40, z:ratitti gutettipitat. AUGUST 130,-1865. fit. The" printing presses shall be free to every . - person who undertakes to examine thelarel ceedings file legislature, or any -branch of government; and no /aw shall ever be made to restrain the right thereof. The free commu nication 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 they 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." DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET FOR AUDITOR GENERAL Col. W. W. 11. DAVIS, of Bucks County. FOR SURVEYOR GENERA Col. JOHN P. LINTON, of Cambria Co, The Democratic State Central Committee. The Democratic State Central Committee ;Will meet at the Merchants' hotel, Phila lelphia, on TUESDAY, the sth of SEP TEMBER, at 4 o'clock P. 11.. Punctual at tendance is requested. W. A. WALLACE, Chairman State Central Committee To the Democracy of the City and County of Lancaster. • In, pursuance of authority given the un dersigned by a resolution of County Com mittee, adopted at their meeting on Satur day, August 19, you aro requested to as semble in the several wards of the city, and boroughs and townships of the county, on SATURDAY, THE 16TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER NEXT, then and there to elect not less than three, nor more than five delegates to repre sent such district in a general County Con vention to be held on WEDNECOAY, SEP TEMBER 20TH, next, at 11 o'clock A. M., at the rooms of the Young Men's Democratic Association, for the purpose of placing in nomination a ticket to be supported at the ensuing October election. The Township Committees are urged to give early notice of the time and place of meeting for the election of delegates. H. It, TSHLTDY, Chairman. A. J. STEINMAN, Secretary. TOWNSHIP COMMITTEES. Adamstown Bor.—Samuel Styer, Henry Stauffer, Richard Regan. Bart.—Edwin Garrett, Harrison Graham, John J. Coulter. Breeknoek.—H. Shimp, R. E. Shober, Simon Kind, K. 'Witmer, B. Seifert. Caernarvon.—John Yohn, George Rigg, Silas Viler, Jacob Yohn, M. Ringwalt. Clay.—Curtis Miller, Samuel Enck, Geo. Flory, John Demmy, John Getz. Colerain.—A. I). Whiteside, J. P. Swish er, George Sampson. Columbia—N.,W.—A. J'elew, J. R.*Eber- Lein, R. T. Ryon, A. %ellars, J. M. Watts. Columbia—S. W.—Geo. Tille, Cornelius Tyson, Benjamin Herr, F.Schillot, Morgan Hays. Cocalico East. —Cyrus Ream, Reuben Shorman, G. E. Shimp. Cocalico West.—ltenben Bucher, V Bechtel, Benj. Ebling, Benj. Kegerise. Conestoga.—JohnJohn lless, Martin, J. S. Welsh, W. W. Woods, H. D. StehmalL Conoy.—J. L. Haldeman„ T. A. Miller, J. B. Small, J. Filbert, D. Metzler. Donegal East.—T. J. Albright, J. F. Ja cobs, A. Gettemacher, N. L. Pock, Jacob Murray. Donegal West.—Christian Harr, Matthias Shenk, Jonathan IMlenderfer. Drumore.—Clark Phillips, Clarkson Jef fries, S. B. Moore, E. I). Waters, Aaron Cox. Earl.—Wm. Custer, Levi Holl, Barton Winters, A. Carpenter, J. C. Martin. Earl East.—.l. W. Stauffer, S. Moyer, J. Wooniert, Sloat, E. S. Hammond. Earl West.-I.lenry Kafroth, John For ney, C. Hunsehberger, .Jacob Bear. Ephrata.—M. S. Keller, David Weider, Samuel Slough, M(,eagie Pierce, R. Winters. Elizabeth.—Joseph S. Keener, B. Breiti gain, 0. Caldwell, T. 'Masterson. Elizabethtown Bor.—Jas. Wilson, B Shultz, John Shea tjer, A. Ilarrantr, J. Felix Eden.—Hutt. Evans, D. D. Hess, Win Kunkle, David Myers, Win. Brown. Fulton.—Samuel Wicks, Harvey Swift, S. W. Scott, Joseph Sinedey, J. B. Jenk ins, W. Whitaker, J. B. Bunwoody. Hempfield East.—R. Bowman, H. Hoff man, S. Minnick, Daniel Sehner, Col. D. Ringwalt. Hemptield Rettew, James Boys, H. H. Weller, E. Yohn, Frederick Lampeter East.—.J. C. Dunlap, Enoch Lytle, A. D. Hills, A. T. Lytle, Isaac Gra bill. Lampeter West.—J. M. Miller, Samuel 'Weaver, E. It. Miller, C. Himes, J. Eshel man. City, N. W. Ward.—Win. MeCornsey, J. W. F. Swift, Lewis Zecher, W. H. Shober, Geo. Yeislev. City, N. E. Ward.—J. M. Amweg, J Sprenger, John Rose, .John Wilhelm, A. Z. Hingwalt. City, S. W. W.—Win. P. Brinton, Win Wilson, James Peoples, John Diekel, Alex Harris. City, S. E. Ward.—\V. A. Morton, Mich ael McCullom, A. Shank, Jos. McGonigle, J. H. Reigart. Lancaster Twp.—Pcter E. Lightner, Ben. - Huber, Henry Wilhelm. Leacock.—Jacob Becher, Robt. Wade, S. M. Bitter, Isaiah McKi flips, John Royer, jr. L.lacock Upper.—Peter Kellenberger, Cyrus Miller, Geo. Marks, Daniel Weidler. Little Britain.—Win. Hays, B. S. Patter son, Robert It. Clondenin, Sylvester Wilson. Manheini Bor.—Benj. Donavin, H. D. Miller, Jacob G. Leber. Manhehn Twp.—J. K. Grube, E. Kauff man, Henry Brown, Jacob Hiestand, S. Hambright. Millerstown.—Conrad A. Krause, George Brown, Jacob Frantz, James Morrison. Indiantown.—C..T. Rhoads, P. Kline, D. Shoal!; A. Sourbeer, M. R. Sourbeer. Marietta.—E. F. McElroy, C. Bucher, C. Howar, John ('rull, S. Cushman. Martic.—henry Galen, John McLaugh lim.Amos Shirk, C. T. Soulsby. Mount Joy Bor.—C. W. Johnston, A. Culp, A. I). Reese, G. W. Shaffner, S. Don avin. Mount Joy Twp.—John Gautz, David Farmer J. S. Baker. Paradise.—Henry Girvin, Henry Rutter, C. Laverty, John Nelson. Jacob Creamer. Penn.—Jacob Busser, jr., Emanuel Keen er, Jacob Eberly. Pequea.—John Selmer, Michael. Zercher, G. E. Sehner, Neal Tyson. Providence.—Capt..l.M. Raub, Howard Dance, A. N. Rutter, D. Reese, - W. Brenne man. Rapho.—Michael Baker, llonry Shelly, Frederick Gantz. Strasburg Bor.—R. P. Spencer, J. P. Kil burn, Alex. Shultz, Wtn. Black, Hiram S. Keen. Strasburg Twp.—S. Graham, Jac. Spind ler, B. Reynolds, Benjamin Myers, Samuel Wiker. Sadsbury.—J. R Townsend, Mahlon Fox, J. A. Rhea. Salisbury.—Wm. Martin, John Patton, B. F. Houston, Truman Wallace, T. W. Henderson. Warwick.—Hiram K line, Jonathan Buch, Josiah Suavely. Washington Bor.—John Charles, John Shartzer, Cyrus Shultz, William Parker, Israel. Hoover. The Rival Platforms We publish to-day the platforms of both the Democratic and the Abolition parties of this State. Let every reader of this paper take the time necessary to compare them. The Democratic plat form speaks out boldly and fearlessly; it sums up the rights of the people and announces the firm resolve of the party to stand by them; it demands that the Constitution be sacredly regarded, and the civil law rendered supreme through out the land. It is broad, national and patriotic. The people will sustain it, because they well know that by so doing they are sustaining their own most sacred and cherished rights as freemen." Home Again John W. Baughman, Esq.: the able and fearless editor of the Frederick (Md.) Citizen, who was cruelly banished over a year ago for " opinion's sake " from his home and family and his business entirely ruined by that cold-blooded tyrant David Hun ter,a Major General (?) in the Army of the United States, has returned to his home again, and resum ed the publication of his paper, the first number of the re-issue of which is now before us. We hope the Democracy of Maryland will accord to Mr. B. a hearty and generous support, for there is cer tainly no man more deserving of it. Let the Democracy everywhere stand by the men who stood by them in the " days. which tried men's souls." FISHER AMES called the Democratic party of, his time (1790-1808) Jacobins James Watson Webb, after the United States Bank had bought him for fifty thousand dollars,.nicknamed the party Locofoco. Quartermaster Hurtt styled them Copperheads in 1861; and the venal Cincinnati Commercial displayed its ingentfity in the name Butternut. But the names won't stick. It is the Demo cratic party all the time. The State Convention. The Democratic State Convention, which met in Harrisburg on Thursday last, was one of remarkable fullness and strength. Evei,s/Senatorial and Hap= resentative district in the State wasrep resented, in nearly every instance, by the delegates originally chosen. There were not more than half Et dozen cases of substitution: Very many of the ablest and purest Demeicrats in the State had seats in the Convention, and were active participants in its harmonious de liberations. The prevailing tone of the body was a feeling of confident and trustful hope fulness, combined with an inflexible re solve that seemed to subordinate all other sensations. The Democracy of Pennsylvania have resolutely deter mined to win in the coming contest, and we have no doubt that they will most triumphantly succeed. The platform is a full, firm, open and honest expression of the political creed of the Democracy of this great State. It is eminently conservative, and will commend itself to the heart and the conscience of every right thinking voter in this commonwealth. In strong contrast to the platform of the Republican party, it will command the respect and chal lenge the admiration of every man who reads it. It is lengthy, but that was a necessity under the circumstances. It takes more than a few words to de nounce the wrong and unconstitutional acts of our opponents, and to define our own public policy at the present time. In spite of its length, the platform adopted on Thursday by the Democratic party of this State will be more univer sally read and more generally approved by the sensible conservative voters of Pennsylvania than any paper of the kind which has been put forth for years. From Thursday the Democratic party of Pennsylvania dates a new era in its existence, and " marks with a white stone" the lucky day which will here after be recognized as the commence ment of a renewed lease of power. It seeks the ascendency, which it will surely attain in the coming contest, not for the sake of any petty emoluments of office, for these things it cares but little, but that it may be once again in a posi tion which will enable it to lead this great nation along the peaceful ways of increasing prosperity and renewed and continuing greatness and glory. The Pending Political Contest The political contest now going on in this State is one of no ordinary impor tance, not because of any very great magnitude attaching to the offices to be filled, but because vital and fundamen tal principles will be seriously affected by the result. The candidates of the two great political parties are now fairly before the people, and it is hazarding nothing to say that the nominees of the Democratic party have the advantage of their opponents. In military repu tation, gained by long and arduous ser vice, the marks of which they can show in numerous honorable scars, they are more than fully the equals of their op ponents. In talents, iii education, in fitness for the positions for which they have been named, they are decidedly their superiors. They are men of lives so pure and of reputation so spotless that no assault cad be made upon them even by the unscrupulous and lying Abolition press. The Contest must therefore be deter mined, as it should be, by the political principles of the candidates, as set forth in the platforms on which they have been placed. Here the distinction be tween them is well marked and very clearly defined, The platform of the Republican party has in it but three strong points : First, it entirely dissents from the re construction policy of President John son, under which the States recently in revolt are now rapidly preparing peace ably to resume their places in the Union, demands that he shall make an entire change in his policy, and insists upon keeping up an enormousstauding army to rule them by force of military power. Secondly, it shows by its refusal to utter one word against negro suffrage, and by its covert endorsementof that doc trine, that, in opposing President John son's reconstruction policy, the lead ers of the Republican party of this State are in full sympathy with the radical fanatics of New England. Thirdly, it calls for an indefinate in crease of the tariff. If in all the verbage of the Repub lican platform there is any other single political principle enunciated, we con fess we cannot see it. What a contrast does the platform adopted by the Democratic State Con vention present? We have not the time or room for a proper analysis of it to day. There is not a conservative right thinking man in the State who cannot endorse it fully and take his stand squarely upon it. The Poor Man's Curse A New York paper says that scores of men in that city, have sold out their real estate and put their money in gov ernment bonds which draw large inter est, but are exempt from all taxation.— The same thing has occurred in other cities and towns. The rich men invest in bonds—the interest is paid in gold.— The rich man has nothing to do but live at his ease and roll in luxury, ex empt from taxation on every dollar he has in these bonds. The poor mall must pay the expenses of government, and pay interest to the rich man. He must pay increased rents and prices for all he has and every thing he needs for the support of his family. He must pay the tax gatherer, while the man who has his thousands in bonds laughs, pays nothing and grows richer every day.— The poor man goes to war and gets kill ed or disabled by wounds—the rich man remains a private in the rear rank of life. The poor man pays all the taxes; and he is obliged to keep out of business for the reason that he cannot afford to pay double interest on money and bear all the taxation besides. This is Abolitionism. This is part of the grand policy the people appear to be in love with ; but would it not be better to exempt houses, manufactories, ma chinery and poor men's wages from tax ation, and compel the rich people to pay a portion of the war debt ? We are sure it would be better for the country, and at the same time would only be carry ing out the great Jeffersonian doctrine of equal and exact justice to all men. They are All Democrats Slander it as they may the Shoddy party, says the Harrisburg Patriot, can not get on without the Democracy. 'l' he shoddy organs not only announce their Chairman of the Central Committee, John Cessna, and their candidate for Auditor General, General Hartranft, as Democrats, and claim credit and votes for the latter in consequence, but they even go so far as to say that Col. Camp bell was also once a Demodiat. It is announced with a flourish that he was " reared in the school of Jackson De mocracy," (renegades always prate of Jacksonian Democracy,) and in 1844 voted for Polk and Dallas. This anx iety of the pedigreeless, traditionless, mushroon - Yankee - Abolition- Shoddy party to give their leaders and candi date a Democratic paternity, shows conclusively that they are hard up for political capital. The fact is, there is not healthy soil enough to be found in modern shoddyism for any candidate to take root in. The first thing done, there fore, always is to declare that the shoddy candidate was not always what he now is, but that he once was a true and re spectable " Democrat of the Jacksonian achool." Work for the Democracy. The Democracy of Pennsyliania can easily win in the present contest if they go to Work in proper manner and with resolute determination. What is needed ispionipt and-efficient organization in xivery county in the State.. This is a work which 'must be done by each county under-he auspices of its own county.committee. The for work is short, and what is done must be done quickly. The different county commit tees should be assembled at the earliest possible day, and every member should feel it a bounden duty to be present.. If money is needed, and more or less will be required everywhere, steps should be taken to raise it at once.— There should be a county fund and a fund in each township. There is not an election district in the State where there are not some voters for whom means of conveyance to the polls must necessarily be provided, or their votes will be lost. This cannot be done with out expense, hence the absolute need of raising a fund. Let a Democratic club be started in every election district in the State, and weekly meetings be held until the election. In these, arrangements can be made for seeing every doubtful voter, for furnishing proper reading matter to all who will read, for making out lists of voters, for properly parceling out the work to be done and assigning each de partment of labor to competent hands, and thus ensuring that every Democrat, and every Conservative citizen who is ready to vote " the white man's ticket," shall not fail to be at the polls. An effbrt thus made throughout the State would ensure the defeat of the negro suffrage party by a majority of such pro portionsas would forever kill it in Penn sylvania. Is not this a.sutlicient incen tive to labor? Let there be immediate organization, and prompt energetic ac tion. That is needed, and it is all that is needed. We have the chances all in our favor,and the tide of popular opinion is fully with us. Shall we not go to work with that earnest zeal which becomes menwhose best interests are atstake? We are assured that the Democracy of Pennsylvania feel the importance of se curinga right decision on thegreat issues before the people in the coming Cam paign. The masses of the Democratic party are fully alive to their own inter ests and ready to act with the prompt ness and vigor necessary to secure the most glorious triumph. All that is need ed is proper organization, proper local organization, effected through the agen cy of the different county committees. Heretofore this work has not been half done. Whenever and wherever it was well done the good results were seen. There is time enough to organize every election district in the State, and barely time enough. It must be done, done fully and effectually, and done quickly. The State Central Committee meets on Tuesday the sth day of September. We have no doubt it will do its work wisely and well, but after all it will have to depend upon the County Com mittees. They are the agencies by which the work of the coming campaign must be done. Let them meet at once and effect the most thorough and perfect or ganization. If a delinquent member is found in any district, let the work be devolved upon some one who will at tend to it yromptly and efficiently. A little system, a little patience, and a good dealof hard work is What is wanted. We hope all our exchanges will urge forward the work of organization at once. They can do much in this way. If we fail to win in the present contest it will be our own fault, and we will deserve defeat. With proper, prompt organization we cannot fail. The `• Tycoon's" Navy A few years ago the Japanese govern ment, having been infused with the Anglo Saxon spirit of enterprise, made an appropriation of three millions of dollars for the construction of three magnificent steam vessels for its navy. The Tycoon and his cabinet having be come convinced of the superiority of Americans in shipbuilding, the money and the contract for constructing the steamers were entrusted to Mr. Pruyn, our Minister at the Japanese court. One of these ships, named the Fuslyama, after a sacred mountain of the empire, was launched at one of the shipyards of this city in May of last year, and com pleted and made a most successful trial trip of three days to sea in the following September, and she was to have left im mediately after for Japan ; but owing to our national complications with certain foreign Powers consequent upon the re bellion in the South, she has been de tained till the present time. that all these difficulties have been overcome there is no longer any necessity for keeping her here. The Fuslyama is a fine steamer of over one thousand tons, magnificently fitted up and finished in every respect, and is armed with one hundred-pounder and three thirty pounder Parrott rifles, foul' nine-inch Dahlgrens and four twenty-pounder brass smooth bores--in all twelve guns. Profession and Practice It will be remembered that the late Republican State Convention refused by a vote of 17 yeas to 111 nays to adopt the following resolution : Resolved, That this convention, repre senting the loyal people of Pennsylvania, recognizes the claims of the citizen soldiers of the State on its confidence and gratitude as superior to those of all others ; and in token of this, its declaration, it will nomi nate as candidates for office none but those who have proven their loyalty and patri otism by services in the field, against the enemies of the republic. The action of the Abolitionists in this city fully accords with the proscriptive spirit of the above resolution. They made many and loud professions of friendship for the soldiers before their nominating conventions met; but when the time came to test their sincerity they refused to place a single soldier on their ticket, and gave all the offices to the old and worn-out political backs of their party. In every instance in which a soldier and a civilian came into con test the former was beaten out of sight —the soldiers' candidate for Mayor poll ing only 14 votes, and their candidate for District Attorney only 5 !—Age. The Wirz Trial a Long One Should the Wirz trial not progress faster than it has the last week several months will be consumed in bring the proceedings to a close, as only half a dozen of the more than one hundred and fifty witnesses have been examined. The commission give the defense the greatest latitude of examination. The Cholera In Turkey Our minister at Constantinople offi cially informs this government that the cholera continues to extend its ravages, and says, had the proper quarantine re gulations been inforced at first the in troduction of the disease from Egypt might have been prevented. It seems to him, from the experience at Constan tinople, that it will be advisable for the United States to guard against it by the most rigid quarantine regulations. THE trustees appointed by Judge Packer for the management of the new Polytechnic School, have adopted the name of " Lehigh University," by which the institution is to be known.— "Packer College" was urged by several members of the board of trustees, and the citizens in the Lehigh Valley, but the donor forbade it. An election of of ficers also took place, and the following gentlemen were selected : Wm. Bacon Stevens, D. D., L. L. D., Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania, President,; Rev. E. M. Potter, Secre tary ; •E. P. Wilbur, Treasurer. :_-. Gross Abuie of Pardoning Power. Daliy the public ear is stunned by the,. announcement of a fresh batch of thit'3. most horrid., crimes. Murders have grown so common of late that the an nouncement of a new one scarcely ex cites comment, unless it be of extraor dinary atrocity, or attended by other circumstances which have a tendency to render its recital more exciting than usual. Human life is getting tobe held very cheap, and the saying "murder will out" seems to be no longer true among us. Murderers, escape easily in these days. One would suppose the ap parent increased insecurityof life would impress upon courts and juries the ab solute necessity of meting out the full punisliment merited by crime; but it really seems to be more difficult than it ever was before to secure convictions, especially for capital offences. Now and then a jury is to be found doing its whole duty, but then the pardoning of the Governor is evoked and not unfre quently grossly misapplied. 'l'he Governor of this State has no right to misuse the great trust reposed in him by the grant of pardoning power for the purpose of relievingany criminal from the penalty justly due to his crimes. It was never conferred for any such purpose. It was only intended to enable him to correct mistakes made by courts and juries, or to relieve, when it was ascertained on examination, that there were mitigating circumstances not known to or properly understood by the judicial tribunal when sentence was passed. 'The Governor has no shadow of right to interfere for the pur pose of preventingmerited punishment, no odds how severe the sentence of a competent judicial tribunal may be. When a criminal has had a fair and im partial trial by liis peers, and been found guilty of the offence for which he was lawfully arraigned, it is a gross outrage for the Governor, either for political reasons, or from any other selfish or interested motives, to interfere to prevent the full execution of the solemn sentence of the law. When he does so he violates his duty to the public, breaks his solemn oath of office, does violence to his own conscience, if he has any, tramples upon the law of the land, in cites bad men to the commission of crimes, renders the life and property of those lie has sworn to protect insecure, and turns loose the enemies of society to prey upon it—and all this he does without any authority, and in violation of his plainest and highest duties. Governor Curtin has already been guilty in this respect more than once ; but the most glaring and unmitigated outrage of_ the kind which he has yet perpetrated, is the unconditional pardon of the three murderers recently—Convict ed and sentenced at Carlisle. Our read ers will remember the clear and able summing up of the facts contained in the sentence of Judge Graham, which we published someday's since. Itis sure that there never was a more foul and brutal murder committed. There were no mitigating circumstances, unless the fact that the Ruperts were pursuing their victim for thepurposeof makingtha paltry sum of thirty dollars by his ar rest as a deserter was sufficient to justi fy them in murdering him most foully. Governor Curtin seems to have so con sidered it, and he turned the bloody handed, bloody-minded villains loose. For so doing he deserves the execration of all decent citizens and richly merits impeachment. No man of right feeling, who has a knowledge of the facts in this case can ever respect him hereafter. We append the following account of the transaction from the Carlisle Vo/iot ficr, and thus dismiss, for the present, this most damnable outrage : . In our last we stated that the three brothers, Howard, Henry and Lewis Rupert, the murderers of Wilson T. Vanasdlan, of Penn township, in Jan uary last, had been sentenced by Judge Graham—the first named " to be hanged by the neck until dead," and the two latter to the penitentiary for a term of years. The day following this righteous sentence Governor Curtin pardoned the culprits, and they were at once set at liberty. We have had occasion frequently to complain of the reckless manner that the one man power has been exer cised by that utterly reckless man, Cur tin. We have noticed for some years that the Governor cares nothing for the rights of the people at large, but in the exercise of the arbitrary power placed in his hands by the Constitution, he is governed entirely by political consider ations. In nearly every instance where murder, theft, burglary or any other crime had been committed by men of his owu party—" loyal Republicans " he has granted pardons immediately af ter conviction. Indeed he has, by the exercise of this power, nearly emptied our prisons, for it is a fact that nine tenths of the men convicted for the last four years of loathsome crimes were his political adherents. But, of all the pardons ever granted by the Governor, this pardon of the Ruperts is the most to be condemned, for there was not even a semblance of excuse for it. That Vainisdlan had been murdered in cold blood—that the mur der was concocted, planned and agreed upon by the three Ruperts long before it took place, was proved to the satis faction of every man who was present at the trial of the culprits. The diaboli cal crime was not the result of passion —the parties had had no quarrel, no dispute. Vanasdlan, their victim, re garded the Ruperts as neighbors, and personal, if not political, friends.— They gave him no warning, but shot him down in the road, near ,his own, dwelling, and in the presence of his ter rified wife and little children. He lived but a short time after receiving the fatal shot, but during the few minutes he did live the the Ruperts crowded about the dying man, heaping curses upon him, and making efforts to draw boots upon his cold and pulseless feet,so that they might, as they said, "take the body to Carlisle." It is difficult to con ceive more heartless brutality. Never in the history of crime, have we read or heard of more savage inhuman conduct on the part of murderers. During Van asdlan's struggles with life, when the red fountain was rapidly flowing from his heart, and his eyes were glazed, the Ruperts stood by, armed to the teeth, and refused to permit his wife to place her dying husband upon a bed or even to put a pillow under his head! Had a demon from the lower regions stepped into Vanasdlan's dwelling at that mo ment, he would have whispered into the earsof the Rilperts, "hold, brothers ! you are going too far; the Prince of Darkness requires no such heartless wickedness as this, and is already satis fled with what you have done." The Ruperts had a fair trial. Indeed, their guilt was so manifest, their con duct so brutish, that the attorneys for the Commonwealth had little to do ex cept to acquaint the jury with the naked facts, as testified to by many unim peached witnesses. There was not a single mitigating circumstance in favor of the accused ; they had not a thread to hang a rope upon. The jury was com posed of intelligent and fair men—seven Republicans and five Democrats—and were unanimous in rendering a verdict, the only question that staggered them a little being whether or not they should declare the whole three guilty of mur der in the first degree. And these three Ruperts—these cold blooded and heartless murderers—have been turned loose upon society by Gov. Curtin! Let the Governor come up into our valley and hear the loud deep curses of the people, and he may form an idea of their temper, and learn their senti ments in regard to his insolent inter ference with law and justice. He, the Governor, may be of opinion that his political partisans can commit murder with impunity and escape punishment, but we doubt whether we have many Republicans in this county who will indorse the infamous conclusion. By granting pardon to the Ruperts, Gov. Curtin proves himself a bad and dan gerous man to be invested with a power that ,was seldom used at all by his pre decessors. By this act of clemency, he endorses fearful and revolting crime, disregards law, public opinion and morals, and will receive the execrations of an oaraged people.—Carlisle teen "- *-- ' - .'•:= - - Our Candidates. The Patriot and Union has the fol lowing biographical sketches of our can didates CoL W. W. H. Davis, the Democratic_ candidate for Auditor Geniirel,:iri a na tive, of Bricks county. He is a son of Gen.. John Davis, of 'Davisville, whose name is familiar to the people of Penn sYlvania. . Col. Davis received his education at the military academy at Norwich, Ver mont, and having graduated from that institution was appointed Professor of Mathematics and Military Instructor at the Military Academy of Portsmouth, ;VsL This, position, he filled with dis tinguished ability for two years, when he reaigned,l and returned to Bucks county, and studied law under Judge Fox, of Doylestown. Having been ad mitted to the bar, he attended and fin ished his legal studies at the Cambridge University law school. While at Cambridge, the war with Mexico broke out, and Col. Davis with patriotic zeal volunteered his services, and enlisted in the Massachusetts regi ment then being raised by the Hon. Ca leb Cushing. He was immediately made Adjutant of the regiment, and in that capacity and various staff appoint ments served during the war, partici pating in all those great battles which reflected so much credit upon the arms of the United States. For gallant con duct he was promoted to a Captaincy and held that rank during the last year of the war. Upon the conclusion of peace, Col. Davis commenced the practice of law in Doylestown, and continued in the quiet pursuit of his legal labors until 18.52, when he was culled upon by President Pierce to accept the position of United States District Attorney for the Terri tory of New Mexico. He proceeded to New Mexico in October of that year, and held the position of District Attor ney until 18.54, when he was appointed Secretary of State for the Territory, and in that capacity was Acting Governor and Superintendent of Indian ..kfliiirs for four years until November, 1857, when he resigned the position and returned to his home in Bucks county. In 1858 he purchased the Doylestown Deniocret, published in Bucks county,, , which he still owns and edits. When the rebellion commenced, in 1861, Colopel Davis immediately volun teered his services, and reused the first armed Man in his native county and congressional district. With a company of eighty (80) men he immediately marched to Harrisburg, joined the 25th Penna. regiment, and served through out the three months' campaign in the army of the Upper Potomac, command ed by Major General Patterson. At the expiration of his term of service in Sep tember, 1861, he was mustered out, and returning to Bucks county, immediate ly raised a regiment of infantry, 104th Pa., and a six gun battery, under special instructions from the War Department. On the Ist of November, 1861, he pro ceeded to Washington with his regi ment, and was immediately placed in command of a brigade, from which time he continued in active service, (except when disabled by his wounds,) until the Ist of October, 1864, when he was mustered out, by reason of the ex piration of his term of service. His gallant regiment served one year in the Army of the Potomac, and was afterwards transferred to the Army of North Carolina, then to South Carolina. Colonel D. commanded a brigade or division during the greater part of three years. He was severely wounded by a rifle ball in the left elbow at the terrible battle of Fair Oaks, and was also shot in the left breast by a spent ball at the same engagement. The Colonel par ticipated in all the operations before Charleston, commanding a brigade or division during the entire period. From the first day of January to the Ist of April, he had command of the siege operations on Morris Island di rected against Charleston, having under his command a division of three bri gades, and in July 1864, at the battle of John's Island, S. C., his right hand was carried away by a shell. While serving in the Department of the South Colonel Davis had, at different periods, com mand of Folly Island, Beaufort and the District of Hilton Head. The colors of his regimemt, now among the archives of the Commonwealth, hear the names of Yorktown, Lee's Mills, Chickahomi ny, Savage Station, Fair Oaks, Seven Pines, White Oak Swamp, Carter's Hill, James Island, Morris Island, seige of Charleston and John's Island. Col. Davis has numerous testimonials from the ablest generals under whom he has served, complimenting him in the highest terms upon his bravery in battle, and the faithful discharge of his military duties. In early life he re ceived the degree o,f A. M. from his Alma Mater, and he is also an honorary member of the Pennsylvania Historical Society and of the Long Island Histori cal Society. He is not unknown to the literary world, being the author of a work on New Mexico, published by Harper Brother in 1856, and he has now ready for press a history of the con quest of New Mexico by the Spaniards. He has also been a frequent contributor to the press, and periodicals of the day. Our candidate for Surveyor General, Col. JOHN P. LINTON, is a young man of about thirty-three years, a native of Cambria country, a pure patriot, au honest, upright man and a splended representative of the incorruptible mountain Democracy. He is the son of Robert P. Linton, at various times Sheriff of the county, and grandson of Peter Levergood, Esq., who, many years ago, was Canal Commissioner of the Commonwealth. By profession Col. LiNroN is a lawyer, and before the war he was fast making his way to eminence at the county bar. In general intelli gence he is far above the average, and professionally he is well known among the legal fraternity for his acquirements. He was a student of Jefferson Colledge, and subsequently studied law with and became the law partner of Hon. Cyrus L. Pershing. This latter fact is of itself a guarantee for his intelligence and When, in 1861, the war was brought upon the country, he was a lieutenant of a holiday. volunteercompany. Mainly through his effbrts the organization was maintained, the company recruited to the maximum number, and, upon the declination of other officers, he was unanimously proclaimed captain. With his company be faithfully served during the three months' campaign. At the termination of the three months' campaign, Cols. Linton, Camp bell and M'Dermott at once recruited a regiment, (the 55th) and . the officers were soon after, in August, 1861, com missioned as follows : Colonel, Jacob M. Campbell ; (Republican candidate for Surveyor (ieneral ;) Lieutenant Col. Bernard McDermott; (one of the sol diers of the war with Mexico;) Major, John P. Linton. Subsequently Colonel M'Dermott resigned on account of ill health, which, on February Ist, 1803, advanced Major Linton to the position of Lieutenant-Colonel. The regiment was immediately as signed to duty along the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. During the whole of the early period of the war, when the mouth of the Shenandoah Valley was the scene of constant alarms and raids, the 54th Regiment was stretched as a cordon of protection to the lower tier of Pennsylvania counties. We have not time nor space in this article to follow the regiment through its later history ; this will afford matter for subsequent articles. It is sufficient to say that after about two years of detached service the regiment was ordered to take part in the active operations up the Valley. During most of this later and more active period of service, Colonel Campbell was away from the regiment —in temporary command of a division or brigade, it is stated—so that Col. LINTON had the honor of leading the 54th in the battles of Newmarket and Piedmont. And most bravely and gal lantly be led his regiment on those dis astrous fields. In both those battles he was severely wounded, butfalthough for a time compelled to go home for treatment, he scarcely remained long enough from his post to fully recover— so wedded was he to his regiment, his duty and the serious work required of him. When the 54th was subsequently ordered to the front, before Petersburg, Col. LINTON, we believe, still retained direct command, and again led his men in those hard-fought engagements which proved so disastrous to that gallant old reginient. Hereafter we shall furnish a detailed history of this regiment and its commander in battle. Col. Linton is a candidate of whom the Democracy may well feel proud. There is not positively a speck or flaw in his history or character. His claims do not rest alone upon his military ser vices. He is a just man—an honest, an honorable and true man. He could not evade a duty if he *duld and 'he would not if he could. 'l tieverconiiirOMlses: with wrong, and in the "same manner that he performs his own duty he is ex acting upon others subject to his con trol. But, though firm and unyielding where right and honor are e,oncerned, he /13 one of the most temperate, genial and agreeable of men in' all the social, relations. Should he be elected, the people can rely upon having secured an officer who will be an ornamentand gain to the State—one whom neither party nor personal nor family friendship, can swerve from duty. The Democratic Slate Convention The President's Restoration Policy En dorsed—The Rights of Freemen Assert ed—Nominations for State Officers. The following is the report furnished by telegraph to the Associated Press of the proceedings of the Democratic State Convention, which is about as correct and impartial as could be expected : HARRISBURG, Aug. 24.—The Demo cratic State Convention met at two o'clock P. M., and was temporarily or ganiZed by electing Robert L. Johnson, of Cambria, President, and A. D. Boi leau of Philadelphia, Benjamin Whit man of Erie, and D. H. Nieman of Northampton, Secretaries. Mr. Smith, of Lancaster, submitted a resolution providing for the appoint ment of a committee of one from each Senatorial district to report permanent officers. Mr. Lamberton moved to amend, that the convention proceed to elect a perma nent President, and that the Senatorial delegates select one member from each district for Vice Presidents and Secre taries, and also one from each Senator ial district as a Committee on Resold tions, to whom all resolutions on State and National subjects shall be referred without debate. The amendment was not agreed to, and the original resolution was adopted. A recess wasthen taken, to permit the delegates to indicate the Committee on Organization. The committee on being announced, retired for consultation, and aftera short time returned, and reported the Hon. Richard Vaux of Philadelphia, as per manent President of the convention, with a Vice President for each Senator ial districtand twenty-nine Secretaries. Mr. Vaux, on taking his seat, said : GENTLEMEN OE THE CONVENTION : The Democratic party of Pennsylvania, by her representatives, in conformity to the ancient usages of the party, is again assembled in State Convention. Since the days of Thomas Jefferson, in every crisis of our country's history, we have assembled in the Capitol of this Connnonwealth, bold and defiant, standing on the principles of constitutional liberty, which can alone maintain us as a happy and prosperous people. [Applause.] And amid threats of violence and the men aces of power, the Democrats never quailed. During the last four years of war and op pression, when the pressure of executive power was used to destroy the Democratic party—when to be a Democrat was some thing more than at any period in our past history, the Democracy met the enemy upon the great principles of the Constitution, and defied the party in power. [Cheers.] We have here met again, and let us do as our fathers in past days of our history have done, stand on the broad prin ciples of the Constitution and de mand those rights and privileges which belong to the States and to the people. We will be satisfied with nothing less. [Applause.] These principles cannot be changed by fanatics or over-ridden by power. The rights of the people arc dear to them ; the rights of the States are dear to them. [Applause.] Our fathers made this compact of Federal unity under hardly less than inspiration, and it cannot he al tered by fanatics Or destroyed by power. Its provisions ore for us and for our chil dren, and mint necessity shall not de prive us ofeither of these rights or privileges. [Applause.] Let it be then distinctly un-. derstood, that the dignity of American citi zenship must not be degraded or contami nated by association or an equality with an inferior race, either socially or politically. [lmmense applause.] Gentlemen of the onvention, having by your partiality been chosen to preside over your deliberations, I ask your indulgence, and promise to per tbrm my duties to the utmost of my ability. The Chair is now ready for any motion that may be ,niade. [Applause.] A Committee on Resolutions, com posed of one from each Senatorial dis trict was appointed, to whom all resolu tions on National and State affitirs were referred without debate. Mr. H. W. Petriken offered a resolu tion that the soldiers of 1861 and 1862, having enlisted with little or no bounty, should receive one hundred and sixty acres of land, and urging upon the next Congress the justice of maintaining such an appropriation. Referred. The Hon. J. S. Black, Chairman of the committee, reported the following resolutions The preamble asserts the betrayal of their trust by the party in power since 1861. The resolutions affirm the fidelity of Pennsylvania Democrats to the Union, and declare that the slaughter, debt and disgrace of the civil war was a conse quence of their counsels being disre garded. That the Constitution ought to be obeyed at all times, under all circum stances, and in every part of the country, the oath to support it being universally binding, and it is only by a rigid enforcement of its provisions that we can hope for liberty or peace. The palladium of all our political rights are trial by jury, habeas corpus, free press, free speech, immunity from punish ment, except upon legal conviction by an impartial jury, and the right of white citizens to vote at State elections according to State laws. The Convention concurs with l'resi dent Johnson in the opinion that State ordinances of secession are nullities,and the States therefore are all as much in the Union as ever, the people owing the same duties and clothed with the same rights as before, and the resumption of the old position shall not be impeded by that portion which always opposed the Union, who declare it legally dissolved and is malignantly laboring to prevent its restoration. The resolutions argue strongly against negro suffrage as a high crime against the Constitution, and a deliberate and wicked attempt to degrade the white race to the low level of the black, and express willingness to support President Johnson in restoring the States; giving them a representation in Congress, and saving them from the curse of negro equality ; but can only give its full ap proval to the administration of Presi dent Johnson if he adheres to the Con stitution and the laws, and punishes kidnapping and robbery when com mit ed by his own officers, anti suffers no person to be murdered by military com missions. The Convention then proceeded to ballot for Auditor General as follows: W.W. H. Davis, of Bucks let. 20 3d. Col. Franklin Vansant, of Bucks.. S atti Isaac Slenker, of Colon 11 41 . Wellington H. 1,1:11, of 'olumbia.. 11 5 7 Robert J. Hemphill, of Phil'a. ..... le ... W. Workman, of Washington 2 .. Wm. Hopkins, of Washington__ 13 11) S. T. Shuggert, of Centre ... Chas. D. Manley, of Delaware And the nomination of Col. Davis was declared unanimous. The Convention then proceeded to ballot for Surveyor General as follows : t d. 3d. John I'. Linton, of Cambria IS 2 2,3 57 75 Jas. P. Barr, of Allegheny. 44 55 50 H. A. Hambright, of Lancaster Judge Reilly, of Schuylkill Abrin. Lamberton of Cumberland. 8 ... David Karshaden,of Clinton 8 11 - John Cummings, of Snyder J. P. Surtzer, of Allegheny And the nomination of (201. Linton was declared unanimous. The President was authorized to ap point one person from each Senatorial district as a State Central Committee, and the lion. W. A. Wallace, of Clear field county, was chosen by the Con vention -Chairman of the State Com mittee. Mr. Petriken, of Lycoming county, re-offered his resolution:that,in the esti mation of the Convention, the soldiers of 1801 and 1862, who enlisted with little or no bounty, are entitled to, and should receive an appropriation of 160 acres of land, or a fair equivalent in money, and that such an appropriation be urged upon the next Congress. The resolution was discussed for some time, and finally passed, modified as follows: Resolved, That we are in favor of so equalizing the bounties paid to soldiers in 1161 and 1862, that they shall receive the same pay and bount. as the soldiers of 1863 and 1864, and that Congress should mako an appropriationtbr this purpose. The Convention then took a recess to afford the members an opportunity of selecting a State Central Committee, which resulted in the appointment of the following : Chairman, Hon. W. A. Wallace, Clear field. First District—C. C. Kamerly, Second District—Jas. McCarthy. Third District—Jamesqlopkins. Fourth District—A. R. Schofield. Fifth District,-Josiah B. Houpt and Robt, E. Monaghan. Sixth District—Franklin Vanzant. Seventh District—Robert McDowelL Eighth District, -- Ernientrout. Ninth District— Denice. - Tenth Distriet—Win: H. Infiniti& - Eleventh DistzeietWaShingtori Twelfth DiAtrict—J. B. Stark. Thirteenth District—Stephen Pierce. Fourteenth District—H. W. Petriken. Fifteenth District—Thomas Chalfant. Sixteenth District—Beni. Foster. Seventeenth District—H. B. Swarr and H. T - ; Shitltx.' .tighteenth District—john Cresswell. Nineteenth District—F. M. Kimmel. Twentieth District—G. H. Spang. Twenty-first District—E. D. Parker, W M. F. Reynolds. Twenty-second District—Philip Com mins. Twenty-third District—W. W. Barr. Twenty-fourth District—Robert Gwin. Twenty-fifth District—John G. Dunn and Andrew Burke. Twenty-sixth District—W. W. Smith. Twenty-seventh District—Jamb Zeigler. Twenty-eighth District—Alfred Price. Twenty-ninth District—M. Park Davis. Committees were appointed to notify the candidates of their nomination. After addresses by Judge Black and Richard Faux, the Convention adjourn. ed sine die. The Rival State Platforms DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM WHEREAS, It is the imperative duty and should be the exclusive desire of every American citizen entrusted with the power of controlling public affairs, by his vote or otherwise, to see that they are administered with a single eye to the great objects which our fore fathers had in view whgn they laid the foundations of this Republic, namely : "To form a more perfect Union, estab lish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, pro mote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity." AND WHEREAS, The men and the party administering the Federal Government since 1801, have betrayed their trust, violated their most sacred obligations, disregarded the com mands of the fundamental law, cor ruptly squandered the public money, denied justice to the people, perverted the whole Government from its original purpose, and, thereby, have brought untold calamities upon the country ; therefore, 1. Bell Resolved, That we, the Demo cracy of Pennsylvania, are now, as we always have been, faithful to the union of the States, opposing the secession of the South with all our influence and having no sympathy or association whatever with that party in the North which plotted against the Union and pronounced the Constitution " a cov nant with death and an agreement with hell." 2. That if the counsels of the Demo cratic party had prevailed, the Union would have been saved in allits integrity and honor, without the slaughter, debt and disgrace of a civil war ; but when the formation of sectional parties in the North and in the South and in the ad vent of one of those parties into the seats of Federal power made wara fact which we could not control, we sustained the Federal authorities in good faith, asking nothing at their hands except a decent respect for our legal rights and some show of common honesty in the man agement of our financial affairs ; but in both those particulars we were disap pointed and betrayed. 3. That the CONSTITUTION established by our revolutionary fathers is entitled to our unqualified respect and obedi ence ; the oath to support it is binding religiously, morally and legally, at all times, under all circumstances and in every part of the country upon all pub lic officers from the highest to the low est, as well as upon private citizens, it is only by a strict observance of its pro visions and a rigid enforcement of its obligations in all the States that we can hope for Union, Liberty or Peace; he who wilfully violates it, or counsels its violation by others, is a public enemy and a dishonest man. 4. That among the rights guaranteed to us by the plainest words of the Con stitution are these—free speech, a free press, freedom from arbitrary arrest and illegal imprisonment, trial by jury, the writ of habcos corpus, the perfect im munity of all persons not in the army or navy from any species of punishment for crime or pretended crime which is not the legal consequence of a regular conviction by an impartial jury—the absolute - subordination of all military power to the civil authority, and the privilege of white citizens to vote at State electioi4 according to the laws of the State. 5. That we fully concur with Presi dent Johnson in the conviction ex pressed by him in 1860, and repeated several times since, that the Federal Government is sovereign within its proper sphere ; that it acts not through or upon the States but directly upon in dividuals ; that the States could not absolve the people from their federal obligations; that the State ordinances of secession were nullities; and, there fore, when the attempted revolution' came to an end by the submission of the insurgents, the States were as much a part of the Union as they had been before, their people were bound to the same duties and clothed with the same rights, excepting, of course, such rights as individuals among them had legally forfeited by their own acts in the mean time. And we hereby declare that, so far as we can prevent it, the resump tion of their proper places in the Union by those States, some of whose citizens were lately in rebellion, shall not be impeded or delayed by the unlawful interference of that faction at the North which always was hostile to the Union, which now pronounces it legally dis solved, and which is still malignantly laboring to prevent its restoration. 6. That the effort now making by cer tain persons to use the power of the General Government, with a view to force negro suffrage on the States against the will of the people, and contrary to existinrr ' laws, is not only a high crime against the Constitution, but a deliber ate and wicked attempt toputthe States of this Union (all of them more or less, and some of them entirely) under the domination of negroes, to Africanize a large portion of the country and degrade the white race morally and socially, 'as well as politically, to the low level of the black. We will not acknowledge the incapacity of ourown race to govern itself, nor surrender the destinies of the country into the hands of negroes, nor put ourselves under their guardianship, nor give up to them the political privi leges which we inherited from our fathers; and we exhort our, brethren in other States to take up the stone atti tude and maintain it firmly. 7. That we. will support President Johnson in every just effort he may make to place all the States in their proper position, to give them a fair rep resentation in Congress and to save them , from the curse of negro equality. He shall have our hearty approval when he inflicts legal punishment by means of legal tribunals upon offenders against the United States, and we will be with him sincerely to sustain and uphold him in every measure which looks to the maintenance of the public credit.— But our full approval of his administra tion can be founded only in the belief that he will execute the law, the whole law and nothing but the law in all parts of the country ; that be will not allow the military to interfere with state elec tions ; that he will punish kidnapping and robbery through the legal authori ties whether committed by federal offi cers or :private citizens ; and that he will suffer no person to be murdered by military commission. We go for meas ures not men, and upon these measures there can be no compromise ; he that is not for us, is against us. 8. That in view of our enormous Na tional debt, the great weight of our State taxes and the local burdens imposed upon us in divers ways, economy and retrenchment becomes an important duty of all our representatives ; and to this end the vast standing army now on foot ought to be disbanded, the navy should be reduced, and the corrupt and extravagant practices lately introduced into the Government should be totally abolished. 9. That our revenue laws need to be carefully revised in such manner, that while the public creditwill be maintain ed the national honor preserved, taxa tion will be equal and just. 10. That the gallant soldiers of the Republic, who so nobly risked their lives in defence of the Union and the Constitution, merit and will receive the undying gratitude of the American people. Living, they shall live in our warmest affections—and, dying, their memories will be cherished for all time to come. To say—as our political op ponents do—that they fought and bled and died mainly for the freedom of the negro, is a gross insult on their patriot ism, and an outrage which will be in dignantly resented by their surviving comrades through the ballot-box. .11. That the noble manner in which the Democratic press of this Common wealth have contended in defenceof the liberties of the nation, amid trials and. difficulties almost unparalleled, is de serving of our grateful recognition and. ,should entitle it to the encouragement: of every Couetitution4oving citizen: 12. That we re-affirm our adherencp to the Monroe . Doctrine. - - 13. Resolved, That we are in favor of equalizing the hounties paid to soldiers in 1861 and 1862, that they shall receive_ the same pay and bounty as the soldiers of 1863 and 1884 ; and that- Congress should make an appropriation for this purpose. ABOLITION PLATFORM - - • 1. That as representatives of the loyal people of the Commonwealth, we rev erently desire to offer our gratitude to Almighty God, whose favor has vouch safed victory to the national arms, en abled us to eradicate the crime of slavery from our land, and to render treason against the Republic impossible forever more ; and next to Him, our thanks are due and are hereby tendered to our brave soldiers and sailors, who, by their endurance, sacrifices, and illustrious heroism, have secured to their country Peace, and to the downtrodden every where an asylum of Liberty; who have shown that the war for the restoration of the Union is not a failure, and whose valor has proven for all time the fact that this Government of the People is as invincible in its strength as it is ben eficien t in its operation. 2. That revering the memory of Abra ham Lincoln, great martyr of liberty, we cannot show greater honor to his name than by a generous support of his fellow patriot and successor, Andrew Johnson, the President of the United States, who has been called to complete the task which he left unfinished. His unbending patriotism iu the past is a sure guarantee 'that in the momentous future the authority of the Government will be upheld, and the rights and hher ties of all the citizens of the Republic secured. :3. That the mild and generous method of reconstruction ()tiered by the Presi dent to the people lately in rebellion, in the judgment of this Convention, has not been accepted in the spirit of honest loyalty and gratitude ; but with such evidence of defiance and hostility as to impel us to the conviction that they can not safely be entrusted with the politi cal rights which they forfeited by their treason, until they have proven their acceptance of the results of the war, by incorporating them in constitutional provisions and securing to all men with in their borders their inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happi ness. -1. That having conquered the rebel lious States, they should be held in sub jection, and the treatment they are to receive and the laws which are to govern them, should be referred to the law making power of the nation to which it legitimately belongs. 5. That as the late rebellion was wan tonly precipitated by the property hold ers of the South, it is but just that they should pay the expenses of the war, and Congress should declare as forfeited and vested in the Government the property of all rebels whose estates ex ceed the sum of 510,000, and that the proceeds of the property so confiscated should be applied to increase the pen sions of those entitled thereto by. the casualties of the war,topay the damages done by the enemy to loyal citizens, and to:reduce the burden of the national debt. 6. That it is duty of Congress so to revise the revenue laws as to aftbrd increased protection to American industry ; to se cure the development of the industrial wealth of the people ; to render labor profitable and remunerative ; to build. up home markets for our agriculturists;, to attract capital to the mineral fields of the country, and to provide revenue for the maintenance of the public credit ; and this Convention recognizes the chief enemy to a policy of protection in that European power which for four years. has furnished piratical vessels of war to, the rebels, and thus endeavored to drive. our commerce from the seas. 7. Thatany attempt byforeign nations: to establish monarchical government on this continent is evidence of a design to, destroy Republican institutions. Re gard for our own safety and for the fu ture security of the Republic demand that no such attempt should succeed. 8. That it is the duty of Congress to secure the full Federal bounty to all honorably discharged soldiers, irrespec tive of the date of their enlistment. 9. That we recognize in Edwin 51. Stanton, the fearless, honest . and able head of the Department of War, a pub lic servant who has deserved well of his country, and has borne himself so clear in his great office as to merit the earnest gratitude of all loyal men ; and we ten der to him and to his distingished col leagues in the Cabinet our thanks for their valuable services in the cause of liberty and law. 10. That the constant devotion of Gov ernor Curtin to the best interests of the State and nation, during the last four years, and his indefatigable efforts on all occasions to pay the just debt of gratitude we owe our national defenders not merely by words, but also by deeds, : entitles him to the thanks of every loyal citizen of Pennsylvania. 11. That this Convention, represent ing the loyal peopl6 of Pennsylvania, recognizes the claims of our citizen sol diers on our confidence and gratitude; and that in nominations for offices es pecial regard should be paid to the claims of those who have faithfully served their country in the army or the navy in the suppression of rebellion. L. That the leaders of the Democratic party stand arraigned before the people of Pennsylvania for constantly obstruct ing the efforts of the constituted authori ties to maintain the life of the republic. They did this: By inflaming the passions of their ignorant followers against the legally elected officers of the Federal Govern ment, and refraining from•all approach against treason or armed traitors. By procuring a decision from the Democratic judges of our supreme court, denying the right of the Government to the services of the citizens of this State for the defence of their imperilled coun try. By discouraging men from volunteer ing in the armies of the Union ; thus rendering it necessary to succumb to treason, or to pay large bounties and so burdening every ward, township and borough in the state with debt to fill the ranks of our armies. By opposing the eni iSiment of negroes for our defence, although one white man less was required for every black one who could be enlisted, and this at the very moment when the battle of Gettysburg was raging on the soil of Pennsylvania, and the result of that decisive battle was uncertain. By denying to our soldiers the right to vote while fighting for the flag of our fathers, on the plea that such rights were not allowed by our Constitution, and by opposing an amendment which removed their objections, and relieved our hraVe soldiers from this disability. By exaggerating the public indebted ness, denying the public credit, and teaching that the financial resources of the North were unequal to, the suppres sion of the rebelion. By a shameful opposition to measures for extending relief to the families of Union soldiers, and by a malignant ef fort by these means to secure the suc cess of the rebels in the field, or such a protraction of the war as would exhaust the nation in its effort to subdue their friends. By now heaping abuse upon the Gov ernment for punishing assassins and their accomplices; by demanding the release of leading traitors, by frowning down all attempts to bring to punish ment the fiends who starved our sol diers,and by assuringrebelsthat neither in person nor property shall they be punished for their crimes. And if anything were wanting to complete their infamy, we have it in their determined opposition to free labor, and to a tariff which, while it would make labor profitable by protect ing the working men of Pennsylvania from British. competition, would largely increase the revenue essential to the maintenance of the public faith and credit. The report of the committee having been read, Mr. Cessna moved that the whole be adopted, with the exception of the resolution marked eleven (11,) and that separate action be had on the reso lution designated as No. 11, which was unanimously agreed to. The resolution No. 11 was then separ ately considered. Mr. Todd offered the following amend ment to the resolution reported by the committee. Resolved, That this Convention, rep resenting the loyal people of Pennsyl vania, recognises the claims of our citi zen soldiers on our confidence and gratitude as superior to all others, and that in token of the sincerity of this, its declaration, it will nominate none as candidates for office who have not proved their loyalty and patriotism by services in the field against the enemies of the Republic. • Mr. Todd demanded the yeasan nays. on this amendment, and cl a vote was. taken, with the following-result: - - Yeas Nays 17. :
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