CI ]t Dmuorat.
HARVEY SICKL.ER, Editor.
TUNKHANNOCK, PA.
Wednesday, Oct. 1, 1862.
STATE, DISTRICT *£COUNTY TICKET
FOR AUDITOR-GENERAL,
ISAAC SLENKER, of Union County.
FOR SURVEYOR-GENERAL,
JAMES P. BARR, of Allegheny Co.
FOR PRESIDENT JUDGE,
HON. WM. ELWELL, of Bradford County.
FOR REPRESENTATIVES,
GEORGE D.JACKSON, of Sullivan County.
JOHN C. ELLIS, of Montour County.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
THERON VAUGHN, of Mehoopany.
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
HARVEY SICIvLER, of Tunkhannock Bor.
FOR COUNTY TREASURER.
JAMES L. MULLISON, of Tunkhannock Tp.
FOR CORONER,
J. M. CAREY, of Northmoreland.
FOR COUNTY AUDITOR,
JOHN G. SPAULDING, of Forkston.
GREAT MASS
MEETING
DEMOCRATS,
T=* /%. T - T ■ "V *
JCTFCA OJCJL- rndLmmJ* JLJ ■
A Mass Meeting of the Democratic
and all other
Lyal Citizens of Wy
oming ,
will be held at
Tunkhannock
on
Saturday, Oct. 4th,
1862, at 1 o'clock, p, m.
RaL B. Little,
of Montrose, and
I. €. Mitchell,
Esqs., formerly of Centre County,
now of Wilkes-Barre,
and Colonel
T. E. Piolette,
of Bradford,
and other distinguished Speakers
will certainly be present.
News from the lVai.
The news from the seat of war for the past
week has been, comparatively, of but little
importance. There has been almost an en
tire suspension of hostilities since the late
battles |in Maryland, the official reports of
which fixes the loss in killed, wounded and
missing at 10,000 men.
There was rumors by the last nights mail,
that peace commissioners from Richmond
were on their way, or had already arrived at
Washington, with instructions from the reb
el congress, to propose terms of a settlement
of the difficulties. The rumors needed con
firmation. Gen. Nelson, of Louisville Ken
tucky, was shot by Gen. J. C. Davis, of Indi
anna, in a private quarrel, which grew out
of an alleged insult to Gen. Davis, by his su
perior Gen. Nelson.
—
Our Abolition neighbors are very so
licitious as to what may be done by the dem
ocratic congressional, and senatorial confer
ees in this district. They are exceedingly
anxious that we should preserve our party
organization, and make a straight out party
nomination. Without this, they fear that
their red headed abolition " tonnage tax
swindle" candidate, may be defeated by the
conservative whig, Henry W. Tracy. To
talk of party, or of making a party nomina
tion, was denounced by these same men last
Fall, as treason. It was all "no party," then
They are all great sticklers for party, now.—
They say, that " to make no nomination, is a
concession of weakness the democratic party
ought not to make." Indeed, gentlemen,
low very solicit ious you are about the integ
rity of the democratic party! How very
sick it makes you, to event think of taking a
dose of your own ph j6ic !
Our Candidates.
We delayed any particular notice of our
candidates, until after the meeting of the
Congressional and Senatorial Conferences,
that we might notice editorially the entire
ticket from Congressmen to Auditor. These
conferences have met and adjourned without
taking any definite action on the matters be
fore them. What their final action may be,
we are as yet unable to determine. Whatev
er it may be, we shall cheerfully acquiesce
in, knowing as we do, that the men compos
ing it, are of the ablest and truest democrats
of their respective counties.
Our ticket has, at its head,
FOR PRESIDENT JUDGE,
The name of Wm. El well, a sound lawyer,
and ripe scholar from Bradford County.
As to his democracy, it is enough for us to
say, that after the unanimous recommenda
tion of the entire bar of the counties compos
ing this district, that narrow minded parti
san, Gov. Curtin, flatly refused to appoint
him to the vacancy, because he was a demo
crat. The people who are now to be consult- i
ed, will elect him to that office, because he
is not a black republican.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE.
George D. Jackson of Sullivan, and John
C. Ellis of Montour, have been placed in
nomination. Mr. Jackson is known to the
people of this district, having represented
them two years in the State Legislature
where by his afable and courteous manner'
and gentlemanly deportment, he won the es
teem of every member, and became one of
the most influential and popular men of that
body. John C. Ellis is a farmer, of plain, un
assuming manners, an intelligent, honest man
and of unimpeachable democratic antece
dents. In all these qualities he is the very
antipode of the Rev. Jackey, (the abolition
candidate in this county) as well as in phis'
ique , being rather tall and spare. lie will
leave the old wheezing, wind-broken, round
bellied, abolition preacher so far behind, that
an ambition to represent the white men of
this district will never again find a lodgment
in his crazy brain;
FOR COMMISSIONER.
The party have placed in nomination The
ron \ aughn, a farmer, of Mehoopany, who
in every place where he is known, needs no
words of commendation at the hands of any
one. His careful, prudent, industrious, hon
est and upright course, has secured the con
fidence of every man who knows him. We
predict for him, a triumphant election.
FOR TREASURER.
James R. Mullison, of Tunkhannock Town
ship is in every way worthy of, and should
receive the cordial support of the Democrats
of the county. He has been a consistent,
straight-forward democrat all his life. This
course has made him the especial subject of
the calumny and detraction of our opponents,
wheih, in these times, is enough to satisfy
every democrat of his fidelity to the princi
ples of our party.
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEV.
The democracy have seen fit to place us,
again, in nomination, which is some evidence
at least, that we have, heretofore, performed
the duties of that office, to the satisfaction of
a majority of them. That we have, made no
enemies in the performance of these duties,
we cannot even hope. We have endeavored
to do our whole duty under our oath, the
constitution and laws, and cannot promise to
do more nor less than this, if re-elected.
FOR CORONER,
I)r. J. M. Carey, an unflinching democrat
r>m Northmoreland, is nominated. lie is a
young man of fine talents, and will receive
the hearty support of the democracy of the
County.
FOR AUDITOR.
Our convention was fortunate in securing
as a candidate to this neglected, though im
portant office, John G. Spaulding of Fork
ston. Mr. Spauldir.g is a ready accountant,
ripe scholar and a practical business man,
such as can rarely be found. His qualifica
tions, therefore, none will dispute. His de
mociacy is above suspicion. He will be elect
ed.
United States Senator from Oregon-
Benjamin F. Harding, the newly elected
Cnitcd States Senator from Oregon, is a son
of Elisha Harding, who resides just opposite
our Borough; where "Frank" as he was
called, was reared and educated. To his aged
father, friends, and acQuaintenances here, this
honorable distinction bestowed upon him by
a people three thousand miles distant, must
be peculiarly gratifying.
About fifteen years ago he left the quiet
farm house of his father, and entered the of
fice of Hon. R. R. Little, as a student at law.
After the usual course of studies, he was ad
mitted to the bar. Discoveries of gold in
California began to be made about that time.
Young Harding joined in the throng of thous
ands that were attracted to that great Eldora
do of the Wesc. He subsequently emigrated
to Oregon, where his honorable course as a
citizen, and his commanding talents as a Law
yer, soon made one of the first, if not the ve
ry first men in that Territory. He was chos
en to fill various places of trust and honor,
among which, was that of United States Dis
trict Attorney. Upon the admission of Ore
gon as a state, ho was elected a member of
the State Legislature, of which body he was
chosen the speaker. The duties of all his of
ficial positions, he discharged with fidelity to
the people and honor to himself. In politics,
he is a Democrat, and was the ardent friend
and admirer of the lamented Douglas.
If his past coarse is am index of what his
futnre will be, and he still continues true to
the principles of his great exemplar, in the
Senate of tbe United States, abolitionism will
find in him, one of its most uncompromising
enemies ; and Wyoming County may well be
proud of the honor of having given to the
country, Benjamin F. Harding, the United
States Senator from Oregon.
L<etter from the 2nd. Pa. Cavalry.
The following latter from Joel R. Smith,
orderly sergeant of the 2nd Pa. Cavalry, will
be read with interest by his friends and ac- j
quaintances in Falls. As may be inferred, '
the writer is in favor of little Mac, and a
sound democrat. For the information of
those not acquainted with him, it is not out
of place, to state that he is of good fighting
material, having " smelt powder," before.—
lie was a soldier under Gen. Scott in his
triumphant march into the city of Mex'co,
and the " Halls of the Montezumas."
CAMP, NEAR WASHINGTON, )
Sept. 27th, 1862. £ j
Mr. Editor: —DEAß SIR : It may be in- !
terestins to your readers in Falls to know
something of the doings of the boys, from that
region, in the 2d Pa. Cavalry. The first fight
we had was at Culpepper Court House. We
were next engaged on the Rappahannock, and
then at Catlett's Station. At Manassas we
had another brush, and the next day we were
at the Bull Run battle, being on the extreme
left under McDowell, which was an extreme- !
Jy dangerous position ; the men behaved well
and deserve great praise. On the 19th we
| were out on a scouting expedition, and took
one Major with twenty-five prisoners, wag
ons, Ac.—making SO miles in 20 hours. The
names of those from Falls in this company,
are as follows : Jefferson Sickler, Charles
Worden, Thomas Armstrong, Ilow.ird Arm
strong, Samuel Snover, and Michael Bum
gardner. They are all well and in fine spir
its.
Since the above was written, we have had
another scout, and with it a fight in which
we took the Lieut. Col, of Ashby's Cavalry,
and three hundred prisoners. We lost one
Captain and four privates. Two of the Reb
ele were killed. In this affair we made 90
miles in thirty hours.
There is great excitement here among the
Boldiets, on account of the supcrceeding of
McClellan by Fremont, which is now rumor
ed here in camp.
Six hundred men in our Regiment will
throw down thier arms the moment this is
done. I left my home for the purpose of
fighting for the Union, and when this h turn
ed into a Nigger war, I want the d—d aboli
tionists to do the fighting. And these arc the
sent iroentsof two thirds of the whole army—
McClellan and the Union—Fremont and the
Nigger. lam with McClellan and the Un
ion. I wish you to understand that lam a
Democrat.
The report in Falls, that I was taken pris
oner, is false. lam now the orderly sergeant
of Co. F., and feel hapy in saying to my
friends, am.in the enjoyment of good health,
and at my post trying to do my duty to my
country.
JOEL R. SMITH.
Orderly Sergeant, Co. F. 2d Pa. Cavalry.
—
fitter from the Army,
WASHINGTON CO., Md., Sept. 18,18G2.
Harvcg Sickler —Slß : The following is a
complete list of the killed and wounded of our
Company, in the engagement yesterday :
KILLED.
Orderly Sergeant Geo. W. Warner,
Second Sergeant J. 11. Teneyck,
Charles Evans,
B. V. Cole,
John 11. Smith,
Henry Ornt,
A. E. Gregory,
11. B. Turner.
WOVNDED.
W. D. Wagner, severely,
Milot Roberts, severely,
W. E. Bullock, severely,
Oatis Gilmore, in shoulder,
A. Lettier in Bowels,
Seth A. Cobb, in neck,
Frank Parrish, in mouth,
Lesley Uawley, slightly,
G. A. Carney, in hip, slightly,
O. F. Clark, In foot,
Elisha Pedrick, slightly,
Elisha Farnum, in arm,
Isaac Pahnitier, in side, slightly,
Albanus Little, with pistol ball in hand.
The loss in our Regiment was severe. Our
Company had more men killed than any oth
er in the Regiment. Our Company and Co.
G, were exposed to a raking cross-fire from
the enemy.
Yours, Ac.
G. H. EASTMAN,
Ist Lieut. Co. B. 132 Reg't., P. V.
Arrested-
The editor of the " Selingsgrove Times,"
one of the spiciest and most out spoken of
our democratic exchanges, was arrested last,
week and thrown into jail, on the charge of
1 discouraging enlistments." He was subse
quently released upon giving bail, in the sum
of fifteen hundred dollars, for his appearance
to answer at the next term of court. His of-
Jfense, being, of course, that he is a Democrat,
and an editor who has ventured to tell the
truth about some of the corrupt officials. Lin
coln and Curtin have placed in power there.
Who wouldn't be a democratic editor?—
Why, they enjoy about as much of the "free
dom of speech and of the press," that our ab
olition preachers have so long prated about,
as those scoundrels do of honesty or religion,
k e n just none at all.
Our lady readers and others who
look for " the story" on our first page, will,
no doubt, be agreeably disappoiated by find
ing it filled up with the choicest items of po
litical news and general information, which,
if they will take the pains to read carefully,
will prove of far more substantial benefit to
them, than any visions of the romancer. We
shall probably discontinue the (< Farmers col
umn" and the column of " varities" on the
fourth page, for a few weeks, or untH after
election, when they, and the usual story also
will probably be resumed.
| fry The following letter has been hand
ed us by a friend for publication. It is of lo
cal importance only, and can be of no inter
est to our readers generally. It justifies Mr.
Moore who, it seems, has been made the sub
ject of an attack by the editor of the Repub
lican. We confess our entire ignorance of
the matter in controversy, not having read
anything, heretofore written on the subject.—
Ed.
Mr. SLCKLER.
DEAR SIR :—I notice in
Tiffany's valuable sheet, (valuable, providing
he puts ink enough on to make it so,) that
he declines publishing any more concerning
Mr. Moore, whose character he has assailed.
Now, sir,, I go in for fair play, if these are
war times ; or in other words, for "render
ing unto Uasar the things that are Cwsars."
Where a set of people, and the editor in the
bargain, undertakes to put an old friend of
mine over the road on the wide guage, it
stirs up my feelings. Ido not know any
thing of Mr. Moore's or his wife's troubles,
nor do I care about them. What was said
about Mr. Moore wasn't of credit, destitu
tion and poverty are palpable falsehoods
He is in possession of a good farm and fine
buildings, and is above board. So far as the
inner man is concerned, he has enough and
to spare. As for beds, I should think it ve
ry strange if he has none. His mother has
kept the " feathered tribe" for twenty years,
to my certain knowledge. As for his credit,
I think he never tried it, because he pays as
he goes.
I have known Thomas Moore ever since his
father led him by the hand, and have ever
found him a faithful, honest, and industtious
man. lie has enough of this worlds goods,
and every thing else to make him happy,
with the exception of a pleasant woman.
If Mr. Tiffany wishes to sell out, Mr. Moore
is able to buy him out and all bis hands in
the bargain.
N. 11. P.
Keiserville, Sept., IS"C 2.
I P. S. Since the above was written, I see that
! Tiffany had made another attack upon my
friend Moore. Friend Tiffany is all on one
side, like a jug handle.
Terms of Union.
When the war of the revolution was ended
the colonies, now risen to the dignity of inde
pendent sovereignties, were left to consider
their position with reference to each other
and to the external world. The necessity for
an alliance, offensive and defensive, was man
ifest to all minds. It was necessary for pro
tection against foreign foes. But such an al
liance was by no means sufficient for the
wants of the young States. It became very
clear to the minds of men that if a State were
a member of such a confederacy for the mere
purposes of self defence, without any binding
interests in the affairs of the other States,
there might be occasions when self-interest
would induce the abandonment of the alli
ance, or when foreign temptations would ov
ercome the power of American sympathies.—
In fact, it was necessary that the mutuality
of interests among the States should be made
as nearly as possible perfect. Union was the
necessity, and Union implied almost lfnotab
soluto unity. But unity was clearly impossi
ble. The creation of one Central Govern
ment and the abandoning of State powers was
not to be thought of. The separate interests
of the colonics appeared too great when view
ed in that light. The problem, therefore, be
fore the fathers, was the establishment of one
government for purposes in which Union was
desirable, while separate governments remain
ed, independent in their powers as to all
those matters in which Union was unnecessa
ry or impossible.
The same principles on which they acted
with reference to forming the Union, are prin
ciples necessary to be understood with refer
ence to preserving it. If we had never pos
sessed any territories outside of the States, it
is possible we should never have come to a
collision with one another on the subject of
slavery. But that is by no means a reason
for supposing that either territorial possess
ions or slavery is a necessary cause of war
and disagreement. The property quarrelled
about is not the cause of the quarrel between
two partners who proceed from disputes to
blows, over their dividends. The dispositions
of the quarrelling men are more generally the
responsible cause of the collision.
In fact, no calm and considerate mind can
doubt that the radical character of men on
both sides of the slavery question is the re
sponsible cause of our paesent trouble. We
do not pause now to sty on which side the
radicalism was first manifested.
It becomes men now to study the principle
of Union on which the Constitution was form
ed, and on which alone the nation can be pre
served. It is an idle and vain idea, the most
superficial of ideas, which some men are con
stantly preaching, that the abolition of slave
ry will be the end of differences. It is their
intolerance of slavery that is the real difficul
ty. These identical men who cannot live in
a Union with slaveholding States are men,
who, after that question is disposed of, will
find that they cannot live in a Union with
Roman Catholics. They will pronounce the
Constitution a covenant with death and an
agreement with hell because nnder it a cler
gyman of the Church of Rome is permitted to
celebrate the mass and teach the doctrine of
real presence, or becsuse it protects a Jewish
Rabbi in denying tho Messiahship of Christ.
If their principle of Union is allowed to pre
vail, we shall plunge hereafter into religions
wars, and whenever, as is very likely to oc
cur, New England or any other portion of the
country becomes affected with a rilgious
mania, as it has been with an anti-slavery
mania, we shall have an attempt made to in
troduce religion into politics, to elect officers
on religious platforms, to evade the Constitu
tion for the sake of enacting laws to interfer
with freedom of worship* and if this class of
men obtained power, we should have Jews
Catholics," Episcopalians, Presbyterians or
Quakers, or possibly all of these religionists,
burned at the 6take, or charged with treason,
for sustaining a view of religion which those
fanatics believad to be of necessity rebellious,
or tending to rebellion.
There is no exaggeration in this view. If
a man preaches, as some clergymen—a large
part of the New England clergy—preach, that
this war is a punishment sent by God on the
Constitution of the United States, for the aw
ful sin of tolerating slavery, how soon will
the same men or their successors be preach
ing that the' Constitution is deserving of
God's wrath for tolerating Romish mass or
Jewish synagogues ? The effect of the Con
stitution in one case is precisely what it is in
the other, with the exception that the Consti
tution absolutely prohibits the United States
from interfering with a Mohammedan who
chooses to preach his prophet, or a Parsee
who worships the suu and blasphemes Chris
tianity, while it fails, only by silence, to em
power any interference with slavery in the
States. In other words, the Constitution
positively sustains idolatry and forbids inter
ference with it, and only negatively permits
slavery. Is it not then plain that men who
profess to have such tender consciences that
that they cannot live in a Union which per
mits slavery, or who claim so clear an insight
into the Divine purposes that they authorita
tively assure us that he is now punishing the
nation for permitting slavery to exist, are the
very men whose conscience may next year
render it impossible for them to live in a Un
ion whose government sustains paganism or
episcopacy ? Men who refase to eat sugar or
wear cotton grown by slave labor are extrem
ists. But the principles of the extremists are
too easily adopted by unthinking men, who
do not pause to see the result of their notions.
What does all this show ? It shows this,
and plainly, that if the radical ideas of the
anti-slavery man arc to be adopted as a ne
cessary principle of Union, then Union is im
possible. If we are to have Union, we can
only have it on the principle of the Fathers
and of the Constitution, which is simply the
principle of rqutual concessions. No man
who, being a Protestant, says he cannot live
| in a Union that tolerates Roman Catholics, is
i fit to be an American citizen. No man who,
being an anti-slavery man, says he cannot live
in a Union which tolerates slavery, is fit to
be an American citiaen. Men may as well
understand this grand truth at once. It
stares them in the face. If slavery must be
abolished to gratify you, why shall not slave
ry be restored to Maine and Massachusetts,
to gratify Southern citizens whose rights are
equal to yours 1 If you demand of men the
hackneyed question " are you a conditional
Unionist—in favor of the Union if you can
have slavery preserved?" how can you reply
to the question put to yourself, " are not 3*oll
a conditional Unionist, preferring disunion, to
permitting slavery to exist any where ?" The
true patriot to-day looks at the question of
Union as the fathers looked at it. He sa\*s
there is no price too great to pay for the Un
ion. He sees with clear eye that it is a false
and pernicious doctrine which charges him or
his conscience with any responsibility for the
religion or the creed of other men,on account
of the Union which tolerate them. He knows
that God has blessed" the old Union above .ill
nations on earth. He finds that punishment
began first when these men with tender con
sciences began to preach that the Union made
all its subjects responsible for all the sins that
were pessible under its government, and he
resolved that the Union, one indivisible, shall
be re-established in power, and that every
enemy, Northern or Southern, evert* persecu
tor, every tyrant over other men's conscien
ces, shall be taught the power of that Union.
—N. Y. Journal of Commerce.
Abolitionism Against While Working Men.
We find the following correspondence be
tween E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War, and
Brigadier-General Tuttle, commanding the
Federal forces at Cairo, Ohio, in the Western
papers. It is highly important to white men :
CAIRO, Sept. 18, 18G2.
To Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War,
Washington ;
General Grant is sending here a large lot
of negro women and children, and directs me
to ask you what to do with them. Parties
in Chicago and other cities wish them for
servants. Will Ibe allowed to turn them
over to responsible committees to be so em
ployed ? If so, can I transport them at Gov
ernment expense 1 J. M. TUTTXE.
Brigadier General, Commanding District of
Cairo.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18—6 P.M.
To Brigadier-General Tuttie, Commanding:
You are authorized to turn over to respon
sible committees, negro women and children,
who will take them in charge and provide
them with employment and support in the
Northern States, and you may furnish trans
portations at Government expense.
EDWARD M. STANTOH, Secretary of War.
There can be no question that this is the
initial point in an attempt on the part of the
Aholitinn Republican faction, to force negro
labor in competition with that of white men
in the Northern States. To be sure, in this
particular case it is only women and children
that are specified in tbe order of Secretary
Stanton, but this is merely a reconnoiseances
to feel public sentiment, and ascertain to
what extent this negro labor doctrine can
safely be pot m operation. If Secretary
Stanton can order a Brigadier-General of the
United States forces to send negro women
and children to Chicago or any other place,
and charge the cost of their transportation to
the General Government, to be paid out of
the taxes of the already overburdened peo
ple, what is to prevent him from filling all
the free States with negro women on the
6ame principle ? He had and has no author
ity of law to appropriate one penny of the
people's money to pay the fare of negroes
from the military posts of the United States
to other localities, and yet this is done by his
order, and no countermanding document has
yet reached the p-uhiic. It may therefore be
safely asserted that this action of tbe Secre
tary of War is based upon direct authority
from the President, and was but a forerun-1
ner of his proclamation, which is based *"*"■
the same general principles with reference to
the negro question.
But will the working men and tax pay erj
of the Northern States look at this wove,
ment for one moment? Will they examine
its effects upon their interests and the wel
faie of the community? No sensible m lt)
will for one moment believe that this trans,
portation of negroes fro.n the lines into the
Northern States will stop with the women
and children. That is preposterous. The
" parties in Chicago and other places" who
wish women and children for servants, will
not object to male servants or working wen,
when the proper time comes for their intro.
duction into those of the free States which
have not barred their entrance by statutory
enactments. And once in the free State#
then comes the practical effects of this pej
scheme of President Lincoln and the Aboli
tion Republican party. These negroes IQIM(
put their labor directly in competition wfj
white men, or they must fiil our almshouses
and prisons. No other view can be taken of
this question, if reason, reflection, and ob
servation are consulted. And in either view
the white laborer is put in competition with
that of white men. The last must go to the
wall, as the negro has no wants save those of
the lowest animal character, and, hence, he
can and will labor for a much lower rate of
compensation than the intelligent white men
of the North, who have social positions to
sustain, families to clothe and educate and
rear in a manner befitting their stations and
prospects in the future. This is the effect of
introducing negro laborers into the free States |
where he will work. But as the negro i>
proverbially idle and laz\*, if he will not la
bor, what then ? He must either be support
ed in the almshouse, or he will steal and thus
find his way into prison. In either case he
wiil have to be supported at the public ex- |
pense, and thus the tax rates will be increas
ed to an alarin ; ng extent, and. in tnat case,
the laboring men of the free States will be
again the sufferers—as it is from the labor o
the countrv* that all the taxes are raised from
which the City, State, and National indebt
edness is liquidated.
Now, us these arc inevitable consequences
that will flow Irom the Abolition Kepublican
scheme of filling; the free States with negro
laborers from the South, will the white men
of the North supp< rt that party, and thus
put into their h-inds the weapons with which
to crush them ? President Lincoln in his
proclamation clearly enunciates this doctrine,
for if all the slaves are declared free, surely
they must be all >wed to act as free men, and
choose their residences where it may suit
them. Put Secretary Stanton goes a step
further, and announces that the white men of
the North are not only to have negro labor
put in competition with theirs, but the ex
penses of sending the negroes into their
midst is to be paid by the General Govern
ment, and drawn from white labor in the
shape of increased taxation. This is the ba
sis on which the order of Secrerary Stanton
to Brigadier-General Tut tic rest s. This is
its meaning. And now it is for the white la
boring men of the North to say whether this 4
Abolition Kepublican plot against their in
terests shall succeed 7 The remedy is at thr
polls. L-t a verdict be rendered against
['resident Lincoln, his ultra Abolition proc- 5*
lamation, and the party which sustains it
wpen the polls close on the Coming electior *
day. and white men can again hold up their
heads m the North. Let theui act.— Consli- *
lutionul Union.
RESOI, IJ T I < X S
Adopted at tl'.e late Democratic County Convention,
held at Tunkhannoek.
Ist. RESOLVED, That we unanimously endorse the
Resolutions of the Democratic State Convention held
at Harrisburg on the 4!h of July lust.
2d RESOLVED, H'-it the and injur
ious civil war," that is now desolating the countrif and
threatening the permanency of our government ceased
to he a political question from the time that Congress
refused to adopt nny measures of honorable com/wo-
mise of th' dijficuUU s- that haul grown out of North
ern and Southern sectionalism'and the consequent
commencement of hostilities in the bombardment of
Fort Sumter—that from that time there has been but
one proper made of dealing with Liu question, name
ly, by keeping it distinct and separate from politic*,
to unite the whale North in the ejfort to brinw the re
bellion to an end by force; and this end, allconstrra-"
tire men are called upon tn unite with us in a deter
mined effort to create a United North, by put tins
dawn aiid driving jo the wallthot misguided and mis
chievous faction, whose sole aim is to impair northern
unity of purpose, and paralyze northern effort, by
forever intrudivg the most unfortunate, fatal, aim /- ij
disasterous of all political issues, (the issue of Nesrrc ,
emancipation t upon the peoples counsels ;by persist- y
ently striving to coerce the President into the ndop- *
tion of a policy that must prove fatal to the Union be §
seeking to impair public con fidence in the integrity
of the Administration ; and by creating in the rank
of our armies suspicion and distrust of the fidelity
and loyalty of thiir leaders.
3 d. RESOLVED, That the " suspension of politico
parties until the close of the war," is only advocates
by the party in power, and because it is in power
that the utter hollowness and hypocrisy of the edu
cates of this policy is shown by'the fact that they an
scrupulously careful to keep up their own politics•' $
organizatiim. and to keep all their politicalmachinen
in full operation, as ■ well as by the fact that in tht
multitude of civil appointmente made and heins
made under Republican authority, none but Repub
licans " of the straightest sect," or renewade .Devio
ocrats. are recognized.
4th. RESOLVED, That in all free governments there
have always been, and must of necessity be at least
two political parties—that the integrity, permanency
and fidelity of such governments to constitutional au
thority, imperatively demand an opposition psrty
that without such party, there would be no accounta
bility, and without accountability no government
be trusted. "No Party." therefore, simplv meats
"let there be no opposition to the plundering of the
government by government officials and favored par
tisans" It means, " let the party in power remain
in powor, without question as to the mode in which
power may be exercised." It means "no criticism d |j|§
the conduct of government officials, whatever disaster J
or ruin may follow." It means "no discussion of
measures of governmental policy." It means u silenet, - v
acquiescence, or imprisonment."
sth. RESOLVED, That in sustaining th* FrcsiJec!
under the tremendous pressure to which ho has be
subjected by the Radical wing, of his own-party, th'
Democratic party hast aflbrded ample and coneluflf
evidence of its desire to give all its strength to th<
suppression of the rebellion and the restoration of tht 1
Union; and that the responsibility for that absence"? |
unity of purpose in tho North which is essential to 4
success, rests solely with that party whose whole sit*
has been to convert the war irto a miserable criisado,
agninst the domestic institutions of the Southern States. &
and in doing so, to overthrow the Constitution, a""
render disunion porpotual. Theretoro,
6th. RESOLVED, That the arrest and imprisonrne"®
of loyal Democrats by order of an administration that _
ignoros the open and avowed treason of a large body
of the members ol its own party, is a monstrous oxer
else of desi*tie power that tho Democratic party "j
tho North is called upon to resist by all lawful "■
constitutional means at its command—that it is_°" '
part of the business of liemoorats to discourage cnlis l ' 1| ' .
inents and that this is not tho true motive f their ar . , r j
rest, is abundantly shown by tho fact that those ic®- ' j&J
bers of tho Republican party who have constantly n 0 " 1 |
persistently labored to diseouruge enlistments becW £
the war has not been prosecuted to an unlawful and r#- ;i |
inouspurposo, (that of negro emancipation) have bee' i
allowedtocontinue theirlabors without even a werJ
censure from the government.