d cove reign ty directed their politcal aetiou
hat they ore su prised at the pertinacity with
which a portion of the people elsewhere maiu
oiu the opposite view. The traditions of the
past, the recorded teachings of the Fathers of
tbc Republic, tb'c security of their freedom
nd prosperity, and their hopes for the future,
are all in harmony with an unfaltering allegi
ance to the National Union, the maiutainence
of the Constitution and the enforcement of the
laws. They have faithfully adhered to the
ootcpromises of our great National compact,
and willingly recoguized the peculiar institu
tions and rights of property of the people of
other States. Every true Pcnnsylvanian ad
mits that his first civil and political duty is to
the general government, and he frankly ac
knowledges his obligation to protect the con
stitutional rights of all who live under its au
thority and enjoy its blessings.
I have already taken occasion to say public
ly, and I now repeat, that if we have any laws
upon our statute books which infringe upon the
rights of the people of any of the States, or
coutravcne auy law of the Federal Govern
ment or obstrnet its execution, they ought to
be repealed. We ought not to hesitate to ex
hibit to other States that may have enacted
laws interfering with the rights,or obstructive of
the remedies which belong constitutionally to
all American citizens, an example of magnani
mity and of impliet obedience to the paramount
law, and by a prompt repeal of every statute
that may even by implication, be liable to rea
sonable objection, do our part to remove every
just cause of dissatisfactiou with our legisla
tion.
Pennsylvania has never faltered in her re-
Cognition of all the duties imposed upon her
by the national compact, and she will, by every
act consistent with her devotion to the inter
ests of her own people, promote fraternity and
peace, and a liberal comity betweeu the States.
Her conviction on the vital questions which
\ave agitated the public mind are well uuder
stood at home, and should not be misunder
stood abroad. Iler verdicts have been as uni
form as they have been decisive, in favor of
the dignity, the prosperity and the progress of
her free industry, and support to the princi
ples of liberty on which the government is
founded, and menace or rebellion cannot re
verse them. They have passed into history as
the deliberate judgment of her people, ex
pressed in a peaceful, fraternal aud constitu
tional mauuer ; and when they shall have
been administered in the government, as soon
they will be, the madness that now rules the
hour will subside, as the patriotic, faithful
and national aims bring ample protection and
peaceful progress to ail sections of the Re
public.
In the grave questions which now agitate
the country, no State has a mora profouud
concern than Pennsylvania. Occupying a
geographical position between the North and
the South, the East and the West, with the
great aveuues cf travel and trade passing
through her borders, carrying on an extensive
commerce with her neighbors, iu the vast and
varied productions of her soil, her mines and
her manufacturing industry, and bound to
them by the ties of kindred and social inter
course, the question of disunion involves mo
raentous consequences to her people. The sec
ond of the thirty-three States in population,
and the first in material resources, it is uue
both to ourselves aud to the other States,
that the position and sentiments of Pennsylva
nia on the question should be distinctly under
stood.
All the]elements of wealth and greatness
have been spread over the Stats by a kiud
Providence with profuse liberality. Our tem
perate climate, productive soil, and inexhausti
ble mineral wealth, have stimulated the indus
try of our people and improved the skill of our
mechanics. To develop, enlarge and protect
the interests which grow out of our natural ad
vantages, have become cardinal principles of
political economy iu Pennsylvania, and the
opiuion every where prevails among our people
that development, progress and wealth depend
on educated and requited labor; and that
labor, and the interests sustained by it, should
be adequately protected against foreigu com
petition. The people of Pennsylvania have
always favored that policy which aims to
elevate aud foster the industry of the coun
try in the collection of reveuue for the sup
port of the General Government; aud when
ever they have had the opportunity, in a fair
election, they have vindicated that policy at
the hallot-box. When their trade was prostra
ted and their industry paralyzed by the legisla
tion of the General Government, which favor
ed adverse interest, they waited patiently for
the return of another opportunity to declare
the public will in a constitutional manner. In
the late election of President of the United
States, the principle of protection was one of
the prominent issues. With the proceedings
of Congress at its last session fresh in their
memories, a large majority of the people of
Pennsylvania enrolled themselves iu an organ
ization, which, in its declaration ot principles,
promised, if successful, to be faithful to their
suffering interests and languishing industry.—
Protection to labor was one of the great prin
ciples of its platform; it was inscribed on its
banners; it was advocated by its public journals
aßd throughout the canvass it was a leading
text of the orators of the successful party.
This is a propitious moment to declare that
while the people of Pennsylvania were not in
different to other vital issues of the canvass,
they were demanding justice for themselves in
the recent election, and had no design to inter
fere with or abridge the rights of the people
of other States. The growth of our State had
been retarded by the abrogation of the princi
ple of protection from the reveuue laws of the
natioual goverumeut; bankruptcy had crushed
the energies of many of onr most enterprising
citizens; but no voice of disloyalty or treason
was hearJ, nor was an arm raised to offer vio
lence to the sacred fabric of our national
Union. Conscious of their rights and their
power, our people looked to the ballot-box
alone as the legal remedy for existing evils.
In the present unhappy condition of the couu
try, it wiil be our duty to unite with the peo
ple of the States which remain loyai to the
Union, in any just aud honorable measures of
conciliation and fraternal kindness. Let us
iuvite them to join us in the fulfilment of all
our obligations under the Federal Constitu
tion and laws. Then we can cordially unite
with them in claiming like obedience from
those States which have renounced their alle
giance. If the loyal States are just and mod
erate, without any sacrifice of right or self-re
spect the threatened danger may be averted.
Ours is a National Government. It has
withiu the sphere of its actioo all the attribu
tes of sovereignty, and amoog these are the
right and duty of self-preservation. It is bused
DOQ a compact to which all the people of the
United States are parties It is the result of
mutual tonce-sioui, which wire made for the
purpose of securieg reciprocal benefits. It acis
directly on the people, aud they owe it a per
sonal allegiance. No part of tho people, no
State nor combination of States, can voluntar
ily secede from the Uuion, nor absolve them
selves from their obligations *o it. To permit
a State to withdrew at pleasure from the
Uuion, without the conseDt of the rest, is to
confess that our government is a failure. Penn
sylvania can never acquiesce in such a conspi
racy, uor assent to a doctrine which involves
the destruction of the Government. If the
Government is to exist, all the requirements of
the Constitution must be obeyed; aud it must
have power adequate to the enforcement of the
supreme law of the land iu every State. It is
the first duty of the National authorities to
stay the progress of anarchy and enforce the
laws, and Pennsylvania with a united people,
will give them an honest, faithful and active
support. The people mean to preserve the
integrity or the National Union at every haz
ard.
The Constitution which was originally fram
ed to promote the welfare of the thirteen States
and four millions of people, in less than three
quarters of a century lias embraced thirty-three
States and thirty millious of inhabitants. Oar
territory has been extended over new climates
including people with new interests aud wants
and the Government has protected them all.—
Everything requisite to the perpetuity of the
Union and its expanding power, would seem
to have been foreseen and provided for by the
wisdom and sagacity of the framersof the Con
stitution.
It is all we desire or hope for, and all that
our fellow-countrymen who complain, can rea
sonably demand. It provides that amendments
may be proposed by Congress; arid whenever
the necessity to amend shall occur, the people
of Pennsylvania will give to the amendments
which Congress may propose, the careful and
deliberate consideration which their import
ance may demand. Change is not always pro
gress, and a people who have lived so long,aud
enjoyed so much prosperity, who have so many
sacred memories of the past, and such rich leg
acies to transmit to the future, shouid deliber
ate long aud seriously before they attempt to
alter any of the fundamental principles of the
great charter of our liberties.
I assume the duties of this high office at the
most trying period of onr national history. The
public mind is agitated by fears, suspicions and
jealousies. Serious apprehensions of the fu
ture pervade the people. A preconcerted and
organized effort has been made to disturb the
stability of Government, dissolve the union of
the States, and mar the symmetry and order
of the noblest political structure ever devised
aud enacted by human wisdom. It shall be my
earnest endeavor to justify the confidence wh : ch
you have reposed in me, aud to deserve your
approbation. With a consciousness of the
rectitude of my intentions, with no resent
ments to cherish, no enmities to avenge, no
wish but the public good to gratify, and with
a profound sense of the solemnity of my posi
tion, I humbly invoke the assistance of our
Heavenly Father, in whom alone is my depen
dence, that llis strength may sustain aud His
wisdom guide me. With His divine aid 1 shall
apply myself faithfully and fearlessly to my
responsible duties, and abide the judgment of
a generous people.
Invoking the blessing of the God of our
fathers upon our State and nation, it shali be
the highest object of uij ambition to contri
bute to the gloty of the Commonwealth main
tain the civil and religious privileges of the
people, and promote the anion, prosperity and
happiness of tie country.
Goon.—The editor of the Schoharie (X.
Y.; Patriot thinks the Federal Government
represents the locomotive, and South Carolina
the cow, in the following story :
When George Stephenson, the celebrated
Scotch engineer, had completed his model of a
locomotive, he presented himself before the
British Parliament, and asked for the atten
tion and support of that body. The grave
M. P.'s looked sueeringly at his invention, and
said : "So you have made a carriage to run
only by steam, have you V " Yes, niv Lords."
" And you expect your carriage to rim on par
allel rails, so that it can't get off, do you ?"
" Yes, my Lords.'' " Weil now Mr. Stephen
son, let us show you how absurd your claim is.
Suppose when your carriage is running upon
these rails at the rate of twenty or thirty
miles an hour, (if you are extravagant enough
to even suppose such a thing possible), a cow
should get in its way. You can't turn out for
her—what then ?" " Then 'twill be bad for
the coo, my Lords."
llow VESSELS ARE CLEARED AT THE CUS
TOM HOESE, CHARLESTON —Some curiosity ex
ists as to the forms at present adopted at the
Charleston Custom House for clearing vessels.
We have been shown the clearance papers of
a vessel just arrived from Charleston, which
throw some light upon this subject. The blank
forms supplied by the Treasury Department to
the Collectors at all ports of entry are still in
use at Charleston, but the words "in the
eighty-fifth year of the independence of the
United States of America"' arc struck out
with a dash of the Collector's pen, and in
their place are interlined with a pen the words
" eighty fifth year of the sovereignty and inde
pendence of the State of South Carolina /"
The clearance papers are signed by W. F. Col
cock, Collector, and John Laurens, Naval Of
ficer.—Xew York Times.
THE TJATTI.E OF MORRIS' ISLAND. —One is
really disposed to forget the serious aspect
of the affair, in reading the Charlestonian ver
sion of the firing into the Star of the West.—
The Courier gives a solemn account of what
it calls " the engagement," and describes the
heroic courage of the men who manned the
battery upon Morris' Island, and fired seven
teen shots at an unarmed sterner. It is attempt
ing to create the imprssion that a battle has
beeu fought, and that the South Carolinians
have won a signal victory. We may expect
to hear soon that medals have beeu struck for
the survivors, and that a monument will be
raised to commemorate this great event in
the South Carolinian war of independance.
MAJOR ANDERSON DID IT THOROUGHLY. —If
the truth must be told, the South Carolinians
cannot drill out the gnns of Fort Moultrie
so as to make them serviceable. Major An
derson did his work so well. He not only
spiked the guns, but be plugged them up and
left their cavities filled with powder. Now,
then, an explosion is certain, when the drills
coming in either direction, reaches the powder;
and daring as the secessionists are, they will
not risk or waste their precious lives in this
manner. So the only report likely to come
from the guus is they arc uuservicablc. Three
inure for Major Anderson.
o. GOODRICH, \ .. m7V)J#v
H. jr. STURROCh'A t-I'nvHS
TOWANDA :
Thursday Morning, January 24,1861.
MR. SEWARD'S SPEECH.
The speech of Mr. Seward on the present
political crisis, an extract from which may be
found in another column is regarded as oue of
the most eloquent and able that ever fell from
the lips of the distinguished Senator. His
positions may be understood from the follow
ing points :
1. His adherence to the fugitive slave law,
and his opinion that state laws in opposition
to the fugitive slave clause and laws ought to
be repealed.
2. That slavery should be left to the State
laws, and his willingness to vote for an amend
ment of the Constitution depriving Congress
hereafter of power to interfere with it there.
3. His third point, in regard to the organi
zation of two States, which should include all
the territories except Kansas.is practically an
nulled by its numerous qualifications nud re
servations; but last, and to his mind best of
all, would be a convention of the people after
secession and disunion have run their career to
be assembled in pursuance of the Constitution
to consider and decide whether any and what
amendments of the organic law ought to be
made.
4. He is willing to vote for laws preventing
and punishing the invasion of States by citi
zens of other States.
5. Physical and material bonds being firmer
than written oues.he would vote for two Pacific
railways—oue northern and one southern.
—Mr. SEWARD, inasmuch as he foreshadows
tire purposes of the incoming administration
has gone as far in favor of concession as is
consistent with the principles of the party,—
too far to endeavor to win back the alftegianee
of a baud of rebels who openly defy the go
vernment. As ardently as peace is to be de
sired, it is too great a price to pay for it by
concessions of any kind, which will have to
be repeated whenever they choose to make
new demands. Mr. Seward with his incom
parable rhetoric, may stay the storm for a
time, but he cannot avert the struggle which
must finally come. The true way of settle
ment is for the North to accept the alterna
tive, which has been insolently given them,
and decree a slaughter of traitors. If there
is any pluck in Northern men the whole ques
tion is now on the eve of a final and lasting
adjudication. Let there be no backing down.
If the government is worth preserving at all,
is only on the basis of the principle for which
we have fought and conquered —the priuciplc
of liberty which forms its corner-stone.
THE NEWS.
Reports from Pensacola, received through
dispatches from New-Orleans, indicate that
the Governor of Florida has determined to
risk a collision with the federal forces at Fort
Pickens, unless that fortification shall be
speedily surrendered to the State authorities.
He has already assembled a force of two
thousand men in the vicinity, and Major
Chase, Commander of the State troops, has
telegraphed to the Mayor of New Orleans for
two thousand additional men, the avowed pur
pose being an attack upon the fort. Troops
are also constantly arriving trom Mississippi
and other points. The Pensucola pilots have
been notified not to pilot United States vessels
into the harbor on pain of death, and the
steamer Wyandotte is reported as lying at the
entrance of the harbor, with the families of
the United States officers on board, out of
coal and supplies,—she not being permitted to
enter. The Florida forces had twenty-five
heavy guns mounted at the Navy-yard, and it
was believed that Fort Pickens could be ta
ken with a loss of not more than three hun
dred men. The latest account, however, ex
presses some doubt as to there being any fight
ing, the prevalent belief being that the officer
in command of the fort would surrender. It
is of course impossible to surmise how well
this belief may be founded. Dispatches from
Washington assert that efforts are being made
there to prevent the catastrophe of a collision,
though great apprehensions are entertained
that it will occur.
The Georgia State Convention adopted the
: secession ordinance at 2 p. ra. on Saturday—
Ayes, 20S ; Nays, 88. A motion to postpone
the operation of the ordinance till March 3
was lost. Among those who voted against
the ordinance were Hon. Alexander 11. Ste
phens and Hon. Herschel V. Johnson. Res
olutions in favor of continuing the present
postal and revenue system, and all the civil
Federal officers, till otherwise ordered, were
adopted. The event was celebrated at Mil
ledgeville and elsewhere in the State with
cannon, pyrotechnics and speeches.
ARKANSAS.—A Washington dispatch says :
j "The news of the refusal of the Arkansas Sen
ate to pass a Convention bill, produces a pro
found impression in secession as well as Union
circles. Senator Rusk's previous letters pre
pared him somewhat for this action, which is
here attributed to the Prcific Railroad bill
now before Congress, the road as proposed
possiog through Arkansas. It is the opinion
however, of well informed Southern gentlemen
that Arkansas cannot possibly stand against
the overwhelming secession sentiment prevail
, jng ;u Mississippi and Louisiana.
iietos from all Rations.
General' Scott is the largest man in the
American service. He is six feet sr* inches tail, and
weighs twtf hundred and sixty pounds. He is 74 years
old, yet his health is good, and his whole system is ap
parently vigorous, much of which is owing doubtless tw
his very temperate habits.
lu less than a fortnight nearly $11,000,-
000 have arrived at New York by steamers from Liver
pool, California, Havre and Havana.
The latest mention of the Golden State
is apian to make while dogs useful. Your San Francis
can seizes np his white cur, and with a stencil plate and
blacking, inscribes his business card upon each side of
the wretched pnp. and sends him forth a quadrepcdal lo
comotive advertiser—a dogerotype of the fast people of a
fast country, in a fast age. It is reckoned that a lively
dog will be worth at least five dollars a day, or equal to
one-fourth of a column in a newspaper.
A wedding in "high life" took place iu
Philadelphia last week. A romantic couple were mar
ried in the steeple of Independence Hall.
The detailed reports of the North Atlan
tic Telegraph Expedition, which lately returuod to Eng
land, are shortly to be made public. In the meantime
the London papers publish some preliminary reports,to
gether with a letter from Sir. Leopold MeClintock to Sir
Charles Blight, giving a very favorable opinion respect
ing the proposed route for the cable.
The gold which came to New York by
the Persia, from Liverpool during the lime of the panic
a week or two ago, upwards of 111,060,1)00, weighed 11,-
700 pounds, and loaded six express wagons. It was quite
a consolatory sight to the cramped merchants, in the
height of the hard times, to see six horses each pulling
a wagon load of gold along Broadway.
The Governor of Massachusetts was the
recipient of a small box, enclosed in brown paper, re
cently, which was brought from Baltimore by the Adams
Express Company, and was directed to "The Governor
of Massachusetts." On opening it. his Excellency found
that the box Contained some two dozeu Minnie ritlv balls,
but not a word as to who sent them.
Gen. Scott was lately burnt in effigy by
the students of the University of Virginia.
The Chicago Tribune says that during
the progress of the play at the theatre in that city, on
Saturday evening, a casual allusion to the gallant Major
Anderson was the occasion of one of the most striking
scenes ever witnessed in that city. The entire audience
rose to their feet, ladies waved their handkercheifs, and
cheer after cheer resounded through the edifice. There
is evidently but one sentiment pervading the great North
west— "THE UNION IT MUST BE PRESERVED !"
The Southern students of Union College
at Schenectady, N. Y., have resolved to secede from that
mstitutinu as soon as they shall learn that the respective
states in which they reside have seceded.
A New York paper is informed on good
authority that the story now going the rounds of the
press, that Mr. Beeeher was insulted, and rotten eggs
thrown at his carriage after lecturing in New Haven last
week is utterly untrue. Nothing of the sort occurred so
far as Mr. B. hfmself is aware. The whole story is a
pure fabrication.
A recount of three boxes for Congress in
the infamous Moyamensing district, Philad.. where nu
merous frauds are yearly committed, show a loss of 13d
votes for Lehman, and a gain of 139 for Butler—proving
that the latter was fairly elected.
Hon. Lyman Trumbull, Rep., is re-elect
ed to the U. S. Senate from Illinois.
Col. Forney spenks kindly again of Pres
ident Burhanan since the latter has discarded the traitors
who so long misled him.
—At the close of a business letter from
Springfield, the writer says: "Wehave lived eleven years
on the corner opposite Mr, Lincoln's house, and have
never heard him speak an angry word. Let us pray for
one who will in the future, if God spares his life, be bur
dened beyond measure." This is a high tribute to the
President elect. And who will not join the writer in
prayer for the man who, at such a time as this, is brought
to the Presidency.
—A revolting case of barbarity has been
brought to light near Willksbarre, Pa., Au old man
named Isaac Hisbiug, living in that vicinity, quarrelled
with his son Andrew, and in a fit of rage he seized a gun
and shot the boy in the back, from the effect of which it
is feared he cannot recover. It seems that the old man
was a perfect demon, and some of his acts of barbarity
towards his wife and children would have shamed the
wildest savage. He would frequently hang the young<r
children up by the neck until life was almost extinct,and
at other times he would hold their heads under the water
until they struggled iti the agonies of death. One of the
boys tied to the house of a neighbor one day, badly burnt,
and stated that his father had thrown a red hot poker in*
to the bed in which the children slept, just to see the
(rolic they would have gettingjout! At auother time he
nearly drowned his wife by holding her head in a crock
of buttcr-milk. It would be a just retribution if this man
should come to the gallows; and lie bids fair to end his
career on the scaffold.
Mr. Buchanan has withdrawn from hit
official organ. The Constitution, all the Executive adver
tisements, and has given them to the /nle/ligencer,which
will lierealter express the views of the Administration.
The late attack upon the President and Mr. Secretary
Holt, which appeared in The Comslilation, and the ultra
disunion sentiments advocated by its alien British ed
itor, have caused this change. In the venerable old
Intelligencer the President will have what he has never
had before, a respectable organ.
—When Senator Baker, of Oregon, was cor
rected tor the blunder for.calling the Louisiana Senator the
Senator from South Carolina, he apologized with the say
ing of Shakespeare, that a substitute shines just as well
as a king when no king is standing by. This allusion to
the absent senators, and to Benjamin's vicarious position
provoked general laughter.
—An effigy of James Buchanan was found
on Monday morning hanging from a rope, stretched
across Milwaukee avenue, Chicago, with a copy ot the
Chicago Times in its pocket.
—The Washington correspondent of the
Press says the I>iunionists are waiting every day to
hear news of riots and bloodshed in Philadelphia, New
York and Boston.
—lt is said that forty tons of shot, shells
and powder were forwarded from New York city recently
by Adams Express for New Orleans—reported to be de
stined for Mexico, but believed to be for Louisiana.
—Gold is so plentiful iu New York that
even English sovereigns are there at a discount, and the
banks will not take them. This is one of a thousand
facts that show that the panic we experience was got up
by politicians for the purpose of coercing the people.
—An exchange thinks that the seizure of
Fort Moultrie by the Carolinians looks a little billious.
Precisely, and the seizing of the forts at Mobile looks a
little Mo'biliious.
—A siogular phenomenon, in the shape of a
cloud, the exact likeness of a goose-quill, was noticed in
Montgomery, Ala, one night last week. It was regarded
by some as ominous of peace.
—General Lane absented himself from the
Senate while his colleague, Colonel Baker, was speaking.
The Washington Intelligencer guesses that old Joe's man
ners are not much better than his spelling.
—Governor's Islaud, in New York harbor,
has been cutoff from communication with the city by
order of its commanding officer. This is probably done
that certain military preparations may not be known.
—The London Saturday lierieir is very se
vere upon Edward Everett's "Mount Vernon Papers,"
• ailing them -'slipshod, meagre," Ac.
Seward on the Union.
EXTRACT FROM SEWARD'S SPEECH IX TIIE SEX
ATE, JAN. 12, IHI.
Mr. PRESIDENT, I b-ave designedly dwelt so
long on the probable effects of disunion upon
the safety of tbe American people as to leave
me little time to consider the other evils which
must follow iu its train, lint, practically, the
loss of safety involves every other form of
public calamity. When once the guardian
angel has taken flight, everything is lost.
Dissolution would not only arrest, but extin
guish the greatness of our country. Even if
separate confederacies couid exist and endure,
they could severally preserve no share of tbe
common prestige of the Uuion.
If the constellation is to be broken np, the
stars, whether scattered widely apart, or
grouped in smaller clusters, will thenceforth
shed forth feeble, glimmering and lurid lights.
Nor will great achievements be possible for
the new confederacies. Dissolution wouid sig
nalize its triumph by acts of wantonness which
would shock and astound the world. It would
provincialize Mount Vernon and give this
Capitol over to desolation at tbe very moment
when the dome is rising over our heads that
was to be crowned with the statue of Liberty.
After this there would remain for disunion DO
act of stupendous infamy to be committed.—
No petty confederacy that shall follow the
United States can prolong, or even renew, the
majestic drama of national progress. Perhaps
it is to be arrested because its sublimity is in
capable of continuance Let it be so if we
have indeed become degenerate After Wash
ington and the inflexible Adams, Henry and
the peerless Hamilton, Jefferson and the ma
jestic Clay, Webster and the acute Calhoun,
Jackson, the modest Taylor and Scott, who
rises in greatness under the burden of years,
and Franklin, and Fulton, and Whitney, and
Morse, have all performed their parts, let the
curtain fall !
While listening to these debates, I have
sometimes forgotten myself in marking their
contrasted effects upon the page who enstoma- j
rily stands on the dais before me, and the ven
erable Secretary who sits behind him. The
youth exhibits intense but pleased emotion in j
the excitement, while at every irreverent word
that is uttered against tbe Union the eyes of I
the aged man are sufficed with tears. Let :
him weep no more. Rather rejoice, for yours
has been a lot of rare felicity. You have
seen and been a part of all the greatness of |
your country, the towering national greatness ;
of all the world. Weep only you, and weep
with all the bitterness of anguish, who are just
stepping on the threshold of life ; for thut
greatness perishes prematurely and exbts not
for you, nor me, nor for any thut shall come
after uv
The public prosperity ! how could it survive
the stonn ? Its elements are industry in the
culture of every fruit ; mining of all the met
als ; commerce at home and on every sea ;
material improvement that knows no obstable
and has no end : invention that ranges thro'-
out the domain of iialure ; increase of knowl
edge as broad as the human mind can explore;
perfection of art ns high as human genius can
reach ; and the social refinement working for
the renovation of the world. How could onr
successors prosecute these noble objects in the
midst of brutalizing civil conflict ? What
guarantees will capital invested for such pur
poses have, that will outweigh the premium
offered by political and military ambition ?
What leisure will the citizens find for study, or
invention, or art, under the reign of conscrip
tion ; nay, what interest in them will society
feel when fear and hate shall have taken pos
session of the national mind ? Let the miner
in California take heed ; for its golden wealth
will become the prize of the nation that can
command the most iron. Let the borderer
take care ; for the Indian will again lurk
around his dwelling. Let the pioneer come
back into our denser settlements ; for the rail
road. the post road, and the telegraph, ad
vance not one furlong farther into the wilder
ness. With standing armies consuming the
substaoee of our people on the land, and our
Navy and our postal steamers withdrawn from
the ocean, who will protect or respect, or who
will know by name our petty confederacies ?
The American man-of war is a noble spectacle.
I have seen it enter an ancient port in the
Mediterranean. All the world wondered at
it and talked of it. Salvos of artillery, from
forts and shipping in the harbor, saluted its
flag. Princes and princesses and merchants
paid it homage, and all the people blessed it
as a harbinger of hope for their own ultimate
freedom. I imagine now the same noble ves
sel again entering the same haven. The flag
of thirty three stars and thirteen stripes has
been hauled down, and in its place a signal is
ruu up, which flaunts the device of a lone star
or a palmetto tree. Men ask, " Who is the
stranger that thus steals into our waters?"—
The answer contemptuously given is. " She
coines from one of the obscure Republics of
North America. Let her pa*s."
Lastly, public liberty, our own peculiar lib
erty must languish for a time, and then cease
to live. And such a liberty ! free movement
everywhere through our own land and through
out the world ; free speech, free press, free
suffrage ; the freedom of every subject to vote
on every law, and for or against every agent
who expounds, administers, or executes.—
Unstable and jealous confederacies,
ly apprehending assaults without and treason
within, formidable only to each other and con
temptible to all besides ; how long will it be
before, on the plea of public safety, they w ill
surreuder all this inestimable and unequalled
liberty, and accept the hateful and intolerable
espiouage of military despotism ?
And now, Mr. President, what are the au
spices of the country ? I know that we are
in the midst of alarms, aud somewhat exposed
to accidents unavoidable in seasons of tem
pestuous passions. We already have disorder;
and violence has begun. I know not to what
extent it may go. Still my faith in the Con
stitution and in the Union abides, because my
faith in the wisdom and virtue ot the Ameri
can people remains unshaken. Coolucss, calm
ness, aud resolution are elempts of their
character. They huve been temporarily dis
placed ; but they are reuppearing. Soon
enough, I trust, for safety, it will be seen tliat
sedition and violence are only local and tem
porary, and that loyalty and affection to the
Union are the natural sentiments of the whole
country. Whatever dangers there shall be,
there will be the determination to meet them ;
whatever sacrifices, private or public, shall bo
needful for the Union, tbey will be made. I
feel sure that the hour has not come for this
great nation to fall. This people which has
been studying to become wiser and better as
it has grown older, is not perverse or wicked
enough to deserve so dreadful and severe a
punishment as dissolution. This Uuion has
not yet accomplished what good for mankind
was manifestly designed by him who an.*;
the seasons and prescribes the duties of St
nnd empires. No, sir ; if it were cast d" 6 *
by friction to day, it would rise again and*"
appear in all its majestic proportions toll!
row. ft is the only Government thai
stand here. Woe ! woe fto the man th*'
madly lifta his hand against it. It thai!
tinue and endure ; and men, in after
shall declare thut this generation, which
the Union from such sudden ami unlocked
dangers, surpassed in magnanimity even tp
one which laid its foundations hi the et? "!•
principles of liberty, justice and fcmnanitj^
Gov. Co mux's Am>rxTJrt:NT3 —-We i t4rt
that Gov. C'urtin has made the following &r
pointmentv:—
Secretary of State—Eli Slifer, of
county.
Deputy Secretary—George W. Hamtnerjb !
of Butler county.
Whisky Inspector— Wm. Butler, of i] g !
county.
Physician of the Port of j
Clark, of Philadelphia.
Messenger to the Govcrner— Samuel Milt,
of Centre county.
Adjutant General—James S. Negle? „• !
Pittsburg.
Western Flour Inspector—Thomas Collin, I
of Pittsburg.
Sealer of Weight* and Measures—J d
Owens, of Pittsburg.
Col. Slifer having resigned as State Tra
surer, the Hon. Henry D. Moore of Philade'-
phia, has been nominated by the Republic
to fill the vacancy, for one vear from the 1
Ist of May next. Electiou on Monday tb
21st iust.
MR. IIOI.T was confirmed BS Secretarv '
War by the Senate, on Friday by a vote o'
38 to 13, after a stormy secret sessiou of
about four hours. During its continuant, 1
Mr. CRITTENDEN unexpectedly made a speec: I
in which he severely upbraided the Souths 1
members who voted against his resopitioos I
Thursday, and thusdefeted them, lie deciar*-.
that Kentucky occupied such a position in eb,
Uniju that it was of vital importance to hr I
that it should be preserved, and thai it an
be preserved at ull hazards. Tue speech is re : J
resented to have made a decided seusitoi 1
among the Secessionists.
THE CHARLESTON CUSTOM HOUSE.— By J
statistics accompanying the last report of tk 1
Secretary of the Treasury, it appears thattkl
custom house at Charleston, S. C, han cor J
the National Government more than S2OO j
000, although it is still unfinished, and mon |
than $300,000 would be required to comp* I
it. This i* one of the buildings which tbe i - 1
ceders seized upon at the outset of t;, j j
movements, and the Palmetto flag now
over it in triumph.
. J
ADMISSION OF KANSAS. —The prorttAwp \
of Congress on Saturday indicates that Kit |
sas is now very soon to be numbered umk* I
the States of the Union. Senator G KEEN, B
Missouri, adopted sundry pariiinentary ei JjS
dients to delay the event as long as pos*ihflH
in which he was aided by otiier gentles IB
from the slaveholding States, but, when :gB
Senate adjourned, it was the understands!
that the final vote should be taken, I
Monday.
THE PRESIDENT remains firm in car* j
out the new and vigorous policy which ha •*§ 1
adopted. He said recently, in reply to 'f J
suggestion of apprehended difficulty in in EJ
gnratiug Mr. Lincoln, "If 1 live till the!" H
of March I will ride to the Capitol with OH B
Abe, whether I am assassinated ore.'
ilrtu 3Utocrtf?rmrnts.
JANUARY 8, 1861 fl
To the People of Bradford County I'ijM
all other Patrons of the
CASH DRUG STORE B
* f 4
I TENDER my sincere thank', for '■
very liberal patronage bestowed upon me, ''-f "J
the last year, in my New Medicine Building, op>: fIH
corner ot Maine and Pine Streets.
Devoting my whole attention to all branches i
taining to this business, and strictly adhering
grand aim of giving the best satisfaction. I inie-jj
present opportunities for purchasers to procure mi'.*'* fj
according to their quaiitj - , at lower rates, thin v
other store in this vicinity. My usual assortment r-lH
kept constantly supplied with fresh purchase-
Medical advice gratuitously giveu at the Office, 'rfßH
ing only for Medicine. „ | JH
Towanda. Pa. H. C. I'ORTKR^L^B
IpEED. —A large quuantitv of IViieii'l 1
Buckwheat Bran and Canal, for sale at '''B^H
DRIED FRUlT.—Dried Apple?
Cherries, Raspberries, Whortleberries. S'TM
ries, Zautee Currants, Raisins. Citron and in
eral assortment of Dried and Green Fruit at ~|^B
Towanda, Jan. 22. 1861.
"VTOTICE. —Notice is hereby
A. x persons indebted to the estate of J<'
IRVIM. dee'd.. that the accounts of said :
main in the hands of the undersigned for i
the loth of February, and will meet such per- f
office of Wm. C. Bogart. Esq., in Towands.
DAY, of each week till that time,—alter
remaining unsettled they will .lie placed in ;?B
of the proper officers for collection ~ y .
Jan. 22. WU. W.
"\TOTlCß.—Whereas, Wm. Hr.-w. M'
-Li ton, Bradford County. Pa., holds the ~wM '
subscriliers for the sum of SBS, with istere-t. '
date Feb. 18, 1859, this is to notify ail i"' r *' 3 j^.^Bßi
purchase the said note, as it has tieen hiHy P*' . IB
istied. SOI/)N S-CORM 1 H
Canton. Jan. 5,1881. BARBARA E- j I
Special Notice. il ,
4 LL persons indebted to the
d\. on the late firm of Humphrey A w t
judgment or otherwise, are earnestly f'" 0 a
immediate payment. Accounts remainingn' l jJ^^B.
lie placed in the hands of a legal agent fro
ter the loth of February next. After that r M
scriber will sell goods tor ready pay. and ' lU>t 4 *
to wait oc his old customers and others,*^' J
him with a call. J.D.HI'*
Jan. 17. 1881.
GOODS AT COST. jß*
4 FINE ASSORTMENT of
Printed French Merinoe*.
Dress tloods. Also a tot of very desiranw
: wilt now te sold for euk at cost by 1
[ January it, 1861. It. -• •