BY GEO. W. HO AVIS AY.
NEW SERIEvS.
5 C Ic £ t 0 C t V P.
Written lor the Daily Pennsy Ivanian. \f
THE I YIOY.
••due and Inseperablc, Now and Forever/
15V JOHN M. CKOSSLAND, POTTSVItXE, PA.
Ye sons ofPenn—awake! arise!
While yet our emblem Eagle flies;
And with your bapner ofthe skies,
Do battle for the Union !
God save the Union! be our praver—
For ail otir hopes are centre! there!
And patriot hearts.may well despair,
VVtien severed is the Union!
Oh, Washington ! he thou our guide—
As in Thy days ol manly pride.
When freemen battled b\ thy side
To form this sacred Union!
God save the Union! breathe it now,
As when the laurel bound thy blow,
And haughty England came to bow
In reverence to the Union !
Our fathers—from their lowly graves,
Who-e meed was to be good and brave,
And calling on their sons to save
This blood-CPniented Union !
Gird on the shield your fathers wore,
When England's minions trod our>hores;
And lie the watchword—as of yore—
God! and our glorious Union !
Palsied shall be the daring band,
That lights up faetioH" t burning brand.
And strews its curse upon our land
To sap and mine the Union !
May Heaven impress the mark of Cxin,
When Jnelae shall his pieces claim ;
And stamp them with eternal shame,
That would dissolve the Union.
Remember! sons of good old Penn—
That "Yorktown" was a Southern gem!
And giant blows were struck by them
To form a perfect Union !
While Massachusetts—sons and sires,
Were bleeding for their blazing spires,
'•Kings Mountain" glowed with streaming fires,
For Liberty and Union!
Then heed ye we!! those sons of light!
Who pledged their "lives" to win the fight—
And thirteen blazing slars unite
To form thi glorious Union!
Wtiett four —puts on a sable crown,
Forgetful of their joint renown.
f/tall six of these old States so down,
That battled for the Union
De.fiant ofthe blood and toil,
Shatl trnuaiVdark and damning spoil—-
Pollute our consecrated soil.
By severance of the Union.'
No ! by our fathers gory bed—
By all the suffering hearts that bled—
And sacred memory of the dead—
We will preseeve the Union !
The Union, is our blazoned crest,
J!v statesmen formal ! by warriors blessed!
"No North,'no South, no East, no West,"
Shall ever rive the Union!
For Pennsylvania speaks afar—
As "Keystone State,' and centra! Star!
Warning the hordes of civil war,
She will preserve the Umou '
She stoops not to embrace fhe slave :
Nor will -he ii:<; a freeman's grave;
Or dim a single -tar to save,
The creature of disunion .
Rut firm—as when h**r Slate House rung
With Independence on its tongue—
She now presents her chosen son,
As landmark lor the Union!
If underful Escape, from a Furious Bull.
In the town of Bridgewaler last week, Brace
Hall a little, son of Deacon Hall, of that place,
was grievously gored by a bull and almost mi
raculously escaped with his life. The bull was
a fine young animal, whom the lad—only sev
en years old—had been in the habit of driving,
and it had never before manifested any consider
able viciousness. But boys v\ ho had a bathing
place in the brook that runs through its pasture,
had worried it by shaking their clothes at it,
and thus getting up the excitement of a chase.
On Monday of last week, liltfe Brace was pass
i: '2 carelessly through the field were there
forty animals with this bull among
hem, when it suddenly set upon him and tossed
h;:n repeatedly upon its horns.
A faithful dog which accompanied the boy
attacked the bull, and caught upon its neck
"nth firm teeth. The bellowing and wild run
ning about of the other cattle in the field, made
:| n exciting scene. For about eight rods Ihe hull
b>*d the boy, tearing his clothes completely
off from him ; ihe boy all the time endeavoring
tn reach a fence so as to escape.
He had already touched the boards, when
'ne bull again tossed him, and his head struck
■'jauiist the ience, tearing the scalp horribly.—
j nt unfortunately the horns of the animal had
trenched one of the boards of, arid the victim
' ill self-posse*sed, escaped through the of>en
s<) opportunely made, into an adjacent lane,
be bull seemed more intensely maddened at
fnsescape, arid with almost human sagacity
famed down toward an opening into the lane
some distance off. But the boy had in the
me *n time climbed over another fence, and was
'"vond the mad beast's reach.
foinpletely exhausted he could do no more;
-aithful dog who had endeavored to restrain
'beast, hastened to the boy's father, and by
fe-ans attracted his attention, and led him to
•be presence of his wounded son : he lay bleed
-1-• faked, yet alive. He was taken home
a "tf cared for, and we understand there is eve
r-\ rPas on to believe he will recover from his
injuries.
The self-possession of the boy alone saved
18 life, and with the fidelity of the dog, de
"rveg to be recorded. The bull was fenced in
and shot. I <cn,(.Y. Y.) Jfrruld.
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VVA repeat it—the question in the political
conflict now pending, is, sholl (qua! rights ex
ist between the. States? It is a question of the
sovereignty of the people. In other countries
they have no sovereignty. Their rulers possess
it. We are equal and independent States.—
The rights and powers which anv one Slate
and the people of that State have, every other
State and the people thereof also have. The
people of no State may claim for themselves
what they mav to others. Every State
in the I'nion has acted independently, and for
itself, in the formation of its own constitution.
\<>ne interfered, because they had no right to
do so. None ever questioned it, because the
right to do fhof did not exist. The Congress
of the l'nited States passed an act by which
they simply sail that Kansas and Nebraska
should frame each a constitution to suit itself,
conformably to the guarantees of that of the
l'nited Stat'-s. The latter respected, admitted,
and sanctioned slavery in anv of the States that
might choose to maintain such an institution,—
The Kansas and Nebraska act di<! no more than
to recognise the power of the people to exercise
the right of .self-government, and to regulate for
themselves th-ir own domestic institutions, as
the other Stoles hod done for themselves.
This, then, presents the simple question of
the (■quality of the Stales ' Out of it springs
another. It is this : Which State. or which set j
of Stales, has a higher claim to ceiiuin sover
eign rights than other States of the confedera
tion? Who will answer this ? Who w ill an
swer it by declaring the paiticular States that
have a right to , arid will exercise this odious
prerogative ? Is there a man who will dare to I
do it before ihe American people, either iri the :
North, East, West, or South ? Not one ! Yet .
this is the question, the. very question, which is j
now pending before the people upon the result I
of the presidential election.
Our political enemies disguise the question, j
They dure not present it as it is. If they ran
continue this deception it may be fatal to our !
existence as a nation, if it brings those into j
power who are determined to do that which
will force a separation of this Fnion. We,
therefore, warn our American brethren of the
North that they are thus artfully practised up
on by designing are leading them on j
under false pretences, and who seek, power at j
the price of civil war, and the destruction of
(he government. We ask them to pause before 1
they cross the Rubicon the last line of demar- ;
cation that secures the peace, tin- safety, and the i
independence of the respective States.— Wash
ington Union. j I
Fearful Ride down a Spur of the. JUleghnny
Mountains.—Jt Stage ( pact—Perilous Situa
tion and Miraculous Escape from Death.
[From the Richmond Whig, Sept. G.]
On the morning of the 24-th u!t., at half-past
two o'clock, a party, twenty-one in number,
left the White Sulphur Springs for the terminus
of the Central Railroad. All went on pleas
antly until about one o'clock in the day, and
shortly after commenced the descent ol Morris
mountain, when it became alarmingly apparent
to the passengers in the advance coach that the
horses were running away; and to increase
their terror the driver was seen rolling in the
dust. The horses, tints left unchecked, went
dashing on in their tr.ad career, the coach reel
ing from side to side under its heavy top load,
jf Look to the Question as it Is.
J* It is every way proper that we should not,
'(•under the influence ofthe excitement ofthe
hour, forget the simple issue and the plain facts
jof ttie political contest in which we are enga
, j ged. Our enemies—we do not call them rivals
i -—have evaded the issue and perverted the
(acts. We will very briefly refer to them.
The question before the public to he settled
j by the present presidential election is, when re
duced to the simplest form, the equality of (he
States in their rights and powers.
Human nature is precisely now what it has
been in all ages. We have it in the example
; before us. Ambitious men with us, bent on
! getting power, indifferent as to the means, and
reckless of the consequences, have art fully rnis
j represented the whole case. They have been
unwilling to trust their countrymen with the
truth. A swift judgment they know would be
passed against litem. The people everywhere
jin our country prefer to do right in regard to
j all political questions, rather than inflict wrong
I and injustice. They have a great stake in the
: former: benefits to he derived from it in the
! present and the future, and serious mischiefs to
apprehend from the latter. They have no
I pampered appetite for office—-no diseased ambi
tion tor power. The safety and security of
j their homes, the prosperity of their private in- ;
terests, the protection of their lives, their lib- ;
ertv, and their property, form tire chief end of;
every thought and act which they devote to the !
; public iuteresi. This may be fairly stated to be j
1 the object of the people in the choice of a Pres
ident. They can have no malign motives. It
i. because of all this that the abolitionist, who j
is against the Bible and against the equality of,
the States, and that the black republican, who I
seeks the same political ends, will not state the
truth before tire people, but re.-ort to low and !
despicable perversions. What is no less sig
nally true in (he conflict in which we are now 1
engaged is, that the ambitious leaders of the
party to which we refer, when the case is sta
ted so as to make out the truth plainly, when
the facts charged against them are proven,
when they are taken in the commission ofthe j
very offences of which we say they are guilty,
with a hardihood for which the reprobate ofthe t
stocks and of the prison is peculiarly distin
guished, they deny everything, and set about
to reconstruct their false distortions, with more
intense zeal and redoubled ingenuity.
It is in this state ol the contest, therefore,
that we have slated simply the question which
is really now submitted to the people, ft is
one of political life or death to our country.—
We will prosper or may perish by its decis
ion.
first upon the two wheels nearest the precipice'
and tiien inclining to an opposite direction, un
i (d 't was at last thrown violent !v over, mang
. | ling, bruising and crushing the limbs ofthe ter
rified passengers, killing one horse, and break
, nig tiie leg of another. To add to the confusion
, of the scene, the horses which were not disa
bled, continued to drag the wreck over the
ground, while the occupants were indiscrimi
i nately piled up and unabl- to help themselves.
,| The thrilling incidents which followed are thus
described by a passenger :
I could neither speak nor move to help my
self, being completely paralyzed with horror,
though I could see distinctly all that was going
an. Two or three persons were on top of me,
] and I verily believed that all my companions
: were killed. At this critical moment the reftr
coach came dashing down the mountain as if in
hot pursuit. A young man who occupied a
deck seat leaped off without waiting for the hor
ses to slacken their speed, and hastened to our
assistance. Jumping upon the upturned coach,
he extricated the only ladv passenger, and call
ing a Mr. Davis to aid him, supported her to a
seat iu the coach they had left. Leaving her
under the charge of some ladies, he returned to
tlie rescue of others. 1 have since learned that
the name of this noble hearted young gentleman
is Morrison, a resident of New York. He had
j under his care three ladies—Mrs. Huger and :
two Misses Huger,of South Carolina, who also
I rendered efficient service in administering to 1
the necessities of the wounded. Mr. Morrison
seemed to he the only gentleman present who
j was equal to the emergencies ofthe occasion.—
He gave directions in a prompt and decisive
manner, and but for his energy I veriiv believe
nothing would have been done for our relief.
\Vater was asked for to bathe llw head of the I
wounded lady, and the reply was that none i
could be obtained. Mr. M. at once found a
broken demijohn of sulphur water in the coach,
and from it procured a sufficient quantity to an- ;
swer the purpose.
It was found impossible at that time to get
by with the pear stage, as two of our horses
were killed, one having had his brains dashed
out and the other a leg broken ; the throat of
the latter being afterwards cut to put an end to
his sufferings. The task was at length com
pleted, and we reached the hotel, a mile helow,
where everything was done hy the* proprietor,
Mr. Woodward, and his assistants, to alleviate
the sufferings of the wounded. Here, too, Mr.
Morrison's suggestions were of great value.—
He succeeded in having a boy moon ted upon a
horse,and despatched a message to Dr. Crump,
at the Hot Springs, and another to the agent of
the line for tin extra coach : and the prompt
ness with which they responded In the call was
soon apparent. In an almost incredibly short
space of time they were seen coming at toll
speed, in a buggy, and an extra coach follow
ing at the same iate.
V\ ilh regard to the wounded, I may state
that J (idee I i v seemed to he more severely lilts t
than any one else, his injuries being mostly a
hont the head. A hoy, whose name I under
stood to be (lay, from Staunton, was delirious
from the e/lects of a very severe contusion on
the left temple. One ger.tleman, said to lie
from Norfolk, ha I both hands and arms diead
fiilly mashed and one eye severely cut. The
lady passenger, who was travelling under the
charge of Judge Fry, had a severe cut over one
eye, and her left arm very much bruised. I
was hurt internally. All, however, are doin< T
well, and will no doubt recover.
From the N. V. Freeman's Journal ami Catholic
Register.
RELIGION AS A POLITICAL TEST.
We,e it not disgusting, it would amuse us to
see the savageness ol the contest that has been
waging for months between the two know
nothing parties on the subject of the religion of
the candidate of one of them. Jt w as, certain-
ly, of the nature of a farce that an out-and-out
know-nothing faction should have selected for
j their presidential candidate not only the son of
a foreigner, but one who, until recently, was
looked upon hv his friends and associates as a
Catholic. The party known as Choctaws,
North Americans, or anti-slavery know-not h
j ings, offered Mr. Fremont their nomination, and
1 he formally accepted it, having avowed his
; sympathy with most of their principles, and his
purpose to carry them out, il he could be elect
ed. According to the New York Times, a Fre
mont paper, this convention, which thus nomi
nated Mr. Fremont, w as composed of those who
"bolted from the American (know-nothing) na
tional council and nominating convention in
Philadelphia, by reason of the admission therein
of delegates representing a Roman Catholic
constituency—thus taking the most decided po
sition as anti-Roman Catholics, and still main
taining that position." Yet, as if to illustrate
how utterly profligate in principle kriow-noth
ingism is, and how necessarily self-stultifying,
they take as their candidate a man supposed to
be a Catholic.
Having selected such a one for their candi
date, the next curious step is the attempt to
make out—not that' Mr. Fremont had given up
being a Catholic—not that he was now a Pro
testant, or of no religion—a thing possible in
itself, plausible moreover, and which he cer
tainly has the political right to do without be
ing politically questioned about it—but that he
never had been a Catholic, never had eo pro
fessed himself-—this is, we think, the most
audacious attempt on the credulity of the A
merican people that has ever been tried. Had
the appeal been made to the real American
principle that a man's religion is not a matter
on which he ought to submit to questioning —
however contradictory this might lie to the in
quisitorial dicta of the know-nothings—their
inconsistency would have found some to pardon
it. But the attempt to make the public swal
low so absurd a story as that Mr. Fremont did
not for vears profess himself a Roman Catholic,
and nothing but a Roman Catholic, has artu
tuallv something in it hardly one step from the
Freedom of Thought and Opinion.
FRIDAY MORNING, BEDFORD, PA. SEPT. 26, 1856.
Hear what Pope Gregory save about the
slave-trade and those who deal in slaves.
Hear his anathemas denounced on ail those
who in anv wav countenance slavery! inclu
ding, of coiuse, these who, by voting lor Buch
anan or Fillmore, uphold the infamous traf
fic!
Read Pope Gregory's hull! The Catholic
clergy in America entirely ignoring or losing
sight of the above document, issued only a lew
yea is ago, it remains lor Protestants to publish
the same for the benefit of all true Catholics,
none of whom would care to vote for Buchan-
an or Fillmore after reading this proclamation
of his Holiness. They would rather vote lor
John C. Fremont, w ho is pledged to prostrate
"the slave oligarchy"' 1 and to extend the area of
freedom.
Fremont and Dayton clubs can be supplied
with the above bull, illustrated by a handsome
cut of the Pope, surrounded by his cardinals,
engaged in the work of freeing a slave from his
chains: in addition to other suitable matters,
such as Daniel O'ConneU's views on slavery
also those of other celebrated Irishmen, together
with a map show ir.g up, in suitable colors, the
free and slaves States of the f'nion ; all pub
lished tog-ther in an eight-page tract, which
should be scattered broadcast among American
Catholics. It is a knock-down argument, and
must have a l lling effect on that class of voters.
Will be read v on the 10th of September.
Thousands of copies have been already order
ed. Send early. Puce per J,OOO, $10; per
100, $1 25 ;or '2 cents single. Each order
must he accompanied by the cash.
Address the publisher, JOS. 11. LADD,
.No. 22 Bieekman st, New York.
Nothing can possibly be finer than that. Its
cool, complacent effrontery is unmatchable. It
is only very lately that some of Mr. Fremont's
warmest supporters were in favor of restricting
the political rights of Catholic citizens, ani af
fected to doubt whether they, as Catholics,
could reallv preserve a true alhgiance to the
country. Presto! and the scent* changes;
now Catholics are colled upon to ekct Fremont
'*) suhlimp.
There is a relieving feature in this unpleas
ant business. It is that while there are scores
of men who, hy personal intercourse with Mr.
'Fremont in other days, are in a condition to
give the most conclusive testimony—and marry
oi these are hostile to Mr. Fremont politically
v—not one of them of any character has been
found to violate the rights of private intercourse,
or the political privilege of religious liberty, so
much as to be induced to publish a word on the
subject. The unseemly contest has been left to
the two know-nothing factions to dispute be
tween themselves, the one set averring—what
Mr. Fremont does not, with his own words,
aver—that he has never professed himself a Bo
man Catholic ; the other set asserting that he
has not ceased to be a Catholic hut is playing
some dark an:! mysterious part for the accom
plishment of Catholic designs on the country.—
lhe two sets are well matched. It would he a
pity to interfere with them.
But we must insist on their letting alone the
good name of the Catholic priesthood. It will
not do for the friends of Mr. Fremont to ma
lign falsely tlie characterot the good old Jesuit
Father Van Horseigh, who married him. Respect
for the memory of a good priest, now deceased,
will one day compel the overhauling ofthe
coarse charges of tire Tribune that he had no re
gard to the requirements of his sacred office.—
The same kind of gross impropriety has been
practised with a Catholic priest still living.—
The Rev. Mr. Olivetti, of Whitehall, in the di
ocese of Albany, has been frnmpted through
the country as having declared that he knew
Mr. Fremont to be a Catholic, and that he meant
to vole for him on that account, and that he
had five hundred men in Fssx county whom
he would make vote for him also. Mr. Olovet
ti has felt it proper to give a formal denial to
this tissue of absurdities in a local paper a!
Whitehall. He says that lie knows nothing
about Mr. Fremont's religion—how should he '(
—that he lias not had time to l<nrn the merits
of political parties in this country, and does not
intend to vote at all, having enough to do with
the discharge of his clerical duties. As to the
rt*l**nn•> office hundred men that were waiting
fur his ward to vote, it is hard to think that such
stories ran be believed by anv one. Catholics
understand perfectly well their rights,and their
inilirif/unl responsibilities as citizens, and do
not exercise their citizens' privilege at the dic
tation of any man. lint the Catholic conscience
in such matters, its liberty and its dignity, is a
thing not to be understood by know-nothings,
who bind themselves to do blindly of the
knights that carry the dark lantern fur their
party.
Meanwhile, a* the know nothing faction that
sustains Mr. Fremont repels as fatal to his pros
pects the charge of "his leaving for years been
known as a Catholic, and the know nothing
faction that opposes him maintains that he is
still a Catholic at heart, arid only a Protestant
forthe nonce, till after election, it gratifies its
to witness the profound disgust with which a
last proportion of the community view this in
decent discussion. Like the fictitious issues
made op in the old courts to test a principle by
an assumed trial between John Doe and Richard
Roe, we believe that the effect of this vile con
test between the two setts of know-nothings
will he tu bani-h fiom future contests all inquis
lorial searches into the religious piofessions of
political candidates.
Rlark-Stfpublican Impudence.
Under the head of impudence, the Catholic
Register and Freeman's Journal has the follow
ing :
We think we ought to help the circulation of
the following political gem, by giving it a gra
tuitous advertisement :
A CAMPAIGN TRACT! !!
Catholics, .Mention ! !
\ President, to "prostrate oligarchies," and des
- troy negro slavery at the bidding of a former
s Pope of Rome.
According to these silly tractarians, the Cath
> jolics (or some of them, at least) are not at all
f* troubled with the common faculty called a
>" memory: and the same political adventurers
i who have just tried, and just failed, to establish
, an oligarchy over the Catholic citizens, can in
> stantly thereafter whistle up Catholic voters,to
? go, at tlieii upon a wild hunt against
i the rights ofson|K)lher portion of the peopleoi'
- the United States.
t JThat the Pope of Rome has, at anv time, de
, clarM that there is any sin in living under tlie
• constitution of this country, and in fully carry
-1 ing out and defending every one of its com
; promises and provisions, is a falsehood too gla
• ring to render service even in an insane out
break ol party spirit. In maintaining thein
i tegiity of this I nion, the Catholic citizen needs
not the impertinent advice of anv mad fact ion
ist, and, in forming his opinion upon political
duty, he can easily afford to dispense with the
advice of hot-headed and empty-headed bigots
and sectarians.
Is a White 75an a-* isood ax a I¥t>
gro !
The Question of Superiority Settled.
It would appear, by the following paragraph
from the Martinsville Monitor, that the black
republicans of indiana have settled in their
minds the question as to the relative su
periorly of the black and white races, which,:
after long studv, Mr. Union-sliding Banks was
unable to decide upon. The incident related j
occurred at a Fremont barbacue in Morgan
county ;
"The most characteristic part ofthe whole
affair occurred at the table. A mechanic, who
had hitherto been a strong Fremont man, was
on the ground with his wife and child. At a i
given-word he attempted to cross the rope to
the table, but was met by one of tlie marshals
and told to stand back and give room lor
the ladies. He stepped back as lie was to id,
when seven or eight women, 'AS BLACK AS THE j
A( - OF SFADI:S,' advanced be fore him to the
table, and ate with the rest of the Fremont la- :
dies and gentlemen. This was too much for him. ;
He tore tlie Fremont'badge from his breast, and
swore that, although he was a poor mechanic,
he was yet a little better than a negro. He
said that if he and his wife v\> re to be thrust
back from a Fremont barbecue to give place to
negroes, he no longer was a Fremont man, and
immediately stamped the Fremont badge under
his feet, and declared his intention to *ote for
Buchanan. \\ e are informed that fOr or five
others Aid likewise. It isaid that not less than
twenty negroes ate at the first table."'
From the Philadelphia Xews. >ep*. 10.
XEGKO FBK3IO.\TEKS OS THE STI3IP.
We learn that a hurley negro i< now engag
ed traversing the interior of the State, and ma
king stump speeches in favor of Col. Fremont.
Ttiis is practical amalgamation, and affords but
another illustration of the truth of the charge
that Black Republicanism is but an l.'. r name
for Abolitionism. Jn .New York, we Rain,
Fred. Douglas, whose paper is the Nn ting Re
publics!) supporter of .Mr. Fremont in Western
New York, has taken th" stun p, and will (i!i
appointments from now until the election. He
delivered two addresses before the Republican
Fremont Clubs of Otisco, Onondaga County,
some seventeen ftiiles from Syracuse.
Jn bis remarks, lie stated that he would soon
er, with Banks, let the Union Hide, than thai
Mr. Fremont should be defeated : and that am
Republican should prefer losuppoit Fremont,
knowing him lo be a Roman Catholic, and a
gainst the extension of slavery, than to uite for
a Protestant who was not known to be pledged
to the North, as against the South. He was
careful to "curse" the stars and stripes, as he
has frequently done, and avoided his usual ! it- !
?er denunciations of the Constitution and the ■
Union. It is evidently his study to follow the
example of Weed, Ciddings and his other co-la
borers, and to conceal his real sentiments until
after election.
The Falsehoods of William V. Huberts.
the Lieutenant-Governor of Kansas under
the. bogus Topeka Constitution.
Two of the mercenaries travelling our State
at the present time are the so-called Gov. Rou
i:nrs, who holds his commission under the To
peka Constitution—a Constitution framed by a
public meeting in Kansas which ronicssedly
does not represent even the people whom it
purports to represent and a man bv the name
ut HOI.LIDAY, who also boasts of a sounding ti
tle derived Iron, the same doubtful authority.
ROBERTS got himself mto a scrape in Frank
lin, \ enarigo County, the other day, by alle
ging that he had called upon the Pennsylvania
delegation at tlie Democratic Convention at
Cincinnati, and implored them to do something
to bring pence to Kansas, an accusation which
the Hon. An. NOLO PirMrit nailed to the counter
as a false coin, in a conversation with Roberta
himself, making Roberts admit that the cLaree
was without a shadow of foundation.
Roberts has misrepresented the Toombs Pac
ification Bill in the Senate and the circumstan
ces attending its passage. He claims to have
pointed out objections to its details to Senator
Bigler and others v\ hicli were not removed, and
that it the bill had become a law on account of
this omission, it would have made Kansas a
Slave State. We have the best authority for
saying that the only delect pointed out bv Mr.
Roberts was that the penalties against interfe
ring with the elective franchise were too light,
and after this suggestion they >r- made en
tirely satisfactory, He said to numerous per
sons that a hill allowing bono file citizens to de
cide the question would make Kansas a Free
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State, and he also declared to General Cass,
Gov. Hitler and others in Washington, that
: nine-tenths of the people in Kansas were for a
i ree State ; that tl)e principal troubles in Kan
sas proceeded iron* bad men in both parties, and
men without interest in the Territory, and he
did not hesitate to denounce to these gentlemen
some of the Free State party as fanatical and
unprincipled. With what propriety caD such
a man say it was intended by the Toombs bill
to make Kansas a Slave State ? For if Gener
al Cass and others believed his statements they
certainly had no such intention themselves.
In this connection, and in confirmation of
| what we have said, we ask our readers to per
j use the following statement of John McCarthy
and John Roberts, oflhiscitv. Members of the
last State Legislature, and citizens whose inleg
, ritv no man in this community will dare to dis
pute. Thomas S. Roberts, who makes tire ori
ginal statement, is at present a member of the
j City Councils, and is one of our most estimable
citizens. These gentlemen show what Lieut.
Gov. Roberts thought of the Kansas trouble af
itr the Cincinnati convention, and before his in
j terview with Gov. Rigler and Gen. Cass, and
they also prove upon him duplicity cf the most
extraordinary character. Their statements are
I not only entitled to entire credence, but we de
jfv Roberts and his friends to printout wherein
they are defective. Those of'our citizens of
| western Pennsylvania, who have heard the
speeches of Roberts and Hollidav, should pre
serve this article, and fling it into the te-th of
I these emissaries of disunion whenever they a
j gain make their appearance :
PniL.uir.i.eiHA, Sept. 9th, 1856.
lion. WM. ILGLKR. ESQ. —DEARSJJI: My
attention has been called 'oa conversation with
Mr. Wm. Y. Roberts, formerly of Pennsylva
nia, and now of Kansas, which took place in
the carson the 7th of June last, on our return
Irom the Cincinnati Convention, and on the
route between Cincinnati and Pittsburgh.
Mr. Wm. V. Roberts, Mr. John McCarthy,
Mr. John Roberts and myself, were seated to
gether, and in giving us a detailed history of
tile state of affairs in Kansas, he unreservedly
declared it as his conviction, that all the troub
les in that country were to be attributed to trie
violence and misconduct of a few ultraists, and
evil disposed persons, belonging to both par
ties.
He detailed at length, the doings of ma
ny of the extremist.-—and among the rest, most
positively asserted, "that a o-itain E. W.
Brown, Editor of the Kansas 1 Herald. of Frce
dor.-if an Abolition paper—was the very worst
man in the Territory"—"that he, by I;is in-
Jiamatorv writings, and violent a'qusp," had
done more to produce discord and retard the
: prospects and interests of the Territory, than all
the pro-slavery nen in it—and further, "that
; his thpariurc from the Territory and the sup
' pr-o -i.-n of U> taper, would not only have a
tendency to promute harmony and peace—but
would be hailed with joy, by nearly al' the
real, bonafide settlers, whether pro-slavery or
lree state men."
He also further admitted thai many ofthose
claiming in belong to the Free State party had
emigrated to the Territory from the East, mere
ly f>r the purpose of controlling its inhabitants
and flections, without anv serious intention to
become bona tide residents thereof. At the
same time, h to k occasion to censure the Em
grnnt Aid Societies, for sending out large num
ber- oi men, a; the eost of the societies: and
without a dollar in their pockets on their arri
val, to maintain limm until they could find em
ployment. He argued that such was not tb •
way to build up a prosperous Territory, or to
secure the ends they ought lostrive for.
He also claimed that the em otion of lahd lo
cations and town .io with the speculations in
cident thereto, h;:;} much to do with the early
troubles in the Teni-ory; that it fieqnpntly led
to angry debates and broils between men from
the Northern and Southern States, in as
a matter of course, the friends oi' the different
parties soon became warm partisans: find this
had contributed as much to create an angry and
excii :i feeling as the question of slavery.
Another point he distinctly avowed, was
"his belief that it thev were left alone to tiler?-
selves, and agitation in the East and South put
asf 11 In, thev could ard would soon settle their
difficulties in a qubt and peaceable manner,
and, moreover, with but little -or no risk of
Kansas becoming a slatt <*ate.
I "pon referring to the reports of the robber
ies and n.orders at that time current, he affirm
ed that pencc'bfe 'and well <! is posed persons had
no occasion for, nor need they be in the fear of
either their persons or property: that at no time
was he pver insulted bv a pro-slavery man, al
though he was out among tliem, night and day,
and was well known to be a tree State mail,
in haste, T submit myself, yours,
THOS. J. ROBERTS.
We, the undersigned, having been present at
the time the above conversation took place, hil
ly endorse and corroborate the statements of
Mr. 7'. J. Roberts, as above set forth, as cor
rect and true.
JOHN MCCARTHY - ,
JOHN ROBERTS.
PuiNios ik Tin: Woan.— The New York
j Tribune give? prominence to (he following dis
union sentiment* which enters largely into the
I '
Republican creed:
Whatever domestic reasons there may be for
preserving the Union between the Free and
| Slave States, the European Demociats are pret
ty well convinced that they huvc nothing to
hope but everything io fenr from flint In ion,
while on the other hand the despot? ol Europe
regard the slave States as their natural allies.
j Know Nothings can't see how Mr.
Buchanan is to he elected! We should be sur
prized if they could see nv thing alter living
two years in a dungeon, with no other light
than a <]nrh fantirn'