Ili MI . - Ch ARLES F'. READ ,& H. H. FRA4IER ;1ED1.116R15. 7., ':'eg_i))ll4li9,l):.Bovig'.. 1 - f 1 il -. — 7 - , . Ant—Cam me Back, dx. .6 II ' • • . r. , 'ln 11.141sw,eet embrace of offices fat l've worked for many a day, . liakinT among the treasury beds, to inc- it was but . pl*Y 1 - -- • And white the Fedt, remained in power I worked as ~1 , hard 88 I gi could, , 1 . -But when they, •ew weak, and offices failed, I he ,ltame a Democrat good. . " - -• 4 ,10 carry me back" to-Pelmsylvania to Pennsyl at:• v 'is's s h ore ` - , 1 .11 . ~,,nd leave me there for the ve st of my days-- 1 I'll ne'er . aee the White House door. I 1- .. 1- If I was only young again rit different lead fferent lir,, I'd sure my honor and sell it not, and haste to get a i wife ; - 1 ° 'But now old age it holds me fast, and lam barelor • , . poor, ..Thentcarry me back to my Wheatland House, for I'll ,• °!I ne'er ope the White House door. . 1 ;1 "" 0 carry me back," &o. The Homesick CandidaW .i . .Ah ...len rlbe dead, and in my grave, and what ac v count shall I make; - 1 Of alginimisdeedi and base intrigues, performed for Si office's sake— - • . . , Thelflin sweet repose May me down, since times 1 have changed so s 4 Thel4arry me back up m _Wheatland House, and give Fxtswowr the r.. t,) 1 . I 1 'lO carry me back" to ennsylvania, to Permsyl el; 1 vania's shore,. - _ And leave MC there to end my days, while Pas ; 110151 has the floo r. ; . T-SS S H 3'oj~f~c IjisceS~arjj. 'a,PESIISYLVAILt POLIIICI3. . ,' .' • lianntsnutto, Sept...l9, 1856. -Th - ei Antecedents • of - Pennsylvania, on the '..S . aziery . Question --The Policy nit Late -6 of the' Democratic Party-Oppnsition of ..... Euchanan; For,ney ,cf Co., to the Wishis of', 13[e People—Avalanche for Fronont.• • - • , .Siin'cithe excitement of this. campaign has tiro fight - forward all of the old politicians wh se fosiil remains have for..-a Yong, time bee laid upon the shelves to . dry,-; - . ehave 1 1 con i lt d i , d as eli tnts ' spend th n eie d som mm et r i ree Me ted am t n i g it s i t c : i t a h n : -cc( rds of this commonwealth, 'and see `if I. , 1 d !not- there' find' deeds recorded that show 'die glaring • inconsistency of the legate democracy, as well as add interest' ,te campaign. • ! , :..• --- a. .fter spending three days amongst: the nals 'and archives of the:State, tracing'up formes.. land marks laiedown by the 'do.. - racy, rhave succeeded in.bringing before pap, ;of this . s la ta w te s a 6 n n d t r h es at o , tici of slavery, which: show -- conclusively tha this new school Pierce; FornPy ,aitd 'ltu- ed theformer watchwords 'of .the dempc- all absorbing h t i l n la cr, t g c u ' e m s --: 1 rhb, lin party. have departed from all - the 1 I lair marks and test words laid down by their 1 . 1 predecessors ; that they have abandoned the ! :. po ition Of the. founders of: their party, and ' are _now following' false gods. - I have. been abl ,- to bring forward facts which shoW that ' Wh t once constituted a good democrat 'in Pennsylvania; would now be sufficient evi- - 1 i.,-iiieliu for Frank Pierce and hia Kansas - Judge to 'indict -tthern foreeason. Even. Massa . f!.hitsetta has not egoailed the democrats of . this State in their denunciation of ,the insti- • tution of slavery. .. . -' : ! • . , Notwithstanding these facts and. recordia, titat do Rot lie, the modern democracy would ha,-e us believe that they are following in 'I • the footsteps of their illustrious predecessors; ! . ' and that they have net departed one iotal - from the principles ;laid down by the foutid-', ' - ers of their Party. • , .. . he rebord shows that the democrats of f 4l s State once looked upon the,',institution " o lavery. as the,greatest curse ever, inflicted , I, upon.a nation, and-a stain Rion , the Ameri 7 6m name ;. and that they considered it the first duty of Congress to abOlish slavery in .- the District of Columbia, as livell is to pre vent any new-Territory from :' being Parsed with it. 'That policy -the democrats :of this State pursued •up to the•admikistration of . "Bigler," when it appears that a new, vision came over their dreams; and they have found it to be their duty to-become nigger -drivers. Well may we exclaim, "'Upon whose should ets has the mantle of the ancient dernocracy. • fa,llen r But to the facts, as the records re veal to Us':--L ' ' • ‘ - . . In Afar* 1780, the Legislature of thiS • State passed an act for the gradual emanci pation4of slaves in, the State-, making all e , persons born . in the State, whether negro or -1 nlatto, after the passage of that act free at • i t e age of maturity. , After the. lapse, of a w years it was found that many of the fea . rq-of that law Were easily evaded; and 1 t atilt was necessary for the accomplishment orthr - eir object, as well as for the protection Ofthsew 'slaves remaining in servitnde,that there should be ftrrtherlegislation upon, the subject _ Accordingly; in March, :1788, the Legislature passed an ! act to — ex:plain. and amend the act of 1780.' In the affiendinetif pissed 1788, 'they declared that '-.all _slakes' brought into the State, by persons-intendinct to reside therein, should be free. 'Also OA_ i .::persons that were held as slavei Tor: a! terra! 'of years under‘khe old act, should not be re ' An' ove...dtrenn the'State, ;making it a seVere . . Ai--; 'penalty on those who sent the slaves out of •• t- the State; -also fineable-for separating man . and wife., Those, with' a nuMber !of, other amendments, passed both, houses,and became 'laws.- Those acts gradually- paved. the way for subsequent legislation upon the subject, which, by referring to, we shall - seehOw . the , ! demoeracy looked upon 'the institution of slaverY. - , . . ~ - .•!• Akenually petitions were sent to :theLeg , . . islature upon the .subjeet of slavery, but no .: ~ action was taken as the institution outside of the limits' of the State until 1807, *hen the : following paseed . the Legislature :-s- , ‘LPILONIBTTING.TiIIi-DIPORTA'rIO27 plr 8 131. • AVE53." . • ' "'Resolved,' - That our Senators ha the Con; . i grass of the United States be instructed and I the :representative of this State :' in Congress l be. earnestly - requerited; to use legal and eon ! . stitutional measures and - their utmost exert 1 tions to_pixthibit the importation of slaves in ' r 3 to the United States from an y q uarter of the ~. I. globe. 7. - • . • . . 111 i''d the in i the Again, 1808, another supplement of the act of 1788 was• passed, still keeping the .subjeit before the Legislature, and all the thrie, bn*parties seemed - to .vie with each other to see which, would do the most to wardi removing the evil from out land, the ! slemeeratis always availing themselves Of ev ery opportunity of denouncing the insttso : ton of 'slavery in ntunereiful teems; . . _ - IMINIMIMMINIIMIL , • -'" . t . t . , , "Nrio: ~. - . . . . • . 'Nun ~e' . • . .i'' . ' I " „.. • . ' . , • ..' . , , , . . . ... . . .. , . . , . . ..- ‘ ,-. - t- . -----' 1- ' .- . "'-', , . . -.' -; :. • '. ' - ' . ...-..:-- .. . , ‘ ~ 1 -; ' - 7. -'' : .. . -'• „.--, . . t .. ' • .. . . .. 2'. t , .. . _ 4 . . , : . , . .. .. .. • , . •.: .. ‘ : . 4 . . . ,_. . ~. .. . .. .• • .• .. : . • :-4... -, . . . . . . . . • . . . .. . . .. ...- . .. . , .. .. . ... , . . ~. . . . . . . . . • -.- . . . • - IPPEEDON -A v ci , ROONT LAC ai a4VILLIVEGiU.:Ar i D. WROAOc3 99 . . i . . Next we come to the message of Governor Snyder upon the subject. . Let alldemocrats read. • On Dec. 11, 1811, GoYernor S., twice elected by the democratic party to that pos4 ition in this state, sent in his Message to the Legislature, and .used the colhwing . language regarding slavery :-H- - . --.....1. . . ," . Elevated as . aher (Pennsylvania) char acter4y for hum t, - -there is' yet permitted to ?remain one othe stain_on the otherwise fair andhenign features Of her policy• \ : . The - gal-. hng. , yoke of slaveryls still felt by some , . of our fellciw creatures in different parts of this Comonwealth, and 'the. pressure is made -more sev* by witnessing the happiness and freedom or:4urrounding multitudes. A i -re cent act ofiertielty Which carne under my ob , -, servation, and whichlawikene,d feelings. - of, a painful anCdistressing nature, will I trust excuse the intrusion:to your notice of a snb jeer .so . Very interesting to the- whole human family,and embracing facts and practieek pal pably inconsistent with the tenor, and spirit of that fundainental,and immutably law and -reason "that l ,Ll ll Wien are horn free ' and equal. ' , , . . . . . A joint conimittee was appointed to take under cc isideratioothat portion of the Goy: ernor's-messaggi That committee reported a hill ,to' amendlkoact of 1787, to abolish slavery 'hi the State, whieli.like scores of otlf .,er hills pa.s..fed the first and Second reading, and" there. dropped without any further ac tion. - 1 • The subject was,brought before the Legis lature in 1815 and 1816, bu ° _,t without any decisive - action. Yet all that;was done had the same tendency as former'acts, 'ln 1819 re-solutions passed .both branches of the Legislature and received the sanction- Of the Governor, William Findlay, demo-. erat. The resolaliona are of decisive char acter, expresSing what the members of the Legislature considered-the sentiment of the people of Pennsylvania regarding the intro , . duction . of slavery; into new territory. AS timse resolutions appl i y well to the issues 'of the present campaign it will be well for the' democrats, who are' toasting of their consis tency, to read and ponder upon them. The resolution& passed both houses without a dis senting voice. They passed the lower house on-the 16th day 'of December ' and the Sen ate on the 20th, and received the approval of the Giwernor .the 22d_ of the same month in the year 1819: .Amongst these that voted for the r.esolu tions 1 see the name of Williath Wilkins, of Pittsburg, one, of those that have been recent ly resurrected and become a' Union saver; but tere they are to speak for themselves : . -" The Senate and . House of Represents- - . .. tives of the Coirnon*ealth of Pennsylvania, whilst they cherish the right of the -indiiiidw , al States to express their opiniims '-upon all public measures proposed in the Congress of the Union, are aware that itsusefulness must . in a - great' degree depend upen the discretion with which it is exercised.. They believethat the right ought not to - be resorted to tupoi trival subjects „or 'unimportant occasion's ; • 'hut.they- are also-Tersuilded-', that there are ' moments "where the neglect to eXeteise it I.would be a derelietion' of public duty. , • " Such• - an• occasion as, in - • their judment, demands, the frank expression of , the Senti- . timenta Of Pennsylvania, ,is -.now , iresented. A measure,iwas ardently snpporto in the last Congress of the United States, and will probably be as earnestly, urged' during the existing session of that body, which-has, a palpable', tendency to impair ithel political ,re- lations of the several States,;.which is atleu kited to, mar the social happiness of the pres- 1 ent and future generations, which if adopted . would .. rnpede, the march of humanity and freedo Airi - Sighout the world, and would affix au _Perpate-an odicnis stain npori the present race-- meastire, inbrief,.,which pie poses -to sp ad ;. the crimes and ern- • elties of starer') from. the banks of the, Miss issippi to the sh es of the 'iPacific. When l it, measures of this c erecter are seriously ,ad vacated in the republican Ccingress of Amer , ica, in . the nineteenth .Zentnril the several States are invoked, by .the duty which they ' c.-' to 'the, Deity, by the veneration ,Which they entertain foe the memory of the found .ers of the republic, and by a tender regard for Onsterity, tO.protest against. its adoption, . to tetuse'to covenant with crime, and to lim it the. range"of evil that already,hangs in aw futbodingoVer so large a portion of the Un ion., ' .- i ", Nor can such a - protestbe entered by any State with greater propriety:thani by Penn sylvania. This commonwealth h. sas sacred ly respected the rights of other States as. it . has been careful of its.own;. it has. been ,the invariable alp of the people'of Pennsylvania to extend to the universe, by their example, the unadultered blessing of civil. and religious freedom it is their pride'. that they have been at all times the practiCal advocates of those iMprovements and charities amongst men which are so well calculated to enable Alieni to answer the purpose of their Creator; and, above all, they may boast that they were foremost in removing; the pollution of slavery from amongst then 3. ‘!lf, indeed, the measures against which Penn&vania ,considers it licr: duty to raise her voice, were calculated to abridge'any of the rights guaranteed to the several States odious as shivery"is--it was proposed to hasten its extinction by'l means injurious to the States upou wnich it was unhappily entailt; Pennsylitania would be, amongst the first tolnsist upon a sacredlobseiTance of the constitutional compact ; but it cannot be pre tended"that the-rights of any of th 4 States' are at all affected by refusing to extend _the mischiefs of huMan bondage over, boundless regions of the West--a territory which form ed no part-of the eon&deraticin at the adop tion of the constitution, which has been but lately: purchaied from a European power by -the people of the Union at huge, which may or may not be admitted arca State into the Union at the:discretion of Congress, which must establish a republican form of gOVern-; rnent, and no other, and Whose climate af fords none of the pretext;:urged for resort- Ing to, the, labor of natives ;of the torrid zone Territory httitt&right inherent or acqu#•ed such as *Se! States 'possessed which established the ' exiling constitution. When that oonstititioa snit pIPASed, in Sep tember, seventeen hundred and eighty seven, the concession that threetftlug of the *Lives i in the States then evistin eked - be repre sented in Clnrien,-entditiot have. been in., te4ided to embrace region at that time held: by a foreign Powei l ; on the 'contrary, s 9; imurk•us were the Cengros of that. day_ ta' mat* Jouguai bond* , iritlim its amt, MONTROSE, THVRSDAT . I. OCTOBER. 1.6,.A8 home, that on the. 18th ,of July, 1787, that body . fl,anitnoursly de lared that slavery of. involuntsiy .ould-mot exist in the TerritOries bounded 11y the Ohio, the Missiisippi, Canada and the lakes; and in the .ninth section of the first artieleoftbe con stitUtionliself, the power . i , lACongress to pro hibit the - linigration of servile.- persons after the year 1808 is expressly ; recognized, nor is 'there to be found in the statute booksasing le instance Of the admission of -a Territory . to the rank of a. State, . m which Congress have not adhered to the rights vested in them by the constitution, to stipulate with the Ter ritory upon the conditions of - such admis sion, "The Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, therefore, cannot but dep, reente any departuie from the humane and enlightened policy pursue], not'only by the illustrious Congress of 1187, but, by their successors, without any exception ; they are persuaded that, to open tl e -fertile \ regions of the WeSt to n servile rac' would tendto in crease their numbers bey aid all past exam pleovnidd open a newan, steady market for lawless venders of hum as flesh, and 'would renderjall. seliemes-for oh iterating this most r, foul blOt upon the Ameri character use, ~ a less and unavailing: :.- ' _ Under these convictit Suasion that upon this to opinion - in Pennsylvania, I "Resolved, by the Sen of Represen tadues of: the I Pennsylvania, That the : i reset:tat:lves of thiS State! the United States, be,. an requested to :vote againsl any Territory as a State. less the . further introduce' voluntary servitude, exec ment of crime whereoftl been convicted, shall be 1 •childreh born-within the its admission into the Un be free, but may be.held age of twenty-five years. "Resolved, that the G hereby requested to.caus going preamble and resol 1 mitted, &C." ' Again ; on the Btl.l of I ehruary, 1822, the Legislature had under consideration the sub jest of buying and selling slaves, and :adopt ed.lthe following,. which received, the sigma tuire of Gov. Heister :—. - 1 . ," Whereas, some of our sister States have been in the practise of bu l ing and selling-their, fellow creatures Of the frican race, and in the prosecution of this in qiiitons traffic of hu man..flesh Many of thepeople of.color have . lien torn from their nea est and dearest con nections - in life bound i.n chains,,and driven' through.2this - State lilieldrovcs of cattle to some one of the slavcholOing - States, there to he doomed to drag-out;liii bondage, a weary existence, subjected to 'the tyranny and ca pricious cruelty of their masters; and • " Whereas, the buying and selling or trad ing in human . flesh is not only a direct viola tion of the-Divine law, but is at variance with eVery• principle 'of leer free institutions, and revolting to the feelingsand humanity of otir citizens; and -•.- . • • ',i Whereas, the objeq, of all good govern= meet is to protect' every' man in the enjoy ment of his life and • lib rty—thereforei - ".Resolved That the ' udiciary Committee be instructed - to tnquir into.the expediency 'of reporting a bill prohibittng the transports-- lion :of any slaves. houn in chains'or other wise, through this. State or any part of it." In 182Gihrough the rrccommendation Of a democratic Governor, (J. A. Shultz,) the Legislature passed a law to prevent kidnap- • ping;'and in 1827 resolutions were 'again re ported in both houses, instructing the- Con gresmen to do all ix thin their power to abolish the stain of slay ry from - the land.— In' 1828. the democratsf the State out •Her .]:, odeil Herod. • They : ad sore misgivings about slavery in - the, istrict, Hear them. The following is a potion of The preamble and ';resolutions adopted by the Legislature Of 1828,,with a democratitl majority, and signed by Governor Shultze, d'ernoerat: .: • . • That the existence Of slavery in.' the Dist rict lof Columbia—wit tin a territory over which Congress have exclusive jurisdiction— is a gain Upon our mime and charocter as a, free people, no citizen of. Pennylvania win' presume to deny—the fir-t; to proclaim free dont to the slave.. - While the congre.ss of i the United States declare it piracy, and pun. ish With death those fund engaged 'in the slave Ira., and While they.carry on n,egotia tioAts.-with other gOvert orients to adopt a tini o - - vsal system inure eff etually to abolish this t l inhtiman traffic; it, seems inconsistent with such profession to .sanction slavery where they have not only ,the right, but power, to abolish it. The natural and civic rights. of the enslaved are the same, whether he be held in bondage on' tile land or water,. on board a slave ship '. eta hysical distinction a. or i i n the tenement of his' master; an)l ,, the meta bout human rights, *I Mt sanction the latter, while it punishes with' death _the former, is ii.more in accordance ith the expedience of despotic governments] than the undisguised principles 'of. republi . institutions. It is true under existing I ws the master has a' . prOperty in. his slave, f which he ought not. I T to be deprived without compensation,' nor would yOur committe recommend an inter- ' ference -with the mode or rnann . er of abolition, but 'leave the adoptio of a plan to effectuate it .to the wisdom of • egress: • - %\.." Your committee - re aware - of the difli Odes which surrou d this subject, of the deep interest which i experienced, and the strong and poWerful icitement . felt by our SOuthern brethren wen even distant allusion., is Made to the abolit of slavery. We do not desire to ,awakenbitter feelin,gs,• or to arouse sectional jealousies but as the legisla tors of a State which has abolished slavery, and which view with - apprehension the _in creasing danger. incident to such a state, of things we regard it as a duty we owe to the Citizens of • this commonwealth to. express 'Ertitly yet respectfully, our deteitation of thie odious feature of ' ur general government. ~ "Be if:resolved b the Senate and House .1 ) :of Repreaehtetives, f the Commonwealth of rennsylver f it4 in netal Assembly .. met, that it he'earnestl recommended to the Senators and Itep . • .ntatives of this State in the Cong , of the nited States to use their efforts titalsomplish the Abolition of slavery in this - District of . iumbia, in such 'a man ner al they may ider consistent with the rights. Of i individual and".the constitution of the United. States." Sikh ii the Wei ' . Keystone State took of the aubjed of SlaVery in the . District of COltimbia in stronler grounds against slaitery than the republican party • to:day_ dare take.— Need it be wondered that such Men as Siinon Cameron, .DaVid Wildtot,. Judge Kelly, - and that deka of Democrats leave the party *hen they desert the issues of the thunders, and Of , those who rocked the cradle of the party i n its infancy, and go and swallow the Kansas iniquities; and turnto nigger driving I But we are not done.with them. yet : we have one or tWo more pills thr,:them to swallow. Iti DeeeMber :1836 . , Gov. Ritner, in hiS annual . message after re(erris - the Legislature to the action of f or 6 , -"essaith-- - "Opposition to slavery at home, opposi tion to the admission intti the Union of new slaveholdMg States, and oppositiOn to slave ry in the District of Columbia, the very hearth and domestic bode of the' national honor, have ei et- been and are the cherished tioetrities of our State ; let us, fellow-citizens, stand by and mattitain them,. unshrinkingly and fearlessly, while, we 'admit and acrupu . l o usly ' respect the c institutionel rights of other Sakes on this Momentous . subject; let us ant either by fear or .intere st he driven men aught of Ihat. spirit of Ind epondeuce and 'veneration for freediun: which has. ever char ' aeterited our beloved eA,iittioUi wealth." 1(1E, anti in full pu le there is but one he it hto and the House Coitlmonuealth of 4.enators and Rep the Congress of t they are hereby, the adtnision of tltta the Union un ion of slay er) ,or in- A for the punish e party•shall have • roldbited.; 'and all - id Territory after i-rn sas . a State shall to service,until the rsl ye or be, -and is a copy of the fbre ution to bo trans- i the 4i:society . of 414 sessinti Lit the tJegi,lattire. res olutbMs iieryEeceived fr;nn North and 1 8 , intil Orobit'a, Peifrgia,• Alabahia, Virginia, Ken,: tucky coMplaining about, the in(uticx.iinee of the 'Noiitiern States, which mere referred ter 'the.' 4udie,iary Cmntnittee, who, after mature deliboratioti, reported a. • " That the slaveholding States alone basie the.right to regulate and control dotnestic'shi iiery. - "That - Con,gress does possess the.constitu- Ilonal power, and it is expedient, to abolish. slavery and the slave-trade within the Din trict of Columbia." Another avowal - similar to that of 1828. This has been the unanimous feeling. of the Legislature 'on the subject; •no opposition A i has ben made to that position ; .all of the mereers of every legisl'atur ' e in which that subje ,:t, has been brought up have coincided. i 'in file, views on that question. • In , 47, the subject; of giving fugitives the right' iitrial by jury was discussed, but no positive action was taken , on the eubject.— No act of• importance , was taken until • 1848, when the fill wing .passeci both houses, and receiyed the 4proval 'ot Fiancis R. Shunt:, who was the pride of the democratic party, and was considered by them.one of their mod- el men : " Whereas, the existing 'war with Mexico may result in acquisition of new territory to the Union ; and whereas; measures are now pending in Congress, having in view the ap propriation of money; and the conferring au thority. upon ,the treaty 'making' power, to this end—therefore, • " Resolved, by thr: Senate and House of Representatives in the CommOnwealth of Pennsylvania, in General_ Assembly met, that our Senator A and". Representatives . in' Congress lie requested .• to vote against any measure whatever, by, which .territory will accrue to the Union, unless': as - a part of the fUnlainental law upon which any compact or treaty for this purpose is 'based, slavery or involuntary servitude,:except fur crime, shall be forever prohibited" • Duringthe - same aessioitof the I; ? lislature an act passed to prevent kidnapping, and to. pfeserVe public• peace, which received the appr6val of:,the model democrat,. Gov. Shunk, of which the flowing are sections six and seven : •. '; • " Sec. 6. It shall not balawful to use any jailor. prison of thiS Commonwealth - for the detention of any 'perSon claimed, as a ftigitive from t ervitiide or labor, - exeept in eases where jurisdiction may „lawfully be taken..by any Judge under the provisions of this act; and, any jailor or keeper of any prison, or other person, who shall : offend against the provis ions of this .seetiori, shall, on conviction there of, pay a fine of live hundred dollars ; one-half 'thereof for the useof the commonwealth; and other half to the persons who- prosecute, and shrill, moreover, thenceforth be removed - from office, and be incapable of holding such, office of jailor or keeper of a prison at any time du : Hilo- his natural life., • - FSec. 7. That so much of the' act of •the General A ssenibly,.'entitled "An act fin- the radual aholitiun.of slavery","- passed the first day of March - The thousand 'seven hundred and eiOit v, ate authorizes the masters or own, era of slaves to bring and retain such . slaves . within t h e. . comitionwealth,"for the period of six months. in itivoluntary . - servitude, or far. any period - of time. Whatstoever,- and so much .1 If the saiktact as,preventS a Ftlav - e • from giv-. ing testimony against any per's'on whatsoever, be, and the saine'is.hereby'repealed." This is the consolation that the -southeill democracy' have got from their , . brethren iii Pennsylvaniakrefusal. by them of thelise . of the jails for the purpose of detaining tines. Again : The Senate In 1849 passed the Aol lowing, by a vote of 30 to 2, relatiVe to ;isle, very in California: . ' • • - • " Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be instructed and our representatives reques ted to vote, at all: times and -under all cir cumstances, in favor of extending the princi;. pies of the ordinance of sereateen hundred and eighty-seven to- the newly acquired Ter ritories." Amongst the yeas are the names of J. Por ter Brawley, one of the delegates to the Cin cinnati Conventbn, and Maxwell"' MeCasiii, an ardent supporter of the Cincinnati 'plat forin. These ate the men slip never chimge their political iirinciples ! BUt let us see what William Bigler thought on the subject of slavery at his inauguration as Governor,' Speaking of the `subject in his inaugural ad dress, he used the following language s :7 . "She (Peansylvania) will maintain and execute, in letter and spirit, the several ad- justment meaSurea, as passed by the late Con gress on thepubject of slavery. She regards these measures as a permanent settlement cf the dangerois geographical conflict, and will discotmtensice, to the full extent of her influ-. enee, all attempts of future agitation of the question reuled by them," :,. .. That isi,tbe .view entertained by Senator Bigler, JOuery 20, 1852; but he like the ae l ) balance the crew, took -passage on beard the craft, f popular sovereignty, as sate as Doug) and Pierce launched the , ship,end is now fn . favor of Introducing slavery . ; into Kansasfit the point Of the bonet '-; he has beam, .. of waiting : for Congress to-lag- , . islate it there, but tales the fillibtistering, ' 1 platform, arid gags it,tri • ers, border ruffians and all. .11ut still he .the 'tier changes his prin ciples—oh, no—on,the a.ne platfortp ! . * -In 1854, resoluti ons eased the Senate de-, nouncing the repeal'bf he Missenri'boinprO= . Intse. Amongst those het voted forLthe res olutions was Senator pi it,„ dem-weal. Speak er at the last - sesilon o the Sintate. ' Thdse resolutions failed to p s the i llouse r - •Thi4 is . the,first time on teef i rd wqen resolutions denunciatory o f slaver or instructing The Congrestunen to vote 'just the.ex4nsioti.of slavery . , but. what they •ere . paSsedisand most of the time Withotit an - opPositlon. •• I),lring the Session last-winter esolutions 'to instrt the Congressmen' were 'rought up, but vote.i .di.yn on the, plea 'that t was 'to parC of the business that they Wet sent: to; the LegiNla ttirc fur; -but not a. vi - ?rd . was aid by the speakers against the d • rifle Of votir..„' , ; against the extension of slaver ~ , r Such is ,the record o .Perinsylyth subject. of slavery, whi .h clearly; pr' the democratic party=f this :tatled. by Forney, Iclueha an and ' .oth t l abandoned all , the landmarks . laid' the founders Of their 'party; ls, it r then, that the northern and western of the . State—the very hicalities 1 unterrilitCd always polled heavy mt are now going with p i rfeet avalani peoples candidate, 'Col. 'Fremont? this, they - are but din ing-to.their fished principles .wh ; e as . the fo the Pierce, Jets: Davis and For ne; following new and fat s , gods. It Pennsylvania holds trite to t.l . that, she has always taken on' t question.- she will not fail of routi dq, ruffian nigger'.driving party, littehanan and Forney, in Nove horse, foot, and dragotrn Reasons .for Supporl. The following arti Henry C. Carey, Esq for acting with the 11.] reasons will receive t o sideration of reasons L—Becauseit. is i I aria . opposed. club , gress, and to horde! Kansas. . 11—Because it is i .• opposed to the polic i with the prod uetsof 1 our own workmen, tj are : unemployed, I f , IIL--Becatise it is opposed to the syste oligarchs, owners of direction of the iwlic 1V. 7 -13ccauseit i desir es .that the vast' braskay'suflicient to ' as Pennsylvania. -sh i the free men of their children. , VI.—B ecauselt d ties of the citizen, a the doctrine of cons, tempts' by means of Ment, and chrrnpt j version.. • . Vll.:—Reeause it. tions_by means of t the advoe.ates of sla ver l and the bowie V 111.—Becaue it party whose leadin , _ ers that "slavery," the white, "is a 1 pedient institution,' .should . seek, " not it is, but to extend unknown." IX.—Bc.eause, inII tional property fron ry, it acts. in strict Ipp ciples of that great l hundred and eighty single exception. of ceived the _unaniinok has since been cone bearing the sig,natur Washington to . Pol, • X.---Becanse in free labor in Tans with that Compact beyond which slaw! ed,•and within wh fered with. • •Xl.—l3c4use it ti-sectional—L-hoklin as well as the Soul Should be equally Xll.—Because it of the . Ultioti—bei never threatened Ai: because of success ing election. • Xlll.—Because of all secessionists; of Mason and Di south of it. . XI V.--Because lows in the track e lution, all of its d free and slave lain 1 Washitigton,Jeffe of thP.South. XV.—Beeause . . tion as interprete JefferSon; Madi-, younger, Jackson ler, Polk, Taylor self, until the pas Nebraska,net.=-al . had full power fu tional territory;a its pleasure. XV Beams pudiating altoget embodied in the XVII.-13ecau party—ad vocatin that will cause to now sent akroad nance of the curt XV 11.—Beca ty—whokly opt, tion in the pOee tio a of the . free I shi've, is the rhea. .catnpete with tla . everywhere; ;an ofpour and dow from the degrad Which they are LL—Beeau tional and Islay . [brneasu reit tendin platitera.to ler Bgnker:}llll4" FRAZIER & PUI3LISHERS!:-.7-VOIA ,110. 6. ia. on the •oves•that . as now rs, have. down. by 1 wonder, portiOns vitere the ijorities— k•he-t6 the In doing old estab lowers of • party arc h e n P st t e l 4 the bor headed, by I mber next, aepublican ing the the pen of our reasons le is from Twenty- publican 43. cal m an( le,_reflectit favor of aw on the uffian law rtv. -rh e,se Lnnen. free speech ; floor of Gm. on the soil of celibor, and favor or which fill reign : wo wivesl our makerts • i kshops, while and children, freemen, and vesto 60,000 paves, the sole untl7. Ifree soil, and ansa4 and Ne ye such States ivided among heir wives and n favor oil syhick hosts of of the c: in favor .laitts of tike twO titti be. country, • 1 once the Bar one opposed to easons and cou p' rrupt govern seek th eir sub- sires to d is there ructive tr which a dges, now' -ettle, all pes o; leaving to esires to • • e ballot ery the • jmiil laity with the ach their read, the black man seful and es therefore, they jetairi it where ns. Where it is las 110 organs tei hether fori .gitimate, and that, 1 crely to t to regi i seeking to protect the na the defil -ment of slave: laccerdance:with‘the-prin tordinance of seventeen y-seven, which, with the. One northertmember, re i's vote of ' ti,gress, and 1 rmed by acts Of Congress, e of every . President from * 1 . the cause of on accordance ich sets limits of be extend it to be inter- advocating •z, it acts in lof Peace w . ry !should. ch it was n tional and an orth has . rights those of ALL is purely n 1 g that the N th, and thal respected. temphati g the only i,ssolution of lor failure it Ally the party one that. has the connection, the. approach- 'red the hatied se living north ato those living it has incu as well tli xon's line 'IV which 61. Its of the revo. the Subject of lit^i§ the p f the . patri ',etrines on derived from r being tho Acin and oth r.2minent men t -stands b the Constitu by Washi gton, Adams, in Mourn, ' Adams the V l an-Buren Harrison , . Tv , and by Mr. Buchanan him inge of the in anfotif Kansas of them hell that Cmfgress • the - governinent or the na ‘d Might exclude slavery lit [ it is the peace party 7 re. lier the . highway man'si. plea II steno circular. it i the pound currency g the adoption of measures be retained it home the gold to be applie to .the mainte rney`of other countries. se it is the lligh wages par lewd to the il ea that 'redue -9 f human la bor, or the reduc lbor to the. Condition of , th e ure requir to enable ua, to pauper lab rers oFEurope. it is the.p rty of freedom = , ei )i ious to relive the millions ' trodden , whites of the South pg and debasing tyranny to • ow subjeetnd. holding that-freedora is na. c ' y sectional', it objects to all 1 - towards,enabling Southern the - roll of Agit', eltiven on XXL—BecaUae it is the party of sound morals— being opposed to the introduction of either Shivery or polygamy into the Ter ritories of the Union.. X.Xll..—BeCause it has for its chief stand ard-hearer, John C. Fremont,,a man of high intellect, ; spotless integrity, and unshrinking firmness; one fully worthy to be the succes sor of ashington, Ajams,, , JelrersoP, Madi• son and Jackson, in: the Presidential chair. • XXlll.—Because that standaid-bcarer is an advocate ` of "free labor ' , as " . the anta tal capital which constitutes the great wealth of, this great country, and creates that intelligent power in the• masses alone to be relied - on as the bulwark of free institutions.". XilV. - --Because in 'him' Ike have ligAN,. and nut a tnete..piv•slayary platfurm.. Frcm the Warsaw Bisneat!. An Address delivered before the Fremont Club; of Warsaw,lll•, Sept 18,1856, BY WM. H. RALSTON,' ESQ Mr. President and Fegoto•eitizens:— ~At the solicitation of numerous friends and old acquaintances, I will endeavor to describe to you some of the , scenes recently enacted in Kansas—accounts of which most of you have doubtlesi read; but it Was My misfortune to h e an observer and an eye-witness'of the per petration, of some of them—acts revolting alike to the feelings. as well as' he sober judg ment of all good men. . • I emigrated with my family to Kansas in June last,—landing at Leavenworth City on the 25th of that month. A few weeks.previ ous to that time, I had visited the Territory, with a view of seeking a home there. Being highly- e pleased with - the country, and believ ing that peace and quiet would soon be re stored, I' resolved to settle there at once, and with that view, purchased a elmfortable dwel- -- ling' house to sfielter my family. . . On my first visit I spent about ten days in the Territory, visiting from place to place, mixing strong the people of both parties-- wriis at beavenworth City, Lawrence,Lecornp ! ton and in some smaller places in the Terri tory, and at Kansas City and Westport in Missouri. In this visit f learned very'little of the true condition ,of affairs in Kansas., Both pertiee would tell , their story of suffer ings endured by them, andwrongs perpetra. ted be the other patty, and stranger would \ I most likely leave the Territory, entertain ing the views prompted by inclination, and he would thus return whence he came, giving his expose of Kansas affairs, favoring the position held by his party. . i I did - the s,atne thing myself and'was hon est in my conclusions, and it was not Until after I had, remained there for some Weeks . that the enormity of the outrages perpetrated in Kansas took hold of my mind and con science, I was born , and raised to near man-1 hood in the Sttite of Kentucky,-and have ever supported the Democratic party, aud was, when I went to Kansas. a supporter of the Ad ministration. ' It may not be surprising, then, that I should have been reluetantto believe the story -of oppression and wrong to which that portion of the citizens of . Kansas known as the Free State party or people had been - {`subjected.. subjected. Outrage heaped upon outrage, and the flies being sustained by evidence it.: resistible, followed by repeated acts ofoppres sion in all their naked deformity overwhelm ed me with astonishment: f It has been repotted ' in Kansas by some of the friends of Douglas and Richardson in that 1 region, that it was .the understandig at the time 'of the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill that " Kansas should 'at all ham* be madea slave, State." If it is true that such an understanding existed with the leaders of the. Administration, I do not believe that either Col. Richardson or judge'Douglas ever: informed the peitple of Illinois of the' fact-- I But the course pnrsued by the Administra tion favors the conclusion that such pledges were made, and. that they are now and have ..been endeavoring. to carry them out. Ii been admitted e by reasonalife men of both parties,' with whom I have conversed, that a very arge majority of the actual . zens of Kansas are Free State men, and that such was the' case at the time of the election of the Territorial leeislature. Yet the fact has gone forth to the world, 'that their elec tions have been controlled and carried by an armed invasion'from the State of Missouri.,— Their i nved'ers' far exceeding in qumbers the whole, of the actual voters of Kansas, and they come with banners flying as an army_ of con quest-,,with cannon, muskets and' bayonets, revolvers and long knives', with ammunition and provision for the occasion. Thus on tliey came over-riding every obstacle to their com plete triumph. 'Judges and , clerks of the election who had the audacity to refuse, their votes, were forcibly displaced—thrust out of the w indow, and their own men installed in I their stead. Thus have the liberties of 'the people of •Kansas been ruthlessly snatched from them and it is'-against such wrongs as these and others equally unjust that the Free State people of the territory complain. The time was whet the Democracy of the whole country raised their almost united 'voice against the truth of these shin ,s—and they were denounced as "abolition lies." But 1 truth,..irresistiblp 'cud conclusive, has already riveted these facts upon the pages of the his. tory of our country; and it seems to me that no man can now he found who has the least regard for truth, that will venture a - denial of them. - . It cannot be detfied, but that almost the whole horde ofgovernmeat officials and em ployees in Kansas, have exerted their whole energies to engraft slavery upon Kansas, and to this end-they, have not scrupled in the least to prostitute the office and position they hold as a means to' crush out the spirit of freedom , that bad been transplanted , within itsborders,- and thus carry . out the Will of their ' masters lit Washington. , On my way to} Kansas., I first heard of the destruction of the Hotel and the Printing • presses at Lawrenee, and.that they' had been in obedience to . a mandate of a United States Judge. , —abated at nuisances--and that too without the owners having an opportunity to be heard in . defence of their property.. lay first Itupulsa induced tne to deny the truth of this report, and I could not believe it true that the public functionaries of our govern innt, -had the : temerity _thus, to tarnish the name of justice ;by the commission of such an outrage,until in conversation with Gov. Shan non, at l o ciotripton, he fully confirmed all-I. had heard', and in .addition, endorsed and ap., proVed otthe proCeedings. - - - .._ .. A test . ; is applied by the agents of govern ment In te ernpkiyment ofinen QM to per. form common 'labor, end that test itiqulret that the applicant'for Witirk; by Which he earn an honest livelihood,' Aid) fiivoislavert- , and apromise is enacted alai he Will votefini - it in Kansas. I witnessed the application cif , this test in am 'instance, by a government employee, who tiecesarity has to keep who' stantly employed, alarge numberof 'met, to enable bitn to perform his engagenttmtsfwifb the goirernment. — I was seateditilds'offii*-i. a young man mutely seekhig einploytnent4 —tiller some preliininktiy questions as lima whence he came ace.; he was informed hy-tho U. S. Governinenternployee "'that if he was in favor of •slavery, - and - would promise to vote for it in Kansas he would furnish him employment, otherwise his services werenot wanted. The young man, evidently undone tor employment, sought to evade "the ques tion without compromising his prlpcipleia . and said that it made no difference .4lutt might be his sentiments in regard to slavery,. as he was - not twenty-one and therefore` hsd no -- vOte ; this was not, however,.satitht:t" . , and the young man left, being thus found un-" ,worthy to drive government cattle, and too honest to forswear thOdietates of conscience. - [ mention these things to illustrate the ex tent -and manner in which these public fluse.r. tionaries and employees of the government, have exerted themselves to carryout the will of their masters at _Washitgtott,,imendeasior4. ing " establish slavery in Kansas at alI hazards." It is ,represented that some of the member Of the Territorial Legislature,' were at the time actual citizens of Missouri,- - -mm of them I know to,lutvc been, fromhis ovardee laration. ,In a conversation with hint he ad: mitted to be iii'substance, that he.was no!' then nor ever had been a citizen of the Terri: tort' ;1 he said he bad taken aclaim and spenir a portion of his time there; but his family- alt the while remained on hb4 farm in the State of Missouri. And thus, Missouri furnishes 5 portion of the legislators as , well as voters.= And a. legislature thus compOied and elected," made a large volume( of laws to govern the people 'of Kansai, and among diem erer hawk indicating the character of the then who Mile them— tyrannitialand opptetalviiimlaws 'abridg• big the freedom ofspeech, the freedoth of the 'press and .requirirtg obnoxious and unusual test oaths.. as a qualification to exerchie the elective franchise which were imposed upon , the people -withotit their ccuient. Citizens have heen repeatedly untratiredirr- cold blood, and otherviise toasted manner, without op. . 1 4\ pressed in aTmost every conceive%) rammer, without beingtherged with the co nt issimt of crim e;or the'rnolation of any inown Ear s but merely . beOusq they prefer freedom to i 'slavery. .-' • 1g • 1";_ ..,' .11 - The pro-slavenr - party at.Lettrenworth,had, about the , tithe lwent "to the - country, an or styled a vigilance coramitteareour posed of fifty men d by means of whichtber tried citizens for their political sentiments, and if not found: to be " be all right - odthe goose," - a decree of eapulsion was ~tniered against them, which they enforced atiltepoint of the bayonet,, with United 'States - arms.— And OA men of theiworat passions, armed -- With whiskey, and becOming desperate in their hopesOf permanently establishing slavery in . the territory, and upheld-by thegovernment, are led and enceuraged to the commission, with impunity., of all niannerof outrages up on innocent and unoliending persons.' These are some of the acts and proCeedingeorthe so- called law and - order -party. Their dem tion to law and order becoming a,dead leter, except so far as , they may be able to torture the la* to serve their rarme of engtsftin' g slavery upon Kansas. , • 'The Free State people of Kansas willcornt pare favorably with the' most intelligent ; so her aed.industrious communities of Illinois. wish .I Could say as much fiar the other citi zens frotwhio. i who have ' interfered in Kau- SB9 affairs. If they. had possessed the same spirit of justice and right, so prevalent among the Free State people, I most firmly believe the country would have been saved this ex. eitement--no ruthless mob Would bade-in vaded Kansas,' and stuffed her ballot es . with foreign votes. Many of those who have come to an untimely, end, and been murder, ed in the must. barbarous manner, would,still— live to cherish and comfort their families: all the rights of the - citizen, in the enjoyment of life, lil?erry and the pursuit of happiness, would be respected in Kansas. Leavenworth City has within its limits, 35 licensed liquor shops, where whisky is dealt out -profusely, and upon inquiry,. I learned that they were all, except three, kept by pm: slavery, men. A largeltnajority of the citi. zees of that place are Free State:new, yet I - have never seen one of them drunk, but not so with the others, at any hour of the day or ' night, ,men may be seen in ' tie' streets and clout those drinking houses,;_which are ' also gambling shops. It is et proverbial fact,- which I believe will hold throughout the ter- ritoty, that whenever you find free state men ? you find sober and industrious people - , but directly the reverse is generally true with the (ether party, so far as my observation bas extended. • •• ~ ' I - have witnessed , the most unjust and cruel treatment shown to emigrants frorn the Free States to Kansas, who eamiseby way of souri river. In one instance a boatlanded at Leavenworth city, hiving on biSard two com panies, one from the Southend the:other from the North, those froni'the South received a hearty 111COme on their arrival, bat hot so with those *am the North,—even after they. had been deprived Of their arms, by the search-- era below, they were not permitted to put their feet upon the goil, and among them was one who bad on board a steam engine and fixtures fora mill, but he was not permitted to land it. And another - company after' landing were ruthlessly"seized and detained as prisoners until the Whistle of a descending beat was heard, when they were matched to the laeding and forced aboard of the\holit like so many culprits, and then eat:tiled fps, tbe country at thepuint the bayonet. 4 This latter company was fe* Is.; and some of them it is understood Ara the_sons of prominent and wealthy citizens it the State. The ordinary endows) channel for emignit tion to.. Kansas has been Awl sabstantially and effectually - blockaded against eittfens from Free States, because they ate suspected of being abolitionists or. Free Mete # 1156 ,:i Is understood in Kansas to Moiwa eta mid.the - ems \ thing. These sets id' outrage,. to the common sense - of any henaw are the Proceedings of the so , celle d:o4 order party, and that is whet is eilihmeg th e law, and. it has beett't*temmiite& - tki man eisfroins to ad by withoritfeif the 136wirilor, AIM =
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