lit iiw J 1, jil 4 rr BLESSINGS OF GOVERNMENT, LIKE THE DEWS OF HEAVEN, SHOULD BE DISTRIBUTED ALIKE, UPON THE HIGH AND THE LOW, THE RICH AND THE POOR. v-EW SEK1ES. EBENSBURG, PA. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1863. VOL. 10 NO. 43. U is published every Wednesday :r at OSE POLLAR AND FlFTY CENTS aw r- i ..gSgVENTi i'"i frtiu UI1U 1 W U Dollar if termination of the year, will be received for a Judge Woodward on the Word ! Gov. Curtln on Arbitrary Arrests sire. .ires' ... six mniB until the '. .nhacription a periixi than six months, aud no Tter will bo at liberty to discontinue 'pr until all arrearages are paid, ex- the option of the editor. Any pers uhacribintr f r "is months wil be char 'oss Dollar, unless the money t in advance. Advertising Rates. One insert'n. Two do. Three do fl2line $ 50 $ 78 $1,00 24 lines 1 UO 1 UO Z UU 3G lines I 50 2 00 3 00 3 months. 6 do. 12 do K or less, J' J vu r . t- I r rv i r rv fi Ark i-ire, 1- lines i ou j uj ire lines i i u uu i -. w lf3'. lines! 6 00 9 00 14 00 Kolnmn. to uo ou i w a the Marlborough Gazette. wnewair Jack3ou a Sentinel. TvR v D. Moore, of Richmond, in a ilMi e-.tcd -Sionjw.il .tMov.'ir.g incident : P.rrl -us to ti.e first battle of Manassas, fi t''i" tr '; s u nd r 'Stonewall' Jackjcn ton. I ory i'f the much lovi-d Jackson narrates l:. C..V ni.ucr halting, at i.rfHou fi.euvov.nd exhausted an ..'. rr ." n v-'i' .'p ; si a1 1 I t but t White" in our Constitution. In January 1838, twenty-five years ago, a great question came before the Convention which made our present Con stitution whether the right to vote should be confined to the white men, or extended so as to embrace the blacks. To the jiowerful efforts and speech of Judge Woodward upon that occasion, we are indebted for that word in our Constitution which now, in view of tiie emancipation policy of the Administration,becomes more valuable than ever. The Judge commen ced his great speech upon the motion to insert the word " white" by sajing : " Who ought to be voters in Pennsyl vania, or, in other word., who ought to have political control of our government ? This is a question of the first impression and of great magnitude. When you have established ana distributed its powers among the several departments legisla tive, executive and judicial, it remains to decide tern shall direct and control that gov ernment The machine mav be well sup plied with all tho necessary wheels and springs, but in preparing and fitting them no question can arise of so great impor tance, as who shall hare, the regulation or its mot'onn and direction, tchen it is jinished and read for use. The question has now to he answered, wi:h roterenoe to two distinct and separate classes of men, the whites and the blacks, and for all the re-fl- etion I have bwi able to zivc on the , our arnvt'v! ;or fHini' wauii t. Tiie '.tao-: cf ti- d.iv went ril's t-nt. and sail "The men re is not no wum; : i ...-.. I.:,. t'e li lit' j ,.i ll . lui. BiCVW. i"i i . iteh tbf can. t niiit.'' And all j nr, ii.- '..si 'tii.e gouti t v ,i...l M'eut b Foreigners and Catholics, Read ! subject, I am prepared to say, the jtolilityrf prnvers oj' tfiis jovrnment, oujht to be exer- Iji coming to this conclusion I have endeavored, as . i, r in,.! ti.At Um 1v far aa possible, to divest my mind of all el :.,r tn.it i.rave. of Virginia he- , , -hen glorious morning brckc. rir. v..c 'King rf fref.ri ar.-l reivly 1t f t',.: n .) !- vi-i1 pi niiar s kept. tl.e day, so hti.l ; T-i .!.'"-' t r.f if eveninz Vird V.";.s l..'.i-. upon the hill ; A'.hw.tr: -l.-i sbaduf.- cf the vale S',v.;..bi':0''. tin1 tr;n ( niiht, n.i .-.r.a w!,tinl r;i"rl his rcuuds r. n x: il: caa.p tl.tt uiyht J ui '.Tin rrui was up, ! r -more b "olv ; iv.. f "I "e t-cftno.'. IniAr.'.ii HlirCiin:i.M.li;il VO'-V ! z'.-.vx? j-rfcret over th plain ! rt ilna: i r.4 TV, 1. u - v a: .i.e. TV r" tii'Pjio- ui to binri Hs (rttiil at! awl'il .! ill M.vi.iK-as ar. 1 the valley march C'lnf litty iVr his -ul ; R rVrn..r. l r d Sharpt.biirji tbimder'd by 'Vitli that trimend flight Which .iTeliim to tba An'el host. Who watche-1 the camp thai night. Wf ni'.urn fur him. who died for us, With cue n-si-tleiis moan. WS le up the valley f the L.rd, He marches to the throne! lii kept the faith ol men and saints, Sublime, and pure and bricrht ; II Vep; and all is well with him Whu watched the camp that night. Brothers! the midnight of our cause Is shrouded in our fate.' The ilernrn Goths pollute our halls With fire, and lu.-t. and hate. Pe str.MVj be vuliant be assured Sfiki hrme fr Heaven ami Right! The (.--ul of .Taeksoa stalks abroad And guards the camp to-night. fthols the Soldier's Real Trlend! Kxtrct from the decision of Judge Wood H ru-tamiuT the stay law passed by our ktfshiture in favor of the soldier : Nw, if a stay of execution for three ! woul i not be tolerated in ordinary "S dij not these circumstances consti- i emerjr-ncy that justified the push- of Ugihl.tion to the extremest limit ! tne institution ? No citizen could be Earned for volunteering. He was invoke! 3 80 by ar peals as strong as his love of itry. Ia the nature of things there is "niD unreasonable in exernptine a sol ..I j)reji:!i-es against tne Aincan nice, w.iom wj have among us. t tiey un serve mv svinpathies and they have tliem; but I fi-el unwiliing to surrender this gov j eminent, in whole, or in part, into their j keeping, and 1 am, therefore, prepared to vote for tins anwiditient and to say in our Cuiistiluti-jn that the voters of Pennsylva nia shall be viiitf. freemen." II then procci-ded in a statesman -like manner to support his position, in reply to Thad Jens Stei hns and others who had J spoken In f?.v or cf conferring the right to S.-veral yea b apo President L.iiiCohi ma I j a spix'ch on this same subject at a Gathering of negroes in Cincinnati for the purpose of presenting Mr. Chase, now Secretary of the Trrasury. with a silver tch'-r. Then and there Mr. Lincoln j said, amid the sweet aroma of p.-rspiring j n'groe?, ' We fwel, therefore, that all le i mi distinctions between individuals of the Sara? communitv, founded in avij such cir- ! cuni.-tcvici-s rw color, firisin or the like, are ! hostile to the "cuius of our institutions and ! with the true historv ot American liberty. I embrace with plea pure, this opportunity of declaring my dis- ai -probation of the clause of the Const itu ;,,n whVh denies to that portion of the . " . . - - - t colored people the rizht of sufrrage." Gov. Curtin belongs to the same school of Abolitionists. In his recent speech ac centing the nomination he said nothing ..ilnct th President's emancipation and I 1- V 4V ft i neTO enualitv policy. White men of Pennsylvania, are any of vou coverned by vour passions and preju dices as to be willing to annul negroes io terms of political and social equality. If so, vote for Curtin, if not vote for Judge Woodward. Curtin' Platform. The Abolition patriots recently made speeches in favor of Andrew G Curtin, the shoddy candidate for Governor. One wasThaddeus Stephens, who playfully said, "The Union as it was and the Constitution as it is God forbid it'" The second was Wm. II. Armstrong, who cooly informed his hearers that " it letter to loose a battle in the field .i. Aiu.;nn In IV-misvvania." The man me j third wn the notorious Benjamin V. Hat 1r Utrtv returned from Jlassachusetts, where he had been severely chastised for 11 stonemason, who r property from execution whilst bo 18 ! boldlv announced to his Abolition audi irom home battling for the supre- cnce that u be was not for the Union as iUrpf. worthies were employed to help Curtin, by Mr. Wame M'Veagh, the Chairman of the Curtin Stntft Committee, thev undoubtedly ex- ! pressed the opinions of their shoddy lea- der. Those who are wiuinz io iuuiv the treasonable and disgraceful sentiments quoted above, will cast their votes for An drew G. Curtin ! of the Destitution and the integnty of uji-m. And when he has not run be h wag sent, but has yielded himself up 10 w call of his country, his self sacrificing P.Uriutism pleada. trumpet ton gued, for all iiKlulerice f rom his creditors which the WC.sUrnra Wo . ft From the Patriot and Union The Convention at Pittsburg, after nominating Andrew G. Curtin for re-election, passed a resolution fully endorsing all the arbitrary arrests and petty tyran nies of Secretary Stanton ; and upon this platform he now stands. In Ins. recent speeches at Pittsburg and elsewhere, Cur tin has pledged himself to an 'unquestiona ble support of the administration,' in what ever they may do. Thus he not only en dorses all the iniquities of the administra tion peqietrated in the past, but pledges himself to sustain them in the future, no matter what wrong or outrage they may commit. The President has by his recent pro clamation, deprived us of that sacred writ of liberty for which the people of the world have battled for more than three hundred years ; he has practically abolished the courts to which we have been wont to re sort for the protection of our right3 under the law, and place every citizen at the mercy of the thousands of petty officials that, now swarm throughout the land. These officials, as every one who has eome in contact with them must feel, though wearing the badge of servitude to Lincoln, have not been clothed with infal libility. They are not above the average of fallible humanity. The' are compo sed of men subject to passions and preju dices like men in other iiositior.s of life, good, bad and indifferent ; and when they are bad, their being 14 dressed in a little brief authority" only serves to bring out into bolder relief, their worst characteris tics. Under these circumstances is it not probable, nay is it not certain, that many violations of law and interferences with the rights of individuals and of State, will be committed. And yet our provin cial Governor, instead of stretching forth his hand to save a citizen from injustice, pledges himself in advance to applaud the act of tyranny, and in that way encoura ges its repetion. Think of it fellow citi zens! A Governor ot the great common wealth of Pennsylvania, who has solemn- v sworn to support the constitution ol the State, and see that the laws are faithfully executed, pledging himself in advance to sanction and encourage the military pow er in trampling upon Ihe Constitution, and violating the laws made to cany out its provisions ! This is a subject in which all are alike interested. 1 reaches every fireside in the country. Any of you who may incur the spite or malice of one of Lincoln's minions is at any time liable to be di-as'ged from his home raid without a warrant, and without cause, thrown into some guard house or Federal Baslile, there to await the pleasure of your persecutors : and your Governor, whose sworn uuty u is to see that the laws are enforced and the rights of every citizen protected,stands pledzfd to sustain these violations of lib erty and law, and turn a deaf ear to j our appeals for justice. Is such a man wor thy of your support at the coming elec tion ? Is such a man worthy of being Gov ernor of the Keystone State. ? Are you willing to entrust your lives and liberties ich a recreant son of in iii -j - Pennsylvania ? fill nnr CVmstit .nions. National and State, it was carefully provided, by "the wise founders of our Government, that t lie military should at all times be subordinate to the civil law ; and up to the present evil hour, no serious attempt has ever been made to override this fundamental A strict construction ot our rvnsi;tntwin ond ji strict observance of i the laws made under them, have hereto fore been considered the great palladium of our liberty. And yet to-day we have 1 1. 4nn.Al.r iriron nn C1 1 1 a governor wnu nus uuun. K the reserved rights of the State and the people to a central military power, para ding before his fellow citizens, this crimi narpusillanimity as a virtue, and asking their suffrage on account of it ! Great God ! Can such a craven plea elicit from freeborn Pennsylvanians anything but con tempt? Has the spirit of freedom entire ly departed from us Has the heroic blood which animated our ancestors in battling for their rights, ceased to course throush the veins of their decendants An we willinz to be slaves? Fellow citizens, let us all go to the polls in Octo x t U.. m.i. Kollntc strn!v nn- The oaths taken ly GOV. ANDREW G. . CURTIN, when he joined the Know Nottiny Party J The Rebel Invasion. From the Philadelphia Age J Governor Ccimx's friends base his claims for re-election entirely upon his military services. They do not re commend him to the people on the score of honesty, ability or fitness, but thev allege he has done a vast deal as a beligerent. Unfortunately for this pretension, the history of last summer is not yet forgotten, let us recall some oi its incidents. Months before. General Lee made his advance, Mr. Clement C. Barclay, of this city, collected data which convinced himself and Governor Curtin that such a movement was in contempla tion. The evidence was laid before the President, but for reasons known only to himself though easily surmised he re plied, ' We can do nothing for you Penn-ylcania must lace care of herself." When this answer was given it is in "ossip, and the ii-ai&anblance of the story justifies its repetition Governor Curtin s friends said -'Now, Andy! be a man! They wjll cheat you out of the Spanish mission anyhow, and you may as weu s -cure your re-election by protecting the the State." This plan required more pluck than our "Chief Executive" was the owner of, and like Pontius Pilate, he surrendered his convictions of duty. Soon, however, the reports became still move alarming, and again he asked for aid. This lieing refused, he the Commander-in-Chief of our militia by. vir tue of a Constitution which declares that "the freemen of this Commonwealth shall be armed, organized for its defence," asked pcrmisMOn to call out his own miii tin. This. too. was denied, and the FIRST DEGREE. " In the presence of Almighty God and these witnesses. I do solemnly promise and swear that I will not betray any of the se crets of this siciet'. nor communicate them even to proper candidates, except within a lawful council of the order, that I will never permit any of the secrets of this society to Vi written, or in anv other manner to be made legible, except for the purpose of ofE cial instruction ; that I will not vote or give mv influence for anv man. for anv office in the gift of the people, unlets he be an Ameri can born citizen, in favor of Americans ru linT America, nor if he be a ROMAN CATHOLIC, that I will in all political mat ters. so far as this order is concerned, com ply with the will of the majority though it may connici wuu mv ji.-i.-iii.ii puiintun SECOND DEGREE. " I. of mv own free will and accord, m the nre.ence of Almighty God and these witnesses do solemnly and sincerely swear that I will not, under any circumstances, disclose in any maimer, nor suffer it to be done by others, if in my power to prevent it the name. sign. p;iss word or other secrets of this decree, except in open council for the purpo-e of instruction ; that I will support in all political matters, for all political offi ces; memliers of this order in" preference to other persons; that I will, when elected or apjKtinted to any offidal station, conferring on me the power to do so. remove a'! FOR EIGNERS. ALIENS, OR ROMAN CATH OLICS from 'office, or any placo in my piit. I do nb-o oromise and swear that this and all other obligations which I hav3 previous lv tak-n in this order shall evr be kept i next week he told his Harrisburg audience t .... . .. - . tit it .:. . . . ,. w throiish life, sacred and inviolate. All this T promise and declare as an American to sustain and abide by without any hesitation or mental reserve whatever, 60 help me God!" . Chief if we C-UIiTIX ON STUMP. We fear that our estimable Magistrate the only real friend, can belive him and his supporters, that the poor soldier has got in this broad Commonwealth must find himself in the condition of that aquatic musician we read of in a popular song, who, owing to the peculiar fix he was in, could "rear and pitch," but 4 couldn't make a jump." Our poor, sick Executive, hurried by his inexorable friend from one extremity of the State to the other now jolting over eord.jrov roads to meet and discourse to the "unquestioning," in out-of-the-way places, and anon sent over the railroads, at the topmost speed of the steam-horse, to enlighten the denizens of populous cities on the intricate questions of the day, ever on the wing, and ever under the sur veillance of a committee our sick Ex ecutive, we say, must have a very un happy time of it ; especially as, from the lnt information we can obtain, he has not after all the labor he has expended, and all the fatigue and mortification he has endured made a single convert to the idea that he is an honest and much abused man ; that the liberty of the no must first le secured betore we have anv right to look after our own an 1 that the soldier is Lincoln's property. These cardinal doctrines of the Abolition party he has unsuccessfully labored to in graft in the popular mind, and so he has failed in the object of the pand effort which he promised the Abolition State Convention to make. I Ie has traversed the State, from the Delaware to tho Lakes: he has made speech after sp?ech ; he has vaunted his own services, and pro claimed his own loyalty ; he has p: om t, lw snbiect to thePresident in all tlmgs; he has proclaimed himself the " soldier's friend," in the face of his shoddy contracts ; but he has not con vinced a solitary man that he is any other than the Andrew G. Curtin of other days the unfaithful Chief Magis trate, stigmatized by some of the organs of his own party as false, dishonest, and corrupt. He has "reared," he has " pitched." but he has not been able to " iumn " over the wide and deep gulf which separates him from the affections and confidence of the people. Patriot and Union. the story of his shame. After thanking God that they were " separated trom the rebels by a natural barrier, which had, through the providence of God, risen du ring the night," and that " the New York Seventh were on their way to our assist- tance, he meekly said : lie was sorry for the lateness of this ii T T 7.. - T. - .'J I 1 7. 7.. 4Ua call ; ne aesirea io fa.vc it t'isi tti. 'resident refused it. Tut let us fvrgrt that . ...a.j t. T;,.r! xre nice oecn wearei irnwty. i;uc era! Government must be su.!a'ited. as veil an the State. lie had been trilling to concede everything to the Administration, and to carry out their jjlans to ihe lest rf his alnlty " What followed will be remembered by ill. Governor Seymour, aided by Gen eral M'Ck-llan, dispatched thirty or more reaiments to our relief, and the pressure in the army having" ousted "Fighting Joe," and placed a true soldier in his place, the battle of Gettysbun: was lought and won, and the Slate once mot e re lieved from the tread of the invader ; but let us not forget that for the devastation of our fertile valleys for the heavy taxes which must be levied to furnish a poor remuneration for the losses which our fel low citizens incurred for the humiliation of oar noble old Commonwealth and above all, for the heroic lives that were lost, and the ghastly wounds that were received on those dreadful July d.vyp, An- drew G. Curtin is alone responsible. Lincoln's Proclamation. From the Evening Journal. Our loyal neighbors who think no ar gument can be sound, or founded upon any stronger ground than factious opposition, may perhaps acknowledge that the historian Hume was neither a copper head, an ignoramus nor a traitor, It would be impossible for as to write an article more fully covering the entire ground, or more applicable to tho present state of affairs than the following extract from Hume's of. the Hexrt VIII. It shows us what the future historian must say of certain transactions of the present administration. " The Parliament having thus resigned all their religious liqerties, proceeded to an entire surrender o f their civil l and, without scruple or deliberation they mad by one act a total subversion of the Eng lish Constitution. TLey gave to tho King's proclamation the same force aa to a statute enacted by Parliament ; and to render the matter worse, if possible, they framed this law as if it was only declara tory and were intended .to explain tha natural extent of royal authority. " The preamble contains that the King had formerly set forth several proclama tions, which fioward persons had willfully contemned, not considering what n King by his royal power may do ; that this li cense might encourage offenders not only to disobey the laws of Almighty God, but also to dishonor the King's most royal Majesty, who may full ill hear it j that sudden emergencies often occur which require speedy remedies, and cannot await the slow assembling and deliberations of Parliament. For these reasons the Parliament, that they might remove all occasion of doubt, ascertained by a statute this pcrogative of the crown, and enabled his Majesty, with the advice of his Councils, to set forth proclamations enjoining obedience under whatever pains and penalties they should think proper ; and these proclamations were to have the force of perpetual laws. Hume, vol. iii, chap, xxxii. TIIE PROCLAMATION. The New York Sun, a neutral paper. leaning toward the Administration, Tun Peesidevt's "Webb Feet." The President, in his Springfield letter, said, in allusion to our jron-c'.ads and gun boats : "Nor must Uncle Sara's webbed-feet be forgotten. At all the waters' margins they have been present, not only in the deep sea, the broad bay and the rapid 1 river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou and wherever tb.3 ground was a little damp, they r have been and mad their tracks-" Upon this the Peoria Horning Mail perpetrates the following: We have no eagle change is there Abe swapped our bird away j We have no eagle any more, Bahl-headed, black or gray. Abe swapped away our glorious bird Got cheated like the dence ! The talons for the webb-foot wtsnt The eagle for the goose ? C3 Four immense Democratic meet- - ? 111 . T i-T . . 1 it in mgs were neiu ai ainereni- points in is a any political direction, in reference to the j State of Ohio on last Thursday, viz ; President's recent proclamation say: Cominir as it dx-s on the eve ot Athens. Marietta, Kowlusville and Ham ilton. The number in attendance at each great Union victories, at a time when we of these meetings, was from 20,000 to . ... .... were led to believe that the power oi me rebellion had been thoroughly bioken, it does not yet appear that any sufficient grounds exist for the exercise of this ex traordinary. It may stave off :i decision on the constitutionality of the t- ... i i n acts ot the conscription law, uui n win not strengthen the effective jiower of the Government. Partisans and politicians may rejoice at this measure as contribu ting to the furtherance of their respective schemes ; but true patriots will regret that the Administration should deem it necessary to interfere in any degree with the liberties in order to carry on a war undertaken for their benefit and in the in terests of liumtinit'. 40,000. C3 The rich Abolitionist buys off his sons for $300, while a poor man is seized, put in irons and sent to the army. That is the way it works. What poor man or honest man will vote for such a party. C3" Government has given the pam bling houses in Washington license to re open, and tho condition of sjcietv in the capital is very bad. t3 Of 2,G00 drafted men examined at Augusta, Me., 1,071 were accepted, of whom 580 paid the commutation and 237 furnished substitutes. This speak a well for the '"loyalty" of patriotic Maine. If this in- i it wa no longer than the time for . ..u i res.ic.eni ana Lxjnurcss uemanueu nnwer tn fmnt. "r!n of indulgence seems lonz in s service. fc Gov. Curtin was one of the high Priests of the Know Nothinz rartv. He tinto power with the try of " DOWN !t!!H FOREIGNERS AND CATUO-J-ICS ! and tried his best to strip them of right which Wcodward and the Demo Uic party hsv tl wart battled to tpain- 3 A young man was asked the other day why he was going to desert his friends and vote tho Democratic ticket? "Because I want to prepare myself for a nomination on the Republican ticket next fall," was his withering reply ! The que rist tUnpml f ber next and, by our ballots, sternly an- werNO! A band of Abolitionists in Cen tralis, Hanoi?, took down 'an American fla" from a pole, spit upon it, trampled it in the dust and burned it Truly this is in accordance with Greely's song, " Tear down the flaunting lie ! Half mast the starry flag ! Insult no sunny sky With hate's polluted rag Troops at Elections. By the 95th section of the act of Assem bly of the Stste of Pennsylvania of 2d July. 1839, it is enacted that r No body of troops in the army of the United Stales 'or of ihe Commonwealth, shall be present, either. armed or unarmed, at any place of election iriliin this Commonwealth, during the time of such election." y " Make hay while the sun shines." Democrats do you understand that? " For the night coraeth when no man can work." Now is the daylight now is tho titna to work. poor, it. Administration Democrats. I The following, from the Newton (2S. .1.) ! tcription law erahl hits the nail right on the neaa, i where every such bogus Democrat ought to be hit : ! " We are at a loss to distinguish lc- t ween the " Administration Democrats" of our County and-out-and-out Abolition ists, unless it be this : that the Abolition ists had the manliness not to endorse tho Administration until it came square up to their ideas of right and wrong ; while these " Administration Democrats" en dorse it no matter whether right or wrong. Or the two, the Abolitionists are by far the more respectable, because they will not approve by their acts what they know and sometimes admit to b wronj. The AlK)litioii papers say the Con- is a " splendid thing for the but they don't secin to appreciate C3 Riots in New York were terrible ; but in Columbus the Republicans think them the nicest thing in the world ! "The Union as it was will never bless the vision of any pro-slavery fanatic or secession sympathiser, and never ought to. It is a thing of th j past, hated by every patriot and destined never to curse an honest people, or blot the page of his tory again. " Brngluirn, of Odo. fST Vote for George W. Woodwmrd.
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