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H YMENIAL.
To all the'young misses who wish to be wise,
I beg you will open your ears and your eyes,
And candidly listen to my good advice—
Be sure that you marry for money.
Don't marry for beauty—it soon will decay,
Your lover'll grow toothless and shrivel away,
llis pretty mustaches will all turn so gray—
Be sure that you marry for money.
Don't marry for learning—away with your schools,
You know that to college they always send fools,
And some of them come out moat wonderful tools—
Be careful and marry for money.
Don't marry for intellect—such adull man
Is always discussing some subject or plan ;
He cannot talk nonsense, or won't, if he can—
I charge you, look out for the money.
Don't marry for honor—for what is a name?
A bubble that's burst up—a broken glass pane ;
A fooot-ball that's kicked round the ring. for a
Then merry alone for the money
Dont marry for LOVE such nu old fashined thing
Will only disquiet and penury bring;
But good bread and cheese—THAT HAS THE TRUE
Providod you marry for money
But look ere you leap—do not jump in the dark,
Or fall in love with a fop or a spark ;
Butltake a staunch bachelor—that is the 'nark--
fele should have plenty of money.
A maiden - mint, whose locks of snow
Proclaied her young—some years ago,
Reproved her niece, a damsel gay,
For diessiug in the wanton way,
By which our modern girls expose
A vast deal more than eyes and nose
•! Why can't you hide what ought to be hid,
And dress modest and plain, as your grandmother
did ?•
Dear aunt, so I do—as you may perceive,
I dress in the mode of Grandmother—Eva
The Vice President at Home.
SPEECH. OF 771 b: C. ItItECR'INRIDGI.
At Florence, Ky., July 24, 1858
Mr. Breckinridge said : He had accept
ed, with pleasure, the invitation to meet
the people of Kentucky at that place to
speak to them of the prominent, current,
political issues. lie held that the people
had a right to expect that public men
should be prepared to give their views
upon public matters at all convenient
times. Be held himself ready to do so.—
It had been two years since he had been
in the habit of addressing his fellow-citi
zens on public occasions, and in that time
it was probable that he had lost some of
the facility he had acquired for expressing
himself before the assembled people. He
did not come, however, to attempt the
graces of oratory, or exhibit a wordy glit
ter of rhetoric, but to speak plain truths
in plain terms. The present he thought
a period in the history of the country of
peculiar interest, and he proposed'that his
remarks should be addressed to the sub
ject which gave to current affairs that inter
est. Since Mr. Buchanan had assumed
the reins of power in the government our
difficulties had been chiefly domestic.
We had but one difficulty with a foreign
power that threatened to be considerable
—that with Great Tiritain concerning her
exercise of the right of search (upon which
we fought that in the last war) in the Gulf
of Mexico, which might reasonably be
claimed as an American sea. The recent
exercise of the " right of search " by
Great Britain had been received through
out the land with an outburst of indigna
tion, confined to no section or party, and
the question, if we might believe the
public prints, was speedily settled on a
basis agreeable to American pride, and
conforming to American interests. Amer
ican ships, wherever they sailed, were
hereafter to be regarded as inviolable as
American dry land itself.
Upon another question one word. There
had been raised throughout the land
against the President a concerted cry of
profligacy. The administration was charg
ed with squandering vast sums of money,
which had to be borrowed. He freely ad
mitted that the expenses of the government
recently had been unusually large. The
republican House of Representatives that
preceded in power the administration had
been extravagant in making appropriations,
and now the democracy had to foot the
bills. It was very hard if the President
was to be blamed for paying the appropri
ations of the republican House of Repre
sentatives. The expenses of the Mormon
expedition, which was necessary 'for the
vinPtifflikeig the honor and authority of
the government, were very heavy, and
formed an extraordinary item. People
were slow to appreciate the immense dis
tance from the frontiers of Missouri to Salt
Lake. Did they know it was further than
from the Rhine to Moscow, the long march
that ruined Napoleon
There was a deficit in the Post-Office
Department of some million's'', occasioned
by the great extension of mail routes and
the cheapness of postage. The gentlemen
who were raising the cry about the expen
ses of the government were last winter
given an opportunity to check the flow of
appropriations to the Post Office ; it was
proposed to raise the rates of postage, but
every one of these gentlemen voted in op
position to the proposition. The fault
finders with the financial management of
the administration clamored about aggre
gates, but would not come to particulars.
Why, they themselves voted for these ap
propriations denounced as profligate. It
might be set doWn as a settled fact, that
whenever There were objectionable appro
priations passed, a majority of the demo
cratic votes were against them, while they
prevailed by an almost solid vote of the
Americans and republicans. That a ma
jority of the opposition to the administra
tion was always in favor of any really
objectionable appropriation that passed,
and that the most objectionable appropria
tions were always defeated, when defeated,
by democratic votes, might be set down as
an indisputable proposition. Why, during
this very last session, of Congress, the
Americans and republicans had endeav
ored to add several millions to the budget
of appropriations—attempting to pass
through the French spoliation bill, and
other kindred measures. He presumed
that if they had been .successful, they
would have added those millions to the.
figures they hold up to appal to the people.
When the time came to discuss the ques
tion relating to the pecuniary manage
ment of the administration, its friends
would be found perfectly prepared to meet
its foes at all points.
The most prominent subjecteonneeted with
the history of the administration thus far,
was that relating to the difficulties in Kan
sas. Of these difficulties he would en
deavor to give a calm, clear, and, if possi
ble, truthful statement. His distinguished
friend, th..: representative in Congress from
that district, had been over the ground
with his accustomed ability, and he (Mr. '
B.) would not state the case so much in
detail as he otherwise would have done.—
He believed that if the Kansas question,
as before Congress last winter, could be
fairly and fully presented to the people of
Kentucky, three-fourths at least of them
would thoroughly sustain the policy of the
administration. Kansa, had been rent by
incessant dissensions. There seemed to
be no end to her troubles in her territorial
condition. At last a State constitution
(Lecompton) was presented to Congress by ,
the Territory. In favor of the acceptance
of this constitution was the President, a
sagaciou • statesman of long and large ex- i
perience, and a northern man, and all his !
cabinet—composed of eminent men both
from the North and South—a majority of
democrat members in Congress from north- '
ern States, and the whole democratic rep
resentation
in the Senate and House from
the South, and a majority of the know
nothing congressmen from the South.—
Opposed to the acceptance, of the constitu
tion were all the black—the republican
members of Congress. He was about to say
the black-republican congressmen, but lie
always was willing to call men and parties
by the name that they called themselves.
[Here there was something of a sensation
of disapprobation, a murmur, and voices,
" I don't," " I don't."] Opposed to the
acceptance of the Kansas constitution was
arrayed the whole strength of the republi
can forces in Congress, a minority of north
ern democrats, and a minority of southern
know-nothings. This opposition chose to
give reasons for the warfare they made in
such terms as to be almost personally in
sulting to the supporters of the measure.
They made wholesale charges of frauds—
frauds in the beginning, middle, and end
of the official proceedings in Kansas ;
ch4 .. .Eged that there had been fraud in de
sign and forgery in execution, and that
advocacy of the acceptance of the consti
tution was advocacy of the consummation
of a system of fraud. Now, it would na
turally occur to a Kentucky audience that
in such a controversy as this with the
President, backed by the nearly unanimous
South on the one hand, and the republican
party—making this envenomed war on the
other, which side they, as the devoted
friends of State and southern rights, and
involved to the extent of their fortunes
and honor in southern interests, l should be
found upon. But let that view of the sub
ject pass. It did not meet the merits ofthe
case, as they all were donscious. He did
not deny that the subject of the admission
of Kansas into the Union under the Le
compton constitution was one environed by
difficulties. But it was very easy to ob
ject. It was easy to urge many plausible
objections to the course the President had
pursued. But taking all the circumstan
ces of the case into consideration, it was
his opinion that the recommendations of
the President were practical, wise, states
manlike, just, and ought to have been
adopted. if they had been adopted in
December last, the question would have
been settled then, as it was now settled,
without a violation of popular sovereignty,
and without interference with the civil
rights of any body. The prolongation of
the controversy had only produced bitter
ness and heated strife between men who
should have made common cause for peace,
and between the great sections of the con
federacy. Much harm had been done, and
no good had been accomplished for any
human being. But the recommendations
of the President regarding the Lecompton
constitution were not wise, not discrimi
nating, not statesmanlike and just, if that
instrument was, as charged, covered with
and steeped in fraud, not representing the
people of Kansas, and not their act and
deed. Mr. Breckinridge proceeded to
state the reasons why he held that the
recommendations of the President regard
ing the Lecompton Constitutfon were
pertinent, proper, and the most prac
tical for the settlement of the question
that could have been proposed. He did
not wish to dig up the bones of the con
troversy that was passed, and among the
things that were, he hoped forever ; but
it was incumbent upon him to state why
he held the opinions that he had ex
pressed. He stated the objections urged
against the acceptance of the Lecompton
instrument; the first legislature was elect
ed by a Missouri mob, and was illegal, and
it is null and void ; that none of the elec
tions held in the Territory were fair up to
the one superintended by Walker and Stan
ton ; that the Lecompton constitution was
the creature of fraud, had not been sub
mitted to the people of Kansas, and was
not the act and deed of the people of Kan
sas.
Concerning the first legislature elected
in Kansas. The charge had been made
that it was not elected by the people of
Kansas, and its acts had no biudin, force.
It was true that there were many illegal
votes cast at the election of that legislature.
It was doubtless true that many Missou
rians voted for those legislators. There
were illegal votes from Missonri and ille
gal votes from the northern States. Be
tween Kansas and Missouri there was a
sort of imaginary line. Nobody knew ex
actly where it was. People living along
it hardly knew whether they were living
in Kansas or Missouri. The line was, for
instance, like that between Kenton and
Boone counties, Kentucky, passing through
neighborhoods who hardly took heed wheth
er they lived on one side or the other.—
Missourians had gone over into Kansas,
and bad made claims and proposed to be
come actual and permanent residents of
that Territory. They understood that they
had a right to vote at the territorial elec
tions, and did vote. And there were steam
boat loads of voters from New England—
he was about to say, bought up and pre
cipitated upon the Territory, but the form
of expression would be unnecessarily harsh
shipped into the Territory expressly to
vote at that election. Thus there were
votes illegally and improperly cast at that
election by both parties : and as is not ex
traordinatY, in such rude states of society
"TRAP COUNTRY IS THE MOST PROSPEROUS WHERE LABOR COMMANDS THE GREATEST REWARD."--BUOIULIC&E.
LANCASTER CITY, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 10, 1858.
as Kansas then presented, there was not a
little violence and disturbance about the
polls. But with all this, it was clear to
his mind that that legislature was elected
by the people of Kansas, and that it was a
valid and legal legislature. Gov. Reeder,
who was in the free-State interest, (now he
was of the republicak . party ;) had issued
certificates of eleciire to a majority of this
legislature. Under the laws of this body
marriages had been solemnized, estates had
descended, elections had been held ; and if
he was not mistaken, the republican house
of representatives had appropriated money
paying the legislators for their services.—
It was impossible to ignore the legality of
the laws passed by that body. Hence the
ant calling for a convention to form a State
constitution was legal and of binding force.
It was charged that under the registry law
half of the counties of the State were dis
franchised. In several of the counties there
was not a human being save roving savages.
In others, very few white persons indeed.
And twelve months afterward, though the
population had been increasing, iu all these
disfranchised counties only fourteen hun
dred votes were cast. In all the disfran
chised counties, it was his candid opinion,
not more than five hundred persons enti
tled to vote had failed to be registered ,
and of these there were several cases
where those who were taking a census of
the voters were driven away, such was the
exasperation and folly of the people. In
regard to the propriety of having a regis
try of voters, his American and republican
friends would probably not be anxious to
raise the issue, as they were in favor of the
system of registration ; and it: was well
known that in Kansas there were especial
reasons why, to preserve the purity of the
polls, there should be a registry of those
entitled to vote. •It was charged that
odious test oaths were required—such that
a majority of the inhabitants of the Terri
tory could not conscientiously vote, even, if
they had been registered. Those who made
this charge made a mistake in point of fact
and in point of time. There were obnoxious
test oaths required by the legislature in its
first days. The acts to that effect, in his
opinion, should never have been passed.—
They were anti-republican, and unfit for a
place ou any statute book. They should
have been repealed at once ; and they were
repealed before the election for delegates
to the constitutional convention that assem
ble at Lecompton took place. At that
election there were no test oaths whatever.
The constitutional convention was thus
legally called and its members fairly elec
ted. It met and formed a constitution.—
The agitating topic in the Territory had
all the time been, whether it should be
come a slave or free State. The question
whether the new State should be slave or
free it was determined to submit to the peo
ple, and that clause of the constitution
only. There was no reason why there
should not be a full and fair expression by
the people upon that point. No test oaths
were in the way. The only requirement
was that, in voting on the slavery clause,
Ithe vote had to be given for the constitu
tion—a perfectly innocent qualification.—
There was a great cry about frauds. Where
were the frauds ? When were the frauds
The constitutional convention was undoubt
edly legally called. The delegates to that
convention were undoubtedly elected by
the people But he did not come there to
apologize for frauds. There were frauds
at the election of a legislature in 1857.
There were frauds at the State election
under the Lecompton convention in Janu
ary, 1858. But these did not vitiate the
legality or the respectability of the Le
compton constitutional convention. These
frauds' were after-thoughts and after
occurrences. There were Qauds, as he had
said, in January last. He saw, by the pa
pers of that morning, that John Calhoun,
president of the Lecompton convention,
had issued certificates of election at that
contest to the free-State candidates for the
legislature in the Leavenworth district.—
He presumed that the free-State men were
entitled to those certificates ; and lie would
be one of the last men, he hoped, to take
from them anything that was justly theirs.
Giving those certificates to the Leaven
worth free-soilers gave the State legisla
ture, with the two United States senators
to elect, and the State government, into the
hands of the free-State men. But let jus
tice be done.
When the allegation of fraud was no
longer tenable, the anti-Lecompton men
took refuge in this : that Congress had
never passed an enabling act for Kansas.
This was a new theory. It was bran new,
and the republicans had a right to take
out a patent for it. Congress did not en
able people to form a government. In
many cases—a majority of cases—Congress
bad not passed enabling acts. California
had not an enabling act, yet the free-State
interest forced her into the Union, and
there was no trouble for the want of an
enabling act. [Here a fight outside caused
a roaring excitement. A fight was an at
traction for old and young Kentucky far
superior to the orator. There were shouts
among the few hundreds who remained in
their seats of Go on Breck,' on.'—
He said he would do so with pleasure, but
there was so much noise that he could not
be heard. The noise and.confusion grad
ually subsided, and the speaker resumed.]
Well, fellow-citizens, so much for the ena
bling act theory. It was said that the
Lecompton constitution was not the act
and deed of the people of Kansas, that
they had never passed upon it, and that it
was odious to a vast majority of them.—
The supporters of the constitution had a
right to point those objectors who assumed
this position to the legal modes of the ex
pression of the popular will, and to ask
them, to be governed by them. Where
was the legal expression of the popular will
opposed to the constitution He could be
pointed to ten thousand votes cast against
the constitution, pursuant to a law passed
at the extra session of the.second territor
ial or free-State legistature ; and he could
point to more than ten thousand votes cast
for State officers under the constitution.—
He declared his solemn belief that every
step taken to procure the sense of the peo
ple regarding the State constitution, the
act calling the convention, the vote of the
people on the act, the registration of voters,
and the election of delegates—all these
steps were legal, regular, orderly, fair, and
taken in the only way that they legally
i could be taken.
The Topeka affair was without authority,
and all that remained of it was the ghost
of a mob. It was not legal, or popular,
or orderly. These were not little legalities,
petty technicalities, with which he was
dealing. The will of the majority, to take
effect,Ninst be expressed according to law.
The laW could not make men vote/ The
resolutions pas*by amass meeting held
the week after at election could not inval
idate an election, even though a majority
of the electors took part. These were the
very plainest, the underlying principles of
social and political order. Why, if he were
a candidate for Congress in a district where
there were fifteen thousand voters, and at
a legal and regular election only received
one hundred votes, if no one else received
as many legal votes, he was the legal rep
resentative of the district during the regu
lar term, and all the mass meetings that
could be called could not invalidate his
election. The people must give legal and
regular expression to their views, and that
expression must be abided by untillegally
removed. Any other doctrine was wholly
subversive of regulated freedom. The
other doctrine—that of taking loose, irreg
ular demonstrations for the fixed expres
sion of the popular will—was the doctrine
of demagogues and despots.
In the matter of the submission of the
constitution of Kansas to the people, the
most extraordinary doctrine had been pro
mulgated. It was, that it was absolutely
necessary that a constitutioc should be
submitted to a vote of the people before
that constitution could be taken by Con
gress to be the act and deed of the people.
Now, the constitution of the Union only
required that Congress should pass upon
the republican form of a State constitution.
Congress had no more constitutional
autnority to order the submission of a
constitution for a new State to the people
than it had to order the submission of a
new constitution for an old State to the
people. It was no more the right or the
duty of Congress to insist upon the sub
mission of the Lecompton constitution to
the people of Kansas, than it would have
been for Congress to have insisted upon
claiming the same prerogative when a new
constitution was formed in Kentucky a few
years ago. He though Lit extremely prob
ble that if he had been a member of the
Lecompton constitutional convention he
would have voted for the submission of the
whole Constitution to the whole people of
Kansas. The circumstances surrounding
the case would prebably have influenced
him to come to that conclusion. But
Congress had no right to interfere in the
matter. To assert here Congress had no
right of interference, and that it was an
absolute condition of the establishment of
the constitution that the convention that
formed is should submit it to the people,
was to assert that the people could not
delegate power to form a constiutinn to a
convention ; and if people could not dele
gate power to a convention, they could
not to a legislature ; and the whole system
of representative government was subver
sive at once, and government, except in
communities so small that they could all
come together and make, regulations in
popular meetings, impossible. What had
been the practice of the government ! A
; majority of the State constitutiow had not
I been voted upon by the people, and Con
gress had clearly uo power to cast a
constitution from its doors because it had
not the endorsement of a popular vote. It
might be advisable and well for constitu
tional conventions to take the popular
sense on doubtful points, or to submit the
whole instrument ; but authority to form a
constitution was necessarily delegated to
them, and they were under no legal obli
gation to call for a popular vote to condemn
or approve the instrument they produced.
But this clamor about non-submission was
mere pretext. The slavery clause of the
Lecompton constitution was submitted to
the people, and fairly submitted. Those
who did not vote had themselves to blame,
if they were free-State men, and were
grieved that the clause establishing slavery
was adopted. The only trouble was about
slavery. The free-State men, in conven
tion assembled at Topeka, resolved that
all they wanted was a fair vote on the
slave question. Was there any difficulty
about anythig in the Lecompton constitu
tion besides the slavery clause? Who had
ever heard of any other point in contro
versy.! The people of Kansas, if they
opposed the slavery clause, had let the
time pass for voting it down—they had op
portunity to give legal expression to their
views against the slavery clause, and had
spurned that opportunity, and now made
factious and irregular opposition to that
which had been legally done. But it was
urged that slavery would still have existed
in Kansas, even if the slavery clause voted
upon had been stricken out. It was true
that there would still have been slaves
there—that the slave property in the
Territory would have been recognized as
property—it was legally there in accor
dance with the decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States in the Dred
Scott case—and who but an ultra Ameri
can abolitionist would have thought of
confiscating this property ? Why, even in
the British West India colonies the slaves
emancipated were paid for ; though the
government did cheat the slave-owners in
the settlement out of the most that was due
them, the principle applicable to the Kan
sas case was recognised. The whole
amount of the statement that slavery
would still have existed in Kansas, even if
the people had voted to strike out the
slavery clause, was that the slaves already
there, about three hundred in number,
would be recognised as property. That
which was property, according to the de
cision of the Supreme Court of the United
States,would not have been confiseated.The
slave property in Kansas was not worth
more than one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars, and it had been provided that if
the slave clause of the constitution bad
been stricken out, the slaves should be
emancipated, upon the payment to- their
owners of their value. What a terrible
outrage it would have been to have brought
! these people of Kansas into the Union, and
have allowed them to do just exactly as
they pleased afterward ! What an out
rage ! The fact was that the slavery
clause in the constitution was the occasion
of the outcry about this outrage.
Now, gentlemen, said the speaker, tak
ing this view of the case, don't you think
' the southern men in Congress might have
voted unanimously for the admission of
Kansas into the Union in December last,
under the Lecompton constitution, with
out any of them charging their consciences
with a very heavy load of guilt ? He
hoped now that the boisterous seasons of
Kansas history were over, and that she
' would be recompensed for her stormy and
unfortunate past by a serene and prosper
' ous future.
I The Kansas question was but an episode
The course pursued by the republican
party regarding Kansas was but an inci
dent in the policy of that party which was
now the overshadowing political power in
the North. The purposes of that party
were broader and deeper than a resistance
to the administration in Kansas betokened.
Its policy was certainly to prevent the
admission of any-more slave States into the
Union, and ultimately abolitionize all the
States. That this was the policy of the
party,was inevitable from its antecedents.
Logically, it could not lie otherwise. Here
the speaker gave a general view of the
slavery question up to 1820—up to which
time slave and free States had been ad
mitted indiscriminately, and when inter
vention against slave States commenced.
The Wilmot-proviso movement, and the t e
action that followed, were rehearsed,and it
was related how the anti-slavery sentiment
of the North had been broadening, deepen
ing, and rushing in a more rapid current.
The people of Kentucky,he thoght,had not
appreciated the scope and force of the anti
slavery movement. The republican party
was now the most powerful party in the
Union,unless the national democracy were
the stronger. No party but the democratic
could withstand it anywhere. It was, as
an organization, strong, compact, earnest,
resolute,and hopeful. And darkly deceived
were those who thought that it conceived
its work to be confined to anti-Lecompton
ism. Its aim was to keep out all new slave
States in all latitudes—to obtain the pre
ponderance in the general government,
and to use power to abolish slavery every
where. He would,to show its purposes ,read
from speeches of the representative men
of the party—men belonging to the body
over which he had the honor to preside,
and with whom it was his duty, as it was
his pleasure, to cultivate kindly personal
relations: He read from a fiery, ultra
speech of Senator Wilson; and then from
one whom he styled greater than Wilson
—a man whose utterances were the prin
ciples of his party—Mr. Seward, of New
York, who, in a grand speech made to the
Senate on the 3d of March, 1858, said—
[Here Mr. Breckinridge read that remark
able and famous paragraph , addressed
especially to southern senators, affirming
that free labor at last apprehended its
mission, and was marching to conquest.]
That's the programme, said Mr. Breck
inridge. Along the line of march this
party must be met and resisted. The con
stitution was not in their way at all, for
they did not even acknowledge the bind
ing force of one of its plainest provisions
—that concerning the return of fugitive
slaves. Garrison was more honest than
they, for he acknowledged the constitution
was in his way. They grew more bold
and enterprising in their aggressions every
year. They were in the outer rim of the
whirlpool, and were rapidly hastening to
the rock where Garrison stood in the cen
tre. They would pause, at no obstacle, be
appalled at no ruin. Already they had
practically made waste paper of the con
stitution. They were carrying one class
of States against another class of States.
And whenever the line was drawn
across the nation, across which the
affections and hopes of the people could
not flow, the Union was like a girdled tree,
doomed to speedy decay and death. Even
now that venerable, august and pure trib
unal, the balance-wheel of the mighty
machinery of our government, the Supreme
Court of the United States. was assailed
with force and venom nearly unparalleled.
A bill had been introduced into the Senate
to reorganize this Court. And the threat
that this reorganization should take place I
was not an idle one. Those who had un- I
dertaken the work were strong, rampant, I
and confident, and unscrupulous.
And would Kentuckians go with this I
great party of the North, under the de
lusive name of the people's party ? He
had shown Kentuckians the banquet set
before them. Had they any stomachs for
the feast Oh ! for the giants that were
—for the triumvirate that saw afar the
danger that now was near. Calhoun,
with his far-reaching intellect, saw it first,
and warned his countrymen. Clay saw it,
and in his latter days served his country
with a patriotism broader than ever before,
and a fervor deeper, in seeking to avert it.
And still the mellow beams of the setting
sun of that great man lingered in golden
radiance on the western sky. Webster
saw it—that grand and granite man resis
ted the madness of the torrent of political
fanaticism that arose in his own State as a
rock fhsists the waves; but the dirty tide
rolled over him, and now seethed there
triumphant, with demagogue drift-wood
floating with the froth and scum that arises
to the surface amid the fury of faction.—
The giants were no more ; and it remained
for those to whose hands were confided the
trusts of their country to consider what
sho - uld be done to destroy the growing
power of the republican party, the paths
of whose triumphs would be amid the ruins
of the nation. The slavery question had
killed all parties but one—the democratic.
It had been the death of the old whig
party, that organization which was bold,
open and gallant, game, full of pluck and
fire, which had always marched with drums
beating and banners flying, and which he
had regarded as the best of parties ; always
excepting his own. The gallant old whig
party had died of the slavery question.—
And the American party, of which it was
really not necessary to say much, had died,
partly of the slavery question and partly
of an inherent weakness of constitution,
which incapacitated it from battling long
under any external circumstances. The
Americans might object to hearing him
speak in this style; but where had they
material power Could they poll fifteen
thousand votes in Ohio ? Were they not
inefficient and used up as an independent
organization in every township of the
North ?' At any rate he thought that he
might state, without disrespect, that the
American party had not answered the ex
pectations of its friends? But what
should have been expected of a party
built upon one idea, and that idea wrong !
The American party had sprung up quick
er, lived faster, and died out more sud
denly, than any other organization of which
he had ever heard. In going down, it had
left a large number of respectable gentle
men afloat in politics ; the question was,
what would they do? and this had better
be decided quickly, for it was almost bet
ter to be doing absolutely wrong than to
be doing nothing. He wished these float
ing gentlemen to consider whether they
would be towed by their leaders into the
republican ranks. He thought they would
go in the other direction, for Kentucky
changed slowly—when she resists the re-
publican party Kentuckians must be demo
crats ; for the only party in the country
able to cope with the republican party was
the democratic party, [A big voice, "That's
so."] There, said the speaker, that man
evidently believes it sincerely, and I doubt
not there are many more here who believe
it who will not say so so heartily. It was
impossible to remain neutral. The essen
tial rights of the people were endangered.
The democratic party was not a destruc
tive or radical party. It was conservative;
not in the common-place, clap-trap sense
in which that word was used, but in its
broad, liberal and true sense. It was a
vital organization. It stood in the history
of the country, a great land-mark, tower
ing over the ruins of opposing organiza
tions. It had managed the policy of the
country at home and abroad. It has never
died, ducked, or dodged. Its banner,
though torn sometimes, has never been
trailed in the dust. It had never fled from
any question, but had always faced the
music. It was the only vital organization
in the country that possesed historical re
nown. The tenacity of life and capacity
for great works which this party dis
played was not owing to chance, nor
to the drift of circumstances. There was
a substantial philosophy underlying it.—
Why had it survived and flourished
amid the wrecks of other parties ? Be
cause it had tried all questions in the cru
cible of the constitution ; and because, ac
cording to the best of its judgment, it had
vindicated equality of birth and of individ
ual rights, and of the rights of the States.
Basing itself upon the constitution, and
upon the indestructible rights of citizens
and States, the democratic party had
survived, and was now vital, untamable,
and unconquerable. It was confronted
from one end Of the Union to the
other by the republican party. And
there was only room in the Union for those
two parties, with the clangor of the contest
between whom the whole heavens would
soon rescund. W hat position would the
sons of Kentucky take in this combat ?
Her geographical position was important.
She bordered on free States for six hun
dred miles. Were her people willing that
some of the desperate politicians within
her borders should put her up as a stake ?
Would they hazard her honor ? No the
honor and glory of the old Commonwealth
filled the core of their hearts, and , :they
would bury the animosities of the past, and
vindicate that honor which was to them so
dear that for it they would be willing to
die.
CARDS.
li M. 0V A L.—WILLIAM S. AMWEGy
R
Attorney at Law, has remove.; his ctlico from his
foruiel pinto into South inky stteet. ne: , pp , .site tho
Trinity Lutheran Churdi. Apr a tf 12
‘ ,...tAATUEI, H. REYNOLDS, Attorney nt
s!tot,. N., 14 N , ,,th Duke ,Itct.t. ~pposito the
=IBM
IV" T. ItIePHAIL,
ATTOILNEY AT I.A
V .
I':.1 1y 11 STRASHI:R(i, Lanut,lur Gp. Pa.
4 LDITS J. NEFF, Attorney at Law.--
other with B. A. SluefTUr. Esq., vouch-wfuit ooruur or
Centre Square, I.anuaster. ly 17
- FIR. JOHN 111 , CALLA, DENTIST.--Otlice
di No. 4 East Kin; I. .t pr I, If 1:3
EWTON LIGHTNER, ATTORNEY'
Al LAW. i 134 Oftire. in North Dul:•
the. Court
T)E9IOYAL.--WILLIAMI B. FORDNEY,
ft Attorney at 1.,w,11:14 removed hia otli, front North
Quecu street it, the boiltfing in the south east corn, of
Centre Square. formerly known a, II nide, •. IlGael
Lant,stilr, opril 10
P. E B Y,
.1 ATTORNEY AT LAW, •
North DO., rel.
tuay 11 ly 17] LAN,
1 4 1R.EDERICE. S. PYFER,
A TTull. N EY AT I. .1 W .
tilrICE.--No. I I N I Ti LIVEN ,T1:1:1:T. WE, eHie, Las
14
E.SSE LANDIS, Attorney at Law.--01—
0 ace one ea4t Kinz strvet,
Lancaster. Pa.
=5, .111 kinds : 4 r0V , ,1111,r,—,11 , 11 3, welling
Deeds. Alurtp.:es, A...4:0t. Is. Ac.. will I, at tended to with
nes, 311,1 It-17
JAMES BLACK, ALI orney at Law.--01-
her in East King sie,t. two doors na-it Of lawhier's
Hotel. Lancaster. Pus.
imAness ..,net,l with his pruft.ssion. and
all kinds writisg. sur ,n h an preparing Deeds. 31ortgages,
Statiwr Ar,nunts. sr.. promptly attended to.
tr.l7
JOHN F. BRINTON,
AT T 0 N Y A T 1. AR.
• PHI LAUF:I.I.III A. PA
Iles rcotiovv.l his °plc° to kit, ret.itlence. NO. 1149 South 1411
altov,:t.pruce.
itofer4 by per, is+but
lios '24 I)'' 4.5
EDWARD 31PGOVERN,
T T ORNEY AT LAW,
N.. 5 N. 0,11 I , CK Y. ',MEET-NEAR THE
LANCASTER. PA.
ape n t f 12
'WILLIAM I,V HIPESIDE, SURGEON
V V DENcIST.-0111ce in North glicen street. directly
over lugs Drug Store.
Laucast!r. may 1850. ly 16
It IEI
E'II, .?TI V I
A IC L I" - H - 1 9 611 N -1 PHYSICIAN. removal b: ot
BAILER, Hge l'it:
Lime street, between Orange and East King streets, west
side.
Reference—Professor \V. A. Gardner, Philadelphia.
Calls hem the conutry will be promptly attended M.
npr 6
pETER D. MYERS,
REAL ESTATE AGENT,
will ettend to the Renting of Houses, Coll,ding House
nod Ground Rents, &r. Agencies entrusted to his care
will be thankfully received, and carefully attended to.—
Satisfactory reference given. Office N. E. corner of
SEVENTH and SANSONI ktreets, Second Floor, No. 10.
feb l i ly 6
DRUG AND CREDIrcAI. STORE.
The subscriber having removed his store to the new
building nearly opposite his old stand, and directly opposie
the Cross Keys Hotel, has now on hand a well selected
stock of articles belonging to the Drug business, consisting
in part of Oils, Acids, Spices,
.Seeds, Alcohol. Powdered
Articles, Sarsaparillas, to,, lee., to which the attention of
country merchants, physicians and consumers in general
is invited. THOMAS ELLM AKER.
fah 9 tf 4 West King street, Lanc'r.
FARMERS.--having been appoint
'. ed by Messrs. Allen S Needles agents in Lanemster fur
the salo of their eelebratrd
SUPER PHOSPHATE OF LIME.
we would call the attenlion of Farmers to this Fertilizer, It
being superior to all others; and from the testimony of
those who have used it for some years past, we feel author,
ized in saying it is the best application for Corn, Oats-
Wheat, Grass and other crops which require a vigorous
and permanent stiruuhult. that hae ever b.,c, offered to
the public. Apply to fl EO. CALDER & CO.,
East Orange street, 2d door from North Queen at., and at
Graelrs Landing on the Conestoga.
EXCELSIOR EATING HOUSE.
NORTH QUEEN sTREET, SEAR THE R.Attaoan.
The subscriber has just opened an Eating House and
Restaurant in the basement of Reese's Hotel, North Queen
street, near the Railroad, where everything will be done
up in first-rate style, so as to please the most fastidious,—
His arrangements are such as to corfftuand the freshest and
beat Oysters, &c., Sic., the market affords, and he flatters
himself in tieing able to cater to the tastes of all who may
patronize his establishment. Ills charges will be mod
erate. WILLIAM LOWREY.
mar lb tf
WOOD.--Hiekory, Oak and Pine Wood
V of the best quatity, for sale by
GEORGE CALDER & CO.,
Office East Orange street. 2d door from North Queen, end
at Green's Landing on the Conestoga [in 20 tt24
WOOD MOULDINGS•
UNITED STATES WOOD MOULDINU, TURNING
AND SCROLL SAWINO MILL.
Fifteenth street, lielleeen Markel and Cheeind
Philadelphia.
Also, Saab, Blinds, Shutters and Window Frames for
sale low—all of which are of the beat materiels aud work
manship. BENJAMIN ESLER,
may 11 ly 18] Proprietor.
PENNSYLVANIA PATENT AGENCY.
J. FRANKLLIC hi'MART, of Lancaster city, obtains
Letters Patent from the 11. S. Patent Office, on the most
reasonable terms. Drawings of all kinds of Machinery,
Architecture,or Surveys, correctly executed by him. Like.
'wise Deeds, lds and ther instruments of writing.
Office—No. 3 Stilton Boildhigs, Prince street.
'yr 26 tf 14
F ARRELB & HERRING,
34 WeisoT taw 25 GRAXIYZ Smarm PraVA.
Sole Mannheturers in Ude Stito of
HERRING'SFIRE PROOF SA . F4"3.,
RRICR RZCLIVI.D
THE MEDAL AT THE WORLD'S FAIR.
These &fee are warranted Free from Darepnete.
Also, Manufacturers of Hall's Patent Powder Proof Look,
likewise awarded a Medal at the World's Fair; Chilled
Iron Burglar Proof Safes, Bank Vaults, Dank Locks, Steel
Chests, Ac. sep 291y37.
ROTTEC S HISTORY OF THE
WORLD.
ORIENTAL AND WESTERN SIBERIA.
N IN EVAII AND ITS REMAINS.
PRINCE OF VIE MOUSE OF DAVID.
MEMOIRS OF NAPOLEON—ISIS COURT AND FAMILY.
war 30 0' 11 EL lAN BARE iS CO, 31 Ent King at.
T AX NOTIOE.--The Duplicate of the
Consolidated City Tax Is now ready far those tierianis
who wish to save the 5 per eent. All City Taxes paid on
or before the first of July are entitled to tlw 5 per emit.
deduction. HENRY 0. WENTZ. ,
ALLIARD DIE ARSRALL,
kjr WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEP:JOISTS,
1.62 l MARKET STREET, PLIILADELPHIA, •
DeAlers Is Points of every variety, Glass of nll kinds,
French and American; Imported Drugs, &c., &c., de. ,l
which are now offered for sale at very low prices.
03, - PLEASE CALL AN - D EXAMINE OUR STORE.
mar 23
THE DINING ROOM COOK,
THE STOVE FOR THE FARMER.
The undersigned would ask the attention of Farmersand
others to his newly patented WOOD AND COAL STOVES,
called the -Dining Ito mt Cook," which possesses advanta
ges ant found in any other. The oven is perhaps larger
then that of any other stove. being 16 by 26 inches In the
dear, while its peculiar construction to such 18 to emit an
111.111S0al degree of heat in a large room with a trifling con
sumption of fuel. For the Dining Room of the Partner it
supplies a want lung test, and for this purpose it was con
straw' ed under the personal supervision of the undersigned.
dee 1 11.16 G. D. SPRECIIER
REED, PIoGRANN, KELLY &, CO,
BANKERS,
GRANITE BUILDING. NORTH QUEEN ST., LANCT.,
Will receive money ou Deposit and pay interest thereon as
follows :
5 per cent. for any length of time.
•• for ono year.
Collections mode in all parts of the United States.
Money sent to England, I reland, Germany, France, to.
Passage certificates for sale from Liverpool to Now York,
or Lancaster.
Loud warrants end uncurrout money bought and sold.
Spanish and Mexican dollars, old 11. S. gold and silver
coins bought at a premium.
Special attention will be paid by G. K. Reed to the Nego
tiation of Commercial paper, Stocks, Loans, and all market
able securitios In New York or Philadelphia.
Our friends may rely upon promptness, and our personal
attention to their interests In the transaction of any bus!.
nfiss which may be intrusted to us, and we hold ourselves
individually liable for all money intrusted to our care.
0 EC. K. REED,
RICHARD McGRANN, Sr.,
PATRICK KELLY,
A. McCONOMY.
Jun. Lily .21
DUILDING SLATE.--The undersigned
111 beg leave to inform builders and all persons In want
of ROOFING SLATE that they have wade arrangements
for the entire supply of one of the best Quarries in York
county, the superiority of these Slate Over all others are
well understood and acknowledged. We are now receiving
a supply that we invite all in want, to look at. believing
them ti he tho best that ever came to Lancaster.
We employ none but the very best workmen, and all
work done by us is warranted. Teresa moderate; boat
guag,ed Slate sold by the ton if preferred.
OF.OItG I.: M. STEINMAN CO.,
West King street.
apr 640 14
EA D THIS I FARMERS. BUILDERS
11.. and CONTRACTORS. The undersigned having rent
ed the SASH FACTORY of 11. C. Locher, situated In South
Water street, back of No. 2 Steam Cotton 111111, in the city
of Lancaster, begs leave to Inform his friends and the ant.
%ens generally, that he is prepared to till all orders left
wish him. or sent to the Lancaster 1.0.4 office for. WINDOW
FRAM ES, SASH, DOORS, SIIII'ITERS, BLINDS, and
mouLinNos...f ev e ry de , cription. Having formerly super.
intended the Sash Factory of Messrs. A. K. Bowers A Cu.,
at GraotraLanding, !UN customers can depend Olson all
work being done iu n Na lim fac I ory manner.
Priees to snit the times.
june S Oni Al F. HIRAM RELI.F.R.
ATCHES AT GREATLY REDUCED
I:A:E..; ST
11. L. & E. .1. Z A II M' 9
Corner North Queen ..trert qiul Centre Square.
Every WATCH sold by us IN Warr:lilted to bu
what It is represented.
4 , ir We cnli especial attetai.al to the new
EQUILIBRIUM LEVER, which Canna be our
pinned OS 0 pocket time
WATCHES carefully repaired
MISITIM
`AM LIEL L. FOX, OPTICIAN,
5:V7 Nolvtll '2I) STREET, ABOVE BUITONIVOOP STREET
Sp, rtacle, in 6,ild, Silver 1111 , 1 Elastic Steel Frames, of a
rent vitriety of patterns, with Superior Glasses, carefully
adapted to ihr sight. Spy-Glasses. Micro-
crop, s. Drawin•4 instrumento, Surveyors'
Ckwopasses and Tiansit,:, Dairy Thermometers, Ulazlere'
• • ••
All kinds nl trptieal Instruments made. repaired and
adjunt rd.
Agent for Fixea' Oblique Pointed Gold and Steel Puna,
and the $25 Amble Threttarti ,Vtvgng Machines.
may 18 3m 18
IDARGAINS ! BARGAINS ! BARGAINS !
) Ladles who have not purchased their Bonnets tar the
cannon are invited to call at L. BAUM'S, Nu. 62 ,
North tju•en street, where they will fled a large
assortment at a reduction of prke, as the season Is
drawing to a close. Also a large eadortment of IRIC
GOODS. WHOLESALE 3IILLINERY AND TRIMMINGS.
Ark - Conk one, come all, and examine fur yonrsolven, at
1.. BAUM', No 02 North Queen street. Lancaster.
jut., tt 23
P 0 PULAR NEW BOORS NOR THE
SUMMER SEASON, AT THE CHEAP BOOK STORE.
LORD MONTAGEES' PAGE, A Historical Romance of
the Seveuteunth Century. By 0. P. R. Jame.,
The Leetures of LOLA MONTEZ, including her Auto.
biography.
The Aununl Digest of the LAWS OF PENNA., being a
supplement to Purdon's Digest. brings up the laws of the
State to May. 1458.
TILE NoRMAL MENTA 1. ARITHMETIC. By EnwAttn
Ilsooss.
We would further call attention to the large stock of
select Literature on our shelves; all new publications are
constantly received as SLY. an published—none need be In
want of Good Books, when such an abundance Is at hand,
as found at the CHEAP Moos STORE. Many of them will
he sold at one-half their usual prices, which in these days of
cheap literature, given all a chance to become enlightened
ONO all topics, Drop in and goo the inducements offered
by the new firm ~f SIIHAFFER & YOUNG,
July Li if LPi Successors to Murray, Young & Co.
G. LON,
•• L. 11Ayr.,
MUNI oN.
Tit ADDEUN STEVENS
ICW YORE WINE & LIQ,UOR STORE.
ill ADAM REIGART, Wholesale and Retail Dealer lu
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC LIQUORS. aggtyk
No. li. North Duke Street, next door to the office
of the '• faTELLionticsa," and directly opposite
the Court House, Lancaster, Ea.
The subscriber take this method of informing the pub.
tic that he has just opened a large assortment of
WINES and LIQUORS of the choicest Brands and Quali
ties. Haring made arrangements with come of the find.
houses in Cognac and It.helle, enables him to furnish to
hi= customers, upon the most liberal terms, the followintl
brands of Cognac and Rochelle Brandies:
OTARD, lIENNESY,
PJNET CASTILLION,
T. lIIMES, MARTELL,
ARRETT, PELLEVOSIN.
.1. J. DEPUY & CO.,
A. SERGNETTE, Ac., Ace.
WINES.
OLD OI'ORTO,
CLARET,
MADEIRA,
TENERIFFE,
MUSCAT and
MALAGA WINES.
of various brands and qualities. Holland Gin, Scheidt=
Schnapps, Jamaica Spirits, Scotch and Irish Whiskeys;
Peach, Apple, Lavender, Blackberry, Cherry, Ginger and'
Raspberry Brandies; Cordials, Wine Bitters, Amsterdam
Bitters, Sc., he.
Also, Agents and Sole Proprietors of the
OLD WHEAT WHISKEY.
Coustantly on hand, an extensive stock of Old Monon
gahela Whiskeys of various grade!, some of which he
guarantees to be superior to any In the country.
All goods from this establishment are guarautled to give,
satisfaction, with the privilege of being returned
anr 2S
7-
F. DUNCAN'S NEW BODE STA*
yy TIGNERY AND PERIODICAL STORE.
THE CENTRE SQUARE BOOK STORE, formely carried
on by Murray, Young it Co., has been purchased by the
undersigned, who intends to conduct it in all its branches
as heretofore; and by attention to business and to the
wants of the people, be hopes to render satisfaction to his
friends and to the public generally, who favored the old
establishment under his management.
Having been in charge of this concern for some years,
under Murray, Young A CO., ho has become intimately
acquainted with the nature of the business; and does not
doubt his ability to manage it to the satisfaction of the
public He therefore respectfully asks encodragament.
CHEAP FOR C4Siti.—There is at present On his shelves
a large stock of Miscellaneous Books in all branches °filter
store, which will be sold extremely LOW FOR CASH:
BOORS ORDERED.—Any book not on our shelves will
be ordered immediately if desired.
THE LATEST PUBLICATIONS will be received as soot[,
as possible.
STATIONERY.—A general assortment of PLAIN AND
FANCY STATIONERY will be kept constantly on hand.
MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS of the latest dates'
will bo received at the earli,oit moment.
SUBSCRIPTIONS will be received for all the Periodicals
at the lowest subscription prices, Magazines or Newspaper*
will be seat by mail, if desired, to any port of the country.
BACK NUMBERS FURNISHED.
SCHOOL BOOKS, Ac.—The various Books In use In this
city and county, will belept on hand and sold as low air
elsewhere, wholesale and Retail.
The public is invited to call sad look at the stock of the
CENTRE SQUARE BOOK STORE of •
July 27 3t 28 W. F. DUNCAN .
c! ALT: SALT 1:--The advertisers keep
0 constantly on hand a large supply of
GROUND ALUM SALT,
ASHTON FINE SALT, • • -
MARSHALL a DEAKINS FINE AND DAIRY
SALT, which they are nowselling at VOLT LOW MCI&
CARR, GEM A CO.,
Grain and Lumber Commission House, Baltimore, Md.
June lb
S UNDAY
NOTICE.--PerilOno
Medicines on Sunday. will please call between the
hours of 1 and 2 P. M., at Dr; WAILAN'B .Drag Btoreq .
No . 60 North Queen street. ape 7 tfl.2
L S.-Castor 0.4, Sweet .014 011 of
0 .,•
s PIKE, STONE, SENEKA, SASSATTAA
For sale et THOMAS ET IY. , •ustRS
Drug & Moulted Stop, West . King prout,,,lAber.
hb S
NO 30.
Treasurer &Receiver,
t6ll, Weutm's Store, Rost King St Centre Square.
tt 16
PHILADELPHIA.
Si, 1; llwith the .Ik.Wish,.
CHAMPAONE
BURGUNDy,
SHERRY,
LISBON,
HOCK,
ti C l ~.:. _ p ;:
i.'o-. l~i f
July 6 Gm 25