North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1866-09-05
able on the ground oflocation or otherwise

able, on the ground oflocation or otherwise
but the Convention refused to act upon his
suggestion. We mention this as evidence
of Mr.. Osterhout's commendable DISPOSE
ton to promote harmony in the party, even
to the extent of sacrificing his own personal
wishes.
o. L. PARRISH ESQ.,, of Monroe Town.
SHIP, was re-nomn atei for the Office of
Register and Recorder. Mr.. Parrish is
the present incumbent of that office, and
since the commencement of his term has
introduced improvements in the mode of
keeping the records, and in the means of
reference thereto that greatly facilitate The
dispatch of business by those having oc-
casion for reference thereto. No more
efficient officer has ever held this office in
Wyoming county.
GEO. ". SHERWOOD Of FAILS, received
the nomination for County Commissioner.
Mr.. Sherwood is just the sort of man need
ed in this office-a man of fair scholarship
of strict integrity, and of extreme caution.
Under his administration as one of the
Board, no man need apprehend any rash
experiments, or reckless management of
the county finances.
For Coroner, DR.. A. Fl, BoLEs, of Me-
sHoPPEN, received the nomination. DIR.
Boles is too well and favorably known in
this county as citizen as well as medic
al man, to need any special notice at our
hands.
For AUDITOR, JAMES ". ROBINSON, of
Forkston was the unanimous choice of the
convention-a man in every respect emf
nently fitted for the responsible duties of
an office that needs, quite as much as any
other, a good man to fill it.
Such is our ticket. In respect to dis
tributlon through the different sections Of
the County, we do not see how it could be
well improved. Braintrim, Meshoppen,
Forkston, Monroe, Northumberland, Falls,
Tunkhannock township and Borough are
all represented. Ofcourse, there are town.
ships and sections that are not represented,
but this must always happen-sometimes
indeed, when the unrepresented districts
present just as good names as any that are
accepted. But this affords no substantial
reason for reluctant endorsement of the
ticket when formed. All who participate
in conventions are bound by their action.
If particular claims are overlooked or ig-
nored, the disappointed parties must hope
for Ebetter luck next time" It does no
sort of good to scold about it. So far as
we are informed, this ticket has been very
generally approved by the conservative
Union men of the County. The "Univp
savers" have made it, and mean to elect it
HENRY WARD BEECHER
On the State of the Country.
The following letter written by the Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher in response to an in
vitation to be present at the great soldiers
convention to be held at Cleayeland, on
the 18th inst, contains some of the best ar
guments we have seen against the revolu.
tionary disunion schemes of the radicals
his former associates. They may well ex-
claim as did Caesar: and you too Beecher
PEEKsKlLL, August 80.
CHARLES C. HALPINE, BREvET,' DRl aADIER-
GENERAL !; W. sLoCUM, MAJoR-GENERAL
GORDON GRANGER, MAJoR-GENERAL-
CUMMITTEE.
GENTLEMEN-I am obliged to you for
the invitation which you have made to me
to act as Chaplain to the Convention of
Sailors and Soldiers about to convene at
Cleveland. cannot attend it, but | heart
| lily wish it, and all other conventions, of
what party sOever, success, whose object is
the restoration of all the States late in re-
bellion to their federal relations.
I
Our theory has no place for a State ex-
cept in the Union. 1t is justly taken for
granted that the duties and responsibilities
of State in federal relations tend to its
political health, and to that of the whole
nation. Even Territories are hastily
brought in, often before the prescribed
conditions are fulfilled, as if it were dan
gerous 10 leave a community outside of
the great body polite. . r.....
Had the loyal Senators and Representa-
tiyes of Tennessee been admitted at once
on the assembling of Congress, and, in
moderate succession, Arkansas, Georgia,
Alabama, North Carolina, and Virginia,
the public mind of the South would have
been far more healthy than it is, and those
States which fingered on probation TO the
last would have been under more saluta-
ry influence to good conduct than if doz