a irr' Atrit»ran. RULEFONTE THU it F . `.'A i, SEPT. 5 \ r ‘. ‘ .. Zszl ik - \ ''' g; mstx: )(Pre +k &11 tks presl Ike pfOyie ' mast -0,1 in, 1/n.tv•d party 11111.1 4: 7 ( PIE' ! bit to trmtli t , . /i4e-r 4 and l.ru•. No fator Worlyr i t and no 1... r ,ha It aire r T. ALEN/ODER. J mbar' &4° Publish° P MEE'S; -.- DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS. roit , ENAToR 1%:11.1.1/1111 11. 111.21111, Of 131:1.1.KFu`CTK nl.' ROBERT F. BARRON = A•1- , w1AT!: J 44; E. STE.(IIIECKEII ,1(11IN S. P1{(11'14'00'1' 111=1 TREASI I:Eit .1011 N B. All ONMI*I I, tiIK AMOS ALEXANDER !Enna Al DUVAL. GEORGE RI - GHANA N 4,y 'Presentment of the Grand Jury. \V ‘i pubh.ti to day Ilse p resentment of the (mind Jury to the Court at its se oust thu lii.sts strut IVstntinots In (I.llllt MI, we beg le,i‘e to s=ubmit a fi•IS 13 , 4 to conatetion therewith. to the good peop'- ot this e need sear-421y bay, the' the tact 01 there having been a I , rt.i 010.er: two', lavn )i ottly ttirpt ISed our 1)(11...tat le pillions, but also al Ril !fibers n" the Rep-kW:rag t;artv who Lave not r. pre;iid.t tJy 101 r1!1 , 1 o, through the influence exert4f. upon them t the opposition press in th:- out) 7 ho.. Vl' l. lo have beet/ the CMIGtIIt... natters of our columns, are at a loss to hoop how it Win dour, or what new law has palmed in these remarkable timea abridging. the' hbeit% of the press'' We are happy bt able to ter. oar rtatlers that no new law upon this pubyrt has been passel eitb er b 7 our 1, , ,.::,1ature or by th , I'migres• jf the United '4104. Thy' l'on.titutmil of lot :"..tate, and the r , i -tl'utl•.n of tl.O ' n itd N Ate& Mull rt•tott n t o hang,-(1 up ,a 8111 jert . %V 4, 4 kearhern than to I.••• 1 -AA , to 111 I P pre- ced , mt for tl,l. L7l , zarnpi.d - h er , n g • i I•1.I wl ich Lrs: • t la.t fall A a; int .of tat i t a I d,-adly hate to any morn.. has had much to do in thew 'n the jury room, hill , 10 hrt a ish to he unthrstood to ....II IJsit uate Unit any twin . . per mr , tivett rtal. Hi 100 k trda 119 by IIIV .1 ,roman that migued the pre4enttnent t I,t 14,.du , ay, that 10 , 11 P cf them burg 110 , , rt I.rtK t,. the %V ITIIVIA \ 0 - 'l 4 11 - Opp , 111 , 11.1:1 4 ~ f ) , .,i t . ,47, of the chars ti r ct " the W AT , 4/(Aw were vary hunted 1 hey were, 110 th uht men who wished to do their duty, who, not haring any knowledge of the general tone of our paper. came to thou- conclusion in r. fer (lice thereto from the outeide Influence that was brought to bear upon them in the. town SS e kw been cre.lbly informed that iiiany of them w. re heard to bay that ft. y nothing about the paper, exc. pt• tug ut hat .hey had heard from others Oa, Cr'. had told them that there were five' .4inn celit:ou.rt!F, published -Le the paper, and a 'certain legal remleinan, who is more noted for bra bull dog perteuacity than his legal attainments. had taken the pants of a, of mg th, aee in a speech of ball an hour's length oettotiibly with a patriotic minty, but in reality tozepare their minds fur what wes iitendoti, even at that early period in rho neck, to be laid belure theta. Rut two numbers of one i.lTie7 were OVOrto the Ju ry, aid they had little paragraphs ahich were cooled from other papers, marked all round with black ink, so as to thaw the at le Awn of the jury from a general perus'l of the editorials. We may here briefly allude to the objec tamable passages la the papers referred to, and which wo.re beTore the jury : The test article that was thrust upon their attention, was a lett.m• (ruin J. 1.. Val andingnam, brother to limn. r. C. dingham, denouncing a base charge that some unscrupulous whelp had put in circa. halloo, that his aged mother had become a char J 111011 the Prisbyturian Church iu Day• ton, Ohio. It was without any relerenct. the sentiments of that gentlema., upon the war question, that we published the letter 'of his brother, refitting the Charge. There Wee not even a sentence in the !wet or the ebtritnemt, in reference to the war. The le. gal gentlemen alluded to the letter ill' his 'Speech, and because ho 'found the word "chivalious Democrat" in the notice pre ceeding the letter, ice were ' traitors' . and our 'sympathies" were with the "rebels." ' ...... ..P . C41111111111111W .4.1.,..m.44;41146.6yeA c oaf,: 4-/ N Another articletpOke of Breckinride hay ing been assaulted by a mob in Baltimore, when be attempted to make a Bract+ upon the solicitation.; of his friends. This dip ping does not commend Breekinridge or any body eke, Lot Plimi.ia rt leitounces the snob ~elence tat: -tidies that Mete offered Theae were the two principle ttr ins that rxcited ro ranch inthination in the minds of the legal gentleman, who plead our case at the ripeni meeting before the Grand ry. It is true, there was some R S if St objec tam made to a peace editorial, which was wnt ten Just after:having read President lan Coln'a pro•la Film ion for a national fast, ' for the purpose of offering op fervent supplier, tiona to Almighty Goti, for the safety and welfare of these States His ble,,Ring,s their arms, and for a sperdt , storatron of pare " Surely there should be no objoetion to peace editoria's. when the President l hitii. self ...eta apart a day for the christ an people of tit; to ray to Almighty (hid for a little ore of that much desired blessing Tho CIIN A?; 'ta4ong peace, has al ways meant an honorable peace —not a du, 'graceful one--Ittia we defy any man hying, the legal gelid, man included, to show us a slugle word or sen'ence in any number of ,our paper in which w' have acked Tuve upon any tr•rma. save "an honlrable m.nt of the wili upon the broad hrsis of the t;,nct•tntmn %S have a , wa)s opposed a iticognition of the Sot them Confederacy, RS a pellet. that w ould be dtshonorahle and which freemetk, ahould not accept Ter I t nr,•n it mutt and Ann hr prfirrrrd.' is lour motto , 14 not thia tho kind of peace we are fight inc for f Llvs who safe no libels the Ad winivtrstion at Wavhlngton, for they have '• Ihr u•wr thnuM nut"/.c inderd /or fro- r•11%1 nr 101 T, nor tor flar pur—,/ in* t u1;,1 or sneseuttwts of • :stator, 4 ta to ciclend and malnlain the ,uvr ',nary n/ lA, C o n.taut•,,n and to pre - 31 , rf (14 , Unto We have support,' the military art* of the envernment by every means in our pow er and aril continue to support it in all it, enno 'I trona' powers in rnaintAtn 04 I mon and ri re the laww unei: relk ;lion is either cr:•shed or compromised " . oppogell the violation of the l'on,ti Intim' in the habeas no rim , : (-sae by the Ad - nnnonration. let, Because we did not be. hese it essential to the preservation of the government :M, Because we were sworn op;•s•tt the l'unantutton which vested the re,wer of su‘pending that writ to the ('on rte.'s at the IL lilted Shuts and nut in the l're , dent 31. Because we believed that the best way to maintain the ~ _*otottl.litloti WAX to obey it, and net to violate it 4th, Because the Supreme Court—one branch at our government—decided that the writ f,f h a bear anrpuß could and be suspended b 3 the President. Thriwwerviniir rtitAritiii for opposing this art the .liliiiinistratiiin, h ttir m !3. 011. K. lltr Jed 01.1. 0 • r If mm ,1 I d. , lng. 1 , 4 tiv 6r Rmn~nrd and puni.ll.4 a cr."- , 11n,:1v V lint.e nwh. 'al, 30, 1110 1.1r , 10r1 • 1 , a,: 110 t cu•° nnl r for , b.•nt; wh t K r con4cieti tioticir .1 0 ,.. 0 h, our 41101 Ihe.e are the , AT,urea we have comuut ted. at ti ar'och the i.ran.l Jury say. b) I.a ° Mori (11. reof the —l4 , d yelper It rn (tit 1, 1 f F=EMlll23llll= ~i•. tn' ry tipfrsso rut 4 , 0 •m , trAth I'.rlo Ihr duly 01 arro , Pip.pl; t p thew •ipt•ttan,b, and ar•41,,/tr .nth thi pa 0 / to Tort: the Jury thought ltif ) wer, iloing rh:ht we have ho doutu. hot thi ir iii,Jrrne it rouid riot h •Ip Int lie swayld lij, p.ill'ieal preiudiee after having litit•ri,eili thr very wilair, and to nay the lerdt, no gentlemanly apeeeti of 11 N Njei&lister - I%'e Nubmit the case to theAndgment of a .f), , candid people Subjoined irt aro .' „fah.' Iri seri onto! '• selth the nameiko tho•e who ;014111.01 lt, alti, the `amen of thr Juror% who would not sign it flow it cornea that there were but tire Detn..crate on the jury we do not know. 111111 M To the Honerente the Judgro of the Court of Quart, r aess.one of the Peace, in and for the County of Centre Ai at h - r SensioNs, A. I) 1860. Cr,'S IRF: (MUNI Y, Rendl he inquest of 'the Commonweaith of PollllBl ' , Anis. inquiring in and liir the o:outity of Centre, upon their re,peetive oaths sn.l lithrmatiuto, do present the following faet.l There i 9 g eertam nevrapaper, the Den. cedirr Watchman, edited ■nd published by C T. Alexander and P. ti. :Meek. of thin county %Inch IA in the practice of encour aging the rebels now in arms against the government, by expresamg sympathy and agreement with them, the duty of acceeding to their demands and diaakti.faction with the employment of force o overcome them Saul paper is published in the- be/rough of Ite:leforite, in thus county. The ()rand Jury do not deem it necessary, tinder the instructions of the Court. to go 'ulu a long recital of facts, Said publication being ad! •vn to this munintyy, but in accordance with the dictates of conscience and the duty they owe their country, t y beg leave respectfully to make this present meet. SigmocL F. Jedon, foreman, Andrew Gregg, Jr , Daniel Mossier, San.uel Shock, ritrriogn lOrown,,Josepli Shirk. Alex. Millet, Jec.oh Q. Call, Frederick Seltzer, John Vaiipool, D. W. Weaver, John —l3. The following are - the ()rand Jurors who refused to Elith it: Daniel Houser, Samuel Brickley, Wm. Turner, Terrence McAlarney,• Win. Row• an,' Jacob White!wirer. John Musser, Ueo. A. Bayard, Wm. Leibtick, Jsaac !Thaw, and Scott. Williams -11. 'Democrats 67. V. *WV , V9.4.40.N.4.441./..w.14-• Mob LaW The following article from the Philadel phia Ledger, is well worthy the perusal of those w - ho feel disposed to appeal to violence either to get rid of a troublesome opponent, or to gratify the brutal passions of a debased nature. To those prints whose editors seek to In cite the Community to riot and violence against their neighbors, becauAe theyittern• selves fail, tithlrfrom lack of brain or in' telligence, to answer the arguments advance ed•ou the side of those who took a more conservative or sensible view of the great qurstions that agitate the public mind. wet.' wool,' sny, that the titan who cannot main tam himself to open, manly discussion of any question, only acknowledges his weak• ness.when he swats to brute force to van quish all adversary Whose argghfients he can treilber answer nor successfully refute. No question, however momentous, has ever lost any of the Importance to the inter ests of mankind flout the most rigid and arching discussion : and no Administra Goa can ever stand tlidtt shrinks from the light of dary,,ror attempts to shield itself be hind a mob It 19 only-those whose deeds sre evil, who seek darkness rather than In:ht. Violence and oppression have ever been the policy of the coward, the cut throat and the villain. vihettier he be clad ;n pur ple and line linen and sport- the baton of office, or assassin like perpetrates his deeds of outrage and blood upon lira unsuspecting victims, under corer of the darkness of mil:light It is 9ot the honest man wlio fears the scrutiny of the public' halo is public or private aflairs —but the rogue, whose actinam are ieveied at the peace and eectirity of society, who desires to be Anvil ill from exposure When a man accepts tulle office of trust profit al honor te is immediately answerable to the public. those hers ant he is, and bound at in tiny^ 10 Itr,4( a strict account for h s steward:dill) to his martyrs No position is so high in this enuidry under our Constitution that elevates an official sit touch alp.v • the lei plo that 11,• officials arty cannot be-reirpiired into ni all times. Ni, enigete.y . of affnirs can arise in this that will justify a puldic futy!tionary.' whether high or low, t>lit I her he be the Chief Magistrate of the Nation, a Cabinet officer, or the lowest subaltern, in setting at natigli; the earn,' obligations of hi. official olith, .or doing violence to the lonstitution II rablfWt ,Ifnr .l. l%arc (..piie.l by a htflil, independent. arid 111Clit iiptildc area, when they ere guilty of' pecula•.,fin and fraud they mint void, ate them', Ives li) oilier MI 7.11% than by :me 104 to the pas of an irreiir,,sible mob for riiilriima A Lie` is the lallarbuurtf a fir • and alto would sick to atirelge it. gs an en. filly to hisi country arid to horriair liberty and the mail who alt ocates mob It, r wheth r through the e , plonins rif lota .raper, or lhoV4 IL. re Is himself a coward The ,%la ill/ of the Line -We read of vrral acts of violence by ...nobs in the Fain flt soot s and see a disposition to jus tify the a, to by a lew of the mireasoning po,ooo or tho press Mainte"arice of the ipri ti,ey of the law h11.1.:.1 with the 14..)• beOf this coumry, above ad other people be a matter of pride, no ICS/ than a matter ~f pruiripte They have proclaimed loctrihe ;hat man is capable of self K. ern aunt, and have based on it their, political qtltt•M Ruts mob from its Ter • ature ma nut Self governing It 1,, not rerning through the laws, the only sit e authority recd; weed, but through patisious which laws were intent to r am atvdangerous to good government. he tundament•l principle of Kepublic go.vernment is that the majority shall r e, and the expie.s.on of, the will of maj , ,rNty is the !ages Cr. at erl by the ople Molt law htth aside the chtabilalled law e f the pvciple, to reach a remedy not eanctiones: by them Ntoli law, therefore, is the attempt of the toinority to overpower Os ma j ority by forfc, and it I, as revolt! iiimaiy ID its clindadter as the rt lwl alit rapt i t , oat rthrow the anti petty of the govern treat N e are entering upon a war to es• the authority of the v olsteti laws soil it is the rt fore an mconsistency , will as a shameful prer.deht • for citizens of the local Suites to.aidtpt the, Name violent and anarchist practices (11. the rebels which in one case, can 4„ r no more justifiable than the other, w 'oh loyal citizens condemn It 14 .10t 1 , t)601111 that if we once admit that mob rule may he justifiable in any case, then is an opening made for violence which may expose us all to its mercy I rue, civil freedom consists in knowing that no member of society -ran be depnved of file liberty or property, tritliout due fines t of taw." The worst toes of constitutional liberty are those who delight in or justify mobs, when they fancy that tl,c Z'ourts of the State cannot or will tint cubiscc its laws, or will not coincide with those notions of right which may be entertainett.larsan caw ed mob. It is therefore for the general good of every community to submit, implicitly and invarnioly, to the laws, and their duly appointed ministers, rathlr than, at any time or under any circumstances, to super cede them by popular' violence. , The Difference 'Thirteen Repo bllcans who are not subscri bers to and do not re4' our paper say The 17etrtncrilr Woodonon, edited by C. T Alexander and P. G. Meek' is to the practice of encouraging the rebels now in arms against:the government, by expressing sympathy sad agrvement with them, the duty nl areeedlng to their demands. and ;I...eatlsfietion with the employment of force to overcome them." Forty-seven Democrats, .1.1 submon berm to and reader% of the Watchman, and r, pre senting the the Democracy of Centre &fusty " We cordially andante Dm course that has been purtrue9, our two Democratic patient —the Demo atsc Watchman and Cratnt Reporter, in boldly and fratiessly speaking the truth, and hurling back, with indignity, the charges of treason and disloyalty that have been cant at the Democratic party by the Oppohition prem." What 'are we Coming To I As our readers learned by theyleFrephic despatehett . of yestordah the United Staten Marshal in4hiladelphia seised all the copies of the New York Daily News which arrived there,, ah well as those intended Lobe sold in Philadelphia, as those destined for ulterior points at the South and West. The Marshal Oleo tank; possession of the office of the Chrithan item*, in consequence of a late virulent article on the "unholy war." The Marshal, it is to ho presumed, ncted under instructions horn the government. 1151, we must say, We Are sorry to see our gov ernment in this respect imitating some of the most objectionable proceedings of des po:ism (If the four memorable ordinances which cost Charles X. his throne, the first and most importan', was that which sus pended the liberty of the press, and directed that no a tint or journal should he published without authorization. Are we coshing this P Is every journal Which incurs the displeasure of the novernment to be sup pressed I liesalrq that such a course is in contraventin. of the most elementary princi ples of erne/ ',betty, it is a mistake in poliey. By persettitine a _newspaper, you pay it a compl,ment ; you make it a martyr : you VH , an lap ',lance too 11.11 , 1P1V1 trlurh natiatilr r/sr , mad me. Fiat hrrava r, at rt rraity a ranfession Weak/IfIS. What as the Gar rrnaierti it nrth Ihak \) annot stand 'a parr, rannomade. We are indignant, and justly indignant. at the tone of a portion of the English press and of the It ogled] public towards till Just no* ; are we going to strehgthen our cense there, and secure fresh sympathy, by show ing how li II.• regard we ha4p far those great principles o' Nngliean liberty not of which the 'freedom o f the press, carefully protected in that country, and the security of ,the prnion from unlawful violence. a'ike spring , We tire fighting not tnerely.dor the Union, hut fur lb• Coustituttnn and the I awa ; if to keep the first we must sacrt flee the last two the question may well arise--of what value will the [Limn thti.n he to us. if any T., lir of its real existence will then . retuatn. - Boston ('cur•er Aug Ti A Gloomy Plctoro The Chicago 't'i'ns very r-uthfullv nays • There is no ihrerimn .ti which we gaze who h does nut present some positive im pending evil tie result of the ignorance and partizan blindness of the republican It IS universally conceded that the itla.n at Bull Ittin were niur leri.d by the Wilsons, I..nvijo,-4 Ti. lire.. low and others of lhit ,:k to thite men, too,,we may impive the priltability that the hil - ropean nattonsw4ll recognize , the rebel gori iiir..ent and the c•infldence which that fact, united with the recent victory, ,• gite to the rel.t Is themselves W • ave now another and unexpected sour of dan gi to loch relay In' traced d • ell .;• to the fanaticism of these men. njh auto appre hensions are beginnito obe felt, that the slaves will be fre , through the influence of these 'stilt • adventurers and that as i they cant • stay in the South. and will not he I,i• titeil to imigratd• to the N••rtli Met w take refuge in the Mexican `tales, andsi overrun them with the wiirst • population i sieder the gun. So wa see that%ikeywhere and slavery. which wits proclaimed 011 every startup in the land last fall would at tract to its the sympathy of all the nations, and would isolate the South, is really the greatest weakness wh.ch afflicts the Feder al cause Not one single power on the face of the eat th will abandon a dollar or endure an inconvenience because the North elected a Republican President, or because revolted Stairs hold men in bondage. ' Ws learn that the report in current in perk of this county that the Dkatocaterio ATCHNI A N in to he discontinued. Who started or circulated it we do not know. - No doubt some of the Republican gentle men () in this community, who have been engagid in try log to •• smell " traitors in " our iptibt," have thought this a,good plan to dufrourage mr n (Imo sul,seritb= nor a Democratic paper, and have sent out the report, thloldng the people would believe we were (tightened into bilenco by the action or the Grand Jury last week, or cowed trio submliouon by the threats of a few advocates of timb law that are among us. Our readers mtly rely upOn one thing, that is, as long as the honest people of Ceo Ire county support us, and until eels of brutikh violence, such as have been perp%. traced upon other presses in othert States, and in parts of this State, are brought to bear against it, the Warciralsx will live and continue to he, what it has been, the advo cate of right--the opponent of wrong. Ttrs New York Tribune still keeps quar relling with the Administration. It cells it corrupt and imbecile, and says that a dleci real. d and indignant people demand that the pre.rent cabinet strould he removed from the high places of power which, for one reason and an other, they hive shown thenfselves incompetent to fill. Now, for out part, we have never mild anything half as bad about this Ministration. The Tribthre has done more, and is still doing more, to Sow dissat isfaction in the North than any other news paper in the Nrirth. Yet we do Rd hear a %Nerd of condemnation froM our RepubliCan friends. This paper has a pretty large cir culation in this county, and is most certainly a very dangerous sheet to circulate in this country, it there be any truth in the great nottie that is made about there.being so many secessionists afiartiaitors rn than community. should he a Grand Jury put on the "bark of it at once • -.r..~.,i..~..a1..,.. :~--• Where ii it all to End I That's the question the people are asking. They are willing to pay nestle on their land, their buildings, their capital, thelr . cash their income on evrything they eat, drink and wear ; and they are to send their eons into the army, to be maimed for life or slain outright in battle, in order to save the Union ; but the question with them is be ginning to be—Will the Uhion be saved thereby I The people want to know whether this war is to become a struggle between the North and South for supremacy and test the relative military strength of the two sections. If it is, the bulk of the people who pay the taxes and furnish caddie's, want nothing to do with it. They have no stomach for a sectional fight to determine whether the North or thb South 'shall wear the champi on's belt. The people want to know dr the Admtnis• trktion men, if, when They talk of No com promise with rads," they heart that the Administration'ivid entertain no propositions for a oompromwe Dem, or propose none to the Soother,. penpte. If no, we shall ell un derstand that the es* is tojoaarried on an a nie..l trial of atrenght —f or coughemt with the ewml.l alone, disdaining to accept or tend( r the elms bunch. The people are in for no such vtedictive war 'I don't want—they disdain any compronitne with rebtla or traitors : hut they do demand of the Administration at Wasiongton, and of the party that controls that Administration. that the voice of Southern men who love the Union,,shall be heard. The people desire to see the war prosecu ted for the purpose of putting down rebel lion • but they demand that the noon feel iik• in the South should not ho crushed out along with rebellion. Tia sentiment affords them the wily ground of hope for restoration of the Union. They see that. Ull I 01V1 this Union senitinciit can be cherished and made ellic.ent in the Suitt), the Union cannot be Havel from certain di isfitii um' Bence. the popular derand 14 becoming loud and ur gent that the sword shall he wreathed with the olive branch -- Stalmnan ==l Jl*Drile UITIiON , r n b a late charge to the grand Jury in St Loula showed that what ever might be the character of his polit • ay mpathies, he was not prepared to osti• trite himself and his nfliee, yen promote the obje , t he has most at he lie knew that there w. re certain r . to secured to all riti7ens which could it undir any pretext be denied them, t these he unflinchingly admitted am ...fined Jo a long and argil menl alit • to the t:ralid Jury, he lard • . q erplicit'y the filloN mg pi, rrsi t .5 That to corpitilr:te tr. /von, there mo n t be treamotial.le tuts ot w. H a , a if able overt art and to ord..r to 1714 r nut treavonable intent and .iv, : t I nc. accused lIIIIst bawl' been I , ,1k4 , 1 , .1 111 a spirsey to overthrow the ;over tlitirtit. 2 licit there nee certain conatitutional guaranties whicli,the pa.sion or the frenzy ul the hour cannot LOU •h, And among then) is the ry,•hl rprevuirn and dig( Wllll,l and lhr fr r. do.", ',I - preen 3 Th,“ 1.0 v 1.1.,ffi.nt.. MiwLTer hostdo can En' 11(.1,1 to tr, a,c,11141,1,1 4 Tho the rwht of av. ry citivn to bear &MIS I* 441 that eann.it ba an 4 tte la. tof a city , a haring arms wit hntill being in !cagily with a tvrat, le force, WrlB 11111 i an act for which his liberty euuld be abridged. 5 That it is the duty of the grand jury p io i t .ct both the citiLen at d the Govern ment, and that they should rot, on account of any fear, fasor or nit, it )n, shrink trom the discharge of that dory Am an arm Or th. Joel:entry. the grand prey shunld itilligently inquire into all oflenees brought to their knowledge. and bring to the bar oft•lin,l'in ted States Court all who have het') guilty of unlawfully Uniting against the (ioveruniew and the laws of the land Tax Moires POST BAyS tt is S. great tots take to suppose that other peelpie's , faults can afibrd nn any excuse for teglecting a plain and important obligation. The admin istration of public affairs may be weak, blundering. or even tainted with despotism and (11,1m:testy. but does that afford any reason why the people should be indifferent to the cause of their couttirt f The worst country is always 'oetter than its rulers; and the, best has never yet been (tee from errors and mat-administration. The mistakes and vices of Government ministers are hide telt in the " piping tunes of peace ;" while in war they tire terribly oppressive But let us always be careful to distinguish between the cause and its servants ; and never abau don our glorious Ship of State because there are rats is the hold. barnacles on, the bottom and mutineers among the, crew. W. Lon GARRISON publishes a newspa per, up in Maseachuntts, called the Libera tor, which has as a motto, " The constitu tion of the United States—a rovenant with death and an agreement with hull." In bis zeal for the emancipation of the ,nogro ho favors the trampling of the Coustitution under foot. as, % being " a covenant with death and an agreement with hell." Ho speaks of the present life struggle of our Government in this way, " hurrah for the war, let nit make a little infamous history." This pa. per circulates to some extent is this county. We wonder if they hare no Grand Juries up in Massachusetts. T a ut GRAIN TRADS OF CUIOAUO.—The grain trade of Chicago, wilich, in 1840, reached what was then called the "eoorm ous total " of 200.000 bushels per annum, has grown since then in an amazing ration. The Dade, Press of that city reports that the receipts of grain on Tueitiay last amoun ted- to 428,494 bushels, and Monday and Tuesday to 905, 696 busboy., of which 520, La bush' le were corn. ~• The Constitution. It may be well, in these times of lawless ness and outrage upon the rights of the peo ple, to remind the oridip that there are such provisions as the following In the Constitu- tion of the United States :, •' Congress shall make ho law relipecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the frio exercise thereof; or abridging tb freedom of spee:A or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the government for a redress of gricvinees."-0. S. Constitution, Ist • men( " The right of the poople to be secure it their persons, houses, PA PERR, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seisurem, :MALL NOT as VIOLATID, and no warrants shall Issue but upon probable cause, imp poi ted by by oath or affirmation, and par twnlarly describing the place to ale searched and the person or thing to bo - U, 8, Constitution, 4th amendment. And in tit: - Vonstitution of - Pennsylvania, may be found the following provisions : "The printing r 7 1 ,13014 shell be free to ev ery person who undertpkes to examine the proceedings of the legislature, of any branch of the government, and no law shall ever be made to t esti am the right thereof. The free communication of thoughts 1104 and opinions is one of tho incLluablo nights of sewn and every citizen may freely spca4 write, er pi int on any supra', beirig responsible (to the law, not to a mob( for the abuse of that liberty."- l'ennsylvatnia Com, itution, Dec laration of Right, Article 9, section 7- " The people shall he secure in their per- Aonv, houset papers red potiessions, from unreasonable searcher: and seizures.'' —Same Arttrie, rrt Iton .• No power of suspending lawn nhall ho exer•ewed, unlets by the lestslatnie, or it.n awthunty "—Same Ar ticle, section 12. every man's property and life insecure If resorted to now to redress political grievan ces, when "hard tone." come in their ultra form, will the naked and hungry respect the law that was violated with impunity by the wealthy or others owning property There is no protection fur property where there is 11 , 1 I,loipe't law. and the men win; origin- Lye nod mist to-ourage 'be mob spirit now, ,t‘ e 'it tie's compla•ii if it wens rrar• tic ‘`. tistlrler. grilt, har.h i t lop the nerzes of any M 4 ,1 to beer threats made that his property be destroyed by mobs, anti ho olio threatins it int iteg every ho ly to throw the law stile and introduce anarchy, turbulence and violence of every grade e instil that it is the duty of all c. , ^ er tivena, of every decent mar., to rtsp,ct low, to enforce It against all si to +uLtitin sod pro:eel it 'n ail its •den, ,• power There is no aalety in any ei - course to either life or property and we ca.'. upon every honest man to look this subject :+quorelf in the face. Outlawry to not a pleasant State of society to any one, and who: once fully mtrodticed cannot so easily be checked FACTS Sl'itAlC . TI4 AN WORDS -On the Ist of February, 1840, Senator John P. of New Hampshire. presented tw•o petitions from limn Jelftrles and other cit.: 'erns of Perineylventa, and J Woodward and others or.rying that " some plin Might he devisid fbr th dissolution of the Arnett • can mon." Mr Webeter, of MassacLu netts, was unsp►trtnJ in his denunciation of The pet-lions, end suggested that there rbould have been a preamble to them in these words Gentlemen, members of Congress ' Whereas, at the cotrimencement of this ses sion, you and each of you, took your sol emn nothm, in the presence of God and tbo Holy Kvangelists, that you email support the Constitution of the United Statue ; now, therefore we pray you to take immediate steps to hrcao( up the Uninn, and overthrow the Constitution-as soon as you cin.' • Yet this petition received throe votes— John r. Hale, of New Hampahire, William hi Seward, of New York, and Salmon P. Chita, of Ohio. The last two are Cabinet oMcere. [see !irnale Journal, Ist Session, 31st' Congress, pigs 129. lIAT IN A RIMEL I Whoever is against the Constitution of the United States, in whole and In part, in spirit or in letter, is a rebel - - Whoevtr ...garnet any of the laws of the Government, wheltliii they relate to fugitive slaves or to freemen,. is a rebel -- Whoever insists that a law of Congress can to misted any wort in New York or Mas sachusetts than in South Carolina or Ala bama, is a rebel. Let us make clear clean work of our loyalty, and apply to it the rig id rule that he who ofi l entisln one point of fends in'all.- -Nein York Express. Bin/MANIA BAD Onnit.--At the . recent Abolition "Republican" condity.tneeling at the realtience ofJOHN BICILMAN, Went Chea ter, a plopoilition for him to speak %tie de feated by the clamors of the meeting, who would atit, bear the blatant demagogic. The career of this pestilent agitator id sYi dently drawing to a close. Ho has never yet been trusted by any party bui to &Way u. No tutu in the country has coiltdbutcd more limo he to bring on the erairicidal war to which we arc unhappily engaged. MI 0
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