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Douglas Against Union
(Column 01)

Summary: Accuses Douglas of opposing the Cresson compromise because he wants to divide the party in order to "secure the triumph of Black Republicanism."

The Douglas Brag Game
(Column 03)

Summary: Stephen Douglas and his friends insist that he is good friends with most of the Supreme Court. The Spirit rejects this claim and argues that the Court disagrees with Douglas' position on squatter sovereignty.

The Great Uprising for Foster
(Column 03)

Summary: Everywhere in Pennsylvania, people are rising up in support of Foster.

A Lincoln and Douglas Compliment
(Column 05)

Summary: An anecdote about Douglas that indicates to the Spirit that he has helped Lincoln.

Hon. Henry D. Foster
(Column 05)

Summary: If Foster is defeated it will be because Democrats failed to go to the polls.

Remember!
(Column 06)

Summary: Urges voters to remember that Foster has the support of all factions of the Democratic Party and that Curtin is the candidate of the "Abolition agitators."

Running on False Pretenses
(Column 06)

Summary: Douglas' claim that he would withdraw if it would defeat Lincoln and his assertion that he doesn't want to be president are "mere disguises to mask his own ambition and his revenge."

The Course Lincoln Will Pursue
(Column 06)

Summary: Once Lincoln is in office, he will appoint men "who believe that slavery is an evil and a sin" to every possible office.

Origin of Article: New York Herald

Editorial Comment: The Herald shows that it is the "settled purpose of Lincoln and his party to urge on the 'irrepressible conflict.'"

The Country in a Blaze for Breckinridge and Lane
(Column 01-04)

Summary: Numerous brief paragraphs that describe the support Breckinridge is receiving all over the country.

Letter of Approval
(Column 01)

Summary: Letter commending the Spirit on its change from supporting Douglas to supporting Breckinridge. The writer says that, while many originally supported Douglas after the convention, "the course which both he and Johnson have pursued is one which no true Democrat can endorse."

Vote the Whole Ticket
(Column 01)

Summary: Urges Democrats to vote the whole ticket from top to bottom.

McPherson and the Negro
(Column 02)

Summary: Claims that the Republican Party, if given power, will give blacks the vote. This will keep the Party in power. This goal is especially evident in the rhetoric of McPherson, the Republican candidate for Congress.

Tuesday Next
(Column 03)

Summary: Urges voters to support Foster, a "pure, honest, and able statesman," over Curtin, an "unscrupulous politician," in next Tuesday's election.

Our County Ticket
(Column 03)

Summary: Worries that county Democrats have become complacent and won't support their ticket as actively as is necessary.

Be Not Deceived by Them
(Column 03)

Summary: Warns Democrats to not be deceived by "'cock-and-bull' stories circulated on the eve of the election."

The Times and its "Choice Extracts"
(Column 04)

Summary: The Times recently reprinted a series of extracts from the Spirit that praised Douglas. The Spirit thinks this appears to be "the only means its feeble capacity can devise to bolster up the waning prospects of the 'little Squatter.'" In return, the Spirit promises to reprint extracts from the Times that criticize Douglas.

Giving up the Contest
(Column 04)

Summary: The Republicans have given up all hope that Curtin will defeat Foster.

Andrew G. Curtin
(Column 05)

Summary: Criticizes Curtin for being a "corrupt politician" with a disreputable past.

Prepare for a Rainy Day
(Column 05)

Summary: No Democrat can afford to stay away from the polls.

The Forney Party
(Column 06)

Summary: Forney has the sole management of the Douglas wing of the party, which he controls for the benefit of the Republicans. Douglas is "in the same rotten boat with Forney" because he rejects fusion.

The "Endorser"
(Column 06)

Summary: Mr. Nill endorsed $500 to Mr. Kennedy for the Times, yet the Times "taunts him every week with being 'endorser.'"

Work Hard
(Column 06)

Summary: Democrats must work hard to get out the vote next Tuesday.

Democrats Rally!
(Column 06)

Summary: Urges Democrats to support the whole county ticket.

Remember It
(Column 01)

Summary: When William Schell was in the Pennsylvania Legislature, he was never accused of corruption, as most of the other members of that body were.

Going! Going!! Gone!!!
(Column 01)

Summary: Asks whether the "Honest Democrats of Franklin County" can support Douglas, since he is clearly working for the Republicans.

All Right for Lincoln!
(Column 01)

Summary: Criticizes the Times, which blasts the Spirit for changing its support from Douglas to Breckinridge, but has nothing to say about Douglas backers who move into the Lincoln camp.

Slavery Agitation
(Column 01)

Summary: States that "the Democratic party does not now, and never did hold itself responsible for the erratic doctrines of Mr. Douglas in regard to Slavery, and which have kept alive the agitation when it otherwise would have died out."

Democrats, to your Posts!
(Column 02)

Summary: Reminds Democrats that, if they want Foster for governor, they must organize so that they can present an "undivided and determined front" at the polls on Tuesday.

Tax Payers Beware
(Column 02)

Summary: If Andrew Curtin is elected, it will "cost the taxpayers of Pennsylvania millions of dollars."

Look Out for Fraud!
(Column 02)

Summary: Warns Democrats to look for election-day fraud so that the party isn't cheated.

Hon. W.P. Schell
(Column 02)

Summary: If the Democrats in Adams and Franklin counties can hold the Republican majority under 1000, Mr. Schell will win the 17th district.

Meeting at Waynesboro
(Column 03)

Summary: The Democrats in Washington township had an enthusiastic meeting on October 4th.
(Names in announcement: Esq. W.S. Stenger, Esq. George Welsh, Dr. Herring)

A Republican's Prediction
(Column 03)

Summary: A "well-informed Pennsylvania Republican" writes that Foster is likely to win and that the state might be lost to Lincoln depending on how the Bell supporters vote.

Origin of Article: Hartford Times

Remember
(Column 03)

Summary: McPherson said that Schell is as good a tariff man as he is. The Spirit claims that Schell is better.

The County Fair
(Column 03)

Summary: The County Fair closed last Friday.

Full Text of Article:

--The second annual exhibition of the Farmers and Mechanics Industrial Association of Franklin County closed on Friday last. The early day at which our paper is printed, the present week, precludes us from giving the extended notice it was entirely worthy to receive. We have only time and space to say that it was a success in every particular connected with the exhibition. The display of stock, farming implements, machinery, agricultural products, household articles &c., were very extensive and creditable. The attendance was large--the receipts on the second day alone amounting to nearly one thousand dollars. Everything connected with the fair passed off pleasantly and gave the highest degree of satisfaction to exhibitors and visitors.

Married
(Column 04)

Summary: Married on September 23.
(Names in announcement: Rev. M. Snyder, A.P. Fraker, Maria Porter)

Married
(Column 04)

Summary: Married on September 27th.
(Names in announcement: Daniel Welkers, Rev. M. Snyder, David Beck, Zeliah Gelwiz)

Married
(Column 04)

Summary: Married on September 23rd at the German Reformed Parsonage.
(Names in announcement: Rev. Samuel Philips, John West, Mary Evans)

Married
(Column 04)

Summary: Married on September 25th.
(Names in announcement: Rev. Samuel Philips, Robert Montgomery, Mary Reineman)

Married
(Column 04)

Summary: Married on September 27th.
(Names in announcement: Rev. Z.A. Colestock, Geo. Glass, Lydia Carbaugh)

Married
(Column 04)

Summary: Married on September 27th.
(Names in announcement: Rev. Z.A. Colestock, Jacob Myers, Catherine Homman)

Married
(Column 04)

Summary: Married on October 2nd at Weist & Grove's Hotel.
(Names in announcement: Rev. Samuel Philips, Christian Foltz, Elmira Betz)

Married
(Column 04)

Summary: Married on September 27th.
(Names in announcement: Rev. S. McHenry, William Lightfoot, Sarah Kuhn)

Married
(Column 04)

Summary: Married on September 27th.
(Names in announcement: Rev. S. McHenry, John Shover, Elizabeth Wingert)

Married
(Column 04)

Summary: Married on October 4th.
(Names in announcement: Rev. Samuel Philips, Alfred Reed, Sarah Nave)

Married
(Column 04)

Summary: Married on October 4th.
(Names in announcement: Rev. Samuel Philips, William Pool, Louisa Smouders)

Interesting Disclosures
(Column 01)

Summary: One of Curtin's men attempted to bribe the editors of the Tyrone Star, which was a Bell paper. The bribe attempt "shows the desperate and disreputable means that Mr. Curtin and his friends are resorting to."

Origin of Article: Tyrone Star

Which is the Right Curtin?
(Column 01)

Summary: Curtin changes his platforms depending on where he speaks. In one campaign event, he portrayed himself as a Republican while at another he stated he was the candidate of the "People's Party of our state."

A Word of Caution
(Column 01)

Summary: Warns Democrats to ignore "eleventh hour disclosures" in opposition papers, especially attempts to gain the backing of Irishmen for Curtin.

Germans and Irish! Read! Pause! and Reflect!
(Column 02)

Summary: Speech that presents foreigners as brutish and not deserving of voting rights.

Origin of Article: Speech of John Mr. Wilech, a Lincoln elector in Massachusetts

Editorial Comment: "The German or Irishman who can read this and then vote for Lincoln has very little self-respect."

Breckinridge Among the Germans
(Column 02)

Summary: The attempts by Douglas supporters to "fraternize with Know-Nothings in Kentucky, North Carolina, and Georgia" have led many naturalized citizens to support Breckinridge.

Origin of Article: Nashville Union

"We Revere the memory of John Brown, of Ossawatomie"
(Column 02)

Summary: A Republican banner in Pittsburgh carried the statement above. The Spirit believes that the Republicans are "reckless in pushing matters to the last extremity of patriotic forbearance."