i nUdei r theidniinistration of Thomas Jefferson, ire great aposile, on the 14th of April, ,1802,- 'the term of residence previous to naturalizii• ,eon, was restored to five years, what it had ;been Under General Washington, and - where ithas ever since remained. • No, fellow•citizens, the Father of his COuntry was never a Native American. This American excellence' never belonged ter. him- • 4 "The Fuginve Slave Law is all the South • tias obtained In this r compromise of 1850, - - !t, *gli law founded both upon the letter and the Ipiiit•of the Constitution, and a similar law has *silted on our statue books eversince the Admintstration ot Gen. Washington : — . 11istUry teaches ns that but To r -the provision in favor of fugitive slaves, our present Con= iititution never would have existed. Think To that the South will ever•tainely surrender f theiigitire' slave law to Northern fanatia; and lAholitionists. " . "And now,' fellow citizens, what a glotious partYthe Democratic Party has ever been!— Man rabid the being of n summer's day, whilst principles are eternal. , The generations. ' of mortals; one after' the other, rihe,and sink, and , .are - fOrgotten, but the principles of Democracy, .which we bare inherited from our revolution ary fathers, will endure to blest . ' mankind throughout all generations. Is there _-any - Democrat within the aimed of My voice, ~ is there any Democrat throughout the . broad limits of good . and great old Democratic Is'enteryliania,.witiO' Will abandon these sacred principles:for the'sake of following in the train of a inilit4try conquerer, and shouting for the heretrof. Lunde,' ' Lane, Cerro Gordo, , and ChaPuttepec.;.." , • And When. the campaign resulted inti nriaph; President Pierce tendered to .:air.-- Buchanan the leading foreigtfmission, which was a ccepted.. Circumstances have transpired, within the -last few, years, tonoke the - Amer . icarrinissionlo the Court 'of St. James ,inge larly important, and it has happened that, during Mr.. Buchanan's stay . in Lotrdem, several great questions of ak.exatious and complicated 'character. have di.ittubc f l the interconrse between thettro countries. how ester important to bath the - cultivation of continued peace and good will, the fact that Great Britain seesour. growing prgre.is with jealousy and alarm, and' the fact that we. behold her pragmatical interferetif!e upoft this- COO i °cut wherever an opportunity ispresented Ito . her, With indignation, render our relations iwpitl' r Great , 'Britain of. the: inoq deliCa‘e Chsracter. , The very intimacy of onT.l.ensiness . Contiesions eonstituting- as it does the cord witieh bind's us together, is apt, moreover, . to coitus in conflict with political considerations, and !the commercial attraction, so to speak, throwa,intodangerous neighbol'hood Ettglitdi ambition on the One hand and American prOgress on the other; It has become .prov erbial that the selection of a 'wise, able and experienced man to. represent the United , -States'nt the British Court, ,is one of the first duties ofan executive, hardly secondary to the • election of its ow-n chief :cabinet ministers, , beeinso the, English mission is always i ntern felyJnoportant to the immediate int e rests of • our people, During the trying . bane of.- Mr.. 13achanan'S -ore 'nation seem to:have '.becorne with.-the imper , tan . o and justice of ns. They felt that in; the .Ainericati . r they .; "had- .st man upon whose safe - charat3tefe 'counsels they could Confidently ' lean. . Their. eyes were constantly fixed uponhim. .Every 1 , steamer brought news 'occasioning the great- . eat' anxiety to the commercial 'and other. .' daises. On more than one occasion colEti-on seethed to. he inevitable, ,but every _panic pits* off. :- Th 4 'correspondence of fir. Bu : 1 cbnniin, such of it as - has been published, ; ! exhibits . on his part a vigilance, a discretion,. an 'lndustry, an at the same time a, dignity !of Character., that have made his name a Hfaverite name in 'every section of our beloved ; Union. In the 'later troubles which have given rise to so much excitement and di..;cus.. , sion in Congress' aud the country, Mr. lin- 1 . .chanan his towered in all the, dignity otbis ..high character and intellectual superiority. : .'lle, will leave his post to give, way 'to, 'his • successor, bav , ing.establisbed renewed kind relations between the two votintries, and i hiving fixed upon the hearta,ciftlie Engli.li tr.: _1.„ . ',.:1ti the impress of a republitin character, 71 - ;..;'-. 1. 4 - ihicti baa never, for a single inOinent, yielded '....itS simplicity.. and _iti, truth - to aristocratic - ~.- 7144ndishments. Courted and __flattered duririrr hii stay, he studiously abstained from paying '. . trikate to English vanity. Inall circles, and °trail-Occasions, die displayed his American dignity; and his American palriwism. , Never gratuitously obtruding his country or her - : ' advantages, be never. hesitated to speak of ber as one speaking of his parent ; nor was he ever actuated kv any spirit of offensive partimnalnp., 'As he came plain, untitled,,! i . unpretertiling American eitiied.- The highest :clames tried with eneb.other to 'do him honor; and on a threatened collision between the • 1 - • - , two countries .alattried the people of both, his presence aritong the populace of - London was- greeted - with - - cheers, on evidence that, • - i : , howeverrpartiiiii may intrigue, : otte honest, , atraiglitforwaril patriot is mire to hold a high Plane in the atections of the masses. . H .One -- great: - reason why Mr. .13irelianan's :thatiejs..at This moment so acceptable to his I ..touritif..s,-itert. ".is,, because he stands before I iheil:l,l4l,,merey he an- eminently chimble, but 0 ri 3 OZimilierstlyz7fe mail. In, the grow.? ' ing greatness of our it:public, its. incmasingi Importance, commercially and., p4litiiially, it. j . 'extended and .extending. relations with o:hst • : pot ern; to'speak 'o f the efforts of reckless , . agitators against the Constitution, anti all the vetitirity'apd guarantees of our domestic -sate , • .'•,ty and trinquilitr, we tee the evidences that: 'such *limn tvoniti be - able' to confer sigaat ; benefits upon ;tilt American people in the li'residen..itil Chair. For the first time in manY years ire behold in the person .of :iitints ilticliens.n,,a statesman - who cotnbinss I - the. rare,quality .of havi i g been' among the veryfnit, in every etnergency . ,,, to I take the. most prOwieSsive view of every great question 1- - • r" . ' Iftld vet. of - being able to preserve,in the midst . . ~ -i of umbel:Dement:kg ,the bearing, and to .1- ~ erovie the :influence of a sagacious And well - - poisetdemoc . ratio statesreaue .'ibis thi..4, coin , - bietathin'tif elements wliiet hawawakened the - favorable sentiment of those classes of chi- , - ' sons 'who look for a wise and- . judicious Ad . - ministration of the Federal Government,' and whieb., has., also gathered around lain, the yawn juld :genmons sympathies of the vim ' stitittients who confide iti . _bits progressive in .: stitiets; as illustmteo through - all his long 0 end Mutations Career.. • ' ~ 1 .-- : . '` .- - ' Thera i! !not nosf,:to be Contalys reasonable man - - .' of the in Any:part 0 _e Union, who does out believe - `that - Mr. Bachilan's nomination FeitTalie'iliceeeded by hii; certiia and IA; - -staiphatrtrelentiOn. - _ To the South be presents i-40! , teitiOmsialititt; even. irv'the- ,tglttest . ..4ktoie i irit4Abitisitieh induced this '. &Nth ''; ! ern>delegatei toioti for. Into so long and - to steidilyin the Demoeratier.Ouventioa of '('2, Neor ast*, hest:arida Path - the .unCompro -. misineeneti)7 IA dieie enemies ; .the devoted.. ..advocate of ;their OoMititOtional riibts.. To: • : the•NOrthwasterisStates _be proems the . un - . : . .•111dliid Istickid'. 4 one-.who.' bee - tO.o twl witli-•:- their own .plotteer: i , . Gm•3o4 l lWopetting:iito Witt fiestASkritiwiew tO-Omtimerelloil Mvilikkiksi.' The -*nitwit wr fWaterW States lino* hint'its shei:ahstopio#: lof theif-nights'Arhero Mesa: Were tierlik>4lo' ' British. rapsteity . :- While - in Vie saddle States T: tell)e ready enitiflitsj Ilieiliinesiorith, ^4 , • s' i , 1 - v ~ 1 , no disrespect to, Other eandidatei. that he is this day regarded as -the very striongeitt, man -1 whom the Deritocracy Could Wominate - for the Presidency.:', The divided political hoitse= hold of our political frietids in New- York *mild, - we believe, find-in his name, the 'olive branch of banns:My and team; the- I.lemo crita of Ohio, would, under his' banner, ad ' vance to that victory which their patriotic efforts so - well deserVe l ; and Pensylvania, standing between these two gigantic States, would pronounce for' such a candidate, with such a majority as would the days when these three Commonwealths constitut ed the very fortress of the DeMocratic - party in the,. free States. , During Mr. Buchanan's absence oUnearly three years, while politics raged at hotue, he.' proudly abstained from interfering with the, irtrtiggle for the Pres idential 'inceession.— Fiom the time he set fOot on 4riglis-13 Soil, lie wrote back to his friends, that :in no -,contin g-e'ney would he, platie himself in the field as . a candidate for the_ nesideney. There was nothing of grief in this , resolye, nothing ,of diSappointed'arribition, It was the calm and deliberate judgment of :a mind! which, having looked carefully over, tale political 'past and 'future, had comp to the • conelu4on that the day_ for the scramble Tire Presidential ihnnors had passed aviay, at least with him, at d that he was deterniined tti apply himslf to other', pursuits. We assert', that, if by .every vate letter, written from lindon since absence. by James Dirohanan,l in•lthe' unsus-.1 peeting confidence ofj his .hear, 'should now . , lip published, and laid before the Ameti - csin people, there Would- not be l found one line;,. no, not one syllable. inanifestium a desire fuel die nomination of the - Derimeratie 'Conven . tion. or suggting ithy 'way by Which inioliti.he obvtined by hiMielf. Even bin haS liecoma formidable as a eandinat.., his letters are aniiroited !by the same generous spirit. And the•terY f;tet, •;` ; that ho has taken this com-se frjm a oinscieutious, belief that it would he out Of place for him to struggle fot the nomination, has Made lam acceptable tO thwnasses in !every part-oflour country. Al). sent he is, it true,; but his image:-is before their eyes %,!herever they go.. In dicta jt it is trite, .but counsels have been • felt as if he were present itinon'g us. Con -i tending with the giants of foreign diplomacy, it is true, but the -thoughts iind the • words lib left behind, rtre his' living ,representatives.- 1 - The people *ill judge of him by the .regard, by the even tenor 'of his' life, by the spotbils ,purity of his !character, by his unditanted triotli4n, nod: by the trophies with %Illicit he returns to hii-riativ,e shores, to be crowne4,4s, we confidently hope, with the highest honors of the Republic: . - • • • igutrose pemocrat. ERE 62 ST , CIRCtiLATInt+ IN NORTHERN PEICK'A E. B,'CLIASE, • rose, Thin r4dtty. April 21, 1.1986 • i von, PREFDEST. 3AI.IIIES BUCIIANAN.' Subject to the decision 9.,f-the National t'On. - • Desiocratic , State Nomtnations. Foti. CANAL COMMISSIONCR, GEORGE i SCOTT, of Columbia Courtly. FOR ACDITOR ,JACOB. FRY, 3U., iI of '.Voragunzery County F9 I R SL'EVErGIt GENERAL. 411310T11V IVES, of Potter County. lar The 'Poem of J. F. S. will appear neat week. It was overlooked until too, late for this number: 11anrna's . '11.io.tamg...4 The May nuMb'er • - of i tLis_ well conducted' Magazine came to filled „ 'rind prosziptly— ;with choice reading Matter and the nee , sarie4 for a • good book. Addrefis Wm. ; PATTON, or_ 'll.oasze T. City. - ! • i rlr Last', meek, in a parairaph or a4,w we reiterated didclaitn.tr which we made in December last; that we hn , l not hi- tended, in the articles we have written, Tr-fet ing to the interferenee'of Judge Wilmot '..in political conteas, to charge him wit!) corrup tion in the discharg6 of his duties .on the Beuch,—thatis, we had never intended -to dtharge him With going on to the Bench .7 in the discharge of his Judiciid duties with corrupt intent- to decide causes from political parti.lity:or bias. This disclaimer Peons- to have been underatood to relinquish, on our part, the prfriOple ofian-interference by the Judiciary inixditical contegs, which weliavc b 0 tenaciously discu4ed in the past. Tbrre who supperc this, are:entirely Mistaken. Afie have not relinquirhed that principlewe - . i have not, closed our press against - its di:euss ion, nor have we compromised our manhood or integrity in that particular at all, nor need anyb..xly have the keit applebension that we I shall do so. !; We safd little it re any molast I.week than we have said in subitance a hun dred times Verbally, and several timei, in our 1 paper since these diffiCalties broke out.to wit, 1 that we had:never intended to chats Judge Wilmot with wilful corruption, io-any Of its forms, in the discharge of hia..duties on the I3ench. . Last December, before any Grand Jury had taken action on the subject, we used the following explicit language. ' 7 We have not charged, .or have Ire intended to .- 1 . charge, Judge Wilmot with wilful corrtiption in' the diseharge of his duties: - on. the Bench, for we haste; not, seen anything to Is-errant thaycharge.;" . We then laid dowq,the posi tion which we had - occupied'and should 6C-' cupy for tlitifuture. i We Said we eared. not how pure the motives and intentions I of. a Judge might be on the Bench, the 'evils re salting (WM impropei Cmdnet ofilte:lkriek were just ar, dire'and fatal in their effects as thoughAvunnitted in the legitimate discharge of his Judicialp duties, , and - tliat fOretnost among those improprieties, -stood that of ma t king . hituielt a heated partizan - in the party contests Of the diy.,l-_We said that . when a Judge, kaillitenday 1 night.ot each ter* of Po* eigalldoirs tmpt - 14. ; Bench And ad • - 1440/ s a'a c itod iicntifia - an **Wiwi *saner, PCilll:lng out AenunOti9t, 91 those.ot B - . "te opinions - strict pirif aaaseationii, and • ag iSat okeilkaakgas* T imm*, of -thißaris daily risioth* bean. hisa, iii*Pebi , , - _ . exciting hestrt•burnings, contentions and per sonal and' partizan bitterness in the twin mu -Div about him, even though, if it wore_ pos sible, lie might go bark •upon . the Bench :with intentions as paresis an Angel's thought, in the adtninistmtion Af Justice, still the pub- lic confidence *se none the legs' wy‘kent4 in the 'parity of the Judieiary,. and the ,Judteia ry itself none the less degraded a nd re p ro a e b 7 . ed. We said that when* Swigs. indulged in such conduct,. disappointed suitors in his Courts, and their friend', found reason on which to base charges of partiality and bier reason -which they could enforce with arguments plausible to the public mind; and, diet thus, however pare "might be the inten 7 Lion of the Judge, the influence and dignity, of the Bench would be demoralized, prestra... tod anti ruined, Tliii i 4 the precise ground upon we Owed ourself in reference to Juage months ago, and we there fore had les.s reluctance in saying what we did last week. - _ Judge Wilmot had brought, two suits against us, more as we hay: no doubt,through the influence and ini'portunities of our friend Jessup than of his own volition. We .were about bringing suita against them, and suits too that would have developed someunpleas ant transactions, for we had no disposition to stnud still' and be rained' without a Vigorous efrott at least to defend ourselves' and over- wheitn our adversaries. We foreimv, as any contd, that irthis • stale.of things was. persisted in, this . whole people Would s he in-* vowed in the most terrible party struggle on record,—a struggle that would make the J udiciary a party to the. worst passions rind in : fluenees of human nature. And though the final resuk, personal to ourself, never gave u s moment's trouble, still. we felt that the pub lic tranquility and; interest had dim that. otight.not to be disregarded, and that F such .B,eouteit - could beavoidud without sacrificing the tight and freedom of the press, it was a duty to avoid it. We did. not feel like being in any way instrumental • in bringing about such a contest in this.connty until 'absolutely forced to do so. 'Under such circumstances 'the proposition' was ,made. We could not conceive that it compr,artised us personally, or the rights of the Tress, for lac had substan tially disclaimed the same, thing for mouths, in the paper and out of it. We accepted it feeling that howeieOwtn might view it, .for the moment, the returning sober thought would convince theta of its propriety. At least, if not thus convinced they will admit that "to err is hnman,—to ,forpire Di- EDITOR • rine." • 1 . . _ As to our lalper, - tione of its oblizaiions to the public hare -be l en compromised, nor a ptincipie it_ has ever, advocated relinquished.. So far as Judge Wilinotis concerned,: all we have ever asked is that,' while he" !ilda the position of Presiding Judge, he shall observe those proprieties dui., the ii•ultlie sentiment in' all times and, in all °unifies hive deinanded.. from that place: •We shall conduct no per- - sonal-quarrel against him through 'the press. nor burtheu the public with our . personal dif-. ticultiei. We dettiand that the Judiciary . shall,' like Caesar's Wife,. be s not only pure-lint above suspicion. This can only be pieserVed where our Judges carefully abstain from, in terference in those Conflicts of opinion -and of - • men, incident ' to— aI- government like ours, 1 where the mass of die 'people. arrayed unde'r ! a difference of opinion anti obj. ! et; periodic ally lending to excesses of 'feeling, essay - to guide the destinies of the most powerful .na tion on the. globe.l And ohenever Judge 'Wilmot, or nn3 oilier Judge, refusing to re gard.this just and iwholes'une rCstiaint, de grades his office add sets the public. good at defiance by such al course of. conduct as, rte litiVe denounced itt the past; we -shall contin ue to denounce, re',rove and condemn - it in all -ways and formi of discussion proper for the press to empl,6v. . . . We hare said taus much because . we felt forced to do so, to allay the apprebenSions of friends and disarn i the abuse of our foes.— We trust it may n!ecompli4l; its object.. Mr. I3ycnANAi iz .expected to, arrive in New YOrk tlas Wee k by the Ammo. The no - thoritiee of the, City have appropriated . a I bap sum of money to give - him a public re ception. which will probably ho one of the most imposing evr accorded - to a private cit- men. Mr.,B. now occupies the• most envikble po sition that a public man ever attained in this • Republic. Ile has lived to -silence the voice of calumny, and to -know that a life lime of devotion to the honor and interests of his country has attrotecl the'gratitude and ven eration of a great, and generous people. *At of / onri,erninent statesmen have passed away, while partisan bitterness was at its height,— have not lived to convince their country of their disintereued patriotism, but Mr. Bu, ehanan, in the full tide of health and vigor, sees the fullest vindication of his fame accor ded by the heart of his countrymen. Ile has, indeed, reached the summit of earthly great ness. No accumulation of honors can add one iota to his fume. If called soon to pre side over the 'destinies of .t!te Republic, it will be but a sacrifice on his par,—but another evidence of lus unselfish devotion to his Colin try #. On him are the eyes and hearts of th'e asses turned, as the man for the pres - - - ent erisis. , Let-politicians beware how they thwart the people by arts and management. sir We phtee at the head of our paper to-day 'our colors for 1856.. We had thought of delaying this till the National`Conrention should Meet, but have finally made up our mind that Mr. Blielnutan's nomination is a filed fact, and that ire shall not therefor suf-• fer.the ittcwitileMioewf taking . down..= We honestly that with' our present nominees for State. and•Buehanan for, President, this State can be,oarried by fort thousand majorlity.• uOnvieni ,to "'dory' rt Cir Oa aunlou of R. 11,14iitlis Zit, Wok. M. Post eras adaiittsvil tolintoiaa,law f!" several,ourts et Alai:S*4y at-iliklaria teal. 110 1111110 • Sr Hon Jaws Oati,vasaio Pest Wok General; bas oar dataka for. valuable docit meats: sprat plewa: F'"?' •Or The Biadford . .,„Reporter ist severe in its way upon- us for : 'our remarks upon the Union t.lottvention and the course of Judge Vl'ihnut with : , reterenee to it. Leaving the Reporter to thn'field - -_9f argument . ;in which nature has so eminently fitted its Editor - to live:—and to the nee otsuch, epithets as "fool, kunce,",./kc., - proi•eed briefly to, notice some points passed over in our other article . on this subject, s. Judge Wiltnot is, or assumes to be, the head and fror4 of the .Republican patty of thistate, and as chairman •of the State; Convention, issued a call for it SI:11Q COllVell lion of that party, in June, at Phil:1 . 0106;0 1 1 On the very heels of that call this Union Con- vention as it to natnetf,. - but really called by the Know Nothing members of the Legisla ture,'lnet at Harrisburg, said we find- Mr. WilinUt present, an a c tive participant in' its doings.. -The vote on Mr.. Inszloon's Reptiblicau Resolutions showed. but 18. lte . ptitlicen delegates. The platform :of the Convention was a ! recorded falsehood, and the Convention itself n fraud. They set fo'rth as the basis of their platforni this proposition, that "the only true bond of political "action is agreemenOn pri,n4le," and then set forth that agreement, and put.their candidates in nomination. Now if the pr position of their platform was not a . falsehood .when applied to. that Convention, wh . v, were its members divided under different names I Why too were the Republican Resolutions of Mr. Ing- liain suminiqy dispir'sed of I And why call . it ii Union Convention,. for if there was no diversity of [Political opinion, there, could be no demeOts'of disunion ! _ ' But there was a diversity of sentistent in that Convey ti .n on the slavery ,question, for the Republi!cans, or free ; wilers' ;)roper, com posed, as shown by the vote on Ingliam's Resolutions; just just One Oh - 'of the Convention. The balance was made up mostly of Know Nothings, with a few old line, or pro-slavery Whigs. - Mr.. -Phelps, the candidate fir Atßi tor Geheral is , :an out and.out Fillmore Know Nothing and so claimed by the 47 Fillmore presses_uf the State. Mr. Cochran, for Canal Ciontnissiditer I:1ml old line natiOnat Whig, , who according to the statement cf Mr. Grow, when last here, was so flinch opposed to the free soil KMiw Nothing ticket last fall, that he voted What•the free soiiers Ca:led the Ne braska ticket. that is, foie Arnold . Plainer, Chr . ..Democratic noniinre for Canal . C:ortrniss-: jotter! Laporte, for Surveyor General, is a rampant Abolitionist and a Know Nothing, void of ability and- destitute of manhood: The pros slavett majority of the, Convention put him on tolcatcli free soil Votes, bacilli no 6sitencv in doing so, because he is to feeble to give character to the ticktit one way cpr, the other.: This is the ticket that Mr. \Vit. ' tpot helpeiil.fix up at. ilairislturg, • and which: expeeti his free soil friends to. support:--- 7 Cam they !luso! Can they as censetentiqs, men prufeSsing to be goVerned - only by : prin; ciple,--cat'a they:- support .this - nomination If they - can And do, we :never want them tik talk Ofi rintiplo again to us:: e like to ktmw how the/ can support : a pro ' - slavery KU u'w Nothing, making no pielen; pious to gee. soil, and :a pro-slavery Whig' Alio, Mr. :',Grow, says, Toted the Nebraska Pe:ma:fade ticket lasi fall, and yet be too good, tooTure, too holy to vote for a nation= al Penwell And .we 'would..like to knoW how it is t tat Mr, Wihnot eati :coalesce with • •j pro-slavoy elementslike these in loving em, .brace, anti vet •so Struck with lwror as suipporting Democrats holding similar viewp ,on,:davery, but . 'agreeinl; with his proftissed .principles on other questions of vital import .mice to the welfare of the yountrv 4 If the Reporter can lay , aside - its Cittyll•boy epithets for once, we should like to Late it ausue: these que . - r i Again; what, Intaint;iis had Mr. Wilinqt in that Convention 'He professes not to lA long to the Know Nothing. part,—why then coalition? - Ile had - ended a Convention. Of his party to nominate State ufficifri, itr June. Why, then, like a manly, • st.raight forward ''/politician did he not wait till the time he had -,,appointed, instead. of first put ting the Olndidates to be nominated by the Jime Convention - through -the Knoll , .Noth ing trill l lA .this the conduct •of a man wh)se whole soul is burning with 'an intense flame of principle, or is it the mere trick of h small politician, ,determined to carry his points regardless of the . tneans used Let the peoplejudge I SuPpoiie Mr. Wilinot bad attended the Democratic *Convention; and: proposed -'to unite his . free soil forcesovith the Democratic party 'oacondaton that his protege, Laporte, should be placed, on the ticket' for Survey, or • c General,; With two men for thiother offices who Make no pretensiont to free soil, and that such conditions had been ace4pted„ ; would Mathe,be: in a position - just as conris.= tent as now., Every honest-judgment Will answer 'es! And yet wst think the free sOil, ers of this District would hardly 'sustain. snobs, a Coalition. - The truth is, this Whole Union Convention besineSS is - one grand genre of deception, just. asjwas the ras.smorebWillinmson fraud Of this party last fan: They 'dare not male's °contest without the aid of the, KnoW • Nothings, for by doing' so they would show Co'd'e world their pitiable weakness State. .One can ,respect their ptutience in this respect, while it is utter ly lv bnpossible to lock upon the fraud which" they endeavOr to in pose upon voters with any other thaw feel iligs of abhorrent contempt. . . itir /Au P. li** a late speeefi at il artfoid said 40 ant . give a cent to .minister without pirtittar This is unilouht 4dlir true, for, ai,tlmiiiustois Post well save s j all he wants of n asiulatais his polities And since this is thf_ . p?liily of our opponents 141 hle our blot *Opts similar piaci and ire bothiiiittiiirifekviAa support of a minimal; who Ouititatithi'-pilitius into pul- A Doeue*Fazoo.'-ltriaatantd that Doc tor Dubaiit, who altandet* Dupree 'Euge ne in bar ionflaeaseit' featiiired -five - hun4red thcosand fnmei-inst * bandied thototand dollars—for his serricee:` 1 1 0 1 •gre 41 . N ' aP°le 00 only gave half the stutefe Ace father. of Dot** Dubois; when 1000 in the 'sand eapacity at the birth ottbOtiq of Rome. There is do doubt that, the country is . nOw passing through the most important crisis in its histbry. True there hive been times when, all its energies have beeti - availed by foreign! foes, hot in those comests; though ' their his-: tory hits been written in blood, laid their consummation in trinmph_ and riniqiiitglory; in none of their terrible terms, did j they ever threaten 'ro permanent disaster to. the country. as tiotiriihe internal strife !now 'wfiging be tween contending Sections. - . Those : were time:i. of ;peril, but they milted • energies and hearts of the whole people in defense . of their' con u trY unit-11er institutions. In such • - a contest defeat would . . only humiliate, not de-troy ;but now ive see the fell spirit of "selisiOn rioting in the dom e stic tranquility, ther4yiurelyunderniinitig the .veiry founda, tion ;of the goveinment. There is Inot to-day. one . tenth of that love of country , that fra , • ternal affection—that bogy reverence for our country that. there existed in the' hearts of the people five years ago. This• is; a fact that. should arrest the attention of.evoly patriotic citizeut, Mid-that sho..ild determine{ him.to go work%vith untlaging 'zeal to tit - tin back the tide oftli,4:ster now threatening to engulph tlie, peaCe, happiness, and liberties!' of the peo ple' , We shall find the cruise . of the Prese . nt gloo 'my state of things in the agitation of the Sla very question. here is the root of the evil, and it is now bearing the bitter emits of dis cord and fraternal hate. The man who-cx presses-indifference and unconcern asl to the final result of this agitation, sinitsi,s . himself to be indifferent to the 'welfare 'if nig, the very existenee of government. Let this agita tion 'continue two years loncrer'wth the saute Intensity tnat it has spread ftir Vivi) years r ;asis, and we will be in the midst of evil' war.— . folly,,,nay, s ,nrirdness to cry " no danger," . - when we t ee daily about us the most ineon trevertable evidence that the rank upas-poi son of disunion and mobocracy has taken hold of the ;very vitals 'of the re)putar heart, and that bad men are rioting upo' n the credulity and unbridled passions of the'rnithitude... We state facts and upon thorn ask coal re flection: We affirm that not orte act ;if posi g,Coa has ever been accomplished for hu manity or our conniTy by the -slavery agita tion ;i but, that on the other lined, it' has al : ways resulted disastrously to eve principle Of philanthropy, : and._ brought the Country facto to face with the giant Of 'disunion, • an archy' and des p otism. When the Confedera tion Was formed, every state salve one held /slaves. The fathers of the Republic wisely adopted the pelicy of leaving tae' institution to the 7oVereignty of the atatelt, land the sole -responsibility of municipal - lawp They ply conditioned fur the restoration - of Ingi tives on the same principle that we make treaties : of comity with indepearlent • nations, for the states were - in Me relat‘n of indepen dentH nations to each other. The Constitu - 1 • I tion I, w as a mere treaty of-alliance, and sav e in this partiCulah it studrouslY avoided nia king itself a party to the instittition of slai.ery in any shape, leavingit entirely to the•Fstates whore it existed.- *Under . pie spirit of the Constitution the work of gradtial..emaneipa tion; was going on,--had: been perfected - in every northern State, and had •reacited with its i nfluence the Slates elf Maryland ; Virginia, and Kentucky. - when northeb, zealots not raiment to ribidn the sure operlitions of tinny, seized the question as one of 11014ieat power tied; demanded Congressienal rtiterference.-7 This came, as Thomas Jefierton . said, " like a fire bell in the night," :startlihg the whole souih, impelling them to 'a equise of self de fente.,'unil they then demanad the ptotec tion and inierferenee of the eieneral• crovern ' • • ment, in behalf of the institutron. . Thais has 'the agitation sprints , up and griiwn in strength and fury. Both sides are Wro i ng—both sides are. wit bout the true pale of constitutional' construction, and - the spirit; in which . the foundations of the gcrvernment were laid, for therjcannot be found either.in the letter or spirit of the Constitution a single clause *in, any 'way a party to the institution any shape—for or against it. *. - We have said that' no po4tiVe good has •res'eltell from the agitation ofithis question.— We appeal to history and to facts. When the people of the States nerr : controling the question in their own gay, without interfe renee, emancipation . was marching -onward with a steady and advancing tread. It ac cornplished its work in every" norther7n state, and was gradually working its way to the very heart of the South. • chary hand • Was,. ta .king steps to rid herself of shivery, Kentucky with her patriotic; Clay was, devoting Irer'en 7 ergiestO the same work, and ' i au Act of grad-- ual Etnancipation Came wit h nine votes of passing the : Legislature of Virgini a I • • To day that veyyrAct could not rec i eire: one vote. in . that Lodi. -Why this great . change.? Be cause reckless men took up the, question as a pOlitical hobby, sought to. make the general government the instrument lof accomplishing their purposes,comtne need tis agitation there, awakened the south to a defense of-whit they considered their rightti,. 4rove.them_ to the work "of fortifying : the" institution, as a matter of self-preservation.! And thus has -the agita tion goneon ; riveti ng the cliaintijof the• Slave and involving the .country still deeper in all the excesses' ofl• sectional strife! Not a single free 'state - hao been made by it : but, on the contrary, it is! constantly pro claimed by those whir are pitshincr on the ag i prttion in the North, that the South pas al ways triumphed in Congmss whenever the question has been acted tipiCri there in • -a po litiCAil form. Why then insist on Gingrerks- . ions) interference I • Why . i insist on feeding the flame that is . burning. Away the very heart of the national happi nets and repose 'MI insist that the country shall be contitant ly itoneulroot with an agiuttion• that is sap pint; • ate fon nclat iona of thii government and constantly adding to the iriumphs of slave inatitutionsi *.WhY not iplace the ban political death on sigi triton+ Nortivninl Son th; and bring back the goseirnm ent the - Itiql phr principles upon which ft wan 'emoted t.c. The democratic party mud 414 thit.Wlol, ark auk commence it by plat" in . the F44o43q live Chair nextNevernhe a Stnteetnen tit the,chi SchOol, ItitpolietWnr• intellect and n haranter will well ttrtiund him. the in► ! .t . trintistn. of the nntlntry+ltuth wen ,as AMEB.BI3OO I SOI - - say- We publish to-day a eamintini from " ohi Lenox" a neighbor of Mr. I GrOw's, on•the.s objectof that gentleman's political coarse. It seems . from. this that there- are Fume DeMocrata left in Lenox, not*itlisand 7 ing the boast Of Mr. Grow's friends t4t he would 'take a dean vote in that- town. 'We have_ been used to - regard the .I:;)emo orats of Lenox as pretty independent' riquded men, but it has.been given out here 'thir. Mr: Grow would control the 'whole vote there, - Ita king them body:and soul over to the arms of the opiksitiou. We are glad .to be attired that the Democracy, of that township are • 'posed to succumb to the influence' or i dicta tion of no tnUn; 4dt' them show, Mr. IGrow. that they are against him when wroM .its:strookly as.they, have been fur hitor . -right Communiciitioits. li ou.• G. A. GrAv. . . .._ Ma. EDITOR :—Will you be; so kind I rts to I publish the few remarks old' Lona haS; to Of fer upon the above . named indi4luitil. Be- , cause old Lenox feels a little .down . :bt the heel, in regard to the course whitih Mr. Grow has taken in the 'political :field.l Well does she rememner the gteat turn outs she gave hint, and how she showed her zeal in, his boludf, and felt proud when he wasl/ lifted up-and took a scat'at Our National -dit r itol. • 1 Now. Who can blame her for gettiogia little roiled up,come to see the course, whiOt . . her loilOved and cherished Grow has, taken: He has left the party she - admired. •Ho lass left his great" Democratic Piinciplet that he .used - to tell about. He has left , them and gone—W.here - -has be gone ! 11e • has gone over 'to. that party - that:he so elotptenqT Warn-1 1 ed his. constituents to look out for—lO' be • on I thi:ir guard against, Se. Can . this dbe, so I ICan this be the Grow.who so eloquently de-. claimed the great cause of DemberacV? l'e, 'Os the same chap. Ile -g.) t into theL,Clutelie4 of-Know Nothings andliepublicans Ole saute platform that Greeley.'and . &Ward ~,$) fit to walk upon) and that led him where he used to warn his con,tituents to beware o'' going, natuely, the wing prty. - • ' I - ' . 1 - Alf! Mr. Grow, note do yon suppose' that t hat Ohl 'Lenox will forsake her great DCinueratic„. Principles, and follow you . Oil in the Path.you• 7 . have chosen.` NO SIR. k4•.', .&4110. -rwia; ',on, will nor- do this. You have Warned theta 'to beware ofstreh doings, and . they - Mean to, stick to it. And, sir, %Would taaf4t. tell wit you, if you, had only lived up to Ilthe•war ning yourself._ It is curious . hoty a -mart's Mind will g1:1 so wrought up by the slavery, question, that he will cling to that : nd make that his lii4-hear, and jump over 142:mother party, adopting-its measures and forsaking the good old party that took him ,11,910 the avocations of privateltfe, and placei him 'in 'the Halls of Congress. Wesay 'ti . passing how a Man will do this jai On lit:- count of Niggers! • Niggers r Well . how. are , you going Co better - it by wohtg ovir ‘ • ' to. th e .. , , Republican Party. 'This' nigger e 4 .eitetnerNl is :rot up, merely for the whigs to ll:arty the Election ; and slfoUld your RePuldi r i ment lie defeated, then where will Mr. CfrOw. . You Witl•ne done ovOi politics. You cannot expec t bat H crats will follow-you. Thervill ti cil the great cause of detnUcraey• :Atl i ', with you to the, whig . party : at ! • LOOM i n Z. n Old Lenox. Old Lenox watehing the 'movements' of her cla for sometime. . Last fall, a. year peopl t wanted him to give thein - but, oh, no! he couldn't attend .tol 'aftei . Elrtion.rolleti 'rotind,then ht Ito Spealkto them. . . • • , . ' There he was blowing Bigler beC'ause he did not come out,- as he th9ught, quite, plain, enough an the nigger question.. lie thought that. GM% Itigler . ougln to :direct Ithe Bente sentatives how to g.nin' :regard i t O the Mis souri Compromise. Why dont. pollock . dil; rect them how to go: Why.. &din% lie di- 7 . rect them how to proceed in regard to elect- ing, their Speaker;and not hare Oen) spend day after day, and. Week after • wgek, merely to' elect One. 111 I ! that was a prior sort of a ! i• game you'ph(Yed, wl4n you put [out a Big ler, and put in.a Pollock. Ilutyitu couldn't keep'him under. 'The next thing yota heard, Bigler is elected to the. United S7ttes Senate ! That rejoiced. all Lenox. , ,ioni 'O4 the . wish of Lenox,•that next fall, Janie BuChanan. .I Will be elected Preside of the LI sited States. how that would make the democratic sons rejoice, and especially. Old- Lenoir. . , Fauilaicism Cures ligeff. . , . Perhaps it is not 3.1. i ho, regrqted 'that fi,, spirit ast variance with t lie gent ill. of our insti- \ stitutions has been allowed- to itrike; conside able lietawil:'. in this country;ll within the last few Am. Intolerance lots been al:Owed att. unusualli free course; contenipt of .au. dioritti atifvested rights have coma remark *ably'-'in,vogue.; short-sighted views of reform . have sought to. trample down all . deferantle to lessons of experience, and violence has . as. slimed to take •the place of order —yct at- all drip, the true patriot - may - not: be dismayed, nor have good cause f,or regret. i • . • - • The most effectual way, we think, of . - de,: stroying, entirely, the ititiunce.'of evil prinei iqei, is to allow tire commuititvi,for a while, -to suffer under,their .operation.ll So long as the argument against any course of nolicy is confined to supposed cases it t . eikinot impress, : thq . public mind-with much .force, but once give • power to the iiiivociqes Rof erroneous views, and allow diem to itiAelpractical il lustrations. of their opinions,'ati II , with an in-, telilgetit peOPlepo:ssessed'Of :tiro ter constite 7 1 tioual rights, their sway will be of short du . . ration. .- ,• .. . • ' . -- 1 * . . It is but a nottple of yeais sin ;a there 'sad- I dunly sprang up, as it were . by inagie, in ere. ry section of tite country, a pOurfal - party,. etultraciiq wititittits.folds wet iivfaa had been pieachiug for 34sara every' %peel of tattti cisrn, and whwe nonunion band. of union %%4 4 sitnply opposition to.lite , wise{ 411 littoraiity 1 of. the Dowel/1040 part.L. The; , rtuarted to dark aolusittusi•tu atut4 walititin. andmean ly prootitted.o* 41 oTettilik.ti . G!.. 114 Foopio, irtitlyAgt iloamikito (IMAM Oi t he scorn. sm. outt4crattation certain to follow l i on, the rdi e ,;. ma i unroll of. their duplicity, We l l, for- - a time they trinolithed. They uarrital fi t eit tic k na i n ivltt State % *n4 were antidal 1114411nd in puwor„ they warn even. mu et their own *na cos, With , the rthit in r hand* they d rov e on to legitimute eoileatt , ti n, —lt requir 4 but 6"hart exPeriennot tit tlt 'r &minutia*. to bring themph. to thttit and welt them not won again.to put thetnselvesin - tl4 • hands 'Of - rain" pretenderN-Wiko would push ott fancied' reforms . and Boyer exueretnents in leg: islation, .utterly regardless of the .. -low* of i f Wisduitt and instirry. A 4liff :trial, fa; them.: In this State theeeliresdni 3. ers hail attained .ahnost absolute " They paased laws to suit their 'own. notions;; Or such as were _dictated'. by itth;roir • policy. ' The jug Jaw_ was their trisin;. - ter . piece. "- • Its brief operation itnpreind . people tourewitlia sense of the' wr sag" and folly of.sitch arbiter); lisws, sod .of,the illibe; rid spirit that giyes rise to them, than all the , - I• g li men ts that .could be, ad.luivd by :states The .harm h worked more •speedilyc . cored the evil. It was consigned to the early,without anypestibility_ of rear- rection: ' • . The inNane and unworthy cry against Cath olies aittl-foreigners, !Ni:. also, in a gre a t-m o w). metaremetstill' 4:4 quietus' from its owe e ffi I tree violence. IL 41 . 1 w, etiiitely Ivo ve I/ Cr' merit to la y• loa;. True,_ it vill'be kept upkin .t.yme I f wittities, but generally those who uttered it, to eat. are, oovr most ashamed of it. . Rhea • The delefal sou' , " of neg-ro sliftell - *lO is now mo4 . lrarpe7l.upotr:- ttusit out- - rage•is the most prominent theitre left far •ta, - naticimn to decant upon, Here is' the last . hook on the .cauting reformers can Jiang a hope-for success - egaitist flit Demo. - cratic. 2 party. But they . hafe'-ciambeed so . Much on this subject that the co `l try is, al. - . read, sick, of it. Kausas,js becoming averf great, bore, There - has "been so much - lrintl-* work; so intre:lildowing off of gas, so 'muck , etnplyblu'ster in that territory, and so many Rin reports rent out from it ftir political el'. test, that men generally are disposed to re gard ilk: Kansas afftir as a very c onsiderable -• , i • humbug. Ilowever*.bitter . anti unpleasant at times may be the liulitieal agitation, of this coup-' lrV.• we . maystill have the :cougoling reflec tion -that error and prejudice cannot long :van,' the test.-of free - dhwifssion, and that if . ter'expeterneUt fat.atjci m , .alwala cures. it- The Kansas Proetarliallou Of Pre* , . Idetutt Pierce. „ • . No het of Prci,4lent - Pierce' escapes - -the" -ahn,ire tongites-antk pens of the Black lie-' tielangpi n rOW!•: 'lliailroularnatioit t e pt-ace of Kansas, and Internet:* jolts 10 Crow. Shannon were as..ailed: bitted? by the whole tribe-of the abolitioni6t. How' could they send . their _rifles and bullets to , Kansa.; if they admitted that the law Was tr./ maintained there by the Exi!cUtriv . e arm [tow c,oulti they keep up their' outcry about •WIWU tileti 41 4 1Mittea s tlAt the. 'President PLerce had tak:cti measures -le . re , . v 14.) U.tattl!.4lll.ztlle- Tifrltt.s" Of the :444M.1%; • The Herald afFreetkm; - trai reading :Free: partr f . pnbli;bed: at. Liwranee, in its is- ,ue Nturldi I:sth says : We published the Plvelamation of Presi dk-nt Pieret.-4 . weel;; -or - two . ago in; regard to. •Kan , ev =mem-- We are-glad otthat Tree laination. It hoar ci readif prcveited oa intii sjmitrom aad_ a. resort to- hlood-' shed by citizens in self-defewe. - _ The „te - opt*, of the Territory have; no , thitig to. fear from federal 'troops. I);aing.-the'late invasion their' wen:est:hope was that.C6l. &in:ller sit Fort Leavenworth, would war& with hi:troops to Lawrence, and interpose them between the` • mob and the 'citizens. Guy. Shannon has the - military of Torts Riley and f.eavettworth at his eurnumail, and . this he . will use to pat down insubordination • On the one hand, ;o l d prevent invasion on the other. If he dues. this ;if he obey ids. leiter of instructions ; nu-mule Dows,_or Bar hers, o:- Collins, or 1311 ) WriS will be ruthlessly - murdered in i. 01.1 blood ;. - ito toore illegal 'in- terfcring-with.the ballOt box will be allowed. On the coat rare peace - and - tranquility will be re-tared to our distracted country. • . The Proclamatimi of Piesident Pierce is not so' willanions a door meta as the telegraph. reports made it, and as for the-instructions to Guy.Sl - lumina', they are . all . we expect or.eren:Asire: While the Corertior abide& by the letter of au.seitistruetions. it will.. af fork iv. a Tleasure to sugtain l,im . . 'sane man dare deny thet„An invasion uas CialtelOplatea for the first of March from Vissouri. eoaclusive of such'inten-. lions can be prod-uced.; htit the. President's" Prodarmitiou disarmed them, and now at tempt is.being made to ..lw.v that oureprepe. ration to defense- was Uncalled k an tnttvt,- Nat stand i • with, In be derno- A. fnmke go -over least they has • Ewell MITI ago, her Teektli, t then,but was. ready. Some discu::sion having taken place upon • the - position of Mr. Buchanan on: the .Knuias . .. Nebraska bill, we are permitted to copy. the extract from'a - leiter addressed by Mr. - Bach:nom to S.ettator Slidetl,.dxted Lon ! -- don - 2 . Bth of Dectaiber last, when ' there _seems:lllo be no diarence its to Mr. Ills thorough identity with. the democratic Party • ou this, as on all other issues. It ' ll' 1 , 1 be seeti that Mr:43, *Peaks of the. Kansas Nebras ka bill with his - usual frankness and decision. lV e ars confirmed in our iru - piession by this' 'lett er that .no man, no set of- men; • and no newspaper,: fire at all .warran ted to speak - itutheritively for Mr. chanan upon this or any - other. question. His own words_speak far-themselves.... The letter of Mr. Buchanan was not, it . be seen, intended for • publicattion,. but the gentleman' to whom . it Wag - addressed has thought it necessary,. sifter the 'editorial hrti- . cle in the Union of Wednesday last to 14 it • .• before the country. :• - • . The. yfestion, has been settled by, Con-, . giess, and this seVernent . should be inflexibly Maintained. : Thei Nh;.souri Comprornise is - gone. and gone -fOrever. Tut nO. - assault should he made upon; the . DetnocratS who maintained-it ; provided ,t hey are noW wilWn in. good faith to..tuaintain the settlement as It exi sac - Such an, understanding is. - wise and jest ' . • , known how i labored in. ;am- . southern \ tuen to have. this line a l . tettil6,r' t :ta the Paethe mean. • But it hail .de-- partedi:d,The One fir it lifts passed - atm iI y believe that.the,t l tB,7, nOW . .left.•,.tA ktoting. down the . til, mitten' andreekless spirit Of -Ahollticitt at,.; . 4:- North is to.adhere, to:the existing: tiettlimatc, without the slightest . .thou . ght or apeeMsnee of wavering,. and - Without regarding' say. storm which may be igr•The price of I . kitad warrnall-tanges from itlo6 to $l2O per acre, for the "differeetV- ulasse4. • - ' , The Chicar Trihene states that;' detiar the year entle.l June 20, 1855, •tbeltrnited''' SiA N tes exrte(l oora 'to the Value or $1,31:4; rs \b,l, 071;100 iittikirttiii uig4 valued at'sB .- ,811; • Ba 4 . Via isxportatinn of f, lalt9W7ltidelk: $ll4l I honks/01 ie.' 'd7 uring- t e 001 - 'o : - ; 'p rind,. niananteityi 0,241,554, apt n!_t: Ai ~.eximib. 4 l ; • - tare of 158,241, 408 fur imp() , oil - ',.btititifro-.- While - Re-eaputt leheutstl 0 - :thit' - ' vitae 94 4- 841,819;318, we "htijiari - OA Mit ' ';'2ofrie' L.. - umlauting tp144,800,000;.•• The- Vigirnigite : vtluit if ilitt 9tAttlin eng4 l l4 :1:1 1 .-4 4 illr' , .itill *109,460, 0 0 0 t • ..'..r, - -.,,.. '' • '';'—' -- -''''- - ' . :The Yotetlrqo4nUr in 411 .hut ibietuan'iunall tquiri,l4tottfy.' Tor ham benuioritt. so.oli 'Amerien., sl3,6B7 : .,'Wvltis laitiU4inleucia.tilior !HA ifkqb 1491 of s' rnsiiitly, over ' Bucliaisan.
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