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J. S. & J. J. BRISBIN,
VOLUME 27.
&{je Centre gmotraf.
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ably be charged. No subscriptions received for
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all arrearages are paid.
BUSINESS CARDS.
M'ALLISTER & BEAVER
AiiOKN i-Yo AT LAW, Bellekohtk, fx
OiJi ce on Allegheny Street. Feb. 10 59
3I.BLANCH ARD- attormJSV
a -A'l'-L.tW, Bklleumtk, Pen* a. Office
furuirly occupied by the Hon. James Burnside.
Jan. 19, 'to.—tf.
WW BROW N- * ttorney-at
. LAW Lbllkfoxtk, Fesma. IV ill attend to
ail legal business entrusted to him, with prompt
ness. May, 5 '59.
T AS. H. RANKIN, ATTORNEYAT-
O LAW, Bkllkfomtk.l'a. wll attend prompt
ly to ail legal busine.-m entrustod to him. Office
next door to tne Post Office. [S)pt. 20, '6O, tf
TP J. HOCKM Aa7SURVEYOH AND
AJ, CONVJiYANCKIt, Bkllkfontb, Pa., will
attend to and correctly execute all busineai en
trusted te him. [June 14,-'6O, — tf.
w£U. L. POTTER. M. D.
OFFICE ou High street, (old office.) Bellefonte
Pa. Will attend to professional calls as
heretofore, and respectfully oilers his professional
services his friends and the public. * 'ct.26'sS
A. FAIBI.AMB. M. I). JAS. A. noIIBINS, 11 D
FAUILAMIH DOBBINS.
DK. FAiKLA A. 'i has associated w.tu him DR
J. H. DUBRIN-.in the practice of medicine
edice as heretofore on ..isiiop street, opposite the
feinperacco Hotel. March 19,57.
R.JAS. P. GREGG, respectfully offer
J—' his professional servioes to tho people o
Idilesburg and vicinity. Residence, Daniel R.
JSoi eau's National Hotel.
Refer to Dr. J. dl. McCoy, Dr. G. L. Potter, Dr.
i. B. Mitchell. [Nov. S, 186.-tf.
WM. KEIBER, surgeon and
v puY&IUiAA, u.<a .ug permanently locatad
effers his Profe>ional services to the citiiena of
Fine Grove' Mills and vicinity, and respectfully
*iicits a iibur-al portion of the public patronage.
[Feb. 16, '6o.—ly.
i. I INGLE. Operative
oud Meehuiiieai Deutist, will prac
tice u!l the various branches of his
profession in the most approved manner. Office
aad residence on Spring St.Bolicfoute' Pa.
(Mar. f. '66. tf.
T ic p 1>I1)I)LE. ATTORNEY-AT
OKLLr.io.Mi. Pa. Will amend to all
easiness entrusted to l.im with care and prompt
ness. Refer to Gov. Pollock, Milton Pa. Una
Hon. A. G. Curtin, Bellefonte Pa. Office with
John H. Stover jau. 5, '6O.
JR. MtJFFLV, aext J"
, \t SIST bBa.NCU INsL lIANaE CoiIPANT. *® r
tons wishing to secure themselves from losses by
Ire, will do well to call upon him at the store of J
K. Muffiy 4 Co.. N. E. corner of the Diamond,
three doors above Allegheny stree , Bellefonte,
Centred a, Pa. Mar. 15, 'CO. 1 .
WW. WHITE, Dentist, has pcr-
maneutiy located in Boalsburg, Centre
County Pa. Office ou main ft., next door to the
store of Johnston 4 Kelbr, where be purposes
practising b's profession ia the most scientific
.manner and at moderate charges. mar.
sua C. Mitchkll. Ctrl- a T. Alkxandbr
MITCHELL & ALEXANDER.
A HORNL Y ti-AT LAW, Bkllkfostk PrNJtA.
Paving associated themselves in the practice
•1 law, will a'ten 1 promptly to ail business en
trusted to their care
Office in the Arcade. [Nov! 1. 160.—tf.
CONVEY AN CI NG.
Deeds bonds, mortgages, axd ar
ticles OF AGREEMENT neatly and cor
yoctly executed. Also, attention will be given to
Ahe adjustment of Book Accounts, and accounts
( Adminstratior sand Executors prepared far filing.
• See next door to tho Pout Office.
.Qet., 19th, 'SB, WM. J. KEALSH.
JOHN H. STOVER
a TTORNEY AND'COUNSELLOR AT LAW
J\ BELLEFONTE, PA., will practice his pro-'
fe.tien in the several courts of Centre county. —
Ail business entrusted to him will be carefully at
tended to. Collections made and all monies
promptly .remitted. Office, on High st. formerly
spcuped by Judge Burnside, and D. C. Boal, Esq.
wherehe can be consulted both in the English and
ivitbe germau language. May 6, '58—22 ly.
JAS. MACMAHUS. W. P tf ACM AHU
J; & WM. P- MACMANUS.
A TTOKNEY'S AT-LaW, Bellefonte, Pa.,
J\ Office in the rooms formerly occupied by
Linn A Wilson, Allegheny street. Jas. Macman
us has associated with W. P. Macmanus, Esq., in
the practice of law. professional business iutrus
tedt o their care will receive prompt attention.
They will atlebd the several Courts in the Coun
ties of Centre, Clinton and Clearfield.
June 21,'60, tf.
XJALE & HOY. ATTORNEYS-AT
JLJL LAf, will attend pro nptly to all business
•ntru stedto their oare. Office in the building
feru)e r 'v occupied by Hon, Jus. T. Hale.
A CARD.
Messrs. Ilale A Hoy will attend to tny business
taring mv absence in Congress, and will be as
sisted by me in the trial of all causes entruste>lto
Item. J. T HALE. jan 5'1860
CURTIN & RIxANOHARD.
ATTOKNEY'&-AT-LAW,BELLttPoSTE,PE}t!A
The undersigned having associated them
selves in the practise of Law, will faithfully at
tend to all professional business entrusted to them
la Centre, Clintiou and Clearfield counties. All
collections placed in their hinds, will receive
their promt attention. Office in Blanchard's new
building on Allegheny street.
Nov. 30'58 CURTIN A BLANCHARD.
BxIJYKtJVG HOJJSE OF
WM. F.. REYNOLDS & CO.
BELLEFONTE, CENTRE CQ., PENN'A.
Bills cf Exchange and Notes discounted ; Collec
tions made and Funds promptly remitted. Inter.
*st paid on Special Deposits, Exchange on the
cities constantly on hand and for sale.
Deposits received. April 7 'SB
WM HARDING, Fashiosablb Barbkr ajid
Hair Dresser, Bellefonte, Pa., Has
epened a Barber Shop one door above the Frank
lin House, where he can be found at all times.—
Good Razors, keen and sharp, kept constantly on
hand. Hair Dressing, Nhampooning, Ac., atten.
ded to in the most workman like manner. He
kopes by strict attention to business to reoeive a
liberal share of public patronage.
llefonte.June 28, 1860-—tf.
Ayer's Sarsaparilla.
ST.LAWRENCEHOTEL.
CHESTNUT STREET.
PHILADELPHIA.
WM. B. CAMPBELL., Proprietor
Apr sth'6o—tf.
J. THORP FLAHERTY,
Importer of
Hi avana Segars,
. .837 CHESTNUT STREET,
(Adjoining Girard House,)
And Opposite CotmsesTAL HOTEL,
PIIIUDELI'UH, PFX.XSYLYANIA.
Ar d.26,-'6U, —IT.
BOMGARDNEFt HOUSE
CO RNER OF SIXTH AND R. R. STREETS
OPPOSITE
L. V, AND PENNA. R. R. DEPOTS,
HARKISBURG, FA.
J.W. STONE. PROPRIETOR
Mar. 15th, 1860, lv.
CHARLES MCBREDET"
HAS JUST 11 EC El VED
A LARGE AND SPLENDID STOCK OF
Dry GrOodH,
READY-MADE CLOTHING,
GROCERIES, HARDWARE, GUEENSWARE.
ALL of which he it selling at very reduced
price!.
(joode given in Exchange for Country Produce.
.The public are invited to call and examine his
stock before purchasing elsewhere.
Bcllefor-tie, Nov. 3, '59. tf.
Ijxlted~~states hotel,
BY
U. W. TEKTEYCK.
OPPOSITF PENNSYLVANIA R, R. DEPOT
HARaiSBURG PA.
B. HARTSHORN Superintendent.
O pains have beeu spare 1 to make the abvoe
X X the first hotel in Harritbnrg. The table i
always spread with the best the market affords
and the accommodations are suprior to any found
elsewhere in the cit.v. March Ist 1860.S
HUGH 8, BRISBEN,
Sruggisi,
MANUFACTURER OP
EXTRA LIQUOR COLORING,
N. IF. Car. Third ie Poplar itrecte,
Term* Caeh ] Philadelphia.
Oct. 3, 1860, — ly.
IC. C. nt-MFS, J At. T. HALS
u. jt. m'alliktefi, X. C. CURTIS
BANKING HOUSE.
Interest paid on Special Deposit.
HUMES, M'ALLISTEK HALE A CO.,
BELLEFCXTE, FA.
DEPOSITS received, Bills uf exchange and
>*otes Discounted, Collections made and
proceeds remitted promptly. Interest paid on
special deposits for Ninety days, and under six
months at the rate of fou: per cent, per anw'in.
Fr six mouths and upwards, at the r. to c five
percent, per tiinutu. Exchange on the East ron
st.mtlv on hani January, 3rd. IS6T.
"BELLEFONTE DISPENSAIIY
Persons in want of PAINTS, OILS, VAR
NISHED, or anything of tho kind, will do
well to purchase them at the Drug Store ol J. 4 J.
Harris, EruckerhotV's Row, Bellefonte. Also,
Drugs, Muricines,
Pocket Krives, Fakct Articles,
pEKFt'Htcitr, Tobacco,
Segars, Liquors,
and nil the Patent Medicines made.
Surgeon's and Physician's Instrumenft
onn.ta-tly oo hand. Call and see thorn, nra .y
opposil i the Conrid House.
January, 3rd 1861.
A- Guckenheimer. S. Wcrtheimar. K Werinsiuier .
A. G. &, BFLO'S ,
IMPORT Kit 8 AND DKALKRB llf
Foreign and Domestic Liquors.
PISTILLFKB OF
MONONGAHELA RYE WIHSKFY,
Also, Rectifiers of the
IRON CITY WHISKEY,
And Manufacturers of the Celebrated
GERMAN STOMACII BITTERS
No. 25 Market Street,
Nov 15- ] PITTSBURGH, PA.
LOUIS GERBER, ~
IMPORTER AND MANUFACTURER UP
FANCY FURS.
For Ladies', Gentlemen's and Children's Wear,
NO. 534 ARCH ST., PHIL'A,
All kinds of Furs Pressed, Cleaned and Repaired.
Furs made to order at the shortest notice.
Full value paid for Shipping Furs,
Furs taken care of during
the Summer
Oct. 4, '6o.—ly.
W. A. ARNOLD. JOHR W. WILSOX
ARNOLD & WILSON
WARMING & VENTILATING WAREHOUSE,
No. 1010 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
CMILSON's paten Cane and Ventilating
FURNACES, Cooking Ranges.
Balk Boilers.
ENAMELED STATE MANTELS
Common and Low Down Parlor Grates,
Warm Air Registers and Ventilating, 4c. 4c.
Particular attention given t„ warming and Ven
tilating Buildings of every discription.
BEN J. M. FELTWELL, Sup' i.
Apr. 26, —1860. ly.
HAINES & DOCK. ,
WHOLESALE GROCBBS,
No. 35 North Water Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
GROCERIES, GROCERIES, GROCERIES,
GROCERIES, GROCERIES, GROCERIES,
Merchants of Central Pennsylvania
LOOK TO YOJB INTERESTS ! !
If you wish to buy cheap go to Haines 4 Dock,
They keep on hand the best articles to be bad
in the City, in their line of businesi.
Call and examine their goods.
Remember their Firm is at
No. 85 North Water Street,
PHILADELPHIA
Apr. s,'Bo ly.
A LOT of Ladies Woo 1B Hoods juit recefro
J\. *7 D. LBYDEN A 00,
liofonto, Doc. >O, 'M.
["WE STAND UPON THE IMMUTABLE PRINCIPLES OFJUSTICE —NO EARTHLY POWER SHALL DRtWE US FROM OUR POSITION-.
BELLEFONTE. PA.. THURSDAY MORNING. JAN.. 24 1861
INAUGURAL ADDRESS
OF
HOX. ANDREW G. CURTIN,
FELLOW CITIZENS. —IIcving been entrust
ed, by the people of Pennsylvania, with the
administration of the Executive department
of the government for the next three years,
and having taken a solemn oath of fidelity
to the Constitution of the United States, and
to the Constitution of Pennsylvania, I avail
myself of your presence fo express to you,
and through you to the people of the State,
my gratitude for the distinguished honor
they have., in their partiality, conferred up
on me.
Deeply impressed with its responsibilities
and duties, I enter upon the office of Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania with a determination
to fulfil them faithfully, to the utmost of my
ability. Questions of great moment, inti
mately connected with the feelings and in
terests of the people of all parts of the Na
tion, now agitate the public mind ; and some
of them, from their novelty and importance,
are left for settlement in the uncertainty of
the future. A selfish caution might indicate
silence a9 the safest course to be pursued as
to these questions, by one ju9t entering up
on the responsibilities of high official posi
tion ; but fidelity to the high trust reposed
in me demand, especially at this juncture,
that I yield to an honored custom which re
quires % frank declaration of the principles
to be adopted and the policy to be pursued
during my official term.
We have assumed as the great fundamen
tal truth of our political theory, that man is
capable of self-government, and that all
power emanates from the people. An expe
rience of seventy one years, under the Con
stitution of the United States, has demon
strated to all mankind that the people can
bo entrusted with their own political desti
nies, and the deliberate expression of their
will should furnish the ruls of conduct to
their representatives in official station.—
Thus appreciating their liberal capacity for
self-government, and alive to the importance
of preserving, pure and unsullied as it came
from the hands of the Apostles of Liberty,
this vital principle, I pledge myself to stand
between it and encroachments, whether in
stigated by hatred or ambition, by fanaticism
or folly.
The policy that should regulate the admin
istration of the government of our State,
was declared by its founders, and is ful'y
established by experience. It is just and
fraternal in its aims, liberal in its spirit,
and patriotic in its progress. The freedom
of speech and of the press, the right of
conscience and private judgement in civil
and religious faith, are the high prerogatives
to which the American citizen is oorn. In
our social organization the rich and the poor,
the high and the low, enjoy these equally,
and the Constitution and the laws in harmo
ny therewith, protect the rights of all. The
intelligence of the people is one of the main
pillars of the fabric of our government, and
the highest hopes of the patriot for its safe
ty rest on enlightened public morality and
virtue. Our system of Common schools will
ever enlist my earnest solicitude. For its
growing wants the most ample provision
should be made by the Legislature. I feel
that I need not urge this duty. The system
has been gaining in strength and usefulness
for a quarter of a century, until it has silen
ced all opposition by its beneficent fruits,—
It has at times languished far want of just
appropriations, from changes and amend
ments of the law, and perhaps from ineffi
ciency in its administration ; but it has sur
mounted every difficulty and is now regard
ed by the enlightened and patriotic of every
political faith, as the great bulwark of safe
ty for our free institutions. The manner in
which this subject is presented to the Legis
lature, by my immediate predecessor, in his
annual message, fully harmonizes with
public sentiment; and his recommendation
for aid to the Farmer's High School of
Pennsylvania meets my most cordial appro
bation, Invited to the rich prairie lands of
the West, whore the labor of the husband
man is simple and uniform, when population
has filled our vallies, it passes away from
our highland soils where scientific culture is
necessary to reward labor by bringing fruit
fulness and plenty out of comparative ster
ility. While Individual liberality has done
much for an institution tbat is designed to
educate the farmer of the State, the School
languishes for want of public aid. An ex
perience of ten years has fully demonstrated
that the institution can be made self-sustain
ing ; and it requires no aid from the State,
except for the completion of the buildings,
in accordance with the original design. A
liberal appropriation for that purpose-would
be honorable to the Legislature and a just
recognition of a system of public.instruction
that is of the highest importance to the State
in the development of our wealth, the growth
of our population and the prosperity of our
great agricultural interests.
The State having beep wisely relieved of
the management of the public improvements
by their sale, the administration of the gov
ernment is greatly simplified, its resources
are certain and well understood, and the
amoant ot the public debt is definitely as
certained. A rigid economy in all its vari
ous departments, and a strict accountability
from all public officers, are expected by our
people, and they shall not be disappointed.
Now, that the debt of the State is in course
of steady liquidation, by the ordinary means
of the treasury, all unnecessary expendi
tures of the public money mu9t be firmly
resisted, so that the gradual diminution of
the indebtedness shall not be interrupted.
To promote the prosperity of the people
and the power of the Commonwealth, by
increasing her financial resources, by a lib
eral recognition of the vast interests of our
commerce, by husbanding our means and
diminishing our burdens of taxation and of
debt, will be the highest objects of my am
bition, and all the energy of my administra
tion will be direeted to the accomplishment
of these results.
The pardoning power is one of the most
important and delicate powers conferred
upon the Chief Magistrate by the Constitu
tion, and it should always be exercised with
great caution, and never, except on the most
conclusive evidence that it is due to the
condemned, and that the public security
will not be prejudiced by the act. When
such applications are presented to the Exec
utive, it is due to society, to the administra
tion of justice, and to all interested, that
public notice should be given. By the adop
tion of such a regulation imposition will be
prevented and just efforts strengthened.
The association of capital and labor under
acta of incorporation, where the puposes to
be accomplished are beyond tha reach of
individual enterprise, has long been the pol
icy of the State, and has done much to ad
vance the prosperity of the people. Where
the means of the citizens are moderate, as
they generally are in new and growing
countries, and where the concentration of
the capital of many is necessary to develop
ment and progress, such associations, when
judiciously restricted, confer large benefits
on the State. The vast resources of Penn-,
■vlvania, and the variety of her mechanical
and other industrial pursuits, invite capital
and enterprise from abroad, which on every
sound principle of political economy, should
be encouraged. Much of the time of the
Legislature is consumed by applications for
special chartered privileges which might be
saved by the enactment of general laws,
and by sucb amendment to our general min
ing and manufacturing law as will remove
needless and bnrthensome restraints, and
at the same time aflbrd ample protection to
capital and labor, and to the community at
large. Our statute books are full of acts of
incorporatiiin, conferring special privileges,
various as they are numerous, dissimilar in
their grants of power, and unequal in their
liabilities and restrictions. Well considered
and judicious general laws to meet all class
es of corporations would remedy tho evil,
economiso time and money, relieve the Le
gislature from the oonstant pressure for
undue privileges, and be just and equal to
all in their administration.
The veto power conferred upon the Exec
utive was given with much hesitation, and
not without serious apprehensions as to its
abuse, by the framers of our organic law.—
It is, in my judgment, to be used with the
greatest caution, and only when legislation
is manifestly inconsiderate, or of more than
doubtful constitutionality. The legislators,
chosen as they are directly by the people,
in such a manner that a fair expression of
their views of the true policy of the govern*
ment can always be had, give to all well
considered measures of legislation the sanc
tion of the highest power of the State, and
it should not be arbitrarily interfered with.
While I shall shrink from no duty involved
by the sacred trust reposed in me by the
people of the Commonwealth, I would have
all other departments of the government
appreciate the full measure of responsibility
that devolves upon them.
The position of mutual estrangement in
which the different sections of our country
have been placed by the precipitate action
and violent denunciation of heated partisans
the apprehension of still more serious com
plications of our political affairs, and the
fearful uncertainty of the future, have had
the effect of weakening commercial credit
and partially interrupting trade ; and, as a
natural consequence, deranging our exchang
es and currency. Yet the elements of gen*
eral prosperity are everywhere diffused
amongst us, and nothiug is wanting but a
return of coufidence to enable us to reap the
rich rewards of our diversified industry and
enterprise. Should the restitution of confi
dence in husiness and commercial oircles be
long delayed, the Legislature, in its wisdom,
will, I doubt not, meet the necessities of the
crisis in a generous and patriotic spirit,
Thus far our system of Government has
fully answered the expectations of its found*
ere, and has demonstrated the capacity of
the people for self-government. The country
has advanced in wealth, knowledge and
power, and secured to all classes of its cit
izens the blessings of peace, prosperity and
happiness. The workings of our simple and
natural political organizations have given
direction and energy to individual and as
sociated enterprise, maintained publio order,
and promoted the welfare of all parts of our
vast ar.d expanding country. No one who
knows the history of Pennsylvania and un
derstands the opinions and feelings of her
people, can justly oharge us with hostility
to our brethren of other States. We regard
them as friends and fellow oountrymen, in
whoee welfare we feel a kindred interest;
apd we recognize, in their broadest extent,
all our constitutional obligations to tbem.
These we are ready and willing to observe
generously and fraternally in their letter
and spirit, with unswerving fidelity.
The election of a President of the United
States, according to the forms of the Con
stitution, has recently been made a pretext
for disturbing the peace of by a
deliberate attempt to wrest from the Federal
Government the powers which the people
conferred on it when they adopted the Con
stitution. By this movement the question
whether the government of the United
States embodies the prerogatives, rights and
powers of sovereignty, or merely represents,
for specific purposes, a multitude of inde
pendent communities, confederated in a
league which any one of them may dissolve
at will, is now placed directly before the
American people. Unhappily this question
is not presented in the simple form of polit
ical discussion, but complicated with the
passions and jealousies of impending or ac
tual conflict. There is nothing in the life
of Mr. Lincoln, nor in any of his acts or
declarations before or since ljis election, to
warrant the apprehension that his Admin
istration will be unfriendly to the local in
stitutions of any of the States, No senti
ments but those of kindness and ooncflation
have been expressed or entertained by the
constitutional m:\jority which elected him :
and nothing has occurred to justify the ex
citement which seems to have blinded the
judgment of a part of the people, and is
precipitating them into revolution.
The supremacy of the National Govern
ment has beeu so fully admitted nnd so loDg
cherished by the people of Pennsylvania,
and so completely has the conviction of its
nationality and sovereignty directed thoir
politioal action, that they are surprised at
the pertinacity with which a portion of the
people elsewhere maintain the opposite view.
The traditions of the past, the recorded
teachings of the Fathers of the Republic,
the security of their freedom and prosperity,
nnd their hopes for the future, are all in
harmony with an unfaltering allegiance to
the National Union, the maintainence of the
Constitution and the enforcement of the laws.
They have faithfully adhered to the com
promises of our great National compact,
and willingly recognized the peculiar in-,
stitutions and rights of property of the peo
ple of other States. Every true Pennsyl
vanian admits that his first civil and polit
ical duty is to the general government, and
he frankly acknowledges his obligation to
protect the constitutional rights of all who
live under its authority qnd enjoy its bless
ings.
I have already taken occasion to say pub
licly, and I now repeat, that if we have any
laws upon our statute books which infringe
upon the rights of the people of any of the
State, or contravene any law of the Federal
Government, or obstruct its execution, they
ought to be repealed. We ought not to hes
itate to exhibit toother States that may have
enacted laws interfering with the rights, or
obstructive of the remedies which belong
constitutionally to all American oitizens, an
example of magnanimity and of implloit
obedience to the paramount law. and by a
prompt repeal of every statute that may
even, by implication, be liable to reasona
ble objection, do our part to remove every
just cause of dissatisfaction with our legis
lation.
Pennsylvania has never faltered in her
recognition of all the duties imposed upon
her by the national compact, and she will,
by every act consistent with her devotion to
the interests of her own people, promote
fraternity and peace, and a liberal comity
between the States, Her convictions on
the vital questions whioh have agitated the
public mind are well understood at home,
and should not be misunderstood abroad.
Her verdicts have been as uniform as they
have been decisive, in favor of the dignity,
the prosperity and the progress of her free
industry, and support of the principles of
liberty on whieh the government is founded,
and menace or rebellion cannot reverse them.
They havepassed into history as the deliber
ate judgment of her people, expressed in a
peaceful, fraternal and constitutional man*
ner; and when they shall have been ad
ministered in the government, as soon they
will be, the madness that now rules the hour
will subside, as their patriotic, faithful and
national aims bring ample protection and
peaceful progress to all sections nf the Re*
public.
In the grave questions which now agitate
the country, no State has a more profound
concern than Pennsylvania. Occupying a
geographical position between the North
and the South, the East and the West, with
the great avenues of travel and trade pass
ing through her borders, carrying on an
extensive commerce with her neighbors, in
the vast and varied productions of her soil,
her mines and her manufacturing industry,
and bound to them by the ties of kindred
and social intercourse, the question of dis
union involves momentous consequences to
her people. The second of the thirty-three
States in population, and the first in material
resources, it it due both to ourselves and to
the other States, that the position and sen
timents of Pennsylvania on the question
should be distinctly understood.
AH the elements of wealth end greatness
have been spread over the State by a kind
Providence with profuse liberality. Our
temperate climate, productive soil, and in
exhaustible mineral wealth, liace stimulated
the industry of our people and improved
the skill of our mechanic*. To develop,
enlarge and protect the interests which grow
ont of our national advantages, have become
cardinal principles of political economy in
Pennsylvania, and the opinion everywhere
prevails among our people that development,
progress and wealth depend on educated
and requited labor ;' b aDd that labor, and the
interests sustained by it, should he adequate-
I ly protected against foreign competition.
The people of Pennsylvania have always
favored that policy which aims to elevute
and foster the industry of the country in
the collection of revenue for the support of
the General Government; and whenever
they have had the opportunity, in a fair
election, they have vindicated that policy at
the ballot-box. When the trade was pros
trated and their industry paralized by the
legislation of the General Government, which
favored adverse interests, they waited pa
tiently for the return of another opportunity
to declare the public will in a constitutional
m*nn&r r In tb# late election of President
of the United States, tha principle of pro
tection was one of the prominent issues.
With the proceedings of Congress at its
lest session fresh in their memories, a large
majority of the people of Pennsylvania en
rolled themselves in an organization, which,
in its declaration of prineipJos, promised, if
successful, to be faithful to their suffering
interests and languishing industry. Pro
tection to labor wgs one of the great princi
ples of its platform ; it was inscribed on its
banners; it was advocated by its public
journals ; and throughout the canvass it was
a leading te*t of the orators of the success
ful party.
This is a propitious moment to declare
that while the people of Pennsylvania were
not indifferent to other vital issues of the
canvass, they were demanding justice for
themselves in the recent election, and had
no design to interfere with or abridge the
rights of the people of other States. The
growth of our State had been retarded by
the abrogation of the prinoipleof protection
from the revenue laws'of the national gov
ernment ; bankruptcy had crushed the en
ergies of many of our most enterprising
citizens ; but no voice of disloyalty or treason
was heard, nor was an arm raised to offer
violence to the sacred fabric of our national
Union. Conscious of their rights and their
power, our people looked to the ballot-box
alone as the legal remedy for existing evils.
In the present unhappy oondition of our
country, it will be our duty to unite with the
people of the States which remain loyal to
the Union, in any just aad honorable meas
ures of conciliation nnd fraternal kindness.
Let us invite them to join us in the fulfil
ment of our obligations under the Federal
Constitution and laws. Then we can oor.
dially unite with them in claiming like
obedience from those States which have
renounced their allegiance. If the loyal
States are just and moderate, without any
saciifice of right or self respect the threat,
ened danger may be averted.
Ours is a National Government. It has
within the sphere of its action all the attri
butes of sovereignty, and among these are
the right and duty of self-preservation. It
is based upon a compact to which all the
people of the United Stales are parties. It
is the result of mutual concessions, which
were made for the purpose of securing re
ciprocal benefits. It acts directly on the
people, and they owe it a personal allegiance.
No part of the people, no State nor comhU
nation of States, can voluntarily secede
from the Union, nor absolve themselves
from their obligations to it. To permit a
State to withdraw at pleasure from the
Union, without the consent of the rest, is
to confess that our government is a failure.
Pennsylvania cannot acquiesce in such q con
spiracy, nor assent to a doctrine which ln->
volves the destruction of the Government.
Jf the Government is to exist, all the
quirements of the Constitution must be
obeyed ; and it must have power adequate
to the enforcement of the supreme law of
the land in every State, It ia the first
duty of the National authorities to stay the
progress of anarchy and enforce the laws,
and Pennsylvania with a united people,
will give them an honest, faithful and ao
tive support. The people mean to preserve
the integrity of the National Union at every
hazard.
The Constitution which was originally
framed to promote the welfare of thirteen
States and four millions of people, in less
than three querters of a oentury has em
hraoed thirty.three States and thirty mil
liona of inhabitants. Our territory has
been extended over new climates, including
people with new interests and wanti, and
the Government has protected them all-
Every thing requisite to the perpetuity of
the Union and its expanding power, would
seem to have been foreseen . end provided
for by the wisdom and sggeoity of the fram
ers of the Constitution,
]( is all we desire or hope fbr, and all
that our fellow-oountrymen who complain,
oan reasonably demand. It prorides that
amandmeuta whioh Coagfedf iMy propose,
the careful and deliberate consideration
EDITORS & PROPRIETORS,
NUMBER 4
which their importance may demand. Change
is not always progress, and a people who
have lived so long, and enjoyed so much
prosperity, who hove so many sacred mem
ories of the past, and such rich legacies to
transmit to *lfuture, should
long and seriously before they attempt
alter any of the fundamental principles of
the great charter of our liberties.
I assume the duties of this high oflh-e at
I the most trying period of our national his
tory. The public mind is agitated by feur*,
suspicious and jealosies. Serious upAU'U-.
hensions of the future pervade the people.
A preconcerted and organized effort has
been wade to disturb the stability of Qjy
ernmeDt, dissolve the union of the States,
and mar the symmetry and order of the
noblest political structure ever devised t,n.d
enacted by human wisdom. It shall he my
earnest endeavor to justify the confidence
which you have reposed in me, and to de
serve your approbation. With a conscious
ness of the rectitude of my intentions, with
no resentments to cherish, no emnities to
avenge, no wish but the public good to
gratify, and with a profound sense of the
solemnity of my position, humbly in,yoke
the assistance of our Heavenly Father, h
whom alone is my dependence, that Ilia
strength n\aj sustain and Ilis wisdom guide
me. With His divine aid I shall apply my
self faithfully and fearlessly to nay respon
sible duties, and abide the judgment of a
generous people.
Invoking the blessing of the God of our
fathers upon, o.ur State and nation, it shall
be the highest object of tpy ambition to o>.n-.
tribute to the glory of the Commonwealth,
maintain the civil and religious privileges
of the people, and promote the union, pros
perity and happiness of the country.
NAVE* or SOLDIERS WHO
DIED DURING THE PAST YEAR.— There ar>\
now only eighty-two of the patriots of the
Revolution left to witness the distnembei
mtnt of the confederacy whieb they, in that
glorious seven years' struggle, assisted tu
free from the oppression of the mother couu
try. We give the names of those who have
died during the year:
John llewson, Pennsylvania-.
John Strait, Ohi—
Daniel Dunham, New York-
John Ford, Georgia-
J jho Shed, Virginia.
W ilking 0. Smith, Booth Carolina.
Michael Coon, Pennsylvania
John Ludwig Snyder, Pennsylvania
w illiam Btbuook, New Jersey.
Zicbariah Barber, New York-
Yalvateeo Nevill, Tennessee.
William Beatie, Virginia.
Holmes Greenwood. Rhode Island,
John Daniel Vaugban, Florida.
Frederick Sbaff, New York.
John Johnson, lull ana.
David Botswiek, Con nee- iout.
Reuben Burt, Massachusetts.
Robert CttfTf. Ohio.
Ralph Farnbam, Maine.
PEACEABLE SECESSION.— The friends if
Soqth Carolina boast that ehe baa a right i
secede peaceably, which course they alltga
she has pursued. The following ie the pro*
gress of her " peaoeable secession
Castle Piookney ; taken by storm.
Fort M. ultrie ; captured.
The United Siatet Arsenal in Charleston j
seized.
Toe United StAtee Custom House and f*oat
office iu Charleston; seized.
The United States Revenue Cutter brig
Aiken ; taken.
New fortifications raised op Sullivan's Is
land and Johnson's Island.
Major Audereou beseiged in Tort Bump
ier.
One thousand negro slaves brought into
service raising fortifications to capture Maj.
Anderson.
The commander of the Javer Bonita taken
violently from the custody of the authority
of tbs United States.
Seizure of Northern Merchant vessels.
Firing upon the United States Flag, and
at empiing to eink a United States Ship.
REVOLUTION IN MEXICO —The news from
this distracted couu.ry has been, for years
past, f wars and rumors of tya'S- Vary few
readers of newspapers have kept track ut the
many squabbles and changes among parties
there, but a real change in the state ol af
fairs has at last taken place.
The Church Party, headed by Miramen,
and sustained by the best military ability ot
the nation, has always had possession of the
capital oity—Mexico,—anduhis fact alone
has enabled it tj rule the country. Tbs Lil
ernl Party, headrd by Juarez, and sustain* d
by a majority of the people, has kept up .
disturbance wfiicb sometimes amounted to >\
fight, and oftener to nothing more than a *
annoyance of the ruling power. Now. how -
ever, affairs have really ohanged. Juarez,
at the bead of the Liberal Party, has p -as* --
sion of the Capitol, and it looks as if a cou •
plete revolution had taken place which dep. -
see the Church Party, and takes the goyeri -
ment out of the influence of the Priesthood,
and gives it to the people. We may hone l**r
better things there in the future, if this ba
true.
Sectioua'ism-
The epithet of "sectioual" ie one very flip
pantly used by -the Southern Disuniotus-j
ana their allies in the North against the R •
publican*. Lt us see whether we under
stand the meaning of the term. Ten years
ago a " seuiiaualist" was a man who advoca
ted the Mfilmot Proviso, Four years ago it
waeintaoded to include |l who did not ad
vocate Squatter Sovereignty. Last N ivem
ler it meant all who d'd * support a Slav
Code for the Territoriea, Now, what d-e*- it
nean now ? Why they tell us Ibat we wbti
oppose Disunion—who support the Constitu
tion and iusist upon the enforcement of the
laws, are "eeotioosl,'* This ie the history of
'b* epithet. What it will mean in ay **
henee va oannot tail-—Columbia (CM