BciiforO 3uquirfr art Ghromrle.
BY DAVID OYER.
TISE PARTY BATTEE.
Again the souml of strife is wildly breaking,
In thunder tones across my native land;
It echoes louder, louder still, are waking
The slumbering ranks of party to command.
The voice of war from shore to shore,
Breaks on the air.
As Freemen to the field, amidst its roar
Are gathering there.
A struggle is corning, n great battle is for rning,
A battle of right, by Freemen to be fought,
Amidst the darkness of night, and the light ol
the morning.
T,v weapons of power in bands that are taught.
Jbls logins of power is the Freeman's best
dower?
By a struggle of blood was it got,
Tfie ensign of men, high o'er us it will tower,
The arm of our might—the Ballot,
Then fli >g to the breeia the banner we love,
A'ii while it waves o'er us, wheal into the
line j
A phalanx to couquar, thus onward We'llu ove,
Though against it dark faction her forces
coaibius. ,
VTe fear nut the foe, while we can strike "tltem a
blow
With free au l unfettered hands
Willi the weapon of Freemen, we CM them
overthrow,
Though in numbers they sount as tho sands'
Then on to the contest ye sons of the Free,
And strike with the ballot, till the triumph is
curs;
Ail rest not ti*e strife, till a great vietory
Luwreaths your brows with her luure's and
flowers.
Tiiounuythe pease coma, when the battle is
d me,
And the toil and straggle is o'er;
And th ■ oflithan won, giro to Columbia's
prized son—
The worthy an i fame 1 F illmore.
Phil l. -Vers.
From the Juniata Sentinel.
Jos. Pumroy or Wilson Kelllj.
"We bad not intended to say one word
in regard to Mr. Pnmroy, because we know
hiiu to be a g,ood citizen, but biv'iig no
qnaliSeauon tba' would St biui to defend
himself. ******
We would simply ask you to point out to
us what qualification Mr. Pumroy posses
ses, that would St him for the high and re
sponsible office of congressman. Is lie the
kind of men we want in congress.' If our
congress was composed of men like him,
how many speeches do you suppose would
le made in the course of a session l Not
one. lie is a good citizen, a good business
man, a couim<>n man; but these are no qual
ifications for that office'*. Tuscurora Reg
ister. Sept. 10.
We do not know what qualifications our
democratic friends want iu a congressman
but we do know that the people of Penn
sylvania have always placed a very high
estimate on such sterling virtues as "good
citizenship," "good business capacity,"
"couitnou courtesy," ("commonality,") and
that "modest silence," which forbids its
possessor to obtrude his opinions in all
places and on all occasions. \\ by these
.ire the very virtues in which Pennsylvani-
a's glory, and which we are gla 1 to see so
freely au-isofully accorded by our demo
cratic friends to our candidate for congress.
They are indeed the \cry qualities which
the times and the place demand. Let us
examine them.
1. "lie, Mr. Pumroy, is a good cjtizen,'*
affirm- the especial guardian of Mr. Reilly.
A good citizen is oue that is wise, prudent,
honest, firm to his purpose, enlightened,
I-UTJI minded, public spirited, patriotic and
e nerally virtuou*. And all these quuli
:'C3, our opponents do not deny, ornament*
in a high degree, the character of Joseph
I'uairoy. Can the honest voters of this
oi*trict ask for higher qualifications?—
B here can they find a candidate of purer
character, or a more steadfast friend of
right?
- "Mr. Pumrov is ag<)d business tnan '
federate our opponents everywhere. A
- f <"] business map is one that is upright in
■MI his transactions, industrious in his bab-
U S facile ir. Lis manners, judicious in his
p. aw, energetic and successful in accom
plishing them, '{'hi* is a bright catalogue
'jualitie?, especially necessary in a mem
of congress in these degenerate times
vouality, and crime. And
) e t Mr. I'/g Mho'o career from his early
a!, j friendless boyhood to bis present well
■idured ago, is an unbroken chain', every
'ink of which reflects some bright.illustra
,lCD ®f the high minded and honorable bus
'utes tuan. With the common birthright of
til Auuticaua, Mr. i'umroy inherited an
' tiutble origin, a souud tmud,. a free heart
" Cl * ready band; and with these, unas
sisted by the appliances of wealth, and
! u '-' e at) d power, he has rough hewu his
way to the respectable positfcn which
' l? ,i '' T occupies before the people of" this
wiigressional district. Mr. P. W a good
-" '-iitOifß man, eminently qualified for'a scut'
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in Congress in these nionientous times that
so severely try the wisdom, the honestv, the
firmness, the purity of our public men.—
And this acknowledged honesty, ability,
and good business capacity, is the very
ground on which we urge the election of
Mr. Pumroj. In this respect we claim fo r
him (and our opponents tacitly admit the
claim.) great superiority over his honored
rival, Mr. Reiliy. To the thinking people
of the district, especially to the industrious
classes, the working men, Mr. P.'s superior
qualifications will bo readily apparent.—
Let us compare the respective merits of
these two candidates for public favor. Mr.
Pdmroy was, during his boyhood, seveiClj
disciplined in the hard school of adversity,
and in almost every subsequent period of
bis life, bis own hands have been engaged
in some mechauical, mercantile, manufac
turing or agricultural employment. (We
except, of course, those years in which the
people of Franklin county thought proper
to entrust with him their legislative inter
ests, and for his prompt, able and efficient
attention to which interests Mr. P. has now
in Lis possession many tokens of regard
from his old constituents.) Mr. P. there
fore seems to have been a business man, a
good business man, even from his boyhood:
is it strange, therefore, that now, when in
the prime of his manhood, even his oppo
nents should proclaim hiui to lea firstrate
business man? lie has a thorough, practi
cal, experimental acquaintance with the
three great branches of labor to which our
noble common weal tit owes its greatness and
its power;—agriculture, commerce and
manufactures. Hew is it with Mr. lleilly?
lie is said to be a respectable lawyer. In
these go-ahead times of modern improve
ment when a young man is suddenly taken
from some gleby field or dusty workshop*
and in the course of nine short months is,
by some labor saving process, duly trans
formed into an animal yelept "a gentleman
of the bar;" and fully accoutred in specta
cles, curved headed cane, and green bag
full of "Sergeant and Rawle," we freely
admit, it is a distinguished honor to be cvtn
a respectable lawyer. If, then, Mr. lleilly
is the leading lawyer of the Cbambersburg
liar, we may reasonably expect 'hat all his
youth and early manhood were spent at
school and amid the musty tomes of old
law books; whilst his riper years have been
fooled away in repeated, but. ever abortive
efforts to ascertain whether "Goosey" is bet
ter picking than "Gander:" or "Gorgas"
was a greater scoundrel than "McCracken,"
though both stood at the very climax of
villainy. Mr. R. may be well acquainted
yrith the quirks, and forms, and catches,
and glorious uncertainties of the written
law; he may have large experience in ma
king the worse appear the belter side; he
may have a tongue as voluble as woman's,
and an eloquence that ought never to be
found pleading for vice against virtue, and
for wrong against right. But these ure no'
the qualigcations best adapted to represent
the interests of this State in our national
legislature. There are already too many,
far too many lawyers in congress. They
outnumber every other profession in our
late congresses, although the legal interests
in the whole country is exceedingly small
when compared with the agricultural, mer
cantile or mechanical. To the firmer, me
chanics, merchant*, manufacturers, to tliose
who labor in every department ot industry
we address the question, which of tLose two
gentlemen has a more thorough knowledge,
a more practical acquaintance, a deeper
personal interest in the various employ
ments in which you are honorably engaged,
and on the uninterrupted success of which
the happiness of yourselves and families de
pend? Which of the two would most quick
ly and most keenly foci ttic crushing weight
of a law leveled against your interests? —
There can be but one answer. Will you,
then, by sheer carelessness, or by inaotivi
tv, commit the vast aud varied interests of
this district to one who by virtue of his
profession is of necessity devoid of tha 1
knowledge of the wants of his constituents,
without which it is impossible to make an
able representative?
3. But "Mr. I*. is a common man!" ex.
claims the high mettled cavalier of the re
doubtable Register. We freejy admit that
our candidate is neither too purse proud on
account of bis wealth, nor too tstuck up' on
account of his standing in society to shake
a poor mtn by the hand in any company,
and to treat all peoplo with due courtesy
and civility.
4. Mr. P. is pot able to "defend him.
self." If by this is meant that Mr. P.
would scorn to use bludgeons, bowie knives
and blows, it is undoubtedly true; for al
though he has more than ordinary weight of
corporosity, he is more accustomed to use
sound argument thin fisticuffs, and more fa
miliar with good logic than with the cow
ard's bludgeon.
5. "Mr. Pumroy cannot speak at all
whilst "Mr. lleilly is an uncommou fine
speaker." We .never heard (.hat Mr. P.
was born tongue tied, or that h's vocal or
gans have been paralized. But there are
already too many speech makers in con
gress. It is a common remark of those who
visit Washington that there "is too much
speaking and too little sober thinking for
the good of the country." What we now
waDt in our representative is not a flippant
disciple of the green bag to rehearse in con
gress hall the turbulent slang that continu
ally streams from the partizan press, but a
"plain blunt man, who can speak right on,
uUU tell the people what he Knows;*' or in
the language of our opponents, a "good cit
izen," and "a good business man," which
they themselves acknowledge Mr. Pumroy
to be. A FARMER. *
THE NATIONAL WHIG CON
VENTION.
We condense from the Baltimore papers
of .last week the following report of the
proceedings of the National Whig Conven
tion, now in session in that city.
The following gentlemen were elected
as the permanent officers of the conven
tion:
PRESIDENT.
Edward Bates, of Missouri.
VICE PRESIDENTS.
Col. Jos. Paxton, of Pennsylvania.
Luther V. Bell, of Massachusetts.
Dr. James Thompson, of Delawaro
Charles P. Krevals, ot Connecticut.
James A. Hamilton, of New York.
Ex-Governor Charles Strattott, of Jersey.
Ezekiel F. Chambers, of Maryland.
WynJham Robertson, of Virginia.
Gov. Win. A. Grahatn, of North Carolina.
Albert A. Holt of Alabama.
A. M. Fonte, of Mississippi.
Dr. George W. Campbell, Louisiana.
Gov. Allan Trimble, of Ohio.
Henry T. Duncan, of Kentucky.
John Shanklin. of Indiana.
Walter Coleman, of Tennessee.
James 11. Matheny, of Illinois.
Gov. 'Wm. C. Lane, of Missouri.
John Finney, of FloriJa.
Col. E. A. Ilolbrook, of Aikansas.
G. T. Dort'.e, of Georgia.
SECRETARIES.
Lnz. Anderson, of Ohio.
James M. Townsend, of Connecticut.
Hon. Thomas Jt DCS York<of New Jersey.
E. V. Machette, of Pennsylvania.
S. 11. Kennedy, of Louisiana.
James 11. Charles, of Missouri.
Colonel Huntingdon, of New Y*ork.
Mr. Bates, on taking tho chair address
ed the convention in an eloquent speech,
a full report of which we have not received.
It will be published hereafter..
Governor Graham of North Carolina,
Francis Granger of New York, Mr. Luut
of Massachusetts, and Mr. C. Rives, and
John JeiiUey of Virginia, also addressed
the Convention, during the afternoon ses
tion.
The Patriot states that the Convention
is remarkable for the fine appearaneo and
dignified bearing of its niombers—surpass
in this respect any previous convention ever
held in Baltimore.
The galleries of the hall were crowded
with spectators duringjthe day, and tho
Convention itself comprised several hun
dred delegates from nearly every State in
the Union.
The prevailing sentiment is decidedly
favorable to the nomination of Mr. Fillmore.
The Committee on an AdJross and Reso
lutions'is thus constituted:
Pennsylvania, David Pail Brown; Mary
land, William Schley; Connecticut. James
M. Townsend, Georgia, Jeutes W. Jones;
Massachusetts, Georgo Lunt; Alabama, 11.
11. Armstrong; Kentucky, S. 8. Nichols,
New York, Samuel B. Buggies: Arkansas,
J. 11. Graham; New Jersey Judge Ran
dolph; Ohio, H. S. McFadden; Missouri,
Edward Biddle; Illinois, David A. Brown-
Louisiana, Georgo Hehne; North Carolina,
Ccorge W. Mordecai; Tennessee. John L-
Sbafferaus; Mississippi, W. A. Strong; De
laware, J. C. Clark.
BALTIMORE, Septemper 18.—The conven
tion re-aseiub!ed at 10, A. M. The com
mittee on Resolutions, through its chair
man, Governor Hunt, reported a Rcrios of
resolutions, to the effect as follows:
Resolved, That tho Whigs of the United
States now here assembled, hereby declare
their reverence for the constitution of the
United States; their unalterable attachment
to the National Uuion; and a fixed deter
mination to do all in their power to pre
serve thetnfo* themselves, and their poster
ity. They have no uew principles to an.
nounce; no new platform to establish; but
are content to broadly rest —where their
forefathers rested—upott the constitution
BEDFORD, PA.. FRIDAY. OCTOBER -3, 165(i.
ot the United States, wishing no safer guide,
no higher law.
Resolved, That we regard with the deep
est interest and ajxicty the present - disor
dered condition of our national affairs—a
portion of the country ravaged by civil war,
large sections of our population embittered
by mutual recriminations; and we distinct
ly trace these calamities to the culpable
neglect of duty by the present national
administration.
Resolved, That the Government of the
United States was formed by the conjunc
tion in political unity of wide-spread geo
graphical sections, materially differing, not
oniy in climate and products, but in social
and domestic institutions.; and that any cause
which shall permanently array th°f>e sec -
tions in political hostility and organized
parties founded only on geographical dis
tinctions, must inevitably prove fatal to a
continuance of the National Union.
Resolved, That tho Whigs of the United
States declare as a fundamental article of
political faith, an absolute necessity for
avoiding geographical parties. Tho danger
so cleariy discerned by tho "Father of his
Country," has now become fearfully appar
ent in the agitation now convulsing the na
tion, and must be arrested at once if we
would preserve our Constitution and our
Union from dismemberment, and the name
of America from being blotted out from
the family of civilized nations.
ResolveJ, That all who revere the Consti
tution and the Union must look with alarm
at tho parties in the field in tho prcseut
Presidential campaign—one claiming only
to represent sixteen Northern .States, and
the other appealing mainly to tho passions
and prejudices of the Southern States; that
the succos? of ei'hsr faction must add fuel
to the flame which now threatens to wrap
our dearest interests in a comuiou' rain.
Resolved, That the only remedy for an
evil sd appalling is to support a candidate
pledged to neither of the geographical sec
tions now arrayed in political antagonism,
but holding both in a just and equal regard.
We congratulate tbc friends of the Union
that such a candidate exists iu Millard Fill
more.
Resolved, That, without adopting or re
ferring to the peculiar doctrines of the par
ty which bus already selected Mr. Fillmore
as a candidate, we look to Lim as a well
tried and fui hfui friend ot the Constitution
and the Union, eminent alike for his wisdom
and firumcss—for his justiee and modera
tion in our foieign relations for his calm
aud pacific temperament so well becoming
the head of a great nation—for his devo
tion to the Constitution in its true spirit—
his inflexibility in executing tho laws; but
beyond ail these attributes, in possessing the
one transcendent merit of being a repre
sentative of neither of the two sectional
parties now struggling for politi-al supre
macy.
Resolved, That in the present exigency
of political affairs, we are not called upon
to discuss the subordinate questions of the
ad iiiiu is I rat ion iu the exorcising of the
constitutional powers of the government. —
it is enough to know that civil war is rag
ing, and that the Union is in peril; and pro
claim the conviction that the restoration ot
Mr. Fillmore to the Presidency will furnish
the best if not the only means of restoring
peace.
Resolved, That we cordially approve the
nomination of Andrew J. Pouelson for the
Vice Presidency; regarding him as a na
tional, conservative patriot, faithfully devo
te J to the Constitution and the Union.
Resolved, That n spontaneous rising of
the Whigs throughout tbc country and their
prompt rally to the support of the highest
national interests, and the spirit here dis
played, sufficiently attests, and (he spirit
here displayed, sufficiently attests tho na
tional iroportanco'of preserving and rcinvig
orating their party organization —that a Na
tional Whig Committee of one from each of
the States, bo appointed by the president
with authority to call any future eonven
tion, and generally promote any effective or
ganization of the party throughout the Loi
ted States.
ResolvoJ, That these resolutions be pub
lished and respectfully submitted by the
Convention as an address to tho people of
the United States.
These resolutions wero received with un
bounded enthusiasm, and wero unanimous
ly adopted.
Speeches wero then made by D. Paul
Brown and others.
The oFillmore lutelligcuccr," is tb*
name of a new paper started at Zunesviile,
Ohio. The "Broome Union" is the title of
a new Fillmore paper in Broome
New York. Tho home organ of Hon. Jno
M. Clayton, iu Delaware, has raised the
Fillmore flag.
A.Y APPEAL TO THE DEMOCRATS
OF PEAWSYLVA.YIA.
We clip the ,following from the Phila.
Ledger, a leading Buchanan sheet of this
State:
In the political contest for the govern
ment of the country for the next four years
that we are now approaching, it is impor
tant to view the signs of the time, to de
termine what will be the result; and with
three parties in the fieid with their differ
ent candidates, it is more difficult than usu
al to calculate the relative strength ofeach,
but with the results of the recent election
in Maine before us, the conviction is forced
upon the mass of the commut Dy, that ifbotb
Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Fillmore are candi
dates, that they both]must be defeated by the
Republican party which is gaining rapidly
everyday. As this fact must be apparent
to every observer of the state of feeling
through the country, is it not tho part of
wisdom for the friends of either Mr. Bu
chanan or Mr. Fillmore to sacrifice their
personal preferences and to uuitc forces on
one ticket, and thus defeat the Republican
candidates,Fremont and Dayton. Remember
that iu Uuion there is Strcugth — United
we stand, divided we full." —The proposi
tion has already been made for the withdraw
al of Mr. Z?uchauaa and Mr. A. J Dontlson.
and uniting the two parties upon Mr. Fill
more for Prosidcut, aud Mr. iL-eekenridge
for Vice President. This will certainly
form the strongest ticket that can be made,
as it would combine the priueipal strength
of both the American and the Democratic
parties. A few of the foreign voters might
be lost to the Democratic party from the
fear of Know Nothingism, but these would
be mote than compensated by tbc gain of
the great bulk of the American party.
That this Union would earry every South
ern State, no one will for a moment doubt
besides the strong probability of carrying
tLe two great States of New York and Penn
sylvania, aud also New Jersey, beside seve
ral other Northern Statas. But should
there be any difficulty in accomplishing this
arrangement, wiil it not be hotter for the
Democracy of Pennsylvania to drop both of
their candidates and unite upon Fillmore
and Donelson Mr Fillmore is a conserva
tive man, and has shown his qualifications
for the arduous duties of the Presidency,
and is already known as the "Model Presi
dent." In doing this the Democratic par
ty would no doubt be able to secure the suc
cess of their whole city ticket in Philadel
phia, but also have a fair chance of carry
ing their State ticket in October; and i t
should be borne in mind that no paper in
the interest of Mr. Fillmore in the South
has yet advocated the alarming doctrine of
the benefits of slavery for tho white race,
which is justly repugnant to the sentiments
of the Democracy of Pennsylvania, as the
leading Democratic papers of the South
who advocate the election of Mr. Buchanan
are now doing—such papers as the Rich
mond Enquirer, and Richmond Examiner,
of Richmond, Ya., and the Charleston Mer
cury, of Charleston, South Caroliua; and
this abhorrent doctrine of the benefits of
slavery for the poor white laboring men of
the North is now being quoted from these
papers, to tho injury of Mr. Buchanan in
Pennsylvania. Democrats of Pennsylvania
consider this subject, and decide in favor
of duty an ! patriotism—you who prefer tho
success of Fillmore and Donelson, to that
of the Republican candidates, Fremont and
Dayton.
THE BvcnANiEit MEETING IN PHILA
DELPHIA. —Our opponents made a great
blast about their late meeting in Philadel
phia. It was represented as immense, over
whelming, etc. Tho Times tells the story
as follows:
"The meeting yesterday, in Independence
Square, after all the immense preparation
which was made, was a sorry failure. It
was much inferior in point of uutnhers to
the Democratic mass ratificalion meeting
held there, when Gen. Cass and Douglas
were present. TLe American meeting held
some time since, was infinitely greater in
poiut of numbers. We have heard the num
bers variously estimated at two, three and
four thousand We should judge that the
number in the Square, at no time during the
afternoon, exceeded three thousand; we had
been led to expect, from the extraordinary
efforts made by Forney and the State aud
city democratic committees to make this the
great demonstration of 'ho season, that not
less than twenty five or thirty thousand per
sons would be present.
The procession was also a failure. There
wa3 no enthusiasm, no spirit, no life in it.
It marched on with the silence and gravity
of a funeral train. We have never seen
such a straggling, shilty shtilly column.—
' Tho time occupied in its passage past dif
ferent poiuts was—at the eoru'er of Arch
and Tenth streets, forty minutes. There it
was more compact than at the corner of
Sixth and Chestnut streets. At the latter
point it was timed by three gentlemen, one
gave the time at forty five, another at forty
seven", and a thud at fifty five minutes, in
cluding all the stoppages. AH agree in
placing the time an hour.
A noticeable feature in the proccssicu
was, that although there were a good many
transparencies bearing devices in the Ger
man language, yet there were really but
few Germans in the procession.
No oue with whom we have conversed
estimated the profession at over 5000 per
sons. There were not more thao that num
ber in the line of march at any time.
LOCO FOCOLSM
GASPING FOR BREATH—BRECKIN
RIDGE ON THE STUMP.
Major Breckinridge, the Loeo Foco can
didate for Vice Presidency, has started- np
on a personal canvass and has opened it by
a speech at Cincinnati, on the night of the
Ist inst. Thence lie went to Indiana, Mi
chigan, Illinois, where appointments were
alreadv made for him Now he is in our
own city. And thus, for the first time in
our history, we have a candidate upon the
presidential ticket, setting out upon a
stump-speaking tour, us a desperate resort
t-o retiieve the desperate fortunes of his
party.
The cause of all this is stated in the
Louisville Jonnuf: '
A highly respectable gentleman of this
city, just returned from Washington, in
forms us that he was told by some of the
leading Democrats in Washington that they
hal abandoned all hope of success in New
Yorkaml even iu Pennsylvania, and had no
expectations of being able to carry a single
Northern State, unless John C. Breckin
ridge, their candidate for Vice Presidency,
could save Indiana or Illinois by making
stump speeches throughout these States.
Accordinly we find Mr. Breckinridge,
accepting invitations to address mass meet
ings in Indiana and Illinois. What a me
lancholy specticul. A party reduced to
the pircli of Jegredatiou and despair.' It
is unparalleled iu the annals of our politi
cal history. A candidate for the Vice
Presidency, the second highest office in the
gift of this great nation, compelled to *,ke
tho stump as the last resort in the death
struggle of his party' This last resort will
be unavailing. This simple fact of itself
will be sufficient to make honest people eve
ry where forget the persuasive eloquence
aud ingenious arguments of the Sig Nieht
candidate for the Viet Presidency in their
deep disgust for the degradation to which a
candidate for the Vice Presidency has thus
been subjected by Lis party.
WILE BCCHANAM WITHDRAW?—This
question may Resolved before long, for the
democratic organs are beginning to discuss
it gravely. The Suubury American, which
flies his name at the mast-head, refers to
the rumors that the South is making efforts
! to got Uini to decline in favor of Mr. Fill
more, who is to run for the Presidency on
the same ticket in connection with Mr.
Breckinridge, the democratic nominee for
Vice President, and that Mr. Breckinridge
bad visited 31 r. Buchanan for that purpose,
though it puts no faith in the report, says:
There is no question but tho South feels
j very uneasy in tiie ptesent state of affairs.
I The truth is, ptrfy distinctions arc fast bo
j iug swallowed up by that all absorbing sub
ject, tho slavery question. The South is,
| unanimous for Buchanan, while the Western
and the Eastern and Middle States, with
: few exceptions are alumst as unanimous for
FiUmore and Fremont. This is truly a
strange state of affairs and much to be re
' grettod. Any one at all conversant with
; our pnlitie.il affairs, must have seen long
! since, that such would be the result. The
: crisis has, no doubt, been hastened on bv
; the ill-timed action of Preside.ut Pierce
Julge Douglas and otliers, in regard to the
Missouri Compromise and the Kansas Ne
braska bill.
A REBl.KK.—President Pierce having
determined to visit Lis home iu New Hamp
shire, a public meeting of -the citizens of
Concord was held on Monday last to make
arrangements for his reception. About 1,-
000 persons were in attendance A resolu
tion declaring it "inexpedient" to give hiiu
a public reception was adopted by a vote
of four to out ! The reas.au assignel for
this rebuke, is their disapprobation of the
President's connection with the Border Ruffi
anism which Uni outraged the Freemen of
Kansas—a large number of whom are the
sous of New England.
Lecompte of Kansas is out iu defence of
his conduct as judge. Tho enforcer of ty
rnuical laws needs defence.
VOL. 29, WO. 40.
Meanness.
The characteristic traits of such a man
as Jaincs Buchanan arc the proper subjects
of study at such a time as this. The fel,
lowing is a copy cf a letter from him to the
assessor tit Lancaster:
Washington, Feb. 26, IS4J.
Dear Sir:—l have received yours of
the 12ih inst., informing nic, that, not
knowing whether I consider myself a resid
ent of Lancaster; you have assessed me a*
such. 1 had supposed that you would hare
known that I had removed from Lancaster
nearly a year ago, and lacecver sinee been
a resident of this city, where my official
duties require that I should reside. I trust
that at soinc future period 1 may again be
come a resident of Lancaster, but that is
wholly uncertain.
JAMES BUCHANAN.
Michael Bindlk, Esq".
liie object of this note wis to escape
from the payment of taxes, at his own bourn
upon the pitiful plea that, being i oflno
at Washington, he was irot a resident of
Lancaster. Is a man who thus sueak* off
from the payment of hiajust dues to the
State, the one for whom wc should be asked
to vote on the ground of "State pride?" Ho
disowned the State for tiio paltry consider
ation of a few dollars; and a real feeling oo
"State pride" would prompt the disowning
ofiiim, in return —Pitfs. Gozttle.
ONE AND THE SAME.
Some Democrats say that they never again
could vote for Franklin Pierce; hut they
hope better things of Jaincs Buchanan, be
cause he is a new man. Let them pause
before they come to such a conclusion. It
is all one concern. Bnchauan says he goes
for the Uineinnatti Platform, which endor
ses Pierce and his policy. Ilcre is a part of
that Platform
IlesolveJ, that the Administration of
FRANKLIN* PIERUE has been .true to
Democratic principles, and therefore trad
to the grpat interest of the country, in the
face of violent opposition he has tinufaineJ
the Laws at home, and vindicated the rights
of American citizens abroad: and therefore
we proclaim 3jr~Our unqualified .]Jura
tion of his measur'S and policy.
A vote for James Buchanan is, thcreforo
a vote for tne continuance of the policy of
Franklin Pierce.
MASS MEETING AT LANCASTER —An
immense mass meeting was held bj tba
fricn-ls of Fillmore. About fivo thousand
people were in attendance. There wis a
large procession with niusia sdu banner!
torches and transparencies. Jubn P. San-,
derson, Esqf, cf Philadelphia, addressed
the meeting.
The N*. Y. Express announces that &
Fillmore electoral ticket will be formed in
New Jersey, headed by Commodore Slock*
ton and Theodore Frelinghuyscn.
50,030 L4KOIIERS W 4OTED!
AT TEA COTS A 1M¥!!
11 end the following extracts from a speech
of Mi. Buchanan, in thu United States Sen
ate, in IS4O, in which he advocated the re
duction of wages to the European standard!
We understand the Lncofneos, in case Mr
Buchanan is ilectcd, intend to put down
the price of labor to ten cents a day imme- ,
diutfly. They now want 50,000 laborers
at ten cents n day to try the experiment on!'
Won't some of our hard fisted laboring men
apply to Mr. Buchanan at Wheatland for
the situation without delay?
Here's his arguments in favor of the re
duction:
••In Germany, irlicri- the currency '.s purely
metalic, ami the cost of everything i REDUC
ED to a hard money standard, a piece of broad
cloth can be manufactured for titty dollars; the
manufacture of which, in our country from the
expansion of piper currency would cost one
hundred dollars. Tim foreign French and
German in umfacturer imports this cloth into
our country and soils it for a hundred. Does
not everv person perceive that the redundancy
of our c'umx.cy is equal to a premium of ono
hundred per cent. In lavor of the manufacturer.
= >•> turitr of protection, unless it amounted
to prohibition, could counteract th.-se advanta
ges in favor of loreign manufactures. I wonM
' Heaven that I could arouse the attention nt
everv manufacturer of the natiou to tb.s itnpor
taut stihiert.
IS IH? IOKSOU th.tt, *tith nit *•
vantages and with the protective didies wWh
our laws ati'or.l to the domestic mauutaetiuv "t
cotton, cannot obtain exclusive possession <t
ihe home market, and successfully contcad tor
the m ukets of the worhu It is simply becau.-y
wu imgmfaetnw at the nominal prtM of our
own inflated currency, mid are compelled to sell
it the real prices of other aations. REDVv*.
OUK MOM IN' AT. T TUB REAL STAND
ARD OF FRICF.S THROUGHOUT 3111*
lVO®Llt, ami yomcovcr our country with bles
sings. and UeneSts. . ___ ,
?Ttie comparative PRICED >1 Trance
and Germany have atf.xte.l such a sttaulnus ~
their maiiuta. lures, that they are now rapidly ex
tending themselves, and would obtain possession
in no small degree, even •
market; IF IT WERE NOT FOk IHEIh
PROTETIJiG DUTIES White British mann
frtetnres are now languishing, those ot the .
conrinent are iqnuipug " u • hewUby and
vigorous existence."