{gutMWto WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1860. The printing presses snail be free to every penon who undertakes to examine the pro* oeedlngs of the legislature, or any branch oi government; and no law shall ever be to restrain the right thereof. The free commu nication of thought and opinions Is oue oi tne Invaluable rights of men; and every <»uisen may freely speak, write and print on any suo jeot; being responsible for the liberty. In proseoutions for the PjSiJiHJPJJ?* papers Investigating the official cers, or men In publlo capacities, or wherethe matter published Is proper far puoUo mrorma tlon, the truth thereof may he given In evi dence.” * .FOB GOVERNOR: Hon. HIESTEB CIYMEB, of Berts Co. campaign intelligencer. PRICE ONLY THIRTY CENTS!! In order to aid in the circulation of political truth, we will furnish the WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER until after the election for Thirty Cents. Let every one of our readers see to it that his neighbor subscribes for a copy. There never was greater need for the circulation of sound political reading. The Intelligencer is just what you and your neighbors need. Send for a copy. Remember it is only 30 Cents. The money can be remitted by mai ► Cooper, Sanderson & Co., Lancaster, Pa. The Campaign Intelligencer. We have already received several handsome lists of subscribers for the Campaign Intelligencer. It is one of the largest, handsomest audcheapest newspapers in the State. We offer it at a price so low for the Campaign as to put it within the reacli of every voter in Lancaster county. We expect our friends to give it a wide circulation. A single dollar will j pay for three copies. Let each one of our readers see that his neighbors uli take it. Every Demo crat in the county ought to have it. A small subscription from active Demo crats will put it into the hands of any who are too poor to afford to pay for it. Let the clubs in the different town ships see to it that it is supplied to every man who will read it. Many votes can he made by a comparatively insignifi cant expenditure of money in this way. It will be one of the most effective elec tioneering documents whicli can be put into the hands of candid readers. We expect our friends to give it a very wide circulatiou. Let eaeli one who reads this go to work at once. Send the money and the names of the subscribers by mail; and be sure to write the name of the Post Ollico address in a plain hand. The Prospect, Everywhere throughout the State the Democracy are rapidly perfecting their organization, and from every quarter we hear the most cheering news. The conservative men of Pennsylvania have resolved that there shall be an end uf the rule of radicalism and fanaticism, and to effect that most desirable result they are combining, irrespective of post party ties. Hundreds and thousands of honest voters who have heretofore stood opposed to the Democratic parly will refuse to support Geary because they cannot endorse the platform on which lie stands and the principles which he professes. He is known and recognized by all intelli""nt voters as the pliant tool of Thaddeus Stevens, Simon Cameron and John W. Eorney. As such the soldiers of the State re pudiate him. They cannot aud will not be dragooned into supporting any man who stands where lie does. Read ing, thinking aud hearing for them selves they will, as a body, vote more Independently and intelligently than any other class of the commnuity. Having risked their lives to preserve the Union and the Constitution they will not lend the influence of their bal lots to retard the restoration of the one and to destroy the other. They know who tlie candidates for Governor are, aud their service in the field lias made them familiar with the principles they represent. No amount of lying can de ceive them and no appeals to their pas sion can move them from thestand Unify,, have deliberately taken upon immuta ble principles. Hicster Clyrner will re ceive tlie'votes of very many soldiers who have been Republicans throughout, the war, enough to give him a majority* of the returned veterans. If the full Democratic vote of the State is polled, Hiester Clymer will be elected Governor, so surely as the Second Tuesday of October comes. That must he done. In order that it may be ac complished, there must be the most per fect organization of the party. It is time every township in the State had a well arranged business organization. Let every Democrat who reads this arti cle go to work at once. With a proper effort on part, we cannot be defeated in the coming election. One grand united struggle will enable us to over whelm tliedisunionists and to bury Rad iealism in Pennsylvania forever. Shall it be done? It rests with you, reader, to say. You must do your duty, your whole duty. You must work hard from this hour until the election ; and you must begin at once. Will you do so ? .Imlge Blacks Great Letter. Borne time ago Rev. Alfred Nevin, of Philadelphia, in a conversation with Judge Black boldly announced his be lief that preachers should discuss po litical afluiis in the pulpit. To this the Judge demurred. The conversation was .continued for some time in an earnest but friendly manner. Dr. Kevin having expressed a wish to continue the discussion through the newspaper press, Judge Black took up his chal lenge without hesitation. The first.let ter of Dr. Nevin appeared in the Phila delphia Evening Bulletin a few days ago. We publish to-day the able and crushing reply of Judge Black. This great letter from Judge Black comes at an opportune moment. It was only day before yesterday that we saw in the Harrisourg Telegraph a frantic appeal to the clergy. They were called upon to come to the aid of the Radical cause which is so evidently fast sinking. If the wishes of such papers as the Tele graph prevail, w,e shall have the present political contest transferred from the stump to the pulpit. We hope Minis ters of the Gospel will not so far forget their holy callingagain. If they should the duty of Democrats is plain. They Bhould at once completely withdraw all support from the men who thus prosti tute the house of God into political hustings. This should be done the mo ment any Bueh outrage is attempted. The Philadelphia Convention We could fill whole columns of our paper with the most cheering news in regard to the Philadelphia Convention. In every State of the Union the note of preparation is heard, and the best men of each are being elected delegates. It will be by all odds the largest as well as the most important representative body whioh has ever assembled 'in the country. The masses are looking for ward to its meeting with high expecta tions. We believe they will not be dis appointed. The actionyof the Conven tion will be regarded as the voice of the Union men of the entire Union, and as flueh will be heard and heeded by the people. No wonder the Radicals are quaking with fear. The Philadelphia Convention. The present week will be a season of busy preparation for receiving the dele gates who, from some of the States, are already on their way to Philadelphia. We trust they will arrive in large num bers before the day appointed for the Convention, and that they will not at tempt to expedite their business and bringitto an early close. TheNewYork World says, if the Convention effects a temporary organization the first day, a permanent one the second, if it has its committee on resolutions report on the third, and then gives scope for an ample and liberal comparison of views in open convention, the time will be well bestowed. In an ordinary busi ness convention, there is merit in ex pedition ; but where the object is the renewal of acquaintance and friendly intercourse, and the re-establishment of cordial relations amoDg brethren who have been estranged, time must be al lowed for thawing reserve and remov ing impediments to that “ flow of soul” which is the endearing circumstance in an interchange of courtesies. Till the members have eaten, and drank, and joked, together, and have become mel lowed by conviviality into an easy re ciprocation of good-will, it will be hardly expedient for them to enter on the dis cussions “ of pith and moment" which the country stands on tiptoe to hear and awaits with listening ears. While themembers remain undertherestraints of formality in their personal inter course, let none but formal business be transacted, such as the mere organiza tion of the Convention. Good feeling is the thing—the true cement of the Union —the only bond that can permanently hold it together; and we trust that the sentiments with which the Convention will enter on the serious part of its busi ness will be like the little leaven which the woman in the Scripture hid in the three measures of meal, “ till the whole was leavened." May the cordial and concessive spirit which prevails at Phil adelpbia be the inauguration of an “ era of good feeling" throughout the country! No convention ever held in this coun try, not even that which met in Phila delphia to frame the Constitution, was looked to with sj much interest, nor perhaps was fraught with consequences more important, than that which is about to assemble for the rescue of the Union. There is some aptness in the argument by which Cicero offered in cense to his vanity after he had saved Rome by the suppression of Cataline’s conspiracy, namely that the day which we are preserved outranks thatin which we are born, inasmuch as weare neither conscious of our birth nor know wheth er it will prove an advantage, whereas the joy of escape is felt, and we are qualified to estimate thj value of the life which is saved. On the same prin ciple, the restoration of the Constitution which may come from Philadelphia in 1860, may prove not less worthy of com memoration, than its formation in that city in 1787. Conservative Delegates from Lancaster County to the Philadelphia Conven- In pursuance of the call for a National Union Convention to be held in the City of Philadelphia, on the 14th day of Au gust, 1866, issued by the Executive Committee of the National Union Club of Washington, D. C., on the 25tli day of June, 1866, and of the Circular letter oi said Executive Committee of July lu, 180(5, a public meeting of those who voted for Lincoln and Johnson in 1.864, was held at the public house of John Michael, in the city of Lancaster, on Saturday, the 28th day of July, 1860, for the purpose of electing two delegates, supporters of Lincoln and Johnson in 1864, to represent the 9th Congressional District in the National Union Conven tion in Philadelphia, on the 14th day of August, 1860. Air. Davis A. Crown, of I'niton town ship, was appointed l’resident, and W. Hays Grier, Sergt. of Co. A, sth Penna. Reserve Corps, was .Secretary, Matthew M. Strickler, Esq., of Columbia, and Dr. John Levergood, of this city, were chosen as delegates. A series of reso lutions were adopted which we will publish shortly. Gctting Scared, That tlie leaders of the radical, negro suffrage Geary party iu this State are terribly alarmed there is no doubt, yliven before the great Convention of the Union Soldiers assembled at Har- risburg they wenffearingand trembling. A com mittee of prominent Republicans which was over at Washington just be fore Congress adjourned, to secure speakers for the coming campaign, ac cording to the New York Tribune , ad mitted that Geary would have “a hard road to travel.” That will be. Without brains, with out honesty- as a politician, and a poor miserable trickster; the hired tool of such political reprobates as Thad. Stevens, Simon Cameron and John W. Forney ; repudiated by the soldiers and despised by every intelligent Conserva tive Republican in the State, how can he hope for an election? The skies are bright, and all the signs of the times indicate an old fashioned Democratic victory. Proper organiza- tion and well directed labor will ensure it beyond a question. The Radical Disunionists are on the run already, and on the second Tuesday of October they will be utterly routed, if we only organize and' work. Forward then ! Organize thoroughly and at once in every ward and township! Work 1 Work diligently from this hour ! Gen. Grant and the Freedmen’s Bureau. A report was made to the Freedmen’s Bureau a short time ago by an agent at Annapolis, Md., of interference with the operations of the Bureau at that place by the whitecitizens. General Howard presented the report of General Augur, commanding that military department, and asked for a company of white troops to assist the agent in the discharge of l>is olliuial duties. General Augur re ferred the matter to General Grant, with vhom General Howard had a personal interview. General Grant declined to iurnisli the troops, on the ground that Maryland was not one of the lately in surrectionary States, in which the army is required to support the Bureau, and, moreover, that he was opposed to the interference of the military wherever it could be avoided, such interferenceonly tending to increase the evils it attempts to allay and excites the people to in creased bitterness. Among the appointments just made by President Johnson are the following for Philadelphia: Ex-Governor Wm. F. Johnson, Collector of Customs ; Al bert Sloanaker, Collector of Internal Revenue for the First District; Edward Walluce, Naval Officer; E. Reed Meyer, Surveyor of Customs. Verily the axe is falling, and the heads of radicals are rolling off. Every conservative man in the country -\yill rejoice to see that the President is resolved to use his in fluence to carry out his wise and states manlike policy. Cable Jokes. The New York Journal of Commerce felicitates those Atlantic cable share holders who have so long been engaged in “paying out 11 upon the gratifying fact that the cable is at last “paid out, 1 ’ but by no means “ played out; and the Evening Post wishes to know what more the directors of the cable com -£ ow that t he y have ar rived at their Heart’s Content.” The IlarrUbarg Telegraph. The Harrisburg Telegraph assailed the Soldiers’ Union Convention in the grossest terms. It is the most audacious ly untruthful newspaper published in Pennsylvania, and the meanest. We do not even except the Lancaster Ex press. Its character is so well known and its standing so very low, that every decent man in the Republican party is ashamed of it. Colonel McClure, of the Chambersburg Repository , has been calling loudly for the establishment of a decent party paper at the State Capi tal. He thus graphically describes the Telegraph: “We have had nomarkedcases ofhydro phobiu iu the capital, but wo have oue paln lul case of mental derangement doubtless caused by the heated term. I refer to the Harrisburg Telegraph. It don’t seem ex actly mad,for it has flashes ofl ucid intervals. I would call it softening of the brain, but the conclusion is lorbidden by the palpa ble absence of a material commodity es sential to that disease. It is forgetful, fret ful, frothy, fabricating, flatulent and fitful in its actions and sayings, aod darts off, like a shooting star from its sphere, until it gets entirely beyond the realms of truth. Such being the real character of the Telegraph, it is hot straDge that it should misrepresent the late Convention of the Union soldiers of Pennsylvania, and denouuce the multitude of brave veterans there-assembled as “bounty jumpers and deserters." The excitement caused by its issue of Wednesday evening was intense, and nothing but the manly and honorable character of the soldiers present pre vented them from giving the Hessian who owns it a taste of the treatment which many Democratic newspapers received during the war. Democrats always discourage mobs. But for that the Telegraph office would have been ‘gutted." A better plau was adopted. Nine crippled soldiers, all of them from a strong Republican county, and all of them strong Republicans heretofore, went to the office of the Telegraph , and seeking out Bergner, the proprietor, de manded that he should take back the offensive epithets he had applied to the delegates to the Convention. The cow ardly creature attempted to shield him self,;.by declaring that he had been ab sent and knew nothing of what had ap peared until lie saw the paper, and pro mised to retract all he had said de rogatory to the character of the Con vention or its members. Of course he lied when he made the promise. Feel ing safe after the soldiers were gone, he continued his abuse of them in yester day’s issue. It was proper that he should not be mo lested. We would not have Democratic soldiers disgrace themselves by engaging in a riot. They have another way in which they can and will amply revenge themselves upon their cowardly tra ducers. When Bergner hears from the soldiers in October, he will be worse scared than he was when in the presence of the nine crippled heroes on last Wed nesday eveniug. The “ Rich Irish Brogue." General Scoit’s silly wooing of the German and the Irish helped to kill him as a candidate for the Presidency.— The sons of Erin could see through the design of the military candidate who attempted to blarney them by talking of his “love for the rich Irish brogue;" and the Germans were not to be wen to a party which always bore hatred to a foreigner, by any allusion to the “sweet German accent.” That ought to serve as a lesson to our opponents. They made literally nothing out of all their attempts to gull the Irish iu the past. On the German element of the country they did manage to makesome impression through the influence of Carl Schurz and a few other leaders of his class ; but the hold they got by that agency is fast being lost. The silliest thing we ever saw in journalism is the studied attemptof rad ical newspapers to gull the Irish into the support of the Radicals through prejudice excited against the action of President Johnson in regard to the in vasion of Canada. The Express has had quite a number of editorials on that question. It may see how it is wasting its powder when we assure it that after the most diligent inquiry we have not been able to bear of a single Irishman that ever acted with the Democratic party who would touch Geary with a forty foot pole. They despise him and his party. Tliej- know that it has not been long since these very men made war not only upon the whole race, but upon the holy religion which they pro fess. What Irishman can ever forget how not only their clergy, but even the pure Sisters of Charity and other mem bers of religious orders were assailed in the coarsest and most brutal terms by the very same newspapers which are now attempting to cajole them into the support of a man who was then a mem ber of a “ Know-Nothing Lodge." We know it on the most indisputable au thority that Geary was even then re creant to the Democratic party through the hope of securing office. Let every Irishman remember this when lie is ap pealed to to desert the party which has always stood by him and his religion. Maryland, Our Democratic exchanges from Maryland are loud in their commenda tion of Governor Swann for appointing liberal and honest men as officers of Registration. That is all they ask. The Frederick Union says : In another column we give the names of the officers of Registration,and we are happy to add, that there is not a single Radical among them. Thanks to Governor Swann for his judicious selections. That ends radicalism in Maryland. The whole Congressional delegation elected this lull will be a unit in favor of therestoration policy of the President; and a Legislature will be chosen which will repeal the infamous Registration laws and other enactments passed by the men who, beingelected by bayonets, attempted to perpetuate the rule by dis franchisingthe the State. Phil. Sheridan on the New Orleans Riot. General Banks, the Red River hero, has written a letter to the Washington National Republican on the New Or leans riots, in which he says : The Convention was the ostensible, and not the latent cause of the outbreak. It was a peaceful and lawful assembly. One word from the recognized authorities of the United States in New Orleans would have secured its adjournment. General Sheridan —commonly called “fighting Phil"—whose word the Radi cals will not doubt, thus disposes of the matter: New Orleans, 1:30 P. M. Aug. 1, 1866. To General U. S. Grant, Washington, D. C. ♦You are doubtless aware of the serious riot which occurred in this city on the 30th. A political body, styling itself the Conven tion of 1564, met here on the 20th, for, as it is alleged, the purpose of remodelling the present Constitution of the State. The leaders were political agitators and revolu tionary men, and the actionof the Convention ivas liable to produce breaches of the public peace. I had made up my mind to arrest the head men if the proceedings of the Convention were calculated to disturb the tranquility of the department, but I had no cause for action until they committed the oven t act. About forty whites and blacks were killed, and about i6O wounded. Everything is now quiet but I deem it best to maintain a mili- .h Pre 2 ? “ C?, ? t n eeit y f ora ftw days until the affair is fully investigated. I be eve the sentiment of the general commu mty is great regret at this unnecessary cruelty, and that the police could any arrest they saw fit without sacrificing ™ H * Sheridan, Major Gen. Commanding. The Radicals who are denouncing President Johnson as the author of the riots will not relish the above version of the affair; but honest men every where will prefer his statement to that of Banks. What Soldiers Cannot Understand. There are something* which Union soldiers cannot understand. For the life of them they cannot comprehend how it comes that the war failed to re store the Union—how it happens, un less the acts of secession were legal and valid, that the Southern States are still out of the Union. Many who have not yet quite concluded to desert the Radi cals are puzzling their brains seriously over this and other questions of vital importance. In vain do they look to Republican newspapers for enlighten ment. They find nothing in such papers as the Express but a little stale, lying abuse of Clyrner. That don’t satisfy them. They want to have someauthori tative exposition of the creed of the Republican party. Where does Geary stand on the issues of the day? Per haps the Express can enlighten the boys in blue by answering the following questions, which we assure it are puz zling those who joined the Geary Club no little: Ist, Was the war for the Union or for the negro? 2d. If the war was for the Union, how does it happen that it failed to restore it? Was the war a failure? 3d. If the Southern States arestill out of the Union, were not the acts of se cession legal, valid and binding on all the people of the States which seceded ? How then could Jeff.Davisor aDy other man, who was engaged in the rebellion, be guilty of treason? 4th. How does it happen that all the leaders of the Republican party are op posed to allowing the Southern States to return to the Union, until they take steps looking to conferring the right of suffrage on the negroes? Was negro suffrage the object for which the war was waged ? olh. Unless the war was a failure are not loyal representatives from Southern States entitled to seats in Congress—by what authority are they kept out ?. The soldiers want these questions an swered. Can the Express reply to them? We put them to it as they were pro pounded to us by a soldier who always voted the Republican ticket, and await its answer. An Original “ Woolly Head.” We find the following in the Express. “1 deem it a duty I owe to a constitu ency that has twice honored me with a seat in the State Legislature, and whosesupport I again ask—to fully and distinctly avow my position. “ Ever since I had the right to vote I have been the warm, personal, und (I trust I will be purdoned for saying) the tried political friend of Hon. Thaddeus Stevens. Long before he had become the leader of our National councils—or these gentlemen had discovered his merits—/ was a “ Woolly Head." Not then, nor over since, ashumed of the name. “If any gentleman can point me to a single moment in my whole political life, wnero I ever even wavered in my support of the man or my devotion to the principles he advocated, let that gentleman by no means support me. “ That is iny position, past, present, and prospective—anything and everything that may be said to the contrary notwithstand ing. By it let me stand or fall. By it let my future course be judged. Nath’l Ellmakkr, jh.” Salisbury twp., July 3U, 1866. What an admission for any man to make! What a most singular am bition ! The fellow evidently wishes to appear more devoted to the negro than Thud Stevens. There is only oue way by which he can show himself to be so. Ste vens has a negro woman for a housekeep er. Nath’l Ellmaker, Jr., if he wishes to come fully up to the standard he has set up for himself, ought to marry a ne gro wench. Then he would be just one legal poiut in advance of his master* — We do not know whether he is now a married mun or a single one. If he is unmarried all he has to do is to start on his wooing expedition, aud from his evident epistolary skill we judge he would make rapid advances among his sable sisters. If lie is so uufoituuate as to be married to a white woman, he should apply at once for a divorce.— Should a majority of the next Legisla ture be men like himself, he would be freed from matrimonial bouds at once, on stating his case. Should white men have a majority, he can apply to Con gress. His friend Stevens would have the matter put through for him there at once, under the crack of his whip. Is it not a disgrace to have a man run ning for the Legislature who avows such sentiments ? The Atlantic Cable, The Eastern papers, and especially those in the city of New York, are very much dissatisfied with the man agement of the Atlantic cable. The despatches received by it are meagre and unsatisfactory. A suspicion is arising that the cable is not working well. It is even beginning to be sus pected that it does not work at all, though we believe this will turn out to be a mistake. The Newark Jour nal has the following: Does the Atlantic Cable Work?— There seems to be considerable mvstery in regard to the Atlantic cable, and there are serious doubts as to whether any message has been really transmitted by it, despite the boast of the New York Herald that it had a special despatch “ahead of all others.” The meagreness of the pretended news, the evident caution connected with the “ad vices,” and the discovered errors relative to announced prices in the foreign stock mar ket, all tend to create distrust as to the practical working of the cable, and the pub lic is gradually beginning to exhibit the same skeptiesm that it did in ISoS. It will be remembered that at that time, it was an nounced that messages had passed between’ the President and the Queen of England, but circumstances afterwards induced the belief that this was untrue. The after-belief oi which the Journal here speaks was not well fouuded. President Buchanan (if we are not mis taken about the facts in the case) was at Bedford when he received Queen Vic toria’s congratulatory telegram in 185 S. His answer, which was penned imme diately upon\he receipt of the Queen’s despatch, was published in the London Times within two days after its trans mission from Bedford. So the cable laid down in 1858 did work for a time. Its pulsations were feeble from the first, and in a few days it gave up the ghost. The Kentucky Election Louisville, Aug. 6.—The following returns of the election have been re ceived : _ . ... Duvall. Hobson, Hardensville yo ]0 Cla3\svil]e y> Christiansburg 37.5 1 arls 2m n^i Eminence 100 2!> Elizabethtown 301 237 Simpson county 4 maj Frankfort city ISO maj! Do. county 600 maj. Medway 135 H Crab Orchard 42 maj. Lincoln county 300 maj! Stanford 160 maj. Lebanon precinct 361 luo Do. county 500 maj. Pine Tavern 70 New Haven, Dawson,a prec’t. 40 do New Haven 227 21 Lagrange 340 Bowling Green (7 preoincta)....U2B 471 The county will give Duvall 750 majority Russellville gives Duvall 353 majority. Louisville, Aug. 6.— Duvall beats Hobson as Clerk of the Courtof Appeals, 1,600 in the city and about 800 in the county. Reports from the country in dicate that Duvall’B majority in the State will be from 10,000 to 20,000. Johnson, ex-secretary of Jeff Davis, a candidate for County Clerk, is beaten in the city by 700 majority. The Herald of says the Cholera in New York city has not seemingly abated for the twenty-four hours ending at 7 o’clock P. M. on Sun day. Twenty-nine cases_ and nine deaths were during that period reported. In Brooklyn great difficulty was expe rienced in obtaining correct returns on Sunday owing to the alleged laxity or mismanagementof the sanitary officials. Three deaths of previously reported cases had occurred on Governor’s Island. On the other islands no additional cases were mentioned. Slavery in Massachusetts. We gave our readers a few days ago some records of “ Ye good old Colony times” of Massachusetts, relative to that “relic of barbarism” known as slavery. We Bhowed then that , the Pharisees, who took passage IntheJ/ay floweri justified themselves by copious texts of Scripture in enslaving negroes and Indians just as easily as they did In their persecutions of Quakers, Bap tists and Catholics, and with as much facility as blood-thirsty Massachusetts divines of our day find Scripture where by Southern men and women are con signed to eternal flames for practices with respect to slavery—such as the Puritans contended were ordained of God. We propose continuing our re searches through the records of this people who acted, as they claimed, un der the direct teaching of the Almighty, and shall, in the course of our remarks, exhibit the fact that Massachusetts only found out that it was not acting in the spirit of God’s ordinances when slavery ceased to be a paying institution. Surely every admirer of the “ model Common wealth ” will say that the Puritans acted conscientiously in enslaving “ ne groes, mulattoes and Indians;” they alleged that as God had ordained in Israel so they did, but to-dhy, when a word of compassion is asked, when a deed of mercy hoped for, for a people whose interests were infinitely more closely connected with the institution of slavery, a yell of horror escapes the descendants of these same Pur*itans as though the damned were about to escape from the bottomless pit to scatter deso lation upon the earth. From the date of the landing of the Mayflower (1G20) up to 1781, five years after the Declaration of Independence was proclaimed, slavery was uninter rupted in Massachusetts save and except by solitary protests, such as have been made in South Carolina or any other of the Southern States nearly ever year since the formation of the Union, and there is not to-day a law on the statute book of Massachusetts abolishing slavery in direct terms. The recent adoption of the amendment to the Constitution of the United States is the abolition of the institution by implication in Mas sachusetts as elsewhere, but no direct act of her own people in their sovereign capacity as applicable solely to itself ever struck the shackles from a single slave. One of the most potent infer ences to be drawn from this condition of affairs is that the institution fell into disuse because it ceased to be remunera tive. We shall now proceed to quote from the musty records of Massachusetts such laws upon Slavery, as no one but the most venomous Copperhead could suppose existed anywhere, save on the barbarous statute book of Mississippi or Louisiana. The law of 1700, chapter G, “ for the better preventing of Spurious and Mixt Issue,” &c., punishes negroes and mulattoes for improper intercourse with whites, by selling them out of the Province. It also punishes any negro or mulatto for striking a Christian by wnipping at the discretion of the Jus- tices before whom he may be convicted. It also prohibits marriage of Christians with negroes and mulattoes—and im poses a penalty of Fifty Pounds upon any person joining them in marriage- It provides against any unreasonable denial of marriageof negroes with those of the same nation. This last clause was iuserted because the master frequently connived at the fornication of his Slave ; lest he should be obliged to find him a wife or pay his fine. Scwall, 1700. The law in regard to the prohibition of marriage between Christians and Negroes passed 1705, seems to have fallen into disuse, for in*l7SG the “Model Commonwealth” passed an “act for the orderly solemnization of marriage ” by the seventh section of which, it was enacted “ that no person authorized by this act to marry, shall join iu marriage any white person with any Negro, In dian or Mulatto under penalty of fifty pounds, and all such marriages shall ho null aud void.” The prohibition con tinued until 1843, when it was repealed by a special “act relating to marriage between individuals of certain races.” We must credit the “model Common wealth” with some littlefobstinacy in its conversion to its present posi tion on the question of miscegena tion, but why should we, heathens that we are, be ceusured for not coming up quickly to its side in our prac tices? Twenty-three years is not a long time in so mighty a social revolution. What the “ Model Commonwealth ” did in 1543 ought to be considered smart in us in 1900. Among other humane and charitable acts of the theocrats of the Mayflower and their immediate descendants for the benefit of the poor negro may be men tioned, that under the law of 1705 they could not enter the Colony under a pen alty of four pounds per head ; were not allowed to train in the militia, and made them do service on the highways as an equivalent; and prohibited them entertaining any servants of their own color in their own houses, without per mission of the respective masters and mistresses.— Lyman's Jtcp., 1822. In 1712, an act was passed prohibiting ‘•the importation or bringing into the Province of Massachusetts any Indian servants or slaves. The preamble re cites the bad character of the Indians and other slaves, “ being of a malicious, surly and revengeful spirit; rude and insolent in their behavior and very un governable.” This preamble must have been drawn by some prospective Copperhead. Where is the saintly or the rub-a-dub editor of the Express to prate of the malignity of the Southern slave owner. Reader, remember these are the acts of a people who profess to be governed by God’s law ; who did to the slave as God did in Israel—a people whose descend ants point to to-day as the noblest ag gregation qf individuals who have ever lived in the tide of time. The subject before us is so full of in terest, and so replete in its allurements for reflection, that instead of being able to compress the prominent points ofthe history of half a century or more, into the space of a single article, we find our selves filling up our columnsereadozen years of the history of the slave’s op pressions in Massachusetts have been recited. These oppressions are peculiar to the founders of the “ Model Common wealth,” founded solely upon man’s cupidity, yet fanatically attributed to revealed authority from God. In Mary land among the Catholics, in Virginia among the children of the established Church, or in South Carolina among the Huguenots, no higher authority than their own power and convenience was claimed for the enslavement of the African, but impious, self-justified Puritanism cleaves the empyrean and draws its authority from the throne of God. Geary’s Platform. It will be remembered that the Re publican party, when it nominated Geary, made the action of Congress its platform. They endorsed all it had done as broadly as they repudiated and denounced President Johnson. Con gress, then, is Geary’s platform. He must stand by all the Radicals have done, and dare not repudiate a siDgle one of their corrupt or revolutionary acts. Let this fact be remembered by the people. The acts and the opinions of Congress constitute his platform. Keep that before the people, Wbo are Responsible for the Blot in New Orleans? If anything were needed in addition to what we have already published to that the Radicals are responsible for the late riot in New Orleans, It is furnished by the New York Tribune , which Is endeavoring to throw upon President Johnson the blame of this new-development of the policy of Stevens, Sumner, and their comrades In Congress. From a special corres pondent the Tribune has a report of the scenes which were enacted at the meet ing which Immediately preceded the assembling of the Convention. Two meetings were organized In fact, one inside of the large Hall of the House of Representatives, and another outside, at which immense crowds, composed al most entirely of negroes, were in attend ance. Governor Hahn was elected chairman of the meeting inside the hall. On taking his seat he addressed the following inflammatory speech to the assembled negroes: I ellow- Citizens : Although it is not my province to address you on this occasion, I cannot resist the temptation to express to you my appreciation of the honor which J feel in being called to preside over this meeting. The days of the slave oligarchy, of Confederate provost-marshals, when col' ored men could not come together to delib erate over public affairs has, thank God ceased to exist, [Applause.] As President Lincoln and the Union army were unable to restore the Union until the colored men came to their aid, so the Union men of this State feel that they cannot maintain the principles of union of the Stales without the aid ot the patriotic colored men. The cause which we are here to-night in augurating in Louisiana is a great and holy cause, and the Rebels are trembling in their shoes in cousequence. They are realizing the fact that this is u country to be ruled by loyal men, both white and black. There was a time when the term “Abolitionist” was considered as u shame; but I stand bo tore you to-night, raised and educated as I have been in the South and tell vou that I glory in beingan Abolitionist and"a Radical. [Applause.] When I went to Washington lust 1-all, my Union friends in Louisiana did not come up to the mark of universal suffrage; but when I came back a few months luter, the outrages which had been heaped upon them by the Rebel Govern ment here had brought them to the murk, tmd now no man can justly claim to be a L nion man unless ho favors universal suf frage. One of the greatest arguments used ugainst the right ol sutlrage to the colored people, by the Copperheads in the North, is that it you were allowed to vote, you will be controlled by the planters aud old slave holders. [Cries of “Never.”] I did not ask you that question, for 1 kuow that you would not be controlled by them. As they failed in thinking you would light for them so they will tail in supposing you will vote lor them. The question is not this alone, but whether you will be allowed to hold office as white men do , I say you are en titled to this right, and I wpuld rather every office in the Slate was in the hands of col ored men than in the hands of unrepentant. Rebels. [Applause.] It is to you that the lovul men of the South must look, and when you separate to night make up your minds from this day forward, you are as good as any whito nmn in the State. [Great cheering.] Col. A. P. Field next addressed the meet ing in substance us follows : Fellow-Citizens : This meeting is call ed to indorse the right of universal suffrage, to be extended by the Convention to all who liuve been made citizens, and to Indorse the reassembling of the Convention of ISU4. Congress was not satisfied with tho results accomplished by the Convention when it last assembled, because it withheld from you the right "f suffrage, and therefore it meets uguin, i > conform to the wishes of Congress in that respect. Why should not Louisiana, like North Carolina and Ten nessee and New York, ullow suffrage to tho colored people on the property basis? I say it should be done. Rut you must bo patient and firm. Tho people will become better informed from time to time, nnd where you have now 5,0u0 white men in this city to advocate your rights for suf frage, you will soon have 2(J,U00. You do not want to fight for it, bpt you will have it sooner or later. The Convention of ISG4 assembles next Monday 0 in this hall, und they will triumph without revolution. When they meet, that boon you have long expected will be given you, and when vou enjoy it, exercise it in a munner becoming iree aud loyal citizens of the United States! I say, in conclusion, let us join in three cheers for Governor Wells and the Conven tion of 18G4! [Great cheering.] Tho Hon. Rufus Waples next addressed the meeting, reviewing the policy of Con gress and the President as follows: Congress recognizes the right for the people, in their primitive capacity, in those States destroyed by the rebels, to make their own orgauic law, and submit it to Congress, and leave it lor Congress to decide whether it be con sistent with the organic law of the Repub lic. The President's policy seeks not to leave this matter to the people iii their primitive capacity, but to ignore the ques tions of the war, and ignore the fact that the State organizations have been destroyed by eleven of the States who took up arms against the Government. In other words, Congress holds that the States are now as they have been during the last four years, and that it requires those people to make their contributions anew, before they can rejoin their proper relation. I say take the whole mass of tho colored people in Lousiana, und they are better edu cated than the Rebels are—not in Latin and Greek—but in politics, nnd that is tho ne cessary education required by a voter. You have learned two important lessons—to hate slavery and to abhor treason. Moral voters are more needed by tho Government now than intellectual voters. Congressand the Convention of 1804 both favor universal suffrage. We have now no Constitution in this State, and you are in primitive capaci ty. Then you have already acquired the right of suffrage—you have not to acquire it. But you are hindered in exercising it, and the object of the Convention is to remove these hindrances in conjunction with your friends at the North. Thu speaker conclu ded by paying tribute to tho efforts made by Sumner, Philips and others at thoNorih in the cause of universal suffrage, and as suring his audience that their efforts would not be in vain, and that the gi eat object before them would soon be accomplished. At the outside meeting there was an immense crowd of negroes gathered. There Judge Hiestand addressed them as follows: Fellow Citizen's: The decree of God lms goue l'orlb, tlml there shull bo univorsul freedom and universal suffrage throughout the South. The men who got un this war effected emancipation, and by the course which they are now pursuing they will be forced to yield universal suffrage. lie spoke of the Convention, und said in substance that if the Executive of the State needed anything to enforce the law, that power was here. The great power of Amer ican citizenship is in obeying the laws. He asked whether there was any justice in allowing ffij.OOO to have all the political power and do all the voting for (>O,OOO men in the State? Congress is abused for not admitting the representatives from the South by the mass of those who have but recently returned from fighting against that very Government in which they claim a representation. They have the modesty to say: “We'll do all the voting— you'll do all the working.” The Tribune correspondent gives the following account of what followed : Dr. IJostie closed the outside meeting bv an eloquent speech, which was applauded to the echo, and tho vast crowd, at his re quest. commenced forming, with those from the inside meeting, for the torch-light pro cession, which was one of the grandest and most enthusiastic displays of the kind which has ever taken place in this city. At least 5,000 loyal disfranchised citizens formed in compact columns, and with bright torches to the sound of lojml music, marched down Canal street, making the air resound with cheer upon cheer for universal suffrage Congress, and the Convention which is about to assemble to give them suffrage. The steady, march and stalwart forms of those composing the procession afforded unmistakable evidence that they had bat tled for the Union,'and were determined if necessary, to fight again for the right of suffrage, without which their freedom is but an empty sound. Arriving at the statue of Henry Clay, the procession halted for a moment, and after cheering that illustrious statesman, re sumed its march past the St. Charles Hotel and the different newspaper offices, all the way tilling the air with what the Rebel press is pleased to term their "yells and cheers of defiance.” Such a sight Xew Orleans never before witnessed. Xo wonder many a rebel grew pale as he saw that compact body of reso ute men, and witnessed the blazeof enthu siasm and manly determination which it manifested to right the wrongs under which they are suffering. Arriving at the City Hall, Doctor Dostie mounted the steps and addressed them in a few words; which were frequently interrupted by the wildestcheers He congratulated them on the immense success of the meeting, and complimented them for their quiet and orderly behavior advising them to retire quietlv to their homes, but if they were insulted'or knock ed down bv any one to promptly resent the inj ary, ami thereby assert their maShSkL Acting out their instructions, the ne groes proceeded with their nrocession audit was not long until some one of them deeming himself insulted by a white man, got into a fight, which was speedily transformed into the riot. We do not think any man, who reads the above account from the Tribune , will fail to be convinced that th.e whole blame rests upon the radicals. But for the teachings of such men as Thad. Stevens it would never have occurred. It was the immediate result of an effort to force negro suffrage upon the people of a sov ereign State by galvanizing Into life a defunct convention which never had legal existence. This wasthe train of powder. The spark which caused the ex plosion, was the inflammatory language of the speeches from which we have made extracts. The Radical Blot In Jfew Orleans. The Washington correspondentof the New York Herald gives the following account of the riot in New Orleans, and of the manner In which It was hatched into being by the radicals, as fostered into full growth for political purposes: The serious riot in New Orleans yester day, full details of which have been trans mitted by telegraph and spread before the public, has been a subject of general con versation here, and comment has not been lacking to support either side of the ques tion at issue. But, as the whole affair was deliberately planned and concocted in this city during the recent session of Congress, it is more possible to arriveataclearunder standing of the merits of the case here than anywhere else. In reviewing the matter, as I propose briefly to do, it will be neces sary to take a retrospective glance of a few years. The convention, the attempt to reassemble which has led to the scenes of bloodshed and riot now tilling the public mind with horror, was origiually called during the ad ministration of General Bunks as comman dant of the Military Department of the Gulf. The forces of the Uuited States then occu pied about one-third of the territory ol the State, and from those portions only were delegates sent to the convention which was called by the proclamation cf then Provis ional or Military Governor Hahn. The del egations were notoriously secured through the active exertions and interference ot the military officials, and in many instances comprised men in no manner entitled to citizenship iu the State; in others, men of doubtful character—gamblers, saloon keep ers, Ac.; in the generality, men of inferior ability and with no representative charac ter. But the convention, representing simply a third of the Slate, assembled nevertheless, and proceeded to discharge its duties. United States District Judge Dar rell was chosen its President. Its proceed ings were characterized by a general acqui escence in the demands of the military authorities and of the government at Wash ington. A constitution was framed, having as its chief feature a provision forever pro hibiting within the State slavery or invol untary servitude, except for crime, and authorizing the State Legislature, created by it, to determine the question of .suffrage. The convention adjourned subject to the call ot its President. Its work was submitted to the people and ratified, though bv a very small vote—the majority ot the people, even in the territory occupied by our forces, being opposed to the new instrument, but for prudential reasons refraining from voting upon it. On the restoration of the Slate, under the President’s proclamation, the constitution framed by this convention continued in force by common consent, and the people under it proceeded to elect a civil govern ment in all Its details, from Governor down, and have since quietly and cheerfully sub mitted to the organic law which seemed so repugnant to them, and in the making of widen they had been allowed no participa tion as a whole people. During the last session of Congress, when the radicals began to develop the bitterness of their hostility to the President and his policy, efforts were made to get control of all the Southern State governments. Among the rest Louisiana was sought to be brought under radical influences, und telegrams passed thickly between this city and New Orleans in regard to tho matter. Fmaliv, when the Reconstruction Committee were übout to report, tho leaders in that move ment requested tho extreme radicals in New Orleans to send a committee here for consultation. Such a committee was sent, consisting ot Benj. Franklin Lynch, ex-Attorney General under Hahn, and R. K. Howell, now claiming to be President of tho convention. This committee came on and had frequent and protracted inter views with Stevens, Fessenden, Howard, Banks and other leading men in Congress. The proposition was that the convention of 1864, which, it was admitted, could be relied upon, should bo reassembled, the Recon struction Committee's should be by them accepted and approved, the proposed amendment to the constitution ofthe United States ratitied, the constitution ofthe Slate further amended so as to provide for negro suffrage und the disfranchisement of a large proportion of the whites who bud participa ted in any manner in tho rebellion, the State offices to be declared vacant, and new elec tions ordered under the restrictions and provisions of the revised constitution so as to put into office only such tnen as were in favor with the negroes and the few whites who would be permitted to vote. Tho proposition was the subject of long corres pondence by telegraph and letter be tween the committee sent here to con fer, and their friends in Louisiana. The subject was broached to Judge Darrell, who positively refused to have anything to do with it, taking the ground that the au thority vested in him to reconvene the con vention had expired upon tho ratification by the people of its doings, the possible re jection of which by the people being in his mind the only contingency under which the convention meant to provide for its recull. And in this view he was sustained by the ablest men in the State, who argued that otherwise the convention would never cease to exist, at least so loug as its President should be alive. This was a stumper to the revolutionary scheme proposed, but us it turned out not a fatal one. Suggested by the Directory here, a caucus ofthe faithful members ofthe convention was summoned and met in New Orleans, at which Robert K. Howell wus nominated President pro fern, of the convention, the appointment of such an officer having been neglected, or not considered necessary during the session of the bod3*. But a little consideration showed tho plotters that this action would do them no good, inasmuch ns, during the presence of the President, the President pro ton. could not presume to act. But soon after Judge Darrell proceeded North, thus removing that objection, but only to give place to others of a still more serious nature. Howell had not been regularly elected President pro (cm., and therefore could uot act in that capacity until the con vention should assemble and ratify tho caucus nomination; and if that objection could be got over another presented itself. Howell had resigned his seat in tho con vention during its session, which resigna tion had been accepted. Subsequently, it is true, an effort had been made to recon sider that vote of acceptance, but it bad failed because of the lack of a quorum when it was made; so that, in fact, Howell was not even a member of the body ofwhirh it was proposed irregularly to make him presiding officer. The Directory, however, proposed to override all this und brass the | thing through; but Howell had sufficient virtue left in him to set hisface determined ly against such a palpably illegal proceed ing, and positively refused to uet. The Directory then went to work at Gov ernor Wells, who hud hitherto been classed by them as a copperhead and rebel, and by the people as a conservative. On hearing the scheme, Wells declared that it was rev olutidhary; would lead to riot and blood shed; the people would not submit to it ; ho would have nothing to do with it, and to avoid being dragged into it, he packed his trunk and ielt New Orleans for his planta tion up the country. This determined and refractory conduct was duly reported by .Lynch, Howell and Hahn (who was acting with them) to the Directory. Thad. Stevens smiled one of his ghastly smiles and said, “Of course, its revolutionary. Ain't these revolutionary times?” Fessenden said, “ What if the people do kick up a row ? It’s all tho better lor us at the North.” Banks with his wise sagacity, acquiesced, and said, “I know all those people down there, and just what they are made of. Let thorn create a riot. The more auarehy there is produced in tho South, the more thunder we will have at the North. We’ll fasten it on the the President’s policy.” Conklin, Howard and the rest of them chimed in with a com mon remnrk. “It’s just what wo want; the best thing that could happen for the radical party.” Hard as it may be to believe these reports in this era of the world's history, i they, nevertheless,are truths; and though in I each instance I may not cite the precise words used, I give the substance of the re plies of these members of the thirty-ninth Congress when told that their plans would lead to what they have led. And so a long despatch was sent down to Governor Wells, in which propositions were made to him to convene that convention, it being distinctly fledged to him that Congress would sustain iis action and the action of the convention when assembled, and that the military power of the government should not be ex ereed against them. Now, in this connec tion note the similarity of the agreement to that entered into with the Texas radicals, as exposed to you in this correspondence some time ago in noting the defection of Jack Hamilton to the radicals. In both instances the ultimate argument used was that the military power of the government should not be used against the radical revolutionists. The Jack Hamilton plot has been carried out literally and precisely as I unfolded it to you, save that tho Throckmorton government, not being yet installed, cannot be resisted and overturned. In this New Orleans business the same promises of military aid were given. The result will show whether the plotters of revolution have the power to keep their pledges in this important respect. The proposition of the Directory was taken out, by one of the home friends of the scheme, to the country hiding place of Lh®. governor, a poor ola superannuated politician of years ago, who, overcome by the flattery and promises of support from leading members of Congress, yielded his convictions of duty and right, and issued from his retreat writs of election to fill va cancies, and a proclamation convening the convention. The reception of this procla mation is already known. The populace were indignant; the entire State adminis tratlon, except the Governor, protested Even the better class or radicals in tbe State, such as Thomas J. Durant, and those who follow his lead, and who nave H„fl ert ? be ? n con sldered the most substan ua y loyal citizens in the Slate, and are denounced the movement? all, or Sfn» r i y i n Fodorul appointees in the ( !°n° unc cd it ? a majority of the mom- 1 10 c° nve ntl o n clapped their bands th« ni.Vn )S^tlct of K ott l n B another chance at HS He treasury; a few ambitious out ten riiT' d ', U " 10 P ros P oot or it revolu- Lhß 'em ?., 1 ” *" brin t 5 lllem uppermost: iliontml uL I?, B r° Pepuletlon strutted emi sbouted iitlho Instipuion of the knowing y i bollov PiK Hint tbe movement was designed to, and would, bring to them JMeo. rlght ° Buffru Be “nd privilege to It is not necessary, nor hnvo I time, to trnco tbe stops from the Issuance of Wells’ call for tbe convention up toils fatal assem bling yesterday. huoughbas been stated to show that the results producod bnd been deliberately counted upou. o no great ob ject of the convention has been accomplish ed, viz: tho creation of a riot. U s pass over all the interim and como down to the mimediato time of the disturbance. Tho Governor, seeing the commotion caused by his proclamation, took steps to preserve the peace. Whut stops? In a dispatch bo suys that ho has enrolled tho militia of the State. That is, in fact, he has organized tho negro population into squads and companies, armed them with muskets, pistols, clubs or whatever else could bo procured, and with them prepared to protect an illegal body, convened for avowedly revolutionary pur poses, from the fury of the populace, who refused to bo revolutionized. This proceed ing was reported to tho people, and added •V. 4 -* 1 }° die blazo of popular excitement, finally, on Friday Inst, as if purposely to create tho rupture for which tho Central Directory here had expressed themselves so anxious, certain white men procured an assemblage of negroes to lie belli, ut wliieb the most violent and incendiary speeches were made, exciting the poor ignorant blacks to all manner of insolence and out rage towards the native white citizens. A procession was formed, which marched through the principal streets, armed with clubs, brickbats and pistols, driving all white citizens from the thoroughfares. Tho interference of the police resulted in tho killing ot throe negroes and the woundingof s veral policemen. '1 ho (lav of the convention arrived. The Mayor had appealed to the peopleto refrain from any interference with its meeting. Prominent Louisianians, now in this city, including J. Adolph Kussler(who, I see, the despatches denounce as a violent cop perhead;, Mr. \\\ il. C. King, of tho New Orleans Tnncx: Mr. Flanders and others, acting under advice from tho President, kept the wires busy with their despatches to their fellow townsmen, urging that in no case should the convention bo interfered with. ,Everv etfort was put forth for pence. Hut tho tnnnlicnl element of revolution would not have peace. Knowing tho exci ted state of the public mind they deliber ately organized a negro procession on tho morning of that day, armed as was tho other, and marched it through tho streets. A peaceably disposed white man was jostled Ironi the sidewalk. It was the spark that tired the magazine. The anxiously desired riot was the immediate result. Tho ap pearance of the police wits met with a volley of pistol bullets. The excite ment increased. The city wus in a tur moil. The negroes mrtrehed to the hull of the Convention, and under their protection tho revolutionists attempted to assemble. The people, up to this lime peace ably disposed amt in perfect subjection to the inundate of the Mayor ami the counsel of their friends here, had refrained from violence. Now goaded on to madness and tury by tho overbearing manner and insolent conduct of tho negtoes, who, il seems, were the Governor's militia, tho while people turned out rn mux,sc to put an end to what seemed to them an outrage and an insult. The negroes were driven within the building. Tbe police surrounded it ami attempted to preserve order. Thu white rioters were kept back. The police then entered tho building and begun arresting the members to protect them f.otn the fury of tho iiif>h they hud incited. Pistol shots were tired from without. Every person seen within was made a target. A while hundkerehief was shown at the window as a ting of truce. It either was not seen or the mob in its fury would not see it. Tho tiring continued. The negroes hid in tho corners, or sought shelter in the midtile of tho building. All the whites, who could be, were arrested and taken out one by ono under a strong guard for their protection ami put in confinement. And so the dis turbing cause being removed, tho mob dis persed and orderagaiu reigned. Then,and. not till then did the promised military ap pear. Then, when the mischief was all accomplished, did General Baird march in liis troops, declare martial law, and take possession of the city. To this extent wus the pledge of the rudieal Directory of Con gress redeemed. Proclamation of James Stephens. James Stephens, the chief organizer of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, ssued the following important uddresa on Monday night: F j-: ni a n 13 hot 111:11 noo d . C'KNTKAL OI'KICK, July JO, ISGG. / Brothers : Thu Fenian Brotherhood, an auxiliary branch of the actual home organization, and Hubordinate to that organization, has and had for its object and duty direct assistance to Ireland. Worked in strict accordance with this, its sole legitimate aim, the Fenian Brotherhood will be of service to our cause, but it must be mischievous, and might be big with ruin, if otherwise used. Does not the inflexible logic of facts known to you all, speak trumpet tongued in confirmation of this truth? True, when uppliedto any period of the organization at present this truth has peculiar force and significance. For the day for which we have yearned and toiled • ; through many years, is imminent and inevitable on this vital point,letnornan be mistaken, or try and cloak his mo tives and aims in a stimulated scepticism. Wc fight for freedom on the Irish soilthis very year. Mind, it is no longer a ques tion of “battleordissolution.” I repeat, the men at home have resolved to light this year, and fight they will. Under such circumstances a solemn and glori ous duty devolves on you. I will not are you willing to fulfill this duty and redeem the name of Irishmen on this continent, being every day more and more convinced that you are not only willing but determined to do so. You will not again allow yourself to be misled by false lights held forth to al lureyou from duty and Ireland. The straiglit road, in our case, is the true one home. Irish freedom must be won on Irish soil. You wih not look for aid to any government till we at home are up in arms. Kven then you will not expect more from any governmentthan recognition as a belligerent. This will be amply sufficient for our purposes, and this, once we are holding our own, shall be at once accorded. Could re publican America do less for us than monarchical Kngland so readily does for all the world? Assuredly not. Aud we look for no more, freely as our blood has flown for these States. But if you hold yourselves of all governments, how much more so must you be a dependent of mere party. Our cause is toosacred for the politician. You feel this, and you know him from sad and bitter experience. Therefore I need not warn you against those who. in tiie name of this party or that, aucl on the strength of cloudy promises,, would gain your votes for the coming election. Thus to be Won is blindly to be sold. \ou are not blind note; and so when a man of life long indifference to Ireland, or of years of hostility to the present movement for her freedom be comes suddenly enamored of our cause you can fully estimate his sincerity l Our work jh for lieland, and not for the politician. His hottest sympathy would freeze the Irish heart, hive him your support, and hestabs yourcountry. The Fenian Brotherhood recognizes no party and must be used by none. Therefore I expect, and Ireland expects, that no true patriot—no member of the Fenian Brotherhood-will lend himself offici ally, or allow himself to be officially used, by any politician or party on this continent. It is my duty to add that any officer who so lowers himßelf, or who would try to lower the dignity and effectiveness of our order, shall be at once removed from office. Faithfully and fraternally yours, James Stephens, C. 0.1. R, York County Nominations. The Democracy of York assembled in the Court House on Tuesday (31st of July,) and nominated the following ticket: Congress. —A. J. Glossbrenner. Associate Judge.— David Newcomer. Assembly. —Levi Maish, Stephen G. Boyd. I'rothonotary.— Thos. G. Cross. ftherij)', —Jesse Engles. Register. —Jacob Shekel. Clerk. —Wm. Tash. Commissioner*— Daniel Miller. • Recorder.— Henry Reisinger. Director.— Wm. Kilgore. Coroner. —Samuel J. Rouse. Auditor. —David Gemmill. The Hon. A. J. Glossbrenner was- re~- nominated unanimously and by accla mation. His nomination will be acqui esced in by Cumberlandand Perry, and,, if any one can be found to run against him, his majority will be the largest ever given in the district. The ticket Is an immensely popular one and the real “boys in blue” are jubilant over the se lection of Col, Maiah and Capt. Reisin ger,
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