Bradford reporter. (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, October 23, 1844, Image 2
REPORTER Wednesday, October 23, 1844. DE:110011AM NOMINATIONS. Poi Peshient in 1814, JAMES 2A. PO.LK 3 'Of TENNESSEE. ref Vice President, GEORGE 31. DALLAS, OF PENNSYLVANIA. Electors for rftsident - and Vice President. -Ayr . „ Senatorial. Asa Dinoes, r, 13. Ger44--i-Schnabel. Nath'l B.Eldred. 15, M. N. Irvine. 16, James Woodburn.' 17. Hugh Montgomery 18. Isaac Ankney. 19. John Matthews. 20. William Patterson: 21. Andrew Burke. 22. John 23. Christian Meyers. fi4. Robert Orr. 1. George F. Lehman. 2. Christian Kneassi 3. William H. Smith. 4. John Hill, (Phila.) 5. Samuel E. Leech. 6. Samuel Crimp. 7. Jesse Sharpe. , S. N. W. Sample. 9. Wm. Heidenrieb. 10. Conrad Shimer. 11. StePhentaldy. 1 onah Brewster. The Bradford Argus. NVe regret, exceedingly, to be obliged !to notice this degraded print, and were it not that its falsehoods and slanders -emanate from the leaders of the whig party in this Borough, who use the no minal editors merely as instruments to scatter the filth they are ashamed to be seen carrying, we would never again -trouble our. leaders with a repetition of its name. But we know that the per sons whose names stand at the head of that paper, neither conceived or wrote the leading articles contained in the last number ; they ate the offspring' of iihigs who pretend to - 'respectability, and who dare not make the assertion: in any other than a-covert and coward ly manner. We know where the re sponsibility ought, and 'where: it shall rest. It commences • with a tirade o personal abuse of the senior editor of this paper, and George Sanderson Esq., all of which we would pass unnoticed, but for the following sentence : ,‘ Where •is the press that has con tamed more foul aspersions upon the Clergy and religion than the one that these'men conduct." New we appeal to our readers and the public, if ever our paper contained one syllable that could be tortured into an aspersion of religion or the clergy. We have given place to remarks upon the conduct of certain persons who have thrust themselves before the public un der a sactimonious garb, airnipg a dead ly blow at the candidates of the demo cratic party; but even in this we have endeavored to treat the subject of reli gion reverently, and we defy the Feder al horde to select a line froni our col umns that can in the remotest degree justify the quotation from the Argus. We hope we have a proper reverence for religion and religious subjects ; far be it from us knowingly, to cast an as persion Upon either; and we have been patned at the efforts made by the fed eral party of this county, and urged through the columns of the Argus, for the last six months, to create sectarian prejudices in_our community and carry them into the political field for the pal try purpose of gaining a few votes, or deterring some few, through prejudice from voting for the Democratic candi dates. That there has been a scheme of this kind on foot by the Fedorals, is Susceptible Of proof. We have expos ed, and condemned it, and for this, an ;attempt is now made to extend thatpre judice to this paper anil its editors.— The charge is false and foul in every particula4 and the writer knew it when he wrote it. We may hereafter, meet him, when he shall have emerged from his skulking place, and weimay have it in our power to expose his deformity— and show the world that he himself is an infidel. To the remarks that a member ofthe Democratic party, of this borough said •' that the outrages committed upon re ligion by the, editors of the Reporter, bad done more injury to the party than all the whig orator in the county," we have only to say that they will findit no easy tisk to make even a coon swal low that , yarn. and no Democrat is so great a fool- Loox -AT TilE voTE.—Six hundred average majority. where Van Buren got only 213 over Harrison, nails that falsehood to the board. „ Better tell that story to the.marines. SHERIFF DEAD.—.We learn that the .Cheriff ' i d Bucks county, Mr. Thomas Purdy', deceased' fe w days since. :Shall we be Iletray'ed? The people of this county are roba bly not all aware of the character f the -S 'NEW ALLIES of the whigs-in th City and comity of Philadelphia, by -whom the State came near being betrayed and honest old Shunk defeated. The NA TIVES, Se called, is a new party for plunder;. and has sprung into existence from causes purely of a local character; The municipal offices of the city and county are numerous—embracing not only the county officers, but also an extensive police—watchmen, lamp lighters, street sweeps and hundreds of other minor officers. In many instan ces, several of these minor offices were given to naturalized citizens. To se cure all these offices to themseles, the -native my was organized. This par ty organized to place at their own dis posal, the offices of Mayor, Congress men, Sheriff, -members of the Legisla ture and so on, to -the' end of the long chapter, consequently `-drew into its support, not only such men-as wanted the inferior offices, such as constables, tipstaffs, lamplighters and street sweep ers, but also that class who could think of nothing less than one of the lighter offices. The whole organization grows out of the municipal regulations of the city and county, and urged on by the hope of spoils and thirst - for plunder. We appeal now to the people of Bradford county, whether they will permit an organization of this character. to control the destiny of this State, and perhaps of the Union ? Is the patron age of the city and county of Philadel phia to decide this contest ? Are the corporation offices of that section to rule over, trample down the honest yeomanry of our land ? and they sold like sheep in 'the shambles ? Every yeoman's bosom ought to burn with indignation at this movement; and at the next voting day record their sen tence against it. What, shall the city of Philadelphia. swarming with idlers and loafers, com bine to sell themselves to those who will turmiound and -give them in turn their support for charter offices ? and will the people submit ? Must this great Commonwealth, the yeomanry uponifer thousand bills and in her val lies, submit to this dictation ? Heaven forbid ! Look at the recent state elec tion in jhe city and county; see how, with the help of the whigs, the Datives have got every office at their disposal; this was all they wanted ; for this they gave their vote to Joseph Markle—and to carry out the bargain they may give their votes for Henry Clay. If such should be the case, and Henry Clay elected, we may,. bid good-bye to all hopes of -an honest administration of this state. Suppose a matter should come be fore the people in which Bradford coun ty was deeply interested ; she and her interest must be sacrificed, if it does not happen to suit this new city party, for such in truth it is, the_ city spilt.% the country and its yeomanry. Bradford county- we hope will at the ballot box, with a voice of thunderspeak out on this subject. “Watchman tell us ofthe tight.” It would be an easy task to fill the columns of our own paper with the burst of joy and enthusiasm which per vades the Democratic party throughout the `Union. But this perhaps would be of little interest to the general reader, As caterers for a class of readers`who, we doubt not, are deeply anxious as to the result of the coming Election of President End Vice President, we would not knowingly deceive them in relation to the chances of the opposing candi dates. We say, then in all sincerity, that the prospects of the Democratic party are of the most cheering charac ter. Me have elected our Governor, by an' overwhelming majority ; and we continue' to receive the most flattering accounts of the increasing stiength and harmony of our party throughout the union. The two great political parties se to have exchanged feelings since 1840.--- tle the coon party are every where struck with panic, and flounder ing like an army in'flithe Democrats will sweep the union viithe same overwhelming rush that charlicterized the coon victory four years ago. Hoc. STEPHEN STRONG.—This gen tleman has been nominated by the de mocracy of the counties of Tioga, &c. for Congress. His opponent is Mr. Sweet, of Owego. Who are tlie.illpe-layeFst After it has been shown by incontes title evidence that the elective franchise was basely violated and the ballot box mostly corruptly abused' by the coon party in 1840. it was presumed that no public man, claiming the least' preten sions to honesty, would dire to oppose a law which would effectually prevent such monstrous abuses for the future.— But the vote in the United States Sen ate just before the adjournment of its last session, shows that the coon mem bers of that body were determined to keep the door open for the iirpetration of similar outrages at the coming elec tion. It is the only way in which coon capitalists can rule the country, and make the law making power sub servient to their wishes. In the Senate, on the 14th June, the Bill fixing a uniform day throughout the United States for the election of Presi dent and Vice President was defeated by a vote of 26 to 25. The motion was, to lay upon the table, and. the yeas and nays were as follows : Yeas—Messrs. Archer, Barrofi, Bates, Bayard, Berrien, Ch oate, Clay ton, : Crittenden, Dayton, Evans, Fos ter, Francis, Huntingdon, Jarnigan, Johnson,'Mangutn, Merrick, j Pierce, Phelps, Porter, Simmons, Upham, White, and Woodbridge----26. I Nays—Messrs. 'Allen, Atehison, Atherton, Bagby, Benton, Breese, Bu chanan, Colquitt, Fairfield, Fulton, Hannegan, Haywood, Henderson, Hu ger, Lewis, M'Duflie, Niles, Semple, Sevier, Sturgeon, Tallmadge, Tappan, Walker, Woodbury, and Wright-25. All the coon Senators save Tellmadge and Henderson, voting for the motion, and for the defeat of the bill. The coon Senators admitted that the bill was constitutional—that is was right in principle : the Judiciary committee so admitted in their report but still they were not _, willing it should become a law. Does not every man who has half an eye, see in this, a determination on the part of these individuals to avail themselies of dishonest means to car. the election of the monopolist bankite candidate for President? Do notthese facts warrant the conclusion ? But we believe there are honest men in the coon party, who cannot be made particcps criminis in this nefarious scheme. This development of the rot tenness of their leaders will force them to reflect whether a cause- can be good in itself which requires such means to support it ; and as the plan is now known, the Democrats, we trust, will ba ontheir guard to prevent its consum mation. Rejoice, Freemen, Rejoice. Shout! Shout !and swell the note of Triumph! Snuxx is elected Governor by more than 5,000. We have gained five members of Congress, lost but one while the whigs have lost six and gain ed none. Making the Pennsylvania delegation stand fourteen Democrats. eight‘ whigs and two natives. The Democrats have carried a majority in the House of Representatives over whigs and natives of six, making our majority on joint ballot sixteen, thus securing the election of U. S. Senator. The triumph is complete and glori rions notwithstanding the unholy coa lition of whigs and natives in Philadel phia, by which the Democratic party was defrauded out of 7 or 8,000 votes. Polk and Dallas4vill sweep the State with the might of a tornado. Pennsyl vania is safe for at least 12,000. At a meeting of the Democratic citi zens of Towanda and the adjacent townships held at the House of I. H. Stephens. D. F. Barstow was chosen Chairman, and E. S. Goodrich, ap pointed Secretary. Information was given to the meeting that the Demo cratic ladies of Towanda & vicinity,pro pose to award a splendid Banner to the township' which shall give the largest increased vote at the Presidential elec tion, over the vote given - on the Bth inst., to Francis R. Shunk. Whereupon it was Resolved. That wa deeply appreciate the spirit. ener gy and enterprise of the democratic la dies. and will render them all the aid in our power to carry out their lauda- ble project. And that we will give them notice of the time and place when the Banner will be presented to the succes ful township. - Resolved. That it be recommended to hold meetings in such places and at inch times as the conveniences of the pub t ..eakers will permit. MAIN LIN • —The majority for the Sale of the Main ;Ile, is supposed to be about 20,000. • . The Democracy of the . North. Hied, nobly hatio the 'demodiatic party in the North sustained theinselvee in the conflict through which they have just passed. They have come up frour the battle field covered with the 'glory of chivalrous victory, and now fkiyi the eyes of the whole State turned 'upon them, and the democracy of the entire - , Commonwealth siniultaneously award ing to them the mead of praise for sav ing our noble Commonwealth from mis rule of Fideralism. , The .4 lion-heart ed democracy of the North" have ever been firm, and unyielding as our ever lasting hills. While other sections of the State have been swayed by local or sectional prejudices, or have been de .coyedinto,he snares set by Federalism, the North' as come up to the rescue, firm and devoted in thssupport of Jem my tic principles. When the democra cy of the State yielded before the fierce assaults of the '"coon skin land hard ci der" campaign, where there was the North ? She threw lieiself in the breach andgallantly, but vainly, endea vored to save our State from the reputa- tion of haying cast a Federal vote.— Her thunder tones have been heard in the past contest,and they are but an ear nest of that demoiratic thunder which shall deafen Federalism in November.' But the Democrats of Bradford should remember that the great battle is yet to be fought. The victory which they have achieved, is yet to be succeeded by a second and more glorious victory. They must be vigilant and persevering. They must be early at the' polls, and see that every democratic voter is there, and he depositsiiis vote. Let this be done and old Bradford will certainly give 600 majority for Polk and Dallas. Which wttl be the Banner totsim. It will be seen by the proceedings of a meeting in another column that the democratic ladies of this Borough are making preparations to give a SPLEN DID BANNER to the .township which shall give the greatest increased vote ever that poll held on theAth. Which will be the Banner Town'? To CORRESPONDETS.- 7 " More Koon Depredations," would not, we fear, in terest our readers. : The lines written upon Mr. Ginger bread's nine column, Santee, letter are inadmissable. The last verse is the best, which we give: Dear Billy, we_have wronged you, about all that you did do. 'Twas another wrote the letter it never: could be you ; • Yon might have signed your name to it—'tis likely that may be, So we must give you credit for. writing—Bill Santee. SENTENCE OF GORDON.--Me learn froni the Providence Journal that Jobri Gordon, convicted at the March term of the murder of Amasa Sprague, was brought up for sentence, on the 11th inst., the Court hating unanimously overruled the motion for a new trial. Judge Durfee after an impressive ad dress sentenced him to be executed on Friday the 14th of February next, be tween hours of nine and three o'clock. MMIRLE I S Popmeavrv.—'--The vote , in Westmoreland county presents an occurrence very rare in political histo ry. She gave Van Burin 4704 votes, and she now give. Shunk the same number ; she gave Harrison 2778 votes and she gives Markle the same number. Markle's popularity has not decreased the democratic vote in his own-county, and his own township gives a majority of 64 against him. . NEW JERSEY ELECTION.--C. C. Stratton, the Whig candidate for Gov ernor. is elected by a majority of 1326, owing to the unpopularity of Mr. Thompson, which arose from his con nection with-the railroad' company.— The vote was on Stratton 6235,Thomp son 5106. f To the State Legislature, there have been elected as follows : Senate, 13 Whigs, 5 Democrats—As sembly, 40 Whigs, 18 Democrats.— Fed. maj. on jOint ballot 29. 0770 7 vr.--The New York Tri bune of Sept. 27, thus ; despondingly mourns over the chance that Coonery • stands in the Empire State. ei It is just possible now—though it did. not seem io.two mouths ago—that the conjoint falsehoods of these two cksses 'of enemies to the Whig party and policy , mey push up Birney's vote above 20,01, and so tendanger Mr. Clay's success ; but wej trust the most desperate efforts to that 'end will prove • unsuccessful • . The necUtina. PENNSYLVANIA.—We '"have. not re ceived the official vote of Pennsylvania. The majority will - probably be not far from 4,700. ()Mo.—The Whig Governor, is elect ed by about 1000 majority. The Demo crats have elected 13 members of Con gress, the Whigs 8. GEortom—The poptilar vote of this State is decidedly democratic. As far as heard from, the democratic majority was 2,523 ; eight counties yet remain, which gave '789 democratic majority last year. COON COMPLACENCY.—Ii is amusing to witness the complacency of the coons. Before election they boasted- that they would carry the county—the .district— the State and all the other counties, die tricts and States, adjoining. When the returns come in, and the) found them selves whipped, they exclaimed,. "Oh, this is a Locofoco county, we expected to be beat here "—and as the news from from the State ,reaches them, that they were completely used up, sot up a shout that it is no more than they expected.— But now say they, " we are sure of the State for Clay." (Quere. If 5000 ma jority against the - Federal candidate for Governor, ensures the State for Clay, how much majority would they claim if the state had given 10,000 for Shunk.) News comes from Naryland, a thorough whig State, that she has escap ed by 500 maj.,_and from Ohio, that gave 25,000 for Harrison, that now she is whig by two or three thousand, and these federal coons are in 'extacies at such glorious victories. . But the riche6t of all is, to hear them shout victory.! victory ! Georgia. She gave. Harrison 8,640 majority—now she is democratic by about 2000, and thecoons are rejoiced almost to death that they are not beaten any worse. New Jersey has elected a whig Go vernor by about 1500 majority. THIRTEENTH CONGRESSIONAL DlS TRlCT.—The,majority in this Congres sional district is as follows : Bradford, ) 826 Susquehanna, 980 Tioga, ; 1165 Wilmot's majority 'To supply the vacancy occasioned by the death.of A; H. Read, Geo. Ful ler has 3567 majority. ROORDACK'S TRAVEL9.—As the author of this base fraud has been called a loco foco," affidavits have•been pub lished proving that he voted for Harri son in 1840, and that Mr. Linn has re peatedly declared his wish that Henry Clay would be elected. So much for that Federal slander. LAUGHABLE.—One can hardly refrain from giving vent to merriment to see striplings, barely released from their swaddling clothes, and with scarcely gumption enough to rock the cradle, merely because they can put into type the language furnished by their keepers, attempting to give advice to members elect of Congress.—Vide last Bradford Srgus. _ GEORGE M. HOLLENBACK, Esq., of Wilkes-Barre, has addressed %letter to to the editors of the N. Y. Evening Ex press, denying their statement, that he was out for Clay, and assuring them that bestial' vote for Polk and Dallas.— This is the way all their boasted chang es turn ont. LEFT THE WORLD AND ITS FOLLIES.-.. On Wednesday, October 3d, - Miss Vir ginia Scott, daughter of Major General Scott, of -the U. ; S. Army, and Miss Sarah Linton, received the white veil in the Visitation Convent, Georgetown, at the hands of the Most Rev. Arch- Bishop. LET IT BE REMEMBERED.-That Theodore Frelinghuysen volunteered iis services against the Shoemakers of Newark, N. Jersey, to convict them as rioters for tryinoo raise their wag's. Members of the Journeyman's Soe.ety, think of this ! Wino L00t6.--The Bradforrl Argos gays If Shenk's majority • does not exceed 1,000;, . we feel confident Clay will Carry the Ptate.". By the same kind of ivlug logic, if M . r. Shenk had got 20,0'00, Mr. Clay .uld carry the y State by 40,000. %MING To RELEr:T.-The- Argus says •it inteinrs t . - heriafter to treat Mr. Wilmot kindl ; Three thoysarid ma- jority makes:4. mighty .differenco in the „ • feeling some -coons.- THE TARIFF. "I hold it to be the DUTY of to extend as far as practicabl e by r eh , 11 &mem; AND JUSTPea ROTECTION TO A and all other mns within itspore, LI, p GREAT INTERESTS Op THE Will UNION, EMBRACING AGRICULTi MANUFACTURES, M ECHANIC A , COMMERCE, AND NAVIGATION ;T un i s K. Polk's letter to John J. K en , led June 19, 1844. • "The sum and substance data I , to'be the true policy of the United 84 respect to a ,may be briellj sail e d conformity ode.princip anooon. the Compromise Art, I think that wh E venue is necessary to an tamornicd , administration of the General Gov. „ ought to derived from duties impos e d imports. And onf believe that estal4E. Tariff of those dutios, such a ducti l e , ought to be made as will incidenk4 reasonable protection to our national —Clay's letter to Mr, Bronson of Ge org i a 3d. 1843. I think there is no danger of e hio belng ever esthbliehed; that of 1828 we nently derserving that denominetiek not in Congress when it passed, and di d vote for it ; but, with its history, and wi circumstances which gave birth I D i t I ._ acquainted. They were highly it, to American legislation; and I hope, honor, willnever be again repeated. " After my return to emigres; in lEut efforts were directed to the inodificatia, duction of the rates of duty ee n eii t net of 1828. The act of 1832 meth and modified them ; and the VA of li g manly called the Compromise art, reduced and modified them."--Clay'r k Bronson, Aug. 22, /843. I am . hold to,say, that dating-an service in Congress since the Der— passed there never had been an ci it which had not met with lay earnest resistance; It was impo, Compromise should be understood, DED FOR A GRADUAL -REDt OF DUTIES DOWN TO TWEN CENT.—Mr. Clay's speech in Chi C ~ April 8;1844. AGRICULTURE NEEDS TECTION."—C/a0 letter to son and Bledsoe, of Georgia, July NI " Look to the revenue ALONE for port of Government. Do not raise Lion of protection, which I bad hop put to rest. There is NO NECI PROTECTION for protection.-0 in the Senate, Jan.2l, 1842. " The ploughman who fastens hi the TAILS of his eattle,will not os any other mode equal to his."—Cin in Congress, 1832. "A REVENUE TARIFF, DENTAL PROTECTION—tbaf, trine boldly avowed and held by ei from Louisiana to Maine."— Clay's Fayetteville, N. C. March, 1844. " We must REJECT both the , Free Trade and a HIGH: and,exhot riff. All parties ougat , to be satisl TARIFF FOR REVENUE, and tions for protection."—Clay's speed April, 1844. 2971 " And from and after the day last (June 30, 1842 J all duties on imports collected, &c., end such duties shall for the purpose of raising such a re , may be necessary to an economical adt tion of the government; and such due be laid WITHOUT REFEBENCEI . PROTECTION OF ANY DOMES" TICLES WHATEVER."—Origii, of fhe Compromise Ad, as written by Clay. •' I brought forward the Compromise and aided in its passage. In my - life I have - , adhered to its provisions, int DO SO' IN FUTURE."—CIay's ape Columbus, Georgia, 1844. "I t hink Tea and Coffee the MOS'. RABLE articles on which to raisetem Clay's speech in the Senate. " A Tariff for Revenue, with INCID) PROTECTION to brae Indus V TLED POLICY orthe count" Journal. [From the Savannah Republian—t Clay paper in Georgia.] ‘" WE DENY THAT MR. Clo THE , WHIGS OF GEORGIA,S CANDIDATE HE IS, SEER FOi ESATABLISHMEN7' OF A Pl TIVE TARIFF, BUT MR. CL. HERES TO THE PRINCIPL I THE COMPROMISE ACT." Read the testimony of Daniel .Wee who passed the Tariff Bill of 11 "`Then there was the great interest tection, as incidental to the revenue, seqaent on it, and to be maintained duties. Now as to that, gentlemen, nu has been done. (Che ers.) I hope th 3 be found that enoug'.i has been done . the whigs who cr,ncurred in that ceived, as I am sure they have a condemnation, But iglus be just. rhetoricians have a maxim, wbiL there is nrAhing beautiful which is And I am well assured that someof lan! orators would not well standil this canon of criticism. (Cheers . ter.) I T is NOT TRUE THAT Tog F xSTE3I WAS PASSED DT THE W 01613 Henry Clay in favor of a U. S. Keep it before the people, that tit a public speech at Macon, Ga.. said ' " HE WAS IN FAVOR OF A El , THE UNITED STATES. Aj TIONS dIVE US THE EXAMI'L Again, Mr. Clay, at Charlatan , 8 . n eg o u ti a c l i l n y g e h t i p s li spe cit. ech Th C, said d.ourier of dist' " HENRY CLAY ASSUKED 1 BANKS AND THE BANKING $l. WOULD CONTINUE TO EXIST V) THE AUSPICES OF THE' SF THENCE INFERRED THENEC OF A NATIONAL BANK TO. LATE AND CrINTROL THE SI AND KEEP IT FROM EXPOS MISCHIEF, HE ALSO INSISTED NATIONAL BANK AtiNECESS. SECURE A NATIONAL m C ps , Henry Clay said in the S he "ZOIVER " would give up a Nat o nor .a distribution of the proceed, lands.