TWO POI.T.AHS PER ANNUM, HAf.F-YEARl.V IN ADVANCE. 5 AHD FABLERS' ANA IVIEGMIGS' BEG1STE0. IF NOT PAID WITHIN THR YEAR. 52 50 WILL BIS CHAINED. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY JO NATHAN ROW, SOMERSET, SOMERSET COUNTY, lA. Hew Series. TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1846, Vol. 4. No. 41. From the Ohio Casket. TVi'ight serene, I love thy liour Of calm repose, of tranquil rest. When no dark cloud is seen to lower Around the bright horizon's crest. I love to watch the first Mint gleam Ofother stars, although less bright, As one hv one thev fain would seem To t clip.se thct one, with lesser light. 1 love the hour when Nature seems So sweetly to embrace repose, When Life with sunny brightness beams, And nought reminds me of its woes. I love lo sit alone and gaze Till the last ray cf light's extinct, Till long have fled the Sun's bright ray; It is the hour I love to think. 'Tis then, on other days and years, j tration is devoted to the destruction of all On scenes and visions long'since flown, 1 Northern interests, and domination so rm1 Memory lingers e'en though tears completely, that before his administration Burst forth at thought of hopes o,er- is closed, the South may, by the acces throw. Helen' ; sion of slave States, be supreme, and HIM-1- 1 11 ' slavery rear its horrid crest as the proud Tuesday, August 25, 1846, Fcr the Herald. Mr Row: "The more haste, the more speed." This homely adage has been wofully ex emplified in the settlement of the Oregon question a question wholly useless and gratuitous, got up in obedience to the dic tation of.the Baltimore Convention. But the demagogues and war-dogs seized hold of it as a beautiful theme for declamation, and one by which a war spirit could be aroused in the country, and an agitation kept up, calculated to secure them in the power they knew they had filched from the people by the most unblushing false hoods, put forth by their idols. The speeches of the 51 40's resounded in the capitol: "The whole of Oregon," they proclaim, "or war; our title is clear and unquestionable; the British dare not con tend with us; they dare not go to war with us." This was the cry of the demagogues in Congress, and the hire ling presses of the Executive. Ignorance and impudence were their sole resources; upon these they confidently relied, and not one foot of Oregon would they relin quish; not they. But lo! and behold Benton, cunning old Benton, well know ing the extent to which ignorance and im pudence could carry those war demo gogues towards the contest of 1818, col lected his artillery- from undeniable cour .ces, and wholly demolished the structure they had erected, and brought them down to 49, with a flea in their ear, and they slunk out of the contest like dogs want ing a tail. And thus" the Oregon bubble burst, and they gladly accepted terms of settlement dictated by the British minis ter. "Oh! what a falling, off was there, Mr. Polk!"' But the spirit of havoc and destruction still predominates with the spoilers. The Whig Tariff has produ ced a lnrje surplus in the Treasury. This must be got rid of, that the people may no longer feel or think of the bles sings they enjoy from a Whig measure. Texas is annexed, and sworn by the dem agogues to be peaceably annexed; that no war should grow out of it, but they feel that their strength is increased by four votes from . Texas all of the true genuine black spirit. Texas, fine n.a ket for negroes! glorious chance for old Yirginny hurrah for liberty! WTe arc true democrats, bu the Treasury must be emptied Mexico is in default instal ments unpaid glorious chance for war! The annexation resolutions left the boun dary question open for peaceable settle ment. Great mistake this; but might overrides right. We feel no restraint by constitution or laws; we have leaped over them both often, to give strength to our party. A war with Mexico; come on boys! W:e shall fix the boundary at the point of the sword! Twenty two mil lions of spoils -worth contending for! Stop at Corpus Christi a breathing spell now we feel our might rush on the Rio Grande hurrah for California! But stop a moment and consider. This war will create an immense debt. Have you no bowels of compassion for : poor Penn sylvania? Ye war dog, of the West in particular, consider she has made canals and railways to facilitate transportation, to fill up your great Valley with emigrants; and for this she owes forty millions of dol lars, which requires a million every six months to pay the interest; and you have wrested from her the means of convert ing the iron and coal of her mountains in to cosh, hy the repeal of the Tariff. All a humbug, yon say. Curse Pennsylva nia and the fools," the white slaves "thev send to Harmburg to rule over them! Did j and Henry, in the very spirit of the race thev not at last session there resolve not to course. -They do not, understand the receive any portion of the proceeds ol the sale of t!:e public lands, to assist them in paving that interest? This shows plain- ly that this debt they talk of is nil a hum- bug; and as for I oik and liallas, they would have these to rule . over them, and what more do they want? Hurrah for the black spirit, that now so gloriously rules over our land! Five more negro Stctes in Texas and California, and then the jig's up with poor Pennsylvania and the North; they can live on beach nests -r.d heir.Icck tea. Loom & Anvil, APPLES OF COLD raPlCTL'RES OF SILVER. The following articles from the North American, we command to the perusal of every Pennsylvanian. They utter truths that will be acknowledged, as well as felt 1t till inft tKint " must lpnr prprv firm 1 freeman and well-wisher of the Common" ! wealth, to resolve to pursue such a course i as will vindicate and maintain our own ! interests, and rebuke the South for her vindictive and revengeful course. Pa. Tel. THE DUTY OF THE NORTH. It must be mortifying to those friends of freedom who assisted -to place Mr. i Polk in power, to find that his admmis- ruler of the land of the free ! It has al ready power enough to crush Northern industry, and as the petted monster of the administration, who can tell to what strength it may aifciin. The crv of the "whole of Oregon" was raised, not because the whole was wanted. i No ! This would have given something to freedom ; but to secure the West to j carry out the schemes of Southern aggran 1 dizement. It was necessary that the West should be doubly gulled, and the Harbor bill was held before her deluded eyes, to cheat her out of her vote to de stroy the manufacturers and mechanics of the north. So that the West and the North are the easy dupes of Southern promises and cajolery.. The game has been played with all the sagacity , and want of principle of the most debased of political gamesters; and has been won. Poor Pennsylvania, cheated out of her vote, is kicked aside as worthless. She has given her vote for the accession of Texas, and the domination of the South, and of what use is she longer. I The real purposes of the war upon Mex ico wilt soon be accomplished. Mexico can spare territory enough for a few States to sustain Southern doctrines, and the administration will have them. Our duty is now a plain one the North must lake care of herself. She must become the unflinching advocate of freedom; and (since northern industry stinks in Southern nostrils.) the hearty hater of slave labor. Pennsylvania has stood long the champion of the South. She must now become the unceasing, sleepless sentinel of freedom. She is now spit upon and scorned, and in her hour of distress and dismay, let her learn that the hand that has wronged her can be extended in friendship no mote. TIIE DUTY OF THE NORTH. The brief article in yesterday's North American gave expression, vigorous it may be, but not exaggerated, to the senti ments of the North in the present crisis. Pennsylvania, always was, with constitu tional limits, opposed -to slavery. This movement commenced by Uenezet. was led on by Franklin; and up until the agi tating efforts in the North gave to the sub ject a threatening aspect, the democratic legislature of Pennsylvania annually pass ed resolutions against slavery, ' and - in favor of its abolition in the District of Columbia. When the issue menaced he peace of the South conservative Pennsyl vania the iron barrier between the North and South placed her foot upon it. Buther principles have undergone no change; and they are insane who seek to throw her back upon them. Never were the true and real interests of the people of the South we mean the owners so wronged as by the late proc lamation of war against the laborers of the north. The party at the South which arrogates to itself the name and princi ples of Democracy, has had the incense of fiattery and subserviency so sprinkled up on it by the fawning sycophants of the North, who are despised while they are used, that the fumes have intoxicated her brain, until, like the reveller at Persepo lis, she Assumes the God, Affects to nod, And seems to shape the sphere ! She has been intoxicated by a serious of triumphs, resulting from the skill of her professional politicians, leaders who make the duties of patriotism a game of brag, and subject the rights and interests of the people to the hazard of a die. They have wagered against the masses of the North as they wagered upon Eclipse North, or they would not have hazarded the game; but, whether for good or evil, it has, for the present, been won. They j have, (trampling upon the Constitution which is their only dyke against an ocean stormier than the Baltic obtained Texas, , with her own representatives' and two J Senators, without constituents, even if eked out by slaves. They have secured ! a Southern President bv a Northern lie. They have secured a war - with Mexico, the appanage to that of Texas, and jiold "a glass that shows us many, more" States without freemen, and votes with out a will. They have secured an ex penditure of nerrly half a million a day to turn Mexican mongrels into American voters; but have defeated the Harbor bill which appropriates a moderate sum for the interests of Northern and Western ag riculture and .commerce. They have passed -the Sub-Treasury Bill to break down Northern credit, and perhaps re new the scenes of '3G when the South, by a disgraceful bankruptcy robbed the north of the monies generously credited to her, and swaggered, bowie-knife in hand, in the independence of triumphant and affluent fraud. But the crowning triumph of the South is the British Bill. Her boasted preference of Great Britain over the. North,as vauntingly avowed by her favorite McDuffie, has been gratified. It is true that the domestic market which protects her staples from depreciation has been broken up; it is true also that she must, when capital at the North sinks, she will be overturned and sucked in by the agitation of the financial waves; but no matter so the wail of the North brings music to her malignant spirit. Now all this is a pleasent game enough to the South, while it is safe. But has she counted the cost? The North is cold as her granite, but as firm, and when once heated by intolerable wrongs, uses upon the wrongdoer no harlequin's lath. Heretofore the South has slept upon the sturdy' arm of the North. She has lived, not merely upon upon Northern for bearance, but Northern protection. The truth may call the color to the Southron's cheek; were that protection removed, his cheek would be of another hue. Penn sylvania has been between the North and South, as the Andes between the Pacific and Atlantic. Witness the constant and fierce efforts of Philadelphia to suppress by the strong hand, in violation of law and constitution, the uprising of popular sen timent against slavery. Witness the burnings and the killings, the memory cf which yet hangs darkly over our city. And this was done, not because our peo ple loved slavery, but loved their brethren of the South gentle brethen do they ap prove themselves ! The South exclaims that the Constitution protects them; but Constitutions were, and are violated to protect them. And what is the requital of the South ? It comes in the shape of the British bill, and falls upon a people prosperous and happy, like an eclipse upon mid-day. The people of the North are not the dullards, the clod-like and abject 'things which these brainless braggarts of the South deem them. Pennsylvaniahas been the steadiest friend of the South; Pennsylvania is most mercilessly her victim. Her two hundred. thousand have stood between the agitators of the North, and the slaveholders. Gratefully has their devotion been acknowledged ! Let the South not do us the wrong to suppose that all this can be known and felt by Pennsylvania without a change of senti ment and action. Wre have been your friend; look to yourselves- hereafter. Pennsylvania has from this time no sym pathy to spare for those who have re quited friendship and affection, with un provoked and crushing wrong. With undeviating fidelity and honorable effort, the Whig party of the South has withstood this war upon Northern inter ests. Its statesmen have legislated with enlarged views and for the general good, while our opponents have recklessly sun dered every link of amity which should bind the nation together. But for the firm stand which Southern Whigs have taken on the broad platform of the con stitution, the fobearance of the North would long since have been exhausted. ..We would not leave our position in doubt. Pennsylvania will not, however provoked, commit or sanction a violation of the Constution. All that the South has- even to the titles forged in Pan demonium and written in blood, by which she holds the image of god in bondage shall be protected: bnl beyond that barrier, we take up the guantlet flung in our faces and know no word but war. Nay, we go farther; The Constitution has been boldly violated once, indisputably violated, by the acquisition of Texas; and her Sen ators enslave and ruin Pennsylvania, one of the thirteen, with no more constitution al right than had the government' from whose tyranny less desolating than that now inflicted we burst in '76. If that experiment be again tried, in relation to Mexico; if the North is to be, as is esti mated, subjugated to a slave holding mi nority, for all time, and that too, by the unconstitutional admission of a foreign people, alien to our language," habits and feelings there is no contract left between the North and the South. It cannot be permitted. The truth may -as well be ut tered first as last, it will not be endured. We repeat that the politicians of the South have done a deep and serious wrong to the people of that section in this unprincipled war upon the labour and prosperity of the north. A triumph se cured by a minority, with Texan votes, and which overturns the social and settled condition of millions, is a daring experi ment. It has turned millions of Northern ihearu, vhich, while thev abhorred slave ry, still so loved their brethren of the South, as to form a living wall between the spirit of the age and them it has turned them against the ruthless invaders of their firesides. It has cooled the friends and heated the enemies of the South. In 1836, the young men of Philadelphia assembled by thousands and pledged themselves, to the death, to main tain inviolate the constitutional rights of the South. They would not now invade them nor sanction their invasion; but where is the glow of that Spirit? The South is the foe of Pennsylvania; Penn sylvania is no longer the friend of the South. Nor shall the war be a passive one. ."Whenever, and wherever we can requite upon her the injuries that she has done to us, we will, as a policy of justifiable selfdefence, make the measure of resentment a generous one. She has invited the contest; made it, and avowed it, as an issue between her slaves and our freemen ; and left the laborer of the North whether farmer, miner, manufacturer or mechanic, no means of self-defence r and self vendication but by paralyzing the power that avows its determination to de grade him to the position of its negro slaves. , The white laborer against the negro slaveholder, is the issue which .the South has made, it is an issue that thev will yet bitterly repent. A 31 an Overboard! The "Ohio Statesman," the State Pa per, and the leading Loco Foco Journal in Ohio, says all these hard things of Capt. Polk: "The Message in which, the President supports his views, is a shallow perform ance, vulgar in its language, ridiculous for its false logic; and paltry as the treatment of a thesis by some hair-splitting and wire drawing schoolman of the Middle Ages, who thought himself a great man, be cause, like all small characters, he had mistaken cunning for wisdom. It is, however, quite worthy- the man whose imbecility has been so unhappily display ed in his action on the Oregon question first uttering boasts of the louder kind, and then sneaking oil to cover when the enemy's bay was faintly heard in the dis tance. "There is a remarkable similarity in the President's conduct on these two sub jects. As he mouthed and raved about our 'clear and unquestionable' right to the whole of Oregon, like unto one of Nat Lee's Bedlamite heroes for we can only call it mouthing and raving, when the bathos of the treaty is known to us, however much it pleased us at the time of its utterance, because we believed it to be the warm language of earnestness and sincerity so has he now vetoed a bill substantially recommended byr himself, through the report of the Secretary of War, a high officer of his Cabinet. It is true that the defence has been set up for him, that the Secretary, though reporting through the President, really reports to Congress. Granted but this does not in the slightest degree alter the case. It has always been considered at least it was in those days when it was thought that some degree of profound statcman ship was necessary in governing a great nation that a Cabinet should support one uniform policy as speaking the sen timents of the party whose principles it was appointed to aid in carrying out, . "Who overheard of a high Cabinet of ficer recommending to Congress, through the President, a course of action directly contrary lo that of the President himself, and actually accompanied with the proper estimates as to the cost of carrying it out who ever heard of any thing of the. kind, w'e ask, before these days of decep tion and pal pablea fraud? What Presi dent, with a decent portion of self-respect, ever practised such small intrigue? It is new in the history of bur country and no doubt found its origin and motive to deceiv e some Members of Congress into the support of measures which the Exec utive feared might not otherwise prove successful. As the great words about Oregon Were followed by the'smallest possible actions, and were intended only to gull honest men, so was the course of the President on the subjeei of improving harbors and rivers favorable only with the design of gaining votes for the new Tariff Bill, the Administration not having faith enough to believe that one righteous measure could stand without practicing a little falsehood on another. - We most earnestly hope that the day is now coming when every true Democrat will have, in bitterness of heart, to ask pardon of God and man for having aided m elevating to power, men who mistake treachery for good conduct, and paltry shifts forgreat statesmanship. A Lead Mine' Discovered in Ches ter County.- Two gentlemen in pass ing throughChester County,Pa. nearPhcc nixville, a few days since saw a lead mine which was discovered the day before by a laboring man, while digging on the farm cf Peter Kinsey. They sa w the ore tri ed, and ten pounds of ore produced six pounds of pure lead, of which they have samples to show. . : k From the Nat. Inte'lt'zeneer. THE MEXICAN WAR. We have, in our last paper, placed be- j fore our readers the Confidential Message of the President of the United St3tes to the Senate, and the Documents accompa nying it, showing the grounds taken by the President in his intercourse with the Executive Council (the Senate) in rela tion to the Mexican war: from which our readers-will have learnt that the Presi dent is in communication with the Gov ernment of Mexico, of which Paredcs is the head, with reference to a Negotiation for Peace and for an adjustment of Boun dary. We now lay before them, in another column, a Proclamation issued some time ago by Gen. Taylor, at the head of the Army of invasion; which, though bearing the signature of the gallant General, is, upon the face of it, an elaborate manifes to, prepared for him, and undoubtedly is sued, by Executive authority. It is for the reader to reconcile, in whatever way he can, the inconsistency between this annunciation to the People of the objects of the Executive, and that very different annunciation of its purposes and designs which the President has so recently made to the Senate. In the message to the Senate the Pre sident is not only anxious lo make Peace with Mexico, but announces that he has entered into negotiations with President Paredcs to that end. In the Proclama tion to the People of Mexico, the object of the war is declared, and reiterated, to be to "overthrow the tyrants" meaning the actual Government with whom, since j the publication of that Manifesto, the Ex ecutive lias invited negotiations for Peace! How are these extraordinary contradic tions to be reconciled? Again: the ohject of the War is de clared, in the Proclamation, to be to ob tain indemnity for claims, &c, and to o verthrow the existing Government of Mexico. In the Message of the Presi dent of the United States of May 11th, so promptly responded to, in which he ask ed Congress to shoulder Ihe Wrar, and ap propriate men and money to carry it on, the prosecution of the War was demand ed, not to obtain indemnity for claims,&c. and much less to overthrow the Gov ernment of Mexico but because of Mex ico having "passed the boundary of the United States," "invaded our Territory, and shed American blood upon the Amer ican soil." It was to rrpcl invasion of our territory to defend our territory that the President called upon Congress to appropriate men and money, and not to "liberate the people of Mexico from despots," or "to overthrow tyrants," who are declared lo have usurped power over them. Who can possibly determine the real objects or intentions of the Government in prosecuting this War, when the high est official authority gives such different, contradictory, and opposite versions of ihem? Is there yet some other purpose, not revealed or hinted at in any of the Execu tive communications to Congress or to the People, nor even to the people of Mexico, the disclosure of which, when it conies, will furnish the key to these appa rently irreconcilable inconsistencies? CThc following articles are from the Philadelphia "Spirit of the times," a Locofoco paper of extensive circulation: Complimentary! The following ar ticle which we take from the Charleston (S. C.) Mercury, U full of meaning: "It" is indeed a notable pretension to setup that because the Peiinsvlvanians were too ignorant and stupid to know what were the issues involved in the Pre sidential election, it is therefore dishonest and treacherous for Congress lo adopt a ny measures but such as their ignorance and stupidity may now dictate orapprove.' Alas! poor, despu-eJ, betrayed, down trodden and insulted Feimsylvaiiul What! even South Carolina making game of us? And has it been for this that she has la bored so long and and successfully in the ranks of the Democracy? What! taunt ed by South Carolina, the land of Buz zards and Bowie Knives of nullification and ignorance the abode of cotton lords and slavery where white men are sold for debt, and slaves hung for defending themselves against ths unprovoked and deadly assaults of their masters? Must we submit any longer to the dictation of such monsters? As free men as Ameri cans as producers and not drones upon society, we say no! no! ! We are a ble to govern ourselves, and we shall for the future do it We will not allow the Southern Lord, with Bowie Knife in hand and dagger drawn, to first injure and then insult us. Forbearance any longer will cease to be a virtue, and for the future we shall so act a3 to be able to protect our- 11 Will 1 vJ-""" matter from what source ii may come. "What nnrtion of a Stats is it that is mo3t active in raising this panic? Is it moil acute '-'-"-"a i "ii , ... . ', , the country, or is it in the cities? the young gentleman, exh.rntzd in uie shop h,H-fktfd. honest venmanrv of the plaint ' . J - land, or the bank parlor men cf! Philadd- phia?" Washington Union. If old Father Ritchie will visit the Counties of Berks. Schuylkill, North ampton, Columbia, Perry Northumber land and a number of other counties in the interior of this State, he will find an answer to the above interrogatories. Has the "Union" ever heard of noble old Berks, who, when occasion requires it. rolls up her 4,000 of a democratic major ity? There are no "bank-parlor" Demo crats in old Berks nor are there any Democrats there feeding on Government to ihe tunc of $100,000 per annum. Her citizens, as well as the citizens of the oth er counties named above and indeed of all the counties where there exists tha greatest feeling 'on the subject of Walk er's British Tariff BUI are hard work ing, honest-hearted yeomanry, who feel mortified to find themselves struck down; by the persons they so materially assisted in placing in power. If there arc no Senators just at thij particular time starting in the cars and who require to have their coat tail tulled OFF IN ORDER TO KEEP THEM IN WASH INGTON, we do hope that Mr. Ritchie and Mr. Dallas too, if he should like to hear the lamentations of his former friend may pay a visit to the Democracy of tha interior of this State. Such a visit would prove interesting just at this time. Extract from a speech delivered by George M. Dallas, from the door of his house to the Democratic procession, on the evening after the Presidential election, in favor of the tariff of '42 : "Gentlemen The Tariff of '42 is a Democratic measure; it was passed by tho Democrats, and it will be safe in tho hands of James K. Polk. If the TARtrr 13 710 HIGH ENOUGH, ICC Will Vakt it STILL HIGHER" Extract from a speech delivered beford the Senate, on .the 28th of July, 1816 previous to giving the casting vote to dem stro i the Tariff of '42: " The responsibility is great, and I feel it deeply, but whatever may be the conse quences, it must be met. Extract from the Democratic "Yaller Kiver," used pretty extensively during the last Presidential campaign : - Air " Lucy Neal." Oh poor Coony Whigs, What makes you look so blue ! We will have Polk and Dallas, And the TARIFF of '42. A Sample of the war Expenses Government Stores. The steamer Archer will 'leave hereto-day (the 31st) for Fort Leavenworth, with 300 barrels of pork, and 1,200 sacks offiour, for the use of the army in the expedition against Santa Fe. The pork was purchased at S10 per barrel, and the flour at $1 80 per sack, each sack containing 100 pounds. The pork is carried to Fort Leavenworth, for $1 per barrel, and the flour at 37 cts. per sack. The transportation of a barrel of pork from Fort Leavenworth to Bent's Fort will be about 3, and the prime cost and transportation to Santa Fe will make each and every barrel cost the Govern ment 53; at this rate the three hundred will cost SI 5.900. At this same rale of transp'ortation, a sack cf flour will cost in Santa Fe $18 TO, the twelve hundred $22,440: making the total cost of about eighty five tons of provisions $33,340 about enough to ration an army of 1,000 men 20 days. And by the same rule, if it will cost near $1,500 per day to furnish 1,000 men in meat and bread alone, what will it cost to furnish all the necessaries which soldiers use and are obliged to havo during the time of war and what will 20,000 consume and destroy? At tha. same rate the sum would be enormous, St. Louis New Era. A GOOD ONE. Some ttmo since, two or threo yonng gentlemen .of .called upon a Mr. D. who prepared an Egg Nog for his friend3 and they all drank pretty freely. Mrs. D., a very amiable lady, becoming some what displeased retired. At length Mr. D. lighted his friends lo bed hewas, however, unwilling to go to bed himself for he felt a little unsteady, and recollecting that some one had said, "to drink sweet milk will destroy the ef fect of spirits," he stepped to the room door, and inquired of his wife if tiiera was any milk, in the house. "There is some on the table," she rc 'lle examined, but could find none; re turning to the door, he said, "Mary, oh, Mary, didn't you tay tlra was some milk here?" Yes, there is some on the t?.o!e." After a second unsuccessful search bo went to the room door and ?aid, "Mary, my dear, is that milk in any thing, or is it just lyinr loose.'" A young lady in Daston has fallen des perately in love with the wax figure ot ! window of a flair drfcaa; ssaasiitAJEftStt I , , , , and has ?NeJ uw-ccms t t of tier Pi" nuptial
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