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ADDRESS..
the StateCentraltommHttee.
the Democratic Citizens of Penn,
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steno,
the
e delegates
lient i n g the Democracy_ of every
o f the i commonwealth, asserp
,la c o nvention at *Harrisburg on
it, of garch,according to establish
oz, for the purpose of seleCting
Democratic candidates for the Oft.
o fGorernor. Canal Commissioner,
Electors of President of the United I
s ; and, at the - same time, of min
ose republican citizens Who are
boice of Pennsylvania for those
high offices, and appointing dele
te make that choice known, and'
erate jn! the :final' deciiion Of the ,
,ocratiC. partyht the National Con.;
tlfin to be held at Baltimore in May
Baying performed -the duties
s confided to them,' in that spirit of
loos buOarmonious co-operation
'eh cOfisifts with inpublican practice
having selected. as candidates, men
without disparagement to others,
in an eminent -- degree the t
td of their fellow-citi
ey, appointed us, previous to
Ijournment, ' a "State Cenfial
ttee," with 'instructions to pre
! usual address, communicating
ilt of their common action and
non.
,emocratic candidate for Go-ver
iennsylvania is HENRY A.
INI3URG, of Berks county.--.
nomination the Democratic
ier fdr . the suffrages of our fellow
, a pure patriot, 'a tried states
man of unblemished private
r, a disciple of Jefferson, a
of Andrew Jackson, the illus
talesman and honored hero of
deans. Henry A. Muhlenburg
root a revolutionary stock, see
cope in services and sacrifices in
;at war, of `lndependence.. His
ther, a native 'of Germany, was
those noble spirits who in ell
re contended fOr the blessings
Land religious freedom, and he'
the wilds of Pennsylvania that
tich the despots of gurOpe
iways denied to 'a suffering: peo-
His sons partook of the energy
irfather. General Peter Muhlen:
sato was indebted for his first,
sston as a l Colonel in the Conti
line to the friendship r of Wash
, was one of the bravest officers
Revolutionary army'. Brandy
3ermantown, Monmouth; Stony
GreeeSpring, and Yorktown,
itimonyfit his valor, and Penn- .
t has reason to tie proud of that
and conduct
_which gave her
son a high rank , among the he
the Revolution.
Muhlenbutg, an original friend
teral Jackson, and always an un
tineilemocrat, coninienced his'po
t career at the Presidential election
'2B, as a representative; in Congress
t the counties of Berks, Schnylkill
Lehigh. Ele was four times re
tell by his confiding constituents,
a 1838 he was selected by •Presi-
Von Buren as the first 'American
n sent to Austria, to unite by
intuit amity and peace- the
of his birth with 'that of his
i• Throughout his whole
leer, he evinced a, calm and
Judgment, and an indomitable
sof purpose, tiut so • mingled
enity, and frankness of deinean
win esteem' and affection,
those of different political
againstted
iville toad bill, was a(-
'in Congress, he v
)'etoed by General
fined the bank veto 0f11832,
ioial 'of the public deposits
Sank of the _United Stipa in
ie moved the previous ques
) refer the report of the Secre
le Treasury, (Mr. Taney) to
ittee of:Ways, and Means;
4thof April, 1834, solemn
his opinion, on- the.JOur
mgress, by his vote,-that ;,, the
the United States ought not to
Id," and that ~ the public
ht not to be restored." In
ear he was appOinted one of
'lieu of the representatives - of
against whom the bank dos-
Is, as was afterwards done
!positors, hote-holdericl eredi
even stock holders.—This
)1 bank arrogance was but
+ precurior of thatiotalloss
millions of capital, Which'
4i gnments. insolvency,' and
)( hundreds of innocent indi-:
'Posing In fancied -security'
. Promise s of , the bank politi-'
", at the time, vindicated and
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even gloried in its conduct. Adainst
such conduct , and.stich sal institution,
whether.under a national or State char
aeter,"Mr.' Muhfenburg was then, and
is now, solemnly Pledged. During the
same session he voted for !the " Gold
bill,"
,a crowning measure of General
Jackson's attempts to curtail.the circu
lation _of worthless
,paper money, and
to re-establish the only constitutional
currency—GOLD AND SILVER. Through
,out a great pail 'of his Congressional
term he was chairman of the Commit
tee. on Revolutionary • Claims, and a
large portion of his time Was faithfully
given to procure justice forlthe widows
and • orphans of thoie who, suffered in
the cause of the Revolution.
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On the 27th of December, .1834; Mr;
Muhlenburg took an active and promi
nent part in a ineetiner- of members of
Congress,. over' which col. Richard
M. Johnson presided, held' to take raea
sures-for celebrating on they anniversary
of General Jackson's victory at New
Orleans,-a civil triumph of his adann
istratioa, equally glorious4thepayment
and extinguishment of t'ie National
Debt. '
Uniting the blood of :the German
with the birth l right .of the jAmerican
-Speaking and uniting both languages
with equal facility and purity—learned
in the best literature of both—feeling
an ardent sympathy in emigrants from
all countries, from recollections of the
past and hopes of 'the future—Henry
A. Muhlenburg is a genuine representa
tive of the wise and philanthropic poli,
cy of William Penn, who made Penn
sylvania an -"asylum for the oppressed
of every nation. Nor is any of her
citizens 'more deeply imjressed 'than
he is with the duty of preserving un
tarnished her public faith. l • No one, in
a station of her political trust, will de
vote himself more zealougly to that
great - end. At the same time, he is
not ignorant , thatthe people, who are
(in this country at least) 'the govern
ment, have a right to require, and must
have laid before them a candid, minute
and faithful account of.their debt (and
resonrcea, with such propositions ; for a
wise economy, as will convince them
that whatever, sacrifices ; 'they may be
called upon tol make, w ill produce a
result beneficial to them and their pos
terity. • -
Such is the Man who is presented as
the Democratic candidate for Governor
of Pennsylvania. In every way he is
worthy of this high evidence of his
country's trust—in his past actions, his
known principles. his certain course or
'future conduct. 'While we know full
well that unfaltering relianc,e could be
confidently-plicedin the patriotism and
the' talents, and integrity of FRANCIS
R. SHUNK, and the , i other eminent
citizens who, in the - first • instance,"di
vided with him the,preference of the
assembled delegates, yet we cannot de
ceive : ourselves in the full assurance
that the cordial, patriotic and unani
mous voice of the whole Convention,
in favor of him who was the choice of
its majority, gives to his nomination
even more than-usual inAuency, makes
it but the harbinger of fresh success to
the Democracy of the Keystone State
and -leaves no ground j for reasonable
doubt. 'that HENRY A! -MUHLEN
BURG, will, by the votes of his fellow
citizens; be! triumphantly hailed as the
NEXT GGVERNOROF PKNNSYL
VANIA.
In Selecting JOSHUA: HARTS
HORNE, of Chester ccninty, as a can
didate for:the office of CANAL COM
MISSIONER, the Convention have
had reference alike to the7character and
acquirementa of the. man which peen
liarlyfit bin, 'for that sta'tion of trust
and activity, and to his firm adherence
in trying times and, in positions of • im
portant popular responSibility, to the
principles and measures of, the• Dem
ocratic paity. A. member of the Legis
latute during: that periO when every
effort was adopted to :away add mis
lead the 'representatives of the people,
lie was found invariably, firm and faith-..
ful. ' In the place to wineh the
,Demo
cratic party now call him, he 'will be
found equally fe4rless in the -discharge
of duty, equally , unmoved by artful or
sinister 'applications, eqnally resolute to
direct for the public good alone, the
power and' patronage appurtenant to Ma
offtee. • '
..The ticket for Eleetors;of President
arid Vice President is. ;composed - of
tried . Democrats, pledged to
_support the ,
Candidates who shall be' nominated by
the Democratic National Convention to
be holden-at (Delegates al
so tolhat•Ccinvention twin been nom=
natediNhosti know n •fideltty to
the repOioan cause justly{ entitles them ,
there to represent the sentimenta and
wishes of Pennsylvania.' Br a nnani-
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Itiami:!opmesourmU IMo9-Eiils3
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less of Denunciation from any Quarter.-rG#v. PonTin.
'nous resolution,- these delegates were
instructed to vote for and use all their .
.
infltience to, effect tbp nomination of
MARTIN,'VAN BURIN of New
York, for President, and R. M. JOHN
SON Of Kentucky, for Vice-President.
In' giving these -instructions, the Goa
tiention, responding to the known senti
ments of their constituents; took the
occasion to express their undiminished
confidence and regard for the patriotism,
ability' and distinguished services of
JAMES Buena vex, and the gratification
it would have afforded them to, present
hid name, as the, Pennsylvania candi
date for the highest office of the repub
lic, bad not his patriotic sense Of duty
and his characteristic determinatio'n to
sustain the integrity and harem:oily of
the • Democratic party, induced him at
the present time, to decline a domina
tion.
'• The Convention, while acting on the
nomination of. Martin Van Buren, with
a similar patriotic desire to maintain the
integrity andlarmony of the Democrat
ic party. and to , unite their own prefer
ence with that already so generally
evinced in its scarcely divided' send
ment, present to the suffrages of the
republicans of Pennsylvania a candidate
who has always deserved, as he hal .
heretofore received, the strongest evi
dences of her trust.° When elected by
tier aid in 1836 to the Presidential chair
; she gave him nearly one hundred thou
sand of her democratic votes ; and
when in 1840, he was defeated, as we
believe, by fraud, that large -vote was
increased to more than one hundred
and Sony thousand—a suffrage-larger
than any other ever given by,the de
mocracy of Pennsylvania to a eandi
date for any popular office. -- He is pre
sented again, therefore, to the same ace.
proving demociacy as Jefferson and
Jackson were former, days, when
unfairly defeat4by the arts of Fderal-
Os favoring- and unbought
testimonyAieady accor.ded to him hy a
democratic community, that, from the
days of Washington, has never erred
in a wise and just bestowal of its pre
ference on a candidate for the Pinsiden
tial office.
To retrace the grounds of. this past
and present priference of the Democ
racy of Pennsylvania 'for Martin Van
Biiren, would be, to repeat facts deeply
planted in their recollection—to reca
pitulate the Whole series of his actions
as a public man. ; - He is the candidate
of the American democracy, because,
springing from their ranks..working in
their cause and faithful to their princi
ples, he has served them from boyhood
with ability, devotion, honesty, and
fidelity that surely' setum for a public
servant among a free, viribous, and well
judging penple unchanging confidence,
and trust. The-soh of a farmer, who'
had been actively deVoied to his coun
try's cause through the Revolution,
which had just closed When Martin Van
Buren was' born, he came into life, not
in a large city, tint in a retired country
Valley—not aided by powerful friends,
but relying on his own abilities, and
leaking to his honest fellow citizens for
friendship and confidence. Before,he
teas of age, he was actively enlisted
With the friends of Jefferson who over
threw the' dynasty Of the elder Adams.
When he was first elected tethe State
teiislature, ,the conflict With Great
Britain was just begUn: Throughout
the whole 'of it he was indefatigable in
his exertions to aid its success with all
the power, influence and means that
New York Could, furnish. He was the
most active champion of the- war in her
legislature. For his conduct in thus
- supportinkat the outset of his political
career, the: war and the administration
of Madison,, he excited against 'himself
that malignant hatred of the Federalists
which has ever since piirsued him.—
His subsequent legislative labors were
equally true to the Democratic.cause.
To resist the creation of banks, to ex
tend-popular suffrage, to curb the aris
tocracy, to protect the imprisoned debt
or, there among; the objects of hie tar
ceasing labors. Elected to the Senate
of the United States he took the lead in
opposing the , ad:ministration, of John
Quincy Adams. He vindicated and
supperted Andrew Jackson 'with. petri,
ntie ardor. When the voice of Ameri
can democracy raised that hero to the
Presidential chair, Martin Van. Buren
was, placed by him in the highest ofcfi
of his confidence, acrd _will did - he- re
paTthe choice.' Ile filled 'the post of
Secretary of Atate, which Jefferson had'
filled. before ,liim, with, a republican
spirit' worthy*Of of the Apos
tle of Democracy. When a' 'Federal
majority', of tire: Senate.sciglit , to brand
him' with a new mark of die mal ignity,
by 'rejecting his appeintriient.a; Minis
ter to England, the PEOPLE tiodiiated
him- by Iriumpliontly eleCting hiiii tee
President an the same ticket w4li An
drew Jackson.. On the oppesiiitticket_
was Henry Clay. The majority of
Mirtin Van Buren over that favorite of
Federalism exceeded two hundred and
seventy thousand- votes. Chosen •io
succeed Andrew JacksOn .in the Presi
dential office, he completed the wise
policy of that patriot... The-expendi
tures 'of the government were regularly
-ffiminished—toxes were lessened—the
honor and rights of America were up=
held at home and abroSd—the war With
the odious money pOwer; begun , by"
General Jackson,: was -triumphantly.
terminated—an Independent oonsi4O
tional Treasury: took the place of a Na
-1
ti onal Bank-Lthe public moneys were
rescued from the hands-of speculating
porporations---gold and silver were SO
stituted as a currency instead of. the liaT
per promises •of suspending banktkr-
Buffoonery, bacchanalihn, orgies, ',mis
representations and frOds—pijielayin
in New York-manufactured' registers;
in Pennsylvania—false . township re.
turns in New Jersey—steamboat loads
of voters carried to Maine — votes: poll
ed in districts of Ohio more numerous
than the legal voters—these' 'and other
such means of political wirfare, were
1:1 3
suddenly brought to e ar among a peo
ple unprepared to enc enter such acts,
and heretofore relyin on 'the vote by
ballot as the evidence' and safeguard, of
the *ill of the Majority. The result of
unwarrantable practices such as' these
drove 'Martin Van Buren from the place
where the peitple placed him. But
they were a false and !fraudulent echo
of the people's will ; and they
,now but
await that opportunity to make known
''that will, in tones of ndignant truth.—
_Pennsylvania desires among the first to
do so. She presents Martin Van Bu
iereas her candidate itot More from her
sacred confidence in ll the man, thim 'to
redeem.: the sacred cause of political
honesty and national virtue, froni the
disgrace that Federalism iought to -at
tach to thein, by the means. resorted
to in the canvass of 1840.
Nor does the Democracy, in thus se
lecting him. look only to-tile past. I
looks to the future, It foresees in the
approaching contest a desperate-strug
gle to elevate the man and the measures
against which it has been contending,
from. the !day,when Martin Van Buren
stood sjde by side with Andrew Jack
son, in opposing the principles,Tolity
and plans of Henry Clay and John
Quincy Adams. After. a lapse of twen
ty years; during which HENRY CLAY
has been repeatedly rejected by the peo
ple, or
.by his own doubting friends, he
is once tnore, we suppose for the last
time, presented by his party as their
candidate. He asks Pennsylvania to,
bestow upon - him her electorial vote,
while she has fresh - in recollection his
conduct in 1825, when he defeated the
patriot Jackson—her choice and, that oft
the - Democracy ef the Union—ky
coalition with John Quincy Adam ,
mane in direct'opposition to the instruc t
tione of his own State, and closed by
hisraccepting from 'him whom he thus
served, an office by which he placed
himself in the line of safe prece
dents," as an aspirant to the Presidency.
The history of Mr.,Clay, since that
coalition, has been one of unconiprel
raising hostility to the Democratic par
.ty,_and of bitter enmity to its venerable
chieftain Andrew Jackson- Actuated
by such sentiments, he whO had' even
before denounced the just punishment
of the British incendiaries, Arbuthnot
and Ambrister, as an , :example of in
humanity, cruelty, and, ambition"—
viewed the evident preference of his
country . for that gallant chief as a-mis
fortune to be classed with war, pesti
lence and famine," the three great
Scourges of the human race---a send
inent not shared by the . :Aniericao peo;,
ple, Who recollected with heartfeltgratil`
tude the victory oflslew Orleans, which;
!awed its beatity and booty!! from the
grasp of a licentious and hirelitig sol
diery. ! ' • •
'Io 1832, Mr. Clay, 'the old opponent
I,of a Bank of the -United States,- . nnw be
comes us legal Adviser and its legisla,i
tive ally, brought its powerful' aud un
scrupulous aid to bear upon the-P.:resi
dential, caniaign. The veto -
Gen
era! Jackson frustrated the tiTort,, to Fe
charter it, and its 'Money was peered
out like watei- to effect buil overthrow
and to elevate his rival... Its seductions
and oppressions were , alike fruitless.
The hero of the seiOnd war Of instlepeg:
dence ;was- triuinphantly re-etected ;' the
candidate of the Bank was left, prostrate
in'the durit;' •
1n.1833,, viten the - public depeeita
were removed friint that unfaithful _agent,
'Mr:Clay 'Made it die signal' hi Citaniie
his." park leasion.”, .IThreati, defluit
,
eiatinns, traveling committees, deputa
tions, petitions, monster meetiiig,s,jubi
lees, the march' ofsprigs of aristocracy
to the capitol, were all bronght , to bear
on the old hero—hut be regarded:them
as coolly as the bullets of a foreign' foe:
Thelpublic deposits were not restored
—the Bank of the •llnited States was
not re-eharteredtlie electionsl . tiflB34
proVekthat the Ainerican people sus
tained the , wise and 'patriotic foresight
of their President. Mr: - 'Clay did•in- -
deed in tbe heat of his resentment, and
regardless of the judicial character
of the body in which he eat, succeed,
by a partizan vote, in condemning by a ,
series of resolutions,, his illustrious foe
without a trial or hearing, brit ;the in
dignant voice of the American people
,was not slow to expunge his resolutions
from the Journal- 'of the Senate, and
thiis .ag ain to pronounce between the
two .the same• verdict which they , had
repestedly given before. •
In 1838, still harping on his favorite
scheme of a 'National Bank—at the
very time when the Bank-of the United
States had suspended specie payments
and was in a state of actual insolvency
—.Mr. Clay once more pressed- upon
COngress, with all the force of his par
ty' tactics and personal 'zeal, the crea
tion of a fifty million Bank. ~ 1 * be
lieve the establishment of a Bank of the
United States is required byl the com
mon good of the whole country." was
his language while standing amid .the
wrecks of hapPiness and fortune strew
ed around by the institution he had ad
vocated, praised and clung to.
Although in 1839 Mr. Clay was set
aside by the convention of his political
friends at Harrisburg, as unavailable be
fore'the people, and the campaign of
1840 was fought under another chief
with the cries of , . change" and two
dollars eday and'roast beef," and with
the accompaniments of coons and coon
skins, songs, hard cider, riot, and in
temperance; yet he was found ready VS
take the lead in the successes thus at
tained. Durin g the well known extra
session of 1841, the proceedings of the
triumpharit foes of Democracy were
marked out and carried by the unbridled
zeal of the self-constituted Dictator.—
The acts of that memorable - session,
emanating fron himself and his coun
cils, have , been mostly repealed and
condemned at: the poll's by the'people.
They stand as' a monuinent of the unfit
riess of-Mr. day for the practical duties
of an American Statesman. He repeal
ed the'Constitutional -Treasury—that
repeal gave the public moneys to his:
favorite discredited banks. • He passed,
a Bankrupt law—it Was so intolerable
that his own friends rescinded it. He
laid the corner stone of a National Debt
it has grow,n already to twenty-six
S 'millions; and 'requires an additional
tax upon the people of more than a mil
lion of dollars per annum.
,The pro
posed assumption of the. State Debts
*rbald rapidly swell it'lo atco hundred
4nd fifty millions of debt; to paid out
.of the pockets of the American people,
generally to foreign holders, often to
foreign stocialobbers—necessarily re
quiring a direct tax to be levied on the
farther and mechanic - for die Payment of
interest. He twice passed a bill , to
charter a National Bank —and' twice. it
Was averted only by the veto of Presi
dent Tyler, though he forced, in his
violent struggles to carry that' disastrous
project, , the resignation .of the cabinet
council of that officer. He Lasbent
all his etieruies to 'overthrow that con=
,
servative power of 'We' o:institution
Which enables . Me. executive on behalf
orthe people, to'arietit the hegislatio9,
Of Congress, iwhen a bare-niajority act
'against their . interests pur-
Poses,of faction, or at this initigation*of
Violent and ambitious meth - I ' '
Stich Wermthe cliankes7 produced
in 1841, by the promises .and proceed.
ings of 1840.. h-red uced agets,'. reduced
prices, iusolsrent banks, worthless,pa
per thoney, , increased 'tlebri increased
takes, •and 'violent' assaults , upon the
Constitution:] Stich Were the payments
by the whiestof the diaughte thetdrew
on the,,credulity of , their partizans.- r
Sucktoo, wee, the„politicaleOnduct. and
character of the. - man by. *bele cou
eels intinfluence—to serve whose ob.
fects=l,-these ihings were done: Such
itilfiethamwho now.presentedas the
Whig candidate for the . Presidency:—
'theadvocate of a Policy. - that _will im
pose on . the people of the,Vpiied - States
:a fifty k—an enortious Na!
!fain! 'ljtebt4a•direet tilv-4aper mon
ev—antr a eurreney. from
.., which goldi
and'silver cart scarcely fail, to be again;)
exeluded-.4 7 the ,maa. whoge, influence: '
gave .Prasidency.,of
' the minority ,
eindidate;i:Olm.-, Quincy Atians=who
priiud
lun Merl -4:11%'.. Andre ' Jackson
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EiniTS
MEM
[ate, jack aocounait, &Ica)
" • . ,
through his whole admintstration--who
opposed With most intemperatii,zeilihe
Democratic measures , of Martin Van
Buren—and - .who seized with eager
haste the Verrfirst momenta of, power,
'fraudulently obtained by his party, to
press with
,a "violence that dine. had not
abased, over and over again; the
disapprobation of the pepple.: - •
liexpressing their preference for a•
candidate for the sVice-Presidency.:the
Convention spoke by acclamation, the
wishes of their Constituents in - fitor of
RICHARD M. JOHNSON. Twice
before hail Pennsylvania named him
for that high office. Twice before had
her Democracy given him theit vote.
His lcing life of devotion to the public
service is distinguished ,by • repeated
acts securing the confidence
fellow.of.
his republican Citizens.. The
gallantry with '
which he , left the halls
of Congress to breast the dangers of
savage 'warfare ;--thee thavery which
bore him foremost 'into, the , conflict;
the heroism that inspirited his comrades,
white life' seemed to be passing away
with his own blood—the memory of
all this is deeply planted in the hearts
Of his,countrymen. Nor are thr in
sensible to his steady support Of Dem
ocratic measures, :through his long leg
islative service.-- His zeal in the cause
of civil and ieligicies freedom, his
no
tirring efforts to secure'justice to the
survivors in our revolutionary struggle,
his patient and at lac successful ;verse.
verance to effect the abolition of idipris
onment for debt, are but' acfew among
many actions which display the wisdom
of the statesman and the philanthropy
of the man. Deprived as he apparent
ly was,, in 1840'; of the approving tes
timony of his country, the Democracy
of Pennsylvaniagladly unite with their
republican brethren of othe'r States, to
present him again as their candidate in
the full assurance of his triumphant
success. •
These, fellow-citizens. are • the men
whom the Cnnvention has 'presented
- for your suffrages in the approaching
contest. They are every way worthy 4
of your choice. The occasion is one
which demands from you every honor
able effort to secure their success. The
DeMocracy of Vie whole :Union are
alive to its iniportance, for -the inain
tainance of their principles; but upon
Pennsylvania. the Keystone of the arch,
rests more than • upon any other State.
Abe solemn duty of upholding that cause
which never in reality wanted- het anti
never appeared to do so except 'when,
the ballot boxes gave ja return of ,the
stiffrages of het' votes which welelieve
to have been untrue.
JOHN C. BUCHER . ,
LUTHER,
REILY, •
HENRY BUEHLER, .
• M B. LO W RY.
WILLIAM BIGLER,
JAMES R, SNOWDEN,
' HENRY HORN,
HENRY D. GILPIN, -
JOHN H. HOFINE RT.
SAMUEL D. PATTERSON.
CH ARLES BROWN,
A. L. ROWIFORT, '
THOMAS-M'C,ULLY,
. GEORGE SMITH, •
CHAMBERS MaIBBEN,-, •
RHODY PATTERSON, ,
GEORGE R. RIDDLE ;
• CHARLES KUGLER,
JOH N• K. I FINDLAY,
ROBERT J. FISHET.
HARRISBURG, April 4. 1844.?
. Virginia
Once owned a slaiein cOntiesion',With
ono'of his neighbors. He ivas a pious
man and , would sometimes wind
prayers, hy„sayingi. . .y. 011„ Lord in
addition to all.the•bl e ssings, 1,. a sinner,
hive asked at YOur hands; 'yvilj you,
:yOtir infinite . mercy and goothieSs;
condescend tobless;nly half orilotip'?"
Florida
who had lost leg;itillie'tertrice of his
minntry, entered 'a:cabaret, or drinking
how, in IslewOrleans, treateithi,msell
and. atindry„ - othere; and when called
tipon'toliey;SSid 'his*
a Legal tendef.' HeWis . talien before a
magistrate to see if Beth eurrency would
.
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-A NEW FEiTURE:—The Neiv'Orlenns
Picayune :saysltt,:“ Every day brings
something new. “Topping the ques
tion " now, the stricken individual, in
stead of saying, Miss, will you marry
me ?"lexclaiuis,:. , ~Viss;are you in favor
...of annexation?" 'I:
,':REPARTEE. -- -A clerOmanviv6s OD
,surigg_a vqung laqy., for :tight
W.ll.replied the yot . ink lady;
couldeit4iely 9.ctimmentl loose hvb
its to kola. parkshiondrs." 'Tie der
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