WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14,1866,. “Theprintlngjpreesee ihall be free to every person who undertakes to examine the 'pro • aeedlngsiOf the legislature, or any branch of government; and no law shall ever be'made to restrain tne right thereof The free commu nication of thought and opinions le one'of the Invaluable rights ofmon; and every altlsen may freely speak, write and print on any sub teat; being responsible for the abuse of that liberty. In prosecutions for tho publication of papers Investigating the omolal conduct of ollt cera, or men In public capacities, or where the mattor published Is proper for publlo Informa tion, the truth thereofmay be given - in ovl euoo. FOR GOVERNOR: Hon. niESTEB CLYMER, of Berks Co. A clergyman in the Washington Republican declares that “Forney is only a quack D. D.” No wonder the Democratic Conven ion erected a good platform. One |of ite members was the best Carpenter in Lancaster. Tiiad. Stevens says the reason why he hopped out of the State Capitol window in 1838, was because tlop-kins was after him! The Democracy are certain to “climb” the Disunion Republicans this time, because their candidate,is a splendid CJymer! A bill passed the Senate on Thurs day} increasing the salary of the Gover nor to $O,OOO, after the term of the present incumbent shall have expired. We congratulate John Cessna on his great success. Few persons who take the downward course in politics reach the bottom quite as soon as he has reached it. The Disunion Republicans expect Geary to run well. Some unmannerly fellow spat in his face when he was Governor of Kansas, whereupon he started and ran out of the Territory! Forney belongs to the “ Loyal League,” and a German friend of ours says he is a “verdomde leaguer 1” (J)cr VoUcHfrcund is requested to copy uud put Us charge in the Dead Duck’s bill.) A Washington paper contains a co nundrum which only one person can answer. It is, ,4 (Jan a duck be known by the length and breadth of ills sta tionary bill?” • Moorhead having proved too slow a runner to win the Governorship, his friends now propose to change his name to Morelieels! All dead ducks in favor of tlie proposition are requested to say “ quack.” Two dozen men and hoys, bearing a huge banner labelled “The Geary Le gion,” paraded in Harrisburg during the sittingof the Disunion Convention. “Their name was Legion,” but their number was not over twenty-ilve. Mr. Peterson, the individual in whose house President died on tlie loth of April last, in Washington City, lias recovered a claim against tlie Government of ?2!)3.o0 for tlie damage done to his property on that occasion. p Dead Duck Forney made a Geary ‘speech in front of tlie Jones House, on Tuesday night, in which lie grossly ma ligned President Johnson. Tf Geary thinks he can ruu upon the political track with Forney's dead weight attached to him he is wofully mistaken. The Huntington Journal says: “The course of Andrew Johnson affords usan otlier fearful warning of tlie danger of trusting any man who lias Deen rocked in tlie oradie of slavery or nursed in the lapof modern Democracy.” How in the world can that organ support Geary ? And yet it lias his name up. On Saturday ninety-nine dollars of tlie new live-ceut fractional currency was received by tlie Treasury Depart ment and cancelled. It will be remem bered that this note bears tlie head of Clark, Treasury printer. Most of the notes had tlie vignette of this personage obliterated, and several were written lipon in an uncomplimentary manner. A London paper states that there are proposals coming forward for the com mencement of new steamship lines to America. Among them is one in con templation at Bristol. The civil au thorities and merchants of that old port, it says, are moving in earnest in the matter. It is proposed to take imme diate steps to construct suitable docks at King Koads, leading to and from the Bristol channel, and to make suitable railway connections. The atmosphere of Cincinnati was disturbed omThursday, by the flight of prodigious flocks of pigeons, the whirr of whose innumerable wings at times was . heard like the rush of the wind through a leafy wilderness. It is con jectured that this extraordinary move ment of birds indicates the breaking up of a pigeon roostiu Indiana. The pigeons were flying from the southeast to the northwest out of range. A committee of Bostonians have been visiting Albany, New York and Philadelphia, with a view of ascertain ing tlie comparative rates of living, con dition of the markets and the general domestic pecuniary situation. -They found that while the cost of living in Boston now is 120 per cent, greater than it was in lsiii), the increase in Pliiiadel pliia hus been 150 per cent., and in New York and Albany still more. The Nashville Times accepts it as a token of restored order that for the first time in five years, an election was held on Saturday last, in Tennessee, entirely under the control of the civil authorities. The occasion was unusually free from disturbance, though there was the usual excitement which accompanies the can vassing for votes where a number of candidates are in the field. All elaborate computation of the statistics of the ball season inNew York city is entered into by the New York Herald. Six hundred events of the kind -have taken place in that city, with a total attendance of 400,000 people and the following Bummary of expenses : T.wo hundred thousand ball tickets, averaging 5i.75, $350,000 ; storage of overcoats, &c., averaging 40 cents, SSO,- 000 ; three hundred aud sixty thousand Buppers, averaging 75 cents, $270,000 i hack fare, 5300,000 ; dresses, ladies, 55,- 000,000 ; gloves, &c., gentlemen's $500,- 000. Total, 50,500,000. In this estimate the hire of dresses for masked balls is not included which added will bring the sum pretty near 57,000,000. Governok Curtin and the State Treasurer have gone to Washington for the purpose-of pressing the passage of a law to reimbursePenusylvaniafor the alnouut of money expended for the re cruiting and equipmentof troops duriDg the late war. This claim has hung in Congress during the entire present session, and it would be well for the people of the different Congressional districts throughoutthe Commonwealth to urge on their Bepreseutatives the ne cessity of securing the immense amount of money now due to the State. PhlHp Soon, Esq. We regret to learn that Philip Noon, Esq., of Ebensburg, Cambria county, formerly District Attorney, and widely known as a prominent, talented and useful Democrat, died on Wednesday morning, IVlarch 7th. Mr. Noon was just verging upon the prime of man hood., He had made his mark in delibly, politically and in his profess ion. Had he lived bis talents and good qualities would haye undoubtedly brought him high position and many honors. Organize for the Campaign I duty of the. Df mocrapy ot Pennsylvania at the present time is or ganization. Victory will not come for the asking. We must labor for it, we must write for it, we must organize for It. It will-perch. upon, our- bannersat the end of the present contest, if we' use vigorously and perseverlngly the appliances of triumph. Our opponents are roused, to frehzy at the Idea of being displaced from, the positions of which they have made such profitable mer chandise. They will put forth every effort to overwhelm the President’s policy, and to carry their measures of consolidation, confiscation, disunion, and the denial of all civil rights to the States and the men recently In rebel lion. We must organize, we repeat, If we expect success. We must meet the great questions of the dny on the arena of discussion. We must circulate the documents. We must extend t}ie cir culation of Democratic newspapers.— We must form Democratic Clubs in every township, ward and village of the State. The engines wo must use are the press and the stump, and we must use these with a power, a perse verance, and an energy never equalled by us in any previous campaign. Our cause demands it, our country demands it, an imperilled Constitution demands it, an uurestored Union demands it, and civil rights demand it. Organize ! Organize ! ! Organize ! !! The Republican State Convention. Tlie Republican State Convention which metin Hurrisburgon Wednesday, by its action, ensured the triumphant election of Hon. Hiester Clymer. It cut completely loose from the wise and statesmanlike policy of President John son, and committed the party very squarely and unequivocally to all the radical views of Thaddeus Stevens, and of those who follow in ills wake. Tile resolution in reference to An drew Joluißon cannot be regarded by him as aught elsy than an Insult and un open declaration of war upon him and his policy. From beginning to end tlie conservative men of the party had no -chance to be heard. They were howled down by tlie radicals, and every proposition made by them was sum marily disposed of. By tlie platform adopted yesterday tlie Republican party, as controlled by the present leaders in this State, is made to stand forth as a disunion party. The very worst and most pernicious acts adopted or advocated by the radical disiinlonists in Congress are fully en dorsed, negro suffrage included. Upon such a platform the party could not suc ceed with any candidate. They hope to be able to make much capital for General Geary out off the soldiers’ vote. In this they will be mis taken. They have heretofore had the benefit of a much larger soldiers’ vote than they can obtain in the coming contest. General Geary is not the mun to rally the returned soldiers with any enthusiasm. Multitudes of officers and men know that his military career was not what it ought to have been. But, even if it had been all that it might have been, lie would be defeated. No mail can be elected Governor of Penn sylvania next fall, who Btands on the platform laid down by the Republican Convention of Wednesday last. Tliey Cannot Cull tne Soldiers, It is evident, even at this eurly period of tlie present political campaign, that the Republican party expects to suc ceed by appealing to the passions and the prejudices of tlie soldiers. Knowing that they dare not go before the people of Pennsylvania in a fair, open, manly discussion of principles, they have put forward a military candidate, hoping to be able to induce enough soldiers to vote for. him to secure liis election. In thus-acting they offer a grave insult to tlie brave men who went forth to de fend the Constitution and to preserve tlie Union. Tliey expect from the re- turned soldiers u blind and unquestion ing support of General Geary, merely because he was in the army. They im agine that the boys in blue will not stop to inquire in regard to the principles represented by the opposing candidates. They hope to carry the election by a hurrah. Fortunately the campaign upon which we have entered is to be a long one. There will lie abundant time, and the fullest opportunity for unrestrained dis cussion of the great political issues now before the people. T'he soldiers will hear both sides before they make up leir minds as to how they will vote, hey cannot be carried away by any of tlie miserable clap-trap contrivances upon which bur opponents will be com pelled to rely for success. The two parties now appealing to the people of Pennsylvania for support have enunciated their principles in the plat forms they have laid down. That of the Democracy is short, plain and positive. It can neither he misinterpreted nor misunderstood. Jt meets all the vital issues of the present hour face to fade. The Democratic party stands for the Constitution, for the Union, and for the social and political supremacy of the white race. In so doing, it supports with all its power, the wise and states manlike policy of President Johnson. Occupying this high vantage ground, it Will appeal to the people of Pennsyl vania in every county, township and school district in the State. Our opponents have committed them selves to the support of all the radical ideas and all the revolutionary designs of the radical Republicans in Congress. They have repudiated Andrew John son, aud put themselves under the lead ership of Stevens, Sumner and other traitors of that class. The ideas, the designs, and the principles of these original und present avowed disunion ists are the ideus, the designs and the principles of the Republican party of Pennsylvania. When they go before the people of this State, and aHk that General Geary be supported on such a platform, what will be the reply of the masses? Will the soldiers blindly vote Tor him, when every vote so east will be a solemn en dorsement of tbe odious principles of such men as Thaddeus Stevens? Not they. Those who assert that they will, offer these brave men a gross and un pardonable insult. The soldiers will vote as they fought—for the Constitu- tion, and for the Union ; for the preser vation of the former and the speedy restoration of the latter. Our opponents cannobgull the soldiers. Another Veto. Governor Curtin has vetoed the Phil delphiaand Erie Railroad bill. Theveto takes tlie ground that the privilege ac corded the Philadelphia and Erie Rail road is aninfringementofprivaterights and that its operation would be condu cive to the fostering of monopolies in stead of the promotion of the general prosperity. The Pacific Railroad. A message from the President com municated to the Senate yesterday, in closed a memorial of the Legislature of Colorado, with a letter from Governor Cummings, graying an amendment of the Charter of the Pacific Railroad, to secure its location on the Smoky Hill route, via Fort Riley, Denver ailtj Salt Lake. It represents that this route is two hundred miles shorter, with a pres ent population of fifty thousand, and the most feasible pass through the mountains, while the other is an un peopled wilderness for a distance of one thousand miles. The Address of Alexander H. Stephens. .Ifaediahrfincabetwaen the policy of President Johnson, and the crude reconstruction theories of thej Northern radicals 1b fundamental. Mej Johnson adheres to the system of ernment laid down ji'the Conattjutloiii of die United Stotes. Rtovens, Sumner,. and those who follow In their! lead,- would destroy the republican form of J government erected by pur order that they might build up on Its ruins a centralized despotism. Presi dent Johnson's policy leaves the adjust ment of their local alTalrs to the several States—just where, the. Constitution; leaves them. The Radicals would take' away all these reserved rights of the States, and would render the States themselves completely subject to the control of Congress. The argument of the Radical revolutionists in favor of their unconstitutional designs Is based upon the assertion tliatthe people of the States recently in rebellion are not fit to be trusted with ordinary political power. As proof of the utter fallacy of any such assumption, we would call at tention to the able speech of A. H. Ste phens, which we publish to-day. It was delivered on the 22d'of February. Coming, as this address does, from him who was lately the Vloe President of the Southern Confederacy, curiosity, if nothing else does, wiil cause it to be read. We recommend Its attentive pe rusal. It is worthy of it. It ought to be read dispassionately by every man and woman, North and South. It Js calcu lated to do good. It was evldeutly de signed to do good, and it will do good, if reason and fraternity have not fled the land. Let no one be deterred from di gesting it in consequence of its length. It could not well have been shorter, and-might well have been longer. We hope it will be printed by every paper in the country. The people North and '“the people South ought to know in what spirit and to what Intent one of theablest intellects in theXJnlted States, whose lot Is identified with the States lately in revolt, addresses the Legisla ture that has just elected him Senator and, indirectly, the whole South and the whole country. Its tone is admira ble. Nothing, Indeed, could be better, more truly liberal or more truly loyal. Mr. Stephens comprehends the whole great question of reconciliation, of Union, and of peace. “No pent up Utica contracts Ills powers.” He speaks like one burthened with the good of the whole country, of his whole country; and his words came with freighted wisdom. He speaks like a Christian, a statesman, and a philoso pher. He does not seek to be eloquent, yet he is eloquent. He is subdued al most to sadness in view of the momen tous issues of the hour, and lie is so be cause his eagle eye runs through and through them, because'Tie understands them, because lie grasps somewhat of their indescribable greutness and impor tance. It is utterly inconceivable to us how any man can rise from the perusal of that'address without having the con viction ineftaceably fixed upou his mind that the author of it is truly and thor oughly loyal to tile Constitution and to the Union and to the best- interests of this entire country. Every throb that runs through it is a heart-throb of de voted loyalty. Itcounsels patience and forbearance. It inculcates moderation. It accepts unreservedly the free basis. It asks for complete protection to the persons and property of freedmen. It pleads sublimely for charity. It utters no harsh word. It indulges in no re criminations. It reasons upon facts as they exist, and it draws from them les bous of brotherhood and good will for the benefit of all the people of all these great American States and sections. It recognizes no clashing interests among them Mr. Stephens sees and knows that American nationality is a unit. The American people must live together as one great family ; and, profoundly con vinced of this, he appreciates the su preme importance of the cultivation among all classes of< those feelings of amity and mutual respect and confi dence which lie at the foundation of all harmony, and are the very sources of strength and prosperity in a country. His effort is a powerful plea for pacifica tion and reeouciliatidn, for the extirpa tion of all feuds, and the thorough era dication of that spirit of sectional an tagonism which produced the bitter -fruits, the apples of Sodom, which we have all tasted, and which turned to ashes upon our palates. Would to God that all our public men, our legislators, and magistrates; that all editors and writers, North and South, would imbibe and exhibit Lire spirit of this address of the great Georgian. If they would do this, if they would all do this, the effect, it seems to us, would be —and we speak it reverently—like the voice of the Son of Man commanding the winds and the waters to be still, when he said, “Let there be peace,“ and there was peace. "The Express takes our truthful report of the very lame speech got off by Gen. Geary at the Convention ‘which nomi nated him in very high dudgeon. It says, “This is the first time that the ability of Gen. Geary either to make a speech, write a letter or lead an army to victory was ever questioned.” His ability to write a letter was well shown in his epistle to S. McGuire, Esq., of Philadelphia, in which he made a strong bid for the nomination of the Democratic party, and vaunted himself as “a life long Democrat .” With regard to his ability and courage as a soldier, we will have something to say hereafter. With regard to his powers of oratory, we have only this to say. Let him meet Hiester Clymer on tlie stump if he dare. He will receive a polite invitation to do so. We will wager the Editor of the Ex press anything he pleases, that this won derful orator will decline the contest. We re-assert that his speech made on accepting the nomination wasa misera bly poor affair. The speech as reported tlie Express is an amended edition, The Kind of a Democrat Geary Is. The Express , speaking of the letter written by General Geary in which he announces himself as “ a life long Dem ocrat,” attempts to break the force of that utterance by showing what kind of a Democrat this redoubtable General is. It says : General Geary s a Democrat in the sense defined by Webster—" One who adheres to u government by the people, or favors the extension of the right of suffrage to all classes of men.” We cannot help admiring the bold ness with which our opponents meet the issues in the present campaign. They not only agree upon that part of the platform which commits their party to the support of the radical revolution ists in Congress, as against the policy of President Johnson, but they accept all thecousequences of theposition they have thus boldly' taken. Knowing they can no longer dodge the question of negro suffrage they have concluded to meet it squarely. They openly an nounce that their candidate for Gover nor “favors the extension qf the right of suffrage to all classes of men. ” Let the white men, and especially the soldiers, keep this constantly in mind. . Accord ing to the showing of the Express, a vote for Geary is a vote in favor of ne gro suffrage and negro equality. Ketchum started after gubernatorial honors, but soon found he couldit’t ketch 'em 1 [Franklin depository please copy-) A lying Document. Sumner, the infamous Committee of Fifteen are busily engaged in the prep aratfcn of a report on the condition al th« {Southern States. This forthcom* ingdooujhent is to be uafd as the'chief weapon of-the radlbals In the' coming political oqijtests. It will be printed anc. ,circulated at the public expenses and the whole country ■ will bb. jtood&j with it. 'We do not know who Is writ lng the thing up, but we suppose, as a matter of course, that it will l be done up, after the most approved style of modern sensational- rqmanoes. The materia 1$ are ample. ’'Every travelling 'Yanked, every-prying cotton speculator, every lying agent of the Freedmen’s Bureau, every obscure scoundrel who is willing to palm himself off as an onyinai Union man, with here and there a .bigoted shoulder strapped official, will be ex amined in a worse than ex parte man ner. There will be no restraint put upon the tongues of the rabble of wit nesses who will be called to testify against the South. Lying will be en couraged and a premium be put upon perjury. By selecting their own witnesses and examining them in their own manner, and in the loosest possible way, upon matters merely of hearsay and conjec ture, it will be easy for the Committee to prove any theory they may have agreed upon. They will not ask whence their hearsay evidence comes. It may bo one-half the story of some ignorant, lying negro, and the balance the filling up and coloring of some disappointed Yankee speculator's imagination. No matter how flimsy and utterly un worthy of credence it may be when de livered, it will all be well fixed up by the time it Is put in print. This forthcoming campaign document will he full of tales of horror. No doubt every other page will furnish material sufficient for a sensational novel. We shall have Btorles of the cruelty of re cent rebels to the unoffending negroes, such as will make the blood run cold. From a thousand sources the Committee are busy hunt ing up every idle and lying rumor of the kind. They will never stop to sift out the truth from any report that may be brought to them. The more ex travagant and horrible in Its details the more welcome it will be. This document, thus being prepared, will be the principal means upon which the traitorous radicals now in Congress will rely for their re-election. They will try to make the people of Pennsyl vania, and of'the whole North, believe that the white people of the South are not fit to be re-admitted Into the Union. They will laud the negroes to the sky. These will be shown to have been always the only loyal people In the States re cently in rebellion. The effect of the report will be to blacken the character of tlie whole white population of the South, and to whitewash the negro at the same time. Let the people look out for this tissue of lies. The country will be flooded with it, and the book while bearing some evidence of truthfulness on its face, will in truth be the most infamously mendacious electioneering document ever put forth. The Heal Issue In tlio Present Cuntesi The position taken by the Republi cans of this State is so bold aud decided that no man can fail to see exactly where stand. There is not the or dinary amount of equivocation about their platform. It speaks out in plain and positive terms. Being drafted- by Thad. Stevens and his followers in Con-- gress from this State, it could not well be other than a very radical document. The men who voted for negro suffrage, the Freedmen’s Bureau Bill,and a host of similar outrages were not to be ex pected to stultify themselves by an en dorsement of President Johnson’s wise and statesmanlike policy. They have, taken issue with him most squarely. Their position is well understood. The New York Herald says: I The Pennsylvania Republicans stand forth in direct antagonism to the adminis tration. The issue, therefore, ill the Key stone State is in reality not between General Geary and liiesler Ulytner. but between Andrew Johnson and Thuddeus Stevens. It is in that light the pec whole country will look upcj: test in which we are now eng question is not simply, nor ini ly, who shall be elected Gov is not an ordinary struggle b = posing candidates for office, tie between antagonistic politi The vital question to be A whether the policy of Presicl son shall prevail or that of ' vens. Thatquestionmustbec, by the votes cast respectively t or Geary. Every vote for 0 vote for the Constitution, a vc Union, and a vote for the[ statesmanlike policy of Presid son, which will carefully pr, one and speedily restore U:i Every vote cast for Gearj to encourage tinkering with destruction of the Constitut: United States, a vote to i definitely the restoration of tl a square out vote for negro suf a vote for all the infamous A such traitors as Thaddeus Charles Sumner and Wendel The issue is plainly made up, ly presented to the people, can mistake the position o ’ parties in Pennsylvania. It Johnson and Hiester Clymer, Stevens and John W. Geary, a contest no true patriot can in a moment as to whom he is tiously bound to support. White Soldiers Endorse l’resld son. Ou the 2nd instant a large r Union Soldiers was held at Alleghany county, Md., whei lowing resolutions were urn adopted Resolved. , That by no \vord or act has Andrew Johnson forfeited his claim upon the confidence of the Union-loving people of the land. His firmness in opposing the heresy of secession will, we hope, be equaled by his firmness in opposing the insane measures advocated by such'sectioualists as Sumner and Stevens, which can have no other tendency than to alienate the .people of the country, and revive those sectional animosities which brought on the war. Resolved , That his opposition! to negro suffrage meets with our entire approbation, and we pledge ourselves to support no man for any position, either high or ;low, who has favored, does favor, or whom we be lieve will ever favor negro suffrage in the District of Columbia or auy other portion of the United States. Besolved, That we respect and honor President Johnson for the gratitude he has so often expressed for the service rendered by the white soldiers; .believing as we do (and as certain Senators do not) that ail the honor, all the credit, all the substantial tokens of gratitude should not be given to the negro soldiers to the exclusion of the white soldiers. The voice of these Maryland soldiers will be taken up and recorded by their comrades in Pennsylvania. It is an insult to the intelligence of-the brave men to assert that they will blindly support General Geary, merely because he has been a soldier. They, will en quire where this soldiercandidate stands, and when they see that he occupies the same political platform with Thad. Stevens, Sumner, Wendell Phillips and the menwhomPresidentJohnsonhasso truthfully pronounced to be traitors, they will repudiate him with scorn. They will not regard it as just the thing for one who professes to have been fighting for the Union to join with the Disunion iste for - the sake 'of office,, .in keeping eleyen i?tales opt .of . the tJnion, until! negro suffrage is made the law of the 1 land. That may be a very big thing ■KH^«sBnsrmm^TK^-ir*noT their style. They can neither be coaxed Siordrlven into the support of any man who stands on the platform adopted by tihe Convention whlqhnomlnatedGeary. iWhite soldiers will vottf'theV White Stan’s Union Ticket. They will stand ;by Andy Johnson, by his policy, and by vßleater Ciynfer. Where the Candidates Stand. Brigadier General John W. Geary la the chosen and championed candidate of John W. Forney. The .Press did morato.securehis npmlnatlon than any Mother Single agency/ It was more potent In thatreapeot than even the money and the corrupt: influence of Simon Cameron. Forney manufactured the Geary sentiment through the Press, and 'the Winnebago Chief marshalled the forces. 1 Now that Geary haa been nominated Forney has taken him in hand. He is to think and to Bpeak just as Forney dictates. In the Press of yesterday we had the announcement that General Geary stood Bquarely in opposition to Presidept Johnson, and with the radical disunionists in Congress. In a double leaded editorial, written, we have no doubt, by Forney himself, thefollowing significant paragraph is to be found: I Vhen we state that the emphatic reso lutions of the Convention—covering as they do the whole ground of doctrine and of duty—were submitted to him (Geary) for suggestion before they were adopted, and have since received the solemn seal of his public sanction, we fully establish ed his own ardent devotion to the great cause, and point the way to a manly, honorable and unambiguous campaign. No one can doubt for a moment where General Geary Btands in the present contest after reading that. But, resolved to put all doubt completely at rest, and determined that tljere should be no mis taking or misunderstanding the position of either candidate, Forney, in another article in the same paper, speaking of Hlester Clymer, says : The candor of his (Clymer's) former course is fitly followed by the boldness of his -utterances in accepting the nomina tion. He regrets nothing, he explains nothing. With a complacency admira ble at a period when bold action on the part of political opponents possesses ex traordinary value, he places himself broadly upon the platform of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States —in fact, it is as the Andrew Johnson candidate he proposes to run for the suffrages of the people. That we regard as the highest possible praise of our candidate. Hiester Clymer stands just exactly where Forney says he does, “ upon the platform of Andrew Johnson, Presi dent of the United States.” In standing there he abides by true Democratic doc trine, and sacrifices neither principle nor personal feeling. He stands upon the President’s platform because he knows it to be the only platform upon which the true friends of the country can stand. One would suppose from the above that Forney had made the position of the Republican party sufficiently clear already. But, fearing that therunight be some scintilla of a doubt still linger ing among such Republicans as respect the policy of the President, the Press of to-day has another editorial on the same subject, which concludes with the following most emphatic words: The Union resolutions have no doubt ful construction. If the amendment of Mr. Carnahan, the United States Altor ney of the Western district of this State, who was also a delegate from Allegheny, intended to secure a partial endorsement of the President, had not been withdrawn, it would not have received another vote besides his own. So decided was the con vention that even the regular resolution on the President, stern as it was in hold ing him to his early pledges, xvas op posed by twenty.one delegateg, who did not think it went far enough. These negative votes were cast by radicals, not conservatives. We are glad to have ( the'issue thus squarely made up so early in the can vass. It will save a deal of trouble.— All we feared was that our opponents would resort to their usual mean subter fuge of pretending that each resolution of their platform meant some half a dozen different things. We are delight ed at the candor in the present contest. According to their own admissions, they go before the people as the avowed ad herents of Stevens, Sumner afid'Wen dell Philips ; while we go beforji the country on the wise and statesmanlike policy of President Johnson. We ac cept the issue as thusmade up. Itmakes our triumphinthe coming election sure, beyond a peradventure, if the Conser vative men do not utterly fail in their duty. With proper organization we cannot be defeated. Thad. Stevens made another charac teristic speech in Congress last Satur day. Speaking of the contest between the President and the radicals in Con gress, he said : Every paper in his own State, except one hermuphrodlte concern in Philadelphia, and one belligerent paper in Harrisburg, edited by tlie postmaster, sustained Congress; and so did every Republican in his State, who was not an applicant for office. This is decidedly rough on Bergner of the Harrisburg Telegraph, and on the Philadelphia Daily News. The Telegraph is mean enough to merit the contempt even of Thad. Stevens. The Daily rVeiesinthepresent contest has acted an open and manly part of which it need not be ashamed. It has spoken outboldlyand eloquently; and the masses who read it, heartily ap prove ofits course. Old Thad'sassertion, that every Republican in Pennsylvania "'ho is not an office-holder sides with him is one of the bold falsehoolds which he utters with oracular dignity when he thinksalie will suithis purpose. There are many thousands of men in this State who have hertofore acted with the Re publican party who utterly repudiate mt John. the revolutionary action of the radical Republican majority in Congress. The coming election will show where the majority of the people of Pennsylvania stand on that issue. meeting of Oakland, t the fol nimously The National Intelligencer, In noticing the proceedings of the Con vention which nominated General Geary, says: Under the engineering of Col. Forney at Harrisburg, tumultuous cheers were given for the notorious character avboe described. >’ine cheers were also given for Congress.— And Edwin M. Stanton was endorsed—the Secretary of War, who is the author of such hideous wrongs that in the forum of the people he has no defender, and who is now virtually oil trial before the Supreme Court of the United States, with the infamous Butler for his counsel, upon an issue arising from unlawful military arrests and im prisonments. The acts of a factious Con gress, without “plan or policy,” were also endorsed. Against proceedings so replete with in famies, the friends of Andrew Johnson, with any tolerably careful and assiduous effort, cannot fail to succeed, > The candidate must sink under the rot ten platform. It will drop in October, and fanaticism and political corruption will be suspended in the Keystone State. The above item is decidedly signifi cant. It shows that the position of General Geary is fully appreciated at Washington, as it is elsewhere. Prentice, of the LouisvUle Journal, is responsible for the following hits : The Radicals are the worst anti-temper ance men in the nation. If they could suc ceed in their effort to make the country be lieve that President Johnson was “in liquor” when he made his tremendous speech, ther.e might be danger that millions of so ber men would take to “ liquor,” Never, in all oui experience of old Whig and Democratic times, did we see such a rushing tide as that which is now swelling for President Johnson’s policy of restora tion. Let those who resist it look out for the undertow—and for their own toes. Wha,t are they worth in this mighty crisis who merely indorse President Johnson’s veto of the Freedmen’s Bureau Bill, but ’ oppose fds greatpollcy bf restoration! They ■may think that their policy is a rushing stream, hut it isn’ t worth a dam, ° ■ jMpip. |D. Appleton* Co., the publishers of Mb. Buchanan’s History of his Ad ministration on the Eve of the Rebellion, have Issued a pamphlet containing se lections from this useful work. The pamphlet was got out, we believe: at . the suggestion of the Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee of Pennsylvania, In order that the people might reoeive reliable and au thentic Information about matters of ' great public Interest whloh have here tofore been presented to them In a false light. It contains nearly two hundred pages of the most valuable part of Mr. Buchanan’s Book, and we predlot that, if extensively circulated, it will be found one of the most effective cam paign documents ever published in this country. Our friends will find It a magazine from which they can draw an unlimited quantity of ammunition. In this pamphlet It Is proven con clusively that the doctrine of secession , which the Democracy of Pennsylvania are falsely accused of sympathizing with, originated in New England, that hot-bed-of pernicious political and re ligious isms. It had its birth there as early as the winter of 1803-’4. It was boldly avowed in the Congress of the United States on the 14th of January, 1811, by Josiah Quincy, a leading and Influential Representative from Massa chusetts. It was maintained by Wil liam Rawls, an eminent lawyer of Philadelphia, in 1825, in his “ View of the Constitution of the United States.” And it was defended as late as 1839 by John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts, who, in a 11 Discourse delivered before the New York Historical Society,” as serted .that, under certain limitations which he enumerated, 11 the people of each Slate in the Union hove a right to secede from the confederated Union itself .” Notone of theße early defend ers of the doctrine of secession was a member of the Democratic party. Mr. Buchanan always and most earnestly denied the soundness of that doctrine. He maintained in hiß last annual mes sage that “the Union was designed to be perpetual ” and could “ not be an nulled at the pleasure of any one of the contracting parties .” Coming down to the eve of the Re bellion, Mr. Buchanan shows beyond dispute that the disloyal portion of the Southern people were urged on by lead ing Republicans in the North. Greeley, on the 9th of November, 1800, just three dayß after Lincoln’s election to the Presidency, said in his Tribune—" If the cotton States shall become satisfied that'they can do better out of the Union than in It, we insist on letting them go in peace." He added that ” the right to secede may be a revolutionary one, but exists nevertheless." And he made the further declaration that ” when ever a considerable section of our Union shall deliberately resolve to go out, we shall resist all coercive measures designed to keep it in." As late as the 23d of February, 1861, only eleven days before the inauguration of Lincoln, and after the cotton States had formed their con federacy at Montgomery, the Tribune, persisting in its unpatriotic course, said that “if the slave States, the cotton States,- or the gulf States only, choose to form an independent nation, they have a clear moral right to do so." Leading Republicans everywhere took their cue from the Tribune and exclaimed “let them go—we can do better without them.” No Democrat in any Northern State gave them any such encourage ment. Mr. Buchanan exposes the recreancy of tlie Black Republican Congress which Bat from December, 1860, till the 4th of March, 1861. He shows that this unpatriotic body not only declined to do anything to conciliate the excited Southern people, but that it also, with strange inconsistency, “deliberately re fused, throughout the entire session, to furnish the President or his successor with a military force to repel any attack which might be made by the Cotton States.” He also exposes the misrepre sentations of Gen. Scott in relation to the “muskets and rifles ” transferred to Southern arsenals, and shows that his own action in regard to the “ Pittsburg cannon,” about which so many lies have been told by the Black Republi cans, received the commendation of the Select and Common Councils of that city, in a vote of thanks on the 4th of January, 1861. j, We find ourselves) running into a longer article tban’we purposed writing when we commenced. Our design was simply to call the attention of our friends to the fact that the most mate rial part of Mr. Buchanan’s Book has been issued in pamphlet form at a price that puts it within the reach of ail, and to urge every man who wishes to be correctly informed to possess himself of a copy. We should cover a page of our paper if we undertook to give an abstractof thecontentsof this pamphlet. It is a magazine of undeniable facts, and a most triumphant vindication of Mr. Buchanan and the Democratic party. The publishers of the Patriot and Union at Harrisburg have undertaken to superintend the circulation of this im portant campaign document, as will be seen by the following advertisement: BEAD AND CIRCULATE. Mr. Bnebftnan’H Administration on the Eve or the Rebellion. Giving a lull history of the outbreak of the Rebellion and the poliitcal causes leading to Wittia giving general publicity to ♦ h? D true ?l Kto f s . 01 f he lacts - a cheap edition of low ra^es- b ° 0k has een IfcSUeti at the following Single copies m “ “ sent by mail Teu copies, each Any uumberexceeding tun copies, in cents eaeti. Ad ires, PATRIOT AND UNION, Harrisburg. The Democratic Revival. he JS ad .V Stcv . en,tcs are “Xremwine," Tor “Earthquakes are Around Them." A number of cities, in different parts of the country, following the example of glorious old Lancaster, are speaking out in thunder tones their condemna tion of the radical destructionists, dis unionists and “rumpites.” At the municipal election in Troy, New York, yesterday, the Democratic candidate for Mayor was elected by over three hundred majority, despite the most strenuous exertions of an unscru pulous, confident, well-organized and recently successful opposition. At the charter election in Ithiea, New York, yesterday, the entire Democratic ticket was elected by a handsome ma jority—an average gain of one hundred and twenty-two. The Democrats have also made large gains at Utica, New York, and elected nearly all their ticket. At the charter election held at Cairo, Illinois, on the 27th ult., the whole Democratic ticket was elected by a ma jority averaging from 250 to 825. In 1864 the Democratic majority in that city was only 170. Cheer up, boys, the skies are bright ening, and soon Thad Stevens and his fanatical crew will be Swallowed up by the “earthquakes around them,” about which they are now “trembling.” The Chambersbnrg Fund. We understand thatH. N. M’Allister, Esq., of Centre oounty, John H. Briggs and Thomas J. Jordan, Esqs., of Dau phin county, commissioners appointed to distribute the $500,000 voted by the State to the relief of the sufferers by the rebel raid in 1864, will meet for the per formance of their duties at Chambere burg on the 13th instant lojotAtor tke-EiMUaU Ilcket la Hew Hampshire or Connecticut Is to Oppoeg the President. Under the above heading a recent number of the National Intelligencer , the recognized organ of President Johnson, has the following very signifi cant editorial: • How is the South ever to be repre sented in Congress if the party—now calling ltaelf the Union party—is to succeed in the elections, and to remain in power? We turn our bucks upon no press in the laud In the respect of hav ing, frince the Intelligencer came into its present hands, sustained the war measures of Mr. Lincoln, and his peace measures; also, those of the President, Aether with hiß great restoration poll oy. We have done this without respect to party. We care nothing for party, except as it does right—;does right not in all things, which cannot be expected u minor matters—but upon greatand absorbing questions. A party in power that fultlls the last require menthasour best wishes, without re spect to who has office or patronage.— **i o a party whose leaders through out the States are supporting the Jladi oal Destructives in Congress, by rcsolu ttom of Conventions , hy noininations. and by every form of word , deed , and effort and in like forms of course oppose }f*9 Cie President, we have no sympathy have no desire for its success; but, on the contrary, most fervently hope for its defeat, and the success of any party whatever its name or designation' which supports the President's policy of restoration with kindred measures. A vbte for the so-called Union party in ?sew Hampshire or Connecticut, •as thfugs are, is an endorsement of Con gress against the President. Is it to be supposed that the people are so dumb or blind as not to know better than to keep or put power in hands that will fatally use it against themselves, their views and wishes, upon a vital national measure, the failure of which will turn our Government into an absolutism with eleven States as satrapies or colon ies—the very fear of which calamity is already destroying the active business that Bpruug up in all the Northern cities Immediately after the close of the war, and now threatens general com mercial distress und dlsuster? Radical words have Radical deeds Conservatives and friends of the Presi dent should not support them, under any possible circumstances. If, according to the above ofllelul an nouncement, to east a vote for the Re publican candidate for Governor In New Hampshire or Connecticut he to oppose the President, what shall bo said of a vote cast for General Geary In Pennsyl vania? In both New Hampshire and Connecticut the Republican platforms endorse President Johnson in strong terms. The Pennsylvania platform •tterly repudiates him, and strongly endorses Thaddeus Stevens and those who follow him. How can any man who professes to be u friend of the President cast a vote for the Republican nominee fur Governor, or in any way aid in securing his election? Will the postmasters, assessor, collector and their assistants of Lancaster city and' county please to tuke notice? The an nouncement has hehn-’madethat, to vote for the Radical ticket in New Hamp shire or Connecticut is to oppose the President. It will be well for all office holders in Pennsylvania to take their cue therefrom. Tlind. Stevens’ Last Jlnnuiuvrc. The desperate project of Stevens, Forney & Co. to carry Pennsylvania against Mr. Johnson, and make Forney Senator, encounters its chief obstacle in the popularity of the President. Ste vens’ exhibition of buffoonery and kar lequinism in the House, on Saturday, is a recognition of that obstacle, and an expedient to surmount it. Who can refute a joke? And yet what passes in Washington for a joke too grotesque for anything but derisive laughter, is meant to be circulated in the rural dis tricts of Pennsylvania as a denial of the genuineness of President Johnson’s scathing speech. This ridiculous exhibition, which passed in the House for an accidental and purely impromptu interlude in the midsL of a written speech, had been prepared with deliberate art, and care fully conned and rehearsed. The deliv ery of a written speech was a part of the artifice. Stevens pretended that the speech was committed to paper some time ago, and that he hail been long waiting for an opportunity to read it. This was a ruse for concealing the fact that it had been prepared solely as a campaign document for the Pennsyl vania canvass, and that his strong ex pressions of respect for the President were an afterthought for throwing dust in the eyes of ignorant and gullible voters. The pretense that the speech had been long prepared was a crafty contrivance for masking the purpose of the harlequiu interlude, the introduc tion of which was the main object for which the speech was delivered. By thus passing it off as an unpremeditated and grotesquely divertingjoke in Wash ington, it could be sent without sus picion to the hack counties of Pennsyl vania, where it is to be used for impu dent deception. That the stigmatizing of President Johnson’s speech as a copperhead hoax was contemplated beforehand, is proved by the evidences of preparation disclos ed in the interlude. Ifthe interruption was not planned, why did Stevens bring with him, besides his written speech, scraps of newspapers more than a year old, which he sent to the clerk's desk to be read, and which he used as the cor ner-stone of his elaborate and grotesque theory that the President's speech was a copperhead invention? Mr. Price’s interruption had been as carefully plan ned as the written speech itself. All the parts of this comedy had been care fully cast as in any exhibited during the winter at Grover’s theatre. It was a'desperate device for countervailing the effect on the Pennsylvania election of the President’s speech. This ridiculous stratagem proves sev eral things which it is satisfactory to see so well established. It proves that the great personal popularity of Presi dent Johnson and thestrongconfidence felt in him by the people, is an obstacle before which the boldest and most reckles of the Radicals quail. It is an acknowledgment that the President’s famous speech so completely answered the purpose for which it was made, that the most ingenious and subtle Radicals despair of explaining it away; that it has put them at their wits’ end ; that they can discover no way to break its force but to deny its genuineness and affecting to b-lieve it a hoax. Ascrib ing it to the copperheads is equiva lent to confessing that it is precisely such a speech as the copperheads would have Mr. Johnson make. It was the | President’s descent from diplomatic to common language—it was theplainness, directness, freedom from all ambiguity, that so enraged the Radicals at the time of its delivery. Having nothing better to say, they exclaimed against its want ofdignity. By dignified language they meant language so in explicit that it may be misconstrued The Democrats of Pennsylvania wili circulate the President’s speech as the most effective campaign document they can use in the canvass. The Republi cans practically confess that there is no way to meet it, but by boldly denying that the President ever made itwhich is no mean compliment to the Presi dent s clearness of expression and power of acting on the popular mind.— World, The PittShdro Gazette, one of the most rabid negro-suffrage journals In Pennsylvania, speaking of the nom ination of Hon. Hiester Clymer by the Democratic Convention, pays him the following compliments: His family have for several generations been settled in this Commonwealth, and members thereof have at times borne con spicuous parts in public affairs. One of them was a signer of the Declaration of In dependence, and under the articles of Con federation served as a member of Congress He is possessed of wealth and enjoys a high social position. An aetive business man, he has participated wisely and liber ally in many enterprises for the develop ment and prosperity of that portion of the State in which he resides. Though a lead ing man in his party his abilities are not extraordinary. He has, however, a pleas ing presence and address, and a reputation that does not connect him with unclean legislation. The Latest Novelty.— The last new thing about the wedding celebrations is the Sugar Wedding. It is the sweetest thing out, and is celebrated at the end of the honeymoon—-thirty days after the marriage tavortMMnjwjßjjr _ , ~ our own * TM BBPPBLICAff COIiTKNTIfa, Tho Radical Dlcnnlonlsu la the Amc ß . President HI. Policy He. Stevens ,Snmnor<t Co. Kntloraed. All tho Adjective la the Lanramro Pm. ployed to EulogUo the NcgrSf Era Senator to Help, A Grand Row over thd Resolution.. Great Bitterness of Feeling. The Platform as Adopted, General Geary Nominated on the First iMllOte Ho Endorae. all the Word, and Act. or TUm, Stevens. Speeches, etc., etc. .Pursuant to call the Republican party of this State assembled inStato Convention in Har: ishurg, on Wednesday, for the purposo nominating a candidate for Governor. So far as tho candidate was concerned, tho hlng had been act up for somo wooks post. Simon Cameron was in tho field ourly, and managed to secure delegates enough to en sure the nomination of his pliant tool.- When the earnest Republicans from the North and Wost arrlvodat Harrisburg tl.oy found that neither Ketchum nor Moorhead had a shadow of a chance. The great Win nobago Chief had cunningly manipulated the whole allair to suit his own purposes.- Thoir w ruth wns fierce, but It wuh utterly unavailing. The nomination of deary was fixed beyond a hope „r change. 1 n vain did his opponents urge tho claims of their fa vorltos. They lmd to swallow tho dose prepared for them with what grace they could. Tho cortulnty of defeat only made thorn the moro desperate, and from Mon day afternoon until the nomination was made tho highest excitement prevailed.- lh ter words woro echoed through ovory hotel and bar-room of the city, and in a number of instances blows were exchanged. Iho Ketchum and Moorhead men swore I ke troopers. They denounced deary as a II iutetvushed Loco/oco, ami stigmatized him as u Reconstructed Democrat. The war of words was so tierce that a good sot to, and a gunorul game of fisticuffs was regarded as u rohof to overcharged passion. Thus hour after hour passed until the meeting of the Convention. ASNi:.Min.iNu OF Tin: con vkntion. At lio clock, on Wednesday, John Cessna called the Convention to order, liy that timo the opponents of deary hud given up liopo and become to some extent reconciled lo their InoviLubledefeiit. The vole on turn porary Chairman sealed their doom. THK CAMERON FACTION TRIUMPHANT. William B. Mann, Ksq., District Attor ney ol Philadelphia, was nominated as tho candidate of tho unti-Geary men for tem porary Chairman. O. J. Dickey, Ksfj., of this city, moved to umeml by substituting the name of lion. L. W. Hall, the Senator from the Jilalr county district. On this tho vote wns taken viva toc<\ It resulted in 81 votes for Ilall, tho Henry candidate, to [>'2, for Mann. Tho announcement of the re sult was received with shouts of exultution by tho adherents of Simon Cameron, and with tho apathy of despair by the opponents of his pet candidate. AN EARLY ATTEMPT To OAO THE CONVEN TION. A Committee equal in number lo tbo State Senato was appointed on permanent organization, und a similar Committee on Resolutions. John Cessna, fearing trouble, tried to pass a resolution framed to prevent any discussion upon tho resolutions after they had been returned from the Commit tee, but the Convention refused to allow this cunning little tricks.or to put uny such gag in Us mouth. The attempt gave rise to somo sharp discussion. Tho Convention then adjourned until o o’clock, P. M. AFTERNOON HESs'ION. At 5 o’clock, P. M., It. W. Hull, tho tem- porary Chairman, called the Convention to order. Tho first business in order being the report of the CommiLtoe on permanent organization, it was received. “ HONEST ” JOHN COVODE, PRESIDENT. John Covode, fuootiously termed honest John, was made permanent President of the Convention. Never was thoro a more unfortunate selection. II is stupid blunders his utter ignorance of parliamentary usage’ and his entire want of good judgment and common sense made him the laughing stock of the whole Convention. His speech was entirely out of place, if not a direct fnsult to all but tho friends of General Geary. We heard several delegates cry “shame,” while every now and then hisses issued from outraged individuals on the floor. One indignant and disgusted member remarked, “tho old fool, ho got that up at a ratification’ speech, expecting tho nomination of Geary; und having nothing else on hand is getting it off hero.” Such a speech it was. Before ho subsided the Convention was convinced that a great mistake had been made in tho selection of a presiding officer. THE PLATFORM. Tho next thing in ordor wus tho report of :hoCoinmitteo on Resolutions. Thofollow ng interminable series of resolutions woro :hen road: 1. Resolved, Thut this Convention, repre senting tho Union-loving and loyal peoplo of Pennsylvania, who never despaired of the Republic, and who poured out millions oi treasure and devoted yet more precious blood for the rescue of the country from tho felonious attacks of a wicked and causeless rebellion—whoso sous fought on every battle-field, and sullbred in every .Southern prison pen oftortnro and starvation—whoso noble dead lie on tho soil of every State, where they fell under the folds of the na tional banner—here renew their pledges of unfaltering devotion to the Federal Union, and repeat their determined purpose that it shall bo preserved. 2. Resolved , That the most imperative duty of the present is to gather the legiti mate fruits of tho war, in order that our Constitution may come out*of the rebellion purified, our institutions strengthened, and our nntional life prolonged. 3. Resolved, That failure in these grave duties would be scarcely less criminal than would have been an acquiescence in seces sion and in the treasonable machinations of the conspirators, qnd would be an insult to every soldier who took up arms to suvotho. country. 4. Resolved, That filled with admiration' at Lin.' patriotic devotion and fearless cour age with which Andrew Johnson resisted, and denounced the efforts of tho rebels to overthrow the National Government, Penn sylvania. rejoiced to express her entire con fidence in his character and principles, and appreciation of his noble conduct by be stowing her suffrage upon him for the second position in honor and dignity in the country; his bold and outspoken denunci ations of the crime of treason, his firm de mands for tho punishment of tho guilty offenders, and his expressions of thorough sympathy with tho friend* of the Union, secured lor him the warmest attachment of her people, who remembering his great ser vices and sacrifices while traitors and their sympathizers alike denounced his patriotic action, appeal to him to stand ftttnly by the side and to repose upon the support of tho loyal masses, whose votes formed the foun dation of his promotion, and who pledged, to him their support in all measures by which treason shall be stigmatized—loyalty recognized—and the freedom, stability and unity of the nution^bcured. 5. Resolved , That tho work of restoring the late insurrectionary States totheirproper relations to the Union, necessarily devolves upon theiaw-muking power, and thut, until such action shall be taken, no State, lately In insurrection, is entitled to representation in either branch of Congress; mat, as pre liminary to such action, it is the right of Congress to investigate for itself the condi ! tion of the legislation of those States, to inquire respecting their loyalty, and to pro scribe the terms of restoration ; und that to deny this necessary Constitutional power is to deny and imperil one of the dearest rights belonging to our representative form of government; and that wo cordially ap prove of tho action of the Union representa tives in Congress from Pennsylvania on this subject. 6. Resolved , That no man who has vol •• untarily engaged in the late rebellion, or has held office uuder the rebel organization, should be allowed to sit in me Congress of the Union; and that the law—known as the test oath—should not be repealed, but should be enforced against all claimants for| seats, in Congress. 7. Resolved, That the national faith i 9 sa credly pledged to the payment of the na tional debt incurred in the war to save the country and to suppress rebellion, and that me peoplo will not suffer this faith to be vio lated or impaired, but all debts incurrred to support the rebellion were unlawful yo J d and of no obligation—shall never be States, nor shluaSy • State be permitted to pay-any evidence B°. yiie and wicked enVagementaT ““ § r Ttat &eput%faittilai(o*
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