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From Galley% Lady's Book.
"MUSTARD TO MIX."
A ILECEIYY FOR YOUNG I.IOUSENEIYMN.
" And the ice it isn't water, end water isn't free—
end can't say that anything is what it ought to be."
—Cricket on the Heerth.
" I feel as if I should fly "
No wonder poori Mrs. Bunker longed for the
wings of a dove, if they could bear her to anything
134 rest. It was Monday—washing day—and blue
Monday in the li bargain. The parlor was in disor
der (the Bunkers alWays at in their parlor on Sun
day, and held it sacred for the rest of .the week;)
the front hall tracked and littered up with the arri
val of .a visitors baggage—the spare room was not
ready—the clothes ;not counted out—the girl idling
away her time it the pump—the breakfast dishes
unwashed—and thebaby,screaming as only a cross
child can sereatn, ie its mother's arms, showing
not the least symptoms of a morning nap, or, in
deed, of anything bet colic. .-,
Mrs. Bunker, as she sat in the midst al this con
fusion, and expressed her desire to fty, bore Aole-
semblance whatever to an angel—except:that an
gels are usually represented with loose robes and
and unconfined haii.-We question if-she had look..
ed at a brush since the day before, and her morn
tng dress was of the style denominated" wrapper"
—a not overclean .Chintz The room itself was
cheerful enough, soi far as the sunshine and com- .
fortable furniture would go; but nothing was in its
place ; ,and dis disorder, ad-fed to the foslortiap•
peatance of Mrs Bunker, holding the baby in its
moor, crumpled night-dress and soiled flannel, ware
anything but an inviting prospect to a,newly arriv
ed guest.
Mrs Bunker 'expected her every minute—Atint
Lovey—her husband's aunt, who had brought him
op, and given him all those peculiar ways thaLwere
the bane of Mr. Bunker's life, she having very lit
tle idea of the necessity he attached to method in
managing a household. Mrs. Bunker, only two
years from schdol, had written ,very, nice letters to
this friend of her husband's orphan childhood. She
loved her Joshua, in spite of his unsentimental
name, and was inclined to adopt all his family in
her affectionate little soul. Nor was it unnatural
that she Wished them to think well of her in retorn
—she particularly 'desired to gain Aunt Lovey's
good opinion, and when the long talker:-of visit was
decided on, had hriped to make a grand first im
pression. if it hadn't been Monday morning, and
it the baby hadn't been so cross--it the spare room
had only been cleared up after her brother's detil ,
tore—it the girl was worth two straws—ln fact.
it everything hadn't been exactly what it shouldn't
Nit,' Mrs Bunker, would have got up herself.
her house, and her batty,to the best advantage
She had a very pretty face, and figure, a fact of ,
which she was well aware, and as a school girl
and young lady in society, had made the most of
u. Since her marriage this was not so apparent
to Mr. Bunker, however, as in the days olyilleir
courtship Men she never allowed herself to be
teen without her hair in the most wonderful French
twists and Grecian braids—or her area pot on to
the utmost advantage. Now, "it wasn't worth
chile to dress just for Joshual l —or a baby was so
iroublesome, or she hadn't a!thing to put on. It
erns worth while to,dreas for Aunt Lovey, and she
dewed to look bet very best—only baby
couldn't go to sleep... " Rock-a-bi•bab)"—
(Mr.i. Bunker had been considered to have the
test vice in the Hirvide Seminary, but now her
music was confine chiefly to tha( charming ballad
viler, 'Mother Gouge )
" R , ick a-hy by, fa.her's gone a hunting '' Oh
dear, she will be here before I can get hitt! down !.
There—there—dad' the drayman say hie Aunt Lo
vey was a gone to walky uppy to the housey I
Johnny shall ride, Johnny shall ride (you provok
ing little monkey, why don't you shut your eyes !")
Wid a white pussycat tied to his side!" sang,
and rocked, and trotted Mrs. Bunker.
" Where is that Jane I Not a dish washed—and
I don't believe the hot water's on for ibe elothes.
There, there, Mother's baby, mother's only little
son? Send the wind right up, so I would. Ride a
'sock horse to Banbury cross—there, there, don't
cry so, mothers little man—` , had a little dog sir!
Banger was his name, sir"—Banger, Buffer, Kick,
et Cutler, Banger was his name, sir I Jane, Jane !
Where is that girl ! I feel as if I should fly !"
At which remark—the energy'of which we have
have endeavored to portray in the most crumbled
vcs—the door opened to admit, not Jane, but
Aunt Lovey, and our history of Uri. Bunker's tribe•
xicals began
She gave one glance at her visitor, one w her I
sell, and round the room. There was no help for ,
it—she was obliged to deposit baby in the cradle,
screaming as he Was, and advanced to make :s
" btu 'impression." Aunt Lowey did not 104
shocked Of disgusted—a little surprised aerial*,
for knowing her nephew's orderly propensiOu,
this was not what she expected to find his horne, ,
and the - Untidy, tired, fretted-looking woman who
introduced herself as his wife, did not certainly en.
ewer 10,16e -foyer's description of bis betrothed--
However, she had been a hodsekesper, and knew
what Monday morning,s were, with only one maid
of all work, and a little child to see to. So she
kissed her niece very cordiallirfor the warm wel
come she offered, and begging Liao; to be minded,
as alp ondetatood these little trot:Mica"- sat down,
laid aside her bonnet and 'shawl, add asked for the
baby.
There it was again—bardest of all:. birs.Bon:'
keels personal vanity, in departing from her as a
wonian, bad rested and ita e fon the baby.
flout tied taken the utmost interest itv ila advent..:.
_knitted all ifs's:tubs l the very blue pair, soiled,And
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- dirty, which was kicked oat at that motnent—,and
in return, had been favored by rapturous acommts
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Of hie b! 2O . , TY • k b a d pictured ben
elf
three mono Ban
presenting the-baby in grand toilet to his giesNunt,
and seeing her'surprise, 'as the old ,IstlY epteilied
ifie halt bad teen'tiddr . dew rk •
But there mono help it, end she was oblig
ed to'crithdrsw the poor little juvenile torn its in
toluntary confinement' eady to cry; rith weariness
and disappointment,. is she tried Locos: it to some.
thing like good humor. Jane 'drawn by curiosity
where duty failed, arrived to'COMplete the tableau,
slamming the door, and Slipping over tbe.pump•
water on her way to the wash kitchen. She must
have been' experimenting on the principle that
the longest way round is the shortest way home,"
for there way a door in the work•kitoben leadmg
directly to the street. • •
'Good Mint Lovey Was no. mom discomposed by
the bold stare the 11 help". fixed upon. her, thin she
had been by the rest of the picture. ft mast have
cost an inward tremor to lay down her dove color
ed cashmere shawl and split straw bonnet with its
satin ribtnons, on the littered bureau ; but she did
so without incitation, Mrs Bunker haling fairly
forgotten to offer one in the combing annoyances
and embarrassments of the moment, and then seat
ed in the rocking chair, from which her niece lied
risen, she spread the cradle blanket in her lap, and
held out her hands for the baby.
It was really a very nice chid, as babies go, in
spite of its rumpled costume. Aunt - tovey's first
proceeding w"es icT" itraighten it oot,""
the utfcomfonable loWs blclinte and , flannel from
under its cold little Leaf,' Het handkerchief was
produced tci:ffry theiningled ef•
fecta of tears and ( teething, and then wairned on the
stove—there wit - very. littlefifist...stnirn never
did dial on waahing: . - daprtheti4invoi4ti' the
mottled 'atria and • 'Os; smoothed,
soothed and comfotted c presenteitninuelptibre re
spectabte appearance, aiiiiii*Oried-Umitly kiss
from its grandaunt, by way . of an anodyne. It
seemed to have the desired effect, for after awing
witbits round blue eyes in the ill lady's hoe, as
if endeavoring to recall the features, it
.gradual-
ly winked and blinked itself to sleep, certainly cot
trary to its moat determined intentions.
Mrs Bunker, w.tig had ekeused hersell as it tQ
ovellOok Jane's operations, but in reality to take
up the crying fit where the baby left oft, returned
with eyes very much swollen in consequence, and
tried to oiler an apology for herself and her house,
but broke down again into &hide sob, and a clean
pocket handkerchief.
" Come, come, my dear, no excuse is negated,'"
hummed Aunt Lovey, at the mother and the last
retiring baby, 'irt • the '6ld 2 tashioned' nielexly" of
AI Banks and braes " " Just warm a pillow ; there
that's fight ; now shake it up, and make . it son ;
have every leather smixith and light,' unconsciously
relapsing into rhyme , as well. as chime, yrhile she
deposited the placid Johnny in his accustomed bed
And now, my dear, I see how it all is.,
mind
you lend a clean check apron! never mind this
towel will do, and I. will ,wash. op these dishes
post-haste. What is your girl's name! Jane!—
Jane, here, come and' rake op the fire, a little;
there's nothing that - helps matters along taster than
a bright cheerful tire; it's like a lively disposition,
' which I am sure you have naturally "
'PUBLISHED 'EVERY' SATURDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH.
It As woneeilul to see. Jane's alacrit3 in obey.
ing these instructions, given in a quick, inspirit
ing, and at the same time, not to be trifled with
tone. Itlf , ..Bunker,captain a •she_ was placed hersel
willingly under the orders of so Skillful pilot, and
we. sleeted triumphantly through the household
difiritulties that had gathered in thicklyaround her.
And now, my dear," resumed that excellent
woman; unpinning the towel that encircled her
ample, 'fillet, and folding it smoothly before she
laid it" what else is there to do this morn
ing
?" „.
The fire was burning cheerfully, the dishes put
away, the carpet swept, the chairs set back, and
the baby still sleeping soundly in thtilbright warmth
thit had diffused itself through the room. hire.
Banker already felt as it she had known Aunt Lo ! '
Tay for a long time;
,tbey had talked all the while
they were busied about household 'Heim, and the
new cleat felt as, if she could almost open her
heart to the kind old lady and consult her about
those constantly occurring domestic drawbacks
ina trials, Joshua, good husband u he was, did not
seem to understand.. It was more effectitre than a
week of formal visiting, and Km. Bunker's face and
step brightened with The room. Now came, the
clouds again. "There was
. so much to be done;
she didn't know where tp . begin."
But
,whiu it?" urged Aunt Lowey, stooping
down admiringly o'er the Cradle ; lot the baby
looked' very . Joveiy in its quiet sleep, one little
-round bend pushed under biscbeek—be was mak
ing as good an impression 88 bikmother could
sire. .
"Oh, eeerYthilitc responded the baby's Inetket
in,a4espairing tone. „
‘.. kb, .1 see, mustardto mix," and with these ca.
ialmstic words, the,siejtor took a deliberate mussy
of her [mamas tor the first time. " Consider me
your wundmotber,Sophia, and, let, me,mluise you
to tidy yourself a little; thm-will_ be the first step
truth it. A neat mornindretwand cleanapror3,
are nezt_best, or perhaps better tiuna good. fire, in
any boom., pit see tolbs baby." ,
Aunt Lacy certainly made herself at homm.fibe
pet the.. 4 1 ,4 bwtieliteekta• 7 .basfiefzje. Ote , ateve
hearth 'and e*lttnieed.l4o bes ot her ikl to !tee
if they commuted apy i dampnese or mud.ibut: ts in
her recent walk s end, :ber
ta „ if sh e ; w ell itTlffii49ll,o f or KIPP. Oats- *re.
Ru"et took t t , adeieltr.,l B Ay, 1 1 4 -reittter Pe!
aerie ions, anti found 41,y, i worlk myna. The morn;
iN's dales Siereelieeteidathed.with the. ease sod
alefejt7 that astoniShcat kieleeirs-;00 0 isAnikk i Pl i b i
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hid ' , sat been gtherWilek • • - •
It was etastOtil Bunker traMe ' n eitu i
store and had been duly astaniebod fu4 'de-141.Pu
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" osoosoiaros or onstmczkriore Paoo44l'' QVATI:IO
at hie, twuit's me:petted aWiviirand the tidy ap.
pounce of the whole honspitotd—in tell the truth,
he wondered how, the last happened to be so—That
Ma. Bunker bowl time tositek err wsplasiati . on of
the significant sentence applied by the old lady to
he state of diispOidency With regard to domestic
*bibs. , Significant ate waa convinced, though she
ciOsidnot exacay make out the application, as her
dam bad seen the 'mutton chops destined for din
neroriivii horn file and she bad never
hard of Musitird,bitios taken with them. They
had been dilly wired, praised and eaten; the din.
neidiehes were *plied audio away, so was the
baby tau his second diurnal uap, and Mr.. Bunker,.
notwithstanding shwhad company, found hersel f
seated to her sewing by three o'clock for the first
time in a monk:while lane, like the unfortunate
" mentioned in one of the baby's favorite
lullabies, was
To :he
Ranging out the clothes"
Aunt Lowey, looking thoughtfully' over her spec
tacles, thought bet Mew's'description of his wife
not far out Of the way after all, as she hemmed
away icdustrionsly at a pile of new towels the most
fascinating work next to crotchet one can under•
take ; it slips by so last and evenly, and there
seems to be so much accomplished.
" But, Mint Lowey," said Mrs. Banker, looking
tip iuddenly, and finding these penetrating gray
eyes fixed ixt her, " what did you mean by mos
tard to mix I"
"Oh, I did not explain, did I Well when I
was first married, and moved out west—Utica was
our west then, nom Connecticut—l knew no more
about managing for myself than you do now I
used to find my work accumulate, and I would get
discouraged, and go about a whole week, keling
u if the world rested upon my shoulders; and that
made me mope, and your Uncle John got discourag•
add:menu did, and there was no end to the
snarl things would get into. Our only near neigh
tor, was a nice tidy 'body whir always looked like
wi=•wdrk!'.
- " Somtbing such a person as you," interrupted
Mrultankor plasfalty. _
"Well, perhaps so ; but yon ticsier - siiir my
house; her house was like a pin from one end to
the other. One day I just run in to borrow a little
meal—ours having got out unexpectedly—and I
found my good neighbor in a burry, acting just as
I used to feel sometimes."
" Oh, she hid everything to do," she said, and
company coming for dinner.
" Everything? Well, what for? As tar as I could
see'evinything was done."
"Oh, the table Is to set ;" and up and -around
she went again.
it Bo it mu two hours to dinner—what else ?"
" Why ! well, then, mustard to vas,"
" That was ever earthly thing, come to think of
it ; but she had been flurried by the guidon arrival,
but did not mop to see that i► could not possibly
disturb any of het arrangements. So I went home
and found I generally bad mustard to mitt, when
my flurries came on ; that is, if I set myself right
to work to dear up the snarl, it wasn't half so bad
as I felt it wu. Setting down to fret over matters
only snarl things the more, and then poor John,
was troubled to see me worried and things would
go on from bad to worse."
"But, aunty," said the young wife, with a half
sigh. ending in a smile, " do you think 1 shall ever
make a kousekeeper? I know Joshua is disap
pointed."
" Yes, yes, my dear; why not? Only you will
have to learn how to mitt mustard to begin with."
AARON BURR ARM Till WIDOW' OF HAMILTON —A
correspondent of the Detroit Enquirer, writing from
Allegan, on the 6th ult., says:--
Seeing a paragraph in your paper of the 4th,
speaking of the omission, in all the lives written fly
Alexander Hamilton, of the name of his wife, re.
minds The of a thrilling and painful incident, to
which 1 was an eye witness. connected wit a la
dy, (who; by the way, I suppose few will need be
informed, was, before marriage, a daughter of Gen.
eral Schuyler, of Albany.) •About the year 1822,
as near as - i can recollect, I was on board_ one of
the old Fulton and Livingston line of boats, (say
the James Kent, or Chancellor Livingston,) on my
way from New-York to Albany. All who travel.
ed in those days will recollect that the dinner boor
was quite as interesting as now. The ladies were
di coarse provided for first; and the gentlemen who
stood near the friot (lithe tables, could crowd upon
the back seats, (so that they'resp......;• , ;ifd..lly retreated
as the ladies came down) until the latter were- all
seated ; then such as were not crowded quite off ;
could take a seat on a signal being gieen.
Among the first that were passing op next twin
berths, and back of one table was Aaron Barr, and
it was my lot to be *next to. him ; We got as far op
eis those ahead of us Could go, before coming to
ISM occupied by ladies on that side, and al: came
to a stand facing the table. At that moment there
came down opposite tons a large lady, richly dress•
ed, in black, and veiled, and while yet standing,
directly opposite to Burr, she pat her veil aside, and
raising her erre across the table, she sew, with his
eyes directly , upon her, Aaron Barr, ind only ame
nded by the width of thetable. She gave • a load
ratans and fell; but there being quite a number
00P41% by, t hfTclPO t hiikanoc*Aer out. The
ixrit was then about approaching Newborg,and she
insisted on being put ashore at once, attalie would
go nb farther in the limit withturf on board, and it
wAidelle es ihe,wished..
During the 'hotelmen, at the tablet-Burr stood
IBts s aatoe, looking- on with a stoic-indiflerenne
and composure, never moving's muscle; and, us
soon as Mrs: Hamilton .was removed, , he sat down
Ind atew verybearty!lionite and went on Inatny,
Btst to tiny - li re#lltter and enjoyed my diarist,
crowded pp 'to &Ise piOsimitY to that man, with
die litiftiiy? - that'fatai" deal,' throu gh "my
Mind, fOantuit. '
intintirmfatille ihne that Mrs. litimilton
saidif Was the lirit time she ever set her!eves
on Aaron Iturf 'ibis the day hotilled bet husband,
ihd no doubt it W a s the NA. • • .
Ite nuke GIrL
The editor of the Americas AgoutilaHiri, printed at
Westehester;"-Pertn'i speaking of a Ste!, in the Even
ing PIA entitled 16 The Longest Night in a lite,7
says: f.-
It has brought vividly to our mind a thrilling in
cident which happens to be within oar own knowl
edge, and we cannot forbear trying, in' our poor
way, to ton the tale. Tbe intelligent and highly res
pectable gentleman to whom . the occurrence hap
pened is now a :resident of this bbiough, and in
every *tinnier the story is true.
A number of years since, the individual to whom
we allude was a pupil at a school in this county,
boarding at a farm house about one mile distant
from the Academy. The , hole& yap one of those
built at different periods of time, and presenting a
long extended front to the roadside. It was situat
ed in the gorge of* lonely wood, and just below it
ran s deep. dark ravine, which was the haunted
ground of the neighborhood—for it is well known
that every neighborhood has its haunted ground.
The sleepin& apartments of the family were in
the extreme end of the house, while That occupied
by their boarder was the fortherest removed from
them possible. One night he remained late at a
lecture delivered to the school, and by the time he
arrived the family had all retired, it being past the
boor of eleven o'clock. He passed into the house
and immediately went op to his chamber. The re
flected tight of the moon shone in the room, and, as
be entered the doorway and tamed towards his
bed, there stood at the side of h, a figure dressed
in winter, dimly apparent to him through the shad
owy moonlight.
He was.' as mitY well be supposed, terror strick
en. Turning for a tnomentom the apparition to.
wards the window, to see if were not a fantastic
creation, caused by the moonlight falling on some
object in the apartment, his eye again looked for
the strange sight, but it was gone, without the slight
est perceptible noise With his whole nervous sys
tem completely unstrung, he however succeeded at
length in convincing himself that he had been de
effived..gukally _undressed ADJ. Ight
to sleep, for there was too Much agitation to do so.
He lay in this wakeful state for about three quarters
of an hour, when he thought he felt the bed slowly
raised beneath him, He again 'succeeded in per
suading himself that he Was deceived, and attrib
uted this to the elects cil the intense fear and
consequent nervous excitement of the first strange
appearance.
After another,tedious period of time, the same
rising ol the bed was felt, and on this occasion the
half arose, leaned' over and looked partially under
the bed, and listened with the most intense earn
estness; but not the slightest 110613, even ol respi
ration, or any of the ddlerent occasions came to
his ear He again strove to dismiss the fearful sub
ject from his mind, and at length, by excess ol
weariness, fell into ao uneasy and disturbed sleep,
which most have lasted for-two hours. - He was
aroused from this uneasy moose by something
between 4 piercing shrike and a Irenzied laugh,
unearthly in its tone, breaking upon _ his eat in
the dead silence of the night, and immediately a l
his side.
The unusual and horrible character of the cry.—
with all the preceding 'circumstances, render it
difficult it not impossible, to represent the intense
and agonizing fear which crept overt he completely
onmaned inmate of that chamber. Ten years and
mole have clasped since the circumstance occur.
red, and yet, at this distant day our friend relates
the incident with an excited tone of voice, wit' _t
indicates how dreadful were the realirtes that mr.
rounded. him. He sat up erect in the bed, with
every fibre of his flesh quivering with- terror, and
with straining eye and ear, sought to solve the fear
ful mystery.
In the midst of this thrilling and excited state of
feeling,. there carnal a wilder repetition of the ming
led scream and laugh, and says our informarty it
was such a cry as can never be effaced tram m y
memory." He instantly •sprang from the bed to
the floor, and irla delirium of fear, dragged the
bedstead from the corner of the room, and, there,
behind the high head-board, stood the apparition
which had presented itself to his astonished sight
when he first entered the room on that dreadlul
night. It was the figure of a woman clothed in
white, with long black, luxuriant hair hanging wildly
about her person. •
It was a maniaczirl from a neighboring house,
who come in the afternoon, during his absence, to
spend the night, and had wandered from the room
where the family supposed they had secured her.-
When he entered the room she was standing
first described her position, and while hiri sty" was
turned for a moment towards the window, 011ie
silendycrept beneath the bed. We hope the rectal
of the story may not have the effect to disturb the
repose of onr young or lady aeaders. If there a t e
any (ears on '(hat subject, we advise, them, before
locking their chamber doors at night, to look under
the bed, and into the band.boXes and closets. After
such an examination, they may retire whiteout the
slightest alarm.
HATRED OT . TOWAOD3 7110
Russtaas.—As en instance of thu'.bitter hatred"felt
by the Circtuutiani toward' the Russiens, it isolated
that a few years ago,' elltrive ship 'aprnag:a tpak
not it sea, jest as a Reepieri eteanter parsed ip the
distance: T'neTurbisb slave ;denier, whO prefer
red even tbe chill blait Sibetim i lo &grave in deep
water, made signals . of distress, and ,the Steamer
came op it! time Ft tesitsPik the,, OOP And
cargo horn destruction But so deeply, is hatred ef
Russia implanted in every Circassian heart, that
the epicilef the girls revolted at the , thoughterot.be
coming the helpmates of the grey coated soldiers,
instead of Airing the sumptuous" coach , of e, Tart
ish Pasha. They hall, bid adieu to their native.
mountains With , little 'emotion. Inn a the Reillian
ehip approached, they set stare terrible and &spirit
lag jetsam. Some stint hiradlort‘iste the sea;
others amyl) their knives into their torirte tto thanes
heroines, death was preferable to the bridaT,fietrof
a detested Muscovite. The survivors were ;Wren
to Anapti and .married to CosSick!;ttf-4Well tgi the
officers as servants. ' ,
FEB
NEBRASKA AND KANSAS
SPEECH OF ,
HON. G. A. GROW,
it? fig Dove of ileptvoeqfgfibto,
Ito 1554
The-Neasa being in the CoMatinee of the Whole on
the state olthe
Mr. GROW said,: , .
Mr. Casinwas:—The: bill under consideration
provides kir organizing-two territorial governmenti,
to be called Nebreilmand- Kansas, embracing to
gether about six hundred andrsixty.five thousand
square miles—an area twice as large as the origi
nal thirteen JColonies, - -and extending horn' New
Mexico to the British possessions,. and from the
western I imits of Minnesota and the organized States
to Washington and Oregon, containing four hundred
and twenly.five million acres of land, being more
than a fourth Of all the ptiblic lands owned by . the
Government.
The provisions of the ' bill ere those usually in
serted in bills for the organization of territorial go
vernments, with the ezemption of the fourteenth sec
tion, which.repeals so mach of the Winsome com
promise act es prohibited slavery in all the territo
ry porrhased of Franceilying north of the parallel
of 36° 30' north latitude. The opposition to this
(rill, with the exception of the propriety of organiz
ing two territorial governments at this time instead
of one,, is confined wholly to, thissection. - Aad the
objection to the Senate bill is to the same section,
and to that provision known as the Clayton amend
ment, which restricts the elective franchise in the
Territories to citizens alone, it having been the
policy of the Government heretofore to permit all
persons residing in the Territory, who had declared
their intention to become citizens, to participate in
the organization of the government, what reason is
t h ere f or their exclusion ir. this case, or for their ex-
elusion in any similar anal The fact that they are
residents of the Territory is the best evidence that
they have seuled there with the iutention ol making
it their permanent home, and their oath in the dec
laration of intention to become citizens absolves
them from allegiance to foreign Powers,and clothes
them with our nationality. Why, then, on doctrines
of popular sovereignty should they not be allowed
awoicean thia-intant staie,of .isociere—sriassevailies
the institutions under which they are to live !—•
Their exclusion in this case, theiefore ' would be
not oule onjosi,hai inenilaiarens withihegreat prin
ciple claimed to be embodied in this bill by its
special advocates.
But the territory proposed to be embraced in Ne
braska is one vast wilderness, inhabited by tribes
of wild Indians, most of whom are tar removed
from your settlements, and have never had any in
tercourse with the whites. And why should they
be disturbed nowt Why hasten on the time when
you must make treaties for the purchase of their
lands, with their long Jana of annuities swelling
up the annual expenditures of the Government mil
lions? Why should the Government force its offi
cers and temporary govemmenw on into the wil
derness tar in advance of the tide of emigration,
especially when it is to drive the red man from his
that forest home! Fur when the buffalo shall flee
from the plains of Nebrska at the approach of the
white man, the hunting ground of the Indian will
exist only in the land of " the-Great Spirit." I will
be but a few years, at best, before the civilization
of Western Europe and the regenerated civilization
ot Eastern Asia, commingling on the crest of -the
Rocky Mountains, will blot forever from the gen
erations of living men the last representative of the
Indian race. True, as was well said by the gentle
men from Missouri, [Mr. Carothers.] some days
since, that is his duom He must give way to an
advancing civilization, and theefornis of savage life
must yield to its necessities. Extermination, some
day; is therefore his inevitable late Destiny has
stamped it on the annals of his race, and lime is
last tolfiling the decree. But is it a wise and hu
mane policy, on the part of the Government, need
leanly to hasten its a,complishirent I
Sir, what reason ib there for the organizalon of
any territorial government at ihiAt , time over any of
this territory ? There o• tai; ni.e tit any force, and
rthat, however, with me, is rudiment : it is to have
an organized government to protect the emigrant,
and contemplated radioed routes to California and
Oregon. ' But one Territory is sufficient for that pur
pose, and would embrace all the white'populatoon
new settled between Utah and the States. One
Territory, embracing about a fifth of this vast area,
would form* continuous connection of Territories
skirting the western bordersof all the States, reach
ing across our entire limits, from the British poise's
sions to Mexico. West of Wisconsin we should.
have Minnesota•, of lowa and Missouri, the new
Territeryi"ef Arkansas and Texas, New Mexico;
while the Pacific toast is tined with Washington
l and Oregon. Why should the Government go to
the expense of organizing territorial governments
1 too deep where there are no white population, and
no occasion for any for Tearer? file expense of each
of these territorial governments, to salaries to offi.
cats, and the expenses of legi 4 lation would not be
less than $70,000 a year, bestdes the expense of
keeping'up military posts, requiring an increase of
the Army, with its:attendant espenditure,arwell as
a vast amount ot claims rpm the Government for
Indian depredations wpm the private property of
the citizen. SO that -the entire expense of each of
these Territories would nearly or quite reachSloo - ,-
000 a year,
Rut d.; objection is merely to the propriety ot an
I expenditure of money. and tl.e policy that should
eovern our intercourse with the Indixn tribes. !tie
however, a suffirient •reason wi h me why there
el hl be but one territorial government - ingest, of
trfb organized at this time. But the peat and con
trolling objection; to even that, as proposed by this
bid; 1 , ..1 the tepeat of the eighth section-of the act of
6th March,' 1820 ; and in order properly to discuss
thatAnestion; it is necessary briefly lb refer to the
political; hiatoty WI a few years Doting' the first
session ol the Thirty-first Congresi, five separate
and distinct acts of legislation were ingrafted on
your statute book, and christened the Comemmise
ol 1850: It Was heralded to the country by its
Wender Its' an almoner of peace, and the dove. was
km forth over the troubled waters. A year passed
stagy, and no note of discord was heard in pews
Halls. The political animosities engendeOd by
the sectional strife and 'contesurof the past 'firer
years had lost their bitterness and rancor; and'a
'general acquiescCrice pervaded the. whole country.
I left my home in take a Seat in the Thirty Se
cond Congress, with oh idea that the deliberations
- of thii Hall were hi be in any way ilisterbecl by the
question of slavery draintnly term ol service as a
Representative; and hilly resolveilohat they should
pot be' btany word or era of mine. But, before the
b r. riOrtiellian or this House, and before the utterance
id word prepping to' dratitrb that compromise,
were introdseed by a southern member
'lO the Henittoptic caucus, and Subiteilnently into
'both tkanches of CoisgrON'to deeliii it 'a Bpali4.
Tlioled; sir 'a.tiiinit their intkiduetioti elf final,
and agatii4them on thek finat_pailage, for Teasoes
Ili meted, which 1100 believeto be golid, r that
regarded any further agitation - of these questions
'atib,ll itrita as useless, and unnecessary, sad lint
one of those who believed that discussion up
SiSM=Et=iZ=
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One side of a queilion is not az' Cation, while dis
cussion on the otber u , I could see no benefit like-
ly to accrue from their panne." I know, sir, of
but one way to quiet and end agitation on any
subject, and , that s to cease acting and talking
about tt., ,
M that time I folly endorsed the remarks of the
&maim, from Illinois, [gr. Doum.ss,] made in op.
position to Mese resolutions, in the Senate of the
..
United States, on the23d of Deeq; e xor, 0151, most
of which are equally applicable present time,
in whit* he, -
"Are not the friends of the compromise becom
ing agitators, and will not the country hold us res
ponsible for:that which we condemn and denounce
in the Abolitionists and Free Soilersr
" Those who preach peace should not be the first
to commence and. reopen an old quarrel."
.'" Let us cease agitating, stop the debate, and drop
the subjacL" •
That was my. opinion then, sir, and upon that
conviction I -have acted ever since. But a lew
months later, acid all sections of the two great polit
ioallsarties of the country, in .convention at Balti
more, pledged to each Silber their faith an.] their
honor" to resist all attempts at renewing, in Con
gress or oat of it, the agitation of the slavery clues,
lion, under whatever' shape or color the attempt may be
male" Adopting that pledge, I entered the canvass
of 1852, and gave, my best energies and efforts to
the success ebbe Democratic party, and the !slum ph
of its nominee. Relying on the honor and integ
rity of she pita, and the,good faith mutually pledg
ed by its mebers, I congratulated myself in its
success, that at last there was an end of slavery
agitation in the halls of Congress, and that the coun
try could once more repose in peace For the olive
branch had been extended over by-Bones, and " the
dead past was to bury its dead.'
But before the zompromise of 1850 is four years
tild, we find ourselves in the midst of another wild
sectional controversy, and the agitation of the
slavery question" is again renewed in and out of
Congress. 'The discovery is just made by a north
ern Man; that g reat
. wrong and injustice has 'been
done the South tathe legistatinn of theconntry, anti
to which With remarkable humility she has quietly
submitted for more than a third of a century ft
the Miasouri compromise be an indignity and a
wrong, it was heaped upon the south by her own
done "'For, at the time of its passage, there were
eleven free and eleven slaveholding states in the
• nams e lvweist snerseverey-riv6l46istheren Senators
but eiglitin a foil 'Senate voted againiat it. And
of her eighty one Representatives upon this fjoor,
only thirty eight- go that of her one hundred. and
th -ee Representatives in both branches of Congress,
forty-six only voted against this flcgrant wrong,
and a southern President consunsated the injustice
by signing the act with the advice and approval of
a Cabinet, a majority of whom were from stave
holding S.ateti. Mr Chi'', in his speech of the 6th
of March, 1850 ; in which be explains his connsc•
Lion with Missouri compromise,* declared that
among those who agreed to that line were a majority
of southern members."
I have no earthly doult that I voted. in common
toith my other southern friends for the adoption of the
line of 36° 30'."
licre is his own declaration to settle forever the
controversy that has been raised in this Hall, whe
ther he was in favor of,the compromise establishing
the line of 36°.:10'
Mr. SMITH, of Va. Will the gentleman permit
xne to say a word.
Mr. GROW,. If the gentleman will be abort, for
I have no timele - spare,
Mr. SMITH. The proposition came upon two
points.
Mr. GROW. Oh, I will explain that tayself. Mr.
Clay was opposed to the restriction on the S
-TATE of
Missouri, but not to the establishment of this line of
prohibition. I suppose that is what the gentleman
alludes to.
Mr. SMI I'R. No, sir, it was not that ; I will ex
plain, if the gentleman will permit me.
Mr. GROW. [cannot consent to have the gen..
denian take up my time for that purpose. The re—
cord-showir that this deed was done by southern then,
under southern influence, claimed at the time by the
South as a triumph, and regarded by the North as a
defeat. And yet, it is charged by the Representa
tives of tho South upon this floor, day by day, and
reiterated even by northern men, as one of the fla
grant aggressions of the North in violation of jus
tice and of honor.
Sir, this,discovery of wrong and injustice has been
made since the 23d of December, 185% for on that
day the Senator from Illinois, [Mr. Douglas] declar
ed, in the Senate of the United States. that the Mis
souri compromise "bad been acquiesced in cheer
fully and cordially by the people for more than a
Outer" of a century, sad which all panics and sec.
licit of the Union professed to respect and cherish
as a fair, : just, and honorable adjustment." And it
wu to regarded by the members of the last Congress,
both North and South. Per the bill org anizing Ne
braska, With not a word in it relative t b o slavery, in
tnidueed by Mr. Hall, of Mississippi, passed this
House by 'a vote of ninety-eight to forty-three, ten
of which were given by northern men ; so there were
tint thirty-three southern votes against it. Not a
Word - of of objection was made to it by any one be
cause it did not repeal the Missouri compromise.—
Nor ws it then understood tb be inconsistent with
the legislation of 1850.
Onlho last day of the session, Mr. Douglas him
self appealed to the Senate to take this bill, for he
was sure there was a majority for it if it could be
brought to a vote: and '• he should be delighted at its
passage." Mr. Atchison, of Missouri, in urging the
Senate to take it up and pass it, said :
It is evident that the Misanitr t comproire.e cameo' be rn
petite& So far OW that quaostam is concerned, we might as
well agree to the admission of this Territory now as next
year de liVe or ten rears henee..—Congressional Globe, sec
ond Session 32d Cong., v 51.1.43, pego 1119.
What act has northern men committed since that
time so craven that you now expect them to do what
you did not then presume upon their manhood to
ark to be performed? Though the Missouri com
promise was passed by the minal forms of legisla
tion, yet, owing to the circumstances surrounding
its adoption,' it cannot, in the language of Mr. Dick;
Warm, of New-York, made iu the Senate, the 12th
January, 1848, "be regarded as an ordinary act of
upon the majority principle. It was ra
ther in the nature of a compact, not adopted as such,
to be sure. but assented to or acquiesced in by all
the States through their Representatives in Con
gress, or otherwise." It was a settlement- of a see,
Lionel strife, conflicting interests and conflicting
opinions, in which the passions of men had become
inflamed, and the patriot trembled for the future of
his country. And is there no faith to be given to
such arrangements, to reconciliations made under
such circumstances? If you do not observe the set
tlements of strife and discord made by your fathers.
what guarantee have you that your children will ob
serve those made by yourselves.
But you say the arrangement was nneonsavoio
sn
fil, atid - is therefore void; that the V on owitfon
cures to you the, right to go into
.soy ye Territory of
,Ibis Union, and f n aint there the institution of human
bondage, Even if that he the ease, your fath , ers
agreed With our ersfn 1820 that you would wa iv e
That, right so air as this Territory was concerned ;
.rind you have gone on and taken advantage of all the
beneats secured by that - arrangement to you, and.
now you propose to come in and share those secur
ed to tilt, on the plea that, outside of State limits,
you have the absolute right to plant slavery where
ever the flag of the country floats. If that 'sone ef
IRTIIMMIKE too