RATES ON ADVERTISING.
four lines or leas constitute half a square. Ten lines
sore than four, constitute a square.
one SO 30 One sq., one day. -L.— $0 60
120 " one week—. 200
one month.. 800 " one month.. 600
• three months 500 " three months 10 00
/IX ninths.. 800 " six m onths.. 15 00
one you. —ll 00 u one year 20 00
Cr &Minom notices inserted in the I.OOIL 00IANS,
ask se marriages and deaths, rex CIINTB pas Min for
k insertion. To merchants and others adrerthing
y the year, liberal terms will be offered.
!Er The number of insertions must be designated on
he advertisement.
irr Itiarriagee and Deaths will be inserted at the mane
*ltes as regular fidvertmamoste.
Business garbs.
ROB ERT SNODGRASS,
A TTORNEY Ar LAW,
Office North Third street, third door above Mar
ket, Harrisburg, Pa.
N. B.—Pension, Bounty' and Military claims of an
IMO prosecuted and willeeted_
Borer to Hong_ Johp. C. Kunkel, David Mumma, fir.,
and B. A. Lamberton. znyllAecntm
WM. H. MILLER,
AND
R. E. FERGUSON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
OFF/CB IN
- SHOEMAKER'S BUILDINGS
SECOND STREET,
BETWEEN WALNUT and MARKET SQUARE,
ap-29w&41 Nearly opposite the Buehler House .
T Hcss-
C. MAaDOWELL,
Aa - TORNEY AT LAW,
MILITARY CLAIM AND PATENT AGENT.
Office in the Exchange, Walnut at., (Up Stairs.)
Having formed a connection with parties in Wash-
Ingten City, wno are reliable business men, any bust
-11631 contacted with any of the Departments will meet
with immediate and careful attention. me-y
R. C. WEICHEL,
SURGEON AND OCULIST,
RESIDENCE THIRD MIAS NORTH STRUT.
He le now fully prepared to attend promptly to the
duties et proteesitee is all Da brandies_
A LANG AID 11110 T 817002139717 L nnDFOJr. X 121.111111111011
*stiles him in promising full and ample satisfaction to
all who mayfawor himwltha eall,be thedieeeseOhroele
or any ether nature. rallt-dthwly
MILITARY CLAMS AND PEN
SIONS_
The undersigned have entered into an association for
the collection of military Claims and the securing of
Pensions for wounded and disabled soldiers.
Muter-in and Muster-out Bolls, officers , Pay Bolls,
Ordnance and Clothing returns. and all papers pertain
ing to the military service will be made out properly
and expeditiously.
Cake In the Exchange Bulldings,-Walnut between
Second and Third streets, near Onalt% Hotel, Harris_
burg, Pa. THOS. C MACDOWELL,
1e26-dtf THOMAS A. MAGUIRE.
SILAS WARD.
/to. 11, NORTH THIRD ST., HARRISBITRO.
STEINWAY'S PIANOS,
KBLODEONS, TIOLINS, OVITABS,
Banjos, Flutes, Fifes, Drums, Accordeons,
STRINGS, SHIN? AID NOOK MUSIC, &C., &G.,
PEO T 0 GRAPH FRAMES. ALBUMS,
14Pier and Mantle Mirrors, Win Framer
Wine and Oval Fram 4rwerydaieriptionmsde to order. Bev:Ming dons.
Agency for Rowe% Sewing Machines.
mr Sheet Music sent by Mail. ' octl-1
JOHN W. GLOVER,
WEIRCHANT TAILOR!
Has just received from New York, an assort
ment of
SEASONABLE GOODS,
which he otters to 'Me customers and the public et
nov2l) - MODERATE PRICES. dtt
S MITH & EWING,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
THIRD STREET, Harrisburg,
Practice in the several Courts of Dauphin county. Col
lections made promptly. A. 0. MUTH,
J. B. EWING.
T COOK, Merchant Tailor,
tje 27 CHESNUT ST., between Second and Front,
Has just returned from the city with an assortment of
CLOTHS, CASSHICERES AND VESTINGS,
Which will be sold at moderate prices and made up to
order; and, also, an assortment of 112.11.8 Y MADE
Clothing and Gentlemen's Furnishing Coeds•
nov2l-Iyd
DENTISTRY.
- B. N. GILDEA, D. D. S.,
N 0 • 119 MARKET STREET,
EBY & JEUNEGIL , B BUILDING, UP STAIR&
janB-tf
RELIGIOUS BOOK STORE,
num. AND SUNDAY SCHOOL DEPOSITORY,
E. S. GERMAN,
ST SOUTH SBOOND STREET, ABOVE OREOMIT,
ZJIMITIMING, PA.
Depot forthesaleaStoreomoopes,StoreoseoplcafiewS,
Music sad idualcal Instruments. Also, subscriptions
taken for religious publications. non-ey
JOHN G. W. MARTIN,
FASHIONABLE
CARD WRITER,
HERB'S HOTEL, HARRIEWURQ, PA.
Allmanner of VISITING-, WEDDING AND RUM
NESS CARDS executed in the moat artistic styles and
moat reasonable terms. deel4.dtf
UNION HOTEL,
Ridge Avenue, corner of Broad street,
HARRISBURG, PA.
The undersigned informs the public that he has re
cently renovated and refitted his well-known "'Union
Hotel" on Ridge avenue, near the Bound House, and is
prepared to accommodate citizens, strangers and travel
era in the beat style, at moderate rates.
His table will be supplied with the best the maskets
afford, and at his bar will be found superior brands of
liquors and malt beverages. The very beat accommo
dations for railroaders employed at the shops in this
identity. fal4 dtfj HENRY BOSTGEN.
FRANKLIN ROUSE,
BALTIMORE, MD.
This pleasant and commodione Hotel has been tho
roughly re-fitted and re-furnished. It is pleasantly
situated on North-West corner of Howard and Franklin
streets, a few doors west of the Northern Central Rail
wayl)epot. ivory attantionpaid to the comfort of his
neat& G. LBIBENEIIIO, Proprietor,
NUM (Late of Salina (}rope, Pa.)
THF4°. P. BOHEFFER,
BOOK, CARD AND JOB PRINTER,
NO. 18 111.11RIT STIMET, .RARRD3BURG_
Parrieniar attention paid to printing, ruling and
binding of Railroad Blanks, Manifests, Insurance Poli
cies. Checks, Bill-Reada, &c.
Wedding, Visiting. and Business Cards printed at very
ion prices and in the best style. jazda
TAILORING.
GTe.O. 421.. 32C
The subscriber is ready at NO. 94, BILARIERT BT.,
four doors below Fourth street, to make
MEN'S AND BOY'S CLOTHING
In any dedred style, and with skill and promptness.
Persons wishing cutting done can have it done at the
shortest notice_ ap27-dly
CHARLES F. VOLLMER,
UPHOLSTERER,
Chestnut atreet. four doors above Second,
(Omen's WASHINGTON Hoes Howl,)
Is prepared to furoishto order, in the very best style or
workmen/MN flpring and Hair Mattresses Window Our
mum, Lounges, and all other articles of Firmrture in his
line, on short notice end moderate terms. Having el'
Penance in the business, he feels warranted in asking a
stare of puldiopstronage, confident of hisability to give
lataithaog. Jaal7-01
RRY—LTGHT GALLERY.—The rooms
on the corner of Market square and Market street,
exposit. the Jones House, occupied as a Gallery for
Daguerreotype, photograph and Ambrotype purposes
ore YOU lISNT from the 9th of freptember next. ,
Apply ;OM WYTITTI.
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GREAT EXTERNAL. REMEDY,
FOR RHEUMATISM, GOUT, NEURALGIA,
LUMBAGO, STIFF NECK AND JOINTS,
SPRAINS, BRUISES, CUTS As WOUNDS,
PILES, HEADACHE, and ALL RHEU-
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For all of which it is a speedy and certain remedy,
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to fail.
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in every case, however distressing.
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three minutes and is warranted to do it.
TOOTHACHE also will it cure instantly.
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LASSITUDE, arising from imprudence or excess, this
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ing directlynpen the Der-Tons -Heenan, it strengthens an
revivifies the system, and restores it to elasticity and
vigor.-
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it is the best known, and we challenge the world to pro
duce an equal. Every victim (if this distressing com
plaint should give it a trial, for it will not fail to afford
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a radical care. •
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tremely malignant and dangerous, but a timely applica
tion of this Liniment will never fail to cure.
S P.R d INS are sometimes very obstinate, and enlarge
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CHILBLAINS, FROSTED FEET, axd INSECT
BITES and STINGS.
EVERY HORSE OWNER
should have this remedy at hand, for its timely use at
the first appearance of Lorneniee will effeetually pre.
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liable and which render so many otherwise valuable
horses nearly worthless.
Over four hundred voluntary testimonials to the won
derful curative properties of this Liniment have been
received within the last two years, and many of them
from persons in the highest ranks of life,
CAUTION.
To avoid imposit'on, observe the Signature and Like
ness of Dr. Stephen Sweet on every label, and also
" Stephen Sweet's Infallible Liniment" blown in the
glass of each bottle, without which none are genuine.
RICHARDSON & CO.,
Sole Proprietors, Norwich, Ct.
For sale by all dealers. aplleow-d&w
lOpein.
ALL WORK PROMISED IN
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PENNSYLVANIA
STEAM DYEING ESTABLISHMENT,
104 MARHAT STR2II2,
IVETWREN FOIIRTH AND FlFrii,
HARRISBURG PA.,
Where every description of Ladies , and Gentlemen'.
Garments, Piece Goods, &0., are Dyed, Cleansed, and
bashed in the bast runner and at the shortest notice.
no9-d&wly DODGR & 00.. Proprietors.
T . F. WATSON,
MASTIC WORKER
EKE
PRACTICAL CEMENTER,
Is prepared to Cement the exterior of Buildings with
he New York Improved
Water-Proof Mastic Cement.
This Material is different from all other Cements.
It forms a solid, durable adhesiveness to any surface,
imperishable by the action of water or frost. Every
good building should be coated with this Cement ; it is
a perfect preserver to the wells; and makes a beautiful,
fine finish, equal to Eastern brown sandstone, or any
color desired.
Among others for whom I have applied the Mastic
Cement, I refer to the following gentlemen :
J. Bissell, residence Penn street, Pittsburg, finished
five years.
J. H. Shoenberger, residence, Lawrenceville, finished
five years.
James M'Candlass, residence, Allegheny Oity,finighed
five years.
Calvin Adams, residence, Third st - eet, finished four
years.
A. Hoeveler, residence, Lawrenceville, finished four
years.
T. D. M'Cord, Penn street, finished four years.
Hon. Thomas Irwin, Diamond street, finished four
years,
St Charles Hotel and Girard House, finished five
years.
Kittanning Court House and Bank, for Barr ac Moser,
Architects, Pittsburg, finished five years.
Orders received at the office of H M'Eldowney, Paint
Shop, 29 Seventh street, or please address
T. F. WATSON,
mayl6-tf P. 0. Box 13i6. Pittsburg, Ps.
MESSRS. CHICKERINQ & 00.
HAVE AGAIN OBTAINED THE
GOLD MEDAL:
AT Tin
MECHANICS' FAIR, BOSTON,
MILD TIM PRZORDING TIME,
DYER COMP.ETITORBI
WAMPUM, fBl. the OHICULICILINCIPIANOO, at Marie ,
burg, at 02 Market street,
0028-tf W. KNOCHE% MUSIC BTOR.R.
r AIRES I YOU KNOW WERE YOU
• J can get One rote Paper, Envelopes, Visiting and
Wedding Cards ? At SCHVIIFERSB BOOKSTORE.
MUPERIOR STOOK OF LIQUORS.-
kJ WM. DOCK, Ja., & 00.. are now able to offer to
their customers and the public at large, a stock of the
purest liquors ever imported into this market, compri
sing in part the following varieties :
WHISKY—IRISH, SCOTCH,OLD BOURBON.
WINE—PORT, SHERRY, OLD MADEIRA.
OTARD, DUFEY & CO. PALE BRANDY.
JAMICA SPIRITS.
PRIME NEW ENGLAND RUM.
BITTERS.
These
PLANTATrON BITTERS.
These liquors can all be warranted; and in addition to
these, Dock & Co. have on hand a large variety of
Wines, Whisky and Brandy, to Which they invite the
Partleigar attention of the public.
WEBSTER'S ARMY AND . NAVY
POCKET DICTIONARY.
;Wit received and for sale at
BCEEMIVEI 800 SITTOBE.
MEW ORLEANS SUGAR!--FIRST IN
T im NARK'? !--Tor sale by
iYI2 WM. DOCK 71., & 00.
poR SALE--A TWO-STORY Mama
nom In Short street. z av d re ~f
ee)3otf W. K. IMBISIN.
HARRISBUhG, PA.., SATURDAY, AUGUST 15 1863
gitt ;11 ittriot tte.
SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 15, 1863
ADDRESS
OF TUN
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 at
tention. The tide of war has been rolled back
from our 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 near
the scene of a great civil war, between States
that lately minietered 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 "doc
trine" uttered by President Monroe warned off
the monarchs of Europe from the whole Ame
rican continent. Now, France carves out of it
an empire, and ships built in England plunder
our commerce on every sea. A great public
debt and a conscription burden the people.
The strength and wealth of the nation arc
turned from productive industry and consumed
in the destructive arts of war. Our victories
fail to win peace. Throughout the land, arbi
trary power encroaches upon civil liberty.
What has wrought the disastrous change ?
No natural causes embroiled the North and the
South. Their interchangeable produbts and
commodities, and various institutions, . were
sources of reciprocal benefit, and exclude com
petition and strife. But an artificial cause of
dissension was found in the position of the
African race ; and the ascendency in the na
tional councils of men pledged to an eggres
sive and unconstitutional Abolition policy, has
brought our country to the condition of "the
house divided 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 revolutionliry
hostility to the Constitution and the laws.
The leaders of this party are pledged to a con
flict with rights recognized and sheltered by
the Constitution. They called this conflict
"irrepressible ;" and whenever one party is
determined to attack what another is deter
mined to defend, the 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 conservatives strove to avert the conflict.
They saw that. Union was the paramount inter
est of their country, and they stood by the
great bond of Union, the Constitition of the
United States. They were content to leave
debatable questions under it to the high tri
bunal framed to decide them ; they preferred
it to the sword as an arbiter between the States;
they strove 'hard to merit the title which their
opponents gave them in acorn—the titte of
"Union-savers." We will not at length re
hearse their efforts. In the Thirty-sixth Con
gress the Republican leaders refused their as
sent to the Crittenden compromise. On this
point the testimony of Mr. Douglas will suf
fice. He 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 proposi
tion of the Senator from Kentucky, (Mr. Crit
tenden), pray tell us what you are willing to
to do ? I address the inquiry to the :Repub
licans alone, for the reason that, in the com
mittee of thirteen a few days ago, every member
from the South, including those from the cotton
States, (Messrs. Davis and Toombs), expressed
their readiness to accept the proposition of my
venerable friend from Kentucky, Mr. Critten
den, as a final settlement of the controversy,
if tendered and sustained by the Republican
members. Hence the sole responsibility of our
disagreement, and the only difficulty in the way of
an amicable adjustment, is with the Republican
party."—Jan. 8, 1861.
The Peace Congress was another means; by
which the border States strove to avert ithe
impending strife. flow the Republican leaders
then conspired against the peace of their cohn
try may be seen in-aletter from Senator Chan
dler, of Michigan, to the Governor of rat
State:
" To His Excellency, Tustin Blair:
" Governor Bingham and myself telegrap ed
you on Saturday, at the request of Massa° U
lnas and New York, to send delegates tolthe
Peace or Compromise Congress. They admit
that we were right and that they were wrong;
that no Republican, State should haveent
delegates ; but they are here and cannot get
away. Ohio, Indiana and Rhode Island are
is
caving in, and there is danger of Illinois ; and
new they beg us for God'easake to come to their
rescue, and save the Republican party from
rupture. I hope they will send stiff backed hien
or none. The whole thing was gotten. up
against my judgment and advice, and williend
in thin smoke. Still I hope as a matter cour
tesy to some of our erring brethren that ;you
will send the delegates.
" Truly, your friend,
"Z. CHANDLER.
"P. S —Some of the manufacturing Stues
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, too, the same spirit pre
vailed. It was not seen how necessarily her
position united herin the interest with the bor
der States. She has learned it since, from con
tending armies trampling out her harvests and
deluging her fields with blood. Governor Cur
tin sent to tke Peace Congress Mr. Wilmot and
Mr. Meredith.,
Mr. Wilmot was chiefly known from the con
nection of his name with the attempt to, em
broil the country by the " Wilmot Proviso,"
baffled by patriotic statesmanship, in which
Clay and Webster joined With the Democratic
leaders ; just as Clay and Jackson bad joined
in the Tariff Compromise of 1833. Mr. Mere
dith had published his belief that the mutter
ings of the rising storm were what he called
"stridulous cries, unworthy of the slightest
attention,"
By Mr. Lincoln's election, in November,
1860, the power to says or destroy the Union
was in the hands of his party ; and no adjust
ment was possible with men who rejected the
judgment of the Supreme Court, who scorned
conciliation and compromise, and who looked
to a " little bloodletting" to cement the Ameri
can Union. Till this time, the Union mon of
the South had controlled, with little dififtdultyl
the small but restless class among them who
desired a separate nationality. The substantial
interests of the South, especially the slavehold
ing interest, were drawn reluctantly into Be
cession. Gen. F. P. Blair, of Missouri, an
eminent Republican, said very truly in the last
Congress :
"Every man acquainted with the facts knows
that it is fallacious to call this 'a slaveholdere
rebelliou.' * * A closer scrutiny de-
monstrates the contrary to be true; such a
scrutiny demonstrates that the rebellion origi
nated chiefly with the non- slaveholders resi
dent in the stronghold@ of the institution, not
springing, however, from nny love of slavery,
but from an antagonism of race and hostility
to the idea of equality with the blacks involved
in simple emancipation."
It was the triumph of the Abolitionists over
the Democrats and conservatives of the North,
that secured a like triumph to the secession
ists over the Union men of the South. The
John Brown raid was taken as a practical ex
position of the doctrine of "irrepressible con
flict." The exultation over its momentary
success, the lamentation over its failure, had
been swelled by the Abolitionists so as to seem
general
ezprtssiou 9f Not thorn feeling.—
Riots and rescues had nulliSed the conattu
tional provision for the return of fugitives.
The false pretence that slavery would menet).
olize The territories, when we had no territo
nes in which it could exist, had been used as
a means of constant agitation against slavery
in the Southern States. A plan of attack upon
it had been published in " Helper's book,"
formally endorsed and recommended by the
leaders of the party that was about to assume
the administration of the Federal government
leaders who openly inculcated contempt
for the Constitution, contempt far the Su
preme Court, and professed to follow a "higher
law."
Thus the flame of revolution at the South
was kindled and fed with fuel furnished by the
,I%.bolitionists. It might seem superfluous to
advert now to what is past an A irrevocable,
were it not that it is against the same men and
the same influences, still dominant in the coun
cils of the Administration, that an appeal is
now to be made to the intelligence of the peo
ple. The Abolitionista deprecate these allu
sions 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 North
ern traitors to the Constitution had the start.
They tell us that slavery was the cause of the
war ; therefore, the Union it to be restored by
waging a war upon slavery. This is not true;
or only true in the sense that any institution,
civil or religious, may be a cause of war, if
war is made upon it. Nor is it a just conclu
sion 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 sla
very whilst the people of each State dealt
calmly and intelligently with the question
Within their own State limits. *here little
importance attached to it, it soon yielded to
moral and economical considerations, leaving
the negro in a position of social and political
subordination no where more clearly marked
than in the Constitution and laws of Pennsyl
vania. The strife began when people in States
where it was an immaterial question undertook
to prescribe the course of duty upon it to
States in which it was a question of great im
portance and difficulty. This interference be
came more dangerous when attempts were"
made to use the power of the General Govern
ment, instituted 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 slaversi,"but to our whole political system,
in which separate and distinct colonies became,
by the Declaration of Independence, "free and
independent States," and afterwards estab
lished a Federal Union under the Constitution
of the United States. That instrument, with
scrupulous care, discriminates the powers del
egated to the general government from those
reserved "to the States respectively, or to the
people." And let it be noted, that in speaking
of the powers as delegated and reserved, we
refer to no vague doctrines or pretensions, but
to the clear provisions of the written instru
ment which it is the duty of every citizen, and
especially of every public functionary, to re
spect and maintain. The protection of Ame
rican liberty against the encroachments of
centralization was left to the States by the
framers of the Constitution. Hamilton, 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 com
plete security against invasions of public lib
erty by the national authority." Who can be
blind to the consequences that have followed
the departure from the true principles of our.
government ? "Abolition" vies with "seces
sion" in sapping the very foundations of the
structure reared by our forefathers.
In Pennsylvania, 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 press, 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 lute
been insulted in the outrages perpetrated upon
her citizens. At Philadelphia and at Harris
berg, 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 authorites, there is
neither protection nor redress. The seizure of
a journal at West Chester was afterwards the
sulbject of a suit for damages in the Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania. It came to trial be
fore Chief Justice Lowrie.. Rehearsing the au
dent 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." Impa
tient at any restraint from law, a partisan ma
jority in Congress hastened to pass an act to
take from the State courts to the United States
coutta, all suits or prosecutions "for trespasses
or wrongs done or committed by virtue or un
der color of any authority derived from or ex
ercised under the President of the United
States ;" and such authority was declared to
be a full defence for the wrong-doer in any ac
tion, civil or criminal.
The American Executive is, as the word im
ports, the executor of the duly enacted laws.
Yet the pretension is inn& that hie will can
tak.ethe place of the laws. The liberty, the
character of every citizen, is put at the mercy
of new functionaries called provost mar
shals." Secret accusation before these offi
cials takes the place of open hearing before a
lawful magiEtrate, 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 be
fore 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 acts like thee. 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 con
formity with the military law laid down in the
act of congrees " establishing rules and ar
ticles for the government of the armies of the
United States." Yet, by bis proclamation of
September 24th, 1862, 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
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of the Revolution, and Madison the war of
1812—the principle of the subordination of the
military 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 ig
norance ; but a new system of goverment 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 Minis
ter. The military arrests of Mr. Stanton re
ceived the "hearty commendation" of the con
vention that renominated Governor Curtin ;
and it pledged him and his party to t. hearty
co-operation" in such acts of the administra
tion in future. Such is the desrading plat
form on whim a candidate for Chief Magis
trate of Pennsylvania stands before her people.
These pretensions to arbitrary power live
ominous significance to a late change in our
military establishment. The time - honored
American system of calling on the States for
drafts from their militia has been replaced by
a Federal conscriVion, on the model of Euro
pean despotisms. We would not minister to
the excitement which it has caused among men
of all parties. Its constitutionality will be
tested before the courts. If adjudged to be
within the power of Congress, the people will
decide on the propriety of a stretch of power
on which the British Parliament—styled om
nipotent—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 ballot-box. We will not
entertain a fear that it is not safe in the guar
dianship of a free people. It men in office
should seek to perpetuate their power by
wresting from the people of Pennsylvania 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
consequences or the ends But in now addres
sing you upon the political issues of the times
we assnme that the institutions 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 be to reap the beet fruit from the
victories achieved by our gallant armies—the
best fruit would be peace and the restoration
of the ITnion. Such is not the aim of the party
in power. Dominated 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 destruction of slavery, de
sire that the war shall be a short one ?" Mr.
Thaddeus Stevens, the Republican leader in
the last House of Representatives, declared,
11 ‘ The Union shall never, with my consent, be
restored under the Constitution as it is, with
slavery to be protected by it." The same spirit
appears in Mr. Lincoln's Late answer to citi
zens 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 secured to all the
slaves. Hordes of politicians, and contrac
tors, and purveyors, who fatten on the war,
desire it to last forever. When the slaves are
all emancipated by the Federal arms, a con
stant military intervention 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 stim
ulate his followers to fight to the last. It is
not the interest of Pennsylvania that a fanati
cal faction shall pervert and protract the war,
for ruinous, perhaps unattainable ends. Wht4
the North needs is the return of the South..
with its people, its territory, its staples, to
complete the integrity of our common country.
This, and not mere devastation and social con
fusion, would be the aim of patriots and states
men.
The Abolition policy promises us nothing bet
ter than a South ern Poland, ruled by a Northern
despotism. But history is full of examples how
wise rulers have assuaged civil discord by mod
eration and justice, while bigots and despots,
relying solely on force, have been baffled by
feeble opponents. That a temperate constitu
tional policy will fail, in our case, 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 monarch, is
entering on the scene willing again to play an
important part in an American revolution.
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 secession
leaders, and the presses under their control,
oppose reunion, preferring, perhaps, even an
humble dependence upon European powers.
But from many parts 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
constitutional relations with the people of the
North. Early in the contest this desire was
shown in North Carolina, one of the old thir
teen associated with Pennsylvania on the page
of Revolutionary history. But the majority
in Congress made baste 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 - resolution, offered by Critten
den, defining a policy for the restoration of
the Union. But they soon rallied, and filled
the statute book with acts of confiscation, abo
lition, and emancipation, against the remon
strances of eminent jurists and conservative
men of all parties. Mr. Lincoln, too, yielding,
he said, "to pressure," put his proclamations
in place of the Constitution and the laws.
Thus every interest and sentiment of the
Southern people were enlisted on the side of
resistance by the policy of a party which, as
Mr. Stevens said, will not consent to a restora
tion of the Union with "the Constitution as it
is." It is this policy that has protracted the
war, and is now the greatest obstacle to its ter
mination.
The reunion of the States can alone give
them their old security at home and power
and dignity abroad. This end can never be
reached upon 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 to 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 has become a military pro
verb that the best thing fora general is to be
out of reach from Washmston. The party
was founded upon the political and moral her
esy of opposition to . compromise, which-is the
only means of Raton among States, and of
peace and good will on earth among men.
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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 indignation 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 plat
form, or, as Mr. Chandler said, ""to save the
Republican party from rupture "
The time is now at hand when the voice of
the people will be heard. The overthrow of
the Abolitionists at the polls and-the re•estab
lishment of constitutional principles at the
North, is the first, the indispensable step to
wards the restoration of the Union and the
vindication of civil liberty. To this great
service to his country each citizen may con
tribute 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, to be observed
with no better faith than the resolutions of
July '6l. It would be a return to the national
policy of the better days of the Republic,
through the intelligence of the people, enlight
ened by experience. It would strengthen the
government ; for a constitutional government
is strong when exercising with vigor its legit
imate powers, and is weak when its sets an
example of revolutionary violence by invading
the rights of the people. Our principles and
our candidates are known to you. The reso
lutions 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 Penn
sylvania. They declare authoritatively .the
principles of the Democratic party. It is, as
it. has always been, for tie Union and the Con
stitution against all opposers. The twelfth
resolution declares, "that while this General
Assembly condemns and denounces the faults
of the administration and the encroachments
of the Abolitionists, it does, also, most thor
oughly condemn and denounce the heresy of
secession as unwarranted by the Constitution,
and destructive alike of the security and per
petuity 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 ju
dicial functions, from the• political arena, he
did not withhold his warning voice when con
servative men took counsel together upon the
dangers that menaced our country. His speech
at the town meeting at Philadelphia in Decem
ber, 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.
WHITE RECRUITS FLOGGED BY PROVOST MAR.
snot.s.—The Abolitionists who insist that
white men ought to rejoice in the privilege of
dying to free the negro, are determined that
the honors of martyrdom shall be fully won
and worn by those whom they select for that
distinction. A provost marshal at Pittsburg,
of his own motion, and with no color of law,
ordered the infliction of flftylashes upon an
alleged deserter within his distriot, and super
intended himself the execution of this infa
mous sentence.
A Pittsburg journal thus describes the scene:
Hagan was now seized by the guard and
taken to the "rendezvous" in the third story,
where preparations were at once made for car
rying the order into effect. The man, as we
'ore informed, was stripped naked, gagged and
handcuffed. A rlir cowhide was procured, and
a soldier named George Palmer, corporal of
the guard, under directions of Deputy Provost
Marshal M'Henry, who was present, proceeded
to lay on the stripes. Hagan, comparatively
powerless though 3e was, resisted, and M'-
Henry, as is alleged, called on the soldiers
present to hold him while the stripes were
being laid on. This the latter refused to do ;
whereupon, as the report goes, M'llenry him
self seized the wretched man, and held him
until the entire fifty lashes were administered.
Hagan struggled violently in his agony, but
before the sentence was half carried out he
fell prostrate on . the floor, and, while in this
condition, the balance of the lashes were ad.
ministered to him.
His condition, when taken up, was pitiable
in the extreme. His back was like a piece of
raw beef, the cow-hide having cut through the
skin, and he was so exhausted that he chid
not support himself. A gentleman who saw
him to-day, while the doctor was dressing his
woun3s, states that he must have received a
most shocking flogging, and that bad he not
been a man of strong constituiion he would
have died under the infliction.
Had this thing been done in Louisiana, to a
slave, and by his owners, what a tempest of
indignation would have blazed and thundered
through the Abolition ranks ! Is the degrada
tion of the white race, of the American uni
form, and the national name, a matter of indif
ference to these champions of universal philan
thropy.—.N Y. World.
Ex-PREMENT BIJOHANAN.—The report tele
graphed from Vicksburg alleging the existence
of a correspondence between Jeff. Davis and
Ea-President Buchanan, imputing disloyalty
to the latter, is denied in a dispatch from Bed
lord Springs, which says Mr. Buchanan
never received a letter from Jeff. Davis on the
subject to which it refers, nor did he ever ad
dress a reply to Mr. Davis as is alleged. They
had no correspondence of any kind since Mr.
Buchanan's inauguration, and but little, if
nay, before." As Mr. Buchanan is at Bedford
Springs, the denial is probably on his author
ity. It is a common trick fer sensation repor
ters to keep Mr. Buchanan's name continually
before the public, in a manner injurious to his
reputation for loyalty, but nobody who knows
him believed the report, or has any reason to
fear disclosures affecting his public and offi
cial conduct.
OPERATIONS OF THE MINT.—The deposits of
gold at the U. 8. Mint for the month of July,
were $279 057 16, and of silver $22 385 32,
making a total of $301442 48. The gold
coinage at the same time was $163104 88,
almost all in double eagles. The silver coin
age, almost all half dollars, was $25 500 72 ;
and of cents $25,000, making a total coinage of
2,558,784 pieoeo of the value of $215 605 60_
Tun Camden and Amboy railroad , brought
to New York on Friday 4,500 baskets of
peaches ; an immense freight for this early
season•