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F. tsr.KNox,. . .
.4.tt.arntg 'Lain,
Coudersport, Pa., will regnlatly, attend the
Coarta pinta: county,
' G. OLMSTED, -
fattortten st' eaurta elar at 7Lab);
Coudersport, Pa., will attend to all business
intrusted to his care, with promptness and
fidelity.
Office—in the Temperance Block, up stairs,
Haiti-stseet.
ISAAC BENS ON
litttoritt2 at nab),
COUDERSPORT, 'VA.
Office corner of West and 'rlifrdstreet.4.
. -L. P. WILLISTON,
. ttorneg at Ealu,
.4Wollsboa, Tiog.t Co., Pa., will attend the
Courts in Potter and 111.'Kean Counties.
- 8. P. CONE,
attarneg at 3Lab3,
Vollsborough, Tioga county, Pa, willreg,ular
,ly atteud tile courts of Potter couuty.
June 3, 1848.
. JOHN 5...7Y/Als7N,
iltterneg &:Crounorla r at ILabi,
Condervort, Pa., will ationd the several
Courts to fetter and APE:eun courriies. All
business entrustcd in his care, will receive
prompt attention.
Office on Main-street, opposite the Conit
House, Coudersport, Pa.
COUDERSPORT HOTEL,
Daniel ff. Glasomfre
P norainTon.
Corner of .11ain and Second streets, Cou
dersport, Potter Co., Pa. 44.
W. K. KING,
Surbtaor, Draftsman, anit
Ocntbrpancer,
Smethport, M'Kean Co., Pa.,
Will attend to business for non-resident land
holders, upon reasonable terms. References
given if required.
P. 8. Maps of any parfof the County made
to order. . 7-33
H. J. OLMSTED,
.Surtimor anti Draftsman,
At the office of-J. S. Mann, Coudersport. Pa
ABRAM YOUNG,
rEfatOzniatter an gander.
' All work warranted. A stock of Watches
and Jewelry on hind and for sale. Call at the
store of Stuith & Jones, Coudersport, Pa.
BENJAMIN KENNELS;
IIL•CKSICIT H.
All work in his line, done to order and
with dispatch. On West street, below Third
Coudersport, Pa.
SIIITH & JONES.
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Deolen in Dry Goods, Groceries, Statione
2y. Drugs & Medicines, Paints, Oila, Fancy
articles, &c. Main Street, Colultrsport l'a.
JONES, MANN, & JONES.
General Grocery and l'rovision Deaierz—
Also iu Dry Goods, Ilardware, Boots and
Shoes, and whatever men want to buy. Main
Street, Coudersport Pa.
D. E. OL3ISTED
Dealer in Dry Goods, Rokly-made Clothing.
Gtocer:ot, Crockery, Lc. Coudersport, Pa.
W. SMITH,
Dealer in Stoves, and manufacture of Tin
Copper, and Sheet-Iron Wure. Main street,
Condersport, Pa.
M. W. MANN,
Dealer in Books & Stationery, Music, and
Magazine.. Main-st., opposite N. W. corner
fifths public square, Coudersport, Pa.
7 . • AMOS FRENCH, •
rihysieinn & Surgeon. East side Main-st.,
above 4th it., Coudersport, Pa.
DAVID B. BROWN,
Foikritiryman and Dealer in Ploughs. 14-
per end ofgain'atreet, Coudersport Pa.,
JACKSON & SCHOOMAKEIL
Dealers in. Dry Goods, Groceries, Crockery,
acid 11.;.idv-made Clothing . 111aiu street, Cou
sole Mort, Pa.
- ALLEGANY ROUSE,
BatnuelM : Mills, Proprietor. On theWells
vile road, seven Tiles North of Coudersport.
R. J. CITENEYI
Merchant Tailor, and Dealer in Ready
raidO orth of the public square,
Coudersport, Pa.
di. B. GOODSELI, . •
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March 1,1848 , • •- . •
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There's Something Goad in Every Heart
THERIC'S something good in every heart,
Though buries deep in sin,
Though often words may speak it not,
There's purity within.
The image of our Father,-God,
Is never quite etracied,
Too deeply in our heart of hearts,
The likeness has been traced.
Though dark robed sin usurp the throne
Of goodness, truth and love,
And banish from the - weary heart
The pure, "white-breasted dove,"
There's put a chord of goodness deft,
Which, swept by hands of skill, -
Will sweetept notes of music give,
Our inmost hearts to thrill.
There's someth:ng good in every heart,
The vilest of the vile
Bath yet a spark of goodness left,
Though buried deep in guile ;
Then.search it out, nor let it die,
Unknown, unsought by all ;
•
Oh, tear away tke drapery
Of sin's terrific. pall.
Breathe on it, fan it to a flame •
To purify the heart,
And c..,use the dirk usurper, sin,
Forever to depart.
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As thou wouldst be forgiven,
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To reach the courts of Heaven !
LILLIE MYRTLE
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin.
SERMON PREACHED BY REV. DUDLEY A
TYRO,
In Philadelphia, June 29, 1856.
"Whether oue member suffer, all the mem
bers suffer with it : or onarnamber be honor
ed, all the Members rejoice with it."-1 Cor.,
rii., 26.
It is a mooted question how far the.
Christian pulpit may and ought -to be
enlisted in the consideration of cur
rent events, and the discussion of qiies
lions of public interest. It "is undoubt
edly a gthat evil when the teachers
of religion forsake their appropriate
themes to mingle in all the heated con
troversies of the day. Nothing could
be more calculated to .break down the
influence of the ministry, and to rear
up insuperable barriers or angry pre
judice against the .message of mercy
which itis its businessr to declare.—
But may there not also be an opposite
extreme? May there ndt be silence
when peat principles are at 'stake?—
May not great wrongs go unchalleng
ed of pulpit till there be supposed
nothing in them inconsistent with re
ligion? May not the dread of offense
be carried so far as to pit the pulpit
in bondage? And may pot the refuail
to,take shlesin great, questions of pub--
lic ppinion result in the Gospel being
suppose to have nothing to do with
the affairs of society,' and in contempt
on all hands for the ministry,, for its.
fear of speaking outr Ministers have
the same interest itisoctety any its in
stitutions as other citizens; . perhaps
more so; for their I appiness is pecu—
liarly bound up ih the rightintinence
o f religious and moral principles upon
the community, Society can. stiffer
in po member without -a true hearted
Christian ministry suffering with it.
Religion itSelf t moreover, ,is often
vitally affected by - events transptring in
soc i a l ahcl4toliticallife,, priuci
ples maybe at work in the .social: eyo
win, Whose ultiinate tendency is to
DEVOTED THE PRINCIPLES DEMOCRACY,' AND TH • E DIS§F;SIiNAtiON IiORALITY,I4TERATURE,IAND NEWS
COU - DERSPORT, POTTER tix.upirir; 4.; - JULY_ 31,-, 18M:
OUR COUNTRY'S TROUBLES
destroy the practical 'influence of ,
Christianity over the condaCt I of Men,
and to undermine the foUndatiens
their faith - . Is the pulpit' to keep si
lence until the adveiSaries of the faith
having completely invested it with in
trenchments in public custom' and
opinion, are boldly demanding its sur
render? Human nature is a unit. Its
Many interests are but one trUdy.—
And the sufferings of any one of its
members aro in the vital organs.
Questions of social and political econo
my, as well as of moral principle, may
be:the media of deadly wounds to the
religious life. In fact, Christanity en
ters into every interest of man.. And
as Christians and Chritian ministers, we
are interested -in everything that con
cerne humanity. We cannot :discon
nect our religion from . the details of
our common life. It affects or is af
fected by them all. "Thciy are many
members, yet but one body. And the
eye cannot say unto the hand, I have
no need of thee; nor. again, the head
to the feet,.l have no need of you."
"And whether one member suffer, all
the members suffer with it; or one
member be honoured, all the members
rejoice with it." Owing to the dose
.interchange of sympathy and influence
the events of the day - may assume a
deep religious significance. The same
events which in one aspect, agitate
commercial interests, and in another
convulse the political circles, may iu
yet another be fraughtwith stirring in
terest for the religious 'r.orncitunity.—
And while they awaken 'great conten
tion on the plane of social or political
life, they. may also, from the higher
stand-point of the Christian patriot, be
seen to affect the dearest rights and
interests of meri, and to en:langer
great principles to' the support. of
which the pulpit is bound. At such
times the Christian ministry may be
criminal if it does not speak out boldly
in behalf of right, carefully avoiding,
indeed, the arousing' of those passions
which belong to the lower aspect of
events, but fearlessly aud dispassion
ately directing public sentiment by the
higher principles of ttivine revela-
Lion.
It seems to me that wa have now
reached such a time. Events, are
transpiring which bear most, moment
misty on all our rights as men and
duties as Christians. All that is most
dear and valuable to us as citizens, is
putin jeopardy. The principles and
and influence of Christanity, which
first founded our institutions, can alone
perserve them to us iu their integrity
in the present crisis. And I claim the .
right, as a Christian minister, to de
clare what I belieVe to she important
truth, and to do my part, small as it
may, towards ths settlement_ of the,
difficulteis which encompass us.
I claim a patient hearing, and a can
did comparison with the principles of
the Bible. If lam wrong, I am open
to conviction; if I am right, the decla
ration of the truth will bring the re
sponsibility of walking by its light.—
With this prefatory statement, lot me
call your attention, -
1. - To the evils to be deplored,
For the first - time in the history of
this country, it is the scene of civil
war. Armed men, iii battle array, are
marching on its soil, and carrying with
them all the horrors of a hostile inva
sion. Towns are sacked, hou,ses pil
laged, property . plundered and 'des
troys:l; women and children driven in
to terror from their homes, and men
shot down by their own doors`! SU
cietiy is inContusion, - publie security at
; an end, peaceful industry interrupted,
and a thriving T erritory reduced to 'a
state ,of nature, where the, only pro
tection is that of force, arid the house
hold cannot lie down at night_ ithout
fear of the assassin, Families, are
clriVerrottt.from lands.which they have
tilled and houses which, they have built,
and warned to leave the country or be
. hung. Fields ho uusaWn, and crops
are left unploughed because armed
marauders have stolen the farmer's
horses and killed his - oxen, and - ebliged,
him to skulk in secret fur fear of his
life, Or join bodies of his neighbor's
who,have armed in defense of their
homei and families. horiors
which existed when invading armies
marched with blood and desolation on
our soil;--all the suffering which drench
ed our frontiers _when the war-whoop
of the savage• aroused the sleeping
household for the tomakawk and the
faggot—ore now renewed in unhappy
Kansas. Hardly a day passes without
bringing telegraphic news of some new
outrage,so dreadful that we can scarce
realize its possibility, or arouse our
selves to feel as the occasion demands:
And who are the authors of all these
outrages on American citizens I.- Net
the savage Indian or the foreign inva
der, but their own countrymen, citi
zens of our own free and happy land,
imbruing their hands in brother's
blood ! And what is the crime . for
which their brothers aro thus subject
ed to invasion and violence? Merely
ektference of opinion; Merely assertion
of their right to think, speak, write,
and act according to their own con
science and interests in forming the in
stitutions of a Territory into which the
capital and population - of the country
were invited by a. solemn act of the
Federal Government. Oa the 30th of
May, 1854, the Territory of Kinsas
was thrown open to settlers by act of
Congress, and the privilege of deter
mining the character of its institutione
accorded to those who should become
residents of its soil. Attracted by this
opening for industry and enterprise, '
large numbers of perions from all sec
tions of the country emigrated 'to the
Territory, and soon made its prairies
to smile with cultivation, and dotted
its surface with towns and villages.
Never , a - country opened with bright
er prospects. But how soon was the
bright morn overcast ! On the 29th of
November, 1354, the infant Territory
was to elect a Delegate to appear and
speak in its behalf in the National con
gress. On that day more than one
thousand armed men from an adjoining
State invaded the Territory, drove
judges and legal voters from the pulls,
and, by fraudulent ballots, elected a
man of their own. On the - 30th of
March, 1855, the inhabitants of Kansas
wore to have elected their Territorial
Legislature. Morethan four thousand
armed men from the same State again
invaded the Territory, took possession
of the polls, and elected their own can
didates, some nf them residents of their
own State. The recent investigations
of the Congressional Committee have
proved that of five thouJaad five hun
dred votes cast on that day, less than
one thousand were of actual residents
of the Territory. Surely it was bad
enough to see a. Legislature imposed
on them by force and fraud. But what
sort of laws did they pass 7 Hear,
and ask yourself whether we live in
the Nineteenth Century, and in a free
and Christian Republic. They redo
acted in a mass all the slave laws of
Missouri, merely adding - that wherever
the word " State" occurs in them it
shall be construed to mean "Territory."
They made the non-admission of the
right to hold slaves in the Territaryi a
disqualification for sitting - as. Juror.
They enacted that to say that persons
have no right 'to hold slaves in that
Territory 'should be dunished with two
years, imprisonment at hard-labor ; that
writing, printing, or circulating- any. :
thing againstslavery should be punish
ed with fiVe years' imprisonment at
t hard labor; that the harboring of fu- .
gitive slaves should be punished. with
live, years insprisomneut at herd labor;
thatassisting slaves to escape from any
Territory, arid take , refuge that
. Territory, should be punished with
death ; that the printing or circulation
hi, publications calciilated to incite
sieves to insurrection,should befunish
ed: with- death ; ' to secure these • laWs
:perpetuity, they enacted' that all who
do not , swear to eupport the Fugitive
Slave law should - be disqualified as vo
ters, but' that any one might , vete. who
will pay bee dollar 'and avroai• to up- .
hold - the. gugitive Law and : the Ns'
. . .
braskabill. And still further to guard
against all cOntingenties, they appoint
ed non-residents to town and musts
offices for six years — arse - ad.
Thus, by one stroke of combined
fraud Sind force, the great questions of
social lights; whose settlement he l d
been ' pledged the citizens- them
selves, wore decided by an invading
army,, whose agents establish _slavery
against the wishes of the people, dis
franchise all who oppose it, open the
polls to all pro-slavery nom-residents,
and shut up all who speak, write, print
or circulate anything against it with
long imprisonment at hard labor.
What has become of the 'lights of
American citizens:l of obedienee
to law 1 Would you; would any Ameri
can, obey such laws so imposed I
Where were the spirits of our Revo
lutionary fathers if such oppressions
could be submitted to? Where is our
Republican Government if such rights
can be taken away -
But what was done in opposition)
There was no armed resistance, no
collision with assumed authority. The
people of Kansas simply denied the
legality of the enactments and the . ob
ligation of obedience, and then, falling
back on.inherent rights, went through
the preliminaries of a State organiza
tionr and applied to Congress for re
lief. That relief has not bean yet af
forded, And what has since transpired?
.dthird, fourth and fifth armed invaien
has taken place, each with increased
aggravation of outrage. Pillage, and
plunder, and murder, have increased
from day to day. Large bodies of
armed men from distant and adjoining
StateS are in the Territory, with no
attempt at Becoming settlers, without
means of honest support, living by pil
lage of those who differ from them
selvei iu sentiment, and perpetrating
cruelties unknown even in war. Gov
ernment .troops have been used to
overawe all attempts at resistance,
and moved about so as to expose un
protected towns to violence. A four
fold process of oppression has been
Used no ruin and drive out those whose
only crime is the claiming of rights
guaranteed to them by the very law
which invited them to Kansas. First,
innumerable indictments for imagin
ary crimes are made uu; by a corrupt
judicial:) , against all Free State men
ofinfluence, while the worst of crimes,
I:by men of opposite politics, have gone
' unnoticed. Secondly, armed hordes
of ruffians, under pretence of main
taining "law - and order," panel the
country, committing all the mitt ages
which have been described. Thirdly,
the United States dragooue are made
use of by the local authorities to sup
press-any risings for self-defense, and
kept out of the way when attacks are
to be made. Anil, lastly, "Vigilance
Committees"• are appointed. to drive
off, with threats of "Lynch raw," all
those who, by the other methods, have
not been suhdued. All this has been
. going on fly months. And recent
accounts announce that the sufferers
themselves aredriven by desperation
to armed defence, and the hostile bands
are now watching each other, and
meeting in deadly conflict. Civil war
is begun. And where is it to end, tie
less it can be suppressed at once in the
place of its birth ? Let it not bo said
-that we have no interest in the matter.
'Distant and feeble as she may be,
Kansas is a member of our body poll : .
-tic. The same life-blood which nour
ishes our own community flows ihrough
her: And, the
,wounds and anguish
which she endures are felt even to the
. .
remotest parts o f Republic. Ties
of friendship and of blood unite her .
suffering children to all - sections of
our country. And were these want
ing; a common nationality binds them
in one body to us all, and the great
heart of humanity enfolds them in its
sympathies. "Whether one member
sutler, all the memberi suffer with it ;
or one member he honoUred, all the
members rejoice with it."
At the: same time that these events
ha - ve been transpiring, another scene
has" beau onaciad:which• his inflicted
a still deeper wound on the honor and
Peaca'a" 4 P* *. i .owll37. A morass ut
the ,Senate of the United State* 11121M 6
honoured equally for his ' , donee *a
his attainments, has Wen etrielteii
down and beaten by a member dean-,
gress, till his blood stained the flow .
of the Senate, for words spoken in lei
.bate. It matters not what were ilia
words which gave offense, though . k.;
may well be supposed that langnagri
unchallenged at the, time by a body;
whose_inajority were in opposition tt,
the speaker, did not transgresi the OP
.dinary limits of parliamentary debate.'
-It matters aot what were the words.:
nor who the speaker, nor who the se•,
sailant. It Wasiprincipk; which iris
stricken down. And the. principle is
one of the pillars of our free institu
tions. Without the right of freedom:
ofspeech, neither our 'liberties nor'
our religion are secure. If the blud
geon is to be he ruling power in our :
country, where Will be our boasted:
freedom and national Christianity I— ,
If the flag of our' country" anti Li,. •
symbols of her liberty cannot protma..
the 'members of her Government wi t
in the walls of her Capitol. in the dl4-•
charge of their official duty, what L t,.
become of our Republic 1 Witr the
freedom of the, Press overthrown
Kansas, and the freedom at the 61.•,4-.
ate assailed in Washington, how lot,‘
before the freedom of the pulpit shati
bo also at the mercy of a poplar ma
jority or of a reckless and excitaL. s
bully 1 There ia not a legislator, or
an editor, or a clergyman in the cou r.
try, whose right to advocate what L.
conscientiously believes, nor a citizco .
whose right to representation of hi 4.
sentiments, has not been assailed
the blows which laLl 4 the eloquvot
Sumner senseless on the floor. of • the
Senate Chamber. Bu 4 the act itself i
not so ominous of Oil as its indorso
ment. To hoar it de fe nded and eul.,-
gized throughout the whole seta.,..
represented by the assassin, by puhliu
assemblios giving votes of thanks 1. , r
his iniquity, by the press almost
imously holding it
. up as worthy of
imitation, and by fellow-representh -
fives who screen the• offender fro,u
punishment, may well snake one feei
sadly apprehensive for our countr ;
It indicates that we are becoming 11.1
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worthy of our heritage and that no
sentiment of justice and right has rot •
ted away in the foundatioU of govern.-
merit. Alas for our country, when the
makers of her laws dare not speak in
defense of what they deem burnt*
right, or must go armed with dead v
weapons for protection in the di -
chat ge of their • duty I God fot
that the minister of religion should re.•
fuse to speak in reprobation •of the,
evil .
IL But let us look, secohdly, at the
inipelling principle of these outra:;-*
They have all one impulse—the az
gressive spirit of Slavery. Let it. 1..,
noted and' remembered that all th.• a '
wrongs . grew out of a determination
exteud the area of human bonds:'-.
Why are armed hordes now traversi ) •
Kansas with pillage and *nerd. r
Simply that they may extend over ic
the blight of slavery. Why are m , :s
illegally arrested, robbed; driveu •
home, hunted like beasts of shut d.) .v a
dead in the fields I Simply becaa
they desire to save their • homes tt:r.l
family from the blight of ihrtery. \V
are they denied the protection u: a.
Government whose pride it is to vi,e
tcct its citizens to the furthest verge of:
the habitable globe Z Merely bec.us-is
they Will hot submit to feria and 1:a -1
to be cursed with slavery.,. Why wla.
.Senator Sumner assailed• and beau)...
in' the Senate 1 Merely bevies ! t, law
spoke too pointedly and plainly for their
deliverance from the attempted cnrso
of slavery. The sole impel** a,s,
these outrages is the desire to 5utt...4.1.
slavery. Thesole crime of- the stsi
ferers is the . invincibtle desire.to be !refs,
The blood of . a Sehator has stained we;
flout' of thesenate Chamber, the . ), . ”Al
of her citizens has been puerto ...is
like water an the virgin soil of'N. k-•; . 4 4 +.
merely that it may be *a : a l lay
bondage. The whcilii South is
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