BY <uS'4K w. BOW.HAY. NEW SERIES. Select fpo c t r rj. i .:.; jI - ; - "" I JEy Kat'ly liOve. r.v \vii;i;<W AU'rn. !r was an anient boyish love. That faded out, as life grew older;— My heart flew to her hpe a dove, Ant! lighted on her beauteous shoulder, Or stjiped the honey of her hp*. Or in Iter eye, found heavenly graceS, 1 lovtnt her *,.. her finger tip 1 loved her very loot-print traces. Her features wore a raptntous charm. Her ■mile made a!! within me flutter, In rounded beauty was her arm, Iter little ham! was fat a- butter. No wonder that 1 loved her so, Hut -lie was false as she w;t< pretty, And -ion -he -arked her little beau And took a big one from the city. 1 caught him out one gloomy night— Tw as one of love's extrernest phase.- 1 aggravated him to light. Uutoh! he larruped tr.e like Mazes. SERMON OS THE DEATH OF DR E. K. KANE. Delivered by t.'.u Jltv. C. o . S'u Us. 1; is a noble instinct which prompts us to |ion< r the dral. Humanity joins with r ligic r. i , ,p|iressi!i<£ all earthly dn-tiiictnn- and pa—| . lis at the !. : aith of tile Unt !>. The It ails' .11 inav he envied, tlie hove! may he scorned, but ihe grave is alike ri vered, whetlier it he adorn ed with sculptured 'marble or decked with a simple ibjU'er. It would .serin that in the mortal remains of: a le!low creature we respi-ct a late that we kn >w inii.-t soon he our own, and, conscious of the worth of a soul, would do I. mage even to the ruined temple in which it was enshrined. j!ut wt 'ii the uhject • f such feelings t. ncen trates i:i himself the best traits of our nature, and has been conducted fv Providence to an eminence from which he illnstiat* s thein in the \ iew of multitudes, tiie ordinary cold respect warms to admiral! n and melts into love. f W >■ 1,•■!:•)!(! the in.ajr. ot our coinm n humanity iV- j Ih ctetl and magnifF d in him as a cherished i deal. Death, which makes sacred everything ; it touches, throw san ikl halo around hi- mem ory, and we hasten to bring to his grave—a!! that we now have to give—the | or tubule of our praises and tears. We are assembled, rrv friend-, to perform such comely though sad duties in honor <1 a man who, within the short life-time < ft! irty tive years, under the c< m! itied imi ills. of hu manity and science, lias travels<-d tn-aly the w h eof the planet in its m< st in.acces i i• pi ,- ces, has gathered here and there a laurel from every walk of physical research in which he strayed, has gone into the thick of perilous a:- \ :.i id-si lactsng in t s; ;it of p!.ilo-o| !.y. wt seeing and loving in the sj irit of poesy, has. :■ '.timed to uives! tin* un st ry c f ii< e.-ca; <• with the charms of literature and art, and dying j a' length in the n ruing <1 lis fan is n>w la ii i nt'ed, with i;• ?: glee! a i I'ection atu! price, by ic iititrv arid the woi id. Death discloses the human estimate a! char- ' arte.-. That ;i 'tirnful pageant which f r days -t keen w. riding In- way hither, aero-.- ■ iemn rr.ain, along out mighty rivers, tiuo cili s clad in habiliments of grief, with the lea r— ■ I i, the noble, and the good mingling in it.- t: in, is ' ut the honest tr.'u'e ot loin's that' c d ! : .jve no emotions lut respect and love.— j 'in i..- belongs the sad privilege of at length j c •; ng t lie national o' -. • is in his native city, a-.d at Ihe grave < f his kindred. Fittingly we j ave suffered his lumoi i-d ren .litis to re| <>- a I o".v pen-ive hours at the shrine where patriot-j .sin gathers its fairest memories and choicest minora. Now, at last, we hear them, —thank- Mi to tie- Providence by which they have been i es-rveti from mishap and peril,— to the sacred :i ar at u liich lie was i eared. 1 ci.) not forget, mv friends, the severer solem- j fiities of the place and presence. _ I remind you j 'l'in ii claim. How empty the applause of i irfal- as taunted in tlie ear of Heaven ! H )iv idle the distinctions among creatures in- ■ hid m a common insignificance by death and a! What a mockery tin* flimsy shows with which we cover up tlie realities of judgment Mil eternity. The thought may well temper * the ptule of our gnel—v : t if need not staunch ' ifsllcw. No. ] should but feel that the good i 'Ss of it at God, Fv whose munificent liatui his j creature was endowed, had been wronged, (lid not pause to reflect awhile upon his virtue.- ami drop some manlv ar.d Christian teats over earlv grave. Eiisha Kent Kane—a name now to !>e pro nounced in the simple ilignitv of history—-was red .a the lap of science and trained in the '-'iin i of peril, that in* might consecrate himself j M a philanthropic purpose, to which, so young, lit' has fallen a martyr. The storv,of his life is 'i.ady a fire-side tale. Multitudes, in admi -I;ag fancy, leave retraced its loot-prints. Now, 'l-at that bri-f career is closed in death, we re -lur to it, with a mournful fondness, from the i "iogexploits which formed the past-time of; jnuth, to graver tasks to which lie brought : developed manhood. Though born to ease; arul elegance, when but a young student, used ,0 academic tastes and honors, we see him 'liking awav from tin* n finements of life into " I'i-ugh pat lis of privation and danger.— :r ' ugh distant and varied regions, we follow 'dm in the pursuit of scientific discovery and 3:VH tit(ire. On the borders of China—within Me unexplored depths of the crater of Luzon— m India 3nd Ceylon —in the islands oi the Pa cific—by the sources of the Nile—amid the' j frowning spliynxesof Egypt, and the che-tc n<- j ins ot Greece—along the fevered coast of .W- I rica, ' ii tlm embattled plains of Mexico; we be hold him every where blending '.he enthusiasm ; of the scholar with the during of the soldier and the research of tlie man of science. Yet t!ie>e i were but the pre; aratory trials through which Providence was leading him, to an object wor thy of his matured powers and noblest aims.— Sm.l lenlv he becomes a centre of universal in i terest. With the prav ers and hopes of bis coun try following after him, lie disappears from tlie j abodes of men, on a pilgrimage of patience and love, into the icy solitudes of the North. With j in tlie shadow of two sunless wii-.t--rs his late is wrapt from our view. At length, like one come back from another world, he returns to thrill us with the marvels of ins escape, and transport us, by his graphic pen, into sci ties we scarcely realize as belonging to the . artli we inhabit. All classe- are petiettated and touch ed hv the st.rv so si triple, so mod est iv, so elo quently told. Tlie nation takes hitp to its hear; l with patriotic pride. In hopeful fancy, a still brighter career is pictured before him; when alas' 'he vision, while vet it dazzles, dissolves it-, tears. We awake t the si-use of a loss j which t:o cotemporary, at his age, could uv ea.-ion. Of that loss let us not here attempt t • > studi ous an estimate. These sad > i-nmiti-s may sin ply uoint us to the mure mora' qualities ami actions, in view of which every bereavement ist deeply affect us. As a votary "f science, he will ind>-eti, n— ceico fitting tri'utes. There will tot be want j ing those w !iu shall do justice to that ardent I hirst f r truth, which, in him, amounted to ore ut i'ie c ntroiling passions; to that intellect j so severe in induction, yet sagacious i:t cormc i ture ; and to those conti ilmtions, so various am! valuable to the existing stock r>( human knowl edge. Put hi- memory will nt he cherished a lone tri philosophic minds. Hi- is n ? a r.ati e I t.-> lie honored only within the privileged cir ' cles if tlie Pat tied. Thei i is fot him another laurel, greener even than that w Inch science wenv.s ! r I i-r most g'tlfed sons, lie i- endea red to the p polar heart as its chosen ideal of tlie finest sentiment that adorns our earthly na : tUre. Philanthropy, considered as among t! ing w hich are lovely and of good report, is the flower of hun an virtue, fit a!i the passions that have their root in the roil of this present life there is none which, when elevated into a i conscious duty, is so disinterested and pure. In the domestic afiections. there is s tnething <f mere blind instinct ; in friendship, there is the limit T congeniality ; in patriotism, there are the resti ictions of local attachment and nation al antipathv : hot in that love of tac which --■■■! s it- object in men as nun, of w i .Jew rkn - eed, creed, or clime, earthly u raiity seems divested of tiie last dross < ! selfishness, and challenges . or ! ighest adtriiratton atu] j raise. Providence, w 1 icb. governs the . ,- Id : v t-'e a% selects the fit occasi m> ant! men for tlieir tl iusf rn: ion. In an age when ] i:;ianthroptc sen timents, thtough the extension of tin-': ;ir. -' v and civiliz it; >n, are on the increase, a i;t oc< a sion for their display is okered in the p ri. f a Id exjdorer,*for win ;-e rescue a cry ot an guished tili'ecti'in ringv in the ears i t the nations, and the man found adequate to that occasion, is lie win -e deatb We ITfUirn. If there was every thing congruous in the -ce;;e . < tiie acl '.evement, —1! I, a- i' was, in tl> -e distant regt us where the lines uf geogra ;d y con verge b- votnl all tiie ! cat di-tmclr ns tlint di\i.ie and sepaiate nin ftom his l- llow . an ! am- tig rcgn ns of c. Id and darkn- --. at... I disease,and f.uirir.e that won! ! task to tl.eir ut ,-:.u-t the w ers of hun.an endurtince —not !e-> suited was the att->r who was to enter tip -n j that scene and f-nrich the wot Id with such a I lev- 'ii of heroic henilicence. Hirps-Il t t a j country estra.ngi d Irom that -f the impej rtlled i e\p' uers, the simple art of assuming the task of ti -ic rescue was a beautiful to ute to the I senttinent of national amity. \\ -ile, as his 1 warrant for undertaking it, lie seemed w aiding in no single qualification. Tt a scientific . du cation and tin- experience of a cosmopolite, he joined an assemblage of moral qualities .- > tich in their separate e>:re|b-nre, at t! so rare in tlu-ir j combination, it is diflicult tJ u.Tect t!;cir anal- I y >is. Conspictis among them was an enlarged, yd minut.e, /' mvolrnce. It was tlie crowning ! charm of his cfiarai ter, and a controlling :no i live in his perilous enierptise. Gthet ings indeed there were, neither supptcssed, nor in themselves to he depreciated. That passion for adventure, that low of science, that getier * on- ambition, which stimulated bis y .uihlu! ex i ploits, appeal now under the check ariil gnt dance of a still no !er imnu!.-". If is his svtti- I pathv with the lost and suffering, ami the tlute ous conviction that it nay lie in fits ; wt: to lih.-rate them from tin ir icy dung.-on, which 11.; ill his heart and nerve lorn t" his hardy task. In In - avowed aim, the inlen st- of geography w t ti- to iie subotdinate to the Claims uf humani ty. And neither tire entreaties of alfecltoti, nor the, iiTtjicxxilling or a fame, vvhtch to a i >s mod- I est spirit would have seemed too pernicious to j hazard, could swei ve him from the generous ; pn:pt-of. And vet this was not a benevolence which could extftiust itself in any mere dazzling, vis ionary project. It was as practical as it was i comprehensive. It could descend to all the j minutiae of personal kindness, and gracefully < disguise itself even in the most iceni.tl offices. When defeated in its great object. ..nd forced to resign the proud hope of a philanthropist, it turns to lavish itself upon his siilfi-titig com ! rades, whom he legd-' almost to forget the com mander in the friend. With unselfish devotion and cheerful pati.-t.ee iie devotes himself as a nurse arid counsellor to relieve limit w .nts, and boov them tip under the most r.ppaiimg nu.-lot lutus ; and, in those still darker seasons, when the expedition is threatened with disorganiza tion, conquers them, riot !tss by kindness than FRIDAY MORNING, BEDFORD, PA. MARCH 20, LS37. bv address. Does a paitv withdraw, from him under opposite counsels, they are assured, in the event ot their return, of "a brother's wel come." Is tidings brought him that a portion j of the little band are forced to halt, he knows not where in the snowy desert, he is of! through j l lie midnight cold for their rescue, and finds his; reward in the touching assurance, "They knew ! that l.e would come." In sickness lie tends them like a brother, ami, at la.-!, drops a t>. ar of j manly sensibility at tluir "raves. Ev n the wretched savages, who might he supposed to have forfeited the claim, share in I is kindly at- i teiitions' ami it i.; almost with a touch of ten derness that he parts from them at last, as "chii-; .lit n of the same Greater." 'I his lovely tmit it is which forms the secret ; of much of that enthusiasm iti> name *■ i• .its. and deepens the universal sorrow with which ■ !;•* is lamented. His was a character which, a- it spontaneously disclosed itself through lit-! writings, attracted alt tiie warmth of p.-rsotial friendship t\ en in the at settee , : persona! Ac- i (plain!mice. At many a fireside w here his fat < v.as n. ve|- seen, he i- mentioned in terms of af-j It cf ionate a-iiiniiati n. Thousands, who kr.ow nothing"! the winning gentleness n( his man n*r, Ii" 1 now that tin-v have lost a friend. F such greatness the world does not yield (he; Inbute of cold respect, hut tiie deep and ferv id homage of 'iie In ait. Tin n, as the fitting support ri this noble j quality, tin re was also an indomitable enemy. It wa.- the iron column, around whose capital that dr I it* at e Jiliv-work was woven. His was nut a lietn-v uletK e wliicli must waste Its. If ill mere setititrmnt, for want ot a power of endu rance adequate to support it through hards; ip ; and p.-rti. In that slight physical 1:ai:■ ■, sug gestive on I v of ret! net! culture and it t- Ib-ctna! grace. Hn-re dwelt a.-turdv Ibtce of w til, which no coml.itia'inn of material terrors seemed t , appal, and, bv a sort of magnetic impulv, su! - j.'Cted all in! t; i" spirits to it- ( ntrol. It was the calm power of reason end duty asserting j till ii' Stipe I iot it v over l-.efe ft tit* C'UI rage, ill d com pel ling tin- instinctive homage of Here uleati strength and prownss. With that linn vet consci.'iiti uts resolve he quell tin* rising -vmj.tou s of rebellion which threaten to add the terrors of mutiny to those ui famine and disease. And a!! through that stern battle with Nature in her m -st savage haunts, how he ever seems to turn his mild fiont to ward her ft"wnitig face, if in apptalir g pitv, yet not less in fixed resignation. IJ.it if, in that chatacter, benevolence ap pears supported hv energy and patience, .- ••, too, was it equipped with a ii.cst mat veil, us practi cal tact. He brought to his I . iodic-i t task not merely the resources of acquired skill, but ana- ' five power of adapt!"" himself to eftu rg- nrms, and a fertility in devising expedients, w liieli no IX'i isl .11 ever see!iled t v ii'i! : . Im::.UI'i(! iti a dr. a-iful s- i im-ioti, where the con in- < 1 terr as .(.f ilature forced lutn it.to all the closer coritact with the pn--iu: sof n an, he ;> I only rose, by his energy, superior t. ti tin 1 tl , ;ut by his ready executive talent, ronv.-iti- i each t > • > ministry. Kv-n the wild inn -at• s< t that icy world, from th- m- re stupid wonder v. ith which they a! first regarded his imported mar vels oi' civil zali ut. W ere, at length, I in -I to descend !:> a geti due re.-jiect am! they w Itiiti c .1 ; with tij.-m in the practice ■! their own ri.de, s'ui'ia! virtues. To these more sterling qualities were j. med . the graces ef an tili-uetit c lie.t fulness, tint nev er d. si*ll.'ii him in the darkest houis—aifMicate arid < .ipriciou- limner, g! cucmg air. i:g t;;e u :•! rugged realities like tlie .-un.-hiiie cij i ri 1 1 .• • i ■■ !. —and, above all, that invariable stamp of true gfeatiu's-. a heantifu! modestv, eversui.i ni.tly content with itself to be above the necessity of preteiis; u. \>t str.-tig and fair a> were tin* pi -uui t ions oi that cliarscter in its most c u spicii-.us asp cts, we should still have been dis apj i itiled did w.-r...t find, though hidden deep beiii ath I hern, a linn basis of o/igiV's •• nh- , meat. For ail serious and thotighlnl munis ti is is the [furest charm uf those giaphir volumes in which he has recorded the story "I hi- won- ; derful escapes and deliverances. Tlnne i. ev ery w here shining through its pages a cl asten ec! soil it, t i familiar with human weakness to overlook a Providence in his tiials, and too conscious of human insignificance to disdain i;s recognition. Now, in Ins lighter, more pensive moods, we see it rising, on the wing oi devout fane v, into that region where piety beconn • ul >.) po-'ti V. '-I have tinddeii the deck and the floes, where * the !ii>- "1 earth seemed suspended, its move-, iiu ut- its sounds, its coloring", its companion ships; and as 1 looked on the radient hem is- ; nli.-re, circling above me, as i! rendering wor ship to tin- unseen centre of light. I have ij icu-; bated in humility of-pint "Lord, wlrat is man, that thou art mindful of hun f' Again, in graver emergencies, it appears as a habitual res urce, to which he has come in con scious dependence: "A trust, based on experence as well as oil promises, buoyed me up at tlie worst of tin -s. Call it fatalism, as you ignorantly may, there i - that in the story of every eventful I if- which teaches the inefficiency of human means, and j the pres.-ut control of a Supreme Agency. See how often relief has come at the moment of ex tremity, in forms sliangely unsought, almost at tin- time unwelcome ; .-ec, still more how i; back has been strengthened to its increasing bur;ll n, and the heart ciietnd by some conscious influence <d an unseen power. Those Arctic Sabbaths were "full of sober j thought and wise resolve.'' We hear no pro fane oath vaunting itself from that little ice lic unci i.-!< t of hun .it) life, where nen hn.- u.'-n thrown so helplessly inio the hands of Gnu, i but.ra!iwr, in its stead, mummied amid t fie wild uproar of the storm, that daily prayer, J "Lord accept our thanks, and return us to out homes." And when, at length, that prayer is , graciously answered, it i- the same spirit w huh,, with kindred friends, brings him here—whith er, also, can now be brought only hm p c °r fl " Prsedcm cf Tlicr.glit and Opinion. mains—under the dovout impulse. "I will p.av my vows unto the Lord in the presence ot all his people." Let us believe that a faith which j suppoited him through trials worse than death, did not Mil him when dfath itself came. Into thatllast tender scene both religion and delicacy alike fir Lid tliat we should 100 curiously intrude. Affection will prize its melancholy, though sweot, reminiscences, long after the more pub -1 lie grief has subsided. Enough only of tiie veil j .nay be drawn to admit us to a privileged syin | pal by. The disease by which Dr. Kane was prostra ted, was that terrible scourge of Arctic life, route seeds of which fit- retained ill 'lis system his return, but afterwards developed and en- I mo d by th.* exhausting liteiai v lahois inci dent to the narrative of'the e\*| . ditioii. En ■ tirefy under estimating those labors (oi which , but few of us are prepared to form an adequate ; coaepption,) he was quite too thoughtless of the claims ol the body, he had so long been accns ? m ed to subject to his purpose, and only awoke ■ a discovery of the error when it was too iti. With this melancholy conviction, he an nounced the completion of tin- work to a tii-nd in the modest and touching sentence, he ; uk, poor a-, it is, has been m v coffin." Heief'ttlie country under a presentiment that h- should never return. For the first time ! in ho life, departure is shaded with foreboding, j It was. indeed, an alarming symptom to find that iron nerve, which hitherto had sustained him under shoe ks apparently not h-s severe, thus beginning to fa!l-r. Y*t it wiil enhance !he interest that now gathers around his men: >- i'V to.lea I'll that even (111 RI the ART ..t purpose I j ids life he had i.i t wholly abandoned, but in spite of the must serious entreaties w a.- already pi jectirg another Arctic expedition of research an ire cite. This <>' ;-ct "I his visit he was not destiijed to mature. ' either was it to he his priv iii ge to eiijuy the h h.ors that awaited him. Succufj-siv e and more virulent attack* of disease ' isge him to recur to tiie last resorts of the invalid. In hope,of repairing the wounds in iiicted hv the sav age rigors of the North, lie is I ui i- to the I ..-re genial South, win-re, at length, h-math its sunnv ski- .-, and amidst its hair v airs, supported '.v the niinistri-s of love in■.! ihe consuhi'i .ns ot religion, his lite drew gent Iv to a ch >se. In Ihe near approach of death he was tran quil and composed. With too little strength either tosuppoil or indicate anything of rapture, !>e was y.*t sufficiently conscious of his contii ti mto peifu'lii some la-t acts hefitting the sol emn emergency. His reference to those whom lie conceived to have deeply injured him, lie expressed his-cordial forgiveness. To each of the watching group around him, his hand is given in the fund pressure of a final jiarting : and thru, as if sensible that hi- ties to earth are : -eliillg, i;e seeks ('"IIP 'lollOl; .hum the reques ted :a<li::g ol'sucl: Sriii tiife sentences as had i.e. i. ti..- favorite th. me < I his the ugt.lfnl hours. \uw. iie heart 11 tote soothiog beatitudes vvliic ii !1 lV":ri the lip.s of the Mao of Sorrow s, in succes-ive . nedict! 'ii. i lien, he will ! ave t per. tec I to hun that - vent, - .ri"u pa-; ;*al "The Lord is my sbej herd ; I shall nut want, fie m ikcth ir eto lie down in green Mis! r-s: he i-i'nh'tli n;e besi i" the still watejs. Yea, th-'i'gh i walk through the valley o! the shadow ■ i (ieath, 1 will f. ar no evil: lot thot; art with me : thy rod and thv stoic, they <>ll me." .\t length are recited the consoiatorv words with which the Saviour took have of his weep ing discijiles ; "L"t not vour heart lie troubled ; ye !.c*!ieve. .it God, believe also in n-. In mv Fatl.erN I u;i> ■ are inanv mam-mis : i! it were not st. I would have told \ou. Igo to prepare a place for Veil." And at last, in the midst of this comforting recital, he is seen to expire—so gently, tliat the It-;, in g st iii pi'ticeeds .- m:e luon.i llts after other watchers l ave become aware that he is aln adv i't-v oi..i the reach ofanv mortal voice. Thus, in chiiri'V' with all mankind, arid with words of the Kedeeu -I' in his- ear, convo ved by tlie tones • n.-i-t fair,il.ur and helov til on earth, his spit it i ;,.-s.-d from the vvoild of men. The heart refuses to deal with such a reality. Drath never seems so much a usurper on the hui aiti ci life as a! tlie grave i f the voting and the gifted. In fancy, we strive to complete that brilliant fragment of a history so abruptly • i ded. We are carried furw ard into tfie fu ture, in an cfiort to picture aihtfiat In- might ! iv been to bis country an<) the vvoild, until drawn hack again by these sad show sof our loss and s urovv, nothing set-n-s to us so visionary as this fli-r-ting in'e,and re.thing so empty as hu man greatness. Alas! the hand ot the victor droi s in death at the moment it is extended to grasp, tlie laurel. Speech of ilea. John V. V. rigid. Tlie speech recently delivered in the House c! Hepr* sentatives. by the ii >n. J. Y. IV right, a n.embeTof the (.'ungr.ss from Tennessee, is • one of great abilitv, and reilects great credit up. nit author. It is a most conclusive de fence, on heliall of tlie Democracy, against the i unfounded charges which have been so freely : made bv the Know Nothings and I'lack Repub licans. Hud we space in to spare, it would ailbrd us great pleasure to publish this speech eiiiire in our paper, hut we must he con tent witii a few* pron iuerit jwirits which we give he low* : A member of Congress from .Massachusetts, the Rev. Mr. Tiaf'toti, ! av mg indulged in a fu rious rhapsody of Abolition fanaticism, Mr. Wright disposes of him very eliectually in a few words, as fellows : "I would he pleased to answvi the questions of that member here, .so as to get hun out ot a difficulty into which he seems to liavc- fallen with regard to a point of history. If iie w ill make examination into tiie questions he then propounded, he will find tlie ancestors oi the men who con pose his party Kidnapped the ne groes from Africa, sold them to the Southern men, put the money in their pockets, and now their descendants are assisting in stealing them a second time, and then reading lectures ta us on morality !" After reading this fanatical incendiary a les son which he will not forget in a life-tune, Mr. Wright continues;— "Having shown from their own mouths, that I the President spoke truly —that he was but giving to ( 'ingress the facts as they appeared ' on record I will proceed briefly to the discus- j sion of another question which has been raised j by ine.-nbeis on the other side of the House. "It ha- be.-ii gravely said, tliat by the elec ti c*4 Mr. Buchanan to the Presidency, noth ing has h -ei; decided, because those who assert tliat, charge that the paity which elected him, and whose candidate he was, refused to meet , the issues, and that they advocated one line of: policy in the North, and another in the South. This, sir, I deny. I w iii state, as nearly as I can, what weie the questions presented to tiie j people of the South ; and, although 1 did not I have the pleasure of mingling as much as I de- ] sired to do, with the people uf the North, yet I j saw enough there to satisfy me that the issues as presented bv the Cincinnati Convention, j were made by the Democracy both North and ■ South, : ■Jile.-.-lv, fully, and vindicated success- j fullv. I expect to he able to demonstrate that : the Democratic party was the only party that j stood faithfully bv their cherished principles: | and to this I attribute much of the victory we ! have achieved. In the South, the Democracy > planted themselves on these positions : 1. The equality of the Slates under tlie Con- j stitutiori. k!. The . quality of the citizens of all the j States, wit ..out regard to then* la- Isgsous faith or j the place of tlu ir birth. Non-interference hv Congress with slave ry in the Slates, in the T.-intones, anu in tin* i district of Co'unf in. New* States shall be admitted into the I - : ni n w hen the nun her of inhabitants justify it, with or without domestic slavery, as the peo pie n-.iv determine in their Constitution. The enforcement of the constitutional j remedy of recovering fugitives from labor, by ; those to whom such labor is due. Now, sir, those were the position-, upon ; which the Democracy ot Tennessee plai ted ' themselves in the contest, and on them they J were victorious: and I here take occasion to say, that eveiv Democrat on this floor from the noilhern Slates, and ever}* one who was elect ed, was supported upon the same principles, ; and stands tu-r. ready to maintain them. If I am -mistaken, I would be pleased to learn the I've.-; 1 n. ' Hei > Mr. English "1 Indiana, and Mr. Fiorenc , of Pennsylvania, Democrats from the Noit!;-:n States, bowed assent.] And WJVV, -ir, what were the positions of the ! Black Republican patty ? 1. No m. re slave States si. alt ever be admit ted int-i the Union, even if the people thereof ate in ;iv i ;• ofthat ihstitut; >n, and adopt it in their constitution. • 'J. Ti. unrestricted power o! Congress over ■be question ci' slavery in the Territories, and a detern.ifia! ti to abolish slavery in every place wh.ie tin y thick they have the power. And now, sir, I appeal to the Republican members to say if 1 have not slated their posi tion ( erectly ? Will they dare to say on this fl< r, ir, view of theii position as taken before tiie ; • uph-, that they will vote to admit Kansas as a slave State ii' the j eople there desire it ? No, sir, not one oftbein will. Mr. Wright alludes to defunct Know Nothing ism in the following caustic terms: But ! have a word for mv Know* Nothing friends here. Th-y come along and join in with tlie cry again.-t us, too. 1. tus see where thee stand. This parly, which charges us \\ ith ! aving evaded i-sms, w hen their first National Convention met, adopted a section as a part of their j 'atform, which was regarded as so un ci institutional and so proseriptive towards the citizens of the United Slates who were attach ed to the Catholic faith, that the gentleman Ir; in L uisjar.a, [Mr. Enstis,] himself a member of the paitv, in ins place here, denounced it in most w ithei ing terms, declaring that it was a fiu! blot u; iiii that ; arty and upon the country. When that platGrm was announced, the De mon acv all over the I nioti united in opposi tion to it : and it was not long betore the very men who made it were seen to w heel about and declare themselves as the especial champions of religious libertv. They abandoned that portion C f the platform, and in less than two years they were found in the same conventions, by the side of the se same Catholics whom they had once denounced as enemies to the country : and thev even went so far as to select a pious and worthy niembci of that church, in the State of Louisiana, as their chaplain in their State I.eg i-!ature. Call VJU that standing up to your is sues 1 Again, sir, att'-r the Know-Nothing party had wept oceans of tears over the dangers which they said threatened us from foreign immigra ti ri, and after having sworn to prose lib** all citizens who were not born upon (he soil of the United Slides, they selected as their candidate lor the Presidency a distinguished man who, in the very iiice < fall the lamentation of his I'oi loweis, and after he was nominated for tlie Residency, made this remarkable declaration : "I have no hostility to foreigners. 1 have witnessed their deplorable condition in the old country, and God forbid that I should add to their suflei ing by refusing them an asvlum in this. I would throw the gab s wide open and invite the oppressed of every land to paitakeui the blessings of our law and country." This, <ir, was the language of Mr. Fillmore when thoughts ot the pleasures and comforts of the White House were Stealing over him, and, in the teeth cf his native-American followers, TERMS, *2 PER YEA It. VOL XXV. NO. 29. i he made the broad invitation to the oppiessed of every land to coiiif- and partake ol the Lless ingsofour law* and country. And toi* is the . party which taunts tire Democracy with a fail ure to meet the issues. The Democratic party of the North, and of the South, ev ad ed no issues then. Sir, 1 have no words that will express iny respect and admiration tor the gallant De mocracy of the whole North. Amid the rac ing of the storm they faltered not, nor trembled. Whenever the battle raged the warmest, they might be ,-eeii closing thick around the glorious standard of the conslitut. n. I heir victory will be remembered upon the brightest page (, l | the country's history, and posterity will point to t! em as heroes, whose self-sacrificing spirit, and whose devotion to principle, and whose love of country, can scarcely find a parallel I anywhere. I feel grateful to them, and 1 take I [ ieusurt* in expressing it. 'TS3E TAII2-: SEAL. AX* IRISH -TOKV. It is seldom that one meets with n more touching j recital, in reference to toe Urate creation, Than the ' following, which :s quoted from an Irish work : About forty years ago a voting sea! was taken i in Claw Hav, and domesticated in the kitchen ot a gentleman whose bouse was situated on the as! it. It grew apace, become familiar with the servants, and attached to the house and fam ily: it played with the children: came at bis masters call, and as the old man described, it was "fund as a dog. and playful as a kitten."'— i Daily the seal wet t out to fish, and aftet provid ing for his own wants, brought m a salmon or j trout to his master. His delight i'i tin* summer was to I ask in ; the sun, and in the winter, to lie befurethe fir**, j or if permitted tocreep into a large o\en, which at that time formed the regular appendage of an j Irish kitchen. Tor four years the seal was do ■ IT i-sticated, when, unfortunately, in that count ry. the cripjxiun —a kind of paralytic aTection j of the limbs which generally ends fatally—at ' tacked some black cattle belonging to the master of the house. Some died, others became infect ed, and the customary cure, by changing them j to dryer pastures, failed. A "wise woman" was consulted, and. this : hag assured the credulous owner that the mor tality among the cows was occasioned by his j keeping an unclean beast about his habitation— the harmless and amusing seal. It must be made away with immediately, or the crippavvn will continue, and the charms be unable to avert i the malady. The superstitious man consented to the hag's proposal: the seal was put on board a boat and carried out beyond Clear Island and ; there committed to the deep, to manage tor hint self the best he could. The boat returned— the family retired to rest, and the next morning, a servant awakened her master to tell him Hie seal was qtrfH+v sleeping in the oven. The j. or animal over night came bafc'k to the belov ed home, crept through an open window, and took possession of his favourite resting place. Next morning another cow was reported to be unwell. The seal must now be removed.— A Caiway fishing lost was leaving Wcstport on l;er return home, and the master undertook to catry off Ihe's.-ai, and not put him off fill he bad come leagues beyond Lotus Boffin. It was done. A day and a night passed. The sec ern.! evening elided. The servant was raking the fire for the night when something scratched at the door—it was, of course, the house dog— she opened it and in came the sea!. Wearied with Ids long and unusual voyage, he testified his delight to find himselfat h:m*—Then stretching himself before the glowing embers cm the hearth tie fell asleep. The master ol tin* house was apprised 1 this unexpected and un welcome \ i-s *. in this exigency Hie beldame was awakened and consulted. She averred that it was always unluckv to kilt a seal, but suggested that the animal should b<- deprived of sight and a third time carried out to s*a. I o this hellish proposition the hs sotted creatures who owned the house consented: and the affectionate and confiding creatine was cruelly robbed ot sight on that hearth for which he had resigned !iis native element!' Next morning, writhing :II agonv, the mutilated seal was embarked, ta ken outside Clear Island, and f >r the last time committed to the waves. A week passed over and things became worse instead of better. The cattle of this truculent wretch died fast, and the infernal old hag gave him the pleasurable tidings that irer arts were useless, and that the destructive visitation upon his cattle . xceeded her skill and care. On the* eighth night after the seal had been devoted to the Atlantic, it blew tremendously. In the pauses ot the storm a waning noise at times was faintly heard at the door. The servants who slept in the kitchen, concluded that the bnnshre came to warn them oi their approaching death, and buried their heads in the bed coverings. When the morning broke, the door was o penerf, ant! the seal was there lying dead on the threshold! " Stop, Juius:" 1 exclaimed, "give ine a moments" time to curse a.'l engaged in this barbarism." " lie patient, frank, said my cousin, '• the find v. wiii probably save you that trouble." ftie skeleton oi the once plump aoi : mal— tor, jioor beast, it perished from bungei, being incapacitated troin blindness to procure its customary loud—was buried in a hill, ami IK rn that moment misfortune followed the abetters and perpetrators ofthis inhuman deed. The old hag, who had denounced the inoffen sive seal was within a fortnight hanged tor mur dering the illegitimate offspring of!wi daughter. Everything aaout this devoid home melted a way; sheep rotted, tattle died, and "blighted was the" corn." Ol several children none reached maturity, and the jpage proprietor survived ev erything he had ever l ived or carer! for. He died blind and miserable. There is not one stone of that accursed building standing upon another. The property has passed to a family ot a different name, and the seiies id incessant ca lamity which pursued all concerned inthisciuel deed is as romantic as true.
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