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THE HUNTINGDON GLOBE,
Per annum, in advance, $1 50
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if not paid in advance, 2 00
No oaper discontinued until all arrearag,es
are paid.
A Itilure to notify a discontinuance attlie ex
piration of the term subscribed for will be con
sidered a new engagement.
'Terms of Advertising
1 ins. 2 ius. 3 ins
Six lines or less, 25 37? 50
1 squ.tre, 16 lines, bre . % ier, 50 75 100
2 4t 3. 00 150 205
3 4
LC 150 225 300
3:n. Gm. 152 m.
1 square, " B'3 00 500 5800
2 " " 500 800 1300
3 ,‘ " 750 10 00 15 00
4 " 900 14 00 23 00
5 " " 15 00 25 00 38 00
10 " " 25 00 40 00 60 00
I - 'rnfessional and Business Cards not exceed
ing 6 lines,one year, 4 00
Agricultural Fain
NOTlCE.—Persons wishing to exhibit Fa rni
IA Stock, Agricultural Implements, and Me
chanical Implements and Manuflictures, at the
Fair of the Huntingdon County Agricultural
Society, are required to enter the same with the
Secretary on or before the 3d of October. Com
petitors in Plowing are required to make them
selves known as such on or defore said day.
All other articles for exhibition must be enter
ed before the 10th of October, the first day ()fim
Fair; and the same must be on the ground be
fore noon of said 10th October.
Sept. 12, 1855-
LIST OF PREMIUMS,
To be awarded by the J.l[2-icultural Societ2, of
Huntingdon County, at the Fair to be held
.at Huntingdon on the 10th, 11th and 12th
of October next, 1555.
Farm Stcck,
H 0 it sE s.—Best stallion, $5 00
Second best do. 3 00
Third best do. 2 00
Best 2or 3 year old colt, 3 00
Best colt under 1 year, 1 00
Best blood mare, 3 00
fudges—Samuel Wigton Franklin ; Perry
Moore, Morris ; Gen. A. P. Wilson, Hun
tingdon ; Andrew Allison, Brady ; Gen. S.
Miles Green, Porter.
N. STocK.--Best pair of work oxen, , 4 00
Second best do.; 3 00
Third best do., 2 00
Best bull, 3 00
. Second best do., 2 00
Best cow. 4 00
Second best do., 3 00
Best 3 year old heifer, 3 00
Best 2 year old do., 2 00
Best lot of calves, 2 00
S u E E P . —Best line wooled buck, 3 00
Second best WI., 2 00
Best Southdown do., 3 00
Best long wooled do., 3 00
Second best do., 2 00
Best fine wooled ewes, 3 00
Second best do.. 2 00
Best long wool•ed do., 3 00
Best lot of Southdowns, 300
Best boar, 3 00
Second best do., 2 00
Third bet do., 1 00
Best sow, 3 00
Second best do., 1 00
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TudEes—l - lon. Johu liur, I ,Valker Th9s
Fisher, tlontitiloo ; Eli Waketi,3l(l, Bra,ly ;
Peter Stailler, Porter; Peter Livin°:s.lori, Bar
ree.
Piowing
Highest;
Second,
Third,
Fourth,
Judges—John Colder, Porter ; James Mor
row, Franklin ; John Garner, Penn ; John
Shaver, Shirley ; Geo. Jackson, Jackson.
Agricultural Empitlents
Best plow,
Best harrow,
Best cultivator '
Best hill side plow,
Best windmill,
Best wheat drill,
Best corn drill,
Best horse rake, 2 00
Best reaper, 3 00
Best mower, 3 00
Discretionary Premiums of one dollar each
may be given rot articks not enumerated in
the above list to the amount of Sl2 00.
Judges—Win. Hilonian, Morris ; John S.
Isott, Franklin ;"Wm. Hutchinson, Warriors
mark; Israel Graffius, Porter; S. H. Bell, Shir
ley.
Best wheat, 4 00
Second best do., 2 00
Best Indian corn, 3 00
Second best do., 2 00
Best rye, 2 00
Best oats, 2 00
Best buckwheat, 2 00
Judges—James Saxton, Huntingdon; Hon.
Thos. F. Stewart, West ; George Eby, Shir
ley ; Jos. Dysart, Franklin ; A. B. Sangree,
Walker.
Domestic Manufactures.
Best butter,
Second best do.,
Third best,
Best cheese,
Second best do.,
Third best do.,
Best honey,
Best 2 loaves of bread
Best display of preserves,
Best display of pickles,
Best specimen of hard soap,
Best specimen of tallow candles,
Best hearth rug,
Second best do.,
Best carpet,
Second best do.,
Best flannel,
Second best do.,
Best quilt,
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Grain
Second best do., 2 00
Best wool socks, 1 00
Best worsted do., 1 00
Best ornamental needle work. 1 00
Best silk embroidery, 1 00
Best worsted do., I 00
Best specimen of steelwork, 1 00
Premiums of 50 cents each may be awar
ded for mei itorious articles not enumerated
in the above list, to the amonut of $lO 00,
at the discretion of the Judges.
fudges—Wm Dorris, jr., Huntingdon ;
James Clark, Birmingham; John C. kVattson,
Brady ; James Henderson, Cass; John Porter,
Porter.
Mechanical Implements and Manufa.c-
Best pair of horse shoes, 50
Best made meat vessel. 50
Best cooking stove. 1 00
Best washing machine, 50
Best set of farming harness, 1 00
Best set of single harness, 1 00
Best pair boots, 1 00
Best pair shoes, 50
Best side sole leather, 1 00
Best kip and calf skin, 1 00
Best side harness and upper, 1 00
Best specimen of marble work, 1 00
Best lot of earthen and stone ware, 1 00
Best bridle and saddle, 1 00
Best 2 horse carriage, 2 00
Best buggy, 1 00
Best lot of cabinet ware, 1 00
Best greatest variety of tin ware. '1 00
Judges—Dr. Shade ; Dublin ; Hays Ham
ilton, Franklin ; John Dougherty, Shirley;
Kenzie L. Greene, Clay ; James Entrekin,
Hopewell.
Best and greatest variety of apples, 3 00
Second best do., 2 00
Best doz. fall apples, 2 00
Second best do., 1 00
Best doz. winter apples, 2 00
Second best, do., 1 00
Best doz. of peaches, 2 00
Second best do., 1 00
Best pears, 2 00
Second best do., 1 00
Best plums, 2 00
Second best do., 1 00
Best quinces, 1 00
Best native grapes, 2 00
Second best do., 1 00
Beet display of grapes, 2 00
Best crati bet ries (cultivated,) 2 00
Second best do., 1 00
Judges—Thos. T. Cromwell, Cromwell ;
Dr. J. McCulloch, Huntingdon ; George W.
Johnson, Barree ; %V. B. Smith, Jackson,
John Coldstock, Henderson.
Floral,
Best display of flowers in bloom, 2 00
Second Best do., 1 00
Best variety of dahlias, 2 00
Second beet do.. 1 00
Best display of plants, 2 00
.hedges—Peter Kessler, Brady; S. S. Whar
ton, Huntingdon ; Richard Ashman, Clay ;
Maj. S. Caldwell, Cromwell; Henry W. Mil
ler, Huntingdon.
Vegetables.
Best potatoes, 2 00
Second best do., 1 00
Best sweet potatoes, 2 00
Best half dozen tomatoes, 2 00
Second best do., 1 00
Best half doz. peppers, 1 00
Best `• " beets, 1 00
Best " " pars!' ips, 1 00
Best " " carrots, 1 00
Best " " turnips, 1 00
Best " " onions, 1 00
Best - " " stalks of celery, 1 00
Best two heads of cabbage, 1 00
Best two squashes, 1 00
Best pumpkin, 1 00
Best beans, 1 00
Judges—David Henderson, Franklin ; Da
vid Hawn, \\Talker ; George Jackson, Hun
tingdon ; Elisha Shoemaker, Sr., Henderson ;
Isaac Neff, West.
2 00
5 00
3 00
2 00
1 00
Best pair of turkeys, 1 00
Best " geese, 1 00
Best " ducks, 1 00
Best " shanghaier, 1 00
Best display of poultry, 1 00
Judges —Alex. Port, George A. Steel, Hun
tingdon ; Foster Haslett, Morris ; Geo. Wil
son, Tell; Daniel Womelsdorf, Franklin.
The articles and stock exhibited must be
manufactured, raised or owned by the exhib
itor to entitle him to the premium.—For the
one dollar premiums a copy of the "Farm
Journal" or other publications for one year
may be substituted. And instead of the pre
miums offered above in the Horticultural and
Floral departments,. literary premiums of
equal or greater value may be awarded.
It is to be hoped the Judges above named,
will attend to the duties assigned them, and
be on the ground punctually, and report
themselves.
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JOHN McWILLIAMS, Prest
J. S. BARR, Scc'y.
EI_EC'UTOR'S NOTICE.
'NOTICE is hereby given that letters testa
mentiry on the will of John llasting,s, late
of Walker township, deceased, have been gran
ted to the undersigned. All persons indebted
to the estate of said deceased, arc requested to
make payment and those having claims to pre
sent them for settlement.
ALEXANDER PORT,
Sep. 10. 1855. Executor.
THAT on the 6th of August, 1855, I pur
chased off3corge Wolf six acres of Corn,
Oats and Potatoes, on land of William and An
drew Couch's heirs in Barrce township, Hun
tingdon county, Pa. All persons are cautioned
not to disturb said property
Augast 13, 1855.
3033. N '.IVIATTERN.
Attorney at Law,
HUNTINGDON, PA.
fIFFICE on Hill street, formerly occupied by
Thos. P. Campbell, Esq. [Aug. 22, 'SS.
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TAKE NOTICE
GEORGE COUCH
HUNTINGDON, OCTOBER 8, 1855.
OF
The Democratic State c'eraral Con .it-
To the People of Pennsylvania :
FELLOW CITIZENS the performance
of our duty, we Irately addressed you on the
subject of Know Nothingi6m. We warned
you against the insidnous appeals of a party,
one principle of which establishes a religious
test for office, a thing expressly prohibited
by the Constitution of the United States, and
by that of Pennsylvania. A party which
see k s to p r ertio a lly disfranchise one class of
American citizens, because of their religious
creed ; another class, because of their place
of birth, and to proscribe a still more numer
ous class, because they will not deny to oth
ers the rights which they claim for them
selves. We reminded you that these states
had been founded by immigrants who fled
hither for self protection from this same per
secuting spirit. That by mutual tolera
tion in matters.of religion, and by an equal
participation in the common cencerns of so
{-jai life and government,' - these rights of
each were guaranteed by all ; that to wrest
them from any citizen, however weak or
humble, was to substitute might for right,
and thus subvert the great principle of politi
cal equality, on which alone rests our com
mon security and general welfare.
That to do this in secret, and under mutual
pledges and oaths, and above all, to do it un
der the name of iinericanism, was to des
troy all confidence in the capability of men
for self-government, to confound local prej
udice with the virtue of patriotism, to exalt
the profession of a creed above the practice of
genuine Christianity, to brine. Democratic in-^
stitutions into contempt, and - to cover their
founders with reproach.
If the rankling hatreds and fierce feuds,
the social wrongs and lawless outrages,
which have characterized this secret party,
had been in like manner occasioned by all
others, society itself could not have existed.
Brief, therefore as has been its career, it has
convinced every reflecting man that its ten
dencies are counter to the genius of our gov
ernments and opposed to the teaching of
their founders. We have, therefore,
seen
it overthrewn by the Democracy in the South,
and disorganized and broken—or blended
with Abolitionism in the North. Such has
been the secession from its ranks by the de
ceived and erring men who joined it, that
notwithstanding its abated pretensions and
the attempts made to liberalize its principles,
its possession of local offices and the forlorn
hope of political places and rewards in 1856,
alone, keep it from utter annihilation as a
national party,
At the present, therefore, there is more oc
casion to call your attention to another and
purely sectional party, which threatens to sub
vert the Federal Constitution, and to destroy
the Union of these States. The Know Noth
ing party—miscalled American tends to oc
casion civil discord among neighbois, and
between citizens of the same State, but this
self-styled Republican party, tends to add to
this the horrors of a neei o insurrection in the
States of the South, and a civil war between
the several States of this Union.
We du not say that this is the design of
all or even a majority of its members, but
we do charge that to be the only avowed de
sign of some, and those not a few of its lead
ers ; and we further charge that such is the
clear tendency, and would be the inevitable
result, of its success. It is in vain for its
partizans to say that they intend no ill ; the
question is not one of intention, it is one of
pr Letical conduct ; and the principles of
American government and of Constitutional
law are the sole tests by which it must be
tried. We have already seen the Legislature
of one State openly and designedly pass an
act in defiance of the Constitution of the
United States and the laws made in pursu
ance thereof, and when the Governor of that
State—and a partizan of this very party—
vetoed, and attempted to arrest the course of
that Legislature, we saw them defy him also,
and repass this act. We have seen the same
State openly. remove an upright and learned
Judge beause he dared to keep his oath and
to support the Constitution of the United
States. In our own State, we have since
heard a deliberative body of the same party,
vehemeatly applaud a motion to mob and
beat a Judge ; and still later in this State,
and in the Convention of this whole party, a
Reverand member of it publicly advocated
the destruction of a public Prison, and the
rescue of a prisoner, because they had con
sideted and adjudged him to be wrongfully
imprisoned. If these things are now done
and advocated, and by such men and in
such places, both under color of law and in
avowed defiance of it, who will or can as
sure the public that they would stop there 1
or that other—and the most fatal—violations
of the law would not be committed by other
men and mobs, and in other places ' When
men thus disregard the Constitution and
laws of their country, and seek to organize
together one section of the 'Union, that they
may the more successfully overawe or sub
due the other, they reduce the whole ques
tion to one between force and law, Union or
disunion, domestic tranquility or civil war.
It is absurd for men to prate about liberty,
when at the very same time they are encour
aging resistance to law. There can be no
liberty without law, and there is not and can
not be any law of this land higher than the
Constitution of the United States. Whatev
er, therefore, may be the pretences put for
ward by the abolitionists, or whatever more
deceptive name they may choose to asume,
and array themselves under, the real and sole
issue will be the same; it will be that party—
a violated Constitution and disunion on the
one side, and the Democratic party and the
Constitution and Union as they are on the
other side ; choose ye between them ! Even
if you would, yet you cannot now but choose
between these two. While the Whig party
existed, whatever may have been its follies
or its faults, yet neither Clay nor Webster,
nor its other great leaders, nor the true men
of its rank and file, would have tolerated a
sentiment Latile to the Constitution or the
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Union. But these great men and true patri
ots have passed away, and the old Whig par
ty no longer exists. The weak, the venal
and the selfish in its ranks have gone into a
secret and sectarian organization, or have
gone over and arrayed themselves with Abu
ionist,s, infidels and fanatics, against their
brethren of the South. One party alone re
mains firm and defiant. Over every foot of
the soil of this union, and wherever its Con
stitution extends, there too extends the all
protecting arm of the Democracy, bearing
aloft the flag of Civil and Religious Liberty,
the Constitution, and the Union.
Fellow Citizens, our duty in the premises
is plain. However much parties may hesi
tateor hang back, fearful of losing their own
position or yielding to an old political oppo
nent, there is but one course left, and that is
a general rally of all patriotic citizens upon
the platform of the Democratic party. There
is no mistaking the tone of the Democracy
in this crisis. It unhesitatingly accepts the
issue tendered to it by the adversaries of the
Federal Constitution, and proclaims its high
purpose to sink or s'vim, survive or perish,
with the American Union. Refusing to
make terms with traitors of any shade, it has
riot only without regret but with undissem
bled joy, seen them desert its ranks for those
of an unprincipled coalition. Purified and
relieved from their baleful influences, and en
abled to act unfettered in its high duty, it in
vites to its standard every patiotic Pennsyl
vanian. 1: has no concealment of its princi
ples, or secresy in its organization, but
shielded, helmed and weaponed to tilt the
truth, it advances against the combined fa
nanaticisms. It accepts the whole responsi
bility of opposing those who oppose the Con
stitution. It fullti• enters into the contest
against the Abolitionists and their allies. In
such a cause, even defeat would be honora
ble, but victory is certain to crown our efforts
'if only those who are conscious that we arc
right, will act t 123 to their honest convic
tions.
We are no alarmists. It is not our purpose
to exagerate the dangerous tendencies of the
political action of our opponents. You can
see for yourselves not alone the obliteration
of a great party, but the bold and flagrant
dk;clarations of those who have taken its
place. There is indeed no alternative left us
but opposition, as there is manifestly rro par
ty left to matte that opposition but the Dem
ocratic party.
The inconceivable evils of a dissolution of
our beloved Union, do not deter the arrogant
factions which now make headway against
the rights of the States. The guilt is not
greater on the part of such fanatvis as Garri
son and Phillips, than on that of the dema
gogues here and elsewhere, who support
them. They are all working to the same
end, some of them with the consciousness—
and others thougtless or reckless—of the mis
ery their success would entail upon the coun
, try.
But how is it with you people of Pennsyl
vania 1 Are you willing to yield to the man
dates of these men ? Has the Union lost its
sacred and inestimable value in your eyes 1
Are you ready to regard your country men of
the South as so many alien enemies We
disdain appealing to your interests, we invoke
your patriotism ; we appeal to the gaol ions
memories of the past and to the unparalleled
blessings ever present; and we point in proof
of the peril that besets the near future, not
merely to the overthrown Whig organization,
nor to the fanaticisins springing from its ru
ins and coalescing in our midst ; but to the
alarm and eismay that have spread over the
South like a funeral pall, in view of the ag
gressive purposes of Northern Abolitionists.
- And mark the miserable delusion with
which Abolitionism tries to abuse the patri
otic :. , ,entiment of the North. It affects in
dignation because the Missouri restriction
never approved, and for thirty-five years dis
regarded by the Abolitionists, and spit upon
and reviled by them with every epithet of
scorn and indignation, has been repealed ! It
denounces the doctrine of self government iii
the territories, the very principle upon which
the America.' colonies were peopled, govern
ed and protected ! It denounces the Nebras
ka act wldch declares "It being the true in
tent and meaning of this act No-r to legislate
slavery into any State or Territory, nor to ex
chide it therefrom, but to leave the people
thereof perfectly ree to form and regulate
their domestic institutions in their own way,
subject only to the Constitution of the Uni
ted United States. These fanatics refuse,
there, to allow the people to regulate their
domestic institutions; Vet as early as October
1774, these United Colonies assembled in
Congiss, solemitly Resolved, "That the foun
dation of English Jibe] ty, and of ALL free
government, is a right in the people to parti
cipate in their legislative Council, rY ,
that the colonists are entitled to the free and
exclusive power of legislation in their several
provincial legislatures, where their right of
representation can alone be preserved in all
cases of taxation and INTERN-1L POLITY "
and at the same time they further declared
that these lights existed "by the immutable
laws of nature, the principles of the English
Constitution, and the several charters and
compacts. The Declaration of Independence
charged it as an act of usurpation by the King
of Great Britain, that "ho refused to pass
laws for the accommodation -if large districts
of people unless those people would relin
quish the right of representation in the Leg
islature, a right inesti
mable to them, and formidable to tyrants
only."
Nor was our owu State behind her sister
States in asserting this right ; for by the third
article of the declaration 01 rights - , made m
July, 1775, it was declared "that the people
of this State have the sole, exclusive and inhe
rent right of governing and regulating the in
ternal policy of the same 3" and when the
Deputies of the people of Pennsylvania as
sembled in full Provincial Conference, to
suppress all authority of the King of Great
Britain and for esta Wishing a g,overntneut up
on the authority of the people only, the}• de
clared their willingness to concur in a vote
declaring the United Colonies free and inde
pendent States, "Provided, the founing the
government and the regulating the internal
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the :people of the Colony."
And yet, against these self-evident and im
mutable principles of American liberty and of
all free governments, men have the auclac•ity
to array themselves under the name of Re
publicans ! maintainint , , too, that their fellow
countrymen, who inhabit the lei dot ics, must
act otherwise than of their own free choice,
and that Congress should compel them to
elect between dictated submission and threat
ened punishment !
But, fellow citizens, even while indulging
in these expessions. this party is scarcely at
tempting to conceal the fearful ultimatum of
dibuttiou which it is now seeking 10 ptcaipi
tate by means of an exclusive sectional
Northern organization —the first organization
of the kind ever knowu in this reptile, and
the success of which is ceitain to end in the
perpetual alienation of the South from the
North.
And by political agitation, what good can
they even pretend to accomplish ? What
man, in the free States of this Union, would
be benefited by tile success of the Abolition
ists? Not one ; nor could they give f:eedoin
to a single slave ; they would but more firm
ly rivet their fetters. As early as 18:)S, the
late Rev. WILT.TAx E. CHAr. , :NING, of Boston,
said : "My fear in regard to our elfin is
against slavery is, that we shall make the
case worse by rousing sectional pride and pas
sion for its support, and that we shall only
break the country into two great parties,
which may shake the foundation of govern
ment."
So late as 1850 : Mr. WEBSTER said in the
Senate:
"Then, Sir, there are the Abolition Socie
ties, of which lam unwilling to speak, but
iu regard to which 1 have very clear notions
and opinions. Ido not think them useful.—
I think their operations for the last twenty
years have produced nothing good or valua
ble. r = *
"T do not mean to impute gross motives
even to the leaders of these Societies, but I
am not blind to the consequence of their pro
ceedings. 1 cannot but see what mischief
their interference with the South has produ
ced. And is it not plain to every man
They attempted to arouse,
and did arouse, a very strong feeling; in oth
er words, they created great agitation in the
North against Southern slavery. Well, what
was the result The bonds of the slaves
were bound more firmly than before; their
rivets were more stionaly fastened.
"Public opinion, which in Virginia bad be
gun to he exhibited against slavery, and was
opening out for the discussion of the question,
drew back and shut itself up in its castle.
*rz We all know the fact, and
we all know the cause ; and every thing [flat
these agitating people have done, has been,
not to enlarge, but to restrain; not to set free,
but to bind faster the slave population of the
South."
The whole effort of these aoitatots seems
to be to make a sectional issue in every Con
gressional district of the thirty-one States of
the Union, and to writ the halls of Congress
into an arena in which the delegates from the
North may denounce the domestic institutions
of the South.
Not only does all reason foibid us to dis
countenance sectional parties, but we have
the solemly recorded opinion of JEFFERSON,
who on this very question said :
"But this momentous question, like a fire
bell in the night, awakened and filled me
with terror. I considered it at once as the
knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for
the moment. But this is a nett ieve only, not
a final sentence. A gew , raphieel lino coin
ciding with a mailed principle, moral and
political, once conceived and held up to the
angry passions of men, will never be obliter
ated, and every new irritation will mark it
deeper and deeper);
Let the true Whigs who have not ceased to
treasure up the 2ounsels of their gloat states
men, now apply the memorable %Yarning of
HENRY CLA Y :
"The Abolitionists, let me suppose, suc
ceed in the present aim of noiting the inhab
itants of the free States as one man against
the inhabitants of the slave States, noion on
the one side will beget union on the other.—
And this process of reciptocal consolidation
will be attended with all the violent prejudi
ces, embittered passions and implacable ani
mosities whiel ever degraded or deformed
human nature. One section will stand in
menacing and hostile at ray against the oth
er. The collision of opinion will quickly be
followed by the clash of arms. I will not at
tempt to (inscribe scenes which now happily
lie concealed from our veiw."
Lvt. them weit.lh well the following words
of the conservative WEBsTF,R
"lf n•e might regard our country as per
sonated in the spirit of IVashin, , 4tort ; if we
might consider him as tepresentiog her, in
her past renown, in her present pio , perity
and her future career, and as in that charac
ter demanding of us all to account for our
conduct as politival tnen or as private citi
zens, how should he answer him who has
ventured to talk of disunion or dismember
ment? or how should he answer him who
dwells perpetually OH local interests, and fans
every kindling flame of local prejudice ?
How should he answer hiin who would ar
ray State aoainst State, interest agaiast inter
est and patty against patty, caieless of the
continuance of that unity of Goyernment
which constitutes us one people."
And finallv, let all men within the bounds
of this State, and no matter to what party
they belong, lay to their hearts the farewell
advice of IVAsittcc•tos
"The unity of Government, which consti
tutes you one people, is also now dear to you.
It is justly so ; fur it is a main pillar in the ,
edifice of your real independence—the sup
poit of your tranquility at home; yout peace
abroad; of your safety ; of your plosperhy ;
of that very litanty )011 so
prize. 13tit as it is easy to forsee that, from
different causes and from different (limiters,
much pains will be taken, many aititiees em
ployed, to weaken, in your minds, the con
viction of this truth : as this is the point in
your political fortress against which the bat
teries of internal and external enemies will
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be most constantly and actively—though of
ten covertly anu insiduously—directed, it is
of infinite moment that you should properly
estimate the immense value of your NA-no:N
-AL UNIO2: to yoUr collective and individual
happiness; that you should cherish a cordial,
!labiuml and immovable atiachm,mt to it ; ac
cusroming, yourselves to think and speak of it
as of the palladium of }our pobrical safety
and prosperity ; wrucking for its preservation
with jealous anxiety; discountenahcing what
ever may suLtgest even a su , picion that it can,
in any event ; be abandoned ;and indignantly
frown in upon the first dawn ing of every at
tempt to alienate any portion of our country
f rom th e ro ,,tt, or to ,- , tt f"pellle the sacred ties
which now link together the various parts
"For this you have every inducement of
sympathy and interest. CrrtzENs BY BIRTH
OR CHOICE:, of a common country—that coun
n y has a t it ht to concentrate your affections.
The name of American. which belongs to you
in your national capacity, must always exalt
the just pride of patriotism, more than any
appelati on derived from local discriminations.
With slight shades of difference, jou have the
same. rclgion, manners, habits, and polttical
principles. You have, in a common cause,
fought and triumphed together ; the indepen
dence and liberty you possess are the work
of joint counsel and joint efforts, of common
origins, sufferings and successes.
"This Government—the offspring of our
own choice, uninfluenced and unawed adopt
fed upon full investigation and mature delib
eration, completely free in its pi inciples, in
Ore distribution of its powers, uniting secnri
ry with energy, and containing within itself
a provision for ris own amendment—has a
just claim to your confidence and your sup
port Respect for its authority, compliance
with its laws. acquiescence in its measures,
are duties enjoined by the fundamental inax
lilts of true liberty. The basis of Qur politi
cal systems, is the tight of the people to make
and to alter their Com•titutzons of Govern
ment: but the Constitution which at any time
exists, till changed by an exp.lieit and authen
tic act of the whole people, is sacredly obli
gatory upon all. The very idea of the power
and the right of the people to establish Gov
erment, pre-supposes tine duty of every Indi
vidual to obey the established Government."
If, in addition to these words, we need
others more directly and solemnly applicable
to the present times, they will be found in
the following horn the ...mme initnoital pro
duction .
"In contemplating the causes which may
disturb our Union, it occurs as a matter of
serious, concern, that airy grounds should have
been furnished for characterizing parties by
!eographical discrimina irons, N o rthern and
Southern, Atlantic and Western, whence de
si-rn mg men maw enoeavor to exec ,
that there is a real difference of local interests
and views. YOU CANNOT SHIELD YOUR
SELVES TOO MUCH AGAINST THE
JEALOUSIES AND E ART BURN NGS
W BICH. SPRING FROM THESE MISREP
REENTATIONS, they tend to render alien
to each other those who uu2ht to be board to
gether by fraternal gyeetion.
Fellow citizens: %.re have thus submitted
to 300 the present condition and tendency of
political parties, and the issue about to be
made bet (veep them, in this State and 'Union.
As the best and only safe guide for your con
duct; we have reminded you of the counsel
and warnings of the wisest and roost patriot
ic of our Statesmen. Your choice roust now
be made between a sectional party under the
black bannet of Abolitionism and the Nation
al Democracy, bearing aloft the gorgeous en
sign of the Ilepuhlie -with that sentiment
dear to every true American heart—Liberty
and Uni o n now and forever, one and insepa
rable." JAMES F. JOHNSTON,
H. A. GILDE.A. Soy ' s Chahman.
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JACOB ZEIGLER ) Sept. IS ; 1555.
EXECUTION Or THIRTY-FIVE HUNDRED
CHINESE lIEDELS, NEAR CANTON. - iVIC Silas
E. lioanows, Jr., who has just retained to
this city, after an absc,ence of neatly two
yea; e, the gloater portion of winch time ho
soent in China, wae an eye witness to the ex
coution of thirty-five hundred Chinese Reb
els, who were taken prisoners in the battle
near Canton in the month of Match last.—
, Th.- pi s were taken on a low marshy
island, and there each was compelled to un
det?-o a form of Li ial bele/ c a tribunal of Mao
' darn's, and each was sentenced to death by
decapitation. On by one they were led forth
to the execution ground, a large space cov
ered with sawdust to the depth of sevetal in
ches. To give ain eater degree of awful ef
fect to tho scene, an elevated platform was
erected consisting; of u single narrow plank - ,
over VL hich each unhappy victim had to pass
in full view of his bellow captives. The
prisoners manifested the most stolid indiffer
ence to everything connected with the scene
apparently as unconscious of their terrible
fate as tfumb b,utes going to the shambles.
Arriving at the execution ground, the cap
tives fell upon their knees, and bending for
waiel, calmly awaited the signlal of the execu
tioner's sword that severed head and trunk—
body and soul. There were no shrieks of
tenor, no supplications for pardon or mercy.
Prone the moment of capture the captive
knew his doom, and sullenly awaited its ac
cornplishment.—Saa. Francisco Herald.
K. N. WITH DR AWA LS. —A short time siliCO
a couple of kidnapping rascals endeavored to
steal off a strange negro from Chambersburg,
and run him into 3,laryland for the purpose
of selling him. They were defeated in their
object., and thought it best to retire from the
locality of their operations. The Repository
and Iflig sums up the dn . :mien - teat thus
There trere withdrawals from Presi
dent Stuint , augh's council here last neck.
s Geo. Gross and James-Warden with
diew clear actors the Mars laud line to •es
cape a prosecution hot kidnapping. They
wet e consistent members of the gieat "con
stitutional, anti-Slavery American party" of
Flank lin coon tv.
ir,_; - "fo become the lion of a pally, is it
necessary for a man to make a beast of him
self.
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