tmn-i AMERICAN VOLUNTEER JOHN B. BRATTON. Editor & Proprietor CARLISLE, PA., MARCH 4, 1858. !K7“Tho Democratic Stater Convention meets at Harrisburg to-day, (Tlmrsday.) Bishop Potter. —We arc requested to men tion that Bishop Potter, having been Strieker down with paralysis, is not ablo-to meet his ap pointments, and consequently will not visit Carlisle, as expected, next Sunday. DC7" Wo are requested to state that Dr.' Car bon will deliver a series of lectures on the sub jects of Anatomy, Physiology, &c., in Literary Hall, Newville. The introductory lecture (which will bo free,) will be delivered on Satur day evening, March 0. L, Bank Note Detector. —We have received the March number of “Peterson’s Philadelphia Counterfeit Detector, and Bank Note List.”—- This is the best publication of its ki d now is-: sued, and.we recommend it to the patronage of the public. Terms §1 per year, published monthly. • A bill was reported in our State Legis lature, to compel all railroads in the Common wealth to fence their roads whenever viewers, upon appointment by the courts, shall deem it necessary, upon 1 petitions of citizens properly filed to grant such views. D-F" Wo notice by the proceedings:of our State Legislature, that a bill relative to thosalc of lands for the non-payments of taxes haspass ' branches. THE COU.VTV. CO.WEXTM. In another column wo publish the proceed ’ ings of our County Convention, which assem bled at this place on Monday to appoint a Dele gate to represent this county, in the 4th of March Democratic State Convention. Judge llepuubn, a warm and enthusiastic friend of the National Administration, Was selected ns the Delegate by a very largo majority. The resolutions (offered by Mr.'BuctiEß, chairman of the committee,) speak for themselves. They endorse the Na tional Administration in strong and unqualified ; terms, and place old Mother Ctimberjaiid side by side ivjjh- her sister counties— the friend of James BiiciuNAx. We are glad out people have had an opportu nity to speak; throiigirileFitelegatos, lor wo felt' satisncd thatynotwitlistanding the predictions of our nnti-Lecomptoh friends, that Cumberland would record her voice in favor of Penns) Iva nia’s lavorito son, James Buchanan, and on. dorse his administration. Notwithstanding there was considerable ex citement during a part of the proceedings, yet there was no angry feeling displayed. The pro ceedings were harmonious and the Convention adjourned in good order, and all appeared sat isfied. Our political opponents—a number of whom were in attendance during the sittings of the Convention—were sorely disappointed: at not seeing a flare-up. Wo . are rejoiced they were disappointed, for it will convince them, wo think, that however ranch Democrats may disagree among themselves in regard to certain questions, they will hot permit such disagree ment to bplster up the pernicious doctrines of their Republican opponents. No—Democrats are not to bo so easily seducodtrom their party and their principles. , At the next October elec tion ihey'will, as heretofore, stand'shoulder to shoulder, in defence of thoir timc-lionorcdprin/ ciples. . Mark it! . ' ■ - . ' , Mn. Bcciij.vam at Home.—The Democracy of the city of Lancaster cordially sustain the Kansas policy of the President. In the Ward where‘the anti Lecomptdn feeling was supposed to bn the strongest, a vote of two to one is shown in favor of the Kansas policy .of Mr. Bu chanan. The election was for delegates to the County Convention to elect delegates to the 4th of March Convention. The County will un doubtedly sustain the President by an overt whelming majority. The Tonnage Tax —Wo notice, with regret, that a bill has .been reported in the Homo re pealing the Tonnage Tax oh freight passing over the Pennsylvania Railroad. This tax is just and right, and affords a very largo revenue to the State. Who asks for its repeal 7 Tho peo ple 7 No, but that maminolh corporation,.tho Pennsylvania Railroad, asks to bo relieved, of this just tax. This attempt to repeal! tho Ton. nsge Tax lias claimed tho atfention.of our Le gislature for several winters, aiidihas-boon do/ feated over -and over again-. Every, winter it comes back stronger and more troublesome than ever. The determination of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company is.lo.push it through if pos sible this session. We hope that there is hon esty and manliness enough in the Senate and 'House of . Representatives to defeat' this mam moth cocpor.ation'with all its paid and pamper, ed minions. ’ . The Legislature. —This month will most likely be tho most important during tho pre sent session pf the Legislature. Many of the private .bills having been disposediof, that body will now have to proceed to the consideration of tho hmro important ones—for tho repcid of tho tonnago tax, the sale of tho remainder of tho Public Works, in regard to tho License Laws, and the Banks. We have confidence enough, in the Democrats who comprise a major ityof the-Legislatnre, to believe that they will not do, anything upon any of these subjects that wilMarnish their fair names, or Work to the in jury of the party; J Chester. County; Politics.— The Democratic delegate convention of Chester comity, which met at West Chester on Tuesday, passed a so. Ties of resolutions endorsing the National Ad ministration without reserve, hy a vote of fifty yeas to.twenty.nays. A resolution to instruct the delegates, to the Stato- Convention ho vote for Thomas S. 801 l for Judge of the Supreme Court, was also passed.. The Difficulty Settled. —The difficulty be tween Messrs. Clay and Cullom was adjusted on Tuesday afternoon of last week. Senato'rs Johnston, of Arkansas, and Brown, of Missis sippi, undertook its settlement on the part of Jfr. Clay, and Messrs. Underwood, of Kentucky, and •Zollikofi'ur, of Tennessee, on the part of Gen. Cullom. They failed to make a satisfac tory arrangement. .Tho. affair was jhen referred to. Senators Toombs and Criltendon, who set tled-ft In this way: Mr. Clay disclaimed any in tention of insulting (general Cullom hy what ho said at tho time’, of the quarrel, and Cullom apologized for. tho blow. I iC?" Rheumatisms, of the most severe kind, have been cured by using 2 bottles of Du Vail’s (Galvanic Oil. Back-ache, pain in the head, 'sick Jieadiache, nervous diseases of the head, are every day being cured sound by tho use of T?u Yau.’b Galvanic On,. - ’ - ' V SPRING ELECTWSS. The time for holding the spring elections is near at hand, and, as a faithful sentinel, we deem it our duty to remind our Democratic friends of the fact, so that they may lake “time by the forelock !” It is important to the Do mocraTic party 1 that a complete and thorough organization of its forces should lake place in cvcfy Borough and Township throughout the county. Already arc our Mongrel opponents counting on a division in our ranks and the downfall of our party and its principles.— Whatever may be the prejudices and. preferen ces in favor or against the Kansas question or any other National question, we hope oul friends will move in solid column in taking care of the interests of the party at home. “ Union and Harmony,” should bo the watchwords of every true and genuine Democrat; they should sacrifice their preferences lor favorites, aiid go together and do battle as, in days gone bye.— We have in the Democratic party of this coun ty, men eminently qualified to fill every elec tive office with credit, and why should we grow “weary in well doing,” and permit our opponents to ride into power ? It has been clearly demonstrated that where the Democratic party is in power, everything moves on insafo ; ty and with such regularity as to be: even ad mired by the reasonable portion of the opposi tion, Therefore, wc would say, go to work and make }'Oiir lickets,-and be prepared on the day of the election to give the opponenis of tflo Democratic cause a drubbing similar to that of last fall, and blast whatever hopes (hey may have of distracting or dividing our party.- 1 Wc have a few words to say in reference to our Borough affairs. Wo believe that an en tire change of officers, from the highest to the lowest, is demanded by the citizens o( Carlisle. Some of the officers have become obnoxious even to the party, that placed them in power, and others have been shamefully derileot in their duty, giving tip equivalent for the salaries they receive. In the East Ward our friends have it in their power to make a clean sweep of them, and they ought, to dp it. Form a ticket of good and reliable Democrats from Burgess down to Constabjy, and stick to it.- Don’t be persuaded to vote for this and that miui oh the opposition ticket, .because it is a trifling office; These trifling offices of Town Councilman, arid Constable have been made to tell ngainstthe Democratic party for the Bast Ward for years, and it is now time That, the party should look to its own interests.. Remember the conduct of some of those who hold these trifling offices LAST SPRING and LAST FALL, and'then ask yourselves whether you ought Torigor to assist in placing men in power by your Votes, who, when opportunity offers,will do every thing, fair andfoul, to irijuro you. Democrats ,of the East Wnid, you have been served in this way time and again, and no doubt you will bo asked at the nest election To extend the same favors. Will you do it? We hope not 1 We have in the Democratic party in the Borough, men who would make good officers and to whom these little appointuients would be of great bctW efit. Then why assist to throw them out of the reach of our friends ? Why play into the hands of our worst enemies and furnish the means that is keeping you down and giving them the means to tyranizo over you aridlaugh at you. Again we would say, remember their conduct LAST SPRING and FALL, and act accordingly. V Wc hope our friends in' both Wards will go to work and prepare for the Spring'election, I and not suffer themselves to bo imposed on’ J .in the manner they have been. .’Stand tip to the' work and don’t bo afraid, don’t scrach your tickets, and tell these, smooth tohgucd gentry they have got all the. favors off you that they can go’ “Tun Lost Daughter.” —An edition has just been made to tho uniform edition of tho works t of the Into Mrs. Caroline Lee.llentz,,publish ed by T. B. Peterson tk Brothers, of Phila delphia. Tliis was one of the best’ of tho female authors of America. Unequal, for, she. wrote with strange fuoility, but highly dramatic in her plots, and very accurate, as well as graphic, in her delineation of character, as well as pictur esque in her.non-sketches of scenery. Among about’a dozen cf separate volumes, written by her, there is not oho of; mediocre merit. The new. volume, called “ Tho Lost Daughter, and other Stories ol the Heart,” contains fen nov elettes; by Mrs. Hentz, notf.first collected. Of these “’Aunt Patty’s Scrap Book,” Occupying half tho volume, is extremely good. There are some snatches of vorso in this book, which make us believe that Mrs. Hentz, had she turned her mind in that direction, would have been a trim poet. While wo aro writing, the earth iswhito with snow, and this, perhaps, In ay account-tor our admiring dm grace and fancy of. the poem on “ Tho Snow Flakes.” O' Andrew J. Sanderson, son of Qco. San derson, Esq., editorof tho. Lancaster Intelligen cer, has been appointed; to a clerkship in the Post-office Department, at Washington. O’ Lancaster Colton Mill-Noi 3, Was sold by the Sheriff on Saturday afternoon, to Dr. 11. .Carpenter, for tile sum of $lO,OOO, subject to a mortgage of $120,000- This Mill originally cost $200,000, and is in good condition. Tub Collins Steamers.—The steamers ol ic Collins line are in the hands of the Sheri Messrs. Brown Brothers have sued out a writ of execution for $030,890 against the Steamship Company, and the steamers of. the lino have been attached to satisfy the claim. Sixty days from the 28ih of January, tho date of tho exe cution, have been allowed the Company to raise tho amount. Weight of the Cahi n" kt. —A correspond ent of the Boston Journal says : The present cabinet is composed of “men of weight,” as I noticed to-day on a register, of tho weight of visitors kept at the’Smithsonian Institution.— Howell Cobb is set down at 2174 pounds: Gov. Brown 177 ; Secretary Touccy at ICO ; Secre tary Thompson at 144, and Gov. Floyd at 129. I should'judge that Gen. Cass will weigh near ly 200 pounds, although he is not ns fleshy as he was a few years since. He is very active for a man of his age, and' walks to the Depart ment of Slate almost every morning without an overcoat and with an clastic step. [jy There is not a solitary- Democratic paper in fho State of Now York, says the Lancaster Intelligencer-—not one—which does riot fully and unqualifidoly endorse tho Kansas policy of President Buchanan! OCT” Mr. John Brown, an eminent merchant in New York city, committed suicide on the 18th ult., hy Imaging himself. Democratic County Convention-, Pursuant to notice given, (ho Delegates ftom the different. Boroughs and Townships, met in .Convention in. Carlisle, on Monday tho Ist inst., /or the purpose of electing a delegate to tho State Convention. . T. P. BLAIR, was chosen President, and M. Holcomb and J: F. Lee, Se- cretaries. «r " Thu following gentlemen appeared as dele- gates, viz': Carlisle—East Ward, M.' Holcomb, W. Glop West Waul, W. 11. Miller. W. M’Phorson. Newville—D. Ahl, G. W. North. - Frankforrt—Daniel M’Coy, Capl. Wallace. . Woslpomisboro’— W. Kor, G.*M. Graham. Newton—Skites U'oodiumi, T-. M-’Culloch. llopew,.ell—J. P. Rhoads, John M : Coy. Milllm—T. C. Sconller, L. 11. Orris. Dickinson—Wm. Harper, John Moore. New Cumberland—Jos. Fireman, J. F. Loo. Silver Spring —G. H. Bucher, Guo. Forney. , Mechanics burg—lra Day, E. L.miont. North Middleton—Jos. Culver, J. Lobacb. South Middleton—Goo. Otto, J. Good. Shipponsburg—B. Duke, Murray Davidson. Sliippensbnrg T—T. P. Blair, Hugh Craig. Southampton—T. 11. Britton, W. Coffey. Monroe—Moses Brickcr, G. Stiimbaugb. Upper Allen—Adam Seacrist, Adam Calin. Hampden—D. Hitmo, Sol. Roeser. Tho Convention then proceeded-to ballot for a.Representative delegate to the -ith of March Convention, which resulted in the election of tho Hon, Same. Hepburn,' . Dr. i. Day, G. 11. Bucher and W. J. Shearer, Esqrs., wore appointed Conferees to meet tho Conferees from Perry, Mifllin.and Juniata coun ties. , On molion, the Chair appointed the following I gentlemen, viz: Gob. 11. Bucher, Win. Ker, G. Ml Graham, Moses Briokor, Benjamin Buko and Sidles Woodbul'n, a committee to, draft resolu tions expressive of tho sense of tho'Convention,’ who after’a brief absence, reported through their chairman, tho following, which Were adopTed : Whereas, It is the duly as well as the privi lege of citizens of a free government, in their political assemblies, to express their sentiments in regard to public men and measures, approv ing what is right and condemning (hat which is wrong; and, whereas, it has been the glory of die Democratic party in the past, to base its' policy on sound principles, and rely on the intrinsic jnstico_pf its measures, for success, rather than tho adoption of plausible expedi ents. Therefore, Resolved, That we have undiminished confi dence in the purity of purpose, virtue and pa triotism of Justus Buciian'an-. and confidently hope I hat the policy of his administration will be subli as'will shed renoun upon Pennsylvania through her favorite son, and establish more firmly the institutions of this great republic. ■ Resolved, That time and observation have demonstrated most clearly the soundness and wisdom of the policy adopted by the passage of tho Kansas Nebraska bill, which will, when allowed to operate untrammelcd.giveto tho the people of every Territory the exclusive control of, all their domestic institutions, and forever take out of Congress the slavery question, which has become a jlist cause of alarm to the country; and .will remain so until it is removed from the halls of one national legislature. Resolved, That tho Democracy of Cumber land county, believing in the.dbetrine. that tho majority must rule, and wliilst for. themselves would ask the privilege of accepting or rejecting the constitution under which they expected to live, still would not set up their opinions as obligatory upon the citizens of any other State, conceding them tho privilege of arranging their domestic institutions in any way-most consis tent with their.own wishes or interest, knowing that delegates elected either (o make laws or Constitutions, are tho people themselves in this capacity, having the right to determine mat ters lor themselves,’ and are alono responsi ble to their, constituents.'. Resolved, That Senator Bioiku lias won for himself the gratitude, of .the Democrats of Penn sylvania, for the.ahlo manner ,in which ho sus tains the administration. Iteisanhonor (obis State, and'a most valuabld Member of the Sen ate, Resolved, Tliat ive approve of the course of onr Member of Congress, Hon. John A. Aim., In advocating and sustaining tlm National-Ad ministration in its public policy, ho reflects the sentiments of his constituents, and is entitled to their confidence." Resolved, That wo' have full confidence in the wisdom and integrity of Gov. Wm. P. Packer, and the policy enunciated in Ida Inaugural Ad dress meets with our cordial’approbation. Resolcftl, That tlm discreet and consistent course ol our Senator, Gen. Fetter, and of onr Representatives,Messrs. Stuart and Brandt,en titles them to tho esteem and confidence ol their 1 constituents. Resolved, Ttiat tho present ’attempt bn the pan of , the Pennsylvania Railroad Comp ny, and those enlisted in their cause, in asking a repeal of tlm tonnage tax, is an not correspond ing with tho beslowment of the State improve ments to the said Railroad Company by the last Legislature, at which time they estimated this tax as worth one and'a half mitlions'of dollars, (bnt'now, having tho body, they ask tho mem. hers,) we who have'been heavily taxed to sns taiii thb credit of tlm Stale, whilst wo received no direct benefit from her largo.expenditure's, , look for better care of tlm tax payers interest in a Democratic legislature and .government, than was found in the into. Know-Nothing adminis tration. Resolved, That these proceedings 'do' signed by tlm oltieors' ol tins convention, and published iu tlm Democratic papers of tlm county. (Signed by the Officers.} Attachment Dissolved.- The ’attachment’ levied upon the property of. Mr. Allibono lute President of tlm Bank of Pennsylvania, by the President, Directors, and Stockholders of said Bank, wasdissolved yesterday by Judge Thomp son. In delivering tlm decision tlm Judge re marks : “tho plaintiffs have ordered nothing to sustain tho charges made against ilm defendant, upon 'Which the writ of, attachment was issued. N o single overt act is proven, from which a de sign to abscond can lie inferred. Without such evidence wo cannot justify an attachment, which would deprive tho defendant of Ills property, and tlm plaintiffs having (ailed to susfain.tlmat fiuhmont, it must he dissolved. It is proper to add that tlm plaintiffs have not opposed the application. Tlm nMiiehmcnt is therefore to bo dissolved upon the payment of the costs, and tlm expen-, oes incurred by tho trustees in the performance of their duties.” Destiiuotive Fire in Lancaster. —Tho Lan caster Express says (hat about a quarter past C o’clock on Wednesday evening, fho 24(h ult., (lie extensive machine shops of ex-Mayor Kiuf fer, in West Ohesnut street, wore discovered to bo on fire, and in less tllam three hours tlio ex tensive establishment was a heap of ruins,invol ving a loss estimated at $40,000, on which there was an insurance of $13,000, partly on tho building and partly on the slock. The lire is be lieved to have been accidental, although its origin is not satisfactorily known. Frozen to Death.— Last Thursday morn ing Daniel Macheiner, a resident of Heidelberg township, Berks county, Pa., was frozen to death in tho barn of John Ricgal, in that town ship. K7* It is thought that Chas. F. Hodman, tho poet,, who. has been an inmate of the Pennsyl vania Hospital for tho Insane, will he restored to reason at no very distant day. ** The End of Winter.— Monday, according to tho Almanacs, was the (lest day ol Spring—but, according to actual experience this year, Spring, lias boon with us, “off and on,” ever since the jputtu- of (lie almanac commenced'. President Fierce in Madeira. A correspondent of Tlio New Hampshire Pa triot and n compugnon dc voyage of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Pierce, otl board of the U. S. steamer Pmvhatan, to Madoira, concludes a letter from Fanolial with ,the following particulars of the vogugo, and tlio landing of the distinguished passengers: . “ It will bo gratifying tp the numcrous.frionds of Mrs. Pierce—tor indeed I have yet to learn who is not—tb learn that she boro the voyage with surprising (bttitude; and though prostrated fur some days liy a rough sea, rallied again, and reached Madeira in as-good health ns when sho left the United Slates.- For a considerable part ol the.passage she walked the dock daily, and With so linn and elastic a step as to surprise as to gratify those who know her exceeding deli cacy and frailty. She seemed to enjoy Ibo Ocean scenery, and the movements of the ship, and the drill and 'muster oftho men ; and when on the Sabbath morning, she woke up, breath, ing tho balmy air of Madeira, the church bells soltly pealing upon our ears, and the proud mountains and most picturesque scenery burst ing upon lioTSy'es, her spirits instantly rallied, and the next day, she established herself in her now homo—and a most charming one it is. De voutly is if to be hoped that a lady of so many of the highest and heal qnaliths of tho head and heartland of whom a human voice never spoke but in praise and even that pained her, may re ceive all that benelit from this admirable cli mate which her friends anticipate. Should her health bo improved by a winter icsidencc hero, General Pierce proposes visiting Spain'and Jta. ly in. tho summer, and may indeed protract his travels on tho continent beyond the year. X need not . say that the presence of General Pierce added much to the interest of the pas sage. Leaving the President at Washington,, and taking with him only his own manhood, ho won all hearts by his courtesies and attentions! mingling, fcnely with the otlicers as an. equal, and visiting-.the sick as regularly as the physi cian. When ho loft, tho highest military honor was shown him. Thu yar s were all manned, tho marines drawn up under arms and tho men stationed at tho immense guns, while the bund in their red jackets, were ready to strike up the music. Afth in arm tlio General and Mrs. Pierce walked to the gang-way, where Cajdain Pearson’s boat awaited them, when Gen. Pierce suddenly stopped,' turned about and uncovered, and addressed both otlicers and men in one of the neatest,most pertinent and eloquent speeches which, as the-oflicers confessed, they ever heard. Captain Pearson briefly and,sensibly replied in behalf ol liimsolf and his fellow officers, and when the boat was burly under way, tho guns roared; such a thunder storm as I never heard —terrible even without thunderbolts and bullets. The reveberations froy the mountains, the peaks and tho immense gorges, wero.admirable, rolling about, and upwards and backwards, and intermingling, till it could not be fold whence they started. The whole mountain seemed to shako. Beaching tha shore a carriage awaited them'; laugh not, render, nor accuse mo of deal ing in the poetic, rt hen I describe it —a thivg (most evidently it was not a spur-it) like the top of an old stage'let down upon'an equally old wood sled, and drawn by a yoke of oxen,! Such are the only carriages in Funchal, and in oho rf fhonr the iato President of tho United States and his fair and honorablo.lady entered nothing doubting, .and were conducted to their palatja homo. Suchis'lifo! Such is riding I” Republican Convention. A small company of very serious and anxious looking men assembled at Herr’s Hotel on Mon day evening, in obedience to the cull lor a Re publican State Convention. The delegates were entirely,self-constituted, embracing tbo Repub lican members of (be Legislature, and sundry old politicians, who have,ns IVbigs,Americans, and lately Republicans, led and shipwrecked the opposition. These ol'd political doctors, with Thaddeus Stevens at their head, assembled in solemn counsel oyer the dead body of their last victim, and put tiieir heads together for the purpose ot erecting a new party, or giving the late Republican organization some appearance of life.? After much tribulation, wo hear flint they determined not to - call a convention at this time, bjjt to continue tiro old committee, with LeimicJTodd as Chairman, and to meet in con ventipif at his call. The American portion of the coalition was ignored entirely. Possibly iheyiMiflifc fonym’d fo if Democratic erudition. 'Timoowill shoiv>— -IJarriabiirg Union, Feb. 24. HArawAxy a eon is this U’ow.'fC—ire see L that a nice tiling is made in Brooklyn by having false gas motors, which indicate a consumption of 15 pei-jcf. more.tliiHiiis just. Have live any thing ot the kind in Carlisle 1 iFahc Gas Meters.—ln a communication to the N. Y. Times, Robert Prince, ol Brooklyn, as serts that nil the meters made in that city for the gas companies, are designedly cdnsliiicled to indicate a consumption of about 15 per ct. of, gas greater than the real amount. Some years ago ho became inierested with a manufacturer of gas meters, which were made 'with indexes that truly indicated the amount consumed, but' the gas companies would hot purchase these,- consequently thojiramiiaclurcr wap obliged to givo up.the businessOik attach (also indexes to his motors. lie now woUts to the order of these companies.' Modekn B.uinAliiojr.—lV e clip the following paragraph from the Louisville Courier, and can not avoid expressing a hope that the ahfl critics will interfere to prevent the wanton and wicked exposure ol huriian life that is contemplated: Great Pistol Match — Novel Wager. —Sir. John TraviSj wiio lias established a pistol gallery in; tins city, has just closed tho most extraordinary wager wo have ever heard of. It is no less than a hot of ono thousand dollars that he will hit an orange placed on tho head of a hoy, at ten pa ces: also shoot'one. in each hand of the hoy. Tho wager is wilh'Snnuiol A. Suydam, of New York, and tho match fake*.placo in this city'on tho 15th of Juno.. Tile following are the terms of tho match: Travis bets Suydam ono lhous : and dollars that bo-will find a-boy, who will stand at the distance often paces, arid place an prango not to exceed two and a-half inches in diameter in each hand, and one upon Ids head, which Travis will shoot from their respective lo calities, no object to intervene between the boy and tho opanges. ■ If Travis fails to find the hoy who will stand, or'fails to hit the oranges in three shot?, or any shot touches the boy, ho los es tho hot, Tho match to be shot in Louisville Juno 15, 1858. ■■ . ’ A Tinmniu; League.—The Paris corres pondent of tlio N. Y. Times, speaking of tlio late attempted assassination of Louis Napoleon, i savs “It is reported that one of the prisoners, Rudio, has turned Stale’s evidence, and that in his confession, he lias revealed a plot that does not offer a very smiling prospective for the Em peror. According to Rudio’s confession, the conspiratore were five hundred in' number. They were’bound to their work by a terrible oath, and their object is the assassination of Louis Napoleon. Each year, or oftener, ifeir cumstances will warrant the attempt, the whole band are to draw lots from a box in which there will he five winning numbers. The five mem bers drawing these aro held to put in immediate execution an attempt upon the Emperor’s life, which.shall be approved by the whole society, and by thosowho are charged with its execution. The society; has plenty of money for carrying but its designs. • • 5 , Satisfaction.— A curious thing, says the N. Y. Times, is this same “satisfaction.” Ror ex ample. On Tuesday morning Lieut. Bell and Williams went to Bhidonsburg to find it. Bell “fired at the word ‘one.’.” His bullet penetra ted Williams’ hat. Williams, haying given “satisfaction,” fired, his pistol “into tho snow,” and the belligerents were “reconciled.” Whore was Wiliitima’ head when tho ball wont through his hat? DiA ho not feel as much satisfaction us he gave, and a trifib over 1 And was ho not magnanimous to decline another shot ? Duel- Ung is a great source of satisfaction certainly, especially when you happen to not got hit. C°L Fremont when on a visit to Poston, a few days since; “intimated in iinmistaheatdo terms that lie means to be a candidate for Pres ident in 1800.” ’ Admission of Kansas, IN SENATE, EEBIIUAHY SMtIT. Mr. Buckaletv, from the Select Committee to which was referred certain resolutions relating tO.-the admission of Kansas into the Union as a State, made the following report: That the Committee, m addition lb reporting back to the Senate the resolutions referred to them—the one with a recommendation that it be indefinitely postponed, and the olhir in an amended fmin—detm- it prrper to slate the grounds upon which their.action is founded. So pertinacious.and vehement Im'c lucn the efforts to rentier this mensine of admission ob noxious and unpopular, and so much is the peace and harmony .of the-counliy involved in a correct understanding of, it, that your Com, mitlec believe tlmt some examination of the subject in life Legislature, to be followed by llie expression of its judgment, in the form of a resolution, will-disabuse, the minds of many from false impressions, and have a salutary ef fect upon public opinion. Out-experience in Pennsylvania in making and amending conslituiirns inay.be examined to aid us in solving the difficulties of litis Kan sas question. Per that purpose some reference will be made to our own constitutional history. In 1770, in consequence of a circular font the Committee of Safety'of. Philadelphia, to the committees of I ho several counties.enclosing the resolution of the Continental Congress of the 15.1 t of May, members were appointed from the several counties to a provincial Conference, which met in Philadelphia on the 18th of June, and adjourned finally the 25th of the same month. This contercnce recommended the election of delegates, to assemble in convention, and form a Constitution for Pennsylvania, as an inde pendent State, and provided the manner in which the elections for that purpose should be held. In consequence of this recommendation, delegates were chosen by the people, who as sembled in convention on the 15th day o( July. 177 G, and proceeded to form the Constitution of that year, without subinilliug.it to a vote of the people or other process of ratification. That Constitution, it will be seen, bad a rev olutionary origin,- and; it continued iti force ■ fourteen years, until 1790. It..contained tonic ■ faults Which disturbed its practical operation. I '1 he Legislative department consisted of a sin- ; glu body, as in colonial limes, and the Execit i live consisted of a Council and President, the t latter being selected by the joint vole of the Council'and Assembly, A Council of censors was also established, who were to review, from time to time, the conduct of the diflercnt de partments of the.government, and report 10 the people any violations of the Constitution by either; and they were empowered, by a two third vole of their number, to'call .a Convention to amend the. Constitution. 1 A single legisla tive body, a plural exicutive, and a censorial coiincil to criticiseollicial action, but without power to enforce its judgment, were the three papiul errors of that Constitution; and the arrangement for amendment through the action of the censors was found to be iuiprac.icablc,— A majority was in lavor, at one time, of a Con vention, and at another, against it: but, iit no time could an affirmative two-ibirds vote be ob tained; Finally, under the pressure of necessi tyin favor of change, the subject wqs taken up by the Legislature, and on the 24th of March; 1789, in General Assembly, .'resolutions wete adoptod setting forth that alterations and I amendments to the Constitution were immedi ately necessary ; reciting from the Declaration ' of Independence the assertion of the right-of the people to alter or abolish.their government, and to institute a new one, and also the clause of the bill of rights in the then existing Consti tution :—“That government.is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection and security of the people, nation or communi ty, and not for the particular emolument or ad vantage of any single man; family, or set of men, who are a part only of that community— and that the community hath an indubitable and unalienable and indefeasible right to reform, alter or abolish government in such a manner ns shall be to that community judged most Conducive To-tlie , public wtal.’V -.From all which, as well'as the nature of. society and the principles of government, it*manifestly.appear fed that the people have, at all times, an inhe rent right to alter and. amend the form of gov ernment in such manner as they shall think -proper,: and lljat they are not and cannot be IhhitedTo any certain rulc'or mode of accom plishing the same, but may make choice of such method as may be best adapted’ to the end proposed, and that further reasons assigned the delay of the mode prescribed in the Consti tution for amendment Ought itol to be admit-, ted, It was therefore proposed and earnestly recommended to-the citizens of the Common wealth to take this subject into their serious consideration, and, if they concurred in opin ion-with the Assembly, that a Convention for I the purpose of revising and alterriing the. Con stitution of the State ought to be called. It was submitted to litem whether it would not be convenient and proper to elect members of such Convention at. lliC next general election, and that, upon their pleasure being signified at their next sitting, it would provide by a law the time and place of the .meeting of the Con vention, and for the payment ofexpenses inourr ed thereby. , These important resolutions were adoptedby le dbciiiive vote of forty-one to seventeen. At its ril'Xt session the General'Assembly'culled a- Convention “for the purpose of review and if they sea occasion, altering and' amending the. Constitution of the State.” The resolutions for that purpose \vere adoptedby a vote of thir ty-nine to seventeen, on the 15th of September, 1789. These legislative proceedings resulted in the Constitution of 1790, and would seem to stand justified by the reasons assigned, and by the further one, that although the Constitution of. 1770 provided a mode of amendment, it did not forbid other modes ; and that therefore (In ordinary. law-making power could initiate the necessaryjtroceedingof change. That'Con stitution of 1790 was proclaimed by the Con vention and put in force by it, without any submission of the instrument or any part of it to a popular vote. It remains in force till this dny.a.period of sixty-eight years, modified on ly by certain amendments to which it has been subjected. „ . In 1825 a la.w wad passed by the Legislature for taking the sense of the people' Upon the question of Convention to make amendments. The proposition was, however, rejected. Ten years later—in 1835—a law was passed, entitled “ An act to provide for calling a Con vention with limited powers.” It provided for a vole “for tho purpose of ascertaining the sense of the citizens of this Commonwealth, on the expediency of .calling a Convention of dele gates, to be elected by the people,'with author! ty to submit amendments of the Stale Consti tution to a vote of the people, for their ratifica tion or rejection, and mth.no other or greater .■powers whatsoever.” The vote taken pursu ance of this act was in favor of a Convention and by the subsequent act of the 29th of March, 1830, provision was made for electing the dele gates. and for the submission of the amend ments proposed by them. Without pausing to explain the particular reasons which actuated the Legislature and people, it is clear that tho Convention of 1837-38, the members .of which were elected with reference to these laws pos sessed only limited powers. They could not form a new Constitution, nor abrogate the old nor put their amendments in force. They could only frame propositions of amendment requiring a vote to give them validity, Those amendments of 1838, were adopted, and the Constitution of 1700 was so far'chan-- cd as. they expunged old matter or introduced ne " r, - Among those amondmenls was one in relation to future amendments, which now con sUtu te the 10th article of the Constitution, and provides that amendments may be proposed by a majority of allinernbers elected to each-House of the General Assembly at two successive ses sions, which, upon being approved by a public vote, will take effect. Under this provision one amendment was adopted in 1850, and four in 1857. If this provisionTegnrding changes in the Constitution should receive iho same con struclion as did the provision in the Constitu tion of 17iG. it docs not furnish an exclusive) Constitution of the United States' AnV*T" mode ofnntendnicnf; mid the Legislative pow- IVO (urn to otir own Slate, the caso fl ' V,lcn cr ,°f 'ho Stale is.competent nt nliy lime to pro- clear. Both of pur S(n!c constitnibL <1 “ lllly vide for calling a 'Constitutional Convention; the formed by conventions ; neither were •" cr ? powers of which whether general or special 10 a popular vote; and we are livinir at am| limited, will depend upon the law under ment under a constitution so formed • n 7'f-‘ no ‘- .which the delegates arc chosen. And as this, manifest that a new constitution mitht „ 11 ' 8 section of onr present Constitution does not for- established through a convention in »w° w be bid other modes of amendment than that provi- manner* having equal validity withLl! l“ me ded by it, it is clear that this construction must The notice of this objection become be accepted as the true one!- . lent when.we consider it is an r l POr ' r , Lct "‘P facts of this sketch be applied to Hi* hf the Difference between Gov. Walker » a Convesl.on and Constitution of Kansas, and National Administration, leading to hir™ • lhe ' diH.ct.lnes hud misconceptions rega.ding the... tiolli an d also as the reasons staled bv £ gna ’ will d.sapi tar. The LigislMurc of that Tern- r y Stanton for convening the Terri'orL rrc'-a tory passed an act for taking the sense of the | a ture in 1857/and recommending to it tl,» 8 ' s ‘ p«q. eat an ehction in IBSG, upon the question sage of an act lor a vote to be'taken o. .i T‘ ol I. Convention to form a Constitution lor Kim- cbmpton Constitution. It is directly coni Le .‘ sas. Subsequently on trie 19th day ol I'ebrii- . wilh ' the conduct of those officials andT?'" 1 arj r , Ihoi, the Legislature passed the law, foi. |y put forward by the latter as „ the eketum of delegates- to the Convention. . upon which the vole in January upon ib!° Und Ihcde gales were elected in view of these stitnlion could be justified. c ?“- facts, and (heir powers were of course, general Without this, according to (he admission / and sun. ar lo those of our Conventions of l ll o Mr. Stanton to the Legislature, lh« !,f and 1.00-thc only conventional bodies ever as- | mV e been no legal pretence for the 4h „r f“* rf semblcd in this Stale from w hose hands came uary vote, and therefore the force to be ai'"’- forth an entire Constitution.. 'I he necessary cd to that vote , will, according to him consequence*, that the Constitution framed by altogether upon the soundness of the 4 the Kansas Convention would he valid, and sub- but as we have demonstrated that the ject only to the acceptance of Congress under j s wholly groundless-that not only f, 1 that provision of the Constitution of the United sustained by authority or reason L . t Slates which gives it-jurisdiction over the ad-' , t .,)y condemned by the high authuri y- ,"i -mission of new Stales. It is not necessary here Constitution of the United Slates an I iff P “ to inquire whether the slavery clause of that sylvania-lhe whole foundation for the instrument stood Upon elillerent grounds f.o.n r y vote is destroyed, and it stands withn.b other parts of it. If Unit be affirmed.-the an- lid ily , or force and eflect upon co„,m , w sner is, that it was submitted to popular decis- against which it was directed, ion. If no such hgnl obligation cxisicd. it wns And at (he same lime the policy of not necessary to submit it, mid the doing so mihistratipri, ns against the Governor and c.---,. was a voluntary -act of (he Convention, with rotary, is vindicated, and those officers nil'- rc.crence- tp-rohtical reason and public e.xpccta- doomed, upon the ground selected bv tbim* lion, ralber than legal course. Ihe Coustiiu- stives. It is indisputable that the peonle in* turn, then-fure, conus before Congress a lawful selecting a convention to .form a constitution instrument, and sanctioned by ordinary legal may, and.do, delegate to them the whole now’ and constitutional-principles. ' cr necessary to establish it, unless there besomo Now, upon questions, of public or political cxpicsstd limitation. . ’ ; right, the wl ole country and-all-its .inhabitants Having thus shown the untenable nature of arci under.i,aw, and judgimnt must be given the position assumed by Messrs. Walker and. m favor of i hat pnily or individual whose posi- Stanton, upon Which they threw their official S S i'"° le.'it-d by it. If'our system influence against the constitutional parly in were not so, through all its parts, it would be the Tenitory, and at the same time tlemonslra. worthless and speuiily dissolved .under the ted.the (utility of the-January vote by the (ail; breadth of revo.ulion, or be struck down by the tire of the reason assigned for it by the man who strong arm.of; force. Nor is this condition of .recommended it, and.whosc olfieial act caused it things incompatible.with true liberty' and free- •“ be taken, w e might conclude this part'of the ,dom. Our. system has abundant facilities for subject, -but the warmth with which the 4th of . amendment, change and reform, in connection J“‘“““'y veto is pressed ns an independent ob with power to enforce the existing laws arid' j v . ction ••> ♦*»<* eonslitutiou, will excuse some, rights, public and private. And thatpeople! tllin on that point; and it may' be con. who cannot control their passions, hut will f| dently asserted, upon general grounds,Hint strike at law or coris’itution, olhcrwiscthan bv not •"’ as , it "'•!>“.“•. legal effect upon the legal and orderly modes of am.cndment, riroHn- conBt,t . H, fo l b but waa 1111,8 elf »*<% irrelevant fit for free governments, and cannot lontr main ■ ;U]( .- V( t U '■ , * '. ~ , , tarn them ■ b 111 No Legislature in the country ever assumed rni,. V, I 1 i , , jurisdiction over the formation or ratification of A,® la ", f !vi r C ° ' - :lr P larn , c c l r , pl the pro- a constitution, except upon an express rtelug.r. cecd-.ngs for the forma ion of .the Kansas Con ■, tion ol' power for that purpose; and .the assuriqi. sliluilon, and the validity of that instrument, tion of such power by a representative body, in as present!d to Congress, having been shown, I the absence of express grant, must bo, of nc. aitd the argument illustrated by our own eon-1 cessity, an usurpation, and its acts relating stitnlional history.,it remains to notice some I thereto, wholly void. The taking of the senso of the leading objections heretofore made, and of- the people .on the question p( calling a cen to give them a fair reply. . ■ ■ j vuqtion, arid.providing the legal facilities for Ist., The objection Hint the Constitution is electing (lie delegates, rests upon precedent.ud' unolinngcable until IBG4, is fully answered by ■ “c ceSB iO'i but neither reason extends the onli ihe citations ah cady made from Pennsylvania J ni ! l T legislative power to the subjects of fcfanr, Gonsiitiitional history, We may .conclude! bat I t,0 T , ]. a , , , 1( . 1 ra,l,ical, " l l' ’ ■ ... 1 i ihe same power will exist in the people ofKan- ' 1 118 ''T' ru ,. not W’ ,0 Uegiahituro inighl ro sas to change their Consiilntion-llrrm.gh a re- | ? !> " 8,,,ut,0nal restraints upon itself „t its. nlar process, as (hat exercised'by onr own m-o- ’ " ~Ioa? "™>. ° r as3a i | . ot lerdepaifmentsoniio pie in'changing the ConsthutLV ¥£ 5^ fhririi.“^NLf P | Cn ,| h 0 ? U " S - t ' 0 " '{ ,b ' vc , r ' ».nd its own exislende, or retain power in 6 the kinds. . ‘". ' y the.decision of theotiier.— of its own parly, against a constiliition ntmdx e\ny one who accepis onr I ennsylvanin pine- l ions to tlicm. And (he same reason will apply lice as regular and lawful, will riot doubt that. | against accomplishing the same ends directly upon admission, die people of (be new Slate of through a popular vote. Certainly the Legis- Ivansas will have power,'through'-a Convention, j hitnfe cannot do through others what they.are to amend or eharige altogether their ftnidanien- prohibited I'rofn doing themselves, lal law, retaining in any case its republican U the Leconipton Constitution 1 was a valid form. This power stands upon the.solid foun- ■ instninienf to the 4th of January, which lias dation where our fathers placed it, and upon ' ,con proved, it would continue so xinlil the general grounds of reason where a Constitution bower of the people, ncling regularly lluoiigli provides for its own amendment, the mode-or •WH-«B*''.Wlshod-oiid well known legal forms and ~ time so provided -cannot be exclusive unless bnneipU-s, should amend it, or substitute anoth othei-s arc expressly probibilcd ’ .er in its place. Certainly this can only be done Every presumption should bo made in favor ft'" ~ I \ c abst!! 'c u pi ceslituliorial proviaiha) of ihri nnm.l'nr i" V- , . r V 0 ■ ••‘rough a popular convention, whi-ro- dolibera- - tion a,nd delay will-soourh wise and just changes, ■ - ’ power of changing them must ,Thd destruction ofia constitution after it is l.irkl o n ■" iv, l - ln tSS expressly 'limited or for- orice made, w ithout tho Biibstitnlion of am (her, bid nmenilment l, n r nS "‘T ? 0l f " ot for * " as neror bc <' ol< -' heard of in the United States, '''f,’ 1 heforo 1804. and it docs con- and such an atteriipt has no foundation, either " lain ft declaration of popular power over Con- in reason or law. The man who w ould assert stitutions similar tq (hose quoted by, our Lcgis- , th“ powor of our Legislature to suhniif the con-' lalure or J/oU, in a case precisely similar to the stitmiori of this Statu to a piildic vote, and present one.. I upon a majority being given against it, (hat ft ■ Upon tiii.nl acljonrniurnt of the Kan- filnncl annulled and.destroyed, would sas Convenrion without ils submission of the j ll- * 11 .'' regarded as foolish or insane. No sui-li whole constitution formed by it to a vole, ob-, ru '' o,uti "i““T principles exist in our political jeciiori.was made to it upon that ground • and ?- v ' s,um ’ a,ltb "’ c lna .' - h°po the dime will bo long a constitutional philosophy-altogether novel was I ?-° a(,mit,e(J or Practiced, piodimcd upon the occasion to sustain that ob- ‘i ' isa ‘ 1 ho'ob.iection made 16 admission which jeciion, by Robert J, Walker, the GovmVor nfl 18 l. ~<)b,lbl - v had most effect upon-public npin the Territory; It may be found expounded nH "1"’ 18 * lat . sta ' e j l ’’ Governor AValher’s-litter large inbiS subacqiicnt letter of ri-is> 'soi: „ ,I °* resignation, after his exposition ofinnliennKo it cohst ilu tf," tlmTluU erril nehit^n^ln 1 ! 00 ' and SOVor V i E» , ty, already refuted. It is. (ha tshrgo of Mr. islalure, oil th/stli ol Becember IHqT LCS ’ bmtumty to vote for the delegates to <ho con- It was this shortly stwt.i,! ■. vi , stitutional convention. If this were (mom cannot' rilalie of amend' n I . lba ‘ t,lc P?oplo Ppmt ol fact and to the extent, suggested—rf agents sovei 010-',,.,, t U - , co . n sHtution. through mnetoon or fifteen counties of tho thirty-eight ible a 'unit d'nd’ • 'sf l Ti abU ' , il ’ carn P ( . ,s , in B ‘he territory were wholly distraTK'lus wlmlLrin n .l- T\ e delegation,” in', ed, without fault or neglect of their own-inhe t liOlc di in pan. Ihe practical result arrived Territorial act providing for the census, lor tho at by Govcriior and Scclctary, from' tbits' dbb- r . e S‘»tiy of votes, and conducting of the elec trine, was the invalidity Of HiS Leconipton Con ■ !l°". was '»o'lmpcr<Wtly bxeented that Us »V stuUtion, wMlhoiil a popular vole updh the ' va, '.° ' vll °lly or mainly frustrated', arid Unis "'hole of it. Slrangd as it mtiy sdoilV', all tilts' n'J, - 01 -'-i. 1111 ', 1 or no E ,c et of tfu-Stf distranchised, is spread out ih official dbciiihcnts, and coristi- p}” . c i' l >, ,b< ;' lI l I >•’ ‘‘PPear hard and unrea., tuii-S Ihe leading gl-uilxld’ of oliieclibn bv Gbv- firi ™ ble 10 hol(l * n pso opposed to the co.nstitn erndc Walker to the C bnstitUtion,°as" tmedbv ™°i V j*- a "d .to fasferijt upon pfacllccd !“ S co ” nil y> Col|l<l be aro prepared substantially ..to deny its force.- P n i , Tile facts upon which it rests have beeij, most Uonhi less under our republican system, the disengeniotfsly, and ilrifairly stated, while oth pcople are sovereign, and .constitutions must e| s which qualify it have' been suppressed or proceed from-them: but I hoy would no longer withheld. be sovereign if snipped of the power ofnppoin- The Territorial Legislntjire passed a law for ting ngents-or representatives td-act for them. •Mimg the sense of tho people upon tho qnes- Governor. Walker quotes no authority for his ,ion 01 a c onvenlion to form a constitution, ami dodtrine. except himself. He says he staled it subBet I llcn tly. on the XOfli of February, 1857, in an address in 1833. and again in a pamoh- P ,,#Bc -d » l»w for tho election of delegates t'o lot given to the country in 1850. It is not nor- J! 10 convention. Both these acts obviously con ceived how its repetition can strengthen it in |f m P latcd: ‘' 10 possession of general powers by the absence of reason to sustain it andln the I ifinn"' 6 " In n ® llllcr " as t,lerc nn J (ace of authority imiinst it • , •“•mn or restnofion whatever. And the delo and cone vo • S.fel a, ,"r' l B at 93 ba ''ing been elected in view of these laris, the Constimtinn nf Hott*i /a nished by (ho iioivcr of forming and enncMng » that oTpcnnsvlvonW Til r° d S tCS ' and by ■® on3,i,ulion > Utl'ject only to the ratification of that of 1 ennsjhama. Ihe fprtncr was propar- Congress, as heretofore shown. . ed by a convention, the incnihers of which were The act of February, 1857, upon exahiinj seiccioti by tbe blato Legislatures, aiid it was Hon, appears fo ho..entirely fair and just, u ravinucl by conventions .each State, elected extends the to every bon&Jld* ioiM hatpurpn.se. ' inhabitant tof tbo Territory on the* third Afonday . Ao part of it wna ever submitted to a popular. 1857, who , being a citizen of tbb Uni vote. *1 he amenamenls'propbscd to it bv Con- Staton, and over 21 years of age , sliall l ,ave gross in 1789, 1708, and 18Q3, were ratified bv rcs l d ed throb monfhs in the county ivftcm bepf~ tho Legislatures of Ibrec-fourlhs of the Stales I* o1 * 8 1° vote; and.provides odefjnnte penniiies pursuant to the fUthartiele ofihe Oonsiitutmn’ ? gainBt ‘ ,le e al v o‘‘ng. fraudulently ,lla ' k '" n S relating to amemlnients.- And now and here> {“', r ex P‘'i ,f, sion of the popular vote, and imlaw after, any amendment whatsoever may be rati- fn, . ntt , c,n P tR •° i“flimnco the elfctovs. two-thirds propoSCtl , b T a registration of tho'voters'is reqnired to ■a ConveiUioii calf ,ihv p f Con S rcss • °, r . compiled from a census previously taken by l« tion I n I . y Con S ,ess - l lP° n appltoa- sheriffs and deputies. Tho census returns »n tion to tlic Legislature of two-thirds of the to ho filed in the office of the probate ju a B®j n eS -ii showing tho number of qualified voters rosiao tt w-ifi thus be scon that the sovereign peo- in the bounty or district, on tho first day pie of l ennstrivjtnia acted through their Legis- April, and to ho posted in public places. A lalure; in selecting members to the convention the probate judge from the time of rcccivi b which formed the constitution-of the United •hem, is to bold his court open until tb° j. , States ; that on three occasions they have rat : - for t ,le purpose of correcting them by (led amendments to it through their Len-isla- <•'“6 nnrnca, or striking out those impropi i tm-e, and that by tho fifth article, to the cxecu- ins ® rled - " . tmn of Which they have bound themselves any i roviaion is a,B ° mado for yacnnci^m future amendment may be proposed by Con- , of sb ? ri ! r : •‘•‘•homing Hm P‘“ gress, or a convention, (under certain fesirie- " cl E° to a ct m Ins p'aco; anilin cuso ® y . n t nie tions,) and rnlillcd by Legislatures or conven °"l offioe8 > tho Governor is to appo nt »™ _ tions m three-fourths of-the States.’ competent resident citizen to perform theb ” The nnlv eveentim,- ii.-,. tiea ' Tho other details of tbo act are equ J isldm? no'state'can be deprived I rffiriI P, 1 i r abk ;7 d i-° nd totho prodUCtl ° n flm Cq^thToTe ta t'° nin f t -l; ,0 f CnalC - And in »U:to Whor 8 il Ibo bin 7 I)ll " n ° f Slatc representation voters omitted from tho census would have fm n “ 1 ?' al J y and atl pacts of .the const!- notice of the omission, and ample opportum f tution may be changed, against the opposition to have their names added, by the probate .l“ a B ( .’ and protest of Pennsylvania, if other States and ,0 H>o register of names. Full tiriio is ® j Congress give to it adequate support. She has forded for tho proceeding; But it Is n°ti“‘” bound herself to all this by becoming a nartv and “ndeniod that the great body of those to the Union, and cannot bo relieved from her d 'd not vote at the subsequent election in Ji‘ > obligations by any relined philosophy whether "‘••‘•mid' themselves from enumeration an« proceeding from men of distinction or ’not gintry. nml-instead of assisting the o(lice '' Bl' 8 l ' n n ' Such is the character of tho constitution me g00(l citizens should have done, intorpos-e<l a knig and amending power, as illustrated Inn h) P ossibl ° obstacles in theft- way, extending in b i wu, as illustrated by the cases to actual intimidation and force, because t V
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