1 A i f 04 f U(i fill"" 3 '0 D. W. MOORE, 1 juu ' PRINCIPLES, not MEN. TERMS-ll 25 per Arnrm. if aid in t(tre VOL. XXXIII. WHOLE NO 1757 CLEARFIELD, ? WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, IBG3 N K W S KIM KIS VOI 1 1 1. NO W. cr ir a i-ar ' i OVIf; II K A HTM. 'Tli not slons on Iriih toll That loving hearts are found, You'll meal the.n II lb wide world o'er,' On every foreign ground i And though our thoughts Initioctive turn To tbote we've earliest known, It wers not godlike, Juit, or kind, To live for them alon e. By mt tb Saxon li abhorred, I hat his pirlured wajri, Inwotoo wilb blood and loan 01 tbeie and former dayi But jetwlthl. old Knglaod's ills. ftfcae boon Bino to mo And meet with lotno who would, I know, I)u all but dio fur mo. A ml pamng iwoat It ii to fool 1 bat wher loo'orwo roam Through foreign climes, by foroign less, far Irom our own lurod burnt Still now and praoioui flowonof love bhiill in our pathway bloom, To brighten o'er InVs desert waits, Aud cheer our ex ilod gloom. lruh Kaliam. From the Now York World, April 20. L W YORK METHODIST EPISCO PAL CONFERENCE. HfteliitviH in Favor of the War Brother 'hb rne llnpts Threshing Copperheads is a ritl.uan Virtue, that lie might "Jhg Into ,y, a m i f ir ... -riL- 11.. I ... 1 ; .1 ineniogtcai nrw ty me uaunt .urp " . Hiome Hectares lie nuuiu prnd i. 'xe Men an I Xt the Measures A The Conference held its fourth sebsion on Niiunluy before a large aud ence of n crlutot, w ho crowded the galleries.- ' I ne gi ut feature ol the day was the pres m'ii I a' i n ol a report ! the Committee on ti e Stale ol the Nation, by iU Chairman, 'lev. Alfred' Cook man. TL document, which naslengiby, recited, by preamble -. M1 ten tesoluiioiis, that the retellion was unarallelef in its wickedneis, and outinued to imperil tbe existence of the Republic; lliflt our nation is a chooeu in sirumeiii to extend the' kingdom il Christ; that it is the solemn duty of every citizen t ) rally to the sujiporl of the Union cause; that the Conference renew their vows of jr. r. I IT. M7..I3 CV. unconditional loyalty to the United Stales, scene followed. Ne irly all the members i njoined alike by the Bib.e and lh Hook called roe aud voted in their favor; some of licipline; that in le present criiical cried ''yea" in a tone which made it sound condition o public affairs there should oe ,ke "uay," and were requestionpd, when r.viifi-.ed great prudence and caution; that they cried, "yes, With All my heart-" liio.-e who oppose every warlike measure , Two clergymen who had supported the tui'lxr the pretext ot discriminating be 1 resolutions in favor of the Union said Ihey l .vcen the Administration and the Uov- did not approve of thosoj introducing .iiriient, are guilty of covert treason-that I th slavery queition. The "no," which eUvcry u Incompatible with C'Uristianity each of t!ni uttered, seemed to disoon snd Republican institutions; lh-it the Con- ' cett the (Jonfcrciu-o considerably, and a feienee concur in the righteousness of the toene of the greatest excitement followed. Pri'Munii'i Proclamation of freedom to The namesof the clergymen who thus the blacks; that there was reason for grat- !expreed themselves are Kev. Mr. Cnttell, iintie tor the maintenance of the public Presiding Klderoftho Khinebeck district, - n-dit, and that the member would an : aod ev. Mr. Satlcck, of Wesl Camp, Ub oropriatt ly observe the Ust day ordered ' 8Pr county, X. Y. by i lie President. Loud cries were raised for Mr. Cattell "The reading ofihe report was frequent- t0 explain himself and show his "loyalty." ly interrupted by loud Bpplause. 1 he resolutions which ier.ounced slavery and ' treason" at the North created a scene of aliuoxi wild enthusiasm. The clergy rose vmst and marked their approxal of them by cheers, clappingol hands, stamp ing their feet on ibe ground end other nodes of applause, to which a council of reverends ruiaht be supposed a stranger. The Hiihop seemed most d:?concerted ft the event, and at once declared that be disapproved of the maimer in w hich the members indicated the approval of their repoit. Kev. Mr Foster said he supposed the ttiahop oljcted lo their clapping of hands Kev. Mr. Wood thought they should . i- .i - . : I. nrwla not differ on the question. Clapprng hands might be ell enough, but they could give the expression ot the Conference by (he old fashioned word of Methodism "amen."' Kev. Mr. Fostor said that at the great event in his life, his conversron to Jesus, tbe raistd his hand and clapped them for very joy. Applause and cries of "Ulory to Hod." Kev. J. F. Newman informed the Con teronce that (Jeneral Wool would have been present, but that he had received a 'Ufge Irom Washington about a great , ip. e of relx'l rascality in New York, and bo wuted to put it down. He knew Ihey would be saUiSo ) nt that explanation, ess j'ectully if Gen. Wool should put down tbe n.uiuous Copperheads at the North. irreat applause. The Hon. Moses F. OJell, in response to repeated calls, avowed bisaifeelion lor the Methodist Episcopal Church, ana declared that it had rendered valuable assistance to nif JUvertlLueni, iu piwituimi . - , He held that the Admrnhartton had i made great progress in suppresaing the ct-eliion. and cited tbe presence pi own .r,..,.,.Wum ..... l,wu. lucky ang Tennessee and Western Vir j.inia in support of bis statement.. Ap- jrbiue.J Kev. Mr. 0-,1-orn. of W bite Plains, said the Conference was under great and last ing obligations to Mr. OJell tbe true friend of MelhodUoi, Tor his words of exploi t and hope respecting iberUleof thai tfi-uuiry. Applause. During the Ian yeo his R)iud bad been in a constant !re ofanxiety about bis beloved country ; and he had to contend against a ret djl where be lived the infamous Cops rerbeadi were a thick as blackberries.tnd . . . i i lev warn nt slinate. too. nnen no saw nen ne saw itbin bimfelf ll.aiii il.ilv he often booed w j . - - ,7,. .,::.;;;. man well aihUecome A ""r r"-?".T.irtu.. thlthemk-ht w... u, ,uo , --- c - b.. kble consULtW to dig into .ucb Wl.w. Lsugliter and applsuse-J- Let the Conncrliead be Ptlld' , . . ... 'iwn IIUIIIB- fpplause If be were President, i a- stead of suidendiiiE tb writ of habeas eor r, l, r,,iiiri an.,. ..nit th Cotux-rheadi. Applau-e Bi-U-1. hcott thea rose and .aid he ap. proved of the rewlution.. but he did not like tne mode cf approbation adopted by iU.i -omorjnce. Like mny, be was led Vj tbok Ood f.r eur defeat at Bull Run and other laoe. God understood them, and they would lead to the settlement of 'the great question which ouu-ed the war, forever. The Lord wan telling thern not to heal the wound of the daughter of his people (lightly. lie did rot consider, however, t but hi minister before h:tn j should forget tliir character or the pros priolies of the occasion, Let them cay ''Amen' tilt they raise the very root abovo; them, but they should ever remember they were clergymen. Applause, Kev. Mr. Fo.tersuid Dial although he had been a menu to the Mouth by eduoa- ..wl li.,.w..,it inr. 1... ....... t 1 .L- r :. - ---"" ru.o0 "V' V" and proclaimed that we should h re two gun- for each of the rebel' one. Ap. Dlause. lie was rendu to awe alnrv to Uwl lause. lie was readu to mve alorv to Clod or our defeats at the rst Hull linn and the teeund Hull Hun, for he believed they were , still able to carry on the war; but he knew I tluit f lliey succeeded slavery might be saved. 'The South hated the Yankees; they des pised, scorned, and held them in ridicule; and if a Southern man should say a Yans kee had no soul, the Yankee would be ifraid to say he had. Applause and laughter lie hoped the war would con- tiuue till thai hellish, devilish idea was uiinmtMi out of the neonle of the Southern stales ; and to aooomplish that object he ot wr6 jf ibe war lasted One, two or ' , vean Rev Mr. roster, recently Irom Jiew Or leans, stid that w hile there the "ladies" in suited every yank tiiey met in the streets sometimes cnissing on the other aide to show their contempt. Their common cry was : ,-Look out fur your . pockets, here's Yankees coming." He wanted that feels ing whipped out of the Southern people by shot and shell. ltev. J. B. Wakely desired to inform the Conference that the proper way to treat a Copperhead was lo (tamp their heels on bun. The speakar stamped his leal vio lently on the flour, wh cli "brought down" i the house, Kev. Mr. Fox remarking: "Blotter Wakely, didyou make a hole in the floor that lime "." Laughter. The yeas and nays were then taken on the resolutions siriatim, andan animated and several members pressed around hiin. nl length ue appeal eu neir me (iuiui niiu ..i . i ,. .i.. ...i. .i i declined to make a speech. Some minis ters declared be should be excused, while others exclaimed : "llring him up ;"'Tut the screws on him ;" "He's not loyal, "and other kindred expressions. Mr. Cattell said he h.id been dragged up to explain his views and it they would force him to speak, he would do so. He and all his family were from the Puritan stock, and were born in Massachusetts, and he loved the Uuion. But ho would tell them he would not swallow their resolu tionson slavery. Hisses. Ten years since he was a. loyal man, when those who now questioned his loyally were there 'verse, and when they did all to oppose and i . if ii.: embarrass the Government. Loud hisses. The Administration was supported by the w hole North ; they were not embarrassed, as was said in the report. Cries of "No, no," "False," and loud hisses. He had a right to his opinion, and he would soex rires himself. Cries of"No.'",Sit down." lie would support the government in ev ery just constitutional measure to carry on the war, but he would never give up his right to free speech. Loud hisses. When this stormy ecclesiastical scene subsided, it was arranged that the absen tees should be called lo vote or. the reso lutions this morning, when a similar scene may be expected GiMtAL IIocxir'sTestiiiont General Hooker's testimony on loo conduct of I ho wsr is a remarkable document. He has bad hii "campaign of a hundred days" in tho uud, yet when interrogated by the IVnf f imniillAA Iia I nnka ln. nlct.lpl- , mj ht afler , bat,ie of Williamsburg i,... m i.' nlinn.l in Ln ituvi 1 ..QueKljon by the Committee.-Is ityour judgment that you could have gone into - Ri t d ,hen . (Afler the battle of WilluMB.burg. A. I think e could have moved right on and cot into Richmond by the scconii day after tue battle wi'Mut another gun being red." It takes a bold and reckless man to make such an answer to such a Question, lie lie: miffbL inai as wnll have wiid. "I am a bet ter Ueneral than Mctlellan. aud I wou d, "STC UUOWJ IMCUIUOIIU III ' I Y We shall mark the time when h gt. out'tn . ... .umu. anu men vwiu lanes rum to lake bis breakfast at mS't i, , , i u u H hen Uannioa.1 wi. asked whom he ,i, .. .. . . i "jf,:" eneV' of ' 1 t,me8: r"T - ' - "n?Hr?,Ja"oea?n.!a"' " 1 ur on 'nou a Diva iiwn IMS ni Ml." lienoral llnnlr. i i. u r..n..-, . S.V.Y 7t 1 WilhlluL u':, 1,1 wolllli i,, i "i, .! cable. 'Philadelphia Age. ' J i , A j. -i a latf-Seeretar y Coase declines the bans n.i .hirii .irtvfivx Itlark Renubl-cana in New York tendered him. lie is too busy keeping gold down. t .Wby Is i ne vspaper like an apoth. evary' shop? Because il coutains tx tracU. . SPEECH o r HON. C R. EARLEY, of Elk County, IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES, April, 8, 1803, On the Resolution! on the State of the Country. Mr. SrfAiiR! Before casting my vote on the final passage ot these resolutions, in a few words touching tbe present state ol our country, and why I am found vot v u.j .uv , B.. . f the re80lutioni agthey , li is well known that the resolution, now bes f . d . eve particular Zl, " mim , h. lv r JL near rieht J ... ' ., as we can us a pain njrr"j uuuii omio time, and 1 shall thereiore vote tor mem. I shall not refer to the numerous speeches made on the other side of the House. I think thev , ... i t have given their views, and hall be content in uivine mine. Holy Writ says, "Kemove not the ancient land, marks thv fathers have set." It is not i T.-Li- l.... :. :.. f rr'"" r.:T:. , .1 j i t . we have kept our ancient landmark. Lel us or a snort t.rne reiresn our or w.th the landmark, of our na .onal h.sto. ry.andseerf we have 'V P ndin the faith of our fathers, or departed there- from ; and, it we haye departed, how we can return. Three vears ago we possessed a country -, r.i , the most prosper.jus and one of the ruost powerful upon the face of the earth race ot men bad attained in it almost un and politic liberty four millions of the African race had reached a civilization never attained by an equal number of them in any other coun UuiuOT u,u., , . in auy other age. ibe agricultural iry or produc ion. of the esl susia ned the tropical productions in the South and both aided the manufacturing industry of the St-lhe whole presenttng an aggre gate oi weaitn nownere e.se exceeaeu, equalled. Ihtrtyslour n e.gn S ales w..,u....fi - ' : II . themselveS absolutely uurestricled social d w pressed, and a fortrsss from which all bos. tile nations instinctively recoiled, and a shield under which all the nations of the Western Continent reposed in safety from the subjugating attacks of Europe. For all this happiness- -for all this prosperity for all till IreoUom lor all lliu vreojtli, power and renown for all our clorious l. r r. ...... ,i.r.i have we now f Abraham Lincoln and the negro ! .... . . . ... . . . WI ' ham Lincoln and his questionable policy! That is the sum of all that isnowollered to us in lieu of the result of two hundred and fifty years of incessant toil, sacrifices and war " Of two hurdred and fifty years of unparalleled .nl,iu.mMtin,l mimu. that is tbe sum ot all the wisdom anu pat riotism of our fathers a wisdom and pat liotism which, by the judgment ot tbe whole human race, has never been excell ed. This is the sum of all our life-long eflorts which, until now, equally challen ged the approval of all men. When we examine the Declaration of In- dependence it will be seeu by every man that the thirteen colonies were separate and distinct, and having separste and dU- tinct charters. each and alias entirely dis- tinctaedsepa-ate as to their governments, as toihe power of one over another, aa Eneland is to-day to control America.- The Governments of the Old World, from Ximro.l down, with few exceptions, de- pended upon the will of the governors ours upon tbe will of the governed. Theirs upon force ours upon voluntary choice. Tbe punishmenlor repression ofaotsenm inal in themselves, as murder, theft, riot and disorder, is common to all govern e"'"" menu, but with ua political questions among communities ot men were always only subject to voluntary arrangements. Hence mutuality of concession, hence as similaliou of interests, hence the absence of the waste and horrors of war and end less burdensome taxation, hence continue ual advancement in wealth and comfort of ihe working classes and national great nesa, hence, above all and chief of all, we have untrammelled freedom, for in the chub of arms not only are the laws silent, but liberty is dumb tin axiom ot all limes and of all nation. It is an axiom of which every man, woman and child in Pennsylvania uow knows and feels by ex perience lo be true in spirit and in letter of (act. This is the brsl great and funda mental principle of liberty the consent of tbe governed, the direct and only an tagonist of despotism. To this let us re vert. It was by such voluntary consent that in 1043 was formed by Plymouth, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Ha ven, Ihe United Colonies of New England. It was by such voluntary consent that Rhode Island, refusing the restriction re nu, red of her kept apart from the Union , 1 .. :. I ...,. . k n n inin will. fl.A Paolrifttlith .... ,. , ... . , ,,. i l0 COOTM on tneir part Rhode Island By the same voluntary content thethir ,n colonies met in Congress j (a word a mwledgeof the meaning of vhich-a kMowleJii of the meaning K'cn-.coming tgether-seems to be lost or for- gotten by many ;) two year, afterwards, P...'. .u: i-..;. in me year uiu, mnn mniwu tuiuin 'declared themselves .overeign and iades indent Sutes. basing noon thesame broad principle of volun- r . UrT consent. By mm voluntary consent they formed tbe confederation Known I T . . fcJ,,M n, A n..,nn ,n IhAIIII, the midst I of the war thon sustained by them against Mia Ultllil .-inirvui aiuc.ivu, , Great Britain, and for the establishment of this very principle. By the same vol- unlary consent Stale alter State withdrew from lh "perpetual Union" of 17i8. to enter that proposed by the confederation of 1787. The States, truo lo the principles on which tbe confederation wa. based, used no coercion to prevent sister Stales from withdrawing, but, to the contrary, by the same voluntary consent, a convention of the States assembled in May, 1787, and labored long and patiently to compromise 1 and adjust the dill'erent wrongs, or Ktippos sed wrongs, which were com (.lamed ot by the different States, growing out of I ho confederation. I Mr. Speaker, had we, had Abraham Tincoln and his party, tested upon this Rt ijnarij 0f our ftt(her8, we would not to-dav have been consKterinu these resolutions on the state of the country we would not now have men from everv household cold in death. By the same voluntary consent eleven of the Stales put tbe now government in to ellect in the year Hliooe Island, breaking the continuity of the territory of the new confederation in the east ; North Carolina and Virginia breaking in the . i. i , 1 1 i.., L i :.. i suuin ueiween me r-iiutis ui ieuri:ia lino . ... . . v-w Yorlt. tll Km,.i, State, breaking the Mine continuity and dividing the States of Connecticut. M tssa Kiiuouiia chusetls and New Hampshire Irom Perm !!.. During M yearsdid .h, confederation attempt coercion 7 Sir. . Jn (, conciUa(ion , , love, harniony Rml c,mri, Jinkg w,ich wljj n(, the landmark, which guided, and which , ovpr he f ooun.rv-. 'hl8torv fl fulure c e'. 'i;nn in mCu. n thoir nniu .imrt )w . . ;.. ..i.: 3 nuiuii iu nnvirmo uui iui:v.iuua nuii. WhQ doubtg b)ft lhat thig was ft wjw an(, ,..,:., uv conciliation a ereat na- , J A. . dooarted from the land- inai ks of our fathers ? Yes, sir ; we have departed Irom this all-wise and christian policy t-vo year, since. And what have ' a ' . , . Bt. nnr ... erg M havhad hnd b a(, d thp .. f u ,rnjpn we . , V 1 f fa d J he f ,d l fa andg of ho mourning .g -n rnrnisboU6e. and desolation stands ike giant despair, mi p n' ri m a nun nrru ia rZ and.sir.wlmay still send and reeking in 1 all over, 1 pile up the bones of our brave sons mountain high, and the result will only be more sure separation, the inevitable resup, unless we return to our old landmarks, and conciliate. The day is here when men must speak their solemn convictions when they must toll the "" " stana nere avor.ng rnese resoiuuons i u i '"ivve to oe my 11 lit V . li l I . i .1 . '7 "" 3 "f' '' 1U'n" By the same voluntary consent eleven in operation, and Rhode Island and North it I . l ; tf, it , .mm. e toreu in r,y m. same H'cy. . voluntary consent Mate alter "'""J"" l" U,J, 1 lIH"U. until the number of the States was nearlv doubled, and they were thus kept togeth er until there was elected to the executive oflice of the common government, by a minority of tho people, a President npon sectional principles, and the principles of oppression, force and coercion. i tie secono; great principle ot cur gov f"1 18 l,jf ngh of he sovere.gn.v of ,e II for1t,". principle that he Su es waged war during the revolu- '" It(was "P ftl'18 principle they r.raie;1 e old Confederacy and upon Jh is hey formed yecond and more per, fact Union. It delegated to the n aw gov - ernmentafew stnctly defined and closely f M I"w. lu.os which relate, l" "B'"e .i u, .oreigu ai.a.rs, anu to intercourse and commerce among the citizens of all the Slates. They (the States) reserves.! to themselves respective ly all the essential powers of government, viz: regulation of marrage, the tonure and descent of property, llie defiHition i , .- i : - ... . .: Punl"""""1 '711.1.11011 I'l I IID I lllt ui uiiior, null hi, vir.i II If v., expressly delegated and distinctly grant ed, these were held by their Stale Kxecus tive, Legislature and judicial nlficers, guarding so carefully these rights of emi nent domain and their sovereignty that the Confederate government, by the ex- press article iu t lie Const it ut ion, could not enter or send any troops up"n one inch of soil of any State not even 10 suppress in surrection, except by the invitation of the legally elected authority of tho Slate. But, Mr. Speuker, in litter disregard of all State laws and sovereignty, (and without sovereignty there i not and cannot beany State) we have in its place a person called Abraham Lincoln. S;r, the white man i has been pushed away; the poor mn I made to tight -the rich man to pay his I three hundred dollars and walk free ; the poor man ground down by luxation, day j by day growing poorer, day after day less able to rchool hi. children, who grow up in ignorance and are at last driven into I the army, with crackers and salt pork as ! their daily food. This is not ail. Ai "ajiy we nave growing ., m our midst and sustained bv the-hard labor arid hons est sweHt of our working men, a class or men (if I may be permitted to call such things men) a ho talk about a monarchy )& io i.:k about a monarchy I nd raor" elleK goynment Sir, my T? Vlh 9J,ck" 8t U 1 think of such doctrine. Had we, in those dreumy day. of peace, walked along and looked at our reckoning and asked for J c , - r the landmarks of our lathers, we would i have plundred up resisting inliabitant. and -the fool's fingers are tho .hive, in tin. not have been in this death grapple. burned their dwellings, and who have republic of rbo body. Their black leatli For the sake of the negro, and never 'committed that last alirocity which men ei n integument is only the mask ol their knowing or neglecting our fathers' wins CHn nevpr forgive the dishonoring or servile condition. I hey bear the burdens, dom, the President,with the aid ol a Con the:r women. while the hands, their while masters, gress like himself, has dismembered the' Mr Spesker, will the people suffer Mr. htridle the money and wear the rings. State of Virginia, and now at this mo-' Linci miicl, longer lo wield this tyrun- They are crowded promiscuous y in nar menl has his soldier, all over it lo mane nif.ai power, which he and his imps so row prisons, v lule each of the hand s bn the people vote a. he detires. Sir, let me ong used, and thus to thwart their views gcrs claims its separate apartment leading call to your attention that nearly a cen. to defeat 'their objects, to outrage their from the antechamber in ihedainty glove, turvaco the despotic allies in a similar feelings and to make them the unwilling As a natural consequence or all this then turyago me uespouo a mes in a similar e w , wllinb ,,eirowii faculties arc cramped ; Ihey grow into . manner dismembered Poland. 1 manhoc.d would resist to their desili if in- noble shapes, they become cull .us by ou;. To-day the ntimo of Poland sends a Pnipted on them by others? Abraham abuse.nnd all Iheir natural gift areeru-b thrill of joy lo evei j frrenian, and today Lincoln has defeated our armies by cor. edand trodden out of them." all over the .South Poland and the exum- pie of her brave sons excites liny r sooi n and indignation against our course, and incite ilium to greuterexertioiiMind bold. er deeds. By ouch means Mr. Lincoln li'ios to obtain two uiuro olt(ui,uis sen ators, and with their aid, ami ihui ol rep reHcntatives elected by his soldiera, ho may divide as many .States as he sees tit. lie is trying to ovenidd the honest old Ueiuootuy, uud his been, ind is now, by I every power of force, ol secret police, Ly a ' sytiiem ot Austrian sines ami uustnes, miu , wl.eie all ini will not do, by money : lor was not f lii.OUO.UOU ot money used for se cret service If Now, sir, this muy do for a time, xie bus thrown down llie glove ; I hope he I may replace it, ir it will only bo a jue j tion of time, uud u uori time ; it iiol.then It Hill bo U lie ii up. And, sir, tho issue will be liken uoidly, uud by brave and resoluto men, w ho may think u belter aud easier to die like brave men near their tiresidns than Iodic like dogs, fighting lor thenej'ro and toenslave themselves. But tiieio priiicipiea and these nistitu- tions were intended to guaad tue personal liberty and the rights of property of tue individual man. Tuesn lii'eiiies aud these rights are the ei.ilowmeut of llie Creator, and are inalienable, and govern meat is only rightful and useful us it pro tects them. In every one of the States I hoy are guarded by express restiiciious of the sovereign people lliceol'. Ol the powers of the Government and in the delegation of power to the common govern men l these rights are expressly guarded ngitinst uny, the slightest infringement in the tml and third of the seven original articles ot the Constitution, and no less than eight of the ten articles of amendment first are worded to the prelection of these rights. Of these ten articles g larding your per. sonal rights, eight have been openly viola ted by Abraham Lincoln. Ha has strick en down l ighls older than the Const'iu tior. o'dcr than Magna Charta older than the British Go eiument older than I he Roman Empire yea 1 as old as i (Mi lieu itself, for it pleased the Su picnic Jii, -ler. omniscient and omnipresent, t, nt a hearing to the hist iu. in. Ad.un, and l, the second man, Cain, before be condemn - ed. These swcied rights, coeval Willi ere - ntiou, and stumped with the solemn sane - lion of the .Supreme Ruler of the univer-e these, Aoninain hihcoh, u eun nil scorn and mukes the playthings of bis subalterns his spies und inlormors and the contemptible jailors of liis army, lie has d rugged tbs priest trim the ul'ar tin judge fro n Ihe bench tho legislator from ihe hull the eiii.eii from his mid night bed transporting thern lo distant places holding their destination from the anxious inquiries ol their wives and children put thetii into prison without a sii gle precess of law, until iiluimed by the first whisper of your rising wrath he was forced to let them go, while he was com pelled to testify to their innocence by dis missing them sithout even the preser.ta lion of a charge. He has seized in, and transput ted from, the Capitol of the country unprotected woman pushed her into prison in the very midst of the gieat population of our largest city, separating her entirely from those of her own sex. exposed to the ma. chinalions of his creatines, without the slightest defence except her own virtue and Ihe guardianship ot that Divine Being who ever keeps ihe virtuous Irom the power of the evil one, conducting bis movements under such darkness and se crecy lhat hpr late could only be discover, ed by accident. Mr. Speaker, how long will a onco freo people sillier that, tyrant, suppoitedby that mass ot cortuplioii, (the Republican parly,) to bold the power I hey so shames fully used for the overthrow of our hbeis lies! Being s insane us tyrannical, ho . hus so waged ll.e war commenced avow-I edly to eniorce the Constitution and res tore the Union as utterly 10 destroy the f:rnier and render absolutely impossible the latter. Throwing aside the eub,,s!i ed principles of universal civdualion lhat infractions of la v must be pinched by and according to lav he uas proclaim ed that the .South l.-not entitled to the benefits of tiie Constitution, but sim.ll be punished for its iiil'ruo ion, not by usown provisions, but by bis own arbitrary will, under the convenient plea of military ne cessity, thus actually liampling under tool the-t'onstitution, which he is able to do bv the permission of the people of llie North, in order to enforce it in the South, which he has shown himself utterly una ble to accomplish. He has so conducted the war as to shock Ihe moral tense of all mankind and to unite the people of Ihe South as one nun against us making llie war, on ineir pari, not, moreiy a contest, for independence of us, but one for the preservation or ail that Man noius ( ear, and thus, as far as in Ins power, mak nig the Union intolerable and impossible, lie has, as far as he was atle, broken up the iustitutions of the South, for the preser- vation of which it professed to withdraw from the Un.on. He has armed their slaves against thern and sent unscrupu lous fanatics among them to tire up their minds and induce them to wage a war of extermination, murdering their women r. .1 ftl.tlilcm 11. Lahl in lilt, s.., . i p,, ... ... i v uas - 1 ' ... maud officers of rhn armv who ironi.a rupnoii. Ti,e wimln .Sin.tu.ni cuuat iu Hliewn with the vwerk ut :r.itispoits, not lost by unusual strcM, i.f H ln r. but by the villainy of the im'ii win lor l lie sake of tuoney are pel miili-l t )t,d in lines to sea in ahips long In I re cuiidemiifU hi un ' seawoMliy, Coi ruiituni d i, rives our bi1 (licrs ol iu-edlul clotiiing, food and meuna ol iinn..i'tiiu.n. W'v aie publicly told by a Kint Kev. Hishop that the L'upitol stink ot it, and that its foul hand natoh n for pnltry gain the husieuance even Ironi our sick una wounded soldiers. Such hu ibis tyrant made our country at home- What bus be made it abroad T So exalted was our position that the eyes of all imn were lixed o;i us. Wo find in our career our enemies tveie confounded by it. Wo were held up as the exemplars of liberty as the models of virtue. The Republican party has made America at scoll'uiul liberty a derision. They have given lo the English language that pen-, Unit disgraceful, horrible word, the Am erican hast ilo; and, as if lo make it ims perishable, thev have associated it with ' in undying names of Columbus, Lafay- en- mid vvarren. Jieucelotth no man shall pass through the portals of the North without seeing il engraved upon tho walls ol the furiresees which gunrd them. The x resident bus tampered with great ques tions uf internr.tional law, violating them with the reckless sudncity of ignornnco, and Bhru.king from the consequences, with the ungraciousness of impotence, surrendering not voluntarily but upon de mand the passengers of tho British ship and llie money ot the Holland bankers, aud promising, when confronted' by Eu rope, to block up no more harbors with stone. Now, Mr. Speakrr, let us look our af I'.iirs square in the face. We are degraded and buttled at home ; we are degraded and despised abroad. Can the people, will they, endure this for two years longer? Never! The people, in thunder tones, have spoken to this corrupt and infamous administration, calling upon it to return to our old landmarks, and what has been the answer? Insult has been added 19 iiijuiv shall we not 'speak ngain and njiuin? Let us Legislators spenk with but i one voice und see it Mr. b'ncoln will not 1 bear. In four yeurs more we will be loads ' ed down with a debt greater than lhat of j Great Britain that burden which keeps ; ,er laboting population ever poor and , ,:J(lP,li,,.1i1.h will re.le i.s t,i the same condition. In two yerrs more, (unless we can pre vail on the present administration to -change its policy.) discussions alreudy ap pearing will widen between the east und the west and between tho Atlantic and Pacific States. In two years more the stalling laborer of our cilits will be arrays ed against the capital Accumulated from the distresses of the country. In two years more Europe, alieady covering Mexico with Hrmies and tho gjif with fleets, which two years ago wculd nevei have been attempted wit bout our consent, bJt the propriety of wLich Abraham Lin coln's Senate declines even '.o discuss ii two years more, in contempt of our weak ness, will dictate terms lo the Cabinet and will not hesitate to make war upon us. In two years more the rnyn of Abral am Lincoln, for coaled 'emancipation and sus tenance, will vi-it uf w-iili locust plagu of Egypt, eining up what the caterpillar has left , and the plague of bis lice will weep into all llie houses. In two years more this war jects, will 511 unless changed in its ob our rivers with blood, and ay mt the dead in every house. Mr. Speaker, let us then pass the?e res olutions unanimously, and coming as they do from the immediate representatives ol the people, backed by u large majority ot the popular tote, and cle.uly indicating the voice of Fennsylvanw, perhaps they will !e heeded by the lyr mis at Washing ton. At all events, we will have done our duly, and at the end of two years. more, when the present despotic and im becile a Iministralion shall have ended llieir infamous career, -ve will endoavorl-t save what may remain i f our once glori ous Union- unlock the fellers which tin base Abolition Congress lifts been so ac tively engaged in forging foi u restoi. our own liberties, and show lo l!io peoph of the South lint we huve no desere b destiov their. We will invile them, up 0n the American principle of mutual con- f cmmiw.ux ;,lteicourse -! ' , . . ,. uninterrupted postal communication - lo political re union, and to old joint i.uardiatishii) of llie American Continent. ami then mtd not till then, can we reas onubly hope to restore the Union as it was under the Constitution as it is. Hanoi and Fs.t.-A writer in the Ai lanhc MmM, speaking of the cruel li.j-is. tunnc JIi"Hll"t 1'-" " i.- t.. i.ii ii the feet are subjected, aay
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