DAILY POST.
P;TTSBUStGH
MONDAY MORNING, OCT. 12,1863
Where there is no Law there Is no
Freedom
The Union as It Was,
The Constitution as It Is
Democratic Nominations.
FOR GOVYRROR,
George W. Woodyard.
FOR MM. EN! JI7 P G
Walter R. Lowrie.
FOR PRESIDENT JUDGE OF DISTRICT COURT
John H. Bailey.
ASSEMBLY.
JAMES BENNY, Sr.,
CHAS. P. WHISTON,
Dr. A. G. McqUAIDE,
JOHN SILL,
WM. WHIGHAm.,
SHERIFF,
JAMES BLACHMORE
RECORDER,
EDWARD P. KEARNS
RRGISTER,
JAMES SALISBURY
FOR CLERK OF COURTS,
ERNST 31 EX E 1.13 R ii
TREASURER
SIMI'S IRVIN.
COI:NTT COMMISSH)NER,
JACOB HELL.
DIRECTOR OP TAR POOR
W. 11. 16'1(4 LSTM A. G..
WHERE SOLDIEnS ARE El% VI
TLED 2 O VOTE.
In the case of CHASE vs, MILLER, 5
WRIGHT'S Penn'a. Lam Reports, page
in which the right of the soldiers to vote
was thoroughly discussed and reviewed, in
connection with the other questions at issue
in that case in regard to the constitution
ality of votes (-Ist outside the limits of the
State. In the syllabus of the case as re
ported, occurs this plain proposition as to
the place where soldiers r.re entitled to
vote :
"THE RIGHT OF A SOLDIER TO
VOTE UNDER THE CONSTITUTION,
IS CONFINED TO THE ELECTION
DISTRICT WHERE II E RESIDED AT
THE TIME OF HIS ENTERING THE
MILITARY SERVICE."
A LAST WORD ABOUT TAXA
There have been few comments, and no
reply worthy the name, to our articles
about taxation. But it has been said—
1. That our estimate of $3,000,000,000
for the War Debt is too high, and
2. That we frame our calculations upon
a basis that excuses the South from pi.y•
lug any part of our burdens.
We now propose to make a brief state•
meat from official documents, as to the
tottate - #Baesfizneul44,,,angthe vei
l. CHASE hag Efatetlinat.
raise $225,000,000 from his various taxes.
The share of our State is AT LEAST ONE•
SIXTH of this—ONE SI:4TH is the share the
Federal Government assigns us. The share
of our State then is $37,500,000. Our
county's share of this is ONE SIXTEENTH—
which will amount to $2,348,750. Now,
oar county valuaticu, made in February
of this yeaf., is something over $213,000,-
000—therefore our yearly war taxes are
about ONE-EVA - 7EIM of our whole valua
tion! Now, Mr. CHASE it 4 authority ler
the amount of the Federal ts.ser;—s22s,•
000,000—and Mr. BIGnAM, member of
the Revenue Board, hail the valuation
of the county fixed at $26000,000 . 0r a
little more. And according to them, it
will take but little more than eleven years
to swamp us, altogether! ! ! !
LOOK INTO THE B LLOT-
BOXES
Before you commence voting. Demo
cratic Inspectors should see to this. Thom
sands of Federal Inspectors would EC )rn to
resort to ballot stuffing, but thare are
plenty of them would be guilty of it. The
people in power are determined to hold
on to their places—they never did look
upon the purity of the ballot-box as a
thing tlth.t should be preserved. They
care not who shall be defrauded of his
vote, so they can win. If they knew that
they could carry the - election by cheating
20.000 voters out of their rights, they
would as leave carry it that way, as by
honest means, and a little sooner. Look
to them carefully.
STA lc
AT TItiIIE POLLS!
Let Democrats be vigilant 1:0w, for if
they do not, perhaps This may hti the last
free election that will be hold in this couu.
try. Give one day to the restoration of
your rights! Remember that the real
cal of the habeas corpus, ultimate releaie
from the thralldom of increased taxation,
freedom from another conscriptioo, all
depend on the election to-morrow ! Stay,
then, at the Polls ! Stay all day 1 Be
firm in demean..r, temperate in language,
and abstain from everything that' will ex
cite you or throw you off your guard!
THE VOTE OF THE SOL-
DIERS !
It would be most unjust that a man who
had joined the armies oi our country, should
have any trouble in prcouring a vote, it he
is legally entitled to it, On the contrary,
every facility should be ea - tended to him
that he shall obtain his right , . Bat no
man, whether in unifcrm or not, ehould
be permitted arrinefully to exercise the
sacred right of suffrage. Let there be a
fair election, and then the defeated party
can have no bitter feeling on the subject.
A FAIR ELECTIOA.
All Democrats desire is a fair election.
Every man, soldier of civilian, who offers
to vote should be willing to abide the
examination of his cl,,ira to the right of
suffrage. No man should be challenged
in a vexations spirit, but every man, when
lawfully and
. rsepectfully required to make
clear his title to the.mort valued right , of
citizen, should comply promptly and in
good temper. ,
lIIORE. DEBT
If more men be called ont, still more
money walla needPd .to. pay .them. Our
ttete's slmre, (10 - 49, far
exceed $BO,OOO-00-4 large Bum I
YOUR I ICKET
BOil I!
TCH
You may depend that .the people who
claim that ••to beat the Democrats at this
election is more important than to beat
the rebels in the battle-field," will stop at
no means to accomplish their infamous
purpose. See, then, Democrats, that the
boxes from which you hand out your tick
ets, are not tampered with, and the negro
ticket substituted for your own
OUR POLITICAL CAMPAJUN.
The campaign in which we have been
for some time engaged, and which closes
at seven o'clock to-morrow evening, has
been one of the most extraordinary of any
yet recorded in the annals of American
elections. In the first place we have the
strange spectacle presented of a candidate
being supported by his party, for re elec•
tion, who was, by that party, proved to be
a "public plunderer." This of itself is
alarming, and goes to prove the utter
recklessness and irresponsibility of the
Abolition loaders who placed Gov. CUR
TIN in re nomination. Then, the tactics
made use of by the Abolitionists are
equally obnoxious. From the day of
CURTIN'S nomination until the present,
his friends have not even attempted to ex•
plain his connection with the numerous
disgraceful transactions with which he has
been so intimately connected. They ig
nore all this, in relation to their own can
didate, and confine themselves, exclusive.
ly, to slandering ours. Judge W'oon•
WARD'S private character defies calumny.
The Abolitionists have not assailed it,
because they dare not, but nothing have
they left unsaid that was at all calculated
to damage his reputation for patriotism.
The silly cry of copperhead was nothing,
but some of the basest of his calumniators
are endeavoring to show that his sympa
thies are against the State of his nativity.
This conduct is, of course, intended to
turn attention from the charges of .t•or
ruption which stand unexplained and un
defended against Gov. CURTIN.
Then in regard to plain, open and pal
pable lying, generally, the conduct of the
Abolition leaders surpasses all their for
mer efforts. In this the Philadelphia
Press took the lead, and the Pittsburgh
Commercial brought up the rear. But,
alter taking a survey of the field, we think
that our opponent's plan of campaign has
proved a failure, The people, with unex
ampled discrimination and nacinimity, are
penetrating the thin v....;1 of " loyalty,"
which is endeavoring to . .neeal the cor
ruptions of Abolitionism, and have deter
mined to wrest the Ccinnionwealth from
the corrupt dominion of a set of reckless
men, whose only desire, iu this the day of
our tribulation, is public plunder. To
accomplish this, the reader must remem
ber that his best efforts are required. Let
him, therefore, resolve that until the polls
close tc-morro 77 he will labor for our
State's regeneration. Let him remember
the usurpations and encroachments of the
National Administration upon the rights
of the States and people : let him remem
her, too, that CURTIN is but the creature
of the despotism at Washington, who,
instead of taking his stand for the protec
ts; i . .... -44- .wtaltia,alaataloxieti her
utterly defenceless, until rescued from
danger by the Governors of New York and
New Jersey. Let him reflect upon these
things, and consider the augmentation of
thi.m, in the event of CURTI N S re-election,
and then cast his ballot as his honest con•
victions dictate.
A CALCULATION
The Abolition State Central Committee
have made their final estimate of the prop
able result of tomorrow's election, and
have forwarded it to New York for publi
cation. It appears in the New York Tri
bune of Saturday, under the caption of
" Pennsylvania Next Tuesday. " This
calculation elects CI RTIN by 19,000, but
to show how it does it, it is necessary to
refer briefly to the estimate formed of a few
neighboring counties. Mark the figures
for CURTIN : Allegheny in claimed at
1;,, - ,00, Armstrong 300, Beaver 900, Butler
600, Somerset 1,200, and Washington 200
Here are six counties, which arazet down
as good for 9,700 for CURTIN, in which he
cannot obtain the half of it. Armstrong,
Butler and Washington, instead of giving
1,100 majority for CURTIN, will give nearly
that number for Aconwattn, while Alle
gheny, Beaver and Somerset, all three,
will not give CURTIN 7,000. Majorities
for Woonwarin in the following counties,
are set down as follow.] : Bedford 361,
Cambria 700, Fayette 400, Greene 1,400,
and Westmoreland 900. Anybody who
has taken his first lesson in political cam
paigning, could at once Bee the absurdity
of these figures. Instead of the five coun
ties here enumerated giving our candidate
3,750, they will not poll a vote lees than
7,000 tnejority for Judge Woonwerto.
We might go all through this late eel
eulatiog of the Abolitionists and show its
absurdity ; the few neighboring counties
we have a selected will answer our purpose,
however. It is doubtless put forward to
keep up the betting spirits of the contras
tore, but it is so absurd upon its face that
no one can for an instant believe it. It
the Abolitionists must bring Cambria
down to 700 for WOODWARD, and Greene
to 1400, and Westmoreland to 900, and
raise Allegheny up to 6,50 a for CURTIN,
we can inform them that their shoddy can
didate's chances of re•election are ti ope
less indeed.
TERRORISM
We are sorry to be informed that tore
men and others in authority connected
with the yard in building gunboats here,
have attempted to interfere with the work
.nen in their political rights, and force
them, at the risk of discharge, to voting
for CUaTIN We are glad to know that this
infamoud proi,c.sition has been resented in
the promptest manner by the employees.
We hope no man will suffer himself to be
intimidated by contractors or superintend
ents. Let every man be free to vote as his
mdgmeut and conscience may dictate. No
man ever bc-aid of a mechanic or day lab—
orer discharged by a Democrat because h.-
refusedto vote his employer's ticket,
Ittii3 — Brigadier General HENRY M, Ne
GLEE passed through this city yesterday on
his way to join Gen. GRANT at Vicksburg.
Gen. NAGLEE was in command of the Dis
trict of Virginia, stationed at Norfolk,
where he earned the confidence of the cit
izens and the respect of Government dur
ing his administration. We shall publish
in a few days an address by the citizens of
Norfolk, through the President of the
Board of Trade, 6. G. Saaw, esq., to the
General, with his reply, covering the acts
of the . Administration whilst in command
of the Department.
A SHIEFFLIN6I DE 11AGOCIUJE.
1 . 1 wmual trieseag to the Legi3la
ture last year, Governor CURTIN reeom
mended that a law should be passed pro
hibiting the use of "store orders," or, as
is sometimes called, "scrip," a sort of
paper employed by many mills, foundries,
and manufacturers, in payment of hands,
iu lieu of money.
It is known to all persons familiar with
the iron or cotton business, that their
"orders on the store," connected with
whatever establishment a working man
may be employed in, are used in place of
a like amount in cash. Well, some sharp
admirer of the malleable CURTIN, know
ing how much working men hated those
-orders" or -scrip," told him it would
help him iu the election it he would
recommend a few forbidding the issue of
this kind of paper credits, and so Mr. Curt
tin denounced the "orders, - and asked for
a law to prevent their issue. The law was
passed, and the workmen all over the
State who had surnred, or who thought
that they had suffered from such indirect
exactions, were delighted with the pros
pect of receiving money for their work,
which they could use 'to their own pleasure
or their own profit, at other stores besides
those of the company or proprietor for
whom they labored. But alas ! for the
poor laborer I Governor CURTIN concluded
that a "shoddy" contract. was a quicker
and a eurer way to make money and pop
ularity than doing Malice to the working
men. And an, atter due conaideration,
and most probably, after nonsuliwion with
ccitniu large manufacturers who hove
stares and butch , r shops, here and else.
where. Gov. CcicriN . refused to sign the
law which he had himself suggested
should be passed.
if the working Mari who knows whether
-such a law as this would benefit him, and
who scows that BE did not pay any•hing
to have it passed, can tell why it was not
sicl is not signed, let him tell all hie fel.
law workmen what he thinks about it.
THE ODDS AGAINST THE 1,1:1101
'CACI%
A special dispatch from Washington to
the New York Hearl,l sap:
Cremmidom , elftirts a re being made hero t.> aid
lbe reelection Of G)1 ernor Cu ,r IN is Pennsyl
vahia. l•. is estimated that ten thousand voters
will go from this city alone Arrangements have
been midi:to defray all the traveling eipenses at
.-these voter F-
When we retiect upon the immense
power of the Administration, because of
the rebellion, we can readily conceive the
ext.:Thin odds they have against the people.
Suspending the writ of habeas ,-orplis, in
order io deter the citizen from criticising
their procieed,rigs, the Administration
hoped to silence investigation of their con
duct, and cause us to despair of their
institutions. Sending into Pennsylvania
and Ohio soldinra to vote, who aro need
ed in the field, is another of the outrages
intended to overwhelm the people. The n,
throughont every district the Administra
tion has its standing armies of l'rov et
Marshals, Tax Aseensorn and Collect,rai
constituting, of themselves, n fearful pcv:
er, when acting in concert against the
people. But, notwithstanding, all these
odds, backed by a profusion of money, in
raa_
power of the people. The Adininistria
tiou, with its bond; eds of thousands of
dependennt is not too pciwertul for the
people. The ballot bix is our seeurliy
and to that we appeal againet central ty
ranny. riit , e us a fair ballot and we fear
nut the influx of twice ten thousand bang
ern on from Washingto.,.
SALMON P. CHASE
When this functionary went to Wag''.
ington, three year.) ago, he WWI not a telt
man -no! nearly so rich as the man 'who
owned the lartioutt Raui of Derby—who
was Ladd to be extremiy opulent. C mks E'N
sa l ar y i s is,,,sm a yea-, %tot he must li.mp
up a larg- Bat :".% I i I`4
ii.ughter was t.“. , ,,,h4i1 t,. her
shawl, :in the ucia , ,lon f her
misrriage with a rich wan. Nnw, the
war debt is about Hl,lOl (40. wi t ]
somebody 1131.1 t have hr , lllv 01 it yet, and
several persons besides the Secretary of
the Treasury have become able to buy nip.
Sc. Put these things togciber,
aril
Just lake a Imfh and ,-t i need y, ti I: i)
tha these are very Ct - very
llttOU4,ldUed. To Perpstuat• those
things, vote for CURTIN !
OT ILI ER DRAFT
There will Flo another draft -there must
he another draft, it the war ie trig° on ac
cording to Mr. NINER's prcgramino. The
New York Evenint Putt announced it:
and that Post ie good Abolition authority.
It has been contradicted finely to effect
the fall elections. Don't ho deceived
f lIERE WILI, BE A'NOTIIER DRAPE' !
Provost Marshal tieneral Fay, hn. , decided
that the payment of only ex ,„ iptE3
from the present draft, so that all who
have been drafted and paid their 4300.
must pay over again, if this decision holds
good.
Fir the Poet ;
TIIE CA MPAIGN I.N 01110.
MAN:IFIEI 1,, U., 00. ;;
The great Democ rake utteting tit this
cdty to day, woe a tremendous demonsira
tiou—not less than fifty thousand persons
were here. The music of thirty Braes
Bawls tilled the air. The united proces
sion was upwards of eight miles in length,
and consumed three hours iu passing a
given point. Prominent in the procession
were over five hundred lames ou horse
back, accompanied by their cavaliers.
There was innumerable mottoes and de
vices. This is a noble demonstration in
favor of our "Exile !" The German
population was over thirty thousand. 'Phis
speaks highly in favor of their liberal
principles.
ftErlf yrn want "negro equality" vote
for Curtin.
f you Want hard times to continue
vote for Curtin.
SEir If you Want tLocm:tutu to go to the
devil, vote for Curtin.
gar Ifyou wantto defeat a pure, upright
and honest man, vote for Curtin.
Writ you want to crush out, all hope
°funding this
.war, vote for Curtin.
na" . lf you want to elect a sycophantic
and unprincipled demagogue, vote for
Curtin.
ItliVslf you want to elect the real " sol
dier's friend," vote for Woodward.
Jam" If yon revere the Constitution of
our fathers, vote for Woodward.
Se — If you want to give a death blowto
Abolition•niggerism, vote for Woodward.
ger If you want the Union restored as
our fathers made it, vote for Woodward.
TO-IIDRROii✓_ FRIENDS, TO-
31 IL RO
Read and Reflect before you Vote
To-morrow's election in Pennsylvania
will decide whether or not het citizens
are fit for seltgovernment ; and we may
readily conclude that if we endorse by our
votes the outrages and neurpationa of the
present Administration, these infamies
will never be relaxed. In voting to rebuke
usurpation and recover our lost liberties,
let us
REMEMBER
that the Abolitionists and Black Republi
cans caused the terrible and bloody war
in which we are now engaged, by JOUR
BROWN raids and interfering with the
rights and property of the South guaran
teed them by the Constitution and by re
fusing to adopt the "Crittenden Conn•
promise," which would have been satis
factory to the people of the South, and to
)an immense majority of the people of the
North, and would have settled our na
tional difficulties.
REMEMBER
that LINCOLN and CUR FIN, thashoddy
and horse and mule contractors' candi
date for Governor, are not carrying on the
war to restore "the Union as it was" in
the most glorious days of We Re
public, but are perverting it to abol
ish slavery, free the negroes of the South,
and turn them loose upon the North, to
fill cur county prisons with convicts and
our poor houses with paupers.
REMEMBER
that CA ItTLN placed HALF A MILLION
OF DOLLAR'S, which was appropriated
by the Legislature to clothe and provision
the Pennsylvania Reserves, into the hands
of his political friends, who furnished
these gallant soldiers shoddy clothing,
wooden soled shoes, rotten blankets and
bad provisions, for which crimes three of
them were indicted in the Cowls at Pitts
burgh.
REMEMBER
that the Pittsburgh Dispatch, Pitts
burgh Gazette and Philadelphia Inquirer,
lending Republican papers, have charged
CURTIN, and which charges have never
been denied, with rank corruption and such
dishonorable conduct as should consign
him to everlasting disgrace and obscurity,
instead of re electing him Governor of the
great State of Pennsylvania.
REMEMBER.
`.at the II on. S. A. PURVIANCE, CURTIN•S
.I.iorti(y General, resigned that office in
.!,sequcric. , of these monstrous corrnp•
and said in his letter of resigna
t. That for reasons which appeal to
in set( respect, I cannot consent to eon
tie an! longer in connection with your
t•inunislralion
REMEMBER
that CrttilN is now, and has been, for
weehe past, traveling over the State beg.
giug for votes, and neglecting, in these
momentous times, his official duties at
Harrisburg, and is regularly drawing his
pity of Vol . ft THoUSAND DOLLARS
the hard earnings of the
po , p:o, whilst his competitor, Judge
Woouwaan, remains at home, attending
to his duties as Judge of the Supreme
Court.
itEM E St liU,Et
Le
Na:l,)Lal debt has alreaty i te'n'n run up
the enormous EICIITI of THREE THOI 7 -
SAND MILLIONS OF. DOLLARS,
which is increasing at tae rate of TWO
HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS
DER DAY !! ! And that a large portion
of tkis daily e:ipenditure is equandered
ill lAtalingd and uselnii Government OF'
CPI fl ficauered over the whole country, and
on parer Generals who lure drawing their
tiny of from SIX TO EIGH THOUSAND
DoLLA RS DER ANN EM, and spending
th• it tiros in ov.•rminnitig
malting political 4prr hes for CURTIN
In-if',/,' of bring al 2. as and aiding
,o7llant 13.06El'ilActi aui d Mg A nu in
fly the battles of the 1 film '
REMEMBER.
that when CURTIN canvassed thl9 State for
vernor, 1860, he announced from every
stump that he was opposed to the repeal
01 "so.inst a tax as that imposed upon the
tonnage of the Ibmnsylvania Railroad."
Yet no sooner had he taken his seat and
sworn before high Heaven to protect and
di tend the interests of the Commonwealth,
then he approved a bill, passed by a Re.
publican Senate and House at Reprolea
tat ivs, which deprived the State of a just
at.d equitable TEME:1111:. , to the amount of
(iirre hundred thousand dollars a year.
a,.d actually released the company from
tic payment of SE VkIN HUNDRED
THOUSAND DOLLARS already due the
REMEMBER
that CURTIN stumped the State for Pot•
the only Know Nothing Governor
that ever disgracud Pennsylvania, that ho
arose to his prcsent position through the
vile abuse and I.e.secution of the very
Foreign and Roman Catholic vote he is
now courting, having become the Know-
Nothing Secretary of under Poe-
LOCK, from whence he arose to be Gower-
RESIEMBER
that the Abolition party came into power,
in 1860, under the cry of "retrenchment
and reform." Since the inauguration - of
Mr. LINCCI N the frauds and plunderage
of the Abolitionists have been so great
that many of their own partisans have
been compelled to cry out "shame!"
Through the mismanagement and crimi—
nality of the wicked men at the head of
the Government, the taxes have been in
creased almost beyond endurance, and
the people can only save themselves frcm
utter ruin by sweeping these miscreants
from power at the ballot-box.
REMEMBER
that CURTIN slandered our German citi
zens when on the stump in 1854, where he
said : " A Dutehman is not like another
person ; he has two skulls, and in order
to get an idea into his head, you must first
mash one of his skulls I"
DEMOCRATS, CONSERVATIVES,
HONEST MEN OF ALL PARTIES,
will you, in this state of the record, vote
for ANDREW G. CURTIN, who is the
embodiment of rank corruption and wan
ton extravagance, as shown by his politi.
cal partisans, or for
GEORGE W. WOODWARD.
the honest man, the friend of retrench
ment and reform of all corruptions and
abuses, and who is unconditionally iiiTs
vor of " The Union as - it was, and
,the
Constitution as:it
TO TII E RIG HT EVEREND ALONZO
EEMMiIIMI
Bishop of the ink.wese of Pynnsylva-
'have seen, with great amazement, a
protest against my letter on the "Bible
View of Slavery," signed by you and a
a long list of your clergy, in which you
condemn it as "unworthy of any servant
of Jesus Christ," as an effort to sustain,
on Bible principles, the States in rebellion
against the Government in the wicked at-
empt to establish by force of arms a ty
rannyin the name of a Republic, whose
corner-atone shall be the perpetual bond•
age of the African," and as such you say
it challenges your " indignant reproba•
Now, my Right Reverend brother, I am
sorry to be obliged to charge you, not
only with a gross insult against your senior,
but with the more serious offense of a
false accusation. My letter was first
published in January, 1861, more than
three months before the war began, at a
time when no one could anticipate the
form of Government which the Southern
States should adopt, or the course which
Congress might take in reference to their
secession. And when I consented to its
republication, I did not suppose that it
would be used in the service of any politi
cal party. although I had no right to com
plain, if it were so used, because the let
ter, once published, became public prop ,
erty. Bat in its present form there is
nothing whatever in it that bears on the
question of "rebellion," or of the "per
petual bondage of the African," or of a
•'tyranny unner the name of a Republic,"
of which slavery should be the "corner
stone." On the contrary, I referred on
thi , last page, to my lecture published in
Buffalo, in 1850, and to my book called
"The American Citizen," published in
N,w York, in 1857, where ''l set forth
thu same views on the subject of slavery.
adding, however, a plan for its gradual
abolition whenever the South should con
sent, and the whole strength of the Gov
ernment could aid in its accomplishment."
—Sooner or later," I added, "I believed
that some measure of that character must
he adopted. But it belongs to the slave
States themeelvei to take the lead iu such
a movement. And meanwhile their legal
rights and their natural feelings most be
respected, if we would hope for unity and
peace."
With these facts before your eyes, I am
totally at a loss to imagine how even the
extravagance of party zeal could frame
against me so bitter a denunciation. The
whole object of my letter was to prove,
from the Bible, that in the relation of
master and there was necessarily no
sin whatever, The sin, if there were any
lay in the of the slave, and no
in the relation itself. Of course it was
to abuse, as all human relations
must be. But while it was certain that
thousands of our Christian brethren who
held slaves were tenting them with kind
ness and justice, according to the Apos
tle's rule, and earnestly laboring to im•
prove the comforts and ameliorateFthe
hardships of the institution. I held it to
be a cruel and absorb charge to accuse
them as einners against the Divine law
when they were only doing what the Word
of tiod allowed, under the Constitution
and established code of their country.
i do not know whether your band of in
dignant reprohationists ever saw my book,
published in 15•57, but you read it, because
1 Bert 3on a ei,py, and 1 have your letter
of acknowledgment, iu which, while you
dissented some of my conclusions,
you did it with the courtesy of a Christian
gentleman. In that letter there is nothing
sail about my opinini,s being "unworthy
of any servant of .1 cans Christ," and
nothing of "indignant reprobation." Bat
tempera miltantur' et nos mulamur in
illis
Yes! the times are indeed sadly changed,
and you brae changed accordingly. For
wt ge-=--riet in brotherly council
, - , y r „,
invited them to the nospitantwuni met
house, and paid them especial deffcrence.
The new light of Eastern Abolitionism
had not yet risen within our Church, and
if you then thought as you now think, you
took e-scellent cars that no man amongst
your Southern friends should know it.
Moreover your 'averite Theological Sem'
inury, only three years ago, was the Vir
ginia school at Alexandria, raised to
groat prcsperity by Bishop Meade, a
slateholiltr, and I am very sure that
nothing at variance with my Bible view of
slavery wan taught in that institution.
Yes ! we may well say of you, as of many
others—Quantum niutatus ab illo 1 How
changed the Bishop of Pennsylvania;
in three years, from his former course of
conservatism peace aid Scriptural con
sistency I
Bat the word of God has not changed.;
the doctrine of the Apostles has not
changed ; the Constitution of our country
has not canged ; the great standards of
religions truth and real civic loyalty re
main just as they were ; and I remain
along with them, notwithstanding this
bitter and unjust assault from you and
your clergy. I do not intend to imitate
your late style of vituperation, for I trust
that I have learned, even when I am re
viled, not to revile again. I respect the
good opinion of your clergy, and am not
sn.are that I have done anything to forfeit
it. I respect your office, your talents,
j. ur personal character, and the wisdom
and Fricenna with which, for many years,
your Episcopate has been conducted. But
I 5 not respect your departure from the
old and well Bellied rule of the Church,
end tram the Apostolic law of Christian
ta,rness and courtesy. I .do not believe
In the modern discovery of those Eastern
philanthropists who deny the divinity of
our Redeemer, and attach no importance
to the Bible except as it may suit thoM•
selves. .1 do not believe that the venerat•
rid founders of our American Church were
ignorant of the Scriptures and blind to
the principles of Gospel morality. 1 do
not believe that Washington and his com
patriots, who framed our Constitution
with such express provisions for the rights
of slaveholders, were tyrants and despots,
sinhers against the law of God and the
feelings of humanity. But I do believe
in the teaching of the inspired Apostles,
and in the Holy Catholic (or universal)
Church, which you and your clergy also
profess to believe. I know that the doc
trine of that Church was clear and unani
mous on the lawfulness of slavery for
eighteen centuries togethert and on that
point I regard your "protest" and "indig
nant reprobation" as the idle wind that
passes by.
I wish you, therefore, to be advertised
that I shall publish, within a few months,
if a gracious Providence should spare my
life heti faculties, a full demonstration of
the truth "wherein I stand." And I shall
prove in that book, by the most unques
tionable authorities, that slaves and slave
holders were in the Church from the be
ginning; that slavery was held to be
consistent with Christian principle by the
Fathers and Councils, and by all Protes
tant divines and commentators, up to the
very close of the last century, and that
this fact was universal amopg all Church.
es and sects throughout the Christian
.world. I shall contend that our Church,
which maintains . the primitive rule of
Catholic consent and abjures all novelties,
is bound, by her very Constitution, to
hold fast that only safe and enduring rule,
or abandon her Apostolic claims, and de
ecend to the level of those who are "driv
en about by every wind of doctrine."
And I shall print your "indignant repro
bation," with its list of names, in the
preface to my book, so that if I cannot
give you fame, I may, at least do my part
to give you notoriety.
That the nineteenth century is a century
of vast improvement and wonderful dis
covery in the arts and sciences, I grant
as willingly as any man. But in religious
truth - or reverence fey the
,Bible,the age
in Which 'ititt live' is prolifteitt dating and
impious innovation. We have seen pro-
fessedly Christian communities divided,
and sub divided on every side. We gin*
seen the rho and spread of Uniferialism
Millerisn, Pantheism, Mormonism ante
Spiritualism. We have seen even our
venerable Mother. Church of England
sorely agitated by the contaftious lever of
change, on the one hand towards supersti
tion, and on the other towards infidel
And hehave h•
B e i a h r l d e, t s b n e m in e :
r e a r e t i n o s n i n a lis e m i m o A r
, times from the
.devotees of geological
speculation, sometimes from the bold
deniers of miracles and prophecy, and,
not least upon the list, from the loud
tongued apostles of anti—Slavery. We have
marked the orators which cry "Down with
the Bible, if it maintains the lawfulness of
slavery." We have marveled at' the
senatorial eloquence which proclaimed
that "it was,. high time to have an anti.
slavery God'and an anti-slavery Bible."
We have heard the' Constitution of our
country denounced as "a covenant with
death and hell.' We have heard the
boasted determination that the Union
shall never be restored until its provisions
for the protection of slavery are utterly
abolished. And what is the result of all
this new philanthropy ? The fearful
judgment of God has descended to chas
tise these multiplied eels of rebellion
against His divine Government and what
the final catastrophe shall be is only
known to Him who seeth the end from the
beginning.
After forty years spent in the ministry,
more than thirty of which have been
passed in the office of a Bishop, I can look
hack with humble thankfulness to the
Giver of all good for this, at least, that all
my best labors have been directed to the
preservation of the Church from the
inroads of doctrinal innovation. At my
ordination I promised "so to minister the
DOCTRINE and sacraments and discipline
of Christ, as the Lord bath commanded,
and as this Church hath received the same"
—and certain it is that " this Church "
had not received the modern doctrine
of ultra-Abolitionism at that time as
I trust she never will receive it, be
cause it is contrary to the Sacred
Scriptures. I also promised "with all
faithful diligence to banish and drive
away from the Church all erroneous and
strange doctrines contrary to God's
ord," and I made those promises in the
true sense which the venerable Bishop
White, my Ordainer, attached to them—l
believed then, an he believed, that our
Southern brethren committed no sin in
having slaves i and that they were men of
as much
. piety as any ministers in our
Communion. I believed, as he believed,
that the plain precepts and practice of
the Apostles sanctioned the institution, al
though, ass matter of expediency, the time
might come when the South would pre
; fer, as the North had done, to employ
free labor. Those promises I have kept
faithfully to this day—and if, when I am
drawing near to the end of my career, I
am to be condemned and vilified by you
and your clergy, because I still maintain
them to the utmost of my slender ability,
be assured, my Right ReSerened Brother,
that I shall regret the fact much more on
your account than on my own.
In conclusion, I have only to say that, I
feel no resentment for the grossly insulting
style of your manifesto. The stability and
unity of the Church of God are the only
interests which I desire to secure, and I
am too old in experience to be much
moved by the occasional excesses of hu
man infirmity. Jour; 11. HoPKINs,
Bishop of the Diocese of Vermont.
Burlington, Vt., Oct. 3, 1863.
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Governor Curtin and the Work
ingmen.
From the Pottsville Standard.
The Miners' Journal of Saturday last,
gave a reason why Governor Curtin did
not sign the bill to prevent the payment .
ot r waves in store orders, that it was not
8 ong enougu w au VtAw.
views, and cited Judge Reilly as authority,
We have receivLd the following copy of a
letter addressed by Judge. Reilly to the
editor of the Miners' Jouruai:
Sept. S'n,h, 1863.
To B. B.LNICAN, ESQ.
Dear Sir :—I see by an article in
the Miners' Journal of the Mb inst.,
headed "A Copperhead Lie," that yon
use my name in connection with the bill
to prevent the payment of wages in store
orders. In that article you state that I
told you the reason why the Governor did
not sign the bill, was because it was not
strong enough for him. You also state
that I took the bill to him for his signa
ture, &c. lam astonished that you should
so pet vert my language to suit your own
purposes. The facts are simply these :
After I returned from Harrisburg, I call
ed on you with a copy of the bill for pub
lication, thinking it was signed. I was
anxious that the people of the county
should knout its provisions, in order that
they might conduct their business accor
dingly. You said you did not like the
bill, it was too strong, and ought to have
been amended, as indicated in your letter
to me. I then replied that it was not any
too strong for the Governor ; that after I
read the bill in place he requested me to
let him see it and he would show it to the .
Attorney General, which I did. He had
it in his possession for twenty four hours ;
when I called for it he said it might he
made stronger by inserting a clause pre
vehting a man from giving his labor for
any other consideration than money. I
told him I could not pass such a bill. The
Governor said, very well, it is a good bill
—you must try and pass it as soon as
possible.
That was the only ccnversation I had
with you on the subject, I never spoke to
him about the bill after it was passed. I
had no doubt in my mind at the time about
the bill after it was passed. I had no
doubt in my mind at the time about the
Governor's signature. I was greatly aux.
prised, however, some months atter We ad-.
journed to learn that it was not signed. I
was so sure that he would sign the bill
that I stated to several persons in this
county (and I think you were one of the
number) that it was signed and was:then a
law. Why should I have a bill passed if I
knew at the time it would be vetoed?,
Such a course would be absurd. You will
observe by the foregoing, that I never had
any conversation with the Governor about
the bill after it passed. By giving the
above insertion in your next paper, you.
will be doing justice to
Yours, respectfully,
It will be seen by this letter that the
statements made in the Miner's Journal
are false, and that Governor Curtin, after
recommending the passage of the bill,
find after examing and declaring to Judge
Reilly that it was a good bill, and after
urging him to pass it, basely betrayed the
I interests of the workingmen by reining
to sign it. There is no excuse for the con
duct of Governor Curtin. If he recom
mended the passage of such a law merely
to make political capital,' then he acted
the part of a hypocrite, and is unworthy
of the support of the laboting men. If he
honestly recommended the passage of the
law, then he has betrayed the workingmen
by his refusal to sign it. He can take
either horn cf the dilemma. The truth
is that Governor Curtin is opposed td the
workingmen or he would not have acted
so base toward them. There is no hope
for the law to prevent the payment of
wages in store orders, while Andrew G.
Curtin is Governor of Pennsylvania. Efe
will veto any bill passed for the protection
of the workingmen,
A IadaSACIWBETTB JUDGE has decided
that a-husband may open his wife's- letter,
on the ground, an often and tersely slated
.by Theophilas Parsons, of Cambridge,
"that the husband and the wife was one,
and that the husband is that one 1"
The art of discovering, trom he letters
of a mares name, developments of charm:-
ter or prominent incidents in his future
ife, was a popular and much esteemed
practice am ong the ancients
The Plythagoreons, and even Plato, held
the opinion, that the successes of ind:vidn
ale depended upon the number ofvowels and
the numeral power of the letters in their
respective names.
"It was said that Achilles overcamealeo-
tor in battle, because the letters of his
name counted a greater sum total, than
those of hie opponents.
Upon this principle, the young gallants
of Rome, in their convival jollities, al
ways remembered the ladies by drinking 'a
cup for every letter in their respective
names. Thus Martial says : "Naeeia
sox cyathis, septom justina bibatur."
(Neevia is toasted in six bumpers, Jae
tine in seven.)
The wiseacres of old times had many
mancies to occupy them : There were
chiromancy, and lithomancy, and rhabdo
mancv and hydromancy, and twenty other .
similar modea of divination. Negro•mancy,
the great mystical interest of our day, did
not trouble them, but onomancy was a
most important concern.
Letters are the elements/a language ;
and in, old times they were need to denote
numbers. Where two or more are collects
ted, a word is formed, which expresses an
idea. When arranged in particular order,
as names of persons, they were always sup
posed to indicate character, or events in
the future life. We do not know or feel
by what influence these verbial designa
tions were given ; but I am sure they nev
er fall by chance. Adam at first, gave
names to all things by divine direction ;
and throughout the scriptures, every word
by which a person is called, has an illus.
' trative meaning. I refer to the table of
proper names in oar bibles:
Camd sn says, that "the names in all
nations and languages arta significative,
and not simple sounds for distinction
sake." The Romans had a proverb, which
condensed their philosophy on this sub
ject ; "Bonuw nomen bonum omen"—("a
good name is a good prognostic." If the
word, noting an individual person, ex
pressed some quality of trait of charac
ter that was excellent; and if the varied
s a
h r r o a w n
e g
d e m ;l a n:
o s
r but th eo f e
elementaryr esults—his 1 ts— his l s e u t
e t, e c
e r a s e s t i i ll n
life might be confidently relied upon.
Onomancy is not now practised, but we
have a process called anagram, ly which
a hidden meaning in a word or phrase,
may be discovered, by the transposal and
new combination of the - l , :mentary letters,
very many curious resali, have been mani
fested.
When oar SAVIOUR Lt , ed betore the
Roman Governor, he was asked by Pilate
(no doubt in latin as it stands in the vul
gate,)—"Quid est cc? itas 7"—(What is
truth ?)—Jesus made no reply; but the
words of the question, give the answer by
a different arrangement of the elements ;
"Est vir qui adest"—(lt is the man who
is present.)
The word "veto ' makes vote—the true
inhibiting power.
Dr. Burney found a preintimation of
the glory of the great English Admiral in
a varied arrangement of the letters of his
name ; "Horatio Nelson reads—" Honor
est a Nilo."
The author of oar "Declaration of In
dependence," first asserted in a political
document, the principal of universal liber
ty. His came—" Thomas Jefferson," an
agrarnaticalli transposed, expresses this
great tratis : '' Host of men is free." The
word "Host is a singular noun, and means
an indefinite "multitude."
Some time ago'l saw in the New York
Observer, an anagram, which connected
with onr current history, seemed remark
ably significant. Mr. Lincoln had requir
ed the rebels to return to their allegiance ;
and had declared his determination, if
-a-ae tliaabayed e to lame:kis edict of eman
cipation. They were peraerse, and-the
portentous manifesto went forth. It, is
wonderful that the title and name—
" President Abraham Lincoln, anagrama
tized makes this sentence : "I. PP.00L&III
Them, BARREN LANDS."
Struck with this result, I have tried
another collocation of the same elementa
ry letters— a President Abraham Lin
coln," - and these words appeared:
"STRIPE, CHAIN' AND ROB ALL MEE,
To get the political meaning of these
very strong expressions, I have resorted
to Webster, and will give his definitions.
• Stripe " signifies "to strike, to lash,"
Paul, speaking of the cruelties he suffered
from the Jews, says : "Five times received
I forty STRIPES save -one." Daring our
present summary regime, I will only refer
to one case of this brutal infliction, by Mr.
Lincoln's subordinatb, Provost Marshal
Foster, recently in Pittsburgh. The whip
ping post has not been in vogue in oar
country, for many years ; and I am sorry
to see it reared again. Perhaps, however,
it is regarded as' a "military necessity."
" Chain "—I do not rnderatand as
meaning "manacles" or " fetters" of
iron. Webster defines it, as a social sta
tus, "Bondage. slavery." "In despoilim,
lice-people sleeps soundly in their CHAINS."
—Ames.
In the anagram, it is certainly a verb,
however, and signifies "to enslave:"
"And which more blest? who manta Idspeck
pie, sly. .
Or he whrse virtue sighed to lose a day?'
Pope.
This certainly denotes political anajec
don to tyranny; and recent events in.our
country, givd great significance to the ex
pression. Martial law ; the military ar
recta of citizens withont judicial warrants;
suspension of the habeas corpus, particu
larly the late overwhelming edict, under
which the beet men in the nation may be
seized, by any of the President's myrmi
dons; end dragged from their homes,
their families, and their business, without
the possibility of relief. To justify the
Measure, the editor of the Chronicle says,
that the second section of the act of Con
grecs, " directs that the Secretaries of
State and War shall furnish to the Judges
of the Circuit and District Courts, lists
of the names of all persons held as
State-or political prisoners. The casts of
such persons will therefore go before the
Grano:Mary, and if no indictment is found
against them, it becomes the duty of the
Judge to order them to be brottglit before
him, and thereupon he may discharge
'them, by administering the oath" of alle
giance, or, upon examination, may s re
glare a recognizance for their good belts
nor, and for their subsequent appearance,
as the Court may direct. '.this is the vie
tim's hope ; after weary months of thrall:
dom, he encah° heard, and :discharged;
with a foul stain attached to his name,
without proof.
But suppose he is not on the Seiretta
rie's lists, how is the Court to know Wain
earceratio a ? The Chronicle says it is pro
vided, in that continency, that "Any citi
zen may, by petition, bring the case of airy
arrested person 'before the Court, &a.
If he happen, therefore, to haves friend
who will - give himself trouble and expense,
by interfering in hia behalf, he may once
more enjoy the sun and air.
It is intimated, in the article I quote
from, that this measure has been forced-up
on the President by "copperhead Judgts'
Bt-c," and in another paper it is suggeatei -
that it was "hastened by a visit of Rob
ert Carnahan, District Attorney of this
city, to Wrahingteva and hits report of
Judge Lovrrie's late decision here." If
our Chief Justice, by any wrong act, ilea
brought this political curse upon us, ho
has much•to answer for; hat as I do not
' wish to bring our State Jacliciary into Cora
tempt and odium with the people, I will
not receive the insinuation. Let Mr. Car
narnahan produce the "report," which
has led to such disastrous consequences,
It is ney opinion that theto is an end of
civil freedom in our country. " Zheretan
be no liberty, when the will of the Chief
B. REILLY
Onomanoy.