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THE JOURNAL.
One country, one constitution ,one destiny
Huntingdon, Oct. 7. I S4O.
Democratic datimasonic
CANDIDATES.
FOR PR ESIDENT,
GEN. WMI H. HARRISON
OF 01110
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
JOHN TYLER,
OF VIRGINIA.
FLAG OF THE PEOPLE
(J" A single term for the Presidency, and
the office administered for the whole PEO.
PL E. and not for a PAR'I Y.
1-7. A sound, unifurm and convenient Na
tional CURRENCY, adapted to the wants of
the whole COUNTRY, instead of the SHIN
PLASTERS brought about by our preseu
12 UL ER S.
tr &CORM RETRENCHMENT. and RE• I
FORM in the administration ofpublic affairs,
,t7Tired of Experiments and Experi
menters, Republican gratitude will reward,
unobstrusive merit, by elevating the sub-!
altern of WASHINGTON and the desciple of
JEFFERSON. and thus resuming the safe anp
beaten track of our Fathers,—L. Gazette
;lectoral Ticket.
JOHN A. SIIULZE,7 Sen'to'l
JOSEPH RlTNER,Stlectors
Ist Disirict LEVIS PASSMORE,
2d do CADWALLADER EVANS.,
—..„.
do CHARLES WATERS,
3d do JON. GILLINGHAM,
4th do AMOS ELLMAKER,
do JOHN K. ZELLIN,
do DAVID PO ITS,
sth do ROBERT STINSON,
6th do WILLIAM S. HLNDEU,
7th do J. JENKINS ROSS,
Bth do PETER FILBERT,
9th do JOS PH H. SPAYD,
10th do JOHN HARPER,
11th do WILLIAM M'ELVAINE,
12th do JOHN DICKSON,
13th do JOHN M'KEEHA N,
14th do JOHN REED,
15th do NATHAN BEACH,
16th do Mt
"17th do GEORGE WALKER,
18th do BERNARD CONNE!
19th do Gitx. JOSEPH MARKLE,
20th do JUS VICE G.FORDYCE,
21st do JOSEPH HENDERSON,
22d do HARMAR DENNY.
23d do JOSEPH BUFFINGTON,
241,h do JAMES MONTGOMERY,
sth do JOHN DICK.
lIARRISON DEMOCRATIC
TICKET.
CONGRESS.
GEN. JAMES IRVIN, of Centre Co
Sr ATOli.
JAMES MATILERS, of Juniata Cc,
ASSEMBLY
JOHN G. MILES, of Huntingdon.
JOSEPH HIGGINS, of Hollidaysburg
C 0313113SIONER,
KENZEY L. GREEN, of Springfield
Au DITOR,
ALEXANDER THOMPSON, of Barree
FREEMEN, AWAKE!
Freemen, awake it is no time for slee
ping. The hordes of officers—the cm ,
rupt spawn of power—have commenced
this election as if they meant to ride
rough shod over the necks of the people.,
In the halls of the nation, the great moil
of their party have dcelared their deter,
urination to BRING DOW N THE POOR
LABORERS PAY ; and force him to
SELL HIS WIRD WORK to rich na
bobs for FIFTEEN CENTS A DAY.
They have said it.
Mechanics Carpenters, Bricklayers.
Forgemen, Shoemakers, Blacksmiths,
Manufacturers, and every tradesman, and
fanner, and laborer. To you we appeal.
Are you prepared to seal your own fate
Keith your vote ? If you do
‘V,II you m.O hear your children tread
XVith cl.inkhiL; chain?. above your head.'
freemen ow: la! The fiat of tyrants
Las decreed :: Staruliog Army in our
poaceful emntry ; unvt more sue-
teed in get tin; the power. :Ire you, us
freemen, willing to be shut et like a tar
get, or hung like I Inn if you sneak DIS
EESPECTTUL 1.10::1)S of a corrupt
P,-,•4 deo, i r rcruse to Ise mai cl,ed uut of
we, tenfl.lvs before an elec
1:0.1 II u ts:.e cat, uppose all, every,
man, on the 6TA NOING ARM Y
I'. tme. Don't let them even
get a start. 't'hey have too much power
already. It they get more, we shall have
chance of success. They must be
ta,t at the first step. Oppose them from
this moment. Oppoee their whole ticket!
an r 1 above all, oppose their Congressman.
in f.t t the Anti . Tariff, Sttb-treasu.
ry and Standing Army Candidate. His !the head of their party at the seat of Gov
ittprort of the Sub treasury will make 'erument,—You vote for men who are not
:he Mechanic and laborer toil for him for the dough faces of party power, but who
P ILTRY ELEVEN PENCE A will obey the wishes, and the will of their
."1.1 E IV you prepared fur this?
Freemen, awake ! This is the last rel
lge of the poor. If power, patronage:
mil oppression, triumphs over you now,
to sure do we !eel that their most odious
tneasures null be perfected, and the boas
ted liberties of our country will be but the
,dle song of some suffering laborer, once,
but now no longer free. Again we ask,
are you ready for all this ? 11 not, Free
men awake!
The last Warning
“WHICH OF THE TWO WILL YOU
CHOOSE'"
If you vote for WILSON, you elect the
candidate of the office holders. Hs was
nominated by thew power against the peo•
If you vote for IRVIN, you elect the
candidate of the People. His interests
are identified with those of the poor la
borer, mechanic and farmer.
If you vote for WILSON, you declare
yourself in favor of the Sub treasury,
which, according to Van Buren's own de
clarations, places our free, happy, and in
dependent America on a level with the
serfs and subjects of Tit ENTY•T6f 0
111021ARCHIES, where the poor laborer
gets eleven pence a day for his toil, and
the rich man can buy double the quantity
of every luxury with his wealth—where
those who are born poor, live poor and
die poor, and are always ruled by the
weal thy.
If yuu vote for IRVIN, we will go back
'to the good old ways of doing our nation
al affmrs. The Sub•treasury Law will be ,
expunged from our statute Books. The
toil and manufacture of the poor will be
protected, and the palmy days of true Re.
publicanism will again come.
If you vote for WILSON, you vote to
have our country aver run with a Standing
Army, and proud,*and pusilanimous strut
ters in epauletts, who can order and di-
rect the free men of our land, who they
are bound to obey, at the expense of their
'telt likrill. You vote fur a law
.
that cashiers 140 officer fur disobedience;
and pernuts:him to stay at home, but cot,:•
pells the poorprivate to leave his home and
family, or fines him,—if unable to pay
his fine, then imprisons him one month
far every five dollars
If you cote fur IRVIN, you vote for a
man pledged by every tie of honesty and
right, to oppose this heartless and ty
cal law. Vote for hnn and you save Amer'
ca from that rock on which has split so
many Republics. You save yourself and
your children, from the deep disgrace of
seeing, our much loved country, the bar.]
racks for the thousands of the minions of
power and place, with their purse and
sword to keep us in subjection.
ll' you vote for WILSON, you give
your consent to see the POOR MADE
POORER, and to see the rich made rich
er—You vote to continue the extrava
gance, corruption, and public robbery
which has characterized, the party no.v
in power,—You vote to support the King
ly splendor of Martin Van Buren's pal
ace—and against the honest simplicity
of the good old times of Jefferson.
If you vote for IRVIN, you record your
vote "AGAINST the REDUCTION of
the POOR MAN'S PRICE OF TOIL"
—you vote to bring back to its former
honesty and purity, a government that
has been ruined, disgraced, and rendered
Bankrupt by the folly, the madness, and
wickedness of the officers of the people.
If you vote for WILSON, you declare,
as did one of his party, "perish credt—
perish commerce—perish every thing."
If you vote for IRVIN, you add you r •
voice to the many who think credit has
made our colintry what it is, and that
credit alone will keep her safe in her on.
'card course of prosperity and glory.
If you vote for WILSON, you give the
ter and unrelenting foes of Geneial
Harrison, an opportunity to exult in a tri
umph over him, even without his name
being before you at the time.
If you vote for IRVIN, you commence
the work right. We begin by sustaining
the friends of Harrison, and of giving a
glorious earnest of what we feel for that
much abused but honored Old Hero.
If you vote any portion of the Loco PO9-
co licks?, remember Freemen, you vot e
for a party %rho have never performed a
,ngle pledge they have given. Where
... . _ _
is the promised Bank reform so loudly,
and plainly protnised, two •ears ago.—
Will you tru.t men who, on all occasions,
, tay one thing, and do another?
If you VOTE THE FULL HARRI
' N TICKET, you vote for men you
e selected yourselves. They are not
the spawn of a clique of office holders,
who have at all do ms their orders front
constituents.
Go to the poky ezen, every man! Don't
' stay at home, but gu, and go early, take
your neighbor with you, and let nothing
be left undone to give an overwhelming
majority for the cause of truth sad order.
Go to the polls: and let us record the
name of Pennsylvania by the side of Con
necticut : Rhode Island !: Louisiana !!:
North Carolina Ill: and Maine !!!,! 11 E
I CAN IF NE WILL.
The Office-holders'
Candidate.
It is not a little astonishing that the some little appendages to the main ques t
honest portion of the Loco Foco party, or tion,
„sp.', he Doctor gets over them 'just as
at least some part thereof, are willing
respects the Banks, the resump
tamely to submit to the dictation of the
tio ' n 'A ' s ay it .
u via: the 15th of January next,
CANAL OFFICE HOLDERS. By their I always thought it was put off by the last
drilling and trickery they secured the legislature to a day unnecessarily ren a lo t t r e :
nomination of the present Loco Foco Howevcii , the
i th a n y e e :f ta re a su re ng i t r i r o e n n i c s a
of i a
candidate for Congress. We do not fling
similar ev ' stat e r
o l ; things, and if they, with
blame them—they are merely obeying the
commands of their dictator, and it they such long indulgence SHOULD AGAIN SUSPEND, I would endeavor most cer
do not his bidding, their bread and but- tainly to have a law passed ii to f t t a h t e l e ro ma
ter is the dearly bought price of their die- them theaiaracahr
our worthy
'N Many of
fur
obedience, We do not blame the recipi• t
m ei:m a il i ng the banking system should have
eta of their favors; "one good turn de- !
been carried into effect by the last legiala
serves another" is an old adag e , and no tore and shall receive my cordial and ac•
less old than true. Acting upon that tive support ."
I
hint, these same officers i owe the nomi- • , ,
The worthy Batik candidate discovers l
nee much. They sprung into life, at least
one difficult place, but easily overcomes it.
some of them, under his fostering care;
Mr. Stuart asks if he . will use his power
and every toßiter in their party,
can
to make the Banks resume on the 15th
vouch for what we say. They would be
January, '4l, and procure the passage of
ungrateful then, did they not repay
hi'
January,
law, to make the Banks that suspend
kindness by a like return—when power
and patronage furnished them with tl e thereafter, forfeit their charters. The
means. answer is very muck to the point. .11
In the good old times of Jefferson De• !they (the Banks) with such long indul
mociacy, it nas a , cardinal doLtrine of 'genre, sheuld AGAIN suspend, I most
that sage "that when public q . , , ,Y2cers tnin—!certainly will. Thus, the doctor says
Bled avow; the active scenes of party plainly,that HE WILL NOT sorrowr scow
strife, or took an active part in elections,' A LAW UNTIL Tun BANKS AGAIN
it was ajgood cause for 'hair removal./ !SUSPEND.
Such was principle of ancient Detnocra- The Doctor stys in another part of his
cy,—Now, how changed The party letter, that MANY of Governor Porter's
which arrogates to itself all the Detnocra. recommendations, for reforming the banks
were good. Of course, then, he means
cy—claims for itself the supreme right
of being!hc onlj , lovers of the people.. Yet to say NOT ALL
in open d a y,}ve find t h em heading thei r ! He
. says further, "I An AVERat TO ANI
party possessions, eau dir
4010, co u rg g I INCIEAFII OF BA:•K CAPITAL." Do you
of every political movement; and shout- lit „,.;tv the reit 'nu?-I:Jecause it wool('
ing aloud, we are the Democrats. make less custom to his shave !:•.ftte— all
- Honest citizens, do you believe in that such bank's men as the Doctor ltre oppo
kind of Democracy, which profess - es one sed to any increase
thing and practices another 7 Are you
willing to see the public officers, not only
the most active in your party; but in fact
orderzng yog who you shaft support
Can you look on and ;:ce them insult the
memory of the illostriou, dead, by profes•
sing his tenets, yet 1H tin the very
ur;nciples he cherishes;? V !'! Ull not hue.
from their high places tiollow hear
ted bowlers ;.for the support of the elear
people? We kouw coat you will
"Oh Dear Oh !"
Mr. S. W. Stuart of Lewistown, has ad
dressed a letter to Dr. Ard, the Lewis
town Bank's candidate fur Senate, and
asks him two very same questions. We
presume he was led to do so in order to
satisfy some of the Anti. Bank Loco FOCOS,
that Dr. Ard is a most excellent hater of
Banks, notwithstanding he was a Bank
director, and about one quarter owner
the Bank. The questions are so direct
and cmprehcmive we cannot refuse them
a place, and also the .equally open and
candid answer of the Dr's. The whole
is as pretty a got up humbug, Ls - was ever
seen—gut up for two purposes—one t o
make the unsuspecting among the Loc o
Focos say he was an anti-batik titan , and
t he other to give the candidate a chance
to show some of his Bank friends that he
really was not. But here are the ques
tions as published in the last 'Advocate."
"Will you use your beat exertions to
compel all the banks of the State to re
sume specie payments on the 15th of Jan
miry next, and procure the passage of a
law which will cause the charters of
banks to be forfeited that may suspencd
specie payments thereafter and also to
reform the Banking system generally, so
as to make it inure conductive to the gen
eral welfare than it is at present ? •
Will you pledge yourself to support
fully, and to give your constant aid in
carrying out the principlea of the Demo
cratic party 1'
Then we will give the Doctor's answers
Ile answers the last questions first, and
the answer is like the question. It means
nothing—it means any thing—it means
every thing. Here it is.
"The principle of the democratic party
—the greatest good of the greatest num
ber —opposition to nillainlies of ever%
kind and character—a ration of bani
and state—a thorough reformation of thi
banking system of the county. hest.
principles will in me always find, ilnoi
an able, at least a firm and decided advo.
cate."
So you can see that the worthy anti.
bank candidate, is going his death against
monopolies—for a separation of bank and
state—and bank reform.
Is it not a little strange that when lw
has had control over a little monopolizing
Bank, for a number of years, he never
suggested some of his thorough Bank re
li.tormatiou—"la how wonderlul"
Nest is the sticking point. how
shrewd to ask a question of a candidate—
l•will you support a law of the land? and,
!how difficult to answer, yet with what en.
'orgy does the Doctor grapple with the
difficulty and danger. But as there is
Mali E EL ECTIOA
The Harrison men in Maine have car
ried the whole state, as we informed our
readirs last week. Yet are the Van Bu
ren men so well assured that the result
of that election must send terror and die•
may into their ranks, that they are now
busy circulating, that the fact of Kent's
election is another /I hig lie.
The two Loco Foco Journals of ow
'county have said in their papers that Fair
field, the Van Buren candidate for '.3ov.
ernor, was elected, when they knew sucl
was not the truth.
It is truly gratifying, however, to sec
that some of their editors are not su aban
cloned to any thing like truth, that the.'
freely admit that they have been beaten,
and. much to their astonishment, sadly
beaten in Maine. Peter Bay, Esq, the
gentlemanly and - excellent editor of the
"American Sentinel," of Philadelphia,
says that it is a poor business for thei,
editors to attempt to decieve their re
ders about Maine. That it would ,
wiser and mom to their credit if the .
would ackno%%led,;e that they were bea
ten, and sot about trying to redecii
their falling fortunes.
The Meetings of the People.
Almost every township in our county
has held meetings in favor of the gallant
Old Soldier; and they are emphatically
the meetings of the people. They come
up in hundreds from their fields, and
join in the universal shout of "hurrah
for Harrison."
The Loco Feces have attempted to
raise meetings throughout the county,
but they have met with sad reverses. In
some of their strongest townships, they
have been unabled to get men enough to
make their officers, and they returned
home—that is their "lown orators"—with
out being able to vent their spleen against
Old "Tip." In other places they had a
. .miserable account of empty benches,"
and spent their wind work on the empty
,pace. Take every evidence that we cqp .
obtain, and they are destined, not onl
to defeat, but to a complete aniltilation
in honest old Huntingdon.
Good !
We are particularly rejoiced to see that
our friend Cress%vell has, thus publicly,
"unhooked" himself from any wish to in- I
jure the hopes and bright prdfipects of the!
friends of Harrison. This is a time when
nothing should be done to lay a straw in
the way of the triumph of principles, over
th e corruptions of power.
Mr. Cresswell has, undoubtedly, his
Own views ari g ht and wrong; we unhes
itatingly say, we think him honest in those
views. But he has shown himself equal
to the task. He has sacrificed personal
opinions upon the sacred altar of public
good. Ile has publicly declared that
he will, with his own hand, assist in rol
ling that "BALL" which he, as well as all
see, must crush the struggles of party, to
oppress the people.
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FELLOW CITI'LENS,
The present. is
the hardest time that any one man could
select, or happen to tie lowid hanging un
Ihis own hook. The party harness appears
to fit amazingly tight, all round. May
be it is all right, for some important prin
ciples in government, are by the present
contest, to be either established or discar
ded. I hope that true Republican princ
pies may prevail. I think I hold such
myself, and that the Whig party do,
is now to be decided. At the present
juncture, I, in order that there may be
fair play and no gouging, decline tes
ting the strength of my independent HOOK
at the crming election. Therefore lam no
longer a candidate, but go in for the
election of GE:NER 4L WM. HENRY
HARRISON, and every candidate on
the Harrison ticket, deserving the sup
port of an independent freeman. •
Very reepectfuly, Yours, &c.
JACOB CRESSIFELL,
Our County.
Both the "Advocate" and "Standard,"
have in their last numbers, two or three
columns, calling upon the tax payers of
this county, to come forward and make a
change in the county administration, be•
cause the county commissioners have en
tered into "vain, visionary, and extrava
gant projects ;" and because, they have
not had at all times money enough on
hand, to meet all orders that may be
drawn on the treasury.
So weak, so paltry, and so contempti
ble an attempt to gull honest people, titre
never saw. They attempt to show that
it is ittilly the fault of the county com
mission:Ts—that, on account of the de•
ranged state of ti:; currency, they cannot'
collect the taxes. is there nn honest man
among the whole list of collectors, who
will not say that it is almost impossible to
collect the taxes? Yet these very honest
editors blame the county commissioners,
Is there an honest man, who is acquain
ted with the facts, that can point out one
Angle bridge built by the co►nmissioners,
'that was not imperatively needed by the
people in the neighborhood? Can you,
gentlemen, who appeal so eloquently to
the tax payers, name one bridge built, or
contracted for, that ►s not required by the
convenience and safety of the people? Or
dare either of you pledge your party's in_
tluence and power, to stop the building of
one bridge? You dare not! You know
that the honest people of old honest Ilun
ingdon, are willing to pay for conveni •
once and security in trai ening. Dare
you say that one part of the citizens of
nis county have not as good a right to
convenience of a bridge as another?
us be a little more particular. Let
,nquire what these politicians do mean,
they dare to answer; and well we know
hey dare nut. Was it a "VAIN, VISION
ARY, AND EXTRAVAGANT 'lmam" to
build a bridge at Drakes ferry, to accom.
modate the entire lower end of this min.
ty, who might be obliged to attend at
court? Did "WICKED FOLLY" suggest its
erection? Is the building of the bridge ut
Williamsburg, either VAIN, VIIIONARY, of
EXTRAVAGANT ? Is the building of the
bridge at Union Furnace, one of the sug..l
grstions of "wicked lolly? WE PUB
LICLY DARE either of the writers, in:
either of the above named papers, to point
out by name one single bridge erected by
our board of commissioners, which was
not first suggested by the people in the
vicinity, and afterward recommended by
one or wore grand juries. Come now,'
- ;
you honest truth lovers, speak out. WE
PUBLICLY DARE the same persons to
say that the people of one part of this
county have not as good a right to a bridge
for their convenience, as any other. It
you are su much affected with this extrava
gant and wicked fully why not speak to
the , 'point. No! No! gentlemen, you
dare nol. You know that the asoursg you
have taken in this', is as false, as the cor:
rupfion in Sour own ranks is foul; and like
the fleeing felon, you have commenced
bellowing stop thief!
You Mr... Standard," seem disposed to
direct your artilery at that 'climax of ex -
travagance,' the new court house. Now my
dear fellow, who recommended this thing?
Have you forgotten that two grand juries,
if not three, suggested and recommended
it? Have you forgotten that when some
of your "contract breakers" of Hollidays
burg pettitioned another grand jury, and
they refused to pay any attention to it but
gave it to the court, that the Hon. Judge
Burnsides said he would not notice such
la piece ut madness and folly—that the
court house was needed and that it should
be built! Do tell us if all these things be
!forgotten.
The following statement shows how,
(much the greater amount of) the funds of
this county, received into the treasury for
the last two years have been expended,
the county tax assessed in each year being
from 510,000 to $ll,OOO. The expendi
tures fix the like objects during the pre•
vious six or eight years have been in the
same proportion. It is believed that no
county of equal population, with its own
funds, has, within the last ten years,
erected as many necessary bridges as this
county.
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Thus the people can see what has been
done with their money during the last
two years of this "wicked" and "extrava*
pot" county administration ; and \VI
DARE these gentlemen to na,te üblicly
ONE which is a "vain, v iowiry and ex
travagant project." We farther ask
every candid and honest friend and advo.
cote of Mr. Van Buren whether he can or
dare say, and does believe that the ex.
penditures of the present General admin.
istiation, for the like period of two years,
(in proportion to the several and respec
tive amounts received and expended, com
pared with those of our county) have been
as much for the public benefit.
Shame! Shame! on such disgraceful
hypocricy! You profess great regard for
the peoples interest, you are horrorstrick
en at
The Bankrupt Treasury,
you have both endeavored to show that
"courtly orders" have been dishonored,
because the treasury was bankrupt, and
that consequently a change of officers
would be advantageous. If the principle
you pretend to support is a good one, let
us carry it out. If it proves any thing it
proves too much.
These worthy writers assume that be
cause all county orders are nut paid when
presented, that consequently the treasury
is bankrupt and the administration of
the county affairs corrupt and ex travagant.
Now, fellow citizens, if the position they
take is a true one, what should be the foi e
of their national and state administrations.
What are the boasted Treasury shin plas
ters but the lloatingorders of Van Buren's
administration. They may tell you they
will be redeemed at any time. But if
they do, they do not speak truly, for tho
NATIONAL TREASURY %VAS EMP
TY and ten millions of shin plasters was
asked for by Martin and h is cabinet to
furnish some "borrowed capital" to save
their credit, or more likely to pay their
officers. LA us then conic to our own
state. It is now tinder the guidance nt
that prince of patriots, D. It. Porter. Ile
is your man; and do you sirs, tell us what
is the condition at our state treasury. Is
it so very disreputab'e to an administra
tion of a county, to be unable to answer
all orders drawn thereon, how much more
disgraceful fur a great and powerful state?