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MIA LES F..READ 4 H. H. FRAZIER . EDITORS.
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•name with such solemnity, have no true idea
of God's spiritual nature, no appreciation -or
—'----. even respect for the only sitexleerner from
LETTER PEO RIM H4l. JESSUP. in and death.
'The following letter was addressed to Rev. The profaneness of this people is dreadful.
Deno Toaair, Delhi, N ! I r • :' " : • The name of God is in constant use, in the
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• Tateott,'Srlita, Airy 27th, most trivial conversation; and while . the
L lf yea wilt consent to spe n d an houtswith Moslems think. it meritorious to use the.
`rne to day in Tripoli, we - will walk quietly name of God as often as possible, the noimi
arouri4 the city and thrtogll:ehe streets, en- nal Christians use it out oemere recklessness,
'tamed With the breadths -of Syrian Itaidscape so that you can hardly - spend five minutes in
seenerieleind interested in a thousand novel the society Of any of these ignorant people,
Wature t ti pa the manners, customs, dress,char- without being shocked and pained at, theist.
- actor, *4 language of this intensely Orient. profaneness. Not only the men but the wo-
AI Peo,,i4 - We are nOW en the %ion- of a men and the little boys arid girls use the most
_hill *tit half as high' as thit ine'the rear of awful language. , And the priests are no bet
ellulgeMathaway's house. 'On our right, is tee. The life of religion is gone., The people
an immense Sammie castle, built by. the :ii almost lost the idea of holiness, and'
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Crusades!, and new occupied by a feeble nee think of their bail condition wiehotte .
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i'urkielli 'garrison._ We are looking toward ern tion.ss - • - .
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the w l est. - '.; ‘ - ' As we.approicti our twine - the street dogs
At Or left is the city of: , Tripell svith its bark like wolvei; and we frighten theattaway
15,006 people. .The honteS areal! built 'of With our canes. Pate:mg tinder the dark
whitel stone, and the white flat roofs, the. arches and theOugh the narrow streets we at
domes, and minarets of the mosques, all length reach theehouse of the HOwadji Lyons,
crowded together and surrounded; by a corn- where we Will spend the night. How' pleas
pact Strii:* wall, present ', T a beautifid ap- ant to have a honie in such a land as this !---
pearanee in the midst of the luxuriant sere There is do such thing as a happy home in •
dens .7 1- e.,..e.... lli . Vest the city >'ll,nd Smile iti )iv- Syria unless it be in Protestant families.—
ing verdure. These gardens cover the plain The , women are never educated, and the wife
which extends from Tripoli to the sea,. about and the mother is but a grown-up Child, with
half a,mile distant. On the shore of the s e a, neither principle, discipline nor discretion,
is the seaport of Tripoli, a 'city of 6000 in- and the children are rested amid the worst of i
habitants called the "Alien's," and in the dis- all tnfluerices Few of the people can read,
Lancet it seems to be rising from the•sees-e andeione of thene eare'for books as a means
On our right toward the . South, the shore of moral and intellectual ,improvement.
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stretches far away, sweeping in a magnificent he birth of a daughter here, as in India
eutve, and fine' ncient mithet stand here and auChina, is an occasion of sorrow e and the
there; along the beach, prilecting their bold r girls grow up as- tho Ugh they had no
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dully 2 outlines again,st : th e maltose back- souls, and no body cared for thine. Nothing
greliiii. formed by !bal feeculies bier Slug I bet a mire Christianity can create a happy
V f seaand sky feued'only in a Syrian sun -home. Mohammedanism has tried the ex.per
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set scne. ', -.• uncut and failed; these dead systems of num
. . Gazing fors while on. i ns filmset unreal inal Christianity have failed; Protestantism
picture, we reverse ere e pi:sestior e and look to- I alone has tried and succeeded, by elevating
ward the East. 'lmmediately. 'before us the woman, erecting the family altar, opening
. bill peaks down in a deep, ravine, through the Word of God, and introducing 'ITISI) to
Witidt comes dashing die beaUtiful river sad- I the fellowship ef s his Redeemer.
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mill,
isha lila runs through - the north , end of the t Jf you prefeie we spend the evening in;
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city; and then zningles With she sees ; This cde scribing this e city.alid people. .Of the le,
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glee eraceule 'castle stands on. the brow•of 1 000 people, about twO•thirds are Mohamme
this' lei ise, and just on the point ef 'the
_hill ; darts, the rest GreckssMaronites, and a few
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between the river and the e O u s... el e part oil Greek eatholics . •end Jews. The it-Slue/ice of
the!city. We st,4i I.Oel eastward—up the . 1 the Moslems is far greater than in Beirut and
winding river-feacross the wide. 1 11.a:1 - .0)i-eyed ! in . times vast they have . been exceedingly
with luxuriant olive eraerde, ,rd garden, tyrannical and cruel. . Now, however, there
. and then raising - our eyes, weiscieS.,l the alts is a great change: They attend their ,mos
riets range of Lebanon,• 9000 feet, hick i lines as usual, and haVe as high regard for
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crowned .with snow, yet, of so_iihite a rode the Koran and Moinunmed esTeTer, but they
that you can hardly distingulib the outline se em to feed eouseidus of their weakness.
of the snow, on some Of. the - ridges. , -.Anq an,i etaild. in atvskiif the power of other na- '
this is Lebanon--the mighty', range which hone, Tt,e3essee*enot, ' - parfciertirlyeohieeSise
totnuiences at the sources of the Jurdan„ at ous to us in:the Stre ' a, and Often pass vs ith:r
Mi. liermon, and terminates here •oppeeite out bowieg: . :l3a they' never S'enture to act
Tilpoli in one of the geandest• cliffs on the etedeliS4indulge in any of their former itn
‘ face of the earth. Just', as the sun Sets, ''ithe pn'igistind insolent conduct towtrd Franks.
atmosphere is tinted elth the richest hues of t Ae-a dase they are desperaidy ignorant and
porlile and gold, and the light.. clouds
_al;Ove 4 d'egradede The men generalrilmnw how to
the mountain summits retleefthe studight oh .-r e ad; and some eif them to write r an - d eiplie,te.
the Snow, givingehe
wliele inbnntain . ilinge - .Rut theic4eaditig ''s confined to''
'the' * Koraii;
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the appearance of a vast irregular crystal of and theiriting. to common businesslife,
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' amethyst, crowned with molten eil - er. If.l and their knowledge of figures to a foe sim
i4a no other object in life thin ehe gratifies pie rules: The woynee, among them 'are mere 1
tion.of my esthetic nature r l could not wish articles of household furniture. Thei are
ei ,better Place - for such e purpose„, than such more than slives, and the less they know the
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a aioot as the city of Tripoli, under the shad easier' sit for them. - Masters te e centtol them.
ow Of Mt. L e b anon. I) * ' . - - Lsuppose that an '' little eirl ;eight years of
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lif God had called tub to label. on.theliirn 1 a ge ineYour Sabbath School knozos more of
ingplains of Africa or India, !where, there is i any subject which is. of importance to an im
nothing to relieve the ' eye, or refresh the soul, / mortal being than all the native women with
no 'ttiountaine, or foreats, or streams, I should 1 in. thrrtg - miles of this' city, in any direction,
have labored-with , cheerfulness and gratitude i.including all , the inhabitants of the city itself
for t it is the via °two) which elicits the high: . - The Moslem women are more degraded,
f ' ct 'S luterest ' ye° sl4ll not cease to cherish but they co mot well, be more ignorant than
ateeling of gratitude while I live, :that I am
permitted to labor lftl f a field where there is the females among the nominal Christians.
tome Of them, (the latter) have remarkable
each a rich and refreShing and inspiring fea r
tore in the landscapeacenery, as this " good
:Jy mountain" Lebanon. , • •
;Perhaps you, will be so entranced with the
beauties of the scene' that you will linger un-.
the sun has dropped into the sea, and then
'thread your way with me down the bill, and
through the city to the house which we now
call our home. %%stet sundown, the =non
on the castle announces to thousands 'of hun
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gry Moslems that theirlaily fast,is over,and
they may,now givei;themselves up to festivi
ty and dissipation during -the whole of the
night.' It is now -Ramadan the great fast of
the 'l,vlOlunninedarts;, That is, they fast all day
acid fealti all piglet , 'Those who are able,
sleep during a great part of the day,• while
the laboring 'class 'poor fellows, hive a hard
- time of it. As you meet*em in the. street
just before sun-down, they have a hungry,
Melanchcily look, which teaches one a power
; ful lesson with regard to the fidelity with
which the devotees of a:false religion, will
Practice he austerities for the sake of re ach-
Ing their their fabled Paradise.
And ROW, a eonnd bites upon your ear.
Shrill, sharp and 'Strisigely wild, rising and
ng now - a minor strain, now an out
so tong and piercing, that you can hardly be
hese it to be a hall= voiee,and then a strain
of soleinn melody, ;which summons to prayer
?` 011 who believe it in the .Ons living and Eter
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cal God': it fills you with mingled emotions
of Curiosity, awe and sadness. This is that
of Whieh you . hage so Often read---the voice
.1 of the Ilf uezzin. Five times as day does it
arrest,,your attention, at sunrise ; at noon, in
the middle of the afternoon, at sunset and an
hour and a haVittlaratallat t It interests you
andyetinakes You Sad. The mune 44 God,
uttered in ihiside44oned Araltio language,
slave seems s'plemp;and yet it is a sad .4et
that the Moslein character is fearfully d' 3 ' :
raved, and these same met who utter God's
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personal beauty, but it only conceals a aark
mind and still darker heart. I would detall
tto you some of the questions which they ask,
some of their remarks, but they will not
bear recital. I had heard of dkradatiou be
-fore coming here, but the half had not been
told me, AMong the men, there are few .
who have some considerable intelligence, blit
the great mass know about as little as it is
possible to knOw, and know anything. Many,
indeed most ofthe men, ; cannot read.' Sev
eral intelligent-looking young men have Vis
ited us who cannot read 'a word. It is 4EIE
-1 cult to find terms simple enough to explain
the plainest religions truth to their dark un
;derstandings. The majority of the people
believe that the earth does, not move, andre
gard bur d - eclaratietis to the contrary, not
only contrary to Scripture, but what is more
contrary to their own views and the views
of their fathers. 4n old' priest called on us
the other day, and was so profoundly igno:
rant that he looked at our Daguerreotypes
with the heads dora, and asked us if we had
any Daguerreotypes of Christ or St. George
or the Virgin Mary?
We intend to. establish a school t* little
girls here in the fall, and if the ,people will
consent to have their children instructed we,
do our best to Open the blind eyes. We
' would commence at once, but we shall be
compelled to go to_ the. Mountains about the
first ofJuly to spend the sunimer: , Tripoli
is exceedingly hot and hence kunhealthy for
foreigners in the summer. • , '
The' town iri Which we expect to spend the
summer is Duni*, about eight hours to the,
South Eaat, over a goad which is. fearfully.
1 rough and steep and in many places danger
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- The town Itself is among the lofty" cliffs
of Lebanon whichtower on every side among
the clouds It is 111 K hours from the'teams
of Lebanon, and "hope to visit thole 400144
historic monuments before the • end of the.
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summer. Our mountain 11 s will Undoubt
edly be quite primitive, Ore so, perhaps,
thatilife on the Beaverkil (Delaware Co,
N. Y.) We hive a tent,'w ich wilt be our
home when trammeling, and
often remember our life
August, 1855. I was tryi
expedition to my Arabic her to day,*and
my stock of Arabic words eld out reasona
bly well until I attempted describe a trout,
when language falleA me, d I could only tell
him that, a trout is a thing tot' marvellous
ty, having the color of theiblustiltig apricot,
shading into white like sn wy Lebanon, and
brown like the complexion of a Greek girl,
having on its sides spots ail red as a pome
granate blossom, and brig .t as the stars at
midnight . in a Syrian sky,
.said it must•be an ttnromn
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This Arabic, language i hard enough to
satisfy the most fastidious I-study from six
to eight : hours a day, but y briefexperience
tells me ihat this is too to oh foe this climate.
kis trying indeed when' dwelling among a
people who are perishing .or lack of vision
and painfully certain that nothing but , an Ito
.quaintance. with the langu :e:will bring you.
-into contact with them, - ..he 4mpelled to
. desist from study; thro
~. sietual, exhaustion
before you have : accor,n I lished One half of
what you can coo in i - ,•erica in the . same.
time. This is indeed a til:l,but it is necessa:
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ry, and we will not' corn alibi" 'Greek, He
lirew, Latin, German an Fre th,areehild's
play compared, with the rabi -One-needs
a tongue like a' cork-sere - and a throat like
a barrel 'to get sou of ese deep crooked
gutturals: 1 can make n yself understood to
some extent, but my/prilgress -is-about like
that of a mat who tirtes to lift himself over a
lk)
fence by the straps of his tits. I have trans
lated Dr. Perkins' little catechism for dill.
' dren into Aribie, and. young man from
' Duma who called yesterday pronounced it
very good.' • I ,
We. have a Bible el
morning, and a number
generally. come in, in
studs 'the New Ti..tarne,
ens questions which aril
in our broken
.Arabic.
tkin of the - moral and sl
this people. •Iliereids n
lit the. Arabic language.
used to explain what is
one of them is exact. 1
ed with the people, I (
man ever expected to
fish principles, and ma
not understand what W
Some suppose that of
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The Greeks think Ti 't - ht l ir. dtitv to • . hate
Moslems, Jews, and P piste, and every oth.
er'sect teaches a simil, r spirit. You cannot
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find confidence or affee ion or elf-respect..--
Alla TetAficse people re proud 'and conceit
' ed, thinking„,themselv a the most religious
people inAk world. - And one of the most
trYitig &Sin - Fes:in onr work, is the fact that
frequently they will dnzit every thing we
say, and think tliemse yes Very good ehris--
tians, because they think as we do! Some
times menwho canno read a word. - and are
shockingly — ignorant, will 'attempt teSilence
us, thinking that bee use we do not • *knew
Arabic we„dO not kri w anything, • Our pa.
tience is thus often p t to the:. test,• but we
try to treat every 'bo y as well,. as..though
they were our brethr n, for it is - lhe grace pi'.
God and no will of our own which' has made
the difference :betWeen us and • them. • Chari-•
ty; gentleness, meekness and forbearance are
,eminently necessary '..iere, andi feel constant
ly the need of Divine strength:and assistance.
'The Missionary Work is•precions, and a glo
rious privilege, yet it sifts' the character and
is full or temptation. " - •
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The Condition oft e children is sad indeed.
The bOys" grow up istupid ignorance. .Re
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cently the Greeks ave establisheda boys'
school here in whie they make use of text
books from our issioh. Press ; and, the
school will do.good as it' will train up a-gen
eration of retulers • bich are eminently need
ed in this dirk land. .T 4 great majority of
the people here can of read a word, and this
school for bows onl , embraces a few .:of the
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Wealthier Mass, l wing the great:Mass in
ignorance. The li the girls arc treated as if
- they . ',ltad no souls. ' When you speak to the
people about a sch el for onus, the iaea is
1 simply ridiculous *, their' es - timatimi., . I de
t not think there iiii Arab woman in:Syria,
i north of Beirut, 'v o can read, except a very
i l
few in Tripoli w o tan _read: a little. Of
course they have o apprehension .Of divinethings.. They do of know what faith is.--i•
There is-no afeetio among theni. They ate.
rude, coarse, Ki icinate r and_ yet you_ can '
judge froth 1 that they are. capable
of Being em. ful. We hope to es
tablish a sell! is and thus open the
doors for th -anion of females here.
No one can fronianY description
their degrad. ' It saddens one's
heart to think
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a,violent rai
ble. phenom..
The river !Kali
time in the .
oOlor of blood, t'f
which abounds IJ
Of the mountain
celebrated in thf
Adorils,.betwei
ascribes the cob
youth Adonis,
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MO TROSE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14,1856.
- doubt note] shall
in the woods in
to describe that
He smiled and
on jith.
ass every Sabbath
of the young men
le afternoon. We
it awl diseess yani.
fl 3 well as we can
IYou have no concep-
r oiritual blindness. of
word for eOnselenee
S'6.eral words are
Meant by it, but no
/ 15 I become acquaint
10 nut winder. No
Let on other than set
ay of the people can
re are doing
, pr only object is to
it on Thursday we had
thieb was a remarks-
is season of the year.
higher' than_ at any
the Niater . was of the
otrt the red oxyd of iron
II• the mountains. The color
streams of Lebanon has been
- mythic story of the River
and Beirut, which
, r -to the blood of the fair
• by a wild boar oix lit
taxi itrimortalited ft . in
Paradise. Lost..(p)ok.l. line 446.)
Where the -riveriningles with the sea, there_
was a rod river extending far out into the
bine -Mediterranean, the outline of which
was distinctly marked for two or three days.
The rain cooled the air perceptibly, and on
this, the second day of June, I do not think
the heat greater than in America last June.
The mercury is at about 72 deg. in the shade
from morning till night But the climate
is not subject to'sudden clumges of temper
ature, and the -only-objection is the contin
uance of a moderitte equable heat,which gives
no invigoration to the system.
- Yours, in Christ,
,HSKRIt HARRIS Si:BBUP.
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For Me I,depeackrit Rrimaietta:
~ -; .- - frheinstra Wailes.
•Tnottsolc Aug. 3,,1850.
gimantilizPrrBunatc:-1 have been in
tendiag for some time to write you informa
thin' abOut the politi cal ' prospects here. Al
though Thoinson has always given a large
Democratic majority, we think you can safe
ly reckon on a liandsommajority for Fre
stiont and Dayton. The honest Democrats
are falling into our ranks, with joyful hearts
proclaiming that the Repnblican .platform
contains the true Democratic principles.
,4!:h 1 the 19th ttit,, who should wear but
Frederick Augustus of Susquehanna, riding
through our Town • and announcing.-to his
- Hunker friends thy, there would be a 'Dem
.ocratie' meeting beta .at the Corners thateve
'cling—very ttrefui, however, to do it oh the
sly ; bUt not belng very well posted ; he came
in contact with one of his Detnueratic friends
who hadco e out for Freedom and (IFre
mont, an who notified a few of the Fremont
boys, w
\ o turned out. I. accidentally hap
pened that way. At dusk there might have.
been seen at the corner of the old tavern, a
bout a dozen Fremont boys, divided in
groups, quietly 41j:4-cussing the topics of the,
day, while on the opposite corner there stood.
one...lone Hunker, leaning against a hitching
post;an' d 'waiting fortis comrades. Present
ly the Susquehanna orator mode his' appear
ance, accomranied by two others front the
same place, fresh fur the contest. As soon
as they gut around theold-hitching-pdst, F.
A. 'lit' tipoit our Postmaster.' Says be, "Un
tie Jonas, I understand that you have desert
ed the Democratic ranks." "No" says uncle
Jonas, " I am just as•good a Democrat as ev
er I was.' I stand on .a Democratic
_platform."
"1 am glad to hear it," says F. A.;'" give us
your hand, uncle Joins.: "Yes," - responded
a dozenolees, "you can find plentX4f such
Democrats-in this Town as uncle hitai." I
laaw that uncle Jonas was likely tobe,enough
for him, Otarnedlo.-see how hisatiVitanta'
were getting along. . There were two more
groups entertained by them. Says one of
them, -"If the niggers were liberated, our
pNperty! would not be safe, for they would
steal it all." He was politely informed that,
whether true or not, that had nothing to do
with the_present issue---thatpe had better in
form himself what the issues before the peo
ple were before‘he attempted to instruct oth
ers. ' I. then passed on to the next. He was
•blowing horribly. . He told them that Fre
mont was a Catholic. ' Give your authori
'ty,' says One. ' Why,' says he, ' kcan prove
it by' three Catholic priests.' '.
Shortly after, . - others came strolling up,
and it was proposed to adjourn to the School
House, hut a suggestion to get a room in the
tavern met with more favor, and one was ob
tained accordingly. A President r eof the meet
ing eras .chosen, who stated that the object
was to form a 'Democratic ' organization.—
He then introduced' F., ) A., who addressed
the meeting long and earnestly. It. would
lie useless to comment on such absurdities as
he held forth. A stranger present would
have had reason to say we had a story-teller
for a speaker and fools for an audiehee, if we
had believed his humbugs. For a sample, I
will give one or two of his assertions. He
said that Slavery never had existed hi Kan
sas and never could eist there, that there is
Lnut a slave in Kansas at the. present time—
that the black Republicans were q oaking all
- this outcry out of nothing—and tWat it was `1
i the Free State men who were in fault. He'
wound up by saying that if he had made any
misstatements he stood ready to be corrected,
and you may be assured that he got:correct
ed, but he! sloped' as soon as possible; and
has not been heard of in these parts since.
The meeting contained 10 'Hunkers, meta
ding the speakers, and 12'Republicans.
ONE WHO WAS THESE.
In announcing Buchanan's nomination, the
Buffalo Republic thus correctly and' justly
Daguerreotypes his Vosition :
He approved of the petty display of ad-
Ministrations] dignity and of the national dis
grace incurred by the bombardment of Grey
town ; he sanctions the armed Invasion and
subjugation of Kansas by the ruffians of the
border counties of Missouri, and Upholds their
total,destruction of the-elective franchise; he
approves, unhesitatingly, of the robberies,
murders, and arsons without number, cont•
mitted upon the people of Kansas by the res
idents of Missouri and South Carolina. In
short, Mr. Buchanan Is pledged to favorlhat
line of policy which converts the Missouri
river into a receptacle fur printing presses,
the Streets of Lawrence into a desert, and
the Senate Clamber into a slaughter- house—
not forgetting in his haste to sustain piracy
in the Gulf of Mexico while withholding ap
propriations:for the suffering commerce upon
our Western Lakes.
Tha issue no less distinct with Buchan•
an theifit bave been with Pierpe.—
And his success will be a verdict of spproval
of the whole catalogue of outrages which has
rendered Pierce's AdipinistAtion tinfontons.
igisceli qq eot t s.
For the Republican.
Acrostic Rally.
Join thequadrons now that rally • •
To the rescue of the' Brave
On the Plains of Kim bleeding: •
Fly, your countrymen to sate. '
Hordes of miscreants these are prowling,
Like a lank 146ns:brood;
iterthent Freetuen'ograves reopening -
Panting still for freemen's blood.'
Can the. North he still divided,
Listless; Idle / while,;ite see
Freedom's ensign draining, trailing
In the dust-0 can it belo—
Rouse ye, every-one--tic Freemen:
Strike the blow; your country-811n1„„
Ere it be too late--thPil:o„''6r
We may weepn'ettPeedtims,grarvo •
Meetohen, meet the Proud oppre t sw
And his minions at;the polls;
Or if need be, sterner 4 weanothi .
For the aggressor and his tools. .
Never fear the frownS of nabobs,
Rich es Croesus though they he ;
Turn aside for no man's *wishes : '
"Stand erect,, be strong, be Freel
Tunkbannock July 1856. , lota Arair.
FM
The Kansas Troubles.
The Fre© State Convention that assembled
at Topeka, on the Fourth of July, promulgat
ed the following declaration : •
' We the peopte.of KanSas, in mass Conven
tion assembled, id - favor of preserving forever
.the freedom 'of the Territory and State, and
the total exclusion of are institution of Sta.
very, - do herein` distinctly state our position
and our cause, that our telly* citizens in the
North and the South,'at the East and the
West, as well as the governtnent of the Uni
ted States, may rightly appreciate mir mo
tives-and.our c,o uct
„First We. do - suleinply declare before
God and our fellow n we haVe asked
no more than an impartia ote—a' free vote
tm the part of the citizensuf this Territory,—
whether Slavery should or should not - be es
tublished in this Territury. •
Sruoritt: We do most solemnly declare to
. the world that our Territorial elections -Lsve
been iitvaded and controlled by thOse who
have no residence. nor; interest in Kinsas.
Third i That armed bands 'from the slave
holding States have swarmed into our Terri
tory, been received ,by government osiers,
armed with gOvernment nrins,and, unmolest
ed by any regularly:constituted authorities,
have searched, sfieked and binned (stir 13WeII
irgF, hruke ' and destroyed our presses, and,
without nti latiihorifV, have invaded the ,gine
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tity'of the owes 'a.our citizens, and fired
:upon, Tobbed and .mobbed -them by., force,
wheat ver their lawless passions directed. - •
That' our towns' now 'Swarm with these:.
reckless desperadoes who, under .the very
eyes of the government officials, stalk among
free;,;eitizens armed to the teeth with bowie
knife and revolver. ' 'That the governmer.t
officers, on the one -breed, invite and receive
and arm and 'encourage the hirelings of the
-slaVe power as the"- swarm into our Territo
!rf ;vrhile an the other hand, not government
!officials nor government . troops, but these
same hireling marauder's, take it upon them
selves, Unmolested ; 'to stop the ingress into
our Territory- of peaceable emigrants from
the, Free 'States, who, they have reason to
believe; Sympathiie oath the down-trodden
and opptessed people of Kansas. - ,
We now *call upen
,the government of the
_Unit.ed-States to respect the rights of the ma
jority in. Kansas, as . well . as . the views* and
:Ambitions designs a Southern slaveholders,
and politicians; and ;should we fail in this we:
will then appeal to the freemen of the nation.
for aid and support; and, relying. upon. Al
mighty God and the justice of our cause, will,
take up arms in our own defense, and sol
emnly pledging ourselves to-each other,
that '
so long as a freeman standseteet upon the soil
of Kansas, we will never yield though_ the ,
sliveluilders of the south should deluge .our I
fair land with their, living tides.
We deprecate alike the evil influence of
fanaticism, in whatever party or in' whatever
section it may be exhibited. .We do - not
'seek t 9 interfere with the institution of Sla
very in any of the States where it now ex
ists.; and, above all, we do not design than
people of the Btates where it does exist
shall interfere with the people 'of Kansas iii'
the decision which 'they have made of thg
;great question whether they will or not es
tablish Slavery in this State. ~ --: • -
We proclaim tea all the world that we,havti
all the elements' of a great and ptiwerful
State. Our hills , abound- witheoal and miner
als;. our climate is all, that could be desired;
and here we have all the elements of a happy
home of- freemen:
, .
That in thus inviting all partiei to join us; •
we make no religious_ or political tests, but I
we call upon all - the citizens of our common
country, withoutdistinetion to party or creed,
Whether native or foreign bairn, who desire
to • see freedom of speeeh, freedom of the I
press, and free institutions established in our I
Tetritory•andState, to unite with us in this I
great and holy Work..
~ . .
. That. we will adhere to and plantain our:.
present Constittition and State government
'until .the majority of the
,people of Kansas I
shall determine:Otherwise. ..: •. : . I
That having ;hitherto invariably acted ' in
accordance with, the' spirit of. the American
Constitution, and having franied, by our dele
gates,. regularly elected, a StateCo)istition,
and believing .that the only nteastife. by
which piace can be secured to this•seetion of
our Republic, and justice done to ourseiVes
and posterity, is the immediate admis„Vion of
Kansas into the: Union, under our present
Constitution, We earnestly . call upen our
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friends in the tietionai-louse of Represent
atives to stop all supplies, until the Senate
and Executive are aOsnpelled. to admit us.
Resolved, - That Goir',.--tharles' G. W.
Diettler, G.' W. Brown, .1: Oenkins, G. 'Robinson, W: Smith,
John Brown, jr.,' and ,- W; ILl:Williams, and others,
have our deepest:
.sympathiewas martyrs of - liberty;
that we are still Convinced of the justice of ti cause
In which they Rafter, and that we are ready to Stiffer.
With theta.. - i . •.. ./
;
We further declare that there Isnot now, nor has
there ever been; any organized-armed body of Free
State inert to resist the • execution-of .the laws: that
there never has existed any disposition other. than to
Submit to all legal requirements, and at alt dynes .to
demean ourselves as 'to ed citizens, and =order-lov
ing cOmmunity.i , , .-- 1
. 1
Now, Therefartylltai the foregoing sentiments;
dui y be.dillkupe*abitad, as the principles upon which'
we act. be it -
-Resolves% net ibis declaration he printedand a l
copy thereof be forwarded CO the President of the(
United States, 'to each leetrihei of the Renate sn4
lloaie of Repreeentsdiee, - to tbe Goversom'et . the
soma &dee, *A the vedette peewee dm:m*lmnd 11l
coanter- - 1
IFRAIER 8e StyllTH,,Pti'lq_AS.H.ts-.740,
The following presinble. and resolutions
were also Offered and aucepted:
NiThcreas,l The govenment of the Un* States is
a government of the people; and wharesic.the - laws
of our government hare wisely - provided ample means
of removing from office any person holding office un
der the law,of the United States who hadteen guilty
of
any tialsdemearter tar any malpmetice intiffier; and:
whereas Judge Lecompte has been guilty of high
misdemeanor in office, its Judge of the - First Judicial
District of Kansas Territory, such is ought not to be .
suffered bp( a free people: tberefors
Resolved; That.this mass meeting of the people of
Kansas Territory appoint it committee of five tis draw
up a ineinotial to the Rouse of Representatives of the
United States well authenticated by affidavits, charg
'ing the said Judge Lecompte.with high misdemean
ors in (ace, and, r iequest that the Rouse of Repre
sentatives prefer,articies of impeachment to . the Iron
erable the ;Senate Of Abe United States against the
said Judge Lecompte, for_his . rernov , al;fro in office as.
Judge of the Fir st Judicial District of : the Territory
efunam
• Resolved, That a Committee, of five be'appointed
to'collect ineans !and to constructs passable wagon- .
toad'frorn liebraslutSity to• some available 'riot on
the Rivas for the, purpose of arranging and
eapedititig,theitni - rel of emigrants into the State of
Kansas: •
. .
/L. 'FREMONT'S RELIGION.
t FROM I:IRUTAIOVRRNOR RAYMOND OF
xtw YORK. .
Tuesday,August 5, 1856. ,
The . following letter from . Lieut.-Governor.
Raymond of New York, 'on the subject of
Col. Fremones religion, appears in the Cin
cinnati Gazette of this morning:, , -
NZw-Yonst, Tuesday, t July 29, 1856.
1117 pRAR SIR.: Your favor of thO3st inst.
ought to have been answered long' ago, but
absence; and business must, plead my excuse:,
1 am ':not surprised to hear that the rumors
-so widely circulated concerning Colonel Fre-\
mont's religion should have the effect of catir.
ing some, who synipitliize thoroughly with
his sentiments, in regard to the extension of
Slavery, 'to . hesitate about pledging them
selves to - his support. But so far as those'
rumor assert, or imply, that he is a Rornan
Catholic, they 'are without thetslightest faun,
dation in fact.
I prJesume that, from proper motives of
delicacy and self-respect, Col..FretnOntlvlll
not PlA:dish anYthing himself on the subject,
or take any part personally in the canvass.
But he converses with the utmost freedom
upon these topics, as upon all others; he has
no desire or disposition to practice any con
cealment of his religioes opinions; and I have
no reason. to suppose that he would desire'
others to do so 'on his behalf.
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, Col': Frement isiot now, nor has be:ever
been, is Roman Catholic. His father dying
When file was live years old, he was educated
exeluSiv.-tip in Protestant-schools, and at the
age or sixteen was confirmed, of his own - me -
.
Lion an , d from sincere conviction, in the Prot
estant Episeopal.Cburcb, of which be has con
tinued ever sinee.to be a member. Not one
Of hi S owe children has ever , been sent to a
Roman Catholic school, though 1 believe- an
adopted daughter attended for
. a short' time
the seminary at Georgetown, of which the pii
,pils generally are Protestant.
_That
this ought not to be construed to his pejo
dice,even.-hy the most zealous ProteStants,
:-is su ciently - shown by the factthat Mr. Fill.
mor sent his own daughter to aßornan-Cath
- oliteminary at .Buffalo for' purposes of spa
vial ;instruction;
. yet no one ever inferred,
fro ra this circumstance that ha Iginself was
not a Protestant. .
Colonel Fremones' marriage was celebra- 1
ted by a Catholic priest; but this was in con-'
•
sequ l ence of the difficulty if not,impossibility
of procuring any other clergyman to perform
it. .!The Ceremony, was in a:- private room,
wasi very ' short and simple,, and did not, im- '
ply !any assent on his part or that pf his wife
to . the doctrines . of the Roman Catholic.
Church ; nor 'was 'either of them . required . or
requested on that . oceaSion. to give any pledg-
es that their children should be, brotight up
in that faith. They' have air been baptized
and' educated ii the Protestant .Episcopal
Chtireli. • .' _ '
The statements which Alderman Fulmer'
oflihis city
. Is . said to have authorized,' - to the
efliiet that in -March, 1852, he saw Ca-Fre ;
mont joining in:.-the religious services 'of ii -
R.Oman Catholic Church at
. Washhigton, and
-that in a subsequent conversation with' him
at dinner at Brown'altotel, -Col Fretuont de
clared himself a CathOlie and' a - believer 'in
the peculiar doctrines of that Church, are en
tirely untrue. ' .- ' . .
#oi. Fremont was 'not in tbe city of Wash
in,,lit.On at all during the year 1852. ' He left
'New York for Califiirnia in March,- - 1850.-=-=
. Ho returned in. - the steamer' George- Law,
which reached New... York the -6th of. Marcl .
1852; and, rerpaini4 in that city four days,
he left on the 10th, in the stmt.; iner Africa, tor
Eiirope,ood did not returi6 until Jnne,.1853..
1 Mid erstand - that •Alderfriari Fulmer exhibits
a receipt from . Brown'Olotel dated March
1852, for, four . day hoard. This makes it
certain that the Aid:erman's stay there terrai
n ate . o on the 7.th, and thatithe'alleged eenver.
1
sations must' have taken' place -previons to
.that-date. But as Col: Fiietnont did not reach
qew-York from California until the 6th, it is
implassible that - he
. should have been connect:
ell with - them; eSpecially,ashe remained in
islew York: until his departure TUr Europe,
and did no'i visit Washington ac s All. He.has
no recollediim of :having ever - dined. at
Irown's ` Hotel until this last Winter, since
41, or of having ever seen Alderman - Ful.
ter, - there or elsewhere; The Alderman, 1.
iim informed,' is a. Man who would not be
likely to make such statements unlesibe be-,
!.ired them' :to be true. But it is very eer-.
in ihat he has fallen into a very gross error
f coinehow---probably by mistaking some oth
er Person with whom he may have -held the
conversation in question for Cot Fvernont.--!
He owes it to his own character well as to
justice to takty-iteps to-confirm ckr correct the'
!accuracy otitis recollections ill tills smatter.
Yon may' rely upon the entire.autbenticity
of the statements i have thus made 4 reply
to your inquiry for the facts.. '; hi the present
,state of the public mind, and in, view of the
earnest and persevering misrepresentations
of the truth ; you may think it desirable that
they should be generally known. • if so„ . you
are quite at liberty to mike thempublicoind
to add that they are given as .the result , of
conversations-with COI. Fremont himself:
lam very- truly .yours, - ' ' -
1-liiiavV; RAYMONTx• .
itarl=Ctieitinati Titnes,‘ Fi !more or.
gan, suggests there will he a. fusion in the '
Electoral college , of the Buchanan and flll.
ntoreelectort to defeat Froftont, the South
agreeing to go as aounit for either Bechanan
or Fillmore, whichever can get .the west
rte. , its thy North.
1111
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KURT WAY AM'
WIZ LATTAII CAILIII WWI TO SPE4 01
Mr. C. Colton, the efthißlograi
of Henry Clay,‘recentl,y etd4retsea &AGMS
our, readers Lave seen, in, the editor'' of-
New York Times confirming our`state -
that the twe, paragraphs intim, Biograph
alive to Mr. .Buchanitn't l'apprinehing -
Clay in Mr:Labeller's room, in January 1
to offer Mr. Clay the Seeritttryship of S
tor, his suPPX't of Gen, Jackson, were w '
by Mr. Clay's own hand.; Mr. Colter
ther statesiin his note. to tite r /lies, that,
Clay, on feriiithing 'hint. ` hose pages fo
Biography, appended to them a note aeq
ing him to apply:to gov. reacher for fu
intiomation on the same subject,; and he!
that he did accordingly apply to Gov -
Leteher but found his lie ild l a llary a pi
of silence given to Mr.
We say, with the Tinies t 'that me,.!:-
I
now have Gov. I.,etcher's;evidenw in f
Mr. 'Buchanan must fall Wore the i
his position in refusing teallow it. ' Mr.
has appealed to it„and the injustieedo
'by M.r. 'Buchanan -erica tut frOni the
for Goe.'Letcher to he permitted to " s
The truth of his history deman&s it:
old friend of the sainted patriot will de
it. And we trust the :American peopl 4 j
demand it. Let - Gov. Ifetcher Speak *
ei j
the -deep damnation, of! the _seal put .
his lips be p ro claimed tn . the world. j
to Henry Clay calls aloud from his gra
this revelation. Thereit enough, ind
the - record • of history, whitit /dr. C.
to be made, to show on -which side, ar
whom, the bargain was proposed r-bi
finger of' a depeased patriot ) ,and he the,
est, the purer and and most nutgrianimi
the age in ; whieWhe lived, points to a 1
tion-on this very subject yet unmade,
1 tice to his name and sfeme demands
I
should be made. ' ''; -
If Mr. Buchanan has 'any friends! l I
entertain the slightest respect for hint
willing to see justice rendereirto 'the
and mighty dead, let diem at once un
the rest of the peoplelof- the courtr
mending, peremptorily and sternly,
at once authorize Governor
,lAiteher
a statement of the file* whichthat g'
stands pledged not to Make without ' , is COD
oent. Henry Clay wanted , those fa -. stated
in his lifetime, for the vindication of kis foul
ky.slandered fame, and Gov. Letch r, as is
proved by Mr. BucharaWs own baud applied',
to Mr. B. fur permission to state t.O broth
but that guilty man, at is proved b his nwr..
hand, withheld such permission, an. - insisted'
that the old pledge " of tilente,should lie rigid- •
ly kept. If Mr. Buchanan now, with the
whole Sag Nicbt press at Iris back, dives to` ‘;
Meet the truth face to ' L fitce, if he d -- to let. '
the world know what his conduct. AS OEM
the memorable °cession whiCh ga e rise to,
that dreadful charge against the : taste and
best man of all our lend, a cha thatiras
influenced the political destinies of •ur coun
try ever since, let hint, abandoning the mise
-1 ruble and skulking cowardice of ,is Present
position, stand "`upand ' • hid ,Go . Letter
speak. Then the world,whatever -it may
say of him,-vrill never call him co arcie b ealn.
na l te
Ile .will strongly remind us of Aj defying _
the thunderbolt. Will he let Go .- Letcher,
do justice to the dead Clay by a s rnentof
the truth ? If not, who, of all true and
honorable and just Men of the entry, yin'
be, guilty of the degradation-of supporting'
him for the Presidency? • t - '
And whilst Mr. Buchanan is gi ing his con..
sent that Governor Leteher *ball speak out,-
let him, if he dares, ewe his con tin inoth;
er matter. During the lifetime Mr-- Clay ;` `
a writer of high responsibility an authority,' -
,i
atter publishing the statement gi‘ en by - Mr.
Clay in Colton's Biography, said - .
"To add further testimony w state—and'
let it be denied if it; all- - that 1 r. Clay has
now in hispossession a leiter- *filth, if pub
lished to' the world, reorditplace - Fr..Buchan-,
D S )
an in an embarrassint-condition- le letter
came from Mr. Bit au; and ,n cal on Mr.-
Clay will induce iliteto give it , save one .
from his poumpy-- hat is, the emote of the
United States. 'The bargain an sake con:
! spijaki; with this expose, . woul place Mr.
' Buchanan 'Without the pale of mocracy, W 5
totally t unworthy_ the place he ' . . ids and the
suritages of the People.' . ,
.t .
We and many others heard 31 , Clay speak
of this letter of Mr, Buchanan, - filch he had - -
in his possession. And now Jet Mr. 13uchari
an, who aspires to ;that lofty , . ikon: whksh,
he prevented Timmy Clay from ttsining, the
Presidency of -the United Stet , signify un
der his own head ;or through authorized
friend, his'consent Abet any let .r of his own,
to Mr. Clay upon the subject o bargain and
corruption shall be given at once to the
world. We -are not quite . fain that the
letter is still in !existence. 'crssibly Mr. 1
Clay, whose resoir was that= it should not
be published, unless with the 0 sent of Mr.
Buchanan, or at the call of the - enate of the
United States, ordered it upon his death bed
'to be destroyed ; but we shout , not be at alt ,
surprised if the formal cionsen of - Mr. Bu
chanan
to its publication were o effect a sud
den, remarkable, and most astou nding devel-
opment. At any rate , if nee! development
t e
_should follow, Mr. Buchanan" would sustain
no damage from "ving his ant, but, on
the contrary, poled be veryesse ntially ben.
, e fi tted. ' I' - -
! Then, lets just world, with line voice, do
! mend of James Buchanae. candidate for thA
ttl.,
'Presidency of the United Sta ' to authorize
the Hon. Robert P. Letehe to make that
statement: of facts which Henry Clay sought
I
to obtain from MC :L. throw ' h-Mr. Colton,
and let it also-demand 'of h m to authorize
tho publication Of his own let er to hfr. Clay,
j ,
which the great statesman so ften said to his
friends he would-never puhli. li nett's at Mr.
Buchanan's content or at his country's call.
And, if Mr. Buchanan bhall roe* these de
mends of a jusb world„ , then et t a, just world.
set the seal of its scorn uponi i. s nam e forever t
. .
An old nue w ig Silver gre
caster, Mame usettkreall
Egis, always onndueted wit
has come out % I ► irror of Fa
Tax, arid . -Teeorianieas =that
whiga should.:lpport theta.
The Lewis arn Gazette,
Peonsylyama, 'heretofore a
has taken do Its Fillmo •
out for FREIIO T and DAT
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