GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
The annual message of governor Pollock
to the Legislature of Pennsylvania, at the
opening of the session, is a welt written doe
umente of moderate length. Commencing
with a statement in brief of the - condition of
the State finances, the Governor says that the
receipts during the year, from all sources,'
shoat/ an excess of $1,250,961 over the ordi
nary exeenditares;' but of that excess $l,-
246,193 24 was expended on the following
extraordinary items :—Completion of the
new Portage Railroad, $446,76212; to corn
plete.the North Branch Canal. $87,562 07;
to' relay the south track of the Columbia
Railroad $133,108 ;
• „payment of domestic,
creditore. 81,629 85;* redemption of loans,
$116;550 60 ; cancelling of relief notes, $260,
583. On the 30th of November, 1855, the
balance in the treasury was $1,245,697 31.
which Will be required .for the payment of
the e interestOn the State debt Falling -due in
February. ; • No loans, temporary or other
wise,,,were (egotism' during the 'past fiscal
year. - The (Mmory owes 8885,011 to the
Sinking Fund, provided for the demptiOn
\
of the funded debt and relief not a but as
the timpomrytdoans bear six per cent. ' terest
and the others only five, it has been d ed
best to redeem the former first. ,
In the three years extending from 1851 to
1854, the public debt increased by the ex
' penditures on the State works. Thus, au the .
let of December, 1851, the debt was 840,-
114.236 39. .and on the Ist of Dezember,
1854, $41,698,595 74, being an increase of
.8.1,584,359 35 in throe years, notwithstatid
ing •tliat the State revenue exceeded the "or-.
dinar) , expenditures. Bet during the past
year the debt has been reduced $520,60102,
and is now $41,067.997 78, notwitlisitanding
the large appropriations for the public works.
If no new schemes of improvement be un
dertaken 'and all appropriations limited to
the actual 'demands of the occasion, there will
be an annual surplus of revenue applihahm i
to the redemption of the public debt. O'
estimated revenue for the curreratiscehr ear e
m e
will be mare than one and a we oons of
• °oilers. For the security e‘ the holders of
the State debt, f ur W het i nterest"due in the
y ee e s , lB.42_3_4 wee not paid; certificates
of State stock' trO° issued under, an act pas
sed in 1845, beat i ng esterest at, the rate of
five
per
cam per e anutn, the !mount being
. 4.105,1502 These certificatee were made
re, cellos.
"M e an or after August lst, 1855.
. lit , re aleion having yet been made for their
re e e mptionethe Governor recommends that
herds be issued for their renewal at the same
rate of interest. ~ e . e
During the year the aiceipts from the Pub
' lie works were $1,942,375', and the' ex
penditures thereon, both ordinary - and ex
traordinary, were 81,838,791 18, showing an
excess of receipts of 8103,585.53 e but de
ducting the extraordinary expinditures, the
net revenues of the works appear to be 8794,-
013 31, which is a small - *crease over .the
net revenues of 1854; and,. I
notwithstanding
the withdrawal of the transportation lines
front the main line
,of canal; the aggregate i
-revenues ot the past year hareexceecied those I
of 1854,by awe than
_823,000, The Del
weave division shows a net revenue for' the
year of $332,575 . 56. =The revenues froni
the main line do not equal the receipts of the
previous. years.: Expenditure s on that line I
leive been much diminished by the avoidance'
of some of the inclined planes on the -Portage
Rallroallu: t the,- entirs completion of that ,
:work has not been accomplished as had been I
expected, and it will require an additional 1
..appropriation ot 8177,573 65. As the leg- I
• islatere hai already appropriated 'all the i
money celled for by the engineer's ctimate,
.the Governor very properly says that either
that estimate was a careless on; or there has I
been extravagant wuste in the expenditure of '
the money. The xvork on the Nortleßranch'l
. 'Canal is also incomplete, in consequence "el
- :reconstruction rendered necessary by the ire
, perfect and fraudulent constrection of the old
work and some of, the. riew.- In 1849 the
sum reeptisite to finish the work, was estitrta.
.tea at 81,106,037, but since then there has
:been actually expended On it $1,857,377'52. )
. No bids having been received at the pub:.
'lie sale of the enain line, sealed proposals
were subsequently invPied; and have been re-
.ceived by the Governor " and transmitted to :I
'the Legislature. The povernor reiterates
hie sentiments in favor of sale, and says that I
the late financial embarrassments of the coun. l i
try, the imperfect character ot , some of the I
provisions of the bill authorizing the sale, I
together with the adferse influence of inte-
restse.defeated the recent attempt, but that I
. these difficulties can be removed and a sate I
yet - effected on terms amply protective of the
rights and interests of the people, and at the
carne tim e just and liberal to purchasers... ,
~,
In view of the, numerous applications for I
bank charters, the Governor thinks that ne
cessity doesnot require [basil of them should
be chartered, but adds that the incorporation
of new banks, or the fecharter of old .and
solvent ones, when clearly demanded beethe
actual business wants of the con= units_ inte
rested, should not be v . /dimbed— Tbow-aotm.l
warts of legitimate trade should govern ac
tion on the"subject, and unnecessary expan
'aim of the currency" avoided. A premium
should be required from all banks or savings
institutions, chartered' or rechartered. The
practice ot using the names of members of the
Legislature, in charters for banks or other
companies, as corporators ' is stigmatized as
pernicious, tindought to be discontinued.—
The Governor recommends the establish.
meat of on agricultural bureau in connection
"'with the State, government. The Farmers'
High School his beep duly organized, and
located in Centre county, on'a tract of two
hundred acres,. donated _by Gen. James In.
The.citizoans of that wunty have 'se
cured to it an endowment of $lO,OOO. 4n
appropriation to the institution by the State
L4s recommended.
A modification of the laws regulating man
facturing and improvement comical:ties, is
recommended. The Governor thiults that
the time has now arrived for another effect.
ire interpn.sition of legislative aid and auth
'• orit,y in favor of Common Schools, and that
the system is now prepared for and requires
increased qualificationin its teachers; and in
creased means of "support. Wherever faitk
fully carried out, the experiment of county
superintendency has fully established its abil
ity by the improved condition of the Schools.
most marked improvement is visible in
the corps of teachers, owing to the establisl
ment of teachers institutes,ncd the improve.
ment,thus creetod points to the much great:
er reform which' aright be worked by the
establishment of normal schools by the State.
Until these schools be - provided tor, the Gov
ernor suggests that appropriations .be made
,by the State or the coal:ide a m aid of the
tesch4.l institute*. Be ids°
,Deeoniraends
,n large addition to the annual appropriations
Coinmon Schools, and that th - e Board of
Control ot•Philadelphia he obliged to report
to' the State Superintendent annually the-ono
dition or the - Philadelphia public setsaols.
• Anew end entirely. distinct Western Insane
• hospitql, for the .~resters part of this Statejs
ream/Mended, bUt in ease that;he not, done,
be recommend* ee raropriatiOn to the Wes;
. tern .Pesinsylviuila Rzwpital, to extend its.op
eraraollB to the earivt the insane. On tin
subject Of liquor law, ths9cniettmrsayttbie
a full retum to . :the ikteneitsysteut, in' oPers
tion prior-to the pair of,the 4testat 11w,
w3S ibrimatita by ribrta - actthwatt, - and
would not promote the good order or happi
ness of the community, as that, system was
imperfect, and failed to
. cheek or :control in
, temperance. Load . and special legislation
are denounced in strong terms, and the pas
sage of generalilaws, raxnimended. a. Ile
' urges that action' should be taken to restrain
the insuranee conisupes within their proper
limits, many- :of then _having acquired by
special legislation discounting privileges, and .
nearly all the powers of banks without their
guards. Where the Courtstarn jurisdiction
in relation 'to real estate, trtists, corporations,
etc.; it is rectimmended that the Legislature
, refuse to entertain applications. The Gov
ernor thinks that all private laws should be
repealed on which-thelnrolment tax has not
been paid, of Vf bleb there are a- large num
ber. The remainder of the message.is oflit
.tle general- intere t.
•
M• The Pennsy/vanian is jolly over the
healthy condition of the finances, and declarei
that-- = • '
" It is gratifying to
_know th,e, Governor ;
Bigler left the treasury in such it plethoric!
condition as to enable Governor Pollock to !
pay off so large a portion of theStitte's in
debteduess. It is-certainly very honorable I
to Governor Bigler, and Shows hia desire to.i
give his sceassor a fair start; liotinany Gov-1
ernors would have left a balance hi the treas
.
',try of '51,240,928 12 for _anotb:er •to raaVd i
1 capital upon by pa?ving cilia poi ion of the
State's indebtednesp," :i
1
, g 4iifying • to
It will probably be snore
4inder the
tphreesentatt-Panetrsiiiisttr:tiokinaowailer Ittlt.tp_?uitutLyoz
ts63o, 000 of the -State 'de'''°""ti ho
i, n ne . and vitt:rout! resort to
4(
1 tr.nordinary
temporary. loans for any-porpose, there is 1
-till_ i n the State Treasury a larier balance
t fi n , dov. Bigler left 'for his su r one j
resr ago. It is true' that ant `,ie s , y Govern-1
tenio
or has not le* $1,250,62.8 12 In t e Treasury
for his successor, even after increasing the
debt, as did Gov. Bigler; at the ! , f.ate of half
a millioica ye!ar ; but it is still more rare for
our. Executive to reduce the Stat debt- and
yet increase s the balance in . the t reasuryi at !
the close of the fiscal year. • 1 ! '
. .
Winn the Pannsy/vanian hai satisfied it
-
1 self filly that it is pleased with th trammati-
I cal' construction' of the .111isagt t
, its readers
would doubtless be thankful ler; statement
in its columni of the true condition of it's fi
-1 nanees. Is is welcome to feel jolly tsa it
likes over the fact., that Onavernor Bigler anent
out 'of office leavin„o• a bit : lance of $1,240,900
in the Treasury, after swelling the debt Over
one and a half millions in three years ; ,but
if the grammar of Governor Polloek's figare
work is notobjectionable, it should state I the
fhetthat, after payingi. over 630,000 ot! the
State debt, Governor Pollock and Col. Sf ifer
exhibit over $1,245,000 remaining in , the
Treasury--or just t 5,000 mare than a yea?
ago 1--/Tarrisborg Telegraph, i
. orThe feeling of Fuller's constit
uents with regard to his course in- Congress,
iu r some degree indicated by the following
extract froni a,letter publiehed in the Wilkes
barre Reeved of the Times:
sick! and angry, and ashamed, Aston
ished, thunder-struck, perfectly bewildered,
hardly belitve what 1 see, 'and yet I see it
With my eyes wide open in the day time, on
this New Year's day. Henry AL Puller con
sents to, let :the Missouri Compromise remailn
unrepealcd, and will vote ooainst its restora
•and further, riKaniasasks for amiss:-
ion into' the Union as 4,Stati. State, he will
rote for such admissiOn.. Ia it possible! Yes.
Henry M..Fulier, iif Luzerne county, Penn
sylvania. a -Fiee Soil Whig.. Who knew
before election, that he took such a posi
t.lon ?! Nobody! If any let them ).peak.—
Certainly 1 neeer dreamedof such a thing, and
I hrard any quantity Of:electioneering_ for ;
Fuller, and the main- - reason urged in his fa-
vcr was that - lie; was purely and jorerer op
posed to Tiny repeal. of the Al issouri •CoMpro
inise.; '_row this same Fuller says on, the
floor of the Congress `"of the 'United States,
that he would rote against its. restoration it
sucht a question icame -up! ,Now.what do you
sag e to thi.l? Ffmean you 9115 anti-Nebras
ka Whigsland Democrats of Columbia, Lu
zerne; Mettour and Wyoming, myself count=
ed in, whtt voted fur Mr. Fuller for. Cngress;
one year ago. -last October!, What do you:
j say f Can you swallow as big hedgehog
as that? I never can, nor wilt I ever try,no
never! .' -1 YhaVe ;voted for lifr. 'Fuller, but
never will I again 'while the sun . is in , h -ea ven,
' Mark that down. He fully and frankly.de
dares hid • position,' and I have fully and
frankly
. declared mine, and. I -care not how
soon he k`nows it. The declaration of his po
sition would h3ve come 'With a better grace
befote election, and that would have saved
him a trip, to Washington .and, probably .a
disgraceful return..
Foreign Nevi
- Tful fttear/ship _Atlantic arrived here .3 es,-
terday afternoon, bringing advices from Ell:
rope to the pill' ult. - - Ib - e news has no fact of
,
very grOt importance. In England the hopes
lof peace seem to be, industriously kept up,
i but on the, tkaninent there is little left of them.
It seemS, also, that Count Valentine Esterha
zy, wh4se mission at St. Petersburg h ,the
occosifyii of these pacific anticipations, is tibt
the beat er of a positive ultimatum from Atis
tria, whose rejection will be followed by en
interruption of 'diplomatic intercourse be
tween The two courts. In such an event's.*
i t
the rej+ction ustria will consider what :the
is - nextVo do. 'or does it'appear that tb.e
King 4 Prust. backs up the Ausfrian pt,o.
-posals ils was r. orted ; while the minor Gb .
man:States have selected for their represen
lative, it the Russian Court on this oecastou
nobody tot Mr Seeback, a Saxon diplomat.
{ and it !son-in-law of Count, Nesselrode, Who
will hardly be likely to make any very vigo
rous 'demonstration in ,favor of the Allies;-:-
It also - seems probable' that the Austrian firo- ,
pomls were not submitted toi Prince Gorcha
koff, the Rissian Embassador.it Vienna,-and
accepttgd by hitn . beforehand. It is plain Oat
the Aillesiestinot well make, peace on iny
other gioUnd than the neutalization of ;the
Black Sea, and the, most sanguine friendk of
pee on 'the Continent doubt that RuSsia
- willugree to that condition.—N. Y. Tratine,
of the 1414.
. . !
. . . ~ .
SErctcatis Ifoarr.rany Mims - Loail.=-
The boilok of 6000 Irishmen line the' lailioad
front As , iliwall to Panama. Set this down
to the credit rif ' man's inhumanity to man,'
to`' the Alioighty Dollar," to ' Yankee enter
prise,' ctt to what you will-'-call it a mercan
tile, a diabolial or an osteological faet—it is
undoubtedly tive. But tie road is built—
the,eontinent lis spanned ; and our onward
blur* Our,''Oeuifest destiny,' has made an-
Other demonstration. - We may as well look
at the entire pile-of grim, gtuistly facts - ail at
once; as to • pit:k out the glorification talon
ausitiink-the .Try reality,. The rood is a
and, gulf gtdf thatoivrallowed up the hu
i itum life iienatber. The sinews that . toiled
totuild the sit nwere seem to base been dm.
ilSied to as ilioble ad end es:. FOstere sir
igeid regimen or the -Bridal:Ll - my _ before , Se.
: bistspol.....' ' ....fisr powder.' •' ' ik,s a:-great.
• underudting„ :there is no -interaid or external
im P ltinm '' cef "deritlikkatiithat Is- to be
conliallal
.atilt
ate I.oepertZeqt
C. F. READ é IL H. FRAZIER, EDITORS.
MONTROSE, PA,
Thursday, January 171 h, 1850.
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.
We o `servo that some of the
. Souelien/-
members of the House of Repro'"tat i ve s
refer to the fact that not one See!herPer 'vines
he is a sectional
for. Banks, as . showing Ouse
tandidate, and th „ the Republicans are a
sectional party-
We should
. rather say it
shows in -
e ,aeiking light the s ectionalism of
t h e s a attiernencnot one of Whom is ' nation
„i 'sad 'conservative enough to yield the sup
posed interests cif a sectional institution for
the sake of the Union which they pretend is
in such great danger, and,to which they ag
feet such extreme attachment. It ally shows,
to the disgrace of the Northers: people, that
we are not as true and ineocruptiblein sup -1
port of freedom as the South in sup port of
Slavery, for.while not one Southerner ranks
himself on ihe side of free principles, enough
dough-faces are always. eager fo be bought up,
by the South to give slavery the victory in'
every contest. . Till we find out the differetiCie
hetween true and false RepresentativeS, and
cease to, send - the latter to Congress, we shall
always remain at the mercy
.of the slave-dri
vers, who, it is well known, have fur years
made our Presidents anirciurlaws.
But we have faith to bbileVe ' , that this will
not always be -:so. When of two - opposing
parties one ad vocates, on true national grounds,
the Democratic doctrine of 'human-freedom
and 'equality of rights, and desires to have
our government administered on the princi
ples of Jefferson and the old Republieans, and
the other fiercely ' demands 01E freedom
shall . only exist in this countrins a set-off
1
against
_slavery, that right_ shall be Put' en
f ati!ektiet equality' with wrong,.That for every
'lrr,e6 State' admitted into the Union at least
'one Slave State shall come in, to preserve the
pretOndei mice of Slaiery in this nominally
free Goiernment,---it 'would feeni easy for
an honest lover of DemcaTati'C, principlei to'
choose between them. And we deubt'ivit
that next Fall will - stiowthat the greatbody
of the voters of Northern Pennsylvanio have
Made their choice and ranked themselves,
where we know their feelings must be; on the
side of Freedom. -
, .
• We rejoice et the fact that, our able and
eloquent Representative, Mr. Grow, firmly
and boldly. opposes the election iii Richard
son, the Man put forth by the false Deinoc-
I racy as 'the exponent of the prctslavery prin.
eiples the South haS forced apoii the party.—
We know the people.' who sent, hilt), there ap
prove hi 4 adherence to prineiple, and we
could wish. that those so-called. Democratic
papers in his district, heretofore claiming de
i cation to the same principles, and making
'ardent professions of opposition to shivery.
extension, would also give their sanction to a
! course that is in accordance with their Own
reconimcndations. But the difficulty is that
1 what - retnaina of the 'once glorious Democrat
ic party, has become so openly and palpably
1 the Mere pander of the Slave Power—agree-
I, ing, for the paltry 'hire of office, to force the
--vi rein territories of the West into its feid and
es . !
deadly embrace—that it is impossible to eon
i cent- the fact from . the people ; consequsntly
Ithose papers bare felt it imperative to make
their, election between the principles ' they
have-professed and the party from which they
expect emolument; 'and they have chosen to
adhere to the latter. Therefore it is that
they are now. found . opposing the course of
Mr. Grow, and gradeally eating their Words
with regard to their opposition to slavery-ex
tension. But in - this right-about-flue move
merit of the Ifontrosf. Democrat and kindred
prints, they..lna.
agemeidamong the people, who feel that the
opposition to shivery aggression . that these
same papers told them was right, last year, is
just as . - right this year. And as they think,
1 so they will vote a ut least all that are worthy
i to exercise the right of suffrage. • -
It is on account of those honest Free Soil
Democrats who cannot yet see their course uf
duty clear amid .the politited fogs that sur
round them, as well as on his own account,
and b'y reason of the good -influence he is ex
erting iii Congrts, that we rejoice in the bold
position Mr. Grow has taken. We are aware
bf his popularity and \ personal influence with
these' men, and we are sure that when he
conies back and shows his fellow citiiens the
fruits of Ifiti experience in battling against the
Slave Power, e.
, and tells them of the ; course
that duty has pointed out for him, not mere
ly the eloquence of the man, but something
within their own - harts will convince them
that he is right, and they will - choose to range
I by his side in - the' ranks. oLfreedetn; i ratber
1 than . follow the fickle fortunes Of a reckle s s
and 'unprincipled adventurer—whore they
hareproveu either 'a 'bypocrith or,.a turn
coat- . , , - .
Having - some idea of the political corrup
tion and bargain and sale existing a Wash
ington, and with the example before us of too
many Northern men yielding to Southern
threats or. blandishments or to party disci
pline, we coasider that Mr. - Grow is entitled
to no meagre awed of praise for the 'manly
position he - has taken in support of -his prin. ,
ciple.s and those of his Constituents.
A Smasti UP.—As the stage, drawn by
by four horsA-Was passing from Hyde Park
-to Scranton, on Saturday last, the horses, in
descending a steep hill covert. with ice, be
came onmanageble, ran down die bill and
were precipitaltd a considerable distance from
pitie bridge. Three horsee were instantly
killed, and the died soon after.
u seems wande#l4 and
pinengi!ra *sped,
. tar The Sarnia' tration party shows nice
powers of d iscrimin lion as to'the constitution
ality of appropriate ns for internal improve
ments, North sod uth. Bills for the im
provemein of rives and harbors north of
Mason and .11iXon' lino are vetoed by the
President, but th e for thesame purpose
South of that line receive the executive se cs
ticn. without difficulty. Northern enterprise
the President doubtless Thinks eq ual to the
overcoming of all obstacles, but the interests
of the Slave States require the fostering care
-lla. an appropriation was
of government
Made by an act. of August 4th, 1854; for,se
curing the means; of navigation around , the
-R e a Riefr raft, and=the funds are now being
L exi ;oided for that purpose froin the United
grates Treasury.' But this'is in Slave terri
tory, which we snppoia makes the appropri
ation constitutional. . Nevertheless, to some
this one-sided ligislation may look like sec
tionalistn.' •
1 -
Or We hope i the people of this county,
of whatever party, will take particular notice
that the Hon troie Democrat has given np all
pretensions to dip character of a Free-Soil
paper. It , now'-‘ goes in' for the favorite can
didate of the South for. the ,next . -President,
declines to support an Anti-Slavery candi
date for that office, -desires, in doughface
phrase, to stop agitation of the Slavery ques
tion, sad even insults the intelligence of. its,
readers by reprenting die great and all-ab
sorbing question that convulses the country
from one extremety to the other, occupies
the attention (if Congress, and recently bro't
citizens a:rayed in arms against, citizens
threatening the horrors of civil was on -the
plains of Kansas, tts an unimportant side is
sue concerning " the mere physical freedom
of s few negro slave of the South !"
tar The President's Message, as publish.
ed in the organ of Sham. Dentheraey in Sus
quelumna County, his'about a column and. a
half of special pleadingin favor of slavery
omitted! The part omitted certainly is not_
.proper reading tbr the - Free Soil Men of this
region, but we : thought the editor had given
theni up as hopeless, and now Only published
his . paper for the benetit of those, donglifaces
who are in, favor of leaving the Border Ruf
fians to manage the ern of K"nsas,. white
they devote all 'their attention to Stlppressing
" Agitation ". at the North. ;Then why riot
give them tAse, benefit of the arguments of the
great head of the party in favor of the exten.
Sion of human slavery over Free Terra°.
resigned only 'to lv iv-elected by . 0 tretitendons ma- 1
jority,h'iscomtituents 'evidently conshler that he holds)
0'
.
.
. -- the office for:life, .
r .,
1; ROZEN TO DEATIL-A man n i
framed John ..- ..:•Quar; .hiring is st, prosperous in
Addison, was found frozen deatlf,7ln Chocotj California that theehmutercial cities of that State art 1
- 1 ,
tint township, this County, on -WedneAny ; unable to supply the mines fast enough with the prop- 1
morning, the 9th inst. IT left home Tue....,.: (er castings and machinery for.the quartz mills, the I
demand being more than two mot.ths in advance of 1
Jay . .afternoon, to go to a-store about half the:
. i
ash actual ability of the several -foundries to fat , I
a mile distant, and was seen by . some lum
bermen to cross over a creek, - ou a log, on his
way home. The next day he. was found
dead, a 'short distance from the creek. Ile
1211
had been confiAed to his hou,e 'for some time
ith a • cprained tinkle, and it is supposed he.'
must have mat it . n i vin, as it Was apparent
that he had walked two or three rods on his
lineei. lle had rolled down the stow,-somel
distance around him, to keep from freezing.
MIP' The great point.relied on by the fac
tious enemies of Mr.BAXss, at Wit-lington, •
is, that be is not or was not sound on the
Tariff question : This. point has been urged
with great strenuousness on the Pennsylva
nia members ; and ,we are therefore glad. to'
have the opportunity of copying the follow_
ing from the Schuylkill 3finerslJournal, pub
lished in the heart of the iron r l Lgi'on : •
• "We have reason 'now, to Itiow that Mr.
Banks is all right on the question of protec
tion, and that the American Idelegation 'in
Congress, from Pennsylvania, an consistent
ly suprort him for the. pcsition of Speaker of
the House. If elected ware assured that he
would never disappoint the expectations of
those to whom the protection of .American
industry is a cherished princie..
''''''Ex=Governor Wm. Bigler was' on
the 14th inst. elected United States Senator,
by the Pennvisanilt Legislature. It will be
recollected _that Bigler has been
. repeatedly
represented to the Democracy of Stuluchan
na,l2y the party' or an here, as a Free Soil
man. .The trout al probably
soon appear by .' his votes in the t ,,
those who have hitherto had.any doubts
about it.
A telegraphic despatchbOM Harrisburg
says that the election of Bigler is considered
a triumph of Pierce over Buchathm, aid the
Buchanan men arc qUite crest-fallen in con
sequence.
i'g s 7 In both New York and itilldelphia
the cold of last week Wednesday, was more
severe ';than-had been experienced fur several
years Previous. Here it was colderlast win
ter ,byj severaJ degrees than it has yet been
this wmter. ' Deep snow has fallen along the
Atlantic coast, arid there is now a heavy body
on the ground' here, the most of which has
fallen within a week past.
rgy- The National Era thinks-the Presi
dent's Message looks like nn electioneering
doeutnent—a 'bid to the South for a re-nomi
nation. It is thought, hdwever, that riuchan
nau'S secret bid for Southern suppo‘q stands
the best chance of success. . -
Wo are under obligations to Hon.
G. A. Grog, and Messrs. Piatt, Inghatn and
Smith, of our State Legislature, for public
doeultnents.
Acknow
Mr. and Mrs. H.. their
grateful acknowledgmi
isbei notwithstanding ity of
the weather, favored presence
on tihe afternoon9l / evening of Tuesday;
inst, and left tberr liberal donations; as also
to those wno, prevented fnana attending, sent
theill, or since have sent substantial tokens , of
them kind regard.
'hfay all receive a tar richer recompense
than their Pastor's thanks, even the abiding
betiedictiOn of Him wko " giveth" liberally"
of the blcissings of his grace.
Gar The Desert News soya that tiesuti.
tuDy rte, Me, And enitY cotton bee been Mud at .
stota Dias la Utak whisk': S. rsys N u
gold as tot be tree taw. ' '
. •
NEWS AID 7 011 " 1
Stato Council of
Virginia has nomd %Tabu Minor gotta, .of. that
State, for Prey' 'C IL - •
. Pollock has. appointed !ion. 'Jo
iseph.Por, of liarrhiburg, Reporter to ttio Suprme
o ...trt, in place of jaaies,ftepburn, deieseed. - * •
...The Cholera is committing fearftil rav
ages al Porto Rico. In *one village of 1000 iobabi
tants, 500 are reported to hare fallen victims in a
brief period.
....Tim Harrisburg Telegraph, remarks
on the Slavery portion of the President's Message,
thatit sounds more lilies Synth Carolina stump speech
than a grive paper coming from the Executive of a
great and free people.-
The Democratic National Committee
met at Washington, the Ath inst., and. fixed on the
first Monday in June for hading the Democratic Pres
idential Convention at Cincinnati. No other ques-
tions were discussed.
....The State debt of Penn , ylvania hi
creasettmore than one and a half million of dollars,
during the idmirristratiorrot Gov. Bigler. ..This the
accounts show, and yet, the Go v ernor in his annual
eaciaases reported great reductions of the State
debt: •
....The St. Louis New: thinks that Gov.
Shannon - " is a Tittle Mixed" on the slavery question,
since. the late exodus of the Miasourianh from Kansas,
and - isuggests to the Arkansas Ernigrapt Aid Society
that "be wont do to tie to." , _• . .
.' .. . Stephen A. Benson, who w i as to 'enter
on the first ofJanuaryuponhis . dutiett as Governor
of Liberia, was a Tr.Mton boy, find the best part of
his education was obtained in the Sunday Schttol of
the Firkt Presbytetian Church there. • -' ' •
. ..: &wring,. the English Envoy to - Qin - -
na, has made •a report on the vital stafistics - of China,
giving that empire a population of 4004)00,000.--
Kiang.su, the largest of the eighteen provitiCeS, has
a population•.of over 5z,000,000. . - . •
....There are now laid 14, in winter gnar
-1 tern at Chicago two hundred and ' eighteen steamers
I and sail craft, representing carrying room for- sixt,y
I
thousand tons. These ships and Steamers all leave
with full loads fin. Eastern ports in the spring. --
.
....A band of about a dozen gipiieys was
else:wiped .Isst Week near Chamber.dmri, Pa. They
itoldfortunes in the girisey stile. On qa, turday they
struck their tents, and, with their wagons and horses
started 011 a crowd follow ing them through the town.
..The New York Ledger" snakes the fol.
lowing announcement: , " iVe have th - e.pleasurn of
announcing that our gifted .contiibutor r , • Mrs:
.Sara
Payson Eldridge, (so renowned and nth - liked as Fan
ny Fern„) was tarried on Saturday, the 6thinst., ,in
Mr. James Parton, well:known in literriry,cireles as
the author of the Life of Horace Greeley:”.
....Joshua I?..j3icl(lings of Ohio, has been
a member of the lionselonger than :thy other now
in it. He entered Congress iu llt:12, and since the
row that einsucd when the llont..e eipelled him on ac
count of - his radical lAuti-Sinvery.sentiments and he
....A decisive 5.10 p ha,. been taken by our
'Government relative to British enlistments. The
long correspondence between the two Governments
,has been closed bi an elaborate and conclusive dis
patch to Mr. Buchanan, requiting the British Gbv
ernthent-to recall Br. Crampton, or leaving the alter-
native of the Administration giving .Ihim his pais
ports.
....The Harrisburg reclegraph, which pas
sed into the hands :rf'l:,essrs..ll'Citire & Senors on
the Ist inst., makes its appearance as a large double
•beet, haint§entely printed oU 'fine paper, and. aboi.-
ing much ability find care in'gening ap its contents
As it is the only English newspaper opposed•to the
bhain Democracy,' published at our State Capital, ice
doubt not it will be well sustained.
.
.. -.. The editor uf:the Troy Tinte.e'deslies i very acts of violence. Sir. the people of
-
the truth of the story of a baby having been placed on • Kansas have had to protect t . hetnselves frond
his editorial table as a Cbrimnas present, and affirms l inob law,instigatedgiby. the President and sus
that.the little ',native' - referred to never had other I Wined by his officials there. When he says
thin a newspaper existence, aid is, the °Mining al there has been nothing to •` justify' official in 4
}
1 that facetious manlier ofthe'gteat Smith funnily, J. c terpositioni I adinit it is truti therewas noth . - -
. . . . . but Stanley F.-iulth, of the Auburn American. i ing to .justify it ;. u the interposition was
!. there, whether 'justified or not. • Then he
) ....John Mitchell, the IriAll exile, after a !
goes on to say that the people of Kansas
-1 year's residence in Alabama, appeased. in 'New 'York I
It must be protected. Well, Sir,. they will be
'.an the sth inst., and delivered a lecture at the Tab
! protected ; but they hive not
,had protection
ernacie on " The Foot-prints of the Celt." . Mr." Ititeh
front the President o(the ljuited States. Do
1. el announced, amidst vociferous] applause, that be 1
you not know, Sir,'does nut the Senate know,
C would speak again on the following evening, and his
i and does nut the country know,that Govern
i subject, should be "The Ripening of the RevOltition
. or" geeder.catne home and proclaimed in the
in Ireland." -
ears of the Presideat that litin;a's was a eon-
. .
! ....On thl occasion of two opposition.' quered country 1 And what, dill he. do 1----
i boats starting from Pittsburg, one employed a Ger- i The Governor told him that Kansas was coa
-1 man hand to attract passengers; the other being mi- 1 quered. --. What do von s'.uppt;se General
.
1 nun the music, and not desiring to b e out-done; start- ! Jaeltton -.would have 'done, ifnue . of his', Guy
ed the steam whistle, which completely .drowned the i emu.* had - come to 'Washington. and • said,
music of the band. The m a yor bei n g call e d upon- 7 . i,,.' General, that Territory Which . you sent toe
declined to interfere, saying th a t " o ne was a speci- Ito govern has been conquered.' ' Why, in
men of German music and the other gennine Amer- tin e name of • the .F..t4runi-, - *: he•:•iviiiild .have ,
. 4, . , • - I said,. ''wh o his coaquert.4,4l" 'He would
.. ... . - Som - e - tithe - 'ago - thifrrgir. - 1 - . - m -- raz'ru;ix*.-;--4....--.....u....a_up0n the country:tLi• - alt-Ite-soili:.,l .
Co. made an offer to Cie D. L. k" - W. it. R. Co., that ! tary. force and a 11 , ,, its . yoluatcpr'fiiree to re- .
if, the, run so many tons of Coal 0 Great Bend by l l ' take it. But; 'Sir, it was not t&, General
the first day of January, - 1356, there'w.oulti be a di ! . I Jacitscra that the story was • told; but to an
other.- and different . sort Of a Loan. What .
diactien of $lO,OOO made flora the regular Freight I
.
ctarges. On Sunday night last, six Coal Trains pas- (leas the answer 1 The Presideat turned hint
I -
i' Bed up the Road, and on the day specified they_ were out. He said : ' Governor,we have nu further
services ; . we wish you all pros- I
ready to claim the liberal offer Made by Virtue' of fu!- ; neon of . yQ9r.
, perky', but ion . Are mit the mato* carry out
fillment of contract-Scranton Ileraid.. .
squatter Sovereignty ito Kansas - 2. Then he
-- -
....The_ withdrawal of Mr. Atchison from;
i took Mr. Nir' Slinitrion ;
.atid , •Mr : Wilson . 1
the canvass for tnited States ;Senator, is 'a confession 1 o ,_ .• ' . - ilson • .
1 Shannon went„shouttn m or over the:plainA as he •
'of weakness in his own State which we had not lciok. I went that be was tOr Slavery in' Kansas. • He
ed for. • Nis demonstrations in-Kansas wereebvious- I went 100 fast; and I think, between the North
ly made for effect in Missouri, and they have been and the South, Mr. Wilson Shannon Will not,'
effective enough, but not in the way intended. It' find a very wide place to stand_ trPon. Ido
r.has, been found that the mass of the people of Mis-,. not think he will find a • friend ..-here 'to. saY, -
semi do not sympathize with.the fanatics . whom hol s God seize _ him l' When his' tune ehall- come
has been leading and stimulating to outrage. When i up. -• • -•••- . •• - • •••• - - • .
the State Legislature met recently, it was discovered , .
So' tritieli for Kansas. After this tliusion to
that the demonstrations in Kansas has not polacil it in his Message the President undertakes to
the slightest change favorable to hi s election, and his I read. ti&a long 'lecture It . p.Oti Sievert!. , It is
, formal retirement is a palpable admission that his par--; nut the first time the President has tieliyered
I i ty cannot go into another canvass bearing the bizthen 1 lectures . -on Slavery, and- I, lat.'s a word to
of his misdeeds. • ' • - - • .. . ' day atithe. view 'tvhielt lie takes •of 'it. The
...The Wilmot Proviso, so called-em. President of the United States,' in - the - raper -I
. . •
bodying the principle of a peremptory exchision by whiCh he se ,
stint here a feW dil' at;m; taltes . the.
act of Congress of human ,Slavery . from the vast ter• ground, that the gentlemen lam do nut agrees
ritories - then about to be wrested from Mexico , -was With. him in his peculiar notlions: are the 4 oe-.ii
first propoeedby•Maiid IN 'leant to the Twenty-Ninth lilies of the Constitutitat.' . lie , . si:i ptits - it; fieri,i
Congram,„ at the close of its first session, Aug. 12, he saYi!: '- ' - ''. -, .i•. i .- ' r- '. •
1846. It was moved ran an amendment or rider. to •' If the friend' of the, Qin: Stitutitin.:are - 14
haver struggle,'its eneniies i.ouid'.n.t4:
the bill putting money wherewith to conclude a Tree.
f ;
,ti Peace and Bonudaries Into the hands of Preiddent Pre-"* meritacceptable Issue. than that o 'nt
Polk, and was carried by 4 vote-of 83 -. .t0 64, It is a State, - Whose Conittitutioltf.erribraC*,'rt ieilf
' - said that only three voteswere giiren'sgairouthiSPrO- Pu.bilettn.fc i titl . °f gwier4illo-tf being excluded ..
vise from all the Free state, Slavery has , :gain e d fintrt"the Uniott bee:melts domestic .institit4
I grouted at the North, since that day.
.: . , ~. . tions May not in'all riesmiti . 'Convert. Witlf
- - • • -•-• ~. • • the ideasof what is wise and expedient ' enter'-.
.. „ .Thnnksgiving day in KentuckY - - was --, i - 1 , - -• 1.
taineo , n :saute °L S tate.. '_
tate...
celebrated by two "-young gentlemen of thehighest . : :. , . .
..
rduringi -whic h TlMS'•the - President Undertakes to desigt
nate tiff Tramiel; of thetkinstitution those,who
they poured camphene from a liunp over the wham .differ fr otn .. hi n i , e n - .- i t i i . ' i m bi e d..
.I do - . r . i ii'!,
of a :mtdiatto slave man belonging to the . keperof kr i osi,how' others' feel, buti say it is - ."an - iw-.
the hotel, while the man was asleep, and then set fire suit- to a trutSitrity of this nation. • The Prea
lohf-m to • aim* Ile him! 8. 10 ilefui and ne4 we Meer knows, if-tie reads anY.thitik:heytind the
immediately wrapped In an intense blue, Willett coo- most servile sheets - tluit,his.ereatiiies ,seiid to.
Untied till the fluid • *as terminated: . ...Scrimso isY, hirit,.that the -public soutane - tit ofi thi'a cairn
%
death did not release him from ids* torment '• •aitei ' try 'tamdern a most decidedly „Ilia - it:lien in that
the lapse of two creeks. The respectably *neat; , Territory. • ilini•rnan 'knows'. if.' better than.
ed" young Men whia wantonly committed this awful he, or at least no Man alight tn . -kpoW it ben
crime,"are rich, and have paid Ms oleser .1,2(A - end ter; and *heti he pea Oty . fttehiortinteriee as en
no legal Prom dings have been, or are. likely 1.0 be, mites of the' - Constitutfna ;111itise . ,.*Ito differ
commenced against - them I - They any their iristo. - 1 gram him,. he knows her:tter.C . ltariteteriz fr ea - cet . .
cratic heads so high as ever. - I tab&
' .: - One holf.Or the= popular
.. , . -) i
Correspondents of the Independent Itertit
- • .. ' ~.. ' . lican. •
,' ••=',,..
- . .. • , - ' _
'Dr ttin lowa, Dee. 26th - ltifti;',l
Msssas. Enitofta:—in my last 'I was left en . Big
Turkly river. --It l's a fitii., stream for . :Water , power,
but not, much' :wed- yet. Its banks are Wen, Nat'
Covered with, st heavy grnsvt - 4,0f ''Whitetaild Ilia&
Oak, 'Which -is in grMtt demand- he, wriod, and Attest
any amount Of woOd.choPPera '7 01. 0: V constant am
ploytnent at seventy.ftve 'cents a , F ro irOttn.
vine to this plac.theliC C of the comet y 6.v:du n g b u t
not broken, and very rich ; there is a goot . rsapply of ,
timber and water. The land is all Wien; thd-the 1
•
unimproved is held at front five to twenty tiollarsuel
I acre.. The' Land Office for the
.:" Big Turkey Dia
-1
trict" is locate'd at this place, and the land soles are
going off at the present time. -- )lettiirbi; have-never .
attended the land sales. can Terra no idea of the ex
citement and hubbub that attends such a"show. There
are men here from every State in the iiiiian,• -the
'Canada s, and half of the States of Europe. There are
men who have mustered all their .available means to
buy "a forty" where they ar.d their families may
find • a -sheltering port after being storm-driven for
many years. It is away in the wilderness, - miles from
any human habitation but is a Boma. There are men
here who will enter whole townships, by and to wring
from weather beaten industry many a dollar; 'which
had cost them nothing. They are Land Sharks. They ,
tire a cancer on the industry and prosperity - of the
-country,
,stnvi t ,it . my anathemas. are'wforth any thing.
they have theni, and most heart-Mt.. Millions can
not make this country whole-of the damage the Lind
Shaiks have done it. Last.; Sunday
„night. the the) ,
mometer 'stood thirty degrees below zero, and the
• wind blew as only pi-airie wind...can blow, •yet cold
and tedious writ 'wits, forty men stood on the steps,
'of the Land Office from dark until nine' o'clock the
next morning, at . Which time the office Opened,. ;so
that they might be first and foremost in the office.—
And it has been ssi'everyday and night sin_ ce,althobgh
the weather has been extremely cold all the. tune....:. :
Often two, three, Or even half a' dozen men - Want.the
same piece of land': then there is a " smart - chance
- for a fought."'; So what with one thing and art other,
a Land sale is only another name for an "almighty
great row," where the - WeaV. and diffident stand a
slim chance. The land is new taken at the rate Of
[ fifteen thousand
, acres per day, mostly With land:
. warrants._ This part of the . country I think;- taken'
'as a Whole, iiTtliebest I have_ Yet seen ,in ; .t.lie.Gmat
West. . The land is hot quite as level as in Illinois,
but timber-and water are muck, more generally dis
ttibuted,.and the soil is hard to - beat. It will be thick
ly settled in m'very few years, - judging• from preSeni
indications,as will all the tillable parts of the State.;---
I The counties of Winnesheik, Fayette, HOwird, Chick=
osaw, Brenner, Mitchel, Floyd, an d Butler, yet' con
1-tain considerable government land; ea do thepoun- - !
I ties on the "same parallel west of there; but inost of'
I the counties to the west are, but ill supplied with :
Itimber and are very marshy, while the , dry lands arc
filled with "hard heads," so- that it is likely .to be
1 sickly, and is better adapted to stock than grain rids
- tag. None of the lands north of Town 88. and west
i -
lof Range 30 is yet In market. Furniture and house-
I hold goods of all sorts' art.; very dear and hard to
,get,
so that peopie coming into this back country had bet
ter box np and bring . , bcdstceds, fables, chairs,' and
in fact all they can bring. The freight, it i• - sf, true,.
would be something, but it is. the
Lad
voice of
those' who are here, "I wish I Lad brought more."-.--
Any man who reallf intends-to come. ivest i neVer will
find Ll.-id any cheaper,and if things go'nia' for:another
year as-they have fur ttie frur now closing, there will
hardly be a farm north iniying in the - State, at,gov
erament price, More anon. . - . G. - C.L. ,
- John P. Hale on the President's Message.
Extract jrunt a Speech ill the VIS. Senate.
• -
'Sir, 1 think I aut say to: the PreeSident,
that' the people would Idive been quite as
much pleased to hear a little ,inore about
Kansas as quite so much about Central Arnei
ieiL The President, however, dOes leave a
little to ay about Kansas—a veryotittlei
fie tiny s
lo the territoryvi Kansas there have been
:lets prejudicial gopd order, but as yet
❑cnr, have oteurred to justify the..interposi
.tion of the Federal Ex.teutive.7
1 wibh that were trite ;,but 1 take issue with
[dui. I t.ay the interpo.itien of the Federal
Executive* has been there i;n the side of those
giess[and quite a. lumber of the members of
the Senate--no matter forthem however
,as tho do not belong- to. heilth3r organiza
-Ict them take care or themselves, r
wilt not ; t - speak for them, but-I speak for my.
salt; tiiid I ealy the President can do me no r.
kartn,biany.such denunciations as this:
,I
arriperfectly willinefto take it ; but, Sir, '
standing as a representative, of our native
State—his 'and' mine ,together—l , will not
have him hurl such an imputation as that un-
rebuked. He has no right to designate any:
men who.are here tinder the same oath to '
support. the Constitution which he has - taken, .
as eneinies as the Constitution; and when he , . ' -.
does it-he comes down from the Irtigh place • -
which : God, in his, wrath,- tor - the punishment -
Of Oar national . Isins - and for the humiliation •
otoanationat . pride, 'bas permitted him . to ' .
oecupy..l. say that be cOmes down from that '
bighlpline into the arena 'of : a - vulgar dem
agogue; and - 'strips' biniselliof everything •
which :should clothe, -the President- of the
United StateN . Ideny .tile, issue; I hurl -- it a
hack in his thee; I tell hint; When he under=
• takes tti designate these men as - .enemies :tit .
i the Constitution, le abuses men whose shoe- .• '
latchets he.. is not worthy to untie. .. . ,
Sir, these are plain' words,. but the 'time
demands them. ._ When the President of the --.
United States send; such. a messp4e as this
to me, or to any hotly. of which I
_nm a mem- • . •
ber, I shall be , restralnett by . no-consideration ,
froin speaking the
. truth 2 The President,—
says',. that-if the. erternim Of the Censtitution-- -. .
we atl kno.w v7hoM hi:in:eludes in' thiS phrase '
—are t?have another contest, with its 'friends, -
there eara w t,.be a hetter one ; Prant it; Sir; -
Let us have it. -- 4 tell, hint that -this is the - - - '
very place whore the jight.4;ie be,rnade.... ,
This-part of his tnessage, stripped of its ver
binge, means, this ; If 14- theAn aga i v i s . ,
lence of the men
,wi.,,o'llavet- . gone over into .
Kans, and undertaken to •e Stablieh Slavery .3
. and. tick"
there. they 'shall come-here and. ail( for ad.--
' mission into the-Union. with a Slave Consti
tutbut,
, and Kansas will be rejtoted l de Pres- ,
id,k4a. -fells tia that .is the - mo St.. favorable as
pect in which thatquestion.eatt he presented. .
That will.be the is - sue: and,it, : it be decided .
against Slavery, we are threatened with civil=
war.. .- -- --- ----- - H -.-. -', • -
.. -. .
Sir, I am not a man. of war; bin:when - I
bare heard it threateted so often, I hive .
sometitnes wished that God in his priavidenc.o', .
would let it cotne. - If it hitt no other Ora,'
I think it ; would learn those . men who ire_
constantly, talking .about, the :dissolution_ of
the Union a - lesson " which 'neither they,_nor -
their Chil4ren's children would 'eVer-farget.
I ani not certain that. I' shoUld not want the .'.
war to come On while we havdabout just
such a Prescient. as we haVe!novii , ..and 1.-- - will --
tell . you why.,.. If the - attenipt at ::disuninn
W r 'er.e to . be made - With Sua it .man as General':
3 ackson,4ir deneral,.Taylor; in the Presiden
tial chair;. — and it were repreisedpromptly t as '
it_ . Wouldlie;peoPle -• would I say-, ' Oh, 4 .*as- .
his grew, militaryixwer, .his reputation,
.his
popularity ..which , did it.' - '.'lGod knows they .
,eoald not, - &ty, it or this President. [Laughter •
in. the' galleries.]
~ Ittlie.- - Pr,:iSidetit sueeeded --
and... - if
the. Union were sustained, as . i . t. would
-be, it would he by its oWit; . inert energy,. and
- front no factitious power which it would ac
quire froin the overshadowing popularity of_ ;
the President; • 1 .
Sir, when.the: President undeitakes to
at!gmatiie, as he_ has, done those who,differ ..
from him, he steps . I beyond;what
. he - - has -a-
.:.
right, O o ; he- steps "over the. mark; he -vf-
olats.the laws which 'I think, should govern
the intercourse betwecu - . the- -different .meth;
hers of this Government. When he denoun
ces as enemies to the Constitution - those whb
;:ifrer• front: him, Lthink it proper to meet.
him in this way,undAo take issue with Min.
Does the PreSident - think that upon-this..is
sue he can. go before : the country ?' Dues ho
think that he stands- a - a place Where_ it is . -
safe or prudent for hitn- to denounce.as inim-
kat to the °institution views. Wiljet are en-
tertafned by a vast'-majority. of ti people of
this - country 1 • If he is sate, it iii' his - obScuri
ty, and nothing else; that'shields him—it, 6"
the - ntterhepeles•ltess of his position. - - Sir, t . '
heard a very, ilitrlietit:CcOultiient inade upon .
his 'Message by-a southern gentleman Within:
a very brief tiine. 'oh,' said.lte,' it is - one
of the hest inessages.tliWever- was written,`
and Pierce is the. best
. Plesident we-have. -
- ever had since WaShington." Well,' said -
the_ perm to \V.:hotly-he
. Was
. speaking ; ' you ;
will re-tiotninate - him, wilt y.-i.iu not ?' `No,'
said he, 'that is another thing;' hip Message
is - a little, too strong to. - get - northern 'votes:
- With'; . NY shall nut, use him atirniore.' That .
is exactiz the 'position: iii' which the - matter
stands. 3 °' -.. . ..,
4 Doings in Congress,.
- Jun. 12.—The interpellations
thieutened by Mr..-Zellicoffer were put foe-
Ward, and the carious candidaeS Successive!:
ly - called. Upon_ ter_face thkrinusie. -
ardson the Democratic candidate was - i ' • fit
vor of the settlemeirit Of-Slave.ry in the i er,
ritories by the pe?ple - therein, and weld. 4
mit then-ns.Stiites witb , or without • Sla ery,
as; they -- might fit:then - Ise:lves determi e.—
As to the . , onstitutienaliti of the \VI mot
Proviso, he gave no-cleat.: Opinion. i fie bid,
iiotettine ita.npplicatien to \AC' territor ae;
_quired from .34exliwbut he did - so in a spir
it of compromise ; and - thiL it weal' be
- . ,unjust to incorporate the: Proviso in a erri.;
tonal bill: He tfiought - th, Constitutio s did
het carry: Shivery into Ole Territories hut
protected the Neal and - Squth equally. Mr.
.Bunks, the Republican caindidate, was next.
'lle did noCiegard the nsas
, as Ip . romoting the formation of Freet. States; he - did- . beilese in the eptistitutit ality
of the. ini t Proviso, and did, net .b • liexe
that the Constitution carried Slavery into
tiiew Territories. He rc&ignizes.the ri ht to
, protection in - peoperty, but noty in
•Propert
man. - -Ile belieyis - 1 the Constitution toi bean
instrunientOf - Freedoin, and thought; Con- -
gress was wrong - iti - repealiug
. the
,MiSsouri
Compromise. . Then eatft'.e :the
Know -Nothing. candidate s . who did'nt believe .
that the KariSti.l bill wouldipromote the firm-.
akin. (of either I, l ree Slave' States: - Re
said -SlaVery ekisted independently of - the - -
Constitution, and . Congress had au' right .to
legislate .SleverY or pia of the Tel ritories ;
it trasl'"onit the.right - to 'lslam SO far as to
protect the Otikens in their righted .prOer.
ty.' Me. Nithington called" up, but de
toratiswer the.iinterregatories Mail - be
Barksdale Men 'askcil'hlr. - Banks:if-he was
now 'a titemberof - the Know Nothing parer.;
if he:was:in -- I . :Ivor of the I lholition of Slavery'
in the bistrictof COlumbia ; whether he wish
eit - t6 protnototi,iti. equality of the' hilaelt si l4 t
-white races by legislation.;:whethethe WaOn
favoe of-the ezelusion'nftbreign-bortij citizen?:
and_ Catholics :- from Office ; and Whether in
ver -of a - intidifietition of
• Banka eeplied :that-tie-was - nominated bi - De*....
&vats and -A feericans;• -- atill'by them elected.;
its to the Tarifr i. he retbried to. tl a record of
last year • and On equality :of races, h 6 stood .
by the D i eelarittkiti - of independence, with the
addition - that - hei believed -the stronger race
"Would'absork --, the - Weaker.. . The other - quo.,
Heins Were-sub4dinute. to -thatc:probibil
slayerk in--Ktufs?s ; Weald -iunite
arfthto interdict Slavery to the Territorio. - Mr
-
Fuller said- that =be was net in favor - Or:the
restotation of,tiie liiissouri Compromise ;
he
opPosed to the , . abolition -- of Slavet7l . l4
the District of Columbia ; he did not Oisee
fin the equality 'of - the wltito
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