REPORTER:
Wednesday, September 4;1844.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
For folded in 1844,
JAMES K. POLK A
OF TENNESSEE.
For Tire President,
"GEORGE M. DALLAS,
OF PENNSYLVANIA. r
Mahn ht President and Vice President.
WILSON' WPANDLESSI S e natorial.'
:Ask DIMOCR,
13. George 'Sega:the!. ,
14. Nath't B. Eldred.
I& M. N..lrvine.
16. James Woodburn.
17. Hugh Montgomery
18. Isaac Ankney.
19. John Matthews.
20. William Patterson:
21. Andrew Burke.
22. John M'Gill.
,23. Christian 'Meyers.
`24. Robert Orr.
1. George F. Lehman.
2. Christlaulcueass.
'3. William H. Smith.
4. John Hill, (Phila.)
5. Samuel E. Leech.
6. Samuel Camp,
7. Jesse Sharpe.
8. N. W. Sample..
9. Wm. lieldenrich.
10.*Connul Shinier.
11. Stephen -Why.
12. Jonah Brcwtter
For Governor,
FRANCIS I. SHUNK,
OF ALLE,GHANY
' For Canal COMMISSiOiI*,
JOSHUA HARTSHORNE,
OF CIIEST.f,R
Mass Meet,ing-ai Towanda.
Present indications denote that the
Mass Meeting advertised to be held at
this place on the anniversary of Perry's
victory will exceed in point of numbers
any meeting of the kind ever held in
Northern Pennsylvania. The name
and fame of JAMBS,BUCHAN
will doubtless draw many of our federal
adversaries to hear him, and no demo
crat will lose the presetjt opportunity
to see and hear the favorite son of Penn
' Sylvania. Mr. Buchanan - will be ac
companied by many of the most gifted
of Our popular Orators in this state, and
assurances • have been received that
,some of the best speakers of the State
of New York will be with the multitude
on that day. From the adjaCent coun
ties of this and our sister state, we learn
that the_ democrats will turn out en
masse. The Committees appointed
for the occasion, have made and will
make all necessary arrangements. The
' Bridge will be free on tliat day for all
except loaded teams.
The names of the marshalls, and va
rious directions to be observed will be
•
found in another column.
CIIANGES IN MASSACHITSETTS.---Vi r e
intended' to mice before this, a list of
changes purporting to hare taken place
among the Democratic members at the
recent Legislature of Massachusetts.—
The article appeared :in the Argus. two
or three weeks since, and is as base (we
could not say more so) a f . slsehood and
misrepresentation as ever appeared in
that paper. The list of changes pur.
ports to have been copied from the
Massachusetts Gazette, and it is on the
authority of the Gazette that the chan
ges are announced. WE DENT that
there is such a paper in Massachusetts,
as the Massachusetts Gazette. Most
- of the persons said to have changed and
gone over to federalism;were members
of the recent Democratic State Conven
tion of Massachusetts, which was held
since the changes were published.—
Will the Argus tell us where the Ga.
zette is published; or,eyer was publish
ed. the county and town ; they dare not
do it. `
WYALUSING ERECT!—The Democ
racy of Wyaliising had a Young Hicko
ry pole raising at the house of Ephraim
Beeman Esq,, on Saturday last. After
the ceremonies of hoisting the pole,
• meeting was organized by the appoin'-
' meat of Wm. Beeman President, as
. sisted by Benjamin Ackla, Capt. Geo.
• Elliott, Alex?nder P. Biles Esq. and
Capt. Isaac Place Vice Presidents, and
Elmar Horton and Edward IC Moore
Secretaries. The meeting was address
ed,, by Maj. Piatt, of Wyoming, and
Lyman E. DeWolf Esq., of Tociande,
who made hii first political deput in
The present campaign ; hie speech was
rich and spicy—he was listened to at
teritilely and cheered by an admit iog
audience.
Jf the ?ec.ferals of Towanda think they ,
:can prevent democratic "meetings by
.tearing down the notices they are great
iy They should have'con
sidered before they undertook that
game, that they make professions of
belonging to a party pretending to corn-
,prise all the deetacy."
A Ceittficate at last.
For nearly twenty years the conduct of
Henry Clay in his moral add-domestic
relations has been a subject of were
censure in all parts of the country; so
much so, that every man of truth and ve-
racity, democrat or feder4if testifying
wader oath, would swear that his charac
ter in these respects was bad. Hie
friends not attempting to clear up this
difficulty, the people had a right to be•
hove what was charged against him, is
true. Very recently however, the fede-
ralists have hunted up a man, willing to
become a' tool to sustain - Henry Clay's
character, and thiri. , man is- Rev. H. B.
.Bascom. The Argos of last week pub-
ltshes his 'certificate, prefaced with re,
Markk clearly indicating, that this testi-
mony was unexpected to its editors.—
They dwell upon it, as the sweetest re
lief that could come to them, in This hour
of their gloom and despondency. •
They seem to say, " oh, if we could
have had this precious certificate a little
sooner, we might have saved the coon
party, as it. is we will make the best of
it, and on the strength of it, endeavor to
rally our friends once more, surely it is
the 'certificate "of a good man and a
Christian." " In homely adage, we tell
the federalists, that " salt-petre can't save
them." It is too late to hunt up, and
patch up certificates, especially from du
bious authority as Rev. H. B. Bascom.
In all this' countryVone man is found to
testify "in favor of HAry Clay's charae
ter. TR. Argus in copying the editori
als of ;he U. S. Gazette, adopts them as
their own. Having played poi Sum with
protestants generally, and labored to.•stir
up a religious strife between them and
others, an attempt is now-made to enlist
the Methodist denomination especially,
in favor of Henry Clay. So there were
no other clergymen in that numerous
and very respectable class of christians,
who could' be found that was willing to
add his testimony upon this: subject?
none among its thousands of laity to do
him as much reverence ? and yet because
Mr. Bascom consents so do it, he is em
blazoned as a METHODIST and that reli
gious sect appealed to. Who is Mr.
Bascomb ? a deposed Methodist Bish
op ; the man whose course has led to a
dissolution of the union ond harmony of
that denomination in this country. He
says in his fetter / have been in inti
mate and confidential intercourse with
Hon. H. Clay both in public and pri
vate life for moredan twenty years,"
and if he had added, that he had in that
time been closely identified with him in
all his political movements, and pledged
to sustain him through evil as well as
good report, he would have said more
truth than is contained in all his letter.
H. B. Bascom has been the pet of
Henry Clay for more than twenty years.
When first brought to Washington by
Henry Clay, and by his influence made
chaplain' of the Senate, he was wanting
in modesty, or be would not have con
sented to have taken that station, at the
expense of Henry Clay's jeers and scoff's
at' the institution of prayer. Probably
not a layman of the Methodist denomi
nation is to be found who does not know
fulrwell, and to their sorrow the history
of Rev. H. B. Bascom. His poiition
upon the slavery quesnon, will never be'
forgotten by them, especially his zeal
in advdcating the moral right of holding
slaves. The methodist denomination
have passed their decision on this ques
tion, and declared the institution anti
' christian. They will be slow to endorse
this certificate as coming from so excel
lent a christian. All the distinction that
Rev. H. B. Bascom has, was conferred
on him by Henry play ; perhaps no
man in the union is m 4 deeply interes
ted, and politically engaged in securing
his election.
In another column will be found a
review of H. 13. Babcorn's letter, by 'a
Harrison man of 1840, a gentleman who
-knows Bev. H. B. Bascom, and the influ
ences which operate on him to gi4thjs
certificate.
Evasion and Falsehood.
We copy the following rare specs
menu of honesty and sincerity from the
Argus of last week. In view of it, we
ask, can men, pretending to be govern
ed by higher than petty' considerations,
place confidence in a paPer, where a
Jisposition to deceive is so apparent .?
it appears to osAclear vindication of
what we have so often repeated con
cerning the bare faced falsehoods Of
that press.
" We notice by the Reporter of this
week that a Mr. P. E. MAYWASID. of
Rome, publishes a card in. which he
says he wishes his name withdrawn
from the whig coinmittie of vigilance.
We have carefully looked over , the list
of names composing said committee. and
find there is no Ouch name on the./fst."
Our last -paper contained a 'enter
(rout P E MAYNARD. of Rome. stating
in substance that the federalists of this
country bad made him one of their Vig
ilance Committee,and that he had no as
sociation with , that party. nor would he
have any. that he was a democrat, and
should support - democratic nominations.
The name of Mr. Maynard appears in
the Argus as one of the Vigilance Com
mittee not as P. E: Maynard but PIER
PONT MAYNARD. This is the reason
the Argus says that there is no such
name as P E Maynard, to befound
on the list, will the Argus inform us '
who PIERPONT MAYNARD is? If the
gentleman who wrote ' the letter in our
last and signed it P E Maynard is no
the man, then we aver there is no other
man in the County that bears the name
of Pierpont Maynard. The family of
Maynard's is somewhat numerous in
Rome, and to distinguish them Pierpont
E. Maynard, is always called Pierpont
Maynard. This every federalist in town
well knew, nevertheless they stick to
this deception. Now for the reason.•
The federal orators bad been asserting
-,
every where that Pierpont Maynard had
changed and come over to the support
of Clay, though denied, they stick to it,
and put him on their committee. He
proves them false over his own signa
ture, and the Argue to creep out of the
dilemma says ~ we mean Pierpont
Maynard and not P. E. Maynard."-,
This is in perfect keeping with every
thing else that appears in that print.
Blow Sot and Blow Cold.
Under the above caption, an article ap
peared in the Argus of last week, asking
us to cypher, for the express edification
of the federalists of Sheshequin, a cer
tain sum. It is not our practice to no
tice every scribbler for the Argus, we 'do
it, wheia we think we shall be compen
sated for the trouble. We have no doubt
the writer of the article is sincere in his
proposition, and that our logic appears
to him inconsistent, as he represents it.
The sum which we are called upon to
cypher is this : to show Clay consisten
cy in supporting Gen'l Harrison, we co
pied into this paper his language at the
Baltimore barbecue in 1828 concerning
Gen't Jackson viz: that he had rather
our favored land would be visited " with
war, with famine, with pestilence, or
with any other scourge than that a mili
tary chieftain should be elected to the
Presidency." On the strength of this,
the writer in the Argus asks us this ques
tion, "If Mr. Clay made use of such
language, and felt towards Gen'l Jack
son as such language would indicate,
how much would it take to bribe Hen
ry Clay to vote for John Q. ddanw?"
This is the sum we are called upon to
cypher; and the promise is, that if we
do it, we will then show to be true, that
Clay was
"A taw-coat, a cnt-tbroat
And black-leg to boot."
But the writer does not say :that if all
this is proven, he will not vote for him ;
perhaps he would vote for him the more
readily. But to the sum.
The bargain and sale " between J.
Q. Adams and Henry Clay was in 1825;
what Clay said at Baltimore concerning
Gen'l Jackson, was said in 1828, more
Than three years after. In 1840 Henry
Clay so changed his mind, as to vote for
a military chieftian ; it may have been
as consistent for him to vote for a milita
ry chieftain in 1825 as 1840 and at, the
same time time held such characters in
abhorrence in 1824. If what Clay said
in 1828, had been said by him prior to
1825, then there would be some perti
nency in the inquiry and the sum would
be as difficult for us to cypher as the Writer
apprehends. We admit the full force of
the position which the Argus correspon
dent takes, and to give it -additional
strength will suppose that what Clay
said of Gen'l Jackson in 1828 was said
by him in 1824, and therefore no man
in his senses would suppose that Clay
would vote for Gen'[ Jackson, any more
than that he would have voted for Gen'l
Harrison in 1846 ; ..
• But suppose th is to be the case could
Henry Clay with any pure consistency
vote for J.—Q. Adams than Gen'l Jack
son or Crawford. It is never disputed,
that Adams and Clay were not only po
litical but personal enemies from the
time they 'were both parties to the Trea
ty of Ghent. Henry Clay openly char
ged Adams with an attempt by lint to
. ,
barter away to the British by rhat treaty
the mavigation of the Mississippi, river,
which led to a bitter correspondence"bp
tween them, which was not settled up Ito
the spring of 1825, of their political fro*
lity to each other, history bears testinr
ny. , Now then, how should weer'p
pose Clay; ought to have voted, abhor
ring a military chieftain, and charging
Adams with but little less thin being a
traitor to his country. An impartial
bunal wOuld say that he could nototeT,or
Jackson or Adams, but for Crawipr4, if
no difficulties , were in the way., But
Clay, was not left to choose in this Mat
te r. The Kentucky Legislature, ap ire
hending there Was no choice by thelro
ple INSTRUCTED him to VOTE FOR G 9N s L,
JACKSON, whilh he disobeyed, and vred
for the man who carne near hollering
to the British a highway- through! the
great west. In the foregoing we ave
admitted that! what Clay said 1818 of
Jackson was said in 1824, and yet the
. sum is cyphered, and that "corrupt bar
gain and sale" has no n incongruity.
the Argus correspondent please cypher
the following sum for insertion tt the
Argus. As 'Henry Clay said in. 828
that he woo* rather our favored
try would befvisited with war, fa
famine, or any other scourge, than
MILITARY chieftain should be Alec ,
the Presidency," how came he A
for Gen'l Harrison in 1840 ? We
the boot is on that leg.
•
[For the Bradford Reporter.)
Mr. Clay's private Chara
Mr. Goble, corresponding See
of the clay Club of Newark, N.
the solicitation, as he alleges, of
conscientious and upright men, 1
ed a letter on the 9th instant to th
Dr. Bascom of Lexington Kee
enqutring of him, what the
character of Mr. Clay is, as an
upright citizen—a Sabbath bre
gambler—profane swearer. In newer,
the Rev: Mr. Bascom states,i
that ho
has been in intimate and confidential iji
tercourse with the Hon. 11. Cliy, both
in public and private life, for more than
twenty years, and knows the charges
enumerated against the private" charac
ter of Mr. Clay, to be utterly and base
ly false. That in view of the ordinary
accredited principles of a good' moral
character, no charge can 'be brought
against him, without violating the ob
ligations of truth and sound justice.
It is thought by many, and probably
by Mr. Bascom, that the standard of a
man's moral "chiracter, is the opinion
that others entertain of it in the place
where he resides. Th fallacy of such
a conclusion is quite apparent. The
favorable or unfavorable opinion that a
community may form of a man's char
acter, being based upon nn universal
fixed principle, and being ever on the
change, can never with safety, be relied
on as a standard any more than the
principle of comparison. ln either
case a man's character may be said to .
be good, when in truth, it is very bad.
A pious well instructed divine, should
ever feel the necessity of applying a
standard, that he is supposed to know
something about ; one that determines
the character independent of the pqison
ed feelings of a vitiated community :
one, the
,principles of which, are im
mutably fixed and universally acknow
ledged throughout the Christian world ;
and one, by which ail moral character
should be judged here, and must be
hereafter. - 13 y thisjitendard, given to
man as a sure guide, examine the dear
acter of Mr. Clay and see if it is what
it is affirmed to be by Mr. Bascom. • ----- --
Read from this perfect code of morals, Read the following extract from a
what is the true condition and moral sprJeclt of Henry Clay, delivered in the
character of the Sabbath-breaker, the T.I. S. Senate September 4, 18 41, when
profane swearer, the gambler, the licen- he labored hard to TAX_ TEA AND.
ions man and the murderer : then tato COFFEE. ,
~ The Revenue Bill was then taken
up, (the question pending being the
amendment of Mr. Wcodbury, to ex
empt tea and coffee, when
Mr. CLAY made an expose of the
state of the Treasuiy. He said the
expenditures of this year will exceed
the revenue sixteen milliions. 'The
appropriations of the extra session stat
ed to be four millions and a half. To
meet the excess of the expenditure's of
this year over its receipts, would ab
sorb the whole of the twelve million
loan , and he laid it denim as fact ascer
tained, that, at the end of this year,
there would not bi 3 one 4ollar in the
Treasury. lie then took up the next
year,Ond by a detailed statement, he
came to the conclusio*that there would
be only
,four millions Of clear ievenue,
after paying off the inoumbrancis left
by this year's expenditoe t o meet t h e
.expenditureCof 1842, Onder the pres
ent tariff. i .
up the statute laws of the several str.tes,
and see - What efforts have been wade to
suppress these evils from time, to t i me
by the best men in Curnatiori, atid say
if you can, nay if you d , :ire, that the
moral ch i aracler of Mr. Clay is good.
Washitivon's moral character stood
pre.enently high 1 because, he never,
knowingly, tram/sided law, either hu
man or divine. Mr. Clay's unbridled
ambition has nr:ver been restrained by
tither. It is in view of these truths,
we are compelled to say, if we speak
at all, that the answer of Mr. Bascomb
is neither honest nor consistent. Again,
Mr. BRECOM, not only sates Mr.
Clay's chatacter to be good, but denies
the• charges brought spinet him. These
charges are of no modern date. They
have rolled through the ,length and
I.
breadth of our country, uncontradicted
for pore i thah thirty years": Their.de
nial at this time, under theie I peculiar
circunisttuicei 4 are calculated' to cover
th e a uthor in black suspicion.. The
answer is as disingenuous as that of the
Roman Guard, we were made to state
what was done while they slept. Mr.
Bascom_ b . states what he could not
know, witholit adeniting himself to be
at places, which if true; mnstnaturally
injure, if not wholly destroy his own
character. This is tbee'unentiable po
sition of Mr. BaSCOM before the
:American people. The plaster is too
short inevery direction to answer the
i purposes for which it was made. It
was made and intended . for use among
the pious and unsuspecting methodists
through our country. Mr. Clay, and
his friend, Mr. 'Bascom knows, that a
bad character has never met with much
favor among them. hence the necessity,
at this particular juncture of affairs, of
making up a , character for Mr. Clay,
that he never' had or desired before.
The bustle and excitement that seems
to pervade every part of our nation, is
such, as precludes all hope of seeing the
exercise of tober reason during the pre
sent political strife. Preachers and
people, saints , and sinners, contribute
alike, regardless of consequences, to
this agitated state of public affairs.—
Was there ever a nation, that succeeded
any length of time, in keeping the
standard of morals among the people,
higher than that adopted by their ru
lers'? Was there ever a nation that
prospered any length of time, after ru
lers became corrupt and wicked I
MEI
Line,
c hat a
ed to
0 vote
think
Inn
retary
J., at
think the history of the world forthree
thousand years, amounts to a perfect
demonstration of • these truths. A na-
I many
. dress
e Rev.
tueky,
private
tion to be prosperous and happy, must
be virtuous. The word of inspiration
is, I. Thou shalt provide out of all the
people able men, such as fear God—
men of truth, haling covetousness, and
place such over them to be rulers i•c."
He that ruleth over men must bejust,
ruling in the fear of God." Happy
indeed must be the people, that act up
on these living truths.
A HARRISON MAN oy 1840.
I honest
aker—
MESSRS. EDITORS:--The"Clay Bu
gle," a reckless print from Harrisburg,
pretended on the 15th inst., to quote
from James Buchanan, on.the late tariff,
thus:
"I would not . impose one dollar of
duties on foreign imports beyond what
may be necessary to meet such an eco
nomical expenditure. In adjusting these
duties, however, I shall abandon the
principle of discrimination in favor of
such branches of home industry as may
be necessary "to secure a supply of
those articles of manufacture essential
t k the national independebce and safety
in time of war." "
This last sentence, in the genuine
speech reads as follows :
" In adjusting these duties,' however,
/shall NEVER abandon the principle
of discrimination in favor of such bran
ches of Home. Industry as may be ne
cecessary to secure a supply of those
articles of manufacture essential to the
national independence and safety in
time of war."
Please publish this correction before
the falsehood: ets into the Argus whieh
nothing of that sort misses. The last
number contains a pretended extract
from the GLOBE representing Mr. Poux
as unfit 16`r the Vice Presidency, which
I have seen twice pronmAnced unquali
fiedly, in the columr,e of the Glob e
within the last tvjo months, an out
right FORGEIIX !".
PUBLIUS.
ICraa and Coffee.
[For the Bittdforq Itepste,4
By their works ye s
them
No. 5.
What a strange generation 'I
even a wicked and adulterous gt
lions, federal whip worshipin g ,
cider barrels and implements made
their own bands, and now b et ,
ilulterate democracy, by calling I
skies by that name ; what, a 5,
Whig a democrat, wha io ferni er
have been heard to say, they w o w
ther be caught with a sheep o n ,
back, then be called by that n
surely it must take a modern whi t
as much brass as it would a n o „
thief to unbutton a sheep's collir,
call himself a democrat; it would
poison ty whig as arsente,to a Oa
rats.
w mntain
John l6 A s d a a rn m e 4
that
n governedo
ple l s V
administration, in enacting and L,
ing the alien and sedition Immo;
act, and a standing army in tioi.
p eace . Who hoistedtluo ho m ,
last war, to giVe the British intelli,
of the movements of e m A
erle
my 1 1 1 'Who held it disgraceful
joice at The success of the A te
arms over their enemy ? Who es
city ordinances forbidding trek,
States troops to beat the &ma t
day ? Who were continually ai
the people'not to enlist as soldier:,
take any part in the i',Var with Ili
tish Government? Who appoinie
legates to attend attire city of 11
to adopt measures to put, down
moeratic Government ? Who
State legislature passed resolutier•
fusing to -furnish their quota die
to assist the general government:,
rying on the tear; Who in the
y.
of the United States, voted to io,
Gen. Jackson, contrary to the spi
meaning
of the constitution, whir
stands arrayed in black, as a. lie n
of its author's ? Who squanders,
lions of the funds of the Valid
Bank - for electioneering purpos e;
paying bribes to , get it rechartered
State of Pennsylvania? Who
their aid to Joseph Ritner, Co •
out the volunteers at an expense
hundred and forty-four thous'and
in an attempt to keep the , federa
party in - power, after they hail be
feated by the people? who in tlit
of, Rhode - Island disfranchised
fourth of the people of that sir
Jexcluding them from voting at die
Who have shuffled under every
calculated to deceive the peep!
now 'adopt the name of whig,
it was a popular name in the a
tion ? 'Shall I give an answer
these enquiries ? Ye federal
does not the dictates of Maiden('
to you, it is I, it is 1? Then sin
Democracy with your unhallowed
Then surely by their works we
know them—the people know
sent whig patty to stand idol:tied
,the whole catalogue above state'
the sum and substance of kit
and every tidier ism devil° irni.
True, democracy.is sows
the hands of the people, and hat
liance with such a party, who'
have been governed by any pm
of patriotism, but only 4. stoop to
quer." Satan the adviser is illst
ed into an . , angel of light, for the
pose of deception, so with a c
Whig who will syle himself oder
he is transformed. and not relay ,
When a federal whig is reform.
throws away the whole catalro
names, which he knows have be
graced - by the acts of his put'
when he transforms he only mar
new name to get rid of the del ,
the Old one.
Now fellow citizens we can'
see the arch wiles of the enex
we have a duty to, perform , I'
owe , to -ourselves, our God,
country ; a duty is no less
faithful maintainance of Wile dr
•
principles, those principlea
been the means
,of sustaining )
verninent ever since the ds
revolution ; then let us go t 0 lb
and give our , votes to Jame
a
for President,'and every.other '
whit
of the- democratic party.
ensure freedoin to our eatu v
convince the world that the Pe °
capable of self governme o lll ;"
COUNTY CONVENTION .--
l'
ty Convention meets this ee
a°
'we' are obliged, to go to Press
ire the
day we are unable teg