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WIJLSON, TTOENEYS & COUNSELLORS at LAW, JjL.mll attend the Courts of Tioga, Potter and bfoKeah ndn'n|ies. [Wellsbtfro, Jan. 1, 1863.] V Jobs S. ISASS, A TTORNEY £ COUNSELLOR AT LAW, toL Condersjrortj'Pa., mil attend the several Courts In Potter and McKean donnties.. Ail business en trusted to hits care will receive prompt attention. He lias tbe agency of large tracts of good settling land 'and will attend-to the payment of taxes on any lands In said conpties. ■ « . Jon. 28, 1863.* Dickinson house, CDRNPNG, n. y. Mw. A. F1ELD,..,..;... ~-i Proprietor. OUEBTS taken i i> arid from' the Depot free of charge,' ■ . . [Jan. 1, 1863.] PENSSirLtAIfIA HOUSE, CORNER OP MAl}f STR'EET AND THE AVENUE, Wolliloro, Pa. 3. W. BIGONY, THIS popular-Hofei, having been re-fitted and re-furnishda throughput, is now open to the public as a first-class Bouse. > [Jan. 1, 1863.] IZAAK WALTOS HOUSE, Gaines, Tioga County, Pa H. 0. VERMILYE4. THIS is a new hotelflocsted within/casy ac cess of the best fisbing and hunting gfounds in Northern Pennsylvania. No p&ns will be spared for ■the nceomiiadation of pleasure seekers and the -trav ■elllng ' . [Jan. 1,1863.] WATCHES, CLOCKS ASD JJEffLLRI ! Repaired at BURKARD'S A CO’S. STORK, by the -subscriber, in the as-lorr prices as the same work can boj done, for, by any first rate prac tical workman in {bejState. TVellsboro, July 1&) 1363. WELLSBOBO HOTEL. B. B. .SOLID^y.-i—, Proprietor. THE Proprietor having again taken possession of the above spare no pains to. insure comfort of and the traveling public. At tentive waiters alwai i ready. Terms reasonable. Wellsboro, Jan. Zt a.loleV, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, &c., &c., REPAIRED jAT OLD PRICES? POST OFFICE BUILDING, I NO. 5, VmON BIOCK. , Wellsboro, ‘May 20, 1363. E. R.; BEACK, BARBER 1 &i. HAIR-DRESSER, SHOP OVER C.jL. WILCOX’S STORE, NO. 4. .tWfION BLOCK. Wellsboro/ June 24, 1863.* -- FLOUR ASD FEED STORE. WRIGfiT & BAILEY HAVE bad' theiri mill thoroughly repaired and are receipt g fresh grpuad flour, feed, suciil, ic.,.every dayi’at their store in town. Cash paid for «U kinds of grain. J WRIGHT <fc BAILEY. Wellsboro, April 2?, j 863. Wool Carding tad Clqth Dressing. THE subscriber ibfofrma his old customers and the public 'gelferally that he ia prepared to card wool and dress ofbtfi at the old stand, the coming season, having secarall [the services of Mr. J. PEBT, a competent and experienced --wotkraan, and also in tending lo give Uta p&s mal attention to the business, he will warrant all w«'t! done al his shop.j f Wool carded at fij 7 e, cents per pound, and Cloth dressed at from ten cents per yard as per color and finish. J. I. JACKSON. Wellsboro, Moy 6,iBfS-tf. . iHABtttE SHOP. lAM now reciiyfng a. STOCK of ITALIAN apd BUTLANP RABBLE, (bought with cash) and am" prepared to manufacture all kinds of tomb-stones^ and MONUMENTS At |the lowest prices. ■ , HARVEY ADAMS jis my authorized agent and will sell Stone’at thpsame prices as at the shop. - * It'S HAVE- RUT ONE PRICE. Tioga, May, 20, isfe-ly. A. D. COLE. JOHNVA. KOI, Dealer in Extras and medicines, Chemicals, VarliMh',' Paints, Dyes, Soaps, (Per fumery, Brushes, Qlasfe Potty, Toys, Fancy Goods, Pure Wines, BrandiesiGins, and other Liquors for medical usei Agent C4' the sale of ail the best Pat ent Mediiines of the day. Medicines warranted gen uine and of the BESTI QUALITY. Physician’s Prescriptions accurately compounded. The best Petroleum Qw which is superior to any other for burning in Kerosi&S Lamps. Also, all other kinds •of Oils usually kept [Ha first class Drug Store. FANCY DYBt,COLORS in packages all ready •compounded, for the fjse of private families. Also, 'Pure Loaf Sugar for Ufedical compounds. Wellsboro, June 2^lBfi3-lyi Q, Wi WELLINGTON & GO’S. BANK, CORING, N. Y.. 1 i j . (Located is tHH Dickmsos House.) American Gold* arid Silver-Ccin bought and sold, New York Exchange,' s do, Uncurrent Money, j . do. I'in ted States De'mahd Notes “ old issue” bought. Collections made id hU .parts of the-Union at Car rent rates of -Eichaagl. Particular pa inn will be taken to accommodate onr patrons from the Tioga'Valley. Our Office will be upen at 7 A. M., and close at 7 P. M., giving parties passing over the Tioga Rail Road ample time to transact Gieir business before the departure of the train in -the morning, and after its arrival in the . evening. Q. W. WELLINGTON, President. •Corning, N. Y., Nfv. 12, 1862.. ESTATE SORUAL SCHOOL, i {For tl'i sth District, Pa.] ' AND Manadeld Classical Seminary. ■fier. W. D. TAYLOR, A. M Principal. Mr. Assistant. H. s. Ta yLon, -Preceptress, Miss H. A. Pi-EXsffrdßTß,.. Assistant. Assistant; jnd Teacher in Model School. • ....Assistant, md Thajhef of Mpsie. * The Fall Term oftHis - Institution will open Sept ??• Winter Tetti, Dec. , -2d. The Spring Term, March loth, 1881, K'\ch term to continue thirteen weeks. ;; A Normal School toaree. of study for graduation, embracing two years; :s adopted. Students for the Notmal Coarse, and for the Classi cal Department, are solicited. • For particulars, address Eer. W. D. TATLomMans field, Tioga County Penns. Send for a Circular. „ W. COCHHAN, ttAtt flf tt# Board of Trustees. WM. HOLLAND,Sleretsry. . Meosßeld, August 1883. CTOP. that cOugbby using .dint's Vegetable Embrocation. Umetber ooi- JM. Soli by Dragi Ut& [Fab. U, 18*5.] THE AGITATOR. --' I I VOL. X. Major General Benjamin F. Butler, ad dressed a meeting of the citizens of Harrisburg, on Saturday evening the 19th inst., at which Hon. Simon Cameron presided. We take the following report of his speech from the Inqui- ( rer. Gen. Butler after some introductory re- marks, said In tbis-land we may all exercise the great right of elective franchise. In other lands the right to meet and consult a# to who shall be the rnlers, is accorded only to kings and princes. In my opinion, the present contest embraces the very life of the nation; not only the life of this nation, but the hope of the oppressed of other lands, and the welfare of constitutional government, founded upon true democracy.— The hope's and fears, the weal or woe of soaring freedom throughout the world, all concentrate in and upon the issues involved in this contest. There is but one issue before you, but two alternatives. On Which side are yon ? Are you for your country or against your country ? (Cheers.) Are you for or are you against the Union? There is no middle ground. But a few months ago the attention of Rebeldom was centered upon an invasion of the soil of Penn sylvania, and the hopes it inspired gave them new cOutage. But the brave sons of Pennsyl vania, assisted by the gallant soldiers of our army, drove them from the State whose soil they were polluting by their tread. Shall there be another Gettysburg ? The issue is, as I un derstand it, the hope of the rebellion or th'e hope of the Union. Pennsylvania, New York and Obio'will, I have no doubt, come up to the support of the Union, ns have Maine and dis tant California. (Cheers.) If that event should happen, there will be no change in the policy of the Administration, except in the more vig orous prosecution of the war, and Rebellion will soon be ended. (Cheers.) •Proprietor, .Proprietor. A. R. HASCT. This is a contest between enemies and friends of the Union. The Richmond Enquirer sug gests another invasion. Why ? To get sup plies ?. No. What then? It is to give aid and encouragement to the Democratic ■party in Penn sylvania I (Applause.) You that want the soil of Pennsylvania to be as it ought to be, free from the invader, vote for Governor Cur- I know that the men of all parties are loyal at heart. The masses of the Democratic party are loyal at heart. They are only misled- I desire to call the attention of every man and every child to the exact difference between the parties of the one side and the other. Suppose we should hear on Monday morning that Bragg's army had been routed and dispersed. To which party would that news give encour agement? Most assuredly to the party for the country, for the Administration. Which side would mourn for Bragg’s defeat ? The men of the other side. (A voice, “that’s so I”) — And that alone should settle the question as to which side is for the country. But 1 hear some old Democratic friend say, “I am for the government, but I am against the Administration.” There is where you and I differ. Let us see if you can stand on that ground my friend, because if you are right, I may be with you. You cannot divorce the Ad ministration from the Government; it is the only representative it has got. It is the only representative that the Government can now have for nearly a year and a half to come. If you are for. the Government, you have got to stand by the Government. It may have erred —it has, no doubt, made' mistakes, because ad ministrators are not always infallible men—but iris your duty to sustain it. “Ah 1 but, Mr. Butler, the Administration is but the engineer, the Government the engine; now, you surely do not deny that I can oppose the engineer, and at the same time find no fault with the engine it self?” you say. But the engine is going at the rate of sixty miles an hour; she cannot be reversed, and we are all in imminent danger; is it time to quarrel with the engineer ? (Laugh ter and applause.) Loyal men who have heretofore belonged to the Democratic party, who cannot see any rea son why you cannot go with the so-called Dem ocratic party, are yon to vote with that party ■from respect to its former platforms, from a reverence for its party title, and former desire to be at all times consistent in party'name ? Allow me to say that I was and am a Demo crat of the Andrew Jackson school, and from it I have never wandered. I gave my first vote for the Democratic candidate, Van Buren, in 1840. I have voted for every Democratic can didate for President since. I have never thrown a vote but for the regular Democratic candi date. I. have attended as delegate every Na- tional Democratic Convention since 1840. I have • supported every National Democratic platform. You may say “ that is all very well, Mr. Butler, and you may have received the emoluments of office as a recompense.” No, Sir, never! except in the office given me in the service of the country. So that I am a pretty good specimen of a Massachusetts Yankee Democrat. (Laughter). The question of African slavery has troubled many Democrats. I am with the Democratic platform there. In the Jackson platform there, was no principle giving especial protection to slavery. On the issue of the tariff in 1832 South Carolina wanted to secede, precisely as .she finally did secede in 1861 on the issue of ,the slavery question. When Jackson was told that the able traitor, Calhoun, would advise the withdrawal of South Carolina, he uttered the memorable words,'“By the Eternal, I will hang him, if he does!” Perhaps if Jackson had sat in the chair, in 1860, be would have made the same .declaration, and we should be saved the blood and the treasure we have spent,'and the agony we have suffered. Jackson said the next pretext for disunion would.be slavery. Gener al Be/tler then reviewed .the history of tbe agi tation of the . slavery question to the present time, showing, bow both the Democratic and ■YSfhig. parties had always agreed, to compromise amThadalways agreed to tbe demands, of tbe South fpr'ijdditional guarantees.. Under thaaame right* to-day. I would tub scribe to the same doooine, "that we should 2)efcoteo to SSfttnftim of t&e of jFm&om afttr tt>t Sjn-tatr of J&tfotm. WHILE THERE SHALL BE A WRONG UNRIGHTED, AND UNTIL “MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN" SHALL CEASE, AGITATION MUST CONTINUE. | political. SFBBOB OF GEN. BUTLER. WELLSBORO, TIOGA COUNTY* PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 7, 1863. not interfere'with-the rights of the States in regard to slavery.” "What took place in Charleston ? In 1860 there, new guarantees were asked by the South. I said there, give us the platform on which we have always stood, and let the Democratic party be united; be cause when it was destroyed, I believed the de struction of the Union would follow. I suppor ted Breckinridge in the hope that the Demo cratic party might be re-united. 1 thought it probable that Lincoln wonld be elected. But the Democracy hnd a majority in Congress, and a judiciary that had in its repeated decisions guaranteed to the Sonth' all that it could ask, so there could be no danger. They (the-Soutb) agreed honestly and fairly with me that if wd would stand by them, they would stand by us in the Union. Sonth Carolina seceded ; so did other South ern States. Had we pot gone for their Consti tutional rights as far as we could possibly go ? The reason was because we loved the Union and would lay down our lives for it. (Cheers.) — That was why, in .the Democratic platform, ev ery guarantee was given to the constitutionality of slavery; and for that reason we gave them as much as it wag possible for us to give them, and lam neither afraid, nor ashamed to say that I wonld have gone farther to keep them inside of the Union ; but when the guns of Beauregard thundered against Fort Sumter, 1 was released from everyapnstitutional obliga tion. (Cheers.) The guns of Beauregard sounded the death knell of slavery. Slavery has ceased to bewal uable in the South. But that is no reason we should trouble ourselves aboutit here. Wiihin the next six months, Louisiana will be knock ing at the doors of the Union for admission without slavery. (Repeated applause.) We are not responsible for this war. They brought it on. lam afraid we did not go far enough in bringing it on ourselves. But what has the war done for the' slave ? It has reduced his value, because he has learned that there is such a thing as liberty ; that there is a fight between bis master and somebody, else. He has become “demoralized,” and has got to fighting. He may cut his master’s throat. He is therefore useless. I was told by men in the South that the slave would not fight; for any man with a single gun, could bold two hundred negroes in check. Who so ? Because the negro was never allowed to use a gun. Bat when I gave the negro a gun, he said, I have the gun now. He has learned to use. arms, and is not afraid of them now. The war has not affected the value of labor; the only thing that is de stroyed is the right to take labor without com pensation. (Applause.) You may think it heresy, but for one I do, not want this Union reconstructed on the old basis. Suppose you would wake to-morrow morning and learn for a fact that all the Rebels had laid down their arms and consented to re turn to the Union under its condition in 1860. Honest Democrats say they want the Union as it was. In such case you would have to send to England for Mason and Slidell, and put them back in Congress; you would have to send to Richmond for Benjamin, and put him bock in the Senate; you would have to send for Jeff. Davis and pot him back in the Senate; you would have to send for General Lee, and put him at the bead of his old regiment of United States Cavalry. “You might reconstruct it without that,” says my honest Democratic friend. Ah 1 then, you dou’t want it exactly as it was ! If the Southern Seceding States were to come back into the Union as it 'was, tens of millions of debts would be upon us, and Rebel scrip would have to be met by payment as lawful money 1 There fore do not shrink from me because I do not want to see the Union exactly as it was. Do you want Western Virginia, with all her free institutions, thrown back with Eastern Virgin ia ? Do you want Missouri in her original con dition ? Do you want to see the men, black in skin, who have fought so nobly at Fort Hudson and Sumter, sent back in chains to the cotton and rice fields again f If you do, I don’t. — (Cheers.) ! , Some one says, “what do yon call these States ? Are they not onr erring brethren and sisters, and ban we interfere with them t” They are no longer states of this Union. I say they have cot themselves off from the privilege of of being States of-this Union. “Then you admit the right of secession ?” No, I only admit the fact of its existence. — When a man cuts his throat and commits sui cide, Ido not admit the right, but the fact of it. Louisiana was one of the States of the Uni ted States. She was bought by us. She was then settled by men from other parts of the United States, and by men from other parts of the world, She was admitted to the Union and became one of the States of the Union.— Suppose one day all the men, women and chil dren,- had chosen to emigrate. Where would the State of Louisiana be then? Would it not be territory of the United States without any body on it ? Suppose on a given day they bad renounced their allegiance to the United States and sworn.allegiance to another Government, say the Queen of Great Britian, where the State of Louisiana be then? Would it not be land of the United States inhabited by a large number of foreigners ? And what did Louisiana;do? Why, a large majority (in the end it was-» large minority) renounced all al legiance to the United States, absolved all con nections with the United States, and swore al legiance to anotner Confederation. What be came of the State of Louisiana then ? The in habitants, having armed themselves as enemies of the United States, and sworn against; onr lives, were no longer- otir brothers, except as Cane was to Abel. Louisiana, id, therefore, over-run with a large number of foreigners at tempting to destroy out Government. When its inhabitants shall desire to become citizens of the United States, and shall knock at the door, to be admitted, without tbe incubus of a Confederate debt, I shall be in favor of ad mitting the State. 1 I belong to the ootmtry, to the Union, and to the Government,, and.it is tbe only party I bow know. (Cheers;) When we get fairly through our present y ou- and | maysltdown and discuss our old party issues,’,'drawing what partisan lines we please. But now eyerj man should abjure party ; old ideas are good, grand and noble, but old ideas when they do not fit the time, should be abandoned for the time.— No Union man wants to abrogate the old Con stitution. It is good enough. The only ques tion is, how can we take back an absconding member of the firm under the old article of agreement t I am not for the Union as it was, because it cannot be reconstructed. If we cap bring the seceding States back into the Union in every respect, I could do it, but it cannot bo done. — Who can bring back the gallant dead on the banks of the Potomac, Rappahannock and Chlckahominy ? Who can wipe away the .tears qf.tbe widow and the' fatherless? Who can wipe out our national debt? After all that, then lam with you for the reconstruction of the Union. (Cheers.). THE CANVASS FOR GOVERNOR. Sseech of Judge Shannon. The following able and stiffing speech was made by Judge Shannon, of Pittsburg, in the city of Philadelphia, on the 10th of September. The sterling truths it contains justifies its pub lication even at this late hour. He said ; “ A western Pennsylvanian, I am not much accustomed to the graces of rhetoric which dis tinguish your eastern people. From the west ern elopes of the Alleghenies, 1 hail you, and only those men who are loyal in these times of peril to our country. [Applause.] I would nut have plaudits, for any consideration on earth, of those persons who; while they have the word Democrat on their lips, assail and stab the’Administration of mycountry. [Long continued applause.] I have read the history of my country as carefully as any modern Democrat has »ead it. I am acquainted with the writings of Jefferson and the maxims of Jackson. And with my eyes open and my ears awake, I shall never sub mit to the teachings and heresies of a Fernan do Wood, a Vallandigham, or a William B- Reed. [Deafening applause.] It is almost bestowing honor upon a person of our own State—the worst traitor of them all—to mention the name of the most pusillan imous wretch and traitor of theft all, who' bails from Schuylkill county. It is, perhaps, dis tasteful to refer to myself personally. But iq order that this company may know my politi cal status, I crave leave to say that from the first vote that I ever gave until the time when our so-called Democratic brethren fired on Fort Sumter, I was ever a Democrat of the straitest sect, standing up on all occasions for the rights of the Southern people, under the American Constitution. I was willing, with every young Whig, and with every young American and every Republican, to stand by the constitution al rights of the South, as long as the" South fought the battles of the Union inside of the Union, peacefully and legitimately. But when, discarding the maxims of the Constitution, and the precepts of our Revolu tionary fathers, the democrats of the South un dertook, not merely to break up the ancient democratic party, but to destroy the very Con stitution and the fundamental principles of our government, it became—time for every loyal man of upright conscience, no longer to follow the miserable teachings of the Southern oligar chy, but to assert the original principles upon which Thomas Jefferson founded the Demo cratic party. [Loud applause.] There is no use in disguising the fact that the modern so-called Democracy, abjuring the max ims of the founders of the party, have been crawling into the slimy arms of a Southern ol igarchy. The primrose path of ambition, in modern days, has been for Democratic leaders to bow their knees to the autocrats of the South. Witness, for instance, the case of that misera ble old man, James Buchanan, of Wheatland, for whom .in the North there was no society like that which environed him from the baron iol seats of Virginia and South Carolina. “ A favorite son of Pennsylvania,”— the son of poor and humble Irish parents, flattered by the aristocracy of the South weak-beaded and lame-hearted, aping an aristocracy which, with all his faults, he could never reach—elected by the honest democracy and the old-line Whigs, he lived long enough to betray his country, to say nothing of the destruction of a venerable party to which he never earnestly belonged. It is said by many a flippant tongue and many a brazen pen, that the abolitionists of the North have brought on this rebellion. In the name of all that is veracious in history, I assert without fear of contradiction, that this cruel war has been brought upon ns by the machinations of Democrats, so-called. What, I ask you, was the condition of the country af ter the November election of 1856 f We had a Democratic President, and a Democratic Cab inet, selected by Democrats. Every honest democrat in the land expected that the chosen pilot and bis selected crew would stand steadi ly and faithfully by the ship of State, amidst whatever tempests might arise, or surges beat. He was a Democrat, and bis Cabinet was made up from the chivalry of tbe Southern Democracy. The wind's blew, tbe storm came, and nntrue to both party and country, with bis miserable Cabinet, he deserted tbe ship, and ran her afodl upon the breakers. He as serted that Secession was wrong, but said that if a sovereign State chose to secede from the Union, there was no power in the Execu tive, no force even is. Congress, to cherce that seceding State to return to the Union it bad de serted. Through tbe advice of members of bis Cabinet, tbe ships of our then little navy were sent to remote and distant seas, so that when the conspiracy should culminate, ear gallant tars, renowned upon many an heroic occasion, should not he in place to respond to the call of their country. Through him and bis Cabinet, the arsenals of the'North were - stripped of iheir arms and munitions of war, so that when the conspiracy broke forth at Sumter,, the loyalists of tbe North had neither implements nor munitions of war with which to assail the rebellion. We had to wait, almost paralyzed, nhtlT guns could reach, us from the .continent of Europe. "Son know that thepnionof the sword andiof tbe purse' is considered, essential ,to a successful war. And what 414 the Democratic Secretary of the Treasury ? He beggared the purse of the nation in order to play into the bands of the Democratic conspirators. We were left in the deplorable absence of army, navy, and treasury. And who did this foul and most miserable woVk? Who accomplished it ? [Voices: ‘the l Copperheads !’] Was any Aibolitioniat then in ] power, or any ancient opponent of the ancient ] Democratic party ? We Democrats then had it , all our own way. We were fentrusted with the sacred heritage of our fathers; we were res ponsible to men and toTfngeis j and how did |we act ? Upon the accursed altar of the accur sed Southern oligarchy we sacrificed everything that was'democratio, everything that was man ly, and everything that was ihonorable. Yoor I light-fingered leaders may that ■ the aboli tionists began the war. I, as a bumble Penn sylvania democrat, assert that the charge is false. I unhesitatingly assert that this rebell ion was begotten in the secret places of the so called Democracy; that it Was nurtured by_ Buchanpn and bis Cabinet, who were the slaves and the dopes of the Yanceys, the Slidells, the Davises and the Breckinridges of the South. I but assert what the iron pep of history shall record, that there was never a party so betray ed, nor a country so slaughtered, us by the lea dess of the so-called Democracy. ... What did wo do, we youugimen of the Whig,' the American, and the Democratic partiea ? To our eternal honor it shall be recorded Wo stood fast and firm for all the rights of our Southern bretberen, so far as; acknowledged by the American Constitution. We faltered not. We wearied not. From every mountain top of the North, and from every valley, wo declared oar unswerving attachment to the Constitution of our fathers. [lmmense cheers.] We stood manfully, as Christian men never stood before, by every principle of the fugitive-slave law.— So that when Alexander 11. Stephena made his speech in reply to Toombs ojf Georgia, he was obliged to confess that never wae Christian civil law more faithfully upheld than was the fugi tive-slave law by the men of the North. Ha farther admitted that the rebellion bad no jus tification whatever ; that the General Govern ment had never been false jto its duty-to the South ; that none of its statutes had ever inter fered with the franchises or the privileges of the slaveholder. And reluctantly and linger ingly Alexander H. Stephens, with hie head turned back jto the glories and brilliant memo ries of the country —with his averted eye upon Mount VernOn and Monticello, slowly and tar dily did ho leave the clustered records of the greatest republic upon which the sun has ever, shone. [Long cheering.] No warrior, hut a thin, attenuated, intelleo tnalman, he may be competed to the Sybil of Rome, who Offered her volumes to a corrupted government. When history shall come to cor rectly record this rebellion, the angaries of Stephens shall stand as an everlasting blot of infamy upon the men who created this rebellion and are carrying it out. I have no time, on an occasion of this sort, to enter into full detail of the history of this nefarious transaction. The leaders of the mod ern Democratic party say to-me that they alone can restore peace to the country and integrity to the Union [• I reply, that another such Demo cratic Administration ns the last one would send my eoontry into the jaws of inevitable dissolution. |Whatl restore such another Ad ministration into power ? Think of it. Think of its perfidy, its treason, its corruption, its weakness. Restore to power your Buchanans, and your Fernando Woods, and your Vallan dighams, and yoor Hugheses ? Give them the reins of power ? May Heaven defend us from such a calamity.- I have confidence in the masses—the honest masses, I mean—of the Democratic party, but 1 have none whatever in the miserable pretend ers who attempt to teach in- the sacred names Jefferson and Jackson. -1 should be recreant to my roanhhod if I should fail to acknowledge the heroism and bravery of the good, honest Democrats who have fought ,'in-this war. Many of them havd given their lives, martyrs on the field of battle [cheers], like the gallant Colonel Samuel W. Black, and Jhe gallant William G. Murray. May God bless their memories, and tljose of that; brave old party who have fallen in the fight. | [Cheers.] - But there is one cry which echoes from the lips of Andrew Gregg Curtin [vociferons cheer ing], the father and the guardian of the Penn sylvania soldier [renewed cheering] ; there is one cry which comes from the very bosom of Pennsylvania, and that is, “ Stand by our coun try, whether it be right or whether it be wrong.” It is a Democratic maxim which rung from the j brilliant fields of Mexico; and which, if true I then, must bh trebly true now. [Nine cheers : from the crowd for Andy Curtin.] Let me say to you, in conclusion, fellow citi zens, that there is but one course for loyal men jto pursue. There cannot ]be, and there must | not be, any side issues. We must make this | State loyal in October next] [cries, “ We will; j it is,”] and we can only do so by supporting Andrew G. Curtin and Da|niel Agnew. This point is inevitable. The man who says be is loyal and refuses to vote this ticket bad better do what is honest, vis: go down and bow his knee at'the shrine of that miserable rebel, Jeff. Davis. It was slavery that caused the present war; but it was merely the slavery of Southern I negroes. To a very great-extent it was the I slavery of Northern white men —the slavery of prejudice, of ignorance, and! of blind partisan ship. The w!ar for the Union has emancipated the Southern slaves. To completely fulfill its mission, it must likewise 4 emancipate the polit 'ical aerfa’of tbe North.' Th'e latter species of servitude is quite as degrading as the former, and quite as dangerous to the integrity of tbe Union. Until the spirit of faction is eradica ted, and more- liberal views take the place of tbe stale' political aphorisms, to which igno rance and prejudice to long have pinned their faith, the people.will never be truly free; and if tbe people j themselves are not free, how can they expect a free Government to endure? There most bo emancipation, in the North as well as in the) South, or the etroggle between light and. darkness, truth a»d aad slavery, will be an eternal out. • . . Ratesof Advertising. Advertisements will be charged $1 per square of 10 lines, one or three insertion?, and 25 cents for every subsequent insertion. Advertisement* of less than 10 lines considered as a square. _Tbp subjoined rates will be charged for Quarterly, Half-Yearly and Yearly advertisements: 1 Square,. 2 do. . 3 do. . J Column,: 8,00 ' 9,50 12,60 i do ; 15,00 20,00 25,00 1 d 6 26,00 85,00 40,00 Adfertisements not having the number of loser* tides desired marked upon them, will be published until ordered oat and charged accordingly. Posters, Handbills, Bill-Heads, Letter-Hcnds, mod all kinds of Jobbing done in country establish men ts» executed neatly and promptly.' Justices*, Constable’s and other BLANKS, constantly bh hand. 1 . NO. 7 “ Seated in mypffiee one day after the fall of Samter," said Col. Montgomery, Editor of the Vicksburg Whig, “ I woa interrupted by an old gentleman, a familiar acquaintance, Who came is as was his custom on returning from his jjlantation up the river, to learn the latest news from the North. He war a man of ven erable appearance, past the allotted ' threescore and ten,' bis hair white with the snows of many winters, and his bearing somewhat im paired by the flight of years. He had been op to bis plantation for a week or ten days, where he worked some three hnndred niggers, and during, that time bad not heard anything of the mighty events that were succeeding each other with lightning rapidity in those early days of dhe Rebellion. Therefore, immediately upon his return to' the city, be called at my sanctum to learn the news which had been re? ceived during bis absence. ' “ I sat down before him and began to read “the latest telegraphic dispatches. Among oth ers : President Lincoln has called out seventy five thousand men for <t term of service not to exceed three months I’ “ The old man's face brightened up. ‘ Thank God !’ he fervently ejaculated. • That looks as if the President was in earnest. May he be endowed from on high with that wisdom and courage which these trying times demand.' —- “ After some other stirring items of. news, I came to the replies of the several Governors, in response to the President’s qall for the quotas of their respective States, which had been re ceived from Washington but the day before. We at that time continued to have regular tele graphic communication with the North. “ From the Governor of Missouri 1 ‘ Missouri will not furnish one man for this unholy war V Kentucky followed in a similar spirit of loyalty. As I tan down the column, one State after an other, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Illinois -411 the loyal States promising their respective quotas, I came upon the dispatch from Penn sylvania: Pennsylvania will furnish her full quota t and, if needed, three hundred thousand more.’ “ ‘ANDREW G. CURTIN.’ “ The old man rose quickly, trembling with excitement, fearful that he bad not rightly un derstood the language of the dispatch, but yet with an eager hope expressed upon bis counte nance that bo might not be mistaken. Coming np close to my chair, holding his hand to hia ear, and leaning eagerly forward to catch every syllable— ‘ What—what did you read there ? What does Pennsylvania say ? Read again— I’m afraid 1 didn’t understand—l’m getting so deaf, you know. Who is it? Again!’ . “ I read slowly— , ‘ “ ‘ Pennsylvania will furnish hie tvpL QUOTA, AND, IF NEEDED, THREE HUNDRED THOU- SAND MORE. [Signed.] “ ‘ ANDREW G. CURTIN.’ “It was enough. He had understood aright. The old patriot leaned back in the seat he had resumed, closed his eyes, raised his trembling bands to heaven, and, while the tears trickled down his furrowed oheeks,.'he prayed in fervid and eloquent language from his heart of hearts that God would especially bless this brave far seeing, hope-inspiring Governor; that he would give him wisdom to discern the right path, and strength to pursue it; that he wohld be with him in the day of sorest need, and nphold Ka hands in the hour of out Nation’s direst ex tremity. “ The heart of the aged patriarch was too full. He had heard enough. I read him no more. Bnt his prayers and those of thousands and tens of thousands of Union men through; out the South, to whom the cheering words of your Governor came as the first sweet promise of hope, have been heard and answered in the extraordinary exertions which Pennsylvania has put forth since this rebellion burst upon us. Yonr Governor has been sustained and blessed, his hands have been upheld 1 “ And now, voters, the pr&migft of bis mighty legions, cheering the hearts of four Union men, was the first ray of snnshine to penetrate the midnight gloom settling around ns. Jinny changes have taken place tinea then; many victories have been won; much territory has been reclaimed ; until now the storm of war seems to have spent its fury, and the gloom to be fast disappearing. Shall these clouds again roll np ? Shall this Cimmerian gloom ega : n Coma back? Or will yon send to staunch Southern Union men the news that will cause the sun of our grand political system to burst forth in his glory, shedding a saving flood o( loyal light throughout our whole nation! Once more then, send down news of good oheer from Andrew G. Curtin ! It will thrill the heartshf true men there as nothing has thrilled them ** since his first despatch was read with tears uT heartfelt, prayerful hope and joy.” Opposing the Draft. —Mr. McMasters, of New York city, addressed a Copperhead meet ing at Dubuque, lowa, on the 22d instant, in which he said, as reported in the Daily Times of that city ; ' “ lie had been frequently asked, since ho came here, why Seymour had not opposed the draft? lie would say that ike Governor had done all it teas prudent to do. In a short time there would be a Convention held, which would adopt resolutions opposed to' the war end against forcing people to fight. If a mao wanted to fight let him join the army, but no man should be forced to enteV the service of the despots in power. Gentleman, 7 Governor Seymour will act up to these resolutions.^. “It is not safe,”, said the speaker, “ to op pose the draft now. New' York is full of Fed eral boybnets. We bad a riot, but the -tax-payers, many of whom are Democni's, will have tppay for the destruction of properly, and itwilHcome hard on them. As a question of brute force, it is not pol|6y'iomake war on the. Government now, We iried it once, and it did notpay." . To all men the best friend is virtue; the b> it companions are high endeavors and honorable sentiments. , "... ■ . that a laid mine his been. {band in |he - vicinity of Ifew Bethlehem, Clarion county. - . Smooths. 8 VOXTBS, 12 kostbb. 53,00 $4,60 $6,00 5,00 0,60 8,00 7,00 8,60 10,00 A Thrilling 1 Sketch. '
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