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WM. REIBER, SURGEON AND *' PllYhiClAN, having per manently located • ffers his Professional' services to tho citizens of Pine Grove Mills and vicinity, and respectfully •elicits a liberal portion of the public patronage. [Feb. 16, '6o.—ly. J. J. LINGLE, Operative and Mechanical Dentist, will prac tice all the various branches of his profession ill the most approved manner. Office tad residence on Spring St-Bollefonto* Pa. [Mar. f. '6O. tf. TAS. F. RIDDUE. tf LAW, BKLLEFONTK PA. Will atttend to all hasiness ontrksted to him with care and prompt- Mess. Refer to Gov. Pollock, Milton Pa. and Hon. A. G. Curtin, Bellefonte Pa. Office with Johm H. Stover jag. 5, '6O. KTMUFFLI , AGENT FOR TH , WEST BRANCH INSURANCE COMPANY. Per sons wishing to secure themselves from losses by • re, will do well to call upon hiyi at the store of J. R. Muffiy A Co., N. E. corner of the Diamond, three doors above Allegheny strre', Bellefonte, CEMDI-E co , Pa. Mar; 15, '6O. lv. W W. WHITE, DENTIST, has per . roanentiy located in Boalsburg, Centre County Pa. Office on main St., next door to the store of Jchsston A Keller, where he purposes practising h's profession in the most scientific manner and at mo borate c'a irgoi. rnu'. A O. FURST, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, -fx- BELLEFONTE, PA., will attend promptly to ■ll business entrusted to his care. Office on .Northwest corner of thc^Diamond. Will practice in tho several Courts of Centre and Clinton counties. jan.24,'61 -tf. IRA C. MITCHELL. CYRCS T. ALEXANDER MITCHELL & ALEXANDER. ATTOBNEYS-AT-LAW, BELLHFONTE PFNNA. B aving associated themselves in the practice •i law, will jpten 1 promptly to all business en trusted to their care Office in the Arcade. [Novf 1 '6o.—tf. CONVEYANCING. ~ DEEDS BONDS, MORTGAGES, AND AR TICLES OF AGREEMENT neatly and cor retly executed. Also, attention will be given to the adjustment of Book Accounts, and accounts f Adminstratior s and Executors prepared for filing. •Sice next door to the Post Office. Oct., 19th, '6B, WM. J. KEALSH. JOHN H. STOVER ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW BELLEFONTE, PA., will practice his pro fession in the several courts of Centre county. — All business entrusted to him will be carefully at tended to. Collections made and all monies promptly remittod. Office, on High st. formerly •penped by Judge Burnside, and D. C. Boal, Esq. wherehe can be consulted both in the English and lathe german language. May 6,'53 —22 ly. AAI. MACHANUS. W. P. MACMANU J:&WM.P. MA CM ANUS. ATTORNEY'S-AT-LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA., 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. Professionalbusiness intrus tedt o their care will receive prompt attention. They will attehd the several Courts in the Coun ties of Centre, Clinton and Clearfield. June 21, 'CO, tf. TJALE & HOY. ATTORNEYS-AT XX LAW, will attend pro nptly to all business • ntru stedto their care. Office in the building fermorly occupied by Hon, Jas. T. Hale. A CARD. Messrs. Hale A Hoy will attend to my business during my absence in Congress, and will be as listed by me in the trial of all causes entrustedto t hem. J.T.HALE. jans'lß6o " CURTZN & BL AN CHARD. A TTORNEY'S-AT-L AW,BELLEFONTE,PENNA The undersigned having associated them selves in the practise of Law, will faithfully at tend to all professional business entrusted to them in Centre, Clii tiop 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 'SB CURTIN A BLANC HARD, j JS.f JYKMJYO HOUSE OF WM. F.. REYNOLDS & CO. BELLEFONTE, CENTRE CO., PENN'A. Bills of Exchange and Notes discounted ; Collec- i tions made and Funds promptly remitted. Inter- j est paid on Special Deposits, Exchange on the j Easbwn cities constantly on hand and for sale. Deposits received. April 7 'SB XITM. HARDING, FASHIONABLE BARBER AND j YY HAIR DRESSER, BELLEFONTE, PA., Has opened a Barber Shop one door above the Frank- I lin House, where he can be found at all times, — ; Good Razors, kem and sharp, kept constantly on ( hand. Hair Dressing, Nhampooning, Ac., atten ded to in the most workman-like manner, lie hopes by strict attention to business to receive a ; liberal share of public patronage. ]lcfepte,June 28, 1860; —tf. ST. LAWRENCE HOTEL, CHESTNUT STREET PHILADELPHIA. WM. B. CAMPBELL, Propriety Apr sth'6o—tf. J. THORP FLAHERTY, Importer of Havana Segars, o. 837 CHESTNUT STREET, (Adjoining Girard House,) And Opposite CONTINENTAL HOTEL, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. Ar d.26,-'6O,—Iv. BOMGAFtDNER. HOUSE CO RNEtt OF SIXTH AND R. R. STREETS' OPPOSITE L.V. AND PENNA. R. R. DEPOTS, HARRXSBURG, PA. J.W. STONE. PROPRIETOR Mar. 15th, 1860, CHARLES McBRIDE, HA SJ US Tll EC El YET) A LARGE AND SPLENDID STOCK OF Ti-ry GrOOdS. READY-MADE CLOTHING, GROCERIES, HARDWARE, QUEENSWARE. ALL of which he is selling at very reduced prices. Goods given in Exchange for Country Produce. The public are invited to call and examino his stock before purchasing elsewhere: Bellefonte, Nov. 3, '59. tf. UNITED STATES HOTEL, BY Y -~S7W. "QFDEUST E3"ST CIS. OrPOSITF PENNSYLVANIA R. R. DEPOT HARFUSBURG PA. B. HARTSHORN Superintendent. I^T" 0 pains have been spared to make the abvoe IN the first hotel in Harriebnrg. The table i always spread with tbe best the market affords and the accommodations are suprior to any found elsewhere in the city. March Ist ISfiO.s HUGH B. BR.ISBEN, gruagtst, MANUFACTURER OF ' EXTRA LIQUOR COLORING, .V. W. Cor. Third J: Poplar streets, Terms Cash.] Philadeljihia. Oct. 3, 1880,—ly. E. C. HUMES, JAS. T. HALE H. 5. M'ALLISTER, A. G. CUBtIN BANKING HOUSE. Interest paid, on Special Deposit. HUMES, M'AL LISTER HALE <0 CO., EELLEFONTE, PA. DEPOSITS received, Bills of 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 four per cent, per annum. For six month s and upwards, at the rctc ef five per cent, per annum. Exchange on the East con stantly on hand. January, 3rd. 1861. BELLEFGNTE DISPENSARY. Persons in want of PAINTS, OILS, VAR NISHES, or anything of the kind, will do well to purchase them at the Drug Store of J. .t J. HARRIS, Brockerhoff's Row, Bellefonte. Also, DRUGS, MEDICINES, POCKET KNIVES, * FANCY ARTICLES, PERFUMERY, TOBACCO, SEGARS, LIQCORS, and all the Patent Medicines made. J!&s3~ Surgeon's and Physician's Instrumenst onnsta-tlv on hand. Call and see them, nearly opposite the Conrnd House. January, 3rd 18fil. A. Guckenheimer. S. W rtheimor. E Wertheimor. A. G. & BFLO'S , IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN Foreign and Domestic Liquors. DISTILLFRS OF MORON GAIIELA RYE WHISKEY, Also, Rectifiers of the IRON CITY WHISKEY, And Manufacturers of tbe Celebrated GERMAN STOMACH BITTERS No. 25 Market Street, Not. Is"*Go.—l>] PITTSBURGH, PA. LOUIS GERBEII7 IMPORTER AND MANUFACTURER CP FAKTCY FURS. For Ladies', Gentlemen's and Children's \V ear, NO. 23<L ARCH ST., PHIL'A, All kinds of Furs Dressed, 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. JOHN W. WILSON AFLNOLD & WILSON WARMING & VENTILATING WAREHOUSE, No. 1010 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. CMILSON's Paten Cone and Ventilating FURNACES, Cooking' Ranges, Balh : Boilers, ENAMELED STAT MANTELS Common and Low Down arlor Grates, Warm Air Registers an Ventilating, Ac. Ac. Particular attention g.ven to warming and Ven tilating Buildings of every discription. HER J. JIT. FELT WELL, Sup't. Apr. 26,-1860. ly. HAINES & DOCKI WHOLESALE GROCERS, No. 35 North Water Street, PHILADELPHIA. GROCERIES, GROCERIES, GROCERIES, GROCERIES, GROCERIES, GROCERIES, Merchants of Central Pennsylvania - LOOK'TO YOUR INTERESTS ! ! If 1 you wish to buy cheap go to Haines &Do ck They keep on hand the best articles to be had in the City, in their line of business. Call and examine their goods. Remember their Firm is at No. 35 North Water Street, PHILADELPHIA Apr. 2,'60.—1y. A LOT of Ladies Woolen Hoods just received by D. LEIDEN A CO, Bellefonte, Dee. ?0, '6O. ["WE STAND UPON THE IMMUTABLE PRINCIPLES OF JUSTICE-.-NO EARTHLY POWER SHALL DRIVE US FROM OUR POSITION BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING. FEB., 28 1861 NO COMPROMISE WITH REBELS Speech o r the Hon- Mr. Conklin. in the House of Representatives, Jan. 30. The House resumed the, reconsMtratlon of i the report of the Committee of Thirty-three. Mr. CONKLIN, (Rep., N. Y.). ia openißg ' his remarks, said that from the first advent of this secession movement he had po hope | that any concessions they might offer would ! stem the current of the revolt, knowing that it had been long smuldering ar a festering in | the Gulf States. The people of these States ware the dupes of wicked and designing men. It was said that the leading mission 1 of the Republican party was to subvert the j constitutional rights of a portion of the peo- I pie of the eountry, and tkat Republicanism was only another name for Abolitionism, and ; that upon the first accession of power on their part they would liberate tho slaves by an armed intervention of the Federal ernment. These charges were sown broad cast thoughout the land, and were sent forth, like snow storms, or clouds of locusts, to cov er the entire South. These charges wero founded upon the sayings of Republican pol iticians, torn from their context, and which were as near the original as a shred rent from the canvas of the picture would present j the conceptions of tho painter. But they abounded in another thing, infinitely more j detrimental. They abounded in scraps cut I from Northern newspapers, which assailed : throughout the political contests the motives end principles of the Republican party. Ten ] thousand springs of falsehood and perversion I had opened and filled the very atmosphere | of the South with noxious vapors, which were turned persistently for years by South ern politicians iato a current so mighty that it had broken over the safe props of order, so | that the South believed the great party of | patriots in the North, the lovers of constitu | tional law, were reduced to a minority so hopeless as to be utterly extinct. lie was constrained to believe that every avenue wa9 cloeed to everything except what was calcu lated to lash the ptiVlic mind througout the South into fury. If the avetiues of compro- : rniee were still open, ha did not believe, so far as the Union vas concerned, that any compromise they could offer would have any perceptible effect. Dupes were never lead ers, and the men of the South who were de ceived with regard to the sentiments of the j North, were not the men who would head re : bellion or instigate revolt. Those who sow ed the whirlwind would direct the storm. — Those men. however, who had succeeded Old Boreas, and who had let out in this South I wind, were not deceived, for they knew well ; that the party which had recently prevailed in the country had no idea of an invasion up i on constitutional right, or intended any nov el application of its doctrines with regard to Slavery or any other subject. They knew well that the mission of that party was to re store fce anoient policy of the Republic—a policy which begau with Washington and ; carried the Govrnment successfully down ( 1 the stream of time for sevonty yearB —seven- j tv pure, prosperous, and peaoelul years. — j I These men well understood the Heedlessness | iof all these 6chcmps of compromise. They ; ' knew what harmless things the Personal I Liberty bills were, if tbey conflicted with j | the Constitution or with the law. They bad | an example of this in South Carolina, where they had already learned how harmless a thing was legislative usurpation in the States before the beak and claws of Federal rower. That none pretended to invade the relation ship of master aud slave these Scuthern lead ! ors well knew. Ihey knew that tb6 decla rations of all political parties were against it, and they knew also that if any party de sired any amendment to the Constitution to giye them this power, it could not be effected in any period of time which human prophecy could foresee. They knew that, whatever his intention might be, the President elect would be harmless to injurs them, as harm less as a child, with a majority against him in both Houses of Congress, had the repre sentatives of the South been but true to themselves and remained faithful at their posts. Thev cry out against Territorial in justice and usurpation, and yet they knew that they bad more Slave Territory than they could ever hope to people, not by tho law of Mexico, as it was said, but by tho Territori al law', which they would have been unable to pass under the organic law but for the yotes of Northern people as well as South ern. lie understood the list of grievances, but yet considering, while apostate Ameri cans were plotting the ruin of this country, tor such was their ayowed reason. While this was go'mg on, the great mission of liber ty, which filled Christendom with light and hope, was shriveled like a parched scroll.— These apologists were attempting to throw on the wave of revolution over our free, institu tions, warning the nations of tho earth to keep aloof from the mighty ruin* Mr. IIINDMAN, (Dem., Ark.) appealed to the chair to know whether the gentleman was in order in using and applying such language as "apostate Americans." Ho would inquire of the gentleman if be inten ted to apply that language to any member of that House or to their constituents ? If such language could be used there, then the time had come for the dissolution of the Union, and for the secession of the Southern States from it, He would ask the Cbair to decide &|f. - v_ 'I i whether or not such language was? in order. ' Mr. GROW (Rep., Pa.) said the point ef order was not debatable. The Chair reque9- ' ted gentlemen to keep themselves to a fair argument of the question before the llous#, I but unless gentlemen made their remarks ' personal, he had no power te interfere. Mr. CONKLIN was not addressing his re marks to the gentleman from Arkansas, nor did he desire to say anything offensive to any gentleman on the floor. But this was a time which imposed upon every man the duty of speaking unreservedly on this subject. Mr. IIINBMAN again rose. lie said that the wcrds "American apostate," bad been used for some purpose, and he desired to I know to whom the words were applied, and ! whether it was proper to apply them in that House? It was better to meet the question now than at another time. Some interruption followed. Mr- CONKLIN, resuming, said that he was about to say that these grievances of which he had spoken were the rtvowed rea sons for this reyol:—pitiful, contemptible ex cuses of designing and desperate men. lie believed them to be sufterfuges, makeshifts of an unholy and vapid ambition. The true reason of this revolt lay deeper than those reasons which had been assigned. The true reason wa, that by the sentiment of an'over whelming majority'of the people of this Re public, Slavery, as a moral poison, was out lawed, and abhorred. It was because that Slavery, as a policy to b* fostered, had ceased ' to be natioral in this country. It was charg ed on the North that at all its social assem blies it was held to be a moral, a social, and political evil. The charge is true, every word of it. It was true that the vast major ity of the peoplo of the North, all political parties alile, looked upon Slavery as an in ' etitution as a monster of the worst kind, in* | satiable, and destructive to the victim, to the ; master, ar.d to the land. In (hat respect the ' North agreed with all tie rest of the civilised ' world, that slavebolding wss the worst of ! wrongs, the liberty founded, model Republic ! alone excepted. The jurisprudence of the ! world was against Slavery, the civilization of the world was against Slavery, the litera" ture of the world was against Webster once said, "Lightning is strong the torrent is strong, the earthquake is stroDg, but there is something stronger than ali this —it is the enlightened judgment of man kind." And that, too, is against Slavery.— There was no'one to blame for that. No, it was one of the enactments of that "higher law" which was recognized by all people, and to which Coke had givn utterance when he said, "that the law of Parliament, when in conflict with the law of God, was to be held utterly at nought." He affirmed that that love of liberty, that detestation of oppression, that unquenchable hatred of tyranny, which lay at the foundation of Republican institutions, was the seDtiment of the earth, and was a law which lay at the foundation of Republi can institutions. It was the sentiment of the 1 earth, and was a law which could not be ; suspended by Congressional compromises, ! nor repealed, except by that great Legisla i tor whose enactments enter into the subtle ' essence of human life. He repeated, that ! this Anti-Slavery sentimcut lay at the bot -1 torn of Southern diecontent —not while it lay | dormant and slept, like passion, in the breast j of infancy— not while it was silent, did it provoke this terrible angor, but when it found a voioe in the politics of the country. It was charged with a design to accomplish unconstitutional ends, aud to grasp at un constitutional power. That tbey didn't themselves believe ; but it had controlled the election, and there was the rub. It had come, like a chilling frost, to nip in the bud, personal ambition, and to frustrate tbe deep laid plots of sectional aggrandizement, and had changed the balance of political power in j the country. Its mission was not of to-day, but was to prevail; nor would he dsny that it ushers in a mighty reformation. There must be no more Mexican Wars for Slavery or ambition, traveling along the crimson way of military conquest. The arms of the Republic should no more go forth to chaDge realms into deserts, or to sack cities, or to subdue Territories in order to people them with Slavery and endow them with slave representation. The embassadors of the Republic in Europe will never again dare to assemble at the tomb of the great Charle magne and proclaim an Qstend Manifesto.— Henceforth American Slavery was not to be enlarged. No longer was she to be the feast ed, pampered chili of American destiny, a thing to bo fondled and caressed bv the Gov ernment, No, but from this time out it wo'd be a simple necessity in the country, having defined constitutional rights, and having no more. All this had long been foreseen by tbe far seeing eyes of Southern politicians, and who predicted the very year when thsy wo'd come to pass. In that same hour when tbe horoscope loretold the political reverses of 1860, a child was born which has already grown into armed rebellion. From that hour to this, revolution had been premeditated and prepared, and that, too, by the very men who, as officers of the Government, were sworn to maintain the Constitution and the laws, but who had thrown off the mask and revealed themselves as conspirators in this Capital of the country. With this view of their predicament, of its origin, cause, histo ry and authors, he from the very outset saw how little they could do beyond abiding the issue which awaited tbero. Upon the Presi dent and his Cabinet, grave responsibilities had been cast, responsibilities for which they would be held deeply answerable before more than one tribunal. By the Constitution, it was the duty of the President to see the.laws faithfully executed. But be had offered an excuse for non-fulfillment byjcbe fact that as all ministerial and federal officers had resigned in South Carolina, bis power wa practically paralyzed to fulfill the law. That point was one of grave importance, but it had been swallowed up by an~event of still vaster magnitude. The President was Com mander-io.Chief, and he was charged with the duty and vested with to pre serye on land and sea the national defenses, and for the full executiou of that duty no Judges, or Courts, or.Marsbals,'.were needed. Nothing was wanted but firmness and integ rity. This he had made no attempt to'do ; but, on the contrary, bad left the country " naked to its enemies," and left brave men in fortresses UDgarrieoned, and refussd to send them succor and support, but if it were said that to have sent ships and men to these forts would have precipitated bloody outrages, then he answered that it should havo been done before tbe first muttering of the storm—done early, gradually, when sa gacious politicians and citizens had advised and implored him. But it had not been done, and the Executive of this great country stood petrified by fear, or vacillating between de termination and cowardice, while rebels tore from bis nerveless grasp the insignia of the Republic, and in its place hoisted tbe ban ner of secession and rebellion. Congress was powerlees to control this. The Constitution had given them no power to interfere. They had voted the money to cany on the Govern ment, and what else eould they do ? Noth ing but to take their share in that issue which remained—the paramount question of the country. As to the secession movement, that any one State had the right to go out of the Union he did The Constitu tion showed no such right. Their fathers would spurn the idea of secession. It would be spurned by those statesmen who believed that they were not making of vol untary affiliation the eternal wedlock of tbe people. There were three ways in which a State could cut itself looseTrom Federal al legiance : By the amendment of the Conati tution, as provided in the Constitution itself; by the concent, not of the State going out, or of the remaining States, but by the universal acquiesence of the American people ; and by that right or power which inheres in man and not in State, that option which all men had to defeat their governments, and if they succeeded to livo in peace as patriots and heroes,'and if tbey failed to die asrebels'and traitors. But, as to this question ol coercion, it was not the coercion of States, but indi viduals. States did not commit murder and other such crimes. Men did such things, and men were punishable, not States. It had been suggested that suppose eight States se ceded, what then ? That was the old puzzle, the old proplena, solyed by every Government that ever demonstrated the power of self-per petuation. In the crime of one man ten thousand may have been eLgaged, and tbey are equally guilty, but not all punishable practically, because the wheels of Govern ment, in inflicting punishment on all, would roll axle deep in blood, and so clog. But the principle remained the same. As to the question of waging war. In this material age, war was a humdrum thing. The bat tles fought by the knights and Crusaders, and sung of by the troubadours of old, had all passed away, War was no longer a ques tion of personal valor and individual achieve ment, but a mere question of murder—of who could indulge in most iron and lead. Ic was no longer regulated by the law of honor, but by the law of trade ; and if he had the bad heartr imputed to men of the North, he might indeed be anxious to let secession take its course, and he would willingly crown every absconding State with instantaneous inde pendence. There would then he no more rendition of fugitive slaves, no General Gov ernment to quell servile insurrection, no more foreign Pcwers to interfere with the Govern ment. Slavery would of itself die out. The cotton statistics of the world showed that American slave-raised cotton is not to reign as king forever. These statistics, the weird sisters which attend the ring, proclaim that his reign shall be but short, and that his scepter should go into alien hands, " no son of his succeeding." But the quostion was, what was to be done ? lie believed that a more unjust rebellion, and mere perfidious as regarded the relationship, of tbe men of the Government they seught to overthrew, was Dever known. And his difficulty was to see how any branch of the Government could with safety and propriety euter upon nego tiations at all. For the Government to conciliato in this matter was to evince that they were either in the last extremity, or that tbey possessed a magnanimity entirely sublime. Could it be supposed that they would change tho laws of tbe land at the armed behest to those en gaged in resisting tbem ? To do so would demoralize and jeopardize any Government. How could they offer terms to insurgents with uplifted banners of revolt in their hand? To do so would be not only to confess their impotency to execute the laws, but would be offering a bounty to popular clamor and in surrection. lie never saw a mob less deser ving to be leniently dealt with than that which had seized the possessions of the F d eral Government, and taken the property and money, and who had fired upon an unarmed vessel bearing its flag. In the view of ttiese thins, and as long as they continued in their preseDt condition, let there be no compro mise, or if there must be let bitn be " coun ted out" as OD9 all the way to the end. Not confining his views to the Executive, and the people who had raized the standard of rebell ion, be thsy many or few, he had no compro mise to offer, and DO terms to talk about.— None. Never, until they had doffed their cockades and hauled down their Palmetto and their Pelican flags, and wore, not the livery of rebellion, but the habiliments of citizenship, of men subject to the laws. Da struction reigned in these very States where a majority of the people are loyal to the Con stitution and the Union. There were other States, however, ths people of which bad the strongest and most obvious incentive to launch is the tide of secession- They are connected sooially, politically, geograph ically and commercially, with a community agaiust whom an irreverence to the Comti tution and hostility to the Union had gone so far that fealty to the General Government had beD made punishable with death. In those States two parties existed, one in favor of disunion, and the other persistently oppo sed the conclusions, to go out or to remain in, if they were waiting to be coaxed—if that was so, if the people of any State were to be raffled far tbe Government, be for one would decline to take any part in such tram action. lie would not see the Government go info an auction room to bid for allegiance. If they were to be coaxtd into wedlock, be would profsr the feeling of tbe old oonqueror with regard to his daughter, and of whom the poet sung: A warrior si ould her bridegroom be Since maids were best in battlo wooed, And won mid shouts of victory. This was the way he would prefer to woo those States who stood wavering, and who wanted to be ooaxad into the Union. Dan gers existed in Deleware, Maryland, Virgin" ia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, and North Carolina. In those States public vir tue still lived, and the patriotism and genius of her eons was exhibitod during this debate. And now, in this great struggle, thsy found them not; only maintaining their own posi tion in the storm, but inspiring others with their spirit; and yet they promised to give all the help they can [applause] to stem the eurrent of revolution, and to roll back the tide of sectional madness and egotism which prevailed in other States. Not that he be leived it would avert the spread of disunion, or even narrow it. They would, however, make what concession they might to show that they had not stood idle spoctaters while the ship was drifting cn the rocks, which would show that they did not stand uninter ested spectators while the harpies on shore attempted to destroy tho eagle on the seas, concessions which would s.iow that they were anxious to avert civil war until after they had exhausted every expedient and employ ed every fair means to secure peace. But who could compute the consequences, or count the disasters of granting to Slavery all the posessions hereafter to be acquired?— Who could prediat the disasters which might arise in inakiDg Slavery the golden promise embodied in the Crittenden proposition of further empire ? To do this would do to make the Government tho armed missionary of Slavery, and would amount to covenant of war against every people and trihe and State owing a foot of land between here and Del Fuego. He would vote for all the provisions declaratory of the duty to observe all consti tutional pledges- He would vote for even an amendment to the Fugitive Slave law, provi* diug tbey could have two amendments.— There was a provision proposed for transfer ring from the Government of a State to Fed eral Judges the duty of surrendering fugi tives from justice. He could not vote for that. Tbe blame was not that the constitu tional guaranties were not sufficient, but that the people would not observe them. If they were not observed now, how could ihy expect tbem to be observed whan altered ? There would still be provisions as dangerous as those new existing, and as accessible to the Punic faith of the Free States. Ho would leave the Constitution as it was. If they should alter it, if the American people tam per with that liberty-bestowiDg instrument, some Gibbon, or, better still, some Dante would immortalize tbe crime. Some limner, with infernal penoil, would group in the picture, horrible in th sir resemblance to the actors of the day, and haog it in tbe sky, full iu tbe view of those who shall hereafter tread tbe corridors of time. The people of tbe North were a boace-loving and brave people, and would cling to tbe laat to the institutions of their country, with an attachment almost idolatrous, so would the people of tbe great State of New York, with ber 4,000,000 of in habitants. So did her Legislature, as testi- , fled in their late message to tbe Government in relation te the action of these men, who J were now embracing tbe pillars of the Re- i public that they might tear dewu the temple of liberty. These men would sustain the su premacy of tbe Government, and defend it against all new commere. The men ol the North beleiy6d in this Government as their EDITORS & PROPRIETORS. NUMBER 8 fathers made it. They cherished it for all its memories, its tliortyrs, its heroes, and its statesmen. They cherished it for the shelter it afforded against that storm which, without it, would burst and desolate the continent.— But above all they cherished it for its prom* ises yet unaccomplished, its mission incom plete, and its destiny unfulfilled. O-ie Kind Act When Mary and I were married, we were young and foolish, for we bad nothing to be married with ; but Mary was delioate, and j thought I could take care of her best. I kuew 1 bad a strong arm and a brave heart to depend upon. We rented a chamber and we jit to housekeeping. We got together a little furniture—a table, bedstead, dishes— but our monoy failed us before we bought the chairs. I told Mary she must turn up a tub ; for I could not run in debt. No, no.— It was not long before our rich neighbor, Mrs. M , found us out, and kindly enough she supplied us ; half a dozen ohairs were added to our stock. They were old ones, to be sure, but answered just as well for us. I shall never forget the new face those chairs put upon our snug quarters-rr they never looked just right before. The ta hies are turned with Mrs. M and me now—she has turned a poor widow; "but she shall never want while I have anything, never 1" cried the old man, with a charming faee. "I don't forget those old chairs."' Ah, now the secret was out. It was the interest of the old chairs which maintained the poor widow. She was living on the in terest of a little friendly aot done years be fore, and it sufficed for herself and daugh ter. llow beautiful it is to see how Ood blesses the operation of his great and moral law, "love thy neighbor," and we should often see it, could we look into the hidden path of lifo, and hod that it is not self interest, nor rich es nor fame, that binds heart and heart. The simple power of a friendly act can do far more than they. It is these, the friendly acts, the neighborly kindness, the Christian sympathy cf one towards another, which robs wealth of its power to curse, extracts bitter-: ness from sorrow, and opens wells of glad ness in desolate homes. We do not always see the golden links shining in the chain of human events ; but tbey are there, and hap py is he who feels their gentle but irresisth ble influence.— Merchant's Ledyev*. WHAT DOES IT MEAN?— The Charleston Mercury was veiy abusive of Gen. UoustoD, because he would not call a special session of the Texas Legislature. It quotes from the patriotic letter just published by old San Ja cinto, and remarks: "Such is old Sam. We hope he will not at last die like old Zack Taylor, of a pain in the stomaoh." We have often heard it hinted, in a quiet way, that Gsn. Taylor was poisoned by some Southern fanatic, because of his hostility to pro-slavery schemes; is this reference of the Mercury to his death a bint to some enter prising Texan to put Gen. Houston out of the way in the same manner ? If net, why re fer to Gsn. Taylors's death at all I—Pitta,* burg Gazette. Mr. Lincoln on Compromise. SPRINGFIELD, 111., Feb. il. This morning's Journal contains an au thoritative contradiction of a Washington dispatch to the Associated Press, stating that Mr, Lincoln had written to his Congression al friends recommending conciliatory meas ures. It says: " The country may rest assured that in Abraham Lincoln they have a Republican President, one who will give them a Repub lican Administration. Mr. Lincoln is not committed to the border State compromise, nor to any other. He stands immovably up on the Chicago platform, and hs will neither acquiesce, nor counsel his friends to acqui esce, in any oompromiee that surrenders onq iota ot it."— Cm. Commercial. SUBMISSION IN KENTUCKY. —The Lcuisville Courier a Democratic paper, in noticing the introduction in the L-gislature by Mr. Har rison, ot a resolution " requesting the Pros* ident to witbdrad the troops from the foits and fortifications in the seceding States," says : " Before we would ever oonsent to get on our knees to South Carolina in this sort of Egging thequostion style, we would declare the United States Government a nullity at once; beg the rebel States to take sueh of its remaiog lis might please them, and let us, like underlings, dodge about between the mighty legs ot King Pickens, seeking dis honorable graves," We are opposed to coercion. We are for letting the seoediog States alone. At the same time we are tor having and making the the seceding States let the United States alone. While we are an American citizen we will never acknowledge the superiority of South Carolina & Co., oyer ths remainder of the United States, let them never be lowered to satisfy the caprice of a factious meb ef Southern fanatics.— NEVEß, NEVER, NEVER." ALL FIR THE BEST. —Dr. Johnson used to say that a habit of looking at the best side of every event is better than a thousand pounds a year. Bishop Ilall quaintly remarks, ' far every bad there mi;lit be a worse ; and when a man breaks his Ug, let him be thankful that it was not his Beck." When Fenelon'a library was on fire, " God ba praised," he exclamed, " that it is not the dwelling of some poor man 1" This is the true spirit of submission—one of the most beautiful traits that can possess the human heart, flesolva to see this wond on its sunDj side, and yoq have almost half won the battle of life op tbj, outset,
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