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if
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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
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4 .10'
BALTIMORE LOCK HOSPITAL,
WEETABLISHED AS A. REFUGE FROM QUACKERY.
The Only Place Where a Cure Can be
Obtained. •
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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
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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.