ment, that the calculation of my colleague
was correct, and that, as he says, those
anthracite furnaces could make metal to
compete with the foreign article at 20 per I
cent. duty, would it be good policy, or,
rather, would it not be suicidal policy fort
this Congress to adopt a rate of duty that
must inevitably break down and destroy
all the charcoal furnaces now in operation,
and which are producing, from the best
estimates that can be made, from 300,000
to 350,000 tons per annum. Ido not be
lieve they will do it. I can scarcely be
lieve that even the anti-tariff party would
do it, as it must recoil on themselves be
fete long, as it will inevitably increase the
price of the article to the consumer. Sir,
there is no other interest in this country
requires to be taken care of more than the
iron interest ; tar there is none that re•
quires so great an amount of manual labor
as it does, or is so intimately connected
with the farming and laboring interest.--
Why, sir, every ton of bar iron made in
this country has at least IVO worth of the
farmer's productions in it before it is ready
for market, and there is paid for labor of
all kinds, to the miner, the wood chopper,
the collier, the carter, the forgeman, the
blacksmith, and others, at least from $4O
to $45 per ton. Now, break down this
interest, what is the-consequence? Why,
the farmer loses a market for his produc
tions, the laborer and mechanic are turned
to awns other employment, and reduced
wages are the order of the day. But, sir,
the anti-tariff men say we have no notion
of breaking you down : we want to see
you prosper; but you must produce cheap
er ; you must produce as cheap as foreign
ers; and I was pleased to hear the gen
tleman [rein Alabama come out boldly in
that way to day : it is treating the subject
fairly ; it is putting it on the right ground
—no concealment, bat meeting the clues.
Lion of 'eduction of the price of labor
openly. Sir, I view the whole question
as a contest between the labor of this
country and the cheap labor of foreign
countries. They may talk about monop
olies, about the labor of the many for the
benefit of the few, but construe it as you
will, give it what coloring you will, if the
manutacturer of this country is to produce
an article as cheap as a foreigner he must
have labor as cheap. Now, sir, I venture
to say that a ton of iron can be produced
as cheap in this country as it can in Swe
den, if we have labor at the same rate. I
have been paying some attention to that
subject, and I have some facts about wa
ges which I avant to submit, and to let the
laboring classes of the country know them.
1 want them to see what these anti-tai iff
people would make them contend against.
Sir, one of the principal objects I had hi
view in making a speech was, to have an
opportunity of presenting these facts to
my constituents, who—a very considera
ble portion of them at least--are to be op•
erated on, and to give them the alarm in
time; fur I solemnly believe that the ob.
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The first fact I would state as regards
tabor is taken from a report of the board
of ordinance officers, sent to Europe in
1840, by the Secretary of War; they state
that common laborers employed about the
Aker furnace, in Sweden, receive from 20
to SO cents per day, and mechanics and
skilful machinists receive from 30 to 40
cents per day ; and a team of two horses,
wagon and driver, is obtained at 42 cents
per day. Now, compare these with the
prices paid in this country for labor, and
you will find it is only one-thud. Instead,
therefore, of a ton of pig metal costing, as
it does now, $l5 for the labor, it ought
only to co , t $5 ; and a ton of iron, instead
of costing $45 for labor, would cost only
$l5 ; making a difference in the one of
$lO per ton, and in the other of $3O. Now
w hat does this bill propose? Why, it is
this, to lay a duty of $ lO per ton on the
pig metal, precisely the difference in la
bor, and on bar iron, made in the same
way, only $lB, which is much less than the
difference in labor. Now I want to know
whether it is the laboring man or the man
ufacturers gets the protection. I think,
sir, there is not a laborer in my district
that cannot answer this question, and an
swer it correctly. But, sir, there are more
cases than this. I hold in my hand a book
published in Edinburgh, in 1839, by hien.
ge r C. Symons, Esq., who was sent as
commissioner of what was called the hand
loom inquiry, to the continent, to make
examinations and to ascertain facts in re
lation to manufactures and wages. And
I will now give you some of the facts he
ascertained. He first commences with
wages at home. He says that—
•'. Workmen employed on farms making
drains, scouring ditches, and others, (who
have a fixed daily wage in money:, com
monly called day laborers, earn ten shil
lings per week. This class works from
six in the morning to six at night, and are
only paid fur the actual time employed.—
In Argyllshire the wages usually paid to
men are from ls. 6d. to 2a. per day, and
when provisions are given, 6d. less is paid.
In ‘Vigtonshire, average wages of a farm
servant per annum, wh o lives in his mast
er's house, is from £lO to ell, or about
$5O in our money. In England, (lie say s )
from Bs. 6d. to 10s. Od. per week will be,
throughout, the average wages of the great
bulk of adult male agricultural laborers of
England. The prices of provisions are
as follows, to wit; best beet, per pound,
6d., coarse beef 3id., bacon 7d., wheaten
flour 2d., cheese 7d., pork 6d., potatoes,
per 252 pounds, 3a. 6d. In Belgium ag
ticultural laborers are paid as follows:
with food 121 cts., and without food 18
eta."
Now for the kind of living!
"The fond of the working clams, not,
only of Belgium but of all the countries of
1 the continent, consists of vegetables,—
Meat is not the food of the working class
es either of Belgium or of any other coun
try ; it is the relish used with food. The
Italian eats macaroni; the staple food of
the French and Germans is bread or cab
bage; of the Irish, potatoes. The works
men employed in the iron works of the
Hainult, Liege, and the machine-making
factories of Seraing, Bruxelles, Ghent, &c.
live on potatoes and vegetables, with a
piece of meat among them, for dinner re
gularly; coffee of chiccory."
Now, Mr. Chairman, this is the kind of
wages and living the free-trade men wish
to see introduced into this country. Coffee
of chiccory: Why, I question if my free
trade,
friend from New York knows what ,
chiccory is. I have examined two diction
aries, and I cannot find the word in eith
er. I presume it is some kind of herb or
weed that is considered good enough for
forgemen. I would ask my colleague how
much tax he thinks his poor constituents
would pay on the articles lie enumerated,
if chiccory coffee and meat once a day
were introduced into this country 1 His
$9 tax on every poor man would come out
rather small. Sir, it is enough to make
the blood boil in our veins to read these
descriptions, and to think that we have
men on this floor—yes, sir, men calling
themselves Democrats, the peculiar friends
of the poor man, and y et, at the same time,
doing every thingthey can to reduce the
wages of the laboring classes of this coun•
try to correspond with those of foreigners. ) l
But, sir, I trust in God they will not be
able to accomplish their intentions ; and I
I sincerely hope I may never see the day ,
that the laborer of this country, who is
. industrious, shall be reduced to the neces
sity of eating meat only once a day and
drinking chiccory coffee. But, sir, lam
not done yet; I pass on to Switzerland,
that el dorado of the laboring man, that
country that has been held up by all the
free-trade men on this floor as a model of
perfection itself; and what does this free
trade writer say of Switzerland ? Ile
says_ . .
There is a peculiarity in the supply of
labor in certain branches of trade, common
not only to Switzerland but to a large
portion of Germany and Austria, which it
is necessary to describe. I allude to the
wander-schalt system. By immemorial
apprentice can obtain his free
dain us a ge , n
and o bcome a master until he has
spent so many years under his itinerant
probation, and in following his avocation
beyond his native country. He is fur
nished on setting out with a book, in
which his various masters insert certifi
cates of his service and conduct. Phis is
called a wander-buch. The journeyman
is generally assisted, not only by the trade
I to which he belongs, in towns where there
is no employment for him, but by the do
nations of travellers. This part of the
system I think objectionable."
• sum I wonder
what the tree independent mechanics of
this country will think of men who hold
l up a country, as a model for us to follow,
that sends its young men out into the world
to learn occupations, and at the same time
they must be supported by the charity of
straiwers, or, in plain language, by beg
ging.' And this is what is called the free
trade system, and that because Switzer,
land is a free-trade country, she is more
prosperous than all others. He says fur
ther—
'"I have been frequently asked by well
dressed men, with a knapsack on their
back, for money on the road, and of one
of them I got a good deal of information.
There is also a custom among the mechan
ics, when they go from one town to an•
' other, and it is a recognized privilege of
theirs, from time immemorial, to ask as•
sistance from passers-by as they travel
along, and at the towns they pass through;
and at every town there is a herberge,'
as they call it, where the master of the
tan has agreed with the guild of that trade
to lodge them at a very low rate: so that,
when they arrive, they immediately ask
for the tailor's or shoemaker's, &c., herb
erge, and by that means can travel very'
chaply. A very bail system, which was
originally intended to give them an oppor
tunity of improving themselves in the
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knowledge of their art, but it is peculiarly
favorable to vagabondizing. At the mo
ment I am writing this a silk weaver has
applied to me for assistance."
Now, I would ask the mechanicii of
America to look at this account as given
by a free-trade writer, and to say what
they would think of such a system intro
duced here ? That you are to make your
living by going about the country begging,
so that vou may be able to make some New
York dandy or Southern cotton planter a
cheap coat, or a cheap pair of boots, or a
cheap hat? And yet you are gravely told
by men calling themselves Democrats,
that this is the true democratic doctrine.
Whether it is or not I leave you 'to judge.
I now pass on to Austria and Prussia.--
Ile says—
The wander-schaft system of course
prevails there, and most of the trades are
supplied by the itinerant journeymen. A
cal pester can earn from Is. to Is. Gd. and
even Is. Bd. per day; millwrights the same.
In Northern Prussia, wages are not quite
so 11411. Mechanics earn in the towns
from Is. 6d. to ls. 10d. per day ; shoema
kers, tailors, dm, about Is. 2d.; common
laborers in towns Is. in summer, and 9d.
in winter; and in the country from sd. to
Bd. Agricultural laborers, besides house
rent, fuel, and sometimes half an acre of
land, earn from sd. to 7d, per day. The
food of the working classes in Prussia
does not materially darer from those of
the Austrians, and is described as follows:
In the morning they eat soup, potatoes, or
bread ; for (limier, vegetables or pudding;
between dinner and supper, bread ; sup
per, potatoes and milk, or soup ; once or
twice a week, meat. In the cold weath
er, the man would have a glass of inferior
brandy before going to work in the morn
ling. On Sundays, the man would have a
little beer or whir, and the woman caller,
of which they are very fond. No wonder!
for they don't get it often: The best ar
tisans are employed in the large towns,
are fed and lodged by the masters, and
receive from one to two and a half florins
weekly, which is of our money from 40
cents to $1 per week. When workmen
are taken on extraortlioary occasions by
the day they receive from 13 to 20 cents,
soil are fed. Farmers hire their servants
by the year, feed and lodge them, and
give them in the villages from 20 to 40
florins, and in the towns from 50 to 60
florins yearly wages. A florin is about 90
cents dour money ; that would amount
from 8 to l 6 dollars in the villages, and 20
to 24 dollars in the towns."
One other example and then I am done,'
for it is sickening to dwell upon it, and 1
only do it for the purpose of warning the
mechanics and laboring men what their
situation may be if this tree-trade doctrine
prevails in this country. They have it in
their power to prevent it if they will, but
if party drill and discipline is to prevail,
the time may soon arrive when those times
will be upon them.
"A poor tailor at Sagan, whose business
does not afford him the means, supports
by day labor himself, his wife, and eight
children, who, on account of their youth
or attendance at school, can earn little or
nothing ; that is ten persons without in
curring debts and without support from
others, except a few articles of clothing
which are given them for presents. The
work on which he is engaged is chiefly
•.vond cutting and stump grubbing, by
which lie earns one day with another at
the most, 24 krentzers or 120 florins per
year, which in our money would be 18
cents per day, or 48 dollars per year.—
These people take, in the morning, soup;
then the man goes into the forest, takes
with him brandy to the value of one cent,
and black bread for 1* cents ; and in the
evening sups with his family, who, during
the slay, have had potatoes, or garlic and
herbs, or some other vegetable, or perhaps
potatoes again. These people taste meat,
at the most, sometimes on Sundays, never
wine or beer."
There is one advantage in this kind of
living, I presume, and that is this, that
those who live on such food are not often
troubled with dyspepsia or gout.
Mr. Chairman, I will now proceed to
ahoy the progress and increase that has
been made in the manufacture of iron in
the United States since the encourage
ment given to it by the tariff of 1828 ; also
the increase in the amountf laleir
agricultural productions
consumed, which show clearly the advan
tage derived to the farming and laboring .
classes by the making of our own iron in
stead of purchasing it in foreign countries.
Mr. Mitchell, who formerly represented
the district I now represent, in an exam
ination before a committee of Congress, in
1828, makes the following statement, to
wit: That, in the counties of Mifflin,
Huntingdon, and Centre, there was annu
ally made 8,500 tons pig metal and cast
ings, and 4,000 tons bar iron. There are
now made 25,000 tons pig metal, and
about 20,000 tons of blooms and bar iron,
in the same counties, showing an increase
of from three to five times the amount it'
was in 1828. He also estimates the sum
total of iron made in Pennsylvania at that
time at 47,075 tons of pig metal, 21,800
tons of bar iron, and 14,635 tons of cast
ings. It now amounts to 100,000 tons of
pig metal, and from 70,000 to 80,000 tons
of bar iron. His estimate of the cost of
making
a ton of iron in his district was
$75. From a report made by a commit
tee at the New York Home Industry Con
vention, held in October, (831, it appears
there were made in the United States, in
the year 1828, 123,404 tons of pig metal
and castings, and 75,744 tons of bar iron.
From the impetus given to the manufac
ture, by the increase of duties in 1828,
the a►nount rose 1850 to 155,348 tons of
pig metal and casting, and 96,621 tons of
bar iron, and it has since been increasing
until now it amounts, according to the
census of 1840, to 286,903 tons pig metal
and about 200,000 tons of bar iron; but it
is believed by some persons who have in
vestigated the subject that the census esti
mates of pig metal are too low, and that
there were produced in 1841 about 850,-
000 tons pig metal, showing an increase
since 1828 of near 200 per cent. on the
amount manufactured previous to that
time. The consumption of agricultural
products has increased ►n about the same
ratio. According to the report of the same
committee, at the New York convention,
there were consumed at that time to the
value of $3,415,850 of the produce of the
farmers yearly; and, according to the es •
timate of Mr. Oakley —a practical and
intelligent gentleman of New York, and
who has investigated the subject thorough
ly, and which estimate, from the examin
ation I have given it, I believe to Le cor
rect—there are now consumed (by the
persons engaged in the diflerent branches
of the iron manufacture) of the produc
tions of the farmer $9,741,166, more than
double the amount of.our average exports
of wheat and dour to all the world for the
last ten years. The amount paid to the
laboring classes of the community is in
much the same proportion. By the report
of the same committee, in 1831, the a
mount paid for labor was $7,493,700; it
now amounts, according to Mr. Oakley's
estimate, to 4118,762,990. The number
of persons employed in the different bran
ches of the manufacture of iron in 1828
were 24,979 workmen, mostly adults,
and supporting a population of 124,875,
persons; and at present, according to M r.l
Oakley's statement, there are 42,701
workmen, supporting 213,505 persons,
showing an increase of near 100 per cent.
on what were supported in 1828. Now,
what would be the effect produced upon
the value of the labor, and also on the
value of the agricultural productions of
the country, if you break down or destroy
this important branch of our manufactur
big
Industry, as you most assuredly will if
you are obliged to submit to a 20 per cent.
duty, for, at that rate, I hazard nothing
in saying that three-fourths at least of all
the establishments now in operation in the
country will be obliged to stop business,
and the hands turn to some other kind of
employment to make a living for them•
selves and families. And what kind of
business is there that holds out any in
ducement for the laboring men to engage
in at the jpresent time? Admit that lie
was in a situation to emigrate in the West,
(which unfortunately the greater number
are list,) would the raising of corn at 10
or 12 cents per bushel, and beef and pork
at from 1 to 2 cents per pound, (as 1 am
informed by respectable gentleman from
the West that these prices are all that can
be obtained,) be any encouragement for
the laborer of the country, or enable him
to abtain the common necessaries for the
support of a family ? But if these prices
are all that can be obtained now, when so
many are engaged in other occupations,
is there not great danger that they will be
reduced still lower, when you turn those
that are now consumers to be producers?
If those now engaged in the iron business
consume about 89,000,000 worth of the
agricultural production that are now pro.
ducei, it would follow as a natural conse
quence that, if three-fourths were thrown
out of employment, there would be only
about 2.* millions consumed, which would
leave a surplus of 6i millions to be dispo- 5
sed of in some other nfarket, which , of
sell would have an injurious effect, and,
in all probability, cause a serious reduc
tion in price; but if the 30,000 become
producers, as most of them, in all proba
bility, would, they could not only produce
enough for themselves, but, according to
the average production of those now en
gaged in agriculture in the grain growing
States, there would be added, in a few
years, to the amount already produced, up
wards, of 5,000,000 bushels of the different
kinds of grain. It this view of the case
be correct, as I confidently believe it is,
would not the great farming interests of
the country be promoted by continuing
the system which has been in operation for
the last fifteen or twenty years And ,
even if they should pay a trifle more for
some articles, are the, not ore than cpn).
pensatea oy the increased price of tneir
productions which the diversity of labor
enables them to obtain ?
Sir, I believe it has been the policy of
all civilized nations to encourage the man•
ufacture of iron, and certainly, in this en
lightened age, and in this free country, it
would be astonishing if we should suffer
a business that is just developing the re
sources of our country to be prostrated for
want of such protection as will, in a few
years, enable us to manufacture the arti
cle as low as any other country, with the
exception of the difference in the value of
labor. In the year 1784 Great Britain
imported 40,000 tons of iron from Russia,
and at that time had a duty bf $l3 per ton,
which was increased every few years
until it amounted, in 1813, to $52 per
ton, at which rate it remained until 1825,
when they had increased their production
to about 600 000 tons, and being able to
produce it cheaper than all the world, and
to set an example which they thought othei
nations sill) enough to follow, they redo.
ced the duty to Et 108., or about $7,50
per ton, at which rate it still remains.- 1
France, in 1790, only levied a duty of $4.
20 per ton, but, in 1814, it was raised ti
I s2B, and, in 1822, it was further advanced
to $47 per ton, at which rate it still re•
mains, and the consequence is that the
production has increased, since 1814, from
about 100,000 tons of pig metal to over
300,000 tons, in 1836, the latest accounts
I have seen, and an amount nearly equal
I to the whole consumption. Even Russia
and Sweden have, from the earliest corn.
mencement of their iron trade, shown a
disposition to encourage and foster their
manufactories. As early as the year 1740,
the Government of Sweden established an
offiee to promote the production of• iron,
by lending money on the ore, at the low
rate of 4 per cent. interest; and at the
present time it is said that the Bank of
Stockholm receives iron as a proper secu
rity for a loan, arid, it being duly apprai
sed, the proprietor receives three-fourth,
of its value, at the interest of 3 per cent.,
until the iron can be sold and the km,
repaid. The same writer says of Russia
that—
The mining undertakings of private
individuals met with every encouragement.
Whoever discovered a mine, and was in
clined to work it, was allowed to make
the proper dispositions in erections, dig
gings, for which he was granted ten
years free; the adventurer was put in pos
session of the property of the ground as
a free-hold, provided it belonged to the
crown, with convenient places on the banks
of streams and rivers for the works and
necessary buildings, and a considerable
extent of forest ; and when he had no
hands of his own that he could set to work
he received a certain number out of those
raised for recruits, who were to remain as
Nell as their posterity with the works." d
Now, if auch has been the encourage-1
I ment given to this branch of useful and
necessary industry, by other countries that
we have to compete with. would it be good
Dustfor us to change our system, and,
ljust at the moment when we have succee•
Jed in the smelting of iron with anthra
cite and bituminous coal, reduce our du-
ties so low that the fot eign manufacturer
will be enabled to flood our markets at such
a rate as well utterly prostrate every es
tablishment that has been recently put in
operation, and entirely destroy our pros
pects of furnishing a full supply of the
cheaper kinds of iron from our own ore
and coal mines'? I trust that such errone
ous and short-sighted policy will not pre
vail, but that the bill now before us will
become a law, and that in less than five
years we will be producing railroad and
all kinds of iron in sufficient abundance
to supply all our wants at moderate prices.
THE HUNTINGDON JOURNAL,
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One country, one constitution, cne destiny.'
litonlingdon, Sep. 7, 1842.
V. B. PALMER, Esq. (No. 104 S. 3rd St.
Ph:ladelphia,)is authorized to act as Agent
for this paper, to procure subscriptions and
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DEMOCRATIC HARRISONIAN
COUNTY TICKET.
PROTHONOTARY,
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ASSEMBLY,
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COMMISSIONER,
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CORONOR,
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Atm troß.
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Dr. JOHN M'CULLOUGH and JOHN'
BROTHERLINE were chosen Congress
ional Conferees, to meet other Conferees
from Mifflin, Juniata and Union, in the Bo
rough of Lewistown, on the 10th of Septem
ber.
PETER HEWIT, ISRAEL GRAFFI
US, JAMES METLIN and A. J. WIG
TON were chosen Senatorial Gonferees, to
meet in the Borough of Miffiintown, on the
9th of September.
The Political Contest.
The " Standard" has entered the arena
boldly for the Locofoco party, now trading
under the name and firm of the " Work- 1
ingmen's Society," of which David R,
Pdrter, and other smaller Lumber Mer.,
chants are silent partnere. About two
columns of last week's paper were devoted,
to the defence of this " Society," and to
the abuse of the Democratic Harrison par•
ty, and their nominations.
Now, we do not complain, not to the
amount of a word, on that account. It is
just what we expected. David R. Porter l
laid the scheme— the Locolocos are to
carry it into effect, and beat us if they
can. It is emphatically their scheme,
intended to benefit themselves; and of
course, their papers have a right to, and
will, as faithful subjects ought to, support
their own measures.
Our party, on the other hand, we are
pleased to see, are perfectly satisfied with
the ticket formed by our County Conven
tion on the 10th of August, and will supl
port that ticket, to a man. 'Th ey all seem
to think that the Locolocos may continued
to trade under their new name without )
any injury to us. Our party, actuated as
they are, by a love of country, have prin•
ciples—principles which are far dearer to
them than the spoils of victory, or any
thing else; and they do not choose to
surrender or abandon those principles at
the bidding of the Kickapoo Chiel and his
reckless tribe.
The warfare this tall must necessarily
assme an aspect widely different from that
which it assumed last year. This year
we have unanimity among our ranks--
last year we had dissensions and dissatis
faction, produced by various causes. The
Locofocos, always on the alert, took ad
vantage of that circumstance. They set
tled upon a ticket, composed of Whigs
and Antimasons, with but one exception.
They dubbed it with the specious but
unappropriate name of " Workingmen's
Ticket;" and by well-concerted means,
they got the support of many honest
members of our party. It was, however,
cunningly concealed, and stoutly denied
that Locufocoism had any thing to do with
the so called " Workingmen's Ticket"--
though some of its most streneous suppor
ters were rank and brawling Locofocos.
But no sooner was the election over and
the result known, than it was trumpeted
forth as a Locofoco victory. We recollect
well, that we left Huntingdon on the
morning of the Friday succeeding the elec
tion day, to attend the United States Court
at Williamsport; and every Locofoco that
we met on the road who knew us, taunted
us by saying that they had "worked sur
up," or words to that amount. They
shouted in triumph, for they then thought
that they had elected their whole ticket.
On Friday night we were at a public house
in Bellefonte, and as soon as the mail had
arrived at that place, Col. James Burnside
exhibited and read a letter written by the
Prosecuting Attorney of this county,
which claimed the result of our election
as a glorious victory for Locofocoism. As
near as we can recollect, the language
of the letter was—" Democracy trium.
phant—OUß men, Messrs. Moore and
Weston, and not J. G. Miles and Dr.
Dewey, are elected to the Legislature I--
WE have carried the Sherif, and I be
lieve OUR whole ticket /!" And every
Locofoco in the crov , din which that letter
was read, shouted for joy—declaring that
they "carne it over the d—d Antima
sons in Huntingdon county that time!"
Such was the exultation of the enemy
when they had made temporary inroads
upon our party.
Whigs arid Antimasons of Huntingdon
county—you who rallied manfully under
the banner of the lamented Harrison, and
achieved a glorious victory over the power
of Locofocoism—it is to you that we ap.
pal! Will you not again rally on the
second Tuesday of October, and "turn
the tables" on the insolent party who re•
sort to falsehood and deception to gain
your votes, and then laugh at your defeat ?
Have you aught against the ticket settled
upon by the Democratic Harrison Con
vention? Can you find, or raise up, a
reasonable objection to any man on it,
from the first to the last Most certainly
you cannot. They are honest, upright,
industrious, intelligent and capable men,
firmly attached to the same principles
which you hold, and for which you have
long contended. And shall they not re
ceive your warmest arid most vigilant
support ?
That the Locotccos considered the re
sult of the election last fall a victory for
their party is also evident from the man
ner in which they treated Sheriff Shaver.
After his eleeiinn they tried to use him to
accomplish sinister purposes. He refu
sed his consent, and proved himself
true to his principles. They then
savagely persecuted him, and moved earth
and hell to have him declared mramovs--
but all in vain. John Shaver is yet, as he
was before his election, a sound Whig and
an honest man.
Let us ask, what did the Working
ingmen" gain by the success of their
ticket ? This is a question which we at
present put to every reader, to answer for
himself. IF he undertakes to count up
the advantages, he will find them to
amount to undispoced of conspiracy Casey,
court costs, loaf time, and unprecedented
villany.
The enemy will no doubt raise all kinds
of local questions in order to divide us
and to draw our attention from the true
issue. The division of the county will be
the hobby in one place, and anti-diviaion
in another. Let us beware of the de
ception and trickery of the wily enemy.
While writing the above, the declination
of S. MILES GREEN, Esq., whose name
has been published under the call of the
Alexandria Convention, as one of the
Central Committee, was handed to us for
publication. Mr. Green sets the matter
in its true light. His declination will be
found in another column.
The Tariff Bill Passed and
Signed.
The Tariff Bill introduced by Mr. Mo.
KENNAN and passed through the House by
a vote of 105 yeas to 103 nays, passed the
Senate last week, with amendments, by a
vote of 24 yeas to 23 nays. The amend
ments %%ere concurred in by the House.--
The Bill %vas promptly signed by the
President, and is now the law of the land.
The passage of this law seems to infuse
new hopes and spirits into the manufactu
ring and business community. We will
endeavor to give a synopsis of the bill in
our nest, showing the rates of duties, Acc_
O The new Methodist Episcopal
Church, in the city of Lancaster, was
dedicated on Sunday last. Several em
inent preachers were present. The build
ing is said to be the finest in the city.
1:11 - A. correspondent of the Carlisle
Herald and Expositor, nominates THAD ,
DEII3 STEVENS for the office of Vico prem.>
dent of the United States.