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THURSDAY. AUGUST 31, 1865.
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DEMOCRATIC•STATE TICKET.
•UDITOB OILVERAL,
COL. W. W. H. DAVIS, Bucks CO.
IirIIVEYOR GENICRAL,
COL. JNO. P. L[NTON, Cambria Co.
Democratic County Convention.
The Democratic citizens of Erie county are
requested to meet in their usual places of
holding primary elections, on Saturday, Sep
tember 16th, for the purpose of selecting dele.
gates to a county convention to be held in the
Court House, in the city of Erie, on MONDAY,
Sarraxsaa 18ra. 1866, to place in nomina
tion a county ticket for the support of the
friends of the Union and Constitution, at
the Oetober election.'
The followiet is the representation to which
each district is entitled :
Erie, let district. 2; 2J, 2; 33, 2 ; 4th, 2 ;
East Mill Creek, 3 ; West Mill Creek, 3 ;
Harbor Creek, 4; North East township, 3;
North East borough, 2; Gretnfield, 2; Ve
mango, 8; Watt4burg, 1; Amity, 3 ; Wayne,
3; Concord, 3; Corry, 2 ; Union townsr,ip.
3 ; Union Mills, 2; Le Beouff. 3 ; Waterford
township, 3; Waterford borough. 2; Greene,
8; Summit, -8; McKetn, 3; Mid lleboro, 1 :
Washington, 3; Edinboro, 2; Franklin, 2;
Elk Creek, - 3 ; Conneaut, 3; Albioa, 2 ;
Springfield; 4; Girard township, 3 ; Girard
borough, 2 ; Lockport, 2; Fairview, 3.
D. W. HUTCUISSON, Chairman.
E. CAMPLIAUSEN, Secretary
August 23, 1865—t0
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them, in . the hope of promoting the cause
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to send us a club au3 tf
The state Convention.
The Democratic State Convention which
convened in Harrisburg last, week, was an
assemblage that did. credit to the conserv
ative voters of the commonwealth. We
have beets a member of several bodies of
a similar nature, and have witnessed a
*ewe or more, both Democratic and Re
publican, and in none of them have we
seen a more harmonious spirit, more gen
uine patriotism, or a higher degree of in
telligence and pure moral character.—
There was none of that bitter sectional
or personal feeling so often displayed on
such occasions, but every delegate ap
peared to appreciate the entire responsi
bility of his position, and to be deteriained
to act with an eye solely to the interests
of his party and country. Oa the two
main subjects of candidates and resolu
tions, while many had their own peculiat
wishes, there was no disposition to force
them upon the support of oth-rs, but each
member seemed to be actuated by a read
iness to yield all that was necessary for
the sake of the common cause. We can
not but feel that the repeate I &teats of
the Democracy have somewhat enured t ,
the permanent benefit of the party. They
have cause I all the mischievous and dia.
orgenizing elements to e'eandon our ranks
and find an asylum where by nature and
disposition they belong. They have taught
the old and unpopular politicians that
their . services are no longer required to
lead , the Democracy through their politi
cal struggles, and opened the way to a
new class of men, who understand the
wishes of the people and possess their
confidence. The good old Democratic
party rifles from its supposed death-bed
Into a new end, if possible, more vigorous
life. With all the past heart-burnings
healed, with its organization thoroughly
harmonised by the recollection of common
trials and dangers, with the timid, vacil
lating and uncertain elements no longer
acting ass drag upon our exertions, with
a more determined spirit of enthusiasm
than ever, and a devotion to our cause
almost religious, the Democratic party of
Pennsylvania enters upon the campaign
of 1855, ready to meet its foe at every
point, to contest the ground inch by inch,
and confident that if success does not
perch .upon our banner this fall, the day
is not far distant when it *ill.
If the convention did not contain as
many noted men as some that have pre
ceded it, the fact must not be taken as
an indication that there was not al much
real talent as usual. There was, it is true,
teas of the'telking element, but the loss in
that respect was fully made up in solid
thinking material. The different districts
in their choice of delegates, were actuated
not so much by a lesire to send their'best
speakers, as they were to select men 'of
moderate views, conciliatory counsels and
politic action. To this, perhaps, - more
than anything else, is due the spirit of
unity with which the convention per
formed its duty. The delegates bad no
other desire than to mike a g 33d ticket,
pass sound and timely resolutions, and
return to their homes. Had there been
more talking men, in alt likelihood the
dispositien to snake a display of their
talents would have led to long, bested
and resentful discussions, and' instea4 of
the good feeling which prevailed, there
might have bean—something else.
Of the active, influential men of the
convention, the best known is Hen. Jere
miah S. Black, previously of Somerset, but
now of York county, formerly Judge of
the Supreme Court, and later Mr. Buch
anan's Attorney General and Secretary of
State. Among the many able and distin
guished, personages in the body, it is no
disparagement to any to say that
Judge Black stood a head and shoulders
above them all. His dignified personal
appearance, wide reputation, and clear
ness of intellect made him peealiarly the
"observed dial Obserrers,"and there was
not a Demoerat present who did not feel
that . where such a statesman as Judge
Bieck led the way' it was en bona to fol
low. Among the titter ciao; al delegates
the names of Robert. L. Johnson, ol•Cam
brie, Mayor Sanderson, of Lancaster, John
D. Stiles, of Lehigh, Myer Strove, of
Schuyllcill, and Richard Vans, of Phila•
delphia, are the best known and com
manded the most attention: Mr. Van;
as permanent President, made a truly
efficient officer, dispatching business wi4h
a rapidity and courtesy that would have
.done credit to the most experienced par
liamentarian, and winning the universal
commendation of everybody present. The
young Democracy were well represented
by such men as Lewis C. Cassiday, of
Philadelphia, C. L. Lamberton, of Clar
ion, Ifenry i G. Smith, of Lancaster, and
Daniel E. Nieman, of Northampton—all
familiar names to Democratic readers, and
destined to occupy still higher places io
the records of the country. To Mr. Nei
man we must give more than a passing
notice. He was our co4aborer at the Sec
retary's desk, he acting as reading and
we as' recording clerk, and to his talent,
energy and politeness is clue very much of
the promptness with which the conven
tion was enabled to conclude its work.
The resolutions adopted speak out hon
estly and manfully the sentiments of the
true-hearted Pennsylvania Democracy.
There is no uncertain ring abut them
—each resolve is expressed in clear, em
phatic languaga, which all who rea•l can
understand. While referring to Presi
dent Johnson in a toile of kindness, they
do not hesitate to tell him how far the
Democratic party will sustain him, and
bow far it will not. On .the great issues
at - stake, they are everything that any
friend of our cause could ask, and we be
lieve the Democrats of the State will en
dorse and sustain them without a dis
senting voice. As the Abolition papers
have already commenced their labor of
misrepresentation by circulating reports
that there was difficulty in the Committee
on Resolutions. it maybe well for us at
this time to ft fitly contradict the state
ment. On the contrary, the moat harmo
nious disposition possible was manifested
during the entire proceedings of the com
mittee. The series down to the tenth'
were introduced by Judge Black, who
officiated as Chairman. The tenth was
prepared by Mr. Sanderson, of Ltneester,
the eleventh by the writer of this article,
and the twelfth by Ur. Smith, of L mess
ter. Each resolution was adoptei with
out, if we remember correctly, a dissent
ingvote, and on the question of presenting
them to the convention, there was not s
word of oppositiou.
A sketch of the candidates appears in
another portion of this week's paper, to
which we direct the attention of our rea
dera. We need hardly add that they in
every respect corn 3 up to the standard we
desired, and we are much mistaken if the
nominations so cordially made by the
mnvention will not be as heartily ratified
by the people. We had the pleasure of
voting for each of the nominees in the
convention, and intend giving them our
most z'alous sapport during the catty/ins ;
and if the steadfast Democracy of Erie
county second Our efEirts in tie same
pirit as they have done heretofore, we
hope to be able to greet our brethren of
the East with tidings of an encouraging
nature from this far-famed region of
blackest Ab ior
We have a splendid ticket, and a har
monious, determined party. United, the
Democrats of Penn,ylvania never wore
beaten before the w4r, and they will not
be now if each man does his duty. The
instincts of the 1j3119i03 aro with us, and
we need only pur•ue a straightforward
Patriotic course—ba true to our old-time
traditions and principles— and we can loon
re ga in our ascendancy in the nation. Le.
every man once more buckle on his ar•
mor, and go to work with a will for the
cause of the ljohn and Constitution.
Oar Candidates.
There is not a Democrat in Pennsylva
nia who has not j•lat restamaa to be proud
of the nominees selected by the conven
tion which met yesterday- Not alone be
cause both are soldiers, as brave and gal
lant as men dare be, but because in all
things they are such men as the party and
the people should delight to honor. Apart
from the brilliant military career which
each of them can present, and the nu
merous honorable scars which each of
them bear upon their bodies, they possess
all, and more than all the requisite quail
fications to fill with honor to the State the
offices for which they have been reapect.
ively named. They are both men of fin
isbed education, of high intelligence and
of the purest morals ; men against whose
public or private character no single word
of reproach can be truthfully uttered.
Col. W. W. H. Davis was, at the break
ing out of the war, editor of the Doyles
town Democrat, one of the ablest and most
influential county papers in the State. He
went into the struggle at its commence
ment, commanding a company in the
three montbe service; be afterwards
raised the 104th, regiment Pennsylvania
volunteers, -at the bead of which he was
always to be found, gallantly leading his
men, until it was dismissed the service at
the end of the rebellion. His right hand
was almost entirely shot away, and he
now writes ringing editorials for his pa
per with his left, notwithstanding he
was also severely wounded in that arm.
Ms paper was before and - throughout
the war, and still -is,' soundly Democrat
ic. Had Colonel Davis been willing to
sell his political principles he might long
since have been a Brigadier General or
something higher. He preferred rather
to maintain his political Integrity and to
continue to command the gallant 1434th,
though during much of, the time doing
the duty of a Brigadier, and at other
tiairt, that of d Major General, with only
a Colonel's rank and pay. Such is our
candidate for Auditor General.
Lieutenant Colonel John P. Linton. of
Cambria, our candidate for tiorveyor Gen
-eral, was, throughout the war. the actual
commanding and lighting Colonel of the
54th. Jacob•M. Campbell, the Republican
nominee for the same position, wislittle
more than an ornamental or useless' ap
pendage. It was John P. Linton who led
the gallant 54th where there was danger.
Always at the heed of Ills men, he was
severely wounded several times. He ii a
lawyer by profession, and we believe was
a law partner of Hon.
,Cyrus L. Pershing
before entering the marries. A_ datum%
and deleted Deioerat throughout
tile, he still " adheres firmly to the great
psinciplea of the party.—Lancaster
Intelli
sower, of Ptiday last.
" Tax -Boys - IN BUM " are after' Gen.
Cox, the Republican candidate for Govern.
or of • Ohio, with several very " sharp
sticks." Not satisfied with his letter to
them on the negro voting question, in
which he takes ground against his party's
policy of forcing negro suffrage on tin*
Southern States, they nctw demand his
views on the same 'abject' in Ohio. In a
letter before us, from some forty or fifty
of this class of voters, which doubtless re
fleets the views of nine-tenths of our re
turned veterans, they say they " fought
for the old fisg, and for the Union, and
not beesuse - they bated the Southern peo-
Pie ; and." they continue, "we wanted
them to behave, and not hurt the Union ;
but when the fight was over we could
always shake,hands and be friends. But,
General, you march a little oblique in one
thing. We live in Ohio, . and your plan
for settling things down in Dixie don't
prevent us from being placed on an equal
itywith negroes here. We have heard it
told that before the war there were more
than twenty-five thousand negroes in
Ohio, and that number has been more
than doubled during the past four years.
The lines are open and the darkies are
allowed to come through in clouds. Now,
the Oberiinites, Blnjtmin Wade and
General Schenck, and all that kind of
people, and there are a good many of
them, want to put these negroes on an
equality with us. and give them votes to
balance ours. Now, this is a meaning
question, for, before two years, we will
have a hundred and fifty thousand ne
groes in Ohio. What we want to know is,
whether you are in favor of giving them
the right to vote in Ohio now, or at any
future time. You aro right, General, in
saying the boys are all still proud of being
white, and they won't march under the
black &sig."; At our last aivices, the Ger
eral had not responded, and we doubt
whether he will. If he says he is opposed
to striking the word " white " out of the
• Ohio Constitution, then Oberlin and the
Western Reserve will " know him no more
forever." On the other - hand, if 'he de
clares for negro suffrage, then the " boys
in blue" will execute a flank movement
on his party, and his chances of becomin4
Governor of obi° will beslim indeed.
Two Republican Leaden.
The Chicago Rrpubllene is edited• by
Chas. A. Dana, late Assistant Secretary of
War, whose intimate kikowledge of public
men entitles his opinions of them to `Con
siderable respect. In one of his late issues
he gives sketches of Mr. Weed and Mr.
Greeley. Of the.former he says " the fact
will hardly be queitioned that, during the
last fifteen years, the legislation of New
York has become notorious for its corrup
tion ; that Mr. Weed has exercised over
it an authority, contested and assailed in
deed, but still remaining in his hands ;
that his immediate friends have been . the
parties most deeply interested in corrupt
grants and discreditable projects at Al
bany ; that he has steadily defended them
and their schemes ; and that from a poor
man he has become a very rich one. From
all these facts the inference seems irre
sistible that ho is more responsible than
any other individual far the corruption of
public virtue in New York." Of Mr.
Greeley - ha says, " there is no doubt that
be was a secessionist at the beginning of
the war, and remained a secessionist all
through it." These two men aro the
leaders of their party in New York, and
exercise a very wide inflaeuce among Re
publicans outside of the State. As Mr.
Dana is a member of their own faith, the
accuracy of his portraits will hardly be
disputed.
The Pittsburg Post says of the late State
Convention: "We had the pleasure of
being present during its sittings, and can
assure our readers that it was one of the
most impressive, prudent and thoughtful
assemblages of intelligent end patriotic
citizens we have laver_ seen assembled for
public purposes."
The Lancaster Intelligences. says: Very
many of the ablest and purest Democrats
in the Slats hid seats in the Convention,
and were active participants in its harmo
nious deliberations."
This is the general tone of the Demo
cratic press. We win heartily endorse
every word of our cotemporaries' remarks,
No Convention we have ever seen sur
passed it in intelligence, dignity, or the
moral character of its members. It was a
model assemblage in all respects, and such
a one as any man might have felt it an
honor to have been connected with it.
The Buffalo Commercial of Saturday last
contained the following notice of one of
the candidates nominated at the Harris
burg Convention. Coming_from a politi
cal opponent, it is as creditable to the
heart of the editor of the Commercial as it
is complimentary to Col. Diris:
Col. W. W. H. Davis, of the 104th Penn
sylvania Volunteers, has been nominated
as a Democratic candidate for Auditor
General of Pennsylvania. Aside from his
politics, he is a splendid fellow, largely
owing, probably, to the fact that he is an
old typo and editor. He was for -a time
in command of the brigade which includ
ed the 100th N. Y., and we have a lively
recollection of a night paned with him in
an old canal barge at Newport News.
The Union State Convention bag ad
journed, after making excellent nomina
tions, and shirking the vital questions at
issue, in a manner which the party can.
not respect and the opposition will simply
despise.—Dixpetch.
The "vital questions at issue" are negro
suffrage and the right of the people of
each Nate to decide upo3 their own local
laws and institutions. .On both these
topes►, although the doctrines of the party
are well understood, the Convention did
not have the courage to make a pnblic
declaration of its principles. The Dispateli
is quite right in presuming that the Dem
°may ".imply.de•Pisi " a policy which
Avon so strongly of the cowardly.
- Sumutsa.—Col. Jacob H. Campbell and
Lieut. Col John P. Linton, the nomin
re. of the two political parties, for Sur
veyor General. are from the same county,
(Cambria) both belonged to the same regi
ment in OA service, and both were un
successful tebdidates before their reaps.
tie. district conferenees for the nomina
tion for State Senator. We doubt whether
two aindidates for a State oboe were ever
selected undor similar circumstances,
*LOCAL tirtzytiiits —.The Annual Aar of
the Chautauqua Co. Agricultural Society
will be held at Westfield, on the Stb, 6th
and 7th days of September, and promises
to be a very fine exhibition. We ate in
debted to the often for a compliments,
17 ticket of Adutisaion.—lt may be well
for our readers to remembar that the sea
son for picking cranberries on tbe penin
sula does not commence untii some time
next month. Several parties have been
arrested for violating the law, and It is
the intention of the authorities to enforce
its provisions strictly.—The authorities
are determined that the work of building
.side walks in all - parts of the city shall be
promptly performed. In cases where the
owners of property fail to make- the im
provements required, the officers are di
rected to complete the same, and time ex
penses are charged as a lien against the
property.. By this means several cliscred-',
itable side-walks, in frequented . parts of
the city, have been put in good o3ndition,
muck to the disgust of the property hold
ers and delight of the citizens generally.
-----In the Common Council, on Monday
evening, a motion was made and csrried,
to discharge the special committee fur in
vestigating the alleged recruiting frauds
last fall. The Select Council refused to
concur, and laid the matter over for one
week. We trust the committee will not
fait to give a report of their investigations
for the benefit of the public.. It is due to
the individuals whose names were brought
I into disrepute and to the community at
large that a full and fair statement of the
proceedings in the matter should be
made —no last Gazette contains the re
port of Mr. John C. McCreary, one of the
Auditors appointed to investigate the af
fairs of the Bank of Commeroe. . We shall
present a synopsis of it in our next issue.
—k meeting of the managers of the
Erie Co. Agricultural society will - be held
in this city on Wednesday, the Gth of Sep
tember, 'to make arrangements for the
coming Fair. We trust the Society will
not make the mistake of a previous year,
in trying to run the Fair as a political ma
chine.
The Observer and Dirpate4 offices have
long been turning out work equal to that
of the Buffalo and Cleveland printers.—
Observer. -
A specimen of very small spite is shown
in that sentence, neighbor. What's .the
matter 7—Gazette.
The "matter" is simply that we are in
the habit of making only such statements
as we believe to be the truth. Had we
included the Gazette in our list of offices
that "have long been turning out work,"
dcc , it would have bean S palpable mils
statemeLt. That establishment has re
cently been fitted up to do good job print
ing, and secured the services of an excel
lent workman, but it is notorious that pre
vious to the purchase by the present pro
prietor it had as poor facilities as any
in the State. Our neighbor displays a
sensitiveness on some points that is-really
amusing. "What's the matter!"
• New CITY Laws.—The City Councils
have enacted, among others, two new or
dinances, to the following effect :
That the Maycir and magistrates of the
city of Erie may, in addition to the fines
that are now or may hereafter be im
posed, for the violation of any ordinance
of said city, sentence the party or parties
adjudged guilty of any such violatton, to
imprisonment in the county jail or the
lockup of said city, for any period not ex
ceeding sixty days, or put any such offen
der at labor on the streets Of said city un
til fines and costs be paid.
That in lieu of the plan of numbering
the streets of said city, as provided in the
ordinance to which this is a supplement.
the numbers south of Twelfth street on
the several streets shall be continued
scuthward without reference to the num
bers of the streets, the even numbers upon
one side of the street, and the odd num
bers upon the other.
The statement in' our "item" column
that Mr. L. S. Wright would be a candi
date for Commissioner, we learn, just pre
vious to going to press, is incorrect. Mr
W. declines being a candidate.
Onto DEMOCRATIC Cosvgartoc—At their
Convention at Columbus, on the 25th instant,
the Democracy of Ohio nominated Gen. George
W. Morgan for Cl'overnor, and adopted a series
ef resolutions iu which they dealers that they
will stand by President Johnson in . all con
stitutional efforts to restore to the States the
exercise of their rights and pewees. The reso.
Intim, also, pronounce the ordinances of
secession null and void, and that all the
States are still in the Union and entitled to
all their rights, iucluding that of representa
tion in Congress, and that of controlling the
question of suffrage for thensselvos. They
recommend a rigid economy Is the adminis
ration of affairs, to the end that the heavy
curse of a national debt may, be removed,
and denounce the usurpations of the War De
partment and its interference with elections.
The ex-rebel Gen. Wheeler wu attacked
and severely beaten in Nashville yesterday,
by two Union officers, in consequence of a
threat made by him during the war.—Tribune
Brave men they must be who would attack
a fallen and defenceless foe!
—Since the above was in type the follow
ing dispatch, in refirence to the case, has
appeared in the dilly papers :
Nsertmtn. Aug. 28.
-Major General Thomas liar severely repri
minded Colonel Blackburn and Superintend
ent Owin, for their most cowardly, brutal and
on-officer-like attack on the rebel General
Wheeler. He informed them both in plain
terms that he would have them tried before a
court martial if they had not been mustered
oat a service.
Taxartok.—The Republican papers con
tinue'to approve of the policy of grossly
unequal taxation. They say that the rich
men who bought United States bonds
paid a tax in the risk they run In buying
them I How changed this talk from the
assertions of those papers at the time the
bonds were sold. Then they declared
that they were the safest of all invest.
manta—that if the government failed,
everything must f lil. No„gentlemen. it
was the• high rate of interest—the gold
interest—that the government offered,
which induced capitalists to buy those
bonds.
Last Wednesday the towns of Lyons, in
Cook County. and the town of Dewier', Grove,
in Dame County, Illinois, adjoining each
other, were visited by a temble tornado.
Two entire farms were desolated, houses,
bane and femme were tern into moms and
carried off for miles. Orchards and fields of
grain were swept clean of everything. Two
melt. s women sad three children were se.
Mainly injured.
Oa Tuesday of last week some wagoners
camped au the farm of a Mr. Harper, near
Colliersville, • few miles in the rear of Mem
phis, and turned their horses Into his 6row
log Harper, remoasirsted with them,
when they set upon him sad so severely in
jured lam that he died o■ Thursday. The
murderers wasp&
bemeratle State Coareaden.
The Democretio State Convention met at
two o'clock on Thursday, August 24th, in the
Roll of the Renee of Representatives, at
Beeeisharg. Robert L. Johnson, of Cambria
etionty, was sleeted temporary Chairman of
the Ceovention. On taldng the chair Kr.
Abeam said:
Oat Zones of the Convention : I feel highly
(Milted for the unexpected. and, I may add.
unsolicited honer which you have conferred
open me. Accept my thanks for your coed
deuce and kindness. Totally inexperienced
la the usages of deliberative assemblies, I .
must cast myself entirely upon your forbear.
once during the brief interval which I shall
occupy the chair. I can ma/ assure you that
I shall try to perform my duties impartially ;
and from the eheirfnl and hopeful faces I see
b fore me. I have no douht any error cr mis•
takes will readily be forgiven.
Once more our country, is blessed with
peace! The demon of w,r which has for
four long, dreary years held devastating sway
throughout our country has vanittbed, and
the Angel of Peace hovers benignantly over a
preserved Union. War—a terrible calamity
in all countries—is trebly so in a republic
where the military arm can scarcely be put
forth in all its strength without interfenng
with the rights of the althea. Unhappily,
lin our country. those rights were entirely
disregarded, and over , constitutional right of
the citizen was wrested from him.
But this unhappy war, the product of fa
natioism and folly, is ended, and this day the
Democratic party--that party which has made
our country all it is in peace or in war; that
party whose history is the history of the
country ; that party which has been " a pil
lar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by
night" to guide the friends of equal rights
and free government from the earliest days of
the Republic - ; that party on whoa* altars the
vestal fires of liberty have never ceased to
burn; that party which has given to our
country a Jefferson and a Jackson ; that party
to which we owe all our past, and from which
we must expect all our future greatness—this
day that party has assembled in its might and
m,jesty to once more •enuectate those great
truths which have " made and preserved us a
nation."
Is that rumbling together. as the organ of
the great Democratic party of Pennsylvania,
it Is our deity to speak in the language of
freemen. It is nit for us to palter in a
double sense," but to speak plainly, truly,
and fearlessly the throbbings of the great
Democratic heart of Pennsylvania. In speak
log of those in power we should be
to praise but not afraid to blame " It is our
province to say that while we care not whose
hand may administer governmental affairs if
Democratic principles are ref:molted in their
administration. .And while we hold up the
hands of. the President in his theory of restor
ing the States formerly in rebellion, it is our
imperative duty to denounce every infraction
of the constitutional rights of the States and
the people—to insist that, war being ended,
its concomitant, military courts, shall be dis
pensed withr-'llat the right of the writ of
habeas corpus shall be restored to every citi
zen—that trial by jury in the fern prescribed
by the Constitution and laws shall be accord
ed to every citizen ; and that our country
shall speedily resume her former condition in
regard to the expenses of Government.
It is our duty eapecially to rebuke that
spirit of Northern secession which, notwith
standing it has for the lest four years denied
the right of any State to secede, and treated
all the States as being in the Union, now grave
ly speak., with an inconsistency on'y known to
Abolitionism. of the terms on which they shall
be admitted into the Union.
But I shall net detain this Convention with
extended remarks, but at once prOceed to the
transaction of the business before it.
Beoj. Whitman, of Erie. A. D Bollenu, of
Philadelphia, and D H. Neiman, of North
ampton, were appointed temporary secretaries.
The list of delegates wan then called over,
and corrected Those from this part of the
State were as follows: Senattiiial delegate
from Erie and Crawford, M: Park Davis, of
Meadville Representative delegates—Erie,
Laid Wilson and Beoj. Whitman ; Crawford,
L F. McLaughlin, Conneattville; Thos. N.
Brooks, Meadville; Warren, Rufus P. King,
Warren borough ; Elk. Geo. D. Messenger,
Ridgway; Venango, R. P. Cochrane, Franklin.
The Convention then adjurned. In the
afternoon a permanent organiza.ion was ef
fected. Ron. Richard Vane, of Philadelphia,
was chosen President, with a Vice President
and Secretary from each Senatorial district.
On being escorted to the chair, Mr. V.ux
was greeted with enthusiastic applause, and
proceeded to address the Convention in sub
stance as follows
SPRACH OF HON. RICHARD VAUX.
Got . amen of Me Convention : TheDemocrat
io party of Pentssylvank, by her representa
tives. in conformity with the ancient usaces
of the party, boa again assembled in State
Convention. Since the days of Thomas Jef
ferson, in every crisis of our country's his
tory, we have assembled in the capitol of this
Commonwealth. bold and defiant, standing on
the principles of constitutional liberty tviich
can alone maintain us as a happy and pros
perous people. Amid threats of violence and
the menaces of power, the Democracy never
quailed. During the last four years of war
sal oppression, when all the pressure of ex
ecutive power was used to destroy the Delao•
oratic party--,when to be a Democrat was
something more than at any period in our
past history—the Democracy met the enemy
upon the great principles of the Constitution,
and defied the party in power.
We have here met again ; sad let us do as
our fathers in ages of 'our history have done
—stand on the broad principles of the Consti,
tution and demand all those rights and priv..
lieges which belong Ito the St , tee and to, the
people. We will be satisfied with nothing
less. These principles cannot. be changed by
fanatics, or overrides by power. The rights
of the people are dear to them—the rights of
the grates are as dear to them as to the reople.
Our fathers made this compact of federative
unity under hardly less than inspiration, and
it cannot be altered by fanatics or destroyed
by power. Its provisions are for ns and our
children, and military necessity shall not de
prive us of either of these rights or privileges
Let it be then distinctly understood that the
dignity of American citizenAip unlit net be
degraded or contaminated by association or
an equality with an inferior race, either so
cially or politically.
Gentlemen of the Convention: Haviog by
your partiality been chosen to preside over
your deliberations. I ask your indulgence.
and promise to perform my dnties to the best.
of my ability. The Chair is now ready far
any motion that may be made.
Mr. Sanderson of Luserne, offered the fol•
lowing resolution, which was adapted:
Resolved, That a committee on resolutions
be appointed. composed of one delegate from
mil Senatorial district to be designated by
the delegates from within said districts, and
that said committee appoint its chairman,
and that all resolution, having relation to
Federal or State affairs be referred to said
committee, without debate.
The following committee ,was appointed
under the foregoing resolution :
Ist district, B. Mullen ; 24 John Hamil
ton, Jr ; Bd, L. C Cassiday ; 4th, Thos. J.
Roberts ; fittr. Jos. B. Baker, .B. L Acker;
6th, Nathan C. Jame) ; 7th, J ha D. Stiles ;
.
Bth. Hiram B Ludwig ; 9th, . P. Dewees
10th, Henry S Molt: 11th. W M. Williams;
12th, Geo. Sanderson ; 13th, Wm. A. Simp
son ; 14th, J. B. Beck ; 15th, Peter Ent ;
16th, John C. Keller; 17th. Gee. Sanderson,
H. G. Smith ;' 18th. Jeremiah S. Black ; 19th,
B Y. Hamsher ; 20th, Daniel Weyant ; 21st,
Ears D. Packer, Andrew Reed ; 22d, Jam B.
Saasom ; 233, Ch's. L. Lsmberton ; 24th,
Wm. M. Given ; 25th, Thos. J. Kenan. e John
J. Mitchell : 26th. Andrew Brady ; 27th. D.
8. Morris; 28th, Robert L. Cochran; 29th,
Benj. Whitman.
IVIIIIIINI MUM 1
The Convention re-assembled at the Iniur
appointed, and Hon. Jeremiah' . 8. !Hash,
Chairman of the. Coomittee on Resolutions,
made the following report :
WHINNAII, It is therimpirrative duty, and
should be the exclusive (lesiva of every Ameri
can citizen.eutrusted with the power of con
trolling public+ affairs, by his vote or other
wise, to'see that they are administered with
a single eye to the great objects which cur
forefathers had in view when they laid the
foundations of this Republic, namely: "To
form a more perfect Union,. establish justice,
insure domestio tranquility, provide for the
@imam defence. promote the general-wel
fare, and secure the blessings of liberty to
ourselves and oar posterity " AND WIiNNIAN,
?he lea sad tie party administering the
mato Uoventsent shoe 1861, hue betray
ed their letnt, violated their tnOst Sacred ob
ligations, disregarded the commands of the
fundamental law, corruptly squandered the
public money, • denial justice to the people,
perverted the whole Government from its or.
iginel purpose, and, thereby, have brought
untold calamities open the country there—
fore,
1. Be it Resoled, That we, the Democracy
of Pennsylvania, are now, as we a 1 ways have
bren, faithful to the Union of the States, 141
pastes the *occasion of the South with all our
influence and having no sympathy or associa
tion whatever with that party is the North
which plotted against the Union and pro.
nounced the Constitution " a covenant with
death and an agreement with hell,"
2 That if the counsels of the Demccratic
party had prevailed, the Union would have
been• saved in all its integrity and .honor,
without the slaughter, debt, and disgrace of
a civil war ; but when the formation of sec
tional parties in the North and in the So•ith
and the advent of one of those parties into
the seats of Federal power made war a (tot
which we could not control, we sustained the
Federal authorities in good faith, asking
nothing at their hands except a decent res—
pect for our legal rights and some show of
common honesty in the management of our
financial affairs; but in both those particulate
we were disappointed and betrayed.
3. That the Constitution established by our
revolutionary fathers is entitled to our un
qualifimi respect and obedience ; the oath to
support it is binding religiously, morally and
legally, at all times, under all circumstances
and in every part of the couetry, upon all
public officers from the highest to the lowest,
as well as upon private citizens ; it is only by
a strict observance of t its provisions and a
.rigid enforcement of its obligations in all the
States that we can hope for Union, Liberty or
Pence ; be who wilfully violates it, or coun—
sels its violation by others, is a public enemy
and a dishonest man.
4. That among -the rights guaranteed to us
by die plaineet words of the Constitution are
these—free speech. a free press, freedom from
arbitrary arrest and illegal imprisonment,
trial by jury, the writ of habeas corpus, the
perfect immnpity of all persons not in the
army or navy• from any speciei of punishment
for crime or pretended crime which is not the
legal consequence of a regular conviction by
to impartial jury—the absolute subordination
of all military power to the civil authority,
and the privilege of white citizens to vote at
State elections according to the laws of the
State.
5. That we fully concur with President
Johnaoa• in the conviction expressed by him
in IMO. and repeated several times since. that
the Federal Government is sovereign within
its proper sphere; that it acts not t' roucth
or upon the States but directly upon individ
uals ; that the States could not absolve the
people,from their federal obligations; that
the Stets ordinances of secession were nulli
ties ; and, therefore. when the attempted res.-
lution_carne to an end by the submission of
the insnrgents. the States were as much a
part of the Union as they had been before,
their people were bound to the same duties
and clothed with the same rights, excepting
of course, such rights as individuals among
them he legally forfeited' by their own acts
in the meantime. And we hereby declare
that, So far as we can prevent it, the reeump..
tion of their proper places in the Union by
those States, some of whose citizens were
latily,in rebellion, shall not be impeded or
delayed by the unlawful interference of that
party at the North which always was hostile to
the Union, which now pronounces it legally
dissolved, and which is still malignantly la
boring to prevent its resttiration.
6. That the effort now making by certain
persons to use the power of the General Gov
ernment with a view to farce negro suffrage
on the States against the free wilt of the peo
pie and contrary to existing laws is not only
a high crime against the Constitution, but a
deliberate and wicked attempt to put the
States of this Union (all of them , more or less
and some of them entirely 1 under the dom'n
ion of Degrees, to Africonize a large portion
of the country and degrade the white race
morally and 'socially, as well as politically, to
the low level of the black. We will not ac
knowledge the in - capacity of our Own race to
govern itself, nor surrender the destinies of
the country ipto the hands of negrnee, nor
put ourselves under their gua.rd;anshio, nor
give•up to them the political priiileges which
we inherited from cur fathers ; awl we exhert
our brethren in other States to take up the
same attitude and maintain it firmly.
7. That we will support President Johnson
in every just effort be may make to place all
the States in their proper positicn, to give
them a fair representation in 'Congress and to
save them from the curse of negro equality.
He shall have our hearty approval when he
inflicts legal punishment by means of legal
tribunals upon offenders against the United
States, and we gyill be with him eincere'y to
sustain and urhold'him in every measure
which looks to the maintenance of the public
credit. But our full approval of his adminis
tratlon can be founded only in the belief that
he will execute; the law, the whole law, and
nothing but the law in all parts of the coun•
h.q. that he will not allow the military to in
terferP with Suva elections ; that he will pun
ish kidnapping and robbery throuzh the legal
authorities whether committed by federal of •
cers or private citizens; and that he
,will
suffer no person to be naurderAd by military
commission. We go for measures not men.
and upon these measures there can be no com
promise; he that is not for us is against us.
8. That in View of our enormous national
debt, the great'weight of ourtState tazes and
the local burdans imposed upon us in divers
way., economy and retrenchment becomes an
important duty, of all our Representatives;
and to this end the vast standing army now on
foot ought to he disbanded. -the navy should
be reduced, and the corrupt and extravagant
practices lately introduced into the. Gover
nment should be totally abolished.
9 - That our revenue laws need to be care
fully revised in such ,manner, that while the
public credit will be maintailed, the national
honor preserved, taxation will be equal and
just
10. That the gallant soldiers of the Repub
lic. wha so nobly risked their lives in defense
of the Union and the Constitution, merit and
will receive the undising gratitude of the
American people. Living, they shall live in
our warmest affections—and, dyirg. their
memories will be cherished for all time to
come. To say—as our political opponents do
—that they fought and bled and d:ed mainly
for the freedom -of the negro, is a crags insult
on their patriotism, and an outrage which
will be indignantly resented by their sur
viving comrades through the ballet box
11. That tha noble manner in which the
Democratic Two cf this Commonwealth has
contended in defence of - the liberties of the
people. amid trials and difficulties :limost un—
paralleled. is deserving of our grateful recog
nition, and should entitle it to the encourage
ment of every Constitution lovinc, citizen.
12 That we re affirm our adherence to the
Monroe doctrine.
The resolutions were read amid much en•
thueiasm and adopted by a unanimous vote.
.Nominations for Auditor General beihg in
order, the following gentlemen were named :
(ot. IV. IV. H. Davis, Bucks county ; Col.
Franklin Vonzant, Bucks: Isaac -Slenker,
Union ; Robert J. Hemphill, Philadelphia ;
Col Wellington H. Ent, Columbia : Wm. Hop
kins, Watth;nrlon ; Wm. Workman, Washing
ton ; S T. Shugart, Centre ; Chas. D. Man—
ley, Centre. Three ballots were taken, with
the following result :
let. 2d. 3d.
DiAirs, 27 65 86
Vanzant, 8. 9
Slenker, . 41 41 :10
Hemphill, 18
Ent, n 8. 7
Workman, 2 -
Flopkine, ' 13 19 9
Shugart, 6 4 -
Manley, 5 •
The names or Nfessrs. Hemphill, Workman,
Shugart and Manley were withdrawn before
the second ballot, and that of Mr. Var tint
prerious to th . e third ballot. The delegate
from this county voted for Col. Davis thrcugh
out the various ballots. Col. Dalig baying
received a majority of all the votes on the
third ballot, his nomination was made unani
mous. •
The .Conveation proceeded to 'nominate
candidates tor Surveyor General, and the fol
loving names were presented; Lieut.-Col.
John P. Linton, Cambria county : James P.
Barr. Allegheny ; Got. Henry A Hambright,
Lanclster ; Bernard Riley, Schuylkill ; David
Carekaddon. Clinton; Jelin Cummings. Union;
Col. J- B. Easeitser, Allegheny ; Abraham
Lumberton. Cimberland.' Three ballots were
Igo, with the fellowlait natal:
Ell
laton,
But,
ilambright,
Riley, •
Carvkaddon,
Cummings, _
Bwelizer.
Lumberton, g
The names of Meters
Cummings and Latatmrtr4 vrht
previous to the veedad 1,0 15t IL ;
Sweitzer previous to tit. tu r n Dt
delegate from Erie cluTity v;.e,
Carskaddon oa the fait 1411% is
Linton afterw'ardv. Cf.l.
vire(' a inskrity of CI
declared the unsaimoui coto lt „,
,ention.
HMI
I , it
r •
Str.Sandereon, of 1.31.•!ros„!„
lowing resolutions. whica sPe r
aion, werP adopted
Rezo/ce,f, That the deism.,
Senatorial district sweetone pt,
ward the n 3 , e to Re petilent.:
• State Central (7, .tetpnee,
office until January 1, ]r;;, va i'
after the duties cf the c-oal,alttst,
mence on the fine of J4o4try
for one year.
Raolimi t That this
ceed to elect e'chairtaan of the
Committee.
Un motion, Hon Win A Wilt,
field. was electe i by_see'krwrils..
Mr. Smith, of L Ole Beni
lowing resolution, vrt,H,
Ris3ireri, That w, .c
izing the boutitieq rl 1 t) the i r
enlisted in 186 l 11!1'1 at ILI
ceive the same ns tF. •• .;;en;i~t
and 1861. and that , h , ) , 111
appropriation for O.:
The delegates fr..!n t• e 1!1'7,,
districts reported th. nt.meact ap t
members of the
The member for
D•vis, Erg , of elf•.
On motion, the Pre , i
Zeigler, Mott. John , c. ‘l'Grals l ; .
, J
& committee to icArt:i
Linton of their nomin , ,, i, t ,
Hon. Jeremiah S Black 1114 ti
address the Convention, lil t ".
able and logical speech li - hi:l
to with interest by the litrg, v. !t
repeatedly and enthnviaitictlly
Ou motion of Mr Z•ealer.
was posed to the Preridert
of the Convention 'for the 10., e
manner in which they had d:::
dut ire. •
The motion to adjourn hal..•
Mr. Vaux rose and made the!.`4 o
sddre•i:
Gentlemen of the Conn./tilt / • y..
oluded the duties which ytcr
have imposed upon you. }' cu
to return to them with a cern
tires and actions. Go to
valleys of this great Ccn, rs ,,,,,
the people that t' e
li•es and its princip'es are vi•a:
[Applause.] Tell the panpl e
neilher dismayed nor dishearecti
that the infam)us tyrannv f tt t
partment " can neither p -stint
the assertion of our prinrih;e 4
else of our rights. [lmmsuse
lasted for someminuir•s 1 ItivAl
men to consider the laip.rs and
fathers to establish our , ystem
eminent. and to defer i
of middle age to c..nt..der 1.1„:
their posterity as naviz rncelT.?
ands for coming gener:.'r)r.s, hn
men to counsel and idyls, at:
efforts of those on wh , oi a t i• : !
nant of liberty now rents lit •
faith and hope Trust the ee.. , tt
men, the Convention is ad,
day.
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