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1.1.11 AM BREWSTER, EDITORS.
• M. G. WHITTAKER.
lednesday Morning, August 20, 1856.
Forever float that standard sheet,
Where breathes the foe but fallsbefore us,
With Freedom's soil beneath our feet,
And Freedom's banner streaming oierusl"
FOR PRESIDENT,
JOHN C. FREMONT,
OF CALIFORNIA.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
WM. L. DAYTON,
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER.
TZOICAS E. COWMAN,
OF YORK COUNTY.
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL,
DARWIN PELIIIRS,
Missocat.—ln this State three candidates
were run for Governor—Benton, anti-Benton,
and American. The contest was between the
two latter, and Polk, the anti-Benton Democrat
is elected. F. P. Blair, Jr., Republican, has
been elected to Congress from the St. Louis dis
trict. The Democrats have a majority of the
other offices.
ARICANSAS.—The Democrats have carried
, this State by 5000 majority, and both Congress-
Jean MeCoLLoon, Chairman. I men
Isaac Neff, I Wm. Rothrock,
OP ARMSTRONG COUNTY.
FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL.
EARTEOLdrgEW LAPORTE,
OF BRADFORD COUNTY.
LICAN REPUBLICAN
MIRITTEE.
FREMONT AMERI
COUNTY CO
James Morrow,
Peter Swoope,
E. B. Wilson,
Ralph Crotsley,
Robert Baird,
Charles Mickley,
S. Wigton,
John Grafflust
J. A. Hall,
John Laport,
Wm. Brewster,
David Stever,
Joseph Curiman,
Henry Hudson,
Isaac Taylor,
Jonathan McWilliams
Wm. M. Lloyd,
Peter Shaver, Jr.
Robert R. Andrews,
Benjamin F. Glasgow,
Daniel Neff, Sen.,
' Lorenzo Tate,
Bike X. Blair,
John Bare,
Tease Smith,
Wm. Smith,
George Wilson,
S. Miles Green,
Andrew Myton,
I John Baker.
'..Mmuel Thompson,
John A. Doyle,
S. L. Disavow,
lior v Robinson,
1 .7ir.. Wl,toll,
m rtnner,
1 Shade,
!attern,
J. V.'.
Aaron
Alex.hri
OS,
bt..;LEGATE MEETING.
Th tkik•gate meetings will be held in
he d ffere ut places of holding the same on
Saturday the 30th day of August.
COUNTY CONVENTION
The County Convention tvill be held in
this borough, at o'clock, P.M., of
Tuesday, the 2d day of September.
CALL FOR A REPUBLICAN COUNTY
CONVENTION.
At a meeting of the members of the Repuhli
. ‘n County Committee, Laid in Huntingdon
ah Augu, •;esuonee of the pub .
,• ',ration the tuition
•1 m of 'lir pre•
r the course o f
title it to re•
t Fremont and
Fre., . ;;; al the October
:ie. following preamble and resolutions
were unanimously adopted:
returns, Notwithstanding the declaration
.•tado at the former alerting of this Committee,
that it was not the design nor the wish of the
friends of free Kansas and Fremont in our
comity to build up an exclusive party at the
expense of distracting and dividing the forces
of the opposition to Buchanan, unless forced to
that course by the friends of Mr. Fillmore ; ac
companied by the humble request that in its
deliberations the American Convention should
pursue a conciliatory course and agreeably to
the call published for the election of delegates
to that Convention addressed to "all the oppo•
aition of the present National Administration,"
should not attempt rattily to preclude any in
dividual belonging to that "eppoeition" from
liking part either in the delegate elections or
.in the salon of the Convention, by reason of
any difference of opinion existing amongst us !
on the great national question ; it appears that
an entire different course than we Race, for
and had a right to expect, was pursued by tire
American party, and not only were the friends ;
of Mr. Fremont excluded from participating
in the election of delegates in the several die.
tricts where Mr. Fillinore's friends seemed to
axe in the majority, but where delegates were
elected by Fremout men, and they were known
to be such, they were ejected from the Conven•
tion, and the declaration openly made and car- I
tied out, that no candidate should be put on
nomination by the Convention unless pledged
to support Mr. Fillmore. Not content with
this gross and open insult to a large portion of
the citizens of the county, who were willing to
act as heretofore with them on the State elec
tion, the adherents of Mr. Fillmore, in their
asperation over the waning cause of their can
didate, on the adjournment of their Convention,
to show their feelings in reference to free
speech and free discussion, even carried out
opposition so far as to interrupt and disturb
the peaceable meeting of our friends assembled
in the public square by previous notice, by en•
deavonng to drown the voices of our speakers
in boisterous shouting and music from a hired
band. Truly was it well said "That whom the
gods wish to destroy they first make mad."
We held the olive branch out to them, and al
most too humbly asked for a conciliating feel
ing in reference to the fusion on the national
question, and no otherconrse now remains, but
to organize in every township in the county
and furor a distinct and separate party, and
form a ticket to be supported by the (needs of
free. Kansas, free speech and Fremont.
nevelore be it Resolved, Thatour friends be
.• sioesuel to meet iu their several townships
asel districts, at the usual places of electing
t,:, , gatee and at the usual hour on Saturday,
tie 30th day of Aupuut inst., and elect two
detrTatee each, who will meet at the Court
il ese, in the borough of Huntingdon, on Tues.
th.e 3d day of September next, and proceed
vs .nrm a county ticket composed of our friends
to be supported at our next October election,
and elect Heoatorial and Congressional conferees
to meet the Republican Conferees of Blair and
Cambria counties at Altoona and Johnstown,
at such time es may be hereafter fixed on,
ay.:laminate a Senator and Member of Congress,
gid 11. spit ether tiiiags as way es required.
Resolved, That we earnestly request the
friends of our cause in Blair and Cambria
counties to have Senatorial Conferees appoin•
ted in their respective counties, on or before
the meeting of our Convention, that no delay
may be had in forming a ticket.
Resolved, Mat in starting out with a new
and distinct Republican organization, it is ne•
cessury that one ticket should he formed of the
best of material, and our friends are requested
to select their best men as delegates.
. _
Itesolred, That it is the du't'y of the friends
of our cause to organize clubs in the different
townships and boroughs in the county, whose
duty it shell be to distribute proper information
amongst the people and see that every friend
of free Kansas attends the polls in October
and November, armed with the proper ballot.
Signed by the Committee, and two hundred
citizens of the county.
SifirWe omit the names for want of room. al
SIGNS,'PORTENTIOUS SIGNS,
THE RECENT ELECTIONS.
Elections have been held this month in Ken-
tucky, Missouri, Arkansas, North Carolina, Al
abama and lowa. The following is the result:
KENTUCIEY.—We have returns from sixty
nine counties of the State, and they show a De
mocratic gain of about 10,000. The remaining
counties will show additional gains for the same
party. Last year the Americans carried the
State by 4,500 majority.
NORM CAROLINA. --There is a Democratic
majority
_of 8000 for Governor, and the Legis
lature is also strongly the same way. This inn
gain of about 6000 from the last year.
ALAnams.—The returns received indicate
that this State has gone largely Democratic.
lowa.—The Republican majority will reach
8000. Every county going for the Republicans
but one. All the Congressmen and members
of the Legislature are Republicans.
Before the election, the Fillmore men confi
dently claimed that they would carry Kentucky,
Arkansas, North Carolina, and perhaps Alaba
ma. In each of them they have been routed
"horse, foot and dragoons," and we cannot see
where they have a foothold left to stand upon.
In this faith they appealed to the voters of the
North to stand by their candidate, and hun
dreds of them did so in the belief of the repro
sentations thus made. The result is now before
them, and instead of success, they have been
overwhelmed by a crushing defeat. There is
no use shutting our eyes to this thing. The
fact is, Mr. Fillmore is no where as a candidate,
and his continuance in the field can only inure
Ito the benefit of Buchanan. Thousands of vo
ters regard his position in this light, and as
Itheir first purpose is to defeat Buchanan, they
will rally to the standard of FREE KANSAS
end FREMONT. Every day witnesses such
accessions as these, and before the election day
comes round we will see a universal popular
sentiment going up from the whole North in
support ofthe People's Candidates, and in con
demnation of the aggressive policy of the Slave
Power of the country. The contest in the na
tion is between Freedom and Slavery, as rep
resented by Fremont and Buchanan, and the
vcters of the country must choose between the
two. There is no neutral ground in the con
test—no halfway house where the timid may
take their ease and temporise upon the subject.
We want MEN and we want ACTION.—Men
who have warm blood in their veins, and such
Action es still lead to results. Be wise in time
• and heed the portentious signs that are before
us.
FIRST GUN FOR FREEDOM
HUZZA FOR lOWA !
The little State of lowa held her elections
for members of Congress and Legislature, on
the sth inst. In 1852, General Pierce had
the electoral vqte of the State over General
Scott, by something like a thousand majority.
Now the tables are turned—the flood has bro•
ken loose, and the administration party aro
swept away completely. The majority for the
Republicans in the State will be near 800011
lowa elects but two members of Congress,—
this is equal to fifty thousand majority in
Pennsylvania!
The State of lowa adjoins Nebraska Terri.
tory, and is the nearest free State to Kansas.
Buchanan men have claimed the states nearer
to "Kansas outrages." If this be true, the ad.
vocates of Slavery Extension and "Missouri
Sovereignty," will make but a poor show in
Pennsylvania and New England.
•' How brightly breaks the Morn.•
FREMONT,
We have received many lists of names, from
different parts of the county, approving of the
call for a Republican county convention. We
have only room to give a few.
From Cass township, a call with 40 names
attached.
From Cromwell, a call with 30 names head
ed by R. B. Wigton, Daniel Teague, J. E.
Thompson, T. Anderson, F. Herman, &c.
From Mt. Union, 20, headed by John Baker,
J. A. Doyle, P. S. Shaver, Wm. Morrison, &c.
Shade Gap, 15 names, headed by 13. X. Blair,
Dr. Shade, r. Todhunter, Rev. W. li. Woods,
(3.ll,Rouse, James Shoop, D. Jeffries, &c.
Shirley, 35 names, headed by P. Myers, S.L.
Glasgow, John Brewster, John Lutz, &e.
A Fremont club has been formed in Caw
Slur!eyebolt, lee.
Communication.
We have received a copy of a very excellent
address delivered ou the occasion of a Sabbath
School celebration on the 7th inst., at Blair's
Mille, Tell tp., by Col. Geo. Nose. We are so,
ry that our apace will not permit tie to publish
it at preeent. The communication accompany
lay it appear in our neat.
MASS MEETING,
Of the Friends of
FREMONT & DAYTON.
Our flag was there I—the starry flag
Our•stout forefathers gave,
O'er Freedom's home—Free soil—Free men,
In triumph long to wave.
One of the largest and most enthusiastic
meetings ever'held in Huntingdon, convened
in the public square on Tuesday, the 12th inst.
The meeting organized by the appointment of
Judge McWilliams as President, and Dr. John
Shade, B. X. Blair, Alex. Steel, Wm. E. Me.
Murtrie , Major James Steel, John Laport, Gen.
S. Miles Green, S.L. Glasgow, Vice Presidents
and John Matters, J.'A. Hall, and E. Wilson,
Secretaries.
John G. Miles, E sq., being loudly called for
mounted the stand and delivered a telling ad
dress. He said it was now for us to say wheth
er our country should stand or we should drift '
away without chart or compass. The Fremont
party presented a platform that no exceptions
could be taken by any northern men. He was
greeted with great applause, and on concluding
introduced Goy. Thomas Ford of Ohio, who
was greeted with three hearty cheers.
Gov. Ford, made an eloquent speech. He
denied that the Republican party was sectional
or attempted to abolish slavery where it now
exists. He wanted to stop the hole up, and
confine the "peculiar institution," to its pres
ent limits. He denied the allegation that John
C. Fremont was a Catholic. He said the talk
of secession was all nonsense, for in the event
of the election of Mr, Fremont, lie would dons
General Jackson had done, put his foot down
and say you shall not secede.
Gov. Ford was so frequently interrupted by
a pfocession of Americans, with %Brass Band,
that be was compelled to close his remarks, be
ing unable to have his voice heard.
11. N. McAlister, Esq., of Centre Co., next
followed 3 he told those before him they had an
equal right to migrate to Kansas with any
er man in the country, but could they do so if
the blighting curse of slavery existed there ?
The poor Northern man must go to the \Vest
and take up a quarter section of land, but the
Southerner could go and take up his 1000 a
ems, and feed his negroes on corn, which the
Pennsylvanian would starve on. Mr. McAlis
ter's address was listened to with great atten
tion, andilicited great applause.
Alex. King, Esq., of Bedford, next spoke, he
endorsed all that had been said, and concluded
by proposing three cheers for FREMONT &
DAYTON, which were given with the "spirit
and understanding," and MAO the enemies of
Free Speech, Free Tress and Free Kansas
"shake in their boots."
Mr. Hall, from the Committee, then offered
the following preamble and resolutions which
were rapturously received and itnanimonst, a
dopted by the vast assemblage, after which the l i
meeting adjourned:
WIIEREAS, Negro Slavery. a n anomaly in our
system of free government, a reproach on our
professions of "liberty and equality" as a pro.
pie, and a foul stain on our otherwise glorious
civil and religious institutions, has of late years
Lecome a peculiar and alartning softer, of po•
litieal powerand corruption ; And whereas this
power, always insidious, has become insolent
and arrogant, and is no longer satisfied with the
perfect immunity it enjoys in the slave states,
but seeks unlimited extension over free territo
ry, thus trampling on every past compromise of
national legislation on the subject, violating the
plain letter of the Declaration of Independence
and the obvious spirit of the Constitution ;
spurning the most sacred rights of free labor ;
despising the solemn teaehingsof Washington,
Jefferson, Franklin, Randolph, Mason and oth
er early patriots ; and defying the combined ex•
ecration and loathing of the whole civilized
world ; And whereas one of the great political
parties of the country, yielding its patriotism
to a love of public plunder, is freely lending
the prestige of its much abused raw and the
power of its Jesuistical organization to crush
liberty and enthrone slavery; And whereas an•
other party, originally organized to oppose op.
pression civil and religious, has been bullied
from its proper position and betrayed into the
ranks of the oppressor ; And whereas a large
portion of the Christian Church has ignobly ,
"bowed the knee to the dark spirit of slavery.'
transforming its ministers, once a terror to evil
doers, into "dumb dugs" who dare not open
their mouths against the roost daring "wicked-
IiCS9 in high places," Therefore
Resolved, That n crisis has arisen in the pol
itics of our country which should arrest the se
rious attention, and call forth the most deter
mined ACTION of every patriot and freeman
in the land.
Resolved, That the great issue now before
the American people—the question which ab
sorbs all other questions, is—shall slavery or
freedom triumph in the comingpresidential
contest ? Shall the fair plains of KANSAS, and
the millions of acres once dedicated tofreedoin
by solemn compact, be ruthlesslytorn from the
WRITE LABORERS of the North and West, nod
covered with the curse of Negro bondage ?
Shall our kindred and brethren of the present
generation and our posterity hereafter, lee per
mitted to plant in the western wilderness, the
Church and School, nod other appliances of
christian civilisation, to enjoy a virtuous life and
rear virtuous offspring, under the genial light of
free thought, free speech, free labor, and free
institutions, or shall they be surrounded by the
blighting moral and social curse, and blasted
by the burning shame of ignorance and serf.
dom ? Shall we, our sons, our wives and
daughters labor side by side with our EQUALS,
1
or shall wo and they be compelled to compete
with the unpaid, unpitied, uneducated and de
graded bondman ? Thin is the question. Let
freemen answer.
Resolved, That evcr7 feel in g of humanity, ev
ery sentiment of religion, and instinct of self
preservation, prompts end impels us to oppose
the extension of human bondage and to strike
for freedom while freedoth yet has hope.
Resolved, That we hold slavery to be section
al and freedom national; that we seek no inter
ference with the "Institution" where it is ; but
that we will resist with all the energies of our
nature and all the talents which God has given
us, its tyranical aggressions upon the unpollut
ed soil of our free territories—the blood-bought
birthright of freemen I
Resolved, That in this righteous contest for
LIBERTY, our chosen leaders aro JOHN a
FREMONT,' ot California, and WILLIAM
L. DAYTON of New Jersey, patriote true and
tried, statesmen who have neverbowed the knee
to the tyrannical Oligarchy of the South, free.
men who have no sympathy with the "border
ruffians" of Missouri and Washington, or their
supporters or apologists of any name, party or
creed.
Resolved, That the friends of freedom in the
several election districts of Huntingdon county
are hereby requested to meet at their usual pla
ces of holding township elections, on Saturday
the 30Ia inst,at 4 o'clock, r. sr., and elect in
each district, two delegates, pledged to Fre•
mont and Freedom, to meet in county conven
tion in the borough of Huntingdon, ttt2 o'clock
P. M., on Tuesday the 2d day of September, to
nominate a county Republican ticket, and trans
act such othw business us the exigencies of the
times and the interests of the cuuse may re
quire.
"DEMOCRATIC" MEETING.
On Wednesday evening of last week, the
"unterrified" held a "Buck and Brock" demon
stration in the Court House. After a great
deal of "noise and confusion" Mojor Tom
Campbell was called upon, and addressed the
meeting at some length. He epolce of his re
cent trip through the West, of the grandeur
and sublimity of the granite hills of the Key
stone State, but neglected to tell his Democra
tic brethren of the "strong" avalanche of pub
lic opinion which he declared on his arrival
home, was sweeping the great West in favor of
free speech, free press, Fremont & Dayton.--
The Major, no doubt is a good man, in the
Locofoco cense, but he evidently feels that he
has the wrong side of the question ; hence his
effort was a complete failure. Major Campbell
was followed by John Scott, Esq., a gentleman
not unknown to our renders as a strenuous
politician. He endeavored to inculcate the
doctrine that slavery was a blessing, which
ought to be extended wherever slave-owners
desired to take it, and that upon the election of
Buchanan depended the salvation of the Union.
The conduct of the Missouri ruffians, sent into
Kansas by the slave.holders of the South, to
subdue and overawe those who desire to pre•
serve that territory from the curse of slavery,
found a ready apologist in the speaker. He
labored hard to convince his listeners that the'
advocates of Fremont wore abolitionists, who
desired the dissolution of the Union; and dealt
in many similar and extravagant charges a
gainst the opponents of the present Adminis
tration. The speaker evidently felt that he
was advocating a forlorn cause, but tried to
make the best of it.
Next followed the polthrek, John Ashman,
of Clay tp. Mr. Ashman's speech was a .oar•
castle one, and the Squire convinced his hear.
ers that he was laboring under an aberrated
mind, by denouncing Methodism and Meth°.
dints in general. A great effort was made to
get the old man to sit down, but, like Banquo's
Ghost, he "would not down."
There was much cheering at the close of the
meeting for Buchanan, Breckenridge, as•
sisted by heavy blows on wind instruments, to
keep the spirit up. When the Democratic
thunder had eubsided, three hearty cheers were
also given by the outsiders for Fremont and .
Freedom, which most have convinced eve.
ry one that at least one half of the people pro.
sent did not coincide with the views advanced
by the speakers. The Excelsior Brass Band
performed on the occasion and assisted much
to stir up'the necessary enthusiasm by their en
livening music. On the whole, we do not
think they 4ad u many converts on the sees.
sion.
American County Convention
This Convention has placed in nomination
the following ticket :
Assembly, Dr. Wintrode ; Associate Judges,
B. F. Patton, Benedict Stevens; Sheriff, Nath.
Lytle ; Pros. Attorney, T. H. Cremer ; Com
missioner, John Planner; Director of the Poor,
Henry Hudson ; Auditor, .1. Gibboney.
The Congressional Conferees appointed were
instructed to support David Blair, Esq., for
Congress.
This convention was the most "lame and im•
potent" one ever convened here. It was nut
the expression of untrammeled voters, but the
offspring of designing politicians, which has
in its turn, given birth to an illegitimate.
Notwithstanding the assertion of the Amer.
ican party, as proclaimed in the resolutions aa•
naninfouoly adopted by its executive committee
a month ago, that it wan to be a union conven
tion, no sooner had it met than every man who
would not consent to endorse the Philadelphia
Platform, and Millard Fillmore, was expelled
from the Convention, and other delegates ap.
pointed instead Thus they have basely tram
pled on the vital sentiment of Americanism,
and proved recreant to their protestations of a
desire fur union. Surely, "they whom the Gods
wish to destroy they first make mad." This
being the elute of affairs, the Republicans have
issued a call fur another Convention, to meet
in Huntingdon on the 2d day of September.—
We call upon every free•boru American citizen
of Huntingdon county, who loves his freedom,
his God, his Country and-her Institutions, to
rally. Elect delegates in every township, and
let no as a hand of freemen, as brethren in the
great cause of itu manity, use our every effort
• to deliver our country and our county from time
slave-driver and his ally.
Locofooo Convention.
The I, o eoibeo County Convention which
met iu this place on Wednesday last placed in
nomination thu following ticket
Assemldg—Nicholas Croswell, of Porter.
Asso Judge—John Creswell of West.
John Lung of Shirley.
Sherfy—Graffius Miller, Huntingdon.
County Commissioner—Henry Zimmerman,
Hopewell.
. . . .
Auditor—A. L. Grim, Huntingdon.
Mr. Nicholas Creswell, le a gentleman of
weight. We refrain from any comments. He
will understand our motive after the election.
Mr. John Creswell it—well we dont know
anything about John, except that he is a dyed.
in.the.wool Locofoco, and wears gold epee's.
clew.
Mr. John Long, will lire a long time before
he is elected to a Judgeship. His recommen•
dation is Locofocoism.
Mr. Graff. Miller is a very tall man, and
would no doubt be very happy to be elected.
Mr. Henry Zimniernian.--This gentleman's
had health, would no doubt be a serious obsta
cle towards a proper discharge of his duties.
Mr. Au walla Grim, is favorably known as
the "learned blacksmith."
stir For a large, neatly bound volume of
the Kansas Investigating Committee's Report
we are indebted to somebody in Washington;
who, we can't tell, as our postmaster here has
had the impudence to tear off the wrapper,—
A mighty small way of venting spite, that.
READ THE FACfS!
Sltffl, VHI
DEMOGRACT4B TREASON '56, 1
Read the following Resolution adopted by
the Democratic State Convention which met at
Pittsburg, in 1848.
Resolved, That the Democratic party
adheres now, as it ever has done. to the
Constitution of the country. Its letter ,
and spirit they will neither weaken or ,!
destroy, and they re-declare that Sla
very
is a domestic local institution of
the South, subject to State legislation
alone, and with which the general gov
e7iiment has nothing to do. Wherever I
the State law extends its jurisdiction,
the local institution cau continue to
exist. Esteeming it a violation of State
Rights to carry it beyond State limits,
we deny the power of any citizen to
extend the area of bondage beyond its
present dominion, NOR 1)0 WE CONSI
DER IT A PART OF THE COMPROMISE
OF TIIE CONSTITUTION THAT SLAVE
, 11 V SHOULD FOREVER TRAVEL WITH
THE ADVANCING COLUMNS OF OUR
TERRITORIAL PROGRESS
In 1848-9 this was Democracy, but the very
suite principle now advocated by the great Re
publican party is denDunced by thesovery same
men no treasonable. In 1848-9 it was good
Democracy to exclude Slavery in the Territo
ries by direct enactment of Congress, but now,
alas, the advocates of the same principle aro de.
nounced as traitors, sectionalists, and dissolu•
1 thinists I i elll this, and the outrages committed
in Kansasptaken in wintiection with the fact
that the Democratic Party in Congress almost
unanimously repealed the law prohibiting Sla
very in Kansas and Nebraska, shows clearly
the true position of that party—that it is a sla
very extension party. Comment is not needed;
fitets are stubborn things and speak in tones of
terror to the political gamblers. Will our fel
low-citizens, the Jeffersonian Democrats of the
District who supported these measures of Free.
dem in 1848-9, turn the somerset with their
leaders and vote for the extension of this in.
fernal institution over the Free Territories?—
You will answer at the ballot box.
HEAR A MAN SPEAK.
1
Fur the .7mirstal. •
AVGIIWICK MILLS, Aug. 11, 185(1
Messrs. Editors of the Journal:-1 wish you
to place my flume on your books as a subscri•
her. I hare discontinued my subscription to
the paper called the Huntingdon American,
because it is utteilly void of all the principles of
the true American school. I have been a mem.
her of the Pennsylvania American neuter; and
have had the honor of being Chairman of the
Council to which I belonged and yet belong.—
In 1855, whets the whole north seceded in the
general Council at Philadelphia,' on act% tint
of the disgraceful pro-shivery platform which
the Southern slave•holders forced upm the
Council, the action of the members of the Or
der from the free States who so seceded, met
my entire approbation, and I adhered the more
closely to the principles of the American Order,
as I believed that the Order was founded to
support and sustain Freedom and not Slavery.
But when I saw at the close of the miscalled
Nittional Xonlistatiug Convention, which met
its Philadelphia, in February 1856, that the
slave power of all the Southern States voted to
exclude from the sitting of the Convention, the
entire delegation of Pennsylvania, because it
was believed to be hostile to Slit/cry, and nt
the same time voted to admit and did admit
the entire delegatiop of Louisiana, composed
altogether of Roman Catholics, I no longer
doubted and no sensible mats could doubt, that
the Convention was wholly controlled by the
interests of Slavery, and that all the hustle
mental landmarks of the American Party were
to be sacrificed to gratify the 'slave-holders, and
secure the ascendancy of slavery. And when I
further saw that the representatives of the
Slave States had chosen fur their candidate for
the Presidency, Millufd Fillmore, a man odious
to every friend of Liberty ; a man who had be
trayed and sold Isis friends to the slaveocracy,
when he was accidentally invested with the
power of President of the United Staten, I cea
sed to have any respect for the action of that
Convention. When I perceived that the true
friends of freedom, and 'antagonists of slavery,
who were in that Convention from the Free
States, felt thetoselves bound to retire from the
Convention, I no longer had the slightest con.
Hence in the doings of the Convention. I be.
lieved then and I believe now, that Millard
Fillmore, having long before that time, satin•
fled the slaveocracy that he was morally and
politically their slave, they had come from the
cotton, sugar, hemp, tobacco, or rice fields of
the far South, to net up their slave to lie voted
for in Pennsylvania, hoping thereby to divide
tho'Notes of friends of freedom in Kansas, and
secure the election of a man ready to aid in
the murders, ravages and ruin of the free set.
tiers in Kansus—l believe Buchanan to be as
had as Fillmore, and Fillmore, if possible,
worse than Pierce. I shall therefore support
John Charles Fremont, of California, and
William L. Dayton, of New Jersey, as candi
dates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency
of the United States. JOHN BAKER.
Outrageous Conduct.
Let it be remembered that whilst Gov. Ford
of Ohio, a stranger iu our midst and a perfect
gentleman, was addressing the Republicans in
the public square of this place, a procession of
Americans headed by some respectable gentle.
men of this borough and the editors of the
Hnutingt.on Ameriran newspaper, James B.
Barr nod John A. Nash, three times marched
by and with drums, and horns, and shouting,
and yelling, endeavored to break up the Fre•
moat meeting. But this is not all ; although
the Republicans gave up to them the Court
House, and held their meeting in the strcet,yet
these men wore so ungenerous as to organize
another meeting not one hundred yards from
the spot where Gov. Ford was speaking, after
adjourning at the Court House I
• American citizens, is FREE SPEECH to
he muzzled in Huntingdon County? Speak.
Blair County Court.
The case of Docker, indicted for the mur
der of Davis, of Williamsburg, bee:Tied al
most the entire second week of Court. On
Friday afternoon it was submitted to the jury
who, in a few minutes returned a verdict of
"murder in the second degree." A motion
was made for a new trial, which the Court
held over sntil Saturday morning the counsel
foathe prisoner waved their objections to the
verdict of the jury, end the Court sentenced
!locker to undergo imprisonment in the Wes.
tern Penitenti:try fur the term of ten years.
The Court then proceeded to sentence those
who had previously been tried and found gull
ty of the charges on which they were indict.
ed :
James Daniel Davis, convicted of the mur•
der of James R. Johnston—sentenced to inn.
wisonment in the Western Penitentiary for the
term of eleven years.
John Finney, convicted of Larceny—sen
tenced to imprisonment in the Western Peal
tentiary for the term of one year.
Alexander Murdock, colored, convicted of
Larceny—sentenced to imprisonment in The
Western Penitentiary for the term of one year.
The Altoona Tribune says "the five prison•
ers above named, and Josh. Dennis, the color.
ed barber of this place, who was previously
acentencA to four• years in tine penitentiary
passed through this place on Monday morning
last, in charge of the Sheriff of the county,
on their way to Westerns Penitentiary at
Pittsburgh."
Blair County Ticket.
The American County Convention which
met in Hollidaysburg on lust week nominated
the following ticket :
Assembly—John M. Gibbony.
Register and Reem:der—H. A. Caldwell.
Tr'iusurer—Samuel Hoover.
Commissioner—David Confer.
County Surveyor—,l ames (7w inn.
Directors ol Poor—Samuel Shiver, 3 yens,
Miehnel \Vika, 1 "
Audilor—Samuel Morrow.
The committee on Resolutions reported John
K. NOY, J. Peon Jones and Jan. Hutchison,
as Congressional Conferees instructed to recom•
mend John Brotherline for emigre., nod J.
Walters, fns. Burleigh and Jus. Beldridge
Senatorial Conferees.
American Ratification Meeting,
The Americans held a ratification meeting
in the Cowl House on Tuesday eat, 12th inst.
The principal proceeding was the singing of
Fillmore adage by one Bell.
They formed a procession alter the meeting
and with music and shouting, ekeee times mar
ched by the Republican meeting, and done ev
erything in their power to disturb Hov. Ford
when speaking. This, to say the ls , st of it,
was outrageous, and we have heard honest A
merienns say it disgusted them with Wit. par
ty and will add scores of votes to Fremont, of
those who raver FRREDOM OF SPEECH.
. To the credit of the Republican party be it
remetnbncd, that net a single disrespectful
word was retread to them. It is not the pur
pose of the Republicans to carry on the cam.
paign by btfllying blacliguardism, but by solid
argument.; and honest appeals to Christian pa
riots.
Samuel Coon.
This gentleman of Barre° tp., states through
the lost Huntingdon Globe that he has paid for
the Journal until next April, and that although
ho ordered it otherwise we "still keep his name
in our paper as an agent." Nuw this latter
assertion is a consnmmate falsehood and Mr.
Coen has established his reputation as' a fulii
fter in proclaiming it. Believing it to add noth
ing to the character of the Journal to have his
Immo appear in its columns as its agent, we
weeks atm struck his name out of our columns.
Mr. Coen must certainly have had a great de.
sire to see his name in print that ho could thus
unblushingly assort so positively a downright
falsehood. .Shame on him.
Poor Old Man.
The last alas piu•ades the name of one
John Ashman, of Clay tp., before its• renders,
as a converted Whig who now supports Such.
anon. This is cruel to Mr. Ashman, who is
now as Shakespere says in "second childhood."
'Besides this, Mr. Ashman is a native of n
Slave ,Slate and his proclivities therefore would
naturally be for the "peculiar institutions" of
his native State. The Globe's party is wet•
come to all such accessions. On the other
hand, scores of the honest Democrats of this
county have avowed their determination to
support Fremont for President.
Bully Brooks in Huntingdon.
Mr. Lewis, publisher of the fruntingdon
Globe, in his last issue, intimates that ho in.
tends inflicting sundry contusions, braises,
sears, scratches, &c., be., &C., upon our fair
proportions with bludgeons, &e. We are hap.
py that our chivalrous neighbor has given us
notice, as we shall be prepared to defend our.
self; and, should it become necessary, be able
tea.° our neighbor's neck a dreadful 'w rench.'
1163""Evc:1 coon CAN coot: FROM NAZA
rarrit."—The American State Convention of
Pennsylvania assembled at Harrisburgh sth
inst. lion. Andrew Stewart, was appointed
president. The Convention rejected the prop.
oaition for forming a fusion electoral ticket by
a large majority—the vote being 72 to 1811—
This gives "Old Buck" Pennsylvania by at
least forty thousand majority."
We clip the above from the last issue of the
Tyrone Ironhcad Democrat. Americans does it
not prove that the Fillmore organs which dis.
countenanced a union are sold to Locoroistn?
We need make no comments.
stir It is universally acknowledged that G.
R. Auxer is taking the most lifelike pictures
that has everbeet. taken in Huntingdon. There-
fore we would advise all our readers to go and
got their likeness taken as such another oppor•
(unity may not be had. His pictures are equal
to any taken in the cities. Rooms in the Court
Rouse.
"The Republican meeting last nightndiourn
d with three cheers for Fillwore."—Lfunting•
don American.
To pros, this a falsehood, we havo only to
remind our readers it was written by the editors
of the Huntingdon American.
AGRICULTURAL.
At a meeting of the Executive Cdmmitteo
of the Huntingdon County Agricultural Socie•
ty, held Anguet 14th, 1850, the tbllowing rev ,
lotion!, were adopted 3
Resolved, That thin Society hold a County
Agricultural Fair on the 6th, oth, and 10th of
October next.
. .
Resolved, That a committee of.soven he up
pointed as in Committee of Arrangements, and
that said Committee shall have authority to
make all the necessary contracts to complete
the arrang,nents for an annual fair; and that
said Committee have full authority to audit all
hills of their contracting amid to draw orders on
the Treasurer for payment of the same. Where
upon A. IV. Benedict, Geo. Jackson, Christian
Couts, John S. hat, Jacob Miller (Creek,) nacj
Wm. Dorris, Jr., were appointed said Commit
tee.
---- on motion it wan resolved that T. H. Crcmcr,
Hon. George Taylor and Thos. Fisher be a
Committee to report a listof premiums and the
names of the several judges to award the same,
to the Executive Committee at a meeting to be
held on Wednesday next, at 3 o'clock, P. M.
Resolved, That the Treasurer be directed to
pay John Lutz, Esq., late editor of the Shit.-
leysburg Herald, $9 for printing.
A. W. BENEDICT, See'r pro tutu.
The Huntingdon County Agricultural Soeie•
ty met at .the Court House on Thursday even•
ing the 14th of August, and was called to order
by the President. The minutes of the last
meeting of the society were rend rind adopted.
Gen. Speer, the chairman of the Committee
appointed to rcpert on the cause .d remedy
for the potato° rot, after making sonic remarks
upon the subject, stated That he was not fully
prepared to report at this meeting, but if the
society would see proper to continue the Coin.
mittee he would be prepared to make a report
at the nest meeting.
The subject wee discussed by David Blair,
A. W. Benedict, Gen. Speer, Maj. Caldwell
and Theo.. H. Creme,
On motion the committee to report on the
cause nod remedy for the potato rot was con•
tinned to next meeting of the Society.
On motion, Theo. if. Cromer, lisq., was ad ,
ded to avid Committee.
Watson, the chairman of the Commit.
tea to report on the bent method of resuscita
ting old wormout meadow ground, mated that
he was nut prepared to report, and asked that
the present committee be discharged, and ono
tiler appointed in itA stead, to report at the next
meeting. Tho subject was discussed at some
length and with considerable interestby Messrs.
Green, Caldwell, Benedict and Blair. Kenzie
L. Green, Esq., was added to the committee,
and the same continued to the next meeting of
the Society.
.
On nnAion the committee on the effeetsuf
lunar influence upon vegetation, was eolithnu
ed to next meeting.
Mr. Cremer was prepared to report but ow
ing to the lateness of the evening and length
of the report it was deemed expedient to defer
The subject of holding a fair was diftuy,ed
by MIAMI Blair, Earl., Gen. Watson, Geo.
Green, A. W. Benedict, Gem Speer and others.
On motion the action of the Executive COll,
mitte wan elltlol,ed.
On motion the meeting. adjourned.
JON,\. McWILLIAMS, Presit,
J. S. BAHR, See), •
OUR BOOK TAI3-I,F.
Coley's Lady's Book ha. September ling beau
received.- it has some beautiful engravings,
and in literary mat ter it ontstrips all eou y reti•
tors. par year. L. A. Godey, Philadelphia.
We have received from Horace Waters, 233
Broadway, N. Y. mus . c entitled 'Nell all vu, t
again in the Morning,." It is a beAuf fal piece
and our young friends should get it. Only 23
eta.
Texas Election.
The Intest tens front Texas indientt,:, that
the State has goic for the Democrat,: by ilicroit
sed majorities,
stal-• Our colored population intend holding
a "binth meeting" we are Manuel, cut:Hue:lc
ing en the 29th inst.
UV. On Sunday last a lied in a gentleman's
house in town was burned up. the tire was
extinguished before doing any further damage.
ter A camp meeting will begin at Tipton,
Blair county, on Friday next.
The camp meeting ut Shaver'a Creek Logi.
tomorrow.
Congnss adjourned on the 18th but w,ll
co .ve:o• again on the 21st, to nut on the uppm
priati ns.
stV-Tho Louisville Jounial, Fillmore organ,
gets off the following t "It seems to be estab•
fished that there were more nilgers in the
Buchanan procession, nt Indianapolis, than in
the Fremont procession. The natural infer.
once is that must of the Indiana nig,gers arc
Bucklaiggers.
gifvu Alexander Kayser, one of the leading
Democrats and most influential Commis of
Missouri, has come out in a letter to his fel.
low Germans, in furor of John C. Fremont.—
Kayser has been a Democrat for If years, and
was a Pierce elector in 1852.
ger The Fremont campaign is commen•
cing in Kentucky. On the not County Court
day in Logan, Dr. George Blakey, nue of the
Republican State Electors, took a tilt at both
the Buchanan and Fillmore parties. He will
address the people of that county more at length
of the court house on the 4th Monday in Au•
gust.
geirn•The Charleston Evening News is sup
porting Buchanan and Breckinbridge. That
paper has heretofore been an advocate of "A.
mericanism," and its editor John Conning.
ham, Esq., was a delegate nod one of the Vice
Presidents of the first Philadelphia Know
Nothing Convention. The New Bedford (Mass)
Express, the Know Nothing organ, hes recan
ted, nod hoisted the flag of" Duck and Beech."
Stir The Dubuque papers publish a •enrd
from D. N. Cooley, one of the Executive
committee of the Buchanan Club in that city,
saying that though ho con swallow n good
many things, he cannot get down that Cinch).
nati Platform. Mr. Cooley will go for Fre.
moot and Freedom.
023''The Connellsvillo Enterprise, published
in Fayette county, brings us the following
good tidings : "Among those who have lately
announced themselves as Fremont and Day•
ton loon, and now advocate the principles of
the Republican party, in our town, are Alexan•
der Johnston, Fag, Dr. James Cummings,
Lester L. Norton, Esq., and Hon. John Ful•
lee. These gontlemen were the leaders of the
Democratic party in the county. They nut
roan of much intelligence and experience--
men of undoubted Democratic faith—men 01
the Jefforsonian and Jackson school ; Andover
in declaring their intention to vote for John
C. Fremont, that they maintain the same prin•
ciplea they ever have done, hut that the mod•
ern uaisttauted Democratic, party has left
them.
Proposals will be received by thecounty coin
inissieners at their office in Huntingdon, np
to 2 o'clock on the 29th day of August, 1956,
for re building the bridge across the Juniata ri•
ver at Huntingdon, which was blown down by
ft utorm. ' HENRY W. MILLER.
triatingdou,