D3LLAR AND FiFTY CENTS PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
TOWANDA :
Tlnrsday Morning, April 9, 1863.
(Driginal fjotlrj.
(For the Reporter.)
1 " WEARY."
BT PHILA HENRIETTA CASM.
i Father, I ai£i so weary
Of thts toil and care,
And the long shadows lie so dark across rcy way,
Shutting out the glad sunlight, yet I pray
•' Thy will be done."
{ So tired ! the giddy world
Around my soul liath flung
A warp and woof of golden pleasures, but I tiro
Of its cold glitter, and long for higher
And purer joys iu Thee.
So weary and so sad !
My foolish heart
Hath laid its gift upon an Altar, else than Thine,
And quaffed with eager lips the ruby wine
Of human love.
I made an idol,
And my soul bowed down
Before it! but it crumbled into dust,
And lc f t me nothing but my broken trust,
Poor, foolish heart.
I'm weary of the world—
Ob, take my heart. [break.
All .bruised, crushed and bleeding, ere its tendrils
Aud heal it with Thy love, for His sweet sake,
Who bore this grief for me.
Father. I sigh for rest!
Oh. let me lean my head,
Mv weary head, upon my Saviour's breast,
Until my life-bark reach its promised lest
In Thy btest home.
sjjt llion.
"LETTER OIF"
lON. GALUSBA A. GROW,
To his Constituents.
To the pro pie of the Count i s of Susquehanna,
Tioga, and Bradford, (composing the old
12th and 11'A Congressional Districts.)
GLEN WOOD, March 20, 1363.
The fourth instant closed twelve years of
service us your Representative in the Councils
of the Nation. Few if auy constituency ever
gave to a Representative so cordial and gen
erous a support as 1 have received at your
bands. Be assured it will be treasured as the
proudest recollection in a grateful remem
brance.
To each voter of the District I tender my
acknowledgements, for there are tew if any
whose support I have not at some time re
ceived. First nominated and elected as the
candidate of the Democratic party, I have
since been chosen by a unanimous vote iu one
election, and with a few scattering votes
against me iu the o her.
By the last apportionment your union in
one Congressional District, which had existed
so long, was destroyed, and with it ends our
relation of Representative and constituent :
which on my own account I do not regret, as
it affords me an opportunity for rest, so much
needed for years, and to seek a restoration of
health somewhat impaired by the labors inci
dent to the position to which you assigned
me.
In a parting word allow mo to solicit of
you a thoughtful consideration of the present
and a careful review of the political history of
the country for at least a few years.
In order to refresh your memories as to the
doctrines advocated and the positions of par
ties at the commencement of my term of ser
vice, I quote verbatim, from the Montrose
Democrat, the proceedings of the Congression
al Conference at which, unsolicited on my
part, I was first nominated as a candidate for
office :
" CONGRESSIONAL CONFERENCE.
" At a meeting of the Democratic Congressional Con
ference of the l'ilh District, couvened at Wellsboro, n
the 23th of September, 1850, there appeared as Conferees
C.M.Gere and C. L. Brown on the part of Susquehanna,
B. Laporte on the part of Bradford. Geo. Kuox. John F.
Donaldson, C. C. Green and A. P. Gone ou the part ol
Tioga county.
On motion, G. Knox, Esq., was called to the Chair,
and H. Laporte appointed Secretary. Ou motion, B. La
porte was allowed (in the absence of his colleague.) to
cast two votes for Bradford county.
< " Letters were then presented from Hon. David Wil
mot, James Lowrev, and G.A. Grow, Esq., which on
I Motion, were read and ordered to be incorporated in the
j minutes of the Conference. Jlr. Brown then moved the
following preamble and resolutions, which were unani
mously adopted :
" u EKE AS, The Hon. David Wilmot and James Low
rey, Esq.. j n view of uniting the Deinocaatic party of the
1-th Congressional District in the support ola single
candidate, and making certain the triumph of sound
democratic principles in the coming Congressional elec
tion, have declined. Therefore,
Resolved, That we acknowledge no test but princi
iui' 1 ! ,art - v P o b''cs ; and as Democrats it is our duty
!'" diy to proclaim our principles, and firmly maintain
Resolved, That we are unutterably opposed to the
"tension ot slavery into the Territory now free, and
that we hold it to tie the duty of Congress to prohibit,
"7 positive law, its introduction therein.
'Resolved, That standing upon these principles and
t-vmg with confidence in the integrity of G. A. Grow
wttnully to carry them out iu our national councils, we
present him to the Democratic voters ot this District as
W,r candidate (or Congress.
' Resolved, That the bold and unflinching manner in
,1 U' e Hon. D. Wilmot has advocated in Congress
preservation of Free Territory from the encroach
-Slavery meets the admiration and approbation
0 tiie Democracy of this District."
. U( fh were the principles declared at that
time by the Democratic party of the District,
to which, as its candidate, I wus required
subscribe ; which I did most iieartly then,
■f'd do still ; for they are iu accordauce with
i T iews of the fathers of the Republic, and
their legislation for a third of a century.
On the 18th day of July, 1787, the Cou
fcress of the Confederation, with but one dis
puting voice, passed an ordiuauce for the
* oT ernment of the Territories of the United
northwest of the Ohio river, which em
braced all the territory theu possessed by the
general Government.
The sixth article of that ordinance protided
THE BRADFORD REPORTER.
that " There shall 1 e neither slavery nor in
voluntary servitude iu said Territory otherwise
than in punishment of crimes, whereof the
parties shall be duly convicted." being the ex
act phraseology as introduced by Jefferson,
March 1, 1784, in his plan for the government
of all Territories.
This ordinance, after the adoption of the
Constitution, was coutinued in force by an act
of Congress passed in each House by a unan
imous vote, aud Washington sigued the bill.
Fifteen of the framers of the Constitution, in
cluding Madisou were members of that Con
gress.
Chief Justice Taney, in delivering the opin
ion of the Supreme Court in the case of Stra
der et. ul. vs. Graham, 10 Howard, page 96,
iu referring to this ordinauee, says, it " owed
its legal validity aud force, and after the Con
stitution was adopted and while the territori
al government coutinued, to the act of Con
gress of August 7, 1789, which adopted and
carried its provisions iuto execution."
On the 20th of March, 1804, Jefferson sign
ed a bill for the organizing of the Territory
of Orleans, part of the Louisaua purchase, and
iu which slavery then existed. But the act
prohibited the introduction of any slave im
ported into the country since 1790, and no
slave could be taken iuto the Territory lot
purposes of sale. This was four years before
Congress was permitted by the Constitution
to prohibit the importation of slaves iuto the
states.
So that Jefferson and the statesmen of that
day believed that Congress had power over
the Territories to prohibit the introduction
of slaves therein, aud they did not hesitate to
cxereise it.
And on the 11th of January, 1805, he
sigued the bill for the o-ganizatiuu of the Ter
ritory of Michigan, which contained a total
j prohibition of slavery.
; At the time of taking my seat in Congress
ias your Representative, there was a law in
! full force for the prohibiting of slavery in all
! the territory purchased of France lying north
of the parallel ot 36 degrees 30 minutes.—
This act, known a3 the Missouri Compromise,
was signed by Monroe, and had remained uu
disturbed ou the statute book for a third of a
century. Enacted by Democratic votes, up
proved by a Democratic President and Cabin
et, it had become so fixed iu the hearts of the
people that even Senator Atchinson of Mis
souri belivcd it irrepealable. For in urging in
the Senate, on the 3J of March, 1853, the
passage of a bill to orgauize tbo Territory of
' Nebraska, which had already passed the
i House with not a word in it relative to the
Missouri Compromise, he used the following
language :
" It in evident that the Missouri Compromise can not
be repealed. So tar as that question is concerned we
might as well agree to the admission ol the Territory now
as next year, or live, or ten year.' heHce " —Congressional
Globe, Secoud Session, S2d Congress, Volume 26, page
1113.
But one year later and the deed was done.
For tlie first time in the history of the Repub
lic, a restriction on the spread of slavery was
taken from tlie statute book. The party that
repealed claimed to he the followers of the
party that enacted. Democrats under the
lead of Monroe made the law ; Democrats
tinder the lead of Pierce unmade it. The
i Monroe Democracy did it to restrict slavery ;
j the Pierce Democracy uudid it to extend sla
j very. As your Representative, I adhered to
j the Democracy of the fathers, and opposed the
| Pierce Democracy, and for so doing 1 had
! your unanimous approval at the ballot box.
i The sentiment of the Democratic party, as
then constituted, was expressed in the follow
ing proceedings of the Congressional Confer
ence, published at the time iu all the l)emo
-1 cratic papers of the District :
" At a meeting of the Conferees of the 14th Congres
sional District assemuied at tbo Court House iu Towan
da, on the 6th day of September, 1854, Thomas Srnead,
of Bradford, was called to the Chair, and Ezra B. Chase,
of Susquehauna, elected Secretary.
On motion of William K. Hatch", of Susquehanna, Hon.
G. A. Grow was UNANIMOUSLY" nominated tor re
! election to Congress.
The following resolutions were then unanimously
' adopted :
lies dved, That the restrictions to the spread of slave
ry, contained in the Missouri Compromise, rested upon
the early and only policy of the fathers of the Republic,
and that the repeal of that restriction in the act of Con-
I press organizing the territories of Kansas and Nebras
j ka, was a direct innovation of that policy, a breach of
| faith between the two sections ot the Union, A VIOLA
j TION OF EVERY PRING'IRLEOF JUSTICE ANI) HU
i M ANITY, and a determined attempt to overrun the set
| tied maxioms of the Government and establish in their
i stead constitutional constructions subversive of the rights
j and guaranteeso lreedom.
I Resolved, That we cordially approve of the conrse of
i our Representative in Congress, Mr. Grow, and especial
! ly do wc commend his course iu resisting the repeal of
1 the Missouri Compromise. He has reflected honestly and
1 with fidelity the views of his constituents, the best evi
j deuce of which, as well as their determination to resist
j this outrage upon the rights and principles, is his unan
: imous nomination."
; The Whig party resolved in their conven
tions not to nominate a candidate, and I ri
ceived the unauimous vote of the District, for
to other reason than I had opposed the repeal
of the Missouri Compromise.
1 The Democratic Convention of Susquehan
na county, at its meeting 27th of August,
[855. to nominate a County ticket, adopted
the following resolutions :
" Resolved, That Slavery is an institution entirely lo
: cal in its character that it can legally exist in no State
j or Territory of this Union until established there by the
! so vereignty ot State law ; that the General Government
j should in no wise lend its countenance or support to the
j extension or perpetuity ot the institution ; aud that we
will resist any such use ol the powers of tlie General
i Government, as dangerous usurpations aud flagrant
| abuses.
I Resolved, That the .'provisions of the act of Congress
I establishing the territories of Kansas and Nebraska,which
i struck down the so called Missouri Compromise, in out-
I rage against Northern sentiments and Northern senti
i mentj and Northern feeling; a measure alike uncalled
| for and unjustiticable by any principle of justice or good
| taith.
Resolved, That the repeal of the Missouri Compromise
i was not a measure of the Democratic party, but is one
which a large majority at least ot the {Democracy of the
North opposed in its very iiicipiency.as antagonistic not
only to their oft-declared principles in their primary as
semblies, but also to the great National platform laid
down at Baltimore in lbs2.''
The Committee appointed by the Conven
tion, oa reporting these resolutions prefaced
them by the following, as their reason for re
porting them j
" That the resolutions passed by the Democratic Coun
ty Convention last January, are believed to embody in
substance the general principles of the Democratic par
ty of Susquehanna County, and tha Cornmittts there
fore have adopted them."
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. 0, GOODRICH.
The Convention in January referred to, at
which these resolutions were first passed, was
a Convention called to elect delegates to the
Slate Convention.
The Democratic Convention of Tioga couDty,
which met at Tioga Village, 25th of August,
1854, announued the sentiments of the party
in that county in the following language:
" IVhereas, We believe that that part of thi Act of
CoDgress lately enacted, repealing the Missouri Compro
mise (so-called) and all other acts of alike character are
anti-Democratic and opposed to the true principles of
our National Government aud highly dangerous to its
prosperity.
" I{evolved, That we will not support any man for of
fice who lias not been openly and unequivocally opposed
to the repeal of said Compromise "and the extension of
Slavery into (ree territory, and who will not pledge him
self to us his whole intiuence for the re-enactuieut of said
Compromise and against the further extension of Sla
very and encroachments of the Slave power."
Similar declarations were made in the Con
ventions of the Democratic party of Brad
ford.
These views of the Democratic party in the
District were in perfect harmony with the sen
timents of the Democratic party of the state
as expressed previous to the repeal of the Mis
souri Compromise.
The Democratic party, in State Convention
at Pittsburg, 4th of July, 1849, adopted the
following resolution as a part of their plat
form ;
" Resolved, That the Democratic party adheres now,
as it ever has done,to the Constitution of the couutry.—
Its letter and spirit they will neither weaken nor destroy,
and they re-declare that Slavery is a domestic local in
stitution of tiie South, subject to State legislation alone,
and with which the general government has nothing to
do, wherever the State law extends its jurisdiction. Es
teeming it a violation of State rights to carry it beyond
State limits, wo deny the power of any citizen to extend
the era of bondage beyond its present domain, nor do
we consider it a part of the compromife of the Constitu
tion that Slavery should forever travel with the advanc
ing columns of our tenitorial progress."
lu 1847, tlie Legislature, by an almost uti
auimous vote, passed the following resolution,
which was approved by Francis R Skunk,
then Governor, and recoguized leader of the
Democracy of the State :
" Resolved, That our Senators and Representatives
in Congress be requested to vote against any measure,by
which territory will accrue to the Union, unless, as a
part of the fundamental law upon jvhich any contract or
treaty for this purpose is based. Slavery or involunta
ry servitude, except for crime, shall be forever prohibit
ed."
This was but adhering to the policy an
nounced by the state in her joint resolutions
of 1819, which passed both houses bv an un
animous vote, and were approved by William
Finiey, a Governor of whom the Democracy
were especially proud. The concluding portion
of the preamble aud resolutions were iu these
words :
" The Senate and House of Representatives of Penn
sylvania, therefore, cannot but depreciate any depart
ure from the humane and enlightened policy pursued,
not ouly by the illustrious Congress of 177.biit by their
successors, without any exception : they are persuaded
that, to open the fertile regions of the \Vesl to a servile
race would tend to increase their numbers beyond all
past examples would open a new and steady market
for lawless venders of human flesh, and would render all
schemes lor obliterating this most foul blot upon the
American character useless and unavailing.
'• Under these convictions, and in lull persuasion that
npor. this topic there is but one opinion in Pennsylvania,
be it
" Resolved, By the Senate and House of Represent
atives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, That tlie
Senators and Representatives of this State in tlie Con
gress of the United States, be, and is hereby requested
to vote against the admission of any Territory, as a
State into the Union unless tlie further introduction of
slaver)', or involuntary servitude, except for the pun
ishment of crime whereof the party shall have been con
victed, shall be prohibited."
Such was the early sentiments and long es
tablished policy of the country, every Presi
dent from WAshirgton to Polk, inclusive,
having signed bills prohibiting, restricting,
or regulating the existence of slavery in terri
tories.
The overturning of this policy of the found
ers of the government in the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise dismembered old party
orgauiz t'.ious, and necessitated the formation
of new ones.
On the passage of tlie bill, every Whig
from tlie tree states in both branches of Con
gress voted against it, and every Whig from
slave states, save six, voted for it. Of the
eighty-seven Democrats froinj the free states
in the House of Representatives, foriy-tliree
were, in favor of the bill, forty-four against if.
Thomas 11. Benton on that question stood
alone in the party from his section, battling
for the early policy of the Government and
in vindication of the wisdom of the Fathers.
THUS a division was run through the old
Whig parly, dividing it on the line that sepa
rates Freedom from Slavery ; and the same
line of separation was run through the Demo
cratic party of the free states ; which buried
forever the Whig party, and dismembered
the old Democracy.
That portiou of the old Democratic party
who still adheicd to the policy of Jefferson
and the Fathers and believed that the Terri
tories should be preserved for freemen instead
of slaves, and that portion of the old AVhig
party holding the same sentiments, co-operat
ed, and have since acted together in what is
known as the Republican party. While that
portion of the old Democracy who were will
iug to abandon the early policy of the Govern
ment, and that portion of the old Whig party
holding the same sentiments, represented by
men like Choale in New England, Brooks and
Randall iu the Middle States, and Toombs
and Benjamin in the South, cooperated, and
are acting together in what is called the Dem
ocratic purty.
AVhigs aud Democrats, north and south,
who were in favor of the exteusion aod per
petuity of slavery, co-operated, and formed
the new Democratic party, with such leaders
as Tocmbs, Benjamiue, Clingman, aud Alex
ander H. Stephens, all of whom, when I first
took a seat in Congress, were recognized lead
ers of the Whig parly. Whigs and Demo
crats, everywhere, who were in favor of pre
serving the Territories of the Union as homes
for free men, free from the curse of the insti
tutions of human bondage, co operated and
formed the Republican party, with such recog
nized leaders of the old Jackson Democracy
as Francis P. Blair, Benjamin F. Butler,
John M. Niles, aud hosts of other life-long
Democrats.
There was no inconsistency in snch a union
by either of the old partisans. For the Whig
and the Democrat thus brought together had
always agreed upon the principles that bad
now become the Jiving vital question of tbo
" RESA&DLESS OF DENUNCIATION F'P.OM ANY QUARTER."
day ; while they differed, it is true, on bank,
and other kiudred questions, all of which had
become obsolete and ceased to excite public
attention.
The old Democracy was in favor of preserv
ing the Territories as homes for free men ; the
modern Democracy would fill them with
slaves.
The fruits of the old policy were peace ana
harmony ; of the new, discord and civil war.
On the 10th of May, 1854, in a speech
made in the House of Representatives in op
position to the repeal of the Missouri Compro
mise, I said that, as a lover of peace, harmony
and fraternal concord among t .e citizens of the
Confederacy, and as a devotee at the shrine
of this Union, with all its precious hopes to
man, I desire the defeat of this bill ; for its
passage will tear open wounds not yet healed,
lacerate spirits already frenzied, and the bond
of confidence which unitea the two sections of
the Union will be rentasunder, and years of
alienation and tmkiudnes3 may intervene be
fore it can be restored, if ever, to its wonted
tenacity and strength. That has verified its
correctness.
The conspiracy to destroy the liberties of
the country was the uatural product of the in
stitution of human bondage. For it teaches
its votaries to dispise labor, and as a necessa
ry consequence to assume to be an aristocratic
class, arrogating the special privileges ever
claimed to belong to an aristocracy, 'ibis spir
it had been sedulosly cultivated ia the South
from the days of nullification ; and the exis
tance of slavery was the lever by which the
discontented spirits of South Carolina sought
to overturn the Government established by
our fathers, thus verifying the warnings of
Jefferson, published more thau three quarters
of a century ago, iu his Notes on Virginia, in
which he says :
" Tlere must doubtless be an unhappy Influence on the
manners of our people, produced by the existence of sla
very among us. The woole commerce between master
and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous
passions—the most unremitting despotism on the one
part, and degrading submission ou the other.
*******
" With what execration should the Statesman be load
ed, who, permitting one half ol the citizens thus to tram
ple on the right of the other,transforming those into des
pots and these into enemies, destroys the morals of the
one part, and the amor patria: of the other.
*#**♦* +
11 With the morals of the people, their industry is also
destroyed ; for in a warm climate, no man will labor for
himself who can make another labor for him.
*******
" And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure,
when we have removed their only firm basis—a convic
tion in the minds of the people that these liberties are
the gift ol GOD ? that they are not to be violated but with
bis wrath ? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I re
flect that GOD is just; that his justice can not sleep for
ever."
Without slavery there would have been no
rebellion, and the country would have been
saved this waste of treasure and sacrifice o f
priceless blood. It was to appease the de
mands of the slave oligarchy that the present
democratic party abandoned the cherished
principles of tlie old party and reversed the
policy of the fathers of the republic in the leg
islation of the country. Yet it did not avert
the storm. The aristocrats, defeated in a pop
ular election lor President, did just what all
aristocracies have ever done—resorted to
physical force to maintain their waning pow
er. Now the bloody field of battle is to de
termine whether the will of the rnajo;ity con
stitutionally expressed is to be the law of the
land, lu a miuority iu this government, de
feated at the ballot box, can appeal successful
ly to the cartridge box, then is the holding of
elections a larce and the "theory of elective
goverumeßts. a delusion. This war, then, is
uecessarily waged iu behalf of the vital princi
ples of free elective governments, as well as
to maintain our natioual existance. Resis
tance to the further spread of slavery was not
only preserving the Territories for free men,
but was also preventing any further augmen
tation of a power dangerous, as the rebellion
has clearly proven, to the liberties of the couu
try and the stability of the government.
The fidelity with which you have adhered
to your early convictions is a proud testimo
nial of your devotion to the best interests of
the Republic. Nor has the struggle of the
freemen of the nation to restore the Govern
ment to the policy of its founders been in vain.
Again, as in 1789, slavery is prohibited by
law in all the territory possessed by the general
government. Washington signed the first
law, aud Lincoln the last.
During try term of service as your Represen
tative, auother of your cherished measures of
legislation has been consummated. The lauds
of the Government have been dedicated by
law, iu free homes for free men. So the sons
of toil may escape everywhere from the crowd
ed alleys and byways of poverty and want, to
repose under their own " vine aud lig tiee" on
the public domain.
With this brief retrospect as to the meas
ures that have absorbed your attention for the
last decade, you will perceive that not a little
has been accomplished for the future greatness
and glory of the couutry.
One word as the present and probable fu
ture, and I close this somewhat lengthy com
munication.
The existence of the republic is threatened
by a rebellion the most causeless of any in the
hibtory of the race. An attempt i 3 made to
establish a separate nationality within the lim
its of the Republic, on the plea that the peo
pie can no louger live together in peace as one
nation. If that were true, how would it be
possible lor them to live in [peace as two ?
A separation would not change the geography
of the couutry, nor the local position of the
people to each other. A separation, were it
possible, would be but the begiuoing of untold
woes—frowning battlements, bristling armies,
and endless border conflicts. What patriot
would bequeath such a legacy to his children?
There is, in my judgment, no calamity so great
that could befall the present of the future as
a dismemberment of this tlnion. Rather than
that, better to make a desert of every foot of
soil trod by a traitor. If the present is wor
thy of the past, there will be no division of
the Union, and the flag of our fathers will
float ir triumph, from the Gulf to the Lakes,
and from ocean to oceaD, over a " Union one
and indivisible."
The meo of the north who to-day clamor
" peace" and woulJ disband your armies,would
by their policy, destroy the liberties of man
kind. Should this Government fall, over
thrown by internal disseisions, the last great
experiment of constitutional free government
among men has been tried ; and the lives and
liberties of American citizens wonld find no
security save iu the caprice of faction.
The peace men of to day can therefore ac
complish naught save to increase the sacrifice
of life and waste of treasure and bring sor
row and mourning to a greater number of fire
sides ; unless it be the destruction of the lib
erties of their country. The only road to last
ing peace leads over the baftle field and ends
in the shouts of victory. No partisan strife
should in this hour of national peril divide
the loyal, patriotic, aod true. Past issues
should be buried, save for reference, as beacon
lights to guide the future.
Justice to the heroes who are periling their
lives cn the tented field, and dae respect to
the memory of the martyrs who have fallen in
battle, demands the prosecution of this war
till the last armed rebel is subdued. Suspend
ed on the issue hangs the life of the Republic
aud the hopes of mankind.
The only arguments befitting the time 3 ore
cannon and batallions. A united voice and
action by the 20,000,000 of people who are
professedly for sustaining the Government,
and the last vestage of treason would long
since have been crushed out. A united pur
pose cow on their part to use all the means
within their reach to crush this rebellion, and
it would soon be euded. Whenever they shall
say, with one voice, that the Union shall live
no matter what dies, and whatever endangers
its existence must perish, the decisive battle
is then fought and won.
Fellow-citizens, in closing this last commu
nication as your Representative, permit me to
re-thank you for your generous kindness, and
to assure you that whatever my fortune or
wherever my fate iu life, I shall never fail to
rejoice in your prosperity and sympathize with
you iu your adversity.
GALUSHA A. GRO7,\
A Loyal National League in Wyalnsing',
Agreeably to a public cali, a goodly Dum
ber of the citizens of Wyalusing met at the
Academy for the purpose of forming a Loyal
National League.
J. W. Jackson was elected Chairman and
Andrew Feo Secretary. A committee was
appointed for the purpose, who presented the
following Constitution aud Fledge, which were
unanimously adopted and signed by all pres
ent.
We, the undersigned, citizens of the United
States, hereby associate ourselves under the
name and title of tlie Loyal National Leauge.
\\ e pledge ourselves to an unconditional
loyalty to the Government oftheUnited States:
to cn unwavering support of its efforts to sup
press the rebellion, and to spare co endeavor
to maintain uuimpared the national unity,
both in principal and territorial boundary.
The primary object of this League is, and
shall be, to bind together all loyal men, of all
trades and professions, in a common union, to
maintain the power, glory and integrity of the
nation.
The Leauge then elected the following gen
tlemen to be permanent officers :
J. W. Jackson, President ; Henry Gaylord
and Harrison Black, Lr vice Presidents ; An
drew Fee and Theodore lliocs. Secretaries,
and T. F. Lacey, Treasurer. Messrs L P.
Stafford, Benj. Ackloy and E. M. Bishop,
were appointed a committee to correspond
with aud procuro speakers to address the
League.
Resolved, That the next meeting o! onr I.eagne be held
in the Brick Church in this place,on Saturday. April 4th,
at 10o'clock, P. M.,and thai the proceeding ol this meet
ing he published in tlie County papers.
GOING INTO THE HEMP BUSINESS.— One of
our exchanges says that Mr. Buchanan is now
buying lund in Chester country, for the pur
pose of goicg extensively into the cultivation
of flax, for what purpose is left open to public
suspicion. It is a natural presumption that
he means to make ropes to hang the rascals
who nominated him for the Presidency, and
whom he now ragards as the authors of nil his
woes. But for them he might have died in
peace, and been honored in memory after a
fashion. Now he is likely to go down in sor
row unless his rope business is really a peni
tential dodge, signifying his readiness to facili
tate the hanging of his old friends.
EST* It is said that the Secretary of the
Treasury lias ordered that no more twenty
five and fifty-cent postage notes shall be issu
ed. The reason of this determination is said to
be that extensive frauds have been detected
against the government in these denominations
of the postage issue.
OaC TWO old gentlemen of our acquaint
ance were complimenting each other on their
habits of temperance.
" Did you ever, neighbor," said one, " see
me with more than I could carry 1"
" No, indeed," was the reply, " but I nave
seen you when I thought you had better gone
twice after it.
iST" It seems to be pretty certain that the
Rebels are about to abandon Fredericksburg,
and fall back nearly to Richmond. They fear
an attack byway of James River.
Deserters and returned prisoners con
cur in the statement that uctual want of bread
begins to be felt by the poorer classes in and
around Richmond.
BaT A man with a scolding wife, when en
quired of in relation to bis occupation, 6aid he
kept a hot house.
V&m It is impossible to look at the sleepers
in church without being reminded that Sunday
is a day of rest.
VOX.. XXIII. NO. 45.
THE 6-30 NATIONAL LOAN.
Tbe following correspondence in regard to
the new National Loan, conveys information
of importance to the public. This loan has al
ready became a favorite means of investment
and is destined to become still more popular.
Subscriptions are daily received at the princi
pal offices to the amouut of millions :
E. 0. GOODRICH, Dear Sir: —Almost
daily I aiu asked sundry questions in regard to the Loan
of the Government, commonly called the " Five-Twenty
Loan." As these questions are quite common and fre
quently asked. I have seen nothing, which in so short a
space,covers the whole ground, as the enclosed reply
from JAY COOKE, Esq., to a resident of Berks county,
who had written to him for the information.
I will esteem it quite a favor if you will find a place
! for it in your columns, as I have no doubt also will many
I of your readers. The demand for these bonds is very a
i tive, and I shall he happy to hear from any of our eitl
| zeas who may have some funds to invest.
Truly, yours,
B. S. RUSSELL,
Agent for the Government Loan.
, BERKS COUNTY, PA., March 20, 1863.
! JAY COOKE, Esq., United States Loan Agent, 114
South Third Street, Philadelphia— Dear Sir : —I see
by your papers that you are selnng for the Government
a new Loan called •' Five-Twenties." I expect to have
! shortly a few thousand dollars to spare, aud as I have
made up my mind that the Government Loans are safe
I and good, and that it is my duty and interest, at this
time ( to put my money into them in preference over
; any other loans or stocks, 1 write to get information of
I you as lollows :
} Ist. Why are they called " Five Twenties ?" 2nd.
! Do you take country money or only Legal Tender
i Notes or wiil a check on Philadelphia or New York an
j swer for Subscriptions ? 3d. Do you sell the Bonds at
i Par ? 4th. As I cannot come to Philadelphia how am
J Ito get the Bonds "T sth. What interest do they pay,
j and how and where and when is it paid, and is it paid
in Gold or Legal Tenders? 6th. How does Secretary
I CHASE get enough Gold to pay this Interest ? 7tli. Will
| the face of the Bonds he paid in Gold when due ? Bth.
I Can I have the Bonds payable to Bearer with Coupons,
!or registered and payable to my order ? 9th. What size
are the Bouds ? 10th. Will I have to pay the same tax
j on them as I now pay on my Railroad, or other Bonds ?
: 11th. What is the present debt of the Government,
j and what amount is it likely to reach if the Rebellion
J should last a year or two longer ? 12th. Will Secreta
ry CHASE get enough from Custom House duties and
Internal Revenue, income taxes, &c,, Ac., to make it
j certain that he can pay the interest punctually ? I
! have uo do'abt that a good many of my neighbors would
■ like to take these bonds and if you will answer my ques-
I tioas I will show the letter to them.
Very Respectfully,
D M F=—
Of VICE OF JAY COOKE, Subscription Agent at J
OFFICE OF JAY COOKE & Co., Bankers, R
114 South Third Street. )
PHILADELPHIA, March 23, 18C3.
PEAK SIR :—Your letter of the 20th inst., is received .
: and 1 will cheerfully give tbe information desired by
I answering your questions in due order.
Ist. These Bunds are called " FiTe-Tirenties," be
; cause while tney are twenty year Bonds, they may be
L redeuied by the Government in Gold at any time alter
! five years. Many people suppose that the interest is
: onlyo 20-106 per cent— this is a mistake, they pay SIX
I per cent Interest.
i 2nd. Legal Tender notes or checks upon Philadelphia
I or New York that will bring Legal Tender are what
the Secretary allows me to receive— no doubt your near-
J est Bank will give you a check or Legal Tenders for your
| country funds.
3d. The bonds are sold at PAH, the interest to com
j mence the day you pay the money.
4th. I have made arrangements with your nearest
I Bank or Banker who will generally have the Bonds on
] hand. If not, you can send the money to me by Express,
| aud I will send back the Bonds free of cost
I sth. The Bonds pay Six per cent, interest iu GOLD,
three per cent, every six months, on the first day of May
i and November at tie Mint in Philadelphia, or at any
I Sub-Treasury in New York or e'sewhere. If you have
; coupon Bonds, ail you have to do is to cut the coupon
I off each six months, and collect it yourself or give it to
' your Bank for collection ; if you have Registered Bonds
you can give your Banker a power of attorney to collect
I the interest lor you.
| 6th. Congress has provided that the Bonds shall be
. PAID IN COLD when due.
I 7th. The duties on imports of ail articles from abroad
T must be paid iu Gold, and this is the way Secretary
I CHASE gets his gold : it is now being paid intothe Treas
| ury at the rate of Two Hundred Thousand Dollars each
day, which is twice as much as he needs to pay the in
i terest in the Gold.
! Bth. You can have either Coupons Bonds payable to
the Bean-r, or Registered Bonds payable to your order,
j 9TLI. The former are in 50's loo's and 1000'S— the
J latter in same amounts, also ss,ooo's, and {lo,ooo's.
10. No ! You wiil not have to pay any taxes on these
bonds il your income from them does not exceed $6OO .and
on ail above $6OO you will only have to pay one-half as
; much Income Tax", as if your money was invested in
! Mortgages or other Securities. I consider tbe Govern
! ment Bonds as first of alt— all other Bunds are taxed one
! quarter per cent, to pay the interest on the Government
| Bonds, and the Supreme Court of the United States has
just decided that no State, or City, or Ccuuty can tax
j Governments Bonds.
11th. The present bounded debt of the United States
J sless than THREE HUNDRED MILLIONS, including the
■ seven aud three-tenths Treasury Notes ; but the Gov
, ernment owes enough more in the shape of Legal Teud-
I era , Deposits in the Sub-Treasuries, Certificates of In
| debtedness, &c., to increase the debt to about eight or
| nine hundred millions. Secretary CHASE has calculat
ed that the debt may leach one* thousand, seven hun-
J died millions, if the rebellion lasts eighteen months lon
| ger. It is, however, believed now that it will not last
j six months longer—but even if it does our National debt
j will he small compared with that of Great Britian or
. France, while our resources are vastly greater.
12th. 1 have no doubt that the revenue will uot only
I be ample to pay the ordinary expenses of the Govern*
j ment and all interest on the debt, but leave at least
I ONE hundred millions annually toward paving ofl the
I debt, and that the Government will be able to get out
j of debt again as it has twice before — in a lew years af
ter the close of the war.
1 hope that ULI wiio have idle money will nt once pur
chase these Five-Twenty Year Bonds. The right to de
mand them for legal tenders will end on the first day of
July, 1863.
Gn and after July 1,1803, the privilage of converting
the present issue ot Legal Tender notes into the national
six per cent, loan, (commonly called " Five-Twenties"
will cease.
AL! who wish to invest in tbe Five-Twenty Loan, must,
therefore, apply before the Ist of July next.
Those who neglect these Six per cent. Bonds, the in
! tere3t and principal of which they will get in Gold, may
I have occasion to regret it.
JAY COOKE, Subscription Agent.
AT OFFICE OF JAY COOKE A CO.,
114 Soutu Third St., Phils.
B&~ A young doctor in a new settlement,
on being asked to contribute towards enclosing
and ornamenting the village cemetery, very
coolly replied that if he filled it he though the
shoald do his part.
The oldest deaf and dumb asylum in
tbe world—the grave.
W&r Why is a lemon like an old maid who
has been pretty ? Becao3e it was made to be
squeezed and wasn't.
is a cannon just fired like a whip
ped schoolboy ? Because it is warm at the
breech.
S©- Why is a tale-bearer like a brick-lay
er ? Because he raises stories.
Deal geDtly with the erring one, as
GOD hath dealt *nh tbe*