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THIIRSDA.Y, NOVEMBER 10, 18M.,
,
" the/minting presses 'shall. be free to every
person, who inuiertakes to examine the pro
ceedings Of the legislature, or any branch of
gpverrunent; and no law shall ever be made
to restrain theright thereof. The free commu
nication of thought and opinions is one of the
invaluable rightsof men; and every citizen
%clay freely speak, write and print on any sub
ject; bein_g 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 juiblic, informa-
Lion, the 'truth thereof may be given in evi
dence,"—Ctmnauff on cel Pennsylvania.
FOR PRESIDENT
MAJOR GENERAL GEORGE B. M'CLEIJAN,
OF NEW' JERSEY
FOR. VICE PRESIDENT:
GEORGE It. PENDLETON,
OF OHIO.
ELECTORs AT LARGE.
ROBERT L. JOHNSTON, of Cambria.
RICHARD VACS, of Philadelphia.
DISTRICT ELECTORS.
18t Win. Loughlin, 13th. Paul Leidy,
1 3 d d.
Ed
Pmnbl, d, 15th. Ro h hl
A wh , or,l ,
1 4th. T. M'Cullough, 16th. George A. Smith,
[sth. Edward T. Hess, 17th. Thaddeus Banks,
81h. PhillpS. Gerhard, 18th. H. Montgomery,
17th. Geo. G. Lepler, 19th. John M. Irvine,
Bth. Michael Seltzer, 20th. J. M. Thompson
18th. Patrick M'Evoy, 21st. Rasselas Brown,
10th. T. H. Walker, 22rd. Jas. P. Barr,
11th. 0. 8. Dimmick, 23rd. Wm. J. Koontz,
12th. A. B. Dunning, 24th. W. Montgomery
OUR PLATFORM
The Enion.....The Constitution—Peace—
Public Liberty—Private Rights—Free
_Elections—A Free Press—Free Speech
—Trial by Jury--The Right of Asylum
—Justice to our Soldiers.
Resolved, That in future, as in the past, we
will adhere with unswerving fidelity to the
Union, 'under the Constitution, as the only
solid foundation of our strength, security and
happiness as a people, and us the framework of
the Government, equally conducive to the wel
fare and prosperity of all the , States, both
Northern and Southern.
Resolved, That this Convention does explicit,
ly declare as the sense of the American people,
that after four years of failure to restore the
Union by the eXperiment of war, during which,
under the pretence of military necessity or the
war power, higher than the Constitution, the
Constitution itself has been disregarded In
every part,and public liberty and private right
alike trodden down and the material prosperity
of the country essentially it ,paired; that Jus
tice, humanity, liberty, and the public welth re
demand that immediate efforts be made for the
cessation of hostilities, with a view to the ulti
mate ConVention of all the States or other
peaceable means to the end that at the earliest
practicable moment peace may be restored on
the basis of the Federal 1."111011 Of the States.
Resolved, That the direct interference of the
military authority of the United States in the
recent elections held in Kentucky, Maryland,
Missouri and Delaware woo a shameful viola
tion of the Constitution, and a repetition of
such acts in the approaching elections will be
held as revolutionary, and will be resisted wit
all the means and power under our control.
Resolved, That tilt aim and object of the
Democratic party is to preserve the Federal
Union,and therights of the States uni1111.1,(1,
and they hereby declare that they consider the
administrative usurpations of extraonlinary
and dangerous powers not granted by the Con
stitution, the subversion of the civil by mili
tary law in the States not in insurrection, the
arbitrary military arrest and imprisonment,
trial, and sentence of A 111,1c:in citizens in
States where civil law exists in lull force ' t he
m
suppression of freedo of speech of the
press, the denial of the right of asylum, the
open and avowed disregard of State rights, the
employment of unusuili test malts, and the in
terference with and denial of the right of the
people to bear arms, as calculated to prevent
the restoration of the Guinn and the perpetua
tion of Government deriving its just powers
from the consent of the governed.
Resolved, That the shameful disregard by the
Administration of its duty in respect to our
fellow-citizens who now are and long have been
prisoners, and are now in a suffering coedit ion,
deserves the severest reprobal ion on the score
attire of public policy and hu 1111,11 i ty.
Resolved, That the sympathy of the I remo
erotic party is heartily and earnestly extended
to the soldiers of our army, who are, and have
been, in the field under the tttt of our count ry,
and In the event of our attaining power, they
will receive all the care protection, regard and
kindness that the:brave:soldiers of the II...T:11)-
11e have so nobly earned.
Fremont's Opinion
John C. Fremont has published it to
the world, over his own signature, that
"Abraham Lincoln's Administration
has been politically, militarily, and
financially a failure." Not a fitilure
in one respect only, but a failure in
every respect. A political failure, be
cause it has divided the North, united
the South, and disgusted every enlight
ened nation in the world. A military
failure, because it has not only made no
sensible impression upon the rebellion,
but has even failed to protect Northern
soil from invasion or Northern com
merce from spoliation. And a financial
failure, because it has had to resort con
stantly to enormous issues of paper
money, which it 1p1,4 not kept at par—
which, in fact, is not worth fifty cents
on the dollar.
The Lancaster Examini r supported
Fremont for the Presidency in 15.50.
THADDEUS STEVENS supported him.
The whole Republican party of Lan
caster county supported him. The Ex
aminer, Mr. STEN'Exs, and all the rest
of them, considered him well qualified
to execute the office of President of the
United States. They must, therefore,
admit that he is well qualified to judge
whether Lincoln has or has not dis
charged his duties ably; and as he has
pronounced Lincoln's Administration
a failure in every respect', we do not see
how they can claim that it has been a
success, unless they set up the plea that
they were mistaken about Fremont's
ability in LSS6; and this they cannot do
without suggesting the possibility of
their being mistaken about Lincoln
now.
Sober-minded Republicans through
out the county ought to bestow a little
thought upon this matter. They ought
to bear in mind that the very man whom
the Examiner and Mr. STEVENS earn
estly besought them to elect to the Pre
sidency in opposition to Mr. BucuANAN
in 1850, now says that " Abraham Lin
coln's Administration has been politi
cally, militarily, and financially (7
failure."
A Suggestion
Mr. Stevens, as Chairman of the Com
mittee of Ways and Means, will doubt
less thank us for suggesting to him that
an important addition to the national
revenue might be made by requiring
"loyal" people to put a Government
stamp on their tongue every time they
say "copperhead." It would effect one
of two good results—either increase the
resources of the national treasury or
improve the manners of Lincoln's sup
porters.
It Will Take the Half.
* At the endof Lincoln's term, half the
real and personal property in the whole
country will be mortgaged to pay the
debt. The man who holds a deed for
one hundred acres of land, will in real
ity own only fifty. Half the horses in
his stables, half the cattle in his fields,
half the pigs in his pen and half the
grain in his barn, will go to the shoddy
contractors who are running the coun
try in debt at the rate of three million
dollars .a day, to liberate about six ue
groes a week.
Going I p
Gold took an upward turn lately, and
everything that poor people have to buy
for eating or wearing has advanced also.
Lincoln's plan for the capture of Rich
mond has proved a miserable failure.
The largest army that ever assembled
in America has been wasted away till
but the shadow of it remains, and still
the rebel Government holds sway al
most in sight of Washington. The cer
tainty of more debt, more drafts, and
,more issues of paper money, is driving
everything up again. Bad for the poor,
and good for nobody but army contrac
tors and public plunderers in general.
-The Abolition organs call the
conservatives " sneaks." They are not,
at the very worst, such unmitigated
sneaks as to attempt to sneak out of the
responsibility of fighting their country's
battles and to cast it upon the shoulders
of niggers whom the Abolition Admin
istration perrnits'to be.murdered by the
rebels with impunity. Nor are they
suet( miserable sneaks as to attach
themselves to the menial service of a
candidate for office, turning as he turns,
twisting as he twists, wriggling as he
wriggles, and fizzling as he fizzles. The
conservatives are the proud and inde
pendent supporters of sound, salutary,
Joni; and well understood principles.
reoplo-belVmmil—
Four years ago the Democratic party
warned the people of the United States
against the evils that must inevitably
result from the triumph of a purely sec
tional party upon a platform which was'
in opposition to the teachings of the
Constitution. The masses, blinded by
folly, refused to listen to words which
were but al repetition of the prophetic
utterances Of all the great statesmen of
our past, from Washington down.
Madly, blindly, and thoughtlessly they
voted for a change. Did they not get
it? Let each man answer for himself,
Did you not get a change? But was it
the kindof change you voted for?
Thousands voted for Lincoln in utter
thoughtlessness. They did not reflect
properly upon the consequences—they
I refused to believe that the danger was
' as great as it was represented to be.
To-day the Democratic party again
yearns the people. Standing amid the
ruin of our national greatness and
glory ; surrounded by more than a mil
lion graves of the best and bravest men
any nation ever boasted; with widows
almost without number weeping, and
orphans wailing bitterly, it again lifts
up its warning voice against the mad
ness, the follies, and the crimes of the
fanatics of the Abolition party. Point
ing to our glorious past, the Democratic
party claims all of good and great that
we were once so proud to boast as the
work of its hands. Looking at the woes
of the horrible present, it truthfully
charges that all these most wretched re
sults are the legitimate offspring of Ab
olitionism. Widely severed from that
most treasonable organization ;
from it in all its views of tuitional
policy; repudiating its doctrines as per
nicious and destructive in the extreme;
deprecating its continuance in power;
believing that all the best interests of
the nation are involved in the issue of
the present campaign, it earnestly ap
peals to the people.
Will they heed its warning voice?
Will they listen to the prophecies it
now utters? Will they lie wise in time?
It is for them to say.
They may turn a deaf ear if they will;
they may shut their eyes to the true in
terests of themselves and the nation ;
they may vote to continue the war on
Lincoln's policy ; hut they will do so
against the earnest protest, the ~nlenui
and oft-repeated warnings of the Demo
cratic party. It earnestly beseeehes the
"people to be warned before it is too late.
Will they heed its warning voice? It
is right now, as it was four years since,
and it appeals to the future, confident
that all its predictions of evil will be
more' than fulfilled if Lincoln is re
elected.
Let it he remembered that we boldly
and coutidently predict, in case Lincoln
should be re-elected, that the woes of
the coming four years will be infinitely
greater than those of the past. We haz
ard our reputation for sagacity upon
this. Will the people be warned ? It
is for them to say.
Bad Directors
\Vhat would the holie,t old farmers of
Lancaster (minty thinl: of a Board or
Bank Directors who managed their
affairs so badly that the notes of the
Bank would not bring fifty cent, ~n the
dollar? If tlie.e honest >ll failin , rs
st , a•l: in curls a ISanl;,
they not /JAI, 0,/t the old I)ireetors and
put ill a IleW SO. We think. they
would. That would he the only way
in which they could save )1I•i I' stock,
for a Board 01 Directors who would
manage so badly as to run the notes
their Bank down below fifty cents 0
the dollar, Ivould smash up the officer
and ruin the stock if allowed to go on.
- Now Abraham Lincoln and the mem
bers of his Administration have set up
a big ( ;ON - eminent Bank, of which Mr.
Lincoln is President and his Cabinet
are Directors, and they have flooded the
country with the notes of this big
Greenback lkink. - When they started
it, the paper money of our well managed
country Banks was worth its face in
gold. Our farmers could get gold or
silver for every Lancaster County _Bank
note they presented at the counter.—
But Lincoln and his Board of Directors
soon changed this. They suspended
specie payment and issued such vast
quantities of irredeemable paper, that
their greenbacks have run down to less
than half the value expressed on their
face; and they have carried down with
them the notes of all our country bank
ing institutions.
Many a fanner has been bit by laying
up the notes of a Bank whose Board of
Directors managed badly. Many niore
will get bit if I,incoln and his Board of
Directors should not be voted out of the
management of our national finances
on Tuesday next. We need a new
Board of Directors at Washington.—
Every man in the country is a stock
holder in Lincoln's Greenback Bank,
and every man who does not want to
lose his stock or be caught with worth
less notes in his pocket, ought to vote
for a change of Directors.
We have heard hundreds of Republi
cans who doubted General McClellan's
ability to lead a large army in the field,
admit that he had splendid adminis
trative capacity. He is, then, by their
Own admission, just the man who can
reduce our disordered affairs at Wash
ington to good working condition and
save Lincoln's big Greenbaiak Bank
from an explosion that would shake the
country from centre to circumference.
Every prudent loan will vote for him ;
and those who are imprudent enough
to vote against a change of our present
bad directors, will bitterly regret it
before another year goes around if their
votes should result in electing Lincoln.
's Gen. McClellan too Young for Presi
Oeneral MeClellan is said to be too
young for the office of President. He is
older than William Pitt was when he
commenced his career, and older than
Napoleon when he became First Consul,
and t wke the age of Lafayette when he
came to assist Washington. lie is as
old as Jefferson when he drew the De
claration of Independence, and Mad
dison when he helped form the Consti
tutioh Ile is the same age of Mr. Van
Buren and Silas - Wright when they
entered the Senate and became leaders
of the Democratic party, under Monroe
and Jackson. He is older than when
Mr. Lincoln called upon him to save
the capitol. He is old enough to know
and perform the duties of President. He
will be elected if the Democracy do their
duty, and, if elected, will restore the
Union and the ascendancy of Demo
cratic principles, which alone can lead
our nation to honor, Prosperity aid
happiness.
The gallant sailors in our navy
are responding gloriously to the nomi
nation of General McClellan. Out of
four hundred men on the Roanoke, ly
ing off Point Lookout, only thirteen
voted for Mr. Lincoln, and on ,the
Wabash only one man out of Jim hun
dred and seventy-fire voted for the great
Impostor at Washington. We learn
that the same feeling pervades the
navy, notwithstanding the desperate
and despicable efforts that are made by
some of Lincoln's toadies and parasites
to compel those under their command
to vote for the Tester of Antietam. The
sailors can neither be bought nor in
timidated. They know their rights,
and will maintain them. They love the
Union, and will sustain Gen. McClellan,
because he has distinctly said that " the
Union i 9 "phe one condition of peace."
.-~d+~~hangLta- for ~lat~-llea.•
Whatever there may be in the con
dition of the South to favor the hope of
restored Union and peace through a
continuation of the war, it must be far
more favorable, as anybody of the least
mind can see, to the hope of reaching
the same object through a cessation of
hostilities and an offer of friendly nego
tiation. If the South is not ready to be
won back to the Union by kindness, it
is simply preposterous to suppose that
she is ready to he whipped back by
force.
Those who tell us that the rebellion is
exhausted, and just on the point of
capitulating to our arms without terms,
give the lie broadly to their own words,
when they tell us again in the next
breath, that it is not safe to afford this
exhdhsted cause an opportunity of
capitulating in the way of a fair and
honorable peace.
Plainly war, as it is now proposed by
Mr. Lincoln and his party, is not the
road to a speedy peace ; not the road in
deed to any peace whatever, but the
surest course that can be taken to make
our national misery lasting and com
plete.
It is easy to say, the rebellion ought
by this time to be at its wits' end, and
that if we only hold 00 a little longer it
must collapse out of seheer inanition,
want of men and want of means. But
there was just as much reason to say in
the beginning, that the rebellion ought
never to have begun at all ; and its con
tinuance every year since has been no
less an apparent abSllnlity throughout.
The argument againSt it.s power to ex
ist, quite as much as against its right to
ex i s t, has Icon logically conclusive all
along; and yet here in the fotirth year
of its existence, we find it full as vigor
ous, in spite of all such logic as at any
time before, and so far as we can judge
more confident than ever in its ability
to wear out all the strength that can be
mustered against it from the North.
It is common with our war dema
gogues, we know, to set all this show of
defiance down for mere belligerent brag
and ostentation, which rightly con
strued only betrays the weakness it
seeks to coneeal. But none whochoose
to read and think for themselves, will
be imposed upon by this sort of talk.—
Our sensational newspapers, full to the
brim of Idiscly war zeal, commonly
themselves furnish enough in the way
of extracts from the Southern press to
reveal the• trot• stun• of things for the
consideration of a thoughtful mind. No
one, for example, thoughtfully perusing
the matter of this sort ‘vltieh appears
from day to day in the Philadelphia In
main redeeming merit of
that declamatory sheet,) van fail to pet•-
c•eive that it
,goes far eontinually to stul
tify what is -aid in glorification of the
everlasting "good time coming," in
other parts of the paper. The confident
and defiant tone "f the Southern press
is not affeemt ion nwrely, put on for po
litical effect. It is only very stupid af
fectation to think so. The most that
can be said, with any shoW of reason in
the ease, is that the press does not fairly
represent the milid or the people. But
if it be so, there is then but so much the
greater reason why we sh o uld at once
make roost for reaching the people with
I/VI:1111re', of reconciliation and peace;
instead of pursuing- a course, which is
adapted to ma ke.them as fierce for per
petual rebellion in the end as any of
their leaders I heinsclvys.
And if tine., he no reason in the spirit
of the South to hope for a speedy cO
- of the releillion, it is hard to see,
certainly, what hope there is Mr it in the
confident predictions of those among
ourselves, who pretend to be all the time
sure that it is just coming to an end.—
Miserable comforters of this kind we
have had fromthe first. The pathway
or the present W:11' is strewn with the
wreck of Republican prophecies and
promises throughout. Were we not told
first of till that the whole imagination
of a Southern rebellion was a bugbear,
got up to frighten women and children ;
that the South would not dare to take
up arms against the Government ; and
that it' anything of. the sort should be
attempted, it would lie the easiest thing
in the world to brush it out—no more,
in truth, than to =•.veep away so much
cobweb with a euuiiuuu hrooni? Who
does not remember the Abolition
taunt, that the South could not be kick
ed out (if the ['Mon? Whose heart
does not still sicken in remembering
how, during all the gloomy winter or
Isun-at, this insane presumption was
played oil • in ('(ingress against every at
tempt at compromise ; till finally Pre
sident Lincoln came on from Springfield
to Washington, palavering. all the way
" nobody hlg, md,ody luii•t ;" and soon
after the tiring of the first gun at
Charleston gave sign or woe through
out the land that all was lost. Then
wejuid Mr. Seward's flog' prophecy
again of sixty days ; and the first out
pouring, of militia, seventy-tive thou
sand strong . , which was to carry con
sternation, if need were, to the very
gates of Richmond, with little more
than the trouble or a grand holiday ex
cursion. And so it has gone on, year
after year, till the present time ; the war
ever widening in its proportions, and
growing always more full of terror and
dismay, while still the old siren song, of
returning peace has been skilfully kept
up by politii•al jugglers, all over the
land, to lure the nation on front one
precipice of horror to another. It has
t•onte to be the standing character of
these promises, that they are as hollow
as the wind, and entitled to no sort of
trust whatever. Bow often have we
been assured that the crisis or the strug
gle was at last reaehed ; that the next
great battle was to end the strife; that
we were
.hist on the eve of entering
Charleston, Richmond or Mobile ; that
one more campaign was sure to close
the war ; that no new draft would he
required, &e. , &e. But where are these
promises now? In the tomb of the
Capulets.
And shall we, after all this experience,
still be silly enough to rely on any such
lying political divination, in forming
our judgment of the present temper and
resources of the South, or in estimating
the coining chances of this dreadful
war? To do so can wily be to court
delusion and invoke perdition.
Get out the Vote
Make arrangements at once to get out
the entire Democratic vote. Have car
riages ready to bring every infirm voter
to the polls. If a voter lives at a great
distance, and has no proper conveyance
of his own, send foi• him at an early
hour iu the day, unless it is absolutely
certain that he will come. Let not a
single vote be left at home. If our en-
tire vote is out it must reach 8,000. Let
each precinct see that every vote is
polled for McClellan.
Vote Early:
We would impress upon all the abso
lute importance of voting early! The
bulk of our vote in every ward and
township should be polled by noon.
Vote early ! Then it can be ascertained
who are absent, and arrangements can
be made for seeing that they vote. Vote
early ! Vote early and vote often is not
a very honest motto, nor a very good
one, but vote early is. Therefore vote
early ! Let every Democrat who reads
this vote early. Let him see that his
neighbor votes early ! It will be a great
help in getting out our entire vote. Be
sure, then to vote—to vote early !
The notion that the kioutli is just
ready to lay do yin its arrhs and to beg
'peace from the . 4." .h on is own terms;
finds no countenance wb-tever in all
we read and hear ofthe Nuthern mind
itself ; and there is no rea&rt at all why
the calculations and predictions of the
war party among ourselves on the sub
ject should be counted of any weight.
They arc only at best the old cry of
Peace, Peace, where as 'yet there has
been no peace. The polil of the Abo
lition party has been such- as to satisfy
and stultify its own promises from the
beginning. It made the't.,..ar at first by
its mad presumption, tuidckit has kept it
up ever since by obstinately insisting
that we would soon get through with it
by not allowing it to stop. - Strange that
any should still be duped by so vain a
song.
But why refer to past vain prophecies
and speculations? It is CAA too mani
fest, that at this very tino the promise
of the war party is one witich its leaders
themselves have no reattconfidence in
whatever.• Last spring, -it was every
where proclaimed that the opening
campaign was sure to be decisive in our
favor ; that the rebellion would receive
its death blow probably by the Fourth
of July; that the whole—strength of it
would be swept away at all events in
the, course of the summer;, Then after
lingering months came the onward
movement of Grant, withits succession
of flank movements and iimpenetrable
plans, before which Richmond was to
fall, and all Rebeldom to be overthrown
in the East; while it was doomed to
like speedy dissolution before the con
quering, arms of Sherman in the South
west. How bravely this hope was
maintained all along, even down to the
time of the October election, no one
needs to be informed. And there is
good reason to believe, Hilt the leaders
of the party • were for a s;cason at least
partially believers in whit they made
it their business to preach to the easy
faith of others ; although it is no less
certain that the whole matter was cun
ningly manipulated at the same time
for political effect, and that the game in
this view was so managed as to tell
with very considerable force on State
elections. But it is no h]nger possible
to keep up any such self-imposition.
With the ruling spirits of war party
their own delusion, as flu as it went, is
at an end. They may still try to amuse
the nation with the promt;e of a speedy,
close of the war, encouring it in all
manner of ways to "mope against
hope;" but in their hearts they look
for nothing of this sort themselves.—
They know that there is no prospect at
present of peace on their plan ; and
they show plainly enough that they are
only mocking us with empty words,
when they pretend to spejk in a differ
ent strain.
How indeed could it k otherwise in
the face of facts as they. now stand
Men must he blind truly, lot to see that
the situation of our afrairi is full against
any such pleasing prospiet of a con
quered peace at the present time. Mo
bile has not fallen ! and Seems now to
think as little of doing so as the indom
itable ( 'harleston. Atlanta is still ours;
but the possession of it has hardly justi
fied so far the ringing of bells, and
tiring of cannon, which proelaimed it a
grand epoch not long since in the last
chapter of the war ; anti. so far as we
can understand the state of things there,
it is in danger of falling out of our grasp
again at any moment. 4,ltogether the
war in (;eorgia is not encouraging,
and
what the issues of it are to be for the
noble Sherman himself, and his brave
army, may well be a subject of anxious
solicitude for the whole country. Of
the campaign in Virginia it is enough
to say, that nothing has'i conic of it
answerable to the maguit',ide of its cost
and promise. The victories of Sheridan
deserve praise ; but they can be con
sidered at most only of trt.nsient effect,
the purchase of comparteively partial
success at immense expifise of blood
and life. If they were to tell on larger
objects embraced in the scheme of ( fen.
Grant, they had no opportunity of ful
filling any such purpose, through the
failure of this scheme itself. For that
Grant's scheme hoe proved a failure, all
must now begin mournfully- to see and
confess. And take the wh,ile campaign
together, it is such a failur e as must be
considered absolutely i±ppalling. At
least one hundred and tinkly thousand
men, it is said, have been lost to the
army since it crossed the Rappahan
nock ; and of these not less than a hun
dred thousand in order simply to
reach the present theatre of its opera
tions, which might have been. reached
by a different route without any loss
whatever. The taking of Petersburg
and Richmond would covered all
this sacrifice beneath a blaze of glory,
so as to make it seem of 11Q account ; for
it is wonderful to what indifference and
insensibility to blood thee nation has
already come, by the horrible discipline
of war through which it is passing.—
But now that Petersburg and Rich-
mond are not taken, and to all appear-
ance not likely to he taken any time
soon, it is hard to ward off' the uncom
fortable impression that We campaign
has been a terrible blunder-Mid disaster
for the country from beginning to end.
So it is regarded in England, and
throughout the civilized tvorld. So it
is doomed to stand on the page of his
tory. No wonder then that it should
have a disheartening effect on the san
guinary politicians, who have been
hoping to be borne on the shoulders of
the army, through seas of blood, to vic
tory and success; and that they are now
ready to allow, indirectly- at least if not
directly, that the be,ginning of the end
has not yet come, and that the war
policy to which they still ceave means
not any nearer peace, but di desperate
prospect only of having to ? fight it out
• on same line as heretofore, God only
knows how savagely and how long.
In no one view perhaps does the
checkmated character of our present
"situation" more fully show itself, than
in the fact it has been found impossible
to make any new capital cut of it for
the coming election. The 7 war party
have to bolster themselves up still as
they best can with the suce-ss of Sher
man and Sheridan. Washington has
tried hard to engineer a g - ; , and sensa
tional demonstration, for political effect,
in the neighborhood of Richmond; and
General Grant has done his 'best to ac
complish what was wanted. His move
ments for this purpose, however, (inno
cent reto7lllo issances in name,but bloody
repulses in fact,) are acknowledged by
our own war bulletins to have come to
nothing. Could we have any stronger
evidence, in the agony and crisis of the
impending Presidential election, that
the campaign against Richm`ind for this
year has ended in smoke?
A Proper Mix
The negroes and Abolitioni As . of Phil
adelphia mingled together most harmo
niously, on last Tuesday night, to cele
brate the outrage recently perpetrated
on the people of Maryland. There is
no man ofany intelligence who does not
know that the new Constitution was
fairly and honestly repudiated by the
people of that State, and that it was
only forced upon them by military vio
lence against their will. A pepper sense
of shame would forbid that r..,ny decent
man should be found rejoicing over an
act which thus clearly marks the base
ness of the party now in power. Verily
it is high time there was a - change of
rulers, when white men and negroes as
semble in one mass to make Merry over
the destruction of State rights, and the
overthrow of the plainest and most sa
ered Constitational guarantoo.
OD Nee.
•-- • , --Able *pray:
It is a common remark of our Repub
lican friends, when allusion is made to
the fearful debt that Lincoln is piling
upon the country, that "we are able h to
pay it." In one sense this is true; -We
are able to pay it, provided we don't care
about reserving anything for our own
support. If every man in the country
is willing to give his last dollar, his last
acre of land, his laSt horse, his last cow;
his last pig, his last bushel of grain, the
last coat on his back and the last brick
on his house, we can pay not only the
debt that is already run up against us,
but perhaps all that Mr. Lincoln could
run up if he were given another term in
which to plunge us still deeper in debt.
The man who owns a farm that will
sell for ten thousand dollars in cash, can,
if he chooses, boastthat he is " is able to
I t)ay " a debt of five thousand. But if he
had run up this debt by a course of folly
and• extravagance in the space of three
or four years, fen - persons would give him
credit for common sense if he would cut
short a friend who was advising him to
change his course, with the remark
that he was " able to pay." Running on
three or four years longer, he would
find that he was not able to pay.
Generally speaking, men who - go in
debt are " able to pay" at first. But the
man who /. - ceps on going in debt, is sure
to find a time when his obligations are
heavier than his means to pay them.
Just now the people of the United States
are able to pay the debt- Lincoln has
saddled on them. The debt does not
amount to more than half the value of
the real estate and personal property in
the country. We are, therefore, able to
pay it, just as a ten thousand dollar farm
is able to pay a five thousand dollar
mortgage.
He-electing Lincoln, going on with
four more years or war and doubling the
present debt, we shall still be " cable to
pay," because the debt will not amount
to MOO than the value of all the real
and personal property of the country.
We shall he able to pay it, just as a
ten thousam , iollar farm is able to pay
a ten thousand dollar inortage. Rut
we would have nothi,d il
All who are willing to go on with an
expensive war which is sure to end in a
dissolution of the Union under Lincoln's
imbecile management of it, can comfort
themselves with the assurance that we
shall be " able to pay " the debt three
years hence. Rut they should hear in
mind that it Will revire all we are
worth to do it, and that every
body except a few . fortunate con
tractors and speculators will Lr total
ly titiuril. Those who are not willing
to he ruined—who wish to save at least
the half of what they have earned or
inherited—will, if they tre wise, give
their votes to MyCLEI.LAN.
Ilk Royal lllzllness Sambo
We see it stated that " the selectmen
of - Wells, in .111ainc, have each been
fined five dollr, and costs for not al
lowing; a colored man to vote at the
recent election." If Lincoln should be
re-elected, his Provost Marshals in the
various towns throughout the country
will probably LC instructed to arrest all
white travellers who refuse to permit
loyal landlords to put negroes in the
same bed with them. We dare say the
Republicans of Maine have many a
time clapped their hands over the re
jection or the votes of white men who
would have voted against them.
The NeW England fanaticshave gone
mad. They could not he worse if they
had boon hitten by a Guinea nigger in
the hiallest stage , of hydrophobia.
Their Republican brethren in Penn
sylvania are following in their footsteps
very fast. The time seas when the
honest Borman and Irish population
of Pennsylvania despised the Yankees
for their peddling tricks ; but now, even
in this sober-mindi-d, lowest old county
of Lancaster, Yankee ideas have been
hammered into a portion of the people.
The growth of these ideas dates from
the location of Mr. Stevens in the midst
of this people. That gentleman's long
residence in Pennsylvania has not cured
him or the various principles or his
native " New England. - lie has sown
bad sei.d on our soil, and pestiferous
Yankee weed , Infi - e sprung up where
honest ( ierman grain used to grow,
for the good old days when a white
man Was as good as a nigger
lie The editor of the Pr( s 4 announces
that he has just returned from a satis
factory political pilgrimage through the
State. No doubt he will continue his
patriotic labors until the sth of the pre
sent month. In Ills speeches he
ill its ultra form,
and sustains, with all his power, the
negro policy of _Abraham
\\ill he take the trouble, very perti
nently asks the .Ip,, to explain to his
auditors, in the next harangue he de
livers, the meaning of the following
paragraphs from an address made by
John \V. l'()nit , y, hit Lancaster, in Sep
tember,
Behold the efforts 11lilidlIL; in 1110 lii
/n ur , irn to (he plditi,:d
1110 tt Intl,!
\Vherever Alu litionistu has obtained a
thwhohl in the Nnilh, it has invarind ❑te
Christian Chursh: it huts sown the seeds: of
tlisconlent, ;Ind of rlisrntinn among Pro
testants; it hrr.r rntrru of ruef ul Cleiggilien into
potitiraf man , elers it bus alro:oiy sevored
Christi:m Church into Itt , ttileorgwitiztitions.
(Vt. have Si,t•e the animal Ineotint2- of l'ro
test:tut t.ttngregat m- totttivillsol withlhe this
ettssiorts of sltivtw. rttit-nr , t,ll.l,yrimapn,
tr•ho, in their oh.eiety to eheohroge flue -
el pat 071 of ?If,. sfnr•r.s of the Nor, fh, hff re for
gotten the Iliein” ed,uhlole their /p•rat
'II 071 11,IN 1 , , , ,•1 , 11,1,,1 to fur
" PE.\('E 0 11e:11111,171d will titnonL,:t
tnen?-
Netter Dchpair of the Republic
}lnn. itnbert C. \Viiithrop, of Banton,
lung known nin• :mtinig the (ii,tin
guislied men , itN,•\s - England, delivered
afi address at the McClellan mass meet
ing in New London on the lsth inst.
From this address we cnii . e the following
beautiful extract:
I will not undertake to calculate the
chances of success. The FOS tof the
late elections seem to decide nothing-,
except that the great battle is still to be
fought, awl I hat victory is still within
our reach. But whatever may he the
results of the elections, let us resolve
never to despair of the republic. We
arc on the eve of one of the most mem
orable anniversaries iii our history as a
nation. Eighty-three years ago to
morrow, on the kith of October, 1751, the
soil of Virginia was the scene of a far
different spectacle from that which it
unhappily witnesses at this hour. The
soldiers of the North and of the South,
instead of confronting each ill deadly
strife, were then standing triumpliantly
side by side, under - the glorious lead of
Washington, to receive the final surren
der of the forces which had been so long
arrayed against our national indepen
dence. Would to Heaven that 'the pre
cious memories that even might be once
more revived in every American heart !
Would to Heaven that even now the
associations of .that day might overpow
er and disarm the unnatural hostility of
our adversaries, and that the soldiers of
of the North and South might be seen,
like the soldiers in the old Roman story,
rushing into each others' embrace under
the old Hag of our fathers!
The Republicans Alarmed—Connecticut
We are premitted to make, the following
extract from a letter received in this city
this morning from a neighboring county:
. " I have just received a letter from
the ( Republicans State Com m t tee, assuring
me that the army rote is not so favorable as
they antieipatedr that the Democrats are
hard at work ; and that greater exertions are
required in the coming week, or the result will
beunfavonddeherein r`onneetieut. Theletter
is numbered, and I an; held personally re
sponsible for its return to the State Com
mittee, or I would send it to you. What
does this Mean? Do the State Committee
fear that McClellan will carry Connecticut?
It looks so to me, in this part of the State,
Da hit me hear from you."
for McClellan
rltmorlrow - ouffrownne:-- - :-
The following extract from the letter
of a Memphis lady to her friend in New
York city shows up some of the dangers
and experiences of the Union people,
resident there. Andy Johnson had far,
better withdraw his test oath, and give
the proper protection to the people from
rebel invasions, than to trespass upon
the dearest right of the citizen, the bal
lot-box. It is this style of operations
that drives many people from the Union
to the rebel cause•
MEMPHIS, October IS.
Mr DEAR FRIEND:
If we can succeed in selling our property,
both in this city and State, wtt will return
to the East. I am tired of living here.
This eveninn , ' there is great excitement all
over town. The rebels attacked the pickets
the other end of town, and they have been
fighting for several hours. All the militia
were called out, cannon planted in the
streets, and private houses and stores taken
possession of as places from which to fire
on the rebels in case they attack the
city to-night, as they are expected to do.
They will not find it so easy to get in as
they did before. Then they came in close
to our house, and I-am glad they are com-.
ing in another direction. As I have no
man on the premises, I would rather be
elsewhere.
The children are frightened, but I have
persuaded them to go to bed. Large holes
have been made in brick wails of the stores
to shoot through—broke - down some doors
and done considerable damage. Forrest,
Taylor and Chalmers are reported near
here with a large force.. I was unfortunate
in being away with my family, when For
rest came here Lofty and hurried the com
mander of this department to dress minus
his clothes.
May the Lord in his mercy protect us
from these assaults, and give us General
McClellan as our next President, for we
have had enough of the mismanagement of
Mr. Lincoln, and the speculations of thesehe has had in command over this depart
ment. They can see a bale of cotton much
farther than they can the reb6l army and
more suecessfuliy capture the former than
the latter.
Can it be that the conservative men
the country can read such letters as this
and continue such men in otliee - ? We
appeal to them to try a change of ad
ministration. If voters Win do their
duty on the tith of _November, a change
of rulers will take place and order again
reign over the country.
A True Statement
A vole for Lincoln is a vote to con
tinue this wt•ar, at whatever cost of treas
ure and blood, to the bitter end, without
any attempt at honorable settlement.
It is a vote for• the continuance of the
war for the abolition of slavery.
It is a vote for• more drafts.
It is a vote for ht aVivr taxes.
It is a vote fora greater and enormous
public debt.
It is a vote for the neg . '' , at the sacri
fice of the white man.
It is a vote for shoddy (on tractors and
public plunderers at the expense of tax
payers.
It is a vote for disunion, revolution
and ruin.
We do not mean that such will he the
wishes and intentions of all who may
cast 11 vote for Ali. Lincoln. But such
would he the consequences of his re
election ; and therefore the real tenden
cy 01 a vote for hint is to those results.
A vote for AIcUi.ELLAN is a vote to
stop.„the war at the earliest practicable
moment, by honorable settlement.
It is a vote t'or Union as the one con
dition of Treace.
It is a vote mgainst more _drafts, heav
ier taxes and a greater public debt.
It is a vote for the white man.
It is a vote for an honest and econom
ical administration of the government.
It is a vote (ut• peace, prosperity and
happiness under the Lition ()I' our lath-
Anil these results will follow his elec-
The Philadelphia J're'e, says the
..11p, is one of the Abolition journals of
the country that pretends to Is' greatly
scandalized by the alleged discoveries
of a secret organization in the West to
overthrow the (lovernment. The editor
of that Journal has applauded to the
echo the mercenary labors of Joseph
Holt and Mary Ann Pitman, and pub
lished with an approving smile the pon
derous document prepared by these dis
interested parties. Now, the public will
be touch surprised to ascertain that, if
there is any truth whatever in the alle
gations of the great 111111 of Holt and
Pitman,' the conspirators referred to
learned all their mischief front the early
teachings of the editor of the Press
himself. In September, 15.).5„101in W.
Forney delivered an address in Lancas
ter, ,which was levelled at the Know-
Nothings and Abolitionists, in which
he spoke as follows—We unie from a
printed copy, circulated by the author
at the time:
What is there in oar happy o.ttiltry to
make 111011 afraid .0' the light or day or or
honest inquiry? I lave we a voi/seript /r/a•
that tears the hus , lsol(bnal) rf,lll his plow,
the father from his family, the son from his
widowed mother? I huee we a gang of
hired t,./ . -geft/wrers to drain !he substance
or the poorie? I',I•ItPATION
Af:AINsT
.1.51) ti,r ire are tallght that
" RESISTANCE TYR:\ NTS P.;
1I)!'•
.1 Safe Bet
A gentleman in :N'ew lurk eity has
been advertising for some one to take
the following bets. Ten thousand dol
lars that if Uncoil% is re-elected we
shall he in a state of wan• during his
term of administration, or I,efore the
close of the same period have n disgrace
ful peace and separation ; and r_do,ooo,
that if General .MeClellan is elected the
Union will he restored in the same
period.
He can tied no one willing to take
the bets. It is plain that the Republi
cans have no faith in their ability to end
the war and restore the 1 7 nion but
they are willing to risk everything
rather than yield the positi o n s o f
power and profit they have so shame
fully abused. Not six months will
elapse, if Lincoln should he re-elected,
until many thousands of those who vote
for him will curse themselves for their
insane folly.
Lincoln's Refuge
The Abolition papers sad• MeClellan
took refuge on a gunboat during the
battle of Malvern. This is not true;
hut it is true that Lincoln took refuge
in McClellan after Pope's defeat at Bull
Bun, and McClellan saved hi in. Let
the people put their trust in McClellan
now and he will save the country.
Wouldn't if he Could
The prudent gentleman who wrote
about " Uncle Sam's Debts and his
ability to pay them," published in the
Express of October 22, winds up by say
ing: " I would not pay the national
debt if I could." Well, who on earth
ever supposed that any shoddyite would
pay it? It was hardly necessary for
the writer to announce that he had no
intention of doing what nolwaly sus
pected him of intending to do.
ktL'ir The A bolitionist:4 of Philadelphia
spent thousands of dollars in getting up
their celebration of the adoption, by
fraud, of the new bogus Constitution of
Maryland. While they were thus ex
pending enormous sums in gloryfying
the negro, hundreds and thousands of
white men, women and children were
suffering for the want of food and cloth
ing in the various streets and courts of
our city. The white laboring man and
working woman have scarcely the
means of purchasing the necessaries of
life, yet abolitionism has thousands of
dollars to expend upon its favorite color
ed race, in these times of unexampled
scarcity and distress. Mr. Lincoln's 1
policy has preci pitated this frightful con
dition of things upon the nation. If he
is re-elected, who can foretell the amount
of tubs and misery that will befall our
unhappy einuary.l7-ttitie•
tthrlddreggi - 4 - to . Um - Mennonites
and Other Non• Combatants.
DEAR FRIENDS: You profess to he the
followers of Christ and observers of his di
vine doctrine of non-resistance, and as stab
consider it wrong because against G o , l's ex
press direction to take up arms, even in
•
self-defence.
This tenderness in you has been respect
ed, both North and•Soutkand in the pre
sent,.(as well as former wars,) neither the
Federal or the Rebel Governments have as
yet forced your people to take up arms
against their consciences.
You in the North are now strongly urged
to take part in the coming Presidential
election, and vote for Abraham Lincoln;
and if I have not been misinformed, some
of your chief men, elders and ministers,
hold the opinion, and do not scruple to
make it known, that you may safely do so
without violating your consciences, thus
showing that your congregations have not
entirely escaped the mischief of politics and
political preaching, which, in these unfor
tunate times, has crept into nearly all the
other churches. On this point I wish to ad
dress to you a few questions which you can
answer for vourselvs.
You are told you may safely vote for Mr.
Lincoln, who stands pledged, if re-elected,
to carry on the war until his object is ac
complished, whatever that object may be.
Let me ask you whether, in a astral - and
religions point of view, the man who helps
another to do an act should not be held re
sponsible with hint who does it ? Human
laws punish aide!, and abettors, as well as
principals.
If it is wrong for you to draw the sword,
why is it not also wrong for you to help, by
your vote and voice, to place the sword and
the torch of the Government in the hands
of Mr. Lincoln, who has been striking and
burning for the past three anl a half years,
and WllO tells you he will, if re-elected, con
time to strike, and if necessary destroy,
while he has the means in his power, or
until every one of the remaining millions of
rebels has submitted to hint as President?
Peter, who struck in defence of his mas
ter, was told to put up his sword. What,
think you, would have been the reproof of
Christ to the disciple who, on that occasion,
after having heard his master's words,
would have urged Peter to persist in his
warlike propensities, and (OM Win to strike
again notwithstanding?
Do not those of you whowork or vote for
the re-election or Mr. Lincoln stand in the
position of the supposed disobedient dis
ciple? Your limiter tells you, put up your
swords-- you tell Mr. Lincoln to strike main
nevertheless. A yob , l'or Mr, Lincoln means
war, and you 11121 St know it; and not war
of the ordinary kind, but civil war, in which
i i brother is killing brother, the servant
butchering his toaster. :old in which it
has lately become necessary iorsupposed
to lie necessaryl for the I ;overnment to htn-n
out its oNVII unresisting Mennonite and
Dunker Union friends in the Shenandoah
Valley.
lint you are told tin-re is no other way
it has become military necessity," and
we have to tight it oat, aml therefore you
Way stretch a point in your religion and
vote for war. Did I think yOll, fail to
.provide for " necessities" in his
gospel? Ilas his divine law itieconie insuf
netent. for his children? or have the rulers
of this generation become wiser than a hurl
that they can tell you his law does not ap
ply in [lie present instance?
Far from it! 'l'll, , law is in full force, and
the penalty of the taw, "Theft bins, thq,
hake the ,11,(11 perish the Nwor,l
- is niny vindicated, as the thousands
upon thousands of human beings who have
perished since Mr. Lincoln and the Rebel
Davis lout's , ,traWll swords against each
other will testify,
lint vita are flirther told you shall be obe
dient to the powers that be, ;te., :cal there
fore you cannot help butt support Mr. Lin
coln, he being your lawful ruler. This is
true so I . :iv us it goes, and when it does net
o•iVe to your President that which belongs
to your trod.
You pay your taxes if it takes all you
have; :Ind if
. Your President order your
bodies to to too boat and placed in the front
rank of his army and a sword or musket In
Le put in your Illinois, you shall not resist;
b 0 0 0 •ou so o y o ur proloo•rty- anal war body be
long to your (Om - eminent and in so ofoing
you mauler to Caosar the things which toe
1011g h i lt there the power of your
earthly Jailers stops, and they cannot com
pel you to use the sword or musket al:Latina
the express pro ohihition of your Heavenly
Master. Soo nor, then, your duty is clear,
and you have no) choice because of Elle ex
press commands given in the t;ospet art
both points.
When it comes to voting at out eleetion,
however, which is the renewing or re-inak
ing fli tt tt Veritinent it , e;r its rulers have
no authority to command you out' Way or
another. For the very authority by which
they hold their offices, and by which the
lOrovernment is a government—namely the
Constitution of the United States—gives the
right to every citizen, be lie ever so) poor or
weak, to express his will by a vote, without
being questioned fur the act by only one,
even the President himself or his Lieuten
ant o Oeneral. And this constitutes what is
known as :1 DeltlOCr:Wy—whore the people
govern and the humblest among them has
a voice.
ft follows therefore that you must VOle
on your own responsibility. The Ykovern
mem neither haying nor claiming, the right
to control you in the matter,
.VOU cannot
shift the blame nn it, and say you vote thus
anol out in obedience to the it ,, verilitient.—
For vain' vote
anti
are dearly ;1104Werable
tiny 0, toll and pan t enlisettlice; :Intl to
then, you :Ire ansayerable whether yoll l 01, ,
for Had men and measures, or whether you
fait to vote for good men and bettor Illl'aS
MT'S.
Being responsible for your vote, 211111111y
ing decided that as non-resisting Uhristians
you cannot give it to keep the sword and
torch in Mr. Lincoln's hands, who will con
tinue to use both, the next question is (.1111
you conscientiousl: - give it to the other can
didate. (:.n. McClellan
Ilene take for your guide another rule of
no less an authority than the former---"By
its fruits volt shalt know the tree; do men
gather grapes of thorns, ,Cre., (Vv." Then
contrast the fruits of our 1 :ovOninient un
der our former Presidents, with the fruits
under the present one,. and make your
choice
The fruits of former A dminist t.:11 ions were
ni"ddYi peace and ''ol.n.d--an econ
omy, prosperity and increase unexampled
in the history .4' the world —the people pro
' 0,111 and happy-1 . 1,e 1 . 1.0111 1121112121 (1E111(
21111 taxes, and free from military drafts;
each enjoying the fruits or his n u t wiry, so
that the poor man by his daily toil raised
his kindly tinder his humble roof with none
to oppress or make 11i111 afraid. The gov
ernment was loved at (.oink and resp e cted
abroad.
low is it now - ? false leachers have
preached to the people, North and South,
until they I Blaine dissatisfied with their
Denweratic rulers, and they have selected
others, and now look at the fruits. For
unity, we have abolition and secession, and
consequently disunion ; for liberty, the eon
seription act and the suspension of the hit
bea.l corpnx—the boasted privilege of 211
American, that his house was his castle,
and that he could not bo imprisoned or
punished until tried and pronounced guilty
by a jury of his country, has become a lie;
he may lie arrested secretly and at mid
night in his own house, taken to a distant
place, tried I,efore a military tribunal, com
posed of strangers, the agents of the b,vern
ment, or hurried to prison without trial or
hearing, and whether guilty or itmocent,
without seeing his accuser, or even without
knowing what he is licensed of—kept in
prison ring the pietist/I, of the President
and his agents.
For peace and concord we have war, with
all its usual horrors 111111tipliiql in which
the Worst passions of the human heart are
stirred up, until into, in route instances,
have become like unt3 wild beasts, killing
the wounded while suing for mercy, and
hacking to pieces the bodies of their slain
fellow-men; in which the cannon, sword
and torch are ploughing up and laying
waste some of the fairest portions of our
hind, sweeping thousands of hunian souls
unprepared into eternity, burning houses
over the heads of helpless and nnoffending
wonien and children, leaving them to per
ish and starve, translbrming smiling fields
and prosperous towns into a howling wil
derness and tit habitation fir the wolf and
blizzard. For economy and prosperity we
have taxes in every conceivable shape, and
upon : every possible item, a depreciated
paper currency, and a National Debt be
yond the reach of arithmetic, and increasing
at :1 rate that it will take but a short time
14, equal it to the value of all the real and
personal estate in the Loyal States. The
Iroilloaster, Contractor and I'apitalist, re
velling in luxury, increasing their wealth
faster than ever, and converting it into
Gove,rninent loan exempt front tax, while
the poor man, who is not forced into the
army by the conscription, is obliged to ac
cept the bounty and go, to keep from starv
ing, because the, wages of his labor will no
longer buy the necessaries Of life for him
self and family.
ttur foreign neighbors, astounded at the
strength we exhibit, show us yet sums• re
spect, buy the loans of the North and en
courage them to persist in the tiweible
abolition of slavery, while they secretly
bullish material aid and comfort to the
south, and charge both ex horbitan t prices
for what they furnish. They are only
waiting until the war has weakened both
side a little more to insult, perhaps oon-'
descend to take us under their protection.
And while they may admire the resources
WQ, have brought to bear, the stubbornness
with which both sides contest the issue, the
courage and valor shown by the armies,
the skill of the Generals, and the heeds of
individual daring, they cannot but look
with contempt upon a people, who, boast
ing their superiority over all others in their
knowledge of Government, should now like
fools be bent upon' destroying each other,
all because a small number of intermed
tiling, self-righteous, sanctimonious, perse
cuting puritanical abolitionists ofthe North,
and an equally small number of dissatis
fied, ambitious, arrogant, slave-holding and
slave-Worshipping secessionists of • the
South, have at last, after being repeatedly
and most earnestly warned against it, Bile
ceeded in filling the hearts and minds of
other men with their own restless hatreds
and fanatic/Pima.
Ind fashieseil atatemes are dead •r die,
, .
carded, and the old condition of things no
longer satisfactory—the cry , is for a change.
Illood once shed, and other considerations
rush in ; patriotism, loyalty to the Govern
ment in power, and veneration for the old
Rag on tam side—on the other, resistance to
threatened invasion, defence of life, liberty,
and home, and finally a fear of punishment
if successful; and dims the breach is widened
and a return to peaceful settlement rendered
more difficult with each succeeding battle
fought: fresh troops rush forward to avenge .
the death of fallen relatives, or are dragged
forth to till theplaces of the slain.
The voice of - Christian moderation and
forbearance is lost amid the din of battle
and the shouting of the multitude ; he who
shouts not with them is denounced as a
traitor and copperhead—violence and the
prison await him who speaks or writes
boldly for Peace.
Yofir fears are worked upon, you are told
unless von re-elect Lincoln you: will have
no Government at all and the rnion will
be still further divided. Horrible amspiru
cies against the Government are discovere
And lastly your gratitude is appealed to,
and you are asked to make sacrifices to the
( lovernment in return for the protection it
has heretofore given you. Oh, modesty
where is thy blush! When Mr. Lincoln
and his friends only came into power on the
4th of March, Mil, and it was the old Demo
cratic party, who is now struggling to re
some the reins of Government and make
ono last effiirt to restore order, that pro
tected you in all times past. John Tyler
and Millard Fillmore being the only Presi
dents not belonging , to the Democratic party
that governed the country since Jefferson,
(Harrison and Taylor having both died
shortly after they went into office). Tyler
was with the South before he died,
and Millard Fillmore will, if he lives,
give lis vote this fall for McClellan
aunt Pendleton, the reprosenatives of the
Denweratie party.
ho told you the truth, and whom will
you believe?
The Dvittorruts Inld you that the election
of Lincoln would bring, AV:II" upon the 0)1111-
try.
The lZepublicans said it would not.
The IZepublicans told you the war would
be over, first, in sixty days; then in less
than a pear; then when the slaves would
be proclaimed tree, anti then always just
after one more draft should be filled.
The Iteinocrats told you not to believe
this, maul gave their reasons, which have
proved correct.
s o much for the past
:Cow for the future.
Republicans say re-eleet Lincoln and it
will go a great ways towards crushing the
reliellion, if it does not altogether, and end
ing Ow Wnr. 'flint there will be no more
drafts. That the South will accept no terms
except their independence, and that 4 kn.
use tl, make them an offer of peace.
Democrats tell you that Lincoln, if re
elected, will stand in the war of a settle
ment. 'flint liecause of the prejudice '
ex -
between him and the Southern and
Border States people they will not trust to
lay down their anus nubile he is President.
liesiiles, he has also lost the confidence of
a great portion of the people in the North.
.\ new man is wanted, the representative
of the old Democratic party. A national
man, a Christian, and not a politician
like AI r. Lincoln. With such a man, and
with the l - nion party which will then
spring up over the Sout)i,iind such an army
as can then be raised altiong the I hquocrals
hy volunteering, find without resorting
draft, it is la•lieved one State after anothei
(tan he brought hack until the Union is re
stored; the ranatics of the North and of the
South left in the hack ground ; tuitional
statesmen once more at the head of afrairs,
and the nation again started in its onward
course of greatness and peaceful prosperity.
A in.: , t•EN ['ANT or THE MENN(,NITES.
For the Intelligenver
Chronicles of the Campaign
I. Anil it nine pass, that en 111, ,
cileventli lIV of the tenth month, there \Vtl,l
held un Hl•Viii,ll, by the Or
2.. end there \\*RS 111111 . 11 COIIIIIIOI ion
throughutit the nand, :11111 sundry tututtlis.
lint the I:ylll°er:us feared not for the Hem -
ers, lull g'aVi• their Voices fin - the Ille
their ,hoict
.\tut \\lien the evening was opme, and
the V ()11, ofo, pe,.ith• Itad beet, uintiwi , d,
the "1 the Apt , tit stricken kith
.1. But the 1/vllloer:its were filled with jiiv
and made merry, for theii• hopes for Peat,
and I were made. trong.
5. A int Abe, the King, was sore afraid he
cause or these things, and he foamed as tin
wild lioar in his wrath, saying:
G. " Behold we have gone up as a rocket,
and We collie d,)Wil a stick."
T. " \Vt , must draw tight the s,rews,
perativt•nt t Lre, NVe shall again need the rap
and cloak, tc herein mat tore rlatl, when \%
privily rune
'• Behold I ant afflicted sure, aml my
bowels are dried lip. In my dreams and
visions am I tormented —yea, even the
spirits, my familiars, do mock at mu::
9. " ntl 'tow must I try to appousa them,
and oirt•rstit•rititAt, that it nuty again. he aril
In. .\ tol he .out Guth messengers to lh~
lii.. amity, saying
11. " l:iil lily tigliting men go to battle,
(Itat in the lunnilt of blood and carnage,
the mind of till. people ',my he changed,
and their murmurs cease. -
12. .\nil to the Preachers, he also sent
other ote,engers, saying to them:
1::. " Pretteh ye yet more strongly the
baptism or Blood, wherewith I have bap
tized this people. Howl! ye from the pul
pit, :id stir lip discord in the nation.
14. " 1.1 ttle ye front the people the gospel
of Peace—let the words of the Saviour be
blotted 1111 -- let the I ' ( . lll , llltikerS be tio
~•ursoil pit behold are they rail
1.1111111.1.111,111,,...
1.,. " Teaeh ye the people to delight in war
and in the shedding of blood--let Rapine
linelieeked,—let the de:44)ollyr of tile
illlloCelll Le os:dled."
16. "sake them to believe that in green
haeks is their salvation, and in the loirtheti
or taxes the glory of the nation."
17. " For behold ire grow rich by the war
—by ft dpi we heap tip treasure. In the
ruin of the land shall we find our eonsola-
Is. "This is the festival of the sword;
it shall my followers maintain rule over tin
ignorant multitude."
19. (:ice ye no ear to the cry of the widotc
and the orphan— be ye not moved lty the
wail of the desolate. This is the great day
of
. joy to the nigger, and to the mongrel,
and to the faradic."
" Let the heik-nuisters of the Furnace,
and of he Forge, and of the Factory, tie
that the feet of their laborers, that they walk
not in the Way of Denywnwv.-
21. " Let the curse of want fall on him
who eheys not our hehests—let his children
cry for bread, and let there I, nonr. to show
thorn merry
22. " Let my Leaguers write letters to
make t hem afraid,--let the torch of thr• loyal
he held up to affright them."
23. And to his pimps, and provosts, and
spies, also, did the King send messengers,
saying -
-1
Ye shall take away front this people,
the means wherel,y they have troubled us.
The ballot-box shall ye violate—the fril
ehises of the vulgar herd, shall ye utterly
destroy."
5. Aml when the words t - . f . the Despot
\von , heard, there W:IN ntiteh jot' among the
.•
2.6. And in the cities and towns did they
conspire and lay plans, whereby t hey
might destroy the Democrats.
2.7. And at that time, it came to pass that
there was a great gathering together of the
Democrats in the city of Penn.
2s. And when they would have marched
forth with their banners, and torches, and
embletus of liberty, , they were set upon by the Leaguers and their host.
129. But the Democrats said, " Behold the
day of our complainings bath ended. We
shall even now repay in kind the blows
and insults of our enemies. -
3a, And having shouted their battle cry,
they rushed upon the Leagues, and smote
them hip tuul thigh. saying—
it. Ye have commended to our lips the
cup of bitterness, and now shall ye your
selves drink thereof.
And behold the Leaguers, and their
cohorts, were overthrown in that hour.
And they did hide themselves in the holes
and dens of the earth—even as hounds
driven by the lash. •
But the Democrats went forward,
shouting songs of joy, even as men deter
minctl he free.
Guard the Polls!
Guard the polls carefully ! See to it
that not a single illegal vote is east by
your opponents ; that not a single legal
Democratic voter is denied his right to
vote. Watch the polls from morning
until night! Let efficient committees
be on hand at every .voting precinct.
Do not wait until election day to make
these arrangements, but make them at
*ace.
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