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