Address to the People of Adams Co.
,Fellow-Citfzeißs of adams County:
In compliance with a resolution of a meetindof the friends of HARRISON AND
GRANGER, held on the evening of the 13th inst. at the house of Mr. Anthony B.
Kurtz, in the Borough of Gettysburgh, the subjoined Committee, beg leave to address
you.
The election for President and Vice President is near at hand; it is therefore impor
tant that your attention should be directed to the subject. Gen. WILLIAM HENRY
HARRISON, of Ohio, is the Candidate of one party for the office of President, and
Mr. VAN fluncv, of the State of NeW York, is the Candidate of the other party. It
is between those two individuals that you are called upno to choose. A brief compar
ison of their claims and services cannot be deemed•amiss.
For the last forty years, the history of Gen. HARRISON is so intimately blended with
the history of his Country, that he who is conversant with the One, cannot be ignorant
of the other; a detailed account of his services, is, therefore, the less necessary: but, in
order to a comparison between him and his opponent, it is proper that some of the
prominent acts of tf life, every where full of interest, should be noticed.
The achievements of Gen. HARRISON as a Soldier, have long since become a matter
of history. From St. Clair's defeat to the conclusion of the late war with Great Brit
ian, he lived amidst perils and dangers, and earned for himself a reputation that will
last as long as the history of his Country endures. Ho was with WAYNE, at the Miami;
and at a later period, though still young in years, RE LED HIS COUNTRYMEN TO VICTORY
AT TIPPECANOE.
The war with England then commenced, and defeat and disaster every where, at
tended our armies. Hull surrendered at Detroit; Van Ransaelear was defeated at
Queenstown; the eipedition of Smyth had failed; Winchester and his army were cut
to pieces on the River Raisin—and not only the weak and timid throughout the Coun
try, but those with stout hearts and keen foresight, began to apprehend a fatal tormin
iliiol3 to the war. It was then that Gen. HARRISON appeared at the head of the army,
and at once the tide of defeat and disaster was rolled back; our dishonored standards
were raised from the dust to wave triumphantly over our victorious countrymen, fight
ing under the more favorable auspicei of the HERO op TIPPECANOE! After a series
of brilliant and successful movements, he compelled the enemy to raise the siege of
Fort Meigs, AND CROWNED lIIS OWN AND RIB COUNTRY'S GLORY DY TIIE VICTORY OF
TIIE, THAMES!
We need follow Gen. HARRISON no further in his military career; the war was en
ded, and he was called to fill high civil stations. Ho was chosen a Senator of the
United States; he was afterwards appointed Minister to Columbia; and in the fulfilment
of the duties of these offices, be evinced the same talents and the same devotion to the
interests of the people that characterized him while leading the armies of his Coun
try; and under alt circumstances he has shoWn the utmost respect for the Constitution
and Laws.
In 1799, he was appointed Secretary of the North Western Territory; and it was
while acting in this capacity that he saw the necessity for a different System by which
to regulate the sale of the.public lands. At this time, large capitalists from the Atlan
tic States were in the habit of taking up immense tracts, and that to the virtual exclu
sion of the poorer class of purchasers. Being elected to represent the Nuith Western
Territory in Congress, he introduced a bill for the survey of the Public Domain, by
which it was to be laid out into Sections, Half-Sections and Quarter-Sections; thus
opening a way for the purchase of those lands by the poor, and for the population of
that vast Territory. It is under this wise system that the Great West has grown up to
her present importance and power; it is to Gon. HARRISON that this importance and
power is attributable; and the devising and maturing of this system, entitle him to a
rank amongst the first Statesmen of the age.
But who is hiS competitor, MARTIN VAN BUREN, and what is his history? With
what portion of his Country's history is his name identified? What measure of policy
of great importance owes its success to him, or what measure of the kind has he ever
advocated?.
His history- is the history of himself alone; he has, it is true, occupied many high and
important public stations, but himself and not the public has been benefited. He has
done nothing for, and has no claim upon the American People. But in relation to few
measures of policy, of great National moment, are his views known. He is all things
to all men; in the Slave-holding States, he is the advocate of Slavery; in the non.slave
holding States, he is an abolitionist! But with a craft and duplicity, rivaling the
Heathen Oracles of old, when he is called upon to reconcile his contrndictory views,
as expressed to one or other of the political sections of the Country,he straightway at
toaipts to show that they both mean the same thing,l it is, perhaps, but in relation to a
single one of the great measures of National and State policy, entertained by the people,
that his views are known. This i 3 the Distribution of the Surplus Revenue amongst
the respective States according to their representation in Congress. To this measure,
HE HAS DECLARED HIS UTTER HOSTILITY ! Why ho has done so, we can
see no good reason; such distribution would be of immense benefit to the several States.
There are now in the National Treasury near $4.7,000,000 for distribu
tion; the 'amount which Pennsylvania is entitled to receive at present, is about
$5,000,000, with a large annual sum hereafter. But if Mr. Van Buren be
elected, THE nrirrninurrox WILL BE DEFEATED, AND OUR LEGISLATURE WILL
BE OBLIGED TO RESORT TO TAXATION TO COMPLETE THE IM
PROVEMENTS NOW IN PROGRESS, on ABANDON THEM after so many millions
have been spent, in their present unfinished and unproductive state!
P"'Gen. HARRISON has avowed himself IN rAvort. OF THIS MEASURE; we therefore
trust that the People of Pennsylvania will not so far loso sight of their , own interests,
as to vote for his opponent who is opposed to it.
Havtng,as faithfully as possible, preeented the several candidates for the Presidency,
it remains for you, Fellow• Citizens, to choose between them. It is for you to say, by
your votes, whether you prefer a man like HARRISON, who is friendly to your inte
rests, and who. when misfortune bad come upon his Country, appeared to retrieve her
disasters and wipe out Irr disgrace; or one who is opposed to your icterests,and whose
days have been spent in idleness and ease, far away from danger and toil.
FELLOW•CITIZENSI Make your election, but let it not be said by your children
when they read the history of this contest, that yoli were ungrateful and that you for
got the toils and hardships endured by the war•worn Soldier that YOU might enjoy
prosperity and peace. Let it not be said, that while you forgot him to whom you
owed so much, you rewarded another, to whom you owed nothing, with the first office
in your gift.
Gee. HAUJUSON is poor, Mr. VAN BUREN IS RICH; but riches furnish no ground
of preference—more especially will they not when it is understood, ItCPTH AT THE
FORTUNE OF GEN.. HARRISON WAS SPENT IN THE SERVICE OF
HIS COUNTRY. •
•
Of the candidates for the Vice Presidency, we have only to say, that FRANCIS
GRANGER is a man of eminent talents, rich attainments, and exalted moral charac
ter, whose election would add lustre to tho character of his country; that his competi
-ter, Richard M. Johnson, is a man who has violated all the decencies of moral and so.
cial life,by his criminal intercourse with a woman of color! and whose talents areas far in.
ferior to those of Mr. Grangor,aa he himself is below him in purity of moral character.
We hpye but one thing to add in conclusion: Men, regardless of truth, for party pur
,poses, &aye propagated the BASEST SLANDERS against Gen. IlinnisoN. A sio•
yy has been sat on foot and circulated with the greatest diligence, that Gen. Harrison,
while a memberqf the Senate of Ohio, voted to sell white men for debt; and this story
as attempted to be fortified by what purports to be an extract from the Journals of the
Senate! A BASER LIE, SUPPORTED BY A BASER FORGERY, WAS
NEVER puBLISHF4Dj So far from his vote,•on this perverted subject, being cal-
Alleged to injure him, !,vbern it is understood, it gives him new claims upon the friends
pf universal freedom.
JJo Voted that those convicted of petty thefts and other crimes of like gradeo tistead of
lying lq jail, should be put out by the County Commissioners to work on the highways,
untaltheir Aber should be sufficient to pay the costs of prosecution and whatever• fine
had ben imposed upon them by the Court. This is what is called "selling white men
into slavery!"
it ought to be borne in mind, that those convicted for such crimes, wore altogether
fixdoiled from the benefit of the Insolvent Laws; the necessary consequence was, that
they Must have continued to languish in hopeless imprisofiment; without even the
prospect of liberation, if some such provision as that contemplated by the above bill had
not been made. Thus it will be seen, that his vote in relation to this bill was dictated
by the same humanity that on other occasions caused him to share the last morsel of
his own rations with his famishing Soldiers!
If further proof were necessary to.put this slander to rest, and cover its authors with
shame, it is to be found in his course while a member of the Senate of the United States,
WHERE HE VOTED AGAINST IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT, EXCEPT
WHERE FRAUD WAS PROVEN AGAINST THE DEBTOR.
But to show the consistency and candor of the wretched party, which sent abroad
this more wretched slander, it is only necessary to state, that 51r. BALDWIN, their pros.
ent candidate for Governor of Ohio, introduced this bill into the Legislature and suppor
ted it through 311 its stages! But at home, this story affects neither Gen. Harrison nor
Arlr. Baldwin; it is only intended to injure the former at -a distaure where it is not un
derstood and where it is not so easily contradicted.
FELLOW-CITIZENS! We have now done; we have only discharged a duty
which ought to have been performed, even if Gen. Harrison had not been a candidate
for the Presidency.' The fame of such men is the property of the country, and as such
it ought to be guarded against aspersion and transmitted unimpaired to posterity.
' ir •..
October 20, 1836.
Plaip Questions.
Erom tlio Loiusville[Ky ] Jounrnal.
•
Who defended Gen. Jackson b the eloquence of his voice when that chie ft an was
arraigned before the United Sta es Congress for malfeasance during the Seminole
Campaign? 1V I LLIAM HEN li HARRISON.
When the din of warlike preparations sounded upon our shores, who flew at the first
sound of the tocsin, to the defence of our rights, in the field of battle? WILLIAM
HENRY HARRISON.
Who by his skill and tact as a military commander, achieved a glorious victory at
the battle of Tippecanoe—aye, one of the most brilliant triumphs recorded in the annals
of our country's wars? WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON.
Who returned from the strife of war, Gnly after having wreathed for himself as noble
a chaplet as ever decked the brow of the soldier, amid the acclamation and the grati
tude of a generous and patriotic nation? WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON.
Whom did Madison call to the gubernatorial chair of the North Western Territory,
when it comprehended Indiana, Illinois, and the Michigan Territory? WILLIAM
HENRY HARRISON.
Who discharged the duties of this appointment with ihe uimosi
and ability,
and to the approbation ef 4is.countrymen? WILLIA t 1 HENRY HARRISON.
Who advocated the election to the Piclidency of those apostles of liberty, Madison
and Monroe? WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON.
Madison and the leaders of t±.2 Republican party, during that critical
period when a declaration of war was pending before Congress and advocated the
measure? WI L LLIA M HENRY HARRISON.
Who opposed this measure, so important to our interest, and absolutely requisite to
save us from National disgrace, and vilified the whole war party at that eventful time?
MARTIN VAN BOREN
During the progress of that bloody conflict, who was sitting by his own fireside in
affluence and plotting against the administration which was prosecuting that just war?
MARTIN VAN BUREN.
Who opposed the election of the Republican veteran, Madison? MARTIN VAN
BUREN.
Who exerted himself to defeat the election of Gen. Jackson, when he thought that
individual was! a weak candidate? MARTIN VAN BUREN.
Who brz ever been found arrayed against the South on all important questions invol
ving the interests of the Southern country? MARTIN VAN BUREN.
Who voted against the right of Florida, to tolerate slavery in that Territory, with.
out regard to the wishes of her citizens? MARTIN VAN BU REN.
Who favored the restriction of slavery in Missouri? MARTIN VAN BUREN.
Who acknowledges the right of Congress to interfere with the subject of slavery in
the District of Columbia and the different Territories of the Uuited-States? MARTIN
VAN BUREN.
Who denies the constitutional power of Congress, to interfere with this subject in
any manner whatever? WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON.
Whom did Col. Richard M. Johnson, Col. Daviess, and a host of others, unhesita
tingly pronounce a wise, a prudent, and brave officer, and a man, whose groat military
skill reflected unfading lustre upon his confutes arms'? WM. HENRY HARRISON.
Who is now the candicato of the people, unaided by official patronage or wealth, or
the machinery of Caucuses and Conventions? WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON.
Freemen of Adams, look at this!
0:7 - .1111artin ran Buren, (so charges the New York Daily Advertiser,)
when he first commenced the practice of law, persuaded an honest, but not very intelli
gent Dutch neighbor, who was embarrassed in his pecuniary matters, to make over all
his property to him, by the confession of judgment or otherwise, when not a cent was
due, so that he might, by thus creating a nominal debt, get clear of his ci editors, under
the two third act; telling him that subsequently he could have his property restored to
him, on payment to Mr. Van Burenof a sufficient sum fo: his part in the transaction.
The property was made over, (says the Advertiser) and the iniquitous scheme con
sumated; and when the poor misled Dutchman applied for a settlement, he was threat
one,' by Mr. Van Buren THAT IF EVER HE MENTIONED THE SUBJECT
AGAIN, HE WOULD PUT HIM IN THE STAB'S PRISON FOR PERJURY!!
The Acivertiser further states, that the above fact is not confined to the Editors alone
—but that in making the statement of the case of the MEAN, MISERABLE PET
TIFOGGER. who first PERJURED HIMSELF, DEFRAUDED HIS NEIGH
BOR OF HIS PROPERTY, and then of his good NAME, we did not mean to have
it understood that we are the SOLE depositories of the knowledge of the case.—
Neither would we have them infer that it is NEW. It is almost as old as the history
cf the rise and progress of the INTRIGUER referred to, and in this city, and Colum
bia County, it is almost as well known as the MAGICIAN himself."
Now Look on this Picture!
A few years ago an aged but illustrious citizen of the West became, by law, the
owner of a very large and valuable plantation. The person who resided on the property
supposed it to be his own, but there was a flaw in the title which throw the ownership
upon the aged citizen first mentioned. We mid that he was aged—he was also poor.
He had been in many elevated and responsible stations in which•he might have made a
princely fortune, but he wastoo honest, and after a long series of public services, he re
turned to private life, like Aristides, with no fortune but an unspotted name- This said.
den and lucky windfall made him wealthy, and secured him an old age of ease; but at
the same time it stripped him of his all, and turned him and his family out upon, the
world. What did the old man do under these circumstances? He sought the former
owner, and this conversation ensued.
"The Court has decided that your title is defective, and_that I am the legal owner of
the property on which you reside."
"1 already know this, and am preparing to remove."
"No! stay where you are. You shall retain the property. 1 will not take advantage
of a legal quibble to rob your family of their fortune."
"What! will you give up the property? But you are yourself old and poor."
"Yes,but after hiving thus far sustained a reputation untarnished by a Biagio act of
injustice, 1 will not now make: l myself wealthy at the expense of an untroubled con•
science. An honest poverty is no disgrace, and ill-got wealth is no honor. Keep your
estate, I will'have nothing to do with it." •
Reader, who was this man of more than Roman probity?
IT WAS WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON!!!
ICT"Behold the contrast, honest men of Adams! Go to the polls, and make your
choice between a BRAVE AND HONEST WAR-WORN SOLDIER, and one who
stands charged with having PERJURED ursuaus, DEFRAUDED HIS Dtrrcu NEIGHBOR OF
1118 PROPERTT, and GOOD NAME.
Kr-What a bad habit LYING is! Andy, although backed by his man Jacob Faithful,
cannot refrain from "story-telling" in every thing he attempts! In the truly "patriotic!"
"hospitable" and "chivalrous!" article about Gen. Harrison and "the Ladies," his "un
bridled tongue" could not but force itself into its accustomed channel, and pour forth
a column of barefaced falsehoods and base and unmanly insinuations and attacks upon
the chivalry and hospitality of our citizens! Gon. HAnazsoN was met, teceived,enter
tained, and escorted out of town by our citizens as they should have done any other
diitinguished stranger, especially one who is known and acknowledged by except
the base hirelings of Aristocracy, as a brave defender of his country's rights, and one of
her most eminent Statesmen.
- MICHAEL C. CLARKSON,
DANIEL M. SMYSER,
JAMES COOPER,
SAMUEL FAHNESTOCK,
JAMES A. THOMPSON,
:ROBERT SMITH,
SAMUEL WITHEROAV,
• • JOHN B. M'PHERSON,
JOHN SLENTZ,
JOHN F. MACFARLANE,
'DAVID HORNER,
• • JOHN M. STEVENSON,
SAMUEL S. FORNEY,
+ JOHN ASH,
ROBERT F. WCONAUGHY.
From the Netimal Intelligaocer.
TO THE PEOPLE OF PENNSYL
VANIA.
We do not'linow whether the letter or Mr.
Dallas be more disreputable to himselfonore
disrespectful to the Supreme Court, more
dangerous to the interests of Pennsylvania,
or more hostile to the great principles which
alone give stability to the institutions of n
virtuous and free people.
Individual insignificance was never more
clearly displayed than in this case, when
compared with the great State and federal
principles assailed by the destructive letter
of 1I r. Dallas. The individual,hiq pat riotiam
and his purposes may at once be disposed of
by putting to him one or two reflections.
lithe charter of the Bank were obtained
by fraud, Mr. Dallas had the power to make
it manifest to the appropriate constitutional
legal tribunals. He was where the whole
operation was commenced and consumated.
As a good citizen,such was his bounden duty;
and had this been his course, he would have
avoided censure, and might nave secured the
respect of those about him.
If there was reasonable doubts as to the
existence of the fraud, it behooved Mr. Dal
las, from respect to himself as a lawyer, to
his liberality as a Pennsylvanian, and to his
regard for the Legislature of his State, to
pause ere he acted in matters of such doubt.
Still less should he dare to appeal to popular
ferment, at an exciting crisis, to overturn at
once the fair fame of the Legislature, and
the fairest prospects of sustaining the inter-
ests, of Pennsylvania.
As the matter now stands, Mr. Dallas bears
the indignant censure of the wise and good,
and places himself without the pale of.the
"rnenssibi conseta recd." Unilallowed am
bition! Restless disappointmefit! Unhap
py man!
To you, voters of Pennsylvania, I address
a few words on the origin of this reckless and
desperate effort.
The Legislature of your State deemed it
expedient to increase the banking capital of
your State. Is there vice or impolicy in
this? Why, every State in the Union has
done it.
The mode of increasing the banking capi
tal of your State was peculiarly politic; for
it retained thirty millions of dollars which
would have been lost to Pennsylvania, and
zained by a formidable competitor, Mary
land or IVe.W
n!.k. Is there any thing un
wise in retaining this in your me
tropolis rather than throw it into the itTds
of commercial rivals?
The mode, again, of increasing your bank
ing capital produced singularly happy results
on all the great interests of your State. It
was this:—The Bank to be chartered was
required to pay a bonus. It is in this coun
try the established practise and policy to
exact a bonus from banks. The character
of the bonus, offered by the Bank or requi.
red by the State, stamps the character of
the chatter granted by the Legislature.
The objects of the bonus were
1. To relieve the People from taxation.
2. To aid the system of general education
in the State.
3. To promote the internal improvements
of the State.
In some one of these arrangements made
by the two contracting parties is to be found
the FRAUD detected by the lynx °pad law
yer. Let us recapitulate the matter, and
then you will see if there be reason or truth
with Mr. Dallas.
Is it a fraud to increase the banking capital
of Pennsylvania?
Is it a fraud by that increase to retain 80
millions of capital in Pennsylvania?
Is it a fraud to prevent that capital going
to Baltimore or to New York?
Is it a fraud to accept or demand a QUID
PRO Quo—a BONUS for incorporating a bank?
Is it a fraud to apply that bonus to relieve
the People of Pennsylvania FROM TAXATION?
Is it a fraud to apply that bonus. to the
purposes, the invaluable purposes of dispens
ing freely the blessings of EDUCATION TO
EVERY PERSON in Pennsylvania?
Is it a fraud to apply that bonus to the
CANALS, RAIL-ROADS,TURNPIKES, and GENE
RAL INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT of the great
State of Pennsylvania?
Within the scope of these interrogatories
' lies the fraud charged by the lynx-eyed law
yer. No individual is charged with ftatid.
Mr. Dallas is well known to be too prudent
to take that ground.
For this action, then, of your Legislature, '
which gives to all your people all that re
mained to be given them, that can make
them free, virtuous, wise, powerful and
rich, the PHILADELPHIA LYNX.EYED LAW•
YER charges a fraud. Viper and file over
again
Will Mr. Dallas explain himself fully in
the matter of the Supreme Court? It can
not be that he would excite popular feeling
to bring the Supreme Court to exercise
party spirit on a charge of fraud against
Pennsylvania! To what motive then does
he appeal? Is it to that hallowed sense of
justice which has sternly and purely pre
served the Constitution &the United States,
the rights of the States, and the privileges
of every man? and that, too, with an ability
and prudence almost peculiar to the judi
cially sacred name and fame of MAristiALE?
Or, is it that Mr. Dallas with his lynx-eye
has discovered that the ermine has been
purified and sanctified in the JACKSON Su
preme Court?
How - does the late Secretary of this
Treasury, the present Chief Justice, re
ceive the intimation and the compliment?
I am sure Chief Justice Taney blus!ies for
his party--ay, his party; for who eati doubt
that he is still recognised by Mr. Dallas as
a Jackson Chief Justice! a party Chief
Just ice ! !
Oh! may the shades of HALE and of
MARSHALL visit the spirit of TANEY! and
teach him that the hopes of the country yet
hang, under Providence and the will of a
virtuous people, on that tribunal, created in
consumate wisdom, hitherto sustained by
consumato purity and intelligence; a tribu
nal, placed by the sages of the constitutional
era, designedly as wisely, as far above the
turbulent, transitory,: capricious influences
of party popular ebullition, as the unchange
able, eternal principles of justice arc above
the reckless ambition, the restless action of
a demagogue"' .
Whence then. the pledges of Mr. Dallas
as to the Supreme Court? Let him answe r
to his-God, to his country, to his conscience.
• Untili Mr. Yen Buren openly declared,
as a candidate for the Presidential chair,
that he was opposed to the Deposite bill,
my Noir.° and pen were exercised for him;
and, but for that unhappy declaration, would .
still edhere to him. I therefore protest a
gainst Mr. Dallas being considered as the
organ of Van Buren in Pennsylvania. Ho
may of late be better informed as to.. the
views of the party than I eta; but I enter
tain the • hope that the New York candidate
is not yet identified, although those corts
cerned would say so,
- i n the vile doctrines
of Mr. Dallas and.of the nineteen Mary
landers.
I have seen much of political working
and change in my life. I have fresh on
my mind the events from 1801 to the pres
ent time. I have seen something to cen
sure, and much in which to glory, on ac
count of my country. May that country
be yet preserved, united and happy, under
the uninterrupted influence of good lawn,
under the progress of continued constitu
tional reform and political improvement.
uhtil the time come when revolutionists and.
anarchists will be set down as traitors to
political institutions, for the enjoyment of
which, as freemen and republicans, we can
never be too thankful to an overrulling
Providence. PENN.
September 30.
For dm Star.
Rally—Rally, Freemen! le the I4'atchword.
In a moment of supineness and confi
dence—a wary enemy triumphed over WI,
but this has not and cannot dishearten those
who contend for principles. For seven long
years the A ntOlasons of Adams County
toiled for the victory; in their own borders
they were ever victorious, but they con
tended for a State triumph, and at last it
was won. But they grew careless, not
that all had been achieved, not that Mason
ry was dead; but because they believed that
their enemy would not make battle. They
did not know the unyielding, indomitable
spirit of Masonry, or they would have
known strict vigilance was necessary. But
althodgh we have lost much, we have not yet
lost the Constitution; there is another battle
for it; if we loose it, then indeed have we lost
all; then has the Lodge triumphed, indeed;
then aro your rights gone beyond recovery!
But you cannot sustain this loss if you be
but !rub to yourselves and true to your
country. ThO Masonic supporters of Van
Buren are far from comprising a majority of
the freemen of Pennsylvania. Rally like
men in favor of the Constitution and in fa
vor of the principles of Anti• Masonry, and
the State will yet be redeemed from the
thraldom of Van Burenism and Masonry.
But a small, very small majority, less than
2,000 in the State, was obtained by the
Masonic Van Buren party at the late elec
tion. Many causes contributed to give
them that majority which will have ceased
to obtain before the next election. In some
of the counties our friends were divided; in
others an undue security prevailed; but de
feat has awakened them to a sense of the
folly of disunion, and has aroused them for
the coming contest. Let them go at it in
earnest, and we prophesy that a glorious
victory awaits them; and we will assure them
the freemen of Adams will be at their posts
on the day of trial, and that she will not
again bow in humiliation at the feet of the
Lodge. VERITAS.
Look at this, .Freenten.!
Up, Fellow-Citizens! The Constitution
is in danger? Let all those who are oppo
sed to its violation, rally arround it and de
fend it from the unhallowed touch of those
who declare, if they obtain the ascendency
in the Convention, that they will repeal all
the Legislature has done for the last three
years! Those of you who profited by the
Bill grading the prices of your Lands, and
by which more than $BO,OOO was saved
to the Citizens of Adams County, beware
that these miserable factionists do not obtain
o majority. If they do, if their own words
aro to be believed, you will suffer, for they
will repeal that amongst the other acts of
the Legislature.
Ear the Star..
Freemen of Adams County !
You have yet remaining a glorious op.
portunity of making partial amends for the
culpable apathy and negligence manifested
by you at the late election. You have yet
an opportunity of preserving inviolate your
liberties from the danger that threatens
them, by electing as delegates to alter or
amend the Constitution of our State,
THADDEUS STEVENS and JAMES
M'SHERR men of experience and abil
ity, and of tried honesty and patriotism.—
An attempt at panegyric would be worse
than useless; their usefulness is indelibly in
scribed upon the hearts of their constitu
ents, and attested by their actions, of which
Adams County and the whole State can
furnish ample testimony.
NOW is the time for you to determine,
whether law, order and good g overnment,
shall prevail; or whether, perhaps, the
bloody laws of Draco shall be again enacted,
contracts impaired, titles forfeited; in short
whether we shall incur the hazard of en
countering all the horrors and cruelties of
Denton, Robespierre and Marat, who by
their affected love for the community. de
luged France with blood, by a series-of the
most unparalleled atrocities which stain the
pogo of the .historian!
Upon you, Fellow Citizens! depends the
issue; and upon you devolves the awful re
sponsibility, should you again be surprized
by the enemy and suffer an inglorious de
feat.
We do not wish to charge every evil
Which we anticipate to the individulds pla
ced in nomination by the udvecates of Ag
raianism; but' we ore fearfully enure of the
facts. that should they be ant''"' they
will be used as mere machines, t 1 t. tr
tools of the unprincipled demagogues, n ho
under the specious garb of "democracy'
For tho Star.
MENALLEN.
are imposing upon the honest and unsus
pecting Farmer and Mechanic, and endeav
oring to wield the political destiny of Old
Republican Adams.
Fellow Citizens of Adams County! end
more especially the untrammelled FREEMEN
of Strabae, Menallen, Reading, Huntington
and Franklin townships—You who have so
nobly sustained us in former times and sha
red with us alike our perils and our glory,
upon you I call to march in unbroken
phalanx to the polls, on the first Friday of-
November, and rally round the standard of
HARRISON and GRANGER, for the
two highest and most responsible stations
upon earth, and vote for out incorruptible,
well tried and faithful public servants
THADDEUS STEVENS. and JAMES
M'SHERRY, for the important office for
which they have been placed in nomination
by your representatives in county conven
tion, that your children and your children's
children, may hail with grateful remem
brance the patriotism of your deeds when
you shall sleep quictiy beneath the "clods
of the valley."
FELLOW CiTiznms! Again I call upon
you to come to the rescue! The sdbject is
one of infinite importance, involving consid.
orations of the most momentous character;
and when once neglected, perhaps never to
be retreived! Ponder well, and do not
again lull yourselves into that fatal security,
the consequences of which, are all yet fresh
in our recollection, by 'dying upon the su
periority of your numbers—numbers can
not availonless united with discipline and
action; Wier by far have two hundred less
and all determined to do their duty, than
our present number to remain at home.—
One and all of you march like freemen to
the polls, resolved to do your duty, as
though the issue depended on a single voter
FREEMEN OF ADAMS! • Let not the Phi
listines again' come upon us by stealth, and
shear us of our locks whilst asleep: but like
faithful stewards entrusted with treasures
of great price, let us be vigilant and active,
so that we shall bo able to render a good
account of our stewardship. . _
For tho Star & Banner.
To &Mir. Isaac Robinson.
Siu:—As you are a candidate for the
people's votes, permit me to propound the
following queries, which, if satisfactorily
answered in the negative, might prove ad
vantageous to you on the 4th of November
next:
Ist. Did you not on receiving the appoint
ment of a justice of the Peace swear that
you would "support the laws of Pennsyl
vania," and that you would return all such
offenders as came within your knowledge to
the Court and Grand Jury of Adams County?
2d. Did you not leave your place of resi
dence last spring with a pretence to farm,
but as soon as you found that the friends of
Temperance and good order were like to
affect an important object in Fairfield, did
you not return to your former residence, and
do you not now keep a GROG SHOP of the
baser sort in direct violation of the laws
you once swore you would support; and aro
you not one of the many offenders which
you once swore you would cause to be pun
ished?
3d. Did you not once hold the Office of
County Surveyor, and during which time
did you not know a certain POOR HON.
EST MAN who had discovered a pieco of
vacant land lying near or adjoining a lot
which ho now hold*, and did he not request
you to survey and draft the same for him;
and did you not put him off with fair promi•
ses more than ton times in a year, and dur
ing which time did you not sneak of to the
Land Office at Harrisburgh, AND SE•
CURE IT FOR YOURSELF; and did
you not sell the same about a year ago for
the enormous sum of about 90 dollars?
_ Now, sir, if you can answer the above
in the negative, you can have the oportunity
of answering a few more; but if not, I think
an enlightened publick will agree with one,
that you are not fit to handle a thing so
sacred as the Constitution of our State.
A DEMOCRATIC VOTER.
PUBLIC OIEE7'IMG.
At a numerous and respectable meeting
of citizens of Adams County held at the
house of Henry Gitt, on the 21st Oct. inst.
HENRY ZELERS was chosen President;
Col. GEO. ICKES and JOHN GOLDEN, Vice
Presidents; and Joseph R. Henry and Pe
ter O'Neal, Secretaries. The meeting
was addressed by Messers. SMYSER, COOPER
and STEVENS; after which the following
resolutions were, on motion of Daniel Al.
Smyser, Esq., unanimously adopted.
Resolved, That this meeting, undismay
ed by reverses, the result chiefly of the
blind infatuation and fatal security of our
own party relying too confidently on their
own strength, do still cling to Anti-Masonry,
as the only means that promises eventually
and certainly to redeem our country from
the dangers of anarchy on the one hand and
despotism on the other.
Resolved, That we will continue with
unabated ardor to' struggle for the Supre
macy of the Laws, the inviolability of char
ters and vested rights, and the preserva.
tion of our freo institutions from Masonic
3 misrule.
k , And whereas, The approaching election
on the 4th of Nov. next, is of great inter
lest and impOrtance as well in reference to
?the choice of a President and Vice Presi
jdent of the United Slates, as the selection
of proper perions to represent Adams
County in the Convention to amend the
Constitution of Pennsylvania—And where
as this meeting deem the doctrines openly
proclaimed, avowed and - defended by the
Van Buren party as revolutionary in their
tendency, aiming at the total disruption of
,our political fabric and the dissolution of all
tics, rights, and relations, personal and so
cial—instead of comprising themselves
within the salutary limits of a necessary
reform ofexisting abuses,—Therefore,
Resolved, That this meeting do heartily
approve and cordially concur in the nomin
ation of JAMES DUNLOP and LEVI 111Entu,E,
as Senatorial, and JAMES M'SIIERRY and
TIIADDEVS STEvErvs as Representative Del
cgates to represent Adams County in the
aforesaid Convention; and that we will in
dividually and collectively use all our iflu
enco to promote their election.
Resolved, That this meeting recom
mend the Electoral ticket headed by Jorm
GEST and ALLEXANDER PLUMMER, pledged
to the support of Gen. WILLIAM H.
HARRISON for President, and FR A.N
CIS GRANGR for Vice President of the
United States, to the support of the freemen
of Adams County.
Resolved, That these proceedings be
signed by the Officers and published.
HENRY ZELLERS, President.
GEORGE ICKES,
V. PrPsi's.
JOHN GOLDEN.
Joseph IL Henry,
Secretaries.
Peter O'Neal,
[Communicated.
Voice of Democratic Berlin!
Democratic State's Rights
Meeting*.
Agreeably to public notice, a largo and respec
ta'ilo meeting of the Democratic Stato's Rights
party of Adams county was held at tho house of
Abraham Picking, in the town of Berlin, on Sa
turday the 22d October, 1836.
JOHN MILEY, Esq. was appointed President;
SAMUEL 51CFARLA NE, and ABRAHAM PICKING,
Vice Presidents; and Joseph Kepner and John
Picking, Secretaries.
The following preamble and resolutions were
rend, and after a• truly eloquent and appropriate
address by CHARLES B. PENROSE, Esq. of Carlisle,
and a few remarks by THADDEUS STEVENS, Esq.
unanimously adopted—viz:
At • crisis when men, who have been known
and avowed Federalists, are seen every wore as
suming the name of Democracy, and affecting to
be loaders of the democratic party, and when such
aro busily engaged, under the guise of democracy,
in propagating the ultra doctrines of federalism,
long since abandoned by the federal party itself,
and when such men aro soon every where to de
nounce old and well tried democrats, who aro on.
`willing to follow their lead, and submit to their
dictation evidently with the view to promote their
own selfish schemes of wicked and corrupt am.
bition—at such a crisis, it becomes the duty of
the representatives of democracy, to declare what
aro the true principles of the domocratia party.
It will occur to every ono, that democracy is
something more than a name, and that it is not to
be acquired by assuming this, or that title, fol
lowing this, or that man, who may assume to be
a loader and dictator.
We profess to be democrats; but we profess to
be democrats not because the name is a popular
one, but because it is the name of those who hold
the political faith which Jefferson and Madison
proclaimed,expounded,and adhered to,and because
wo hold that faith.
We find the creed of the democratic party in
the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, of which
these groat mon were respectively the authors; and
wo find the same doctrines of political faith, in the
resolutions adopted at the recent Session of our
State Legislature, conveyed in part in tho very
language of the Virginia resolutions.
We do solemnly declare our adherence to that
faith, and wo call on all good democrats to recur
to it, and diligently to examine it, and apply it to
public mon and public measures to determine their
consistency with that faith upon which the wel.
faro and happiness of tho people depend.
That faith requires us "to maintain and defend
the constitution of the United States, the rights
of the States, and the integrity of The Union, and,
it is our conviction that it can be preserved only
by opposing every violation of the principles upon
which it is based."
"That the powers of the federal government are
defined by o written constitution, and are speci
fically enumerated: no power can bo rightly claim
ed for or be exorcised - by it, that is not expressly
given, and the powers not delegated to the United
States by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to
the States, aro reserved to the States respectively,
or to the people;" any attempt by the federal gov.
ernmont, or those who administer it, to encroach
upon, overawe, interfere with,- or control the
States in the exorcise of their reserved sights, or
to extend the power of the fedoral government
beyond the limits expressly proscribed by tho con
stitution of the United States,us an usurpation and
infraction of those principles which constitute the
only basis of our Union, and must be dangerous
and fatal in its consequences!
That nothing can bo more dangerous to the
liberties of this happy country, than "the spirit
manifested to enlarge the powers of the general
government,and to wield those which are con bored
to obtain an influence over the States, to interfere
with the domestic policy of the State Governments,
to overawe and control them in the free exercise
of their reserved rights," and so to consolidate
the States by degrees, into ono sovereignty, the
obvious tendency and inevitable result of which
would be, to transform the present republican sys.
tem of the United States into an absolute, or at
best a mixed monarchy.
These principles and opinions, which governed
the administration of the government by Jefferson
and Madison, we hold to embrace the creed and
the opinion of democracy, and that they should
regulate the conduct of democrats, and should be
constantly applied as a test of public mon and
public measures claimed to be democratic.
Wr opposed a National Bank because it was
"well questioned" whether the general govern
ment possessed the "express power" to make it,
and because if the general government did possess
the power, the exercise of it, placing within the
States a powerful institution entirely independent
of the control of the State governments,might have
given to the general government an influence over
the States, interfering with the domostick policy
of the State governments and tending to consoli•
dation.
These grounds ofopposition, we find to bo sus
tained by the principles of the democratic creed,
but we cannot discover any application which
they can have to a State incorporation.
That the right to incorporate a State Bank is
_ .
BRUTUS
Communicated
one of the rights "reserved to the States rospec
lively" has never been doubted. That the exer
cise of that right has been without danger to the
liberties of the country, is proven by the fact that
it has been exercised without detriment to free
government in every stato in the Union by the
croation of banks of greater,, or less capital, from
the safoty fund banks of Now York which corn.
bine in effect,by this system into one bank, a capi
tal of more than thirty millions or dollars,of which
Mr. Van Huron was the author, to the smallest
bank in the State. Tho reason for which it is
obvious, exists in the fact, that these state banks
are subject to the visitation and control of the
State government, and are liable to be punished
by such state governments for any infraction of
their charters. We cannot discover the consis.
toncy °tasking the democratic party to support
Mr. Van Buren, who was the planner of tho (*e-
V fund system, which gavo to Now-York her
groat bank and its advantages t o that state, if wo
should, at the Ban.° time, ask the democracy to
condemn as recreants, those democrats who wont
to ostablish a largo State Dank, to confor similar
advantages upon our State.
Wo see in the establishment of our large State
bank, to which the name oftho Bank oftho United
States, then about to expire, was given, none of
the objections which existed to a national Bank,
while we see in it increased benefits conferred up•
on our County and our Country in general.
By means derived from the incorporation of
this bank, our rail road is made; it relieved our
public treasury from impending bankruptcy; it
removed the heavy burden of taxes for State pur
poses from the people;•it enabled the State to
complo to her public works without taxing the peo.
ple; it advanced, our commercial and manufactu.
ring prosperity, giving a market for all the pro
ducts of industry which has increased their price,
and added greatly to tho.value of our real estate;
and abovo all, it has provided a fund for the Edu.
cation of our Children, placing the poor, man's
son upon an equality with the son of the most
wealthy.
It has likewise secured to rho community a
sound circulating medium, having for its basis
gold and silver, thereby saving us from the mis
erable small bank systeili which not many years
ago plunged this State in distress and ruin.
It has given to Pennsylvania an enviable pre
eminence among her sister States, which will
greatly advance her and our prosperity.
While it has confored all these blessings upon
UP, we find it guarded by restrictions which ren•
der us perfectly secure. Our legislature can send
a joint committee to investigate its affairs, and
if it transcend the powers conferod by its charter,
it is to bo adjudged null and void by the Supreme
Court.
It is part of tho creed of our party, "to main•
Min and defend the Constitution of the United
States." In that constitution wo find that it is
provided that no Stato shall pass en "ex poet facto
law or law impairing tho obligations of con
tracts."
Tho re charter of the State bank, called the
bank of the United States, is a contract between
the State and the stockholders, by which they re
ceived the privilege of banking in consideration
of the payment to the Slate of many millions of
dollars.
We consider this contract as sacred, and resting
on the same basis as the titles which we have to
our lands,—all of which aro derived from the
State under acts of legislation and are contracts
with it. To annul such contracts is nullification
in its worst form, and so far from nviotsininr
the Constitution of the United StatesApteby;
which as Democrats we are bound toliii; would
be a wicked outrage on one of its moit important
provisions; it would bo nothing less than open
revolution.
Although by the Declaration of Independence
the right is aviierted, on the part of the people, to
alter and abolish their government, the wise fra
mers of the Constitution of the United States
have provided s peaceable mode by which the
instrument itself may be amended, and the form
of government by such amendmont changed.
Such amendments require the ratification of
"three-fourths of the several States."
Our State alone, neither by tier legislature, nor
by a convention, can annul any provision of the
Constitution of the United States, or any thing
granted by it.
While such nullification of this State charter
would violate the Constitution of tho United
States, lead to revolution and, perhaps, all its at
tendant horrors, a pi oposal to resort to it is the
moro wicked, because tho charter itsolf contains
a provision by which it may be annulled by a ju
dicial proceeding in the Supreme Court, if at any
time it should interfere with the politics of the
Country, or in any -way violate its charter.
Therefore,
Resolved, That we approvo of the law of the
last session of our State Lagislature "entitled an
Act to Repeal the State Tax on Real and Per
sonal property, and to continuo and extend the
Improvements of the State by Rail Roads and
Canals, and to charter a Slate Bank, to be called
the Bank of the United States."
Resolved, That our senator, DAVID MIDDLE.
COFA, is entitled to the continued confidence of
hif'Democratio constituents for his noble disro.
gard of senseless clamor, and the vote by which
ho sustained, notwith standing such clamor, thd
interests of his constituents and the welfare and
happinoss of his country.
Resolved, That the course of the "Republican
Compiler," in condemning him, and those who
acted with him, as rocroants, does not meet the
approbation of the Democracy of Adams County;
that it is inconsistent with Democratic principles,
and can bo only accounted for by refining to the
influence, over its editor, of an individual who, it
Is well known, is ono of those whose former Fed.
oralism will account for his ignorance ..of the
principles of Democracy, and his disregard of
them.
Resolved, That we regard any attempt to annul
a contract and destroy vested rights, as inconsist
ent with the Constitution of. tho United States;
and that it should bo frovialpAlet Lan by every loser
of his Country, who wishes to preseivenur turfrpy
form of government from revolution, and the con
sequenco of it, the inovitabe destruction °ranch
government.
The following resolutions were submitted by JAs.
COOPER,ESq. and agreed to:
Resolved, That as the election is near at hand, it is
time to fix upon some candidate to be supported (or
the office of Chief Magistrate of the United States—
and whereas, Gen. WILLIAM HENRY HARRI
SON, by a long course of Civil and Military services
has shown himself to bo honest and capable and wor
thy of the fullest confidence of the American people
—therefore
Resolved, That, entertaining a just sense of the
great benefits which Gen. Harrison has confered upon
his country—the toils, sufferings and hardships he has
endured, the dangers he has braved, the victories ho
has achieved at the head of our armies, and the many
important civil services ho has rendered, we there
fore cordially confirm the nomination which he has
received from so many meetings of the people, and
recommend him to the unanimous support of our fel
low-citizens of Adams county.
Resolved, That we highly disapprove of the mess
urea advocated by Martin Van Buren in the Conven
tion of New York,to deprive poor men of the privilege
of the elective franchise; and his allegation that "Po
verty and depravity walk hand in hand," is a slander
upon the poor and at war with the principles of jus
tice and equal rights.
Resolved That the opposition of Martin Van Bu
ren to the distribution of the Surplus Revenue among
the several States,and by which Pennsylvania will be
deprived of 435,000,000. is good cause for all friends
of Pennsylvania prospeyity to withold from him their
support and give it to Gen. Harrison, who declared
himself in favor of the measure.
Resolved, That the victories achieved by the oppo
nents of Martin Van Buren in Ohio and Georgia,at the
late elections,'are sure indications that a better state
of things are about to obtain, and the result proves
conclusively that Martin Van Buren cannot be elec
ted by the people.
On motion of Jon% PICKING, Ego.
Resolved, That the following persons be and they
arc hereby appointed the Standing Committee of the
State Rights party for the county of Adams for one
year,or until they are superseded by a Convention of
Delegates or a regular meeting of the State Right
Democrats of the county—to wit:
Dn. D. H. MELLINGER, M. C. CLARKsON,
DAVID MIDDLECOFF, JO/IN PICKING.
JOSEPH R. HENGY,
Resolved, That Michael C. Clarkscn, David Mid
diecoff and George Ickes be and they arc hereby ap
pointed confcrces,to meet the Democratic State Right
conferees of this Senatorial district at Carlisle on
TOEsDAV Nexr,to nominate candidates for Senatorial
Delegates to the Convention to amend the Constitu
tion.
Resolved, That in the election of delegates to the
Convention all party feeling should be laid aside,and
that those should be selected who are competent and
honest enough to resist the mad and revolutionary
doctrines of the party miscalled 'Democratic,' which
seeks to hurry us into revolution, and to prostrate
those Constitutional securities which hitherto have
guarded our privileges, and which once destroyed
would leave us without titles to our lands, or protec
tion for any of our rights, real or personal. We have
confidence in the integrity and superior abilities of
James .IrleSherry and Thaddeus Stevens, and
we will support them for the Convention against men
notoriously incompetent and who profess the doc
trines of Revolution, which are at variance with Jef
fersonian Democracy.
Resolved, That it is considered expedient that mea
sures should be taken for the establishment within
the county cf Adams, of a weekly Newspaper which
will advocate the true doctrines of Democracy, and
not purloin, the lead of old Federalists who have as
sumed the name of Democracy, and are now guiding
the counsels of the party upon ultra-federal principles
to ultra federal measures.
On motion,
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be
signed by the officers and published.
JOHN ftt I LEY,Esq. President.
SA3IUEL MCFARLANE's •
V. Pres i dents.
ABRAUA3I'FICEINO,
. Joseph Kepner, SeCretaries.
John Picking,
HAGERSTOWN, Md., 13th Oct.
Yesterdaay JOSEPU ABELL, in a drunken
6t, cut hie throat and died in the evening.
On Friday last the body of a very decently
dressed young man was found near Cave
town, supposed to have been murdered.
STAR & REPUBLICAN BANNER.
BY ROBERT W. MIDDLETON.
Lc) a %viz) qt_pfle) :4111;7211
ellotaday, October 24, 1836.
Ot:rTho Wagon price of Flour in Balti
more-89 00 to 9 25.
FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM H. HARRISON.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
FRANCIS GRANGER.
ELECTORAL TICKET.
John Gest
Senatorial.
Alexander Plumer
Levis Passmore
Charles Watres Samuel Royer
Jonathan Gillingham Chester Butler
William Johnson Ner 111 iddleswarth
Samuel G rush Isaac Myer
Thomas Ashbridge Frederick Gebhart
James Paul Benj. R. Marchand
Benjamin Riegel Thomas Hughes, Ben.
Jacob Weygandt John Reed
Walter C. Livingston Samuel C. Orr
David Grim William A. P niman
John Fox William,S. in
Charles Diehl James Cochra
Thomas Carson Louis Evans
iri-We this week copy the Electoral
Ticket oppesekto Martin Van Buren, in
order that our kends may know what tick
et trbte at the approaching Presidential
elecifbn. We would also state that as far
as wo know every man on that ticket is an
open and avowed opponent of the Lodge; and
that' on the Van Buren ticket there are no
lessthan FOURTEEN HIGH AND BIG.
OTED MASONS, besides Gen. MILLER,
whom we all know to be a Royal Arch Ma
son, and who refused to give evidence in the
late Legislative Investigation of Masonry.
No Anti. Mason can vote that ticket: but
all, as well as those in favor of the interests
of Pennsylvania, can vote the one at the
head of this article.
Delegates to the Convention to amend the
Constitution,
SENATORIAL,
JAMES DUNLOP,
LEVI MERE'LE.
REPRESENTATIVE,
THADDEUS STEVENS,
JAMES MISHERILY.
0::!rWe hope our friends will not neg
lect to call for tickets in due time.
Otrin order to give place to the proceed
jugs of the meeting at Berlin, our paper ap
pears somewhat later than usual.
County Meetings.
lICPWe hope attention will be paid to
the numerous calls of the PEOPLE on the
M4sonic Xtiti Buren partizans to come be
fore thee:a s
nd, face to face, make known
their sentiments on those subjects which
they deem of vital importance to Pennsyl
vania. Although tho Anti-Masons and
Btate's.Rights men appear and answer for
themselves, yet not' .3"tie of the minion of
Martin Van Buren and the Lodge dare
show his face before the people, to defend
their destructive, Revolutionary doctrines!
They know that the result of the late elec.
tion in this county was brought about by
the inactivity of the Anti-Masons, and the
VI LE SLANDERS AND FALSE—
HOODS issued in handbills on the eve of
the election by the minions of the Lodge,
and are AFRAID now to show themselves
before an aroused and indignant peoplel—
Wo are rejoiced that the people are deter
mined to keep up what they have commen
ced, and have called meetings for every
day, after Tuesday next, between this and
the election. See first page and below for
their notices.
BARBACTJE!
97 I HERE will bo a BARBACUE made at the
house of Mr. Henry Pohl, in Menallen
township, Adams County, On Wednesday the
2fth instant, at 1 o'clock r. M. Which tE ALL
parties are invited to attend.
The Managers will take care that thoro shall
be plenty of good eating and drinking GRATIS.
CLSrJAMES DUNLOP, C. B. PENROSE, and
T. STEVENS, Esqrs. will deliver Addresses--
and-the Candidates of both political parties,Sen
atorial and Representative, are respectivey in
vited to attend and address the meeting. Any
other gentlemen of either party will bo heard in
support of their principles.
Tho Managers again invite ALL persons,
Without distinction of party, to attend and par
take, FREE OF CHARGE, in discussion of
Political Prindiples arid a good Dinner.
The ./Managers.
October 19, 1826.
Public Meeting.
THE Democratic Anti Masons of Adams
county and all others opposed to the Ma
sonic Van Buren party, are requested to meet at
the house of Mr. Albert in Hampton, on Tuesday
the let of November next, at 1 o'clock r. ht.
B7Tho Convention candidates aro requested
also to attend and make known their sentiments
in regard to the objects of that Convention. All
parties aro invited to attend.
October 24, 1836.
Public Meeting.
County Meeting of the friends of the Su.
premacy of the Laws and all others desirous
of promoting the interests of the State, will be
held at the house of George Lawrence, in Mount
pleasant township, on Wednesday the 2d of No
vember nest, at 1 o'clock P. M.
ErThose gentlemen who are candidates to rep
resent us in the Convention to amend the Consti
tution are requested to attend and address the
meeting. MANY.
October 21, 1836.
Public Meeting.
Public meeting will be hold at the house of
.gIA John Lichty, in Germany township,Adams
county, on Thursday the 3d of November next, at
1 o'clock r. u. at which all in favor of the rights
and interests of Pennsylvania and of the Constitu
tion and Laws, as well as those who oppose such
interests by supporting Van Buren, are invited to
attend. 'The Convention candidates aro also
requested to attend and address the meeting.
October 24, 1836.
ll:rAn adjourned meeting of tho opponents of
Martin Van •Buren alit be held at t h e house of
Mr. Newman, ON TO-MORROW EVENING,
AT 7 O'CLOCK.
All in favor of the Constitution and Laws, and
opposed to the Now York Faction, are invited to
attend. Octobor 183 E.
Cadwallader Evans
Ott - You`surely cannot and will not vote
for Martin Van Buren, who rides in a splen
did ENGLISH Coach, drawn by ENG
LISH Horses! You are Americans; and
he who thinks American Carriages not good
enough for him, should never be honored
with American votes. Let proud Ameri
can Mechanicks, then, reflect before they
cast their votes for the friend of British
Mechanicks. •
0:7 - American Manufacturers will not give
their votes for Martin Van Buren, who
spurns American manufactures; who dresses
in the Broad Cloths and fine Linens of
EUROPEAN manufacture! No! no—The
"American System," forever!
Oc:rThe Compiler, as , in duty bound, is
out against this gentleman for attending and
presiding at a meeting in favor of Gen. Har
rison! This was expected. But the abuse
of the vile creature who Edits that paper,
can do him no harm—cannot change the
course marked out by Col. Clarkson and
the host of his original Jackson friends who
are rallying against the party led by the
pitiful, servile creature who boasts of being
at the head of "the Democracy of Adams!"
The True Cause.
0:77 - Our late defeat throughout the State
can be easily accounted for by impartial and
judicious men. Our party believed them
selves and their.prirtciples betrayed by the
amalgamation Convention of December last;
and feeling disgust, staid at home; or, per
chance, some of them in chagrin voted with
the Masonic party. No new name can ever
blind freemen to their priqci plea. But the
rejoicings of the Lodge over their victory,
will arouse every Anti Mason to n sense of
his duty, and the next election (4th Nevem
ber) will show the indignant energies of
awakened Anti-Masons. The members of
Secret Societies in Philadelphia held a Jubi
lee since they heard of our defeat! More
than 900 were said to bo'in the procession!
The Masons have not had a procession in
Philadelphia before since 1829 or 1830!
Anti-Jfasons of Ildanut County!
KrThe Lodge triumphs more over your
defeat than over all the rest of the State.—
You were the terror of theso evil-doers!
They muck you! they spurn you! they in
sult you! Arise in your might and carry off
the gates of their polluted city on your broad
shoulders! The 4th of November intuit bo a
proud day for redeemed freethen, or you
must be slaves for life!
ICPThose Masonic Whigs, the "U. S.
Gazette" and "York Republican," glow
more foolish with age! They will never be
cured of Masonic bigotry. Had York cow
ty never relapsed from Anti-Masonry and
sold her press to the Lodge t she would now
have been Anti-Masoniclustead of being in
a minority of 1,000. If Whiggery has such
virtue, why did she not triumph? Heaven
knows her representatives were Whiggish
enough for the mCht,Royal Arch Mason that
ever wore a crown, iii-wore' to protect a
"brother Mason, right or wrong!"
'girl very Daniel come to judgement!”
(1:!TOur present Constitution under which
we have lived securely for nearly hallo
century, was framed by those able Jurists,
THOMAS' iIkIPFLIN, THOMAS M'KEAW, JAMES
Ross and their associates. Now it is to be
taken to pieces and remodeled by much
wiser men! Their successors on the Van
Buren Masonic ticket are
Adam Wert,
haac Robinson, To make a Con
J. Rodebaugh, j atitution!
Henry Myers!!!!
64 JPlan Selling."
KrGOII. HARRISON once voted that
Sheep-Thieves should be bound out to pay
the costs of prosecution, instead of having
them paid by the county; and the Van Bu
ren party call it "man-selling!"
Why do the Leaders of that lawless party
object to such a law? Are they afraid of
its operattonn
To the Opponents of Slavery.
Otr - Can you vote for Martin Van Buren,
who declares that "Congress does not pos
sess the power of interfering with or abolish
ing Slavery in the District of Columbia?"
The words quoted aregiven in the Com
piler of last week as Mr. Van Buren's own
words—see lst col. 2d page.
Gen. Heaaisox contends that every State
Legislature has the undoubted right of mak
ing its own laws on the.subject of Slavery;
of course Congress has the right of abolish
ing Slavery in the District of Columbia.
It now rests with you to say, shall the
advocate or opponent of Slavery have your
votes on the 4th of November next.
We are opposed to Slavez3, and cannot,
therefore, vote for Martin Van Buren.
To the Opponents of Masonry.
Kr-Can Anti-Masons cast their votes for
Martin Van Buren, who has been nomina
ted and sustained by the Masonic party in
opposition to Anti-Masonry; who insultingly
declares that in making appointments to
office he will not stop to inquire whether
applicants are Masons or not, so that they
wear ars comtn; and along with whom is
associated. Richard M. Johnson, who has
outraged decent society, and who is a high
adhering Mason?
We cannot vote for Martin Van Buren,
because even were he an Anti-Mason, we
would be compelled to cast our vote for Gen.
MILLER, who refused to testify before the
Legislature of his State when Masonry was
in danger—thereby proving that Masons
ARE bound by obligations which they con
sider "above the Laws—above the Consti-
Mien." We ,
_ therefore, go for the Con
stitution and Laws against Van Burenism
and Masonry!
To the poor Laborer.
O You cannot vote for Martin Van Bu
ren, because he wished to take the privilege
of poor Laborers' voting from them, and
bestowing it upon nicu negroes. He is the
enemy of the roou—and the friend of the
RICH(
To aleehanics.
To &Manufacturers.
Col. Clarkson.
o* - The "Po le. Cat" of the Compiler
boasts that the reason ho took the *fiscally
course ho did to defeat Col. Cliykson's elec.
tion, was that he (Clarkson) got "no tickets
printed at the Compiler office!' This con
fession proves that interest and not principle
to be the guiding star of the disappanled
Visitor to West Point,
icrAndy can't speak the truth! Hear
him—"the election of part of the democrat
ic ticket of Adams county never occurred
(before) since it has been a county"ll!
Was Christian Picking not elected a few
years ago, when there was a volunteer op.
portent of one of our candidates)
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I[7.We hope the intelligent and high.
minded people of Adams County will not
listen to the base and unmanly FA LSE
HOODS contained in the Compiler isimed
today. From begining to end, that paper
is 'made up' of vile slanders against one
who perilled his life and all that. wits.dear.
to him in the late wai with Great Dritiaa,
when the contemptible puppy who imlited
the slanders for the Compiler was "nttisving
and puling at his nurse's breasts!" For a
refutation of the base slanders about selling
"white-men," we refer the generous and
noble-hearted people of Adams County to
the address contained in this week's paper.
Gen. Harrison it will be seen, voted to bind
out convicted theist-4 and other malefactors,
to pay the expenses of their trial and con
viction, rather than such things should be
raised by taxing the people. Had such a
law passed the late Legislature, God help
the "CONVICTS" about the Compiler!
For the Star & Banner.
Pettycoat General vs Petty.coat Major!
The valiant major of the Compiler is very vocifer
ous about petticoats. A woman of common spirit
would not, disgrace her petticoats by letting such a
recreant cover his cowardly limbs with them. 1 sup
pose the major has forgotten the time, that he moun
ted another man's horse to parade on him, and that
the owner dismounted him. Ho forgets Ids flight
towards his own house on that occasion—running with
his drawn sword in his hand; the picture of terror and
the old Sheriff following him—Brave major, pretty
major!
One who knows the major.
On the 17th inst. after a lingering illness, which
oho bore with Christian fortitude, Mrs. CATO/MINH
Twommr, of this county, in the 29th year of her ago
MARRIED.
On the 27th tilt. by the Rev.. Mr. Hickey, Mr. A
LEXANDER fissono,ot Adams bounty,Pa. to misi MA•
HY ANN WISE,of Emmittsburgh,Md. •
On the 17th instant, by the Rev. Mr. Jones, Mr.
NOAH WHITMORE to Miss MARY ANN BIIZITTER
BAUGH, Of BRITCHI-FOITy, YR.
On the 20th Inst. by the Rev. Mr. Watson, Mr,
BODERT BLACK, of Lancaster county, to Miss ELIZA
ANN BA/LEY,Of Cumberland township,Adai county.
AUDITORS; MEETING,
THE undersigned, Auditnis, appointed,
by the Orphans Court of Adams county, to
adjust and distribute the assets remaining
in the hands of the Administrators of Moats
JENKINS, to and amongst the Creditors and
Legatees of said deceased, will meet on
Friday the 25th of November next, at 10
o'clock, A. ar. at the house of J. A. Thomp
son, in Gettysburgh. All persons having
claims against said estate, will exhibit the
same, properly authenticated, on that day.
WM. N. IRVINE,
SA ML FA HNESTOCK, Auditors.
JOEL B. BANNER,
October 24, 1830.
HANDS WANTED
150 HANDS -
WNTED A
Immediately, to work on
- Section No. 2, Gettysburg Exten 7
sion Pennsylvania Rail Road.
The highest wages and constant employ
ment will be given.
:'The work is situated on the South
side of the South Mountain,tho most healthy
part of Pennsylvania.
A. G. NEVIN, Contractor.
Gettysburgh, October 24, MM.
Netti Wasays.
THOMAS J. COOPER has taken into part.
nership ROBERT W. M'SnEnnir under the
firm of COOPER & M'SHERRY, who
have just received a fresh stock of GOODS,
consisting of
Dry goods, errotemies,
Queens - wore, Hardware,
ii OikoVi NV RV c &c.
which they are determined to sell as Low
as any other Establishment in the Country.
The public are invited to call and examine
for themselves.
COOPER dz ht'SHERRY.
NOTICE.
PERSONS having Notes on Book ac
counts of long standing will do well to call
and settle without delay.
THOMAS J. COOPER.
October 24, 1838. 3t-30
NOTICE.
ESTATE ofJacob Walker late of Lail.
more Township deceased.
The auditors appointed at the last Orphans
Court held in and for the County of Adams,
to adjust and apportion the assets remain
ing of said estate, to and among the credi
tors of said deceased, will meet at the house
of John Yetts in the Borough of Gettysburg
on Friday the 25th day of November next, .
at 10 &cluck r.
EPHR AIM MARTIN,
ADAM WALTER, Auditor.
SA M'L FA HNESTOCK,
October 24, 1838.
GETTrsztURGII GATRDS
ATTENTION/ •
YOU will parade in front of the College
on Saturday the sth of November next.
at 10 o'clock in winter uniform.
JOHN ZEIGLER A OA II
DIED •
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