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*.FAZIER, EDItOREi.
MONTROSt PA,
: ThTtriday s -'o6tidier IN 18E4:1,
11EPUpLICIAN TIOR'ET.
- roy, rissanurr,
, CIIBL.EB FREMONT.
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WILLIAM,L. DAYTON.
CANAL
TICKET,
708 ANAL CUMUIIIIOII24.
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THOMAS CRCJIR:4'N. t
pf York-County.
• You AUDITOR OPrirlistl4
,
DARWIN PHELPS,
Of Armstrong Comity:
FOR IRAIVRYOR OZWERAL,
BARTHOLO-MEW IAPOTtI'E,
Of Bradford Canty.
REPUBLICAN :COUNTY TICKET.'
.OO2iORRSIB,
G*LIIBIIA' A. GAOW,
Ofi,Susqtiehannatoiiiity.
• ; FM SENATOR, •
7.ItEED7IIYER, Of Braegoid County..
Tea RIWASSENTATIVICIS;
- ,,,5114170Ti CHASE,Of Susquehanna Co.
i'ALFRED IiINE, o(-Wyoming County.
! mg- asisocrats JUDGES,
=CHARLES F. READ; of.Montrose,
• URSMITE BURROWS, of Gibson.
TOIL COST, comungsroms,
PERRIN WELLS, of Bridgewater.
FO l / 1 DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
PRANKIJN ERASER, of Montrose.
rOs covarrr . sonvaroa,
•iOEL TURRELL, of Forest Lake.
FOR 'CCUNTT AUDITOR,
•D. P TIFFANY, of Raiford. •
It
Soil
Sr
SON
United' ' , Elates Senator frnm Massachusetts.
HON. GALUSHAA. •
HON.; WILLIAM JESSUP,
i and other ifistiiiguiabed spealters will be present.
SIMATOB. liFusoz_ttind GOkEIt.NOR Kautrs will eery
toixijbe there. .
boys, I t Susquehanna!
p. 1 •
• 1 'NO'I'II,CE; • •
. 'Ti3e!Toung Central. Fremont Club will Meet
Thrt the lal - Cit House, - on Friday evening, October
10th. I 8. A i Chaise, Esq., 4 Great liend,wM address
'the Club at that time. • •
- The - Ideation, Tisidsai - Octo,berl4th.
Our 00l tnni are so . trowiled wi th various
important documents and articles which we
t
desire to lay before out readers, that we-have
-little spi4 fora last, appeal to Repu4li4n
-voters before election. Nordo we deem any.
labored isiipeal needed. Every voter feels
-the importance of this election, and Ve trust
7thati mull has determieecl that nothing shall
- prerent his contribute g his vote to the do
leatOf the %chamber hosts.
• NOVirlis the time to crush the), great con
spiracy that has for its . objeet to' reduce the
•whOle country into'sObjection to the Slave
Power. I The; Republican - freemen of the
NoTth mint dolt. *Rh the memory of the
wrOngs of Nyilliamsc4k, of Reeder, of Sumner,
and. of Kansas - ul ymby hearts, and with - your
fathers' old battle Cry? of " Liberty" on your
, 1
, •
• "Soile, ter your altars and ,your fires!
"•!Stiike, for the gree ti graves of your tires! ,
' . : Acaea, ant!your native land!"
..
Tagtz ,or "ITIE 1i...;07S ..
Tr.--h is very de
sirable: cur- frienf t bi in the different parts ,
of ;that:lt:Net, *Wulff make trilingetnents for
sending in to - ]f ai soon as possible,
I. on' the eight 'following the election, the result
4 i,,
in; the vent:l Toma!hips, ao that the same
may be telegraPhed to the cities ,
gements.rntee been made to send the
vote of ) yotaing telhis place the same night.
; 1 t
jeostions.•;-Binee'ithe notices for meetings
• were publisio4itpuor last week's paper, some
els,ng. l bare hem Made, for the purpose of
. gettim 'up a large Mass - Meetinz at•Susqua
banns Depoil:- &Dialer Hamlin will, speak
there ' of at Montrose . as at first ad
, viiare ; and Mr. Grow will speak at Dun.
deff. lttOreday, October 9th, initead of
Bata y„ ' I- -
1 Oa Monday aUernoon; Oct. 13th, Mr.
Grow w ill speak at Glenwood. - .
flouted
Iturnin.tou Mairrasos.-i-The meeting ad
giv4oo
4 _ hy:Mr. - Groir at Rash,: on Monday.
list, ai spirited'. and well attended. - There
, .
ercire -pawn* or tame present, and the
_ •enthusillun inAhe cause of Fremont
ai i l d -._ -.. Was (exhibited. The Leßays.
Ville : Band-wee on ilie ground,: with a
large : ',
.tkstftWen Bradford county.. Rush
- • -
is ri . , . F- t • _ -.-. • .
, • , meeting,at fk`riendiville on Saturday
ins iiMb.litge andtipirited, . la fact the. Re=
publieus are widelatrake everrabere in thhi
00.: 41 , 9 ' B O prepared to give a good Sooool9t.
Qf
~,woolves. " The`AU : C.li Woodie are
on fire.. : ; ,
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In BrOOtne County,- N. Y., the PSI,
and ilechipaixere, fall creieg tier it:t-
Congress, bait Awn
-I!.7Akientirel, idOtiouf are the
;•, that itha *woe speakers often ad.
'thatneatinia ofietb. But sbe Repub.
*sift , sn ' b ot h -43° " Ined,
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trco
of the Psionnet know it,
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MASS METING
ANI•IA DEPOT.
Free Speer* Free
asp LS is Mess *eetiag at
L 7, October Iltb, •
- at etre p'cloeit, P. M.
=
Goverior diet of Maine.
CARZTING WATS* ON .13tilli Stontkauts.—
The Border Ruffian leadits inu*either ltd
fools, or suppose the people-are. In the #
filbe of. theireggath, 111 10 .1 ' ; " t o*a i l#
aPrejlifliee .tigaltilk tnettAn the epO y
lics
'ticket e:Aire stiOne Mme i eirlivil
,- -'., - - .
altne dl
the MF e -, 1* 1311111 ,44 tri!0?.1 1 .
leagniiihe ' design 'of •• *ll4 was to nuieress
illegal` traffic in spirituous liquors, and with
no design whatever to molest or disturb spy
man in the exercise of his lawful rights. The
Temperance issue has this year, by the al.
most unanimous consent of both parties, been
suspended, till the 'people shall passnpon the
great queition of Flucznou es TauTsearrot
RUM ; and when that shall be seitie4, other.
questions can he"disposed of - tit* people
shall then detartnina. For tbei pirpcstee of
catching votes for Hatch, who is 'temporarily
engaged in the business of tavarn'keteing, it
is necessary to raise the Temperance issue,
to try to divert a few straggling *otos that
would otherwise bioast for _the RePubliesn
ticket. Piatt, the present BuchaneerH candi
date for. State Senator, was also a'eandidate
in 1853 for the same office, and
_k! B. Chase .
for Representative. . Both, by themselves
and friend's, attended the Temperance Con- .
vention of this County, and defiued_ their
,po
iition in view of receiving a nomination there-
from. Plitt succeeded, and Chase failcil.— '
R. B. tittle, who was then a fierce Temper=
ante man, was in the Convention !is Chase's
ffigleman, using his utmost endeavors to.. in.
duce the Convention to endorse: Chase.—
When electeoth plat arid Qum 'were thor
oughgoing Temperance !nen—both advocated
and voted for the Act of 1854, the: provisions
of which the Carson Leagues were: designed
to enforce. The toadied i"Jug Law ". of
1855 was supported by boti Platt , and La
three, who were son there by' the Democrat
ic party, and are now Buchaneers Ovine first.
I water.. Mr. Platt has shown himself, during
his whole career in the Senate, a sOaight for
ward And unflinching Temperance ',mail, and
were he now for Freedominstead of Slavery,
would. no doubt receive hundred's of votes
that will be withheld from him bcchuse of his
pro-slavery. posinon. Last year: the. same
party that areno - 4 attempting to catch votes
on the liquor quastion, nominated for Repre
sentative one of • the most thorouizh Carson
League men in the County, and then through
the whole - canvass attempted to make capital.
against Hempstead because he :liras a tem
perance man';' butethis IoW trickery received .
its just 'reward, by overreaching its object
and defeating their own candidate;
The questions nu* before the country, far
transcend all measures of 'mere loyal policy ;
and no sane man supposes for a moment that
the election of one or the other of:the County
lickets would influence the granting of licens
es or the sale of liquors. :Either Xr. Read
or Mr. Hatch, if-elected, would nO doubt be
in favor of licensing all well-re,gul4ted public
hodses that are needed by the community,
and of refusing the application of those of a
different character.
Men who are in favor of the extension of
Slay.ety—Who are in favor of a dissolutibn
of the Union unless 'the nigger -drivers can
have it all their own way-- . --who sustain the
Border 'Ruffianism at Washington, and 'the
murders, robberies, and arsons in' Kansas—
should, and no doubt will, vote_ for both Pi
att and Hatch, without regard to their .differ
sot views on the temperance question; and
those who are • opposed to the repeal of tbe
Missouri pomproinise—opposedi'to mob law
both in
_Washington and Kansas-ropposed to
the further. extension of
,Slavery, and to the
.dissolution of our glorious Union—and in fa-
_vor of Free Kansas, Fremont, and humanity
--will vote the Repnbli* ticket, the whole
ticket, and nothing but the ticket
;. F.
nir Gen. Lane, of Kansas, has written a
letter in which he asserts—what we believe
is generally 'understood l by thole who have
taken. any pains to inform thernselves—_that
the men who are repreiented as'r," Lane's ar
my" went into IKansis for the purpose of be
coming bona fido settlers ? that be did . not en
ter -.thy-Territory with ,them, end that the
fighting afterwards carried on by him and
men under his.command against the Border
Ruffians was strictly, in self-defense, and to
save the Free State settlers froin threatened
annihilation: The Free State men did not
take up arms until; as Ge.n. Pun states.
44 hordes of desperadoei from Missouri had
invaded the Territory; many of them hiving
inscribed on their hatii, I I DENTII *0 me Ano-
LlTithilSll3, 'AND NO QeiIIITER; NlMllber and
daughter, in the absence of - ,the husband and
father, raviihed by nearly one bandied fiend
ish men; the gifted Major Hoyt, ,Who had
gallantly served his country in the Mexican
war, brutally murdered while tote)! y unarmed,
his body backed to pieces, and a few soda
thrown over him, leaVing Ms arms and feet
projecting from the earth, a prey for wolves;
prisoners murdered in it mantle e l exceeding, if
possible r _aven the shocking bar silty of say.
age tribes, and afterwards scalod; , =-one man
scalped while alive, and who het lives to ex
hibit his - skinless head to - amouttned world;
dwellingi burned over helpless i wamen and
screaming" children." When ill outrages
were constantly committed against the peace.
able Free State settlers by the limiest rabble
that bad been sent into tbe TeiritorY,kor no
other purism than, by. murder,: ufld
every outrage; to dritre out the Free Sullen
ant conquer it for . Slivery, and these crimes
were committed with l irnpunit4 no Territori - -
a law being enfOrced ProaliverY
criminala *ere, is it to be wondered at that
the citizens were at .last. diivic to take up
arms in selklefense If, under thr eiftum
Kauai they lid' dtinie Wm, 'the i r would not
have deserved the name of Ainiirieen citizens.
Bat tinned State troops Were
_pronvtly
brought into requisition again, them-.40i it
It remarkable Uri promptlithe general gOV
iroment oaf; Interfere and *Siert! its, authority
..$ 11 * 4 44 1 t PQrder4r act - 0 3 0kOir.te of the
Pm Eliot tuez, Adam& it hal oho pariait
bat the &Aar &Sam big** m wil d
career of - viOleica and blo o d ,4 l s,4l °likith i Y
were a aq with *blab is dared
not lakaftaa—thesaformasakyno say *tar.
Prinatitli to alialaid tiialia *Ski
es, and tilittit,r :4
.4 -
,
Ruffians abto to disband. Is it not iiittirti e
that this one-sided, partial govesninikt,
sets wrong- above right in Kanss4andlier
the k likwe i iitienfipgi t proalaverli
OAS new cetnii wtriehA 2 , liC
t4:11) *nisi* was , knelt
. 4
*O-* : PC KI P I O 81 .0 -1 1 1
tour years Sidi a litliver)4l4
government, undarthei Cincinnati I rlatf
or shall we have it &tinge, and try toll
rate a, government that wiU' Sallie lir
partinny administered, and the people
Territories protected in their rights
liberty, and property I
si The liteie Ticket&
Ass party qtaietion, aside frotn-- the •re.
ipietiveln \ d - einiparitiVe melits of the isev
eral candidates for State offices nocr be
fore the people of Pinxisylvsnia, the que4ion
at .issue is • whether the Nebrailut 'bill and
the administration of rranklin Pierce - shall
be endorsed by thisCommtouwealth and the
.
weight ofite influence b e , thereby cast in the
sesloin favor ; of Slavery extenaien in the
Territories. That istilewaifiiirly and "gate
ly made by the two Cmventions, and the
success' of either ticket will of cour s e be
claimed as Arl.endoriement by the people of
the platform adopted by the convention that
nominated it. To refrelth the memories of
such as, in the excitement of the Presidential
contest, may have forgotten just Where the
candidates stand on the Slavery questiOn, we
republish the resolutions of the conventions
on that subject.
Tho so called Demox'ratic State convention
'met at Harrisburg, on the 4th of March last,
and unanimouity adopted the following res
olutions :
•
Rosofeecc, That In the repeal of tho act known as
°the Missouri Compromise act and the passage of the
act organizing the Territories of Kansas and :Nebras
ka free from unconstitutional restrictions, the last
Congress PERFORMED A WORK OF PATRIOTIC.
SACRIFICE in meeting the demands of sectional ez
eitement by unshaken adherence to the fundamental
law. a ) _
Resetved, That we endorse the Administraticat of
President Pierce' as NATIONAL, FAITHFUL,'
and EFFICIENT—fuIIy equal to all , the emergen
cies which the..country has had to encounter,. ami
that he has worthily maintained her Interests and
honor at home and abroad.
There is no mistaking the meani of those
resolutioni. They endorse the N .braska
bill.and the Pierce administration 'fairly
andsquarely as they can be endo . The
nominees, of the Sham Democracy don
that platform, and whoever votes for them,
votes to endorse the repeal of , the Missouri
Compromise as well as all the wrongs com
mitted by the administration. flow the
4
Slave Power would rejoice over su h an en
dorsement of their policy by Pen sylvani
an s.
:"Tie Union State ticket was• nominated by
a Convention that met at Harrisburg, March
26, 18.513, and adopted the follow re sole=
- ~.,„
tipn on the Slavery question: :.
' Resolved, That we will use all heoornb e means to
check the evils inflicted upon the country b the myna
and sectional measures a , )ted by the pre Iratiort
al-41intinistratim, brouOt about by tke exercise of
its:liiltronage ; that we are utterly . • . . .d to the ad
tiklo2l into the Confederacy of Slave St . sfirtnied
ouirlf the territory meet consecrated to Frtedont ; and
are to:ete extension of Slavery into any territories of
the United States non Free. . ,
i ..
On l ins' t platform stands Thomas E. Coch
ran fur Canal. Commissioner, Dinin Phelps
for Auditor General, and Barth° omew ta
t
porte;for Surveyor General. The issue is ,
therefore &lily presented—one side endors
ing the 14ebraska bill and the administration,
and the other side condemning bOth. -
, •
T&show how fully_ our- opponents recog
nize tote i e Free-Soil character of our etutdid ates.
we ecipy the following- from the 1 Democratic
Watch man, published at Bellefonte, a paper
~.
which, supports Buchanan and, Sham Demo
• • "
racy with great zeal : . j i •
" Tilt, Sum( " Trstos" Sean, Ttct i.
.—Conte up
to the . balk line, yillmore men, and vote the "Un-
ion" Stihte ticket. Whit. more - couldyon elk than
your Frem ont ,. su e s have given yen? Y ou have '
•on
your ' anion tick ,1
Thontss E. Cochr an , Black • Repub ll tan!
• Darwin Phelps,-Black Republican I 1
Bartholomew Laporte, Black Repnbllean!
Not a.single Fillmore man on dour 1' Union' State
ticket4all, all are Ibr Fremont and disunion=but
still, you helped to make and Must supit. It is so
1,011,
stipulated in the bond, and, htrer much it may
grieve you, there is no escape. ' Come, •gentlemen of
the Fillmore party, give your' support to the Fremont
Stile ticket ln
Our candidates are not black Republicans,
neither are they for disunion, but otherwise
we - believe the Watchman's statement:is pret,
ty much correct. Tbey are for freedom in
the Territories, and irthat fact drives off any
pro 7 sitolry to mervatires from their support,
we trust it will secure them the support of
every honest Free-Soifer.
!gr . It is a circumstance that in ordinary
(.a.sp.! could be thought a little singular that
every Buchanan orator who appears in this
region, has a theory and teaches doctrines pe
culiar to himself. We have as yet heard no
two of them who agree , u to what are the
principles of the . party - on the question of
Slavery in the Territories. One holds that
Congresi has the piiiwer to prohibit Slavery
in the Territories, but the power should not
be exercised; because its exercise would, pro.
duce disunion. Another_helds that such pro
hibition is - uneenstitutiontil l and that the peo
ple of the Territories must themselves decide
whether they will have Slavery or not. Yet
another teaches the ultra Calhoun doctrine,
that Slaves being property, any slaveholder
. may carry them into any Territory, and thel
Constitution proton! them there, so that one
man may establish Slavery iri any Territory,
And a hundred other different theories are
advanced, half a dozen perhaps by the same
speaker, amording,to the latitude.
We explain this apparent diversity of opin- .
ion In this way : f T he reel p urpose of this
party; since it haibecorne holly under' the
control of the nullifiers and elevery-fropigthi
diiis oldie Calhoun Sehdol, is to enforce the
Calhoun doctrine indicated "above,. whereby
Slavery .will be introduced into all the Ter
,ritories tut most of the ipeakerS know that
it will never do to let the pepple of the North
.inidensiccd that purg e s! , i ad , . therefore;
out amde. about la his own
moue to him the Wi
°Otj , to deceive the pimple.
..1111141; 41Ir ifieWS they
thliii4M4Wii s+on tradictiq
imam but of themselves.
, 911 the Woo hiedthou*
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vislto
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of life,
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'mind tonvent
•• plairOble the.
'Hence the 'di
preseit—lince
.not only. done
who 11411100116 s the
aid'
to*,
selves. They consider slavery an evil they
do not prpose to interfere with: it in ,the
States; they propose to prohibit it in thaTer
ritoriesinttillhetssy:ao.
4 lge .;tle Affinbi 4 s t**rat:i4 3 ° 1 Y
'
persists iri:tr:isSeOpi,ibat Ciajagrest - liai: no•
power tikijiohll4-slaiery irk s 4llo,l*OcW i
We ha v e - sh o wn that bongeivano the Pres
idents halt° unifimmly recognized such pairer
from the time of Washington dovin to 'that of
Frank Pierce: It WAS recognized, in the .Tetr.
ersciii ordinance of' 1787, prohibiting Slavery
in' the North West Territory; in the Minot'.
ri Compromise of 1820, prohibiting slavery
North of 88 7 30;in the Louisiana Purchase;
in. the Annexation of Texas in 1845, also pro
hibiting slavery Math of 20-30; and even
in the Compromiseivif 1850, which provided
that notbing therein contained should be con
strued to, impair or qualify anything (the re-,
striction of Slavery of court* included) con
tabled in the joint Resolution for annexing
Teitia. We have shown that statesmen and
jurists have recognized this power,froin Stork
and Webster, doNi'n to Buchanan and Dickin
son. '
We will now add that the highest tribunal
in the land, the only legaL interpreter of the
national_-constitution, has expressly decided
that Congress exercises over the Territories
the same power that the State governments
exercise over the States, and consequently if
Pennsylvania has - the power to prohibit:* Ski.
very in Pennsylvatiioangresi has power to
prohibit it, in the Territories.
In the case of the , American Insurance
Company, et. a). vs. Carter, ,Chief Justice
Marshall delivered the unanimous opinion of
the U. S. Supreme Court, in which he said of
the people of the territory of Florida
"They do not, however, psiticipate in po
litical power. ; they do not share in the goy.
ernment, till Florida shall become a State.
In the meantime Florida continues to be a
territory of the United States,; governed by
s viatue of that clause.of the constitution which
'etnpower&Congress to make all needful rules
and regulatiOns respecting the territory, or
other property belonging to the United
States." '
This demolishes squatter sovereignty. In
the same decision occurs the following pas
sage on the same subject
" PethiPS the powei of governing a•Terri
tory' belonging to the United States,. which
has not by becoming a State; acquired the
means of self-government, may result neces
sarily from , the facts,, that it is not within the
jurisdiction of any particnlar State, and: is
within the power and jurisdiction of the Uni
ted States. The right to govern may be the
inevitable consequence of the right to acquire
terntory. Whichsoever may be the source
whence the power is derived, the possession
of it is unquestioned."
And again, he renders the power of con
gress still clearer and broader:
' In legislating for themlthat is the Terr
itories) Congress exercises the combined pow
ers of the General and of the State govern . -
merits."
Before' this great (recision all the chaff about '
the alleged unconstitutionality of the Wilmot
proviso and the Jeffersonian ordinance . .vanish
entirely. Congress, therefore, has the power
to prohibit. the extension of slavery if it sees
Proper-
ligirlir..Vattof the SuSquehanna Penn
sylvanian, states that the resolution. of the
National conrention of the Sham Democra
cy endorsing Frank Pierce's administration,
is not correctly qUoted by. us.. We found
the resolution in two differcit forms in the
newspapers, and . . Out of consideration for the
feelings of our unhappy opponents, copied
that which appeared least Objectionable and of
&naive to -Northern men. • As the Doctor
insists that We took the wrong one, and he
undoubtedly speaks by.._ authority," we
thank bun kir the "correction, and now pub
lish the genuine article * , as follows; • .
Resolved. That the ;admissietrattern of ' Franklin
Pierce has been true to the great interests of the coun
try. 1. In the face of the most determined opposition
it ImaMmintitined the lame, enforced eemintny, fool
eredprogrese, and inf need intiriry and rigor into
every department of the government at home. It has
signilly improved our treaty.relations, estended the
field of commerical • enterprise and vindicated the
lights of American citizens abroad. ft has asserted
with eminent impartirdity the just claims of every
section, and has at ail times been faithful , to the Von
stitsitton. We therefore proclaim our unqualified op
probation of its measures and its policy. •
This resolution is neither more nor less
than an ' unqualified' endorsemeht of, the
wicked complicity of the'administration with
the. Slave Power both in repealing, the Alis
souComprozni;e and in forcing Slavery in
to Kinsas, acts which have received the just
execration of the world, 4fid• will render the
Pierce administration infamous for all thee,
to come. It is a Southern resolution, as the
pLstform is a Southern platform; but the
South rules that 'party so completely that the
whole convention was obliged to swallow it
'hoWever nnpalatable-to Northern Democrats
who had condemned the'administration ; and,
as'Gov. Reeder states :in 'his - recent. letter
showing why he cannot , support Buchanan,
only one solitary individulal was found in
that great National eon vention, voting against
its See how Southern' doctrines are cram
med down the throats of the Northern De
mocracy I See how completely the party
stands committed in favor of •subduing Kan
sas (and, of course, the other Territories)
; for Slavery, by the shameful, wicked means
used by this' ,administration l , 'And "James
Buchantaan is the man nominated by this .
seine Coavention to: carry out this same pro-
SlaV e ery policy. And the votes of Northern
men, who profess to be opposed to:. the. ex
tension of slavery, who /aye condemned the
Nebraska act and the outrages in Kansas,are
counted - on to aid 'quaint:lag four years
infintoirs polity of 'this adminis-
Indio* ! Let hon6it men think Of it.
lar Those amiable Bueltineer editors
who are so ready to leise the' ery of trend
when the Republieaes are:disappoinied of
hearing a speaker they expected, will please
take notice of the feet that aogresa Democratic
mess meeting" win; edvertized-to be held at
Seranton, a few days Ogo, at, which John Van
Baren,"Ax.GOy.Alack s
I
wore promise# opeakeri c but when the
meeting - aim dr, imtesa.Pf the big guns
promeed; the - only' speaker . * Were'l.g.
&WI., 'and "B. ! Want . : that' a
Or Lot*Olt ee S' f rel 4 the , P 9 / 1 s '
`October 14th, "
tar The Montrose Detnicrat of last .weelt
says that Mr. orow could have given 'peace
to Kansas." Mr. Grow did' attempt to gtve
Pea 01 to Kansfts , ,introdoced a IP into
Aeiliou4 foi ilintyting Kantiat,With the To-
Consti*iion t - -*Nieh would' have given
itoesett to Unitas en .. d made it s Frlii State
ind that passelVll-louse t but the "ljem
ocratie Senator rphoild to pass it, because
they were oppe2,Bect to tieadmssion of Eansas
as a wee Sea*:
If Mr. Groir had also opposed the pin:lls,
sion of Kansans. a Free State, and ;supported
the "Toombi bill," which was a southern
null -quire; intended to make 'Kansas a Slave
State, he would no doubt have better pleased
the slave-drivers and the . Northera-d6ugha:
ces; but , in so doing he would ' have beer(
false to his constituents, and to the principles
of freedom he' has always advocated.
For the Aemocrat shamelessly to charge
the continuance of the troubles in iKansas
on Mr. Gm* and the Republieans—when
the fact is notorious that the friends of free.
dont tried every means that could be devised,
without surrendering entirety to.Siavery, for
the relief of that unhappy Territory, and
were unifortnly opposed by the sham Democ
racy who Would have slavery or nothing
but furnisheS another evidence of the deter.
urination of the 13 uchaneers to Make this em.
piratically "the lying campaign." s , .
c. We assure our friends in Tioga and Bradford
that the democracy of Susquelianna; will give M r l
l'S.herwOod their undit4cledsuppore.'—.l.fontrose Demi
orrat Oct. 2. • •
It appears. from the above .that the Pro-
Slavery Hankers have at last rum a ma -
who is willing is run against Air. GrOw: fo•
Congress i in.this District, in t 4 person elf
Daniel L. Sherwood of Tiogit The Editor's
i
of the Demoerat, knowing it to be a desper.
.ate case, and fearing that-Mr. Sherwood ma l y
' back'.6lf the track liefo . re election. thus lea ,-
ing them without a candidate=—make the-
i
Bove promise ; to their friends in WI ' the r
counties, .when they know. it : to' be utterly
false and without • foundation. It Cannot be
denied, and. they know it, that very piany Id
- -I
the stippiirters of .the Cincinnati Platform
have resolved to vote for kr; Grow in -pref
erence to any. other candidate. There is t i ot
a doubt that Mr. Grow's . majority Will far
, i,
exceed that of any other . candidate on t he
:Ticket.-
OCR STATE . LEGIsLATURE.—'7NeXt
a United States :Senator k to be elected
the Pennsylvania : Legislature, in place
Brodhead.. We' want agree Soil Sena
eleeted,• and not a doughfitee, dike Brodhl
and Bigler. - Elect E. need .Myer,, Sim
B. Chase and Alfred Hine, and you:se<
THREE yovv.s in the ' l egislature fora
Soil Senator, and fur the side of freed
whenever that question comes up--elcct
att, J. V. Smith, and R. T. Stevens; and
secure THREE reerza fiw another pro-Slay
Senator like. Bigler, and for sustaining
cause of BorderTuffaniso, generally. f l
and Smith were in the last. Legislature,i
helped Bigler into the position Where he
the :Meanness of his .nature by bringing up
false accusations in the Senate:against
C. Fremont, and by uniform subserviency to
the. behests of Slavery. Last. Fall Dr. Smith
made Some pretensions so Free Soilistbe
lore electimi, but falsified , them by. opting
pro-Slavery every tithe in the tegislattire.—
This 'tall be makes no such pretensiansi t .R.
I'. Stevens, es is Well known, has always
been one •of the hardest of Hunkers, and bit.;
terly opposed to the Free Soil . tendencies for ,
merly exhibited by the party in this' Clnty.
We say then, 'Free Soilers,
,sUpport the
Free - sod candidates and don't
, let the enemy
delude 'any one with false issues into'giving
his support to the sliverpextensionisti. • '
Eucrtox FrAUDS.--Some of the. Philade
lphia papers haVe information-from Washing
ton of a scheme concocted among the Ruch;
sneer leaders, to carry the' Penns. Ivan's:
State election by fraud. • The ,plan i\ 4) have
some of the initiated Buclumeers appear at
the polls in evet.y district, professin to be.
opponents of the Sham Democrae,y, a d with
printed tickets resembling the Repu i lican
tickets, but with some of the names so '
cliancred
..; I -
and ris,isspelledAs_ to vitiate them, ittl get
unsuspicious voters to-use these spurious
votes instead of the genuine. Anothefr - tart
of the game is to . trade Votes'm this 14: a
Buchaneer will offer to support our=di
-7
dates for Auditor General and Survey ' r Gen
eral if a Republican will support their candi
date for Canal Coritmissioner—two f?r one!
Then, if by this means they should 'elect the
Canal Columissioner, they would claim 'that
\
the fight was made on Calual s CornmiSSioneri
•
and so keep up the courage of their follower's
in hopes that something betier Inay-iurti up
before November. .
. .
This rascally scheme 'must be frust j rated. 7
14t,the Republicans itr over l y township be on
hand: and , vigilant—see that no spurio u s votes
are east,, and - that none arejed astray by of
fers
to bargain or. trade :vote's. .-.
.I''
imp Senator Brodhead recently 4 -gad - in
it speech aillonesdale that rr *AS rig vs-
DERSTANDING AMONG THE LICADNRS OF RE De-
MOORACY Di WASHINGTON, AT THE T
NEBRASKA BIM. PAEiSER. ; ') TRAT KAI;ISASI SHOULD
BF. A _SLAVE STATE. one of the' leading
Buchaneers of Wayne county were " swear.
tng mtui," at this confession, for they d:been
laboring all through , the campaign to make
the people believe that:there was ncisuch un
derstanding. But the .conduct of the admin
istration and of the party in Congress, with
'repsrd to '
ff
Kansas a ff a i rs ' , shewa phtiraiv enough
was the
, , r
that that ties the bargain, and it was so pro
c:laitited at the time by Toombs and other of
the bolder disunionists',ivho sustitined the
Nebraska bill.
,When
•
,When the doughface orators collie up into
the Free Soil .regions:' from Washibglon 0.1"
other Southern latitudes' tlo)y cotn!B! with the
habit of talktng proi Slavery sentiment* sit
throng upon them, that they are apt to blun
act out the real position of the . ,party, before
the reAcient - doughfitces who have I tithe pub
lie pulse morireoankly, have tittle tip them
, the wink.' Probably Brodhead took different
ground in blikneakspeetb; as-liinota did i
tir hi/ fikinrettlnlioitrnetts'
ov. Gea4 instead Of !feting impar
t ally and - resuming peace and safety to the
settlers of Kan s," shows himself a more d io.
c‘ f ...
Orem; .beenese, more energetic enemy the
~,
Free Ptatel:men,thin Shannen*A. the
latest,. nett*,:w4:' have (which cons th roug h
't
' t . o.iditve.rt,s64,o3*) it appears t hat t ' '..
Bo
ter - leittfian Sway of :2700 refuitit to d ' id
-in pursuance of Ate Governor's proclamation
nd that the Gevernor, instead of employing
he U. S. troops to Put them down, met them
l in their approach to Lawrence and took '5OO
fof them into the U. S. service ‘!_ to assist in
expelling Lane's troops, and getting as
,many
of them as possible prisoners, to be tried by
martial law." Finding the Governor and.
F. 13. authority thus united with the Ruffians
against them, the Free - State forces in Law
rence fled,Aithe Border Ruffians, United States
troops and Governor marched triumphantly
into the deserted town.. • The Free Soiters
who thus fled from Lawrence consisted of
three-fourths of the able-bodied Northernpet
tiers, collected throughoOt the Territory to
defend Lawrence against the Ruffians,. but
With no purpose of opposi‘g U. S. troor.
The Governor sent a body of troops after the
fugitive Free Soil&s, and succeeded. in captu.
ring 95 of them, who are to be tried by Bor-
der Ruffian law. The new Governor from
whom so much .was hoped by some, since it
vas understood that he went to Kansas as
the special representative of. the views Of. Bu
chanan, has united with the Border Ruffians
in expelling the Free State settlers. • i
One of the charges brought by that
Mendacious Missionary of the new Democrat
ic fiiith„,E. B. Snobble, against : Mr. Grow is
that instead of passing Toothhs bill and so
giving e•p.Ck to Kansas—although the object
of that bill ,was to give.Stavr.av : to Kansas—.
Air:•GrOw . 4"ut the bill into his pocket an ',l;
keeps it there:Having heard. of this charge
Mr. Grow look \.;occasion. - to•state that there
.was no truth in it, bt,i,hat the
very. objectionable, inasmuch as it leaves the
greater part of the. Border'lluffian laws still
,in, force and,recognizes\their validity, and
consequently the laWful\establisliment of
Shivery there, and also pla \ c!lhe
superifi
teadence of the 'new election t proposes, in
the hands of -Frank Pierce, and i bad in \ ma-,
ny other respects—was never reac • d by the .
House at all, but laS• ,upon. the Spea\er's
hie when Congress adjourned, with sixty \ oth
' Cr bills bef4u it tube disposed of in theTg.
War. order - of business before it could 1;
reacho. Bat, although this explanation was
made in Snobble's presence, that individual
still'repeats the falsehood that Me. Grow has
the bill in - his pocket; and finds- a few, lobe
lievehim. One of theseexhibiterbis intelli :
gence'the other day by asserting that he knew
Giow had the bill in his pocket; for he saw
trim take it out and read from. it at the Glen
wood Meeting !
I tor
ad
IRO
;Mg
El
Offl
Pi-
11311
• I
ery
the
- Irgr.Daniel L. Sherwood,.Who is now pre
sented to the .voters of this district as a
' , Del oocratie opponent of Mr.._GrOw for Pon-,
was a member of the State Senate - in
Gress,
'iatt
and
FM
1845, and voted - to instruct our UnitedStao
Senators - to suliport the Tani of 184% and
against any alteration of the same. And in
7846, he bolted,and Opposed Wilmot, the
Democratic candidate for Congress, 'on Vie - ,
!Tariff' issue.
We merely call . the, attention of those
tree-Trade Democrats who claim that the
old issues are, still before the eoiratry, to
these facts, that they may not fowit the'ante
cedentS of the pro-Slavery Buchaneer . Candid
ate, but may vote understandingly, •.
The Philadelphia Times states that
Ten ThousanclextriaSsessment's were. made
in that City in three bays el last week,thider .
the Buchanan municipal , authonties, and that
most. of. the, persona' So as' sessed were recent
ly nattiralized, neer a residence in this 'man
try- of from five weeks three ' years! SA
Buchanan voters.are made: We trust that
the friethisof free institutions and the'puritY
of the-ballot-box, in thii county, will be,
vig
ilant to See that no one.claiming to be a 'nat
uralized citizen is'perthitted to vote without
produeintevidence diet he has been admit
ted te eilizenshiz--an application be ad . -
mitted-ofoiirse-does not entitle any one to
vote. Loolii-.letit for frauds. and Border Ruf
fianism at the polls. ' . .
~a:~jn«a~jo~~:
For the Republican.
Letter An a Buchanan Politician
R. B. Lrrxtic ESQ :
-
DEAR SIR :—As on are fully out and stomp
ing it on the Buchanan Platform, and have prove :so
able and' successful as to be denotitinated " the Cham
pion of Bemoeracy," permit me to eat your attewt
tion .to a letter of yourg, which appeared in the
"Christian Contributor," ofUtiei . N. Y., just before
the close of the. Presidential campaign of 1848.
Eight years may have obliterated its , contents sonie
what from your memory ; and I therefore here copy
it verbena and wish you tp read it once again, that
you may the more, readily answer - a few quegioti.4
which I may ask for my own and .the public infOrm
alien.
From the Chrietias Contributor Vol. 5, No. 34.
Pisbliehed in Utica, N. Y. , a P. Grano:or, Edr.
"For the Chiistian anyriintecir,n
"BRO. GRosvgNoa .—At a time when Mazy Seem,
to the hist degree, singular and hopeless to remon
strate with the]. old menkberi of the Liberty party, I
yet am constrained, through your columns to hazard
that attempt. Since the fast, organization of, that
P 4 4f th. I have steadily , adhered to it, rejoicing inits
principles, and exulting in its, growing power; and
now- that ita. . firmest and . beat friends,.--the very pi
oneers in this reform seem to =have deserted it, I feel
indeed alone. Have they done right? True the Lib
ertY party opposodAtie extension of human Slavery;,
and sought to resat it by law in. the Statei where it
existsi.ottly through the constitutional avenues. So
far it, and the party nominating , Mr. Vanßuren
agreed..-, Admit, if you . please, that the principles of
the Butlido platform embrace- tlie'foll extent of or
political powers. ° Yet is there flora moralsentiment
'above and behind the mere mote, of which that is but
the exponent and the yoke ? We looked at the deep,
crushing, God-defying,,wroiygathat imbruted
of our unoffending felloyt men, in the' Senthern
States; and we heart!' and obeyed WO voice Of God
calling .us up to high remonstrance and reproof; and
'to the 'Creation of a , public sentiment - at - the North
That would so amend the constitution as le empOWer
Congress to abolish al , ery theo . ll lei if moral ef
fortS failed to reform tit 4.p . --tr. ,fhtr mission was
not , siinply ctumervatir ) preventative, but nun
cal and reformatory. Our simple, btu, element
of power was taith in the right,—a faith that wait tin
tempted by place, or spoil, or expediency ;Abet re
jected this wdrld's . mallins, of choosing between mor
al evilS,nt of doing evil good may come.' A
- faith Vild*Hrir no compromise with error'' bat Shun.
e.ielrfclever:itl thillu's prpaleVid OftEcretie o o l 4 -
ofttriil4oo, Atio . anathemas Cif the. Odd lit the init.
EgeOed• :9t tha' voice,.* o ballekb.4),r 4o - 4
1 00
Pr* 404 - the iltrfifitt thrv4h
Bit THE
"..11OFtriost: ra., Oct. 9. 1848.
blew -Maki lorijail"Vina;',that
every Molt_ and cavern of the guilty edifice rung with
the. meet sound. Our strength was not in mere ,
nittii&int,- but in Truth. And yet for the,sake.of
these, have met, on what is called the Buffalo
platibris, a pitrty having no sympathy with a piaci;
pie that waraWgainert alt slavery, whether it be with
in or irfthotifthe state Within
_or -without 'the pro-
tectioW* . human law, a principle to which Lovejoy
and - ,Torret-frll martyrs, and for which We hat'n
'strugglesiiikdd persecution. They brought their Caly
dhiate; and we drop our own and unite with them;
thereby • merging and losing, the antildavery, in a
mere non-extension party, a party that looks only to.
the rights of Freemen,—that from self-interest has
adopted
- -a part Of our policy only. ..ittd.bcktehave•
are done this ? Not, I admit, by adopting a platforms
containing positive error, but by ingeniously, and
carefully framing a something-that expresses a part
of our principles, and a part of theirs, leaving out all
that might be offensive to either.. Whale such
union good Am? Now-had we incorporated there the
e;relqprincitatiof oPpOsitiOn toytAteglaitery, it would ,
have driven off Mr. .Vanßilrerrt and hiS friendi; to
- -retain them; Liberty rnewelosed Ikele Eptrin Itsnent•
compromise. Could vote for a slave-holder, be
cause be happened to Oinxitiesthe extOnSiOti of Slaver/
to -Free Soil? Then `I could not vote for Mr:Van-
Buren, who says he has not chinged, and who there.'
fore - now would secure" anti -guarantee to the slays
holders that Ihatitetion_w%erp it eiista. Just assaur
vote for the one as the other. The differitice between
bim and us is wide as the poles. And in the nattily
of,things, 'we cannot wield a moral power, while our
vote, no matter under what .plausibilty of excuse
. for a man •who never embraced the great anti-slavery
Truth that distinguishes 'us from all other parties.--
Wham makes this defection plausible is that its prin
ciple is true so far. as it goes, but is not the whole
ruth upon Me ambled.- By leaving out a part, we'
an unite with.any body,: for any and evey purpose
but we loses or own identity.. When this battleis.
fought, and'o-. att donC i Liberty men will learn that
they have gained nothing, and lost much by this de
parture from duty. -But how will they regain thein
fluence they had when men belioved they were ready
to do and die in defence of a principle and were proof
against every seduction? Yet shall not a few rally
around. and Eft our trailing banner from the dust I—.
Shall we not re-kindle and keep bright the firein Oda
nation's watch-tower ? A better Clay wilt
. -I rightly understand you in this letter ; yon were
that time, an Abolitionist, a Liberty party millet—
You were bppord to the Buffalo platfonn t ,beaniso
it went no .farther than the sassvvrmastos of Slave
ry ; and could' not vote for Mr.
,yanßuren, bemuse
. e .",would seet,ie and guarantee to the tlave4olders
that institution where it exists. I understand You to
say that the " diferenee between him and up [OA.
tionists, Liberty Party men, you among them] is (s : ei)
wide as the : poles" " and in the notafc of things we
can not wield a moral power while our vote no matter
unfit% what plausibility of .effetwe is for a mai who
never embraced the great etuti-SlaveryTruth, that
distinguishes us [Liberty, inirty 'men] from all other
parties." Am I tight? ', Further, I under - stead you
to say in this letter, that you with the Liberty party
held to " a principle Mangers against aif Xlatery,
whether it be within or witkont the State; withi 4o7
without : the protection of - human law," that you
sought "the creation of a public 4er:timeless nri
Nolan! that would so amend the Constitution as to
empower Congress to abolish Slavery there" [at the
South] ' l ' by law, if: moral efforts failed to reform
the oppressor,". Am I not right ?
Still farther, I understand you to charge those Ab
olitionists whei concluded to agree to and stendepot
the Buffalo "Slavery-non-extension" platform, and:
Mote fol. Mr: Van Buren, .with " defection," with de ,
ft... ion however "plausible," that constituted :loss
of " • entity," ,as anti-slivery :men ;. that they !'de
pane tom duty," and that fry, so doing they placed
,t \
thernsel ‘s in a positron that men would hot bare
them to be " ready to do and to die in defense *fa
principle' ," or that they were "now ' aoarist
V.VERT SMUG'S N." AM I not right ?
.:pow I 'tisk yo 4 to read-the; following extracts frbta
the Bu'ehanari, the Cincinnati &dello of 1856, :al
then answer Me afe more questions. - • '
" Resolved, That vc reiterate with renewed ear
ky ,of purpose the Well- onsidered declarations of
former conventions npbri t e sectional iesties of Eto
.Mestie ' Slar'ery , and cone • g the reserved rights
of the- States,—
1. That Congress has no po r under the Consti
tution, to interfere with or colt r.he ditnneatie insti
tutions of the several Slates and th such States an
the sole 'and proper Judges of every ing appertaia
ing to their own affairs, not prohibited `by the Consi
tution ; that all efforts of the Abofitionlitkt or others,
made to induce Congress Co interfere wit) nestiors
of Slavery, or-to take incipient steps in •
to, are calculated to lead to the most a
dangerous consequences; and that all such
have an inevitable tendency to - diminish the ha
ness of, the people and endanger the stability an.
manancy of the'Unien, and ought not to be comae•
minced by any friends of bor. political institutions., -
- 2. That the foregoing proposition covers, and was
intended to embrace, the whole subject of slavery ag
itation in Congress; and therhfore the Demociatie
party of the Union, statuling on; this national platform,
will abide by and adheretto it dui dd ezeeution of
the acts known - aitfie compromise measures, "settled
by the Congress. of UM ; " the act reehnittingtogi
tive-i from service or, labor," included . ; which act
being
,designed to carry out an express provisionti
the Constitution can not with fidelity thereto,. ben ,
pealed, or so changed as to destroy or impair its et
ficiencr. .. ,
8. That the Democratic party will atesioe all ite
tempts at renewing, in Congas or out atitithe
itation of the
,Slavery question under,whatever shape
or color the rittempOnly be made."
"And that- we mar, the more distinetly meet the
lisne on which a sectierd piat3r enMastingexchisiw•
IT on Slavery. agitation. pow relics to test the fidelity
of the people North and South .to the Vonesiitutier
and the Union," 1 ,
"1.. Rtsoked, Thakiaiming felloriship with ana
"desiring the cooperation of all who regard the prey
ervation cf the Union ;under the Constitution es
paramount issue, and, rePudiatingill sectional parties
and platforms concerning domestic slaverv" ke„,—
the American Demograey recognize and adopt the
principle+ contained in the Organic lain,testabliehing•
the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska m•emboily
ing the only sound and safe solution of the "slavery
question" upon which the "great national idea of the
people of this eountry, can repose in itS determined'
conservatism..oE the Vniou—Non interferenee,• 6 !
! C9 7l .9res!, wih Slavery in any. Territory or is tie
1 .District of Columbia,
With the above portion eribißuchaturn Ostrom
before you, let me ask `hi relation to its contents—
Does it not Mime, that Csegress has no peva
over Slivery in the States ; that "all efortsof tie
Abolitionists or•othera, made to induce",Conte to
interfere with ()nations of Slater? (such as to sholelt
"Slavery in the District of Colombia or the Twit
- ries," or in case of a failure °Um - oval suaeden, to
ie
duet a pubae sentiment at the Nor:Ainamend&
(Constitution so as io empower Congress to abolish
-Slavery" hi the States)" or take ineVerit steptis
rr
&non
_thereto; "ought' not to be eatititenanced /7
any friend of our political institutions?"_
I take it 'for granted.you answer,
,ves I
Doe's hot the platform' declare that the party •a
"abide by and adhere to a fiiithEut exeeritiodef
•
acts; known • as the Compromise measures settled b 1
the Congress of 1850, the act fop reek:law" AT"
;Ives Iron , Service or lab r tsctuistre, ii .„ *Mai d
makes every Northern freeman a siamkatcher, wide
the "penalty of fine'ind imprisonment! •
I take it you must answer, yes! • •
,Again ask; does not the platform "indorse these
which opens Zarisas and NebnialtWonce cotwera a
to Tivetious to the introdnetiest ie shivery, as ove-
Mining or' "•entbditinithevonAesoutiet atidterfes 4-
'eta,* of the Slavery ruenittosii, 4h!s =a On
nothing either Id • Congress wont, Whist:Sian:in
but letting it go; Where it will, is Boned Deusiiersey
Once a g ai n I take for granted - tint. you, 0 , 1
honest man, miniver, yes, ' • • *
Now, ins conclusion kw tke•mala 4mentka.,, How k
it that like' yoursCif, an Ahaithinist, /Liberty'
'Party Mau " who ban not changed" , d ' not in 14
-Ibust' °I
.ysiChout d v eetion, w i t houtexposure, c
seductioss," step - down no hew, as to eland 1 31 01 -
platform thit said to Slavelin:hey9edyour Foe°
limits you shalt not go, !Weedier Words; a noss-Alhol
I! ;extensiv . is platforris ; nor vote for a man Rho 1044
"secureand Yuarentie tn . thi'SlaVe-Holders a 1
,
ititution others it esists;" Without'," lei 14 441°P
power," can; in 18156 itholP"MilllOWer
• take hitefitited upon n platfOrnithatiays 'lst 14 '1.
entirety eitieWs; - "to go atikiiie - tia
only for a man who has surrendered his " idditur
to thet platform, • lint also for Ifisinisociate * l b°, •
Vilkirm laitsiOni: i - lni el4 . °l fkr , ?•• T° i !
"tioisiipa;: .poitegellitagt, .1.1!f:
R. B. Lm4Lr.."
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