11l GEO. W. IIOWifIAI.
NEW SERIES.
scit £ t $3 011 vg.
Written tor the Norristown Register.
"THAT'S SO!"
BY HICKORY EXCELSIOR.
Old "Buck and Brack" are on the track,
That's so, that's so;
The "Wooiy-heads" can't hold 'em back,
That's so too;
Tis' all in vian to stop their might,
That's so, that's so.
Their cause is just, their cause is right,
And that's so too.
("HOUCS:—Ves, that is so, my boys,
That is so, my boys,
That is so, my boys,
That's so too.
The "Wooly-horse" he paws for feed,
't hat's so, that's so,
Of water too he stands in need.
That's so too,
Theßocky Mountains hear hi? "neighs,"
Thai's so, that's ,(i.
••Salt river" meets ins wearied gaze,
And that's so too.
Chorus: —Yes that is so, my boys, Kc.
Poor Jack Fremont is Greeley 9 & toot,
1 hat's so, that's so.
Bat "sixteen stars 9 ' he cannot rule,
That's so 100,
lie seems to brag just out of spite,
That's so, that's so,
But "Buck" will show him how to fight,
And that's so too.
Chorus : —Yes that is so my boys, &c.
••Milt" Filmore too, he is "no go,"
That's so, that's -o,
He's joined the men who "Nothing Know,"
That's so too.
But Fillmore now, we'll let him pass,
That's so. that's so,
And ("Donelson") may "goto grass,"- ~
Ami that's so too.
Chorus :—Yes, that is so, my boy?, Kc.
The "Niger-ites" they rave and tug,
That's so, that's so,
The "Kansas" fuss is nil humbug,
That's so 100,
They talk ot "Freedom" and of "blood,"
That's so. that's so,
And do the slave mote harm than good,
And that's so too.
Chorus; — Yes, that is so, my boys, Kc.
Our good old Ship would "go to wreck,"
That's so, that's so,
Without her pilots, Book and Breck,
That's so too,
Then Freemen join lt#e fearful Cray,
That's so, that's so,
Then Buck and Breck will win the day,
And that's so too.
L IKJIUS;—Yes, tlat is >o, my boys, &c.
U!JO tONQIERED CALIFORNIA ?
Tii Question Stilled.
The Fremont fraternitv, among their many
attempts at fraud and imposition on the people,
have frequently put their candidate forward as
tli-Conqueror of California, which has as often
been denied by those who have a regard for the
truth of history. There aie upon record at
l\as!.ington, letters, di-spatches, and other evi
dences without number, which ptove that this
claim is a manufactured one. and all of w hich
prove that Commodore Stockton had not only
■ mquep'd California, but that he maintained
a; - ilute possession of it, and that Fremont so
!>ojniz.-d Stockton. Among these evidences
•s a letter from Fremont, which puts the mat
! r beyond controversy. It is as follows.—
'luji-r if Mrs. Greeley will deny ils being
genuine ?
C'YL. FREMONT TO GEN. KEARNEY.
Cl l't)Al> HE EOS ANGELES, I
.1.11->i.): v 17 1 h. IN}.,',
>n: I have the 1, nor to lie in receipted
v r favor ofla-t night, in which i am direct
• - to suspend the e\. cutiuii oforders, which, in
" v capacity us commandant of this Territory 1
"'tlttc iv-.d Jrom Commodore Stockton. Gov
ernor and Commander-in-Chief in Califor
nia.
1 avail myself of an early hour this morning
make such reply as'.lie brief time allowed
lar reflection will enable me.
Ij-und Commodore Stockton in possession
'his country, exercising the functions of
■ 'hiitary Commander, and Civil Governor, as
*"dyn.f July of last year, and shortly thereafter,
I received Jrom Aim the Commission of Military
J omrTiaiuiant, ilm duties of which I immediate
'• entered upon, and have continued to exer
cise to the present moment. I lound, also, on
: y arrival at this place, some three or four days
!IC, S Commodoie Stockton still exercising the
'•inctionsof Civil and Military Governor, with
1 "same apparent deference to his rank on the
fart of all officers, (including yourself) as he
'maintained and required w hen lie assumed it in
July last.
I l-arned also, in conversation with you, that
1 'he march from San Diego, recently, in this
Face, you entered upon and discharged duties
1 "plying an acknowledgment, on your part, of
supremacy in Commodore Stockton.
' feel myself, therefore, with great deference
' tour professional and personal character,
(l,r >s!rained to say, that until you and Commo
ro Stockton adjust betvteen yourselves fhe
quest ion of rank, where 1 respectfully think
l " difficulty belongs, I shall have to report to
" receive ordeis, as heretofore, from the
Commodore.
J. C. FREMONT,
Lieut. Col. U. S. Armv, aud Mili
tary Commandant of the Territory of
C alifornia. To Brigadier General, S. \VN
KEARNEY, U. S. Army.
Fremont's Romanism—luteresliug Testi
mony from St. Louis.
AWKWARD REVELATIONS.
Fremont does to Confession there! He is in
J ail Communion with the Church! Fre
mont Challenges an Englishman for Insul
ting "Catholic" Ladies.
From the St. Louis Pilot, Sept. 10th.
In one point of view no discussion can be
more unprofitable than that of Fremont's reli
gion. But for the fact of his being a candidate
of a faction, one wing of which i composed of
the Know Nothings, it never would have been
dragged into the controversy. Under ordinary
circumstances, except indeed in fanatical New
England, we doubt whether a dozen votes in
tile country would have been affected by his
profession of faith. Our own decided opinion
is, that Fremont's religion, so far as it has affect
ed his own life and conduct, has never amoun
ted to anything worthy of consideration. That
he at one time professed to he a Catholic can be
proved beyond a doubt. That at this lime he
shoul i hesitate to acknowledge it, is only char
acteristic of the man.
•That Fremont professed to be a Catholic, and
conformed to all the practices of that Church,
can be proved heie hy the most incontroverti
ble evidence. The following facts were relat
ed to us yesterday by a gentleman of this city
who is perfectly cognizant of them, and was
well acquainted with Fremont, with whom he
was in the habit of daily association.
In the year IS.'IS, Fremont spent the winter
in St. Louis. He was, at that time, assistant
engineer to Mr. Nicholas, who was employed
by the Government to make a topographical
survey of lowa and Minnesota. St. Louis was
the head-quarters of the surveying party in the
winter. For the purpose of being near an o
pm space, from which lie could take observa
tions, Mi. Nicholas engaged rooms for his party
at an hotel in Perry's Building, adjoining Chou
teau's garden. Among the party was a young
gentleman from New York, by the name of
FTaudrh n, who is still alive and can testily to
the truth of these facts. Mr. Nicholas was a
rigid Catholic, and died subsequently at the Je
suit College at Georgetown, in the District of
Columbia. He exacted of the young men of
his party who professed to be Catholics a ri
gid practice of the duties of their faith. Fre
mont went regularly to the confession, and to
the communion. A clergyman of the Cathe
dral of St. Louis was his Father Confessor, and
all Ihe Catholics in the city looked upon Fre
mont as in full communion with their church.
Our informant states that lie was himself
present at the table when the following inci
dent occurred : A young Englishmen, who
was travelling through the country, made,.some
remarks of the most offensive r.ntor< , reflecting
upon the chastity of Catholic females. He was
immediately taken up and peremptorily chal-
Ltl'red hy Fremont, on the ground that he had
insulted the latins j his Church. No duel,
however, took place, as the Englishman thought
it best to leave the city at once.
As Fremont at this time of his life had no ob
ject to lie gained thereby, he made no secret of
his being a Catholic. He was married by a
Catholic priest, iie erected a cross on the sum
mit of the Rocky Mountains, and in the most
important acts of his life lie passed himself off
for a Catholic. Now he desires to conceal th*
fact : he allows his Black Republican organs at
the North to deny it ; he permits them to lie a
trociouslv for him, and thereby becomes so far
responsible. Such is the man whom the fanat
ics of New England seek to impose upon the
people of the United States as President—one
false to his religion and a traitor the place of
i.is bii th.
11 ore Evidence Mill.
The Romish Jlrchbishop oj St. Louis on fhe
Stand.
CONFIRMATORY TESTIMONY —1I"RK COM IK 1. '
[From the Si. Louis Leader, Sept. J6i!—organ oi the
Ronian Cat hoti<- Archbishop, there.]
Jt would be affectation in us to keep silence
m regaid what is said in this city on this
question. That Fremont pre|essed to if a Catii
nlic when in St. Louis, admits not ola doubt.—
We understand that an evening coteu.porary
will publish some iniportatit facts on the subject
this evening. We have certain further devel
opments in reserve, and are only waiting fin
the peririission of'a third parly to publish them.
To be a Catholic is no disqualification fin the
office of President of the United States, But to
be a Catholic and at the same time the candidate
of the Know-.Nothings for the Presidency, is
ceitairilv a very ctuious combination. To be
of ANT religion, and to suppress, or deny it, fin
fear oi losing votes, is despicable. What is as
serted is tikis. That when Fremont was lieie
as a young engineer, he was considered a Cath
olic by liis immediate employer, and the latter
being a zealous one himself, took pains that the
\oung men with him should practice their reli
gion. A gentleman, moreover, w hose name
can he produced, recollects an anecdote rather
favorable to Fremont, but hearing on this point.
At table, in a hotel, an Englishman, after din
ner, gentlemen onlv present of course, uttered
a most insulting opinion in regard to the chas
tity of Catholic women—and Fremont sent him
a challenge, on the ground that lie had insulted
the members of his church. The Englishman
vamosed. Jlnother gentleman vows that he
suv: Fremont at the altar rails of the Cathedral,
but whether he received communion or nut, can
not be positive.
In fact, our acquaintance lies among gentle
men who knew him—mostly Catholics them
selves (Jor the veiy first people in St. Louis,
you know, are Catholics, and it is a recommen
dation in the best society,) and we have vet to
meet the first man who knew Fremont here,
and did not regard him as a Catholic. We pos
sess, however, evidence of a flu more delicate
and richerche nature, and if we are permitted,
will publish it. Suffice it to say, at present, I
that it establishes in our mind the conviction :
that when here, among Catholics, And in Catho
iic CREOLE society, this then obscure young
man passed himself off as a Cuthdlic, pro fessed
at least to perform devotions pe'ruliar to the
Catholic Church, and rejected by all prote stunts,
and, in short, was either a Catholic or a hypo
crite.
Of course, no one can view this question of a
man's religious taith lor office, with more con
tempt than we do, in the particular shape, at
least, iii which it is made a question by the
Know Nothings. This feeling has long kept
Catholics silent, to u hotn Fremont's professions
were very well known. But now, matters are
really come to a point, where delicacy on a
certainly delicate subject—-that of a man's reli
gion—should not tie permitted to interfere with i
the exposure „f fripon a smooth and double
faced pretender—who is actually the candidate
ot a party that puts "Slavery, Popery and Rum"
in the same category of contempt and hatred.
If such a man is, or was, a Catholic, the world
ought to know it. If tie was one, but is one no
longer, they have a right to know the period
and the motives of his change. More particu
larly in this case, since we have understood
that Monsieur Fremont (pronounced Fraymong)
professes to frame his replies on this subject
so us to suit both paities, and get votes from
both.
[From the American Patriot,]
32ore Pi-oof.
Fremont a Catholic! — Shift meat of n .Massa
chusetts J\la a ! !—The Proof! 'lhe Proof!
We have received a letier from a
California, dated August 19. lSoti. The wri
ter i.s well known in this citv and in Charles
town, where he lor many years resided. The
mention of his name is enough to satisfy all in
this part of the country of the truth of any state
ments made by him. He was for many years
connected with the Fitchburg Railroad Com
pany, respected and beloved by all who knew
him, and the most implicit confidence will be
placed in the following statement :
SACRAMENTO, CAL., Aug. 1!), IBfi6.
J. E. Farwell, Esq. —Dear Sir : I see by
some of the Eastern papers, there is some doubt
about the religious opinions of Col. Fremont.
As for that, ] think I can put you light.
In November, IN4-9, learning that Col.-Fee- ,
moot was in attendance at the Roman Catholic
church, and having a desire, from ctiriosity, to '
s-e him, 1 followed I SAW HIM GO TO
TIIE HOLY WATER, DIP HIS FINGER
IN, AND CROSS HIMSELF, THEN WALK
TO WA RDS THE ALTAR AN D GET DOWN
ON HIS KNEES. DURING SERVICE I
SAW HJM CROSS
TIMES! ! I have since on one occasion, SEEN
HIM PARTAKE OF THE SACRAMENT
IN-THAT CHURCH." '
#**#
I am, yours, &.C., JSSK MORRILL.
A Visit to i rei;soit.
A friend of ours, Mr. H. S. Blood, residing
at W are, detailed to ns yesterday, in our office,
the substance of a conversation fie had with Mr.
Fremont, at his residence in New Yoik, on
Tuesday last, as fellow* :
Mr. Blood—Col., it is stated you were mar
ried by a Catholic Priest. Is it so ?
Fremont—lt is.
.Mr. Blood—Did yon apply to several Pro
testant clergymen, who refused to marry vou
Fremont—l did.
Mr. Blood—Will you give ine the names of
those ch-rgymen who refused to marry vou?
Fremont No, 1 will not. That is not a
proper question.
Mr. Blood—Do yoti attend the Episcopal
Church ?
Fremont—l do.
Mr. Blood Have you belonged to it some
time <
Fr. mont—l have.
Mr. Blood—Will you tell me where the
Church is located 7
Fremont—l will not, it is an improper ques
tion.
Mr. Blood—Will vou give me the name of
the clergyman w h" has chaige of the Church to
which yon belong?
Fremont I VVII.I. NOT.
So it will he perceived that he evaded every
question bv which lie thought his duplicity
might be exposed. — S prior field Express.
Tit ore i'rool*.
The Sandv Hill Herald distinctly reiterates
one item of Fremont's Romanism to which it
alluded a fivvdavs since. It says "a lady who
resides within two hours ride ' of our office, and
one whose truth and veracity was never ques
tioned. and who, during a temporary residence
in St. Louis, became a convert to Romanism,
and had her four sons baptized in the Catholic
faith, savs she knows Col. Fremont that fie
worshipped in the same Catholic Church with
herself—THAT O=*SHE HAS PARTAKEN
OF MASS WITH HlM^j—nanus the gen
tleman who owned the pew in which Fremont
alvvavs sat, even points nut its location
from the p w occupied by herself." 1 lie Her
ald has already stated t! at the name and resi
dence of the ladv will he furnished to any res
pectable citizen who may call for it at that of
fice.
WHAT TIIE REV. MR. FRENCH SAYS OF I RF.-
MONT'S ROMANISM. —The follow ing, which we
take from the Boston Ledger, is no doubt entire
ly correct. We have ourselves the very best
reason for knowing that the quotation from
the letter of flie Rev. Air. French, is liter
al :
Considerable .stress has been laid by the Re
publican Press upon the fact that Colonel I re
mout's children were baptised by an Episcopal
Freedom of Thought and Opinion.
FRIDAY MORNING, BEDFORD, PA. CAT. 3, 1856.
Clergyman, and this they argue is prima facie j
evidence that he is an Episcopalian. 1 have
the riiime of a person, not a member of the A
meiiUin party, who saw a letter from the Cler
gyman in question, in which letter he says—"l
dirl baptise John C. Fremont's children, but ex
cept ai !he Baptism I never saw .Mr. Fremont
insiiic of my church—he. attended the CATHOLIC
CHURCH, and 1 ulways supposed him to be a
CATfIOLIC."
-iW. . _
More Bolters.
The last Genius of Liberty , (Favetfe county,
Pa.) contains the following list of bolters from
the Opposition :
MSSjf*LLEN TOWNSHIP, Fayette County, )
# August Bth, 185(j. )
.Aj§*jv! , . Editors: —When men change their
polilkhl associations, a decent respect lor the j
opinions of others demands that thev should
decfaj.i the inducements which have prompted
the A'fwuge in their opinions; we therefore
beg j k small space in your excellent paper to
deciasv our determination hereafter to suppoit
theMßiiocratic party and its nominees. We
hav<jjps<'ted heretofore with the American par
ty, actual (xpeiience lias corn iced us that
the Ifaders have ahandomd all the principles
oncejjidvocated and supported by that organi- ;
zatiqp, and are now waging 3u unprincipled |
vvarlpf • against the Democratic party, alike ■
disMfporahle to themselves and dangerous to the
country.
'l'm* leaders publicly ratified the nomination I
of Ftijmore, and fas name floats at the mast
head 1 (he papers of that party now published
in (Jnjontovvn, whilst the Clipper , published ]
at Bifewnsvili supports Fremont. Tiieir ypeak-j
ers [Hifdicly advocate Fremont, and: privately
express their preference lor EillmorV. In one j
part ot the county they advocated the princi
ples ot the American party, and in another!
part they are Fremont Abolitionists., We find |
the county ticket is supported by these papers \
in Unioiitovvn, as a Fillmore and in
Brownsville, as a Fremont.
We cannot and will not support such impos
ture. We esteem honesty as essential lftspbli
tics as in the other affairs of life. We cannot
be made u.-e ot to aid men destitute of every!
principle, in their schemes of imposture. We i
are fully convinced by the course that the par
ty which styles itself by the name of Republi- '
can m sues, that it I.as deep, well laid and ma
turely considered designs against our glorious
Constitution and happy Union. We tee the
evidence oi their designs in the million of dol
lars which have been contributed in various
sections, under the guide of Kansas aid funds, !
and the mustering of troops of armed men to in- ,
vail* Kansas, and overwhelm the troops of the j
I ■ ,i; '.!•> s. 'lTese acts,of treason Are like j
the nuWfermg ttiundTr—the prelude to a d.-Pad- *
fol storm in which the ship of Stale is threaten- j
ed with destruction. We are free, and our:
country is prosperous and happy under Demo- I
viatic rub-, and desire iis shall remain so : we
fhereferw have determined to support Bu
chanan and Breckeriridge, in vv hose hands our
Constitution and Union are safe, and vve call j
upon all men who love peace and hate disunion
and disorder, t > unite with us in supporting our j
conntiy, its Constitution, and the Democratic
party.
Stephen R. Palmer, James M'Laughlin,
Lacy Hibhs, George Haz*n,
Hugh Keys, Greenburg Grimes,
Crawford Scott, John Hibbs,
James K. Fuller, William Addis,
Henry Giiiard, William S. Allen,
Elliot Hibbs, John Addis,
Oliver 1). Mills.
The I'roj.j)fct iu I'cunsylvania.
Never were the Democracy of Pennsylvania
so thoroughly aroustd and enthusiastic, and
never did they present such an impregnable
front to the common foe, as at the pres< n! mo
ment. Even: county in the interior of the
Slate is organized with a perfections and a
unanimity beyond ai! former example; and on
all the hill-tops and through all the vallies,
I torn the shores of the Delaware to Lake Erie
and to the Allegheny, the bugle blasts of the
inflexible Demociacv are heard, calling the
masses to tim rescue of a threatened Union and
an imperrilled Constitution. Nothing like the
enthusiasm that pervades our ranks has been
seen since the glorious days of JACKSON. The
schemes ol"the Disunionists, looking to the dis
solution of our glorious confederacy, and the
destruction of the fairest fabiic of freedom ever
erected by the wisdom of man, have acted like
a talisman in awakening into activity every
patriotic citizen in our Commonwealth ; and all
are pressing into our ranks, and swelling the
graruCarmy that matches under the flag and
"keeps step to the music of the Union." From
every quarter we have the most cheering in-
of accessions to our swelling columns
—of Mass Meetings where the friends of the
Constitution! are measured by the acre—of pole
raisings where the most intense and thrilling
enthusiasm prevails: all denoting the exultant
and spoiled condition ol the party, and fore
shadowing a great and crowning VICTORY!
Let our friends he in good heart, and our foes
tremble: The Democracy of Pennsylvania,
v/un thoroughly aroused and enthusiastic, are
invincible!
I rccoii .Tgccfsng'!
The Fiiends of Buchanan and an Undivided
Union, will hold a Mass Convention at JMcCon
nellsburg, on FRIDAY, the 10th day of Octo
ber next, to which ALL who are opposed to the
Abolition tendencies of Black Republicanism,
are cordiallv invited. Senator BIULER, WIL
SON REILLY, and a number of other distin
guished speakers w ill be present. The meeting
will commence at 2 o'clock, P. Al.
In the evening there will be a GRAND
TORCH LIGHT PROCESSION and DIS
PLAY OF FIRE WORKS!
ELOQIEVT SEVmiENTS.
At the recent Tippecanoe Bailie Ground I
Convention of the friends of BCUIANAN at;d
BRECKUN p.i DOR, that "old man eloquent," Gen.
Cass, spoke as fellows:
Geneial Cass being introduced to the as'spm- 1
blage was received with hearty applause. He
said that he felt it good to be there. So great
an outburst of !he popular In-art he had scarcely
expected to see. Behold your country's hag
which here and on many another biood-staiued :
field our fathers gallantly defended. I>e I
you faithful to them, and defend the fag of the
Union, which you have inherit-d fromyour an-'
cestors with a fidelity equal to their's. |
My dftintrvmen, the Union ii in imminent j
danger£ If 1 had uttered such a serifu?N*nt & :
this at tip commencement of try political ca
reer I have had no hearers. But times
have greatly changed in my day, and now you I
listen because you fnow that my language is
that ol soberness uth. Years ago w hen ]
visited thijpspoi, having come down the Wa
bas!> in fcbi iM I canoe, the silence was >u
jarftie and impressive : but now I behold about
ayvast concourse of earnest and excited cit
izetisA Tilts change is but typical ol what has
occurred over the broad lands of ail the North
western Stale<^
No idle curtpsity has called you fmth to-day.
You Rave cone*.to manifest that attachment to
the Union and tkeUnion party which animated!
our patrolic f&jef.Kiiers, and made them father j
bitei4le dust than see that Union dishonored or
endangered hv iNcUiga and domestic fees. — j
(Of. at applause.) \
f have just come from the hall§ of legislation,
and if you had been there and witnessed \w hatj
I saw autPwhal J l, t -ards not one among you
could think the cry of the Union is in danger :
one of'felsy alarm. No f you would have se>-o 1
the .wheels of Government blocked by a party,!
and lor no better or oilier rea'fcq than that the
army was sought lobe paid for enforcing the)
feiws ofS{ie land. J
This is tlie fourteenth time that you J.ave
beivji called upon to eject a mary to preside over
the KpsVinies ol the United Statesythe freest and
happitVrGoverument on the Globs, Yon aire !
called upon to choose one of two candidates, arui !
in making that choice you should betrr in mir.ekf
that all your governmental prosperity and hap- [
pines* you owe to (bat Democratic party whose 1
opponents have been in power but one year in |
lour. (Great applaugeij
Many of our people seem to ignore tlie exis-!
of a rule, a golden iule, which savs,
"mind your own business." It is a most e&cel- j
fent rule and almost worthy of being the thir- j
teentii commandment. By its recognition our j
fathers prospered, and our country has prosper
ed but u new sect has arisen w hose motto seems j
to emla ace the minding of other people's busi-'
ness as well as their own.
But what is the cause of all this angry dis
tention fnd strife. Why we are told it is the'
Nebraska bill. And what is that ? Nothing in
the world more or less than the extension of the J
same right to the people of Nebraska and Kan
sas, the same right which vou, the people ofluv
dianan, enjoy. I V
Is there one here who objects to this? Who i
thinks that Massachusetts ought to control the
local institutions*,in Kansas? |\oices "No,"
"not one."] 1 know there is not my friends.
If any, let him leave the assemblage. I don't
want to talk to such. Let him go to Massachu
setts. That is the place for him. What is
there in a man that renders him fess capable of
self-government in a Territory than in a State? i
Nothing in the world.
The General alluded to the late House of
Representatives, saving that, though they tried
hard to starve the army, whose only crime was
that it had endeavored to enforce the law s, they
took good cate to vote a handsome appropria
tion to themselves.
The General concluded in language nearly
as follows :
I am an old man, having passed the age of
threescore years and ten, and ] tell you, aye,
r peat it again and again, that the Union is in
danger ! Let me entreat you by the biood oi
your forefathers, shed on this and on scores of
other battle-fields—hv your present prosperity
—by all your hopes for the iutun—by ail that
you hold most sacred and dear—hold on to the
Union—hold ori to it in life and almost in
death ! It has made us prosperous and happy,
and placed our country's fame high among the
nations of the earth, ll the Union is lost, all
is lost. Anarch)' first will ensue, then despo
tism. Oh, my friends, beware—beware!
Think, pause, and again think, before giving
countenance to those whose pal i iot ism embraces
but a segment of the country. We have here
to-day a son of Henry Clay who now sleeps in
his grave. The son reminds me of his father,
my friend, and a? noble a patriot as ever breath
ed. It is to me a source of great consolation,
that though we differed on almost every politi
cal question, 1 never spoke a disrespectful word
of him. He was my friend at his death. 1 at
tended his dying couch, and caught almost the
last accents that fell from his lips-. He said
that Mr. Fillmore was his first choice for the
Presidency, but if he could not be elected, he
preferred to see the Whigs unite upon a Union
Democrat. These were almost his last words,
my friends, and most earnestly would 1 com
mend them to your consideration.
0 k
CHILD CARRIED orr I.V A HEAR. —The Man
ito woe (Wisconsin) Tribune staU% that a (ear
ful incident recently occurred near the village
of Neshota. Just before sunset It child five
years old was seized in the presence*of its moth
er by a full-grown bear, and, in Spite of it>
screams and the frantic efforts <ff its mother,
was borne off into the ticket* The alarm was
given, and the men, with guns and other weap
ons of destruction, commenced searching the
woods, but had not discovered any tracesofthe
child at last accounts.
TERMS, S2 PER YEAR.
VOL XXV. NO. 5.
The Truth \i cSi Spoken.
The subjoined dignified, truthful, arid emi
nently Christian article v copy from the
Baltiftiore Patriot of the iSthin.st. Tlu* rlmd-
I ness which now rules the hour—the perversion
|of the sacred calling of so many modern di
vines, some of them in our own S ate, and not
a haodred miles irom our own city—the rn<-!-
onchoiy aitempts to divert the sacred volume to
unauthorized ami unchristian purpose,—-to sub
stitute for its teaching* of peac • end love a
warrant of sedit ion, strife and d|Sford,or to dis
! card it entirely—are candidly and dispaasiou
: ately alluded to, and the fearful consequences
'to Christianity itself strongly depicted. Th*
present practice of tod u any clergymen, in ha
i siug the sjyrifiKtl wants of their flcyks to the
tender inerciescif- the prowling weight oWjfcJ?-*-
delity, and irig almost entirely to "preach
j Chris! and I im crucified." is becoming appa
reut to ail in interest with which
j the ordinances and institutions of religion are
regarded, end their growing inefficiency ujon
the spirit o! evil which everywhere afflict; so
ciety. The extract h' i.jw i* bom a letter of an
eminent and distinguished clergy
man of New England, but appfhis. with equal
the S:.tts npith offlgpsm and l>i.\-
j on's is not intip'hlioable in the city arid
county ul xAucaster. i'reSHut appearances
, would seehvto indicate that this country is rap
idly tending to the "moral condition of Revolu
tionary France, and the cattetv is lully set forth
in the following extract.:
i "I think I foresee that oqe of the most nn
' Nl'py results of the political 'agitation we are
i goiHg througii will he the demoralization, or
j.ratl.ehahe (1 t-Chri.sStut ? zation of society here
J at the \mth, through the shameful prostitution
!of th> v PiKvit to. political purposes. This has
| now been carried on sy long and to so great an
i extent, that great mora reflects intist inevitably
1 foliajy. The claims of all the members of the
i human race to personal freedom every where,
j and under all circumstances, have been so long
and so vehemently urged from the j ulj it tiiat
the Ueliel in them has become, with not a few,
a secondgosp(P*> claims quite in conflict with
the actual gospel, of our Saviour, and with the
examples of slavery in the Old Testament, not
only authorized, but commanded bv God !■ int—
Velf. The question then occurs inevitably to
| the fanatical mind, which, gospel am ] to re
ceive ? Then, again, there has been the unho
ly alliance of the three thousand clergymen of
New England, with the unhaUowhd crew of
Atheists and Deists, male and female, all wor
king harmoniously 'together to establish this
new gospel,and to assert a principle in mornli
ity not lecognized'Vy the Old. On the same
! platform v ith the 3,000 are the men, Mr. Spea
j ker Banks among the rest, who alfiriti that "if
ffimf authorizes s-btrtry, we must hqpe antic
I Cod.'''' What pollution iu the vcrv contact ola
: Christian minister, with sftch creatures as Gar-
I rison, Wendall Phillips, Theo. Parker and ctl -
ers of the same tribe! a.*td what are the people
to think when they see their pastors fraterniz
i ing with the open and sworn foes of all reveal
j ed truth on the same stage, and making com
i mon cause with them in a crusade against gov
| ernm**nt and law I Why the multitude cannot
: help losing their reverence for Christ's religion
j and its supposed ministers, and this is precisely
I the process which is now going on. Such cau
-1 st s operating so widely as they are now doing,
and have heen doing for several years, must tell
oil the public mind at la-;!. The fruits w ill ap
pear bv and b\.
: - T-~r -N
j EXETTUYUNT AT Bn KIXOIIAM, \ A. —A scene
of intense excitement took place, we !t-a:n. at
Buckingham C. 11. on Ton day—one of those
j outbreaks of popular i eling which sometimes
; occur, under circumstances of extraordinary
j provocation, even in the most peaceable out!
| law- abiditig commuuiiies, ami result, as in the
i present case, nut fiom any want of proper re
gard lor constituted authority, but !roin a natu
ral feeling ol just and honorable indignation a
gninst the perpetrator of the most foul and hoi
nble ciime of which man can be guilty.
The substance oft he a flair, as we have learn
ed it, is as follows :—The court w as engaged un
til a late hour in the evening in tile tiial of a
>i ave fur an < ulrage committed upon the person
of a little school girl, about thirteen years old—
the daughter of'highly respectable parents —and
the evidence of his guilt being clear and conclu
sive, convicted him, 1 til deferred sentencing
him until the next morning, and remanded him
to jail.
1' having been understood (whether correctly
or not we cannot say) that one of the court was
• in favor of transporting him, a number of those
present, doubtless apprehensive that fie would
escape the punishment he deserved, became vi
olently excited, and wresting him from the
hands of the officer who was taking him to pris
on, fastened a rope around his neck, and would
doubtless have hung hiiu had it not been for the
' strenhous interposition of'others, who desired to
await lfie final action of the Court, and who
succeeded in getting the negro locked up in jail,
stripped of his clothing and bearing upon his
person unmistakable evidences <>t rough treat
ment. The excitement, we are lulu, was truly
alarming, and the determined purpose ol the
people not to peimit the guilty wretch to go
unpunished, tooappaient to be misunderstood.
While the excitement was at the highest, the
i crowd were addressed tv Judge Leich, in a
, brief speech, which was listened to with res
>pt ct and attention, and which more than any
thing else, perhaps served to allay the distur
bance. We are no advocate ot anything ap
proximating to mob law, yet from what we can
l. arn of this case, we regard it as one in which
there was much not only to excuse, but even to
justify the conduct oi a people who, in the
main, are as law-loving and as orderly as any
in the land. Since writing the above, we have
learned that the negro was brought into court
on Tuesday, and sentence of death pronounced
| upon him.— finmviUr 1 [Va.,) Journal•