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ETERNITY If :hit high world which lies beyond Our o,l'll, surviving Love endears li zhor the cherished heart be fond, The ye the saute, except in tears.- 11 ) N s',cconte those, untredden spheres! s yea this very hour to die', Io sou , from earth and caul all fear: LJ3: II thy light—Eternity. ra nt be so: 'tis not for self That we so trembbs on the brink: I r .32riving to oserleap tho gnif, . . Itt cling to being's severing link. OS! is tfitt future let Us think To iota each heart the hoar: that shares, WA them the immortal waters drink, , ottl in son! grow deathless theirs! [ORIC.ISAL.I Fur the Jourrril. VEERE DRP.LLS THE LOVE OP OODI Ti in the heart th tt throws and i7,;a.Llticii round its kindred heart, every desert path a rose, )o,d he:ds sm irt. The vial:e band that gives .I.er lo :he thir,y one, A:ilia:lke; hint feel, th ,ugh nigh to death, he heaven'} - blessings down. chnipeit b!esitings lie In the kind hearts that pity other's Woo, Paint the tle,tpa'.ritig ...out to yollder sky, And cheek the tears that flow. And %%hen a soul, in love Fc-'l2 eat the poor, the A::.it,:ds cheat hope for brighter dlys above The ;eve 6fl;wl there rests. On , !genr.;e, encoring word, or. cit. , a timren.n or sweet memories. 1e :he soft n oe:i of innranr's warbling bird, ti:zigirq, its litany iiiys The poor tonn'N, lowly co', pc anal hand.; oft vialted to cheer him on LW, toilsome jouney, vatatsoc'er his lot, (10,1 ever upon. In every not and word Thea nut of It'lndnesr do'ne to help the poor, stif!, small t•o;ca commending it is heard, God wiil reward thee more. Those who tho drunkard's form Drt; from the:sgatter, warn him of the grave, (ie who has ruined life's bright, early morn, • And s•eelt ins. soul to save, SS ith 111 , / tic who warm the cod, and mist) the stricken 'ueath the chast'ning rod, And bring the ‘yanderer back into the cold,— There i1%%e11.s the love of God. SPERM OF ROIL A. H. REEDER Mt. Conway moved that Andrew i H. Reeder, late Governor of Kansas, be our nominee. The motion was seconded and carried by acclamation. Clear followed upon cheer the an nouncement of this result. All order Was lost in the confusiol, and every person present seemed to join in the for Reeder! Reeder l 1 The late :',arc.9or.gupeared• upon the starrd in f.lswer to the Isepcated calls, and at the moment appeared deeply moved with this unexpected outburst of n. thusiasni. Gov. Reeder's Response lie proceeded to say how much he thanked them for their encouraging and strengthening friendship ; that such applause and approval would repay all the injustice that might' be heaped upon any man ; that every: man there would du him the justice to lay that this nomination had been given entirely without solicitation by him or by his friends; that to accept it would seriously interfere with pri vate eiimgetnents, and that he bad continually •refused it when :urged, until he had been told by men, from all parts of the Territory that his name eras essential to success. He would -- • ._ .. i, ,', ~, ~ -.,.-: :',..:* ::: 1 1'..:: - .:7,'.:::: - .':, I.',' .•'..71. - -,-,. ,T: ,::.,, .19 ~,, ~,..: ~, ~, ... ,:: ::-.:-. ' -- .i:.:- ....-.-:,.,',.*: , 1.',.,.: , ~....L.-:.'-.,.: . , , • ,p. ~. . . ...., ..„ . .. ~ •• •1. [ '., . . • , ".•:, :[i• ' 1 ,$l,l f.Z.,-..: •: now."acc,eptrit .übon the conditiou - that' ho be .net i expected • to• • canvass• the Territory in person. To do so would not be consonant to .his feelings, as well as that he desired to. go. into the halls :rif 'Congress, and say %Pi come 1 here with clean hands, the spontane -1 ous choke of the sovereign Squatter's of Kansas." In giving hint this rum inatieti, • in .this , - manner, they had strengthened his arms 'to du ' their I wink; and in -return he would now pledge to them a .stead), unflinching peitinacity of purpose; never-tiring I industry, :lugged perseverance, end I I all the abilities with Which God had ' endowed him to the rie:hting• of their ' i wrongs, and the final triumph of their Icause. He believed limn the circuit- stances which had for the last eight Imonths surrounded him, and which ' had at the same time •plaCed in his Ipossession many facts, and bound hiM heart and soul to the oppressed voters' : of Kansas, that he could do much to-' I ward a redress of their grievances. He said that day by day a crisis Was " Icoming .upon us; that in after times . ' I this would be to posterity a turning' Ipoint, a marked period, as are to us the; opening of the Revolution, the adoption of the Declaration of Inds ; pendence, and the era of the alien and • sedition laws; that we should take' 1 ! each step carefully, so that each be a Istep of progress, and that no violence' be done to. the do which. binds the 1 t American )eople together. He al-' luded to the unprecedented tyranny ' I under which we are arid have been; land said that if any one stippoSed that ikaitntions were to be imposed by i force upon a free and. enlightened Ipeople they never knew, or . had for gotten the history Of our fathers,— . American citizens bear in their breasts Itoo much of the spirit of •other and trying days, and hare lived too lung lamid the blessings of liberty, to sub- I mit to oppression from any quarter; l and the man who, having once been • free, could tamely submit. to .tyranny, } was fit to be a slave. . . He urged the Free State men of i Kansas to l;irget all minor issuos, and ' pursue -determinedly the one great r) t ject, never . swerving, but steadily pressing on, as did the wise men who I followed the star to the manger, look ! lug hack only for fresh encourage-. Imeat. He • counseled that peace:ul i resistance be made to the ty..anuical 7--- . . .. 1 and wijiist laws of the spurious Legis:- on principle. And the principle is, , /awe ; that appeals to the Courts, to not the-. security of justice, nut the I the . ballot-hox, and .to Congress be establishment of law, riot the defence made for. relief from this oppressive of the community in freedem, and its I load; that violence should be depre security from mime, but 'die protection Icated so long as a single hope•of peace- of supreme despotic authority i n the able.redresa remained; but if at last Federal. Courls, and the consolidation i all these should fail—if in the proper of gorcrnincntal power, For -this pur tribunal there is no hope for our dear- . pose the Conit, of Pennsylvania de ! est rights, outraged , arid profaned-;--if grades itself, .abdicates its own inde -Iwe are - still to suffer that corrupt men pendence, and, justifies the claims, and, may reap harvests watered by our rivets the chains of Federal usurpation. tears, then, there is qrie more chance And Judge Black not only applauds I for justice. God has provided ia the Judge Kane as a learned and npright - I eternal frame of things redress for judge for consigning Mr.. Williamson . 1 every wrong, and there . remains to us to prison on a false accusation, without. Istill the steady . eye and the strong hearing, without a . trial,.Withnut bail, mat, and we must conquer, or mingle but. liinaSelf also descends from the , 1 the bodies of the oppressors with those dignity of the bench, in order anew lof the oppressed upon'the, soil which and gratuteously to insult and trample I the Declaration of Independence on -on the victim. . . .. . 1 longer protects.- • But he-was not et all t 3tiagia 13lael . liasos MS decision on apprehensive that such a crisis would antiquated"abuseSand precedetits,'rint ever. arrive. He believed that justice on law, and adepts a course Of reason might be found far short of so. dread- ing destructive of the • purpose for flit an extremity ; and even should.ar" whiCh our form — of government, ' with ' appeal to arms come, it was his opin- its United ant's State Courts; Was O hm that if we are Well prepared, that t a hliShed, the security of the People' moment the victory is won. Our in- in their lives, liberty and Pursuit:of ' waders will never strike a_ bIOW in so happiness. HIS argument in defence: unjust a canse. • ' ..• of Judge Kane's injustice is •,..,,,kg 4in' "Thrice armed is he. who has his quairel jost7" . a tone of defiance against . freedoinatil : He then entered into the plan of the people's 'rights," and J,tf 'unfeeling conducting the campaign, and advised and alMost brutal' trininpiv . ovin . the , - that the proclamation from the peeple, : injured sufferer beneath Such despot: calling the election, be. signed by ism . . He might have assumed the tone every voter. Let the legal ragtime , c 4:4 korrow andsyrnpathy, but he.chooses. men6 • Of ati election be strictly ob- to slauder the *man .whom Kane ,:has seryed. Qur position is one Of asking imprisoned, and tells him he shall rot only that the Jaw be carried out. in his dungeon i.titi he SubMits. If When Col. EthaO • Allen was esker; at these are cur , judges, and the.inople Ticondatoga. by whose .authority he find that from such tyrannythere-is no demanded 'the 'fort; lie'' replied, '" In relief, then wo.aro not far from 'another the name of the Great lehOVahind revolution, and the sooner the storm the Continental Congress." I expect comes, the better.. . . ME , IDP.VOTED TO THE OruNtifftEd . O . DEMOCRACY ; AND . THE' DISSEMINATION OF 3iORAI4.'yY, LITERATUHE AND DifAvA• . • , VOUDERSPORT POTTER cOUNTYi-PA.; , OCTOKEg 85 ! 5. - ; "'' o f you that you sp veppare' me, that it) . a similar , question • I rit'y , boldly ';an swer, "The great the' sovereign , Squatters of Kansas." FTe spoke long and 'eloquently 'upon the, importance that mno. rashne'ss should endanger the Union which We all love ard , cleave to . ; Ho did not consider the .correct- public • sentiment of - the' South as endorsing the violent wrong's , which had in perpettgedby - sourians 'in our Territory, and that being so, he waited to bear buke. Shenk! it' not come, and all hope of moral influence to correct these evils be cut At., and the lulls of our country fail US, while our wrongs still . continue; 'whet then 7 -Will they have grown easier to bear by long custern-7 Gbd.ferbld that any lapio of time should' accustom freemen to the dus.ies of slaves, and when such fatal 'danger as that menaced, then is 1 the tiino'to " S:rike for our altars and our fires, Strike for the green graves of our iires, God and our native. land." As he paused, there was for an "•in= start a deep silence, as - when a' ques-. tion gf.life or'death is being consid ered—every man drew long breath, but the•next instant the air. was rent with cries, "17 - es, we we Will strike! " White men never can 'be -slaves!" "Reeder!" "Reeder!" "Nine•cheers• for Reeder and .Right During his 'speech , he.had been constantly inter rupted .! by shouts and shaking of . hands; but now the' enthusiasm was' .ungovernable"; the crowd gathered around hitn with the Nvarmbst. greet ings. We would rather have the place, he holds in the bearts, of a gen erous; during, people, than wear a kingly crown. . . . From ihe.N. Y. Indoperident JUDGE BRACE'S . ENDORSE:4E2U' OR KANE'S USURPATION. The position assumed by Judge Black and the State Court of Penn. : ' sylvania is one of such es.traordinary and superogatory degradation as al- . most ; defies - Tyrants have generally concealed or justified their crimes by some show of necessity.-L Expediency, not principle is -the 'ty rants plea:. But the, Court of Penn sylvania justifies a tyrannical, revenge ful outrage on the person and liberty of an innocent man, and abjures its right and authority to protect the citi zens of the State from 'such tyranny, =MO Judge illackhas denled ustice for the sake' of su.stilining the urisdiciion of the Courts.' ".His :Ml.oe argument:procotxls on the . princir4 fiat the' e'durts are not esiabliihed. for the sake of justice; hilt for the sake. of power. slnjasiice itself must be :de- fended and sustained,- in oider not to mieh' the constitutional of the general government. On theie, prin ciples the.krength of our coiirts does not consistas:in their integrity in the ad ministration of justice, but in the irn 7 posiibility of resisting , theit.'tyrinnY ; tlie'safety'ofthe people, :the country . and the geverninent does notlie in the insurance of right heibg dime, but in the impossibility Of wrong being cor rected. The courts are established to commit wbaterer'crimes of oppression they may choose, and their power to do this must not be diniinis4ed or irn- paired, but must be niaae mere formic]. able and 'unassaila.ble; in order .to sus tain the constitutional vigor. of the • 'goy cEn in cut. " Tlie courts, the laws, the decisicins,' aro not for the people first, and fortheir good, bat fur the goyern= merit first, and for government power. The impregnability of the Courts, right or N' r -i3 the first thing of supreme . importance; justice after- wards, if consistent with that iinpreg- , The deeisioni of the judges are, ty , be sustained at all hazards, though their support may rest On the illegal imprisonment and ruin of the matt innocent citizens.: The judges. must be pronounced upright, though known to be trying causes out Of their jurisdiction, and committing men to prison for no crime. The judges right .or wrong, so it blind! . The Federal Courts right or wrong, go it blind!-- And if any man resists,—questions,-- affirms his innocence, let him instantly be ihron'n into priSon for contempt, and though there have been neither indictment nor trial for such alleged contempt; Judge Black shall coolly ,assume both intlictinent and couvic tion,.on the sentence of the judge. He has done this in the present case. He endeavors to givo the coloring of a form of law and justice to a proceed ing of-tyranny, for the support of which there is nothing but foreign and des potic precedent. He speaks -of the record of conviction,. just as if Mr. Williamson had had atrial, and com pares it with a conviction for the-crime of perjury. and goes on to - argue that a person .convicted for. perjury could, nut ask the count to deliver .him from the penitentiary by showing that the Court convicting him had no jurisdic tion in the cause. But where or when has Mr. Williamson-been convicted of Contempt ? Where is the peiwf of it 1 Where is the record. of-it 1 Where was the trial, where Ole jury, where the vdrdict I Where - the .forrn even of indictment? The thing,-'assumed for conviction was the accusation by the judge, followed by the instant or deriug ofthe alleged criminal to prison; no opportunity, being given of exam ination. or explanation,: or defence, neither indictment, .nor evidenee,.- nor argument, , Or defence, -nor form of trial, nor jnry, nor conviction, nor ver- I diet at all Judge Black. sayS Federal' court should-'convict and 'sentence a citizen fOr 'libel; or if a State court, having no jurisdiction except in civil Pleas, should trY.'an• indictment' for crirrtei.aud convict the party,---in- these cases the judgments would be wholly void." ' That is, aster trial and convic tion the court would have no. ;authori; ty to issue or . execute the sentence, andthe prisoner might rightfully resist. 1 Yet, according to Judge Black's argu ment in Williamson's case, lithe prison er should interrupt the Judge in the issuing of ..he sentence, and deny his jurisdiction, the Judge might instantly artest. the prisoner for contempt of court; and'comnait him to prison far au unlimited -term, without bail, , and without possibility of relief or redress. Although the trial and conviction for the crime of libel would be wholly void, and 'the judgment -against the prisoner no judgment at all' tti the ,case, yet the assertion of such want of juris- diction by the prisoner might instantly be pnpished:iiitite_indge,...yi)49igdgbt fasten his grasp uppn him, : and visit him more severely for ,such assertion, under accusation of contempt of court, thanthe coeld,„ have : done for the 'actual crime, of libel, even if the court : had jurisdiction: For ~the judg . e,inthe Ponishment of 'melt crinte, would be cOrnpelleito be aefinite; if a flue were troposetl, 'it . aust be of limited amount ; if imprisonment wer9 imposed,.. it Must he of ,dofinitcl, aura-. Lion. But in tho Punishment of .cou tempt for asseitiug the fact and want of jurisdiction, even. though .such • de- feet of jurisdiction • were undeniable,. the judge might imprison, without bail and withont and according to . - 1 Suage,Black's doctrine, no - court of justice, no law, ,no . process or power of government, could interfer to • res cue the imprisoned victim of such tyranny, from the continuance • of such judicial malice. There is no power, nor law; nor justice, in such a case, but_ just onlyfor the protection of the court, just only to shield the unjust judge, and ,prevent his decision from being reversed, just only to establish I his unrighteous judgment as unassaila ble and, unmttable. He would have had no power to irnprisoh; or in any ,way.injure, the manaccused, and tried and convicted of crime, even though really a criminal ; but for alleged con tempt of court, (and the sssertion of the want of such power might be con strued: by the judge to be such con tempt,) he, could incarcerate 'bier with out possibility of redemption. The court itself in such a case is the only Judge .cf what conslitute3 con tempt, so that whatever word, or deed, or gesture of the prisoner' may be construed or asserted as contempt, twist be regarded as such, and receiv ed as and without indict ment, without trial, •without jury, without conviction, - - the judge may send his enemy to prison, simply for declaring that ho has no authority to do ' so. And this outrage must be sustained fur the dignity and author ity ‘. of the State and its courts ; for to them 'alone can the people look forl a competent administration of their domestic concerns." An outrage on' their - domestic concerns, by the user : - pation of the courts and the malice. of the . Judges must not be resisted, be cause that would diminish the powet and authority of-the rats, and if it once be Supposed or admitted that the courts can du wrong, there is an end to their assuptien of infallibility -; .there is' an exposure to the possibility of contempt. . . The courts are established by the people, and the judges appointed to take carp that the laws for the protec tion of the ,people be justly adminis tered. The courts are for the people, and not the people fur the courts.— The courta.aud judges are guardians in trust for the sake of the people.—. Judge Black and Judge Kane are in - - solently reversing the 'case, and have entered ; into a conspiracy to make the courts a despotism, and the people their slaves. Their whola care Is de 'voted to the increase. of their own power. It is guardian were - entrusted with the fortune of a minor, and Sheuld appropriate a great .por tion of it-to a place, and devote the remaining income to the support of his own expensive style of, Meantime the minor passing his:Minority, is throWn into prison for debt, and on demanding money frond. his-estate to let him out, he is told that the style and dignity of his : guardian require to be supported, but would be in danger of being essentially im paired if the estate Was burdened with the payment of that debt. The heir and owner of the estate' must be left I to rot in prison, rather than, by taking ruii the herald of bringing straituess.or contempt upon the guar dian. Nothing must bo done to im pair the constitutional vigor of the guardian's position and establishment,. for to him alone can, the young man Tooke for a cOtripetent' administration of his estate, and it were better th at MIES i ~~. to ~$ , , , , the Ward remain in prison : than jthit' ' power of, the gurdianle. crippled, 'or hks.reputatieu made' to' stiffist.' '-•''' ' ' '` ' i ' This is ther' . giat of Silage Bliielt i t -' - argument for •surstaiiiing,Tudge:g.aqq,;; . ie the imprisonment of Mr. William:-.;i: son,, „Even admitting that'the whelO). proceeding -against :him' • :in Xtiele,d ) ;',. e' Kans Ceurt was beyond that CO'n'ittl . ' jurisdic..ion, he. was in 4,dgo Itaqii i .4,,, ,power; and contempt.: of,,that power,!. , goeaagainst the life of the-Court;- mill' though the prisoner wits'guiltY'or 116, crime, • yet being ,adeused by .iU4,g4t, - .:, Kim) of contempt,. lie . if; to, be wa n , and considered as having .bee ~triedi't., and found guilty •of that 'cri e: The' . : i ' commitment shows it, i r e fact'o . ' , :.;,,.;• ~ sitzdgeiKaise having made ut a,vret-,,: ) rant forhis commitment • o prison. ie.i to be taken by the Pennsylvania Judge se-pro if of trial and corm:laic:4. - "Tire'"`. I commitment shows that he 'was trieit - i ;'. • found guilty arid . Sentenced," "for IS. : 1 dis:tu — ittand substantive offence against ~ the, authority. , and government of the • United States." yet there was hei;•: -! tiler e evidence, trial, jury, nor -mir: • , - , , .... , • . Lion . ; there was nothing- but a. sub- • • 11 pissiye return and answer of Mr.: I. Williamson to the court, and folio*, ing thereupon an instant accusation - . 1 and decision against himlay the jUdge - :, ' fur alleged conicimpt; and that deals iva Of Jkidge Kane, Judge Black anis. -.' . though 'he fully believed .Williamson' to be innocent and the c'oart. wrong',. ) . - 1 he could not queition, but' most con eider and act upon it' as -evidence,,:. trial arid conviction, because we muss • ' maintain the rights of the State in Its courts, and'the 'constitutional vigor .of i the general government, " There Jnay 1 ! - lie cases," . Judge Black admits, "itr ' 'which WAI ought. to check usurpation . : of power by the Federal Celina."' And what are such cases 1 ls it when„, a Star Chamber jurisdicticnt is i sa.t : np,i l and citizens of the State: are arreitedi i and imprisoned for alleged crimes not': - - i punishable by the United States courts? , , Is it 'when the Federal Courts drag the citizens of the State before thorn' - and Prosecute and ihjureAliasit Wiforti - the State Court' ought to protect!.._ Not at all!1 For no such. purpeies of protection of the citizens are the.Stato l Courts established, but for the Protec tion of themselves! The,,State qo!trtl i ' and the State - Judges e - iiit but f'or their own dignity, "and if the Federal Courts should, presume to take-out ! of their bands a prisener 'convicted' of contempt, they would resist' it by all proper and legal means." ' But any usurpation against the: people by' the_ - Federal Courts, any trampling on the life, liberty, and rights °fiber . citizens, would be beyond the province ;of thee' State Courts to correct. The State - Courts must look out... only for tiloir .. ovrn power ; their object, their essence. - their final cause, is to preserve. their own judges. and - . deciiioni, from , c0n.,,,, tempt, and to keep the Federal Courta,:, from rescuing prisOners . convicted 04:,: i contempt. There may . , he such eat e, in which we ought to checkusurpatiors. of power by the Federal Court , . ;.but •,/ the protection den innocent cit'z'ata,,- . ,of the State from an unjust sentern.a. or from oppression,by the, Federal.. f Courts, is not worthy f such interp A- We should be in danger, in such . • .. a case, of impairing the constitutian it • vigor of the ~ generid . governmelt., : • whisk is the sheet-anchor ofour,f!?ac."- : ., : at home and - our Safety • abroad. Ttns power of the Courts must be sustained though jtistiCe fal)..,..,Tudge liana's .up,-,_i rightness and antho - rily must lie up)el(l.. - c' a; all hazards, or', our own decisiens • may next be called in gnesiion.. .iv!co .' ourselvei;theState - Courti and Judges, may pessibly_ Make - a .wrong decision. and then the Fedeial :Courts may in- :". telVose to take from us the victim of : our own usurpation ; therefore, conic ' must help court; as against the'citizen:s. ~ with the understanding ihatcouri Shall never help the - Citizens ttgainst - couit. Fiat the Court's authority,ruatjustitia r • ' Judge Black,' having taken' 3-44,._ . Katte'a commitment of Mr.'WiliiaraserF to prison as evidence,' trial,' and,C , Ox :. i . viction of crime, affirms " ,'hat 'he - can: - not go behind that decision. l Ws . ~ ECM IN OM !Mil 1:1 =I '
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