VOL. IX.
*Business Cards.
KNrox,
ttornry at naln,
Coudersport, Pa., will regularly attend the
Courts in Potter county.
ARTHUR G. OLMSTED,
attornto S.Tooultselor at ?Lath,
Coudersport, Pa., will attend to all business
entritsted to his care, with promptnesa and
fidelity.
Office—in the Temperance Block, up stairs,
Maio-street.
ISAAC BENSON
f?:1 ttorit r R at 7Laiu,
COUDERSPORT, P.,.
•Office corner of West and Third streets.
L. P. WILLISTON', •
ttornen at nail',
Tiog t Co., Pa., will attend •the
Courts in Potter and 3Pliean Counties.
A. F. CONE,
attorncp at 'Rain,
Wolisborough, Tiuga county, Pu, will regular
ly attend the courts of Potter county.
Juno 3, 1345.
JOEN S. MANN,
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Rttorne9 & e.
Toungetor at V.atu,
Coudervori., Pa., ‘vill attend the gavel-al
Courts la rout r aud All
bmouest eulruatctl in his care, wil( receive
prompt attention.
Otlicu on Alaiu-street, opposite the Celia
House, Coudersport,
UOUDERSPORT HOTEL,
Dania s*. Glafa'ntire •
P oPRIETOn.
Corner of Main end Second ereets, Cou
dervori, Po.ter Co., Pa. 44.
W. K. KING,
aurbellor, Draft6ntait, attb'
v.;oituc,l.2ancet,
SaictliyJrt, Co., Pa.,
Will attend to buriness for non-res,deut land
holders, upon rea , ou..b.e Icrur, References
given if required.
V. S. Maps of any part of the County made
to order. 7-,t3
H. J. OLMSTED,
Zuni:Tor ifl Draftsman,_
Atthe office of J. S. :llunn, Coudersport, l'a
A 8RA..31. you SG,
Matcfmnalter anb „Vrtuarr.
All woilt warr.m.ed. A sock of %Va . :elms
and e se:r . r on h aid and !ors..Cali a..he
store of .ts.unitt oc. Jones, Coudersport, Pa.
BED' JA.M.IN RENN ELS, -
All work in hid we, done to order and
with dispa.ch. Un t 4 est s.ree:, heiow Third
Coudersport; Pa:
JOAL;s.
Deaiers in Dry tiot?ds, Druceries, Statiopo
_Ay. Drags .I.todnaues, t aiths, Ui.s, I Lulu
arac.es, %c. Maui o.ree,, Couch rspori la.
JONES, MANN. sz
beneca, Urucery rov,sion
Aisu iu Dry Utaltii, iiuo.s and
baues, .wo % , 11.*.e,er wen Iran, to bay. Aid.n
tAnwerzport l'a.
D. E. Gi,.:IISTE
Dealer in Dry liuotls,
Gruceries, Crockery, sc. Conderspur.,
3• lr. SMITH,
Dealer in Stoves, atal nianufae:ure of Tin,
Collier, and zilieet-Irou Ware. .Niain street,
Cotidertport,
lI• W. MANN,
Dealer in Books & sLa:ionery, Music, and
Nogaz.nes. N, W. cone;
pf the pubic squaie. CUunlersport, l'a.
A31.0S FRENCH,
Physician & Surgeon. EaSL site -11ain-st.,
above 4al sa., Luuuervort, Pa,
DAVID B. BROWN,
Found:pilau and Dea.er in Ploughs.
not eau in .1.1a.0 Coutiorsii or,. Pa.,
J.I.cRpAiN t SCHOOMAKL:4,
Dealers in Dry Loons, Groceries, Crockery,
pad ite,Aty-mauo Cloakug, allanl us.ree., Cou
deripun, ea.
ALLEGANY HOUSE,
Sartme. AL .11 ihs, Proprie.or. tin the.Weiis-
Vtim ru:al, bevel! lIILICS LanidelSintrt.
It:j. CHENEY,
Merchant Tuner, et.d bea,er in Ready-
Taunt: L.0.14.ug. Aor.li oldie kuhlic Bitu-Le,
t.eutierevur,, l'a,
A, B. QC) o.llsFilasi
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Aldrea Id-1
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his u.,re wia be dune with nuances, cuLuiun,
and uuriibtilty. ahoy over Lewis Ddittat's
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WHAT RIGHT HAD THE PRESIDENT TO
DISPERSE THE .LEGISLATURE ASSEM-
All the powers nut delegated to the
United States by the constitution, our
prohibited by it, to the states; are re
served by it Lu the state .i respectively
or to the people. The President mast
therefore find his autuurity in the con
stitution. Nu doubt lie is commander :
in-fa:jet - witty.: army and navy, but the
command does nut involve toe power
to use it fur whatever purposes his
pleasure may' dictate. The purposes
for which tins coininand may be um
played must be fouud in the constitu
tion, nu less thim the command ;itself.
No ileum, also, it is his duty - to see
that the laws uf the Uotted OLateS are
faithfully executed. But no law attic
Gutted states commanded that assem
bly to be dtspecsed. Congress can
not pass a law infringiug the right of
people peaceably to assemble. The .
right 01 the people peaceably to . as
semble and discuss anything they
please, resolve anything they please,
ur enact anything they Please, is a law
higher than the Coustaution. All that
the Conztitutiou dues, is to provide
that Cungi ess shall pass nu law miring
it. Tae members of that legisla
tur6 peaceably assembled to .discuss
sumetning watch they tnougnt ate be
discusseu; to resolve suinetiiing winch'
they LlioUglit might to be resolved, or
to enact seinething %Mica they thought
it their duty to enact. Ut course,
they were ju.,t mime Limy had a rigot
to go, and %vele tieing just what they
had a light to du. .Now it is very pus
sible that their discussions. flight be
Very unwise, their resolves very un
sound, and weir enactments very in
npeiativu. But it. is nut one of tile
Vrezitlent's rights orduties to disperse
.JOAES.
I:c:deer:Me assemblies because nu an
ticipates ur Mseuvers that their pro
ceedicgs maybe ur Lave been Inopera
tive, unsound or unwise. If tut [nese
pretexts, ur any pretexts, he can de
cide one peaceable assembly improp
er, tit can anotner, he can all; and It
by military turcu he can disperse unc,
nu can anuther, and all. And the rigul
ut the people peaceably to asSellibic
for any purt.ww,- and all, purposes,
depends only upon execume plea
sure. Quad, preact:pi. plubuit, vigurent
legis haoce. ---
W 6 are under a despotism as un-
mitigated its that of Fiance, Russia or
Lilo Roman .Empire.
The right of the people to keep and
bear at ins has been infringed;
The right of the people Co be secure
in their peisons, unused, and elle Ls
against aureasunable searches and
seizures, Las been violated; and
IMM=I
The tight of the people peaceably
asertlb led is destroyed;
The men by whom and . fur whom
all this is done, are certainly doing
what they cuu to test the strength of
the Union; but .they over-estimate
their strength, when they tell us - the
Union is in danger:'
There is anotheiremedy, which the
people will. Apply in November.—
Eve. Post.
DEVOTED TO THE PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRACY, AND THE DISSEMINATION OF MORALITY, LITERATURE, AIsID;NE3I./3.,
COUDERSPORT, POTTER COUNTY, PA. , "JULY
.24, 185 G.
BLED AT TOPEKA.
haunting Letter from a Kentuckian.
The New York Tribune of yester
day contained the following remark
able letter from the Hon. Adam Beat
ty, formerly member of Congress from
Kentucky, and a warm personal friend
of Henry Clay.
Sir—l have read the speech of the_
Hon. Charles Sumner on Kansas af
fairs, in newspaper, form, but desire
to have it in a form better suited for
preservation; and therefore ask the
favor of you to send me the worth of
the inclosed, ($1) pOstaga paid inclu
ding ono of the speeches of Gov.
Seward.
I have all my life been a resident of
a slaveholding State or States, and am
the owner of a. few slaves, but I feel
conscious that I have at all times been
able to read the discussions on the
slave question with calmness, and
without such a degree of excitement
as to unfit a person to form cool and
deliberate judgment.
I was old enough at the date of the
Missouri Compromise to understand
and to take a' deep interest in that
measure, ai was exceedingly, grati
fied when Missouri was admitted as a
Slave State, with an accompanying
legal provision forever prohibiting
slavery in any of the then national ter
ritory Ving north of 36 Ileg. 30 min,
This measure was adopted by the
unanimous vote of all the Slave States,
and was opposed by part of the North
ern representation---only on the groiind
that Missouri, lyingnorth of the above
parallel, was admitted by the provis
ions of the Compromise bill, as a slave
State, . •
But Missouri having been admitted . ,
all opposition (or nearly so)' to the
cornpl.umise ceased; and it was quiet
ly permitted to remain undisturbed
fur 'more than thirty years, until, in an
evil hour, the Nebraska bill (as •it is
usually termed) was introduced by a
Senator from a free State; and the
South, in violation of a sacred and
honorable pledge, caught at the bait,
and assisted in overihro%ving the wisest
measure that was ever adopted to
quiet agitation on the slavery ques
tion
.
Tlie fruits of tile iniquitous bill in
troduced by Mr. Douglas, which might
have been foreseen, have, flir a long
time, been presented in a shameful at
tempt, cuuatenanced by Mr. Pierce's
adininistMtioa, to foi in a slave State
by force uut of the Territory of Kan
sas..
Mr'. Sumner is entitled to the thanks
of all discreet men: all men who aro
influenced by the principles of justice
and hotior, fur exposing the abomin
able frauds, both to the pAssage or the
Nebraska bill and the means resorted
to for carrying out it; design of'forc
ing Sloveryinto the Territory . of Kau
)
In my judgment the best means of
securing Llie, peace of the country and
quieting agitation on the subject of
slavery wit! nu to adfnit Kansas as a
Free State, according to too spirit of
the Missouri Compromise,. and rein"-
stating that Compromise, ' extending
the 36 deg. 30 min, to the Pacific
Ocean: •
heartily condetim the brutal at
tack of Brooks upon Senator Sumner,
lor which he ought to be expelled
train his seat in Congress.
• 1 have always been and - still am a
warm advocate fur gradual emancipa
tion, to be carried but by each State,
as its , citizens shall direct, by constitu- -
tional provision.. 1. regret that public
sentiment in my adopted State, Ken.:
ttleky, is not yet prepared !or so.whele
seine and just a measure, .
- Respectfully, A. BEATTV.
Washington, Mason County, Ky.,
June 30, 165 G.
LETTER OF atA;z4•TtNCd e COL. JOHN
U ; Elt luOriT,
PHILADELPHIA, June 19 1856
SIR ; A Conventiou of Delegates as
sembled at Philadelphia on the 17th,
18th and 19th days of June, 1856, ou
tlet' a ealatitessed to the people of the
United States, without regard to past.
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political differences or di% kiwis, who I opinion, : and to the power of ti. free
are opPosed •to the repeal of the Mis- - press,-which,: by its broad dissemina
aomi Compromise, to the policy of the -lion - of-political intelligence,. secures,
pi esent . Administration, to the - exten- - in advance,..o the side,of justice, the
sion of slavery into free territm y, in judgment of the civilized world. An
favor of the admission of Kansas as - a honest, firm, and open policy in our
free state and of restoring the action of
the federal government to the princi
ples of Washington and Jefferson
adopted a declaration of principles
and purposes for which they are united
in political action-,-a copy of which we
have the honor to inclose-r-and unani,
mously nominated you as their candi
date for the office of President of the
United States at the approaching elec
tion, as the chosen representative of
those principles i
i n this important po
litical contest , and with the assured
conviction that you would give them
full practical operation, should the suf
frages of the people of the Uninn place
you at the head of the national govern
ment.
...The undersigned were directed by
the Conventioti to communicate to you
the fact of your nomination, and to re
quest you in their name, and as they
believe, in the name of a large Major
ity of the people of the country, to
accept it.
(Meting you the assurance of our
high . personal respect, we, are your .
fellow-citizens,
H. S. LANE,
_ President of the Convention.
JANIES M. ASHLEY - ,
ANTHONY .1. BLEECKER,
JOSEPH C. HORNBLOWER,
E. R. HOAR,
THADDEUS STEVENS; -
KINGSLEY S. BINGHAM,
JOHN A. WILLS,
C. P. CLEVELAND,
CYRUS ALDRICH..
To JOHN C. FREMONT, Of California.
COL. FREMaNT 13 REPLY
NE : Av YORK, July 8, 1856.
GENTLEMEN You call me to a high
responsibility by placing me in the van -
of a- great movement of the people of
the United States, who, without regard
to past diffeiences, are uniting in a
common ena to bring hack the ac
tion of the federal government to the
principles of Washington and Jeffer
son. Comprehending the magnitude
of the trust which they have declared
themselves willing to place in my hands,
and deeply sensible to the honor which
their unreserved confidence in this
threatening position of the public af
fairs impltus, I feel that 1 cannot better
respond than by a sincere declaration
that; in the event or my election to the
Presidency, I should enter upon the
execution of its duties with a - single
heat ted determination to plotnote the
good *Atha whole country, and to di
rect solely to this end all the pOwer of
the government, irrespective of party
issues and regardless of sectional
suites. The-declaration of principles
embodied in the resolves of your Con
vention expresses the sentiments in
which I have been . educated, and
which have been ripened into. convic
tions by personal observatien and ex
, patience. . With this daL,!aration and
avowal, I think it necessary to . revert
to only two of the subjects embraced
in the resolutions, and to those only
because events have surrounded them
with grave and critical cirenmstancse,
and given to them especial importance.
- I concur in the Views of the Conven
tion deprecating the foreign policy to
which it adverts. The assumption
That we have the right:to take from an
jother nation its domains beCause we
want them, is an abandonment of the
honest character which our, country
has.acquired. To prOvOke hostilities
by iunjust assumptions would be to
sacrifice .the peace end character of the
country, when all its interests might be:
more certainly secured and its objects
attained by just and healing councils,
involving no loss of reputation'. •
International • embarrassments are
mainly the result of a secret diploma
cy, which aims to keep from the knowl
edge of the people the . operations of
the government. This system is in
consistent with the character of our
institutions, and is itself yielding grad
ually to a more enlightened public
foreign relations would Command the
united support of the nation, whose
deliberate opinions it - would necessari
ly reflect.
Nothing is dearer in the history.of
our institutions than the design of the
nation in asserting its own indepen
dence and freedom, to avoid giving
countenance. so the extension of slave
ry.
. The influenre of the small, hut`
compact and p,Uwerfnl class of men in
terested, in slivery, who command one
section 9f the country, and wield a vast
political. control as a consequence in
the other, is now directed to turn
impulse of the Revolution and revers
its 'principles. The esters - ron of slave- .
ry across the continent is the object of
the power which now rules the go‘r•
eminent; and from this spirit' have
spruqg those kinged wrongs in Kan
sas 8o truly portrayed in one of your
reSolutions; whidh prove that the ele
ments of the. most arbitrary govern-'
ment hate not been vanquished by the
just theory of our own.
It would be out of .place here to
pledge myself to particular policy
that may be suggested to terminate the
sectional controversy engendered by
political animosities, operating on a
powerful class, banded together by a
common interest. A practical remedy
is the admission of Kansas into the
Union as a free state. The South
should, in my judgment, earnestly de
sire such consummation. It v, ould vin
dicate the good faith—it would correct
the mistake of the repeal ; and the
North, having practically the benefit
of the agreement between the two
sections, would be satisfied, and good
feeling be restored. The measure is
perfectly consistent with the honor of
the South, and vital to its interest. .
That fhtal act which gave birth to
this purely sectional strife, originating
in the scheme - to take from free labor
the country secured to it by a solemn'
covenant, cannot be toe soon disarmed
()fits pernicious force. The only genial
region of the middle latitude loft to
the ernigrantrof the northern stateS ,
fur homes, cannot be conquered from
the free laborers, who have long cent.
sidered it as set apart for them in our
inheritance, without provoking a des
perate struggle. Whatever may he
the peisistenco of the particular class
which seems ready to haz ird every
thing for the success of the unjust,
seheme it has partially effected, I firm
ly. believe that the great heart of the
nationi — which throbs with the' patriot
iSm of the freeman of both sections,
will have power to overcome it. They
.will look to the rights secured to them
by tirc„Constitution of the Union as
their . best . afe-guard from thu oppres
sion of the class which, by a monopoly
of the soil and of slave-labor to till it,
might intimereduce them to the, ex
tremity' of laboring - upon .the same
terms with the slaves. Tnirgreat body
ornon-sla,veholding freemen, including
those of the South, upon whose wel
fare slatrery is an opPression, will ens,
cover that the power of the general
government over the public lands may
be 'beneficially exerted to advance'
their interest and secure their indepen
dence. Knowing this, their suffrages
will not be wanting to maintain that
authority in the Union • whichis abso
lutely:essential to' the maintenance of
their owirliberties, and which has more
' than nnce indicated the purpose faiths-.
poring of the. public lands in such a
way as. would make every stntior upon
. them a freeholder. - •
' if the . people entrust to me tbe•ad
ministration of the government, the
laws of Congress itt relation to the ter ,
iituries will bo faithfully executed. All
its authority. will.be exerted in aid .of
the national will, to re-establish the
peace of the country on the juSt prin
ciples which have heretofoie received
the sanction of the federal government,
of States; and of the people of both
sections. Stich a policy s Wrnii4 jerP,
no alimentto that sectional party which
seeks its aggrandizetnent-by-approPtii
ating the 'tie* territories .to :capital in
the Term of slavery, hat Would'
tably Teault in the triumph of freeJa
bor—tho natural. capital which consrt-
.
tutos the real . wealth or this'great-Colp
try, and creates •that intelligent pother
in the masses alone to be relied on as
the bulwark of free institutions.
Trusting that I hare a heart capable
df comprehending our whole . conitr*
with its varied interests, and - confiders--
that patriotisin exists iu all parts/sr
tbe Union, I accept theLtiotniaation of
.;
your Convention, in the hope thort
may be enabled to serve usefellrUV:::
cause,
, whiCh I consider the cause
constitutional Freedom. - : - • •
Yours. respectfully,
J. C. Yasuo=
MOBS BOLTING.
The Ripon Spur, whose editorlsts
always beau a Dopsocrat, iuppeas
Fremont.
It says :
For ourselves, we aro satisfied tliat.'
thousands of , votes will be cast for Fre
mont, which no other candidate nand.:
nated at Philadelphia could have re
ceived. The - platform we like as w:?..3'
as Buchanan claims to like the ono gift
,t •
up for him, and the Suuth, at Cincia-'
nati.
Twe.years ago we stood with dia . ,.
Democratic party of this. State. in
opposition to the formation of alte
publican party. At that time all vim
•Democratain the Senate and Hottse,.4 -
Representatives from sconsinet
opposed to the repeat of the Miami i
Compromise ;—and this was the unit
action, as we thought, which could i
dicate the poSitien of the pitrty of this
State upon that
. question. At that
time we did not believe that the par: 4'
would ever stand upon a. -platfor a
which would endorse the repeal of
Missouri - C =promise. • Further tias .
this, •we did not believe that Slavery.
would be extended into Kansas.
How much we were deceived in I
this, no one understands more than
-do. • To-day the Democratic par
. s
have for their main object and purp-a
the enforcement of the laws and of
et:l3 . a human bondage in Kansas.
day the Democratic platform, on
All those i,vho,claim to bo Democrat=
in the State and Nation aro. to st.10:1„
endorses the repeal of the
Compromise. To-day . freedimi
speech is.denied in KansaS, to h'alt! - ;a
citizens of
. the - Republic, and faith •i s
Slavery, and the support of the m
debasing and degrading laws that ay.:4-
disgraced. an enlightened age or c :-
try, is made the . test of citizen4l:ip.
Free men, in the sunshine of the
teenth century, in a territory for tw
ty-four years consecrated to freed a.
are forced to stand up and call - hear i
to' witness that they will support t'.
'abominable Fugitive Slave Act',' °Pr
fait all the rights of Ariiericans.
No one can:deby' that the 4m:item:a
of tho last two years is in •cotisequenr . e
of the repeal of the Missouri goin;,r,.-
rniso, or that Slavery sustaining nets
..•.:
have bean extended over Kansas train
this same cause. This repeal, With all
its 'results, and ceuseqnences : of
now made the standard of Drtiocray:
For one. we belio"ve.that this is all
wrong—that Slavery is a national cur.a
and ought to be restrained, and on ;;4
to be cooped to the. States where, it•
exists—and cannot endorse measures
for its extension... We :sea beano .t a
celntry question except that o:
Freedorrtati:Slavery which,' like t.:
rod of Aaron', swallows 'up all °the- a.
is of the extension of Slavery--on that
• question we are with the Republicans.
and not with the inciters of the Cinch:-
natililatform,:or the enforcers of the
laws made by the Missouri' Invaders.
This question ef'the' extension Or re.
striction of Slavery. is now beforo Cy*
country for its 'action, and it is in vi. is
to' attempt . t 43 force . it'avvay.. Like tit*
ghost of the- muidered.B.Antto; it will
:not 'I. dovm qt our bidding."' •
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