Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-10-20
GOOD NEWS FROM HARRISBURG.

| GOOD NEWS FROM HARRISBURG.
But one Electoral Ticket in Pennsylvania.
..Is UNION THERE is STRENGTH"
PENNSYLVANIA is safe. The National Republl'
can Convention, which assembled at Harrisburg
on Monday last, with great unanimity, withdrew
their own, and adopted the Anti. Masonic Electo-
raj Ticket. There were one hundred and eleuen
members present-all sanguine OF success IN NO.
vember-all eager for the contest. 1t is now as
certained to certainty that the State Legisla'
ture u.s. on joint ballot, decidedly .fnti-Jackson;
and it is confidently believed that majority OF
the newly elected Members Of Congress are OF
the same way Of thinking. This is, indeed,
Triumph great and glorious triumph, and such
as must carry terror into the ranks Of our opPo.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Proceedings of the National Republican ConUen.
fion of Pennsylvania.
HARRlsBuRGH, Monday, Oct. IS, 1882.
The Convention met at IL O'clock this day.
JOSEPH LAWRENCE, of Washington County, was
chosen President Of the Convention. Gabriel
! Hester, Of Dauphin, and Daniel w. Coke, Of
Philadelphia, Vice Presidents; and joseph g.
Clarkson. of Philadelphia, and John. DICK, OF
Crawford. were appointed Secretaries.
The list Of Delegates was called over, when
III members answered to their names.
The following resolution was offered by rhos.
Burnside. and unanimously adopted:
Resolved. That Committee Of fifteen be ap.
pointed to prepare resolutions, and an Address
to the People Of Penhsy lvanla, demonstrative Of
the course Of policy and principles Of this Con.
venti0n.
TUESDAY, October 16
| The Convention met, pursuant to adjournment.
Mr.. Burnside. from the Committee appointed
to draft Resolutions and 40 Address, reported
the following; from wh,h Mr.. Mason. Of York,
and Mr.. Mcdowell, Of Bucks, members of the
Committee, dissented:
Resolved, That. to preserve the Constitution;
of our beloved country, I'D to enable the Anti
Jackson Party of Pennsylvania to present an un-
divided front in the approaching Election. this
Convention resolve to withdraw the Electoral
Ticket adopted at their session in May last.
RESOLVED, That this Convention adopt the
Electoral Ticket formed by the !Antl-Jackson
| Convention which assembled in Harrisburg on
the anniversary of the birth day Of WASHINGTON
in February last. and earnestly recommend that
ticket to the support Of the National Republican
Party.
ADDkESS.
We have again assembled in pursuance of the
recommendation of thu St,,e Committee, to de-
| liberate on the course to be pursued by the Ma
tioual Republican party at the approaching Elec.
| ton in November next. Great events have tran
led since we last assembled
| Gene, al Jackson has u, Ell to the world fur
Their de, eopment OF his principles IN his ceIebrat
| ed Veto against the bill e.charterins the Bank
cf the United States. He has placed himself
above the Constitution of his county. by decar
ing that ne is only to support 1t as he IN
derstands it, That the opinions OF Former Pre-.
sdents have no binding effect on HIN; nor can
| Congress, nor the Supreme Court, nor all CON-
bined, control his opinion.
The Constitution and the principles of Presi.
| dent atkson cannot both stand--ODe or the
other must give way-both cannot be maintain
ed. They are as opposite as the poles. II will
be for the people to determine which shall be
supported.
| We are not ready to surrender the Constitu-
ton o our country, which has been established at
the expense of SO much blood and treasure. II
| il duty which we owe to ourselves, our chill
dren, and to humanity itself, to preserve invio.
| late that sacred instrument, and hand 1t down
unimpared to pOsterity The late Election has
shown that the anti Jackson party of Pennsylva-
| MA nave o ucSiuSu W 'hC Pe"P'e WI
their side. Let it not be said that the Cover
nors Election dlsproves this. 1t does not; for
some thousands of those who voted for Governor
Wolf, are opposed to the reelection Of Andrew
Jackson.
That opposition is the greater for the negative
placed by the Jackson party on the bill of Henry
Clay. giving to Pennsylvania the annual sum OF
| S2S8l76 to release her from the pressure ct ca.
nal taxation, hich next year must amount to near
| " 5000 900 to meet the interest Of the public
debt Besides. we have decided majority in
the House Of Representatives, an increase m the
Senate, and half the members Of Congress elect
! Nor is this all. The boosted majority Of $4,000
for General Jackson in 1928, has been reduced TO
a little more than three thousahd-even allowing
! (which is not the CASEY that all are Jacksonmen
who voted for Wolf. What then is our dutyl-
We answer to make every sacrifice of feeling TO
the public good-to surrender every thing but
our honor, to save our country from the misrule
of the present National Administration. 1t is
in our power to prevent the greatest misfortune
that could befal this Nation, there eicfion of .4n-