Mil! Si lium.
BEDFORD, Fa.
t'rida; Morning, Aug. 1. ISWU
"Fearless and Free."
NAVIU OVER, EDITOR AM' PTTOPRN."!OB
FOR PRESIDENT:
HILLIPJ FILLMORE.
I OF NEW YORK
FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
ANDREW JAC KSON DONEES ON
OF TENNESSEE.
UNION STATE TICKET.
Canal Commissioner:
THOMAS E. COCHRAN,
Of York County.
Auditor General .-
DARWIN* PHELPS,
Of Armstrong County.
Surveyor General
BARTHOLOMEW LAPOUTE,
Of Bradford County.
To the American* ol' Pcnn-'a.
At a meeting of the State Council of the State
<f Pennsylvania, held in IlarriabifTc, on tbe 13th
ot Mav iast, it was resolved that the President
s,r.j Secretary be authorized to call a Conven
tion <>t' the American party of The State to 3.1-
•emufe at Hurri.-dmrg. on the first TCESOAT in
August next ensuing, for tbe purpose ->f plac
ing- in nomination an Electoral l'ickct, and
transact such other business as may be necessa
ry for the prosecution of the Presidential eam
daign: ami in accordance with said resolution,
the friendsoi* FILLMORE AND DONELSON"
ane hereby requested to meet in their respective
DISTRICTS, on or before tho2i>th day of July, and
elect Delegates t-o the said Convention, corres
ponding to the number of members they are en
titled to in the Senate an i House ot Represen
tatives of the Legislature of the State. T'.ie
siid Convention at Harrisburg to meet <>n
TUESDAV. the fifth day of August, at 10
o'clock. A- M.
J NO. K- EDIE. President.
Twos. 1.. GiFroßJi, Sccrttaru.
The Rev. S. S. Schmueker, D P. will
preach 111 the Lwthernn church on next Sab
hath morning at 10 o'clock, and the Rev.
F. W. Ccnrad in the evening at early can
dle light.
ThfrUamp-meeting for Bedford circui' win
runißic-r.ce Aug. 15th, :n Brush ( reek \
lev, on the land belonging to Mr. Perry
Bar'qa, oco mile and a. half fr.>u Rhorn a
Mill, Rev. .1. A Collin* and other ministers
are expected to he m attendance.
G W. Bouse. .!>. C.
§IOOO REWARD!
BUCHANAN" & LOW WAGES'
We will bmd ourselves, our heirs, execu
tors or assign®, in the sum ct SSOO, thai
Buchanan, when in tbe Uuited Sates Sm
ite, made use cf the following language,
we will also bind ourselves as aforesaid, in
tbesum of SSOO, that we can prove by 1.0-v-ofoco
v-ofoco authority that Buchanan did make
use of the following language. 11. re's the
extract:
•♦What is tbe reason - Ibar. with at! these ad
vantages and with the protective duties w hirb
enr lass afford to the dom. stic manufacture of
retton, we cannot ctTa;o exclusive possession of
the home market, and successfully contend for
the market* of the world! It is sanpiy because
we manufacture arthe nominal prices of our
own inflated currency, and are compelled to sell
a* the real price* of ruber nations. REDUCE
OUR NOMINAL TO THE REAL STAND
ARD OF FKICFS THROUGHOUT THE
WORLD, aod youaover our country with'ties
e.ags ur.d benefits.
Now here i*a chance for gentlemen Lo
cofocos to make a little money ! The ex
tract clearly shows that Buchanan is in fa
vor of I.ow fv agis' (Ame up to the mark,
gentlemen, fodder rr Be fodder, and ac
knowledge that ten cent Jimmy is not enti
tled to the votes of the laboring man
Come., now, we know yon l.ke money, and
accept this little bribe'
A careful examination of the average
prices of labor througiaJ the world", shows
that it only amounts to TEN CENTS A
DAY ! Laboring man, will you vole for
Buchanan, who is willing to give you only
ten cents a day for your hard labor 3
We call the attention of cur readers to.
the advertisement of P H. Shires, Esq., in
another column Mr. Shires is able to ao
oommolatJ farmers with tbe very beet, and
latest improvod Thrr-bing Maobiaea now in
use. He is amexuelleot mechanic, and all
tie agricultural implements will heat in
epestion.
I OUT 1 CAL 'MEET IN G.
We aw requested Jo say that the Amer
icans of St. (lair and lie adjoining tovrn
fbips, will hold a politirtl meeting at wawis
Rislifig'e School House in St. Ciair tc.wu
ihip on 'lkmsday she ]2lfr dV of August,
insf., at 3 o'clock ia the afternoon. All
of all parties are cordially invited to at- '
tend. The meeting will be cidreaped by j
Francis Jordan. Esq., and perhaps by Oth- |
ers I*t all torn nut who desire to hear> i
fair and full dweussiou of the various polit- f
ual questions now before the people
Several comunicationsoa the pole rarsiog
at St Clairsville have been received. If we
have tbe room to spare we will insert them
In our next.
Frank. Pierce, has removed Wilson Shan, j
non as Governor of Kansas, and appointed 1
Col. John W. Geary of Pennsylvania, in
tie place
Another Loeofoeo Outrage!
Our citizens were greatiy surprised and
pained by learning a few days ago, of the
removal of MR. Wili.IAH McMt'LLiN, ano
the appointment of John C. Bowie®, for
merly of this place, but lately of 1 biladel
phia," to the Telegraph Office here. The
circumstances are these : For a number of
vearapast, Capt. ETTTOOD HARMER, late*
I ly deceased, one of the best citizens wc had
amongst us, had charge of the office. For
the last two or three years Mr. Banner's
heaith began to fail, and he took Mr. Mc-
Mallin, one of our worthiest citizens, in
with him, and taught him the telegraphing
business. He would work at his trade all
dav, aud at night assist the Uaptaio, and
thus learned, by Lis unwearied industry, to
be one of tne Lest telegraphers in the State,
for whieb the whole community gave him
eredit. During the last Lard winter Mr.
McMuilin frequently wilked over the Al
legheny mountain, in cold and snow, and
kept the line -in order. Mr- Ilarmer, in
consideration of Mr. McMifllm s fait bit ul
ness and attention to the interests of the
Company, desired before his decease, that
be should bo kept in the situation. It was
so understood that it would he done by all
our citizens, except a lew of the most des
picable and contemptible leaders of the IrO
cofoco party. He has fulfilled the duties
to the* satisfaction of our citizens, and the
Company, up to the present time. No
charge has ever been brought against him
but that lie was an American, which appears
to he a crime la the eyes of these gentry. —
Ever since Mr. Harmer's death, these 1.0-ecfoco
ecfoco leaders have been writing letters to
tl.e officers ol the Company requesting his
removal, and urging the appointment ot
young Mr. Bowles of Philadelphia. They
had the ineffable meanness to urge as a rea
son lor his removal that HE 11 AS A ME
CHANIC AND A MECHANIC HAD
NO BUSINESS IN THE TELEGRAPH
OFFICE! 1! Such are the leaders of the
party who talk about proscription and t/uir
love for the lal-oiing man! The best
reason we know of for the removal is, that
the Loeofecos arc- making the most despe
rate exertions {using money an d promise of
office to bribe persons to support their tick
et) to carry Bedford County this fall.—
They wish to have Mr. MeMullin. an Amer
ican. out of the way, and to get here in Lis
place, a Loeofoeo from Pliihdelphia. It
will help them one vote, tut they will be
badlv beaten nevertheless. Mr. Bowles
had a good situation in Philadelphia, the
the pav of that office bfing six hundred
dollars a year, while the Bedford Office is
worth only five hundred, ar.d be had only
half the day to attend to the duties ot the
office. Then why should the Locofoco
leaders band together to get hiui here, aud
take the uffiee from Mr. McMuilin, a poor,
bard working, industrious mechanic* Mr.
Bowles is a single man, no one to support
but himself, and had an excellent situa
tion, whieb, through the influence <*f Loco*
focoism, be has left, and taken the otnee
from Mr. McMuilin, who is a married niau,
and has*family to suppoif. Their conduct
in this affair is hooeathcontempt.
Another feature in this matter is equal
ly reprehensible, and shows the love of L>-
cofoeoism for not only the mechanic but al
so the widow and oiphan ! Capt. Harmor,
a short time before Lis death, purchased a
little property io town, which :s not yet
paid for. Mr. McMuilin kept, and iutrnd
od to keep, the office in Mrs. Harmer's
building, for which she received fitty dol
lars per annum. She was also left* horse
and buggv, which Mr. MoMuliin hired, and
the rent, and horse-and buggy hire, would
have netted her about $150.00 per annum,
and with which the widow, who i now in
delicate health, expected to pay for her lit
tle konu I Thus has Locofocoism taken
the very bread ont of the mouths of the
WIDOW and FATHERLESS!
This whole community id greatly shocked
iat this grose outrage, aD<i injustice to the
j M<chanic, the Widow , and the Orphan.'—
( laboring roan, remember these things,
j treat these baee leaden as becomes free
i men? Have nothing to do with a party
J who is led on by the oppressera of the
; Widow, the Orphan., and the honest iidus
• trious Mechanic
POLE RAISING.
Our political adversaries hid what is ral
| led a polt raising at St Clairsville, on Sat
urday last, and rnr information is that the
attendance was about two hundred men,
| boys, kc., and that about oue-half were
Americans. It is customary, and we be
j lieve all right to bold political meetings
. about this tiai of the year, to discuss the
. principles and claims of the various candi
dates for of&oe. We must confess, bowev
• er. that we never could see tbe necessity or
i propriety of raising a large pole on any
i such occasions. To us it looks both use
less and dangerous. Only a few years ago
: a most respectable citiaen of Fulton county
| was killed at McCor.nellsburg whilst assist
ing to raise one of these democratic poles,
and only a few days since another gentle
man was killed at Lebanon, Indiana, while
assisting to pot up a .Buchanan pole.—
There is not, so far as we hare ever been
able to diseove-, any principle in tbe thing,
or to speak plainly, any sense in it. In onr
judgment, men might as well get together
to dig a hole tu the gjoucd, or to erect a
stone heap.
We do net wish to di;ttg to oar friend*
BEDFORD INQUIRER AND CHRONICLE.
in this matter, for they may differ from us
in the premises; but we will say we have
no desire to see them follow this siily el
ample of their opponents.
We have received a couple of communi
cations on the subject, ornl also Lave heard
; from persons from this place who were
there, that the proceedings came off very
; disgracefully. One half the members of
that party, before the meeting was over,
| were in a beastly state of intoxication.—
Quite a mimber of knockdowns occurred,
all among themselves. Fighting, swearing,
and all kinds of profanity were the order of
the day. A few more such meetings, aud
j the Party in Bedford county will lose
scores of its best men, as they lost quite a
; number by the rowdy gathering at St.
Ciairsville.
THAT "THROUGH TRAIN."
'•The Buchanan train is in tnoiiou, and
: onr Know Nothing friends had better keep
| off the track if they don't want to he crush
; ed. They need not try to get on board. +-
It> a 'through train,' and won't atop to
I take up passengers."
I Wc copy the above from a recent arti
| cie in the Gazette From this, aud numer
ous other urticle® we have noticed, it is
manifest the brag game is to be the game
|of the campaign. Ever since Buchanan's
nomination, his friends have been boasting
, of his great strength, and unexampled pop
ularity. They will hardly permit even - an
opponent to express a doubt on the
subject, and boast that he will without ef
fort, carry almost, if not quite, every State
in the Union. The above quotation was
written in this boasting spirit, not only re
iving upon their own strength, but insulting
the Americans by bragging that the Bu
chanan train is a "■through tram ''' and
won't condescend to stop to take up pas
sengers. In the same spirit, also, they re
fused to invite the Americans to their
meeting at Buekstown. This is of course
all bluster ar.d hraggadoeia, and well they
know it. They knoff as well as we do, that
any enthusiasm got up for such an old Fed
eralist as Buchanan is not natural, but
forced, aod especially in this State. That
he Las always been opposed to the great
Pennsylvania doctrine of protection, and
that hehas ever denied his native State,and
his residence in it, for the contemptible pur
pose of shirking the payment of his just
and legal taxes. His friends know full
well that in Ohio lie will he beaten by not
less than fifty thousand majority, that in
New k ork he wiil he beaten stilt worse, and
that he ha® hardly a shadow of chance to
carry a single Western or Northern State,
and that if they carry Pennsylvania it will
be by the most desperate exertions, aud be
cause the opposition are divided. Know
ing ail this, they occasionally let them
selves down off their high horei, and look
at things a little a? they are. Hence it is,
that on a little reflection, they concluded
to ex&crid the invitation to all their meet
ings to the Americans liefer- it is. also,
that that "through traia" is r.ow very wil
'ing to stop, whether at the regulai sta
tions or not. rnd take on boa:J the most
humble number of the American parfv, and
not only taxc Mm free, but offer large pre
miums for such' passengers. Wc had ho
ped that when the Americans were told so
cavalierly that "they r.eed not try to get
on heard," and that the train was &
"through train," and would not stop for
them, they would have had pride enough
and spunk enough to "let it slide, "and wo
doubt not nearly all of them have and will.
But it seems that there is here and there
one, whe has no pride it these matter®, and
who having more regard lor the hope of re
ward thao any fear ol humiliation or pun
ishment has got the great through train to
stop for hhn, and not only this, but the
conductors on the great Buchanan train
have not only stopped the train, and spent
much time and entreaty in getting them on,
but are boa-Wing and rejoicing over their
wonderful accessions in this way, upon the
principle we presume that there is more re
joicing in Pandemomium over one saint fal-,
len thin over ninety and nine spirits who
never were anything else hut fallen. We
are glal therefore, that oar Locofoco
friends have at last got down off their stilts,
atod thai thoir political eyes are so far open
ed that they find it neeessary to stop the
great "through train," not only at every
station, bat at every highway and byway,
and entreat, and offer rewards for passen-.
gor®, rather than the great Buchanan train
should run empty. We consider this both
wise aod foolish. Witt, because it shows
correct views of the necessity for great ex
ertion to secure passengers, and foolish, be
cause any "through train" whicn is compel
led to stop BO often and at such irregular
places, cannot fail to be Jar behind at the
end of the race.
Burlin gains excepted the challenge of
Bully Brook* of South Carolina. The
Clifton House on the Canada side of the
Falls of Niagara, was named as the place of
meeting, and Brooks abowed his chivalry by
backing out.
The Orangeburg Southron, Newberry
.Mirror, the Sumpterviile 7 \mcs, Newberry
Flag, and Pee Bee Tents, all of Bemocratio
South Carolina, refuse to support Mi. Bu
chanan.
T'oe Cincinnati Volksfrtund , (Catholic) is
now th? only German Baily ia Ohio, which
supports Buchanan
HENRY NICODEMUS.
This person has lately left the American
party and gone over to the Locofoeos. We
only now notice him to put our friends on
! their guard against htm. This desert,oa
I will not injure our party any more than the
' vote of Henry Nicodemus is concerned
I We know of several persons he has beeu at
' tempting to tamper with, but lias been met
I with signal rebuke. He has no influence
and his being connected with the American
party in this Boroogh has done it more iu
-1 jury than good. It is well known that
without the ability to fill them, he has bean,
and is yet, one of the most inveterate office
seekers so the p'ace. For a jieriod of
about fifteen years he was a pest to his (the
Locofoco) party, after the nomination of
different County offices. After something
occurring which the citizens of South \Vood
berry Township will remember against him
forever, he removed to this Borough. Here
he still continued office-seeking as a profes
sion, but was not able to receive the Sher
iff's nomination. Ho was, however, through
dissensions iu the Whig rauks elceted Jus
tice of the Peace iu Bedford, Three years
ago, by souio unaccouutahle means, he se
cured the nouiinatiou of Treasurer. The
election day arrived, the Locofoco ticket
was successful, except 'Squire Nicodemus,
who was badly beaten. He run some forty
votes behind his own ticket, in Wood berry
Township, when he was born and raised,and
where he was known, his opponent also not j
being at all acquainted or known thirre'—
lie also run from thirty to forty votes be- i
hind his ticket in Bedford Borough, where |
he wis known and had lived for ten or \
twelve yeurs'. Such is the man the Gazette
of this week will attempt to make a great ;
convert of to the Locofoco party.
The American party is a new paity, com
posed of members ot Loth old parties. It
wax natural that some corrupt aud old
brokcn-Jown political hacks, like Nicode
mus, should join in, and who conld not well :
be kept out. These fellows so far as Bed
ford County is concerned, are now nearly, ;
or altogether gone—if there are any yet— j
thev had better leave now, for the sooner
'
we arc rid of them the better—as the party
will become purer and stronger. It was
the principal argument of our oppouents
against as, that we had old political broken ;
down hacks in it, such as Nieodeiuus. The
riddeuce of theui will add to our strength.
We would say to our friends throughout
the Comity; stand firm. We will here and
there loose a deserter like Nicoderuus, but
that will not injure us for we are now sever
al hundred stronger than we were last fall.
The Americans, last Spring a year re-elect
ed him Justice of the Peace, and tie was
last winter a candidate for Clerk of the j
Poor House, and felt quite disappointed,
because a better man and truer American
was selected. Since that time, and before,
' he gave it out to some of our party that he
| was entitled and to have the couiina
i tion tor Pro'hunotary next fall. He was
given to understand that there were likely
to be several gentlemen who were qualified
iu the way, and he began to think that he
had about made ail he could out of the i
American party! It is well known that !
the Locofoco? have raised one hundred thou- j
sand dollars for tbe purpose of carrying
Pennsylvania, it is well understood that j
several hundred dollars fonnd its way to :
Bedford, how it has b-en applied 'Squire '
Nicodco.ua can tell! It will all fail, how.
ever, and the people will decide the qnes- !
tion aright despite ibeclmost ipm efforts at '
buying and selling, a few men, like South
ern Slaves, in this place!
We have written a much more lengthy I
article than tbe subject demanded, and will j
wait to hear what Henry, who was rottea
egged for attempting to establish Know- j
Nothing Councils in Cumberland Valley, '
will have to say for himself, merely re- !
marking that he* tbe said Henry, and John
G. Hartley hadbetter decline tbe offices they
swindled not of a confiding party, and to
which against the wishes of a large majori
ty of the people of the Borough, and Coun
ty, they continue to cling with the tenacity
of a leech, and the hungry stomach of an
old office-seeker, who is willing to desert
Lis friends and fall into tho arms of his ene
mies, and in turn desert them again, as of
ten as anything is to be tuaie by it. So
we go, and tba Locofocos can make all tbe
capital ibey can onl of them, so long as
they can keep them!
FR. JORDAN, Eiq.
The Bedford Gazfttt, has been almost
in the -weekly habit, for several years
of slstsdering and abusing this gentleman,
as we chink, rod the large majority of our
citizens think, without the slightest cause
whatever. We csn imagine no other reason
than that Mr. Jordan belongs to a different
political party, and interferes, on account
of bis tulenfa, and high position in the esti
mation of his fellow-citiucD*, with the po
litical habeas of the Locofooo leaders, and
particularly of the editor of the Gazette,
who, io days gone by was in the habit of
blackguarding and slandering the best citi
zens of oui country, and even innocent and
defenceless woman. He has uot changed
his conduct yet, and though he may prom
ise at the paver meetings to make amende,
and though he may take the Sacrament, he
returns to his labors, the same vile slander
er, the satie maliguer and tradocer of our
best eitiwnj. We have heretofore, at the
request of Mr. Jordan, refrained from no
ticing these periodical ebullitions, ami we
: only cow notice them to bow person*
abroad who may be misled by Bowman's
vituperations, Mr. Jordan'* standing and
position at home.
Mr. Jordan came to this town from the
lower end of Bedford County,(now Fulton,)
quite a lad aome twelve or fifteen years ago.
He was a stranger here, and among strang
ers. He commenced the study of law in
the office of the late Hon. Samuel M. Bar
clay, and was admitted to the bar after the
regular course of his studies. He eocn af
terwards entered into partnership iu the
practice of law with Mr. King, one ot the
ablest memberi of our bar Since that
time the practice of the firm has gone on in
creasing until it is among the best in this
and the adjoining county of Fulton. In
deed there is scarcely an important trial on
which thev are cot employed. He was
twice appointed deputy Attorney General,by
the Attorney General of the State. Some
sis years ago, Mr. Jordan was nominated
for prosecuting Attorney, and so popular
was he known to be, even though the Loco
focos then had the County, that no Locofo
co would consent to run against him, kuow
ir.g defeat to be inevitable. The same case
occured two years afieiwards. Two years
ago, Mr. Jordan was again before the peo
ple of Bedford County as the candidate for
the State Senate, lie was elected, running
ahead of the ticket in tne County, and re
ceiving the largest majority, in his owu
home, Bedford Borough, that we believe
was ever before given to any candidate;
and this too after the fiercest and most per
sonal warfare waged by tbe Gaaette. To
show still further the estimation in which
ho is hoi i by his neighbors, it is only ue
cessary to say, that whilst Mr. Jordau was
at. Ilarrisburg, attending to Lis duties as
Senator, his friends, without his knowledge
or couseut, nominated and elected biui by a
large majority, Chief Burgess, over lion.
Win. P. Jkhell, well known and admitted to
he the most popular mat. in the Locofoco
party in this Borough. The same thing oc
curred again last Spring iu Mt. Jordan a
absence. th>e time beating Maj. L. Taliafer
ro, another old and popular leader of the
Locofoco party. Iu fast, knowing the
posit km he helJ in the affections ot his
neighbors, they took up their best men iu
order to defeat him, but signaily failed.*—
To show also tbe estimation in which his
fellow political Senators held hiui, as a de
hater, legislator, aud as a man: at the close
of tbe session, as is customary each party,
selects one of its best men for the nomina
tion for Speaker, Mr. Jordan's friends pre
sented him, and the friends of Mr. Taggart
presented that gentleman. Mr. Jordan re
ceived a majority of one in caucus, but
both these gentlemen were strvng personal
friends, and they left the matter rest there,
neither claiming the nomination or any ad- !
vantage over the other.
Thus does Mr. Jordan stand before his
fellow-citizens. The Gazette may tail on,
ami malign on. as hi? character both private
nod public, cannot be injured by this vile,
foul-mouthed slanderer and convicted iibel
er of the dead. He may endeavor to drag
Mr. Jordan down to the low levil of him
self: but he has always failed heretofore and
he is destined to fail again. The charges
preferred are beneath notice; and the whole
thing is a most excellent illustration of the
old fable of tbe viper gnawing the file.
There was a tame Democratic ratification
meeting itx N*w Orleaus, on the Bth inst.
Hon. Pierre Soule was there, and in a
speech of some length fte made the follow
ing extraordinary admission:
'Of John Breckcnridge, I have tfujj to
say that in the short service he made lit
Congress, he earned more credit and renown
than is generally given to the most aspir
ing to encompass in a whole life. Young
in years, but of a matured judgment, he is
not yet beyond the age of boldues", though
ho have anticipated, already, that of wis
dom. He oan accomplish much, even if he
dare but little. Discreet, to a fault, he
displays, in h'u conduct, the prudence of
the snake, united with the sagaoity of the
fox*'
Mr. 8.-eckenridgc, the Democratic can
didate fot the Vice Presidency, in bis eu
logy on the death of Henry Clay, used thus
language:
'Who does not remember the period when
the American system of Government was
exposed to its severest trials, and who does
not know that when history shall relate the
moggies which preceded, and the dangers
that were averted by the Missouri Compro
mise; the Tariff Comptcruise, of 1832, and
the adjustment of 1850, the same pages
will record the genius, the eloquence and
patriotism of Henry Clay. 1 '
Scarcely was tbe patriot Clay interred at
Ashland before Mr. B. voted for the repeal
ef tbe Missouri Compromise.
There are to be six eclipi this year—
two of the tin, two of the moon, one of
the Democrats, und one of tbe Black Re
publicans. The last two will be total. In
fact, neither body will ever make its ap
pearance agan. The eclipse of the Demo
crate will be visible in every part of the
United States, and can be viewed with the
naked eye. The eclipse of the Black Re.
publicans will only bo visible in the North
ern States. It can be soea without the aid
of smoked Glass.
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The Nashville linnri'r tays ihaf >[ r
Filmore's chances are improvinr £sily in
Tennessee.
! THE BORDEK RIFFI4XS, AND
JAMES UCCKIAXAX.
When an election tor member* of the
Legislature tu about to be held in Kansas,
i the citizens of the western counties of Mis
souri, now commonly called Border Kuffi-
I ans, marched ever by thousands into the
teritory of Kansas, armed as military coiu
: panies, drove the residents of Kansas away
j from the poils Ly force and violence, and by
; their own fraudulent votes elected a lcgisla-
J ture not to suit the citizens of Kansas, hut
oue pledged to carryoul the doctrines end
pleasure of the border ruffians of Missouri.
The Legislature so elected assembled, and
passed a code of laws which fot cruelty and
tyranny have never been equalled in this
: country. They punish by death for offen
ces which by the laws of other States are
regarded * insignificant; and effectually
destroy the freedom of speech, and of the
| press, by sending to the penitentiary all who
dare to speak or write in any other ui tuner
: than suit the border ruffians. $o uuconsti
| tutional and outrageous are these pretended
: laws that quite recently, lien Cess iu his
place iu the Senate declared fbeui "a dis
grace to the age:" aud wore recently still
i the House of Representative* by a vote of
|o7to 56 declared tkr.m null and void. In
• addition to the above, the free state citizens
! of Kansas, have becu robbed, and wurder-
I cd, their houses burned, and their property
i aud money stolen by these same iuvader*
from Missouri and elsewhere, so that there
is no louger any security for life, liberty or
. property in that teritory. Under this con
j ditiou of thing* the oppressed people of
j Kansas petitioned to the President and 0 n
i gress for redress, aud for protections
sgaiust the fraud and wrongs inflicted upon
, tbeui by these lawless invaders. The-loco
foco Senate of the United States refused to 1
receive the petition , and the President not !
•crily decliued to furnish the protection pray
ed for, but removed all officers who had
takeu aides with lite citizeus, aud against
the invaders, aud appointed such others as
were known to be mere tools of the luffiau*
and who ever siuee have assisted them to
oppress, and tyrannise over the citizens of
Kansas, aud to force slavery upou them
against their will, by the execution of the
, infamous laws passed Ly tho pretended
legislature fraudulently elected by Mis
souri.
The Cincinnati Convention met, and al
though it did uot renominate Pierce, it ap
proved his administration, and endorsed the
Kansas Nebraska act in its platform.—
James Buchanan accepts bis Domination
and approves of that Platform fully declar
ing that he vasll not take one plank from it
or add one to it. Jau.es lluvhunau is there
fore the Border lluffiau candidate, and
standi pledged to follow in the footsteps of
Pierce and under his administration to car
ry on and complete the crime against Kan
sas. Not only is this a matter of clear in
ference from what we have stated, but is
capable of '-clear and satisfactory proof."
In the report of the congressional proceed
ings of last Friday we find the following:
"In a discussion between the friend* of
Fill mure and Buchanan, Mr. Barksdale of
MLssiaMippL and Mr. Houston of Alabama
(both Buchanan men) affirmed that Buchan
an was nominated because he stood precisely
upon the same ground as Pierce, and be
cause hi* Northern advocates, who control
led his nomination, planted themselves dis
tinctly on identical principles as to slavery
and southern rights?
Such are the declarations of Buchanan
men, in Congress, and who. tve believe,
were delegates to the Cincinnati Convention.
What more could be needed upon this sub
ject. If any one yet doubts however, let
him rel-i the following affidavit, iu relation
to hotv Judge Lecompte (the border ruffian
Judge in I\fiHsa°) understands the matter.
We copy from tfi* Gklesburg Free Demo
crat, llliuois, the following:
Mr. F. J. Bliss, who Las just returned
from Kansas, made the following statement
to us, which at our request, he reduced to
writing and testified to under oath:
STATEMENT OF J. T. BLISS.
I was to Col. Rich's store at Fort Leaven
worth, Kansas teriitory, cu Friday, Jnne
13, 1856, and listened to a conversation
between Judge Lecompte and some other
gentlemen, unknowu to inc, telative to Gov.
Robiusou and the other prisoners, aud like
wise the policy of President Pierce in re
gard to Kansas affairs. One of the gentle
men expressed fears a to the orthodoxy
of Mr. Buchanan ou the Slavery qiiestiou.
Lecompte replied that he bad letters from
some of Buchanan's friends, and that he
was all right OD the 'Goose,' aud that he
would pursue the same policy that Pierce
had, but that it mast be kept still in order
to carry Pennsylvauia and New York, and
said Lecompte, -he will fool old Rceder in
to supporting him too' Old Buck is all
right, boys, don't fear him.'
j The above is, in substance, tko conversa
tion tbat passed in my beariog, of which I
made ft minute at the time. J. F. Buss.
STAT* OP ILLINOIS, COUNTY OP KNOX.
— GALESBCRO, Jane 25,1856.—This day
I personally appeared before me J. F. Bliss,
: whose name is attached to the above state
ment, and testified under oath that the above
is in substance, and as near as he lan re
collect, in words, the conversation which he
| heard between Judge Lecotnpte of Kaunas,
| and others,
CIIANCEf WHITE,
Justice of the I'eaoe.
i 1 hereby oertlfy that 1 bare known Mr.
,J. F. Bliss for aeveral years, and consider
him an honorable man in every sense of tho
i word. E. F. WICKER,
Commission Merchant
I GAL FSBTRO, June 25, 1856 —How SNV
man Jo fa tor of the freedom of tl, e IVrri
tories cm support BucLauap after retrdiii^
J PreS! ' "> ho eountiy gire ibW
a free etnsalarwß; .J let tho he
tost Buciianan fritnda are plcdgm,, bin. to
.be Horde, ItdW We J m
matter .gam. Mr. Blia* voted for Pierce
tn I tS'Oi
COROLLARY up THE TEN* CENT
DOCTRINE.
Mben Mr. Bachanan, in lie United
States Senate advocated a policy which, ly
l his own "lowing, would reduce the wages of
the worknig weu of this conn try to about
ten cent- a day. he blasted forever whatev
er prosp< t'ts he had of reaching the Resi
dential chair. llu struck a blow at the vi
tal interests, the character, and the d.gfiity
of labor, and for the time being, sought t<
j d it by denying it a fair remuueratiie
rewa. il. As a corollary of tiiis doctrine of
tLo reduction of wage*, we find that Herlerl
the J nurderer of the Irish waiter Keating
is I<-fended at the South because, according
to tfc <• Southern Democratic Code, person il
servitude disgraces the white servant to the
position of the black slaves. On thi,
grot Hid, the Charleston Standard, the lead
ing Buchanan organ in South Carolina, dc
inatids that Herbert snail be exempted from
pun ishment, for the murder of peer-lust
iug. It uses this remarkable lang'Mge
41 Any provocation that may have been
git en, or the assault upon him by the body
ot waiters, wris at tue most a provocation
of words, mid suck a provocation as a .ser
vant should not have the right to resent;
and, IF WHITE MEN ACCEPT THE
OFFICES OF MENIALS, IT SHOULD
B:E EXPECTED THAT THEY WILL
rxj SO WITH AX APPREHENSION
CVE THEIR RELATION TO SOCIETY
AND THE DISPOSITION QUIETLY
TV) ENCOUNTER BOTH THE RES
PONSIBILITIES AND THE LIABILI
TIES WHICH THE RELATION IM
POSES."
There i*. w*ys the Albany Evening Jour
nal, uo more shameful ami sorrowful fact
iu the history of our polities, than that Mr
Buchanan, a aon of a free State, and a pu
pil of a good sehoo' of free industry and of
social equality, should be the voluntary ex
ponent of a policy which requires Irish and
American and German tabic waiters, to
submit peareablv to insult and wrong, and
to confess bT humility of manner and ex
cess of endunmee that they are not MEN
free meu in fbc enpito? of the Republic—
but are brutes and chattels. The people
will stifle this feudal teaching in November
next, nd repress its aristocratic mission
aries within their present field of lashing
clubbing, brauding and bounding- of work-
j lng me --
! PORTRAITS OF CANDIDATES.
The New York Life Illustrated, a litera
ry paper, unconnected with party politics,
lias some off hand sketches on the- daguer
reotvpea of the candidates for PreeiAeut
Vice Pre-ident, from, which we eitraet the
j following.
JAMES BUCHANAN.
"Buchanan looks old, old—verv old. A
t large boned, heavy old man, with a massive
i head quite gray, a forehead all puckered Le
' tween the eyes, and ihe skin drawn tightly
over a large livid face. He looks like a
dead man—a dead old man. Hi* mouth
: shows age in every line. It is a mouth that
' looks unused to smiling; an irregular, j.ig
! ged hole in the face. Unhappy old matt !
who threw away all good of life in scheming
i for place, and now, tottering on the brink of
! the grave, $ doomed to see the priie for
which be lost his soul, approach him onlv
jto glide forever from his grasp. Stand be
i fore that pktuie, young p>liticiun. and see
what the scheming partisan Incomes ! Nor
that the face is a bad face. It is an un
bappy face, an uneu-y face, an un-nobl<>
face, an old, old, but nor a pleasant, intelli
gent, benevolent face. It Is the face of a
mat! who La- in;-sod the true good and jov
of life, and wl3 i> willing to sacrifice the
tranquility of his last years for the sake of
that which an old man has no excuse fnr
valuing. It is the face of a man who is
willing, at three score year* and ten. to
cease to he James Buchanan, and te be
come onlv the representative and tool of
certain office eeckei, commonly called "the
democratic party."
W. L. DAYTON.
Dayton is a handsome, well-knit roan, in
the very prime of manhood. Hair biack
and luxuriaut; a good, symmetrical mas
sive forehead; an open, direct, guilcles*
and fearless expression of countenance.—
He is a manly looking man, one who wouM
be fit. or could readily make himself fit,
for any place. He would be called the
handsomest man in the Presidential group.
Upon a certaa occasion in the United
States Senate. Mf. Buchanan, in the course
of a personal explanation, stated that he
had volunteered to go to Btltiiu ire in the
lat war with Great Britain, when the Brit
ish attacked tbat city
"I think I have heard something about
the gentleman's volunteering, said Mr. Clay
"but I understand that when he arrived at
Baltimore the British were gone."
•Yes,' replied Mr. Buchanan, Mbey were. *
"Well," aaid Mr. Clay," 1 merely wish to
know whether Mr. Buchanan volunteered
because he knew that the British were gore,
;or whether the British bearJ that the gen
tleman had volunteered, and therefore
evacuated r be wait *