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Vortical.
Home is where there's one to
los e us.
Home's not merely four square walls,
'Though with pictures hung and gilded;
Home is where affection calls,
Filled with shrines the heart hath blinded
llok'lli3!—go watch the faithful dove
Sailing 'neath the.heuven above us—
Home is where there's one to love!
Home is where there's one to love us !
Home's not merely roof and room,
It needs something to endear it;
Home ig where the heart can bloom,
Where there's some kind lip to cheer it!
What is home with none to meet?
None to welcome, none to greet us ?
Home is sweet, and only sweet,
Where there's one wo love to meet us!
ARE YOU BEADY?
Wl' J. 1). L. GANTT.
Freemen, hark : your country calls
For assistance at the polls;
Firm, united, one and all,
Are you ready now?
Now's the day and now's the hour,
See the front of battle lower,
bee the fainting Locos cower !
Are you ready now?
Le! the battle is at 111111 d:
Will ye fly, or will ye stand,
Round your banner hand in hand?
Are you,ready now?
La your leader, true and tried,
Is our country's noblest pride,
Joined like brothers, side by side;
Aro you ready now I
Scott, our nation's brightest star,
Scott, whose conic is known afar,
Leads you boldly forth to war,
Are you ready now 1
Where the morning breezes stray,
Lift your banners, let them play,
While echo asks from far away
Arc you ready now?
Como and join our noble cause,
Count nil British gold but dross;
Fainting Pierce cloth lead our foes,
Are you ready now 7
Franklin Pierce, why who is he'?
Why, the Loco nominee,
Rally, Whigs! and Pierce shall see
That we're ready now !
Winfield Scott, whose noble fame
Still ascends the mount of fame,
Will wit( a field for you again.
Are you ready Howl
Soldiers you who nobly fought
Side by side with Winfield Scott,
Will ye stand and fuller not?
Aro you ready now?
Firmly joined, come one and all,
Sons of freedom, great and small,
MAI ahead the great Whig ball;
And be ready now.
Votitical.
Gen. Scott's Mexican Offer.
We extract the following from Gen.
Scott's speech at Sandusky, and give it a
place that our readers may learn from his
own lips, the truth in regard to the offer
made to him, to stay in Mexico. Read it
with care, and you can see how his love of
his own country rose above personal advan
tage, or power.—Ed. Jour.
"Ono word more about myself, my
friends. My friend has adverted to the
proposition seen floating about in the news
papers. I have nowhere seen it correctly
Mated that an offer was made to me to re
main in that country and to govern it.--
The impression which generally prevails,
that the proposition emanated from Con
gress, is an erroneous one. The overture
was made to me by private citizens—mom
of wealth and prominence. During our
stay in Mexico our system of government
and police was established, which, as the
inhabitants themselves confessed, gave se
curity—for the first time perfect and abso
lute security—to person and property.—
About two-iiftbs of all the branches of
Government, including nearly a majority
of the members of Cnogress and the .Uxee
utive, were quito desirous of having that
n'nftngbn
sons belonging to the American army
would stand disbanded, and would be ab
solutely free from all obligations to remain
in the army another moment. It was en
tirely true of all the new regiments called
regulars, and eight out of ten of the rank
and file of the old regiments, after the war
was over. The Government overwhelmed
me with reinforcements, after there was.no
possibility of fighting another battle.
When the war commenced we had but
one-fourth the force which we needed.—
The Mexicans knew that the men in my
army would be entitled to their discharge.
They supposed if they could obtain my
services, I would retain those twelve or
fifteen thousand men, and that I could ea-1
sily obtain one hundred thousand more'
from home. The hope was that it would
immediately cause annexation. They of- 1
fered me one million of dollars as a bonus,
with a salary of $250,000 per annum, and
five responsible men to become security in
any bath in Now York which I might name.
It would be so arranged that
. 1 might get
it in five days. They expected that an
nexation would be brought about in a few
years, or if not, that I could organize the
finances, and straighten the complex affairs
of that Government. It was understood
that nearly a majority of Congress Wits in
favor of annexation, and that it was only
necessary to publish a pronuncioniento to
that effect to secure the object. We pos
sessed all the arms of the country, and oc
cupied their cannon foundries and powder
manufactories; had possession of their ports
of entry, and might easily have held them
in our possession, if this arrangement had
gone into effect. A published pronunci
omento would have brought Congress right
over to us, and with these fifteen thousand
Americans holding the fortresses of the
l l
country, all Mexico would not have distur- 1
bed us. We might have been there to this
day if it had been necessary. I loved my
distant home. I was not in favor of the
annexation of Mexico to my own country.
Mexico has about eight millions of inhabi
tants, and out of those eight millions, there
are not more than one million who are of
pure European blood. The Indians and
I 'nixed races constitute about seven millions.
They are exceedingly inferior to our own.
As a lover of my country, I was opposed to
mixing up that race with our own. This
was the first objection on my part to this
proposition. May I plead some little love
of home, which gave me the preference for l
the soil of my own country and its institu
tions, and here I am. I believe I have
no more to add in reply."
The following from the Now York TH.
bune, we commend to the oareful peruse]
of every reader. Nothing that we can say,
could be more to the purpose; and we say,
by way of endorsement, as Peter Bush said.
"them's our sentiments" :
" If we had Known.,
After an election is over, if our side hap
pens to have been beaten, we are always
favoured with a bevy of Job's comforters,
who tell us how easy they could have poll
ed the additional vote necessary to carry
their State if they had only known that
it was wanted. If they had not supposed
that we were certain to succeed, they could
have got out the few votes necessary to
turn the scale. But they thought it was
all safe, or all lost, and so made no serious
effort. They will try to do better next
time.
Friends of SCOTT and GRAHAM! under
stand now and henceforth that every vote
is wanted in your Town and County !
Don't say your State is sure, or is hope
less: for there aro not five States in the
Union that are fixed beyond controversy,
and even in these we want the last Whig
vote called out. Effort in Vermont is de
sirable and needed, though Vermont will
give a large majority for Scott and Gra
ham. So is effort in Alabama, though it
is morally certain to vote for Pierce and
King. Enthusiasm is contagious, and ef
fort in one State stimulates efforts in oth
ers. With proper effort on the part of his
friends, Qen. Scott is not beaten.
But the cause needs WORK. First in
putting Information into the hands of the
voters; next in affecting such an Organiza
tion as will secure a full attendance at the
polls. There are thousands of Whigs we
say it with sorrow) who will go a journey
in October and fail to reach home till after
the Presidential election in November if
they are not entreated to do otherwise.—
Many will start on voyages of business or
pleasure who mean to do the right thing,
but, under the deceptive plea that "ONE
Vote can make no difference," they will
severally abstain from voting, and perhaps
collectively defeat the Country's cause.—
We oaro little for great meetings, but let
Documents be everywhere diffuse&and a
thorough Organization effected and we may
then feel• assured of a Scott triumph.—
Whigs everywhere ! rest not a moment un
til your own County is thoroughly supplied
nr.anized—then turn your attention
— bainto
HUNTINGDON, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1852.
To the Whigs of the Union!
There is nothing in the result of last
Tuesday's election which can dishearten
any true hearted Pennsylvania Whig.—
We have yet to inset the first Whig who
has a knowledge of the State, and for
whose judgement in political matters we
have any respect whatever, that regards
the result of the State election as indica
tive of our defeat in November when Gen.
Scott is in the field. There may be here
and there a political croaker, who in poli
tical contests, like Gen. Pierce in the bat
tle field, becomes faint and sick when the
enemy's citadel has to be taken by storm,
and who now trembles in his shoes as to
the result. But such, we assure our
Whig friends in other States, is not the
sentiment of the Whigs of Pennsylvania.
All who are acquainted with the politics of
the State, and understand the'causes which
produced our defeat on Tuesday last, are
as confident now as they have ever been
that Gen. Scott will obtain the electoral
vote of the State by a majority equal to
that given for the lamented Taylor. No
elaborate explanation need be made to
them that the State is safe for Old Chip
pewa; but as our Whig friends in other
States cannot be supposed to be so famil
iar with the state of public sentiment in
Pennsylvania, and as many of them may
be induced to regard last Tuesday's result
as indicative of our inability to carry the
State for Gen. Scott, we propose to sub
mit a plain and unvarnished statement of
the causes which led to our defeat, and of
the reasons which induce us to feel confi
dent of success in November.
Our Whig friends in other States must,
in the first place, bear in mind that the of
fice of Canal Commissioner, although an
important one, has not that political im
portance attached to it in the minds of the
great mass of the Whigs which it deser
ves, or which is. necessary to arouse them
to active exerlions, and concentrate and
rally all in support of the candidate for
that office. As an illustration of the truth
of this remark we need but refer to the
vote cast in 1848 for the respective can
didates of the Whig party for Governor
and Canal Commissioner. Mr. Middles
warth, one of the very best and most popu
lar men in the State, who was then Whig
candidate for Canal Commisioner, fell
short more than 4000 of the vote polled
for Governor Johnston, and, as a conse
quence, was defeated by his LocofocO op
ponent, Mr. Painter, who, singular as it
may seem, had some 12 or 1500 votes less
than d ndge Longstreth, the Locofoco
nominee for Governor. The same was
again the case last year. At the election
of October, 1851. Mr. Clover, the Looofo
co candidate for Canal CosaisSioner, with a
less aggregate vote than was cast /or Gov.
Bigler, had about 1500 more of a majority
over Mr. Strohm in the State, than Gov.
Bigler had over Governor Johnston.—
These instances show most clearly that
there is never that interest taken by the
Whigs in the success of their candidate
for Canal Commissioner which there ought
to be, or which, at all events, should be,
if the vote for that office is to be taken as,
a test of the strength of parties in the
State.
The indifference thus manifested about
the Canal Commissioner by Whigs, in
1848 and '5l, who attended the polls, and
voted for Governor, but neglected to do
so for Canal Commissioner, affords a key
to the non-attendance at the ballot box cf
so many thousand Whigs on Tuesday last.
The office of Judge of the Supreme Court
is not a political office, and, although there
is nine of more direct importance to the
people than it, they yet seem to take less
interest in it than that of Canal Commis
sioner. These being the only State officers
to be voted for, we could not rally the
Whigs to the polls as we should have
done with a gubernatorial candidate in the
field.
Other causes operated against us.—
Thus in Allegheny county, where Gen.
Scott is certain of a majority of no less
than 4000, the unofficial reports give our
candidate for Canal Comissioner but 6 or
600. There, it appears, the contest for
Sheriff absorbed the whole attention of,
the party, there being serious apprehon-,
sious on the part of many Whigs; that the
notorious Joe Barker,
who was a candi
date on his own hook for that office, had
some chance to succeed, and as a matter
of course all the energies of the party
were directed to ensure the success of the
Whig candidate. So in the Lucerne Con
gressional District. There the great is
sue was between Wright and Fuller, and
in the contest for Congress, the Whig
candidates on the State ticket wore lost
sight of. So in Montgomery. There the
Whigs saw a. prospect to elect a State
Semitor, and directed all their energies to
that object. They were successful, but it
was more or less at the expense of the
State ticket. So in Northampton, where
two Whig Assemblymen were elected.
We had other objects to accomplish,
and other subjects of no less importance
. •• ♦ wkinh to di-
sional Delegation to elect, and, although
unsuccessful, in securing a majority, we
have yet an increase of two or three com
pared with the delegation now in Congress.
We had a State Senate to retain or lose.
The effort to retain a majority in that body
has been successful, and we shall have a
Whig Senate during the next session of the
General Assembly. These and other objects
occupied the attention of Whigs and must
be take into account when we sum up the
result for Canal Commissioner;
We have the full vote of twenty-three
counties besides the city arid &minty of
Philadelphia, and they add up as follows:
For Canal Commissioner,
Hoffman, 82,525 Hopkins,• •• •
For Judge of the Supreme Court.
.87,946 I Woodward,
Buffington,
In November of 1848, for President, it
stood ns follows:
Taylor, 108,321 I Cass, 88,715 I VBaren, 2,531
At the October election, 1851, the vote
was :
For Governor.
98,823 Bigler,•
For Canal Commissioner.
Johnston,
Strohm, 98,641 I Clover, 98,970
It will be thus seen that the votejor
Canal Commissioner in the countiqs offici
ally heard from compares as folloWs with
that given for President in 1848
Tayluir, 108,321 Cuss,. •• •
Hainan, 82,525 Hopkins,•
Deficiency,• • • 25,796 Increase,
Compared with that for Governor and
Canal Commissioner, in 1851, it is as fol
lows :
98,823 I Bigler,• •
.82,525 ilopk in.,
Jolinston,
Deficieucy,• • • •16,298 Deficiency,
Strohm,• ••• • • • •98,641 Clover,• •• •
Hotlmon,• •• • • • •82,525 Hopkins,• • •
Deficiency, 16,116 I Deficiency,
A careful examination of these figures
will show that while the Locofoco vote,
as compared with Gov. Bigler's vote, is
actugly diminished seven thousand eight
hanged, -and ninety-seven, SIXTEEN !
THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY
EIGHT WHIGS DID NOT 00 TO THE POLLS!
And while the hocofocos have polled the
full vote, which they gave for Gen. Cass
and M. Van Buren, in 1848, and its na
tural increase of about 1000 votes, in the
counties officially heard from, no less than
TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND, SEVEN HUN
DRED AND NINETY-SIX WLIIO VOTERS
REMAINED AT HOME ON TUESDAY LAST,
WHO VOTED FOR GENERAL TAYLOR IN
1848!
These are facts which speak for them
selves, and which should impel every Whig
voter to do his duty in November next!
News.
To the Whig Farmers.
The man who would go into his fields
expecting to gather corn where be . had not
sown the grain, would be esteemed a foul.
"Seed time" before "harvest," all the
world over. Not only is the seed needed,
but it must be placed iu the ground prepa
red for it; and if the ground is unprepared,
the wise man gets it ready before the sea
son of taking root is past. E very farmer
and every boy knows and acts upon this
common sense principle. Now we have
a harvest to gain or lose on Uncle Sam's
fZii.—The crops we want to reap are
1. Protection to our own. household, af
fording to the operative better wages, that
ho may have more to save and spend.
'. A market at home, in order that half
of the profits of the farmer's labors shall
not be eaten up by the cost of transporta
tion.
_ _ _
3. The removal of obstructions in our
harbors and the improvement of our rivers,
that our sailors may be saved from many
of the dangers they are now needlessly,
compelled to undergo, by which thousands
of valuable lives and au immense amount
of property would be preserved from de
struction.
4. The preservation of the farm, and
the keeping of it in "apple-pie-order," and
having all of it well tilled.
We might name others, but lot this suf
fice. 'We are now in the midst of seed time,
and yet some of us have not taken the first
step to get seed and oast it in. Now,. to
such we want to say a few plain words.—
Have you a life-interest in the concern ?
Have your children a similar interest ?
Do you expect your neighbor to work, while
you are idle? • if you are a Whig farmer
we have named some of the ‘ crops you de
sire to see gathered in November. Well,
don't leave your sowing to be done a few
days before you wish to shout "Harvest
Home !" Come, go to work; don't wait for'
your neighbor to speak to you first. That
is what, perhaps, be is going to do.
Begin now, in your own school district,
at home. Call a few, if it be but three,
together. You all know what is needed, is
wanted; you •don't differ there. Consult
then how it is to be accomplished; and go
to work. That is your share of the labor.
It may cost you a little time and labor, but
(-- t v
-9 'i 4 ooOrttrti
/7)
don't succeed—if you have done your du
ty—tho shame of defeat will rest upon
others, not you. Don't be disheartened,
if you can't do all you wish. Don't be
deterred from going ahead, and doing
what you can, by the senseless slang and
low abuse of those who assail your candi
date and your party. Let that rather
make you work the harder. Don't allow
them to vex you, and make you in turn as
sail theirs. That's what they want you to
do. You can tell something that Scott
has done, in forty years' service, for his
country—ber glory, her honor, her pros
perity. You can show that in every situ
ation he has been called to fill be has
"done up his work" in a masterly manner.
His faithful services are a sure enough
guaranty that other.duties will be perform
ed as well. Everybody has herd Of Scott
—evetylihdy knows his deeds.
Now if your opponents can show what
their candidate has done, let them show it.
Not by lyingg, political iquibi, nor apocry
phal lives written for election purpoies.—
Like Scott, be has seen some considera
ble public services, and if he was any thing
of a public man, his votes, speeches, and
other acts would be recorded. Here you
will stump them. For if you sbould put
together all his public services—scanty as
they may be—you will find them in op
position to that which you believe to be
for the good of the nation.
92,255
94,336
100,152
86,715
.92,225
Now we affirui and believe that Genefai
Scott will win the field, and gather in the
harvest, as he oft has won the battles of
his country. And as in every battle no
soldier of it is a victory; wants to have it
said that he was absent from the contest,
or that he ut leant did not do something
that entitled him to a share of the glory,
remember that the nation has ever honored
her real warriors when candidates for of
'flee. Who would take "bogus" money
when the pure gold was to be had? Who
would sow his fields with unknown grain
when the best seed was offered at the same
prieel And who ought to vote for an un
tried, unknown man for President, when
his competitor is one whose life has been
spent.in the defence and for the benefit
and honor of the nation'!
, 3,L40
100,152
• 22,255
• 7,897
9R,970
.9.2.`f25
, 6,745
Up, then, farmers, and begin now the
preparation fcr the November harvest.—
See that your districts are thoroughly or
ganized; that each and every honorable
means are used to scatter light and truth
where darkness or indifference now exists.
Don't let your enemies catch you napping.
If you do this, when the election day
closes, you may with Perry say: 6 , lVe
have met the enemy, and they are ours!
[From Me Middletown (X. Y.) Press.
How it workb—lron,
We cominend the following extract from
an article in the N. Y. Tribune headed
"Who pays the Duty?" to the candid con
sideration of both producer and consumer:
Two years since the price of railroad iron
in Wales was $22 80, or £4 15s. per ton,
the duty on which was about $7; whereas,
iu 1846, when the tariff of that year was
passed, it had been about $lB per ton.—
Under the circumstances, application was
made to Congress to fix the duty at what
it had been at the date of the present reve
nue system, or at least to add six or
eight dollars to the amount levied, raising
it to thirteen or fourteen dollars per ton.
Congress was then told "So long as do
mestic competition is maintained, we shall
be enabled steadily to improve our ma
chinery, and iron will not only continue
low, but there will be a steady tendency
to fall in price; but if the English iron
toasters be permitted to destroy our com
petition, the price of iron will go up, and
the money that should go into the Treas
ury will go into their pockets." To all
these representations Congress turned a
deaf ear, and the consequence has been
that step by step our iron masters have
been ruined, and their works have passed
into the hands of the Sheriff. Essex
County, but lately the seat of a thriving
manufacture, is now almost entirely silent.
Booton has been sold for we think one
fifth of its cost, and this after having dis
tributed three ini;lions of dollars in wages.
Armstrong and Clarion Counties have wit
nessed the downfall of forty out of for
ty-two furnaces, twenty of which will
shortly have been sold by the Sheriff with
in a period of twelve months. Such has
been the case in almost every portion of
the Union. Everywhere the men who
were engaged in establishing competition
for the supply of the world with iron have
been ruined; and the domestic make of iron
has now fallen from 850,000 to about 450,-
000 tons, when it might have risen to a
million and a half of tons, and would have
done so but for British free trade.
Such vast destruction of property should
have been followed with benefit to . some
body, and such has certainly been the
case, but to whom? To the people of the
Union? Certainly not, for their produc
tion of iron is far less now than it was
four years since, although in the interim
we have added four millions to our
Ta_miton2.then! To the British
VOL. 17, NO. 4a
iron makers; *Use prices have risen pxs
cisely as our furnaces and tniqs have best
closed, and who now put 00 their pockets
the whole sum that was, two years since,
asked to be claimed for the Treasury.--
Two years since the price was, as we hr vs
stated, £4 15 In Wales. A year since, it
had risen to £5 ss, being an addition of
$2 40. Now, it is £6 ss, being a fur
thee addition of $4 80—aed thus the for
eigh price his risen to the wkle exte t of
the seven dollars that was Men to
be added.
In 1850 the British iron maiterspr +1,4.
cost of getting to market; but as cop
tion has diminished their prices hay
creased, and now it is the consumer
pays the duty: With another year ,es
will rise again, and it must be regard,
quite extraordinary if we do not see in., go
up to seven or eight pounds, the for(Agn
producers poalv.:ting the whole differnec be
tween that and the £4 15e; at whit'.: it
stood when Congress was urged to it ter
pose and prevent theni from destroying s!
our own furnaces, forges and rolling mills
Gen. Scott with his Soldiers.
Ile Testimony of a Democrat
In our paper of last Saturday we copied
from a Michigan paper an article which
gave the particulars of an incident that 00.
curred during the Florida wet•. The cub
stat*e bf the article was, that at nighty
after a weary march, a party was detailed
to erect a shelter for the commander-in
chief, who had nat yet reached the ground.
Shortly after the work conutienced, Gen.
Scott came up and finpiiied of the working
party what they were doing. in
formed, when he imMediately reu•lied
cease work, and return to your
company. I can participate iu the priva
tion of my men. I will not have a weary
soldier to I erform a moment's unneccd2ary
labor for my convenience." And , :at the
sod of the everglade, under the open
the gallant old chief slept with his faithful
soldiers. •
This article happened to meet the oar of
a gentleman min , living in CovingteTi, vdlo
served under Gen. Sc - at iu Florida. nue
who has up to this time. acted with t a DI
mocratic party. 'This•gentleman called of
our office on Tuesday last, to say that is
was one of the men detailed to ere,:t
shelter for Gen. Scott, and that he know;
the statement that Gen. Scott request(
the men to desist from the work to be in..
Our informant says that Gen. Scot: w 9.4
a diciplinarian, but that as a general thi , ,ps
the dicipline was enforced rather agaii
the officers than the privates; and t'.v.
Scott was uniformly kind and attentive :•:
the wants of his soldiers.
Our informant further said that had C.:,
been nominated he would have suppor :
hnn; but that between Gen. Scott and G
Pierce he must vote for his old Mon
commander.—covinglon, Ky. Journal
"For the sake of our British
Friends,"
_
. . .
We desire to seell7eFree-Trade Do!::
crate in power for the sake of the mil: ery
commerce of North America; for if Pier
shall be President; our Northern friena,
shall have the benefit of 4; there fort.
pray for the Demoeracy forthe sake c . ;
our British Friends.—Canada Interha
tional:
Thus the British press, in Canada as it
England, are for Pierce. They “prcy
Democracy for the sake of our lurilis
friends." British prayers and Britis.,
gold, will both be liberally expet,l,d t,
promote British interedts Gen. Pierce.
because of the principles which he advo
cates, is the candidate of the moneyed aria
tocracy of Great Britain. The same '.a .
per which thus "prays" for Geri.
"for the sake of its British friends
Gon. Scott, "an old fool:" The B.
Tories can never forgive General •
having whipped the red coats at Lu. ,
Lane, Chippewa, Fort George, t l / 4 c. 'll
would be exceedingly chagrined :..t
election, while they have a dozen TeIISO,
for desiring the success of General Bien,
whom the London Times eulogizes as
practical ally of British interests.'---..lita
ny (X. F.) Journal.
‘Von't 'Vote against Scott
An active, influential German Pen , -
orat, of Berks county, said to a friend tut
other day that he had read of Scuts
the last thirty years—that ho knew Lim ~,
be honest and patriotic, because
party papers so pronounced him, and 11
never heard anything against him until hi
was nominated for the Presidency. .c.!
will not," he candidly continued, 6 , vytt
for Pierce, because I never heard of Litt.
before; if 1 do not vote for General t 4 eott o
I will stay home; I will not vote rtgainsri
him." Those are the holiest and praise
worthy.sentiumuts of right-thinking Dem
ocrats in the' country, who know that is
voting for Scott they are not voting against
the principles of Democracy, f* , ,; ' , ( - •ott is
the greatest defender of rift•
eiples and Democratic institutions -Roc din -
in.—Roe/tutor Dematrst t SopA 141