4 tHE4TOPLE'S JOURNAL
JNO. S. MANN,
5
Erirros
EDWIN HASKELL, •
IDLLITV TO THE pr,ofix
l'01; DEItSI'OI - IT, FHIp9Y, li t kftpk; 10,1854.
There will be a Temperance
meeting at Ellisburg, on March 31st, at
which time Lewis B. Cole and P. H.
Johnson will attend and address those
wh o e re present. Friends in that neigh
borhood 'wig
.. plea§e give general notice
of /hip meeting.
The freemen of Warren Connty,
without distinction of party, met at the
Court House in Warren on Monday last,
tp enter their solemn protest against the
passage of Douglas' infamous bill to
repeal the Missouri Compromise. There
pow remains but. one County on the
Northern line of our State, that has not
spoken through a public meeting against
consumation of this monstrous fraud.
• • ligr We learn that the . Schoql_ Di
reetorvhave resplyesl to commence the
pistrict i School in this Borough on the
520th inst. •
pr The last independent Press, of
Williamsport, broke ground rather tim,
idly against the Nebraska fraud. Wp
trust t h e Editor will pow more bold,
and Appasr this attempt to cheat the
North out of her share of the Mksouri
ReMpromise, in such terms as he feels
tbp importance of the question requires.
GRAHAM for March is, as UM
-41, qf the first order and among its
many ecelencies . we notice the con?
titillation of the life of Washington, by
p. lleadley, with a sbuperb engraving
of the Father of his Country wile at) ;
pored in' 1772, which is worth the price
gf a Tear's subscription. Graham has
Rid he was bound to excel' all competi7
tors; thus far he has made good his
wofd. We wonder a little, -however,
at the bad taste which defaces two pages
with wand cuts that pre bet 7
ter suited to a ..Crocket Almanac" than
to a high-toned Nl4gazine.
Educatliniieonvention,
A Convention of Teachers and friends
of Education will be held at the Court
Cooderspotl, nn Saturday, March
11, 1854, at 10 o'ckk, A. M. An ad. :
dress tyill be delivered in the evening
by Foriirc.c A. Alen,: Esq., principal of
Smethport Academy.
E 7. We are under obligations to Hon.
Geo, J. Eluired of the House, and Hon.
B. D. Hainlin of the Senate, for iarious
public documents of interest.
ilr-" A sound conatitution and an
innocent mind are the true ingredients
for prolonging and enjoying life."
rfr The Ladies' Wreath and Parlor
Annual for March is received and is un
surpassed by any previous number.
There is another commt i nication
from L. this week. Those of our lead
ers who read his "history of a night fifty
years ago," will not need an invitation
to read the present article, and. those who
did poi, will di) well to look up their
last Journal and look it over. We
hope this writer will continuo his in
-Itructive articles.
_gar We have received the March
number of the People's Jounlal, an il
lustrated Record of agriculture, Mechan
ic.s, Science and the useful arts, by Al
fred E. Beach, No 86, Nassau st. N. y.
The preEp.nt number contains 61 engra
ylngs illustrative of the subjects of which
ir treats. The Journal is published in
Iwo volumes in a year at fifty cents a
volume or one dollar a year, making it
pne of the cheapest as well as most - in
ptructive records of the kind published.
4 Not for Byron U. Hamlin to
crack.
We showed in last, week's Aland
that the Senate of this State postponed
the consideration of the Nebraska res
olutions by one !qte, and that Mr. Ham
lin, the Senator from this District, voted
to postpone—thereby .misrepresenting
his constituents, and favoring the pass
age of the Douglas sivind!e. The ef-
Pc! of this vote my be seen by the fol,
Joiving from the Washington correspond,
eat of the Nort4 American. •
A FqLy great change of feeling has cer
tainly taken place against the bill in
WV Houses. The question does not
appear to be near a decision in the Sen
ate, and has yet to run the gauntlet of
its friends in that body. It ntuat pass
the ordeal of a spore or two of constitu
tional questions. In the House, while
some old friends hare fallen off, it has
gained pp pew ones. Had the Penn
sylvania .f,egislalure passed resolu
tions disapproving of yhp movement,
_the b 171 would hove fallen diKra in , Me
arms ofitafriends,.
Coudersport 'Academy.
Mr: Ploomingdalo bas got thipgs pretty
well organized, and the school is going" off
finely. Every scholar seems to be pleatted,
and willing to: work. We looked in 'on
•Wednesday afternoon last for an boar or
two and were delighted with the exercises.
The punger portion of the students bad
made up a scrap book, which evinced spirit;
energy, and taste. We listened to its read
ing with great interest ; and hope the scrap
book will long be sppported with the same
sprightliness - anti propriety with which it
?started. The other exercises, sucb as sing
ing, reading compositions by the girls, and
speaking selected peices by the bpys, were
, equally interesting; and we agais,urge the
citizens of this village to visit the Academy
teny Wednesday afternoon, with our guaran
tee that they will be paid for all the time
h U 9 spec}.
What is Democracy?
There is a large number of politicians.
in the United States, who' are governed
by no principle ezcept the •love of the
spoils of office. 'nese, seeing with what
zeal the people cling to the name of De
mocracy are continually shouting hozan•
nes to this venerated watchword t but
they take good care never to parctise
any of its principles. Of this class
of politicians is the Editor of the yoga
Eagle, who, in the last number of that
paper, facetiously remarks that, There
has been no Democratic paper published
in Totter since Judge Lyman relin
quiAed.the editorial chair."
This sort of joking is well enough
with those who pre fully acquainted
with all the 'papers alluded to ; but as
some who will sce the article'may think
it was intended tp he believed, we think
it best to make a law comments on . this
humorous satire.
In the first place, it would puzzle our
friend of the Eagle, er any body else,
to tell what Derhocratic principle - Judge
Lyman ever advocated in the coluMns
of his paper; but, he having retirsd,from
the field, we will let that point pass.
In the second place, wa think it will
be difficult. for the Eagle man to show
that the People's Journal is not a Demo
cratic paper. 'True, we do not care a.
straw what you call us. Our. paper
speaks for - itself. But we would 'like
those pro-slavery papers that are con
tinually assuming to be, par excellence,
the Democracy, to show some evidence
that the self-laudation i 3 well founded.
And agam, we ask, ;Mat is Democ
racy ? If the following definition of
Senator Allen is a true one, we submit
that this Journal is a Democratic paper,
and that the Tioga .Eagle is no! :
" DGMOCRACT..-A sentiment not to be ap
palled; corrupted, or compromised. It knows
n 6 baseness, it Foes to no danger, and op
presses :so wroisass. Dcstructire only of
despotism, it is the sole conservative of liberty.
labor, and property. It is the sentiment of
freedom, Of equal rights, of equal obligaqous
—the law of nature preceding the law of the
laud."
This definition of Senator Allen, is
derived from the snyingp and doings of
the fathers. Speaking of the institution
of slavery, said THOMAS JEEFERSON
"The man must be a prodigy who eau retain
his manners and morals n CORItt rrrn by such
cireuintances. And with what execration
should the statesman ho loaded, who, permit
ting one half of the citizens thus to tramp'o
on the rights of others, transforms those into
DEsrors and these into enemies, destroyingthe
morals of one part and the ANIO a P/TRI4 of the
other."'
And in his gddress to the Virginia
Convention of 1774 he said :
" The abolition of domestic slavery is tit',
great object of desire iti these Colonies, WHERE
IT WAS USIJA Pettr ImtonvcEp lS Tpz!tt IN AST
rreiE."-
Says our country, speaking by the
voice of Jefferson ;
" We hold these truths self-evident. that all
men are created equal—that they are endowed
with certain inalienable rizhts—that among
there are life, liberty, and the pursuit of hap
piness."
And again, in the Congress of the
Confederation, he brought forward, as
'early as 11'04 resolution to exclude
Slavery from all the Territory " ceded
or to be ceded" by the 'States of the
Federal Government, including the
whole territory now covered by Tennes
see, Wssissippi, and Alabama. Lost at
first by a single rote only, this meas.
s ure in a more restrieted form, was re
newed at a subsequent day, by an hon
ored son of Massachusetts, and in 1787
was finally confirmed in the ordinance
of the Northwestern TerritOry by a
unanimous vote of the States. And in
1820 this same principle was applied to
the exclusion of Slavery from all the
Territory then belonging to us North of
36 9 30'; and to maintain which. our
best erorts are given ; but the Eagle
seeks to overthrow this early measure
of Democracy.
Said Governer Morris: " He never
would concur in upholding domestic
slavery. It was a nefaripyi institution.
It was the curse of Hpien."
Mr. Aadisqn " Thought it a wrong to
admitin the Constithtion the idea of
property in man." And General Wash
11106; thelaireTolhrs" , i atritlad
to the Marquis de Lafayettei6 thelsth:
'of April; 1783, said • .
r
• " The scheme, my dear Marquis, which you
propose as a precedeut to enu µrage tbq emu,
I:Toth:in of the bliCks, in this 'Country, from .
'that state of bondage in which they-are held, is
a Striking evideneo of le benevolence of your
heart . I shall lie• happy to join you in so
LAUDADLIC a work, but will defray going ; into
a detail of tile business, milli I jiave the,
•
pleasure of seeing you."
To another friend General Washing
ton Wrote,. " that it was among his -.first-
wishes to -see some-Plan adopted- by
which plaveiy may be abolished by
law," and that to this end " his suffrage
should not be wanting." '
"In accordance with these noble sen
tinients• he emancipated his own slaves.
By the light of this testimony, or by any
other which emanated from the men of
that time, we challenge the Tioga Eagle
to show that the People's Journal is not
A Democratic paper.
• Pour In the Petitions,
It does one good to see the consterna
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twin pro d uce d among the conspirators at
Washington,, at the arrivsl of such a
flood of remonstrances against the Doug.
las fraud. We say to our friends in this
county, there is still hope of defeating
this monstrous iniquity, and that every
petition forwarded unites to swell the
mighty influence of the people.
We are proud of this county. From
every section we hear of activity, and
perseverance in the circulation of remon
strances. Mr. H npBARD STARWEATH
ER spent two or three days, in traveling
over the townships of Stewardson and
Abbot, for this purpose, and he did no
bly. He obtained 130 names to his re
monstranee which was duly forwarded
to oar member by Mr. Samuel Haven of
this Borough.
We hope this,woric will be continued.
Those who • hare not signed petitions
should do so at once. If:one is not pre
sented to you, get one up without delay
now is the time to work.
Here is a form taken from the Tribune
of the 2nd of \iarch ich will be sure
to spur you up.
'fica following form of petitions will
be at all the Brooklyn ferries through
out to-day and to-cuor.sow,...and every,
passenger who-does not desire to see the
great rascality now before Congress per
peVrated. wUI add his name to the list.
It is p short but pcinted pretest, upon a
subject which we cannot afford to waste
words upon ; it is time for action: This
protest will serve to tell how many. are
ready for action ;
To the Honorable the Senate and
House of Rept esentalives, in Congress
assembled ;
We, the udersigned, inhabitants of
the City of Brooklyn respectfully protest
against the passage of the "Nebraska
bill," or any measure extending Slavery
into territory now free.
,/frahl of the People.
The Temperance men of this
State have been asking their legislators
to pass a law to prohibit the salq and
manufacture of intozicating
The politicians say the people are not
prepared for such a law. Our fiiends
reply, Pass the law and then submit the
question of repeal to a vote of the-peo
ple. Is this not democratic ? We say
large- majority of the people are in
favor of a prohibitory , law, and to show
our sincerity we say to our opponents,
Let the question be tried as soon as you
like/Now who are they in- this Stale that
are afraid to trust the peopled The fol
lowing.from the last 'Crystal Fountain
of Harrisburg, will answer this question.
Tee defeat of the eighth eection,
which recognises the right to search
premises where there is proof that liquor
is kept far sple by persons not author
ized terse!! is virtually a defeat of
the bill itself; for without the right of
search and seizure, the law would be
practically useless. In order that the
people may know who are the FRIENDS
and who the ENEMIES of this great reform
measure, we put on record the yeas and
nays on the eighth section of the bill.
Whigs marked thus : ( 4 1).
• Yzss—Messrs, Barnes,* Darsie,* Ev
ans.*. Ferguson,* Frick , 4 Hamilton,' B.
D.. Hamlin, E. W. Hamlin, Hoge, Ja
mison, Kunkel,* M'Fariand, Platt, Skin.
ner,* Shfer,•--15.
NAVS—Messrs. Huckalew, Crabb.!
Gresswell. Darlington,* Foulkrod, Fry
Goodwin, Haldeman, Heister, Kinzer"
M'Clintock, Price,* Quiggle, Sager,
Wherry. and M'Caslin, Speaker--1118.
It will be seen that a large majority of
the Whigs voted for the bill, and that a
large majority of the Democrats voted
against it,' The four Whigs who voted
against it are from the great Rutq cities
of Philadelitia and Lancaster. From
all other parts of the State, including
our own district, the Whigs proved tree.'
Mr. Kuria - 4 made an eloquent appeal
is furor of the hill, and labored bard to
save it— but the edict had gone forth
that the bill must. I tie slefeated—the
"power behind the throne must be
obeyed—and men, with professions of
friendship warm upon their lips, .c oo lly
cut the throat of this great measure, and
e r Prinkled' its hfooir u - port - ibe - altir of
Nu& ! Thel tippcoltiokcf these - party/
•tricksters to the Bth : section wa*-01.1114
they consigereil the. principle it em
:hOied wrong. but because they lwanted
'a pretext for.killing the . bill uself r - for
- they - knew - that; strippef - of theimport
ant feature of the right of search, the
law would be practically useless, and
therefore unucceptablp to .the friends of
Prohibition. We call'opouthe temper
ance men of the State to fimark' the
-political tricksters" who -have brought'
about, this result.
What Shall Wo 11;17
The Nebraska fraud could easily be
defeated if all who are opposed to it
would only do stunvhing. There is
McKeon county, with three fourths of
her voters' opposed to.the Douglas swin
dle, as yet perfectly inactive, so far as
any public meeting is concerned. And
there ate many people in this county
who have not yet done any thing to pre
serveiNebraska from the curse of Slave
ry. What is true of McKean, is true
of most of the ceunties of this State, and
bereih lies the great danger that Slavery
will 'again , triumph. We trust that
every reader of this paper, will see to it,
that no part of the responsibilities of this
crime rests on his shoulders. ,
Should 4py inquire What more can
be done ?we answer every thing. Read
the following from the pen of Him:
WARD BRECHER. in the last N. Y. In
depend en I, and then resolve 1p
THERE is every where a questioning,
What shall we do?
1. : Let. petitions .be circulated in eve
ry school district, in every village and
town; and las Mst as a hundred' names
are got, let them be sent to Congress ;
and thus let every day's mail carry one,
until a stream of petitions j sets in. In
this Work American women,can proper
ly engage. This may incite those "to
action with whorn_they have influence;
they 'may see to it that petiticins are cir
culated, and do much toward it by their
own Services. Was there dyer an occa
sion or a otiose that should draw forth a
woman's heart, if it be not this—the sa
ving of countless numbers of their own
sex from the shameless degiadation of a
slavery which ignores 'marriage, find
tramples under foot the tenderest and
holiest ties of humanity.
Schools of young men, and colleges,
woikmen in manufactories, nd societies
of every kind, might send petitions to
Washington, from their 'own members.
In short', let every thing that has breath
speak, so that it may be known at Wash
ington that gambling politicians do not
represent the Northern sentiments,
27, Let documents be circulated among
the people, the speeches of 'chose, Sew,
ard, and Sumner. Let papers be , pre,
pared in every, prindipal neighborhood,
giving concisely the facts, an/ the fu
ture bearings of this step, Ito be issued
in country papers, and in hind-bills.
We should know how tq work in the
Temperance cause ; and just 'so must
we labor in this cause.
3, Let every - man of apy influence,
write to his rcpresentativi.. It is 'not
enough to sign. petitions. Let there be
thousands-crrpriVate letters, asking them
what they are doing - to preterit this evil,
and representing the' heme interest
which is Jell. j •
4. There should prompt:ly be called
public meetings, great and small,. all
°vet the North, that mar t may kindle
each other's zeal, stringthee each other's
purposes, and give movement and, ma
jestic power to public sentiment.
6. The *pie should not wait'until
public men, great men, influential men,
or any men, tell theM to move: The
people are competent to move of them
selves. Wherever a heart beats in this
cause, let that heart give its emotions
utterance. Let poor men, unlettered
men, mechanics and laborers; in short,
the great industrial class—let them move
with spontaneousness.
: But whoever works, and wfatever is
done, it must be done with promptness
and vigor. No time is to be lost The
matter will speedily ha settled in one
way or another. . •
Tzwi ANDITRUE.—The Boston Cou
rier has the following plain talk about
the Nebraska bill : “ There is not the
slightest question of constitutional prin
ciple involved in the Nebraska question.
It is' simply a quention whether the
nation shall tell a lie or not in respect
to the Misiburi Compromise. It is
simply a question whether the agree
ment we have made not to do a specified
thing shall now find us true men or false
knaves. A bargain has been made, a
solemn compact entered into, that Slave •
ty shall not , be legalized in a certain
region and the question is whether at
this moment, without the slightest ne
cesiity or excuse, we shall wilfully, abd
in the face I bf the whole world, break
our word thus solemnly-given, and corn,
mit an act of national perjury,'l
Liquor Law In Pennsylvania.
UARRISBURG, Friday March 3,.1854.
The House this afternoon considered
the prohibitory liqour bill. An amend
ment striking out all after the enacting
clause, and inserting a simple submission
of the question of prohibition to the
people, ,vvisi lost—yeas 43. Nays, 49.
The first section of the bill was. the neg
atived—yeas 41 Nays 52.
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. • MIAN . DEMOCRACY. _
The , +i National allies of Slavery"
mei in COnvention at Pittsburgh on the
20th of Inst. Month. to' choose delegates
to die State Convention, to meet
on the Bth of this month.
A Committee of five was appointed
to prepare resolutions—delegates were
chosen to represent Allegheny county in
the State Convention—when the Com
mittee reported resolutions praising Big
ler and Judge Black, and congratulating
the people on their prosperity, etc.
One of the Committee, Dr. George .
M'Cook, said he did not exactly like the
resolutions, and oared the following as
a substitute:
Whereas; the Hui. Stephen A. Doug
las has introduced to the United States
Senate a bill proposing that Congress
shall exercise a non-intervention in refer
ence to the 'e'stablishment of Slavery in
the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas.
. ,
And wherees,such a proceeding would
be a violation of the plighted faith of the
South to the . North, aid a virtual re
peal of the Missouri Compromise. - And
whereas, the introduction of Nebraska
into the Union as a Slave Territory
would be Prejudicial to North+ erni
greets. - Therefore, ;
Resolved, That, as members of the .
national democratic party, we view with
deep regret' the introduction of the Ne
braska Bilho the Senate of the United
States by a Northern Democrat ; that
said bill is not required by the wants of
said TerritCriei—has not its origin in any
known exigency of the times—is a trans
gression of the Baltimore Platform—is
deeply. injurious to the people of the
North—is a contemptuous treatment of
the Missouri Compromise and of the
friends- of 'that measure, and therefore
cannot be, end shall not by our silence,
become a measure of the national dent
cratic party:
We ask the reader if,these resolutions
are not true. Are they not just and
reasonable ! Do they not speak of a
subject of 4nepsing importance? How
think you they were received in a pro
fessing Democratic Convention ? We
will show. you. We quote -from the
Pi uSbu rg h Dispatch
Mr. A. B. I.l)dalmont rose to reply to
the last speaker. He contended that the
Nebraska bill was not up for considera
tion before the Convention, and that to
entertain . the report of Dr. M'Cook
would be to pass upon a subject not be
fore them, and entirely foreign to the
object for which they had assembled,
He indulged in several petty flings at
Dr. M'Cook, whom he termed a disor
ganizer,&c. He defended the Nebraska
bill, and declared his readiness to meet
the lust speaker, or any other who sup
ported him, there ur elsewhere, on the
subject. He charged Dr. M'Cook with
being an Ohio Abolitionist, and as such
he warned the Convention against adopt
ing his resoltition. It was offered con
trary to parliamentary rules, and the
delegates from the townships should bear
in mind that it was not before the CoO
rention for Consideration.
Captain Ward followed; he saw the
efforts that Were being made to choke
the resolution of Dr. M'Cook with re
gret,' as he' r believed that ninety-nine
Democrats out of every hundred in dap
county held ;the sentiments it expressed.
He dared . those' vvhe opposed it to give
it a fair heering before the Convention ;
they _were afraid to do so; for if they
did, it was4.fire to pass. If they did n't
want to gag the delegates, they should
let a vote un,Dr. M'Cook's resolution be
taken,. j
A gentleman, whose name we did not
learn; conten ded that the minority report
was out oli order, and could not be enter
tained. The Chair sustained the ob
jection, and 'another Acene of confusion
followed,
4 u.
And so, this peitr, quibble, that the
report was not i , i order, was successfully
Used to gag: I the rank and file on the
• I •
most • important question that has been
before Congress for thirty years. Such
is the Deinocracy of Pennsylvania. As
Captain s War d. said, nine tenths of the
people want to oppose this Douglas out
rage; but thi leaders shy,. No, that
would he out of order,-not parliament.
try .If that is democracy, we should
like to hear despotism "defined.
The Pittsburgh doughfaces acted in
perfect keeping with their masters at
Washington. Pierce and Douglas know
perfectly well 'that nine tenths of the
people of this nation are opposed to this
Nebraska Swindle. Nevertheless, they
are determined to force it through Con
gress; and their atatelites are every
where at work with parliamentary rules,
and questions of order—tricking and
lying to defeat the will of the people.
Why, one of these Jackals of party had
the impudence and arrogance to assert
that if he had been here on the night of
our-anti Nebraska meeting, those resolu
tions would never have passed. He
would have a erUshed out" all such
nonsense. Pretty Democracy, is n't it ?
But this would-be Judge of the polluted
Territory is a fair sample of the leaders
of his party. They all act on one prin
tiple, to wit. : that the politician is every
thing—the people nothing. But there
is trouble ahead for these seltconatittited
itialtlians:of the 'people's _ consciences.
The massca grow restive under the iron
•
rute of party.-
Speaking of this same Pittsburgh
Convent*. the-Dispatch Bays: , .
The felt and expressed
by the untrammeled democrats who took
part in the Convention, convinces us
that the sentiment of that party is en
tirely anti-Nebraska-bill, and that those
who were insulted and abused by the
machinery of the corrupt controllers of
their 'party, will, ere long. give these
unscrupulous politicians a striking dam.
onstration of their views. Whatever the
Administration may do at ynshington
in whipping in its retainers to the sup
port of this anti-democratic measure, the
,wire-pullers here have ascertained that
Pittsburg democrats cannot be driven,
like xattle, to the shambles. ',They made
themselves heard, yesterday, hoiterer,
at the Convention ; they will cause
themselves to be felt, at the first °nor
tunity, at_thelpolls.
Througb the Senate.
The Douglas fraud was put through
the Senate on Friday night last. Thy
following is the account given by the
Tribune of the final vote. .
THE debate Was continued until
5 o'clock, nt which thour he final vote
was taken, and the bill passed, by—Yeas
37, Nayi 19. as follows: "
YEAS—Messrs. Adams, Atchinson,
Badger, Bayard,. Benjamin, Brodhead,
Brown, Butler, Cass, Clay; Dawson,
Dixon. Dodge of lowa, a nips Emir,
titzpat rick, Geyer, Gtv in. Hu nter,lolin
son, Jones of lowa, Jones of Tenn., Ma
son, Morton, Norris, Pettit, Pratt,
Rusk, Sebatian, Shields, Slidell, Stuart.
Thompson of Kentucky, Thompson of
New Jersey:, Toucy, Weller, Williams.
NAYS—Messis. Bell, Chase, Dodge
of W is.; Fes se nde it, Fish, Foot, Hamlin,.
Houston, James, Seward, Smith, Sum
ner, Wade, Walker.
Messrs. Bright, Toombs and Mallory
are sick ; but all would haue voted for
the bill!. •
Mr. Allen (absent from sitkriess in
his fsmily) would have voted against is.
Messrs. Phelps. Pearce, Cooper, Ev
erett, Clayton and Wright not voting.
The title of the bill was changed to
Bill for the Government of Nebraska
and Kanzas." •
Mr. cAp---f Cougratulate the Seo
ate on the triumph of the squatter soYel
eignty. Adjourned till Tuesday.
Be Faithful to Your Obliga-
tiona.
We clip the following from the lade.
pendent Herald, of Westchester, Pa.,
as an evidence of the good to be accom
plished by a faithful discharge of duty:
DEAR BossE—Elizabeth Wright of
McKean county, Pa , now on a visit to
parts of Chester and other counties in
State, attends the religious meeting of
progressive Friends at Atrelborough, on
First day, the sth inst.
She is a Methodist, traveling with a
certificate, or credentials. of unity and
goad standing in that Church ; is a
young woman of great apparent piety,
of n vigorous, methodical, and cultivated
intellect, and gifted with an- ease and
fluency of expression rarely equalled by
one of her sex. Her mission purports to
be art moral and religious character; but
especially the advntement of the great
temperance reformation. Her lectures
at Kennett Square and New Red Lion,
on the lattersubject, were justly consid
ered by the large auditory in attendance
amongst the most brilliant efforts they
had ever listened to. Being pervaded
by such a devotional feeling, such a
deep and profound knowledge of as
sudject, by clear and forcible expositions,
a solemn and impressive, manner, with
powerful appeals to the reason and
judgment of the -hearers, rendered.har
discourse peculiarly impressive and irre
sistible.. Her sermons are divested of
every thing of a speculative or dogmatic
character; are catholic and bractical in
their tendency, and calculated to unite
the honest and truth seeking of all denom
inations, in the great work of divesting
true religion from technical theology,
and concentrating their efforts for the
promotion of the brotherhood of man, in
opposition to the desolating systems ,of
war, slavery. intemperance, and opprea
aion of 'every character.
Such devoted and self-sacrificing
travelers, and laborets.for the promotion
of truth and righteousness in the earth,
with the cordiality and christain toler
ation with which they are sometime,'
received, remind us of the assemblies
of the primitive believers, where, with.
out prejudice- or denominational bias,
.‘ each one spake as the spirit pro orrn
utterance."
Free Boil Nomination in Molt
igan.
[Correspondence of the 'Evening 'Post.]
ANN ARBOR, February 21, 1554.
• ' The* Freesoilere held a• large and en
thusiastic state convention at Jackson,
yesterday. They nominated for gover
nor, Kinsley S. Bingham, a gentleman
of considerable talent and ability, He
was a democratic member of Congrss a
few years since but. as excommunicated
from the party by the Cass portion of it,
because he was not enough of a senile,-
and has since acted with the meatier.,
The nominee for lieutenant-govesnor
is Nathan Pierce ; He has been a mem
ber of the Legislature for several
,terms
having peen elected through the 'mut
support of the Whigs and freesoilers.
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