- - .
it impresces, and the penalties by which
ere -enforced. So shamefully ignorant
stie.theyof the subject, that many of them have
•Y;z'. - • , '-idesitirremd the evidence of their authenticity,
:'iluid'eVen up to this day douht it. No reflect
.miseicerin foil to cereals e the alarming state
of soCiety which now pervades this whole re.
Lnwless combinations of men every
*berg substitnte xnErti will for the law of the
A .gilds and in open day, in the face of the pub.
lic,'inflict such punishment as they judge best,
on ail whomthey may deco, offenders. Every
patriotic eye must see, and every patriot heart
• must bleed over these precursory symptoms
of the speedy overthrow and . destruction of re
publican' constitutional liberty. And yet in
thtie portentous evils we only see exemplified
Itte principles and the practices of the lodge.
•
IT establishes tribunals unknown to the law to
try unheard ofcrimes. and inflicts punishments,
• • •
even unto deatliamon whomsoever IT adjudges
‘' Wherein is rr more justifiable, or
More entitled to the protection or sympathy
public, than the Vicksburg murderers,
the convent incendiaries, or the ruffian mobs
ofltaltimorei The lodge, even more
than those disorganizing and detestahle
-combinations, she ws its consciousness of wick
"'';:_
,coneys by concealing its deeds under the dark
nest: co night, and the thick evil of oath bound
- 'Secrecy.
The L ppison of this deadly serpent seems to
be infused into almost every artery and vein of
our.-national and state governmentS. The
.. Chief Magistrate of the Union makes all the
forms-of government bend to ors will; con
-:`atrues, right or wrong, law and the constitu
lion air its understands them, without regard
to, the checks and balances and emending
branches established by the constitution. And
Why:nhusilit he not? tic is a high adhering
,Insrnini - tuid is taught by his Masonic principles;
- ssaY,'ls hound by Isis Masonic oaths, to subject
the public 'will and public laws to a secret self
_ :::eontroling power. You and your unshackled
Aeti-Masonic brethren can and ought to re
shit such principles. But with what proprie
ty,with what consistency, can adhering Ma
: NOBS, of any party, condemn them? It is the
same doctrine which they learn in the lodge
ind.defend in public whenever they oppose
,Anti-Masons.
The l'ust Master General has lately inform
; ', p ert the public in an official publication, of the
‘• principles held by the administration, and by
which the people are allowed to govern their
own conduct. "WE own(soys he) AN OBLIGA
TION TO TIIE, LAWS, BUT • HIGHER ONE TO TIIE
, .
- .COMMUNITY IN WI/ICII WE LIFE." This is the
•, reverse-of the Anti-Masonic doctrine that pro
claims the "SUPREMACY OF TIRE LAWS." THIS
• teaches the supremacy of a "lIIGIIER OBLIGA
TION!' If this “nierisn OBLIGATION " 'lath pre
vail, who is to jiidge .of it? 'the law points
flit no tribunal; for it itrabove the law. Who
is to direct the mode by which this onionen
eauciaTion" is to be executed? The law can
not, for it is "nimiart" than the law. It follows,
from this dangerous doctrine, that every man
in the community is constituted' the judge of
Ins own and his neighbor's conduct, without
any fiXed rule or tribunal to define their merits,
their crinies, or their punishments. Let this
base doctrine be approved and become the
•. prevailing rule of action, among our citizens;
let every town and village become a Vicksburg,
a Charleston or a Baltimore, and every knot of
• men, every seperate community, from the At
lantic to the Rocky Mountains will become
bloody desolating tyrants, of cringing, stiffer.
ing slaves. The will of the strongest ruffian
will control his fellow ruffian. The outlaw
will have equal right to judge of this "uronsa
OBLIGATION with the peaceful citizen. The
malefactor will be as meritorious as the virtu
ous-man, who by adopting such principles and
such practices himself becomesa felon. Those
. ‘BESPECTA BLS PLANTERS," as they are called,
who, in Mississippi and Illinois, and other
Southern States, have constituted themselves
into judges and executioners of gamblers and
political incendiaries, are not only murderers,
btit far worse than murderers; for in their law
less execution .of worthless vagabonds, they
Lave pierced the vitals of the Constitution, the
very heart of Liberty!
Willis revolutionary and anarchical doctrine
should be reduced to general practice, our peo
ple will soon seek relief from the intolerable
cruelty and uncertainty of a thousand tyrants,
in the calm, settled repose of a single despot.
And yet this appalling doctrine, which threat
ens to blot out the sun of Freedom, is but the
:vatic adoption of the once secret but now
well ascertained and recognized principles of
the lodge. IT disregards the municipal law,
and decides-when this "imam- OBLIGATION"
exists. Fr executes untried and uncondemned
citizens, when it supposes this "1110IIER oat!-
, NATION " requires it. Suppose the same creed
Were adopted by Anti-Masons, what would be
• the consequence? They have seen an inno.
cent human being wantonly murdered; his wife
'Made a. widow and his children orphans, in o
. bedience to and by members of art affiliated as
sociation extending throughout our - Union.—
The murderers and their accomplices are well
known. heir just fate is apparent to all.—
The law cannot and does not reach them.—
. Shall Anti-Masons rise, in virtuous indignation,
level every lodge in the Union to the ground,
and bang the immediate offenders us they rich 7
ly melt? The secret principles of the lodge,
and the public principles of our Masonic gov
. ernment would warrant it; and they at least
could not complain of the act. But those Ma
sonic principles are the seeds of tyranny, the
•. rout of terror and of bloddslied planted by the
• Fatter of Evil. Let them be shunned by every
friend of his country, every lover of human
race.
But Anti-Masonry is said to be persecuting
•.
and proscriptive; and many of our citizens as
sign this as a reason why they refuse to co.op.
'crate with us. If Masonry .be an evil, it must
• be admitted to, be the duty of all those who
,think 50,.t0 use their best efforts forTts sup
pression. But how is it to be supposed? Not
-by delivering idle, barren phillipics against it.
That would bring its opponents into just ridi
cute and contempt. It can be effected only
:_.by penal prohibitory laws. But such laws can
• neither be enacted nor executed until you
elect officers and legislature who acknowledge
:.both the
evil of Masonry and the justice of leg.
- -,lslative prohibition. Hence not only the jus
ties but necessity of political, not merely moral
.Anti-Masonry. PEESECUTION! Have mot all our
- means been legal and constitutional? Patniciiir-
Taos! this not all our opposition been peace
ful. and legitimate—Have we not seen the
sionsTan trambling the laws under foot and
grinding the constitution to atoms; and yet has
"1t it our whole warfare, even against him. been
'restrained by legit, rules? When have we
f..'sktught•to shelter ourselves tinder the plea of
licentious equity? under those
:g •• . - 7i,;ll.ll,l4kriosis mouse" than the law? True we
••** , ,ykfusted• to bestow upon adher rag Ma
titiOtit*biatin, Which they had no right to demand
;boon of our suffrages. Show, me stir
P 4 Wttf - 41tilr Constitution', the laws, or bill of
ii*hith guarantees Co them the votes of
nOstid then I will admit that we have
:right---that we have proscribed
cuted them We withhold our votes
'teitig,WhigsaniLlackson Men Upon the
WON that they withhold them from
ei:;:beeause we eondeinn their prinei
ar
1 : ". - belikve - theinjorionir to community.
_ it*:llliatin -- 4geht himself agrieved by, being
*Vll4Wititid e 1 and advantag es which he wishes
NOtAktickyi Ow remedy is in his own power.—
THE GETTYSB
Let him dissolve. his connexion with that ab
horred institution, and aid us to abolish it, and'
, then he shall receive our warmest welcome.
So far have we extended our liberality to re
pentant Masons, that our opponents have often
alledged it against us as proof of insincerity.
ITime who agree with us on many political
questions. and who, from different motives, are
opposing the same men whom we oppose. of
ten appeal to us to amalgamate with them.
and suspend or merge our distinctive pdinci
plea and appellation in one which . shall he
common to all. And they frequently de
nounce us as obstinate, head-strong. and pro
scriptive, when we decline it; and in revenge
many of them go over and become incorpora
ted with their and our opponents. Let its in•
quire whether THEY or we. have reason on our
side. If the fault is with us. let its abandon it.
For our whole political course should be steer
ed by the helm patriotism. We will suppose
that the negotiating parties agree in all things
hut opposition to Masonry. One party be
lieves Masonry to be an evil paramount to all
others which infest our republic. That party
cannot without moral treason and the prostitu
tion of their own consciences, abandon their
opposition to it. Nor aloes the correction of
other great evils require it. While they op
pose Masonry, they oppose all other - moirpa
thins. (lime who see danger in the preten
sions of the Executive, will find the most
efficient means of defeating them by
,joining
Anti Masonry. What should prevent them?
The great mass of them say that they are neith
er Masons nor Anti-Masons. and while they
suppose Masonry to be harmless, they admit it
to be trascr.as. If it be merely useless, they
would make no sacrifice by abandoning it to
its fate, and going with Anti-Masoni to effect
other great and desirable objects But it is
much to be feared that many of those who pro.
fess this doctrine are the secret friends of Ma
sonry. Else why do they so bitterly oppose
Anti-Masonry; and railer than see it succeed,
go over to a party, whose principles they de
clare are ruinous to the country? flow often
have we been called upon by a highly respec
table party to sacrifice our name and organi
zation to "NAVE Tam eninioTns" from the despo
tism ofJacktioniand And•when we have urged
them to join our ranks to effect the same (a
mong other) objects, many of those alarmed!
patriots have spurned our alliance, and rather
than become saviours of their country on any
other than their own terms, joined the very
ranks of him whom they called a tyrant? And
yet wen men avow that they are not influenced
by Masonry! Many of our own honest friends
have been deceived by this urgent and plausi•
ble appeal, and sunk their own name and prin
ciples, without a single compensating advan
tage to themselves or their country. It cannot
be denied that many of our nerveless, vacilla
ting, ambitious friends, unwilling to wait the
slow success of trutli,.have cast away this an
chor of their faith, and sought out new inven
tions and strange company to rise themselves
more speedily to power. And what if their
candidates should thus temperately succeed?
It would be the triumph of men and not of
principles. Much injury too has been done to
our cause by many who joined us without know
mg, or feeling, or caring for the evils of Ma
sonry; who acted with us from a restless hope
of preferment; a set of party buccaneers, who
would enlist tinder any banner, and march in
any ranks for the sake of plunder; gilded politi
cal insects, who fluttered gaily among us in the
sunshine of hope, and vanished with the first
nipping frost!
I know that many refuse to join us out of
friendship for adhering Masons, upon whims
our principles weigh heavily. They feel great
compassion for them, without reflecting that
they bring the consequences upon their own
heads by their obstinate pride and folly. So
great is their sympathy for their loss of those
honors and emoluments, which freemen have a
right to withhold or bestow, that they cannot
hear the wailings• of the orphan children, the
widowed wife, or the dying screams of the mur
dered Morgan! Let no proud member of the
secret aristocracy sneer at the frequent mention
of THAT name, in the hearing of freemen. I
know it is the fashion to answer their fellow
citizens with scoff's. The culprit, for lack of
better answer, often sneers with affected dis
dain while his knees smite together with con
scious guilt. The name and tragic fate of that
martyred victim, whose life pointed out and
whose death uncovered the heaving volcano on
which we stood, cannot and ought not to be for
gotten; or, to that unhallowed institution, for
given, by shuddering christian and indignant
freemen, while the vast Niagara rolls and tour
murs above his unburied corpse! Sympathy for
obstinate, ADHEHING Masons! Change your sick
ly pity into christian advice. Urge them to
come oat and aid us in condemning and over
throwing the grim Idol whose cannibal jaws are
reeking end defiled with the crushed bones and
spirting gore of immortal men?
Mr. president:—We have but one cause of
regret in the joy of our approaching success.
Where are many of those great men of another
state—those early apostles of Anti-Masonry—
from whose eloquent lips fell denunciations up•
on the unholy institution, like burning thunder
bolts? They are dead—dead to Anti-Masonry,
to principles and their country. Why is a Hush's
tongue silent and his pen idle in this sacred
cause? Had they been prompted by honest,
sincere conviction, and possessed the self de
nying patriotism which adorns the truly great;
and that enduring fortitude which laughs at dan•
ger and defeat; instead of being the scorn of our
fides and the pity of our friends, their talents,
their learning and their characters would have
entitled them to march in the front ranks of that
triumphant procession of the bold and the free,
which shall era long be held to celebrate the
victory of the people in the disenthralment of
this gre a t a nd patriotic State. Then, I trust,
malty of you will again meet together to wit
ness, and exercise, and inculcate, towards a
prostrate foe, that liberal and forebearing mag
nanimity which is the characteristic of virtuous
victors.
CONVENTION QUESTION
For the Star & Banner.
TO THE PEOPLE
OF TUE
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
f:lsz the second Tuesday in October, 1815,
(this year), a vote is to be taken 'Tor a
Convention," and "Against a Convention,"
to alter the Constitution of the State of Penn
sylvania. On this most important of all
political questions, every Citizen should
vote. I am . free to confess, that such are
my fears of a Convention, at this time, that
if I were sick in my bed, I should consider
it a duty, to my large family of children, to
be carried to the polls to give my • vote
"Against a Convention," I venerate the
Sages and Heroes of the Revolution ; and I
would let no unhallowed hands tear to pieces
the sacred Constitution which they framed.
In 1789 the Constitution 61 . the United
States went into Operation, end in 1790 the
Constitution of Pennsylvania was modelled
on that, of the, United Slates and was adopt . .
ed. George Washington pr ;•ided over the
body which framed the Constitution of the
United States. Atha 31pdison, is the on•
ly iuniting member of that assembly.
Thomas Mifflin, was President of the as
sembly which framed our Pennsylvania
Constitution. These Constitutions have
both been in operation nearly fifty years,
nod in all that time have worked together
fig good—good to the United States—good
to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and
good to the People. Nobody has been fool
enough, or wicked enough, to propose a
Convention to alter the Constitution of the
United States; but restless, mischievous and
ambitions men have, for thirty years, been
trying to get together a Convention to tear
our Constitution to pieces and make a new
One.
In 1805, the question of a "Convention,"
or "No Convention," was first submitted to
the People of Pennsylvania, and the People
ratified the Constitution, by giving a ma
jority of Five Thousand against a Conven
tion. Twenty years alter that vote, that is
in the year 1825, the question of a "Con-
Veniion" or "No Convention," was again
submitted to a vote of the People, and the
People again ratified and confirmed the
Constitution by a majority, three times
as great as that which had been given in
1805. The majority against a Convention
in 1825, was 15,343. Thus, after thirty
five years experience, a very large majori
ty of the voters of Pennsylvania, declared
themselves well satisfied with the Constitu
tion, and voted against a call of a Conven
tion. Wicked and reckless men. however,
who desire to uproot the very titles by
which people hold their lands, and scramble
up into high places for their own profit;
these men, have teased and worried the
General Assembly into the passage of a law
by which a vote is again to be taken, at the
next General Election, whether a Conven
tion shall, or shall not, be called, to make a
new Constitation, and destroy the present
Constitution, under which the State has
flourished, and the people have lived happy
and grown rich.
Is this a time to call a Convention? when
political strife pervades the State—when
riots disgrace our Cities, and insurrection
end murder agitate and alarm our Southern
States? I know whet the People of Penn
sylvania think. They think that their rights
are protected and their property is protected
by the present Constitution, and they are
well contented with it. It is the idle, the
Iturbulent and the ambitious who thus dis
turb and disquiet us. All that is wanted is,
for those who know and feel the blessings
dour Constitution, to turn .out on the day
of election, to do their - duty, and vote to
put the disorganizers down and keep them
down. I know very well how the honest
and industrious—the peace-loving and pro
perty-holding portion of the community will
vote. They will not give up that which
they know to be good—that under which
their country and themselves have prosper
ed, to be . cut up, and to get they know not
what worthless Thing in placer Of that Con
stitution which was framed'by the Men w
the Revolution. All lam anxious about is
to get the voters out. Let them but come
to the Election Ground and vote, and the
day after they may say "All's well! the
Constitution is safii and so is my Property;
and so are my. Rights, all, all are safe un
der the protection of the Constitution which
was made by the Men of '76."
I will insert at the foot of this, the names
of some of the Great and good Men who
made, and whose names are signed to our
Constitution.
It may not be thought improper here to
remark, that among the following are the
names of four Governors of Pennsylvania,
of two Secretaries of the Treasury, and a
Secretary of State of the United States, and
of many eminent Judges and highly distin
guished Lawyers. They and their fellow
labourers made a good Constitution, and
experience has proved it good, and ICA us
have good sense enough to go to the Polls,
and vote for its continuance.
James ‘Vilson,of the City of Philadelphia,
Thomas M'Kean,
Thomas Mifflin, County of Philadelphia,
Robert Coleman, County of Lancaster,
William Irvine, County of Cumberland,
Joseph Heister, County of Berks,
Thomas Beale, County of Mifflin,
Timothy Pickering,, County of Luzerne,
Alexander Addison, of Washington,,&c.
Simon Snyder, of the County of North
umberland,
Samuel Sitgreaves, of Northampton
County,
John Smilie, of Fayette County,
Albert Gallatin,
William Findlay, of Westmoreland Co.,
James Ross, of alleghany County,
John Gloninger, of Dauphin County,
Alexander Graydon,
WINDING UP. -It is understood that the
Bank of the United States has sold out its
branches in Charleston, S. C. Lexington,
and Louisville, Ky. Portsmouth, N., EL and
Baltimore.
RITNER.—The accounts from the County
are highly favorable to Mr. Railer; and
give a sure promise of his triumphant elec
tion. We have just conversed with a gen
tleman who has returned from exploring
eight or ten adjacent counties; and he re
presents the public sentiment to be,so deci
dedly favorable to Mr. Ritner, that his elec
tion by a LARGE MAJORITY, is placed beyond
a doubt.
The Alexandria Gazette says—" The war
between the Penrisylvania Wolves and Mules
is, to us, the most uninteresting contest we
ever witnessed. Both parties seem to be so
utterly worthless, as not even to excite an
emotion of preference or partiality. It is
probable, and that reflection alone gives us
consolation,that by the time the fight is over,
like the Kilkenny cats, there will be nothing
left of the combatants bUt their tails."
10-We despise the custom of adrertising.those wo
men who, through ill- treattneut or otherwise, are
compelled to leave their homes and seek shelter un
der the protection of those who are more Christianly
disposcd than those booed to gere„honqr and protect'
„them. We publish no such notices. For the sake of
a pitiful dollar we cannot consent to do that which car
ries disgrace and mortification into helpless, unotren,-
ding circles. We always suspected that the man who
could thus act was incapable,either through ignorance
or base motives, of appreciating the injury inflicted.
The intelligence of such men can easily be inferred
from the index furnished iu the followin,s notice,taken
froin an Ohio paper.—
Salem August 31111 1835
know rill persons by thous pre.tsants that
mary test my wife has left my bed and board•
ing without eney just Cause tharefore i fore
worne all / persons from trusting her on my
account as i urn dctermond nut to pay envy
lets of her contracing unless compeled by
law Joseph Test haugh haugh haugh
From the Huntingdon Journal.
SECRET SOCIETIES.
We publish today the Deposition ofias.
A. Shedd, given in the trial of Lefever, fOr
a libel on 'l'. Stevens,Esq. Vl'e should like
to publish all the evidence in the case; its
extensive ; length, however, renders it no.
cessary, only to give occasional extracts.
We ask nil those who claim to be honora
ble men, and who do riot wish to be ncces
sikry to the "trained forces of masonry," to
read and reflect. The evidence.here, is too
overwhelming to admit of equivocation; it
comes in the tnttjesty of immaculate truth,
and must bury every vestige of scepticism
as to the power of their oath bound society—
NONE UNDER OATH dare deny, that
their banner bore the bloody insigna of
"DEATH to the man who would expose a
brother, even if guilty of MURDER or
TREASON."
Is not the fact that some, even in our own
county, who claim to be honorable excep
tions to the trained forces of Masonry, are
at this moment opposing the election of Jo
seph Ritner, and assigning as the reason that
they do not like Anti-Masonry; thus giving
a tacit acknowledgement that they know
him to be the best man. Is not this fact,
we say evidence to the unprejudiced, that
THEY ARE NOT"honorable exceptions,"
—or if they are not trained, that they fol.
low in the footsteps of those who aro. If it
does not prove this; we fearlessly ask them
to come out over their signatures and deny
that the oaths of the institution require the
keeping of all secrets, MURDER AND
TREASON NOT EXCEPTED. Let
them do this we say, if they dare! If they
dare not, it will give us more evidence that
the charges are true. .1f - they DARE, it
will at once give the brand of falsehood to
previous assertions, that they were excep
tions—and the people can themselves judge
what effect training will have upon honor a
ble men. .
It is a fearful matter, to Republican free
men, that the most guilty and bloody deeds
can be communicated to respectable and
honorable men, as a "MASONIC SE.
CRET," and they will not expose it; may
not our country's hopes, her prospects, and
her institutions, all be swallowed up in this
dark pool of infamy?—iftheir last oath binds
them to join in that issue. If you feel and
know these things; let every one lend his
strength, to heave, the already shattered fa-
bric down to its merited oblivion—let its
very name be so obliterated from the monu
ment of coming tune, that after ages, shall
only know that such a thing "WAS."
From the Baltimore Patrtot
Maryland Erect
We have now accurate information from
all parts of the State relative to the Election
on Monday last for Members of Congress
and Delegates to the State Legislature,
which make it certain that the Wings have
gained a most signal and triumphant victo
ry over the combined forces o 6 Jackson-
Van Burenism. It may be emphatically
and truly said, that "we have met the enemy
and they are ours."
The Election at the organization of the
State Government this winter will present
the following cheering and most satisfactory
result :
A WHIG GOVERNOR,
A WHIG EXECUTIVE COUNCIL,
A WHIG SENATE,
A• WHIG HOUSE OF DELEGATES, and
A WHIG MAJORITY IN CONGRESS, as fol
lows—all of whom are staunch Whip:
DANIEL JENNIFER,
GEORGE C. WASHINGTON,
JAMES TURNER,
JOHN N. STEELE,
JAMES A. PEARCE.
• The Van Buren Members are:
ISAAC McKIM,
BENJAMIN C. HOWARD,
FRANCIS THOMAS.
This is the VOICE OF MARYLAND,
as proclaimed through the ballot-box pn
Monday last, and she now loudly and earn
estly calls upon her sister States to "go and
do likewise."
.IVlaryland holds fast to her Democratic
Republican Whig principles, and the seduc
tive devices of the Jackson-Van Buren
party can never gain foothold within her
borders!
51oRE LYNCH LAW.—Letters received
in New York from Mobile, state that the
Rev. Mr. Warren, formerly a Presbyterian
clergyman in that city had been errested at
Donaldsville, La., for being concerned in
the circulation of Abolition pamphlets, and
put to death by hanging! For the honor
of our country, and of human nature, we
trust the rumor is a false one.
The Richmond Enquire'r states that ar.
rangements are making for the circulation
of a memoriul to the next legislature of Vir
ginia, praying for the incorporation of a
Company to construct a Railroad from
Lynchburg to the State line of Tennessee.
PosrEttrrY—A Pittsburg Anecdote.-,-
One native of the green isle said to another
—"Och and what do you think Jammy—
I've got a little posierity." "Mucha—and
good luck to ye—and what is it—a boy?"
No," said Pat. "yv hat, only a girl?" "No."
"And what the diva is it then?" "Och, by.
my fait and it's only a riugurr •
Liiitts4urg Times.
Alm Mary Put, of Alabama, has advertised her
absconding husband, who, she says, was married to
berurt long ago, but whoa vows would not star y, ut.
s, Internal Im
-;'witir. AtAr.
AND
REPUBLICAN OANNER
R0111.:tt V IS. MUMMA:TON.
AI.SI per annum. half . ..yearly In advance.
GETTYSBURG., PA.
Aronday, Ociober 12, 1835.
To the Polls! To the Polls! Eve-
ry Freeman to the Polls!
Clc::Tln a few moments more, the People
of Pennsylvania will be the slaves of the
Lodge, or the FREE managers of their own
destinies! Let the importance of the contest
animate and arouse - every honest man. Lot
no one either stay from the polls, or permit
his neighbors to do it, if in his power to urge
them thither.
To wavering Juti-silasons, if
any such there be.
CO — ls thorn one among you so base, so
mean, so recreant to your principles as to
refuse to vote for JosErir ItrrNEß? What
has ho done since 1832, to forfeit your
confidence? Would it not be an unwise, a
foolish act for you who have stuck to him
during two defeats to abandon hiM now
WHEN HIS ELECTION IS CERTAIN?
Go again to the election, and support
triumphant Anti•llasonry. Then will we
all jfry together, as together we have borne
the heat and burden of the day.
To HONEST Whigs who op
posed George Wolf in 1832:
n—Why do any of you now support this
same George Wolf? Has he changed his
views of National policy? Has he abandoned
the car of Martin Van Buren? No! If you
had good cause for opposing him then, you
have much better now. Since that time,
he has sent to the Legislature his infamous
Message, justifying the stealing of the De
posites! When the Whigs in Congress were
bravely battling against tho whole power of
the Executive, and waiting with trembling
anxiety for the action of the Pennsylvania
Legislature, Wolf betrayed all his former
professions and crushed all the hopes of the
friends of the Constitution at once! Ritner
then supported you.
Have you forgot these things? If you
have, you are a fawning, and ungrateful
race. But we trust you have not—Masons
excepted.
('The Whigs of Ptiladelphia are to
hold a GREAT TOWN MIL•'RTING in Indepen.
donee Square this day (Monday,) IN FAVOR
OF RITNER. JOHN SERGEANT has
consented to preside.
Oeir Senator.
OZTMr. McCONKEY was invited to a
Ritner meeting at Oxford, and being una,-
ble to attend sent the letter to be found on
the third page of this paper. Ho is a SOL•
DEER and a MAN. While his opponent,
Small, is a poor, lazy, big•bcllied, Aristo•
cratic BOY I
Car-The Muhlenberg party is annihilated! Since
the Inspectors election, they have given it up. Ma
sonry has carried its whole party to Wolf. Mullen
berg will not receive 30,000 votes in the State.—
Indeed, most of those who intended logo for him will
now vote for Ritner to defeat Wolf, and revenge the
injuries which they have received from the Lodge.
OZrThe people can judge of the candor
and fair dealing of the "Agents" of the
Grand Lodge, when they learn that the
names of those private citizens who went
bail for Mr. Laub, are all paraded in the
Compiler, except A. G. Miller (reported
Editor,) I. L. Fuller and the others oppos
ed to Mr. RITNEtiI If it was necessary to
publish any, why not give all the names?
As this is the first public appearance of
the Major, we hope his transgressions will
be overlooked!
crWe will take care of the old estab
lishment; and are highly gratified to find,
that the Grand Lodge is determined to take
especial care of its hopeful "Agent!"
0:2 - 1-1ow much will do one man? George
Wolf in six years has received of the Peo
ple's money $24,000! Shall he have $12,-
000 more?
BEMIRE!
Ci::T-We warn the friends of our WHOLE
ticket, to beware of spurious tickets. Some
have been circulated with the name of Jo
seph Ritter, instead of Joscm RITNEM-
Let every voter open and examine his tick
et before depositing it in the ballot-box.
FARMERS AND MECHANICS BE
ON YOUR GUARD.
Every device which the office holders
can invent, will now be set on toot to defeat
the Washington county farmer. They are
bent on deceiving you, and they think the
farmers and , mechanice are so ignorant that
they can impose on them as much ns they
please. It they had nny truths to tell about
Joseph Ritner which was calculated to in
jure his election, they would have told them
before this lime. Lies now suit them best;
and it you are not wide awake they will use
them to your Injury. Ile therefore on your
guard, - and peti,re. no statement mode
against the WASHINGTON COUNTY PAR3IIIII.
rove neat,
_ From the hat, Pennsylvania Telegraph.
ANOTHER. SLANDER GAGGED.
The Masonic party have been industri
ously engaged in circulating that "10913'11
Rtristnn, while in the Legislature, voted to
deprive Orphants awl young Alen, whose
Fathers were dead, between the ages of
I wenty•one and I wenty-two, of the privilege
of voting." Thug, like other chargeS a
gainst Mr. Rimer, when examined proves
to he a falsehood, to show which, we need
only extract the following paragraph front
the Journals of the House of Representa
tives for 1823-4 vol. i. page 97:3.
"A motion was made by Mr. ead and
"Mr. Williams, anther to a C FCC
"tion by striking therefrom (ink:
"and although their fathers may not be
"living at (lie lime of such election, or may
"hare been dead more than two years."
"And on the question, will the Hon.° agree
"to the amendment, it was decided in ho
"neative, years 16, nays 71." Mr. Mi
ner voting in the AEGATIVE, (against
striking out.) When the first section of
the bill finally passed, the yeas and nays
were not called, as may be seen, page 974.
By this it will be seen that Mr. ItrrNmt
instead of voting to deprive Orphans, Sze.
of the privloge of voting, actually voted in
favor of it, by voting against the motion
made by its enemies to strike out that pro
vision of the bill. The bill was finally lok
in the Senate. If any one tkubts theso
filets, we refer them to the Journals, volumo
and page as given.
We earnestly request all to be on their
guardagainst against a new issue of falsehoods a-
gainst Joseph Ritner, from the horse theiv
ing, and counterfeiting gelitry— for you
must well remember the powerful effect of a
certain Letter, said to have been written b y
his oppinents and sworn to by some of their ,
BOU N D villains. Keep a bright
look out, or you will find some other outra
geous slander, making its way throughout
the State, a few days before the election.—
The opinions of Ritner should now be well
known to his friends, and so well known
that they can give the "lie direct," to any
thing which is not already known of him—
Trust nothing except that which you at
present know; for six years has Mr. Minor
been the target at which all the political
Masonic guilt, infamy, and degradation have
aimed their shafts, and they have failed to
succeed; THEREFORE -TRUST THEM NOT,
LEST THEY AGAIN DELUDE YOU.
C* -1 1 r hat a Demeratic Candidate!
.11r. ALEXANDER SMALL, backed by the
county treasurer, n►nde it convenient just
betore the Inspector's election. to take an
electioneering trip through 'the upper end
of the county. The candidate for Senator
was very busy treating the people to liquor
in the bar room of the public house in New
burytoum, WHILE THE ELECTION WAS HEING
HELD.
What a specimen of dignity—an attempt
to bribe the people with Rum to vote for
him, and to carry the election with ardent
spirits! Is SUCH A MAN FIT FOR SENATOR?
We are far the WASHINGTON COUNT!
FARMER, JOSEPII RIMER, and the
Rimer ticket of this county. JAMES MC..
CONKEY is the, country candidate for Sena
tor, and we are determined to support him
at the coming election, because his talents
and qualifications are in our opinion supe
rior in every respect to those of his oppo
nent. Uo is a business man, knows what it
is to earn a dollar, and how to take care of
it when earned. He at the late war did not
hire a substitute as some ()film men in York
did; HE VOLUNTEERED UNDER THE COM.
NAND or CAPT. COLVIN, AND MARCH-
Ell TO BA LTI MORE TO. MEET I'H.E
ENGLISH.
By having the Farmer of Washington
county in the Gubernatorial chair, and
siness men in the Senate and House of Pe, :
presentatives,WE WILL BE RELIEV - ::
ED OF OUR HEAVY TAXES.4.Ibid.
THE EAST. -Our Eastern Counties will
leave %Voir in a minority of 20,000, it prop
er activity and exertion characterise the
opposion: but whether Ritner, or Multlen.
berg will poll the highest rote seems not so
certain. We incline to think, that Ritner
will rise at least 10,000 over Muhlenberg
in the Eastern Counties.—[Phil. Herald.
NEWS FROM TILE WEST.-Our informa
tion from the Western Counties is decided
and unequivocal, in relation to the compliito
occupancy of the political ground in that
quarter by the two candidates, Ritner and
Wolf; who exclusively divide the attention
of the People between them —Mr. Rimer
being the fitvorite of the West, who will
bring with him to the mountains at least
20,000 majority over George Wolf. This
information is corroborated by all the im
partial friends of Wolf, such as drovers,
merchants, farmers, and travellers;—nor is
at all surprising that Mr• Muhlenberg should
not have taken root in the Western Coun
ties, as parties were divided off between .
Ritner and Wolf long before his election,
leaving no space for the Lewistown nominee
to occults, in the minds of the. People. [lb.
Having observed by the last Compiler,
that my name has been placed upon the
Muhlenherg Committee of Vigilance for
Hamilton township; after returning my
thanks for the honor intended me, (if really
intended as such.) I beg leave to decline,—
The magnanimous conduct of Gov. Wolf in
reference to the present System of • General
Education, as well as the other most promi
nent features of his administration, which
are so loudly condemned by his former sup
porters, meet my decided approbation
Thereltire I can not consistently oppose the
man whose acts 1 approve, and serve as a
member of a Committee to promote the e
lection of H. A. Moblenberg.
PHILIP' MILLER.
East Berlin, Oct. 5, 1F3:15
ANTI.MASONS, BEWARE!
From the York Republican
TO THE PUBLIC.
WrDevoted to Politics, roreign and Domestic Intelligence, Literature, Science, a
44 /E0
HUZZA ! For the Washington County FARMER!
_Ew FREEMEN!
To the Polls ! I
Let Old Adarans do her dot!!
W-The PEOPLE'S WILL MUST BE OBEYED!
[So 'lays Joseph Ritner.
"Rouse! Freemen rouser the lines arc drawn,
And sealed the fond and fervent vow—
Your Cuumry's g,cniut waves you on,
And SHAME to him who FALTERS NOW!"
Democratic Antl.o.laQoulo Ticket:
GOVERNOR,
JOSEPH RITNEII.
to— None know better than the hard-working, Tax
paying FARMERS AND MECHANICS, how
much they need a man who, in times like these,
will serve them f.,ithfully and well.—Life of Ritner.
I'.Dcy yef . co) Nittier ift tier
Zer ben emit regicren
51'NAtOR,
James McConkey.
crl. AN OLD SOLDIER'S LETTER.
PEACH BOTTOM, York County,
October Ist, 1835.
DEAR Sin—l received a notice last evening of a
meeting to be held at New Oxford on the 7th instant,
with an ivitat!on to attend. Nothing could give the
snore pleasure than to meet my Adams county friends
at the thne and place mentioned; but thu extreme ill
health of the companion of my bosom, forbids the
idea at present. But although absent, permit me to
say,that I feel a particular friendship for the Citizens
of Adams for their kindness in agreeing to support me
for Senator; and hope,if elected, I shall prove myself
worthy of their confidence.
I have other causes of friendship for them. I once
had the honor of serving with MANY OF TIIAM, as
VOLUNTEER, IN COL COREAN'S BATTA
LION, ON THE MEMORABLE 12TH OF SEP
TEMBER, 1814, AT BALTIMORE. I belonged
to Capt. Cot.vzx's Company, and was attached to
dobean's Battalion. My duty often brought me in
•contact with Officers and Men, and I always found.
them(as CitizeU Soldiers should be) affable, humane,
generous and brave. Should any of the survivors of
that Battalion be present at your meeting, tell them
that although the frost of 21 winters (since our cam
paign)may have,in some measure,cooled our passions,
still the LOVE OF COUNTRY is as warm in my
heart as on the day we took up our lino of march for
Baltimore,(about 3 days after the burning of Wash
ington City,) one hundred and fifty strong—rough as
the black Jacks of our native Barrens and as hardy as
the pine knots of our river hills.
Hoping there may be many of my Fellow-Volun
teers still in existence, and that they may be as rea
dy to oppose the EXTRAVAGANCE of the party
now in power, by a resort to the Ballot Boxes, as
they were to oppose the invaders dour soil,---and that
nll good citizens may see the necessity of supporting
the cause of RI rNFAI AND REFORM, in prefer
ence to all others—although backed by Office-holders;
Secret Societies, &c.,
I remain, with sentiments of
sincere regard, the public's
Humble Servant,
JAMES McCONKEY.
MUDDLE'S STZVEHS, Esq Gettysburg.
ASSEMBLY,
Thaddeus Stevens, Esq.
James McSherry, Esq.
• COMMISSIONER
GEORGE WILL, Esq.
AUDITOR,
ALLEN ROBINETTE.
DIRECTOR OF THE POOR,
QV INTI N ARMSTRONG.
(per All good men and true—well known to the Free
and Independent Voters of Adams County. To the
Polls, then, Fellow-Citizens! and record your votes
for the WHOLE ticket!
FREEMEN! ANTI-MASONS! TO Tun POLLS!
Neglect not the precious privilege which the
constitution of your country has put into
your hands. You are the guardians of
your own rights and liberties, mid through
the ballot box make known that will which
is the rule ofaction to year servants. The
neemen ' s privilege is too sacred to be neg
lected. He is not a patriot who will not
faithfully and uprightly use it for the good
of his country. Every man to the Polls
then, and vote the ticket headed with the
name of
Joseph Ritner,
the honest and intelligent Farmer of Wash
ington county.
ANTI-MASINS op ADAMS couNrv! rally
once more to the defence of your principles.
You have ever before been vigilant—be not
li.ss so now. The most determined effoits
are making to defeat your candidates: suffer
not those efforts to succeed. Let nothing
deter you from coming to the Polls. The
country looks to the Anti-Masons for anoth
er example of that noble devotion to princi
ple which has over characterized its efforts.
You have ever been "faithful among the
faithless:" be so still. On your zeal and
energy depend, in a measure, the destinies
of the State. Come up to the contest then,
boldly, in an undivided phalanx. ON! ON!
TO THE Por.t.s! Let every man do•his duty,
AND. THE VICTORY IS OURS!
Glorious News !
alke You for the W glx-
ington county mer
Stand back. .11ristoerals4 The
PEOPLE are coniin;c!
[From the York Republican.]
INSPECTOR'S ELECTION.
All the information which has come to
hand on the subject of these elections is
highly encouraging to the democratic re
form party. In both win ds ofthis Borough,
the amalgamationists were completely rout
ed; in South ward, where they thought
themselves sure of success, the democratic
reform ticket succeeded by nearly 80 ma
jority; in North ward, where they thought
their chance good, they were over-thrown
by 45 votes. In this election district, com
posed of seven polls, we succeeded in six,
having carried two wards, Manchester, W est
Manchester, first time; Spring-garden, first
time; and Conowago, leaving the arnalga
mationists only little York township. We
also succeeded in Fairview,Franklin, Wash
ington, Hanover, Springfield, Hopewell,
Fawn, Chanceford,-Lower Chanceford, and
Windsor townships and Newbury and 'War
rington were divided. Our friends have
done well—they have a sure opportunity of
doing fir better on Tuesday next, for they
have on their side not only the influence of
moral but of phNsical superiority.
News from other parts of the State, is e.
(pally encouraging. In Ilauntsautio,where
1F332 Wolf had 117 majority, Ritner In
spectors have been elected in both wards,
by large majorities, and we gained 14 out
of 16 Inspectors in Dauphin County. Hit
ner's majority there will not be less than
1500.
In PHILADELPHIA the Whitrs carried
every ward by au aggregate majority over
Wolf of 2950—over Muhlenberg 32A4
over both united,2l96 votes! In the Nonni.
ERN LIBERTIES, they also carried six wards
out of seven, by an aggregate majority over
Wolf of 892—over both Wolf and Muhly,
of 168 votes. They were also victorious in
Spring-Garden, Germantown, Blockley,
Bristol, and in Bucks County.
In CUMBERLAND COUNTY, the friends of
Ritner and Reform cart icd gout of 13 dis
tricts heard from, and divided another. In
1822 Wolf had 500 majority - in Cumberland;
thi. year Ritner will go a-head at least that
much.
In EASTON, the former residence of Wolf,
where in 1832 he had a majority 0f . 251 votes,
the Rit ne r men succeeded with 55 majority
on Friday last; and in Forks and Williams
townships, Northampton county, where
Wolf formerly had large majorities, the
friends of reform are now successful.
In the' district that votes in LEBANON,
the Ritnerites have a majority of more than
two to one; m 1832, Wolf had nearly the
same majority. Almost all the townships
m Lebanon county have gone for Ritner.
In LANCASTEtt COUNTY the Ritner men
carried 31 out of 87 districts. The fiirmer
will have 3000 majority in that powerful
county.
From GErrysavno we learn that the
Ritner Inspect( r was elected. The vote
stood Rif ner 99—Wolf67—Mublenberg 50.
From WEsTmonnLArdn, a county which
gave Wolf 1000 majority in 1832, we un
derstand that m one township, the only one
reported, where Wolf had more than three
tio one in 1832 ; the friends of Ritner are now
successful.
A tr,ropENY COUNTY has done gloriously.
In Pittsburg we carried three wards out of
four; in Allegheny borough our ticket is 12
n-head, and we have carried nearly every
township in the county.
The information from Huvrusnieri, U•
NION, JUNIATA, PERRY and SCHUYLKILL is
most encouraging. We have succeeded in
many townships by increased majorities,
and carried several where Wolf was victo
rious in 1832.
Out of 17 districts heard from in CHES
TER COUNTY, we have carried 13 against
the Wolves and 111Alies united.
Out of 12 districts heard from, the friends
of Hither carried 8 in MONTGOMERY COUN
TY; our majority in NoanisrowN was 37.
BUCKS has given us 11 out of 14 districts;
Muhlenberg 3; Wolf, none! True Democ
racy is triumphant!
From the WaPhington Reporter.
THE VOICE OF WASHINGTON
COUNTY.
INSPECTORS ELECTIO2V.
We rested with entire confidence upon
the result of the election in this county, to
disprove the statements contained in the cir
cular of the Wolf Committee of Vigilance
for this borough, and have not been disap
pointed. They published to the world that,
"at a meeting of this Committee on the 17th
inst. (August) it was ascertained from the
number of voters who had declared them
within the borough, that Mr. Wolf
will undoubtedly have a plurality of votes;"
and as to the county they said, "we are cal
culating col f fidently upon a majority in this
county over both the other candidates."--
Now for the proof.
In this borough' 244 votes were polled,
Of which James Reed the A nti- Magonic can
didate for Inspector received 146, and Ar
chibald Kerr, the Wolf candidate 9;3 votes.
Ilituer's Majority in 'the borough in 166:1,
was 44; this full it will be 60.
Tho follow;ng is the result in the differ
ent town-hips of the counts,.
Arnwell—Enoch Baker (Bauer) elected.
13uffalo-111urtiu Ely, do. do. TWO TO
ONE.
Cceil— The Ritner Inspector elected I y a unani
mous vote—the Wolf men being scared off by the
great turd out of Anti-Masonic voters.
Canton—John) Brownlee (Either) elected by a
L.‘. g e majority: -
Carroll—The niftier Inspector elected by a hand
some majority. -
Chartiers-I.nac fiddle and John flays, the two
Ritner Inspectors elected —no apposition worth men
tioning.
Cannonsburgh—James McCullough (Ritner) eke
ted by a majority of 17 votes.
Donegal—Robert M'Neil (niftier) elected by 46
majority.
East Bethlehem—Andrew 'Brown (Rilner) elected
West do. The Ritner Inspector elected.
Nottingham— do. do.
Alountpleasant —John Reed (Ritner) elected.
Moh•is—Sample Sweney (Rimer) elected.
East Finley—The Rimer inspector elected by a
majnrity of 7 votes.
Hopewell—Wm. Tweed (Ritaer) elected by a
majority of 29 voles.
.Somerset—llie Either Inspector elected by a large
majority.
Hanover— do. do. do.
by a handsome majority.
West Finley— do. do. do.
•
Peters— do do. do.
South Strabane—Wm. Crouch (Wolf) elected by
10 of a majority—no contest, as 27 rotes, and, more
than half of the Rituer votes, were giVen for the per
son elected, before any opposition candidate was nom
inated.
North Strabane—The Wolf'lnspector elected,
Futio•sv LI-la—The !tinier Inspector elected.
In the above 23 townships 24 Ritner Inspectors arc
elected, and 2 Wolf tinipectors. Four townships are
yet to be heard from, vrt,—Pike Run, Smith, Robin
son, and Cross Creek, which II probably stand 3
Wolf and I Ritner In Buffalo, Mc. Ritner's own
township, they kept apparently quiet in order to lull
the Anti-Masons asleep, but secretly visited every
vote and so arranged matters as to muster all their
forces towards the evening, and yet they were de
feated two to one.
We have all along calculated on at. least SOO of a
majority for Ritnor over Wolf, but the triumphant
success we have met with in the inspectors election
encourages' us to expect somewhere about 1200 of a
'majority.
CU- In addition to the scores of Renunciations of
Mulilie nad Wolf-ism published in our last, we give
to-day a few mere. It will be seen that within a
few days many have enrolled themselves under the
pure banner of the "Supremacy of the Laws"—and
on Tuesday next THOUSANDS of other's will depo
sit their votes for the OLD FARMER! Now's the
time for those on the fence to jump into tho BIG
patch!
ake, room for the I! eovie!
From the York Republican of Wednesday last.
We have seen our names in the York
Gazette of Tuesday last as part of aconitnit,,
tee of vigilance to further the cause of Wolf
or Muldenberg. We certify.. that our
names have been so used without our knowl
edge or consent, and therefore we can do
nothing for then'. We are the tliends of
"Rttnor and Reform."
JACOB MOSSER,
JACOB COLE,
DANIEL EPLEY.
York, October Ist, 1835.
YOCUMTOWN, October 3, 1835.
111 n. COCHRAN: I wish you to inform the
gentlemen who were so kind as to place me
on their committee of vigilance for New-
berry township to advance the cause of eith
er %Volf or Muldenberg, 1 know nut which,
[as it is not said which] that I respectfully
decline the honor. I intend to go with the
free and untrammelled democracy of the
state in supporting JOSEPII RITNER. His
cause and the people's cause are one, and
for that reason the people will support him.
Yours very respectfully,
CONRAD BRUBACHER,
Having seen, with no small degree of
surprise in, the Muhlenberg paper of last
•week, that my name is among the number
of those who are called a committee of vigil
ance for Hellain township, I take the earli
est opportunity to correct the impression
that may be thus produced.
Having been actively engaged in the sup
port of JOSEPH RITNER for several years •
past, it seems to me that this use of my name,
so unauthorized, indicates, in the editor, a
large amount of ignorance, or an unusual
degree of impudence. Neither my counte
nance nor vote shall ever be given to the
plunderers of the public, or a swarm of
half-famished.office-hunters, whether they
be marshalled under the worn-out Democ
racy of George NVolrs name, or the cast-off
pontificals of Henry . A. Muhlenherg.
JACOB REI MAN.
We concur in the above.
JOSEPH RUBY,
GEORGE GOLIN,
Wrightsville, York Co Sept. 28, 1835.
Great 'Meeting at the Teo
at Ox.-c0r.3.1.
A very large and respectable meeting of
the friends of JOSEPII . RITNER and the "SU
PREMACY OF THE LAWS," was held at the
house of Phil; p fleagy Esq. in New-Oxford,
on NV ednesday the 7th of October inst.—
Alter a few remarks by Mr. MiSitEttliv, the
meeting was organized by appointing the
following officers.
President—John Hersh;
- Vice-Presidents—David Slagle, Dan
iel Diehl, Jacob Young,4- John Lauch,sen.
Secretaries—John L. Noel, James Col
gan, Samuel Thron, and F. W. Kceliler.
After some preliminary remarks by Dr.
M. D. G. PFEIFFER, the following resolu
tions were offered,and unanimously adopted:
Resolved,That we view with the deepest
sorrow the sad change in the financial con..
cerns of our dearly beloved State. TWelve
years ago, the boast of this Union, and now,
with a public debt ofupwards of TWENTY
rirteltnre, the •Illechaitte dfrt
FOUR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS—
enough to discourage the most euterprizing
among our citizens.
Resolved, That we can, after n candid in.
quiry. into the causes, which have produc
ed this state of things, find no others, but
the favouritism, exercised by nn oath-bound,
selfish secret society, and the greediness and
imprudence of their leaders, who, one and
all, "the more they have got, the more they
want!"
Resolved, That we thorecne cannot sup
port George Wolf, because he is one of the
adhering members of the said secret society,
holding one of their highest offices, viz: that
of Deputy Grand Master, and, true to his
Masonic Obligations has sett/ANDERE!) MIL
LIONS OF TILE REVENUE, the hard
earnings of the honest and imfustrious farm
er and mechanic, in order to fatten the pur
sesofhis hungry Masonic bretheru and their
pliant MO'S.
Resolrefl, That we cannot 'support Hen
ry A. illohlenberg, because he, as well us
he whole party that supports him,hra ve been,
till of lute, tho faithful hrethern of %% T olland
his party—implicated in, and accessary to
all the political crimes, committed by,the lat
ter—and moreover have sold themselves and
their interest to -Martin van Buren and his
gang of New-York. Bank-speculating politi
cans.
Ilesn7red , That we cannot FUppOrt Hen
ry A. Mali!enberg, because he is a RENE,
GADE PRIEST, us late ns 1826 acting
President of the Lutheran Synod; and only
leaving the Pulpit and forsaking the service
of our and his Savioar when he seen a
chance lo worship his Idols Pride and
Illananon-- , by getting a seat in Congress—
a 'conduct, which we will not sanction or en
courage by fostering the accomplishment
of his unholy schemes in voting fir him
Resolred ;Flint we will ~with ull our might,
and by all honorable means in our power,
support the election of JOSEPH RITNER
fin. Governor—
Because, Lie is a self taught man, a Farmer
like ourselves and iA, by hare industry
and hard labor,"raited himself from pov-
city to competency in life.
Because, Be has, as a true Republican and
pure lhonociat, always been ready, in
war and-In pence, to serve his country,
no matter how high or low the station;
and when the time of service was ended,
has returned to his plough for a maintain
iince for himself and his family.
Because, He, knowing that true democracy
consists in equal rights to all men, and
.no preference shown as according to pub
lic merit and talents, has :been a stead
fast opposer to a society, whiel: will give
the preference to the cable towed broth
, erhood, help to extricate the same out of
their difficulties, "right or wrong."
Because, He has not been, like Henry A.
illublenberg, and his present party, ac
ceosary to the spendthrift administration
of Governor Wolf and the !rand of part of
his Ocfn:p. holders, and therefore will not
obstruct, but open the path for inquiry
into, and punishment of their offen:.es.
• Resolved, That we go for Principles and
not for Men=—and therefore will support
the WHOLE OF OUR TICKET; well
knowing, that no wagon can move, if we
hitch one horse before and one behind, and
that we would betray the public interest, if
by The ballot box we_ should be ruled by pri
vate pique or dislike.
-By request, T. G. Il 13111 LY, Esq. from
York, addressed the !meth - ig in an eloquent
manner, and was followed by 3'. STEVENS,
Esq.. Both gentlemen were listened to with
great attention.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this
meeting be signed by the officers, and pub
fished in all the vipers of the county.
JOHN lIERSH, Sen. Pres't.
DAVID SLACLE,
DANIEL DIEHL,
V. Pres'ts.
JAcoB 'YOUNG,
Join; Laucn,sen.
John L. Noel,
James Colgan-,
Secretaries.
Samuel Thron,
F. W. Koehler,
Reasons for Voting for liitner.
FIRST REASON.
When Gov. Wolf came into office, the Pub
lic Works were more than half finished for
a sum less than, $7,000,000
THE STATE DEBT IS
NOW 825,000,000
Increase in 6 years, and the
Canals not finished, 819,000,000
SECOND REASON.
Interest on State debt, $1,250,000
Annual Repairs of Public Work, 358,471
Salaries of 443 Canal Officers, 147,784
Expences of Steam Engines,
I lune Power& Laborers, &c. 155,520
Deduct Canal Tolls,
To be paid in taxes, $1,311,775
THIRD REASON.
Cost of New York Canals per
mile.
Cost of Public Works made un
-)ier the Administration of Go
vernor Sliulze per mile,
Cost of Public Works, made un
der Wolf, including cost of
construction, interest, Re
pairs, Salaries of Canal 011i
cers, after deducting all the
tolls, per mile, more than
- FOURTH REASON.
The Canal officers and privates, number
more than ONE THOUSAND when less
than half the number is necessary; some of
whom are Collectors where the whole a
mount of tolls collected by them will not pay
their salaries.
FIFTH REASON.
The election of both IVoIf and Muhlen
berg to identified with the attempt to elevate
to the Presidency Martin Van Buren,whose
superiors have prevented Pennsylvania
from receiving her share of the proceeds of
the SALES OF PUBLIC. LANDS, a
mounting to $lOO,OOO annually.
, Infernal Iniiirovenseist, au
Kr-We stop the press for the purpose of
calling on the PEOPLEthe FREE AND
INDEPENDENT VOTERS OF ADAMS, to heed
not the bare-faced FALSEHOODS and most
improbable misrepresentations in the Organ
of the Grand Lodge, this day issued! Any
thing put forth on the ere of an election,
should 1m received at all times, no matter
by whom made, with much doubt, and ought
not to be credited without bearing on its
face the very impress of truth. When the
Freemen are referred to the infamous charg
es in to-day's "compiler," let them remem
ber, that their opponents are the same now
as in 183'2, when the PEOPLE were cheat
ed eut of their rights by a DARE-FACED and
VIVBLUSIIINO FOIV.ZERY, committed by
one of the veriest knaves the Lodge over
hired to do its dirty work! Wo repeal, that
the FORGER of 1932 is abroad, ready to
do the same thing now that he did at the
lait Gubernatorial election, and for which
ho received ati office. He is striving for
the same thing now, he and his baekers,and
will doubtless call to their Did the respecta.
He stand bys, Weirich and Brown—the
first of whom was convicted for Mail Rob
bery and pardoned by the Lodge, and the
other stole a Horse and served an appren
ticeship in the Western Penitentiary for the
same! Such are the hirelings of the Lodge,
ever ready to father
. and propagate such
LIES as. those . put forth by the Organ of the -
Grand Lodge; "printed and published" by
its hopeful "Agent!" Believe them not, for
the-truth is not in them. Go TO TILE POLLS,
and cast your votes for the STATESMAN--
the PATRIOT—and the FARMER,
.➢OSEPII R I . 7lVirE
Fili at Wither!
'Beware of . the falsehoods circulated
to injure your ticket! Be advised and influ
enced by us, we exhort you, to vote the
WHOLE ticket: We should strike no
man on it, oven to oblige our nearest and
dearest friend. Again we call upon *our
friends, TO VOTE TILE W HOLE A tin. NI A
SONIC TICKET..
Alecting at York Swings.
A very large and highly respectable meeting was
held at York Springs on Saturday last. Maj. JOHN
woL.Fono acted as President—Messrs. ettantEs
Kic - rmawr.t.t. and DANIEL FuNg as Vice-Presidents,
and Messrs. George Robinette and Jacob Gardner,Jr.
Secretaries. 'I lie object of the meeting being stated
by the President, the following resolution was sub
mitted by JACOB CAEISAT, Esq.
Reso!ved, That we view with decided disapproba
tion, the means employed through MaPonic influence
and misrepresentation to defeat the election of our
worthy fellow-citizen, JOSEPH RITNER, who is
before the People of this State as a candidate for Go
vernor at the ensuing election.
This resolution was supported by Mr. Cassat in bin
usual happy, convincing style, followed by some per
tinent remarks from T. STEVENS, Esq.—after which
the resolution was unanimously adopted.
On motion, Resolved, That the proceedings of the
meeting be signed by the officers and published.
JOHN WOLFORD, President.
CH A BLEB KETTLEWELL,
Vice-Pre'ts.
DANIEL Fume,
George Robinette,
S Secretaries.
Jacob Gordo's-, Jr.
Oxford o ,
(:)::TOn Wednesday and Saturday last,pre
vented deliglitfdl and heart-cheering specta
cles: The PEOPLE— the hard-working FAR
MERS and MECHANICS, for miles a
round, were present at , meetings held at
each of those places--A LL, ALL anima
ted and determined to rally, ox To-nom:ow,
around the banner of
4.114 IS Er i n R I WYE I:
AND THE
Snyremitcy of Ate "Lays
Trienas of Gov. Wolf!
OCan you vote for any man on the
Muhlenberg ticket? Those "beautiful boys,"
who have been traversing the County, cal
ling on the "Democrats" to support the Ren
egade Parson, have abused and villified Gov.
Wolf ten thousands times • more than his
consistent opponents ever did. At York
Springs, on Friday last, after blackening
his character as much as possible, they de-'
dared, that if application was made to Gov.
Wolf to licence and apiropiate the public
money to the surronT or A "STATE
WHORE HOUSE," RE WOULD READILY
ACQUIESCE! This cannot be denied, and the
ballot-box of that district TO MORROW will
show that the friends of Gov. Wolfare more
the friends amorality, than those hopeful
missionaries of the RENEGADE PRIEST!
$1,911,775
600,000
$21,000
22,500
Falsehoods Corrected!
Krit would be vain to designate and re.
fute all the lies put forth from the Organ of
the Grand Lodge—the new Compiler! It
would occupy too much time and space.—
We therefore deem it only necessary to say,
75,000
. That it is False
that Mr: Ritner voted for all the Canals,
Rail Roads, and extensions of the same,
now in operation and under contracts For
the truth of this, see the Harrisburg Repor
ter (the leading Masonic paper) .of 1820,
which contains his Speech, in'which he ad.
vocated but oNE ItAIY LINE.. The same
paper also contains srVioleßt spice Hr.
Burden,' Wolf's right hand man, against
Mr. Rimer for advocating but the NAIR
ROUTE. This can also ha proven by 001.
Freemen of Adams!
it General d►liscelltmg
krxrrisolv, who was a member tYfilib
isinture at the time, from Crawford diciti
He says— -••
'• **--•••
" An eye wilneFs to the iegislativecoarOVe
of Mr. !littler during the smsion. 418
27, justice, truth and candour impel AtitiV:,•- : ,•:
say, that the House of Representatlve
not embrace a more ardent, able and devitWA„
ted friend to the construction of a nanltCrtollr,-
the DELAWARE TO LAKE ER.lEllll*"::k.tr
• ;•;.›...
Joseph Ritner. True it is, that Mt ita ‹.t n i 4
tier struggled hard, during the Tassp 3 ilyifq q ,
the canal bill of that session, thinnett-tWA;
House, to limit the appropriations
completion of the MAIN . LINE, bet4tieltit
the above points. He opposed the BriPilkA r
Canals, not from a spirit of hostilityo4,(l 4 :
from a belief that we were about to en -"r`
in too much—keeping in mind the good
German saying--/Ilun muss sich each be r
nem deck stmcken—lle was fur doing
thing nt a time—held that the w . art 1 , 0110':. ,
was FIRST in point of importance—that
jeet accomplished, he would then be ':ivrlllifirothi,
to grant branch canals wherever the 'ptilil@tt.
interest might require them. Fortuntitßa7;,
indeed, would it have been for Penniflya,
nia, if the gond sense and enlightened:forAta';;',..!
cast of Mr. Ritner, could have prevailed
that time."
KrThis Slander being now forever' pi t
to rest, we proceed and say, •
I'llat it is False
that Mr. Ritner voted for laying a direct tili*V;
• xi
on the people. Ho is opposed to all tuorlta.:li i i
CEFISARY TAXATION.
It is also False!
That Mr. Ritner voted to appropriate any , ~.k:N
money uselessly, or that he voted to oppress • 4
the Farmers. , Ho and his friends are
friends of the Farmer, and threugh. thein",:tl
exertions nn compound interest can be ex.
acted from those holding unpatonted land&
It is also False!
That Joseph Ritner voted in favor , of the
Collateral Inheritance Law, or that he voted'.,_?Ji‘
against the encouragement and protection z .
of Domestic Manufactures. 6
And it is equally False! . -
That Mr. Ritner voted as stated in all;; or,
either of the other allegations. And the ,,:
pretended reference to the Journals, is only
made to gull and deceive the unsuspecting. '
Therefore, we caution the PEOPLE to be.
ware of such LIES! They are made by khe
same party who cheated you in 1832 by
FORGERY 1
Sheriff's Sales.
pursuance of sundry Writs of Vendik t .
tioni Ex pones, and Aliasenditioni F.4.x !
lamas, issued out of the'Court of co m mon '-
Pleas of Adams county and to me direpted t ,fet
will be exposed to Public Sale, on Thufvoiajt
the 29th of Octobet inst. at 1 o'clock, r. 24.
nn the premised, the following Real Estate s '
viz:
A LOT OF GROUND,
Situate in Berwirk township, Adams county,
Pa., containing 5 acres more or less, ad•
joining lands of Joseph R. Henry, enry
Carpenter and others. Seized and takett
in Execution as the Estate of Jacob Fabc:
ebtock, Jr.
-.ALSO
A TRACT OF LAND. ) ,
Situate in Berwick township, Adams
Pa., containing 21 acres more or les9 l .li4= -‘:
'oining the lots of Abbottstown,
Himes and others.
Two Lots of Ground, .
Situate in Abbottstown, known on the plan
of said town by No. 5 and 6, on wiich are
erected A LARUE TWO STORY WEATHER..
BOARDED .
7 _..
and STONE lirrcriEzr, with a well of water -
at the back door. •
adjoining said house and fronting the street, '-
are erected A. LARGE STORE ROOM end
WARE-lIOUSE, With a good Barn and other
out buildings. ..--ALSO— '-
ONE LOT adjoining the above and front.
ing on the street, oa which are erected A - ';71"...
TWO STORY LOG
.41*, DWELLING HOUSE,
ntid Lon SIIOP and a FRANCE BARN.
--"ALSO—
TWO LOTS, No. 53 and 54,
Situate in said town, on which are erected,
A DWELLING HOUSE ,„„„
and BARN, with a number offruie ; a •
trees, and a well of water. V : itt
—ALSO—
Two Lots;
. .
known on the plan of said town by N0::49 .
and 50, on which are erected, A DWEL T .
LING HOUSE and A STABLEi.
Two Lots,
No. 47 and 48, adjoining the above. ;:.:.
Ten other good building Loter l _.,4
with about hall an acre of land adjoining*, ..: 1 4
same. Seized and taken in ExecutiWeif s .. ; ,
the Estate of Jacob Fahnestock, Sen.' -', ',.:.. , ',•, , ;4
JAM ES BELL, Jr. kitora„ - .- ,-.;...-
Sherafrn Oflice,Gettyt.burg, ( - • •"4 ~ '.. : --,','
October 12, 1835. 5 t ts;-29/.'
Strayed- or „ Stol en
3. 4 1R0m the Pasture•fteld of flui:subicri:q
AL: bor. near the Borough of Gletty*itig s - TC
on the' 25th of September butt,"
A saraLi. SORREL Boast,
rising 4 years old, four white ,
legs, and white forehead, gaited._
..
If the above Ilerso has ittl.y4S* l
- pay all reasonable expenses le . tilfilst*
who may ts,ke,him lip anifiertgrn = 01,4
of; and if stolen, I will' gitiskit Ile
TEN DOLLAR S for his reccve6fipz;; - A
DAviD pa• Uzgi-, - *q:
. .
Gettysburg, Oct. 12, 190.. '' WI