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BILLINGS STEQUD,
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• . Montrose, Pa.
TESTIMONIALS.
I%"E, the umkesigned,' certify that we were
insured in Fire Insurance Companies represented
by Mr. Billings Stroud. of Montrose, and that,
having suffered to-s by fire white So insured, we
were severally paid by said companies to the fell
i!xtentof our claims; snd we have confidence in
him as a goOd and effective agent. - • ,
JAS. It. REWTrT, ' • ?APRON CORR,
• La-rituor I/EWirt, 11. J. WEER,
F.)3. CHANDLER, • . - J. Lross &SoN, •
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Montro'se.• Pa. NOveml r.141h, 1959.
S. H. Sayre & Brottir, •
ANUFAcTURERS of DM Castings, and
„LTA. Cwitito , s of all kinds, Stove', Tin lOW
sheet Iron Ware. Agricultural Implements, And
I), ieFs in Dry Gooda,'Grocrries,Croekery, &e.
Montrose, Pa., November, 16th: 1859.-wa.
Guttenberg, Roieobatun & Co.,
IA EA LERS is Ready-made Maki Ladies'
ILIF Gres: , Gmxisjurnishing Goods, etc., etc.
Stores at Nu t 4 Dey:st, New-York City, and in
Towanda, Manirase, and Suso'a Depot. Pk.'
L B• ISBELL,
11 EPAIII,9 Clicks, Watches and Jewelry, at
short and on reasonable terms, All
work warranted. Shop in Chandler & Jessup's
store; Muntrnt4e, Pa. - - f0c2.511.
"Drs. Blakeslee & Brush,
Li AVE associated tiietaselves for the prone
-1.1 of the deities of theirfrofession. and
rcspectfuliy offer - their professional iserviees to
Public.. Office at the residence of
Dr. Blakeslee, midway between the villages of
Di n iark and Springville. ardny
A. C. F. E. SHUSH
HAYDEN BROTHERS, •
AAT HOLES:ALE Dealersin Butte — ns,Cornbt.
. v Suspenders, - Threads, Faney Good-.
Watches, Jewelry. Silver and Plated Ware,Cat
..err, Fishing Tackle, Cigars, &c. &t., New Mil
torri, Pa. • Merchants and Pedlar!, supplied on
;theral terms. tea tf
HENRY B. McKEAN,
TTORNEY and COUNSELLOR at LAW.
Office in the Uniotißloek—Towanda, Brad
ford rolinty,.. Pa.
EV — Vriii;attestd promptly , to an prideSsiOnal
- bu s iness intrusted to hire, in this and adjoining
counties_ fie3'lSStf '
DR - . F. W. WELLS
TT AXING permanently lye:Act:tin Dundati
JLJL offers his professional services to all who
may require them. Also, keeps constantly on
hand a full 'stock of Drugs and Medicines,
Pore Wines and Liganes for Medical
purposes. rap7,-6m.
DR. SMITH;
Q T_TRGEON DENTIST. Residnce and of
fiee.eppo,ite the Baptist Church (north side)
:%tontrose. Partiell)St gielltiOn Win be given
to ins.:rting teeth on gold• and ailyerplate, and
to flilinm teeth. .
ABEL TURRELL,
r\EALER in DrugA, Jlediricca. Chemicilp,
LJlllyeStuirs, Glass-wire, l'aintNOils,Varnish
Window Glass, Groceries, Fancy Goods, Jew
• elry. Perfumery, &c.—;And Agrnt for all tli,
Tu%ort popular PatentliediCines. Montrose. Pa:
DR. E. F-WIIMOT,
• ri It.ADUAI'f; of the Allorathid and lianicen
patitie Goilegee of Medicine, Gt. Bend, P&.
corner of Main and lclizatic;ll.ots., colicky
the Methreii , t etiturh.
816 . C. TYLER,
PEClAL,l'artner; with Lawrence, Griggs &
Kitn:4etry, rna.nnfantnrers 'and jobbers in
Straw Goods, Mita, Caps & Fars, Umbrellazt,
Parasols, Ribbons, and all Millinery articles:—
tin. 46, Courtiandtm.reM, New I:sepB
Wm. K. Cooper sic Co.,
A NK ERS, Suceritusont toPOST, COOPER
B
4:-! CO4 Montin:le, Pn. Mee Lathrt.p's
building, Turnpike Street.
WM lIUNTTING C"OPtI2---:-...,.-.11 - FAVRT DRISYEQ-
C. O.SORDHAM.
IikIANUFACTUREROF BOOTS do SHOES.
.111 'Montrose, Pa. 'Stiip over Tyler's Stort,
All kinds of work made to : order and repairing
done nently. jet
•. WM..IV. SMITH, & CO.,
ABINET and Chair Manufacturers, font of
N. Main street. Monorme, P A , pug Itf
D. G.-Z. DIMOCK,
-no
HYSICIAN and Surgeon. Office ocer"Wil
stoic.; Lodgingo Searfe's
DR. JOHN W. COBB, '
13 YSICIAN and Surgeon. Office on Public
Avenue. eiJonsite Searin's Hotel, .Dlnntriiivii..
DR. Re THAYEIt,'
FiIIYSICIAI4 and Surge, n, Montrose Pa.—
°Mee in the Farmer's Store,
.... JOHN GROVES,
FtSli lONA BLE Taiisir. Shop near , the
Baptist Meeting House, on Turnpike sireet,
'Montrose. Pa. , . suglif
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V V brapis of FLOUR—by the -Seek pr,
dred Bauels--at the lowest niacketriees.
SALT—by the Skirls Barrel or Load. -
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* * *Cub paid for Grain, Wool, Pe*, Hides,
,end all Farmers' Prodae• fa their Leann. .
"nt .401:M Otm [tIVIN 4O.Do\ant VIELV DOIZ bartATIVATI Vlitti t z aum MCC g 419 VC) Tram alma cq 'ma II on."
- SHERIFF'S SALES.
Y - virtue of sundry wilts issued by 'the
Ll' Pt:Ain of Common Ness of Susquehanna
County, and to me directed, I. will espo.e td
s •
sale, by public cendue, it the Court House; in
'Montrose, on Saturday, 14th day of January,
1860, at one o'clock, p. m., the following de-
scribed pieces or parcels .of land, to wit:
ALL those two certain pieces or parcels of
land situate lying'sind beingsin the township of
Forest Lake, In the i tiourity of Susquehanna and
Stitt" of-Pennsylvatua, the first bounded and de
scribed as follows; to wit: on the north by land
f Chauncey Wright, on the east by the public
highway„ on the south by the Milford and
Owego turnpike road, and on the west by land
of John Brown, containing about four acres end
a half of land, be the same more or loss, 1 , 0"
gather with the appurtenances. one framed
house and barn, and some fruit trees and &Him.
proved.: The other is bounded on the north
by the Milford and Owego turnpike rohd, off the
east by the Ridge Road, on the south by • the
Warner Road, end on the west by Caleo Car.
malt,-containing about fifteen nud a half acres,
more less, with the appurtenances, one barn
arid all improved. [Taken In esecntion at the
cult of Seth. Warner cc. David L Mcekcr.l
ALSO—By an order of the Orphans Court, the
following described reall estate, late the estate
of Daniel Lyon, deceased; to wit ; the lot situate
in Gt. Bend township. Susquehanna county and
State of Pennsylvania, on which the Baptist
church is erected, and described as follows: be-
ginning at the south corner of lot number ten of
the Trowbridge survey of the village lots;
thence along Pine street south, fifty-six degree.
Rest, forty feet to a post; thence north, fiftysix
degrees east, forty-eight feet to the southwest
tine of said lot number ten; thence along the
same south, thirty two and one half degrees
e ast, e ighty feet to tie place of beginning, con
taining eleven perches and seven tenths, more or
ALSO—AII the undivided half part of that
tract or parceLof land eitnate in the township
of Great Bend, county of Siclueh;nna and State
of Pennsylvania, bounded and described as fel
lows, to wit: on the south by lands known as
the Wharton Linda, on the went by land in the
warrantee name of Abeam Duncan, on the north
by land inibe warrantee name of James Mor
gan, and on the east by land in the warrantee
name of Charles Butler, and containing four
hundred and thirty-three acres. he the same
more or lest, and all improved. [Taken in exc.
eution at the suit of William Carpenter vs. N.
V..Carpenter.]
ALSO—AII that certain piece or parcel of
land situate in the 'township of Great Bend,
county of Susquehanna and State of Pennsylva
nia, bounded—and described as rollows, to wit:
on the north by land of W. S. Wolcott, on the''
east and south by land of Truman and Daniel
Baldwin, and west by the Great Bend and Cho
cheeton
Turnpike road, containing about two
acres more or less, together with the appnrto.
minces, one framed home, one bent and all im-
proved. [Taken in execution at the suit of
Chauncey Ptrusey, to-the use Of Thomas &
1t hitin~, t.a Henry Daftly.]
ALSO—AII that certain piet.o or parcel of
laud situate in the - borough of Montrose, is the
county of Susquehanna and State of PennsYL
cania, bounded and de~cr:bed ars follows, to wit:
on the northeast byr-Turapilre street. on the
south east by land of Mrs. Biddle, on the south
west by Cedar lane, and on the northwest by
land of Dr E. Patrick, being six rods in front,
and, measuring back twelve rods, containing
seventy-twe square rods, more.or less, with the
appurtenances, one large framed dwelling house,
one ice house, one barn, stone fruit trees, and all
improved. 4 [Taken in execution at the suit- of
John F.bonntore yr. Charman.Baldwin, and E.
W. Rose, Terre Tenant.)
ALSO—AII those two certain tracts or parcels
of land. one of which is situate in Great Bend
township, county of Snsqnehtnnn and State of
Pennsylvania, beginning at. a stake and.etonea,
corner of lands of L Smith; thence north 2 1.3"
east, 343 6-10th rods to correr of land occupied
by McDaniel; thence north 80' bent. "east, by
slcDaniePs land 73 1.2 rods to a stone near west
side of highway; thence north, 16 1-2° east, 97
Inds to an elm stump; thence north,l 1.2 east.
95 1.3 -rods, to a birch saplin; thence north
30 8-10th, rods; thence east 275 rods; thenee l
1•2" east by line of tract, 100 33-104ths
rods in original cornet; thence south, 1' 37m.
west, 93 1 Synchs to stake and -stones; thence
south, I" west, 150 rods to a - Chestnut stub;
Ithence north. 85" Sm. west, 61 rods to a corder ;
-thence south, 2 1-2 m. west, 84'rods; thence
• south, 87 3.4 5 east, 130 I-S rods to,east bounds
of said tract; thence southerly along same
94 rods to a point 40 440ths rods from south-.
east corner of said tract; thence westerly par
allel with thilisouth line and along part.of said
south litte'43s rods to ,beginning, containing
1006 8 10th acres of land, with the appurtenan
ces, 4 framed houses, 3 tianis,l steam saw mill,
some fruit imps, and about 125 'acres improved.
Atem—Anothr! piece in Liberty township, court.
tie and State aforesaid, and described as follows,
to wit: being the whole of original lots iumber
ed 67, 68, 75 . s ' id 70., lying thgetherla the tract I
formerly of Law and containing in all
442 91-100ths acres as surveyed by Wm. Wentz,
loth of April, !SUL [Taken in execution at the
snit of -Minerva Sherwood vs. Stephen and Jas.
Weed.] - • r r
ALSO—AII that ce4ain messuage and tend
ment—seentre two stones, with two wings, each
one storyzzaituate in the borough of Susqoe
banns depot, in the County' of Sitikinehanna and
State of Pennsylvania, on the north side of the
Old road leading from Lanesboro to New Milford,
together with the lot of ground and curtillage
appurtenant to said building. [Taken in execu
tion at the suit of Harry Sbutts sod E. N. Smith.
partners under the style of Smith & Shafts. as-
aired to Guttenberg. Rovnbaum & Co., vs
Sedate Griswold.)
ALSO,-All that' Certain tract or parcel of
land situate in the township of Great Bend, in
the county rf Susquehanna and-State of Penn-.
sylvania, sod butted, bounded and described as
follows, In beginning et the northwest
corner of land sold to the heirs of Charles IL
Trowbridge, it's poplareaplin, and thence west
forty-six and a half perches to a stone heap;
thence south, three quarters of a degree west,
one hundred and seven ;/- one perch es to a atone
heap; thence east, forty-six and ode-Ls/f perch
ea, to a stone heap; thence north:three-quarters
of a degree east: onejhundred and seventy-one
perches to the place of beginning; containing
fifty acres of land, he the same more or less, to
sether with the appurtenances. one framed
house, one log barn, and about twenty-five acres
improved.- [Taken in execution at the snit of
Psi Griggs, assigned to David Thomas, is.
1; .Langdon,adenin'or of Jabez McGrearT, de.
deased, with notice to Terre Tatants.]
ALSO—AII that certain pieta or parcel of land
situate in the township of Auburn, county of
Bnehans and State of Pennsylvania, bounded
snd "bed as Yellows,- to wit: on the north
by lands of S. Hyde: on the east by' M: Lott,
south by Inds oceupied by John Drolly, and
west - by , M. Smith, ceettining about one bun- ,
dred acres, be the same more pr leis, with the'
appurtenances, one log house and about fifty
acres improved.• [Taken in extentlon at the
suit ef Lathrnp es.-11yersott Cool.) , " •.
ALSO—AII the equal undivided iudfnart of
a lot or land situate is the Township.of . Grest
Bend, WWI ropey - of Susquehanna and State
of Pennsylvania—no the Borth side of the Co.
dation & Crest Bend Turnpike ROll4l, adjoining
land of Lowrie Green on Abe_ mink lands of
Jobs Ca..ster• o 3 the stet, the Turnpike on the
south, and lands of 11. Crane - on the went, being_
in front on the turnpike 37 1.2 fee!, and is depth
120 feet. having thereon a three story building
for store and dwelling house, and out building,
and all improved. [Taken-lo execution at the
suit of Hiram Crane, to the use of Henry Crane,
vs. George W. Hyer.
4%603—A1l that rant of land tying end be
ing the township of Great Bend, county of Sus
quehanna and Stato of Pennsylvania, known as
the Elijah Skinner farni; lately deeded by Eli.
jah Skinner to George W. Scranton, and by said
George W. Scranton to Elias 'l'. Young and Ed
gar Thomas and - now in possession of Osman
Reed, bounded on the north- by lands of Moses
Brown, on the east by lands knownatas the
'Young, Skinner and Thomas Wet, on the south
by lands of A. T. Trowbridge, ind John B land ng,
and on the west by lands of A. T. Trowbridge,
David Thomas, and of the estate of Jubez-Mc-
Creary, demised, containing about 400 acres,
more or less end all the right and interest of said
defendants in the saw mill formerly 'occupied
by said Skinner, and the mill privelege &ppm,-
taining - . .thereta and about five acres of land on
which said mill stands,.under a certain lease co
edited by Moses Brown, to Mid,G.W. Serkuton,
with about seventy-five acres improved, and one
two story framed house, one small house, two
framed barns, sheds, - woodsheds, corn crib, and
the other out buildings, a small orchard. [Ta.
ken in execution at the snit of George W. Scran
ton T, ]oung; Edgar Thomas and Os.
man Read.]
ALSO—AII that certain piece or parcel of
land situate in 'the township of New Milford,
county of Suieinehanna and State Of Pennsylva
nia, bounded and described as follows, to wit :
on the north and east by lands of Joel Keep. on
the south by lands of Joseph Mead andl.West
brook, and on the west by William Bowen, con,
taining about one hundred acres, be-the same
more or leas, with the appurtenances, one fram
ed house, two log barns, one orchard, and about
eighty acres improved. [Taken im execution
at the suit of New Milford Township vs. A. S.
Walker.]
ALSO—AIi that certain piece or parcel of land
situate in the township of Oakland, county of
Susquehanna and State of Pennsylvania, bound
ed and described as follow, to sit en the north.
by lands-of David Merseroan, on the south by
lands of Isaiah Moore, and Lewis Shutt*, and on
the east and west by lands of Edgar Thomas,
containing sixty acres, more or less, and all im
proved. [Taken io execution at .06 suit of L
S. Lenhetrn vs. GeOrge 11. Chappell.] _
ALSO—AII that Certain pitee or parcel of
Lied situate in the township of Ilarford, county
of Susquehanna and-State of Pennsylvania,
bounded and described as - follows, to wit ; QQ the
north by lands set off to the widow of Crawford
Titus, dec'd, east by lands of Preston and David .
Titus, south by D. Oakley and S. Wilmarth, and
west by John M. I-labs nil 0. 11. Titus, eon
taiMng about ten acres, be the same more or
iess, with small bitilding used as a shoe shop
thereon. [Taken in execution at - the slut of
Daniel Oakley vs. Obadi.th Bailey, administrator
of Cranford Titus, deceased.]
Nottcr. tO PURCIIASEII.4.—To prevent (
derstanding. notice is hereby given - that purcha-
sees at She-it i's sales will be required to pay
the amount bid at the-time the land is sold. It -
hss become imperitively necessary to adopt-this
rule, and it will be strictly adhered to, except in
cases where. the purchaser is a lien creditor and
is entitled to the fund's* protided in the Ist,
section of the act of Assembly, approved April
311th, 184g„!thielt 1:4 follows ;--'•Whenever
the purchasers of reel estate atOrphan's' Court
or Sheriffs , sale, shall appear from the proper
; record to be entitled, as a lien ertditor, to '
re
ceive the whole or any portion of the proceeds
of said sale; it shall be the duty of the shiriff,
administrator, executor or other person making
such sale, to receive the receipt of such pu mita-
Ser or purchasers for the amount e hich he or
they would appear, from the record as aforesaid
to be entitled to receive: Provided that this sec
tion shall not be so construed es-to prevent the
right of - said Sheriff, administrator, executor or
other person aforesaid to demand and receive at
the time of tale a sum sufficient to cover all le
gal costs entitled to be paid out of the proceeds
of said sale ; and provided further, that before
any purchaser or purchasers shalt receive the
benefit of this section, ho,or they shall produce
to the Sheriff; or other person so making said
sale, a duly certified statement from thit, primer
records, un der the-hand and official seal of the
proper officer, showing that he it a lien creditor
entitled to receive any part of the proceeds of
the sale aforetlaid."
JOON YOUNG, Sheriff.
Sheri fr. Office, Montrose, Dec. 91 /It. 1859-Is.
Register's Notice.
OTICE is hereby given to all persons con-
N
eerned in the following estates, viz.:
Estate of 'Merritt Turner, deed, late of Lenox
township, Zina Bailey, administrator.
-Est , teofMehetable Tenant,dee'd;late of liar
(Ord. twp, J. D. Richardson. admr.
Estate of Robert Ilughes..dec„ late of Herrick
twp, J. Thomas and Eliza Hughes, admen.
Estateof Edw'd Eenuelly, deed, late of Susq.
Depot, Win M. Post, arbor.
Final account of S. M. Whitney, guardian of
children of 11. A. Whitney, decd.
Estate of Patrick McCauley, deceased, late of
Rush twp, James Logan, ea's.
That the accountants have settled tliciracconeits
In the Re,gieter's Office in and for the county of
' Susquehanna, and that the same presen.
ted to the Judges of the Orphana'Court of said
county on Friday the twentieth day of January
1)180. for confirmation and. allowance.
_ • CHARLES NEALE, Register.
Register's Office, Montroac. Dee. Slat,-4w5,
Auditor's Notice.
In the matter of the estate of Orin Lester, deed.
/11He undersigned having been appointed 'an
.1.. Auditor in the above estate, by the Orphans'
Court of Susquehanna: County, to report a die
tributioo to, and among the widow and heirs of
said decedent, will' attend to the duties of his
appointment on Friday the sixth day of January
i 860, at 2 , st the office of W.& W,
H. Jessup, F.sqe" in Montrose ; at which time
all persons hexing claims upon the fund of said
estate are required to preseitt them or by debar
red from coming in for a share ofsuch fund.
dere, 4w ALFRED HAND, Auditor.
Auditor's idotido:
/a the matter if the assignment of Mcrsh• 4.
Gadden for.the benefit fCreditors.
V HE. Assignees having fled their account in
tho above ease, and the undersigned having
been appointed -Auditor by the Court of' Coen
Pleas to report. a distribution among creditors,
will attend to the duties or his appointment on
Saturday. January 7th, 'lB6O. ht 2 o'clock p. m.,
stile office of W. & W. H. Jessup, Eiqs, in
Montrose, at • which time - all persons having
claims upon-the fund in the hands of the assign.
ees. are required to present them or be forever
debarred tram corning in upon said fund.
• deeB 4w• ALFRED HAND, Auditor.
`iinditoes Notice
.
In the matter ottlte mete aj j. then Pelee, deed.
THE undersigned having been appointed' an
Auditor in the abture matter, for the distri
bution of_ihe funds In the bands of.the adminis
trator of . lid estate to and among the creditors.
'wilt atten .to the duties of his , appointment at
the office of W. 11C.Wa ArituP to Montrose
on Thursday the 11h-direr Jasuiuy. 1869, et
one Wel 0e.141. az.- AU persona baring any . claims
"spinal 'sabt estate - ant required to present them
at that time•or be forever debarred from corning
an upon said fond, • T. L. CASE,
diet 42 , Auditor.
MO,NTRO&E, PA., DECEMBER 29,1859.
Speech of Ediread Everett,
AT THS 11.7:90N SISST/NJO IN BOSTON;
Mr. Chairman and Felioze-Ciiizenst—in
arising to address you on this important oo
ca-iou,lndulge lite in a few words of personal
explanation. I did not suppose that anything,
could occur which would wake me , think h'
my duty to appear again on this platform, on
any occasion of a political character; and
had this meeting been of a party nature, or
designed to promote any party, purposes, I
timid out have been here. When corn•
pelted by the prostration of my health, five
years ago, to resign the distinguished place
which I then filled in the public service, it
was with no expectation, no - wish, and no In
tention of ever again mingling in the scenes
of public life, I have, accordingly, with the
partial restoration of my health, abstained
from all participation in political action of
any kind; partly because I have •found
more congenial, and, as' venture to think, a
more useful occupation in seeking to rally
the affections of my countrymen North and
South, to that great name and precious mem
ory which is left almost alone of the numer
ous kindly associations, which once bound
the — dtlferent sections of the country together;
and also because, between the extremes of
optition that have long di-tracted and now
threaten to convulse the country, I find no
middle ground of practical usefulness on
%hick a friend of moderate counsels can
stand. I think I do a little good,—l try to,—
in my waning year , , in augmenting the funds
of the charitable institutions,—commemorat-
ing from time to time the honored dead and
the meat event's of past days, -and chiefly in
my 'humble efforts to rescue from destruction-
. .
and the vicissitudes of private property the
hone and the grave of WAKINGTON. These,
Sir e seem to Me to be-innocent and aivro-
priwe occupations fur the decline of life. I
ata nlOlO than contented with the favor with
whi c h These, my humble labors, are regarded
by: the great majoity of my itountymeu ; and
knowing by experience bow unsatisfying in
the enjoyment are the brightest pima of po
litical ambition, I gladly-resign the pursuit
of them to younger men.
Sir, the North and the South, including
the Northwest and'Southweet, have become
fiercely, bitterly arrayed against each other.
There is no place left in public life for those JJ
who love them both. The war of words—of
the Press, the platform, of the _State Legisla
tures, and, I must add, the pulpit I—has been
pushed to a point of exasperation, which, on
the slightest untoward accident, may rush to
the Woody arbitrament of the' sword. The
great ancient master of "
"political science
(Aristotle) tells us, that though revolutions
do nut take place for small causes, they do
from small causes. lie means, Sir, that when
the minds of the community have becotpie
hopelessly' embitiered and exasperated by
long-continued -in it et itM, the slightest occur
rence will bring om-the catastrophe.
In fact, it seems to me we have reached g
stare of things whiek requires all good men
and gond patriots toforewo for a time all mere
party pri,jects and Calculations, and to aban
don all ordinary political issues; which calls,
in a word, upon all who rove the country and
cherish the Union, and desire the continu
ance of those blessings which we have till
lately enjoyed under trite Constitu:ion trans
mitted to by our Fathers; and which I .re
gard-as the noblest work of political wisdom
ever icLieved,—to meet as one man and
rake counsel forits preservation. It is this
feeling t,L•at'has brought me here to-day.
It will probably be said, - Sir, that those
who entertain views li k e
_these exaggerate
the gravity of the crisis. 1 wish 1 could thiuk
o. But I fear that it is not we who exag
gerate, but those who differ from us, that
greatly—and soon, I fear it will be, fatally—
underutte the ominous signs of the times.
I fear, Sir, that they are greatly Misled by
the on(-sided views exclusively presented by
the party Press, and those who rely upon the
pang - Press exclusively fur their impressions,
and that they are dangerously, ignorant of
the state of opinion, and feeling in other
great sections of the country. 1 greatly fear
that the masa of the community, long :semis:
tomed to treat all alarm for the stability of
the Union as groundless, all prcfe-sed anxiety
for its preservation as insincere, or, if move,
'ztite.result of nervous timidity, have unfitted
themselves to measure the event and the
urgency of the existing danger. It is ray
own deliberate conviction, formed from tome
opportunities of personal observation, and
from friendly correspondence with other parts
of the wintry, (though I carry on none of a
political nature,) that we are on the very
serge of a convulsion, which will shake the
Union to its feirtntation ; and that a few more
steps forward, in the direction io which af
fairs have moved fur a few years past, will
bring us to the Bata-trupbe.
1 have heard it urged on former occasions
of public' alnrm, that it must he groundless,
because business goes on as usual,—aud the
theatres are open, and stocks •are kept up.
Sir, these appearanaes.may ell be delusive.
the
__great nodal machine moves with a rno I
mermen; .that cannot be suddenly stepped.
The ordinary operations of business Went on
in France, in the revolution of 1799, till the
annihilation of the circulating mediutis,put a
stop to everything that required its use. The ,
theatres and all other places of public amuse
meat were crowded to madness in the raig,a
of terror. The French stocks never stood
better than they did in Paris on the 41st of
Feb, 1949. 'On the 24th of that month Louis
Philippe, was flying in disguise from his capi
tal ; the Tuilleries were sacked, and the old
, est monarchy io Europe bad ceased to exist.
I hold it to be time then, Sir; as I have
said, for good men and good patriots,Oasting
aside all mere party consideration; and post
poning at least all ordinary political issues, to
.panne; to look steadily in the face the con
dition of things to which we are approaching;
and to ask their own conaciences.,whether•
they can dO nothing to avert the crisis, and
bring about a happier and better state of
things. Ido not ask them to search the past
for topics of reproach or recrimination on men
or patties, We have had enough of that,
_and it, has contributed materially to storing
aborat, , - our present perilous condition.. In all
countries where speech - and the Press are
fres;pepsuielly those countries which by coo
trolling natural cosies fall into two grea t
motions, each possessing independent Ideal.
legislator/Land centres of opinion Ind
anew), there will in the lapse of thee son:
sroulably be action and . resetionsof word-and
deed. Violence• of speech or of act, oktlto
one side, will unavogably 'produce Mantle
of speech and act on they other. Each new
grievance is alternately Causeand effect—
sod if, before resorting to healing counsels,
we are •deteripioed to run -over the dreary
catalogue, to see who. was earliest or who
has been most to blame, we engage in a con
troversy in which there is no arbiter, and of
which there can beim - scilutictp.
But with Out reviewing the angry or sor
rowful memories of the, past, let me, in all
friendliness, ask the question, what has either
auction to gaiit by a dissolution of the Union,
with referenee to that terrible question which
threatens to destroy it I I ask patriot men
in both sections to run over in their minds
She Icauses of complaint which they have, or
think they bare, in the existing state of things,
and then_ ask themselves dispassionately,
whether anyt4ing Tito be gained,- anything
to be hoped, by pushing the present +Latina-
lion. to that fatal bourne-front which, atilt=
death, there is ho return! Will the South
gain any ireater stability for her social sys-
tem, and larger entrance into the vacant pub
lic- Territories I Will the North have effected
any one object, which by men o( any shade
of opinion, extreme or. moderate, is deemed
desirable; on the contrary, will not, every
evil she desires to remedy be con6rmad and
aggravated 1 If this vied of the subject be
correct, what can be more unwise—what
moresuicitlal—tban to allow these deplora
ble dimeoaions, to -result in a dissolution,
which will leave two ireat sections of the
country in a worsel condition than it finds
them with reference to the very objects for
which they allow themselves to be impelled
to the dreadful consumation.
But 13611 be told, perhaps, that alt Ibis is
imaginary ; that the alarm at the South is
fictitious, or, rather a groundless panic, for
which there is no substantiil cause—fit sub-
ject for ridicule rather than serious anZioty.
I3ut I see no signs of paniu tiu Virginia; ex
cept for it few houtsiat ilerper's Ferry, when,
in the confusion of the first 'surprise, and in
piufuund ignorance of the extent of the (Ima
ger, the nommuoily was for a short time par
alyzed:- I am not sure that a town of foot or
five hundred families in this region, invaded
at midnight by tresolute batetpf twenty men,
entering the' houses of influential citizens,
and hurrying them from their beds to a
stonghold pieviously occupied, and there
holding them as hostages-1 am not sure,
Sir, that an equal panic would ,not be created
till the extent of the danger wasmeasured.
Betides, Sir, if the panic bad been much more
extensive than it was, the panics of great and
brave communities are no trifles. Burke said
he could not frame an indcitment against ,a
whole People; lesms . to me equally in bad
ag ee
taste at least. try to point a sneetat a
Stare_ like Vir xs. Thu French are reputed
a 'gallant d warlike people; but letters
from the late war tell' us that even af.er the
great victory of Solferino, abandful of kits
trians, straggling into n village, put a c mpg
of the, French army—thousands strong—to
flight. A hundred and fifty men overturned
the French - monarchy; on the occasion to
which . I have already - alluded, in 1848. When
the circomettinces of the ems, are taken Into
consideration, I suspect it will be agreed that
any other community in the country, simi
larly situated, would have been aff e cted in
the same way. A conflict of such an unpre
cedeoled character, in
,which twelve or four,
leen persons on the ta d sides are shot' own,
in thh course of a few hours, appears to me
tan event at which levity. ought to stand re•
buked and a solemn chill to fall upon every
light thinking man.
1 Year, Sir, from the tone of some of the
public journals, that we base not made this
care•our own. Suppose a party of deperate,
misguided men, under a resolved sod fearless
leader, bad been organized in Virginia, to
come and establish themselves by stealth iu
Springfield 'in this Stole, intending there, af
ter poioeoing thernselr,es at the unguatled
hour of midnight of the National 4rinory, to
take advantage of some local cause of disaf- -
Tection, (which led to A very deplorabla• oc
currence is this vitlnity a few years ago,) to'
stir op a 'social revolution; that pikes and
titles to arm tvresity-flire hundred men bad
been procured by funds raised by extensive
subscriptions throughont the South—that at
the dead of a. Sunday 'Eight, the work of de
struction had begun, 6y shooting down an
unarmed man, who bid refaied to join the
invading forces; that citizens of the first
standing were seized and ..iroprisoned,—three
or four others killed; end when on the en
tire failure of the conspiracy, - its. leader had
been' iied,—ably defended by counsel from
his 'own part of the country, convicted and
executed, that throughout Virginia which
cent Wen forth on his :fatal errand, and the
South generally, funeral bells should be tolled,
meetings of- sympathy held, as at the death,
of some great bentfactur, and the person who
had plotted to put a pike or rifle in the bands
of twenty-five hundred men, to - 'be used
agaiwst their fellows, inhabitans of the sam e
town, inmates of the same houses; with an
ulterior intention, and purpose of wrapping
the whole community in a civil war of the
deadliest.atid bloodiest type, in which a man's
foes should.be those of his ,own household ;
suppose, I say, that the pelt? who planned
and plotted this, and with his own ,haud, or
that of his associates acting by his command,
had taken the lives of several fellow-brings,
should be extolled, cannonized, placed on a
level with the great heroes of humanity, nay,
assimilated to the Saviour of mankind ; and
all this not the effect of solitary. individual
impulse, but the ripe fruit of a systematic
agitation pursued in the South, -uoretitiked
(or jeers!. What, Sir, should we feel, thiuk,
say under such a state of things I should
we weigh every phrase of. indignat retiree's
'trance with critical accuracy, and divid - a
our murmutywitb nicetllserimination among
those gamin we might lelieve,,boweter un
justly, to he directly or indirectly conceived
in the murderous' aggression. •
Mr. Chairmge, ttiuee whci look upon the
existing excitement at the South ai factious
or extravagant have, I fear, formed a very. in
adequate idyls .of the nature of such an at
tempt as bat Which - wait made at .11arper'a
terry-etas Intended to be, would have
beep, had it proved suocestful. It is,to Out
of refieciion on this,poliat ant :is talta ,
scribe, the feet that any civilized man. its his
right Mind, isciff still prove spy, teas of rats.
hgeeos mita:world diseeroutest ye
;poets. pan hi,found , toLAPPfo.vo • and ajmpa-
Mimi with .I am sare v if any . 'eels poems
will twin hoesciotheic.est suy.tlistioot
iloneoptioo, - tha real estrus of As sidoitslt
log, they 'Said be thesiielies &waled Aug
they hearer sites it their syliiirb7. It ip-
pears, from his own statements and those of
his deluded associatea, of his biographer, of
his wretched *ire, that the unhappy tom)
who has just paid the.(orfeit of his life bad
for years meditated a genersLitviurrention in
the Southern States t that he thought the
time had now come teaffect it; that the
slaves were ready to and the non-slave
holding whites to lain them; and both united
were ready to form a new Commonwealth,
of which the Constitution was organized,.and
the officers chosen. With this wild, but
thoroughly matured plan, he provides weap
ons fur those on whose rising ,he 'Calculated
at Harper's Ferry; Ike seizes the national ar
senal, where there wary a supply of arms for a
hundred thousand men, and be intended, if
unable to 'maintain hiMself a: once is th 4
open country, to retreat to tbe- mountains,
and from: their fastneesei, bimetal; parsljte,
and finally revolutionise the South. To La*
uf -the Oka. ao&-rifles Rot. being ..latesded.
for offensive purposes is simply absurd. The
first act almost of the party Isis to shoot
down a free colored man, whom they were
attempting to: impress, and who fled from
them. One Might as well ssy that the rifled
ordinance of Louia Napoleon wens intended
only for self-defence, to be used in case the'
Austrians- should undertake to arrest. his
march.
No, Sir, it wits an attempt to tlo on a vast
scale what was done in St. Domingo in 1191,
where the colored population !as about equal
to that of _Virginia; and if any one would
Cut m ' a di-tinot idea, of what -such an opera-
. .
tion is, let bird see it; „ —tiot as a mattbr of
vague conception—a crude project 7 —in the
mind of a heated fanatic, but as it is io the
sober pages of history . , that record the revolt
in that island; the, midnight buntings, the
wholesale massacre., the meritless torture;
the abumivationa noLto be named by Chris
tian lips in 4 the bearing of Christain ears,—
some of wbtoh, too unutterably atrocious for
the English' language, are of necessity veiled
io the obscurity of the Latin tongue. Allow
me to read to you a few sentences from the
historian of these events:
•• In the town it.elf, the general belief for
some time was,' that the revolt was by no
means an extensive one, but a sudden and
pawn! insurrection only. The largest sugar
plantition 'on the' plain was Chat of_ dons.
Gallifet, situated about eight miles from the
town, the negroes ,bitlonging to vihich had
always been treated with such kindness and
liberality, and possessecl.so many . advantages,
that it became a proverbial expression among
the lower white people, in bpeakieg of any
man's good fortune, to say, ii est heureux
coinnte un negre de Gallifet, (he Ts as happy as
one of M. Gallifet's negroes) M. O.lelue, an
attorney, or agent, for this plantation, was .a
member of the general A:ssembly, and being
fully persuaded that the negroes belonging
to it would remain firm in their obedience,
determined to repair thither to encourage
them in opposing the iwurgents; to
. which
end be desired the assistance of a few soldiers
from the town guard, whiat was granted him.
Lie proceededat cordlngly,bot on approaching •
the estate, to his surpri'e, he found all the
negroes in arms on the side of the rebels, and.'
horrid to tell, their standard was the _b'ody of
...
a while infarct, ichicli they had recently im
paled on a stake! Mr. OJeluc had advanced
too far to retreat undiscovered, and,bOth be
and who had accompanied him, with
most of the soldiers, were killed without
mercy. 'Two: or three only of the patrol
escaped by flight, and conveyed the dreadful
tidings to the inhabitants of the town.,
By this tithe, all or most of the white per-
rains who bad been found of the several plan
tations, being massacred ur forced to seek ;
- their safety in lig!) L, the ruffians exchanged
the sword for the torch. The buildings and
cane fields were everywhere set on fire; and'
the conflagrations, which • were visable from'
the town, to a Abous4nd different quarters,
ferni.bed a proipect more shopking, and re •
Sections more disinali than, fancy sari paint,
or the powers of man_can desrrtbc ';
Sault, Sir, as a matter of history, is a ser
vile insurrection. Now let us take a giant°
at the state of things, in the Southern States,
co-membersas they are with tie in the great
Republican Confederacy. Let us consider
over what sort of a population it is, that some
persons among us thiakit not only right and
commendable, but in the highest degree he
roic., saint-like god-like, to extend the awful
calamity, which turned St. Domingo into a
heap of bloody ashes in 1791. There'are Fee ,
Lessen three and font millions of the Colored
race scattered, through the Bouthern and
Sunthwestern States, in small groups, in eit
ies towns, villages, and ,in larger bodies on,
isolated plantations; in the house, the facto•
ry, and the field ; mingled together with the
dominant race in the various pursuits of life;
the latter, amounting in the aggregate' to
leightor nine millions, if I rightly recollect the
numbers. Upon this cOmmunity, thus com
posed, it was the design of Brown . to let loose
the bell-hounds of a servile iusurrectioo, and_
to bring one struggle which for magnitudt,
troeity and horror would have stood alone
in the history of the world. And these eight
or nine millions, against whom this frightful
war-was leveled, are our fellow citiiens, enti
tled with as to the protection of that compact
of Government; which recognizes their rela
tion to the colored race,—a compact which
every sworn officer of the Union or of the
States is bound by . his oath to sapport!L
Among them; Sir, a fair proportion of men
and *omen of education and culture—of mor
al and religious lithe and eharecters--tirtu
ous fathers, motherkepns, and daughters. per:
sons who would adorn any station of society
in any coutorp—men who read the irarm 'Bi
ble that we do, and in the sane of the Satal
master kneel at the thy?* of the same God—
forming a class of men rout which hare gone
forth from some of the, greatest and purest
characters which adorn our history—Wash
ington, Jiffersou,ldedison,
These are the men, the women; for Whine bo•
som ,pikva and rifielare matosfactireci in New
England, trs bit placed in the °fan tg..
*onset subject race, supported, mostwronfuly
ly e as restent eveptatosve show a,. to be :waiting
only for au opportunity. to Om theta
Sir, I bare ow ilsriMoriout . different ova
tions in early life and more recently, Tititeill
all, the Southern and Southwertern States, I
with; tbo eXpaption of Aritinamiand .A.lsbama.
I;fiaire enjoyed the haapitality.of the city and
thi country ; than had thcprivilege Wore
crowded audiences, to hold up the - character
of.thelatter a 0w0,,,; Sal to inculcate
.
blessings, of the Union, ik mums -pre
alai terms in which have done it hem at
home, end in the other poi.tions - of the land.
VOLUME i(VI, NUMBER
I have been admitted to thetotdidence of aid
dthnestic circle, and I have seen there touch
ing Manifestations of dui' kindest feOli ogs by
which that circle, in all itt members, high
and !Ow, master and servant, can be bound to
gether i and when I contemplate the horrors,
that wotild bade insued - had. the tragedy on
which the curtain rose at Harper's Ferry,
been acted out, through all ifs scenes of fire
and sword, of lust and murder, of rapine' nd
desolation, to.the final catastrophe, I am fill
ed with 'emotions to which no wordscan du
justice, 4'here would of coarse be but one
result, tend that well deserving the tboUghtful
meditation of those, if any such there be,
who.tbiok the welfare of the, colored face
could by any possibility be promoted by the
success of such a movement, and who are
willing to.puichase that result •by so co'tly a
scerifies. The colored population' of St. Do
mingo amounted to but , hula short of half a
million, whits the whitea amounted to only
30,000. The white population of the South
ern States slime, In the aggregate, outoum
bere the colored race in the ratio of two to
one; in the Union at large in the ratio of sev
en to one, and if (which Heaven avert) they
should be litilingLit: into conflict, it could end
only in the eitermination of -the latter' after,
scenes of woe for which language is too faint . ;
and for which the liveliest fancy has no ade
quate images of horror.
Such, being the case, some one may ask
why does not the South fortify hei
Ai i elf against
ci
ills possible occurrence of such c tastroplia,
by doing away with the one greats urce from
which alone it can spring! This is a question
easily rsked, and lam not aware that uis
ota duty at the North to answer it; but it
may be observed that great and radical chan
ges in the framework of` society, involving
1 the relations of twelve millions of men, will
not wait on the•bidding of impatient Oilers..
thropy. They can only be biought about: in;
the lapse of time, by the steady operation of
physical, economical, and 'moral causes.—
Have those, who rebuke the Smith for the.
continuance of Slavery, considered that neitb- .
er the present generation not the preceding _ -
°Le is responsible for its.existence 1 The Af
dean Slave-trade was prohibited by Act of
Congress fifty one years ago, and many year's
earlier, by the separate Southern States. The
.entireqoloted population, with the er:ceplori,
perhaps, of afewhundredsourrep_t_o_s.y intro
duced, is native to the soil. Their ancestors
were conveyed from Africa in the ships of
Old-V.l46nd and New-togland. They rittvr
number between three and four million.. alas
any person, lof any party or opinion, propos
eci,,io sober earnest, a practieal cnetitiat of
wholesalts'emancipatipu 1 I believe most per-
eons, is ell parts of the country, are Of uptu
ioo, that free labor is steadily 'gaining ground':
It would in my judgement, have already pre=
wailed in the two northern tiers of the slave.
&Oiling States, bed its advances oat been un
happily retarded by the irritating ag itations
of the day. But lies any person, wlio-e opin
ioa is entitled to the slightest respect, ever
undertaken to sketch out the details of a plan
for effecting the change at once, by any-leg
islative measure that could be adopted.? Cum
eider only, I pray you,'tbat it
_would be to
ask_the South to give up one thousand IL:zil
lions of property, which she - bolds by' a title
sati‘factory to herself as the first step. Then •
estimate the cost of an adequate outfit for the
self-aupport:of the emancipated millions; -then
reflect on the derangement of the eotire - ic- ,
dustrial . system of the South„ and all the bran
ches orcommerce and manufactures tbriCde
pend ou its great staples; then the necessity
of conferring equal political privileges on the
emancipated race, who being free would be
content, With nothing less,. if anything .less
were consistent with our political - system;
than the consequent organization of two great
political parties'on the basis of color, and-the
eternal feud which would rage between them :
and finally the overflow into the free States of
a vast multitude of needy and belpless'erei
grants, who being excluded from many of
them (and amongotbers from Kansas) would
prove doubly burdensome, where they are ad
mitted. Should we, Sir, with all our sympa
thy for the colored race, give a very cordial
reception to two or three hundred thousand
destitute emancipated slaves! Does not ev
ery candid man see, that every one of these
step's presents difficulties of the most formid
able character—diffioultiea for which,v as far
as I know. no man end no party has propos- '
.ed a solution. And » it, Sir, fur the attain
theater objects an manifestly - irepracticeble,
pursued, too, by the bloody pathwayamf tree - -
aon and Wonder, that we sill allow the stu
pander» evil which now threatens-es, to come
upon the country 1 Shall we
„permit this de
viously compacted body..politic, the nicest ad
justment of human wisdom, to go to pieces!
Will 'w e blast this beautiful symmetric form.;
paralyze this powerful arm of public:strength
'smite with imbecility this great Nittional In
teller:a Where Sir, 0 where, will• be the
flag of the United States! Wbere otir rap=
idly increasing influence in the family of na
tions!' - Already they are rejoicing in our di
visions, The-last foreign journal which I
hive read, in commenting upon this event at
Harper's Ferry, dwells upon it as something
that "will compel us to keep the peace svifb
the powers of _Europe,". and that 1:00311;t0
take the law from them in our own interns*
-tional relition4
I meant to kava spoken of the wreck of
that magnificent and mutually - beneficial corn 7
mercild Interuourse which now exists liet,;..een
the producing and manufacturing Status, —on
the hostile tariffs in time of peace lad the.hs
bitually reentig border wars by which it
will be attainder. I meant to 'have said ri
vinrd of the Navy of the United States, and
the rich inheritance of its common glories
Shall wetive up this! The memory of our
fathers—of those happy days when the men
of, the Soak and South stood together for The
country, .On barthionght fislds • when the
South sent her Wssittl,tere to itsaushusete,
and New England seat her Gassits to Cei-v
-lina—is all this forgotten! "Is all the (renn
et)l we,bays shared ;" - all the joint labors to
found this great.Republie;—is this "all far
gokr ate will we permit this fait great ex
periment,rif Confederate Republicani ,, co to be
come ti proverb - ind a hy-word to the ilatiens I
No, fellow - eitisens, no. This glorious Union
shall not, perish. Precious legacy of Fri
ths* it Atoll go dwelt. honored and Obviat
ed. to our children. Generations unbol shall
enjoy ice privileges as We hem One , nd if
we leave them poor besides we will
tranirnit to Mete the boundless wealth of this
•
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