gtirann titttiott.
gwunte Dinsociuma PRitiOirtsa Oulu TO MID, WI 01411
TO FOLLOW."
Wit it Pditor and Proprietor.
LEBANON, PA.
WEIDIMDLY, DECIIMMIR
TUE inEriredous PRESS ON
TREASON.
The
_kr mpathy manifested by the
Republicans and their party presses,
and also by the religious politicalfan
sties of the New England States, for
the traitors, conspirators and mur
derers of Harper's Ferry, impels the
religious press of the north to an ex
pression of sentiment. Below we
give two extracts from well-known
and influential sources. If there are
any Christian sympathisers with
John Drown and his gang in this
section of: country, they are respect
fully requested to read and ponder
the . following :
From the Philadelphia OhrietiarlObeer ver
John Bro.w.n , enters upon his work
delibernlejy. 'He is not acting under
the sudden impulse of revenge to retal
iate the wrongs which he or his family
have suffered. He has been meditating
this .mighty scheme of .revolution •eied
robbery for many years. Such is his
own confession, and the testimony of
his wife confirms it. She says that for
twenty years he had been thinking of
this bloody purpose, or devising means
to effect it. To discipline himself and
his sons for the work ()Need], he rushed
into the ' roils .ef -his party in Kansas,
and th-re, as reported by his friends,
acted the part of a midnight assassin.
One morning there were five men found
dead in their several cabins, in one
neighborhood, which he, with a band
of a half dozen outlaws, had just scour
ed at the hour of midnight. This is re
ported in a paper conducted by men of
his own party. This is but one of his
many feats of the kind. It is midnight
exploits of this .horrid character, that
John Brown schooled himself for the
work of an incendiary and a leader in
the late conspiracy. Re was et 'home
amid seenes-cifllikKod -and murder. 'lt
was in such act nee he was so disciplined,
as to exhibit the brutalstoicism display
ed in the Arrnony, when he felt the
pulse of hie dying eon with one hand!
while holding his rifle with the other,
giiirg orders with great coolness, to
the bandits under his command.
Such is the convict whom the Inde
pendent lauds as a man or "conscientious
tategrity!" "He &toads forth," (we
quote the words from the /Independent,)
"he stands forthi . in'hismotives,.spirits,
and his intention,rthe'bravest, truest, no
blest man • Firgiotic (has : t eem . since the
race of Revolutionary heroes passed
away!"
+ Such is the murderous sympathy
which the editors of the Independent
cherish for the most reckless -midnight
assassin known in this country—a con
vict who, unprovoked, had both taken
the livesof hid nelethora, and prepared
Weapons to put into the hands of thou
sands, to spread carnage, and anarchy,
and crime, through the land. No words
in our language, are strong enough to
express the utter detestation with which
every Christian s and every gitizen
should condemn the" corrupt 'and cor.
?typing sympathy with the most atrocious
crimes, betrayed in the words iust quo
led. .
From the Presbyterian.
Is MU USER A Czpset--In one of
the foreign items in our present issue
there is an eztraci • from 'the correspon,
dance .of the London Daily News, in
which the writer speaks of moral degra
dation, and mentions in illustration the
case' of an individual whom the 'Writer
had seen most devoutly saying his pray
ers before the alter, who turned out to
be a notorious highway robber.' The
valet and MI
,brigand were combined.
We need not go ifar however, to And
thin species of 'moral , degradation.
Professions of piety, 'united 'with the
most flagrant crime, or theAsanction of
it, may now be found nearer home.
The New York independent, and ijour-
We of that kith, bare been week after
week eulogizing the chief actor •in the
late terrible Harper's Ferry tragedy, and
speaking of him in terms which, would
imply that he was a saint, as_ hero and a
martyr. Surely k is time that these
gentlemen should look into their code
of motels. It has heretofore been the
general sentiment-afTivilized•count ries
that murder is a crime; is that idea Ire.
coming Obsolete? Have we fallen to
the depth of degradatmo in this Chris.
lien land, that an outlaw may invade the
homes of the unoffending ,hurry their
souls inko eternity, and by deliberate,
long premeditated design attempt what,
if eucceseful, must have resulted in the
indeacfibable horrors of wholesale re•
pine and murder, and yet he heralded to
the wegld as a devout Christian, and
hie wordsikteaaured up as those Oa dy
lug tritirtyt. 114 aturder no crime? Are
professed ministers of the gospel so
fallen from their highs office that they
can sing pmane in hooey of a man whose
hands' were reeking with human blood?
Beautiful teachers of morals are they!
Let us not travel for samples of moral
degradition—we have them at baud.
What are we coming to?
vs. "Give us die Speaker and we
will give you the Clerk" say the Re
publicans to the Americans in con
grbss. They say-the same' thing to the
Anti-Lseomptonites. Of course a
party abut thus barters. for office and
spoils,thns aright to charge it oppo
nents...ndtbl.bding a "plunder party,"
a oband of.,robbers," &c. They are
opstriota'.!Tatildkidnuit keep Congress
from orguni*ing ter 'weeks because
theroamiot *effect a saiiifsetory di
vision of the . "ospoalf?4llWe'readm
mend to our opposition friends to
wash in Ow Jordan,
SEir The friends of the Constitution
and the Union held a meeting, at
" Jayne's Hall, Philadelphia ; on Thurs
! day evening last, at which
,sorne
000 people attended. Hon. josVph
R Ingersoll presided, assisted 'by a
I large number of Vico Presidents and
ISecretaries. Union and Constitution
resolutionfr , wore presented by Hon.
B.c.geed, and unanimously adopt
eid. 'Joseph R. Ingersoll, William B.
Reed, Yildge King, Hon. Henry M.
Fuller, Josiah Randall,, Isaac Hazel
hurst, Robert Tyler, Benjamin H.
Brewster, - Jared Ingersoll; COlonel
James .Page and Richard Vaux were
the speakers. • The sentiments utter
ed by each were cool, patriotic, and
truthful, were well received. The
scene was deeply impressive. Our
national banners waved upbn every
side, whilst our State ensigns and
coat of arms were proudly exhibited:
Young men conducted their aged
fathers to the latform ; men of all
parties met in kindness. Our South
ern ffriendssee , *ihgled with our eiti
..,
z om
ens'd.but one . feeling seemed to
actuate .the. throngs, and that was
:'Union and. the Constitution."
A similar meeting was held last
week in Eoston, at which an immense
number of people attended. Eloquent
speakers. addressed the assemblage,
and letters were read from Ex-Presi
dent Pierce, and other national and
patriotic men.
Itel. The "locofocos want to extend
slavery," is the constant ding-dong
cry of the Republicans. They know
that they are telling falsehoods when
they say so, because they cannot name
a Democrat north of Mason & Dix
orite,line who entertains such a view.
And in the Smith . - there are just as
many of the opposition who contend
for the principle as there are Demo
crats. Why net then meet the ques
tion fairly, or what would be still bet
ter, drop it, and put an end to the
dangerous agitation. But no, neith
er would snit them.'Without ;Mis
representing the- position of the Dem
ocrats their capital: in' the nigger in
vestment•woula be lost, and without
the agitation the Republican party
would not be in 'existence. - The . be
ginning, life, and end of the Republi
can party are all hnigger," as was tru
ly said by Mr. Lincoln,. the Republi
can leader in the U. S. Senate, last
week. His exact words were—" The
Republican party has its origin in the
question of slavery, and we perpetu
ate government by maintaining the
question."
LPOLLING IT AT TILED/1.-Our neighbor
of the PLibanon Denzokrat, ie. eentainly
tresspassing upon the intelligence and
good sense
. of his readers when he
hopes to make them believe some of
the
,misrepresent Lions he perpit
trates. For instaneelast week, we are
told that the ground work of the Dem
()cretin party is "Nigger trade, Nig
ger increase, and slavery withont end,
and being such every good , Christian
should join - the Republican paints 7,
which occupies a middle stand between
the Dernearatiic.and Abolition parties
—the Utter Airing O'er Nigger free
dom." Although:the misrepresenta
tion is so glaring and unfair, yet-the
acknowlgdginent, that the Republican
party is half nigger-trade, and half
nigger-increase, half slavery without
end, and half nigger freedoin,is amus
ing, and perhaps about fair.
How IT. Woux.s. 4 ---The excitement
which prevails in the.publis mind; in
reference 'to our sectional disputes, is
very seriously disturbing the relations
of business, sad ificonti n ned will cause
.z great deal .ref suffering among •iowr
.merchants and 'laboring population.'
A. great many of our trades depend
upon the Southern . . - market, some
have suddenly ceased operations for
want of orders . from the Sou thi' and
consequently employers haVe had In
discharge "their workmen. This'is
partictilaily trying in this' period ,
dof
the year, and will be still more dis
tressing unless such oenfideoce is re
stored as will enable business to flow
naturally and properly in arts legiti
mate channels. If Congress has any
respect for the sufferings of free white
men, they will cease talking of the
imaginary wrongs of the negro, or
ganize the House, and let the govern
ment proceed in its harmonious and
usual course. The sooner they do
this, the sooner will confidence be re
stored.‘and the sooner some of their
constituents will find a• demand for
their labor.—Phaadelphia Ledger.
Jam' Congress did not organizelast
week, and consequently the Presi
dent's Message was not delivered.—
If an organization is effected this
week we shall lay it before our read
ers in the next issue of the Advertiser.
The opposition are in the majority,
hut being unable to divide the "spoils"
satisfactorily, the country must await
their pleasure and convenience. The
members receive $B,OOO a year. The
people, who pay tbem,will remember
that the Rouse of Representatives in
1855 was also in the hunts of the op
position; that similar scenes trans
pired before the organization was ef
fected. In • that
.session, Speaker
Bankasvas elected.An the - 24 , .0f -
eb
•rnary, 1856, ovitile President Pier ce's
Message was sent in en the - 31st of
THE LEE'ANOIST ADITERTISER.---A FAMILY NEWSPAPER.
Decetithtr,l.Bss. The best curative)
for imielcseenes and- neglect of duty,
weAttiow of, is for the people to take
Care that a majority of Democrats
are hereafter returned to Congress,—
If they are a little bad sometimes—
they are not near so had as their op
ponents.
Our neighbOr of the Courier,
is amused, tickled, and
. enjoyed
"hearty laugh," because we confessed
to a fear that the Constitution and
Union are in danger. Nero fiddled
while Rome wits fhimes j Belshazzar
feasted when the ,hand-writing ,ap
peared upon the walliand - our- neigh
bor _enjoys a "hearty latigh'!-*Tien the
most glorimis fabric of government
the world ever contained is on the
brink of - itestruction.
It there no danger! Why Were
men - assembled by : tens of thousandi
in Sayne's Hall laSt Week, perhaps at
the same moment our neighbor was
.
enjoying his "hearty laugh," if
there was no danger ? Why are-Simi
lar meetings held : all over - the
try, if there is no danger? Why , do
the,great and the geed, the aged and
the young, the rich And the, poor,- all
join in addresses, resolutions, and
prayers for the Constitution and:the
Union, if there is no darqer. Those
people—those acts—these prayers—
all, all, must be "humbug" if there is
no danger.
ST4AINING A 'POINT---The .Courier
says, "the census of 1850 showed the
White population (of South Carolinal)
to he only 174,563, while the ive - gro
population was 303,944. This , Shows
South Carolina to be emphttically
negro' State." On this Ickt some, de
rogatory remarkS rehifive to that
state are - rnade,:and which we have
already seerveoPicd iii Some of the
opposition ,ijournals word for word
d frgirre'for figure. The point s made
by -Um 'Courier Will, however, lose
.conlitterable of their force when we
tate that the white .population of
South Carolina, instead of being 174,-
563, a. stated, is 274, 563. and that the
Census of 1850 says the latter and
not the fOrmer. The difference is ma
terial, and "nay have been a typo-
Eraph i cal .e rror, but. a verycon ven ien t
one for the purpose. In some respectS
the error would have been a .trifling
one, but in the present ease is of great
importance. Again, should not the
very fact of the preponderance of the
negroes over the whites in Stateslike
South . Carolina be reason - for dis
couraging assaultS like those of Har
per's Ferry, and which :now fill al
most every northern opposition paper.
Their very weakness and danger
should 'COM niandgfor them the sympa
thy-and protectioydf tha.north.
Ara — Those disposed-to enjoy "hear
.
t3.'r:laughs" over the-fears of those that
see i 7 the present crisis an impending
dissolution of the Union, are earnest
ly requested to read the Speei.lvtif
that great patriot band Statesman,
kverett,lnto.day's
paper. e trust-it may emlii
levity, and wake them up to an .ap-,
predation of the danger now en
shrouding our glorious - eonfederaey.
When Merl verettfind it ineuni
bent tberostruni,and Pray fel
,. to mo
the Constitution and, the Union, there
iS danger.: . . .
.AV.! The Peono/uaniait :says; in
speaking of the late tremendous Un6
on meeting - Phikidelphia; "that
withou l t the aid and assistanee of.the
Democratic party there- would , not
have been an Union Muss Meeting at
Jaynes'' Hal on :Wednesday night
laiir A aarge Union meeting was
held in rfarrisburg, Satuiday eve
ning. Geni*ainfc!rt presilled,
t .ana
3 to
Messrs: Briggs, Aldrielts, Amber on,
ifaldeman,, and,others made speeehqs.
Gen. Wm. H. killer offered, a .series
of - Union Wern
adopted with ...peat enthasiaSii
Nearly all the oppssition
per's aelf6avieb and sneer at 1,110 trillOn
,Meetings 'held in Philadelphia :and
other places, calling them unnti-John
Brown meetings;" thus - showing their
disunion aims.
JOY vs. SORROW.—OryTu!aday,Ter
nando Wood was -eleeted May
or of New York', triarriphingover the
greatest obstacles inthapS eVer'plae
ed..in the way of a ea,n4:lidate.,
-Saturday his. Wife:died, having. given
birth to a datigh'terthe day previous.
Her interest in her husband's success
in the election was unfavorable to her
recovery.
THE CHARLESTON CONVENTION.—
.
The Natiqnal Democratic Exeeutive
Committee met at Washington on the
7th inst., and fixed Monday, the 23d
of April, as the time for the meeting
o the Charleston Convention.
THE StFALZEMACY or THE LAWS.—
The Rev. Jr. Bacon, in his discourse
to his people OR - Thanksgiving day,
took the opportunity sharply to re
buke what he denominated an unman
ly, unpatriotic ' eunclatittian spirit, man
ifested at the North in regard to the
tragical affair at HaTer's Ferry.'
speeifie'd three- portionlars =in
in which
we were in the wrong :--Ist. In de
riding the fear occasioned lay the in-
vasion ; 2d. In blaming Virginia for
maintaining her laws; 3d. In sym
pathizing with the insurgents in their
unlawful net. On each of these
points the doctor spoke with great
plainness and solemnity; and many,
if
S not most of the large congregation
present, felt that the reproof was just,
timely and important.—Hurtford CCU.
rant.
oar The Election in New York 011
Tuesday of last week, for Mayor, &C.,
resulted in the success of Fernando
Wood, the Mozart Hall, (Democratic)
candidate: His majority is 'upwards
of 3,000. The opposition candidatm
were Haverneyer.(Tamman3r Hall,
Democratic,) and Opdyke, (Republi
can.) The other candidates• on the
Wood ticket were also elected. The
vote for Mayor was as follows:
Wood, 30,05=1„
Haventeyer,- 26,781.
Opdyke, 24706.
Majority of both Democratic candi
dates united over the Republicans,
35,129. New York city is good for
this majority for 'the Democratic can
didate for President, nest . .-ear. .•
Loss ..or ' 0 - ANAL Boars.--On the
.evening of Friday 25th ult., says the
Columbia Spy A 'tow of seventeen
Canal boats from Baltimore to jfavre
do Grace, encountered a severe gale,
and nine 'of 'thenumber broke loose
from the tug, eight of which were
sunk. Of the latter four ,were total
ly lost, the remainder being .raised
and repaired. One of the._ sunken
boats had iromore, 'the balance .were
empty. 'Of ' the number, only one'be
i longed to Columbia—the boat Equa
lor, McGinniss, Captain,' owned by
Captain Crowninshield. ' She was
sunk, but taken.to Baltimore for re
-1 pairs. One life was lost by the acci
dent. Jonathan Rowell of Northum
berland, Captain of the boat ,Napole
on, was drowned. lie had been ae
tively jnorumental . inroscuing a num,
ber,olhands from the sinking-boats,
and remaining to the last on one of the
vessels had to jump to save himself
from going down 'with her. He fell
short of the boat he attempted to
gain, arra cried to the men to throw
him something on which Ito .save
himself; but they were in such alarm
that they could extend him noagsist
tance'
andle went down. He 'lliad
in- hie pocket at th Oil me of his drown
ing some five Or,:aix hundred dollars:
One of the, boats lost belonged to
William McConkey, Dig of WV rights-
ville. .
-RELEASED oN BAIL.--On Friday
I last, application was made for the re-
I lease &Jelin P. Famous, who is charg
ed with the shooting of Mary Eliza
beth Eagens, in :Montgomery county,
in October last,. full particulars of
I which we published at the time. The
defendant' will'be eight yeara 01d.%
I December, and the' deceased was be , .
twoen eleven and twelve at the time
lof her death. ilnititti, the prestunp •
tion is that pirsonS are not individu
ally responsible under seven:------between
I seven•itati fourteen, it is subject of
proof; and • titer fourteen, incapacity
filkigaelearly pitmen. After
Aetir 7
ingi 6 l3ettNstinign.r whi64144 itk eetutd
duecti !before the magistrtte who Com
! niffte'd him, ;*.kkal arguments of
, counsel, the coni!t':admitted,the de-
!ifendant to bail in .the sum:of $2,570,
4nd he Was taken borne by hislitther.
A
.1. 0 R MIME xx.CCIDENT.,,it Man Liter
' (174 Impaled.--. 7 •A.,,passenger ; on the
steamer Red j'tilius :Meyers ;
met with a most 'horrible accident
ring the last trip .of that: , boat.
was sitting on..a'bnle of eaten,
on the larbored > rle , of- the boat;
near the engiiieS:' "The it is bell
was rung to, Stop ',thn engines, when
the;engineer' on 'dirty , saw a` snag
above. water t andeilled to Meyers aitd
affother sitting by him to. get out of
t . ye-Way.*=,Meyers did not heed the
Warnlng, 'and the snag struck , . a :bide
of Cotton continguous to that upon
' which-he was; iiiqing it over on him.
.A_TpricNrik
, 401"; Ali 3; erigir)Or
aawo pi 41 !ohs srrsrg st4o Mey
ers about midway of ; the body, Nithicill
fOrePtililln :againstl';und: thretifgh t • the
partititinni
, and one7teg wasjanlette
tween the exhaust-pipe and oylindeit,
a space of only four. inches in
! I 'o Tiolenf ifitS the VOW that the snag
literally impaled , 'him, entered his
body'between the legs . and coming
ont;at the side; and his Tones.coining
in contact , with * Wks of iron three
quarars • of: an An, thickness,
broke themin two. • A deck passen
ger wiiS•the first to reach' him tint
had to ; eut .and- horribly mangle his
leg with a, Bowie-knife, in order to
release it from between the . cylinder
and escape- -side-pipe. - Meyers lived
only about three-quarters of 'ail hour
after tie accident, and was buried on
thc• r shc!m near the seetrie of the oc
cuirrence. He was only about twen
ty yearsef age, and ran away from
home seven or eight years since, en
'listed-in the" - army, and had not bOen
heard from until a short Unto since.
His parents, who are supposed to re
side in this Statec. had procured his
release, and he was on . his way from
I Fort Smith to. join them; When the
terrible accident happened.— geirtiii4
Avalanche, 30th ult. . •
,
0:7 - PittoroszTrows are now pending he.
tore the legislatures of Mississippi, Ten.
nessee, Alabama, Genigia and South
Carolina, for the speedy removal of the
free negroes from those States. In
consequence of this action, numerous
petitions have been already received
from the
,free negroetrby these several
Legislatures, asking permission to enter
the condition of slavery.
CONVICT EenarEn.—John C.Cleaver,
a notorious burglar, who wee - convibted
last February, at Norristown, and sert.
tensed to fifteen years' imprisonment,
escaped from _the Montgomery„. County
Prison on Saturday last. He was.con
fluid in-the upper tier of the
East side of the corridor, and was em.
ployed in winding spools for the wear
ens. He made his escape by breaking
through the arc% which forms the ceil•
ing of his cell, and then cutting through
MI inch board and a tin covering which
constituted the roof. From-the roof he
descended to the _ground hv a rope :
made othanki of yarn looped together, ,
which he fastened to one of the battle- ,
riireata on the front if
rewrdol46loo, is arerctl for,his appre
hension.
PHOSPUORUS
,AND 'PHY9.143.---Ak Ger
man doctor, supposed to be a descend
ant of Dr. Faustus, in Hanover, York
county, Pa,-was called upon by Mr. Pe.
ter .R.eed to attend his daughter for sore
'tkroat. The doctor attempted to apply
phosphdrus;Aithich ignited,set the girl's
clothing on Gre, burnt her person-severe
ly; arid also set the house in flames. So
disgusted was he with his ill success
with the phosphorus and his great suc
cess witlfthe fire, that he -attempted to
blow out his brains the next day, and
was only prevented, it is supposed, by
a lack of something to blow.
SAD" DEATH A Bzink.--The New
York Courier records the death, from
burns, of the wife of Lieut. Godfrey
Weitzel, of West Point. She was mar
ried on the 3d of Novembei. On the
morning of the 22d, being alone at the
time, and feeling faint and dizzy, she
resell) go to her bed-room. Leaning
a moment against the mantel, her skirts
caught fire, and bekre her shrieks were
heard and assistance rendered, the
flames had reduced herclothes to cinders
and so terribly burned her person that
she died on the 24th. The appalling
event has milled forth artonusual ex
prisSion of sorrow at West Point.
Speech of Edward Algt erett.
At the 'Union Meeting in Boston, on Thins
- day 'evenifig of last week.
Sir, the North and the South, including the
Northwest and Southwest. have beceine fiercely,
bitterly arrayed against each other. There is no
place left in public life for those...Wlin love them
both: The *or of words—of the Ptese, of the
platform, of the State Legislatures, and, must I
add, the pulpit?-..has been pushed to. a point' 'of
exasperation, Which, on the slightest untoward
ae * eident, wine rush lo the ?needy arbitrament of
the S'whici. the peat ancient master of political
science (Aristotle). tells us, that .though revcdur
tiOnS;de .n 4 take plaee,Yhr small‘miuses;Abay:de
front small causes. He means, sir, that, when the
minds of the community have become hopelessly
embittered and exasperated by long . co conned ir
ritation, the sligh!.est occurrence will bring ,
on
the catastrophe.. , . •
In fact, it seems to ma that'svablfare.reached
state of things which requires all geed men aid
good patriota s toferego for a time all, mere party
projeets;and cialeutiitiefze, and to abiutlileMl or
dinafy PoliticOl issues ; which calls, in a word,
upon all who love the country, and • cherish the
I Union, and desire the Continuanze of their) bless.
ings which we have till lately enjoyed wider, the
Constitution transmitted to us by our Fathers,
and which I regard as the noblest work of polit
ical wisdom ever achieved,—to meet as one man
and take counsel: for, its preservation. It is this
feeling-that has
.brought me here - to •day.
It will probably be said, Sir, that Stolle who
entertain views like these, exaggerate the gravity
of the crisis. I wish I could think so. But
fear it is not we that exaggerate, but those wro
differ from us, that, greatly—and soon, I fear , it
will be. fatally—anderrate the ominous signs of
the times. I fear, Sir, that they are greatly mis
led by the one-sided views exclusively presented
by the perty , Pfess,!and that" evirenly Upoti f tlie r
partY , PzestreXilasivin for thefrtimprestion's, - arld
that An y -are lianteraiisly ignorant of the state
of 'opinion and feeling in the titter
,great -section
of teertntintry. iI greatlyqear that the mass. of'
the community, tlong accustomed to treat all
'alarm-for the stability of the' 'Union its groUnd
ail prcifessed anxiety far its preservatioe es
insincere, or, if sincere, the result of nervous
timidity, have nufittedlhemselves, to measure the
extent and the urgency of the existing danger.—
It is my own deliberate conviction, formed from
some opportunities ef.personal. observation, and
from friendly correspondence with other parts of
the country (though I-carry on none of a ptifrit
, ieal nature), that we are on -tlitt'very verge of a
eenvulnion, which will shako the 'Union to .Sts
foundations and that a few mete "steps forward,
in the direction ‘le 'Which affairs have moved for
a few years-pait,‘Will.bring us-to thaeatastrophe..
But I sbnllttlqct o 4 4 k Pernliftlf Wet alLth is is im
rtginary thatthe alarm ot the South is JiCtitiouF,
or, rather', groundless panic. fur which there is
no sub Stan Ohl cense—fit sithject-fer
er thari'serious anxiety, But 'see; nti ;s i igne-;OT
panic in except for a Fuckliburs Her!
per's Ferry,-when, in the .•bitufusinit , "Of theirst
surprise, anti in.profound ignorance of the extent
'thiTdatiger, the etipldiu n ity, • wits-for a short
time paralysed';' t ate- niit"Sure that, a town of
four'nt Tee hundred , fainilies in thieregine, lova
' dad ittotnideighe by a "reselute lianr,of twenty
men, entering the . ,houseS of infitietrtial citizens,
and hurryinctifem from; their beds to a strong ;
hold previously occupied, and there holding them
as hostages—l am not sure, Sir, that an equal
panic would not be created till the extent of the
danger was measured. "Baides, Sir, it the - panic
had been muchatiore extensive, than it was, the
anies of, great and brave, communities are no tri‘
der. Bons said he could not frame an indict
ment against. a whole' people; it seems to me
equally in bad taste' at least to try to point isticor
at:a Stath,like Virginia. Tho French are,reput,
ed it gallapt i pu4levertike *Wilk : but, .the letters
say that even offer tlie:great victory': of,Solfe,
rine, a handful . of 'Austrians,' straggling into is
village, pet. aeorps of -the French army—Ahou:s.
ands strong—to flight. A hundred and fifty melt
'overturned the Preiseh monarchy, on 'the' coca.
aiOn to which I have already elluded, in 184—
When circumstances of the .case are taken, into
consideration, I suspect it will he agreed that any
other community in the country, similarly situa
ted, would have been affected in the same -way.—
A conflict of such an unprecedented' character,
in 'which twelve or fourteen persons on the two
sides are shot down, in the course of a few hours,
appears -to me an event at which levity ought to
stead rebuked, and a solemn chill to fail upon
ev
"ery mg " • ht thinking man.
I fear, sir, from the. tone of some of the public
journals that we have not made:this case our own.
'Suppose a party of desperate, misguided men, lin
ter-a veselved and fearless' leader,- lad been or.
ganized in Virginian to cont - sand establishthern`.
selves br stealth in Springilield; in this State, in.
tending there, after posSeieUfg, themselves 'at the
unguarded hqtmef inideightef the Naticitutl;Ar
reory;to take advantage of etuna, local cause, of
disaffection—say, the feud. between . Protestants
and Catholics. (which led to a s- Vetydepterable oc
currence in this .vicinity a few years ago), to-stir
up a social revelation"; that pikes and rifles 'to
arm twee ty-futB'litind k ed men, had been procured
by funds, raised -*,by„ extensive supseription's
throughout the; SotAth- 7 ..thet attire dead of a Sun
day night the work of destruction. had begun by
shooting dime an unarmed Mail, who had' refus
ed to join 'the invading force; that citizens of the
first standing were seized and' imprisoned, three
or fear others killed, "and when, an theentire fail
ure.eT the conspiracy, its leader had been 'tried,
t hly defendedtbrebuird (reef, his -own part of
the country, convicted and executed, that through
out Virginia, which sent him forth on his fatal
errand, and the South generally,' funeral bells
should be tolled, meetings of sympathy held, as
litlhe de: th of some' great benefactor, and the
.persort•whoshad plotted to put .a pike or a rifle in
the hands of twenty-fire hundred men, to be used
against their fellows, inhabitants of the same
'town; inmates in the same !senses ; with' an'ulte
'tier intention and purpose of wrapping the whole
community, in a civil war of the deadliest and
bloodiest type. What,- air, should we' feel, think,
say, under such a state of things?
Mr: Chairman them who look upon the exist
ing excitement at the South as famitioni 'ex
travagant, have, I fear, formed a' very - inadequate
idea of the nature of such an attempt.as that
which was made at Harper's Ferry was intended
to be, and would have been, had it proved sue.
cessful. It is to want of reflection on this point
that .we must ascribe the fact, that any ciillized
man, in his right mind, and still more any man
of intelligence and moral discernment, in ether
respects, can be found to approve' and sympa
thize with it. [Applause.] It appeari fi•om his
own ,statements and those of his deluded asset'-
, stee, of his.blographer, of his wretched wife, that
the unhappy man wholasjustpaid the forfeit-of
his - life, haditit'yeitre meditated ti geeerakinsur
reetion in the Southern States; that he thought
the time had now comet° effect it; that the slaves
were ready to rise and the non-slavehohling
whites to join them; and both 'united were ready
to form a new commonwealth, of which the con
stitution was organized and Civello:ere chosen.—
Wit b this wild, but thoroughly matured plan, fie
provides-weapons fur these on whose rising he
calculated at Harper's Ferry; be seizes the Na
tional Arsenal, where, there was a supply or arms
for a hundred:thousuod Men, and he intsinledik
unable to maintain himself at once in th e u p o n
etreatto.t. the mountains, „and..front
their fignesses harass, pare lyze, and at leng
revolutionize the. South. To, talk of the pikes
and rifles nothilig iilleaded for 'offensive par
poses; 'is-simply absurd. [Applause.] The first
"t almost fltilbaoPartY , Al'ite; to shoot down a
free cetera& man,..wbont they. were attempting
to - impress= itud who fled from them. One !eilltt
as wellsay thallbe rifled ortlinurnm of Louis ,ein
poleon was intended only for self defence, to be
used only in wise the Austrians should under
take to arrest his march. [Loud applause.] No,
, air, it was an attempt to do on a vast scale what
I was done in St. Domingo in 1791, where the tot
' ored population-was about equal to that of Vir
ginia;
end if any one would form a distinct idea
wh a t such an operation is, let him see it—lot as
' a matter of vague conception—a crude project—
'in the mind of a heated fanatic, but as it should
in the sober pages of history, that record the re
volt, in that island; the midnight burnings, the
Wholesale massacres, the merciless tortures, the
abominations not to be named by Christian lips
. ,
to the hearing of 'Christian ears—some of wbieh,
ion the English lan
too unutterahly atree' for:
guage, are of necessity in the obscurity .of
1 the Latin tongue. ,
Now let us take a glance at the state of things
I in the SoUthein States ; co members as they. are
with us in the great republican confederacy. Lot
us confider over what sort of a population it is
I that seine pontos among us think it not only
right and commendable, but in the highest de
gree heroic, saint-like, God-like, to extend the
awful calamity which turned St. Domingo into
a heap of bloody ashes in 1791- There are be
tween three and four millions of the colored race
scattered through the Southern and Southwestern
States, in small groups in cities, towns, villages,
and in larger bodies on isolated plantations; in
the house, the factory and the field; mingled to
gether with the dominant race in the various pur
suits of life; the latter amounting in the-aggre
gate to eight or nine millions, if :I rightly recol
lect the numbers. Upon this 'comitinity; thus
composed, it Was the design of Brown,te letloese
the bell hounds of a servile insurrection, and to
bring on a struggle which :for magnitude, atroci
ty and horror, would have stood alone in the his
tory of the world. [Applause] And these eight
or nine millions, against whom this frightful war
was levied, are ourfellow Citizens, entitled with
us to the protection of that compact of govern
ment, which recognizes their relation to the col
ored race—a compact which every sworn officer
of the Union or of the States is bound by his
oath to support. Among them, sir, is a fair pro.
portion of men and women of education and cal
turc=of moral and religious, lives and characters
—virtuous fathers, mothers, spas and daughters,
persons who would adorn any station of' society,
in any countty—men who read the same' Bible
that we do, and, in the name of the same Master,
kneel at the throne of the same, God, forming a
class of men from which have gone forth some of
the greatest and purest characters. withal adorn
our history=illsishington, Jefferson, Madison,
Monroe, Marshall. These are the - men, the 'wo
men, fur whose bosom pikes arid rifles arc manu
factured in New England, * to, he place,,,, in the
bawds Of an ignorant subject -niceosupposed,
most wrongfully, as recent siventahave shown, to
be",,,Weiting only for an opportunity-toms° them.,
-When'l contemplate the horrors.that would-have
ensiled; bed the tragedy on which the curtain rose
at 'Harper's Ferry been acted out, through all the
seenee.of.fireand sword. of lust end murder, of
rapine and desolation,-to the final catastrophe, I
am filled with emotions to.which no words can
do justice. There could of course be but one re
sult, and that well deserving thelhoughtrui medi
tation of those, if any suelithere bp, who think
that the welfare of the -colored race could by
any possibility ha promoted by.--the success- of
any such a movement and who areivilling to par
chase that result by so costly a sacrifice. The
colored population of St. Domingo amounted to
but little short of half a million-
. while the
white population of the Southern - gtates.lalone,
the a...ramie outnumbers the colored race in
the ratio of two to one; in the' Union at largo, in
the ratio of seven to one, and 'if (which Ilea+-'
en avert i) they should be bro .ght in cimittiei, it
could end only in the'extermination of the latter
after scenes of wo for which language is too.fttint,
end for which the liviiest funny has n 4 Itaetilltan
images of borrpr. Such being, the case, &Olin
One may ask, why does not the Stoufhfiitify her
self *against the possible occurrence of such a ca
tastrophe, by - tieing away with the one great
source front which alone it can spring? This is
a question easily asked; and sin not aware that
it is our duty ut the -North to rths'irer it; 'but it
' may be observed thiftvrerit and tatlichl 'changes
in the framework of se
, biety, involving the rela
tions tl2,lloo,olfio'bf men will not wait on the
'bidding of en impatient philanthropy. They can
only be larought about in the lapse of tiitte by the
steady operation of physical, econoiniktil -and
moral causes. Dave those who rebukb the We
tinnanee of slaiiesitTeiikiiiiered i thikt neither the
present geiteratMettuP bikpitctitalilfg one is re
shot's-it/le 'for' it iittitell tie Tha . A:Tri cano lave
trade Wit)ti , ifeilliY 'act, id 'o4agresi tifty r phe
LriNkrS'lt i and tuany.yeitrs earildeA't?,)i aiiiiepar4e
Sowlhema re.. colored !copula:tit - it
with the exceptiphipsyiffips.o4 few hundreds
surreptitionsi,x,intro i.d s SOIL
Their ;a n cestere t were icattiwyeit
thot i ziliPa altkitrid:Newltltigluxid.. :[Loud mp:
plauSti,]. betwebn: three' and
four inillfons.
Has any.person,_ofany party or opinion, pro
'
posed, in sober,%ftenattl teapriictical method of
wholesale einanelpfittan?l I. believe most persons,
in all parts of the , Mountryi areMPopinion that
free labor is steadily ',gaining greeind.' It would
in my judgment aavo itready „prevailed in the
two northern acre._ of the.,Shiveholiting States,
. had its advanes not boon unhappily retarded by
the irritating 'agitations of the day. ' [ , Loud ap
plause] .But has, any person, - .whose opinion is
entitled to the slightest respect, ever undistaken
to sketch ant the details of a plan for effecting the
change-,at. once, by any legislative measure that
could ,be: adopted? Consider only, I pray
._
you,
that it would,be to ask the South to give up one
thousand millions of property, which she holds by
a title' satisfactory to herself. as the first step:
Then estimate the 'cost of an adequate - Outfit' far
the self-support ef the emancipated millions; theft
reflect on the derangement otthe entire industri
al system of the Sele, and alt the branches of
commerce and manufactures that depend on its
great staples; then the necessity of conferring
equal political privileges on the emancipated race
who, being free, would be content with nothing
less, if anything lees were consistent with our
po
litical system; then the consequent organization
of two great political parties on the homer color
and the eternal feud which would rage between
them; and finally, the overflow into the free
States _of si vast multitude of neetly,and helplesa,
emigrants,-. who, being excluded frotm many of
thew an/rumens others, from liansee,Jboistier
, Pue'lartgliftito'woold,prove doubly-burdensome
thair i gre admitted, :Sheeld we sir, vdttliisll
our sympathy for the colored- raee.; tr,i2rta-,,eNO•Yr
cordial Iteeptiotto to two or three Hundred thou
sands destitute emancipated 'Slaves ?- 'Mae Alot
every candid man see, that every one of these
Steps presents difficOltips!of the inosclottnitiehle,
character—difficulties forwhie6, so far as r know,
no man and no' plittf"!bee 0400 a solution ?
Atlls it; sir, for the attaillanenti,of-mbjeots we
manifestly itripracticafie,eirsts get 4 •td c ,-„„b y , i t it
Moody pathways of ta *' l6` P ` aille,ltturderi:. that vie
mill allow trio stupendous lion' threat
.eus us to come upon theenuntry?, we per
mit this enviously compacted thedy Wittg, the
nidestadjustment or. htlinan +wisdomtigghtfnipie
ces ? pries of "No, no.1")---Will'yti
beautiful, symmettio form; paral.taktNiiiestatr
ful'arin of public strength rtlinite
ty this great national intellect? Where sir, 0
where will be, the. lee of the. United, States?..;i
-19 here our rapidly in ereasing.influeneeinif the fain
ily nations... Already they are rejoicing intim.
divisions. The Whiehl here
reed, in coinmenting upen the e y elatoat , H arm -,
Zierry,divelleupettltas.einatithinglhaViteillsitim
pel este keep the peace.with the Powers of EU
hyitliA;
in our international relations, I meant to have
Spoken of. the wreck of that infigialfielmt anirrett
tually beneficial commercial ititerconise` which
.now exists betneen the producing anil-tnanifee
turing States—on the hostile -tariffs time .of
peace and the habitually reelliritlCbOrder ware
by which it will be aenihilated;'Magian t to have
said a word of the navy; of ihe:;l4:demstates, and
the rich inheritance of its"commove glories.
Shall ers we et
those
e e
h u a p p t p h y i
d ?
„ T sh
The memory h
te of our fath-
Men of the
Vorth and the South stood together-Yer-theeeert:
try, on hard fought fields; when the South tient
her Washington to Masseetinnett s , sa d N ew E g
land sent her . Greene to 'Carolina—is all this f ti o - r- .
• s g b o a t -tahle-1
jointth e' counsel. labort that we
t t h ilf l o tr ha ea re t
this all fotgat?" and'W"ll:w
o'4 tatit,great einetimipit ;.+.9 ,
Irta it
proverb ana -a,
,by-,vend d t
lieaniem to become a
the nations? [Cries of "No, no, * 1 . 4
• fellow eitizene, no, a thousand times Thi
i3r
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