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check the extension of slavery, and assert the
worth and dignity or free labor ; if jou would
preserve the constitutional rights of every
aection of oar beloved country 5 if yon would
"ensure domestic tranquility, establish jus
tice, promote the general welfare, and secure
the blessings of liberty to yourselves and your
posterity," the time to do it is now! For
these very objects, the lives and fortunes of
men, in the early history of our country, were
pledged and lost. No such sacrifices are de
manded of you. We ask only that every citi
zen who values such blessings, and desires to
make them permanent, may for that purpose
devote a few days of peaceful labor to the
cause. A full vote in Pennsylvania on the 4th
of November will settle forever the sectional
controversy into which the country has been
plunged by the scandalous measures of an ad
ministration which Mr. Buchanan has publicly
-approved and is pledged to maintain.
Charles Gibbons,
Chairman Rep. State Ex. Com.
Philadelphia, October 20, 1S5G.
Jiaffsnt
ait's loiirnal.
S. B. ROW, Editor and Proprietor.
CLEARFIELD, PA., OCT. 29, 1856.
People's National Ticket.
FOB PRESIDRNT,
JOHN C. FKEMO N T,
OF CALIFORNIA.
FOR TICS PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM L. D A V T O N ,
OF SEW JERSEY".
TJ3TI0H THESE IS STREITGTH."
If ever a trueism was uttered, the above is
one. The elder Napoleon fully appreciated it,
and hence his aim was to "divide and conquer"
the enemy. This is the game the Democratic
leaders are attempting to play with the Oppo
sition. All their efforts are directed towards
preventing the Fillmore and Fremont men
uniting- on one ticket,, knowing well that if
they nnite Buchanan will le defeated. How
far they will succeed in their designs, remains
to be seen. It must be apparent to every ra
tional individual, that if we divide our votes
between two separate, distinctive tickets, de
feat awaits us ; but if we unite on one electo
ral ticket, victory is ours. No well-iounded
objection can be raised to voting the Union
Electoral Ticket. No sacrifice of principle is
Involved, in supporting it no man is asked to
endorse any sentiment to which he is averse
no surrender of your Americanism or Repub
licanism is required all that is contemplated
by it is to carry Pennsylvania against Buchan
an, and then give-Fillmore and Fremont re
spectively whatever proportion of electors the
Totes each receives on the 4th November will
untitle him to receive.
Americans! We admonish you, if you wish
to defeat Buchanan il you desire to perpetu
ate your cherishod principles if you hope to
strengthen your cause and see ''Americans
role their native land" and if you would have
the purity of the ballot-box preserved, prevent
our elections from being controlled by foreign
catholic influence, and a salutary corrective
applied to such fraud as was perpetrated at the
late election in many sections of this State
vote the Union Electoral Ticket. We have
the success of pure American principles at
heart, and when we urge you to vote the Union
ticket, we are only asking yon to do what our
humble judgment dictates as the proper course
to bo pursued if we would have our hopes ful
filled. In this course wc are not alone the
most prominent Americans in the State are
occupying a similar position. At a meeting
held in Ilarrisburg on the 22d, Gov. Pollock,
Col. A. G. Ccrtin, Hon. Lemuel Todd, Ex
Mayor Conrad and Hon. Chas. B. Penrose, of
Philadelphia, and other prominent Americans
urged all who are sincerely opposed to Bu
chanan, to vote the Union Ticket. G. W,
Heed, William Millward, John S. Fainter, J
Shantz, Charles Eeed, Samuel S. Warner,
Stephen Miller, and a very large number more
of Fillmore Americans of Philadelphia, have
issued an address, in which they say that they
"are satisfied, plans have been maturing to
hand over the American party to the Demo
cratic platform," denounce John P. Sander-
on, who "is not now. nor was he ever, con
nected with our American party," but who
managed to get himself appointed chairman of
the Fillmore State Committee, and declare
that they, as friends of Fillmore, will support
the Union Electoral Ticket. From every sec
lion of the State we hear that this ticket is re
ceived with almost universal favor by both the
. Americans and Republicans. The plain truth
is, that the man who does not vote it, is cither
willfully or ignorantly aiding Buchanan. We
have laid these facts before you, Americans
and Republicans, for your consideration, and
we trust that you will, by voting the Union
ticket, show that you desire to act in such a
manner as will advance the great principles for
which wo are mutually coutending.
Stringfellow, the notorious border ruffian
and about 100 of Lis followers, recently under
took to hang a Mr. Perry, because he had sold
some flour to certain parties in Kansas, for
-which they suspected him of being an Aboli-
' tionist. Mr. P. appealed for protection to the
' Deonle of Weston, who held a meeting and
' passed resolutions requiring Stringfellow to
leave me town, ana county lorever, giving mm
Jre days to settle cp bis auairt.
THE DEMOCRATIC CHAKPIOSS
BACKED OUT.
Decatce Tp., Oct. 26th, 1856.
Mr. Editor : Tho Democrats of Clearfield
for some time back, have been abusing and
slandering Dr. Jeffries, one of our best citi
zens, because he has seen proper to expose the
political dishonesty of some of the wire-workers
of the present Democratic party. Some
time since, he expressed through your Journal
that he would meet any gentleman, of good
character, in the Democratic ranks, and pub
licly discuss the great political questions of
the day, pledging himself to prove all that he
had said in reference to the policy of the pre
sent Democratic party. At last his challenge
was accepted, the time and place appointed
by the Democrats, and word sent to Dr. Jef
fries to attend at the district school house near
John Goss's in Decatur township, on Thursday
Oct. 21th, at 2 o'clock, to meet Hon. G. R.
Barrett, Dr. Boyer, and Israel Test, Esq., in
public discussion. The parties having met,
and the house being crowded with anxious
spectators, both male and female, after some
sparring as to whether the meeting was Dem
ocratic or Republican, Dr. Jeffries moved that
the meeting be organized by appointing three
moderators one Democrat, one Republican,
and one American. Thompson A. Shaw, E.
Walk and G. Westbrook were elected. Dr.
Jeffries then moved that the speakers be con
fined to half an hour for each speech; at
which Judge Barrett arose and said he wished
the speakers not to be confined to half an hour
or to an j-given time, but to have the liberty
to speak as long as they pleased. Dr. Jeffries
replisd that that was not only contrary to all
the rules of discussion, but that it would pre
vent any reply to the arguments cf the gentle
men opposed to him, as they could hold the
floor all night if they were not restricted to a
given time. Judge B. said he did net come
here to have a gag-law forced down his throat,
but that he was bound to have liberty of
speech, and that he claimed the right to speak
as long as lie pleased. Ur. Jetlries replied
that he wished to have the discussion conduc
ted on fair principles and according to parlia
mentary usages ; that disputants in all public
debates had a limited time to speak ; that even
members of Congress were confined to an
hour, and he (Jetlties) thought that hall an
hour was long enough to speak at a time, and
as they could speak as ofteu as they pleased,
he knew the people would understand the dis
cussion better: but should they not be con
fined to any given time, he (Jeffries) would get
but one speech, and the7 (Barret & Co.) would
employ the remainder of the time and thus
deprive him of a single reply. He hoped the
half hour proposition would cany. Judge
Barrett said there were no such parliamentary
rules, and that members of Congress were not
confined to an hour, as stated by the gentle
man. Mr. Test said he agreed w ith Judge
Barrett that there were no such parliamentary
rules as the gentleman referred to, but he tho't
the best way would be for Mr. Jeffries to goon
and speak as long as he wished, and then they
would follow. Dr. Jeffries replied that that
would not be a discussion, as proposed, and
that ho was sorry to see gentlemen who pro
fessed to know so much heretofore, now know
so little of the rules and customs of their coun
try in discussion. Why, sirs, said bo, it is
one of tho rules of the National House of Rep
resentatives that members are allowed to speak
but one hour at a time, and you never heard of
a public discussion but what the disputants
were limited to a given timo. Judge Barrett
said he would not discuss the questions at all,
if he was to be confined to half hour speeches ;
that he would not be deprived of the liberty of
speech as they say the people are in Kansas.
Dr. Jeffries replied that the half hour rule gave
all the debaters an equal liberty of speech, but
to have no rule would deprive him of having
after the first speech any more liberty of
speech through the discussion, and he was cer
tain that all the good the present -Democratic
party had done, could be told in less thau half
an hour, and he would therefore call for the
vote which was taken and resulted three to
one in favor of the half-hour rule.
Dr. Jeffries then moved that none but official
documents be introduced in the discussion.
Judge Barrett said he would not discuss under
any snch rule. Dr. Jeffries said he introduc
ed this motion that the people might be able
to get the truth, for he knew that if the Dem
ocratic papers were admitted as evidence, the
people would be no wiser after than before the
discussion. Judge Barret said if he was to be
dictated to in that way be would not discuss
at all. Dr. Jeffries replied that rather than
have no discussion he would withdraw the mo
tion. Judge Barrett then said he would not
debate under the half hour rule. Dr. Jeffries
said he had come prepared to discuss the
great political questions now before the coun
try, and he hoped the Democratic champions
would not back out, when the people were as
sembled to hear the debate. Judge Barrett
said they would not back out, but they would
not discuss under such restrictions. Dr. Jef
fries replied that rather than they should back
out and have no debate, he would be willing
to nave the time lengthened to an hour for
each speech. Judge Barrett said they would
not debate at all, but they would go out and
hold a democratic meeting. Dr. Jeffries said
be was willing and ready to meet the whole of
them in discussion, and was now prepared to
to prove the unsoundness of the Democratic
administration, and rather than have no dis
cussion at all be would let them have thei
own time, if they would only stand up to thei
own proposition. But they backed square out
from their own proposal and refused to di
cuss at all. They seen at once that they had
"caught a Tartar;" that Dr. Jeffries was too
well versed in the history of American poli
tics for them to risk an encounter ; doubtless
thinking it better to run like men than to be
whipped like children, they got afraid and
backed straight out from the contest. Leav
ing the house, they fixed np out of doors
where 31 r. Test tried to make a speech, after
which they came in and took possesion of tho
school house, where Judge Barrett delivered
that same old speech, and then they adjourned j
for supper. The meeting again being organ
ized, Dr. Boyer delivered what he called a
speech, but was in truth a harrangne against
the Gospel as well as against Gospel Ministers,
being. composed of scraps of bad Latin, worse
English, and vulgar epithets for which he
would have been hissed down bad not John M.
Chase and Dr. Jeffries requested the people to
desist. But Boyer at last relieved the people
by taking his seat. Jeffries was then loudly cal
led for. But Judge Barret said the meeting was
theirs and that they would hold the house.. Dr.
Jeffries told them to go on and say all they had
o say for he would reply to the whole of them.
Mr. Test was then put up again and rehearsed
the same old story that the preachers and
churches were all arrayed against the Democ
racy, and after warning the ministers not to
speak against what he called the wicked, filthy
politics of the day, he sat down to the great
satisfaction of the people. Jeffries was then
loudly called for, but Judge Barrett mounted a
seat and declared he would speak, but he
could not be heard until Dr. Jeffries and John
M. Chase told the people to hear him through.
After pouring hot lead, as he called it, into
the ears of the people for an hour, he moved
an adjournment, in order to prevent a reply.
Dr. Jeffries told him not to back out, but to
stay and hear a reply; that he was going to
answer every one of their arguments ; but they
fled from the contest, taking with them six
Democrats. The people then seated them
selves (altho' it was near midnight) and lis
tened to Dr. Jeffries, who from documentary
evidence showed that their arguments were
simple and specious. Never was there a set
of politicians so completely used up. Every
body saw at once that Barrett & Co. could not
begin to talk with Jeffries. And had the Dem
ocratic champions not been afraid, but stood
up to the discussion, there would have been
few Democrats left in Decatui. As it was,
six Democrats came over to the Republican
ranks so that you may look for another victo
ry to our glorious cause. ISAAC GOSS.
Archbishop Hitches has published a card in
the New York Courier and Enquirer, in which
he disclaims all knowleda of the religion of
Col. Fremont, and says that he is not respon
sible for any article on this subject that ap
peared in his reputed organ, the Freeman's
Journal. McMaster, the editor of that paper,
who wrote the braggart letter, in which he
threatened Col- Fremont with "hot iron, quick
and sure," now himself publishes a card, from
which it appears that he also knows nothing
of his own knowledge about Fremont's reli-
ion. McMaster was dared by tho frieitd3 of
Fremont to make good his assertions, but wrs
forced to shrink frcm the issue he has himself
courted. Archbishop Hughes disclaiming all
the publications in the Freeman's Journal left
McMasters in a bad "fix." This McMaster is
a Roman Catholic and a warm supporter of
Buchanan. lie is the same fellow whom Tho
mas Francis Meagher cow-hided for publish-
ing infamous attacks on his character. It was
the only way that 'Meagher, who is a spirited
and pungent writer, could reach the feelings
of McMaster. He is a well fitted to circulate
the filthy lies that are told about Fremont.
How Comes It J That the Locofoeot took so
much interest in the meeting held in this place
last Thursday as to turn out in procession, and
otherwise aid and abet the leaders ! We tho't
it was to have been a Fillmore meeting! If
Cornman, Broom, Sellers & Co., are sincerely
opposed to Buchanan, why do they go against
the Union Electoral Ticket 1 And why do
they say that Buchanan should be supported
in preference to Fremont 1 It has been pub
licly charged upon John P. Sanderson, that he
was trying to sell out the Fillmore men to the
Buchanan party. Can it be possible thatBroom
& Co. are aiding Sanderson in his alleged at
tempt to transfer Americans over to the hands
of their most implacable enemy T Every one
will have to draw his own conclusions and an
swer the question for himself. All we have to
say is : Americans ! Be on your guard !
rX7LooK Out ! Between now and the elec
tion, every species of trickery will be resorted
to for the purpose of inducing men not to vote
the Union Electoral Ticket. Circulars and
letters will be sent to men urging them to op-
pose it. To all we say : Spurn these letters.
and beware of traitors. Spurious tickets, to
catch the unwary, will also doubtless be put in
circulation. Be on the look out for them
Copies of the correct ticket can be found on
the next page of this paper. Cut them out
and preserve them till the day of the election
or distribute them among your neighbors
See that every voter gets the right ticket !
The Union Contention, which assembled at
Ilarrisburg on the 21st, was largely attended
lion. Lemuel Todd, a Fillmore man, presided
The Union Electoral Ticket formed by the
State Committees the week previous, in Phil
adelphia, was adopted and endorsed. Hon. J
R. Edie, President of the American State
Council, offered a resolution, which was unan
imously adopted, pledging that the members
of the convention would use every honorable
exertion to secure the success of the Union
Electoral Ticket.
The Somerset 'Herald,' Washington 'Com
monwealth,' Bedford 'Inquirer Chambers
burg 'Whig,' Mercer 'Whig,' Clarion 'Banner
Venango 'Citizen,' Lewistown 'Gazette,' U
nion County 'Chronicle,' Reading 'Journal,
Brownsville 'Clipper,' Potter 'Journal,' Le
high 'Patriot,' all hoist the Union ticket.
The Lancaster. 'Whig', Ilarrisburg 'Tele
graph,' Pittsburg 'Gazette,' Indiana 'Register
'True American, 'Independent' and Blairs
ville 'American,' the Crawford 'Journal,' the
Philadelphia 'Times,' and in fact nearly every
opposition paper we can hear of, support the
Union Electoral ticket.
ABOUT PEOSCEIPTION.
We hear so much said by some of the friends
of Mr. Buchanan about what tbey call the pre
scriptive principles of Americans, that we feel
constrained once more to set them right on a
subject we had hoped to be so well understood
as not to admit of cavil or misapprehension.
It is asserted that the American party pro
scribes foreign Catholics. , By this it is inten
ded to mean that there is a political organiza
tion in our midst which has determined that it
will not vote for, or assist in any way in the e-
lection of such persons to offices of honor, pro
fit or trust. For the sake of argument, let us
admit this to be true. Then let us see to what
extent such an organization is guilty of outra-
rinjr. and libeling our free institutions.
Ever since the establishment of our govern
ment, it has been a custom with our citizens
to vote at elections for such men as they may
think proper. In exercising their privilege
of making a choice between rival candidates,
they have been guided by no legal enactments.
There is no law, expressed or implied, which
determines the proper manner of making this
choice. The voter has an indisputable right
to cast his ballot for any one of the candidates
or he may - refuse to vote at all. So dear is
this privilege that to tamper with it would be
the signal for the destruction of our country.
In the exercise of that right the voter has a
perfect unlimited privilege. No reason for
bis choice is deemed absurd, because his de
termination is uncontrollable by any legal or
natural means.
John Smith has a perfect and inalienable
right to say that he will not vote for Barnabas
Buncombe, because the said Barnabas has red
hair, or because he wears moustaches, or be
cause he sports striped pantaloons and a gold-
beaded cane ; or because he chews tobacco ;
or because he drinks brandy ; or because he is
a Mormon or a Catholic, or a Protestaut ; or
because he is a Foreigner; or because he is
not a Foreigner. Any one of these reasons is
a good and sufficient one for the aforesaid
John Smith to predicate his vote upon. And
why? Why, simply and only because said
reason satisfies John Smith, and because no
one else has any right to be displeased, if John
Smith pleases himself. What is hue of John
Smith is true of the American party, or of any
other party. Any party has a right to fix u
pon the eligibility or fitness of its candidates,
and no set of men has a right to force them to
do otherwise than may seem best to them.
Certainly all of us remember this much
that Whigs seldom voted for Democrats, and
Democrats seldom voted for Whigs. Also,
that Whigs never placed Democrats in oiriee,
and Democrats never placed Whigs in office,
whenever eitherparty happened to be in p-iwer.
Docs any body pretend to say that those parties
had no right -to do these things We have
never heard the thing doubted. Never have
we heard it denied that a Democrat hud a per
fect right not to vote Jora. Whig. And was
this ever called proscription, and denounced as
'an outrage, and a libel upon our free institu
tions " We may be ignorant in the premises,
but we must confess that we have never heard
it so contended.
Let us see how far these examples apply to
the great outcry raised against the supposed
proscription of the American party. This
party is supposed to be unwilling to vote for
foreign Roman Catholics. Is there any more
crime or outrage in this, than there was in the
fact that a Whig would not vote for a native
born, peaceable, upright, capable, Democrat 1
Good reasons have been alleged for this deter
mination. But those reasons have nothing to
do with the question at issue. It matters not
if they give bad reasons, or no reasons at all,
for their determination. Who has the audaci
ty to say that they, or any other set of men,
6hall not vote as they please ? Who has the au
dacity to attempt to prove that an American
shall give such reasons for his vote as shall
satisfy every one 1 It is an utter absurdity to
think of such a thing. And, the more we think
of it, the more we ara disgusted with the cant
of fogy politicians, whoso eagerly condemn
what they have been practicing all their polit
ical lives.
The individual who charges the Republican
party with being an "Abolition" party, is ei
ther "a knave or a fool" perhaps both. The
Republicans are opposed to inferlcring with
Slavery in the States, as well as to its exten
sion. Any one, therefore, who says they wish
to abolUk slavery in the Southern States, must
either be incapable of comprehending plain
Anglo-Saxon words, or is a willful, deliberate
and malicious falsifier.
One of the Reasons. We heard a new rea
son given recently by a Locofoco of this coun
ty for supporting "old Buck." He said he
had understood Buchanan had once been a
Minister to England, and he always liked to
encourage men who preach for a living ! We
left about that time.
The Lebanon Courier raises the L'nion Elec.
toral ticket to the head of its columns, and
the Media, Delaware county American (strong
Fillmore,) declares its first object to be the
defeat of Buchanan, and to that end urges a
thorough, complete union of the opposition
in the old Keystone.
The Lewistown Aurora (strong Fillmore) ur
ges its readers to use their best exertions for
the Union Electoral ticket, as it is the "only
plan to beat Buchanan." It says : "Little Mif
flin will give an increased majority for the U
nion ticket in November."
The Honesdale Democrat raises the Union
Electoral ticket, but has no editorial in it, the
whole page being filled up with "elegant ex
tracts" from Buchanan papers in the South.
The Pery county .Idrocale, Lock Haven
Watchmin, and Shippensburg JVtir, three
Fillmore papers, hoist the Union Electoral
ticket.
The Lancaster Inland Xl'eckly says all the
opponents of Buchanan in that county will
rote the Union Electoral ticket.
CHILD KILLED BY A PAPIST FBEEST. !
The Cleveland Herald of Monday notices
the arrest of Frederick Bauer, a teacher in St.
Mary's Parish (Roman Catholic) school, on
the verdict of a coroner's jury that a child
named Barbara Forman, aged nearly 9 years,
had come to her death on Saturday evening,
from a whipping inflicted by him on the 22d
ult., with a stick or cane. It appeared from
the evidence of other scholar! that Barbara
had gone to a 'ragged school,' as they are call
ed, got up by some Protestants, on Sunday,
for which the teacher whipped her. A wit
ness says :
"The teacher whipped Barbara by laying her
cn a chair upon her belly, and beat her with a
stick ; he made her take hold of the rounds of
the chair as he whipped her; he used a piece
of cane, having a crook on it ; taking hold of
the crook he struck her about the shoulders
and back, and struck her a few times lower
down; cannot say how many times he struck
her ; did not see him strike her 011 the head ;
he took hold of her hair when he was whip
ping her ; she screamed and halloed very hard
and loud ; his blows were real hard, and he
made ugly faces while he was whipping her ;
she cried real hard until recess, when she
went home with one of the other little girls.
She tried very hard to get up when he was
whipping her, but she could not, because he
was sitiing on her so that she could not get up.
She was on hei belly on the chair, holding on
the lower round of the chair, and the teacher
had hold of her hair, crushing her down on it.
The teacher told Barbara she ought not to
have gone to the Ragged School, and ichippei
her for going to Sunday School ; he called her
up on the floor for going there, and whipped
her for that. When Baibara went to her seat,
after the master whipped her, she could not
sit up straight, because she got such a whip
ping on her back, and Barbara said it hurt her
to sit up."
This statement was corroborated, and from
the testimony of the child's stepmother, and
of the physicians who made a post-mortem
examination, it would seem that her death was
produced by the beating.
POLITICAL PEOSPECIS.
The Berks and Schuylkill Journal, a decided
Fillmore paper, remarks :
"The prosjtect that there will bs no election
by the people, gains strength with each move
on the political chessboard. The weakness
of Mr. Buchanan in his own State, as demon
strated by the returns of the late election, will
materially damage his prospects in the South,
while in the North, the result will give renew
ed confidence to the Opposition, and at the
same time operate to produce that union and
good feeling in the American and Republican
rasks, which alone is wanting to secure a tri
umphant victory in November. Had the Op
position acted as a unit last Tuesday, the State
would have given a msjority for the Union
ticket of at least 30.000. To the unfortunate
disagreement in our ranks, as well as to the
system of fraud and colonizing of voters from
other States, practiced by the Locofocos,
must the closeness of tho vote, which the re
turns indicate, alone be attributed.
But the State skirmishings are now closed,
and the grand battle is next to be fought. We
subjoin an estimate of the result, as near as
can be judged by the present aspect of affairs
throughout the country :
Buchanan States, Alabama 9, Arkansas 4,
Delaware 3, Georgia 10, Mississippi 7, Missou
ri 9, South Carolina 8, Texas 4, Virginia 1-3,
Total, GO.
J'remout Slates, Connecticut 6, Illinois 11,
Iowa 4, Maine 8, Massachusetts 13, Michigan
6, New Hampshire 5, Ohio 23, Rhode Island
4, Vermont 5, Wisconsin 5, Total, 90.
Fillmore States, California 4, Florida 3,
Kentucky 12, Louisiana 9, Maryland 8, New
York 35, Total, C8.
Doubtful Slates, Indiana 13, New Jersey 7,
North Carolina 10, Pennsylvania 27, Tennes
see 12, Total, G9.
Allowing that Buchanan will carry the
whole of the States set down as doubtful, he
would still fall short of an election. The la
test returns from Indiana, however, present a
much more encouraging aspect, and the pro
babilities are now strongly in favor of the suc
cess of the Republicans. Fillmore stands an
equal chance with Buchanan in North Caroli
na and Tennessee. Pennsylvania is very far
from being sure for Buchanan. But suppose
him to carry the whole GO doubtful, and Cal
ifornia and Florida to boot, which we have
placed in the Fillmore column a streak of
good luck not at all likely to happen he
would still fail of an election by three votes,
which could only be made up in Kentucky,
Louisiana or Maryland, where, according to
the most reliable information, he has not the
faintest hope of success.
It is plainly to be seen by the above figures,
that the friends of Fillmore in Pennsylvania,
have the game in their own hands. To make
assurances doubly sure, they should at once a
gree to a cordial union with the Republicans,
upon the basis proposed by the Union Stale
Central Committee, so as to defeat Buchanan
in Pennsylvania, which would bo absolutely
certain to prevent the election of Buchanan,
and at once place Mr. Fillmore in the position
of the compromise candidate.
Though we do not coincide with some of
the above calculations, we give the article to
show that every sincere opponent of Buchan
an will support the Union Electoral Ticket.
We learn from Kansas that in addition to
the return of Whitfield, as Delegate to Con
gress, the pro-slavery men in Kansas elected
all their candidates for the Legislatune. No
attempt at disturbance was made in any part
of the territory. The Free State men very
generally kept awiy from the polls, refusing
to vote under the infamous oaths required to
be taken by voters.
The Erie Constitution has the Union Electo
ral ticket up. The Tioga Agitator puts up the
Union ticket, and promises 3Q00 majority in
that county in November.
JOHN C. B22CKIXEIDGE 05 THE DECLA-
BATI03T 0E INDEPENDENCE.
On the second of September, non. John C .
Breckinridge made a speech at Hamilton, 0.
hio, from a report of which we make the fol.
lowing extract :
"Look at the principles of this party (tb.
Republican.) Liatcn to the ignomy and rcvij.
ing which they combine to hurl on your sister
States. We are told the Declaration of Inde
pendence is embodied in the Constitution of
the United States. The Declaration is a ci
slraction. Put it in the Constitution and whu
would follow 7 It would follow that the Con
stitution must protect every nww in his right
to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness !
. . You would find it interfering with th
institutions of the States, and it would lead
our country rapidly to destruction. But why
do I speculate upon what it would do ? LoDg
before this our Union would lie obliterated
forever. It would become as INTOLERABLE.,
and HATEFUL, as its past has been beniflcent
and glorious."
Mr. Breckinridge manifestly prefers Disu
nion to even a practical recognition of theDec
laration cf Independence ! Let the people ob
serve whence come the threats of Disunion j
let them mark those leaders who by idle bra
vado would drive men to vote contrary to their
convictions of duty. Let every man in the
crisis which unscrupulous demagogues havo
forced upon us, vote and act a his conscienco
dictates, though the heavens fall.
LTTMEEBMEN'S KEETI3TG.
An adjourned meeting of the lumbermen of
Clearfield, Elk and Centre counties, was held
at the Court house in Clearfield, on Tuesday
the 21st inst. Hon J. T. Leonard in the chair
and D. W. Moore, Secretary. On motion the
Hon. G. R. Barrett stated the object of fha
meeting, and urged that prosecutions be bro't
against all persons engaged in log-floating and
that such prosecutions be repeated as often as
the oSencc shall be committed. He also urged
the propriety of securing the passage of a law,
not prohibiting, but restricting within proper
limits., the business of floating loose logs. ,
The meeting was also addressed by R. C.
Winslow of Elk couuty, and L. Jackson Crans,
Esq.
On motion, a petition was adopted, to be
printed and circulated for general signature.
On motion, a subscription paper was order
ed to t e sent to each connty, and that the said
papers be directed to the Chairman of the Ex
ecutive committee, after they shall bae been
filled.
On motion. Resolved, That no dividend shall
bj called for until the amount of $1,500 shall
be subscribed.
Revived, That the present organization bhall
remain permanent until otherwise altered.
Resolved, That this meeting adjourns to meet
on Tuesday evening of next (Nov.) court.
The following gentlemen compose the Ex
ecutive committee appointed at the meeting
on the lb'th August : Win. A. Wallace, Wni.
Stewart, J. K. Boak, J. B. Graham, Ellis Ir
win, J. T. Leonard, W. M'Bride, A. II. Shaw,
James Irwin, andR. C. Winslow.
The following gentlemen compose the com
mittee on prosecutions, as appointed at sail
meeting : J. M. Chase, Wm. H. Robertson,
Robt. Mahaffey, Henry Groe, of Clearfied ; W.
Stewart, James Askey, Daniel Roads, of Cen
tre co. ; R. C. Winslow, C. W. Blake and Ro
bert Rothrock, of Elk.
On motion, the proceedings of this meeting
be published in the papers of the several coun-'
ties. J. T. LEONARD, Chairman.
The Sign of the Cross. It has been urged
as an evidence of Col. Fremont's proclivity
towards Romanism, that he erected a cross on
the highest peaks of the Rocky Mountains
when he explored them. We have never re
garded this as a logical deduction, and we now
see that Dr. Kane did the same thing during
his Arctic exploration. In his recent report
of that voyage, at page 345 of the Erst volume,
he says : "a conspicuous spot was selected
upon a cliff looking out upon the icy desert ;
ami on a broad face of rock the words 'Ad
vance, A. D. 1853 51,' were painted in'letters,
which could be read at a distance. A pyra
mid of heavy stones, perched above it, trc
marked icith the Christian symbol of the cross.
It was not without a holier sentiment than that
of mere utility that I placed under this the
cofllns cf our two poor comrades. It was our
beacon and their gravestone." In all sinceri
ty wc think our political friends will be better
engaged in attacking Col. Fremont's position
as the exponent of Republican principles, than
in continuing these attacks upon Lis presumed
religious sympathies. PkiVaSu.
Increase of Jews. An intelligent writer
in the North American Review supposes that
no class of immigrants has increased more
rapidly in this country than the Hebrew.
In 1850 a man might count upon bis fingers -all
the Synagogues in the land ; 'now there
are at leJst a quarter of a million Jews, from
eighty to ninety Synagogues, and a multitude
of smaller communities, where a nucleus ex
ists which will soon grow into a Synagogue.
The city of New York alone has twenty Syn
agogues and thirty thousand Jews about one
twentieth part of tho population being uch.
There are Synagogues in all the chief citiea
of the seaboard two in Boston, five in Phila
delphia, five in Baltimore, three in New Or
leans, two ic. Charleston and four in Cincinnati
The State Ticket. The Democratic ma-,
jority on the State ticket in Pennsylvania is.
only 2,774 by the official returns. We . will,
publish a full return next week.
The Gettysburg Star comes out for the U-.
nion Electoral ticket, and contains a strong ap
peal to the Fremont and Fillmore men qf Ad-,
ams county, as "the track is now clear."
Gov. Pollock has appointed Thursday tho
20th November as a day of general thanksgiv
ing and praise throughout Pennsylvania.
The Conceautville (Crawford county) Cou
rier comes out for the Union Electoral ticket.
The Mauoh Chunk Gaztte, Oct. 23d, hoist,
the Union Elctoral ticket to its mast bad.
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