorable ending of the eontest. While
the pre-ent Administration czy " No
Compromise with Traitors," toot insist
upon the terms laid down by Mr. Lin
coln in his foolish epistle "To N\llolll
it May Concern," there can be neither
peace nor a reunion of the States.
\Ve must come to compromise at last.
n no other way can existing difficulties
be adjusted, and the Unian restored.
Even Mr. Lincoln had sense enough to
see it when he said in his inaugural ad
dress:
•• Soopo,o , you yo iryr, you ' , tun"
ona ifeb 1,1.1
11,! a , !mitt urr rllll,•,riew
.11?1,
••
In retiliiy, the er'.ol . Cornpro
Inise Nvith Traitco•s " is cmtirely (lestitut
\Ve make no unbecoming
compromise Whet) weallow the revolted
.estates to return to the Union as it was
under the Constitution as our fathers
made it. We hut return to sound sense
imil sober reason, from which it was
criminal and foolish in the Administra
tion cver to have departed. The Demo
cratic party is the only unequivocal and
the, only really honest and true lniou
party in the land. They will neve
,ent to soi• the l niou deAro,ye(
while Rattling for it with all their n
will not render a restoration or i
possible by insisting - upon impossible
conditions. The party in power are
now, as they have ever been, the foes
of the [Dion. This the people see
1:now, aml they will hurl them
power, in order that the 1. - nipn
they really love may he rest',.,red
yonstitution which they revere pre
served inviolate: the War which is
working so touch misery stopped, and
pcuec so much desired once more outdo
lietWt•ell State: , tvltieh have nothing to
gain, but everything to lose, by a con
tinuance of the unhappy strife now
carat;;. Lincoln and his party do not
desire a restoration of the Union, unless
the negroes can all be free; AlcUlellan
awl the Democracy arc for the Union
unequivocally, and without any such
absurd prerequisite condition. That is
the difference. purely there is no man
in all the land so blind as not to he able
to see it.
Gen. McClellan's Letter of Acceptance.
We publish the letter of General Mc-
CLELLA.x acc'epting the nomination ten
ilerea to him by the Chicago Conven
tion. It is a na,st admirably written
document, and clearly exhibits through
out the pure patriotism and the states
manlike sagacity of our gallant and
gifted standard-bearer. What a con
trast does it. present to Mr. LiNcoLN's
letter of acceptance. Let the people
compare the two. General - .l\ IeCLEL
LAN'S letter of acceptance will be re
garded as entirely satisfactory by every
true Democrat, and will be endorsed
and approved by thousandS of patriotic
men in every Northern State who have
not heretofore acted with the Demo
cratic party. We have not time to re
view it more fully to-day. The candi
dates are now fairly before the people ;
and no man who has a proper regard
for the good sense of the American peo
ple can be doubtful of the result for a
! moment. The masses, led and influenced
by the sensible men of the country, will
rally to the standard with a unanimity
and an enthusiasm such as the country
never witnessed before. Let ABRAHAM
LiNcoLN and his crew of office-holders
clear the track.
ADDRESS FROM THADDEUS STEVENS.
ILE FAVORS NEGRO EQUALITY _AND
. .
REPUDIATES THE UNION
THADDEUS STEVENS, on the occasion
of his renomination for Congress by the
Republican County Convention, which
assembled in this city, on the 7th, read
before that body a carefully prepared
address ; which is decidedly a significant,
document, coming, as it does, from the
man who is the acknowledged leader of
his party in the popular branch of Con
gresS. In this address, while speaking
for himself, Mr. STEVENS must, and of
right should be, regarded as uttering
what he knows to be the sentiments of
his party. In it he enunciates the doc
trines which they hold, and sets out the
principles which they would see pre
vail; and in it we find the harshest
charges which the Democratic party
has ever made against its present op
ponests abundantly verified by the
plain, distinct, and authoritative utter
ances of this representative man, Tn A
DEL'S STEVENS.
When we have charged the party
now in power with designing to elevate
the negro to oh equality with the white
man they have heretofore been accus
tomed indignantly todeny it. They can
no longer do so. THADDEUS STEVENS
read to them Yesterday the true Repub
lican doctrine from his carefully pre
pared manuscript. In it we find the
following dear enunciation of the pur
poses and designs of his own party, put
in the shape of a complaint against those
whom he denounces as ('opperheads,
and falsely stigmatises as sympathizing
with treason. Mark his language:
"Others, iDemocrats,) with the hearts of
"tyrants within them, wish them the He
"toils) success, lest A. 1,1. MEN should en
" joy the rights of humanity, and beeome
"EQUAL BEFoRE THE LAW."
Is not that plain enough in all con
science? Can any one desire a more
explicit enunciation of the disgusting
and odious doctrine of negro equality
than is to he found in the,above extract,
'' A EI, MEN Etlt AI.ItEFORE'I'IIE
E.\.W !" 'an any man he so wilfully
blind as not to see it a glance what that
means? Does it not clearly imply the
right to vote, the right to hold
the right to sit on juries and decide Ow
causes or white men—all the rights
and privileges which white men en
joy by virtue of law aild citizenship?
Make the negro your “equal before Mr
law," and you must grant him the saute
rights and privileges which you enjoy
yourself, and which you have hereto
fore denied him by the Constitution of
.your State and hy your laws, which
confer the rights and privileges of
citizenship in Pennsylvania upon
white men :done. Let no nom
who votes the Abolition ticket,
or the Pepuldiean ticket, the can
have his rhoiee of names, no man
who supports THAD. STEVENS in the
cumin! , mutest, or that other friend of
the negro and enemy of the white Map,
ABRAHAM LINCI,I.N, dare to say that
he does not vote tbr negro e( itedity. lie
cannot say to without uttering an un
truth of whirl/ it will un . 101Iger he (In-
Cult to 0/11ViCi. hint. Al
and again alludes to the negro through
out his address, in terms such as we are
now accustomed to see daily iii news
papers, whieh, four years since would
have indignantly denied even the mild
charge that theirs was on Abolition
party. In three years it has made im
mense strides. The doctrine of making
negroes the e'/ J i ll //.s qf white me:: b, fore
Mc tut' , is now plainly avowed and open
ly advocated on the .Maryland line in
Pennsylvania - , while in NeW England
the advance guard of the party are
zealously and cordially endorsing the
horrible doctrine of universal amalga
mation, under the newly invented term
of miscegenation. Let not our Lancas
ter county Abolitionists declare that
they will never approve of any such
disgusting theory. If they indorse
TitAnnErs STEVENS, and vote for him
and ABRAHAM Et Ncol.N, they will id
ready have
,gone more than half way.
They will have voted to make ALL
MEN EQUAL BEFORETHE LANy.
The step from r,inality befor. th, taw to
,curial vraility is but a very short O.IIV.
The One tilt` other is sue to r()I
-low. Is it not high time to stop? In
allseriousness we ask. the thinking men,
and, above all, the working men of this
city and county, who would 1(c first af
fected, is it not high time there should
be an end of this persistent ellbrt to
elevate the negro at the expense of the
White Mall: Is it not high _sine the
Degro-loving party was put down, and
a white man's party given rule in its
stead? What say you':
So wedded is :\l r. SLUVCIIS, :111( 1 . so
Weddell his party, to the lIII(TeSts Of the
negro race, that they make his political
and social elevation the basis or their
action, and the price (e; their
professed devotion to the Eitioo. Not
satisfied with the rivers of blood which
they have caused to 11(:\‘ front the hest
and bravest of the white this
land in behalf Of their l'ainatieal doe
trines, they still cry for more. To hem , -
lit the negro the most impossible eondi
lions of peace are declared, :Hid we hear
Mr. Lincoln refusing to listen to any
terms of peace, or lit proposit ion for
cessation of this inhuman struggle, until
the last slave is freo, and in a fitting
condition to be mode the happy subjeci
oft he Abolition theory- 7 -1 he white man's
ciptut before the law. Mr. Stevens is no
hypocrite. He is a hold and fearless ad
vocate of the infamous and odious doe
trines of his party. He has had no
hesitation in declaring' that he was
opposed to a restoration of the Union
as it was, under the 'onstitution
as our fathers made it. Ile blas
phemously cries out, " The ( 'wz
stitution us it Thc
Owl fo r it ! ."' Ile now tells the peo
ple of Lancaster city and county what
is the cause or his opposition to Seeing
the old 'Union restored. The following,
is the last paragraph in his address be
fore the County Convention:
"Those Who advise negotiations for
" peace on the simple basis of the in
tegrity of Union, thereby advise the
" re-enslavement of a people, and offend
"all good beings among men and an
gels."
\Ve hope that is sufficiently explh
and plain enough not to be misunder
stood. From the commencement of this
bloody struggle until now the Ih•uu
eratic party have charged that their op
ponents were carrying on this war for
the benefit of the negro, and not for the
Union. Is it not now plain to the eyes
of every man in the land, with Lincoln's
letter—" To Whom it May Concern,"
and the constant endorsement of the
doctrine by Thad. Stevens and other
leading Republicans, that they are not
in favor of the Union—that they are
to-day, as they have been in the past,
disunionists, haters of the Constitution
and the Union, systematic stirrers up
of sectional strife for the basest purpo
ses, enemies to their country, foes to
their own race, and friends in this hor
rible struggle to the negro alone. With
them it is the negro first and the Union
afterward, and no Union at all unless
the negro can be free, and the equal
the white man Wore the law. Such are
their doctrines, boldly announced, and
on these issues they go before the peo
ple. Will the white men of the North
sustain them? If they do:they deserve
to he debased to the level of the negro.
General Joe Hooker, the distinguish
ed officer and the hero of Lookout Noun
Min, and lately a • great favorite of th,
Lincoln Administration, is out for McClel
lan for President. The McClellan proces
ion called upon the General in 'Watertown
lew York, where he is now staying.
Froth tho lithionarTrit•elligencth. •
Nomination of General McClellan.
The reader learn from the - intelli
gence given in another column that the
Chicago Convention, reflecting, me doubt
not, the vastly . preponderant senthhent of
its responding to the wishes
and expectations of multitudes among the
loyal citizens of the United States not form
ally represented in • that body, has placed
before the people innomination for the next
Presidency the name of Major General
GEORGE B. McCLELLAN. •
The expression of the popular preference
for this distinguished soldier has been so
marked during the last few months that the
decision of the Convention can be said to
have done hardly more than give organic
shape and form to a sentiment pervading
that great mass of the people' in the, Loyal
States who have become dissatisfied with
the conduct of the present Administration.
And where the indention of this sentiment
has been so universal, and its expression so
spontaneous, it would be easy to infer the
presence of natnral causes adNuate to pro
duce such results, for a public sentiment so
wide-spread and so genuine is never the
offspring of factitious influences. These
natural causes lie upon the surface, and
constitute in their - mere recapitulation at
once an explanation and a defence of the
decision which the Convention has reached.
As a man, it is universally conceded. that
Major General McClellan possesses in the
highest degree those qualities which inspire
respect, confidence, and admiration. Uni
ting to purity and probity of private char
acter, as enjoined by the moral law, the vir
tures and graces engrafted oil that character
by the vole of the Christian faith, he pry
spun: in his person the embodiment of a pa
triotism which takes its animating impulses
not only from a perception of what is due to
man, but from a profound sense of respon
sibility to t ;od. And in this day of muta
tion and uncertainty, when so many foun
dations of human hope have been destroy
ed, it is Intuit, very much to know that the
man On WhOln we rely is a man who regu
lates Iris conduet according to the principles
and precepts of Christianity, a.s received not
merely in the understanding, but as made
the rule and guide of his life.
And in every position in which (ten. Mc-
Clellan has been placed it is safe to say that
his successes, and the successesof the eause
which he represented, have been in propor
tion to the degree in which his advice was
rouowed or rejected by his civil or military
superiors in the conduit of the war. If this
filet was for a time ol,seured from the popu
hit. mind, which looks more to results than
to their causes, it has been set in a (-tear
light bv the subsequent progress of the war,
in vindicating the military administrat hut
(km. McClellan triton the disparagement
to which it was ignorantly solJected hcliare
men had had the opportunity of COMparing
it with that of his successors in command.
And not only h a s ilk inractillii sense in the
management of larg , armies in the tield
heel , thus npprovot hY the comparaticc
ti(lginetit of the people, bill his penetrating
insight into the nature and tilijettls of the
war, and therefore into the principles on
which it should be conducted, has proved
him possess a elear head as well as a strong.
hand. These arc qualities which the people
know linnW to adruirc, and lino Vnillea which
is seen tin he as great in other fields of ex
ecutive administration an , in the conduct of
armies in the field, and in the presence of a
igilant and powerful enemy.
It nowt not be disguised that (ben. McCel
lan owes, in ,01110 degree, the extent and
the warmth oilhe i.pular enthusiasm every
where manifested in his favor to the persecu
tions of which he has been made the object,
and to the unjust obloquy by which he has
Leon haunted alike in the field mitt since Iris
retirement from active command. The at
tacks thus made mlOll hint have been sn
ol,viouslv the offspring- of official jealousies
or parti,:rn rivalries that the people have
rt,t•illed the initrotive thaw it him not o n ly
1 . ,,,1 that loveof fair play which is instinet
ive among them, but also because they have
Lail the sagacity to perceive that this injus
tice to him was a wrong thine to the national
cause. They know that McClellan was not
kept in retirement for want of ,apacity
a:: have been trusted elsewhere
wt , rt• ltliwetl in pests of honor and
respousi-
Itillty. And, if they did not know it Lulu-e,
kn o w it only 11/1) well sow, in I.lw full
view of •,vhat has been done.by men who,
with all the helped the autho'rities in 'Wash
'lWO On, 11,1%, al • 011111pliS111 no more that'll : mg
trrvalt, number tflf lives they have sacri
t4l. than lit , wars able to nt•i•timplish while
finding those authorities almost
mull a hindrance rasa help ill his opera-
\Vltether, therttfore, WO look to the Ohl
0011(s of 11011. 1\ 1 0(1(•11:111 1 S eharat•ter or to
he history of his ettmluet, we tint! ill eattli a
marantett of those qualities and traits which
lie pttottle most delight to honor. Early
liy his military 4Am:ides and
as a 111:111 Of marl: art his pr(lllOs
'ion, ;11111 addilnillo 1110 knowledge of an ac
.timplished soldier the enlarged anti liberal
mit tiro derived front studios of practical
. eience, its well as of literature, he would
wing to the l'residency the graves which
pion . ' that high station as well as the
trellgth 110cOSSury to bear its 1:11111011K in
this day of trial and perplexity. Possess
ing a mind more remarkable for solidity
than brilliancy . , 11:11111 in his judginents, de
liberate in Ins purposes, but, after delibe
ration, tenacious tit' his resolves, he presents
etantiination of intellectual qualities and
mental traits which, though rare ill one so
Illay 110 justly held to derive fresh
strength :old beauty from their 1110011 With
1110 1110-1/0111 \ ig - pr of early manhood.
such We suppose 10 I ie some 61 - the grounds
on Which 1110 candid:l o y Of (ten. Mo( 1 1( 111 11 11
1:1:ly 1 :( 1 Illstly Vindicated before 1110
call peoillo, and the SpollialleollSolllllllSia s lll
1•110111 , 1 by his 11:1111e, as welt ill the walks
of private Hilt as in the camp of the suidier,
is a sufficient token of the earnestness with
which these motives of personal confidence
are elloriShell by multitudes of the people.
And if these are the personal attributes
which deservedly command for flitneral
htrt'lellun the respe-t and confident , of his
1 1 11111ry1111:11, it is Only
s illSt 10 Say that his
col it ical principles are such as ...mineral
lit tinselves to the cordial aceeptance of
very lover and supporter of the [114 , 11,
lased 011 the ( 1 011StillIti011 and the laws
111110 ill n111,11:1110 0 Illereof, lb( 'stands 10-
lay :IS the reprOSolltatiV(l 01111:0(11111ent 01
10(.0 pI iuripfes which, al 0110 111110 ill the
11:4:::,.y (It' this sad War, ellabled the 11:111011
10:0 ,1 0111 1111(liVided front :agai n st 1111
,( :(1111 1 0:0:11(y violon0i0:1 1 alined sedition al
110 ::: 1 0111)1 :1101 the equally rev obit ionary
aelions of political I . :idle:dist.' at th.
'lort it. If President JAI:el:In had possessed
he requisite ,:teudnistness to preserve ot:
•qnsistenev - - qf his opinions -if he had not
ielded to a "pressiire - fr o nt which Ile :Ist:-
ollo(rs to relleVe the vomit ry. Nvithoul
the sirength of will 11l relii•V(.. hifli•
• , •If front its growing dean ands-111!nigh]
o-day have stood ill the setae 00111111:U0111n
Minnie, :111(1, so standing, might letvt
eaned on the sup p ort of a It iyal" . ittal a ititi
rd 1)1 , 11)1e. 11111 he has Ch()Sellto1.11h1111i.
.iot• his position, and thereft are the fortune:
if lit, 1"111011, so far as they are S1111 . 1(1(1. Li
rolltrel, With policies lying not only
misitle tit' the institution, but conceived
in palpable contradietion with its letter and
qti rit, as that instrument is construed :Inc
interpreted by many, 'WO believe by :1 vast
net . itirity of the loyal people of the Unite,
states. From those embarrassments :ill(
O.IIIIIIIC/ItiOnS (len, 1\ 1(4 1 14:Ball is free, ant
the vantage ground which this considers
11011 affOrdS him is apparent to all, and can
not but have its weight in determining tilt
preponderance of the popular judgment, a ,
it shall iodine to the candidacy of the one
or of the other. :teem - ding to their compara
tive opportunities:nut capacities , for dealing
with the questions involved ill the restora
tion of the Union.
The pledges:11111 001111111tIllentS which Pre
sident Lincoln hits assumed by his extra
vomit it utional prottlaniations, and which are
rttallirined by his late manifesto prescribing
•
the iertos qt . pollee, render it impossible for
-; to expeet. itnything itatqfit . taittit of
tau . troubles under his Administration, and
the sutteess of his military conduct does not
offer to the most sanguine any better hope
that he Will succeed ill e.rlerininaling tile
elements of tlissatisilletion which he is un
able Or 1111 Willing to appeaSe by eolleillatioll.
( ( 1 :111y 111:111.: Of 11111111 and peace, as also
:1 return to the normal sway of the laws
within the loyal States, is therefore reposed
it eliange of intin in the administration of
the ( ;(10 01111111•11 t, 111 he tollOW0(1 by a change
of policy in the management of our affairs,
and, so thinking . , we shall not hesitate to
give our cordial support toi the nomination
of ;eneral
We 1100:1 not say that wit shall in the fu
ture, as ill the past, obserfve towards those
00110 (lifter front us ill ((pinion the same Ile
rt•riuive and condor WO Seek habitllally to
practise towards our political °pi/011011LS,
but, litivillg 0011ne t.O this (114erIlliliati(111 un
der
. 1 t 1
110 S'011141(SC ( . 011VietiOnS Of pllblie duty,
WO would beseech our fellow-citizens, with
out distinction of party, to approach the con
sideration tit' tile question now presented for
their decision under a deep and abiding
sense of sohat is due to themselves, to their
country, and to their (hod, in this clay of na
tional tribulation and peril. And may He
who controls the hearts of the people so
guide them ill the choice they shall make in
the impending election that, casting out p 11. 9-
on and prejudice, they may choose for their
chief ruler that man who shall be owned
and blessed of Heaven as one sent in mercy
I rather than in wrath to our suffering nation!
Ron. John L. Dawson
At the Democratic Conference, held
at the Court Rouse in Greensburg, on
the 2nd inst., Hon. John L. Dawson,
was, on motion of James B. Sansoin,
Esq., unanimously re-nominated for
Congress. Mr. Dawson is one of the
ablest men in this State, and gained
deserved distinction during the last
session. His election is a fixed fact.
Coffee at Twelve Cents
Farmers who want to get coffee at the
old Democratic price of twelve cents per
pound, will vote for the Democratic
candidates, MCCLELLAN and PENDLE
TON.
The *ay to put muslin up to one dol
lar a yard, is to elect Mr. STEVENS to
Oupgress.
General c e an slettero acceptance:
NEW Triritti:.Serit. l B:LThtiflrillbisines the';
letter of General McClellan; accepting the
Chicago nomination:
ORANGE, N. J., Sept. 8, 1864.
GENTLEMEN: I have the honor to ric-.
knowledge the receipt of your letter inform
ing me of my nomination by the Democratic
National Conveniion, recently assembled at
Chicago, us their candidate at the next gee
tionifor President of the United States.
It is unnecessary for me to say to von that
this nomination comes to me unsought.
I am happy to know that when the nom
ination was made the record of my public
life was kept in view.
The effect of long and varied service in the
army during war and peace has been to
strengthen and make indelible on my mind
and heart the love and reverence for the
Union, Constitution, laws, and Hug of our
country impressed upon me in early youth.
These feelings have thus far guided the
course of my life, and.nmst continue to .1.)
so to its end.
The existence of more than one govern
ment over the land which once owned our
flag is incompatible with the peace, the
power, and the happiness of the people.
The preservation of our Union was the
sole avowed object for which the war was
commenced, and it. should have been con
ducted in accordance with those principles,
which I took occasion to declare when in
active service.
Thus conducted, the work of reconstruc
tion would have been easy, and we might
have reaped the benefit of our many vic
tories on land and sea.
The Union was originally termed by the
exercise or a spirit of ,mmilintion and ,oin
promise and to restore and preserve it
the same spirit must prevail in our mum
cult and in the hearts or the people. The
re-establishment of the lltion in :ill its
integrity is, and must continue to be, the ill
lliSllollSallle condition in any ,(tilentent.
So soon as it is clear, or ,•ven probable,
that our present adversaries tire ready tar
peace upon the basis or the 1 'Mot ‘i 0 should
exhibit ail the 1:1,1111114:i, or stammanship
practiced by civilized nations, taught
by the traditions of the tm!rican I,o(mb--
consistent kith the honor and interest , of
the ea1)1111:y--111 secure Snell 11,114 w, re-,•slah
lish the lltion, and guarantee ror the mini,
the conditional rights .f every Slate. The
vnion is the one condition or 1:0:11:0,
1.1,11: 110 uaa•e.
1,1 11111 :14141 what, 1 doubt imt,
tntexpres•ril. the somiment or Ir a •
Convention, as it is 01 the people they rep
resent, that e: hen ;my one Stale is Willing
to return to the Union it should to
111115 With 11 1 . 1111 guartint(4. or its t.onstitil
tional rights. If a 0:11'110-0, :11141 11411'-
SISRIIII ellCrt 14)0111:1111 1110‹, 01iiiwIS SllOlll4l
hit till' reSlloll , lllllily I',,r ulterior.- conse
quences will Call upon those who 1,1!!!!!!! in
:1111S :112::1 . 111,1 the Vnion; but 11111 . 1 . 11i4111
11111 , 1 1W 1:114 , 411.1151 11l :111 11:17,1:11s,
1 4:011111 11,a loot: ill 11a• face of my gallant
comrades 01 the army 111111 11:1 VV who have
1. . 11 ^ 1 " in Sit tilt 1'115.11v Battti•s • and tell
them that their labors and tbesarrilir,•ef. , ,
111:111y 01 4/111' slain :111,1 liolllllll4 1 11111.1111,11
11:141 1,4111 in villa, that We 11:1,1 :1111111410111141
111:11 Pities fir which we latie,ottll4•ll peril
lea 4,111' lives. A \ :Ist unajCrity Cf 1:111' 114,-
104:, Whether in the army or navy, ,tr
home, v ould, tts I would. hail with 1111-
114,1111,14.41
. 10V t h e ptvul:uu•ni 1:1‘,1411,11 . P 01
peal W, 011 lb,: 11:1,15 01 lhr 1 . 111:111 1111411•1' 1114 i
1 . 4111,111110011, icithoul 111414•11 . 11 , 1011 01:11101114T
411:011 01 1)1,1,111; 1/11.1 110 pelt,' 1W111:1-
111 . 11 t Witll,lla 1 - 111011.
As to the other subjects lit...sewed h 1 the
resolutions or the iron yeulion, 1 need 011iy
Slly 1.11:11 I should seek in the Cbtistittition
of the [ldled Stales, :Ind the laws trained
ill accordance therewith, the rule of Illy
alit V and the limikition'
endeavor to restore econotil) in politic 1, -
11(11(111AM . , I'o - establish supr,.uia,•i el
law a n d by the operation of a n an •e \ iva•-
ous 11:a1:11111111y, l'eslllllil 4:111' tw111111:111:1i11:4
110Sill1)11 11111011 g II:10011s 01 . 111, eath.
The t.:111411114,11 01 our finances, the dom.,
iation of the paper money, and the !tur
bots thereby imposed on labor ;ld capi
al, show the necessity of a return ICs soon.'
uata•iat system, while t hi• rights of
iti•r.rns :11141 111,1 right, of states, and itie
lading authority or taw over the
the army and this iieopie, are ,til ( ject,
not lecs vital importance in war than in
Believing that the vieivs here exiires,i..l
:ire tire, cif' the :111f1 the 1.4)-
11112 yea represent, I crpt llse reamait
tieti. I realize Ho. of th,
to he herile, shoulel Ilse people
ratify pair choice.
. .
of my own sw.:11:11,.!:,
)ffiv stole r.ry.ittly the lb,•
ttiliir tliti relyiniziiii Ills
Ilynmorful :cid .1. my i,•:-.1
Ilion and l ien cii to it
nil to eStilblish _timid their lihertio,
nil rights. I am,
VOry 11•SpeCifIlily, Yllll'lol . l
;Hut 0th.,,, ',on
nittee.
Letter from Ex-President Pierce
The fallolving lettta. frani es-President
'ieree was l'eStiell Ina d01e,1.:41.• In Iho
IlieagO
C.,N(1)111,, N. 11., itLf
.I[Y
,Srpqo.o I rt,•PiVoil yOlll . liolo
S;tttirdny evoning, Inn I a., 10,1
vonskl. , iltly \\*lib cl,ur runt ruieullr ./1 .
I,ll'll, \Vlviol 1111,1 pm leave
illik•ed, is I.lllw, ally sp , -
Vint 01,11,:i011 fin it. YOU hnnlc !don's,
an d I n.ly upon your WII;11-1
\\ I'M Iu liaVt• 11.111 , Will he will
lx• oust' l 0 clock ww,l turn'
-,t61 alllllll tiuu
willi tlw The NoNv I 1111111c:11in ,
delegati”ii 110 first to
last 11111 •11 faVor , .rLrit'lltiallell9ll to Illy 1)Vi11g
a rluulill titl WiSli cnu, as eiirly its Situ
cite, to ~‘• theiti together, Al :,11 eVelits,
yoti 11111 , 1 1111.1erStalitl front what I have
]none than uull ,aitl to
. voll,
Won't! he to It s to 11:iVe lily xi<hoa in this
relation ilisr,rnr4lo,l by 1)15 friends in :thy
part til'lho tittittitry.
tutlitillittoil will, I litivit
nit ilottht, 5511111 Will lie the
vote of the ( ileithire in the
or the °rifle 11 . 111 i
ill , ii1:•11i1111'11.eti011 411,111 he
elution rentlueleil ill iiheilielice to
the I:nc. of the 111.111i:try preS
-1.11(.0 1.1
thitt :my ttii,.•titiigli reeiii2:lli7.llli4 the
net horit.... or the 11un
it:try eollie to stlitiiress tilt!
11 , 1:1/11. in i
the we will
iii;lll . lsition NViill till tie!
lancer wo cite
Ifni votti. \elltioll ',ill :tut
Mid in hartliolly there
that hayollets will litleltliA le elm
[rid the joill_titit•iit
N :illoinCit . ‘" doll:olio ,. (o:
w ill 0 01 ,-,• tr, 0(1111 . 1,11i With :11 - 001 , Ihp
unitp(l lkonot•r:(((y in tho S(Ltithwi•-torn,
NI 1(1(1ln, Norilly“,tern, :Lint 11::,torit Stairs.
Inan, dolying the Con-titittion \\Alio•11
II:IS StVool'll to llphOdol nolol o111)\', rnn bring
the nrnly to support open rol (onion' :)rainst
a fair alai free vote. Thi.y kill load that
we :ire a Free people vet-- let iIS ho 111:1111‘Itil
for that--a free pi,ple livings under a \\*rit -
Which Lind , the
Official 1101 Its, lirnily than the 11111111,11,1
citizen in thu ,r this,
you Slay be sure. Th• 11, vital
thing, will he united itotion 011 voile part ;
and Lhat sit It may hi , the result is lily most
earnest. Nvisii.
Alwa - ri your friend.
The Valley Spirit
We Owe our friends of the Virile?!
Spirit an apology cur neglecting to ac
knowledge the receipt of the first num
ber of their paper issued since the de
struction of Chanibersbur. We ate
reminded of our omission by the arrival
of the second number.
Like the Repository, the ,Siuir•it has
been reduced In size, but it is still large
enough to contain a very fair amount
of reading mutter. Its typography is
beautiful, and we do not hesitate to
pronounce it one of the handsomest
Papers in the State, as it is also one of
the ablest and soundest. Its publishers
have our best wishes for their success in
every respect.
We learn from the Sju'rit that Dr.
W.m. C. LANE, of Franklin county, has
been appointed Surgeon of the Enroll
ing Board of that district. Dr. LANE is
a well educated physician, and has had
considerable experience in private prac
tice, and also in the public service dur
ing the present war. We believe he
was Surgeon of one of the Lancaster
regiments, whose term expired about a
year ago.
Facts for the- People
Let the people remember that Abe
Lincoln deprived General McClellan of
his command and gave his army to
General Pope.
Let the people remember that when
Pope was defeated and flying towards
Washington, Abe Lincoln found it ne
cessary, to save the Capital, to recall •
McClellan to command.
Let the people remember that Mc-
Clellan did save the Capital by achiev
ing the two glorious victories over the
invading foe at South Mountain and
Antietam. 4461 r
Let the people remember that Abe
Lincoln thereupon wrote a letter to
McClellan giving him " a thousand
thanks". for his victories.
Let the people remember, also, that
when McClellan had defeated the ene
my, driven him out of Maryland, saved
the• Capital and luieted the fears.of the
.-Presidential bufloon, that Abe Lincoln
suspended him from oommand I -
FR.kNi:Lis PlEncl.