BEDFORD GAZETTE.
B.F. MEYERS, EDITOR.
FRIDAY: : : : MAY 12, 1865.
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Democratic Gounty Convention.
The Democrats of Bedford county are here
by requested to meet in their respective election
districts, on SATURDAY, the 17th DAY OF
JUNE, NEXT, for the purpose of electing del
egates to the Democratic County Convention,
to be held in Bedford, on
Monday, the 19 t/i day of June,
next, at - o clock, P. M., which body will place
iu nomination a County Ticket to be supported
by the party at the ensuing general election.—
Under the rules, each district is entitled to two
delegates. The Democrats of the several dis
tricts are also particularly requested to eltoose
\ igiiance Committees for the coming year and
to return their names to the Chairman of the
County Committee.
O. E. SHANNON,
Ch'n. Dem. Co. Committee.
The Dawn of Peace.
Every thing looks hopeful, now, for the
pacification of the States lately in revolu
tion. The terms granted to the troops of
J/ee and Johnston, will, doubtless, be ac
cepted by the remainder of the rebel forces,
and thus, through the conciliatory means
which we have so long contended for, peace
will be restored and the authority of the
Constitution ar.d the laws re-established
throughout the length and breadth of the
land. We believe now, as we have always
believed, that the war might have been t>-
veided, had the Congress of 1861 submit
ted the Crittenden Compromise to the pec
pie, or taken some other proper action to
quiet the intense alarm in the South, of
which the secession leaders were permitted
to take advantage. Had this been done,
what misery, what untold agony, might
have been averted from the heads of the
American people! Two millions of lives lost
in thin fraternal conflict; hundreds of flour
ishing cities and beautiful villages, laid
waste, or destroyed; a country constituting,
physically, an empire within itself, devas
tated and impoverished; nay, what is far
■worse than loss of property, or life, the civil
convulsion which has left a chasm between
the Northern and Southern people that only
years ot intercourse and mutual forbearance
can span; these things would not now be a
stain upon our history, had that infamous
Congress done its duty. Again, we believe
now, as we have, always believed, that af
tet hostilities had commenced, it was still
possible to restore the Union bv peaceful
means, and that the war might have been
ended long ago, upon the same terms to the
rebels which they are now granted, had not
the negro question been permitted to stand
in the way and had the commanders of for
mer expeditions against Richmond been
sustained by the Administration as it sus
tained Gen. Grant. Imbued with these
convictions, we have always regarded with
feelings of sympathy, the soldiers of our
armies, who, whether languishing in prison,
or lighting in the front, were compelled to
Lear tie burden, of this awful war. Some
-ot them, near and. dear to us, sleep in ever
lasting slumber beneath the Bands of the
Southern coast, victims, as we believe, to
an unnecessary prolongation of the war.
Others, friends long cherished, have disap
peared, leaving no trace of their doubtful
.fate. But, God be thanked, some whom
we love and honor, sre spared to us, and
BOOH will return to the homes that arc des
olate without them.
Thank God, the sky is clearing!
The clouds are hurrying past,
Thank God, the day is rearing,
The dawn is coming fast.
And when glad herald voices,
Shall tell us peace has come,
This thought shall most rejoice na
"Our boys are coining borne!"
Soon shall the voice of singing
Drown war's tremendous (tin!
Soon shall the joy-bells ringing
Bring peace and freedom in,
The jubilee bonfires burning,
Shall soon light up the dome,
And soon to soothe our yearning,
Our boys are coining home.
The vacant fireside places
Have waited for them long,
The love-light lacks their face 3,
The chorus waits their song;
A shadowy fear has haunted
The long deserted room,
But now our prayers are granted,
Our boys are coming home!
O mother, calmly waiting
For that beloved son!
O sister, proudly dating
The victories he has won!
0 maiden, softly humming
The love song while you roam—•
J oy, joy, the boys are coming—
Our boys are coming home!
And yet—'.h, keenest sorrow!
Tliey're coming, but not all,
Full many a dark to-morrow
Shall wear its sable pall
For thousands who are sleeping
Beneath the empurpled loam;
Woe! woe! for those we're weeping,
Who never will como home!
O sad heart, hush thy grieving;
Wait but a little while!
With hoping and believing
Thy woe and fear beguile,
Wait for the joyous meeting
beyond the starry dome,
For there our boys are waitiug
To bid us welcome home.
He-union.
With the end of the war and the re-union of
the States, there should he a restoration to the
Democratic fold, of all who, on account of a
mistaken sense of duty, wandered therefrom,
pending the revolution which has just ended. —
: U e do not refer to those politicians who, for
the sake oi office or emolument, apostatised from
; the Democratic faith. They have eaten of the
I forbidden fruit, and the gate-way to the Demo
' cratie Eden is forever closed against thoin.—
■ But those who imagined it to be their duty,
j whilst the war lasted to'support the Government.'
iby supporting the Administration party, can,
, now that the war is over, consistently return to
their old plaecs in the Democratic ranks, in ;
! fact, they can gc no where else, unless they give i
|up all the principles of government which they
i uavc so long maintained ar.d cherished. I'resi
| dent Johnson himself declared, a few days ago,
1 that he conid uot now change the political views
! which he has held all his life, in order to adopt
, the theories of those who favor centralization
j and deny the doctrine of Stales Eights. Let u? j
i then have a re-union of the Democracy, mu
; tualiy forgiving and forgetting the differences of
; the past, and only looking forward to the good
; of tiie country, to be promoted through the a
, gency 01 our time-honored party.
Tilings to Be Begretted.
; Instead of suffering the remains of our hon
ored Chief Magistrate to lie quietly in the llall
jof Independence, during the last Sabbath, the
j permission to the public to look on the murder
| erl body—which so ministered to a morbid cu
y rosity—gathered hundreds of thousands of peo
; pie in the streets, and produced a pressure j
i which could only be controlled by the presence j
of the military. Scarcely ever was such a spec-!
tacle presented in Philadelphia. Not only was '
the Sabbath forgotten and iesecrated, and the '
' worship of God neglected, bui that reverent
quiet ami solemnity which so solemn an event ■
; had called forth, was sadiy interrupted, and the i
! feelings which usually attend a mere show or]
• exhibition were substituted. To these evils
there was no counterbalancing good.— Prehby - j
j terian.
*yls it any wonder that people did not j
' think it a violation of the Sabbath, to go on
that day, to look upon the remains of a man j
whom so-called Christian ministers style "the ,
second Moses," "Clod's Anointed," the "Sa
vior of his country," and who, because be was '
mortally wounded on Good Friday, is impious- ,
ly likened unto Christ 1
The Assassination Plot.
Letter From Beverly Tucker.
The following is the exculpatory letter of
| Beverly Tucker, referred to in the telegram to
the Associated l'ress on Saturday :
I MONTREAL, May 4, 18G5. To the People of,
• Canada :—I have this moment seen the procla-1
mation of Andrew Johnson, acting President!
: of the United States, stating that "it appears I
j from evidence in the bureau of military justice '
! that the atrocious murder of the late President. '
j Abraham Lincoln, and the attempted assassina
| tion of the lion. W. 11. Seward, Secretary of!
j State, was incited, concerted and procured by '
| and between Jefferson Davis, late of Richmond,
Va., and Jacob Thompson, Clement C. Clay,
■ Beverly C. Tucker, George N. Saunders, W. !
j C. Cleary and others of the United States bar- 1
| bored in Canada," and offering rewards for the j
apprehension of the accused, .*25,000 being of- i
' fered for my arrest.
It is scarcely possible tbat such proclamation j
: would have been issued unle.-s some such "evi- '
dence" has been adduced. What such "evi
; dence" is I am totally at a loss to conjecture. '
lam compelled, therefore, to content myself
j with the declaration that whosoever hath sworn !
! to anything authorizing in the slightest degree
suspicion of my having "incited, concerted or '
procured,' or of any knowledge whatever by |
• me of the attacks made c:i the President and ?
: Mr. Seward, or any acts or projects of a kin- ;
; tired character, or of any plan to kidnap or i
, capture either of them, or any of the Federal i
' authorities hath blackened his soul with dia
bolicul perjury.
Until information reached hereof the attack
j on President Lincoln by Mr. J. Wilkes Booth,
! and that on Mr. Seward by some other person, •
: I hid not know that any such person as J. j
: Wilkes Booth existed. I had never heard of"j
I liim before. I don't know any of the persons j
iin arrest at Washington, and never heard of
; them till I read the notices in the United States
! newspapers of their apprehension.
; I have within a day or two past made inqui
; ry, and ascertained that Mr. Booth left St.
j Lawrence Hall. Montreal, on the 27th of Oc
tober last. The officers of the Ontario Bank
state that on that day he purchased of the
bank a bill on England, for £6l 12s Id., fori
which he paid in American gold, and, at the i
same time, made a deposit of $335 Canada j
money, which yet remains to his credit, and;
that he stated that he intended to run the block
ade. Whether he made such attempt, or went !
into the United States by railroad, I have not
ascertained.
The clerks in the St. Lawrence llall inform
! me that he arrived at the house on the 18th of
October, being here nine days. I was not in
Montreal during that time. My association
with the other gentlemen named in this atro
cious proclamation, has been intimate, for years,
and I admit it would be strange if they had
any knowledge of Mr. Booth's purposes, that I
j should be in utter ignorance of it.
; The whole business is, in my deliberate judg
ment, an attempt to get up a pretext for a dif
ficulty with the British Provinces; and the
consideration that since I have been here I
have received nothing hut hospitality and kind
ness from you, impels me to make this brief
address to aid in the dissipation of such pre
text. I have this day appealed to President
Johnson and Secretary Stanton to allow me
copies of the alleged evidence, with respect to
myself, to give me a chance to disprove it.
I will add, that I will go before any magis
trate hero and Verify the above by my solemn
oath, and that I will agree that the United
States consul, or any respectable counsel he
may designate, shall cross-examine mo in rela
tion to the alleged evidence, or any other ami
, all acts of my life.
BEVERLY TUCKER.
sir The coat of sinking an oil well five hun
, dred fset, ii about $7,500
EDITORIAL MELANGE.
who approve of mob law encourage
assassination.
CS-Gencral Echols, in Southwestern Virginia,
has disbanded his army.
t&*Ali the Confederate cavalry in Kentucky
have surtonclered.
ftS-President Johnson is said to be in favor
of abolishing the trade regulations of the Treas
ury Department.
tSTSevural regiments of troops have been sent
from California to Idaho to protect the emigrants
from Indian foray s.
CSrOn June 7, an election will take place in
Florida for a Governor to fill the [.dace of John
Milton, who committed suicide.
Ci'All re&<Actions on trade with an 1 in the
States ot Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania
and West Virginia have been removed.
ftVA boy of 16 has fcoea arrested in Brook
lyn, as being in some way oonnec*td with the
assassination.
CiVihe news, from South America presents
the usual dreary picture of revolutions in Peru,
Chili, and Bolivia. Outside of those com tries,
however, they are of but little i mpoviaiico.
fi-General Early is at Lynchburg, confined
to his bed with rheumatism. General Rosser
was captured on the 2d inst.,~ at his home, near
Hanover Court House, Virginia.
G-TA demand for the surrender of all persons
supposed to have been engaged in the conspira
cy to assassinate Mr. Lincoln has been made
upon the Canadian authorities.
i£j-Jetr. Thompson surrendered with his en
tire force on the 21 inst.
sgJ~Sumuel McCub! in, formerly of Haiti more,
is said to have conveyed from Richmond the
specie reported to be now in posses.-ion ol Jeff.
Davis.
Uw*A number of unemployed Generals will
be mustered out of the service in a week or two,
if they do not take the hint and resign.
CS'The remains of President Lincoln were
interred at Springfield, Illinois, on the 4th inst,;
they arrived there on the 3d.
{grit is said that Jefferson Davis has rented
a bouse in Porto Rico, through an agent in that
city.
he Richmond W'hiy states that nearly
all the leading officials of that city have taken
the oath of allegiance.
<S~Fernando Wood, Mrs. and Miss Wood
were the guests of the Lord Mayor of London
on the 17th nit.
<arGen. ILtlleck requires an oath of allegi
ance as a preliminary to the transaction of any
business in Richmond, including even the per
formance of a marriage ceremony.
$vT 1 he President's mansion is to be repaint
ed and refurnished throughout before it will be
taken possession of by President Johnson.
sarGoverument will pay 81,000,000 to dis
charged soldiers and others during the month of
May.
tfcf'Govcrnor Curtin has changed the day of
humiliation in Pennsylvania to June I, so as to
conform to tho President's proclamation.
erW hat wo can't understand—how a min
ister of the gospel can preach one sinner into
Heaven, from a box in a theatre, and another
into licit, from a bench in a circus.
tEJ-Pbillipsburg, in this state, always here
tofore a "Kepiibltcan"' town, gave about 100
Democratic majority, at a recent election held
in that place, for local officers.
&>~Dr. F. C. Doylo has removed from Bloody
Run to Coaldale, where he will continue the
practice of bis profession. The Doctor is n
good physician and a clever fellow. We wish
him success, with all our heart.
CrDead. The Kiephant '-Hannibal," at
tached to Thayer and Noyes' Circus, which ex
hibited in this place, on Friday last, died at
Centrcville, on Sunday morning last, aged a
bout G6 years. He was buried on the spot
where he uied. lie was the largest elephant
ever brought to this country. His owners heid
an insurance upon him for §IO,OOO.
ss*Organized—the "Bedford Mutual Oil
Company." At a meeting of the stockholders
at the sjerc of J. B. Farquhar, in this place,
held on Friday evening last, the following na
med officers were elected: President, James
!. farquhar; Secretary and Treasurer, Jacob
Reed; Directors, J. M. Shoemaker, B. F.
Meyers, J. 11. Scheii, 11. F. Smith, W. Mas
ters and F. D. Beegle. Fifty thousand shares
of stock have already been sold. The compa
ny will commence the sinking of two wells on
their property on Chqrry Run, by the 20th of
Jure, pros.
C£"Tt is always with pain that we refer to
the conduct of ministers of the gospel who for
get their calling and dabble in things calcula
ted to destroy their usefulness and create trou
ble in their congregations. Ou the other hand,
it always gives us pleasure to commend the be
havior of such as refrain from interference in
politics and endeavor to unite and harmonize
the people over whose religious welfare they are
called to preside. The present pastor of the
M. E. Church, in this place, we are glad to
hear, belongs to this latter class. We hope he
may be ablo to re-unite the M. E. congrega
tion, and doubt not that he will succeed in do
ing so, if he continues iu the course which he
has thus far pursued.
GENERAL SHERMAN. —The headquarters of
General Sherman are being established at Alex
andria, lils chief of staff. Gen. Webster, super
intending the arrangements of the offices, Ac.
The General himself will pay a visit to Char
leston, Savannah and other points along the
coast previous to his coining to Alexandria
Wash. Star-
National Debts an<l U. S. Stocks.
The creation of national debts is not a mod
ern improvement, but the ability of a great na
tion to provide for a great debt, and to make
it the most convenient and best form of person
al property, is a modern wonder. The debt of
Great Britain was begun by raising a million
sterling by loan in 1692, and when her great
contest with Louis XIV was terminated, the
debt had reached fifty millions. Many states
men and economists were then alarmed at the
great burden which had been imposed upon the
industry of the country, but when the war of
the Austrian succession had swelled this amount
to eighty millions, Macaulay says that histori
ans and orators pronounced the case to be des
perate. But when war again broke out, and
the national debt was rapidly carried up to one
hundred and forty millions, men of theory and
business both pronounced that the fatal day had
certainly arrived. David Hume said that, al
though, by taxing its energies to the utmost,
the country might possibly live through it, the
experiment must never be repeated—even a
small increase might be fatal. Granville said
the nation must sink under it unless some por
tion of the load was borne by the American
Colonies, and the attempt to impose this load
produced the war of the revolution, and, instead
of diminishinj, added another hundred millions
to the burden. Again, says Macaulay, was
j England given over, but again she was more
I prosperous than ever before. But when at the
| close of her Napoleonic wars in ISIG, this debt
; had been swelled up to the enormous sum of
j over eight hundred millions sterling, or four
I thousand three hundred million dollars, or ncar
jly one-half the entire property of the United
• Kingdom, the stoutest heart, the firmest belicv
:er in national progress and national develop
ment, might well have been appalled. But in
I the very lace oi this mountain of obligation—
| to say nothing of her vast colonial possesions—
| the property of the British nation has been more
than trebled, and her debi, is now a charge of
but 121 percent, against it. All that Great
Britain has done in paying Iter debt, wo shall
do, and more, with ours. We have vast terri
j torics untouched by the p!ow, mines of all pre
| eions metals of which we have hardly opened
the doors, a population full of life, energy, en
' terpnse and industry, and the accumulated
wealth of money and labor of lite old countries
1 pouring into the lap of our giant and ever-to-
I bc-unitcd republic. During the fiercest and roost
I exhausting of all possible wars, we have dem
| onstrated our national strength—and ail the
world over, national strength 13 but another
namo for national credit. "As good a; U. S.
Stocks" will soon be synonymous the vforld over
with "as good as British Consols." For our
part, v.'c think a l". S, Treasury note, bearing
seven and three-tenths annual interest, is just
as much better than British Consols as the rate
of interest is higher. Some of our timid breth
ren, who shipped their gold to Loudon and in
vested in consols, are now glad to sell out arid
invest at home at a round loss—and serves them
right.— New Y or her.
Important Proclamation by the President.
The Assassination of .Mr. Lincoln —S 100,000
Reward offered Jor the Arrest of Jeff. Da
vis- Large Rewards for the Arrests of his
Fellovrs.
Jii/ the President of the United States of America:
A PROCLAMATION'.
W HERE AS, It appears from evidence in the
bureaus of military justice that the atrocious
murder of the late President, Abraham Lincoln,
and the attempted assassination of the Hon.
Win. H. Seward, Secretary of State, were in
cited, concerted and procured by anil between
Jeilerson Davis, late of Kichmond, Virginia,
and Jacob Thompson, Clement C. Clay, Bever
ly Tucker, George N. Saunders, Wilii tin C.
Cleary, and other rebels and traitors against the
Government of the United States harbored in
Canada:
Now, therefore, I, Andrew Ji hnson, President
of the United Slates, do offer and promise for
the arrest of the said persons, or either of them,
within the limits of the United States, so that
they can be brought to trial, the following re
wards :
One hundred thousand dollars reward for the
arrest of Jefferson Davis:
Twenty-five thousand dollars for the arrest
of Clement C. Clay.
Twenty-five thousand dollars for the arrest of
Jacob Thompson, late of Mississippi.
Twenty-five thousand dollars for the arrest of
George N. Saunders.
Twenty-live thousand dollars for the arrest of
Beverly Tucker.
Ten .thousand dollars for the arrest of Wil
liam C. Cleary, late clerk of Clement C. Clay.
The Provost Marshal General of the United
States is directed to cause description of the said
persons, with notice of the above reward to be
published.
( ' ——> , In testimony whereof, I have here-
Li.. s. \ unto set my hand and caused the seal
- —of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, the 2d day
of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-five, and of the Inde
pendence of the United States of America the
eighty-ninth. By the President,
ANDREW JOHNSON.
W. H UNTER) Acting Sec'y of State.
Who Taught Assassination?
In our last issue, says the Bellcfonte Watch-
of May 5, we proved beyond doubt that
if the puritan abolitionists did not opeidy ad
vocate the assassination of Presidents Jackson
and Buchanan, they at least attempted to palli
ate the crime by excusing the criminal. We
have uovc a little additional testimony to add to
that, which shows that they have not only been
excusera of assassins but have taught assassi
nation and boasted of having men ready and
willing to carry it out upon the person of their
own President should he pursue a certain course.
In August of last year, Deacon Gray, a leading
abolitionist of Ohio, wrote a letter, over his
own signature, which was published in the Ohio
State Journal , the organ of the abolition party
in Ohio, from which we clip the following ex
tract:
"I like the spirit of the Major in command of the
60th Ohio. When, in hi* presence, the question was
presumptuously asked, "Shall wc eventually have
to compromise ?" He turned with a withering look
and said, "1 entered this campaign with over 800
men; to-day 1 can muster 192, and 1 tell you that if
the President hints even at 'compromise,' THERE
ARK 192 ASSASSINS IN MY COMMAND REA
DY TO MARCH, solitaiy and alone, TO THE
WHITE HOUSE, rue wish our friends at home had
this spirit— 'tis the spirit of the Federal array, who
bear the burden."
Is this not enough ? When the mystery that
hangs around the assassination of Abraham
Lincoln is unraveled, it may, and we have no
doubt will, show to the world, puritanism aa the
guilty perpetrator of tiro blpody deed.
Andrew Johnson's Ilecord.
1113 OPINIONS ON POPULAR GOVERNMENT LONG
CHERISHED OASWOT BE CHANGED' —WHAT HIESE
OPINIONS ARE, A? I>KA\VN I'KOM HIS CONGRE.-J?-
SIONA I. RECORD.
' in regard to my future course. I will now
make no professions, no pledges. I have been
connected somewhat Actively with puM.cali.nr
and to the history of my post public acts, which
is familiar to yuu, I refer for those principle;
which have governed me heretofore, and will
guide me hereafter. In general, 1 wiil say, I
have long labored for the amelioration and ele
vation of the great mass of mankind. My o
pinions as to the nature of popular government
have long been cherished, and as 1
am, it is now too tote in life for me to chancre
them. 1 believe that g jvemmeni was made for
man, not man for government.
[From President Johnson .3 speech to citizens
of Illinois, April 18, i 805.]
In the Senate of the United States, May 21.
1800, the question being on tlie passage of cer
tain resolutions a division being demanded, the
vote was taken on each separately, with the
following result:
THE STATES FREE ANT) INDEPENDENT SOVEREIGN
TIES.
Resolved, That in the adoption of the feder
al Constitution, the States adopting the same
acted severally as freeand independent sovereign
ties, delegating a portion of their powers to be
exercised by the Federal Government lor the
increased security of each against dangers, do
mestic as weli as foreign ; and that any inter
meddling by one or mora States, or by a com
bination of their citizens, with the domestic in
stitutions of the other, on any pretext whatever,
political, moral or religious, with the desire to
their disturbance or subversion, is in violation
of the Constitution, insulting to the Siattß?o in
terfered with, endangers their peace and tran
quility —objects for which the Cor. tilution w:s
formed—and, by necessary consequence, tends
to weaken and destroy the Union itself.
YEAS-: I -srs. Benjamin, Bigler Bragg, Bright,
Brown, Chestnut, day, Ciingman, Crittenden,
Davis, Fitzpatrick, Green, Gwin, Hammond,
Hemphill, Hunter, Iverson, Johnson of Arkan
sas, JOHNSON of Tennessee, Kennedy, Lane,
Latham Maliory, Mason, Nicholson, Pearce,
Polk, Powell, Pugh. Rice, Sebastian, Slidell,
Thompson, Toombs, Wigfall and \ ulee—3d.
NATS —Messrs. Bingham, Chandler, Clark,
Colhuner, Dixon, Doolittle, Fcsseoden, Foot,
Foster, Grimes, Hale, Hamlin, Harlan, King,
Simmons, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Wademand Wil
son— 10
iNtcnrrftEXCE wnn SLAVERY IS HIE STATES A
BREACH OK FAITH.
2. Resolved, That negro slavery, as it exists
in fifteen States of this Union, composes an im
portant portion of their domestic institutions,
inherited from our ancestors, and existing at the
adoption of the Constitution, by which it is
recognized as constituting an important element
in the apportionment of power among the States,
and that no change of opinion or feeling on the
part of the non-slaveholding States of the Union
in relation to this institution, can justify them
or their citizens in open or covert attacks there
on with a view to it 3 overthrow, and that all
such attacks are in manifest violation of the
mutual and solemn pledge to protect and defend
each other, given by the States respectively on
entering into the constitutional carapact which
formed the I 'nion, and are a manifest breach of
faith and a violation of tha most solemn obli
gations.
YEAS —Messrs. Benjamin, Bigler, Bragg,
Bright, Brown, Chestnut. Clay, Ciingman, Crit
tenden, Davis, Fitzpatrick, Green, Gwin, Ham
mond, Hemphill, Hunter, Iverson, Johnson of
Arkansas, JOHNSON of Tennessee. Kennedy,
Lane, Latham, Maliory, Mason, Nicholson,
Pearce, Polk, Powell, Pugh, Rice, Sebastian,
Siideil, Thompson, Toombs, Wigfall and Yu
les—3d.
NAYS —Messrs. Bingham, Chandler, Clark,
Collaraer, Dixon, Doolittle, Fessenden, Foot,
Foster, Qrirnes, ilale, Hamlin, Harlan, King,
Simmons, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Wade
and Wilson—2o.
THE UNION RESTS ON THE EQUAI-ITY OF THE
STATES.
3. Resolved , That the Union of these States
rests on the equality of rights and privileges a
mong its members, and that it is especially the
duty of the Senate which represents the States
in their sovereign capacity, to resist all attempts
to discriminate either in relation to persons or
property in the Territories—which are the com
mon possessions of the United States—so as to
give advantages to the citizens of one State
which are not equally allowed to those of every
other State.
YEAS —Messrs. Benjamin, Bigelow, Bragg,
Brown, Bright. Clement, Clay, Ciingman, Crit
tenden, Davis, Fitzpatrick, Green, Gwin, Ham
mond, Hemphill, Hunter, Iverson. Johnson of
Arkansas, JOHNSON of Tennessee, Kennedy,
Lane, Latham, Mallorv, Mason, Nicholson,
Pearce, Polk, Powell, Pugh, Rice, Sebastian,
Slidell, Thomson, Toombs, Wigfall and Yu
lee—36.
NATS —Messrs. Bingham, Chandler, Clark,
I Collamer, Dixon, Doohttle, Fessenden, Foot,
Foster, Hale, Hamlin. Ilarlan, Simmons, Sum
ner, Pen Eyck, Trumbull, Wade, and Wilson
j —lB.
CONGRESS NO ROWER OVER ET.AVERT IN THE TER
RITORIES.
1. Resolved, That neither Congress nor a
Territorial Legislature, whether by direct legis
lation or legislation of an indirect and unfrier.d
--! Iy character, possess power to annul or impair
the constitutional right of any citizen of the
United States to take his slave property into
the common territories, and there hold and
enjoy the same while the territorial condition
remains.
YEAS —Messrs. Benjamin, Bigler, Bragg,
Bright, Brown, Chestnut, Clay, Ciingman, Crit
tenden, Davis, Fitzpatrick, Green, Gwin, Ham
mond, Hemphill, Hunter, Iverson, Johnson of
Ark., JOHNSON, of Team, Kennedy, Lane,
Latham, Maliory, Mason, Nicholson, Pearce,
Polk, Powell, Rice, Sebastian, Slidell, Thomp
son, Toombs, Wigfall and Yulee—3s.
NAYS —Messrs. Bingham, Chandler, Clark,
Collamer, Dixon, Doolittle, Fessenden, Foot.
Foster, Grimes, Hale, Hamlin, Ilarlan, King,
Pugh, Simmons, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Trumbull,
Wade and Wilson.—2l.
CONGRESSIONAL PROTECTION OF SLAVES IN THE
TERRITORIES.
5. Resolved, That if the experience should
at any time prove that the judicial ar.d execu
j tive authority do not possess means to insure
i adequate protection to constitutional rights in
j a Territory, and if the Territorial Government
! should fail or refuse to provide the necessary
; remedies for that purpose, it will be the duty
jof Congress supply such deficiency within
thft 1 units of too. constitutional power.
YEAS —Messrs. Benjamin, Bigler, Brag,-
7 Bright, Chestnut, Clay. Ciingman, Crittenden,
Davis, Fitzpatrick, Green, Gwin, Hammond,
Hemphill, Hunter, Iverson, Johnson of Ark.
JOHNSON of Tcnn . Kennedy, Lane, Latham!
Maliory, Mason, Nicholson, Pearce, Polk pov/-
• ell, Pugh, Rice, Sebastian, Siideil, Ten Eyck,
; Toombs. Wigfall and Yule©—2s.
i NAYS —Messrs. Hamlin and Trumbull—2.
NEW STATES TO BE ADMITTED WITH OR WITHOUT
SLAVERY AS THE PEOPLE DECIDE.
Resolved. That the inhabitants of a Ter
ritory of the United States, when they rightful
ly form a Constitution to be admitted as a State
into the I nion, may then, for the first time—
i like a people of a State when forming a new
Constitution —decide for themselves, whether
j slavery, as a domestic institution, shall be
rnnintuined or prohibited within their jurisdic
tion ; and "they shall be received into tha
; Union with or without slavery as their Consti
tution may prescribe at the time of their admis
| sion."
YEAS —Messrs, Benjamin, Bigler, Drag?,
i Bright, Chestnut, Clay, € ring man. Crkfend V
Davis, Fitzpatrick, Green, Gwin, Hammond
Hemphill, Hunter, Iverson, Johnson of Ark.
JOHNSON of Tcnn., Kennedy, Lane, Latham
Mason, Nicholson, Pearce, Polk, Powell, Bice
Sebastian, Slidell, Thomson, Toombs, W : •' a }j
i and Yulee—3s.
' NAYS —Messrs. Bingham, Chandler, DIXON
; Foot, Foster, Hale, Pugh, Simmons, Ten Kyck
i Trumbull, Wade and Wilson—l 2.
' THE PROVISION OK THE CONSTITUTION N RELA
TION TO THE RENDITION OF SLAVE; "
! CARRIED OUT.
7. Resolved , That the provist n
I stitution for the rendition of fugitives from ser
vice or labor, without (lie adoption of which
1 the Union could not have been formed; and
ti the laws uf 1793 rid 1350, which were
; enacted to secuie its execution, and the main
' features of which being similar, bear the i m .
; press of nearly seventy years of sanction !,v the
j highest judicial authority, should be honestly
• and faithfully observed and maintained by ail
i who enjoy the benefits of our compact of unior.;
and that all nets of individuals or of State lA'T
isbitare to defeat the purpose or nullify the re
quirements of that provision, and the laws made
in pursuance of it are hostile in character, sub
versive of the Constitution, and revolutionary
i in their effect.
YEAS —Messrs. Benjamin, Bigler, Bragg,
I Bright, Brown, Chestnut, Clay, Ciingman, Crit
; tcaden, Davis,Fitzpatrick, Green, Gwin, Ham
j inor.d, Hemphill, Hunter, iverson, Johnson of
Ark.. JOHNSON of Tenu., Kenned y , Lane,
j Latham, Maliory, Mason, Nicholson, Pulk, Pow
ell, Pugh, Rice, Sebastian, Slidell, Ten Eyck,
; Thompson, Toombs, Wigfall and Yulee—3o.
NAYS— Messrs. Chandler, Clafk, Foot, Hale,
i Wade and Wilson—6.
Eomaii Catholics and the Tribune.
From the 2s". Y. Daily 2.'eus, J fay 5.
The Tribune , to our great surprise, to our
greater regret, attempts to fasten upon the Ro
man Catholic religion a responsibility for lhe as
i B&ssination of Mr. Lincoln. This is done, it is
: true, by insinuation, but that kink of a'taek is
more unjust and ungenerous than direct uecasa
j t'u.n. It says of the counties of Prince George's,
' Charles and St. Mary's, in Maryland, that
i "they have been in ardent and active sympathy
j with the rebellion from the outset;" that "the
-• plot to assassinate President Lincoln and other
chiefs of our Government had here many of its
ramifications. Booth had roamed over it day
after day while preparing to commit his medi-
I tatod crime with the least possible risk: hither
; he had tied with his more immediate accomplice
•; for shelter and succor the moment his crime was
i complete, and here he was Lidden and nursed
until he was able to make his way across the
river into Virginia. And nowhere, within the
i preponderantly loyal States was there another
region half so well fitted for his purpose, or so
; well affected toward his horrible enterprise."
It is doubtless true that Booth, immediately
i before and after- the perpetration of his crime,
,! was within the limits of the comities so descri
| bed : but that circumstance is probably due to
. the vicinity of that region to the scene of thcr
assassination. Booth could not have well a
voided being in Maryland immediately after he
1 .-a ihe district of Columbia, and we cannot un
. derstand why the counties in question should l>e
, denounced on account of their geographical po
; sition. But why docs the Tribune commence
. Us list of charges against those counties with
the assertion that "they are predominantly Ro
, man Catholic in faith ?" Is that fact one of
the counts in the indictment? It is evident
that the Tribune would have it appear so, for
otherwise there would bo no significance i.i its
allusion to the religious faith of those com
munities.
A majority of the soldiers who have served
p in the Federal ranks throughout this war are
of the religious persuasion that is thus denoun
ced by the Tribune. The camps of Grant and
Sherman arc "predominantly Roman Catholi'j
. in faith." Is that a reason why the loyalty of
those veterans shall be doubted, or are they,
therefore, to be considered in sympathy wita
the murderer, or "well affected toward this kor
. rible enterprise ?" \\ e beseech our
, ry not to foment a religious war, as as r: •..
the political one that is about to clo~-
Strange Inconsistency.
Paper? in Philadelphia and elsewhere, that
went into deep mourning for the assassination
of President Lincoln, rejoice over tha lato at
tempt to assassinate the two Ingersolls, and
allow the culprits to go unpunished.— West
chester Jejffersoman.
BOOTH VS. JOHN BROWN. —There is quite a
coincidence between these two notorious murder
ers, relative to their capture. Both were driven
to the wall by their pursuers, and both were
shot while defending themselves, Booth's wound
being mortal, and that of John Brown's being
i very painful though not mortal, and he was
compelled to limp to the gallows with an un
healed wound, he not being as lucky as Booth.
Both were bold, brave and bad men, who con
spired against the laws of their country.
CirGovcrnor Curtin has made arrangements
that whenever a Pennsylvania soldier is killed
i or dies of disease while in the service, trnnspor
: j tation is furnished for one person from his home
to the place where the remains of the soldi r
may be, ar.d also foifboth the person who goes
for the body of the deceased and the rcr .n:
back to his home. The transportation is fur'
i ished by Colonel H. H. Gregg, Chief of Trar.?
. portation at Harri3burg. In applying for trans
■' portation the name of the deceased soldier, his
■ rank, company, regiment, date of death and
• the name of the friend going for ins remains
J Should be given.