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REPUBLICAN' NOMINATION.
rot UOVKKSOR,
ANSON P. MORRILL,
or readhilLd.
rot iixtToii.
first District.
ALEXANDER DENNETT, of York,
JOHN N. GOODWIN, of S. Bwwick,
JOHN F. SCAMMAN, of Srco.
ro* COCNTY ATTORNEY,
INCREASE S. KIMBALL,of Stnford,
for run or rocirra,
CHARLES E. WELD, of Buxton.
rox ooorrr cummusiomb,
JOSEPH FROST, of Elliot.
TOR COCXTY TRKAICRER,
ISAAC P. YEATON, of S. Berwick.
THE LAST BOOHOO MEETING.
Hon. E. W. Fakley, the individual who
wished, and made a proposition in 1853,
for fusion between Hunker whigs and hun
leer locos, on the basis of electiug John W.
Dana to the United States Senate, and Mr.
Crosby, Goieraor, and who the came year
used his utmost exertions to defeat, \V. P.
Fessesden, addressed the " Boohoos" of
the Biddeford Association, last|Wednesday
evening. Other engagements prevented
us from being present, but our Reporter
says that " Boohoo" talking was as usual
in the ascendant only " more so." Wilder
was always great on the Boohoo question.
He has saved the union down in New Caa
tie every month in the year, and always
had a plenty of '• old cogniac" to help him.
We know "Wilder** out and out. Rum
and slavery were always the Gods he wor
shipped when he made a show of belonging
to the whig party, we mean when he ob*
ained whig nominations for ottice and then
called on John Babson St Co., of Gun House
memory, and other Hunker Democrats, to
put him through. Last year he was a sort
of a candidate for Congress, and the people
run him under,—this year, ho is an
"alliance'' candidate for Senator, pledged
to he said in his speech, to do all in his
power to repeal the Maine Law, and he
stands about a* good a chance of being
elected as did Jack the Giant Killer of get
tins up to the moon on a bean pole,or as the
man did of drawing a prize in Small's cali
co lottery. Speaker Sewall in 1853, used
to give a very vivid descripton of the differ
ence between a hunker whig and a hunker
loco. The latter he said was a very quiet
and velvety, sort of an animal with sleek,
fair and sweet countenance, whose footsteps
when ho was travelling were never heard,
while the former, was a|rou^h, hairy sort of
a creature, whose hair about hie head stood
■even ways for a Sunday, and when he
went through the bushes made a terrible
crackling. This was about the time Wilder
made his appearance at the State (louse
regularly when the Senatorial question was
up to defeat the election of Mr. Fessenden,
a::d its application to Farley, or the descrip
tion of the latter animal to him was readily
perceived. We understand that Wilder said
ho did not renounce any of his whig prin
ciples, and we thiuk he does not as he has
understood them. His iJea of whiggery
was always fusions with hunker democrats
for office, and to sustain rum and slavery.
In speaking for the two now, he is follow
ing his accustomed vocation. Let him go.
lie will make republican voters.
Samuel J- Anderson, also addressed the
association, and went it strong. He is co
in; to have the Liquor Law repealed at any
rate, lie don't mean thnt it shall be so dif
ficult to obtain ram ; no, uot he—and, oh
terrible ! " if the Legislature don't do it,"
•o he says,11 the peoplo of the State will
not leave one stono upon another of that,
stone building at Augusta;" he goes in for j
the knife and tomahawk — that Sam does,
lie paid his respects to us, so we are told,
and we don't find any difficulty in standing
abn«e from such quarters. We are used
to denunciations Irom rum aristocrats of all
parties.
The hall was decently filled, and, as us
ual, a goodly number of "Shebogans" was
present—perhaps one-half or one-third.—
Upon tho platform, either acting as Vice
Plesidonts or as specimens of the party,
wore Job Berry and Emerson York. At a
side table was the Irish editor of the Dem
ocrat. Chapman did the introducing, and
expressed his satisfaction that there were no
ladies present. He probably nnderstood the
character of tho speaking that the aadience
might expect.
OUR CITY AGENCY.
George H. A Jams, Ksq., so wa learn, '
mail.* a «ort of report al the meeting of the
Biddeford Association, on Saturday, relative
to tho operation! of our City Agency for!
the tale of intoxicating liquors for medici
nal and mechanical purposes; out of thia
report, some very large stories have been
mails with rcspect to tho amount ol liquor
■old. A day or two aince, being at the
Pool, we were told by a gentleman of our
acquaintance " that within seventy days af
ter the establishment of the agency, there
were 4780 package* of liquor sold, " and
that the buyers were chiefly men who pro
fessed to be opposed to rum drinking, and
who were 4i Shebogans,'' as ho termed
them; and he said that theae facts were es
tablished by Mr. Adams' report. To as
certain the facts, wo have examined care
fully the books, and are prepared to state
the real truth in regard to the matter. The
Liqnor Agency was opened May 3, and a J
careful examination of the books ahow that
in the space of niiw/y daya, not urmty !
days, there were leas than four thousand
•ales, and that the wbole amonnt received
for the liquor sold for the quarter was 8 Sl3.
45; being an average of only about nine
dollara a day; and this, too, in a city where
the population is near, if not quite, 8000,
and where various trades and occupations
•re carried on which require the use of al-1
cohol (or mechanical purpoaea. Admitting
the nnmber of sales to have been 4000, the
whole number of gallons aold being laaa
than 600, of all kinds, it would be but a1
pint to each individual pnrchaaer, within
th« 3 months—and as to this liquor having
been purchased by any particular iet ot
men, the story is perfectly ridiculous. Up
on examining the books, we find that the
temale operatives in the mills, who purchase
alcohol generally **' pint at a time, rarely
more than that, for bathing purposes, are
the moat numerous purchasers ; and so far
as the purchases of others are concerned,
they are made indiscriminately by our citi
zen*. The names of men who are oppos
ed to the Maine Law, appear as olien on the
books as do those of its friends, and we no-1
ticed that some of the warmest members of
the Biddeford Ascociation, and occasional .
spouters there, had got the " medicine " for }
" sick Democrats," as often, and a little |
more so, than their friends •• the Shebo
jjans." We hare stated these facts in or-,
der to [slop some of the idle rumors and
! misrepresentations, which, originating in ;
partisan zeal in the first place, have increas- (
ed as they have passed Irom mouth to
mouth, until at last they cause even well
minded men to call for the facts. The rum
men are striving desperately to make a lit-,
tie capital out of the manner in which the j
Agency is conducted; but their stories
when probed, really amount to nothing—as
the facts we give abundantly prove.
, (ET^ Three lull columns of the Democrat
this week is devoted to a slanderous account
of the Republican Convention held here j
Wednesday, Augnst 15. Almost every con
ceivable lie and misrepresentation is worked
into the article, and spewed out by the
writer, who has been allowed the uso of the
editorial columns to abuse and malign the
Convention. We shall not occupy space in
pointing out his misrepresentations. He
squirms well, but not so bad as he and his
friends will before the canvass is over. If
lying, deception and gross personal abuse
would insure the triumph of tho friends of
Rum and Slavery, they would most certain
ly achieve a brilliant victory. But the peo
ple know with whom they are dealing and
the efforts of these slanderers do bat recoil
upon themselves. There was a large num
ber of the most intelligent and candid men
of York County at the Convention, and they
know all the facts respecting it. In its
doings the friends ot Rum, Slavery and
Popery see 41 the hand writing upon the
wall," and they act with a desperation wor
thy or the masters they serve. The great
burden of this long articto it to ihow that
the nominations made were brought about
by a concert with the American Party.—
Why, bless the foolish writer who speaks
for the exhausted editor of the Democrat,
and with a smartness which contrasts most
pleasantly with the general stupidity of the
real editor, this Democrat has been telling
the public every week for months that the
K. N. party and the Republican is identical
" one and indivisible," and if this bo so
why should should not the nominations be
satisfactory all round ! The whole trouble
is that the nominations of this Convention
are likely to be successful, and this is an
awful prospect to the writer of the article.
Wo can imaginejhis feelings, but wo know of
no " balm in Gillead" for him. The peo
ple of York County have got tired of old ,
cliques, and cannot be dragooned into voting ;
for Hum and Slavery by party leaders or
will they believe their misrepresentations.
Tlio witha uf ibe article closes his article
by asking the question, "What will the
people of York do with thaao nominees ?" •
We must say in answer, in view of all the
indications, that they will elect thorn and by i
a triumphant majority.
Those Casus. Every Rum and SJarery
press in the irtato are stigmatizing us as n
" man of blood," because we called for chcert
for the Portland Rifle Guards, at the sugges
tion of Mr. Willej, at the Buxton meeting.
Go on gentlemen, wo aro not remarkably
chicken hearted. Wo have no sympathy for
rioters, or the knaves in broadcloth who urge
theui on, and wj are not afraid that our char
acter for humanity will Buffer in tbo cstirna-1
tion of honest men in consequcnco of any
thing which the instigators and apoligists for
riots can say of us. If there is a poor crea
ture on earth it is the mean specimen of a
man who, after instigating his fellow men to
deeds of violence, as did both the Editors of
the Argus and the Stato of Maine, tries
falsely to hold the fiiendsof poaco accounta
ble for the blood shedding they themselves
occasioned, and next to these moral lepers are ,
the apologist of riots and disorder, like the
the editor of the Democrat, and other edi
tors of the Democratic papers in tho State,
who copy the vile stuff printed by the insti
gators of riots, and thus become accessories
| in the crime of promoting civil disorder. '
We did call for cheers for the Portland Ri
Ho Cuards—these soldiers were called out to
suppress tho most cowardly mob ever seen
in Maine : while others faltered, they rallied
1 around the civil authorities and aided them
in suppressing th« riot, and as we loro peace
anil bate disorder, so wo wero willing to tes
testifj our approval of the conduct of these
soldiers by calling for cheers for them, and
these cheers were rousing ones. We h»ve
no sympathy with John Robbins, and had
the Editors of the State of Mains, or Argus,
shared in his LiU, after their wicked attempts
to Incite a mob, they would bare been de
serving of no sympathy from the public. On
their beads rests tho responsibility of the
death of John Robbins.
A Pikrcc Whiu.—la 1W2 thero were
torna of inch non-descripts to bo found.—
One of them, John Jameson, Esq., of Cor*
nish, «u nominated to the olfice of Sena
tor, by the baker'* dozen of Heed Whig*
who assembled in Saco last Wednesday ^
and went through the farco ol making
nomination*. Mr. J. wa» too strait a whig
to vote for Gen. Scott, and to evinced hig
fidelity to Whiggery by voting the Pierce
tiltfctorial ticket, *o we are informed. Con
sidering this, wo regard hi* nomination as
eminently41 fit to be made," but as to voting
for it, that to altogether another qaestion.
Horace Porter, also, the Chairman of the
meetiug, was so troubled with strait whig
gery, or something else, that he could not
vole for Uen. Scott in 1852. If there are
among these strait whig* those who would
not relish the idea of being entirely sold to
the Rum and Hunker Democracy, we ask
them to reflect upon the position in which
the leaders of this movement seek to place
them. What a pleasant businea* it must
be for those who have been sincere whig*
heretofore, voting to keep the old dynasty
that hat ruled this county for years, Mcln
tire, derrick, Chadbourne, Leland k Co.,
in the ascendent, and aiding in continning
" the line of succession." We would ask
•nch if it to not about time that somebody 1
whose nam* is not Shaw or Mclntire should
toil least eligible to office?
Judge Wella a Nebraika man.
" Esq. Leland" of Saco, in the Augusta
Convention that nominated Judge Wells as
i candidate for Governor, in defining the
"nominee's" position on the Nebraska
question, said :
•lama Ntbraik man, and a lull believer
in the Nebraska bill.'
' I have an intimnte acquaintance with
our nominee, and I knore that he vitvs the
mailer as I Jo. I know that with me he
believe* in the theory and principles of the
Nebraska bill.'
Mr. Leland's word, ordinarily not the
best in the world, when political subjects
are a! issue, has recently been"" made good
by Judge Wells himself. At a Hunker
meeting held in Bath on Saturday,at which
there were less than two hundred, the
Judge, who has been trying to ignore the
question of Nebraaka, as provided in the
resolutions of the Convention that nominated
him, came out and went the whole figure
for the theory and principles of the Nebraska
Bill, speaking substantially as follows ac<
cording to the Bath Tribune.
•' Touching (he Kansas anJ Nebraska
question, he would have the North and
West lei the South alone. Should the/
unite against the South, disunion must of
course follow. The South should be let
alone—they only wanted their half, their
equal voico in national affair*—that was all.
\\ hy what has the South ever done to us 1
What ? nothing, absolutely nothing; we at
the North have always been imposing upon
her and ac'ed the part of lomplainant, while
she has merely acted as defendant, main
taining her rights*
" He remarked, there is the poor South,
(umbtrtd with 3,300.000 slaves, and we at
the North receiving all the profit of their
labor. * With the South separate from yuu,
the grass would grow green in your streets,
your ships would lie rotting at your wharves;
the South would go to Europe for ships to
carry their cotton, and famine and pinching
poverty would usurp the place ol plenty,
luxury and elegance.' Would we abuso
these self-martyring philanthropists of the
southern plantations, by depriving them of
their inherent rights to govern and controll
their own [the whole] ground? As much
right had tne Nor n to send men to Kansas,
as they have [the Southl to come and col
onize our State. Should they attempt that,
we should ol course rise and expel them;
that's what is being dono by the Southern
ers in Kansas/ Why trouble ourselves
about the Fugitive Slave Law? We are
so far removed from the sphere of its opera
tions, it has no inteiest to oa."
So Judge Wells gives up Kansas to the
slave power calling it " their own ground."
This territory which was onco secured to
freedom, he gives over to slavery—and he
reiterates the old Bohoo cry of Disunion.
Tho Portland Advertiser thus comments
upon this llunkeyism of Judge Wells.
Can it be possible that Judge Wells gave
vent to such consummate toadyism as this 1
Read every sentencoover by itself, and see
if even McDonald ever bent so low in sub
servience to tho slave-power. He would
have the South let alone to extend slavery,
make and unmake compromises (or that
purpose, and do whatever she pleases—and
the North must submit! The poor South
is laboring wholly for our benefit—and why
should we thwart her ? And it she expels
our emigrants by mob law frum Kansas, |
she is doing it for tho sake of our ships and ,
M luxury and elegance''—and so let her do j
it! She was a little fast, perhaps, as n
matter of policy, in repealing the Missouri I
Compromise—but then she " should bo let i
Mone," or •'disunion must of course fol
low !"
We aro really unwilling to believe that
such were the expressions of Judge Wells,
so unworthy and degrading are they. Hutj
we cannot do tho Hath Tribune the injui-'
lico of attributing any misrepresentation to
its report. If, however, it is not substantial
ly correct, wo trust wo shall hear precisely
what the Judge did say on this topic. The
people want to know if a candidate for Gov. I
of Maine, at this time, has uttered anything \
hit the above expressions attributed to him. j
They want to know if the spirit of them is
nt all liks his spirit—if the principles there 1
laid down are such as he has the effrontery
lo maintain. Let this matter bo eleared up.
Strait Whijfgery Scouted by ita Lead
ers.
Just as wc have all along predicted, the
leaders of the strait whigs, Farley, Poor 4c
co., those who have been most blatant about
fusion, declaring they would never give up
their whiggery, have at last come to an »in
Jetstanding with the huukerdemocracy,and
are forming alliances—4 alliances,"with tho
rurn and slavery democrats.In Lincoln coun
ty the twowings of tho rum and slavery party
held conventions the same day in Wiscas
sett, and, through committees of confer
ence, an " alliance " was perfected, and a
strike tor tho spoils, made by the nominati
on of a Senatorial and County ticket, com
posed of equal proportions from the rum
and hunker whigs and the rum nnd hunker
democrats. Cochran — the samo Cochran
who made such a splurge in the Reed con
vention, about our treachery — was there,
and helped engineer the alliance along.—
Hon. E. W. Kariit, the great high priest
of Lincoln strait whiggery, with another
strait whig, was put on the Senatorial tick
et with Hon. Manassah Smith and another
hanker democrat; and for County officers
there was a division made between rum
whigs and rum democrats. Farley and bis
Lincoln supporters, including his man
Cochran, always went for rum, theoretical
ly and pratticalty, and the alliance is very
natural. "Men who think alike are going
together; " and we are glad that the kinks
in politics are getting out. The whigs of
this State never had any sympathy with the
rum and slavery notlcns of Farley, Coch
ran and men of that ilk, who wore
" in and out " of the whig party just as
their love for rum and slavery preponder
ated, and wo are now glad that they have
at last found their proper place and the
company they like. E. W. Farloy and
John Babson, of gun-house memory, have
liko tastes and like sympathies, and we are
glad that tho law of social affinities has at
last vindicated itself.
We notice that there are similar indicati
ons of auch " natural alliances " — and why
should not lovers of rum and haters of frec
dom vote together in other parts of the
Slate, among the leaders of the Reed and
Wells party. In Franklin County an alli
ance convention it called, and in other parts
of the State measures for similar meetings ,
have been proposed. We are glad to see .'
the law of social affinities at work — to aee
the ram leaders of the several detachments
•t last doing nomething more than taking "a
imile together,'• and banding themselves
together to preserve their favorite beverage
fro in the destruction which most certainly
iwaits it. We apeak of the leaders — for
ive know that when election day comes
ound the people of Maine never will fol
ow men who are practically as well »s the- j
>retically opposed to temperance. These1
alliances between audi men as Farley &
co. and Levenseller of Lincoln, and, like
alliances in other Counties, will open the|
eye* of honest men, and they will see the
work which these leaders have laid out, and
turn away from ita performance with dis-'
gust and contempt. So, geollemen, go on. I
Band together, you hunker leaders, for:
rum and slavery, and let the people unite
for temperance and freedom, and when the
day of trial comes, the people will tricmph.
It cannot bo otherwise.
ATROCIOUS SLANDERS.
The editor of (he Democrat, in an article
upon the nominees of the republican party
in this county, thus atrociously slanders
them:
Seven names aro to be borne on the coun
ty ticket at the next election, and tho Al
lowing sketch of the fusion nominees for
tho places will be appreciated by thoso per
sonally acquainted with them :
Two of them are renegades from the dem
ocratic party—one an unsuccessful appli
cant for place under the present national
administration—in morals and temperance
as good as the average of those whom the
democratic narty has supported for office,
as it did tnem, as long as it thought they
deserved ; but in respect to these virtues,
they are no better than the democratic
nominees they now oppose. Their old par
ty never asked them to stand in such bad
company as they aro in now upon the fu
sion ticket.
Anouior ol tnem is known to do an ha
bitual drinker (and at times tn txctss,\ of
intoxicating liquors—and ia withal not Tree
from well founded chargea of gambling.
Another of them is either an habitual oi
occasional drinker of liquor, and that, too,
to stupulity—and has withal been guilty of
doing that which overy virtuous family re
gard* as the deepest disgrace and wrong
which can be inflicted upon it in the person
of one of Its members.
Another of them ia charged with drink
ing much more than the most liberal Maino
Law liquor agent would think was requir
ed for medirinal purposes ; but his position
as an officer in a christian church, lends us
to hope it is not true. We shall at once
investigate the charge, and inform out read
ers oi the result.
Another is of that class called mail law
yers, kind of Irtthts on the body public—
which often thrive where more honorable
practioners would starve—has stood so high
in tiro parlies at the same time as to take a
prominent part in two conventions, on two
successive days, each of which nominated
a county ticket. At present, we suppose
ho belong* to thrte parties, one of irnich
meets in secret and cheats the others. He
has olten been severely lectured by the
Judaea in open court for his want of truth
fulness.
Another of them, and tho last of the
seven, is a respectable gentleman of tho
old free soil parly, and has probably receiv
ed the mark of the beast, or ho would have
been rejected as others of his party have
been.
The above aro facts and aro worthy of
consideration by tho honest electors of York
County.
Wo copy tho above to show the ilcipcra
ation of tho friends of rum and slavery.
The editor of the Democrat makes these
cowardly charges by the wholesale. He
gives no names ; lie does not make specif
ic charges. We pronounce them false in
general and false in particular. The men
whom ho slanders, and against whom he
throws out these slanderous intimations, arc
well known, and tho reputation which they
enjoy Jn tin community will'shield tltom
from this common liar nnd libeller, the ed
itor of tho Democrat.
Electors or York County, to what des
peration must the friends of rum and slav
ery be driven, thus to blacken, by dastardly
insinuation and cowardly innuendo,the char
acters of upright and reputable men.
Tin: Mask orr. John A. l'oor, tho ed
itor of the State of Maine, has thrown off
tho mask of strait whiggery and come out
an open advocate of Hunker and Rum De
mocracy. Hear him :
As tff cannot reach thz Nebraska isjue di
rectly, this year, and can meet the other is
sues, we are lor carrying out our principles,
as far as practicable, hach man and each
community must necessarily determine for
itself its courso in reference to the coming
State election. IFe are not to be deterred
from voting for any good men trho trill car
ry out our views in the Legislature of Maine,
by any cry of Nebraska or any foreign issue.
We go in for righting things at homo, and
allowing those moro remote to wait their
turn.
ll in quito apparent thut in some poruous
of tho Stale the Whigs will unite in sup
porting anti-Maine Law Democrats, for the
Legislature, without in any way compro
mising their position as Whigs or endanger
ing the Wilis organization. Thero is no
fusion or union excopt on a single issue for
a particular purpose, with no intention of
giving up any of tho distinctive principles
of tho Whig party. We unite to carry out
one principle of the Whig party, without
turrendoring any other."
Such are the uses to which John A. Poor
designs to put strait whigs; get them to vote
" for anti-Maine Law Democrats for the
Legislature:" This is the invitation to
which he sends out to strait whig*. Well
we could expect nothing better from Poor.
Last year he talked bi£, swaggered and
foamod against tho slavo power when the
Whig Convention was held, did not get
nominated for Congress himself and voted
for Wells, and had tho satisfaction of finding
himself one of a minority of three^thousand.
The poor affair will be still worse this fall.
His mask isotf.
WTho Resolutions (of the Republican
Stale Convention,) were all prepared, were
agreed upon at once, but kept back till near
ly sundown. When they were read in
I)eering's Oaks, some ono, (we believe it
was Mr. Soammon, of Saco.) cried out,
" trhert it the Maine Lair but liia voice
was drowned in the contusion causcd by the
cries of "question" "question." Then it
was that the fearless and intrepid Mr. Wis
well, of Portland, took tho platform and de
manded " in the name of human rights," a
heating for the Maine Law. Mr. Witwell
said ho was not to be silenced by the cries
of '• question," " question."—State 0/Maine
of 20th inst.
Last week we corrected the error of the
Slate of Maine in ascribing this call /or the
Maine Law to Mr. Wiswell, still the paper
persists in repeating the falsehood. It was
Mr. Fatwell of Rockland, who called for
the Maino Law resolution, and Mr. Wiswell
of Portland, did not speak until a long time
after the resolve passed. The whole story
of the State of Maine, declaring that Mr.
Wiswell said that" he would not be silenc.
ed by the cries of " question, question," U
a sheer fabrication. Is it possible for the
editor of the State of Maioo to tall the truth,
we ask again. !
Kircia ! Eureka!—Pierce'* Rosctla
Hair Toaio is pronounced by legions of
those who have uscJ and received benefit
from it to b« tkt best compound for the
head and hair, now in the markit; no toilet
table should be without it Try it. Larg«
lizo bottles for 35 cents; are advertise*
tneut!' Foood at Last." i
THAT EXTRA.
There hus boeu printed at oar office a sheet
containing a aynopais of the principlea and
aims of the American party as anderatnod by
E. Z. C. Judson. Tho publication of the
sheet in question, at our usual rates ol job
printing, has boen seized upon by the supple■ [
ment editor of the Democrat for the purpose
of making a littlo capital, out of Iho fact of
its having Wen printed in our office. Tho
jheet is headed as staled by the Democrat,
it does not purport to be an Extra " Union
and Eastern Journal," and the name of the
authur is given at length. Not a single copy
of it has been sent from our oilico to our sub
scribors, though we should havo gladly sent
them all a copy oould we have afforded the
expense. We printed the document for ita
author, and wo take this occasion to say wo
have read it carefully, and there is nothing
in it which wo should object to sending
broadcast over tho land. It is vigorous in
style, manly in thought, freo Irom all slang,
and in the main, sound in principle. The
foreign heart of tho editor of tho Democrat
may find fault with it, but all truo Americans
will cordially approve of tho sentimonta it
contains. We extract from it tho following
and commend it to the attention of all who
do not wish to see foreign influences prepon
derate in our country.
What aro the principlea of this American
party ?
first anu foremost that Americans nv |
birth-right, by nn inherent lore for their
native land, by their knowledge of their con
stitution and tho institutions ol th^ir coun- >
try—by tho sacred memory of their fathers
nrc entitled to rule nnd are capable of ruling
in their own land ! That thovnre determined
to do so. That they and they alone shall
sustain tho honor of our flagnbroad.nnd tliev
aro able to maintain it at homo. That until
they garrison our forts, man our vessels and
fill our offices at homo and abroad, our coun
try is not safe and will not bo respected or
represented as a nation of free, independent
and intelligent people.
Secondly. That we stand firm as a surge- >
beaten rock in opposition to iho overwhelm- j
ing tido of foreign nnd pauper immigration
which is rolling in from tho old world— j
which has increased our taxes, decreased tho
prico of labor, brought misery nnd suffering
into over-crowded cities—filled to overflow
ing our poor-houtes and caused iia to multi
ply them throughout tho length and breadth
of our land ! Wo oppose the systematic in
troduction of criminals from the prisons of
tho old world!
Thirdly. We opposo tho naturalization of
foreigners nnd their equalisation with our
own citizens before they havo been twenty
one years on our soil, and have proved them
selves loyal to our flag, obedient to our laws
and have beoome acquainted with thenaturo
and intent of our institutions. Because,
nover having been free, they do not properly
understand tho value nnd uses of freedom
and are calculated rather to abuse than prop
erly to use liberty. Bocauso they havo been
willing and subservient slaves to despots at
home, and never havo dared in imitation of
our fathers, to resist tyranny and turn upon
their oppressors. Because if they aro good
men, appreciating our hospitality, thoy will
rather learn of us than assume themselves to
bo teachers nnd rulers. Because, ns a geno
ral tking they will not bocomc Americanized,
but wish hero to retain thoir own prejudices,
customs, languago, &c., forming cliquos an
tagonistic to our laws, customs nnd habits,
j ltecauso they oppose tho system of education
which has enlightened our land, fostered ro
I ligion, advanced art nnd science, nnd mado
us stand as u whole people intellectually in
uilvance of nil other nations!
Fourthly, wc oppose with our wholo hearts
and nil the strength which God pirns us, the
insidious aims of the churoh of Homo to ob
tain political and sectarian power in this Be,
public. Because it hns cursed and blighted
nil countries whero it has succeeded in be
coming connected with the Government.—
Bocauso it is tho condensation of all intoler
' nnco—bccouse its Head assumes supremacy
over all nntions; because its Archbishops,
Bishops and Priests in this and other coun
tries are sworn to opposo, subvert, and do
all tho/ can to destroy all governments he
raticil who do not acknowledge tho Pope as
their suprome ruler and God's representative
on earth. Bcciuso if n murderer or a thief
or criminal of any grade confesses his crime
to them, they do not delivor him up to jus
tice, but for pay nhsolvo him of crime, be
coming thcmsclve* by its concealment accesso
ries in the crime, and encourage bim by so
doing to commit luoro crimo. Bccauso they
I rear nunneries, where, inside of iron doors
and grated windows helpless nnd Innocent
girls nnd women who hnvo committed no
crimo are detained as prisoners—whero there
aro secrets and mysteries which they dire
I not reveal to tho outor world, whero thero
nro nauseous dungeons and mimoless graves!
Because thoy will not permit their pcoplo to
bceomo educated witli ours, exercise over
them unlnwlul restraint, deprive them of the
holy soriptures, urgo upon them hatred to ua
a* protestnnts and Christians, derido our
laws and institutions, and control their
I minions politically as well as spiritually!—
I Becauso all history proves them to bo dan
gerous foes to human and religious liberty
full of intrigue, blood-thirstiness, cunning
and all manner ol evil!
Fifthly, believing tlint charity uepma m
homo, wo nro in favor of other countries sup
porting their own paupers instead of dumping
them in here to burden us. Wo aro in favor
of protecting nnd cherishing the industry of
J our own citizens, and keeping them up in
I decency and comfort, rathor than hy encour
aging alien paupers to bring our citizens
down to a level with thorn !
Sixthly, that we are bitterly and fervently
opposed to tho designing knaves, who, tak»
ing advantage of the ignoranco of aliens ad
mitted too easily to a participation in the
rights of suffrago, have used them through
bribery, corruption nnd their oasily cxcitcd
prejudices, as tools for their own personal
advancement, utterly regardloaa of the good
of the country or the safety of our llopublio
Seventh and lastly, that we do not ossumo
to Interfere with the constitutional rights of
any State, that wo do not assume to inter
fore with slavery where it existi, but we
liernly insist that the Missouri Compromise
of 183) wns sacred and waa only broken by
faithlessness and treason, that tho extension
of slavery upon soil hitherto free, is a black
and damning shame upon our wisest states
men. such as Clay, Webster, Dell, Houston,
Benton, Adama and others, good men and
peat, who have grown groy in their coun- i
try'a servico, or gone down honored and la-'
uented to the gruvc. That though slavery
is a heritage which cannot be atonce and in
stantly cast off either with justice to tho un
prepared slaves or to the master who is as
unprepared for instant abolition as they, that
it is an institution to bo deplored—1st be*
causo it contradicts that portion of our de*
duration of Independence which declares
that "all men are born free and eqnal,"—
next, because it gires.otbcr nations and peo
ple good reason to inveigh against us, who
calling ourselves free, yet buy and aell men 1
under oar flag. Lastly, because slave labor
never is or can bo ao productive of either !
profit or happiness as free labor!
i\nd dow, Ansnani, wnm u ukiv iu- ■
tolerant or molting in tht principles of this
p«rty 1 We do not mj to ihe Catholic, you
•half not follow jour religion ! We my you
•kail not drag jour religion into our State
and National politics! We do not nj to i
the foreigner, jou shall not lire here. labor
here, or refueo fair wages to him for labor! |
We simplj say that in thia republic jou'
hull bo republican—that jou shall be A
mericaniied if you como under our flat, that'
if jou beoome a member of our faailj jou
•Mil submit to its rules ! That jour ehil. j
dren cannot become good citiiena without i
thej are educated aod enlightened, and that I
thej ought to take adrantage with our* of (
tke educational arenuea and benrSU placed
before them. That until jou learn what
freedom is and cut aside jour national preju- i'
dice*, we will restrain you Id certain pawns
which yoo know not how to um !
Wluii then it there good in ibo principha
of th'm party!
A detestation of tyranny in ever? shape.
A respect for pa«t obligation* and Com pro in
iaea! A rcmemheranco o( the advice of
that Washington, who bade us beware of
ufortipn infiutnti, ike most baneful foe to a
republican government"—who so distrusted
the faith of foreigners that in the hour of
danger he bade his officers " put hont but
Americans on guard ! " A respect for re
ligion and ita chart the holy bible. The ad
vancement of acience and the culture of the
human intellect. Tho aim to do the great
est number and not to elevate the few by
the debasement of the many. The deter
mination to advance, rfctber than retard,
the cause of Liberty. The intent to pre
serve the heritage given to us by our fattier*
to ourselves and our children, nnd not to
sell or give our birthright to strangers.—
The reformation of public abuses. The
lessening of taxation. The encouragement
of homo products and home labor. Tho
displacement of knavos from official power
and tho elevation of honest men nnd patri
ots instesd.
Legislation in Kansas—Draconian De
crees Respecting Anti-Sla very. Among
the most remaikablu acta of iho Legisla
ture of Kanras, which ia atill in session, ia
ono lo punish oflenaes against alave proper
ty. By this, death is prescribed a* the pen-1
alty of all active interference in reference
to slavery : but the following two section*
strike in so daring a manner at the freedom
of opinion and the libeity of freo speech
and of the press, that we think it our duty
to place them in full upon record, for the
oxecration of the country.
•Ml any person print, write,introduce into,
publish, or circulate, or cau»e to be brought
into, primed, written, published or circula
lated, or shall knowingly aid or inaist in
bringing into, printing, publishing, or cir
culating within this territory, any book, pa
per, fitc., containing statements, doctrines,
&c., calculated to produco a disaffection
among the slaves of this territory,—he shall
be punished by imprisonment at hard la
bor for not less than five years.
If any person, by speaking or writing, as
sert or maintain that persons huve not the
the right to hold slaves in the territory, or
shnll introduce into Kansas, print, publish,
write, circulatc, or cause to bo introduced
Into the territory, written, printed, publish
ed, or circulated in this territory, any book,
paper, magazine, pamphlet, or circular, con
taining any denial of the rich's of persons
to hold slaves in this territory, such per
son shall be deemed guilty of felony, and
punished by imprisonment at haul labor for
a term not less than two years."
This is nothing more nor less than mak
ing a difference of opinion upon a comlilu
•ional question, a penitentiory offence. It
is right to state, that on finally passing the
act, the House camo to a resolve that it
should not be printed.—Boston Traveller.
And yot, Judge Weill agrees in principle
doubtless, with all of this. And if tho net
could havo been kept out of print, he
might havo seen no objection to the " poli
cy." The Kansaa-Missourians are only do
ing what he would do in their place—and
therefore wo must say nothing against it!
When will the reign of slave violence cease
to draw after it tho reign of northern folly 1
(IT** Tho man with a foreign hoart who
controls tho Iriah ahcet published in Saco
chargca ua with complicity with Mr. Jud
son in hia lecturing in this State. Had
we any agency in tho matter, moat certain
ly we should willingly avow il, but in no
particular aro wo entitled to any credit of
thin kind. Mr. Judaon lectures when and
whero lie chooses, and upon such subjects as
suits him. II he can descond low enough
to take the apoligist for Hum, Slavery and
Papacy, who controls ilia Democrat, and
castigate him as he deserves, it is no busi.
ncss of ours. We have had nothing what
ever to do with Mr. Judson, except that wo
have printed, for pay, some of his hand
bills, and wn repeat what we have before
said, " that wo know nothing of his char
acter.'' Wc have road in tho papal sheets
the accusations made against Mr. Judson,
but wc have not been in the habit of look
ing into them for truth, and do nut consider
their assertions as evidence, nor shall wo
condemn any man upon the lying word of
tho editors of these papers.
Tho man who told himself for a few
hundred dollars worth of Government Ad
vertising, as did the editor of tho Democrat,
is not tho man upon whoso testimony tho
viciousneos of others can be established.
Wo Are rcoeiring daily «uch encouraging
lottcrs as tho following, rcccivcd from a
friend in Hancock County.
Won, Aug. 12, 1855.
L 0. Cowan, .......
Dear Sir How goea tho battle in Old
York ! Tha Wild Cuts hero claim that they
will elect Wella Scnatora in your County,
and make large gains on tho popular voto
from last yevr. I know that York ia sup
posed to bo sunk more deeply in tho slough
of Democracy and rum, than any other
County in thn State, but I hopo not suffi
ciently deop to elect Wild Cat Senators.—
Pleaso write me what you thiok about York,
as we feel anxious for your succeaa.
Thing look woll, politically, in Hancock.
I think wo shall giro Gor. Morrill as large a
majority as we did last year—ahall elect our
Scnatora by 2000 majority, and I sco no
reason to doubt but what wo shall clect all
of the Representatives. We challenge any
County to do better for tbo Republican cause
than that. Yours truly.
We eannot find timo to reply to all such
letters, excoptiox through our paper. And
in answer to all, wo wish to state that tho
skies are bright in old York. The people of
York will spoak for Freedom and Temper
ance, wo confidently beliere, in the result of
the election.
A writer who aigua himself •• York
Countjr," in tho Kaitern Argus, speaks as
follows:
Cowan in his paper of the 3d, undertake*
to make tlie public beliere that hit fiiend
Ned Uuntline ia stumping York County with
out tho aanciioo of the Morrill and Know*
nothing party However that toaj be, it ia
well known that among the moat VTomintnX
and conspicuous at the meetings orBuntline,
are the sheriff of the county, and Loois 0.
Cowan of the Diddeford Ubion.
We do not know how oonspicuous the
Sheriff ot the Countj maj hare made him.
•elf at " the meetings of Buntline," but so
far as we are concerned our conipicuousness
amounts to having heard him some half an
hour, when he lectured in Central Hall, and
hearing him castigate the Editor of the Dem*
ocrat n few momenta when he spoke in our
itreeU. " York County," probably lies
ibout (be sheriff, as we know he does about
as. _
Qy Tkt Irish Democrat tay« Know
tfothingwm inculcate* deception and lying.
Now, Mr. Hanscom tboold not judge all
Jy his " lying" eorrwpondenls who wera
ticked out of the order for " deception and
yingand who are now lying merabera
>f the docoptire Ram and Honker party
hat la trying to keep ita rotten carcaaa from
i political grate by 11 deception and lying."!
Letter from Hon. Kenneth Bayner.
Iluir Jamtt Campbell, of Penntyhania, a
leading Catholic, came to compou ont of
Prmdmt Pierct't Cabinet.
No little astonishment was created at the
limo, at the appointment of James Camp.
Ml of Pennsylvania, to & place in the Cab
inet at Washington, by President Pierce.—
The following letter, fiom Hon. Kenneth
Rayner of North Carolina, eiplains the
whole matter, and reveals the fact that a
corrupt bargain waa entered into between
Pierce and the Pope at Rome, that he waa
to have the Catholic vote of this country,
provided ho should give the Catholic church
a seat in his Cabinet in the person of whom
ever bis Pontilloial Highness should nomi
nate. It seems by this letter, that Mr. Bar
renger, our Minister to Spain, was distinct
ly informed at Madrid that Mr. Campbell
was appointed long before any notice of the
construction of the Cabinet was known in
this country. Let Americans read and
judge if attempts to countmact dangers from
foreign influence in this country have been
made any loo soon. Popedom and Slavery
dorn have fastened their poisonoua fanga
upon our free American institutions, and
nothing bnt n united and determined effort
can save them from them utter destruction.
—American Setitincl.
Raleigh, N. C , Thursday,)
July 19, 1855. J
Mr Pear Sir : I have received youra of
the 16th inst., in which you refer to the
denial by the Union newspaper of the truth
of the statement (first spoken of by me in
my speech nt Washington, afterwards by
vou in your oration of the Fourth) of Hon.
Daniel M. Barringer, our late minister to
Spain.
JMr. Uarringor lirst mentioned mis mauer
lo me last Winter, in Kaleigh, ami I have
■ince taken occasion to allude tu it several
times in delivering popular addresses.—
About four weeks since on my icturn from
Philadelphia, I met Mr. IJarringer in Balti*
more, and in Ihe course of conversation
with him I mentioned the (act that I had
taken occasion to apeak publicly of what
he had said lo mo about the I'ope's Nuncio,
nt Madiid, hiving stated to me before he
(Mr. B.) had heard, and before the news
of the same had reached Madrid, of the
formation of Mr. Pierce's Cabinet, to wit:
That Mr. Campbell of Pennsylvania, a
member of ihe Roman Catholic Church,
was to be one ol Pictce'a cabinct.
This wa« as I had received the statement
from Mr. B. in the first instance, and it was
thus that I had apoken ol it. I askeJ Mr.
I). if I hail represented him correctly, far
that I should probably speak of it again,
and I wi*h?d to bo sure, that I might give
the statement correctly. Mr. H. replied that
I had stated thu matter correctly, and then
went on to relate tho occasion and incidents
of this remark to him by the Pope's Nuncio.
A few days since I received a letter from
Mr. Barringer, dated " Niagara Falls, July
6, 1855," in which alluding lo the fact that
he had lately seen published a synopsis of
my speech in Washington, in which I was
reported as having mentioned the matter in
terms somewhat varient fiom those in which
he stated it to tne. and then he (Mr. B.)
goes on to reiterate what ho had twice be
foro stated to me.
I now will quote to yon, verbatim, the
language n«c(l by liitn, in an extract from
this letter, just received, (to wit.)
" Before I had any authentic and certain
now* of the formation of the Cabinet, and
■till while it wn* a subject of conjecture at
the Court oi Madrid, he (thu Pope'* Nuncio)
told me that Judge Campbell, of Pennsyl
vania, waft appointed, and that ho wax a
Catholic, which was the first intimation I
had, either of his appointment or his relig
ion."
This is the statement, a* I had given it,
when alluding to it in public ; although it
might have been slightly varied in news
paper reports, and this, 1 think, establishes
a charge, long sinco made and belioved by
thousands, that there was an undtrtlmuling,
to call it no worse name, that the Roman
Catholic vote should be given to Mr. Pierce,
and that he in his turn, should give to that
Church a seat in his Cabinet, as well as
mnny other high positions.
You are at liberty to make any u«o you
please of this letter, in vindication of your
self against the charges of falsehood in the
Union newspaper, inasmuch as you based
your statements on my authority.
Yours, very truly, K. Ratncb.
Death of Hon. Abbott Lawrence.
Wo regret to l>o compelled to announce
the demise of the Hon. Annorr Lawremk,
who expired, nfter a Ion;; nnd painful illneu,
at his residenco in Park si root, in this city,
at n few minutes after 11 o'clock on .Vutur*
day forenoon. This melancholy event has
been for sotno lime anticipated ; and the
public desiro which has been continually
manifested for Mr. Lawrence's recovery,
has fullr demonstrated tho high estimation
in which he was held by his fellow citizens,
flis death does not leave n pap in tho com
mercisl world alone. Thcro, indeed, his
integrity, sagacity and succesi made him *
man of tnnrk; but his systematic boncvo
lenco, his princely benelaclions to tho eausn
of scienco, his fiilelit^r to tho interests of the
Stato nnd of tho Nation, won lor hiin a rep
utation in other tSan cuiamcrrial circles.—
Ho wus not tho lea*t remarkable of a very
remarkable family, nil but one of which aro
now gathered to their fathers. What large
influences these men have exorcised—how
much Massachusetts is indobtod to thorn for
hor signal prosperity—how many of her
great mercantile Interests wero created by
their energy, it is not necessary for ui to re
count. They leave behind them tho noblest
of monuments—two flourishing citios, ono
of which besrs thoir name, and both of
which sprang almost at onco into miraculous
prosperity, by tho magic of their sagacity
and forethought
Air. adoou Lawrence wr.n i>orn id uro
ton, Mu«., in December, 1792. Hi* educa
tion was thnfc ot the common school in that
Tillage ; and li« whose wealth has since cre
ated the most excellent school of science in
the country, hod, in his own youth, nono of
thoso advantages which are now so liberally
afforded to the young. Ho catne to Boston
| in 1808, and «**s first engaged, in connec
tion with his brothers, in importations,
which were subsequently given up for the
important manufactories at Lowell. Mr.
Lawrence's succcss in business is well
known, and ho leaves behind him a great es
tate, entirely, wo believe, tho result of his
own prudence and ability. How he man
aged his immense affairs, is known to all the
world. Most unfortunately, very few men
achiove a grand success like bis without
some spots upon the character, which no
splendor of fortune can efface; but Mr.
Lawrence was as freo as any man ever was
from the sordid rices of pecuniary nroeper
ity. He was not merely honest within the
letter ol the law ; but open handed and lib
eral, with kind words olcncouragomcnt and
kinder acts of sstisUnce for all who needed
them. Thero was not a trace of avarice or
greed in his nstura; if be acquired great
sums, he used them worthily; and lived and
moved among as, a genial, honorable, Chris
tian gentleman and merchant.
id eariy me Air. ijawrence wu united in
marriaie with Katharine Bigelow, eldeat
diugbter of tbo lato Tinothy Bigelow, K»q.,
and the anion proved eminently a happy
one. Mr*. Lawrence haa been to the hua
band ahe is now called to moam, one of the
beat of wire*, encouraging and cheering
him in all the dutiea of life, and carefully
and conacientioualy rearing a large family.
Her good ami wiae counsel* ever received
from her hatband their merited attention.
In publio life Mr.Lawrence occupied aev
oral imporUnt poeitiooa. tie waa a mem ber
of the Uoaae of Rcpreaentativea in the
WlVth and XXVth Congratses; and prov
ed hlmaelf in all lmancial and commercial
boatneaa, one of the ableat men of that body.
In 1M3 he waa appointed one of the Com
mittionert for the settlement of the North
Extern Boundary nuestion. In 1840 he
iras appointed the Minister of the United
States al the Court of St. Jamee. No Amer
can diplomatist haa ever won in that ooan>
try rocn warm and aubeUntial popolarity.
something in hie character or manner!
provrd agratable to English aocietj of ull
claasea; tod whan he viaitcd Ireland be »aa
literally overwhelmed by nlientiona. It ia
ondaratood that while in that kingdom ha
made oopioua and important notea of tha
condition of the country, which were duly
lianiinitted to Waahii gton ; but have never
been printed bj the government. He prov
ed hiintair quite equal to lha hone#* ""1
able discharge of the dutlea ol Il.i*n
place, and fully auatained the cb«f?oter
which hia immediate predeceeaora bad
1 cured Tor the American legation.—Uotlon
Allot 20ih inst,,
The attention of our readera, and
especially thoae of them who have heard of
the cry which the Slavery and Rum Hun
kcra ara making about bills, for the grantj
of land* to Academiea, which failed to And
a paiaage la»t winter, ia called to tha ap*
pendrd article. The poor aouls are afraid
that Billa which were defeated laat winter,
will bo pasaed tbe next The article ia from
the Kennebec Journal.
Academy Grants—land Plundering.
Ever since the adjournment of the last
legislature, the Rum and Nebraska paper*
linvo kept up auoh a kovl. (it can be called
nothing else,) about "land plundering" and
" appropriation* to Sectarian Institution*,"
that we really fear manv honest peopla hare
been cheated into a belx-f in some of their
charge*, and they begin to indulge appre
hension* that another Republican Legisla
ture will atrip the State of every acre of
land it possesses. In reply to all such mis
representations of an unscrupulous press,
it ought to be and is sufficient to sar, THAT
THE LAST LEGISLATURE DID NOT AP
PROPRIATE A SINGLE ACRE OF PUH
LIC LAND FOR ANY PURPOSE WHAT
EVER.
It is true, bills wero introduced, both in
Senate nnd House, which, il passed, would
have given to coruin dearrving literary in
stitutions a specified amount of land. Eut
the bill was not passed. Tho legislature,
after a full discussion of the whole subjeet,
and a careful investigation into tho condi
tion of tho State Treasury, determined that
it wo* not a proper time to make the grant
naked for, and consequently they refused to
nanction the bills. Now it will be reinem
Itered that the Republicans had a very Urge
msjurity in tho Legislature, and that they
were perfectly able, as a party to carry any
measure they chose to favor. As they did
not chose to vote away a single sere of tho
State's domain, how baselrss and falso is
the chargo of "land plundering," which the
opposition press continue to bellow forth.
Rut if all tho bills which were introduced
had been passed, there should be no com
plaint made by thoso who are now so loud
in their reproaches. If the Republican leg
islature of 1855, had teen fit to give n por
tion of tho State's land to worthy and de
serving Academics, they would have done
no more than was rontemplated by the Con
stitution of Maine, and do more than has
boon dun* by tho Democracy, at various
times, while that party had tho undisputed
control of the Statu. Not tn go nny farther
> lack than to the year* '48, '49, '50, and '52,
; year* in which they Dcmocrntie party had
' an unquestioned majority in both branches,
we find by referenco to tho legislative pro
; ceedings of those year*, that tho following
' grants were mado to Academies.
In 184H.
To K. Corinth Ac*1., 1-2 towiublp | apprM Jul/ 14
, To Lincoln lllfh School, 1 2 townihipi " "
la 1KB.
To LlUhfitU Ac*l., 1-J tuwnitlp ) sipr'J Auf. *
Trt Mooton " " » » T
To 8omm*t »• •» •» - II
To SUmlUb M m I
To rntoa. •• » » « j
Im 1890.
To Pryrharj Ac*J., 1-2 towruhip | tpprM Au«. IT
I To Vannltiftoii " " »
To Aim* " M mm
To Owrrjrflcld '• « " «
To C»UU •• « « »
To SI. AIInuu m " «m
To iMtnytrtll*•* (400 In money | " M 34
To OouU'i " 1-2 lo*n»hlp | " " S*
To llampiltfi. M * " * H
In 1851. No grant* wro made ; it wu
the short iluoo week session in which no
general business was transacted.
. In 1852. I/jbnnon Academy received
$1000 in money.
The neil year, 1853, the "old democracy"
lost the control of the legislature, the
1 Whigs and Tempcrnnco Democrat* obtain
ing and holding tho balance of power.—
Now, mark the result. Since that tim* not
, a tin git acre of v'tblic hind has been total
i mcay! while during the last four years of
'ascendancs of the old line democrats. FIF
TEEN HALF TOWNSHIPS of land, and
ifourteen hundred dollart in money, wcro
frcoly given to Academies which they now
dcnounco as '•Sectarian," and unworthy of
any public bounty or patronngo. This is
the desperate straight to which our oppon
ents are driven. Falsehood, misrepresenta
tion «nd calumny are tbeir only weapons,
and they use them unsparingly and without
even the modicum of discretion, which ordi
nurilv characterizes rogues. They push
ahead with their charge* without taking
the precaution to look back; and they find
in tho end, that if tliero bo any) truth in
their allegations, they have only criminated
thcmvelvc*.— KnmtLtc Journal.
I Sick Democrat*. Wo understand that
1 officer Kmenon, who is an excellent hand
I in ca«csof sickness, was called to attend to
the wants of two kick democrats, said to
be members of the Biddeford Association,
' who had taken an over dose of hunker dem
ocratic medicine, on Saturday evening.—
Mr. Ktnerson found tnem perfectly proatiate
on mother earth, near the coveted bridge,
; terrible sick, so much so as to be insensi
; ble, and he kindly took them to the city
| hospital, and, oil Monday, ho took them be
' fore his honor, Judge Bourne, who decreed
J they should be aent to Alfred, to ruilicatt,
for thirty doya, and pay a line of ten dollars
i each, fur their unfortunate use of the dent
1 ocratio panacea. Somo of their friends, T.
' K. Lane and Luther Bryant, being ol an
' opinion that it would be well to postpone
the journey to Alfred a short lime , demnr
| ted to the decision ot Judge Bourne, and
recognized in the sum of two hundred dol
' lari, for their appearanoo to Court hereafter.
How Staxm Waldo? While the mo*t
cheering new* have been reaching us from
all part* ol iho State of the on-coming tri
umphs »t the Republican esuto in the ap
proaching election, we hue been cjrelully
taking notea relating to the standing of par.
tiea in this country ; and we say now confi
dently to o«r friends abroad that Waldo is
sin ! Set her down lor ONE THOUSAND
MAJORITY FOR ANSON P. MORRILL
on the second Monday of September! The
friends of freedom and temperance are uni
ted to • man on these great principles and
will work till the day of electioo lor the suc
cess of the Republican candidates. Tbey
are bound to bold tbeir own in every town
in the country and In many to make large
gains.—Progrtuivi Aft.
A Pbkdictiox. Anson P. Morrill will be
elected Governor of this State, by the popu
lar rote, at the neat election obtaining a
majority of orer Fits Tbocsaxd.
Akotoeb. In both brancbcs of the Leg
islature next winter, there will be i majori
ty of Republicans.
Asotbeb. The Rom and Slavery Dem
ocracy in tbo County of York will be beaten
on the Until of September.
Steameb Halifax. Capt. B. King ie
taking crowds down to the Pool with hi*
steamer. Everybody is satisfied with th«
Boat and iu officers.
(jy Tbistam Oilman, has removed hie
itock to the eorner store in the Peering
Block, Factory Island. See advertisement.