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LINES
WRITTEN ON RECEIVING A GIFT.
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A simple "token of regard,"
Presented by a friend ;
Will often prove of more account
And greater pleasure lend
Unto the heart, than all the gems
That grace Golconda's mines;
Or e'er in monarch's coffers shown,
In ancient regal times.
'Tie not the value of the gift,
Friendship or love bestows;
What though it be a violet,
Or but the modest rose—
Its presence green in memory's light,
Will cheer life's rugged way—
Its perfume sweet will linger round
The heart for many a day.
Those simple gifts from friend to friend,
Like flowers of early morn ;
They gladden all the coining day--
And rise 'mid strife and storm
The sout4:6 - s of other scenes,
In which life bore a part— -
Their presence leaves rtjoy behind,
That lightens the sad heart.
WE'LL DIEET AGAIN.
Well meet again? how sweet the word—
How soothing is the sound!
Like strains of far off music heard
On sonic enchanting ground.
%Ve'll meet again! thus friendship speaks,
When those most dear depart,
And in the ph mina prospect seeks
Balm fur the bleeding heart.
We'll meet again! the lover erie , ,
And oh! what thought but this
Can e'cr assuage the agonies
Of the last parting kiss
We'll meet again! are accents heard
Beside the dying bed,
When all the soul by grief i 3 stirr'd
And bitter tears are shed.
We'll meet again! ma Ivords that cheer
While bending o'er the tomb;
For oh ! that hope so bright and dear,
Can pierce its deepest gloom.
We'll meet again 1 then cease to weep,
Whatever may divide ;
Nur time, nor death can always keep
The loved ones from our side.
For in the mansions of the blest,
Secure from care and pain,
In Heaven's serene and endless rest
We'll surely meet again.
2 1 / 4 , s.;flect
MARY IVIOORE
.1317 31ARY IV. STANLEY GIBSON.
CHAPTER I
All my life long I had known Mary Moore.
All my life long, too, I had known I loved
her.
Our mothers were old playmates, and first
cousins. My first recollection is of a young
gentleman in a turkey-red frock and morocco
shoes, rocking a cradle, in which reposed a
sunny-haired, blue-eyed baby, not quite a
year old. That young gentleman was I, my
self—harry Church; that blue-eyed baby was
Mary Moore.
Later still, I saw myself at the little red
school house, drawing my painted sled up to
the door, and arranging my overcoat upon it,
that Mary might ride home. Many black
eye have I gained on such occasions ; for oth
er boys liked her beside me, and she, I am
afraid, was something of a tart, even in her
pinafores. How daintily she came tripping
down the steps when I called her name! how
sweetly her blue eyes looked up to me from
the eny,ous folds of her winter hood ! how
gaily heMerry laugh rang out when, by
dint of superhuman exertions, I kept her sled
before the rest, and let her stand upon the
steps exultingly to see them all go by I That
fairy laugh ! No one but Mary could ever
let her heart lie so upon her lips ! I follow
ed that laugh up from my days of childhood
till I grew an awkward blushing youth—l
followed it through the heated noon of man
hood, and now, when the frosts of age are
silvering my hair, and many children climb
on my knee and call me "Father," I find that
the memories of youth are strong, and that
grey hairs and all, I am following its music
still.
When I was fifteen, the first great sorrow
of my life came upon me. I was sent away
to a western school, and was obliged to part
with Mary. We were not to see each other
for three long years I This, to me, was like
a sentence of death, for Mary was like life
itself to me.
But hearts are tough things after all.
I left college in all the flush and vigor of
my nineteenth year. I was no longer awk
ward and embarrassed. I had grown into a
tall, slender stripling, with a very good opin
ion of myself in general and particular. If
I thought•of Mary Moore, it was to imagine
how I would dazzle and bewilder her with
My good looks and wonderful attainments—
never thinking that she might dazzle and be
wilder me still more. I was a sad puppy, I
know ; but as youth and good looks have fled,
I trust I may be believed when I say that
self-conceit has left me-also.
An advantageous proposal was made to me
at this time, and accepting it, I gave up all
ideas of a profession; and prepared to go to
the Indies. In my hurried visit home, of two
days, I saw nothing of Mary Moore. Sho
had gone to a boarding school in Massachu
setts, and was not expected home till the next
fall. I gave one sigh ,to the memory of my
little blue-eyed playmate, and then called
xnyself "a man again."
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"In a year," I thought, as the stage whirl
ed away from our door again, "in a year, or
three years at the very most, I will return,
and if Mary is as pretty as she used to be—
why, then, perhaps I may marry her."
I stroked my budding moustache with great
complacency, while I settled the future of a
young lady I had not seen for four years. I
never thought of the possibility of her refu
sing me—never dreamed that she would not
stoop, with grateful tears, to pick up the
handkerchief whenever I chose to throw it at
her feet.
But now I know that had Mary met me
then, she would have despised me. She was
as far above me as the heavens are above the
earth. Perhaps in the scented and affected
student she might have found plenty of sport;
but as for loving me, or feeling the slightest
interest in me, save a regret that I should
make such an unlimited donkey of myself—
]. know her better now.
India was my salvation, not merely because
of the plentiful share of gold I laid up, but
because my earnest labor counteracted the
evil in my nature, and made me a better man.
And when at the end of three years I pre
pared to return, I wrote nothing to the dear
ones I was about to meet, of the reformation
which I knew had taken place.
" They loved me as I was," I murmured
to myself, "and they shall find for themselves
if I am.better worth the loving as I am."
I packed up many a token, from that land
of romance and gold, for the friends I was to
meet. The gift for Mary Moore was one I
selected with a beating heart. A ring of
rough, virgin gold, with my name and hers
engraved inside ; that was all, and yet the lit
tle toy thrilled me strangely, as 1 balanced
it upon the tip of my finger.
To the eyes of others it was but a small,
plain circlet, suggesting thoughts perhaps by
its daintiness, of the dainty white hand that
was to wear it. But to me—oh, tome—how
much was embodied there ! A loving smile
on a beautiful face—low words of welcome
—a happy home, and a sweet face smiling
there—a group of merry children to climb
my knee—all these delights were hidden
within that little ring of gold!
A tall, bearded, sun-bronzed man, I knock
ed at the door of my father's house. The
lights in the parlor windows, and. the hum of
conversation and cheerful laughter, showed
me that company were assembled there. I
hoped my sister Lizzie would come to the
door, and that I might greet my family when
no stranger's eyes were looking curiously on.
But no—a servant answered my summons.
They were too merry in the parlor to heed
the long-absent one when he asked for ad
mittance. Some such bitter thought was
passing through my mind, as I heard the
sounds from the parlor and saw the half-sup
pressed smile upon the servant's face.
I hesitated a moment before I made my
self known, or asked after the family. And
while I stood silent, a strange apparation
grew up before me. From behind the ser
vant peered out a small golden head—a tiny,
delicate form followed, and a sweet, childish
face and blue eyes were lifted up to mine, so
like—so like to one that had brightened my
boyhood, that I started. back with a sudden
feeling of pain.
" What may your name be, little one 2" I
asked, while the wondering servant held the
door.
She lifted up her hand as if to shade her
eyes, (I had seen that .very attitude in anoth
er, in my 'boyhood, many and many a time,)
and answered in a sweet, bird-like voice,
" Mary Moore."
" And what else ?" I asked, quickly.
" Mary Moore Chester," lisped the child.
My heart sunk down like lead. here was
an end to all the bright dreams and hopes of
my youth and manhood ! Frank Chester, my
boyish rival, who had often tried in vain, to
usurp my place beside the girl, had succeeded
at last, and had won the woman away from
me ! This was his child—his child and Ma
ry's And I must go in there, and meet her
once again, and then go away forever, and
die, if God would let me I
" I sank, body and soul, beneath this blow.
And hiding my face in my hands I leaned
against the door, while my heart wept tears
of blood. The little one gazed at me, grieved
and amazed, and put up her pretty lip as if
about to cry, while the perplexed servant
stepped to the parlor door, and called my sis
ter out, to find out who it could be that con
ducted so strangely.
I heard a light step, and a pleasant voice
saying,
`Did you wish to see my father, sir?"
I looked up. There stood a pretty, sweet
faced maiden of twenty, not much changed
from the dear little sister I had loved so well.
I looked at her a moment and then stilling
the tumult of my heart by a mighty effort, I
opened my arms, and said,
" Lizzie, don't you know me ?"
" Harry 1 Oh, my brother Harry !" she
cried, and threw herself upon my breast.—
She wept as if her heart would break.
I could not weep. I drew her gently into
the lighted parlor, and stood with her before
them all.
There was a rush and a cry of joy ; and
then my father and mother sprang towards
me, and welcomed me home with , heart-felt
tears Oh, strange, and passing sweet, is
such a greeting to the way worn wanderer !
And as I held my dear old mother to my
heart, and grasping my father's hand, while
e Lizzie still clung beside me, I felt that all
Was notyet lost, and though another had se
cured life's choicest blessing, many a joy re
mained for me in this dear sanctuary of home.
There was four other inmates of the room,
who had arisen on my sudden entrance. One
was the blue-eyed child whom I had already
seen, and who now stood beside Frank Ches
ter, clinging to his hand. Near by, stood
Lizzie Moore, Mary's eldest sister, and in a
distant corner, where she had hurriedly re
treated when my name was spoken, stood a
tall and Slender figure, half hidden by the
heavy window curtain that fell to the door.
When the first rapturous greeting was over,
CHAPTER II
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Lizzie lied me forward with a timid grace,
and Frank Chester grasped my hand.
" Welcome home, my boy," he said, with
the loud cheerful tones I remembered so well.
"You have changed so, I should never have
known you—but no matter for that—your
heart is in the right place, I know.
" How can you say he is changed ?" said
my mother, gently. "To be sure he looks
older and graver and more like a man than
when he went away—but his eyes and smile
are the same as ever. It is that heavy beard
that changes him. He is my boy still."
" Aye, mother," I answered sadly, " I am
your boy still."
God help me ! At that moment I felt like
a boy, and it would have been a blessed relief
to have wept upon her bosom, as I had done
in my infancy. But I kept down the beating
of my heart and the tremor of my lip, and
answered quietly, as I looked in his full hand
some face.
" You have changed, too, Frank, but I
think for the better."
" Oh yes—thank you for the compliment,"
he answered with a hearty laugh. "My wife
tells me I grow handsomer every day."
"His wife I could I hear that name and
keep silent still ? "And have you seen my
little girl ?" he added, lifting the infant in
his arms and kissing her crimson cheek.
" I tell you, Harry, there is not another
one like her in the United States. Don't you
think she looks very much as her mother used
to ?"
" Very much," I faltered.
" Hallo !" cried Frank, with a suddenness
that made me start violently. "I have for
gotten to introduce you to my wife ; I believe
you and she used to be playmates in your
young day—eh, Harry ?" and he slapped me
on the back. "For the sake of old times,
and because you were not here at the wedding,
I will give you. leave to kiss her once—but
mind, old fellow, you are never to repeat the
ceremony. Come—here she is, and for once
I will see how you will manage those fero
cious moustaches of yours, in the operation."
He pushed Lizzie laughing and blushing,
towards me ! A gleam of light and hope,
almost too dazzling to bear, came over me,
and I cried. out before I thought;
" Not Mary 1"
It must have betrayed my secret to every
one in the room. But nothing was said—
even Frank, in general so obtuse, was this
time silent. I kissed the fair cheek of the
piling wife, and hurried to the silent figure
looking out of the window.
" Mary—Mary Moore," I said, in a lOw
eager voice. "Have you alone no welcome
to give to the wanderer ?"
She turned and laid- her hand in mine,
and murmured hurriedly—
"l am glad to see you here, Harry."
Simple words—and yet how blest they
made me! I would not have yielded up that
moment for an emperor's crown! For there
was the happy home group and the dear
home fireside, and there sweet Mary! The
eyes I had dreamed of by day and by night
were falling before the ardent gaze of mine
--and the sweet face I had so longed and
prayed to see, was there before me—more
beautiful, more womanly, and more loving
than before! I never knew the meaning of
happiness till that moment came!
Many years have passed since that happy
night, and the hair that was dark and glossy
then, is fast turning gray. lam growing to
be an old man and can look back to a long
and happy, a well spent life. And yet
sweet as it has been, I would not recall a
single day, for the love that made my man
hood so bright, shines also upon me in my
white hairs. An old man! Can this be so?
At heart I am as young as ever. And
Mary, with her bright hair parted smoothly
from a brow that has a slight furrow upon it,
is still the Mary of my early days. To me
she can never grow old, nor change. The
heart that held her in infancy and sheltered
her piously in the flush and beauty of
womanhood can never cast her out till life
shall cease to warm it. Nor even then—for
love still lives in Heaven.
Activity.
Activity is one of the everlasting laws of
existence. There is no religion without work.
Laziness is a spiritual death. Whoever ac
quired anything worth having by lying still
and waiting for it to come to him. All things
are within the reach of -man if he will only
go
after them ; all things mock him who lin
gers by the way ! Who finds knowledge save
by the striving of the understanding? Who
knows anything of the beauty of nature but
he who spurns the morning couch and is on
the hill-top while his neighbors are asleep;
can defy the snow and rain, and strain up the
mountain summit and endure noon heats ?
And through what watchings and. lonely
wrestlings with languor and discouragement
the artist leads out human loveliness from the
rough marble, and coaxes beauty upon can
vass! And does not every good man go up
to his virtues as Jesus went like Satan in the
desert, sweat drops of blood in Gethsemane,
and bear his cross up Calvary: Activity is
the law of life. Let us be up and doing.—
Time waits for no man ; all things go on with
all things, or you will fall out of your rank
in the procession of existence, and never find
your place again, unless 'through toils that
will wring your soul with anguish. Listen
to the voice of the sea, for it is tho voice of
God, which evermore says—" Work while it
is called to-day."
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how TO "Go Ir."—Go it strong in your
praise of the absent. Some of it will be sure
to get round.
Go it strong when you make love with a
pretty widow. More people have erred by
too little than too much•in this particular.
Go it strong when you - take up contribu
tions for a charitable purpose► It will pay.
Go it strong when you make a public speech.
Nine people out of ten never take any allu
sion unless it cuts like a short handled whip,
or a rhinoceros cowhide.
Go it strong when you advertise. Business
is like architecture—its best supports are
columns.
^PERSEVERE.-
A Safe House to Sleep in.
A lawyer of high reputation, in the city of
Philadelphia, was traveling in one of the
Southern States ; and being belated one eve
ning, after a long day's ride, he was compell
ed to turn into a house on a solitary planta
tion, and ask for shelter and hospitality for
the night. His request was granted. In
the course of the evening he thought he ob
served something reserved in the master of
the house, which awakened his suspicions.
He was at length conducted to his chamber,
which was adjoining the family-room. There
he dwelt on the circumstances that had
alarmed him, till his excited imagination
was filled with thoughts of nightly robbery
and assassination. He proceeded to barri
cade the room as well as he could. He fast
ened down the windows ; against the doors
he piled up tables, chairs, everything that
was moveable in the room. While thus en
gaged, words uttered in a low voice caught
his ear, and increased his alarm. He placed
his ear at the key-hole. The man of the
house was engaged in prayer, in family
prayer. Among the objects of intercession
he was praying for "the stranger whom the
providen.;e of God had unexpectedly brought
to lodge beneath their roof that night"—
When he got through, our traveling friend
arose from his stooping posture. Imagine
the .change. in his feelings. All his fears
had vanished. Though no Christian him
self, he knew that the prayers of Christians
are like guardian angels to the abode in
which they are offered up ; and went to bed
and. slept soundly and sweetly, feeling that
the house where God was feared and wor
shipped, was a saft, house to sleep in.—Amer
ican, Messenger.
SACREDNESS OF TEARS.—There is a sacred
ness in tears. They are not a mark of weak
ness, but of power. They speak more elo
quently than ten thousand tongues. They
are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of
deep contrition, of unspeakable love. If
there were wanting any argument to prove
that man is not mortal, •I would- look for it
in the strong, convulsive emotion of the
breast when the soul has been deeply agita
ted, when the fountains of feeling are rising,
and when tears are gushing forth in crystal
streams. Oh,. speak not harshly of the
striae)n one, weeping in silence!. Break
not the solemnity by rude laughter, or intru
sive footsteps. Despise not a woman's tears
—they are what make: her an anget"_Scoff
not if the stern heart of manhood is some
times melted to :syrhPathy—it is what helps
to elevate him above the brute. I love to see
the tears of affection. They are painful to
kens, lac still most holy. There is pleasure
in tears—an awful pleasure! If there were
none on earth to shed a tear for me, I should
be loth to live; and if no one might weep
over my grave, I could never die in peace.—
Dr. Mason.
MYSTERY, MURDER, ROMANCE AND CRIME IN
MEMPHIS, TENN.-A short time since a young
man by the name of Tanner, in Memphis,
Tenn., of most blameless life and manners,
was assassinated in the streets at night. It was
not known that he had an enemy in the world,
and no motive of plunder could have prompt
ed the deed, as his person was not robbed
of the most trifling possession. A deep, dark
mystery enshrouded the assassination, which
is now being lifted to reveal a new phase of
social shame and crime fatally mistaken in its
aim. A clue has been obtained which prom
ises to develop the fact that young Tanner
was killed by mistake for another man—that
other man the husband of a wife for whom
the assassin had conceived a passion, and the
murder was to remove the husband from be
tween him and the object of his guilty love!
A negro man was the tool selected to commit
the murder. He mistook the man, and poor
Tanner fell instead of the doomed husband.
Such is life!
It is reported upon the authority of a
European cotemporary, that the Emperor of
Japan has resolved that two parts of the em
pire, those of Nangasaki and Hakodadi shall
be open to the vessels of all nations. There
they might repair take, in provisions, establish
depots of coal &c. The other ports of the em
pire, moreover, are to be accessible to vessels in
distress, which may take refuge in them, but
which will have to put to sea the moment the
danger is over. No foreigner is to be al
lowed to penetrate into the interior of the
country without a special permission of the
chief of the State.
ZaT'Dy the late foreign news it appears
that the difficulty between Spain and Mexico
is settled: That the difficulty between Na
ples and England and France is likely to be
settled: That the Russians have been re
pulsed by the Circassians: That the English
Parliament is dissolved, and writs issued for
a new election, and that candidates in great
numbers are offering: That active prepara
tions arc going on to push vigorously the
war against China: That England is in a
difficulty with Japan : That Russia is pro
viding for a large increase of its navy: That
Austria and Sardinia are likely to get into a
war: That the Danish Sound Dues are to be
abolished.
X ar' In Africa one of the most common
and terrible kind of punishments inflicted up
on disobedient boys, is to rub red pepper into
their eyes. Th.eir screams and yells under the
operation are savage beyond description, and
it is a wonder that their sight is not entirely
destroyed. We have never known however,
a case where any permanent injury was in
flicted in this way. Adult offenders are
sometimes subjected to a still severer punish
ment. They are made fast on the roof of the
house and thoroughly smoked with pepper.
An invisible cement, it is said, can be
made by dissolving isinglass in spirits of
wine by boiling. It will unite broken glass
so as to render the crack imperceptible.
The squirrel jumps from branch to
branch—the flirt from beau to beau.
Sketch of the Democratic Nominee for
The folloWing biographical sketch of the
Democratic candidate for Governor has been
prepared to accompany the proceedings of
the convention which placed him in nomina
tion, and which will soon be issued in pam
phlet form:
He was horn in Centre county, Pa., on the
2nd day of April, 1807. At an early age ha
was apprenticed to the printing business in
the office of the Bellefonte Patriot, published
by Hon. Henry Petriken, Deputy Secretary
of State under Gov. Skunk, a distinguished
and able Democrat, and in 1527 .became the
editor and proprietor of the Lyconaing Gazette,
which he published for many years. In 1833
he was appointed Superintendent Of the West
Branch Division of the Pennsylvania canal;
the duties of which he discharged with en
tire satisfaction to the appointing power and
the public. He held this post three years,
disbursing more than a million of dollars,
and
promptly accounting for every cent. In 1835
he was unanimously nominated for State Sen
ator by the Democracy of his district, but was
defeated by a small majority in consequence
of the unfortunate division existing in the
party at the time in reference to the guberna
torial candidates, Messrs. Wolf and Mullen
berg. In 1836, the Democratic party being
again united, its interests demanded an effi-
dent organ at the seat of government which
would command the entire confidence of the
party. Gen. Packer, and Messrs. Barrett
and Parke commenced the publication of the
Keystone, which at once became the leading
organ of the party, and rendered great ser
vice in wresting the State government from
the Anti-Masonic dynasty of Either and Ste
vens. Immediately after his inauguration,
Governor Porter appointed Gen. Packer one
of the three Canal Commissioners, which
commission he continued to hold until 1542,
when he was appointed Auditor General,
which appointment he continued to hold for
three years. In both these positions he gave
great satisfaction, introducing important re
forms, and husbanding the means of the State
in such a manner as to effect large savings to
the Treasury of the Commonwealth. He
continued to discharge the duties of his office
of Auditor General until May, 1845, a period
of three years. His office gave him a seat in
the cabinet of the Executive, and thus called
into action his knowledge of men, of meas
ures, and of the diversified interests of the
Commonwealth. Holding jurisdiction over
all the public accounts, the large expenditures
of money for public improvements, and the
numerous difficult questions and complicated
cases which arose for adjudication, called for
the exercise of the soundest judgment ; and
no mind save one enlightened by an extensive
acquaintance with common law and equity
principles as well as with the statutes of the
Commonwealth, would have discharged the
duties of this exalted station. The settle
ment of the claims of the domestic creditors,
with the other business of the office arising
from the increased public expenditures for
improvements and other purposes, rendered
the duties of the Auditor General far more
burdensome than have been since, or had
ever been before at any former period in the
history of the government. And the ability
displayed by General Packer, his perfect mas
tery of every question that arose, and his im
partiality in the discharge of his high duties,
in the settlement of these questions, are ack
nowledged by men of all parties.
After his term of office expired, he retired
to Williamsport, and in 1847 was elected to
the Legislature by an overwhelming majority
from e district composed of the counties of
Lycoming, Clinton and Potter. Although his
first session, he was elected Speaker of the
House of Representatives with - rare unanim
ity, and discharged the duties of the position
with his usual efficiency. The selection of a
new member to a post of such great responsi
bility, and requiring such varied and exten
sive abilities, may be regarded as a high
honor in which Gen. Packer stands, as the
sole recipient in his native State. In 1848
he was re-elected by an increased majority,
and again nominated by his political friends
for Speaker. The house was equally divided
between the political parties, but after several
ineffectual ballots, some of the opposition
members Toted for him and lie was again
called to preside. In 1849 he was elected to
the State Senate, from the district composed
of the counties of Lycoming, Clinton, Centre
and Sullivan, beating his opponent, Col. A.
G. Curtin, the present Secretary of the Com
morrwealth, in every county of the district.
He proved one of the most efficient Senators
who ever held a seat on that floor, and con
firmed his reputation as a sound and practical
statesman.
From the expiration of his term as Senator
until his friends presented his name as a can
didate for Governor, he remained in 'private
life. By yeference to the proceedings of the
2d of March Convention, it will be seen that,
although several favorable and able champi
ons of the Democracy entered the field as
competitors for the nomination, Gen. Packer
received the higest vote on the first ballot;
and maintained that proud position through
out the eventful and energetic struggle, on
every ballot, from the first to the twenty
fourth, when the nomination was effected.—
The demonstration which followed the an
nouncement of the nomination, and the en
thusiastic expressions of approbation which
have reached us from every quarter, suffi
ciently indicate the heartfelt satisfaction with
which the nomination is received, and the
deep hold the nominee has upon the affections
of his political associates.
It may with great truth be said of General
Packer that he is indebted to his own indus
try for the education and knowledge he has
acquired, and to his own merits for the dis
tinction to which he has attained. He is
thoroughly Democratic in his principles, and
is always ready to devote his talents and his
means to the success of these principles. He
is no empty talker about names and forms
Editor and Proprietor.
alifital.
Governor.
Gen. Win. F. Paoicer
but an energetic actor, following the substancd
and not the shadow. Springing from the
people, he is always ready to do battle for
their rights. Looking to them as the legiti
mate source of all political authority, he is
ready to trust them with every power con=
sistent with representative government--;
Aware of the nature of the federal compact,
and of the unwillingness of the early states
men of the Democracy to trust the central
government with any but a limited itiltherity
he is ever ready to stand by the State sover
eignties in confining the General Government
strictly within the powers of the federal Con
stitution. Men of eminence in the party to
which Gen. Packer belongs, may occasion
ally differ in the application of principles to
particular cases ; but all politicians, of the
genuine Democratic school; subscribe to the .
great fundamental doctrine of the party, that
" the powers not delegated to the United .
States by the Constitution, nor nrohibited by
it to the States, arc reserved to ihe States re
spectively, or to the people." Upon this
great fundamental principle hang all the
doctrines of the Democratic party: Upon'
the steady support of this principle the per
manency of the Union and the liberties of
the people depend. Every extension of Ter
ritory, and every increase of the great sister
hood of nations of which our glorious confed
eracy is composed, is but a new demand upon
the patriot for a vigilant and energetic sup
port of the ancient, safe, and chieprinciple
of the Democratic party, a strict construction
of the Federal Constitution. So long as this
principle of construction be adhere to by
our public authorities, and by those who
clothe them -with power, the rights of the
people and of the States will be protected
against the usurping tendencies of the great
central government With this principle
constantly before us, and With our public
men able and willing to maintain it; either
in the legislative hall, or in the judicial forum
we can have no fear of nullification or consol
idation; but our great and glorious Union,
standing as an illustrious example of the ca
pacity of the. people for self-government, shall
not only secure its own greatness and perpe-,
tuity, bUt shall light all the nations of the
earth in their onward march to freedom.
Gen. Packer is about six feet in height,
well proportioned, open, frank, expressive
features, cordial and kind in his intercourse
with his fellow citizens,- vary popular wher
ever well known, and enjoys an unspotted
reputation for morality among his neighbors
and acquaintances. Ile is an able and expe
rienced statesman, thoroughly versed in all
the measures of State policy for the past
twenty-five years. Ile is a fine orator, and
as a stump speaker always exhibits great.
power, and in that capacity has few equals.--
Gen. Tacker's large experience in State affairs
—his thorough knowledge of every thing per
taining to the interests and the legislation of
the State, and of the duties which devolve
upon its chief magistrate, together with his
great capacity, his services to the State and
his party, and his fitness as a candidate at
this juncture, are overpowering reasons for
his election.
Of all the offices in the Commonwealth,
that of Governor is most important—more so
even than the Legislature, or all other de
partments of the government combined, for
he controls the whole. His veto gives hire
.
power over the Legislature, and it. these
days of corruption and. ineca4etency, is
about the only sure protection the people
have against bad laws and extravagant ex
penditures. Unless the incumbent of the
Executive chair is thoroughly versed in to
gislation, and understands how the interests
of the people may be sacrificed by cunningly .
devised statutory provisions, much injury
will inevitably be done without anything
being known about it until it is too late to
apply a remedy. Hundreds of thousands of
dollars have been filched from the State
Treasury by act of Assembly which scarcely
attracted attention, and which could not.
have passed, had any considerable portion of
the members comprehended them. Hence
the grave importance of placing a man in
the Gubernatorial chair who is thoroughly
versed in legislation, and who has long made'
State legislation his study. No matter what
a mains other acquirements or talents may
be, if he has not this knowledge and experi
ence, he will inevitably prove an indifferent
Governor, powerless for the most useful and
salutary purposes of his office, and but a
bauble.
NO. 44.
In a party point of view, we require such
a Governor because a party can only be
strong when it governs well. That party
which governs best is entitled to public sup
port in preference to all others, and will of
course receive it. Hence it should be a lead
ing purpose in every party, even if for no
higher purpose than self-preservation, to
place no common men in positions of respon
sibility and power who are not peculiarly fit
ted to discharge all the duties pertaining to
them. As far as the foregoing considera
tions go, Gen. Packer has no superior, all
will admit, and but few equals.
A proper candidate is a consideration of
the first magnitude with any party. The
nomination of Gen. Packer secures us this
advantage. When nothing can be said
against the fitness of the candidate, the par
ty supporting him already have a hold upon
the voters which it is always difficult and
often impossible to resist. To be a proper
candidate for Governor of this Common-
wealth, the qualifications noted in the fore
going are essential. In addition, he must
be known to the public as possessing them;
In the peculiar circumstances of the State,
another important qualification is that he be
an orator, a public speaker of undoubted
power ; combined with good personal appear
ance and physical ability to endure any pos
sible amount of continued effort. In all
these respects, we believe General Pack
has scarcely an equal:
Our candidate, then, has all these positive
qualifications. Are there any negative ones ?.
We have heard none suggested—we know of
none—and there are none. His long and,
prominent career has exposed him to every
species of attack, yet he stands untarnished
and invulnerable.
It will be a pleasant task to Democrats in
the State to support such a . candidate•—every m
voter of his party and any others, will
rally around him with a firm devotion and
enthusiasm, with the heart felt assurance
that if elected,- he will be a credit to the
State and a sure protector of her best inter
ests. With such a candidate, success cannot
be problematical, and will bring with it hoa:
or, and profit, and public benefit:
WEALTH OF PRESIDENT BIICIZIANAN'S CABi;
NET.—Most of the members of the present
Cabinet are wealthy, and as a unit they rep
resent an aggregate wealth of some four and
a half millions of dollars; divided as follows:
Lewis Cass, $2,000,000
Howell Cobb, 500,000
Jacob Thompson, 1,000,000
JOhn B. Floyd, 500,000
Messrs. Toucoy, Black and Brown, 500,000
Total.
$4,500.000