Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-08-07

war, JUST, IN FACT, AS THEY wOULI
HAVE BEEN DECIDED HAD THEY ARISEN
EIGHT YEARS AGO, OR HAD NO WAR IA
KEN PLACE
Is, then the lost causet not lost? ?
Has the late dreadful war decided
nothing? Is the right of secession ar
open question? Has slavery not been
abolished? Are not the four millions
of bondsmen free? Has our national
debt no legal existence? Have the
victors no power over the vanquished
Have the rebel States and people lost
no rights by rebellion? Have our sac
rifces of blood and treasure been all
made in vain? Fellow citizens, weigh
well these solemn questions, and answer
them at the ballot-boX on the second
Tuesday Of October next.
Having concluded TO reserve for a
future occasion some remarks on par
ty organization, and other topics, this
address might here properly close -
Bat, it may be asked by some, is Judge
Sharswood, indeed, the political here
tic herein set forth !? "A man is known
by the company he keeps says the
old adage. We have the right to as.
sumo, and have assumed, that the
Judge is of the same political faith as
his party, and the public will hold him
responsible for all the guilty acts and
omissions of his party. There can be
no mistaking the true position of the
man who recently delivered an elabo-
rate opinion denying the constitutional
power of Congress to make paper
money a legal tender. (See the case
of Borie VS. Trott, Legal Intclligencer
of March 18th, 1864, page 92.) And
when we go further back, and examine
his early history, we find ample iustif.
cation fer all we have written, and
more. So long ago as April, 1884, he
appeared as 'The Orator of the Day,
at meeting Of u States Right Asso
citation, in Philadelphia We here copy
some OF the proceedings of that inter
esting cOnvOcation from The Examin
er and Journal Of Political Economy
Devoted TO the Advancement of tht
Cause OF State Rights and Free Trade,
Vol. /, page 800.
The orator on that occasion deliver
ed q long and carefully prepared vim
dication and eulogy ofthe State Rights
Virginia and Kentucky resolutions
herein before cited; and summed up his
elaborate endorsements thereof as fol
lows:
ITe come back to our starting place, ana
Jiading nothing IN he Constellation esta6
fishing any .tia1t judge Of the enumerated
poocerS, prohibitions, and reserUed rights
1t must rest upon the admitted principle
Of general lac, IN cases of compact be
tsoeea parties haviag no common superior.
EACH STATE HAS THE RIGHT To JUDGE
FOR ITSELF OF THE INFRACTIoNs OF TIL
COMPACT, AND TO CHOOSE FOR ITSELF
THE MOST PROPER AND EFFICIENT RENE
DIES
The better to exhibit still further. i
possible, the true character of tha
meeting and its distinguished orator
the following toasts are copied from
the proceedings. (Same volume, p
3I2
Toast: John c. CALHOUN The first
to throw himself into the breach
against Federal usurpaton. May h,
lice 10 see his principles predonpinan
throughout The 1c0rii
Toast: THE PATRIOTS, OTHERWISE
CALLED NULLIFIERs OF SOUTH CAROLYN
their memories will be cherished
when the advocates of the Force Bill
are forgotten, or remembered with ex
ecration.'
Toast: TuE STATE OF SOUTH CAR
oLINA-as her principles are cherished
we need not fear usurpation, either il
the Legislative, Judicial, or Executive
departments of the Government
The Hon. John c. Calhoun was
among those invited to this meeting
by Judge Shars wood and others, but
declined in published letter of sym
pathy.
We thus submit, as briefly as possible,
the record of the Democratic candidate
and Of the party which placed him in
nomination. We feel that no added
comments could do Justice to the sub
iect; ard only ask you, fellow citizens,
to examine the whole record with care,
and under sense of your solemn re
sponsibities to your country, render
your verdict at the ensuing election.
By order Of the Committee.
F. JORDAN,
Chairman.
GEO W. HAMERsLY, coo,ra
S. RoBLEY DUNGLIsoN, wv