OJ E DOLLAR PER ANM'JM, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
'fOWAN DA :
Gainrtnn 3n, U lfl - 185U
political Song.
THE WHITE HOUSE RACE.
TI SI: —" Cnmjttmcn Races."
There's an old (Imy llorse wln>se name is Buck,
I u du, du da ;
Hi- ,1 ,iii was Folly and his sire Ba,l tan k,
I>u da. ilit da day.
< noia We're Imiiml to work all night,
We're bound to work all day ;
I'll bet my money on the Mustang Colt,
Will anybody Viet on the Gray ?
| t., Ma.-t.u>£ Colt is strong and young,
I>u da. du (la ;
Hi- wind is sound and his knees not sprung,
l>u da, du da day.
-j_\Ve'ro bound to, Ac.
Tre <*l,l Gray Horse is a well known trek,
Pu da, du da ;
IP's long 'sen fed at the public rack.
Pu da du (la day.
(Tuna's We're liouiol to, Ac.
The Mustang i- a full blood colt,
Pu da, du da ;
lie ,anii"t -hy, and he will not ledt,
Pu da, du da day.
I 'Hours We're bound to, Ae.
The old Gray Horse, when he tries to trot.
Pu da. du da ;
round and round in the same old spot,
I hi da, du da day.
I'wnir- - We're bound to, Ac.
The Mustang goes at a killing pare.
Pu <la. du da ;
ti, - t h ■iin, Ito win in the four-mile rare,
Pu da, du do day.
( iioKi - W. iv liound to, Ae.
Then <l' v sir tic-t with the old Gray hack,
Pu da. du da ;
Tie Mustang Colt will clear the track,
Pu da, du da day.
Cum;; We're bound to work all night.
We're bound to work all day ;
1 11 U-t my money on the Mustang Colt,
V ou'd Ir-lter not l>ct on the Gray.
Ml i 51111 tin to ns.
WORD CO'JMTY TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION.
Tito regular quarterly meeting of the Brad
ford County Teachers' Association was held on
the lotli and 14th nil., in the Presbyterian
Church of North Warren. The Association
in-! n Friday, RJtli, at ID o'clock, avid was
va.'ol to order by Mr. WM. DAVIS, one of the
Vice IV-idents, and the meeting was ojwncd
■'■ p' lycr. The minutes of the Inst meeting
v ro read by the Secretary ; when on motion,
Pr ' V'nbiirn, X Young, jr. and O. J. f'lmb
k were appointed a committee to arrange
v iTdcr of litrdHoss for this meeting. The
■'Hi'iidtce retired, when Prof. Colt having been
'•i!!' '! on, in a few brief and liappv remarks
' " - titod the design of the association, coTl'eet
' wis'akes entertained by some as to its na
' c', illustrating iho influence of the meetings
"I t!ie A--nidation on the mutual improve-
T'ut and pleasure of the members—and
f rcil'ly >t:llill<_r the great practical matters
out which the Association is acting—mat
to r ancient as the human race, and far- reach
' -'"t their influence as its destinies.
The committee on the order of business pre-
v ' ! H their rejwirt, which was accepted and
.V'l'i. The Const it utioii ami By-Paws were
Vl| l and an opportunity afforded to join the
1 "'"-iuiicii. The Association amounted till
*o o'clock.
Lite afternoon session was opened with pray-
I'r Bliss, President of the Association in
the chair.
'hv Association then took up a resolution
p'stp'tned at last meeting, approving uniform
I ccithm f.ir the supjiort of common schools. —
Eoljurn sjMike in favor of the resolution,
"'R'ißif that th" principle of common schools
'Mil accordance with the genius of our insti
l—that the elevating of the standard of
ation in inn- common schools was constant
-o'- had in view—that in them all were
W interested, and that the jwlicvof making
•■-aui for the education of the poor, as such,
/' 'c.ldy iiividious and objectionable. The
Sl °ii of this subject was arrested by the
the dav, when after singing by the
'he North Warren Presbyterian church,
Mn. i- ("orbin presented a report on the
of awakening teachers to a sense of the
•Mice of t lie profession ; —the report was
'''l. and on motion to adopt it, Messrs.
J : ' a "d Barnes addressed the Association.
'•'-■" to on this subject was suspended—
j,"* ' ! "° l--X'iatioii listened to an address by
M now, Esq., in which were presented
• -'Testing facts and principles connected
"'origin and progress of common schools,
"lcth.i'l of sustaining them. The speak
-11 r y pointed style exhibited much im
"•'h "ii subjects of education in gen-
H'(l in connection with the home
t,
' ' oiuruon school, and the school of
'y the choir, Miss Mary Beards
. ■'>' on education, earnest in its
'' loqneiitlv expressed.
Muiks of the As>ociatioii were tender
•"Mrc.-s and essay. The considera-
I' port en t|| o subject of awakening
' U!II<T1 ami Mr 'iover -poke on
HIE BRADFORD REPORTER.
the subject, and then the Association adjourn
ed till 7 1-2 P. M.
After recess, the Association convened and
resumed the consideration of the unfinished bu
siness ; —the discussion was continued by Messrs.
Panics, Colt, Cobtirn, Gnycr, 11. Beardslcc,
I>r. Pliss and Morrow.
Dr. Powell, Commissioner of common schools
in Tioga Co., X. Y., being present, by request,
addressed the Association in connection with
tlic subject under discussion, on the importance
of recognizing parental responsibility, in educa
tion, on the right formation of character as a
fundamental object in education, and the im
portant agency of teachers in this ; on the
want of proper training of the young in fami
lies, on the evils of filial insubordination and
the degeneracy of the present times in regard
to family government. The Rev. Mr. Knapp
addressed the Association on the importance
| of moral culture in education, which although
it must be commenced at home and conducted
at home, is to be attended to in the schools ;
this is the source of all true refinement, and
tlie neglect of this in popular education isdriv
ing many from our common schools ; whilst
then it is proper to throw incitement and in
formation before Teachers—it is earnestly to
be presented to parents what a proper and
complete education is.
The Association adjourned till Staturday
morning at half past. 8 o'clock.
The Association met according to adjourn
ment, and was opened with singing and pray
er. Mr. Win. Davis in the chair In the ab
sence of the secretary, Mr. O. P. Young was
appointed secretary pro. tern. 11 was
lirsolccr], That the next meeting be held at
Burlington, on Friday the 12th of September
next at. 10 o'clock P. M.
Jleso/red, That the Secretary be authorized
to issue certificates of memberships to members
of the Association, who may desire to attend
the State Teachers' Association to be held in
Willianisport, in August next.
The unfinished business was taken up, and
Dr. Coburn, Mr. Beardslcc, P. Cobnrn, E'q.,
and Rev. Mr. Knapp, addressed the Associa
tion, and the Resolutions were adopted as fol
lows :
Peso! red, That we must have a class of
Teachers who are not indifferent to their
work.
2. That taking an interest in and regularly
at tending the County Teachers' Association,
establishing and sustaining township associa
tions where teachers may meet for interchange
of opinions relative to teaching, for consulta
tions, lectures and mutual improvement, would
greatly tend to awaken teachers.
3. That it is the duty of every teacher to
make himself familiar with all the books and
periodicals upon the subject of education,which
lie may be able to procure.
4. That the future destiny of our country
depends in a great measure on the Teachers of
our common schools. It is an old adage, "as
the twig is bent the tree is inclined," and as
the teacher is, so are the scholars. The teach
er is constantly .stamping his own impress up
on his pupils, and instilling into their minds his
own principles, habits and character ; and
while he is feeding the mind intellectually, lit
is also training it either for weal or woe for
eternity, and for this forming influence, he is
aceoiuitablc to God.
5. That practicing vocal music lias a ten
dency to awaken an interest in school, and ex
ert a liappv influence on the mind of both teach
er and scholar.
6. If parents nnd guardians were more in
terested in the education of their own children
and those under their care, and provided com
fortable and convenient houses, with appara
tus suitable for the school-room, and with ap
proved text books for their children-—and if
they would see to their punctual attendance,
and frequently themselves visit the school, we
think it would be a stimulus to teachers, and
perhaps one very efficient means of arousing
them to a sense of their responsibilities.
The discussion of these Resolutions was car
ried on with much spirit ; and the important
practical principles brought out, the earnest
manner of the debaters, and the close and con
stant attention of large audiences who crowd
ed the house, afforded an excellent index of
the nature and aims of the Association, and
showed clearly, how readily and deeply popular
intelligence and true public spirit sympathise
with its objects.
Whilst it was shown on the one hand that
as a key to tlie prosperity of educational in
terests, we must have teachers themselves d ep
ly interested in the work, who have engaged
in it from other than merely mercenary mo
tives. It was on the other hand insisted upon
with equal earnestness, that in order to have
such they must be encouraged—that if we
would have common school teachers who would
honor their station and cast in society an in
fluence for good, tlie profession must take a
higher place in the popular estimate and affec
tions. It was forcibly stated by more than
one of the speakers that in this matter of edu
cation, parental responsibility is paramount —
that all legislative and public action on educa
tion was based on this as a fundamental prin
ciple, and was to be regarded not as a substi
tute, but supplementary. The prevalent ne
glect of this was shown by ninny circumstances,
but particularly by the popular indifference in
many instances, in regard to the moral charac
ter of teachers. Whilst none seemed disposed
to excuse the popular dereliction in this niat-
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH.
ter, it was with more than a mere show of ar
gument, plainly urged, that the tendency of
the present school law was to take this out of
the hands of parents, and that in this respect
the old committee system was superior as re
cognizing more distinctly parental obligations
and interests, and engaged parental co-opera
tion and countenance. On the moral aspect
of the subject of teaching, it was very justly
observed as a most hopeful and interesting fact,
that at present in our common schools in this
county, in behalf of moral culture, a vast and
incalculable influence is being exerted by the
many highly qualified and excellent female
teachers who are working quietly and laborious
ly in our schools.
Many things were said which could not fail
to be of great practical use to all engaged in
teaching. Township Teachers' Associations
were recommended. Keeping informed in re
gard to the various modes of teaching ; pur
suing a specific course of reading, with regard
to practical education ; studying various text
books on the same subject, not overlooking the
important practical matters to be found in the
introductions and prefaces to school books—
were noticed by the various speakers as mat
ters worthy of attention of practical teachers.
The excellent work of Mr. Page, on teaching,
and Abercrombie on the intellectual powers
were iecommended to Teachers, as also educa
tional periodicals and especially the Pennsvl
vania School Journal.
Mr. Barnes from the committee appointed
to report on English composition, presented
the following, which was accepted and adop
ted :
ltesolred, That teachers should give atten
tion to the subject of composition.
2. 1 hat scholars who are nine years old, or
who are possessed of the educational attain
ments, which may generally be possessed at
that ago, should be required to write composi
tions.
3. That composition writing should bo taught
in connexion with Grammar and Rhetoric.
We recommend also that scholars be requir
ed frequently to write descriptions. 2d, that
that they write original sentences as lessons
for Grammatical and Rhetorical exercises in
in prosody, and also models or skeletons of
compositions. 3d, that subjects which will
require much exorcise of thought, be given by
the teacher, if not selected by the scholar, and
that with corrections and suggestions from the
teacher, if necessary, scholars be frequently re
quired to revise what they have written.
We recommend as stimulants to the scholar
that there should be occasional public exercises,
in reading original compositions, corrected and
revised, and that remarks encouraging arid
critical be solicited from persons present, and
that an effort be made to induce parents and
guardians of children to be present on these
occasions. We recommend lastly, that teach
ers should be careful to bestow all proper and
deserving commendation on the efforts of their
scholars, not failing strictly to mark their faults
and suggest improvements.
The association then listened to an address
by Mr. Wm. Davis. Xlr. Davis chose for his
subject—the desire to excel, as a principle of
action The subject was presented with great
clearness and force, and well fitted to the au
dience and the occasion.
The thanks of the Association were tender
ed to Mr. Davis for the address.
The Association resumed the consideration
of the subject of taxation for the of
common schools. Prof. Coburn, Dr. Coburn,
Rev. Mr. Knapp, Davis, Morrow, Barnes, P.
Coburn and Mr. Dewing spoke on the subject.
When the question was on motion, jmstjioucd
till next meeting.
The exercises and discussions were through
out pleasantly mingled with music by the choir
of the church, by the Messrs Davis, and bv
members ef the choir of the Susquehanna Col
legiate Institute present, whose several per
formances were received with great applause,
and elicited the cordial thanks of the associa-
The Rev. Mr. Knapp, of Warren, was re
quested to prepare a report on a complete or
ganization, and a systematic am 1 iiiiiformcour.se
of studies for common schools, ami to present
it at next meeting.
Messrs. Coburn and Davis, and Miss 11. K.
Ditcher, were appointed a committee to re
port on the best method of teaching mental
arithmetic.
Messrs. Colt, R. Beardslcc and O. F. Young
were appointed a committee to prepare and
publish in the county papers an address to
teachers on the objects and claims of the As
sociation.
Mr. C. F. Nichols was appointed to deliver
the address at the next meeting, and Mr. C.
11. Phelps his alternate.
M iss W. E. I ,ong was appointed Essayist,
and Miss Frances A. Jones alternate.
It was on motion of P. D. Morrow,
Rcsolrcil, That a vote of thanks of this As
sociation be tendered to tiie people of this
place for their kindness and hospitality ; that
their attendance shows that they take a deep
interest in the success of common schools -
their kindness shows that they have the wel
fare of this svAcni at heart that it is not *ur
" REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY CHARTER."
prising that we have eminent teachers whose
early education was had in the common schools
of Warren.
The Secretary was directed to procure the
publication of the proceedings of this meeting
in the county papers ; and after prayer and
singing the Christian Roxology, the associa
tion adjourned to meet in Burlington on Fri
day September 12, at 10 o'clock, A. M.
Free Sugar and Fremont.
Good brown sugar, one of the necessaries
of life in this country, now costs ten cents a
pound—more than twice what it would cost but
for a duty of thirty per cent, imposed upon
foreign sugars, and for the benefit of whom ?
of fourteen hundred sugar planters in the state
of Louisiana. This is the entire number of
men engaged in growing sugar in the United
States, and for the sake of giving tliein a mar
ket for their little stock of produce, 25,0<>0,
600 of people are obliged to pay a duty of 30
cents on every dollar's worth of sugar they
consume, which, with incidental expenses, is
equivalent to the confiscation of every third
cargo that is brought into the country. All
this impost enures mainly to the benefit of the
foreign producer, for the whole amount of su
gar grown annually in the United States wo'd
hardly sweeten the strawberries used on our
tea-tables. For the last three years the crops
have almost- entirely failed, and the prospects
for the current year are more unpromising
than ever. And yet this duty is insisted up
on, and twenty-live millions of people arc re
quired, for every pound of sugar they con
sume, to pay for three, in order that fourteen
hundred slaveholders in Louisiana may be en
couraged in the prosecution of a business for
which neither the climate nor the soil of their
state is propitious.
The same land put down in cotton, or in
other suitable crops, would have added vast I v
to the wealth of the country, and left the
planters themselves more prosperous than they
now arc, under all the advantages of protec
tion.
These same gentlemen are permitted to take
their tea and coffee, in common with the poor
est man in the country, without paying any
duty ; but for the sugar to sweeten cither, the
whole nation has to pay two prices exclusively
for their benefit, thus practically adopting the
Chinese economy of burning a house to roast
a pig.
Why is the country required to submit to
such absurd injustice ? For the simple reason,
ttiat sugar-planting is identified with the slave
interest, ami that rules the country. A word
against the sugar duties would be as fatal to a
politician as a word against slavery, and hith
erto it has been impossible to rally suflicient
strength in Congress to make any impression
upon this monstrous wrong.
Happily there is now a prospect of better
things. At last the country is wakening up
to the danger of following the southern lead
any longer, and northern people arc beginning
to think upon political questions for them
selves.
The government of this country we believe
is soon destined to pass into hands competent
and disposed to put an end to the system of
sectional legislation which has hitherto ruled
it, and one of the first results of the new as
cendency we trust will be the abolition of the
sugar duties. We would have inscribed upon
the Republican banner which shall wave over
the national Capitol on the 4th of March, Free
Sugar as well as Free Territory, Free Speech,
and Fremont !— Ercnin? Post.
Wn.vr wn.i. TIIE OERMAMS DO? —The New
nrker 'Action?, the organ of the German popu
lation of Newark, New Jersey, has boldly and
unequivocally endorsed the nominations of the
Republican party, in an article occupying over
three columns of that journal, and written with
the very highest degree of ability. It clearly
and calmly presents the political question of the
time, gives a succinct history of our present po
litical organizations, and favors the Republicans
as being the only party in favor of Progress and
Freedom. It states that the great body of the
German population have acted with the Demo
cracy in previous contests, not from a convic
tion that their policy was just, but because
they did not recognize in any of the parties the
doctrines of true Progress. The old parties
were now destroyed and a new party springing
from the necessities of the times, but recognizing
all the great and enduring principles for which
the German element of the country has striven,
has taken a front rank in existing organizations.
It has drawn to it as bv a magnet all those
progressive men of every party and opinion who
recognize the cause of universal Freedom as
the lit basis of action in a Republican Govern
ment.
Sk-77" The two American papers in Indiana
county, the Republican paper in the same
county, the three opposition papers in Washing
ton county, and the Bucks county Intelligencer,
an old lino Whig paper, have all cuthusiatically
endorsed the nominations of Fremont and Day
ton. Indiana promises 2000 majority for
Fremont, and Washington county will roll lip a
vote for Freedom that will astonish political
calculators.
MELANCHOLY. The democratic presses are
in despair at the loss of their favorite argu
inents in political campaigns, the " Hartford
Convention" and " old federalism." Having
nominated for president almost the only old
Fnlcralist remaining, they arc in a sad quan
dary.
The pro-slavery-papers are calling on
the people to kindle " the watch fires of De
mocracy." Jones &Co commenced the work
at Lawrence. Hotels, printing offices and pri
vate dwellings furnished the fuel.
SkxT The A 'etc- Yrl; Herald of Monday conies
out with a long string of figures to prove that
Buchanan is destined to be defeated
Col. Fremont's Letter of Acceptance.
riui.ADEi.niA, June 19,1
SIR: A Convention of Delegates, assembled
at Philadelphia on 17th, 18th and l'Jtli days
of June, 1856, under a call addressed to the
people of the United States, without regard to
past political differences or divisions, who are
opposed to the repeal of the Missouri Com
promise, to the policy of the present Adminis
tration, to the the extension of slavery into
Free Territory, in favor of the admission of
Kansas as a Free State, and of restoiing the
action of the Federal Government to the prin
ciples of Washington and Jefferson, adopted a
a declaration of principles and purposes for
which thev arc united in political action—a
copy of which we have the honor to inclose—
and unanimously nominated you as their can
didate for the office of President of the Unit
ed States at the approaching election, as the
chosen representative of tlio.se principles in
this important political contest, and with the
assured conviction that you would give them
full practical operation, should the suffrages of
the people of the Union place you at the head
of the National Government.
The undersigned were directed by the Con
vention to communicate to you the fact of
your nomination, and to request you in their
name, and, as they believe, in the name of a
large majority of the people of the country, to
accept it.
Offering you the assurance of our high per
sonal respect, we are, your fellow citizens.
11. S. LANE,
President >1 the Convention,
JAMES M. ASHLEY,
ANTHON Y J. BLEECKKR,
JOS.C. 110 UN BLOWER,
E. R. HOAR,
TI FARDEL'S STEVENS,
KINSLEY S. BINGHAM,
JOHN A. WILLS,
C. P. CLEVELAND,
CYRUS ALRRICH.
To JOHN C. FREMONT, of California.
COL. FREMONT'S REPLY.
XKW-YORK, July S, ls.">6.
GENTLEMEN : You call me to a high respon
sibility by placing me in the van of a great
niovemcut of the People of the United States,
who, without regard to past differences, arc
uniting in a common effort to bring back the
the action of the Federal Government to the
principles of Washington and Jefferson. Com
prehending the magnitude of the trust which
they have declared themselves willing to place
in mv hands, and deeply sensible of the honor
which their unreserved confidence, in this
threatening position of the public affairs, im
plies, 1 feci that 1 cannot better respond than
by a sincere declaration that, in the event
of election to the Presidency, I should enter
upon the cxeeut'on of its duties with a single
hearted determination to promote the good
of the whole country, and to direct solely
to this end all the power of the Govern
ment, irrespective of party issues and regard
less of sectional strifes. The declaration of
principles embodied in the resolves of your
Convention expresses the sentiments in which
I have been educated, and which have been
ripened into convictions by personal observa
tion and experience. \\ itli this declaration
and avowal, I think it necessary to revert t<>
only two of the subjects embraced in those
resolutions, and to these only because events
have surrounded them with grave and critical
circumstances, and given to them especial im
portance.
I concur in the views of the Convention de
precating the Foreign policy to which it ad
verts. The assumption that we have the right
to take from another nation its domains be
cause we want them, is an abandonment of the
honest character which our Country has ac
quired. To provoke hostilities by unjust as
sumptions, would be to sacrifice the peace and
character of the country, when all its interests
might be more certainly secured and its ob
jects attained by just and healing counsels, in
voking no loss of reputation. International
embarrassments are mainly the results of a se
cret diplomacy, which aims to keep from the
knowledge of the People the operations of the
Government. This system is inconsistent with
the character of our institutions, and is itselt
yielding gradually to a more enlightened pub
lic opinion, and to the power of a free press,
which, by its broad dissciniuatiou of political
intelligence, secures in advance to the side of
justice the judgment of the civilized world.—
An honest, linn and open policy in our foreign
relations, would command the united support
of the nation, whose deliberate opinions it
would necessarily reflect.
Nothing is clearer in the history of CUT in
stitutions than the design of the nation, in as
serting its own independence and freedom, to
avoid giving countenance to the Extension of
Slavery. The influence of the small but com
pact and powerful class of men interested in
Slavery, who command one section of the coun
try and wield a vast political control as a con
sequence in the other, is now directed to turn
back this impulse of the Revolution and re
verse its principles. The Extension of slavery
across the Continent is the object of the pow
er which now rules the Government ; and
from this spirit lias sprung those kindred
wrongs in Kansas so truly portrayed in one of
your resolutions, which prove that the ele
ments of the most arbitrary governments have
not been vanquished by the just theory of our
own.
It would be out of place here to pledge my
self to any particular policy that lias been sug
gested to terminate the sectional controversy
engendered by political animosities, operating
on a powerful class banded together by a com
mon interest. A practical remedy is the ad
mission of Kansas into the Union as a Free
State. The South should, in my judgment,
earnestly desire such consummation. It would
vindicate its good faith. It would correct the
mistake of the repeal ; and the North, having
practically tlie benefit of the agreement be
tween the two sections, would lie satisfied and
good feeling be restored. The measure is per
feetlv e.ui'-Fteiit with the bouor of the South
VOL. XV] L. — NO.
and vital to its Interests. That fatal act which
gave birth to this purely sectional strife, origi
nating in the scheme to take from Free Labor
the country secured to it !>y a solemn cove
nant, cannot be too soon disarmed of its per
nicious force. The only genial region of the
middle latitudes left to the emigrants of the
Northern States for homes cannot be conquer
ed from the Free Laborers who have long con
sidered it as set apart for them in our inheri
tance, without provoking a desperate struggle
Whatever may Ire the persistence of the par
ticular class which seems ready to hazard eve
rything for the success of the unjust scheme
it has partially effected, I firmly believe that
the great heart of the nation, which throbs
with the patriotism of the Freemen of both
sections will have power to overcome it. They
will look to the rights secured to them by the
Constitution of the Union as the best safe
guard from the oppression of the class which,
by a monopoly of the Seal and of Slave La
bor to till it, might in time reduce them to the
extremity of laboring upon the same terms
with the slaves. Tho great body of Xon
Slave holding Freemen, including those of tin?
South, upon whose welfare SlaveryTs an op
pression, will discover that the power of the
General Government over the Public Lands
may be beneficially exerted to advance their
interests to secure their independence ; know
ing this, their suffrages will not be wanting to
maintain that authority in the Union which is
absolutely essential to the niaintainancc of
their own liberties, and which has more than
once indicated the purpose of disposing of the
Public Lands in such away as would make
every settler upon them a freeholder.
If the People intrust to me the administra
tion of tFie Government, the laws of Congress
in relation to the Territories shall be faithfully
executed. All its authority shall he exerted
in aid of the National will "to re-establish the
peace of the country on the just principles
which have heretofore received the sanction of
the Federal Government, of the States, and
of the People of both sections. Such a policv
would leave 110 aliment to that sectional party
which seeks its aggrandizement by appropriat
ing the new Tcrritor es to capital in the form
of Slavery, but would inevitably result in the
triumph of Free Labor—the natural capital
which constitutes tin? real wealth of this great
country and creates t hat intelligent power in
the masses alone to be relied on as the bul
wark of free institutions.
Trusting that J have a heart capable of com
prehending our whole country, with its varied
interests, and confident that patriotism exists
in all parts of the Union, I accept the nomi
nation of your Convention, in the hope that I
may be enabled to serve usefully its cause,
which I consider the cause of Constitutional
Freedom.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. C. FREMONT.
To 11. S. IJAXE, and others.
The Fourth at Wysoz.
Mr.. Enrmn:—l was fortunate enough to
have attended the Sunday Sehool Celebration
over on the State Head, on the fourth. A
more gratifying sight I have-seldom witnessed
Upward, I should think, of H>o children were
assembled under their different superintendents
to listen to the He v. Messrs. Barnes. The
elder Mr. Barnes spoie with feeling eloquence
to his young auditory, and in a style enabling
the youngest of his hearers to understand him.
lie dwelt at much length on tie imporance of
early teaching of the rreat truths of the Bible,
and promised his listeners a rich harvest of hap
piness if their lives were regulated by its les
sons of wisdom.
After Mr. Barnes'address, the more absorb
ing duty of eating, followed; and if my Imm
blc testimony is needed to attest to the lib
erality of the good wives who conttributed to
supply the commissariat, it is most cheerfully
given. There were bgions of pies, masses of
mutton, mountains of jutter, pyramids of bread,
and everything else edible in proportion ; and
to crown all, there were regiments of whole
souled matrons and girls to deal the profusion
out. Satisfaction beamed from every face, and
Marshal KDDV was n his glory. Capital fel
low is the marshal, and fitted for duty to a
nicety.
Alter dinner, the adult part of the assembly
took the seats occupied by the children in the
morning, to hear an address by the " Honorable
V lysses Mi rem " as the marshal announced him.
For two long hours did the people sit and
drink in the inspiration of an earnest man. It
was the first time I ha J heard Mr. Mereur make
a speeeh, and I was i lost sensibly made to feci
that there was at least one man whose energy
and devotion none could question—or if ques
tioned, it would at least lie admitted that he
was an excellent pretender. Toward the close
of his address, Mr. Mereur rose frequently to
eloquence, and lie closed by an appeal that
shook the brancheso'er the heads of his audi
ence. It was a grand speech, and well ap
preciated by the 5 or 0 hundred people who
listened to him.—After he sat down, I>r.
M'lutosh was called out. The doctor, how
ever, was 100 tired to say much. He roared
for a in n itc —the people m ule quit a noise, ami
when tlie noise subsided, Me. too, subsided.
The younger Mr. Barnes was then called.—
He responded by a ft w stirring, well turned
periods. Mr. Barnes s a young man of promise,
and if he applies himself, his friends will not
be disappointed in liiin
The services were closed by the elder Mr.
Barnes. The ossein! ly broke up and we all
started for home, pleased to the marrow.—
When such another meeting comes, may I be
there to see
Towanda, July 5, ?S•"><>. I'M'M.
The nomination of Fremont and Day
ton is received with acclamations of joy every
whore in the North. Nothing like the entlm
siasm created by this nomination has Imtii
since IS4O. The while North is awake. The
cry i>, " Fr.i> M"vr A IVtvroy -wc we will
elect them "