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NerifriePticitilngrpresese atudr bellree to every
person who undertakes to examine the Oro
elleediPSai athe legislatxtre, or any branch Or
government; and no law shall ever be made
to resttain the right thereof. , The free concern
illeNte=talid opinions is One: of the
intui riglite Of men ' and every • Citizen
may- write write and print omarly lath
iest; ,rpsponsible, for, the abuse of that
.PLOSecutions for the publication of
Papers urfestigatfut the official condu c t of
offi
cersror men ip pab 0 capacities, or where the
matter published Is properlor public informs
tion,.,tite treat thereof May .be given in evi
dence,,_
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL
Col. W. W. H. DAVIS, of Bucks County
'-" FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL:
Col. JOHN P. LINTON, of Cambria Co.
To the Democrasy of, the City and County
of Lancaster.
In puratimim of authority given the un
dersigned by a resthution of County. Com
mittee, adopted at that' meeting on Satur
day, August 19, you are requested to as
semble in'the several wards of the city, and
boroughs and townships of the county, on
SATITBDA.Y, THE 16TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER
NEXT, then and there to elect not less than
three, nor more than five delegates to repre
sdnt such district in a general County Con
ventiOn to be held on WEDNESDAY, SEP
TEMBER 20z7er, next, at 11 o'clock A. M., at
thexooms 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.
R. R. TSELITDY, Chairman.
A. J. STEINMAN, Secretary.
Old Thad' New• Hobby
Thaddeus Stevens s u cceed ed;,in having
a bill passed through the last Congress,
making it a: penal offence to buy or sell
gold at a higher figure than one dollar
in gold for one dollar in "greenbacks."
That brilliantly successful exploit killed
him. He at once lost all prestige as a
political leader, and became the laugh
ing stock of the financial world. Even
his -own party papers vied with each
other in gibes and jeers and laughter
provoking jests, at the expense of the
poor, old purblind fanatic. Since the
war began he had, by virtue of his
audacity' and his villainously abusive
tongue, succeeded in reaching the posi
tion of leader of his party in the House
But never was any man's influence more
suddenly and effectually killed than was
that of Mr. Stevens by the passage of
the Gold Bill. That put him on the
shelf, laid him up in lavender, and
stowed him away out of public sight as
a fossilized political quack, whose theo
ries were utterly valueless, and whose
Proposed remedies were infinitely more
to be dreaded than the diseases preying
upon the body politic.
Any man possessed of a little of that
rare commodity known as common
sense would have learned from such ex
perience the folly and the danger of
riding an unsafe political hobby. Not
so Mr. Stevens. He is an ingrained
New England fanatic, one of those
wandering Yankees, many of whom,
according to Horace Greeley, " leave
their country for their country's good."
This class of men not unfrequently rival
the follies of the moral knight of La
Mancha. The Gold Bill was Mr.
Stevens' hobby last winter. It came
very near killing him politically. But,
untaught by his misfortunes, and un
moved by the universal ridicule heaped
upon him, he has a fresh one ready sad
dled and bridled. Impatient to try the
mettle and show off the paces of this new
Rosinaute he took occasion to mount him
a few evenings sinceat the Court House
in this city. A sorrier beast, a more
malicious and ill tempered brute, or one
more likely to bolt the track and break
its rider's neck, we never saw led into
the political ring. It was spavined,
string-halted, hoof-bound, ring-boned,
and stone blind. Old Thad, has
christened the creature Reconstruc
tion. It comes of very bad stock, being
sired by a lineal descendant of the Yan
kee horse Disunion, which made such a
show at the Old Hartford Convention,
upon the body of the vicious filly Se
cession, which is a lineal descendant of
the dam Nullification, owned and train
ed in South Carolina by John C. Cal
houn.
Old Thad. proposes, he risking his
neck as rider, to run this animal against
Andy Johnson's thorough-bred and
finely conditioned nag :Restoration.—
The race will come off over the celebra
ted congressional course at 'Washington.
The stakes on the side of Stevens tS-, Co.,
are negro suffrage and negro equality,
wholesale plunder of the South for the
benefit of thieving New England Yan
kees, a large standing army of negro
soldiers, more debt, heavier taxation,
military rule, suspension of the writ of
habeas corpus, arbitrary arrests, trials by
Courts Martial, disregard of the rights of
the people, destruction of the Constitu
tion, anarchy, misrule, and eventually
national disgrace and ruin.
If the Stevens hobby wins we shall
be sure to have all those things. If the
gallant steed Restoration, which has
the advantage of a fair start, comes in
ahead, we shall have a speedily restored
Union, 'a preserved Constitution, the
rights of the people and the States pro
tected, lasting peace, permanent pros
perity, and firmly established national
honor and power.
The negroes and their worshippers
are the eager backers of old Thad's new
hobby. Andy Johnson's backers are
all the:decent-right-thinking white men
in the. nation. The only hope the
Stevens faction have, is that they will
be able to raise such a hue and cry in
Congress as to enable them to force
President Johnson off the track. This
they can never do if the people are true
to their own interests, and to the best
interests of the nation. Let but the
voice of Pennsylvania and New York
be heard in the coining State elections
cheering the President on, and he will
be able to bid defiance to all the
clamor of the fanatics, and to win easily
in the coming contest.
THE insignificant gang of extremists
and mischief-makers, who attempted
recently to disorganize the Democratic
party of Ohio, are receiving cold com
fort on every side. We have not seen a
solitary journal from any quarter that
endorses their movement. Their can
diqatp.-for Lieut. Governor has with
drayna from the ticket, and in his letter
of declination tells the men who nomi
nated him that he " could not excuse"
himself were he "to permit the use of
his name, in any way, to distract the
Democratic parry, and thereby con
tribute to a continuance of the destruc
tive and bloody rule of abolitionism."
WADDELL, the pirate captain of the
Shenandoah, came near ending his ca
reer in one of his recent daring assaults
upon the New England whalers in the
North Pacific. When the pirate board
ed the- Favorite, Capt. Young, of that
vessel, attempted to shoot Waddell, the
commader of the Shenandoah, with a
borab-gun, but unfortunately the mate
had-removed the cap from the gun, un
known to the Captain. He was told
that it was sur,e death to him to shoot.
He replied, " I die willingly, could I
kill.that wretch." The pirates imme
diately handcuffed him, and put him in
the coal hole of the pirate.
hondzed citizens have taken the
funlifillfty,oxith bs Mobile.
In our goveKnment public opinion is
almost omnifetent. Indeed our Con
stitutions, ;lational and State and - our
laws, are all pothi .g more n .. txpres.7
sion's of orgiiiiize • b*Rin
voice of the hu astgllch
weight at the tiolls as\ ti:kat of he
Wealthiestormos.distinguialledcit n,
fu deciding*l*Phalrbe4iie Ist*o`
the Gov'erninerit'u pin any . gi.sen'quei
tien. This reflection should lead every
voter to think seriously before he exer
cises the right of suffrage. It is the
bounden. duty of , every citizen to ex
amine'earefully 'the -clabirs of parties
and candidates to his support;= and to
act, not from predjudice orpartizan feel
ing, but from honest convictions of
duty.
We believe the mass of the American
people are now pondering seriously upon
the great issues presented to their cam
sider4tion ; and We have abiding belief
in the honesty,the integrity, and the pa
triotism of the masses. That , the power
of the New England fanatics is rapidly
declining and will speedily have an
eta we have no doubt. But it is im
portant that it should be emphatically
and strongly rebuked on every proper
occasion.
The Democracy of-Pennsylvania ap
preciate the great importance of the
pending political contest. They know
and feel how essential it is that this
great State shall record her vote against
the mad schemes of the radicals, who,
under the lead of Thaddeus Stevens,
denounce President Johnson's policy of
reconstruction and propose to delay the
restoration of the Union until they shall
be able, by means of huge standing
armies, to force their odious doctrines
of negro suffrage and negro equality
upon the people of the South.
We believe the party is alive to the
importance of the great work before
it. But is every individual voter
fully impressed with a proper sense
sense of his individual responsibility?
There is no man without his influence.
Does every individual Democrat feel
how much depends upon himself? Are
they all laboring to the extent of their
ablity to effect the change, which they
feel and know to be imperatively de
manded by the best interests of the na
tion. This is no time for idleness, no
time for " folding the hands together."
The eyes of the nation are fixed on
Pennsylvania. Every true lover of his
country hopes and prays that the voice
of this great State may be heard in the
coming contest, pronouncing for a
speedy restoration of the Union, for
the Constitution, for arestoration of law
and order throughout the length and
breadth of the land. Shall they be dis
appointed? Each individual voter has
a power besides his own vote. He has
sonic influence in addition, which
should be actively and energetically
employed. Let - every man feel the
weight of the responsibility which rests
upon him. It is the bounden duty of
every individual member of the Demo
cratic party to labor assiduously and
diligently from this hour until the polls
are closed on the evening of the second
Tuesday of October. Do you know of one
man who is not assessed? If you do,
have the matter attended to at once.—
Do you know of a single doubtful voter?
If you do, see him, talk to him, try to
convince him. Do you know of a voter
who might possibly neglect to go to the
polls? If you do, see to it that he thinks
better of the matter. Work, work dili-
gently and unceasingly, and you will
be gratified to know that you have done
your duty in helping to secure the tri
umph of the right. That triumph is sure
to come if Democrats do their duty.—
Let each individual Democrat see to it
that he does his duty, and his whole
d u ts.
See that Every Voter Is Assessed !
At every election many votes are lost
throughout the State because of a ne
glect to see that voters are properly as
sessed according to law. This is a mat
ter which should be properly attended
to at once. In every ward and town
ship efficient committees of active men,
who will do their work thoroughly,
should be appointed to see to it that
every Democrat is assessed. It will not
do to leave this matter unattended to.
Many voters will forget or neglect to see
to it for themselves. This work must
be done by a committee orit will not be
done effectually. There is but little
time left in which to attend to it. The
30th of this month will be the last day
on which it can be done. Let the town
ships and wards attend to the matter
without acother day's delay. Call a
meeting for the purpose. Have the
work of assessing done at once and
done effectually.
Every returned soldier must be assess
ed or he will lose his vote. The pay
ment of the ten cent tax under the
Soldiers' voting law will not entitle the
soldier to vote as a citizen. The Demo
cratic Ward, Township and County
Committees should at once attend to
this matter. It is of vital importance
'to secure for the Democratic soldiers
—as citizens—the right of suffrage
of which, while in the army last fall,
they were deprived through the tricks
and intimidation of shoulder-strapped
demagogues, who were everything as
politicians and nothing as soldiers. Go
to work at once and assess every one of
those soldiers. No time to be- lost, as
the 30TH OF SEPTEMBER is the limit of
time allowed to do so. Within the en
suing three weeks every returned veter
an should be fully qualified as a civilian
—a freeman—a voter against Shoddy
and Negro Suffrage!
THERE are owned in Connecticut not less
than sixty to eighty millions of Govern
ment securities; and the great amount of
revenue which they would yield, were they
to pay their fair and honest share of the
burdens growing out of the war, must now
be made up out of the hard earned savings
of the owners of thrills and the scanty in
comes of those moderate means.—Haptford
Times.
Just so it is everywhere. We have
heard it surmised that there are from
two to three millions of the same sort of
securities held in Lancaster county alone
—all, of course, exempt from taxation.
This is something for the farmers,
mechanics and laboring men of our
community to think of. If the just
amount of tax which should be levied
bn these Government bonds was; paid
into our city and county treasuries, no
one can fail to estimate for himself how
far it would go to relieve the people
from the onerous burdens of taxation
which now oppress them. But the Re
publicans say this shall not be done,
and correspondents are not wanting for
some of their papers to justify the un
fair and unconstitutional exemption.-
87toddy has got the masses by the throat,
and will make a desperate effort to re
tain its hold. Their doctrine and prac
tice is, that the producing classes must
pay the heavy taxes for the support of
the Government and the liquidation of
the public debt, whilst the me_n of wealth
and capital who own these bonds are to
go scot free ! There is neither reason,
sense, nor justice in this. On the con
trary, it is a vile system of injustice and
oppression from beginning to end which
Congress has no right to impose on the
labor of the country. The people have
the power to apply the remedy in a
peaceful and legal manner, at the ballot
boxes, and we trust they will do it.
A "Muss."—There is a "muss" in
the Abolition ranks in Huntingdon
county, and the manner in which the
organs of the respective factions pitch
into each other is quite refreshing.
Democrats look oil and enjoy the fun.
"When rogues fall out'? 4e,.
Lielheironly Berage.
The Democratic press of this State,
with a decency of demeanor to
that of the Republican party seed's to
bkan entire ~ed
. **4 . it tuKff i busiN*Aegts -
(lithe candidateiPtitfoard a',-the
Aeprit, 3ican St4e Ciinvenklon hey
cliave*nfined .- ..theritselve.EitO a dhic' us 7.;
;Mon Ufthe difrerencelfin;tlie
upon which the resPective candidates
have been placed. Tllli is ' as it should
be. We do not believe anything is to
be made by personal abuse and by false,
and malicious attacks upqn fpffitidutds..
Our opponents pursue au entirely dif
ferent course: Rnowing that the plat
form adopted by their State Convention
is a stench in the nostrils of all decent
conservative citizens ; being utterly un
able to make any successful assault up
on the admirable and patriotic platforin
laid down by the Democracy; not daring
to question the bravery and the distin
guished ability of our candidates
as soldiers; finding them to be
men of greatly, more than ordinary
talents and business qualifications, and
of pure and irreproachable private char
acter, they have but a single resource
left. Being quite at their' wits ends for
material, out of which to manufacture
malicious slanders, they are compelled
to resort to the stale old charge of dis
loyalty. It matters, not that both Col.
Davis and Col. Linton were among the
very first to go forth with companies of
their own raising at the earliest sum
mons to arms ; that they each after
wards raised regiments ; that they were
repeatedly and most severely wounded
while leading their brave men in the
very thickest of some of the hottest en
gagements of the war; and they con
tinued in the service, doing the duty of
brave leaders, and doing it most gallant
ly, until the war was ended and the re
bellion completely crushed. Even such
a record as theirs is not sufficient to
prevent the charge of disloyalty from
being urged against them by a set of
white-livered miscreants, who stayed at
home to reap a rich harvest frOm the
spoils of a war in which they never
dared to risk their dirty cowardly car
casses. The sneaking editorial assassins,
who thus assault the high reputation of
honorable men, " whose shoes' lachet
they are not worthy to unloose," are
mean enough to be guilty of any, even
the basest crime.
There is a reckless criminality, an
unfathomed depth of baseness, an in
famous maliciousness of meanness about
it that smacks strongly of the infernal.
It is the last resort of a pack of un
principled scribblers, who are forced to
rack their brains in defence of a party
which is quite destitute of principles.
They dare not enter upon au open dis
cussion of the great issues involved in
the present campaign ; they cannot suc
cessfully assault our candidates openly,
and they are compelled to resort to the
one last, poor, miserable, malicious,
lying cry of dislogaltll. Disloyalty !
Disloyalty indeed ! The man who
dares apply such an epithet
to either of the gallant soldiers
whom the Democracy are proud
to call their leaders lies—lies knowing
ly, lies maliciously, lies without war
rant, or excuse, or shame. Yet the
charge is constantly being made by Re
publican newspapers. Why? Simply
because they are utterly at their wits
ends, and unable either to defend their
own party or to make any successful
assault upon our candidates 01 the plat
form on which they stand. They are
precisely in the condition of an unfor
tunate Republican politician in this
State during the last campaign for Au
ditor General. Two such worthies
chanced to meet, when the following
conversation ensued between them:
Said A:
" How are things going politically up
in your county
"Oh! all fin• the Union with us; how
is it down with you ?"
" Well, said 8., we have many good
Union men with us, but there are some
who are growing lukewarm. I am
"afraid the d—d Democrats will beat
us this fall ; our wag chance is to cry
Copperhead like tlw D-1."
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The Republican press of this State
seems to regard that as the only resort
left to it. We really pity a party which
must rely on so base a cry as this, and
on that alone. The miserable scrib
blers who thus assail the brave men
who are our candidates will find that
they only disgust decent men of their
own party by so doing. Will the Er
press please take notice?
Mr. Buchanan's Resignation of the Presi
dency of the Board of Trustees of
Franklin and Marshall College.
The misrepresentation which is cor
rected in the following card from offi
cers and members of the Board of Trus
tees of Franklin and Marshall College,
came to our notice some time ago. We
made no allusion to it, because we
wished to see whether there was not
manliness and fairness enough even
among political opponents of Mr. Bu
chanan connected with or interested in
the College, to set the Lebanon CoUrier's
slander at rest without any prompting
from us :
[From the Lancaster Express of Yesterday./
Misrepresentation Corrected.
"Buchanan Removed.—At a meeting of
the trustees of Franklin and Marshall Col
lege at Lancaster,
last week, Hon. John
Cessna was elected President of the Board,
in place of James Buchanan. The friends
of Franklin and Marshall have long felt
that the connection of Mr. Buchanan with
the institution was an injury to it, but there
was delicacy about getting rid of him. The
necessity for a change, however, at last be
came so overwhelming, that it could no
longer be resisted. Mr. Cessna will give
character and vigor to the institution. It is
likely there will soon be some important
changes made in the faculty.—Le/anon,
Pa., Courier."
As this statement has been widely cir
culated by the press throughout the
country, the undersigned, officers and
members of the Board of Trustees of
Franklth and Marshall College, resident
in and near Lancaster, consider it due
both to the Board and to Mr. Buchanan,
that it should be met with like public
contradiction. There was nosuch action
in the Board, as is here implied, at its
late meeting. Mr. Buchanan's with
drawal from the Presidency was aito
gether of his own free choice, and took
place with entirely kind feeling on both
sides. Having been continued in office
many years by annual re-election,
against his reiterated request to be ex
cused from the service, he presented his
resignation finally, on this occasion, in
a form too absolute to allow of refusal ;
and it was accepted accordingly, after
some hesitation, by the following unani
mous resolution, which may be left to
speak for itself:
"Re.soleed, That we receive with regret
the renewed request of the venerable Presi
dent of this Board to be released from the
position he has so long and acceptably filled
since the formation of our Institution in its
consolidated form ; but as this request has
been reiterated for a number of successive
years, and as advancing age has a claim to
release from such more public duties, we
hereby respectfully accept the resignation
of the Hon. James Buchanan, with thanks
for his past services, and the hope that he
may be long spared to favor this Board, as
one of its members, with his presence,
counsels and sympathy."
The election of Mr. Cessna had noth
ing to do with this transaction. It took
place at a subsequent session of the
Board the next day, under the order of
business calling for the usual annual
election of officers,
and as the result of
a general nomination made by a com
mittee previously appointed for this
purpose. He wits chosen as one of the
oldest alumni of the Institution, whose
devotion to its interests, and well known
business powers, were supposed to qual
ify him especially for the trust. Com
posed as the Board is of Members be
longing to different politic's' parties, it
has, of course, all along made it a prin
ciple to exclude politics from its proper
corporate business; and must naturally
resent, therefore, any attempt, like this
of the Lebanon Courier, to give apoliti
cal complexion to any part of its pro
ceedings,
J. W. NEVIN, Ist Vice President.
E. V. GERHART, RI V. P.
A. H. ERE/4E_ ,R Sec. pro tein.
BERNARD C. WOLF, Cor.tee.
J. M. LONG, Treasurer.
JOHN L. ATLEE, H. G. LONG. A. L. HA.YES,
P. K. BRENEMAN, I. E. HIESTER, C. GAST,
JOHN Si/ZAPPER,
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The Tiff Pink le tke Yeptibliean
font.
TIC Republican State Conventi...34
F. Ass 4 a resolution a e clarin g it to be th
litutyfnf C2pgressi se9o), re •nu
aws o, tiOislncr e'k pon!
goodtemportA. into#Thp
fihe tOrpolutidigwas giMetaifn teitths, soz
finuctitso as tiOncludeleve sileges of s ,
miuffifitettr#: Ifra4pi thi" . resififiticai
Congress is called upon especiallylo add
largely to the duties upon every article
made up from raw materialte be obtain
ed in this country. -If any delegate who
voted ,for , that plankin.the Republicitri
nlatfoim had been'aSkddwhether itwas
Meant teariply to domestic:co - thin goods,
he would Most unhesitatingly • have re
plied in the affirmative. And had lie
been asked to give his reasons for thus .
increasing the-price of sheetOgs, shirt
ings, calicoes and all other kinds of cot
ton goods, he would have replied in the
language of the resolution : "It is the
duty of Congress to revise the revenue
laws so as to afford increased protection.
to American Industry." The words
American industry, as here used,
mean American manufactures, and
the parties for whom protection is asked
are the manufacturers alone. They are
the class that demand a high tariff, and
the only class of the community whose
interests are to be protected by it. Since
the war began the tariff has been
already so largely increased .as to give
greater protection to all kinds of manu
factures than they ever enjoyed before.
On many things the tariff is entirely
prohibitory, on others nearly so, and on
all domestic manufactures so heavy as
greatly to enhance the profits of the
manufacturer, and thus M. put up the
price,upon the purchaser.
.8o glaring
is the enormity of this in some things
that even Republican newspapers can
not help seeing how the masses are
being fleeced for the benefit of bloated
capitalists. To our surprise we found
the following editorial, headed " Do
mestic Cotton Goods," in the last issue
of the Reading Journal, the leading
Republican newspaper published in
Berks county :
The outrageous prices charged by the
manufacturers of, domestic cotton goods
are becoming the subject of general and
very just complaint. We had a few
facts recently from an intelligent mer
chant of this city, which are worth
mentioning as showing the enormous
profits which the manufacturers of cot
ton goods are now reaping from the
country. This gentleman informs us
that the net cash price a week ago in
New York for muslins, by the case,
was 47 cents—muslins which he had re
peatedly bought at 81 cents; bleached
muslin, one yard wide, 50 cents—former
price 9!, ; Merrimac prints 34 cents—
former price 10 cents. Cotton is now
selling at about 44 cents per pound, and
manufacturers Mould make a fine profit
by selling the muslins above described
at from 22 to 25 cents. In other. words
they are making at least one hundred
per cent. profit on the manufactured
article. It is stated on undoubted au
thority that one manufacturing concern
is making $125,000 per week.
This is a tax upon the public which
ought not to be tolerated. It bears most
heavily upon the laboring classes, and
every man, woman and child in the
country. Health, comfort and cleanli
ness require that cotton goods should be
cheap. Cotton goods were necessarily
very dear during the war, and the ward
robe of the masses has been consequent
ly much reduced. All have been wait
ing for a reduction of prices, but now
greedy speculation is keeping goods up
to war rates. There is no objection to
manufacturers. making fair, and even
large profits, but there is serious objec
tion to the nation being robbed in the
style we have described.
What is the remedy? In the first
place no one should buy any cotton
goods who can possibly help it. This
would soon cause a glut in the market,
and take the starch out of the manu
facturers. Then, as soon as Congress
meets, the tariff on foreign cotton goods
should be so reduced as to prevent lin
position. We have no ideaof legislating
for the benefit of men who are making
$125,000 per week off of the necessities
of the country, and making little chil
dren go shirtless, to fill their capacious
pockets. If the Government needs the
revenue, whatever it may be, derived
from tins particular source, better pay
it at once in the shape of taxes, than to
be taxed ten-fold indirectly for the ben
efit of manufacturing monopolists.
Yet, with such a condition of affairs
already existing, the Republican State
Convention of Pennsylvania passed a
resolution demanding a general and
sweekng increase of the tariff. That is
the official act of the party ; it is part
and parcel of the platform ; a deliberate
declaration in favor of adding large
ly to the enormous gains of these and
other capitalists at the expense of the
comfort and convenience of every con
sumer in th'e State. How can any Re
publican Congressman from Pennsyl
vania move to lower the tariff on cotton
goods, or on any other commodity
with the solemn declaration of the
party in favor of an increased tariff
staring him in the filet. IT any
such attempt is made the New England
cotton lords will thrust the tariff plank
of the State platform down their throats
and choke them into silence. If the
people would have cheap cotton goods,
and all the necessaries of life at moder
ate prices, they must aid in putting the
Democratic party into power. Under
its benign sway the " good old times "
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would speedily return. Then let every
voter act as his own interests demand,
and he will be right, for the welfare of
the masses and of the nation are identi
cal.
Pennsylvania Soldiers In the Field
The following is a complete -list of
Pennsylvania regiments in the United
States service, Sept. 7, 1865 :
47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.
58th
63d.
75th
77th I I
78th
188th
T9sth
206th
..
..
..
213th
214th 4/ il
2d Pennsylvania Artillery.
3d
Independent Battery B.
14th Pennsylvania Cavalry.
liith
it
li
19th . .
22d
It is believed that all the above or
ganizations will be mnstered out of ser
vice within the next three months.
Four regiments—the 47th and 188th In
fantry, and 18th and 22d Cavalry—will
be paid offand discharged at Harrisburg.
In a few months, at farthest, all our
brave men who survived the rebel bul
lets and ills of camp life will be at home.
Masonic Officers Elected
At the triennial conclave of the Grand
Encampment of Knights Templar of the
United States of America, in Cleveland
last week, the following officers were
elected and installed to serve for the
ensuing three years :
Sir H. L. Palmer of Wisconsin, M.
E. Grand Master; Sir Wm. L. Gardner
of .Massachusetts, Deputy Grand Master ;
SirJ. Q. A. Fellows of Louisiana, Grand
Generalissimo ; Sir Kent Jarvis of Ohio,
Grand Captain-General; 'Sir Robert
McMnrdy of Washington, D. C., Grand
Prelate; Sir George W. Belt ofDlssouri,
Grand Senior Warden; Sir H. C. Ran
ney of Illinois, Grand Junior Warden ;
Sir John W. Simons of New-York,
Grand Treasurer ; Sir John D. Caldwell
of Ohio, Grand Recorder; Sir Wm. C.
Munger of Kentucky, Grand Standard
Bearer ; Sir Ezra L. Stevens of Wash
ington, D. C. Grand Sword' Bearer;
Sir George. W. Prescott of Minnesota,
Grand Warder; Sir J. B. Covert of Ohio,
Grand Captain Guard.
TILE President has generally com
muted to imprisonment for a term of
years all pending sentences of death in
the cases of soldiers convicted of deser
tion. Three Massachusetts soldiers, un
der sentence of death, have been sent
to Fort Delaware for five years each.
e New York litie,"Stile-Ceit
.
--41iNke the following notice of the
. alOngproceedingslittheNew York
8 4 •• ode State Coiagnti. th:
!,:pycorresppndencallf • • k
Iretaki. - It is evident tha , '.e lien•
nigy of the great Empire to go
,thii....pzetient contest fullys
'-...vdiUlat they will deter Nye IS
believe. Let us redeem Pennsylvania
and Neiv York from the clutch of the
radicals, and the future will be safe:
ALSANY, Sept. 7, 1865.
mt-tF sATlsp e Kcittort lato CO 1V1?
• OF CONCERNED: -
-The, - State-Vonventton , of -the - Demo- ,
cratie party has adjourned. No other,
body of the bind ever left a more satis-:
factory feeling or manifested greater
confidence in their work. Its success
is even conceded by the members of the
opposition who have attended here to
watch its progress and aid in'any op
portunity for distracting its counsels.
Re-assembling at half--pi t nine this
morning, e very m aterial point was found
to have been calmly and thoroughly.
canvassed. There remained some di
versity of opinion about the ticket, of
course ; but even in this respect few oc
casions have ever presented so "much
harmony. •
3IAJOR-GENERAL S.'LOCUISI
The name of General Slocum was ad
vanced upon the strength of formal cor
respondence, in which he accepted the
proposed nomination provided the plat
form should be such as that which has
in fact been adopted. This correspond
ence was had with the Young Men's
Democratic State Committee.
GEN. PATRICK AND COL. 3I'NETT
Two other military names are placed
upon the ticket—General Patrick and
Colonel .11PNett---the one for State
Treasurer and the other for State Prison
Inspector. Thus a very full proportion
of the ticket is conceded to distinguish
ed soldiers, in full accordance with the
professions of the platform and the
usages of the Democratic party at all
times.
TILE PLATFORM
The influence of John B. Haskin as
Chairman of the Committee on Resolu
tions has proven most salutary. The
scope and brevity of this document are
mainly due to his efforts, as well as its
strong and unqualified emphasis in the
endorsementof President Johnson. He
devoted himself to the talk of shaping
this platform, and suceeededin heading
off Seymour, Tilden, Marble , , Comstock
and others of the unlucky tribe of Chi
cago, who made a most desperate but
unavailing effort to set up another pro
gramme of " failure " for this Conven
tion.
John Savage, the biographer of Andy
Johnson, was in attendance at the in
cubation of the platform, taking most
anxious interest, and on its adoption
manifesting the greatest satisfaction at
the result.
THE NOMINATION OF JOHN VAN BUREN
. .
The point of high light in the pro
ceedings—that which elicited the most
earnest, prolonged and enthusiastic
manifestations—was the nomination of
John Van Buren for Attorney General.
This the New York delegation pre
sented most unexpectedly to the Con
vention. There had been a noticeable
lack of some strong rallying point—in
fact, of a leader. It was felt that a new
era in the politics of the State was in
augurated by this Convention, and the
want of a leader was pressing ., on the
general attention. The prolonged and
repeated acclamations, renewed and re
newed again, gave expression to the in
stantaneous conviction that the Democ
racy had found their man for the emer
gency, the leader for a restoration and
reconstruction movement whom all in
terests would accept. The nomination
of Van Buren was not for Attorney
General; it was for chief of the party,
its leader in the State. He had left the
city yesterday, after some anxious en
deavors in favap of the right plans for the
work of the Convention. He had no
idea of this nomination. No one asks
whether he will accept it. The
office may be but an indifferent matter,
which under other circumstances he
would decline. But the purpose and ef
fect of this call of the party upon his
self-sacrifice he will not mistake. He
may also be assured that it fairly prom
ises all that he has heretofore sought
with far less prospect of success. The
" great all hail hereafter" rang more
clearly in the voices of this Convention
for his name than any previous occasion
ever indicated. It is clearly the joining
of the man and his opportunity, and the
solution of the question so often asked
as to what would be the great destiny
for John Van Buren. He is now at last
the acknowledged leader of the Demo
cratic party in this State.
THE OTHER NOMINATIONS.
The minor nominations on the ticket
are very judiciously tilled. Colonel Mc-
Nett, as State Prison Inspector, will in
stance the case of a brave soldier, origi
nally from the ranks, now disabled by
the loss of his arm and other wounds,
recognized and provided for. The posi
tion of State Treasurer was accorded by
acclamation to General Patrick for the
staunch fidelity with which he stood by
the democracy last year on the soldier's
vote—a service which his position as
Provost Marshal General enabled him
to render with timely and serviceable
effect.
The nominees for the Court of Ap
peals are entitled to every credit. The
name of Martin Grover is well identi
fied with the old days of, the Democrady,
although more recently he was detach
ed from the party on the slavery issue.
His nomination is a pledge to others
who have left the organization that
every obstacle to their return is now re
moved.
! he renomination of Gen. Talmadge
as Clerk of the Court of Appeals was
opposed principally by members of the
faction to which he claims to belong—
the old Whig or American interest. E.
0. Perin, who is named in his place, be
belongs to the Constitutional Union
Brooks-Brothers-Bell-Everett old Whig
fossils.
THE ENTHUSIASM AT THE CLOSE.
The adjournment and breaking up of
the assemblage presented the utmost
rejoicing and satisfaction. The dinner
hour at the Delevan House presented a
perfect jubilee. The New York dele
gation was especially gratified with its
unusual career at this Convention.
Tammany Hall was admitted without
question, and all but without contest.
The seventeen votes of the delegation
were cast by one man on every question
and every candidate, and exhibited a
result in influence and consequences
which threw a new light upon what
could be done with a united front on
such occasions.
Confederate Money
As a matter of curiosity we cut from a
Southern paper the following table,
showing the prices of Confederate cur
rency in Augusta, Ga., at various times
from the beginning to the close of the
war. The record was kept by a broker
doing business in that city
1851. Gold Premium,
January 1....
July 1
October 1.....
October 15._
December 1...
December 15.
For S
.December 15.....5 old
7 ( , : 100 .
1864.
) January 1 21 00
) January 15 20 00
) February 1 20 00
February 15 21 00
March 1 26 00
I / Alarch 15 .W 00
• lApril 1 19 00
Aprills 21 00
I iiilay 1 20 00
May 15 1500
I June 1 to July 15 18 00
• July 15 to Ang,. 15 20 00
August 15. . 22 00
('September I 20 50
• ISeptember 15 22 50
October 1 27 00
October 15 25 00
November 1 20 00
I.l , l'ovember 15 28 00
December 1.. 32 00
December 15 3.5 00
December 31 50 00
1065 •
!January 1 60 00
!January 15 65 00
February 1 50 00
February 15 40 00
March 1 55 00
March 15 57 00
April 1 70 00
Aprills 80 00
Aprll2o 100 00
April 26 21.0 00
Aprll27 300 00
Aprll2B 500 00
April 20 800 00
April 30 1000 00 '
May 1 1200 00
1862.
January 1...
January 15..
February 1..
February 15.
March 1.... ._.
March
April 1
April 15
May 1
May 15
June 1
For $1 il4
Jurte 15 $2 00
August 1 2 20
September 1...........2 50
November 1 3 00
• •
18613.
February 1 3 10
March 1 3 251
March 15 5 001
May 15 600'
June 1 650
June 15 750
July 1 300
July 15 10 00
August 1 14 00
August 15 15 00
September 1 14 00
September to 14 CO
October 1 13 00
October 15 12 50
November F 13 00
November 15 15 50
December 1 20 00
On May 1, 1865, the
Confederate notes w'
le last actual sale of
'as made.
THE Abolition-Republican candidate
for Governor of Ohio, after having
dodged the issue as long as he could, has
acknowledged at a public meeting, in
answer to a question put to him, that
he is favorable to negro suffrage. This
is the sentiment of Republican leaders
who control the party, and their candi
dates, though they may in some locali
ties ignore the question in order to de-.
ceive the people, are allsecretly in favor
of the new Republican Plank, and go
for making the negro a voter..
-
tdditiiii - oftlieliiiiitelftite Ceittral
coEukitkee• .
2b the tooPeopf Pel,, 'snia:
. AittEOrcance with its tint*.conared an
- ... .m, the Dei=e t watlirms
.' • - '-s•ltmi :.d . dida
[
,;i, yours' - : -- , 7= f those p Ciples and'
- - p .."...nrpose now to apeidr.
f.. 4 ~ ...I. ,', 4 ..
_,. ty (ad, the patriothith
le and L. e par of , #ur aid- .
.' • . '-':. di - , the , :hie; r that - Tor frillr
ears , , - 4. : ,•• , . '0,14. eeuutfinr - enct le
'pealedly aid was our dwntaii`falleys has
ended. The Confederate Government, its
armies'and its animating doctrine, seces
sion, lie prostrate at the feet of the people of
the Union.. The tramp of armed men and
the crash of battle are no longer heard, and
thirecoperative energies of the people will
speedily fill the air with the sound of the
buSTM•fa"iiflidat' , e: -u ltie - SolittafyieldS•placo
to the citi7 , n, the compandergives way to
the statesman: : The POWer or force is suc
ceeded bythe power of reason, justice and
law. - The soldier's duty of unquestioning
obediende to the orders of a superior is sup.
planted 'by the, wore nitional but not less
imperative obligation of obedience to law.
THE
. 9 . I7PHEMACY OF THE LAW
. .
Whether we. be citizen or soldief °Meer
of statesman, ruler or ruled, this obligation
rests with equal weight upon each and all
of us. The doctrine of implicit and un
qualified obedience to the Constitution and
laws of our country is itow;and in all time
past has been, a prinninent tenet in the faith
of the Democracy of Pennsylvania, and
they have invariably been found denounc
ing by voice and opposing by act those
traitorousyrinciples which seek to weaken
the binding force of the Constitution, at
tempt to nullify the plainest provisions
thereof, or actuate those who aim to subvert
it by force of arms. The Federal Constitu
tion had power enough, had its mandates
been observed in the spirit in which they
were framed, and the warnings of the
Democratic party been heeded, to haveitre
served us front the war through which we
have just passed, and to have saved the na
tion from the stupendous sacrifices of the
blood of her slaughtered sons, the waste of
her national power and prestige, and the
fearful load of debt and taxation that now
encumbers her. When the nation was pre
cipitated into war, obedience to the plainest
provisions of that Constitution would have
protected the most precious privileges of a
free people, and preserved to the patriotic
people of the country both the form and
substance of the national bill of rights; and
now that " arms are silent and the laws re
sume their sway," a strict observance of its
requirements, a rigid enforcement of its
obligations in all the States, and fealty to
their official oaths by those in power, are
the indices which point the way to harmo
nious unity, permanent peace and a speedy
resumption of our career of prosperity and
progress. The arbitrary and uncontrolled
will of the temporary incumbent-of place
ought not to be the rule of our government,
and we hold " that the Constitution estab
lished by our (revolutionary) fathers is en
titled to our unqualified respect and obedi
ence, the oath to support it is binding, reli
giously, morally and legally, at all times,
under all circumstances, and in every part
of the country, upon all public officers, from
the highest to the lowest, as well as upon
private citizens." The Democracy of Penn
sylvania are for the supremacy of the law.
The great central objects round which are
grouped the materials, and for which was
constructed the simple and harmonious ma
chinery of our system of government are
"the blessings of liberty for ourselves and
our posterity." They who formed it, cre
ated no government to administer theories,
or to protect imaginary rights from imagi
nary enemies, but as brave and practical
men, deeply imbued with the spirit of lib
erty, and fresh front the bloody civil strug.
gle of the Revolution, they knew from
bitter experience the value of those blessings
and in the light of that experience they
framed a government of law, and not of ar
bitrary power, a government to guard their
civil liberties, and not to overthrow them.
The fundamental principles of free govern
, ment guarantie.l to us by the plain words
of the Constitu:.em distinctly reserved, and
to be forever held as inviolable, habeas cor
pus, trial by jury, the subordination of the
military to the civil authority, free speech,
and a free press, from the very essence of
our institutions ; and when they who ad
minister the government fail to protect us
in the exercise of these rights; when they
who have carried on a gigantic war in the
name of the Constitution, not only fail to
maintain its fundamental principles, but
are habitually guilty of their violation, is it
not our duty to turn them front the seats of
power they so shamefully misuse, and to
require at their hands reparation for the
many wrongs unnecessarily inflicted?
" From the day that Runnymede had its
nitrite linked with human freedom to this
hour every man of Anglo-Saxon blood has
lifted his head more proudly when he heard
the great text of manhood repeated. No
freemen shall be taken or imprisoned or dis
possessed qj his free tenements or liberties, or
outlawed Or banished, or in anywise hurt or
injured unless by the legal judgment of his
peers or by the law of the land. Dearer than
dynasties, dearer than forms of govern
ment, dearer than the inborn sentiment of
loyalty to the Ent, It heart, has always
been the right of trial by jury. For two
hundred years it has been more than his
crown was worth for an English King to
deny this right to an English subject." Yet
these principles, inwrought with the vitals
of our system, baptized by the blood of
patriots dining six hundred and fifty years,
and wrenched front the hand of tyranny for
our benefit, we have basely yielded to the
unquestioned control of those in; power.
And during the past four years, again and
again, have freemen, American freemen,
freemen of Pennsylvania, been " taken and
imprisoned, dispossessedof their free tene
ments and liberties," and " outlawed and
banished," and " hurt and injured," with
out " the legal judgment of their peers," and
contrary to "the:law of the land." And this
too within our own CZninnonwealth, at a
time when no hostile drum-beat was heard
and no armed soldier lifted his hand against
the government within all our borders.
At this hour, when military necessity can
no longer be made the pretext for their con
tinuance, when the authority of the Federal
Government is admitted and recognized in
all the land, these abuses still exist. The
courts created by law are in abeyance, and
tribunals unknown to the Constitution and
laws usurp their power over life, liberty
and property. The great writ of Heedom
that assures every individual the protection
of civil authority is fettered by the hand of
arbitrary power, and the citizen is denied
the right of trial by a jury of his peers. The
Democratic party of 'Pennsylvania believe
that THE not:l2 HAS COME in which murders
by military commissions should cease; the
right of trial by twelve calm, impartial
sworn citizens, should be restored, and the
privilege of the writ of habeas corpus be
free as the air.
THE RIGHTS OF THE STATES
Aside from these great cardinal doctrines,
the supremacy of the law and the inviola
bility of the fundamental principles of free
government, there is no subject more closely
allied with the preservation of our form of
government and the protection of our lib
erties, than that of the relations of the States
to the Federal Government. Both were
created fin- the benefit of the people, and
within the spheres of power granted or re
served to each, each is supreme.
The obligation of the citizen to the Fed
eral Government within the scope of the
powers granted to it is binding and imper
ative, and no one can absolve him from his
duty thereto. So, also, the power of the
States over those matters not expressly
granted to the Federal Government or re
served to the people, is equally clear, and
the duty of the citizen thereto is equally im
perative and binding. I 'pun the one hand,
in their attempt to interfere with the pow
ers granted to the Federal Government by
the people, all ordinances of secession were
utterly void, and (be insurrection being
suppressed, the States resume their place
in the Union and the penalties incurred fall
upon the individuals engaged in the rebel
lion. So too upon the other hand it is the
right of each State to determine for itself
the qualifications of its electors without in
terference by other States or by the Federal
Government.
Such is the doctrine of the Dernocracy,and
such appears to be the policy or the Presi
dent, and yet, sectional prejudice the love
of gain, increasing wrath and deeply
Masked political purposes, seriously ob
struct the process of reconstruction and re
conciliation ; and they who should be fore
most in attempting to restore the harmoni
ous unity of the nation are loudest in de
nunciation and most zealous in pursuit
of a conquered foe. As between the
Federal Government and the States in
which the people have been in rebel
lion against its authority, the only is
sue during the war was, how should
be the restoration of that authority. The
tread of no hostile soldiery presses the soil
of one of thorn now. In no one of them is
there aught of objection now to the assess
ment and collection of Federal taxes, to the
creation of Federal custom houses, courts,
and post offices, or to the peaceful transitof
munitions of war and troops. The wonder
ful exhibition of a devastated country, of
defeated armies, of a humiliated people and
, of emancipated slaves, oughtjto be sufficient
to arouse the sympathies and engage the
purest devotion of the Christian and the
Statesman ; but unconcerned at the condi
tion of the white people of the States, desir
ous only to perpetuate their political power
regardless of the vital interests of six mil
lions of their own race, and of the import
ance of their rehabilitation in the Union,
the leaders of the Republican party, as a
condition precedent to their restoration and
to the release of the reign ofmilitary author
ity over a conquered and submissive peo
ple, demand that the negro shall be placed
upon a political equality with the white
man, and they insist upon the use of the arm
of the Federal Government to . effect it, and
are moving for an amendment of the
Federal Constitution to perpetuate it.
Such a practical interference would be a
palpable infraction of the Constitution, a
gross and unauthorized increase of central
power, and a wanton overthrow of the rights
of the States. This doctrine gives to the
citizen of Massachusetts the righth to aid in
prescribing the qamliflcation- and color of
the voter in North Carolina, and in. practice
will give to the black man the control of
the great States of Lenisktim
- -
and &inliCtirolitik Midi:rillsend six black
men to the Senate of the United States.
This, in all its breadth and-with a full
understanding of itieriltai iiitlWdoetrine
of the Republican partylofFennsylvania,
for the 4th.resolution adopted bythellepub
.l4StatiConventiori,lieldlit Harrisburg,
atllk e nth otAagast,al36s;diatinetly so as
skrta; kis a*.fauows:
Ttfak, haviii€LconOnred the rebel
noes _Stares .theylihotild heidinenbingation,
aPPL the treatment theyare to - receive, and the
lewit whichninto goyerwthcam-thonld be re
ferred to the law-making power the nation,
to which they legitimately belong. .
With this doctrine we take distinct issue,
The States of the South are in the Union.
and the people thereof, except those on
whom the penalties for rebellion fall,are en
titled to all their politiMl. privileges, and
we affirm that these States are entitled to
211thexeserved rights of the States under.
the Federal Constitution, and within the
sphere of these reserved rights, they, and
they alone, have the powerto make and un
make the laws that are to govern them.
NEGRO EQUALITY AND NEGRO SUFFRAGE.
Negro equality and negro suffrage are no
longer - a mythical issue, but are part of the
vital, practical realities of the present hour.
They are demanded by the black man ; they
are advocated by white men high in power
in the National Government, AND WE
CHARGE TEAT they are endorsed and sanc
tioned by a large majority of the Republican
party of the North, including those who
govern and control that party in Pennsyl
vania. Let us examine some of the evi
dences upon which we found this charge.
The States of Maine, New Hampshire,
Vermont, Rhode Island and Massachusetts,
by constitutional provision, give to the
black man the unrestricted right of suffrage.
These States are all under Republican con
trol, and their politicians lead the van in
the crusade they hope is to result in the
degradation of the white race to the level of
the black.
The Senate of the United States, on the
31st of March, 1864 (see Congressional Globe,
p. 1361), had before it a bill for the construe
don of the territory of Montana. Mr. Wil
kinson moved to strike from the second line
of the fifth section (which defined the quali
fication of voters) the words, "white male
inhabitant," and insert the words, "male
citizen of the United States," Se., which was
agreedto as follows:
YEAs : Messrs. Brown Chandler, Clark, Col
lamer, ()Juncos. Dixon, Fessenden Foot, Fos
ter, Grimes, Hale, Harlan, Harris, Howard,
Howe, Morgan. Morrill, Pomeroy, Stunner,
Wade, Wilkinson, Wilson-72.
NAYS: Messrs. Buckalew, Cathie, Cowan,
Davis Harding, Henderson, Johnson, Lane,
Nesmith, Poweil, Riddle, Saulsbury, Sherman,
Tea Eyck, Trumbull, Van Winkle, Willey-17.
Those who thus voted to place the black
man on an equality with the white in one
of the richest territories of the Union, will
readily be recognized as the leaders of the
Republican party in the Senate.
" This subject came up in the House of
Representatives on the 15th April, 1861,
(Congressional Globe, page 1652), the motion
pending being the appointment of a Com
mittee of Conference on the disagreement
between the Senate and House on. striking
out the word "white." Mr. Webster moved
"that said committee be instructed to agree
to no report that authorizes any other than
free white male citizens to vote." On the
question of the adoption of these instruc
tions, the following -named Republican
Congressmen from Pennsylvania voted
nay: Messrs. Broomall, Kelley, Myers,
O'Neill, Stevens, Thayer and Williams. No
Pennsylvania Republican voted yea.
The Republican State Convention of
Maine, lately in session, in the Bth resolu
tion, declares in favor of negro suffrage, as
follows: "That the emancipation procla
mation of President Lincoln, the enlist
ment of over 100,000 colored. troops, the
good faith of the colored race amid treason,
and their being paid like whites and placed
in the most dangerous places, has pledged
the national honor that these people shall
have in fact, as well as name, conferred on
them all the political rights of freedom,
arid that' the people of the United States
will redeem this pledge."
The Republican Conventions of the States
of lowa and Vermont have emphatically
endorsed the doctrines of negro equality
and negro suffrage, and placed their candi
dates squarely upon that platform.
11. Winter Davis of Maryland, at Chica
go, said:
lie need the votes of the colored people; it is
numbers, not intelligence, that counts at the ballot
box—it is the right intention, and not philosophic
judgment, that casts the rote.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, in the Inde
pendent of recent date, says:
We are pleading earnestly with the State to
abolish the distinction of caste by universal
suffrage. We see that this will inevitably lead,
not to the end the present Governor of Louis
iana declares—the surrender of that country to
the black man—but to the equality of black with
the white; the occupancy of office without regard
to color; the clecatton of the negro to the governor.
ship, the senatorship, the judgship, by the side of
his whiter kindred; the obliteration of all marks
of distinction and separation between men and men.
These are representative men of the Re
publican party, and they have wielded a
powerful influence in its ranks.
In our own State a number of Republi
can county conventions have fully endorsed
this doctrine. Crawford county, at her con
vention held of Meadville, June 27, 1865,
resolved that
Loyalty to the Government should be the
only test of the right of suffrage—those who
have fought to presetve the Union on the field
of battle, whether white or black, are certainly
worthy and tit to protect it through the ballot
box—it is unworthy the age in which we live to
deprive meta of voting who sustain the govern
ment by their treasure and blood.
The Republican County Conventions of
Northampton, Union and Alleghany have
also broadly endorsed these doctrines.
The question of the right of the negro to
social equality was before the Legislature of
Pennsylvania at its last session. On the
Bth day of Feb.,:1865, the bill to prevent any
passenger railway company from excluding
colored people from their cars came up in
the Senate, and finally passed that body.
Seventeen Republicans (all who voted)
voted for the hill, and fourteen Democrats
against it. It was sent to the House for
concurrence ; and on 23d March, 1865, it
came up in the House on a motion to dis
charge the committee. Forty-six Republi
cans voted yea, and twenty-eight Democrats
voted nay. .See Leg. Rec., pages 210 and
712.)
Nearly all the prominent Republican
newspapers of the State have also avowed
themselves favorable to negro suffrage and
negro equality, and yet, strange to say, the
Republican State Convention failed to meet
the issue, and seek to conceal their true
sentiments beneath the ambiguous word
ing of a resolution. Their third resolution
declares that the Southern people "cannot
safely be entrusted with the political 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 within their borders their inalienable
right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of hap
piness."
Who so blind as not to see that this may
or may not be a declaration in favor of ne-
gro suffrage? Can any man doubt, what
this means when he remembers that 'Thad
deus Stevens, the radical leader of the last
National House of Representatives, was a
prominent member of that Convention? Can
any man doubt what Henry C. Johnson,
the President of that convention, meant and
expressed when he declared the passage of
this two-faced resolution, if he remembers
that Mr. Johnson received his credentials
fioni that very convention in Crawford
county which declared that" loyalty should
be the only test of the right of suffrage?"
Pennsylvanians, the serious importance
of the issue involved, and a just regard for
your intelligence, demanded a manly dec
laration of opinion upon this subject; but
the leaders of the Republican party know
your detestation of their degrading doc
trines, and they seek to obtain by double
dealing your support to sentiments they
dare not avow.
The problem of the capacity of man, the
white man, for self-government is being
solved in the history of the American Re
public, and in the face of the recent exhi
bition of the physical and mental qualities
of the Caucasian race, in view of the mighty
power of the nation as displayed in the
heroism, endurance and indomitable energy
of the white soldier of our armies, and in
the stupendous sacrifice of the blood and
treasure of the people, the Democracy of
Pennsylvania unhesitatingly announce
their belief in its successful result. "We
will not acknowledge the incapacity of our
own race to govern itself, nor surrender the
destiny of the country into the hands of ne
groes, nor put ourselves under the guardian
ship, nor give up to them the political
privileges which we inherited from our
fathers." Whether the, blood of the Anglo-
Saxon, the Celt or the Teuton flows in our
veins, there are but few among us who do
not feel it tingle with a thrill of just shame
when is pronounced to be only She equal of
the negro of Dahomey or Congo. Call this
prejudice, or what you may, it exists, and
the statesman who desires the peace, the
happiness and the prosperity of both races
can not ignore it. Give the black man equal
political rights in our country and you give
him equal social rights. Give him equal
political rights and you multiply the points
of contfast between the races, and the weak
er and inferior must yield place to the
stronger and superior. The law must re
cognize his equality or his inferiority; there
is no middle ground. We believe in the
superiority of our race. and we are unwill
ing to degrade ourselves either socially or
politically.
RETRENCHMENT
The Democratic party have ever been
zealous for the preservation of the national
credit, and this hour demand rigid economy
in the expenditure of the public money and
a prompt revision of our cumbrous and in
quisitorial system of taxation; a justregard
for an already burthened people demands
that a hordeof Federal office-holders, asses
sors and tax-collectors be dispensed with,
and the machinery of the State Govern
ments used in their room. The retention
by the Federal Government of large num
bers of officers of the army, - whilst the pri
vate soldier is discharged and sent to his
home,
also imposes additional and unneces
sary burdens upon the people. Can the
people; expect these reforms to come whilst
the men who created the abuses remain in
power?
The Democracy of Pennsylvania have no
reply to make to denunciation orinvective.
They refer with pride to their record during
the past ism years. Like the bistoriC People
of the Scriptures,,,whilst,engaged- itithe,re
paiiilif the welhgthat .td.aluilr Irak
City, they have with one hand engaged in
earnest tOilln protecting and preserving the
Constitution_ and laws_ of their .country,:
Whilst the 'other' grasped tits sword that'
aided in-destroying those who violently as
sailed them. Amid the blandishments of
power, the persecutions of official tyranny
and the corrupt and recklesd rise of the
public money, they have been ever bold in
the expression of their opinions, .and have
unswervingly maintained their principles
and their integrity. During.that time they
have once elected their ticket, twice carried
the State on the home vote, and at the last
election polled over 276,000 votes for the
candidate of their choice.
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Such a body of men, tried, determined,
and organized, a unit in support of their
glorious principles, must ever bea power
the State, and:will be feared by its ene
mies, and respected by all.
OUR STANDARD. BEARERS
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For Auditor General, Colonel W. W. H.
Davis, of Bucks county, heads the ticket.
Col. Davis is a sound, practical man, well
qualified for the position, and of that stern
integrity of character so much needed in
this day of official prostitution and degen-;
eracy. As a soldier, his record stands equal
to that of the best and purest. When the
war broke out, he raised a company and
served for a term of three months. At the
expiration of that term of service he raised
a regiment—the 104th Pennsylvania—and
as colonel of that regiment went through
the war. He was in many of the most se
vere battles; was wounded severely at the
desperate affair at Seven Oaks, before Rich-
mond, and lost a hand in the neighborhood .
of Charleston, South Carolina. 'Maimed as
he was, Colonel Davis remained in the field
until the three years for which his regiment
was raised had expired, when, as the war
was then virtually at an end, he returned
to private life. Such is the record of the
honest man and brave soldier who heads
the State ticket of the Democratic party of
Pennsylvania.
The nominee for Surveyor General is
Lieut. Col. John P. Linton, of Cambria
county. Like Col. Davis, this gentleman
is an honest, intelligent, lipright citizen,
and a brave soldier. He was chosen Major
of the 34th regiment, P. V., in 1861, and
Lieut. ('ol. of the same 'regiment, in Pe12, 7
ruary, 1863. He was constantly in the field',
and bears upon his person numerous sears
as testimonials of his gallantry. Col. Lin 7
ton had the honor of leading the 54th in the
battles of Newmarket and Piedmont. And
most gallantly and bravely he led his regi
ment on those disastrous fields. In both
these battles he was severely wounded, but
although 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 regithent, his duty and
the serious work required of him. This
gentleman is well worthy of the nomina
tion he has received, and of the suffrages of
the citizens of his native State.
As our standard has inscribed upon it the
true principles of the Democratic party, and
its chosen bearers are brave, honest men,
the Democracy of the State must and will
rally to its support with a zeal and determi
nation that will prove irresistible.
Men of Pennsylvania ! the issues are be
fore you, fraught with the greatest conse
quences to yourselves, your Country, and
your race. Weigh well your action, and de
cide as white freemen should.
By order of the Democratic State Central.
Committee.
• WILLIAM A. WALLACE;
September 8, 1883. Chairman.,
The Triennial Episcopal Convention
The Triennial Convention of the.
Episcopal Church, which will meet in
Philadelaphia in October next, is com
posed of the House of Bishops, which
embraces the diocesan and missionary
prelates throughout the United States,
and the House of Lay and Clerical
Deputies, consisting of four-laymen and
four clergymen from each diocese. Its
powers are limited, and its late sessions
have been principally devoted to the pro
gress of the church. It can make no
alteration in the constitution or in the
liturgy and offices, unless they have
been adopted in one convention, sub
mitted to the dioceses, and afterwards
adopted by another convention—a work
which would occupy at least four years.
THE HOUSE OF BISHOPS
is composed of the following prelates;.
whom we give in the order of their con
secration :
Bishop Hopkins, Vermont ....couti'd 11381'
Bishop B Smith Kentucky...ctine'd 1831
Bishop Mclllwilue Ohio coned i 832:
Bishop Kemper.. Wisconsin..coi3e'd 1835.
Bishop McCrosky. ........ ...cone'd 1836
Bishop Whlttingham....Maryland...cone'd 1841•
Bishop Elliot Georgia coned 1841
Bishop Lee Delaware....cone'd 1841
Bishop Johns Virginia coned 1842
Bishop Easthurn Mass cone'd 1812
Bishop Cliese N. II amp ....cons'd 1814
Bishop Hawks Missouri .....coned 1844
Bishop Southgate (No Diocese)cone'd. 1844
Bishop Burgess Maine coned 1847
Bishop Upfold Indiana.......cone'd 1840
Bishop Green Miss coned 1850
Bishoo Payne C Palmas.....cone'd 1851
Bishop Rutledge Florida cone'd.4Bsl
Bishop Williams Conn cone'd 1851
Bishop Whitehouse Illinois ..... cone'd 1851
13:shop Davis S. Carolina..cons'd 1854
Bishop Atkinson N:Carolina.cons'd 1853
Bishop Kipp Callfornia...cone'd 1853
Bishop Scott Oregon.. cone'd 1854
Bishop Potter New York...cone'd 1854
Bishop Gregg Texas coned 1859
Bishop Odenhelmer N. Jersey....cone'd 1859
Bishop Bedell Ohio cons'd 1859
Bishop Whipple Minnesota .cons'd 1859
Bishop Las Arkansas ...cone'd 1859
Bishop Talbot Northwest .cone'd 1859
Bishop Stevens Penna. coned 1862
Bishop Wilmer... Alabaina.....conied 1862
Bishop Vail Kansas cone'd 1864
Bishop Coxe W. N. Y coned 1865
It will be thus seen that the House of
Bishops is composed of thirti-five pre
lates. The war, however, prevented
the Southern bishops being present at
the last triennial convention.
THE HOUSE OF LAY AND CLERICAL
DEPUTIES
is composed of nearly three hundred
members, who are sent to represent each
diocese. The desire for unity among'
New York churchmen Is amply shown
in the selection of Governor Seymour as
a delegate.
The Rights of Pensioners—Correction
A verbal error, which has appeared
in some of the newspapers, has been
deemed of sufficient importance for of
ficial correction. The Secretary says
the section in which it occurs as fol
lows :
And be it further enacted, That alt
persons, now by law entitled to a less
pension than heretofore specified, who
shall have lost one foot and one hand in
the military service of the United States,
and in the line of his [their] duty, shall
be entitled to twenty dollars per month.
This section, the Secretary of State
says, is printed in pamphlet edition of
the laws of the last session of Congress
precisely according to the original roll,
with the exception that the word "his"
is underscored—i. c., put in italics—and
the word " their" placed in brackets,
the reason for which isobvious. The
error is that newspapers have printed
the word "or" instead of the word
"and" between the. words " foot" and
"hand." The Acting Commissioner of
Pensions say without this correction the
business of the bureau would be useless..
ly increased without benefit to any one.
The Maine Electieri:
PORTLAND, Sept. 11.—The State elec
tion to-day passed off quietly. Up to
this hour, six o'clock P. M., very few
returns have been received, but they
indicate that the State vote will proba
bly not exceed 75,000, against 112,000
polled last year, and that the Republi
can majority will be about 15,000, against
19,000 last year. The official vote of
Portland foots up as follows;
For Governor, Cony, (Republican,).....l,7ll
Do. Howard, (Democrat,)..... 768
Last year Portland gave Cony 2,769,
and Howard 1,786.
VOTE TUN YEAR. VOTE LAST YEAR.
Cony, (Rep.) Howard (Dem.) Rep. Dem.
Bangor, 668 97 1868 791
Bath, 791 177 945 334
Saco, 567 306
Biddeford, 368 672
Eastport, 304 16-1
Ellsworth, 588 193
Seventy-three towns give Cony 17,248,
and Howard 9,313. Last year the vote
stood for Cony 22,518, and for Howard
15 879.
The Real Foes to a Restored talon
Not a Republican State Convention
has yet fully and fairly endorsed Presi
dent Johnson's policy, while every De
mocratic State Convention has. One
Republican State Convention (Minne
sota) has directly condemned and de
nounced he President's policy, and the
rest of them have taken exception to
and by inuendo condemned his " mild
and generous method of reconstruction."
Not one Democratic Convention has
done so. Some of the Republican Con-.
ventions have set Stanton above the
President, and four others have endorsed
negro suffrage, to which Johnson is op
posed. No Democratic Convention has
thus "opposed the Government." Tak
ing all these facts together, we find that
the only true and efficient support which
is accorded the President, in his arduous
labors at a restoration of the Oniori,
comes from the Democratic party! We
find, also, that the only obstacle to a
restoration of the Union, North or South,
is the radical wing of the .?epublican.
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