THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL
II
NO- S. 31ANN, Emi
oke
EDWIN HASKELL,
FIDELITY TO TM:: )r,EOP4t.
COUPERSPuIa, FRIDAY, FEB. 21. 1854
There will be a Temperance meeting
in Hector, at the School-house near
Abel Dickens', on .Sunday the 12th of
March at 1 Lo'clock,A. IV, Hon. 0. A,
Lewis r.nd others will address the meet
lug.
I The last Bradford Reporter
pt)Nished the calm and- unanswerable
appeal of the - ludependent Democrats in
Cougress Oi'ainst the Mbraska fraud.
We trust this example will be followed
by all the Democratic rapers in the
State that are in favor of honesty and
fair cleating.
• rir We have recejved thefirsi number
of The Highland Patriot, a :fine look
ing Democratic sheet , published in
this. Borough, by DE \VITT C. JAMES, at
one dollar per year in advance, and two
dollais when, payed at the ,expiraticm of_
the year. Judging from the number be
fore-us, we predict that even the most
conservative old line Democrats will
have no occasion to complain of its.pro
gressive tendencies.
gir We take pleasure in acknowl-•
edging our indebtedness to Dr. BAILEY
for an exchange with the Daily Era.
And. in thii connection we feel it our
duty to say that we think some of our
Free Democratic friends have unjustly
censured the Editor. of the Era in this
matter of exchanging with the country
press. Dr. BAILEY has said time And
again that the Era was 'cheerfully and
with pleasure sent in exchange to every
Free Democratic paper in the Nation,
and that an omission to do so is uninten
tional. We hope therefore to, hear no
more complaints on this subjelct, when
it is eviden!, that a simple request to ex
change is always promptly responded to.
Q' The Legislature of Massachusetts
by a ,vote of *l6 to 13, hare passed
strong resolutions against the Nebraska
fraud. That we take, it is a true index
of popular opinion on 'this scheu,p to
throw open our western Territory to the
curse of slavery, kind yet in the face of
this public sentiment, a pretended dem
•cratic adminkstration, is endeavoring to
rush the bill through Congress. We
shalt see which triumphs, i t ,ho people or
thiaresident.
i‘ Ilkintaln Plighted Faith: ,
The proceedings of the meeting which
met in the Court house on Monday
evening last, will be found in another
~,AoWain. We ask the Member of Con
greii from this District, and the Mem
bers in the' Legislature which represent
this County to look at these proceedings,
'and at the men who controlled the meet
tug,
The Chairman, one of the Vice Pres
idents, both of the Secretaries, and twa
members of the Committee on Resolu
tions, are active and influential old line
Democrats. '
The resolutions received the unani
mous approval of the Committee, end
though the meeting was an unusually
large one, there was not a single voice
raised in defence of the Douglas outrage,
In fact, we think the resolutions cor
.rect in saying that Potter County is a
unit on this question.
We point to the proceedings of this
meeting with pride, and pleasure. It
shows. that the people of the North,
wherever this question is discussed, are
true to Liberty. The people of Potter
County protest as one man against this
attempt to trample under foot a solemn
compact is favor of Liberty,
T_~_V._.,,.,.,__
Words that Burn.
The Nebraska meeting which met in
Pittsburg on the 31st .1.. n. was composed
of men of all parties, was large and en
thusiastic and its proceedings have the
ring of true metal in them, _Among
many excellent resolutions, unanimously
adopted, we select the following. Those
Pittsburgers-seem in earnest ;
.Resolved, That while this new and
atrCcious demand of the Slave Power fills
us with astonishment and indignation,
wo will : yet give the South credit for
those small remains of honorable shame
which }prevented any of her lending
statesmen from being• the first to openly
make such a demand, that infamous du
ty like the executive powers conferred
on negro drivers being imposed uporOit
northern.political chattle, who after be
ing usediby his southern masters' is like
ethers of his kind to be flung away as
soon as his ambition and treachery have
destroyed his influence at home,
Resolved, That the disgrace clinging
to the name of Benedict .Irnold, will
lose its pre:iniinero - lifAine troth ;his
tory, and be mettaurably bid its the
blaclothrtusd More lii4eout infamy; that
will forever stamp thb characters ofnorth
arn statesmen who either for money,
bribes: or thi..equally base...bribes of ex
pected poi ical promotion, p.. 11 themselves
to pro-slavery fanaticism, and betraying
the rights of
.their constituents, and the
hopes of freedom, aim a fearful stab at the
Union of these States whose Value the
people of the North have ceased to con
sider greater than the - value of human
liberty and American honor.
Our Banner ,Waves in Triumph,
The old hunkers of this Borough, give
way to the demands of the people very
reluctantly. This being the chief seat
of their power in the : County, they haVe
made desperate efforts to maintain the
:supremacy of the caucus nominations.
Twa years agp by dexterously uniting
the “liluor influence," hunkerism, and
the irresolute friends of Temperance,
they secceeded in electing their. entire
caucus ticket - F,ncourage4 by_ thia suc
ces.s, • they tried
, the same appliances
last year but it was no go. The friends
of temperance and freedom achieved•a
nobleitritimph. This year we hoped
and expected, that the lessons of the past
would teach our opponents the propriety
of electing Borough officers, without re-
gard to their political opinions. But no,
there must be a regular ticket made out.
So on Thursday evening the faithful
were called together :and a 'ticket made
out on - which - there did not appear
. a.
.single Man, not even for School Director,
who was not considered a friend of the.
Administration. On 'Friday morning
this ticket was brought out with a flour
, ish that was expected to carry all before
it. To make success certain, the pet of
the party. the Hon. Timothy lies can
serited- to be a candidate for Town Coun,
cif.
'Seeing that our opponents were deter
mined to try their strength, and to hare
a party contest, Qur friends got together
on Friday morning, agreed on a ticket,
end elected it, by the following vote,
which is the greatest triumph ever
achieved by the Independents in this
Borough..
• Of course, we do not claim the vote
for Constable and Street Commissioner
as a test of strength. Some_ disaffection
prevailed in the ranks of hunkerism
and their own men refused to vote the
..regular nomination." Of course the
bolters will be read out of the party, as
the main test of d:mocracy now is, de
votion to slavery, and voting the regular
ticket.
This is the teat time the people of
this village have had an opportunity to
ex - press their opinion of Mr. Ives at the
ballot box, since he misrepresented them
in the Senate of the State. They have
done so non , in away that the politi
cians at Harrisburg will probably under.
stand them.
But here •is the vote.. Independents
in Italics., regular hunkers in Roman.
Burgess.
Thomas B. Tyler, r- 40
Town Council.
Collins Smith, •,` 46 .
If. J. Olmsted, 46,
D. F. Ellsworth, 42
Crosby; . •-••• 45
H. H. Dent, 28
Timothy Ives, 25
Amos French, 22
L. F. Maynard,
24
Constable.
S. H. Storrs, 51
H. L. Simons, 17
Street 'Commissioner: ,
John Smith, 51
C. P. Dike, 17
Judge of Election.
Lewis Mann, 43
F. W. Knox, • 26
- Inspector of Election,
Charles S. Jones, 43
F, Ellsworth, ' 26
Auditor.
Joyn Reckhow, 44
1 - 110 Constable.
•
C. R. Pradt, 46
Benj. Rennells, 21
School Directors.
R. G. Olmsted, 45
P. W. Stebbins, 43-
Jahn I?eckhow, 43
John M. Hamilton, . 45
Randall. Wilmot,
Miles White, 24
J. W. Smith
27
Batnuel, Haven, 27
Assessor. , •
Cyrenus 6", Jones, 46
Jacobl, Reck how, 23
Overseers of the Poor.
F. j. Jones, . 44
Benjamin Bennetts, 43
Icibn M. Judd, '„
D. T. Hall,
1 - 14 /
. .
.•
SIR JOHN Fearmun.,--Ile British
Adthiralty have announced that if in.
telligenc e of Sir John Franklin or his
ships the Erebus and Terror, and of the
officers and crew being alive ,is not re
ceived by the 31st of March next they
will be considered As havipg died in her
Majesty,s service . '
,The-Maiitllleeting of 20111 - Of fog . '
Hol consoling to the friends of true
liberty-was the spectacle preiented by
the cjizeni of 'a Little Patter" ed. Mon-.
day - evening-last ,, . A call had gee?' pub
lished for a meeting of the citizens op
posed to the repeal of the Missouri Com
promise, without referenceAL ., a distinc
tion of party. At an early hour men,
,
began - to enter the - Caul -Muse, at'
the proper time. for commencing liusiness;
the new and commodious Court-room Was
well filled, not with a few leaditie poli
ticians and their tools ; not with 'b few
wire workers of party ; not with a few
of the Town Council, who, in every
county feel that the success of 'their 'fa
vorite party depends upon their man
agement and action ; not in obedience to
orders sent from head quarters, to man
facture public opinion to suit the exigen;
cy of the tienee ; not in a feeling of ne
cessity of action to inpport the party or
the principles of the yafty to which they
belonged, orWith which ;her had, some
Of tbein„ so long and faithfully labored ;
but'it was' from a deeper principle, a
nobler metive,—it was From that heaven
born principle of liberty that burns in
'the breast of every,trueAmeri can ; that
principle Which, •though it some' times
may be found sluggish, or lulled into re
pose,by a feeling of safety, in' the true
born sons of our revolutionary sires,
never dies. " Old stagers," even they,
Men who had for a quarter of a century
acted with their favorite political parties,
they, even -they, too, were there ; not,
" as heretofore, 'to uphold' the action of
party e not to congratulate the leaders of
their party for the advaticement of some
great party measure'; but to strike in
defense of the great principle of Liberty
—to maintain the faith pledged in- the
Missouri Comprornise, that no stratagem,
no chicanery should plant the withering
institution of Slavery in territory declared
forever free. ' " Thus far shall slavery
come." -Let the people of the South
beware,'if they 'can forget for the time
their predilection for party, and unite as
one man in favor of their peculiar insti
tution, so they will find that the people
of the North, when once aroused from
their appnrent indifference, can, and
will strike
.as with one arm,.
, and with
one purpose, for Liberty or dealhl
They may, nay. they have yielded to
the demands of thi South, at different
times, that which had it been 'demanded
at one time never could have been' ob
tained. For the sake of peace, for the
sake of the Union—of this glorious,
thilon of Free States, mt n cf different
political parties, have labored . for - corri.
Promises, by which adverse interests
might be reconciled,—by which that
Union which was formed by comprom
ises should be perpetuated ,—that Union
--shall I be allowed the expression,.—
't
of light: and darkness, of Liberty and
Slavery, of 'free schools with instruction
forbidden by law i npcl„the violation there
of 'punished. But avails all these
compromises, all these concessions by
the North. The last one, in which the
people of the -North tvere more submis
' sive • than in , any other, makes us
ready hounds to pursue and catch the
fugitive slave.:, But as we have been
subthissive in this, as we have shown a
disposition to obey the laws of our coun
try, have not the people of the South
been emboldened thereby. to greater ex•
ertions in behalf of their peculiar:insti
tution, until they finally hope that, that
land devoted to Freedom, shall be cursed
with the blasting fruits of SLAVERY.
Row changed since the days of our in.
if nt Republic. Then Slavery, on all
et.ds, was acknowledged to be an evil;
ut one not of Or own devising, but
fastened upon us when we, were subjects
of Great Britain. and the only thing
we could do,. would be to confine it to its .
then present limits. But 'now chant,
pions of the institution may be d'
' foun
even in the North ready to extend it to.
territory NOW free ; and from which it
has been, by the most solemn compact,
forever EXCLUDgD, Bus hir the honor of
our humanity such champions are few.
and are actuated by motives too base to
find a lodgment within the bosom of a
of a true son of liberty. ,
It is true, men differ in their views of
policy in advocating .their cherished ob.
,
pets, as was instanced in the meeting i
above mentioned. While some desired
to tell the people of the Smith, that while
,we acknowledge your right to regulate
your own iffairs,—while we disclaim
any interference in your domestic institu
tions, we -claim that same, privilege to
regulate our own, before they proclaimed
their abborence .of the act, gr , attempt
to repeal the Missouri compromise,;—
while others thought that' there was nq
necessity for the disclaimer, that it sa
•
- ibied too . much orthq. — diiposition of
'mind when Actuated fear of som e
:dread power'ur se hatred vas to be
I deßrecated ; but in the strong undying
laith-of theju ce of - our drmands all
united in t e determination of maintain
ing, or saving the Union and the.Missou
li ti Compromise. - .
• DEAR' :=-1 - can excuse my - ,
king silence and apparent neglect only
by stating that yours of Jan.":l6th was
received 4uring a season of affliction
from the loss of= it dear friend. I wrote
you in my last, that Mr: Jinkins, the Co.
Treasurer, was dangerously ill. When
I received yours, I had scarcely' left the
bedside 'for a week, except to attend the
duties of his office ‘ Two days. aftex its
receipt be idiesi—thui leaving me 'one
friend the less with whom to stand up in
the battle of life. Mr. J. was a anb'stan
tinl. friend-'—und a thoroughgoing Free
Democrat in theory and practice. He
was one of those few - who live some
ideas and dare to:promulgate them, even
though it .might possibly Leader them
'less popular with time •
Since his deceasej have had scarcely
.2 minute to myself. As soon as decency
would permit, my' friends
.inacle.i bOld
push to het me appointed to .611 out• his
'unexpired term of office:' &it
tinctiOnS, I am' pleased to state, were put
aside, and men of all faiths. joined in, the
petition& for my" appointment. The
Dim Mic k. party :nose in their might,
and opposed• me, not out of political 'con
siderations, but because I , had taken
ground . against,their candidate for . Judge
last fall. • h was a • hardly fonght battle,
and had there been no enemies 'in the
camp—traitara, mean—l should have
received the appointment : As it was,
the Commissioners ustepped out of the
Convention," and appointed a good Por
ter man—and I was satisfied. It was
enough for me to know that the Dim
mick faction was ".whipped"—severely,
Having done Mr. Jinkins' business I
am necessarially compelle;d to act as ad
ministrator of
. his Office in' regard to the
County matters, riot only by the earnest
solicitation of ` his heirs, to. whom 1.3 m
Under obligtiions, but likewise by . my
desire to see exact justice done him as,
Treasurer. - .But I have arrangements
'so that I can leave any time within : two
months, should it be necessary.
I should have attended the Cotiren
tien at Harrisburg as you were pleased
to recommend, had Mr. Jinkins been
well ; butl could not leave him until
the crisis ;was passed, even for the pur
pose of advancing my interests. l He
would not consent-that I should leave
him by night or day except in case of
'absolute necessity . ; and to speak truly,
I did not wish to leave him. Conse
quently I was by his'aide six out of eight
nights preceding his dissolution. I anif
not entirely recovered yet, and this may
aclount• for the non-receipt, of commu
iiications, which otherwise would have'
been forwarded to the Journal,. Be
patient—l• will try to make up for this
neglect. though I cannot but think that
the disappointment is greater on my side
than on yours.
Ido not believe that i .Mr. Coulter
Would.conSider me equal to the -task of
co editing such a paper as he, would like
to make the "Fountain," r had the
honor of an "ex" while the bairn was
in blast, and formed a high estimate .of
Coulters3 ability as an editor. Besides,
I acknowledge that I a hou ld prefer stand
ing shoulder to shoulder with you, my
dearfriend, and help to push on the car
of Liberty, until it is safely housed in the
temple of Universql Einancipation. D 3
you know that.[ would like to meet you
face to face and grasp your hand, and
call you brother. .•
Wait a moment t —Dr. Elder of. Phila
delpitia delivered a lecture, before the
HOneadale'Literary..lnstitute feat •even
ing toe grand. Audience ; . Not' as good as
he deserved by half, and for this disgrace
ful reason : : 'certain . pro-slavery fogies
for two or three'days past had been busy
in prejudicing;the people against him—
calling him sal Abolitionist—an infidel,
&c., &e. Henceforth let us cry—"
- Wm . art a priceless jewel !"
To:night he Makes a speech on Nebraska
—truly he is an eloquent man—he is
such a vigoro.us thinker, *midi so earnest
in conversation. He is no time-server—
thank Galt He it sue of Nature's no:
lilemed—and I wish I knew half as
much as be.dues—then I could do some
good.
Among .the thousand good things that
he trail here is one perfectly Original.
Speaking of. the human mind yearning
for PerfectiOn, he said.: 'The progress
of Science is punctuated wiAh*tht tomb
stones of systems:" Now :was there
'aver anythin - Cmore pert than
WeU. he:wa4ibrina foil of such ideas,
andwe only got what surged ova, T sup.
poSe. More's the pity—don't you think
.30 • •
. _
What.more can I say to you IP p
.
preciate,your kindness in trying to help
Me into a pcgticin where I shall not rust
out. If , I ever get into that 'position, •
Whether by your direct aid or not, I will
let the - •renteinberance of your' kindnets
nerve me tothe task of - doing something
for the cause' of .humanity. If it is not
asking too'much, will you tell me wheth.
et there,is any 'hope of getting started
in Tioga or Wirean. lam all ears for
the western mews. I will send you a
communication soon after Pr. Elder's
speech An Nebraska is given to the
Honesdalers..
Truly your Friend, •
t LOOO,
The People Speaking.,
The infamous proposition of Senator
Douglass . to repeal the Missouri Com,-
promise' kritl thereby.to throw opec, the
vast territory embraCed by it to the curse
of slimy, is rousing the people of the
Northern States as did the outrages of
the British, Government the. com
thencemeni of the -fievolution. h is a
hopefulisign, and we begin to feel' that,
alaveri!is *not , quite omnipotent, %hit
There a
skill North. Large and ,en
thusiastic
_meetings- have been held in
Boston, New York, Pittsburg, Cleve
land and ChicagO. This latter is the
more significant from its being the home
of Douglas's, the author of all this excite-
Meat,' yhe following .'account of the
Chicaga meeting by, a correspondent of
the' New fork Tribunr, will show the
Spirit that is abroad among the people.
..Hon. • Mark Skinner mid he was an
Old Hunker Democrat, but he heartily
endorsed:the sentiments of this meeting.
An attack was being made by the South
On the, liberty of the North. He signed
the call for this meeting instinctively.
His sense . of duty led him to do so. His
indignation bad_been roused by this base
movement rof the. South .and the syeo
phants ;of the South, The : Comprotnise
'of 1824 had .s constitutional force and
-
sanction, It had been endorsed by the
loesi-nien of the Union. if the Com
promise of 1820 is repealed, tha• of 1850
shall 'go- down too, and then God only
knows where-the battle will end. It is
bad policy to disturb the present peace
end harmony. The great men of -the
North rescued all territory north of 36
deg. 30 'min. from Slavery, and conse
crated it forever to Freedom. Shall we
permitit to fallback into the foul grasp
of Slavery? I say No? (Enthusiastic
Cries. V No! No! answered this appeal
from, every give/ter of the room.) Who
bas.caused the present agitation ? It is
not the Free Suilers.-„ No man, in Con
gress-4:700t' of it, ever 'dreamed that the
Compromise of 1850 repealed that of
1820. : They did not dart. to hint of such
thing. It was not thought of till :that
seventh passenger in that omnibus—the
Devil and all—conjured it up. He had
been n:warm political and.personal friend
to Mr.:Dein:as, but he ‘‘.as his enemy
now: 1116 had viewed his course with
pride and satisfaction, but he could.do
so no longer. He spoke of Bissell, and
of the glory he had shed upon his State
by his' gallantry in the Mexican* War.
He read from The New York Courier
and Enquirer an article stating that
Bissell. -Washburn and Wentworth had
all
,deelared in opposition to the bill.
Five ouV,Of our nine Representativei in
the LoWer House were opposed to the
bill, and a few more such meetings as
the -pres , 4,lo one wuuld make them all
opposed. to it."
• The following resolutions wire adopt
.ed—one.poor soul alone giiing utterance
to his eliivery proclivities by a no
Res.dlved. That the clause in the bill
now pending before. the Congress of the
United States, organizing, the Territory
of Nebrska, relating to slavery. is a vio
lation of the letter of the act of 1820.
known aslhe Missouri Comptomtse ; and
Of the' ileoral obligation whiqh the Statei
owe to each other to preserve that Can
promise. inviolate.
Resoved. That the passage of
or any bill the repeal or moiification
ofitbe Mieisou ri - Compromise, would tend
to disturb the harmony which now ex-
ists between the North and South. create
sectional distrust, and perpetual agita
tion of questions which have
,heretofore
been regarded , as - settled •by theunani
mons voice Of the nation.
Resolved, Thai we respectfully urge
upon the Legislature of this State the
necessity of instructing our Senators and
requesting our Representatives . in Con
gress, to rote against the clause of said
Nebraska bill - and any bill hiving in
view the repeal or modification of the
prohibitions n-td .restrictions of the . Mis
scMri Compromise.
'Resolved, That the proceedings of
this melting be published in all the dai
ly papers of this city, and copies thereof
be; forwatded to our Senators and Rep
resentatives in Congress from this Dis
trict, and to the Speakers of Ont., respect
ive Legislatures.
One word as to the men who called
and managed this meeting; that its erect
may be felt.
~The Hon. James. Omit,
who acted as Chairman, has been seve
ral times elected Mayor of the City, has
always tuppntstribe regular Vatform
Said lick4ts, hes' been "Herd" longer
ihark.tbe name' has been used ai a polit
ical adjective 9r noun. He prisided. in
18511,1 at the meeting of citizens to sus
lain Judge Dount.as's.course on the
Comprom ise.Of i 8,50, at which the Judge
made his celebrated speech, and at which
the following - resolution was passed; it
having been prepared by the Judge
himself:
Rrso/ved, That we will stand or fall
by the American Union and its Consti•
tution with all its Compromi s e s , - with
its glorious memories of the past, arid
glorious hopes of. the future.
•
S. , S. HAY, Esq., one of the pnnci
pal sPeakeis at last night's meetin g , was
also one of those -who addressed the
meeting• of 1850, and advised with
Judge Douglas in the preparation ofihe
resolutions passed at That time. The
Hon. Mark Skinner ea& the . Hon Hugh
T. Dickey. are of the same class—per
tonal friends and political supporters of
Judge Douglas through evil report and
good—until his last fatal step.. -The
same is true of the 11o : ft:B.C. Sherman,
Peter Page. Dr. Maxwell. L. D. Beard,
J. K. C. Forrest. (of -The Dentoeral4
officers of the meeting; Chas. M: Grtiy,
the present Mayor; N. B. G. Judd. the
present Senator 'from this District; H.
Zimmerman. and hosts of others who
signed the call and might be named.
There was at the meeing--although
every opportunity was offered—but one
who lifted his voice in-rtvor of Douglas
or the Nebraska scheme, and he was
our Postmrster. Isaac - rook who under
took to frighten the Dernocrary byin
forminff them that he had - recent4y re
turned from Washington. and that' the
bill was an Administration- measure.,
CMCM:3
PUBLIC METING.
NO REPEAL OF TIM MISSOCRI CONPROMI3II!
At a large and highly respectable
meeting, held in pursuance of a call
signed by the citizens of the county of
Pottez, in. Lite State of Pennsylvania, at
the Court Hous-. in the through of
Coudersport. on the 20th'day of Febru
ary. 1854; the meeting was Organizeri
by appointing F. W. Knox. Esq.., Chair
man. The object of 'the meeting being
fully stated by the chairman in a clear
and distinct manner, the Hon. J. M. Kit- -
bourn and F. L. Jones. Esq.. were chos , n '
Vice Presidents, and N. L. Dike and
Saml. Haven were appointed Secretaries.
On motion of C. W. Ellis, Esq., a
committee of. hie were appointed by the
chair to draft resolutions expressive of
the sense of the meeting.' The enm
injure was composed of C. W. Ellis,
Hun. T. Ives. H. J. Olmsted. Hon. 0.
A.-Lewis, and George Estes, Esq, The
meeting was then addressed by L. F.
Maynard, J. S. Mann, C. W. Ellis, itnd
Robert Hamilton.
The Committee reported the following
preamble and resolutions, ‘thich were
uninimoti3ly adopted. •
We. the peopba •of Potter county, in the
State of Pennsylvania, Without distinction of
party or sect,.assembled in mass meeting in
Coudersport, declare unanimously., that we
have learned with surprise and regra t tbera
proposition has been introduced into the Con
gresa of the United , States • 6 to repeal the'
compact of 1820, commooly known .as the
MisSouri Compromise." Sorb a measure. so
pregnant with evil and bad faith. is calculated.
to nrouse the fears and perhaps r n longer the'
onion n - the American people; therefbre
Resolved, That this meeting do. not claim
for the citizens or Commonwealth of Pennsyl
vania any right to control orifiterfere with the
social or domestic . instittilinua or interests of
any other State or people; but while claiming
for otieselves the right to regulate our own
institutions and interests, we will accord the
unmolested etijnyinent of an equal privilege
to *yen- o'hrr free peoplc.
Re , olycil, That we are WI nnimon nly oppose:a.
heartily and firmly opposed, to any repeal or
modification tit the Missouri Compromise.
Resolved; That we are onposed to nurlegis
latiotrbv..the Congress of the rnite.l States in
conflict with the foregoing principles.
Resoled, That a copy of the above pream
ble and resolutions be forwarded to oar mem
ber of Congress and members of the Legisla
ture, with our unanimous opinion that there is
not a single person in this county who has the
temerity to favor the repeal ) of 'a compact.
which- has been the guarantee of our persee
mul.good feelings Jor mare than a quarter of
a century.
Mr. H. J. Olmsted' presented the
lowing :
Resolved, That Col. Benton and fien. Hens:
ton. by their firm and manly course in opposi
thin to this project of evil. and evil only.
challenge and receive our highest comrnenda..
tion.
On motion,
Resolved, Tlint the pftsceedin gs be published
in the e'oun:y papers.
- F. W. KNOX, Chairman
N. 1 4 .
Secretaries.
SAJIL. HAVEN.
Kr OVID F. JOHNSON. formerly 'At
torney General of the State of Pennsyl
vania, and of late years well known •t
the National Capital as n political wri
ter for Demoratic - journals, d:ed in this
city yesterday afiernopn, aged about
fifty years. He was a man of excellent
talents, of great aptness and energy, and
of Many estimable traits ofcharacter, but
the enemy that still lies in wait for thou
sands lured him to his ruin. and he died
forgotten and forsaken by the friends of
hitconyivial hours . He yielded to the
Tempter, and perished; and yet the
Tempter is protected by the laws.—N.
Era•
- .A rsivee Ratotrr.—A Chicago pa-
per relates the following “good one:.
A boy was going ttiong . the street. carry
ing a pitcher of milk. when presently
he Stumbled. and smash went the pitch
er and away ran' the milk. Another
boy across the way. saw the =Wet,
nod shouted:_ won't you cos* it
when you go lams ;lour mother'll give
it, to you.' "No she Won't. neither t"
screamed the other ; "my Mother always
says never cry for spilled milk !"
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