-.1 -.. . - -ft -o BY S. 1). JtOW. YOL 3.-NO. 11. n CLEARFIELD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1856. READ AND PONDER ! THE NE'W DEMOCRATIC" DOCTEIJTE. -Slavery not to be Confined to the Iferro Eace, but to be Made the Universal Condition of ' f the Laboring Classes of Society. ' The people of the Free States have so long yielded to the arrogant demands of tlie Slave Oligarchy in the South,that the latter has come to think it can carry any measure it sees fit, no m atter how degrading it may bo to the char acter of the free white men of the North. Not many years ago, the Southern slave holders were content to have their "human chattels" protected in the States where they held them. Xext, they demanded and secured ftvt Slave States from acquired territory, (Louisiana,Flo rida, Arkansas, Missouri, and Texas,) while the Free States have only secured two, Iowa and California. Aex, the Slave power demanded all the ter ritories, and broke down the Missouri Com promise, which secured a part of those terri tories to free labor. Xtft, they demanded the right to come into tho free States with their slaves whenever they choose, and stay as long as they please ; and the United States Courts seem about to yield to them, and grant this outrageous demand. But the last, the crowning, the diabolical as sumption is, that Slavery is not to be confined to the NEGRO RACE, but must be made to include laboring WHITE MEN also. This doctrine, which is so monstrous and shocking as almost to seem incredible, is now openly a vowed and defended by very many of the news papers and of the public men of the South that support James Buchanan. The doctrine is also proclaimed by some Northern newspa pers of the so-called Democratic party, but not generally with such boldness as in the South. To show the exact extent and nature of the doctrine of enslaving WHITE MEN", tho following extracts from Buchanan papers, and froiu the speeches of Buchanan men, are given : The Richmond Examiner ono of tho leading Democratic papers in Virginia, ardently sup porting Mr. Buchanan, holds the following lan guage in a late issue : "Until recently, the defence of Slavery has labored under great difficulties, because its a pologists (for they were niero apologists) took hulf-wuy grounds. They confined the defence of Slavery to mere negro Slavery ; thereby giving up the Slavery principle, admitting oth er forms of Slavery to be wrcng. 'The line of defence, however.is now chang ed. The South now maintains that Slavery is righl, natural and necessary, and dots not de pend upon difference of complexion ! The laws of th Slave States justify tae holding of W II ITE MEN' in bondage." The CharlestonAftrcuri, the leading Buchan an paper in South Carolina, says : "Slavery is the natural and normal condi t?on of the laboring man, whether WHITE or Hack. The great evil of Northern free socie ty is, that it is burdened with a servile class of MECHANICS and LABORERS, unfit for self government, and yet clothed with the attributes and powers of citizens. Master arid slave is a relation in society as necessary as that of pa rent and child ; and the Northern States will yet have to introduce it. Their theory of free government is a delusion." There's "Democratic" doctrine for you.with a vengeance; "our theory of free government a delusion," "laboring men, whether while or black, to be slaves ?" Verily, matters are com ing to a pretty pass with us. The Richmond (Va.) Enquirer, Mr. Buchan an's confidential organ, and considered by the "Democratic" party as its ablest paper iu the South, speaks as follows in a recent number: "Repeatedly have we asked the North, 'has rot the experiment of universal libertv FAIL ED ? Are not the evils of FREE SOCIETY INSUFFERABLE ? And do not most thiuk r.'.g men among you propose to subvert and re construct it V Still no answer. This gloomy .sik hee is another conclusive proof, added to z:ir.y other conclusive evidences we have fur- ished, that free society, in tho long run, is an impracticable- form of society ; it is every where starving, demoralized, and insurrectionary- "We repeat, then, that policy and humanity furbid the extension of the evils of free jroctV.'y to new people and coming generations. Two eppesite and conflicting forms of so--i'-y cannot, among civilized men, co-exist and endure. The one must give way and cease to exist. Tho other become universal. "If free society be unnatural, immoral, un christian, it must fall, and give way to a slave society a social system old as the world, uni versal as man." And the South Side Democrat, another pro minent Buchanan paper, in Virginia, whose editor was supported for Clerk of the House of Representatives, by the Democratic mem bers of the present Congress T. J. D. Fuller, of Maine, among them abuses everything FREE after this style : "We have got to hating everything with the prefix FREE, from free negroes down and up through the whole catalogue FREE farms. FREE labor. FREE society, FREE will, FREE thinking, FREE children, and FREE schools ail belonging to the same brood of damna ble Isms. But the worst of all these abomina tions is the modern system of FREE Schools. The New England system of ftec schools has been the prolific cause and source of the infi delities and treasons that have turned her ci ties int Sodonis and Gomorrahs, and her land into the common nestling-places of howling bedlamites. We abominate the system because the SCHOOLS ARE FREE." The Washington Union, tho National Organ ct the "Democratic" party, says that the hon est and heroic FREE LABORING MEN of Kansas ",5k a MISER ABLE, BLEAK-EYED RAB BLE, who nave been transferred like SO MA N V CATTLE to that country." The New York Day Book, one of the two papers in New York Cjty that support James Buchanan, proposes to enslave poor AMERI CANS, Germans and Irish, who may fall into poverty and be unable to support their fami- lies. Here are the Day Book's exact words in speaking of the POOR WHITE PEOPLE : "Sell the parents of these children into SLAVERY". Let our Legislature pass a law that whoever will take these parents and take care of them and their OFFSPRING, in sick ness and in health clothe them, feed them, and house them: shall be legally entitled to their services ; and let the same"Legislatnre de cree that whoever receives these parents and their CHILDREN, ami obtains their services, shall OWN THEM AS LONG AS THEY LIVE." The Richmond Enquirer, of a very recent date, contains the following very 'high' opin ion of the people of the North : "We can bring the capital employed in manufactures, and most of it employed in com merce, South, when we please. We can trans fer Manchester, and Birmingham and Lowell to the South, and thus in a single year, quad ruple the wealth of the South. But we would not have your rich, vulgar, licentious bosses, and your brutal, ignorant and insubordinate fac tory hands in our midst, for all the wealth of "Ornius and of Ind." We are as rich as we care to be. We would not exchange our situ ation for the vulgar sensuality and brutality of the "nourcavx riches," the coarse parvenues, the millionaire cotton factors and grocers of the North or of England, much less for tho countless millions of paupers and criminals, who lift up and sustain the cncardly, selfish, sensual, licentious, infidel, agrarian, and revolutionary edifice of free society." The Muscogee, Alabama, Herald, an enthu siastic Buchanan paper, delivers itself as fol lows : "Free society ! we sicken at the name. What is it hut a conglomeration of GREASY MECHANICS, FILTHY OPERATIVES, SMALL FISTED FARMERSand moon struck theorists ? All the Northern and especially the New England States are devoid of society fitted for well-bred gentlemen. The prevail ing class one meets with is that ol mechanics struggling lo be sent eel, and small farmers do ing their own drudgery; ind who are not fit for association with a Southern gentleman's (nigger) body-servant. This is your free so ciety which tlao Northern hounds are endeav oring to extend into Kansas." So much for extracts from "Democratic" newspapers. Now for a few from Democratic speeches : S. W. Downs, late Democratic Senator from Louisiana, in an elaborate and carefully pre pared speech, published in the Wasbington Globa, says : "I call upon tho opponents of Slaverv to prove that the WHITE LABORERS of the North are us happy, as contented, or as com fortable, as the slaves of the South. In the South the slaves do not sutler one-tenth the evils endured by the white laborers of the North. Poverty is unknown to the Southern slave ; for as soon as the master of slaves be comes too poor to provide for them, he SELLS them to others, who can take care of them. This, sir, is one of the excellencies of the sys tem of slavery, and this the superior condi tio, of the Southern slave over the Northern WHITE laborer"." According to Mr. Downs, then, (good Dem ocratic authority,) all t!:at the Northern white laborer requires is somebody to sell him when he falls into poverty. Admirable philanthro py ! Beautiful democracy ! ! Senator Clemens, of Alabama, declared in a speech in the U. S. Senate, that "Tho operatives of New England were not as well situated nor as comfortably off us Hie slaves that cultivate the rice and cotton fields of the South." In a recent speech by Mr. Reynolds, Pierce-Buchanan-Democratic candidate for Congress from Missouri, that gentleman distinctly as serted that "The same construction of the power of Congress to exclude Slavery from a United States Territory, would justify the Govern ment in excluding foreign-born citizens Ger man and Irish as iccll as niggers. Here a Missouri Democrat classes German and Irish indiscriminately with Xegro slaves. Mr. L. II. Goode, another Atchison Demo crat of Missouri, in a recent speech against the Free State men of Kansas, denounced the la boring men as "WHITE SLAVIW !" Scuatcr Butler, (the uncle of "Assassin" Brooks,) a shining light in the Democratic ga laxy, declared in a speech in the UnitedStates Senate this session "That men have NO RIGHT TO VOTE un less they are possessed of property, as required by the Constitution of South Cmolint. There no man can VOTE unless he owns TEN NE GROES, or real estate to the value of Ten Thousand Dollars. And this is the doctrine "Democracy," so called, would introduce into Pennsylvania. JAMES BUCHANAN.the Presidential can didate of the men and of the party who hold these odious views, advocated the doctrine of reducing the WAGES of AMERICAN OPE RATIVES and LABORERS to the Euiopean standard, wuieh is known to bo about TEN CENTS A DAY. What a fit candidate Mr. Bu chanan is for those who would make WHITE MEN slaves! JAMES BUCHANAN is the Representa tive and Advocate of the extension of SLAVE LABOR. IREEMEX OF PEXXSYLrjXI.l! Are you prepared to cast your votes for a man who entertains such doctrines J There are two eventful periods in the life of women : one, when she wonders who she will have the other who will have her. The first occurs t sixteen, the second at forty. UNMASKING Til EM ! We have for some time been satisfied that a few unscrupulous politicians were attempt ing to sell out the true Americans of Penn sylvania to the Buchanan party ; but we re frained from saying anything, until the duty we owe to our American brethren impels us to speak out. A few words, however, will suf fice. It is well known that the respective friends of Fillmore and Fremont desired an accommodation, or union, by which the State might be carried against Buchanan. To do this, a union electoral ticket was suggested. It is notorious, that at first nearly, if not all, the leaders who pretend to favor Fillmore, as well as those who support Fremont, advocated t he proposition. Suddenly, however, under some mysterious influence, the first mentioned class of politicians tacked about and opposed a union, and all their cflbrts have since then been directed towards dividing the opposition to Buchanan. When the several State Com mittees met at Philadelph ia week before last, the disorganizes rejected all offers of union. And in order to test them fully, it was propo sed to take the Fillmore electoral ticket, ask ing only, if it would 110 elect Fillmore, but would elect Fremont, that the electors should be pledged to cast their votes for the latter ; and this offer, as well as every other, was re jected. It must, therelore, be apparent to ev ery AonuMhinking man, that the object of those who oppose the Union ticket is to aid Buchanan. Americans ! Will you allow your selves to be duped by these political knaves ? We trust not. We warn you against their wiles, so that you may act knowingly, and that you may not reflect upon us hereafter with ha ving been remiss in our duty in this respect, we invite your attentive perusal of the following Adlress of the Republican State Executivo Committee. To the People of Pennsylvania : FALLOW Citizexz : The Republican State Executive Committee, appointed by the State Convention, which assembled in Philadelphia 111 June last, was charged with the duty of nominating candidates for Electors of Presi dent and Vice President of the United States. The Committee, always desirous of securing a fair and honorable alliance with other par ties ia this State, who arc hostile to the forci ble extension of slavery into free territory, considered that its duties would be discharged with greater satisfaction to its constituency, by casting no obstacles in the way of such an alliance. A large number of our fellow citi zens had expressed their preferences for Mr. Fillmose as a candidate for tho Presidency, although their opinions on the questions of slavery extension were concurrent with those entertained' by the Republican party. Alrea dy, the Republicans and Americans were uni ted in support of the same candidates for cer tain State officers. In every county, with but ono or two exceptions, they united on the same candidates for Congress and the State Legislature, and a general desire was expres sed from all quarters of the State for a union on ono electoral ticket. About the middle of August a verbal communication was made by Mr. Sanderson, Chairman of the American State Central Committee, to the Chairman of tho Republican State Committee, expressive of au anxiety to unite the two parties, and re questing that the liepublicans should postpone their nomination of electors in order to secute their object. Several niemlK;rs of the Ameri can Committee made the same request, found ing it on the assurance that the friends of Mr. Fillmore, throughout the State generally, con sidered his election hopeless, and earnestly desired to secure the defeat of Mr. Buchanan. Soon after Mr. Sanderson's fraternal com munication to the Chairman of the Republican Committee, he visited the city of Washington, and immediately on his return, a letter was re ceived from him as follows: Philadelphia, Aug. 27, 1830. Sir In obedience to the instructions of the Fillmore and Doiielson State Committee, I submit to you, for the consideration and ac tion of the Republican State Committee, of wtich you are the Chairman, the following proposition : That the Chairman of the Democratic, Re publican and American State Committee unite in issuing a call for such number of meetings, to be held at such times and places as may be agreed upon by them, at which the issues in volved in the present Presidential canvass shall' be discussed by an equal number of speakers of each party, and that the Chairman ol each Committee shall have the exclusive right of selecting the speakers for his party, at such meetings, but that their names shall be announced in the call for the meeting. Y'ou will oblige by giving an answer to this proposition, in behalf of your Committee, at your earliest convenience. I am, sir, very respectf ully yours, J. P. Saxdebsox, Chairman American State Committee. CltARLtS Gibbons, Esq. This proposition, submitted by Mr. Sander son, seemed to contemplate enmity instead of peace open war instead of fraternity with the friends of Fremont and Dayton. It was so in consistent with his verbal communication, made but a short tini before to the Chairman of the Republican Committee, as to require some explanation, which was sought by the following letter : Philadelphia, August 20, 18-56. j Sir I received your letter of the 27th inst, by which you submit for the consideration and action of the Republican State Committee the 1 following proposition : "That tte Chairman of the Democratic Re-. 1 publican and American State Committees u- nite in issuing a call for such number of meet ings, to be held at such times and places as may be agreed upon by them, at which the is sues involved iu the present canvass shall be discussed by an equal number of speakers of each party,, and that the Chairman of each Committee shall have the exclusive right of selecting the speakers for his party at such meetings, but that the names shall be announ ced in the call for the meeting." This resolution seems to require some ex planation before it can be finally acted upon by our Committee. A few days ago I had the honor to receive from you, through the Hon. James Cooper, a very distinct intimation that the Committee of which you are Chairman de sired to unite with the Republican State Com mittee in the formation of an Electoral Ticket to be supported by all citizens of Pennsylva nia who are opposed to the Cincinnati Plat form and to the election of Mr. Buchanan On that ground you requested, through Mr. Cooper, that the Republican Committee should not form an Electoral Ticket at their meeting which had been called for yesterday the 2Sth instant. Several members of your Committee subse quently waited upon me, and stated as their opinion that our fellow citizens in the interior of the State who preferred Mr. Fillmore as a candidate for the Presidency, were very gener ally iu favor of such a course. I expressed to them, as well as to Mr. Cooper, my cordial acquiescence in the suggestion, and I am now instructed by the Republican State Committee to say that tho proposition for a Union Elec toral Ticket meets with their hearty and unan imous approval. According to your request, and lor the purpose indicated by you, they have deferred tho formation of an Electoral Ticket, and have named the ISth proximo as a suitable time for final action in the matter. If the proposition embraced In your letter be intended to take effect after a Union Ticket shall have been formed, and the Americans and Republicans arc to meet as allies to resist the extension of slavery to territory which was solemnly dedicated to Freedom, we cannot hesitate to accept it. On that issue, which stands paramount in the contest, we are ready to give you hand and heart in an earnest strug gle with that common foe which seeks, in the disguise of Democracy, to degrade the white laboring man to the level of a negro slave. As soon as 1 receive your reply, I will'fur nish you with a more definite answer to the proposition contained in your letter. I am, very respectfully, your &c, Cn. Gibbons, Chairman Republican State Committee. To Jxo. P. Saxdeusox, Esq. Chairman of American State Cooimittee,&c. The explanation thus sought was never giv en. Mr. Sanderson refused to define his posi sition, but personally solicted the Chairman of the Republican Committee lo withdraw his letter, on the ground that he (Mr.Sauderson) had ex pected a communication from Col. Forney,the Chairman of the Democratic State Committee, but had received none, and it was therefore un necessary lo preserve the correspondence. His request was not complied with. On the 12tli of September, he renewed it in person, and pressed it with much earnestness, but without success. On the same day he sought a third and secret interview with the Chairman of the Republican Committee, to whom he addressed the following note : Friday Afternoon. Dear Sir. :I have Forney's answer, and would like to see you before 4 o'clock. Can you not slip in at the side door, and see me at my officer I do not like to call twice the same day at your office. Truly, J. P. S. To this note, the following answer was im mediately given : Friday, P. M., Sept. 12. Dear Sir : I cannot call on you this after noon, as you request. Perhaps it is unneces sary, as I can see no reason for withdrawing my reply to your letter of the 27th nit., and do not feel myself at liberty to comply with your request in that particular. Mr. Forney's answer could have no influence on my course, under any circumstances. If you are really in favor of uniting the Op position on one Electoral Ticket, why need there be any mystery about it ? I have no concealments in the matter, and if anything is to be done, we must act promptly and frankly. Very respectfully yours, Cu. Gibbons, Chairman, &c. Jxo. P. Sanderson, Esq. In the evening of the same day, Sept. 12, the American State Committee met in Phila delphia, but it is understood that Mr. Sander son withheld from his colleagues the forego ing correspondence. His committee, at that meeting, passed a resolution that they were "in favor of any honorable arrangement with the friends of Fremont and Dattox, to defeat Mr. Bi cuanan," whieh Mr. Sanderson was reques ted to communicate to the RepublicanConimit tec, which was to meet on the 18th of the same month. He suppressed the resolution, and the Committee, although in session within two hundred yards of the ''side Joor" of his office, received no information from him on the sub ject. It was still deemed expedient that the Re publican Committee should take no action in the formation of an electoral ticket, without a fair and open conference with the American Committee. The subject was accordingly postponed tJ the 7th of October, and the fol lowing letter was addressed to Mr. Sanderson : Philadelphia, Sept. 29, 18-30. Dear Sir : 1 am instructed by the Repub lican State Executive Committee to invite a conference with the American State Commit tee, at Harrisburg, on the 7th prox., for the purpose of forming an electoral ticket to be supported by the citizens of Pennsylvania, who are opposed to the extension of slavery and to the election of Mr. Buchanan to the Presidency. At the meeting of the committee, which I have the honor to represent, held on the 18th inst., of which yon had the notice, some com munication on this subject from the American Committee was fully expected ; but none was received, and I have not had the pleasure of tearing from you sines. We have been lead to suppose that your committee has authority to withdraw, whole or in part, the electoral ticket nominated by the American Convention, for the purpose of se curing an alliance of the two parties arainst a common enemy. And believing that such an alliance may be tormed without compromising the honor of either party, the Republican Committee has postponed the nomination of candidates for electors to the Jiftest period which is consistent with the authority delega ted to it by the State Convention. I therefore beg leave to urge upon you the necessity of calling your committee together for the purpose, and at the time and place a bove designated. If you determine to do so, I will cheerfully forward youi notice to each member of your committee, by one or more special messengers whom you may consider worthy of your confi dence. Very truly, you r3, Cn. Gibbons. Chairman Republican State Ex. Committee. Jxo. P. Sanderson, Esq., Chairman American State Ex. Committee. Invitations to a conference were also ad dressed to the individual 'members of the A merican Committee, from several of whom written answers were received, urging a post ponement of action until faftcr the October e- lection, pledging themselves in favor of a Un ion Ticket, and communicating, for the first time, the resolution passed by their committee on the 12th of September, which had been sup pressed by their Chairman. One member of the Committee, referring to sonic of his col leagues in connection with the proposition for a Union Ticket, says : "They may not join us for powerful reasons ; but, be this as it may we can carry the State without them. An ap peal to the great body of the American party, iu the last resort, is the true policy. I give you again the most unqualified assurance that 1 will lead this movement for a UnionTickct," and it will succeed." As tho writer of the let ter indicates his suspicion of the corruptibility of some members of the American Committee, it is obviously improper to mention his name without his authorty. On the 3th of October, the following replv was received from Mr. Sanderson, through the Post Office. Philadelphia. Oct. GJ, 1S5G. Dear Sin : Being absent from the city when your letter was laid on my desk, it did not reach me until my return home, which will explain the cause of the delay in acknowl edging its receipt. The Fillmore and DonelsonState Committee will have a meeting in this city, on the even ing of the 10th instant, when I will present yonr communication for the consideration and action of said Committee. Knowing the views of the members of the Committee as I do, on the subject to which yo::r letter relates I am satisfied that a meeting at the time and place stated by you, would end in accomplish ing nothing, and be entirely useless. Hence I do not feel myself warranted in complying with your request ; and, therefore, respectful ly decline to convene them at llariisburg on the 7th instant. I am, very truly yours, J. P. Sanderson. Charles Gibbons, Esq.. Chairman Republican State Committee. The Republican Committee met zt llairis burg on the 7th inst., -and adjourned to meet in Philadelphia 011 the lGth, for the purpose of forming the Electoral ticket in conjunction with the American Committee. The minutes of proceedings of the last named body, at its meeting on the ICth, have been published, and it appears "that Mr. Sanderson suppressed the foregoing communication addressed to him on the 29th of September, which in his answer he promised to lay before bis committee. The Republican Committee, at its mceti. g. held on the same day, sent a deputation to the American Committee, with the following in structions : Resolved, That the Committee appointed to confer with the Fillmore and LHucIson State Committee, be instructed to invite them to meet ami unite with the Republican State Ex ecutive Committee, for the purpose of forming an electoral ticket, opposed to the election of James Buchanan, upon the basis proposed by the Union State Central Committee, as pub lished in the call for a Union State Conven tion, to meet in Harrisburg on the 21st inst. And if this invitation lo not accepted then, Resolved, That the said Committee be in structed to invite the Fillmore and DoneNon State Committee to meet with us for the pur pose of forming an electoral ticket on some other basis, which will be lifcelv to receive the support of the people of this State opposed to the Cincinnati platform and the election of James Buchanan. The American Contention refused to accept cither invitation, and rejected the following resolution, offered by Mr. Francis Jordan, of Bedford: Resolved, That if tho friends of Fremont and Dayton accept and support the American elec toral ticket, at the ensuing election, we are willing that the said ticket may cast the elec toial vote of the State for Fr mont and DaV ton, in case it will defeat Mr. Buchanan, and will not elect Fillmore and Donelson if given to them. They also struck from their Electoral ticket two gentlemen, who had been placed on it by the American State Convention, who had de clared that they preferred Mr. Fremont to Mr. Buchanan for the Presidency, substituted oth ers who prefer the latter to the former candi date, and finally adjourned. A minority of the Committee (seven in num ber) dissatisfied with the conduct cf their col leagues, then united with the Republican and North American Committees, and formed a Union electoral ticket, which is fully explain ed in the official announcement already made. All that could be done by the Chairman of the American State Committee and his coad jutor in tfaa DemocMtie Mnih to giv tht electoral vote of Pennsylvania to Mr. Bncha an, by a secret, side-door combination with the friends of that gentleman, to divide the strength of the opposition, has been accom plished. The proposition of the 27th August was evidently designed to embroil the Amer ican and Republican parties in every county where they had united on Assembly and Con gressional candidates, and thus aid the De mocracy to an overwhelming' victory. ' For what other object did the Chairman of the A merican Stafe Committee place himself in communication with Mr. Forney 1 Whether that gentleman accepted an invitation to "slip in at the side door" of Mr. Sanderson, or whether Mr. Sanderson "slipped in at the side rioor" of Mr. Forney, is not certainly known. Why, Mr. Sanderson should invito a secret "5i ie door" interview, and shrink back from a fair, open and honorable conference, can only be surmised. Although Chairman of the A mcrican State Committee, it is well under stood that he was never connected with the A merican organization, and under other cir cumstances, a "side door" effort on bis partt annihilate it would perhaps subject him to no ! rcM'll. .'!; - Tlr.t vliV li tlimli? imrtipmnfa jthe concoction of a scheme to frustrate and defeat the well -known wishes and purposes of that party, after it had so far honored him with its confidence as to place Lim at the head of its State Committee, is a question which must be settled by those who have been betrayed. The Democratic State ticket has been elect ed by a small majority. It ""eceived the votes of thousands of Mr. Fillmore's friends Jpi Phil adelphia and clsewt.ere, who cannot support James Buchanan for the Presidency. It "slipped in at the side door," while the true friends of the Union ticket were slumbciing at their j e ts. They have not been vigilant. They have not put forth their strength. Tbo otlicial returns of the recent election show that in many counties their votes have not been po'kd.- In Cumberland the entire vote is marly s-ix huxdrld less than ia 1834. Ir Berks it is nearly Jive hundred less than in 1S52. In Franklin, it is nearly six hundred less than in 1S32. In Dauphin there is an increase of sev enty votes only since 1S32. Similar deficien cies will be found in the official returns from other counties. The Democratic party, with a perfect organization in every election dis trict in the State, polled every vote which could be secured by the utmost vigilance and at an cost. Never before were such efforts inado by that party to carry an election and never was an opposition more sanguine of its own success, and more neglectful of the prop er means to secure it. Friends of Liberty ! We invoke yon to a rouse from that supineness which must prove fatal to every cause, however just and holy it tuny be. With you a gracious Providence baa deposited the power of arresting the extension of human slavery to the free territories of tho country. The Republican party proposes no interference with the constitutional claims of any State. It docs not concern itselt with slavery in the South it seeks no quarrel with any section of the Union. But it demands fi delity to that solemn compact" which admitted Xissouri, j ledged freedom to Kansas, and peace to a : distracted country. It declares that those wbo destroyed it shall derive no ad vantage from their own wtongful act, and this is a principle daily administered in every court of justice throughout the civilized world. It.promulgates no political doctrines of recent origin, but founds itself upon those embraced and maintained by WasnrxcTOs; Jeffep.sox, Franklin, and other Fathers of the Republie. The Electoral Ticket nominated by the joint action of the State Committees, represents fairly the principles for which we contend. Every vote cast for that which contains tho name of John C. Fremont, is a vote for thoss principles, and the aggregate will exhibit their strength with the people of Pennsylvania. In proportion to the number of votes cast for that ticket, in the event of the election of the twenty-six electors, the vote of Pennsylvania will be cast in the Electoral College. And so in proportion to the number of votes given for Millard Fillmore and the same twenty-six elec tors will be the number of votes which he w ill receive in the Electoral College. Mr. Fre mont and Mr. Fillmore are, therefore, rival candidates, and the contest for popular supre macy may be conducted by their respective friends with ail the earnestness in their power, each contending for their principles without compromsso or concealment, and asking no favors of the other. This plan of union, ex acting no moral- sacrifice, must commend it self to the friends of both candidates, und its acceptance !ythem must result in the defeat of Mr. Buchanan. ' ' . . .. ; Republicans ! Lotus prepare fur'the final atrtiegle; Our cause is just, our candidate is worthy In the prime and vigor of life,whicb has been devoted to honorable, laborious and useful services to the country, the Acknowl edged founder of the Free State of California, the first who opeacd a path for the cuiigract across the Rocky Mountains to the shores ff the Pacific, facingdeath, and overcoming dan gers in the enterprise which no man before him had dared to encounter, ho has bee a pre sented to the people, not as a calculating and -successful politician, but as one from their own ranks, whose career in the evidence cf 1 is I f !l H Mi I I '. 1
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