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UOR. A. «-• -M *■>%* U,±C |Jj moral power of a great and free nclb
-11 OF franklin county r - pie, wfahfaheir free press, (SS
...i, - i-r'w*vi' ~ ' an A educated and required, labor. It
ffe publish tins, week tb|e Groat therefore ohmb'with neW duties 4
. fjiccch of Hon.- Alkx’. 'K. MCluuu, its faithful ally. Ffjee speech must be
os Joint Kesaju.tion ratifyingiAmend.-: übridged-tfreei neiyspapeis must lie
m ,’ut to the Constitution of Iho 'Uni- c M'eum«cribod,, It c'oald.not stand tlio
; vsb sft
■■in the Homo. of Eepr.eseniatives of Christian pepple must aiiAjfa fa power
Pennsylvania,' Feb. B, |1865. It is a and permanency. It demanded that
powerful and exhaustive argument in Abe mails be subject to its inspection^.
Ivor of the adoption c|f : ihW Amend- ‘hatthoy berifledof all thatjaaghttlie
i maatorlv renlv to f'w nr C mcnples of freedom, and it wasdone.
Kent, ar.d a masterly reply to t. c ar- j oarn £L do4ments,;books not wor
gariieots of t-iie opposition. .Colonel’ at the sh'rinevof .slay.ery, were
jl’Clube is , thp ablest j debater and taken IroniAho mails by authority of
•writer ip tlie’Style,- as Our readers will J aw > and mmirniltod to, the/flames,
: ’_jll coucode after 7 reading’thisi Speech;, (est some 'poor* slave ; might learn that
>-" ')[r.-Speaker, 1 am.’ constrained. to [bo Godmf thokoppressed ever lived io
' differ- with some of the! gentlemen bear-tho supplications of the lowly
• 'my own side |of the House wlfo' have a . lld vindicate justice in J/ia own good
snokcD on this subject, i I think/that To. the Democracy it appealed,-
iniuatice hasbeen done bur Democrat- and won itsbloitod triumph by which
ic ffierds/Knd I rise mjainly [ for the ,n half of the lermpry of the Re-*
• pnrposc l of- vindicating] them. Sur- P u - b “° freedom of speech was madba
prise h’as Aec-n expressed, by 1 several Granger, and freedom ja fugitive,
members 7 in thc courso of this debate," . Dut it was not content; not suprema.
- that ncgifaive votes should -bo; cast on fttnusteopo withanenlightebedsonfi- 1
'tbop'emli'ur proposition lb ratify the “leiit/wUh industrial progross.vdth.the
"cbnstUulioual'aholilion of slavery.— prosperity of educated lii.bor .contrast*
Home of tlie-morc ardent'have- census edpviththo tvitheii'mg desolation'that,
ed.in advance those who shall record its fatal (Jread,]and unlesXjt.
(lieiroH-h votes against the disenthral, fpaid.invoke" the sacred s Ishield-of the
- ment\6f the nation. They do not .Constitution to protect and extend-.iV
• merif'ik h is daf.} to tjrciri consist. "" ltfl triumph would be fruitless. It had
cm-jt-ilab: to the history of thb Demo- convoked tlio nation in its parting
cl-utie orgaiiihation; duo i,o its (earnest; wUMhefroc territoiy north of 36 deg.,
JipslilityiortfHyoause oj the ; govern- min., when Missouri admitted,
merit from ibc- commencement of Ukv a,ld >t" must regain ii .jiT it could not
war .until now, that every - member : ‘ I " 1 "C"t |lho predominance of the freb
- tvlio nrprosciitsf'it on-‘this/flobr shonjd lt, j wanted tiio virgin terri
voteagainst any proposition | striking -'t° r| os, pot to rnako the r ifapom, blit
at the vilalityiof huupujj,slavery. <c \: to arrest the tide of free industry an|d
•It might npt bo arifa'S tb remind thus q,evolo- thorn to eescilation. It
Ihcm.iiiat'fa the, earfei-,< ays of Ure rl-. Ptl ’ugglcs with its; at limes, faltering
[iiiblic-f-one iyho was scnii.-whiU e-.rli- •P , --nidi#ra'i.o!.allfas, in cjvcry/possible
nciit as a s'.alcsinao, ibid-.for whosc<< > ' v " a Ti •o/bompasS its
'ti’ar-hings-ihey pyeless.th'o profbund- y ab a ffcarlui task Thjs Democratic
.ist i-ovorcn.ee,' tells tee country that jmity was wil'ing,uu{ thof-e were time’s,
vic- iving<l;ivcily.-artd>i-Es p" -obably stnig- Respite thcprieslof jieaqoi' that the odt
glcsii!! the fuluro for Shjrtcmlcy, ho raged Hdntiment-of the iucnplb-hurlid
ircm-fclcs- wheri. ho rcrTiiiffljers" that them from power arid. vindicated tlio
d-od.-is jiisl. Ale knew j i wbil u L . eanso of liumatiity and. frefcdoiji. But"
‘Viis a fclave master, and foresaw the j't ''"ns’lirolessin its caci gics. cxhnndt
rofentlyss ocpr'ts it Would ,c . ts ir ‘ "! ,tH .resdureow; atfddt was übc.
paSkp fc niitioiifi/it-y and by defeat, nbr did. it diss
.the nUima/.e, violent conflict, fai obedf. P :tlr at the dccasionat fccf>le"perfidy of
—cnee to die laws i;f eternal jilstico,, to tts rnajn source of posyci. ;\Viien iis
•cradicjwc-it (Vom otpr. cscutt-hooii.— '’ffmc rang but. .along the i Democratic
i " s V T tor.t-"Jel|fer&h..fho gieat Democratb !«noB-."with; its. dazzling fp.romjsas , of:
I leader of. other • Jay-j,- eauro the Ordi- : si tl organization; • vfpuTd'raili*
Sffuueo of Df-r.pr/strieurigidavcry with-■ uv uu'olhcri struggle, arid follow ifa";
limits, K.thor!fniiibiu faster wiilf a devotionnvbrJtliV of trie
■iflpifrtfHfjftaif' mobfest |3f7caq3o3. - 1.- t; ;
P f tbfe govermfent ,rc-l It could hbtlivc unlessinatiQualizocl;.!
iemcF-hv ) ' J,l r fr , ” nsl ’i' l,(s ! supreme. have
V no diversity of the prepondcraucoof power: must havb
’." I' o . '1 f'Atc-.dny.,an<l ov- be Inc linswujviiig ciuuidl of its nowr
or: It • nnst slatej lo
:>;;<■« stS-55a
T dn-iM ; ■ ’ f * f " n -- lls - { .Siweirygdas mlceiiai appetite.. It .faira-red-Wntf
,ijn:i..Kh i .tep'nc moj-c iln-I more dv-l mid Deuioei-acy dcii.vcivdl the ro-izo i
.-umg,' Liic tcac-hiiipot the foinidcf-.s ;It dc-inanded that the iow mlfei-Mri
■■v’avof' v? I, ,'? c, ‘--' vLf V ’j 1 ’- a imistfiken j bhoubf Ifelii-uitlulof Slates a $ its iuie£
• - 1 " f l " -Vp.cuit' 11 c.y,c cmr|ixo ipicd Willi jests Andri.MiprAtmcv in- the- S*nnti
vlS’db ub a j ms «bt<fi? a ß<l.>n3- Dcinocracy d|
yiauuu Ciuilli, hat-O, loijg -.sirtea been.! nommaGnthv the bond-thafc'"- it Lh n „lS
l! ; r j ! f Tow-; be ijutil it shojo
L...’ ,'i.rf "'■Hc. su-ji-by nlep,.day j equal- trip great Middle States ’ifTlhi
•■'■av-Tin , y ° ar , v } ' hriK li ”' t jc Srida,livc tribunal ot Mio nation!
b l 1 h T\ ‘-W* it.was .stjii not sulprW" Tht
I t Iml hist.ory of tlio idask assigned: the Dcmocrati) i
" It- iCi " ■| W!IS not iperfonnud It| must have
rale t-'-ehri : ris ,C • yon [.’-° r V -d c: i hn^.Dorroriraey fiiiifillcdAla del
• P -' 1 revoking rami and 1 mn-nd- • And when once alt war it m(i J
KmV^ns‘the'A 10 !’""?'’ J\ : A L “ ; and its.bidding wal
*™robodiou"o iitT’Z- [ f v '}°‘ ic i tbrntory.(sufficient t 6
fhc bhuidishmonis 1 ,Trk hP n W .‘ 1 ‘ n o ' O Ul u l s . coro “fStatcjs. wrest]
U--,u sllm V 110 hoi >or3, the oduronnMexico. ■ Still it was not eoh l
e : K ? i t ’ s Zt ! Vk IVT • W ’ Cl ! I l ]6 , ouW P ot c- onipete with" th<| :
to the TiemSi ff 5 tu . l ’. , ' ocl If ?nd progress of freedpm in thl
fit up-ton-itones, and its triumph threaten J
lilted" - and ed ,lo durn to, ashes "in its hands, ll
, ?L unilllt M’Pealedto the Democracy. The law
rtble catalogue lof nmiP'' “ torj i ot . ojvthzcd world-must be revers-l
has at - oaiior al woes, and ode, Slavery must be made the rulo-i
■lifamo first Wti . U ,T . d , eel3re, l '' u prnnc in tfir, territories;
liaiial riirhl to nucsl the constitiK or it must perish- in tho strmoda. It
A free peo- Irirnocl to the rieAly
;w-.tho law IS y i S' bts .Ps d betitipn- ncs abd to the rich soil of the West, |
tegrity of the ov.® ll^ ID ~ S R OOn l ° biJ Peopled and potential in the !
'Ament and it W-i -iVl'' 1 U °' l ’ vGov ' Ge l VJ h ic,. and it must grasp them in
k has j a U V uk at A la .vcry. Us fatal embrace,jor surrender the con,
' Sr U,gl:?t , gI :? t St ™ g ; f' Ct f ltmuSt ohrogato the common
' ~n M , U,eco6t of |a "' pf every. Christian .Government!
»b«it-th e R om,;ik" d: ■ C °!- d 1,01 w . lt , h '-‘ andc onfront the law ofHim'who croJ
ttei -It wt 31^ 1 fa,Ul *' atCd all thin g s f «-do> .From His hand
V/ . - bout f° war u P° n camo oo man. no thine another’s
Ah!i c l! u^ undat - ion 610n .9.°. f lhe Ac- slave. . T|c territories of the far Weak
deckrr?i g h Cat P r,n(:i - pI c 8 of hlOdtniDg! And fragrant as they came,
AAt tou ! aod 7 , on l' fathers, from the Creator, were by Hibi deHJ
thfi v 0; 2 llts ; It came-to law ok nations so regarded for eenlu7
t: A'! and U 7L. lS o f°7,' DBXil[l - 7 es " P ut slavery doma.n.Hod that by
TioMvTth K “ ’ ot ,n hostile array ChoArbitrary organic lawi of man ill
ifkideadlv^r 6 - 1,8 - "fAiHed. decliir/ right should bia recognizecl to make a|
vo uu . e y ,' nU 11 oa-'ipn- -withered waste wherever fa should
Wren Borie«f« - Demoe ,r a ?y with choose to tread, and fa Was done. .• To
T Aid"nqaiiiTv , P fc CC, ' U ' n . d b '. d thetn tesl - t il was fanaticism,-treason; dis-i
rich, i lh ! batloa bj ’ 'A°* t 0 Batitai o abd extend fa was de-1
f t - t a Ppeal in%ii r^-T pd 1 ;° n V dt - d , id clar . ed i ba bonly; path to'concord and
iu. friend -n- not " I,s , ta V oat.oual unity. Its marshalled forces,
A had w ll,n f <il ? odr ° nt '[ ndc r the flag, ot Democracy, did their
r - loas iF.)oiw ?, rs or lbrc the ani. ( b-oidc ivull. It appealed io the fears
I| lk h «'A-,4k '- G . VC, al ’ battery'mf thc timid, u. thi cupidity o/tbc am
ll, U A A-libSfao, * c f , ®. wn ? d^ a .s* hjt'on e f the weaky.anJ in the name of
Iki 011 " fb'bbcdfa, ® f , bat ifg? 14 * V mOD lVßl . rt \ (ik the deadliest blow-to
whicli , !!• 10 -. the , : 'ebebing the very vitals of the Republic.
'bth C ti adc, :S. Gained g dm? 10 iHs L erv 1 It domaDdc d.empire unlimited sayo
?ti ti' Auialof ihn-ii X, ‘r ,- 3 I »y the boundaries of the continent, and
•in S rc «t of tbaub' l P - t ' • be of positive law for Stk ox-1
Cust their vntJc t ’ an - Zat, ? n jstc-nca wherever the flag of the free
>a^|S 6 lbis ave tllev g n^ ,, ll fl -°^ cd ° ver its owtl dominions.L'But
sg: c V ? : UD not but j urolesa as were the efforts of the Do
thedT ul ia n‘ slavery lost "'in the race for
‘fer v !? rcst ughts of I P o&B ® ssioQ of the blch/slopes of tha
‘ O »WnT a - Bnoi ibug corlint k r - P o, l Pac,fie - All was done that could bo
knd s 'tcceßsiv e trin ,Xi r. i ° Ver dlg l’ osefi . however man proposes,
ieu 'A'’-"'! the right JIL ‘. a r ad - the triumph of slavery in the
.f t , P ell *-i filexu'-aiv acquisition a crowning] dis
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appointment. California was bold at
tho do.qr ot Congress with Ihor Eepre
flQntativesand Senators for months to
giro Slavery and Democracy some pre
text tarejpet them; but the power cf;
frcedoiq on the Pacific became strong
er with each ajt lastThby
bowed down and cqnfessed'tbell' dis—
comfiture.’j ; ' j 1
I But, disastrous as was the defeat.it
was not; dismaj’ed. It still had a will
ing and! powerful party at the bead of
the Gorerhment, and itstruggled con
fidently; defiantly, for supremacy It
wrung the Missouri Compromise from
lan unwilling people, years before, and
triumphed thereby; but it now Blood
'd the way of the iharch of slavery
to universal dominion." It was a sacred
monument of the solemnly plighted,
faith of dUr fathers. For a quarter of a
centuryj it had 'stood unassailed by any.
one; but it confronted slavery, afid it
lUust bp ruthlessly destroyed. l De
mocracy was summoned to the tiisk,
a [ nd the crhbl work was done. Again,
was thojtjanqnility pf the nation wan
tenly, pffCKealy broken by the Democ
racy in.obedienee tb slavery,fund when;
its convulsions threatened I the very,
safety of puri institutions, tho'spoiler
came again with the seducing cry of
peace, by Submission 1 to its wrongs -A
What fojfloiweq is but too well remem
bered by all.- The revolting scenes
\wbich made np the early history of
Kansas,[abd the Lecompton infamy,
which w'asjmade the : test of? devotion
w “"yPeinqbratic Administration, are
WiPgjf l equels ,to the cririW that
hud on the violation of
Ihe-Mis&uti compact... . i ’
Still it wim not content. Tho right
.ohp.otitiiujJhhd been restored;! the right 1
to rifle inejj mails had been abrogated,
and cr.ligliione'Xnrogrcss was on ev~
cry hand! besetting this monster foe of'
lioerty a|itd]law.: ha this extremity it 1
.turned tb the judicial tribunal ot last
rpsort p court whercKqiW sat a slar
shall and ajStory, and rn the name of
Dpinoerith’Hlemanded that its life
sbouW liphleclared to dssnh from the
Constitution itself, and thauiby virtue
of that; sacred ■ instrument jf. could
' R P. re ?d Cs polluting power wEicrbyer it
was not expressly interdicted by\mtr
nitipal law.] it had but to omraand,
ahd it ihis| obeyed. ’'The ;territories
Weresurrendered in do-'
fiance ot, the accepted law of the civ- !
ted ivcrld, to its desolating tread.—
rbc Slatesi were pfqnqa'nced fits bb6- ;
dfent sorvaittsnri' the .maintc iktieo of !
juiitbi.iTfy clufine!} as a IreingVwitlioutl
rights • .which any one was bound to
•inject jThjs was its chief, its final'
.triUmp.,).| The year that witnessed its
mastery oyer a, free people and their
institutions, dated.-ils decline ynd fall;
a r.d jno wvjtlui r ejec tid black man pleads,
in ii' court Wjioro, lydt ft few \ eftrs
hcA\ as dpnied
mqnhooj übcossary to maintain the
prerogative aof a.suitor.
A ( t this demon of discord and
relentless fqq of our liberties had ex
hausted the uses, of the Dt raocratic
party a .party of administrative
-power. It had so prostituted a'nd de
moralized that'organization! that,it
yas impotent to save: slavery from the
dpbm ot .subordination, and with it su-!
bordiuatijqn Iwas death. It therefore
spurned jus. faithful insfrutrient of
-tvrpng and r.Cnt it in : twain at Charles
ton; It did-not mean..,to sender the
union. It was not prepared for the
war with which it lias thadbwed the
land in niourning. It saw its power
( j®y a J! tln gi a pd it must bo supremo or
1.4 It resolved upqn a final, hxhaust-j
’| ing effort; to prostitute the North ati
its feet ’and : ;socure, its perpetual and
unquestioned power by -new and
wholesale; organic concessions to its !
vitality. .It j therefore thrust out the *
major portiop of the Northorb Democ
racy, and! reckoning by the history of
the past, it confidently,expected to see j
friend atpi fojo paralyzed into submis
sicn rather tpan brave its vengeance.
But the ago bf submission was past,
ihe tree North was moused, !and ro-.
solved that the right of the majority !
to rule in with tiie laws
should be tested. Vainly did its re
jected allv the Democracy,'plead tor
it in 1860 ' jhpl the'fiat, of th 3 people
d ° c ,j r ?-tl4^^l avor ymu B tlienceforth
yiejd its pwaf boasfed-, supremacy tb
the, majesty bf the laws. ■ It was no
unmeaning victory. I It was not achie
■ved to bo basely ■ bartered a way by
compromise, in vwhich right should I
surrender] tc-[wrong, ‘
Slavery was appalled at thq rotriba
ptiqnit ipvited,; bat it did not de
spair, It, saw the sbeptra of power
depart, bit to scdaco or in-
Umidate tho great North from iu set
tled purpose to vindicate the laws and
the force pf- tpo Government. It saw
an educated, and requited in
dustry giyo rich fruits in prosperity
bnd progressj in thoi Northern States,
while its c.wn fair hqraes wore marked
by decay. It saw a vast pretender'
aheo of pppulaticn, gathering iboat it
whoso honestfaims bf life, maio them
its implacable foes, [it saw every ele«
ramit of greatness with which a bene
ficent, God had blessed a free people.
It saw sqhool-boiiais at every cross •'
road scattering wide-spread edneation
—its deadliest antagonist. It aaw the
siorrcs of qur churches pointing to hea
ven in every community, each,stcadi
lydnstilling the gricat. eternal truths
which ’sliylry accursed of
man and jGod. .It saw fisitig hero
from day jto day which in
time musticrush it as.the foe of civil"
ization, of humanity and pence. It
saw its bwjn power wasting ffom
to day beneath the; inexorable pro
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I
■fkl-.
,sc idoihg,
cVojFj
haffe quibhl,
logic of evci
Uic national^.
to o ui\im por i I i elf iiieUUU i oh V,.
the! gentleman *rotn Northumberland'
nt ' d 3')- didXhpt declare in the
columns of his pajipr that the South
ern Confederacy wa\an established
JacUas he afterwards,did.; Ho bowed
to the resistless current'of: patriotism
ho waitcckand watch
ed |for the period ; when JliVcoilld ,by
stealth,- by cowardly inuondXby spe
eioUa assaulisiupon itbeladraiciWration
of flic government fstriko'morefcUfcet
qully at the yery vitals of the Hefoib
!. ic i L. Afcd - fi,r > wit;h what matchibsa
ty has this cruel task boon -pofv!
; formed. The genljcraan‘"who lust ad-A
| dressed ibei House in opposition tpltlio r
I has,from tho’timo this war '
I commenced, persistently, condemned
j every measure proposed for the vindi
: cation of pur national life, Whop slai ■
very unfurled its banner to the breeze,
proclaiming .’relentless! 1 war '
upon our own people and'thoir
institutions, ho answered -ifo doniands
by denying the right of coercion—by; ■
refusing, to the nation
rigpt to live. There has h|loly been,
an argument emanating/rom: the lead
ers of treason in .Richmond that bad
not in spirit or in terms beenre-echo- ■'
ed by the gentleman from STorthum
berlpnd, His own constituents, I, be
liovp, declared in publio meeting that, ,
the Southern Confederacy was estab- !
hshed.■ ■ i : . .a ■ ■ 1
p Ay v •
[Vye omit here, tborunningdobato
between Mr. M'Clure and Mr. Purdy,
the ‘Democratic Eepresentativo from
Northumberland, fori want of space..
It dpes pot interrupt this argument of
M’Cluro, only drawing him off a few
minutes to give Purdy a; terrible caa r
tigafion.—Ed.'Ahqcs.J , , V
. However disguised by professions
of loyalty, the teachings of the gch«
Jtleman from Northumberland . (Mr.
Purdy) and* his political associates are
aimpd to paralyze the power of the
government and ' tp'j strengthen the
handsof its deadly enemies. Wo are
tolditho war was.fruitiessjthAtit could
not jbe successful;, and faithful men
werp staggered by. [the earnest,, tiro**
loss, imigbiy current, of; poison -that,
flowedfrora thpDemocratic leaders to
make the people their’own abd their
country’s foes. L except, as I hayo
always done, the masses of all parties!
Iromj the terrible imputation of disloy-|
alty ito the. Governmenfe They have’
shown-it in every jstagepfthls conflict,
they, have defldd their political lead
ors ip tho.darkesthqfur ol the, nation’s
> an< * rusbed 1 to:llB,rosene; but
theyileft behind theba . the qbibbling,
craven traitors ivho iwcre too base jtp
aeiond their nationality and too cow
ar~y assail it mabfuUy.V'
■, d inquire ipiwhbra. wo are in*
j for ttle turbulcbco that has
plotted pur history in tho varioas sta
p9 x 1 6 _ tru gglo for national, exis
,^ Dcc r; Whence caibo disorder, con*
1 ®Haw and riots in out*own free
• or | •. ho taughtthcl deluded vie-
; '
gross of intelligence;
, da its armor tor its fh
dethroned, itresolyed
. be woo to the vectors
quishod in its lastconl
t Agaurit tnrted'ito’i
ly ip thoNortb. '* It’-'
Northern' IJemficraoy
mis, and left it witboul
but whali it Jr
tb inakel a patipnbow
s|ifinV,or accept ?its tbr
itagain 'tuinbd tp| lii
moots of tbo: Detnoc
“■There shall beWUpqi
Dembcracy shallbotl
ry.” T understands
the fearful import [of 1
mean it in-its broadt
slavery rcsofvbd updo
resort, sbbnld thoNc
integrity, it turned to Jtracy
and was assured of s; / and tri
umph in grappling w very life
of the Republic. Hov -tt has been
successful, let the ebequK& history of
this bloody war,
ednfident in the belief, pfwicjted upon
p6si tivc pssurance; thatga~.Democfaw
cy would paralyae’ tbe Jwtb in tbo
attempt to exorcise aliCftaight; that
there won]|d bo a j|idWe(Mparty. that,
wbnldsustain It withmbfebless fideli
ty oven nnto death, antHfca bond is
al|out to be fulfilled to 'And wby
should. it not'?. Aogbt«j|e would be
bijtt hblloqr hypocrisy %jra shamblesa
ffljwafdioe. ’"| ’-‘. J '
‘Slavery reckoned bufrfbb- truly ‘on
the power of DombcraqMn this fear
ful conflict; When the gdniTpf treason
were thundering aga^hstpam' tor, ev
cry ruembor of this floor
responded, to the call. Of slanpry by
vpting agaihsttbo orgaidifetiob of any
force to defend tbo’StftWHpr' the unity
of; the Republic. !And ! 'fl|thpiSenate.
when ou- ‘ '■’ ‘"
arm a foi
ed[ by t!
claiming
mint of
mind of
member
son the
linin'or i
preserve
By; their
triiih of
islativo hi
.And af
i|h|esß
tlie 01
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|l?emocrati_«s leadets: tommug*
tSs&WwiP* thlT
bnt*i« morsel oss ;irra n n v
MStST^f
S&v2P??^ tf ? 78 ‘ wiich werb
S haa K h f® f l“ 1863 2 ' whoa.
Wybdauampetillad
«h*kS-
IfcwH. a tkpy ia W tho bittor cup
prepared ■ f fQr; otberB.^Tho
rjdfcSla AvocofSlatrorj! and Treason:
kut 1 JJbrthom!
Pbrdy,) they j rioufod a
°!!! Xe ' t of ‘««K the more
fen I** 1 ** ,f n the
° f tO tUe Union.
alu® 7 ob hehodts of sla-
Very.aDd thoy gaje rich fruits whore-
WHh to gladden despairing traitors.
> , o .', in our oWn Statd have
68 9 ?688 to defeat the
strengthening of our armies and pro,
th^..Vttr for - fresh , sacrifices of
Wood and treasure? Whence has
come disorder here ? Not from Alio
§??, ny .‘ , 07 P? Q , ator » or Lancaster, or
Phvladelphiaj but- from the I sections
where Democracy could boalst of its
greatest .fiupromejey. f Whefico came
eaBon ?. 11 w 4® not inherent
w,th the people. They are , fas -loyal
now as they wore in 1861. Whe then,
by tireless.arts and purauasion, made
them strangers to their own best in-,
nentance and foes to government and
law -f 1 saw bravo men clad in their
country’s bine,-{ march from-the bor
der when the cannon of Early thun
i the Potomac—not (o make
>ry of Sheridan, more decisive,
'force the laws and ipresriivb
i bur own then, thtchtened
•Wealth, - -ji ■■ ■ •
treason flaunted its .bloody
on th? vory ibordbrl of ’our
einocracy,its 1 faitLful ally, Was
icg revolution | in tlip; strongs
its leaders, to rihpcr the hearts
mgth.cn tho anns of those who
' thrust the torch 6f [the bar!
'rid ply the trside of. tiib frep
our happy homos, I'andjmafcb
ion fields desolate bythair brd-
U; v; Thyso rare but -the’ currants:
flbfWifi-om-. the deadly; fountain,
iad'tOTioursc its way to every
in the Jand aridJoava ;; :its.fatal
— upon mankind ! '■VEiib gave
-■‘tain pf treason life and poW
er, to.threaten'a nation’s noble sttrng
gle with disaster t Behold the men. 1
who at every stage, of thov=3gardiave
resisted everymeasure cssentiaf'to
success.. They det-larjdd trerison too
mighty for tho Government |to sup
press. . They -appealed to thp sordid
to arrest staggering, taxesandldebtriy
demanding peae ( o, when well they
knew that peace'involved dismember
merit -anth. death. They plead thpir
unholy cause to thb fcflrs of the cow
ardly,jand implored i hem to avoid the
perils, j ofi tho field : by || resisting con
scription, and impair the pbwei of the.
Srriraont by. i ,iTh;qy
ied the prejudices jjof the bumble,
dmipg to the degradation bf-ncf*
Quality, arid oven ifnon plumed as
pppufhr leaders j seemed ,tp ipar thrit
they iwpro so poorly endowed that t|be
bOnighteti African might Outstrip them
inj the rrico ’of ambitibni They ap
pealed to every prejudice or the fee
ble, the, venal, thd; faithless, tbarrny ■
them against the .free institutions
wlfoae beneficence gave therii -every
social,, civil and religibiis right. JJut
the people, although attiracs-faltorihg
as tbo dark .shadows of disaster en
veloped the nation, were still' 'faithful
to ttoir Government. . [Like the dis
turbed and oscillating! neodip, that
pyer settles to the! pole, they would
rjisp from the cloud of perfidy that be
sot them and give, their hearts and sac
rifices to preserve the Republic of out
fathers. i .v*. ’ ’j|.' ;■ |, ‘j- -■ '
lonldi
Vifcfc-4
rSwgtW:
u oatnv
iatlyty
id? ete
l ; JsaiWj :
.One hope remained for Democracy
and* slavery. ' They turned to - the
court,of last- lesort of Penpsylvania,
.and, in the name of Democracy, do
manded that the only means by; which
oor armies could bo filled apd enabled
to triumph, should be set apidb asfj an
infraction j-pt ~ the sovereignty;! of the
State, add; therefore void. Theyfib|)-
that the people would bo glad to grasp
this pretext to turn upon themselves,
their country,theil children and their
God. /It was the task of despair, but
it waa-performed, and!! the right of
this Government to defend its life when
treason' Vivas' fastened; upbn; it ; in
deadly strife, pe with hooks of triple
steel, was gravely denied, byiiheSu
§reme Court of Penhsyljfania. j: Then'
id treason, the twin-bom of slavery,
triumph in our midst, and'fcoinpassed
the Judicial^'—the, last refuge of the'
people—id its slimy embrace. But, it
aroused the people to amightystrugv
glo. Impelled by the despotism of
treason, which mocked them iti theif
perils, to 'the moral ■ heroism /.which I
S ever strengthens right iij its midnight:
j of .gloom,'they reversed; fhefr cdnft by
the, decision of the' BailOt-box, from ■
[ which there is no appeal/ and I thank
i a just and merciful God that the!Court,
j the State, the/Nation, llvjed; and lived
loyally. l [Applause.} |
I /This record^f 1 unminglod !wfong
And tcacliery.is the historjy of the' par
ty whoso j representatives to-day wig
cast their votes against tlyj. ratifica
tion of the pi oposed amendment to the
'Constitution. 'lt is tbbirj worlr—they
.11 L-
v.-:j lo^r^y-.J !;
•. _ .
yrero bo bidden-by slavery (and - they
obeyed. Am Incit; right, /sir, in say
,«g4hat they aro consistent ? ddfar
from than they solvote
I s hould think it ‘strange indeed did
they not maintain ithe shade ofvirtue'
that! consistency and fidelity may 1 give
them.: Slavery,codcoived isjcrime.&nd
faithfuljto, its creation; .for more than
tcreejquarters Of a to
finish, itb when it ffcnrnk for
tho lastjtime to behold i its friends in
the exercise Tof pqwor, it jw.oajd -be
creel, inmost indeed,, for, Vheox to,
?pprri it aniLloaye it to die unmpuVned
and dishonored. They oWit'to tho
1 whidh they i wotshlppedi Wheti
i if was to^ht£,3^^
til & made hond
'*& ‘ secMonal—
nntij it sahyerted lhe genius of thegOV-'
government and its fnhdametitajilaw
ifc plunged j us ihtp _ causeless
Wat and brought bereavement tiTevery
circle, and now, when fie s wh6 rales
over all, in the fullbessj of His time,
has declared that “vongenco is mine, I
will repay,” and wbonJEfia last relent- >
jess stroke is about jto fall upon it—it
is fitting in this Lonm in- thisldeath
struggle, that they jshbuld bp faithful
,to the institution ■ other days
madp them great. fGreat Applause.]
iteli g- 1 - 0- !-.3
~ ConffideratpMothodist church,
on Madison Avenue? Baltimofeji wap
dedicated Sunday the 29th of Janua
ry Rev_ John Chambers, of Phila
delphia; and Kev. Henry Sheer, ID. D.,
officiating on i ■ This
church has been bud thy persons' who
withdrew from 'the r M. E. church on
-of tho anti-slavery jand loyal
.position' it assumed. Is ; Rev.i John
Cham hors in sympathy with their In
dependency or disloyalty ? Dr. Slicer
is; said to ho l a Pcac&iDemocrat, ■ dr at
best, not rely'-, particular about; the;
question' pdbstiiules a:loyal”
course.; It rsfalso affirmed this church?
is as disloyht to?
the M. E.'Chnrelii f’ ~ ’ | \
—The C6mroittcc| of llio TJ.j P. Gen
ova! Assembly on the New Version of
the' Book of Psalms, have just closed
a.scsssion o£| fbujK Ayhiclx
■ , ll . m P Jhey. .jixamined-worsions/of ap:
wards of onb •hundred Pdalms. ; [Most
of these selectiofta-have, been modified
more or dees,. sd as?to meat filler:(tig
‘ RlunyhrfflT
Sion.-,. The Cammit|tee eipect to have
prepared for<hstnbiitidn fifty of these
Psalms, before the riicctingofthoi Gcn-
oi’al assembly. The next rrtoeting of
the Committee is to; bo held in Xenia?
Ohio. • - i ,[ iV 1 =1 ' ! ‘:f 5.,-
i . i; • r '• / v' i : '
is stated' by tb,c( rules of tbe
/Episcopal Church in the
.genior bishop possesses somojoff llio
prerogatives; here vhiolii' in/ehtalehes
(iegaily constituted office
By the' Eisb.
HopkiDS^f^crrnon t:
becomes president, i Owing Co the pe
culiar views of-Bishop,HPpJfins qn the
slavery question aud bis ebursc those
times/’ his clovaHon to tbis
positiaa is, 'not relished 'by ; loyal
ehufeliinen. | • " I
College, at Mcadvillo,
ra ,' under tho-auspiees of the M. E.
C.hurch, ha-i received cashbe iefao
fions : withima few months amounting
tQ ; §50,000. /Ono.young man, made
■opulent by'-the' oil traffic, has just
'gjiv.cn §|sioSO.’ The colfraf au ibori
ties BB,OOO in orna
mon tingle .-tfqjlege pampas the corns
Ing sprihgfani summer/ '• • j
—Tbq tobjectof instrumental; music
is attontich [ip,
the . oUnj'tod ' - Presbyterian Church,
‘judging from, the n imbarof articles
which have Appeared iff. 1 the United
PreaJiytmanfi recently. . if .thinks [the i
ventilation of the ■ question will); do I
good, and the result tvill.,Jbuhtlcss bo I
a more general and iniclligontacquics |
•cenee in the order-which Sie pJroposod
I Directory for Worship ■>'
—According to smtisticaffi'Bcyhan
ism in Brititm, In 1864 2l
bishops, other priel||p/jj,133
-churches ana chapels* 58/;!reli|i6®,
houses of meft,>2or conjontts;
colleges, being an, inCTftuiaAirffco 1850
of Al bishops, church
es and Chapels,- 41 fifßgipns houses pf,
men,i 148 cpnvepts, andiii Ap{lego. 1
Birk Session’s' ynanmious
opinion in favor oflstandihgdnrufg {he
singing and: kneelirjg at prayer/in
public wprsnip, Was read in the;-dan*
nongaleohnrch, Bdiubtrgh, Jon a re
cent Sunday. - Bo|h ministers approv
j!d-,the change. ' f ’f / ' "
—Eecent intolhgcr ‘ !
agcnco slates that a
gracious work of revival.exists in the
Western Finale' Co%e; Oxford, O.
All txio young Radios yrho' wero uncon
verted, save one; have professed faith
in Christ. . .1 ■ i ,: v ;.
-’-The foundation of & Catholic ca
thtadralhas recently bpou laid at-Can
ton, Chirm. The cathedral is'.Urbe
erected at the expense, of the- French
emporior: ’ , j.,.. J i 'I 1 .;; ~.v| ..j...
—lC'itvar estimated : in 1861 tiia’t
200,000 persons of adult years,hi Maryir
land, were .reached by., the ministry,
out of a population of-700,0o0.! j ;
—According! to Macedonian, the
.schedule of appropriatioh-byithe tjn
ion for the.Hustcnance.pf
sions for tbo year^cr.diny « wftLtU*t:
.1665, inclutii foots-upi in
, rnnhd 4tri lifiy
jd hon sn nd; d oIM pjp*,_
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'm
X ; r; : la: !
I'?:--?
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“I®*** each subsequent insorlien
w cents. A ÜbtoptiisaoSLt-nradeio yearly
As' -vce equal ta fwityi lines. 0 f thia'ty pe T ~' .
squaie^' • Op * •r , :C\.jA.fi'pt , l.
j Bpcaiql notlde»26 p»l««it;s4fia|fi^ 0 J^j['
1 ul<rrales. .- '•; .-U.■■'?.!■ ■
j Business cards, 75 cents a line, per, ycar. i' ..
1 ; Manriagea and Dcati a; VL'^i^oiii .
ahdotber Notices of A ’
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i. .• >.!-•■> ncraavii, .tJJTiB.v.V. i'lj
j-- ■■' Throat iu ;
-JePhaps borne'b#.
pprnao ,onr colum namayffebbHpcs; i imes' . .
\yhpb- they have. commencpd goring- ;
worfewith tbeir'feams io.gopd co^’di-; V
tiofc, andwith as inpcli plowing; and" 4 1
hauling io 'do at. tliey.bofild 5 pteiTbly ?-f. ■
good ’seasons Aftefiget-.' >
i IWperbaps,i half TCa^biougbjaSlip.,^
jdipJH. t.~-
cough’, shortly-followed c wlU»a“vciy"f >o
bbro throat, imh a - 5
n|ffraB:fnj'trtthe boso^ria 3 Bn. , Wo>i^B6 , ‘'
opccughi/Hb \yo«id drink jwith, diffl-.-/.
quantity ofipacas witb it: 1 -
Ipso his appbtite;; also his ,J >
or tporu be entireiyum-'
fit for labori In a lew .thftj f
throat would become ijttuch.swpJlen, .
and break and'{ discharge outwardly. *
Ifi great care is not ozedcised-to Irceb
tub ,sick and wellaoijpaUseparated,...
it {will go throughout the whole stibp.L i
Iff a'vvell horse .is put In' a Stall' whbro' - vl
a .Sick one has stood, he ‘will Habib V;
to{ take it, although a“. conSiderabie •
Jtime after thedrsease has passed pway, .
Unless disinfectants. haypbeep-frp6|y
used. A thorough whilewasbihg.wilfe
i As soon as tbui symptbiilS appear,
igiyo: a heaped tablespoonfab of com-;.
mpn salt;twice a day.. Lot an assist* .
apt open the animal’s month,and "w tli'
Ajwooden 'epopri orpaddle laly thd'^ft 5 -;
well back on’the tongue,! and hewilf •’
bpj obliged to swallow itS. CouwVae.v
this treatment until beia.betfbr, ..AtV
tef learning! this remedy' Ilbarf’'bu.t,i
one opportunity to tiy
1 commdmratcd it--
to {my Brother, who kept eonio piic Ur i
pight horses bn his farm; and ho told j
nap, about ten ycars,afteiji thot ,lie hadj
had the distemper’ among; h(s'jidfSaa"
’.seypral:times, bit 1 by .treating--it 1 in’ -
;tUis way it was sd light ('that hdcob-i
siduredj it of. but little disadvantage-;
ft«f worked Lis horsed m^dciiat«il(fallt!;:
! jhc timje, a|ui- they lost. littlo ITosU.. ■ :
I have not proved' ibis’ j
myself,;,, the above testimony is rella^ 11
hie,'and I offer th' ’ sdv laS l
it is, in confiilep ; chanijei'. /
"’I wpoas »v:•
! ■ Lr-i ■ r vsii ill r ■
1 Wh.cn the enpw. haa fiAtirdv i
that thcdeaves of last yearsT afeobpsjs->~"~’
ited in much larger, iifasejes than-ci-uid ;.■
•on!- aecpunt. of ijb.e-■ heal ;Iy,! ( t*ppsian.t- ’■
piesonco of snow tile :
I of win ter, .which.prbVen ted the m 1 r oiif,
being; scattered' over wice spaces!—i
They :will thus lie rgadilyhfoU.ealod for
transportations to the. 4tubks; peii.v : {.. ■ -
and barn-yards, and no .firmer should p
allow; any-upon Liii to rot '!
anywiierecl.se. - Straw eelTssO-higM iii ;
the market as a strong induce
tnebtto secure every! cart LO;klh pf *: L
leaves front iueCwbooa’that 5? posable. •;
When they diij in, compact bodes, a
wopdcnjfork,aiich as th'-bsli- - V
ing, is the handier tolohd with, :huß • \. ■
where? theyl> are to bo gathered up _ i
in heaps, there is notiuug ;bettor lUau ; ,
thecommon wooden rako[ j.j ■! )■
' '' i■' ' i _ "• iLi-’ -'. 1' ■ i -i J - 1 ' ■
r ' ,r ■ Grape Pruning v■
; This should hbw'jio attended -to. ,M a- j
ny persons seriously inju’rhtheir vines - 1
by injudicious pruning. WJieu the •• C
business is n,bt utmetaYbod, it is . , ?
better to employ an experienced • | !r
son to attend to it d bring one Season,,! J 1
from whom the method can .bo -easily i ; '|'.
learned. It ia boltor thaV.tbevcry, ro!
bnsfvariotiea, like theConcor'd /I) i a na, • L
etc ’ should not;-bff closely: 'pruned; j
while tbo slower growers,like the Del- ,
aware, Bebpcca' ; >tc. . should; bo cut -f :
into much more beyoroly, as they.bdati’ -d"
thebulkoftheir frnit near the ground. I
1:-, Choosing V;*”
; ;Aa. a general rule" the ■ the
eyia ! the' better the ' potato, as when j
they are to full tin the eye they are-'
an inferior quality or are run-'
Y To ascertain if they are , v ,■
sound,■■nipapiece from, the thickest I ?
end with your fipger bail. ,Ji g00d.,, i
the inside will either ’ bo^awhite, v ‘
yellow or rediih hiie,according to the
sort an d quntlity; if/ oh the contrary, • *—
they are spotted, they areb&d or get
ting sb; but, though this part may bo < :
slightly touchod. by cutting aliUlcqff \
the outside they may prove, fitj for i :
boiling. : •• j - *, /'-'T— !
To Farmers
i A company orgabizin £ lor the pur
pose of mapnfacturing.. paper icoin '
qorri husks a,nd
tiqtii.as to the ambijhtWf Ihesearilfelbs
tbatcan Do delivered afi railroad sta- -*
lions nn.d steamboat landing, packed A"r':
in '■'■■{J ; I
and April; x a»a the price'; petv.ttiji.n- ■■■'•' .’t
Letters bn; the 'suycet ’ddai ; i .'■ ■
this office imtncdiately. -witfl: Bejj-jcrf—j A.
warded to the proper parties. ■ 'Hero T
is an oppOiUunityibr farmers ,to findja
profitable ro ark'ets for,' articles' hereto,,
fore of comparatively ’little ‘Valne;^
GinCinnati Gazette : ;U *’ : ' , -
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7 Insects
To keep the ih'sebts from frbit trccis
dip old cloths iu c-oii I*-" 1 *-" -Ad tid'them
around the-. ■ ' • >:i>.
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