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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1856-08-06
For the Esprit"
POLITICS AND THE PULPIT.

Mr.. EDlToR-The campaign for Presi-
dent has opened in earnest, and is accom-
panied with some manifestations that are
calculated to awaken serious alarm. 1t
appears that a portion of the Methodist
Episcopal Church have Joined with the
Wesleyans in aduterating the pure fount
of Religion with the turbid stream of Pol
itics. The election of John G. Fremont
to the Presidency seems to be aspiring
with some success to rivalry with the cause
of Religion, even on the Sabbath day and
in the Pulpit.
When Ministers of the Gospel, on the
Holy Sabbath, from the sacred desk, in
stead Of exhorting their "dying congre-
cations" to love God and keep his COM
mandments," are engaged in exhorting
them to be on hands at an Abolition
meeting, to be held, perhaps, in the same
church, ask if man may not we'll en-
tertain serious apprehensions, not for his
country alone, but for the cause of Reli-
gion itself? which, although not pro-
fessor, he may reverence and respect
But let me ask, how long will it be either
reverenced or respected if it is used as q
mere instrument to subserve the interest.
OF some political faction or aspirant tt
Office? If Ministers are called by thu
Almighty "to point sinners to the Laml
of God" and to save souls are they com
plying with that call in pointing out th
road to some Abolition meeting, and saw
ing the election of some favorite to Office
! The present is the first time any sucl
manifestations have appeared III this par
of the county. Other campaigns hav
been conducted here, when party feeling
ran higher than now-other parties hay
been compelled to adopt desperate mean
to save them from defeat, but this is tn
first time that party has laid hold of tn
Church to keep from sinking, and unles
the Church shakes it off both will go dow
together. OBSERVER.
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w- We asked the Journal series OIL

fW We asked the Journal a series of
questions short time since, all of which
were couched in gentlemanly and respect
ful language. He has replied to but one
of these, and that was the one in which
he denied editing q Know Nothing paper
in Pennsylvania. Whenever the editor
recognises the right of one editor to make
such inquiries of another, By answering
ours, and ceases to put his questions in
ungentlemanly and insulting language we
will answer him.
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For the ssSpirit." :
Mr.. EpIroR:-Through your columns
/ wish to set the American party right in
Monroe county. There are persons GO
ing around the county stating that John
G. Fremont is the American candidate.
1t is with regret that / say it, but it is
none the less true, that any one who rep
resents Fremont as the candidate of the
American party is guilty of wilfnl and de-
liberate Misrepresentation; and should be
regarded with suspicion and contempt by
every true American. l am aware that
there has been strong effort on the part
of some deserters, to sell out the Ameri-
can party in this county and district to
the Abolitionists, but it is DO go.
In the American Convention, which
met at Barnesyille on the 31st ult., these
men received severe but just rebuke.
They were told in the plainest possible
terms, that they were deserters from, and
traitors to the American cause, and had
no right to seat in that Convention.
They came up there pretending to repre-
sent the American partyiof Monroe coun-
ty, and, if they had been permitted, would
have cast the vote of that party in that
Convention for anti Fillmore men. Now,
/ appeal to the American party of this
county, ifsthey ever authorized those men
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Affairs in California Law and
Order 0verrused.

For some weeks past there has been
acts transpiring in California calculated
to gil the breast of every lover of his
country with sorrow and alarm. The ex-
ecution of the laws in San Francisco
county has been wrested from the officers
and usurped by mob calling themselves
Vigilance Committee.
1t appears that many of the officers
there were not legally elected-that false
bottoms were. fixed in ballot boxes by
which hundreds of tickets were inserted
unlawfullv, and in some instances the bal
lot boxes and tally sheets were taken by
rufians, and the Offices boldly offered at
the door to the highest bidder. The Off
GERS were charged with completely in these
outrages, and in some instances, it ap-
pears, not unjustly. These, and other
gross outrages had worked the people up
to high state of excitement when the
murder of King, an editor of San Fran
cisco, aroused open rebellion. The Vigi-
lance Committee assumed the administra-
tion of the laws, and a number of men,
among them the murderer of King, were
hung from the windows of the committee
rooms. In vain did the officers collect
armed forces; the forces of the Committee
outnumbered them and ruled the county.
The Government is now powerless, and
the Committee meetsno resistance. What
ever may have been the cause of such a
state of affairs its. existence is to be de-
lplored. There appears to be a division
of sentiment as to whether the Committee
was justi6able in wrestling the Government
from the hands of the officers or not. In
our opinion there is no Justification unless
lit was to save themselves from ruin. We
are compelled to omit particulars for want
of room.
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The Journals offer Accepted.

= -
The last Journal says that if We will
deposit Fifty dollars in the Savings Insti-
tnte, he will send us one hundred copies
Of the Journal until the close Of the cam
paign. This is condition not imposed
on his other Buchanan subscribers and
not in orr offer, but we have deposited
the money as the editor will learn by
inquiring at the Savings Fund efice. We
are not to receive half sheet once in
two weeks nor half sheet at any time,
bat full sheet each and every week.
Now walk up to the scratch, Mr.. Journal.
He declines TO accept our offer to send
him one hundred copies of the Spirit to
be PAID when Buchanan is elected. He
and his hackers are little TOO fearful Of
the success of their candidate.
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/" signs of the Tin,es.''

A string of paragraphs under the above
caption are going the rounds of the Abo-
lition papers showing the great number of
accessions to that party. We have seen
o. large portion of this list dissected, and
it discloses the fact that nearly one-half OF
the accessions are men who have belonged
to that party ever since it has bad any inn
portance, and nearly all the other half Of
the string is made up of falsehoods.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1856-08-06
Hououay's pins unouestionablv fl &

Holzo,0ay's Pills unquestionably the
most eficacions Remedy in the Union for
Asthmatic Complaints and Coughs.
The number of cures these wonderful Pills
have effected in all parts of the Union.
more particularly in cases of asthma Of
long standing, and coughs, leayes no
doubt upon the mind of all who hare
used them, that they surpass anything of
the kind ever made known; BY, q. psrse-
verance with this admirable remedy, the
sufferer is quickly restored to health, after
every other means have failed; and itsis.a
truth beyond dispute, that there is tnpease
of bilious disorder, or liver complaiats,
but that will quickly yield to the powers
of this mighty medicine s..s has:zss4
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Good for Monroe.

We have understood that there is big
buck nigger in this county, who is dieting
on dogs meat and grasshopper pot pies
in order to qualify himself to become the
next opposition candidate for President.
He has never taken meninto the Rocky
Mountains and suffered them to perish,
but he thinks if he would starve his wife
ard children to death his claims would be
fully equal 10 s'alassa Fremonts.'
Wouldn't it be d go. if this county
shouId hare the honor ~ Of furnishing
Fusiouuoni viii. It's next eandidate9
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The Harmonious Fusion.
Trick.

The last Journal continues call for
convention to be held in Barnesville on
the 14th of August to nominate candi-
didate for Judge, and one for Congress.
The call as published in the Journal in
vites call who are opposed to the policy
of the present administration, IN favos cf
The principles Of 4merica,asm, and of
restoring the action of the Federal govern
ment &c" to meet in the convention.
In another column the editor says he
sfeels unusual satisfaction in being able
to present to the people of Monroe coun-
ty, q call for distict convention of ALL
hostile to the aggression Of the slave pow
er, and ALL favorable to the principles of
Americanism.
/. Now so far as those ''in favor Of the
principles of Americanism" are concerned
it is simply trick of the Fremonters here.
That part of the call is not in amy other
paper in the district that we have seen.
We repeat that it is mere trick of the
Fremonters.
The editor says, "the work of an honor
able union of the opposition is now ac-
compIished" Two or three Fremonters
here in town by changing in one paper a
few words in the call of district conven-
tion accomplished an honorable union o.
the oppositionp It's astonishing how
easily the thing was done. The editor
feels unusual satisfaction;" if he is thai
easily pleased he might tickle himself ur
every week by announcing that Fremontis
now elected president. 1t would be abou
as true as the other, and would no doub
afford him "unusual satisfaction -
/ The editor says:
4 sThe American party is ready to NEE
the Republicans phalanx half way, and OF
|equal footing. Our interests are identi
cal, our measures can assimilate withou
abnegating the 6rst principles of eithe
party" 80
/ Now for the purpose Of showing stil
| further that their "inte.ests are indentical,
let us quote sentence from the Boy q
'76, Jan. 92 '56. Speaking Of the contes
in the House for speaker he says:
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Whitfield and Reeder ousted.

The Resolution of the Committee on
elections in the House of Representatives
that John w. Whitfield was not entitled
to his seat was passed, Yeas 10; Nays
90.
The Resolution admitting Reeder to a
seat was negatived Yeas SO: Nays.l13.
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Another Instance of the Efficacy Of
BUrhave's Holland Bltters.

N. NJ. PoINDExTER, of the Bnion o1ice,
says:
"Some weeks since, being seriously
affected with pain and uneasiness It the
stomach, loss Of appetite, and as times
strong symptoms Of Dyspepsia, I was in
duced to try your HOLLAND BIT
TERS,, and I feel it but an act of jnssise
to the article, as web as for the good Of
those who may be affected with like de-
rangement of the stomach, to state that
the use of one single bottle Of this medi-
cine proved of incalculable benefit, having
freed the stomach of Dyspepsia. Iwepld
also remark, that two other members OF
my family, who were afflicted in q similar
manner with myself. were entirely relieved
by the use of single bottle each.p as
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1856-08-06
DISTRICT CONVENTION.

The members of the Central
Committee in this Districthave
agreed on
FRIDAY, AUGUST Goth,
as the time, and Barnesville as
the place, for holding the Demo-
cratic Convention to nominate
a candidate for Congress and
for Common Pleas Judge.
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by the State Legislature as member a.
the board of commissioners for the fun-
ded debt He is Represented admirably
lifted for the wise discharge Of the duties
of the Office to which the President he's
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BALTIMORE Market.

Eour.-New at $7,25, closing iirr1b.
Wheat.- White good to prime. st / Goa
I63 cents, and choice do. 170a173 cents;
red l5oal6O cents for good prime. 80
Corn White at 62a7 5 cents, yellow It
63a66 cents per bushel, as to quality.
Oats Sales at 33a36 cents. e.1s
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A Scheme that wouldn't Work.

The Frenonters, in their desperation to
make respectable show against Mr.. Bu-
chanan, proposed in the State of Penn-
sylvania, that they and the Fillmore men
should vote the same electoral ticket, and
if they cast more votes than the Fillmore
men the electors, if successful, should
vote for Fremont, and vice versa. This
piece of trickery was characteristic of the
party, but, as is generally the ease, it
didn't work. The Fillmore men indig-
nantly refused to cooperate with them in
any such discreditable schemes, and deter
mined to run their own electoral ticket.
Out goes the last little hope of Fremont.
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Reelection of Brooks and Ke,t.

Messrs. Brooks and Keit, of South
Caroline, who resigned their seats in the
House of Representatives, few weeks
ago, in consequence of the action of the
House in the Sumner affair, have both
been unanimously reelected"
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sINDIGNANTLY FRoWN UPON
THE FIRST DAWNING OF EVERY
ATTEMPT TO ALLEVIATE ANY
PORTION OF OUR COUNTRY
FROM THE REST, OR TO ENFEE-
BILE THE SACRED TIES WHICH
NOW LINK TOGETHER THE VA
RIoUS PARTS
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
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A few more Specimens from the
.5Onruas.

So IHS iaSS oOH'tuS S0uldiHS u Jslit VI cicC-
pioneering stories that tdeserye the endorse
ment of the man whonever edited Know
Nothing paper in Pennsylvania. Such
an endorsement is almost evidence enough
to prove their falsity without anything
further
One of them is the old exploded "tcn
cents day" story-charging that Mr.
Buchanan was in favor of allowing labor
ers only ten cents for day'swork. The
untruth of this charge has become so no.
torious that the bitterest opponents of Mr..
Buchanan in Congress on the floor of the
House have admitted its falsity What
Mr.. Buchanan said, aud what every hon.
est.and intelligent man understood him to
mean, was that by initiating the currency
wages were nominauy higher, but in reality
not any higher, that by creating swarms
of banks, while you might increase the
wages of labor from fifty cents per day to
one dollar per day, you would at the same
time increase the cost of articles which he
must purchase and consume even in a
greater proportion. The great object Of
Mr.. Buchanan's speech was to show that
the laboring man was injured by initiating
the currency, and he was making this q
conclusive reason why it shonld not be
done.
We are glad to see that while the un-
scrupulous and characterlcss opposition
presse are circulating this falsehood, all
the respectable papers and speakers OF
that party disdain to stoop to such low
and barefaced impositions.
The other charge is that circular is
sued from Washington city to the Post
masters threatening to remove them from
their official positions unless they con-
tributed stated amount of money to be
used in conducting the campaign, and
that this circular came from the depart
ment at Washington city.
We charge that the above is gross
tfalsehood and that the editor of the Joasrna
published it and endorsed it well knowing
/ it to be wholly false.
/ A circular was sent out fronl Wash
ington city by some scoundrel who under
took in this way to defraud the Post Mas
ters. But information of the attempted
swindle was lodged with the department
in order that the william might be captur
ed, but he got wind of it and never called
for the letters which were addressed tt
him. He used fictitious signature, a
it was shown that no persen of the nam
lived in the city.
/ The dishonest presses Of the opposi
ton charged that it had enanated from
the department in order to make 2olitiea
capital of it, but it was at once shown t
be false. 1t is now more than montl
since this contemplate trick was thor
oughly and completely exposed, and ye
this editor of the .lotunal who most EN-
phatically denied editing Know Nothin'
paper in Pennsylvania and had it prove'
on him, this champion of his party, tlii
"strictly honest and fearless" edito
paradcs it with an editorial endorsement
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Removal Of Gov. Shannon--Appoint-
ment of his successor.

Removal of Gov. Shannon--Appoint-
ment of hls successor.
On the 28th of July the President NOM
mated to the Senate Colonel John W.
Geary, of Pennsylvania, to be Governor
of Kansas, in place of Wilson Shannon,
removed. Col. Geary is little less than
forty years of age, and has held high civ
il and military positions. He was born
in Pennsylvania, graduated at Jefferson
college in that State; was for many years
civil engineer; was elected to be colonel
of the second Pennsylvania regiment in
the Mexican war, where he distinguished
himself by great bravery and military skill;
was appointed by president Polk in Is48
to proceed to California as postmaster Of
San Francisco with the extraordinary
commission to arrange the postal matters
of that State; was subsequently, appointed
by General Riley to head Judge or Alcads
in and for the district of San Francisco
with power to organize and establish !;
police force for that city; and was elected
first Mayor of the city of San Francisco
under q city charter, and was appointed
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Corrincton w. SaarIa.

Atour masthead to-day, says the Zanes-
riUe Aurora, we place the name Of Judge
SEARLE, an old, true and trusty Democrat
of Muskinguln county, as the nominee for
Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio, to
fll the vacancy caused by the resignation
of Judge CONVERSE.
1t is little less than presumtion for US to
say anything in recommendation of Judge
SEARLE, man who has made his worthy
aud indellible mark upon this community
before we were born; nevertheless, We take
pleasure in adding our mark of respect to
the old score which contains the mark
Of many hand that has gone, with the
old men that used to be, down through the
.unreturning days to that great Court,
where JUSTICE lays aside the balance and
the scales, strips from her eyes the bandage
of the earth, and bows, in resignation, to
the Judges Judge
In these loud days fancy and of fc-
tion-7of demagogues and fiery party hacks,
it is real pleasure to hear the steady,
measured tread of an old man "narching
to the music of the Union. 81
:. The sturdy old men among US, have
most all fallen off, one by one, leaving
behind them precepts and examples oflall
that makes a people great and good; what
these old ,nen have trusted and supported
may not we support, as we'll? and, have
they not gone to .'THE hereafter" leaving
written opposite to the, name of Judge
Sear!e "well done thou good and faithful
servant" 5...atss -
Democrats and conservative men OF
Muskingum! In your hands more par
ticularly rests the success of him who has
been tried and found faithful Will you
not stand by him, shoulder to shoulder, as
your Fathers used to do?
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Roll OF HoMo b
Received on subscription to the Esprit
of Democracy during the month endiaG
Saturday, July 26th:s aW
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H The communications of Romeo
and ~. D. o'C.n viii appear next week.
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CARLO c. CARROLL. of Belmont.
For Congress

JOHN NJ. BUSHFIELD, Of Guernsey.
We understand that several Fremont
'ers attempted to take part in the Conven-
tien but were rejected, and that attach
ment to Fillmore was made the test of
Americanism or Know Nothingism. .
The candidates are both good men,
qualified for the offices for which they are
nominated; its a pity the have to be beat
but it will be done-easy.
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The Vote In Woodsfieid.

BY count of the voters in and imme-
diately adjoining the corporation of this
town it is ascertained that the strength of
the different candidates for president is as
follows:
Buchanan s7, Fillmore | 0, Fremont Is,
doubtful s. a5
The above We consider q fair repre-
sentative of the vote of the county; FIRE.
mont may approach n little nearer to
Fillmore -
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Democratic Presidential Electors for Ohio.
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Barnesville Know Nothing Convention.
A convention was held in Barnesville
on the 3lst ult. to nominate Know n 9TH
ing or Fillmore candidates for Judge of
the Court of Common Pleas and Con-
gress. We have learned but little of the
proceedings. The following isthe ticket:
For Judge of the Court of Common
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DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
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NTHEELING WINDOW GLASS, in any. sire.
wv and quantity, always on hand and fes
sale by JNo. A. CLARKE.
Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-05-23
UNITED STATES COURT OF CLAIMS

rAR D.-The Undersigned, JOHN G.
THOMPSON, of Washington ID. c., Attorneys and
nseors-at-Iaw, associated for the legal pros
ecuton Of claims for creditors of Government in the
Court of Claims.
They will cooperate in immediate and careful at
tenton to business matters at Washington which
may be intrustsd to their by gentlemen of the
profession and claimants in the city of New York. or
els where in any part of the Union
lney may be consulted at any time, personally or
by letter, either at New York or Washington. Par
6cusr information as 10 claims which have been at
any time before Congress or Departments can be
furnished at once, upon application by the parties
interested. JOHN G. DEvEREUX,
No. 90, Broadway
Corner of Wall street, New York City
N. THOMPSON. y,
Wash agton City.
N. B. J. @. Devsreux is Commissioner OF the
Court of Claims feb 28-dn
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Saddle, Harness, and Trunk store,
400, Seventh Street, opposite odd Fello,os' Hall.
M ESSRS. TOPHAM llate Of Philadel-
lvA phia) and NORFLET (of this city, respect
fully announce to their friends and the public, that
they have commenced the Saddling Business at the
above stand, where they win make and keep con-
stanty on hand large and superior assortment Of
Mems, Ladies', and Boys Saddles e
Brides, Martingales, and Whips
Harness of every description, both for city and
country use
All kinds of Trunks, Valises, and Carpet Bags
Ladies' Satchels, Travelling Baskets, and Fancy
t Work Boxes
Horse Blankets Covers, Collars and Hames
Horse, Spoke and Dust Brushes
Cards, Curry combs Sponges, &c. )
All material used will be the best that can be OBJ
tanned and both Of US having been practical work
men for several years, feel confident that work
cannot be surpassed either fer style or durability
BY unremitting efforts to give satisfaction we hope
to merit and respectfully solicit share of public
patronage. se Is 5
Particular attention paid to covering Trunks, and
repairing all kinds of work. gr
Sadders' Tools constantly on hand.
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