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A KINDLY WORD.
Thoro's many a soul In sadness,
A kindly word might save
From dark, despairing mndncss,
Or an untimely grave.
Nearer Horn e.
BT MISS CARRY.
One sweetly solemn thought
Comes to me o'sr and o'or
I'm nearer homo to-day
Than I have ever been before.
Nonrer my Father's liouso
Where the many mansions be ;
Nonror the great whito throno,
Nearer the jasper sea ;
Noaror the bound of lifo,
Whore we lay our burdens down ,
Nearer leaving the cross,
Noaror gaining tho orown,
But lying darkly botwoen,
Winding down through the night ;
Is the dim and unknown stream
That loads at last to the light.
Closor and closer my steps
Come to the dark abysm j
Closer death to my lips
I'rossos the awful chrysm.
Father I perfect my trust ;
Strengthen the might of my faith ;
Let me fool as I would when I stand
On the rock of the shore of death
Fed as I would when my foot
Are slipping over tho brink ;
For it may be I'm nearer home,
Nearer now, than I think.
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$0lilital.
President Buchanan's Address in.Wasa-
Jington on Monday, July 9th.
Friends and Fellow Citizens : I thank
f you from my heart for the honor of this
E, visit. 1 cordially congratulate you on the
i preference which you have expressed for j
jj Major Breckinridge and General Lane as
candidates for tho 1 residency anil ice ridge because he sanctions and sustains
.Presidency of the United States over nil the perfect equality of all tho States with
ootnpeUtors. Applause. They are men in tho common territories, and theopin
whoM3 names are known to tho country ; ion of the Supremo Court of tho United
ibey need no eulogy from me; they have States establishing this equalilv. The sov
Mrved their country in peace and in war. oreign States of this Union are one vast
'They are statesmen as well as soldiers, partnership. The Territories wero acqui
aa l in the day and hour of danger they red by the common l.lood and common
will ever be at their post. 1 hey are con- treasure of thorn all. Each State, and each
faervative men and in the course of their
5 administration they will be equally just
14 tho Xsortl anu to the South, to the .host
'1 to tho West. Applause. Above all,
d first of all, thcy-aro friends of tho
Constitution and of the Union cheers
and they will stand by them to tho
'djath. Renewed cheers. But we ought
not to lorget that they aro also menus to
Inequality ol tho Sovereign States ol tho
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uiurv. line's ui - uuuu
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'Maintain that principle, wh
muii suuuiu re-
fOlive the cordial approbation of us aU.
Kquality is equity. Every citizen of the
Unitcrt States Is equal botore the tonsti-,
Ration and the laws j aud why should not
'tibsinc this Union bo hold ill like revcr
I siceT This is good Democratic doctrine.
liberty and equality are the birthright ot j
wrcry American citizen ; anu just as cer-
"inly as tho tlav succcods the night, so
j tettrtain will this principle of Democratic
justico eventually prevail over all onposi
' j tjpu. Chocrs. But, before I speak fur-
tier upon this subject and I shall not
, detain you very long I wish to remove
, t one stumbling-block out of tho way.
' , I have ever been tho friend of regular
' r nominations. I have never strur k a po
' I litical ticket in my lifo. Now, was thero
.MWything done at Baltimoro to bind tho
political conscience of any sound Demo
i, 'f rat, or to prevent him from supporting
JI5rock in ridge and Lanof "No, nol"1 It
f. JWm cotomporary with the abandonment
I (it the tld congressional convention or
' ( caucus. This occurred a long time ago;
j Try few, if ary, of you remember 11. Un
t i iar the old congressional convention sys
, tain, no person was admitted to a seat ex-
Jtllpt tho Democratic members of tho Son
, tie and liouso of llcprosen lativos. This
rle rendered it absolutely cortain that
tlo nominee, whoever ho might bo, would
. I ta sustained at the election by the Doino-
I'Tatio (Hates of the Union. By this means
itj Ifc was rendered impossible that those
k, t lutes which could not give an electoral
tt. JCote for the candidate when nominated
Mould control the nomination, and die-
;Jljte to the Democratic Stale who should
a' i their nominee. This system was aban-
ilt i, nod whether wisely or not I shall ax-
a- j ' w no opinion. 1 he .National Conven
ut f in was substituted in its stead. All
K IB States, whether Democratic or not,
1 J re equally to se-nd delegates to this
. u invention according to the number of
Hf 'senators and Representatives ii
Congress. A difficulty at oncearose which
never could have arisen under the con
gressional convention system. If a bare
majority of the National Convention thus
composed could nominate a candidate, he
might be nominated mainly by tho anti
democratic States. Thus tho nominating
power would bo separated from the elec
ting power, which could not fail to bo do
structivo to the strength and harmony of
tho Democratic party To obviate this se
rious difficulty in tho organization of a
National Convention, and at tho same
time to leave all the States their full vote,
the two-thirds rulo was adopted. It was
believed that under this rule no candi
date could ever bo nominated without
embracing within the two-thirds the votes
of adecidod majority of Democratic States,
This was tho substitute adopted to ro
tain, at least in a great degrco, tho power
to the Democratic States which they would
have lost by abandoning tho congressional
convention SVStein. This rnlftwns a ninin
pillar in tho edifice of National Conven.
tions. .Remove it and tho rvhole must
becomo a ruin. This sustaining pillar was
broken to pieces at Baltimore by the Con
vention which nominated Mr. Douglas.
After this tho body was no longer a Na
tional Convention; and no Democrat,
however devoted to regular nominations,
was bound to give tho nominee his sup
port ; ho was left free to act according to
the dictates of his own judgment and
conscience. And hero, in passing, I may
observe that tho wisdom of the two-t'.iirds
rulo is justified by tho events passing a
round us. Had it been faithfully observ
ed no candidate could have been nomi
nated against the will and wishes of al
most every certain Democratic State in
the Union, against nearly all the Demo
cratic Senators and more than throe
fourths oft'to Democratic Rcprescnta
tives in Congress- Cheers.
I purposoly avoid entering upon any
discussion respecting the exclusion from
the Convention of reirularlv-elccted delo-
gates from different Democratic States. If
theGonventicn which nominated Mr. Dou
glas was not a regular Democratic Conven
tion, it must be confessed that Breckin
ridge is in tho same condition in that res
poet. Tho Convention that nominated
him, although it was composed of ncarlv
all tho certain Democratic States, did not
contain the two-thirds j and therefore ev
ery Democrat is at perfect liberty to vote
as he thinks proper, without running
counter to any regular nomination of the
party. Applause and cries of ''throe
cheers for Breckinridge and Lane." Hol
ding this position, I shall pronont some of
tho reasons why I prefer Mr, Breckinridge
InU. Il 1... I L.ll 1. Ml .
I .I, . j'uugius. i uis i snau uo witiiout
attempting to interfere with any individ-
j ual Democrat or any State Democratic or
ganization holding different opinions from
myself. Tho main object of all good Dem
ocrats, whether belonging to the one or
the other wing of our unfortunate division
is to defeat tho election of tho Uenublican
candidates j aud I shall never oppose any
honest and honorable course calculated to
accomplish this object.
To return to the point from which I have
digressed. I am in favor of Mr. Breckin-
citizen ol each Stale, lias the same right in
tho Territories na any other State and the
citizens of any other State possess. Now
what U sought for at present is, that a por
tion of these States should turn around to
their Bister States and say, "We are holi
er than you are, and while we will take
our property to the Territories and have
it protected there, you shall not place
your property in the samo position."
l'hat IS nroeiselv what is (nnt.omlnrl Tnr
"""w l' ''"-vJ 'HHV to VUIJ iv; i
w,,ttt the, Democratic par'y maintain, and
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what tho truo principle of Democracy is,
that all shall enjoy tho same rights, and
that all shall be Buhject to tho same dti-
ties.. Pronertv -this irnvnrnmnt. , r,
moj for the protection of life, liberty, and
property. They are tho objects for tho
protection
of which all enlightened cov-
crnmonts wero
establishcd. But it is
sought now to place the property of the
citizen under what is called the principle
ofqnatter sovereignty, in the power of
Territorial Legislature to confiscate it at
wieir win anu pleasure, mat is the prin
ciple sought to be established at present ;
and there seems to bo an entire mistake
and misunderstanding among a portion of
tho public upon this subject. When was
property ever Bubniitted'lo the will of the
majority f "Never." If you hold prop
erty iw an individual you hold it indepen
dent of Congress or of tho State Legisla
ture or of tho Territorial Legislature it is
yours ; and your Constitution was mado to
protect your private property against tho
assaults of legislative power. (Cheers.)
v en, now, any sot ot prncipies which will
deprive you of your property is against tho
VerV essence Ot Henllblman nnvnrnmnnt
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and to that extent makes you a slavo ; for
tho tnwn who has powor over your proper
ty tocontiseato it, has power over
means of subsistanco : and vet it is
our
con
tended that although the Constitution
the United States confors no such power
although no State Legislature has any I
such power, yet a Territorial Legislature,!
in tho remote extremities of the country, j
can confiscate your property I (A Voico
"ihey can't do it; they ain't going to
doit.") Thore is but ono modo as point-,
ed out in tho Cincinnati flatform, which
has been as much misrepresented as any-, They would elect the first Territorial log
thing I have ever known That Platform islature beforo the people of the South
declares that a majority of the aotual res- could arrive with thoir nrnnorfv. and th'to
idents in a Territory, whonovcr their num-
bor is sufficient to entitle them (o ad mis -
sron m a State, possess the power" to from
a Contitution with or without domestic.
slavery, to be admitted into the Union u-
PRINCIPLES, not
CLEARFIELD, PA. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, I8C0.
pon terms of perfect equality with tho oth
er States." If thoro be squatter sover
eignty in this resolution, I have never
been able to perceive it. If there be any
reference in it to a Territorial Legislature,
it lias entirely escaped my notice. It pre
sents tho clear principle that at the lime
tho people form their Constitutioa they
shall then decide whether they will have
slavery or not. And yet it has been sta
ted over and over again that, in Accepting
the nomination under that platform, 1 en
dorsed tho doctrine, of squatter sovereign
ty. I supposo you have all heard this re
peated a thousand times,
A Voice "We all knew it was a lie!',
Well' I am glad you did.
How beautifully this plain principle of
constitutional law corresponds with tho
best interests of tho people ! Under it,
emigrants from' the North and South,
from tho East and the West, proceed to
the territories, they carry with them
that property which they suppose will
best promote their material interests ;
they live together in peace and harmony,
Tho question of slavery will becomo a fore
gone conclusion before they have inhabi
tants enough to enter tho Union as a
State. Thoiewill then be no "bleeding
Kansas" in tho Territories ; they will all
live together in peace and harmony, pro
moting tho prosperity of tho Territory and
their own prosperity, until the timo shall
arrive when it becomes necessary to frame
a Constitution. Then- the whole question
will bo decided to tho goneral satisfact
ion. But upon the opposite principle,
what will you lind in tho Territories?
Why, there will be a strife and conten
lion all tho time. One Territorial legisla
ture may establish slavery and" another
Territorial legislature may abolish it.and so
tho struggle will be continued throughout
tho 1 erritorial existence. 1 ho people, m
stead of devoting their energies and in
dustry promote their own prosperity, will
be in a state of constant strife and turmoil,
just as we have witnessed in Kansas.
Therefore, there is no possiblo principle
that can be so injurious to the best inter
est of a Territory as what has lecn called
squatter sovereignty.
Now let nio place tho subjoct before you
in another point of view. Tho people of
tne Southern Mates can never abandon
this great principle of State equality in the
Union without self-degrodation. Never
Novor without an acknowledgement that
they are inferior in this respect to their
sister States. Whiist it is vital to them to
preservo their equality, tho Northern
Slates surrender nothing by admitting
this principle. In doing this they only
yield obedience to tho Constitution of
their country' as expounded by tho Su
prcme Court of the United States. While
for the North it is comparatively a mere
abstraction with the South it is a ques
tion of co-equal State sovereignty in tho
Union.
If tho decrees of the high tribunal estab
lished by the Constitution for the very
purpose aro to set at naught and bo
disregarded, it will tend to rondpr all
property of every description insecure.
What, then, havo tho North to do?
Merely to say that as good citizens, they
will yield obedience to the decision of tho
Supremo Court, and admit the riaht of a
Southern man to take his property into
the territories, and holu it there, just as a
Northern man may do ; and it is to me
tho most extraordinory thing in the world
that this country should now be distracted
and divided because certain persons at tho
North will not agree that tfioir brethren
at tho South shall have tho same rights in
tho Territories which they enjoy. What
would I, as a PcnnsylvifCihn, say or do,
supposing anybody was to contend that
tho Legislature of any Territory could
outlaw iron or coul within the Territory.
Laughter and applause. J Ihopn
it precisely, tho stimo. The Su
premo
Court ol the United Slutes havo decidod
what was known to us all to huve been
tho existing state of affairs for fifty years
that slaves are property. Admit that fact
and you admit everything. Then that
property in tho Territories must bo pre
ciscly in the same manner with any other
property. If it bo not so protected in
the Territories, the holders of it are degra- j
ded before the world.
Wo luivo been told that non-intervon-tion
on the psrt of Congress with slavery
in tho Territories is the true po'.iey. Very
well. 1 most cheerfully admit that Con
gress has no right to pass any lrw to es
tablish, impair or abolish slavery in tho
Territories. Let this principlo of non-iiv.
torvention bo extended to the Territorial
legistures, and lot it be declared that they
in like manner havo no power to establish,
impair, or destroy slavery, and then tho
controversy is in effect ended. This h all
that is required at present, and I verily
bf lievo all that will ever bo required.
Hands off by Congress and hands off by
tho Territorial legislature. Loud ap
plause. With tho Supremo Court of the
United States I hold that noither Con-
gross nor tho Territorial legislature has
i an v power to establish, impair, or alwlisl
slavery in tho Territories. But ifinth
faco of tins positivo prohibition, tho Torri
torial legislature should exoorcise the pow
er of intervening, then this would bo a
. mere transfer of tho Wilmotprovisoand the
I Buffalo pl.itforiu from Congress, to bo cap.
ofiriod into execution in the Territories to
tho destruction of oil property in slaves.-
Renewed applause.
An attempt of this kind, if mado in
Congress would bo resisted by ablo men on
tho floor of both houses, and probably do-
. feated. Not so in a romoto Territory. To
cverv new Torritorv there will be a rush
: of freo-soilers from tho Northern States.
legislature would probably settle forever
1 the question of slavrry according to their
own will.
And shall we for tho sake of souattor
sovereignty, which, from its nature can
MEN.
mly continue during the brief period of!
. w. .... wAiDiviitt-, iiiuur uiu ri3K I ui
viding tho great Democratic party of tha
country into two sectionul parties, the ono
oiiu uiiu mo oiner ooutn r Miall this
great party which has governed the coun
try in peace and war; which has raised it
lrom humble beginnings to be ono of the
most prosperous and powerful nations in
the world shall this parly be broken up
for such a cause Tlint is tho question.
1 ho numerous, powerful, pious, and res
pectable Methodist Church has been thus
divided. Tho division was a severe shock
to the Union. A similar division of the
great Democratic party, should it contin
ue, would rend asunder ono of tho most
powerful links which binds the Unioa to
gether. I entertain no such fearful apprehen
sions. 1 he present issuo is trnnsitorv. and
will speedily pass away. In tho nature
of things it cannot continue. There is
but one possible contingency which can
eneianger tho Union ; and against this all
Democrats, whclher squatter sovoreigns
or popular sovereigns, will present a unit
ed resistance Should tho time ever ar
rive when Northern agitation and fanati
cism shall proceed so far as to rendor tho
domestic fircsidos of tho South .insecure,
hen and not till then will tho Union bo
n danger. A united Northern Deinoera-.
cy will present a wall of fire against such
a catastrophe!
There aro in our midst numerous per
sons who prodict tho dissolution of the
great democratic party, and others who
contend that it has already been dissolved.
The wish is father to tho thought. It liat
been heretofore in great peril ; but when
divided for the moment it has always
closed up its ranks and become more pow
crful even from defeat. It will never die
whilst tho Constitution and tho Union
survive It will livo to protect and de
fend both, It has roots in the very vitals
of tho Constitution, and, likconoofan
ciont cedars of Lebanon it will flourish to
aflord shelter and protection to that sa
cred instrument, and to shield against ev
ory storm of faction. Renewed ap
plause Now friends and fellow citizens, it is
probable that this is the last political
speech that I shall ever make. A voice,
'Wo hope not !" It is now nearly forty
years sinco I first camo to Washington as
a motnber of Congrcs.s and I ish to say
this night that during that wholo pcriud
I havo received nothing but kindness and
attention lrom your fathers and your
selves. Washington was then compara
tively a email town ; but now it has grown
to be a great and beautiful city; and tho
fu st wish of my hoai t is that 'its citizens
may enjoy uninterrupted health and pros
perity. I thank you for the kind atten
tion you hivo paid me, and now bid you
allgood niuht. Prolonged cheering.
Lincoln's Record
IIIS RECORD
Troves that while tho nominee of tho Ho-
publican party for President, Abraham
Lincoln, was a member of Congress, tho
N Umot l roviso controversy nras in pro
gross, and that ho was active, in connec
tion with William II. Seward, Joshua 11.
Uiddings, and other prominent alwlilion
members of Congress, in keeping up the
slavery agitation. He voted for the Pro
viso forty-two timn.
HIS RECORD
Also proves that while a member of Con
gress ho opposed tho Mexican War, .de
claring it "uneonslitutienal and wronij." and
voted against tho bill granting one hundred
and stxti acres of land to our brave and gal
lant volunteers.
ms itEconn
Also proves that during the Illinois Sena
torial c.'imnaitm. in n Mreli nr. ('.Uinm
rinciplo'on tho 10th of July, 1858. he said "1
j have always hated slavery, I think, ait much
a any ubvlilionUl. I have been an old line
H hig. 1 havo always hated it. and always
believo it in courso of ultimate extinction.
If I wero in Congress, and a vote
should come upon a question whethor sla
very should bo prohibited in a now terri
tory, in spite of tho DroJ Scott decision. I
should volo that it should."
IIIS RECORD
Also proves that in a speech at G'.xlctburg,
III., Ucl. 7, 1S.J8, ho said" 1 believe
that tho right of property in a slavo is not
distinctly and expressly affirmed in the
Constitution."
ins RECORD
Also proves that in a speech at Quincv, 111
13th Oct 1858, ho said "tho Republican
party think it slavery wrong wo think
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ii. is u hum in, nuitcim, aim apolitical wrong,
ll'o think it is a wrong not confining it
self merely to tho persons or the States
where it exists, but that it is a wrong in
its tendency, to say tho least, that intends
itself to the cxistenco of the whole nation
Becauso we think it wrong, we propose a
course oi poncy mat snail deal with it as
a wrong. Wo deal with it as with any
other wrong, in so far as wo can prevent
its growing any largor ; and so deal with
it that in the run ot timo there may be
somo promiso of an end of it."
HIS RECORD
Also proves that in a speech ot Springfield,
111., on tho I7th of June, 1M58, he doda-
rod "A house divided against itsclt can
not stand." I bchovo this govornmenl
cannot epduro permanently half slave and
half free. It will becomo all ono thing or
all tho othef, Either tho opponents of
siavory win arrest tno lartnor spread ol it,
"and place it whore the public mind shall
rest in tho belief that it is in the course of
ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will
push it forward till it shall bocomo alike
lawful in all tho States, old as well new
North as well as South." And thero arc
numerous
witnesses is this mr, '
Republicans as well as Democrats, who
heard him in a spoeoh delivered in front
of the Court House in this city, admit and
defend tho position assumed in the above
extract, chum to be tho AUTHOR OF
TERMS II
NEW
THE ''IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT"
DOCTRINE, and virtually charging Wm.
II. Seward with appropriating it.
Brief as is his record, we imagine that it
will tako much "whitewashing" by his
would bo conservative follower?, like Mr.
Corwin, to prove to tho satisfaction of tho
ncopio mat Abrannm J.incol.i, tho liepub-
uiiu iiumiuco nn i runiuem, is it national,
conservative man, ami worthy to till tho
highest oitice in the American Kcpublio,
Daylvn (O.) Empire.
NegTO Voting-.
From tho Clilciigo Times find Herald.
The Now York Tribune, tho leading Re
publican journal of the United States, thus
discourses of Negro Voting:
"A distant correspondent writes to
learn what is tho fact as to Blacks voting
in- our Mate, wo answer I! a negro
owns $250 worth of real estate, fi co and
clear of incumbrance, ho can vote tho
same as a while man ; if not, ho h is no
right of Fiifl'rngo that "whito men aro
bound to rospcet."
"We regard this discrimination as sim
ply atrocious. If a property qualification
is right, it ought to bo imposed on all a
lilts, not merely on those who havo the
least property and the worst chance to
obtain it j if a negro has no soul, and no
political stulus but that of a thing, his
owning a pile of dirt cannot rightfully
give him any. In any light, the prc9cnt
rulo is wrong and indefensible.
"We shall havo a chanco this fall to
voto down this anomaly, and we ought to
doit. Let us abolish tho property quali
fication, and givotho poor blacks an equal
chanco at the polls with their richer
brethren. They aro but a handful any
how, and cannot do much harm if they
try."
If there is ono thing more degrading to
tho American people than another, it is
tho fuct that a powerful party exists in
our midst which, or a majority of which,
is willing to sink tho proud Anglo-Saxon
ond other European races into 0116 com
mon level with tho lowest races of man
kind. It seems absolutely wonderful that
anv
snno man could advocate such unjust,
illogical aud unnatural self-abasement. sola, w hero she began the publication ot
God has not ordeted the distinct divisions ! her paper, four years ago, at a timo Alien
of tho human family which now exist, j sho was in constant danger of tho sculp
without somo wise purpose. Races were j ing knif'o, and had a loaded musket con
manifestly intended by Providence to re jStantly by her side, to bo used in case of
The
wonderful difference in physical and men
tal organization of the several races was
evidently designed to prevent tho exist
ence of mongrel stock. Mongiels aro the
accursed of nature. No nation ofhalfs
breeds ever has continued to exist or
ever can. But what has all this to do
with negro voting? Simply this: If the
equality of tho negro is acknowledged,
and tho political rights of tho whito man
are shared with him, a mongrel race must
and will follow. There nro now some
5,000,000 of Afiicans and mixed breeds in
the United States. Theso persons if free
would soon distributo themselves over
tho country, North and South. Tho pro
portion which would fall to tho lot of Illi
nois could not fall far short of 250,000.
At the lowest calculation this population
would cast oncsulti of the chok vule of Me
Stale! Now let any sano man imagine
tho result of such a state of things 1 Sup
pose it existed now, and tho negro popu
lation had tho command of thirty thou
sand votes in Illinois, what scenes would
we bo compelled to witness 1 Docs any
human soul doubt that demagogues would
be found in abundance, to court and smile
upon tho noblo African race, for tiio suke
of 30,000 votes in a single Slate? Does
anybody fail to see the cringing and bow
ing for tho (ierman votfc, by the very same
men, who five years ago denounced them
as krout eating, llnt-headod, Suabiun
Dutch? And yet tho negroes aro more
numerous th:in tho Germans, or Irish ei
ther, and would havo more power in elec
tions than cither.
Can, we repeat, any sano man doubt
tho result ? Would wo not see our polite,
kid cloved gentry .who now draw their silk
stiched brimstone colored kids, so heartily
to drink lager with the teuton, bow low and
graceful!) as he handed tho accomplished
Miss Dinah into the carriage! Would we
not moderate our admiration for the 'chil
dren of tho Rhine,' whon wo ccflld get
two votes to one, by singing preansto tho
rich tropical color and still richer perfume
of the "children of tho sun?" Woald
wo not see in our band wagons, on elec
tion days, tho soft-flowing curls of Congo's
daughters, waving in tho wind, side bv
sido with tho flaxen locks of tho maids of
Scandinavia? When we camo to repro
sent emblematically tho States of this
Union by our daughters in llowinsr white
would we not be induced to put tho coat
of arms of every sixth State upon tho
budding bosom of somo fair daughter from
the banks of tho Niger? Wo may smilo
at these things now, but as certain as the
waters of the Mississippi flow to tho Gulf,
this must bo the result of this "negro
equality" and "negro voting" doctrine
Could such a timo nrrivo, does any man
doubt tho gradual but certain a'nalgauia
tion of the rares, rind that the land of
Hancock and Washington would bocorua
tho homo of a race of mongrels? And
yet such are the doctrins preached by tho
most prominent advocates of Abraham
Lincoln for tho Presidency. When will
this insano negrophobia cease ?
SfifA gontleman, in his eagerness a i tho
table to answer a call for some applo pio,
owing to tho knifo slipping on the bottom
of the dish, fouud his knucklos hurried
in tho crust, when a wag, who sat just ap-
posito to 11 an vory gravely oiiservod, while
he held his plate: "Sir, I'll trouble you
for a bit of pio whilo vour hand is in 1"
BSWomin has many advantages over
man ; ono of them is that his will has no
opera I ion till ho is dead, whereas hers
uucrally takes olllct in her lifetime.
25 per Annum, if paid in advance.
SERIES VOL. I. NO. 6.
Mrs. Swisslielm'8 Lecture.
This lady tlchvored the firjt of a series
of lectures Thursday right at Lafayetto
Hall, upon "The Financial History of Her
Married Lifo." About one hundred and
fifty persons wero present, perhnps not so
manv and. fin.iiir-iiillv ,Tnn.i,l.ir,,l i)n
lecture was a failure. Tho lady appeared,
ami 60. in a pi
ain but neat and tasty dress.
Alter taking ncr position behind the desk,
and making a bow to her audience, she
offered r. brief prayer, which, to say the
least, took every body By surpriso, tho
more so becauso il had tho immediate ef
fect of checking the applause which was
about to follow her uppearanco. Tho
prayer being ended, she stated that sho
did not offer it through any desire to bo
regarded as eccentric, but bectuso she be
lieved that it washer duty todoso. She
then entered upon tho subjoct matter of
her lecture, warning tho reporters, p.iren
thetically, that if they published any part
of it they might expect a prosecution for
libel so sho had been given to under.
stand. Wo havo no desire to ventilato
anything that tho laJy tail ; and, when
wo slate that the wholo story was one of
domestic misery, from the wedding day
until sho finally separatod from her bus-
band a period of about twenty years
wo aro sure our readers will not desire to
hear it. She lifted tho veil which has so
long covered the secrets of her heart, and
her lecture seemed liko a Pandora's box,
from which rushed out "a multitude of
evils.'. It was a narrativo made up of in
numerable, little, details, such as man. a
wifo might recognize, but to the recital of
which not one in ten thousand could bo
brought. At times she was grave, and
wept and sighed over tho recollection of
her wrongs, her uttoranso being freqnent
ly choked, and her whole manner beto
kening tho most painful emotion. Then'
again sho would indulge in tho keenest
ridicule, causing her hearers to shako
their sides with laughter over her iniini
tablo pictures of "domestic economy." -Altogether,
it was tho .strangest niedb'y
wo over listened to.
Sho concluded by giving a very vivid
description of her experience in Minnc-
pear, these have leen tho happiest days
of her unhappy lifo! She hopes to do
some good in the way of helping to break
up that system of tyranny which now holds.
so many thousands of her wedded sisters
in bondage, inasmuch as she has been
mado "a strong minded woman" under
that very system of masculine oppression..
According to her theory, men mako all
the "strong mindod women," for she is
fully convinced that God nover yet mado1
ono!
Sho touched upon tho legal disabilities-
of married women, but did not elaborate
this branch of the subject, nlthoiich her
whole experience, as detailod by her,
went to show that sho had beon as thor.
onghly a 6-((vi! as over stood upon thot
shambles. In concluding, sho stated that,
sho had hoped to bo ablo to compress alL
sho wished to say into ono lecture, but
sho found this impossible and althouglr
sbo inlimatod that other lectures ore to
follow, she did not positively announce
them. Pittsburg Press.
The Cam ii hi a Iron Works. A writer its
tho North American, in describing tho Cam
bria Iron Works, tho most cxtensivo of
the kind in tho country, says: Tho entire
establishment at prosont comprises near
ly throe thousand operatives, twenty-seven
thousand acres of land, a rolling milt
covering 83,275 bquaro fect, sixty-four
piid.lling furnaces, twelve heating furna
ces, fourteen pair of rollers, twoiily-nino-steam
engines giving air aggregate or 2,
500 horse power, two locomotives, a com
plete domestic market, including-sepnrato:
dry-goods, grocery, feed, meat, shoo and
tailoring establishments, ono hundred and)
forty head of horses, a draught and pat-torn-making
shop, wheolwrigt and black
smith establishments, machino shops,
forgo shops, powder house, throe hundred
railway cars, etc. Last year 32,000 ton
of railroad iron were turiiedout. Tho re
tail stores alone make sales amounting tv
$100,000 per annum. During the past
year there havo been slaughtered for the
meat market 580 beeves and GOO head of
hogs.
5f5uA Quakeress, jealous of her hus
band, sssatched him, and ono morning ac
tually discovered tho truant bulging anl
kissing tho servant girl. Broadbrim wa
not long in discovering the faco of hi
wife as sho peeped through tho half-opera
door, ami rising, with all tho coolness of a
general, thus addressed him:
"Betsy, thco had better quit pfeping
or thee will cause a disturbance in, this
house."'
SGov. Wright, U, S. Minister at Ber
lin, gave an entertainment on tho even
ing of tho 4thof July, to about fifty Amer
icans, including the Hon. Itobort C Wm
throp of Boston, James Knox of Illinois,
and representatives of almost every Slate
of tho Union. A number of speeches
woro delivered, amongst which those of
Mr. Winthrop and of Governor Wright
himself excilod tho most rapturous, ap
plause. young lady recently married to a
farmer, one day visited the cow houses,
when she thus interrogated the milk maid ;
"By the By, Mary, which of tlwso cows is
it that gives tho Buttermilk?" Mary
fainted. ' 1
Exprsssive. 1st Uulartd Prrson- -Abe is
ye gwino to give up the white washing
profession, eh t
ZJ Colored 7Vrw Yob, Meod I is
gwine to split rails now Bobbolittonist
make um President, p'raps. Yah ! Yah I
Poth Yah ! Yah '.