WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1868. '>i;Tneprinting _p passes nHn.ii be tree, to every person who uhdertakes' to examine.tUe.pfO oeedlngs of the legislature, or any of governmeatyand no law evarhemade to restrain tlie rtght thereoi TOe free commu nication of thought and opinions is one ox the invaluable' rights of men; and every. .oltlEen may freely speah, write and print on any sub ject; being responsible for the *{”££•<£ that liberty. In prosecutions for the publication of papers Investigating the of offi cers. or men in pubilo cnpoeltiea f or where the matter published improper for pubilo informa tion, the truth thereof may be given in evi dence.!’ ; FOB GOVERNOR: Hon. HIESTER CLYMER, of Berkß Co. Democratlc-ConservatlTe Ticket. Oongreu. SAMUEL H. REYNOLDS, City, Senators.'. ABRAHAM COLLINS. Conoy, Bxbq’t W. HAYES GRIER, Columbia. Assembly. LEWIS HOUBEAL, Marietta, JOHN C. MARTIN, Earl, CHARLES J. RHODES, Manor, THOMAS M. COUU3ON, Drumare. Associate Judge. SAMUEL P. BOWER, Strasburg Bor. Sheriff. CAFT. HENRY B. WALTMAN, Mt. Joy Bor. Prothonotary. WILLIAM 8. BAKK, East Donegal. Register. HENRY STAUFFER, Brecknock. Recorder. JAMES McMULLEN, Penn. Clerk of the Quarter Sessions. J. H. HEGENER, City. County Commissioner. “ JACOB YOHN, Carnarvon. Directors of the Poor. Db. BENJAMIN MI3HLER, City DAVID SHOFF, Manor. Prison Inspectors. JOHN M. MILLER, West Lampeter. J. C. BUCHER, Columbia. Coroner. ADAM DITLOW, City. Auditor. DANIEL LEFEVRE, (Farmer,) Drumore. Democratic Meetings, Democratic mootings will be held us fol lows : Epbrata, Wodnesduy evening. Octobber 3* At Little Britain twp. on Friday, October f», at 12 o'clock. Maytown, Saturday Oct. G. At the Gap on Saturday, September 2SUb, at 1 o’clock. John Ammons, Thursday, October-lth, o’clock A. M. Georgetown, Wednesday evening, Octo ber .'l. Newville, Friday evening, October 0. Elizabethtown, Saturday evening, Octo; her li. New Holland, Saturday evening, October Uth. Safe Harbor, Monday evening, UctoberH. < ’onestoga, Morula'*, Oct. Hth, at 1 o’clock, Kobrerslown, Friuay evening, Oct. nth. Mounlvilli*, Saturday evening, Oct. Glh. Marietlu, Wednesday evening, Oct.Jd. Drumore Centre, Thursday evouing, Oct. 4th. By order of the Democratic County Com mitteo. A. J. Stkin.man, Chairman. B. J. McGhanx, Secretary. Appointments or the Union Candidate tor Congress. 4). U. Rkynolds, Esq.,Caudidateof the Con servative Union Mun of Lancaster County ior Congress, willspeuk us follows: MiirloUu, Wednesday Oelobor :i. .John Amnion's, Salisbury twp., Thurs ilny Oetnber ■!. Miiytow-ii, Saturday, Oetobur 0. I.am-aster, Monday evening, Octobers, ot 7 ojulock. Examine your Ticket, Examins your ticket before voting! Be espeeiqjiy careful to see that the State slip, withthe name of Hiester Clymer for Governor, is ineludeil. To Campaign Subscribers. We will Bend the Wkeklv Inteli.i cienceu to our campaign subscribers until Wednesday, the 17tli inst. That Ibsuc will contain the full returns of the election. After that we shall ho com pelled to stop (he papers of all who do not pay at least h!x months in advance. To accommodate all where Clubs were formed, we hereby author ize and request Home leading and re sponsible man among them to receive the names and subscriptions of such as desire to continue to take the paper. After the election wc will devote more attention to literature, general news and such matter as makes up what we are proud to say the Weekly Inteli.iiiknckk is, a family newspaper excelled by none in the State. AtifL’.nO a year, or Si .oil lor six months, no cheaper newspaper is published any where. , We hope some lending men among our numerous campaign clubs will at tend to getting up a permanent list of subscribers. This can he effectually done on election day. Aye are willing to allow a per centnge an money thus obtained. We hope to pear a good re port from all the districts. They Dare Not Dpny It. Voters of Lancaster county remem ber that no Republican paper in this county has dared to deny that their party is in favor of negro suffrage and negro equality. They have not attempt ed to refute the charge, because they knew they could not. They all admit it. The L.rprrsr has put at the head of its columns the Infamous utterances of Thuddeus Stevens at the Mass Meeting on Thursday. Let Conservative Re publicans there read the platform of the party which demands that they shall still support its nominees. A vote for Cleary or Stevens is a direct vote for negro equality. The Republican news papers of this county have not attempt ed to deny it up to this late hour of the campaign. The Prospect. Everywhere throughout the great State of Pennsylvania, In response to the question : Wlmt of the night'.’ The reply comes to us: All Is well. In every city, qouuty and election district, the grand army of Conservative white men is fully organized, and ready, eager and anxious for the contest which begins on the morning of Tuesday the nth. The ranks are closing up, and a confident assurance of their power to win a great victory causes every heart to beat high with hope. The people are aroused ns they have never been in any previous contest. They are resolved to defeat the Radical Dlsunionists who would prevent a res toration of the Union, destroy the Con stitution which our fathers bequeathed to us as a sacred legacy, degrade the white race to a level with the negro, and overturn our proud form of free government. The masses have sworn that these bold, bad men shall be hurled from power, and they will keep their oath. Pennsylvania is the battle-ground for the Union and her people know it. i n every election, district they are working as they never did before. They have resolved to triumph and they will do so. The viotory is Bure if every man does his duty. When we say this we give utterance to an undoubted faot. With a full poll of the conserva tive vote in the Keystone State on next Tuesday, 'Hießter Clymer oannot fail to be elected. Work for it freemen os you never worked in all your lives before, One grandj UD-ited effort makes the vie toly sure. ! ' One Week for Work. Democrats! Conservative men of Lan caster county! The time for discussion ■has passed away. >s ßut a single week of the campai^ s reja||ins < ,t3Hmti^amust. 'be devoted to Xrork.xA.HjS you [Cully iready for the grest conWjjwn thSfpth of this month? ||| p x j Has eve|y matt in ;can by any means'be induced "to vote' with you been seen, and his attendance at the polls made sure beyond a perad ■venture ? The time for work Is short, but mpeh may yet be done. There are men- in every election district in the county, who can be induced- to-vote' against the Radicals if a little exertion of the right kind is made. Be sure, that no honest agency by which a single vote can be secured is left unemployed. Work during the few days that remain as you never worked before. Have you all the arrangements made for bringing every Conservative vote to the polls? Election day may be rainy. , Are you prepared to do as well In such an event as if the day should be fair ? Remember that with a full vote we can not be beaten in this contest, and do not permit a single one !o be left at home. Have you proper parties selected to attend the polls from early in the morn ing until they areclosed? Are yousure this matter will be well attended to? Your best and most influential men should be there all day. They must be there to see that every fraudulent vote which is offered is rejected, and to pre vent any qualified conservative voter from being deprived of his right. They should be discreet and firm men—men who knowing their own rights and the rights of their fellow citizens, wjll maintain them. Frauds have been attempted in this county in the past. The opposition are desperate now and they will resort to any means to win. The ballot-boxes and the counting of the ballots must be watched. Let every Conservative elec tion officer see to it, that there is no manipulation of the tlcketsjandthat the count out is fair and honest. There are Home townships where theßadicals have the entire board. For all such, parties will be appointed to watch the ballot box, if six citizens make affidavit that they have reason to apprehend fraud. Let this be done where there is the slightest ground for suspicion. It can bo attended to on Monday, the Bth, the day before the election, when the Court sits to attend to naturalization. With a full Democratic and Conser vative vote, and a fair countout, Hiester Clymer will he elected Governor of the great State of Pennsylvania, so surely uh the sun shall rise on the day of elec tion. We can and will win this great victory in behalf of the Union, the Con stitution and the White Race. Go to work then ! Work as you never did be fore ! Work! Work ! Work! FBED. DOUGLASS. TIIAD. STEVESB. What tlic Negro Dc> XVlint the RadlcnlH I-romiNc. Fred. Douglass,the well known negro orator, who occupied a position on the same platform with Gen. Gcnry at the Mulatto Convention in Phila delphia, tnndo a speech at Pittsburg on the day of the ad journment x>f the so called Soldiers' Con vention. A Radical Senator of Pennsyl vania and other pro rnlnent members of the Republican party were present. Doug lass domauded full equality for the negro and denounced- any attempt to restore Lbo Union until it was granted. lln made iho fo 1 lo wing do mands, We copy from the Pittsburg (bmmcrcial, tho lead ing Republican paper in Western Pennsyl vania : Thuddous Stevens in his speech in Lan custor at tho Mass Meeting on tho t!7th day of September ISM, speaking for himsolf and for tho Republican party of Pennsylvania, fully eudorsedtho demands of the negroes for per feot equality with tho whites, and declared that ho would opposo any restoration of the Union until negro equality was mndo tho law of tho land. Wo quoto from his speech as reported in Forney’s Press, Speaking of forcing the Southern States to accept it lie said; / am /or it, and T shall <!o for it, when Congress meets, with all my might. I do not say, and never mean to, that when these amend ments whieh I now propose arc adopted, the rebel .Stales shall f>r. tdlowcd to come in, until they present con stitutions containing the essence of liberty; and when they do that ;/ will let them in at any time. '1 he governments of the rebel. Mates wore destroyed by the re bellion. They were under another U'nr eminent andflag. ff they come back, wc! .should insist ujmn' terms. HV ought to demand indemnity for the. past and .security for the future. The 11rpub liean party will see to it that Congress is indorsed and Andrew John son rebuked. \Ap pta.use.] That party wlil carry the dee lions this fat! like a whirlwind and. ,<t are thenalion. f am-pres ent not merely as a Radical, but as a Re former, and f would say that any recon struction policy that does not recognize and jirotcct the black man wouldjtrove a failure. I want the. hnmeiUatc, and positive incorpor ation of the black race into the great. body politic. lam for ne gro suffrage, and for his right to be voted for. Why / lie is a man, and no man is more. With regard to the question of negro suf frage in the free Slates, every one knows that I am not afraid to ex press my opinion.— Fh'crybody has a light to vote and pay his taxes, and v'hoever is governed by the laws has a right to make (hem, J was in the Pennsylvania do n vention that amended the Constitution which putin the word i white and disfranchised a large, numberof voters I voted against it, and while every other man put his name to the. Constitution that it might go down to pos terity, I refused my name, and it is not among the signer's, for T was not proud of the instrument and am not now. I care not what you say of negro equality —I care. not. what you say of Radicalism , these arc my princi ples, and with the help of Cod I shall die with them. The Irish who Vote how, ftndtbcAegroes who will vote Soon The Radical, so-called, Soldiers’ Con vention at Pittsburg, which was got up to aid in the election of Geary, under took to frame a resolution with which to gull the Fenians. Here it iB: Jlatolvcd, That thu neutrality laws should bo ho amended as to give the fullest liborty to the citizen eonsistont with the national faith: that tho grunt Union Republican party is pledged to sustuln liberty and equality of rights everywhere, and, there fore, we tender to nil ponplo struggling for freedom our Hymputhy mid cordial co operation. If there is an Irishman in America so dumb as not to Heo tnat the cause of Fenlunlsm and of negro equality are put on the same platform in that reso lution, lie does not deserve to have the term "quick wltted” applied to him. If there is an Irishman in Pennsyl vania who will not resent that insult we are mistaken. (ien. lirant on Politics. In a letter dated 10th inst., addressed to Gen. Hillyer, or New York, Gen. Grant refers to the various reports about his political opinions, contained in speeches, letters and newspapers, and says emphatically, “ You, nor no man living is authorized to speak for me in political matters, and I ask you to de sist in future. I want every man to vote according to his own judgment, without influence from me." Thiß gives a quietus to the slanders uttered by the correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, and copied into the Radical press generally, asserting that Gen. Grant had denounced Democratic candidates as worse than rebels and unworthy the support of the soldiers. What a shame to take the money earned by the sweat of the white man’s brow, to maintain lazy Southern ne groes i n idleness. Geary’s election would fasten the Freedman’s Bureau upon the country for years to come, Mb. H. J. Raymond soon got as sick of conservatism os a mud-fish of pure water. A Beene in the Pittsburg Convention. There were quite a number of gueer military characters at the (so-cWled) Soldiers’ Convention which assembled ,at Pittsburg. There waff -Beast BlHler, the Hero of Big. Bethel, qj§_ the jpiptch Gap Canal andjof Port jjlpher Hjhere Was jjanks, who actejjl asii^omn^sary. ' General to StiS&e walir' thj£ Valley of Virginia, and kfterwarus sac rificed an army on Msufamous cotton stealing expedition up' the Red River; there was Burnsides, the hero of Fred ericksburg ; there was Vienna Seheqck; there was SnickersvMeS Gear?; there was General John Charles Fremont, who managed so magnificently in Mis souri ; there was Carl Schurz, and Par son Moody and a whole host of other incompetents whose 1 (services” amount ed In the aggregate to nothing bnt blunders, disasters, brutalities, plun derings of the enemy and robbery of the Government; there, too, was the Eagle, that unhappy captive bird which followed the fortunes of a Wisconsin regiment throughout the war. It was perched on the platform and occupied aprominentpositton duringthedellvery of the principal speech in the Conven tion by the cock-eyed, corked-up Mas sachusetts Major General. The “Beast” was in his element. He spoke glibly of battles that others had fought, but never alluded to those in which his utter ignorance and incompetency had brought disaster and disgrace on the Union cause. He alluded to New Or leans, but said nothing of the gross in sult he offered to the women of that c ity, or of his insatiable appetite for every article of private property which he could lay his hands on. He argued the rights of the Southern people in his usual pettifogging style, and came to the conclusion that they had no rights. When he spoke of the Southern leaders liegrew fierce and truculent. He would hang Jeff. Davis, whose most obsequi ous supporter he once was, not because he was the worst man in the Southern Confederacy, hut because “he chose to have theplace of a representative man.” He declared himself ready to ignore the terms of surrender sanctioned by Lin coln and tendered to the rebel armies by General Grant. Toward General Lee he was especially malignant. He said of him: Now, gentlemen, we had an Arnold, and ho escaped punishment, but he did not re main here. Wo have, it seems to me, an equally guilty truitor, and the question to he decided in this country is, whether his surrender uh a prisoner of war when he was captured shall avail him against the desertion of his flag to take Berviee in the armies of tho enemies of his country? [Cries of “ No, no!”] I therefore again say that I would make an examplo of this man. Just here, and whilst the hall rang with the cheers of the Radicals, the Eagle— muted. Forney Admits tlic Correctness of Cly mer’s Record. John W. Forney is as graceless a scamp us ever made merchan dize of political principles. That he Is perfectly unscrupulous in the means he is willing to employ to secure an end all men know. His Jamison letter in the Forrest divorce case proved that mostconclusively. But there are depths of baseness to which even Forney de clines to descend. He will not stand up before an audience and make assertions which he knows can he proven false by public records. We had an instance of this in his speech at Lancaster the other day. He took occasion to refer to the speech of Hiester Clymer, made here the Tuesday previous. In that speech Mr. Clymer had stated his own record, nailing down as infamous lies the as sertions that lie lmd opposed the war and voted against the interests of the soldiers. Forney did not dare to con tradict u single statement made by Mr. Clymer. On the contrary he admitted that all which our candidate had Haid wus true, and Llms openly branded every Republican newspaper In tho State, tho Press not excepted, as being guilty of tile most Infamous and bare faced lying. Forney knew he could not gainsay Mr. Clymer’s clear statement of his honorable and patriotic record, and so he very wisely declined to at tempt anything of the kind. Tile Re publicans heard Forney make that speech were astonished. Many of them had seen the garbled and lying parade of Mr. Clymer’s record so often repeated in their papers that they lmd come to believe it to he true. Forney knew bet ter. Let every man who attempts the repetition of these falsehoods in future remember that Forney publicly admit ted in his speech at Lancaster that they are all base lira. Speakers Wanted The Republicans admit that they had a miserably poor array of speakers at their mass meeting on last Thursday. They were ull radical enough, and all went in for keeping the Union divided until negro suffrage was forced on the country. “Old Thad.” looked terri bly used up, and lacked physical enrgy necessary to give full effect to his infa mous utterances. The rest of the speak ers were of no account, except as weak echoes of tho ghastly old chief. They had no ability as oratory and were only second rate blackguards. Where is Brownlow? Why is he permitted to linger so long unheard from along the route taken by the traveling miscegens? And where is the seducer and cutthroat Jack Hamilton ? He spoke at various points and was announced for numer ous meetings in this State? Why does not the Republican State Central Com mittee hurry up these representative men? Let them be brought buck into Pennsylvania immediately. Their ef forts would add some ten thousand to the large majority that Clymer Is sure to receive. Glorious Victory in Connecticut. The Hawn In Ilrcnklng. It is an old saying that tho darkest hour is just before the dawn of day. Tho blackness of tho night of Radical ism is being dissipated even in New England. Light breaks in the East. It will be high noon throughout a rejoic ing land after the Uth of October. If such gainß as are announced in the fol lowing dispatch can bo made in Con necticut, Clymer must sweep Pennsyl vania by an overwhelming majority. Read ! Read! And then go to work with renewed energy and a resolution to win a great victory ! Hartford, Conn., Oct. 2.—Wo have re turns from one-third of tho town elections of yesterday. The Democrats and Con servatives uave made decided gains over tho Republicans in Glastonburg, Simsbury, Middletown, Canton and Granny. Where strlot political testa were made, the Repub licans were defeated, and every one of these towns was gained to the Domoorutß and Conservatives. Naturalization There are men in Lancaster county entitled to their naturalization papers, who have not yet attend to the matter. The Court wili sit for the purpose of naturalization on Monday, the Bth, the day before the day of election. Re member that in addition to the different classes of aliens heretofore entitled to naturalization, all aliens of the age of twenty-one and upwards, who have re sided within the United States one year, and who have enlisted in and been hon orably discharged from the armies of the United States, are entitled to natur alization upon petition and proof ofsuch residence, enlistment and discharge. Hon H. J. Raymond has written a letter deolining are-election to Congress* He might have saved that trouble, The Two Conventions. J Tltej two large political iwhiofi assembled InVthis city during thfe ivastl&eek, fully rlnfilcated the distinct five thb two jSrtles ,jWhi<jK are now appealing jhj theTpeople =bf Peansylvfipia forjsjuppojit; ThegathS jerlngqat eaohtof popular demon- lar^ES^'As Js' uangj; nu merous banners were borne in the pro cessions indicating the political princi ples of the contending parties. By con trasting a few of these we may see the extent, of the antagonism that exists./ In the procession n'f the Demhcrata and ' Conservative menon Tuesday the Union was the chief subject of reference—the Union and the Constitution were words which appeared emblazoned on almost every banner. Take two of the mottoes as a representative of all or that referred to that subject. On a banner borne by a body of soldiers who were headed by as gallant a fellow as ever went forth to battle, a man who bore on his person honorable marks in the Bhape of scars, was this inscription: We Vote as we Shot. For the Union and the Constitution. In the Mount Joy delegation was a magnificently decorated wagon with thirty-six young ladies, representing the States in the Union; and on the border of the canopy above their heads this inscription: All the States in the Union; Ail the Sisters in the Family Circle. From these two mottoes, oneborneby honorably discharged soldiers, the other by young ladies representing both the soldiers and citizens of the county, the feeling of those who assembled here on Tuesday, in regard to the Union and the Constitution, can be inferred. On Thursday the Radical party made tkeirdisplay. The word Constitution did not appear on a banner borne by them, and the Union was almost completely ignored. Instead of mottoes such as used to cause the heart of every Ameri can to thrill with- rapturous emotion, we had such sentiments as the follow ing emblazoned on their flags and ban ners : Stevens, Congress, No Restoration. No one who saw the two processions could fail to mark the avowed love of one party for the Union and the Con stitution, and the hatred of them indi cated by the other. On thequeetiou of Negro Suffrage and Negro Equality the distinction was fully as definitely marked by the de vices on the different banners. In that of Tuesday the universal expression of sentiment was hostile to either Negro Suffrage or Negro Equality. In the demonstration of Thursday the negro was recognized as entitled to per fect social and political equality. Their bannere flaunted the recognition of this odious doctrine In the face of every man who looked at the procession in which they were borne. One of them had this inscription; Wo will Fight for the Cause Andrew Johnson has Deserted, Equal Rights for All Men. Another had these mottoes Congress Must and will he .Sustained, Equal Rights for all Men. Surely this question has now been put in so clear a light that the wayfaring man though a fool can read clearly the designs of the Radical leaders. Not less distinctively different were the speeches. We published In full the great speeches of Senator Doolittle and Hon. Hiester Clymer. They both de clared themselves unequivocally for the Unlou and the Constitution, and op posed to negro equality. All the speakers at tho Radical mass meeting from Stevens down to Forney holdly announced themselves to be in favor of negro suffrage and negro equality, and opposed to any restora tion of the Union except on such con ditions. A ? oters of Lancaster city and county, it is foryou to choose between these two parties. You cannot mistake their prin ciples. They are represented in the op posing candidates. Clymer stands by the Union and the white race—Geary opposes any restoration of the Union until the negro is put on au equality with the white man. Chooseye between these men. To White Soldiers. The Radical Rumpers, many of whom have been re-nominated for election to tile Fortieth Congress, In July last made the following appropriations : A PPItnPHI ATIONH suit THE NEGROES. CommißHlonoraaud clerks for uenrooH. s£jo,U(X> I’riutiug fur negroes (W,UOO Houses find Avood lor negroes lo.yuo Clothing lor negroes 1,170,000 Food for negroes 0,100,^0 Medicines fur negroes duo,ooo Railroad fares for negroes 1,11^0,000 HchoolmasLurs and school-houses for negroes 7)20,000 Total 80,011,600 Al’l'RO l’ill ATIONH FOR TUB WHITES. For Noldiors’ widows Nothing. For the extreme poor and destitute.... Nothing. To tho white soldiers who served two To themselves, as members of Con gress, extra pay And three times as much bounty for negroes who had served three years as for the white soldiers. These Rumpers appeal especially to the soldiers for votes. Tho test in Pennsylvania is on Gov ernor as wellasonCongressmen. Every vote cost for Geary is a vote to endorse all the acts of the Rump Congress. Ho has declured that Congress Is to be his platform. How can any white soldier vote for such a man ? Ucport on the Bounty Question, Why Negroes arc Paid and Wlilto Hold- tors are Not. The Philadelphia Ledger 1b regarded as undoubted authority throughout Pennsylvania. Any statement which It makes la implicltedly believed. It has supported the Republican party ever since the war began. On the sub ject of the Extra Bounty the Ledger has the following In its editorial col umns : Tho Military Commission, consisting of Generals Cnnby, Buchanan and Duster, who have for some time past been considering tho subjoot of the soldiers’ extra bounty, have made their final report. Their first report, filed on August 17th, rooommended a system to bo pursued In paying bounties to colored troops, and under it those pay ments have been made lor some time past. The final report, just filed, refers to the ex tra bounties for the white soldiers, nnd re commends n division of the labor, the Pay master General reoelving claims from dis charged soldiers, whilst tho Second Audi tor of the Treasury is to receive the claimH of the widows and heirs of doeeused soldiers, Tito form of application will be the same os that heretofore used in applying for the regular bounty, and must give the number of tho certificate issued In the previous settlement for tho regular bounty, If ibis number Is not known, then the name, regi ment, company, ami, if deceased, the time of the death of tile soldier, must be given in tho application, At least 400,000 claims for extra bounty are expected from discharged soldiers by the Paymaster General, whilst the Second Auditor anticipates 200,000 from widows’ and heirs, the total number of applications oxpoctod being 000,000. Over 150,000 applications have already been filod In the various cilices in AVashington. This refers, however, only to the claims for the payment of extra bounty to white soldiers. None have yet been taid, for the SEASON THAT CONGRESS HAS MADE NO APPROPRIATION FOR THE PURPOSE, NOR IS IT KNOWN HOW SOON ANY MEANS WILL BE DEVISJOD FOR THE PAYMENT OF THESE EX TRA bounties, the Government being POWERLESS ON ACCOUNT OF THE NEGLECT TO MAKE THE APPROPRIATION. Poor white children have to go supperlesß to bed If their fathers are un able to earn bread enough for them; but the little niggers of the South have their mouths filled from morning till night by the Freedmen’s Bureau of Stevens and Geary, Who Can Tote In Pennsylvania. ■Vile Deserter Law Unconstitutional. '"fillability or Election Officer^. <’ i’VC x 5 Section 1, of Article HP,of the Con stitution of Pennsylvania: fa in tlreae Wtirdf:, £; : j .■■}'} , ■ by the oitizagiij everywhite freeman of twenty-one years, having re sided in this State one year, and in the elec tion district where he offers to vote ten days immediately preceding such election, and within two years paid aState or County tax, Vr'hich ahaU have been assessed pt least ten : days befafa the 'election, shall rights 'of an" elector; '' but a Citizen of the United States-who- had previonsly been a qualifie4,voter of this State, and removed therefrom, and, returned, and who shall havp resided in fhe'electlon district and'pald taxes as aforesaid, shall be entitled to vote, after residing in the State six months: "Provided, that white freemen, citizens of the United States, between the ages of twenty one and twenty-two years, and having re sided in the State one year, and,in the elec tion district ten days, as aforesaid, shall be .entitled! to vote, although they shall not have paid taxes." That Is the supreme law of the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania. By it the Legislature of the State is so bound, that It cannot pass any act enlarging or di minishing the rights and privileges of the citizens of the State under that plain clause of the Constitution. We had a trial of that question since the war be gan. The act of Assembly granting the right to vote to soldiers in the field was carried up to the Supreme Court of the State bytbeßepublicans of Philadelphia and was decided to be unconstitutional’ and therefore void and of no effect; be cause sueli voters were not considered at the time their votes were cast, to have been residents of the State and the elec tion district, under a proper construction of the above clause in the Consti tution. That decision settled forever in tile mind of every honest ami con scientious lawyer in the State, the ques tion of tlie power of the Legislature in regard to restricting or enlarging the classes of voters. It was, from the hour of the rendering of that decision, the established fundamental law of Pennsylvania, that no man in the State could be authorized by legislative en actment to vote, unless he came.within the meaning of that section ; and fully as well and clearly settled that the Le gislature could not curtail the rights of any citizen under it, or diminish the classes upon whom the elective fran chise is conferred by it. That the Congress of the United States is powerless to do what our own Legis lature was thus declared to be unable to do, has been abundantly settled by the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Huber vs. Reiley. There the question as to the liability of an election officer to be punished, for refusing to al low a man to vote who was reported as a deserter, was fully tested and authori tatively decided. This case was taken up from the Court of Quarter Sessions of Franklin county, in which, under the charge of a Repub lican judge, Hon. Alexander King, Hu ber had been convicted and sentenced for refusing to receive the vote of Relley. The Supreme Court sustained Judge King in his view of the law of Pennsyl vania, Justice Strong, also a Republi can, delivering the opinion of the Court. We have only room for the following extract in this article. Said Justice Strong: The act of 1800 provided for general courts-martial, and made minute and care ful regulations for their organization, for the conduct of their proceedings, and for the approval or disapproval of their sen tences. Subsequent ucts mado some changes, but they have not restrained the jurisdic tion or diminished the powers of such courts. It is to sueli a code of laws, form ing a system devised for the punishment of desertion, that tho twenty-first section of the act of March 3, 18(15, was added. It re furs plainly to pre existing laws. It has tho slnglo object of Increasing tho penalties, but It does not uudortuko to chnngo or dis pense with tho machinery provided for punishing tho crime. Tho common rules of construction demand that it bu read as if it had bouu Incorporated into former acts. And if it had boun, if the act of 1800 and its supplements hud prescribed that the ponalty for desertion or lalluro to report within a designated time after notlco or draft, (which tho act of 1805 declares desertion) should bo punished on conviction of tho sumo, with forfeiture of citizenship and death, or in lieu of tho latter, Buch other punishment as by the ontenco of the court-martial may no in flicted, would any one contend that any portion of this punishment could bo inflict ed without conviction and sentence? As suredly not. And if not, so must tho act of 1865 be construed now. It means that tho forfeiture which it prescribes, like all other penalties for desertion, must be adjudged to the convicted person after trial by a court-martial and sentence approved. For the conviction and sentence of such a court thero cau be no substitute. They alone establish tho guilt of tho accused and fasten upon him tho logal consequences. Such, wo think, is the true mouuiug of tho act, a construction that cannot be denied to it without losing sight of all tho previous legislation respecting tho sumo subject inatLer, no purt of which does this act pro fess to alter. i It may bo addod that Llilh construction is not only required by tlio universally ad mitted rules of statutory interpretation, but it Is in harmony with tho personal rights securod by the Constitution, and which Congress must bo presumed to have kept in view. It gives to tho accused a trial before sworn judges, n right to challenge, an op portunity of defense, tho privilege of hear ing tho witnesses against him, and of call ing witnesses in his behalf. It preserves to him tho common-law presumption of in nocence until he has been adjudged guilty, according to the forms of law. It gives duality to u single trial. If tried by a court-martial und acquitted, his iuno codco cun never aguin bo culled in question, and he can bo made to sutler no part of the penalties prescribed for guilt. On tho other hand, if a record of conviction by a lawful court he not a pre requisite to suffering the ponalty of the law, the act of Congross may work in tolerable hardships. Tho accused will then be obliged to prove his innocenco whenever the registry of the provost marshul is adduced against him. No de cision of a board of election officers will proteot him against tho necessity of re newing his defense at every subsequent election, and eaoh time with increased dif ficulty arising from the possible death or absence of witnesses. In many ensos tills may prove a gross wrong. It cunnot bo doubled that in some instances there were causes that prevented a return to service, ot a report by persons registered us deserters by provost marshals, that would have been held Justifying reasons by a court martial, or at least would have pre vented an approval of the court's sentence. It is well known, also, that some who wore registered deserters were, at tho time, actu ally in tho military service as volunteers, and honorably discharging their duties to tho government. To hold that the act of Congress Imposes upon such tho necessity ot proving their Innocenco, without any conviction of guilt, would bo an unreason able construction of the act, and would bo attributing to tho Nulionul Legislature an intention not warranted by the lunguago and connection of tho enactment. It follows that tho judgment of the Court below, upon the case stated, was right. The plaintiff not having been convicted of desertion and failureto return lo the service , or to report to a provost marshal, and not having been sentenced to the penalties and forfeiture of the law , teas entitled to vole. Since that decision of the Supreme Court was rendered, two other cases of the kind have been tried, one in Centre County and the other In Sckuylklll, In both cases the election officers were convicted of a violation of the law of the State; and on no occasion where such a case has been tried have they escaped. The Judge In Centre county was a Republican, and the facts In the case were as follows: John Dayton, a man of foreign birth, pre sented himself at the window at tho Octo ber election in 1865, offering his ballot In one hand and bis naturalization paper and a receipt for taxes In the other. He was challenged by one of the Board as a deserter, as he had boon absent from the township during one of tho drafts. They refused to allow him to vote unless he would take an oath that he had not left the township to avoid the draft. Mr. Dayton refused to do this und his vote was rejected, Mr. Yeager protesting against the action of the Board and being overruled by his companions. Mr. Orvis assisted the District Attorney In tho prosecution and Mr. Mcllllsterconduct ed the defence. Tho jury were out but a short time, when they returned with a Ver dict of guilty as to Brown and Betts, and not guilty as to Yeager. In no single case of the kind which has been triedln Pennsylvania,have the election officers failed to be punished for violation of the law of the State, despite the act of Congress. jv That the decision of the Supreme JKrajt, in the caseef Huber,vs. Relley, ‘pffvers-the.act oMjieLeglsiature undbp which an -' attempt will be made in the poming detection to deprive patties qf tSeir votes, no lawyer SjJ intelligence lh Pennsylvania really doubts. In thade cision recently rendered in Schuylkill county, Judge Ryon said: We think defendants guilty of the offence charged, in rejecting the vote of the prose cutor. We will add that the legislation of his State has attempted, in a law approved last session, to enforce the act of Congress of the 3d of rMarch, 1865. This aet provides that deserters under this law are, deprived of rights of citizenship of the United States, and deprived therefore of the rights of an elector m this State; it also imposes pains and penaltles on election officers for receiv ing a vote of a deserter, <fcc., and also pro vides that the rolls of the War department are to'be copied by the State officials and a copy thereof deposited with the Clerk of the Quarter Sessions in the respective counties, andihis certified copies of such copies de posited with him, snail be prima facia evi dence of desertion. This law attempts to enforce the penalties of the act of Congress of 1860 without trial by due process of law, and is also an at tempt to legislate upon a subject which is regulated by the Constitution of the State, and over which the Legislature has no con trol. r. Again, this actofthe Legislature proposes new and other restrictions which are uot found in the Constitution of the State. For these reasons we think this act is un constitutional, and void and of no effect. The Constitution of Pennsylvania be ing the supreme law of the State, until it is altered, there can be no escape from punishment for any election officer,who attempts to deprive any man of his vote under the void and unconstitutional act of the Legislature in regard to deserters. Should a Grand Jury, disregarding the fundamental law of the State through partisan bias, refuse to find a bill of in dictment, the officers so offending can be reached in a suit for damages in the Court of Common Pleas, and in such case the cost alone would amount to a very large sum of money. From pun ishment in that way no election officers who disregard the plain requirements of the law could hope to escape. Both these means of redress are open to all men who may be thus deprived of their -votes, and they will surely put the law in-force. Let every election officer do his duty in this matter. The lists of deserters, as furnished, are an infamous fraud from beginning to end. The names of men who died in defense of the nation are known to be on them. They are a disgrace to the State, containing, as they do, the names of thousands of men who are innocent of the charge thus made against them. In no case could an election officer lare to deprive one of these men of their vote without certainly subjecting himself to severe punishment, except where the record of his conviction, as a deserter, by a Court Martial 1b fur nished. Election officers cannot even demand that parties offering to vote shall be required to swear that they are inno cent. If they come within one of the classes enumerated as electors in the Constitution they are clearly entitled to vote, and cannot be deprived of the right. Let every election officer examine the law, and he will find it to be precisely as we have stated. Radical Prodigality. It would seem that with nations as with Individuals, having once entered upon a course of extravagance, there is an irresistible tendency to ever increas ing recklessness of expenditure. The axe having been thrown away, it is a natural impulse to fling the helve after it. Upon no other theory can we ac count for the Improvident and profligate profuseness with whioh Congress has scattered the publio money right and left, to be scrambled for by the specu lators and plunderers who form the rear guard of the radical army, as If thero was no day of reckoning to come, when u despoiled people shall demand a strict account from their faithless ser vants. The ingenuity with which new forms of taxation are devised 1b fairly paralleled by the adroitness with which new modes of expenditure are invented. Not content with squandering the treasure drawn from the people under the pretext of paying the national debt, the radical majority have voted away the public domain with electrio speed to lailway companies and equivocal corporations of every kind, whose man ipulators are known to be sound on the political goose. This magnificent prop erty, which, if properly cared for and administered, would place our finances upon an impregnable basis, such as no other nation can command, is rapidly being absorbed by voracious capitalists who pay nothing to the national treas ury, whatever they may contribute to the prlvato fortunes of radical Con gressmen. The voters must be made to see this matter In its true aspect, before Indus trial paralysis and national bankruptcy at once enlighten and ruin them. The country needs retrenchment and econ omy to enable it to recuperate after the inevitable waste of war. The people can begin the good work by retrench ing the radical power In Congress and economizing the number of votes given to radical candidates. Geary Fools his Friends. Geary authorized the Radical State Committee to authorize the Radical County Committee of Lancaster to as. sure the Radical voters of the "Old Guard ” that he would give them the light of his countenance and thd bene fit of his luminous views on Thursday Inst. He did not keep his promise, and the Radical crowd went home disap pointed and in bad humor. The Ex aminer " rises to explain '’ as follows: As a great deal of dissatisfaction was expressed at the non-attendance of Gen. Geary at the great Moss Meeting on Thursday, It 1b but Just to say that no lault attuches to the County Committee, or the committee on speakers. The State Central Committee assured our home committee that Gen. Geary would posi tively be In attendance, and that ar rangements to that effect had been per fected. If, therefore, blame attaches to any party, It properly belongs to the State Committee. We do not doubt that the Radical Stale Committee are very good at de ception and at humbugging the masses of their party, and yet we question whether they are to blame for the de ception practiced upon the Radicals of Lancaster on Thursday last. Men who have known Geary all his life—who have lived in the same town with him, and know him both as a politician and a business man—say that Ills word never could be depended on in anything. Hiester Clymer is a man of very different mould from Geary. When he says a thing he means it. He said he would oome to the Conservative meet ing, and he came. The people saw and heard him, and did not go home disap pointed. 1 Bond Holders Beware 1 Should the Radicals succeed in the present contest, they intend to precipi tate the country into another civil war, in order to maintain their power. They have openly declared that they will get rid of the President, and they will not hesitate to resort to any means to ac complish their wicked and villainous design. They are boldly bidding for anaroliy. and revolution. Let bond holders ponder upon thlß startling pros pect, and calculi the value of their securities, If the Radicals succeed In their sohemes of treason and revolution 1 Grant and the Radicals. The Radical slander in reference to General Grant’s political opinions, has been thoroughly exposed, and-’the lie hlp’ beeff'nalled like base coin to the dtmnter.; The following ietter from R. 4| Lanabertthj, Esij>f of Harrisburg, bears upon Ibp same.subject, and was sept to the edltor of the' jresa for publi cation. It shows how the Radicals will lie when it suits their purpose: Pa., Sept. 24, 1866. John IF. Forney, Esq. : Dear Sir : A communication under thecaption “Gsderal GraUt on Clymer,” m your Sunday iVess, contains the fol lowing statement: “ General Grant, in speaking of the annoyances to which he had been subjected from politicians on the route, stated that after they were met by the committee of reoeptlon from Harrisburg, a red-headed gentleman who belonged to the committeejfsup posed to be R. A. Lamberton, Esq.,) engaged him in conversation concerning our State election. ‘Do you expect to eleot Clymer? 1 said General Grant. 1 Certainly we do, and by a large ma jority,’ was the reply ‘ I am sorry to near you say so,’ responded General Grant; 1 and i would consider it an INSULT THAT ANY LOYAL MAN SHOULD BE ASKED TO VOTE FOR A MAN WHO HAD BEEN AS DISLOYAL BEFORE THE WAR AND ALL THROUGH THE WAR AS Hiester Clymer was.’ ” I know nothing of any such conversa tion. At no time when I was in the company of General Grant was there any mention made by him or any one else of Mr. Clymer or General Geary. No reference or allusion was made to the election, its results, or to anything of a partisan or political character. I have seen the only other member of our committee whose hair has any tinge of red. They are gentlemen of truth, and they say they had no conversation whatever with General Grant, and were not present at any conversation with him. The use of my name in the communi cation I have specified, seems to require thisdenial. May I ask you to publish it? Yours, respectfully, R. A. Lamberton. More Radical Bluff. Indeed it needs little more than to keep printing the amendments pro posed by Congress till everybody shall read them, in order to carry conviction to everybody but congenial copperheads and rebels. This is the single and para mount question on whioh the people are to pass, whether these terms shall be rati fied. They and intelligible, and what is better, they are simply and intelli gibly right. They demand no security which the loyal people have uot earned the right to ask. —Radical Journal. A cheat—a swindle —a lie. The Radi cal amendment is not “terms" for re union. Restoration is not pledged if these terms are accepted. The faith of the North teas pledged by Johnson, and the South complied with every term. Congress repudiated that pledge. The Rump explicitly refused to make such a pledge a part of the constitutional amendment. Reason: because they knew the amendment couldn’t pass, ,and didn’t want it to if it could. They wanted a running sore. They planned to prolong Disunion. Now they are lifting this pretence and fraud—Union on-the-termß-of-the-constitutional- amendment—in order to save the votes of the Union-loving Republicans, who will not consent wittingly to prolong Disunion. It is a swindle—a cheat—a lie. Let every Democrat strip these po litical imposters of the Union cloak they are trying to steal, and expose them In their true colors of Disunion. “Solemn Fooling." The New York Times, whose editor, Mr. Raymond, sat in Congress with Mr. Stevens and voted with him too, copies tho Gyger and Stevens correspondence on the subject of the effect of the Presi dent’s policy upon the national securi ties, and says: Tills is very "solemn fooling.” No human being ever dreamed of contend ing that the Congress which authorized the war debt was not constitutional. The Constitution says that no Stato shall be deprived of its equal suffrage ill the Senate without its own consent. Ab the rebel States “consented” to be deprived of representation, no question of tills sort can possibly arise as to the validity ,of acts of Congress during the war. Since the war has closed, those States are deprived of their equal suffrage in the Senate without their consent. Tho two cases are entirely different. Negroes Preferred to Whites, The statement made some days ago by a Centre county correspondent of the Age, that the Radical Counoil of Andrew G. Curtin’s old town of Belle foute had given the contract for laying down Water Pipes to a Negro, although a white soldier had applied for the job, is confirmed by the Bellefonte Watch man of Friday lost, from which we ex tract the following: Niggers and Water J‘ipce.—l l white men desire to know about how they stand in the estimation of the abolition party In this county, we would advise them to come to Bellefonte and see the darkeys laying the water-pipes and white men standing by idle. This would have beon a nice little Job for some of our poorer white citizens, had the Council awarded the contract to Mr. Btrickland—a white man and a soldier—and they were anxious to get It; but as our abolition borough author ities chose to prefer a colored individual as the contractor, the necessary conse quence was that a lot of Imported indi viduals of the same ebony complexion got the work to do. Stand back, white men! an abolition council have decreed that hereafter the colored population Bhall have the preference In the bor ough Jobs. Oh! the beauties of abo litionism! Ain't you enraptured with them, white men ? Havo you heard the wondrous news? Bellefonto whito men got tlio “ blues." A Lewistown darkey’s coino to town To lay our water piping down! let the Irish Remember! If there is a single Irishman In Lan caster county who is not fully resolved to vote against the Radicals in the coming election we beg him to remem ber that Thad. Stevens used the follow ing language In the Convention which nominated him for Congress on the 14th day of lost August: “Wo have not yet dono Justico to tho op pressed race. Wo havo not gone as far us the Emperor of Russia when ho ordorod tlio froodom of thousands of his oppressed pooplo and endowed them withjtho right of citi zenship, Wo have been too much governod by our prejudices. We havo listonod too muah to those whoso cry is * Nogro Equality’ “‘ Nigger’— 11 Nigger ‘ Nigger!' Wo aro influenced too much by those persons from foreign lands who, white In search offreo d'™. deny that blossod boon to THOSE WHO AllE THEIR EQUALS." Morrow B. Lowry, a leading Repub lican Senator, said last winter when the subject of negro suff’rage In the Dis trict of Columbia was being discussed: " I deny the olap-trap doetrlno that this 1b a white Man’s government. The nogro hern upon this soil has as Just a titlo of life, liberty and the pursuit of buppinesH ns an Ikishman, or any countryman whatevor who emigrated from foreign lands; and when he becomes a votor, us u voter ho will be, tlte Senator from Philadelphia, (Mr. Donovan) even in a hot day, would sit as close to him as ho would now to an Titian- M ,^ N ’ f 0 from tho nous, perfumed with vile whiskey and bnd tobacco. Let the Irish voter think of these ut terances when he goes to the polls! "TThb Radicals, with Stevens and Geary at their head, maintain that the South Is a foreign country and not In the Union at all. Why, then, do they appropriate eleven million dollars a year to feed and clothe the colored for . mgners who live there? If our oharity Is so broad that we must needs extend It to foreign countries, let us give our eleven millions a year to the poor and oppressed people of Ireland, who need our help and deserve It. Coffee might be ten oents a pound cheaper if the national treasury was not robbed of eleven million dollars a year for the benefit of Stevens and Geary’s colored brethren In the South. cltmir ' , ra.THE ■’ Senate of Pennsylvania. 17th 'lSBl—Sumter fired bii. Same day—Joint resolution introduced into the' Senate of Pennsylvania, pledg ing the State to maintain Inviolate the Constitution and the Sovereignty of the United States. CLYMER VOTES AYE. See Legislative Record, page ,927. ; 2d May, 1881— Bill to aid the families of Volunteers who enter the service. CLYMER SPEAKS AND VOTES FOR IT. Seepages 981 and 969. 11th May, 1861—Bill to create a Loau and Arm the State introduced. OLY MER. speaks for small bonds so as to make a popular loan. See, page 10S7. CLYMER speaks for better muskets for the soldiers. Page 1091. HE VOTES FOR THE BILL. Page 1092. 9th May, 1861—CLYMER Introduces resolutions for procuring flags for Penn sylvania Regiments. Page 1040. 10th May. 1861—CLYMER moves to firoceed to the consideration of the reso ution, and they are read and passed finally. Page 1066. 4th July, 1866—The flags procured under this resolution received by the State authorities from the troops, aud HIESTER CLYMER not invited to take part. 30th January, 1862—Resolutions for expulsion of Jesse D. Bright from the Senate of the United States Introduced. CLYMER VOTES AYE. aud says “ lest my vote might be misconstrued, not by our own people but by the ene mies of our common friends who both for a common country as indicating even in the slightest degree a desire to Rhleld one who may be a traitor to the Republic, I vote aye.” Page 144. 17th February, 1862 —Thanks to sol diers and sailors for carrying Roanoke Island, Forts Henry aud Donelson, and capturing Savannah. CLYMER VOTES AYE. Page 258. . 23d January, 1862—CLYMER speaks in favor of joint resolution for paying Pennsylvania soldiers in service of United States. Pages 88 and 90. Bth April, 1862— REILLY, Demo crat, introduced resolution for Roll of Honor of five Companies who marched from Harrisburg to Washington, on 18th April 1861. CLYMER speaks for it, aud says: “It is right and proper that this State should know the names of those gallent men who, in the dark est hours of our dire necessity, garri soned that Capital and stood there ready to protect It from destruction.” Page 874. September, 1862, Mr. CLYMER vol unteered as a private in Captain Hunt er’s Company, and marohed into Mary land, under Col. Knoderer. 11th February, 1863—Amendments to the Constitution, allowing soldiers to vote. CLYMER VOTES AYE. Page 167. sth January, 1864—Senate met—a tie between Democrats and Republicans, Penney, the Speaker, rofuseu to leave the chair—the law aud tho Constitution required him to do so. The Deraoornts regarded this as revolutionary and re sisted it, and refused to proceed to busi ness until Penney would resign and a Speaker be elected. 9th March, 1804—Penney resigned, a Speaker was elected, and tho Senate Proceeded to business. Between sth of anuary and 9th of March, the Repub- licans attempted to force the Democrats to legislate. This was resisted, and they voted against q>rocceding to consider everything that wus brought up, and invariably gave os their reason for so doing, that the Senate was not organ ized. Page 3. Mr. Johnson moved to proceed to the consideration of the Amendments to the Constitution allowing soldiers to vote. This motion was defeated by a tie vote. CLYMER VOTING NAY. Reason given, tho Senate was not or ganized. 9th March, 1804—Thu tie was unlock ed by the election of Mr. St. Clair, a new Senator. The Republicans took up the Constitutional Amendment and passed it before Speaker Penney re signed, CLYMER did not vote on its passage because the Senate was not yet organised. Penney then resigned, and was re-elected Speaker ; Mr. CLYMER then, at once asked leave to record his vote in fa volt of tho Amendment to tho Constitution allowing soldlerß to vote. The Republicans refused to allow It. Page 341. 30th March. 1864—Resolution Intro duced asking Congress to pay the pri vate soldier In coin or its equivalent. Page 530. CLYMER speaks In Its favor, and says, “It Is Htrange thntthoso who profess so much love for tho sol dier should hero to-day resist a propo sition so fair and just. Fulsome praise you cun give, it is in your Hue, but when tho for the meuus wherewith to Bupply his wife and little ones with the bare necessaries of life, you turn your backs upon him, and brand us disloyal every man who advo cates hiß claims. If it be disloyal to stand by, guard, protect and defend the poor and humble against the rich und powerful, to be iu favor of the soldier rather than of the shoddy contractor, then lam disloyal.” Page 638. 29th April, 1864—Thanks to Meade for Gettysburg, and testimonial to Rey nolds introduced. CLYMER VOTEH AYE. Page 933. 16th March, 1865—8i1l for the main tenance and education of destitute orphan children of deceased soldiers and Bailors up for consideration. CLY MER speaks for it. Appendix, page 62. Votes for it, appendix, pane 86. At all times and In all places, HIEHTER CLYMER Is admitted to be a Pure and Honest Man. ♦— • Slocum on tho Situation. Read what tho brave Slocum, of tho doth Corps —tho Ucncral who command ed Oeary—hnu to say of tho faction which is now using Geary as a meuus for accomplishing their own Belflsh pur pose : “ There exists among us a political party which, for the purpose of retain ing power, has prevented the restora tion of the Union, which was to be the sole object of the war, a party which would hold a portion of tne Htates In subjection, teaching the rising genera tion In both sections lessons of Jealousy and hatred, Instead of Beeklug to make them forget the bitter past, and become, as they must become, if our Union is ever to be of value, one people in in terest and feeling. This party, until Congress assembled, Indignantly denied any Intention of postponing the restora tion of the Union, and appealed to the people for support on the ground of being the only faithful and reliuble fri-nds of the President and hIH policy. Tills mask has now been dropped, and the Issue before the people Ib clenr und unmistakable. Let those who fought for a restoration of the Union now come forward and vote for It, and our victory is assured." Will tho " Boys In Blue" follow tho brave soldier, General Slocum, or tho “ hero of Bnlckers-Hllo ?" John Vi. tieary, tbo Honesty of tho Hero ofSnlckersvllle. For the benefit of those who are In* tcrested In the history of the Negro Suf frage Candidate of the Dlsunlonlsts for Governor, Bays the Philadelphia Mer cury, we beg leave to contribute the following Incident. It Is said the great military fraud considers it a good Joke : In the year 1801, John W. Geary, then only a paper Colonel—like his friend Forney—purchased from an hones'* farmer, who then occupied, and st',ll occupies a stall In the Eastern Mar get In this city, potatoes, cabbage, and other vegetables, to the amount of thiTtk-fivc dollars and thirty-three cents, for- whloh he persistently refuses to pay, notwith standing the aforesaid farmer has writ ten to him on several occasions, request ing hlmjto do so. We have this bitofln formatlon from the farmer himself; and If any of hts friends are anxious to see the vlotim of the Hero of Snlokersvllle, he can be found at his stalls In the Eastern Market any day In the week. It is respectfully suggested that the bar receipts of the Broad street Gin Palace for one day be appropriated to defraying this and other little bills against the Bombastes of the Negro Suffrage party. The Southern neoroes being hale and hearty and acoustomed to work, why should they get eleven million a year out of the national treasury? Is it “ back pay ” for their servloes to their former masters? Will Stevens and Geary tell us ? Every ton of coal the white man buys pays something to the Bureau to support Steve#? and Geary’s colored pets in the Sohth, where, on ac count of the warmth of the climate, they need no coal.
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