II - "Is RTT-E -o s, IREDZRICK P. Slino_ti, . _ „iiiii. Secretary: of Name TerritAFY. :.• .i .. To one PEOPLE OF TEM USITIM),TATIM t-- teeing been recently removed from - the of fice of Secretary Of Kansas Territory; under . eircumitanoes • Vhich imply severe censure* thkpart of ,the President and having had' no official information of my removal: nor any opportunity. 'ffir explanation or 'defence, •I . have deemed it necessary. to - present to the • People of the United States a brief statemert • offsets in vindication of mjr, motives, and in ex - planation Cif the reetilts of the act for which I have been condemned. - • The office in - question liras not give 4 at my solieitatiOn, My acceptance-of it under all the "oirchmstances,:was a proof of strong friendship for the President, and of unbound editonfidencia is the finrinces and faithful. -nese with which . be would : adhere to the bee' ,Of polici delibe rately" agreed upon ., between - hint his+whole•Catainet„ and. Gov, Walker... I - • On - ray arrival in the Territory in- April last, In advance of Gov. Weikel!, I confess -.. that I had an imperfeet-knowledge of the real • '. condition of affairs. I - supposed the question of slavery to be the .only eaust - -of.dissenaion and difficulty arntinglitKpeople; and in I my brief inaugural address i;if, the 1 1 7th, April,' I treated this as the chief siThjeet of difference. upon which a submission to the people wintld be lately to be demanded. I soon fotIO T howeier, that this view was altogether • tikt• limited, And did not reach the true ground Of controveisy, The - great mass of the inhabi tants of the Territory were dissatisfied . with • the li`icel government, and 'earnestly denied . the validity-of the existing laws. Asserting -i. that the protons Legislature had been fore . ed upon them f:ty the fraud and violence of' e 'neighboring people, - the -proclaimed' their determination never to smbrnit to the enact. nients of legislative bodies thus helloed. , to. ' be illegitimate,' alid not entitled to obedielfee. This was the) condition of_things "when • Governor Walker came to the - ,Territoty in -; -, the latter part of May. It was evident that - 1 thijest pnlicy of permitting the' people td regulate Their own affairs could not be tnio, cessfullyeerried out, unless they could be in. spired with confidence in agents of Gov ' .prnment, through Whom this result was to be effided. -- if a Mere minority: of the people • had been thus dissatisfied and contumacious, -they might pcssibly have been pronounced factious and treated as disturbers of-the peacy; . ' but when the disqatisfectios sues- general, 'comprising almost the whole : people, a more ' 'respectful consideration was indispensable to ' a peticruble adjustment: •It was,evident that, - - the policy of repression—a rigid 'attempt fo enforce subrhission, without an effort at eon ,f, eiliStion—would inevitably result in; a. re. newel of the civil war. :With comanendable anxiety to avoid this contingency, Governor; Walker tesolVet to-go, among the - people, the listen to their complaines, to give them. as..u. • ranee of a-fair.and just administration of the. '• - Territorial Government:and to induce then:, if possible, to abandon their hostility, and to . . -enter upon the peaceful but decisive straggle ' •of The ballot-box. I was often- *ith the. Gov error when he -addressed the people, and - gave my best efforts inaid of the ,great par pose of concil iation. . . . • 'lt. was too late toinduce , the people to go into the June election for delegates to the 1 . ConVen,tion. The- registtathm required hi , law had been imperfect in, all the . counties ; and had been wholly omitted in one half :of them I • nor could the ,people, in , these. disfren , \ . eniseo_counties 'vete kn any adjatent county., ' as has been falsely suggested. In such _of. • them as subsequently tool: a census or tegiir- - • try - of their oven, the delegates were not ,ad- I mined to seats in the Convention. Never-: , . theless, it ioni t to be denied that the great. .- - central fact sr ich controlled the wholej&e,e, I . was the utter ant of Confidence by tae pen 1 • pie in the Whole machinery of the Ter' titeri-. 1 ,a 1 Government. • They alleged that die loCal . - officers, in all. instances; were unscrupulous' :partisans, who hid previously defrauded Them in the elections; and who were ready ] to repeat. the sitme-outrages again ; that, even 1 . •if intruders_frem abrdad should not be Per. mitted te; overeower them, they would .tie' • cheated by bilk returns w h ich l t would not - be possible fricim_for tit: Governor and -See , . retary to defeat Although at that time. l 'these apprehensions seemed to me to hepre , posterous-and unfounded, it, was impossible '''' 'to deny the earnestness and. sincerity with which they were urged, or to doubt-that they were the_ result of deep •convictioda, haying ' their origin in some- previous experience Of that nature. - - • , The worst portion of the small minority' i n Kumla, w \ tiO, had possEssion of the territo - irittl -organization, loudly- and bitterly corn ' plained of Gov. Walker ' s policy ,. o f emeilia. ticni, and demanded the opposite, policy of regression." And alien, -under the , solemn . .` assurances given -that the .elections should. _-' - be' fairlyconducted, and no frauds which we -could reach ba countenanced Or tolerated, it hadlecorne apparent - That the mass of the : ; people were prepared ~ and determined -• to -.:-..>. participate in the October elections, the min .N "ority endeavored 'to defeat the remit by re: • . diving theta: qualification fir electors, which .- had been rep,ealed by the .previous Legisla-- tare. Opinions Were obtained from high le - .. gal wank:est i - the effect of which, bad they pre - veiled, would have been to exclude the mass of the people friam voting, to retain the con ' • trol in the itnds of the minority, and, •as a' - consequence; tn keep up agitation and to reti e - - der civil war inevitable. But-the intrepid • .resotetionOf Gov. Walker, in Spite - of fierce opposition and denunciation, &r and near, , - carried him through this dangerous crisis, • : anff he had theirtnid satisfaction of hay.ng • achieved a peaceful triumph, by inducing ~ . the people to submit to,- the arbitrament ;of `• the ballot-box. le r , • - • , . , . 41 • But the minority. ere determined not to submit to defeat. The populous county of ' - • Douglas had been attached to the border county of Johnson, witli a -large arid Control - . ling representation in the- Legislature. The • celebrated . Oxford fraud i4:113 Perpetrated ' With a 4ior, to ,obtain majorities in both '• - geese* of the Asseitibly. W hen these re. - turns were received at my office, in Gov , ' . „ Witilket's absence, Ii had. fully determined - not l l to give certificates based Upon them. If they 1 '' hadtheen se - formai ' and ( correct as to • have I , . . • made :ft my duty to certify them, I 'would Itnee designed tny Office - lb 'order to., testify, •- any hem a-thei-enottnity :of the wring.— . GOV.'-iliolifer, at Leavenworth, had 'formed ;*-• , the seine resolutibn, as he stated to me • end several othetit and we were ittikb„, gratified • thatwe found the papers so imperfect as to • make it our duty to reject them. Great ex '.&timed followed in the Territory.' The • minority, thus righteously defeated in the i • d- - fort to prolong Their power , became fierce in ... _ 7 j - opposttion and reoarted to every means .of •„ - > intimidation.. But I Una led 'to -believe ttat .th f 'y fond their 'moat effeetnal means of op- I eration-by undermining its with the :Amin-1 Istrati•on at Washington: , • - ' I • ' The Constitutional. Convention, which 140 .1 . . oisintO over tot* Idler the Oct** OW - 4en, suitil* A) Zoootriptcs 'to *awe Stet Athqs.. itany of the members of that body: . . . very - bittedy „hostile fo the Gimp:net 'and,. : - • Secretary, "colt eimPetii or theia:r*O l s°' 'c ' t. - , - *CWO4 and XeChfiltimai,lairiii`iedua l ,- - 9f the mints l l - — .lO aA - ofttle — Clittieil' the. bad' idirect paittelptiaort;Afffaet,lhialiodt with some honorable exteptions, well repre sented the :minority!part of the Territory; and were-fulliimbued witti the sen.le spirit ana designs.. It wad obviensly not their de.. =sire to secure the real .people lat . Kansas the co ntrol reCtheirown altiors. ..In the Cotr4 attintlian,soon: afterwards irdopted,!.they en ! deavoretl to Supersede the J A e,gislatUre which had•been elected by the people, by.providing; in the second section of_ the schedule,. that "all laws noW of.foree in-the Territory shall continue to•be in Gime until altered, amended, or repealed by a Legislature undo' the pro visions of this; Constitution. " They. provided! still more etrectoally, its th e y :supposed; for the perpetuation of _their Minority goxerni meet, by adopting the Oxford, fraud AS the basis of • thi;ir apportionment,giying-a great preponderance of -representation to•the coun tiecon the Idissouri border, and affording, at the same tiree, every possible facility for the introduction -Of spurious •votes. The Presi , dentOf The Convention -was clothed- with tin limited power ! in . On - dueling the _elections and receiving thi? - returns, While! the .officers are not required. to take the' usual Oath to secure fair end honest dealing. • The elections were hurried - nn in midwinter—the 21st of December 'and the, 4th of January--;when emigrants could only come, ft ore_the imme diate borders, under the. rpedifipition which invited ".to the ballot.boi every white male inhabitant "in the Territory on that daY." . --.- The same man whi) did this'had 'previously ...denounced oOvet:nor talker foit. the'sugges tion in his litaligural address, and inihis.To • peke' spere,h; that, the constitution should be submitted to ell the bona•fide inhabitants - od. - ! thetigh ibeariltbly stated, when asked for explanatic.n thati:_stime ieagonablc s length of residence might te be irequired as evidence of the bomtfide character of inhabitancy. It - wa,s apparent that all the machinery had been.. artfully . prepared for a. repetitious- of gross frandS, similar to- those. which had been attempted in October, anti was In view of till these facts,4ifter the adjournment, or the con ' vention, that the people of the Tefritory, by an alpine, Unanimous dmand,.callecl! opoei me, "tI actino Governor, to convene an extra . session of the I..egislatuie in order to enable them peaceablysto itrot.'ect themselves -against wrongs. evidently contemplated by the adOption of this constitution. Theo 4r ..was no law ! of punini frauds •in election re!. turns.-- The people ' wore intensely. excited, and it vras the opinion of the coolest heads in the Territory, that, without a call of the Leg.: (stature, the • elections under the constitution could got have taken place without collision and blooilSthed: The meeting of the•Legisla i.ture diverted the attention id the people from the svhelhes of wiolerrezi upon' which they were. brooding, substituted the excitement cif debate rinitiuveot r iation for that of.fierce and warlike hatred, rind enabled their represents. tives to; devise Aierins 'fur eoukteracting the wrongs which thrjustft . apprehended. s ! Recent events have shown that their appre hensions- iwere well founded. Enormous frauds hate been perpetrated at the.precincts of Oxford. Shawnee and •Kickapoo ; and it may well; be believed that this result was actually designed by the artful leaders Who devised the plan and framework of the Le compton constitution. I have lately.been at Shawnee, - ,and, I have seen and i'oneersed with persons iibtr•Were at Oxford oh the)day election.- The frauds committed arc notori. !Ms v . and; though dishonest persons may (le.\ ny them, and may Jill .the chamicis of public information with tliimelesa representations to the co ntrary; they can he easily established heyond"all..controversy. • , • . - it waisito enable the people to shield them relbes!from theseSrauds, and to give legal expre . ssien to their- hatred nod" rejection of the instrumertt . 13erri , itted them, and `was' to:he carried by them; that I Called the Legislature totether. • In my; judgment, the people * had a fair 011iM to he heard Int this subjecthrorigh the . Leg islature. •The.orgailie_act confided-to me •the discretion of convening that body in extra • -sesSion., The President of the Vetted State,` had no riglitful authority to exercise that dis- Cretion for me. He had the -power of re moval, and such control Its that power gives him. • But I -would , cheerfully have subsreitted to.removal and consequent loss of favor with! the President, rather -than occupy the posi 'tioncif Goverpor mid fetuse.to the people an • , •mi opporaty to assert their most essential , Tightsiand to protect themselies against the basest frauds and • wrongs "ever-attenipted. upon an outraged community.. - • . Not having bee-ll...informed of the grourida of my removal; 1 know them only through the new s paper reports, to the, effect that, in calling the Legislature, I disobeyed the in structions ofthe President._ I had no instrue: 1 lions bearing on the Subject, and there was - I no time: to obtain them,-etven if I had felt' '.bound to substitute'the President's will for that discretion which the organic act confided to me . The "convening of the LTislature uh. doubtedly prevented difficulty and secured ipea6e. Were it iturottant, I. sin confident I couldi estkblish this positioo_by the must indubitable facts; but it is suffieit nt!now to say 'that the peace of -the., Territory was 'not in fact !disturbed, and whatever. 'Approaches were Made towards such a result were wholly . 'attributable tb the- policy of the Administra • tion in ;censuring my acts and remoyilig me from office. The intiisure for which I have been un justly emdernned ha , : enabled the people of Karma' tis make known their real will in re ,rard to the Lecompton - Constitutiqn. Th's • r a'ffords.:the Demoiratie party an opportunity to defend the. true principles of constitutional liberty, and Ito save itself from disastrous di . vision and utter overthrow: If Congress will heed the voice of the and not force up - iin them a government which they have rejected by a vote of four to one, the whole country will be satisfied, and •Kahsas will : quietly settle her own affairs without - the least difficulty, and without any danger to. the'Coidederacy. The Southern States, which - are4posed to - iiave a deep interest in the matter, will be wiled from the supreme folly of stinding .up in defence of so wicked and dishonest a contrivance 'as the teconipton Constitution. _The morld.part of their posit tion will not be weake ß ed by a vain and use less.defence of ,wrong, when it is - perfectly certain they, will gain nothing even by suss in the present attempt. ‘: - - v e The extra session of i Legistiture has donelgood; also, by gi -"- means to expose and punish the fnonatro ,frindsishich have been perpetrated, - amil doubtless, also; by preventing others -which iirotila have been at tempted. 'lt has driven-the guilty iniscreants 'engaged - in them to become fugitives from 1 justice; and has rendered it impossible for thii peace of 'the Territorylheraafter to be endangered by similar occurrences. In, view' of these facts and results, I- wil linaly accept this: rebuke conveyed in my peremptory db!missill from` office, but I ap peal to the deliberate judgment of the people to detersnine whether I • have not chosen the only honorable dnlrge which the circumstan ces ailluiied me to *Pursue. . 'FRED P. . • STA Y.. Wesel** ha WU* jar The gpl!!t ofPAn.Aei Vttgitier *as called *lately. Iry a *items' eirelvin North ville*, %Piet Heopeteised he had mvie wy Waukee le Ws sick] ad politicaislife *4ll s .al sank 401tatis Dictionfiry. 11111 General Catheist's Lust N• Our readers w ili bear ; us wits that the 2Vmas-,ltas constantly . and steadily e tdeavored to-put the beet construction whict a regard fur truth and justice would permi upon the itetiOn of the AdMinistration in lregard to t Kansas, We have: been unwilling Pto adopt or assent to theultral partisan sent ; ent which ascribed to the Federal Governm nt •the-de • sign' of forcing. Slavery' upon th people .of Kansas, and of satictioniflg what er frnnda might be necessary to the acceim i;rhment of this object. Since the last Presi ntial Elec. tioe, theamblic sentiment of the untry has cested, with substlintial confiden ~upon the' 1 dispositionand an to see equal anil exact justice one to the 1 purpose of Presid nt Buchan. inhabitants of thel territory, to p otect them in the exercise of fheir political ri hts, and to secure them in th4ractical posserision of that sovereignty over ;their own affari.which ia 1 theoretically guaranteed to them I by the Ne s' braska bill. Thilfisith has - been widely and , i t rudely shaken b„ the Presides 's forfeiture kif his pledge, that the people of K nsas should have aniepportunity of voting ellen any Con- ' I stitution that iniibt be framed fdr their got. ; eminent. i • I But another qifestion has nuwitriien which 1 l , ' will test, still further the equity And honesty of the'AdMinistratlon, nlthoUg it may not ' , call for any diret action onth part of the 1 General Government, • Thai Lecompton Convention I ordered an election for officers of the StateiGoverpment to be organized ;under it, to be fheld on the 4th of Januarniand _directed le returns of the-Canvass to be made to the c Fresider.t of the Convention, General Calhol. President Buchanan recogitized the validit of this elec tion, and insteueted th%Povermw of the Ter ritory, General Denver, to silf that it, was fairly and peaceably conducted ; This was stone. Mpst'of the returns wee sent directly to Gen Calho l iiii. but some or them were 1 transmitted to l the Governor of:the:Territory ] `and by hint handed over' to the i . President of the Convention. i Itis now assetted that Gen.' , Calhoun has declared that he _thill not recog nize the ;which thus reach him through 1 , • Gen. Denver bht will . reject illbse votes and give certitimte to those officers who buve received a majority of the &lees. By this proceeding hs I will give ,certificates to the Pre-Slavery State -officers, an a majority to thePro•Slavery Party in e ch branch of t the Legislature ; If all the von returned are e I counted, the Ftee-State Part -have entire posiession of the Goveromeut. It must be uluversally eon ~ ed that , Gen. I Calhoun proposes to dispossen the Stateffi ders who reprepent the majority of the votes cast,—and to install the mino ity in the pos session of pow4r, by a mere tee nicality,'-rhy t n rigorous adherence to die . w rdsof the law, in utter , contempt of its' spiri as well as of justice and of -Popular rights. .There can Ire ess but one opinilt as to the tier injustice of this proceeding ;—and we s t all not believe that it will ree,hive the sanction of of the Ad ministration, instil we are con Belled by (sets to do so.- • 1 1 , - . • But the in:A l t-erg - will not pr . ' perly come at once before thh President fois action. He • ri , has no author* to revise the lection returns or ' to reverse ,I the dehision er 1 Gen. Calhoun upon them. The action oftht e latter will be conclusive, unless it should dto 'conse quences rendering necessaryle interference 1 of the Federal Executive. I Kansas should ti be admitted nder the leco pion Constitu. 0 1 tion, there will, be tow sets f claimants to o the State offices. The one se will consist of the ProSlavCry officials, h d ing Calhoun's certiticstes;Hthe other will‘ be the Free. State men haying certificetfrom Messrs. Babcock' and peitiler, the esiding officers df. the two branches of the T rritprial Legis lature and cepresenting, el ly and -MI-mis takably, the inskrity of th • votes cast at 1 the election. I We do not elieve that the former will e•er be peimitteb'by the people of Kansas tJ take _possessirin of the State i Government.; They wilt be fesisted by force.' if all other means _exclu_di rvir them fail. If I any reliance ean be . placed upon the represen -tations, o ffi cial and otherwis-, or-those best acquainted with theVerritory, the•peopl4 of Kansas will ;not submit u der any circum stances, to sofmanifest and so grant "a usurp ation. Bothkiovemors will robably appeal to the President to presery the State from domestic violence, and he in y -thus be com pelled to den L ide which of th two is in right ful possession of the office. But: howeler such a ce nt t might termi nate, - it is . erten' that •IC sas would be plunged intivil war; by he adoption 'by r Congress of r the -Lecemptonl Constitution.— This last rnoVement of Geri. olhoun ha.k ren. erred the result inevitable ; nd thii pro.sp,ect may very properly_ influence the action of Congress a lien the sull'Act all - e,gain come up for action. Indeed it it i impassible that c Congress sh o uld ore th certainty of so tearful a catastrophe, in its eliberations and in the action it may decide o take.—N. Y Time'. 1 , - Front orrespondenre of t l e .Y. Y. Tribune. The lianskis E ecii,u. • . I WASHINGTON, an. 31, 1858. The Lecopipton Cons A titu n, *bras arrived last night,w ill be sent to CO gress to-morrow. Thg President , has- re \ writ l en his message, which is lei* bold in tone t n' it was a• week ago. He ,)las received a ,letter from Gov. Denver dedlaring that if th LieCimpton Con / stitution is Iforced on Kan s, civil war is in evitable. Gov. Wise, it said, has also written, strimgly protestin !against the.nieas ore. 1 The morn•moderate. of he Southern men . pre beginnihg to be alarm . A Southirn Member ofgress will wait, upon the president to m crow morning to make a formal remonstra ce against the 14- - compton' Constitutipn; and to warn him that its passage till• destroy the Democreb party. ; . . 'i Mr. Buchanan,. bower r, persists in his 'infatuation; He declted to-day that the 14. compLonrns!Atutitztp,rot and. should to through egress. I '4 ~ _ ..-- The Prelsident's 'plan 14 to put Minnesota and Kan su together', and Oake the admission. :of one deipild upon that . ot" the other. A coheir of 'Democrc Senators will be held to-Morrow in the Vic President's room, at: which* resoltition wil be introduced ap -proving the _courtseof tit Administration in regard tol Kansas._ i, Th object is to drive Douglas out of the party. 1 understand that he is feal to go: When tlte message is pad, the Anti-Le coMptonplan in the Ito se is to move its reference jo a Select Cou uittee 4A iih instruc tions to. investigate .an '. report upon -the•l 1 facts iii relation to recen elections in Kansas. This naotihn, it is thought; will bk.-. carried. Ilutits p4sage will ,be nb indication of the I final 'resul. • • : - • '•The Prci-Slirviry Stat ' officers andlegat rika lature are4epotted"-Oure to be .returned as elected:: IBuyitiirisaid t t Marcus 'J. Per. rut, thi_A'reeStlite"nan , iti foi`tbitgresP, ca has one htmdred!tr.ajorit ;2 4 r• '::;,. 1 .,- • • A•Strotig protest sgai Llomptort 'from the Free State officers, ho claim to itaire been elected; ',till be presented tomorrow by_Mr. Parrot to the ticinme„and by Mr. DD4 I II fo the BOW& 1 . e.. - • -,- . \ . The Itteeedgetisig.Cogimittees stir bOirk 'Rork. %fon the awl of MAK" - Dow ket•diathi The Fort Snelling :Committee has made Considerable progress. . - The Committee on the 1187,000 affair have got at nothing tangible; they haie sent a subposna forl; P. Williamson, who has an, office in Tiblityßitildings; New York 'City, which he refuses to obey. ,The Cher,rman of the Committee will Offer eresolution in the House tomorrow rot' an - 84tichtuent , f& him. 3E2 ?rent Correspouienee of The Batton navelee. From Ikazesas. LAWRZXCI, K. T., Jan. 19, 180. The. following important bill has pasied the House of Representatives, and will pattal the Council to day. It received thirty Uffirml give votes, and two against it. An Axt en titled ." An .Acr to abolish Slavery, nd for the rl3psal of certain laws :" Sacricnt - 1. Be irenacted.by thiGovernor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas : slavery and involuntary servitude in the said Territory are hereby forever abol. ished and prohibited, except, for the punish. ment of crimes, whereof the parties • shall hare been duly convicted. - Sac 2. All persons now held ,in Slavery or involuntary servitude in said -Territory, or who hay* heretefore, or shall hereafter be brought into said TerritOry for the Orpose of being so- held; tire hereby declared to he free. Sac. 3. Any person who shall now ,hold, or who shall hereaftel• attempt to hold, any person in slavery or involuntary servitude in said Territory, except for'crimes whereol the parties have been duly convicted, shall, on conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a tnisdemeanor, and be punished by confine ment at' hard labor in Penitentiary for any term not less than two years nor more • than five years. • Sac. 4. That all laws or parts of laws es tablishing, recognizing or regulating the in: stitution of Slavery in the Territory of Kan- SRN heretofore passed by -the Legislative As sembly, be and the slime is hereby repealed:' Sac. 5. That the Probate Courts of each. county shall have concurrent jurisdiction for the trial and punishnient of all offenses for the violation of, the proVisiiins of this statute Within their respective counties ; and in case of refusal of any Probate Court to 'hear-or deteimine cases under the provisions of this act, in their! respective counties, the same may be tried before the court of an adjoining county; provided, however, that. in all Miles arising under the provisions of this act, pre. liminary examinations may be held before any justice of the Peace, or before the Pro bate Judge at the proper county. Sec. 6. Whenever an affidavit duly sworn to, clearly setting -forth the crime charged, he filed with the Clerk of the County, it shall be sufficient without ad indictment for the Issuing by the - Probate Judge or Justice of the Peaco,,of writs of arrest, and all other proceedings necessary to the trial and convic tion or acquittal of the persons an charged. Sac. 7. Any Justice of the Peace or Pro. bate Judge of the Proper County, shall have power, upon the oath of any person entering' complaint before either, to issue a warrant against such offenders and , upon a hearing may either discharge Or bind over, with suf. ficieut security for, their appearance at the next term of the Prohate Court fortrial,•'or in default of the security aforesaid, to cenamit, such offenders to'the county jail. Sae. 8. Thin. act to 'be in force from and after the first day of March pest. - One object sought in the passage of this bill, beside the primary one of the prohibi. tion of Slavery. was that of getting the issue of right of Verritorkit I.li prohibit Slavery, in a tangible form aro -direct shape before the Supreme Court, that we may snake a clear 'and direct issue upon this vital point before the country. - There is to doabt as to what the result will be while Taney and his fes. era companions disgrace - those august seats by their partisan s 'judgnients imff tyrannical decisions. We have now the results of the last three elections in 811 official form before us. The vote upon, State officera affords a striking II- i luitration of the strength of the Tree-State party, when - riot more tiatirhaif-c:f them voted the ticket in the field, aiid \ yet beat the Kan sas ruffians, Miisouri, fraudulent and all. ' But for the timely arrest of Henderson, this .would not 'have been obtained, for the 'Delaware Crossing returns, in Leavenworth County, which. he is charged, with forging, would, had they been produced, have turned the balance to the side of - Marshall and the Pro-Slavery candidates. , Calhoun, to save his comrades neck, diet not produce these re turns, stating that they had - never been re ceived, nor_ is it likely that they will ever be hrought to light. We atill \hold Henderson as security for this. . Gov. Roberts, it is understood,is preparing a protest to Congress against the admission of Kansas tinder the Lecompton swindle, which will be signed by every Free-State man elected to office under that infamy. Id The Truelssue in Kansas. We have - on more than one occasion at. tempted to expose the folly, if not wicked ness, of those who are endeavoring to give to the Kansas difficulties Southern and Northern aspects, and to make them the grounds of re opening the sectional War which • all Demo crats hoped and believed had been completely settled by they Kansatt-Nebraska act and the subsequent election of Mr. Buchanan. Opposition to the reception of the Lecomp ton Constitution was-made by a large num ber of Democrats, in and - itu:-of Kansas; as 130013 as tbeyonvention refused to submit it to a vote4f the.people, and - when everybody, and out of Kansas; North and Squib, be lieved, or affected to believe, that it 'Would coma to 'Congress with the y slavery clause stricken out. How, then, can the Northern, men who opposed its reception, believing it would be a 'FreeState Constitution, be charged with hostility to the South!: As Judge Douglas 'said in the Senate, they were "-opposed to it, whether slavery was voted in or out of it." - ' Slavery did- not in any way enter - into their reasons for objecting, Wit. They ob jected to it because it bad not been iubmitted to'the people of Kansab for approval or re.-, 1 jection. If it hid been 'submitted to:them fairly sand they had voted slavery hi, Judge Douglas, The Press,- and, we believe, the, entire , Democracy of the nc n-ilaveholding States, would have by it without/a murmur. , But who in the Northern' States, can stand ;up fora 'Constitution with slavery in it, when it is itnOwn beyond all cavil that it is thersiagainst the 'will of threettiniths or nine.tenthe of those f,cr whom it has been made! What would our Soutbera,fellow-citizens think of the attempt to bring'it into the Un ion under . similar circumstances with an anti- , slaverY#nstitution, if it was well known to all that mite-tenthisof its inhabitants viere 'favor of slavery 1 Wobld they-accept the ar gument that these nme-tenth; might at some stage of their territorial - existence have elect ,ell a Legislature,' or a Cenvention in favor of slavery; but baring omitted to do 'lO, or been deprive d' roStbe meant°, doings°, should , therefore be refused tt privilege Pr right of 1 approving'or disappnivies the ConaSitationl itself when matio,6o6llo,t.- SupPor- wellOrdliser.etifillillOttbant the I tune eWmli - liro to be beldfor members ALTeiTltoriit Legislature, ova Convention:to {_peke a Constitution, • fleet Ot New England (tiling stilacke'' - iliot' iittsitirtiei icaddit' - -A.it voters sent out by DI England t Elgran i , ik i Aid Societies ; and a u . se these emi ran ' sboubtseize the polls, We pr.frighten awe' the - actual - relideuts ; 94 suppose; ; if ads di not give them a majority,lthey.,ahoitld ma...! facture election returns , that would give it theml - aupp6se they. would *hen thus thei get tbe political:power of the islapd in the hands, obtain the support of theNnited Stet • Government t o - sustain them in it, bees i u il 1 they held it under " color-of law ;" and s _ I pose such a Convention was to make a 1 'atitution fur Cuba, abolishing .slavery- th y . sod forever in it—would Our Southern frien . stand np to it and accept it.? We think ° n.. We think, therefore, they will not make t acceptance or rejection. 'of • the Lecompt Constitution for-Kansas 'a Southern questi . but leave it where it properly belongs a tiunal one—one of rights and natio duty.- 7 Forney's Philadelphia Piess. - ' The Marmon War. The Union- states that the War Dcy rt .ment have it in ectlitempkation, although, i is not definitely resolved - upon, to send • i en. Scott to San Francisco to organize an expOdi. Lion against the• Mormons from the Paaffie. • coast. We apprehend, that before this, or -0y other measure of the kind is finally decided upon, it)will be necessary to take - the 'sense of ress upon the whole subjeqt. • - ce polvera of the Presidential office have een greatly magnified of late years, even to, the extent of carrying on l foreign wars, as hr the instance of the attack upon Greytown. :ut Mr. Buchanan will hardly be able to ex 'end . fifty millions upon enterprises in - litah, ith. out getting appropriations, or to obtain ap: plopriations without submitting, his pla s to Congres4 mad obtaining the aßprobatis of Congress fir his plans.. 'Certainly, no .o3y but. the tools, of party, will vote money blindly into the hands of.an AdMinistr, tion, which has made such a miserable hot h in this business thus far. . Aliuira in Utah present two aspects , the resistance, greater-or less, made t officers of- the United States, and alleg amount to rebellion ; and second, the o practice of polygamy. Now, so far as yet appears, the Ad tration do not propose to do anything press Wygamy. Conevess -has- tidied to pass a law against polygamy.;; The ident carefully avoids recommending ars law - in his annual message. His fric Congress turn the cold shoulder to proposition of the kind, not, perhaps, be they have any special liking to this part relic of barbarism, polygamy, hilt been is a twin to another relic to which th warmly attached. . Thus, then, while it is the polygamy thrifty of the Mormons which excites nearly-nll, of that public feeling against • which is relied Upon to sustain an expen of nobody knows how many milli. money, the Administration, in .fiet, contemplate even legislation against pi my. Now, we, undertake to say that the eopla of this country care very little about t e acts of resistance in , this remote Territor to a few officials, many of whom were Hato ioubly not overburdened with respectability a eithe'r character sr manners. So far as all ' these things are concerned, the country wo Id be well content, simply to withdraw the Terri . - torial organization of Utah, and lea a the . Mormons to shift for themselves, un it the region they occupy is Wanted for citi ns of a better character. This matter has tnaterially chan.ed its appearance since last ispring'. , Thin, the promptiqovemetit of a Aximparatiyel small force would have prevented all , diffic ilty.— Netv,the difficulties are so aggravat d, that, expeWye campaigns are called for, aid may be ineffectual after all. - Without intendin g to a ffi rm that tb • coon try would sustain th e military_Measu pro. posed by the Administration, even o put down potygamy, odioils‘ and revoltin" as that is t we have no hesitation in denying hat the country approves these measures, s mated as they are without any plan, and utirely disconnected as they are from any r .ference tOithe most offensive peculiarity of ormon morals. ' The organs of tlf`e. Administratio city, including the National Ihtel are making a combined appeal to to act promptly. . We, on the othe appeal to Congress to act wisely.— ton Republic. • Attempt upiist the Life of French Emperor. ' A despatch to the Lyndon Times the evening of the I , lth,k.say's "T ,peror Was fired at this evening, at nine o'clock, when entering the hall House, in Rue Lepellier. Some pe the streets were wounded. The ; showed himself to the people at the the 'opera house, aid was received thusiastie cheering.' He remained end of the opera. On his returnot • he was hailed by the enthusiastic c the immense multiude, who were w the streets to greet him." The Moniteut, of the 16th, says their majesties arriving at the oper explosions, coming from hollow pr were heard. A considerable numb song, who were stationed before the including some soldiers of the esco Wounded, two of them mortally. of the Emperor was pierced by a and General Roquest, aid-de-carnp'ol , peror, was slightly wounded zl ip the Two footmen were also WOU • deo. the horses attached to the Etnperor' was killed, and the carriage Was b the projectiles." The latest advice. sixty persons were wotinded, and t ed by the shells which 'weie throw - cat tinge. ' The conspiratyrs are - Italians, a arrests have been ramie. The Emperor and Einpress self T ing from the event, a4d on the full attended sOleinn THIVEXEOUTIVit M l Aststair.—Pen - has at last agreed to Provide, a ho Chief Magistrate to reside in. Go immediately signed the billfrovid purchase, thus grs s ieeftilky making last official acts a proitsion for t of his successors in office. Gov. ters upon office With it, salary of 8, annum—five hundred; more than. lock receive‘tind'alia, ndsorne ho ed for him by the atkte. He w enabled to keep up Oittle snore practicela little more hospitalitj predecessors have ben able-to aIF ri.thirg Telegraph. .1 • Tbe aditertising fori the F ernment in Illinois hall been take journals which suppoir. , Commencement of thdeieciition mentioned some tits sincer, that of the rebellious Senator would • as tlte . unpardtitiOle. in. "LATTER-DAY -DsocuA v.-- ,about, ,we, torn, nbouS we ditjnst "And every, time - South !we go." 4 ,11 .„ Ibissettaiads i the PPyiteit mustisale 'hem igvtlitt the towels, 11 Die 104400 ileptibitie4ll. C. F. BEAD if: H. H. FRAZIER. EDITORS. E. Li:#o3(l4 CORRESPONDING ENTOR . • lONTROSE. PA. Thursday, February 4, MS. pa iv- As will be seen by an aavertisement iwthis kfr. Tewksbury, the County Superitendantorill be present'diwing a portion of the next term of the Sus quehanna Counts NormA School, to aid in preparing teachers. That term, commencing on the 224 infix, it will be recollected; is the last for which the School was definitelrestabriehed. . _Dr Mr. Marsh is now engaged ht distrihuting his New Map through the County, and he requests us to mention that if all sukicribers would prepare them- 61 selves to receive their maps when called orc . it would save much time. - Dr. J. 11-Thomas, of Great Bend, has lately re. tnrned framritiludelPhia, where belies been spend: ing some months for the ptirpose of increasing his knowledge of the curative art, Ed the Homoeopathic Medical College. Dr. Thomas Is a young man of fine abilities and cultureo and we doubt not Is destined to take a high rank is his profession; while his char acter as a man and a citizen is such that, in common with all who know hint, we hope to have him be come a permanent resident of the.CountY:. la' We had the pleasure recently of exaMirlik,' at the residence of Judge Jessup; a wellexecutid model of the City of Tripoli, Syria, prepared by the Rev. 11. II: Jessup, together with a great variety of :natural and manufactured -productions of that coup; . try-'`forming a very interesting collection. All who desire to examine the model dtc., are in vited to call at the Judge's. and du so. Mr. Jessup will leave Montrose, ndxt Monday, - on his return to the field of his missionary labors in the East, and he expects to sail from Boston about the 15th inst. lie will preach in the Presbyterian Church in Ka:Arose, 'next Sunday afternoon. first, '• the d to i 01.13 1111 C I o re = I res such 'ds in very El= s. • SHAKSPERIAN RZADINGS.—air. F. MASON will read ShaksPeare's Ju 7 iva Crear, at Bloomer Hill, Wednesday evening, February 3d. lie corm% well recommended, and is highly spoken of by the press. This is the first Literary entertainment of the kind our town has ever had, and no doubt it- willdraw forth a good house. • • I cular Ise it i y are MEI 11E3 hen; iture s of oo not lyga- Er Some of the young ladies attending the High School in Scranton, lately ailed to give a crabbed mate pedestrian what be considered his share of the plank sidewalk, whereupon le" blowed !em ur. in the newspapers. They retort upon him spiritedly through the same medium; and the prospect now is that a war of extermination will be the consequence. A Most unnatural warfare! We advise negotiation. Or The Montrose Democrat•coplea from the Na fiend Era a statement that the editor expeots,'from p:esent appearances, to lose about one-third of big subscribers, Who plead " hard dins ;" and the Dem ocrat knowitigly adds, "There may be other causes thanube hard times, which operate to lessen the Era's subscription list." NThis probably refers to the "Postmasters' War" against the Republi* papers, which war the DemoCrat man doubtless supposes is proving very successful. But how will be account for the rapid diminution of his'own subscription list? and with the Postmasters and the Administration on his side too! Any one who attempts to read his paper, will find a ready answer. "The midwife laid her band upon his skull, With this prophetic blessing—Be then dal/ r • rig" Here is another nut for #re anti-Know-lioth- Jug Democracy to crack. The New. York Legiala .ture has remained unorganiied for Several , _ weeks, ., from the &Hare of the loser House to elect a Speak-, or.. The Americans, holding the balance of power. tor a !onetime refused to unite with either Heilub- Beans or Democrats ; -but at last they have united with the Democracy and elected a DentocratioSpeak er. How happens it that •the American party, both in Congress and in tbe State Legislatures, Wherever' they incline to be pro-Slavery; unite with the -Sham Democracy against the Republicans? Irseems to us natural enough that two pro-Slavery parties should unite against a FreeSoll party; but how will our Shamocratie neighbor); explain the phenomenon?— They w• 11 probably purste their minal course, and say nothing about its • in this 'fencer, sngrens liand, ashinq. the dated e Ent- I alf past gar We ask all h'Snest Democrats wbirhave doubt. cd the truth of the allegations of fraud made against the pro-Slavery faction in Kansas, to read Secretary Stanton's letter, which we publish this week. Like Gov; Walker, Kr. Stanton is a Siinthent man and a Member of the Democratic party, but party ties maid not-bind him to sustain the outrageous and,fraudu lent acts 'of the usurping dynasty in Kansas. Itow happens it that Democratic Governor after Gover nor comes back telling nit the same story of Border Ruffian outrage and perfidy? It can be accounted for on no other reasonable hypothesis than that of the truth of their allegitions. And is thre an A—meri can citizen so lost fo every principle of DeMocracy, and honesty-as to uphold such .wrongz? If so, let him sustain the administration in sustaining the Le comiton Constitution. ' Opera sons in =I 001 - 9 0 ith "en till "the idnight, eers o 'Ling in " On three ectiles; of per hentre, t,„ were 11 he hat ojectile, the Em -1 neck.— One of . carriage . 'ken by say that ree kill• at the Court IProceedingli. January 18, 11358.—Commission of Hon. David' Wilmot,President Judge of the Several C'ont i t.:of.the Thirteenth Judicial District,—of John Young, Esq.; High Sheriff of the County of Susquchanna,—of G. li. It. Wade, Esq., Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas and Clerk of the Court. of Quarter Sessions and Oyer and Tertniner,—and - of Charles Neale, Weld; of Wills, Recorder of Deeds; and Clerk of the Orphans'. Court, presented and read in open Court: Commonwealth vs. William Wigmore.,-Indict went forkeeping tippling house. Defendant pleads guilty, whereupon Court sentences him to pay a fine of $25 end eosts of prosecutlont and stand commit ted until sentence be complied with. d many ed noth wing da • - Commonwealth es. John Hollegan.—lndictment ' for keeping tippling house. Defendant pleads guilty, and is sentenced to pay a fine of, $l5 and costs - of prosecution, and stand committed until sentence he complied with. - - Commonwealth ‘7l. gdward Kernan.—lndictment for keeping tippling house. .Defendasit pleads guilty: Sentenced to pay a fine of $lO and costs, and stand committed, -,kc. Commonwealth vs. Jones Wescott:;-4ndictment for,keeping tippling house. Verdiit, Tide:ollll.y, and . that defendant pay the costs of prosecirtion. - • In the matter of anindependent-school district in Apolacon,- the Court continue the order: till heft Term. _ ' I Sylvania e for . her ; . Pollock ng for,the, no of his corn ort acker en ,000 pe. ov Pol ee provid ' I thus be Istate, and than his Commonwealth 'vs. Silas Winterse,--"lndicted for keeping tippling house. Defendant pleads guilty, ' whereupon Court sentence him to papa fine of $25, and costs of prosecution,' and stand committed till sentence be complied with. Commonwealth vs. Jas. ll:Ttnithsand Walter' C. Many.—lndictment, ConsPirety to defraud, ke.4— Veidict,-not guilty,. and that the prosecutor, :W. Kept, ply the cost& Court sentence prosecutor to pay the casts 'of the prosecution or give, security that they bkpald within ten days. and stand corn mittea'until this sentence be complied - , . Upon the-unanimous recommendation of the ßar l k -of•Einsquehanna'countY,-Nathan_F. Handy, Attornfy and. Counsellor at Law _ In the Colutty. of•BtoOttte ! l4 ___.,. Y., was sworn .and adadok4 as au-Astur,u7 'f'" 'Counsellor ; fcir the severid,:courts ttr:Oimietuutiut _ . Vommoeweahli Oird.- 6 ,meted We .1 . :1 0 . 0 1240 ,10 4n :,The talktree; ar.erat bz the Court;-aialli. (17•-Rtber6 - • eral Gov from the hieli is the I f the threat !he support ded _PNga!, We whee the further tly bathin,g mex who = the " nest ,Gaeta of Qttartirse•sionc,bi answer ke., ii;iliairo . iltpart the CouAitidiout huivehe. Comisouivealth vs. Elias liack.-:-Itelletnietit, cenT:;'Dthnilant pteads guilty, whereupon Void !entice tini 1 r that ho. return the property noten,or 'the va,laa`thareof, and pay unite awn the use of • the diuntyi Mid undergo an Imprhlorattent in .the • • County Jail foe the term of thirty :days, And stand committed_ until this sentence be complied with Cc;mmonweelth vs. Walker George Archerlti dieted for Heider. 'ln this base, whiChwasrepOrted - in the Republican list ; week,the Ceurt sentenced - the prisoner, (convicted of murder in the . secoodde., ' greeass fidlens; " That. on, *agree George Andt er, pay a fine of $5 to the ComMortirealth And die costs of prosecution, MO that: Val undergo "t'uf fin :priscmment in the Eastern Penitentiary; in the City ' of Philadelphia, for . ' the term . awl Period of. Ave . . years and three months; and, that you staid monk. ' ted until thin 'sentence beref t :implied irith.".." In this ~ atse\ the Court orderedlutt the said Wallies . Geotio _- Archer be convert:l4)y the Sheriff to the pbsiti as. signed for his,peniihment withhi t tweny days, and • „.. that the Sheriff be allowed ono asstatant. ' , . . Commonwealth vs. J. C.'Mlller.-Andietmerit;Pec. jury: Verdict, riot guilty,anil that , the- Proaieutor, .., Hamlet ligl,.,pay the costs.. . - Lethron School - District vs. Limos, Sabel District .' Appeal. Verdict for plaintiff, for W.. -- , s Elizabeth li<Fuller re. Addrew Euller.—Divorci. Court decreea divorce to libeliant from the bonds of matrimony. - ~ e . , Polly Smith vs. diatuadoy and z. - T. Wilbur.-- , Ejectment. Verdict f., Plaintiff. - '. - • • John Shiffer vs. -F. P. Hollister, StePhen C. Rey acids, et al. Trespisk N ynder the direction cf:tlar Conit, , ,Jury find for defendants: .r - • - Grow Brothers' vs. James. T. Case and 'Marcus Case.—ApneaL Verdict for plaintiffs for 417,60. - Royal Tyler vs. George Powlex.—fivenant , Jury discharged, and case continued to next tenn. Latina Wilson, by her next friend, Samuel Owens vs. %homes Wilson.--Libel lbr Divorce : Court de cree'a dlverce a vincvto mdfrimonti, de. • In the matter of Sarah Ann Sherwood, 'an unman ageable child.—Upon bearing of complaint, in the ' presence of the said infant compiained of, and lifter a careful investigation of the Ratter set forth therein, • in the presence of the said intenti.;the Cant Ceder and adjudge thesaisl Sarah Ann Shetwood to be' a 1 proper subject for, the House of Refuge for the East-- „ern Districrof T'ennsylvanikied order the Sheriff •of Susquehanna county to convey het, to the said House of Refuge within twenty dayrt.i . , Szsreses Revowno.--During the inte c‘upaign, while the - Rev. Giorge Landon t,ati de- - fenditg the cause of Freedom,' and Erne men, in La zerne county, this Shamotracy; with: Col. Wright (t11(ton-defeated candidate for Congress, and Cnileni , or) as their mouth-piece, publicly declared' s ,* "he (Landon) ought to be hung, without 4 ! 1,40 . otJury..? , We understand, through &letter fronna friend, dust the Reverend 'gentleman lately delivered. in iddr4l .before the Agricultural Society of, that county* .and .that die same gentlemen had kindly , concluded tit ~ let binrlive 9od's time. 7 . , , . - For the Independent Repitblie Reply to 64 .0. 111" • Massie, Enrroas .—I saw an article in, your. Imes - of Jan. 28th, entitled "Lip vs. Ley.". Ithich;:the writer says, "he saw aliotice, that a discourse Ras ` to be preached froth the, words, .4= . the tree fatletb., so let it lay.'" -The writer then expresSes his belief that there is no such passage in the Bible.Thechuse the writers et our English fe'rsion_understood their mother tongue too well to *say "lain for "le.' I am surprised at the above article, and suggest Wheth er it would not be well for the writer to read:More attentively, his Bible, and practice the following sen timent found there, more constantly: "thou hypo 'crite.first cast out the beam out of thine own eye ; and then shalt thou see clearly' to cast 'out the aide out of thy brothetis eye." \ , Gentlemen, I em sure you have not published any such notice, not if you followed the copy.: I wrote . the article referred to, and ;tad, the, fangstage as it was pier% to me: It was hot 'stated' that ibm.lan gunge Was ht the Bible,' and I hope neither die 'gen tleman or the community, will hold me respected& for languageysed by others. • If be thinks I'do not knoW.therditterence between • " ant . "Het in their use, I only say, that la an . oliesSfocitisiq • be desires to discuss it, he Shan ItOkbOralmsM. , , - - 41 ..` Ctlifelleir:— For the burepend;ii I.l4l4flease: ThwPoet's Corner. • • - . _ Why is it-that the “ pciet's corns!: one devoted to originality, is usually Wes' inhirelding: than the advertisements' Why Is it the meet' and forseker, of all the newspaper 'corners; forever; haunted by the 'ghosts of murdered thoughts, elicit have been entrapped, tingled; aid strangled -- in the is • cobwebis of rhyme? The ressonS why ire mkt*. There are bet few Bierary spiders ...to wink sidsi cobwebs of this description. Tie writing of rhyme requires little more than a permutation and Cambia; , ntion faculty, for the choice and arrangonnitit of words. Very passable verlification maybe" , .plishid by an individulithe higheitifight;of "whose . imagination is the inigibl idea that he le' el 'poet.— Thoughts of any magnitude are very troublesome to spin around; and those who possess thensoncy splu s lio unskillfully that they seldom survive enclo sure in theweb. This is either became the ,poetry • of the writer is unfit' for thought, or betimase the thought is unfit for poetry. Such a s tme might Write prose, perhaps. • Some writer has Written that those who write s; par eery can write better prose: Not as n mister, of course, my dear sir, whose name I have tniotten,—. The style of thought required for the. one 11,11/erst froth that necessary to the other as trout, front snack= erel, which are both fishlet swim in different water. An idea immortal in verse, immersed in' prose, s dies. as inevitably as a Minnow in . 11 pot of- pickle ; .and mettla grand conception is measured anikraetred to - an extinction as lash:Timms as the drowning of e'dol! phin in it barrel of rain water The princiPal evils. . of newspaper poetry seem to tie; first r rhyme wi out reason; second, reason without rhyme; end thirdrreapon Unfit for rhyme. The .following •stanT, as/ contain: illustrations of all three, on which ac count I have taken ittii liberty of.their prosetttetkin Seen through the ' Ea °- • • • ~ `The snow, the snow, the feathery snort Is falling . downwarAsoft and Plow: ;1, The sky is gray ;. tins'earth below Is whitened by the. folling'snow. '"\ '. '.-- .. . ` .. How little Sue enjoys t he treat,. To see old pussy cross the street, - ''. With dainty step and look discreet, - • As much in fear of dampened feet. . . Each pointed picket,.ftr and near, '.., •1- • • Wears crest like I'oland chanticister.A The roving schoolboy-searce could fear '.. - -His trowsers torn in ellifibingtere. ._ ' , , _', , I, •• • • / . 1 hemlocks, with gisir• itrooiiing awn! ,' 7 . - AU folded in the downy charms', - ' Watch on the hill, , ,like•pluit'd gendinnes, The'whitened acres of the farms.• How ast the starry flakchtts fly. - - The summer floWers are corpses dry, -• • - And• with the Weeds fbrgotten lie; .= I , - ' . Beneath these *Arts of the'eky, • , Arid is there aught more pure and meet 1 i TO be the daisy's winding sheet: - 1 -To fold the pine tree's;tassel sneet, .. • - c Or bold the print of snowbird's feet.? - ... .... . . Enclt snowflake seems an sin' sprite;;. .; i - The•ghost perhaps of fairy might, ' , -Fsuitastle.in the breezrffight, . , - 'Or waltzing round the eddy light` ! ••‘ : Bright, gentle spirits, loving ..-:,:" -'. The Etir•and homely, ehOrt and tali,.- ..*. Alsoftly on the old' stone ill?, ~,1 ". ' . 4 1 4 s on'a lady's brown., they fat: - • tellittft ' Hers the effusion - exiles:int an. apptradi?*titn nteditateditermlnition,- probably tolo tbst Ow • --• ' auttior's being unnige to find , irt•. 1 111110 this would AVM% $ ****lii*fificlifto l et **ON lit . . . . . „ • . 1,1 400,t !* wlittlth ' -.- - ' % -1 ( 4145 c \ ' LE C 3
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