REPORTER : Wednesday, 0et01er4,:044. DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION S . For Pesidept I'Bl4_ JAAIES K. 'FOLKS • Or. TEZ4IVEBSkE. No-Prefadent,:- GEORGE M. DALLAS, Kr OF PENNSYLVANIA. Etutors:for • Praidenvand lice . lqsident WvLisoi AsA Thitocx, • - 13., George Schnabel.. 14: Nadel B.Eldred. 15. M. N. Irvine. 16, Jamei Woodburn. 17. AughldontgUmery 18. Isaac Ankney. 19. JOhn Matthews:' 20. William Patterson: 21. Andrew Burke. 22. John M'Gill. 23. Cbristian,Meyers. 24. Robert OR. 1. George F. Lehman. 2. Christian Mins. 3. William H. Smith. 4. John (Phila.) 5. Samuel E. Leech. 6. Samuel Camp. • 7. Jesie Sharpe. 8. N. 'W. Sample. _9. WM. Heidenrieh. 10. gonrad Shinier. 11. Stephen Baldy. 12. Jonah Bretvater. FO - y" Governor; FRANCIS R. OF ALLECHANY. For Canal Commissioner,. IIARTS1191!N; 10F. CHESTER. TOR cow° RE.BS. £For the unexpired term of A.H.Read, dec'd.,] GEO.. FULLER ? OF SIPMeIf.A.NNA. FOR CONGRFI3B, DAVID WILMOT, OF BRADFORD FOR REPRESENTATIVES. - • IRAD *WILSON; OF CANTON. JOHN ELLIOTT, OF WYALIISING. FOR COMMISSIONERs L. PUTNAM, OF GRANVILLE. • FOR AUDITOR. ' J. M. BISHOP S : OF DURELL. FRAUD ! ynsEßooD & FORGERY !! The fraud, falsehood and forgery em ployed to create the appearance of :de mocratic nomination of D. M. Bull, for - Congress, would demand the severest denunciation if Justice did not lose her balance in a fit of laughter at the harle quin-character of the performance. ,This Jacob's-coated political actor mad'el his first appearance for the season by is trial for a Workie nomination—theni nominated himself and others in the Whig Argus—next nominated himself alone• through the columns of the , Re porter—then declared his adhesion to democratic usages, and failed to get his name mentioned in any county conven tion of the district, and with an empha tic silence in Bradford, even for the pur pose of declining—next nominated him self by a published letter dated Septem ber 14th—then stopped our press on the 24th lo announce that as " under any ; circumstances I cannot render my self obnoxious to the charge of attempt ing to divide the democratic party to . which I have all my life been attached i and thereby giving our common enemy the ascendancy, I withdraw my name front the canvass, leaving the issue in such a crisis for the people to decide. ‘, Hoping success in the great cause in which we all Unite like a band of brothers, I hold that all minor contd. derations and selfish motives should be overlooked for its accomplishment. I am, very respectfully, - DAVID M. BULL." •.\ But now comes " positively his last appearance on any stage," and Pviiica beats all the monkey pranks of his life. We draw the curtain, and ex fiibit a "De mocratic Meeting held at Towanda on the2sth." Chairman, DAVID M. BULL ; D. M. BULL, Secretary ; D. Munson Bull, Committee on Resolu tions; David Munson Bull performer of all parts, particularly to invite Col. D. M. BULL to represent this meeting.in the Congress of the United States, Gen. Patton being at . hand there, as here, to act as sense-keeper &confidential clerk. Wieivef, Resolved, unanimousfy, that this m eoting is highly gratided to recent, the an pailacement of Col. Bull's consent to be a can didateot the aids of the tariff, and that we IZI• tlividway "p;edge our roost active exertions to Socure his skt:lorf." Col. Etat kaving thus ulapeetod ly been called upra by so respeetabli 'a portion 9fhis je4olo.eifirens." feehr "the: inadequacy of. his abilit;es", and . "the responsihility of his mulertaking", but with " the whole energies of his istav!' accepts ' and cimeeys ' to the meeting his IA beet wishes foo their Pros pirily and kitiividt!ai.;hapi aftil&OSW &age make.my kindesi re, garde acceptable to &a snaltalieve me as ev.er'''t 1 8 . DID YOV %YDS! !! Really no other Democratic meeting was held at Towanda on the 25th of . September, and the one figuring in a handbill printed at the . Whig Argus of and in tie Argus itself fOr the 28th is 'a• vile fraud upon the public and iipon'the -mei whose. names "are there used. It is notorious here that no such meeting took place in any manner or 'form whatever. from- ELI GRAN'FEER, who is represented as present, and acting as chairman of a - committal° communicate with Colo nel David M. Bull, the subjokneti lette6 - - Monroe, September 28, 1844. To THE EDITORS OF THE REPORTER : —ln au extra sheet from the office of the Bradford Argus, beaded Ai PROOF," I find Myself represented as chairman of a committee, appointed at a Democratic meeting, to invite the acceptance by D. M. Bull of a nomination for Congress, I find that I have been most grossly impo sed on and thereforeask to make a plgb and full statement of the facts. - On Thursday, 26th day of September. I was called on by William Trout and asked to sign a letter on the part of a de mocratic meeting, held at Towanda that day, to D. M. Bull, drafted by Gen. Pat ton. I objected, fearing it was some Whig trick, and enquired why it was not signed by some of the meeting in. Tow anda. It was represented as a large meeting of Democrats and all right, for the letter was drawn up by Gen. Patton, but that it was deitirable to have it -come from out of Towanda so as not to appear as a Towanda meeting. I still asked time.for examining the letter and consid ering my course, willing to make any honorable opposition to Mr. Wilmot to whom I had objections of a personal, not political nature. I was still again anu red that it was all right, but that it would take a considerable time to read the let ter and that they were in great baste to get the proceedings published. Unfor tunately -I assented ; but on reading the hand-bill [find both the resolutions and the letter containing views entirely differ-, lent from my own and whatl believe de mocratic. I find moreover that it is all a scandalous fraud upon me as well as the public and that no meeting whatever has been held and I think it the duty of all good men to frown down such attempts at imposition. • ELI GRANTEER. The following letter was addressed o each one named in, ;he pretended meeting. TOWANDA, Sept., 28th 1844. SIR :—The undersigned having seen your, name, in a public hand-bill as an ,officer of a, Democratic Meeting pur e morting to ,have beep held in Towanda, Sept. 25th, invitin g D. M. Bull, to run for Confess, and being well-assured that no such meeting has been held,ao that the use of the names there employ ed is unjust to their fair standing be fore the community, We-respectfully ask, for the satisfaction of the public, whether you lifficiated at any such meeting. I. H. STEPHENS, E. S. GOODRICH. GEO. SANDERSON, J. F. MEANS, P. C. WARD, . E. W. BAIRD, D. F. BARSTOW, D. V ANDERCOOK, T. B. OVERTON, E. W. MORGAN. 'The communication of Mr. Granteer in another place, answers this inqui ry. The followingis Mr. Brownson's reply. TOWANDA, Sept. 28th, 1844. In answer to the- inquiry contained in your friendly letter of the 28th, inst. whether I officiated at any such meet ing as described in your letter, I have only to reply-that I did not. I cannot say whether such a - meeting was held or not. But I have only to say, I was not present. Yours Respectfully. WYLLYS BROWNSON. To Messrs. I. IL Stephens, Geo. Sanderson, and others. Wu. TROUT, and JOHN CASE, de cline/ making any reply to this respect ful inquiry on a point on which the public had aright to be inforined. Mr. Trout is a. partner in business 'with Bull, and may therefore be entitled to forbearance. Mi. Case is a Whig, one of Judge Berriek'e thirty - signers to the turn-coat secret circular, and hie becom ing one of Bell's patty now, creates no surprise, except that helot ashamed to own it. 1 , R. V. Team, the only re wattling one whose name is used, when sueght was said to be absent; peddling Bull's extras in Tioga.while Bull was doing bis own peddling. in Busquehan .oa. piste eels he is forced to do" his owe writing') and the Sherri/ 4utiee doing the venaing and venditioni ho nor!° together in Bradford. The honorable ,manner in !high Messrs.. , 2 ,140*1 11 9 14 ! ' A nd q 1 5 1.244 F 1 . hoe diselsiosedrtba imposture, and ex, posed the hind, is worthy of all praise. The pretended' tneetinfiWaett rliAns; the entire proeekdittgs;-tt - -,FAssno'on ; the use of naMes; which tiOne.who - bear them dare avOiv,;. , a virtual FOlp/EgY, and the - hand-bill is ungbakidly' a trOlgsas.ecermiLons and DISGRACE FUL".IMPOSITION. Mr. Wilmot and Hon. A.ll. Read. In Col. Bu l'e handbill a charge is 'ado - against Mr. Wilmot, that he it. envied to defeat-the A.H.Read, for Congress." The Colonel has allowed bis perso nal animosity to make ""a ,mountain out of a mole bill." We happen to know something of this matter ourselves. Mr. Wilmot was urged to go into the cob vention of this county, as a candidate himself, and obtained the nomination of Bradford, over Mr. Read. When the conferees met, they could neither agree upon Mr. Read or Mr. Wilmot, and fi nally settled upon 0: J. Hatam, Esq., the conferees of Bradford both voting for Mr. Hamlin. We were in company with Mi. Wilmot when the information was brought here of the nomination of . Mr. Hamlin, and that the conferees of Bradford voted for him. Mr. Wilmot was evidently as much surprised as to have heard of the nomination of the czar of Russia, and almost instantly pro nounced the whole proceeding wrong. He averred publicly, and unqualifiedly, that the conferees should have taken one of the names brought forward by the County conventions,, and as Mr. Ham lin'e name had not been brought forward at any of the County conventions, he had-no right to the! nomination of the conference ; besides this, he stated that Bradford, although she had expressed her preference for him, was decidedly in favor of Mr. Read as her nextchoice, and that his friends ought to have gone for Mr. Read as an 'alternative. It was upon hearing these remarks of Mr. Wilniot, and carrying out the convictions of our own mind, That we immediately placed the name of Mr. Read at the head .of our paper, which was finally done by all the democratic papers of the district. It is dub to Mr. Hamlin to say, that, entertaining the same views of the case, he promptly withdrew his name from the canvass. HORACE WILLISTON has de clined running as the whig candidate for Congress, as it was well known in the convention here, he would, and the trick is consumard of running a rene gade.democrat. We call upon every democrat in the district to beware of the approaches of D. M. Bull—a man who said of Willard, as can be fully proved here, that he must vote for the rascal, though he did cheatl him out of three hundred dollars ; ;Oio boasted of elect ing Sheriff Weiton, a whig, whose de 7 pnties are now employed to reciprocate the favor; and who has been treacher ous and factious at all times, with or without.price, and is only particularly distinguished for his political monkey shines. - If the whigs choose to vote for him, it is their own matter whether or' not they have had sufficient experience of traitors but we exhort all democrats to be on their guard, stand firm, and Sup port the man who has concentrated up on himself the affections of his friends and commanded the respect of his op ponents by a uniform, consistent and unwavering support of democratic prin ciples. CONSISTENCY.-D. M. Bull said, when he declined, under any circum stances he could not render himself ob noxious to the charge of attempting to ,vide the democratic party. He is again running, of course, to insure its union, and must accomplish it; for no democrat could possibly hesitate to vote for Wilmot against Bull. ' We had riot heard however of any division until the Democratic meet. ing9-cif FIVE, none of whom were prem. ant except D. M. Bull. Vion.ancz 1 vumutecr. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." Re member this, now that the day of trial is at band. If you have omitted to or ganize your townships sufficiently for the October election, theie is a way by which you can make same reparation. It is not 100 late. Work on the day of election. Look over your list of taxa bles, and see that every democrat on it votes. If there is danger of his or their not 'amending the polls, send or 'go for ihem- , iniprPee.l7o4 moment end eve' . 0 1 3 PeTteeity'en thai4e37- . Be itileet and untiring;; work," work. .work, from this time until the polls close= on Toes dap next. ' PROOFS POSITIVE , pins/ D. N. Bulla n o proof at edit D. M. Bug ehargeri in a handbill from the whig Argus Office,_ inserted also in the Argus, that David Wilmot Esq., for a bribe of the paltry sum of $500" undertook to secure the election of Wil liam Willard to !Congress in 1838 and his PROOF le first as to the. nomination, Mr. Bull writes to Wm. B. Storm that he is . itinformed by :a'creditable source' that in 1838; an agreement was entered into by William Willard, late of Tioga county, and David Wilinot, Esq., of this county—that the :latter was to receive $5OO, in the eventtthat he could procure the nomination of the former, for a seat in Congress, and that the money was ac tually placed in Your hands, by Mr. Willard, in pursuance of the agreement with Mr. Wilmot—to be paid over im mediately on his return from the Confer ence at Covington, pro 'aided Mr. Willard received the , nomination." -- 1 W. B. Storm is represented as saying in reply that he supposed that matter a secret; that he did not feel justified in paying what he might say of the arrange ment referred to ; and that there are cir cumstances where promises are made which should not be broken. This dis covery (of promises not to be broken) is one which, if really made at last by W. B. Storm, ought to astonish him as much as the people of this district. if the charge insinuated by him bad been stated directly, or sworn to, not a man in the three counties would have hesitated to pronounce it false ; alit is, some i hope is evidently indulged of credence by hint ing a charge and affecting a return to vera city. No innuendo herein contained goes farther than to imply that Willard em ployed Storm to\ bribe Wil mot to pro cure his nomination and that he, Storm, failed in his attempted villany ; for the facts are notorious through the five coun ties, then in the district, that Wilmot voted to exclude the Potter conferees friendly to Willard, that -this was the test vote in the conference, deciding the re sult against Willard, and that Wilmot voted for Morris, against every effort to swerve him in favor of Tioga's preten sion to bring forward Willard hamper- y, The idea of impeaching Deno WIL MOT upon - the testimony of Wm. B. Stormis so,preposterous as to make us feel ,theAegradation of noticing it; - Dann-Wi f irsor, than whom there is not a more honorable man in the three counties; Wm . 1 ,8. Storm ! Cashier of the Towanda Bank brought up to prove, that WiLmoz, sold himself to the U. S. Bank !! Wm. B. Storm !!! a man now bound over, according to the police-reports of Philadelphia, to take his trial for a States prison crime, a man who foreswore himself here, and acknowledged it, by making sworn re-' turns of a keg of cents as a keg of silver, though he did not acknowledge who had the Benefit of the change, and who has escaped an indictment for perjury only by public forbearance ; a man so gross in Otis outrages as to have been obliged to leave a public room, when last in this boro. to save his° ears ! ! ! This is the man D. M. Bull brings as a witness to prove a bribe upon an honest man. The other point in the proof is that Wilmot tried to defeat the election after the nomination. This is well known to be false. We will only subjoin the statements' of Aarod Chubbuck, of Or well, Piothonotary, and some of the beat citizens of our boro. Towanda, Sept. 28, 1844. MESSRS. EDITORB.—In answer to in quiries in reference to the course of Mr. Wilmot at the late election of Judge Mor ris to reptesent this district in Congress, 1 would just state, that late in the day on Monday previous to the election, Mr. Wilmot called on me at my residence, in. Orwell, and infottned me that he had come on purpose to ascertain whether the tickets for Judge Morris had been distributed in the eastern townships ; be coming satisfied that they had been dis tributed in all the eastern townships ex cept HeriiCk, and fearing that no' tickets for Judge Morris were there, he employ ed a mai at his own expense to carry some to lthat district the same evening. He said that a' great effort was being made to defeat Judge Morris, and that , it would be necessary to make every proper and honorable exertion to prole - tit his 'defeat., 'Respectfully yours, &c. AARON CH BUCK: The subscribers. Democratic citizen s . of the boiough of ToWanda;"recollects' _ distinctly that on the day Of the'Getiar:' al Elecon in 1838, David Wilnuit Esq.' took an tive'pait foi Samuel W. Mor ris the d moos& Candidate for COngress tt ic and furt er, that we have no knOwledge 'Of any attempt by Mr. Wilmot' to cast off the t ame of Mr. Morris and foist that 1 of,Williem Willard at the head of- the paper in place of the regular nominee, and we wholly discredit such an impu tation. D F Baratow, IF Baird, D; Bartlett, J F Means, B S Goodrich, David. Cash, Geo Sanderson, 7' B Overton. Vandercook, The ,subscribers. now and in 1838, citizens -ol=-Mortroe township, where . Gen. Patton has never been a chi zen, have seen an, affidavit in the Bradford Argus signed W. Patton, ex culpating himself nnaccused, from a charge against David Wilmot and oth ers, carefully named, in relation to the Congressional election of 1838. in which , he has voluntered the following state ment- that no one 'revel , . told him,what the plan was, and thi first intimation he had of it was. his discovery , of , the .sub - siltation of the name 'of Wm. Willard on the -printed sheets of tickets in.Mo roe township, and that he cut off and burnt the tickets for Willard, and wrote tickets in the place of these sufficient to apply the democratic voters of Monroe township, and distributed a large portion of them among the voierwor that town ship with his own hands." It isdistinctly within our remem brance, that Col. G. F. Mason brought to the polls of Monroe township, in good season the proper quota of votes for Morris; that we and others distrib uted them "with our own hands" toad ' who would take them ; and that ther was no lack of regularlyprinted Morri votes for all on the ground, the whol', day. H. S. SALSBURY, G. F. MASON. A. L. CRANMER, E. MASON. The charge by D. M. Bull that Da Wilm - ot Esq., voted :as a delega the County Convention for Chester mas in violation of the positive int ions of his constituents to vote for Ir Stephens" is known to the undersil. who was defeated at the delegate el on this question as Stephens' ffie be a gross misrepresentation. . pept. 28, 1844. J. F. MEA I fully concur in the above sta e and beg to add, that I believe Bull's hi charge that Wilmot attempted 7 Chester Thomas on the ticket for e: under a bargain 'and sale arrange t which he was to:be benefitted . t. lai amount " a wholly unfounded s del I. 11. STEP' ; The undersigned, who as ale from Bradford met conferees ga to nominate a Senator in • e f. 1843, when Mr. Sherwood w no led, pronounce the charge by M. that David Wilmot Esq., mpt: defeat that nomination wholl boon GEO. SCOT STEPHEN RC Sept. 27th., 1844. The subscribers, confere from ford co., to meet confere from ' for the selection of a Sen ial de to the Convention for. no (sting elidate for Governor in M h 1844 dare that they. carried o the views ID) , their constituency to t best of ability And that the ch e by Bull against David Wil Esq., c successful attempt . to d ive Jol Guernsey Esq., of a- s t in th( Convention universal) conced( Bradford to Tioga"' is- all par, false. CHAS. S CHM' E. W. M GAN. Sept. 28, 1844. 'flu" BE ON YOU The desperation o he Whi crisis, justifies us i cautiorii democrat to be on zEzi; ying. hand-bills an. circulars by the whip on tlt eve of th Democrats will r ,flember t occasion the ivhig, issued fr gusoffice an E ANAL' circulated, them • "the day of election, containing false I , .ds and forgeries. At this impottantc .sis they are prepared 'to issue an Ex4as. REPORTER,. contain ing perhaps (hi declination of some of our candidateei;orsome other falsehoods. We - warn out' friends to'be on their guard; and - caition all OtherslO beware of ImPosmoint .of this kind attempted to be praCticed, when it is too late for 'llB to expose their_ TALI3EHOODS. Any extra coming from this office will' have our regular head,_the type of whiclican be easily distingnialied - from theirs. If further evidence is wanting to prove that Col.‘ Bull, has gone over to the whig party and is the whig candi date, it may be had in the fact that. he joined with all the :dig leaders of this place on . Theraday last in a publie dinner and-jollification at Raynsford's - THE 'WHIG . HEAD QUARTER§. " Ephriain_ is joined to his idols, let him After reading , the 4 , Pnoor " Tre nto thereader will-not wonder thatD. M. Buil craves indulgence ihd ~~ryn.eptital illusions " of his. Atr Falsehood. . , lir written a letter, du Sept. ,in which ha take s .ti of the Bak i n r V;_ ' d Argus. Mr burg, agar Schou I he a is absolutely and unc . 137 f and the writer kn o , eha Mr: Skunk's letter k, ~ w was written expressly , y j evious Slander to thane( re i letter, prefaced by na . master - intelligencer, .t, rg Morning Poet : A • • Calumny rtj p w o e Bl 7 c e o re nt g a o in in in g to tt p h res e 101 l in , r from Mr . Shunk came td' an b, t cants:me a refutation of andefiwegive it place. ave jest returned from Nr p. lvania,. and would acr w and Clay friends agaiom w ed folly of such conduct. a tiring our tour, much tit v d us ;hat Pennsylvaoia olk and Dallas beyond a by; a handsome majority; the question of Governor, w conversed-with numbers of o will go for Shunk. They nion appears' to be that his ja i 's in the North will be perfectly ( elming. How °select, thea,ii sort to such a slander as the ato 'rota the PittsburgMorning Pt Sept. 14, 1844. We publish with pleasure th t , ing letter from Mr. Snuriz. his friends will no doubt 'third , noticing the unfounded charge, treating the hired slanderers vi much consideration: But paha] better that he should fora mower to rotice them, and by a candi .went crush the slander on wht enemies build the hope to injr with his fellow citizens. It the bable falsehood has obtained dence with the respectable port the community, the following frai manly letter will correct its evil and show how unfounded is tt , that Mr. Shank was in favor ling the Bible front the it I Schools. cr PITTSBURG, Sept. 12, ;et MESSRS. PHILLIPS -& Swim b ff tlernen—The opposition papa .4 crowding accusations-against me, Pittsburg Gazette nowsays th at l• hostile to the use of the Bible editor draws, is, I am told; for mon Schools, and the conduit tees no _ not seen his sheet, that lam ar 11 o f to the Bible itself. dna- The truth is that lam friendh Bull use of the Bible in Common A to and among my first acts, aftet elected a School Director in Har in 1837 or 1838,1 proposed t E . Bible should be read in the Sehc our ward, which was agreed to' Board. Ido not know svhetht Brad- co'd of this proCeeding was ke Tioga lam certain Dr. Fager, the ;legateand the other members of tht a can- who were present, remember %, de- In conversation 1 have no dot vs o f because it is my opinion, thati their n, where the parents differ with • J. M. the use of the . Bible as a Schein of , this it is well rather than make tits din W. book an occasion of unholy stril to State to insist upon its use (or this la ed by 'For the religious education old liculars belongs to their parents and thf ELL: bath School instructors, Ed it common entrusted to the Stheal whose Scholars generally 6.1" rious denominations. 'floret good men who conscientiously that it is improper to use the Pal ARD 1 . the purpose of teaching childreaf because, it may be calculated gs at this .their reverence for the Sacred Vc Now, although this is not my et ng every I against yet I cheerfully accede to othe right to differ , from me, and I put out think that this difference of election. should-be made to disturb thel lot on one of a School, for our Common system of education dependsaut lm the Ar- success upon the united efforts people of the several districts. opinion I have always freely I ed. It is now made the groi of a bitter accusation against Int to be regretted that one al his whole life and convent renced . the holy Scripes , t are` the good old way. was st . vanced from Dilworth 's Sp elll to reading in the Testament , took rank with the head clot ing in the Bible, should be before the public as an ea t 'showing any the remotest for the Sacred Volume. bed epects the opinions of those hove that other ,books shaul d l to teach children the art of re ds I anti yours, respectfully. FRS. & Sgt: EMEIE ATAEND te.ir tr--Sotoe few friends in each township mail upon themselves to fold and' gether the tickets. Each b un ' pining the whole ticket to be c' By adopting this plan le more uniform on each can against the sale of the 'ols ic Whereas by distributing sick some arelost or unintentiooolly Let this he cordons, ettendcP
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