BY LIENRY J. STAHL& 38" YEAR. Terms of the "Compiler." ge-T he Republican, COMM' ICr is pul dished every Monday morning, by HENRY.). STAIII.E. at $1,75 per annum if paid in, («Iva nee—S.;2,oo per annum if not paid in advance, - No sub- F•cription discontinued, unless at the option of the publisher, until all arrearages are paid. fLriPAAlvertisements inserted at the usual rates. " Job Printing done, neatly, cheaply, and with dispatch. z!V"Office in South Baltimore street, direct ly opposite Wampler's Tinning Establishment, one and at half squares from the Court-house, "Comma. IL" on the sign. 4oiee, The Flag of the United States. Ne'er waved beneath the golden sun A lovelier banner for the brave, Than that our bleeding fathers won, And proudly to their children gave; Nor earth a fairer gem can bring, Or frreedom claim a brighter scroll, ihiva that to which our free, hearts cling— ' The flag which lights the freeman's soul Its glorious stare in azure shine, The radiant heraldry of Heaven ; its stripes in beauteous order twine, The emblems of our I.7liion given : And tyrants, with a trembling gaze, Sul vey its bright and meteor glare glory's bea us around us Idaze, - And rest in fadeless splendor there. Look, freemen ! on its streaming folds, As gallantly they range afar,' 'Where freedom's bird undaunted hoMs The branch of pe . ace and spear of war ; 'While high amid the rolling stars, With words which every heart expand; Within her beak serene she bears The badge of our united. laud. :Flag of the free ! still bear thy way, tndinined by ages yet untold ; O'er earth's proud realms thy stars display, Like morning's radiant clouds unrolled. Flagof the skies! still peerless shine. Throughout earth's azure vaults unfurrd, • • • 'Till every hand and heart entwine, Tn sv. cep oppression from the world —ltlnunriS scie,el In Debt and Out of Debt. Of what a. hideous progeny of ill is debt the father! What meanness, what invasions of self-respect, what care, what double-dealing! How in due season, it will carve the frank. open face into wrinkles ; how like a knife it will stab the honest heart. And then its transformations. How it has been-known to change a goodly face into a mask of brass : how with the evil custom of debt, has the true man become a callous trickster ! A freedom front debt, and what nourishing sweetness can be found in cold water : in a dry crust; what ambrosial nourishment in a hard egg I—lie sure of it, he who dines out of debt, though hi Meal be a biscuit and au onion, dines in "The Apollo." And then,' for raiment, what warmth in a treadbare coat, if the tailor's receipt he in your pocket ! what Tyrian purple in the faded waistcoat, the vest not owed for ; how glossy the well worn hat, if it covers not the aching head of a debtor! Next thn home sweets, the out door recreation of a free man. The street door falls notea knell upon his heart ;.the foot of the staircase, though he live on the third pair, sends no spasms through the anatomy : at the rap of his door he can crow "come in," and his pulse still beats healthfully, his heart sinks nut in his bowels. Si7iF. - 41 in abroad.. How lie tcs - 10 - ok — for look with any passenger ; how he' saunters: now meeting an acquaintance., he stands and gossips, but then this man knows no debt: debt that, casts a drug in the richest wine i that makes the food of the gods unwholesome, indigestible : that sprinkles the banquets of a Lucullus with ashes, and drops soot in the soap of an emperor ; debt that like the moth, makes, valueless furs and velvets, enclosing the - wearer in a festering prison. (the shirt of Nessus was a shirt notrpgid for:) debt that writes upon frescoed walls the handwriting of the attorney : that puts a voice of terror ,in the knocker : that makes the heart quake at the haunted fireside ; debt the invisible demon that walks abroad with a man, now quicken -- ing his steps, now making him look on all sides like a hunted beast, and now bringing to his thee the ashy hue of death as the unconscious passenger looks glancingly upon him ! Poverty is a bitter draught, yet may, and sometimes can with _advantage, be gulped down. Though the drinker makes wry l'aces; there may, after• all, be a wholesome goodness in the cup. llut debt, however conrtcously it may be otferel in the cup of Syron ; and the wine, spiced and delicious though it be, is poison. The man out of debt, though with a flaw in his jerkin ; a crack in his shoe leather, and a Bole in his hat, is still the son of liberty. free as the singing lark above him, but the debtor, although clothed in the utmost brav ery, what is he but a serf out upon a holiday 7 ---a slave to be reclaimed at any instant by his owner, the creditor ? My son, if pour, see wine in the running spring : . see thy mouth water at a last week's roll: think a threadbare coat the only wear : and acknowledge a white-washed garret the fittest housing place for a gentleman: do this. and tiee debt. So shall thy heart lie at rest and the Sheriff eon founded.—Doivlas Jerrold. I?athrr Quich.—Lardner's handbook gays: that the sirene (an instrument fur nicely cal culating the vibrations of musical sound, ) when applied to - the - purpose of noting the -buizing made hy win:'s of insects, shows that a gnat'4l fans flap at the rate of 15.000 times per second. This is one of the most astounding things in the universe. It is impossible to conceive the tremendous velocity of wing, that strike 15,1 01 times while you say one. Gaiien sliw.L—The recently elr,Aed repre.eutative fur qi-trict if Wool -sited in Australia. Mr. Daniel Caarron, had tie compliment p:tio t‘) ors sTrproorters of having the horse he role on ut the time of the contest shod with sh,,es of -.llil g,)11. and was also presented with the oint of 41,309 (i7,5V0.) o • , -- - - - - - _ .. • . . . . + , • . , , v •+. + . . . , . . . . • I 4 • r • r v . . i . t4l V. .1 • • r . ri k . , • •' ik . r i. . tr .:.„ , , •, ... •. • ..„ 1•• 1 .. ~..,,., , .. 40,11, Jr • 11. ..,:.. r . • -....,.... 7 ,. .. . • . • . . . : • • . . . r . ............ - - --....--......-............-. -.-...-- ifethspOci----bebofa fo Toegi ..110 eteqcii,il &e. THE MIDNIGJIT ASSASSIN. I Wad on my way to in the year l 8—; it was towards . the cold evenings in the first fall nionth, - wheu my horse stopped sud denly before a-respectable house, about four miles from N—. There was something strange and remark aide in this action of my ithrse,nor would he stir a step in spite of allmy exertions to inure him on. I determined to gratify this whim, and at the saute time a strange presentiment which carne Over me, a kind of supernatural feeling indescribable, seemed to urge me to enter.— Having knocked, and requested to be conduct ed to the lady or gentleman of the house, I was ushered into a neat sitting room, where sat a beautiful girl of about twenty years of age. She rose at my entrance, and seemed a little surprised at the appearance of a perfect stranger. In a few words I related to her the strange conduet . of my horse, and his stubborn oppo sition to my mind. "I am not," I observed. `'superstitious, nor inclined on the side of th e metaphysical doctrines of those who support then: but the strange, unatcountable feeling that crept over me in attemptino . -to pass your house induced me to solicit lodgings fur the night." •We'are non ? ' she replied, "well guarded, 'tis true ; but iu this part of the country we .have little to fear from robbers, for we . have never heard of any being near us ; ice are surrounded by good neighbors, and I flatter myself' we are at peace with them. But this evening, in . consequence of my father's oh senee, 1 felt unusually lonesome, and if it wag not bordering on the - superstitious, I might reason as you have, and say I consent to your staying - ; fur similar -feelings had been mine ore . you arrived ; from what cause 1 cannot imagine." The evening passed delightfully away ; my vottog hostess was intelligent and lovely; the hours flew so quickly that on looking at. my watch I was surprised to find that it was elev'en o'clock. This was the signal filer retir ing; and by twelve every - inmate of-the-house was probably asleep save myself. I could not sleep—strange visionS floated across my brain, and I lag twisting on bed in all the agony of sleepless suspense. The Opel struck one —its last vibrating sound had scarcely died away, when the openipg of a shutter and the raising of a sash in one of the lower apartments convinced me some one was entering the house: A noisefollowed as of a person jump ing from thewindow sill to time floor, and then followed' a light and almost noiseless step, of one aseending the stairway. I slept in the room adjoining the one oc cupied by . the lady ; "mine was next td the staircase ; the step came along the gallery slow' and cautious. I had seized my pistol and slipped on part of my clothes, determined to watch or-listen to the movements seeming ly 'mysterious or suspicious ; the sound of steps stopped at my door—then followed One as of applying the ear to the keyhole, and a low breathing convinced me the villain was listening. stood motionl, time, pistoLfiriae ly grasped. Not a muscle moved, nor a nerve was slackened, fin. I felt as if heaven had elected me out as the instrument to effect - its piirpose. The person now slowly passed on, and I as cautiously approached the door of my bed-. chaniber. I now went by instinct, or rather by the ecmveyanee, of 'sound, fia. as soon as I heard his hand grasp the latch of one dour mine seized the other—a deep silenee followed this movement ; it seemed as if he had heard the sound and waited the repetition ; it came not, all was still; lie might have emmeidered it the echo of his own noise. I heard time door open softly--I also opened mine;nuol the very mo ment I stepped into the, entry 1 . caught a limpse of a tall man enteriimi , the lighted chamber through the half-opened doer. glanced my eyes into the room., No object was visible save the -curtained bed, within whose slicetslay the - intended victim of a Mid night assassin, and he, gracious heaven, a negro ! For at that moment a tall fierce looking Mark approached the ,lied ; and never were Othello arid Desdemona more naturally- repre seoted ; at least 'that particular scene of the immortal 'bard's- cont•eptien. I was now all suspense; my heart swelled into my throat almost to s'uffo'cation, my eyes, to cracking, as I made a bound into the room. The bled( villain had ruthlessly draggoi part of the covering off the bed, when time sound of nry foot caused him to turn. He started, and thus confronted, we stood gazing. on each other a few seconds; his eyes sl a fire—fUry was depicted in his countenance.— He made a spring towards. me, and the next moment lay a corpse un the 1104! The noise of the pistol aroused the fair sleeper ; she started in the bed, ad, seemed no angel of the white clouds emei.ging fruit her downy bed to soar up to the skies. The first thing that presented itself to her view was myself near her, with a pistol in my hand "Oh, do not murder' me! cannot, will not kill me, sir !" The servants now rushed in—all was now explained. The wretch turned out to he a vagahoit(l. supposed to be a runawnv.sslave from I had the providential opportunity of rescuing one from the worst of fates, who. in after years, called me husband, and related to our aildren her miraculous escape from the hold attack of the midnight a,sassin. A Hirm ait HOI7I.—Dr. Porcher, of Charles ton. South Carolina, has in his pos , ession,. a ilarn,_abuut diameter two inches and three quarter.;, bear ing a close resemblance to a rain's horn. which he extracted from the head of a negrei , s, agol about 52, born on a plantation in St. John.: Berkley. It was removed in December, I<J4, nod the operation was accompanied with but little pain. Remarkahle the recent Panama rnfo,sitere, oae man stoics - ea a rcalarkable power of enduranc:., and wa. generally lucky all round ire wa , Er:4 ?..11,,t, 11l til(: .-- fll - 01 - , cvhiclt caused hint to fall to the ground over hi. , valise, which contained sonie lie afterwards received r. ne. thins- \round.; 1 v frUll ?-11ntS, all( st.to:Aag an( Ipmrs. Ile finally' was: ri..;.stureil to cori sci,.usness, lia , l hi , wonfilk...: anfl NV a It)ing, well, while lii4 raiiaeirli.l . ulitutielied by Zlli uativea. GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA : MONDAY, MAY 19, 1856. The human heart is a:wonderful piece of mechanism: a steam-engine is a clumsy con trivance- compared with it. Man has two hearts, and each of these is double.; so that he may be said to have fOur hearts. Two of these are for bright red blood, and 'two arc for purple'ur dark blood. It is usual in books to (1111 red blood arterial, and,tho purple blood venous ; but each of these two double hearts has its own set of arteries and veins ; and the arteries of the one are always filled with red, and the arteries of the other with purple blood. The veins, in like manner, ofeach are in inverse girder.--the veins of the red heart being purple, and the veins of the purple be ing red ; for if the blood goes outred it comes back purple, and if it goes out purple it comes back red. It always goes out, red from the heart on the left 41i de, and comes inpurple to the heart on the a igh t side ;. and it to ways goes out purple front the heart on the right side, and cantos in red to the heart on' the left side. .Nial thus it makes its eN erlasti ng round, be converted from purple to red by passing through the lungs. Each heart has its going and returning series of vessels, infinitely num erous mitt ramified; and the blOod is forced through them in such a way that it must go fbrward, and cannot return, except by going round the circle ; for these vessels are all sup idied with valves that open only one way and shut the other.; and therefore, were the blood to make an effort to return, the valves would close immediately and step it. The elastic nature of' the bbaal ve s sels, also, is such that they squeeze the blood in undnlations ortpul satiiMs along, closing upon it, and then open ing to lot inure forward; and all this they do spontaneously and regularly, the will of man having nothing to do with it, and no power over their movement. It is often said that no kind of sense is as rare as commonsense; end this is true, simply be cause common sense is attained by all far more, and is a natural gift far loss, than most other traits of charaete - r. .Cointnon scare is the application of thought to common things, and it is rare because most persohs will not exer cise thought Mont common things. If some important affair ()wins, people try • then to think, but to very little purpose ; bet:ause, not having exercised their powers on small things they hick the development neeo , :sary for.great ones. Hence thoughtless people when forced to act in affair of importance, blunder through it with no more chance' of doing as they should than one would have of hitting a small or distant mark at a shooting match, if previous practice had not given kiln the pow er of bitting objects that are large or near.— Eieinent3 (J . aia railer. A Mr. Watson, of St. Louis, commenced an unfortunate career of Railroad travel last sum mer, at the time of the Gasconade disaster, at which time he nearly lost his life. Scarcely hail he re c overed front the injttrieszthen_re ceived, when he again narrowly escaped death, from an aecillent \which' occurred to the train while he was eonthig ea‘Nt. Ile was laid up at the Girard Pl,iladelphia, on ac count of the injuries received.' As soon as sufficiently recovered, he took passage for Pittsburg. Some gentlemea who intended to : r o h i th e same - direction, purposely delayed their departure, in order to avoid participa tion in his apprehended misfortunes. But as it singularly occurred, Mr: Watson's train met with an accident after proceeding a few miles, slight indeed, but sufficient to detain the train ihr several hours ; and before arriving at Ilarrisburg, a second accident occtured, with a detention of twatty four hours. In the mean-time, the catthiatsgentlemen before al luded to, pursuing their journey, overtook Mr. W., and. unwittingly got On the same train, for Pittsburg. llef4ereaching its des tination, however, the fated train was thrown entirely from the track . by the breaking of a wheel. The passengers alighted. atul greatly to their consternation saw on board, Thereupon the whole company bccante greatly exasperated, and respectfully informed the company that it would he,attterly imp o s s ilde to proceed in his company. Our inthrmant states that INIr. W. has succeeded in reaching Pittsburg, and is recovering from his contu sions, at the Monongahel;llouse. Mr. W. declares that, once more at home, he will re- Main there.—N. fottrwd. "Brother Jonathan."—George Washington', Commander-in-Chief of the ,Vnic rican Army in the Revolution,, - .3 3 -as a M a: ion, as well as- all the other generals, e .enerals, with true solitary exception of Arnold, tie traitor, who attempted to deliver 11 - c , t Point into the bawls of the enemy. On one occasion, when the American army had met with some seri ous reverses, General Washington called his brother together to consult in Wlmit manner their eects could be best counteract ed. Differing., as they did, in opinion, the conunander-in-chief po•tponed any action mill the subject, Lv remarking,--"Let us consult Brother Jonathan;" referring to Jonath a n Trumbull, who was a well-known Mason, and imrticularly distinguished "for his sound judgment, strict morals, and haviirg the tongue of prod report." It was from this circum stance, and the after use made of it, that the term gained a national application.—lbuouir .llayazine. 7 —take all—you Girial a Tillp.—A Lieutenant in the army, natnedlßrocnn, was advanced to a captaincy, and »lour:Lily enough liked to hear himself L.4111re,...:N1. as Captain 13r;i0in. One of his friends per , ist 2(1 in hint )!ain ,room, mach to hi 4 annoyayee. and on«lay, h av i ng dune so for the fortieth time, Broom raid: "YOU rit'Zl , ie, remember, sir, that I have a hl.ndle to ray name." "A h," Paid his termentor, ''so you have; well, 'Broom handle, hew v.re., ye?" _ Pruetired jrnrilytntriliw , .—The liberty al lowed under lal%s of MaF,s;.chusett-: fur inter bo,...-cen the 1. - hite and black raves i- but r:: rely tak. , n ads-ant:l;re of in Boston.— fesv days since. a enklred man cif twenty, eiglit year-, born in Norfolk, Virg:ni,i, was married to a white girl of liiiietl:f , it years.— Fr.rnir!rly stirli marriage 4 were forhidden I,v . . • - r • • - cal efff!vt 111-.011 , 1 NV;I2:. 11 , :arin! , - that :t man hal givun exi,r4-4,(24 sttr lke thuug,bit the 191.btetti evoted "TRUTIt 18 AND WILL runv.km." The Heart's Mechanism. Why Common Sense is Rare. ==l Au 'Unfortunate Traveler. \Vhv Satan km Disturbs a Woman. Mohammedans relate , the folh»ving story as an authentic and veritable, piece of tradi tion, illustrative of the faet that the devil himself has duties to pertiirm in the world, and he has never to he idle and neglect them, viz: In the days of Mohammed there was an Arch who had a very pretty wife. The devil transfornteil himself into so omnt :tad accurate likeness of her husband that she could not, for the life of her, tell, which of the .two Iva::, her husband. Beth claimed her—i. e. the real husband and the devil in his likeness. The ease excited much interest in the neigh borhood but tuP mt . /lotion of the -difficulty could be obtained. At length the case was brought before his Majesty, the Prophet, for a solution. Mohammed, after a little retitle tion,.held up an earthen pot in his hand, with a spout, like a tea-pot, and said to them both: "Now, whichever is the real husband, will enter this vessel by the spout, and thus es tablish his claim to the woman." The devil, having more capacity in that way than the sturdy Arab of real, flesh and bones, entered at' once into the pot, u; sag gestell. The moment he entered, Mohammed closed the top of the spout and kept him shut But by the the Mohammed had kept hi.► excellency shut up for n few days, in that earthen pot, it was ascertained that the world was getting wrong in its machinery. Mo hammed was therefore eonstrained to let the devil out -from his- confinement, to take his necessary place in the management of the af fairs of the world; lad liefore restoring him to his liberty again, Mohantnicd extorted It:sol emn-promise from him that he would never trouble the "fair sex any inure, hat confine himself to what he could do among the male sex." Chemistry Mid Cosmetics, Ladies who paint sh oul d be wary of going to chemical - lectures. At 11, , rlin, lately, an ex ceediag,ly .I»illiant auditory, amongst -which were many very elegantly-dressed ladies, at tended a lecture on -Chemistry, delivered by one of the most celebrated chemists of the age. After witnessing a number of beautiful ex periments, and hearing of the-- marvels of science, 0 young 'lash' grew fatigued, and -re quested her husband to lead her front the hall. "My love," said the gentlentan,.on reaching the landing place outside, "wipe your cheek, there's a large blue spot upon it." The lady, much surprised, turned, to -look at her reflection in the mirrored window of a shop they were ilasving, and was almost petri fied to observe that the rtarge on her cheeks had become bine, in consequence of the chem ical det.!omposition occasioned by the gas the prece4scir used in making e.periments. Against WJiite Freedom. In a meeting in Boston, which wits recent ly addressed by Benj.-1?. llallet, the iiillowing dialogue occurred: "My. Sweet—Sir, I do not agree with that ; but are you itcfavor of Freedom: - "Mr. llallet—Yes, all over. "Mr. Sweet—l thought you were in favor of tilavery. "Mr. iiallet—That is another of your un happy delusions: NOW, let us test this clamor of anti-Kansas men about 'freed( one definitions. Allow me to ask, are you, sir, in favor of freedom. "Mr. Sweet—Certainly I un. Hallet—Are you in favor of the free.. doneof the white people of Kansas, iNebras4a. and other Territories to settle the question of slavery for- themselves ? "Mr. Sweet—No, sir, I am not. "Mr. Ballot—Then you are no/ in favor of white froe , lom, liut Jiffy It eyiii freedom! That is the test point." Fa. Wontau—Biol Prozity to Much excitement has been created at We,tt Milford by the clopemm it of Mrs. Sarah Courson with David White, of the same place.' This is the third time - this lady has figured as one ( I f the' parties of an elopement. Iler firsk elopement occurred at the age of 20, (.r thereabouts, when she left her imither's resi dence with her first lover and went to New York, staid a spell, came back home with a child in embryo, never haring been married— or at least it is so said. She became a. mother, an d resided home about six months or a year, when she went of on a tour with itman named Armstrong, a New Yorker. She was afterwards married to a Courson, with whom site reo,i(lcd till the 23d of March last, when she again left West Milford to tneet the said David White. before spoken of, ut Sloatbnrg, where the two took the ears and went West,-!wince which time nothing more is known of theta. She left her child by her first companion at West Milford. - 211,i s Sar a h Jane Courson is one of a family of six sisters, named Ityel•son, five of whom have left their husbands and eloped with otler men. All six have haen married, and not one (of the six lives v.-it!' a lawful husband at the present day ; five haviugAtreJ and the only remaining one desertin husband, or refusing to live with hint. 11e7foubt if a case of equal singularity can he fioutyl anywhere, in the linion.—Pulteson (X. J.) Guarillaii. A Determined Sni , :itlf oh n Taylia., an old resident of Fairfield county, Connecticut, kill ed himself lately in a novel way. Ile was f0,m41 lying with his face dc,-,vn, in a stream of water of the depth cif eleven inches, with a large flat stone upon his back. Apparently lie had used this stone to aid in the ttecompli6h mut of his purpose. 7'r et 13 ,rer-----gwv.---114---saw • stated, two years ago, in an agricultural journal that these pests could he driven from peach trees, by Tansy. We plant2(l it at the roots of some ten or twelve tree 4, and not, one of them ha , 4 been disturbed, vid•ii4t others are injured badly. Thisypring we intend plant ing it around all.—Aewberry (8. a), sun. "That Pieslol Ilaby."—Att Epigram 7 That the "King of Algiers" has scarcely a chance (A 3 s ,, tn e folks - declare) to I.)e king a France, ls surely a hasty conclusion ; For, -whatever may be the varying title, He's one chance to r , o in Lv the re , :ular slide Ar revolution I REIM have their eyes nearest to getlier The istuulleet. NO3IINATION' (H? MR, MICIIANAN. In the performance of, a platyimposed by the. Denweratio Slate Convention of the 4th of March, under the following resolution Resofred, That a .committee of five be ap pointed to inform Hon. JAMES Brell.til.t& that he is the unanimous choice of this Convention for the next Presidency. . The following, gentlemen, viz :—Geo. W. Brewer, of,Franklia Joel B. We/4)r,, of Adams co., M. Porter, of Northampton _co., 1. B. Gibson, Of Allegheny co. lieu,,Ber rill, of Philadelphia, members of the Commit tee, assembled at Lancaster on ThurSday week 'at 10 o'clock. At 12 o'clock they proceeded to Wheatland, Mr. BuenANAN's residenee, Ate, companied by a. number of friends. Mr: B. recteived the party with much cordiality and warmth, many of whom he had not seen since his return from Europe. After a short time spent in conversation, Mr. 'W. BazivEtt, chairman of the Coinmiltee, addressed 'Mr. BreitAx.ms as follows: Mr. BeemTAN AN' banni l e r raiie Stirte Convention, assembled at Harrisburg on the 4th of March last, appointed ii committee, of which I have the haw ,te :he the 'Chairman, to announce to you formally, that you contin uo to be, as you have been ref years;*thelirSt, last and only Choke of Pennsylvania, for the. office of. the Presidency of the thited States: 'We perform this duty with pride and &ensure, because in doing so we speak dhe'voice`of a Convention, unaniminis ' and later the heart felt sentiment of a people undivided.. ' The day of opposition to- you has paSsed away, and the. timer has, com4when- you Are left without a rival in the popular heart. The people of your native State, alive to the tender and natural associations of birth and hotne,hut yet more impressed by the signet Services and devetion of a whole .life of distinguished abili ty and national patriotism,' wield, With one voice, summon you again from the coveted re nege of this charmed retirement to-the (mar dianship of a common country, and the vindi cation of au endangered constitution. Your fellow citizens, of the' loyal and ancient :Commonwealth of Penne ylVßtlia, realizing with intouse interest the,impertance and gran deur of the approaching conflict—important,' because it will involve the happiness and pros-' perky of a greatllepublie—grand, because it will hear before its conquering banners the ark -of civil and rid igiouSliberty-'-and not un= . mindful of the obligations of that duty which' they- owe to the matioe and to the' world, to maintain these rent issues, and to vindicate their sublime rutlet, have selected you from a long list of worthy amid, distinguished names, to load the Demouratie : column into victorious battle, and -achieve for the country and 'for mankind the glorious triuninh of Democratic Intolerance atiesectionaligni are now seeking to 'violate- the eompromises of the Constitution, and to disinember the sovereign States of this mighty confederacyl But, the, integrity of the Americium Union, beautified and hound together by, the electric Milmirr.'of Democratic truth, expanding along the path; way of empire into power aad, greatness, eve-, _my new liak_ndurning 7 aud strengthening ,-outeiet, and every new star cheering -and brightening the sky of immuu freedom, o`must and shall be preserved," until, 14 the eceoni plishMent of its grand miss' ion, the-Curse of every feria of bigotry -and despotism shall have been swept from the earth, and the dark habitations of war and, tyranny hare login -turned into, the lovely scenes of peace and prosperity. Your life of eminent service and of tried devotion to the cardinal diaifrities of the :party, is the' best and - safest pledge for. your contimiett attachment to the tinier) and fidelity to the constitution.—Yours in no doubt:- fat lineage—no uncertain record—no undis tinguished 'history. Your, purity and talents have dignified and illOstrated every walk of life and every station of power-=your firmness mid statesmanship have defended and main ; Mined the national honor and National su premacy at Jenne mid abroad. I. The approaehirig crisis demands the most enlarged experience, and the most aecoMplish ed statesmanship—the highest integrity and the purest patriotism. All the qualifications for the office of the Presidency, denmaded by the sovereign and independent States of the Union, the Democracy find united in you. And we complete our duty, by presenting to you a copy of the proceedings, and the res olutions adopted by the Convention, with the firm conviction, that you will recognise in them, the principles which have secured to the country the blessings of liberty, religious and political. JIR. lICCuI ANAN'S REPLY, Grxmmtcs . :—l thank you, with ,all Inv heart, for the kind terms in which, under a re-4olution of the late Democratic State C.on vention, you have informed me that I um their "unanimous choice for the next I?resi dene7." When the proceedings of -your convention reached me m n f - ireigu land, they excited emotions of gratitude which I might in vain attempt to express. This was not because the Democracy of my much loved State had, by their own spontaneous movement, placed me in nomiauttior► fir the Presidency—an honor which I have - not sought—but because this nomination constituted in itself the highest evidence that, after a long course of public services, my pnblic eondact has been approv ed by those to w:unn I am indebted, under Providence, for all the offices and honors I have ever enjoyed: In success and in defeat —in sunshine or in storn—they _have ever been the same kind friends to me, and I value their continued confidence and good opinion far above the highest .official honors of my country. The duties of the President, whomsoever he ). ,ct by the esbuirable resolutions of the Conven tion which you have just presented to me, and alt of which, without reference to those merely personal to myself, I heartily adopt. ludeei, they met my cordial approbation from the moment when I first perused them on the other side of the Atlantic. They constitute a platform broad, national, and conservative, and one eminently worthy of the Democracy of our great and good old State. These resolutions carried into execution, with an inflexibility and preseverauce preclud ing :4 hope-of- change, and yet in a kindly spirif! will, 'ere long, allay the dangerous eitement which has for some years prevailed on the su )ject o t omestic s avery, an. again -unite all portions of our common country in the ancient bonds of brotherly affection, under the flag of the Constitution , and the Union. We annex the resolutions referred to by the Committee and endorsed by Mr.• BLICIIANAS: 'Resolved, That - in the present distracted condition of parties, in which sectional and partial issues have lieen allowed to attain a dangerous supremacy, we recognise in the policy of the Democratic party, that which rests upon the Constitution as its basis; and that it is the party Which above all others has, in the language - of' the illustrious Madison, ever 'contined ;"to hold the Union of the States as 'the, basis ,ef- their peace happi ness haPpi ess ; - to support the ConstitutiOn, whinh is. the cement of the. Union, as well in-its-limits— tions as its.authorities ; to respect the rights and authorities reserved to the States and tci the people, as equally essential to the success of the 'general system,; -and to avoid the. Sligh test interference with the rights of confidence, or the functions of religion, so wisely exeinpi from civil jurisdietionP „ Rem/red, That , the general consent of the wise and virtuous of all nations i the fres iners of the Republic of the United States, (c- - bilitcd'in their individual - characters and : in the result of their -putilie,,deliberaticins, a do. give of virtue And a, practical, Statesinanship to which the ,history of the ordroti aw wallet that in no part of the Vo6,TOrCOm. pact is ,the wisdom.of our Fathers more, spicuous, than. in !diving the .question of Slavery to the 'States.in their separate ,en parities, and that in,tlo provisio n delivery of , fugitive s escaped from, inbor or servite,,they tienwustrated.ll sense, Of ipiswe. all uppreclution, of the - rano - of i tize Union, ; nn attachment for, its, preservation, an nvoida.nOis of ono-sided phil,emthropity. and iMpinetieable. theories Of.government, which preseilt A Prop.' Cr example for : the guidance and, inutationvf us their, desceridante. I , ReBolvpd, Unit Nye lool( only to the.Cor st!.. tution, and the e*position thereof which luta been netirthxlhy tiib practices of Dinnecratie adiniiiistratieus, for the„ehart,of our ,pciliey. Thait- these constitute, until the fiindeniental. law is elianged,by methods:- whieh itself liiin vides, the Milked lair of our obedience as ,eiii zens; and that ,wentterly discard that partial end, exaggerateir.Synipati . iY,:the„atterapt ;to carry which - into practice Is at the peril , of anz dearest interests,as a nation, and . .,tkreeter:e. the ingintion of eylifoof tenfold. megoatinle tilos() which it proposes ; That - the ~ewlity of the - Stat es is' the .vital element of the, Constitution and that.all intarferenee with the rights of the States, by those whe'seekto disregartl.the Sa nd-guarantee's 'of"the - past, awl - by all 'others, should be rebuked-with the sante spirit that' would denounce and repUdiateall attempts to erect odious 'distinctions between 'those *he are entitled to share the blessings.- andlen'efits of our' free institutions.' I?e.s.olred,‘Thitt the effort to direet the Voices of the'governniont hy.aii -a644,84 titations, , wider the various ntufloM and :phases of Pre& ',Anti-NebraskaiSin ' and , . y 4 Republicanism;-and b interfering-:ifittrAtia rights of oonseienee in establiShing a religioo , test an' a qualiticatiOn for offiea, - ,bythe *roe oath , lxihnd society the Know-Not t hingaiiif oppoSed. to loth , the -letter and , the - 111)1.ritior . thnOonstitntion, and-to the - etirneWteaehingW. and 'practices Of its earliest`and tnont henbredo admmiNtratorg. - • - !;• Resolved, That we are now as ever, utialttnik ably opposed to the doctrines' . atut defittiur all organizations which.tontemplatnthe oVer• thro* of , the eivil -and:religions rightoeghtlin., citizen; like the, equality of the, platen ' oa, , erect and unalienable right,-never to be inter., fered ~ 11 factious partici ;and. reClO-416: withonta subvortion of the p - op*, - ... ry,ohjects of our. political systooi, and diation of the guarantees of the past tin 4 #4: hopes of the future. • „ Resplued,. That in the repeal *e:eett known - as the MiSseuri Compromise the passe of the act organizing the . Tern -1 tories of Kansas and Nebraska, free frornan._, -constitutional-restrictionsi-thafit—Congresei-- performed a work of patriotic sacrifice, Ameet,' !rig the demands of soetiontil-exeiternent Shaken adherence to the fundamontallaw. Pcso/md, That this legislation cannot be deemed unnecessary, but that it was expedient to meet the questions of which it disposed, and, which could never admit of ii more easy set. tlemont than at present. That we recognise in it the application to the Territories, of, the United States of the rule of "equal and exact justice to all men," , of all sections of the eon federacy, which was designed by the framers of our government, and which was defined ae one of its essential principles by the immortal Jefferson. ' Regoiced, That the Democracy of Penasyl vania, as folloWing the counsel of some of the wisest statesman of the North and South, were ready on more than one occasion in the, past to extend the Missouri Compromieelino, to the' Pacific, "so us to make it ,the basis of a settlement of the question of slavery in the Territories: but when this proposition was re• eeted, in 1848,, en ... the ground that it invoked un undue concession to the South, by the very Men who now clamor for a restoration of the ,Missouri line, there seemed to but one wise ; a lternati veleft, and that was, to refer the whole question of slavery in the Territories to the people thereof, to bo regulated as they May deem proper, and we therefore, cheerfully ex tend our hearty support to the policy of the government as recognized in the Compromise . measures of 1850, embodied in, Ite laws organ izing the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska. Touching a Tender Point.- , --A few . . days since the Springfield (Mass.) Argue asked whit was to be dime with the money which tho Kansas lecturers tire collecting under the name of "aid for Kansas." The Boston nz.- , grap t, aiac . epu man print, replied that it was none of the Argu.'a business; and the Argus rejoins: "It would seem that we touched s tender point when we inquired'about the destinatida of the Kansas fund. The Black Reptibliean papers evidently don't like to tell. Are we right in supposing that none of this mono/ collected as 'Kansas aid' will go to Kansas . ? that it is to be used as a vast electioneering or 'corruption fund' in the presidential canvasd? Or will 'General' Pomeroy and:other peculiar Kansas patriots pocket £63`*3lr. Thackers lectures in Cincinnati, whereat the Cal,' tte re marks that "his talents for saying•nothing iu a most entertaining manner surpass those of any speaker we ever heard." TWO bOLLARS A-YEAR. NO. 34. has been deliverinT his , ‘ 1
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