JEFJPERSONIAN REPUBLICAN JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Stroudsbnrg, Pa. Oct. 9, 1840. TcnnB, $2,00 in advance; 2.25, naif yearly ; and $2,50 if nol paid bcfoic the end of the year. CANDIDATES OF THE PEOPLE. POR PRESIDENT i Gen. William Henry Harrison, OF OHIO. FOR VICE PRESIDENT ; John Tyler, OF VIRGINIA. ELECTORAL TICKET. SENATORIAL. John A. Shulze, of Lycoming, Joseph JBitner, of Cumberland, DISTRICTS. 3 Levis Passmore, 12 John Dickson, 2 John Price Wetherill 13 John M'Keehan, Thomas P. Cope, 14 John Reed, 3 Jona. Gillingham, 15 Ashbel B. Wilson, 4 Amos Ellmaker, 16 Ner Middleswarth, Abr'm R. M'lllvain, 17 George Walker. John K. Zeilin, 18 Bernard Connelly jr 5 Robert Stinson, 19 Joseph Markle, 6 William S. Hendrie-20 Justice G. Fordyce, 7 J. Jenkins Ross. 21 T. M. T. M'Kennan, 8 Peter Filbert, 22 Harmer Denney, 23 Joseph Buffington, 24 Henry Black, 25 John Dick. i) William Adams, 10 John Harper, 11 Wm.M'Ilvain, Col. Johnson said (in Congress) "Who is General Harrison ? The son of one of the signers of the Declaration of Indepencence; who spent the greater part of his large fortune in redeeming the pledge he then gave, of his 'fortune, life and sacred honor,' to secure the liberties of his country. Of the career of General Harrison I need not speak ; the history of the West is his-history. For forty years he has been identified with its interests, its perils and its hopes. Universal- 'J w.v.va "- 1-""! b ... ed by his ability in the councils of his country, he nas been yet more illustriously distinguished in the field. During the late war, he was longer in active service than any other general officer ; he was, perhaps, oftener in action than any one of them, and never sustained a dejeat. Democratic Whig Nomination for MONROE COUNTY. FOR CONGRESS. GEORGE WEBER, of Northampton Co. "FOR ASSEMBLY. HERMAN B. mXLMAN, ofMauch Chunk. JOSEPH WEAVER, of Saucon, DEPUE S. MILLER, of Stroud. Pike County Nominations. EOR CONGRESS. GEORGE WEBER, GF NORTHAMPTON COUNTY. FOR ASSEMBLY PAUL S. PRESTON, OF WAYNE COUNT Y. " The "Ladies Companion." The October No. of this valuable magazine has been received. We have not had leisure to peruse all the contents but from what we have read, we can assure our readers, that the present No. fully sustains the reputation this periodical has so de servedly obtained. We refer our readers to the article in another col umn headed " Old Federalists Where are they?" We wish every one who is not already disgusted with the hypocrisy and assurance of the leaders of the locofoco party, in assuming the name of Demo crats, to give the article the closest attention. To the list qkoc" Federalists therein enumerated, who are now prominent men in the Yan Buren ranks, we could add several in our own neighborhood, who were opposed to the last war, and against the admission of Missouri into the Union without jre stricting her as to slavery, that are now, if we be lieve their present professions, the purest Dcmo--crats in the country. In our opinion there is a vast difference between Locofocoism and Democracy, 'and although there is no doubt but that Roger B. "Taney, Levi Woodbury, James Buchanan, Garret D: Wall, Charles J. Ingersoll, &c. are genuine lo co focos,yet we are sure they are not Democrats. Why dont the Locofoco Editors publish the let ter of Col, Johnson to Carneal? Are they afraid it will convict them of falsebpodf Try it gentle men, don't keep back the sentiments of your can didates. Conventions. Throughout our widely extended country, the people still continue te assemble in countless num bers, for the purpose of expressing their senti ments on the polioy of the present administration- the excitement appeara.io become more intense, as the period approaches when4eliberation must give place to action. An immense mass convention of the Democracy of the Northern Counties of our State was held at Wilkesbarre, on Wednesday of last week, at which 6000 persons were present. A, large delegation from Northampton and the upper portion of Monroe Cos. attended, who have returned highly delighted with the zeal and enthu siasm displayed by all present the Valley of Wy oming will do her duty on the 30th. Among the speakers wre A. E. Brown and H. D. Maxwell, ofEaston. To the Freemen of Monroe. On Tuesday next the General Election will take place throughout the Commonwealth, and we hope every -Whig will be at his post. It is true, that we cannot consider that the result will be any test of the State of public opinion, in regard to the Presidency, because many who in tend casting their suffrages for a change of . men and measures, in the national administration on the 30th October, will still vote their party ticket on Tuesday next. Let no Whig bo absent from the polls, under the impression, that his single vote would be unimportant because our party has hith erto been in a minority in the district. We can with pride point to the candidates on our Congressional and Assembly tickets as in the highest degree worthy of.the support of every true Whig. The subjoined capital article we recommend most cordially. The position of Pennsylvania. OUR DUTY AND OUR CAUSE. The glorious result of the late elections and the paramount importance of the great struggle of the people against the National office-holders those who have brought ruin and distress into every bu siness mart in the country, and laid waste, as with a bosom of destruction, the once thriving and prosperous manufactories of our land have drawn the attention of the people of Pennsylvania par tially at least, from the contemplation of their po sition in the eyes of the Union at large. To be sure that they have been engaged night and day in the struggle they have slept not, nor have they rested the soles of their feet in an hour when their influence could be felt but they have overlooked the importance of the first blow, and have been conteracting the efforts, for one grand rally at the Polls on the 30th of October they have been preparing to storm the citadel of Loco-focoism on the 30th and have, in some parts at least, neglec ted the importance of making a grand attack along the whole line of the enemy as a preliminary move ment and an earnest of what the people of the whole Union may expect of us when we shall meet the upholders of misrule face to face, on the 30th of October. The importance of the election on the 13th, should not be overlooked. The eyes of the whole Union now more than ever, are Upon us, and the hopes of the patriotic citizens of our sis ter States are with us in our struggle. They well know that the vote of Pennsylvania is not neces sary to hurl from power the minions of corruption, but still they desire to see the Key-Stone State take her position where her duty calls her, and where in the hour of danger she has ever been found in the van of the battle against the power that dares to trample under foot the prosperity and happiness of the people, lhev ask her to raise her voice against the administration an adminis tration that has brought ruin and distress upon the country dried up the very fountains of our pros perity sapped the foundations of civil and religious liberty proclaimed openly and above board, that the monarchies of Europe are proper examples for American freemen to take as their guide and by a series of measures, which if our glorious fore fathers could rise from their hallowed graves and behold, would shudder at the thought of their pros perity being so degenerated, have rendered our national name little better than a bye word for the Kings, the Emperors, the tyrants and the scoffers at Republican institutions in the Old World, to scoff at and deride ! Our sister States in the glori ous work of Reform, we say are beckoning to us to follow them, and asking us if we will remain behind when our hills and vallies were among the first to pour out their sons to the rescue, in the days of the Revolution. They ask us to follow them in the good work, and in a few years we shall behold another state of things in our glorious coun try. We shall see trade reviving prosperity re established the currency restored to that condi tion it was found in by Gen. Jackson honest in dustry respected and rewarded the government again pursuing- its course onward and uDward. dis pensing " blessings and benefits" on all around and a free, virtuous, happy, and prosperous peo ple mnaoiting every nook and corner ot our broad land rejoicing in their free government and thriv ing condition the mountain sides dotted with the white cottage of the honest laborer and farmer the Tallies alive with industrious citizens, and the cities and towns filled with a population engaged in rendering themselves and neighbors contented, thriity, and iree the administration of the world, and the terror oi despotism. The people of Pennsylvania-the Keystone of the arch arc asked by their brethern to come up to the work. Will thev do it ? They wish us to give an earnest of our intentions before the great day for the final onset arrives. Their eyes are bent upon us, m expectation of our answer. What then ts our duty. To Rally to the Polls on the Thirteenth day of October, and record our votes against the administration. To Rally, as our patriot forefa thers did in the revolution, and put down an admin istration that is crushing us to the earth! Will the freemen of the Keystone answer the appeal in the spirit it is made! RALLY THEN!! A Good Hit. In a Western town in Virginia, the Richmond Whig says : The Locofocos had stationed themselves for the purpose of insulting a Whig procession in march for a certain point; but the Whigs came up 200 strong in double files, so that it was deemed by the Locos prudent to let them pass in respectful silence. There was, however a negro servant attached to the Whig cavalcade, who lingered in the rear, and when he passed the Locos, they most obsequiously pulled off their hats to him, and bowing low, exclaimed, ' How do ye do, General Harrison how do ye! do V Pompey humored the joke : ' You mistake dis child, gemmen I hab not the honor to be Gen. Harrison, but am your Vice President Dick John son's son !' We may guess that the Locos did not rally after this home thrust. Whistling Loud. Some of ourj friends occasionally inquire of us, the ground upon which the administration men, build their present hopes of Mr. Van Uuren's re election; what are the States upon which they cal culate for votes ; and what are the indications in those States, upon which they base their calcula tions. We find in the Nashville Union (a Van Buren paper of the real grit) the following state ment and remarks, which, we think, will answer the queries to which toe refer. " That, however, is not always a safe guide, for as in the case of North Carolina, politics and sec tional considerations, instead of national matters govern the gubernatorial canvass. But by the la test state elections .only, can any estimate what ever be made on known facts. " Now, what were the popular votes by States in 1839-40, the latest indications 1 we annex a true table : Van Buren. Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New Jersey , Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, ' Alabama, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Illinois, Arkansas, Missouri, Whig Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Delaware, North Carolina, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Louisiana, 10 7 14 8 30 10 23 11 11 7 4 21 '15 -v5 - 3 4 7 8 4 42 3. 15 9 15 3" 5 111 183 Van .Burens majority 72. In each of the States under " Van Buren" his party have had a majority of the popular votes in the latest state elections. It is utterly fanciful to suppose that New York will not sustain Mr. Van Buren in November, and we think the same may be said of Michigan, North Carolina and perhaps, Vermont. With these figures setting forth the only reliable data upon which calculations can be made, we confess our astonishment, that the Whigs should attempt a show of opposition when it is so clear ly apparent that they have no principles at stake." The only reliable data!! Massachusetts became a V. B. State by electing Governor Morton with one majority, on account of his abolitionism 14 New Jersey has given no V. B. vote Maryland is as good for Harison as ) the city of Philadelphia. $ Ohio, do do. 8 10 21 53 Deduct from 183 and there remains 130, and where is Mr. Van Buren's majority to say noth ing of Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, and Penn sylvania 1 The perhaps for Vermont, is capital, considering the late vote the only reliable data. U. S. Gaz. We guess the news from Maine, will still fur ther enlighten the Nashville Editor we will short ly lay before our rerders, our own estimate of the forthcoming result. From the N. Y. Spectator Old Federalists Where are they ? No. 1. ROGER B. TANEY, appointed Chief Justice of the United States by General Jackson, after having held, by virtue of the same favor, the offices of Attorney General andJ Secretary of the Treasury. No man "breathed" more bitter "denunciations against Mr. Van Bu ren, Mr. Jefferson, the war, Governor Tompkins and Mr. Madison," than did this same Roger B. Taney. He was a Federalist of the deepest azure ; and assisted Alexander Hanson, and Mr. Wagner, when the office of the Baltimore Federal Republican was mobbed by " the de mocracy," and General Lingan murdered. JNTo. 2. LEVI WOODBURY, Secretary of the Treasury. An old New Hampshire Fed eralist. He wrote a pamphlet againBi General Jackson, and iij favor of the election of John Quincy Adams, almost as long and as stupid as one of his Treasury reports. As a member of the cabinet, he is of course a cordial associate with Mr. Van Buren. No. 3. JAMES BUCHANAN, one of Gen eral Jackson's ministers to Russia, and now Senator in Congress from Pennsylvania. He was one of the bitterest of the ultra Federal ists so bitter that he once declared that " if he supposed he had a drop of democratic blood in his veins, he would have a vein opened, and let it out." So late as the year 1828, he boasted of the name said " he had not changed his views and principles in a single particular," ac cording to the ohraseoloffv of the Argus. Af ter the close of the war, he thus spoke, in an oration, of the administration of Mr. Madi son : " The democratic administration declared war against commerce. They were not satisfied with depriving it of the protection of a navy, but they acted as though they had determined upon its an nihilation. " llME- WILL NOT ALLOW ME TO ENUMERATE ALL THE OTHER WILD AND WICKED AOTS OF THE DEMO OCRATIC ADMINITRATION. ' " After they had, by eefusing the Bank of the U- q. a continuance of, its charter, embarrassed the financial concerns of the Government, tbey rashly plunged us into a wan " Glorious it has been in the highest degree to the American character, but disgraccjul in the ex tyemc to the Administration. Thanks then, be to Heaven, that we have ob tained a peace, BAD AND DITGRACEFUL AS IT IS. " THEY (the democrats) GLORIED IN SET TING THEMSELVES IN ARRAY AGAINST OUR PRESENT ADMIRABLE FORM OF GOVERNMENT." No. 4, GOVERNOR VROOM, of New Jersey, one of the strongest Federalists. Now so thoroughly "democratic," in the liew of the President, the Globe and Argus, that he was forced, by a breach of law and constitu tion, into a seat irt Congress, which he has no jusuitle in law or in honor, No. 5. GARRET D. WAUL, one of the Senators of the'United States from N. Jersey. A Federalist of the deepest dye. He has avowed himself unchanged on the floor of the Senate. In the language quoted by the Argus, " he does not pretend that he is not now where he ever has been and ever will be," but even in his place he has avowed " the old and hateful allegation." Jn the work of disfranchising N. Jersey he went heart and soul with Mr. Van Buren. To quote the Argus again: "Nothing can be more cordial than the association of these old politicians in a common object for the promotion of common political ends and the advancement of the same party and same doctrines." No. 6. CHARLES J. INGERSOLL, noton ly an old Federalist, but one who out-Heroded Herod by declaring, in a letter under his own hand, that had he livd in the days of the rev olution, he should have been a Tory ! He was the Van Buren candidate for Congress in. the third district of Pennsylvania. If Mr. Van Buren is a Democrat, as he professes to be, then he and Mr. Ingersoll were " antipodes," to quote the Argus again, " Not a single opin ion, principle or doctrine in which they did not stand in direct hostility to each other And yet no couple so cordial and loving now. Ingersoll changed? He will say not. then" we quote the Argus asrain- Has Mr. 'Where is Mr. Van Buren ? Can any man doubt? Can apos tacy deceive itself, or deceive others V No. 8. HENRY HUBBARD, a Van Buren Senator from New Hampshire a Federalist and one who VOTED for the Hartford Con vention. No. 9. RUEL WILLIAMS, Van Buren Senator from Maine assisted in burning James Madison in effigy. No. 10. JOHN II. PRENTISS, Van Bu ren member of Congress fron Otsego. An old r ederahst of the most approved pattern in the old days thereof. No. 11. AARON VANDERPOOL Van Buren mejnber of Congress from Kinderhook a Federalist of the real aqua-fortis cast. Op posed the war and could tell, if he chose, who harangued the mob at Kinderhook from a cart, to oppose one of Gov. Tompkins's courts mar tial, in order to prevent the levying of fines upon the militia who refused to turn out during the last war. No. 12. EX-GOVERNOR CHITTENDON of Vermont, a Federalist who issued a procla mation to.prevent the militia of that state from going to Plattsburgh to repel the invasion of Sir George Provost. Now a leading Van Bu ren man. No. 13. THOMAS J. OAKLEY, a Van Bu ren judge of the Superior Court an old anti war Federalist in Congress and out of Con gress. No. 14. SAMUEL JONES, Chief Justice of the Superior Court a staunch Van Buren man. It would require a microscope to find any evidences of his democracy now or at any time. No. 15. Maj. WILLIAM JONES, his broth er, of Queens. An old Federal member of the Legislature a staunch Van Buren man just re-indorsed by the Albany Argus. No. 16. WJVL CULLEN BRYANT, edi tor of the New York Evening Post, the leading Van Buren print in that state, once gave the world the following poetical portraiture of Thos. Jefferson : "And thou the scorn of every patriot name, Thy country's ruin and her council's shame ! Poor servile thing! derision of the brvel Who erst from Tarleton fled to Carter's cave; Thou, who, when menaced by perfidious Gaul, Did prostrate to her whiskcr'd minions fall, And when our cash her empty bags supplied, Didst meanly strive the foul disgrace to hide, Go, wretch, resign the presidential chair, Disclose thy secrot measures, foul or fair, Go, search with curious eye for horned frogs, Mid the wild wastes of Louisiana bogs ; Or, wliere the Ohio rolls its turbid stream, Dig for huge bonos, thy glory and thy theme, Go, scan, Philosophist, thy charms, And sink supinely in her sable arms, But quit to abler hands the helm of state, Nor image ruin on thy country's fate." No, 17. SAMUEL HARKER, of the Bal timore Republican the editor who first under took to sneer at the brave Harrison by the in tended insult of log cabin and hard cider Yan Buren printer of the laws. In 1827 he declared that he would "never ask forgiveness for the political sin which stamped upon him the name of Federalist ; we delight in the name!" Aagain, in 1828, he said: "To us, the name of Fed eralism is a subject of no reproach. We rejoice to bear it, and hope that our efforts to honor and support it may be such as it merits. While others are endeavouring to hold it up to scorn, and are deserting its standard for the purpose of securiug power and emolument from other hands, it shall be our glory to support its cause, and our feeble powers shall always be employed to dis play its beauties to others" But they are without number. " Their name is legion." Nor have we arrayed them in sol 1 1 1 n ' . ia column nere, lor any purpose or injury or malice, but merely to show the public the mil lion who do not keep the run of political events, and who have not been so long accustomed to follow the: serpentine courses of Mr. Van Bu ren's leading supporters as we have how hol low and unprinciplod is the clamor of the Globe. the Argus and the Evoning Post, upon the sub ject of Old Fcralists and Federalism. We find the following "palpable hit" in the Ro chester Democrat : When the Whig guns at the d.cad, of njght, Had wak'd the babqs. in sad affright, Amps, with sbap look and piercing eye., Says "Hush, my dears, lib still, don't cry.' The "Heaven born" then resirtneslns quill, The babrs rest not but ie, LIES still. Testimony of Gen. Scott. The Pittsburg Gazette gives the following letter, in which a gallant soldier bears direct testimony to the gallantry of a brother officer: Saratoga Springs, Aug. 20, 1S40. Dear Sir, Your complimentary letter of the 10th instant, inviting me on the part of the Har rison Committee of correspondence of Butler county, to visit you, and be present at a Con vention at Pittsburg, has found me in this place. A tour through the Keystone state would bo highly iuleresting to me, but my public duties at this time forbid, and 1 aught to add, that as an officer of the Federal Government, I early prescribed to myself the rule to abstain from taking an active part in the conflict of politics. Hence, in thirty-two years,! have not once been to the polls, or to any party meeting. This offi cial reserve has, however, never prevented me from discussing with the spirit of a freeman, in the casual intercourse of society, the merits of all public men and public measures of my time. Thus it has often fallen in my way to bearzeai ous testimony to the distinguished services of Gen. Harrison, both as a statesman and a sol dier. With those services I have long been familiar, and can only attribute to gross ignor ance or to any party malignity, the recent im putations to which you allude. If at the end of the late war wih Great Bri tain, or at the end of that successfully waged by Gen. Wayne against the Northwestern In dians, any person had shamelessly impeached the courage of Gen. Harrison, he would I am fully persuaded, have had not only his patriot ism but his courage denied by every honest hearted American. It was never my fortune to serve in the same field with Gen. Harrison But I well remem ber the admiration entertained by my immedi ate associates in arms for the Hero of Tippe canoe, Fort Meigs, and the River Thames. This sentiment as far as I ever knew or be lieved, was common throughout our armies, both officers and men placing him, with one accord, in the class of our most gallant and successful commanders. Without meaning to violate the self-imposed restriction mentioned above, I cannot, being ditectly appealed to by your respetable com mittee, withhold this humble testimony from an old brother soldier who has been so unjustly assailed in this late day of his fair reROwn. I remain, my dear sir, with high respect, vour obedient servant, WINFIELD SCOTT. Samuel A. Purviance, Esq. on behalf of Tippecanoe Club of Butler county,Pa. In a late paper we disproved the allegations of the Loco-foco3, that the Democrats of the days of Jefferson and Madison and their descendants in this district, were now Van Buren men, and the subjoined letter from Senator Root of New York, will show how it is in the " Empire State." Where are the Democrats. The following letter from Gen. Root, is in reply to one from .a friend, asking information relative to the Electors m New York who voted for Jef ferson, in 1800. Delhi, August 1, 1S40. Dear Sir I have received yours of the 28th, in vhichyou request to be informed the names of the electors now alive, who voted for Jefferson in 1800, in this State, and. the Senators and Repre sentatives now alive who voted for them. Then this State had twelve Electors, and chosen by the Legislature. Three of them still survive, to wit, James Burt of Orange, Pierre Van Cortlandt of Westchester, and John Woodworth, then of Rens selaer, now of Albany. Two of the Senators still survive, to wit, Ambrose Spencer, then of Co lumbia, afterward of Albany, now of Wayne, and Jame3 W. Wilkin of Orange. Seven of the mem bers of Assembly still survive, to wit, Nicoll Floyed of Suffolk, Samuel G. Verbryck of Rock land, Peter Townsend, then of Orange, now of New York, Smith Thompson, then of Dutchess, now Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Erastus Root of Delaware. Archibald Mclntyre, then of Montgomery, now of Albany, and James Merrill of Saratoga; of the twelve survivors, all for Harrison except Mr. Merrill. Ho is a very aged man, and has, I understand, very little of mental vigor remaining to him. . I have the honor to be, with great respect. Your obedient servant, ERASTUS ROOT. liooli MereRead! GEO. WASHINGTON was a FARMER, John Adams was a Lawyer. Thomas Jefferson was a Lawyer. James Madison was a Lawyer. James Monroe was a Lawyer. John Q. Adams is a Lawyer. Andrew Jackson is a Lawyer. Martin Van Buren is a Lawyer. WM. HENRY HARRISON is a FARMER. Every President but one has been selocted from the lawyers. While we say nothing a gainst honest lawyers, we think farmers will in clude, all other things equal, to try a farmer onco in fifty years. In Harrison we have an a ble, experienced, true hearted, honest farmer capable, faithful, honest let the people try him one term. Again. The Whigs of the Revolution wero jealous of herediiary power. They intended i shut every avenue to its hoing cngratcd upon our system. The same jealousy carried otii has prevented the re-election of a President who had a son to tempt him to abuse his power. Washington, Jefferson, Madison, AIonroo, Jackson, neither of them had a son, and wero ro-elected. John Adams had a son; John Qi Adams and Martin Van Bur bav-e sa.ns the two Adams were lp( qitf at the end oj" the first term, qnd so will Martin Van, Qureni IP.lrI.?5nt &(?., has a population of 29,263. Whites, 13,027. The Georgia election took place, on the 5th in