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HARVEY TICKLER, Editor.
TUIJKKANNOCK-, P*
Wednesday, Sept. 23, 1863.
S. M. l'ettengiil & Co.—No. 37 PK Row '
Nr;w YORK, & 6 STATE ST. BOSTON* arc our Agents
for the N. D. Democrat, in tlmse cities, nnd are author
ize! to take Advertisements and Subscriptions
os at our lowest Rati a
DEMOCRATIC STATE NOMINATIONS.
FOR GOVERNOR,
HON. G. \V. WOODWARD,
;
OK PHILADELPHIA.
FOR JUDGE OF TIIE SUPREME COURT
WALTER H. LOWRIE,
OF ALLEGHENY COU NTV.
FOR REPRESENTATIVES.
GEORGE D. JACKSON,
OF SULLIVAN COUNTY.
JOHN C. ELLIS',
OF MONTOUR COUNTY,
COUNTY TICKET.
FOR SHERIFF,
AIIIRA GAY,
Cf MESHOFPE.N.
FOR PROTIIONOTARY,
H. L FURGERSON,
• \ OT FALLS.
FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER,
•LEWIS PARISH,
OF MONROE.
FOR COMMISSIONER,
EDWIN STEPHENS
OF NICHOLSON.
FOR CORONER,
DR. J. C. BECKER,
OF TUN KHAN NOCK IIORO.
FOR AUDITORS,
HENRY NEWCOMB,
OF CLINTON, 3 years.
E. D. FASSETT
C . OF WINDIIAM, 1 year.
Democratic State Central Committee.
The following is the State Central Committee as
appoint"Jjfcy Hon. I'IXDDAY PATTERSON, of
connty, TVLO, as President of the late
Con rent ion. was authorized by a resolu
tion ofAm Hbdy to announce the Committee. It con
sists of srCffairmnn, and Representatives of the sever
al Senatorial Districts into which the State is
divided*:
f BiDPLE, Chairman.
• f Theodore Cuyler. 1
(Isaac Leech, J
2d John D. Chester couniy.
3d " Win. H. Wittc, Montgomery county.
4th " Wm. T. Rogers* Bucks county.
6th " Thoe. Heckman. Northampton county,
6th " H iestcr Clymcr; Berks county
7to 4 * William Randall, Schulykill county.
Bth " Asa Packer, Carbon county.
9th " Michael -Mylert Sullivan counry.
* 10th " StepheivS. Winchester, Luzerne county.
11th 44 Mortimer F. Elliot, Tioga county.
12th '• John II ITumcs, Lycomiufi csunty.
13th " William Elliot,Nortcumhorland county.
14th " Samuel Hepburn, Cumberland county,
lath " William M. Brisbin, Lebanon county.
IGth " \ George Sanderson, ) Lancaster so.
J Jam os Patterson, i
17th 41 John F. Spanglcr, York county.
19th ■' Ilenry Smith, Fulton connty.
13ih 44 J. Simpson Africa Huntingdon county.
20th 44 William Biglcr, Clearficld-county.
2lst 44 Thomas B< Scawrigbt, Fayette ccuaty.
23d 44 W. T. 11. Baulcy, Green county.
24th 44 \ V oo ' i Alleghany oouuty.
pJames P Barr. ) t? j
25th 44 James Campbell, Butler county.
2f>th " David P Morri , Lawcrncc county,
27th 41 Tho?. W. Grayson, Crawford county,
23th 44 Kennedy L. Flood, Jefferson county,
We publish to-day a list of the can
didates, elect, for the chain gang of the infa
inous abolition, conscription law of the last
Congress. Judging from present indications
not tnore than one in ten, of tho 333 drawn
frotn this county, will ever don a suit of
bine shoddy ; or steal an unwilling nigger
frnra a southern plantation. The law wilj
prove, practically, c-n utter failure, a dis
graceful farce ; aud ita only result, the ex
tortion of some thousands of dollars, frotn
tho pockets cf the industrious, toiling, tax
ridden, and oppressed white men of the
North; to carry on, fur a fu-w months lon
ger, a fruitless crusade, in favor of nigger
freedom and nigger equality ; hatched in the
brainless skulls ami treasonable hearts of a
few Jacobins, like Ira Avery, and his coadu
fors, ill t his infernal work.
Ry the news from Georgia it seems
there has been a great battle near Chatanonga
in which Gen. Rosencrans has met with sc
were loss, but still holds his position at that
place, to which wc fell back.
The siege of Charleston by the Iron-clads
has been suspended. It is-now saiu thai an
attempt will be made to take the city by
storm from the land side.
Rumors of the probable recognition of the
south by l raneo are rife.
Ira Avery,
Our readers may recollect that, in our no
tice of the doings of tho abolition convention
at this place, we stated that "Ira Avery, a
life-long abolitionist, was chosen President."
This being all that was said in relation to
him, there being BO few present on tho oc
casion, and our brief notice of the part lie
took in the afhir being so unlikely to attract
any very great attention; the distinguished
functionary who had the honor (?) of pre
siding over the deliberations of that august
body, has brought the matter prominently
before the public in a communication, to the
last week's Republican entitled: "An ex
planation."
Ira Avery, notoriously, ati abolitionist all
his life, aud up to within a few yean, almost
alone, in this county, in his devotion to the
cause of nigger freedom and nigger equality,
suddenly finds himself the president and
leader, of a large party, who for the sake of
the po.ver his party wielded, by their appeals
to the passions and prejudices of men, adopt-
Ed without reservation his peculiar tenets
and doctrines. This being the case, one
would suppose, that our simple mention of
the fact, that he was "a life long abolitionist,"
would seem to Ira Avery—a man, who,
through long years has exhibited an unyield
ing fidelity to the cause of the nigger, and
who now, is reaping the fruits of that devo
tion, as the mist delicate an 1 flattering of
compliments. Certainly all we said of him
was in respectful language: whatever idea
the terms used may have conveyed to his
mind, but he says : 44 when we apply
the epithet, 4 abolitionist,' we " have linked
up" our "most potent weapons"—have
"waded through" our "slimy catalogue of
abusive epithets." Wo will admit that to
our minds, and indeed to the minds of all
patriotic and true men, the epithet suggests
a host of synonyms, such as war, devasta
tion, rape, robbery, ruin, plunder, pe'jury,
and treason ! Notwithstanding this, should
he who has declared himself one for life ;
who docs not even deny it now, take umbrage
at our language ?
We do not propose to make any reply to
Ira Avery's indecent personal abuse, slang,
and scurrility about " Squire Davi s' North
Branch Democrat " as lie calls our paper ;
nor to his assertion that 44 the Iv. G. C's con
trolled the nominations in our convention,"
nor to the intimation that we belong to any "K
G. C" society ; all we will say of this is that
they show a debt of depravity, meanness and
disregard of truth in tho writer, unworthy any
one who pr \ jesses as he does, to be a chris
tan and a gentleman. It is of Ara Avery
as a citizen of the United States ; as a sworn
officer of the government, as late Justice of
the Peace and Associate Ju lge in this coun
ty, that we shall speak.
We are g'ad that he has given to the peo
ple of the country, in his 44 explanation," as
he calls it, "of his life long abolitionism,"
something by which to measure his Loyalty
to the Constitution and the Laws. His case,
as trade out by himself, is a sample—one by
which we may judge all of his clan. In hio
attempt to establish his ' Loyalty," he has
exhibited the cloven foot of the treason that
has been lurking in his boicm for years ! and
has publiciy announced himself as prepared,
at any tiiue, when opportunity offered, to vi
olate the sacred obligations of repeated oaths!
He savs :
" 1 have S'lid often, that I would super the
penalties of the fag it ice san law, inlhcr
than disobci] the positive Bible injunction,
'• ITIGU shall not deliver unto his master, tne
servant trhich is escaped from his master
unto thee."
Since the passage of the fugitive slave Law,
j Ira Avery has held various offices, the duties j
• of which, he would not have been allowed to
perform, and the emoluments of whieh, he
: would not hav been allowed to receive, had
| he not previously taken a solemn cath before ;
j his God to "support the Constitution of the 1
! United Slates !" Were this not the case, !
1 his duty as a citizen would require him to i
t do so.
i The constitution of the United States, Ar ,
i ticle lLh Sec. 21, provides that :
" No person held to service or labor in one ;
! state, under the laws thereof, escaping into j
i another, shall in consequence of any law or
, regulation therein, be discharged from such
service or labor, but shall be delivered up on i
claim of the party to whom such service or ,
I labor map-be due."
! That this refers to fugitirc slaves no sane
man has ever doubted or denied. Webster— !
the great expounder of the C institution, in a 1
speech in Congress in favor of the '* fugitive
' slave law," tho compromise measure?, so call- i
ed in 1850, said :
" The South justly-complain lha' indieidu- j
1 a Is and legislatures of the North refuse to
i perform their constitutional duties in regard
'to returning fugitive slaws. Members of
'northern legislatures are boundbg oath to
j sti| port the constitution of the United Slates,
and the clause requiring the delivery of fugi
live slaves is as landing as any other.'''
If the authority of the immortal Webster
| will not-satisfy the tender conscience of this
man, surely be will not reject that of William
' 11. Seward and of his "noble,honest and faith
! ful Abraham Lincoln," who. in his inaugural
message declared that the clause in the Con
stitution requiring theretnrn of fugitive .slaves ,
was as plainly written as any other.
The plain unequivocal position of Ira Avery,
then,.is this : that he would resist the Con
stitution of the United States and the laws
made to carry out its provisions, rather than
disobey what he assumes to be a "higher
Law."
An 1 again, he ®nys, "Lewis Cass, a life- j
long Democrat is an abolitionist according to
Harvey Sicklcr <& Co. This is a Iwre- j
faced, unmitigated lie ! We never believed
or intimated thai Lewis Cass was an aboli
tionist, and challenge Ira Avery to urolucea
word or line froin us to prove this assertion
On the contrary, we have always held him to .
be a Democrat, as he is ; while such men as
Ira Av IT, O give their [.arty an appearance !
of respectability, have attempted to steal the
weight of his great name, to subserve the bas
est of party purposes, by deceiving Democrats
into a support of their free negro and amalga
mation theories !
Only in our last issue, ana before we saw
or could have seen, Ira Avery's "explanation"
wc published an article showing the present
position of the venerable Cass, and disprov
ing the claim of the abolitionists that he was
of them, by quoting a recent letter to the
Democracy of Washington County Tenna.
in which, among other things he said :
" The Jacobins and radicals who are the
leading {spirits of the political party in pow
er szein quite as intent on deslroytng our
cicil rights as in whipping the rebels into
subjection." * * * . * *
" JVe must hold the executive agents oj the
government to their duty, until we can by
means of the balhl box put in their stead
those who will administer the government
as it was formed by our ancestors
To show this abolition " Jacobin," " higher
law" fanatic and U. S. government Assessor,
what Lewis Cass thought of such men
as he is, as long ago as 1850, we quote his
scathing rebuke in the Senate of the U' S.
of Win. 11. Seward's higher law doctrine.
In a debate on this very clause of the consti
tution requiring the return of fugitive slaves,
he said :
" If I understood the senator from New
York, (Mr. Seward.) he intimated his belief
that it was immoral to carry into effect the
provision of the constitution, for the recapture
of fugitive slaves. That sir is a very strange
view of the duties of a senator in this body.
No man should come here who believes that
ours is an immoral constitution no man
should come here, and by solemn sanction of
an oath, promise to support an immoral con
stitution. No man is compelled to lake an
oath to support it. He tnay live in this coun
try, and believe what he chooses with regard
to the constitution ; but he has no right, as
an honest man to seek office, and obtain it,
and then talk about its being so immoral
that he can not fulfill its obligations, ft is
the duty of every man, who has sworn to
support the constitution, fairly to carry its
provisions into effect ; and no man can stand
up before his fellow-citizens and maintain
any other doctrine, whatever reasons he may
urge in his vindication ."
There are many other things that this
Explanation'' suggests, that we have not
tune or space to notice, now. We leave it 1
and its writer, for the present. We also j
leave the public to decide the question wheth- ;
er or not, IRA AVERY IS A WILLFUL LIAR; J
A TRAITOR TO THE CONSTITUTION ANT) LAWS i
OF 1! IS COUNTRY; AND RUt LTY OF MORAL:
PERJURY.
Democratic Meetings.
Pursuant to notice, the unconditional UP.- j
ion men of the county, assembled in mass at !
Little's Grove, in Tunkhannock, on Monday !
afternoon, and at the Court House in the
evening. All the speakers advertised were
in attendance—Messrs. Clymer, Carrigan,
and Piolette—and we have never, at any i
time, or upon any occasion, attended a pub- j
be meeting that was so entirely and thor j
oughly satisfactory to tlie people in atten- i
dance as were these. Ciytner's earnest and j
indignant exposure ot the causes that have !
brought the country into its present troub- j
les, his eloquent and impassioned denuncia- !
tion of politicical preachers, bis merciless j
flagellation of preacher politicians in ennee- ,
tion with the tonnage tax infamy—Carrigan
and Piolette's caustic exposition of Curttns ;
action in reference to that monstrous swin- j
die, their exhibition to ihe broad light of i
day, of lire trichs and shifts and turning*;, |
his political somersaults, and the monstrous
imposture by which he now seeks to secure J
popular favor as " the soldiers friend his ;
absolute unfitness for a position of honor j
and trust, as shown by leading organs of
his own party\ their just and honest refer
ence to the high character of Woodward for |
integrity, that no man ever dared to assail,!
and ability that finds few peers, and no su- J
pcriors in the country ; their able vindica
tion of his loyalty to the constitution and!
the union, and of his utter detestation of
those who are engaged in armed rebellion
against it on the one hand, and those
false traitors upon the others, who, while
they falsely arrogate to their own party or
ganization the tiße "Union party," inter
pose conditions in the way of its restoration,
and declare that they will never consent to
the restoration of the seceded States to the
Union until slavery shall have been abolish
ed therein— took their auditors by storm.
Cheer upon cheer, rang out in the dus
woods, and the walls of the old building nev
er before echoed to enthusiasm so vigorously
expressed. In view of the profound interest
in, and intensely earnest regard for the prin
ciples which made our country what it was
until the accidental triumph of sectional fa
naticism that that vast crowd exhibited, we
Lit that there is hope fur the Union, and
for constitutional liberty yal—that the grand
experiment in ifrce government upon which,
for eighty years, the world has looked with
admiration and deep solicitudo, is not yet a
failure—that there is still wisdom and virtue
enough in the people to bring the old ship
safely through all its perils, and to guaran
tee its success in the future by impressing
upon the public mind anew the lesson, let ev
ery Stale and every man mind its own busi
ness—we should have been glad to have giv
en our readers a more extended report of
the proceedings of these two most admirable
meetings, but time and space forbid.
Abolition Snobbiry,
MT. Wayne McVcngh, Chairman ef the
Republican State Committee, in a recent
speech before the Loyal league at Philadel
phia, employed the following language.—
Read it men of tlie rural districts:
" Our enemies aro active in the country. They
" shrink from the capitals of intelligence and worth.
" TVy harrangnonmvngTV ig'orant an 1 benighted,
' with a shrewdness that befit their cause. Lot then
" the large cities do their duty and we will overcome
" whatever advantages our enemies may thus gain."
" Our enemies are active in the country,"
are they 1 " they shrink from the capitals of
intelligence and wirlh ," do they ? Oh,
what '* capitals cf intelligence and worth,"
the cities of .\uierica have become. Men of
the country, bow your heads into the dust in
shame for your lack of intelligence and worth"
'* Ignorant and benighted," without " intelli
gence or worth," what a poor, miserable,
worthless set of fellows you are to be sure
in the estimation of good Mr. Wayne Mc-
Veagh Chairman of the Republican State
Committee, and member of the Loyal I/eague
of that loyal and patriotic " capital of Intelli
gence and worth," pious Philadelphia—whose
loyal fighting Quaker population have cover
ed its name with a glory that shines resplend
ently through the veil of shoddy, in which
they have enveloped it. llow the brave shad
bellied loyal leaguers trembled in their patri
otic boots when they called upon the " cop
pet head Governors" to send on the ''ignorant,
benighted, and worthless" people of their re
spective Slates to drive away the foe, and
save iheir precious noses from irreverent con
tact with rebel fingers. Since when have
the " large cities" become the ''Capitals of in
telligence and worth ?" Since when the
staunch yeomanry of the conntry, " ignorant
and benighted," void of "intelligence and
worth ?" and who is entitled to the credit of
this grand discovery ? Why, little Wayne
Mc Veagh, Chairman of the Republican State
Committee, and number of the loyal leauc
of Philadelphia. Poor little Wayne McVeach,
you may yet learn that there is " intelligence
and worth" outside of your " large cities"—
that the "ignorant worthless, and benighted"
have sometimes been honored with the dis
tinguished appoiniinent of chairman of the
Republican State Committee—that all the
'•intelligence and worth" of the land is not
yet immured within city walls, beams not yet
from beneath broad brimmed hats, struts not
yet in shad-bellied coats, and fattens not yet
on government pap and shoddy contracts.
I.ist of Drafted Men for Wyoming County,
Drafted Sept. 22, 1803.
BRAISTRIM, 14.
X. Wells Grant, Henry Piatt,
Justus 11. Lewis, James M. Robinson,
Miller 11. GofF, Daniel Scheinerhorn,
Samuel Myers, Geo. B Camp,
Henry I). Williams, Elizer I). Sloat,
Henry I). Wilson, .Jarvis Benjamin,
Wesley Carlan, J. Ross 11.dm.
CLINTON, 19.
James Smith, Elias Reynolds,
Otis N. Stark, Eheiiezer Reynolds,
Meritt Carey, Uriah V. Mace,
George L. Biddlcinan, Andrew Gilmorc,
Harrison Bedell, Benj. P. Woodruff,
Philetus S. Bailor, Charles W. Carr,
Warren A. Warner, Amos Erne,
John S. Capwell, Asa Freeman,
Christopher C. MaCo. Nelson GiLnure,
Chas. Gardner.
EATON, 23.
Lewis Rinker, I imothy \ antyle.
John M. Robinson, Edward R sengrant,
James W. Rinker. Isaac H. Tiffany,
Geo. Rogers, K'eazer Dana.
John D. Rogers, James Croup,
Gahalie Labarr, John F. Miner,
Chas. Rosengrant, Wm. Anmiek,
James Butler, Wm. Spencer,
Henry 1). Ivyte, Elijah Ney,
John Wilson, Willard Harding,
Jes>e W. Stephens, L*wis Rogers,
Porter Jay ne.
EXETER, 8.
Lewis Whit lock, John Workeiser,
David I.esher, Joseph R. Ivyte,
Win. C'*>! ha ugh, jr. Henry Wall,
James V. Ileadley, Geo. W. Headier.
falls, 25.
John Ayers, Thohald Baker,
A ngelico Hunt, Jacob Strubul,
Martin Frutchy, Whitney Leonard,
Sclah Odell, " Edwin Hunt,
Martin Sickler, Ziba Kos-,
Cha's Smith, Elnathan Johnson,
John Patrick, Orlando Reynolds,
Asher Fitch, Cha's Townsend,
Sam'l Tinklepaugh, Peter Cupp,
Henry Lee, Reuben Kirkuff,
Arnoid Lesher, Leonar*! Clark,
Ctiarick Dewilt, Ezra Devons,
Wm. Durland.
FORKSTON, 1.3.
Joseph S. Yaow, Isaac Krewson,
Theo. Treumhauer, Wallace Fnasett,
Oriti O. Burgess, Judson Atherton,
George Robinson, Oliver B. Vose,
Chapman H. Hitchcock, Henry June,
John DeKalb, Leonard Nurse,
George 11. Adams.
LEMON, 9.
Ziba N Smith, Wm. H. Mipes,
Channcey L. Knapp, Charles M. Ball,
lienj. K. Earl, W T in. Reynolds
Gilbert G. Ely, Chas. M. Lewis,
Edward M. lime. *•
MEIIOOPANY, 26.
Wm. Potter, Ilenry Becker,
Joseph .Tayne, Iliram F. Smith,
Wm. J. Rogers, I). W\ Swetland,
Geo. Smith, Thos. 11. Gay,
Samuel C. Jayne Smith I) Jay no,
Reuben Yale," Marvin R. Robinson,
Bradford Wanaall, Kber O. Knapper,
Geo, C. Woodruff' Ruins W. Jayne,
* Geo. Myers, Wesley I). Barnes,
, Win. Piace, Scuyler Russell,
I Adam B. Denison, Barney M. Walter.
A. F. Furman, Jr. Benona C Ralph,
Charles 11. Titus. Elijah S. Mhynardl
MESHOPPEN, 30
! John P. Baker, L. Benson Smith,
Isaac O. Bunnell, Wm, R. Capwell,
Michael Clinton, Mnthow Winane,
; Benj. B. Ellis, Benj, G. Hull,
i Alfred Sterling, Barnard Kernan.
1 Albert Jennings, llilbardN. Loomis
John Crowen, Gabriel Westfall,
I Jatnes W. McMichen, Daniel Cole,
i Julius BullarH, Richard Yauosdall,
Addison A. Sterling, Win. Burr,
Jacob Flumerfelt Thos. A. Dawson,
I John Qutnn, Gilbert D. Baker,
1 Bevurly W. Keeney, Meritt Lillie,
i Martin 11. Conger,' Michael Hempsey,.
, Norman P. Dunlap, Otis 11. Loomis,
I
MONROE, 16.
! Asaa Tla'lsall, James Jones,
lavi G McLeod, Joseph E-Miner,
; Miller Patterson, Jatnes M>yer,
' Hamilton Kocher, Jasper Ilubbell,
: Andrew Eastwood, Wm. B. Harman,
Myron Calkins, Christopher Harvey,
: Whitmore Blossom, Geo. Wate:s,
> Amos D. Clatk, Andrew Belles.
NICHOLSON, 33
Fernando Decker, Theron R. Stark,
Jerome Jayne, Daniel Ilnllstead,
Milon Oafeiy, Henry Bought,
Jacob Ackeraon, Michael Ilyan,
Cha'a Bogne, Hiram Carey,
Jimes If. Brown, Oscar M. Stephens,
Michael Mack, Oliver Squires,
M. K. Thurber, Sylrenus K, Squires,
Oran Ilinkly, Henry Stephens,
Patrick Kiilela, Jacob A. Thomas,
Eliab. J. Brundage, Porter Squires
Leroy Steel, lliram 0. DriggSj
John Mack, Win. llmkley,
Daniel Wilber, George Taylor,
Ilirain J. Squires. Edwin Nichols.
Abram Phillips, John Thomas,
Martin D. Smith
NORTH BRANCH, 9.
JOHI Carle, James Douglass,
Joseph Allen, L. D Gro-,
Henry Miller, Otis W* A Hen,
Lafayette E. Dewolf, Patrick Stafford,
Chas. Catlin.
NORTIIMOR ELAND, 21.
Henry Metzger, Henry Rogers,
James Shot well, Francis M ire,
Morris Ace, Shubell Durland,
Charles Furgerson, Timothy Hoglry,
Eiisha Ellsworth, Wro. H. Miller,
Walter Manning, Edward Strong,
Theodore Shaw, John Besteader,
John 11. Jackson, Henry C. Webb,
Caleb Shot well, Owen W, Chauncey,
Oluistead Dickenson, Newman Brungess,
James Ilnlcomb.
OVER FIELD, 8
John Carey, Henry S. Ager,
T. W. Smith, Chas. H. Mahon,
Willet 1). Reynolds, Martin Sickler,
Gilbert Pliilo, Hudson M. Gregory,
TUNKHANNOCK BOROUGH. 16
Kennard J. Ross, Jacob DeWitt,
Wm. Schrage, Henry Young,
Robert Stonier, Oscar M. Goodwin,
Earl Sickler, Charles E. Guodale,
Ephraim Carpenter, Geo. K. Thompson,
James W. Harding, Edwin it >ss,
Alonzo A. Baker, Charles Day,
John Weil, Win. Barnes
TUNKH VNNOCk TOWNSHIP, 26.
John Barry, Wm. .Jones,
Geo Walters, Henry Michael,
Napoleon B. Graham, Christian Kunsman,
Jacob Shupp, Jacob Wilsey,
Chas. H Mahon, Thomas Kerns,
Jacob Stemples, James Mipe.
John It. Cullingwcrth, Abram Conklin,
Paul Biilincs, Aaron L. Avery,
Sylvester Reeves, Jabez Carey.
Lewis Trauger, Phil pp Ivoonsman,
John Shippev, Oscar Caskey,
Edgar Smith, John E. Wagner,
Eugene Palmer, Porter Marry.
WASHINGTON, 17.
Michael Florey, Saml. Florey,
Daniel W. Stephens, Jeremiah Yonker,
John Kintner, Geo. S. Swan,
Jocob Seigfiied, Trmmn B. Yosbnrg,
Bnrr B. Yosburg, Geo. Collins,
Wm. E. Bramhall, Franklin M. Cran*-,
Alfred Valentine, Joseph liarrey,
Chas. Russell, Aaron Walter,
Bciij. Bart run, Jr.
WINDHAM. 20.
Simon B. Keener, Jlenj. Stephens Jr.
I'vter F. Hope, Oreu If. Sharp,
Chas. W. Fi.k, C. A. Preston,
Daniel Trowbridge, Shubcl W. Garey,
Bradley W. Allen, EI hu F. Keeney,
.John S* Graves, Dewitt M. Fair.
Geo. Taylor, Chas Puterbaugh,
Edwin Ross, Jasper Fassett,
Abel Puterbaugh, John Kdlduff.
J Win Z Taylor, Emer Hatfield*
I
IDDItF.SS FROM Till-i DEMOCRATIC
STATi: CENTR AL ( OMMIITKR.
To the citizens <f Pe'insylrania :
Wo vrouM respectfully and earnestly ad
dress a few words to those of yon who have
returned to your homes from the military
service of our country. On political sub
jects, we address you all as citizens ; it is as
citizens you will attend the polls. Your
State, by h°r laws, solemnly enjoins upon
yen not toapprocah the polls as soldiers.
On some of the questions of the day, you
have had special means of observation. You
have been at the South. You have seen its
negro population. Many of you have come
back convinced bow vain and impracticable
arc the schemes for its instant emancipation
and advancement, in prosecuting which the
Abolition party disturbed the harmony of
the Union, and at last involved the white
race of our couutry in tho work of mutual
destruction by civil war.
| Yon have learned, too, from your prison
ers, and from the people you have been among
that it is this same scheme for elevating the
negro which now protracts the war. Alter
your first victories, the mass of the South
ern people could have been brought hack in
to the Union, under the Constitution ; the
| secession leaders would hare been left with
out an army ; but the Abolition partv dic
tated a policy that set aside the Constitu
tion, and presented in its place emancipation,
negro equality and general confiscation.—
American white men do not submit easily
to terms like these, and the}' have afforded
to the secession leaders the very means they
needed to stimulate their followers to despe
rate and protracted resistance. Thus the
war has beeti kept up with all its terrible
expenditure of life aid blood and teasure.
The Abolitionists have been the best recruit
ing officers for f>e an I Divis, for without
the help of the Abolition proclamation they
never cmld have drawn from the small
white population of the States they occupy ;
the vast armies w.iich, in nearly every bat
tie, have exceeded in numbers, but not in
valor, the soldiers of the Union. Practical
ly, the Abolition party at the North has
proved the most useful ally to the secession
leaders, Abolition policy has silenced
and kept under the Union men of the South,
of whom Mr. Lincoln said, in his first mes
sage, " It may be well questioned whether
there is to day a majority of the legally
qualified voters of any state, except perhaps
South Carolina, in favor of disunion j there
is mneh reason to believe that the Union
men are tie majority in many, if not in eTo
ry other one of the so-called seceded States."
ITere was the weakness of the rebellion, till
Abolition came to its aid and united the
Southern people.
Tho Democracy have advocated a consti
tutional policy, maintaining at the North aud
always offering to the South, the original
Constitution agreed to by our forefathers.
Thus we saw a means of giving the Uaioir
men of the South the upper hand of the
cessioniats. This is prevented by the polioy
of tho Abolitionists at the North . and when
they lose political power here, then their
twin brothers, the secessionists of the South,
will fall from power there. Both look to
military despotism as the means to keep*
their hokl on power. As soldiers, you have
had full experience of military rule Voo
know iis uses, ils hardships aud ita evili.—-
Necessary in armies, it is net, as yon• we!P
know, a form of Government fit for a free
people. The si riot submission, the unqtxev
tioniug obedience to every superior
by military diseiplmc —these you agreed to*
give in military duties during the tertn otf
your enlistment. But do you want to ffvw
under the same rule at home ? Do you ae ;
with satisfaction 4i provost marshals" lord*
ing it over the 0 institution andthe tew#; in*
all our peaceful towns and villages? Are'
they better and wiser than our judges aniF
magistrates? You know some of them well.-
S.nne are gallant officers, but many are igno*
rant partisan politicians, nee ling as much as
any men to be held in check by the law frour
perpetrating wrongs and falling into errors.
By the Conscription act all men from the
age of twenty to forty-five are made liable to
military duty, and from all who may be
claimed .as within tine claw, as well as from
all soldiers, the protection of civil justice ia
now taken away by proclamation ; and no
citizen is to be allowed to vindicate his fight
to liberty if deprived of it by any military
authority. Wailst you were fighting for
the C institution, you aivl all of a*, it seems,
have lost the constitutional rights and safe
guards of liberty which are our birthright as
American freemen.
Stump orators, some of them political gen
erals, forbid you to reflect on tnese things*—
They tell you n\v to think only of war.—
Th ere is a time and place for all things. In
the ti Id you have thought and acted as sol
diers. Your noble deeds provo how well'
vhii d d your mihrary Jul}'. You will do io
again when you return to the field. But if
v n a r e to be here on election day, now i*
the time lhr you to think, as free-born citi
zens, of the politmai condition of yout coun
try. We ak you to vote with us to main
tain. f<>r you-iselves and your children, the
free constitutional <1 wernmcnt that your fa
thers left to you. Tuink of these things now
before it is too late. The next proclamation
mav as-ai! ihe ballat-box. Eel us use iff
wisely while it is yet left to us.
But you are urged—perhaps yorfc w.il'
ordered—not to vote for the candidates of
the Democracy. Why not? We cannot
reply with (act or argument to the vile slang
made up of vu'gat" abuse :?nd political nick—
n line-, such as "Copperheads, ' " traitors,'
'• sece.ssioni.-ts," an I the ike. You learned
to despise these long ng->. when they were
poutvil out ip<n the gali'int sons ofPcnn
sy!vaia—upon McCleUaaj. McCall, Putter
<i>!i and nnnr other-, wiim have been your
leHilcr-s ni l \ our comrades in the field'.- A
life i-|eiil in honorable service of our coun
try is no protection from partisan abuse, but
rathi-r seems t< provoke it- \oii will judge
men by their lives and characters in- ll*
pa 4', if you wish to Ik? sure of them 1 in thu*
future. When <ll-1 one can ihl.itc for (ioverw
or, Ceo. \V. H'o ■ Iwurd, forget his du'y in
order to serve hi n-df or lus pirtj*, in any
irtis' that Pennsylvania givo into his keep
ing ? " fie deprived the sol liers of a vote,"
snp sump "f the 11-pnbbean politicians. We
are g'a l to meet a charge that has any mean
ing in it. We will give afe v words to this.
When you come to the p >lls in your prop
er election districts, you will find that no
one has deprived you of your vote. There
was a question whether the Constitution of.
Pennsylvania provided any means for a citi
zen to vote when he was absent from his
h>rr.e on the day of an election. Four cases
of camp voting came, about the same tuu." r
before the courts, or rather three cues.—
F>>r in the case known as Shimnielpeunich's
case it was proved and admitted that no
voles had been really given by any one; the
pretended return- were shown to bo forgeries
made up in Philadelphia, and as such the
Court rejected them.
The case of most importance was the case
of K wing against Thompson, well remembered
in PL iladelphia. The election was for Sheriff
of that county, a very lucrative office, of
great political importance. Mr. Robert Ew
ing, the Democratic candidate, had a majori
ty, if votes given for him in the camps in Yir
einia could bo counted. To politicians the
other cases were important only because tho
deciston in them would decide whether a
Democrat or a Republican should he the
! Sheriff of Philadelphia. The Republicana
( opposed the soldier's vote because it was for
I Ewing, the Democratic candidate. Mfr
-1 Mann, the Republican District Attorney,
made up a case by indicting a German natneA
Kunsman for voting fraudulently ir. a camp,
in Virginia. In this case Judge Allison, of
the Court of Common Pleas, a Republican,
first decided that, under the Constitution
of Pennsylvania, votes could not be given
by soldiers who wero absent from the
l State. A later decision in the Supreme
i Court was in the case of Chase against Mil
ler. That Court also decided that under tho
I Constitution of Pennsylvania the voter muit
vote in his precln'.t. The language of the
| Constitution is clear. Judges have no pow-
I er to alter it, though the people may do ao;
! and a propositi. n to alter the Constitution,
i in this point will come next year before the
1 people. At present it reads thus :
I "SEC. 3. On elections by the citizens, every white
freeman of the ago of twenty-one years having resid
-1 ©<l in tho Stateono year, and in the election district
1 vhere he offers to vote ten days itnme diately preced
ing :>ueh election, and within two years paid a Stete
or county tax. w hith shall have been assessed ft
least ton days before shall enjoy -ho right*
| of an elector," Ac.
Now, tho baseness of ihe attempt of tho
Republicans to excite prejudice auuns sold-