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[0,2 , June 2, _ISS4, the Gorernment ratter Mor „Tit was ordered by Franklin Pierce, President, to•carry Anthony Burns from Boston, Mass., to rirginia, to be enslaved forever.] HAIL to the Stars and Stripes ! . The boastful flag all hill! The tyrant trembles now, And at the sight grows pale; • The Old World groans in pains, • And turns her eye to see beyond the Western main, The emblem of the free. Hail to the Stars and Stripes! Hope beams in every ray ! And shining through the bars Of gloom, points out the way; . The Old World sees the light . That shall her cells And shrinking back to night, Oppression reads her doom. Ilnil to the Stars and Stripes! They float in every sea, The crvstal waves speed on The emblemof the free! Beneath the azure sky Of soft Italia's clime, Or where Auroras d.e, Iti solitude sublime. AU hail the flaunting Lie ! ..The stars grow pale end dint— The stripes are bloody scars, A lie the vaunting hymn; It shields a pirate's deck, It hinds a man in claim; It yokes the captive's neck, And wipes the bloody stains. Tear down the flaunting lie! Half-umst the starry flag! Inmlt no snnny ski• With Hate's polluted rng; Destroy it, ye who eitn! Deep sink it in the waves! It bears a fellow malt To groan with fellow slaves Awake the burning scorn! That vengeance long and deep, That till a better morn - • Shall neither tire nor sleep! 0, Freeman ! Dare to do ! ' God's will is ever NOW May HIS thy will renew! Fnfurl the boasted lie! Till Freedom lives again, To rule once more in Truth, Among untrammeled men ! Roll up the starry sheen, Conceal its bloody stains, For in its folds are seen The stamp of rusting chains Be bold, ye heroes all! Spurn, spurn the flaunting lie, Till PLACE, and TROTH, and LOVE. Shall fill the bending sky Then floating in the air, O'er hill, and vale, and sea, 'T willstand for ever fair, The emblem of the Free ! Brooklyn, L. /., June 3. REPEAL AND RESISTANCE.-If the spirit of '76 is not entirely dead, the fugitive slave . „act will stand a poor chance of being enforced in Rhode Island. If the New England patriots were justified by the higher law in tossing the tea into Boston harbor— in resisting the stamp act—in burning the Gaspee, here in our own river, then are the descendants of that brave band equally justified by the same law in. covert and open resistance to a statute more atrocious in its nature and more oppressive and cruel in its operations than all the acts by which the British Parliament undertook to subjugate the American colonies. And while we go for the immediate repeal of the infernal act, we wish to have it distinctly understood that wq go for resistance also. Of course, others can do as they please—we speak for one The time for discussion on the con stitutionality and. character of that law has gone by. The time for action has fully come. The alternatives presented to us are, voluntary submission, forci ble submission, or succesful resistance. Manhood and the higher law impel us to choose the latter. Better die .as freemen than live as slaves. Repeal and resistance--resistance mid repeal is our war cry.—R. I. Free -man. JEFFERSOS 4EVISED.-It is thought they have got a new edition of the Declaration of Independence at the South, especially calcu lated for that latitude. The following is said - to be the - beginning, of the precious instrument: "White men are born with considerable free dom and .endowed with inalienable rights, amongishich are life , liberty, and the pursuit of sniggers ! (Portland Adv. . _.... .... ... . „ . . . • . - . r_. ~ .. , - .. , .. . . 7..., , ~. . ....., , THE:, •P': . ‘ i - -':--OP: ', -- ••• . E . 5 .- . - '---,!--- ,'-.0 ;;---..--.:..-:-- ~.-:::i.:-:-.-:-.- A ~--: • . BEAUTY OF. TEWTH. . "Truth ever lovely since the world began, The fde of Tyruntts.-and friend -of Man: " Or high, or low; or rich or poor, we call, The good of each rests in the goad of Act. We fear a large portion of the ris ing generation do not attach sufficient importance_ to truth and its influence upon the character. They indulge in all kinds of extravagant misrepresent ations, and when these are discovered, they endeavor to laugh thein pff as mere matters of jest.—ln other words they mistake falsehood for wit, and thus not only injure others, but mis-_ lead themselves. The infirmity.is one that has been alluded to again and again, but it cannot be denounced too earnestly or tou frequently. Truth is one of the brightest and purest moral jewels of our nature. It not only il lustrates, but it adorns and dignifies. It is indeed valuable in almost every aspect in which it may be considered. The true man, one whose word may always be relied upon, is deservedly respected and esteemed by all who know him, and the weight of his opin ion cannot but exercise a high moral influence in every intelligent circle. It has been wetland wisely contended, that " truth lies at the foundation of the really virtuous character." It is the key stone . of the arch. It inspires confidence, and in its absence, every other element of purity is deprived of -a portion of its strength. No truly great or good man ever lived, in whom this trait was not prominent. Truth is the brightest jewel in a vouhg man's crown. He that is wil ling to prevaricate, to misrepresent, to garble, to prevert —he that scorns •to deceive, and with a modest frank- ness and a manly firmness, always speaks the simple truth; commends himself at once to the respect and ad miration of the truly wise and virtu ous. An individual may be a perfect novice in business, may not possess brilliant talents, be awkward in per son and unpolished in manners, but let it be known that he is a truth ful man, andthere is no deception, no falsehood about him, that he comes directly to the mark in all he says, and that his word is never. to be dJuted, and he will have a Sure passport to the confidence of the com munity. And he who can command confidence, can also command success. On the other hand, let an individual be attractive in person, accomplished in manners, marked by energy, talent and tact : but let him at the same time, be addicted to falsehood, and the effect will be to create distrust, excite suspi cion, to destroy hopes, and to impair prospects. The young who are about ' to enter into the active pursuits of the I world, and thus carve out for ' them selves character, as well as fortune, should remember these facts. They should avoid, as something calculated to curse them throughout life, a habit of misrepresentation, exaggeration and falsehood. Even in „jest the truth should be adhered to ; but at last ! how-often is it otherwise ! How many persons indulge day after day, in the silly practice of uttering falsehood, half in jest, half in earnest, and thtis perplexing, misleading and confusing individuals who are conscientious and manly, who cannot understand the wit of lying. It is a sad mistake in the young as well as the old, to concoct scandle, circulate misrepresentation and utter untruths, in the silly notion that such a pßlicy is smart. It is on the con trarS.-, not only very weak, but vicious, The effect, too, is to excite general distrust, and thus, even when the truth is uttered, the listener remem berg the authority, and seeks for cor roberation in some other quarter.-,-- The old fable of the Boy and the Wolf is familiar, and is as 11111 of meaning as full of moral.. The wisest are liable to be deceived once or twice by a plausable falsehood, but thereaf ter, they are not only liable to mani fest caution, but to exhibit incredulity. and scorn. How priceless is truth in the family circle—among parents and children, relatives and friends. We could pardon almost any offense in the young, except the habit of deceiving •and falsifying. With such a habit, it is impossible to ifnmagine what. has taken place. Unpleasant discoveries are constantly occurring, and we are made to live in a state of continual anxiety and apprehension. We remember that some years since, a young lady and gentleman of a neighboring city became extremely intimate, and after paying various at tentions, the latter made an offer of his'hand and . heart. He was ques tioned as to his former history by the lady, and especially relating to a par ticular circumstance. Instead of stat ing the facts as they were, and there was nothing particularly serious in' the matter, he was prompted by his evil genius of the hour, to make' a, de liberate misrerre3entation. Within _^^f ,t :7GICT^:: ~J!'^h YtN4;•' . d='^lee.... 4 mtll'ye y; ~, Y .. Y .. DEVOTED •TO Tat PRINCIPLES OF' DEMOCRACY; AND tut DISSEMINATION , OF MORALITY LITERATURE, AND NEWS COUDEASPORT,_ POTTER: COUNTY; PA:, :JUNE 23; :WS:Lk the same Week the falsity of-kis story was discovered, and the effect was to dismiss him at once from the confi dence and esteem as well of the lady as of her Mends. They could not rely on one'who, at such a moment and under'such . circumstances, would so strangely attempt to deceive! And still more recently, an individual who, in a moment of necessity and tempta- . tion, had committed an offense, called upon a gentleman of. this city for as sistance. The latter had an indistinct recollection of the facts of the case, and in the kindest spirit named the circumstance, and asked if he, the applicant, was the party implicated. The reply. was in the negative. - He denied the story from first to last; and fixed it upon another. ,Soon after, however, a sense of conscience and of right prevailed, he-came forward ad mitted all the facts, and said that a feeling of shame had induced -him for a moment to violate that holy princi ple. This was the more to be re gretted, for had he uttered the truth at first, the effect would not have been injurious to him in the slightest de gree, for in fact, he was known to he the man. Still his prompt admission and regretful explanation had the effect of restoring that confidence which would otherwise have been materially weakened, if not wholly destroyed. But the intelligent and observing reader does not require illustrations. He must know that without truth there can be no confi dence,_ no trust, no fidelity and little happiness. What, too, can be more terrble,--what more base—than by a series of false statements; hollow pro fessions, and artful acts, to win the esteem,. the respect, and love of a fel low being, and then by tearing the mask away, reveal the monsters De ceit and Falsehood in all their de formity.--L-Co/Teautville Courier. COUGH3NG DOWN BILL At the risk of being laughed at, by the way, T thifik • ,411 aovnt,,i enough to the invalid cause, to men tion rather a funny discovery of mine in the way of cough - alieviation. Of cough itself, I have long had an im proving estate. It is a removal of the material for the disease; and the med ical opiate which stills it, is calling the dog from the unex4elled enemy. The sleep one loses by it—an inci dental aggi vation of the cleansing process—is the only harm it can do, at least till it becomes itself a morbid irritation. . - But,. lying in bed one - night, and wondering at the six or seven hours that Nature had been busy in pump ing out the wrong secretions of my mucous membrane, I fell to speculating on' its hydraulic action. speculating on the fact that the fluid which it brought away was evidently turned upon an irritable. portion of the stomach or lungs by the. change of posture in lying down the use of the cough must be to finish its up-hill progress to the mouth. It was a pumy, the action of which was but the effort to overcome the remaining activity through a chest and head raised upon pillows. Would it be needed—thought r—if it were dozen-hill from the stomach to the mouth?. Why not save . this hard working cough the trouble by altering the level 7' • I leaned over the bed, with .my hand rested on the round of a chair for , support,. tried the experiment. It aggravated the cough immediately —or, rather, it so increased its ejec tion of the mucous fluid that it seemed the result of a vomit,—but, I was tranquilized and went to: sleep immedi ately after. In four or five minutes the down-hill cough seemed to do the work, which, up-hill would have occu pied hours. It is somewhat for the same effect, perhaps, that most cough machines are based upon ipecac. But the advantage of doing it by posture is that the stomach is not weakened by medication. I have a month or two of experi ence, on which to ground iny recom mendation of this alleviative to my co pulmonary friends. I get through with my night's irritations of the throat, now, habitually, by thus in creasing and expediting them—one' hour's work, or, oftener, a few minutes of violent and spasmodic coughing, instead of a slow and irritating bail for six or seven hours. The sleep afier it, has the lull rest after fa tigue. The cleansed tongue in the morning shows that the lining of the stomach . had its airing attended to, while the lines around the eyes read like a certificate of reasonable sleep. 7-IV. P. SPORT IN KLOTOCILY.—YOURg SpOTROTINII: I say, friend, is there anything to shoot about here I Farmer: Wal, I don't know, stranger, but yeti can g o 4o wi l .to ergs) rga4J a m .414 a pop at tae sc,lmplntaptex, jtpittp eep your hand in. , . From the Wesleyort. *ittz-w3on xonnwrr IN.i4c=tlET 'We 'see ,by the Vermont Tribuxe that the friends of free-labor produce in that vicinity, are waldfig up in real earnest to the importance of this mat-; ter. • A meeting of the friends of this .movement is ammunced to be held in the Wesleyan Meeting House,:North Ferrisburg, on the 4th • iusf., for the ,purpose of forming a Free Prance Association. A Preamble and don stitution, tote acted upon at the meet ing, is already published. The • Pre amble reads thus: "'Believing that slaveholding is op posed_ to the spirit and tenor of the* Christian religion, and mainly sup p.orteil by the purchase of the produc tions of gave labor, we regard it our duty to abstain, as far as possible,. from the use of such productions. With these views; and to increase the facilities in procuring goods produced py free labor, we unite in an Associa.- tion under the title of The Free Pro duce Association of"' • The second article of the. proposed Constitution is as follows: • • "The objects of this Association shall be, not to substitute this for other modes of anti-slavery' action, but to take up the anti-slavery enterprise where the Church and ballot-box leave it.; to carry frequent anti-slavery ac tion into the family circle of each of its members, to the counter of the store keeper, to the factory or the exchange, as unreservedly as we would make it an affair of the church, or the business of legislative bodies—to aim ulate ourselves in such practical anti slavery efforts; as a constant recur rence to our leading principles would induce to adopt means for obtaining a supply of articles, the production of - free labor, that cannot be otherwise .readily procured—to show the injustice and impolicy of slave labor—the de molition of domestic comfort—of so cial and religious . privileges, and the .destruction of human life which it occa sions, and at the duty , of withdrawing from it our support.' - It is to be hoped that this example of our Green Mountain brethren will be followed by each and all of the Free States. Such a movement, if generally,made and efficiently carried out, would do much toward destroy ing the demand for slave productions. A writer in the -Vermont Tribune justly says; "It will tend to encourage the non slaveholding :planter; in the demon stration he is now making under the observation of slaveholders, that free labor can compete with slave labor upon the same soil, and under the same commercial restrictions, and thus far remove one of the greatest obsta cles to emancipdtion—the belief that under prasent circumstances it is expe dient to submit to the evil." The deep sea-soundings of .Lieut. Murray resulted in the discovery, at the bottom of the ocean, of a bed of microscopic shells, unmixed with . sand or gravel. To an ordinary observer the discovery would suggest no Very omarkable ideas, and would unfold no extraordinary provisions'of nature. But Lieut. Murray demonstrates that these animalculw, in 'all probability, exercise a powerful influence in pro rnoting a healthy change or circulation of the waters of the sea; that if, as is supposed, these little creatures live at the surface, and are buried at the bot tom of the ocean, fq, they assist to preserve the status by maintaining the purity of the • waters. It is admitted that the salts of the sea 'come from the land, and that they consist of the solu ble matter which the rains wash out from the fields, and which the rivers bear to the ocean. The waters of the Mississippi and the Amazon discharge immense quantities of this soluble matter. This matter cannot be evap orated, and as the rivers never cease. pouring in fresh supplies of it, it is argued that the sea must be continually growing more salt; and such, perhaps, would be the case, were it .not that these microscepic animals are con stantly at work, extracting this matter from the sea-water, and depositing it, in the form of shells, at the bottom of the ocean. Thus, says Lieut. Murray, ‘• the ocean is presented as a vast chemical berth; in which the solid parts of the earth are washed, filtered, and precipitated again as solid matter, but in a rim forth, with fresh prop erties." The S,priagftel4 4?epttNjzon (Mass.) hai been " taking the sense of the community," with this result:- "There are two parties in that town on the Nebraska Question. They pre" petioplosed pf the Postmaster on one sAeoluitti pygrytmtly else on the "4 ic4t all (444 to 4vp, f or of death to die." .. 609. RESLER A 0 =OW NOTHING Owing to several attacks made' upon the organization :of " KAM*. Nothings" by the Pennsylvanian and Patriot, the known be of his EicellencY, it might be inferred that GoV.Digler and the Democratic lea:ders were hostile to the - order; but upon 'closer inves-• . tigation •it becomes evident, notwith standing their seeming opposition, that his Excellency is "in the ring." He does not "know!' whether he is for or against the infamous Nebraska swin dle.. . He. does not. "know" whether he Is'in favor of or opposed to the sale of the Public Works belonging to the :CoMmonwealth. He doeS not," know" whether be is for or against a division of the school fund., He does not ; " know " why, in defiance of his re-.: jection of, the people of Pennsylvania, his influence secured the promotion of I Judge Campbell. He does not "know" why he vetoed several Bank bills during the last session of the Lesisla- ture, and signed others containing.pre-N cisely the same provisions. 'He is not only a "know nothing" himself, but manufactures members by thousands. The 'citizens of Pennaylvania ought to. be Made acquainted with his position on the above and many other ques tions, but are kept in profound ig,no ranee, notwithstanding the hundred calls that have been made for light and information. - True, the Democratic Union, after . two weeks' reflection, answers one of our interrogatories by saying that it "believes that Governor Bigler will pledge himself in favor of the Nebraska bill." The editors have evidently not been initiated yet; though we shall expect after a week or ,two to find them as proficient "know nothings" as. - Gov. Bigler himself. A short time since they were certain that His Excellency was with them on this question; .now they believe it, and in a - weelf. or two more they will " know nothing" about it.—Har. Tel. "If Yon want your Takmts Appreciated, Get Bich." - Thattells - t - he ---- wifoTh story in a nut shell. If you wish - to be anybody in the estimation of mankind, - get rich! No matter how pure your morality,. how lofty your aspirations, how dis ciplined your mind, unless you have. a fortune you . will never be loved, no ticed, or respected. But if your an cestor chanced to be a miser, and thus left you a goodly heritage, you are fawned on, courted, and flattered. If you are a real knave, or a blockhead, it 's of no consequence, for you are rich. , This blind idolatry of wealth, the worship of mammon, is enough to make an honest man blush for his race. 'The "almighty dollar" is the whole end of existence, and the only object of life. The minister of God forgets his high calling, and preaches for a "higher salary." His • Congregation follow him to the costly and magnifi ' cent edifice, ostensibly dedicated to God, and instead of meditating on the true'end of life, they are absorbed in admiring their own - or envying their neighbor's rich garments, and scheming how the morrow shall add to their store of wealth. -* 0 FACT Extravagance, fashion, and cheating throng our streets, and jostle against honest toil. Liveried footmen and costly coaches hurry by and splash merit with mud thrown from the wheels--and thus in every phase of life. The toiling,laboring,honest poor are despised and contemned. Riches are coveted, sought for, and-worship ped by the tnillipn, Honesty and truth, merit and talent, are sobifor a "mess of pottage." Too often the most open dishonesty is forgiven_ and forgotten, because wealth blinds the eyes and obliterates the memory of the public. "An honest man is the noblest work of God," was once true, but now, "Get all you can, and keep what you get," is the great principle of the age. —Lowell Patriot. STRAUB, a Democratic member of Congress from Pennsylvania, has pub lished his speech in favor of the Ne braska bill. The N. Y. Tribune .quotes some rare rhetorical beauties from it. Here is:one: " . Several newspapers have been sent to me, charging members friendly _to' the bill under consideration with dishonesty of purpose, bribery, and corruption. This vile and infamous arrow, intended to pierce, falls harm less at my feet. I pick it up and spit., on it. , I throw it . down and put my foot upon it. I pick it Up . agam, and hurl it back from whence it came, to the serpent under the rose tree, who is its rqterngffather." Here is another: "This, to my mied, is the best Iroof I ever saw ghat the lion and the .atpb Aver wore created to be birds vf a "feather." Sicb i.the2tuff r i Cli!./lliYlV!tnia APAScs membere o f Co ngress nr! • EL6VEHOV?ING As a specimen of Southern inso;• lance, we publish the following brag gadoeia speech made by Stephens, of Georgia, -while the Nebraska "bill was ,under discussion in the House.ef Rep resentatives. . He turned to the North em oppone nts ' of-the measure; and thus contemptously addressed them: "Well, gentlemen, yOu make a good deal of clamor . over the Nebraska measure, but it don't -alarm us at all. We have got used to that kind of talk. You always caved in, and you will do so again. You are a mouthing, white lirered set. Of course you will oppose the measure—we expect that, but we do not cafe for your oppositioh. You will rail, but we arc used to your rail- • ing. You will hiss, ,but so do adders. We expect it of adders--we expect it of you. You are like the devils that were pitched over the battlements, of heaven into hell. They set up a hOwl j at their discomfiture, mid so will you. But their fate . was sealed, and so is yours. You must submit. to Me yoke, so don't chgfe. • Gentlemen, we have you in our power. You tried io drive us to the wall in 1850; but things have changed.. Then, iiiid before, you. • were imperious and, grasping, . and would-not agree to run the line of 30 deg. ,30 min.. to the-Pacific, and take !all the territory north of that line. You were greedy and wanted mon o. • I But now you . wilklose the whole. You • went a wooling, end have come home fleeced. Don't Le so en/indent as to complain. You will only be slapped in theface. Don't resist: you will only be lashed into obedience. The legisla ture of New York, of Rhode Ishuid, of Massachusetts, the. Northern di vines, the oppOnents of Nebraska eve ry where, are merely adders whose vocation it is to hiss. They, are situ- ply howling devils Who shall, be sent t.) hell." AN AFBICAN OTOBAL The' air is at one moment perfectly calm, the next wild with terrific.stormo, The sky, so sweetly serene at noon, shall, before half an hour passes, be darkened.by clouds which shroud the land as . with a pall. Fel. months the loUg drOutlis parch the earth, the rivers may be forded on_foot, the flocks and herds pant for refreshing waters and green herbage. .Suddenly "a clotid no bigger than a min's hand" appears on the • horizon, and. lo! the elements rage and swell, thunder booms upon the air, darkness covers the land, and the arrows of the Almighty dart from the angry heavens, striking death and • terror wheresoever they fall. From the far desert an overpowering torrent of sand comes sweeping on, obscuring 'the air, 'and making its way into your very house, in such profusion that yen may trace characters on the window sill. The skies open, the floods de scend, the rivers burst their bounds, trees are uprooted from the saturated • earth, and through the, roof of your dwelling the -rain beats heavily, .the walls crack, the plaster falls, the bearns that, support the thatch , groan and creak vntlr "melancholy moan," the voices of angry spirits seem to shout and howl around you, the poor birds on frightened wing wheel past your windows, the cattle disturb you with their lowing, the 'dogs howl, and 'tile unearthly tones'of the Kaffir or fingo herdsman's song are no agreeable . dition to the wild scene stirring before you. The tempest - subsides 'as sud denly as it rose; the voices of the storm spirits die away . in the distance over the mountain tops, the dark pall of eiouds is rent by a mighty hand, the 'swollen rivers rush 'on, bearing evidences of devastation, but su.bsiding at last into a more measured course; the sue light's up the valleys and hill 7 sides,the air is clearer, the'sky bright er than ever; and but for the history of devastation, and oftentimes of death, and the knowledge that for weeks ,ibe country will be subject to these violegt convulsions of nature, the • tennis •Of the tempest would soon be forgotten. —Fire Years in Kafirland. .TusT So.—The Norfolk, Va.,-cor respondent of the New York Evening Post says : The general sentiment in regard to - the fugitive Barns is. that the getting of him was altogetbpr too expensive a job to be of profit to any one. The result .affor4B vety little satisfaction; it shims too plainly that' slave-catching at the 'North is going to .be, mote than ever, n haxd business, and the man who essp i p - to do it will have .a current of sentn4nt to encounter which it will bp fliftqgt to stem. As old bachelor eeologist waa booting that; p~-4yrQck Evae es familiar to 4 4° ash V' phabei. A who Was Present, 441,0 that ahe knew of a rock of which ha -was wholly igno rant . " it, madait~ !' Fried Ca lel,e, in a gage.." It is-T o 44effildiet fir," replied the lady:. Ccelebe evaporated. NO. 6.
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