„,) • cr ITT/ . A ts” . w 4 t "At 127 42) . • PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE CITY OF READING, BERKS COUNTY, PA.---TERMS: $1,50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. c !. LAWRENCE GETZ, EDITOR.] I'IIIS6IOED EVERY SATURDAY ALORRINO 'Veit corner of Penn and MTh street, ad ;-,sink; the Formers' Bata of Reading. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. • port. vaierde in attoorrace. tor ..br. months, in advance. T.. Tara. • lour copies ter $5, In advance. Toy ( via. ter 14, a <lineonliamed at the attdratton of the frt. SATES OF ADVERTISING IN THE OAZETTE. Imo. Smo. 6mo. ly. • L lines, 1"8. ';0 IN3 75 2,00 3,00 6, 00 50 'l,OO 1.25 300 60081 b 1.00 2,00 2,00 5,00 3,00 15,00 1,60 3,00 3,75 7,00 12,00 20,00 • [Larger Advertisements In proportion.] -tientero• and Administrators' 'Notices, 6 Insertions $2,00 Notice: and Legal Helicon 3 1,60 Notices, an reading matter, 10 eta. a line for one marriage notices 25 cents each. Deaths will be rd crutuitonsly. in obituary Notices, Iteeolutioria of 'Beneficial and y„ eats Astoriblimb. Wlll be charged for, as *drop. at the above rates. Ajtoribements for Religions, Charitable and Eau one-half the above rates_ adverttning will be considered payable in cub, 11 in,ertion. a drarli..erii shall have the privilege c.f desired) „f• their advertisements every three weeks—bet Aup additional renewals, or advertising ex, • It u ., the amount contracted for, will be charged extra the rates above specified for transient adver- Acartisors will be cbarged the earce rates as r dverti6e. fur all matters not relating strictly FEINTING OF EVERY DESCRIPTION ivratet in a eaperlor PULESOIT, at the very foraest :---urtmant of JOB TYPE iS large and fashioneber r ,rtd „t ISurh eptatka for Itself, BLANKS OF ALL KINDS, I,etißne PARCHMENT and PATER DMUS, MORTGAGE. ARTIcLA6 OF AoassxErr, Lams, and a variety of BLANES, kept constantiy for sale, or printed to DANIEL E. SCHROEDER, ATTORNEY AT LAW. i - 1 uta WITH J. HAGENAIAN, PENN ST., vy above Sixth, Reading, Pa [June 6-3 m C. A Leopold, TTORNEY" AT LAW.—OFFICE IN COURT St ',bal. Tina dour below Siztl, Reading, Pa. MIT .2S, 1S 3-1 p JESSE G. HAIWLEY, • ATTORNEY AT LAW, HAS REMOVED HIS OFFICE TO NORTH &awl Street, opposite the Keystone House, Heading. April 11, 1633-tf - XOECEr MSTON, AII7OIINFFIC AT LAW, 0 FFICE IVITII A. B. — WANNER, NORTH Sixth Street, (above the Court thoree,) Reading, Pa frbrcrry 21, 1963-17 FLEMOVA.L. WILLIAM H. LIVLNOOOD, ATTORNEY AT yy LAW. has removed We aloe to the north side if C mrt street first door below Sixth. [dee M-tf Charles Davis, • TTORNEY AT JAW—HAS REMOVED HIS It Once to the Whim lately occupied by the Hon. David F iiordsa, deceased, in Sixth street, opposite the Court [april 14 Daniel Ennentrout, A TTORAY AT LAW—oIVIOE IN NORTH Dinh street, corner of Court alley. [Rug 13-ly David Neff, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN T Yvreigo and Domestic DRY GOODS, No- 25 Reek Kr-vt, Evading, ra. [Marsh 10, 1.4 M. LIVINCOOD'S. Thatea States 331:minty, Back Pay. and Pension Office, CnURT STREET, NEAR SIXTH. • LTAVING BEEN ENGAGED 1N COLLECT i log claims ego:toot the Government, I feel confident it who hove heretofore employed me will cheerfully -olr.v toy rromptoeso and fidelity- My charges are L rrate and no charge made nntil obtained. WILLIAM B. LIVINGOOD, lA.-tfl Attorney at Law, Court It., Heeding, Pa. DISCHARGED SOLDIERS ft -IN NOW OBTAIN THEIR $lOO BOUNTY j fr.nn the D. S. Government, by application to ABNER K. STAUFFER, 7-ti] Collection 0 ince, Court Street, Reading. ASA M. HART, (Late Hart fir. Mayer') rtEALER IN FOREIGN AND AMERICAN DRY . GOODS, CARPETING% &c., Wholesale and Ile ,l, at Philadelphia prices. Siga of the Golden Bee Hive, :C., 14 Penn Square. [april 17-tf P. Butsliong & SOILS, TANUFAUTUREDS OF BURNING FLUID, abeolute, Deodorized and Druggists' Alcohol; also, ell, which they will sell at the lowest Wholesale at }leading, Pa. .irdprs reapectfully solicited. [march 12 G. M. MI:GLIM M. D., Eclectic physician and Surgeon, iiRADUATE OF TIM ECLECTIC MEDI ] Val Canoga Philadelphia, offers Me professional der le the citizens of Bamberg and vicinity. Painful operations, suoh as Setting Broken end Dislocated amputations, Cutting Concern, Tumors, &e., will under the influence of Ether, at the consent , ih- petieut. M,. at hie residence in Main street, Hamburg, Pa. =fey DR. T. 'YARDLEY BROWN, SURGEON DENTIST. GRAUMAT E OF PENNSYLVANIA - Dental College. Teeth extracted be Fran - ClSNlectro Magnetic process, with ark 's improvement With this method teeth are xtrwned with much leas pain than the usual way. No 11:!, cbsrge. Oats in Fifth street, opposite the Presbyte n.s %lurch- [april 2-17 CHARLES LANCASTER, MEDICAL ELECTRICIAN, Fourth Street, above Penn, ntladilige isea-tt SOLDIERS' 1110UNT2-ACONZIV, 31411.438-PALIC Awn =SIMON CLAIMS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO By A. H. SMAIIFFIKEL, Attorney at Law, Other In Court 'Street, Jah EXADING. F. P. HELLER, WATCHMAKER, JE WELER, AND DEALID2 IN WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, QPOONS, SPECTACLES, GOLD PENS, &0., Sign of the Bra WATCH," No. osx zo.e. DM, firttt, above Sixth, north aide, Heading, Pe. air Every article warranted to be what it is sold for Waking, Clocks, Jewelry, dc., repaired with particular anentioa, sad guaranteed. [fhb I-If TRUSSES. D lIPTURE CAN BE CURED BY A TRUSS tOtr THE RIGHT KIND. IF PROPERLY PITTED AND LL•LY ATTENDED TO. This Lae been abundantly de. cccedrated in innumerable instances by the use of the NULTIPEDAL TRUSS of DR. RIGGS, during the last few P.m. Thin tram, being covered with Hard Rubber, le lwrfeetly Waterproof, mry be need In banking, and le al were cleanly as well as indestructible by ordinary usage. II cut entiefactOry after a fair trial of sixty days, it may be returned. It challenges comparison with any tress known. EL ItIOGS' Office, No. 2 BARCLAY ST., New-York. _ ev_ 15-1 y NOTICE!. A LL PARENTS AND GUARDIANS ARE earnestly requested to keep the children under their • strol from playi n g or walking upon the Railroad Tracks, to and near this city_ As Locomotives and Care are con .ttttly in motion thereon, neglect or this precaution will Weir retolt in serions and pmrlaps fatal accidents. Jose G. A. EICOLLS, General Superintendent. VOE SALE AT THE OLD JAIL, 200 WHITE 12 Granite Tea Setts of the newest style. 1 1 011. SALE AT THE OLD JAIL, 500 GRANITE DMus). Setts of the newest style. ,i I OR SALE AT THE OLD JAIL, 1000 SETS C oll llllollTeßware. 1,, 1t SALE AT THE OLD JAIL, THE LARG -1 assortment of Liverpool Ware ever offered in i;•-hding. I , OR SALE AT THE OLD JAIL, A LARGE I, assortment of Pittsburgh, Boston and French Glad& iihra of every description. iiOR SALE AT THE OLD JAIL, 60 BARRELS hlaakerel al Pltiledelplas prices. wank 22 WILLIA/1 BROADS, Jr. 4 .10' BALTIMORE LOCK HOSPITAL, WEETABLISHED AS A. REFUGE FROM QUACKERY. The Only Place Where a Cure Can be Obtained. • • P R. JOHNSTON HAS DISCOVERED TIIE most Certain, Speedy and only Effectual Remedy in t e World for all Private Dimmer), Weakness of the Back Or Limbs, Strictures, Affections of the Kidneys and Blad der, Involuntary Discharges, Impotency, General Debility, Nervousness, - Dyspepsia, Languor, Low Spirits, Confu sion, of Liam Palpitation of the Heart, Timidity, Tremb ling. Dimness of Sight or Giddiness, Dieense of the Head, Throat, Nose or Skin, Affections of the Liver, Lungs, Stomach or Bowels—those Terrible Disorders arising from the Solitary Habits of You t h - , .. 41 -0- . . 4 0 OECRES and solitary practices mote fatal to their victims than the song of Syrena to the Mariners of Ulyesee. blighting their most brilliant hopes or anticipations, rendering marriage, dtc., impossible. YOUNG MEN Especially, who have become the victims of Solitary Vice, that dreadful end destructive habit which annually sweep* to an untimely grave thetwande of Young Men of the moat exalted talents and brilliant intellect, who might other wise have entranced listening Senates, with the thunders of eloquence or waked to ecstasy the living lyre, may call with full contldence. IiZZaLI44IOII. Married Persons, or Young Men contemplating mar riage, being aware of phyeical weakness, organic debility, deformities speedily cured. He who places himself tinder the care of Dr. 3: nay religiously confide in his honor as a gentleman, and con fidently rely aim. bin *kill as a physician. ORGANIC/ ViriUMNESS • Immediately Cared and Full Vigor lte.tered. This Distressing Affection—which renders Life and Mar riage impossible—ia the penalty paid by the victims of im proper indulgences. Young persona ere too apt to commit excesses from not being aware of the dreadful cense. quezmoo that may ommo. Now, who that understand the subject will pretend to deny that the petunia procrea tion is lost sooner by those falling into improper habits than by the prudent f Besides being deprived of the pleas ure of healthy offspring, the moat serious and destructive symptom. to both body and mind arise. The system be- CMOS Deranged, the Physical and Mental Functions Weakened, Lose of Procreative Power, Nervous irritabil ity, Dyspepsia, Palpitation of the Heart, Indigestion, Con stitutional Debility, a wasting of the Frame, Cough, Con sumption, Decay and Death. Oillee, No. 7 South Frederick Street. belt hand aide going from Baltimore street, a few doors from the corner. Fail not to observe name and number. Letters must be paid and contain a stamp. The Doctor's Diploma bangs in his office. A CURE WARRANTED IN TWO DAYS. No Mercury or Nauseous Drugs. DR. JOHNSTON. Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, Grad uate from one of the meet eminent Colleges In the United Mates, and the greMer peal qt where ilk bee been epent in the hospitals of London. Paris, Philadelphia and else where, has effected some of the moat astonishing cures that were ever known; many troubled with ringing in the head and ears when asleep, great nervousness. being alarmed ut sudden sounds, bashfulness, with frequent blushing, attended manetime with derangement of mind, were cured Immediately. ['fi=t': 4-t;. Dr. J. addressee all those who have in) 'wed themselves by improper Indulgence and solitary habits, which ruin both body and mind, unfitting them for either business, study, society or marriage. TeRSE are some of the sad and melancholy effects I/re duced by ,early habits of youth, rim: Weakness of the Back and Limbs, Pains in the Head, Dimness of Sight, Loss of Muscular Power, Palpitation of the Heart, Dys pepsia. Nervous Israel:ditty, Derangement of the Digestive Functions, General Debility Sym phims of Consnmption, km. Pirdstsms.—The fearful effects on the mind are much to be dreaded—Loss of Memory, Conftwitin of Ideas, Depres stone of Spirits, fivil Forbodings, Aversion to Society, Self- Distrust, Love of Solitude, Timidity, &c., are some of the evils produced. THOl7henDS of persons of all ages can now judge what le the cause of their declining health, toeing their vigor, becoming weak, pale, nervous and emaciated, having a singular appearance about the eye., cough and symptoms of consumption. ICOITANI- ND= Who have Injured themselves by a certain practice Indul ged in when-alone, a habit frequently leaned from evil companions, or at school, the effects of which are nightly felt, even when asleep, and if not cured renders marriage impossible, and destroys both mind and body, should ap ply immediately. What a pity that a young man, the hope of his country, the darling of .his parents, should be snatched from all prospects and enjoyments of life, by the consequence or deviating from the path of nature and indulging in a cer tain secret habit. Such persons moor, before contemplat ing reflect that a sound mind and Lady are the meet necessary requisites to promote connubial happinese. Indeed. with out these the journey through life becomes a weary pil grimage; the prospect hourly darkens to the view; the mind become* shadowed with despair and Jilted with the melancholy reflection that the happineee of another be comes blighted with our own. =snafs or IMPaITDENCE. When the misguided and imprudent votary of pleasure finds that he has imbibed the seeds of this painful disease, it too often happens that an ;ill-timed sense of shame, or dread of discovery, deters him from applying to those who, from education and respectability, can alone befriend him, delaying till the constitutional symptoms of this horrid disease make their appearance, such as ulcerated sore throat, diseased nose, nocturnal pains in the head and limbs, dimness of sight, deafness, nodes on the shin-bones and acme, blotches on the head, face and extrensttim pno gcossing with frightful rapidity, till at last the palate of the mouth or the bones of the noes fell in, and the victim of this awful disease becomes a horrid object of commis eration, till death puts a period to hie dreadful sufferings, by sending him to "that Undiscovered Country from whence no traveller returns." . . . . . . It It a insianchoty fact that thousands fall victims to this terrible disease, owing to the unskillfulness of ignor ant pretenders, who, by the use of that ;Deadly Paton, Mercury, ruin the constitution and make the residue o lire 'miserable. Trust not your lives, or health, to the care of many Un learned and worthless Pretenders, destitute of knowledge, name or character, who copy Dr. Johneton's advertise ments, or style themselves, in the newspapers, regularly Educated Physicians, incapable of Curing, they keep you trilling month after month taking their 'filthy and poison ous compounds, or as long as the smallest fee can be ob tained, and in despair. leave yon with coined health to sigh over your own galling disappointment. Br. Johnston is the only Physician advertising. Bin credentials or diplomas always hang in his office. His remedies or treatment are unknown to all others, prepared from a life spent in the great hospitals of Europe, the OM in the country and a more extensive Private Practice than any other Physician in the world. imir.uoissaisatim Or =IC The many thousands cured at thle Institution year after year, and the numerous important Surgical Operations performed by Dr. Johnston, witnessed by the reporters of the "San," ...Clipper," and many other papers, notices of which have appeared again and again before the public, besides his standing as a gentleman of character and re sponsibility, is a sufficient 'guarantse to the aalieted. Skin Diseases Speedily Oared. ar- No letters received unless post•paid and containing a stamp to be used on the reply. Persons writing should state age, and Send portion of advertisement - describing symptoms. .71012 N M. .TOSIDESTON. X. D.. Of the Baltimore Lock Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland. May Commercial Broker. r HE UNDERSIGNED HAVING TAKEN X oat a License u a COMMERCIAL BROKER, Is prn pared to negotiate for the purchase and sale of REAL ESTATE. COIN. STOCKS, MORTGAGEE, and other Securities, Goods in unbroken Packages, Collec tion of Routs, sod coy other business of 's CoininierdOn Broker or Agent. Agar 'Pantos having buainoas to do in hie line are request ed to give him a call. JACOB C. SCHCENZE, OFFICE in Court Street, next door above Alderman Scbtuner. tFeb ES FRENCH'S HOTEL, ON TIM MITIXOPZIALN PLAN, CITY OF NEW YORK. Single Rooms Fifty Cents per Day. City Hall Square, corner Frankfort St., (OpPoona CITY HALL.) AEALS AS THEY MAY BE ORDERED IN the spacious refectory. There le a Barber's Shop and tlßooms attached to the Hotel. Air Beware of RUNNERS and HAMNER who say we are fall. Jan 17 -17] NATIONAL HOTEL , (LATE WHITE SWAN.) Race Street, above Third, Philadelphia. "[IRIS ESTABLISHMENT OFFERS GREAT 1. Inducements, not only on account of reduced rates of board, but Sem its central location to the avenues of trade, Kg well as the conveniences afforded by the several Passenger Railways running pant and contignoon to it, by Which guests can pass to and from the Hotel, should they be preferred to the regular Omnibus connected with the Hone. lam determined to devote my whole attention to the comfort and convenience of my anent., air rerme,,l ES per dale. Pr C. BIEORI4T, Proprietor, Formerly from Eagle Hotel, Lebanon, Pa. T. V. Rnoare,Clerk. [mnrchis-tr FRESH GROCERIES, —AT— REDUCED PRICES. AT THE Corner of Fifth and Sprites Streets. awn J. M. KUM & SON. STRALNGERI3 1.4 EZZII B. FRENCH, Proprietor Boliiirsf. ADDRESS 61' THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. To the People of Pennsylvania: An important election is at hand, and the issues involved in it may now claim your atten tion. The tide of war has been rolled back from enr borders; and with thanks to God, and gratitude to the: skill and valor which, by His favor, achieved the prompt deliverance of our invaded Commonwealth, we may now give our solemn consideration to the causes that have brought to its present condition a country once peaceful, united and secure. It is now the scene of a great civil war, between States that lately ministered to each other's prosperity in a Union founded for their common good. It was this Union that gave them peace at home and respect abroad. They coped successfully with Great Britain on the ocean, and the " doctrine ".uttered by President Monroe warned off the monarchs of Europe from the whole American continent. Now, France carves out of it an empire, and ships built in England plunder our commerce on every eeet. A great public debt and a conscription burden the people. The strength and wealth of the nation are turned from productive industry and consumed in the destructive arts of war. Our victories fail to win peace. Throughout the land, arbitrary power encroaches upon civil lib erty. What has wrought the disastrous change ? No natural causes embroiled the North and the South. Their interchangeable products and commodities, and various institutions, were sources of reciprocal benefit, and excluded corn. petition and strife. But an artificial cause of dissension was found in the position of the Afri can race ; and the ascendency in the national ouncils of men pledged to au aggressive and unconstitutional Abolition policy, has brought our country to the condition of " the house di vided against itself." The danger to the Union began where statesmen had foreseen it ; it began in the triumph of a sectional party, founded on principles of revolutionary hostility to the Con stitution and the laws. The leaders of this party were pledged to a conflict with rights recognized and sheltered by the Constitution. They called this conflict " irrepressible ;" and whenever one . party is determined to attack what another is determined to defend, a conflict can always be made "irrepressible:" They counted on an easy triumph through the aid of insurgent slaves, and, in this reliance, were careless how soon they provoked a collision. Democrats and Conserva tives strove* to avert the conflict. They saw that Union was the paramount interest of their coun try, and they stood by the great bond of Union, the Constitution of the United States. They were content to leave debatable questions under it to the high tribunal framed to decide them ; they preferred it to the sword as an arbiter be tween the States; they strove hard to merit the title which- their opponents gave them in scorn—the title of " Union-savers." We will not at length rehearse their efforts. In the Thirty-sixth Congress the Republican leaders refused their assent to the Crittenden Compro mise. On this point the testimony of Mr. Doug las will suffice. lie said: "I believe this to be a fair basis of amicable adjustment. If you of the Republican side are not willing to accept this, nor the proposition of the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Crittenden), pray tell as what you are willing to do ? I ad dress the inquiry to the Republicans alone, for the reason that, in the Committee of Thirteen, a few days ago, every member from the South, including those from the cotton States (Meura. Davis and Toombs,) expressed their readiness to accept the pro position of my venerable friend from Kentucky, Mr. Crittenden, as a final settlement of the con troversy, if tendered and sustained by the Re. publican members. Hence the sole responsibility of our disagreement, and the only dfficulty in the way of an amicable adjustment, is with the Republi canparty."—Jan. 3, 1861. The Peace Congress 'was another means by which the border States strove to avert the im pending strife. How the Republican leaders then °umpired against the peace of their country may be seen in a letter from Senator Chandler, of Michigan, to the Governor of that State "To His Excellency, Justin Blair "Governor Bingham and myself telegraphed you on Saturday, at the request of Massachusetts and New-York, to send delegates to the Peace or Compromise Congress. They admit that we I were right and that they were wrong; that no Republican State should have sent delegates; but they are here and cannot get away, Ohio, Indiana and Rhode Island are caving in, and there is danger of Illinois; and now they beg us for God's sake to come to their rescue, and save the Republican party from rupture. I hope you will send stiff-backed men or none. The whole thing was gotten up against my judgment and advice, and will end in thin smoke. Still]. hope as a matter of courtesy to some of our erring brethren that you will send the delegates. " Truly, your friend, "Z.CHANDLER." " P. S.—Some of the manufacturing States think that a fight would be awful. Without a little blood-letting this Union will not, in my estimation, be worth a rush. " WASHINGTON, Feb. 11, 1861." In Pennsylvania, toe, the same spirit prevail ed. It was not seen how necessarily her position united her in interest with the border Platen. lithe has learned it since, from contending armies trampling out her harvests and deluging her fields with blood. Governor Curtin sent to the Peace Congress Mr. Wilmot and hir. Meredith. Mr. Wilmot was ohiefly known from the con nection of his name with the attempt to embroil the country by the t. Wilmot Proviso," baffled by patriotic statesmanship, in which Clay and Webster joined with the Democratic leaders; just as Clay and JacksOn had joined in the Tariff Compromise of 1883. Mr. Meredith had published his belief that the mutterings of the rising storm were what he ealled " stridulous cries," unworthy of the slightest attention. By Mr. Lincoln's election, in November, 1860, the power to save or destroy the Union was in the hands of his party; and no adjustment was possible with men who rejected the judgment of the Supreme Court, who scorned conciliation and compromise, and who looked to a " little blood letting" to cement the American Union, Till this time, the Union men of the South had con trolled, with little difficulty, the small but rest less class among them who desired' a separate nationality. The substantial interests of the South, especially the slaveholding interest, were drawn reluctantly into secession. Gan. F. P. SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 22, 1863. Blair, of Missouri, an eminent Republican, said very truly, in the last Congreis "Every man acquainted with the facts knows that it is fallacious to call this a slaveholders . rebellion.' * * * * A closer scrutiny de monstrates the eehtfely to be ttue t such a sera tiny demonstrates that the rebellion originated chiefly with the non-slaveholders resident in the strongholds of the institution, not springing, however, from any love of slavery, but from an antagonism of race and hostility to the idea of equality with the blanks involved in simple emaneipation." It was the triumph of the Abolitionists over the Democrats and conservatives of the North, that secured a like triumph to the secessionists over the Union men of the South. The John Drown raid was taken as a practical exposition of the doctrine of " irrepressible conflict." The exultation over its momentary success, the la mentation over its failure, had been swelled by the Abolitionists, so as to seem a general expree sion of Northern feeling. Riots and rescues had nullified the "oonstitutional prbvision for the re turn of fugitives. The false pretence that sla very would monopolize the territories, when we had no territories in which it could exist, had been used as a means of constant agitation againt slavery in the Southern States. A plan of attack upon it had been published in " Help er's book," formally endorsed and recommended by the leaders of the party that was about to assume the Administration of the Federal Gov ernment—leaders who openly inculcated con tempt for the Constitution, contempt for the Su preme Court, and professed to follow a " higher Last." Thus the flame of revolution at the South was kindled and fed with fuel furnished by the Abolitionists. It might seem superfluous to ad vert now to what is past and irrevocable, were it not that it is against the same men and the same influences, still dominant in the councils of the Administration, that an appeal Is now to be made to the intelligence of the people. The Abolition ists deprecate these allusions to the past. To cover up their own tracks, they invite us to spend all our indignation upon "Southern traitors;" but truth compels us to add, that, in the race of treason, the Northern traitors to the Constitution had the start. They tell us that slavery was the cause of the war; therefore, the Union is to be restored by waging a war upon slavery. This is not true; or only true in the sense that any in stitution, civil or religious, may be a cause of War, if war is made upon it. Nor it; it a just conclusion that if you take from your neighbor his "man-servant or his maid, or anything that Is his," you will thus establish harmony between you. No danger to the Union arose from slavery whilst the people of each State dealt calmly and intelligently with the question within their own State limits. Where little importance attached Lb it, it soon yielded to moral and economical considerations, leaving the negro in a position of sole' and political subordination no where more clearly marked than in the Constitution and laws of Pennsylvania. The strife began when people in Slates where it was an immaterial question undertook to prescribe the course of duty upon it to Slates in which it was a question of great importance and difficulty. This interference be came more dangerous when attempts were made to use the power of the General Government, in stituted for the benefit of all the States, to the injury and proscription of the interests of some of the States. It was not merely a danger to the institution of slavery, but to our whole political system, in which separate and distinct colonies became, by the Declaration of Independence, "free and independent States," and afterwards established a Federal Union under the Constitu tion of the United States. That instrument, with scrupulous care, discriminates the powers dele gated to the General Government from those re served " to the States respectively, or to the peo ple." And let it be noted, that in speaking of the powers so defeated and reserved, we refer to no vague doctrines or pretensions, but to the clear provisions of the written instrument which it is the duty of every citizen, and especially of every public functionary, to respect and maintain. The protection of American liberty against the en croachments of centralization was left to the States by the framers of the Constitution. Ham ilton, the most indulgent of them to Federal power, says; "It may be safely received as an axiom in our political system, that the State Governments will, in all possible contingencies, afford complete security against invasions of public liberty by the national authority." Who can be blind to the consequences that have fol lowed the departure from the true principles of our Government P " Abolition " vies with "se cession " in sapping the very foundations of the structure reared by our forefathers. In Penn sylvania, the party on whose acts you will pass at the ballot-box has trampled upon the great rights of personal liberty and the freedom of the proas, which every man who can read may find asserted in the Constitution of the State and the Constitution of the, United States. The dignity of our Commonwealth has been insulted' in the outrages perpetrated upon her citizens. At Philadelphia and at Harrisburg, proprietors of newspapers have been seized at midnight and hurried off to military prisons beyond the limits of the State. Against acts like these, perpetrated before the eyes of the municipal and State au thorities, there is neither protection nor redress. The seizure of a journal at West Chester was afterwards the subject of ft suit for damagesdn the Supreme Court of Penn sylvania. It came to trial befoie Chief Justice Lowrie. Rehearsing the ancient principles of English and American justice, he condemned the acts of the Federal officers as violations of the law that binds alike the private citizen and the public functionary. He said : "All public functionaries in this land are under the law, and none, from the highest to the lowest, are above it." Impatient at any re straint from law, a partisan majority in Con gress hastened to pass au act to take from the State courts to the United States courts, all suits or prosecutions " for trespasses or wrongs done or committed by virtue or under color of any authority derived fr,,m or exercised under the President of the United States;" and such au thority was deolared to be a full defence for the wrongdoer in any action, civil or criminal. The American Executive is, aa the word im ports, the executor of the duly enacted laws. Yet the pretension is made that his will can take the place of the laws. The liberty, the character of every citizen, is put at the mercy of new func tionaries called " provost marshals." Secret accusation before these officials takes the place of open hearing before a lawful magistrate, and no writ of habeas corpus may Inquire the cause of the arrest. To illegal arrests have been added the mockery of a trial of a private citizen for his political opinions before a court-martial, ending in the infliction of a new and outrageous penalty, invented by the President of the United States. We need not comment upon sots like these. The President of the United States has no authority, in peace or war, to try, even an enlisted soldier by court-martial, save by virtue and in strict conformity with the military law laid down in the act of Congress " establishing rules and ar tielee for the government of the armies of the United States." Yet by his proclamation of September 24th, 1802, he has assumed to make all citizens amenable to military courts. He has violated the great principle of free govern ment, on which Washington conducted the war of the Revolution, and Madison the war of 1812 —the principle of the subordination of the mil itary to the civil power. He has assumed to put "martial law," Which is the rule of force at a spot where all laws are silenced, in the place of civil justice throughout the land, and has thus assailed, in some of the States, even the freedom of the ballot-box. These are not occasional acts, done in haste, or heat, or ignorance ; but a new system of government put in the place Of that ordained and established by the people. That the Queen could not do what he could, was Mr. Seward's boast to the British Minister. The " military arrests" Of Mr, Stanton received the "hearty commendation" of the Convention that renominated Governor Curtin; and it pledged him and his party to " hearty co-operation" in such note of the Administration in future. Such is the degrading platform on which a candidate for Chief Magistrate of Pennsylvania stands be fore her people. These pretensions to arbitrary power give ominous 'significance to a late change in our militeey establishment. The time-honor ed American system of calling on the States for . drafts from their militia, has been replaced by a Federal conscription, on the model of European despotisms. We would not minister to the ex citement which it has caused among men of all parties. Its constitutionality will be 'tided be fore the courts. If adjudged to be within the power of Congress, the people will decide on the propriety of a stretch of power on whisk the British Parliament—. styled omnipotent—has never ventured. On this you will pass at the polls, and the next Congress will not be deaf to the voice of the people. For all political evils, a constitutional remedy yet remains, in the bal lot-box. We will not entertain a fear that it is not safe in the guardianship of a free people. If men in office should seek to perpetuate their power by wresting from the people of Pennsyl vania the right of suffrage—if the servants of the people should rebel against their master—on them will rest the responsibility of an attempt at revolution, of which no man can foresee the con sequences or„,the end. But in now addressing you upon the political issues of the times, we assume that the inetitutions of our country are destined to endure. The approaching election derives further im portance from the influence it will exercise upon the policy of the Government. The aim of men not blinded by fanaticism and party spirit would bo to reap the best fruit from the victories achieved by our gallant armies—the best fruit would be pesos and the restoration of the Union. Such is not the aim of the party in power. Dom inated by its most bigoted members, it urges a war for the negro and not for the Union. It avows the design to protract the war till slavery shall be abolished in all the Southern States; in the language of one of its pamphleteers, "how can a man, hoping and praying for the destruo tion of slavery, desire that the war shall be a short one 1" Mr. Thaddeus Stevens, the Repub lican leader in the last House of Representatives, declared, " The Union shall never, with my con sent, be restored under the Constitution as it is, with slavery to be protected by it." The same spirit appears in Mr. Linooln's late answer to citizens of Louisiana who desired the return of that State under its present Constitution. Mr. Lincoln postponed them till that Constitution shall be amended. The Abolitionists desire the war to last till freedom is secure to all the slaves. Hordes of politicians, and contractors, and pur veyors, who fatten on the war, desire it to last forever. When the slaves are all emancipated by the Federal arms, a constant military inter vention will be needed to keep them above or equal with the white race in the Southern States. Peace has no place in their platform. It proclaims confiscation and abolition as the objects of the war, and the Southern leader catches up the words to stimulate his followers to fight to the last. It is not the interest of Penn sylvania that a fanatioal faction shall pervert and protract the war, for ruinous, perhaps un attainable ends. What the North needs is the return of the South, with its people, its terri tory, its staples, to complete the integrity of our oomition country. This, and not mere devasta tion and social confusion, would be the aim of patriots and atatesmen. The Abolition policy promises us nothing better than a Southern Po land, ruled by a Northern despotism. But his tory is full of examples how wise rulers have assuaged civil discord by moderation and justice, while bigots and despots, relying solely on force, have been belied by feeble opponents. That a temperate constitutional policy will fail, in our ease, to reap the fruit of success in arms, cannot be known till it is tried. The times are critical. France, under a powerful and ambitious mon arch, is entering on the scene, willing again to play an important part in an American reve lation. The English Government is hostile to us ; it has got all it wanted from abolition, and will have nothing more to do with it. The se. cession leaders, and the presses under their con trol, oppose reunion, preferring, perhaps, even an humble dependence upon European powers. But from many parte of the South, and across the picket lines, and from the prisoners and the wounded, has come the proof of a desire among the people of the South to return to constitution al relations with the people of the North. Early in the contest this desire was shown in North Carolina, one of the old thirteen associated with Pennsylvania on the page of Revolutionary his tory. But the majority in Congress made haste to show that Abolition, not reunion, was their aim. In a moment of depression, on the 22d of July, 1861, being the day after the battle of Bull Run, they allowed the passage of a resolu tion, offered by Crittenden, defining a policy for the restoration of the Union. But they soon rallied, and filled the statute-book with acts of confiscation, abolition, and emancipation, against [VOL. XXIV-NO. 18.-WHOLE NO. 1982. the remonstrances of eminent jurists and censer. vative men of all parties. Mr. Lincoln, too, yielding, he said, " to pressure," put his procla mations in place of the Constitution and the laws. Thus every interest and sentiment of the Southern people were enlisted on the side of re sistance by the policy of a party which, as Mr. Stevens said, will not consent to a restoration of the Union With " the COUetitutien as it is." It is this polio) , that has protracted the war, and is now the greatest obstacle to its termination. The reunion of the States can gene give them their old security at home and power and dignity abroad. This end can never be reached noon the principles of the party now in power. Their principles are radically false, and can never lead to a good conclusion. Their hope of setting up the negro in the place of the white man runs counter td the laws of race, the laws of nature. Their Statesmanship has been weighed in the balance and found wanting; their " little blood letting" has proved a deluge. Their interference with our armies has often frustrated and never aided their success, till it hes become a military proverb that the best thing for a general is to be out of reach from Washington. The party was founded upon the political and moral heresy of opposition to Compromise, which is the only means of Union among States, and,of peace anti good will on earth among men. In a popular Government, the people are sovereign, and the sound sense of the whole community corrects, at the polls, the errors of political parties. The people of Pennsylvania have seen, With regret, the unconstitutional aims of the Abolitionists substituted for the original objects of the war. They have seen with indig nation many gallant soldiers of the Union driven from its service, because they have not bowed down to the Abolition idol. They will see with horror the war protracted in order to secure the triumph of a party platform, or, as Mr. Chand ler said,." to save the Republican party from rupture." The time is now at band when the voice of the people will be heard. The overthrow of the Abolitionists at the polle and the re-estab lishment of constitutional principles at the North is the first, the indispensable step towards the restoration of the Union and the vindication of civil liberty. To this great service to his coon• try each citizen may contribute by his vote. Thus the people of the North may themselves extend the Constitution to the people of the South. It would not be a specious offer of politicians, 10 he observed with no better faith than the reso lutions of July, '6l. 11 would be a return to the national policy of the better days of the Hepub lio, through the intelligence of the people, en— lightened by experience. It would strengthen the Government ; for a constitutional Government is strong when exercising with vigor its legiti mate powers, and is weak when it sets an ex ample of revolutionary violence by invading the rights of the people. Our principles and our candidates are known to you. The resolutions of the late Convention at Harrisburg, were, with some additions, the same that had been adopted by the Democracy in several States, and by the General Assembly of Pennsylvania. They de clare authoritatively the principles of the Demo cratic party. It is, as it has always been, for the Union and the Constitution against all oppo sers. The twelfth resolution declares, " that while this General Assembly condemns and de nounces the faults of the Administration and the encroachments of the Abolitionists, it does, also, most thoroughly condemn and denounce the heresy of secession as unwarranted by the Con— stitution, and destructive alike of the security and perpetuity of Government and of the peace and liberty of the people, and it does hereby most solemnly declare that the people of this State are unalterably opposed to any division of the Union, and - will persistently exert their whole influence and power, under the Constitution, to maintain and defend it." We have renominated Chief Justice Lowrie for the bench which he adorns. Our candidate for Governor, Judge Woodward, in his public and private character, affords the best assurance that he will bring honesty, capacity, firmness and patriotism to the direction of the affairs of the Commonwealth. Long withdrawn, by judicial functions, from the political arena, he did not withhold his warning voice when conservative men took counsel together upon the dangers that menaced our country. His speech at the town meeting at Philadelphia in December, 1860, has been vindicated by subsequent events as a signal exhibition of statesmanlike sagacity. Under his administration we may hope that Pennsylvania, with God's blessing, will resume her place as "the Keystone of the Federal arch." CHARLES J. BIDDLE, Chairman. HON. GEORGE W. WOODWARD Testimony of a Distinguished Op ponent. The following sketch of the Democratic candi date for Governor is from the pen of DAVID PAUL Bnows, Esq., the great Philade/phia lawyer. We copy it from a work of his entitled "The Forum," published in 1856. Mr. Daiwa is an Abolition ist of the straiteet sect and therefore his testi mony in behalf of the ability and great moral worth of Judge WOODWARD will not be doubted by the opposition to the Democracy : We shall for the present draw no comparisons ; but regulating our anticipations by our experi ence, there would be little hazard in saying, that in all qualifications of the judicial character, extensive legal learning, sound morality, and most urbane and agreeable manners, there have been but few judges in the State, perhaps in the country, who, at his age, have given promise o greater excellence or eminence than the Hon. Geo. W. Woodward. Let it not be said our praise is too general in regard to the members of this Court to be acceptable or valuable. This is no thing to us. If there be general merit, there should be general approvaL We borrow no man's opinions, and ask no man to adopt our's. Truth is more desirable and more valuable and more lasting than popularity. We do. not mean to say, that all or any of these judges are with out faults ; but we leave it to others to find them out ; and trust we shall never manifest that very questionable virtue, of seeking for vice or blem— ishes, where they do not betray themselves. Judges have a pretty hard Me, and need not be envied. They can not please everybody, end they never satisfy the party or the counsel against whom they decide. How unreasonable, then, it is when they encounter so many preju dices to withhold from them the just weed of approbation. There is no safety in a judge that is swayed by any other consideration than a sense of duty. A. very distinguished judge, upon an emlsion, not many years since, non-suited the plaintiff, to the great diepleaeure of the ooun• eel, of course, which the judge perceiving, said to him, calling him aside, ' , You seem to be hurt." "To be sure I am," hastily replied the counsel. " I think I have reason to feel hurt." w I think you are mistaken," said the judge. " Remem ber, we have both our duties to perform ; yours have been faithfully performed, and I trust so have mine. You have no more right to make yourself the Judge, than I have to make myself Lhe counsel." This once understood, and there can be no dieeatiefaation. Judge Woodward's birth was on the 26th of 18013, in the village of Bethany, Wayne County, Pennsylvania. His parentage was as respectable as any in the Slate, of which no other voucher can be required than the moral and religious training of their son. The academic education of young Woodward was principally received at Geneva, New York, and at Wilkesbarre, in Lucerne County, Pennsyl vania. Upon its combletion he entered, at the latter place, into the office of the Hon. Garrick &lathery, and was admitted to practice at August term, 1830. In the spring of 1831, a few months after the admission of Judge Woodward, Mr. Mallory was appointed to the Bench of Northampton, Lehigh, and Berke Counties, and upon assuming his seat, transferred his entire professional business, Which then extended through all the counties of Northeastern Pennsylvania, to his favorite pupil, Mr. Woodward, who, though at that time not twenty-three years old, bad already given an earnest of that industry, fidelity and ability, which could not fail to scours future success and eminence at the bar. Judge Woodward, from the time of his admission, remained in Judge Mallery's office, which he retains still down to the present moment. Here he continued in the enjoyment of full practice at the bar until the beginning of the year 1841. Certainly no man of his ago, at least in the interior of the State, was ever more rapid in his advancement, more implioity relied upon by the community, or more cleeerving of that ad vancement and reliance. In 1841, through his professional labors and exposure upon the circuits, hie health beginning to fail, he accepted a commission as President Judge of the Fourth Judicial District, composed of the counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Centre, Crawford, and Clinton—territorially the largest district in the State. The two counties first named were taken from the district the next year, and in the other three, Judge Woodward presided until the expiration of his term of office, in the spring of 1851. Declining an election in the Fourth District, (for at this limo the office had by conetitutienal provision become elective,) and also declining a nomination on the State ticket for the Supreme Bench, he returned to his practice at Wilkesbarre, with the full intention of continuing at the bar for several years ; and such was his popularity with all who knew him, that he would have had no difficulty in retrieving his former lucrative and extensive business. But upon the death of Judge Coulter, in the year 1852, the appointment to the Supreme Court, in the place of the de ceased judge, being tendered to him by the Executive, he accepted it, and thus unexpected— ly, but not undeservedly, reached the highest judicial honors of the State. At the fall election (for the Governor's appoint ment was temporary and provisional,) he was chosen by the people for the full constitutional period of fifteen years, from the first day of De cember, 1862. Judge Woodward is now about forty-seven years of age, of an agreeable face, and graceful person. He is upwards of six feet high, well proportioned, always s appropriately apparelled, and ever kind, attentive, and dignified in his deportment. Calm, patient, and meditative, be closely marks the progress of a cause and the course of the argument , exhibits no fretfulness, rarely interups counsel, never jumps to conclu sions, but always bides his time. In his charges at Nisi Prins, and in his opinions at bane, no man can fail to perceive the lofty, legal, and moral tone of his mind. In his person, as we have elsewhere said, he strongly resembles Chief Justice Gibson at his age ; but there is very little resemblance in the structure of their minds. Judge Gibson's attainments were more compre hensive and diversified, but lees concentrated and available; his mental grasp was stronger, but it wan not so steady. Judge Gibson struck a harder blow, but did not always plant it, or follow it up, so judiciously. Judge Gibson some times rose above expectation. Judge Woodward never falls below it. Judge Gibson's industry uniformly equaled his talents. Judge Wood ward!, talents are, if possible, surpassed by his industry. Judge Gibson was, perhaps, the greater man, Judge Woodward the safer judge. When it is remembered that this comparison is made not between men of an equal age—for Chief Justice Gibson was more than twenty years the senior of Judge Woodward—we must in our com putation, upon the one side, throw into the scale the experience whioh a score of years will pro bably produce; while on the other, we must make allowance for the infirmity and defects, which are almost invariably attendant upon• a life perplexed with accumulated cares, and pro tracted beyond the Gospel allowance of thrbe score years and ten. It is, indeed, much to be doubted, whether a man ever improves intellectu ally after he is sixty. He may still continue to acquire knowledge, but he also 'gradually loses much that he had previously gained. The im pressions made upon the mind of the aged, as compared with the impressions upon yodth, are Like the writing in sand, compared with the in scription upon the retentive rook. In January, 1837, be became a member of the Convention for the amendment of the Constitu tion of 1790. This Convention was in session from time to time from January 1887, until the 22d of Febrary, 1888. It consisted, as is well known, of some of the ablest and most distin guished men of the State. And when. it is re membered that Mr. Woodward was then under twenty-eight years of age, and had been admitted to practice bat about seven years, the prominent and efficient position which he held in such a body was remarkable, though not surprising to those who had been familiar with hie talents and hi s v irtues. His speech upon jiadleial teltUret/r, a subject which called forth all the energies and eloquence of the Convention, was far beyond what could justly have been expected from- one of his years, and, indeed, plated him In the ranks of the best debaters in that body.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers