Congresa has no right to interfere with or
control domestic institutions in the South."
,
In subsequent years it was announce d as a
happy afterthought, “that this proposition
was intended to embrace the whole subject
of Slavery agitation in Congress." Still'
later, as in the present platform, they ex
tend explicitly this proposition to all "ter
ritories," so that taken together, these ex
pressions mean that Congress has no power
whatever to legislate upon the subject.
Yes, Slavery in the Democratic cred in Jib,
cod beyond the reach of National Legisla•
tion 1 If this be so, as it tenet, well may the
freemen of the North tremble for their semi
tl. This last specious dogma followed close
upon the abrogation of the Missouri Compro
mise and even this, in the course of the present
Administration, tins been iniquitously pervert
ed to subserve the designs of those who pro
claimed it, viz: the unlimited extension of slip
very. The sum and substance of the Demo
cratic party on Slavery is, that the Consti
tution carries Slavery or protects it when it is
carried by individuals into any Territory of the
United States; that the people are powerless to
prevent it so lung as the Governtr.ent is Terri
tonal and that Congress has no right to inter
fere in the matter whatever. As the exponent
of these views, the Democratic party has elec.
ted Mr. Buchanan. To this platform he has
"squared" his previous views and is prepared
to "square his conduct" without taking there
from oradding thereto, a single Wank. In this
platform he has merged his identity as James
Buchanan and consigns himself to this Pro.
Slavery Democracy to be spent in their service.
An examination into the past history of Mr.
Buchanan will show that he has at some former
period of his life, occupied the opposite of his
present position on every political issue. From
present
to Pro-Slavery, from High Tari ff
to Free Trade, from Conservatism to Fillibus
terism, he has ever followed the flow and ebb of
the popular tide. In none of these questions
has his change been more extreme or more
striking than that of Slavery. His lamentable
fall from the proud position he took in 1843
when he pledged himself solemnly to make
36° 30' the boundary line between Slavery and
Freedom forever is seen and known of all.—
The record of his early Congressional career.
compared with Isis present known views, give
evidence of a great and radical change. Then
he could wage an aggressive war upon Slavery
in her own fastnesses,
now he is willing to lead
the van beneath the dark folds of her banner,
to the subjugation of Freedom. The question
comes home with force to ea, why has he fled
from that position ? Had Freedom in Territo
ries proved a failure? had those Territories in
which it had been restricted been less prosper
ous than those where it was allowed to enter?
Had the Missouri Compromise proved anything
else than the quietus of Slavery agitation ? had
its repeal been anything else than notoriously
linjust and pernicious, we might be able to im
pute some other reason to him for this great
change than that lie hopes to win the Presiden
tial Chair by sacrificing his own principles and
the tights and privileges of the North to propi
tiate the Slave Power. Hu stands committed
both by his public acts, no less than by ender.
sing the Cincinnati platform, to the policy
which demands the annexation of Cuba, if not
by right then by might—a consummation most
desirable to the South, when we consider that
it will add vastly to the infuence and will tend
to perpetuate the rule of the Slave power. Mr.
also declares that the attempted einancipa•
tion of Shires iii that Island, shall he the sig
nal for a forcible possession.
Fellow.citizens, we submit to you that the
history of the present administration, that the
language and conduct of the present Democre.
tic nominee, that the openly avowed and un
blushingly advocated principles of that party,
place beyond the minutest cavil, the Ilia that
the indissoluble qt . Democracy with
Slareq Extension has been solemnized in good
faith and ea: nest, We submit to you that the
boasted conservatism of these united elements
is subversive, revolutionary and progressive,
moving away with accelerated velocity front the
precepts and practice of the founders of our
Republic, proclaiming dogmas and setting up
principles that threaten t idefeat the results of
their patriotism ; tending farther and farther
away from stritt Constitutional Constitution, for
the acquisition of party power; from the faith
of solemn compromise to fraud, perjury and
wrong, from the conservation of the lnion fur
the sake of Freedom, to its dissolution for the
sake of Slavery.
, Those who see mirrored in such conser
vatism, their own vices, need not hesitate
as to which side in the coming contest to
take But those to whom such Principles
are justly abhorent,—to them we appeal.
Democrats, who in the plauffer days, and
purer life of the Democracy, were proud
to own the name—you have hesitated to
follow it in its mad career, it no longer has
claims upon you. The glorious banner
under which you fought, trails in the dust
of slavery. Your leaders have perverted
your organization to ends you never design•
ed, and are ashamed to own. The price
of the betrayal of the party to slavery in
terest,: is that its banner may wave in ig
nominious triumph from the dome of the
Capitah—you have not left it; no, rather
it has left you. It will be time enough for
you to cooperate with it when it shall re
turn again to its primitive principles, as
established by its fathers. When it shall
come away from its idalatrous worship of
strange Gods, back to its allegiance and loy
alty to the Constitution and the Union.
That all causes should be followed by
their appropriate effects, is a truth of uni•
versal application—whether in the natural,
moral, or political world. One of the most
natural consequences of the wanton abuse
of power, or assumption of authority in
any party is, that new organizations should
be formed to combat and overthrow it.—
The foundations of our land are so happily
laid in the enlightened sentiment and con
scientious morality of the people, that no
party may expect to remain long in power
after it has been betrayed to nefarious ends,
or made to minister to sectional interests.
This principle is demonstrating itself at
this crisis in our history ; this principle is
alone the secret of the rise of the Repub
lican Party. This party was brought in
to being and has suddenly grown into ma
turity beneath the fostering influence of
the extreme measures of the Democracy.
Had it not been for its numerous and great
excesses, had not its lust for power, per•
verted it to tiie extension of slavery—the
great necessity for a Republican organiza
tion Would not have arisen. But in its
wild and reckless course, it never stopped
to consider that it was calling into exis
tence rn agency, which should be potent
in its overthrow. In the enacting conflict,
the Republican Party is the restorative el
ement. Its purpose is directly antagonis
tic to the progression of the Democracy ;
"to bring back the Government to its early
purport;'' to restore the ascendancy of the
Constitution and the normal balance be
tween State and Federal authority ; to re
place the Democratic principle within the
limits of law and reason, and social order;
to promote human freedonT, not slavery,
harmony and not discord, and to correct
time-honored abuses. These are the aims,
of the restorative element, than which none
are more needful, sacred and obligatory.
This result will he attained only by long
and persevering exertion, but it will be a
labor no less worthy of high patriotism and
self denial, and earnest ellen, than that in
which the fathers of our Republic engaged.
The Republican party joins direct and im
mediate issue with the other portico, upon
the important question of the extension of
slavery. At the Republican Convention
in Philadelphia, which placed in nomina
-1 ties John C. Fremont, the following reso.
lotions among others, were adopted, viz :
Resolved, That we deny the authority of Con
gress, of a Territorial Legislature, of any indi
vidual,
, or association of individuals, to give lo
cal existence to slavery in any Territory of the
United States, while the present Constitution
shall he maintained."
"Renoleed, That the Constitution confers up.
nn Congress sovereign power over the Ter}lto.
ries of the United States, for their government,
and that in the exercise of this power it is both
the dote and the right of Congress to prohibit
in the territories those twin relics ofbarbarism
—polygamy and slavery.
"Resole.l, That Kansas should be immedi
ately admitted ns a State of the Union, with
her present free Constitution, no nt once the
most effectual way of securing to her citizens
the rights and privileges to which they are en•
titled, and of ending the civil strife now raging
in her territory."
In his letter of acceptance, Mr. Fremont
cordially endorses the whole platform of
which these resolutions form a part, as ex
pressive of the principles he cherishes ;
in addition observing :
"It would be out of place here to pledge my
self to any particular policy that has been set
gested to terminate the sectional contropery,
engendered by political animosities, operated
upon by a powerful class, banded together for
a common interest. A practical remedy is the
admission of Kansas into the Union as a free
State."
it will thus be seen that the Republican
party earnestly contend for the power of
Congress to legislate upon the subject DI
slavery in the territories. The ground for
this they find in the language of the Con•
stitution which declares that Congressshall
have power to dispose of and make all need
ful rules and regulations respecting the
Territory or other property belonging to
the United States, and nothing in the Con
stitution shall be ao construed as to preju
dice any claims of the United States or a.
ny particular State. This clause of course
confers the right of legislation on subjects
only as are consistent with natural right.
They contend that as Congress has no
power to engraft a domestic evil upon the
institutions of a State, as for example ppl
ygamy, so it has no power to legalize sla
very, while for the same reason its power
of prohibi , ion is incontestable. The Re
publican party contend for the restoration
of the Missouri Compromise, and as the
learnest of its fulfillment, demand the ad•
mission of Kansas as a Free State. To
those who are familiar with the history of
legislation, no demonstration is necessary
to prove that the mischievous and unjust
repeal of that covenant, has been the cause
of all the agitation on the subject of slav
ery, with which the country is now rife.
Thai Compromise was the work of our ve.
aerated fathers in the Republic, and had
received the sanction and support of wise
and good patriots from all sections of the
country ; and for thirty years had kept in
repose the question of slavery. Ample
consideration was given to the slave States
for this agreement. That consideration
had been received and enjoyed to the full;
the right and justice of the covenant was
all along acknowledged, until the South
combined with the Democracy, found them.
selves able,. to throw off their engagements
and thus perjure their plighted faith. So
it has been. the celebrated ordinance '
of 1787, which excluded Slavery forever
from all Territory north-west of the Ohio
river, was broken through in 1820 by the
admission of Missouri as a Slave State.--
Then a compromise was adopted delaring
Slavery forever prohibited north of 36' 30'
The same period was allowed to elapse,
when we were called to witness this mea
sure ruthlessly thrown down in the aggres
sive march of Slavery. At each succes•
sive inroad we have been assured that it
would be the last, and still the last act in
that drama is yet to come. At each con
cession we have been assured that there
should be no agitation of the Slavery ques
tion. The Kansas-Nebraska act, which
abrogated the Missouri Compromise, we
were assured was only the acknowledge
ment of a principle, and would make no
practical difference in the settlement of
those Territories. But when through the
instrumentality of the Democratic party
that concession was obtained, we immedi
ately see a Democratic Administration, in
reckless disregard of its solemn pledges,
in conjunction with and at the instigation
of the South, lending the whole weight
of its powerful influence to fasten Slavery
upon Kansas. Thus has the Slave power
deceived the North by fair promiscs—ap
plea of Sodom, which tempt the eye but
turn to bitter ashes upon the lips. And
shall we trust them still ? het the ballot
box record the answer of the Freemen of
the North.
The Repubpc!nparty!olemnlydemand
as their sacred right, and make the great
issue, the restoration of that violated com
promise. They throw themselves into the
breach, manfully determined to arrest and
check this onward tide of slavery. Upon
the Rubicon, they will meet and conquer
the enemies of freedom, who, Casear•like
come armed against the liberties of the
North. Fellow-Citizens, when the Repu
blican Party demand that a little of the ter
ritory of the United States shall be conse
crated to Freedom, they ask nothing but
what on every principle of right and jus
tice is their due. The North has contrib
uted largely of her blood and treasure for
its acquisition, and shall she be debarred
from the enjoyment of any of it ! Proof
can be adduced to show that out of all the
Territory obtained on this aide of the Con
tinent, at a cost of 80 millions, only one
free State—lowa, has been created against
five slave State ; and that exclustve of Cal
ifornia, the slave States have double the
area of territory, with an inverse ratio of
population—and
. yet in view of all this,
shall we be accused of aggression ? Cer
tainly the accusation comes with bad grace
from the South. Hut the Republican par
ty dottiest& the admission of Kansas as a
free Plate for other reasons than that the
territory was secured to the North by sol
emn compact. They demand it, because
such is the expressed will of a majority of
the settlers ; because this will afford it
speedy and effectual relief from the cruel
and unjust laws that now oppress them and
would give them the enjoyment of those
privileges and rights which the Constitu
tion guarantees to them ; because its ad
mission as a Free or Slave State will deter
mine, in a measure, the extent of Southern
acquisition ; becnuso if yielded to the em
brace of slavery, it will add still more to
the formidable influence it wields in our
national councils. That influence strength
ened by the action of the Democratic Par
ty, has for years controlled the destinies of
the Republic. Give Kansas and the fet
ters of the North are forged. Kansas lost
to Freedom is lost to Freedom forever.—
But, fellow citizens, aside from the mo
tives which should actuate you, as patriots
in demanding with us the admission of
Kansas as a free state, there are reasons
which address you as men, ns Northerners
and Freemen. Kansas should be free, be
cause it may eventually become the home
of your children. Shell this land, so rich
in its resources, of marvellous fertility of
soil, and of so genial a climate, be shut up
against your neighbors and friends, and
perhaps to your own children. II shivery
enters there, the free laborer whether far
mer or mechanic, is as utterly excluded as
if interdicted by a specific law—for free
and slave labor can never dwell upon the
' same soil. Kansas. to you should be free,
because your friends and kindred or at
least your fellow-citizens of this Common
wealth, are already settlers there, strug
gling manfully to maintain their rights, and
their cry of distress comes to you to relieve
them in their necessity. Will you listen
to the appeal of reason, patriotism and hu
manity ? if so, decide while your action
may yet be efficient. In this perilous em
ergency, the only way to avert the threat
ened calamity is by the success of the Re•
publican cause. The presence of Mr. Fill
more in the canvass, can only tend to aid
the enemy. The South are unanimously
going over to the Democratic ranks, and
the sole object of keeping Mr. Fillmore
before the people of the North, when the
hope of his election is utterly out of the
question, is the defeat of the People's can
didate, John C. Fremont. Friends of Penn
sylvania, your state will again be the bat
tle ground of the contest between the de
fenders of Freedom and the advocwes of
Slavery. To you, one and all, we put the
question—which atoll triumph P
The Republican Party repudiate the
charge of abolitionism, because in insisting
upon the admission of Kansas as a Free
State, they do not interfere with slavery in
the Southern States. They insist on no
power in Congress to abolish slavery in the
Mates where it now exists. But they do
object to its extension. To its extension
the South hes no right. They are not dis
unionists. No action of theirs has or will
contribute to such a result. The threat of
disunion is the language of the South—
which has been uttered loud and fierce, at
every fresh demand they have made upon
the privileges and rights of the North.—
Will you yield free thought, free speech,
and freedom of the Press, and other free
institutions, to threats of disunion? Trust
us, the South will never be guilty of such
foolhardy crime, as to sacrifice their inter
ests in the dissolution of the Union, be
cause we refuse longer to yield our inali
enable rights to their vain threats, l'he
Republican party is not sectional, but na
tional ; because its great lending purpose
is to sustain Freemen's rights ; the same
purpose to which the nation owes its ex
istence under the Declaration of Indepen
pence. Freedom is National, Slavery Sec
tional. The Democratic party in its sub
serviency to the interests of the 350,000
slaveholders of the South, is the only sec
tional party existing. The Republican
party is not radical but conservative--be
cause it holds to ancient compacts--stands
on the conservative ground of non-iuterfe
mnce with slavery where it already exists,
and supports the principles most distinctly
propounded and advocated by Washington,
Jefferson, Henry, Madison, the Randolphs,
Clay, And hosts of the primitive statesmen
of our cumin/. Whet a rebuke is contain
ed to these names, to the fanatics, North
and South, who never tire of heaping op
probrious epithets upon us ! Throughout
the length and breadth of the Republican
Platform, no one principle is avowed which
is not entirely American, Democratic, (we
mean in the proper sense of the word,)
Conservative amid National. Popular rights
Constitutional principles and the unity of
the States. This will be its watchword in
the day of battle, and this its shout of tri
umph when "ictory perches upon its ban
ners.
The Republican Convention.
We feel proud of it. And well may we.—
It was composed of the leading men of the
County—of men of integrity, ability and influ•
once. Every township but one or two woe ful.
ly represented. The proceedings were mar
ked with that decorum which should be shown
in every meeting of the kind, but which is of•
ten forgotten.
Huntingdon County is working. She is de
termined on doing her duty in the approach.
ing election. She will not be the dupe of Slave
drivers longer. We have proof of this in the
large and enthusiastic Convention, composed
of the influential men of the County.
Fire in Mexandria.
On the 2d inst., the dwelling house of Enoch
Cline, and the Wagon-making and blacksmith
shops of .1. 1 W. Piper, in Alexandria, were
burned to the ground. It is not known how
the fire originated but it is presumed to have
been the work of an incendiary. There was
no insurance on Mr. Cline's house. Messrs.
Piper'.{ Shops, were fully insured to the amount
of $l3OO.
IEARRIED.—In Chia borough rut the I Ith,
tort., by Rev. A. R. fitill, Mr. Hugh Wileou
of Warriorrnark to Mist. RUth BMW of
Cantu) Co,
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WILLIAM BREWSTER, EDITons.
SAM. G. WHITTAKER.
Wednesday Morning, Sept. 17, 1856,
Forever float that standard sheet,
Where breathes the foe but fallsbefore
With Freedom's soil beneath our feet.
And Freedom's bnnnerstreaming &cr.!"
Ft 111 1 - 11Zi D ENT/
JOHN C. FIIEMONT,
OF CALIFORNIA. •
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
WM. L. DAYTON,
FOR CANAL CoMmissioNEß.
MIZOBTAI M. COWMAN,
OF YORK COUNTY.
FOR AITFPOR GENERAL,
DARWIN PILDLPII,
AIMITRONG COUNTY.
Pot? GENERAL.
BARTUOLOVUOW 11/1.02:113,
CONGRESS,
lOU R. 211211.
SENATOR,
A. G. SIIMILIT.
FoR ASSEMBLY,
William P. Orbison.
John M. Gibboney.
A SSOCIA T .11,C;ES,
John Morrison, ion. McWilliams.
SHERIFF,
John A. Doyle.
roc STY COMMISSIONER,
James McCartney:
DIRECTOR OF THE POOR,
Teter Swoops.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
Theodore U. Cromer,
COUNTY SURVEYOR,
James E. Glasgow.
AlinTon.
James Crce
/lir NOTICE. As
TE Republican County Committee will meet
in II unlinwion, on Monday, the 22d day of
September. for the transaction of important
business. .1. G. 5111.E5,
• Huntingdon, Sept. 17th, 1856. CHAIRMAN.
Free Speech,
Free RIINSAAS,
FREMONT.
The friends of Free Speech and Free Knn•
sin, who honor flee white labor mid would
shield it from the blighting influence and de•
grading companionship cf Aare labor, will meet
in
Cassville, on the 20th inst.
A number or good speakers will address the
meeting and many valuable documents will be
distributed.
OPPOSITION TACTICS.
In the Presidential cninpaign of 1841, the
contest in Pennsylvania, it will he remember.
ed, turned Mainly on the Tariff question.—
E NRY • C LAY, the outlier of the protective poll•
cy, was absolutely certain to receive the vote
of this State is a fair canvass. This the l.o•
cofocos well knew; and hence, whilst their
candidate, Poix, was notoriously known, by
every well-informed politician in the nation, to
oppose the protective policy and especially the
"NH; of '42 ;" whilst ho was openly and
truthfully proclaimed, in the South, as opposed
to protection, and zealously supported there on
that ground, the corrupt leaders of his party in
this State, misled by shameless falsehoods, thou.
sands of honest, well-meaning voters, and ear•
tied the election against us.
In this infamous fraud nod base sacrifice of
Pentisylviuda interests to the arrogant demands
of the Cotton Aristocracy, .Isams BCCIIANAN
bore a conspicuous and 14tally successful part. .
Ho woo at that lime in a position to betray his
State for n price. Ile had, until then, possess.
ed the good itttl Democratic doctrine of "pro.
tection to hone industry," just as he possessed,
until within the last year or two, hostility to
the extension of Negro• Slave Labor over our
Free Territories. The hottest masses of plain
citizens—farmers, mechanics and laborers—
who do not watch closely the dishonest schen,
sag of corrupt politicians, then trusted to his
integrity ; and when he assured them, ''on his
own personal knowledge," "that James K.
Polk was as good a Tariff man as Henry Clay,"
they belie, ed his declaration, and thenceforth,
innocently marched under banners inscribed
with the infamous falsehood! Through this
foul treachery to truth, this betrayal of confl•
deuce on the part of Mn. BUCHANAN and the
I corroborating falsehood of the equally infa
mous "Kane letter," the sage of Ashland, the
noble, self•sacrificing champion of American
industry, was defeated, and a third rate South
ern lawyer, a slave owner and breeder, the
friend of British operations and manufactures,
corruptly made the chief ruler ,if a seminally
free, virtuous and patriotic people 1 These are
races that cannot be forgotten by any man that
reai a Locofoco paper, or attended a Locofoco
meeting eight years ago; FACTS that will not
be denied by any intelligent, honest man of any
party new. If any thing can exceed the infix
my of these transactions, it is the audacity of
the same party, pow beetled by one of these
arch traitors to truth and principle, attempting
to deceive the friends of Freedom in the pend
ing Presidential election, as they betrayed the
friend. of protection in 1844. But, thank God,
I the sites who were derNided of theirutp in
that day, have not forgotten the cheat, and their
sons, who have since grown to manhood, will
profit by their recollections. The great ewin.
dle cannot be repeated, and the attempt will
only cover the authors with shame, as the in.
&pant. voice of freemen will overwhelm them
with defeat.
But it has been said that "the price of liber
ty is eternal vigilance,"and we, therefore, deem
it our duty to guard the unwary against the
Treacherous wiles of our unscrupulous enemies,
by a brief expose of their tactics in this State
since the opening of the campaign. Thus far
they have directed their efforts to three distinct
points of attache or defence, viz: Slandering
our candidate, misrepresenting our principles,
and elcilyiay their own. Under the first head,
besides several minor falsehoods, they charge
CO, FREMONT With making fraudulent demands
on the government, and they allege that he is
a Catholic, a slave-holder, and a duellist.
From the first of these charges, the records
of Congress fully and triumphantly acquit him.
It can be there seen that his claims were thor
oughly investigated and promptlyconfirmed by
a Democratic Congress years ago I Every dol
lar that ho demanded for hin,artluous services
in our Western wilds, he received, and not a
voice, either in or out of Congress, impeached
the justice of its action. Eriends of freedom,
wheu this slander is repeated in your presence,
remember that the party that brought it before
the public, audited and approved the claims of
Cot.. FREMONT several years ago, and never
whispered anything about fraud until after he
became the rival of the pro-Slavery candidates
for President.
The story of Famsovr's Catholicity is cam
pletely refuted by the undeniable facts that he
was born of Protestant parents, baptized by a
Protestant minister, married a Protestant wife,
worships with her and his family in a Prates.
tent church, has had his children baptised in
the same church, and in educating them in Pro.
testant schools! Is further evidence necessary
on this point, it is found in the notorious,
undisputed fact, that ever) Catholic newspaper
from the Boston Pilot down to the liontinydon
Globe, and almost e eery voter with Catholic
preferences or proclivities, is fiercely arrayed
against Cot,. FREMONT'S election. Honest rea
der, look around you. There are, most probe.
hly, some Catholics in your neighborhood. Do
any of them support our candidate for the
Presidency? No, they are all as fit mly bound
to JAMES BUCHANAN as to the Pope, as devout
ly attached to the pro Slavery party as to the
Catholic Church.
If the charges of slnve•holding and duelling
preferred against Cot,. FRiIIONT, are true, all
we have to say is, that they come with a very
bad grace front a party that has been more or
less subservient to the slave interest for the last
twenty•five years ; a party that now seeks to
spread this blighting curse over our free terri•
tories ; a perty that has recently justified, by its
votes in Congress and its press everywhere,
the cowardly assault on Greeley, the attempted
assassit &ion of Sunnier, and the cold-blooded
murder of Keating, together with all the rob ,
berics, arsons, and butcheries perpetrated on
the friends of Liberty in Kansas by the contd.
vance and sanction of this same party. Will the
honest voters of Pennsylvania believe such
charges on the evidence of such witnesses 2--
They will not. But the accusations are not
true; and we dismiss them without argument,
believing that the character of the testimony
adduced to sustain them, is a sufficient proof
of their incredibility and talsehood.
It now retnains for us to notice the enemy's
misrepresentation of the principles awl objects
of the Republican party, nod their denial of
their own true position in the present contest.
We have space, at present, merely to state their
allegations, and must leave their discussion till
our next issue. They charge us with prefer•
ring the rights of the itegro to those of our own
race. We show them, and satisfy all holest
men that we are pleaditig the cause of free
WIIITE law, They charge us with seeking
a dissolution of the Union. We will prove that
ourenemies, only,threaten that calamity. They
deny, of late, that they are a pro Slavery party.
We will demonstrate to every reasonable man
that may rend our articles, that the present
Buchanan party of Pennsylvania has been, and
is the principle doughface ally or the
South ; that .1A !!1,5 li t7i . II ANA V, their leader, has
been and the clinging sycophantic servitor
of the Since Power; and that his election
would be a triumph of Slavery over Freedom ;
and would doom millions anent, of the nation.
al domain to Mschrok of Me bondman 's chains
and the infamy of the slave pen and human
auction block.
BEHOLD THE LIARS.
The editors of the "Huntingdon American"
with all their braggadocio, have refused to com
ply with our suggestion, and place $25 in good
hands, that they are very base fabricators.—
We have waited now two weeks, and these bi
peds, have not dared "face the music." They
thus declare themselves liars ; we prove them
liars ; and the people long ago stamped them
liars. These wretched creatures—penniless,
and without character, me more to be pitied,
however, than condemned. We should not
have noticed them at all, had it not been to cot ,
rect their misrepresentations ; and for once,
we have stepped out of the "even tenor of our
way," to meet these creatures, whom it would
be base flattery to call fools, with their own
weapon and on their own ground. Can riot
same of their masters spur them on ? We
rnitlee7Loy"arrevelhrelt these obje poor objects :3 souls--for
commiser
ation and charity, than butts for sarcasm and
ridicule. We hope, for these reasons that the
public may not deal too hardly with them.
Milnwood Academy.
We invite attention to the advertisement of
the above•named institution in another part of
our paper today. It is one of the most heal.
th r locations in the United States, and possess.
no advantages, unsurpassed and almost une•
qualed by any other institution of' of the kind,.
in the country. We have the pleasure of a
personal acquaintance with the excellent Prin•
cipal—Pro. Woods, and we are free to say a
more talented and in every other sense of the
word, gentleman, we never knew. We know
of no more desirable place to educate yotir
chiltheik than Milnwood.
Did Yoi Hear 'he News from
Littl Mai e? S-a-y ?
IMO GUNS FOR MAINE
mott
An Awful "shriek" for Freedom ! !
God blow old Maine!
SIIOUT, FREE VIEN, SHOUT !
The gallant State of Maine "sends greeting"
to her sister States across the swelling surges
of Portland Bay. Buchanan is there swallow.
ed up in the popular expression against the out
rages in Kansas. Hamlin, the Republi can can
didate for Governor, is elected by a popu lar
majority over the combined Loeov, i gR, of
21.fOUSAND,
together with all the Congressmer, and nine•
ty•nine.one•hundredths of the rest of the ofli•
cers. This majority is sufficient for all practb
cal purposes. Fraud, outrage and wrong are
receiving their sentence. The people "keep
step to the music of the Union" and of Free.
dom. Maine broke the ice in 1840—we no•
cept the om en and march on to
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A MAGNIFICENT r " FIZZLE. "
In the early part of last week;;;Zile;tl a
number of large letters on bills on all the cot
nere of the town, announcing the fact that
"the Democracy of Huntingdon and the cur•
rounding townships will have a grand rally on
Saturday night." Beside this, they intended
to raise a hickory pole—(by the way, we won
der how they can nee that kind of timber, since
their party has re pudiated General .Jackson,)
in the evening. Well, Saturday came, but not
the—stop there ; we were just going to nay
not the "Democracy front the surrounding
townships;' but we believe in fact the Buchan-.
an Democracy were out from the "surround•
ing townships," en masse ; the delegations
from these "surrounding townships," number.
ing one white man and sixteen -'Paddy Irish;'
the balance of the honest Democrats, being
supporters of Fremont and Freedom. But to
proceed ; the procession was formed at about
8 o'clock, and after a few preliminary drinks,
it began to move. After the procession had
moved up and down the streets 'invent' times,
and the entire "Democracy of Hunt ingdon and
the surrounding townships" had joined it, we
stationed ourself at a corner to take a view of
men who could disgrace their American eitizet.•
ship, by thus openly endorsing the outrages of
bottler ruffians in Kansas, by shouting for Jas.
Buchanan, the nominee of these rtinialln.—
Well, we made an accurate count of every vte
ter in that procession, and we found that aecoo
ding to Democratic authority, the entire "De.
moeracy of Huntingdon and the surrounding
townships" mounted to 49 American-bent eit•
Nene, 26 gentlemen with the 'rich Irish brogue,'
9 with the ' swect Cern ne accent, tnd I
who we tusk for a eolorttl "gt nimin," in the
dark—but we "count him in," and make the
procession number 82 ; mark that. eiglity.two.
There were two transparencies—painted by
T. Adams. we believe, on tete of which we rend
“111.7 CHAS-N-A X CLUB."
!Lathe orthography must have been very little
better than their whiskey, for it would have
busied some of them amazingly to have wnllo
ed a two inch plank. However, under tint skill.
ful generalship, of our postmaster in embryo,
Placatory Colon, and the "right fun, left fat"
training of our military chieftain, Robert the
Bruce, the immortal 82 were safely lodged in
the Court House. We made n calculation, and
found that the prisoner's box there, could have
been filled eight times with that crowd.
Among the Vice Presidents appointed, we
noticed our old friend cx•chicf justice Daniel.
Tom•ass McDowel of Hollidaysburg, a Ito.
unit Catholic, was then introduced and began
to spout ble anathamas and so forth at Colonel
Fremont. Thomas had better remain 'to hum'
ns the only mnrk of interest he brought with
hint, was a rubicund vis, a blossomed proboscis.
If Buchanan's election depended on the powers
of Ruch men, he wouldn't get a thousand rot cs
in Pennsylvania. That's so.,
This was the grandest fizzle we ever saw;
it hail not one redeemieg quality, except, per.
haps, the music of our band. It was even
worse than their fizzle at Pittsburg on Wednes•
day last. The days of Pierce and Buchanan
Democracy are numbeted.
ger An excellent communication received
from an "old Whig," will appear in our next.
ler-The proceedings of the Fremont Meet.
ing at Mill Creek, will appear next week.
/fi•Graham's Magazine for October is be.
fore us. It is unusually replete with interest.
ing matter.
Mir The Inventor for September has been
received. It is an excellent No.
tar The School Journal for September in on
our table. It in a fine work.
GODEY'g LADY'S BOOK, for October, is up.
on our table and is full to the standard erected
by its proprietor. Its fashion plates, and not
chef work patterns are of peculiar interest to
the fair sex.
Loon our von SWIMMING T.
Porter, Esq., who has had the experience of
twentysix years an editor of the New York
Spirit of the Time., issued this month a spor
ting and literary newspaper called Porter's
Rpirit of Me Times. It is of the same nine
and character as the old paper and also con
tain contributions from the able and brilliant
writers that have given the Spirit its dietin•
guished position among the the literary jour
nals of the United States. Thin paper will
have a large circulation.
air T. B. Peterson, h as now in press, and
will be ready for sale on Saturday Septonsber
27, another of Mrs. Rentz, works, entitled
"The Baniahed Son." It is spoken of RI an
excellent work, and can Le hkd for $1 2 5 , nest
ly bound in cloth.
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THE COUNTY TICKET.
The Republican Executive Committee of this
County met in the Court House, on Saturday,
the 13th inst., pursnrint to a call of the tempo.
racy Chairman, Pr. John McCulloch. Penna.
cent officers were elected—J. G. Miles, Esq.,
being unanimously cho ten Chairman, John
Read, \'ice.Chairman, Pr. W. Brewster, Re.
cording, and J. A. Hall, Corresponding Secre.
tary.
A communication was received from David
Blair, Esq., Chairman of the American Dare
utive Committee of Huntingdon County pro,
posing to unite with the Republicans on a
County ticket, on 'fair and honorable terms."
The proposition was accepted (one voice dis
senting) on conditions considered to be frtir,,
honorable and liberal, on our part, and a Com
mittee appointed to report to Mr. Blair, the or
gan of the American Committee. We have
not yet heard the result, bat judge front niicrfli.
cial reports that there are still difficulties in the
way of a union on what sincere Republicans
consider a fair basis ; and, therefore, we advise
our friends to stand to their colors for the pre
sent, and relax no effort that mny promote suc
cess in case the proposed fusion should ultimate
ly fail.
Since writing the above, we have received
the following notice from the Chairman of the.
Republican County Convention.
The late action of the Republican Committee
an the overtures of the American party for a
union on a County ticket, has called forth nob
ther communication front D. Itlair, Esq., Chair
man of the American County Committee, in
which he alleges that the action of the Repub.
lican Convention on his letter of the 15th inst.,
was based on a misapprehension of its spirit
and intention. He therefore begs leave to renew
the invitation to oar Comely*. to meet the
American Committee, nt the Court House, on
Monday, the 22,1 inst., nt 6 o'clock, p. m., to
make a united, •hooest and earliest effort to a
greo on a county ticket on equal terms.
In response to this patriotic appeal of oar
American friends, the Republican Committee
is hereby called to meet nt the time and piece,
and for the purpose above named. Whether
the meeting results in a union or not, it ettni...t
fail to give a new impulse to our future efforti
in the campaign before us. It is hoped that
the attendance will be fall.
J. G. MILES, Choi. Co. Com.
Hunt., Sept. 16, 1856.
MESRS. EDITORS :-I am confidently inform•
ed by citizens of Shirleysburg, that Br. Bald.
win—that boisterous Southerner, who bus been
a little better than ono year in our County,—
who led the Into American Convention,—at
whose dictation the Republicans were rejected;
has now come out for Buchanan.
SarA letter from Fayette county, Penn -
sykyania,tty4 that that county, which heretofore
give 800 Democratic majority, will thil year
go for Fremont by a majority of 2000. Due
borough alone will give a majority of 400.
After a thorough CRIIVIIRR only seven reliable
Buchanan men can be found in the town.
eke On the War Eagle, Mbisidsipi steamer,
Fremont 70: Buchanan Itl; Fillmore 8.
Itisir On the Steamer pecan Wars., Fronton(
.If, liachnnan 21 , Fillmore n.
jiiy-The Watkins Itoptohlionns, hitherto yelep•
osl I.l.mmernt moiler its new somisires turns its
face In the nun of freedoms. There is n goud
cheer in thin.
:Air A 1111111r:4 1/1.111 o.ll'ololly
eiIIISUSS(.II by :moot:imps Mr Paell ACIIOI,I
iriet . The Soto ,it the l'resitlemiltl election Mr
Fremont will not lall moch short ol 51.10, awl
for 13.1mnan, Fillmore tool scattering about
75.
Eir We went shown teL week an Ami, •
tVp. I ink( out 11. e I billtry f our fiima)
Aliso., and we h•oce no hesitation in pronoun.
eing it the finest specimen or the art ever ex.
hibitad in the "ancient borough." Friends
now is the time to get true likenesses. Room
in the Court 'louse upstairs. Co mance for
yourselves.
fie— We are indebted to Miss Ivory }lntl
for a large basket of the most delicious grapes
we ever saw nr tasted. Miss navy will please
accept the hearty thanks of not only the whole,
corps rdilorial, but the corps dia bolus, of the
Journal ollice. May she live a thousand years ,
and her shadow never grow less.
We are al. indebted to Mrs. Major Steel
for a like favor. We can only any they could
not be bent.
ler The woods, above town, have been on
fire for the last week. The fire extends a dis•
tenon of five miles.
/lir The Constitution ofthe Fremont Club
shall appear next week.
PHILADELPHIA MARKETS,
Fresh ground Flour is offered at $7 per bbl.
without finding buyers, except to the extent of
2a500 barrels ; sales of 450 barrels extra at
$7,50; sales to the trade at $7a7,25 for com•
mon and select brands ; $7,371a57,50 for can,
and $8a8,50 for fancy. Rye Flour is steady
at $3,50. In Corn Meal there is nothing do
ing we quote Pennsylvania at $3,871 per bbl.
Gram—There is a moderate demand for wheat
at yesterdays quotations; sales of 6000 bush
els fair and prime Pennsylvania and South•
ern red at $1,521a1,53 per bushel ' • a lot of
grown at $1 , 50, and white at $1 62n51,65, a.
float and in store; 400 bushels Rye sold at 75
cents, at which rate it is wanted. Corn is its
good demand, but supplies comes forward slow.
ly ; sales of 3a4000 bushels Yellow at 67 cents
afloat. Oats are steady nt 37a38 Cents per
bushel for new, and 39340 cents for old Penn
eylvania.
mucELLANtottilivEnismitilis.
NOTICE:
The Jurors Summoned fo r an adjourned'
Court, commencing on the 22d, of September,
are hereby notified that they need not attend,
as the cases for trial have been continued.
M. F. CAMPBELL.
Prot.y.
Sept. IT, 1856.
HICKOK'S PATENT 11 ORTADLE
CIDER AND WINE MILL.
Patented Nov. 20. 1846.
Tills Mill occupies about 2+ feet by 3 feet sod
is 4 feet high, weighing 370 pounds, and is
worked by hand or horsepower, and goes eery
easily. Two men can make from 6to 12 bai.
rely of cider per day, if worked according to di
reetions.
For dale al, the manufacturer'. print., br
Mews. Taylor A. Ctemer, Huntingdon Airege.
Price, $.lO.
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