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THE HARRISBURG DAILY PAPERS DURING
THE SESSION.—The Pa. Legislature will meet
first Tuesday in January, and as some of our
readers may want a more full report of the
proceedings than we can give, we would ad
vise theth to subscribe for either the Daily
Patriot & Union, Democratic, or the Daily
Telegraph, Republican. Both papers promise
to publish full reports of the proceedings.—
Single copy during the session, $1 in advance.
The News.
—President Buchanan has issued a proc
lamation recommending to the people of the
United States to observe the 4th day of Jan
uary next as a day of humiliation, fasting
and prayer. He says—" All classes are in a
state of confusion and dismay; and the wisest
counsels of our best and purest men are
wholly disregarded. In this,the hour of our
calamity and peril, to whom shall we resort
but to the God of our Fathers 1"
Hon. Lewis Cass has tendered his res
ignation as Secretary of State, and Hon. Jer
emiah S. Black, Attorney-General, has been
appointed in his stead, Edward M. Staunton,
.of Pittsburg, succeeding Judge Black as
Attorney-General. Gen. Cass resigned be
cause of the refusal on the part of the Presi
dent to send immediately additional force to
protect the forts at Charleston.
Union meetings, irrespective of party,
have been held in Philadelphia, Reading,
Harrisburg, and other cities and towns in the
State ; the proceedings of all breathe the right
spirit.
A dispatch from Washington to the Bal
timore Sun says : " A letter from a distin
guished source has just been received from
Alabama, which says that it is now certain
that the co-operations or conservatives will
carry every county in Northern Alabama in
the election for delegates to the State conven
tion, and ten or more in the middle or south
ern portion of Alabama, thus rendering
doubtful the quastion as to which side will tri
umph in the State convention. Col. Taylor,
a leading Bell man in that State, has pub
lished a letter strongly favoring co-operation.
If, however, an ordinance of secession be
passed, the conservatives will insist that it be
lsubmitted to the people for ratification.
Private accounts from Georgia state that
the conservatives, under the lead of lion.
Messrs. Stephens, Johnson, Jenkins, and
others, are in strong hopes of carrying a ma
jority of the ambers of the State convention,
and that the conciliatory tone of the Repub
licans will do much to strengthen the south
ern conservatives.
Mr. Howell Cobb, of Georgia, the great
est arch traitor in Washington, has resigned
the office of Secretary of the Treasury, and
departed on Thursday for South Carolina, to
hatch some new scheme of deviltry and inju
ry to the Union. Mr. Philip Frank Thomas,
of Maryland, was offered, and - has accepted
the appointment.
Vr.Mrs. Adaline Hobbs, thirty years
since, addressed a letter to Dr. Joshua. T.
Hobbs, New York city, which appears by rec
ord to have contained two ten-dollar bank
bills, was sent on the 28th of November, 1828,
for the delivery to the writer on the 6th of
February, 1829; the postmaster at New York
not being able to find the writer, returned
the letter, with its contents, to the dead let
ter office. After a lapse of thirty-one years,
the letter is now claimed by the person ad
dressed J. T. Hobbs, Mount Vernon, 0.,
and a draft for the money has been accord
ingly remitted on the very day of the appli-
Cation.
A FEMALE INVENTlON.—Elizabeth M.
Smith, of Burlington, N. J., has invented and
patented a much desired improvement in
reaping and mowing machines, and one
which renders their use a matter of safety
and not of danger. The improvement con
sists of a device for throwing them in and
out of gear by means of the driver's seat.—
Thus, when the driver takes his seat on the
machine, his weight throws it into gear, and
when he leaves his seat the machine is thrown
out of gear,
TILE VOTE OF Abssotrar.—The electoral
college of this State met at Jefferson City on
Wednesday, and cast the vote of Missouri
12. r Panglas and Johnson.
ATTACII'T EXECUTIONS,
EXECUTIONS,
" Blair of Pa."
Never did we read three short words with
as much of shame and mortification as when
we read those which head this article among
the " nays" upon the vote in Congress to ap-
point the Committee of one from each State
to consider the present troubled state of af
fairs. It is true we did not vote to put Mr.
Blair where he is; others are responsible for
that ; but it is also true that we have a right
to expect him as a public servant to pay at
least a decent degree of respect to the senti
ments of the people of his District. That
sentiment we have no hesitation in saying,
he has grossly outraged by this vote. %Ve
say this not as a partisan, and not fur parti
san effect, but as a citizen of our common
country, and we but repeat the sentiment of
every sound conservative man we have met,
regardless of party. Mr. Blair could have done
no single act which so strikes at the whole
business interest of his District and at the
same time forever blasts his own political for
tunes. Were the election to come off to-mor
row, however his talents may be respected,
he would not receive the votes of the business
men of this town, he would be abandoned
throughout the county, for his vote stamps
him,whatever may be claimed to the contrary,
as an agitator for evil, as one who can see his
country suffer, and refuse even an Ifort to
bring relief. Shame be upon him and the
few with him who could not rise in such an
hour to the dignity of patriortism. We write
in sorrow, not in anger. The District will
speak out. No District in the broad land
has hearts more loyal to the Union than ours.
Our mountains and our valleys, our work
shops and our farms, will all re-echo their
love for our whole country; and our people
will set the seal of reprobation upon every
man who refuses in this hour of peril to sec
ond every reasonable effort for the adjust
ment of the troubles that now mar the unity
in which brethren should dwell. We mourn
fur the honor of this District, and hope if Mr.
Blair has not yet irrevocably joined himself
with the mad fanaticism of the hour, that he
will retrace his steps, and wipe out his own
disgrace—if not, beware of the future! !
Southern Manifesto
The Southern Members of Congress held a
caucus in Washington on the night of the
13th, and the following declaration was
signed by some thirty Members and Senators
from the States of South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Arkansas, Mississippi, North Caro
lina, Louisiana and Texas:
WASIIINGTON 3 Dec. 13, 1860.
To OUR CONSTITUENTS—
The argument is exhausted. All hope of relief in the
Union, through the agency of committees, Congressional
legislation, or constitutional amendments is extinguished,
and we trust the South ~rill not be deceived by appearan
ces or the pretence of new guarantees. The Republicans
are resolute in the purpose to grant nothing that will or
ought to satisfy the South. In our judgment, the honor,
safety, and independence of the Southern people are to be
found only in a Southern Confederacy—the inevitable re
sult of separate State secession; that the sole and primary
aim of each slaveholding State ought to be its speedy and
absolute separation from an IMnatmal and hostile Union.
Mr. Davis, of Mississippi, made the follow
ing statement to the caucus:
Beim* a member of the Cemmittee of Thirty-three,
state that the above witnessed dispatch was communicated
to the committee this evening, and a resolution passed pro
posing no specific relief (eight Northern States dissenting)
avowedly intended to counteract the effect of the above
despatch, and, as I believe, to mislead the people of the
South. From information derived from Republican mem
bers of the committee and other Northern Representatives
I fully concur in the above despatch.
No friend of the Union can read this with
out amazement. It will be seen that the first
step towards conciliation by the
.douse Com
mittee of Thirty-three in passing Mr. Rust's
resolution, terrified the Secessionists to such a
degree that they sent off a c&spatch demanding
instant and separate State secession, and call
ing upon the Southern people not to be deceived
by the favorable indications put forth by the
committee. We are glad to perceive that not
a single member of the Southern Union party
signs the extraordinary manifesto originated
by Mr. Davis. It now becomes the solemn
duty of the Republicans, -the Americans, and
the National Democrats on - the house com
mittees, representing, as they do, an over
whelming majority of the American people,
to stand fast to the doctrine laid down in,the
resolution of Mr. Rust, of Arkansas, and if,
in the face of this proffer of peace. loolcing, as
it does, to practical remedies to right Southern
wrongs, the Disunionists arc enabled to carry
out their treasonable designs, then let the conse
quences be upon their own heads.
The Popular Vote for President
As near as can be ascertained, the total
vote of all the States for President, at the
November •election was as follows :
Lincoln, 1,786,480
Douglas, 1,354,423
Breckinridgo, ' 784,897
Bell, 605,801
Although Mr. Lincoln has received a ma
jority of the electors of the Union, he . is in a
minority of nearly a million in the total pop
ular vote. The vote of Douglas and Breck
inridge combined exceeds that cast for Lin
coln by more than a third of a million.—
Thus:
Vote for Lincoln, •
_ 1,786,480
" Douglas, '1,354,423
" Breckinridge, 784,897
--2,139,320
Maj. over Republican vote, 352,840
The total vote for Bell was, 605,801
Total maj. against Lincoln, 958,641
It will also be observed that the total vote
for Mr. Douglas is It early double that east for
Mr. Breckinridge.
In Illinois, (Mr. Douglas' State,) the vote
for those two gentlemen stood,
'For Douglas, 160,549
For Breckinridge, 2,272
Mnj. for Douglas, 158,277
In Kentucky, (Mr. Breckinridge's State,)
tbeir vote was,
For Breckinridge, 52,856
For Douglas, 25,144
IVlaj. fur Breckinridge, 27,812
But for the secession from the National
Convention, it is clear that Douglas would
now 1)0 President elect, instead of Lincoln.
[Correspondence of the Press.]
WASHINGTON, Dee. 14, 1860.
The increasing demonstrations in the free
States in favor of doing strict and ample jus
tice to the South are producing' wholesome
results in Washington. -The news of the
monster meeting held in Independence
Square, in Philadelphia, on Thursday last,
telegraphed to our morning papers, was ea
gerly welcomed, and the resolutions, received
here by your evening dailies, were heartily
and almost universally approved. The great
impediment in the way of an adjustment is,
what side shall first surrender to the other?
I have no doubt that Jefferson Davis, R. M.
T. Hunter, Benjamin Fitzpatrick, James Al
fred Pearce, James A. Bayard, and other
Senators—although little has been said by
either—will gladly undertake the task of re
conciliation before the close of next week if
the Union fire is maintained.
The first substantial indication of peace
from this quarter was the adoption of the
resolution offered by Mr. Dunn, of Indiana,
and accepted by Mr. Rust, of Arkansas, in
the Committee of Thirty-three, yesterday af
ternoon. This is of so important a charac
ter that I must ask you to reprint it.
Mr, Rust, of Arkansas, offered the follow
ing :
Resolved, That, in the opinion of this committee, the
existing discontents among the Southern people, and the
growing hostility among them to the Federal Government,
are greatly to be regretted ; and that, whether such dis
contents and hostility aro without just cause or not, any
reasonable, proper, and constitutional remedies and effec
tual guarantees of their p eculiar interests as recognized
by the Constitution, necessary to preserve the peace of
the country and the perpetuity of tha Union, should be
promptly and cheerfully granted.
The yeas and nays were as follows
YEAS—Mr. Corwin Republican Ohio.
Mr. Millson --Democrat .Virginia. •
Mr. Winslow...Detnocrat North Carolina.
Mr. Canipbel 1-Itepu bl lean Pennsylvania.
Mr. Love Democrat Georgia.
Mr. Davis ......American Maryland.
Mr. Stratton --Republican Now Jersey.
Mr. Bristow....American Kentucky,
Mr. Nelson......Arnerican Tennessee.
Mr. Dunn Republican Indiana:
Mr. Taylor Democrat f ouisiana.
Mr. Kellogg..... Republican Illinois.
Mr. Phelps Democrat .Missouri.
Mr. Houston --Dem= at Alabama.
Mr. Rust Democrat Arkansas.
Mr. Howard Republican A , ichigan.
Mr. Hamil ton... Democrat Texas.
Mr. Curtis Republican lowa.
Mr. Burch Democrat California.
Mr. Windem....Republicau Minnesota.
Mr. Stout Democrat Oregon.
ABSENT ON LAST VOTE—Mr. Whitely, of
Delaware, who is known to be warmly in fa
vor of the resolution.
The nays were all Republicans,as follows :
NArs—M r. Ferry Connecticut.
Mr. Humphrey New York.
Mr. Robin , on Rhode
Mr. Tappan New Hampshire.
Mr. Morrill Vermont.
Mr, Morse Maine.
Mr. Adams Massachusetts.
Mr. Washburn Wisconsin.
The above vote of the Union Committee is
so auspicious that I am glad to express the
hope that it -will lead the Secessionists to
moderate their demands—particularly that
which looks to the recognition of the right of
a State peaceably to secede from the Union.
But it must not be forgotten that all the
eight dissenting Republicans voted for the
two following propositions, offered as amend-.
ments to the resolutions as adopted—the first
by Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, and the second
by Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut:
Re/WNW, That. in the opinion of this committee, the elf
isting discontent among the Southern people, and the
growing hostility among them to the Federal Govern- .
meat, are greatly to be regretted; and that any reason
able, proper, and constitutional remedy necessary to pre
serve the peace of the country and the perpetuity of the
Union should be promptly and cheerfully granted.
Resolved, That whatever grievances exist which affect
the rights or interests of any part of the Confederacy, and
are capable of removal by the action of Congress, ought to
receive lull and appropriate remedies by the speedy action
of the Federal Legislature, either by resolution, by satis
factory amendments to the Constitution, or by a recom
mendation for the call of a general convention of the
States, as may be necessary to accomplish the purposes
aforesaid.
It will be perceived that these propositions
contemplate large concessions to our a c hed
Southern brethren,
','i
Com
mittee vi nci - the action of the Corn-
Thirty-three, with the exception of
the two Southern men, absent or refusing to
vote, may be regarded as the beginning of a
unanimous peace-offering for the sake of pre
serving the Union. The Republicans who
co-operate steadily with the Union men from
the Slave States, deserve special mention,
and are as follows: Messrs. Corwin of Ohio,
Campbell of Pennsylvania, Stratton of New
Jersey, Dunn of Indiana, Kellogg of Illinois,
Howard of Michigan, Curtis o lowa, and
Windom of Minnesota. Mr. Kellogg was
appointed on that committee as the represen
tative of Mr. Lincoln, President elect, and
he has no doubt faithfully carried out the'
wishes and expectations of the friends of the
incoming Administration. The members
from the great States Maryland, Delaware,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Ohio voted
together on the main proposition, sinking their
party predilections, and exhibited the most
patriotic desire to do right for the good of all.
Among other hopeful indications which I
have gathered to-day is the growing prospect
of passing the Pacific Railroad bill, reported
at the last session from the Committee on
Military Affairs, (Colonel Curtis, chairman,)
and contemplating two great roads—one
striking through the strongest slave States,
and the other pursuing a more northern
route, and if the good feeling which began
with the above action of the committee is
maintained, I think Mr. Hunter and his
friends can be persuaded to Jet the Morrill
tariff bill, now on the table of the Senate
pass into a law.
The passage of the treasury-note bill will
compel some revision of the revenue law, and
no better response to the friendly offers of the
Republicans on the slavery question'could be
found than the enactment of Mr. Morill's bill.
I do not know a Southern member, with the
exception of the avowed fire-eaters, (who look
to disunion as the only remedy for their al
leged aggrievances,) who does not speak of
the conservative indications in the free States
with genuine satisfaction.
The remedies offered by the great Phila
delphia meeting are sensible and feasible
remedies, and they derive importance from
the fact that the chairman of the Committee
on ResolutionS was that eminent merchant,
John B. Myers, Esq., so well known in Wash
ington—who has always been, as he now is,
a member of the Oppositition, and more late
ly of the Republican party. The noble speech
of your patriotic, enlightened, and highly es
teemed chief magistrate, Alexander Henry,
(himself a representative of another organi
zation, and heretofore adverse to the Demo
cratic party,) will produce a soothing effect
—particularly when it is borne in mind that
he is not one of those who speak idle words,
and that he will do all in his own position to
make good his declarations, to see that the
laws are properly enforced, and that all at
tempts to interfere with the rights of others
are resisted and rebuked.
Great interest begins to attach to the fu
ture movement of Hon. Jefferson Davis, of
Mississippi. He has said very little up to
REUBEN DAVIS
PROM WASHINGTON.
this time, and, although generally recognized
as a leader among those who contemplate se
cession as the only way to vindicate the rights
of the South, has too frequently pronounced
in favor of the Union, and too gallantly de
fended his country's flag on the field of battle,
to be indifferent to the spectacle now presen
ted. to him, and to all our leaders in Congress,
by the conciliatory and imposing attitude of
the Northern people. Equal interest - is man
ifested as to the movements of Senator Doug
las. The galleries have been crowded for
several days past on account of the public
expectation and desire to hear him. He, him
self, is not only up to the crisis, but fully
prepared to address his countrymen, and I
predict that when be does speak, he will put
the case in such a light to our people as will
induce all extremes to pause, and add new
laurels to those which already encircle his
brow. Judge Douglas, holding the idea that
there can be no peaceable secession, and,
armed with abundant authorities to prove
this position, is yet deeply impressed with
the importance of avoiding a violent conclu
sion to our present dissensions. In what lit
tle he has said during the debates that have
taken place, he displayed a force of reasoning
and of language, comprehensiveness of
thought, and a breadth of statesmanship, that
showed how profoundly he had reflected upon
the questi:ms in issue. It is earnestly to be
hoped that such men as Douglas and Davis
will no longer be silent,. but that they will
grasp the opportunity to prove that the confi
dence which is placed in them by the sections
they respectively represent is not misplaced.
The truth is the violent men on both sides
must stand back. Should they be permitted
to control the Republican party on the one
hand, and force Mr. Lincoln and his advisers
upon the plan of refusing all efforts for an
honorable adjustment, and on the other by
uniting the Southern States, upon the as
sumption that secession is rightful, nothing
can prevent a civil war. Therefore, I hail
every indication of the Union sentiment in
Congress and the country as a pledge and a
proof that the American people are beginning
to take the matter into their own hands, and
that their Representatives are showing a prop
er readiness to respond to their wishes. I re
peat that if this spirit is maintained to the
end, the Disunionists in the South and the
fanatics in the North will, in three months, ,
be in as contemptible a minority as they were
when Mr. Buchanan was elected President
in 1856. OCCASIONAL. 1
Great Union meeting in Philadelphia.
The Union meeting in Independence
Square, Philadelphia, on Thursday last, was
one of the largest outpourings of the people
ever known in that city. All parties, the
Abolitionists excepted, united cordially in
the proceedings. The resolutions, which we
publish below, were unanimously adopted.—
The Mayor of the City, Republican in poli
tics, presided, assisted by a large number of
Vice Presidents and Secretaries embracing
the names of many of the wealthiest .and
most influential citizens of Philadelphia.
After the organization of the meeting had
been completed, the Mayor introduced the
Right Rev. Alonzo Potter, D. D., Episcopal
Bishop of the State of Pennsylvania, who de
, livered the following prayer, in a very im
pressive manner:
PRAYER BY BISHOP POTTER.
Almighty and eternal God! the author of
every good and perfect gift, the ruler of na
tions, we come to Thee in our hour of need.
Thou art more ready to hear than we are to
pray and art wont to give more than we de
sire or deserve. Pour down upon us the
abundance of Thy mercies in this time of
public difficulty, and danger. Oh God ! our
sins as a nation, and as individuals, have
provoked Thy just displeasure and have
brought us into sore trouble ; but Thy prop
erty is always to have mercy. Arise, we be
Beech Thee, and stretch forth the right hand
of Thy majesty and deliver us for Thy name's
sake. Thou hast interposed in times past at
critical and perilous periods of our history.
We have heard with our ears, and our fathers
have told us the noble works thou didst in their
day, and in the old time before them. Great
God ! wilt thou-now come forward to our res
cue, in this time of general perplexity and
fear. Pour down upon our hearts, and upon
the hearts of the people, the spirit of wisdom
and understanding, the spirit of counsel and
strength, the spirit of the knowledge and of
the fear of the Lord. Abate the violence of
passion, and stay, we beseech Thee, the mad
ness of party; banish pride and prejudice,
land pour into our hearts an abundance of
that wisdom, that patience, that large-hearted
patriotism, that brotherly kindness which we
so greatly need. Wilt thou be pleased to
look graciously upon those who are in author
ity over us, the President of these United
States, the Governors of the several Common
wealths, the Legislatures and the Conven
tions ; and grant, we beseech Thee, that by
by them, and all this people, things may be so
ordered and established, that the good of Thy
Church, the advancement of Thy glory, and the
safety, honor and welfare of Thy united peo
ple may be established, enlarged and perpetu
ated through all future time. Wilt Thou meet
with us who are here assembled on ground
hallowed by memories of past wisdom, past
services, and toils and counsels, in behalf of
Liberty and Union.
Great God 1 may the spirit of this venera
ble place be in our hearts, and rule over our
proceedings. May a double portion of the
wisdom and patriotism of the fathers descend
and rest upon their sons, and over this place,
and this hour. Oh that there may go forth
an influence which may be felt throughout
the Republic—an influence which should tend
to the healing of the waters of strife and dis
cord, and to the bringing back to our distrac
ted land the reign of unity and concord.—
And to this end, oh God! Thou who host
taught us that all our doings without charity
are nothing worth, send Thy Holy Ghost, and
pour into our hearts that gift of charity, the
very bond of peace, and of all virtue, without
which whosoever liveth is counted dead be
fore Thee. And may the Grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the
fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all
evermore. Amen.
SPEECH OP MAYOR HENRY.
Mayor Henry then came forward,
,amid
loud applause and said.:
Citizens of Philadelphia: You have been
-called together upon this momentous occasion
by request of your municipal Councils. You
have been invited to assemble in this hallow.
ed place, that, divesting yourselves of every
partisan emotion, discarding all sordid and
self-interested views, you may intelligently
consider the present unhappy condition of
your country and the danger which threatens
your National Union. And what is that con-
dition ? But a short time has elapsed since
twenty millions of American freemen re
joiced with proper pride in the wide-spread
prosperity and full security afforded to them
by the best perfected Government that man
ever devised. To-day those twenty millions
are wrapped In gloom—are paralyzed by the
forebodings of evil, which no experience can
depict, or agitated with projects which no
breast can resolve. Eighty-four years ago
the jubilant shouts of new-made freemen
hailed the declaration of their independence
as_it was proclaimed from this very spot ;
and now thousands who have been born and
reared under the rich blessings of constitu
tional liberty, are gathered together on the
same ground in the sad stillness of coming
despair.
And what is the danger that hangs over
your National Union? A form of govern
ment projected by the . liberal sentiments of
patriots, framed by the consummate skill of
statesmen, which for nearly eighty years,
has attracted the admiring wonder of the
world, which has fostered the growth of this
people from thirteen feeble colonies to thirty
three sovereign States, has ceased to retain
the confidence of a portion of its confederacy,
and to-day is convulsed with the premonitory
throes of speedy dissolution.
The giant intellects that in former days
have expounded and illuminated its admira;
hie Constitution, that in times of peril have
guided this nation safely through the embit
tered contests of opinion, have gone from us,
and,there live none to fill their places.
In this crisis the only remedy for existing
evils must be sought for, in the sovereignty
of the people, in the responsive patriotism of
the masses ; approved only by their firm re
solve and prompt effort, can this Union be
perpetuated. [Applause.] Hence it is that
you, the people of Philadelphia, are now
called upon to avow your unbroken attach
ment to the Union, and your steadfast deter
mination that no honest effort shall be left un
tried to preserve its integrity. [Applause.]
My fellow-citizens, I should be false to the
position in which you have placed me :
should be recreant to my sense of duty if I
withheld an avowal of the truth which this
occasion demands.
if in any portion of our Confederacy, sen
timents have been entertained and cherished
which are inimical to the civil rights and so
cial institutions of any other portion, these
sentiments should be relinquished and dis
countenanced. The family discipline which
you choose to adopt for your own fireside.
whilst it does not violate the laws under
which you dwell, is your rightful prerogative,
and you are prompt to resent the officious in
termeddling of others, however well intended.
The social institutions of each State in this
Union are equally the rightful prerogatives
of its citizens and so long as those institutions
do not contravene the principles of your Fed
eral compact none may justly interfere with
or righteously denounce them. The efficient
cause of the distracted condition of our coun
try is to be found in the prevalent belief of
the citizens of the South. that their brethren
of the North are as a community arrayed
against a social institution to which they
look as essential to their proslfurity,
You are ready to aver truthfully that such
belief is mistaken and unfounded ; but it be
comes all who are actuated by an earnest
brotherhood, to see to it, that where public
sentiment has been misled, it shall be restor
ed to its stand-point of twenty-five years
since.
The misplaced teachings of the pulpit, the
unwise rhapsodies of the lecture-room, the
exciting appeals of the press on the subject
of slavery, must be frowned down by a just
and law-abiding people.
Thus, and thus only, may you hope to
avoid the sectional discord, agitation, and
animosity which, at frequently-recurring pe
riods have shaken your political fabric to its
centre, and at last have undermined its very
foundation and these glorious proportions
which, under more kindly influence, might
have proven enduring as time, seem now to
be rapidly crumbling and tottering to their
fall. I adjure you citizens of Philadelphia,
by the proud memory of the past; by the
rich privileges of the present; by the fond
hopes of the future ; I call upon you by the
tender endearments of your homes; by the
holy influence of your altars—to send forth
a voice that shall be heard throughout the
length and breadth of this land proclaiming
your immutable devotion to the Union of
these States; your firm resolve that, by the
favor of Almighty God, this Union must and
shall be maintained.
The speaker then retired amid loud ap
plause.
Three cheers were proposed for Mayor
Henry, and given with a will.
During the delivery of this speech there
was considerable applause from a part of the
audience, gentlemen on the platform earn
estly participating.
Mr. John B. Meyers now read the resolu
tions:
THE RESOLUTIONS.
WuritEes, The people of the city of Phila
delphia having assembled in cheerful obe
dience to the proclamation of the Mayor, is
sued by the Mayor, issued by request of their
Councils, for the purpose of testifying their
love for the Union and their devotion to its
perpetuation, and to the strengthening of
those bonds which hold us together, whether
of the north or the south, the east or the west,
as one great and united people, do
Resolve, That with one voice and united
hearts we proclaim our attachment to and
reverence for the Constitution of the United
States, and our earnest and endearing love for
that great Union which it creates and protects
—a love which is not sectional, but national,
and that greets our brother, from whatever
State he comes, as a partaker with us in that
noblest of all inheritance, the title of a citizen
of the United States.
Resolved, That the usefulness and the en
durance of the Union both depend upon a
faithful observance, by the people of all the
States, of all therequirements of that sacred
instrument which the wisdom and the patri
otism of our fathers framed, and under
whose provisions we have become a great and
happy people, prosperous and renowned
among the nations of the earth.
Resolved. That we do therefore more deep
ly deplore the fact that some of the States of
this Union have placed upon their statute
books enactments which evade or defeat pro
visions which the framers of the Constitution
wisely inserted for the protection of the valu
able rights of citizens of other States, and
that we pronounce all such acts to be viola
tions of the solemn compact by which we are
made one people, and that we earnestly ap
peal to our brethren of those States instantly
to repeal all such enactments.
Resolved, That the people of Philadelphia
hereby pledge themselves to their brethren
of the other States that the statute books of
Pennsylvania shall be carefully searched by
their Representatives at the approaching ses
sion of the Legislature ; and that every stat
ute, if any such there be, which in the least
degree invades the 'Constitutional rights of
citizens of a sister State, will be at once re
pealed ; and that Pennsylvania, ever loyal to
the Union and liberal in construing her obli
gations to it, will he'faithful always in her
obedience to its requirements.
Resolved, That we recognize the obligations
of the act of Congress of 1850, commonly
known as the Fugitive Slave law, and submit
cheerfully to its faithful enforcement; and
that we point with pride and satisfaction to
the recent conviction and punishment, in this
city, of those who had broken its provisions
by aiding in the attempted rescue of a slave,
as proof that Philadelphia is faithful in her
obedience to the law; and furthermore that
we recommend to the Legislature of our own
State the passage of a law which shall give
compensation, in case of the rescue of a cap
tured slave, by the county in which such res
cue occurs, precisely as is now done by ex
isting laws in case of destruction of property
by the violence of mobs.
Resolved, That as to the question of the
recognition of slaves as property, and as to
the question of the rights of slave owners in
the Territories of the United States, the peo
ple of Philadelphia submit themselves obe
diently and ..:heerfully to the decisions of the
Supreme Court of the United States, whether
now made, or hereafter to be made, and they
pledge themselves faithfully to observe the
Constitution in these respects as the same has
been or may be expounded by that august
tribunal ; and further, they recommend that
whatever points of doubt exist touching these
subjects be done in an amicable and lawful
way,forthwith submitted to the consideration
of said Court, and its opinion he accepted as
the final and authoritative solution of all
doubts as to the meaning of the Constitution
in controverted points.
Resolved, That all denunciation of slavery
as existing in the United States, and of our
fellow-citizens who maintain that institution
and who hold slaves under it, are inconsistent
with that spirit of brotherhood and kindness
which ought to animate all who live under and
profess to support the Constitution of the
American Union.
Resolved, That we candidly approve the
suggestion that a Convention or Congress of
delegates from the States contemplating se
cession be held for the purpi 8 1 of consultation
upon the cause that induced them to medi
tate such a step, and of suggesting such rem
edies as they would propose, and that it is
the firm conviction of the citizens of Phila
delphia that the propositions made by such
Convention would be received by the people
of the other States in a fraternal and concil
iatery spirit and with an earnest desire to re
move all grounds of just complaint.
Resolved, That we appeal to our brethren
of South Carolina, of Georgia and Alabama,
f Mississippi and Florida, and of such (idler
States as are considering the question of se
ceding from the Union, with all the affection
a'e eornestness we can express, to forbear.
That we remind them of the innumerable ties
which bind us together as one people, and
which seem to us so stroll , * that no power
short of that which parat,zes all memory,
and effaces all history, can separate us.—
That the ashes of those brave men who fought
with us and for us rest beneath our soil, and
that they have in their keeping the bones of
our soldiers who perished in their defence.—
That our glorious institutions under whose
guidance and protection we have attained to
so great prosperity and renown, and which
have made this Union of States the joy and
hope of oppressed millions throughout the
world, were framed by the wisdom, built by
the toil, and defended by the blood, of a cord
mon ancestry, and cannot perish without an
eternal reproach to us, their children, if we
destroy so great and so fair an inheritance.
News by Telegraph.
The South Carolina Convention.
COLUMBIA, S. C., Dec. 17.—This city is full
of strangers, and the delegates to the State
Convention have generally arrived. There
is a great display of Palmetto flags and cock
ades, hut no great excitement, as the whole
feeling is for immediate secession. The Con
vention will organize at noon.
Universal Zszion Tribute to Stephen. A. Doug-
WASHINGTON, Dec., I.G.—The best Vindica
tion that Judge Douglas should desire at
the present moment is the almost universal
expectation indulged and expressed, that be
shall make his great Union speech at the earli
est possible day. lie is regarded as the best
living exponent of the national sentiment
that now thrills the heart and unites the
masses of the American people.
Ex Premdent Fillmore a Messenger of Peace.
ilurrni,o, N. Y., DEC. 12.—Three hun
dred prominent citizens held a olceting last
evening for the purpose of requesting Es-
President Fillmore to proceed to South Caro
lina as a messenger of peace.
National Convention of the Union Prayer
Meeting—A Day of Humiliation and Pray
er Appointed.
WASHINGTON, DEC. 13. —The National Con
vention of Union Prayer Meetings was in
session here to-day, and passed a resolution
by a unanimous vote, recommending to all
Christian churches, and all praying people,
to set apart the first Monday in January as
a day of humiliation and prayer, in view of
the present dearth of spiritual things in the
churches, nud the present dangers which
threaten the peace and prosperity of the
country.
The United States Government declared a
Nuisance by a United States Grand Jury.
MONTGOUERY, ALA., Dec. 13.—The .Adver
tiser publishes the presentment of the Grand
Jury of the United States District Court de
claring the Federal Government a worthless
and impotent nuisance, as it permits viola
tions of the Constitution, allows States to
nullify the fugitive slave law, and for other
causes.
SINGULAR, PIIENOMENON.-MiSS °MOIRA,
a citizen of this town, has been deprived of
sight and the power to articulate a single
word for the last fifty-five years. About three
weeks ago, as she described it, without any
extra effort on her part, she began to converse,,
and now holds conversation with all who vis,
it her. It seems to her as if a new life and
a new world bad been opened to her. Al
though she cannot say " whereas I was blind
now I see," yet she can say, whereas I was
dumb now I speak." Miss Ormsbee is now
seventy-five years old, and become dumb
when she was twenty years of age.— Worm?
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