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'CANDIDATE'S COLUMN.
CANDIDATE FUR ASSEMBLY.
We are authorized to announce the name.
of GEORGE SCOTT, of Catawissa, as a
-candidate for ASSEMBLY,at the approach
ing general election, in this Representative
District, composed of the counties -of Co
lumbia and Montour, subject to theXJecis
- ioa of the' Colombia County Democratic
nominating Convention.
June 29, 1864 pd.2.
LEGISLATIVE 77 '
To ik Democratic Electors of Columbia county:
Fat ends akd Fllow CtTrzxtni : --Toe
tindersizneS, acknowledging with gratitude
pan evidences of jour generous confi
dence, would respectfully announce ; that
at tbe solicitation of many vahied Demo
rats, he will be a Candidate for the LEG
ISLATURE in the District composed of the
couoties of Columbia and Montour, at the
ensuing General Election, In tucordance
with the usages ofthe District Electors, and
being governed alone by the decision of
the Columbia County Democratic Con
tention. LEVI L. TATE.
Bloomsbnrg, Mav 18, I8fi4 J2 pd.
Candidate Tor Assembly.
At the solicitation of many friends, I
would announce to the voters of Columbia
County, that I will be a candidate for
ASSEMBLY, at the approaching general
election, subject to the decision of the Co
lombia county Democra'ic Convention.
Wm. H. JACOBY.
Bloomsbu'rg, May 11, 1B64.
Candidate Tor SherifX
Through (Tie earnest solicitation of many
jDemocratic friends, I have been induced to
' offer myself as a candidate for Ih'e office of
Sheriff of Columbia County, subject io the
decision ot the Democra'ic County Con
vention. JAMES LAKE .
3fuie 15. 1864. pd. 82.
Candidate for ShcrifK
AMUEL SNYDER, of MifSin township,
5 we are authorized to announce, will be
a candidate for SHERIFF, at the approach-Vt-.
General Election, subject to the decis
ion ot ikj Columbia county Demociatic
Convention. May 4, 1864. 82. pd.
CANDIDATE FOR SHERIFF.
CHARLES H HESS, of Mifflin township,
w are authorized lo announce, will be
candidate for the office of SHERIFF of
Columbia County, at the approaching gen
eral election, subject to the daemon of the
Colombia county democratic convention.
Mifflfj, June 1, 1864. $2 pd.
CANDIDATE FOR SHERIFF,
WILLIAM KRICKBAVM, of Mifflin tp.,
we are authorized lo annonnre will be a
candidate for the SHERIFFALTY, at the
a proaebing general election, subject to
tbe decision of tbe Columbia county dem
ocratic convention.
Jo tie 15, 1864. pd. $2. .
CANDIDATE FOR C031M18&IONER.
We are authorized to annoenee that
William Crkast, of Cattawisaa township,
through the solicitation of bis many Dem
ocratic friend, as been induced to offer
himself as a candidate for CotrNTT Com
mission er, at tbe approachirg election
subject only to the usages ofthe Colombia
County Democratic Convention.
June 29, 1864. $2pd.
CANDIDATE FOR COMMISSIONER.
We are authorized to announce that Allrn
Mann, of Beaver twp , Columbia county,
thruh the solicitation of his Democratic
friends, ha been induced to offer himself
as a candidate for Cooktt Commissioner,
at the approaching general election, sub
ject to the decision of the Democratic
County Convention.
ALLEN MANN.
Beaver, May 25, iS64. 22. pd.
CHARLES Q. BARKLEY,
Attorney at Lair,
BL002ISCUKG, C0LF3IBIA CO., PA.
YJfHLL practice in tbe sever! Courts of
Columbia county.' All legal business
io trusted to his care shall receive prompt
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April 13, 1864.
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BT PETER PkPPICRCOR,
NOW OR NEVER.
Men of (hough: be men ot action,
Why are ye so careless grown t
Cast aside. all party faction,
Act like men and claim your own.
In the rear no longer daily ;
Fear not, care not, who may blame ;
O'er the mountain through the valley,
- Fearlessly your rights proclaim.
Will ye, silently, forever
Be the dupe ol every knave ?
Now'a the time to speak, cr never;
Fonune aids the true and brave
Tyrants minions, who would heed them?
None but those who courage Uck ;
Shall the white man lnohi freedom,
To aive freedom tOvthe black 1
Far too long you've suffered under
Ashamed power in dire disgrace ;
Once aain in tones of thinder
Meet oppression lace to face ;
Be it war, if war is ne-dd ;
Be i" peactj, if prace is right :
But never let i be conceded
For th black to rol the white.
armiStiee or Conscription.
The industry ot the country h been
crippled alreadjr by the destruction of our
labor in the work of war. The exhaustion
of our power of production cannot of
course, be carried on beyond a certain ex- i
tent. Nor can its bounds of safety be now' ancj children. Five hundred thousand
verj far off. The limit to which our labor mPn concerned certainly, and the remnant
can be destroyed must be recollected as that Qf our Vigorous manhood concerned con
anMgned by the necessities ot a society, em. tjngenty tne success of those memorials"
bracing so many as twenty millions of peo-
p!e- Can we, without overrunning that
boundary fatally or at least unsafely,' with-
draJr from onr ships, our railroads, our ca-
nas our civil governments, our State gOv-
ernment, our shops, onr mine, oar stores; '
our fiejg an additional draft to the enor-
mous amount of five hundred thousand
workingmen ?
Sorial considerations make the proposed
ennscriptidn one of very grave qsemions.
A thoughtful examination Of its bearings o i
society is actually necessary, on the ground
that it may be fairly suffered to be placed
before the country in blind and thoughtless
obedience to the passions of a desperate
fanaticism.
The sweeping conscription that may have
b?en executed in the South presents no
precedent to a society organixed differently.
The prouueers of the Confederate INates
consist chiefly of negroes ; and, so far as
they have been affected by the demands of
the armies of the SSouih, remain to-day in
undiminished force. A million of effect
ive laborers have thns been maintained
there intaci by conscription.
The maintenance ofthe social life o'
the Conferiarac) does not res; with the in
dustry of only the slave. Legislation has
reserved for that purpose large numbers of
white laborrrs. Exemption cover ther
thousands upon thousands ol Workingmen
for the uses of civil society; and the
mase set thus apart for the maini-nance
of the operations ot society have been, fur
ther increased by an extensive system of
"details" of men Irora the army for Hie
tame purpose.
Conscription may cut too closely to the
core of our social life. On that ground we
a i . l . . i . . i J
leu it our amy to suggest inn ine oroposea
drait. conceived as it has been, probablv,
in mere recklessness, be brought at once Daring the entire day i'.s ample folds kiss
under examination of the p-jblic judgment, ed the breeze, and many eyes were direct-
Tbe workingmen of the country wiil con-
stitute, in tbe event ol the enforcement ci
the las' "call," its special victims That
class of our citizens regard the measure
with a discontent which appears unsafe io
its morose reserve. The brooding dissatis
faction with wnich they regard it led us,
among other reasons assigned at the time,
to suggest ihat it be brought un.ter open dis-1
cinmoii at a meeting ot the laboring classes
Additional consideration have arisen since
met. ta evidence oi me expediency wmcu
a"Deared at that ume tor Hie immediate:
, i
call of such an assemblage in
s
Brooklyn j
and New York
Errors of enrollment make the. contem-
plated conscription threaten ihe cities of
the Hudson with special hardships. A j
mitigation which common fairness would
have yielded, onder injustice so clear and
grievous, would have reduced the untold
evilot the draft on our local population to
those of at least a fair division. Even that
poor measure ol relief, if we may jude by
l lit relasal of the Secretary of War to en
tertain the remonstrance made oi the sub
ject by Governor Seymour, has been impe
riously denied.
The public meeting -which we suggested
last week may present a strong case against
the enforcement of the draft. . The deple
tion ot our vital powers as a people, 'the
destruction ol our essential industry as a
society, constitu.e topics, on which a coun
cil ot workingmen may slarle the country
with the dangers ot this last and most
sweeping threat of conscription. The ar
bitrary refusal ot the Secretary of War to
grant even the common justice ot distrib
oting the hardships ot that measure
anion gibe people with fairness, presents a
view ol the case nnder which popular in
dignation throughout toe State will give a
wide signification to a determined remon
strance of'tbe workiog classes of New
Ydrk aod Brooklyn.
Petitions against the enforcement of the
draft are being circulated in Ohio. The
appalling sacrifices of limb and life con
!-set virtually Mr. rL'cnln In 'he in
tro4ti.ctioi of that rriea-kre, have i nre-.-e !
the mind of the cnmtry v.ith horn-r, The
people tippair deu-rm-.r.eo, liieieioM, thai,
before they srail be ked to accept the
hr,rrih! nrssitv of further iinmotaiioos
of the flower ol their' manhood, the A J- J ,he ire Nr,h ,here ia an undoubted
ministration shall have firt exhausted all wntiment i" favor of peace, unopposed ex
the agencies ol diplomacy. They demand , C(Pl 'tmemen army contractors or sor
in fact, from one end of the "loyal" States ""y followers y This is very well for
to the other, that the impending "order" a beginning. Indeed, we think it rather
lor conscription be revoked in favor of at- oversteps the modesty of nature. But yes
mistice, negotiation, and peace. ,erJay lhis orSan ,afkd of flo,hi" hul fire
The petitions originated in Ohio deal in and word and "bjoaation, and all at once
no mere palliat.ves They confront the it begins cooing a. soothinciy as the turtle
evils of the proposed draft boldly; and doe- Like all new converts, i's new borr,
. . ii k ... ;i,: -i i zeal hurries it too far. It denounces all who
propose to meet them all by suiting at ,
. . Tl. i hold io day what if held yestetday as mean
their common root The mass meeting 1 1
... .j a tn. ,h. i.Uom.nt nd sordid men. This is going it rather
which we had proposed for the treatment ,
of all these, car. find no remedy more tbor- 1 ,r.on Mr Fl'rn'v- Ue bavft no ,moV"
ouh and effective. A gataering of the 'hBt ar a 8rwa ma"y honest ai-
working classes ot Brooklyn,
Williams- i
bcrgh, Jersey City, and New York otiiht
to Take the terriMe conscription with which
th-v art threaten.!' i-t immediate cns:d
j
rnn,i : an), as hii infallible measure
0
relict irorn it hardship, its injustice, i'.s
danger, follow ;he example of 0:no by ex
ercising their sti'.l iritact right of petitio i,
in pro test;eaainst the further wane of hu-
man lite in a fratricidal and hopeless war
I Petitions asking lor a revocation of Mr.
' Lincoln's demand for half a million of men.
, will addres themselves to the whole circle
; of our private life. A social question, as
, the proposed draft is, may be very justly
nei,j subject to the protest of our women
for a suspension of the alarming work of
Geneal Fry appeals for support to every
home of the North. Men,' women and
children will swell those protests against
the terrors that Mr Lincoln's call has hung
over society ; a.id the volume of the pop
ular voice gathered thus into a positive ex
pression, will ringio the heart of the Ad
ministration as an auiborative declaration of .
pence 1 (
Bv adnDtir.? those neti'ions at a mass t
J t a
meeting, the workmen of thee cities may
give a coup de grace to the accursed cause
of all thte.r sufferings. The initiative in
that work of mercy once taken here at a
large gathering of the masses, the move
ment thus set going will sweep over the
land irresistible as an inondation of the sea.
" Two thirds of the Ameaican people
Tne 7riDane declares very truly to be "anx-
iously, absorbingly desirous o! pes.ee.
M tes those ArVierirs't pep'e have none,
whether Black Ruolicans or While ; and
have therefore bui to put that wish i evi
dence to give it practical edVct. '' Tney are
ever ready.' a- the same jurnl has the
candor to admit, i ;o make all needlol sac
rifices to insure it : a'ld hate only to ex
press their will in the constitutional lorm
of Deiiiion . to sil once more, each a free-
.. .,,.,:.. K j vm. unit hi ITfC With
, .j
no.th-r nnlilical ileteetlte ll'T A rrnvnM
- r
Marshal to mak hem atraM ! N Y. .Ve rs
Tbe Ptacc F:ae on Fasl Day.
On Thur-day last. August 4ih, Mr. Lin.
coin's day of failing and prayer, a flag
Vift.i. tr-.imiie hd not up to that time
oreeted the vision of New Yorker-, floated ,
proudly Irom the Cooper Institute isunaing,
. nt aaIaiI ur ith P VI
r j
ana its appearand - " .
dent signs of sat
tisfaction bv all who saw it.
ed toward it as it waved amid the bummer
air. It was a Peace flag. Its ground was
white, and in its center was a dove bearing
in its mouth an olive branch,
ihe inscriDtion noon it : Peace
Thi was I
on Earth : j
Good W ill Toward men." A prominent
advocate of Peace raised it on fast day.
When doing so he was told that a mob
wooj ,ear n down wiibui
ha'f an hour
I He knew the people better.' mnh rr.o
lested it : but ev.derjt ukn "I gru inea
.:-. ..., . . j.nu-t.ce. and U
-
tmn were g!n at
I fl.inia.i .rr.n.lls ah itar. It wan the firs!
a n ... ?
P. nar,.i,a. ha i beep poWidv rai-ed in N
yf rk ein(H ,nis iraiicijai strife commenced, '
anj r.lc lhe ,z9 0f ir.e institute in the '
evei"li2 wnen L.mlley Spring, Esq. deliv- j
. lecture. It was the gift of
tbe ladies of New York to the blessed cause, I
and carried a blessing with it- Contrast
ihis incident with the vindictiveness dis
played by the people in April, 1861. Who
would then have dared to raise such a flag?
Who could then safely advise peace 1 Bot,
thank God. a change a very perceptible
change has come over the people. Tbe
nation is sick sick nr.to death of war and
its attendant horrors. Peace finds eloquent,
earnest advocates, and its banner flaunts
the' breeze on molested. "Straws show
which way the wind blows." N. Y. Drily
News.
Prompt Rkflt. A post office clerk sent
tbe following to Holbrook's United States
Mail :
'A man called at our general delivery
one day, when I happened lor the moment
to be engaged elsewhere in the office. He
whistled lond'y. I stepped to ihe window
and savagely inquired. whose dog he was
whistling for V "One of Uncle Sam's
pups !" said he quite composedly. 1 had
nothing to say "
Tom Corwin, late minister to Mexico,
and Secretary of Ihe Treasury nnder Presi
dent Fillmore, is out against Abe Nincoln.
Pnrwin vn .nmrt vears afo a leading soir-
it among the Whigs, and was familiarly I
knawn a the "Ohio Wauon. Bov." He
never acted with the Democrats until now.
From the Richmond Sentinel"
Terms of Peace.
We find the following in The
tm Chronicle the organ ol Mr.
Administration, of a late date : 1
Washing
Lincoln's Through-
,w -" '
tree lovers, and emalgari.Htioiiisis, wtio
wo'ild have the war gi on until their d'tc
( irines were carried into practical effect, or,
at least, Dntil the Jw shall return to Jeru-
sa'em. IRe propects cl peace are vary
promising.
Nine-tenths of tbe people, North and
South, are heartily tired and sick of the
war. But the prospects are not so bright
as Mr. Forney paints them ; for, unfortu
nately there are a great many people. North
and South, besilles army contractors and
camp followers interested in the continu
ance of the war. Yet we thank the Chron
icle tor its admission, and accept it in the
kind spirit in which we hope and believe it
was made. When both sides desire peace,
peace cannot be very far off. ''Whee
there's a will there's a way." In the mean
time, we presume, neither side will ram it
its exertion, nor lessen its vigilance ic pros
ecuting the war. We would respectfully
suggest, however, that it is a little out of
the ordinary course of peace negrtiations
to begin with ultimata. They, as their ,'
names implies, come Iast,and shut the door '
on luTther negotiation.
Now we want io treat, to bargain, to ne
gotiaie tor peace, and Mr. Lincoln, who it !
seems, wants peace nlso, will not deign to ;
sho hi lace io us much less talk the mat- '
.er cooly over, but slams the door rudely in :
our faces, just flinging out at the window, '
at the same time, a string of ultimata. which i
any newsboy might pick op and properly ,
appropriate as directed to himself for peace
concerns everybody and anybody. Cold ;
comfort will the advocates of peace. North '
or Sooth, derive from this bitterly sarcastic
paper. It closely resembles the lifiin oT
the Silver Veil, and the disclosure to his
debauched and deluded follower of his
horrid features, by the prophet of Khoras- ;
san. Lincoln seems to grin with the ecsta ;
cy of gratified revenge, and as good as says ,
to his deceived followers : j
"Ye have trusted me, and I have betray- ;
ed you. Without peace, ye are mine I, and '
peace ye sha!! not have !'' Are ye of the I
-" u" ccu c' ",J ruu
V . . I. J i ku . ... I.
misfire and downtrodden to oppose the ty
... ,r .
ran i M will ; Me, with his ultimata, stands
i in the way of peace : says there shall be
no oii-A'ioii to tiring about a peace : and
! inUts. in fact, on unconditional surrender
! on oit part. We hope, however, that he
j will coon be driven from his position or if
. . ...
necessary, Irom his seat We want peace
wjiri the North, and
therefore, shall con
. ...
unoe to make war upon those of either
Atitn tar K r mil tKe m aalirAs r ih a tar ao nf
" v - t
a fair and honorable peace a peace be-
iween equals.
Subj'igation, submission is
not peace.
Let Peace Commissioners be appointed
by either section, and invested .with plenary
powers ot negotiation, meet on neu'ral ter-
ritory, and discuss the terms ot pence Let
al! subjects be open 'o free c'l-cusi.irir nd
negotiation. We of ihe Soixh c"iiK4er'iti
dependence as the great ami fir-t n; j-c: nf
the war. and that separation i- eaential to
independence ; yet we hall ne willing to
Itsien to whM yon h. ve to say and propose
on the other side. You may offer us some
thing that will secure our equal rights with
in the Union ; you may propose to give the
slave holding and tree States equality of
voles in Congress and in the election of
President ; and, partly to effect this, you
may throw all New England into one State,
or give her" to England or, if England
won't have her, let her secede.
Now, ihis would be a tempting bait. We
don't say it would satisfy us; but the sub
ject is worthy of consideration. This war
was brought about, by New England and
New Englanders, and who koows but that
the balance of the States might live in peace
and harmony, if she were out of the way.
But we do not mean to anticipate or pre
scribe. the action of the Commissioners'
Let them enter into the negotiations on
trammeled by ultimata, other than that any
terms of peace they may agree on, shall be
sutjec: to be rejected or ratified by their
respective Governments. As lo the slavery
question, we would leave that to be settled
last. The question of independence con
rers us all. The subject of slavery but
jart of us.
When all other snbjects are disposed of.
the North will find itself embarrassed by
the possession of some half a million of ne
groes, who will immediately bd murdered
by mobs if carried North, whom no nation
or people, savage or civilized, will receive
as freemen in their midst, and whom the
North cannot afford to send them off, if she
could find a spot on earth willing to receive
them. Under these circumstances the ne-
groe
and tbe Northern Commissioners
1 would pray their former masters to let by
gones be bygones,forgive them and let them
go home again, happy and delighted to
their cabins,their corn and their corn fields.
Poor 'darkies, it will be the happiet day of
your life, the noblest triumph of practical rmy to be sent home temporarily to par
hnmanity over narrow, fanatical prejudices tic'i pate in State elections.
the world has ever witnessed: The lessons ' Th'" practice, in connection with sending
of wisdom and true philanthropy taught by '
this war may yet compensate for all
its
cruelties, its privations and its deathf .
What tbe feople are Saying. '
Any one who will go among the people
tbe people as contradistinguished from
the politicians will be satisfied that they
thoroughly understand the condition to i
which the country has been bronght ; that Per-on in aU Par,s of ,he country in the
they are not blind nor to be blinded as t0fcu,-'n" of Government, the Adminl-lra-.
ihe cause of the evils they deplore ; and
that they know the remedy and intend to
apply it.
Everywhere plain people are seying that
in the "good old times" not very long ago
when the Democratic party ruled, our
country was united and prosperous. Hsr
institutions, as perfect, perhaps,as anything
human can be, were administered accord
ing to their spirit and the intention cT their
founders. A proper balance among the de
partments of the Government was main
tained. The Executive did not think itself
entitled to arbitrary powers, and never at
tempted to assume them. The Judiciary
preserved on all occasions its independence
and dignity. Congress, in its enactments,
kept within the bounds pre-cribed by the
Constitution and by a decent self-respect.
Whatever slight defects and corruptions.in
cidenial to human frailty, might have crept
into the conduct of affairs, there were no
such gigantic villainies as corse the nation
now-a days. The Treasury was solvent,
the credit of Government good, and its ex
penses light. No little bell tingled the knell
of trial by jury, and gave the signal to con
sigh free born citizens to dungeons in dis
tant bastiles. Every one was. supposed to
hare a right to utter his opinion of the Ad
ministration in power. There were no
newspaper suppressions, and no banish
ments. Liberty was understood, and the
enjoyment of it guaranteed to all. The
people were prosperous and happy, be
cause ihey were peaceful and free. Their
condition was the admiration and envy of
the world.
With the success of the Abolition party
and its assumption ot power, all was chang
ed. The Abolitionist found peace and
Union they .brought about war and dis
union. In place of freedom and prosperity,
ihey broitght about despotism and misery.
They have so shaped this unnatural war
the end ot their lanatical agitation as to
prevent, so far as-in them lay, all hope of
an early or honorable settlement. Their
policy has loaded the nation with a tremen
dous debt, until it staggers on the verge of
bankruptcy. With them in power, we can
have no prospect save misery, and no hope
for a restoration of the Union. - They have
i done and are doing all that ignorant, reck-
less and fanatical mencarj do, to accomplish
the ruin of their country.
If we wooid save the nation, we most go
back to the Democratic policy. The mkfs
of the peiple know this.. and hence our con
fidence in the fnture. All that ia needed is
prudence, and the selection of proper men
to be our standard bearers in the approach-
ing contest. The nation is to be saved, if
at all, by the ballot box. We rejuice that
t0dav ,he Democratic Dartv is purified
of
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many whr disgraced it in former times i
These, as was fit, long ago deserted to the j
enemy. The timid, the treacherous, the ,
time serving, have been weeded out, and
their places are filled by the good and the
w ise the conservative and intelligent of
i
all parties. If successful and everything
indicates that we shall be successful we
may yet see the Union of these States re
stored, and peace,happiness and prosperity
again the portion of our people. Age.
A Great Change Taking Placs. The
man who does not see that a great reaction I W"B P'" '""
is going oa in the minds of the people j lion, and in lhe n10" of ,hoee Sla,e9 th
against the present Administration is either j T"aU oi the elect,on was Ranged from
blinded by partlzanism or is an indifferent what il wooId h?re been wi,hoot notary
observer of what is going on about him.- interference. The aged and timid were de
The people are sick and tired of the jokes , terred ,I0ra a'"ding the elections ; many
of Abraham Lincoln, and demand states-j who attended were kept from approaching
manship.
The lollies and extravagance of this Ad
ministration are such as to disgust many
honest men of bis .own party, who will
either vole for Fremont, or join the old
Democratic party, who want a raac at the
head of the nation who will administer lhe
laws impartially, will protect the rights of
citizens, enforce the Monroe doctrine, and
seek a speedy peace, change, this fall, in
the national Administration seems now 14
be a fixed tact. It is right, too. for it is un
safe 10 iros such a man as Lincoln, with
hundreds" of millions ' of patronage, with
the administration of the Government for
four years locger. II he is re elected no
man born can tell the fate of our distracted
country Lancaster Intelligencer.
Under the present draft, we do not be
lieve tbe State will furnish one thousand
men Pittsburg Despatch.
Well, if the people will neither volan
teer, nor be dratted into the service if they
can avoid it, why in the name of common
sense do 'he Abolition papers and orators
call it the " people's war."
Blcftcd. A junior partner in a firm on
India street concluded to raise a substitute
and- applied to stout" darkey who was
standing on the opposite corner, when he
received this reply: Lor bleis you, I've
got eight hundred dollars honse for to buy a
white man lor myself. Dayton 0) Em
pire. V
JSililarj lulrrfenfe tilth Elections.
This has taken place in two ways :
First. By the belectiorr ofoldiers of the
borne on such occasions large numbers of
Government officers and employees in the
civil service, has changed ihe result of
many State elections and fiven to the party
in power an unjust adjrantag. With Ihe
large powers possessed by the Admtnistra
tion for the purposes 'of the war ; with the
large increase of appointments to civil office
and the employment of vast numbers of
tion and its party hare been enabled to in
fluence elections to an alarming exteul.
The powers conferred by the whole people
upon the Government, and the revenues. do
rived by taxation from the whole people or
derived from loans which become charged
upon the whole mass of individual proper
ty, have been used in an infinite number
of ways for party purposes aod to secure to
the Republican interest, in the Federal artd
State Governments, the continued posses
sion ot power. The injustice and corrup
tive tendency cf this system cannot be de
nied, and alone should be held sufficient to
condemn the party of the Administration.
It is notorious that time after time, on the
eve of doubtful elecions, thousands of vo
ters have been sent home from the army to
turn the scale between paries and to secure
an Administration triumph. 'And this has
been done, not upon the principle of send
ing home citizen soldiers indiscriminately
and without reference to their polifnr
opinions and attachments, (which would
haye been just,) but upon tbe principle of
selecting republican soldiers, or of granting
furloughs opon the condition of a promise
from the persons favored that they would
support Administration candidates. We
mention elections in New Hampshire Con
necticut, and Pennsylvania as instances ot
such most base and unjust proceeding, by
which unscrupulous power has defeated
the true expression of popular opinion, and
obtained political advantages which were
shamelol to it and deeply injurious to
country. Will a free people consent to have
their system ot elections thus perverted
and corrupted, and expecT to enjoy, in spite
thereof, the peaceable fruits ot good gov.
ernment and mjnest nil ?
Second. A still more grave offense again-t""
the purity and independence of elections
has been committed by the Administration
in the States of Missouri, Kentucky, Mary
land and Delaware The particular circum
stances of Government interference were
somewhat different in each of these Slates,
but Ihe substantial facts in all, were lihese :
1. That the military power ot the Gener
al Government was directly spplied to con
trol the elections, and that officers and sol
diers of the army nt the Unled Siates were
openfy nse-J for that purpose.
2. That the States in question were at
tbe time in a state of profound peace and
quiet, and that with the exception of a sin
gle congressional district in Kentucky, no
Rebel raid or invasion into them was theti
! jn progress or expected
3. That in each of them there exis'ed an
adhering State government, exercising com
plete and unquestioned jurisdiction nnder
Governors and other Slate officials whose
devotion and fidelity to the Government of
the United Stites were unquestionable.
4. That there was no official call upon
the Federal Government.by the Executive
or Legislature of any one or those States for
pro ection against domestic violence, (un
der the particular provision of the Consti
tution of the United States au;borizing each
call.) but that the interference, in most
cases, was against the desire, and notably
in the case of Maryland against the protest
of the State authorities.
5. That thousands of qualified persons
: . - I ( .: .i ,
uie pons ; ana, in many cases, actual out
rage prevented the legal voter from exercis-
ing his right. The full proof of all this ap
pears in a number ot contested election
cases in Congress,iu official papers from the
Govornors of several of the States in qnes
tion, in report of committees of the State
Legislatures, and from other reliable sour
ces ; and we recommend the whole subject
as one of fearful importance, to the exam
ination and judgment of our countrymen.
Congrusional Address.
Lincoln's Election tbe Cause of tbe War
The New York Times, the special organ
j of Lincoln's in that city in a leading article
says :
"Had Mr. Breckinridge, or Mr. Dnaglas,
or Mr, Bell been selected, there wonld have
been no rebellion. The South rebelled be
cause the plurali y of the people chose to
be served by II r. Lincoln
Here we have the confession that there
would have been no war ii Mr. Liocolu
had been defeated This was as well
known in 1P60 a to day, bu' the RepoblU
cans then choe civil war rather than fore
go '.heir par.izan success. They o'v,ed ihsf
wind and reaped the whirwi-.d. i
A wrinkle is the line by which time gea
erally travels. . .