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wF. SADLER, Attorney at Law,
Carlisle Pa. Onice iu Volunteer Building,
South Ylanover Street.
AT HERMAN, Attorney at Law,
Carlisle, Pa. Noxt door to the Herald 01lire.
July 1, 1864-Iy.
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mllusiness promptly attended to.
July 1, 1864.
TNO. C Altornew
Carlislo, Mice folmorly °erupted by Judo
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II • E. BIa'rZITOOVEII, Attorney
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Bentz's dry gond store Carlisle, Pa.
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V/ street, adjoining the Methodist Church
July 1, 16fal
Physician £4. Acconchout.
I,OIJiS I'. GRIFFIN, (formerly
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of this place, and surroundings. l'a titular attention
paid to diseases of '•Wonen and Children." 011iee at
Mansion House.
April 11.
, w ; ~ ;': ; . y g it. UEORGI S. SEA
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Louthor street, three doors below Bedford.
July 1, 180e4.
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igr Baltimore College of
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attiti—
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opposite Marlon Hail, West slai 0 street, Can lisle. l'a.
July t, 1854.
Dr. 1. C. LOOMIS
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below South Ilanover ht
July 1,1864
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THE undersigned having taken the
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John IbLiorgas, nextiloor to "Marion Hall," would re
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and vielraty to my large, varied and well selected Stock
of DriGoods, consisting in ,art, of
MUSLINS,
CALICOES,
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GINGHAMS,
FLANNELS, &e,
at greatly reduced prices, in consequence of the late
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my goods are all new, I can and will sell at not unish-
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all Wool delalnes, Lusters, Poplins, also n fine assort
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JEANS,
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S. 0. BROWN.
March 16, 1860.
Great Bush for Spring Goods.
Next Door to the'Post Office, Carlisle, Pa.
THE subsoriber having taken the Store
nown• formerly occupied by WM. A. • MILES,
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the Public a Now and Fresh supply of
J ' DR YGOOD S.,
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CHALLIES,
MUSLINS,
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LAWNS, And
chtLiconsit'
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at prices to defy competition. Furnishing Goode of all
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CROTHS, CASSIMEILES AND VEST
INGB, •
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on Saturdiy, Aprillth, and all are cordially invited t i ;
purchase; as my motto is Quick sales and Small-pre&
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WM, B. PARKER
Walker & Claudy,
(Successors to J. D. Gorgas,)
THE subscribers respectfully inform
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thu Tin and Sheet Iron Establishment of Mr. Oorgats
in roar of the Court noose, where they are prepared it
accommodate the pafrons of the old establishment and
all others who may threw theta with their work. If
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—NATE desire to call the attention of the
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in Pitt
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Having a good selection of goods now on baud
are prepared to meet all demands, and full confident
we can offer inducements, that defy competition. lte•
member the place.
GItE EN FIELD and S LIE AFE ,
Ezied South Side, Second Dom' ludo Corner
Sod DOOR, '2nd DOOR.
THE subscriber announces to the cit
of enrlisle. nod vicinity. find he has ro
commenced the manufacture of hats every variety
of style. Having secured the services of the beat of
workmen, he feels prepared to sustain the reputation
of the
py making thu best hats In the state. Particular at
ontinu wlil bo paid to thu malting of the old fashion
Stiff Brush, nr Dunkttol IJnf ;
also Mu soil IA hito brii.,ll hat. Mit! any Alare or styl
of hat will be mad° to ui der.
stylus of hats from the best Mall ufacturers in Phila
delphia and Now York, which he will sell at the low
est cash prices. Ills stock of silk and felt hats for
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also 0 large assortment 01
. - CAPS and STRAW IIATS,
of all kinds and at all prices.
Call and examine his stock at the old stand in North
lanover Street, before purchasing elsewhere as be
eels satisfied he can please you,
J. A. KELLER,
Juno 1. 1866. Agent.
A few doors north of the Chrlisle Deposit Bank, and
next to Common's shoe store.
N. B.—Old Oats repaired, coloonl and done up In all
styles at the shortest notice and reasonable rates.
J. A. H.
Newville Stoneware Works.
f HE subscriber is now prepared to de
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8 ensnare, Rockingham Were, &c.,ever offered Menu'.
berlaad Valley. Ills stock consists in part of
STONE IV A R E ,
Cream Crocks, Butter Pots, Milk Pans, Spittoons
Pitchers, Jugs, Fruit Jars, dm.
ROCKING HAM & YELLOW,
Spittoons, Pitchers, Nappies, Bake's, Pie Plates, &e.
glass Flasks, Jl uit Bottles and Patent Fruit Jars.
Stone Water Fountains Churns, Water Pipe, ta
Tile, &c , furnished when ordered.
In facilities for manufacturing, quality of wares and
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Address SAMUEL I. IRVINE,
April 13, 1806-6 m. Now sills.
The Family Grocery.
r HE subscribers, baying taken the
Family Grocery Store of Monasmith & Baker,
on Main St., adjoining if. Gardner & Co's Machine
Shop and Foundry. have just opened a now and ele
gant assortment of OROGIMItIS, GLASS and QUEENS
WARE, selected with great care fur family supplies,
which they will Roll at. the vdry f powest priecirfor
cash. livery article in the lino ;Family Groceries
will always bo kept fresh and cheap. They also cull
particular attention to the
Eureka Patent Glass .Fruit Jars
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of which they have the. exclusive non.
cy for Carlisle, and which has proved
11: , 11 04• Its superiority over all other cane or
-Jars now in use by Its g, eat simplicity,
( p
'erfect reliability in keeping Fruit, and
the extraordinary ease with which it Is
l'eualed and opened, without injury for
future use. No family should purchase
other Jars without first examining the
Eureka, if' they want to buy the best.
We have also KNOX'S PATENT STEP
LADDER, an article which no house-
Iteoper should be without. Also,
Lash's celebrated WASIIINQ MA
MINE; only Vivo .Dollars, and the
Aroulon CLOTHES. .WILINPER, both of witt.h , they
confidently recommend to give -entire satisfactiod.
They have also been'appeltited Agents fok , the sale of
I OA &t r .
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JAR
urro9
- DRAIN PIPES; -
to which they would call the attention of Farmers and
others needing themes the hest , and cheapest article
to ho found for convoying water • through yards and
barn-yards. Also . a variety of other artlclesi such ;as
DOOR MATS of several kinds and prices.
inr•Jutit opened a supply of Fresh Herring and
'all kinas of Salt Fish, put up this Spring... Also
Flour In' barrels and make and Food by tho'bushol. '
MARTIN A GARDNER,
May 25,1806. • ' •
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'lrony English Refined.
41 CENTS' lb: Nails; $6,50. Horse
SIWES, .$7,25. :'
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The Betrayal of the Cause of Freedom
Letters to the Secretary of State.
To the Hon. Wm.' H. Seward, Secretary of
State
I believe I may promise to make this let
ter brief, as the subject, being yourself, may
be soon exhausted. I wish to show you how
treacherous you have been ; how you have
deceived men who regarded you as their
friend to their ruin ; how you have corrupt
ed the counsels of the nation and produced
sorrow whore there should have been
strength.
When Mr. Johnson assumed the Presiden
tial office ho was full conscious of his own
weakness and of his utter inability to bear
the weight of that world of responsibility
which rested on his shoulders ; he called a
round him the best men of that party which
had sustained the Administration of Mr.
Lincoln, and apparently be was satisfied
- with the Advice which he received—to main-
Lain the policy of his predecessor, and to de
pend upon the great Union party of the
eAntry for support. In the first days of
Mr. Johnson's Administration your life was
trembling in the balance, and the counsels of
(me in whom the nation trusted were want
ing in the great emergency. The President
at first spoke boldly and acted wisely ; but
from the moment when your health was so
far restored tlnA you were enabled to attend
Cabinet meetings, and to give your advice
to the President, he drifted away from the
landmarks by which his predecessor had
been guided into a limitless ocean of treach
ery and folly, where he and you, and all
whom you persuaded to take part in the ven
ture, are sure to be engtilrhed and lost.
Who are your friends to-day, Mr. Seward?
Not those, surely, Who stood by you in the
old time when you were true to the great
cause of liberty, and battled with assumed
bravery in its behalf. But rather those tame
and spiritless men who would have sacri
fiend our country for the sake of pence ; men
who could not o'4 to the infinite justice of
Almighty (lod ; men who could not be made
to believe during the deep-red years of the
civil war that our republican institutions
had inherent strength enough to save them
selves from destruction. The bold men of
the opposition—the men who have always
contended that the rebels were right laid de
served success, the out-spoleen traitors of the
North, the nice who are represented by such
papers 118 the Now York 11"arld and News,
do not thank you for your apostasy ; they
r gard you with contempt, and add con
tumely to their rejection of your alliance.
E ell your letter to "Old-Union-loving Tam
many" was laughed at ; your crouching sub
servience to Southern rebels is answered by
While you have made yourself contempti
ble you has e destroyed the career of a man
of larger heart and better and nobler inspir
ation. Andrew Johnson would have been
a _neat historic character had you left him
in the ha; ds of those who surrounded and
sustained him while you were prostrated up
on the bed of sickness. Now you—yes, you,
more than any other—have caused him to
make the administration of JOlOl Tyler re
spectable.
do not wish to ifnitate Junius, but I do
wish to tell the whole truth to the country,
and thereby to servo the country. You are
the "head and front of the offending." You
are the 3ddas-like betrayer of your own prin
ciples—of those principles which your elo
quence has driven in upon the heart of the
nation. 11 ad the book of your public life
been finished six years ago, twenty millions
of freemen might have taught their chil
dren and their childres children to do you
honor. How is it now You have doubt
less often wandered in the beautiful grave
yard of that beautiful city of Auburn, in
which your homestead lies, and where the
people still love you, and find it hard to be
lieve in your apostacy ; and you remember
the picturesque monument with the touching
inscription, "Who is there to k lourn for
Logan'."Should your political life end with
the going down4if this day's sun it would be
difficult to find a response to the question,
"Who is there to mourn for Seward 7"
The mischief you have done by your trea
chery to the cause of freedom is hard to be
computed. Is it possible that on on^ so old in
political strategy, does not fully comprehend
the effect of his own wrong doing 1 Forgive
yourself, if you can, standing upon the
graves of our martyred heroes, roinember
ing tho sacred dust that is beneath you, and
holding out the right hand of perfect recon
ciliation to the murderers of a quarter of a
million of the men who are represented by
the crumbling bones on which your foot are
pressed ; this is but one side of the picture.
It was in consequence of the grand instruc
tions which you were wont to give that we
were able to reconcile the nation to the mul
titudinous deaths of the hospital, the battle
field, and the prison. The people were told
that the graves of the heroes would sanctify
the soil, and that out of the mounds would
spring fair flowers, which should make the
earth beautiful and the air fragrant with the
beauty and tho breath of liberty. You told
us 'to expect this glorious consummation,
and how have you met the possible fulfil
-1 ment, of your own prophecies ? .13y falsehood
and betrayal, by, smiles for the enemies of
republican liberty, and by acted if not spo
ken curses for the groat party that stands for
justice and for universal freedom.
Do you claim ownership in yourself or
have you bargained away, your own soul ?
With or without your consent, you aro be
ing used for, villainous purposes in your own
State. Ten years ago, under your, auspices,
the party of freedom could carry Now York
by ono hundred thousand majority ; its elec
toral vote was given for Mr. T 4 incoln, in
. 1804 by loss than ton' thousand : Major*,
'Who is riiii'ponSiblo for t.,liis,great falling off?
When you occupied the Executive chair
of tho Empiro"ptate it was tlio common Say
ing' of your Onemiatbat Thurlow Wood was
Governor Of New York.
.Bofore , iled since
that time it hasbeen a Metter of - pUblid nO . -
tOrioty that yonand'Alr: Woed' woo ,ono, or,
rather that you wore the puppet that jumped
whoa Mr.'Weed touched the ivirea. If this
is true, and otits essential! truth I have nq
doubt, you haveleen Moved to play the most
fantastic tricks during th . O' peat. yo'O thtit
Over)ltatatOn played:,
I entertain a fueling of respect—l might
Carlisle, Pa., Friday, August 3, 1866
true to his friends ; he is consistent with
himself; ho is the most skilful and in some
respects the most successful politician ,in this
country; he has often shown that ho can
make or mar the fortunes of a great political
party ; yet Mr. Weed piles up his victims on
either side of the road in which he travels,
and his last and most conspicuous victim is
William H. Seward. Lot me explain; not
with the hope that you will understand the
explanation; but with an abiding conscious
ness that the country Will fully comprehend
and appreciate. Konen E. Fenton, the
present Governor of New York, is a proper
representative of the Republican party of
that State, of which you were once the lea
der, and which now sustains the majority in
Congress. Mr. Fenton does not sympathize
with Mr. Weed, and will not submit to his
dictation. He oven had the effrontery to
organize the Board of Health, the Board of
Commissioners of Foreign Emigration, the
Metropolitan Police Board, without consult
ing Mr. Weed. Submission on the part of
Mr. Weed was wholly out of the question,
and he determined at once to crush Mr. Fen
ton, and in order to accomplish this work ho
has prostituted you ; he has retarded and ob
structed national legislation ; he has so divi
ded' the counsels of the Republicans of Now
York that it is more than possible that the
Democratic party will carry the election in
November.
A largo majority in tho Congress of the
United States has endeavored, during the
present session, so to legislate as to develop
the resources, : nd thus increase the wealth,
power, and population of the country. The
members of the ruling party have introduced
no measure which has not been violently op
posed by men who are openly or secretly
your friends. That you or Mr. Weed has
been actuated by any principle higher than
a merely selfish one, it would be in vain to
contend. You have done all in your power
to defeat all practical legislation. You have
been instrumental in postponing the consid
eration of the tariff bill, which contains no
principle you have not a hundred times elo
quently advocated. Your friends tried in
vain to prevent any improvement in the in
ternal revenue tax bill ; and this very day
the bill fur the construction of a ship canal a
round to the Falls of Niagara was lost, beentn-a
your friends hypocritically pretended that its
passage would materially affect the interests
of the Republican party in New York. The
passage of the bill is demanded by the com
mercial interests of the East and the agricul
tural interests of the West, and the comple
tion of the proposed work would, as you are
well aware, confer a great blessing upon all
the world. The statement that the passage
of the bill would affect adversely the election
in New York is so absolutely , false that it
has no. shadow even of foundation in truth.
You, and your superior, Weed, and your
circle of friends, endanger the election in
Now York. You, the Secretary of State,
have lent yourself to Mr. Weed's uses for the
gratification of his private purposes and per
sonal spite against Mr. Fenton. You will
assist in breaking up the Republican party ;
you will divide the friends who have so often
in times of great peril rallied around you ;
you will smile while the great State you 4o
foully misrepresent is given over to the Cop
perhead Democracy, because your more than
friend, your political father, your dry nurse,
was not consulted by Governor Fenton when
certain appointments were to be made. But
we yet believe that, in your despite, the
Empire State will still be true to the cause
of liberty. Should she prove false, you and
your friends will bo alone to blame. On
your shoulders and on those of your political
owners and employers will rest the sole re
sponsibility,l) Should Mr. Thurlow Weed
and yourself, instead of laboring through
these long dog-days to procure the removal
of petty postmasters of obscure country vil
lages for the crime of remaining true to the
principles learned from your lips, address
yourselves to the Union mon of New York
urging them to unite in the support of that
candidate for Governor who is the manifest
choice of the people, Mr. Fenton would be
re-elected by more than thirty thousand ma
jority, every Union representative would be
returned or succeeded by a man of like record
and principles, and the number of Union
Representatives would bo increased. If the
State of New York is lost to the Union party
it will be because of the personal vindictive
ness of Mr. Thurlow Weed and the treachery
of his puppet, William 11. Seward.
But the State of Now York will not bo
lost. You have lost a great portion of your
power, That great mass of foreign voters,
forty thousand strong at least, which has for
a quarter of a century contondod against
you and on tho side of your newly found
allies of Tammany, you will find have open
ed their oyes at length to tho thorough por
ception.of the great truth that the friends of
liberty for AmeriCans, black and white, are
necessarily the advocates of the liberty of all
men and of all nationalties the world over t ,:
and these men will vote against William H.
Seward in the fall election, and by defeating
him and his, rebuke him in a manner ho can
well •understand for his treacherous back
sliding.
You may ask, as some of your friends
have already asked, why you are singled
opt no the object of attack and denunciation.
The answer is simple. You are the most
conspicuous traitor that the reforni party
of freedom has Itnown, because of tj , isur
great position you have been able to do
more' harm to the cause you luiie betrayed
''then any other. Such men as governor
Randall are 'blatant., and Coating 'mere.
Mr. McCulloch proves upon'everi'possible•
oceaSion that his' is as ignorant 'tts a Child
of great political principles and their appli 7
cation. Mr. Welles never was and by , . no
peasibilty ever -pan become • a power;.
letters favoring this or that'coaventiiin'tire
mere waste paper. Dixon and Gowan .ana
Doolittle . are. , adventurers in politics,. OF
whom athing better , than their present
treachery could reasonably have been :U'ic
peeted. ,You are not merely a noisy demo!:
gogue; you are'skilled in politics; you repi•
resent a power; you are not a"mere advenr
'tam, but a: man of great-mentsi resoUrocs
and of 'extensive influence. YQU are to the
great party ,of freedom, which trusted' you,
what 'Benedict'• Arnold was, to -the stru6
gling patriots of the BeiolutlOM'what .Jelf;
fern on Baids,wafi and is to .the principles: of
of democratic government in Amerioa,! , thn
,suicinl
re . traitor, the magnitude of .whoso
almost say regard—for Mr., Weed, for he
possesses many admirable qualities. He is
guilt makes all other cotemPorary treason
contemptible. When you and yours aro
defeated, as you surely will be, by the good
sense *of the people, aided by their undi
minished and undying love of liberty, your
name, which might have stood pn the his
toric page in the same line with those of
Lincoln, Grant, and Farrngut, will find no
better compapionship than.- the names of
those who strcihic at the life of our beloved
country—who made the streets of every vil
lage in the land sombre with the mourning
robes of bereft sires and dames, and wives
and children, and brethern and sisters.
WASHINGTON, July 15, 1666
SIR: Only a few yeiffs have passed since
a large and powerful party in this country
regarded you as its chosen leader and the
pioneer of the great army of reform. IL is
but a little more than one year ago when
the nation, bowed down with grief at the
sudden taking off of the best and purest pa-
triot that has filled the Presidential office
since Washington—when the nation, just
arising from the brink of the grave into a
new and a better life, thanked God that the
Secretary of State was saved.
Who engaged so earnestly in the great and
" irrepressible conflict" between slavery and
freedom as - William H. Seward, of New
York I Who stirred up the great hear'. of
the West so effectively as he 7 The prairies
heard him and the flowing rivers, and they
nobly answered his appeals. 'There is not a
graveyard in all the South where the bones
of our country's sacred martyrs lie that does
not bear witness to the eloquence or hit,' who
told the people to do right, to love liberty ,
t o vote for free thought and free speech, and
to trust to Almighty God for the consequon-
ces.
There is no man in this great countr:i, of
ours braver in mere words tha'n yourself:
aril it is hardly too much to say, there is no
man in this country tours cloy:frilly in ;Lo
tion. You are, and ever have been, afraid
to inset and grapple with the consequences
of your own at guments and appeals Feu
aroused the people to that height of enthu
siasm for the cause of liberty which made
civil war almo4 inevitable, and mad, them
ready to sacrifice their lives in your behalf;
and yet, when, as Secretary of State i(nritY
Mr. Lincoln—and I fear that word "under"
touches your pride, true or false—you knew
that. our flag had been fired upon in the har
bor of Charleston, that our forts and arse
nals had been seized, it was you who insist
ed, against the common sense of your Presi
dent and your colleagues in the Cabinet,
that there was no war, and that we must
have no war, because war would inevitably
destroy the Union. Had your heart, in
April, 1861, been as sound as your head was
in October, 1800, When your stirred up the
patriotism of the West, you would have been
before such men as Jenekes, of Rhode Is
land, Butler and Ban ks, and Wade and
Chandler, and even Johnson, of Tennes,ee,
in calling your countrymen to arms. You
did no such thing. You are cue,clan. of' the
fact that you impeded rather' than aided
President Lincoln, " who still rules our
spirits from his urn ;" that you were afraid
of war, afraid of rebels, afraid of Northern
Copperheads, afraid of England and cf
France, afraid to try to settle the irrepres
sible conflict by the, arbitrament of the
sword, afraid to meet the legitimate results
of your own teachings—at cowardly and, shuf
fling defender of your own avowed princi
ples.
War came, notwithstanding yotir Astor-
House—l might say vinous—prophecies.
The arms of Union soldiers were blessed by
the good God ; the prayers of our martyred
President were answered ; the good old flag
waves triumphantly everywhere. While
the war was in progress, you were loft to the
almost exclusive management of our foreign
affairs. In the midst of the turmoil we were
willing to pass by your short-comings in si
lence. Now we can say that your adminis
tration partook largely of your mental and
moral character—it was weak and cowardly.
You answered the vindictive 'and selfish
policy of Great Britain in the equipment of
the Sea King—the Alab a—and a dozen
less destructive pirates, With wordy despatch
es and inconsequential remonstrance. You
knew the facts of each case, and you might
have known that the country would have
sustained you had you demanded immediate
action on the part of the British Govern
ment to detain these vessels, with war as the
only alternative; but, on the contrary, you
sealed the lips of our ministers at the courts
of London and Paris, and the whole matter
resulted merely in mutual requests to "ac
cept assurances of most distinguished con
sido'i•ation."
You may have forgotten the interesting
histories of the cruises of the Alabama and
the Shenandoah. Lot us assure you the
story yet holds a place in the memories of
the people. Only last December the Presi
dent of the United States and•the Secretary
of the Navy, in the message of the one and
the report of the other, took especial care to
remind the people of the outstanding debt
against Great Britain. What have you
done or what do your propose to do in regard
to the liquidation of this debt? Now is the
time to make demands. Forgot that Sir
Frederick Bruce is your personal friend for
a moment, forgot that you drink each other's'
healtlis with your logs under the same ma
hogany, and remember that the Liborids of
England are essentially
,defeated ; that wo
have no sympathy with a Government or
guniied with the Earl, of Derby at its head ;
that orir friends have gone down,' and that.
liberal ideaS have gone, down with thole ;'
that - England, an,arinekor'unarrried nrin c
triCis weak ;' that we are - strong
is the time to, demand and to obtain safisfao--
tion. If you represent the American pet),
ple,.you .Will_ speak i oory.l_
_lf_ you remain
simply William H. Seward, you will remain
silent until you receive positivo advices from
New York 'through Mr. Thurlow Wood.
That -the 'golden opportunity for,. redress is
now, no. Inman his senses can deny.' Per
haps you wilt 'discuss this matter with the
distingiaishod Itepresontatavo of her 'Britan
nic Mojestylit year:ll6# social .mooting.
If you. have' heretofore. Acant anything
like what you have:said why do
,you'euffor
.the eoldiers' .Of the French' Emperor; . the
direptrid, • Of DoineCietie libctrty 14-4uropo,.
Ain' t° hold a, great . and itiaidlY poOfaci fin
Lt•
bondage in Mexico? Our people aro ready
to sustain you, though you should instruct
Mr. Bigelow to insist that every French sol
dier should leave Mexico within ninety days.
Franco cannot reply, except in acquiescence.
She cannot go to war with the United States
on the Mexican question without involving
herself in revolution, which would inevitably
hurl the blood-stained conspirator who now
rules her from his ill-gotten throne; and
thus would be revenged the murdered inno
cents of Paris, through whose warm blood
Louis Napoleon marched to Imperial power.
Mr. Secretary, for the sake of the country,
and your own reputation, do not talk any
more about the Monroe doctrine, but in the
name of justice, liberty, in the sacred name
of God, act upon that doctrine, and stop the
flow of blood in Mexico. Will the Count
be offended ? With due respect to that gen
tleman we can say to him that he can take
his chagrin to Paris and lay it at the foot of
the Imperial throne. We are bound to SUR
tai n the Mexican Republic, and the people
are willing to fulfil all their obligations.
Five hundred thousand volunteers could be
found in a month to drive every French, sol
dier from the soil of Mexico.
11. 11. D
Mr. Secretary, while we, the people, ad
mitthe wisdom of f he.advice of Washing
ton, that we should not entangle ourselves
by foreign alliances, we are satisfied Hint WO
need, and must have, a well-defined foreign
'Riney.. The question is not, shall we have
Itp diey, but what shall that policy be? You
are nut expected to answer this question ;
upon foreign affairs it is perfectly well un
derstood that yore• policy is contained in the
maxim keep things as they are," and "at
any expense ,f dignity or interest keep out
of trouble;" but the people entertain a very
different idea; the nation collectively is not
a coward, it belleyeii in the Monroe <l,,c
-trine. The nation will sustain you if you
insist upon the application of the Monroe
doctrine 114,40 nut next spring, but sow.
whip• France has more than she is well able
to do in looking after the great 1 4 :uropean
struggle, and preparing to take her part when
the time comes. Congress will sustain you,
for Congress represents the people, and be
lieves in the practicability of applying the
MollrOO durtrine to 'ilexiCU.
You may quote upon us here the well
known anecdote concerning Chief Justice
Holt, who, on being called upon by one who
professed to be a " messengor from the
Lord," and commanded to indict a certain
person, replied " You are an imposter, for
the Lord sent you He would have
known that your business was with the At
torney General and not with the Chief .1 us
ti re." The plea will not avail you, for
everyb o dy knows perfectly NVOI I that you co
incide with )fr. Johnson in 161 points but
one ; that is, who shall receive the pro-sla
very nomination l'or President in 1 Be.S. You
and you alone are responsible ful' oar want
of a foreign policy. The President has upon
his mind more than on, ought to bear in
considering the advice of your new friends
Cox and Voorhee , and Pendleton arid Val
landighain, and in tithing. care of th, pro
posed convention at Philadelphia, and in
cru , hing his own followers in Tonne--ee, and
in defeating the hot proposed constitutional
amendment, therefore he cannot be expected
to pay attention to :Ilexico or Canada, and
may well leave all q uestions relatin g to our
foreign affairs to his accomplished Secretary
of State. •
And that reminds us, Mr. Secretary, do
you not feel a little ashamed, sAnetimes,
that you are found in a great theatre pin . ) -
ing Horatio to Mr. Johnson's Hamlet, or
lax) to Mr. Johnson's Othetto, or Martial,"
Mr. Johnson's Macbeth? You used to be
the" leading gentleman," at least; now you
simply set off the strong points of another
who is a mere apprentice in comparison-
You toady to the star ; you speak and write
his puffs; you are his chief clavier, for we
cannot count the Secretary of the Treasury,
who is a Mere tyro in the business, and has
had but small experience in stage strategy
or stage effects ; he performs well clerkly
duties, but miserably sails whenever, at re
mote periods, he appears upon the rostrum
" for one night only.' You, and you alone,
embody the want of policy which distin
guishes our foreign relations, and we hold
you responsible lor yor e • own short-comings.
Very respectfully,
WAsuiNGToN, July 9, 18011
HIESTER CLYMER IN 1883.
He Endorses . the Knights of the Golden Cir
cle—He declares the Emancipation Procla
mation and the Conscription Law Clearly
Unconstitutional—He Disapproves of the
War to save the Union—He declares Hint-
self "free from any obligations," to assist
in pp °scenting it to a successful issue—He
favors the Secession of Pennsylvania from
the Loyal States!
The friends of Mester Clymer, now that
he is u candidate for Governor, are endea
voring to impose upon the loyal people of
Pennsylyania, and the soldiers especially, by
fallacious...assertions that during the most try
ing period' in our country's history, while the
Nation was strggling for existence, he was
" War Democrat," and approved of the
war for the Union. To show that the facts
tire exactly the reverse we submit the fol
l Owing statement
In tho winter and spring of 1803 the Cop
perheads of Barks, and throughout the
State, were organized in every election dis
trict into secret, oath-bound associations
known as " Knights of the Golden Circle."
Similar associations, acting in concert, were
also organized in the rebellious states, with
ii mutual understanding, by signs grips and
passwords', by which they were able, in and
out of the contending.. armies, to recognize
each other and ,thut cripple the efforts Of the
''CiOvoininimt'te'subdtie the itebollion.•' That
llieSter Cipher belonged to thiS *rot or
ganization of Tories and Traitors, and was
a leading spirit among them, there is no
:rooln-for-dotibt. "-It will be recollected : that
'several nifinbers of this Tory Order Were
arrested in — Berkseounty in the Spring of 1863,
:charged with chrispiraoyngainst the EloVern
amt of the United States in oppoSing' the
draft; 'or "ponscriptionla*," as the doPpor
'hohd's torined it, and that •seVeral hundred
members of this'tory fraternity, known as
" Heidelberg Brigado,' . marched ; lnto
the City of Ileadinifronf the `western part
of the county,' for the purPose, 'of lescaing
these prisoners—their felloW m'euthers-froiri
the' United states' authorities.. This
niouayaid took placo on tho'pth of AFirilr
TERMS:--$2,00 in Advance, or $2,50 within the year
H. 11. D
1863. Two days afterwards, April 11th,
call was issued for a " Democratic County
Meeting," to back up the ' Knights,' and
among solnc two hundred signers to this call.
the name of If TESTER CLYMER appeared
second on the list—Hon. S. E. Ancona, the
then and present member of Congress from
this district, being the first. The meeting
took place on Tuesday, Apfil, 1863, in and
buck of the Court House in this ctiy. The
Resolutions adopted at that meeting, believ
ed to have been drawn up by "HESTER
2
CLYMER, were as follows:
WHEREAS, It is among the inalienable
rights of a free people to assemble either in
public or in private, openly or secretly, as
they may choose, subject only to the Con
stitutions and laws of the land: And Where
as. An attempt has recently been in de by
the present authorities of the United States,
in violation of those rights, by arresting
pancomblocitizorm of tho oo.rity Berke,
carrying them beyond the jurisdiction of
their own courts on charges and pretenenses
founded on mere rumor, .and without the
slightest foundation in fart. Therefore
Resotved. By the Democracy of Berle
county, in mass meeting assembled, that
while we will obey the Constitution and
laws of our country, and make no forcible
resistance to the execution of any Bruce"
administered by the Government within tilt
limits of its legitimate functions, we evil
not stihmit to nor tolerate the slightest
ever oach ments upon rue rights and pririleges :
such attempt will meet with oar resist° ne,
at all hazards, and regardless of COlisr
(tent's.
Rem , lved. That secret political
otherwise, are not iii thern , elves in viola-
Lion or the Consiitkition and laws, and that
whenever a free people see proper to organ
nize thew:elves in secret Sr lit plihl rr then
hare a right to proter(ion , it nd Ii I lie Gov
ernment, fur political purposes fails to ren
der that protection we pledge ortesedres 6
(rtrni.sh it to the extent our ',weer.
Such SI
tire organized upon the principles at vari
withunno Cho Lonat.it cation curl la wi+ in their
letter or spirit. or whenever the tendency of
such organizations infringes upon the eon
,titutional rights or any ell 1%011 011 Iteet.lllll
of the place of his birth, his religion, or
other guaranteed right 4 we regard such so.
(duties as illegal, subversive or law and or
der, and deserving the condeninati,n or etli
"od
Besot ere% That While the' Delmer:lcy cti
lierks • recognize and sustain the rights of
our peoplo undue 611011 restrictions, to so or
ganizo, as a mere question of right appet
taining to freemen, and deem it of the high
est importance that eternal vigihince at sill
neAshotild 6e exerci,ed g lignin,r
the slightest enerolichnients,upon tiny rights,
we do not devil' secret political organization
either de,irlible or expedient, so long it-
mien organization ran be maintained with
out danger from armed intervention fir oi
bodily harm. Unlesri such danger exi,t,
the tendency will alnn a invariably •bi•
=
into hands or had men. Public liberty,
as well as private rights, may be undermined
boron) the public is aware or the danger.
Theme evil., under the control of good and
111. 111011, nmy 110 : but 011111
tie: of a political character nro favorite
with all that class of men who dread the
light for fear of exposure.
iee,ot red That If' secret political societie
have recently been organized among us.
it is to be presumed they are for no other
)urpos6 [lta the protection of their right,
egg 1181 11111,11.1:011 tr 1' re.si or c.rrralion 1,1
tnr•wt,vli Nrl ;until laws. Uutil tht•contrnry
proven, the character of our people warrnt,
this belief ; but as such objects can better It
.ocurtal by the ~pen 1/1 . g11111Z11111 , 11 I,f our
Wlll,ll' p.)1.1, , , 111 strict accordance NVIIII, law,
1111,1 W11.11 ,, 111, furni,hing pretext for
.111.111,1
twrventiml 1)y it rnilitary rmver, qtr o:u'
nestly recommend all >urh to l band° 11 llt
secret features, and join ~pen organiza
tion in every ward, townNiiip and bor,,ugh
in cur county. Such a inoveinent will ry
,lrengtli and power at home, inspire eon
fidenee,lnd wield moral influence abroad.
I?esolverl . That NVO are equally hostile
A,bolitionifzts North and tiffeessionisht South.
We regard both alike as tending to the sump
results : one is the openly avowed edvi.eat.
of a separate C'ontederacy ; the other the
advocate of principles which must inevita
bly end there.
Res i 1 ed. That we, regard the Emaneipa
,m Pmelainati,m,thel:,,,n,cripti,,n La \V, 1111.1
C.)1 , 11-eati. , n Its C(e"rhi
tional; but while we pledge Our united el .
forts to test them in all legal modes within
our reach, wo will not infringe upon in
violate any law, whatever may be our pres
ent opinions, until it is pronounced by the
proper judical authorities to Isis null and
void. It is better to bear many grievance•-
at temporary character, than to plunge cm!
country - into amirchy, ending in militar\
despotism, and destroying all our hopes for
the future.
Resiihrit. That resistance by force to an
evasion of our personal freedom is a vr
tae; and if the insane threat of a distin
guished military chieftain (distinguished
more for the position he holds than for
achievements in arms) to put his heel upbn.
the neck of Northern men, be attempted
be carried out, we promise him a warm re
'ception. In order to allay any undue (wit,-
ment, however, that might be occasioned
this threat, we deem it proper to add that
as this same authority has informed us that
we aro not to be molested until the rebel,
aro filet subdued, we arc of opinion judging
front past progress, that the present genera
lion at the North can hardly feel themselves
interested in the question.
Resolved. That we recommend open or
ganizations in every township, ward and
borough in our county, in order to sustain
the Constitution, the Union tthd the laws,
and at the same time to resist every en
croachment upon our personal rights and
freedom, guacnuteed by that instrument and
those laws.
Resolved. That we are inflexibly and un
alterably devoted to the Constitution and
the Union, with such additional guarantees
as may protect the rights of minorities from
all future aggression. IVe do not approve of
this War as at present conducted.
NEVER DID APPROVE OP ST IN ITSELF, but
accepted it in preference to disunion, an
archy and do.VotiSm under pledges, that it
should be conducted solely with a view to
the restoration of the Union. These pled
ges have boon broken, the war is converted
into an abolition crusade, and we are free
from any obligations, except those of obedi
ence to law.
Resolved. That We will patieittly wait di(
progress of events, until power passes from
the hands of the present Adtninistration
under the forms of law. We will continue
to urge upon Congress and upon the States
the repeal of all unconstitutional acts, and
the' calling of a National Convention . to
'ainand the constitution. If , thee°. fail, our
hives centre iii the . sovereipi rightS - of
State. of Pennsylvania mid in order that she
may be prepared to exercise those rights.
we urge upon our fellow citizens the necessi
tyof organization, the Bela:tip:: and elec
tion of ear ablest and best mon fur Govern.
nor and Legislators and in. the meantiine,
we have no torms•of. pence. to offer to any
quarter, except upon, •the 'basis of reunion.
It will ho observed that the pervading
spirit of •these resolutioOsi though specious
ly worded, was oxpresSiyoLof the, most bitter
hostility to the „then "ft . .ll.l4thorities of ilte
United Slates,'" and, of .a determination on
the•part
. rof the, Tory Democracy • of •perjqi
county, to resist hazards and reg.l,l
-
. .eonsequences," any •,enorOachmenG
, upon,lyhat they, *ill their 4!:conslilutional
•
With" or the right to resist the Govern.
meet and aid the Rebels. The resolutions
also declare, in effect :
1. That "secret political societies,"—
(meaning the Hlnights.')organized to sub
vert the Government, had a right to the
protection of the Government, which if it
(the Ooickfinlent)'failed to give, they (the'
Democracy of Berks) pledged themselves to
furnish to the extent of their power!
2. The ~E mancipation Proclamation, the
Conscription law, and the Confiscation acts,"
were "clearly unconstitutional,"'and there
fore of no binding force so far as they (the
Copperheads of Berks) Were concerned
3. That they do not approve of the IVar as
at present (then) conducted; aneTHAT
THEY NEVER DID APPROVE OF IT TN
ITSELF II
NO. 31
That as the War for the Union was
not conducted to suit them, they were 'free
from any obligations" to assist in prosecu
ting it to a successful issue I
5. That they were in favor of a National
Convention to amend the Constitution so as
to suit the Rebels! And that failing in this,
should they succeed in electing their Candi
date for Governor—(liester Clymer being
at that time a candidate before the people
for that office, the Copperhead Convention
having not yet made the nomination,) and,
the Legislature at the coming of fall elec
tion of 1863, it wns their purpose "to assert
the sovereign right of the State of Pennsyl
vania,' the plain meaning of which N 11.9 to
do just, what the Rehel States had already
done—lierecle from the National Union, and
unite Pennsylvaulik,ufqh the Jeff: Davis
Government.'
—lt will be noted further, that while the
resolutions were expressive of the bitterest
hostility to the United States Government,
there was not a word said against the Gov
ernment of Jett. Davis—not a syllable of
commendation or encouragement to the three
or four thousand gallant soldiers of Berks
, ou lay, fighting the battles of the Union, then
m the field !
After the reading of the resolutions above
quoted, and their unanimous adoption, ns
t: por te , thin most infamous Tory Meeting
.vas addressed by the lion. IIIEsTER CLY
‘ll.:lt, in a speech outrageously- violent and
flilltinnintory. lie surpassed even the resit
mtions in the boldness of his opposition to
a•.ir limit contempt lor the Government.
l'nfortunittely his rpeech WAS not report
but it is still in the recollection orimany
d his hearers On that occasion, that he stig
.uatized the Black Republicans, and loyal
n,
n or the country, as "blacker than the
01,,•1.e5t Serf, itf ur words to that ef
(eel. We ourself remember him as saying,
ny way of giving significance to the last
it, , olot,on of the PATIV.S, "Let the Black
.le..ultltvans watt till ler get the power, and
then, by , we'll make them sweat."
sVe thought at the time this was rather
..troug language, bot have no doubt from
sir Clymer's earnestness, and his pas
otonite and intemperate deClatnatiou, that
he' lllett'll all he Read:— and even now, we
quite sure that if he gets the power, the
oyal people of Pennsylvania., and the gal
nut ,ohlier::, whom it was the fashion among
gyp; crliend orators (luring the war to stig
natize as Lincoln's Hirelings,'—if they are
nit made to 'sweat,' cannot hope to receive
An% favors at hi:; hands
--This, soldiers and people of Pennsyl
vania, is one ftinong the many reminiscenci a
he war, going to show that iIIESTER ULY
mel,, who is now claimed to have been a
••tsar Democrat" during the war, was a
opperhetul oC.the wort sort, and is altogeth
. r tinwoi thy tnt; the suffrages of loyal men.
We propose, hereafter, to re-publish the
entire proceedings of this Tory meeting
.neloding the call, with the names of the
..ilicers, and committees so that the partici
pants nay be held up to the contempt they
nehly deserve. Meanwhile, as we have
leprmlaced the resolutions entire, we sug•-
;t•ai that they be submitted to the Clymer
„Meeting ou Wednesday next, l'ur re
endorsement, and th it :11r Clymer will, on
,hat ,ceasion, favor the public with a repe
tirion of ills speech, word for word, made at
the time they were first passed.—Reading
M itS..JANE (.1 who bus re
cently been dismissed from a cite kship in
due of the Departnimits for speaking disre
iicetfully of that gent!e:i en who distinyutsh
d on the biurth of March, 1665, in
Senate and inure recently made a din
4rneetul harangue to a lot of rebels from the
-nips of the White House. gives quite a live
,y de,criptiou of the manner in which favors
onl oldies are bestowed at 11 ashington.
No hope all who desire to know how
al
reworded and treason made odious by
dor Modern noaes will give the blowing
oxtraCt from her letter to the Repusityr.ti
..arelul reading. There are some facts the
voople ought to !drew and hoie are a few of
The Post Master of this city, for instance,
.1. S. Brown, is a radical and a loan of spot
reputation as well as undoubted loyally;
cut prudence and Iriends dictated to him the
necessity of resigning the presidency of f•Tho
r: pail Suffrage Association" in erder to de
prive Messrs. Johnson, Dennison and Ran
dall of that excuse for replacing him by ono
ot their tools. All the officers of that MAO
,haloll resigned, or were dismissed iron'
their places under Government, last spring.
One gelid UM 1211 Who WILS appointed by Dem
.ieratic influence in the beginning of the
l'ulk Administration and has held a promi
nent place in the Treasury ever since, was.
01re:fumed with dismissal and obliged, to re
,ign his office of Secretary of that Associa
llt,ll. This while men have been holding
lucrative places here, with suns in the Rebel
army all the time of the war, and wives and
daughters openly, boastfully in sympathy
with the Rebellion, and they themselves,
trimming their words without disguising
their approbation of such sympathy.' Hordes
of returned rebel soldiers are now hying here
supported by the Government by" aluries
paid to ' , Mlle member or members of their
family, while the .can who has given his
rii 4 lit :mil or leg for the Government, and
has bear favored by employment under it,
is expected to weigh his words if he would
retain his place, and say nothing against "my
policy.'' One example of the use made of
smell appointments here. There is a Mary
land woman in the Post Office who, has been
in the habit, while holding a clerkship there,
of speaking of President Lincoln as "old
Lincoln the ape," and Secretary Stanton as
"Stanton the beast," of Union soldiers as
"Lincoln's rabble," and who was once car
ried drunk, out of a theatre 'here since her
appointment, and against whom those, and
other similar facts, have been proved by af
fidavit, of respectable witnesses, and the
proof laid before Post Makter Dennison, and
by hint referred to ASsistant Post Master
General Randall, and the women retained.
I. Keyed in hospitals until I twice narrowly
escaped with life from disease' brought on by
overwork and gangrene caught from dreSs
ing wounds, and until a prominentsurgeon,
under whose eye I worked, said,l. had saved
the Government more in bounty money, by
saving the lives' of Men 'who returned to
dirty; than my salary would amount to dur
ing my Info, and Was dismissed from my
clerkship !!For spout ing disrespectfully, of
the President of the United States through
her paper The ReconStruc.tionist I" Then
"The Constitutional Union," President John
son's organ,
,edited by his personal friend;
Tom. Florence, 'advised mobbing and duck
ing Inc. '• In Anticipation of, a molt 4 sent
•my child and vat u ablekawaly '; • but' the'elidv
'dry though.t.best to bo'qulots and my :press
room, 'which :was hi the busement of
dwelling ~was.seeratly ",T/te,Union"
treated this its ti,Plessant joke and. regretted
that early diSeeVery prevented the - burning
' of liotiso:Mid my lady biunpositors and
sellimit. The snipe regret •was'operily and
.fregnently , expressed .words by., President
'Johnson's admirers, and
. a seeend•atteinptio
'burnt the hem' made giye. up the'
crition7Fof :the paper. • Sp much for Govorn
tnent patronage and.fre6dom of the Preas:in
the capitol of this nation,