M 71, a 11%.) INDEPENDENT REPUBLIeIIi, i;7IARLES S. READ ..101041:.EL, iRAZIER, EDIT°. MONTROSE, PA. sihursativ August le, 10.6. THE INDEPEIsIDENT REPUBLICAN. I'aILtSITED EVERT TlltatiDAT uorcincli A 7 Nrc. rA., AT $1,50 PEE ANNV3I- IN ADVANCE. Itates.of Ad veitithing. thae sqdare (16 lines or less) one week, 1 . 10 ; 50 • )ne square two weeks; - 0,75 :Me square . • " three weeks,. , .1,00 due square . " one month,- 4r Z) . n.c. square it . . two mouths, 4) 11 c square. " - three mouths,.. : -3,00 - (lne square _" • slit Months, 5,00 - , ()ne squire one year, 8,00 - m For two or oreisquare...4, inserte by tbe joar, ,*7.fuetion from tlM'above prices is made. Yearly ad t!xtiserslikhave the. nWege idietingar 17, their advertisements - without additional charge. • • Business Cards, Mot eseeeding five linee, inserted v.t . 11,2,00 'per annum...' ' • • " • : job Work. - \Thisolfice -is .supplied with a good assortment of .Tobbinnaterials, and nU kinds of Job Work, such ri Cards, Posters, „Pamphlets, &c, will be done neat ly and promptly. . The Repittletin,Conventien. Although the Republican Meeting. at Mont , -tese,- on Monday &cub% next, occurs: hi laying tirne: l, .it is expected that many of -the faritierc its well as ethers. from the dif t":4ent townships, will find time to attend it. Tile spirit of .resistanee to the agreSsions of .§lavery, lives and grows, with abundant all tneti*,:among, the freethen of Susgnelianna t: - eitt4 ; 'and it is desirable'that they should, yeom time to timeonevt nnd take counsel to gether respecting the best course. of action "Or them to pursue, as a portion of the.pco t le on whom devolves -the duty . of: resiiting ; !lose aggressions. As the Republican pally, yhose'm ission it is believed - to be to - roll i;ack the rsti‘ss tide of Slavery and-confine it to its Present litnitsonikst lac cOrmed by, a Laion of all who believe the Slavtry question ,:te one great . issite., and . are willing to act: as' _ believing, all such; Avid : lout .rd'erettee to' I_,rmer party connection:cuff:3. -consider them: :_;;lves appointed delegatcS" to this P . EOPLF..'S . rks-CoNvEN-vioN., . Judge Wilmot has consented to address •i.e meeting, which will probably be an unu ually interesting one. The following is an %tract from o letter just reCeived "I was rejoiced to see that your committee were +ring. in the right direction. If the high-handed croachments of Slavery ; upon the rights of the peo and the States,if ittCdangerous assaults upon the ...ustitution, and the , hilherto well-settled laws of the entry, are to be met and arrested in, our day, it :I be under and through the organization of a "Re ! , liticart party "—it party that sfiall.noti strive to ig- Are the momentous issues forced upoh the country : the aggressions of the Slave Power, but that shall Ildly meet .those issues, and make heni the cardi -1..11 and fundamental basis of its organization. In baste yours truly, I). WILMOT You Make too much of these Nigger's." ,Such is the language of solne:Of'the oppo -I...;nts'of the.liepubliean party: Those who y so, we believe do not understand the real sue before the American people. The Re ,bliesin party are . not now battling for the c. ulition Slavery, but against the übelition Freedom. The question involved in the . •4.ug,gle with Slavery for the .pos \ ktiSlon of i'.a new territories, is one dint - affects the: per .• nal interests of every freetimn; and eveciat every free laborer, of the . North. Pertaps.there arc no twoThations - in. the A. .;rid whose social systems present a more . ;. ri •*pg contrast than those df the Free and Slave States of this truiorl. • . . 'e inhabitants of the South . are*pritx-ipal , ` divided into three classes, namely :—the ' -...,:ve holders, or privileged aristocracy, fur . ~ hose benefit and interest the laws of - the IL:~ate are ' made . ; the slaves, huruan- beings ; ho have no recognized rights; but are held . ::• . :, i. chattels, or things, of their piasters;' and; - I..stiy, a considerable body of poor whites, •v.ho are obliged to live by :labor, which' is . t. , rtsidered adisgrace,.and Who arc described 7 :A amongothe most degraded of human be- i 1 ‘g•, a sort of Parahs or outcasts, despised 1 ...,.: r.i' . .d derided even the Slaves, but 'a aose I i-indition is a natural conEalueuee of the javery system. The Slave holders, in fact, i :..,nbtitute a privileged elass, which in other countries would 'he styled the nobility. _The .x ‘vealth - and learning as well as •the political_ 70 14 . el: of the South, arelg their hands. They ..._ ;Ire privileged to have - their property -repre f.ented in CongTes; I,shich no other persons, , North or South, ate and in most of the l'Southern' States'a property 'qualification:es 1 ' ....t§, whiehdesthe poi u - hite population ... i irptn.**reite of the electiv r e franchise. '''. , : t 4allfl# an- imperfect sketch of the system. 4‘;,ifSciuttern'society—a system without a sin ';-,.'"'TTe feature of -genuine Democracy., On the -4.1-_ - .Jritrary, it is the worst sort of an aristocra . .... , : 4.14-ur rather an aggregation of petty dspot -I,ms. 'The Social system of the North presents a triking contrast to that of the South. it is lastly our boast that nowhere else is labor so, fionorable, so independent, or so well reward— td. the doettine of the natural equali ty of all men,licar -ft..”-c—rerreetty . .Em it is or ever has been anywhere else in .he world., It is this, our system, and mg Slavery s.ystetn, that givs-_,our country 31. s power, and makes it the envy. and ndmi mtion of nations. - Atid the *cation and freedom - of those who labor, are the Very ba- I; of our system. - • _: . - - Now, let it be admitted that Slavery: :is . "0, that it is better to plant the institLtiuns 44. the South in,the territories, than our own -- :.--44 - the.territottes .be settled accordingly, - cue! wilat ""fijould - beNl:effeet On 'our system Nl . .,4oo:llttior ". The Sosult Avjuld soon oluin iiisadifte and /permanent control of Congress, !which hitherto it/as only controlled through divisions at the North; and once,' assured of clear COngressionai majorlty, and proVidi4 vith a praziavery President, the South once proceed to legiilate for the promo4on of its interests-41x, interests of Slaseey.- 7 The legislation of Coogrws . .h as a i rea di•- . been_ :4)r thibcoefitotthe Slavery intiles-t; to the aiitritlent of tbeinterests of flee labOr but- with'at4: ; -;.,pbso.ote tiouthcrn mi4ority in 'tr . ald. doubtless be much more zw — likagenerailMan'eme their o‘Vn in terest; the intaiima , offraelabOr and of the Slay. ery, 6 714 41 P areAnill .I:er'aristke. conflicting and