R. 0431 1 5 4 1 w:IT IZIDDLIT7OII.I BY ROBERT WHITE MUDD GETTY8IIIIR071;; PA. Tuestfag, Ooitpber 2, ,1838. Important . Election Law. 1 3:1 -In the laws of the last session of the Legig lature, page 598, the following important law may be fOlind, We invite attention telt. kr Ceilain officers of stale and United States pro- hibited from holding certain ape., al elections. `irliaLito Inspector, judgo or other officer o tiny oloafbn, shall be' eligible to any office at such election, nor shall any person holding an Mike under the general or atato government, be nil in• •npnc.tor, judgo or other officer 'Zany such eloct .nor• shall any parson holding ari offico under the IL Stelae be allowed . to sorvo ea a member ofcity councils, commissioner of a district, or burgess." ft-Justices of the Peace are included in the officers referred to by the above law. Let it 'not be forgotten. The Gettysburg,. Rail Road. Cr The charges against Gov. Railer seem to be narrowed down to the fact of his having signed the bill which appropriated money to the Gettys burg Rail Road. Thera is no other sin alleged against him. Reen the Abolition hobby has ceas ed to ire ridden, and their State Conventions and grog•shop mobs are alike boisterous about the '"Gettysburg Rail Road!" • But this charge is 'not•a bit less inconsistent than the hundred other charges which were made and abandoned—because, as an intelligent Porter man observed, uthey , ctst both ways, and rather sleeper into Porter than Rittier." Now, this charge as of the same sort. nit cute rather deeper into Porter and his party.than into Ritner"—because who York and Gettysburg Rail Road was chartered tinder Gov. Wolf's administration, and David R. Porter himself voted for an appropriation to the Gottyelharg Extension (this “Crelan Lals,yrinth." as the Reading Loco Feco Convention calla it!) of $150,000. The bill making this appropriation was vetoed by Gov. Ritner, because it appropria. ted upwards of $%000,000, a part of which was to commence new works, which would have invol ved the State in an, additional debt of $35,000,000 before they were completed! This is the consistency of the gang 'of political desperadoes who lead the Van Buren party! They charge Gov. Ritner with having committed a vo !ideal sin in signing a bill appropriating nasney to the Gettysburg Rail Rein], when their own can didate, David R. Porter, voted for an appropriation of 0150,000 to the same remit!! 0? - The . Cud is not yet! . The evidence of Prirter' sfraudulert4 but-elven cy is increasing hourly. Bead . the suhjoined publi cation, from the Butler Intelligeticer : it fastens the charge of fraud upon Porter, fully and cow . . elusively. Front tbo Duller Intelligenter., THE FRAUDULENT CONDUCT• OF DAVID R. PORTER. CONFIRMED It TILE RECORDS OF DUTLER COUNTY. From the subjoined, it appears that Da . - vid R. Porter, by the will of his father, owned a tract of land in Muddy Creek township, in this county—and that about three weeks previous to his application for the benefit of the Insolvent Laws, he con voyed said land to John Stonebraker. That nfier Porter took the benefit, the land was sold to John MeDerinott, the bonds taken in the name of Stonebraker, and by him as• signed to Porter, who sold McDermott's property, including valuable improvements, at Sheriff's sale; for 'BOO, and allerwarda sold it at private sale at an increased price. Here ,you have the records, examine fur yourselves. • BUTLER COUNTY, es. David R. Porter, assignee 1 In the Court of John Stonebraker, of Common Vs. IPleas of said John McDermott. county, Nos. 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 20 and 27, of . April Term, 1821, each for, the sum of seventy. five dollars with ; costs. Entered 10th of April, 1821, by John Gilmore, Esq., by warrant of Attorney. ,Also, Nos. 38 and 39 of April term, 1822,,entered by same attor ney for David R. Porter, the, one on the 4th May, 1922, and the other on the Bth May, 1822. On No. 39, execution No. 10, Oc tober term, 1833, levied, on 200 acres of land in Muddy . Creek township, about 70 acres cleared, cabin house and barn thereon erected. Venditioni ExpininS, N 0.33, Jan. nary term, 1824,' on which levy'sold to plaintiff'S rittorney, JOlni Gilmore, Esq., for $4OO. Date of the bonds on which the above judgments are entered, lOt h. August, 1820. Date of Assignments on the same from John Stonebraker, to David R. l l?orter, is 29th Aiiust; 1820. I, JOHN' SULLIVAN, Prothonotary in and for the said county, do in pursuance 'of the call of the Committee of. Vigilance, certify that the foregoing is correctly taken from the' Records of said Court. In testimony whereof 1 hive hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this 7th day of September, A. D. 1833. JOIIN &ILIA VAN, Proth'y. JAITLER couNTY, is. I, JOHN WELSH, Recorder of Deeds, Ar.c.• in ,and for said county, in answer to As call, of the Committee of. Vigilance, do itereby certify, that there is on record in my office, in Book D., page 598 and 509, a deed . e r conveyance ? dated the 40th of August, 1820, • from John Stonebraker and wife, Pranklin township, Huntingdon county, to John McDermott, for a tract A:tf: land, No. 149, in the first district, Donation land, (being in Muddy Creek township,) being the same tract of land patented by the Common. wealth to E. Beatty, dated 29th June, 1790, who conveyed to Andrew'-Porter, 30th De cember, 1094, and said Andrew Porter, by his last will, bearing dale lath September, 1806, devised the same to David R. Porter, who by deed dated 10th Dec. 1818, con. vbyed the same to: the said John Stone , broker. Govan under my hand, and the , seal of said office, tliii7th day of September, 1818. JOHN WELSH, Recorder. The Pittibnrg Gazette, eays,•in reference to the Butler enunty troneaction: • "David R. Porter, on the 10th December, 1818, the very seed time of his preparation rui• taking the benefit of the lii:s9lvdrit Laws. convoyed a tract of liind; 149;6 - John Stone• broker, who on the oth of Aiig,ust, 1820, convoyed the same to Mc DermottOind, took in payment ten bonds, eight for'sevont,y•five dollars each, and tam for sirins Which are no,t stated, but probably roi• the sarrie sum, making altogether seven hundred and fifty dollars. On the 28th of June; 1820,just nine days after the sate, the 'Whole ten-of these bonds are assigned bY - Stonebraker'to Porter. , illefore April 1821, an d to that' term, no legs than eight di(Thrent itulinftnes ? 'on eight or these bonds were enteredngaiiist the put.. chaser, in the name of"PorteraSsignee' of Stonebraker," and before April 1 8 22, jog. ments were also entered on the two remain- ing bonds. "If too much time hadmot elapeed, any honest jury would convict Min on that evi• donee alone. Look also at the records of Butler county. The bitterest foe of Porter could not have devised wire damning evi dence against him. It is full, clear, conclu sive, and no lees than ten times repeated." Is such a man as David B. Porter, morally qualified to fill the Executive chair of tho Key. atone State . . , Look Iffre! i-Behold how the Agents of the General Gov ernment ore laboring to . secure the election of the Sub-Treasury candidate for. Governor! , Extract of a letter to the Editor,'dated BERLIN, Sept. 20, 1838. DEAR SIR—To give you some idea of the desperate means rosertedio here, by the Office-holders of the General Governnient, to 'sustain the sinkingeause of their candi date, David R. Perim., I Will merely state one 'fact About a' hundred copies of a small sheet denominated the "Iron Grey,' manufactured, it is believed, by the vera cious Patrick Madden, are sent to this office Weekly, which are distributed in parcels by the Postmaster (the 'agent. of the General Government,) and his'ehikilr en among the office-hunters, who, scatter them among their neighbors and strangers who happen to come this way 111 It is confidently belicYcd hero, that every one of them is received - free of postage— thus, illnstrating theprieciPles of the Gen aril Government, that the office•holders and their lacklett are a favored [Trawl of the community! , What think you, Farmers and Mechanics, who nre the bone and , sinew of our country, of this For every ,newspaper and every letter you ,receive, 'you are,obliged to pay postage, to enable the agents of the Goner al Government to send those filthy sheets among you to yillify and'abuse yonr candi date, who is a warmer • like yourselves? You will not, you , cannot submit to this _Many, we learn, have already become dis gusted with this proceeding, and are more determined to support Old lee," who never was ashamed to follow his plough and drive his own team. Ritizer 111 Nest. Vxtract of a lotter r 'ddled, ' , • BP,AVR, August 20,1833: I am told it is proclaimed in the east, that the west will, go universally for Porter.— This I believe, IS the statement of travellers. Now for thocemfort of these political braw lers, I willtuitheriie yeti to say, that 'Rimer will crass the Allegheny mountain, with at least 6000 majority. This estimate is low. Henley Clay. fellowing allusion to this great man, is extracted from s.lll.ii Recent Jaunt, ' by the Rev. S. W. HARKET , rastor'of the Evangelical Luther ran Church of Frederick, Md., as published in the “Visiter"of that place. Mr. Clay was in the same Steamboat with Mr. Harkey during a trip from Wheeling to Cincinnati.:: • Describing tho comp"-, ny; Mrillarkersays 7 : • • : • • We' had it 'mixture of "till sorts" of pet-, sons on board, from the Hon. United Staten Senator down to the humblest deck . hand. There' was . the far-Ilimed, the Hon: Henry Clay, the — greai ureter and statestnar: of America, and donbtlei3s 'One) of her noblest sons, wi) Wiiti;.of 'course, the centre of at traction: Without any regard to his politi cal characier'or views, (with which I have nothing to' . do,) I must say that I was'ligh ly pleased him: His appearance igno ble and inertly, and his conduct' dignified'and gentlemaely. 1 neither saw 'nor hedrd aught to wheels I.could take exiiTtiOn, or ishich was unbecorning the high and honor able, station which he holds.. . did not see lIIH VISIT TILE DAR OR DRINA ANY THING AT ALL, I , IOR lIEAR AN OATII OR IMPROPER WORD FALL Flttikt 1119 LIPS. I l do not pre tend to say what his, moral character may have been; or whip it note is, but I speak of what I saw aad hew. . g i . WiSti NO OTHER HERALD, NO OTHER SPEAKER . OP HT :ravnirs .ACTIONS, TO' KEEP 'NINE HOHOR FEOII comuienorit. —ertaxe amewlrazawazien - u u zpzt. utraztaztx. 0W2b1113L3 9 9 aa63. Yours and &c. q'Eltl'qAtliqqg ItROX TIII , II RarunLica2c. Voters! take care of the Constitution! AT the approaching election we are to determine by our votes whether the cOnsti tuticin of our state—framed and adopted by otir fathens—approved by the wise and the good, and under which we have prospered for nearly halfa century—is to be preserved sacred and inviolate, or whothe:, to suit the views of the visionary—the ambitious and the disappointedit is to be marred, and mutilated, and changed. That the permanency of our institutions, and our future' prosperity and happiness; greatly depend on the preservation of the constitution, but few amongst the sober and reflecting are to bo found who doubt; that it is the duty of every good citizen to step forward and defend it, against the , attack which is made upon it, but few amongst the intelligent and the candid, 'will deny.— Knowing our duty then let us see that we do it—let us resolve, each for himself, not only to go to the polls, but to warn his neigh bours that they go also, and by voting against the pronosed amendments, preserve the con stitution from impending danger, and avert those evils which would so surely result from their adoption. In matters of party pnlitics we are not often wanting in zeal. The administration of the Government each one conceivek should he according to the principles of his own party, and hence, in contests for thwaa cendancy, we find no want of vigilance and activity; and vet the political ascendancy of one party or another which merely af fects the administration of the government, is scarcely worthy of a thought when com pared with the importance of the constitu tion,iihich may be said to be the very foun. datton on which it is to be administered. The constitution may be compared to the titles by which we hold our lands, and those who administer the government to our ten ants. If they are wasteful and farm badly, we can turn 'them'off and get new ones, our lands are still left; but if our title's are de stroyed, then all is lost. As he would bo a foolish man who, after having enjoyed his lands for nearly half a century, would at the suggestion , of the lawyers••hand Ins deeds and title papers over to thorn, to be tamper. ed with and altered to suit their purposes— so he would be no less foolish who having long enjoyed every, civil right which gov ernment can confer, or protect, should at the suggestion of political quacks surrender up, or join in destroying, the Constitution of that Government under which he had been so signally blessed. The'idea that the con. stitution should be changed because all are not satisfied with it; is not for a .moment to be endured; for were it the perfection of Divine Wisdom, there would be those who would complain ot it for that very cause. If the majority of the sober, reflecting people, such as live by honest industry, and would thrive only by that whichis right and just, are satisfied, it is all that can be expected or desired. Who are tbey then that are dig satisfied? They are the restless—x-itrespon sible and disappointed politicians of 'all par ties—men, who despising the ordinary means of livelihood, mak:. politics their trade, and thrive beat when things are most unsettled. There may be exceptions, and doubtless are, but mainly are we indebted to such men for the Convention and its first fruits, which though • 'bitter enough, are sweet compareci'to those which may follow. It was brought about at: their instigation, and through their means.. It , was they alone who got up petitions for it—and not the honest, hard-working farmers and me chanics. The petitions originated in the cities and not in the country. They were circulated by those who would profit by unsettling our title to every thing we value, and removing the landmarks established by our fathers. The law authorizing a vote for calling a Convention, was thus brought about--and not at the instance of the people. When the time came for voting fiir, or a• gainst a Convention, so little were the pee pie aware of the fact in.many of the country districts, that more than POHTV THOUSAND voters attended the polls and , voted for the common tickets without voting on the Con vention question or probably knowing that such a question was to be voted upon. In the two German counties of Berke and York nlone, whose citizens are strongly attached to the Constitution. there were nearly THRUM THOUSAND who thus lost their votes. Those who were in favor of the Convention were every whore active; and favoured by the circumstances referred to, ['swell as the excitement and confusion attendant on the gubernatorial election, they obtained a•ma jority Of"votes for Calling a Convention. One Hundred and Thirty-three delegates were accordingly elected to meet at,Har- eisburg on the first Tuesday of May, 1837, projDose'aueli amendment's as they should hink proper, a matter which it wae suppos- ed, by the people, would take . but a few days, or weeks, for they never had dreamed that their constitution was to'be subjected o dangerous operations, much less to em boweling, and dissection. They were how.. ever doomed to disappointment. The dela gates assembled at the appointed time, and after providing 'themselves with the neces sary • officers, such as •Clorke, Sei'geaat•at• arms, Doorkeepers, &c. and with ,Printers and Stenographers, they fell to work :upen the constitution. Some were for killing it outright-40nm were inclined t.):be a little more merciful—while others, regarding it as too sacred to be rudely handled, took a manly stand in its favor, and defended it with all the zeal and constancy which true patri otism could inspire. ' All may tave voted equally conscientiously—tie are bound to suPP O3O they did, and the fact that they so widely differed in their views, furnishes tho strongest evidence.of the danger always in curred in attempting to disturb ancient and long cherished institutiona , , It proves. that when.tho door is once opened to innovation, those who enter, upon the. work of revolu, however learned or wise they may be, cannot agree in opinion. as to the kind and extent of the ,changes which skould . be wrought. It tends to prove, what. the ex n ; perkencn of the, world confirms, that bad governments orbactlaws are better than fre quent changes ; ; and that those ,which are good shouldnever be changed. The trite admonition, "Let well. enough alone," ap plies to all the concerns of life; to. none more justly than to our civil institutions. Tho.man who is well should not take physic, nor should he who is not wronged go to law. , The attempt to cure a slight disease, or to obtain redress for a slight injury, often costs the patient his life, of the suiterhis estate; and the attempt to change the prin ciples of ,government often costs the people their libertips. But to return to the Con vention. It continued in session from the 2d of May to the 22d of February, except ing two vacations amounting together to about three months, and when at length it rose, it is believed that a, large ,majority of the members were dissatisfied with the re• suit of their long and arduous la'bours. Of those who werefor radicul change scarcely any two.could Agree in sentiment as to the extent, and deiails; and that which was fi. nally,,offured to the public as a substitute fur one of the best constitutions which hu ; roan wisdom ever devised.,was the result of contention a nd eomproinise. The question to be decided is, whether we will accept it, or whether we will stand by the constitution which was ; framed by our fathers and hand it down unimpaired ns, a blessing to our children. The principal changes proposed are these:—(The Prothonotaries and Clerks of the Courts, (except_ of the Supreme Court) Recorders And Registers to be elect ed,) instead of being appointed by the Gov• ernor. To this alteration there would seem to be no very serious objection. Those however who filmed, our present.constitu tion thought it better that they should be appointed, and experience has by no means proved tkat they were wrong. It will not be denied that thoki officers have been gen. Orally found quite us competent as Sheriffs, who are elected, • and while the people would gain nothing .by-the. change, they would be greatly annoyed by the swarms of office.seekers, who would be beating up for ' nominations, or cotnaing,Aboin the country for. votes, for .monthei-before the election. Slander and detraction would- be heaped upon the Candulates,and the excitement and disorder attending elections would be great ly increased:', - •. (Justices of the Peace and Aldermen to be elected for the period•of five years) in stead of being appointed by the Governor, during good behaviour. This amendment is to the last,degree objectionable, and must be condemneikby every lover of Justice who will take the trouble seriously to think on the subject: At the very first thought, the mind is shocked at the idea of a man offer- ing himtelf at a candidate lor the votes of the people for the office of Justice of the Peaect. No decent man would be found to do it. Like our candidates for,Slie'riff, he would be assailed on every side; he would be, slandered,in every quarter—;-libelled in every newspaper, and handhilled and earl- catured at every corner and in every mark et-pface. . When , wo see the best men in the county who are brought forward by their fellow cit. izess as candidates for the highest offices, btackguarded and abused like felons, swind lers, and blockheads (and who amongst them escapes?) it would be.folly to suppose, that any man of modest worth would be a candidate for a Justiceship. The fact that a man would consent to be a candidate for it, would be sufficient evidence of his unfit ness for it. The office would become con temptible, and nono would seek it, but such as would be willing to wade through filth to get it. From such Justices •as wo should have, made' up or broken-down politicians and the tide-waiters and lackeys of all pn• !Weal parties; may God deliver us! The strife and litigation with which the country would be overwhelmed would be worso than famine or the plague. Seeking the office, not for the honor of it,—for it would be die- honourable, but for profit, tho commission to administer justice, would be treated by the magistrate as a warrant for PRIVATEER'S°, for plundering lit• least his enemies. who would not be a few. Irreanvassing for the office, he would have his rivals,'his bitter enemies, and his warm and devoted friends. Between them, he would be called upon,to sit in Itidgment,—none would apply to him !mit his friends, and they too often. Few would be brought before . him but his ene- mies, for such he would coesider all who had opposed him. 'A Ctu3e comes ,before him. The Plaintiff has voted for him,— perhaps busily electioneered for• him—dis tributed handbills, &c. The defendant has voted and used his influence against him, and under these circumstances, he is to be the judge between them. Can he be trust ed? No prudent man would trust himself in such a situation.. It would bo agnare for his conscience, and in deciding against the defendant (which he would lx;eure to do) should his decision, perchance, be ever so just, t!le defendant • would not ;:think She Old !benumb° Bosnian us to : allow pf no appeal, in being cornnelled to pay it, he would thitix,hinisell.robbed nf his money. Should an appeal be admissible., it would be entered—the cause would go into a higher court, and all she expense and. vexation! of protracted litigation would follow as a con• sequence of a want ol confidence in, the magistrate who was so circumstanced as not to be entitled to confidence. Admitting that Justices elected in the manner propos ed would be as competent and as impartial as they aro wider.the present mode of ap pointing,;—still the want of confidence' in them would destroy their usefulness=---but that they would be as competent,anid tial, no sensible man will admit. They would tie one •sided magistrates,—mere tools in the hands of their friends, to bo used for bleeding and skinning their enemies. (It is proposed that Judges be appointed for a term of years,) instead of good beha viour. As we all know the , importance of having good judges, and of consistency and uniformity in iddicial deeisions, our on• ly desire, in the adoption or rejection of (his amendment, should be, to secure in the best possible manner those primary'objecta. Can that best be done by appointing them during good behaviour, as heretofore under our present constitutionl—or by appointing them for a term of'years, as proposed - 1 That is the question, and lot us examine the Mailer and candidly 'decide upon it. Men of learning and experience in the.law, and of high standing in their prefession, tare generally ,to be fund, who are willing to give up their professional business, • though lucrative, for an appointment to the bench during good behaviour. The 'station is honourable; it affords the means of gratify, ing a laudable ambition to be useful, and it the incumbent properly discharge the duties of it, it is permanent. Would such men accept the same office for a term of years 7 There 'nay be some who would, but the in stances would be rare. A man of high rep utation and good practice at the bar, proper ly regarding-his own interests, Would hard ly be willing to accept of an tipped - lime& for a few years. and take the chance of 116.1 ing thrown back upon his profession, at the expiration of the time,—perhaps in the de. cline of life, his habits changed and hie practice gone, to toil for an uncertain liveli hood. It would require years to regain hi's practice, and in nine cases out of ten it could never be regained. It is quite plain then that appointments during good beha vionr, would' be.likely to secure the services of better men, than appointments for yearr. But supposingmen, could, he found equally competer.t who would accept of a tenure. for years, let us inquire which tenure would be tho better calculated 'to peke them inde pendent of all undue intinence, to secure their fidelity, and insurea fair and impartial administration of law and.justice. Judges, it is to be remembered, are like other men, and above all others, they should be placed as far as possiblafrorn temptation. They should be so circumstanced as never to have an inducenient to do wrong,—as never• to be afraid,te dici right, that, is to do their duty, and should be liable to removal for au& cient.cause. Under the present constitution, a judge being appointed during good behaviour,with acknowledge that ho can hold his situation, provided he be competent, just as long as he behaves himself well in his office, which means as long as he shall be upright and faith ful in the discharge of his duties, knows he is beyond the reach of party.revolutions, of the effects 'of popular feeling, and of individual wealth. In:coming before him, the active and influential politician, has no advantage over tho comparatively obscure, but worthy farmer or mechanic. The weak and defence. less man, however unpopular ho may be, or however much public indignation may be ex cited against him, can look with confidence for the strict measure ofjustice,to which the law entitles him, and the poor man feels as'. sured that the wealth and power of his adversary will not cause tho scales of justice to prepondor. eh) against him, and why? Because tho 'judge, who is naturally disposed to bo just, has no temp. tatiun to be otherwise. He knows that as long as ho is. faithful and honest, doing, equal sad exact justice to all, ho has nothing to roar, and that to hold his 'affioo, he has only to be worthy of it. To I secure his continuance in it, he Wants 'not the services and intercession of the influential politi. Mane, or the outdoor applause of an excited pop. ulnae, or , the rich man's influtmco, He neither, asks theri favour, nor dreads their resentment. Placed beyond the want of thoono,and the reach of tho other, ho holds the scales of jur lice with a steady hand, and as they determine, so the cause of the high, and the low, the atrong and the ,weak, the rich and the poor, must be judged. Now place the same judge in office for a term of years, and 1 ho is not the same man. Ho is no longer the same fearless, free, and independent magistrate. Ho knows that at the expiration of his term, he must leave his place, unless ho can ohtaia a reappoint ment, end he is scarcely warm in his seat, beforo, looking ahead. ho begins to cast about for the means of securing his object: Ho is deliondent from the beginning, not &day pesos when he is engaged in, tho performance of hicof fi sial duties, that he does not feel the necessity of estimating tho'Comreqiienccs (in regard to hisowti'pitispoctv) of decisions he is about to make. Ho is dispos'ed to do justice:. but, under the continual .iatitienco of temptation and fcrar,tro finds ft difficult. His coescienco gradually yields to small requisitions ien his integrity; and deviating a Mile from the direct course of jestica t ho yields a little to ono suitor (who can serve him) at the expense of anotb. or. As each day brings him nearer the time when his commiasion eitpirot so each day adaion. idles him of tho:nocessity of using means for his reiappolotinent. Parhapit he is poor and 'has a family to support. Tho idea ageing back to the bar, he cannot adduce, he is getting. too old for that. The ardour and ambition of youth, the thirst for professional fame, which once impelled him to action, and led to his firmer success and reputation,• are quenched or extinguished. His former patrons and clients have gone to other larryore; and an attempt to recover his former praclico would be utterly hopeless. Ho gives up all idea of returning to the bar; and now all•his thoughts and hopss centre in one object, a re up. pointment. How is that object to ba,atteined?— Not through, the assistance crf the. obscure, the weak, or the poori They, can neither help. nor hurt him; from them he has nothnig to hope or fear. Ho knows the industrious farmers and me. who hive little to do with politics, will exert' no political influence either ter dr against him. • From whom then iri lay to expect aserehroce, or apprehend opposition? ,From the active and influential political partizan, the often ill-judging and ilLdirected populate, the rich and the power ful. It le they whose lotionr he coveis and would win, and whore opposition he dreads and would avoid. Laying aside the dignity of a ruan,he sop. -t' . (VOL. plicates the politician, courts the rabblo t andfASOns upon tho rich. The politician bringiveveliritlous suit against an unpretending farrow A,itictis; citizon conies into court ond.cialms pyoteetiop, or indemnity, against tho acts of a licwless.Miskilid od.mob; and thoi obscure poor man e aglinskAte high.handed oppression of a. wealthy advorseLY: and the jadge must determine botwdonitiolii: By favoring the cause of the politician•.the triobs.a. and tho rich man, he would win theirf f accur,bring them Atolls support, and;"probahly, itodtrti•hii ro.appointment. ' By acting uprightly, he - would incur their enmity, and their oppeition,, which would 'probably dofeet it.•• So circumstanced; is ho free and indepeadonel If ho law dm slave it) chains is , vo. Jo his conscience solo? If it Is,thon poor, frail huniahity is proofagainet temptation.— Is Juitice onifi37 If it hi ' it would be sofa wero ovary man to be, judgo in his own cause. No man can be 'fiiiind who would to Willing for a moment, to risk tholrial of his cause, with such fearful odds against ,him. No. man who thinks aright, would say that the judge would be fit to try it; or that it would not bo sinful to load him , into such tomptatiOn, and On'danger the administration of justice by voting for the proposed amendments. , If then, it is manifest, and it must be so to.all a that the old constitution gives us better judges than the new ono virouTd, and that they would bo more likely td tonitiin faithful and honest, so far the old ono is bettor than the now. A few words as to the bad abate of frequontly changing Judges. We all know that it is impoi, tent that the laws should be sottled and cortuin. _Wore it not so no man would bo safe. That which I would be lawful ono day, might bo unlawful the I next. - There would be no fixed rules of property. A mortgage-a Deed-a purchase °Handal. Sheriff's sale—good to.day, might be good for nothing to.' morrow.' The law os total-these matters must bo expounded and eettled'by dm:fudges; and the loss th'o Judaea erichanied the more certain add well established is tho law. -"Now-lords, now laws,' is an old eaying. Now JUdges, now laws, would be just as true an one. No two min always think alike; and wherra judge•first takes his seat on 1110 bench, go.tarally thinking biipsolf wiser in..surim respects et least than litsprodociessoridiels apt to overturn their, :decisions, and, Introduco new principles and establish new rules. Turn out all tho Judges in the stato and appoint others, and thousand's . Would be injured, if MA ruinelin thmr oststes e by new dcciaioni, in 'regard 'to matters which are now well settled and understood. The honost And industrious, who have Something to lose. would be the sufferers. Tho artful, tho re!, paciouS,and the unprincipled, soaking advantago wherever they could find it,would be the gainers. It is the former who always suffer by change of political institutions; by convulsion and rovoln. Con; it is the latter who promote them and fatten on the miseries they produco. flare I might stop, for none bot the blind con fall to perceive that the direct and inevitablo Con. sequence of adopting the new Constitution would bo,to give us .worse Justices, twee Judges, - und scow Lows; and norur bui the thougluless can lxi Mdiffirient to the train nf unforestien evils to whink we should be exposed; but thrro hi ono More d mondment over - which I cannot pass without ro. mark. 7 I refer-to the provision by which AMEND MENTa To Tilt et:mammon may ,b,e proposed in tho 'Legislature, It is a part of that project which Is at the bee. tern of destroyingour present constitution, which would rob the many and gioe tothefew—persocuto the industrious and pamper the idle, No mon Can Tail to'isee its consequence—event , Leatsi.x.ruita would boA Corivairriou to amend tho Constitution, arid kilned oftnoking such laws aL we nilkhViieed and then adjourning, it would be hammering this whole year round at AMENDMENTS, ond,wo should have one ,porpotual session. - As now • Members 'are !Mooted having now views, they Would be eat. Mad with neither the COnstitation, nor the work ofthoir predecessors; but would hammer alit their year,-leaving off at tho last rnoment, only to make room for their successors. . And at whose expense is 014 perpetual ' onvention to bo kepi 41, Lair TitETAX-rA rime ANSWER'. ' Utile) , love to bo Tete- ED for inch . PrlPPbsea, hit them vote for the amend. manta. Ducif they love their country, love their Constitution, and venerate the memory of their ' patriotic fathers who established it, they will go to the poll!! and Vote "ADAINBT TUE AhlENDentere.'? To do so is a MORAL, RELIGIOUS,AND PO. LITICAL DUTY. ;'. . N. B. In order that those who wish ttveave•the OLD CONSTITUTION may know how the law require! them to vote for that purpose, they are informed that their tickets must be labolled on tho outside —"Atnendoienta;"on the inside must ho tho words, "AGAINST THE AMENDMENTS." More beeleneiona from the Porter Pcirty . . Mr. Charles W. Kelso, and Elias . Brocht, two respectable and influential gentlemen in Erie coun ty, have .19It the ranks of the Loco Focos, publish ed their renunciation of Portoriam in the Erie Ga zette, and declared themdelves openly !Or Ritzier, . Ma. STEVENB.- --Tho Republican sneers because Mr. StEvElvs recommended Sunday, and other, schools to be taught along the Tunkhannock and other Divisions of the PennsylVania canal, and plebes the recom- mondation to the score of electioneering-- Granted. The object 19 laudable, and even if it was not consecrated by purity of motive, if the ignorant are enlightened, irthe vicious are reformed, or the young mind led into the proper path, and directed onward in intelli. genre 'and morals, what boots it that the originator sought fir popularity? Such an action ought to be popular with every ,well regulated mind. But, judging from the past couric-rif Mr. Stevens, his recommendation is the rebult of that unconquerable spirit which Has' shor9 itself upon every occasion n favor of info, matton and in opposition to ignorance, and which seeks to place, and is fast accomplishing its object, every child in the ' Commonwealth upon the eqUality brought by the blessings of education., Let thesorchd and the base assign base and sor did motives, the good citizen will see in this matter nothing but 9, following out ores noble a course as was ever cemmenced, and the name of Thaddeus Stevens andltducation will be associated together and honored by Pennsylvanians long after his traducers and its opponente shall'sleep in deserved forget fulness. He who is the friend of intelleetOet and moral culture is the friend of mankind; his course will endear Otte to the affections of the people t and his nami3 can be more: be sullied - by the slanders enemy . than the sunbeam can be swallowed by darkneir. SITICKV.—"A Dennocrat t ":in:tbe A can Sentinel—the Anti-Sub-Treaeury Por ter pane,- of Philadelphia—tete' the , 14 , e* Foam that "if they ere deferthined torii a war of extermination against tbe vatioes,thay *ill find it a war in which here are blows to receive—NW wog si binsichl giver • . . • ' •vnitonir.. CONPTITU'IION.
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