HcMorli 3nqHirer RU§ Climiiclf,
BY DAVID OVER.
Vr Inquirer and Chronicle.
The Woodberry Demnnitralian.
The Democratio Sanhedrim that lias been
exhibiting itself to tiia unterri&ed in quite
number of townships in this count}-, arri
ved at this place on Saturday, the l*2th ins\,
Waded hy a number of the sawns of the
, arty, who nre generally to be found "tuck-
J it." at Bedford, us 'Snug as fleas in u
sheep skin,'* until a political resurrection,
shea they turn out to dictate terms to'the
"weaker wee.sels" of tke prrty, and to
preach Democracy, und it persecuted to the
benighted.
'IT* cv vS that csmo o town to "see and
%t>. seen," numbered, *ll told, about fifty
persons, although u sale, meeting of School
Directors, uod various otlier inducements
were held-out to all, atid tsfiecially those
who wished to be enlightened on (be issues
of tins campaign so iugloriou.sly dodged by
the inglorious Packer, but all the gaiutuon
coi.'.d not induce them to step in to "see
■the elephant."' Some ut iy bo disposed to
uoubt the above st.itemcut of the number
present, but I have no desire to do any such
•'small affair," far froui it; but soy, byway
of banking up the state meat, that a gentle*
in iu of undoubted authority "counted noses'
and gives me Lis word, that there were
present only lb .ty I'etuoorats, niue Autcri*
t Republican®, and halt a dozen bova.
The latter dropped in to see the Irishuian
iliac annoyed Mr. Spang, and occasionally
•r-'tiird to see ••Bully."
T!. > meeting was organized m the aiore
... formerly occupied by G. U. lf.irndol
ir. by the appointment of some ha 11-
di zen of officer.*, three-fourths, of whom, I
am e ..(ident, were cx-Kuow Nothings, and,
if I am n<>t mistaken, the entire batch, save
• me, fan Irishman) were formerly members
< f !i "bloody psiri iet" if they were not all,
•ve and vxuepr the one mentioned, it was
not ihe individuals' fault.
Mr. Bpng was the first speaker on tbe
sui'i !, and I hope, for the credit of !hmoc~
that timy may always secure the scr
v res t lU ah men he, although, ie uiy
es',n,a:t. n, be w-.s wrongly shipped, and 1
I" rvi. is a Democrat, ho could have point
<l bi.i ;tigi;iiici;t to much mote advantage;
ur hi- speech was free from blackguard
ism and low slang; it was such as cliatac
lerizo* a higher order of democracy 'hau we
! are l.ad c.\hibit"d heretofore in this section
of country by its votaries. Mr. Spang ex
plained the positions of the party on the
Sal •of die Public Works in quite a Demo'
ir.itir -ule. and also attempted to excul
pate I'.icUer for his Liquor Law vote, prc
r-.in.u> di übt, tliut we. like some other
frt-i.jii, of Bedford County, are decidedly 1
'"u i o. the '•critter," and that bete, too, it j
anight be the "omnipotent of politics," but I
i- in error. He wound up this part of
his speech by saying, ''You cajuot Legis- !
lite men moral"—u bad doctrine for a law- !
\er.
ftlr. Meyers followed, and closed the per-j
'foriuance, giving us first a specimen of Som
erset Lnootoeidsm in KuglLb, aud a pcror- J
• ration in (Jeriuiiii. U hat induced tiie fel
low to deliver a iDulsh #fiCoeh io Woodber
>iy was ati intorrogatory that the Democrats
'theiuaeives-ditl not know >how, or were j
as Liu mob to answer. !i hope tits next time I
the gcutkinau bus occasion 'to-come this (
way, he will bring along some Dutdi.men ;
that can't s-prak borer JiuglnJa tlmn hiui
fcclf, to falk io.
W/ioillierry Township will br found atl
a-igbt at the October elccticti, or politician*
Hire greatly deceived
j?yjj STYCKJ>.
Wood berry, Sept. 14, 18f>. J
JDUc -pfVsva' da* tiny of t&timtis appear? ,
to imva <!.>•. f>etoiii6d. '{The iFrofidcut s
• coarse is pi duly avowed by <ihe at Horn..of 1
hi* subordinate*, aud in liu to.Bro-
Tes-or-Silliwau aud oilier*. The il'etnitary j
is full of tire creatures of the slavery extern
sionists —judges, marshals, and the major
part of the available force of the army.
Kansas will be * slave Siate. Mr. Bu
chanan hesitated for a tie whether he
would risk the displeasure of the North or
Lrnv that of the South. He has now made
up his uiitid. He prefers to rely upon the
turbearanee of the doughfaces rather thau
bear the danuneiitious of the fire-eater*.
fi.be Utter to Stlliwau states explicitly |
two thing*—the K.gna law* of the Missouri j
marauder* l *d'b I
n,!t, and none hut qualified voter* under the
provisioua of the Constitution to be wade
1 y the pro-alavery CQtyrenttoo arc to bo al
lowed the right of suffrage when thatinatru
iner.t shal' be submitted u> tbew for their
iporoS ition or rejection.
If tho "faille Mr Buchanan" can be
made to i f atd steady now, ."ftee Kansas"
'a dead, and the pledges given by hint in his
iuacg-tr+l address are "glittering generali
ties."
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PACKER ASD THE COMMITTEE
OF 1853.
General Packer was Siiperiutendcn't of
the West Branch Canal from 1882 to TS3S.
He had scarcely been a year in office—the
first be ever bcld—until b'ts administration
of the office compelled the Legislature of the
t-tato to raise a committee of investigation
c mceruing it. Indecdit is a siugularco
incidence that in the wry first year of his
Superintendent*}-, ar.d TB the -first of his Ca
nal Ooruuiissiouership, IMS own party being
in the majority, we believe in both iustanc-
e *i they were compelled to rarse committees
of investigation concerning 4HS official mis
conduct. Ihe tuan who was censured in
1833 by a committee, was again arraigned
iu 1839 aud iu 1841. How comes it,
(surely tbe history of no public man in Penn
sylvania affords a parallel) that during the
six years lie was up m the public works he
was three times arraigned before legislative
committees of his own party, and twice
fowtid guilty, and publicly reprimanded for
wotorious violations of the law?
But now for the report of the committee
of 1853
The Committee, in tl.eir report made up
on the 7th of April, V 834, (turf: £l. R.
Journal for thai yexr, pp. 897-98, inclu
sive) say:
"By the act of 1833 it is provided that
tire Canal Commissioners shall not be au
t homed to iucur any debt on tbe faith of
the Commonwealth in any way or measure
beyond the appropriation aforesaid. There
is tetained in si] contracts fifteeu per cent,
of tbe amount engaged to be paid, which is
subject to tbe control of tbe Board, and
uiay be paid to the contractor wheu the
work is suspended; or if it be abandoned,
ui iy be paid or retained at pleasure, accord •
iug to the circumstances of the case, aud
when a job is completed it is embraced in
the final estimate.
The Committee are of opinion that the j
State and its agents hold this per eentugc i
as tiusteesof those who have earned it, that .
it i* theirs, and is retained only bv virtue 1
of ••>*;.fn M'Tnilution* in contract* nml to j
insure -their more perfect performance, and ;
that wbef! an appropriation is otherwise fnl- i
ly expended it is as winch exhausted for all j
Slate purposes as if this money were paid
•over. It is ■oh vious, if it were not so, the |
law which has been cited wouid be a mere
dead letter, and superintendent aud other i
disbursing canal agents might create a debt I
for which the Commonwealth would be nmr- !
ally aud legally bound, to any amount
which the percentage might reach. If
tiiey can employ the money tt.ns retained ou
the current work, mid are pet milled to do i
so, :Le contracts secure the payment of it to
hiuior them whose money has beeu thus
used, and a debt is thus thrown upou the
; State. This direct, violation of the spirit of
the liw cannot be justified. These remarks j
. ate iuduced by the fact that the back per- '
j ceutage was last autumn aud wiuter ap
i plied to the work in progress upon the Ly
coming hue of <he 'Pennsylvania Canal, in
| stead of being retaiued for its legitimate
purposes. Neither tbe fact of its being
done with the view of advancing the pub
lie interests, by finishing and completing
i certain jobs which, in the opiniou of the en
j gineer or superinteudeut, might or would
, suffer from delay, nor the fuct that the iu
[Uetitiuii of so doiug was comuiunicated to
iMWy of the contractors, who approved of
j it, aud that tlierc were few ccuuplaiuts ou
this aceouut, do not afford any justification,
although they may excuse the act. On
. such subjects public, agent", and particu
j larly subordinate ones, have no discretion
ary power. The Committee accord lull
' credit for purity of motive and fiJulity of
• exeCHtiou, but they must express their
(hong duopprobatiou of such a course, uud
. the ho,' )e t4iat '' w '*' uot l>e pursued heresf
iiUtr."
ITho .Committoo on page 900, thus un
sold.another of Mr. Packer's transactions
i during the aiame yeur:
"That the Fupacinteudunt of the Lycoui- i
iug divisiou of the ex- j
changed fifteeu or twenty thousand ddllur* j
of the note* of the Bank of Pennsylvania
for notes of the Bank of Middletowu, and j
paid iheiu out on his line, i* known, aud i
would not probably hnvc been denied, for i
lie received no pp'tuiuru or coanuhwion.—
I But the committee think that the exchange
j ought not to have bceu wade; whatever ad
j vantage l>wre i* in distant circulation, the
bank of which the Btate liolde three-fifth*
jof the stock ought to have it when in the
I power of the State agenta to confer it; and
!it ia expected that in future they will re
| gard this a* their duly. Although the
| Committee have not been able to ascertain
! precisely by what confidential officer of the
Canal agency the notes were placed in
! drafts on those banks have been exchanged
1 with other institutions for their paper, and
' a premium allowed on their exchange, yet
' (here remains no doubt thai suoh has been
| the case, and probably in more instances
, than one.
"If is believed that many respectable
i men think this may be lawfully aud hones t
)ly done. A very different opinion per
-1 vtides your Committee, by wborn it is thought
j the practice cannot bo too severely repre~
i hcuded. If this petty traffic is allowed,
large speculations will offer, and a wide
field be entered. The public funds will be
i used for private put poses, to the great bai
; ard aud the almost certain and ultimate lu-.
:of the treasury. Ilow are all violations of
j duty and disregard of moral obligations and
; waut of pecuniary faith sommeuced? By
some such liberty which does not belong to
; the individual, by some act deetucd venial
I which is succeeded by one less so, and an
other, and jet another, until he Buds him
j self at the font of the hill, who but a little
: while ago would have shuddered at the tho't
lof ever leaving its proudest height. The on
j ly security for the individual and the public
is the payment of the Btate creditors the iden
; tical money received from the Common"
wealth. The creditor- have a right to the
I best aiouey, if there is any difference. The
] State should iusist upon it as due to the
| banks who enjoy public patronage and safe
ty from the treasury. It is stror.gly recoin"
mended to the Canal Commissioners to re
move the individuals who have been concern
ed in such practices, if they can be discov
ercd, and to issue an order prohibiting for
; the future absolutely the exchange, with or
i without premium, of n.uy tunds received by
public ageuts for acoouut of the Common,
wealth."
It will bs thus seen that the committee
felt it to be a uocessary duty to reprimand
him for his mal-practices.
Judeed, in 1835, when lie was a candidate
in the tlien heavy Democratic district of Ly
comiug, C.uarfielJ, Ceuter, etc., for the State
Senate, he was beaten by General Irvine of
Clearfield, a Whig, because of his notorious
lual-administratiou of affairs upou the West
Branch, lie was then regarded whilst only
a Superintendent, as the leader an 1 head of
tlw orgauized band of leeches, who preyed
U F"" j . . ,
was the piopular belief of his complicity with
these men, that he was beaten in a district
where no Whjg had ever before been elect
ed .
If his neighbors aud friends aronud hi s
own home twenty-two years ago ptouounced
n verdict against him upou these grounds; i l
tiio-e who knew all the facts then avowed
their belief of his guilt, ought not the ver"
diet to be confirmed by the people of Penn
sylvania now 1 What reason in there for
changing it! Noue. Certainly the lapse of
time will not be plead as a bar to the force
of the facts!
CJEX PACKER S OFFICIAL COR
BCrTIOS.
Some time ago we gave to tlie public a
document presented to the Legislature of
1839 by certain contractors, agaiuet tboOa- j
iial Hoard of that day, of whom iiklS. I
I'ACKKR WAS ONK. The charges pre-;
er.ted were deemed of so grave a character ,
that a Democratic Legislature thought it j
due to its party aud the public to raise a
Committee of Investigation, which sat for a
long time, and elicited a heavy mass of tes
timony. lieu. Packer deemed the uatqr r
so great that, with all his experience .%
public man, and with all his charae'e
cooluess aud silt' possession, he etnt toyoa
Ovid F. Jwhusou as counsel.
We need not say that the testimony fully
sustained the charges made agaiust the Car
nal Board and their employees. But the
j evidence evolved two minor points. First,
1 there was u law in exiateuce hi 1832, when
he was u Superintendent of the \\ est Branch
1 Canal, requiring that no work should be let
or relet by Superintendents, Kngmewv, &c„
upon the public works, without being adver
; tised. Yet, m defiance of this law. which
i his official oath required him to observe
i strictly, he lei aud relet woik vritbont nd"
I vcrtisiug. That he did so was proven aoci
i deutully before the Investigating Oottmiit-
I tee of 1839, by William B. Snllivati.—
j TLis witness, aiuong other facts, testified a*
I follows:
"I have known work oa the canal to be
thrown up a day 01 two befoie letting, under
Mr. Packer (weaning whilst Packer was
Superintendent.) He (Packer) let me a
contract for removing a buildiug on sectiou
9, West It ranch Canal, without advertising.
He also let we a public bridge on No. 9 |
but Mr. Harris, the Engineer, came along
and annulled the oontruet, and gave it to
another without advertising."
Not only did Gen. Packer thus violate
bis official oath whilst Superintendent of the
North Branch Canal, from 183'2 to 1830,
but it was also shown in this investigation,
that Vtctor K. Piolett, bis appoioteo as Su
perintendent upon the North Branch (.anal,
j had an interest in a contract, and that, too,
I during his Superintendeoey, although the
BEDFORD. PA., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 25. 1857.
laws of the Commonwealth cxprtssly forbid
it Indeed, they imposed the penalty of
disability to hold office on the public works
upon those who had an interest in canal
and railroad contracts. These laws were
founded upon the highest necessities of pub
lic policy. They were designed to compel
the employees ot the State to keep them
selves free from all jobbiug, and, there
fore, from all favoritism in the awarding of
contracts. But for the proof. Mr. J.
Clark testified before the Committee, "that
V ,i tor E. Piolett, then Superintendent, was
interested in a contract with himself."
Gen. l'aeker was present as the defen
dant in the case then pending before tbe
Committee, heard this testiuiouy of Mr.
Clark, and yet be did not have i'iolett re
moved. If we mistake not, the public rec
ords show that Piolett retained his office
long after this fact become known to Gen.
Backer, although he, us Canal Commission
er, knew of the law prohibiting such official
misconduct, and knew that it wat his bouud
cn duty to remove I'iolett.
]sut the fa<*t of bis neglect ov rcfui-i.l to
hav him removed after these facts were
disclosed, only shows that he excused or
winked at, in the conduct of others, those
things which lie hiaiftclf did as a public offi
cer. Diolctt did only what Packer die in
other eases. Piolett but violated the same
law that Packer violated at u later date iu
tiic case of the To wanda dam. We presume
that Piolett did uot make as much out of
the contract in which ho was interested with
Clark, as Gen. Packer in the Towauda mat
ter. Put the Towauda matter shall be
treated of in due time.
We appeal to our readers whether wc have
not established fairly, by the testimony of
d:siu forested parties, that Gen. Packer, both
as Superintendent of the West Braueh and
as Canal Commissioner, did knoicinq/y vio
late the written luw of the land iu two sev
eral instances* Is the official violator of
law a fit persou to elevate to the chief ma
gistracy of a great State like tbisJ Ought
a man to be so elevated whose whole official
career is stained with gross official iniscou-
SOME OF PACKER'S J.YTECE
DE.\~rs.
We find these facts in a recent number
of the Butler .imericnn. Tbcy conic from
one of the best men in tlie State. Let ibeiu
be read and poDuered:
"C<m any pood reason be given why Win-
F. P..cker, being connected with the public
works as Canal Commissioner and other offi
c., should be elevated to the chief seat ot
honot in the State? The scrutinizing eye of
an intelligent public he cannot hope to es
cape. The three years that Moses Sullivan
and others were in the Canul .Board, to wit -
the years 183G, 1837 aud 1833 —the rev
enue upon the Portage 11-iiiroad was $45-t,-
703,54, and the expenditures during the
some time were $439,224,90: being an ex
cess of revenue of §12,538,65.
The three years that Win. F. Packer was
Canal Commissioner: viz:—lß39 1840 and
1841 —the revenue was §464,030,54, and
the expendituies were §542,989,67; being
au excess of expenditures of $73,95y,03;add
the excess of revenue of 1838, 1840 and
1841, and you have the amount it $94,497,-
as the loss of the Packer adminisration
as compared with the three ycais of Sulli
n's administration.
Then take the three years succeeding
Packer's administration: 1842 1843, and
1844, under Wui. B. Foster ant others, and
tli-o revenue for those years amounted to
§466,428,92, and the cxpendtures to the
suui of §488,804,17, being a different 0
against Packer's admiuis'ratiou $51,583, r
T& -
May not the people of Pennsi lvuuia 3;y
to Wui. F. Pucker, give an ucotuit vf thy
stewardship, for thou uiiyest lc po longer
steward.
Uer Puckar is a ta'.euted i|ap, apd au
ambitious mm. lie kuew well the power
of corrupt politicians, and a dfsire on hi s
part to propitiate tbejir favor was ever iu the
way of a fearless if duty, lie
belonged to, and v*£ 1,0 Cabiuet of
ficers of an Administration that was cou
demned by many of its own party. Many
Democratic State Convenes passed uo
resolutions approving of Gov. Porter s Ad
mluiftrHtion: an Administratio that, at the
end of its first terai, aud afterl/ov. 1 orter s
re-aiectiou, refused to contiue Francis I*.
Shunk as Secretary of the Ommouwealth,
end George It Epsy as Audito General,botfo
of whom occupied high positios in their rer
spective stations, as men of ciiaeity aud in
corruptible integrity. Win. - Packer wa
after tfce act passed leaking tl Canal Com
missioner elcptive re-appoiutedby Governor
Porter, Auditor General.
That he was once conferredfrom the Ca_
nl Board to the head of the loaucial Dc-_
partiuent, and with Ovid F. Jbnston, At*
torney General, and George Y* Barton,was
brain and heart of an administration that
was condemned by many of its own party.
The very man who was dismissed as unwor
thy to be Secretary, was, before the close of
the administration, nominated and elected
Governor of the State to the deep tnorttfica
of the out-poing administration.
Twelve years have rolled by. and death
has silenced the manly voices of Shunk and
Miller, Petriken and K-py; and now Win. F
Backer is the candidate of the bog*s Democ
racy for the exalted office of Governor of one
of the greatest States of the American Con
federacy. We much mistake tbe signs of
the times if bo is not permitted to retire to
private life upon the mere lienor of a mere
nomination. Certain it is, that if the peo
ple properly appreciate their own interest,
and our opponents would meet fairly the is
sue, aud discuss the same iu an honorable
and generous spirit, Win, F. l'acker Could
never receive a majority of tb a free voters
of this Commonwealth; for, verily, "he has
been weighed in the baluucc and found want
tng."
OLD DOCUMENTS.
The Tioga Agitator has been delving
among old documeuts to the gieat annnoy
anee of the Democrats (') of that county. —
These mea etiarge Wilmot with Abolition
ism, aud oppose his clectiou as tending to
the spread of evil doctriue. The . Imitator
proves that until very recently they stood
upou the same ground he does. They have
apostatized and now seek to falsify Lis posi
tion and policy.
In July, 18i>4, the Democrats of Tioga
held a meeting, the proceedings of which
were reported iu the Tioga Eagle. It says
in its report of the meeting, that—
"Ten guns were fired in honor of the ten
iiidcpendent Southeu Senators and l.epre
senta'ivfs who dared to oppose and vote
against the Kansas .Nebraska Territorial
law."
It adds that—
"The {lon. David \\ iliuot addressed the
audience for more than two hours and a mfr
mfr jrrT^ciic 1 -nntT*
upon the subject of the extension of human
slavery, with that of the immortal Washing
ton and of the fathers of Democracy in the
days of Jefferson, .Madison, Monroe and
Jackson.'*
Then it was Democratic "to oppose the
extension of human slavery." The meet
ing adi pted those resolutions. Comparing
them with the present sentiments of the par
ty the extent of their apostacy cau be clear
ly discerned:
"llesulved, That while we will faithfully
abide by all the compromises of the Consti
tution in regard to Slavery in the States
where it exists, and disclaim any right to
interfere with it there, wo feel compelled to
declare in reference to the Missouri Com
promise aud the consequent extension of
slavery into territory uow free, that we le
gard slavery, eveu in the most mitigated
forms, as a great social and political evil
a relic of barbarism which must pa-s away
with the advance of Christian civilization,
and therefore should uot have been extend
ed to such territoiy. Entertaining these
opiuions, we cau but avow our hostility to
the 14th section of the Kansas and Nebras
ka bill, as being a departure from every
principle of former legislation upou tins sub
ject.
"Resolved, That as it has been the man
ifest intention of ull former acts of Congress
to limit and confine slavery to where it pre
viously existed, wc condemn the Nebraska
bill as impolitic, uucalled for,without prece
dent, won* in principle , and in violation of
a solemn compact.
♦•'Resolved, That we will withhold our
support from all the authors and abettors of
this retrograde movement 3 as well as from
those whi> are opposed to the repeal ,of the
13th section of said bill and iho full resto
ration the Missouri Compromise.
♦'Revived, That our immediate represen
tative in Congress has truly and faithfully
.sustained the views and feelings of nine
tenths of his constituents jupow this impor
tant question.
"llesolvedj That tire proceedings of this
meeting be signed by the officer.*, and pub
lished in the pipers of this Congressional
District and in the Democratic papers pub
lished iu llarrisburg."'
In one hundred and tune towns in New
Hampshire, there has been a decrease of
population of nearly 17,000, owing partially
to the ravages of the western fever,
Mr. Gripes the usurer, to whom a six
pence always looks as large as a cartwheel,
is in the habit of holding his breath while
the tailor i' ensures him, so that hU garment*
will require the less cloth.
The tongue was intended for a divine or
gan, hnt the d",-il often play?; •:ncn it.
THE NEXT GOVERNOR.
We take tfie following sensible remarks
from the Democratic Pi ess, of Betks Coun
ty, and endorse them all.
"It is becofltiug a conceded questi'm ev
erywhere in Pennsylvania, that David Wil
nrot the oowituec of the American and Re
publican parlies, will be Governor. Noth
ing cau be surer, and nothing assures guar
antee to those who look and hope for a re
form in all the departments of government.
With Wiimot at tbc hclua of State, the
Legislative and Judicial powers will receive
such admonitory directions as must necessa
rily lead to an avoidance of the erils here
tofore inflicted upon a taxriddcu and an out
raged people, by partisan demagogues. And
more than this. We can aimostaay. under
his administrrtion, with certainty, that any
attempts through these eo-otdilute branch
| es, to bring about a recurrence of thetu, will
prove abortive. We know the uun, and
speak only from what all we know of him.
We have no desire, nor do we wish it to be
| understood, that we would manufacture for
him a reputation not strictly and truthfully
his due. Such things we will leave fnr can
ting hypocrites to tudulge in. And they
are too, to a nauseating extent. Our so
stylod democratic exchanges abound in ful
some laudatius. Says one, our candidate
iis a graduate of Vale College ; another, he
has been in office a quarter of a ceutury_
and a third, that his fitness is based upon
euiiucnt experience ; while, if the truth were
t' IJ, the collegian, it would appear, was a
sneaking tippb r ; the office bolder, a little
Letter than a panel thief aud his exjicri
cneeship a mere political partizau.
"The people, however, will settle the
matter dtfinitely, at the pjoper tiuto. They
will decide, t.ot as tu the elessic and legal
attainments of the aspirant, but as to his
MORALITY ; not as to the uuuiber of yerrs
he has been in office, hut as to the FIDELITY
he has displayed iu the discharge of his du
ties, and not as to his experience, but wheth
er he is JIONEBT and WISE now. Hut a
correct decision is only possible where par
the mwse*. Here, in Berks, if is true we
expect little, we could uot expect more un
der the circumstances, for, as was the case
in Rome, tin appalling cloud of ignorance is
hanging over the-e fair hills aud dales, leav
ing only in view the demagogue and plun_
derer, who control the political actiou of a
jieople honest in all respects, but upon
whom deception has as yet not made a per
ceptible impression. Elsewhere throughout
the Common wealth, the case is different.—
And were this not so, the concession could
not be entertained fur II moment made at
the outset of these remarks.
David Will not will be the next Governor.
The Auitiicaus will support him with a wil
ling hand and a warm heart, aud the Jte
publicau will yield him hi* suffrage with
the same jubilant feelings which pervaded
the breast of tpatriot of the ilevoJution
—all honest and intelligent men will vote
for him, because he has been tried and not
fouud wanting—because he stands commit
ted in favor of tree schools and a l'ree bible,
lie is opposed to a union of Church and
State—deprecating lloinan Oat h dot ism as
being an evil dangerous to republioau insti
tutions ; and is the sworn euetuy of the two
great blighting stains upon the fair fame ot
this confederacy—polygamy and slavery'
PARSON BKOWNI.OW ON DKMOCKACY. —
I'arsou Bronlow discourses tn the last num
ber of the Knoxville Whig, on the subjeet of
the late election in Tennessee. He acknow
ledges the fact that his p irty has suffered a
complete ''rout" but at the same time is in"
disposed to coalesce with the Democracy.
His reasons for tbc refusal he gives in the
following btief extract:
"We recognize i the ranks of the Beta
ocratic party, thousands of high-minded mem.
tirdent patriots, and true lovers of their coun
try. but before we will fall into the support
of what we believe to be the reckless and
ruinous policy—the low flung hutubuggery,
and villainous designs of this solf-styled
•National Democratic Party,' we would see
that unwashed, unterrified, uncombed, uu
oircuuieizod, and unregeuvrate organization,
as far down in Hell as * Forge-hammer
would fall in a thousand years! l.et no one
suppose this language too strong, without
considering to what sort of an organization
it is applied. 1V "pp'j" it to the Foreign
Catholic, Pauper-loving, Auti American
Wet-nurse Democracy, who, differing among
themselves, widely and materially, on every
'jucaiion of national policy before the coun
try, nevertheless agree, affiliate, fraternize,
iu elections, for the sake of the spoils—with
all the parties, of all colors, and of all reli
gions, embracing iu paternal hug, all the
odds end enda of God's creation! They
arc a party whose leaders hunted down to
the grave the purest patriots and noblest in
tellects of the land, slandering their charac-
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ters, misrepresenting their acts, and vtllift
ing their tiflhes and graves; a party that hs*
trampled tire Constitution, and Laws, an 1
Treaty obligations, as weil as the settled
usages of the country, and with them all.tbc
sacfcd precepts of tle Christian lLligion,un
der their unhallowed feet 1"
MR. BEEN AX AY'S APPEAL TO GOD.—
Mr. Buchanan's unction in bebaff of the
laws of Kanas, h displayed in his letter to
Professor Stllimau aud others, reminds one
of the fervor vti'h which Philip U, swore to
maintain the power of the luquiaition, at
Valladolid, in 1559. Seated in ln's cliai-,
with his sword iu his hand, the King listcn
to the following oath, which was recited by
the Inquisitor General, Valdez: "Your
Majesty swenrs by the cross of the award,
whereon your royal hand reposes, that vou
wilt give all necessary favor to the Iloly
Office of the Inquisition against heretics,
apostates, and those who favor them, and
will denouaeeand inform aguiust all those
who, to your knowledge shall act or speak
against the faith." The Kiug, in a loud
voice, answered "I swoar!" Tbeu they
burued thirteen persons alive, byway of
ratifying the oath.
Mr, Buchanan, with equal fervor, asks
toe aid of God to enal le hiui to enforce the
laws of Kansas, which bis own Secretary of
; State declared, in the Senate last year, to
i be infamous, and a disgrace to the country
and tue age, and wbieh were enacted by in-
I vadcrs of the Territory, and not by its peo
ple. It is sometbiiig very like iujuvtice to
Philip 11. aud Lis associates to bring them
into a comparison with the President and
hts advisers : for tbo former were fanatics,
who really believed they were doing the
I work of heaven, whereas our sovereign and
i his inquisition have o faith in their own
| doctrines. I hen the Woi f 1 has made im
mense progress since the sixteenth ceotnry,
and the Kansas code would have reflected
dishonor on that time, and on Inquisition ib*
self. We believe that ours is the only
country in whiob such a code could be blas
phemously upheld by the chief of the p———
call on tied to help him Jo the infamoug
work that lie finds necessary to the main
tainunce of Ins authority. But he is a de
cent tyrant, bid as he is, and at least af
fects a regard for religion. -Boston Trav
eler.
"PUBLIC PLUNDERERS."
1 hu Pennsyioamu ef Friday morning last,
calls Wilmot's friends a "band of public
plunderers," to whieh the Sun replies as
follow.-:
The toot i* oo tle art** leg. The Atuer
ican-llepuhlioan party is not in power in
this State or in the .Nation, ami it never has
been. lience it cannot be a baud of pub
lic plunderer?. \\ hat, thou, is tho truth?
William F. Packer has been more or lea s
in office for twenty years, and has grown n>h
out of sueli small salt lies as are given to a
member of the Legislature,..! Senator, a Ca
nal Commissioner and ux Aud'rtot Genera.-
We could MM* have honestly amassed his
huge possessions. lie has done it by "pub
lie plundering," as utany other* of bis party
have done He has grown rioli off the pub~
lie, and jet lits friend* deticunee innocent
men us guilty of the frauds which bavo yield
ed the money th it gave it* candidate pie&r
inen.se in ULparty. Packer, for a liie time,
has been, a seejet partner of the Gamble's,
the Juckmua's, the Mnrehead's, an<i that
precious crew who have thriven by fat jobs
on the public works. His,.not Wihnot's
party is in truth, the boud ofplunderers.—
Packer's election as Governor will, but give
bint renewed chiuccs tor speculation. Shall
he have them.'
ter" An old, experienced edit r say* that
there are three things which affect a man's
spirits , a dull day, an empty pecker and
being in love. We know by experience tbat
one of these will
A yeuug girl recently committed suicide
because bet mother rpfusod to gWe her a
new bonnet, (.'oroticf'* verdict—"Vaiue to
her death through excessive spunk."
Why is a vain yewng lady like a confirm
ed drunkatd • Because neither >*( them is
satisfied with the moderate use of the glass.
If you want nn ignoramus to respect you,
"dress to death," and wear watch seals
about the size of a brickbat.
John A. Dix lately eoW hit country scat
about 20 acres on Mattnrsing Island, on the
•Sound for £25,000, to A. Thompson, Of
Wall street, New York.
Hendrix and Slegley, eon vie tod of arswa
at Yotk, Pa., have each been sent 'o the
peuitcntiary for five years.