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Wednesday Morning, April 23,1856.
WILLIAM BREWSTER, EDITORS.
SAM. G. WHITTAKER.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER.
THOMAS IL COCHRAN,
OF YORK COUNTY.
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL,
DARWIN PHELPS,
OF ARMSTRONG COUNTY.
FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL.
3AZTIZOLOMMINT LAP ORTZI,
OF BRADFORD COUNTY.
To the People of the U. States.
The People of the United States, without re•
gard to past political differences or divisions,
who are opposed to the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise, to the policy ofethe present Ad.
ministration, to the extension of Slavery into
the Territories, in favor of the admission of
Kansas as a Free State, and of restoring the
action of the Federal overnment to the prin.
ciples of Washington and Jefferson, are invited
by the National Committee, appointed by the
Pittsburg Convention of the 22d of February,
1856, to send from each State three Delegates
from each Congressional district, and six Delia.
gates at large, to meet iu Philadelphia, on the
seventeenth day of June next, for the purpose of
recommending candidates to be supported for
offices of President and Vice President of the
United States.
NATIONAL COMMITTEE.
E. D. Morgan, N. York, Fran. P. Blair, Mar.,
J. M. Nile, Connecticut, D. Wilmot, Penn'e.,
A. P. Stone, Ohio, W. M. Chace, R. 1.,
J. Z. Goodrich, Mama., Geo. Rye, Virginia.
A. R. Hallowell, Maine, E. S. Leland, Illinois,
C. Dickey, Michigan, G. G. Fogg, N. H:,
Cor. Cole, California, A. J. Stevens, lowa,
L. Brainerd, Vermont, Wm. Grose, Indiana,
C. K. Paulison, N. J., W. Spooner, Wis.,
E. D. Williams, Del., J. G. Fee, Kentucky,
.1. Redpath, Missouri, Lew. Clephane, D. C.
WASHINGTON, MARCH 26, 1856.
Our Platform and Principles.
We do declare to the people of these United
States the objects for which we contend in po
litical action, are
let. That we demand and shall attempt to se•
cure the repeal of all laws which allow the in
troduction of Slavery into Territories once con
secrated to freedom g and will resist by every
constitutional means the existence of Slavery
in any of the Territories of the United States.
2d: We will support by every lawful means
our brethren in Kanzas in their constitutional
and manly resistance to the usurped authority
of their lawless invaders, and will give the full
weight of our political power in favor of imme
diate admission of Itauzas to the Union as a
free, sovereign and independent State.
3d. Believing that the present National Ad.
ministration has shown itself to be weak and
faithless, and that its continuance in power is
identified with the progress of the slave power,
to national supremacy, with the exclusion of
freedom from its territories and with unceasing
civil discord—it is a leading purpose of the
"Journal" to oppose and overthrow it.
The State Ticket.
Thomas E. Cochran, of York, is an old line
Whig, and was selected because it was gene
rally believed that none could better respect
that portion of the voters of the State. He is
a lawyer by profession, and for many years ed
ited the York Republican with signal ability.—
Ile was ehosen to the Senate about 1840 or '4l
from the Lancaster and York district, and,
though the youngest man in that body wou for
himself a high position as an efficient legislator
an able debater and an honest man. Since
then be has been in private life from choice,
and we are well assured that he had no agency
directly or remotely, in presenting his name
"for Canal Commissioner this tirno, and we
knew that such a movement was cc ntemplatcd
until informed of his unanimous nomination.—
With integrity of the highest type, he possesses
a degree of firmness of purpose, and a famil
iarity with every qestion of State policy, eel
dom combined m one man, and he shall be
well sustained by those who know him, when
we say that no man in Penneylvania is better
qualified for an honest, faithful and fearless
discharge of the duties of Canal Commissioner
than Thomas E. Cochran.
Darwin Phelps, of Armstrong, the nominee
for Auditor General, though rather past middle
life, made his first appearance as a public man
in the present Legislature, where he has com
manded the unbounded confidence of his
friends and the unlimited respect of all par.
ties, alike by his modest and courteous demean.
or, and the masterly manner in which he has
handled public questions when called into con
flict. He is the author of the minority report
of the Judiciary Committee on the right of
transit, a document that has been published
and commended by nearly every oppositior
journal in the State, and which, as a legal ar
gument, is deemed by competent jurists a most
triumphant vindication of the rights of the
freemen of Pennsylvania. Ho is seldom found
mingling in debate, and with the exception of
his scatchiog rebuke to the Democracy, when
they were about to incorporate a Jesuitical
Monastery, we do not now remember of any
prominent participation on his part iu the din.
cessions of the session. He is a laborious, in.
telligent and eminently practical man, of un
spotted integrity, nod one who will work a
most thorough and wholesome revolution in
the responsible possible possition he is destin.
ed to fill. Ho is a very decided, but liberal,
American.
Bartholomew Laporte, of Bradford, the nom-1
inee for Surveyor General, is a straight for
ward Republican, but has uniformly command
ed the support of the Americans of his county.
He was one of the heroes of the great revolu
tion wrought in the North on the Kansas ini
quity, and was chosen to the Legislature iu
1854, and re•elected last year, by overwhelm
;Mg majoritiee, where heretofore the Democra
cy have been deemed invinceable. He is a
eon of Judge Laporte, who filled the office of
Surveyor General for many years by appoint
ment, having been last appointed by Governor
Shank ; and he is thoroughly acquainted with
the duties and in every respect fitted to din
charge them successfully. He will bring to
the support of the ticket the whole Republican
strength of the North and West, and the cot.-
dial ;upped be received in the Cocvention
from Phtladelphia and the East generally, sin.
criney indicates that he will be accepted in
good faith by all the opponents of the Nation.
al Administration, as will the other candidates
of the North and West.—Har. Tel.
The above brief, but Satisfactory sketch
of the gentlemen placed in nomination by
the Harrisburg Convention, answers our
purpose so well, that we publish it for the
benefit of our readers. We had promis
ed in last week's issue a more extended
notice of the candidates. 'lt will be seen
by the character given and "antecedents"
of the gentlemen, that our intimation as
to their eminent fitness for the respective
offices for which they are placed in nomi
nation was made advisedly. The hearty
and universal endorsement by the anti-Ad
ministration journals of the State, as well
as the cordial acquiescence of the masses,
abundantlx attest the truth of our declara
tion, and gave no doubt that what wu
ventured as a guess, is now settled as a
fact, wanting only time for its complete
fulfillment. We were neither surprised
nor disappointed at the result of the Con
vention, or the lively and eager spirit with
which the people have come forth to rati
fy its doings. We knew, that as in the
days of our forefathers, .€a long train of
abuses and usurpations, pursuing invaria
bly the same object, evincing a design to
reduce the people under absolute despot
ism ;" that it was their duty and their
right to "throw off such a government
and to provide new guards for their future
security ;" and that the time had now ful
-4 come, and that they were prepared and
determined do so at whatever cost of long
cherished party associations or personal
sacrifice. 'They are eager to rebuke their
betrayers and vindicate their own political
integrity. The concentration of the voters
of Pennsylvania upon the support of the
ticket at the head of our paper is natural
and will be overwhelming.
Our enemies already feel it and hence
the venomous and ribald assaults upon the
dignified body that placed them in nomina
tion ; having no higher mission just now
than the universal spread of human bond
age, and the deliberate murder of poor de
fenceless men and children in our Terri
tories, their tactics and their cause are ma
liciously in harmony. The honest men
and honorable independent voters that will
rally to support this ticket, that once
were found in the ranks of our opponents
feel, and justly too, that adhesion any lon
ger to the men and measures of the Bor
der Ruffian faction involves a responsibili
ty which they cannot and will not volunta
rily assume. In the triumphat election of
this ticket, in October next will be recor
ded the obliteration of the last shadowy
and murky rays of the present Administra
tion, which linger and are seen but taintly
on the clouds now overhanging the sun
set of its powers.
Buchanan Bidding for the Presidency!
We copy the following letter of Mr. Bu
chanan's from the Washington Union. In
relation to the Slavery question, he soya
'The question has beau settled by CongreFs, '
and this settlement should be inflexibly main
tained. The Missouri Compromise is gone,and
gone forever. But no assault should be made
upon those democrats who maintained it, pro
vided they are now willing in good faith to main
tain the settlement as it exists. Such au under.
standing is wise and just in itself.
"It is well known how I labored in company
with Southern men to have this lino extended
to the Pacific. But it has departed. The time
for it has passed away, and I verily believe that
the best, nay, the only, mode now left of putting
down the fanatical and reckless spirit of Isbell
tion at the North is to adhere to the existing
settlement without the slightest thought or ap
pearance of wavering, and without regarding
any storm which may be raised against it." .
Down goes another one of the dirt eaters.
“Pennsylvania's noble son," as the Democ
racy used to call Buchanan, has bowed to
the great idol—has done as Pierce, Douglas
and all the rest have done—eaten his own
words—and the same thing that a few
years ago he labored hard to prove blank,
he now labors equally hard to prove white.
Buchanan wants the Presidency—Pierce I
and Douglas have thus far outbid Mtn for
it and he is now making up lost time. Ho
gets down into the mud with a facility and
ease that would astonish any one that did
not know the plastic, limbos material of
which Locofoco statesmen are made.
How the man talks of 'Um reckless and
fanatical spirit at the North," as though
the North was responsible for the present
agitation on the subject of slavery, as the ,
Stringfellow, Atchison and their supporters
were a company of abused and persecuted
men—meek as lambs and innocent as doves
—as though the North was in all cases the
aggressor and was full of fire-eaters, men
who would think no mo , v of invading the
South, setting the negroes free, and dissol
ving the Union than they would of eating
their breakfasts. Verily, Buchanan has
got lower down than we thought he would,
for ao magnificent a price as the Presidency.
Ho, for Kansas --The Buffalo:Adverti
ser of Saturday evening, says :
"Seventy good substantial New England en,
igrauts passed through our city on Tuesday of
this week, en route for Kansas. They were
ticketed from Now Slaves by the N. Y.
dr C. Road to this place. From this place.—
From this point they were forwarded to St.
Louis by Cleaveland, Crestline, Bellfontnine
and Indianapolis." A largo troop was to start
front Cleaveland yesterday, going via Chicle.
nnti and the River to St. Louie. Eight from
this place will join that crowd, and all go well
prepared fur any emergency that may arise.—
All success attend them.—San Beg.
Push them on. Now that the Democ
racy have given in their adherence to the
slave powers of the General Government
to further its plans, the only way to save
the territories is to populate them with the
right kind of men. Send on Free State
men.
More Outrages.
"The St. Louis Denment/ states that Free
State emigrants for Kansas, can venture by the
river route, in case they go in email numbers,
and keep their purpose secret; in other words,
in case they go in companies of two or three,
and profess to be proedavery men, they may
travel on board Missouri river oats without he•
ing thrown overboard."
Nice country this, where a man cannot
be permitted to go where he phases, with
whatever purpose he pleases and professing
whatever opinions he really feels, without .
running a chance of being hung. It seems
as though the very spirit of madness pos-
sessed the slave propagandists. Having
upon their hands a system to defend, so ut
terly heinous that not an argument founded
upon right can be given to sustain it, they
are determined to uphold it and forward it
by force. The same means used in the old
countries to uphold tyranny, are applied
here. Freedom of speech, of thought and
action, is prohibited under penalty of pun
ishment as severe as would be meted out
out to the vilest malefaetor--the rights of
person and property are trampled upon—
no man can even travel in safety without
descending to subterfuge. Verily, Slavery
is a beautiful institution.
Late reports from Kansas show that the
Border Ruffians are as rampant as ever.
Anodic' ' r outrage has been committed by
these desperadoes upon the person of Mr.
Samuel Taylor, of New York, an account
of which we extract from the Buffalo Ex
press, as it was narrated to that paper by
Mr. T. himself. That paper says :
"Mr. Taylor tells his own storysomething af
ter this manner. He took thesteamer Omaha,
at the city of Leavenworth, for St. Louis: It
happened that Gov. Robinson and Gen. Lane
had taken passage on the same boat, ou their
way to Washington. The trip went along very•
well until the boat reached Brunswick, Mo.,
when the spies who now infest the steamers, to
scent out the Abolitionists, as they call them,
discovered that Governor Robinson was ou
board, but had not the means of identifying
him. The fact that the Governor of Kansas
was there, was commuuicat ed on shore, whose
party, headed by a son of the Governor of Mk
'mud, boarded the boat and made search for
him. Soon "after Taylor was pointed out
to them as the governor, he bearing some
slight personal resemblance to him. This was
sufficient—he was seined and dragged on shore
in spite of his protestations that he was no Go.
vernor.
There he found in waiting for him arope and
other implements belonging to the Court of
Judge Lynch. The rabble, which had eollec•
ted un shore, demanded that he should be hung
at once us a d—d Abolitionist, and prepare:
tions for such an accomplishment seemed to be
going on with more rapidity than was pleasant
to our friend who desired to see his friends in
the Empire State once snore. He produced
papers to prove his identity. The first was a
letter from Hon. Thomas Corwin, of Ohio.—
That was sufficient—Corwin was an Abolition•
ist and so was he. Ho ought to be hung for
knowing Tons Corwin. Finally he produced a
paper from Robert J. Walker, and some Wes.
tern Governor, and that seemed to satisfy the
Missourians that they had got "the wrong pig
by the ear" this time. He was permitted to
return on board. thankful for a longer lease of
life and glad when the boat shoved off and was
once more under way.
A day of reckoning will come for the
scoundrels yet. Such outrages may be
committed with impunity for a time, but
justice will triumph in the end.
New York and New England Given up.
The Pennsylvanian deplores, in most
piteous terms, the steady advance of the
Republican sentiment, and admits that
New England and New York are gone.—
.t says :
"So general is this sentiment [tit e Republi•
can in the State north of us, that many pro.
fessmg the Democratic name arc infected and
the masses generally even those not organized
in the Black Republican party, are borne away
by the popular current. It is a melancholy
contusion to make, but the Democracy—or
what ought to be the Democracy—in those
States, is at this time generally defeated by
Black Republicanism : or is disorganized by
the Freesoilism within its own ranks. There
are thousands, of course who have not bowed
the knee to the deluded and temporarily mis•
led. For Illustration, what New Englund
State would sustain by its vote a sound plat
form like ours of the 4th of March ? Would
New York even? New Jersey we think might
for she seems to be orthodox : but what oth•
ers?"
The Pennsylvanian seems to think that
Pennsylvania even is danger, if Mr. Buch
anan is not nominated. In enforcing tiro
propriety of Buchanan's nomination, it
says :
"But we do not wish to run any risk. We
think that it is very unwise in our fellow Dem
ocrats of other States to ask us to run the risk
especially as their own interests—the interests
of the Democracy of the whole Union—
nay, the very Union itself—are so deeply invol
ved ; for if Black Republicanism carries
Pennsylvania, in the campaign, the Union will
assuredly be in peril."
. .
Recollect that the ' , Black Republican"
party, which so alarms the Pennsylvanian
has not been one year in this organized ex
istence in Pennsylvania.
Sell lie. --It is said that a Yacht--a
"crack sailer," about to cross the Atlan
tic from England for the purpose of com
peting with the Yankees. We would fain
imitate our neighbor across the water in
magnanimity. He frankly acknowledged
the corn when our STEERS proved more
than a match for the Bull, but we fear that
crew of the coming yacht will partake
slightly of the character of the craft they
man--in other words, that they are crack
(or rather cracked) sailors likewise for at
tempting the task of beating tho Yan
kees.
llob-Nob,—Fillmore and l'io Nono have
been hob-knobbing at Rome. Some of our
intense Know Nothings object to this, be
cause they have once read in a dictionary
of quotations :
"We first endure, then pity, then embrace—
Purr!"
Another Anti-Slavery Movement,
Tho western portion of the State of Tex
as, is settled almost exclusively by French,
Germans, Swiss, Hungarians, &c., and no
slavery exists among them. This portion
of the State, feeling the burden that they
are bearing, are about making an effort to
have the State divided, with theintention
of making a Free State out of the western
half. The N. Orleans Creole says :
"They are increasing, and to a man, nre op
posed to Slavery ; they are drilling for the con.
test, and already boast of having ten thousand
voters. The strutgle for a division will soon
commence and although natives of the State
would like to see a division, yet they fete .o test
the question. But whether they move or not.
the foreigners will move for them, and bring on
the issue. The longer the natives of the State
delay action on this subject, the worse it will
be for them ; for, their opponents are gathering
numerical strength, and will, doubtless, over
whelm them sooner or later."
The German portion of our population
North and South nre really bitter enemies
of the pet institution of Locofocoism—sla
very, and if the facts were but put before
them properly would do nothing to extend
it. True, they have usually acted with
the Democracy—many of them in Hun
tingdon County did so last fall—but it was
only because they were most outrageously
deceived. They were made to believe that
the only issue involved in the campaign
was Know Nothingism—that the Demo
cratic party was the only anti-slavery or.
ganization existing. Many were taken in
by this gull -trap, and believing them, voted
with them, but they have ere this, found
out the mistake they made. The decided
stand that the Administration has taken on
the subject of slavery ; the fact that it has
used and is using its whole power to per
petuate and strengthen the accursed insti
tution, has opened their eyes to the posi
tion they occupied and they are leaving
their deceivers by scores.
A prominent German citizen of Cincin
nati, declares that those who seek to estab
lish negro slavery in Kanzas, would not he
sitate, if an opportunity offered, to enslave
the Germans of Texas—that slavery in nny
form was the worst enemy to the foreign
born citizen. And there are thousands of
foreigners in Pennsylvania who believe
with him.
We invite•the attention of our German
friends to the following extract front the
Richmond Enq virer, the organ of Locofo
coism in Virginia :
"Differences of race, lineage, of language, of
habits and customs, all tend to render the in
stitution more natural and durable, nod altho'
slaves hero been generally u•/tiles, still the tttas•
/ets and slaves have generally been of direrent
national descent. Moses and Aristotle, the ear
liest historians, Mt both authorities is favor of
this direrence of rare, but not of color. That
is, slavery is necessary, but it is not necessary
that our slaves must be negroes. Germ., fr
ish, or any national descent different from ours
would do just exactly as well. We would ns
soon have white slaves as black ones."
In the above extract the true position of
the Pierce Democracy mny be seen. Sla•
very first, last and forever. Black slave
ry if possible, but slavery at all events.—
Read it Germans, and see how it tallies
with what they told you last fall.
Let our naturalized citizens be true to
their own interests, and they will not hes
itate to abandon forever, a party that enter
tains such opinion as are avowed in the
above extract ; from one of the groat or
gans of modern Democracy.
The City Architect.—This is a series
of original designs for dwelling, &e.—
Do Witt & Davenport, publishers, 160 &
102 Nassau St., N. Y.
A work like this will be of great belle.
fit to those who employ the services of a
professional architect, as well as to those
who are compelled, or who may prefer
to make their own plans or designs; for it
will enable them to guard against decep•
tion, and prevent them from being imposed
upon by unprincipled contractors, or in
competent builders. Finally, this is a
work that should be in the hands of every
one who is about to build a house, or wish
es to make improvements in one already
built.
The work will be completed in Twenty
Numbers, at 60 cents a number, and will
be issued monthly.
The Next State Fair.—At a meeting of
the Executive Committee of the Pennsyl
vania State Agricultural Society, held at
Harrisburg last Tuesday, a committee was
appointed to receive proposals for holding
the next State Fair. This Committee,
consisting of Robert C. Walker, George
Buchor, John S. !sett, John P. Ruther
ford, and A. Boyd Hamilton.
The Camels areComing.—Tho post
of this country will by and by be carried
on by a epectes of happy Family. The
Government is importing a number of Ca
mels to carry letters over the Western de
serts. These united with the asses and
sloths at the head of affairs, will give us a
perfect museum of Post officials,
Strange if 'fruC.:li:is rumored in this
place that a gentleman addressed a letter
toe friend in Philadelphia a few days ago,
and that the latter actually received the
same within the following week. We do
not believe a word of it.
SnoWo—%Ve had quite a snow storm on
Sunday and Monday. Miss Spring, if
you are going to come why don't you come
along.
•IVatehiman, Tell Us of the Night."
People of II untingdon County, you de
sire to know the true state of political par
ties, we will tell you without a prelimina
ry remark, that the organization of parties
is now complete. As yet, however, only
the pro-Slavery, or Southern wing of the
American party, has taken the field with its
candidates. The Republican party, and
the Slave Democgtcy, have each appointed
their National Conventions, and in due
time we shall have the candidates of their
choice before the country. We will not
speculate upon the probable selections.—
They will doubtless reflect the principles
of their several parties, and thus will be
joined before the country—we may say be
fore the world—the issue between indefin
ite Slavery Extension, and the Restriction
of Slavery to its present limits, with an at
tempt to bring back the country to the pol
icy shadowed forth by the Constitution it
self, and everywhere, in their speeches
and in their writings, proclaimed by the
fathers of the Republic. In this latter
work, as heretofore, we expect to lend the
help of willing hands, hoping only that our
efforts may be equal to our will.
Of the candidates before the country—
Messrs. Fillmore and Donnelson—we are
under no necessity of declaring our opin
ion, or of defining our relations. '('heir
position is understodd by simply naming
the source of their nomination. Brought
forward by the pro-Slavery influence of the
country, North and South, they stand an
tagonistical to Freedom and Republican
ism. So fur as the North is concerned,
they have no chance of carrying a single
State; and if they should carry Delaware,
Maryland, Kentucky and Tennessee, it
will be all their friends have a right now
to calculate on. And this result, instead of
weakening the prospects of the Republi
can wing, will only tend to strengthen them
and increase the chances of its candidates
of nn election by the Colleges.
In regard to nominations yet t, be made
by the several parties, we have only to re
peat, let the future toke care of itself. We
have full confidence in the moderation and
wisdom of the friends of freedom in the
different States ; and if the Slave Democ
racy feel satisfied to rest upon the action
of the Cincinnati Convention, we see no
reason to find fault.
Without, at this time, entering more ful
ly into detail, having from different points
looked over the whole ground, we pro
nounce the prospect ahead decidedly flat
tering and cheering. We bid our friends
gird on anew their armor.
Insurgent Meeting.
The confirming meeting of the rebel.
lious members of the American party of
this county, held at the Court House, was
a fair exhibit of the wicked shifts, to which
men are always driven when they attempt
to propagate and sustain falsehodil and
fraud—and proved clearly that to propa
gate and maintain slave law in Kansas, it
is-necessary to establish gag law in Penn
sylvania. Al the meeting a resolution was
offered, to adopt the insurgent Presidential
tioket, which the American newspaper
bears at its head. When this resolution
was offered, a gentleman present, rose to
address the meeting, but was interrupted
; by the mover, who asked the speaker if he
I intended to sustain the nominations; and
on being informed that ho did not intend to
sustain the nominations lately made at Phi
ladelphia, but would, if allowed, proceed
to b how that those nominations were pro.
cured by gross fraud ; and that the insur
gent ticket set up by the Americans had
really no more than 31 votes from the
whole of the free States put together. The
insurgents became alarmed, lost their fraud
should become known to the people, and
commenced shouting, screaming, yelling,
stamping, and clapping, sons to drown the
voice of the speaker, and continued this
uproar, until the speaker, finding it vain to
hope fur quiet, gave up the attempt of ad
dressing the meeting—the president and
vice-presidents of the meeting all the titne
maintaining u dignified silence. The gen
tleman who offered to address the meeting,
was the only person present who was in
the Convention at Philadelphia. and was
therefore the only person in the meeting
who could eve any account of the Phila
delphia Convention from his own personal
observations.
It is, however, fully manifest, that the
"Huntingdon American," and a few other
small village papers have thought proper
to place themselves in open insurrection a
gainst the known will of the great body of
the American order in the free States; and
are laboring so to jivide and weaken the
vote in some loCalities, as to defeat the
whole party in the coming election for Pre
sident; insolently setting up a small fac
tion of a few thousand voters, as having
a right to dictate to the fifty millions of
freemen, who compose this mighty order.
Public Documents.—We aro indebtod
to lion. S. A. Douglass and Hon. J. It Ed,
iu for documents from Washington.
Also to Messrs. Wintrudeand Cresswel,
of the Pa. Legislature, for papers.
Say ?--Mr. Jones of the 4 , 1401. Regis
ter," did you intend the allusions in your
last paper as direct insults to us 2
Plalj o ßfulli from an Irishman.
Spruce Cretk, April in, 185.
Ma. Enrrous :—I have seen the enclosed
artieleis a Western paper. Belonging to the
A nierican party myself. I wish you to give it
a place in your American paper, the Journal;
no I suppose the other paper, called the Amon.
ran, would not publish it as I see it has gone
over to the Papist Church.
_
Mr. J. Crawford, editor of the Protestant
American, published at Aberdeen, Miss., is an
Irishman by birth, an accomplished scholar,
and a fearless and eloquent writer. Ito took
strong ground in favor of the American party,
and. having been violently denounced for this
by the editor of the. Florence (Ala.) Gazette,
he made a powerful and overwhohning response
from which we take these paragraphs. Many
foreign bore citizens might road them with
profit and edification :
You charge against tts that we conduct a
Know Nothing Journal. Did it ever strike
you, sir, as possible, that the principles 'Ave ad
vocate in this paper, and which you fear will
arouse the indignation of your readers, ore the
principles we held many years be/'ore the Know
Nothings had an existence?—that wo have not
gone to them, but that they have rouse to us 7
that front the circumstances of our foreign
birth we knew the force and necessity of one
great vital doctrine of the American pasty
long before circumstances forced it upon their
attent Mb so strongly that they cannot avoid it 7
—they must meet it and crush it, or be crush
ed by it.
It would be of considerable advantage to
you, air, if, relinquishing your present Quixo
tic battle against the American party, you
would go and see for yourself what popery is
where she has the power. You are nowrun
ning a muck' with all the fury of ass exaspera
ted Thug against Know Nothing newspapers—
suppose you wipe your dripping brow and let
your panting system cool and get a little infor
mation on the subject of Popery with power in
her hands. It will teach you charity for the
opinions of those you oppose. It will give yon
time to practice your native politeness;
and
you may cease to call us serf, slate, sycop hant,
because we choose to set our face "like n flint"
against a system which ourselves not the bod
ies, but worse, infinitely worse—than souls and
minds, the hopes, the tears of its votaries.
, •
But let us look at the charge. What is the
crime? 1, no Irish Protesant, and found act•
ing with n party whose leading object is to a•
bolish the temporal power of poperyi am there.
fore crusading against my own countrymen !
Shade of commA' sense, what ails the man ?
Did you expect me, sir, to aid, either with my
pen or voice a system which has hunted my
fathers to the dungeon and the gibbet; which
gave them the rack, for argument; which Oa.
coil on their legs the iron boot, nod drove in
wedge after wedge till the marrow overran this
Popish argument;(l) which, huddling women
and children into a house, applied the torch
and caught therm as they rushed madly out
ou the headt‘of their iron pikes. With what
party, pray, Amid I be? Just where I am,
sir, with the American party, because it has
raised it., mighty arm and sworn by Ifim who
liveth forever and ever that such schemes shall
never be enacted on American soil.
What is my crime 1 That at a time when
half a million Roman Catholics—the blind tools
of designing foreign priests—are pouring an.
totally upon our shores, I, no MA Protestant,
when the press is placed at Inv disposal, should
cry "There is danger—for God's sake protect
yourself while you can. I knew them, where
they burned Bibles, they murdered heretics,
they set the law of the land at defiance, and
would obey no law of' the Church." T his is
my crime! This my only crime ! Awl for
this I am called slave sycophant, and ahject.--
And by whom? An American Protestant !
A man whose anteaters periled all for freedom
to worship God." How long will that freedom
last when Popery becomes, numerically,
prom? Sot all hour. How often would you,
to Florence, tisit the Methodist Chapel, if the
Pope could prevent it, (and he is only waiting
numerical strength.) Ah sir, there would be
no chapel there—the thunders of the Vatican
would raze it "from turret to foundation stone"
just ns soon ns it had subjects enough to curry
out its behests.
TO BRIDGE BUILDERS.
Proposals will be received by the County
Commissioners at their office in Huntingdon
up to 12 o'clock on the 9th day of May, 1856,
for rebuilding the bridge across the Juniata ri
ver at Huntingdon, which was blown down by
the late storm.
Persons are requested to examine the abut
ments and pier and sec to what extent they are
injured, and bid accordingly. Plan and speci
fications can be seen at the Commissioners' of
fice. By ord.. of Commissioners.
HENRY W. MILLER, Oa*.
April 23, at.
BY EXPRESS. -
ji„ , : rz s A 3 It VA L
SPRING AND SUMMER
GOODS
o.
Are just receiving and apcning one of the fin.
est assortments of Goods ever ()tiered to the cit.
teens of this place, as follows
Clothes, dissirriers, Satinetts,-Vestings, Cot
ton Goods for Summer wear ; also. ebonies, Be
rages, Lawns nod Prints, and every other article
necessary for the Ladles. A splendid lot of
Black Silk, Ladies' striped and barred Silk,
Muslin, Liunen Goods, nod iu fact every article
of wearing apparel necessary for ladles.
Hosiery and rangy Goods.
Also all kinds of Dress Trimmings,
C o mbs, Ribiten‘, Bair Braids, Dress Caps, and
every othor article usually kept in a country
store.
Straw Hats of the latest styles, Silk, Crape
and Straw Bonnets.
HATS & CAPS,
of tho latest styles, nod of every color.
HOOTS & SHOES,
Our stock of Boots and Shoes cannot ho boat as
for quality sod cheapness of prices ; it is un
doubtedly the finest in ton•o—no exception.
CARPETS, and Oil Cloths.
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A splendid assortment of Carpets, Duggits and
Oil Cloths.
HARDWARE,
The best assortment in town, not excepting the
"Hardware establishment," 1.111,i at lower prices.
QUEENSWARE, GROCERIES,
Tobacco, Cigars,
WILLOW WARE, die.
Cedar-Ware, Ropes, Cords and every variety of
Goods, such as are usually kept in a country
store, can be had by calling at the Cheap Store
of .1. & W. SAXTON.
A very good article of black ere', Herring, Cod
fish, Hams, Shoulders, nod Dried Beef, Just re
ceived and fur sale at the cheap corner opposite
the Post Office, known as the store of
J. & W. SAXTON.
Umbrellas and Parasols, of a now style, Just
received and for sale by J. & W. SAXTON.
Carpet Bags, Fans, and Ladles' Dress Collars
of evilly variety, and most beautiful styles, for
sale by J. & W. SAXTON.
The finest assortment of Fancy Cassimers ev
er ollered ; also vesting, Coat Cassiniers, and at
lower prices than can be purchased at any other
house in town, for sale by J. & W. SAXTON.
Huntingdon. April 16, 1866.
Fousit.—A Gold Ear-Bing, apply at this of.
flee.
RETAILERS OF MERCHANDISE
CLASSIFICATION OF MERCHANTS IN
Huntingdon County by the Appraiser of Mer
chantilo Taxes, for the year commencing the
first day of May, 1850.
Atexandriaßoro cf , Porter Tp. CLASS. AMOUNT.
George C. Botcher, 13 $lO Ott
II my C. Walker, 13 10 00
Charles Porter, 13 10 00
William Moore, 14 7 00
Satnuel Hatlteld, 14 7 00
Joseph Green & Co., 14
John It. Gregory, 14
Murree Township.
Samuel W. Dayton, 14
John C. Couch, 14
James C. Walker, 14
Stewart Foster, 14
.George W. Julipston, & Cu., 14
firmly Township,
Madden 84 Eby, 12
Irvin, Green & Co., 14
Cass Tp . If , Cassville Borough.
Peter M. Bore, 14
Beans & Brother, 14
James Henderson, 14
Joseph P. Heaton, 14
Clay Township.
T. B. Orhison & Co., 13
James Glasgow, 14
Cromwell Township.
Thomas E. Orbison, 13
David Ittnier, 14
George Sipes, 14
loath Wigton & Co., 13
Sheffler& Son, 14
... ...
Dublin' Township.
Blair & Robison, 13
Andrew Wilson, 14
James Cree, Jr., 14
Franklin Township.
J. 'Wareham Matters, 13
Samueladattern, 14
Shorb, Stewart & Co., 13
John S. Isett, 14
G. & J. H. Shoenberger, 11
Hun/int/don Borouvit.
Fisher & McM.urtrie, 12
J. & W. Saxton, 12
George Owls, 12
Benjamin Jacobs, ' 14
W. & J. Carmon, 13
J. Bricker, 14
E. Snare, 14
Joseph Reiger, 14
A. 11 illoughby, 14
J. Snyder, 14
L. Westbrook, 14
Long & Decker, 14
Henry Roman, 14
Hartley & Co., 14
Moors Straus, 14
J. Brown & Bro., • 14
David P. Coin, 13
William Colon, 14
Hopewell Township.
David & William Fisher & Co. '
14
David Fester, 14
.kekson Township.
Robert Meßurney, 14
John A. Wright & Co., 13
Joseph Porter, 14
Johnston & Michell, 14
Elias Musser, • 14
George E. I.ittle, 14
Willimo 11. Harper, 14
James Magill, 14
Morris Township.
George H. Steiner, 13
William Davis, 14
Reid & Hammer, 14
Owen & Cronies, 14
Joseph Law, 14
Irvin & Green 14
Tenn limiahip.
David 11. Campbell, 14
Samuel Wall, 14
Shirley 2p., cf. Shirleystury lio.
Beltzhoover & Bossier, 14
Oliver Etuier 14
John & J. Efiy, 13
John W. Smith, 13
John Bare, 14
Samuel Eby, 14
William B. Lena, 13
John Long & Cu., I 3
J. G. Lightner, • 14
S. L. Glasgow, '
14
John 11. L. ,
uditner,
i' ' 14
.pin Wield township.
Blair, Luekel Co., 14
Sipes & Comm.'', 14
l'e// Township.
A. C. A J. 11. Blair, 14
George Noss, 14
A. C. Blair,
... 14
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Tod frownskiii,
Amos Clark,
Aaron Sheeder,
Levi Evans,
Kessler, Whitney A Co.,
James Dunn, •
James Edwards,
McGuire A Port,
Walker 7inenship.
:Stephan & Moore,
Joseph Douglass,
Warriormark Tp., tf Birming.
ham Borough.
James Clarke,
A. P. Kinney,
11. F. Patton,
O. Gayer, Jr.,
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S. Fox,
West 7p. If . Petersburg Bars.'
John Hewitt, Jr.,
Henry Neff,
Benjamin Hartman,
John Cresswell & Son,
Samuel D. Myton,
John B. Hunter,
Union Township,
Thane Zimmerman,
Medicines,
Huntingdon Borough.
John flood,
Brady Township.
James J John McDonald, 9
Barret Township.
Robert Massey, 9
Breweries:
itlexandrk Borough.
limey Fockler, 9
Ifuntingdon Borough.
John Fodder, 9
. . ..,,,
Mills.
Hunlingdon Borough.
Fisher & Uelslurtrie, 14 V 00
Shirley Tow:whip.
George Eby, l4 7 00
Akrandria Borough.
John Oemmill,
,14 7 00
An appeal will ho held by the undersigned at
any time up to the 15th day ofJuly at the Com.
missioners' Office. Persons wishing to appeal
will please apply within the thee prescribell, as
the law prohibits any appeal after that time.
HENRY W. MILLER.
APPraiser, dr.
Notice is hereby given that all Lincenses not
lifted previous to or during the August Court,
will bo left in the hands of a Justice of Peace
for collection. A. It. CM:IWO,
Hunt. April 16, MG. County Treasurer.
Notice.
The Books for subscription to the stook of
the Lewistown & Stone Valley Turnpike Road
Company, will be opened at the Store of Rob
•rt Mcßurney, McAlovy's Fort, on Monday
the Rh day of .May next.
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