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VOLUME 4.
f 1ST OF lOST OFFICE
Post OJTtccs
i'oaf jiii-icers. uiricu.
Enoch Reese, Iilacklick.
William M. Jones, Carroll.
Danl. Litzinger, Chest.
A. G. Crooks, Taylor.
Wru. W. Young, "Washint'n.
John Thompson, Ebensburg.
Isaac Thompson, "White.
J. 11. Christy, Gallitzin.
Wm Tiley, Jr., Washt'n.
I. E. Chandler, Johnst'wn.
M. Adlesberger, Loretto.
K. "Wissinger, . Conem'gh.
A. Durbin, Munster.
Andrew J Fcrral, Susq'han.
G. YV. Bowman, White.
Wm. Ryan, Sr., Clearfield.
George Conrad, Richland.
B. M'Colgan, Washt'n.
B. F. Slick, Croyle.
Miss M. Gillespie, "Washt'n.
Morris Keil, S"merhill.
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Crrolltown,
Chess Springe,
Oonemaugb,
Cresson,
Sbeusburg.
Fallen Timber,
Gallitzin,
Hemlock,
Jolinstown,
Loretto,
Jliueral Point,
Minister,
Platt3ville,
Roseland,
St. Augustine,
Scalp Level, .
Socman,
Sumraerhill,
Summit,
Wilmore,
c:srRCHES, ministers, &c.
Presbyterian Rev. D. IIabbison, Pastor.
rreachiug every Sabbath morning at 10$
o'clock, and in the evening at G o'clock. Sab
oath School at 1 o'clock, A. M. Prayer meet
ing every Thursday evening at 6 o'clock.
Methodist Episcopal Church Rkv. J. S. Lem
mos, Preacher in charge. Rev. J. Gray, Ap
siiuat. Preaching every Sabbath, alternately
M 10 o'olock in the morning, or 7 in the
evening. Sabbath School at 9 o'clock, A. M.
Prayer meeting every Thursday evening, at 7
o'clock.
Welch Independent Rev Ll. R. Powell,
Pastor. Preaching ever)- Sabbath morning at
10 o'ciock, and in the evening at 6 o'clock.
Snbbath School at 1 o'clock, P. M. Trayer
neetiug on the first Monday evening. of each
month ; and on every Tuesday, Thursday and
Friday evening, excepting the first week in
?ach month.
Caivinutic Methodist Rev. Jons "Williams,
Pmior. Preaching every Sabbath evening at
tand 6 o'clock. Sabbath School at V o'clock,
A. 11. Piayer meeting every Friday evening,
st 7 o'clock. Society every Tuesday evening
t7 o'clock.
Disciple Rev. W. Lloyd, raster.-Preaching
everv Sabbath morning at 10 o'clock.
Particular Baptist Rev. David Jenkins,
rstor. Preaching every Sabbath evening 8t
3 o'clock. Sabbath School at at 1 o'clock, P. M.
Catholic Rev.- M. J. Mitchell, Pastor.
8-rriceB every Sabbath morning at 10$ o'clock
a4 Vwpera at 4 o'clock iu the evening.
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eatcrc, at ICi o'clock, A. M.
- KAILS CLOSET
E!t?rn, dsily, at 8 o'clock. P. M.
VTtitern, " ct 8 oViock, P. !l.
EThe mails from Pntkr,Ind;auH.Sti oiigs
tswn, Lc.f arrive oa Thursday of each week,
t 5 o'clock, P. M.
Leave Lbensburg oa Fridav of each week,
t A. M.
EgL.The mails from Newman's Mills, Car
roiitown, &., arrive on Monday, Wednesday
i id Kridy of each week, at 3 o'clock, P. M.
Leare ifbunaburg on Tuesdays, Thursdays
tsd Saturday, at 7 o'clock, A. M.
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COl'XTY OFFICERS.
Uiju of the Courts President, Hon. Geo
Jaylor, riuntingdon; Associates, George W.
cley, Henry C. Devine.
Prethonotary Joseph M'Donald. ' -
Rtgifttr and Recorder Edward F. Lvtle.
.SirtyJohuBnck.
nittriet Attorney. mux, s. Noon.
County Commissioners ' J sltucb Cooper, Pc
wt J. Little, John Campbell.
Treasurer Thomas Callin.
l'cor House Directors William Donglase,
btnrge Delany, Irwin Rutledge.
ioor House Treasurer George C. K. Zahm.
.lufiMTbomas J- Nelson, Willtam J.
"Miaim, George C. K. Zahm.
Ccuuty Surveyor. Henry Scanlan.
"Jro.n?p- -James Shannon.
Mtrcantile Appraiser Geo. W. Easly.
"?'t. of Common Schools J. F. Condon.
ClJfcX!nrRG Roii. officers.
, BOaoiOH AT LARGE.
v'vi:-rcs of the Peace. David II. Roberts
-?non KiDkead.
Vopo James Myers.
l.ool Directors Lloyd, Pbil S. Noon,
t larrie" Hugh Jones, K.J.Mills,
ii J. Jones.
r EAPT WAED.
ltableTZvaa E. Evans.
WCCoM74C'7 John J- Evans, Thomas J.
'Wm Vr" R&berts JoLu Thompson, D.
or,WiIIiam D. Davis, L. Rodgers.
Wge of Election Daniel J. David.
4ttor Lemuel Davie.
WEHT WARD.
-M. M. O KW
John1? Cuncil S. Dunn, Edward Glas,
To
-'.man iuwuihk, oeorge v .
Jr-William Barnes, 3 do. H. Evaos
; J.ieeuon Michael livarcn.
'-qorg rler.
EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1803.
ft DEK!OCRaTIC-W?.R SPEECH.
YFIio is Responsible Tor tlie Re
bellion TSie Duty of Patriots
at tlse Coming Election.
JuJgo Shannon, of Pittsburg, during a
recent visit to Philadelphia, was eerena
caded at the Continental Hotel, and in
response to loud and repeated ealta, ap
peared and spoke as follows:
I feel grateful, citizens of Philadelphia,
for the kindness which you have bestowed
upon me this evening.
A western Pennsylvanian, I am not
much accustomed to the grace of rhetoric
which clusters around your eastern people.
From the western slopes of the Alfegheu
ies I hail you, and only those n;eu who
are loyal in these times of peril to our
country. I would not have the plaudits,
for any consideration on earth, of those
persons who, whilst they have the word
Democracy upon their lips, assail and stab
the administration of my country.
J have read the history of my country
as carefully as any modern Democrat has
read it. I am acquainted with the writings
of Jefferson and the maxims of Jackson,
and, with my ears open and my eyes
awako, I shall never submit to the teach
ings and heresies of a Fernando Wood, a
Vallandigham, or a H llham B. Iteed.
It is almost bestowing honor upon a
person of our own State the worst trai'ftjr
amongst them all to mention the name
of the pusillanimous wretch who hails
from Pottsville, Schuylkill county. It is
perhaps distasteful to refer to myself
personally. But in order that this com
pany may know my political status, I beg
leave to say that, from the first vote that I
evergave until the time when our so called
Democratic brethren fired upon our flag
at Surupter, I was ever a Democrat of
the straightest sect, standing up upon all
occasions for rights of the southern peo
ple, under the American Constitution.
I was willing, with every young-Whig,
aud every young American, and every
Republican, to stand by the constitutional
rights of the south, as long a3 the south
fought the battle of the Union, peacefully
and legitimately.
But when discarding theprecept? of our
revolutionary fathers, and disdaining the
claims of the Constitution, the Democrats
of the South undertook cot merely to
break up tho ancient Democratic party,
but to destroy the very Constitution and
the fundamental principles of our govern
ment, it became time for eecry man of
loul heart and upright conscience no longer
to follow the miserable teachings of the
southern oligarchy, but to assert the orig
inal priu?iples upon which Thomas Jeller
son lounded the Democratic party.
There is no use disguising the fact that
the modern so-called Democracy, abjuring
the maxims of the founders ol their party,
have been crawling into the slimy arms of
a southern oligarchy. The primrose path
of ambition, in modern days, has been for
Democratic leaders to bow their knees to
the autocrats, of the South. Witness, for
instance, the case of that miserable old
man, James Buchanan, of Wheatland, for
whom in the North there was no select
society like thai which environed hint
from the baronial eals or irgiuia and
South Carolina. "A favorite son of Penn
sylvania" the son of poor and humble
Irish parent.', flattered by the aristocracy
of the South weak headed and lame
hearted, aping an aristocracy which with
all its faults he could never reach elected
by the honest Democracy and the old line
Whigs, he" lived long enough to betray
his country, to say nothing of the destruc
tion of a vcuerat?c party to which he
never honestly belonged.
It is said by many a llipprmfc tongue,
and many a brazen pen, that the Aboli
tionists of the North have brought this
rebellion upon the eountry. In the uame
of all that is veracious in history, I assert,
without the fear of contradiction, that
this cruel war has been brought upon us
by the machinations of Democrats; so
called. What, I ask you, was the condi
tion of the country after the November
election of 1860. We had a Democratic
President and a Democratic Cabinet
felectcd by Democrats. Every honest
Democrat in the land expected that the
chosen pilot and his selected crew should
stand steadily and faithfully by the ship
of State, amidst whatever tempests might
arise or turges might beat.
He was a Democrat, and. his Cabinet
were selected from the chivalry of the
Southern Democracy. The 6torm blew,
the winds came, and uutrue to his fealty
to his party and his country, with his
miserable Cabinet, tie oesertcu tne snip,
and ran her foul upon the breakers, lie
asserted that secession was wrong; but
yet be stated that if a sovereign State
f-hould choose to secede from the Union,
there was lit power iu ths Kxeutive,- no
force even in Congress to coerce -that
seceding State to return to the Union it
had deserted. Through the advice of
members of his Cabiuct, the ships of our
then little navy were sent to remote and
distant seas ; so that whea the conspiracy
should culminate, our gallant tars, re
nowned upon many and heroic occasions,
should not be in place to respond to the
call of their country. '
Through him and his Cabinet the
arsenals of the North were stripped of the
arms aud munitions of war; so that when
the conspiracy broke forth at Sumter, the
loyalists of the North had neither imple
ments nor appurtenances of war to assail
the rebellion. We had to wait, almost
paralyzed, until guns could reach us from
the Continent of Europe. You know
that the union of the sword and the purse
is considered essential to a successful war.
And what did the Democratic Secretary
of the Treasury 1 lie beggared the purse
of the nation in order to piay into the
hands of the Democratic conspirators.
We were left in the deplorable.absencc of
army, uavy and treasury.
And who did this foul and most miser
able work? Who accomplished it ? Was
any Abolitionist in power, or any opponent
of the ancient Democratic party '( We
Democrats then had it all our own way.
We were intrusted with the sacred heritage
of our fathers; wc were responsible o
men and to angels; and how did we act 1
Upon the accursed altar of southern
oligarchy we sacrificed everything that
was manly and everything that was honor
able. Your iiglit-tingered leaders may
say that the Abolitionists begat the war.
I, as an humble Pennsylvania Democrat,
assert that the charge is false. I
unhesitatingly assert that this rebellion
was begotten in the secret places of the
so-calied but false Democracy that it was
nurtured by Buchanan aad his Cabinet,
who were the slaves aud . dupes of tho
Yanceys, the Slidells, the Duvises aud
the Breckinridges of the South. I but
assert what the iron pen of history shall
record, that there never was a party so
betrayed, nor a country so slaughtered, as
by the so-called leaders of the modern
Democracy.
What did we do, wc young men of the
Whig, the American, and the Democratic
parties 1 To our eternal honor it shall
be recorded that we stood fast and firm
for all the rights of our Southern breth
ren, so far as acknowledged by the Amer
ican Constitution. We faltered not.
From every mountain top of the north,
and from every valley, we declared our
unswerving attachment to the Constitution
of our fathers. We stood manfully, as
Christian men never stood before, by every
principle ot tno l- Ugitive olavc Jaw.' co
that when Alexander 11. Stephens made
his speech, in reply to Toombs of Geor
gia, he was obliged to confess that never
was Christian' civil law more faithfully
upheld than by the men of the north.
lie further admitted that the general
government had never been false to its
duty to the South ; that none of itsstat
utes had ever interfered with the franchi
ses or the privileges of the slaveholder.
And reluctantly aud lingerioiily Alexan
der II. Stephens, with his head turned .
baek to the glories and brilliant memories
of the country with his averted eye upon
Mount Yemen and Monticeuo, slowly and
tardily did hh leave the clustered records
of the greatest republic upon which the
sun has ever shone.
No warrior, but a thin, attenuated, in
tellectual man, he may be. Compared to
the Sybil of Home, who offered her vol
umes to a corrupted government. Yrhen
history shall come to correctly record this
rebellion, tho auguries of Stephens shall
stand as an everlasting blot of infamy
upon the men who created this rebellion
and are carrying it out.
I have not time, on an occasion of this
sort, to enter into lull detail of the history
of this most nefarious transaction. The
leaders of the modern Democratic party
say to me that they alone can restore
peace to the country and integrity to the
Union. I reply that another such Dem
ocratic Administration as the last one
would send my country into the jaws of
inevitable dissolution. What! restore
such another Administration into power?
Think of it. Think of its perfidy, its
treason, its corruption, its weakness!
liestora to power your Buchanans, and
your Fernando YVoods, and your Vallan
dighuoi3, and your Hugheses ? Give
them the reins of power ? May Heaven
defend us from such a calamity !
I have confidence in tho masses the
honest masses, I mean of the Democratic
party, but I have none whatever in the
miserable pretenders who attempt to teach
in the sacred names of Jefferson and
Jackson. I should be recreant to my
manhood if I should fail to acknowledge
the heroism and the bravery of the good,
honest men" who' hive fought in this war.
Many, of them have given their lives,
martyrs on the field of battle, like the
gallant Col. Samuel W. Black and the
gallant Col. William G. Murray. May
God bless their memories, and those of
Hie bravo men of that old party who have
fallen in the fight. ,
But there is one cry. which echoes
from the lips .of Andrew Gregg Curtin,
the father and guardian of the Penusyl
vania soldier there is one cry which
comes from the very bosom of Pennsylva
nia, and that is; "Sfand by our country,
whether it be right or whether it be
wrong." It is a Democratic maxim which
rung from the brilliant fields of Mexico,
and which, if true then, must be trebly
true now. v
Let rae say to you, in conclusion, fel
low citizens, that there is but one course
for lo3'al men to pursue. There cannot
be, and there must not be, any side is
sues. We must make this State loyal in
October next, and we can only do so by
supporting Andrew G. Curtin and Daniel
Agnew. This point 13 inevitable. The
man who says he is loyal, and refuses to
vote thi3 ticket, had better do what is
honest, namely, go down and bow his
knee at the shrine of that miserable rebel,
Jeff. Davis.
A Letter from lle I'rcsident -IMalti
Statement of his Posi
tion. Following is the letter addressed by
Mr. Lincoln to the Union State Conven
tion in Illinois, a copy of which was also
sent to the BenuLlican Union Convention
at Syracuse, N. Y. :
Executive Mansion, Tyasiii.vgto",
Auyttst 25, 1803.
IIox. James-C. Conkling My Dear
Sir: Your letter inviting me to attend
a mass meeting of unconditional Union
men, to be held at the capital ot Illinois,
on the 3d dajr of September, has been
received. It would bo very agreeable to
mo thus to meet my old friends at my
own home, but I caunot just now be absent
from this city so long as a visit there
would require.
The meeting is to bo of all those who
maintain unconditional devotion to the
Union, and I am sure that my old politi
cal friends will thank me for tendering,
as I do, the nation'.s gratitude to those
other noble men whom no partisan malice
or partisan hope can make false to the
nation's lifo. ....
There are those . who are dissatisfied
with me. To such I would say : You
desire peace, and you blame me that we
do not have it. But how can we attain
it? There arc but three couceiablo
ways : First, to suppress the rebellion by
force cf arms. This I am trying, to do.
Are you for il ? If you are, so far we are
agreed. If you are not for it, we are no!
agreed. A second way is to give up
the Union. I am against this. If you
are, you should eay so plaiuly. If you are
not lor force, nor yet for dissolution, there
only remains some imaginary compromise.
I do not believe that any compromise
embracing the maintenance cf the Union
is now possible. All that 1 can learn
leads to a directly opposite belief. The
strength of the rebellion is its military
its. army. That army dominates ill! the
country and all the people within its
range. Any offer of terms made by any
man or meu within that range, in opposi
tion to that army, is simply nothing for
the present, because such man or men
have no power whatever to enforce their
side of a compromise, if one were made
with them. To illustrate suppose a ref
ugee from "the South and the peace men
of the North get together iu Convention,
and frame and proclaim a compromise,
embracing a restoration of the Union, m
what way can that compromise be used to
keep Gen. Lee's army out of Pennsyl va
nia '( Gen Meade's army can keep Lee's
army out of Pennsylvania, and I think
can ultimately drive it out of existence;
but no paper compromise, to which the
controllers of General Lee's army are not
agreed, can at all effect that army. In an
effort at such compromise we would waste -j
the timo whicn the enemy woulu improve
to our disadvantage, and that would be
all.
A compromise, to be effective, must be
made either with those who control the
rebel army, or with the people, Jirst libs
crated from iho domination. of that army
by the success of our army.
Now, allow me to assure j'ou that no
word or intimation from the rebel army or
from any of tho men. controlling it, iu
relation, to any "peace compromise, has
ever come to my knowledge or belief. AH
charges a&d intimations to the contrary
are deceptive and groundless, and I prom
ise you that if any such proposition ehall j
hereafter come, 'it shall, not be rejected j
and kept secret from you. I frceiy ac-'
knowledge myself to be the servant cf the
people, according to the bond of service,
the United States Constitution, aud that
as such I am responsible to them. ...
But, to be plain, you are dissatisfied
with mc about the negro.' Quite' likely
there is a difference of opinion between
you and myself upon that subject. I cer
tainly wiidi that all men could be free,
while you, I suppose, do not. Yet I have
neither adopted nor proposed any measure
which is not consistent with even your
views, provided you are for the Union. I
suggested compensated emancipation ; to
which you replied that you wished not to
be taxed to buy negroes. But 1 had not
asked yon to be. taxed to buy negroes, except
in such way as to save you irom greater tax
ation to save the Ution exclusively by other
means. You dislike the emancipation
proclamation, and perhaps you want to
Lave it retracted. You say it is unconsti
tutional. I think differently. I think
that the Constitution invests its Command-er-iu-chief
with ti e law of war iu time of
war. The most that can be said, if to
much is, that slaves are property.
Is there, has there ever been, any
question that by the law of war the prop
erty, both of enemies aud friends, may te
taken when needed, and is it not needed
wherever it helps user hurts the enemy ?
Armies, the world over, destroy enemies'
property. when they cannot use it, and even
destroy their own to keep it from the enemy.
Civilized belligerents do all in their pow
er to help themselves or hurt the enemy,
except a few things regarded as barbarous
or cruel. Anions the exceptions arc the
massacre e
combatants,
male aud female. .But the
proclamation, as law, is valid or not valid.
If it is net valid, it needs no retraction;
if it is valid, it caunot be retracted i'oy
more than the dead can be brought to
life. Some of you profess to think that
its retraction would operate favorably fur
the Union. Why better after the retrac
tion than before the issue ?
There war more than a year and a half
for trial to suppress the rebe'.liou before
the proclamation was issued ; the la.it ona
hundred days cf which passed under an
explicit notice that it was coming unless
averted by those in revolt returning to
their allegiance. The war has certainly
progressed as favorably for us bince the
issue of the proclamation as before. I
know as fully as one can know the opin
ions of otheis, that some of'the comman
ders of cur armies in the field who have
given us our most important victories,'
believe the emancipation policy and the
aid of colored troops constitute the heaviest
blows y-et dealt to the rebellion ; and that
at least one of those important successes
could not have been achieved when it
was, but for the aid of black soldiers.
Auionc tho commanders holding these
views are some who have never had any
afiinitv' with what is called Abolitionism, ;
or with the Republican party politics, but
who hold them purely cs military opin
ions. I submit their opinions as being
entitled to someweight against the objec
tions often urged that emancipation and
the arming of the blacks are unwi.-e as
military mensures, and were not adopted
as such in good faith. You say that you
will not fhrht to free negroes. . Sjmo of
them seem to be williog to fight for you ;
but no matter fight you, then, exclusively,
to save the Union.
I issued the proclamation on purpose to t
l" - .1 - - M'l I
aia you m saving tue union. ncnever
you shall have conquered all resistance to
the Union, if! shall urge you to continue
fighting, it will be an apt lima then for
you to declare that you will not fight to
free negroes. I thought that, iu your
struggle for the Union, to whatever extent
the negroes should cease helping tlie
enemy, to that extent it weakened the
enemy in his resistance to you. Do yoa
think differently ? I thought that what
ever negroes cm be got to do as soldiers,
leaves just so much less for white oldiors
to do in saving the Union. Does it appear
otherwise to you ? But negroes, like
other people, act upon motives. Why
should, they do anything for us, if wc i
wilt do nothing for them : It they stake
their lives for us, they must be prompted
by the tlrongest motives even the pvom
ise of freedom ; and the promise, being
made, must be kept.
The signs look better. The Father cf
Waters again goes unvexed to the sea;
thanks to the great North v.eit for it; nor
yet wholly to them. Three hundred
miles up they met New England, the
Empire, the lvey stonc, and New Jersey, j
hewing their way right and left. J he
sunuy South, too, in more colors than cne,
also lent a hand, oa the spot ; their part of
the history was jotted down in black and
white. The job was a great national one ;
and let none be banued who bore an hon
orable part in it, while those who havo
cleared the great river, may well be proud.
Even that ia not all. . It is hard to say
OTMBER"5(L
hat anything has been more bravely and"
better done than at Autictam, MurVreos-,
boro, Gettysburg," and on many fields of
note. Nor must Uncle Sam's web-fect bo"
forgotten. At aU . the wafer's margins
thoy have beeu present, not only on fhu
deep sea, tho broad bay, and the rapid riv
er, but also up the narrow, muJdv bayou,
ar:d wherever the ground uas'a litllo
damp they havo been and - made their
tracks. Thanks to all! For the Great
Republic for the principles by which -it
1'Ves for ra air's vast future; thanks to
PcaCe does not appear so' distant m it
did. I hope it will come soon, in d como
to stay, and so come as to be worth tbb
keeping in all future time. It will thea
have been . proved that among freeman
there can be no successful appeal from the
balTot to the bullet, and that they, who'
take sirch appeal are sure, to" lo?o . their
case and piy the cost; aud'theti there will
be iscme black men who can remember
that, with silent tongue, and clenched
teeth, and htcady eye, and well poised
bayonet, they have helped mankind on to
this great consummation, while I fear
that there will be some white men unable
to forget that, with malignant heart and
deceitful speech, they have striven to
hinder it. -
Still, let tts not be over-sanguine of a
speedy final triumph. Let us be quito
sober. TiCt us diligently apply the means,
never doubting that a just Godr iu hi
own good time, will give us. the rightful
result.
Tour3, Yerv Truly,
A. LINCOLN.
Tho Economy of tue Stato Ad
ministration. When Andrew G. Curtiu assumed tho
powers and the duties cf the Executive
office of Pennsylvania, we will uot say
that the condition of the State, in tho va
riuus departments of her government, iu
the industrial pursuits and corporate en
terprises of the people, was hot" prosperous.'
It was at a period ct profound peace, 'not
withstanding it Was at a time whtn the?
Democratic slave drivers of the south;
with their dough face sympathizers of the'
north, were comp'etcing their plans to
overthrow tho National Government. .
In the year 1862 the receipts from or
dinary sources of revenue were in excess
of receipts from the tame sources in 1S01;
one million thirty tfiov.sa.hd one himdrtd uud
scveiity-Riu: dollars and cijlity-two cenli, ft he
excess of interest pnid in 1SG2 over that
of 1SG1 being 114,095,37. and that the
ordinary expenses for 18G2 were ninety-'
five thousand three hundred and seventeen
dullars and sixteen cents less than theyear.
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This healthy condition of the revenue'"
and the excess of tho receipts over the '
expenditures, secured by the rigid and
general economy which was insisted upon :
by Governor Ctjrtin iu every department
of the State Government, induced him
to recommend to the Legislature a revis
ion of the Tevenue laws with a view to
the legalizing of the burdens of taxation.
At-the same time, Governor Curtin also
recommended to the Legislature the jus
tice and expediency ut rcstricfing the
rate of local taxation, which has been and
still is. in some parts of the Connioa wealth, '
oppressive. , , J r
Considering the increase of taxation by
the National Government,and considering,
too, the enormous enlargement of the war
expenses, these figures at once redound '
to the credit of Governor Curtin and the
people of Pennsylvania. We want the ;
tax-paj-ers carefully to ponder these facts.
We want tho tax-payers to remember, in "
the first year of Andrew G. -CurtinV
administration, that he increased tlie i
revenues of the State, one million. - thirty -thousand,
one hundred and sixty-six -.
dollars; and that the ordinary expenses of
t!;e State for the year I8G2, Were ninety-
five thousand, three hur.dted and seventeen ?
dollars less than the year previous, and
that Andrew G. Cartir., by the rigid
econmy which bo enforced during his
entire administration, even, while he'iras.
equipping and sending nut thousands of
soldiers, while he was relieving the- want -of
the soldier's family, while -he wan '
succoring the tick and wounded; aud
bringing the dead from the battle field.-? (
home to be buried arooug their' kindred, ,
he was euabled ui v coounend, in the face
of these extraordinary expenses, a revision
cf the vevenue laws with a view i to the.
reduction of the rate ol local aud state
taxation ! 1!
Tax-payers of Pennsylv'auia ! remem
ber these facts ! ! '
The Richmond Utiguircr advocates,
a new mode of retaliation. It is to fill
Charleston with Union prisoners, and then
let Gen. Gilluiore bombard the city. '
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