One word to the Voters of Adams:
:The Van Buret Leaders . in .Gettysburgh and Z. HERBERT in - Millerstown
bel e been engaged all the past week preparing rags to be sent abroad in handbills on
the eve of the election. We ere told that the Compiler of tomorrow is to deny that
the candidates in this county and district, are in favor of Revolution—BUT BE.
LIEVE THEM NOT. Their candidates ARE, every one of them, Pledged
Ito support the doctrines proclaimed by George .11.
the Leader of their party.
We are told also that Herbert and Miller deny that Van Buren voted, in the New
York Convention, TO DEPRIVE POOR MEN OF This RIGHT OF VOTING
unless they owned a freehold worth an hundred poundA. These men would say any
'THEM NOW. Afer publishing the VILE SLANDER that
Gen. tiarrism voted to s-II white men into shivery, what would they not publish?—
Weal would they nut du? These miserable demagogues would deny *heir Saviour to
* advance their party.
Anti-Masons to the
)ICY"The rejoicings of the Lod2e, over what it coils the .'death wound' Anti.
Masonry, are loud and long. In Philadelphia, the Lodge has had ajullification "over
ite corpse of Anti Masonry!"
Anti•MasOns of Adams! Will you hear this, and not come, to the rescue? Will you
be reviled and spit upon by the Lodge; and not rally in defence of your principles? ft
you will suffer the Lodge to smite and buffet you, do sa, but don't call yourselves Anti-
Masonic Freemen.
The Convention Question.
..
Feltotv-Citizens of admits County!
- --Tht - Convcartion - tciiimend the Constitution; -- save George - 111. — Dallat, the Leader ofi
the Van Buren party in Penniylvania, will have the power
"ro restore Slavery among us, Make our Penal Codc as!
11LOODY as that V RUC°.
Withdraw the charters ofonr cities. . . •
Take away the TRIAL BY JURY.
Permanently suspend the privilege of the WRIT o f ILI
BE3S CORPUS—and
Supercede 'a standing Judiciary by a scheme of OCC3
SIO.MIL arbitrament and Umpirage."
Fellow-Citizens!
Such are the mud doctrines of tho Van Wren party of Ponnsylvnnia. Such are the
doctrines avowed and contended (or by the Van Buren party in Adams County, who
have r►dtnivated as their 04; to carry Out such doctrines Henry Myers, John Roude.
bough, Isaac Robinson and Adam - Wert! Can you vote for them? Can you support
Men who not only maintain such monstrous doctrines, but will put them zn practice, if
they are permitted to euccoed in the election.; for Delegates on FRIDAY NEXT?—
"Do you want t o see CHARTERS REPEALED—SLAVERY RESTORED--
SCAFFOLDS and AXES in every, village and district—THE TRIAL BY JURY
taken away—THE HABEAS CORPUS (that grand security against the exercise of
tyrannical power) permanently suspended—THE CHARTERS dyour towns dr cities
t►nd the PATENTS and DEEDS for your property destroyed--and the LA WS, the
JUDGES, and COURTS OF LAW swept to Perdition'? De you want to see these
things? Do you wont to sea our whole beautiful system of 'Republican Government
lopsy turvey, and Anarchy and Revolution appear in their worst and must bloody
forms?" then stay at home on Friday nee, and neglect your duty to yourselves, your
country and your families, by not turning out and voting the whole Harrison Ticket for
Delegates to amend the Constitution. . . .
• FELLOW CITIZENS! We are approaching a preArtFUL CRISIS—a party
has grown up in this Union and State, whoße head es Martin Van Euren, aided by
EUROPEAN PAUPERS and CONVICTS, who advocate the doctrine of an equal
distribution of propetftr--who are willing and anxious to wrest it from you who have
earned it by the SWEAT OF YOUR BROWS—Who are ready to set at nought all
laws, and trample upon ail the institutions of our beloved country, that stand in the way
of their unhallowed purposes—who would plunge this country, and her peacefill, happy,
and prosperous cities, towns and forme, in REVOLUTION and BLOODSHED; nay,
who would destroy, and desolate-all that 'is valuable and dear to honest, upright, peace.
felould orderly citizens, rather than be .defeated in their objects, which an , THE DE
STRUCTION OF ALL , constitutions, laws, and ordinances, that now enshroud, pre
serve, and perpetuate our tights, liberties and property; in the expectation of benefits
to be derived therefrom to themselves. Do mot, therefore, we beseech you, STAND
• WITH YOUR ARMS FOLbED antllooklin indiffinent spectators, of the approach of
thoi -evils, bet act as men ought to act, whe,ao.in.defence of all that is dear to man on
earth—the preservation of their wive.', their children, and their3iresides.
ACTION, ACTION, ACTION! -is-now the bounden duty of all, who have an in•
.terest in preserving their property, their rights, their liberties, and the laws and insti.
ttutions of our beloved country. ACTION, ACTION, ACTION, is the bounden
.duty of all of you who desire to-preserve the Rigid of Trial by Jury--who are op.
posed to the institution of Slavery among us—who are opposed to the s uspending per.
inanent4 of the - Habeas Corpus Act, and who are in favor of preserving all vested
riginer,(among which are the Titles by which your lands and houses are now held)
guaranteed to us by our present Constitution and Laws.
TO THE POLLS, THEN—TO THE POLLS,—Freemen of Adams coun
ty,ON FRIDAY NEXT, and by voting for the Electoral Ticket in tavor of WI L.
LIAM HENRY HARRISON for President of the United States, and JAMES
,DUNLOP, LEVI MERKLE, THADDEUS STEVENS AND JAMES M'SHER•
R for Delegates to amend the Constitution of this State, you will avoid all the evils
thi.v Nod faction have in store for you.
A vain, we s ty, TO THE POLLS, AND DO YOUR DUTY to yourselves, your
f ain i,,,, and your country. TO THE POLLS, and 1n giving a long pull, a strong
pu ll , ' L yid a pull altogether, you will preserve and perpetuate the rights, liberties, and
privileg. Na, guaranteed to you by the present glorious Constitution of the State; that
glorious t. lonstitution, under which our fathers and ourselves, have enjoyed such un
bounded p, suTerity, peace, order, and happiness, for a period of nearly FIFTY
YEARS.
Another g l i zAnder blown sky-high!
lIXTbe York Republican way
..... 80t ,.,:e the election the V4n Huron men were busily circulating
In pritrate,end since then hob•Pulffisimed a ..*,_11 , ..v that Gen. Harrison ordered the Moravian town in
Canada to be burned shortly liner .the battle o ,'" the Thames. A committee was appointed to ud•
dress Gen. Harrison on the subject. The fallowit4r Is the General's answer, which puts the VILE
SLANDER TO RESTt—a.
Vent/erne/1.-1n answer to your 'inquiry in relation to the burning of the town occu•
pied by the Moravian Indians, near to 'the scene of the action of the River Thames, in
the year 1813, I state, THAT IT WAS NOT BURNED BY MY ORDER, but
by order of a Major General of the Kentucky Militia, AFTER 1 MAD LEFT THE ARMY
ON MY RETURN TO DETROIT.
This gentleman has always been opposed to mein polities, but although he was blam
ed by others, I thougliche was perfectly justifiable in doing so, because the Indians to
whom it had fought against us in the action; and if the town had been left,it would have
afforded - it place of rendezvous for the hostile Indians during the winter, which would
itaveenabled them greatly to annoy our outpoots and the settlements of Detroit. In
war, nothing is more common than the destruction of the houses, even of our friends,
where they can be used to advantage by the enemy. Thus Gun. Jackson very properly
destroyed all the houses or American citizens in front of his lines near New Orleans.
No general who does nut do so, where the necessity occurs, would deserve to have an
army entrusted to him.
I will add, that there were no Provisions or Stores of any kind an the town, as they
had all been consumed by tho, British troops and Indians; nor was there a barrel of
flour belonging to our army within fifty miles. The story, therefore,of the Moravians
being supplied by Com. Perry is A. WILFUL FABRICATION.
1 am, respectfully, die.
WILLIAM H. HARRISON.
•
Calvin Mason, Jacob A. Fischer and George Hay, York. Pa.
ALL EXAXII, OHIO
" Old Tippezeinoelt 7ritasphant on his old Bottle-ground!!
The election in Ohio bas resulted most gloriously and triumphantly for the friends
of Gen. HARMON. 1n filly conntiee,which in 1832 gave Lucas,tho Ja kson a en
didate for Governor, a majority of 3122, Vance, the Harrison candidate, now has a
majority of 4746, Gen. Vance, according to the People's Press, is elected by a
majority of not leis than 7000, and not more than 9000 votes, in a state which two
years ago elected a Jackson Governor by more than :3000 majority. There is there
fore adiferenee between Van Burenism and JaCksonism in the %vest. Eleven Harrison
men are elected to Congress—two years we had but 10. Eigh: Van Burenitea are
~also probably elected—two years ago they had nine. This is a Harrison gain of two
members, we having lost sue and gained three. Thus has Ohio come out in her
't en th for Harrison, hei favorite son,and by a triumphant support of his friends
„stomped the LIE on ill the slanders which his enemies had forged against him. Think
"00 that tf Harrison had voted inseg white men into slavery for debt in the Senate of
-Nate, Ohio would have thui soeteitood him? 'le impossible, and thus this vilest
or all tbe calumnies is p ut to rest by the soveriegn voice of the people. ALL
wttL, !! I—York ßepublican
gaes Ohio, so "goes Democratic, Pennsylvania!
---o: :o: :+s.--
YORK, Pa. October Bth. 1830.
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Highly Important Letter.
15::7TA committee was appointed recently
to address those nominated by the Van
Buren party of Allegheny county as dele
gates to the Convention to amend the Con
stitution, and solicit their answers to the
following questions—
Firpt. Will you rote the glertothl ticket pleilited
to 'rapport Martin Van Burcu and Richard. M. John
son ?
Second. Will the Convention about to assemble
to amend the constitution of the state. possess the
power to annul the charter of the Bauk of the Limited
State*?
Tiiird. If the convention have the power to annul
the charter of the Bank of the United States, will it
be, in your opinion,
expedient to annul it, and will
you vote in favor of doing so?
We subjoin the reply, to the above que•
r ies, of WALTFR FORWARD, Esq• one of
the most able Laws are of the West :
MR. FORWARD'S LETTER.
PITTSBURGH, October 2Uth, 16313.
G en tle m en-1 received your note of the 18th
inst., conveying tho preamble and resolutions
adopted by a meeting held on the Saturday pre
ceding. Itly constant engagements in the Dis
trict Court of the United States, during the last
two days, have prevented my attention to the sub.
jsct of those resolutiesie, except in the weary in
terval of its recess. Nly reply is therefore writ
ten in haste, and without the precision and metli•
oil-which further time would have enabled me to
give it.
The democratic delegates thought proper while
I was absent iii a neighboring comity, to .pl•ite
me on their ticket ace candidate for the Conven
tion. I had no previous notice of their kind in.
lentions towards mo—the nomination was unso
bolted and unconditional. It hurl been dictated,
as I supposed by a single rererence to the subject
of constitutional reform—the only object that can
rightfully occupy the deliberations of a conven.
. _
Linn. In no opting it, I had no idea that as soon
es the October election should be over, I would be
required to subscribe to opinions, and give pledges
in regard to questions which the preamble to the
resolutions admits to have been Indianola ut the
time of my nomination.
I am very distinctly informed in said preamble,
that at the dale of the nomination. the questions
propounded. by you "were not thought of by the
people," but that they "have arisen since that
time, and nro now agihitirl the public mind."—
This is assigned its the I CU9OI/ fur the call made
upon mo at this Into period. Professing the
highest consideration for those who attended the
meeting, and for each of you, gentleman, person
ally, I must he allowed to say, that both they and
you have fallen into a small inistrike. The high
claims of Messrs. Van Buren and Johnson to the
Presidency and Vice Presidency. are no now
matters. The extraordinary merits of those gen.
tlemen, and the necessity of their election to save
the country from ruin, were trite as loudly and
strenuously asserted before the nomination as
nflerwards; and you well know, gentlemen. that
for several weeks prior to the October elections,
this new question, as it is called, of annulling the
Bank by the Convention, was not only "thought
of by the people," but inado a subject of vehement
party declamation.
I am therefore constrained most respectfully to
say to you that the reasons for changing the
grounds of my nomination, and attaching new I
conditions to my continuance upon the ticket, are
to my mind very unsatisfactory. I think it highly
probuble that the importance and the equity of ,
these new conditions are not yet discovered by
the delegates from the country, by whom I was
nominated, and that they may yet be inclined to
hesitate and ponder the matter very seriously, be
fore they exclude n candidate from their favor,
because lie denies the power of the convention to
annul charters, and destroy private property. I
am confident that at the time I was nominated
the reform attic constitution was not considered
a party matter. I have never regarded it in that
light, and no consideration shall over induce mo
le enter the Convention as a party man.
Before the passage of the Act of Assembly for
calling a- Convention, our public rneetinga upon
that; subject wore attended by all parties—the
committees were selected from all parties. At
the several conferences held by the commitee
last appointed, and of which I was a member, the ,
impropriety and danger of converting the reform
of the Constitution into a party question, were
frequently mentioned and unanimously admitted
I have acted upon these principles ever since, and
will continuo to act upon them, until persuaded by
better reasons than any I have yet board, to take
a different course. •
Constitutions are designed to secure the tights
and liberties of individuals by fundamental laws
—by laws,which shall curb the p.iwer of trium•
phuut itiojoi lace. We all know,nna ore are some
times made to feel that dominant parties aro gen.
erally wishing to make the most of their pnvve - ,
and that one object to be gained by amending the
Constitulinn is to. restrict their capacity and
means of corruption - and tyranny.
I have no doubt that these were the sentiments
of the gentlemen by whom I was nominated, and
that they will hear with surprise, that the reform
of our constitution is to be made subservient to
the fortunes of presidential candidates. Their
surprise will increase, whew they find party poli
tics completely,superseding, and excluding every
question of constitutional reform, from u largo
public meeting assembled with reference to that
very matter; and that in the preamble and resolu
tions ofthat ineeaVil, the subject offerors', is nut
even mentioned.
The questions submitted to me by the meeting.
refer to the vote which 1 intend to give at the elec.
(ion of electors in November, and to the opinions
as to the nom:li and duty of the convention to
annul the charter oftho Bank of he United States,
The latter will be first attended to. Charters ob.
tained by imposition and fraud, may be annulled
upon proof of the fact. If the charier in question
wore thus obtained, it can and ought to be repeal.
ed, and were a general law passed constitUt!ng•
tribunal for the trial amities of this sort, the ques.'
Linn of fraud might be heard, amid determine:l
without delay. 1 will add that the charge of cor.
ruption haring been made and reiterated, I think a
rigorous inquiry should be had as early an possi.
ble; and fine fact be established, lot the Bank be
crushed at once.
The Act of Assembly creating the Bank, has
guarded against the abuse of its privileges by ex
pressly reserving to the Legislature and the Su
preme Court, the power to cause examinations to
be made ads books and paperslio put its officers
under oath; and if it shall be found upon atrial by
jay, that the Limiter has been viulared, to declare
It void. Thus far there is no need of the extraor
dinary powers of a convention. The agency of
that body is only needed when charters have been
honestly obtained, aid are to be destroyed without
a trial by the resistless force or its own mere will:
and the question propounded to me is amply this,
whether In virtue of this, its sovereign will, it can
crush, and annihilate the Bank of the United
States, although the charter may have been fairly
procured, and the Bank itself honestly admlnis.
tared.
I answer that it cannot: Brat, because the peo
pie whain October 1835, voted for the calling of a
convention, expressly limited its pewit's. The
language of their votes was as follows:—`•For a
convention to submit its proceedings, to a vote of
the people." It is obvious that annulling a char.
tar cannot bo an amendment of the constitution;
and if it were, it would be liable to ho nullified by
the people themselves.
Secondly, assuming that the convention will be
clothed with all the authority. rights, powers, and
privileges that the people can impatt, still it can.
not annul charters. Every body knows, and even
partizans do not deny that a charter is a contract
between the government and individuals, and has
all the essential attributes of any tither contract.
It is also admitted that the Stato - firrennsylvanie
has full power to grant charters, and that in the
al.,,rneit of .1 wervat ion of a power Ka that poi• .
• i
pose, neither the legislature our the courts can re.
peal them, riders obtained by fraud. or forfeUed
by' al practice. No one will dispute that Bank
stock, canal stock, and bridge stock, are. private
property in the same sense and for the same ends,
nernely, profit and income, as notes, bonds, inert
' gages, furniture, houses, or lands.
It is conceded that the annulling of charters is
the destructiorvalf contracts, and the annihilation
of vested rights of property. The question, there
fore, in its plain and naked terms is just this,can
a majority of the people - invest:l. body of delegates
with the power to annul contracts, and destroy
vested private rights? I take the negative side of
t this question, for the following reasons:
1
Becau<o there are just tweMy.five States of the
Unlon,pledged to the defence of every ma n,worr.aii
and child in Pennsylvania against the exercise of
such a power; and though we may cut ourselves
louse from them by a sweeping act of nullification,
i yet the government of the Union, which Ibr ilea
purpose holds the power of those States, will take
special care,es an the case of South Carolina, that
OW audacious usurpation and tyranny be seusona
bly put down. Bo pleased gentlemen to read the
following section of the ninth article of the Con
stitution °film Milted States: •••No Stain shall en
ter intu any trouty,alliance or emifederation,grant
letters of mnrivio or reprisal, coin money, omit
bills of credit, make any thine but gold or silver
coin a tender in payment of debts, pass any hills
of attainder, ex post 'unto haw, or law impairing
the obligation of contracts." 'flie prohibition cam
taioed to this clause of the federal constitution, is
explicit and direct,and admits of but ono evasion,
namely, that Pennsylvania when represented in
the convention, will cease to be a "Stale," a con•
dition to which I admit she would be degraded
I by o body of delegates, declared by the . people
themselves to be ribsolute'y lawless.
The clause prohibiting state governments from
passing. laws impairing contracts, has been main
cad by the Supreme Court of the United States,in
every instance where the validity ofsuch laws has
been brought in question; and unless the judges
of Out court shell become the prolligete instill- 1
ments of faction, the same rule will tio observed 1
in future. In a contest bef:irn that court, the vies-
lion wilt be whether the obligation of a contract I
Gas been impaired, and the State of eennsvlvaina
can only succeed by showing that her grant of the
charley in consideration of several millions ado'
lare,eil her paid or to be paid by the siockholdera
of the Bank, teas note contract with those stock •
holders. Her position inny ho rcndilv•concoived
by those who am apprised that the Supreme Court
has repeatedly decided that charters are contracts,
and therefore secure against violation by state
governments. Parties before that eourt,ate upon
a footing of NI iiiihty,and the fact that a state l.•gie.
tutor() which is supposed to represent the wisdom
and intelligence of the people, has made an ire
prudent bargnin,will tarnish no ground of relief.
The Answer to such a plea, would be that States,
like individuate, must submit to the consequences
of their own bargsineouid like individuals content
themselves with the revolution to look more sharp
ly in future.
Violent parties in their zeal for victory, aro too
opt to countenance false principles and false roe.
soiling It, cannot be the interest °fan American
citizen, a freeman, that the exorbitant arid savage
power of breaking lawful c miracle, and destroy
ing private rights without compensation, should
any whore exist. It is his interest that such a
power be sternly denied, and the attempt to exer
cise it universally repelled. For the fate of others
to day, may be his fate to : morrow; and the prop
erty of the citizen can never be safe go long as
pyrty conflicts aro permitted to involve the right
to enjoy it. My opinion la that the stockholders
of the Bank gave too little for their charter, and
that in the term of its duration, it. should have
had no advantage over the other state banks. But
I know that the act granting the charter is con-
•
slitutional; and that unless procured by fraud, the
people,of whom lam (memo bound by it. Why
should it bo otherwise? Con any one give a rea
foil why the force of a contract should depend
upon the numbers that may constitute one of the
parties to it—why the stronger party should be
allowed to say one thing and timan'another; should
be permitted to keep or break its stipulations ac.
cording as a innjority may decide? An individual
claiming this privilege would bo set down as a
krinvo. The obligation of a contract is a moral
obligation, and therefore, just as binding upon
! governments and communities, represented by
' governments as upon individuals. A contrary
doctrine substitutes force in the place ofright,and,
however di , guised, is an attack upon liberty.
Hut is it not p °sumptuous to deny the right of
a maturity of the people to nullify their contract.
Is now their power sovereign and unlimited?
These quastions are answered by another. Do
you deny the competency of the people to snake a
contract? If you do not, then I ask, upon what
reason of natural justice. or common honesty,they
should be at libert yto break it, when made. A
bond signed by five thou.and or five millions,
would tsti imbue binding titan if executed by one.
Payrnent Might. be withheld because no earthly
tribunal could entstue it; hut the perfidy and in.
justice would be noes the less flagrant.
The legislature which granted the bank charter
was clothed with limited powers; but to the extent of
these powcrs,it represented the people and could bind
' them. It is for this reason,that the charier is constitu
tional. In other words,the power to grant it was del
egated to the people It is therefore their own act—
just as much so as if done by a convention of thilm.
selves. If a mail were to come into court to annul the
sale of his goods made under a power cfattorney,given
for that purpos:•,upon the ground that the power,altho'
quite sufficient to transfer the goods,did not extend to
lands—he would be treated as insane. But it scams
that when the people confer an authority to bind them
in one matter, they may make void private rights ac
quired under it, for the strange restdoii, that their so
vereign power in reference to othermatters had been
withheld!
I should be pleased to hear some one define what is
meant by the expression "sovereign power." Is it a
power of confounding moral distinctions—of transmu
ting wrong into right—of annihilatinp, truth and jus
tice? I understand those who contend for the power
of the convention to annul charters, to speak of its
rightful power,and not of the mere sway nfthe strong
vet. irue,it is said that the people may abolish their
government; in this instance, however, they neither
propose nor intend to do it. Hut if they did, and the
government were actually abolithed.the right of pro-
perty mull not be at the mercy of the convention.—
The sane • elaration of rights, which proclaims that
all power Is Inherent in the people,and that they may
alter or abolish their government, asserts that "all
men are born equally free and independent, and have
certain indefeasible rights, among which are those of
acquiring, possessing anti protecting property "
Those rights are antecedent to all political govern
ment.and are no more subject the will of a convention
than the right of breathing the air or beholding the
sun.
It is to be recollected that it is not the solitary pow.
er of destroying the hank of the U. States,that ld as
crated to :be convention, but a power to destroy all
charters and annihilate all vested rights. If there be
any exception, let the friends of absolute power point
it out, and let them fix the limits that shall eircum.
scribe the omnipotence of the convention. No such
limit can be assigned. The power to annul charters,
is the power to annul patents for lands; & if eitherthe
one or the other can be done by the convention, they
may expel us from our houses.and rob us of our goods.
It happens that it is now made a party question whe
ther the bank of the U States shall be allowed to ex
ist. We may find it next year made apartrquestion
whether the people shall be prevented from crossing
our bridges without paying toll, or whether public
lands sold f or a tenth part of their value, should not
revert to the state.. The attempt to distinguish be.
Wrenn the kinds of property that may be seized,or to
soothe us with the hope that ours may be spared by
popular favour, will not have the effect of quieting
our fears. I dare say the convention would be saris;
lied with thedestruction of the bank. but if the rights
of one class of citizens can be invaded with impunity)
rights of all others are In jeopardy.
In regard to this odious bank, I Dine dot,and never
had a particle of - interest in it,otber than that which
belongs to every citizen. I never owned a dollar's
worth of its stock,nor received or "elicited it! accom
modation. If its charter was obtained by foul means
Vahanhe as willing at one of jr ph to see It an
nulled. Ent when I am called on to admit that lino
cent stockholders in that institution can be deprived
of their tested rights by the mero will of a contrentitm
my repugnance is invincible. I cannot be accessary
lb adj. such measure. I deny the right of any majort•
ty, however overwhelming, to touch their property,
without making them a just compensation. Ever the
threat of so great an outrage, appears to me, to be
ground for general alarm
You request me to state whether I will vote for the
electors u , sninattil by the farm!! cf Mllvtir. V;rl
ree and Richard M. Johnson. I do not see what bear
ing my opinion of those gentlemen can have upon the
question of amending the Constitution, but I have no
desire that it should be concealed. There are cirotun
staices which are,obvituni to you all,that would im
pel me to support Martin Van Buren. if such support
could be consistently rendered. But finding his name
connected with principles which appear to me to mili
tate against the public good, and to weaken the seelt•
rite of private property, 1 SHALL VOTE' A
GAINSI HIM.
My Opinions upon the subject of constitutional re
form mentioned in your letteronest be already known
to the most of you. I would take from the Governor
all power of appointment. Justices of the Peace should
be elected by the people, and hold their offices for a
term of years. The people should also elect their
Prothonotarv,Register.Re , :order and other county of
ficers. State officers, and the Judges of the Sepr, use
Court and inferior courts might be elect .1 by .4 V. li
d both houses of the Legislature. Wheow r the
ure of the office of the inferieriudges should he rhan
ged,is a question of some dilliculty—bu• I incline io
the change, and as at present advised would v.de for
the term often years. lam for limiting the eligibili
ty of the Executive to the term of three years,-n that
no Governor could be tempted front the strict line of
his duty by the hop: of re election
The evils of excessive banking, and improvident
granting of charters, call for restrictions. - the
Convention provide that no bank charters be erantril
unless notice of the intended application ho given six
mouths prior to the seQpien of the Legislature,and not
then unless a nokinrity of I wci• thirds of both houses be
ita favor of the measure.
1 arn.with great rc•pert, eentletnen. voursoke
W A LTER Fott w tti).
To Messrs. Stealer, Liviopton and others.
=II=
.Inll-.llrasosts.
I, with you,mnia he gratilied to hear of
t he meetings that are called for the ourpose
tit - adopting measures to spume
. 1 0 th e pe a .
pie of this county those rights which have
temporarily passed into other minds, by the
wily organization of an artfll enemy, and
our own false repose in conscious strength.
There is no danger to he d►caded so much
RS to repose in security, when our own•
tents are active; to rely upon our neighbor
doing his duty, when we should be up and
attending to our own. The certainty of
triumph has lost many a victory: superior
power has often been annihilated by intrigue
and deception; and the dearest rights of
fieemen have been sacrificed by an in/lona
' ted delusion that the purity of those rights
could not he invaded, and the power of a
majority be defeated by the sleepless ener
gy of a minority.
The late election in our county has dein.
onstrated this axiom. We have to contend
with a party that never slumbers. The tail
of a snake dies - with the going down of the
sun, but no sun sets upon the resistance of
our political opponents—by day or by night,
their scheming stops not! The bird that
seeks for carrion to sustain a famished ex
istence, is not more watchful than the well
drilled satellites that ingloriously rally
around a sinking cause. Contending for
exalted principles of liberty, where has been
our enemy? our organization and oft tried
strength?
Does not our imbecility cry aloud shame!
shame! shame!? Should not our defeat call
each man to the re,cue7 Are we not con
tending for the same cause fur which we
have heretofore buckled on our armour?
Why now this apathy, when in past tinier;
each man struggled to be first-in the onset ;
and firmest in the fight? Is not Anti-Ma.
sonry as dear tons as it has been of old? Is
not Masonry still stalking abroad in the noon
day sun, like some 'hideous monster whose
pestiferous breath 'destroys more than the
animal is able to devour? It still reigns in
midnight darkness! The Leopard has not
changed its spots; its unhallowed secret op.
orations still mark the course of its misdo-
Inge. The serpent lives, though its head
may have been bruised—the fangs and the
venom still remain!
How often have the independent voters
of this county rallied as a band of brothers
to defeat its progress! Like our glorious
ancestors in the incipient stage of the Rev
olution, who pitched the Tea into the depths
of the ocean, so were this people the first to
throw Masony overboard. Shall we now
halt, or, like the patriots of '76, merge ev.
ery consideration in our, efforts to silence
forever its insidious attempts to govern a
free • people? Shall we pause, when its
shout of triumph now strikes upon our eel?
While its laugh of scorn is mocking oar
lethargy, and the vain boasting of its fi , l
lowers rejoice as if they were holding a ju
bilee over the grave of Anti- Masonry?
We have Men into a deep sleep, and
the harlot has sho• n us, like Sampson of old,
of our locks of strength! Let us, then, like
the strong man, awake up, and, in the maj.
esty of a righteous rause, make the day of
retribution one long to be remembered.
Our Constitution is to be modified—inno
vation upon long established Laws and cus
toms is Co bike place—The old tenement,
which ham sheltered us from many a storm.
is to be torn down. and a new one erected!
The subject is one of awful responsiblity—
only to he contemplated with a holy prayer
fur its consumati , n, and approached with
that abiding interest which we must feel
when legislating for the welliire of unborn
millions. NoLe but the wisest and the best
should be architects in such a stupdndnus
undertaking. Such men the Anti. Masonic
party have found in TUADDEUS STEVENS
and JAMES M'SIIERHY.
I dwell not to offer a panegyric upon these
distingifiShed individuals. They!have bath
rendered the State much service. They
are ktimitri to you all; and if constituents
could he proud tif Representatives, we can
be so of them. 11constituents can have con
fidence in Representatives, we can have a
full measure in them. If we are asked.
who are the advocates of our cause, we can
point to the mighty mind, the - unflinching
firmness, the Roman devotion of l'itAtittis
STEvims; the exporience, ability, and Spar
tan virtue of J AMES WSIIERnt•
Let us, then, with acclamation', crowd to
the polls on the day of election. The
plough niaV skand idle, and the cattle be at
rest, for the FOMer is called to the service
of his country •-"as ye sow, ye shall reap."
Let the anvil stop, and the laborer cease
from his toil. Let it hen political Sabbath
day.devoted to the cause of a country,
worthy as the home of FREEMEN.
Can we boast of our high modntains and
verdant valleys—our inland seas, and riches
thrice blessed; can the Farmer gather his
grain into his garner; can our people pro.
gress in intelligence; can wo as a Nation be
free, independent and happy, if we are re
duced to a mate of political degradation?
NEVER ! Then tet me appeal to yru,
Anti-Masons, poor and rich—one and all—
arouse yourselves to the contest, and wEr
WILL ELECT OUR cmirtnoTss BY A TRI ,
tl 31 NI ANT
York Springs, Oct. 27, 1836.
For the Stir & Pannor.
Look at this,Freemen Vadat-as.
Mr. ED1T011,..--It is well known to every
oerson who reads the papers, that the pen
ot the several Townships in Adams
have culled meetings for the purpose or
, it , rtistng the several sul.jecfs at issue he
,o,een the political parties or the ~t,ele in
, prerence to 'h.. aporonchirer Election for
President, and for Delegates to the Convem
ion to amend the Constitution. These
meetings the candidates of each party, and
the advo,:ates of their re;:pective d, chines,
were invited to attend and exi lion and dr
fend their principle so that the petiol e
'night he enabled to juitge onderstandibg:y
bet w ea them.
In compliance with this invitation, the
candidates and advocate.; of the Anti Maso
nic part% , have nine. wilily presented them
-wives Iterine th people, and explained and
defended their principles.
Where were the candidates of the .Van
For the Star.
Boren party on these oecusionb? Where
were their reckless partizans and lawless
-de - um:ow les? W here - were - A D 43 - W CRT
and ISAAC Itnamsox? Andy Miller, who
stands gralfiithor Om all the lies spawned into
being through that vile pant, the Compiler
—and---but he is too trifling to talk about,
littlo Mosy Meelotal Like contemptib!o
cowards and lime recreants, they Amok
from avoming and defending their doctrines
flice to thee with the people, and hotora
those who they, knew could and would ex.
pose their absurdity and falsehood, naked
to the people!
It suits Andy Miller nod the other hope
ful rerobates of the' hopeful school, much
better to g I:de about in the dark, and sneak
about m corners, spreading their lies and
calumnies in secret, Ilinn to meet honest and
honorable men in open and honorable con
test? Why else, if but one half of what
tlwv alivire strains' Messrs. &m.sg.:Ns awl
M'Sirestiv he true, do they btirink from the
opportunity proffered them. openly to pro.
chum, substantiate and prove • Truth
ever .shuns disguise and concehlment, and
rejoices in the light of open day.
W hy, in especial, did Messrs. Wart and
Robinson, whilst asking the people for their
votes, presume to treat them with such
practical contempt? Or is it, that a con- '
sciousness of their own ignorance and the
fallacy of their doctrines, led them to shrink
from exposure and certain discomfiture?
As to Mr. Lawyer Miller, there is noth
ing surprising in lex conduct. A skulking,
dastardly poltroon, as he has shown him-
self to be, as witness the time when he suf:
fered himself to be unhorsed at the bend of
his troops, in the fice of the County by the
then Sheriff, and tied home sword in hand
before the wrathful functionary! It .sutts
him much better to aim the nseasin's stab•
ut the character of honorable men, with his':;.
poisoned weapons, and then fly. leaving the ..-
poison to rankle m secret, than to meet anr,
honorable foe in open and honorable con- -e."!
test! Let him go on circulating his base '.;
falsehoods respecting Messrs. McClellan ..
and Thompson in an adjoining County, or
seeking to revenge on Mr. Stevens, that
which rs the greatest ininry to a little mind
—Me having had the magnanimity to for-
give him for a great and grievious injury:,
That is bu► proper vocation! But I con-
fess, as one of the people, I was net preps. ;
red to see those who are candidates for nur
suffrages, treat us with such marked con
tempt!
Tbeie have been meetings called and 4 4.-1
held ot Gin's, Berlin, Monahan, Mounijoy, -: ':
and Tyrone; at all these the candidates or
the Anti•Masonie party have appeared-L--
whilst their ntagonists were theniselve*
or their hired agents riding the County and
s , pretiv circulating what their own skulk
-1:1g c•onilart proves to be, mere slanders and
G~Ir~~1iu~~ris!
I have hut one word to say in conclusion.
%V ha teve.r lies they choose to invent, let
i hem hut pripo ,, ate them openly, end heye
the ini:dtlitiod to avow and sushi i n them;
;m 1 I Inr f•ne not complath. NONE
IMT COWARD AND A KNAVE
L I, kV lELD THE ASSASSIN'S
DAC:GER ! • '; t7
Lusk at this, Coach-Makers!
From Om Philadelphia Inquirer.
To thilloo. Jiartin ran Euro:.
DEAR Sin : The public have heard both
with astonishment and regret, that in your
estimation the Couch-makers of the United .
States are either so deficient in workman.
ship, or so far beneath your patronage and
notice that you ride in a vehicle of ENGLISH
mANerAcretlii, tied this too while you are
asking the Bupport of American workman
and Democrats to place you in the Pres;•
dential Chair.
If the report be true, we ask you to say
so; and if not, you will embrace the oppor
tunity to meet the charge so opposite to
Democracv and American honour, over (.
your own Name.
PLAIN DEMOCRACY, WITHOUT "DODGING. " / .
We republish the above, and remind otirr:
raders that notwithstanding . the time whie
I`l ,,
has elapsed since we first gave it a place it
our columns, Martin Van Buren has not i
yet condescended to reply to it. We have k,
thus evidence upon which wee= satic-fac
torilv rely, that he is hostile to the interests
of the Nvorking-man, and treats with con
tempt their claims to his support. Let
our hard-working citizens leave him to get
his votes from the same (patter in which
his coaches are mennfectured!
A wine rnerchNni ,nrice t (elected
assonant in his cellnr,and said to him, "now
lest you i.iintird drink the wine while I
ani
away, I will chalk your so that I
may knew ii." Ile then rubbed his nail
across ttxr irran's lips; and pretending to
Wave tht mark of chalk on them. The
mnn driiiik of the wine, and to be even
with his muster, chalked his mouth, suit
thus daeovered himself.
CANDOUR.
STAR & REPUBLICAN BANNER.
BY ROBERT W.,MIDDLETON..
GETTYSBI7RGH, PA.
Monday, October 31, 1 536.
FOR PR EsinErir,
WILLIAM H. SLA,RAISON.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
rit.a.Noss GRANGER.
ELECTORAL TICKET.
John Gest
Alexander Piumer Senatorial.
Levis Pa.:smote Cadwallader Fvuns
Charles Witt res Samuel Rover
Jonathan Gillingham Chester Boller
Johnson Ner Middle:swarth
Sairta.4 rosh Isaac Mver
Thmuaß Asian idge Frederick Gehhart
&Ines Paul Benj. R.• Marchand
'Benjamin Riegel Thomas Hughes, syn.
Jacob Weygandt -John Reed
Waller C. Livingston Samuel C. Orr
David Gritn William A. Penniman
John Fox William S Rankin
Charles Diet,l James Cochran
Thomas Corkin Louis Evans
Delegates to the Coarentioq to amend the
strs.vi OR TA L.
JAMES DUNLOP,
LIM MERKLE.
ICEPIIERF.NTATIVE,
THADDEUS STEVENS,
JAMES IVIISHERRY.
pr:7Readed Do not ovedook the admi
rabic letter of W ALTER FOR VV A RD.
The litarbaeue and Me Compiler.
O:it—The Compiler says, the expenses of
The Barbacue at Fehl's was paid by the
United Stales Bank of Pennsylvania!
Now, Major, this is too bad, even for you!
when you know that a subsCription was raised
sunder your very nose for the purpose! Have
you the impudence to say, that the forty.
.or fifty indiyiduals who subscribed that pa
per, most of them Mechanics and hard
working men, are bribed by the Bank?—
For shame!
It really seems its irnothing could be done,
, but the Bank has some hand in it. If n
neighbor's cow calves, or an old maid's cat
kittens, it is the Rank that has done it! To
be sure, nobody knows how —but still it is
•certain the "monster" had something to do
with it! And we verily believe, that _if a
'certain redontable military hero were to
get the kicking he merits, ho would raise
the cry, too, THAT TILE BANK DID IT!
"The Bank!" The fiddlestick! who cares
about the Bank now? It is the CONSTI
TUTION the people care about; and they
will no longer follow after the cry of"Bankl"
"Banks" "Mad dog!" "Mad dogl"
• The . People are coming!
;.,•, 1 0::rIt is really gratifying to witness the
'74;••4;Pirit manifested by our country friends
We have attended several of their meetings,
end feel confident in stating that, ON FRI
DAY NEXT, all will do their duty.
THE BAR BACUE
t - rit Fehro, in !Bermllen township, was the
", • largest political meeting ever held in the
country. Near 300 persons were. present,
r the reel bone and sinew of the sturdy yen.
!`;', snooty of Menallen and Franklin—all uni
mated by the best spirits—and all going
::away well pleased and determined to cut
-shed the insolent triumph of their fees. In
spite of the croakings of the Compiler about
the "strong meats . " and " strong drinks,"
i t giVer c., there never was-a more orderly, res
pectable assembly met in the world. It is
true, there were not many of the ruffled
shirt gentry present; there were no titled
Aristocrats—none ofthe Lambskin Nobility
of Masonry—their Grand Kings, Grand
.P.rie.sts,ond Knights of the Holy Ghost! But
:there were the hard.handed, hard working,
,and Imre hearted Farmers, who care but
as to the outward decoration of the
...&niody, so that the heart be sound and pure.
of the "colxvrcra" of the Compiler
. '.' 4 Wbuld have been as much out of place there, ,
a demon of darkness in the kingdom of
'heaven Menallen and Franklin will do their
duty on Friday next.
MOUNTJOY
ten will do her duty. She is actuated by a
noble and tedeoming spirit. Let but her .
.t,i..:hardy sons GO TO THE POLLS, and all
will be right.
TYRONE
-,' :' ' was for a moment led astray. Tito reckless
',--:tncendinries who would sooner "ruin in hell
than serve in heaven," had got a story in
" .- 'circulation, on the day of election, that Mr;
. Stevens had induced Mr. George Myers to
decline running for SherifFto secure the
election of Mr. M'Clellan, under a promise
to provide for hint in the Rail Road! This
is now known and ..Irina:led to he plse, as
any one can satisfy themselves by appealing
to Mr. M 3 ers—and its efibct is know n to
have been to civet the present Sheriff, and
defeat the. Anti• Masonic ticket. Since little
Tyrone has been disabused on this and other
Isubjects, she will return to the true faith,
land will give our ticket 3n of a majority.
)
HA MILTON
ill give an increased vote. There are
.
s umbers of the old Jackson and heretofore
.. . an Buren party in that district, who love
„ t .
the Constitution and the welfare and inde.
pendence of Pennsylvania more than party,
who will repudiate their alliance with the
unholy desecrators of the ark of the Consti•
tution.
BER WICK:
is animated by the best spirits, and will do
tier share to retrieve the disgrace )of the
11th of October. Su will all the districts
in the county, Wrap. intelligence may be nt
nil relied on. -- Adams county will give our
Convention ticket a majority of 400—mark
thug!
111 Z?" The following Committee of Vigi
lance for Germany township was overlooked
when the outside form of our raper was
mnde up—viz:Maj..l. L. Shultze, Capt. A.
Little, W. Lancineer, 1. Slubbx, 1. SnvilPr.
kiub. 1. Crabs, E. Bittinger, L. Mehl, J. Keen,/
Constitution,
'Beware of the Lies of the Van Bu-
ren Party!
OZ7 The Van Buren patty are in the habit of cireulating lying handbills and pa
pens in the country just before an election, taking care to keep them back until the morn.
'ink• of the election, or the day ben-ire, so as to prevent refutation until they have done
their work of deception. Such billy, papers, and lies will be sent forth at the election
on Friday next. A pared of them are already printed, and sent to faithful agents in
each district, to be ready for their midnight frauds. A. G.'Miller, the chief inventor .
I d POLITICAL FALSEHOODS for the county, is preparing mote; and being very
fertile in that production, will doubtless send forth a plentiful supply.
To shew that we do not wantonly charge him, and to put the honest people of this
county on their Runrd against so dangerous and UNPRINCIPLED a politicinnovo publish
the (.Hawing face:—
A for the late election, it was reported all over the county by the Masonic party, that
Mr. McCcet..t..tri had procured Mr. Tiromrsoti (the Register) to go to Harrisburg and
prevent the commissioning of Mr. Taughinhaugh• Many of that party honestly believ.
ed it, having yet some faith in the word of the author. Mr. McClellan, feeling indig
nant at such slander, (having been cheated out of his election by a similar one,) traced
the iepnrt to A NDREW G. MILLER. The following correspondence then took place
between them—in which it will be seen, that Miller denied ever having said an, and ox
onerated !Messrs. McClellan and Thompgon from all such suspicion. Mr. McClellan
then wrote to Carlisle and procured the certificate of Mr. ['Aileen, late Prothnnotary of
Cumberland County, a gentleman of high respectability. THIS FIXES THE LIE
DIRECT UPON A NDREW G. MILLER! Many more certificates to the same
effect could have been had, but were deemed unnecessary.
MR. MeGLELLAN TO MAJOR ANDREW G. MILLER.
Mr. A. G. M mum, have this moment heard that you had circulated n report
at Carlisle, that I had sent James A. Thompson tofflarrisburg, to prevent Mr. Taugh
inhaugh from being commissioned. Had von reported this at home, I should Iwo paid
little or no attention to it, as then ;t would have passed for its worth, where wo are
both known. Ynur ne=wer is expected immediately.
Gettysburg, Oct. 17, 1836.
•
M r G. W. McCrAritrr,Sir —Your inte respecting a report that ! should have circuit'.
led in Carlisle, is received, I assure you. it is not correct. • I never believed you would
send M r. Thompson to . Harrisburg, or that you would accept a.commission ur der those
circumstances. I have too high an opinion of your honor and integrity to even suSpect
it. The . matter was mentioned to me here by litany persons on Friday and Saturday
morning after it was known that Mr. Thompson had gone to Harrisburg. It wns also
known in Carlisle that Mr. Thompson was in Harrisburg. This wns mentioned in: my
presence in Carlisle,—the suspicion wns also referred to. But I never, either there or
here, permitted myself to suspect it or induced others to do so. Nor do I believe that
hfr. Thompson would undertake such on office.
Just after an election people will talk, and some men will suspect the motives of pobt.
Teal opponents. - A slight circumstance sometimes give rise to injurious reports; but ►n
this l have taken no part for the above reasons. 111 have been misrepresented to you
it is my misfoi nine, not my fault. Respectfully,
October 17; 1836. ANDREW G. MILLER.
Now read .11r. Harper's Letter to Mr. McClellan
CARLISLE, 24th October, 1936.
Mr. G. W. McCLELLAN, Sir—Your's of the 21st inst. is received, requesting a cer
tific,ite.of the suboance of a conversation I had with A. G. MILLER, Esq. of your
county, on the subject of an application having been made to the Governor to prevent
Mr. Taughinbaugh, the Sheriff elect of Adams county, from being commissioned. In
reply, I have to state, and hereby certify, that on Saturday evening the 15th of Octo.
her inst., I met with A. G. Miller, Esq. in the Bar.room of Mr. Ileetem, in this Bor
ough; after some conversation on the subject of the late election, he said that they had
carried the Sheriff in their county; that "there he was." pointing to a gentleman in the
same room, in coversation with Col. McGinnis, Mr Eby and others not recollected, that
his name was Taughinbauoh; that he had just returned from Harrisburgh with his com•
mission in his pocket; he had got it in spite of his opponents; THAT .THEY, MCCLELLAN
AND HIS FRIENDS, HAD SENT THOMPSON DOWN TO HARRISBURO, TO PREVENT THE Go.
VERNon rtiom comussioxixa 'lll3t, and that when he (Triughinhaugh) had went into
the Governor's room, he metl'hompson there, AND CAUGHT HIM IN THE VERY
ACT, and that he (Thompson) was so confused at hitne so caught, that hp could not
look him in the face; and that fse left the room immediately.' (these were his very words,•
and expressed with a good deal of emphasis.) He (Mr. Millet) then called Mr. Taugh;
mbaugh and gave me an introduction to him, making some remarks about his success,
and what had taken place at the Governor's.
I had never seen Mr. Taughinbaugh previous to this, nor had I any acquaintance witlri
either Messrs. Thompson or McClellan; nor did I know that the latter was a Candidate .
until Mr. Miller told me.
I heard Mr. MILLER make nearly the same statement AFTERWARDS, the same even.
lug, in a large company, in Mr. Aughinbaugh's Bur room; but dont recollect who were
present. • JOHN H A RPER.
Citizens of Adams County! This is the man--this -Andrew G. Miller, forsooth!—
who fabricates the slanders against the candidates of the Anti Masonic part)? Su ch
is the boasted LEADER of the Masonic Van Buren party !!! Road and form your own
*udgment of hint and his works.
To State's Rights Democrats.
617 - ON ERI DAY NEXT, you will be called upon to cast your votes for one of the
Presidential candidates now before you. You will vote either for MARTIN VAN BUREN
or WILLIAM H. HARRISON. You love your State and her Institutions too well to remain
neutral.
You all remember the.occasion of introduction into our last Legislature of Mr.
Pexnosc's, Resolutions. It was in consequence of the New York and Ohio Leaisla•
turtt attempting to pass resolutions prohibiting the circulation of PENNSYLVANIA
?coney within the limits of those States. it was then that Mr. Penrose reported reso•
lutions to the Senate, asserting the rights and dignity of his State—an act that will be
remembered to his ndvantage as long as Pennsylvania has a true friend within her bor.
ders. At this time, Martin Van Buren wrote to some of his partizans at Columbus.
approving of the course pursued by the Ohio Legislature, and condemning in fact the
stand taken by Mr. Penrose ic defence of State rights. The following is an extract
from his letter:—
'•From the BOTTOM of my HEART do I congratulate you upon the noble stand
which Ohio appears to have taken at this critical moment, upon the subject of Banks.—
Her course is deserving of COM MENDATION, and may well he looked to by her older
sisters in the confederacy, not only with admiration but with PROFIT!"
MARTIN VAN BUREN..
Knowing thnt we never could support Gen. HARRISON on .4nti-Masonic grounds, we
forwarded • him a copy of Mr. Ponrose's resolutions and requested his views—He
promptly replied, and from which reply we now make the tollowine extract:—
CINCINNATI, July 6,1866.
"/ most cordially approve of all the sentiments contained in
the licsolutions of the Legislature of Pennsylvania to which you
refer—which were introduced into the Senate by Mr. Penrose, and after having passed
both Houses, were forwarded to their Senators and Representatives in Congress to be
laid before that body. "W. H. HARRISON."
Hero are the sentiments of these two candidates, in reference to States Rights.—
Choose ye, as we shall assuredly do on Friday next.
Citizens 11 . Alums County
Clz:r Go to the polls on Friday next. and defend the Constitution. Vote for STEVENS
and M'SUERRY. They wish to preserve it inviolate; Robinson and Wert wish to break
it in pieces! Rally in deem° of your PROPERTY and your RIGHTS !
Democratic Anti-Masons !
Zr Go to the polls and vote against the whole Van Buren ticket. Van Buren VO•
TED TO DEPRIVE POOR MEN OF THE RIGHT OF VOTING. lie makes
Incites and not merit the passport to favor. He derlared in the New York Convention,
"THAT POVERTY AND DEPRAVITY WENT HAND IN HAND!" - What a
vile slander! Can any man, rich or poor, give him his vote?
Farmers ! Mechanics ! Citizens !
Kr Beware of the Van Buren ticket. They wish to annul the titles to your property,
and break down the Constitution which protects your liberty! Go then to the polls and
vole for
Stevens, .41'Sherry and the Constitution
Robinson and the Poor alan's Land.
Mr. Ronixsorr, perhaps, will deny the charge of having taken up tho small bit of
land which was occupied by his POOR NEIGHBOR. . •
I assert its truth, and for proof refer to Mr. Moses SHABROOKS, n bigly respectable
citizen of Hamilionban township. A DEMOCRATIC VOTER.
The Compiler jult issued is filled with vile FALSEHOODS and MISREP
RESENTATIONS! We hope no honest man will believe one word con
tained in it.- That paper i. Edited by A. G. Millar—and for hi's character for truth.
see Mr. Harper's iteswer to Mr. 'lt:Clean. There's NO THUM in tiny.
MAJOR MILLER'S REPLY.
G. W. MeCLELLAN.
For tho. Stu.
Public 'idilectings.
At a meeting of the Odin, of Adams
county opposed to Martin Van Buren, held
at the house of John Green, Two Taverns,
MOUDIM' township, October 27th, 1836,
JACOB KELLER, Esq. was appointed
President, Mrcgsgt. C. Cr...moon and
HESE/LIAR HOUGHTELIN, Sen. Vice Presi
dents. and Jacob Baumgartner Sen. and
Samuel ihrbOrow, Secretaries.
The meeting was ably addressed,by JAMES
DOBRIN, JASIES COOPER, and Titraonsto•
STEVENS, Esqs. and Col. M. C. Cr...tee - soy
On motion, The following Resolutions
were unanimously adopted:
Resolved, jhat we have, viewed with
alarm the rovolutionary and disorganizing
doctrines proclaimed by the Van Buren par
ty through George .11. Dallas and other of 1
their leaders, a n d that we cannot lend our
support to the candidates of a party that hold
doctrines so dangerous, as that the em,ven
lion which is to assemble in May next has
power to annul charters, avoid contracts or
the titles by which we hold our lands.
Resolved, That we have full confidence- ,
in the talents, experience and honesty or-
JAMP.S DUNLOP and Lay, MERRLE, the
Senatorial candidates, and THADDEUS STE
VE:VS and JA3INS NPSunitair, the Represen-
tative candidates, put in nomination to rep
resent its in the convention, and that we will
use all fair and honorable means to promote
their election.
Relayed, That the great civil and mill.
tary ssrvices rendered by WILLIAM H.
HARRIsoN to his country, entitles him to the
support of the American people for the office
of Chief Magistrate, and that we cordially
recommend him to our fellow citizens of
Adams county as a proper candidate to be
Supported for that office.
On motion, Resolved, That the proceed
ings of t his meeting be signed by the officers
and published.
JACOB KELLER, President.
Han. Horcntetty, Ben: Vice Presi
MICHAEL C. CLARICsoN. S dents.
Sam urt Durborrom,
Jacob Baumgartner. Secretaries.
At a meeting of the friends of the'Suprem
acy of the Laws and of Harrison and Gran.
ger, at the house of Col. Baltzer Snyder, in
Ileidlersburgli, Mr. PETER FEREE was
called to the chair, and Mr. JOHN DUFFIELD
was nppointed Vice President; and Mr. Da
vid Deitrich Secretary—when the follow
ing resolutions wore offered and unanimous
ly adopted. The meeting was addressed
by Messrs. CoopErt l SEY3ER and STEVENS.
Resolved, That , our" attachment to the
Constitution of Pennsylvnnia is unimpaired,
and that we will support all the leading pro.
visions thereof in opposition to crude theories
and untried experiments however specious
they miry appear to be: and in furtherance
'of this object, we pledge ourselves to sup
port TDADDFAIS STEVENS and JA3IES M. I
Sllnunir, the, County candidates, and Jamas
DUNLOP wad Lays Mamma the 5 3enatorial
candidao.ls, knowing them to ha opposed to
the wild and revolutionary doctrines of the
Van Etiren party. _ .
RY!roived, That our opposition to Free.
Masonry and alt Secret Societies shall be
continued until these institutions are forever
prostrated; being assured, as we are, that
such institutions are unholy combinations
against individual and social interests and
the good government of the country.
Resolved, 'that we entirely disapprove of
the measure advocated by Martin Van Bu
ren in the Convention of New York by which
poor men were to be deprived of the right
of suffrage and that we deem such a measure
Anti Republican and unjust in the highest
deg ree.
Resolved, That to Gen. WILLIAM Ham:
thanisom we recognize a man of sound
political principles, and one who has con
ferred great benefits upon his country; and
that in viow of these benefits we deem it our
duty to support him for the office of Chief
Maolstrate of the United States, and recom
mend it to our fellow-citizens of Adams
county of all political parties to do the same.
Resolved, That by supporting Mr. Van
Buren,we at the same time support Richard
M. Johnson,a man who has violated decency
and morality by his open cohabitation with
n negro woman; and that to give our support
to such a mnn would be to cast suspicion on
oar own characters and disgrace our coun
try.
On mr tion Resolved, That the proceed•
ings of this meeting be signed by the officers
and published.
PETER FEREE, President.
ham DUFFIELD, Vice Pres't.
David Deitrich, Secretary. -
A large and reapectablo meeting of the friends
of the Constitution and Laws, and of Harrison
and Granger, was hold on iho 29th inst. atillil
lerstown. JACOB COVER, Esq was appointed
Chairman, and John Witheroto and Robert Mc.
Laughlin Secretaries.
The following resolutions were offered, and
after apronriate remark. by Messrs. Coors:a;
CLARKSON and STsvcsii. unanimously adapted:—
Readied. That this meeting have viewed with
"lama the Revolutionary doctrines of the Van Buren
party; and that, retaining undiminished attachment
to the principal features of the present constitution of
Pennsylvania, they will resist its destruction, and
indeavor to prevent to the utmost of their power the
repeal of those provisions which guard their lives.
their liberties and their Ilft.
&solo:4, That we entire ly duaprove of the mea
sure advocated by Martin Vat Berms in the maven
lion of New York, by which poor white men were to
be deprived of the right of suffrage. but rich active- 2
to have the right to vote, that such measure was anti
republican, mina and is opposition to the free princi
ples on which oar gcnrerooaent is founded.
Resolved, That we hail with pleasure the nomina
tion er Gen. WILLIS St H. Hanaisou as a candidate
for the office of President of the United States, and
that having full confidence in his patriotism and tat
eats, we pledge ourselves base all honorable means
to promote his election.
Resolved. That the slanders propagated against him
by party demagogues foypertyparposeconly gnu hins
new claims to the support of it gracious people;—
that the story of his vote in the Senate of Ohio about
selling white men for slaves. is a forgery. and that its
utterer, and publishers are fogerers, actuated by base
motives.
Maenad, That as friends of decency and morality,
we cannot support Richard M. Johnson, the Van
Buren candidate for the Vice Presidency, who has,
and continues to maintain unlawful and criminal in
tercourse with • woman of color. ,
Resolved, That theme proceeding. besigned by
the officer' and published. .
JAWITCOVER. President.
John Witherete.
Rebut NcLaug y itt. Secretaries.
O& FRIENDS of the CONSTITUTION,
Call for 'rickets!
The Surplus Retaliated
The money now lying in the pet tanks to
the credit of the general governMent
amounts to far. more than forty milk* of
dollars, and if distributed according la the
law pa ssed at the late session of Congress,
the share of Pennsylvania willionount to at
least four millions. It is ascertained how
ever that the President, acting under the ad
vice of Van Buren, will recommend to Con
zress in his next mormuge tho repeal of that
iaw, and little Martin hag already commit•
ted himself in Opposition to the measure of
distribution, and the Gkbesaye, determined
to prevent it. One important question
then, which the people of Pennsylvania will
decide on the first Friday of November is.
whether by voting for General HARM;
SON, they will secure the payment into
their treasury of four millions of dollars not
needed for the expenses of the general gov
ernment, or hy supporting Martin. Van Bu
ran, allow this money to ha kept in pet
lhanky and used for rewarding political par•
tizaus and corrupting the purity of elections.
York Republican
From tlio United States Gazette.
LOOK AT Turs.—The Anti• Van Buren
men havoilected 28 members; and we now
wish to show our friends how easy it-is to
retrieve the apparent loss of other members,
by showing them that we have lost Twenrrr-
TIMER members of Assembly by ohly 1254
votes.
Maj. for V. B. Members
Franklin, 60 2
Dauphin, 100 2
Lebanon, 50 1
Iluel
cs, 200 :1
Allegheny, 100 3
Adorns, 50 2
Chester, 4 1
Delaware, 80 . 1
Lehigh,.. 200 1
Washinton, 209 2
Cumberland, 160 2
Huntington, 50 1
OZTAfter this week we shall (almost)
throw "politics to the dogs," and devote
more space to literary articles and general
Irr Public meetings will be held at Pe•
tersburgh to•day; at Hampton to•morrow;
at Lawrence's on Wednesday at 1 o'clock
r. at., and 6 o'clock in the evening at Hun
terstovvn and Weagley's; at. 1 o'clock P. M.
on 'Thursday at Lichty's, in Germany tp.,
at 3 in Littlestown, and at 7 in Millerstown.
WAIIRIED.
On
the 20th inst. by the Rio. Mr. Gutoliuo,
Mr. JOHN IiARTHAN to MISS SARAH TRIMMER, ali
of Adams county. •
On the same day. by the same, Mr. Josarn
Sums to Misa Elizanarn Mason, all of Adana
county.
On the 112th, inst. by the Rev. A. EL Lochman,
the Rev. SAMILL SPRZOIi; Pastor of the Evangoli.
cal Lutheran Congregation at liarrisburgh, to
Miss Camat:vc, daughter of the Rev..l. George
Sohn:nicker D. D. of York.
On the 20th inat. by tho Rev. Mr. Rutbraufr,
JACOB RONIXII to Mine SARAN ANN ZIIINEBNAN,
both of Frederick county, Md.
On the 27th inst. by the Rev. B. Keller, Mr.
DANIEL Snuu. to MIA StrEANNAII Rouyn'', both
of Cumberland Township.
Departed this life, on the 26th 'inst., ANN MA
NIA Cnatmorra, infaUt daughter of Mr. Ban3uol
Gilbe.t, of this Waco, aged 3 manilla and 6 days.
DIED.
At Littleatown, on tho 17th inst. Mr. DAVID
licaraa, aged 41 years, II months, and 29 days.
In York, on Monday, 17th inst. Mr. Fgantsaso
L. SPANOLZA, in the 31st year of his age.
On the 7th, near MoSherrystown, Ciam.ust,
daughter of lacob Molhorn, Esq., aged 8 months
and 19 days.
°nth° 13th, user Littlestown, JACOB WAITED,
son of Mr. Jacob Kuhns, aged 1 year, 1 month,
and 24 days.
On the 7th, in Conowago township, Adams
county, Mr. PICTICA SHANESZLTER,SOIL, in the 719th
year of his age.
C • NSECRATION.
O N Friday the 4th of . November next.
the Episcopal Chapel, lately erected
at Petersburgh, (York Springs,) will be
consecrated to the service of Alitigl ty God,
by the Right Rev. H. U. ONDEEDONE,
Bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania.
October 31, 1836.
TO TEAOZZIRD.
P ROPOSALS will be received at the
Tavern of Mr. Andrew Heintzlemon,
in Franklin township, at 1 o'clock, r. at. on
Saturday the sth of November next, for
Teachers for Public schools in said
township. By order,
ISAAC RIFE, Scc'y.
td
Oct. 2.1.
Twenty Dollars Reward,
•
CSETRAYED or Stolen from the subscriber, en
RO) or about the 14th of the present month, a
white and black SRTTER, with black ears, long
tail (with thin long hair) a few black Spots on
his body; with a chain collar around his neck
without a name on it. The dog answers to the
name of ROVER; is about ton months old arid
untrained.
The subscriber will give Five Dollars, (with all
reasonable expenses paid If brought home) for the
dog—or. if stolen, the above reward will be given
for the delivery of the dog and on conviction of
the thief.
The eubacriber can be found at Thompson's
Hotel.
H. L. THISTLE.
October 31, 1836. 3t-31
tla*The Chainberabtirgb Whig will copy the '
above 3 times and charge Star.
EiTlaikY COW.
CAME to the farm of the Subscriber in
Cumberland township, on or about
the 15th inst. a dry MILLI!
COW, of a pale red except a ' 0t
4 1111 / •
few white spots; shortl A ail, and -
crooked-horns,one of which appears to have
been broken off. No other marks percepti
ble.' The owner is requested' to call, prove
property, pay charges and take her away.
JACOB HERBST.
3i-31
October 81, 1886.
Wood.
OV•Those of our subscribers who promis•
ed us Wood, will oblige us by delivering it
NOTICE: TO COLLECTORS,
THERE being a Considerable amount or.
money required this fell to . meet all
t he nemerary expenses attending . the several .
elections and for other- rarooges, the. Com.
"inistrioners would spilt request all the Col.
lectors to use their hest exertions to collect'
and pay over the amount of their several
duplicates as soon th ? pre , sible.
.It
,us, atm.
lutely necessary that those who are several
years in arrears, should settle their accounts ,
at (a before the Arnrem&et; coact. Further
indulgence cannot be expected.
Ily order of the Hoard of Commissioners.
.IF.,SSI!: GlLlteitr, Treasurer. •
• October 31, 18A0. ' . te—til
Iteg_i.,tp.r.',o,.Ntikes.
Notice is hereby :Given,
TO all Legatees and other obesnt: 4 l con. IL corned, that the )113.11INISPRA.
TIO_V ACCOUNTS of the deceased per
sons hereinafler mem ionedovill be provente.l
to the Orphans' Court of Adams County, for
confirmation and allowance, on Monday the
28th day of November next, viz:
The account of DiVel Chamberlain, Ex
ecutor of the Estate of Hannah Coshun,
deceased. - • •
The account of Henry W. Slagle, one
the Executors of the Estato Of. Dorothy
Slagle, deceased.
The account of Abraham LiChternialter
and-Jonas Spangler, Executors ofthe Estate
of Magdalena Semple, deceased.
The account' f Henry Homier and . Chrig.
thin Hemler,
.Administrators Of the Estate
ofJoseph,Hemler ' deceased, who was Ad. •
ministrator of the Estate 'of Hemler, ,
deceased. - • '
The account of Henry
istrator of the Estate of Eve Hoshower, de
ceased.
JAS. A. I'HOMPSON, Rrgister.
Register's Oflice,Geitys.
burg, Oct. 29, 1836. 5
Public Sale.
HE undersigned, Trustee's of DAVID..:'
EcuEn . , will sell at public sale, oa
Tuesday the 29th of November ?ice, at 1
o'clock r. at the CoUrt house in Gettys•
burgh.
half Lot of Ground ,
Situate in South Baltimore Street, Gct
tysburgh, adjoining David Swoney and
nearly opposite Coopees Store—on. which
are erected, a 14 Story DWE4-. ;!
LING _ •
• lIL OIT as
with a Kitchen attached—Stable; and other
improvements, tog'ther with a convenient
2 Story STORE HOUSE, fronting on.
main Street.
also, a buildints Lot,
Situate in Washington street, near the
Catholic ChOrch. 7
. Jlso, one ..Lot of Land,
containing about 9 acres, adjoining S. S.
Forney, David Ziegler aild °the rO..
Also, a Wood Lot,-
Situate in Cumberland township, containing
about 16 acres, adjoining Jacob Sherfich
and others. /.. • • -
For further particulars, enquire of S. S.
Forney, residing in Gettysburgh. Terms
will be made known on' the day of sale.
S. S. FORNEY, T
JOSEPH LAVSHAW,
October 31,1830.
HANDS WANTED
150 HANDS
W ANTED Immediately,. to work on
Section No. 2, Gettysburg Eaten.
sion Pennsylvania Rail Ro d.
The highest wages and , constant employ.
ment will be given.
ICrThe work is situated on the South
side of the South Mountain,the most healthy
part of Pennsylvania.
A.G.. NEVIN, Contractor.
Gettysburgh. October 24, 18113.,
'Nieto tz .0011.0*•
TuoNr‘s d. Coon n has taken into pea.
nership ROBERT W. M'SBERRY under tho
firm of COOPER az M'SOERRY, who
have just received a fresh stock of GOODS,
consisting of
Dry Goools, Groceries,
Queensware, 11 or ware,a
Hollowware &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 ,S 6 M'SRERRY:
NOTICE.
PERSONS • having Notes on Hook ac
counts of long stnnding mil do well to call
and settle without delay. . •
THOMAS J. COOPER.
October 24, 1836. "
NOTICE,
ESTATE
.ofJacob Walker late of Lati
more-Township deceased.
The auditors appointedat the last Orphatie
Court held in and for the County of Adams,
to adjust and apportion the assets remit).
ing, of said estate, to and among the erects.
tors of said decessed, will meet of the house
of John Yetts in tbe Borouo ofGettysburg
on Friday . the 25th day of November next,
at 10 o'clock A. M. t•
EPHRAIM ItIARTIN, • , ' '
ADAM WALTER, 'Auditor.,
SA M'L FA lII] ESTOCk, , •
October 24, 1E36.
GETTIrSBURG'III tic/ IWO LSO
A7"TENTI(II.VI
IaTOU will parade in front ',filo, C u fte g ii
-IL on Soiurday ihe 15th of Not4ntl*Pacet,
at 10 o'clock in winter Lindholm
JOHN ZEIG'LER, O. S
Oct. 11,1-
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