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AT THE OFFICE OF THE
.Teffersoniaii Republican.
ADDRESS
Of Hie Lancaster county Wilis Com
mittee, to tlieir Brother Whigs of
Lancater and oilier Counties of
Peunsylva uia.
Ffllow Citizens :
Our republican government is
founded upon popular opinion. To ascertain that
opinion, the Constitution and laws have provided
annual elections. The freeman expresses his o
piriion ; and the officer of his choice moulds that
opinion into law. Hence the strength and beauty
of our institutions rest upon the expression of pop
ular will ; and any neglect to give utterance to it
at the ballot-box may weaken, perhaps destroy
lzens.
4. The proposed amendments to the Constitu
tion will be submitted to you at the next election.
It is a question of vital importance. No true Whig
whether he opposes or favors the change, will
neglect or refuse to vote at such a time. Every
good citizen should vote, in order that the decis
ion when ascertained, be it for or against their
adoption, shall be the judgment of the whole peo
ple. 5. Members of Congress are to be elected.
By negligence now Pennsylvania may lose the
sinews of her strength. For years a majority of
her Congressmen have been instructed by the votes
of her people to stand firmly by a protective Tar
iff, and thus secure the means of employment to
her willing and industrious sous. By low cunning
and bold falsehood our opponents have cheated
and deceived our people, and a free trade tariff
has silenced the busy hum of our workshops. If
Pennsylvania lends her aid to this odious policy,
her prosperity and the hopes of her industrious
and enterprising citizens have fallen, it may be to
rise no more.
6. An Auditor General and Canal Commis
sioner are to be elected. For years a member of
one party has paid out the money of the people to
its own partizans, and another member of the same
party has settled the accounts. The common
sense of every careful man teaches how unwise it
is to allow, in the every day business of private
them. All elections are important. The one now
at hand is especially so ; and every citizen should' Jhe same agenl tQ pay Qut moneyj contract
debts, and settle, audit and adjust his own ac
reflect upon the issues involved, and duly consid
er the duly which he owes to his own best inter-
i
eits and to his country, before he ventures to neg
lect the exercise of the elective franchise.
To exhort every citizen to that consideration of!
his duty in the coming contest is our present?
purpose. We wish to excite every honest man i
to a proper fulfilment of his high trust. In seek
ing for motives of action, we shall endeavor brief
ly to show the importance of this election, the
great interests and results at stake; and to demon
strate that a full vote secures a Whiff triumph.
1st. Whig succes secures to the National Ad
ministration (placed in power by Whig votes) the
moral force which a knowledge of the possession
of popular confidence inspires, and endorses and
sustains its measures ; among which are embraced
the restoration of the government to the republican
purity and simplicity of its better days ; a just and
pacific system of intercourse with foreign States;
a sound domestic policy which shall protect and
support our home industry, improve our rivers and
harbors, circumscribe the limits of human bon
dage, and invite into our cherished Union the res
idents of the mighty West, with Constitutions un
stained by the curse of slavery.
2d. Whig success this fall expresses approba
tion of the course and policy of the State Admin
istration. Thus far it has proved itself eminently
deserving of our confidence and support. It has
been efficient, honest and economical ; it has de
devised and put in execution a plan for the pay-
counts. Prudence would suggest some check, or
safeguard, in public as in private affairs. Should
the Whigs succeed in electing their candidates,
the people's interests will be watched and guard
ed in the Canal board, and the accounting officers
will detect the unfair results of party bias, should
party favoritism in the canal board perpetrate in
justice. Each party will guard the other, and thus
the money of the tax payer will be saved, and the
treasures of the State be secured from favoritism
and consequent waste.
For Auditor General the candidate of the Whigs
is HENRY W. SNYDER, of Union county, than
whom a more pure, upright and capable man can
not be found. A son of Simon Snyder, reared un
der the teachings of that honest and faithful and
patriotic Chief Magistrate of Pennsylvania, he has
all his father's integrity of purpose and pure dem
ocratic love of the people's rights and interests.
The plain republicanism of the father has taught
the son that extravagance and profligacy in af
fairs of State are as ruinous as in private life.
JOSHUA DUNGAN, of Bucks county, is our
candidate for Canal Commissioner. Educated
on the farm and bred to toil, he is a noble speci
men of a Pennsylvania Farmer, and knows the
wants and feels the burthens of the tillers of the
bad citizenship no more marked example of
moral treason to his country to his fellow-men,
to himself and to his posterity than the culpa
ble laziness and lisilessness that keeps a voter
from the polls. Neglect of a known duty is
evidence of infidelity to every obligation. He
that neglects to vote ceases to be a republican
ceases to be a part of the people's govern
ment, and is a recreant 10 the hallowed trust
which his fathers committed to his guardian
ship. If one man may neglect this duty, all
have the right to do so, and the vigilant and
scheming would soon subvert the Republic,
and the active and tricky politician would di
rect tho destinies of the country. It is mani
fest that here it must be feared the first fatal
injury will be done to those institutions which
give glory and power to us as a nation. How can
he who fails to exercise this important duty
claim the protection of a government, in his
person or properly, which he by his negligence
so materially aids to subvert and destroy ?
Lel every man resolve to vote, whether
it be sunshine or storm, permitting neither bus
iness nor pleasure to prevent him. A day giv
en to your country is not lost. To perform this
duty once only in three or four years is a
shameful discharge of so priceless a privilege
so sacred an obligation.
A full vote is a Whig triumph, because
the Whig party is in a majority in this State,
as is efidenced by the following statistics,
which show that the Whigs have the strength
of number, and need but the will to secure
success.
Election Results from 1840 to 1849 :
1840. For President:
Harison, 144,010
Van Buren, 143,374
1841. For Governor:
D. R. Porter, 136,335
John Banks, 113,374
1842. No election showing the popular vote.
1843. For Canal Commissioner :
Miller, 110,290
Guilford, 96,317
1844. For .Governor:
Markle, 156,120
Shunk,' , 160,403
For President :
161,203
167,535
For Canal Commissioner :
119,510
89,118
For Canal Commissioner :
89,084
Clay,
Polk,
1845.
Burns,
Kama,
1846,
Foster,
Powers,
1847.
Shunk,
Irvin,
1848.
Johnston,
Longstreth,
For Governor :
For -Governor
97,913
146,115
128,138
168,525
168,220
185,513
171,976
For President :
Taylor
Cass, t
1849. For Canal' Commissioner :
Gamble, 144,840
Fuller, 133,111
These statisiics show that if all the Whigs
who voted in 1840 for Harrison had performed
their dutv. the Whip candidate for Governor in
M A .l V i -t . . 1 J ' o
sou. Aimougn unassuming, nis worm, nonesty 1S41 wou!d nave been eecl by 7,678, and the
and Intelligence have secured the friendship and Whin P.nnnl nnmmieoinnar nf 1R13 hv nnnrltr
respect of all who know him, and the farmers 34,000 majority; and had all the Whigs who
of his native countv have placed him in the hon-' voted for Clav in 1844 hfipn at the noils. Mar.
ment of the State Debt; it has preserved the rights , orable pns5lion of presidentrof the Agricultural . kle would have been elected Governor in that
oi me citizen ana savea mvioiaie me oonsmuuon Society of that county as a mark of their esteem year-Karns would have been elected Canal
by a judicious exercise oi the veto power in the for hi3 virlues and abnity His sound and unbias-i Commissioner in 1845 by 40,000 majority
case of the apportionment bill ; it has remodelled . ed judgement his stern integrity and his more j Irvin elecied Governor in 1847 by 15,000
a wretched militia system: it has, without addi- , tuan Mrfi:nor ar,,;r aa.-., c. u;m ,u ! and Fuller elected Canal Cammiasioner in 1849
tional taxation or increase of debt, in making pro
visions for the completion of the North Branch
Canal, rescued from abandonment a valuable part
of the public works in which millions of the peo
ples' money has been permitted to remain unpro
ductive and valueless ; it has sustained the time-
nidu urumary capacity, especially nt mm lor me
important office to which he has been nominated.
The nominee of the Whigs for Surveyor Gen
eral is JOSEPH HENDERSON, of Washington
county. To many of our citizens he is well
known. For several years in the Land office, he
not only fitted himself to ably fulfil the duties of
to protect the labor of our citizens from the op
pressive influence of foreign competition, and has
largely extended the benefit of education to the in
dustrious poor. Moreover the State Government
is entitled to popular support in view of the admi
istrative talents and virtues of Governor WIL-
honored piinciples of our beloved Commonwealth lhis resp0nsible station, but his accomdating spir-
oy its opposition to tne extension oi slavery over . u and purjty of purpQse ag a pubHc officerhis
now iree; 11 nas S'ven is am to every enort snperjof business capacity and untarnished integ
rity were made apparent and acknowledged.
No belter man could have been selected.
The results of a Whig victory are many and
important, and should excite all to energy and
action. With the election of a Whig Senator,
Pennsylvania's voire for the net five venrs is nn-
' JOHNSTON, whose official services j divided for pENNSVLVANhl PoucY in the NaUonal
have redounded to the honor and credit of thejSenale. In the halls of Congress, Pennsylvania
btate,-Biven a fresh impulse to its prosperity, and woul(J stm bf Qn the side of American industry.
by a w,se system of financial economy and reform, Qur Stale would for len yearg escape from an
largely contributed to improve and render more unjugt and op ive apportionment As a Whig
perfect and profitable our system of public ira- j Statej she-WOuld be recognized as worthy of reward
provements, without an increase of debt or taxa- f her fideli t0 republican faith. And all this
lion;
There are many other acts of the National and J
State Administrations which commend them to the '
continued confidence and regard of the people !
But if the imDortant measures already referred to I
fail to convirtce the honest mind, it would be use
less to enumerate others.
3d. The next election decides the character of
a Legislature upon whom will devolve among oth
er things the performance of the following du
ties: I. The election of a . United .States Senator.
The choice of a Whig Senator this fall will give
Pennsylvania a force and power in the National
Councils which must command for her neglected
and oppressed iron and coal and industrial inter
ests attention and respect.
2- The apportionment of the State for mm
bere of Congress. The past has taught us how
unscrupulous are our opponents in this respect,
and how unwise it is ,to ieave in hands already
polluted a trust which they have heretofore so
basely abused.
3. The districting of the State for, the election
of &Jdges, should the proposed amendments to .the
for her fidelity to republican faith.
would give strength and vigor to our State Admin
istration, and increased confidence and new hope
to its labors and measures, to remove the burthens
from her citizens. Tiiumph now would bring
zeal and nerve into the subsequent contest for
Governor, and secure an easy victory. Our pa
triotic Governor will .have so proven the merits of
Whig measures and Whig men, that the people
will demand their continuance in official position,
and a crowning victory in the Presidential carn
paign of 1852 would be but the " beginning of the
end" of good results.
A FULL VOTE SECURES A WHIG TRIUMPH.
We gie the figures why we say so. We
must, however, be permitted to say that the
Whig party is peculiary liable to the charge of
criminally omitting to vote ; and this has pro
duced more injury more permanent wrong to
our institutions than any other cause. We
would prevent a recurrence of this evil by im
pressing on the minds of our citizens the im
portance of the duty. The obligation to defend
our country at the expense of life and property
is not more binding than is the duty to exercise
the elective franchise. To vole is as obligato
ry on tho good man as is the performance of
any duty. There is no stronger evidence of
by a 16,000 maiority. Thus we have been de
feated by our own criminal indolence and apa
thy. Our victories show an increased vote, in
dependent of any corresponding decrease of the
vole of our opponents. This forcibly illustrates
the imperative duty, the solemn obligation by
which every Whig voter in the State ih bound
to exercise his high and responsible right of
suffrage at every election.
Fellow Citizens To you personally are
addressed the foregoing incentives to activity
and zeal. 1 hey are not merely to be read, but
pondered deeply to be incorporated with your
political morals as a motive principle to be
borne with you and impel action in your walks
and labors of every day, until their vital strength
and influence shall make each regard his right
as a voter, not in the light of a privilege to be
used or neglected at pleasure ; but as a sacred,
responsible, imperative obligation, enjoined by
the love we bear to, and the interest we have
in, the honor and welfare of the great Common
wealth to which we belong.
Geo. W. Hamersly,
Henty Stoufler,
Joseph McClure,
John B. Good,
Hiram Evens;
John Schlott,
M. H. Shirk,
Samuel Shoch,
Huge Andrews,
Morris Hoopes,
Christian Neflf,
Geo. R. Hendricksbn,
P. R. Shutter,
S. J. Hamilton,
David Shultz,
John K. Reedj
Elias Eby,
George Byrode,
Christian Smith,
Stephen W. Boyd,
Christian Hiestand,
Henry Brnckhart,
Lancaster, Sept. 13, 1850.
Jacob Bausman,
David W. pattorson,
A. M. Frantz,
ChristianHeer, Jr.,
E. Kinzer,
Isaac Buhhpng,
John K. White
S. P. Lindemuth,
James Mehaffey, Jr
Samuel A. Worth,
D- Bard Rock,
Benjamin Hear,
Jacob Souders,
A. L. Witmer,
Benjamin Stouffer,
S. P. Lytle,
Philip Hathaway,
Martin Oberholzer,
Samuel Spiehlman,
DanielHeer(Pequea),
Francis W. Christ,
Benjamin Kaufliuan.
The New York Tribune says that the mouthy of
Jehhy Lind is " moulded on a large Swedish
type." The Boston Yankee Blade wonders " if
it is not often closed on a large Swedish tut nip."
From the Boston Atlas.
Tho North and the South.
The series of measures which have passed Con
gress within the last few weeks are too important
in themselves, and will have too great an influence
upon the country and upon parties, to be passed
over without mature consideration. The times
have been "out Of joint' for months. Angry dis
cussion has prevailed in both houses of Congress.
Party lines have, in a good degree, been oblitera
ted. Disunion has been openly threatened in the
halls of Congress, and still more unblushingly and
boldly taught in Carolina and at Nashville.- What
is it that has occasioned this state of things? The
complaints have come from the South, not from
the Norih. " Northern aggression" has been the
theme of Souihern declamation, and the cause of
their threats and fears. But we are told the storm
has allayed, the winds have ceased, and the waves
of the sea slumber in their caves, not breaking
their heads upon the rocky shores. What is it
that has produced this dear, delightful stale of
things ? that has given birth to
"The hour when thrilling joy repays
A long, long course of darkness, doubts and fearsV
In order to answer these questions, it will be
necessary to enquire what it was that gave rise to
the storm what it was that " set the heather on
fire." Think not, dear reader, that we are about
to cioss that Sahara Desert of Southern locality,
to gather therefrom all the real or imaginary "pale
lilies of despair" which have filled their vision
from time to time, and which, bound up in bou
quets, are styled " Northern Aggressions,'' and
then thrown, not at our feet, but in our teeth. We
shall sum up the whole controversy in the briefest
space possible. There are two classes of human
beings on this continent, or rather in the United
States ; the one white and the other black. In a
portion of these states, say 15, of them, the black
race are the slaves of the white race. They are
bought and sold, as we in New England buy and
sell our horses, sheep and cows. They are driv
en from State to State for sale, as cattle are driv
en from Vermont to Brighton or Cambridge mar
kets. Like cattle, the parent is divided from the
offspring. The slave owns no property, not even
his own body. There is a very respectable por
tion of the people living in the fifteen free States
who think that this system of slavery is a mon
strous wrong, and they have tried, in a peaceful,
constitutional and legal manner, not to eradicate
it, but to prevent its spread. These men, although
they compose a vast majority of the people of the
free States, are called by our Southern brethren
"fanatics," "abolitionists," "disturbers of the pub
lic peace." They are the aggressors upon South
ern rights, and ihe men who have made all the
"disturbances" and all the " excitement,'.' and put
the " Union in jeopardy."
As a guarantee for our Southern brethern to re
main in the Union, these persons must, as far as
practicable, be silenced and punished. Our South
ern brethren say, "give us all that we want, and
we will ask for no more." Forever close your
mouths in regard to slavery, and what you canting
ly term its evils. Leave the public domain open
to us for the further extension of our "institutions."
Give us full scope to catch our runaways. Abo
lish trial by jury and the habeas corpus in their
case. Give us the right by law, to go to your Free
Slates and carryoff any colored man we may see
there, upon our bare word that he is our slave.
Let us appoint Commissioners to carry our de
mands and claims into execution, and we will be
content to remain in the Union with you, and sup
ply your army and navy with officers, the public
departments in Washington with scions of our
first families, while you of the North may furnish
the common soldiers, and now and then an officer,
and a respectable executive appointee. If you
are quite submissive, we may throw you a small
tariff bone. Job Pippins, when temptations were
removed from his five senses, was a model of self
government. So with our Southern brethren.-
When they have got all they want, they pretend
liberality, because they don't ask for more.
These seemingly extravagant demands of our
Southern brethren were, at first, resisted by the
people who live in the North; but soon there were
symptoms of giving way. There was a gentle-,
man by the name of Winthrop, who the North de
sired to have elected Speaker ; but our Southern
brethren said that should not be, and he was de
feated. Georgia supplied the House with a speak
er. Many Northern men helped to do it Then
the North asked for a tariff to protect their labor
from European competition, but Mr. Badger, of
North Carolina, said no. We quote his words :
" Yes, sir. Though every manufactory in the
North should be stopped, though her whole indus
trial pursuits should be withered, though her
streets should be rilled with sturdy beggars, and
asylums and her poorhouses should everywhere
be crowded, her public and private charities op
pressed and overburdened, and though the reme
dy lay in my single vote, that vote, should not be
given."
And what was Mr. Badger's reason for the ter
rible malediction upon the workingmen of the
North t Simply because those very workingmen
would not become parties to the extension of sla
very ! That is all, and yet Mr. Badger would see
poverty and wretchedness cover our land, as the
water covers the seaour smiling villages turned
into loathsome habitations of disease and death,
our industry palsied, our charities wasted, our en
terprise crippled, our Commonwealth a valley of
dry bones. And if the power lay with him, to
breath upon them thbreath of life, and bid these
dry bones live, he says he would not do it. We
Bhall not quarrel with Mr. Badger. We simply
pity the man who can give utterance to such a
sentiment Tho United States Senate was no
place for it. There are , v ,K
" Words o
That should be howled out in the desert airf;
Where hearirig.should not latch them.''
It is not for us, however, to complain; we should
be thtfnkful that it is no worse. Mr. Winthrop, tho
other day in the Senate, read a letter from Captairf
Ranlett, of Boston, in reply to a statement made
by Jefferson Davis, thai very few free colored men
have been imprisoned under the laws of Southern
States. Captain Ranlett 3tates that not less than;
twelve hundred have been so imprisoned, and de
clares that he was, on one occasion, wrecked at
sea, when himself, and his colored cojk, and his
steward, came across a Charleston vessel which
had been abandoned. They went on board this
vessel and carried it into Charleston, where, in re
turn for their services, seized and imprisoned, since
which time he has heard nothing from them, hav
ing been told, when he applied for Iheir release,
that he could hav6Mhem when his vessel was
ready to sail, and that it would be dangerous to re
lease them earlier. Having no vessel, of course
he could not comply with the conditions.
We read the next day that Mr. Butler of South
Carolina, ridiculed the statements read by Mr.
Winthrop, and was so witty and humorous that he
kept the Senate in a roar for a considerable time I
and this is all the satisfaction the North will re
ceive in regard to these laws. We should be glad
to have even the honor of their ridicule.
In conclusion, we will say, that with ihe excep
tion of the admission of California into the Union,
the North has gained nothing, while the South has
carried every point for which it contended. No
one will be more rejoiced than we shall be if ihe
adjustment of these various measures give peace
to the country and stability to the Union. We
however are without faith. The snake is scotch
ed, not killed. The Fugitive Slave Bill is a mon
ster, loo hideous for the people of ihe Free Stales
to quietly and lovingly embrace. The territorial
question is by no means dead. Among the people
the principle of freedom is as storng as it ever was.
We know that politicians in Washington can, by
their position and influence, accomplish much, and
the cry of " Peace," and of " Union," and of
" Brotherhood," can accomplish much more.
But after all, permanent peace. 'real union, and
true brotherhood, have their basis upon the rock
of justice, and receive their life and beauty from
the warm gushing affections of the manly heart ;
and we contend that of these peace " measures"
recently passed by Congress, a portion of them
have been in direct opposition to the best senti
ments and the best feelings of the vast majority of
ihe people of the free States. The day will come
when northern rights will be regarded, and tho
northern people make themselves felt in the coun
cils of the nation not to oppress, not to assume
undelegated powers, not to interfere with the rights
of property of the South, bin felt in the mainten
ance of their proper position, and in doing some
thing for the glorious cause of human liberty and
ok rightful progress in the Western world.
A Chip from A Sailor's .og.
It was a dead calm not a breath of air
the sails flapped idly against the masts ; the
helm had lost its power, and the ship turned
her head how and where she liked. The heat
was intense, so much so, thai the chief mate
had told the boatswain to keep the watch out
of the sun ; but the watch below found it too
warm to sleep, and were tormented with thirst
which they could not gratify nil the water wa
served out. They had drunk all the previous
day's allowance ; and now that their scuule-butt
was dry, there was nothing left but endurance.
Some of the seamen had congregated on the
top-gallant forecastle and gazed on the clear
blue water with longing eyes.
How cool and clear it looks," said a tall,
powerful young seamen ; " I don't think there
are many sharks about ; whai do you say for a
bath, lads 1
" That for the shaiks !" burst almost simul
taneously from the parched lips of the group;
" We'll have a jolly bath when tho second mate
goes to dinner." In about half an hour the
dinner-bell rang. The boatswain took charge
of the deck ; some twenty sailors were now
stripped, except a pair of light duck trowsers ;
among the rest was a tall, powerful, coast-of-Africa
negro of ihe name of Leigh ; we used io
joke him and call him Sambo.
" You no swim to-day, Ned ? said he, ad
dressing me. " Feard of sharks, eh 1 Shark
nebber bite me. Suppose 1 meet shark in
water, I swim after him him run like do
debill."
I was tempted, and like the rest was soon
ready. In quick succession we jumped off the
spirtsail yard, the black leading. We had
scarcely been in the water five minutes, when
some voice aboard cried out, 44 A shark ! a
shark !" In an intant every one of the swim
mers came tumbling up the ship's sides, half
mad with fright, the gallant black among the
rest. It was a false alarm. We felt angry
with ourselves for being frightened, angry with
those who had fright ned us, and furious with
those who had laughed at us. In another mo-
ment we were all again in me water, tne blacK
and myself swimming some distance from the
ship. For two successive voyages there had
been a sort of rivalry between us ; each fancy
ing that he was the best swimmer, and we wefe
now lesting our speed.
" Well done, Ned," cried some of the sailors
from the forecastle. " Go itj Sambo !" cried
some others. We were both straining our ut
most, exeued by the cheers of our respective
partisans. Suddenly the voice of the boatswain
was heard shouting, " A shark ! a shark! Come
back, quick, for God's sake !"
" Lay aft, and lower the cutter,'. then came
faintly on our ears. The race instantly ceas
ed. A yet, we only half believed what we
heard, our recent fright being still fresh in our
memories.
" Swim, for God's sake !" cried the captain,
who was now on deck " ho has not yet seen,
you. The boat, if possible, will get between
him and you. Strike out lads, for God's sake!"
My heart stood still ; I felt weaker than a
child as 1 gazed with horror at the dorsal fin
of ajarge shaik on the starboard quarter.
Though in the water, the perspiration dropped
from me like rain : the black was striking out
like mad from the ship.