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 iChc |loIiiir;il fnriicfi of |lhilu(ldjjhiu: 
 
 THE NOMINEES THAT OUGHT TO BE ELECTED 
 
 IN isi; 
 
 JOHN CAMPBELL. 
 
 A DOUGLAS DEMOCRAT. 
 
 ONLY 49 COPIES PRINTED, 
 
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 1861. 
 
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 THE FOUNTAIN OPENED, or the Great Gospel l'riTile<re of having 
 Christ exhibited to sinful men. wherein also is proved that there shall be 
 a National ('allin-of the Jews. By Samuel Willard, Teacher of a Church 
 in Boston. Boston, in New England. Printed by B. Green and J. 
 Allen, for Jk'njarain Eliot, at his shop under the west end of the Town 
 
 House. 171111. Duodecimo. L'US pages, complete SIO.OG 
 
 \N IMPARTIAL ACCOUNT' OF A LATE DEBATE AT LYME. 
 IN THE COLONY OF CONNECTICUT, [on the following heads. 
 viz:— I. The Subjects of Baptism. II. The Mode of Baptizing.— 
 III. The Maintenance of the Ministers of the Gospel,] giving a sum- 
 mary of what was there delivered on both sides. By John Bulkley, 
 A. M. To which is added a narrative of one lately converted from 
 Dreadful P>rors. by another hand. N. London, printed and sold by T. 
 
 Green. 1729... ..." ^'-^'^ 
 
 MASCHIL, uR THE FAITHFUL INSTUCTOK. offering memorials 
 of Christianity, in twenty-six Exercises upon the New English ( 'ate- 
 chism, &c., with an Addition [to render the work yet more universally 
 acceptable and serviceable.] of the like operation upon the A.<sa)ib/,'/'s 
 Caterhkw. Boston, printed by B. Green and J. Allen, for Samuel 
 I'hillips, at the Brick Shoi.. 1702. 12mo., 192 pages, complete, 810.00 
 ELEOTHItlA^IBOS, [Greek] or the Triumph of Mercy in the Chariot 
 of Praise. \-c. Boston, re-printed by B. Green for Benj. Eliot^jind 
 
 soldat-his Shop. 171S. Duodecimo, 194 pages, •?7..iO 
 
 REASON WHY. NOT ANA15APTIST PLUNGING BUT INFANT 
 BELIEVERS BAPTISM, \c. By Joseph Lord. Boston, prin_ted hy 
 S. Kneeland for Samuel Gerrish. at his Shop in Cornhill. 1712-— 
 
 12mo., 170 pages, ^~ '^^ 
 
 THE LOSS OF THE SOUL; a Lecture Sermon, preached at lladle_v, 
 on the Kith day of February, 17::i2. ISy Isaac Chauneey, 31. A.— 
 Boston, printed by S. Kneeland and T. (ireen for J. I'hillips, at the 
 Stationer's Anns, next door to 3Ir. Dolbear's, at the head of the Town 
 
 Dock. 17;;2. Small octavo. 2ii pages ?-!-"0 
 
 \ SERMON PREACHED AT THE ORDINATION OF REV. MR. 
 JOHN LO^VELL, AT NEWBURY. January 19, 172.i-|;. P.y 
 Thos. Foseroft. Pastor of a Church in Boston. Boston, in N. E., prin- 
 ted bv B. Green for Samuel Gerrish in Cornhill. 1720. Small octavo, 
 
 Oiipaires *-^0<> 
 
 \ SERMON PREACHED AT II ADLEY UPON A LORD'S DAY, 
 1731. By Isaac Chauneey. M. A. Boston, printed by S. Kneeland 
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 DIRECTIONS HOW TO EMPLOY THE LEISURE OF THE WIN- 
 TER FOR THE GLORY OF GOD. By Cotton Mather. With a 
 Preface of the Rev. jMr. John Higgonson. Boston, printed and sold by 
 Ben). Harris, over against the C)ld Jleeting House, l(i93. Duod., 82 
 pa'^es. The title page is slightly mended, otherwise a good copy.^ The 
 
 dedication is to the Right \Vor.~hipful Sir John llartop SIO.OO 
 
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UMOOTSTS ««■»■«., TRAITORS. 
 
 i^lie |oliiiciiI liirtics of Iphiladfljiliia; 
 
 THE NOMINEES THAT OUGHT TO BE ELECTED 
 
 IN I.SGI. 
 
 BY 
 
 JOHN CAMPBELL, 
 
 A DOUGLAS DEMOCHAT. 
 
 ONLY 49 COPIES PRINTED, 
 
 PHILADELPHIA: 
 
 1861. 
 
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UNIONISTS versus TRAITORS. 
 
 :\I(lTIVES AND UB.rECT.S. 
 
 'Sly motives in writing the following pages are — a hatred of the 
 men, cli(iues and parties who have involved the Republic in its 
 present calamities and dangers, and a desire to fulfill to the letter 
 my oaths of allegiance to the U. S. My objects are— to aid, to 
 the best of my ability, the efiorts of the Government to suppress 
 treason, and to prevent, if possible, the elevation to office of any man 
 tinctured with or suspected of secession proclivities. I propose, there- 
 fore, to issue tills pamphlet upon the crisis. It will be for those who 
 readit to act upon its suggestions if they appear to them true- 
 but if false, to reject them. It is necessary to commence with a 
 definition of 
 
 POLITK.'AL KIGIITS. 
 
 AVithout^ referring to the pages of Iloui-sean, jlontesfpiieu, God- 
 win or Paine, we can, if we choose, easily comprehend jiolitieal 
 rights. The Declaration of American Independence clearly de- 
 fines all the rights of the citizen: "That men are endowed by 
 their Creator with certain inalienable rights ; that amonn-st these 
 are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Now, these rights 
 may be suspended or taken away by force or despotism. A man 
 can only use his life for the general good. He cannot, without 
 becoming amenable to law, set a bad example; he cannot perpe- 
 trate the crime of suicide, because, by so doing, he loosens the 
 bonds of society. His life has been given to him by Almighty 
 God to use it for the benefit of himself and his fellow men. Lib- 
 erty is also given to hini. By this is understood that he shall 
 sppak, write and act as he deems proper, always provided that he 
 injures no other person — that he is equal before the law— that his 
 right of suffrage is tlie same as that of every other citizen, no more 
 or no less — that he is to have no special privileges granted to him, 
 because by obtaining special privileges of any kind other citizens 
 are thereby injured. 
 
V>\\i in tlio possession aivl onjoyinent of rijrlits tliciT nre oort:iin 
 ([Ualifications tliiToto appeiideil — these are eallcJ aijil known Ity 
 the uaiue of 
 
 U r T I E S . 
 
 If a man lias a right to worship God as he chooses, it is his duty 
 to concede tlie same right to every other man. If a man has a 
 right to liis family, it is his duty to provide for it to the hest of 
 his ability. If he has the right to pursue happiness in his own 
 way, it is his duty not to infringe upon the happiness of any one 
 el.se. There is no right witliout a corresponding duty — therefore 
 it is that rights and duties arc defined by our 
 
 ('OXSTITUTION AMI LAWS. 
 
 The ]''ederal Constitution is a written instrument, which defines 
 the powers of the diflerent branches of our Government, as well 
 as the rights and duties of the citizen. The Federal Constitution 
 is the model upon which State Constitutions have been made. 
 Laws are enacted for the general welfare of society, to punish 
 criminals, to protect citizens in their persons ami property — in fine, 
 to secure to them all their rights. The Constitution of the U. S. 
 alli.xes the penalties and defines the crime of 
 
 T i; E A SOX. 
 
 It consists in levying war against the United States, or in ad- 
 hering to their enemies, or in giving them aid and comfort. Is it 
 not a fact that there are men in the South who have levied war 
 against the United States, and are they not, therefore, traitors? 
 Have we not persons in the North who adhere to them, and are 
 they not, according to the Constitution, traitors? A case in point : 
 When a bill was before the Legislature of Pennsylvania, last win- 
 ter, to arm the State to resist and put down Southern traitors, did 
 not certain memlicrs of the Senate and House of Representatives 
 vote against the bill? Yes I at the very time that traitors in 
 Charleston were preparing to bombard Fort Sumter, and to massa- 
 cre Major Anderson and his gallant little band of heroes, these 
 memt/ers were so lost to all shame, to all honor, to all patriotism, 
 as to vote against the arming of our great Commonwealth, to ena- 
 ble it to resist the ti-aitors; and only when a hurricane of indig- 
 nation swept over the State did they change front and wheel into 
 line. And in the teeth of tliis base conduct, some of them have 
 the efirontery to ask of the people to reelect them. I know that 
 a few of tliese members have since acted nobly, b}- going to the 
 war and staking their lives in defence of their country — such 
 
members can well be pardoned: l)iit others wlio not only voted as 
 above stated, but previously assisted the Breckinridge and Uu- 
 cbanan conspirators to bring upon us our present disasters, cannot 
 expect forgiveness. These creatures say that they knew the ap- 
 propriation would not lie safe in the hands of Governor Curtin- — • 
 to this I reply that if (Governor Curtin were to defraud the State 
 of every penny of the approjirlatiou, it was not their business. 
 For his crime, if committed, they knew or ought to have known, 
 that the Governor would be held responsible by the pcojde. It 
 was their duty as patriots to have voted the supplies to arm Penn- 
 sylvania, so that Jeff. Davis and his myrmidons might not be per- 
 mitted to invade and trample it under foot. This policy has been 
 aiul now is being imitated by the Democracy of New York, Ohio, 
 AVisconsin, Connecticut, and other States — treason is preached by 
 their leader, Breckinridge, as well as by his followers, Ben Wood, 
 Burnet, A'allandigliam and others; while it is well known to all that 
 the infamous Breckinridge press is endeavoi'ing to divide our people 
 and to paralyze the arm of the Government in the prosecution of 
 the war. I ask, arc not such men enemies of the United States, 
 ami tory allies of tlic foes of our country? Is not this policy 
 the best that can be pursued tci aid and encourage the dissolution 
 of the Union '! Does it not assist 
 
 FOREIGN INFLUENCE 
 
 to destroy our Government ? Is not this foreign influence now, 
 as it has been, busily engaged in fomenting civil strife? Do imt 
 the Norman aristocracy of England anxiously hope for oui- down- 
 fall? It would be arguing against the nature of things to say that 
 those wh.o live upon the sufl'erings and plunder of the oppressed 
 of Europe, desire to see the continuance of this Republic. Is not 
 its existence a daily rebuke to autocrats, kings, emperors, and 
 petty tyrants ? AVhcre or when in this world's history were there 
 ever thirty millions of people, possessing so many of the physical 
 comforts of life as ours, or enjoying so much individual lilierty? 
 Yet this happy state of things must be put an end to, in order to 
 gratify the morbid and insane aml)ition of traitoi'S, North and 
 South. Foremost among the nations who desire our destruction 
 is that of the 
 
 N R M A N r W E R F ENGLAND. 
 
 I quote from a letter of mine which appeared in The Pi-css some 
 months ago : 
 
 But may it not lie .an instructive lesson to ascend to tlio causes of our present 
 troubles, and if we can trace lliem to their source, will nut the knowledge acquired 
 be of use to enable us to prevcut another national catastrophe '/ For thirty years 
 
Exeter Hull has been endcavorino: lo foment our present difficullies. Its orators 
 ami p-seiiilo pliilanllirciiiisls have been enfleavoring to luiilo tlie work of Almighty 
 OoJ ; they have been trying to make a public opinion that the negro race ought 
 to be placed upon an e<iualiiy with tlie white. The Government of (jreat Britain, 
 the ruling class, composed in a great measure if not entirely of the descendants of 
 the Norman conquerors — of that race whom Maeauley calls '■ the hereditary 
 aristocrats of the world" — have covertly or openly encouraged this false humani- 
 tarlanism. Is it to be supposed, that this aristocracy — tlie wisest, the bravest, 
 and tlie most unprincipled class that has ever existed — care for the negro ? Such a 
 supposition is ridiculous. This class does not reason alone for the passing time 
 bu: witli almost intuitive foresight looks into the far future. Let us see the pres- 
 ent position of England. She holds the keys that unloclc the Mediterranean sea; 
 from the mouths of her Gibralter cannon, she perniits or forbids snch vessels as 
 she chooses from passing. .She owns Malta, which is only sixty-two miles from 
 the coast of Italy, and one hundred and ninety-seven miles from the coast of 
 Africa ; from this island she can land troops in Sicily in the short space of five or 
 six hours. She is mistress of Zante and Cejihalonia, and thus commands the en- 
 trance to the Gulfs of Patras and Lepanto. From these islands she can easily 
 send troops into either Greece or Turkey. She has quite recently seized upon the 
 Isle of I'erini. in the straiis of Babel Manileb, the door ihat opens and closes at 
 her wish upon the Ked Sea and the Indian Ocean, enabling her to grasp Egypt 
 and .Vbyssiuia on the West, and .\rabia on the East. A thousand miles away to 
 the South-east from the mouths of the Indus she can dictate terms to I'ersia across 
 the .\rabian sea in the (julf of Ormus. Another thousand miles from the Indus 
 river in a South-easterly direction, separated from the Carnatic by the Gulf of Ma- 
 naar and Talk's Strait, lies the Island of Ceylon, which gives her immense power 
 over the Indian Ocean. Troceeding Northerly from Ceylon we arrive at the month 
 of the Ganges, and already has commenced a transgangetic absorption of portior s 
 of the continent of .\sia into the British dominions. Bootan, lo the North of the 
 Ganges, and liurmah, to the East, may now be only considered as outposts of the 
 English-Asiatic Empire. Singapore, a"t the end of the ilalay Peninsula, commands 
 Malacca Straiis, between the'lndian Ocean and Chinese Sea. Hong Kong, within 
 about a degree of Canton, places the empire of the Celestials at the mercy of the 
 '•Outer Barbarian." Sarawak, on the Western coast of Borneo, is also in posses- 
 sion of the British. They can. therefore, at any time menace the Isles of Sumatra 
 and .lava, and conquer them from the Hutch. I need not refer to their possession 
 of Australia, &c., as in that far parr of the globe she has no competitors. From 
 the Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean, and from Cape Colony, she can descend upon 
 the Isle of Madagascar, and if necessary, with ten or a dozen war steamers, she 
 could sweep the whole Eastern coast of Africa from the Cape of Good Hope, 
 th'ough .Mozambique channel, up to Cape Gardafui. On the West coast of the 
 same continent she has seized upon just so much as she desired — the general 
 ni lealthiness of the coast making it unprotitable or worthless for European settle- 
 ments. Thepowerof England is paramount in the Sandwich Islands, notwithstand- 
 ing our self-complacency in imagining lluit American iiifliLcnce was in the ascend- 
 ant. Her lerrit-oiial possessions on the North of this continent enable her to cross 
 the Atlantic in a few days. Her war steamers have no difficulty in running from 
 St. .1. din's to the Bahamas, the latter of wdiich partly command the commerce of 
 the Gulf of .Mexico. 
 
 I have .'iliown to Ton Eiii;l;inir.s po'wcr. or rtttlicr tlie power of 
 her i-uliii.c; class. Let me now advert to her policy — " divide et 
 iinpera," divide and conquer is her motto. Her emissaries from 
 E.\-eter Ilall have been sowing broadcast the seeds of disaffection 
 around and amoni; us. Ever since the days of her West India 
 Emancipation Act, she has set herself up as a model of national 
 
virtue and sanctity. In the Houses of Parliament, ami out of 
 them, this Uriah Heap sanctimoniousness has been paraded before 
 the worhl. Her missionaries here have held up their hands in 
 hypocritical horror at slavery. Her George Thomsons have been 
 most eloquent in its denunciation. Her aristocrats have feted and 
 petted our most notorious Abolitionists. Her policy always has 
 been to enter the wedge of disunion. This policy culminated in 
 1<S60. Southern traitors raised aloft their pirate flag. Then it 
 was that the Norman Aristocracy of England cast aside the thin 
 veil of hypocrisy. What care they for the slave. It was and is 
 enough for them that the prospect of anarchy and dissolution is 
 upon us. Their sympathies are all now on the side of the Southern 
 traitors, and for two reasons: First, a hatred of our republican 
 institutions, which gave an asylum to her own oppressed people, 
 fleeing from bondage. Second, because she sees in the acts of 
 Davis & Co. an approximation to her own monarchical system. 
 England introduced among us, first of all, slavery, and then she 
 preaches up her crusade of 
 
 ABOLITIONISM, 
 
 not to bencfic us, but rather to do us all the mischief she is able. 
 In reviewing the causes of our present difficulties, let me state 
 one of the most prolific sources. It is 
 
 OFFICIAL CORRUPTION. 
 
 On every hand wc witness this general depravity. Conventions 
 are bought and sold; nominations are sought by the most igno- 
 rant, vicious and corrupt men in the community; bribery is openly 
 practised. Tliis course is not confined to one party — it pervades 
 all parties. A man received a nomination for a high office, some 
 time ago, who could not spell "Sor.p" correctly; another was 
 elected to Congress who spelled cabbage, "kabbitch;" others have 
 bought nominations and been elected ; others have bought nomina- 
 tions and been defeated. So general has this political corruption 
 spread, that it pervailes every class of society, from the monstrous 
 robberies of President Buchanan's office holders to the infamies of 
 Governor Curtin's A<lministration. Can better be expected than 
 fraud and cheatery by a pubUc functionary, when the vile remark 
 is continually made on all sides — "Well, a man has a right to 
 make all that he can in office." Until public opinion takes a 
 healthier tone, until it is made an issue by our citizens that official 
 robbery is as bad as piivate rol)bery, until juries will convict pub- 
 lic thieves as well as private thieves, we may expect this official 
 corruption to continue. Wiiat right has any man to insist that he 
 
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 sliall be elected wlio lias pnrchaseil a noiiiination, or who hires 
 ruffians and bullies to intimiilate the delegates oF a convention":' 
 Twice has my life been jeoparded by hired scoundrels, but upon 
 both occasions I defeated those who hired them. This oihcial cor- 
 ruption has begotten a 
 
 LAXITY OF POLITICAL MORALITY, 
 
 ivhich has been sinking lower and lower until honest men and 
 patriots have been deterred from attending to their political duties. 
 The consequence is that the worst class of our citizens control our 
 delegate elections. Each aspirant for office who has the longest 
 purse, and can hire the greatest number of rowdy ruffians, appears 
 to be able too often to rule his 
 
 rOLITICAL TARTY. 
 
 It is evident that among a free people there will be political 
 parties, and imder proper guidance they are necessary to a healthy 
 state of public opinion. The party that embodies in itself those 
 measures most suitable to popular sentiment is generally success- 
 ful. The Democratic part}', for a long number of years, has been 
 enableil to maintain itself in power by carefully adapting itself to 
 public opinion ; but at Charleston, it would appear that the lead- 
 ers of the Democracy over-calculated the forbearance of the 
 Northern people. There, and in Baltimore, it ignored the right 
 of American citizens to rule themselves in the territories. It mar- 
 tyred Douglas, the representative of the Democratic heart, and 
 only did this as a step to the development of its future treason. 
 It had its affiliates in the free States. It has them now. The 
 most modern phase of sccessionism is the white flag of peace. It 
 ought to be called the "white feather" of treason — its advocates 
 are traitors dyed in the wool. We must inquire, before we are 
 done, if there are nominees on any ticket who entertain secession 
 opinions. If so, they must be defeated. I know the great diffi- 
 culty of a man ridding himself of his 
 
 PREJUDICES, 
 
 because they become almost a part of his nature. We vote year 
 after year the same ticket — it is habitual — we dislike to alter it — 
 but is it not our duty to inquire into the character of every candi- 
 date for office? Ought our prejudices induce us to vote for any 
 man who leans toward secession and disunion ? Ought not our 
 country to be dearer to us than party? All political parties 
 ought "to be swept out of existence, rather than one hour's danger 
 
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 slionlil accrue to the Republic. I take it for granted tint every 
 true American will sacrifice his prejudices for his party to his 
 
 r A T K 1 T I S JNI . 
 
 This feeling ought to be paramount to every other— it ought to 
 animate the breasts of all, and it does, except those of rank trait- 
 ors. American Citizen has been the proudest title that man could 
 possess. We were respected abroad, because our flag was feared. 
 We were happy at home. 
 
 THE LEADERS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY 
 
 at Charleston and Baltimore repudiated Democratic principles — 
 set at naught the Declaration of Independence — broke up the 
 Democratic organization — and persecuted Stephen A. Douglas to 
 the tomb. These leaders have induced hundreds of thousands of 
 native-born citizens to unfurl the bloody banner of rebellion, and 
 have endeavored to swerve naturalized citizens from their oaths of 
 
 A I- L E G I A X C E . 
 
 I am proud to say, that so far, in few instances have they been 
 successful. Indeed, it is impossible for a naturalized citizen to 
 sympathise with secession, because, by so doing, he commits per- 
 jury. Nor can any amount of casuistry or cunning clear him of 
 the responsibility of his oath. It will not do for casuistical logic- 
 ians to throw dust in the eyes of loyal citizens by endeavoring to 
 show that secession is not treason. Our citizens ought to know 
 that the active agent and one of the proximate causes of disunion 
 has been 
 
 SECRET POLITICAL SOCIETIES. 
 
 The Knights of the Golden Circle have been busily at work for 
 years to break up the Union. All such societies among, a free 
 people are highly mischievous and tend to revolution and anarchy. 
 It matters not whether they be Orange Men, Molly Maguires, 
 American Protestant Associations, Know Nothings, Knights of the 
 Golden Circle, or any other secret political society, all are equally 
 pernicious in a country like ours, where every man is permitted to 
 participate in the making of the laws which aifect his interests. 
 I grant that in a despotic country recourse has to be had to any 
 and every means to overthrow despotism and to establish liberty; 
 but in a free land, every secret political society is a conspiracy 
 against the rights of the citizen, destructive of social order and 
 
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 subversive of all Just government. Is it not fair to inquire wlio 
 are the 
 
 PRESENT S V M 1' A T II I S E R S 
 
 •with rebellion ? Tiieir names are well known — a little observation 
 can tletect them. I'eace — Compromise — Southern Brethren — Il- 
 legal Arrests — -Violations of the Constitution — Gross Corruption, 
 ct cetera, are the shibboleths of our enemies in disguise. We 
 must be on our guard against them. The National Administration 
 must not be crippled in its efforts to suppress rebellion and to pun- 
 ish traitors. If the President or any of his Cabinet do wrong let 
 him or them be impeached, so soon as the traitors are beaten; but 
 we cannot afford to haggle now, when the very life of the nation 
 is at stake. I say, therefore, that we ought to watch the conduct 
 of the 
 
 AIDERS AND Al iETTORS 
 
 of Yancey, Davis, Cobb & Co. We ought to know that there are 
 men in Pennsylvania who would gloat at the spectacle of witness- 
 ing us placed under the yoke of the rebels. Some of these very 
 fellows attempt to create a secession public opinion. Have we 
 closely examined the 
 
 RESULTS OF REBELLION? 
 
 if we have not it is time that we should. It is time that we should 
 know that, if it be successful, our harvests will be trampled under 
 the hoof of the war-horse — that our cities will be first plundered 
 and next burned — that our relatives will have to endure all sorts 
 of insults and outrages — that our workshops will be idle — that 
 famine will overtake us — and that pestilence, traveling upon its 
 heels, will sweep off the unfortunate people. l>ut, in addition to 
 these misfortunes, there will be 
 
 S E V E R A L C ONE E D E R A C I E S , 
 
 each of which will be at war with its neighbors. There will be 
 no stability in government. Military chieftians and dictators will 
 rule by brute force. Arc we to tamely sit down with folded hands 
 and await these misfortunes? Nay, more — arc we to encourage 
 their approach by voting for bad men who are disloyal to the Gov- 
 ci'iimeut, or arc we to support an incendiary and treasonable 
 
 V R E S S . 
 
 Liberty of the jiress is very good, but wliat is to be said and 
 done when the press endeavors to topple over our Government? 
 
n 
 
 Is there to ho liberty for such a press ? "Would not the Govern- 
 ment be recreant to its high and lofty trust, to tolerate a treasona- 
 ble press? Liberty of the press and of speech to traitors, who 
 secretly plot and openly preach the destruction of the Nation ! 
 The National Administration should promptly arrest every such 
 incendiary speaker and writer. Contiinial attacks are made by 
 this treasonal)le press upon the 
 
 N A T 1 '. I N A L A D M IMS T It A T I N . 
 
 I am neitiier the apologist nor eulogist of Mr. Lincoln, nor any 
 member of his Cabinet. I owe none of them anything; I did not 
 vote for him; I hold no office under him, nor do I expect to hold 
 c.ie: no relative or friend of mine holds office under him; I ask 
 no favors of him or his; his political party is not mine; but I go 
 for supporting his Administration in the prosecution of the war. 
 I have not tlio disposition to weaken th(> arm of the E.xecutivc in 
 this our day of trouble. I am for extending to him all the assist- 
 ance possible. I am for strengtliening the (lovernment instead of 
 making it powerless, nor do I envy the feelings of that man whose 
 adherence to party is stronger than devotion to his country. If 
 the National Executive transcends his functions and violates the 
 Constitution, who forced him so to act? Had he not called out 
 the volunteers wouM not Washington lie to-day in possession of 
 the rebels? — nay more, would not Baltimore also be occupied? — 
 would not Philadelphia have been plundered, and probably given 
 to the flames ? Had President Lincoln not done as he did, lie 
 would have become more execrated than even Mr. Buchanan, and 
 God knows lie is not to be envied. AVho, as a general thing, arc 
 the parties who denounce the acts of the Administration as illegal 
 and unconstitutional? Is not every such denouncer a Democrat? 
 — do I state a falsehood? I will satisfy, before I have done, even 
 the most skeptical, tliat Democrats, and only Democrats, arc the 
 enemies of the nation at the present time. One of the most com- 
 mon complaints tliat tliese screech-owls make is the increase 
 of our 
 
 NATIONAL F.URDKNS. 
 
 The increase of taxation is a great and fearful evil, but wliy do 
 not the carpers denounce the villains who liave brought upon us 
 this state of things ? Now let me say that the more enthusiasti- 
 cally the Administration is supported, the sooner will the war be 
 ended, and the less will be our del)t and taxation. It is a duty 
 that every citizen owes to his country, to repudiate every man who 
 tries to paralyze the National Arm. It is important to us all to 
 
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 examine into the claims of tlic variou'^ candidate* of tlie diftercnt 
 political parties, and first, of the 
 
 J r D I C I A K V . 
 
 Nothing can be more important to the Avelfare of the community, 
 to the security of life and property, and to individual liberty, than 
 a bench of Judges -who arc honest and impartial in their decisions 
 — who will aihninister justice impartially between man and man — 
 who arc learned in the law, and who are true to the Constitution 
 of the United States, and who are loyal to its flag. 
 
 Has the Democratic party placed before the people candidates 
 possessing the before named (jualifications ? George Sharswood 
 has all the legal and general knowledge requisite for the high and 
 responsible position of Judge, but it is stated openly and above 
 board, that his sentiments and opinions have been expressed in 
 favor of secession. I do not make the charge, I do not vouch for 
 its accuracy, but I do say that if the report be correct, that it is 
 a duty that every Unionist owes to his country, to vote against 
 Judge Sharswood. I shall regret if the charge can be proven 
 against him, but if it be proven, no power upon earth shall induce 
 me to vote for him. I am unacquainted with ]Mr. Otterson's opin- 
 ions upon the absorbing question — in every other respect he is said 
 to be worthy of the place he seeks. Mr. Bateman is highly learned 
 in the law, but I have heard that he favors compromise with armed 
 traitors, and if so he ought to be defeated. Mr. Ileiskel's char- 
 acter is good — of his ideas regarding secession I cannot speak. 
 Mr. Furman Sheppard is one of the very best nominations that 
 could have been made by any political party. He is a fine scholar, 
 well read in his profession, a thorough Unionist, repudiating the 
 detestable secession heresy — strictly honorable in every transac- 
 tion of life — a perfect gentleman. lie is a man for whom every 
 citizen ought to be proud of the opportunity to vote. Were the 
 Democratic party to make such a nomination upon every occasion, 
 it could hardly ever be beaten. 
 
 LEGISLATORS. 
 
 A Legislature ought to be composed of the honesty and intellect 
 of a Commonwealth. No candidate ought to be elected to the Le- 
 gislature this fall who voted against arming the State, for these 
 men knew or ought to have known that JefF.-Davis-traitors were 
 attacking the very existence of the Nation. AVill the people 
 reelect men to the Legislature who, when the Nation was reeling 
 and tottering under Idows inflicted by conspirators and traitors, 
 refused by their votes to place our great Commonwealth in an at- 
 
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 titmlc of ilefcnoc — arnl wlio only clianged front wlien tlicj lieanl 
 tlic sound of the tornado of popular wrath which was certain to 
 overwhelm them for their faithlessness to Pennsylvania. If the 
 army of the rebels had been able to attack and overrun the State, 
 and capture and occupy Philadelphia, would these Democratic 
 members, who voted against arming Pennsylvania, have reconsid- 
 ered their votes? Or suppose that a majority of the people were 
 in favor of Yancey & Co., where would these members be to-day ? 
 
 I owe no private personal grudge to any man nominated 
 upon the Democratic ticket. I woukl rather than not vote for 
 Democrats for office. I would not have said a word in disparage- 
 ment of one of them, were it not for the dangerous comlition of 
 our country ; but the safety of the Republic must be paramount to 
 every other consideration. I know not whom the People's party, 
 or the No-party party, will nominate, and at this stage of proceed- 
 ings I cannot be influenced by predilections in favor of other per- 
 sons being elected in the places of Messrs. Caldwell, Gaskill and 
 Duffield. These three gentlemen were in the last Legislature, and 
 refused to vote to arm the State. It is for the voters to say upon 
 election day, if they will reelect Representatives who were so dere- 
 lict to their duties as to prefer the trammels of party to the dan- 
 gers of the country. It is clear to every thinking man that all 
 our present troubles have been brought upon us by the Breck- 
 inridge wing of the Democratic party — the wing to which the 
 above named gentlemen belong and with which they have acted. 
 There is another gentleman nominate<l for the Assembly in the 
 Fifth District — he was in the pay of Mr. Buchanan for four years. 
 
 I do not know Mr. Devitt, (or McDevitt,) but he certainly took the 
 wages of an Administration which, with its aiders and abettors, are 
 wholly and entirely responsible for all our National calamities. 
 
 An erroneous impression has gone forth that Mr. Donnelly, the 
 Democratic nominee of the Fourteenth Legislative District, was a 
 mendx'r of the last Legislature. This is not true. I am satisfied 
 that if he had been he would have boldly stood up for the honor 
 and safety of the Nation. Mr. Donnelly was a member of a prior 
 Legislature, and won golden honors for himself by his inflexible 
 honesty and integrity. lie is a true Unionist and ought to be 
 elected. 
 
 Jlr. Townscnd Yeardsly, whose word is not be doubted, states 
 that INIr. Samuel C. Thompson, the Democratic nominee for As- 
 sembly in the Fourth District, rejoiced over the defeat of our 
 armics. If so, he ought not to be elected. 
 
 Mr. Robert M. Carlisle, the nominee of the Seventecntli District, 
 ought to be defeated. A gentleman with whom I am acfpainted, 
 
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 ami of most umlouliteil iiitcgritv, states, l)_v calling at mj Book- 
 store, lie ■will satisfy all doubters as to Mr. Carlisle's unfitness to 
 represent a constituency in the Legislature of Pennsylvania. 
 
 It seems strange if the Democratic County Convention liaJ 
 planted itself squarely in favor of the Union, that Thos. jNIcCuI- 
 loch and Henry J. Lcisenring should have been the two chief 
 competitors for the Kegistersliip of Wills. Mr. Lcisenring, the 
 defeated candidate, did not vote to arm the State, ^Yhen a bill to 
 that effect was before the House of Representatives. Mr. McCul- 
 locli was a mail agent under James Buchanan — he assisted to keep 
 Breckinridgism in the ascendant in the Twcntj'-fourth AVard dur- 
 ing the accursed Administration of Mr. Buchanan. His sympa- 
 thies are with those whose wages he earned during the last 
 two years. No apologies or excuses can whitewash him. He 
 cannot by any possibility be elected. No L^nion Democrat can 
 vote for him — no friends of the lamented Dougla.s — none of those 
 Democrats who were tried in the fire of persecution by Mr. Bu- 
 chanan's hirelings, can vote for him. 
 
 Albert Lawrence, the candidate for Clerk of the Orphans' Court, 
 ought to be elected. He never quailed during the time of the 
 Baker an<l Hamilton reign of terror. He followed tlie Douglas 
 banner like a true Democrat and an honest man — he is a sound 
 L^nionist — every good man ought to vote for him. 
 
 James McClintock belongs to the Breckinridgers. He had not 
 the courage to stand by the true Union Douglas flag, a year ago, 
 but cast his lot among the Breckinridgers. They ought to be al- 
 lowed the privilege of electing him. 
 
 J. Johnson I do not know. I cannot speak of his antecedents, 
 political or otherwise. If he is a Unionist and otherwise unobjec- 
 tionable he ought to be elected. 
 
 I have not time or space to go over each Ward in detail. It is 
 only necessary for every citizen to inquire, first of all. if the par- 
 tics nfiminated are true Union men — if in other respects they are 
 honest, sober and capable — if they have or have not been Mr. 
 Buchanan's hirelings — whether or not they have Breckinridge 
 leanings — whether they have been and arc now for unqualifiedly 
 supporting the National Administration in its war policy — whether 
 any of them rejoiced at the death of Stephen A. Douglas because 
 he was for the Union — and whether they do not let fall from their 
 ■'disloyal lips," as Joseph Holt, of Kentucky, says of them: — 
 Compromise — Peace — Constitutional Guarantees — Lincoln's War 
 — Fraternal Blood — Mistaken Brethren, &c., kc. 
 
 Before I enter upon the claims of the candidates for municipal 
 offices, let us see the nature of the carefully worded resolutions of 
 
the Judicial and County Conventions of the Democratic party. I 
 cannot place the question in fairer liglit than the Sunda// Dispatch 
 of Septemhcr 1st presents it. The Dispatch says : 
 
 The report made to the City and County (State House Row) Convention com- 
 mences with a rompous preamble, in which the names of Jefferson, Ma.l .on, 
 rd'on and Polk, aa-e brought in to show that the first, as a " Democrat.c I'res,^ 
 dent ■• acquired Louisiana: that the second, as a "Democratic President, was in 
 office during tlie war with England ; tliat the ihird, as a "Democratic ^^'^^^ff 
 quashed nuUificalion ; and that the four.h, as a "Democratic 1'™^?"J">'; J'f ^ ,°f;,^ 
 during tlie Mexican war. From this little historical lesson the inference i c lawn 
 that the "Democraiic parly" has erer been for (he Union, the flag, he country, the 
 Constitution, and the sccurKv of the people in their constitutional righis. 
 
 T is chroliological preamble would have been much better i the convention 
 had .^one a liitle further. It should have told us hrw Franklin 1 lerce, as a 
 "Democratic President," put his whole intiuence against the people of kan.as 
 how James Buchanan, as a "Democratic President," attempted to force the Lecomp- 
 ton fraud upon the people of that territory ; how, as a "Democratic President, he 
 appointed the thieves of public property, Floyd and Thompson, ^'^Vo^^i^onsmins 
 cabinet, and allowed them to furnish the Soutli with ordnance, arms •■^jd 3'""";- 
 tion, .and left forts, arsenals, mints and navy yards, in condition tor '« ebe s 
 seize. It might as well have been told how the same Buchanan as a "Democia tic 
 President " .aided and abetted tlie division of the Democratic party so that it shoidd 
 be defeated, the "Black Kepublicans" placed in office, and some pretext be given 
 for measures that would "fiJe the Southern heart, and p-ecipitate the cotton States 
 into revolution." But this, we presume, the ''committee on 'f "^f'^^ ,5^^,!'^f;; 
 better unsaid, because if said it might have induced some doub s whethei the 
 "D moiratic party," under Pierce and Buchanan, had not by its policy ope" y^and 
 secretly encouraged measures which inevitably led tn the endangermen of the 
 Un[on, the flag, Uie country, the Constitution," and "of the security of the people 
 in their consitution.al rights." 
 
 In the disunionism which manifests itself in the Free States, hy 
 whom is it practised? Are not all engaged m it Democrats.'— 
 Vallandigham, of Ohio, Wood, of New York, Ancona and John- 
 son of Pa., members of Congress, Schnahel, of Pa., iom Dunn 
 En^-lish and Chauncev Burr, of New York, Twaddcll, of Lancaster 
 Gerz, of Reatling, Cagger and Richmond, of N. Y., Boyer and 
 Bif^ler of Penn'a, are the compromi.sers, the national convention- 
 alists, the re-constructionists, &c. Compromise with armed trait- 
 ors "^ The thino- is impossible. We must be careful how we tollow 
 these leaders, lest the light they hold before us for our guidance 
 may not have been lighted at treason's lamp, and that like an 
 ignis fatuus it may lead us into pools of destruction. I say here, 
 without fear of refutation, that the only parties who are against 
 the war policy of the Administration are either the late Presi- 
 dent's hirelings, or else black-hearted Breckinridge traitors.— 
 But I follow this charge with another, which I dare them to deny. 
 In the following list of treasonalde newspapers, I assert that every 
 one of them were Breckinridge supporters : 
 
IG 
 
 NEW YORK. 
 
 Alliiiiitj Arijus, 
 
 Ncio Y(jrk News, 
 
 " Journal of Commerce, 
 
 " Day Booh, 
 
 " Frecmans' Journal, 
 
 PrattsriUc News, 
 
 Troy Budijet, 
 
 Vtica Ohserver, 
 
 (ircenport Observer, 
 
 Syracuse Courier, 
 
 Loclcport Adeertiser, 
 
 Troy Uniou, 
 
 Sandy Hill Herald, 
 
 Saratoga HepuLlican, 
 
 Ithica Democrat, 
 
 Hudson Ga::ettc, 
 
 Watcrtown Union, 
 
 Geneva Gazette, 
 
 EUicotville American Union, 
 
 YonTccrs' Herald, 
 
 Franklin Gazette, 
 
 Blajaia Democrat, 
 
 Schenectady Democrat, 
 
 Malone Gazette, 
 
 3Iaysville Sentinel. 
 
 NEW JERSEY. 
 
 Piiterson Register, 
 Ncv:ar]c. Journal, 
 Jiepuhlican Farmer, 
 Belvidere Journal, 
 Hunterdon Democrat, 
 Nru:ton Herald, 
 Flainjield Gazette. 
 
 PENNSYLVANIA. 
 
 Cliamhersburg Valley Spirit, 
 ]yashington E.raminer, 
 Allentoun Democrat, 
 Coshocton Democrat, 
 Pittsburg Republican, 
 Wilksbarre Union, 
 Ifarrisburg Patriot, 
 Elision Star, 
 
 Christian Observer, \_sup>prcssed ."^ 
 Honesdalc Herald, 
 Allcntoivn Republikun,cr,[_ German.'] 
 
 CONNECTICUT. 
 
 Hartford Times, 
 Brideport Advertiser, 
 Middletoxvn Mercury, 
 New Haven Register, 
 Middletown Sentinel. 
 IOWA. 
 Council Bluff Bugle, 
 Iowa, City State Journal, 
 Du Buque Herald, 
 " Citizen. 
 
 NEW HAMPSHIRE. 
 
 Concord Patriot, 
 " Gazette. 
 
 WISCONSIN. 
 Kenosha Democrat, 
 Mihvaukee See Bote, [^Gernuin.] 
 
 MAINE. 
 Portland Argus, 
 Watchman. 
 
 OHIO. 
 Cincinnatti Inquirer, 
 Galicn Democrat, 
 Columbus Crisis, 
 Dayton Empiire, 
 
 MINNESOTA. 
 Wenona State Journal. 
 
 RHODE ISLAND. 
 Providence Post. 
 
 VERMONT. 
 Woodstock Spirit of the Age. 
 
 ILLINOIS. 
 Cass County Union, 
 Bloomington Times, 
 Alton Democrat, 
 Joliet Signal. 
 
 INDIANA. 
 Evansvillc Gazette, 
 Terre Haute Journal, 
 Indianajyolis Sentinel, 
 
 CALIFORNIA. 
 
 Ma-rysvillc Express. 
 
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 SECESSION PAPERS IN LOYAL 
 STATES OP THE SOUTH. 
 
 Balthnore Smi, 
 
 " E.rchiniijr^ 
 
 South, 
 LiiiiixclRc Courirr, 
 Arijust, Wditoii, Mo., 
 
 Ycmiinj, Fniiihfiinl, Ki/., 
 S'/il/iXlllilll. Lr.riiii//nil, A'//., 
 C-'it-.r/fr, Wi/lllilli/toil, Del., 
 Mm'/, Jliiijiralnifii, Mil., 
 Aeira, ( 'jjiitliiiinil, Ki/. 
 
 KANSAS. 
 Alc/ii.'inn DnJbtin. 
 
 I desire to illustrate and to fortify my arguments by citing 
 autlioritics, whose opinions arc of tlie highest importance. 
 
 Andrew Jolinson, of Tennessee, says: — (li'fjiortvd in the ('iiicin- 
 natti Commercial, Scpionber 2d:) 
 
 COMI'KOMI.SE. 
 
 Much has been said fiboiit coniproiuiscs. What! compromise with rebels with 
 arms in their liamls ? Comjiromise willi traitors wlio wniilil subvcil yoiu' Conslilii- 
 tion V llo you ivant any better compromise than tljc Constitution made by 
 Wasliington and tlie jiatriots of the llevolution — a Constitution beneath wliicli 
 they lived, and wliich tliey sealed with their blood? 
 
 I intend to fight in defense of tliis Government as long as life shall last. It is 
 wrong to destroy the best Government ever devised for tlie use of man. I would 
 rather see this continent swept back into a howling wilderness than to see a 
 monarchy planted on the ruins of this Republic. 1 would rather see this race 
 swept out of being than that the sun should set forever in darkness upon man'.s 
 hope for self-government. The fall of this Government would be to the world an 
 argument that man's capability of self-government was at an end. which lies at 
 the foundation of our nolde structure. Now is the time to establish the truth of 
 what we hold to be true. What if our Hag has been trailed in the dust and sullied ; 
 let it be placed in stalwart hands ; baptize it in the sun's fire, and, bathing it in a 
 nation's blood, establish its reputation on a firmer basis than ever before. Never 
 surrender. When Paul .Jones, the n.aval officer, was in an engagement in which 
 his ship was riddled and likely to be sunk to the bottom of the ocean, his lieu- 
 tenant, becoming scared, struclv his colors. The enemy, seeing the colors struck, 
 and being hard by, called out through a trumpet, " Do you surrender ?" Without 
 reply, but seeing that the colors were down, Paul .Jones pulled out his pistol and 
 killed the lieutenant ; then, again hoisting Ids flag, answered, " No, I am just 
 getting ready to fight." Let that be the feeling in the North — we are just getting 
 ready to fight. 
 
 Joseph Holt, of Kentucky, says: — [in N. Y., September ?>d:) 
 
 Fellow-citizens, I do but ntfer a truth whicli is painfully present to all minds, 
 that the disloyalty which is found in our midst, especially at Washington and iu 
 the Border States, has been a fearful source of disaster and discouragement, from 
 the very beginning of the struggle. [Applause.] This evil has assumeil such 
 proportions and magnitude, that its correction now has become a prominent duty 
 upon the part of those charged with the Adiuinistration. [Cheers.] Its preva- 
 lence has been marked by all those treacheries and excesses which have character- 
 ized it in other lands ami in other times. [Renewed cheers.] Next to the worship 
 of the Father of our spirits, the grandest and the strongest sentiment of wliich 
 our nature is susceptible is the love of our country. [Loud cheers.] When that 
 sentiment has been corrupted, like an arch from which the keystone has been 
 displaced, the whole moral character tumbles into ruins. [Cheers.] The public 
 and private performances of traitors and spies, both nuile and female, have been 
 vouched for by all historians until they have grown into a proverb ; that man who 
 
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 will Iiulrny liis couiiliy will bclray liis Ooil. [Applansc] He will betray bis 
 fiiend, his kiiulred, and if need lie, the very wile uf his bojom and the children 
 of his loins. [Loud cheers.] 
 
 The power of the Government can do mnch to correct this evil; but nnicli more 
 can be done by the crushing power of public opinion, branding as an enemy, 
 socially and ])olitieally, disloyalty, whenever and wherever it is found. [Cheers.] 
 These men are, morally at least, guilty of the death of those who fall in the de- 
 fence of the Government, just as much as if they had luet them on the battle-field. 
 [Cries of " That's so," and cheers.] In your railroad cars, upon your steamboats, 
 in your thoroughfares, in every social circle, disloyalty should be branded and 
 blasted as a leprous and loathsome thing. [Loud applause.] And wherever you 
 meet these men — be it upon 'Change or in the social circle — and they offer you 
 their hands, look well to them, for if you have the eyes which I have, you will see 
 that they are red with the blood of freemen, your kindred and friends it may be, 
 who have perished, and are perishing still upon the battlo-fiehl. [Great sensation.] 
 Turn away from them with disgust and indignation. [Loud cheers.] 
 
 Arclibishop Huglics, in reply to Bishop Lyncli: — {Jlctrojiolitan, 
 August -lod:) 
 
 You make mention of the commissioners sent to Washington at an early period 
 of the struggle, with kind, fair and liberal propositions, as you consider them, for 
 the arrangenient of the whole difficulty. Before reaching the point of settlement 
 there would be found a v.ast amount of principle involved. Commissioners should 
 have some recognized authority to warrant them in attempting to discharge the du- 
 ties of their official office. Those of the South, in the circumstances, so far as I 
 can see, had no authority whatever. 
 
 The people of your region (when I say people, cf course I mean the voters, .as 
 commonly understood iu this countryjljad scarcely been constdted on this vital 
 question. Their Government, so-called, was unrecognized by any civil principality 
 on the face of the earth. Commissioners presented themselves before the public 
 servants of a Government universally recognized, by all nations. The terms of 
 these Southern Commissioners were more of dictation than of petition. The Gov- 
 ernment at Washington had to choose one or another of two alternatives. The 
 President and his Cabinet might have chosen the alternative of perjury, and ac- 
 ceded to the demands of those Conunissioners, or they might, as they surely did, 
 decline every official intercourse with them. 
 
 They chose the latter course. And now it only remains to see whether the 
 Government is what it calls itself — the Government of the United States, or merely 
 the Government of a fraction thereof — and that fraction measured out to them by 
 Southern Commissioners who could not show a legitimate title for the Commission 
 which they profess to execute. 
 
 You thiiik it hard and unnatural that foreigners and Catholics should be deluded 
 into the service of the recognized National Government in order to be immolated 
 in the front of battles and made food of for Southern powder. If this end were a 
 deliberate policy in the North, I should scout and despise it. I admit and main- 
 tain foreigners now naturalized, whether Catholics or not, ought to bear their 
 relative burden in defence of the only country on those shores which they have 
 recognized, and which has recognized them as citizens of the United States. 
 
 That word "peace" is becoming more or less familiar here in the North. In a 
 crisislikethisit isnot,inmy opinion, expressiveofasound principleora safe policy. 
 Its meaning changes the basis and the issue of this melancholy war. If changed, 
 it will be a war, not between the Soutli and North, geographically considered, but 
 a war between the two great political parties that divide the country. Instead of 
 this partisan hostility, wise patriots should rival each other in restoring or 
 preserving the Union as one nation, its prosperity, and the protection and 
 happiness of its entire people, in all their legitimate rights. But all this is to be 
 judged of by others, and the opinion of any individual is of the smallest account. 
 
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 Francis JMe;i(rlior savs: 
 
 Will Ivislinicnof N'ew York Klaiid by lliis call — [euiliusiasfic ami volicnionl cries 
 of "We will, we will"] resolutely, lie;ir(ily. with inexorable tidelily, despite of all 
 the sacritices it may cost, despite of all the dangers into which it may compel them, 
 despite of all the bereavements and abiding gloom it may bring upon such homes 
 as this day uiiss the industry and love of the dead soldiei's of the li'.lth, but in some 
 measure to console and succor which tlie festivities of this day have taken place? 
 [Loud and protracted cheers and renewed cries of "We will."] For my part, I 
 ask no Irishman to do that which I myself am not prepared to do. [Trememlous 
 applause.] iMy heart, my arm, my life, is pledged to the national cause, and to the 
 last it will be my highest pride, as I conceive it to be my holiest duty and obliga- 
 tion, to share its fortunes. [Renewed cheering.] I care not to what parly the 
 Chief Magistrate of the Republic has belonged. [Hear, hear.] I cave not upon 
 what plank or platform he may have been elected. [Hear.] The platform dis- 
 appears before the Constitution, umler the injunction of the oath he took on the 
 steps of the Capitol tlic day of his inauguration. [Hear, hear, and loud cheers.] 
 The party disappears in the presence of the nation, [hear, hear.] and as the Chief 
 Magistrate, duly elected and duly sworn, is bound to protect and administer the 
 national property for the benefit of the nation, so should every citi/en concur with 
 him in loyal and patriotic action, discarding the mean persuasions and maxims of 
 the local politicians— [hear, hear] — and sub.stituting the national interests, the 
 national efficiency, the national honor, for the selfishness, the huckstering or the 
 vengeaii^cc of a party. [Enthusiastic cheering.] To me, at all events, the potency 
 of the National Government, the honor and glory of the national Hag, are of infi- 
 nitely higher value than the Regency at Albany, the Tammany Wigwam, Mozart 
 Hall, or the Pewter JIug. [Immense cheering and roars of laiighter.] Nor shall 
 outcries on behalf of the liberty of the press, or the liberty and immunities of the 
 citizen, restrain me in the active allegiance I owe the nation and its Executive, 
 now that the rights and authority of both are jeopardized. The integrity of the 
 national domain, the potency of the National (iovernment, the reputation of the 
 nation.-il arms, the inviolability of the tranquil system of election, without which 
 no popular government can have legitimacy, consistency, and force — these con- 
 siderations are far dearer to me, and I claim them to be of far more vital conse- 
 ipience, than the liberty to promulgate sedition or the liberty to conspire. 
 [Immense applause.] Such liberties must succumb to the demands of the crisis, 
 the puldic safety, the discipline and efficacy of the army, and the attitude of the 
 revolt. [Hear, hear, hear.] Within the range of the laws, the police, the courts, 
 the proprieties and interests of the community, let them have full swing in the 
 days of peace. Such days have their peculiar sanctities — more than this, they 
 have their recognizeil aud favored abuses of popular institutions and prerogatives: 
 and the fieriest or foulest sheet that is scribbleil in the coal hole or in the garret as 
 well as the most faithless citizen among us. m.ay be permitted, the one to scatter 
 broadcast, and the other to drop in crevices and corners, the seeds of disaffection 
 against the GoTernment, without the commonwealth incurring .any detriment. 
 [Hear, hear, hear.] But in time of war— above all, in time of civil war— the 
 supremacy of the (iovernment should be the sole grand object — [loud cries of 
 hear, hear] — and to this end martial law should be the higher law — [tremendous 
 cheers]— and the only one in undisputed force. [Ethusiastic cries of hear, hear, 
 hear, and cheering.] Who sjieaks about his rights as a passenger — about his ban- 
 of money, his chest of books and clothes, the photographs of his wife and children" 
 his live stock or bales of merch.andise, when the steamship has met with a colli- 
 sion, threatens to go down, must be cleared of every embarrassment and dead 
 weight, and all hands .are summoned to the rescue? [Hear, hear.] You know 
 it well. I assert it without fear of contradiction from any quarter, and those 
 who have had most latitude and impunity, were they frank and generous, would 
 be the first to own it. Tlie National Government has suffered more from the 
 patience, the leniency, the magnaniudly it has practised towards its enemies, and 
 
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 (linse wild are in syiiipalliy ami league willi lliem. tlian it has Jone from the 
 courage, the seieuee. the tierce energy of tliose wlin have taken tlie field against 
 it. ami victoriously shaken the banner of revolt ami reimiliation in its face. 
 [I'ries of hear, hear, and loud ajiiilause.] 
 
 Daniel S. Uickin.son says : 
 
 Funky politicians and bastard Democrats fear I atn going to my political funeral. 
 AVell, I "shall have, from present appearance, a pretty handsome procession, and 
 don't want them for mourners. [Great laughter and cheering, and cries of "Good!"] 
 ■^011 know perfectly well what have been my political antecedents. It is not 
 material for the purposes of this question, I hold this ■[uestion to have nothing to 
 do with political aliairs one way or another. And I know of no man — no aboli- 
 tionist so ultra, nor republican so hostile, no American so bigoted, nor no Democrat 
 so detestably faithless, but 1 will go with him to ]ierfonn this great work, if he 
 will go in good faith, as I would go to perform any other work involving the exist- 
 ence of my country. I Lay aside my politics: 1 ask you to lay aside yours. I 
 shall not go to yon politically : I do not ask you to come to me, and any one who 
 will attenfpt to manufacture" politics out of this matter, or drag political parties 
 into it. is no patriot — is a .schemer, and little better than those who assail the 
 country with arms. As to the administration, it was not the .\dmiiiislration of my 
 choosing. I care uothitig for that. >\ here it is right, 1 mean to sustain it ; where 
 it is strong, 1 mean to aid it ; where it is not strong, I will help it to be stronger. 
 
 Mr. Liircoln has been much complained of that he has suspended the habeas 
 corpus, and has interfered with private right, and has curtailed the liberty of the 
 press, and has done various other things of which they complain. Now, as his 
 opponent. I sustain him most in the very acts they condemn. [Cheers.] His act 
 that I approve of most is his suspending the habeas corpus, and I have said and 
 repeat, if he had stispended the traitors it related to in some cases, I would have 
 been glad of it. I uidiold him in arresting the voice of a traitorous press which 
 was attempting to foster and encourage and stimvilate treason. [Cheers.] I agree 
 to his arresting and consigning to prison those villians who are .acting as spies and 
 are attempting to destroy our Government. [<;'heers, and cries of " Good, good."] 
 I sustain him fully and" cheerfully in it. He has ample authority for it. It is a 
 war power, nothing more nor less. .V wicked treasonable rebellion fastens a terri- 
 ble war on the Government, and then whines itself and gets others to whimper 
 for it, that they are arrested, that their treason is blocked. Mr. Lincoln would 
 have deserved impeachment if he had not exercised these powers. 
 
 (Ill, my fellow-citizens, let us all devote ourselves to the service of our country. 
 [Amen.] Every one can do something in his sphere. For myself, I am enlisted 
 lor this great war — rage how it may — terminate how it will. Give me poverty, 
 stripes and chains, give me shame, give me destitution, give me want, give me 
 .abject misery and distress, give me bereavement, let my heart be wrung by every 
 emotion that'can agonize and torture man, make me a wanderer in the earth, and 
 give me an ignoble death, rather than permit my country to perish. [Cheers.] 
 Sooner than that should be done, in the language of Einmett, I would raze every 
 house, burn every blade of grass, and the last intrenchment of Liberty sliall be 
 my grave. No. toy fellow-citizens, let our watchword be. our country, our beloved 
 couiurv I And I "will exclaim with you, ••Oh, my country, may God protect her 
 from evil!" [Immense cheering from the audience often thousand, who had 
 become filled with the sentiments of the speech, greeted Mr. Dickinson as he 
 rehired.] 
 
 The foref^oing pages have been written under one controlling 
 motive, antUharis to render all the as.sistanee in my power to the 
 General Government to jtut an end to the war in the speediest 
 an<l most summary manner. I have tried to prevent men being 
 
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 elected whose past policy lias cncourageil secessionists in tlioir 
 schemes of treason. I hiive shown that Breckinridge Democrats ami 
 the servants of ex-President Buchanan, are, and have heen among 
 the chief causes of the rehelliou. I now ask, liow (hire any Nor- 
 thern traitor talk of peace or compromise, in the present aspect 
 of affairs ? Let us rememher that our real brethren in the South, 
 the Unionists, if a compromise were entereil into with armed 
 traitors, would be left at the mercy of every kind of ruffianism. 
 Let it not be forgotten that Andy Johnson, of Tennessee, Joe Holt, 
 of Kentucky, Foster, of Nortli Carolina, C.irlisle, of Virginia, 
 Prentiss, Brownlow and hosts of other Union men anil their friends 
 will be persecuted to the death. 1 have no patience with those 
 Northern political vagabonds who advise us to desert those gallant 
 men in the South who are being tried by fire and sword, who have 
 been driven to flee for their lives, whose property has been de- 
 stroyed, and whose relatives are sent to rot in jaih I entertain 
 no other feeling than contempt and loathing for Northern mis- 
 creants wdio call Joe Holt and Andy Johnson sycophants, and yet 
 I have heard that epithet applied to one of them liy a loathsome 
 thing calling himself a Democrat. 
 
 There are creatures who cry out — " tliat Campbell is against 
 the Democratic party — he will not adiiere to regular nominations." 
 I reply to this, that if the Democratic party chooses to identify 
 itself witli the enemies of the country, it must take the conse- 
 quences. ^Vhy did not tiie Democratic Conventions, judicial and 
 county, unreservedly endorse President Lincoln's war policy ? No, 
 they must make reservations of constitutional provisos. Why, 
 Breckenridge himself says just the same thing — he will support 
 the President in all his constitutional acts. The fact is, the great 
 authorities whom I have (juoted, have given the true interpretation 
 to all objectors : we are either for the war or against it, we are for 
 the nation or against it, we are for the Administration or against 
 it. Take sides we must ; every man ought to be forced to show 
 his hand. The Hartford Convention Federalists took ground 
 against the country ; tlieir treason followed them imtil they "passed 
 away; their policy Jnis been condemned on every side. Cannot 
 those Democrats who still cling to the jabbering skeleton of Breck- 
 enridge, see tliat tliey are fast treading the brink of the abyss of 
 political deatli 'i Are they too besotted, or ignorant, or treacher- 
 ous not to take a lesson from the past ? Let them continue to 
 pursue the white feather policy, and their names will become a 
 bye-word of scorn, a thing to be hissed at ; their infamy will cling 
 to their posterity; they will be classed with the tories, skinners 
 and cow-boys of the llevolution. What? desert the noble- 
 
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 liearted men of the Rdutli, wlio have, in tlie face of the Breckin- 
 ridjxc despotism, manfully stood up for the Union of these States? 
 Out upon the wretches who encourage such evil counsels. The 
 past none can recal — the future God enahles few to peer into. — 
 The present is ours. I never despaired of the final success of the 
 National arms. The present is ours, let us grasp it. Let us rally 
 to the support of the Federal Executive without demur or mental 
 reservation. On all sides there is a sound and patriotic feeling. 
 Democrats in every direction are escaping from Breckinridge ter- 
 rorism, and uniting to sustain the Government. The threats and 
 intimidations held out, of reading men out of the Democratic 
 party, are almost too ridiculous to be noticed ; hut when threats of 
 assassination are held out, it is quite a different matter. Two 
 gentlemen called upon me at my home on Sunday evening, 1st of 
 September, and advised me not to issue my pamphlet, for that so 
 sure as I did that I would ho shot. I replied to them that my 
 life was in the hamlsof God ; that I would publish the pamphlet if 
 a thousand assassins were howling around me, threatening my life 
 — that I believed that not a man in ten thousand, in cool blood, 
 ever became a murderer — that when passion is up and the brain 
 excited that homicides do occur — that no man, however hardened, 
 wishes to have his finders dabbled with the blood of liis fellow 
 man. I know that the rank and file of the Democratic masses arc 
 true and patriotic. I know that although bad, base men may try 
 and try over again to debauch and corrupt them, yet by all their 
 blandishments, lies and misrepresentations, they are unal)le to 
 swerve the Democracy from its love and devotion to tlie Union of 
 all these States. 
 
 I am licing denounced by fellows calling themselves Democrats, 
 but who understand not the vitality of Democracy. These de- 
 nouncers of me, who are they? — mere oflice seekers or office hold- 
 ers — men without honor ami withrjut principle, none of whose words 
 could bo relied upon for ten minutes of time. Poor creatures ! 
 they think because they have brazen lungs and more brazen faces 
 to liawl — stand by regular nominations, do not cut the ticket, that 
 such constitutes Democrac}'. These Breckinridge disorganizers' 
 talk to the regular Democratic party not to cut the ticket, is the 
 drollest farce imaginable. These fellows, who bolted at Charles- 
 ton and JJaltimore — these fellows, who have demoralized and dis- 
 organized the Democratic party, and, as a consequence, brought 
 upon the nation all its misfortunes — these fellows, when they want 
 their own policy and schemes carried out, arc vociferous for regu- 
 lar nominations; but when Stephen A. Douglas was up, they 
 refused to vote for him and persecuted him to death. The sore 
 
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 heads — by tlicsc I mean the innjority of soulless creatures avIio 
 have been recently turned out of otKce — arc among my most bitter 
 vituperators. The reason is plain : I was one of those who re- 
 sisted tlie suicidal conduct of Mr. ]5uchanan's hirelinr^s in this city. 
 In the E.xccutive Committee, and outsiilc of it, I freely denounced 
 their acts of disorganization upon the Demoeratic party, their 
 assistance to Yancey at Charleston and Baltimore, their repudia- 
 tion of the Democratic ticket, and their persecution of the regu- 
 larly nominated candidate for the Presidency. These peoi)le now 
 cry out, let byo-gones be bye-gones — of course they desire to have 
 their criminal action forgotten. Once for all, I wish it to be un- 
 derstood that I do not include every man who voted for Breckin- 
 ridge in the catalogue of disorganizers, or sympathisers with 
 secession. I believe, as far as I can judge, that many of Breck- 
 inridge's supporters are true Union men, hence I draw a distinc- 
 tion between gentlemen who voted for him conscientiously, and 
 those who were liired to do their master's Indding. Common 
 decency, if not shame, ought t(j have caused these pseudo Demo- 
 crats to have retired into the background for years to come. 
 
 s u M :m a r y . 
 
 The remarks fiefore made in reference to -liidge Shiirswood are 
 no longer applicable, seeing that he has under his own signature 
 denied the right of secession. He and Judge Hare are almost 
 certain to be elected. Amos Briggs is a good lawyer, and will 
 make, if elected, an excellent Judse ; moreover, he is ahove the 
 taint of secessionism. The charge of Furnian Slicppaid made in 
 the J'rcss, (Col. Forney's ]iapei-,) being an old oflice hunter, is 
 false in every particular. His fi-iends, upon every occasion that 
 he has been a candidate, have forced him to it. His abilities, 
 legal knowledge and thorouirh education, fit hiiu in a eminent 
 degree, and here let me say that the Press will add nothing to its 
 reputation by attacking a high-tone<l man like Mr. Sheppar<l. 
 There is hardly a doubt of Mr. Sheppard's election. Frank 
 Wolgamuth has l)een nominated by the No-party's party. There 
 is no truer Unionist in the nation than Mr. W. His patriotic 
 exertions against Mr. Buclianan's jiolicy are well known. A 
 Douglas Democrat, when bolters and disorganizers wore at woidc 
 to destroy the Government; he stood up for the right at all times, 
 and at all places. The question for Mr. Wolgamuth to determine, 
 is which is the best policy to defeat Mr. McCuUoch ? that policy 
 he ought to adopt. 
 
 Mr. Samuel Lloyd, the People's candidate for Register of Wills, 
 is a gentleman well qualified for the oflice, both by education and 
 experience. Of his election there can hardly be any doubt. The 
 
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 No-party party's strength -ffill be tested upon Judge Stroud and 
 jMr. Wolgamuth, should they both remain in the fiehl. It is hardly 
 probable'"that cither of them will continue to be candidates, because 
 it is not likely that either will poll a thousand votes. The contest 
 will narrow down to Messrs. Lloyd and McCulloch. "Were there 
 the remotest prospect of Mr. "Wolgamuth's election, I would work 
 hard for him and vote for him, because he stood by us in the great 
 fight for principle against Mr. Buchanan's tyranny. Had Mr. 
 McCulloch acted like Mr. Wolgamuth, his would be a proud and 
 noble position : but as he cast his lot with the Breckinridge bolters 
 and disorganizers, and with the persecutors of Douglas, he must 
 take the consequences. I disclaim everything like personal ani- 
 mosity against Mr. McCulloch, or any other Democratic nominee — 
 my sole aim is to direct the attention of citizens to such nominees 
 as cooperated with Mr. Buchanan's hirelings to bring upon us our 
 present difficulties and dangers. It is due to Mr. McCulloch to 
 say that some of his friends state that he is a true Unionist. I 
 give him the full benefit of their assertion. 
 
 I have done, I have said my say, I have nothing to take back. 
 Those who are foremost in denouncing mo to day will, before three 
 years shall have expired, admit that I am right. Had my advice been 
 adopted, the Democratic Party would to-daj have the Senatorin 
 the First District, and the Mayor of Philadelphia. I have tried 
 to act honestly by the Democratic Party; there is not a man in its 
 ranks to-day,"whom I ever deceived ; I am willing at all times to 
 aid it to success, but successful it can never be until it clears itself 
 of its present corrupt and Disunion leaders. 
 
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