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From du New York Cotteaoiart.J.
ABRAIIAIL LINCOLN'S SOLILOQUY
They tell me two short years' have left
The marks of half,' more ,
, Tipon my hair and bagger(' brow,
With' wrinkles furrowed o'er. •
They soy th at I am growing gaub't
' My forth to bent with me;
That oft on apace-mine eyes ate tired
With dull end vacant stare,'
O Tedium , gleams; and then I start
With wild and fearful mein,
As if I taw dArk ibrius_of dread,
ity other eyes noshes:
Alt well-a-day ! if they knew all,.
They-would- needeem 14-atrange---. _—
That two short years have on me left
A ten years' blighting change.
Fo r twice twelve moons soft rest bath fled
My pillow night by night ;
:te only fern in feverish sleep,
I tear my phindMing hordes at work :
I see red dames arise ;
I view the helpless driven forth ; ,
And hear their piteous *nisei
. I see the mother and die child,
The grey haired tottering slow,
---44eat-loa4k-Vo-weep-o' .. r cht.r , s•sol hanuta__
In ashes lying low.
• And (hen a thinned Wilithing forms '
On bloody'ffelde ; -
They point at ghastly reeking woundi
Then sternly gam on me.
T hear their dying - shrielts "and ground
Above the cannon's roar,
And frenzied wake, to t Wok I feel
My hands all stained with gore.
Hut not my hands era 'yet _unstained,
OVI that lay heart were - urr --
And would that wit were haver born
That worked this heavy
, wee
These are my-dreatna ity eght; I,y- day -
I hear the orphan's ory;
I tee in air, dim, shadowy forms
Forever floating by ;
And fiercest fiends that goad me on
To blacker deeds each day ;
My fellowmen, that pont FM blond,
'Like savage boasts of prey.
Then wonder not that I sari changed
And almost vile es they.
feel I am ; And fain would shun
The my light of day.
ffliscrihnutotts.
.SEBECH" OF THE HON. GEORGE W
WOODWARD
The meeting , was called by the Mayor of
the city, at the request of the Select and
Common Commits, and was held at noon,
Thursday, 13th December, 1860, in hide.
pendent Squarerea
to preside, and a large number of gentlemen
officiated as Vico Presidents and Secretaries.
The meeting was opened with. prayer by
Bishop Potter. The address of the Mayor
followed. The resolutions were read by
John I.l' Myers. The speakers selected by
it Connuittee of Councils, then addressed
the vast concourse assembled in the square,
in the following order Hon.. Joseph It
Ingersoll, George 'V. Woodward, Charles
11 Ler; Theoljore Copier and hum --ltazle
hurst.l
We have assembled, fellow-ciiizeng, in
pursuance of the proclamation of the May
or, that wo may counsel together to avert
the danger which threatens our country,
That danger is not recent or new. It has a
history. And we must glance at that ; we
must obtain a clear view 'of the Actual slate
of the crisis, before we can giro or receive
intelligent, council,.
It was announked a few years ago that
the conflict which Ina. spring up in this
country between free l and slave labor was
irrepressible ; that, a house divided againPt
itself could not gland; that all the States of
us I mon must 6ccome Tree or Mari
States.
Ili:meaning of this was, -and is, that all
were to became free States, for the soil and
clincate of n majority of the States are such
that i t never can become the interest of the
superior race to maintain ,slavery in them.
Everybody knows this, and therefore the
alternate form of the_priptwition was only
to give it en appearance of fairness, and a
little more rhetorical effect. ,
The full scope and meaning of 'the an
anottneememt, are,. gem, that . eitizentriiT the
United States are to beta tally- divested of
the property they now bold in four or five
millions, of lag's, of the aggregate value
of many hundred' millions of dollars, and
that the habits and domestic condition . of
the people—their comaercial relations, and
their political rights, in so Sir as thesein-
threats are Connected with the huttitlition of
slavery, are to undergo a revolution.
Nor was Ibis prediction , the .voioe of an
obscure and onhonored prophet, but of a
(Alpo whom the people ot-theireafitates
have just distinguished, in a signal minter,
by collthrring on him the bight* office they
hail to give. In so far as-,their vow aro to
be coosidered - se'resPcmsire - to - hi!lkfmounee'
most, they are a loud amen—a solemn an
swer, so lot it be,
Whilst it is not to be doubted %hat Multi-'
tudes voted for the President elect with
other views, and did not intend a distinct
endorsement of his favorite proposition, yot,
as the record is made up, the prophecy and
the prophet stand approved by a majority
of the people of thefreeStates. The Mex
. orable exclusion of slave property from the
, common territories, which the Government
holda in trust for the people - of all the
.. ~,
Stites.- Ma intural• and direct step torihrds
the , grand: result of extinguishing. alive
property altogether, and one of tho record,
lsaues -ol the late election: This policy
must be considered as approved , Not
distevery man who voted for. the sumessfel
nominees vinealit to affirm, that a trustee
fotseritat ctequal partied has a' right, In
1.0 or reason, to exclude the prbperty of
some and admit that of others, of the par
ties for whoin be holds—butso is the record.
And whilst it is not to be taken as express:
ing the unixermil sense of the voters, it does,
undoubtedly ;imply that vast , 7 masses of
Northern people do heartily approve, both of
the proposition to make all the States Gee,
and of beginning by excluding slavery from
the territories.. •
The South.seems inclinedimktaccept the
judgment. She holds the property that is
to be-shut out el' thi territories, that is to
be restricted, cribbed, and confined, more
and more, until it is finally extinguished.
Everywhere in the South th 3 people tire
beginning to look eut for the means of self
defence. Could it be expected that they
would be indifferent to such events as have
occurred I That they wonld stand idle and
see measures concerted and carded forward
for the annihilation, wiener or -later. _of
For proper - (yli - 3 staves? Such expectations,
if indulged, were not reasonable. The law
of self-defence includes right of property as
well as of person ; and it appears to me,
that there must be a time, in the progrette
of this conflict, if it be indeed iircpreasible,
when slaveholders may lawfully fall back
on their natural rights, and employ, in do
fence of their property; whatever means of
.taelion they pewee or cati command.
I do not agree with them that the time has
arrived yet; but it would be well for those
who push-on-this conflict, in whatever form,
to consider that they are hastening on that
lime, and that they have coavinced one or
more Southern State that it has already
come.
Several States propose to rettr from the
Confederacy, and that , alarms us.
We come together to .beider what may be
done to prevent it, and we are hound, in fi
delity to ourselves and others, to take the
measure of the whole magnitude of the dan
ger.
The irrepressible conflict has grown out
of the Anglo-Saxon love of freedom. What
that passion is, and how it was offended by,
the introduction of negro slaves, may be
read in the chronicles of the American Pro
vinces,, and especially in the earnest, the
eloquent, and repeated remonstrances ad
dressed by the Uolony al Virginia to the
Crown and Parliament of groat Britain
a.ainat th ' ''
But it the Anglo-Saxon Lees liberty above
ail other men, he is not indifferent to gain
and thrift, and is rematicable (orbit; capacity
of adaptation, whereby he to Vey advanoge
of any circumstances in whiclite finds him
self placed, And, accordingly, by the time
the :,,,Colonies were prepared to throw off the
British yoke. and to assume among the pow-
Ala of the eartiMho seperato - and equal eta-
Lion to Which the laws of nature Slid of na-
lure's hod entitlt them, it bad been discov
ered 'that:the ii»welcottie workers, against
whose introduction such 'earliest protests
had been made, co:intone turned to profitable
account in the Southern States- that the
African constitution , was welt adapted to
labor in latitudes whioltslone could produce
some of the great staples, of life—and
the North, which could not employ them
mentality, would be benefitte.l by such em
ployment as the South could - ifford. Con
siderations of humanity, also,' is well as
the rights of private property, entered into
the discussions of that day. Whit was
•best for an inferior race throat unwillingly
upon a superior ? That both Should be free,
or that the inferior should - servo the supe
rierfend the Superior be bound by the law
of the relation to protect the inferior?
If-best-for both races that the existing
slavery should continue, then, what was to
be its relation to the General Government I
How should it be repreliented in the Cann
ella of the ,Rationi—liow far protedted or
'discouraged by the power of the new Gov
ernment I Should jurisdiction to abolish it
be grluited to the Government, or reserved
to the States and the people of the States
These were greatqaestions, and,. like all the
questions of that day, were wiooly settled.
The Northern States skpllshed their sta
. very, and So gratified their innate lovit Of
fr.edom—but they did it gradually, and 'so,
did not wound, : their love of gain. They ,
sold out slavery to the flouth, and thoirabw
ceived a full equivalent, not only - in the
price paid down, but in the, manufacturing,
MI commercial prosperity which grew-up
from the productions of slave labor.
When the Conatitution ome-to be formed,
some of the Northern States still held slaves,
-but several had abolished the institution,
and it malt have neon apparent that natural
causes would force it ultimately eltogetair
upon the South. The love of liberty was
as intense as seer, and as strong at the .
South as at the North, aid the love of gain
was common also to both amnions. flew
were two master passions to be adjusted
under circumstances of the greatest della,
ay. They were adjusted and - Ike great
questionit -of the time . was setfled, in the
only manner possible.• Concession anti
compromise—consideradtin for each ()Merl
feelings and interest% sacrifices of . tutu&
ces, forbearance and moderation--thitse
I were the moink by which "the more perfect
Unisin' was fanned.
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BELLEFO.NTE FRIDAY • MORNING, JULY 4 44 ; 1863.
- 4 -Adif what a. work ‘t was! If the Union
had never brought ok a sitrgle bleasitig, the
Constitution of the United States would
still bare been a magnificent monument to
, the unselfish patriotism 'of its. founders.
I Not en alliance 'nuirelji, buta close and per
feet union between Towles equally ambi.
liciifif; nuttily devoted to freedom, eqially
bent on bettering their 'condition ; but sep
arated by Slate lines, and , jealous of State
rights—one section seeking its prosperity
under institutions which' were to make eve
ry man a free man—the other underinsti
lotions which tolerated negro slavery.
Had the Constitution failed to work out
the beneficent results intended,-there was
an instance of human effort to do good —an
effort to restrain and regtilate tWoinatFal
pauslons r awilo_compel44l - to
In blessing mankind—which would'lkiever
havb challenged the admiration of all good
and thoughtful men.' But it did not fail,
thank God . ; it has made us a great and
prodpenous nation end the admiration of the
world; for the motives of the founders is
swallowed in V. onder at the sue cells of their
work.
But all this the "irrepressible conflict ig
nores, The passion for liberty, spurning
the restranits.imposed, has burned out all
_Ferneries of the compromise and the cow.,
pact iwthosorNorthern communities, which
under the false pame of Liberty Bills, ob
struct the execution of the bargain. • What
part of the purposes of the founders are the
underground cailroads intended to promote
Whence comes these excessive eenaihilities
that cannot bear a few slaves in a remote
territory until the white people . establish a
Constitution . ? What does that editor or
preacher know and - of the
men who made it,.who habitually reviles
and misreprbeents the Southern people, and
excites the ignorant and thoughtless in Per
midst to hate and persecute them ? ythai,
has become of our glad and willing' obi;
dience to the Supreme Court as the -final
expositor of the compact?
Be not 'deceived. Let ate not prophesy
smooth things, and cry peace when there , is
no peace. Lot rho- truth be spoken;- be
heard, be pondered, if we mean to save the
Union. The conflict boasts that it isitre
pressible. It allies itself with equal readii I
ness to religion cr tonality. It enlists al.
our passions, good end bad. It makes com
men loose with the champions of freedom
the world over, and with the promothrs of
iinthrrection, riot and 'discord at home.
With freedom inscribed on the banner it
bears, it tramples under foot the guaran
tees of freedom contained fh the 'Constitu
tion and laws. '
mental administration cannot subdue it.
That has been tried for several successive
periods, end the catflict has waged honor
. hotter, Will Alia ratite- Administration
be nit.re successful r Hoping for the best
it can do, what right have you or I to an
ticipate that the honest man who has been
elected will prove recreant to the maxims
that ma - tie him President I t Can trade and
commerce subdue it I LoOkA. the intea or
Boston, Philadelphia, andtPittsburg. The
manufacturers and merchants are the)gov-
Oniing classes in these cities. They.are in
telligent and qntek,,,,to diseptrax their inn o
este. They have weighed and measurell
the Southern trade, and then have 'alai
against the Southern people. But what -if
y had not—what 11 . , like the city of New
York, they had voted against the conflkxt,'
only to be overruled by the country-coon
ties I (Jommercial allies maiot repress the
conflict, if the people or tie interior lend It
their sympathies. No, no, there is reason
in the boast tbab the States shall all - become
free. There is good ground to apprehend,
the extinction of property in slaves. All
New -England has decreed it. The great
States of New York and Ohio have repeated
again and again the decree. Pennsylvania
seems to have sanctioned it. The North
wee tern States Stand for the preifitht com
mitted to it.
What hope , * left for the Union I Is
there a man in this aaaembly who deems
that this conflict can go on and the Union
last if there be, that man is besiie him
self, he hfs lost his wits. I will reason
with no mah, But, though few may believe
that the &lion can long endure the shock
of the conflict; yet many people think that
freedom—absolute, unconditional, uniiirsal
freedom—is so great a boon, and negro
slivery so great a reproach and evil, that
the whole influence of a good man's life
and conduct should be directed to. promote
the one and Suppress the other—even though
as a consequence, the Slave Slates should
be driven oat pf the Union. This is the
prevalent distemper- - of the public mind.
" , Who can minister to a mind divaseil
Fellow-oitizene, I profess no' ability in
this regard, but my mouth is open, and I
will utter some of the, thoughtik that press
pp from the heart to - the lips.
When; under the articles of oontederatiow,
which carried us through'tinr Revolatiotry
war, States bed grown jealous, unfrsternal,
disobedient ; and the General Government
had proved itself too weak to suppress con-•
Micts,that were arising, the people took OM
remedy into their own hands; coiled', Oin
vtmtion, and formed a stronger govetnmont.
The call of the Vonventioo, the eleothiii of
depotios, the State Conventions which fa,
lowed, ell served to engage the publ mtpd,
sea t) dirsot it_to the? oostmow thin , Ond
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the rotsible temedy. Thus 'the popular
mind prepared itself to receive with appro
bation the Constitution that was formed,
and impending dangers were averted. • ,
History is said to be philosophy teaching
by examdles, Lotus be. instructed by this
.example. A. wAirTennitylvanians.were the
fret to abotish alt very, let no be the first to
move for the salvaticirvcf the Union. Under
he amendatory clause for the Constitution,
Oengress hi bound to calla general conven
tion ou the application of the Legislatures
of two thirds of the States. Our Legisla
ture wiU assemble next month, Let us,pe.
Odom them to demand the couvention.
Good exampled'', lige bathoses„ are conta
gious! Perhaps one hod another of the
Northern and 'loather?' States may do the
like until the iequisite number have concur,
'red and then we will have a national
Convention to consider:the evils and dangers
of the day, and td devise remedies which, it
may be hoped, shalt prole as salutary as
those of 1787. And now, as then, the pro- .
gress of these measures will awaken inquiry
and thoughtfulnesin the 11111a3S08, will call
Oil their minds from the petty * politics of the
day, and from the mischievous agitation of
slavery questions, to the grand problem of
petusi.
In what fortii and to whit extent the
power of the General Government should
be increased is not for me to indicate, but
with the confessions cd --; Wesideitt Bitchanan
and Attorney General Black before us, that
the Government ns now constituted, is un
able to prevoeL or punish secession, or to
suppress the proudeonnict that . diiturbs our
peace, Sod boasts itself irrepressible,_ have I
not right to ittuMme that the Government
needs to beStrengthened ? nave .1 not a
right to say that a Government... Which was
all suflcient for the cottntry fifty years ago,
when soil and climate,and State soremigatt
could be trusted to regulate the spread of
slavery, is insufflCient to-day, when every
upstart politician can stir the people to mu
tiny against the domestic institutions of our
Southern neighbors—when the ribald - jest
of seditious editors, like tireely and Broacher
can sway Legislatures and peeler votes
against the hand-woik of Washington and
Madison,when the scurrilous - libels of such a
book as Helper's became a favorite campaign
document, and aro accepted by thousands
ati law and Gospel both—when jealously and
Mite have killed out all our fraternal feelings
for those who were born our brethren, and
who have done us no harm 1 The traditions
of the elders lingered in the generations
which immediately succeeded the adoption
of the Constitution, and thei r
r passion
char ionfor
_arc - I:W hors, strong as , y
tened into loyalty to the Ucion, and venent
Hon Tor the rights of the States. The Con_
stitution, which was strong enough to gov
ern such men, is Um weal( Co restrain _o
who have outgrown the grave and moderate
wisdom that excited no Irrepressible conflict
betwcgp brethren, but taught them to dwell
together in unity. I wouldmake It strong
P 4 01 184.. to. • mtnsiia_SW:losArtoss....of _our
day. .
. And let, the people consider the motives
for perserving the Union. They would be
2sught directly to these by the debates of
Oonvention, and by the ' anteoedent and
s bsequent debates. I oan wuggesr only
me of them.
Firth, our name, and place, and power,
as one of the nations of the earth. Are
fin these worth perserving 7 In eigh
ty years we have matehisd the greatness_
that Romo and England were centuries,
in attaining. What may be done• in the,
next. eighty. .
I heaitka sagacious statesman say,•about
three years ago. that in ,twouty years from
that time. if we kept together, we would
drive England from all the markets of the
world as a first class trader. They were
words - of,cheer, but there wss the inevitable
if. In what markets we should rival Eng
lanCor even the pettiest kingdom of the
earth, after dissolution of the Union, that
statesman and no - oilier has 'ventured to
predict. •
See what prosperity wquld come to us of
the North in the procees of the grand'rivalry
prodiotid by thaiStatesman. Pdanufactures
and navigation have built up - the greatness
of England, and they would-do the same; for
ea as a nation, and for our section of the na
tion. kaantaotoring baa alreadynoide us
great; If ho one teapot kre the rise and
progress of,,onr oountry so remarkably as in
11 4 teanufactdret : The narrow-minded-Eng
lish statemosni situ would not have us man- ,
ufasture even it i•hOb-nall. o could he be cat'.
tied alive through thefacturies of Philadel
phii, Pittsburg or Lokrel..would, ate ,00n-
Blatant with !himself. COM the. false :
who had insetted-hie uMWasomade wish,aad
beaten to die again, We shall
. never need
to depend again on any dnejgo 110.140 . 13 for.,
fhb* that can be wade Al cotton, iron or
wo.9d. Thus far it lease, welkve come.--
Awl whit Stiesoind town,asidradroade,aid
einWhavo we built tip in aux peogrwee . -T•
Bow :loch personal wealth and 11004414101:
neas have we hat addition/Linear
popplation- , --yrhat actions in the - valnb of
oar rarteW ilk' mine:ale—Whit hidnatay,
hive We stimulated sotfewesded--what
commerce have
we won I Think ,of Vino
things, fellowoountrynien-zeon &eat - Over,
doe by ono-•-diasect, and 'palm each fact,
trace-its eonneetiOne Mid. coosoottices; and
then, when you combine:them aU in one
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glowing pictime of national prosperity, re
member that corms, the product - of s,ave
libory halt been one'of the indispensable
moots of ill, this prosperity. More, it must
be an indespenseble element or all dtir fu 2
wire jprosperily. I say .it must be. The
world will not and cannot live without* . cot
ton: there Is not it martron in alr the Union
that can ()loath her fuliaily or herbelf wi' h
out it. Nor can England do without Tur
ciett . on. 'Her mills and ours would rot, and
her operatives and ours would starve, if the
negroes did not raise cotton. Amok them
and they will neverraise anothetcror. They I I
tined the authority of a master and the eye.'
of art ovetreeerlo cpmpel and direct them.to
.the - auties to the cotton plant _which :roust
be rendeted at the right season precisely, or
the crop is lost„
13'iid thus it happens that the Providence
of lit Good Ili ing who has watched over
us from the beginning, and saved- us flow
external foes, has so ordered our internal
relations as tovnake negro shivery an incal
culable blesFiug to us and to tbo people. of
Greek Britain. I say to us : for I do not
enter intoilhe question whether the roam
Lion br an evil to the people of the Southern
States. That Is thur concern not ours.--
LIVe have nothing to do
_,with it_
_AO to
otrude our opinions upon the people of clove
reign States concerning their their domestic '
Institutions, would be sheer impertinence:
But do you net see and feel how good it,
was for us that they have employed them in
raising a staple (or our manufactorers—how
wise it ivas to so aJjuet the Compromises I
the Conatitution that we could live in union
with them and reap the signet. advantages,
to which f have adverted ? IVe consign ihein
to no heathen thrall.-bp tto Christain men,
professing the same faith with us —speaking
the stifuelanguage—reading - the goldeirruhr . ..
in no one-sided and disorted shape. but a,:
it is recorded, a rule to slaves -as well as
masters.
This allusion to thogolden rule reminds
roe of an objection which will be urged to
much that I have advanced. lt will be said
thet slavery is a sin against God, and, there
fore, that all reasons drawn from our mater
ial interests, for faiering eyeballing it must
go for nothing.
If it be a MA, I agree there is an end to,
my argument, but what rights, has the Abo
litionist to pronounce it a sin I I say Abol
itionist, because the pastor of the first Pres
byterian Church-of Brohlin, in sermon
Pi-meted within a week, defined an Aboli
tionist to be one who holds that slavery is a
sin• I accept the definition, and accouling
to it many of our best Christain people must
be accetnted Abolitionists; for it is astoii-
• : !ow extensively the religious mind of
the North has admitted into itself the slit pi.
cion,not to say conviction, that slaveholdiug
is a sin, If a sio.then it is violation AWN
Divine law, for sin is the:transgrossion
' of
tiro law.
Now, ',deny that any such law has ever
been revealed. The burden or showiog it
is on him who allegos,and when it -is shown
liigiee it shall rule out all that him been
said — oi can be saidfor a Union founded on_
slavery. 1 bind myself never to raise my
voice again in behalf of such a Union. Dot
solar from any such law being found plain
ly written for our instruction, whoever will
study the,Parriviehal and Levitical institii-
Ilona, will set, thcpaciple oflitanan bon•
dago, and of4tipertyf ultimo; iiiiinely or_
dained ; and in all the sayings of our Sav
iour, we bear no injunction for the suppro , '
sion of a slavery, which existed under his
eyes, while he delivered many maxims' and
principles, which like the golden rule envoi:
•rigleninto and regulate the relation. ,so do
the writings of Paul abound with regulation
of the relation, but net with injunctions for
its suppression. /f we'go to thu most ac
credited commentators, or consult divines,
really wise mid gold in our midst; or what
is better, study and search the Scriptures
for ourselves, we shall fail to find a law
which fairly interpreted and applied, justi
fies any, man in • asserting, in nor out of
the pulpit, that the negro slavery of the
United States is Bjorn!. What right, then I
ask again, has the —Abolitionists to cheat
tender consciences into hostility to an inn
titutiou on 'which our Union is founded
in part I . Good people say we do not wish
to disturb slavery where it by - &Cal
law, but Whiteley if to sinful and inexped
ient, we will not submit to its extension,
nor assist to restore the fugitive to his Insis
ter. Saab people soon come to conceive
that the more unfrieldly they can. feel to.
Wards slavery the more harsh speediest they
make abaft idaveholders,the more they help
on the frrenreilaildir conflict, the twitter will
they recommend -thinaselvas to God, In
some churches antislavery nutmeats have
iereaMtt elinentiartageotalantling. , Accord.
mg to some etnetisitieal eouncils, it would
'seem that the greirt duty of the American
Ohristian is to war with hin neighbor's pro-
I s
and if opportunify presents, to help pro
.
bide Il l _ 1
4111111 talsa I for that times upon In lob we
lame*lien. % a ro ~
g
W ust use ourselves and re-assert
the i hie of the ilaveholder. and add such
illegal° our Crimittliblion en will ttr6-
his property Wan thnspoilitikid orr6ll
- bigotry antlypersecution,;* ebarL•we
must give op ri •ftnitttottitti *6 , 4 Cain.
&Italia are pl ng the altexentiVe"
beforeus—Orms titutioull" VA NN an
erty atroording to Aniencan , liw, or,
satinet/3h ofshrvertroperty, negro IV'
dissolution of 111 Uruntri.sat'''' agM'Olty: * 4.ft
ag
elOnfingga '
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Can any man even.thougli lu Mind has
been poisoned by the sophisms of infidels
and abolitionist% seriously contemplate the
alternative With composure apd inditlerence?
We hear it said lot &mill Carolina go out of
the Union peambli. I say let her go‘peaci.
ably, ifs ogp out at all, but why should
South Car'olina be Driven out ot the 'Union
by an iirepressiblo..c:ntlict about slavery ?
Other States, wilt ho sure to follow sooner
of later. The *ark of disintegration, once--
fairly established, will not end with South
Carolina, nor, even with all the slave States.
Already we see it announced on the floor.oi
Congress, that the city of New York, tired
of her cohnactiona with Puritan, New Eng
land; aiid fanatical interior of Iter an State.
will improve the oppla rtimity,to set up for
herself, and throw open her' magnificent
port the unrestricted corilineree
Let us be wise in time.' 11111 res,ilutions
are -o . ohing and encontaging I!, it Ono
1. 014 ilitsva,i as4etablage qVminornltie•of
returning health in the public num:, bitt
povultr Ince( ings.and fait -Ipekrup esolutioint
are not going to save the Union from (lea-
Ink:twit...iconic people must set, anJ wet
promptly and einem:illy. Let them show
Suuth, chat the heart of ihe great 'State
of Pennsylvania is sound till. ft is salt'
thArtbe late elec.ttomrdei ifot eithrucif r.uns
ylvania, unaltArably, to the
„ mischievous
conflict. /am willing to believe it. I hope
it is so. t hope the events of the winter
'arid our future elections will prime it. Then
let Petmsyivanta appeal to the South to
stand by us a little longer, till we have pro
ved not by fair writs, but-by deeds, „that'
wewill arrest the irrepressible conflict ;
mat we are not ready to give up Conittitti
tional liberty lot licentiofts liberty (hat, we
• t nut reicrilice all the memerimr-td
vast, and all . the hopes of the future, for
negrn freedom : no, not for 'negro free
dom, even for though we tear down this
fair , fabric we make no negro ft eedem,
That is the poor, the abortive the absurds
the 'wicked purpose for which we aro expect
ed to sacrifice , our sacred inheritance. Lim.l
forbid it,
Here on this concentrated spot of earth,
where the foundaticins were laid of thif best,
Government the world ever saw, let Its re
new our vows to the. Union and send salu
tations to oarbrethren. Talk not of seces
sion—go net rashly out of the Union —dim
no star of our gloriorts'ilag , --give us Akita to
place ourselves right in respect to your ••pc
wilier institution," and to roll hack the
cloud that now obscures, lot the suoutent,
our devotion to the Union as it is. Speak
thus to the Southern States, and follow out
words by fitting deeds, and petinsylvailia
can atop seccession or cure it if ,it occurs :
Wu can win back any State that may stray
oil, if onlw 04 can prove our own loyalty to
theiboastitntion and Unica:Lim_ our fathers
formed them.
And would it not be a proud page
in Che history of, Pennsylvania that
should record " the rescue of the
American Union from ImponAing, ruin!
by prompt, generous, united action of the
people rif Pennsylvania t That great glory
may be Oui4. Lot us grasp it ere it be for
ever too late.
The President's Reply to the Vallandig
ham Committee
We published, some time ago, the corres
pondence between the president and the
Vallandiga.n Consmitte : but cannot refrain
from direetinehe attcmtion_gt our readers
to the glaring fact that Mr. Linoolti -admits
the .binding lone of the law of-. 3d March.
1863, but evades it under thn o ,apeciburt, plea
that Yallandigham committed no offence
for which he could hove been regularly in
dicted and punished by the ordinary tritium
ale of justice. "Bad committed an °deuce
indictable and punishable," segues 11r. Lin
coln, • it would hive been my duty to hand
him over for trial by the divil authorities :
' but because / was aware be bad committed
no offunee under the laws of the land, there
fore I landed him over to the militiary tribu
nals, and Ird him tried by a drum head
court martial." Ibis well to remember
these things, on there'll! no Mateo in any
State of the Union who may not, though
guiltless ofeny °fleece against the . law, be
thus tried convicted aid punished- ,It is on
ly the guilty . co enjoy the privilege being
regularly tried for treason, the innocent are
to be court veertuded.
I4r shit Wale lmmix.
EDITOIt OP WATOILKAN.—As the 11836.
now appnmehing I t'or the :selection of can
didates to fill the °minty offices, Is emi
nently proper that we should announce per
sona frols which the party may make a sa
ltation.
In canting around for such, 1 know of
lbw men in the county whose nomination
fot the office of Register and Recorder would
give more general satisfaction. or add grea
ter strength to the Oast, titan Jesse
Test, of - Runt toWnithlit. Tem has al
ready ffiled this office for eat WM. And his
courtesy and competency gained bun • many
admirers.
In 1860, when tha opposition swept the
county, he was F oatujidato (Or raeloatiOn,
and while moot of our candidates were bea
ten by majorithel ranging from one hundred .
or two hundreil and fifty, the majority
against Alr.lfeat was merely 2f retie. , With
such tandard bearers. our turocetra would
bo certain.
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IP — Major room' Sigist has co.notan4, pc
the Militia cud Volusioioor Caicos s Oa
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be swiss to tspbtot't)
pellition given toldis
is ftnind # et the thte‘t
and coal, istutitinot“ ioal, and other xeitter:
ala of ratite . , with countless millionit
of lim
ber. Annie the :numb, 'titikier hi O (l
aeint.
At present' we are guarding .5 rs bridge,
(which is 524 feet long, and z abetat
wide,) over Csalleman ;tier. • This beautiful
crystal aire‘ra rises ra Mai) land : and mop
ties its waters into the- Youghloghenp, Pa.' •
Our picket is- stationed during
one and a Fell miles beyond Catrip,'fer the
purls:swot guarding .. twtit lownstlitt roads,
.tnedeittling to Pcteratnirg - ancFthe uthetth
The fernier inteitices die groat
National Pike," at Petersburg. As yet we ,
have tact with no suite ise Iron. the :chats :
though, this morning 'shout ',WO n'elf.ch,
quite an excitement existed b. re TI c
picket% were humid dischlrging !heir piect
of musketry, and as n warning the 1.311T111
guard tiled theirs; then came to•our oars
theiong, yes ik prolonged roll of the drum.
apprising us that the enema w • • , -
pi pitching, and dints our-reputations and_o_url °
Hess - depended gieitily upon tire itumeeiate
position of our respective places In rank, to
meet the- adversary ;face to face, and put
him to flight. Scarcely ten minutes had -
e'apsed into,oblivion's grave:from the tune
the flret signal, 'until the - ewOre company
was ready for immediate action, and no
soon( r WAY this theease,•ilian the command
of r•tiontifo quick march,"' as given. Oft
we . h.reit"-the distance WI - oeiu half a mile, .
was then halted, and brought Into a line of
at—Oic -vorgrr'nf - a — ariediani 11 nritri ..
Tho order to load was given, then fka, and . .
instantaineotudy, as it were, the commillidr •
seemed to be eitecuted: That great eineette- -
'fon caused raj the disitheliprofour aute• •
hairy, arouked the whole vicinity farm their
peaceful taumbeis,, awl for a. Whiltl they
ejec'ed from their minds tbsaftsctitin Ibr•
mcity cherished - hi rawer 111OrphinUtr - , - Ohl ' --- -
beteme the piey of excitement. Indeed it,
startled and aitiascil some, that they fled
from their homes with their.littlo owes' , for
rescue. Tim fcaro was complete, and the .
alarm. was false. Thri invaders were none
other than our own picket, commended by.,,.
Capt. Snyder. The ilesign_wAsui
to try the nerve of the compsuy..and to as- •
certain in what manner ii would appear in
ClL'il , of surmise. I doubt not that oat con
duct on the (Kt:Wok/II was eccond to none..
waiting duo allowance- For the 'period we
have been in 'service. The kvie. of our
country.—the eitkijpeqt of its blessod.hb
urtieti, the rourstege to wo4ipOodeczord
ing to the dictates of our own eonsetienee,--:
the right of trial—hy--jery- c —th e right .t — if" --- 7
sovereignage, —die right of properlf inde
pendent of arstoeracy, —the right of a (tee
education,—the right. of conforming to vki- .
quette, as ifs wish, regaitilejle of aymosuir- '
chy,— the right ofenjo_iing_tosay-apeeitle --- •
blessings, indepenuent of a kyugdom or
empire.—the right of free speech, ii;thout ,
the roar of being proscribed by our fellow
man, —the right of enjoying "the hinder
the free, and the home of the brave," Is
. u ilk:brut to make us-act prudently On inich
an occasion. As a company. Webs,. been. '
fur one tine appearance, and goodlehavmr
eulogised, not only by the'people verbally,
hot by the press publicly ; As yet we are -
without uniforms, and you may rest assured •
that sirarare4ruly the ragg,l radix, for our •
habiliments as just about worn out. Had
tack, •collee and fat meat, are our chief diet,
though occasionally we receive bean Maip
as a derert. The el - tit:ens of this county,
(Somerset.) are generally Germans. They
are engaged, principally In - raising atrafk; ,
farming but little. Their staple * products '
are batter and maple sugar. * Wait is makda.
save cherries, which are worth - two enlist • '
quart, The company ix still in genitspitits, ..'-',. •
enjoying lite hugely. Weil, I mityferbellr. '
though not forge.ting to - fn you 'Aar
our onereurgconi, General - is low at home .
•
kalif& mfbate 'we have eft-eked tireseti
ing orders,, report at Ilturtingdeti on Sat-
unlay ere. - Esetie haute. • . . '
Coan- inane - Peon!:." 2 -Jdn'itiiiii; - Wit° le
an Incredulous dog was lbstenlaglo sosroti
afxful story told. L'y old Brusrat m which
hi daughter Mary bore s convictions-part.
Joe looked wise and tkiubtful.
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"if you -don't believe it, you;ibily go to
the house and ask Mary, and (like it Dons
her ownjips."
Joe took himikt _his worst; 410 ukl man
followed on to act Ibe , fit:44 1 :111100 4,951 Joe
kissing Mary very swertly." '• '• . •
"What On earth arc yes-oboist '
"Oh, taking that did toasts story biluit
her own lips—bin i satidleil now." '
Arid so was Mar • 4 ,,• 4 r •
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