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WEDNESDAY, SEPT'R 11, 1867
FOR JTJ , GE OF SUPREME COURT:
eon. GEORGE SHOLSWOOD, of l'hlia.
To the Detnoeraey of the City and
•
Connty o[ Lancaster.
In pursuance of a resolution adopted at a
meeting of the Democratic County Committee,
.held on Saturday, August alst the Democratic
voters of Lancaster city and county are re
quested to meet in the several Wards of the
City, and in the different Boroughs and Town
ships of the County, on SA.TT,JRDAY, the 21st
day of SEPTEMBER, to elect not less than
three nor more than rive delegates to represent
such district in the general Democratic County
Convention, to be hold on WEDNESDAY, the
23t1Tilay of SEPTEMBER, at, 11 o'clock A. M.,
in Fulton Ball in the City of Lancaster, for the
pupas° of nominating a ticket to be supported
at the ensuing October election.
The Chairman would most earnestly urge the
Democrats of the different districts, to effect a
thorough organization of the party for the
pending campa'gn, by the immediate forma
tion of anelnctive working chit) in each die
trict.
Township Comm,ttles are requested to give
curly and general notice of the time and place
of meeting for the election of delegates.
A. J. STEINMAN, Chairman.
It. J. S 1 c 1.3 SN, Secretary.
0151.
FOR TILE
Geier—'The Haight of California.
(loinnic NEWS—That from California
AGAINST NEGRO EQUALITY —Cali
Moil:mt.—The bite of the Copperhead
—Cali foinia species.
CoNNEcTicuT and California—one on
the Atlantic, the other on the Pacific.
The two C's are united.
CIoLD currency—The returns of the
California election. No discount on
A FACT IN NATURA L HISTORY—Cop
perheads are very abundant in Califor
Ida this year.
BORED AS WELL As Goatm—The 'Re
publicans at Gorham's defeat. Ant ox
is sick.
is Nt*.ifito rvitAm.: an issue in the
present political emnpilign ? Read Bill
lielley's speech in another column if
you (Ig, not believe it is.
THE people Of California seem to be
troubled by some fragments of the old
Constitution still sticking in their kid
neys. -be the returns of the election.
"IlAwirr" vrt.—Such was the ex
clamation of a Radical when he heard
the news from California—perfectly
hateful.
lIAs Pennsylvania a republican form
of government? If you huve any doubts
about the matter, read the proceedings
of the Equal flights Convention in an•
olhcr eOll.llllll.
Buyout; his removal satrap Kiel:les
appointed Beverley Nash, a negro, to
be ',olive magistrate in Columbia, the
capital of south Carolina. lie was
hound to leave his mark.
.\ Nii . rn nit previous pardon was pro
duced in a trial at York last week. lfans
Geary will lie known among Our Gov
ernors as the great pardoner of crimi
nals.
lt ),,ST I NI; Liiwmt—The Radical buz
cards in yalifornia. The same class 0
polilheal fowls will not soar so high it
Pennsylvania after the second Tuesda
(lemlier. Mark that !
Is ring Republican party of this State
fully Committed to the doctrine of negro
equality Read the report of the Wil
mington Convention if you have any
doubt about it.
'1'111•: higiiiri.t of Saturday had not
heard a word about the California elec
tion. It is a very dead paper. There
has 'not been a sign or life about it since
the annihilation or Thuggery.
Do yor believe Congress will refuse
to pass the Sumner•lielley negro equali
ty bill at the next session': If you do,
read the account of the Wilmington
Convention and the speech of Bill
Kelley in another column.
(lovEßNoit t't'itTis arrived at his
home in Bellefonte on last Thursday.
On the day before solos one had deposi
ted "a little baby" in a basket at his
door. Tile youthful creature was taken
in charge. by "the town fathers."
GERRIT Smi'm says "few names even
in the world's history will stand as
high as John Brown's." It is sure that
few historical characters have been
more appropriately or more deservedly
elevated at, the close of their lives.
SATRAPS AT A Discoux•r.—The Pres
illeCla removed the cuckolded satrap
Sickles, the negro-loving satrap Sheri
dan, and the brute Stanton, and Cali
fornia says amen—and,. in October,
Pennsylvania will cry "Well done!"
THE Democracy of Philadelphia com
pleted their county ticket by the nomi
nation of ( leneral Peter Lyle for Sheriff,
and Oen. Wm. A. Leech for Register
of Wills. A better ticket was never put
in Hie field, and it is sure to be elected.
Republican Convention of Wis
consin passed resolutions favoring the
adoption of a universal suffrage bill,
and demanding. that United States
bonds be subject to taxation the same as
other property. Radical iu two ways,
that Convention.
ANoa,inat KICK von THE " BEAsT"
S'r r‘roN. -- Tile California Elettion
shows that the people approve the
kicking that the President gave that
shoddy patriot, that woman-hanging
villain, dud renegade Democrat, the
truly /o,y(f/ B. M. Stanton.
STEvi:Ns AND STANTON.—Forney's
Pr,,sx complains that the Philadelphia
Democrats denounced these two angels.
California shows that Ephraim is at last
separated from his idols, and these two
patriot, now and forever are valued at
their proper standard.
TILE BLIND SEE.—In 1805, the Bads
carried California by 20,000; in 1807, the
Democracy are triumphant by 10,00 u.
A Governor, two Congressmen out of
three, a clean State 'Picket, a Legisla
ture, and therefore a United States Sen
ator are the rewards of Democracy in
the Golden State.
MATHEMATICS'-1 ['California, which
gave 7000 Republican majority in Isoo,
out of a total vote of 60,000, gives 10,000
Democratic majority in 1807, what will
Pennsylvania give in 1867, when she
gave but 17,000 Republican majority in
1866, out of a total vote of 600,000? Re
publicans !—calculate !
THE Democracy of Harrisburg fired
a grand salute on Capitol Hill, in honor
of the victory in California, on Satur
day evening. They paid for their own
powder. Hans Geary fired one hun
dred guns in honor of the negro victory
in Tennessee at the expense of the State.
Tice; Radicals at first tried to break
the force of the victory in California by
pointing to the fact that there were two
Radical candidates for Governor in the
ilefd. Now that it is ascertained that
Haight has a majority of several thous
and over both they are utterly dumb
fOunded.
HAlcs GEARY is trying to hedge on
the temperance question, and has taken
to granting previous. pardons to men
who are indicted for violation of the
liquor law. A case of that kind occur
red in Centre county a day or two since.
The Good Templar Lodge to which
Geary belongs should see to that matter.
MINIOURA.TS of Pennsylvania do you
bear the call from California. The
Pacific to the Atlantic speaks.
"The victory we have won you too may
win. The odds with us were more despe
rate than yours. Organize and charge for
the victory that is within your grasp."
Will you heed the call.? We know
you will,
151ov.Tbroamorton's DONN&
The recital of facts made by Gover
nor Throckmorton in illustration of
the abuses of power in Texas by the
underlings of Gen. Sheridan is startling,
The details are shocking and in some in
stances utterly revolting. A negro who
has ravished a young white girl is taken
out of the hands of the civil authorities
and shielded from the penalties of the
law. An insolent and upstart lieutenant
publishes an order such as Nero might
have gloated, over, and afterwards, act--
ing in the spirit of his threat murders
part of a 'family in the night time in
cold blood. And Gen. Griffin, when
this atrocious occurrence was reported
to him by Governor Throckmorton,
refuses even to investigate it.
Au invalid old man is thrust into
prison on a vague charge of having at
tempted to obstruct the registration of
a negro, and treated with such brutali
ty by the soldiers that he dies in a few
hours. All sorts of oppression has been
practiced upon the whites by the offi
cers of the Freedmen's Bureau. Troopf
are kept idle in the centre of the State,
where they are only a useless expense,
while hundreds of citizens are murdered
by Indians on the Texas frontier. And
to keep up this kind of rule iu the South
the toiling millions of the North are
compelled to pay many millions of dol
lars annually. Was it not time to re
move Sheridan? Is it not high time to
put an end to this whole system of cost
ly and outrageous despotism? What
say the masses of Pennsylvania?
The Amnesty Proclamation.
In another column will be found the
new Amnesty Proclamation which was
issued on Saturday. It extendS amnes
ty to all engaged in the rebellion, who
take the oath set forth in the proclama
tion, except three specified classes.
These are:
1. The chief executive officers, heads of
departments, foreign agents and State gov•
erllllrN Under the relict confederacy, military
officers above the rank of brigailiZr general,
and naval officers above the rank of captain.
All oho wereguilly of cruelty to Union
prisoners.
3, Those %vim, at the time they seek
to a•:ail themselves or the proclama
tion, are in custody of the civil, military or
naval authorities, and are held to bud! ; and
all persons implhiated in the assassination
of President Lincoln.
The oath to be taken by all seeking
amnesty pledges loyally to the Union
and the Constitution, and the faithful
observance of all laws relating to the
emancipation of slaves. The Cabinet
was a unit in recommending it, and it
is in exact accordance with the terms
offered to the rebels at the time of Lee's
surrender. Of course the Radicals de
nounce it; but all their objections are
founded on the fact that they fear it
may prevent them from perfecting their
scheme of establishing negro rule in the
South. The white people of the entire
country will greet this proclamation
with unqualified approval.
Accounted For.
John Strohm, one of the speakers at
the 1 - tans t iraf meeting, accounted to his
own satisfaction, for the difference in
the political sentiinent of Be rks and
Lancaster counties. Ile declared Berks
to be a rebel county because it was set
tled by Ilessians, and Lancaster county
to be loyal because it was settled by
Mennonites! Weiare not willing that
this remarkable historical discovery
should die, and therefore give it pub
licity. Mr. Strohm does not scent to be
very well versed in the European his
tory of the Mennonites, and has forgot
ten the anti-war proclivitieS of that
gentle body of men residing hereabouts.
We understand t h at Mr. S. is now pre
pared to answer the interesting histori
cal question as to who struck 13illy
Patterson. Our columns are at his ser
vice.
The Tribune Endorses the Amnesty
Procianiation.
Some of the smaller icy of the Itadir
oil newspapers are raving against. the
President for issuing the Amnesty Pro
clamation. The N. V. Tritoot, wliicL
has been calling very loudly for the im
peachment of Andrew J oh nso n , speaks
of this proclamation as follows:
Wk. were in fa \ a. or a sweeping Amnesty
wises r. Johnson \vas raving. and roaring
thrice a (lay lhat "treason NV:IS Mid
must be punislitsl. - We are in favor
slit now,antl would glially haveevery peace
well disposed nnut in the South :issureil
that no harm will befall him because of his
share in the Itelicilion so long as he departs
11:111..11',:is a
. 141111 l should. Let th 11 7 .4 .,
who were pollee; feel know thattheytunv
I/111111 811 d illi,llllilll :URI trade, buy lands :Hitt
sell them, without rear of conlise,ition or mo
lestation. Si Jar as Prr,itbalt Johnson's 110.1"
Ih•oolantutintleu:l.tose:iiithalon:l,ithas
k)111' 110111'1y approval.
After SUCII a sweeping endorsement,
One would suppose it would puzzle the
Tribunc to find fault with the document
it so freely commends. ft does, how
ever, assail it as tending to restore the
right of suffrage to the whites of the
South. Fear that the supremacy of the
new° may lie disturbed excites the ire
of tireeley ; but, having admitted that
in till other respects the proclamation is
right, we fancy he will find it hard to
excite mu( h antagonism to it by show
ing that it tends to break down the
newly•created supremacy of the negro.
Will Penns) I vania Respond to Callfo
The great victory iu California has a
peculiarsiguilicance at the present time.
It shows that the American people are
completely tired of the rule of corrup
tion and fanaticism to which they have
been subjected. Itis a death blow to the
Radical plan for subjecting this coun
try to the domination of the negro and
the Yankee Puritan. It should rouse
every conservative citizen of Pennsyl
vania to vigorous action. This State
call be redeemed from the hands of the
thieves and negro worshipers iu October
if we do our duty. Let there be perfect
organization in each election district,
and a full poll of our vote, and Penn
sylvania will respond to California with
an old-fashioned majority. Then close
up the ranks and forward to rictor,y.
WE object to Judge Williams as a
Yankee, not because he was born in
Connecticut; hut because lie has brought
with him to Pennsylvania all the
fanatical ideas and higher•law notions
of the most extreme Radicals of that
section. In that respect he resembles
Thad Stevens, and would be a most un
safe man to place on the bench of our
Supreme Court. Ile is an ingrained
New England Yankee of the most ultra
style. The white inert of Pennsylvania
want no such Mall to interpret law for
them. Ile is pledged t o ma k e hi s de
cisions all conform to the mosl. extreme
Radical political ideas. The election of
such a man would be a great calamity.
Hare You Heard the New from Blaine?
The news from Maine is most cheer
ing. Even in New England the Radi
cal line falters and is thrown into utter
confusion. Let Pennsylvania pierce
the centre and utter route must follow.
(;lose up the ranks, and forward to vic
tory!
CotEELEv is very much disgruntted
by the news from California. He says:
It is very poor satisfaction to be told in
despatches from t;:difornia that the Itepub•
licans might have elected their Governor.
A. great many good things "might have
been." There is scarcely u doubt that
Haight is elected Governor, and. that
Phelps Is defeated for Congress in
the Sun Francesco District. More than
this, the disaffeetion In our ranks
imperils the Legislature, and threatens
a Democrat lu the 11111511 or United
States Senator Conness, '1'1;1, defeat in Itself
is not of vital importance; but the manner
in which it was brought about, and the
elation it will produce in the ranks of the
enemy, are not the most pleasant midterm
for reflection.
lbw Slight a Change inn Elect a Demo•
cratlc frosldent.
As many patriotic Conservatives hesi
tate to enter upon the arduous work of
a vigorous political campaign, believing
that no amount of labor can secure the
election of an anti-Radical President, we
publish the following election returns,
which show how slight a change, taking
the vote of 1866 as a basis, will over
throw the Radicals.
We make two calculations, one based
upon the return of the South ; the other
upon their exclusion.
First—The South admitted.
In this case, the vote will be—
Senatorial
Congressionl
Total .317
Necessary to elect I'o
The following States will give us the
requisite 159 votes :
Arkansas
California rt
Connecticut . t;
Delaware 3
t ieorgiit 9
Indiana 13
Kentucky II
Maryland 7
Nevada 3
New Jersey 7
New York 3.1
North Carolina
Oregon 3
Pennsyltlinia ''tl
Texas ti
Virginia In
Western Virginia
Of those States, Connecticut, Dela
ware, Kentucky and Maryland are
Democratic. In Arkansas, Georgia,
North Carolina, Texas and Virginia,
the registration shows white majorities.
In the other States, the vote in 180; was
as follows : _ .
4 .7. 7 . ...
...F.:. 1.; .I .' : .' ''' • ;
J
F .
California 33,221 •-G,215 t',,!i,'S 3, Is.;
Indiana . 110601 1.55,390 11,202 7,1 el
Nevada ,121', i,eS I,eSe 515
Now Jersey G),.512 1.3,t11 7 1,r,e1l 79S
New York 155,315 :',52: , :2:1 1:;,7 , i (OP.')
,N
Oregon le, 1 11,..i51i 327 16.1
I - ennsy I van La_ 317,27 I 29u,use I 7,ils 8,5511
W eh t, V 1 i.g, Li 1,,,, .2:001 17,1.,6 li,til I 3,322
I 11111,36 t; 61,711 S :UO2;0
9 I 9,:;oti
Total votes 1,901, - ,30
This table shows that a change of
:30,902 votes out of 1,901,530, or less than
one and a half per cent., will elect a
Democratic President. Legislative cor
ruption and negro suffrage will change
the requisite 6,55 n votes Pennsylva-
Ma, and a vigorous etlbrt Nyill change
the remaining :22,31:i voles elsewhere.
Second—The South still excluded.
In this case, the vote will be—
Senatortal 51
Congressional . 1P:1
Total "17
Necessary W elect LA
The following States will give us the
requisite 1:24 votes:
California
Connecticut fi
Delaware . .. 3
Indiana it
kelltUCky II
Maryland
Nevada
Nebraska
New .Jersey 7
New York ...,
Oregon
Pennsylvania 211
Western Vi r ginia
As shown above, Connecticut, Dela
ware, Kentucky and Maryland are
democratic; a change of 30,!Hr2 votes
will give us California, Indiana, Neva
da, New Jersey, New York, Oregon,
Pennsylvania and Western Virginia,
while the remaining State, Nebraska,
can be made Democratic by a change of
51 votes. In 15th the vote in Nebraska
was
Itcpublican
Democratic
Ilepubl lean
In either case, the prospect is cheer
ing. If the South is admitted, we must
change :10,902 votes. If the South is
excluded, we must change 50 more and
our success is secured.
As the returns from the Califhrnia
election come in the distress of the
Itadicais is deepened. Oreely sulns up
the Whole matter in the following dole
ful paragraph :
(lalitornia returns, which hncr grown
worse daily, have at last touched the lowest
depth. The Democratic majority al llov
ernor is,S ; the re is gone, hook
and and, of )our , •, a United States
Sellat,i' With it ; 11111, to till Ihe cup, we Ira
told that it 1,1.h/111 , 0 . 11i ill single Republi
can l'ongressiniol is chostql.
l'oor old Horace !
The New Governor of California
henry IL Haight, just elected Gov
ernor of California, is a native of Ito
Chester, New York, and is about 4•i
years of age. Ito is a sou of Fletcher
M. Haight, formerly a distinguished
lawyer in Rochester and in St. Louis,
and subsequently eminent at the bar of
San Francisco. He was, during the
last years of his life, district judge of
California, appointed by Mr. Lincoln.
The younger Mr. Haight graduated at
Yale College in 1541 or '45, studied law
iu Rochester, and has practiced most
successfully at the bar both in St. Louis
and San Francisco. He is said to lie a
man of very decided talents, most pleas
ing address, and irreproachable charac
ter.
IF it be true as Forney's Picas claims,
that the Republican rout in California
was caused by the corruption of the
party, what ought to be its fate in Penn
sylvania'? The corruption of the Rad
ical Legislature of last winter was with
out a parallel. So will the defeat of the
party be at the coining election if the
conservative white men of the State do
their duty. Organize! Organi.:c! OR
GANIZE!!! And victory is sure.
THE liighL,l iwineveint2lll of a Radi
cal politician in Lancaster county is the
judicious kissing of babies. Brubaker
is said to have won his popularity by a
wonderful skill in that delicate maneu
vre. One or two of the fellows wino
were on the Thug slate are said to have
taken
. lessons from him, The enrap
tured mothers are delighted with their
performances, and the pressure brought
to bear upon the husband is said to be
terrible.
CALIFORNIA is au epitome of the
rnion, being made up of representa
tives of every State. That renders the
victory the more significant. 7 It shows
how universal is the current which
promises speedily to sweep the corrupt
and fanatical Radical party out of ex
istence.
Then rally to the polls, ye white men
of Pennsylvania.,
FoßNrx's PreNs has been scared into
one honest admission. Startled out of
its ordinary and almost uneonquerable
propensity to lie, by the returns from
California, it declares that the Republi
can party was defeated "becausc it had
.so shams fncity corrupt." That
is an honest confession. The corrup
tion of the party in Pennsylvania, and
its endorsement of negro suffrage will
ensure a defeat even greater than that
in Califonia.
Then, ltally to the Polls Boys!
UNDER Sheridan's rule secret circu
lars were issued to the Registrars in
Louisiana and Texas, directing the
exclusion of certain classes of white
men who were fully entitled to register
under the acts of Congress. By that
means the negro majority in Louisiana
was very largely increased. Call you
that a Republican system of Govern
ment? Negro republics were thereby
established. A republic of any other
complexion was made impossible.
Negro Suffrage In Oblo—rt Warning t
Pennsylvania.
The Republican leaders of Ohio start
ed into the present political contest con
fident of an easy victory. The last Leg
islature had sugar coated the negro
suffrage pill by adding a clause disfran
chising deserters. That, they thought,
would certainly secure its adoption by
a decided majority. Events of the can
vass have shown that the white men of
the Buckeye State are not prepared to
submit to the degradation of voluntari
ly voting to make negroes their politi
cal equals. They do not relish theidea
of having Sambo at the ballot-box and
in the jury box with them, and are not
ready to break down all the barriers of
distinction between the two races. So
general and unmistakable has been the
dissatisfaction become, even among the
mass of those who have heretofore voted
just as the Radical leaders dictated, that
the political managers of that party
were forced to admit that there was
great danger of their losing the election.
Alarmed• and warned by the signs of
the times, the Radical State Central
Committee have sent out a secret cir
cular to the faithful, granting them a
dispensation so far as the negro suffrage
amendment is concerned. They drop
their only live issue, falter on the great
logical consequence of their negro pol
icy, and urge their adherents to vote
for the Radical candidates for Gover
nor and Legislature, while they are
left free to vote as they see fit on the
proposed constitutional amendment.
They intend to dodge the issue of
negro equality, but they have not
abandoned it. A new plan has been
adopted. If a Radical governor and
legislature be elected they expect Con
gress to adopt the Sumner-Kelley bill,
or to propose an amendment to the Con
stitution of the United States which
will do the work of forcing the odious
change upon the people. This.infamous
plan has been exposed by a copy of the
secret circular alluded to. Here is more
warning for the people of Pennsylvania.
They must see to it that a change is
made in the Legislature of this State.
The corrupt Radicals who disgraced
the Commonwealth at Harrisburg last
winter, would have endorsed, such an
amendment without hesitation. The
people of Pennsylvania must make a
change in that body, if they would
not have negro suffrage forced
upon them iu the manner proposed
by the Republican leaders of Ohio.
The Radicals know they can not long
continue to enforce negro suffrage in
the South, unless it is:also made the
rule in every Northern State. The very
existence of the party depends upon
thus making it universal. To accona
plish.that purpose they will resort to
the most desperate expedients. The
people have had evidence of the lengths
to which the present Congress will
go when urged forward by the lash
of Thaddeus Stevens. The present
election will decide the question of ne
gro suffrage for Pennsylvania and
every other State. Either the Sumner-
Kelley bill will be at once adopted, or
an amendment to the Constitution of
the United States will be put through,
surrendering to Congress all the power
of the States over the question of suf
frage. In this view of the situation the
coming election assumes vast impor
tance. The choice of a Radical legisla
ture this fall would be a great calamity
—the election of a Radical New Eng
land Yankee, like Williams, acalainity
equally as great. Let the white men of
Pennsylvania rally to the polls in their
might. For this once they can vote with
out being jostled at the ballot box by a
set of ignorant and degraded negroes.
They will never have another oppor
tunity of the kind, unless a check is
given to the Radicals in their• desperate
designs
A Radical Row In Chester County
'There is scarcely a strong Republican
county in this State where the Radical
leaders have not raised a row over the
distribution of the spoils. In Chester
county they have got . into a regular
snarl. The Chrstcr Valli y Union, a well
k nown Radical paper, charges that
John Hickman was nominated by the
practice of a piece of gross and disrep
utable fraud, two men pledged to vote
for Hickman being admitted as dele
gates to the County Convention when
they had no right to a seat, and the
regularly elected delegates being ex
cluded. The Union bolts the ticket so
far as Hickman is concerned, and says:
Are WV to That this is the first
fruits the Rcfoint movement in this
country? Is Ittmoioi to be inaugurated by
fraud, (men bare faced fraud, in a kepubli
can Convention iii . ola,ter county? If this
is the reform promised us by those Who
WCI2 wt 111Illi in ex tolling dm Hickman as
the champion of Iteform, Hod help us !
This piece of p fraud, we lire glad
to know, meets with universal condemna
tion from Republicans everywhere, and so
it should. It will injure the ticket nomina
ted on Tuesday last, lull the man that will
be most injured will he John Hickman. Ile
has a nomination obtained by dishonorable
means; let us see if lie shall receive that
hearty endorsement at the hands of the
voters at the election in October. If we do
not very much mistake the signs which
seem to lie appearing in every direction.
John Hickman and those who concocted
and perpetuated the political fraud will be
rebuked in a manner not to be forgotten.
Go it Betsey—Go it bear!
Strong Radical Endorsement of Our
tandldate
Over forty thousand Republicans of
Philadelphia voted for Judge Sharswood
when he was last a candidate for the
position he now fills so ably. That was
in the very hottest excitement of the
war. He was then regarded as suffi
ciently loyal, and was considered sound
on all constitutional questions. No
paper in Philadelphia then spoke of him
except in terms of the highest praise.
The assaults made by them upon him
now, come with a very bad grace. Either
they lied when they praised him, or
they are lying now. \Vhieli it is any
man of sense can easily tell for himself.
The people of Philadelphia and of the
whole State know Judge Sharswood so
well that the falsehoods of a set of mer
cenary and corrupt political scribblers
can not effect his fair fame. That lie
will be elected by a large majority there
is no reason to doubt. He is just the
man to be placed on the Supreme Bench,
and the.lawyers, the business men, the
capitalists and the masses of the people
all know that to be the fact. Even the
Republicans of Philadelphia can not
"'go back on" their endorsement of him.
Multitudes of them will vote for him.
The Chambersburg Valley Spirit
This able and widely known Demo
cratic journal comes to us this week
with the name of our friend and former
partner, J. M. Cooper at the head of its
columns. Mr. Cooper was the founder
of the paper, and his able pen gave it a
very extended reputation. As apolitical
writer he has very few equals in this
State. Associated with him are Wm.
S. Stenger and Augustus Duncan. Mr.
Stenger is one of the most talented
young men of our acquaintance, being
a strong and graceful writer and a most
effective speaker. He has been twice
elected District Attorney of Franklin
county, the last time at an election in
which the balance of the Republican
ticket was successful. Mr. Duncan is a
gentleman of high standing and most
excellent business capacity. In the
hands of such men the Valley Spirit
will present even greater attraction
than heretofore.
The retiring editors and proprietors,
Messrs. Hampsher and Keyser, were
able and enterprising newspaper men,
and we have no doubt their many
patrons parted company with them re
gretfully.
Rotiat White Km Read!
Pennsylvania to ho Reconstructed!
for Government Not Republican!
The Antener•lielley Negro Equality Bill
• - to be rammed at Once.
Judge WlMonne to Enforce It.
The Last Dammam° Cast Aside!
If there Is a man in Pennsylvania who
still doubts that the Radicals are deter
mined to force Humner's universal ne
gro suffrage and negro equality bill
through at the nextsession of Congress,
to him especially do we commend a pe
rusal of the account of the "Equal
Rights Meeting" at Wilmington, Dela
ware, as reported at length In Forney's
Press of yesterday. The assemblage is
said to have been large, and the special
reporter of the Press exhausts the vo
vocabulary in describing the exciting
scenes of the occasion. We make the
following extracts :
[ Special Correspondence of the Preisil
WlLiiitsioToN, September .1,
The largest political mooting ever held in
the State of Delaware assembled yesterday
at Wilmington, to demand the recognition
by law, over all the country, of the entire
equality of all American citizens in all civil
and politicat rights, without regard to color,
and to appoint delegates to a Convention of
the Border States, to be held at Baltimore
on the 12th instant, to solicit the passage by
thngress of the Sumner-Kelley bill establish
ing impartial suffrage throughout the whole
Union.
The vast assemblage convened in and
overflowed the large hall of the Wilmington
Institute, and was called to order at twelve
o'clock.
After the appointment of a long list
of officers, part negroes and part white
men, the Press goes on to say:
A list of a hundred delegates to the coin
ing Convention at Baltimore was then read
by Samuel Bancroft, Jr., Esq., and unani
mously adopted, a third of the delegates eho-
Mt -being colored men, about six hundred of
whom were present at the meeting.
The following resolutions, as read by Mr.
Barrington, were received with the great
est enthusiasm, and adopted by acclama
tion, the whole audience rising to their feet:
Resolved, That the theory of our government,
the claims of Impartial Justice, the equal rights
of citizens, and the loyalty and faithful servi
ces of the colored people, demand that the right
of suffrage shall be extended to them in common
with all other loyal citizen s; and we respect' Wit/
petition iblittress to confer and secure thi.S. riyhl at
the earliest possible period, by such legislation as
they may }teem r ght and appropriate.
Resolved, That in the State of Delaware there
aoes no' exist a Republican form of go vernm•
been 11-ve V . the exclusion Si a large nn tuber of h er
colored citizens from participation in the enjoy.
orient and exercise of olitieat rights, and because
of the gross Inequality of rep: esentatlon In the
Legislature, whereby Its, than one hall of the
citizens wlelu thn power or the State. We
hereby call upon Congress to assure to us the
guarantees of the Constitution of the United
States In every particular.
Env:deed, That lee tlemanci the recognition by
law of the entire equality of all A merican citizens,
without regard 10 color, in all civil and pont
rights and privileges, and the }inflection and
encouragement of the Clovernment to enable
every train to occupy whatever position lots
virtues and and Intelligence may qualify hint
to hold.
John Andrew Jackson Cresswell, of
Maryland, au ex- United States Senator,
made a long and exceedingly Radical
speech, demanding that the Sumner-
Kelley bill be passed at the very begin•
niug, of the next Session of Congress.
He took the ground that no State which
refused the negroes a vote or the right
to hold Mike could be said to have a
republican form of government, and
expressed the hem conviction that the
next Congress would at once pass a law
abolishing every distinction between
the races in every State of the Union.
A prominent Radical Congressman from
Pennsylvania followed the blustering
ex-Seuator from Maryland. We give
thr Press report of how he was recieved
and what he said:
The colored band of Wilmington then
played "Ilan to the Chief," when the pres
ident, amidst a perfect storm of enthusiasm,
introduced Burn William D. ICelley, mem
ber of Congress from Philadelphia, the
colored portion of the audience especially
rising to their feet and giving nine cheers
for the Judge. whom, since his Southern
tour, they seem to consider their especial
spokesman in the halls of Congress.
The Judge said he could not help think
ing how rapidly the world does move :mil
how good old John Brown's soul is leading
it on. Ile hoped that sonic one of the dis
tinguished delegates just appointed to at
tond the Border States' Convention would
bear to it a message from Ilium, viz: that he
endorsed every word of the admirable re
solutions reported by his friend General
llarrington. lie saw early in the war that
it was the duty of the Government to rally
all of its citizens around its flag, and to al
low all to peril their lives in its defence.
From the beginning of our great conflict lie
saw that out imperilled country needed the
Rid of four millions of its most robust citi
zens, and felt that the Almighty would not
allow victory to perch upon oar banners
till we at last did justice to our American
citizens of African descent. And now we
need the political power of these four mil
lions of people, as we needed their military
power before. Without their aid we cannot
reconstruct a single loyal State in the South.
501.1112 time a State government must be or
ganized there. We cannot send white men
there, because they don't want to go, and
it . they did they would hardly lie welcomed
by their white brethren. lint in all those
States there are brave and trite 1.11011, who
all through the war perilled their lives in
gallantly serving their country in their
humble way. But it is said these black
heroes are ignorant. How many of the
white gentry' (? ) of the South are the
reverse? The last census shows that in
Virginia atomic 70,000 whites "don't know
II from a bull's foot." So hi all the other
States of the ex-Confederacy. Yet these
ignoramuses are to be clothed with all po
litical privileges, rebs as they are, because
they are white.
.ludge Relley logically reviewed the pre
sent State of Southern society, illustrating
by the experience of Ids late tour, through
the reconstructed region, the necessity of
impartial suffrage as the sole remedy fur
the political evils now afflicting the South
ern people. He believed that, in the Ivical
COUIAC of CLentS, the colored man irou/d, by
the year isle, vote in both Maryland and
Ima ware. lie referred to a speech made
by himn as long since as February, Isl 6,
advocating the constitutional right of the
Congress to regulate suffrage in all the
Stales, and supported the positions then
assumed by him with ample legal argu
ments. lie next took tip and considered
the relations of the labor question to that
of suffrage, showing their intimate connec
tion and the importance to the Northern
laboring twin of the adoption of principles
of civil justice. By his well-known mix
ture of wit, logic and sarcasm, the Judge
carried conviction to many previously
doubling minds on this important branch
of the suffrage question, and was repented
ly greeted with loud applause. lie then
resumed:
The hour of triumph will come to the
loyal men of the Border states long before
it is expected. The tine arts, the mechani
cal zlets, and religion itself, :Ire all on the
side right. No petit ever sling the prais
es of slavery; 110 painter limns 101 his Cilll
- the grandeur of tyranny; no , ott ptor
perpetuates in marble the wrong-doer or
the oppressor. God and nature are on our
side. hare determined that the bond
man, his broken shackles get clinging In hiui,
shall rote, shall enter the jury box, awl shall
hare all the rights of it citizen.
The North :and South have alike entered
on a new and grainier march of progress,
but our work is even greater than the re
demption and regeneration of our own
bright land. The eyes of all Europe are
upon us, and the struggling millions of the
(lid World begin to realize that what Amer
ica is doing, England, France and Italy
may do. Let us then cheer a n d gladden
the hearts of the oppressed everywhere,
and make our land in the future, as in the
past, the lode star to which all lovers of
liberty will be attracted.
The Judge closed amidst great enthusi
asm, and after three tremendous cheers for
Kelley, the convention, on motion of Gene
ral Harrington, adjourned sine
Comment upon the above account
would be superfluous. None is needed.
The resolutions speak for the Radicals
of Pennsylvania as well as for those of
Delaware. The Keystone and the little
DiaMond State are in the same boat.
In the estimation of Congress neither
of them has a republican form of gov
ernment. They will both be recon
structed by the Sumner-Kelley bill,
unless Radicalism receives a check in
this ,State at the coming election. The
Yankee Judge Williams is a firm be•
liever in the high-flown rhapsodies in
dulged in by Bill Kelley. He is pledged
to decide the Sumner-Kelley bill to be
constitutional and binding on every
election officer in Pennsylvania. He
will not deny that charge. No Repub
lican paper dare deny it for him. It is
part and parcel of the plan of the pres
ent political campaign. The Republi
can press in different parts of the State
have so announced it. The issue is
fairly and squarely made up, and it
must be boldly met. Nothing can pre
vent the passage of a bill making all
the negroes of Pennsylvania the full
political and social equals of the whites,
except the election of Judge bhars
wood. Even that may not bo sufficient
to deter Congress; but with him upon
the bench of our Supreme Court the
obnoxious law could not be enforced.
We hope every Democrat will put
this article into- the hands of his Re
publican neighbors. They might not
believe what we say, but they cannot
refuse to credit Forney's Presa and
Judge Kelley's speech.
The Insubordination of lien. Sickles.
Acting Attorney General Binckley
has written a most important opinion,
addressed to the President, and relating
to the action of Gen. Sickles approving
the forcible prevention of the execution
of processes issued by the. United States
courts in North Carolina. Mr. Binck
ley severely censures General Sickles
for his insubordination and contempt
of the powers of the judiciary, and pro
nounces his action as a high misde
meanor, liable to punishment by the
constitution and laws. A letter from
Lieutenant Colonel Frank, command
ing the post of Wilmington, is publish
ed, in which that officer notifies the
United States Marshal that so long as
General Sickles' order remains in exis
tence he will not permit that function
ary to execute orders of the United
States Court, and threatening to use
armed force if such executions are at
tempted. Mr. Binckley proceeds to
show that under no circumstances can
a military commander interfere with
the courts of the United States, and
quotes extensively from the constitution
and from various Chief Justices to prove
that under the constitution the judici
ary of the republic cannot be interfered
with or molested by any person, under
penalties prescribed by law. In conclu
sion the acting Attorney General de
clares that it is the duty of the Presi
dent to promptly repress all such acts
of contumacy, lest he should rightfully
be regarded as being insensible to such
insults cast upon the dignity of the Su
preme Court, and to open violations of
the constitution and laws.
Proclamation by the President
In another column will be found a
proclamation just issued by President
Johnson, which will commend itself to
the intelligence and the patriotism of
every right•thinking man in the coun
try. It directs the military authorities
in the South to be obedient to the laws
and the Constitution of the United
States, and is calculated to check some
of them in their despotic course of con
duct. Several of them have stood much
in need of some such curb upon their
actions.
Want to Get In the Ring Again
We took occasion a few days since to
ask a newspaper reporter, who was
present at Harrisburg during the entire
session of lust winter, what reputation
the members from this county bore for
honesty in that corrupt body. He
assured us that, with the exception of
Senator Billing t, they were consider
ed to be "in the :Mg," and just as eager
to secure their share of a "divey" as any
man there. We shall watch with some
curiosity to see whether the Republi
cans of Lancaster county will endorse
such of them as are anxious to return to
the scene of their speculative opera
tions.
Hans Geary
Governor Geary made a speech be
fore the Hans Graf Association the
other day, which was so utterly silly
that all who heard it were completely
disgusted. The reporter of the Express
tried to manufacture a decent notice of
it, but was unable to conceal how com
pletely our "fuss and feather" Gover
nor made an ass of himself. He tried
complimenting the ladies but only
made himself appear silly, he tried to
soft-soap the farmers, hut only succeed
ed in making himself more ridiculous.
Ile grew familiar with his audience,
and in a desperate attempt to be witty
said he would like to be called Hans
Geary. So • let him be dubbed unless
some honeA'Gennan should object.
01'n notice of the exceedingly gross
attack upon George Brubaker which
appeared in the Liquirr r has riled
somebody connected with the concern
very decidedly. It may be none of our
business who owns the paper, but it is
certainly very singular that the indi
vidual who professes to be its propri
etor and editor was unable to prevent a
hitter personal assault upon both him
self and his father-in.law from appear
ing prominently as the lesoling editorial.
The only space allowed Mr. S. A. Wylie
in the Imptir( r for defense of himself
was in an obscure corner, at the end of
the report of the proceedings of the
County Convention. Such a queer
exhibition iu a political newspaper was
well calculated to excite comment, and
was a legitimate subject for criticism.
Strategy My Boy
Geary is looking out with all his eyes
for a renomination. (in Sunday last, in
anticipation of the passage of the Sum
ner-Kelley universal suffrage bill, he
attended the negro Camp Meeting at
Middletown. Yesterday he was pres
ent at the Hans Graf Association in
this county looking out for the six votes
of Lancaster county. He has joined the
Good Templars, but is said to take a glass
of lager with his German fellow citizens
on the sly, and now and then a "drop
of the crather"ovith a jolly Irishman.
Geary always was great on strategy.
Witness his capture of that gun at
Harper's Ferry.
Naturalization
No doubt there are sonic persons in
every district entitled to be naturalized
in time to vote at the next election. Let
all such be looked up without delay.
We will announce the time set apart by
the Court for attending• to that matter
in due season. Let not a vote be lost
which can thus be made. We hope the
active Democrats throughout the coun
ty will see to it at once.
Pura:, in his letter to General Grant,
does not think there can be any hope of
freedom for the South untill all the men
who have any brains are disfranchised.
Pope is an unmitigated ass. When he
superseded McClellan, " his headquar
ters were in the saddle." His exploits
immediately after that and since war
rant the following epigram :
Pope his headquarters In the saddle, places
Where other mortals their hindquarters
plant, sir;
Pray, tell us what deduction from the cnse is
Why, this is logic's plain and easy answer;
If Pope bas any brains, by J ove, he's got 'em
Where every other mortal has his bottom.
HENRI' WENDT, the Reverend Rav
isher, has been sentenced by Judge
Ludlow of Philadelphia to fifteen years
solitary• confinement in the Peniten
tiary. Serena Howe, of Massachusetts,
is still at large, and no effort has been
made to apprehend him. What a com
mentary on Yankee morality and New
England justice. If his victims had
been negroes, he would have been
hunted down with bloodhounds if need
be. But they were little white girls—
that makes a big difference.
A large wing of the Radical party
in Alleghenay county are dissatisfied
with the nominations made by the late
County Convention. It was little
better than a mob and the disorderly
scenes which occurred were disgraceful.
Tne Pittsburg Commercial is urging the
abandonment of the present delegate
system and the adoption of the Craw
ford county plan.
CROW, CHAPMAN, CROW!
LARGE DEMOCRATIC GAINS IN VERMONT !
A CLEAN SWEEP IN CALIFORNIA.
DITTO IN MONTANA_
Have You Heard the News from Maine ?
THE STATE ALMOST REDEEMED.
The Revolution has Begun in Earnest.
Then Rally to the Polls, White Men of Pennsylvania!
The election returns are most cheer
ing.
IN VERMONT •
the Radicals lose heavily on the popu•
lar vote and the Democrats gain quite
a number of members of the Legisla
ture.
IN CALIFORNIA
we make a clean sweep, electing the
following STATE OFFICERS BY A MA
JORITY OF ABOUT TEN THOUSAND.
Governor—Henry If. Haight.
Lieutenant (inventor—Win. Holden
Secretary of State—H. L. Nichols.
Comptroller—Robert Watt.
Treasurer—A. Coronel.
Surveyor General—J. Hamilton.
HarborCommissioner—James 11. Cut
ter.
Clerk of the Supreme Court—George
Leckel.
State Printer—l). W. Gelwicks.
We also elect all three members of
Congress, as follows:
First District—S. B. Axtell.
Second District—Jas. \V. Coffroth.
Third District—Jas. A. Johnson.
We also elect a large majority of the
Legislature, thus securiug a UNITED
STATES SENATOR iu place of Couness.
PREVIOUS VOTES
In 1505 the whole vote cast was 59,46 ii,
IL H. Hartley, Democrat, receiving
26,2-15, and S. W. Sanderson, Republi
can, 33,221 ; Republican, majority 6,376.
In 1861 Lincoln's majority was 18,293,
and in 1563 Frederick F. Low, the pre
sent Governor, was elected over Janice
G. Downey, the Democratic candidate,
by a majority of 1:5.732, and the whole
vote was 10i1,162.
This is a wonderful revolution. We
can make as great a one in Pennsylva
nia if our full vote is brought to the
polls. Shall it he clone' We think we
hear every Democrat cry AV E. Thi n
orijani:c at once, and RALLY TO TH E
PALS !
A ttttt esty Proclamation
WAsnrsiiros, Sept. S.--The following
pardon proclamation, although prepared
yesterday, was not issued until this after
noon:
VV"tncet:n,, In the month of July, Anon
Domini ISal, the two Houses of Congress,
with extraordinary unanimity, solemnly
declared "that the war then existing was
not waged on the part of the government
in any spirit of oppression, nor for any pur
pose of conquest or subjection, nor purpose
of overthrowing or interfering with the
rights or established institutions of the
States, but to defend and maintain the su
premacy of the Constitution, and to pre
serve the Union, with all its dignity, equal
ity, and rights of the several States unim
paired, and that as soon as these objects
should be accomplished, the war ought to
cease;"
..111(1 iuhereas, The President of the United
States, on theeighth day of December, Anno
Domini, Isti:f, amd on the twenty•sixth day
of March, Anno Domini, ISlil, did, with the
objects of suppressing the then exiting re
hellion, of inducing all persons to return an
their !,salty, and restoring the authority
of the United Shales, issue proclamations,
offering amnesty and pardon to all persons
who lout directly or indirectly participated
in the then existing rel a tion, except as in
those proclamations, was specified and re
served ;
And whereas, The President of the United
States did, on the tWenty•ninth day of May
Anno Domini 1565, issue a further procla
mation with the same objects before men
tioned, and to the end that the authority of
the Government of the United States 'night
be restored, and that peace, order, and free
dom !night be established; and the Presi
dent did, by the said last-mentioned pro
clamation, proclaim and declare that he
thereby granted to all persons who bad
directly or indirectly participated in the
then existing rebellion, except as therein
excepted, amnesty and pardon, with resto
ration of all rights of property, except as to
slaves, and except in certain cases where
legal proceedings had been instituted ; but
upon condition that such persons should
take and subscribe an oath therein pre
scribed, which oath should he registered
for permanent preservation • and
Whereas, In and by the said last mention
ed proclamation of the twenty-ninth day of
May, An no Domini 1865, fourteen extensive
classes of persons therein specially describ
ed were altogether excepted and excluded
from the benefits thereof; and
. Whereas, The President of the United
States did, on the second day of April,
Anon Domini 1866, issue a proclamation de
claring that the insurrection was at au end,
and was thenceforth to be so regarded;
Whereas, There now exists 110 organized
armed resistance of misguided citizens or
others to the authority of the United States
in t h e st a te, of Ceorgia, South Carolina,
Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Ala
bama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississir pi,
Florida and Texas, and the laws can be
sustained and enforced therein by the proper
civil authority, State or Federal, and the
people of said States are well and loyally
disposed, and have conformed, or, if per
mitted to do so, will conform in their legis
lation to the condition of alnirs, growing
out of amendment to the Constitution of the
United States prohibiting slavery within
the limits and jurisdiction of the United
States; and
I I' &Teas, There no longer exists any rea
sonable ground to apprehend within the
States which were involved 111 tint late re
bellion, any renewal thereof, or any unlaw
ful resistance by the people of said States
to the Constitution and laws of the United
States ; and,
Whereas, Large standing armies, military
occupation, martial law, military tribu
nals, and the suspension of the privilege of
the writ of habeas corpus, and the right of
trial by jury, are in time of peace dangerous
to public liberty, incompatible with the
individual rights of the citizen, contrary to
the genius and spirit of our tree institutions,
and exhaustive of the natural resources,
and ought not therefore to be sanctioned or
allowed, except in cases of actual necessity
for repelling Invasion, or suppressing in
surrection or rebellion ; and.
Whereas, A retaliatory or vindictive po
licy, attended by unnecessary disqualifica
tions, pains, penalties, confiscations, and
disfranchisements, now as always, could
only tend to hinder reconciliation among
the people, and national restoration, while it
must seriously embarrass, obstruct, and re
press popular energies, and national indus
try and enterprise; and
Whereas, For these reasons, it is now
deemed essential to the public welfare, and
to the more perfect restoration of Constitu
tional law and order, that the said last
mentioned proclamation as aforesaid issued
on the 211th day of May, A. D. 1865, should
be modified, and that the full and beneficent
pardon conceded thereby should be opened
and further extended to a largo number of
persons, who by its aforesaid exceptions
have been hitherto excluded from Execu
tive clemency;
Now, therefore, be it known that I, An
drew Johnson, President of the United
Stales, do hereby declare and proclaim that
the full pardon described in the said pro
clamation of the 19th of May, Anno Dom
ini 1865, shall henceforth be opened and
extended to all persons h who h h e o
g d r i e r a e t ctl
re or
bel
lion,
indirectly participated
with the restoration of all privileges,
immunities, and rights of property with
regard to slaves, and except ii cases of
MONTANA
The political tide is not only turned,
but is sweeping on with a strength that
will speedily annihilate Radicalism.
The New York ll'or/d has the following
special despatch :
VlRolm A Cum - , Montana, Sept. 7.
Cavanagh ( Democrat) has been elected
delegate to Congtess from Montana by
an overwhelming majority.
MAINE.
The election in Maine shows Immense
Democratic gains.
In the very darkest places the light is
breaking gloriously.
The end of Radical domination is at
hand.
The white men of this country are
not ready to submit to negro rule.
From East to West, across the whole
continent, they utter their wittily pro
test.
The following news from Maine is
most cheering and encouraging :
PonTLAND, Me., Sept. 9.—The follow
log election returns have been received:
Sixteen towns give Chamberlain
5,069 ; Pillsbury, 5,6:19. Chamberlain's
majority, 2,4.50.
The same towns last year gave Cham
berlain a majority of ,l,S11), showing a
Democratic gain this year of :1,30,
The Republican loss in Bath is '271.
Biddeford gives a Democratic ma
jority of 210 against 90 last year.
One hundred and !line counties give
Chamberlain '22,715, and Pillsbury 1 ,-
liS3. The same towns last year gave
Chamberlain 31,930, and l'illsbury 16,-
56.5. Chamberlain's majority this year
is 6,032, against 1.,,05.) in the same towns
last year, making a Republican loss of
9,033. The aggregate vote in these
towns is -k3,3118, against 48,21.5 last year.
The total vote of the State last year was
111,584, This year lt will probably full
under 101,010,
Three sevenths of the vote of the
State is in, with a loss of nine-fifteenths
of the vote of last year. The same ratio
will reduce the total majority to about
S,OOO, or u total loss of about 19,000.
legal proceedings under the laws of the
l lilted Shaes, but upon this conditirn,
nevertheless, that every such person who
shall Heel: to avail himself of this proclama
tion shall late and subscribe the following
oath ; and shall elitist, the same to be regis
tered, ft tr perinatient preservation, in the
same manner and with the Hanle utteet as
with the oath prescribed in the saitl procht-
Illation of the :29111 day of Itty, namely:
"1--, do H.,:etonly swear (or in
the presence of Almighty God, that I will
henceforth faithfully support, protect and
defend the tonstittition of the United States
and the union ttl thetitates thereunder; 1111(1
that I Will in like manner abide by and
fitithtully suppoi t all bass and resolutions
which have been made during the htte re
bellion with ref Meals to the entailcipation
of slaves. to help mt. 11.11."
The following persons, and northers, aro
excluded flow the benefits or this proelittint
lion and of the said proclamation of the 29th
day of ill ay, 15115, namely:
First. The Chief or pretended (thief Ex
ecutive ollicets including the President, the
Vice President, and all heads of depart
ments or the pretended (tonfeileritte or rebel
Government, amt all who were agents
thereof lit foreign States and countries, Mid
all 5010 111•'il or pretended to hold, in the
service of the 5.1111 pretended Confederate
tovernment, IL military rank or title above
the grade of brigadier general, or naval
rank or title above that of captain, and all
who were, or pretended to be, Governors
of Slates, while maintaining, abetting or
submitting nt, and acquiescing ill the re
bellion.
Second. All persons who in any way
treated otherwise than as lawful prisoners
of war, persons who in any rapacity Wen,
employed ur engaged in the military or
naval service of tho United States.
Third. All persons who, at the time they
may seek to obtain the benefits of this pro
clamation, are actually in civil, military
or naval confinement or custody, or lugally
held to bail, either before or after convic
tion, and all persons who Were engaged,
directly or indirectly, in the assassination
of the late President of the United States, or
in any plot or conspiracy in any manner
therewith connected.
In testimony whereof I have signed these
presents with my hand and have CU11,4141
the meal of the United States to be thereunto
affixed.
[b. s.J Done at the city of Washington
the 7111 day of September, Isti7.
By the Prpsident:
WILLIAM 11. S •:wA RD, See. of Stith
THE black-and-tan Radical State Con_
vention of North Carolina came very
near breaking up in a general row.
The negro delegates demanded the im
mediate confiscation of the property of
their former masters. A resolution
was finally adopted referring the matter
to Congress, and the niggers expect
that body to carry out their wishes.
Perhaps it may be done, if Thad.
Stevens lives.
IN view of the great decrease in the
Radical majority shown by the Ver
mont election, and the complete politi
cal revolution in California, we suggest
that the present would be an exceeding
ly appropriate time for Radical news
papers to republish their standing
editorials on " The Death of the Demo
cratic Party." They would read well
just now.
JOHN HICKMAN made a speech at
West Chester the other day, after being
nominated for the Legislature, In which
I am for the negrO all the time, and against
17ly Johnson.
•
John could, not have given a better
definition ornadical doctrine if he had
talked for five hours. That one sentence
contains It all in a nut shell.
A GitAND Mass :Meeting of the ne
groes of Chester and Lancaster counties
is to take place in Scarlet's Woods, near
Christiana, on the 21st inst. The In
quirer announces James Black, Esq., of
this city, as the orator of the occasion.
Verily the world moves. Brother Black
and his black audience will no doubt
have a good time of it. The Radical.
millenium of negro equality may be
closer at home than most people imag
ine.
CONNECTICUT shivered one wing of
the Radical army, California has routed
the other—both flanks are turned, and
it only remains for Pennsylvania to
break the centre and make the route
complete.
Then rally to the polls white boys l