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HUNTINGDON, PA.
W. Lewis, Editor and Proprietor
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Wednesday morning, Feb. 14, 1866.
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UNION COUNTY COMMITTEE
The members of the Union County
Committee, will assemble at the Frank
lin House, in the borough of Hunting.
don, at 2 o'clock, r. nt., on , Tuesday
the 20th day of February inst., for the
purpose of sending delegates to repres
sent this district, in the Union State
Convention, to be held in Harrisburg
on the 7th day of March next. As this
is an important meeting it is hoped a
full attendance of the members will be
present. A. H. BAUMAN,
-- Chairman Union Co. Committee.
Mapleton, Feb. 2, 1860.
The following are the members of
the Committee:
A. H. BAUMAN, Chairman County Committee.
Alexandria 2 -Dr. G. W. Huyett, Wm. M. Phillips.
Barree—Thomas P. Love, John Logan.
Brady—B. A. Green, Winchester 'McCarthy.
Birmingbams..-G. W. Owen, John It. Thompson.
Cass—Benjamin Fink, David Stever.
Ca Farina—lL B. Wiliams, D. Clarkson.
Cromwgll—T. E, Orbison, Ahem. Carothers.
Carbon—J. F. Ramey, Henry Cook.
Clay—Samuel McVitty, Adam Iteeter.
CoolmontG. A. Heaton, J. S. Berkstrosser.
Dublin—Henry C. Robinson, Wm. etymons. •
Franklin—J. Wareham Slattern, Bruce John son.
llnntingdoa—Samuel T. Brown, James Port.
Henderson—John Warefield, James Hamilton.
Enteken, John Donaldson.
Juniata—A. Shenefelt, Levi Ridenour.
Jackson—Samuel Steffey, A. Oaks.
Lower West, Collins Homer, Isaac M.Neff.
Morris—Dr. S. Thompson, Abr'm. 'tarnish.
Mount Union—lsaac Smith, Isaac Swoops.
Oneida—Charles Green, Wln. Miller.
Orbisonia—D. S. Baker, T. M. Kelly.
Penn—John Householder. Philip Garner.
Porter—A. O. Nell, John Iluyett.
Petersburg—J. 9. McCarthy, Joseph Johnson.
Shirley—George W. Whittaker, Robert Bingham.
Shirleysburg—William B. Leh, Peter Myers.
Springfield—Storels Cutaball. Benedict Stevens. •
Tell—William Wilson, Jesse Yocum,
Todd—John Kitterman, H. S. Green.
Upper West—Henry Neff, Thomas Montgomery.
Union—John 9 Henderson, Richard Chilcote.
Walker—James Ward, Joseph McCoy.
Warriorsmark—B. F. Patton, R. Wills.
Gubernatorial,
The Union State Coniention will be
held on the 7th of next month. There
will be quite a respectable number of
names of prominent gentlemen brought
before . the Conveltion for Governor.
We have been watching the progress of
the strength of the candidates . over the
State, and it is impossible for us.to say
with any degree of certainty It the
present time who has the inside track.
Gen. Geary, of Cumberland, Hon. J.
K. Morehead, of Allegheny, and Hon.
Ketchum, of Luzern e, appear to,
have equal strength so far as counties
have given an expression oreference.
There aro numerous other candidates
who will show some strength by the
time the Convention meets. As the
race is not always to the swift the first
may be last by the time the contest is
over. A State Convention of working
politicians is a heavy weight to con
trol by any ono man.
The Fish Bill.
The fish bill for the opening of the
dams in the Susquehanna, Juniata, &c.,
passed the House last week by a tie
vote. Our members of course voted
for it. There is a strong opposition to
it by the Tide Water Canal and other
companies. We hope our Representa
tives and Senators will be watchful
.and assist to the extent of their abilities
to put, the bill through. Everybody
likes fresh fish.
Relief for Ohambersburg.
A bill has passed the House appro
priating $500,000 for the relief of the
citizens of Chambersburg, who suffered
so severely by the fire caused by the
rebels. The bill received some oppo
sition but was . finally passed by a large
majority. As the citizens of Chem
bersbarg suffered more severely than
any other in the State, we think the
appropriation was just and will meet
a hearty endorsement of the tax-pay
ers of the State.
The President on Negro Suffrage,
We publish today a very important
:speech of President Johnston on negro
suffrage. It is important because it
gives the President's views upon the
subject and indicates very clearly that
he will not approve a bill forcing negro
suffrage upon a people against the ex
pressed will of a majority.
im.The total number of the gradu
ates of West Pohit, who were in the
regular army at the commencement of
the war, was eight hundred and twen
ty. Of this number one hundred and
ninety-seven resigned and joined the
South, leaving six hundred and twen
ty.one loyal graduates who remained
in arms for the Union, of which, num
ber no less than one hundred and thir
ty-eight, or nearly as many as those
who resigned, •were natives of the
Southern States.
AW7* The merchants, butchers and
millers of Bethlehem, Pa., have pub
-3lshed a printed list in pamplet form,
containing the names of 480 citizens of
that place,—bad paymasters, who will
po longer be allowed credit by the
merchants, butchers and millers afore
said. Many persons making preten
sions to high standing, are among the
tabooed.
• The United States Qnarterreas•
ter's Department has realized over
nine thousand dollars from the sale of
Government buildings at Annapolis,
Maryland,
"Who is for the Soldier Now ?"
This question is asked by the editors
of the Journal & American in their last
issue, and follow it up with an attack
upon the character of John Scott, Esq.,
and a fling at us and all others who
acted with the old Demodratic party
before the war commenced. " Who is
for the Soldier now ?" Why we are and
always have been—and we have no
doubt Mr. Scott is, and if ho had been
consulted before his name was brought
before the public for the office of Gov
ernor,-we are very sure ho would have
objected to his name being announced
for thatposition. Lastfall we urged the
nomination of soldiers for the offices to
be filled by the voters of the Union
party of the county. Where was, the
Journal & - American and its present
editors and proprietors then ? Who
does not remember the opposition they
made to the nomination of a soldier
ticket? Who does not remember the
forgeries the office was guilty of for the
purpose of defeating, the maimed sot ,
dier Judge Beaver, the man the edi
tors denounce in their last paper as a
ouEnarrs.A. Perhaps it would not be
safe for Robert McDivitt, John Nash
or any of the & Co., to call Judge
Beaver a guerrilla to his face—he might
use the only arm left and strike them
to the earth, a just punishment for their
impudence. The insult to Judge Beav
er is an insult to every soldier of the
Union army, particularly to those of
the company to which the Judge bo
longod.
But why the enthusiasm of the Jour
nal & American now for the soldier can
didate, General Geary? Is it not be.
cause we have not advocated his claims
in our editorial columns? Certainly
it is. If we had raised Gen. Geary's
name to our mast head a week before
the. Journal & American done so, is
there a man in the county who has
watched the spirit of that sheet for five
years past ready to believe, that its
editors would have endorsed our course
and also raised his name 7 No-Lthey
would have been opposite to us if to
be so they would have been compelled
I to go into the opposition party for a
candidate as some, if not all, of their &
Co. clique in tows sneakingly did last
fall. Our course last fall was objected
to by the Journal & American clique,
and also by many of our good civilian
friends who were themselves or had
civilian friends up for nomination, be
cause we urged in our editorial col
otnns that a preference' bo given the
soldiers. To avoid the same feeling,and
difficulty, in the selection of a candi
date for Governor, we, early in the
winter determined to leive the ques
tion solely with ,the party of the coun
ty, throwing open our coldrins gratu
itously to the friends of any gentleman
for that • honorable position. The
friends of John Scot feeling that he
was as able and as reliable a Union
man as any named for the office,urged
his nomination in two communications
published in our columns. The friends
of othor candidates had the same priv
itege—no man has been denied. Bre
have not expressed a preference in the,
Globe for 'any one of the candidates.
We have not ventured to dictate who
should bei the Union candidate, but
have left that for the party, individu
ally 'and collectively, to determine.
And certainly this course is liberal and
should be satisfactory to every Union
man. But because we have been thus
liberal, and because Mr. Scott has been
named through our columns for Gov
ernor, the Journal & American' hush.
whackers denounce Mr. Scott and hiti
friends, including our humble self, as
enemies to the soldiers. Mr. Scott is
too well known at home and abroad to
be injured- by any falsehood emanating
from the pen of Robert. McDivitt, edi
tor in chief of the guerrilla organ, or
any of its & Co. soreheads. As for our
own political standing in the Union
party we shall leave our works, known
to the party, speak for themselves.
It is not necessary for us to say that
Mr. Scott is a friend of the soldier. If
he had been consulted-he would not
now be a candidate, but the, conduct of
the Journal& American editors compeils
him in justice to himself and his friends
to lay his name before the Union Com
mittee of the county for an endorse
ment or rejection, and wo shall see
wlfether guerrilla dictation or a sound
Union feeling shall prevail.
We have not room this week to no
tice further the article in the last Jour
nal &• American, but will refer to it
again,
ge„,The Secretary of the Treasury
contemplates having the waste notes
and securities, that are now destroyed
by burning, converted into pulp for
paper Stock. The quantity destroyed
in the last fiscal year was about thirty
tons, tnd in the present year it is esti•
mated that this sort of waste will
amount to as much as forty tones. It
has been suggested that out of that
stock, which would have to be reduced
to pulp in the Treasury, paper and en
velopes could be manufactured for
Government use. The value of envel
opes now required in the Treasury, is
about ten thousand dollars per year.
ma * Accounts of the progress of ope
rations in the construction of the Russo
American telegraph, • via Behrings
Straits, state that the line is well ad.
vanced on both the American and Asi
atic sides of the Pacific Ocean, and
soundings which have been made in
the Straits show excellent bottom on
which to lay the submarine cable.
Russian officials are giving every possi
ble assistance, and Col. Bulilley is san
guine of the early completion of tele%
graphic communication by this route
between New York and all important
points in Europe and Asia.
iBIET3'NWIL.II.4G-3EL
A Delegation of Colored Men at the
Executive Mansion.
Their Interview with the Presi-
dent and his Speech
WASHINGTON, February 7, 1800.
The delegation of colored represen
tatives from different States of the
country, now in Washington,•to urge
the interests of the colored people be
fore the Government, had an inter
view with the President this afternoon.
The delegation was as follows:
Frederick Douglas's, of New York;
George T. Downing, representing the
New England States ; Lewis H. Doug
lass, son of Fred. Douglass, and Wm.
E. Matthews, of Maryland; Ino. Jones
of Illinois; John L. Cook, of the Dist
rict of Columbia; A. J. Raynier, of S.
Carolina; Joseph Oats, of Florida; A.
W. Ross, of Mississippi; Wm. Ripper,
of Pennsylvania; John 111. Brown and
Alexander Dunlap, of Virginia, and
Calvin Pepper (white), of Vir g inia.
The President shook hands kindly
with each member of the delegation,
Frederick Doui;lamftiAadvan6n , rfw
that purpose. George T. Downing
then addressed the President as follows
We present ourselves to' your Excel
lency to make known with pleasure
the reSpedt which we aro glad to cher
ish for you—a respect which is your
duo as our Chief Magistrate. It is our
desire for you to know that we come
feeling that we aro friends meeting as
friends. We should, however, have
manifested our friendship by not com•
tug to further• tax your already much
burdened and valuable time. • 'Bat we
have another object in calling. We
are in a passage to equality before the
law. God bath made it by opening a
Red Sea. Wo would have your assis
tance through the same. We come to
you in the name of the United States,
and arc delegated to come• by •some
who have•unjustly worn iron manacles
on their bodies; by some whose minds
Ihave been trammelled by class legisla
tion in States called free.
The colored people of tho States of
Illinois, Wisconsin, Alabama, Mississ
ippi, Florida, South Carolina, North
Carolina, irir inia, Maryland,Pennsyl
vania, New Tork,New England states,
and District of Columbia, have special
ly delegated us to come. Our corning
is a marked circumstance denoting do
%ermined hope; that we are not saris.
fled with an' amendment prohibiting
slavery, but that we wish it enfbrced
With appropriate legislation. This is
our desire. We ask for it intelligently,
with the knowledge and conviction
that the fathers of the resolution inten
ded freedom for every American; that
they should be protected in their - rights
as citizens and equals before the law.
We are Americans native born
Americans. We are citizens, we are
glad to have it krulwri to the world,
and bearing not doubtful record on this
point. On this fact, And with confi
dence. in the triumph of justice, we
base our hopes. We see no .recogni
tion of color or race in the organic law
of the land. It knows no privileged
bless, and therefore we cherish the hope
that wo may be fully enfranchised, not
only herd in this District, but through
out the land. We respectfully submit
that rendering anything less than this
will be rendering to us less than our
just duo; that granting anything less
than our full rights will be a-disregard
of our just rights; of disrespect for our
feelings. If the powers that be so
it will be used as a license, as it were,
or an apology for any community or
for individuals, thus disposed to out•
!
rage our rights and feelings. It has
Been shown' in the present war.that
.the Government may justly reach the
strong arm into States and demand
from them, from those who owe' it al
logianco, their assistance and support.
May it not reach, out a like arm to se
cure and protect itssnhjects upon whom
'it has a like claim.
Frederick Douglass advanced and
addressed the President, saying :
HR. PRESIDENT : We are net hero to
enlighten you, sir, as to your duties as
the Chief Magistrate' of the Republic,
but to show our respect, and to present
in brief the claims of our race to your
favorable consideration. By the order
of Divine Providence you are placed
in a position where you have the pow
er to save or destroy us—to bless or
blast us. I moan our whole
Your noble and humane predecessor
placed in our hands the power to as.
sist in saving the nation, and wo do
hope that you, his able successor, will
favorably regard the placing in our
hands of the ballot, with which to save
ourselves. We shall submit no argu
ment on that point. The fact that we
are the subjects of government and
subject to taxation—subject to voltin-
Leer in the service of the country—
subject to bejkg drafted—and subject
to bear the bffdens of the State, makes
it not improper that we should ask to
share in the privileges of this condition.
I have no speech to Make on this oc
casion. I simply submit those observ.
ations as a limited expression of the
views and feelings of the delegation
with whom I have come.
The following is substantially the
response of the ,President
In reply to some of your inquiries,
not to make a speech, about this mat
ter—for it is always best to talk plain
ly and distinctly about such questions
—I will say that if I have not given
evidence in my former course that I
am a friend of humanity,. and to that
portion of it which constitutes the col.
orod populationj can give no evidence
hereafter. Everything that I have
had both as regards life and. property,
has been perilled in this cause, and I
feel and think tlfat I understand (not
to be egotistic) what should be the true
direction of this question, and what
course of policy would result in the
amelioration and ultimate elevation
not only of the colorod,but of the great
mass of the people of the United States.
I say that if I have not given evidence
that I am a friend of humanity, and
especially the friend of the colored man
in my past• conduct, there is nothing
that I can now do that would. I re,
peat, all that I possessed, life, liberty
and property, have been put up in
connection with that question, when I
had every indticement held oukto take
the other course, by adopting which I
would have accomplished, perhaps, all
that the most ambitious might have
desired.
If I know myself and the foolings of
my own heart, they have been for the
colored man. I have owned slaves and
bought slaVes; but I never Sold one.—
I might say, however, that practically
so far as my - connection with slaves has
gone, I have boon their slave instead
of their being mine. • Some have even
followed here, while others aro occupy
ing and enjoying my property with my.
consent. For the colored race my
means, my time, my all have been pe
rilled, and now, at this late day, after
giving evidence that is tangible, that
is practical, I am free to tell you that
I do not like to be arraigned by some
who can get up handsomely rounded
periods, and deal in rhetoric talk about
abstract ideas of liberty, who never
porilled life, liberty or property. This
kind of theoretical, hollow, impractical
friendship amounts to but .very little.
While I say that I am a friend of the
colored man, I do not want to adopt
policy that I believe will and in a con
test between the races, which, if per
sisted in, will result in the extermina
tion of ono or the other. God forbid
that I should be engaged •in such a
work now. It is always best to talk
practically - (End in a common sense way
Yes, I have said, and I repeat it hero,
that if thh colored man" in the United
States could find no other Moses, or
•any Moses that would be more able
and efficient than myself, I would be
his Moses to lead him - from borclage to
freedom ; that I would pass him from
a land where he had lived in slavery
to a land (if it were in our reach) of
freedom. Yes, I would be willing to
pass with him through the Red Sea to
the land of promise, to the land of lib
erty ; but 1 am not willing, under ei
ther eircumstances„to adopt a policy
which I believe will only result in the
sacrifice of his life and the shedding of
his blood. I think I know what I say;
I feel what I say; and I foul assured
that if the policy urged by some be
persisted in, it will result in great in
jury to the white as well as to the col
ored man. There is a great deal of
talk about the sword in one hand ac
complishing one end, and the ballot
accomplishing another at the ballot
box. These things all do very well,-
and sometimes hhve forcible applicas
tion:
•We talk about justice—we talk about
right: We say that the white man has
been in the wrong in keeping the black
man in slavery as long as he has. That
is all true. Again, we. talk about the
Declaration of Independence, and e
quality before the law. You under
stand all that, and know how to appre
ciate it: But now let us look each oth
er in the face. Let us go to the great
mass of colored men throughout the
slave States. Let us take the condi
tion in Which they are at the present
time(and it, is bad'enough we all know)',
and s suppose, by some magic,you could
say to every one, ."You shall vote to
morrow." How Much would that a
meliorate their condition at this time?
Now lot us gin closer up to this sub.
ject andtalk about it. What relation has
the colored man and the white man
heretofore occupied in the South ? I
opposed slavery upon two grounds.
First, it was a great, monopoly, ena
bling those who controlled and owned
it to constitute an aristocracy,enabling
the feW to derive great profits and rule
the many with an iron rod, as it were;
and that is one groat objection to it in
argument, its being a monopoly. I was
opposed to it, secondly, upon the ab
stract principle of slavery. Hence in
getting clear of a monopoly we were
getting clear of slavery at the same
time. So you see, there were two
right cads accomplished in the accom
plishment of the ono.
. Mr. Douglas. Mr. President : Do you
wish—
The President.: I ant not quite
through yet. Slavery has been abol—
ish.e.d. A great national guarantee has
been given—one that cannot be revok
ed. 1 was getting at the relation that
subsisted between the white man and
the colored man. A very small pro•
portion of white persons, compared
with the whole number of such, owned
the colored
: people Of the South. 1
might inStanee.the State of Tennessee
in illustration. There were twenty
seven non slavoboldors to one slave
holder'
and yet the slave power 'lion
trolled that State. Let us tails about
the matter as it is.
Although the colored man was in
slavery there, arid owned as property
in the sense and in the language of
that locality and of that community,
yet in comparing his condition and his
position there with thonon slaveholder,
he usually estimated his importance
just in proportion to the number of
slaves that his master owned with the
non slaveholder. Have you never lived
upon a plantation.
Mr. Douglass.. I have your Excel
lency.
The' President. When you could
look over and see a man, who had a
large family, struggling hard upon a
poor piece of laud, you thought a great
deal less of him, than you did of your
own master.
Mr. DoUglass. Not 1..•
The President.' Well, I know sirch
was the case with a largo majority of
you in tnose sections where such is the
case. We know there is an enmity: we
know there is a hate. The poor white
man, on the other band, was opposed
to the slave and his master, for the
colored man and his master eombined,
kept him in slavery by depriving him
of a fair participation in the labor and
production of the rich lands of the
Country. Don't you know that a co.-
lored man in going to hunt a master
(as they call it) for the next year pre.
ferred hiring to a man who owned
slaves rather than one did not. I
know the fact, at all events.
Mr. Douglass. Because they treated
him better.'
The President. They did not consid
er it quite as respectable to hiro to a
man who did not own negroes as to
hire to one who did.
Mr. Douglass. Because he wouldn't
be treated as well.
The President. Then that is anoth
er argument in favor of what I am go.
ing to say. It shows that the colored
man appreciated the slave-owner mop
highly than he did the man who didn't
own slaves. Hence the enmity be'
tween the colored man and the non—
slava-holders. The white man was
permitted to vote before government
was derived froth him. He is a part
and parcel of political machinery, not
by rebellion or revolution.
And Whoa you come back to the ob
jects of this war, you find that the abo
lition of slavery was not one of the
objects. Congress, and the President
himself, declared that it was waged on
our part in order to suppress the res
hellion. The abolition of slavery has
come Iv an incident to the suppres-
Sion of a great rebellion—as an inci
dent, dud as an incedent we should
give it the proper direction. The co
lored man wont into this rebellion a
slave. By the operation of the rebel
lion he came out a freedman, equal to
freedmen in other portions of the coun-.
try. Then there is a great deal done
for him on this point. The non slave
holder Nib° was forced into the rebel
lion and was as loyal as those that
lived beyond the limits of the State,
was carried into it, and his property,-
and in- a number of instances the lives
of' such were sacrificed, and he who
has survived has come out of it with
nothing gained, but a great deal lost.
Now, upon a principle of justice,
should they be placed in a condition
different, Born what they .were before?
On the ono hand ono has gained a
great deal. On the other hand one has
Jost a great deal, and, in a political
point of view, scarcely stands where
Le did before.
Now we are talking about where
we aro going to begin. We have got
at the .hate that existed between the
two races. The query comes up wheth
er these two races, Situated as they
were before, without preparation,with•
out time for passion and excitement
to be appeased, and without time for
the slightest improvement, whether
the one should be turned loose upon
the other and be thrown together at
the ballot-box with this enmity and
hate existing between them ? The que
tty comes up will we not there com
mence a war of aces ? I think I ow
derstand this OMg; and. espech i dly is
this the case when you felt; it Upon a
people without their consent.
You have spoken about government.
Where is power derived from We
say it is derived from the people. Let
us take it so, and refer to the District
of Columbia by way of illustration.
Suppose, for instance, here in this po
litical community, which to a certain
extent must have government, must
have law, and putting it now upon
the broadest basis you can put it, take
into consideration the relation which
the white has heretofbre borne to the
colored race; Ti it proper to force . upon
this community, without their consent,
the elective franchise without regard
to color, making it universal,?
Now, where do you begin ? Govern
ment must have a controlling power=
must have a lodgment. For instance:
suppose Congress should pass a law
authorizing an election to be hold, at
which all over 21 years of ago, with
out regard to color, should be allowed
to vote, and a majority should decide
at such election that the elective fran
chise should not be universal, 411itt
would you do about it ? Who would
settle it ? Do you deny that first great
principle of the right of the people to.
govern themselves ? Will you resort
to an arbitrary power, and say a ma
jority of this people shall receive a
state of things they are opposed to ?
Mr. Douglass. That was said before
the war.
The President.. I am now talking
about a principle, not what somebody
else said.
Mr. Douglam. Apply what you havo
said, Mr. President, to South Carolina,
for instance;
, The President. Suppose you go to
South Carolina—suppose you go to
Ohio—that does not change the prin
ciple at all. The query to which I
have referred still comes up when the
Government is undergoing a funda•
mental change: The Government
commenced upon this principle ; it has
oXisted upon it, and you propose now
to incorporate into it an element that
did not exist before. I say the query
comes up, in undertaking this thing,
whether we have a tight to
. pialce
change in regard to the elective fran
chise in Ohio, for instance—whether
we shall not let the people in that
State decide the matter for them
selves
Each community better prepared
to determine thq, depository of its po•
litical power than anybody olso, and
it is for the Legisiature, for the people .
of Ohio-to say who shall vote and not
the Congress of the United States. I
might go down hero to the Watt box
to-morrow and vote directly fon uni•
versal suffrage, but if a great majority
of this people said no,I should consid
er • it would be tyrannical and arbitra
i'y in 'mo tcrattempt to force it upon
them without their will. It is a fun
damental_ text in. my creed that the
will of the people must be obeyed,
when fairly expressed. Is there any
thing wrong or unfair. in that ?
Mr. Douglass (smiling). A great
deal of wrong,'Mr. President, with all
respect.
The President. It is the people of
the States that . must for themselves
determine this question: I do not
want to be engaged in a work that
will commence a war of races. I want
to begin the work of reparation. If a
man demeans himself well, and shows
evidence that this new state of affairs
will operate, he will be protected in all
his rights, and given every possible ad
-vantage y the State or community in
which ho lives when they become re
conciled socially and politically to cer
tain things. Then will this new order
of affairs work harmoniously. But
fbrcod upon the people before they.are
prepared for it, it will be resisted and
work inharmoniously. I feel a con
viction that forcing this matter upon
the people, upon the community, will
result in the injnry of both races, and
the ruin of ono or the other:
God knows I have no-desire but the
good of the whole human race. I
would it were so that all you advocate
could be done in the twinkling of an
eye. But it is not in the nature of
thinas, and I do not assume or pre
tend' to be wiser than Providence, or
stronger than the laws of nature. Let
us now seek to discover the laws gov
erning the question. There is a great
law controlling it. Let us endeavor
to find out what that law is, and con
form our action to it. All the details
will then properly adjust themselves,
and work out well in the end. God
knows that anything I can do I will
do in the mighty process by which
the great end is to be reached. Any
thing I can do to elevate the nacos, to
soften and ameliorate their condition,
I will do, and to be able to do so is the
sincere desire of my heart. I am glad
to have met you, and thank.you for the •
compliment you have paid me. •
Mr. Douglass. I have to return you
our thanks, Mr: President, for so kind
ly granting us this interview. We did
not conic bore expecting to argue
this question with your Excellency,
but simply to state what wore our
views and wishes in the premises. If
we were disposed to argue the question
and you would grant us permission, of
course we would endeavor to contro
vert some of the positions you have as
sumed.
Mr. Downing. Mr. Douglass, I take
it that the President, by his kind ex
pressions and his very full treatment
of the subject, must have contempla
ted some reply to the views, which he
has advanced, and in which wo cer
tainly do not concur, and I say this
with due respect.
The President. I thought you expec
ted me' to indicate, to some extent,
what 'my views were 'on the subject
touched .upon in yout statement.
Mr. Downing. We aro very happy
indeed to have heard them.
Mr. Douglass. If the President,w4
allow me
' I would like . t 6 say one or.
two words in
The President. What I have done
is simply to indicate what ihy views
are, as I suppose you expected me to .
from your addreSs.
Mr. Douglass. My own impression
is that the very thing that your . .Excel•
lency would avoid in the Southern
States, can only be averted by the very
measure that we propose, andl. would
Elate to my brother . delegates, that be.
cause I perceive the President has ta—
ken strong ground in faVor of agiven
policy, and distrusting my own ; ability
to remove any of those impresSions
which ho has expressed, I thought we
bad better end• the interview with an
expression of our thanks.
[ addressing tho'President.] But if
your Excellency- would= be pleased to
hear, I Weald like to say ' a word or
two in regard to that one matter of the
enfranchisement of the blacks as - a
means of preventing the very - thing
which yourExcelleecy seems to appro.
bend—that is; a conflict of races.
The President. I repeat that I mere
ly iwanted to indicate my views in re
ply to your - address, and not to enter
had any general controversy, as I
could not well do under the circum
stances. Your statement :was a very
frank one, aad I thought it was due to
you to meet in the smile spii it.
Mr. Douglass. Thank you, sir.
The President. I think you: will find
so far as the South is concerned, that
if you will all inculcate , their ideas in
connection with your .owe, that the
colored people can , live and advance in
civilization to better. advantage else,
where, than crowded together in the
South, it would be bettor for them:
Mr. Douglass. But the masters have
the making of the laws, and we cannot
. get, away fromthe plantations. ,
The President. What prevents yon?
Mr. DouglasS. We brive not the sim
ple right of locomotion through the
Southern States now.
The PreSident. It the master now
controls him or his action, would he
not control him in his vote?
Mr. Douglass. Let the negro once
understand that ho has a right to vote
and he will raise a party in the SOOT.
ern States among the poor: that will
rally with him. There is Chi's conflict
that you speak of between the wealthy
slaveholder and the poor man.
The President. You teneh.right up
on the point there. There is this con
flict, and•hence I suggest emigration.
If he cannot get employment in tho
South, he has it in hiS power to go
where he can get it. • :
In parting the President said, that
they were both desirous of accomplish
leg
-
the same ends, hut proposed to do.
Boby' following different roads.
Mr. Douglass, on turning to Willie
remarked to his fellow delegates, "the
President sends us to the people, and.
we Nvill have to go and get the:people,
right."
The President. Yes, - sir: I have
great faith in the people. I believe
they will do what is just, and .have_ no
doubt they :will settle this question
Tight, and hope that it Will he submit-:
ted to theinTor final action:
• The delegation then bowed and with
drew.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
rrIMIBLE SKEINS AND ' PIPE
BOXES for wagons of all eine, for solo ett the hard
ware store . Lra4,l,scol • JAS. A. BILOWN..
QIIERI.FIis'S SALE.
it virtue of a writ of fr. fa:tome directed I will
expon to public eale or outcry on the premises, •
On Tuesday, 6th of ilfareh 1866 ,
Tho right, title and interest of Andrew Beers, in the fol
lowing noosed property: •
A LOT OF GROUND
in FRANKLIN township, bounded on the north by lands
of Win; Curry, on the rust by lands of James Oliver, nod
on the south and west by lends of Martha Ewing and Jas.
Oliver, having a dwelling house and barn thereon erected
Seized, taken in execution nod to be sold by
fol 3 J. F. BATOURST, Sheriff.
TWO TRACTS OE' LAND
3E"' C 3) 11. M AL Ma 3EIL:
Tho subgcriber will offer at public sato on tko premises
at 2 o'clock, p.
On Friday oth day of March next,
Two tracts of laud in JUNIATA township, Huntingdon
coo uty, adjoining the farm on which lie now resides, viz:
No.l —A tract of about two hundred and sixty acres,
all timber, consisting of ithu best white oak, rock oak,
popiar,chestuut and hickory there is in this Beaton' of
the country: This tract is valuable for saw timber, bark,
ties. cooporstutr,
No. - 2.—A tract of laud containing. about one hundred
acres. Ou this tract there are about thirty acres cleared.
and the balance well timbered. The improvements aro a
log house and log barn. and a good apple orchard. A
consinerablo portion of this land not improved is of the
host 'red shale in the country. .Tha tracts are easily to
be got at as .a township road runs through both.
Any person wishing further information, or to examine
the properties, will call on the subscriber.
Terms made known on day of sale.
Fehl2.3 A. it. S HENEFELT:
PDRE LIBERTY WHITE, LEAD,
The Whitest, the most durable and the most °collo:111ra
Try it! Manufactured only by
ZIEGLER & SMITH, • -
Wholesale Drug, Paint le Glass Dealers,
an24—ly . No. 131 North Third et.,
IAPER: PAPER!!
Note, Post, Commercial, Foelncep and Vb?.tca
. 11 7 tt
good assortment for sale by the ream, half rea1:11,349 or
sheet, at
NI:11 , 110011 .4 sTATymqy p..roTtE,
•
PT® tics e„
THE undersigned purchased at pub—
ne sale at Cassvillo. on the Slst January last, the fol-
lowing prop,rty sold as the property of George lleight
Ono gray mare, one bay mare, two eels of . genre, IWO
back Nvogons,.one two borne wagon, one cooking otovo'nod .
pipe, and one cow. ' • ' •
' Now thin is to notify. MI persons that l hero left the
above named property with George Height for safe keetn
tag and the name Is not to be removed from his possession
without my consent. fee-3 • . B. If. BAKER.
• .•
EXECUTORS' NOTICE-.
[E9tato of Her. Jacob Snyder ' dec'el.]
Letters testamentary, on the estate of Rey. Jacob Sny
der, Into of Porter . tirp.,.lfOuting.don co., deed., having
been granted to the underafgned, till- persons 'indebted
to. the estate aro requested to make 4mmedinte pnyaient,
and thoso having claims,' to prisent thernduly nuthentt
anted fur settlement.
JACOB HARI4CA3fhI,
JACOB SNYDER,
Janlo;l36o-Ct
A , DMINISTRATOA'S. NOTICE.;
. ,
Lettere of administration upon the esteto oftrar•
Harris ' of Morris township, deceased, hackie beau''
granted to the undersigned, all persons ore resplested to
make immediate payment, and those having claims
against the slime, to present then, for settlement.
HENRY 11AltRIS,
'Administrator,
spruce Creek, Jan '6O-6,t!v
A DMINISTRATORS' NOTICE.,'
[Estate oflVilliam U. Harper, deed.)
fetters of administration upon .the-estate of William
G. Harper, late of Dublin twp., deceased, having been
granted to the undersigned, all persons indebted to the
estate will make payment, end-those having claims will
present them for settlement.t .
MEI
3134cocztts; S,..l2,c•efs.
We aro now rolling our Rojate rind Shoes
AT REDUCED PRICES, • ,
Wllb a r iow of laying In o Spring stoelc.
, • - S.E. HENRY dr CO
I=
WATERSTREET FOUNDRY
.4.6n,abta . 3131.1sust • • •
THE undersigned baying purchased
tho.above . property mould take title method to inform
the public that ho le prepared to repels° and fill orders for
ALL KINDS OF CASTINGS; .
PLOWS, TIMLASIMbiG MA.OIIDiES, Ao., Ae.; and' ilea
will make emirepalrell kinds . of TtiraeblotritaelfineS;
. Sled and sleigh soles and other castings kept on hand.,
Old metal, Brass and Copper, taken - in exchange for
work. .1. M. P 1.2.1411,.
Waterstreet, Jan 9-3 m.
• . _ . _
• PENNSYLVANIA
MKT AND COLOR WORKS.
Liberty White_ Lea • •
• Liberty.. White Lead !
WRY IT ! TRY IT ! •
Warranted to cover more .surface, for same weight.
thou any other. - billy the best, Wis the cheapest.
- TRY LT !. • TRY.IT !
Liberty Ledd le whiter than any other.
Liberty Lend corer's better than any other.
• Liberty Lead w eats longer than any other.
Liberty Lead is more ecouoincal than any other.
Liberty Lead is more free from impurities and is
Warranted to do mote mid better work,
-at a given col, than any other. • ..
Buy the Best; it is the: cheapest . '
Manufactured and warranted by'
ZIEGLER & SMITH,
Wholesale Drug, Paint & Glass Dualera,.
137 11,Tort4. Third StiTet, Philada.
ctell,l.Bqstomeli7 : , ..;.
ESTEY'S COTTAGE ORGANS),
.
. .
• • '.. - Cottage Organ. ' __
. . . .
... -, -,.-..
~
i&A . .0,t r .it,y,„,
11 -1. 7-,-- - Arigiar" , -- -- - ,-,- -tal.' :1-- - z.- -----
-
• Are not only unexcelled, but they are absolutely unr,•
gualltd by any other Reed Instrument in the conntry.—•
Designed expressly for Churches and schools, they are
foand to be equally well adapted to tho parlor and draw,
•
• For' solobnly by - • • E.: 4 1.131113CE. '-:
No. 19 North SEVENTH street, Philadelphia:
;rip._ Also, BRADBURY'S PIANOS, and a leompleta as
sortment of tho PERVECT MELODEON. acl7-ly
BOBBINS' •
ELECTRIC SOAP,
SAVES L 5.13011, • • • .
SAVES TIMA,
sAvtls MONEY, •
SAVES CLOTHES,
. SAY.ES, so", r;.
„.
•
. SAVESV WOMEN:
It's the'Soep for Every Pamily.
Sold by 4rocers and Storelteepnrs throuihout city and'
country. Manufactured only by
J. B. DOBBINS & CO.,
TOT South Fifth street, 'below Chesisiit,
jan3-10t , PHILADELPHIA;''
INVENTORS' OFFICES
n'EPINEUIL & EVANS,
Civil Engineers akti Patent Solicitors,
:No. 435 Walnut St., Philada
Patents solicited COnsultations on. Engineering,
Draughting and dketchee, Models and Alachinery of all
kinds made and skillfully attended to. Special attention'
given to REJECTED CASES and INTERFERENCES.—
Antheutle.copies__of all Documents. from Teteot ,Offlce .
yourselves tzeolese . trouble and traveling.
expenses ' as there is no actual, need. for personal Inter-,
vievr with 138. All business with these Offices can b.
transacted io writing. For further information direct ea
above with stamp enclosed, fonCircular with references.
Tanuaryl7,lBo6-ly ' • ' '
; JAMES 11. ELDREDGE; CEO. P. ELDREDGE.
ELDREDGE 84.1R0
Publishers, Stationers, Bookseller's
iNto. 17 arid 19 South AVM. Street.
(Above Chestnnt,)
Particular attention paid to the country Wade.. •
Always on hand a large supply of T.ettev. Cap, MAO
Bill, and Wrapping Paper r Envelopes; School and
cellancons Books; Pens, Ink, Slates, MuCliage; Photo
graph Albums, Paper Bags, &c., &e., Bc..
Liberal terms to cash customers. ang:Stl,'o3-Iy.
81,50 n PER YEAR.—Wewant,
Agents everywhere to sell our nrnae
vinS2o Sewing Machines. Three new kinds. Under and
upper feed. warranted five yeara. Above salary or large
commissions paid.. The ()tux machines sold in the United,
States for lead than SIO., which are fully ficenVed bilrowe,
'Wheeler ill Wilton, Groner if Bake!, Singer if Cb.; and
13achehier. An other Cheap machines are infringemenfi
and the seller or user tire liable to arrest, fine and *arts
'onment. Circulars 'free. "Address, or call upon Shaw
Clark, Biddeford, Maine.' 4830-12,
•
BILLIARD'S ! •BILLLARDS ! ""."
JOSEPH L. POULTON'
Strawberry Alley, near Third Street,
FpiItRISAVIIG
Respectfully informs the pablie that
he has opened for their use his now.and elegantly fitted:
up Billiard Room. It contaius • , •
FOWL :NEW TABLES OF WARP'S MANUFACTURE.
superior to any 110 W in the city, •
'This Billiard. itoone challeoges comparison with soy
soopi in thb State, west of rbiladolplda. . -
]lard
COAL.—A superior artiel4
f tf ard Coal for Et 11!
T . '
~.. E.llENia ilt C . 0 ., :
Executors
notEßT.iiiiirrat;
J. E.
Aduquistrators.