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TIIURSDAY::::::::::::::::N0VEMBER 3.
NATIOXAL UXIOX TICKET
FOR PBKS1DKNT :
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, of Illinois.
'My enemies thetesd I am now cacyi:co on
the Wah Fon the sole turhose of Aboli
tion. SO 1.0SQ AS I AM PnESlUKST, IT SHALL
BE CUUUEI OX roU THE SOLE PURPOSE OF
kestokiso the VxiosrAEliAIIAM LIX
COLX. s
FOB. VICE-I'BESinENT :
ANDREW JOHNSON, ot Tenncspee.
I W0CLD HAVE ALT. TRAITORS ARCESTKD AST
tried for Treason, asi if convicted, by
TU ETSRXAL OI, THEY SHOULD SUFFER THE
lENLTY OF THE LAW AT.TIIS HANDS OF THE
" Executioner." AXDREW JOIIXSOX.
ELECTORAL TICKET.
' ' SENATORIAL.
Morton M'Michael. T. Cunningham.
RETRES
1. Robert T. King,
v 2. G. M. Coates.
3. Henry Buram.
' 4. William II. Kern.
6. Barton II. Jenki.
6. Charles M. Runk.
1 .' Robert Parke.
8. "William Taylor.
9. John A. nit-stand.
10: Richd. n. Coryell.
11. Edwwrd Haliday,
12. Charles F. Reed.
ENTATIVE.
13. Elias W. Hale.
14. Chas. U. Shrincr.
15. John Wister.
16. I. M'Conaughy.
17. David W. Woods.
18. Isaac Benson.
19. John Patton.
20. Samuel B. Dick.
21. Everard Bierer.
22. John P. Penney.
23. Eben. M'Jtinkin.
24. J. W. Blanchard.
A I-ast Word.
- Before another cumber of this paper,
the Presidential election will have come
and gone. Reader! have you thought of
the tremendous issues at stake in the
contest issuas greater by. far than ever
before agitated tho mind of man ? Have
you given the matter that serious, prayer
ful consideration which it so eminently
deserves ? Never again, live you a thous
and years, will you be allowed to partici
pate in tho arbitrament of a question so
great, so grand, and so grave as the one
you must pass in judgment upon on next
Tuesday. For the question is Shall tee,
or iludl we not, have a Government hereaf
ter? We are now in the midst of civil war.
Fathers sight tho gun and point the
bayonet at their own offspring, and broth
ers lift up their hands against brothers.
It is unnecessary to here discuss the prime
cause which led to this unnatural, unholy
state of affairs. Enough to know that
war, in its deadliest aspect, really exists.
"Who commenced the war? The South
commenced it. The first overt act of
hostilities was committed during the ad
ministration of President Buchauan, when
(January, 1861) the rebels fired upon the
"Star of the West," a Government steamer
employed oa legitimate Government busi
ness. The most bitter partisan cun not
therefore say that the present Administra
tion id responsible for the war. Abraham
Lincoln went not . into the Presidential
chair until after seven Southern States
had gone out of the Union so far as they
could vote themselves out, and until af ter
they had defiantly scunded the tocsin of
war. It is quite common nowadays to
hear Copperhead orators and newspapers
charge it upou the present Administration
that they begau the war how can the
facts in the case bo made to bear out the
assertion ?
. March Jlh, 18G1, Abraham Lincoln, the
legally elected President of tho United
States, was formally inaugurated. In his
inaugural address, he assured the South
that their "rights" would be as much
respected under his rule as they ever were
under , the rule of his predecessors, and
used the following language: "Apprehen
sion seems to exist among the people of
the Southern States that, by tho accession
of a Republican Administration, their
property and their peace and personal
eccurity are to be endangered. There
never has heen any reason or cause for such
an appreJicnsion." He then adjured them,
by the memory of tho heroism and suffer
ings of the fathers of the Republic, to not
consummate the sin and folly they sought
to commit. "What was the response of the
South to these pacific aud patriotic words?
In April following, a month thereafter,
without due ca,use or provocation, they
bombarded Fort Sumter, a Government
fort I Then, and hot till then, did Presi
dent Lincoln, in pursuance of his oath
registered in high heaven to preserve,
protect and defend tho integrity of the
entire Uniou, take mea&urcs, as the head
of the Government, to fc tern the tide of
rebellion. Oh I the Government was slow
to anger. It bore aud forebore with its
erring brethren ot the South uriH forbear
ance ceased to be a virtue. It received
cuffs and blows upon the right cheek as
well upon the left before k atruek back.
If it be not held that the- Union is a
a mero temporary combination- of States,
dependent upon the whims and caprice
ot those States for its very existence, and
we think no man of sound understanding
will fo hold- it will not be denied that
tho Government was powerless to prevent
war. The South had virtually seceded
from the Union, and had levied war to
insure their "independence." Pleadings
and promises wero alike ineffectual to win
them back from the error of their way?
they were joined to their idols, and wanted
to be "let alone." What was to be done?
Taking the broad ground that the Union
sustained the ame relation to them that
a' father does to his sons, which was
unquestionably the view of the f ramers of
the Constitution, what remained but to
"coerce" them into obedience? Once
acknowledge the right of secession, andj
where would the Uuion be ? First would
cooie a Southern Confederacy, then a
South-western Confederacy, then an East
ern Confederacy, then a Middle Confed
eracy, then a Western Confederacy, and
soon. tho Union would be sliced up in a
half-dozen different shapes and forms, and
all semblance of tho original compact of
States, for the establishment of which our
fathers fought, bled and died, wiped out
of existence. Without consenting to the
utter dissolution of the Union, and thereby
to the assassination of civil liberty on the
Western continent, a3 well to the mani
festly fallaciou3 proposition that a. minority
should rule in a nation, the present
Administration was powerless to prevent
war.
The contest which the South precipitately-and
causelessly invoked has been
going on for nearly four years. If it was
right and proper in the Government to
fight in tho first place, it is right and
proper for it to continue fighting. And
it must fight on until tho rebellion goes
down. There is no other way. We could
not escape the issue in the beginning we
cannot creep out of it nor get behind it
now. Human ingenuity can devise no
settlement of the difficulty other than that
contained in the abandonment of the cause
of rebellion, and the renunciation with it of
the theory of secession. Unthinking men
may cry "peace !" but even they must
admit that the peace, to be acceptable to
the people, must be an honorable one.
How can we arrive at au-honorable peace
except over the ruins of tho rebellion ?
The South consistently declare they will
stand by their mushroom Confederacy to
the last, and that they will not consent to
a restoration of the Uoion ; we started out
with a determination to smash their
mushroom Confederacy and make them !
come back into the Union. 'The issue is j
thus made up. Why not fight it out first
as well as Last fight until either our side
or theirs is compelled to succumb ?
During the terra of wnr we have already
had, our successes have been commensurate
with the greatness of our cause. We have
conquered an extent of country fifteen
hundred miles in length by six hundred
in breadth, and obtained a firm foothold
in every insurrectionary Scate. Besides
this, wo have taken every stronghold held
by the rebels at the start except Richmond,
Charleston and Mobile, and, unless the
signs of the times be strangely at fault,
these will speedily share the fate of the
otheis. The rebels have confessedly
"robbed the cradle and the grave" to
enable themselves to make a last stand ;
they are at the rope's end ; they are about
played out, and can continue the contest
only a limited length of time longer. We,
on the contrary, are strong as ever, buoy
ant as ever, and as self reliant. If necessa
ry, wc ara able to fight on for an eternity in
behalf of the principles we have espoused.
It is sometimes charged that President
Lincoln's Administration has done com
paratively nothing toward the putting
down of the rebellion. Taking into con
sideration the manifold difficulties to be
contended with at the breaking out of ths
war, when an army and a navy had to be
created, tbe national finances established
on a firm foundation, and treason rooted
out of every department ot the Govern
ment, every unbiassed man must acknowl
edge it has done all that could be reason
ably be expected of it. Sins of commission
and omission many and various are
charged upon the Administration; but,
although not claiming for them that they
are infallible, still we unhesitatingly de
clare our belief that no other set of men
on God's green earth could have done
more for the nation than Abraham Lincoln
and his Cabinet.
War is an evil, but a necessary one. As
we have shown, it was- impossible for our
country not to become involved in civil
war. Since we have go iBto the difficulty,
it is the bounden doty of every American
freeman to see to it that we get out there
of honorably, and after , a full realization
of the eojects for which we contended.
Tens of thousands of precious lives and
untold- millions of dollars have been spent
thua far in- the solution of the problem
whether wc have a Government, etmpetent
to protect alike its citizens and its own
iptegrity. The qucstion is being settled
day by day, and must be definitely deter
mined sooner or later. Determined in the
affirmative, then the country will speedily
recover fom the evil effects of the war,
and at once take rank foremost among the
nations of the earth; determined in the
negative, it will be rent continually with
intestine strifes and discords, until anarchy
at last will come d jwn like night and seal
its eternal doom.
Abraham Lincoln is the standard bearer
of the party who believe that the Govern
ment cannot, must not be destroyed, ne
is the candidate of the party who declare
that enemies at home or abroad are alike
impotent to disrupt the Union. He is the
candidate of the party who go not into war
of their own choosing, but who, once gone
in, in behalf of great and eternal princi
ples, never say yield until their object has
been most fully accomplished. In short,
he is the candidate of those who favor a
perpetuation of the Government in the
future as it was in the past, with all its
rights and privileges intact, and its glori
ous traditions untarnished.
George B. M'Clellan is the candidate
of those who believe the experiment' of
self-government to be a failure. He is
the candidate of those who say the Uuion
is irremediably destroyed, and the Consti
tution not worth the parchment whereon
it is written. lie is the candidate of those
who call the sacrifices of our brave soldiers
on many fierce battle fields a "useless
waste of blood." He is the candidate of
those who desire nothing so much as the
recognition of the Southern Confederacy.
He u the candidate of those, who love
Slavery better than their own souls.
He is the candidate ot Northern Copper
heads and Southern rebels, v
A vote for Lincoln is a vote for the
perpetuation of the Union and the Con
stitution. A vote for M'Clellan is a vote for anar
chy and disruption, and a Southern Con
federacy.
Choose ye I
A Chapter of I lie Unwritten His
tory of the Democratic Partj
of Cambria County Chica
nery and Double-Dealings
Pursuant to a section of the Act of
Assembly legalizing the Soldiers' Vote,
the Return Judges of Cambria county
met at tho Court House, Ebensburg, on
Friday last, to count the returns from the
army. Mr. Chairman Bowen, of Cone
maugh, called the convention to order at
2 o'clock, p. rn , and signified his readi
ness to proccetfcto business.
THE LAW ON THE 8CBJECT.
' The law provides that when an election
is held in the army, the Judges thereof
must, after duly canvassing the vote,
transmit to the Prothonotary of the prop
er county their poll-book, list and ballots;
when it becomes the duty of Euch Pro
thonotary to make a certified copy of the
returns so received, and submit the Fame
to the Return Judges of the county at
their meeting, for their guidance in cast
ing up the vote. .
MICHAEL HASSON ON TIIE SUBJECT.
At the precise juncture when the Sec
retary commenced readiegthe first return
from the certified copy, which had been
duly furnished by the Prothonotary, Mi
chael Hasson, ostensibie editor of tbe EP
ccsburg Dem. & Sent. a most pestilent
fellow jumped excitedly from his chair,
assumed a perpendicular position, and,
brandishing his fi3ts in air and wildly
rolling his eyes, proceeded to strenuously
object to receiving the returns in the shape
in which they were submitted. He held
that the soldiers' vote ought to come be
fore the convention just as received by the
Prothonotary, in the original package,
accompanied by poll-book and list of vo
ters that no certified copy would answer
the purpose that the Judges must go
back to the fountain-head for the figures.
He said he knew what was what, anchhe
wasn't going to have things done "uncon
stitutionally." COL. 1IAS80N'8 MOTIVES.
What Col- nasson's motives' were in
taking this stand, it were not difficult to
make plain. By requiring theconvention
to examine and count separately each dis
tinct package of votes, comparing the
same with its accompanying jpoll-book and
list, which would require abcrut three days'
time, ho hoped to throw mu?h odium upon
the experiment of soldiers voting. Or,
did he hope, through unlimited pretension
to legal acumen, to 'gerrymander the con
vention into absolutely throwing out and
refusing to count at all the vote ? Of did
he expect-to precipitate jthat body into
a row and free fight, pending whieh the
lights should be put out, the door locked,
the convention declared dissolved, and the
soldiers' vote allowed to go by default?
MATTERS AND -THINGS BROT. TO A STAND-STILL.
Col Hasson objected most emphatically
to receiving the certified copy. The Chair
man read the law to the disaffected indi
vidual, wherein is fully set forth that a
certified copy, aud not the original packa
ges of returns, is what must be Iaief before
the Return Judges. Whereupon the
Colonel waxed indignant that the law could
be presumed to know more than he, and
he frothed at the mouth and made a tearful
noise.
COL. IIASSON CAIXETH FOR A "DIVISION."
The Chairman proceeded to?the perfor
mance of his duty, and ordered the Secre
tary to read out the returns from tho
certified copy. At this, tbe Qolonel went
off into clonic spasms, and, usurping the
office of Chairman, roared out "I tell ye,
I object to 4he whole proceeding; all in
favor of me and my position come to the
side of the houso where I am standing
aU opposed to me and my position go to
the' other sidel" Whereupon all the
Democratic Judges flocked iunto the Col
onel, even as sheep flock Unto the bell
wether. ADOCT TIIE SIZE OF fT. '
All this, it must be admitted, was
exceedingly egotistical in Cl. Hasson. It
was more it was both imprudent and in
solent to the last degree. But some pork
will boil so, and what i9 in) Philip sober
will assuredly come out of Philip when he
is drunk. Col. n. flattered himself that
he was subserving in his own peculiar way
the ends of Democracy: wcj may remark
just here, en parenthese, that he receives
to-day more kicks than kisses from Iks
political friends for his illy-advised exhi
bition of spleen and dishonesty.
CONFUSION WORSE CONFQUXDED.
Affairs had now reached a pretty pass,
to be sure! The Chairman, backed by
the Union Judge?, was fully determined
to go on in the performance of a plain
duty and count the votes as. per the certi
fied copy of the Prothonotaryy- while Col.
Hasson, backed by the Democratic Judg
es, objected to so counting them, and
threatened to secede from the convention
unless the original packages were sent
for. Was there no oil to calm tbe per
turbed. waters no friend to whisper to
the Colonel that it devolved on him to
occlude and quit making an ass of him
self? '
ORDER RESTORED IN WARSAW
There was. Gen. Joseph M'Donald,
Prothonotary of Cambria couuty, proved
to be tbe foreordained of God toeay.to
the raging elements "Peace, be still 1"
This gentleman made it known to the
convention, through one of its members,
that he understood the law to its minutest
particular, and that a certified copy of
the returns was all that was required by
the convention ; and he furthermore assu
red them that under no circumstances of
combination of ' circumstances would he
lay before the convention for their con
sideration the original packages of votes.
; COL. HASSON WILTETH.
Now, be it known, Gen. M'Donald is a
good Democrat, standing a head and shoul
ders higher in the estimation of his party
than Col. Hasson. "Call you this back
ing of your friends?" quoth the Colonel
"a plague on such backing!" The tide had
set in against him, and he knew it; and
so, to save himself from being overwhelm
ed thereby, the doughty Michael hastened
to withdraw his objections to the certified
copy, and humbly begged pardon of the
convention fur the innumerable insults he
had heaped upon it.
THE END.
And thus it was that the soldiers' vote
was counted according to Jaw, and not to
suit tho whims of a demagogue. Thus it
was that the expressed will of legally qual
ified electors was not set at nought. Thus
it was.that Might fought with llighr, and
came out second-best from the encounter.
MORAL.
Don't attempt to act tho rascal, in poli
tics or out of them, for it never pays.
Take warning by CoL Hasson, and be
honest I
Tho Book, or Michael, Com
monly Called The Paddy.
TRANSLATED OCT OT THE ORIGINAL SIIEDREW.
: Chapter V.
Michael is tent for, and goeth to the Temple of
Maynoolh The Wise Men look vpon him at
a Great Curiosity The Master jdecideth that
he is a Man, and employeth him as a Servant
Michael remaineth two years, and then re
solveth to go to Ameiica ind become a Great
Man The ship on which he embarketh is lost,
tcith all on board, except himself He etcapeth
miraculously, but is afterwards harpooned at
a Whale, and it in danger of Death, when he
is carried to Xew York and placed in an Hos
pital for treatment
ow there was in Maynooth a great
temple of learning, and when the master
thereof heard that Michael was in the
city, he sent a man-servant after him, and
bade him come to the temple.
2. And when the servant had made
known his business, Michael was 6ore
afraid, not knowing the desire of the
master's heart; but the servant bade him
be of good cheer; so Michael went with
him. , '..
3. And when Michael had come, the
master brought in his disciples, aud did
even so with the wise men and the 6cribcs
that were within the temple, and he set
Michael in the midst of them.
4. And they began with one accord to
ask him questions, and he answered each
according to the thing that he required,
albeit he took heed not to say aught con
cerning his ancestors or the place whence
he came. '
5. And they were amazed, and consult
ed their books and writings, and took
counsel among themselves whether he was
man or beast, and some said one thing and
some another;
6. But the master gave judgment that
he was a living soul, for that he was gifted
with the powr of speech like unto other
men. '
7. Now the master was well pleased
with 3Iichael, and said unto him, I have
need of a fellow like thee in the temple,
andif thou wilt be my henchman, and
serve me faithfully, I will reward thee
according to thy works.
8. So they agreed among themselves,
and Michael served faithfully, and his
calling was to carry filth and slops from
out the temple, and to clean the sandals
aad polish the shoes of the wise men and
the disciples ;
9. And in return the master gave unto
Michael his meat and driuk and raiment ;
likewiso the wise men and the disciples
each gave him a penny now and then, a3
seemed good unto tbem. ,
10. And it came to pass when Michael
had been two years in the temple, he com
muned with himself, saying: Lo, I have
served in this place a long time, and have
become something of a scribe, yet have I
not got learning enough to put me beside
myself ;.
11. For, albeit there be many things
that 1 know, yet there be many, things
that I do not know, and herein is a diffi
culty; nevertheless, I would faiu be con
sidered wise and great, and have my praise
on the tongues of many people.
12. I will arise, therelorc, and journey
afar off, even unto the land of America,
where the inhabitants know not so much
as a whit, and I will say iluto them :
13. Hearken unto my voice, O ye peo
ple of America, and listen unto my words;
for, behold, I am Michael from the temple
of Maynooth, a man gifted with much
learning and great knowledge, understand
ing and speaking the languages of them
who lived and spake in the ojden time.
14. Aud by this cunning device, I will
gain the hearts of the people of America,
and I will wax rich, and become a ruler
over their affairs, and my praises will be
sounded far and wide, and I thall be
known as Michael the Mighty.
15. And it came to pass when Michael
had done communing with himself, he
sold his father's ass, whereon he had
journeyed to iYlaynootu, and the scrip
which he received therefor he put into his
purse; m
1G. And he acquainted the master of
the temple with Tiis desire to be gone, and
the master was grieved thereat, lest he
might not; be able to find another to do
the things whereat Michael had wrought.
17. Howbeit.the master, in the process
of time, gave his consent, and when he
had put upon Michael a new raiment, he
bade him depart with his blessing.
18. Likewise the wise .men and the
disciples made him presents of rare and
coftly things, curiously wrought in brass
and other precious metals, which when
they had done, they bade himgo on his
way rejoicing.
19. Then straightway Michael turned
his back upon the land ot his lathers, and
went to the seaside, and got upon a ship
bound for the coast of America ; and that
ho might not spend the scrip in his purse,
he took passage on the lower deck of. the
vessel, and becamo even as an hireling.
; 20. Now wheu the ship had been at sea
many days, the provisions thereon became
exceeding scarce, so that they who were
on tho lower deck. were fed upon mean
victuals, the same being none other than
bean soup, and onions, and boiled chestnuts.
21. And it came to pass when the ship
drew nigh unto the coast of America,
there came a violent storm, and the winds
blew with great force, and tbe vessel was
beaten against a rock, and'parted, and all
they that were therein, save Michael, per
ished and were lost. ,
p2. Now Michael wa9 mysteriously
spared, and it was id this wise : For just
bejfore the storm set in, Michael, being
aoj hungered, bad partaken of much bean
soup, besides a plenty of onions and boiled
chestnuts t
!23. And after b, bad bo done, behold
Michael was seized with a violent win(j
colic, insomuch that he became 8wollea
and puffed up to a great size ; wherefo
wheu he fell intoyhe sea, he did nots'isi
by reason of the wind in his bellv '
24. So Michael! was tossed to and fr!
upon the tea, evin as a ship witho,,
rudder, until at length he drew nigh am0
a vessel that was ruisiDg ia thosa partj
for whales. 1
25. Now when they that were on the
vessel espied Michael, they supposed ho
was a whale ; wherefore they s mote him
with an harpoon, thej which having l0(.ed
in his belly, they straightway hauled Lira
ou board the vessel.
20. Which when fthey had done, they
discovered they had committed a grievous
mistake, and immediately they hcan to
make amends as best they could;
27. But, behold, when the harpoon was
taken from Michael, there appeared a
grievous rent in his belly, and immediate
ly the wind rushed :out thereat, and the
sound thereof was like unto the sound of
a great trumpet; I
23. And suddenly the air was filled with
a great stench, anJ it entered into the
nostrils of them that were oa the vessel
insomuch thai they cried out with one voice
29. Verily, if all he carcasses aud dead
men's bones which! are in the valley of
Jehosaphat were collected together, they
could not make so great, a stink.
SO. Now when the wind had done is.
suing from Michael, behold he collapsed,
and for a long time it was feared he would
give up the ghost ;; but there was a learued
doctor on board the vessel, who gave him
good heed ;
31. And when the vessel had come to
New York, a walled city by the seaside,
Michael was put in a place called, id the
Shebrew tongue, an hospital, that be might
be ministered unto and cured of the ill
which had befallen him.
32. And when Michael bad been
brought in and cared for, tho master of
the hospital searched his pocket, and
found his purse with the scrip therein;
S3. Likewiso he found rings of brasj,
aud other costly ornaments, which Lai
been bestowed by the wise men end the
disciples; but of rubies or other preeioui
stones Michael had none about his person.
OH! WHVlVWrUT'S THE MATTER?
- i
Tho XTIIth Congressional Dis
trict Ilcdeenicd !
corrruiiBADis.M wiped out !
VERDICT RENDERED IN FAVOR OF TUT.
PERPETUATION OF OUR GREAT AND
GLORIOUS FREE GOVERNMENT!
Union Majority: 507!
THAT'S "WHAT'S THE MATTER!:
Tho following figures constitute the
official Home Vote and the semi-official
Army Vote for Congress in this (the
XVI l"th) district :
Home Vote.1 Barlcer. Johr.itcn.
Cambria 1,591 2:C34
Blair ...2,534 2,209
Huntingdon : 2,53 9 2,022
ilifiiin v 1,4U7 1,43
Aunt Vote.
Cambria soldiers 2P5 &!
Blair 253 maj.
Huntingdon " 171 '
Mifflin 42 "
Grand totals....... 8,832 8,333
8,325
Barker's actual majority. 507
He may be an ignorant Yankee, alltt
way from the" State of Maine he may be
a fanatical Abolitionist he may bo
miscegan he may be a miserable, com
mon, every-day sort of fellow he mJ e
a maker of shooks and a driver of oxen
he may be, in short, a plebeian, as the op
position are pleased to style hiu, but, ia
addition to all this, it must be confess
Barker is e-l-c-c-t-c-d t o C-o n-g r-e-t-t
So huzza! huzza! huzza!
The Union and the Constitution;
The Stars and Stripes shall wave -Till
the day of resurrection I
Whack-row-de-dow !
Where's tbe usual Democrat
rooster this fall !
Whack-row-de-dow 1 .
How are you, Copperhead torco-
light procession !
P. S. : If the Ebensburg Dtm. & &nt'
and the Johnstown Democrat, to eay noth
ing of tho ether oppositions papers ia the
district, should, through some chance or
mischance, . happen to Hear The
From Maine within the next six weekf
we hope they will each as soon as possib
issue an extra with full particular! con
cerning the which, and send us oae oopj
of the same, marked !