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CIIIJRCIIW, MINISTERS, &C.
Presbyterian Jev. D. Harbison-, Pastor.
Preaching ever Sabbath morning at 10$
O'clock, and in tip evening at 6 o'clock. Sab
oath School at 1 clock, A. M. Prayer meet
ing every ThursdVy evening at 6 o'clock.
Methodist Episcopal Church Rev. J. S. Lem
vov, Preacher in chrge. Rev. W. H. M'Bride,
Assistant. Preachogevcry alternate Sabbath
morning, at 10J o'clock. . Sabbath School at 9
o'clock A. M. Praytr meeting every Thursday
evening, at 7 o'clocy
Welch lndependcni-Rvr Ll. R. Powell,
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10 o'ciock, and in tin evening at 6 o'clock.
Sabbath School sit 1 o'clock, P. 51. Prayer
meeting on the first 5bnday evening of each
month ; and on every Tiesday, Thursday and
Friday evening, exceping the first week in
each month. !
Calvinistic Methodist-Vv. Johx Williams,
Pastor. Preaching ever Sabbath evening at
2 and 6 o'clock. SabbathSchool at V o'clock,
A. M. Prayer meeting e'ery Friday evening,
at 7 o'clock. Society evy Tuesday evening
at 7 o'clock.
Disciples Rev. W. Lloy, Pastor. Preach
ng every Sabbath morningat 10 o'clock.
Particular Baptists Rev David Jenkins,
Pastor. Preaching every Sit)bath evening at
3 o'clock. Sabbath School at it 1 o'clock, P. M.
Catholic Rev. 51. J. Mitchell, Pastor.
Services every Sabbath mornirgat 10J o'clock
and Vespers at 4 o'clock in tb i evening.
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Jud'es of the Courts President, Hon. Geo.
Taylor, Huntingdon; Associates, George W.
Easley, Henry C. Devine. , .
Prothonotary Joseph M'DonaM.
Register and Recorder J ames Griffin.
Sheriff John Buck.
District Attorney Philip S. Noon.
'County Commissioners Peter J. Little, Jnol
Campbell, Edward Glas3.
Treasurer Isaac Wike.
Poor House Directors Georgo 5rCulIough,
Georce Delanv. Irwin Ratledge.
Poor House Treasurer George C. K. Zahni.
Abators William J. Williams, George L
K. Zahm, Francis Tierney.
County Surveyor. Henry Scanlan.
Coroner. -William Flattery.
Mercantile Appraiser Patrick Donalioc.
Sup't. of Common Schools J. F. Condon.
tBEiVSDtllCJ BOR. OFFICERS.
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Justices of the Peace David II. Roberts
Etrri8on Kinkead.
Burgess A.'A. Barker.
School Directors A'-el Lloyd, Pbil S. Noon,
Joshua D. Parrisb, Hugh Jones, E. J. Mills,
David J. Joue3. , . .
EAST WARD. .
Conttahle Thomas J. Davis.
Town Council J. Alexander 5Ioore, Djiniel
0. Evans, Richard Ii. Tibbott, Evftu E. Evans,(
William Clement. r ! i
Inspectors Alexander Jones. P. O. Evaus.-
Judge of Election Richard Jones, Jr. .
Assessor Thomas 51. Jones.
Assistant Assessors David E. Evans. Wtt.
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Constahle William Mills, Jr. '
Town Council John Dougherty, George C.
Zahm, Isaac Crawford, Francis A. Shoe
asker, Jamea S, Todd.
inspectors G. W. Oatman, Roberta Evans.
Judge of Election Michael Hasson.
or- Jam e3 Murray. .
To" lttant Authors William Barnes, Dan
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8.18, A. 51. 1
The Chicago Couvention.
APPEAL OF THE NATIONAL CNI05 COMMITTEE TO
THE PEOPLE OF T1IE "UNITED STATES. ' J ;-
Headquarters National Union Committee,
New-York, Sept. 9, 1864,
The great rebellion which lor more
than three years has wrapped the nation
in the flames of civil war, draws near its
crisis. Its armies have been beaten,' its
territory ha been conquered, the forts
and posts which it treacherously seized
have been occupied and held by the sol
diers of the Republic, its foreign allies
have been detached from its support, and
its hostile arm, paralyzed by exhaustion
and discouraged by defeat, is upheld sole--ly
by the hope of political victories 'to be
achieved by its allies" in the. Presidential
election of November next.
If the People in that election sustain
the Government, if they reassert its just
authority and reaffirm their purpose to
maintain it by war so long as war assails
it, the 'Rebellion will speedily, end. If
they falter in this determination, or leave
any room for doubt on this vital point,
the Rebels will take fresh courage and
prolong the contest. Every utterance of
their organs and their agents affirms and
confirms this position. Every Rebel in
arms' and every Rebel in ' office- every
Rebel organ in the Rebel States or in
foreign lands every hater of Democratic
Freedom and the Rights of Man, longs
and labors for; the overthrow of the ad-;
ministration and the expulsion of Abra
ham Lincoln from the Presidential chair.
In the Northern and Western States
this hostility has been embodied and or
ganized iu the acts and declarations of
the Chicago Convention. That Conven
tion gives a silent approval of the rebel
lion itself, and an open condemnation of
the war waged for its suppression. With
out a word of censure for the conspirators
who plotted the nation's death, it brands
with unsparing denunciation the patriots
and heroes who defend its life. While it
passes in utter silence the gigantic usur
pations cf Jefferson Dayis and his confed
erate traitors, while it overlooks entirely,'
and thus, by just and necessary inference,
approves their abrogation of political
rights and personal liberties over all that
portion of the United States in which they
have been able thus far to sustain their
usurped authority, it pours out its wrath,
without,stint or measure, upon every act
by which the Constitutional President of
the United States has sought to defend
and protect the life and liberties of the
nation, whose executive power is placed
in his hands. -...,
That Convention has no words of exul
tation for our victories; no thauks and
honors for the soldiers and sailors who
have shed their b!6od to achieve them.
crsof war in a sufferin" ; condition," it has
not even a syllable of censure for those.
Rebel authorities 1 who, with more than
savac:c cruelty, and in utter disregard of
every dictate of humanity, as well as of
nf f.iv'ili7.nd warfare, have de-
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libcrately and ' with systematic' purpose
inflicted upon those prisoners all the tor
tures of exposure, of neglect and starva
tion, aDd have offered premiums for their
murder to tbc brutal guards to whose grim
custody they have been consigned. t And,'
on the very eve of the most glorious vic
tories that have ever crowned our arms
after . three years of bloody, costly and
successful war, when three-fourths of the
territory originally held by the Rebels
has passed into our hands j at the very
moment when the Rebellion itself is tot
tering to its fall, and the flag of our
country is rapidly advancing to its old
supremacy, the party represented a Chi
cago demands that "immediate efforts he.
made for a cessation of hostilities" a step
which would instantly arrcbt our conquer
ing armies and snatch from them the
glories of a dial triumph," - repeal the
blockade, and throw the whole Rebel
frontier open to the supplies they so sorely
need, secure the recognition of foreign
powers, and cither accomplish their inde-
pendencc or give them the ability to fight
for it four years longer. ; ; . - .: VJ ;
Wc appeal to the. people of the United
States clovers of the Union and friends
of Freedom against the consummation
of the foul crime against both which the
acts und declarations1 of tho 3hicago Con
vention involve, u We invoke them not.to
sanction these principles ana senti
ments bv electing the candidates put for
ward to represent them.' We imploro
them as they love their country, a3 they
seek the renewed integrity of its territory,
as thev desire the peaceful protection of
its flag, and the blessings oi its iree insti
tutions and its equal laws lor themselves
J l Vv 1 While it denounces our joycrnment for
- 7 08 P M neglect of duty toward our "fellow-citizens,
3 15 P m! I who ue now, and long have been, prison-
EBENSBTJRG, PA , THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1864.
and their posterity, not to arrest the blow
which is just ready to descend upon the
Rebellion now tottering to its fall; not to
give the Rebels time to renew their
strength for fresh conflicts ; . not to aid
those who would aid them in overthrow
ing our Government, in destroying our
Union, in plunging into a chaos of an
archy: the great communities - of which
the Constitution makes one great and
glorious Nation, aud in thus extinguishing,
finally and forever, the hopes of all who
have faith in Freedom and the Rights of
Man.
We call upon the People to bear in
mind that, by whatever sophistries they
may cloak their purposes, the Chicago
Convention neither condemns the action
of the Richmond Rebels, nor proposes to
expel them against their will, or by any
exercise of force, from the seats of power
they have usurped. In all essential re
spects the action that Convention took
accords with the results the Rebels seek.
Roth desire a cessation of ' hostilities.
Roth denounce, with unsparing bitterness,
the Government of the United States, and
both alike seek it3 overthrow. Roth de
mand that the attempt to conquer armed
Rebellion by force of arms shall be aban
doned. And both demand that, when the
Government of the United States shall
have passed into the hands of men opposed
to an armed defense of the Government
against rebellion, the war shall end by
peaceful conference of these allied powers.
What more than this could the Rebels ask
or need for the consummation of all their
plans? We call upon the People to bear
in mind that, if they elect the candidates
of the Chicago Convention, they" arrest
the Government in the execution of its
plans and purposes on the very eve of
their fulfillment, and one-third of a year
before any new administration can take
its place. The interval will be one of
hope and confidence for the Rebels, and
of exultation for their allies in the loyal
States. In the Western States armed
preparations have already been made by
the disciples and advocates of secession,
to follow the. example of the South, and
sever the West from the Federal Union.
The success of the Chicago programme in
November, will be the signal for carrying
these designs into execution; atd the
fourth of March will dawn upon a new
Western confederacy, aiming at indepen
dence, defying the power of the nation
al arms,: aud co operating with the slave
power of the Southern States in blotting
from existence the free Republic of the
Western world.
We call upon the people to crush all
these schemes, and to brand their authors
and allies with their lasting reprobation.
Wc call upon them to support the Gov
ernment, to quell the rebellion, to defend
and preserve the Union. We call upon
them to stand by the President, who, un
der circumstances of unparalleled difficulty,
has wielded the power of the nation with
unfaltering courage and. fidelity, with in
tegrity which even calumny has not dared
to impeach, aud with wisdom and prudence
upon which euccess is even now stamping
the surest and the final seal. His election
will proclaim to the world the unaltered
and . unalterable . determination , of the
American people to que i I the rebellion
and Eave the Uuion. It will strike down
forever the false hopes and expectations
of the Rebel government, and proclaim to
the people of the Robcl States that their
only hope of peace lies in abandoning their
hostility to the Government and resuming
their allegiance to the Constitution and
Laws of the United States.
Wo call upon the Union Committees
and the Union Leagues, and upon all loy
al associations in every State, County and
Town, to perfect their organizations ; to
infuse fresh vigor and activity into their
operations; to canvass carefully and
promptly their repsctivc districts; to cir
circulate Documents and Newspapers con
taining just and forcible expositions of the
merits of our cause ; to combat by assem
blages of the people in public meetings,
by- public speeches, by conversation, by
letters and pcrsoual appeals, and in all
just and proper modes, the deceptive and
perilous sophistries of the agents" and po
litical allies 'of the rebellion. Let them
be on thcir- guard against ihc arts of cor
ruption and of intrigue wl.ich. will be
brought, ... with unscrupulous desperation,
to bear upon them. The Rebel Govern
ment, and those Foreign Pjwcra mostdecp
ly interested in our dcstvuction,'cou!d well
afford to expend millions in overthrowing
this administration, and placing in power
the nominee and representatives of the
Chicago Convention.
The skies are bright and full of prom
ise. The lion-hearted citizen-soldiers of
the Republic march with steady step and
unfaltering purpose to a speedy and glori
ous victory.. The heart of the people
beats true t the Union. . Every triumph
of the Union arms over the Rebel troop3
arouses afresh the courage and confidence
of Union men, and chills the heart and
decimates the ranks. of the submission
secessionists represented at Chicago. A
Union victory in November will end the
long and laborious strife. It will paralyze
the arm of the Rebellion. It will disperse
its armies, destroy the hope by which the
despotism at Richmond now holds its sub
jects in bondage, release the people of the
Southern States from their enforced dis
loyalty, and give them again the blessings
ol'self-governmcnt within the Union and un
der the protecting Constitution and Flag of
the United States. It will enable our own
government to exchange the Weapons of
war for the counsels of peace, to relax the
stern" control over public action and pub
lic speech which a state of war renders
unavoidable, to restore ouv financial sys
tem, to dissolve all military courts, and
hand over aqain to the civil tribunals of
justice the punishment of crime and the
preservation of public order, and to restore
to their firesides and their homes, clothed
with honors and to be held in everlasting
remembrance, that great army of our
citizen-soldiers who have bared their
breasts against armed rebellion, and won
the imperishable renown of saving the
glorious Union, for which their fathers and
their brothers died.
II. J. RAYMOND, Chairman.
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Wlio Is Responsible" for luc
War?
The following remarks were made by
Alexander II. Stevens, now Vice Presi
dent of the Southern Confederacy, at the
Georgia" Convention which met at Mil
ledgcville, in November, 18G0, to consider
the question of seceding from the Union.
His arguments against secession are valu
able as a matter of history :
When we and posterity shall see our
lovely South desolated by the demons of
war. which this act of yours will inevita
bly invite and call forth ; when our green
fields of waving harvests shall be trod
den down by the murderous soldier' and
fiery car cl war sweeping over our land ;
our temples of justice laid in ashes ; all
the horrors and desolations of war upon
u., wh but this convention will be held
responsible for it ? and who but him who
shall have given his vote for this unwise
and. ill-timed measure shall be held to
strict account for this suicidal act by the
present generation, and probably cursed
and execrated by posterity for all coming
time, for the wide and desolating ruin that
will inevitably follow this act you now
propose to perpetrate ?
Pause, 1 entreat 3ou, and consider for
a moment what reasons you can give that
will even satisfy yourselves in calmer mo
ments what reasons can you give to your
fellow-sufferers in the calamity that it will
bring upon us ? What reasons can you
give to the nations of the earth to justify
it ? They will be the calm and deliberate
judges in the case ; and to what cause or
one overt act can wc point, on which to
rest the plea of justification ? What right
has the North assailed ' What interest
of the South has been invaded ? What
justice has been denied 1 and what claim
founded in justice, what right has been
withheld ? Can either of you to-day name
one governmental act of wron deliberate
ly and purposely doue by the government
at Washington, of which the South has a
right to complain ? I challenge the an
swer 1 While on the other hand, let me
show the fact (and believe mo, gentlemen,
I a m not hero the advocate of the North,
but I am here the friend, the firm friend
and lover of the South and her institutions,
and for this reason I speak thus plaiuly
and faithful to yours, mine, and every oth
er man's interest, the words of truth and
soberness,) of which I wifeh yu to judge,
and I will only state facts which. arc clear
and uudcniablo, and which now stand as
records . authentio in the history of our
country.
When we of the South demanded the
slave trade or the importation of Africans
for the cultivation of our lands, did they
not yield for twenty years ' When we
asked a three-fifth representation in Con
gress for our slaves, was it not granted?
When we asked and demanded the return
of any fugitive from justice, or the recov
ery of those persons owing labor or allegi
ancej was it not incorporated in the con
stitution? And again, ratified and
strengthened in the Fugitive Slave law of
1850? - : . ,
Do you reply that in many instances
they have violated this compact, and have
not been faithful to their engagement ?
As individuals and local communities they
may have done so ; but not by the sanc
tion of government, for that has always
teen true to Southern interests. Again,
gentlomcn, look at another fact : when we
have asked that more territory should be
added, that we might spread the institu
tion of slavery, have they not yielded to
our demands and given . us Louisiana,
Florida aud Texas, out of which four
States have been carved, and ample terri
tory for four more to bo added in due
time, if you by this unwise and impolitic
act do not destroy this hope, and perhaps j
by it lose all, and have your last slave
wrenched from you by stern military rule,
as South America and Mexico had ; or
by the vindictive decree, of . a universal
emancipation which may reasonably be
expected to follow ?
Rut again, gentlemen, what have wc to
gain by this proposed change of our rela
tion to the general government ? Wc
have always had the control, and can yet,
if we remain in it, and are united as we
have been. We have had a majority of
the Presidents chosen from the South, as
well as the control and management of
thoso chosen from the North. We have
had sixty years of Southern President? to
their twenty-four, thus controlling the
Executive Department. . So of the Judges
of the Supreme Court: we Lave had eigh
teen from the South, and but eleven from
the North ; although nearly four-fifths of
the juaicial business has arisen in the free
States, yet a majority of the Court has al
ways been from the South. This we have
required so as to guard against any inter
pretation of the constitution unfavorable
to us.
In like manner we have been equally
watchful to guard our interests ic tho leg
islative branch of government. In choo
sing the presiding officer (pro. tern.') of
the State, we have had twenty-four and
they eleven. " While the majority of the
representatives, from' their greater popu
lation, has always been from the North,
yet we have generally secured the Speaker,
because he, to a great extent, shapes and
controls the legislation of the couatry.
Nor had we less control in every depart
ment of the general government. Attor
ney Generals we had fourteen, while the
North had but five. Foreign ministers
wc had eighty-six, and they but forty-four.
While three-fourths of the business which
demauds diplomatic agents from abroad is
clearly from the North, from their greater
commercial interests, yet we have had the
principal embassies, so as to secure the
world's markets for our cotton, tobacco
and sugar, on thr best possible terras. . Wc
have had a . vast majority of the higher
ofiice3 of the army and uavy, while a larger
portion of the soldiers and sailors were
drawn from the North. Equally so of
clerks, auditors and comptrollers filling
the Executive department; the records
show that, for the last fifty years, of the
throe thousand thus employed wo have
had more than two-thirds, while we have
but one-third of the white population of
the republic.
Again, look at another item, and one,
be assured, in which wc have a great and
vital interest that of revenue, or means
of supporting the government. From of
ficial documents wc learn that a fraction
over three-fourths of the revenue collected
for the support of the government has
uniformly been raised from the North.
Pause now, while'" you can, gentlemen,
and contemplate carefully and candidly
these important itcm3. Look at another
necessary branch of government,- and
learn from stern statistical facts how mat
ters stand in that department. I mean
the mail and post oifice privileges wc en
joy under the general government as it
has been for years past. The expense for
the transportation cf the mail in the free
States was, by the report of the Postmaster-General
for 1SG0, a little over $13,
000,000, while the income was $19,000,
000. Rut in the slave States the trans
portation of tho mail was $14,710,000,
while the revenue was only . $8,000,205,
leaving a deficit of $0,715,735, to be
supplied by the North for our accommo
dation, and without which we mut have
been entirely cut off from this most es
sential branch of the government.
.Leaving out of view, for the present,
the countless millions of dollars you must
expend in a war with the. North, there
will be thousands and tens of thousands
of your sons and brothers slain in battle,
and offered up as sacrifices upon the altar
of ambition aud for what, we ask again?
It is for the overthrow of the American
government, established by our common
ancestry, cemented and buiL up by their
sweat, and blood, and founded on tho
broad principles of right, justice and hu
manity. And as such, 1 must declare
here, as I have often done before, and
which has been repeated by the greatest
and wisest statesmen and patriots of this
and other lands, that it is the best and
freest government the most equal in its
rights tho most just in its decisions
the most lenient "in its punishments the
most lnspiriog in its measures to elevate
the race of man
ever shone upon.
that the sun in heaven
NUMBER 2.
Now, for you to attempt to, overthrow
such a government as this, under which,
we have lived for more than three quar
ters of a century in which we have gain
ed our wealth, our standing as a nation,
our domestic' safety, with no elements of
peril around us, but with peace and tran
quility, accompanied by unbounded pros
perity and rights unaesailed is the height
of madness, folly and wickedness, to which
I can lend neither my sanction nor my vote.
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Words orrfhdom. :--
Judge Miles, of the U, S. Circuit Court
of Wisconsiu, gives the following: report
of a recent interview with President Lin-'
coin. The calm reasoning "of tlio Prci
dent is worthy of the candid consideration
of every patriotic citizen. Hear the Pres
ident in vindication of his devotion to our
common country:
"Sir," said the President, "the slightest
knowledge of arithmetic will prove to
any man that the rebel armies cannot be
destroyed with Democratic strategy. It
would sacrifice all the white men, of the
North to do it. There are now in the
service of the United States near two
hundred thousand able bodied colored men,
most of them under arms, defending aud
acquiring Union territory. The Demo
cratic strategy demands that these forces
be disbanded, and that the masters becon
cilliatcdby restoring them to Elavcry.,Tho
black men who now assist Union prisoners
to escape, arc to be converted into our
enemies, in the vaiu hope of gaining the
good will of their masters. We shall have
to fight two nations instead of one. , ,
"You cannot conciliate the South if you
guaranty to them ultimate success, and the
experience of the present war proves their
success is inevitable if you fling the com
pulsory labor of millions of .black mea
into their side of the scale. Will you
give jour enemies such military advanta
ges as to insure success, and then depend
on'coaxing, flattery and concession to get
them into the Union? Abandon a'.l the
posts now garrisoned by black. men; take
two hundred thousand men from our side
and put them in the battlefield or cornfield
against us, and we would be compelled to
abandon the war in three weeks. " : - v
"We have to hold territory in inclement
and sickly places ; where are the Demo
crats to do this ? It waa a free fight, and
the field was open to the war Democrats
to put down this rebellion by fighting
against both master and slave, long before
the present policy was inaugurated. ; . .. :
. "There have been men baso enough to
propose to me to return to slavery the
black warrior? of Port Hudson and Olus
tee, and thus win the respect of the mas
ters they fought. Should I do so I Bhould
deserve to be dammed in time and eternity.
Come what will, I will keep my faith with
friend and foe. My enemies pretend 1
am now carrying on this war for tho sole
purpose of abolition. : So long as I am
President it shall be carried on for the
sole purpose of restoring the Unions Rut
no human power can subdue this rebel
lion without the use of the emancipation
policy, and every other policy calculated
to weaken the moral and physical forces
of the rebellion. .... i
"Freedom has given us two hundred
thousaud men raised oq Southern sail. It
will give us more yet. Just o 'much It
has subtracted from the enemy, and in
stead of alienating the South, there 'are
now evidences ot a fraternal feeling grow
ing up between our men and the rauk aud
file of the rebel soldier s. Let my enemies
prove to tho contra-, that the destruction
of slavery is not necessary to a restoration
of the Uuion, and 1 will abide the isue."
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E3uGen. Garfield, in a recent speech
at Cincinnati, aid: "The Chicago Con
vention asserts that the war' is a failure.
That assertion I pronounce to be a criminal
lie before the American .people.--: Their
next proposition is what they propose to
do about it. They demand a cessation ot
hostilities. What docs that msm ? Does
it mean merely a command to cease firing
alon-4 tho lines ? No ; it mentis our armies
shall face right about and leave tho ene
my's country. There is no" cessation; ot
hostilities while you hold the enemy's
country, therefoic, if you cease hostilities,
you must sound the bugle all -along Ihc
line from Texas to the Atlantiej t ha -our
bravo troops shall turn arouud and march
back home," ' . ,
ZZZ- Silas Wright, who was one of tho
best and the purest Democrats of his time,
once said: "If umong us there be'any
who arc prepared, for any earthly object;
to dismember our Coufcdcracy, and des
troy that Constitution which binds us tcT
gether, let licatc of an Arnold he theirs,
and let the detestation and, scorn of every
American be their constant companions,
until, like hiai. they hall abandon a
country whose rich blessings they arc no
longer worthy to enjoy.'' s r
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