3,E DOLLAR PER ANNUM, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. /;. <>. GOODRICH, EDITOR. T< >\V ATs DA : fllorninn, SVngnst IT, 1830. ~OTHE REPUBLICANS OF BRADFORD COUNTY. That Bradford will give a large majority for {• AT, is uo reason why wc should relax a .in.de effort to increase that majority to the utmost extent. To do this, something like united action is necessary. We submit a few , .for the consideration of our friends : 1 Have a FREMONT and DAYTON Club or- in every election district. The sooner better, : ud have the executive committee mil. ccd of active men, who will take pride in to the business of the campaign. ± Purchase all the documents the Club can ■r.,..,; —•• The Republican Platform," " Cam- L-:i Life of Fremont," " Sumner's speech," lb: n't of Kansas Investigating Committee," Colfax's speech," &c. These we have meu- VMI'D can be had bv addressing GAEF.LY & M'Ei.niTU —' See advertisement in Tribune.) TV' Fxeciitive Committee at Washington are EMiiag a number of very excellent doeu ■:,t.s. wliicli can be obtained by addressing Li/.w.sC MiANE, Washington, I). C. Hold frc [iient meetings of your Club, for - • IIA, not for fancy orators, but for the ,i. n and, sensible remarks of farmers and .orhar men. who are so vitally interested in ;. • jT-ent content. I. T ■ County Committee, of which AI.T.KN \l K xis Chairman, may be addressed, when , ,yr-leakers or documents arc required, in • ,vu- wiicre there is no club ; but the best , v is to depend upon your own exertions. 5. Let each Club work in its own locality •if the success of the party depended upon •MuiVrity in that locality. Let the nmjori •r. where be swelled, and enlist the Ladies :ii tiie cause. V The voters in each town should be ean ■!. the doubtful visited, and particularly ;th t rut h l>e place in reach of everyone, i - nudecided and seeking for light. The came in this vicinity is to palm ofT lit- ' ... VAN as being as goxl a friend of Freedom !■' • XT. and the Democratic party as be ::.AOOSTII to the extension of Slavery. There i.j'iy pu > M ily be those green enough to swallow C-. and if any such exist, they should be i tiie resolutions of the Cincinnati Con •-.u.'.ta, and the views of Mr. BUCHANAN'S .1; al supporters. - - nd to the County Committee a list of the "TS of your Club, and the documents you - • to purchase and distribute in tour lo .'.iv. R- doing the Committee can know . ...it part of the County is misapplied. \ X-ver announce a speaker's name, until !w be. .a! written what time he can visit you, j ; ti.-ver announce a speaker without knowing A ANOI he on hand. T:: IAH OR THE UNION —Senator Toombs, hVnr.ia, has written a letter to a gentleman "'that State, in which he gives vent to the •ciur cntence <>f awful imjiort: " 1 i election of Fremont would be the end of c 1 liion, and ought to be. The object of 1 1 iends is the conquest of the South. lam content that they shall own us when b'v conquer us, but not before." 1 lie party, then, to which Toombs attaches '•• if means disunion, if its candidates are •' Wicri Afut. " Hark from the Toombs a '"I- mm!.'' But we don't believe such . 'i>ring< ~f fanatical feeling mean anything, hVdi or South. " s.—Four times, says the Louisville • i'i Democratic party have selected a ; for the Vice Presidency from Ken ■ a:id each time particularly with the "Lurrying the State for their ticket. In v ' 1 " v nominated Diehard M. Johnson, to *7Kentucky, and they failed. In 184'b [jfofr-aomiiiated tl>e Tecumseh Killer, and : I ''t only in Kentucky, but almost every 'be. In ]vgs ( they nominated Den. 11 1 hitler and failed again to carry Ken y; °r to l icet their candidates. In 185f>, '. nave nominated John C. Breckinridge, ■ ay will again fail most ingloriously evcry llais, IIJK>II the three, former occasions, ''p I'eiuocratic party have nominated a for Yiee President, specially with a ' '• ."lying Hie State, they have failed to aiee out of three times they have i i throughout the Union, and 1 his ' he as it was in '4O and '4B, for, Dick Johnson and Gen. Butler x.uridgc will surely be overwhelin t 1 B VMVI; BROOKS.. —ltsaid by the New tbe reason why Mr. Brooks did t to ( 'anuda, was not that the distance '7 too long but that after he got there, i. between him and Mr. Burlingamc 1%1 fcc too Short. 'U ,|.' !ir 'T'vil <avs that getting in love is !1 - " tight," the more a fellow does '""re he wants to. ' "k of type has more power than "flier ~ and will batter down walls "cd at icge and cannon ball ! THE BRADFORD REPORTER. % HISTORY OF MR. BUCHANAN. The following article appeared in the llar risburg Keystone , edited then, as now, by O. Barrett, Esq. We commend it to the atten tion of any person who may be desirous of wri ting the history of Mr. BUCHANAN. We trust that Mr. BARRETT will find leisure to fill out the heads he has here arranged in order. [From tlio Keystone of Dec. 29,15A2.] A. PROCRUSTEAN BED. —The Pennsylvania n has given out, in the case of Mr. MCALLISTER, that all who oppose Mr. BUCHANAN'S aspira tions are " infamous " —"disorganizes "—"de tainers of the good name of Pennsylvania's pu rest sous, with no other business but to dis tract the democratic party —whilst, by in ference, all who believe that Mr. 15. is the on ly great man of Pennsylvania and the best de mocrat in the State, are faithful, deserving pa triots and democrats of the straightest and most orthodox sect. This is a very rigid stan dard by which to measure democrats, and, if strictly applied, would exclude from the party more than three-fourths of those who voted for PIERCE and KINO. It is evident, therefore, that the Pennsyl vania a is mistaken, and that it has no authori ty for establishing a rule whose application would thus lop off the fair proportions and strength of the democratic party. The editor has committed a blunder through ignorance. He acknowledges he is a "stranger" among us, and knows little of our public or private citizens. As lie seems rather amiable in his dispositions we propose enlightening him a lit tle in the history of the one man whom he thinks embodies all " Pennsylvania's purest sons," and all the democratic uprightness with in our borders ; and to show him that he is so far out iu his reckoning, that the man he worships is the cause of all the faction and dis traction iu the democratic ranks, and that, would the party but slough him off, a perfect fusion would be the result, followed by a ge neral restoration of harmony and good feeling. We had intended giving this historical en lightenment to our " stranger " friend to-day ; 11111 unusual occupations incident to the season have taken too much of our time to enable us to execute this our benevolent intention. It is, consequently, the utmost that we can do now, to give the table of contents to some of the chapters we intend writing for his benefit. In these he will see a few of the salient points in the life of his beau ideal of a peerless demo crat—sufficient, we hope, to induce him to un make his Procrustean bed, and admit that a man may by, possibility be a good democrat and at the same time not an admirer of Mr. BUCHANAN. At any rate, we doubt not, that these hints of what some of the forthcoming chapters will contain, if they do not change the editor's opinions outright, will induce him to cease his factious denunciations, until he sees the history iu detail. CHATTER 11. 1 SOS. Mr. Buchanan arrives at Age and in the Federal Party—Practices Law and Fede ral Tactics with striking success. l'nts oil a Trooper's Dress, and goes to Bal timore ou a Soldiering Frolic—Gets there after the British had left—Arrives at Lan caster again, unhurt. 1815. Delivers an Oration on the 4th of July, denouncing Ma dison, Jefferson, the War just closed, and the entire Democratic Party—Elected a Federal Member of the Legislature. 1820 Becomes a zealous Abolitionist and Frec- Soiler—-Offers Free-Soil Resolutions in an Anti-Slavery Meeting in Lancaster—ls idol ized by the Federal Party, who elect liini to Congress. 1822. Still a Favorite with the Federalists, who again send liirn to Con gress, where he serves them most faithfully. 1824. Again elected to Congress by the same Party. 1825. Mr. Buchanan originates and tries to drive a Corrupt Burgaiu between Gen. Jackson uud Mr. Clay—Goes to each, as though he were authorized by the other —Botli reject his advances, and Gen. Jack son explodes on his hands. 182b. Still idol ized by the Federal Party, and returned again to Congress as a Federalist. 1828. Elected to Congress again by the same par ly—Goes to YVashington and steps one foot over into the Democratic Party. CHAITER 111. 1828-20-30. Mr. Buchanau still stands with a foot on each side of the Political Fence Finally steps with both on the Demo cratic Side, and goes to Russia. 1831-2- 3 4. His invaluable and imperishable I)i}>- lomatic Services in Russia—Deep Snows, deep enough to pale blushes—Returns from Russia—Forms remarkable Political Alli ances, by which he is elected to the United States Senate. CHATTER IV. 1834 to 1844. Mr. Buchanan serves with distinguished ability in the Senate—Takes care not to get wrong—Waits until older Democrats take position, and then defines his own with power—Forgot this rule on the Tariff of 1842—Y'otes for it—Makes a Speech upon it—Takes strong ground for specific duties in all cases —Opposes the ad valorem principle in toto. \\ ishes to retire from the Senate to the Supreme Bench— ('apt. Tyler offers him the Nomination — Canvasses the Senate, and finds he would be rejected. Reflections upon this unprece dented state of things. CHATTER V. 1844 to 1852. Mr. Buchanan after striving for the Presidential Nomination, receives that of Col. Polk, coldly—When Polk is elected he warms up and forces himself into the Cabinet—Resigns his seat in the Senate and co-operates in the election of Gen. ( a niorou as his successor—Assumes to be Pre idont for the distribution of patronage for Pennsylvania—Causes the rejection of all Nominations not advised by himself—lelt personally insulted in an especial manner when Judge Woodward was nominated Intrigued and effected his rejection —Other similar instances of magnanimity —Y\ anted again to get upon the Supreme Bench—Mr. Polk wanted him there Found the Senate PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANOA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. " REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." again impracticable—Takes a firm stand nj>- on 64 deg. 40 min. or tight—Writes a great letter, clearly establishing our right up to that line—Gets nervous and retreats down to 49 deg.—Despatches the Trist Embassy —lts consequences. Opposed the passage ©f the Tariff of 1840—Wrote a letter aguint it which was set up in tiie Pennsvlvauian Office—Got nervous and the letter was knocked into pi—His Tariff friends expected him to resign his Secretaryship—Mr. B. in tended resigning, but seeing Jefferson's re mark that " noue resigned," respect for that great man made him hold fast to his office. CHARTER VI. Mr. Buchanan wishing to appropriate Penn sylvania to himself, gets jealous of Governor Shank's popularity—Makes war upon his Administration—Gov. Shank's Administra tion return the favor by warring back— Three Members of Gov." Shunk's Cabinet go to Baltimore in IB4S to defeat Mr. B's Nomination—Mr B. had the Delegates' as in 1852, by management—The Surviving Members of Gov. Shunk's Cabinet all hos tile to Mr. B —The Causes. 1850. Mr. B. wants the support of the Iron and Coal In terests-Starts the project of increasing the duties on Iron and Coal—His seductive in fluence upon the person who broke ground on the subject through the Pittsburgh Post —Unsettled Public Sentiment in Pennsyl vania about the Tariff by this movement— His follower " lago," then of the Pennsyl vanian, alter the movement was resolved up on,[sells out to the Heading Railroad—llow much he received. Ex-Gov. Porter and several other Iron Masters become mollified and join the ranks of Mr. Buchanan's fol lowers—Other Protective Democrats do the same. On the denoument in Congress, .Mr. B. gets nervous again, flies home to Wheat land Denies his agency—The proof indis putable—Witnesses—The author of the Pittsburgh article and several others. CHARTER VII. The Compromise Measures in Congress—Mr. B. jealous of its authors—Stands firmly up on the Missouri line--Loses that—Gets ner vous—Abandons it—Claims the credit of settling public sentiment right in Pennsyl vania on the subject of tiie Compromise M ensures —His title to this honor. 1851. Finds Gov. Bigler popular—Wishes to ap propriate liiin—Mounts upon Gov. Bigler —Surges him under—The Governor too strong and rises—Judge Campbell supposed to wield an extensive Sectarian Influence —Mr. B. jumps upon his back—Raises the Religious question in a speech—The Judge sinks under his weight. 1852. Packs a State Convention—Sends Disown Delegates to Baltimore—Defeated —Splenetic effusion whilst chagrined by defeat—Too old for ac tive duties —Leaves the campaign to youn ger and abler democrats—Finds the Demo crats will carry everything—Gets Conven tions called—Overslaughs the Governor and presides himself—Makes two tremendous • speeches—Claims the first honors and high- | est influence under the Xew Administration —Gretnsburg sjieceh—-Disinterested Eulo- | giuni on the College of Cardinals—Bread j cast upon the watars—Orders in Grand Council—All opponents and dissentients to Buchanan to be cast into outer darkness and called Cameronians —'Tools to execute this order—Petty pilferers of the Funds of the Ftate Agricultural Society—lagos to get men fuddled that they may criminate unprotected females—\Y ho these Pilferers and lagos arc, Ac. General reflections on the unhappy influence of selfish tactics— The wretched qualities of envy, jealousy, , suspicion, hypocrisy, heartlcssucss, dissimula tion, all superinduced by the lack of moral , courage and couscienciousness. As we said before, these are only some of ; the more salient passages in the crooked his tory of the Pennsylva niaiis great democrat. There are others of the same description.— When they are all wrought out into one great whole, we don't believe that biography, ancient or modern, can furnish a more extraordinary character. A PRESIDENTIAL .CANDIDATE METAMORPHOSED INTO A PLATFORM. —Two old friends, who in former years had often stood shoulder to shoul der in the phalanx of the " Unterrified," hap pened to meet a few days since at Easton, Pa. After the usual greetings, some casual allusion to " Auld Lang Syne," together with a natural curiosity on the part of each to know the pres ent political bearings of his old associate in these changeful days, led to the following colloquy : "Well, Judge," says interlocutor No. 1," where do you stand ? You go for Buchanan, I suppose?" " Sir," replies the other, "there is no man living of whom 1 have thought more than of Jim Buchanan—l should like to go for Jim Buchanan, and 1 icov/d go for him if he were running ; but as Jim Buchanan is not a candidate, I presume 1 must go for some one else." " Buchanan not running—how is that, Judge ? I fear lam somewhat dull, and shall have to ask an explanation." "Why, is it plain enough, I said Jim Buchanan was not running, and 1 have his own words for it. Doesn't lie say so in his acceptance of the Cincinnati nom ination ? I >qes n't he in that acceptance,change, merge and transmogrify himself into a plat form I I tell you it is not Jim Buchanan, but the Cincinnati platform that is a candidate be fore the people, and as I don't like the plat form, and have ft fancy for voting a man, 1 shall go for Fremont." " Give me your liand on that, Judge," was the enthusiastic reply; " 1 am right glad to find that we shall stand side by side once more, as we have so olten done in the good old times and the two re united friends went on their way rejoicing. EVEN-HANDED JUSTICE. —Judge Crawford, who fined Mr. Brooks three hundred dollars for an assault, which in its personal consequen ces is not unlikely to prove more deplorable than the instant death of the victim, has just sentenced a poor mail to one year'* imprisonment for an assault. [From the X. Y. Evening l'ost.]. RALLYING SONG. TUNK-TUE MARSEILLES HYMN". Behold ! the"furious storm is rolling, Which Border-Fiends, confederate, raise. The Dogs of War, let loose, are howling, And lo! our infant.cities blaze. And shall we calmly view the ruin. While lawless force with giant stride Spreads desolation far and wide, In guiltless blood his hands imbruing ? Arise, arise, ye brave! And let our"war-cry he Free Speech,[Free Press, Free Soil, Free Men, FRE MONT and Victory! Oh, Liberty ! can he resign thee Who ouce has felt thy generous flame ? subdue, or bolts confine thee— Or whips thy noble spirit tame ? No ! by the heavens bright bending o'er us! We've called our Captain to the van— Behold the hour—Behold the man ! Oh, wise and valiant, go before us ! Then let the shout again Ring out from sea to sea. Free Speech, Free Press, Free Soil, Free Men, 4 FKE-MONT and Victory! Hurrah, hurrah ! from hill and valley, Hurrah ! from prairie wide and free ! Around our glorious Chieftain rally, For Kansas and for Liberty ! Let him who first her wilds exploring, Her virgin beauty-gave to fame, Now save ber from the curse and shame Which slavery o'er her soil is pouring. Our standard-beuicr, then, The brave Path-linder be ! Free Speech, Free Press, Free Soil, Free Men, FKE-MONT and Victory! Political News Items. Fremont is sweeping everything before him iu Wisconsin. A late mass meeting held in Bock County, of that State, transcends eve ry demonstration made by the Republicans of any section, thus far during the present cam paign. It indeed surpassed in enthusiasm the popular movements of 1840. Seven thousand freemen were in council, and a procession was formed two miles in length. Says a Wiscon sin paper : " The nomination of Fremont and Dayton has kindled a spirit among the masses that sweeps all before it, and spreads with the rapidity of flames through the dry prairie grass in autumn. Put down Wisconsin for John C. Fremont by a majority of thousands.' Ole Bull has giveu SSOO towards estab lishing a new German Republican paper in "Wisconsin. He is to take the stump for Fre mont through that State. —lt having been claimed that Judge Mc- Lean was lor Fillmore, a Washington writer sa vs : " A letter was read to me to-day, from Judge M'Lean, in which he says that the 'uni ted German residents' of the western sections of Pennsylvania will vote almost unanimously for Fremont. He predicts the State for Fre mont, by over 00,000 majority. Few would doubt even the probabilities of such a result against Buchanan in his own State ; but what would you think when Virginians set down their State for Fillmoic ? The thing is actu ally done, and bets are offered freely that the Wise majority for Governor will be reduced one-half." —Gen. Ponrteroy, of Kansas, who has been traveling in Wostern Pennsylvania, describes the enthusiasm there for Fremont as already very great, and as rapidly increasing. He states that the best politicians of that section express the belief that Fremont will cross the mountains with 50,000 majority. From Illi nois we have similar intelligence. A gentle man who left Washington city a few days since under the full belief that in his part of Illinois Fillmore would poll more votes than Fremont, in a letter states that since his return home he finils the State all on fire for Fremont, and that in his neighborhood it is all one way. In passing through Indiana, also he saw little else than Fremont and Dayton ratification meet ings, and a state of political excitement far exceeding that of the Tippecanoe campaign. —The following leading Democrats of Phila delphia have come out for Fremont and Day ton :—Hon. Win. 11. Smith, a Polk and Dal las elector of 1844 ; Henry Horn, a Jackson member of Congress, highly esteemed by Pre sident Andrew Jackson ; Evans Rogers, a highly esteemed retired gentleman ; Dr. David C. Skcrritt, late prothonotary of tiie District Court, elected by the Democrats ; Peter YVa ger, at one time a Director of the Bank of the United States, appointed by President Jack son ; Dr. George Spaekman, an old Demo crat ; Henry Simpson, late Alderman ; Win. Hallowed, late Democratic member of the As sembly. —The pro-slavery party failing to convict Col. Fremont of being a slaveholder, in such away as to make the fact apparent, now say that lie really, while his sister ostensibly owns certain slaves in South Carolina. Any port iu a storm. Prove that Fremot has no sister, and the ruffians would swear that they were mis taken only as to the person—that it was his cousin who managed his slave proj>erty. —Miami County sent 3,315, and Clarke 3,000 delegates to the great Dayton Conven tion ; the delegation from Greene County was 3,500. A silk flag, wrought by the Dayton young ladies, was presented to the latter as the banner county. Thousands stood in a furious rain listening to the speeches, and the enthu siasm with which the Hon. A. Burlingame was irrectcd was immense. —The Angelica (Alleghanycounty, N. Y.) Reporter, a paper which has stood by the De mocratic party for about twenty years, and worked with zeal and ability-for Democratic candidates, appears with the Buchanan flag lowered, and the names of Fremont and Day ton floating at its mast head. The Reporter put up the Cincinnati ticket, but, after com paring the two platforms, has come to the con clusion to support the Republican candidates. The Ground Taken. The minority report of Mr. OLIVER, of the Kansas Investigating Committee, has been sub mitted to Congress, and is included in the offi cial publication. The following are its conclu sions : In conclusion, the undersigned begs to re port the following facts and conclusions, as he believes, established by the testimony and sanctioned by the law : First —That at the first election held in the Territory under the organic act, for delegate to Congress, Gen. JOHN W. WHITFIELD receiv ed a plurality of the legal votes cast, and was duly elected such delegate, as stated iu the majority report. Second —That the. Territorial Legislature was a legally constituted body, and had power to pass valid laws, and their enactments arc there fore valid. Third —That these laws, when appealed to, have been used for the protection of life, liber ty and property, and for the maiutainanee of law and order in the Territory. Fourth —That the election under which the sitting delegate, JOHN W. WHITFIELD, was held, was in pursuance of valid law, and should be regarded as a valid election. Fifth —That as said Whitfield, at said elec tion, received a large number of legal votes without opposition, he was duly elected as a dolegate to this body, and is entitled to a scat on this /Ivor as such. S'uth —That the election under which the contesting delegate, ANDREW 11. REEDER, claims his seat, was not held under any law, but in contemptuous disregard of all law ; and that it should only be regarded as the expres sion of a band of malcontents and revolution ists, and consequently should be wholly disre garded by the House. Seventh—-As to whether or not ANDREW 11. REEDER received a greater number of votes of resident citizens on the 9th thau J. W. WHIT FIELD did on the Ist of October, 1855,n0 testi mony was taken by the Committee so far as the undersigned knows, nor is it material to the issue. All of which is rcsbeclfully submitted. M. OLIVER. We are glad to see the issue thus boldly made. In de hiring the Kansas Legislature to be a le*.-illy-constituted body, and its enact ments valid, Mr. OLIVER adheres closely to the Democratic programme, although he is thus compelled to take ground from which many of that party shrink. The evidence taken before the committee, of which Mr. OLIVER was one, shows conclusively how the members of this " Legislature" were elected. There were eigh teen districts: and, according to the census re turns, there were but 2,905 legal votes in them all. Yet,s t 42 votes were returned as having been east for Pro-Slavery candidates, 791 for Free-State candidates, and 89 scattering—mak ing a total of 0,307. Or the whole number of votes cast it was proved that ouly 1,410 were cast by legal voters—while 4,908 were illegal votes were cast by men frem Missouri, who had been distributed in advance and sent iuto every Council District, in the Territory, and into every Representative District but one. In every dis trict these illegal votes outnumbered the legal votes; and the election were entirely controlled by them. This is the way in which this " legally-con stituted Legislature" was elected. THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST GOVERNOR REEDER. It is said that a warrant for Governor Rend er's arrest has arrived at Washington, and that if he shows himself there he will be made a prisoner and carried back to Kansas, to take his trial before the excellent and impartial Judge Lecouipte, the Jeffreys of the territorial tribunals. This is a supererogation of oppres sion. It strikes us that it is quite enough to keep Governor Reeder out of the territory, for the purpose of depriving the inhabitants of the benefit of his counsels and his experience as a public man, and that it is an act of sujierfluous feioci'y to hunt him elsewhere, as the police would hunt a felon. Probably, however, the design of those who direct these proceedings is not merely to drive him from Kansas, but to make an example of him, to the terror of all who may take the part of the people against the slave-drivers. It is worthy of remark that they have not sought to arrest Governor Reeder at Easton, among his old neighbors, or at Boston, or at Xew-Y ork. The reason, doubtless, is, that the attempt to arrest him in either of those places would doubtless lead to an unpleasant, popular excitement, while at Washington he. might !>e seized and sent off to the YY'est with out any danger of disturbance, either at the scat of government or on the way to Leeonip ton. In the meantime, it appears that the block ade of Kansas, in Missouri, still continues.— On that side, none but the friends of slavery are allowed to enter, but General Lane has entered the territory, from another quarter, with a detachment of settlers, who have gone out with a determination to make Kansas a free state. If the bill admitting the territory under the Topeka constitution be not passed by the Senate, wc fear that we shall soou have more tidings of bloodshed. —" What are the prospects in the country !" asked a city politician of a farmer. " Y'ery poor, as far as regards the crops in my neigh borhood." " I mean in regard to the prospects of Buchanan and Breckinridge." " Oh, their prospects are considerably worse thau the crops." The JKew Hampshire Democrat states that within a month after Fremont's nomination, 150 Clubs WTo formed in that State VOX,. XVII. —NO. 10. Who Are the Disunionists ? The following extract* are selected from au thentic records of opinions expressed by men, all of whom are now prominent supporters of Buchanan or Fillmore : BY SENATOR YCI.EE, OF FLORIDA. " For my part,l am ready to proceed to ex treme measures, even to the dissolution of the Union." BY SENATOR BROWN, OF MISSISSIIFI. " If the Wilmot Proviso is adopted, it will raise a storm that will sweep away this Uuion, and I pray (Jod devoutly it will do so." DY MR. MORSE, OF LOUISIANA. " The southern man who will stand up and say that he is for the Uuion, " now and forev ever," is more dangerous to the people he rep resents than those who are in open hostility, if California be trammeled with u preamble de claring the territory now free, i am willing to dissolve the Union." BY MR. STANTON, OF TENNESSEE. " When the Wilmot Proviso is adopted, 1 and the South are ready to walk out of the U uion." BY SENATOR BUTLER, OF SOUTH CAROLINA " I do not make the salvation of the Uuiou the paramount question." BY SENATOR MASON, OF VIROINIA. " It is time the yoke was thrown off and the question settled." BY MR. COLCOOK, OF GEORGIA. "If the Wilmot Proviso should pass in anv form, I will introduce a bill for the dissolution of the Union." By MR. MEAD, OF VIRGINIA. " If you exclude us, I am not willing to sub mit. * * We intend to have the land peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must." BY MR. MCWILLE, OF MISSIS3IITI. " The people of the South know their rights, and will maintain them at all hazards, even should disunion result. * * * The South must defend their rights at the expense of blood." The following resolution was adopted at a Congressional caucus of southern democrats held in Washington, in Jauuary, 1849 : " Resolved, That the dissolution of the Union is preferable to the submission of the South to Wilmot Proviso." The following toasts were drank at a demo cratic 4th of July celebration at Atchison city, in Kansas : " Disunion : —By secession or otherwise—a beacon of hoje to an oppressed people and the surest remedy for southern wrongs. [Enthusi astic cheers.]" " The City of Atchison : —May she, before the close of the year '57, be the capital of a Southern Republic. [Cheers.]" The White Man should he a Slave if a Laborer -The Declaration of Indepen dence Repudiated. [From the Richmond (Va.) Enquirer.] " Until recently, the defence of slavery has labored under great difficulties, because its apologists —for they were merely apologists— took half way grounds. They confined the de fence of slavery to mere negro slavery, there by giving up the slavery principle, admitting other forms of slavery to be wrong, and yield ing up the authority of the Bible, and of the history, practices and experience of mankind. Human experience showing the universal suc cess of slave society, and the universal failure of free society, was unavailing to tliein, because they were precluded from employing it, by ad mitting slavery in the abstract to be wrong. The defence of mere negro slavery involved them in still greater difficulty. The laws of all the Southern States justified the holding white men in slavery, provided that through the mother they were descended, however re motely, from a negro slave. The bright mu lattoes, according to their theory, were wrong fully held in slavery. " The line of defence, however, is changed now, and the North is completely cornered, and dumb as an oyster. The South now main tains that slavery is right, natural, and neces sary. It shows that all divine, and almost all human, authority justifies it. The South fur ther charges that, the little experiment of free society in Western Europe has been, from the beginning, a cruel failure, and that symptoms of failure are abundant in our North. While it is far more obiions that negroes be slaves than whites—for they are only fit to labor, not. to direct—yet the principle of slavery is in it self right, and does not dejend 011 difference of complexion. Difference of race, of lineage, of language, of habits and customs, all tend to render the institution more natural and dura ble ; and although slaves have been generally white, still the masters and slaves have gene rally been of different national descent. HEALTH OF MR. SUMNF.R. —The Washington correspondent of The Times , underrate of July 27th, says : " I learu from excellent authority that Sena-* tor Sumner is not improving in health under the influence of the usually invigorating sea breeze. ITis physieal/lebility still eontinuesjin perverse tenacity, a most discouraging symptom in the estimation of those friends who know how vigorous his constitution heretofore has been, how temperate his habits ami perfect his former health. He has left Cape May for the, mountains, hoping to be benefitted by the change from sea to mountain air ? but, from the evidence before me, I cannot avoid the mel ancholy conviction that he will never recover from the effects of the Brooks assault." The old war sloop Ontario, for mnnv vcars used as a receiving vessel at the port of Baltimore, was sold on the lbth uh., for the sum of jSuiobO. She is to be converted into a floating school for seamen designed for tin men-hunt trade
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