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U. S. GOVERNMENT
President ARRAN Alt LINCOLN,
Vice Pi eaIduat—IIANNIIIkL Monn,
Secretary or RAU—Wm. IL SEWARD,
Secretaryof Interior—AN°. P. llanca,
tjecrotary of Treasury—Wu. lIHRSENDCN,
Secretary of %Par-I'Ol7lN M. STANTON,
Socret , try of Navy—GrocoN WELLES,
'POOL Master (lonecni—M At. DPNNIcON.
/ [tonic) , kIonccaI—JAIIEFI S. Sisal,.
&LW J ustice of the U. ulte , l States—SAL:aox P. CILISE
STATE GOVERNMENT.
Governor—ANDßEW 0. CURTIN,
Seer° ttry of State—ELl SLIFER,
Surveyor General—JAMES Bann,
# , Cditoe Genorol—lssse SLENKErt,
Attorney General—Wm\ M. MLitt:mall.
Adjutant General—A L. REsssm.,
State Treasurer—HENßE D Moons,
ObiofJuAic of the Supremo Court-000. W.WOOD
WARD
COUNTY OFFICERS.
President Judge—lion. James 11. Graham.
Associate Judgos—liou. Michael Cocklin, lion
Hugh Stuart
District At tort:toy—J. W. D. Gillelon.
Prothonotary—Samuel Shireman.
Cleric and Iteeorder—Ephraim Coruman,
Register—Goo W. North.
High Sherid—John Jacobs.
County Treasurer—Henry S. Bitter.
Coroner —David Smith
County Commissioners—lionry Karns, John hi
soy, lsilt.chell McClellan,
P. nperintendent of Poor (Souse—Uenry Snyder
Pliptirlan to Sall—Dr. W. W. Dale.
Physician to Pour House—Dr. W. W. Dale.
BOROUGH OFFICERS.
Chief Burgess—. Andrew B. Ziegler.
Analstant Burgess—Bobart Allison.
Tows Cpllllol--Etigt We (I—J. D. Ithineheart,
Joshua Dialer, .1. W. D. Uillolon, Ceorge
West Ward—dew. L Murray. '1 hos Paxton, A. Catl,
cart, .Ino. B. Parker, J no. D. President, of
COUtrtt, A. Cathcart, Clerk, .Los W•
'Borough Treasurer—Jacob
'Ugh Constable SAmuel Sipe Ward Constable,
Andrew Martin.
AsAassor- LI lJ u tsital I. Ahs ista u t Assessors, Jno.
Goo. B. Bootern.
A.mlitor—itobert D. Comoro..
Tax Collevtor-11frod ititut,boort. Word
tors—liast Word, Chas. A. Smith. West Watl_,R-eo,
Cornmtn, giruot Numi•;:ouer, \Vorley IS. Matthews.
JUitioll.l of the Peace—A. i.. Sportster, Itsvid Smith,
Abr., Deltuff, Michael itoleotnb.
1.41 - up Lighters—Chas. B. Mack, James Spangler
CiIIIIICHES
First Proobyterlan Church, Northwest anl,lr ofCnn
tre liquor°. it°, Conway P. Wing I'Astor.-6orvlcos .
every ,unday Morning at 11 o'clock, A. 31., and 7
o'clock P. N.
Second Proshyterian Chun h, corner of South Han
over and Pomfret strrrte. Nov. John e Pasior
Services COUIIIIOLICO at 11 &clock, A. 31. and 7 o'e,ock
I'. nl. '
St. John's 011ttroh. (Prof Episcopal) northeast angle
of Centre ,iquaro. Rev..l .;Jle c , Rector. Servitres
at 11 o'clock. 1. M., a - 1,1 o'elnet. P 11.
English Latheratt eb1.1,11, Bedford, between Main
sod I,attlx..r seats Rev. .1•t•nl, Fry, Pastor. Ser
vices at 11 A. M., and c'elodt I'.
Germ in 1:e1 . ..m01d .:norch.l.”ltther, Oetw• en Han
over an 1 Pitt ott,ts. Ile,. Frio oral Phl'ips. Pastor..
Persia us at II o o, I. A.lll, 11,11 i
)lath hilst Girard), (Bret chards) earner of Main
and Pitt Strvto. Rev Th,r.),.s II t.therinelt, Pastor.
Servirexat 11-o'clo. - 1( A. NI.. and 7 o'riocl, it NI.
lilethodist G. l'hur..ll (second eharzo.) Itov. S. I,
BOWIIIAII, Rector. r ere is^r in Emory tl E. Church at 1.
o'clock 1. )1., and it.
Church or South We,t cur. of Weat St.
and Chapel Alloy. Rev. 11. F. Beck, facto . Services
at 11 a, in., and p.m.
l'atrlcit's Cain di; rh ureb, Pomfret near EastNt.
Rot , Paot • Services every other dab
bath. at 10 o'clock. Vespers at 3 P, tl.
11orm.in buthuran Church. corner .4 . - Polnfret and
4t mars. Rev C. VI as tor. Secr Icon at
11 o'clock P. U.
chanu:e4 in th.t nro necessary the
proper persons are roque , te.l to notify us.
DICKINSON COLLEGE
Rue. Herman M. Johnson, D. D., Drank! n and Pro
caw or Moral &donee.
WHIN - m - C. WI A. X, - Professor of - NaturAl
Bcience and Curator o' the Museum.
Rom William L Boswell, A. M., Professor of the
Greek and Gomm Languages.
, 13ernuel D. liillmdn, A. M., Profe sor of Mathemat-
John It. Shy, in, A. N., Professor of the Latin and
Preach Languages.
lion. James 11.13r:than', LL. I) . Professor of Law.
fie•. floury C. Ches:on, A. II . Principal of th 2
Grammar :chord.
John Hood, Assistant in tba Orainnial School.
BOARD OF SCHOOL DIRECTORS
E. Cornwall, President, James .lantilton, ton,
It. 0. Woodward, Henry \ oWnh:l111. C l l'. if umerich,
Sect'y ,J. VV. Eby, Treasurer, John Sphar, osienger.
Moot on the Ist Monday of ouch Month at 14 o'clock d.
M , at Education Hall.
CORPORATIONS
CTRLISL6 06PnYIT lIINK.—.-Pro , blent, 8.. M. 'lender.
eon, W. 31. Beetem Cash J. P. Hasslor and C. B. Ptahler
Tellers, W. NI. Pfahler.' Clerk, Jim. Underwoo.i Mos
sfinger. Directors, It. M. Henderson, President, It C.
Woodward, SKI l o s woodhurn, Moses Brinker, Job n
Zug, W. W. Dale, John D. Dorgas, Joseph J. Logan,
Jon. Stuart, Jr.
FIRST Nooc -o B,NlC.—Presidant, Samuel Hepburn
Cashier, Jos. C. Huffer, Teller, Abner C. Brindle, Mee
neogar, Jesse Brown. Win. tier, John Dunlop, ltich'd
Woods, John C. Dunlop, :Sat. Brenneman, John S.
Sterrett, Sam'l. Hepburn, Directors.
CLIIIIIERLAND VALLEY ILAILIIoAI, COMPANY .—Prostdent,
Frederick iVatts: been:tar and Truasuror, Edward
M. Biddle: Sup.intendant, u. N. Lull. Paasenger
trains three thaw; a day. Carlisla A ceoutmo iation,
Eastward, leaves Carlisle to 55 A. 31., arriving at Car
lisle 5.20 P. NI. Through trains Eastward, 10.10 A, M.
and 2.42, P. M. Wostward at A. 31., and 2.55 I'.
M.
OAHU/ALE GAn AND WAI ril COMPANT.—Provident, Lem
uol Todd; Treasurer, A. L. Sponiter; Superiutiniden
George Wise: Direetere, F. Watts, Wm. Si. Beam.
E. M. Biddle. gear) , Fa aton. it. C. {Woodward, a. IV
Patton, F. Gardner and U. t 3, Croft.
SOCIETIES
Cumberland Star bodge No. 197, Y. M. meets at
Marton Hall on the god and 4th Tuesdays of every
month.
SE. Johu'a Lodge No. 260 A. Y. M. Manta 3d Thura
day of each-trionth, at Marion flail.
Carlisle Lodge No. 91 I. 0. of U. F. Moats Monday
evening, at Trout's buildiul.
Letort Lodge No. 63, 1. 0. of G. T. Meets every
Thursday evening to ltheenn's Hell, 3d story.
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FIRE COMPANIES.
The Union Fire Company was organized In 1789.
Muse In Louther. between Pittand Hanover.
, Tho Cumberland Fire Compery'wee Instituted Feb
18. 1809. /louse In Bedford, between Main and Pom
fret.
. .
The Good Will Fire Company was Inntltuted In
March, 185 k. Howse in Pomfret, near Hanover.
The Empire Hook and Ladder Company was Institu
ted in 1859. house In Pitt, near Main.
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Postage on the HERALD. Ithin the County, Tree.
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REMARKS OF, HON. A. K. Mc
On Joint I?,•39lation ratlllyi+iy a Inm lir I Men r! to
the Conslitution of the United States pro
-1)08,1 by o,nyre,.s drumarp 31, 1805, de
livered in the Ilonse of Erpresrlitaticcs of
Penn,ylrania, Friday, February 3, 1863.
Mr. M'CLuttE. Mr. Speaker, I am
constri.ined to differ with some of the gen•
tlemen of my own side of the House who
have spoken on this subject. I think
that injustice has been- done our Demo-
eratic friends, and I rise mainly for -the
purpose of vindicating them. Surprise
has been expressed- by-several--members
in the course of this debate, that negative
votes should be cast on the pending pro
position to ratify the constitutional aboli
tion of slavery. Some of the wore ardent
have censuted in advance those who shall
record their votes against the disenthral
went of the nation. They do not merit
it, It is due to their consistency—due to
the history of the Democratic organiza
tion ; duo to its earnest hostility to the
cause of the Government front the com
mencement of the war until now, that
every member who represents it on this
floor should vote against any proposition
striking at the vitality of human slavery.
It might not be amiss to rewind them
that in the earlier days of tno republic,
one whowas sornewlestetninent as a states
man, and for whose teachings they pro
fess the profoundest reverence, tells the
country that viewing slavery and its pro•
bablo struggles in the future fur supre
macy, he trembles when ho remembers
that God is just. He knew it well. Ho
was a elave-master, and foresaw the grasp
ing, relentless efforts it would make to de
bauch our nationality and the ultimate,
violent conflict, in obedience to the laws
of eternal justice, to eradicate it from our
escutcheon. From Jefferson, the great
Democratic leader of other days, came the
Ordinance of 1787, restricting slavery
within prescribed limits, or rather inhab.
iting it in the fair regions of the West
The first act-of the Government restrict
ing this unmitigated evil—about which
there was then no diversity of opinion—
came from the sage of Monticello, who ie
claimed to-day, and over has been, as one
of the leading lights of that party.
But Jefferson was but mortal, and the
fathers of the republic have been called
away from us. Slavery had gradually be•
come more and • more exacting. The
teachings of the foundbrs of the Govern
ment, who, in a mistaken view of expedi
ency, compromised with wrong to allow
slavery to glide into a peaceful death,
have long since been forgotten in the race
for political power; and little by little,
step by step, day by day and year by year
it has grown in power, and how it has
wielded it let the history of the Demo
°ratio party tell.
It did not in oneyear, or in one'decade,
develope its revolting aim and the appall
,ingissue it was hastening: It came not
as 'the task-master . , ,to demand obedience .
It came armed with the blapdishments,
the honors, the spoils of power, and it
ltney• well whence to -bear its court. It
turned to.theDemociatio party, fastened.
CPO' it' its fatal friendship, and
tonitdd"and commanded it until it has'
blagkenediur history with a terrible pat.,:
alogue,of
_national woes, and bps at
,last :
orimscined our, fair land deep with 'our,
richest blood.
'lt r earno first to arrest the constitution
al right of petition. 'A free people,
ous of their rights, bad petitioned, the'
law-makers to preservefne integrity Of the
tree spirit of our .-.Government, and it mas,
a thrust at slavery. It,bacl just then en.:
JOHN OREASON,!'
grown, Cumb. po
VOL. 65.
RHEEM & WEAKLEY. Editors 85 Proprietors.
41xtlisd
Enoch Arden Boiled Down
Philip Rey end Beech Arden,
Both were " spoons" on Annie Lee;
Phil did not fel-fill her notions,
She preferred to mate With H.
Iflm sho wedded, an I aho here him
Pretty little children three;
But, becoming short of rhino,
Enoch went away to Boa,
Leaving Mrs. Arden owner
Of a well-stochod village shop,
Selling butter, soap and treacle,
Beeswax, whip cord, lollipop.
Ten long years she waited for him,
But ha neither came nor wrote,
Wherforo oho concluded Enoch
Could no longer bo afloat.
So when Philip came to ask her
If she would be Mrs. Ray.
She. bulleNug !be was wldeled,
Could not say her eultor "uuy;"
And • second time was married, •
ON V 0 up stilling broad and cheese,
And in duo time Philip nursed
A little hay upon h ■
But, :flax! the long-loat Enoch
Turned up unexpected ly,
And was vastly disconcerted
By this act of blio-my.
Yet reflecting on the subject,
Ile determined to atone
For his lengthened Absence from her
Ily.just leasing well alone.
Taking to Ills bed he dwindled
Down to something like a shade,
Settled ‘‘llh hin good landlady,
_aunt the debt of nature pald.
Than, when both the Rays discovered
how poor Enoch's life had ended,
They came out In handsome style, and
And gave his corpse a fulfral`splendld
Thl4 is all I know about It,
If it's not suflielont, write
liy next mail to Alfred Tracy,
P. L. L., the Isle of Wight.
Mr.LnoI,RNE
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CLIME.
OF FRANKLIN COUNTY,
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tered on its great - struggle to nationalize
itself at the cost of our nationality, and it
could not withstand the searching scruti
ny of faithful men. It was about to war
upon the very foundation stone of the
Republic—upon the great principles of
freedom declared by our fathers, and it
could triumph only by sealing the lips of
its opponents.—lt come to subvert the
very genius of our institutions, and it
chine, not in hostile array—not with ban.
ners unfurled, declaring its deadly mis•
sion, but it came into the counsels of the
Democracy with the syren song of peace,
and bid them give tranquility to the na
tion by denying the right of petition. It
did not apptal in vain. It did not mis
take its ally, its friend, its willing, obe
dient slave. It had honors for the ambi
tious, spoils for the venal, flattery for the
weak, and it was crowned master in the
deliberations of that organization. In
obedience to the teaching of slavery,
which, through the Democratic leaders,
stained our history with the denial of the
right of petition, the remnant of that or
ganization will to-day east their Votes a
gainst its abolition. Itrthis are they not
but consistent.?
Successful in one staggering blow at
the dearest rights of a free people, sla
very was not long content. Crime can
not maintain itself save by persistent.
efforts and successive triumphs. It had
stricken down the right of petition, but
it was still assailed by all the moral pow
er of a great and free people, with their
free press, free' schools and educated and
requitted labor. It therefore came with
new duties for its faithful ally. Free
speech must be abridged—free newspa
pers must be circumscribed. It could
not stand the searching light of truth ;
the fatal thrusts which the free discus
sion by a Christian people must aim at
its power and permanency. It demand
ed that the mails be subject to its in
spection—that they be rifled of all that
taught the principle of freedom, and it
was done. Journals, documents, books
not worshiping at the shrine of slavery,
were taken from the mails by authority
of law, and committed to the flames, lest.
sonic poor slave might learn that the
God of the oppressed ever lived to hear
the supplications of the lowly and vin
dicate justice iu His own good time.—
To the Democracy- it appealed, and won
its blotted triumph by which in ono half
o f the territory - of the Republic freedom
of speech was made a stranger, and free
dom n fugitive.
But it was still not content. It was
still not supreme. It must cope with an
enlightened sentiment, with industrial
progress, with the withering 'desolation
that followed its fatal tread, and unless
it could invoke the sacred shield of the
Constitution to protect and extend it, its
triumph would he fruitless. It had con•
vulsed the nation in its parting with the
free territory north of 36 deg. 30 min.,
when Missouri was admitted, and it must
regain it Or it could not arrest the pre
dominance of the free North. It wanted
the virgin territories, not to make them
bloom, but to arrest the tide of free in
dustry and thus devote them to desola
tion. It struggled with its, at times, fab
toring Democratic allies, in every possi
ble way, to compass its nationality; buy
it was a fearful task. The Democratic
party was willing, but there were times,
despite the cries of peace, that the out
raged sentiment of the people hurled
them from power and vindicated the
cause of humanity and freedom. But it
was tireless in its energies, exhaustless
in its resources„ and it was not discour
aged by defeat, nor did it despair at the
occasional feeble perfidy of its main source
of power When its voice rang out along
the Democratic lines with its dazzling
promises of power, that organization
would rally for another struggle, and fol
low its master with a devotion worthy of
the noblest of causes.
It could not live unless nationalized.
It must be supreme. It must have the
proponderence of power. It must have
the Executive, and the Senate must be
the unswerving citadel of its power. It
must have new States to keep up the
equilibrium, and it made war upon a sis
ter Republic solely to briug fresh fields
wherein it could glut its infernal appe
tite. It demanded Texas, and-Democ
racy delivered the prize. It demanded
that the new offering should be fruitful
of States as its interests and supremacy
in the Senate might demand, anti De.
mocracy denominated, in the bond that
it should be divided and subdivided un
til it should equarthe great Middle'States
in the first legislative tribunal of the na
tion.
But it was still not supremo. The
task assigned the Democratic party, was
not performed: It must have War, it ,
'must have indemnity, and its
was obeyed.' New territory,suilleient td.
make,half a.seore of States was W4sted
from:Mexico. Still it was not content. ,
If, Could, not, compete with the energy,
and progress offreedom in the territor
ies, and its / triumph throatene&O turri f
to :ashes in fits, hands. It appealed to
the Democracy, The
.law' orlth r b.Civiti
ized world must be reversed. Slavery,
must bi Made the rule`; • freedom the ex
ception... Slavery must bo,.deularea su7
Imemo in the territories- or it must petieh
MEI
CARLISLE._ PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1865.
in the struggle. It turned to the newly
acquired territories_and to the rich soil
of the West; soon to be peopled and po
tential in the Republic, and it must grasp
them in its fatal embnice, or surrender
the conflict. It must abrogate the com
mon law of every Christian Government
and confront the law of Him who created
all things free. From His hand came
no man, no thing, another's slave. The
territories of the far West, blooming and
fragrant as they came from the Creator,
were by Him dedicated to freedom, and
by the accepted law of nations so regard
ed for centuries. But slavery demanded
that by the arbitrary organic law of man,
its right should be recognized to make a
withered, waste wherever it should choose
to tread; and it was done. To resist it
was fanaticism, treason, disunion; to sus
tain and extend it was declared the only
path to concord and national unity. Its
marshalled forces, under the flag of De
mocracy, did their work well. It ap
pealed to the fears of the timid, to the
cupidity of the sordid, to the ambition
Of the weak, and in the name of Union
it struck the deadliest blow to the very
vitals of the Republic. •
It demanded empire unlimited save by
the boundaries of the continent, and the
sanction of positive law for its' existence
wkareser thmflag.of_thairee loatedover
its own dominions. But tireless as were
the efforts of the Democracy, slavery lost
in the race for possession of the rich
slopes of the Pacific,. All was done that
could be done; but an overruling power
that ever disposes ; however man propo
ses, made the triumph of slavery in the
Mexican acquisition a crowning disap
pointment. California was held at the
door of Congress With her Representa
tives and Senators for months to give
slavery and Democracy seine pretext to
reject them ; but the power of freedom
on the Pacific became stronger with each
day, and at last they,, bowed down and
confessed their disdpmfiture.
But, disastrous as was the defeat, it
was not dismayed. It still had a willing
and powerful party at the head of the
Government, and it struggle confidently,
defiantly for supremacy. It wrneg the
Missouri Compromise from an unwilling
people,years before, and triumphed there
by; but it now stood in the way of the
march of-slavery- to-universal dominion,
It was a sacred monument of the solenplly
plighted faith of our fathers. For a quar
ter of a century it had stood unassailed
by any one; but it confronted slavery,
and it must be ruthlessly destroyed.
Democracy was summoned to the task,
and the cruel work was done. Again
wits the tranquility of the nation wanton
ly, wickedly broken by the Democracy
in obedience, to slavery, and when its
convulsions threatened the very safety
of our institutions, the spoiler came again
with the seducing cry of peace, by sub
mission to its wrongs. What flillowed is
but too well remembered by all. The
revolting scenes which made up the early
history of Kansas, and the Lecompton
infamy, which was made the test of de
votion to a Democratic Administration,
are but fitting sequels to the crime that
had its inception on the violation of the
Missouri compact.
Still it was not content. The right of
petition had been restored ; the rigg to
rifle the mails had been abrogated, anti
enlightened progress was on every hand
besetting this monster foe of liberty and
law, In this extremity it turned to the
judicial tribunal of last resort—a court
where once sat a Marshal and a Story,
and in the name of Democracy demand
ed that its life should be declared to is
sue from the Constitution itself, and that
by virtue of the sacred instrument it
could spread its polluting power wherev
er it was not expressly interdicted by
municipal law. It had but to command
and it was obeyed. The territories were
surrendered mercilessly, and in defiance
of the accepted law of the civilized world,
to its desolating tread. The States were
pronounced its obedient servants in the
maintenance of its interests, and the black
man was judicially defined as a • being
without rights which any one was bound
to respect. This was its chief, its fatal
triumph. The year that witnessed its
mastery over a free people and their in
stitatiems-,-dated-i ne and fall; and
now the rejected black man pleads in a
court where; but feW years ago, he was:
denied even the legal statue of manhood
ni3dessary to maintain the prerogatives of
a suitor. , •
At last. this demon of discord and re.:'
lentless foe 'of our liberties had exhaust- ,
ed the uses of the Deraocratic party as a
party, or administrative power, It, had
so prOatituited and ; demoralized that or:
ganization akacit ,was impotent to save ,
slavery fronthe:doein of subordinatidn';'
apa with it subordinaticiu Tnis death, - 7 .,
It'thereforC, spu'riied' its faithful inStrul;
merit, df wrotigi' and,rent it in- twain'
Oharleston: not mean to sunder
thetnidn. vicifi'4:l4prOparbd for t4O,
war with , which it has shadowed, the land
in ;mouxiiing : 'savi
ing; and it must be 'supreme or die. It
reseiV,ed upbit d
,final, exhausting' effort
to prostitute the North feet I,;ind
seourOlts - porpetual and unquatifiliod .
power by now,anO,witille.§ale gr aniq eon-.
Oegsions - to 'US vitality.' 'lt. .tiiistefote
thrust out the major portion of the north
ern Democracy, and reckoning by the
history of the past, it confidently expect
ed to see friend and foe paralyzed into
shlimission rather than brave its ven
geance. But the age of submission rath
er was past. The free North was aroused
and resolved that the right of the ma
jority to rule in conformity with the
laws should be tested. Vainly did its
rejected ally, the DemoCracy, plead for
it in 1860, but the fiat of the people de
clared that slavery must henceforth yield
its own boasted supremacy to the majesty
of the' laws. It was no unmeaning vic
tory. It was not achieved to he basely
bartered away by_compromise, in which
right should. surrender to wrong.
Slavery was appalled at the retribu
tions it had invited, but it did not de
spair. It saw the sceptre of power de-
Part, but it hoped to seduce or intitni
, date the groat North from its settled pur
pose to vindicate the laws and the force
of the Government. It saw an educated,
honored and requited industri`give rich
fruits in prosperity and progress•iti the
Nvthern States, while its own fair homes
were marked by decay. It saw a vast
preponderence of population gathering
about it whose honest aims of life made
them its implacable foes. It saw every
element .of greatne_ss with w.hich. a. b.e
neticent God had blessed a free people.
It saw school-houses at every cross-road
scattering wide-spread education—its
deadliest antagonist. It saw the spires
of our churches pointing to heaven in
every community, each steadily instilling
the great eternal truths which pronounce
slavery accursed of man and God. It
saw rising here from day to day elements
which in time must crush it as the foe of
civilization, of humanity and peace. It
saw its own power wasting from day to
day beneath the inexorable progress of
intelligence, and it buckled on its armor
for its final struggle. If dethroned, it
resolved that there should be woe to the
victors as well as vanquished in its last
conflict.
Again it turned to its distracted ally in
the North. It had spurned the North•
ern Democracy from its councils, and left
it without a resting place; but when it
glithered up its strength to make a nation
bow at its deadly shrine, or accept its
fearful alternative, it again turned to the
'shattered elements of the Democracy, and
said, "There shall be war or submission,
and Democracy shall be the ally of sla
very." I understand well, Mr. Speaker,
the fearful import of this declaration. I
mean it in its broadest sense. When 6la-
very resolved upon war as its last resort,
should the North maintain its integrity,
it turned to the Democracy, and was as
sured of sympathy and triumph in grap
pling with the very life of the Republic.
flow far it has been successful, let the
chequered history of thi9 bloody drama
tell. It made war, confident in the bo
lief, predicated upon positive assurance,
that the Democracy would paralyze the
North in the attempt toexercise its might;
that there would be a powcrfnl party that
would sustain it, with matchless fidelity
even unto death, and the bond is about
to be fulfilled to-day. And why should
it not ? Aught else would be but hollow
iiypocrisy and shainole.ss cowardice.
Slavery reckoned but too truly on the
power of Democracy in this fearful con
flict When the guns of treason were
thundering against Sumter, every mem
ber of that party on this floor responded
to the call of slavery by voting against the
organization of any force to defend the
State, or the unity of the Republic. And
in the Senate, when our deliberations on
the bill to arm a farce for defence were
interrupted by the lightning messengers
proclaiming the progress of the bombard
ment of the feeble but heroic command
of Anderson, every Democratic member
sent back to triumphant treason the cheer-
log assurance, that no mon or means
should be employed to preserve the life
of the Government by their votes. Such
is the blistering truth of history as made
in these legislative halls.
And as here, it was elsewhere. The
faithless *ere for a time overwhelmed by
the outburst of patriotism of the people;
but as soon as they felt safe in so doing,
they assailed the loyal &luso with every
potty preteit, just as they have quibbled
to resist the inexorable logic of events to
day. Then, when the national heart
throbbed with devotion to our imperilled
institutions, the gentleman from Nor
thumberland (Mr.Purdy) did not declare
in the columns of his paper that the
Southern Confederacy was an established
foot, as he afterwards did. He bowed to
the.resistlesS current of patriotism for the
time, but he waited and watched for the
pbriod When he could by Stealth, by cow
ardly inUendoi by specious assaults upon
the adMinistratiort of the government,
strilro most: effectually at the. very vitals.
of 'the_RePUblio, -- Arid,- sir, With what'
reatehless fidelity. has this eruel task been
performed. .The gentlemen who last ad-,
dressed HOUse in opposition ,tO ',the
resolutions has,.* froirt the time this war
commenced, persistently; ; condemned,
every measure , proposed, for the' vintlietc4
tion of'otir' utitionel olOor;) ,
unfarled-its banner tottho. breeze, pro
elaihliu *lttlton, Xelentlesi . war alike . up.
on`Our"ptiopla .end their, institutions,
answered its demands by denying the
right of coercion—by refusing to the na
tion its inherent right to live. There
has hardly been an grgument emanating
from the leaders of treason in Richmond
that has not in spirit or in terms been re
echoed by the gentlemen from Northum
berland. His own constituents, I believe
declared in public meeting that the South
ern Confederacy was established.
Mr. PURDY. Will the gentleman al
low me to ask him a question ?
Mr. M'CrartE. Certainly.
Mr. PRUDY. I would like to know
where the meeting was held.
Mr. M'CLuttE. I cannot say, but the
resolutions were published in his own
journal.
Mr. PURDY. They wore never pub
lished in my journal. ,
Mr. M'aLuitE. I cannotbe mistaken,
sir. The gentlemen may quibble as to
the exact phraseology of the resolutions,
but I do know that resolutions were
published by him, if not endorsed, cer
tainly without disapproval, declaring that
the rebel confederacy was an established
fact; that their government was success
ful; that resistance to their power was
useles and therefore we should submit to
the triumph of treason. I do not mean
that this was the exact language of the
resolutions, but .I will thank the-gentle
man, if he has them in his possession, if
ho will present them now and show
wherein I am mistaken.
Mr PURDY. I rise toexplain. I sup
pose the gentleman from Franklin (Mr.
M'Clure) refers to a meeting called away
up in Maine the proceedings of which
were published in my journal as an evi
dence of what was being done up there.
Mr. M'CLuttE., I may be mistaken as
to where these resolutions otigib . ated; but
not as to their sentiments. lhey declar
ed for disunion—for the success of our
country's foes. Were they endorsed or
were they condemned by the ge'ntlewan
when he published them ?
Mr. PURDY. The resolutions were
copied from the World or Herald into
my paper, together with an editorial from
the journal from which they were taken
Mr. M'CLuttE. I wish io inquire dis
tinctly of the gentleman whether he con
demned the sentiments of the resolutions
when he published them ? -
Mr. PURDY. I would say, Mr.. Spea
ker, that, I think, the whole tone of my
paper condemned the resolutions.
Mr. M'CLuttE. I wish the gentleman
o answer frankly whether, when he pub-
lished in his own columns resolutions de
claring that treason had already triumph
ed over the government., lig did so with
or without their condemnation.
Mr. l'unDY. 1 will say, in the first
plane, that these resolutions did not de
clare that treason should triu•: ph
Mr.M'CLutt E. l hope that I shad get
the gentlemen to answer my question.
Mr. PURDY. I have answered it
The SPEAKER. The gentleman from
Franklin will proceed. This dialogue is
out of order
Mr. M'CLunE. Sir, lam not mistak
en in the charge I have preferred. A
series of resolutions which I supposed to
have emanated from his constituents, (I
accept his correction on this point,) con
fessing that the confederacy of treason
was established, and the Union substan
tially dismembered, was publ'shed in his
own journal and in others of like faith,
and with positive or silent approval; thus
in everything short of an actual espousal
of the enemy's cause, strengthening the
foes of the government in their murder
ous war upon our heroic brothers in the
field. By every means which promised
success, they sought to impair the sancti
ty of the laws ; to traduce, misrepresent
and weaken the government, and render
it feeble as possible in its terrible conflict
with slavery and treason. They sought
to defeat the execution of its own statutes
deemed essential to the safety of the na-
on. And bow could this be better done
than by proclaiming through the columns
of a newspaper that the rebel government
was established, and therefore resistance
to treason was but remorseless murder ?
No man who read those resolutions mis
understood them. No loyal man read
them without being chilled in his confi
dence in the great struggle ; no traitor
ever read them without rejoicing that he
had faithful, tireless allies in the free
North. Such publications and speeches
of like tone were the brightest rays of
hope to treason until the nation spoke
tnillit.n-tongued in behalf of its own life
in 1864, and bid the cruel murderers of
the South rely upon themselves. There
was not a skulking conscript in the gen
tleman's - own county, or elsewhere, who
did not applAud the resolutions, and thank
him for their publication.
Mr. PRUDY. Will , the gentleman al.'
low me to interrupt hira,'to,'moko s,ta
planation y regard. to . the . .resolutiorts•
I will siMply- - #4j , ,that they,Weire publish,
ed. as the .proocedings of a meeting in the
State of, main6;'which '_svas called abolit s
the time of the breaking out of the rebel-
lion,' When it was dietned by the gentle-
Man from Franklin (Mr. M'Clure),,and
by his .party, that there was not any such
thing as seceded States.' The meeting
was sailed toform - a moi4nent ;at that
tunic for-ti..coMFoniiie of the difttoulties.
The real:Ai:4one efiterl
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And who in our own State have taught
lawlessness to defeat the strengthening of
our armies end protract the war of freslisac-
Hikes of blood and treasure? Whence has
come disorder hero? Not from Allegheny,
or Chester, or Lancaster, or Philadelphia;
but from the sections where Democracy could
boast of its greatest supremacy. Whence
came this treason ? It was not inherent
With the people. They are as loyal now as
they were in 1861. Who then, by tireless
arts and persuasion, made them strangers to
their own best inheritance and foes to gov
ernment and law ? I saw bravo men clad
in their country's blue, march from the bor
der when the cannon of Early thundered on
the Potomac—not to make the victory of
Sheridan more decisive, but to enforce the
laws and preserve order in our own then
threatened Commonwealth. While treason
flaunted its bloody banner on the very bor
der of our State, Democracy, its faithful ally,
was attempting revolution in the strongholds
of its leaders, to cheer the hearts and strength
en the arms of those who came to thrust the
torch of the barbarian, and ply the trade of
the free-booter in our happy homes, and
make our golden fields desolate by their bru
tal tread. These are but the currents which
flow from the deadly fountain of treason,
and where rises its pestiferous' ead to course
its way to every hamlet in the land and
leave its fatal impress upon mankind! Who
gave this fountain of treason life and power,
to threaten a nation's noblest struggle with
disaster ? Behold the .inen who at every
stage of the war have resisted every : meaSitro
eisential'tesuccess.' Thei'de'elar'ed , • iteago n
too, Mighty for,. the Government :to suppress.
They appealed to the' sordid to arrest 'stag
goring taxes and debt by demanding peace;
whett well they know 'Oat' permq,lnvolVed :
diarnemberment and 4,4,, they, ;plead
their unholy cause to the fears of the'eOvi- -
.
artily; and implored•thern'taavold'tha Per-:
1113 of the fleld by. resiethig , COnserlptiOn; arid
impair the power. the,; civetnriaept, by:
lawlessness. • They aroused-tha•piejudieespf
the humble, by.iiiiittiiiietiitli(y , aogie4titii*
of IC4i9 equality; and even men ; plumed„ as
popular leaders seemed to fear that, theywere'
so paorly endoWedthat.the benighted ATrican :
might outstrip; thorn in, thtfraln: th#aCe . Of
•anrlr4da,!: ~.T.liosr;:s4il)o6lo , :rprojuz,
dice "okier,feeiile, Cc!,
was a fixed fact, and called on the Presi
dent and authorities of the United States
to enter into some measures for the pre
vention of this bloody and ruinous war.
If the gentleman will persist in pervert
ing this meeting and in perverting my
action With reference to it, he is at liber
ty to do so after this statement. I will
only further say, that at the outbreak of
this war, I addressed war meetings, for
the purpose of raising volunteers in my
county, and published resolutions adopted
at three meetings in my own journal.
.IIPCLun.E. The gentleman still
avoids the material point. He may have
addressed war meetings, but it was when
he could nothing less, in obedience to
the aroused sentiment of the people about
him in fiivor of the suppression of the
rebellion. But soon after the outbreak
of the war he published, and approving
ly because not disapproved, resolutions
'pointing with unmistakable distinctness
to the established success of the rebel
confederacy, and then demanded peace.
Soul-stiring indeed must have been his
war speeches, when at the very thresh
hold of the struggle he prayed, as Sla
very and Treason would have bid him
pray, for compromise, concession and ul
timate destruction of all government
The tone of the resolutions, as well as
the tone- that pervaded every issue of
his journal, by implication, if not in ex
pressed terms, denied both the right and
the power of the Republic to , maintain
its authority by the arbitrament of the
sword.
Mr. PURDY. Not at all
Mr. M'CLtinE. Ido not err on this vi
tal issue. However disguised by professions
of loyalty, the teachings of the gentleman
from Northumberland (Mr. Purdy), and his
political associates are aimed to paralyze:the
power of the government and to strengthen
the hands of its deadly enemies. We were
told the war was fruitless; that it could not
be successful ; and faithful men were stag—
gered by the earnest, tireless, mighty currept
of poison that flowed from the Democratic
leaders to make the people their own and
their country's foes. I except as I have al
ways done, the masses of all parties from the
terrible imputation of disloyalty to tho Gov
ernment. They have shown it in• every
stage of this conflict. They have defied their
political lenders in the" darkest hour of the
nation's cause, and rushed to its rescue; but
they left behind them the quibbling, craven
traitors who were to base to defend their na
tionality, and too cowardly to assail it man
fully.
Need I inquire to whom we are indebted
fr• the turbulence that has blotted out his
tory in the various stages of this struggle for
national existence? Whence came disorder,
contempt of lalw and riots in,our own free
North ? Who taught the deluded victims
of Democratic leaders to inaugurate anarchy
in the chief city of the Union ? Who taught
them that. conscription was but remorseless
tyranny and prepared them, by persistent,
malignant hostility to the Government for
the appalling scenes which were witnessed
there in IEIG3 ? And when they had but
obeyed the inevitable conviction of Demo
cratic teaching, and ran riot in arson, mur
der and anarchy for days, who greeted them
as " friend.'" and begged for peace—nut to
vindicate the violated laws or to save an im
perilled Government, hut to save themselves
from the swift retribution they saw in the
bitter cup they had prepared for others.—
The leaders had not the manhood to declare
in favor of Slavery and Treason, but like the
gentleman from Northumberland, (Mr.
Purdy,) they poured a steady current of
treason, the more deadly because it went
forth in the thin guise of devotion to the
Union. - Well did they obey the behests of
slavery, and they gave rich fruits wherewith
to gladden despairing traitors.
array them against the free institutions ivhoile
beneficence gave them every sotilid; oivil#nA
religious right. But the people,- - alttibitgi.
at times faltering as the dirk shadqviPA of 415-.
aster envely_ped the_nation,_were-still--faith
ful to their .oovernmeiit. Like the dis
turbed and oscilleting needle, that ever set
tles to the pole, they would. rise from, the
cloud of perfidy that beset them • and give
their hearts and sacrifices to preserve the-
Republic of our fathers.
tine hope, remained for Democracy and
slavery. They turned to the court of last
resort of Pennsylvania, and, in the name of
Democracy, demanded that the only Ino 3 / 1 8 ,
by which our armies could be filled and en
abled to triumph, should be set aside ea an.
infriction of the sovereignty of the State,
and therefore void. They 'hoped that. the
people would be glad to grasp this pretext
to turn upon themselves, their country, their,
children and their Cod. It was the task of
despair, but it was performed, and the right
of this Government to defend its' rife when
treason was fastened upon it in deadly Strife,
as with hooks of triple steel, was gravely de
nied by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania..
Then did treason, the twin-born of slavery,'
triumph in our midst, and compasked the
judiciary—the last refuge of the people—in
its slimy embrace. But it aroused the peo
ple to a mighty struggle. Impelled by the
despotism of treason, which mucked them
in their perils, to the moral heroism which
ever strengthens right in its midnight .of
gloom, they reversed theinacourt by the de
cision of the ballot-box, from which there
is no appeal, and I thank ajust and merciful
God that the Court, the State, the Nation,
lived, and lived loyally. [Applause.3
This record of unnsinglal wrong and treach.. :
ery is the history of the party whose repre
sentatives to-day will cast their votes against
the ratification of the proposed amendment
to the Constitution. It is their work—they
ware so hidden by slavery and they obeyed.
Am I not right, sir, in saying that they are
consistent? So far from being surprised
that they so vote, I should think it strange,
indeed did they not maintain the shade of
virtue that consistency and fidelity may give
them. Slavery, conceived iu clime, and
faithful to its ejection for snore than three
quarters of a century, is about to finish its
task, and when it turns for the last time-to
behold its friends in the exercise of power,
it would be cruel, mostcruel indeed, for them
to spurn it ana leave it to die unmoUrned
and dishonored. They owe it to the poWer
whicl, they worshipped when it was mighty.
They followed its black plume of desolation
until it made bondage national and freedom
sectional—until it subverted the genius of
the government. and its fundamental law—
until it plunged us into causeless War and
brought bereavement to every circle; and '
now when He who rules over all, in the ful
ness of his time, has declared that " vengeance
is mine, I will repay," and when His last re
lentless stroke is about to fall upon it—it is
fitting in this hour, in this death struggle,
that they should be faithful to the institu
tion that in other days made them great.
[Great applause.]
NO. 9..
Stories of the President
A writer in the IVatchnian and RB
flector tells the following stories of the
'resident
Mr. Lincoln has a_ fund of "humor
which, though not always dignified, is
harmless. It is very apt and ready, and
dnubtless - among all the wending sorrow
of his public life has a ffurdod him relief
under his heavy load. This jocoseness
is sometimes griin and sarcastic. It is
always playful, yet is never abusive and
seldom wounds. Often it is nicely adapt
ep to the place and occasion, and is need
with great effect. It is one form of that
humor that is not uncommon in New
England, especially in rural districts, and
which in higher and more cultivated
developments, adorns the pages of Holmes,
Lowell, and others of our literary men.
About two years ago, when the Prince
of Wales was soon to marry the Princess
Alexandra, Queen Victoria sent a letter
to each of the Sovereigns, informing them
of hers son's betrothal, and among the,
rest to President Lincoln. Lord Lyons
her ambassador to Washington—and who
by, the way, is unmarried—reugested an
audience with Mr. Lincoln, that he might
present this important document in person
At the, time appointed he was received
at the White House in company with Mr.
Seward.
" May it please your Excellency." said
Lord Lyons, "I hold in my hand an tinto - -
graph letter from my royal mistress, Queen
Victoria, which I have been commanded
to present to your Excellency. In it shy.
informs your Excellency that her eon, his
Royal Highness, the Prince of Walea, is
about to contract a matrimonial alliance
with her Royal Highness, the PrindOs
of Alexandra, of Denmark."
After continuing in this strain for a,
few minutes Lord Lyons tendered the
letter to the President and awaited his
reply. It was short, simple, and oxpres—
sive, and consisted simply of the words :
" Lord Lyons, go thou and do likewise."
We doubt if any English ambassador
was over addressed in this manner befdre,
and would be glad to learn what success
he met with in putting the reply in diplo
matic language, when he reportyi it!to.
her Majesty.
It is said that some 'time since, wima,
a deputation of clergymen presentdd an
address to the President, in which. he .=
was styled "a pillar of the chureth,
quaintly, and perhapS truthfully', remarked .
that ,they would havo done much better
to call him a steeple."
tie'. Ono of the Schitherti paitiersithtiike
Sherman only "a second rate Geinirao .
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