THE HUNTINGDON GLOBE, A DEMOCRATIC FAMILY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS, &C.
THE GLOBE.
Circulation-the largest in the county
IftllffirLlllDOTl,, ,12A.
Wednesday, July 9, 1856
FOR PRESIDENT,
JAMES BUCHANIX.N, of Pennsylvania
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE, of Ky
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
GEORGE SCOTT, of Columbia county.
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL,
JACOB FRY, Jr., of Montgomery co
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS
SEN'ATORISL,
Charles R. Backalew,
MS ['RIM
I—Geo. W. Nebinger, 13—Abraham Edinger,
2—Pierce Butler, 14—Reuben Wilber,
3—Edward Wartman, 15--George A. Crawford,
4—Wm. 11. Witte, 16—James Black,
s—John McNair, 17-11. J. Stahle,
6—John N. Brinton, 18—John D. Roddy,
7—David Laury, 19—Jacob Turney,
B—Charles Kessler, 20—J. A. J. Buchanan,
9--James Patterson, 21—Wm. Wilkins,
10—Isaac Slenker, 22—James G. Campbell,
11—r. W. Hughes, 23—T. Cunningham,
12—Thomas Osterhout, 24—John Keatly,
25—Vincent Phelps.
Democratic State Convention.
The Hon. Txmornr Ivzs having withdrawn his name as
a candidate for Surveyor General, in a communication ad
dressed to the Democratic State Central Committee, at its
Last meeting in Harrisburg, a resolution was adopted by
that Committee, calling upon the officers and delegates of
the last Democratic State Convention, to assemble
At CIIAMBERSBIIRG, on Wednesday, the 6th day of Au
gust next
at ten o'clock, A. M., to nominate a candidate for Survey
or General, to fill the vacancy created by the declination
of Judge IVES. In pursuance of this action of the Demo
cratic State Central Committee, the officers and delegates
of the last Democratic State Convention, are respectfully
requested to meet at the time and place above mentioned,
for the purpose stated,
G. G. WESTCOTT,
Secretaries,
Is.tsc G. 31'.Kiza,Er,
Meeting of the Democratic County Com-
THE DEMOCRATIC COUNTY COMMITTEE
of Huntingdon county, are requested to meet
at the public house of AND. JOHNSTON, in
Huntingdon, on Saturday next, July 12, at 1
o'clock, p. m. SAM'L. T. lißowm, Chairman.
Committee.
Sam'l T. Brown, Chairman. Robert Massey, Barree.
A. J. Fee, Henderson twp. Geo. W. Patterson, Jackson.
Win. S. Lincoln, Walker. John Campbell, Brady.
Ludwig Hoover, Penn. Jacob IL Miller, Union.
11. Zimmerman, Hopewell. Samuel. H. Bell, Shirley.
Peter Piper, Porter, Dr. J. G. Lightner, Shirb'g.
Dr. J. M. Gemmill, Alax.'ia.. Samuel Bolinger, Cromwell,
Jas. B. Carothers, Morris. John Carl, Sr., Dublin.
Win. Riley, Franklin. William G. Harper, Tell.
Wm. Copely, Birmingham. Jacob Covert, Springfield.
Jas. Chamberlain, Wars'mk. Jacob Smycrs, Clay.
John It. Hunter, Petersburg. David Hamilton, Tod.
Henry Roberts, West. James Henderson, Cassville.
"We notice an article in the "Globe," the editor of
which is a Roman Catholic—wherein Col. Fremont is de
dared a member of that church." "This is sim
ply a malignant falsehood; a Roman Catholic lie from a
Roman 'Catholic liar."—Hantingdon Journal.
To the assertion that the editor of this pa
per is a Roman Catholic, we have but little
to say. We despise the littleness of those who
make the assertion, while we pity and com
miserate them in the unenviable light in
which they have been placed before the com
munity—the consequence of their own bad,
unrestrained acts. Unable to answer or de
fend themselves from the charges brought
against them by those whom they have so
wantonly and recklessly assailed, they resort
to all manner of falsehood. With an easy
grace, natural to dissembling hypocrites, they
bend to a base pandering to a baser spirit of
religious clannishness.- They place us in a
false position, and then, with contemptible
hypocrisy, bid for personal and political cap
ital out of the sin existing only in their pro
lific imaginations. They talk of " Rome,!'
but forget that they are living scandals to
Geniva, and to the community. They act the
double parts of secret and cowardly as well
as open assassins of private character. With
the holy name of their Maker on their lips,
they deal in lying and slandering by the
wholesale, and yet set themselves up as judges
of the christianity and moral conduct of others.
—No, we have no claims upon Rome, nor
have we any complaints to make against Gen
eva, but while the ostracised Doctor and the
branded Whittaker arc furnished us as speci
mens of the handiwork of the latter, we shall
never call upon it. Rome would, doubtless,
denounce them—Geneva barely tolerates them
as her members.
Now, as to Fremont being a Catholic. In
the article alluded to by the "Journal," we
only gave the authority of the Philadelphia
Daily Hews, a Know-Nothing paper, for the
assertion. In addition, we have the author
ity of the Washington City Star, New York
Express, and other papers, for the assertion
that Fremont was raised and educated a Cath
olic—married by a Catholic clergymitn to a
Protestant lady, etc., and yet after all your
opposition to Catholics, after all your slanders
against, your abuse, and misrepresentations
of, that class of people,you nail to your mast
head the name of one of their number, and
call upon the people to vote for him for Pres
ident of the United States! Is such incon
sistency worthy of respect ?
COL. BENTON ON COL. FnEmoNT.—Col Ben
ton, in hie late speech at St. Louis, referred
to the nomination of Col. Fremont, his son-in
,and to a rumor that he would support
him, and. said :
"Now, - when has it ever happened that I
_have been influenced by family connections,
or• by my own interest ? What office have I
ever got for one of my family ? What ap
pointment have I ever got for myself ? No,
citizens I lam above such consideration. I
am above family, and above self when the
good of the Union is concerned. From first
to last, I have been for my country, and mean
to continue for it. • I have made many sacri
for it, and am making a great one now in
standing this canvass.
,'lnteresting reading matter will be
found on every page of this paper.
Wilson M'Candless
JOHN W. FORNEY, Chairman
mittee.
In a Bad Fix
The old Rat of the Journal, and his pet
mouse, find themselves in an unpleasant po
sition just now. To blindfold their Know
Nothing readers, they weekly denounce every
man known to be a Catholic, (Fremont ex
cepted) while at the same time they have the
name of a Catholic at their mast head for
President. Of all men or animals living
they are possessed of the least political or
moral honesty. We publish the following
for the information of the readers of the
Journal, that they may know how much
honesty of purpose there is in the Journal's
opposition to the Catholics:
FRE3IONT AND ROMANISNI.—The Auburn
(N. Y.) Advertiser, noticing the Tribune's
excuse for Fremont's being married by a Ro
man dtholic Priest, says
The idea that the Protestant Clergy of
Washington were all afraid of Col. Benton,
because he was just then a political power
there, is simply ridiculous. Why was not
the Catholic Priest under the same influence,
if it existed ? How came it that he plucked
up courage enough to marry the "happy
couple?"
If Col. Benton exercised power enough to
frighten and control the whole body of Pro
testant Clergymen, we cannot, for the life of
us, see what hindered him from exteuding his
marvellous power over the Catholic Priest.
This explanation is very weak in the joints.
The fact is confessed that the .Colonel was
married by a Catholic. Priest. We ask for
no other evidence of the fact that he is a Ro
manist. Ile dared not be married by any
other than a Catholic Priest. He was rear
ed and educated a Catholic, and it was na
tural enough that he should have been mar
ried as one.
We have the fact from a lady of our ac
quaintance—herself a native, and long resi
dent of Washington City—that everybody
knew there that Col. Fremont was a Roman
Catholic ; and after his marriage to Miss
Benton—a most estimable lady—it was final
ly arranged that he should attend Mass, &c.,
on Sunday mornings, but worship with her
in the Presbyterian Church at the afternoon
services.
These are the "facts in the case." Let our
Republican friends wiggle out of them as
best they may.
What will Clay Whigs do ?
What will those true and tried National
Whigs who always rallied when CLAY or
WEBSTER. blew the charge, do in the present
contest? Will they join the standard of the
Constitution and Union, or will they merge
with one or the other of the miserable fac
tions which are striving to destroy the Re
public?
HENRY CLAY once said:
"Whenever the Whig party shall become,
merged into a miserable sectional Abolition
party; I will renounce it forever, and in fu
ture act with that party, regardless of its
name, which stands by the Constitution and
the Union."
Such were also the sentiments of WEBSTER
—and, following in their footsteps, Rurus
CHOATE and ROBERT C. WINTHROP, two of
the most faithful and prominent Whigs in
the Union, besides hosts of others, have de
clared for BUCHANAN and the Constitution.
Will not the remnant of the Whig party,
which has always stood aloof from the dan
gerous isms and fanaticism of the times, do
likewise?
Thaddeus Stevens' Prediction.
In the Black Republican Convention,
Thaddeus Stevens made the following re
marks :
Mr. Stevens saw what the current of the
Convention was—he did not rise to resist it
—but he admonished delegates to take care
it does not sweep away friends as well as
foes. [Applause.] Pennsylvania is embar
rassed by the withdrawal of the only name
he thought could save the State. lle would
like to have time to consult his colleagues.—
He would be sorry to see Judge MbLean's
name introduced now, but he was assured
that without that name, Pennsylvania would
be lost by 50,000 majority in the Fall ! In
conclusion, he moved to adjourn until 10
o clock next morning.
We have not the slightest doubt that Mr.
Stevens' prediction will be verified !
"rip We don't choose to bandy words with a man who
owes his present freedom to executive clemency. A par
doned convict is not worth our notice.—Journat.
The above will give the reader a correct
idea of the characters of the poor, unfortunate
fellows, who control the filthy columns of the
Journal. It is news to us, as well as to every
body acquainted with us from childhood, that
we owe our present freedom to executive clem
ency, and that we are a pardoned convict
These charges are serious ones, and if the
characters of the persons making them were
not as well known as they are, we might be
persuaded to take other notice of them. As
it is, we will permit them to go on " their way
rejoicing" until their infamous characters
weigh them down beneath the feet of all
honorable men, and until the " church, which
they disgrace," finds it necessary to expel
them from fellowship as it would the most
abandoned wretches on the face of the earth.
That the public may see and know Wm.
Brewster and Samuel G. Whittaker in their
true characters, we agree to pay into their
hands, one hundred dollars, as soon as they
produce the least shadow of evidence to sus
tain the charges. Will they give the evidence,
or will they go on their way, double-branded,
as the chief of liars ?
Spirit of Republicanism
The Poughkeepsie Telegraph charges a "Black
Republican Clergyman of that place with
uttering the following reprehensible senti
ment :
"I
_pray daily that this accursed Union way
be dissolved, even if blood have to be spilt."
This is the secret prayer of the whole par
ty, and the grand object they have in view.
Be not deceived by their hypocritical pro
fession I
The Democratic Platform
There is one virtue possessed by the Democ
racy which even the most unscrupulous of
their opponents must concede--the virtue of
boldly avowing their principles. There is
an ingeniousness about our party which they
cannot understand, or dare not imitate. Pla
cing implicit confidenec in the honesty and
intelligence of the people, the Democracy
have nothing to conceal—while our opponents,
lacking such confidence, or conscious, that a
full exposure of all their principles would
prove fatal to their cause, content themselves
with making false, or partial issue.s.
But, while they are afraid to lay their own
doctrines before the people for scrutiny, they
are very courageous in assailing odrs—not
because they are unsound, but because they
are Democratic.
One objection which they urge against Mr.
BUCHANAN now—and upon which they rely
for injuring him seriously—is, that he has
given his sanction to the Cincinnati Plat
form.
Well, what is there in.that platform which
Mr. BUCHANAN, as an American citizen, and
a Constitution and Union loving Democrat,
should not sanction? What is there in it
that is not national and sound?
Let us see what the platform says:
Ist. It expresses confidence in the intelli
gence, patriotism and discriminating judg
ment of the American people.
Surely no fault can be found with this.
2d. It expresses the opinion that the Fed
eral Government is one of limited powers, de
rived solely from the Constitution—that the
grants of power should be strictly construed
—and that it is dangerous to exercise doubt
ful powers.
Who but a latitudinarian will object to that?
3d. It denies to the General Government
the right to carry on a general system of In
ternal Improvements.
This we hold to be sound doctrine.
4th. It denies the right of the General Gov
ernment to assume Stitte debts.
sth. It opposes a Protective Tarifffand
fa
vors one for revenue alone, with such inci
dental protection as that may : afford.
Some of our manufacturers may object to
this—but the great bulk of our population,
who cannot afford to pay high duties, think
it wise and just.
6th. It favors economy in the public ex
penditures.
7th. It contends that the proceeds of the
sales of the public lands should be• applied to
'national purposes.
Bth. It denies the power of Congress to
charter a National Bank.
9th. It expresses opposition . to theProserip
tive principles of Natiyeism.
10th. It lays down the doctrine that Con
gress has no constitutional power to inter
fere with the domestic institutions of the
States.
. 11th. It approves of the qualified veto
power.
12th. It endorses the Compromise measures
of 1850, including the Fugitive Slave law.
13th. It expresses confidence in the Ken
tucky and Virginia, resolutions of 1798 and
1799.
14th. It condemns Know-Nothingism.
15th. It approves the Nebraska-Kansas act
—maintains the equal rights of the States—
and resists monopolies and all exclusive leg
islation.
16th. It advocates Free Trade and Free
Seas.
17th. It supports the Monroe doctrine.
18th. It expresses a decided opinion in fa
vor of free communication between the At
lantic and Pacific oceans—an inter-oceanic
route—over which the United States should
exercise such control as their position, and
the privileges which may be granted to them
by other States, entitle them to.
19th. It expresses sympathy in the efforts
making by Central America to regenerate
that portion of the Continent.
20th. It asks for proper efforts on the part
of the National Administration to insure our
ascendancy in the Gulf of Mexico.
21st. It favors military and postal roads to
the Pacific.
Here, then, in brief, is this formidable
Platform, which Mr. BUCHANAN has ap
proved, and which our opponents condemn.
We look ,upon it as a medium between con
servatism and progression—a compromise
between Old and Young America—broad
enough, sound enough, and national enough
for every man in the Union but traitors and
fanatics to stand upon—and such we do not
want in our ranks.
We claim under this platform to be the on
ly National party—the only party that can
save the Union, and put an end to sectional
strife—and, to aid in accomplishing these
high and noble purposes, we invite all na
tional men, no matter to what party they
may have heretofore been attached, to come
into our ranks and fight under the banner of
the Union.— Union and Patriot.
RATIFICATION MEETINGS.-All over the
Union the most enthusiastic meetings have
been held to ratify the nominations of Bu
chanan and Breekinridge. The utmost en
thusiasm has been awakened by these judi
cious nominations, and the people, with a
unanimity unparalleled in political history,
have taken the field in their support. Every
sensible man in the country admits the suc
cess of the ticket—every true patriot de
sires it—the safety of the Union requires it
—and, therefore, its majority will be unpre
cedented.
An Appeal for Forbearance
The clergymen of Richmond have issued
an appeal to the ultras of all sections of the
country, in which they urge moderation and
forbearance, and hold this language:—
Let us sedulously avoid every word and
deed which can tend to increase the public
excitement and irritation. Let us give no
countenance to lawless violence, whether in
low or high places. Let us seek by every
practicable method to strengthen and bright
en the bond of fraternal union, which should
embrace every citizen of our favored States
and Territories. And above all let Christ
ians fervently pray to the Father of light for
His blessing on our rulers—that they may
be wise, firm, conciliating and patriotic; for
our people—that they 'may be peaceable,
prosperous and happy. We are called indi
vidually to self examination, the confession
of our sins, penitence, and a reformation of
our lives; and by these methods, far more
readily than by fierce discussion, we avert
the dangers which are impending over our
beloved land. And now we entreat you by
every consideration of patriotism and piety—
by the memory of our fathers—by the blood
that purchased our liberties—by the illustri
ous deeds of Bunker llill and Yorktown—by
the history of the past—by the millions, liv
ing and unborn, whose welfare depends on
the preservation of our Union—and especial
ly by our religious prosperity, so greatly in
creased under our excellent government, to
"follow the things which make for peace."
The Death-Knell of Fanaticism
From all quarters (says the Lowel Adver
tiser) the telegraphic wires bring the joyous
and universal shouts of the democracy, rati
fying. the nomination of Buchanan and Breck
inridge. Not one discordant or dissenting
voice strikes upon the ear. The great dem
ocratic family, from Maine.to California, are
bound together like a band of brothers, with
heart and hand pledged as one man to the
perpetuation of democratic principles, to the
united and harmonious support of the demo
cratic nominees, and to the utter and com
plete annihilation of those twin curses, know
nothingism and black republicanism, which
are striving to weaken and divide the great
American confederation, and blight the use
fulness and prosperity of the country. The
Cincinnati Convention has tolled the death
knell of both the traitoromssfactions, and the
ides of November will see them sunk into
the deepest shades of their native darkness,
and in the utter contempt of the American
people.
Hear a Distinguished Whig
The non. Thomas L. Clingman, of North
Carolina, for many years a leading Whig
member of Congress, thus closes a lengthy
letter to his constituents
But, gentlemen, candor as a man and duty
as a representative compel me to 'ay to you
that, hi my judgment, the success of the black
republican candidate, with its necessary con
sequences, will most probably be fatal to the
existence of the government. It is my sol
emn conviction that if the national democr
tic party were destroyed to-day the
.; Union of
the States would not endure for two years
longer. It is the force .of this truth which is
causing wise men and patriots, without re
gard to former party associations and preju
dices, to take their stand with those who in
tend to make a great effort for the
_mainten
ance of the government of Washington. As
North Carolina will have the honor of firing
the first gun in this great battle, so a deci
sive triumph there will tend powerfully to
encourage and strengthen the friends of the
constitution and the Union everywhere.
Respectfully,
Buchanan and the Old-line Whigs
The Natehes (Mississippi) Free Trader
ME
"A gentlemen of this city, heretofore a
prominent leading whig, remarked in our pre
sence, previous to the assembling of the Cin
cinnati Convention, that if Mr. Buchanan
was nominated, there would be no contest at
all in the South, that the conservative portion
of the old whig party would - give him a un
animous and cordial support, and that the
democratic rule would be insured for the next
twenty years.
Wpre we to mention the name of the gen
tleman who gave this opinion, we know it
would give it greater weight, but, as it s was
private conversation, we fOrbear. The SCII ti
nt cut, however, is one which we know is en
tertained by most of the conservative Whigs
of this country."
Six Eclipses in One Yeai.
On referring to our Dutch Almanac we
find that there will be six eclipses this year
—two of the Sun, two of the Moon tind two
of the Know Nothings. The first eclipse of
the Know Nothings will occur on the second -
Tuesday of October. It will be partial, and
be visible in Pennsylvania and -some other
portions of the United States. The second,
which will be total, will take place on the
4th of November, and be visible all over the
World, though the best view of it will be had
in the United States. It will commence
about eight o'clock in the morning, and the
point of total obscuration will be reached
about seven in the evening. This eclipse is
not expected to "pass off" at all, but it is
supposed that the body eclipsed (which is
anything but a "heavenly body,") will itself
pass off: It is not appyrehended that the
equilibrium of. the political system will be
destroyed by the disappearance of.the ob
scured body. On the contrary, it is believed
that the abatement of this disturbing cause
will be productive of increased harmony.
DYIMG OUT.—Every day (says the Phila
delphia Argus,) makes it clearer that Know
Nothingism is on its last legs: In the South
it can make but a feeble stand, and the ran--
ed, shapeleSs mass of nothern Know Notli
ingism is falling to pieces and sloughing off
into avowed Black Republicanism. Thus it
is stated that the "Fillmore National Amer
icon Club" of New York city have unani
mously resolved to support Fremont. The
bolters' convention, representing doubtless
the majority of northern Know Nothings,
have nominated Fremont, and are now the
second-fiddle allies of Seward, Greeley and
Giddings.
"Sam's career was very noisy, but brief
indeed.
FREMONT A SLAVEHOLDER.—The Louisville
Journal, the leading advocate of Mr. Fill
more in the West, says the confidence of the
Northern sectionalists, like Bob Acres' cour
age is fast oozing out of their finger ends.
They dared not nominate a straight-out Free-
Seiler, like Seward or Chase or Hale, but se
lected Fremont for availability. It seems
probable that they have caught a Tartar
and have actually nominated a slaveholder.
T. L. CLiNGAIAN
The "Ten Cent" Slander Nailed to the
Counter
No sooner had the nomination of the on.
B H
JAMES
UCHANAN, by the Cincinnati Conven
tion, been announced, than our political ene
ries began their old game of misrepresenta
tion and abuse.
They immediately mounted astride of the
old dilapidated slander of "Ten Cent Jim
my," and the eagerness which they have
manifested • to indulge in this favorite mis
representation has afforded an excellent op
portunity to the Democracy,. to nail the lie to
the counter, and exhibit in unmistakable
clearness, the total disregard our opponents
have either for honesty or decency.
The speech in which Mr. BUCHANAN is al
leged to have advocated the reduction in the
price of American labor, was delivered in
the United States Senate, January 22d,1840,
on the Independent Treasury Bill. It is
copied word for word from the Congression
al Globe, Ist Session, 26th Congress, page
136. Those who read the extract, remarks
the Reading Gazelle, will doubtless be sur
prised when we tell them tfiat it is the only
foundation the enemies of Mr. BUCHANAN
ever had for the story they have been indus
triously circulating for many years past, that
he advocated a reduction of the wages of
American workingmen, to ten cents a day.
It will be seen at a glance, that there is not
a line or word, that can be made, either di
rictly, or by the most forced inference, to
bear any . such meaning. On the contrary,
the position assumed by Mr. BUCHANAN was
that of the true friend of the laborer. He
advocated a sound currency, as one of the
greatest benefits which the working man
could enjoy, because it would insure him per
manent employment, at regular wages, punc
tually paid in gold and silver. And time has
completely vindicated the correctness of his
position. Wages have never been better for
all sorts of labor, or more promptly paid,
than since the evils of a depreciated paper cur
rency were cured by the Independent Treasu
ry system. Every laboring-man will see the
force and justice of Mr. BUCHANAN'S argu
ment, and instead of joining in the cry of
demagogues against him, applaud and sus
tain him as one of the earliest champions of
the rights of labor.
"Although this bill will not have as great
an influence as I could desire, yet, as far as
it goes, it will benefit the laboring man as
much, and probably more, than any other
class of society. What is it he ought most
desire ? Constant employment, regular wa
ges and uniform reasonable prices for the
necessaries and comforts of life which he re
quires. Nov, sir, what has been his condi
tion under our system of expansions and con
tractions? He has suffbred more by them
than any other class of society. The rate of
his wages is fixed and known ; and they are
the last to rise with the increasing expansion,
and the first to fall when the corresponding
revulsion occurs. He still continues to re
ceive his dollar per day, whilst the price of
every article which he consumes, is rapidly ris
ing. He is at length made to feel that, although
fie nominaly learns asnmeh, or even more
than he did formally, yet from the increased
price of all the necessaries of life, he cannot
support his family. Hence the strikes for
higher wages, and the uneasy and excited
feelings winch have at different periods, ex
istedumong the laboring classes. But the
expansion at length 'reaches the exploding
point, and what does the laboring man now
suffer ? He is for a season thrown out 'of
work altogether. Our manufactures are sus
pended ; our public works are stopped ; our
private enterprises of diffierent kinds are
abandoned ; whilst others are able to weath
er the storm,' he can scarcely procure the
means of a bare subsistence.
"Again, sir ; who, do you suppose, held.
the greater part of the worthless paper of the
one hundred and sixty-five broken banks to
which I have referred ? Certainly it was not
the .keen and wary speculator who snuffs
danger from afar. If you were to make the
search, you would find more broken bank
notes in the cottages of the laboring poor
than any where else. And these miserable
shinplasters, where are they ? After the re
vulsion of 1837, laborers were glad to obtain
employment on any terms; and they often
received it upon the express condition that
they should accept this worthless trash in
payment. Sir, an entire suppression of all
bank notes of a lower denomination than the
value of one week's wages of the laboring
man is absolutely necessary for his protec
tion. lie might always receive his wages in
gold or silver. Of all men on earth, the la
borer is most interested in having a sound
and stable currency.
"All other circumstances being equal, I
agree with the Senator of Kentucky that that
country is most prosperous where labor com
mands the highest wages. Ido not, howev
er, mean by the term "highest wages," the
greatest nominal amount. During the revo
lutionary war, one day's work commanded a
hundred dollars of continental paper ; but
this would scarcely have purchased a break
fast. The more proper expression would be,
to say that +h-t country is most prosperous
where labor commands the greatest reward ;
where one day's labor will procure not the
greatest nominal amount of a depreciated
currency, but most of the necessaries and
comforts of life.' If, therefore, you should
in some degree reduce the nominal price of
labor, by reducing the amount of your bank
issues within reasonable and safe limits, and
establishing a metalic basis for your .paper
circulation, would this injure the laborer ?--.
Certainly not ; because the price of all the
necessaries and comforts of life are reduced
in the same proportion, and. he will be able
to. purchase more of them for one dollar in a
sound state of currency, than he could have
done, in the days of extravagant expansion,
for a dollar- and a quarter. So far from in
juring, it will greatly benefit the laboring
man. It will insure to him constant employ
ment and regular prices, paid in a sound cur
rency, which, of all things he ought most to
desire ; and it will save him from being in
volved in ruin by a recurrence of those peri
odical expansions and contractions of the
currency, which have hitherto convulsed the
country.
"This sound state of the currency will
have another most happy effect upon the la
boring man. He will receive Ins wages in
gold and silver ; and this will induce him to
lay up, for future use, such a portion of them
as he can spare, after satisfying his immedi
ate wants. This he will not do at present,
because he knows not whether the trash
which he is now eommpelled to receive as
money, will continue to be of any value a
week or a month hereafter. A knowledge of
this fact tends to banish economy from his
dwelling and induces him to expend all his
wages as rapidly as possible, lest they may
become worthless on his hands."
UER..Natural blindness is bad, but spirit
ual blindness is much worse.
A Great Speech in the Senate.
Mr. Hunter had the floor in the Senate
yesterday on the Kansas question,_and oc
cupied its attention for one hour. He con
fined his remarks to the resolutions of the
Massachusetts Legislature in regard to the
Simmer and Brooks case, .and to certain im
putations of Mr. Sumner upon the State of
Virginia. He regretted that the Legislature
of Massachusetts had treated a mere person
al affair between the two gentlemen named
as a matter of public moment. He said that
many personal collisions betwixt members
had occurred, but this was the first instance'
in which a State had interfered in such af
fairs. He regretted this inteference, because
it had a tendency to exasperate and aggra
vate tlie sectional animosity. and strife which
were already distracting the peace of the
country. Whilst he paid an eloquent tribute
to the revolutionary fame of Ma„ssachusetts;,
he denied that her present position in regard
to her fidelity to the constitution and the
Union gave her any peculiar right to sit in
judgment, and demand of Congress to exe
cute her decrees. his remarks upon the
personal liberty bill in existence in Massa
chusetts were extremely impressive and for
cible.
In reply to certain reflections upon the
character of Virginia contained in Mr. Sum
ner's speech in connexion with the institu
tion of slavery, Mr. limiter entered upon
one of the most philosophical and conclusive
vindications of that institution that we have
ever heard. He showed that transfer of
slaves by sale from one State to another wag
a necessary consequence of the existence of
slavery, and that it was essential, not only
for the comfort and happiness of the whites;
but of the slaves also. He dwelt with pow
er upon the impracticability of the abolition
of 'slavery without consequences far more
disastrous to both master and slaves than
any evils that could be pictured in their
present relations. He defied any man to
show three millions of negroes, bond or free
in any country on the globe, who had made
the same progress in civilization, and who
enjoyed the same prosperity and happiness,
with these three millions in the southern
States. He alluded to the historical fact that
slaves were introduced into Virginia by Old
England and New England, and he said the
seller was just as responsible as the buyer.—
He then showed that there were as many
men outside of the slave States as inside of
them who owe their subsistence and their
profits to slave labor. At this time Old
England and New England were buying
freely the products of slave labor, and were
making profit on it. They were, therefore,
as responsible for the continuance of the in
stitution as was the slave-holder. He said
that if the people of New England and of
Old England should refuse to buy the pro
ducts of slave labor, it would cease to be
profitable at home, and the institution would
die out. With such views, Mr. Hunter
thought it exceedingly unreasonable in Mass
achusetts to approve and endorse a speech
which assailed. the southern people, as did
that of Mr. Sumner, for having amongst
them the institution of slavery, for which
they are as responsible as were the southern
people.
Mr. Hunter's vindication of Virginia
against the charge of "turpitude" contained
in Mr. Sumner's speech was characterized
by the loftiest eloquence and the most noble
devotion to the fame of his native State.
In the course of his remarks Mr. Hunter
discussed with great ability the question of
constitutional 'lirivilege," as guaranteed by
that instrument. His investigation of the
subject had induced him to change his mind
as to the correctness of the conclusion at
which the Senate committee had arrived in
the case of Mr. Brooks,
and he regretted the
Senate had not declined to take jurisdiction
of the matter, and to leave it to the judicial
tribunals, to which he thought it properly be
longed. Mr. Hunter closed with a power
ful appeal to the Senate and to the country
in behalf of a restoration of more kindly and
fraternal feelings than now prevailed, and,
in language of the most thrilling eloquence,
depicted the fatal consequences that must fol
low if something was not done to arrest the
careci. of lime sectionalism.— JVashingloii
Union.
An Overwhelming Reply.
In the course of a long, able and wither
ing reply to the oft-refuted slanders in regard
to the federalism of Mr. Buchanan, the New
York Day Book says :
"Now, the truth is, Mr. Buchanan never
was a federalist in the true sense of that
term. A federalist was an opposer of the
war of 1812 ; Mr. Buchanan supported the
war by his own good sword. Mr. Buchanan
was elected to Congress the first - time in 1820,
and as a supporter of Mr. Monroe's admin
istration; yet as this administration was sup
ported by the federalists, the Clintonians and
democrats, it gives his enemies a chance to
say that he was a fedora list. The true way
to determine what he was is to go to the re
cord. Did he support federal or Whig mea
sures? Did he favor a strict or liberal con
struction of the constitution? By their fruits
ye shall know them. Now almost the first
speech (and a most able one was) which
Mr. Buchanan made no the floor of Congress
was in opposition to a bankrupt law. In this
speech he showed its injustice to the laboring
classes, and its wrong in granting special pri
vileges to the few.
"Upon other questions his record is equal
ly democratic. Party lines then were not
drawn. The old federal party had forsaken
its principles, and made pretensions to the
`era of good feeling,' as it was called. When,
however, Mr. Monroe drew the lines in his
celebrated message upon internal improve
ment, and in the enunciation of the Monroe
doctrine, the goats soon separated from the
sheep. The former all at once became
tional republicans,' and Mr. Clay, chagrined
and disappointed, joined them. Where was
Mr. Buchanan all through this ? Did he go
off after the strange gods of the republican
party, like so many pretended democrats of
the present day ? Not at all. We find him
unwavering in his support of democratic
principles from the day he entered on the
floor of Congress until the present, and we
defy his enemies to prove dip-rattly."
EThe Bedford Inquirer says the Demo ,
crats, since the nominatiui of Buchanan, are
buying up all the ten cent pieces, in order to
keep them out of view till -after the election,
as they produce unpleasant reminiscences.
Our friend of the Chainbersburg spirit, how
ever, assigns a much better reason, for their
purchase. He says they want the ten cent
pieces to buy up the ten cent intellects that
preside over some of the Know Nothing
presses. These, when bought, they will
trade off for sheep stealing dogs, which they
will shoot.