a wy He has refused, for a long time after such dent States may of right do. And, for the dissolutions, to cause others to be elected ; | support of this declaration, with a firm re- whereby the legislative powers. inca pable | liance on the protection of Divine Providence of annihilation, have returned to ‘he people | we mutually pledge to each other our lives, For the Watchma n at large for their exercise; the State re- maining, in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and DEATH OF CUR DAR LIRG. JONX P. MITCHELL. | onr fortunes, aud our sacred honor. The foregoing declaration was, by order | | of Congress, engrossed, and signed by the | » | | convulsions within. | following members : He has endeavored to prevent the popu- JOIN HANCOCK. lation of these States; for that purpose, ob- NEW HAMPSHIRE, structing the laws of naturalization of for-| Josiah Bartlett, Wm. Whipple, Matthew Our darling child was dying, rmerg, vefusing to pass others to encourage Thornton. Her breath was pain’d aud slow, | ther migration thither, and raising the con- While we were vainly trying | ditions of new appropriations of lands. To meekly bear tho biow. He has obstructed the sdmivismation of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for es- tabhishing judiciary powers fle has made judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their sal- aries, ile has erected a multitude of new offi- ces, and sent here swarms of officers to! barcass our people and eat out their own substauce. Richard St The wind was Theearth w When death our heart wae fnitin With a crushing weight of woe. ark and blighting, id in snow, i @ MASSACHUSETTS BAY. Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert T. Paine, Elbridge Gerry. RHODE ISLAND. Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery, CONNECTICUT. : - Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntingdon, William Williams. Oliver Welcott. NEW YORK. Wi. Floyd, Philip Livingstone, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris, NEW JERSRY. John While angel bands were reaching To take our love away, We could not help heseeching Qur God to let her stay. As Death's cold hand drew nearer Ia the cruel, cruel strife, Sts only seemed ths dearer Az she breathed away her life. Oh, then wa felt our weakness When her eyes were turned in vala Imploring ug, in moekuess, Wi herspoon, To cate her fanzfal pais. He has kept among us, mn time of peace, | Francis Iiopkins, John Hart, Abraham we i . standing armies, without the consent of cur | Clark. ¢ i aar itten ? : Aud while our haarts were smitt, legislatures. PENNSYLVANIA. Her sufferings to see, Mer name was peing written, In Immortality. He hus sifcfed to render the military m-| Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin dependent of, aud superior to, the cin! pow- | Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, er, James Swith, George Taylor, James W He has combined, with others, to subject | George Ross. oar ccnstitu- While the chords of life were snapping, To sce our loved one die, Reraphio hands wero mapping Her pathway tu rough the rky us to & jurisdiction fureign to tion, sud unn i by our laws ; giv- ing his a DELAWARE. Cemaar Rodney, George Read, Thomas M’Kean. r acts of pretended le- Then stilled wag all our weeping, For our hearts with grief were dumb, gislati ni MARYLAND. Qur little one was slesping, For quarteris Lodies of srwed sol-| Samuel Chase, William Paos, Thomas For the ange! had not coms. dieis aa: Stone, Charles Carrol, of Carrollton. ‘Put we hoard his rust'ling pinions, Foy protesting ok trial from VIRGINIA. And we saw his shiniog track, punis which they George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, As to the Lord’s deminiong, should ts of these Thomas Jefferson, Berjamin Harrison, ie bore a apirit back. : S ates: ” Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Les, Then while wa mourn in” sorrew, For entting off our trade with all parts | Carter Braxton. . 0 That our lov’d one is po more, the worl NORTH CAROLINA, Celestial light we borrow ¥rom the Jordan's farther ehore. For, by Faith, we maw ber landing From Jordan'e chilling tide, And now we see her standing By the blest Redeomar’s side. Howarp, Pa, Feb. 20, 1863. Pe yaa . 4 - tliscellameous. | For imposing taxes upon us without our| William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John consent : Penn. For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefit of trial by jury © For transporting us beyond scag to he tried . SOUTH CAROLINA. Edward Ratiedge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton. GEORGIA, Batton Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton.’ system of English establishing and en- rit st once government, epg ABRAHAM TINCOLN IN 1848. iz ils boundaries so 98 ren TTS {2 DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE When, 1 the course of human events, ind becomes necessary for one people to dis- solve the political bands which have con nected them with another; and 10 as sume | amorg the powers of the carth, the sepa | rate and equal station to which the lows of nature and of nature's Ged entitle them a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the cau which iopel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal: that they ars endowed by their Creator with certain : ; ! ipalienabie rights; that among these are lives of our pepe. | | { and fit 8 ruinent for mbio- the same absolute” rule igto these The following is a remarkable epeech, de. livered by Abraham Lincoln, in 1848. In the arraingment of this speech, Mr, Lincoln will find his own counterpart. Let him (ibe President) answer fully, farr- iy sna candidly. Let hin, answer with facts and not with arguments. Let him remember he rits where Washington sat, and so remem- bering let him answer as Washington would au-~wer. As a nation should not, and the Al- mighty will not be evaded so let him aitempe oo mnvasmn, no eguivocation . But if he cannot or will not do thig--1f, on any pretense, or no pretense, he shall refuse cr omit it—then I shall be fully convinced of what I more than suspect already, that he For taking, away our charters, abslish- ier our most valuable laws, and altering fundomentally, the forms of our govern- suspunding our owe legislatures, and declaring th selves invested with power 0 legislate for us in ail cases what- over. ile has aldiented gogerament here claring us out of Lis protection, and 1 War egRIinAL BS, | | i | [ i | He has plundered our seas, ravaged out | coasts, burnt cur towns, and destroyed the 8. life, liberty and the pursuit of happine He is, nt this ume, transporting large | is deeply conscious of being in the wrong ; 3 1 } ag es 4 . . ¥ ii eo! that he feels the blood of this war, lika the (SC ‘ : 3 blood of Able, is cry mg to heaven against . armies of foreign mercenaries le That io secure rights, governments armics of foreign mercenal i 3 0 complet the works of death, desolation and tyranny, | are instituted emong wen, deriving thelr Just powers from the consent of the gav- already begun, with circumstances of cruelty | him, that he ordered Gen. Taylor into the or Ly that, whenever any form of "land perfidy scarcely paralicled in the most; micst of a peaceful Mexican settlement pur ? ol 7 : barbarous ages, and totally unworthy thei posly te bring on a war, that, originaly hav- ernment becomes destructive of these end it is the right of the people to alter or abol ish it, snd to stitute uew government, biy~ ing its foundativa en such pr iples, and organizing its power in such form, as to them shall seem most hkely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that geveinments, eswblished, lie has © : the ods should not be changed for light and transient amongst us, and has endeavored to bring | — te piundged’into it, and has sweut on and ang ght and transient ; causes ; aud, accordingly. all experience on the inhabi‘ants of our frontiers the mer. on, 2 dsppaiiod in his eatealation of the batt wn, that mavkind are more dispos- xy hose anown rile of gase pri phich Sieaicd might be subdued, eu 10 sufter, while evils are sufferable than cuished destruction he now finds Bhashths knows not where. — to right themselves by abolishing the form : How he the haif Heme mumbling of 4 w which they are accustomed, But, won Y A sions, we! fever dl is tho wholp war part of the a long train of abuses end usurpations, put- Bave petitioned for redress in the font bam. inte pi » . = suing invanably the same object, evinees a etitions have heen | al ! bis show nat the President i3 in no- design to reduce them under absoluie des. repented Injuries, A Fase Sau ed with i own positions. First, potism, itis their right; it is their d marked | he takes up one, and ju attempting ty argue throw off such government, and to p pew guards for their fature safuty. Such has been the patient suffering of the colon- ies, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former system of government. The history ef the present King of Great Britain is a bistory ot repeat. diction over us, ed injuries and usurpations, «ll having, in| of the circumstances of our emi direct object, the establishment of an abso. | late tyranny over these States. To prove] we | and be By an : ; ab this, let facts be submitted to a candid | have conjured them, by the ties of our Kin-| Again, hiss singular emission in this ! dred. to disavow these nusuipation, which | Wesntie that at nowhere intimates when the xpeets the war to terminate, At n. Scott, was by the President vor, if wot disgrace, for inti e could be conquered in less r months. But now at the s—duaring which time have given ns the most splendid success - every department, and every parts and and water. officers and privates, regulars all that men could do ing some strong motive—what, 1 will not fellow citizens. stop now to give my opinion concerning —to to hear arms | involve the two countries in a war,and trus, . the execu | ting to escape scrutiny by fixing the publie tren, or to! E&7c upon the cxeceding brighlest of mila: | ry glory —that attractive rainbow that rises s showers of blood—that charms to destroy ilized nation. ned eur "thead of a © He has eoustr: token captive on the high se C t their court tioners of their {ric fall themselves by ed domestic insurractions |! nds and bi hcie hands, ciless Tradian warfare 4 80 ub of ail ares, sexes and eondition, In every singe of these oppre ble terms. Our repented answered only by prince whose only chaiaeier is thas cf which may define a iyrant, in 3 ifito it, he argues himself ont of it, then i &e'zes another, and goes through the same process, aud then, confused at seing able to hy ev unfit to be the ruler of a fiee neople, Nor have we been wanting in attention io our British br . Welave warned them | think of nothing new, he snatches up the old from time to time, of the attempts by their | OUe again, which he Las some time before {east off. His wind tasked beyond its power, | is ranning hither and thither like some tor ration and tured creature on a vurning surface, finding fod ty their | 70 position on which it can actiie down legisiature to extend an unwarranted juris- We bave reminded them We ha setticmment Liere. ve ap native justice and magnanimit y, and world : . Ho has refused to assent lo laws the | would inevitably interrupi our conpections most wholesome and necessury for the pub- | and correspondence. They, tov have heen lir * road. +1 deaf to the voi ; 4. has forbidden his governors to pass! guinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce mn | the necessity which devournces cur sepwra | President its begining ce of justice and «f convan dipven mito di laws of immediate and pressing importance unless suspended in their vperations lh assent should be obtsined; and, when su mankind—encmies m war in peace —triends suspended, bas utterly neglected to attend | We, therefore, the Representatives of the to them. United States of America, in Ge He bas refused to pass other laws for the | gress assembled, appealing to the Supreme i AL ccommodation of large districts of people, | Fudge of the world for the rectitude of our and Hu eds of things which it had ever be unless those people would relinquizh the | jntentions, do, in the name and by the au jak boot thought men cold not do—-after right of representation in the 1 sy 0d people of these egloaivs, 7 a. tus fame President gives us a long right inestimable to them, and One Se 80. wish gi us that as to the | tyrants only. ted Colonies ave, and of a right ongh' to be, | SR. 7 Ain iz ren 24 mgmary con- fie has called together legislative bodies | free and independent States 3 that they ave $i: ai i Rave before suid, he kuows “at places unusual, uncamforiable, and dis: {absolved from al allegiance to the British |B ih 5 1% Ale oy a pewildered, oon: tant from the repositury of their public ree-| erown, and that all political connection be. | fodder und pseu proplexed man, ords, for the sols purposes of fatiguing them | tween them and the State of Great Britain | 7 A miser who was asked why he had into compliance with his measures. | Lis, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and |‘ married a ail {rom his own kitchen, sad! He hes dissolved representative house !that as free and independent States, they | that the U'ion wes attended with a dou- repeatedly, tor opposing with manly firm, | have full power to levy war. conclude peace, | ble advantage —it saved him not only the ess Lis invasions oi the nghts of the peo- | contract alliances, establish commerce, and | expense of a wife, but the x do all other acts and things which indepen-{ veut. : | tion. and hold them, as we hdd the rest of eral Con and volunteers, doing thority of the idable to | solemnly publish and declare th al those ple. taxes ou a ser-f — ¢ That's my business” “Shere did you come from +West Chester.” “Where have you been ¢” «In Prison sir.” «What for?" er-—now sipation | { recognize, wheresoever 1 may be, as binding io ail things, just the dis- Asker tha mag- ame as though {remained upon their soil : went expression of attachment to v0 Union and devotion to Constitation—to my conntry-—which I have ever cherished or uttered, shall abide unchanged and anre- tracied tii] my return. Meantime, will not doubt that the people of Chio, cowering rot a moment before either the threats or the exercise of srbiteary power, will, in every imal. prove themselves Worthy to be called «Not for any crime, sir. freemen. QO. I VALLANDIGITAN, 2 e : Fn A for being drunk ; U was in for «ght v WEBSTER ON THY ¥REEDOLN OF ay i L. sir.” LES «\What, tight months; for being drunk lh ae anly ¥ «Yen, the men kept me there go, just be zage they liked me.” The Prisoner, of couse, ouly Daniel Wehster while in Congress and at uw period when free discassion of the acts of the sdwinistrotion was sought to be restrain- supposed | og offered the following in defence of the *, vinon lik Hor { the leepera of the prison liked ler. Had |p. om of speech : she seen her se f 1 a mirror all her dess “Important as deem it to discuss, on all } a oral, nies Tm E oe; iscuas, on a of beauty, that flit throngh her deceased proper occasions, the icy of the measures nt pursued, it is still more important tain the 1ight of discussion in its full irargination, would have dropued, ike the i grandy feathers of a peszock wien he looks at his fect, : and just extent. Sentiments lately spre The miserable prisonercommenced screech- | 4p, aud growing populer, render is necesss ing and screaming at the top of her vowme:ipg (o te explicit on this point. Ttis ihe gerpente. worse ifpossible than black snakes, | ancient ani constitutional right of this peo- gommenced twisting and coiling around her | ple to canvass public measures and the mer- arms, and while she was, recoibng from |g; of public men, tira homebread right: their poisoned fangs, aud horrid hissing, shel fireside privilege, It has been enjoyed in was carried down stairs and placed into a every house.cottage and cabin ia the nation, cell, Such a scene 13 a volume, ail at once, 1 is not to he drawn into con:roversy. it on the evils and horrors of drunkenness. |ja undoubted as the right of breathing the air : tT and walking the earth. Belonzing to pri- 157 By a late decison of the Comraission-| gare lite as a right, it belongs to public life er of Internal Revenue, oid debts which] ng 5 duty. and it is the last duty which those have been considered heretofore hopelessly | whose representative I am shall find me to Tost, but which have been paid within the! zpundon. This high cunstitational privilege time covered by the return of income, must! [ shall defend ond exercise this privilege bo returned as taxable incomo. Debts con-| wi hyn this House, antl in all places, in time sidered as hopelessly loss on the 31st of of war, in time of peace, and at all times.— Deceraber, 1862, way be deducted in miking | Living I will assert it,should 1 leave no other the present return, and if afierwads paid legacy 10 my children, by the blessing of must be rained ag income in the next re-| God [ will leave them the inheritance of free turn after such payment, | principles, and the expmple of a manly, Aa % 5 Rg 3 2 Frave smd that if men shouid rise from | ouendear 851, senshi deiner 1 the dead and read their epitaphs, some of | them would thik they had.got mte the wong grave, ; 17 The shortness ot life ik often owing g@ the irvegularity of the liver. ’ — correspondaut of the Cmeinnati Gazertswrites the following » The town has been laughing over a mew story about the President. ! Aworthy and very pious minister {8 {seems, had recently, by means uanknows, | egenped from the confines of the confedsracy. | though very much disgnsted with its tem- "poral, hz had high respect for its spiritaat | condition, Their riers were praying men, he imid; Jef Davis himself was an earnsat | Uhristain, avd was constantly in the habit of | secking the Divine blessing on all his under- Hakiugs. ‘1 teil you,’ he exclaimed, ‘(od al- [ ways answers sincere and fervent prayers, {an 80 many of | his pec rave 50 humbly bowed before the Lvirane of Divine Grace thai he has vouch- so many mercies aud so signally d their cross.’ Daviz and interposed the practical preacher, j with whom he was «© { nversing, ‘don't you, success fo tels dof Mr Lin- : that they pray on this sida ist a8 earnestly as the r ec In is » man of sirong religivus « {and doubtless, jrays constautly to God for | sucsess to crown our arms. Dont you believe { God will hesr him just as gnick ws bie would Mr. Davia, . Well yes, I suppose hs would,very simply and sincerely responded the first minister, ‘only no matter how mach Mr. Lincoln pray- ed, God would be suie to think be was ouly joking as usual. Alas, for a people 1n the midst of a grea tevolation, when their ruler is—s joker. tae x Gan. BuiLer. -The Philadelphia Press of this morning. contains the following 2pe- cia! despatch from Washington : «There ia some stir in military oircles over the announcement that General Butler has arrived »t Willard's, What is kere for? is the question asked in all quarters. Gen. Butler, however, Eas vot come here {ur nothing. I. is aid that he will ge west and take command of a new military department. to consist of the free States west of the. Alleghenier, and his chic business will be ‘the enforcement of the conscription act." Of course General Butler a3 not gone to Washington * for nothing.” That he will get a cowinand no one doubts, eiihough he war withdrawa from New Otleans on account, of his Tratal and disgraceful conduat in thst Departwent. The Aldministralion went just auch men to do their work ; and the cless vo which he belongs are freely permitied 5 task in the sunshine of officiel favor, @hils such galiantand devoted apirits as M'Clelisu. Fraukiin and Fiz John Porter, are kept out of service and prevented from doing bsitie for their imperiled country. -Geu, Butler, therefore, need not wait long for something to *¢ turn up,” as his valuable services wil soon be rewarded with another sommsand, by those who fully appreciate Lis ohara;ter and abilities. vo eR Om Tus Ssorer.—* 1 neticed,’” seys Dr. Franklin, '‘a mechanic among others, at work on a house ereciing but a littls way from my oflice, who slways appeared to be in a merry humor, who had a kind word aud cheerful auwile, for every one he met.— Let the day be ever 80 cold, gloomy or sin- less, 8 happy smile danced like a sunbesra ou this chieerful countenance, Meeting him ous morning, I asked him to tell me the #e- cret of his happy flow of spirits: ¢ My se- ¢ret, doctor’ he rephed, ¢ is that T have geo one of the best wives, and when 1 go to work she alvays has a kind word of encourags- ment for we, and when I go home she meets me with a swile and a kiss, and then tea is sure fo be ready ; aul she has dons eo many litle things through the day to please me, that T cannot find it iu my heart te speak an urkind word to anybody.” What an ia- fluence, then, hath women over the hesrt of wan, to soften it and make it the four- tain of cheerful and pure emotions! Speak genily then, a hagpy smile and a kind word of grecting sfier the toils of the day are over, cost nothing and go far toward pa- king a home happy and peaceful’ eter I~ In consequence of Gen. Hascall's mil- itary order, and the fact that no sort of play is to be allowed in ths ceming municipsl election of Indianapolis, Ind. , the Democrats have withdrawn all their candidates, even for the schoola. Not a Democrat will coi - sent to bs a candidate. Every Republican candidate, evan down as low as for the dog pound, will therefore ba elected. et 8 Bp mr en The Commission appointed by the Governor of Massachusetts to consider and decide on the best temporary defeness for Poston harbor have boen actively engaged during the past weik in hearing the epinions of various men of science, uaval officers and enginvers, and on Saturday went down the harbor and examined the different points which comands the channel. . ji rn eae (I= {t ig said that the government makes money by coining nickel conts, now the dee mand is so greet. These coins are said to be really worth only 35 cents per hundred. There are now at least six times 2s many in the hands of the public 28 are really necded and presently speculators and hoardars will bring ona crash. ie eel v 17> A Country paper says that the best v'gewing muchine” in the world is one about sevonteen years old, who wears gai ter boots and § pocket to put her wigs in,