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A. J. GERRITSON, Proprietor.'
FOR TUE MONTRORE DEMOCRAT
g SISTO.RY
of ebe Great Struggle between Liberty
and Despotism for the last
Hundred Years.
One of Mr. Johnson's impeachers, Mr
Ashley, of Ohio, says :
" I have always believed that Presidents
Harrison, Taylor and Buchanan were pois
oned, and poisoned for the express pur
pose of nutting Vice Presidents in their
lace • and I believe that President John
son') ,
had a guilty knowledge of the assas
sination of President Lincoln."
In order to avoid like disasters in the
future, Frederick Douglas, one of their
oegro allies and prophets, travels from
place to place, telling the people in his el
oquent speeches how to rectify this mis
take of the white statesmen, who founded
our government. He says :
" We must do away with the Vice Pres
ident. We have had bad luck With them.
We have had .three Vice Presidents with
in the the last twenty years, and not one,
though elected on the same platform, by
the same party as the President, not one
but has betrayed the party that elected
him, and trampled upon the will of the'
people. Why this uniform desertion of
party and principle by Vice Presidents?
I don't know, you don't know, but we
keep thinking. (Laughter and applause.)
? The Presidential chair is a tempting
bauble. For crowns men have done ma
ny horrible things. For crowns they have
committed murders and assassinations.—
For the crown they have sent the mid
night assassin into the dungeons of broth
ers, and caused them to plunge the cold
!feel into the quivering heart. For the
crown, the brains of smiling infants have
been dashed out. For the crown poison
has been resorted to." •
Yes ! This Republican party and their
negro allies ought to be well versed in the
Listory of the murders of kings for the
tl:e of kingly power. The Puritans who
murdered Charles I. that they might rule
with despotic powerasver England and
Ireland themselves—the .Jacobins, who
murdered the good king of France, that
they might become dictators in turn—
and the ncgroes of Hayti, who have eith
er murdered or driven from the throne by
baronets every black ruler who has been
;laced over them, since the time when
:hey murdered every white man, woman
end child on that ill-fated island. These
three patties, now all amalgamated in
(.ne, ought to be familiar with aspssina
:ion, murder and poison, as they indeed
show themselves to be.
"The Presidency of our country," says
this negro Douglass, " stands in the place
of the crown. make no charge, Ido
not even deal in insinuation. I don't say
that President Johnson was in any way
privy to the assassination conspiracy that
terminated the life of our President—not
at all. But there are some strange things
abent it. I believe this : I believe that
the rebels who compassed his death,knew
Andrew Johnson then as we know him
now. (Loud applause.) If they did not,
they acted like madmen. They acted like
men out of their senses. If they believed
Andrew Johnson would carry out his
threats against them, they acted like men
who were jumping out of the frying pan;
into the fire. It, don't seem to me but. that
they knew what his subsequent action;
would be; and we all know that he is the:'
recognized champion cif :the .rebels, who
are responsible fiir the assassination. (A p
plause.)-
" There. is no reason why we should
elect a Vice President any more than
there is that we should select our second
wife on the evening of our first marriage:
But you ask, what should we do if the
President should die? Well, that is what
lam telling you. He wouldn't die if you
had no Vice President."
So confounded, so surprised and so pure
zled have the Republicans been at the
mysterious providence which placed a
President in office adverse to their plans,
that they have been unable to solve the
enigma in any other way than by "think
ing" all the while that the Vice President
murdered him, and President Johnson has
narrowly escaped summary and secret ex- ,
eention at their hands for this pretended:
crime. Yet one of the greatest of Amer:
ican heroes and statesmen arrived at solu
tion of these "strange- things" many
years ago, and the Republicans ought to
have been benefitted by his discoveries.
Perhaps it, is not yet too late.
When General Jackson' ;was on his
death-bed in 1845, in reviewing the po ,
liticalthanges and scenes in his conntry'S
history, he said to a visitor, who report
ed his conversation with the dying chief:
"There is a Providence in all these
thing!, .sirl The Almighty permitted the
people Ito , becomes crazy and van ;wild in
1840, and to elect good old Harrieen Pre-
sident. Then the Almighty took him to
himself, that Tyler might save the couu
try by his vetoes. Yes, sir. Those ve
toes saved the country, and Gen:Harrison
was removed by Providence to that end.
There was a Providence in all this, sir."
Now, if it was necessary for Providence
to remove the first named President,
which Frederick Douglass says "we elec
ted," in order to save the country, it was
necessary he should remove the other:two
—and that is why they were removed.
And who is this man who thus explains
the mysteries which envelope the Repub
lican party in such a cloud of perplexity ?
Is ho a man capahle of understanding the
dangers arising 11-otn time to a free gov
ernment? And was he in favor of our
free 'government, as established by the
patriots of 1776, or was he for converting
it into a monarchy, as the party in power
are trying to do ?
A short history of his life will suffice to
answer these questions; and the earliest
mention of his name which we will bring
to your notice, is the following from the
National Intelligencer, of Washington
City, dated May 31st, 1814. It says:
"We are pleased to learn that the mil
-I,ary condu c t, vombining skill and cour
age of General JacksOn, of the Tennessee
Militia, has attracted the attention of
President Madison. General Jackson is
appointed a Brigadier General in the ar
my of the United States, and by brevet
has the honorary rank of Major General.
This appointment, wb doubt, not, will
meet wiih general approbation. The In
dian war is now entirely at an end, the
greater part of the troops have been call
ed home."
The next no:iee of this Brigadier Gen
eral is taken from another newspaper
i u ! , e coin.coin. i
printed in those days of bloody war : The first few millions needed to equip
" Resolved, By the Senate and Hot se of our army and navy were easily borrowed,
Representatives of the United States of for our government had a very poor and
America in Congress assembled, that the shallow idea of the intensity of fiteling of
thanks ofCongress be, and they are here- the independent belligerent with whom
by given to Major General Andrew Jack- Iwe had to deal. The next loan of $250,-
son, and through him to the officers and 000,000 was readily taken by the Phila
soldiers of the regular army, of the mili- deiphia, New York and Bosun Banks.
tut and of the volunteers, for their uni- But when Congress assembled the banks
form gallantry and good conduct, conspic- complained that the Treasury had so
Lue
uously displaxed against the enem f
lame ut a c• Incr. glk.;:, ... -. _ _..Y. , ..-rm ' placed l i-Piir- ioameebY—P"'"aef-f"f . 6 h-lni
* •
leans, until hi+ final expulsion therefrom ;i ' the lenders, unable longer to pay coin
and particularly fvr their value and for them.. They, however, went on and
conduct on the eighth of January, gore paid them in currency at some discount,
pulsing with great slaughter et numerous which, I think, cost the government some
British army of chosen veteran troops, millions of dollars. Still, the Treasury
when attempting by a bold and daring at- was soon emptied, such was the error- I
tack to carry by storm by the works has- mous draft upon it for war material. In- 1
tily thrown up for the protection of New i quiry was then made of bankers and bro-
Orleans,
and thereby obtaining a ne;st kers by the Committee of Ways and
signal victory; over the enemy, with a dis- Means, of which I happened to be chair
parity of loss on his part, unexampled in man, as to the probability of obtaining a
military annals. I loan, and at what rate. The answer was
"Resolved, That the President of the discouraging, and did not give us reason
United StateS he requested to cause to be to hope that we would be al;le to obtain
struck a Gold Medal, with devices em- sufficient money to carry on the war at
blematical of this sp!endid acchievemeet, i more than eighty live per cent., with in
and presented to Major General Jackson, terest at six per cent. on the loan. The
as a testimony of the high sense enter- committee were unwilling to take eighty
tamed by Congress of his judicious and five per cent. principal and ' receive the
distingutshed conduct on that memorable loan in a depreciated currency, which
occasion. . . wonldliaVe probably brought it to seven
" Resoleed,', That the President of the ty 'five per cent. Two of us, Mr. Spaul.
United States be requested - to cans the ding, of Buffalo, and myself, were in fa
foregoing resol miens to be communicated vor of issuing notes of the United States
to Major
. Geiieral Jackson in such terms and making them a legal tender, but re
as hw . may deem best calculated to give ceiving them at par fur all transactions
with the Government, believing that they
effect -to the objects thereof." Approved
Feb. 27th, 1815. Iwould pass at very nearly par for all the !
Why was this " numerous British ar
supplies of war material which the Gov-. 1
eminent might need; as all demand, both
my," which was composed of troops with by the government and individuals, for
which Lord Wellington conquered Napo- anything but legal tender, would thereby
leon on the - field of Waterloo, landed be- be taken away. No reason could be seen
fore New Orleans? Why was the fleet why, to the extent of the demand in this
country, NI , bleb proved to be nearly the
of fifty armed vessels, commanded by a
whole, they should go much below par.
brother-in-law of Wellington, bringing a They would answer every purpose for
force of twenty thousand white British i; ; i 1:
W,1.c.1 LIC .anner, mechanic mercant and
soldiers, besides two negro regiments . manufacturer desired to purchase materi
from the West Indies, to hold the city of- i al. We remember that in England for
most of the time that specie payment was
ter its capture, (because it was thought .
suspended, her bank notes were at about
they would be peculiarly adapted to that . fourteen per cent discount. After having
climate,) sent by Great Britain to attack : repeatedly attempted to purchase loans at
and capture that great city in the South ?. a less sum than what in coin would be
! about $4O on the $lOO, we urged the Sec-
What else but for the subjugation and
• retary of the Treasury tc give his consent
conquest of America? And who else be-
to off•ering a loan and issuing therefor
sides negroes from the West Indies did , United States notes and making a legal
she take to her bosom to assist in this tender. To this the members of the coin
conquest ? All the Indian tribes and sav- mittee agreed, but the others, together
ages in America, led by Tecumseh, Weth
with the Secretary, decidedly refused their
,
i consent as ho (the Secretary) had very
ersford, and other savage warriors. Gen.
consistently done in his rerkrt. The com.
Jackson helped to " save his country from mittee waited, again consulted the mon
destruction" at the hands of the British ; eyed men of the country and found that
and their Indian And negro allies. And .no large loan could be obtained in coin
except at a ruinous price. They again im
who sympathized with the British nation,
portuned the .Secretary for his consent,
and laughed at the murders of the white ;, the committee having become a tie. A
people by the Indians? - The Federalists.l bill for the issue of $100,000,000 of legal
And who did Gen. Jackson say these Fed-' ' , tender had been drawn and offered by ,
eralists were ? He wrote to President ' Mr. Spaulding, and was allowed to remain
Monroe that, " These men, although call- .in that position till February, when a
1 democratic member of the committee, re ,
ed Federalists, were really monarchists i serving the right to vote against it, con
and traitors.i! • I :tented that it might be reported. In Feb-
This histoiy will prove that this party, ; ruary, after severe opposition, it, passed
whiCh bas allied itself with the negroes of I the House and was seat to the Senate.
the Sontbrare -the monarchists and trait- Then nothing was said about the currency
ors 'of Getr. Jackson's day, and the tories ' in which either principal or !merest were
ofilliii : • day , and
to be paid. No one, I Suppose, doubted
MONTROSE, PA., TUESDAY, DEC. 31, 1867.
Thad, Stevens on Government Bonds,
STEVENS TO GYGER
We find in the New York Herald a let
ter over four columns in length from
Thaddeus Stevens to John Gyger, bank
er, who had written to him for his opinion
upon our financial system, and as to what
kind of money the National debt would
be paid in. Mr. Stevens opens his letter
as follows :
" Dear Gyger—l shall not hesitate to
answer the questions which you have pro
posed to me according to my poor ability,
although I know that I thereby incur the
risk of sharp and frivolous criticisms by
able New York editors, whose age is
scarcely more than eighteen years, and
who will probably discover in my answer
evidence of old age, and decaying of in
tellectual powers. Of all this I am my
se:f conscious, and only regret the pain
which it gives those youthful gentlemen
to make such delicate suggestions. But
as literary:pride has never been among my
aspirations, I will not venture to smother
the free intercourse with try neighbors in
advanced life."
He then goes on to say :
" I have not approved and do not now
approve of the financial policy pursued by
our government, for the last six years. I
think we have thrown away our billions,
and are still throwing away our millions,
by mismanagement.
You are a banker, and a sound one; but
you are making more of the United States
through the national banking systetn, as
is every other man who has adopted it,
than you ought to make. This may ap
pear do , :mat Mal; but I am only answer
ing the question which you have asked
me."
lie gives the following account of the
origin of the - 5 20 loan, showing that Con
gress did not intend to commit the Gov
ernment to the payment of the principal
that the loans of the United States of ev
ery description were payable in the mon
ey of the United States of every descrip
tion; but to change that aspect as it re
garded a portion of the fund, the New
York money changers .again made their
appearance, Jew and Gentile mingling in
sweet communion to discover some cun
ning invention to make in a day what it
would take weeks for honest men to earn.
They went directly to the Committee of
Ways and Means, and asked that the in
terest should be made payable in coin,
leaving the pVincipal 4s it was. The com
mittee utterly rejected the absurb propo
sition of two currencies—two legal ten
ders—in the same empire and for the
same commodities. They had once heard
of such a transaction in Austrn bonds,
which utterly destroyed their credit. The
brokers then resorted to the Secretary of
the Treasury. He was more easily per
suaded, and, it is understood went with
them to the committee of the Senate and
pressed the change. The Finance Com
mittee of the Senate agreed to it, and
sent it back to the House with that
amendment. The house rejected it, and
the consequence was a committee of con
ference, and as some bill was necessary it
resulted in the present law, making the
debtss of the United States, so far as re
garded their interest, payable in a differ
ent kind of a currency from the debt it
self. One of the House committee pro
posed then, in order to raise a sum suffi:
dent for that purpose, that the duties on
imports should be paid in coin. That
proposition prevailed, and the result was
and is that the interest on the national
loans and the duties on importations are
payable in one kind of money called legal
ender, and the principal in another kind
of money called legal tender, but made of
a different material and of a different
shape. Thus, as any one can see, that
Congress declared that while she created
two kinds of money she had made them
of unequal value and for different purpos
es."
He uses the following strong language
in reference to the assumption that the
bonds are payable in gold :
" It is but just to Mr. McCulloch here
to say that he does not pretend that the
principal of the five twenties (as his late
letter shows) is payable in coin, as the
bonds 'are silent upon that subject, and as
that conclusion is excluded by that very
silene.e. It is just, also, to the Democrat
been discussed in the house
among them has set up such a foolish pre
tension; and when the bill was on its, final
passage the question was expressly asked
of the chairman of the Committee of
Ways and Means, and as expressly an
swered by him, that only the interest was
payable in coin. But every instrument
speaks of itself, and when it is silent upon
the subject of the currency, it is always
made payable in money, which means the
legal tender of the country. I fear, how-
ever, I am elaborating this paint, ad nau
seam, unless a newspaper editor or a
country broker can enact laws and after
wards enforce, them. There is nothing
short, of - the sheerest folly in this argu
ment, and it will not be persevered in by
those who have sufficient strength to car
ry them genteelly over the "asses' bridge."
Nay, more; I fear that what I am going
to state may set New York editors and
brokers upon a dangerous rampage amid
the flowery fields and golden images of
Chiriqui and Golfonto; and yet I shall
venture to say that if the United States
chose to be faithless enough, she could
tender and pay not only the principal, hut
the interest in legal tenders, although the
latter is expressly contracted to be paid
in coin. The law of legal tender means
this or it means nothing. Let not this
alarm any one, for no nation short of the
basest Asiatics would ever think of such
an act, however capitalists might ask trus
tees, guardians and administrators to vio
late the law and their sworn oaths to
double the revenue wi,ich the public debt
or is to pay them."
And proposes to liquidate them as fol-
lows .
" Various methods are suggested to
redeem the five twenties in currency.
One very able writer suggests a loan in
greenbacks to their amount, so that af- —The New York Evening Post, a lea
terwards the greenbacks may be redeem- , ding organ of the radical party in that
ed with the others. If we are satisfied i State, sees the hand writing on the wall,
that there is not more than a sufficient 1 and is sounds the note of alarm : •
currency to do the business of the coup- 1 It cannot be denied that there has been
try together with its probable increase, , a good deal of inconsiderate and even
then that would be the proper method, ! dangerous legislation in Congress during
without inflating prices as a counterbal-
! the past two years: There has been a
ance to the saving. But if it is believed
that the present and prospective business great deal more inconsiderate and dan
d fair gerous talk. There are still threats made
of the country woul ly absorb an
, by men who ought to know better, which
amount large enough to redeem these
i are nothing less than revolutionary and
of these bonds as they become due, and not inju- i
things the people are getting
riously increase the business, then the ;
true way would be for the government ;
weary. They tell their representatives in
Congress that instead of listening to their
to issue legal tenders equal to the amount i
to enthusiasts, to their extreme men, to their
be redeemed, and thus save the inter-
1
i Sumners, their Stevenses, and their But-
e.t both of the old and a new loan. In
deed, but a small, portion might be issued ' lers,_ it. would be better to the dictates of
good sense, to the strict requirements ofl
monthly, say 84,000,000, so as to imper
ceptibly affect the cuu rency. constitutional law, and to men of modera
tion and statesmanship. As for recon
-In calculating the chances for the struction, it is not in so hopeful a condi
next Presidential election, the Tribune tion now as it was a year ago,
.when the
said : "We do not think much comfort
1
t remains for any political party that can- 1 --
constitutional amendment—article XIV
wan passed. Nearly all that Cengress
not carry New York and Pennsylvania." 1 has since done has been needless, violent,
smanlike,we might almost say,
Very true. What hope is there then, I and unstate
for the radicals ? I fanatical.
Three Great Friends,
In the Life of Josiah Quincy" is the
following story of a joke passed by Judge
Story on two of his friends addicted to
the habit of early rising :
" I have related, in telling my father's
doings as President, how he never failed
to set the sleepy students an example of
rigid punctuality at morning chapel. He
deserves the less credit for this, however,
in that he had contracted, long years be
fore, the habit of rising every morning,
winter and summer, so that he had long
been astir before the prayer bell rung out
its unwelcome summons. Tbis excess in
early hours, however, like every other ex
cess, brought its penalty with it. Nature
would not be cheated of her dues, and if
they were not paid in season she would
exact them out of season. Accordingly,
my father was sure to drop asleep, wher
ever he might be, when his mind was not
actively occupied; sometimes, even in
company, if the conversation was not es
pecially animated, and always as soon as
he took his seat in his gig, or 'sulky,' in
which he used to drive himself to town.
It was good luck and the good instinct of
his horses that carried him safe through
for so many years."
" One day Mr. John Quincy Adams,
who was addicted to the same vice of in
temperate early rising, with much the
same consequences, was visiting my fa
ther, who invited him to go into Judge
Story's lecture room and hear his lecture
I to his law class. Now Judge Story did
not accept the philosophy of his two
friends in this particular, and would in
sist that it was a more excellent way to
take out one's allowance of sleep in bed,
and be wide awake when out of it—which
he himself most assuredly always was.
The judge received the two Presidents
gladly, and placed them in the seats of
honor on his dais by his side, fronting the
class, and proceeded with his lecture. It
was not long before, glancing his eye
aside to see how his guests were impress
ed by his doctrine, lie saw that they were
both of them sound -asleep, and he saw
that the class saw it too. Pausing a mo
ment in his swift career of speech, he
pointed to the two sleeping figures and
uttered these words of warning: " Gen
tlemen, you see before you a melancholy
example of the evil effects of early rising.
The shout of laughter with which this
judicial obiler diclum was received effectu-
I ally aroused the sleepers ana it is to be
" • '
A Radical Oandidate.
The radicals are in serious trouble in
Memphis. The negroes took complete
control of the convention which was call
ed to nominate Municipal Officers, and,
being manipulated by a small faction of
the baser of the mean whites, nominated
a most obnoxious candidate for Mayor.
His name is Beecher. He was twice con
victed of larceny at Onarga, Illinois; once
for stealing a vest, the second time for
stealing saw logs. He has been several
times indicted for larceny in Memphis,
and is now under bail to answer to a
charge - of embezzling :the property _of
Shelby County Hospital, of which he was
surgeon. He is also accused of taking a
bribe to procure the purchase of an old
barrack for a county hospital, which was
located in so unhealthy a place that many
of the inmates, principally poor negroes
died. He is under bail, to answer at
court on that charge. He was a defaul
ting postmaster under President Buchan
an, and became intensely loyal when be
saw a good chance of making it pay.
Take him all in all, he is a fair specimen
of the white Southern Radical, and is fit
! to associate with Brownlow, Hunnicutt,
Jack Hamilton and the rest of the gang.
His nomination is a nice commentary on
the competency of the negroes to exercise
the right of suffrage. It is only proper
to say that all the charges against him are
made by the Radicals of Memphis them
selves. The Conservative whites of the
city, being disfranchised, look on at the
fight as outsiders, but not as disinterested
spectators. Their property and other in
terests are at stake, but they aro power
less to help themselves.
i VOLUME XXV, NUMBER 1.
Butler on National Banks.
We copy the following extract 'from
the speech of Gen. Benj.,;. Butler, deliv
ered in Congress, on the subject of bank
ing and currency: ,
What is the next proposition ? Wby,
it is said we must not interfere with the
national banks because tbey patriotically
helped us during the war. Upon the
take issue with each and every advocate
of the banks. On the contrary, they help
ed themselves, not'Ths. It is said they
loaned money to the Government. How
did they do it ? Let me state the way a
national bank got itself into existence in
New England during the war, when gold
was 200, five twenties were at par, in
currency, or nearly that. A company of
men got together $300,000 in national
bank bills, and went, to the Register of
the Treasury with gold at 200' and bought
United States five twenty bonds at par.
They stepped into the office of the Comp
' troller of the Currency and asked to be
established as a national bank, and receive
ed from him $270,000 in currenoy, with
out interest, upon pledging these bonds
of the United States they bad bought
with their $300,000 of the same kind of
money. Now, let us balance the books,
and how does the account stand? Why,
the United States Government receives
$30,000 in national bank bills more from
the banks than it gave them in bills; in
other words, it borrowed of the bank
$30,000, in currency, for which, in fact, it
paid $lB,OOO a yearin gold interest, equal
to $36,000 in currency, for the use of this
$30,000. Let me repeat. The difference
between what the United States received
and paid out was only $30,000, and for
the use of that the Government pay on
the bonds deposited by the company,
bought with the same kind of money,
$lB,OOO a year interest in gold, equal to
$36,000 in currency.
But the thing did not stop there. The
gentlemen were shrewd financiers; their
bank was a good one; they went to the
Secretary of the Treasury and said, " Let
our bank be made a public depository."
Very well; it was a good bank; the mana
gers were good men; there was no objec
tion to the bank. It was made a public
depository, and thereupon the cOnvnissa
ries, the quartermasters, the me dial di
rector and purveyor, and the pa}misters
were all directed to deposit ,their public
fonds in this bank. Very soon the bank •
found that they had a line of steady de
5270,000 they had feceii7 d frorii — tFir
Comptroller of the Currency would sub
stantially carry on their daily business,
and as the Government gives three days
on all its drafts if the bank was pressed it
was easy enough to go on the street if
they had good security. They took the
million of Government money so deposi
ted with them and loaned it to the Gov
ernment for the Government's own bonds,
and received therefor $60,000 more inter
est in gold for the loan to the Govern
ment of its own money, which in curren
cy was equal to $120,000. So that when
we come finaly, to balance the books the
Government is paying $156,000 a year t „
for the loan of $30,000. And this is the
system which is to be fastened foieter pn
the country as a means of.furniihing a
circulating medium
This, only using round numbers for the
purpose of illustration, is an `actual and
not a feigned occurrence. You will see
it was a perfectly safe operation for the
banks, though not a very profitable one
for the Government, because they held
ample security for the Government de
posits in its own bonds. But, the difficul
ty is the Government was paying inter
est all the while on its own deposits; and
this state of facts is only rendered possi
ble by this system of supplying the banks
with circulation by Government without
interest
Extraordinary Revenge.
The Providence (R. I.) Herald of elate
date tells the following ridiculous story
of a hen-pecked husband who took a most
singular revenge :
A singular case of matrimonial infelici
ty is reported in Villag e street, two or
three evenings ago. Acouple, both un
der the influence of beverages. had a
"cheerful discussion," which culminated
in a regular quarrel after they had retir
ed to their couch for the night. At last,
rendered frantic by the stinging words of
his wife, and in order to revenge himself
upon her, the man sprang ' from the bed
' and seated himself upon the hot cooking
I stove accoutred as be was in a very limi
ted line of wearing apparel. The stove
I being very hot, the man'sflesh burned on,
and his night garment somehow catching
upon the rear of the stove, be was unable
to release himself. His screams for help
were treated with cruel iedifferenee by
his wife, and it was only when his cries
bad called in two men from another room
that he was extricated from his uneom.
fortable position, by being pulled off the
stove by main strength. Of coarse bia
burns were terrible, and the physicians
who attended him prediot that they will
result in permanent,lameness;
Or A meetingof the Demcsaratio
State Central Committee will be bed as,
theAlub Rooms, Harrisburg, on 'Tee&
day, the 7th of January, 1808, at p. m.