DAII,Y POST.
PITTSBURGH.
FRIDAY SICaSING, BIPT. 25, 1563.
The Union an it Wan, the Constitution as it Is.
Wiiero thovo in no law there is
no freedom.
Democratic Nominations.
FOR GOVERNOR,
CJeorge W. Woodward.
FOR SUPREME JUDGE,
Walter SI. ILowrie.
FOB PRESIDENT JXTDOR OF DISTRICT COURT,
John S. Bailey.
ASSEMBLY.
JAMES BENNY, Sr.,
CHAS. P. WHISTON.
Dr. A. G. HcQUAIDE,
JOHN SILI,
WM. WHIOHAM.
SHERIFF.
JAMES BLACKHOBE
RECORDER,
EDWARD P. KEARNS,
REGISTER.
JAMES SALI.4BUB7.
ron CLERK OF COURTS,
ERNST HEUUXBEIte
TREASURER,
JIH£S IRVIN.
COUXTY COMMISSIONER,
JACOB KEIL,
DIRECTOR OF THE POOR,
H. IF. WIGHTMAN.
NATIVE AMERICANISM,
“lam not and never have been a 'Na
tive American in any political sense , any
more than I have beenh Whig, Antima
son or an Abolitionist, * * * The
speech so often quoted against me f I am
not responsible for. It was introduced in
to the debates by a Whig reporter , in vio
lation of the rules of the body , which re
quired him to submit for revision before
publication, and which he never did
* * * I promptly denounced it, in the
face of the Convention , a# I have done
many a time since, as a gross misrepresen
tation. * * * The Native American
party itself is my witness Seven years
ago I was the caucus nominee for U. S.
Senator. The county of Philadelphia was
represented by Natives. They asked
whether , if elected by their votes , I would
favor their measures for changing the nat
uralization laws. I answered them NO,
and they threw every vote they could com
mand against me and raised a shout of
triumph over their victory. *’
George W. Woodward,
Pittsburgh, Sept. 54,1852.
TO DEMOCRATIC EDITORS AND
PRINTERS.
a®*Tmpgrtant Notice. —Many of the
newspapers in the interior of the State
are printing the name of onr candidate
for Supreme Judge, ‘‘Walter B. n instead
of Walter 27. Lowrie, which is the proper
way. This mistake, especially it carried
out in the printing of tickets, may be the
means of depriring ns on the count , of
thousands of votes. Let editors and prin
ters at once look to this, and print the
name hereafter WALTER H. LOWRIE.
DEMOCRATS, BE ASSESSED.
Democrats should not neglect their as
sessment. They must attend to this be
fore Friday, October 2d, in person, or they
will not have the opportunity of recording
their votes. Taxes must be paid to the
Connty Treasurer. Oar friends, particu
larly in the country, should keep this in
view. Every vote should be deposited on
the Seoond Tuesday of October. Repub
lican Assessors will not go after demo
crats. You must attend to yonr own af
fairs.
Upon the first page of the Post,
will be found an able opinion by Judge
MoCandless, delivered at Williamsport,
MORE ABOUT TAXATION—A MOJT
" STltOl’B MORTGAGE.
loour articles about this unpleasantßub
ject of taxation, we bare assumed the
whole debt of the war to be $3,000,000,-
000. We sa j "assumed," not because we
think we have placed it too high, but be
cause the Treasury of the United States
acknowledged $1,200,000,000, aB funded
on the 30lh of June last —and because we
believe the unfulfilled contracts and the
balances due for pay, &c., will make up
the remainder. And moreover, as the
war has now lasted over 880 days, and as
the expenditures are, by common consent
set down at $3,000,000 pe/ day, (at least)
the amount would be $2,640,000,000. So
that, when every thing is cleaned up,
$3,000,000,000 iB not an extravagant esti
mate for the whole expense of the war,
supposing it shall close by the Ist of Jan
uary, 1864.
Now, as before stated, Pennsylvania’s
share of the three thousand millions is Jive
hundred millions— or one-sixth of the
whole amount. If we turn to the proper
documents, we shall find that the valua
tion of all the property, heal and person
al, in Pennsylvania, as fixed by,the Rev
enue Board of the State in February,
1863, was FIVE HUNDRED AND
NINETY-SIX MILLIONS of dollars.
Remember, 596 millions.
Now, if our share of the National Debt,
(we mean cf Pennsylvania) shall be $500,-.
000,000 — FIVE HUNDRED MILLIONS ! ! we
are, as a body politic, mortgaged for
more than FIVE-SIXTHS of all WE
SAY WE ARE WORTH 1!!
This is not very pleasant, certainly—
but “worse remains behind." Let us
proceed :
We have before estimated the Pension-
List at 250,000. Now, our most care
ful figuring friends say' we are too low—
they say that If the pensioners numbered
170,000 on the 3st .ofSeptember, they will
bo 300,000 at the end of the war. *No
matter—we would rather be under than
over —for we don’t wish to alarm anybody
—we wifi say 250,000 pensioners, at $8
iper month each—this l2,
(the numb.fr oi the months ni'eaefiyear):
will be S24;OCOJ)OOT - Of this, ~ our share
is ONE-SIXTH —we mean, of course,
Pennsylvania’s share—and that is FOUR
MILLIONS MORE!
Now, as we had mortgaged 696 millions
tif. value .for 600 millions of debtr-wc
had 96 of vahieß deft, or nearly
one sixth of: ode whole estate— and no
more, : Bui now comes this charge for
Pensions—it is not funded, to lie sure, as
the other things will be—but it is an ob
ligation,—shall we say?—mere sacred!!
And we have to pay these four millions
annually, out of the 96 millions that will
remain to us after the 500 millions are
paid. *
If poor old Pennsylvania is to be sold
out to-morrow for the liabilities she has
assumed, ■ and if she shall sell for /the
whole amount her own Revenue Board
has put upon her, her account would stand
thus:
Pennsylvania, Dr.
To her shore of National d*bt,say... $500,000 000
“ " own 8 4 ate debt 38,000,000
“ Pr’ncipal (at 6 prr cont) of her 1
share of Pension List, / ' O - 000 - 000
Pennsylvania Cr.
By her own valuation of her ewn
property <...,5696 000,000
Balance against Pennsylvania,., $17,000,000
Or, unless Pennsylvania’s property, real
and personal, would sell for more than
her own valuation, ($696,000,000) she is
SI7,OOO,OOOWORSE THANNOTHING!
Tax payers, how do you like the picture?
J® 1 ” We refer to THOS. J. BIGIIAM,
Esq., Revenue Commissioner for this
coontv, to sav whether our statement of
the valuation of thereal and personal pro
perty in the State is correct—and trust, as
wo name him, as a public officer, and not
as an editor, that he will not be offended.
OtiRCAESE AND OCR CANDIDATES
To doubt the triumphant success of the
Democratic party in the approaching elec
tion m Pennsylvania, would be to doubt
the capacity of the people for self-Govern
ment, and this we cannot do iu this day
of popular enlightenment and education.
There is, besides, a latent, virtuous pa
: triotism in the people, which is only
aroused upon great occasions, and which
is now makiug itself visible throughout
the State. And no wonder. The people
of Pennsylvania, in view of the espe
rience of the past two and a half years, 1
with an impenetrable gloom in the future,
will crush the fanaticism which is oppres
sing them. There can be no mistake in the
aigus of the Limes ; our deliverance is not
far off. Everywhere throughout lhe Com
monwealth the people arc arousing from
their lethargy,and are assemblingin ihotiL
ands at the call of the Democracy. From
every quarter, and from every county we
hear the most encouraging accounts for
the success ot our cause in October, We
have never known the conservatives of the
State so thoroughly arooseAnd united.
Our cause isjast and hence the alacrity
of the people in sustaining it. Our can
didates for Governor atd the Supreme
Bench have lived down detraction, until
all except the most reckless of their as
sailants have ceased to assail them.
Jadge Woodward’s purity of character i?
making him thousands of votes, because
of his opponent —according to Abolition
testimony—being simply a public plunder
er. The able and fearless Chief Justice
Lowrie, will also receive thousands oJ
votes from the thinking citizens of the
State, who place a proper estimate upon a
fearless and faithful judiciary.
Able, honeßt and fearless are our candi
dates for State offices, and highly respect
able and worthy are the gentlemen whose
names are on our County ticket. For
Presiding Judge of the District Court, we
have John H. Bailey, Esq., a young and
vigorous thinker. Mr. Bailey iaone of our
own County’s Bons,born in the city, and he
should receive the votes of every young
Pittsburgher, who desires to encourage
and elevate native talent and genius. Our
Assembly ticket, Jas. Benny, sr., Chas.
P. Whiston, Dr. A. G, McQuaid, John
Sill and William Whiguam, ie the list
we nominated in the County. For Sher
iff we have the gallant and intrepid James
Blackmore, one. of the cleverest men
alive, and a great favorite throughout the
county. Our candidates for Recorder,
Register and Clerk of Courts, E. P.
Kearns,James Salisbury and E. Hetule'
berg, arc all first class men, honest and
capable. To James Irwin, “of Diamond
Alley,” our candidate fer Treasurer, we
need not allude; every one knows him*
and all admit him to be a man above re
proach. He is a representative man of
the rise and solidity of Pittsburgh, Hon
est, open, and manly, he iB nece33arily
well thought of by all, and especially by
those who have known him longest. Mr.
Jacob Keil and Mr. W. H. Wigiitman.
candidates for County Commissioner and
Director of the Poor, -aro also first-rate
men ; taking the ticket altogether in
connection with our State nominees, and
we have the ablest combination of candi
dates ever presented for the suffrages of
the people of our CouDty and State.
Two More Splendid Democratic
Meetings
Have.been held. One of them was held
at Celina, in Mercer County, Ohio on Fri
day. The crowd was estimated at about
15,000, and was addressed by the Hon.
S. 3. Cox, Hon. Alex, Long, and Hon.
C. A. White. The other meeting was
held at Tiffin, some 25,000 people gather
ed at this meeting. Thirty core of ladies
were in the procession. One thousand
dollars was raised for the benefit of so\
diers' widows and children.
It was a glorious jubilee.
A Hebei Circular,
We publish verbatim et lit eratimn pro's
lamation, circular or order from the pen
and brain of the rebel Colonel Hamilton.
It explains itself. If the rebel colonel is
no better fighter than ho- ib a writer, we
woulan tbe afraid of his pen or sword
either:
“Head. Qrs Hamilton's Battalion Tom
kinsvillE Ky Sept 7th 1803 Gentlemen
and Soldiers I now Give notice to all Con
cerned that the principle of Burning must
beStoptaslam ordered to ret.ailiat? in
Every respects Let us fight not Make War
On the Womenand Children I am Roundly
oppcseu to Burning & Plunders Bull am
Competed to retaliate therefore I am
Desirous that tbe Burning & Pillageing
may be Stopt if it Does not Stop 1 will
Certainly Retaliate I Certainly Regard
Citizens if- the Citizens of, the South is
Respected, ,
“lem y.our Humble Sem 7 ’ L
“O P Hamilton
' ” ftbfCommdg MCavqlry."
Twelve deserters from the Fourth
Army Corps are to be shot on Friday, the
2oth, near Catlett’s Station.
THE OHIO ELECTION.
JiujJhcr I.otfer from ibfl Hon. C* L.
' nllamllgham.
Windsor. C. W., Sept. 17, 1863.
To the President of the Democratic Mass
Meeting at Carthage , Ohio:
biace writing mass convention at
Dayton to day, the monstrous proclama
tion oi the President has appeared, sus
pending the privilege of the writ of habeas
corpus , and thus declaring martial law
throughout the United States, in every
one and every part of every one of them,
and in all their territories. It comes with-
Get; previous warning.. It is announced
at a time when the successes of the Fed*
er. J armies and the referees of the Con
federates are greater than at any period
since the beginning of the war 5 at a time
when the lines of the former are more
extended, and of the latter more contract
ed and further removed trom the original
frontier than ever before, and at a time
when, according to the Secretary of State,
the rebellion is at last almost crushed oat.
It appears m the midst of no riot, tumult,
or other popular convulsion* anywhere in
the States always true to the Uniou, and
no preparation for any ; and when eTen
the cdiouE “conscription” is being ex
ecuted quietly and without resistance
wherever announced. It is to continue
“during the rebellion” —the President
being the sole judge and arbiter of how
long the rebellion shall be deemed to last.
At sach a time, and under such circum
stances, it can have but one object—the
pending electior.B this lull, but especially
the Presidential canvass of 1864. It is,
indeed, the full development of that of
which I have 60 often warned the people
oi Ohio and cf the United States —the
great conspiracy egainat constitutional
liberty and free popular government—the
establishment of a “formal and proclaimed
dtspotism” in your midst. Oh, that the
warning voice, feeble though it was, which
two years ego in the beginning of this
great struggle, in accents earnest as ever
issued from humau lips, cried aloud tc the 1
people, that, one by one, their liberties
were about to perish, and that anarchy
first, and a strong Government afterward
—no more State lines, no more State
Governments, but a consoliddted mon
archy, or vast centralized military despot
ism, must all follow in the history of the
future, as in the history of the past they
bad centuries before been written. But
that voice found no echo then, save in the
columns and corridorß of the Capitol. To-'
duy it is lifted up again. And hereafter
let no man tell yoa—least of all the sen
tic els upon your watebtowers—that there
is no danger, no ground for alarm or ap
prehension, To day your President is m
form, as for two years and more he has
been in fact, a Military Dictator.
The most incredulous may tee at lats
that the issue is, indeed, whether there
shall any longer be Constitution and law
in the United Slates, other than the will,
unknown or expressed, of the President;
whether freedom of person, of the press,
of speech, free political assemblages and
a free ballot, shall any longer exist among
uf, and whclherthepeople shall hereafter,
ur. heretofore, choose the Legislatures and
Chief Ext-ru'ive of the State and Federal
Governments. Shall there be free State
electio:-s ary longer, or another Prcsi
dtnlal election ot any sort ? Shall popu
lar government or a despotism, unlimited
*by law and uncontrolled by Judicial Courts
henceforth prevail in the United States?
This, now, men oi Ohio, moretbaa ever,
is the issue before yon. The revolutionary
purpose of the Administration to perpetu
ate by intimidation or force, its power in
the States and in the General Government
stands now folly revealed, Next after
this declaration of martial law will follow
the armed seizure and occupation of your
Sinto by Federal troops, to intimidate or
overpower you at the polls. But this
monstrous purpose cannot be executed,
except the people cringe or cower before
tho.threat or the attempted execution.
The time, therefore, has now arrived
ifu the renewed, solemn, inexorable dec
laration and pledge, by the people to each
other, through the preaa and in public as
-Bitnbh:ge». that they mean to maintain
tudr liberties at every hazard, and to have
and to hold free elections, peaceably if
they can, forcibly if they must. By the
Constitution ot Ohio no soldier or marine
of the United States can gain a residence
0: become a citizen aud elector of the
Slate by being stationed within her limits.
By the law of England, and by a provi
dent statute of Pennsylvania, all troops
are required to be removed a prescribed
distant-.-—rot less than one mile—from
the place of holding an election ; and
this, too. is iho Spirit at least of our own
lews. Every qualified elector of Ohio has
the right freely, and without molestation
of any kind, to 70te the ticket of his
choice, and if Federal cr State trqops be
present to molest or intimidate—no mat
ter under wbat^retext—it is the right of
the citizen.; and the duty of the civil ofii
cers and cf the militia to disperse or ar
rest the offenders, and to use whatever
force may be necessary for that purpose.
I counsel you, one and all, to stand by
the Union, maintain the Constitution,
support the Government and obey the
laws ; but in the name and by the memory
of your fathers, and as you would secure
the blessings of liberty to yourselves and
your children, I invoke yo& to defend the
right of election and the ballot-box by
all the means which the exigencies of the
case may demand. The hour of your
trial baa at last come. Be firm and be
ready ; and God grant that the spirit of
the patriots andfreetpen of other ages and
countries, of the heroes of Greece and
Rome, the spirit ot Bruce and Tell, of
Hampden and Sydney, of Henry and Wash
ington and Jackson, may be found to sur
vive yet in the men of the present genera
tion in America, aud thus that both the
form and the substance of constitutional
liberty and free popular government be
still preserved and maaeßecure among us.
C. L. VALDANDIGHAM,
Mr.. Trunu.ow Weed’s recent letter de
nouncing the draft leads people to say that
it would not be strange if thenext canvass
should show to us Mr. Lincoln as well as
Mr. Seward, as no friend of this unpopu
lar measure. The chronicles of 1864 may
present on this head some such letter from
Mr. Lincoln as the following ;
In regard to this draft business, people
said to me that it had been very successful
in other countries. France and Prussia,
had raised excellent armies in that way.
J replied that our fashion was to raise ar
mies by voluntary enlistments. A change
was proposed. It was not a good thing to
ewap'horßea while crossing a stream. But
it was urged that volunteering hadoeased,
and any horse was better than a dead
horse. This does not strictly follow. The
bide and shoes of a dead horse may be
worth something. Moreover, the horse
might not be dead, only perhaps sham
ming death, or in what the surgeon-gen
eral, and that excellent institution the
Sanitary Commission denominate a state
of coma. Besides the new horse might
be vicious. Certainly, from what is known
of him, he requires expensive provender ;
then, if he should kick his owner’s brains
out, better have kept the dead horse.
Therefore I recur to my position, not to
Bwap. But I the bill authorizing
the draft.’ Of course, the President signs
the bills passed by Congress, unless he
vetoes them. I saw no occasion for a
vote. The country was in a state of war.
The men in Congress, from the eastern
stateb who voted tor that bill, are sup
posed to have wanted a draft. They had
it. . The men frjmthe western states-who
voted for it may not have wanted a draft.'
Theydidnot hhve it. Anything will float
where there is water enough. There seems
to have been a drought in the western
states that season, and only a heavy dew
in New Jersey, as far as heard from.
Froai the Now Y„rk World.
Tlio Defeat of jEtosecrans
The unwilling voice of the official tele
graph at last compels us to accept the re
salts of the fierce battle fought on Saturday
and Sunday last near Chattanooga as a
ead and substantial disaster to the arms of
the Union.
That the Army of the Cumberland fought
its sore fight with gallantry and spirit need
not be said. This at least we have a right
now to expect of the veterans of the na
tion, however commanded and by what
ever strategy surrendered to the crnel
chances of unequal strife.
Bat when we read, ot a complete and
compulsory diEappearunca from the field
of the whole right and centre ot the army
of Bosecrans, and when we find that noth
ing stood between these broken corps and
utter ruin bntthe cool and skillful courage
of Generffl Thomas, commanding the left
wing of the defeated force, it is time that
the patriotic of the country
should speak ont plainly and demand of
the government some mere rational and
satisfactory account of its stewardship
than such a paragraph a|forda as the fol
lowing, which the authorities at Washing
ton have not been ashamed, through the
Associated Press, to fling in tho face of
the public :
"lire fact that General Bosecrans was
not sooner reinforced is certainly not the
fault oi the- Government ; bat there is no
donbt that every effort is now making to
increase his strength by reinforcements
from more than one direction.”
The only vital point in this official state
ment is the confession that General Rose
crans has been worsted. How badly he
has been worsted still remains to be seen.
If he haß simply been driven in npon
Chattanooga, itself a formidable position,
and can there hold his own until the tardy
Burnside, can be driven, and the energetic
Grant can hasten to his relief, the iesalts
of the victory of Bragg will prove, like the
results of bo many other victories in this
war, to be rather a moral than a material
gain to the winning side. Bat the latest
advices place Burnside, at a distance ol
nearly two hundred miles from Chatta
nooga, and indicate that the line of com
munication hetween Ilosecrans and him
self is threatened and horraseed by guer
rilla forces neither few nor inconsiderable.
From no other quarter can Kosecranß
expect any imaginable support in this
his hoar of extremity.
He left Shelbyville a month and more
sgo with rutions for less than two months,
and the long line between Chattanooga
and Murfreesboro 1 cannot possibly be kepi
open by a beaten army. General Grant,
on the Mississippi, is quite as much cut
cfl from the possibility of aseisLing him
as is General Meade on tho Potomac, and
he is ns likely to be reinforced by the con
scripts of Vermont as by the veterans
scattered with Steele and Franklin all
the way from the Red river to the Rio
Grande.
should he accordingly be forced to evacu
ate Chattancoga and attempt a retrogade
march upon Central Tennessee, we ought
not to be surprised to Bee that movement
attended by the most persistent and most
fatal onslaughts which the rebels have
yet made upon any recoding force of the
Union.
To rcassame the c IVensive is for licse
crans evidently impossible. The utmost
that can now be hoped of him is that he
may show himßelf able to withdraw his
troops from a position in which he ought
never to hove engaged t hem.
That tho decisive campaign of the finest
army assembled in the West should have
been “brought to this complexion” is no
light or trivral matter. The canßes which
have led to Buch a result demand, and we
trust will receive, the most searching in
vestigation. The attempt which has been
made at Washington to throw the crushing
responsibility of this “heavy blow and
gTeat discouragement" upon Gen. Burn
side, were it even successful, would not
liberate the masters and managers of Gen.
Burnside from their just public accounta
bility. It was they, or the chief of them,
who planned the grand scheme of which
Bosecrans was the inadequate performer,
and Burnside the constituaonal marplot.
It waß Lhey or the chief of them who
kept lingering idly at Vicksburg some
twenty or twenty five thousand men who
might have been employed either in dem
onstrating against Mobile, or in reinforc
ing the advance of Bosecrans. Mej. GeD.
Halleck was particularly swift to claim for
himself the credit of the victories of Gen.
Grant. He may be perfectly certain that
he will be called npon to accept as frank
ly the disgrace which must attach forever
in our history to the author of the super
fluous and exasperating reverses of Rose
crans.
General Burnside is understood to have
been officially censured for his tardiness
in reinforcing General Rosecrans. -While
the Washington authorities ate the remote,
he seems to have been the immediate cause
of the disaster. It is rumored, with a
strong show of probability, that his resig
nation was tendered because he did not
wish to play second fiddle to Gen. Rose
c.-ans. He delayed hastening to the re
lief of the Army of the Cumberland be
cause it would pat him underthe command
of a junior officer. When ordered to re
port'to General Rosecrans, he. tendered
his resignation in high dudgeon, and dis
obeyed orders by scattering his army
throngh Eastern Tennessee.
But whatever truth there may be in
these stories, the foolishness of Burnside
was an inevitable incident of any campaign
in which he was concerned, and ought to
have been as much taken into the account
by General Halleck in planning his strate
gy a B the height of the Cumberland hills,
or the width cf the Cooeii river,
_ To fasten the shauie and burden of this
bitter national disappointment upon the
shoulders which ought properly to bear
it, is a public duty, anti must be done.
But it is bard to find tbe heart for doing
it while we contemplate the possible, and
indeed tbe probable, fruits of the disap
pointment itself. That it reverses all the
prospects of the autumnal campaignjin the
central Southjia searcelj its darkest feature,
It will probably revive the sympathies of
Europe with the “confederate" cause, and
hasten tbe accomplishment of any plans
of recognition into which the agents of
Jefferson Davis may have led any foreign
powers. It will certainly rekindle the
hopes, the enthusiasm Bud the passion of
the Southern population, and we may be
sure that we shall hear ho more' for the
present touching tbe demoralization of
the rebel armies. Troops who fight with
the vim and desperation of the rebels'in
this laßt fight, show that they have lost
neither discipline nor Bpirit. General
Rosecrans, and, throngh his reports, the
whole North, seems to have been thor
oughly deceived as to tbe real condition
of Bragg’s army. Excellent as was the
morale of General Rosecran’s command
previous to the battle, that of tbe rebel
orces was quite bs good, while the Gener
alship seems to have been incomparably
better at least in this contest.
Proportion of. Males and Females
in the United States.
In Massachusetts the females outnum
ber the males some 36,000 and in New
1 ork there is a small preponderance of
females, bet in Pennsylvania the males
are more numerous. This difference be
tween our State and tbe whole of the
States is in great part owing to the large
number oftemaleß employed in the man
ufactories in the Eastern States, and the
neat emigration of the m en to the new
Stateß, especially to those on the Pacific
coast. The males in California outnum
ber the females near 68,000, or about one
fifth of the population. Boston Trav.
a
The Judge
Ktclieit>,in jpavor of State, Bighte.
Knoxville* Oct 28. 1834,
Mt Bear Sir: As I am about leav
ing this pl&pe for Ohio, I- Ibave, but a few
moments to reply to your favor of the 21at
’-nst. In my view, no powers can be ex
ercised by the Federal Government except
those which are expressly delegated to it;
and I should think that the experience we
have had ought to convince every one that
any extension of the Federal powers mnst
endanger the permanency of the Union.
All jadicial questions which arise under
the Gonstitniion and laws of the Union,
are referable to the Supreme Court of the
United States, and its decision is final in
such cases. This tribunal is expressly
vested with the power to decide such
questions by the Constitution, which was
adopted by the people' of the respective
States. The Supreme Court, then, haß
been made the arbiter in such .cases by the
States, and its decisions are binding on all
litigant parties.
a political authority be asserted
by the Federal Government, which is con
troverted by a State, and which affects the
interest of snch State, and it cannot be
made a jadicial question nnder the Consti
tution or laws ot the Union, there is no
tribunal common to the parties; and, in
such a case, effect can not be given to the
power. The decision of a sovereign State,
B ? c^L a case i i 0 a 0 good as the decision
o t the Federal Government, and, of neces
sity, there must be mutual forbearance.
An unconstitutional act of Congress im
poses no obligation on a State, or the peo
pie of a State, and may be resisted by an
individual, or a community. No one, I
believe, will controvert this. Bat, is a
bound to submit to a systematic
course of oppression from the Federal
Government? I answer no. It should
remonstrate again and again, until all re
monstrance is vain and useless. An ap
peal should be made to the other States,
iu all the forms sanctioned by the Consti
tution, and ample time should be given
for reflection.
But if all these efforts shall-produce no
effect, and the oppression be continued —
an oppression which withers the hopes of
the State, and dries up the resources of
its prosperity, and the people of the State
are forced to the alternative of choosing,
under such circumstances, liberty or sla
very, they may, and should, reject the lat
ter, and assert the former by open resist
ance. 1 biß is an inherent right, which
may be asserted and maintained by every
organized community. Instead of enlarg
ing its powers by a rule of construction
which may be contracted or extended at
pleesure, the Federal Government should
act within the sphere allotted to it, and
consider that the true glory of our Federal
system consists in attaining the great ob
jects of its formation, with the least possi
ble action upon the diversified and con
flicting interests of the people.
In this way, and this way only, can this
system, so eventtal in its origin, and which
has excited the astonishment and admira
tion of the world, be made perpetual.
And I need not say what every enlighten
ed individual must admit, that upon 1,2
perpetuity the cauee of national liberty de
pends. If lime permitted, I would give 6
more detailed reply to your inquiries; but
I trust this hasty scroll, under the circum
stances, will be received.
Very tiuly and sincerely yours,
John M’Lean
The Kentucky Platform.
There is a singular unity andcoraestness
of opinion among the loyal men of Ken
tucky in the maintenance of an intelligent
and independent adherence to the cause
ol the Constitution and the Union. The
platform on which they stand is thus de
fined by the Hon. Geo. H. Yeaman, a
member elect of the next Corgress, as
be was a useful member of the last during
its closing session, having been chosen to
succeed the lamented Gen. .Jackson, who
fell while gallantly fighting (or the Gov
ernment st Perryviile :
“The wilful destruction by the Govern
ment cl any interest is neither a necessary
means nor a legitimate object in prosecu
ting the war. But if such injury come as
an incident or a’necessary result of the
war caused by the rebellion, let it tome.
We do not Eeek it ; we wonld avert it if
possible ; but the war Bgainst the rebel
lion must go on, the rebellion must be
mbdned and onr nationality vindicated.
While the Btrnggle of arms continues we
may and will discuss and condemn giveo
measures or policies, but to withdraw sup
port from the Government, and to aban
don the war jnßtwhen the rebellion poshes
it with the energy of deßpair, is not only
10 give aid and comfort to the enemy, bnt
to assure the success of his schemes.'
Kentucky will not do this '
f he recent marked victory of the Union
party of Kentucky, on her platform of po
litical opposition to the Administration
and military support of the Government a
victory achieved over those who would
deny that ■support, sufficiently indicates
the true position of the State. In her own
councils aud in the councils of the nation
she is not wedded to the pecular schemes
or measures of the present Administra
lion ; neither is she leagued with tho e
who have moro anxiety to overturn the
Administration and save a party than they
have to overturn the rebellion and Bave
the Union. She will not co-operate with
any whose zeal against Mr. Lincoln as
sumes the form of practical assistance to
Mr. Davis—those who, in quarrel how
the war shall be conduoted, would forget
to conduct the war at all, and leave the
Constitution they affect to save to the vio
lence and ruin of its assailants.’’
Lincoln's Proclamation
Our loyal neighbors who think no argu
ment can be sound, cr founded upon any
stronger ground, than factions opposition,
may perhaps acknowledge that the his
torian Hume was neither a copperhead,
an ignoramus, nor a traitor. It wonld be
impossible for us to write an article more
lully covering the entire grornd, or more
applicable to the present state of affairs
than the following extract from Home’s
history of Henry VIII. It shows ns what
the fntnre historian must ssy of certain
transactions of the present Administra
tion :
‘■The Parliament having thus resigned
all their religions liberties, proceeded to an
surrender of their civil, and, without
scruple or deliberation, they made by One
act a total subversion of the English Con
stitution. They gave to the King’s proc
lamation the same force as to a statute en
acted by Parliament ; and to rehder the
matter worse, if possible, they framed this
law as if it was only declaratory, and were
intended to explain the natural extent of
royal authority.
“The preamble contains that the King
had formerly set forth several proclama
tions, which forward persons wilfully con
temned, not considering what a King by
his royal power may do ; that this license
might encourage offenders not only to dis
obey the lawsof Almighty God, but also
to (dishonor the King’s most royal Majes-;
ly, who may fully ill bearit ; that sadden
emergencies often occur which require
speedy remedies, and await the
slow assembling and deliberations of Par
liament. * * * *
For theoe reasons the Parliament, that
they might remove all occasion of doubt,
ascertained by a statute this prerogative of
the crown, and enabled hia Majesty, with;
the advice of his Conrfcils, to set forth
proclamations 1 enjoining obed ence under
whatever pains and penalties they ehonld
think proper; and these proclamations
were to have the force of perpetual law. —
Hume, vol. iii. chap, xxxii.
Hu?
I rom tho Cleveland i’lain ‘Dealer
Douglas and Vallandigliam;
The wily Wluqlii! Jofijj; Brough
ia the exponent and standard bearer, are
trying to wheedle a few Wotea of' inciu
tiona people, by claiming that Mr. Vallan
digham did not do the fair thing by Mr.
Douglas at the Charleston Convention.
We find published in the Chicago Times a
letter from: Jndge Douglas which will put
an effectual quietus upon this .last slander
concocted by a cunning and nnscrupuloua
party:
Washington, June 3, 1860.
“My Dear Sib— Accept my thanksiot
your bind letter. While I am glad to
hare your testimony to the fidelity dud
energy with which oar friend Vallandig
ham acted at Charleston. I take 'pleas
are in assuring ydn that I never, for d
moment, doubted him. Whenever I
know a man to be a gentleman, I always
regard his word as conclosive. Heßido3 r I
have too many evidences of Cfen. ; Vallah*
digham’s friendship for me to
one to impeacli fcis honor iii “iny hrea—
ence.
‘*lt is an act of jastice to say that aeV*
oral friends of mine, who had nOt been
particularly friendly to him previous to
the Charleston Convention, came back bis
warm friends and bore enthusiastic, tfegti*
mony to, hia noble bearing and efficient
services/ I take pleasure in' assuring you
that all your news'especially from the
South, is of the most cheering character.
Another effort will be inade to break nip
the Convention, but it will fail.
“With assurance of my grateful regards,
I am, very truly, your friend,
(Signed) S. A. DOUGLAS.
To Hon. Ben. M. Samuels, Dubuque,
lowa.
If Mr. Douglas were living to day, he
would be the leader of the opposition
against an administration, not only
throws every obstacle io the way of a re
turn to the Union by the Rebel States,
but makes likewise, steady and persistent
warfare upon the liberties-of the pebple
in those States which are'not in rebel
lion. :
*1 he War on the Oceanv
The Boston Traveller learns that the
ship Prince of Wales, from Callao for
Antwerp, has been Captured by the. Geor*
gia and bonded for $20,000. The New
Bedford Mercary of Monday, has the
following :
“We make the following extract from a
letter received at the Provost Marshal’s
office in this city on Saturday evening :
Last July a pirate vessel, bsrbentine rig
ged, was seen off the south side, of, Mar
tha’s Vineyard for lour days in succes
sion. To-day the same craft has again been
seOn by our boatmeu, who were some‘five
or six miles off. She stood along - shore
eastward, till within two mile of Tucker
nuck, then stood off southwesterly. I have
this information from one of the boatmen
who saw this steamer to day and in July.
Ee sayaitis the selfsame crafu
O I ED:
M’BRIDE— On Thursday, £4. Jonn
Heney M’R?n>E, eldest son cf William P. and
Treresa M’Bride, aged 14 years and 8 months.
Th ) friends of the family are respectfully in
vited te attend the fune*alon Friday, at 2 o’clock
p. m., from the residence of his father, No.-fid
Wylie street, to proosed to St. Mary’B Cemetery,
Tee premature‘death of youpg M’Bride, we
announce with exceeding regret. Ho was not
only a dutiful and model son, but he i roiniaed
to bo a virtuoui and ufiefel man. Wa condole
with hiscfflict ed p; renUfortheirirroparablo los\
PECTORAL CO ITOIX SYRtP,
Prepared by Dr. KEYSEB,
I* the most cfT.’ctuil and agreeab!o coilgh rem
edy known. It haa fcoen sold hero and through
out thecouitry fir many joais, rendering the
utmost satisfact on.
la bottles at 50 Cents tneb,
Oae boitle containing ab:ut three times the
quantity of the ordinary tad articles. Sjldby
nl , tiIMON JOHNbXOb,
sc.4 Corner of tfniithfield & Fourth Hta.
LIQUIIS STOVE '
Reasons why it is better than dry Polish';
1. It is already mixed.
It has do smell whatever.
It produces no dii tor dost.
4. It stands the most intense heat.
5. It preserves from rust.
G- It is tho most economical polish.
7. It is net ouc-fourth the labor.
For sale by SIMON JOHNSTON.
sc24 corner Smithfield and Fourth stP.
TRESSES, TRUSSES,
TRUSSES, TRUSSES, TRUSSES,
TRUSSES, TRUSSES, TRUSSES,
A enporior article of Trusses. The latest im
provement.
Hard Rubber Trusses,
Hard Rubber Trusses, •
Hard Rubber Trusses, ■ *
Jlhoso wishing a good Tru3a and at a low price
should call aud examino in? stook before pur
chasing elsewhere.
Superior Carbon Oil. Burning
Fluid. Soda Ash and Pot arh
Perfumery and Patent Medicines of all
kinds.
A hree and complete assortment of Qum
Elastic and Hard Hubber Syringes. Remember
the place,
■At Joseph Fleming’* Drug Store.
At Joseph Fleming’s Drug Sio*-e,
At Joseph Fleming’s Drug
Corner of the Diamond and Market stradj.
Corner of the Diamond and Market street.'!
bo2l
[OOiDfUIUOATEnJ .•'*
PULMONARf COfiSUMPiIQi A CURABLE DISEASE.
A CARD.
TO CONSUMPTIVES.
UNDERSIGNED HAVING
been restored to bealihjju. afew weeks,
by a very simple remedy, a r £er hayifig; suffered
several yeais with a tererd luhg affeetion,-pnd
that dread disease. Consumption—'is anxious to
make known to hi* fellow-suffer era tho means of
core* ' ..v ■■■:
To &U who desire it, ha will send ac-'py of the
prescription used (freeof ohorgeO with the direc
tors for preparing, and using the same, which
they will find a sure ewe for Cokbumttios,
Asthma, BfiOKCHms, Coughs, The
only oVjectof the advertiser in sending : the Pre
scription is to benefit the afflicted,, asd spread'
information which.be conceives', pbe invaluable;
and he hopes every sufferer will try his reinedy,
as it will cost him nothing, and may prove a
blessing.
Parties wishing the prescription will pti&ka
address
Rkv. EDWARD A. WILSON, Williamsbargh,
so:s-3mdAw Kings County, Now York. ‘
NEW DISCOVERT
To Strengthen and Improve the Sight,
Tub Pxbblb - „
Russian Spectacles,i
PERSONS SUFFERING FfiOU DE
foctive sight, arising frnnjftgQer:other«au£*
es. can be relieved by using the Russian Febt-
Me Spectacles, which have.bemwoll tried ty
many responsible cinxena of Pittsburgh., and vi
<Mty,towi<nnibtoy kave given p,erfect’satf£fac- :
tion. The certificates of these persons can be*
seen at my office. • -
All who purchase one nairof the Russian
Pebble Spectacles are entitled to be supplied in
future free vfohorge with thosewhloh will always
dvesatufaotion. - •
Therefore, if you wiah to ensure an Improve’
aent in your sight call on
J. DIAMOND, Practical Optician,
Manufacturer oftheßnstiAn Pebble Spectacles.'
janlP;d*w No- 39. Fifth street. Post BoUdi*-*
gg hly place of business is dosed cn Satnrda'y,
Ladies’ Take Notice*
THE FOXXOWING FIRMS have
agreed to pa? the bill of prices demanded
by tho Association." ' hry
now wages, and employ only the
bcßtworkmen, audit. tirighttbatwe sbouldict
4he pnb.ic know where they can.oh oin the best
goods . ' '{,n~r
W-"E. Sehmer:zhCa. A. Cain.
Win.‘Kerr; ' ’KKeya, "~*’
Wm. Cuthbert, Jno. Thompson
T. Coyle A Bro., Qeo. Watkins,
Henry Dipple, Jno. Campb&H
By order of the
se22-lwd SHOEMAKERS* ASSO
! ll&w Advertisements,
mASOWSfAJML
EOBONb WEEK only,
Commencing
OJJ IfOSDIT, SEPTEMBEB 3Sth.
Prof. ANDERSON,
. r The extraordinary
PBFSTICifiIfATEUB k .p§()| ASp|UT
In his highly entertaining Lectures and Experi
ments in PbYCHOLOGY and PRiSbTIDIGITA-
RiALISM. assisted by :
HADAIHE c ANl>£P^
The surprising BIOLOGIST whose rare faculty
ofHECOND bIGHT haa been thethemo of tuu
iVerfal delight.
l_Por tho especial gratification of Ladies and"
»ttend in the evening. TWO
GRANDPRiSSTIDIGITATOBIAL MATINEES
WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY
.o .. open at 2, to commence
at Ho Clock.
s opoa at 7,'to sonsatnwrji'to 8“-
CENTS.". Reserved seats,
cocm extra. -Children ■ aacomnntifod by rarontl'
; to jcFervcd seats, J-5 cents.
, chats mav bo secured darine tho'dnv.' • i '- ! ••
'henry PRICE; HBLDO N; >-
r ; Business Manager and Treasurer.
HEAD AND PROFIT THEREBY I
■ IOO,'CASES'
HOOTS & (SHOES '
Just Received from Boston
puuiws Anew flora,
■55 Fifth Street,
MASONIC HALL.
|iMOVK~4OBB£S,£XTBA F&SDIiT
JB. F.oura i Jest reoeiredaod for sale by
: , FBTZHJR it AUMSTKOnG,
ed2o corner Market and First btreet' 5 . 1
POmOES-OO BRIfl; PRIMP. WTU
fit 1 shasnock Potato's.- For tale by
/••:»: FjsizEß&Aiuts'niONa. -
5;" , corner Market andFirjfc Bfc
iNRAKBEBBI£S»O BBLS, CHOIC£
Cianbtrxies. Just reVived and forgale by
■ ' fiIiZER <£'4RM>TRO*e, ‘
se2o i q - coiner fflaiketand PirstEtreetJ-
A BiRBEIB OFCHOICE
-tt- Apples. Jnstreceiyedand for salo by
FKiZ3.it Jt ARMSTtiOoG.
se2s coraorMarkct and First streets.
FALL AND WiNTLR GOODS.
WE DBIBE TO IHFOBM OVB;
ixiends.and the that,we
have received one la 1 and^Rinter sto t compris
ing everything that is new and desirable in our
!iafrCQn}i-ting in part of
Scotch Ctaovots. Basket and
Continental Coatings,
Vestliigs of Silk, Velvet, Bair
aad oilier Cashmeres, !'
Including a largo assortment of
Fancy French and Scotch Ca&simcres,
Blachand Colored Cloths, dc,;
Which wo are to make up
the lateat'sad wnt fashionable sly lea and iathe
bestm&nuor, . ARBSE*.
. . . . Merchant Tailors,
*o.l9sthrt.
Be2l-2w<T'
V A SUABLE
BUILOOC LOTS
-AT
PIJBE.IC BAI.E.
RhESIBABEE BUILDING UdTS, AS
MJr per„ above plot known as iho-ALGEO
Property.-atputed in; ...^
HUCLU*HE TOWNBHM?.
■ 1-.; •. .. -o':
Adjoining the property of the “House of lUfage,"
will be offered at Public Auction, and sold to tie
highest bidder without reserve,
On Saturday, Sept.2o, at 2 b’cl’k,p. m.
rTJ3B.MS:-“One-fouTtlio£ the* purchase m repay
when deod ia fxßontrd# rom&inintithree-fourths
in throe annual payments* with, interest ’
JAMHS M'CANDLESB,
J* H N PHIt»LIPs,"
JOHN SAMPAN,
: £el9-7;d
I i C. HAHRY. BBIAN,
j ' WITH •
LOSOGOFG & PEARCE, i
. MAIiUFACTVREIiS & IMPORTERS ’ '
op - - :
MES’S. FimaJISKIKG GOODS,
AND TAILOB3 TiLIMHISGS,..,
so. 10 SOUTH IOIfBTH stkilet,';
my;-lyd PHILADELPHIA-.
FALL AKBIYAL OF
ijOBACCO,- SNUFF MB ; SEfiABS,
BIgCOUSTEK A BAER,
•TTholesalo Tobacco dealers,
Mo. 108 Wood Street,
? ‘ ! v ■ '^.dg
Haro jiow raeircd their Fall stock: •OL'SftftdfcJ •
whie A the; ale prepared to i e;l at the vary loWq.;
est figures icr cash. —.
‘Country merchants would do well to calllj6fdfe : ■
purchatiog elsewhere. ' . ; : -v-, :
Allprderfi promptly attended t 0,., ; .eelO^^j
ko o e* ; i n g r -r b
I'. : IPIOH, OtDDES & CO.
M-A are prepared to l o
GEAV EL HOOFING
Out,ol the.cjty on short notice
\ ■ OfScecorner Fifth & Woodata.,2dfltoryi : t -~
<s©2l - '-•»
WASTE®.
A PBACneAX STEAM H'TOB^TO^
whom couitant
Apply at the ofilea of th a Souse of Befu*e,No. SI
Fourth str ei,
•soi , 4-3td
•- » *:>} ■ :’. \wl
H L RlNQWALTjggtfysrT •
Passage from isnglana & Ireland
V 2.5 : ,,'e,0. ;;rN;
age n« y;
iV ? A seat* ; 124. hlonongahcla. ELOII2V fritto
biirslu Piu, &aprepared to bribe out or send blew
passeaffOT from *c? the bldcotmd
'ttT* either by steam orx oiiiiie paefeett, £•: ; o*
j SIGHT DBAFTS E OH. BAXJS. paratJe la «njL
-part.of Earooe* .. . - - . -•->
■ ' Ayaatfoi'thofadjanftpoHs and ClEdinnatiß*E»-,A
rtaa. Also, Attmtfor the-old Blech Cto lSjeot . *
J&ilaw for. the Steamer Qrest Eaft', *
era, sad for'theliuM oreteamcrsfiallins ftefttaar"
New’YcrS* Qlzpzck and daffcr&jr*
fell • .• .. .. . ..... • - j
\%jansLy^;
iStmio QaefDsfe and-latci^ooL
fifi*,firet. class" Steamslupa. 4
~ I ¥£&%
s * ll raoH kfw tosh
Wedneriay* • . :
3UION, 40 Fulton 8t„ New York, ox
THOS. RATTIQAN, Agt,
No 122 Mosongahela Hocso, Water Si*
lu3;lyd
Committee.