Bradford reporter. (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, May 27, 1854, Image 1
V 110),Irri SMINT-0 TOWAN.D . AV Saturbap fitornmp. Mao 27,11054. 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. 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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 Weal CbiMblirC9l44 " 1 110 ,0 4 ,4 4 F 11 . 1 4 1 0 112 ,!5. hid ' , sat been gtherWilek • • - • It was etastOtil Bunker traMe ' n eitu i store and had been duly astaniebod fu4 'de-141.Pu EWE " 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= "tIC . I N ' MEE 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