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BY HENRY 'J._ STAIILE,
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A RALLYING' SONG,
AIII-" DAN ITCKER.''
Come,join our throng, ye patriots true
Come swell the Democratic crew;
Come, gird your country's armor on,
And fight until the victory's won,
Get out of the way! for Thick is lucky,
Get out of the way' for Buck is lucky,
Get out of the way ! for Buck is Incky,
And so is Breck, of alit Kentucky.
The good old party stitud , ; once more,
Just us it Mood in days of yore ;
/t knows no dread, it feels no Tear,
Its tiorizou is bright and clear.
Chorus—Get out of the way, B:.c
Brave hearts are twetedrfor
6f equal rights-and equal laws;
Free wen are mustering; for the fray, .
And Buck and lireck must win the day.
Chorus—G-et out of the way, &c.
The mongrel throng of every shade,
IVhielt and plunder have arrayed,.
Will vanish like the morning dew,
Before our statemnen tried and trap,
ettorttA—Get otit of the way, he
They . rallied strong. in forty four,
We VaLK ED them then WI they were sore ;
ItS* CIWKD them La I in°Lifty-two.
itud now we'll BUCK and blue.
- elLorws--(it,t out Ql the way, ke..-
The "woolly horse" com never run
Agminqt the "Keystone's favorite .lon; "
Fe humbugged Barrel in. as you, know,
But he .An't, cheat the people so:
Chorus—G et out of the way, A:e
show Your Passports.
About ten.days ag , l, thepa , zseng:ers on the
fast line to Baltimore were arouied 'from their.
half sleeping condition by a practical joker,
calling out suddenly in the cars. “Show your
►ssports." The joke had a telling effect.—
The train ha , / just passed by the Claymont
'Station. which is near the dividing line Le
tween d)ennsvlcania and Delawarc......betwe"
the North and the SotU.h.. F.very one who
knew this fact, rAimazenced a commentary with
p o n_the_free_rand_ Amu, s ete (
intercourse, and commerce enjoyed by the
citizens of this country over the broad and
populous States guarded by onr common Con-
E‘ery_oite was eloquent upon the
advantages of our ,Sys , teta. over that which
pi:el:ails in Europe, where a milihiry guard,
and officers of the revenue, confront the trav
eller at, di e frontier cifevery petty kingdom and
principality. llut the soleant fact which
prompted this bagatelle expre-Ision, viz: that
the first step towards a seletration of -tile
States of the Republic, has already been taken
by an organized party in the North, gave. se
xtons interest and point to the discussion ;
:and there- was not one in that company who
did not have a more realizing sense of the im
pending &L. Liget., when he contemplated that
at no very distant day he might in reality be
confronted at Naaman's Creek by the stern
salute—" Short your passpoTts."—Pennvien.
ti-V''Think X3l iy, citizens of Adams county !
:link of it, eitiz.eirs-of—lederick-attil-
Caxroll counties! Were the Union dissoh?ed,
the freiiintercuurse which now exists between
you would be Abridged.. .A system of "pass
ports" would awake you Jihnost strangers.—
The best markets, Maryland and Virginia,
I,r the prOducts of the mechanical labor of
this very own ofGettysburg, would be cut
cir by a line then impassable. 'flu NK OF IT !
=BE
henry Clay and Jame. Bnehanan.—Some of
the worst of the fusi.on journals represent that
31r- Clay had great cause of complaint against
111 r. Buchanan, growing out of the "coalition"
correspondence, more .than thirty years ago.
Yet this isi-zAtesly annihilated by the recorded
opinions of Mr. Clay—by his known cordiali
ty towards Mr. Buchanan for many years and
up to the time of his death—and by the fact
that his -son, now diving at Ashland, is a sup
porter if "Buck and Breck." So fall, one by
one, the opposition calumnies before the force
of a pure character and the resistless power
of truth!
Knotr.Yozliagism, and Wad; Rcpublicani.s.m.
—The Albany Register,* leading Know No
'thing paper, says that "everywhere, except in
New York, these two titles [Know Nothing
ism and Black Depublicaaistn] are indissolu
bly joined together in a holy wedlock." The
tegister further says:
"If Fremont is elected the country will owe
the ..-inwica.a party a debt of gratitude : for it
is not doing injustice to other noble advocates
of free soil to say that the American organiza
tilix. in the Fast and West is the backbone of
the Republicaa party."
BE . rJudging from all that we can see and
hear front. Indiana, the whole State„from river
to lake, must be is a perfect furor of political
excitement..
The Fremouters have evidently waked up
the wrong passengers in that gallant State,
and they should try to allay the excitement as
soon an possible, or the Democratic triumph
there will surpass all previous victories. And
so let it be_
Ve'lt is said that the betting Democrats in
Louisiana are exceellinzly incensed at the
Cincinnati Convention for nominating a ticket
against whielt nU vu , .; in that. State dares to
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CORRESPONDENCE OF TIIE COMPILER.
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts,
August 9th, 1856.
To the Editor of the Cwn pikr:
The Presidential contest is approaching
ing, and as the readers of the foutpiter are
equally with the whole country , interested in
the issue, it may be , interesting for them to
know bow the Democratic cause is prospering
in the North. I propose with your permission
to take an impartial survey\of the field and
offer a few considerations which I hone will
not be entirely devoid of interest. Whilst the
Democracy of Pennsylvania are or.•,ranizingfor
the striiggle" with inspiring hope, animated
by an honorable feeling of state pride in be
: half - of - h - erfaverite sen-,- for the -last-half cell
tury their honor and their pride; their breth
ren of New England are not slumbering on
their arms, neither in imagined security from
the desperate enemy which surrounds them,
nor in hopeless despondency of success. Al
though to you belongs. the honor of giVing to
the Democracy of the Union its noble standard
bearer, we intend to possess with you in com
mon, the honor.of placing him in the most ex
alted position in the gift of any people. We
stand upon the broad platform on which von
stand, battle fur the same principle 4 and love
the same Union. Although fanaticism and
disunion have run rampant, the snirit of De
mocraey yet lives, and we firmly believe, lives
to conquer.
.111 . %ISE last 'year signally rebnk
ed the mad spirit of fanaticism which hail
swept well nigh over the whole North, and
now it is confidently believed that notwith
standing the desertion of .the traitor Handin
and a few of his miserable associates, the state
will go fur-Burk- and—ll-reek by a andsome
majority. The remnant of the once honorable
national Whig party refuse to join the Black
Republican Know Nothing faction, a2L2Ley-
Iv declare for the - party of the Union and the
Constitution. A majority of the citizens are
patriotic and' conservative, and will vote ac
cordingly. Set down Maine in the Democratic
column. In Ne.w HAM the home of
our present patriotic Chief Magistrate, the
struggle will be desperate. I. have rei.ently
been through the Southern .portion of the
State and found' the I hemi)crats awake and in
good spirits. But their opponents have pus
session of the State °faces and this is the last
chance for them to keep them. If they fail
this fall
s they kniiw full well that the State
will return to her good old Democratic faith,
and-the spoils will be clean gone forever. In
the Spring election there were three tickets in
the field, the Democratic, Whig and know
Nothing. The latter had but silty-eight
plurality, and there now being only two tick
ets, the patrhaie Whigs, who generally are
opposed to the pros.erilqiye principles (4 . the
Know Nothings andthe ahhorent negro equali
ty of the Abelit ionists, will ahrost unanimous
rttli e_De woe ratin_ticket., Manyliave
already avowed their intention so to do,
samongst whian are A. P. Hughes, D. D
Dodge and W. Sleeper, Ewan. These gen
denten are_ammerst the most prominent IVIt4
leaders and eloquent speakers of the State.
They have already addressed Demeciati
meetings and will do good service in th
cause
Those are the, gentlemen who secured
over 2000 votes for the Whig candidate in the
Spring and defeated the Administration candi
date, Mr. Wells. The rank and file will fol
low their leaders, and the signs of the times
indicate that the Granite State will vindicate
her honor . by casting, her electoral vote for
Buchanan and Breekinridge in November
next.
The course of the Whigs of CoNNErTict - T is
similar to that of their brethren of N. H., and
the Democrats here are certain of victory.—
Their candidate for Governor last Spring
came very near hat jug a majority. of the
votes cast in the State, and since that tit e
the good cause las Levu cot tuantly gaining
strength. But for the oil line Whigs, who
execrate the negro party and will never vote
for the "romantic mountaineer," .the State
would have been triumphantly carried by the
Democrats. In this State there will he a
Fillmore ticket, and the New York Tribu nn
mits that it is one of the most doubtful States
in the North. Few here doubt that the State
will declare for the Democratic nominees.—
Thus the probabilities are that we shall carry
at least threeof the New England States.—
We will "heard the lion in his den," and teach
these fanatics that there is still virtue and pa
triotism in the hearts of the people. In the
remaining three States our prospects are riot
so bright. It is true the Democrats of Ver
mont are a noble little band, hut tflis is one
of Gen. Scott's States, and the opposition ever
has been and I presume still is greatly in the
ascendancy. In Rhode Island we made great
gains at the last election, but it is doubtful
whether our friends there will soon recover
from the temporary defeat which affects them.
And now we conic to Massachusetts, the head
quarters of fanaticism. It is here that the
Fugitive Slave law was resisted, and those en
gaged in exercising the laws of the country
cruelly murdered. This is the 'hot bed of
Know Nothingism, so famous fur its 11iss nun
nery investigating committee, and this is the
State with a treason law upon her statute book,
which is called the Personal Liberty Act, and
which puts Massachusetts Out of the Union in
the opinion of all constitutional men. 'l'llo'
foulblot her legislature last winter endeavor
ed to wipe from her escutcheon, but failed in
their attempt, and it still stands a monument
of the treason and fanaticism of the Fremont
party of this State. Here they have their
political harangues in the pulpit—their
Kansas aid meetings, and the highest ambi
tion of the Fremonters seems to he to effect the
freedom of the negro, regardless of consequen
ces and degrade our naturalized citizens whom
they deprtve from voting fur twenty-one
years, front ever holding any office of trust,
and even of forming military companies for
the defence of their adopted - country. I lore
they clamor for freedom of speech, and hiss
in Fennell Hall, on the dth of .1 uly. when the
national toast of "The Pre-ident of the Ui,ited
States," is offered and responded to and
loudly
. prate about "free torn," whilst they dis
francinse a man because he is a Catholic—
thus enslaving the mind of man by the Ino-t
abject slavery, and place him upon an e , iastlity
of the negro who occupies so largi• a p!a , c in
their affections. They do all this, and vet
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the'itarallence to M:Tiit the same in:11- -
vhluals whom they a few months a4o pro-.
.scrilied by a,kitis; them ti, vote f , ,r their camii
dates. This party eloswi the doors hf
Mall againbt Dauiel. Webster because he loved
GETTYSBURG, PEXNSYLVANIA: MONDAY, AUG. 18, 1856.
the Union, 'and how rink his friends and fol
lowers to aid them in their erusade against
the people of (melba of the , Union. Parker,
Philips and Garrison are artiongst their lead
ers, and openly advocate disunion, whilst
Sumner and Wilson and. the gallant Burlin
game go rise Cl "anti-darery conxtitution, en
anti-mtarrry tilde, and an anti-slavery God!"
These are the principles of the supporters of
Fremont in the "old bay State," and .1 am
sorry to say they are numerous. There are
still considerable
will
of the Fillmore
Americans who will not -be sold to these
"Union sliders." and - will vote for their favor
ite candidate. The respectable portion of the
Whigs, which are yet quite numerous, will
support Batehalm, We yet have s',tme hon
orable Whigs in Massachusetts. Winthrop,
Eyerettand_Choate._stand aloof and will never
. join with the - enemies of the Constitution !
So do the"respertable papers, the Courier and
Adrertiacr. They scorn the destestable prin
ciples of this sectional party. Many of the
\', big leaders - of the State have• joined the
l'emocratie party ; more than a dozen in the
classic city of Cambridge. We will have
three tickets iu the field, and of course a tri
angular fight. Ift he Whigs are true to their
profession., which there is nc reason to doubt,
Buck and Bawl: may get at plurality here in
degenerate Massachusetts. It - .is true, the
Democracy cannot hope for much in such a
State. but our opponents are greatly divided.
We shall labor to restore-tire State to her an,
&ern honer, and leave the rest to the Ruler of
the destinies of nations. These facts will
give you some idea of parties and their chances
of success in the extreme North, where it re
tiitires a great soul and a brave heart to be a
Democrat: I cannot doubt that we shall
emetge from the contest with victory in the
first three States I have mentioned, and the
people of the Union Win has e cause to rejoice
that our sturdy yeomanry still love the whole
country, whether NPrth or SOuth. I speak of
these States going fer our nominees, nut be
cause I 'believe
. them necessary elect them,
but only , to cheer, you on to renewed vigor in
the good old Keystone State, the great battle
ground : and to give you some idea of how
overwhelming will be the defeat of our politi
cal enemie's. I consider Pennsylvania, New
York with her united Democracy,.New Jersey,
Indiana, Illinois and California,. just as sure
for us as any'of the Southern States, every
one of which our opponents here concede to
us without a doubt. Who can for a moment
doubt the final result? Everywhere patriots
of all parties are rallying under our banner,
on which is inscribed in letters of living light,
the Union and - the Constitution; and
,joining
the party which knows no North, no South,
no East, no West, but the whole country. The
party which has for its principles those of
the framers of the Constitution, and which
lies at the very foundation of our gOVertiment;
the right of the people to govern themselves
and regulate their own domestic institutions ;
the party w ibuounees the ro
scription 'of men on account of birth place and
religious belief; and thus stands forth the
art-at advorate of civil and religious freedom.
I hivr diVrelit are theTrinciples of the Black
EATtiblican Know Nothing coalition ? They
knew only one half of our Ilepublie. The
convention which nominated the "romantic
traveller" was almost without a representative
front the South, and he received the nomination
for his hostility to the rights of our - southern
brethren. Fremont accepts tiro nominations,
one from the proscriptive Know Nothiug, Con
vention of New York, the other from the Aboli
tionists of Philadelphia, and now stands lie
fore the couhtry as their -common candidate
and the repre.amtative of their prilicipleS.—
Thev form a happy bretherhood., The fin•ni
en Seek.:{ to degrade the white Man, the latter
labors to elevate the negro in his stead. Om
trary to the counsels of the Father of - his
Coe latl.y they lime formed a party on ii pure-
SVCt1“1111 eXpe - et ef't remont,
if at all, by a purely sectional vote, and thus
ignore the whole „southern portion of the-con
federacy. Who can fail to chose bet \Veen the
principles of the two parties? On the one
hand is Union, peace and continued prosperi
ty, on the other anarchy, disunion and civil
- war. A still greater contrast is presented
when we compare the camlidates_of the two
prominent parties. Buchanan has served his
country in a public capacity for more than
forty years. Fremont's public services did
notlast so many days. The tOrMer has graced
our national councils at home, and added hon
or to her name at two foreign courts ; the lat
ter was Senator for a few weeks, and when
his short term expired his California friends
in her legislature gave him Seri /1, votes for a
re-election as a nmyk of their high app'recia
tion of his public career ; and this is the only
Ace of any importune° lie has ever filled.—
Thus Buchanan has had ample experience as
a statesman in our„• national couuc►ls, in her
abinet, and as her representative at different
foreili,l courts. Fremont is devoid of any ex
perience as a statesman and politician, and is
known only as a romantic exolorer, with
14reater qualification, f,ir exploring the head
waters of River," than piloting the ship
of state, which doinands experieneedhands
and a patriotic heart capable of respecting the
ri! , :hts id' all section, of the Uniffii. Buchanan
tress the bosom friet:d of the immortal Jack
-4/11 and the lamented Poll:, the great compeer
of Webster, Clay and Calhoun : has the wis
dom and,Aliguity of age ; trill command the
respect of the people, and will allay domestic
strife. Fremont is the compeer of Kit Carson,
the hardy, energetic explorer, fbr which we
respect him, but consider this no qualification
f o r the Presidential chair. Ile is voting, am
bitious ' and reckless, as his whirl:; life prates,
aryl if elected, he must in carryim; out tho
principles of his party, open anew the dan
gerous agitation of the slavery question more
violent than ever, which would assuredly
wove disastrous to the country. The eondi-
tion Of affairs demands a great and giu man
to fill the l're.idential chair and destiny points
oat Buchanan the man. .I,sociateil with
him on the ti:.ket is theeloquent and 1.44 1 .1 ant
.13reekitiridge (Jf Kentucky. Ile lion()red his
country in her halls of-leglslation and gall...lit
lv niarel.( , l to -her deface (ei the ulain ,
Slexieo. A young man honored ,rent
hnnocrat of native State, he -,vorthz
... nee e,-or to the lament..: , lClar,NVllo“: irL•tril't
Ire refire-ented. To the wi;d.,m, exle•rien._:e
:Lod con , ervati.m of Buchanan, ho all. tho
Ti - ,7 - f7T - 17 ,- i or and prt . •
Such is the catt , e and Such are the men whom
we have .-electe.l to carry out our great prin
ciples. and pure as the eleetitin take.; place
on the 4th of Susi:tither, su sun; will they fill
‘ 9 TRUTII IS MIGHTY, AND'WILL PREVAIL."
the honorable positions for which they are
named.
Under. these circumstances what will be the
course of the Democrats and honorable Whigs
of little Adams ? They performed their duty
like MEN last year and their efforts were crown
ed with victory. Let them again array them
selves in solid column and speak out for,the
Union and the Constitution—for civil and re
ligious liberty—and march on to triumph.—
There is no man who voted the Democratic
ticket last fall who is not now bound by ev irl r . •
interest and principle of honor to repeat his
act of honorable duty.. I know the proscrip
tive leaders of the - Know Nothing faction pro=
fess an abandonment of their midnight Coun
cils and their,bizoted, , and disgraceful princi
ples, but they do this only , in their desperation.
They via!, have laid them aside for the time
being for political effect, hut as soon as the
dertion is over they will be if possible more
proscriptive than ever. Trust them not, hott
est voters: they wont the County offices.—
They are now "11/Tll/Worms," and soliciting
you who scorned their Know Nothingism to
join them. Shun this new vant f , el party :it is
even more corrupt than the LATTER. It now
becomes all good men who have been. led
astray from their former maitical associations
to leave the faction which has basely' deceived
theta with professions Irfpnrity, honesty and
reform, They surely no,yr see that the vulgar
soubriquet of" Sam,!," the fear of "Popery and
foreign influence" have lost their charm, and
that these - same deceptive leaders are determ
ined to ride into office on the hack of the -poor
negro. llonest men of Adams, stand firm.
(live a good account. of yourselves in October
and November and 'help to swell the majority
of Pennsylvania's great Statesman. B.
HON. W.. 8. RE El)'S LETTER.
To the Chambershiirg Committee.
Hon. Wm. 11. 11EED, ono of the old Whig
leaders, lint now an active: Democrat, of Phil
adelphia, being. unable to attend the Chain
berl.,lurg Alas . s Meeting, has written a strung
letter in reply to the Committee of Invitation,
in which he uses this striking language: It
should go home to the heart of - every citizen
of Adams county
I remember, years ago, on a 'bright, sum
mer's afternimn, toiling up the turnpike road
on the Cove Mountain, in your county, and
when I reached the summit, turnip! , to gaze
on as.beautiful a scene as ever gladdened my
eye—the valley of peaceful beauty which
stretches off to Maryland and towards the Po
tomac. It is a familiar scene to most of you.
Cu me it was new, and its impression has
never faded from nay Mind. As far as the eye
could reach there was fertility—the signs of
tranquil industry ; all was beautiful—all was
peaceful—it looked, its it was, like the abode
of a happy anti uniiiirffTple. - 2 - 1 - I{o -- ptilitical
line, separating Pennsylvania from Maryland,
traced by those old fashioned surveyors,
Charles I Slason and Jeremiah Dixon, was vis
ible to no eye. The trees on which they mark
ed it had ling been felled or disappeared.
Many a farm was separated by it, but, except
in the eye of the law, no one knew it or cared
about it.
I have often—for painful thoughts are
thrusting themselvi,s upon me—recalled that
scene of actual beanty and united interest,
and realised what it would he—what your efai-
ditioll )a -- What )1111St be till' !!Ondli ion oi
every county of this Commonwealth lying on
the Maryland line : Chester, Lancaster, York,
Adams, T.ranklin, Fulton, Bedford, Somerset,
Fayette and Green ; if disunion be fiirced on
us, and the rupture he, as it would be. be
tween what arl; popularly but falsely called
the,fute and the sht e States, between, ns awl
gtrylnitel. I wish every' mancould be made
to understand what a frontier is, even that of
civilized life, Its daily, hourly vexations and
dangers—its line of custom-houses to keep the
smuggler in and out—the crowds of fugitives
from justice and labor, infesting every a ve n ue
and 'concealed in every thicket—the murderer
striking down his victim to-day and flying
with the fresh blood on his hand to .a foreign
territory to-morrow—the bickering, the strife,
the hot blood of toterminTium dispute—all
this, would be the daily doom of every South
ern county of this State ; and across the ,beau
tiff!! valley I have spoken of would be distress
ingly visible, the actual, broad, perhaps
bloody line which disunion must trace. This
is true, though hard to conceive. Pennsyl
vanbt, and you, citizens of Franklin county,
have so long reposed in the very' centre of the
Union, that you cannot understand how you
can become a frontier and how you will suffer
when you do.
Mr. Reed further says :
The danger ire before us and around us.
:1„, a citizen of the North, I have sought to
conceal it from myself, but it will nut. down
at my bidding,. Ido not draw this inference
from the language of extreme men but when
I hear a ;Senator from Kentucky—•a Whig
Scriator—a moderate and conservative man,
within this month, in his place in the Senate,
say—"l have never paid much attention to
the talk about the dissolution of the Union :
Jut I have often thought on the sulject, and
my conviction is that the dertiou (or Fremont
or any min of that party. is the knell (!f* the
U n i 6 , l "—(sppe e lj of Thomson, 2S'utional;
Iu
lrlli;/rrrwcr,_.July, 17.) When such words as
these are uttered, not by the heated South,
but by the temperate and loyal Wet, we have
a right to say there is danger all very - great
danger too. The South on this subject of the
Presidency, is not violent or loud, butt it s
silence is very ominous and most impressive.
Mr. Buchanan stands before the nation—and
this is the ground upon which conservative
men 811001 , 1 come to his support—as the rep
resentatw•s of the principles which alone can
avert their evils, that of repression and extir
paticn of all agitation on this sulj,,,ct of sla
very, let it come front what gotater it may.
He has said in simple and canwst language
that this will be his aim. It mu ~ t , fur the
good Of the nation, come to an end. It can
only he pot an and to, by the Strung moral
p“wer which a national man can exerei.ie, and
at a time when the relations of the Union are
not iii-turbe . d but harmonized and reconciled
by the expres!lion of the popular will, rebuk
.
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this rchuke the Northern and )liildle States
are 11111111t1 to gi VP. \VWD Hat this co-oper
ation, 111 r. Ruch:man lnat 'trice and .trive
unsuece-,sfully to - stay this noisy current
111:11=61
of political agitation. With it, his tIlle•
CeSl is' easy and the peace of the country
is secured. It is the conviction of this—aside
'altogether from personal regard—that has
brought me and thousands like me to his sup-
port.
For a Pennsylvania, man—for one 'whose
earliest lesson was reverence for the great
principle which Venn enunciated,
and whose habit's of tfiougnt and education
make him adverse to, secret or intolerant po
litical organization, there was no other path
open. That into - which some inconsiderate
people are lam seduced, of what is known as
the "American" organization ; can have no at
traction lOr me or any eonservative man.
lieving,-, as I do, that Mr. Fillmore took more
than one initiatory oath in a Know Nothing
Lodge, by which he hound himself to proscribe
politically his fellow citizens who professed
one form of Christian faith,- and those who
happened to have been born abroad, and to
confinnu his opinions and regulate his polit
ical action by the decision of a secret, oath
bound political club, I cannot vote for him.
fly antipathy to this secret and ttnconstitu
al organization is no new feeling; I spoke it
out long. ago ; I shall. never change it. As
line of the leaders of this party of intolerance,
'as one who gave to it the authority of his name
and past position, I hold Mr. Fillmore respon
sible fur a deep wound to the cause of politi
cal morality. If there is one thing about
which the people of this country are and ought
to be sensitive; it is - their right to worship
-God as they-please: -They claim to,wership
Gal under such forms of ecclesiastical disci
pline as they choose to enforce upon them
selves,—with such ceremonial, simple or elab
orate, as they, please, on suck days and in
sucb plact!s as they choose for themselves, And
this great privilege of religious duty the Con
stitution guards and proteets. It is equally
the privilege of all. There is not a Protestant
who is not as nuich interested in guarding this
constitutional right as the Catholic Christians
whom Mr. Fillmore, and his secret confeder
ates, have sworn to proscribe.- •It was, Ire
heat, the worst wound ever inflicted on polit
ical morality in this country when these se
cret associations of religious intol
erance were created. It was IL sad spectacle
when a statesman like Mr. Fillmore joined
them.
Regretting once more that I am unable
to he with you, and to say what I have thus
written,
- lam very respectfully, your friend,
B. REED.
Vote for Fremont or be Discharged.
. We clip the following item from an ex
",Ve
quote from the Staten Islander how
(lovernor Clark's health officer goes in lift
Whoever is einployed to work on
vessels at quarantine must solemnly promise'
to vote liar Fremont. Last week two poor
iernmus were diTsulairgod - for - the-tenormons- 1
crime of attending a Democratic meeting l"
As Good as a Nigger.
"Arc you for Fremont?" asked a dark party
hack,
As he tniped a IC. N., with a smile, on the
hack,
With a smile that soon spread to a snigger
"No, sir," he replied, "for -Fillmore I go ;
A little, reflection has taught we to know
That a white main's as good as a nigger:"
llr It is a favorite trick of the Disunionists
to take votes in the ears packed with men
going. home from Freer nit meetings, to make
a show of strength. Not long since much a
vote ta nk place, and the Fremonters had a de
cided maturity. honest old farmer of
German descent thereupon remarked: "Volt
it vas shmtst so in Jackson's time. 1 (travelled
in de stages and de wotes vas all against him.
And ven I ►travelled in 1852 i►t_ite steamboats
and de cant de wotes vas - all for Scott,—but
yen ye got to de polls ve had 'em."
EirA good story is told of an officer in the
American army, during the war of 1812—'14,
who was and is still, more accutinnucii to the
use of the sword than the pen., While sta
tioned on the Lake frontier, two of his soldiers,
by the name of Kennedy, and usually called
KannadY, deserted. The officer of whom we
arc speaking, wrote an order i , and issued it to
a subaltern, to take a file of men, and proceed
to a place named, and take the two CanadaB.
The order was peremptory, and not to be trifled
with. The officer locket at his instructions,
and prepared to Obey them, hut he remarked
that he did not believe lie could take more than
one of the provinces without a reinforcement I
le"A grand international Fair is in con
templation in Buffalo, N. Y., to be held early
in September. - "It is proposed," hays the Bo
pu "to ,offer prizes to the amount of be
tween $15,000 and $20,000, for which all the
citizens of the United States and Canada wilt
be alloWed to compete, in all the varied and
extensive departments of agricultural - and
mechanitad industry."
Aibrnon Hnsbandx.—One of the Mormon
women 1019 wits is the coinpany of the late
crowd which passed through our town for
Salt Lake we learn had no less thun four hus
bands. She is said to have been an intelligent
looking individual. She contended that WO
WWI have as good a - riglit to have a number of
husbands as a man has to hare as many wives
as he provided the men were all mem
bers of the Mormon Church. There is noth
ing like making circumstances suit occasions,
fnd these Mormons appear to have a peculiar
aculty for Such transactions.—//ock Islander.
SThe editor of a paper in Schenectady,
in describing the effects of a squall upon
canal boat, says that "when the gale was at
its highest, the unfortunate craft heeled to
larboard, and the captain and another cask of
whiske rolled overboard."
Impertinent.—Lady (in fashionable dress)
—"Little buy, can I go through this gate to
the ril er ?"
Boy--,"Perhaps. A load of hay went thro'
this morning."
W ag gery wag in New York, seeing a
man driving a tack into a card; through the
. word "110 , 4 ton" printed on it,
seized the latter and exclaimed: "Why, what
are you about? Jhn't you know that laying
tax on tea in. Thlstaa raised a thundering
inu.sti there ?"
TWO. 130 L tS A-YEAR.
HON. JOSIAH RANDALL'S
Speech before the Democratic State-Convention,
Held at ChatUbersburg, Aug.. 6, 1856.
In obedience to the request of the Demo
cratic . Stote Convention of Pennsylvania, .I
claim the attention of my fellows-citizens fir a
short time. lam aware that I have received
this courtesy because I have heretofore been
*a member of the Old Line Whig party.- '
In 1824-5, the Democratic and Whig par
ties were Separated by no question of prlnci
ple, but were. divided upon the question,
whether Gen. JACKSON was entitled to be elect
ed President of the United States. In ,tho
progress of time, during the thirty years of
the- existence of the Whig party, several itn ,
portant principles were presented, and the
two parties became distinct and independent'
of each other upon questions of public policy.
Those were:
1. The ienewal of the charter of the Bank
of the United States.
2. The Sub-Treasury.
3; The Distribution of the Proceeds of the
Public Lauds.
4. -The Tariff. -
A "National Bank" was abandoned by the
Democratic party, under the veto of Gen.
JaercsoS, in 1832, and by the Whig party in
1844.
','The Sub-Treasury," the cardinal measure
of Mr. VAN BUREN, was opposed by the Whig
party, but has fought itself into-public favor,
and no one now wishes to disturb it.
"The Distribution of the proceeds of the
Pnblic Lands" has been superceded by the
debt created by the Mexican war.
"The Tariff" no longer remains either a
political or geographical question• the- last Congress exhibited the spectacle of the "Statb
Rights" men of the South and the Republican
Abolitionists of the North, : united against
Pennsylvania, without distinction of party,-
to reduce the tariff below its present standard.
If there remain any practical disputable
principle, which constituted an issue between
the Democratic hnd the old Whig parties, I do
not know it.
The Whig party has performed its duty, and
has had its day. It has been prostrated- by
the organization of the American party, or the
I(Now NOTIIINd ORDER.-, They and. not the
Old Line Whigs have been the Executioners..
They have renounced their old cognomen, laid
aside their old principles, and substituted in
their place a new name and a new creed, never
heretoforerecognized byClav, WESSTER, SEW.
GRANT or their noble Compeers.
I know there are many intelligent - and pa
triotic men who cherish the hope - that the
Whig party can again be resuscitated, but the
hope is delusive, and it is pernicious, because
it deprives the country of a large • portion of
intellect and worth, which ought to be brought
into the public service. • In the history of our
Republic, no party broken down has 'everyet
been re-organized. .The fate of the Federal
ATiti-Mitsonie pities eatillilishes thin fret.
There is not at this time a Whig member of
the popular branch of. Congress elected by a
Whig vote. There is not a member of the
Legislature of Pennsylvania elected by a Whig
vote. There is not a member,of the Copneilst
of the City of Philadelphia elected by a.,Whig
vote. For the last two yearsovith but two
exceptions,- wherever the scattered members
of the Whig party met in council, they have
felt their position, and have, therefore, wisely
abstained from, forming a Ticket to be voted
for at the Tolls. In - New HampOire and
Massachusetts they at the polls, and
the result was paucity of numbers and total
defeat. But, I ask, what good would be deriv
ed from the re-organization and triumph, of
the Old Whig Party ?—They do not Want, a
National Bank., They do not desire the re
peal of the Sub-Treasury. -The most ardent
friends of the Tariff do not ask for the re-es-
triblishment of the High Tariff of 1828, or
oven of 1842 ; but all they ask is, that the
Tariff shall stand - where it was placed in 1846
by the casting vote of the' Vice President, Mr.
IfAtt.As. All the old issues haVe been settled,
and as a natural consequence, now parties
have sprung up, and new issues have been
formed. The Order of Know Nothings have
violated the letter and spirit of the VI Arti
cle of the Constitution of the United States,
which declares that "No religion's test shall ev
er be required as a Qualification to any Ice or
Public Trust under the United States; , they
have established secret societies, secret oaths
and obligations. With these principles the
Whig party in its days of power and numeri
cal strength, had no sympathy nor affiliation,
and there is no part of the Union where the
Whigs were more inflexible in opposing those
political heresies than in the State of Pennsyl
vania.-
In 1845, when the Whig party met in the
City of Philadelphia, after the defeat of Mr.
CLAY, the duty of opening the, meeting and
setting forth their principles was committed
to me. I held in my hand at that meeting, the
charter .of Rhode Island, granted to Roger
Williams,. which contains the broadest and
most comprehensive declaration of religions
LIBERTY AND EQUALITY Over yet penned. I
read its eloquent and energetic platform and
said, "Tills IS VIE DOCTRINE OF TILE WHIG PAR
TY," and pointing to the ruins of the Roman
Catholic Church of St. Augustine, burnt dur
ing the disgraceful riots of 18 , 44, and which
lay within a few yards of the place of meet
ing, I added, "THERE IS ITS DESECRATION."
There is not a nook nor corner in the vast-re
gion of. our country which 'does not contain
Old Line Whigs who are willing to stand by
the Constitution and the Union. But their
numerical strength is far exceeded by_ their
patriotism, talents, and public spirit. This is
the body to which I have been attached, and I
feel the deepest interest in thmourse they shall
pursue.
The Republican party is SECTIONAL, and its
success must, in my judgment, lead to a sev
erance of the Union. I do not believe that
the great mass of that party anticipale this re
sult; but if it should be _consummated, their
regret will be no equivtdent for the damning;
injury thereby inflicted upon this great Re
public. I appeal to every Old Line Whig in
the Union to avert this calamity. The South
cannot and will not remain in the 'Union, un
less their rights are guaranteed b them. If
we were in the same situation, we would de
mand our rights in tones as imperative and
mandatory as those which are nov used b our
Southern bret ren.
How i 3 this great evil to avoitleil? I an
swer. hy`tlie election 01 - I‘tr.. Buchanan. -Eve
ry vote given to him is a check to the progres
DM
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