11 111•1 , , - I ~,I C. F - READ & H. H. F I. RAZIER, EDITOR S. ' • : • ' ;I 4 - P'oet's. EOll. IttenaucLa :—Please [apart the lid:II:410g beautiful liner Goon an Eastern paler, and !oldie an old subscriber: ' i! . " To Little Warren in Heaven." 0 Death and the Grave!—thou hast pass'd through their pokats,' I Thou hast trod the dark valley, whlth we lowa soon tread ; 1 . . 1 'Henceforward thy home is the land of Immortals, --11 dead; While we grope Our way 'mid the dying and dL__ Froni the cold sods that rest on thy tenantless bosom The rank grati will grow and the wild-tloirers will blossom ; The mosses will creep o'er thy dwelling ofelay, While the nations and ages are paSsing away • • -But thy spirit lives on,.freed from'sielmess and pain, And hereuller we'll clasp thee, our darling,l again! !Co more will thy smile add its light to the morning, Thy musical !voice will delight us no moret— We knew thou vast mortal, but heard not [the wen ing • , That told uslao soon would thy journey be o'er, • . , • The rooms that once echoed thy froli and !glee, And the seenes thou didet love, allremind Us of thee ; Thrgarments and_playthings—what thoughts. they recall! ••• How mournfidly silent the kitchenand _ We wait for thy footsteps, we list for thy sing, Any thy Sister has sighed for thy Coming se long Dear child, fare-thee-well, though j assured we shall meet thee , • When the clOse of our own brief probation s We must , mourn.for oar loss, 'till pettnitte thee, ; In the reahn thou bast re.aeled in our dear home. l - Though we joy that from anguish gad pal free, Our pathway islonely and sad Without thee; Though we know that thine.eye with strange rapture is beaming, We miss thee when Braking, we, miss thee when - dreaming; We miss thee at morn, and we mourn thee at eren, Dost thon think of us from thy new home iin 'leav en? K. i ti,seell4lNotp. For the Independent Rep AN OLD BACHELOR'S an; ":Nqd, there is one thing I shouk knotv,:und that is the why and the fore of yourgetting"married. Almost a con firmed bachelor as you were to thuS steal a march On 'IS all, and the 'first intim intrOuee one of the most. agi..eeahle I ever beheld, as your wife—faith, N proves as good tis she : is beautiful,. indeed a fortunate fell Ow. Where : find 'her? And how did you bea (painted? Come, now, give us the from beginning to end:" The above was addressed by one! companioes to the other, not, iri a gill ace of a city,. as stories generally go a comfortable 'firm house in One of tl ern counties 6f, Pennsylvania. 'I was surrounded by trees,; shrubbery, and flowers, a sure index of the character mid tastes of its occupantA .TO the north and west a beautiful grove of timber fl.otecteti the house from the too rude blasts of winter, while to the east and south ;extend cleared fields, dotted . here and theie with }Jude of cattle and flocks of sheep, and wavi g grain ripening for harvest. , 1 • But to my story. The' individu addres sed as Ned responded thus i Well; Charley, as you say, I W almost confirmed iik a bachelor, and my reasons fur not remaining so I will give you in as few words as possible. You kaow I went to the city on tusiness which detained me a num ber of days. One day, shortly after my ar-. rival, I was walking along One of the princl . ! pal streets, r4igardless of the numerous pas se.rshY, intent on reaching my boarding house; is the Weather wasi intensely • warm, wheriq overheard 'a young lady just in ad vance of me say to her , cOmpaniar, ' What would, I not give for a hotrie in the country, among the hills and valleya, the running wa-: ters, the green weeds, the ipfreshieg breezes and showers, the flowers ! scattered among the dew-bespangled grass--Where theatillness 'that reigns around ever reminds one of the life that is to come; whited here, in Ithisgreat, city, the bustle and noise seareely permit us to think of 'anything btit the present', So strange a remark from a Young lady 'hi that great city, and so .much in unison with my s t o own feelings', excited my curiosity see and know more of the speaker,. She.. n after entered a clothing store, and I folio ed,inak ing some inquiry with regard to ,iisue arti cle; the better to satisfy !my- cari osity and not,be suspected f-rudeness. I soon learned that... , 0 1 , ` was a seainstress, laboring for the proprietors of the store, Bl4 in perSonal ap pearance all that the most difficult Old bach elor could ask. , 'I Ziusi thought of all the young ladies I had , Or..tr seen, and felt tluit she was the only ' one tbat could induce me to change my' lot But how to, gain an introduction—how to get , acquainteo, was the question that puzzlhd me , :-.-shall Town it f—thegreater part Of the night, and was no . nearer being solvedin (immure ing. But, with not a soul, in that great city that Lknew, I was fully . resolved to get an introdiibtion in some way. , ' • day, I "In the course of the day, I we l ig to the store Where I had previously seen her, and asked ! the merchant if he could give me any information with regard to theyoung la dy who i was their, the day before, and whom I * described as well as I could. Re at first hesitated to inform me, asking guy *native fur making the inquiry. I assured him that my intentions were perfectly honoiabh; that from the yOung lady's personal . appearance, I was highlY prepossessed in her fi l nlor ; and that rwas a single man, well to do In the world at the same time giving him my name and address, Ilithen told me that her name \Vag - blary B—; thsthe tuul;been acquaint ed with her from her youth up; that shelves orphan, her only support her needle; and • -, • . -., .... •. . . • , . . . . • ••-• , . . . . , .• . . --, ..'1",5, , ,,, m,-.. , -,., :: . j. .1.R , • ~ . • - •i • --- :... • , . . . .. . . - • 1 . ' . . .k. • . . . '. .. . , . . . . , . ....-..,... '. . . + . ~ '... . 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I accidentally over heard you express a desire . for a home-in the country,, among its green fields and flowers. lam a single man. :My home is among the mountains and valleys, by the running wa ters and the wild woods. Will you be my' wife, and leave the noise of this great city; and - live with me in the peace - and quiet of my cottage borne? I will not now urge you to answer. Meditate: on it, ask your Heav enly Father to guide You aright ; t6-morrow evening, with your permission, I will call a gain to learn your answer. . " The next evening I called on Mary.— After a few minutes conversation, I asked her if she had made up her mind to be a farm er's wife, adding that from what I bad heard her say of a lifein the country, I tho't she could leave the city with few regrets.— She frankly replied, ' It is not regretsat leav ing the city, though 'always my home, that occupy .my thoughts ; it is the suddenness, I may say, strangeness,', of the proposal.. I, a poor girl, alone and friendless in the wide *odd, toiling day after day, and, before my poor mother died, often till late at night, for a Subsistence—to be sought as a farmer's wife fills me with distrust in my - abilities to, perform the duties that will devolve on me. have thought the matter over, asking the' -Father of the:fatherless to'guide me aright, and' (laying her hand lin mine, she added,) make 'me a loving and dutiful wife.' i come; to greet Saviour's thou, art Itilimn ,y. like to where- tion, to - "Need I say I was 7 .a i tisfied with her ans wer. My business would detain me a week .yet in the city, andlt Was' arranged that we should be married , the evening preilous to my departure for home; and, at .the time appointed, Mary, arrayed in white, :with no ornament save a single rose in her hair, met me at the door, and arm in arm we walked to the residence of Alderman Bogart, and were married.- - • women ~ if she on are id you : I ine ac- history of two I lded pal but in North e house "I have only to•ad&that Mary is as hap py. as a bird, and rambles over the fields and through the woody in iiue country style. As for myself; as you well remarked, I am: one of the happiest felloNVs - alive; mid my ad monition to you is, " Oro, and do likewi4e." Wyoming Co., Pa. . Mw**". The " Keystone State is known geograph ically as being one 'of the " Middle" or " Central" States of - our confederacy. Its position is between 49 deg. 43 min. and 42 deg. north latitiide, and between 74 dPg. and 80 deg. 40 , min. west longitude. , Its length is 307 miles, width 160, and contains 47,000 square miles. ThelAlleghany mountains cross the State from the south-wesf to north east, and there are also many smaller ranges on each side of the 'principal ridge running parallel with it. The , soil, throughout the State, is gene r fertile and much of it is of superior quality. Anthracite , coal fields are of immense extent. Iron ore exista in nearly every county, rind in the vicinity of Pittsburg—" the Smoky, City"—vast quan tities are manufactured. Beds of copper and lead exist, and quarries of marble and supe rior building stone ab ound. At the time of the last,census, in 1850,the; number ofacres of iMproved farm land in Pennsylvania' equallol 8,628,616; unim proved 6,294,728 ;—the cash value of these farms is placed. 'it $407,876,099 ; and`the' ,value of implements arid machinery at $l4,- 722,541. Ile Value of live stock, at same period, was $41,500,053. The principal ag ricultural production were wheat, of which 15,367,691 bushels reported ; Corn 19; 835,214; Oats 21,53/4,156 • Potatoes 5,980,- 732: The Dairy supplied 39,878,418 pounds of butter, and , 2,505,034 cheese. The value of the prodnels of thei. Orchard, and Garden was $1;412,103. There was 2,326,525 pounds of maple sugarr made in that year.— The value of home-made manufactures was $749,132; of slaughtered. animals $8,219; 84f3. The manufacturing linterestol ;elm. is ex tensive, the capital invested equallibg $9l, 463.210; and the value of the articles man ufactured $154,944,698. Of theystrious man ufactories, those of iron take the precedence as to' cost and value Of material turned out. There were 2,380 flouring and grist mills; 254 factories of wOolen, and 136 of cotton. The Educational establishments are numer ous. The colleges in ltsso contained 3,286 students. Of Academies there were 524, with 23,751 pupils ; schools 9,061,with 413,- 706 scholars. Libraries numbered 393,with 363,400 volumes. - The State has asylums for the blind, deaf; dumb and insane. ';„ The Government vested in a GOvernor Senate, and House ofEepresentatives. The Governor holds his office for three years.— The Senate hold offs% for the same and is - composed of 33 members. Repre sentatives are chosen annually, and the House consists of 100 members. All judicial offi cers are chosen by the people. - Judges of the Supreme .Court` chosen for 15years; -of the Court of Coup Pleas 10 ears;;y as sociate Judges 5 e ar s. b The Legislature meets-annually at • •uor g ion the first Tuesday in January. Pennsylvania was If rst settled .by Swedes end. Finns. William Penn obtained s_vant of it in 1681. The Constitution of the United States was adoptedin Deeember, 1787. The first Constitution aids) State was adopted in 176, the second . n 1790; the third and present one'in Iwhich latter was amend ed by givin4 the eleations of the judiciary to the people, in 1850. 4:4:044 14:i•V'it-11 if P - 6 F2REDON amp MO SEEVAST GIRLS vs. HAIM OIL. At the boarding house where Dave and his friends "put up" were a number of servant girls, and it is an . idiosyncrasy of servant girls to take their share of toilet articles, such as hair oils, perfumes, Stc., while they are reju venating the -apartments of the boarders.— Dave and his friend Roberts were very care ful of their respective toilets, and being in,' e courting way; had been paying extra attendee to peisonal adornment, for a long time. - They were in the habit of getting a pint of hair oil made up at the druggist's at onetime; and finally they were in the habit of finding that a pint of this costly hair oil wouldn't last a week, and that all the servant girls in the= house emitted e same perfume they did.— It was not lon before they came to a conclu sion in the m ter. ' So one evening, finding that-the hai oil cruise was nearly empty, they took the ttles which had contained it, and straightway wet to Matthew's drug store. There iras a whispered conversation with a laughing clerk, a mixing of various ar ticles in a pint bottle, and the following was marked on the prescription book as the Con tents : Of Lac Assaketida—(milk-of assafm tida which; for the 'information of our-readers we will state, is a high ly concentrated extract of that deli cious drugy—onhis • • 1 ounce. Of Liquid Potasse—a fluid slightly • celebrated for its corrosive powers, • having the property of taking the hair olFa dog in ten seconds..:`, - .. +ounce, Balm of Fir—the"stickieSt and gum miest article known 1 ounce. Honey ... • . • 1 ounce. Alcohol--to make these ingredients fluid 4- pint. This was well "shuck" and deposited iii the usual place occupied by the hair oil. The next Morning (Sunday) Dave and Bob dressed themselves for church, and traveled down stairs. But they came up another stairway in a few seconds, and secreted themselves in a room adjoining theirs, where, from a couple of panes of glass over the door, they could see everything that went on. tter the peo ple of the house had gone, two Or. three ser: want girls came into Bave's room. " Whist, Molly." says a large, red-headed one, " Misthur Dave has some more of the ile, and my hair's as dliry as powdher; let's • have a reglar, fix up wid de folks all away !" This was acceded to, and-they all went to oiling their locks, being very lavish with the fluid, which was : quite thin in consequence of the alcohol. • In a few moments red-head says: " Wirra,.what,shmells so !" with her nose .turned skyward. . =. "Sure it is the parfume," interrupted a short and dumpy specimen, NA ith her lair down her back. " Perfume, indade," says red-head, " that's not perfume, that's the real bad shmell." " Mebbe," says dumpy, "it's the Patch chew lee—(Patchouli,) I've ha-ard that Patch chew lee shmell dreadful at lust, a pershon must git used to the shmell before they likes it. Shure it's a perfume used by the quality." This satisfied red-head; and after a thur -ough " ihng " they left the room. In about two hours the boarders come home from church—" Good gracious, what is it ?" "Bless my soul, Mr. G.,,1 shallfaint. Oh! my dear, there must be an unclean animal in the room!" and a thousand other expressions were heard, as the boarders got a sniff at the Patch-chew lee as they entered the house. l'be master andmistress of the house were puzzled, con fourided, indignant, and in vain endeavored to discover the "smell." -At dinner time there were not half a dozen boarders at the table, and those that 'were there were rapidly thinking Of backing out, as the three girls who were ".iling" were attending on .them. Finally dinner was given up, and with doors and windows opened, the inmates alternately froze and sufrwated. The day was a dire . one to them, but it wore away some way. At night the farce girls attempted to comb their hair. The 'alcohol had evaporated, leav ing the balsam ) of fir and honey, and they might as well have attempted to comb a bun dle of shingles. At the very firm!, dash that red-head made her comb caught, and through the influence of the potasse at the roofs, the mass of front hair came off' the side of red head's cranium, which she discovered with a yell that would have rendered a cannibal en vious. The same result attended, the rest of , the hair, with the exception of enough to do ,up as a scalp lock to ornament with feathers. The two other girls met the sathe fate, and about ten o'clock that night they might have been seen wrapping up their lost "Patebehew ' lee" locks in pieces of paper. The next morning they were informed by the mistress that she did not desire to em ploy bald-headed servant girls, and with their " " they departed in almost a scalped condition. The discovery of Daye and Bob's connection with the transaction was not known till lately, but their toilet articles have been as sacred from touch as the tomb at Palestine. Mosat.—When - boarding, see that the ser vant girls are attended to in the . way of toi let articles. Goose Sroaixs.—There is a fOolish and pernicious practice with some people, of rela ting stories to youth children, to excite alarm and terror.., _ If it was only foolish or unrea sonable, it might not justly call forth strong expressions of censure. Yet, even in such case, the practice had better be discontinued and condemned as quite improper. Stories to arouse curiosity and excite inquiry, if the subjects tend to utility, are certainly proper and commendable: But the common tales of Blue Beard and giants, .of ghosts and spec tres, are extremely injurious in their influ ence and effects. Unfounded and absurd no tions are received, that serve only to terrify, and which even by correct knowledge after wards received, cannot be entirely subdeed or eradicated. It is in vain to reason against them, or to oppose to them the knowledge derived from natural philosophy and the sci ences. We have known men of great !earn ing, who were unable to get rid of early but unreasonable fears, produced in childhood by the stories of nurses or illiterite parents; and who are always under their anhappy influence, ;hough their sober judgment told them they were fictitious.. Let children be taught that the great Creator has impressed laws on all things, which operate uniformly ; and they are iR safety, when they behave well and have a 'reverence for that great and good Being.— They should be taught that ghosts and appa- Titions are wholly fanciful ; that all the spec `tres they need guard against , are guilty fiars, and if they are virtuous, theAc will never haunt them, nor ever exist. MONTROSE, V AstßaKel ;ILLVWIER'IT- R.RIDi 1R7G200 RIM2?-- I : I.IURSDA Y;TAPRIL .: 30, 1.857 Fee the hidependesit Rdpublieust. PREEDONS APPEAL • at ttstri.oesti. . • Kansas! land of martyred b*, Land wheie kindred spirits stood And battled slavery's dainning tide, ' .; That swept her fields and ptiniries wide,' Where murdered Dow aniPoleman tell, Defending soil they loved t4o well, ' Where ravished maidens kftelt In prayer, With features blanched ant) streaming hair, And wept, in piteous tonal to hear, O'er wrongs too deep for Duman ear, t And widowed ones—bereft--alone, Sad inmates of their lonell homes Such the crimes 'of deepenit, dye, The hellish deeds of Slavery, That seeks with deadly urr-coil To plant itself upon free toil. • Must this be berne by.N4thern men, Nurtured by the land of Dean? Never. Revenge, the maiden cries ; / Revenge„, the dying patriit sighs. Ronse then, ye renns,ylvanians all; • Reed ye not their earnest call ° Would ye not have Kansas free?! • Or given up to Slavery? :t; / • ~ Rouse ye, then, and swear to stand By Kansas' tivolf little ban / d, Who seek to make our Dition great By building up a near/free State. E'en now, a dark, i'midniot . cloud Hangs o'er her lil(e a fun4ral shroud, And from its depths a voice cries, "sage Our birthright; from one common grave." Great Fre,..4lom's God! lend us thine aid To wield/the swift aveniiiig•blade, And let_our rallying war.try, be K. • s mast and aha2l 11.4; frie. • PETER CARMRIGHT. Ir. Cartwright was one waited on by a thy clergyman of another church who lee. 11 him for his,alleged ignorance . of Greek Hebrew. - And pray sir, who informed you," said Mr Cartwright, "that ( was unacquainted wit the Greek and liebrew, languages'?" Well;. I do not remember that I have been tol• so by any one, but. presumed it was so, as ethodist , preachers generally, I believe, are without classic educaiion." Ah, well sir, you should not.tiike,things on resumption, without! , having very good gr s therefor,. especially in, so grave a che fie as that which you . have just, uttered nst ine. You, I suppose, understand these lan wages?" the . ' 1 Yes, I profess to know .something of • . " Well,lor . aught I know I have as good` igl t to doubt your knowledge of Greek and k 'rev; as you have to 611 in question my ailitance with them. Allow me, sir, to . ex Me you concerning your 'knowledge of the! Greek." Then taking up from the table i ch by ! • hich he was seated a hook about the size of ! Testament, opening 4 and appearing to re therefrom, be uttered a- few words in Du ,of which he had Oittle smattering, and continued. " Will you be good enough to nslate into English' that verse from the la Gr ek of the Gospel of St; 'John 1" • . Indeed, sir," replied' the clergyman, a lit tle ! mbarrassed at the unexpected turn. to the cont-ersation," my time haii been so much oc cuped for many yeari with- professional du ties, . that . I have had no tine to look into the Gre l ek Testament, and haie probably got a little rusty in the language;" • (Very probable. Well, I suppose we must excuse you, as : l knot!, something of the labiirious nature of the pastoral office. But doubtless you have been More careful in pre seriing your- knowledge of:the Ilelirew;" and tale ! ng up and opening another about as large as : bible he continued, "slid if you- please, sir,ll,will thank you to tianslate a passage fro". the Hebrew Pentatetteh,? uttering :m -oth r sentence in Dutch. the reverend gentlemait by this time had. bec me quite confused-, nil seeming to think he ! , ad "got into the wrong box,",he abrupt ly rose and retired. , sumo MoruEn.—A 'cluster' of young irT stood about the door of the schoolroom TIC afternoon, engaged in close converfiation, 11. n a little girl joined them, and asked y hat .e were doing. I am telling the girls a secret, Kate, and e will let you know, it you will promise not o tell any one as long as you live," was the ep y. I won't tell any one but my mother," re ili:d Kate. "I tell her everything,' for she s ly best friend." No, not even your mother—no one in world." ; Well, then, I can't hear it.;. for what 1 rt tell my mother is notfit fur me to know." v ,er speaking these words, Kate ! walked ; , y slowly,' and perhapa'„saly, yet with a • t conscience, while her companions went. ;with their secret convemition. - ant sure if Kate - contirmed to act on that ciple, she blame a virtuous, useful -wo 'l, No .child of a pious mother mill be ly• to take a sinful course, if Kate's' reply , ken, fora rule: of conduct. = soon as a boy listenS to conversation _ col, or on the ;play-ground, - which be Id fear or blush to repeat to his mother, in the way of temptation, •and no one 1 - tell where he will strip. .Many a man ng in disgracei In prisonibr on The scaffold! i looke4 back `with bitter remorse to the e when first a mild companion gained his , and carne between hic&-inad a'pious moth. 11 Bova and girls, I/ 1 1ton would lead a-Chris - life," and _die a Christian death; make 'te's reply your rule . : -4l' What I cannot I my mother is not fit for me to. know;" a pious_ mother is- ypuilaest friend. :, ;ringl 1 i LIND AItEDICAN Acrumus.—The Rev.. Dr. . has, in consequence of his proiraded ,lication to books and Writing, lost his eye I .t. This is to him personally a great ca: ,ity, and will perhaps' deprive the public 1 further productions from his pen. • Mr. ~ rich (Peter Parley) has been partially . ,nd for more than twenty years, during time his wife has performed the duties ':- an amanuensis. Prescott, the historian, is -. blind, yet he is said to writer with the p of a curious machine or his oirn contri : . oe, Dr. Barnes can see but very impel.. v. He manages-to write a little for the • . , '-- Mr. Milburn; the blind preacher and rer, whose eloquence has. delighted ao ,' ,y in various parts of the land, has pub .egl a work, entitled ‘i Axes, Rifles, and .' . dlebag." rizzgio.MlL slum Of Alabama, ~. In tip!, to 'charges of 'corruption preferred against Hon. Win, W. Wekh, of iftuseetield, in the House of Representatives, February 27, 1857. - . , Mr. Smith said : Mr. Speaker, I thank my Colleague for yielding me the floor. lam not willing to sit. here and let the doctrines he has juste enunciated pass uncontradicted, not because they come from him, but 1 should feel it equally my duty to protest against il ; them if they came from a y other , man. 1 understand my honorable colleague to lay down the proposition t . t every member here, should .be free Trot suspicion, and if not fredfrom suspicion, iiotild be expelled. NeW, sir, this is the very reverse of the true rule of evidence as .administered by all the of justice. When a man is brought before the courts of the. country to be tried for any criminal offense, even for the stealing of a penknife, he is entitled to a jury, solemn. ly sworn.to decide his case upon the evidence.; and the jury is bound to be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt, of his., guilt before they can so declare; and in weighing the testimo ny the jury are not only bound, but are al ways instructed by the judge, that if they en tertain .reasonable doubts of -ilia guilt, they should acquit' him. The, are admonished'to discard suspicions, and to . decide nponfaets clearly defined and well understood. So, sir, I think that a member of CongreSs is at, least entitled to as full-and fair a chance for his character as a knife-stealer is for his back. [Laughter.] The gentleman says that a •man to be en titled to a seat here should be free from sus picion. What is suspicion? 'Suppose, sir, that'my honorable colleague, as is true, has in his district some five thousand voters a- . gainst him, and who-opposed his election with more or less energy and hostility.. Will he Or any other man tell me that a minority of five thousand in a district are not able to gen 7 crate a suspicion ? Will any member here contend, in his own case, that the :tivc thou sand' voters who, opposed his election,"under all the various devices of politid.chieanery, whether legititnatein politics, or honest. in morality, were not able to cast suspicion-in some shape or other on him, and not only suspicion, but to pile on' his devoted head, mountain . high, the clouds .of obloquy?— Does not every man know .how easily puliti= cal opposition assumes personal hatred ? That he who opposes you to-day, merely be cause of a difference of. opinion, smay to morrow feel against you all the concentrated hostility of a disappointed and defeated man.. Triumph and success always leave behind the=n revenge, vindictiveness, and malice.— And will you still tell me, sir, that a politi cian is above suspicion I If a politician was to be judged by these harsh. and 'delicate rules which. are said to be necessary in prescribing the confined circle of a woliisii's chastity, he would hardly be .able to . pass unscathed.— You say that a woman Aught to be - above suspicion. That is a popular fallacy, taken fromr, the heartless edict of the imperious and ungrateful Clesar, - who, assuming that he was better than all other' men, assumed at .the same time that his wife should be better than all other women; and who laid slown . the base rule, that be had a right to put away. his wife even for suspicion ! " COilir's wife :must not only be pure, but must be above suspicion !" Sir, the husband who should admit that his wife was pule, and at the same time contend that he had a =right to put her away because some imp of darkness had breathed' or engendered a suspicion agaimit her, should be pronounced by all right-mind ed men as a wretch, ungrateful, base, and dishonorable. It might suit the morality Of (rear, and come up . to . the high standard of Roman connubials; but 1, for one, would. nut choose to be a Roman. ** What would be the effect of such a rule but to place the best and purest at the mercy of the lowest and . basest 1. Suspicion is the In ootl of dark ness. Who . will say he is free from it?— 'Who so pure as to,eseape its shafts—those arrows which, winged with the shadows -of the night, pierce the character and draw no blood, but leave the po'uitined arrowhead in . . the wound to do its slow but sure destruc, Lion 7 I reject then, sir,' this . popular fallacy of Roman virtue ; and .prefer Lb follow the, ex ample of the honest American yeoman, who, instead of putting his wife away for the grat ification of the base scandal-monger, would take a stick as big as his oral, and beat out the brains of the slanderer. , • . There is a story in the Bible, Mr. Speaker, full of sweetness and simplicity, which illus. trates the suggestions I have 'Made on this fathous text of Cim.-ar. it is an incident in the. history of Rath, the beautiful widow, whose whole life was a continuation of events full of heroic fortitude and perseverance,-,- When she found, by:the advice of Naomi, her wise mother-in-law, that by the peculiar laws of the age and country, the great lord, Boaz, was bound to take -her as his wife, she at first appeared at his harveit, and, as a poor gleaner of the fields, ought his attention by net beauty; for, as Sf t ernesays: " Grace and beauty beget inclinations to love at -first sight!' "Still following the advice of her mother in law, even in the night time she sought the sleeping npartment"of Boaz ; and removing the covering _from his feet as he slept, lay down with him: " And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned himself; and, be hold, a woman lay at his feet. And _he said, Who art thou ? And she answered,• I um Ruth. thine handmaid; spread thy skirt over 'thine handmaid."-:—Rcru, chap. 3. - Now, sir ° , I think here is a case of suspi. don. • Nay, sir, not only of suspicien, but. of "confifination strong as prOof of _Holy. W rit" —yet 'there was no , guilt meant—no guilt thought of., She became the wife of Boaz ; she became The grandmother of David, the King of Israel, and through her illustrious lineage is trawl the Saytomi of mankind.— But in these days of ours, when suspicion. is -to convict, woe be to the • widow who shall do likewise! You talk about politicians being .above sus picion ! Sir, I should ',like to see that article. The best and wisestin all ages of the world have been the sport of calumny and suspicion. Themistoeles the Athenian, and'Aristides the Just, Cimon, Solon, 41eurgus,„ and nearly. all the great hosts of illustrious ancients were at some time of their lives crushed or han ished for suspicion. The ostracism' of anti =required nothing but suspicion.' -Old died-14 poison.for suapicion._ These are some of -the martyrsof suspicion: and a just posterity does honor 'to the winred,and spurns the iniquity of these jiidgnients: God PUBLISHER---voLp. NO. 18 ■ save rae as pOlitielait ' 'And' all My 'friends as politician; from a yerdlet byilt . upon sus; pictont''. - ' ' • - Sir, before I was tas politician, I used to hear much about Clay and- Webster, those ' idols of this age—those Illustilous man : tnarksln the nation's glory—those posterity—peers of' Demosthenes and Cato... I used to hear, and see it in the newspapers, that they received money in great piles and heaps from their friends to pay their debts; that the banks and the factories kept them in pay ; and that- . every speech was followed with great wheel. barrows full of gold ! I guess that some of our friends in this House have heard similar stories. Certainly, Mr. Speaker,this squint ed is suspicion! But who ever dared to say, or what just man, not heeding these • tales; ever thought, that for suspicions these illustrious men ought to have been kicked out of Cong ress 'I Yet, sir, suspicion—how-. ever unjust, however 'ungrateful-,—lias followed these men, not only 'while living, but it hoy ers;with its black wings, over their graves! Did not .half the politicians of the Union, blinded, by party ieal; at - one time give cur rency to the charge that Henry Clay received the of lice of . Secretary of State from Mr. Ad inns under a corrupt bargain'' Not only has it.been the fate of the great men I have named to have suffered in life and in death by the, odiuin of .suspicion, but the greatest oration which.we find in the annals of the world was delivered by-the orator ( Demosthenes on- the Crown) to vindicate himself •from suspicion. I know, Mr. Speaker, something of the passions of men, as well as of women. I know something of the little tricks and istrat, egies that raise bad men above good men.— I know , something of the men that lift man up and sink men down,. - And I know that the man who can . throw his coat back, and put. his hand upon an upright and uncorrtipted heart, with all the obloquy of the world resting upon him, will be at last. triumphant. Who is there here to-night, at 'ter having. passed thrOugh his political initia tion and apprenticeship, by the f orce and power of his enemies ? I can spea k for'one who has been borne down to the earth, with the dust of a triumphant competitor flashing in his facet—who has been covered with clouds that no other man could see through, hut whose undimmed eyes could pierce the gloom, and feed themselves upon the everlasting sun of justice arid truth. • 1 wish to say that, so far as the gentleman is concerned who is upon trial, I never until this day knew him; It may seem singular that for two years nearly I have sat in this. House With,gentlemen whom I do not know. Yet it is nevertheless true. . But, Mr. Speaker, what is - the excuse, in . this case; tor reversing all .rules of. _evidence b l —rules which - ve • been perfected, not in an hour, mot_ in a ay, not in a month; not in a year; but rules o •hich have been perfected_ by the labor of the most enlightened lawyers for centuries past, and by the experience of the judicial tribunals from: the beginning of the English constitution, and the courts:which have been established under it? • . I ask where is the fairness, where the pro priety, and where the honesty J o if trampling all these rules uLder foot now, for the sake of crushing out a man. againSt whom there is absolutely nothing but idle rumors of suspi cion ? What is rumor.? What'is innuen do? Take a man under a tree in a fence-Cor ner, and if he be inclined to cover your neigh; bor with suspicion, bow easily he can whisper you a hat, aad then it is all. -done! • And you look mysteriously cold at }ripe neighbor the next time you 'meet, and hardly' know yourself the reason._ I say, sir. that when a man is charged with 'a grave offense; be has. a right to say : " I want to stand in front of my peers as sworn jurors ;..and I want my lease. decided accor ding to the rules of law and of evidence as judicially administered on every trial of a criminal case in a court of justice," I say nothing of the 'two other members who have been convicted here . to-day, save that I have recorded my votes against them after - the' most careful examination of the. testimony, and that I have sat upon their cases precisely as if I had been positively sworn as a juror to decide between them and the country;-- I feel the same solemn responsibility in - this case and shall decide attordingly. -Mr. Speaker,_[ have spoken very positive ly of my. knowledge of certain rules which prevail in courts of law in criminal cases. I may be allowed to say, sir, without: the ap pearance of boasting, that it was once my duty to myself; to my character, and to my fellow-citizens, to study those rules, and to make myself well acquainted. with thein, for I had to preslde over tribunals which involv ed . the lives and the liberttes, as - well as the fortunes and the characters of men. I. could'. gloat, and have gloated, over the punishment of a guilty wretch, with,all -the ferocity, of Jeffreys. ' I never let one'eseape me if;f could avoid it. 1 But I have often found it to he my. highest and most agreeable duty to disSipate from the minds of a jury the mists in which. eloquent advocates had enshrouded the inno— cent.' I have seen practimlly. the awful dan gem' of' suspicion to conscience, to justice, and to innocence. I never failed to warn and to guard a jury against it. And when success ful on such'oecasious, I have felt the hardness of a disposition,aometimes,perhapsito9 cold and rigid, melting under the streaming sun light of self-gratification fur to shield the in nocent-in Moments of• danger, is the purest joy that ever cheered the human heart. When I say that, a criminal. charged with an offense has the right:to the benefit \of all reasonable doubts, I do not .ask fur the\ doubt of an intellectual philosopher iu the dim pur suit of some metaphysical abstraction. I would not ask for the doubt of a star-gazer looking through a telescope when he is hesi tating whether a certain thing in' the moon is an elephant, or a lion, or a lizard.— [Laughter.] I speak of those reasonable doubts which besiege\ the minds of fair men in the •investigation of plain, common-sense oases, and which will not permit their minds to come to a conclusion. I ask. .for that doubt, sir, which is necessary to be removed in legal investigation; and which must go hand in hand with that great principle of the law, that man is presumed to be innocent until Ali guilt is satisfactorily established,hy evidence. - A word as, to the testimony in this case. I say nothin - against the evidence of Mr. Tri pplott: • -It is not necessary toimpeach hint There Is-nothing againat'the party now on trial in _Triplett''' evidence nothing,-ter,' exceptthe vague inferences of his own mind and these inferences he does iot pretendhim self to have been • well ascertained, even' in Man I= his own mind. Sir; le' ..u t ti o r a witness of facts - is - not all Owed to',ler; he is not allowed to think; Ilte must state. facts and well-defined redollectlonn and kink these fitets - lt hi the great 'office of a, pryto infer. It is said that twelve then; guided by law and the wise expositionof •its rulel,.tmd sworn to do justice, are . bittei able to inter than a witness. This is beamiie for one: the'thoughts of men ran In s" thousand different channels, and inferences dipend sometimes upon inclinations, and always up on the aipacity of the mind hndit.s uncertain drifting in the hasty pursuit Of opinions.-- The guilt; then, of this party must rest, upon the evidence of Sweeney. And in addition to the oath of Mr. Gilbert, which entirely ex-• .onerates Dr: Welch, and in addition - to his own solemn • asseveration there is another witness which must be in troduced; and mu. 4!, be allowed to speak. I intrtiduce that wit. ness now, sir, as pure and spotless aS - a whitc robed angel. That witness 4 life of unimpeaehecl integrity, which in courts (if law or of conscience is always heard in _vindi cation against all the ingenioual accumulations of. suspicion. • I know not by how many thousand - vote the gentleman was elected. ldo u 4 care how many. When a than is l elected • by_a free constituency to stand heFe as:their rep- resentative, be comes well I dorsed ; _arid I take it for granted that he has - through the crucible, stone the fiery o'eal of his en ernies,-and. been sent here t represent the purity of his district, Wheth r ,it lie Demo td cratic, or. Know Nothing, or tepublican. I take it for granted that he is 4 pure Ital &in est man. I_ do not care what his enemies sal about him. Well, sir, taking this for granteo, and that - the gentleman from Connecticut_ . came here with the indorsement of his con , stitueticy that his life - has been, pure, and th,t ' united testimony-of all his colleagues, areyou to cast aside the evidence of a whole life of purity., and to trample in the dust a record of forty or fifty years of hon'orable asefulnetek for the undefined gabbrifigi - 1 a turned-rat doorkeeper—fur the vague suspicions and • Whispered. innuendoes of a-di appointed, dis cardedman ? You ought to I. know the -ven geance of - "a disgraced politic an; an whether be be a doorkeeper or a Senatort. Cast-off and discharged men - are often dangerous witnett es. They are mad with - fortrine and enraged with mankind.: - Destroyed Oemselves, too often -they are 'ready tb destroy others. A fallen angel may become a fieid ;- this is true, -from Lucifer down,,to . the chibfocited mon arch of hell. - The reason that the devil is - represented with a club-fiiot is to signify-that he is the universal enemy of mankind, and ' particularly gifted in the black - art of engen dering suspicion.' I Why is,it, sir, that a spotless character is permitted to speak against Lsuspicions; and sometimes even against positive testimony'? - There are many reasons. li, is the habit-eta pickpockets; when they steal a, purse and find' it empty, or fear detection!, to slip it into the pocket of the nearest mn to them in a, crowd. As good men as any of us have fonud, to their astimishmentl _strange' purse 4 and strange pocket-books in their own pock- . ets!" The devices of villainY are so nume rous, and 'it is so well ascertained that,the best men are often surroundo by the Worst; that the - wisdom of ages, sanctioned .by the sagacity ,of the greatlaw-makera, has estab fished this rule; that character is , a good and' powerful witness, either againt sespicions or -- against any other sort of doubtful or, uraer- - Win evidence. ' - -- ° Rouscan; the great French ,philosopher, in his old age, tells, in 'his •rrilfessions, imcl,& the most solemn assev_eratianV of its truth; a, story on himself of this sort : He stole;a bolt • of ribbon from his mistress, rid 'gave it as. i present to a maid-servant ill the bowie, When the ribbon wai - missed, search was in stituted, and it was found possession of the maid. She vowed that Rossetti in 3 given it to her—he denied ii—the innocent girl was . pronounced guiltylof a theft, and kicked out of the honse! • I shall never forget the 1 upon my mind many years a youth, by. an incident recor Random : One - servant stol. and out of malice put-them. innocent housemaid. In sea en goods they were found in She could give no explanai reigned suprenie. Her verb was interpreted against her place, and with it her eharact 1 es of romance, Mr. Speaker, the records of fancy, are at i lustrations of real life; for M ling to admit, that truth is than, fiction., - - _ _ Mr. Caruthers arose an Chair, but resumed his seat. Mr. Smith, of Alabama, (resuming) 1 am very glad, Mr. Speaker, :that the gentleman frem Missouri has taken seat without speaking.. Ile is a - large and - rather searry looking customer, [much laughter.] and tis..l am just now ou the wrong side ofthesloutT, I feel particularly sensitive - ai the _tiprising'Of a:border ruffiVn. - - [ Prolorjge4 laughter.] Of course, My honorable friend 411 - take .- .these remarks'as they are. intended;—in the liest - ot humor. I are not only gla44 sir, thatthe ken-: .tleniart has taken his seat, bit I ant delighted at this universal - prevalence [-of - good butOor. 'And Merriinent.., .It (mien. forlhe gentleman from - Connecticut I Joy . and . 161, flee are twin sistera, and are itpt goband'jn band together. - It is the-surfsign that ti c e will be done.. When I hear a goad .laugh, 4 am apt to.Velievethat a pied heart lies un der; but when I see a glOotny, dark ! bro*ed, : Melancholy. juror, _cutting )liti - tobaceo - into snuff, I know he:is" 'ready, td r Say;_ - 'Guilty ! guilty [PrOlOtiged laughing • And noir, - sh.l, I come kto the direct question beforeas; .1 ask .ny. - triatilies:to. rise tw -- his place' and "ansW r me Are you - satisfied beyond reason blo:dalit,, that this - man is guilty I That a question Mr; Walker:- . I will ans er the gentlenian if he yields the Hop:I.:for: tha Purpose. ilavel .1 the (toot.- , _ Mr. Smith, of .Aleham . 1 yield 'to my". colleague for a categorical , wer.„ Mr. Savage. -I protest inst of proceeding. . - Mr. Smith, of AlabamacMr. SOeaker) It ie evident that this:Cascaras dwindled down. do - a, very small point, = Geneml Ifotiston him self, with a sharl,9mifia and r i a pretty~ piece; of colar t and his -aciMowledged.'skill in emelt 'matters •nonld- not whittle it closer. LLatigh. tcr.r. du° gentlemen risen iindaihn ti,e:has the ttioi-;: and tittioct. tu this mode of proceeding tit no getiffee- 13 :.' e , !..prespion inside go, when I was ed in Roderick' a get of spoons the trunk ot . an ch after`thoitol her possessjon Suspicion . consternation She lost • her ! These touch though-they. be ast the best it. ost men are wil indeed sirativer addressed -140.
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