CSgSSS THURSDAY, OCTOBEU 4, 1865. REPUBLICAN UNION TICKET. With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to Btt the right, let us Etrive on to finish the work we are in ; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the Lartle, ami for hitfwidow 'and his r.rphan ; lo do all which may achieve and cherish R just and a lasting pcare among our selves and all nations. Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address. COVE B NOR : Gtn. JOHN W. GEARY, of Cumbcrlund to. DANIEL J. MORKELL, of Johnstown. ASSKMRLV : JOHN J. GLASS, of Allegheny township. associate jrnoFs: JOHN "WILLIAMS, of Ebensburg. CHARLES B. ELLIS, of Johnstown. REGISTER AXn KECOFPEH '. "WILLIAM A M'DERMITT, of Clearfield tp. COMMISSIONER : HENRY FOSTER, of White township. ArniTOR : JAMES M. COOPER, of Taylor township. poor irorsF. director: CHARLES BUXTON, of Jackson township. The Election. Announcement. Two numbers after the present will complete the seventh year of the existence ot The Allrgh avian. During five of these seven year?, I have been its propri etor and editor, and humbly, and I trust faithfully, havo sought through its col umns to defend and establish the aims and principles of the Republican Union pa-rty, believing that by so doing I was serving the interest of the entire country. From this faith, it is perhaps unnecessary for me to ray, I have not departed. Nor shall I. The Allcghanian, though thus advocating the teachings of the party of its choice, has never been a mere party organ, and much less the mouth-piece of a clique or faction. During the five years it has been under my control, it has never asked, nor has it ever received, a dollar of patronage from any political source whatever. Its advocacy of princi ples and candidates, whether Federal or State, County or District, has never been to it a source of gain. Its entire income, from the printing ot suffrage tickets and political handbills during the past five years, has not amounted to one hundred dollars. I do not utter these statements by way of complaint. Far from it. I desire only to ahow that The Alleghanian has been an independent paper, and that ite editor has never sought to make his purse fat by mean 3 of his political prin ciplcs. Since the day I first put on the editorial garb, I have not had a moiety of sufficient leisure in which to discharge an editor's duties. Many a time my edito rials have been written during an hour stolen from the cares of a mercantile life. Now, more perhaps than at any former period, is all my attention required by my mercantile affairs. I propose, thers fore, to relinquish at the close of the pres ent volume the publication of The Alle ghanian. While such is my design, I would be sorry to seo the county stat of Cambria destitute of a Republican Union organ. The absence of such an organ would be a loss to the larger portion of the county. Regularly has The Allcgha nian gone forth to the people of this sec tion, csplaniDg and maintaining the prin ciples ever dear to it, and exerting its influence toward the establishment in tho hearts of the people of this section those principles that bid fair soon to triumph in every part of the Union. I deem it no vanity to say that tho interests of the Republican organization will 6uffer in the absence of a paper here to advocate its claims. I thereforo propose to grant free of rent, interest or charge, for a term of three or more years, the entire Allcghanian establishment, valued at about a thousand dollars, to any worthy person of ELctisuurg or vicinity, or to ay association of persons, of whom 1 am willing to be one, tcho will indcrta7:e to continue the publication of the paper for the time named in the interest oj the JiepuLlican Union party. Judging from experience, I entertain no doubt that under judicious management the paper could be made a profitable investment. Rut for the reasons named, I wish to withdraw from its publication ; and desiring that the county scat shall not bo without a Union newspaper, I make the foregoing offer. A. A. Rarkeu. "As Goes X'ensisylvaiiia so Coes tlie Union." . The Gubernatorial election in Pennsyl vania will' be all one way. Major General Geary will undoubtedly be elected by a majority that will settle the question at issue iu all the other loyal States, and revive the old proverb, "As goes Penn sylvania so goes the "Union." Thousands of the supporters of President Johnson . cannot conscientiously vote for Heister Clymer, and the President himrelf cannot desire tho defeat of such a candidate as Geary. The chief importance of the Pennsylvania election, therefore, is i,n its bearings upon the next Scnatorship. Ncio York Herald, September 17. The political canvass of the present year will soon close. The next issue of our paper will give the result, not only of the election in Pennsylvania, but in New York, all the Middle States, and those of the West. The canvass "has been quite thorough, and tho presentation by the Republican party of the true issues of the contest, go clear as to leave no person unable to understand the verdict of the people, whatever it may be. The opposi tion or Johnsonite party have almost universally endeavored to evade any discussion of the constitutional amendment proposed by Congress, though it, and it alone, forms the real issue. The amend ment acquiesced in by the President, and those Republicans that keep his company, the contest would simply bo between parties for the control of the Government a hopeless contest on the part of the Democratic party. So far as that party is concerned, it is and has been such a contest. The Democratic leaders have no real love for such acts of President John son as enforced the people of the South to overthrow finally and forever the insti tution of slavery. Even those among them who supported the war for the Union, and the ablest iu their ranks, have de clared against the requirement of any guarantee or condition, and that the only Constitutional method of reconstruction was the immediate admission upon the suppression of the rebellion, of all the rebellious States and people to the entire tights, immunities, and dignities of State ship and citizenship, that secession implies no forfeitures and treason no penalties except such as may be inflicted by indict ment and conviction in courts of law. Hoping, however, to be advantaged by the threatened diversion in the Republi can ranks, the Democratic party allied itself with the disaffected portion of the Republican part', and with the view of being lifted into power, gave its adhesion to the Presidential "policy and against its declared conviction, through the mouths of its leaders, put itself upon a platform identical in principle with that of Con gress. That it should have ever hooped by such political juggling to gain the favor of tho Northern people, was such supreme folly as could come only from utter desperation. It had denounced President Johnson as everything low and bad. It took him to its embrace and lauded him as a patriot and statesman. It loathed the name of Seward as the embodiment of fanaticism and sectional ism. It took him as its leader and sub mitted to his dictation. Holding, as the only wise and legal teaching in the case, that, the States and people of the South were entitled, so soon as they were deprived of their armed power, to stand upon an equality with the other States and people of tho. Union, to the admission of their representatives and senators, and to every other of their old privileges, it nevertheless gave its adhesion without protest or murmur to a "policy" that mott arbitrarily exacted four conditions prece dent to restoration. Such a party has no future, and should have none, except a shroud, a coffin, and a hole in the ground. Even now it stands meditating upon its certain defeat, and pronouncing the folly of its course. When? Where? In New Yoik, at the Syracuse Convention. In no other State of tho North had it formed such strong coalitions. In no other had it such fair prospects of success by its union with disaffected Republicans. Yet it saw or seemed to seo only utter folly in perpetuating a coalition that convicted it of such gross inconsistencies, and dis solved that coalition by its refusal to uominate Gen. Dix, a former Democrat, though latterly acting as a Republican, and follower of the "My Policy" man, and thus preserved to itself at least a shadow cf constancy to its declared views. Such is the Democratic party of to-day. It possesses no character eave that of the most pitiable demogogism. To those Johnson Republicans who have united with it in denunciation of Congress, wc have a word to say. With out your aid, the people of the South would never in the question of reconstruc tion have given ear to the Democratic leaders. Those leaders deceived the Southern people by false hopes throughout the war, and had forfeited their confi dence. Ry your union with them, they for a time seemed to have character and influence in the North. Unless the peo ple of tho South take well to heart the lesson taught by the election next week, they may continue to reject the easy terms of Congress. These terms rejected, they may yet have harder ones imposed. The conditions of Congress are too easy, and a sternly wiso policy would have made them different. For our own part, while wo support the Congressional method of restoration, we cannot yield our conviction that the safety of the country lies in iin- j partial suffrage. The present terms re jected, and the present misrule in the South continued, it will noe be too late to require impartial suffrage as the only safety of the nation. Any other system of suffrage is built on passion, on prejudice, and the hateful spirit of caste. Lef tvery man have like opportunity with other men, and if he rise, then God speed him, and if he sink, he himself, and . he alone, is responsible. Impartial suffrage must finally prevail. Perhaps not this year, nor next, nor this decade, but before he present generation shall have passed away the same law of franchise will be applied to all. The amendment changing the basis of representation frompopula tion to voters will prove itself the ageucy in the work. South Carolina herself may be the first of the rebellious States to enfranchise the people of color. We cannot afford, whether in Pennsylvania or further South, to allow one class of people to speak arbitrarily for another in the national councils. When any man, high or low, is robbed of his inalienable rights, just to the extent he is robbed is he inca pable of self protection within the pale of law. Those who derive advantage from the robbery are made his masters; and so surely as any men have placed in their grasp the rights of other men, so surely will they begin to learn how to abuse them. In this, then, we have confidence that while the proposed amendment does not absolutely secure the only true and wise policy, it yet gives promise of bring ing about that desirable result. Looli to Your Rational Securi ties ! sliall the Voters or the IVortu have Equal Rights with the Voters ol the South ? One of the great questions to be decid ed at the Congressional elections this fall is whether the voters of the North shall obtain equal rights with the voters of the South, or whether they are satisfied that the abolition of slavery shall even increase the superior rights which the voters of the Southern States have thus far enjoyed under the Constitution. The matter is so plain that, properly presented, it cannot fail to be understood by the dullest intel lect. According to the law of tho 23d of May, 1850, it was enacted that the num ber of representatives in Congress should be 233; that the representative population (which means the whole number of free persons, excluding Indians not taxed, with the addition of three-fifths of all other persons) determined by the census of that year and thereafter should be divided by said number 233, and that the quotient so found should be. the ratio of representation for the several States. The ratio thus ascertained under the cen sus of 18C0 was 124,183, and upon this basis the 233 representatives were appor tioned among tho States. The number was, however, increased by tho act of March 4,18G2, from 233 to 241, by al lowing one additional representative to each of the following States : Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Ohio, Penn sylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont. According to this apportionment the Northern and Southern States had the following number of Congressmen : In reply to a question as to what effect the success of the President's policy would have upon our National Securities, the ilou. Thaddeus Stevens has written the following important letter. We com mend its argument to thoughtful atten tion : John Giger, esq. Dear Sir: In answer to your inquiry, "what effect the success of the President's views will have on the National Securities?" I am of opinion that its effect would be very injurious. The President contends that the body of men acting as a Congress has no constitu tional powers, and can do no valid act in the absence of the excluded States. The Con gresses that anthorized the war deb, and laid the internal duties to pay it, were com posed of precisely the Bamc number of repre sentatives, lrom tue same btates, as the pres ent. If it should be decided that those Congresses had no constitutional existence, them the 5-203, 10-40s, 7-303, and the legal tender greenbacks will have been issued witb" out authority, and will be worthless. "Whether they would ever be redeemed would depend on what the President would consider a constitutional Congress, after the admission of the llebel representatives, when the condition of the debts of both belliger ents would be considered. Yours, truly, Sept. 21, 18(3G. TnADUEUs Stevens. The IZoys in ISlue. The National Convention of Soldiers and Sailors held in Pittsburg last week wa3 a grand success. Ten thousand dele gates were present, including such distin guished heroes as Gen. Butler, Gen. Sigcl, Gen. Garfie, Gen. Logan, and Gen. Rurnsido. The proceedings were entirely harmonious, and not only harmonious but enthusiastic to a degreo rarely witnessed, giving assurance that those who were true as steel in the field cannot prove false at home to the great principles for which they fought and suffered during a period of five years. The Convention issued no address. Their resolutions were brief and to the point, and such as no loyal and sensible man can fail to approve. As they did their work well on the battle field, so have they done in council, and so will they do at the polls convincing our erring Southern brethren that those who advise them now to their destruction are as impotent in the North as the men who did the same thing in 1861. Who can vote at the coming election ? For State officers, every white freeman of twenty-one years of age, who has resi ded one year in the State, and ten -days in the election district, and has within two years paid a State or county tax, except, that a once-qualified voter returning into the State alter an absenco which disqual ifies him from voting, regains his vote by a six months residence, and except, that white free citizens under twenty-ttvo and ever twenty-one vote without paying taxes. "To ask any soldier to vote for such a man (Heister Clymer,) of at one time known disloyalty, against another (Gen. Geary,) who had served four year3 in the Union army with credit to himself and benefit to his country, is a gross insult." Gen.. Grant to the Editor of the Chi cago Republican. "Vote only for such men as were loyal to their country in 18G1." Gen. Grant. The powerful article from tho New York Tribune, headed "Shall the Voters of the -North have equal rights with the Voters of the. South ?" should be read by every voter. -m , "Tickets!" The Union Republican tickets (or the north of the county are row printed and ready for distribution. NORTHERN California 3 Connecticut 4 Illinois 14 Indiaua.: 11 Iowa -. C Kansas..... 1 Maine .. 5 Massachusetts 10 Michigan 6 Minnesota 2 New Ilu.npshire 3 SOUTHERN Alabama G Arkansas 3 Delaware 1 Florida ..."7'1 Georgia 7 Kentucky 9 Louisiana 5 Maryland 5 Mississippi 5 Now that STATES New Jersey 5 New York ..31 Ohio 19 Oregon 1 Pennsylvania 24 Rhode Island 2 Vermont..., Wisconsin. Total. .. 3 .. G .15G STATES. Missouri 0 North Carolina 7 South Carolina 4 Tennessee 8 Texas 4 The Virginias 1 1 Total 85 slavery is abolished, the three-fifths rule has, of course, to cease, and the new apportionment has either to be made upon the voting (white) popula tion, as the Congressional amendment provides, or upon the total population, as will be the case if the amendment is re jected, and tho Johnson party have a ma jority in the next Congress. Should the amendment not be adopted, and the 241 members, provided for by the act of 1SG2, divided among the States according to their total population, the South would gain nine members and the North would lose nine. The ratio of representation in this case would be 129,245, and the rep resentation of the Northern and Southern States in Congress would be as follows : NORTHERN STATES. California... 3 Connecticut 4 Illinois 13 Indiana 10 Iowa 5 Kansas 1 Maine 5 Massachusetts 9 Michigan 6 Minnesota 2 New Hampshire 3 60CTIIERN STATES. New Jersey 5 New York 29 Ohio 18 Oregon 1 Pennsylvania 22 Rhode Island 2 Vermont 3 Wisconsin G Total 17 Florida. Maryland... 7 Missouri 9 3 North Carolina 8 1 South Carolina 5 1 Tennessee 9 8 Texas 5 9 The Virginias 12 6 5 Total 94 G . that in this case the It will be seen that in this case Illinois, Maine, Michigan, New Jersey and Wis consin will gain one Representative each, Massachusetts two and New York four. Men of New York New Jersey, Mass achusetts, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin let it be well understood by every voter in your State that the Republican Con gressional ticket means equal political rights for the voters North and South, and that the ticket of the Democrats and the Jonson party means superior rights of the Southern voters. Kvery man who votes the opposition tioket thereby consents to have lesser rights than a voter in the Southern States ; while every supporter of the Republican ticket insists that the Union men of the North shall have at least equal rights with the late rebels. Is it possible that the issue between two such tickets is doubtful ? jY. Y. Tribune. Clymer and the Soldier. States of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Massa chusetts and Ohio would each lose one, and the States of New York and Pennsyl vania each two. On the other hand, the States of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiaua, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Caro lina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia would each gain one. As the total voting population of the Northern States is 18, 052,776, and of the Southern States 8,020,700, this would give in the North ern States one member for a voting popu lation of 126,889, and in" the Southern States one member for a voting popula tion of 85,40G. Those, therefore, who oppose the amendment, or who at the ap proaching election vote for Congressmen of the Johnson party, thereby vote that a voting population of 12G,880 in the North shall have as much power as 85,49G Southerners, the immense majority of whom are unrepentant rebels. The constitutional amendment, upon which the admission of the Southern States to Congress is made dependent, and with it the Republican party, insist that a voter in the Northern Slates shall count as much as in the Southern States. If, accordingly, the voting population be made the basis of reptesentation, the ratio of representation would be 111,085, aud the Northern and Southern States entitled to the following number of Congressmen : SOUTHERN STATES. California.... Connecticut. Michigan. ... 7 New Hampshire -3 ... 4 New Jersey... (j ...15 New York 35 ...11 Ohio 19 ... C Oregon i ... 1 Pennsylvania 24 ... 6 RhocLe Island 2 ,A2 Vermont 3 .1 7 Wisconsin 7 2 171 SOUTHEBN STATES. Alabama 4 Arkansas 3 Delaware... 1 Florida.... 1 Georgia 5 Kentucky 8 Louisiana 4 Maryland 5 Mississippi... 2 Missouri. 9 North Carolina 5 South Carolina 2 Tennessee...! Texas 1 The Virginias 9 Total la In a speech delivered at Lancaster on Thursday last, Hon. John W. Forney related the following incident connected with Clymer'B electioneering experience among the soldiers. The "brave soldier," it occurs to us, can be none other than Major James f!. Burke, during tho war an officer in the 11th Pa. Reserves, and formerly an EbeDsburghcr but now a resident of Elk county : "Mr. Clymer was nominated ; and why ? Not certainly because he had relieeted any credit upon his country as a soldier. No. He was selected simply because his political life had mainly been confined to sympathy with the rebellion, and because his vote3 aud his speeches had been giv.m and pronounced against the cause of his country. Now we have him presented as a soldiers' candidate, and in the course of his long speech, day before yesterday, trying to apologize for his course, he never once said or attempted to say why he had spoken against" his country and her champions. A man may vote as a partisan and uuder party arrange ments, but he certainly could not have spoken treason without feeling it. His whole speech was simply an insult to those to whom it was addressed. In my recent tour in the Northwestern counties of this State I found that Mr. Clymer's speech here on Tuesday last was his staple apology whenever called upon to explain his anti-war record. "A brave soldier, who lives in tho town of St. Mary's, Elk county, told me a little incideut connected with Heister Clymer which strikingly illustrates the poiut. Mr. Clymer had just been making his speech at St. Mary's, and the soldier happened to be abseut. Mteting Clymer a few day9 afterward?, he was introduced to him. Mr. Clymer said : 'Major, what regiment did you belong to V 'The 11th Pennsylvania Reserves,' was the answer. 'I know the regiment well,' said Mr. Cly mer, 'it did good service it fought brave ly 'Yes said the Major,- 'it did good service ; it did fight bravely ; wa went out with a full complement ot men and re turned with but a remnant we had infinite trouble with our rebel adversaries; but we had far more trouble, Mr. Clymer, with such men as you. We couid get along with the rebels, but it wa9 a difficult part to fight men at home, politicians like you, who were all the time stabbing us in the back while we were offering our lives to the country Mr. Clymer, greatly confused, said : 'Well, Major, if you had heard my speech, I thiuk it would have satisfied you I had done my duty in the Senate, aud that all my votes were honestly given, and for patriotic purposes.' To which the Major responded : 'Sir, you may be an able man, but 3-ou must be a much more able man than you are if you can satisfy me on that head.' I only regret that I have forgotten the name of the gallant soldier who told me this incident, but when Mr. Ileister Cly mer sees what I have said in print, he can decide whether it is true or not." TIic Bounty ,e We have received from ,,. soldier readers requssts to reftrte'i tcmptible falsehood uttered U t Johnson and re-echoed by his V to the ettect that Congress bad vot as much bounty to negro sold; white. The following extract New York Tribune refers to this? "Tho IVorld says : 5, " 'Some of our radical friends J to relish this little item of our- puDiisn u again in nopes it ffi., them good. Congress has J!. yaj ui mu )caia service as f" For each necro soldier. Sinn.? white soldier, S50; for each "Lei us briefly expose Ha silliness of this impudent lie. p' enacted that every Union Uj:J war who has been hoaonbu ! " ui'cc jvaio lituuiui servict receive an extra bounty of S1;V those likewise discharged after tt service should receive but 650. enlisting of blacks to put doai lion was not fairly begun till proportion while the fighting ended in A-r Of course, most of the blacts ssr than two years, and so wereentii' extra bounty ; while scareeivj h; them served three year?, sow to them to 8100. On the other i are many tens of thousands of L 1.. 1 .1 ttucu inrougu mree years or t: anotner large number who scr two yea. Why utter falsch..; every one who reads or rcGecti to be such V The abnc is clear enough, 1;; no room .or aouot let us b in every detail : Soldieis ot 1S01 (whc.T a we: received no oounty at first, W they were asked to re-enlist, ari3 First. 8100 bounty (by sul. actment) for their three yeaiVhr Second. For their addition they received 8:00 bounty, v cities, States, counties and boron; ranging from 8300 to 81,0i0. fc' douceur. These men served ant. of the rebellion. Soldiers of 1S65 received $10 from the Government, and, in if bounty from home. Soldiers of 18G3, white and I ceived 0100 bounty from the Gov and additional bounties; and Soldiers of 18G4 received 630' r .t n . irom me uovcinmcnt and a bounties. Some black soldiers receive whatever, particularly those slaves. The law is to correct tl or me government ana to cj'l status ot the soldiers of 18G2 and the blacks who received Their right to such bounty uii by their discharge papers. Tiie I'ttnlsliiiieiit of Dcs for fraudulent ToUr The man who votes for Heister Cly mer declares in favor of the release of Jeff. Davis, takes the first step in the pro ceedings to assume the rebel debt, and prepares the material for a chapter in history proving that the traitors, in strik ing at the Government, were justified by wrongs which no people could bear and preserve their manhood. Nover has so much depended on a single voto of every person at the coming October election. Ballots then, like bullets in the late war, must decide the fate of the State aud the nation. Why was Heister Clymer nominated for Governor ? Because his record harmouizes with copperhead sympathy for treason. hy will Heister Clymer be defeated for Governor ? Because every man who fought for the Government on the battle-field will oppose him at the ballot-box ! 1 . When the Constitutional amendment giving the soldier the right to vote came before the people for their ratification or repudiation; in 1804, tvscniy-oae hundred and forty-three Democrats voted against it in Cambria county. The Republicans voted for the measure in a body. Soldier, bear these facts in mind when you go to vote next Tuesday. tS?- Yielding up the other cheek, Dropping humbly on the knees, Closing lip3 when dared to speak, W ill not do m times like these. Tho law against deserters v: plain that it is scarcely necrssar to it any more. It is as plain; against minors voting as theh non-residents voting as the h; aliens voting. It does not r:a: of any such persons to estate cannot vote. Vhen they ifpa polls the' are challenged. Oa o are asked certain questions v whether they are of the pf whether they have resided in tl district the length of time pre: the law, whether they have ; taxes. If they 6wear they arf to vote, their vote 13 taken, s afterwards ascertained they I falsely, they are subject to r conviction and punishment fjr : votinj and false swesnor: rules at the election, in out yiiCT annlv to all deserters. It wult a trial to establish desertion, than it does to prove a man's deuce or payment of taxes charged with desertion at the be sworn when his vote is cb If he swears falsely he is r. prosecution for f raudulent jury. Electors can thus a:- law without any violence to'. any man, while no true iaaa caKIi Ar TXT ill protection ot the ballet be: I A 1 . - . -.1'! are not, enimeu 10 a voic, way of executing the law agi is the best way of enforcing ;- ment they have incurred. -KTflrstnn. alias U'dteo: no . -r mil r.l nr nf Pnt Af.infPr III JJ hin rraA In Pinoinnnti OQ XV well" tvhn killed Houseman county in April last, was htf: ioutown on Monday. ORPH ANS' COUKTSAL By virtue of an order o- Vote Go to the polls on Tuesday I eany: v ote right ! See that your -neighbors vote; and vote right. Court of the county of Cam -r';. ted, 1 will expose to snle or outcrv. at the Lot ! of - in the borough of Cairo'lto the 20th dav of October r m. of said dav, the f'--K which John C. ikfiuire, l' died seized, to wit: j-v A piece or piece or parrel Carroll township, Cambria in lands of Charles Anna, Michael Horn and others, u-5 h?i1 sllnwance. 4 sc1' i "v ' .jrf and ttiereon erected a iw0'',, '". V V.-Klo. lirUt Mill - . . 1, . r. Terms cf Sale ; une-w -confirmation of sale; p00. year thereafter, with 'Bier.ej by the judgment bond an ll .; purchaser; and the tler. lien on the premises, b'-; paid annually to-tli-, John C. McGuiro, to -,;f.. Utmarrifcd with lrvl - of confirmation of said 'mf: durin!? her life-tune, . . irk.- decease, to the aei- . aecca.se, iu ----- r..;re, of the said John C-McVj1! who may then fj I ti Ci CI CI a; n h el it O !a E r
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