But how are these strange dogmas to be
carried into practical effect I It is proposed
to change the Constitution and laws so as to
fix a religious test for efface. The very first
step in such a scheme is a union of Church
and State, in which a profession"of the estab
lished religioa will be necessary to political
elevation. If one class of .professing Chris
tians be proscribed, will not another soon
follow, until the infidel spirit of the country
will predominate? The scenes of the Six
teenth Century, in Europe, so shocking to hu
manity, should admonish us against the idea
of persecution. Our ancestors were refugees
from religious oppression. When Roger
Williams, Lord Baltimore, and William Penn
agreed_upon terms of religious tolerance, it
was the second advent of "good will to man
kind." It was the greatest triumph of Chris
tianity since the days of Constantine.
But let us look at this subject in another as
pect. I hold that the Know-Nothing doc
trines are illegal and unjust. We fixed the
conditions upon whichthe people of other
dountries, of every religious denomination,
could become citizens equal with ourselves,
and their compliance binds our government
and people forever. We .have allured them
by our boasted declarations, that in this land
of liberty each could worship God according
to the dictates of his conscience, and that
none shotild molest him or make him afraid ;
and thus attracted, many came from every
country, Protestant and Catholic. Some
have felled the forest and cultivated the soil ;
others have built our railroads and canals ;
others have become miners, manufacturers,
and mechanics; and a few have devoted them
selves to the professions and the arts. In all
these relations of life, they have added to the
growth and general prosperity of the country.
They have contributed to the treasury in
peace, and have assisted us to fight in times
of war. And now it is proposed to proscribe
and degrade them to answer unjust and sel
fish ends ; to disregard the covenants of the
constitution. Has it never occurred to the
advocates of Know Nothingism, that we have
no moral or legal right to'do this I Teat
civil rights are as sacred as the rights of pro
perty ? That combinations to destroy privi
leges conferred by the Constitution, are as
infamous as combinations to steal away goods
and chattels I or that nothing can have a more
fatal effect upon the advocates of civil and
religious
. liberty in other countries, than the
recognition of intolerant doctrines in this 7
Such a step would be a triumph of monarchy
and intolerance the world over. Do they not
know that the surest way to endanger our re
public, is to weaken and demoralize the Con
stitution, by disregarding its obligations;
that it is our best means of defence against
the very dangers which they pretend to dread?
If they bave not considered these thingsi they
are literal Know-Kothings. What otir genre
errunent has agreed to do, it must perform.—
If the laws are wrong, it is our fault, and is
good reason for changing them ; but as long
as they exist, their obligations must be ob
served. Nor can " natives to the manor born"
take away, even by law, rights that have been
conferred by the Constitution. Measures
prospective in their effect, and they only, are
legitimate. However much we may differ
as to these, they would furnish no just cause
of complaint, and involve no bad faith. Let
me not be misunderstood._ lam the advocate
of no class or sect of people. The Demo
cratic party has never recognized, and never
will sanction the demand of any class or '
sect, as such, for office or honor. We but
maintain the constitutional rights of all, for
the sake of all; for. the native and foreign
born—the Protestant and Catholic—leaving
each individual citizen to depend upon his
own merits for office and honor. This is the '
Democratic doctrine on the subject. Every
man can vote as he may please. He is not
obliged to vote for a Catholic or foreigner.—
No man should vote for a bad man of either
class. But it is the indiscriminate proscrip
tion of these classes by combination of law,
to which we object. There are many remin
iscences in our past history to render the
idea distasteful. in all the past struggles of
the country the foreign-born and native, the
Protestant and Catholic, stood or fell together.
They did so when the Declaration of Inde
pendence was adopted, and when the consti
tution was made. They did so on every bat
tle-field of the Revolutionary war ; in the
war of 1812, and in the war with Mexico.—
The recollection of all these things excites
aversion to the proposed proscription. Every
page of our past history speaks against it.—
From the shades of Mount Vernon, where
sleep the ashes of Washington, who helped
tb make these covenants, comes up an admo
nition against their violation. From the
heights where Montgomery fell—from the
grass-covered grave of Lafayette—from the
silent resting places of the chivalrous Kosci
usko and De Kalb—is heard a remonstrance
against a violation of the faith on which the
battles of the Revolution were fought: In
deed,- from every source of moral and political
truth comes a frown—an indignant frown
-upon this scheme of treachery and oppres
sions
The evil tendencies of secret societies for
mere partizan ends, are too obvious to require
discussion. Washington has aptly described
them as the means by which cunning men
may usurp the power of the people, and gain
unworthy rule. They are, inconsistent with
the American character. We boast of free
dbm of speech and liberty of the press. If
evils exist, moral and political, which require
reform, let us make a day-light business, and
not to go about it like a thief in the night.—
No practice could have a more demoralizing
influence upon the character of our people,
nor be better calculated to corrupt the ballot
box and jury box, and to embitter the chan
nels of social and politiCal intercourse: The
whole tendency is vicious, and the institution
will speedily meet what it merits—the uni
versal contempt of all honorable and patriotic
men.
And now, fellow citizens, in conclusion, 1
-would persuade you that the surest way to
perpetuate our republican government, and
its inestimable blessings of peace, prosperity,
and happiness, is to maintain with unyield
ing firmness, the letter and spirit of the Con
stitution; and by cherishing those liberal no-'
tions of public society which have uniformly
distinguished the career of the Democratic
party. ' And when did a people multiply and
advance in the elements of national greatness
withsuch wonderful rapidity 1 It is not more
than the lifetime of a very old man, since the
members of our family of sovereign States
numbered but thirteen, and the population of
the whole fell below that-now counted for one
of a family of thirty-one: The end of the
present century, in this ratio, will see. the
States doubled and the population trebled.—
The constitution gave us a. happy union of
States, and under the auspices of' both the
nation has so prospered;' - and_now the obli
gation devolve s ; upon us, who are actors on
the stage, to perpetuate and hand these vast
blessings down to our successors. This is a
brave duty, and, in my humble opinion, can
only be safely discharged by asserting and
maintaining• the constitutional rights' of the
States in their sovereign capacity; by the
people of one State forbearing to interfere
with the institutions of those of another"; by
maintaining those great ideas of civil and re
!igloos liberty, found at the vary basis of our'
whole social and political system ; by avoid
ing the creation of geographical parties, so
suggestive of separation ; and by leaving the
people of each State, under the direction of
Heaven, and the restraints of the constitution,
to select and regulate as they may please,
those merely local institutions under which
they choose to live, and for fhe good or evil
of, which they, and they only, must account.
These principles and practices settled by the
people of all sections of the country, and I
should be cor►fident in the belief that the fa;
tore of our republic is to cover many centu
ries of brilliant prosperity and progress.
Post Office Department.
WASHINGTON, D. e. 7 March 5, 1856
Newspapers throughout the United States
will render a service, in our opinion, to per
sons having correspodents in the Pacific re
gion, by giving a conspicuous place to the
subjoined circular in their respective columns.
JOHN B. WELLER,
Senate of U. S. from California.
J. W. DENVER,
House of Reps. of U. S., from Cal.
P. T. HERBERT, '
House of Reps. of U. S., from Cal.
JOSEPH LANE,
Del. from Oregon Ter., H. R., U. S. -
J. PATTON ANDERSON,
Del. from Wash. Ter., H. R., U. S.
To persons manig letters for California
and the Territories of Oregon and Washington:
—Thousands of letters sent to the Pacific
coast become dead letters. To remedy this
evil, the Post Office Department, under the
authority of Congress, has adopted, as an
auxiliary to its operations, the following plan
for simultaneously publishing at each and ev
ery post office in the Pacific region, in a list
called the " Pacific Mail List," the names of
persons to whom letters have been sent by
mail to post offices in California and the Ter
ritories of Oregon and Washington. By this
system a letter may be sent to any post office
in the PEVIi fie region for a person whose loca
tion is unknown, save the mere fact that he
is somewhere in California or the Territories
of Oregon and Washington ; yet, if the letter
be published in the " Pacific Mail List," its
ultimate reception by the person for whom it
is intended -will be rendered highly probable.
To enable those who may desire to extend to
their Pacific correspondents the advantage
thus offered, the following illustration is
given
Suppose it.is wished to send to the Sacra
mento' post office a letter for George Wilson,
who' emigrated to California from Pike coun
ty, Missouri, but it is feared that he may have
changed his location,,and hence may not re
ceive the letter. In this case direct the let
ter to George Wilson, (late of Pike county,
Missouri,}' Sacramento. Cat. Then, in,ot der to
publish the leiter in "Pacific Mail List," copy
the address of the letter upon a piece of pa
per or card,-and enclose the card, tog,ether
with a three-cent postage stamp, in an envel
ope, and direct the envelope to the ." Pacific
Mail List," New York. Deposite the letter,
as usual, in the mail for California, and at the
same time drop the-envelope, containing the
card to publish the letter c in the mail for New
York. From the - address on the card thus
received at the New York post office, the
name, George Wilson. will be entered in' its
appropriate place in the "Paciffe Mail List,"
which list is printed and sent by each Mail to
each and every posmiaster in California and
the Territories of Oregon and Washington,
and by them posted in a conspicuous place in
their respective offices. The list being thus
distributedever the entire Pacific region, Geo.
Wilson may at once learn from it that a let
ter has been sent to the Sacramento post office.
No person
,of a similar name will receive the
letter, fur the address on it points out that it
is intended for George Wilson, late of Pike
county, Missouri. Thus many letters will be
received that would otherwise be transmitted
to the dead letter of.
The envelopes containing the advertising
cards, sent to the " Pacific. Mail List," New
York, pay postage like ordinary mail matter,
and must be prepaid. The addresses of let
ters copied on the pieces of paper or cards
should be Written in a plain and distinct man
ner. The three cent postage stamps enclosed
in the envelopes defray the expenses of pub
lication, and must not be pasted to the cards,
but simply enclosed with them. In the ab
sence of postage stamps, three cent coins may
be substituted.
It is believed that this circular has been
drawn up so explicitly as to require no expla
nations; but, should this prove not to be the'
case, postmasters will take notice that all in
terrogatories must be addressed to the " Pa
cific Mail List," New York, and not to the
department.
The first of this series of lists will accom
pany the mail of May sth, and will be for
warded by each succeeding mail.
OLIVER EVANS WOODS.
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT,
March 5, 1856.
Mr. Woods has my authority to put his
Flan, as above, in operation, but no responsi
bility is assumed by the department ; and all
correspondence in regard to this arrangement
must be addressed to the " Pacific Mail List,"
New York: That - the publid may avail itself
of the advantages thus offered, postmasters
are requested to give the circular a conspicu
ous place in their respective offices.
JAMES CAMPBELL,
Postmaster General
JOHN F. DENroalsKt,a Pole, who had recent
ly arrived in Savannah, committed suicide
short time ago. lie left the following note:—
"I am tired of life. lam here as a stranger.
Could not find any employment, and my mon
ey was all gone, and so I resolved to commit
suicide. I fought in Europe against despo
tism, lost every thing I. possessed. No bu l let
could find me in•the baffles, and here, in a Re
publican country I am obliged to shoot my
self."
TRIAL OF THE WAREMANS--The New Ha
wen Register of Wednesday says:
"The whole tribe of Wakeman ites-:—Rhoda
Wakeman, Samuel Sly, and Miss Hersey—
will be on trial this morning, at 9 o'clock,
before the superior court. Perhaps no trial
that ever took place in this city has occupied
so much of public attention as this. The in
terest in the case is not confined to New Ha
ven, but in other parts of the country people
feel. particularly interested in the result of
this . remarkable trial.
r- ® GLO F.
Circulation—the largest in the County.
HUNTINGDON, PA.
Wednesday, April 30, L 856.
Democratic State Nominations
CANAL COMAIISSIONER,
GEORGE SCOTT, of Columbia county
AUDITOR GENERAL,
JACOB FRY, Jr., of Montgomery county.
SURVEYOR GENERAL,
TIMOTHY IVES, of Potter county
Es-Governor Bigler's Speech.
The speech of Ex-Go'vernor Bigler, deliv
ered at Hartford, Connecticut, previous to the
late election in that State, we lay before our
readers to day. It is eloquent with truth, and
we hope will be read by every man in Hun
tingdon county. Read, and hand to your
neighbor. •
MORE AID.-Wm. Sergeant, Esq., a son
of the late distinguished Hon. John Sergeant,
is out in a letter in the Philadelphia papers
resigning his position as a member. of the
Whig Committee of Superintendence, and an
nouncing his determination to support the
Democratic ticket at the coming municipal
election in that city.
Charles Gilpin, Josiah Randall, John M.
Reed, and a number of other heretofore lead
ing Whigs of Philadelphia, have avowed their
determination to _attach themselves to the
Democratic party.
THE PHILADELPHIA NOMINATIONS IN IVIAS
SACHCSETTS.—Lieutenant Governor Bench
ley has written a letter in reply to an invita
tation to address a know-nothing meeting in
Worcester, in which he says : .
"The nomination of Mr. Fillthore was un
expected and unfortunate, and the nomination
of Donelson not only unfortunate but an in
sult to the North."
['The LiotuE JOURNAL, printed in New
York by Messrs. Morris &Willis, is one of
the best literary papers in this country ? :Will
the editors favor us with an exchange? •
RENouNcING KNow-Norxitsiors3r.—The
Bedford Gazette publishes letters from David
0. Shoemaker, Frederick H. Beegle and Jacob
Harshbarger, renouncing and exposing Kno!,v-
Nothingisrn, and denouncing the Order as "a
sink of loathsome corruption and falsehood."
A . K.Now-NoT HIM.; Plt A I:r r !—A clerical
member of a know-nothing Council in Frank.;
lin county, addressed the pious 'petition to
Heaven--
" that hell might open her ponderous jaws
and swallow the Pope and all his adherents!"
The reader can make his own comments.
RETIRING . SENATO M.—the term of office of
the following named SenatiitS; Tepresenting
the districts ilesignated, expired with the late
Legislature
l'Eti K. Price, 17 W. M. Platt,
2 Henry C. Pratt, 19 Thomas Hoge, •
11 David Mellinger, 21 John Ferguson,
13 Samuel . Wlierry, 22 J.R. Ikl Ctintuek,
15 1 .Cresswell-, J r - 25 S. S. Jamison.
16 C. R. Buckalew,
The following resolution was unanimous
ly adopted by the democratic convention of
the sixth destrict of Maine :
"Resolved, That the - confidence manifested
by the people of the United States in the ca
pacity, integrity ; and sound principles of
Franklin Pierce in his election to the presi
dency has been amply justified by the ability,
firmness, purity, and patriotism, which have
marked his conduct of public affairs."
The Rising Tide'of Dembcracv
During a few weeks past we have had the
pleasure of recording democratic victories al
most innumerable, and in all parts of the
country. Seldom have the democracy with
in the same period of time achieved so
lengthy a consecution of 'triumphs. As the
Oswego Palladium well remarks : "The tide
of demoeratic power is rising steadily and
surely on every hand. It purged up in New
Hampshire, increased handsomely in Rhode
Island, has nearly overthroi,vn . the opposing
billows in Connecticut,. and rides triumphant
through the_ cities, from St. Louis, through
Chicago, Milwaukie, Cleveland, Oswego, Sy
racuse, and hundreds of other places, to Al_
bany. These waves, increasing in size, are
destined to swell on, until, by the ides of
November, they shall all unitedly and harmo
niously till the full flood-tide of victory,
whose waves are surely destined to carry up,
on their crest the democratic standard-bearers
of 1856. Let the glorious tide sweep on till
it overwhelms every vestige of fanatical dem
•
aao.ism This it will do !"
. 0
Distinguished Recruits
It is said that many prominent members of
Congress, elected as Whigs, seeing the hope
less condition of that party, and detesting the
doctrines of Republicanism and Know Noth.
ingism, have Openly avowed their determina
tion to act, hereafter, with the Democratic
party. Among the rrames we have heard
mentioned are those of Messrs. CARUTHERS
and Ouvnit, of Missouri, STEPHENS and
CRAWFORD, of Georgia, TALBOTT and JEW
ETT, of Kentucky, CLINGIVIAN, of North Caro
lina, Bowls, of Maryland, and WATKINS, of
Tenn. Mr. OLIVER 4 we know, has openly
dec:ared his intention to unite with the Dem
ocracy, on the ground that it is the only Na
tional and Constitutional party ;-and we have
no doubt that the other gentlemen named,
and tens of thousands of others, will pursue
the same course in the ensuing struggle for
the Presidency. We welcome them under
the folds of our banner.
Know Nothingiam in Huntingdon county
Know Nothingism is on the decline in Hun
tingdon county as well as elsewhere. The
novelty. of a midnight meeting has ceased to
attract the curious, ,while th!d honest spurn
its overtures with indignation. Scores of
those who, within two years past, were in
veigled within its meshes, . enslaved by its
oaths, and made cowards by the secrecy it
imposed, are beginning fully to realize the ex
tent of their duplicity, and heartily ashamed
of it, are leaving the Order in disgust. The
consequence of this is, that some very strange
as well as ludicrous develonmentd are being
made, which will come in play at the proper
time. •
We will venture the assertion that in no
county to the commonwealth was the Society
of Know-Nothings - more completely and thor-
Oughly organized than in our own ; in every
district in the county they could tell their
strength to a man; nor was there a man un
approached-who was susceptible by prejudice
or bigotry of-being drawn, into their organiza
tion. Acting in secret, and imposing upon
the confidence of others, all efforts of a coun
teracting tendency were paralyzed, and turn
ed to their own advantage. So formidable
did they appear that honest men, and men of
nerve, paled before the magic wand of Know-
Nothingism: But all honor to the great body
of the Democratic party who remained true
to their colors, who never deserted them, and
in proportion as their enemies pressed upon
them, fought 'with greater zeal and determi
nation. And it is a fact worthy of notice
that those democrats who were induced to
join the Order are now
. its most formidable
and energetic opponents—thus redeeming
their characters in good time; for, one year
hence, the . cogn omen Know-Nothing will be
only spoken in derision—it will be numbered
with the things that were—thrown side by
side with the dead ttarcase of Anti-Masonry,
from thence to emit its offensive smell, when
stirred, as a warning to all future political
fillibusters ; 'but some of its hucksters that
we'wot of, we fear, will never outlive the dis
grace-it entails; like the Shirt , of Nessus, it
will stick to them until their shroud covers it.
-We can heartily join a cotemporary in for
giving those who were deceived, who went
into the new. order, captivated by its promises,
and specious pretensions. But now that its
corruption has been exposed, now that :he
common judgment of mankind has pronoun
ced it a hideous lie, the man who holds on to
and sustains "Know-Nothin2ism," is guilty
of impugning the known truth, and is destined
to political damtmtion.
At the Spring elections in this borough one
year ago the Know-Nothings carried every
thing before them ; in fact,-there was , no or-
ganized opposition to them. At the late
March election, however—contrary to our
most sanguine expectations—they were de
feated. Eiasperated at this unlooked fur re
sult, they resolved on total annihilation of
all opposition .at the' corporation election on
the first Monday of this month ; but in this,
as our readers are aware, they sign : ally fdiled
—a more decided victory over them followed
their unexampled exertions to maintain their
ground.
As was anticipated, the results of these
two elections have told with considerable
effect throughout the county. The Midnight
Order is now in a state of disorganization;
there is no union, no harmony, no confidence
existing among them. Some declaring that
'the present leaders of the party are ruining
iu attempting to rule it ;" others complain
that what was to have been a principal fea
ture in their organization, to wit, "a proscrip
tion of office-seekers," has been set eside,
and that instead of "the office seeking the
man," the old office4mnters of Huntingdon
county are still extending their hands, crying
"give! give !" and declare that t_ he attempts
made to 'thrust such candidates upon them
will beyesisted.
• A. few. of their leaders have embraced black
Republicanism, while those that are left are
busily piping for their nomination for the
State Senate. (Have they ever thought of the
utter impossibilty of a Know-Nothing being
elected from this district') Some of the
rank and file who were formerly Whigs, have
gone back to their first love, and some have
openly embraced Democracy. There is no
mistaking the fact—the evidences Of :it are
to be seen on every band. They have loqt.
scores .of their best' men, and the "good
work goes bravely on." They may • well
sing—
If I was so soon to be done for
Oh! what was I begun for ?" .
An Old-Line Whig
In the course of the speech made by Senator
Jones, of Tennessee, at the celebration of
Henry Clay's birth-day at the Slashes, Vir
ginia, he said:
"1 do not belong to the so-called American
party, and I thank God for that.' [Continued
laughter.] I belong to the Henry Clay party.
I have never veered to the right or to the left.
love the memory of Henry Clay; but I nev 7
dr worshipped any false gods. I stand now,
Mr. _President, where T have ever stood, and
where 1 mean to stand as long as 1 shall stand
at all. I am an old-fashioned, old school,.
Henry Clay, Heaven-descended and censecra
ted whig. [Great laughter.]"
WESTWARD no !—We learn from the Chi
cago Democratic Press that during the forty
eight hours endintr" Saturday morning, the
eight trains 'on the Michigan Southern road
brought eighty one coaches, containing 4,000
passengers; and in the same time the six
trains over the Michigan Central took into
that city sixty-three coaches, containing 4,662
passengers, nearly nine thoulan.a fiassengers
arriving in two days.
The Old-Line Whigs of 'Kentucky.
The old-line whigs of Kentucky held a
State convention at Lexington on the 12th
instant. If we are correctly informed (says
the Memphis Appealj the object of this as
semblage is to take the sense of the old-line
Clay whigs upon the *sent attitude and as
pect of affairs—to determine whether they
will stand aloof for the present or unite in the
support of one or the other of the contending
parties. We learn of a gentleman just arri
ved from Louisville there is a strong proba
bility that the great mass of the whigs will
sustain the democratic nominations, provided
they are such as the democrats pledge them
selves to give to the country—sound in poli
tics, pure in character, patriotic in motive,
capable of adminiitering the government,
and "faithful to the constitution." The dem
ocratic nominees will have all these qualities
and qualifications. The Kentucky whigs
may, therefore, prepare to join hearts and
hands with us.
The convention spoken of adopted a plat
form. The subjoined planks may be regarded
as fair samples of the whole structure.
"That the constitution vests in Congress no
legislative power over slavery or any other
domestic institution of the States, having ade
quate population, adopting republican gov
ernments, and co:nplying with the just re
quirements of the constitutton and the laws,
ought to be admitted into the Union on a foot
ing of equality with the other States, with or
without slavery, as the good people thereof—
being citizens of the United States—in their
municipal character may be pleased. to or
dain ; that all agitation of the slavery ques
tion, whether in States or Territories, should
cease in Congress, and the existing laws
should be acquiesced in by all lovers of the
peace of the Union.
"That every right protected by the consti
tution should be faithfully accorded to every
class of men to whom its provisions extend,
without regard to section, birth, or religion,
of parties entitled to such rights; and that
loyalty to the government ; honesty, and ca
pacity are the true tests of the eligibility of
men to the enjoyment of the franchises of citi
zens."
- The Louisville Democrat of the 15th instant
has a full report of the proceedings of the con
vention. That paper says :
"The proceedings were short, and the con
currence in them unanimous. A motion was
made, we understand, to adjourn immediate
ly upon the adoption of the address and reso
lutions, but it was too plain that the audience
wanted semething more. A call was made
for the Hon. A. Dixon, and he responded in
a broadside against the new revelation at
length. His speech is highly spoken of as
determined and withering. He was follow
ed by Mr. Stevenson, who denounced the ,
know-nothing party just about as it deserved. '
It is refreshing to. see these old-line whips
again in open organization, as in old times.
It is so infinitely above the recent fungus of
sin in the opposition that it looms up like an
oasis in the desert. The resolutions are gen
eral and unexceptionable. There is a slight
squinting at protection, but not more than
will, perhaps, be found in any tariff that could
be framed. They embrace . only political
subjects, such as political parties have a right
to differ about. The position of the men
composing th:s convention will extort- re
spoct. The mass of their old'assoCiates have
gone and left them, a small remnant. They
would not be tempted by party associates,
nor the hope of position, to take up a new
revelation. They refused to go with the
multitude to do evil. They do their own
thinking, and need no advice. Let them pro
ceed ; if they can bring their old associates
out of a secret, oath-bound, Jacobinical asso
ciation, they gill perform an important ser
vice."
What we have gained in Connecticut.
The New Haven Register thus briefly
sums up the result of the recent election in
Connecticut :
"In the last legislature the Hindoos had a
majority of about seventy in the house, and
all but two of the senators. This year we
gain more than fifty members of the house,
and elect nine senators ! Minor run ahead
of Irnzharn, who, though he was in a minori
ty of the popular vote about ten thousand this
year, will lack only about one thousand votes
of an election by the people over the Hindoo,
abolition, and Whig cadidates combined !
This shows where Connecticut will be in the
presidential contest soon to come off. Al
most every town in the State shows a demo•
cratic gain on the popular vote; and, whilst
we have lost the election by the skin of our
teeth, we have the satisfaction of knowing
that the democratic is the only party in the
State, and that the
_opposition is doomed to
fall before it."
The splendid achievement of our friecds
in Connecticut challenges the admiration , of
democrats everywhere. The Providence
Post says :
"It was accomplished under the most em
barrassing and discouraging circumstances,
and by a most .determined and unflinching
effort. The nomination of Welles for gover
nor by the republicans, it should be kept in
mind, did not resnl(from any dissatisfaction
on the part of the leaders of that party „with
the Hindoo nominee, but was a mere trick to
entrap democratic voters. It succeeded to
some little extent ; but that it effected so little
is creditable in, the. highest degree to the
firmness and intelligenoe of the, democratic
masses.. The, nomination of Mr. Rockwell
by the 'old-line" whigs was another move
ment calculated to •tveaken the democratic
chances of success; but it could not, and did
not, dishearten the friends of our , glorious
cause.. In spite of these and a score of minor
discouragements, and in the face. of an oppo
sition as reckless and unblushing in its false
hood as that which met the democrats of this
State, they marched forward in an , unbroken
column, and accomplished a work which ren
ders it certain that old Connecticut is all rea
dy to wheel into line when. the presidential
tocsin shall give its first sound. The result
is emphatic in its story that the democratic
party is larger by six THOUSAND than any
other. party in the State ! Last year our can
didate
for governor,. Mr. Ingham, Jacked
about.ten thousand votes of an election, and
was behind Minor,
the H
Hindoo candidate..—
Now, Ingham lacks but little more than one
thousand of an election over the Hindoo, re
publican, and Whig candidates combined and
leads Minor, so far as heard from, six thou
sand sikhundred and twenty-one votes." f
The Campaign Opened in Missouri.
We
of
already been . advised by tele
graph of the signal victory achieved by the
democrats of St. Louis over thii know-noth
ings at the municipal election held in that
city on the 7th instant. 4. St. Louis paper
thus records this brilliant democratic triumph
—this successful assault - upon the dark-lan
ternites in their oldest and strongest citadel:
"Nobly have the gallant democracy borne
themselves in the struggle with the dark and
serried ranks of the know-nothing order, and
the victory they have achieved is the grandest
ever recorded in the annals of St. Louis !
They have elected tke . entire ticket by a ma
jority of nearly twenty-five hundred votes.
They have carried eight wards out of ten,
and hold a preponderating power in both
branches of the city council. They have
elected thetr nominees in almost all the va
cancies and new memberships of the school
board. Such are the first fruits we present
to the country of the uprising of the people
of the West. It was the initiative battle of
of Fillmore and Donelson in Missouri, and
their defeat by so overwhelming a vote will,
dissolvd their party in this State like snow
before the summer's sun. It was the last
desperate effort of the midnight fraternity to
perpetuate their spremacy in the commercial
and political centre of the Valley of the Mis
sissippi, and they have been routed with no
common overthrow—disbanded in no casual
conflict. Grass will grow on the threshold
of their lodges—the echo alone will answer
to their watchwords—their grips, and signs,
and oaths will be numbered amongst the
things that were."
Foes Without, Trators Within!
The Belfast News Letter, one of the oldest
and most respectable journals of Ireland,
makes public the following statement of its
Liverpool correspondent
"We are assured that Charles Sumner and
Lord Carlisle have been in active correspon
dence on the Slavery question. The league
between the Aristocracy of the old world and
the abolition disunionists of the United States
is perfect."
"The Earl of Carlisle is Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland—and Chas.. Sumner is an Abolition
ist Senator of the United States from Massa
chusetts, and a kind of Drummond Light of
the Black RepubliCan faction.
"This disclosure of the Belfast journal, is
only a new evidence of the close and inti
mate alliance between the • Black Republican
Abolition Party in the United States, and the
aristocracy of Great Britain, which was al
ready known to exist. It is not long since
that the London Daily News,—the oracle of
the British Anti-slavery Society, declared
right out, that in the event of a war between
England and the United States, it had the ful
lest assurance that the Anti• Slavery Party
here would be with Great Britain. Quite na
tural, all this !—What sympathy can the
Aristocracy of Great Britain have for the
American Union, which was reared on the
ruins of a monarchy "I What love can their
Abolition and Black Republican allies, on this
side the Atlantic, have for that same Union,
which is held together by a constitution
which they are in the • habit of denouncing
as an 'atrocious bargain,'—nay, the Union
itself, as a 'League' with Death, and a Cove
nant with Hell."
Mr, Buchanan's Reception.
PHILADELPHIA. : April 25.—At exactly
twelve o'clock to-day the citizens were in
formed by the sound of cannon of the arrival
of Mr. Buchanan, Ex-Minister to England.—
The avenues in the vicinity of Walnut street
Wharf were thronged with excited and curi
eus spectators. and upon the pier itself a con
siderable number of persons gathered.
On the arrival of the boat the crowd form
ed into line, as Mr. Buchanan, accompanied
by the Board of Trade, stepped on shore, and
proceeded to his carriage. Cheers in abun
dance saluted him. One exhilarated individ
ual shouted loudly for President Buchanan,
and seemeldeterrnined to inspire surround
ing persons with his enthusiasm.
Accompanied by several Councilmen, Mr.
Buchanan proceeded to the Philadelphia Ex
change heading Room, where he was recei
ved and welcomed in a short speech by John
Welsh, Esq.
Mr. 8., in reply, said he felt as if his foot
was again upon his native heath, and he knew
that in the opinion of his fellow citizens, he
had not disN.elite,d his country nor its prin
ciples. He had been absent above three
years, and was happy to be once more in his
native laud. He was addressed by a com
mittee of Merchants as a visitor, not_ as a
party man, and he would respond in the same
feeling.
The large hall in which the reception took
place, was crowded in every part.
During the p►ogress of Mr. Buchanan's
speech, he was interrupted by frequent ap
plause. At the termination he. was loudly
cheered. Mr. B. then proceeded to the
Merchants' Hotel, where he was greeted by
many friends.
Patriotic Advice to Patriotic Whigs.
We copy the following from the Kentucky
Statesman :
"The issue in this contest demands of these
old-line Whigs no amalgamation, no fusion,
no surrender of principle, but simply that
they shall for. a time stand united side by side
with the democracy in eradicating, dangerous
and alarmine , political heresies ; and this they
must inevitably be forced to do, or stand com
mitted against us. After this is done, and our
sovereign equality as States in the Union put
beyond peril, and the reorganization of the
old whig party can be accomplished, we shall
then be ready as ever to meet them in open,
honorable, and American discussion, and de
fend those great fundamental principles ofthe
democratic party upon which we think our
couatry•has attained its present prosperity
and diory.,,
(0 - The Cleveland Plain Dealer in noticing
the election of :he Democratic ticket in that
city by a majority of four hundred, says:
cc This, is, indeed, glOry enough for one day.
Fusionism and know-nothingism have run
their race in Cleveland. , Councilmen and
constables must, seek some other hobby for
the future. The black-republican ruffians
who hung Douglas in effigy on the publin
square one year ago are themselves now dang
ling in the air.
There is a tide in the affairs of men'
tf . DEmocnATs, be firm! Relax not your
organization ! Keep the enemy always in
your sight ! This .is presidential year, and
this is its glorious beginning. There is not
a ward in the city we cannot carry at the
next election by the proper exertion. The
city is rousingly democratic, and so will be
the whole country in November next !"