THE GURM.I:, HUNTINGDON, PENN'A TUESDAY, JUNE 6. Ma FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER NER MIDDLESWARTH. CAMPAIGN PAPER. "Circulate the Documents." To put the " HUNTINGDON JOUR NAL" within the reach of all who de sire a paper during the coming Presiden tial campaign, it will be furnished from the 13th of June next until the result of the Presidential election is known, at the following rates—payment invariably to be made in advance, .viz : . Five copies for $3 00 Ten copies for 5 00 rift( en copies for 7 00 Twenty copiPs for 9 00 Our Whig friends throughout the county are respectfully asked to aid us in our efforts to circulate the Journal among the People. Locoloco poison will be scattered bread cast over the land daring the campaign. Let the Whig an tidote travel with it. A Call upon our rnendtg. The Presidential campaign which is about to open will, no doubt, be conduc ted with spirit and attended with intense excitement. The issue will be one of vital importance, as upon it depentis the weal or wo of the nation for four years to come. ---- , , We have artful and dexterous enemies mot proviso men, better known as the i They will take their own action in ve to• contend with—partisans who depend "Bassaburners," from their disposition gard to the future. They are powerful ! fanatical ltosedeot sectarians n a: t u l t te ho intriguers uaveiroi a , t e id upon intrigue, deception, and fraud for to tire the national barn in order to burn n success ; and more than once have these out the rats, known as " Old Hunkers,'': the seal of the democratic party a nd . means effected their intended purpose. have determined to call a Convention to i scattered its fragments, will find to their They will endeavor to poison the public nominate a new man who will not stoop , sorrow."—Mas. mind, and mistily and darken every nv- to become the tool of the South and j "A convention at Baltimore to whose actionthe people looked with some Ut erine of information. We anticipate trample on the rights of the free states. tie interest, has nominated General Cass this, for it is as impossible for modern The following extract from the N. Y.. the reached for t h e Presidency. When the news locofocoism to conduct a campaign fair- Globe, whose editor was present at the reached here, it fell like a dull, dead ly and honestly as it is for the " Ethio- Baltimore Convention, manifests the weight, upon all classes except the feeling entertained towards the Convert- Whigs. pian to change his skin or the leopard "The Baltimore. Convention has ac his spots. i tion and its double faced nominees c long " We have but a few words to say membered a teat which will be re la"l . such times, therefore, it is all im- embered nniong the remarkableevents t uip it uu l ut t o n u o ur rn i i l l e ig mo r c e t s a p c e y et in ing the thL e c i tr n ng o e f in the political history of the country.— portant that The people—those who are , ft has broken up the democratic party the arbiters of all national questions ! a part of a National Convention, a d m i t-of the nation !"—Budget. - Pending---should be appealed to, and tins two sets of Delegates from this furnished with information and argu- I , State. After having committed this i IVO., with all the subserviency of Mr. meats in favor of the cause which the outrage all obligation to support the , Cass to his southern task-masters, it y No ominees of the Convention t ended. I are expected to support. To effect this, 'turns out that he hos ant thrust his neck matter who had been nominated after far enough into the collar, to conciliate the public press is the roost powerful New York was thrown out, the Democ- ' agent ; and, with proper pains and colic- 1 racy of this State would not have sup- and win the entire "chivalry." The itude, its instructions and warnings can! ported the candidates. We tell our , Charleston Mercury, in announcing that i t r e de t i i s lt tlutt it is us impossible to elect the democracy of that State had refu be made heard and felt in the obscurest unore_nommess . as it is to row sod (notwithstanding the pretensions of retreats of the country, and wheresoever " a beat tip the Niagara Falls with a crow- Mr., Gerreral Commander to represent the habitation of man luny s he. bar. They cannot be elected. If every Permit is,, therefore, to give a word : Democratic paper in this State should the State) to send delegates to the Na of advice upon this subject to our give the nomination a hearty support, , tional Convention, says they were not I the result woul d f not be changed. Lewis , going to place themselves in a situation friends. Let those who profess a warm thousand ssi l ~o want tes r o o f m c a fi r ft r y v • i t: g el% E hundredecto. where they 'might appear to be bound to attachment to the Whig cause (and there go for " Lewis Cuss or some other °ple ase some such in every township) induce ril ticket of New York. The 'man who their respective neighbors who take less thinks otherwise, knows little of the ex- oeating betrayer of our rights." interest in politics, to subscribe to and tent of the popular indignation respect- And let us see what Mr. Yancey, of the com A mi t t e t v ed i on . the . New Alabama, himself a delegate, and a most rend their county paper. If an effort active and influential one, declared on were made, we doubt not, our subscrip- ' ties is at i Tin e n r i t l ie l y. The hon o es u t tl o o f n all par -. the floor of the Convention after the tion list could be greatly extended ; and ties will come together, and the Democ the had been formally made and the beneficial effects might be seen racy of the Union will become purified. throughout the whole county; and we I 'the nomination of General Cuss, out- sanctioned. Speaking of the chances of puper i m sid a e de of re t c h e l ve liTi n h o l t in a g s li t i u A l v e h e t er it was success he thus argues might be enabled to improve our e and thus secure a mutual advantage to very boys who thronged the street in I " Cast your. eyes over the States.— our patrons and ourself. Vie feel cer- front of the church, gave long and loud Let me enumerate—Massachusetts, Ver tain of the feasibility of the plan ; and cheers for General Taylor, The moment I moat, Rhode Island, Connectimit, New . .Inr it ii n ey, , 1:lela ware, Maryland, North Car the nomination of Cass wits announced. ..1 .0 .g States. Tennessee , ey ca s t electoralare assure our readers that every township F tu r i o ‘, m e t r h e e tu t ur i n m e e d C to as t s h ls s li c s ut nomina nom i na t e d un- t and district where the Journal is well v " ot j e l s. New York cannot be otherwise supported, always gives a good account heard his name cheered, y eil v h e er a in e the of itself at the polls. hotels, in the cars, on board the steam- than tt big at the election. The Whigs, Clubs are frequently formed for neu- boats, or any where else; the name of abolitionists, and barnburners united, tral papers from abroad, solely because will ineettably . give her 36 electoral Lewis Cass was scarcely mentioned on voles to the wing candidate. This runs our route home. This is ominous. they are cheap; and these are always On our arrival home we learned.that up 14t electoral votes certainly against , more hurtful than unmasked locofoco us. Now how is it on the other side 1— the same degree of silence was observ prints, because they conceal the rankest ed. The reason is obvious—the Democ- Maine, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, locofocoism in the deceptive garb of ' racy of our State has been insulted—a Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Fier neutrality; and, being the recipients of I spurious, conservative, slavery-exten- ►:lii x , uts Alabarna, Misssissippi, Louisiana, sion Delegation, elected by nobody, werest IL ., Arkansas,, Mich,ana A re lissouri, Illinois, In- Government patronage to a great extent, allowed to si t . by the side of our Dele- democratic. They Call be, and are, furnished to subscribers • gates, in adjoining pews of the Univer- cast 149 ' elector a l . votes. Can you get at the price of the blank paper. , salist church in Baltimore—the place in , all these votes without a clear, explicit Similar efforts to raise clubs for the • which the Democracy of the nation, lavowal of adhesion to our constitutional , through their representatives, assembled , rights '1 h i e,. know South Carolina—her Journal on the terms specified in a pre ceding article, would be attended with , officeto ni a u h n • e t l a m n ui li f i t i i o n f it t a i o f n ree for the le highest Thus and feelings. p ,Pl7lp equal success, and would result in much insult was t oo' great to b p e eo over . looked, , it, as he knows, with kindness and re goody to the Whig cause. Will not our our Democratic Delegates withdrew • , pect—has assumed a fearful responsi- Whig friends then make an effort to from the Convention." "I sty in giving her votes to General Cass. lie has as 1 humbly conceive less in flu ., Circulate the Documents." The Evening Post employs language (lice in that State than a ' lay man who has forcible .• not less i had any pretensions to the Presidency.- 113 The National Whig Convention " ✓ The general disposition in this quer- If you pass a rigid set of high-toned meets in Philadelphia to-morrow. in ter in regardto the nomination made by principles, there is but it bare possibility our next we shall be able to inform our ' the fragment of a convention at Bahl- that South Carolina may vote for the readers who will be the next President of more is to consider it as a nullity. If nominee. It' she does not, you will be the United States. the Utica delegation were entitled to reduced to 140 votes, or six less than , their seats, the rejection of their claim 1 the number required to elect your man. Hox. TrosiAs CORWIN has written a vitiates the proceedings; the convention I Will Georgia vote for your ticket 1 letter reiterating his fernier determine- is not regularly constituted, and its do- At best, her political position is a lugs do not represent the will of the ; doubtful one. Never, I believe, has her Lion not to be considered a candidate ' democratic party. It is entitled to just t gallant democracy been able to carry before the %%WI; Convention. ,as much consideration, and nu IllsrC, as that State twice in succession. Like The Loeotoefis and Gen. Cass. The " harmonious democracy" are ex periencing the vicissitudes of fortune, as will be seen by the extracts from their own papers, which we give below. By a species of legerdemain heretofore un sown even to that juggling party, the Hon. Lewis Cass, whose character is that of a politician rather than a states. man, has received the nomination of the Baltimore Convention. To effect this, the great State of New York, with her thirty-six delegates, was virtually dis franchised, and a man from South Car olina, Gen. Commander, whose right to cast ohe vote, was, to say the least of it, very questionable, was allowed to cast nia', the whole vote of the last seined State, on every : question before the Con vention ; and Virginia, which is entitled to but seventeen electoral votes had about thirty delegates in attendance, who voted upon all questions determined by viva rove votes. And this mode of securing the nomi nation is in keeping with the political character of Mr. Cass, who, in his eager aspirations alter the Presidency, has been ull things to all men, that by all means he might deceive some. Although at native of New England, and long a citizen of the great West, he, in truck ling to the slave power of the South, has been a chief of the " Northern dough faces," and studiously opposed the in terests of the East, the North, and the West, in order that he might conciliate the south. Such a course of conduct has met with the approbation of the nominating Convention, but it will be seen that the honest portion of the party are not disposed to affiliate. In the State of New York, the %Vil if were an accidental meeting of per sons on board a steamboat, taking a vote to ascertain who was the favorite candi date of the greatest number of indiVid ! uals present. And the .11bany ..?this and #pc Troy B udget,as will be seen by the pittagraphs which we subjoin, arc equally decided in their positions: "Mr. Cass receives only 179 votes, and this is atiempted to be called a nom. illation, because it amounts to two-thirds • of the votes cart, excluding New York. The exclusion of the State was the un just act of the Convention, and that body could, under no circumstances, be justified in taking advantage of its own wrong, to evade a rule which had been applied with signal injustice ag ainst this State. Mr. Van Buren, in 1844, received on the first ballot 14.6 votes out of 2611. If the game had then been pursued on the part of the candidate of New York that has been set in operation against her now, of getting some sham delegate to give to her candidate the eleven votes of South Carolina, (which then as now refused to be represented in the convention) and then excluding the votes of some of the other states to the amount of that of New York, the requisite two-thirds would have easily been obtained. " Whether other states will regard as of any obligation a nomination secured by this kind of juggling remains to be seen. As to New York, she has had no place in this convention, no voice in its rules ' no participation in the nomination, and has had no judgment and 110 honest hearing on her claims. To say that she' will repudiate the nomination might imply that some shadow of obligation or seeming tie bound her to the decision of the convention. It is not so. We be lieve we speak the sentiments oh the democratic masses of the state, when we say that they will regard this nomi nation as a thing concerning which they mare no responsibility, which is not ad dressed to them, and concerns them not. the Irishman and the log, in the anec dote I have heretofore told, she is as of ten underneath as on the top ; and when she triumphs, is so wearied by the con flict, as often to he unable to enjoy the fruits of victory. Without an avowal ' of this principle, I believe you cannot rely upon Georgia. If so, you are redu ced to 130 electoral votes. IVill Flori da Jord yotir ticket f t know her prin eiplea by heart. 1 know her high-toned delegates. They have kindly given me a sent amongst them during your ses sion, more convenient than that allotted to me. Ilor:ida sever support Gem Cass with his present opinions—unless you rover them with an avowal of sttch, that if he accepts, Florida AIM have some assurance that her rights will be safe in his hands. As to Alabama, I have some right to speak. Her democracy never has been questioned. She has never been for an instant in the hands of the whigs. But she respects party merely for the sake of principles. Whenever it becomes subversive of them, she will look about for some surer method of as serting her constitutional rights. She has sent us here instructed, " under no political necessity whatever," to support any man for office who entertains opin ions on the slavery question such as arc entertained by your nominee. He has no personal influence in .Ilabama. He was the last man her delegation here would have voted for. Many would not have voted for him. at all. You must avow the principles of Alabama, if you expect Alabama to befriend your nomi nation. It is clear, then, you cannot suc ceed with a set of resolutions which blink this great issue. I do not speak to destroy your nomination, but to point out tlile means by which you may secure its success." Thus it is apparent that Gen. Cass in his great anxiety to scat himself in the Presidential chair, falls between two stools SENATOR BENTON.--A Washington let ter says that Senator Benton embosoms himself with freedom against the Ba•ti more ,Convention, speaking of it as a band of selfish speculators, met to de- vise ways and means to get possession of the spoils. The Senator from Mis souri is good authority. When one of the high priests of the party tells 115 the object and character of the Conven tion, it is our duty to receive the opin ion with respect. we see that Yancey expressed the hope THE BARNBIIITNERS' PLATFORM.-At that the alarm produced by the cracking the Syracuse Convention, held on the of a bench, during the sittings of the 2d October last, Mr. Fiero, of . New Convention the other day, would not York, on behalf of the "13arnburners," prove as a similar accident in the Whig offered the following, which was reject- Convention did in 1814—the precursor ed by the "hunker" majority : of the defeat of the nominee of the Con " Resolved, That whi!s :he democracy ventiot. But we think it will. Cuss of New York, represented in this Con- stands bit a slim chance. He will find vention, will faithfully adhere to all it about as "inconvenient" to be at the the compromises of the Constitution, White House . on the Ith of March next, and maintain all the reserved Rights of the States—they declare—since the eri- as it was to be at the Chicago River and sis has arrived when that question must Harbor Convention a year ago !—Dally be met—their uncompromising Hostility .Pales. to the Extension of Slavery into Terri tory Now Free, which may be hereafter Worth got as many Votes in the loco acquired by any action of the Govern- foco convention as he wrote political let ment of the United States." ters, (3,) and Dallas, we believe, had the It is in the ottrintainancB of this reso- same number. The "favorite son" fared lotion, that they have separated from a little better, but lie and the "casting , vote" where arc he now ca n bo . t h i c k laid w th e u pet. the ud e r s et l e f, the spoilsmen of the old regency, and refuse. to support the Baltimore nomi- lion over Lir declarations in 1844 as , compared with their s.lbseqiient acts - .i no pleasant tusk we should think. tees HUNTINGDON AND BROAD' TOP MEL , ' - ROAD.—WC are glad to learn that the "CASS AND BUTLER—MEXICO AND OREGON" Commissioners of this Railroad Compa. I arc the watchwords with which the Penn ny have secured the services of Mr. ' sylvanian hopes to catch gudgeons. it 'announces a meetinr , in Spring Garden Mifflin to survey the route of their road. with these startling'words. We should Mr. Mifflin is an Engineer of skill and like to know what they signify. Do the character, and a favorable report from Locofocos mean to make the issues which these words would seem. to imply, viz : him will be of great advantage to this uf t l ia o t f enterprize. The survey will be made, the restoration annexation art o all l e jr i e c g o o , n an ‘ d vh t ic h ri we understand, the latter part of the was so basely sur p rendered to England present month. The Commissioners say by Polk, Cass & Co., in 1814. The pee they have the strongest assurances that pie of this country hays learned by dear b the stock Will be taken, and the Road bought experience that this miserable wor l ds—meaningless and made. This is an enterprize in which .Play "Ph" a s e miserable es game a i t i n o u t nothing snore e,. less ion. f than t u t n u our community has a deep interest, and we feel assured that when the proper , Oregon is conc.rned our reat'e:s mei not time comes the citizens of this place be told that this cry was raised in '44, will subscribe liberally for the stock. and the most deadly vengeance threaten ed against any foreign power that should DRAKE'S FERRY AND BROAD Tor Rm- dare to interfere with our "clear and un- ROAD.—We are informed that Wm. B. questionable title" to that territory. Foster, well known as a skilful engineer, I That issue answered its purpose. The has been engaged to survey the route of M western States gave their votes to r. Polk, and the first thing Mr. Polk did this road sometime during the present when he came into powc,r, was to give summer. A considerable portion of the away three degrees of our soil to Great stock has already been subscribed ; and . Britain ! Antrnow the very men who thus ignoininionsly skulked from the the friends of the road speak confident defence of our "clear and unquestiona ly of its success. ble title" in '4l, to the 52d parallel, have THE BIG DODGE. , again the ineffable meanness to bawl 'Or ' ' • —Dulls News egon in our cars y Gen. Cass has resigned his seat in the United States Senate. He retires to De- ADAMS COUNTY.—The Convention of troit to await the Presidential issue, and the Whig Delegates of this County, as avoid a discussion upon the River and sembled in Gettysburg, on Monday lust, Harbor bill. and nominated the following ticket:— . Assembly, James Cooper; Sherif! . Eph. The Governor has issued a warrant rains Swoope ; Prothonotary, John Pick ier the execution, on Friday, the 29th of lug; Register and Recorder, Williqm c 0,,,„;„ W. Hammersly Clerk of din Courts, H. September next, of Harris Bell, Led in Wayne county of the murder, Denwidie ; Coroner, C. Horner; Com. f missioner, John G. Morningstar ; Direr- Mrs. Eliza Williams, wife of the Rev. tor, U. Brinkerhoff; Auditor, Samuel Mr. Williams of that county. • ' Durberaw, TIIE DUTY OP THE WHIGS The editor of the York (Po.) Repot) lican, shows, in a lengthy article, that the delegates to the National Conven tion will be very mush divided in their choice of a candidate for the Presiden cy. His opinion is that Air. Clay will show the greatest strength upon the first ballot; but his friends will not be nu merous enough, in all probability, to se cure a majority of votes in his favor.— . Gen. Taylor will be at least second in strength in the Convention, while Gen. Scott's friends will be respectable in »umbers at first, with a prospect of con tinual accessions, should the hallottings be prolonged. He then concludes with the following patriotic language, which should be adopted by every WHIG in the Union: "In this state of tams it becomes the duty of every good Whig to nwoit • with calmness and composure the deter mination of the National Convention, resolved to support its nominee, whoev er he may be. ).'hat he will be Honest, Patriotic, Sincere—a friend of Sound Principles and judicious Measure , —we know, because no other than such a man is named in connection with the nomi nation. Be he Clay, Taylor or Scott— Clayton, Corwin, Webster, Crittenden, Mangum, or any other of our distinguish ed tu higs, let us all unite cordially in his support, for any one of such men as we have named, is lully worthy of the confidence and exertions of every true • Whig. We have our choice — a decided and uncompromising choice—one which we have entertained ever since we be came capable of forming a judgment about public men and public measures— the enthusiastic preference of youth, and the confirmed and deliberate selec tion of manhood—but we have yielded it ere now in favor of that pure patriot mud sound statesman, the lamented HMI- ElsoN g and though we should rejoice to see the great man of the age—the noble and generous CLAY, once more placed in a position to receive our suffrage, we are prepared to surrender him, if need be, to the deliberate decisions of the Whig National Convention. Will not all 11 higs do the same with their res pective preferences'!" AN OMEN !—Amos Kendall made him self very busy in croaking over \V big accidents luring the cr nvass of 1,811; and Gen. Coss an old IVNlteralist We presume, says the Daily News, it has not escaped the obserVation of our readers, that all the prominent dandi , dates for the Presidential nomination by the Baltimore Convention, were old Fed- - ernlists, dyed in the wool. That a par- - ty calling itself "Democratic," and pro lensing a holy horror for the Federalism' of the olden time, should now set up as its champions and leaders, the men who' are the very embodiment of that Feder alism, is singularly strange and incon• sistent. But then, we are getting used to political paradoxes, of all sorts and varieties, and are not unusually disturb ed by this last one of the series. Mr. Buchanan, who received 55 votes in the Baltimore Convention, was one of the most bitter and uncompromising. Federalists in Pennsylvania. lie oppo sed Madison and the war, and as every school -boy knows, went so far in his op position to Democracy, as to declare that " if he had a drop of Democratic blood in his veins, he would let it out." This man is now profuse in his profes sions of Democracy," and is held up as an exemplar and pattern of that :ouch abused term, by unscrupulous partisans! Mr. Woodbury, who received 53 rotes in the satno Convention, was a Hartford Conventionist, in the late war, and de nounced the cause of the country as ,‘ unwise and unpatriotic." De wore the black cockade, nod gloried in his Feder alism ! lie is now a "Democrat" of the straightest sect, and may be regard ed as a fair specimen ctf what constitutes the modern Democrat, Gen. Cass, who has been the success ful candidate of the Convention, is moro than any of the disappointed candidates, identified with old Federalism, and was, therefore, thought most worthy of the confidence and support of modern De mocracy ! As to Gen. Cass' Federalism, there can be no doubt. He wore the black ro , :kode, the great and distinguish ing badge worn by the Federalists of 1800. If any one doubts this statement, we refer them to Niles' Register, the highest authority of the kind in tho country. The following is a literal extract from Niles' Register, of September 18th, 11.31.—See vol. 47,-page : " The fact is, that while his father, .Major Cass, superintended the rurniting service in Delaware, I 709-1800, .for what we Democrats styled the " provision eating army,'.' he (the present Gen. Cass) was the preceptor of the Grammar School' in Wilmington, and always appeared with a BL.WK COCK.IDE in his hne." Illy Telegraph from Uliark.tto PSIACE AT LAST! The North American of Satorday last says :—We received last evening, from the office of the Charleston Even ing News, a telegraphic despatch, an nouncing the arrival of the steamer Edith at New Orleans, bringing the glad tidings that the'Mexican Congress had RATIFIED TILE TREATY OF PEACE. No further particulars were given, and we trust there may be no mistake in the in formation, which comes from a most re spectable and reliable source. On Thursday afternoon a fire broke out in Allentown, Lehigh county, which destroyed an immense amount of property, including forty houses in the most bntiness part of the town. The Odd Fellows' Hall and seven stores are among the ruins. SHORTENING T•nE Mississirrt.—The process of shorteni, , g a river may appear something new under the sun, but it has. actually been accomplished in the Mis , , sissippi, one of the largest rivers of the United States. During a recent freshet the river made a "bolt" through its banks at Raccourci, where there was a consid erable turn, and took a straight course for the nearest point of this stream, cut ting off twenty eight miles it•} length of the stream. The largest class of steam boats pass through up and doWn, without any difficulty. It is about four hundred yards wide, and the banks constantly caving. The graining mill attached to Beaty's. Powder works, near Baltimore, blew up on Tuesday last, killing two mon. CONNECTICUT UNITED STATES SENATORS. ---The choice by the House of R. S. BALDWIN and TRUMAN SMITH, to repre sent the State of Connecticut in the United States Senate, has been confirm ed by the Senate. DIED, At the Casflo of l'orote, Mexico, about the 9th of March last, Dr. GEORGE A. MILLER, formerly of this borough, aged 2S years and 6 months.
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