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    Dtf DOLLAR PER AM. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
TOW.IDA.:
illrirs&an fllorninn, September 25. 185ti.
Political £oitg.
[From the Philadelphia Daily Time*.]
A BROOKS IAD.
TI \E—Dandy Jim from Carotins.
l\e often heard it "aid of late
l i t re's grit in every Southern State,
r, t no one wingi his man so lino
AT light'.ug Brook* from Caroline.
L'horu* A* his old aunty oft did say,
llf'tl fight the Yankee any day,
Hut he canuot go so far away
As the Clifton House in Canada.
v>jt the running Bn>oks yon cannot blame,
!lr IBAV not like the Rilie game ;
it j not suit his lighting humps.
He i.'o wins when Clubs nre trumps.
A his oW afcnty oft did say,
H.-'d figtd the Yankee any day.
Itut he cannot pi so far away
As the Clifton House in Canada.
SOUND BUCHANAN DOCTRINE!
The Honest Ground and no Flinching !!
[• . ;it!ic that the Democratic Party should
• k re a< it has elsewhere, high aud clear
: ion the Slavery Question. Why pre
: that slavery is wrong in any sense, when
• ;cf all the Buchauan leaders and
: -r- in the South, and in certain parts
North, i- in favor of it as a rightful in
? lias not slavery always existed
. "there? Were there not white Serfs in
i frmcrly, as there are in Russia now ?
|. ■ n * therefore a cowardly evasion of the
t eonteud that we gliouJd tolerate in
- i :rv no slavery but that of negroes ?
\ run. '.vlio has travelled in the South
vi hundred.-, or perhaps thousands of
. . -MJ nearly white, that no one would su
• y had a drop of black blood in their
- But slaves they are —and of course
• •ugh: to be because the laws of the Slave
-Ac no distinction of color, but only
!■■■•! This distinction of blood, however,
-a f.; - * distinction, according to the most
wr.nrs and sjienkers of the great Demo
. party in the South. They lioldly and
y declare that slavery should be con
:t-> no jKirtieulas* race of men—that every
■ laborer—every white mechanic—every
'. practical farmer —every white workiug
would lie better off as a slave than as a
f- m. and therefore ought to be a slave. —
b.. 1 tie words of the highest authorities in
< ;'h The Richmond (Va.) Enquirer,
Democratic pnperin the Old Domiii
. a TIM-? able supporter of Buchanan for
' Pi't-shleney. and of the Cincinnati Platform
•' v only doctrine that will secure the cstab
• r.•■■■it of slavery in K*nas. and in all the
Territories of the North. —this paper
thus on this question. We take its 1
f IT and forcilde words.
Ui.ti! recently, the defence of slavery has :
: under great difficulties because its ajio!- '
for they were mere apologists,) took
way grounds. They confined the defence I
•' '.-•••ry to mere negro slavery ; thereby giv- 1
:up the slavery prinrijde, admitting other j
' - Of -Livery to bo wrung.
of defence, however, is now chang- j
T S >ut!i maintains that slavery is right, i
•:. newest i ry, and does not depend K pom
-*■ 'COMPLEXION. The laws of'
<••0. -/ eti' i. the holding of WHITE'
HEX ia bondage." " I
; we r-jx-at, is the honest language of I
il baiond Kmjuirer. the staunch advocate j
M* lbs 'lanan. and the organ of his friend '
• c \Yi-e who, with the elear calculation
• • h ie is remarkable, has shown the J
S .ivery extension to Virginia and
it -Lives now worth one thousand
'leach, would be worth from three to J
'*ucmd dollars each in California and j
Dirts yf the great West, if the good old '
ecu: i only Ik? extended there. Sujv j
N & i ti.E white working men of Virginia |
"- 1 • -Lives, as the Knquirer, in the ex- j
il*'. -. s-iys they ought to be. it is easy \
how immensely rich Virginia would j
"...it is. her distinguished first fami- !
vuing i l l k and white slaves, whom they ;
"ceti and send to the West for three or ,
•""'.sand dollars a head !
•r iea ling press of the good old Dem- j
; irty and a worthy organ of Mr Bu- !
1 • "hed i South Carolina sustains
' W< i.ave quoted from the Knquirer.
- plain, straightforward language on
-• SQ'JECT:
Viv-ry i- the natural and normal condi-
Lb-rimr mm, whether WHITE or
ic-i'.'O evil of Northern free socie
•'At .' - l urtherned with a servile class
- and LABORERS, unfit for self gov
a~-d yet clothed with the attributes
' r c tizcn. Master and slave is a
~ - i j ty a- necessary svs that of pa
-1 : and the Northern States will
mtroduee it. Their theory of free
a <'p lu-ion."
-t T.iere are no false presences,
frtp -oil, abolition stuff utul noo
bf-se words. They are the doctrines
v iit:iern brethren, und James Buchnn
tru- r friends than they are, and they
- tru- r friend thun he is.
"b' i- -till broader ground on the sub
' |fiety. taken by the Rukm nd En
it say- i u u recent number:
' y have we asked the North "Has
j v of universal liberty FAILED.
' eviis of FRVF SOCIETY IXSYFFKRA
dbI do no . niost f|,jniiing men among
~x* to -übvert and rei*oostruct it ?"
v- r This gloomy silence is anoth
- ve proof, added to many other con
■"n 'es we have furnished, that frtt
z run. is nn impracticable form
it '- ei-rvwherc -tarving, dcmornl
THE BRADFORD REPORTER.
" We repeat, then, that policy and humani
ty alike forbid the extension of the nils of free so
ciety to new people and coming generations.
" Two opposite and conflicting forms of so
ciety cannot, among civilized men co-exist and
endure. The one must give away and cease
to exist. The other becomes uuiversal.
" If free society be nnnatnral, immoral and
unchristian, it must fall and give awav to slave
society—a social system old as the world, uni
versal as man."
Another paper published in Virginia the
South Side lknwerat a journal distinguished
for its faithful support of Mr. Buchanan thus
expresses its honest indignation nt the slang
about freedom and whatever belongs to it.—
The editor says—
"We have got to hating everything with
the prefix FREE, from free negroes down and
up through the whole catalogue— FßEE farms
j FREE labor FREE Society, FREE will, FRKRthink
; ing, FREE children and FREE schools—all he
longing to the same brood of damnable isms.
j But the worst of all these abominations is the
modern system of FREE SCHOOLS. The New
j England system of free schools has been the
; cause aud prolific source of the infidelities and
i treasons that have turned her cities into Sod
oms and Gomorrahs, and her land into the cora
i mon nestling place of howling Bedlamites.—
1 \\ e abominate the system, because the schools
are free."
The Mttsrrgee Ifrarld, a whole-souled Bu
chanan paper, published in Alaliama, has the
i courage to utter its sentiments in these words:
" Free Society ! we sicken nt the name.—
What is it but a conglomeration of GREASY ME
CHANICS, FILTHY OPERATIVES, SM ALL FISTEU FARM
ERS and moon struck THEORISTS ? All the
Northern aud especially the New England
I States ure devod of society fitted for well
i bred gentlemen. The prevailing class one
meets with is that of mechanics struggling to
be genteel, and small farmers who do their own
drudgery ; and yet who are hardly fit for as
sociation with a Southern gentleman's body
servant. This is your free society which the
Northern hordes are endeavoring to extend in
to Kansas."
Let any candid man reflect on this language
of the Muscogee llera'd, and if he wishes to
prcw it the lower classes of northern society
— the greasy mer/iamcs and filthy operatives and
su. ii feted farmers of the free IS tales, from
bau;ng a home in Kansas and in the great
West, he w ill do as the Muscogee Herald and
all the noble and ohivalric supporters of Mr.
Buchanan in the South are doing ; —he will
work ant 1 vote to elect that great son of Penn
sylvania, and secure what our gallant southern
friends desire ; he will make Kausas a Slave
State, a home "fitted for well-bred gentlemen,"
not a community where " the prevailing class
is mechanics struggling to be genteel, and small
farmers doing their own drudgery," as no gen-
Geui&a farmer in the south ever dot- aud as
no geutlciMau farmer ought to do anywhere, or
would do if the progressive doctrine of white
as well as black slavery were adopted in our
country.
Senator Downs, of Louisiana, puts the mat
ter ia a dear light. In o::e of his fine, bold,
democratic speeches, he lately said :—-
" I call the opponents of slavery to
prove that the WHITE LABORERS of the north
are as happy, as contented, or as comfortable
as the SLAVE of the South. In the South the
slaves do not suffer one-tenth of the evils en
dured by tire white laborers of the North.—
Poverty is Buknown to the Southern slave,
for as soon as the master of slaves becomes too
jvoor to jicovide for them, he SELLS them to
others who can take care of them. This, sir,
is one of the excellencies of the system of
slavery, and this the superior condition of the
Southern slave over the Northern WHITE la
borer."
Is not Senator Downs right ? Can't our
White Working Men see that if they were
slaves they would always be taken care of ?
Can't they understand, that if oue master
should become too poor to keep them, he could
sell them to another, who of course would buy
and take care of them ? What can be plain
er ? Is not every working man a thing to be
taken care of? And how fortunate the socie
ty, where working men, white as well as black
can be sold to a benevolent master, who w ill
take care of them as long as tiny can earn
money for him ?
We might e.\*ond this matter indefinitely.— ,
We could show by any number of extracts how !
honest the Southern Democrats are, proclaim-1
ing the principles on which they support their j
party, and how they rely on the favorite son
of Pennsylvania to fulfil the pledges of the '
Cincinnati Platform, and ojvn the Territories
of the West to the institution of Slavery ; an 1
institution which they prove is good alike for !
black and white mechanics, laborers and farm !
ers placing them in the happy position of slaves !
on an equal footing with them, to l>e bought ;
and sold and projierly cared for, without being
sjxviled by free wages, or free schools, or any
of the evils and follies of free society.
Democrats ! stick to your party and secure
the blessings of slavery to yourselves aud your
children from the Mississippi to the Pacific.
THE TORRE DOCTORS. —Geo. W. Curtis, T.sq.
in the course of a speech at|a !• reinont meet, tig
at Jersey City, last week, is reported to have
given the following very successful application
to the Presidential candidates :
" It is said the Union is in danger, and
measures must be taken for its preservation.
We see before us the Union and the Constitu
tion sick of an attack of slavery, and several
doctors are called to prescribe for the patient.
First, we have a man with a white cravat,
which shows that he is of the regular faculty.
He inquires the symptoms, and says, "ray ojiin
iou is that this patient requires a little dose of
of slaverv." This gcutlenian is Dr. Buchanan.
(Laughter j
Theu we hare another physician, whose fea
tures we cannot very plainly discern, the ex
pr-ssio? of whose faee is hidden from us by
rejtM nof the dark lantern in his hand. (Laugh
ter.) Suddenly he throws the light wavering
and uncertainly, so that we cannot see the real
c.\prc c -ion of the patient, and this gra v e phy
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'IIEARA GOODRICH.
siciau looks at the patient, then at us, and
then at Dr. Buchanan, and all around, and he
shakes and shivers and says, " Really, if you
ask my advice, I have nothing particular to
say, but I really bope in some way the patient
may get well." (Laughter.) That is Dr.
Fillmore.
Here comes the man of the new school, a
man in whose energy and youth, and percep
tion, and wisdom, you can rely ; and what
says he ? Unbind your patient ; let loose his
hands and free his feet. Wha( he wants is
his hands and feet free, his heart free and his
head free. What he wants is air, is light, is
liberty. Your patient will not die. (Loud
cheers.) This, gentleman, is Dr. John (J. Fre
mont. (Renewed cheers. He will raise from
the ground his bleeding friend, the Constitu
tion and bear him to a place of permanent
j safety, rest und peace.—(applause.)
The Paulo about Pennsylvania.
The editor of the Louisville Journal , Mr.
PRENTICE, says in his paper that a large num
ber of citizens of Lonisville have just returned
from a visit to the eastern states, aud bear
concurrent and overwhelming testimony to the
i fact ihac there u no chance whatever for Mr.
Buchanan to Carry his oirn state of Pennsylva
nia. A prominent democrat of that city—
one of the most active aud valuable members
of the demcratic party, who has just returned
j from the east says that the democratic party
give np the state, and that, from what he saw
and heard, he has no hope whatever that Mr.
BUCHANAN can carry Pennsylvania.
That is the opiuiou everywhere. Even the
Washington Union is panic-stricken, and makes
the following jiathetic apjieal :
" Especially to Pennsylvania we repeat this
appeal. It is a state which has hitherto claim
ed to have an unyielding devotion to the Un
ion. We ask, can its patriotic citizens vote
again for such men as have proven by their
conduct that they desire to dissolve the Union?
Will the citizens of that great state turn against
themselves and against their brethren of other
states ? Will they forget the generation of
the great and patriotic inen to whom we refer,
who came out of the revolution, aud taught
the first political lessons of our government ?
Will they forget that other generation which
followed them, in which their own distinguish
ed statesman, James Buchanan was a promi
nent actor ?"
The answer to this appeal of the adminis
tration organ, in November, will be, that Penn
sylvania will make good her claim of unyield
ing devotiou to the Union, aud that she cannot
" vote again for such men as have proven
by their conduct that tliev desire to dissolve
tlii? Union," aud therefore she will not vote
for Mr. BUCHANAN and his party, for they "de
sire to dissolve this Union," if they cannot
help southern slaveocracy to extend slavery.
She will also answer that she does not forget
the " great and jiatriotic men of the revolution
and that she will remember not only that oth
er generation iu which JAMES BUCHANAN was
an actor, but the present one in which he is
acting, and the remembrances of the first will
teach her to repudiate the aits of JAMF.S BU
CHANAN and bis jiarty in the last, for tiie great
and patriotic men of the revolntion stood on
the jdatform of freedom,while BUCHANAN stands
on the platform of slavery extension.
I*aijr Conclusive evidence of the falsity of
the charge of jveculatiou brought by the Dem
ocratic jiarty against Col. Fremont, is furnish
ed by the Democratic party themselves.
Since that charge was first made, the Dem
ocratic party have elected Fremont United
States Senator.
Since that charge was made, many of the
leaders of that jiarty, including J. C. Calhoun, '
Senator Dix, Senator Alien, Senator Rusk,
Ac., have publicly endorsed his integrity and
ability.
Since that chnrerc was made, a Democratic
Congressional Committee has pronounced his
accounts with tiie government correct, and
that decision ha- been unanimously endorsed '
by a Democratic Congress.
Since that charge was made made, and only
a few months ago, a number of prominent mem-
IKTS of the Democratic party endeavored to
induce Col. Fremont to consent to run as the j
Democratic candidate for President !
Are we to believe that the Democratic party
honors and applauds " cattle-stealers,' 1 makes
them Senators, and desires to make them Pres
idents ? or that Col. Fremont is a man of sj>ot
less integrity whom Buchanan is endeavoring
to kill off by foul slanders as he did Henry
Clay ?
FILLMORE AS A CANDIDATE.—A Virginia Fill
more jiaper. published in Berkeley county, call
ed the Anicri'-an. copies the returns of the nver
whelming Republican victory iu Vermont, and
says ;
" So, also, trcnt lotva, and so wcnld go eve
ry free State, if Mr. Fillmore were ont of the
way. Where the contest is simply between
Buchanan and Fremont, Buchanan is beaten
by thousands, and Vet the sham Democracy are
crying < ut. withdraw Fillmore, for the contest j
is between Buchanan and Fremont."
This is the general tone of the Fillmore
press at the South, and it betrays plainly j
enough that the sole pnrjwse in running Mr.
Fillmore is uot to elect him, but merely to j>re
vent the snccess of Fremont.
tcS" The Carolina Times having heard the
news from Maine, is more than ever certain
that Fremont aud Dayton will lie elected, and j
exhorts Sonth Carolina to hare nothiug to do
with the hopeless struggle in behalf of Buchan
an, and even to refuse to vote at all in the elec- j
tion. Of course The Times is hot for disunion
but it is obliged to admit that its remedy is
prejx>sterous. South Carolina will look on
with " stolid indifference and stoicism," while
the candidate of the gTcat constitutional party
of the country is elected j while his upright,
impartial administration of the Oorerumeut
j will command the warm approval of honest
I men evervwhere
" REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER."
Slavery in Pennsylvania.
There is one position assumed by the ffbam
oeratic party in the pending Presidential cou
test, which must inevitably lead to results but
little anticipated, and which appear to be but
little considered. It i 6 a favorite argument
with members of that party to ask " Has not
the slaveholder as much right to carry his pro
perty (slaves) to the Territories as the North
ern man has to carry his horses and cattle
there ?" This is a question frequently asked,
in argument, even by mechanics and laboring
men, and iudced there is mnch specioos plausi
bility in it. How little do thej dream of the
calamitous results to themselves which the ad-
mission of such doctrine must entail ! If this
position be correct, the right demanded must
either be derived from the constitution direct
ly or by construction, as claimed by the slave
holders themselves, or it is a moral right which
is not denied by the constitution. Now, if we
admit the slaveholder's constitutional right ic
carry his slaTe property to the Territories, and
to hold them there until such time as the Ter-
I ritory be admitted as a .State, we grant every
. inch of the territorial soil of the Union for
I slave States, irretrievably ; for there being no
; particular constitutional guarantee of the right
| claimed, it must be admitted as a constructive
| right derived from the equality of property,
' and any attempt to pass a law by a Territory,
| when asking admission as a State, infringing
the right of projierty, would be unconstitution
al. The constitution prohibits auy such legis
lation by the States. Hence every new State
would of necessity be a slave State, and pow
erless to protect itself against slavery. But
the constitution guarantees equality of proper
ty and of rights to all the States, and hence if
a new State may not pass a law prohibiting
slavery, any sncli luw in nn old State must al
so be unconstitutional, null and void ; and sla
very may exist by the constitutional equality
of property on every inch of soil covered by
the flag of the Union. The Virginia slavehol
der can bring his human chattels to Philadel
phia and sell them in front of Independence
Hall, if this principle be correct, iu defiance of
any local or State law. The proprietors of our
manufactories, mines or farms, could discharge
their free white laborers and operatives and
put black slaves in their places ; and the white
working classes of Pennsylvania and New Jer
sey would l>e reduced to a level with the free
white working classes of the South. Men would
no longer be allowed to speak or write against
slavery, or the right of slaveholders to do as
they pleased, for slavery exacts the same ser
vility wherever it exists.
Let us look at the position, that the slave
holder has or should have the moral right to
carry his slaves into the Territories, as ranch
so as the Northern man has to carry his hors
es and cattle thither. This position, too, is
based on the equal rights of property. If it
is contended that the slaveholder should be al
lowed to take his slaves to the Territories, and
hold them there till such Territories might be
ready to be admitted as States, then, a majori
ty of the people being non-slaveholder l , could
pass a law prohibiting slavery in the new
State. Now, if the slaveholder should have
the right to carry his slaves there, settle down
and cultivate the soil while in the territorial
condition, by w hat principle of right or justice
could a majority of the people force him tr pnl!
up stakes, sell out and b ave or lose his pro
perty when such Territory came to be a State ?
Would it not be absurd to call that right Or
just ? To carry out this principle, should not
the Southern slaveholder have as much right
to bring his property (slaves) to Pennsylvania,
New Jersey or any other free Slate, as the
Northern man has to carry his horses and cat
tle to Virginia or any other slave State : And
to carry it a little further—should not the first
be allowed the same privilege to bny and sell
his negro property at the North as the latter
has to sell hi? horses aud cattle at the South ?
Does the subject need any further illustration ?
If the common right of property is to be ap
plied to slaves, the owner of such property
should he allowed to hold and enjoy, and buy
and sell such projierty wherever the flag of the
Uuion waves, and we should go ta war and
comjiel other nations to recognize it as they
recoguize other projierty. When the j>ositiou
is once admitted, the result will follow, as sure
ly as night succeeds the setting of the *nn
riuch is the principle for which the tShamoerat 1
ic jiarty is contending—first broached in this
Htae by Senator Brodhend some two years
since, when he contended for the constitution
al right of slaveholders to carry their slaves to
the Territories of the United {States and hold
them there.
Bat in conneetioh with the re-cstablishment
of slavery in Pennsylvania, there is another
ease, clearer and more fearfully near even than
the oue we have just !>een considering It will
be remembered that during the last session of
our State Legislature a petition was }>resented
from citizens of Luzerne comity a-king for the
passage of a law to jjermit slaveholders to jia*s
through the i-hate with their dares and t" en
able them to hold them here for a limited time.
This jietition w as referred to a committee, con
sisting of a majority of rihamocrats who the
majority) rej>orted that no necessity existed
for the passage of such a law—a the right
[.raved for was already guarantied by the con
stitution. This rejort was received as the
sene of the House of Iv-preseutatives—all the |
Shamocratic members favoring it with but one
or two exceptions.
Now, as there is no express constitutional
grant such as is here conceded, it must be the
right by implication as aj>plied to jirojertj\ —
And, as we have before shown, if the constitu
tional right of projierty cpjilica to slaves, then,
indeed, may the slaveholder not only j>a*
throngh the State with his property (daves)
or hold them here for a limited time, but he
may bold them here tor all time. Where can
a constitutional limitation be drawn ? There
is none. And any State law jirerenting the
buying or sale of such property is without ef
fect, being nnconstitntimiai, and a bench of
I>cmocratc Supreme Judnes will undoubtedly
so dcidc whenever the object is brought be
fore them ; if the pcoj.le do not, through the
ballot-box, condemn any such outrageous con
struction of the Constitution in terms not to
be mistaken. Will those, then, i*ho are play
ing with this fearfnl instrument, think for a
moment how surely, if they give it effect, it
will overwhelm thcin in inevitable rnin, and
will they not pause ere it is too late ?— Phila.
Daily Times.
Going Ashore in an Iron Pot.
Some seventy or eighty years since, on board
a small brig, belonging to the East India Com
pany, among a number of impressed men, were
a brace of as uutamed Wild sons of the" Eme
rald Isle as iver ye saw," from the same town,
Rtid, "HT coorse," sttorn friends. They w ere
the butt ©f the whole crew, from the peculiar
obtuseness of their intellects, and because they
either could net Or would not leant anything ;
and literally were " uot worth their salt."
The brig was short of bauds, and put into '
a small bay ou the coa,st of Africa. Being
! anchored off some distance from shore, the
I officers rtnd crew went ashore to collect wood
ami water, leaving our two heroes to watch on
J the ujqier deck, with orders to fire one of the
guns, in case of any attack by the natives.
The Captain had no sooner landed than Pat
sang out to his comrade, " Arrah Pat, acoshla
and did ye iver see them big cannon bulls be
low ?"
" Och ! sure an' 1 did. But sure what
would ye be afther doing with them same can
non balls ?"
" Be jaberft, wouldn't it be fine foort if we
could fire off one of them ? What a divil of
a rackit it would lie afther making 1"
" Bedad, but so it would. But Pat, wouldn't
the captain be missing it ?"
This was a regular clincher to poor Pat, und
he stood scratching the wiry furze that cover
ed his bullet-shajied head for some time. All
of a sudden a thought seemed to strike h';u of
away to surmount the difficulty. Ou board
of all vessels, as almost every one is aware, is
a large iron pot Or kettle for melting tar, Ac.
A plan was very shortly adopted which should
obviate the loss of a ball It was this : One
of them was to jilace himself astraddle of the
gun, holding the jvot over the muzzle by the
handle, and catch the ball as it issued from the
gun j aud as our hero Tim was the stoutest of
the tw o, the duty of holding the |>et was as
signed to him. After some trouble they mam
aged to get the gnn loaded. Tim mounted,
holding the j>ot. Just as Pat was about to
touch off the cannon, Tim turned ronnd to him
and sang out, " Arrah, Pat ( dafliut, be afther
firiug very aisy, will ye V Pat ajqdied the
match, and off went Tim, put and all, " into
the middle of next week." The captain, hear
ing the report, and thinking it announced some
attack, came 011 board in great haste. The
first thing that greeted his eyes upou stepping
njjon deck, was Pat, his face all begrimmed
with smoke and dirt. " Well, Pat," said he, 1
" w hat's thp matter with yon ? Whese's Tim ?"
" Tim, t?ir ? And didn't ye see him on
shore ?"
" No. How the uevil could he get there ?
The boats are all here."
" Och 1 by my sow!, sir. he went ashore iu
the iron pot f"
THE DEMOCRACY ACKNOWLEDGED TO RF. IN FA
VOR OF THE EXTENSION OF BLATERY.— -The
New York Day book, a leading Buchanan or
gan, which the Hunker journals of this State
quote from more freely than from any other
paper ont of the J*tnte, states the position of
the Democratic party in the following explicit
ltlngtiaire s
We hold negro " slavery " tc be right, right,
per sc, right in itself, in the nature aud ne
cessity of thit'ga.l that while there ure defects
or imperfettidns of detail, as in everything else I
ami in all hiimtln institutions, there are per- ,
haps 110 more evils connected with Southern
sot L ty than that at the North ; that negroes
arc negroes, and uot white men ; and, there
fore. the peculiar domestic institution of the
Sonth is no Slavery at all : bnt. on the con
trary; the uatnral relation of the race* aud the
normal condition of society, whenever or
wherever whites aud negroes arc in juxtaposi
tensiou. And we further hold that slavery ex
tion, so called, or the free, frtil and unembar
rassed movement of Southern population, or
its perfect freedom f expansion, of emigra
tion; of development southward audtopicward
is absolutely essential to the peace, progre-s
and safely of American civilization, and, indeed
to the very existence of the America" Repub
lic. And in oor frequent articles 01 this jiar
ticular jihase of the mighty question now UJKJII
u, and lieforc the jieople for their action, we
have said that the Northern Democracy, when
the quest!"!! should be presented to them, i
would be in favor of the free expansion of 1
Southern population, or as the dupes of im-;
posture would term it.the extension of' Slavery.'
fits?" Col. Atchison, before he became a
Border Ruffian, and took to drinking whiskey
and bnriug hotels, thought very favorably of
Cob Fremont We find in The Cougressunai \
Gb bf. 1 Nth vol., j). 359, the following :
"He gave it as his opinion, not only that
the conquest of California was effected by Col
Fremont, but that the United States had de
rived the advantage of his conquest at cum- <
paratively little co>t. He justified C-l. Fre
mont m all that he had d< ne. If he had done '
less, he would have deserved und wooid hare j
received the execration of the whole country, i
He made some reference to the course which j
Col. Fremont pursued—a course iu some in- J
stances rendered imlisjwnsable frrr his own ]-••
serration, aud always characterized by skill and
promptitudef
Ri'ntn, —" Fremont ia a Catholic," shrieks ;
ouie terrified Know-Nothing. " Fremont is j
a bloody Kuow-Nothinsr." growls a Bnehanier
by his side. " Fremont L> a slavholder." yells j
some man who is going for Donelson with his j
100 daves. " Fremont is a rabid Free Soiler
and an enemy to the South, "shouts the Charles
ton Mercury and all the slaveholders " down
South." So go the rabid oj>j>ositiim. —
" And he jituyed m a harp of a thousand
strings. Ac.— Vitrei* Adereti'-r.
vol.. XV IT. —NO. 10.
Lapland Love-Making.
When a young gentleman in Lapland desires
to assume new responsibilities, he lays in a
large stock of brandy, und his parents, rela
tives and friends meet in as great numbers
possible, to treat the friends of the brido de
sired. Neither bride nor bridegroom i execut
ed to betruv anxiety or interest in the "pro
ceedings : ilie Arctic Mrs. Grundy, wuo is ve
ry .strict in such matters, would be very much
i scandalized if they should. Beside tho great
mass of relatives nrrd friends, of aunt- and
fourth couuns, who roust attend, there N still
a greater number Of outsiders who are attract
: ee by their curiosity to see whether anyb jy
gets the mitten. The intensity of their curi
osity is to some extent determined by the amount
,of brandy circulating. On the side of the
gallant there is a spokesman called
Brandy flask in hand, he goes over to the other
1 party and offers liquid hospitality to the father
and mother of the young lady. This is as g
nal for an indiscriminate attack of a similar
nature of the entire invading party upon the
lady's friends. Everybody drinks to her fa
ther, everybody drinks to her mother, and oho
; herself is borne in grateful memory. When all
are sufficiently elated, the proposal is embod
ied in a long speech, vibrating between j>oc try
and prose, ller parents ask to see the tilth,
the wooing presents If they are accepted tho
matter is settled, and there is nothing more
but to go next day to the parson to get them
published. Most matches are made at tho
fairs and great festivals, but they are never
made without brandy. " Indeed courting with
brandy '' is a provgrb ainuug the Laplanders,
which is equivalent to the French commeil taut
When the lady is rich and the suitor is not, ho
very often throws his brandy away. The in
fluence of riches in matrimonial matters i 3 no
where felt more strongly than here ; dros*
counts for nothing ; one sheepskin is as good
as another. Liauk is determined ouly by the
number of reiudeers a man owns.
Practically, marriage here is a mere matter
of bargain uud sale. Still the Laplander re
cognize the sacredness of the relation in their
way. The silver which they pay for their
brides roust not be in the shape of rix-doliars,
it must be made up into ornaments. Tiiis is
better than nothing. If a marriage is broken
off, the party who takes a divorce generally
returns the bridal presents, and the more con
scientious add a gift for the wasted brandy.—
So, too, when the parents say " no,"' many of
them ure so generous as to pay for the brandy
As all the relatives have a word to say, there
is generally a good deal of quarrelling before
the answer is agreed upon, and some manage
ment is required,oftentimes,to make it favorable.
Pastor Fjellstrom toils of a wedding Jock
mock in which he was interested for the woo
er. Several attempts had been made in vain
before he. was engaged as spokesmen. An
old woman overwhelmed everything and dea
fened everybody with her opposition to tho
match. When he came in she yelled out
" No, no. it shan't be ; not even if the
eater's sou come?, he shan't have her 1" Fjell
strom, then a student, saw that nothing could
be done so long as this old harpy was around,
and wh'~p<Ted to a magistrate, who was also
enlisted on the same side, to get the old woman
out of the waV somehow or other. Soon sfm
found herself in the str o! , she growled about
the door like a gadfly in a.. • mpty barrel ; rat
tled and slammed, shrieked and swore, but
could not get in, as the magistrate held thy
door. Meantime the matter was successfully
concluded. Fjellstrom had brought better
brandy ; his father was the parson, he spoke
better and offered a few more presents. When
they were ready to go to the parson's the door
was opened and the old hag rushed iu ; but
she was too late.
The importance of having an influential
spokesman can hardly be over estimated. They
are often paid for their services. An odd af
fair came off at Ar'er'ong at the 'a-? fair
An old widower, bearing the euphonious name
of Styx, was struck with the crrtzy idea—so
all his country people thought it—of m-.k ng
advance? to the widow of a foreigner. * >
heid in-r heed above everybody else in t:,e v,.-
lage, a her husband had been di 'rid mag -
trate. Styx, who saw that the matter would
fie one of c nt difficulty, as we!! as delicacy,
went f" the richest man in the village and K
ged him to be his sjKjkesroan. He tb"uirlr
that his age and standing would have their in
fluence. and offered him, in case of success, a
bra*s kettle, which, like Horner's heroes, he
described. They could not agree, however,
the desired spokesman wanted the kettle at
any rate, while ftiyx would only give it to him
if he succeeded. The whole party was re
markable ; Styx was seventy years old—his
Puh-ina sixty, aRd the spokesman over eightv
Although Styx could not make the bra.-%s ket
tle bargain, he kept bis courage up, ami re
solved to do a well as lie could in person.—
He went tc? her and s n : tl :—" You have cow s,
I hive reindeer—look at me : I am ju-t liku
your ir.vsbai.d," and more of the sort. The
wiioic thing seemed so comic to the proud
Signd fctozapa, that far from getting angry at
the poor fellow's advances, she began to talk
with him. and kept him as long us jwssible in
suspense as to his fate. Hi- effort and hn
anxiety continually ro-e in ridieuh usit'un
til at last dinner time came, an i he got a
shameful luitteu.
Tv.nntw.t. Pvt.— Bolt inure, Fruity, Sept
12 l s 'b<j—A terrible riot occurred T h;- afr-r
m>oii between a Fillmore fi-hinir club and a
)mriy of men nt tiie beveutecnth Ward Th rno
cfatic headquarters in this city. Two nvn
were "hot dead, and some twenty other- woun
ded. several, it is lielicved, fatally. The fight
lasted only a few minntes, but the firing wm
heavv and" severe. Neither of the men k ile-t
were engaged in the fiifht, and most of tho-"
wounded were residents iu the vicinity, attrac
ted to the- spot by the disturbance.
The Auniversary of the battle of North
Point was spiritedly celebrated today The
military paraded, and the Association <f
feuders held their usual celebration out 1 l.at
lie gr mud at North Point