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.Democratic Whig Nominations.
FOR GOVERNOR,
JAMES IRVIN,
OF CENTRE COUNTY.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
JOSEPH W. PATTON,
OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
L. BARNES, at Milford, is duly author
ized to acta3 Agent for this paper; to receive sub
scriptions, advertisements, orders for job-work,
and payments for the same.
;OIilJttTTEEB ASSEMBLY TICKET
Benjamin V. Bush, L Smithfield,
John Heckmaif, Easton,
.Vacob Freeman, Freemansburg.
The Last Word.
Whigs of Monroe, are you prepared foi the bat
tle which is to be fought on Tuesday next. The
contest, preparatory to it, has been unusually qui
et and free from much of that bitterness of feeling
and animosity which has attended other Elections.
Yet we feel persuaded that the people have been
none the less alive to the great issues which are
to be decided. Then let every man who has a
vote, and who feels that the election of General
JAMES IRVIN, will redound to the honor and
welfare of our Commonwealth, come forward and
aid in putting down a corrupt set of political in
triguers, who have shewn themselves, in the ad
ministration of public affairs, regardless of every
thing except the spoils of office. Remember all
the inducements you have to defeat Francis R.
Shunk and the unworthy men he has collected
about him at Harrisburg. Now is the time to re
"deem the Slate from the many evils that have been
brought upon it by the present administration an
administration whose practises have ever been
contraty to its professions; and which has done
no one act to redeem its head from the censure of
the people and to recommend him for re-election.
Then to arms, the time for action is nearly passed,
and every one should be prepared for duty on
Tuesday next at the Ballot-box. A united and
harmonious effort is all that is required to insure
a brilliant triumph !
The Whis Candidates.
The news of Gen. Irvin and Mr. Paiton's pros
pects, are most cheering from every part of the
State, and renders their success as morally cer
tain as man can be certain of any thing before it
transpires. There is not a County in the State,
but will do better for them than they have for any
other Whig candidate. Then Whigs of Monroe,
be up and doing, and deserve your meed of praise
in the general jubilee which will be celebrated
over your candidate's election.
The Assembly Ticket.
We place the Volunteer Assembly Ticket at the
head of our columns, this week, and bespeak for
it the cordial and hearty support of every man in
,the County, who is in favor of the Volunteer Sys
tem, and opposed to' the manner in which the Reg
ular Ticket was formed. Messrs. Bush, Heck
man and Freeman, are all good men, and contrast
most favorably with their opponents Schoonover,
Laubach, and Zuckenbach. Besides, their pros
pect of success is most cheering. Northampton it
is said will do well for them, and Monroe, we are
sure, " can do better." Then give them a long
pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether, and their
success is certain.
LOOK OUT
For Xyiug JLocofoco Handbills and
Circulars !
. Wecaution the People of this County to be on
their guard against the TRICKS and LAST
CA'RDS of Locofocoism. Be not deceived by the
FALSE AFFIDA VJTS and other rile publica
tions put forth on the eve of the election to poison
the public mind. Remember that Clay's defeat
was the result of the most outrageous PR AMD ev
er perpetrated upon the American people; and
shall IRVIN and PATTON be defeated by the
..same foul means ! Whigs! be on you GUARD !
The corrupt clique who surround the present im
becile Executive will resort to the most base and
disreputable means to carry the erection. Remem
ber the FRAUDS of 1844 the KANE LETTER
the Union's story about " Polk's near neighbor"
and all the wicked DECEPTION of the Loco
foco leaders in palming Polk upon the Peoplo as
a better Tariff man than Clay. Remember the
TREACHERY of these Locofoco leaders, and be
r.f:Eful how yu a2ain confide in them. They are
. r??yJng a desperate came, and aro floodine the
State with LYING Handbills and Circulars.
v Again we say, BE NOT DECEIVED!
The venerable John Quincy Adams wilt take
f his seat in Congress during the ensuing session
j He thinks ho can winter jn Washington more
i -comfortably thaa in the severe climate, of Mas
$fCkufr.ett; .
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To Your Tents !
As the election day approaches, every patri
ot who has watched the shadows that are gath
ering around our country, must look with in
creased anxiety to the issue that will deepen or
dispel them. To those who think at all, and
in the spirit of patriotism, a word of admonition
is perhaps needless, for they will recognise the
solemn duty before them, and perform it ; and
to those who do not think or care what avails
it to speak ? Yet we, too, have a duty it is to
warn our fellow citizens of the crisis before and
round about them ; and to invoke them in the
name of society and of self, of their interests
arid those of their children, to arrest and main
tain the right.
Every citizen is the repository of a sacred
heritage, the trustee of an invaluable estate for
posterity. It will not do to say " we are weary
of the trust, wo are no politicians :" if they be
not prepared and willing to act at the polls in
maintenance of the estate entrusted with them
they are unworthy stewards of the glorious
past ; they fling scorn upon the labors of Wash
ington and his compatriots ; and claiming to be
freemen, are duller than the fclave, for he at
least loves freedom. Friends of Industry, friends
of Freedom, friends of Peace, will you permit
the sacred interests for which you profess a
love, to perish because of your indifference !
If you do, and British Free Trade beggars the
land, war demoralizes, and slavery governs it
can you murmur except against yourselves ?
It will not be denied that Pennsylvania is a
Tariff State ; all her interests, all her princi
ples are in favor of protection. Can the lash
of party drive her people into opposition to it 1
The fraud of '44, the pledge upon which the
vote was given, the treachery which followed,
when James Buchanan who had promised sta
bility to the tariff of '42 from the election of
Polk, intrigued for its repeal, and Dallas ihe
Tariff candidate voted for it are they forgot
ten ? The people of Pennsylvania, however
divided, are not subdued to so degraded a tame
ness. They signally rebuked the fraud at the
last election ; and they will not now embrace
those whom they then denounced and dis
claimed as traitors to their pledge and to the
people.
The Tariff of '46 was recognized by the na
tion as a war against Pennsylvania interests ;
and so it was and is. Those interests have sur
vived the blow but the end is not yet. The Bri
tish Free Trade men promised unbounded mar
kets and inordinate prices for our produce; Eu
ropean famine seemed for a time their ally; but
where are those promises now 1 We know
the evils, but where are the blessings of this
war against our coal, iron and industry. They
have brought prices below those under the Tar
iff of '42 ; they have induced excessive impor
tations that have flooded our country with for
eign manufactures ; and not only distressed the
domestic manufacturer, but laid the land under
heavy and ruinous obligations to Great Britain.
By inviting the goods of England to this coun
try at low duties, they have encouraged extrav
agance and luxury, debt and ruin. Already we
hear the first crumbling of the unreal fabric ;
and yet its worst consequences have had no
time to mature. And this is inevitable upon the
British and Walker system : We must import
to excess, and so ruin ourselves, or, to make up
the revenue, we must resort to direct taxation.
The people of Pennsylvania will submit to
neither of these results.
Will the Tariff Democrats sustain this policy,
as they must do, in supporting Mr. Shunk ?
Has the treachery of Buchanan, Dallas and
Shunk been obliterated from their memories, or
atoned for by any subsequent penitence 1 Are
they the same men, and are you 1 And if so,
can you cast censure upon your past course, by
indifference to the duties now before you ?
We cannot imagine that there is a Whig in
the Commonwealth who will be careless of an
issue so vital. fennsylvania may, it sound
principles triumph now, save the system of pro
tection ; surely no Whig will, upon such an oc
casion, prove recreant for between the open
enemy and the careless friend there is not a
discernible shade of difference.
But interests more profound than those of the
present generation depend upon this issue. We
appeal to all parties in the Keystone on the
subject of the present war. You sustain the
prosecution of ihe war so do we ; you go for
the country so do we : you rejoice ovr her
victorios so do we. But are you in favor of
the kingly power in the President of commen
cing a war without the assent of Congress or
the country ? Aro you In favor of an invasion,
by the President, of a disputed territory, in pos
session of a sister republic 1 And when war
exists are you in faor of prolonging it, for po
litical purposes, by denying the men and muni
tions necessary for its prosecution ? Can you
sanction the persecution and disgrace of the
gallant Scott by this Administration! Are
you prepared to support Polk in his bitter war
against the hero of Buena Vista ? If not, how
can you, what ever your party, sustain Mr.
Shunk, who ha? formally proclaimed his sup
port of all the measures of Mr. Polk's adininia
tration ?
Our Whig Generals havo conquered, but it
has been in defiance of the Administration ; we
rejoice in their glory, for it is the country's.-
But what are the inevitable consequences of this
war ! The establishment of the precedent that
the President has, in defiance of the Constitu
tion, the power to commence a war without and
against the consent of Congress and the people;
and Ihe erection of a pyramid of public debt ;
and-Jhe promise of direct taxation by the Gen
riH Government, in addition to the taxes im
posed d pay ihe interest on forty millions in
dieted by Ld&ifoco misrule in our ow'n State
But it has also given us a standing army, not-
" without
standing armies liberty can never be in danger,
nor with them safe."
But the worst consequence of this executive
usurpation is the establishment of the policy of
L e ri 1 i 1
sight of God and man and cenain to bring upon
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the conquerors the curse which haunts national
wrongs. we neea no additional territory
" with room enough" we are quoting the words
of Jefferson " for our decendants to the thou
sandth and thousandth generation." The course
of the Administration adopts and recognizes,
war, with all its dangers and demoralization,
and with the ultimate certainty that it must prove
fatal to freedom as a settled policy.
Still it has an object even yet more fatal.
The war was not that is now made manifest
commenced to redress wrongs or vindicate
rights, nor even for conquest alone. It was
commenced, has been prosecuted and will be
closed with sole reference to the extension of
slavery ; or rather to the multiplication of slave
States. This is deemed the crowning glory of
the present Southern Administration. In the
first place, while all the world exclaims against
the sin, the degradation to master and slave, the
political crime and folly of holding fellow crea
tures in bondage, the President borrows North
ern bayonets, and sacrifices the freemen of the
free Stales to perpetuate slavery. We are im
pressed to forge shackles and twine whips
we are made the ministers of a tyranny that we
abhor. But a result still dearer to Mr. Polk
and his Southern ministers and faction is sought.
Tho Free States have, notwithstanding the ad
mission of Texas, become the stronger political
interest of the nation. To overcome this ma
jority once and forever, it is proposed to patch
up a number of Mexican slave States to over
balance us in the confederacy. It is true that
slavery does not now exist in Mexico, and that
humanity shudders at the thought of abolishing
freedom, and it is also true that Mexicans, mon
grel in race and color, ignorant, degraded, cow
ardly, and our foes, are not fined for political
fraternization with us. Yet such is the project.
Agains't a scheme so patracidal all the patri
otism of the Democratic party of the North have
protested. But Mr. Polk and his entire faction
sustains it. Mr. Shunk has proclaimed his warm
support of all the measures of Mr. Polk ; his
organs are those of the National Administration;
and his meetings, wherever held, avow a cor
dial support of the President and his policy.
Mr. Buchanan in his recent letter to tho Shunk
men of Berks, urged the re-election of the pres
ent incumbent, and coupled with it an earnest
exhortation that the people of Pennsylvania
should sanction the slavery scheme of Mr. Polk
and oppose the Wilmot Proviso.
The motives of Mr. Buchanan are apparent.
He sacrificed his own pledges and the interests
of the State to a faction in the South upon the
Tariff question. Was it for nothing ? He now
would ungratefully sell the State to this South
ern conspiracy against her dignity, principles
and interests. Already we see the most ultra of
the slavery papers of the South claiming Penn
sylvania as their own, upon the authority of Mr.
Buchanan, upon whom they shower, for his trea
son, praises that should, be coals of fire upon
his head. He has sacrificed his own convic
tions as emphatically expressed in 181 9 against
the extension of slavery, and with them, endea
vored to transfer over to the South the virtuous
freemen of Pennsylvania in a mass. Will they
consummate the degrading bargain ?
We will not invoke ihe gallant Whigs of
Pennsylvania to arise in their might and defeat
this fearful and guilty conspiracy. We will not
point out to them the duty of energy and vigi
lance to save the Slate from the debasement of
a voluntary sanction of the extension of slavery,
and from the ruin universal and overwhelming
which must fall upon us from the establishment
of a Southern supremacy and policy. For we
cannot doubt that every Whig who deserves the
name, will be up and doing that he will regard
the contest as more vital than any struggle in
the past, and lend his every energy lo dispel the
cloud thai impends over the country.
But we will appeal to our Democratic friends,
and ask them if they do, if ihey dare to, call
Messrs. Shunk and Buchanan's opposition to
the Wilmoi Proviso, Pennsylvania Democracy.
It is not the democracy of Jefferson, for he
wrote the ordinance of 1787, from which the
Wilmot Proviso is copied ; nor of Madison, for
he advocated it ; nor of the democrats of that
day, for they almost unanimously sustained it:
It has never been the Democracy of Pennsyl
vania, for the policy of the Stale has been con
sistent in opposition to the extension of slavery.
It is not tho Democracy of Mr. Wilmot, the au
thor of the Proviso, nor of a majority of the del
egation who sustained it. It is not the democ
racy of Pennsylvania now, for every one of their
representatives in tho Legislature voted for the
Proviso at the last session. Whose Democra
cy is it then ? Mr. Polk, Shunk, and Buchan-
an s
t
Wo cannot be convinced that the people of
Pennsylvania will be blinded to the important
duties arising from a political issue so vitally
important. If the Keystone does not woo infa
my, if she be not anxious to render herself a
hissing and a scorn throughout the world, surely j
it is not possible that upon such issues, and in
favor of such a candidate as Mr. Shunk, she
will prove recreant to all her principles, and
careless of all of honour that she has won by
her patriotism in the past. N. American.
Settlers Wanted Lauds Given to
Them.
The State of Arkansas invites emigrants to
come and lake lands which have been forfeited
for taxes, and no payment will be required of
them. The Auditor, upon proof of settlement,
will make a deed, which deed the Supreme
Court of the State hai decided will be valid.
The forfeited tiacts compriab sonie of the finest
lands in the State, f !
withstanding Madison has said
Who shall be Goyeriiort? ft
Friends of your- country friendsof the tariff
remember that Shunk is in favor of free-trade
and opposed to American manufactures.
That Shunk prefers the workshops of Europe
to those of your native State,
j
To tUo Pnllo thon anrl pas
To the Polls, then, and cast your votes for Ir
vin, the friend of a Protective Tariff.
From the Easton Whig Extra, Oct. 1st.
A few Facts connected with the is
suing of the Death Warrant and.
granting a respite to Lawrence
Tearncy. &,
Lawrence Tearney was convicted of the mur
der of his wife on the 29th of April, last, and
sentenced on the 2d of May, by the Court, to
be hung. During the same week the record of
his sentence was forwarded to Harrisburg.
Shortly afterwards a petition, signed by a num
ber of persons, was sent to the Governor, by
the prisoner's friends, asking him to suspend
the execution of the doomed man until after the
meeting of the Legislature next winter, in or
der to give him the benefit of any legislation
that may be had on ihe subject of Capital Pun
ishment. In answer to this. petition Governor
Shunk gave Tearney's friends to understand
that he would suspend the execution, as aked
for, until after the meeting of the Legislature.
This was in May After hi, more than two
months elapsed without any thing being ilone
in the matter by the Governor.
In the meantime many of our citizens became
dissatisfied with the delay, and some of the
Governor's political friends declared that if he
did not carry the law into execution, as he was
sworn to do,vthey would oppose him. Whilst
these things were going on one of the Govern
or's office holders, from Harrisburg, arrived in
Easton, and found his polittcal friends of North
ampton in a state of great excitement on the
subject of the execution, and that any further
delay on the part of Governor Shunk would ma
terially injure his prospect in this county.
About the same time the " Argus," came out
with an article staling, in effect, that Mr. Shunk
had been from home, had but recently returned,
and thai as soon as he could investigate Tear
ney's case he would act promptly and without
fear upon it. This article, if we recollect aright
appeared in ihe Argus on the 22d of July, and
on the 2Sth of the same month Sheriff Adams
received the Death Warrant for ihe execution
of Tearney on the 1st of October.
Whether the office holder, one of the editors
of the Argus, or somebody else wrote to the
Governor, informing him of the excitement here,
and -whether the information induced the Gov
ernor to send on the Warrant we leave the com
munity to judge ! That a portion of the com
munity, ai least, entertained the latter opinion
we know for as soon as the receipt of the
Death Warrant was made public, some of Tear
ney's friends OPENLY DECLARED that
Governor Shunk had given them to understand
lhat he would do nothing in tho matter until al
ter the meeting of the Legislature, and that now
for political effect, he had limited Tearney's
days to the first of October. As may be sup
posed, this double dealing could have no other
effect, than to make enemies of those who had
been so grossly deceived by ihe Governor, and
induced them at once to join the opposition a
gainat him. This they did-- and now we bold-
ly proclaim that it was lor the purpose ot re
claiming their votes thai Francis R. Shunk
granted the Respite, which was issued on' Mon
day last. The letter of the Rev Mr. Reardon,
(alihough no doubt written in good faith by that
young Priest) was demanded by Mr. Shunk as
a pretext for the Act which he had previously
determined on. That Mr. Shunk had determin
ed to GRANT the Respite before he received
that letter, is not only evident from all the cir
cumstances attending the transaction, but it is
POSITIVELY KNOWN to have been the
case. The Rev. Mr. Reardon's letter was
written on Friday last, the 24th of September,
sent by Saturday's mail and could by no possi
bility have reached Harrisburg before some
time on Sunday. Yet on Monday, the 27th
before the mail left Harrisburg, at 12 o'clock,
M., the Governor, had the Respite prepared
and lodged in the Post Office. Who believes
that in ihe short space of one forenoon the
Governor could receive and ponder over such
an important communication, and not only re
solve to grant the Respite, but also, have the
document prepared, and the letter covering four
half sheets of paper, copied and annexed there
to ? Nobody ! But we are not left merely to
conjecture in ihe premises. It was boldly de
clared before the Respite reached Easton, by a
friend of Tearney, that the Execution would
not take place. This can be proven by the
testimony of those who were assisting to erect
a platform on the property of Mr. West, from
which the Execution was to be viewed. And
what is more, a distinguished citizen of this
Borough, who had shortly before seen Mr.
Shunk, and who was in his confidence on this
subject, told a friend of his, as early as Friday
last, and before the Rev. Mr. Reardon's letter,
probahly was written, that the Execution would
not take place.
These are a few plain facts connected with
the history of this murder, and prove most con
clusively that both the DEATH WARRANT
AND THE RESPITE were issues for politi
cal effect. This tampering however whh the
life of a fellow-creature for political purposes,
has produced the most intense excitement,
throughout the community, and the People are
astounded by the conduct of the Govornor.--?
This feeling is not confined to ihe members of
only one parlybut the political friends of the
Governor are as indignant at hs prostitution of
power,, as the Whigs. They ail hold the life
of an irnmnrtnl being too sacred to bs made the
toy of POLITICAL GAMBLERS.
Ohio has begun to pay off her public debt.
FARTHER NEWS FKOJI MEXICO!
' HIGHLY IMPORTANT.
i
73 Deserters ESautg.
General Worth and Three Hundred Americans
said to be blown up by Explosion- of Powder
Wagons Capture of $300,000 by the Mexi
cansDeath of Gen. Smith Capture of Cha
"piillepec Bombardment of the Capital In
vested by the American Troops Death of Gen.
Bravo Santa Anna Wounded - The Reject
ed Treaty of Peace.
The North American of Monday laTt gives
the most exciting intelligence Irom our army.
We extracl tne mosi important.
The accounts are meagre, and we shall a
wait with great anxiety the receipt of official
despatches, which, however, may not reach u
for some time, as the first courier from Gener
al Scoit has doubtless been cut off. Nothing
yet has been learned, except from Mexican
sources, and we indulge the hope thai they ex-
aooerate our I039, though it ha necessarily
been severe. 1 he suspense in relation to Gen
erals Worth, Smith and Pillow, will be pain
ful in the extreme, not only to their friends and
relative?, but to the country in large.
A terrible retribution has overtaken the ren
egade Riley and 'his fellow deserters, who have
been hung, 72 in number, jn sight of both ar
mies. On the 7th, Gen. Herrera, as commander of
the city of Mexico, addressed the clergy, ex
horting them to exert all their influenens to in
cite the people to arm themselves and prepare
to resist the American army.
On the 8th of September, Gen Scott attacked
the mil Del Rey or King's Mill, in the imme
diate vicinity of Chapultepec according to the
Diario del Gobierno, and 'the Boletin published
at Atlisco Onr army was repulsed after a se
vere conflict, in which wo lost .about 400 in
killed and from 600 to 700 in wounded, and
fell back upon Tacubaya. The account given
by ihe Boletin represents the battle to have
been the most bloody and severely romeied of
tho whole war. This, however, is a Mexican
account, and concludes as follow.:
Ai 10 o'clock, the enemy commenced a ret
rogade movement, and, by iwp o'clock tn the
afternoon, he withdrew his forces from Tacu
baya, abandoning the two points he had occu
pied,, and blowing up the house of Mala, tho'
some say it was set on fire by a bomb, fired
from Chapultepec. It is believed that Gen.'U
Twiggs and Pierce directed the attack, and
lhat they put in motion about 8000 men. It
is certain lhat the fire was more intense and
brisk than at Churubusco.
It is impossible to ascertain the loss on ei
ther side. Ours does not amount to 100 killed
and 250 wounded. There are a few missing,
nearly all not killed or wounded retiring to
Chapultepec The enemy, according to the
confession of an Irishman, who came over to
us in the evening, carried off 400 dead and (300
or 700 wounded. We hae to lament the lo:
of Gen. Leon, since dead; thai of Col. Balde-
ras of the valiant Cols. Huerla and Gehi!!, ami
of the determined Capt. Matcns of Puehla.
A Mexican letter announces that Riley ami
his legion of St. Patrick, 72 in number, wre
ordered by the Cotirt martial to be hung. Tho
sentence was approved by Gen. ocoit, and on
the 8'h Sept. the whole legion were hung.
When General Perez abandoned the Mill el
Rey, a bomb, discharged from Chapultepec,
fell among ihe ammunition wagons of the ene
rny in the ya'rd of the mill, causing 4 of them
to explode by which 300 Americans are said to
have been blown up, including Gen. Worth, wh
according to the account, had not been seen or
heard of the next day at Tacubaya.
The Mexican Government has taken $300,000
which were being sent by a commercial house to
the camp of the enemy.
The only reliable account we have of the last
struggle before the Capital is in a letter addressed
to Mr. Dimond, our Collector at Vera Cruz, from
Orizaba, as follows :
Orizaba, Sept. 19, 1817.
I have the honor to inform you that an express
arrived here this morning from the city of Mexico,
which brings intelligence lhat Gen. Scott was in
the city of Mexico. That on the 13th, the Amer
ican troops took Chapultepec and the Citadel, and
went into the city that night.
Gen. Bravo was killed, and Santa Anna was
wounded in the arm, and has retired with the re
mainder of his troops, which have suffered much,
to Gaudaloupe.
A letter from a creditable source confirms all
that is said in the above, and only disagrees with
it in stating that the city was carried by assault
on the 14th. ...
In regard to the American loss, the Picayune
says: "As to our loss before the army entered the
city, we have nothing authentic. We fear this
new victory has not been achieved without great
loss of life."
A passenger in the James L. Day informs us
that it was reported among the Mexicans at Vera
Cruz that we lost 1700 men in killed and wounded
but could trace it to no authentic source. Anoth
er passenger estimates Gen. Scott's loss at from
one quarter to one third of his army.
Wheal Crops.
The wheat crop of Michigan for the pro-,
ent year, as estimated by a gentleman now pro
paring statistics for the Patent OthVe in Wash
ington, will not fall short of $8,000,000 busheU,
nor exceed 10,000,000 bushels. The quality
of the grain this year is superior in every re
spect to ihe crop of last year.
In regard to the condition of tho crop in Wis-,
consin, ihe Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, of
Monday, says : " The brig Giddtngs arrived
here on Saturday, with a cargo of 10,000 bush
els of Wisconsin wheat, of this year's crop,
which for plumpness of berry and general ap
pearance exceeds any thing ever befpjp re
ceived from that quarter,"
How much pork will a bushel of corn make?
ia a question set down for discussion at a a'ebal
ihgfsbciety idme where u down east,""