The Montrose Democrat. (Montrose, Pa.) 1849-1876, December 13, 1860, Image 1
1133.MOMOSE DEBUKiRAT, rs Rususass tircrwars, kir AL,", pvrICE o c PUBT4E,MEE* TIMER DOORS ABOVE wirfutiss • • TEnis.L4l,so pe./ . Imu ni in ADVANcoI; otherwise $ 2 will bated-4M Mjeeo waniutm Added to intaigell. Si the=Ake =DUMAN tO expense of cpthxdoa, etc. .pumeol • - ADvErnulnarre will be Inserted at the rate of slot ten Ikon or tear, Ike doled. dm weeks, and MS cents feletldlttcatd wooko- cor. Qtr. .1 Mercluinte, and otters, Who ad'rertise by. the you, lane charged at the Mirb,g, *to t For one tor kes. ono itat, ettltekostift„... ,ss /rack Wood MOM% ct, Mt =to qt 4_ - 1..T0 erect Ititirembone Imown TEg BANDIT. 1 I Ii OLD so*Bl6 Whoeyer, mid the old soldier, has made the jonrnoy over the Appenines,,between Sulmon& and the Castle di Sangro, will well remember the remarkable 'Piano di Cinque Mlie, pr Plain of Fire ;11files.-- This plain derives its name fromlti length, and varies from a 4lnarter of a a* to a itulo in width. It is situated 'on fthe wiry summit of the Appeuines, some four thou sand feet above CM lose' of the ;lien, and is a perfect table of land, flat and smooth as a tend, with the tops of the ! different hills just rising lie ¶pet a' few - feet above it on either hand. It was in the month of November, 184— That I was spat as a bearer of diSpatehes from the Colonel ofmy regiment,lthen sta tioned at Salmons, to the -Gene).al then commanding at Castle di Sang* The journey was a dismal one to mei for; be-, sides being kcold, cheerless, disagreeable season of the when a most, I ;t,empest -might be looked , fo t at any mernent,.my way led upthioul r the robberi•infested Vall'Oscura (Dark alley,) and across the noW bleak _andfiesolate Five Mile Plain ; and I thought if I should estape Piacomo. Alsnierils ban dits , and the hungiy• packs of wolves that at this season el4tost run mad with hunger, I might consider ' self lucky enough to take a venture iv"-al most any thing. ' Well, the . sun, king cibscurCA by - ill oinened clondsovanted thipelieUrs of set fink,' when I spurred my harse.upthe last ramp, mid stood upon.the [five mile plain, 1313SINESS CARDS. -war.% .mcirnsactodrza s ursat*lpacut.. W3l. 11. COOP . En t 4L- CO., • I I INSERS_ ,—Ncettrosc, Pa. Succeavrsta*Dat., l =2: I Co. °Mee, La `new du! g, TtFrrp J. sw IleptiLUM D. if. mins, McCOLLUM & SEARLE; • TTOTiNETS and Coaniellore at 4w.:-3iDniznie:Pn. °Mee In Leib:taps' new badlitzi, ore tbd Bank. • HENAY & 'TTORNEY sad Commerh;gr at taw. —Toirarna. Pa. OZCII In the tralott R 358 tt DR. E, • F. WILMOT rt_RADUATE of the Allopathic 24 •atbie Col legess of Medleine:—Gnat Bend;, Pa. • Mee. corner of Main and Elizabeth-eta, nearly opposite the Methodist churl. . s 11 1 056 tt DRS. BINGHA3I 1 ANEY, pr au mma. stirs =NUM—New DR. G. Z. DIMOCK, ITTSICLUC AND SVRGEON.-41 - oretiosai IT* Mee I lover Wilsons' Store; Lodgings St Searlee lioteL DR. WILLTAIL W. WHEATON, ECLECTIC PHYSICIAN & strienow DEMIST. • 117771 D8.17710..Y wp-A TO'S, ' • _ Ifeatanical and Surgical Dentist, redently of Binghamton, N. T. tender their professional serricesto all ! who appre ,iste tbe •• Reformed Practice of Pltysic;"l pirellal and Adfifal suserstions on Troth: QS ijl ths. most ssiretMearsti appcorecl• styles of plater ork. Tee% eXtracteol without pain and an work warranted. ! Jackson. June 13th. 1360. Iss . . . DR. 11. SMITH ,t; S'ONI' • ‘ , .?, • , _ QDRGEON,DENTISTS,L-Montrose, iv. .r.kier,r7; oflice in Lismps.' new building., aver L . , < - the Bank. All Denial operationsartill be 'lllikla l i g "' performed In good etyle and warranted. . J. C.;t3t3ISTEAD JD• HUD. • DRS. OLMSTEAD & READ, Wome : ANNOUNCE the Public that hare mitered into a, partner4tip for the PrOttice of MEDICINE & Snrgery, and are prepared to !attend to all mills in the line of their profession. Cifileettie one formerly occupied Dr. 3. C. Olmitead, in DIIIMAFF. • Myl7 3m. DR. LEET, rhyfician cold , Stares a t c eMlk, Po. . (girt opporift D i- LEST his Ilrodial OW particular attention to tbo treatment twootf cla ence In that nt that • Oct will etiVe hinasto and Wet a care [0 the triost( 6 / ' /i= cam*. For treating diaeases of these organs no fee will be ehargad unless the patient Is benelitted bk , the treat ent. [August tOth, 18RI. SOLVIIINVORTH & VADAkIN, ILir.&ISTIT'ACTURERS AND . DEAURS Id Italian and /11! Anterlean Marble for Mcntutnenta. Readstones, Tomb-Tables, 'dainties, Sinks and Centro-Tables. Also dealers in Marbleized Slate for Mantles, Centro-Tables., 60. Shop a few doors et of Searle's Ilotel • on Turnpike street, Montrose. Pia • !r •ocily* WM. A. SNOW, rusrict or TUB PEACE—Gnat . Ikild; Pa. oft= •11 4in Kahl Astreet,.opposite the Western House. apt 1 JOHN SAuttER, i • , • MIASMOMABLE TAII,OM.-Allantroise. Pa!, Strop 1: ova' I.'Ai. Bullard's Grocery, on Mala-ntreet.l Tlotnirin/ for past tarots, be solicits a continuance —picdging himself to do all work asMsfactorilc. Cat- Man done onabort notlce. and wurtanted to lit. Montrose, Pa... July 12th, IMSO.--tt • P. LESTS, sirrowax TAELAML—Montroie, , Pa.l &bop Pbamtx Block, ovetretore, unload, 'Marone Foetir. Atl work warranted; as to fit and lintel. Clitchtg done on abortnotice, in beet . *WOO JOHN GROVES, 1 • TIiSMONABLE temon,—Nontro;l N Pa. j: Shop /. pezethe DAIWA Xseting Ucrose, anTangalke street. All orders filled promptly. in fin-rate style. entilng done on slated natter, sad warauited to fit. 1 L. B. ,ISBEIL; I • EPATUS Clow , Watches, and Jewetry at the 11 shortnat notice. sad an mountable terms. AD& ...work warranted. Shop In Chandler andjeedrap's store; IdosTnoesjit. • oda ti wli. w. small al co., rliasnrer AND Mum MANUPACTFRM—Poot p! Fula liontme, Pa. attgl t . C. O. FORDLIAM, IitANIIPACTIM2II of, BOOTS (F. EiTlOMMontrime. iy • Pa. Shop over Tylces. atom. 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S C . • •.., . . - , , . • . ~ . . . . . _ . . - li Join:Ourselves to no Pasty _that Does not Carry the Flag, and Keep - Step to the { Music of the Whole OL. 17. at the .ther end of which was lageoialled Relies Rosa, whete, in case of nece4sity, I could get lodgings for the night. I I stopped my horse to give him a little breath,preparatory to making a quick aide ofitaoross the plain, when I was ear prised gind net altogether pleased to see another horseman spur up behind me. He wag truer a good looking man, in a chi ton's dress; and seethed to be merely a traveler, but still, as my despatches were important, and ,the period troublesome; and tanagers Whoa looked on with suspi cion, j would rather have been alloweato make the ridealone, dreary as - it was. Bo sidei where had the strunget conic from so suddienk 4 ills horse seemedperfectly fresh, aa if It had not just ascended one of the most difficult 'aocli'vities in the world, while mine stood panting in a temperature that made me ,Shiver. Now if this stran ger ha 4 come . ip from the Vidl'Oieurs, his home was a marvel ; and ifnot, he was no traveler--for there was no other route fot an honest-man to take; so I quietly loosened my pistols in their bolsters, and then thought, in case they were not need ed, I should like to become the owner of that excellent beast. • - " Conirade," said the stranger, in a. frank, b ff hand manner , tipping is hat, and smiling, "I MO once an old soldier, but am!'now a traveller. If agreeable,l should like your 'campany to Castle di an grol" " H w doy . ouknoiv lam going there r return in a cold, repellant tone. "I didn't=-only I-say I am, and would like yip s company . All's one, though, if you er to ride atone." ' • my beast would , be sorb coin, pany for yours, however men their masa tors might agrec. There is a wide differ- epee between the two animals. Mine is almost blown, and yours looks as .if just film the stalL" '• • "HaLhar laughed the stranger pleas antly; nee you!do not give me credit for spurring out of yonder thicket and drop ping Wow' the brow of thehill before you observed - me." - "That looks suspicious." • - "So it does; but, jesting aside, was well &ea:A of you, saw_ you ascending, wanted company, felt suspicious like your self, hid myself for you to pas; and then resolved to join you without exciting your suspicion, in which I.did not succeed. Is the explanation satisfactory? or shall I ride on again?" " I will trust you," said I. We rode on, side by side, for something like a mile, conversing pleasantly—but I kept a furtive glance upon every move ment of my strange companion. I knew not why, but .I did net feel altogether at my ease. Mere:was soinething pcmiliar in hislOokk, in the expression of his face in repose i rand I could not avoid a , kind of suskiri , ?iait., I Carko6l 1 - ,* was 9. deep and cunning man, who could mask his feelings when he chose, and there might lie a-sinister design in all he did. Suddenly; as quick almost as a flash of lightning, we were struck by a . wind that almost took us from our horses, and which made the beasts st l agger like drunken men. , "'leaven preserve es!" exclaimed the stranger; "we are eaeght in a &Urine/de I " In a few inimites,imid the howling and shrieking of the most terrific wind I ever experienced,the air becanie filled and grew dark with large; flakes of show, which whirled and surged around us)ike the wat ers ofa.inaelsfroni. The wind seemed to 'increase rather .;tlian diminish, and i the most violent eiertimis of an hour gearce ly took us forward to the centre of this awful plain. Tall pOstshad been all the way erected at short intervals, to guide the traveler throrigh just such a storm, but already we began to lose . sight of them. • . • Another hourbrought us to.the verge of despair. 'Night was rapidly drawing op, and by this time we could no longer see our way. 'Horses and riders were at times completely buried in. the drifts, and our guide posts too' were lost altogether. Then we began to wander, we knew not whither, our , beasts doing their very best till the s ballingef their Coofs,causedilem to stumble and fall. Convinced by this that thetcould .no longer serve us, we now attempted to plue,e through the snow op foot mid lead the animals; and we continued thus for another half hour, unable to say whether we were advancing, retracing our steps, or moving in a circle. "Heaven hare mercy on us!" cried the companion ; "we shall never escape alive :Hark! There go the wolves." Above the shrieking and yellings of the storm.spirits (Mr such they • seemed.) I now heard that prolonged, dismal hOwl which has made the blood curdle in the veins of more than one poor benighted traveller. It was r ansWered here, and 'there and yonder, and then in chorus, 'and we knew that packs of hungry wolves were gathering all around us; and pressed by' ismine, as at,this season, they Would at tack either man or beast. ' .Nearer and nearer came the' howls 'of our enemies„ rind in leis than half an hour, amid the darkness of settled night, we could 'catch here anti there the terrible, gleam of the fiery' eyes of the boldest of the-pack. We continued ashort distance longer to struggle through 'the sninv 'and half drag our frtghtened. horse* after us and then I becatee convinced that, to Bare our lives we should be obliged' to abandon them to our enemies. As soon as I could get close to micompanimi--for we could warmly distinguish a ward a few paces distant--I lamb the suggestion and asked his advice, - • "I fear we shall be compelled to do it," he answered; "had I prize the life of my gallant bpst alinost as mach as my own., 'But the pack is constantly aumentinm, and the courage of thi brbtos increase with numbers. t•Every moment I fancy they get nearer !to us, and one Unlucky stumble may be fatal to both. - We will try the , virtue Of firinginto them, how .ever, before we jive up all hope of saving sear tutizinals, - ' . The nest nionient the repoit of his pis tol wasfollowed by ir wild hdwl fe..sr, and thi; . senuering, 'peek of the cowardly crew; bath] a couple of minutes they fao. ed asOnitt'g More resolute and gieternimed than. era, It was - a fearful MONTROSE, PA„ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1860:11 thing to sitheiriteity eyeballs gleaming in a circle around us, andlear their' wild , discordant cries, commingled with - the roaring, shrieking tempest. Following the exampl e of my compan ion, I drew one of my p istols, and point , big • it toward one of the nearest, fired. The same result as before; There were cries as of pain,.rage and fear, and a, mo mentary seattermg of the affrighted band; and then they were about us again, as de fiant as ever. - There was - no help for it--our horses must be sacrificed—and most fortunate would it tie for us, if even this should save us. We 'got together once again; and taking hold of hands, promised by our honor as soldiers, to stand by each other to the last. Then we threw the bridle to, the winds, and still keeping Lehi of hands, plunged onward through the opposing drifts and driving storm. We had advanced but a few paces, how ,ever, before our ears were pierced by most unearthly shrieks, , yells groans, and fu rious grooliings, and then we knew the hungry monsters were at their bloody work, and that our poor, forsaken beasts would never' . bear us atain. 'Now or never was our time to escape, and man fully did w,e struggle forward.: Reaching a spot from which the wind had scattered up the snow, leaving for some distance a clear., open path, We had the satisfaction of finding the guide post, ana thus ascer taining we • were going right; and pusji ing forward as rapidly as possible, we gained -a point where the glimmering lights of Rocca Rosa made our hearts bound with hope and joy. Rut our dangers were pot yet over;for scarcely had we reached the point alluded to, when we once more heard the ,wolves howling hear ns. 'Our horses were al ready devoured, and some of the beaits were satiated, but the first assailants had been joined by others, fresh from the mountains; and we knew that these hit ter, by having, perhaps a mere taste for blood, would be : more bold 'and furious than the former. . • "There is - a small, chapel this Ride of the village said my 'coinpatuen "and if we can reach that, we shall , he safe for the. night; let as make a last run for it." • We bounded forward.. with' ,all our might, and soon found ourselies plun,p_d out of sitht in an enormous drift. • We scrambled out as--.fast as we could; but before we were fairly clear of it,lhe fore most wolfe was upon us, hiii eyes glaring, his teeth gnashing, INA panting for breath. • I drew.my pistol andsnapped it. It missed fire; but' the noise' startled him and he sprang aside a little, only to press forward again whe:n he found he was lot hurt and that he was supported' by num bers. I snappedinypistol again, and agsin it missed fire; and this time the furious beast Foumely• fumed his brad- I be lieve he would have seized me, - facing'hini, as I was, if my companion had not been more successful in Ibis attempt tq shoot. His, pistol was discharged in the beast's fae;e, and he fell, back howling with' the pain of- his wound, and, -in less than a minute, was torn to pices by his compan jons. This diversion in our favor gave us time to clear the drift and near the chapel, before our blood-thirsty pursuers again advanced upon us in a body; and running now with .all our seed, we sprang - into the 'cold naked building, and closed the door justin time to save our lives. ' ' We spent the night there, and a horri: ble nightit proved. We could only keep from freezing to death by walking up and .down the building, and slapping our -arms across our breasts. And all night long i i -the empest moaned and shrieked, and the hungry animals howled and gnashed their teet around mi. We said little to each other ; for neither; felt inclined to talk; and when, at -last war weary eyes loOked upon the grey of Morning I knew of one who fervently thanked . God for deliver ance. With daylight, ; the wolves slunk away to the mountains, and I proposed to my companion to fiet.off with me to the village, Where WC should be refreshed • with food and fire.! , "No," he replied, "i must go baelo "Ent surely notlnow across that terri ble plain." "Yes," he rejoined, .compressing his - "I have no friends in the village." ." But there is an!inn there, open to any traveler *ho has *herewith to pay.". "My friend,"' he rejoined, laying his band on my shoulder and looking at me in a'peculiar manner, "'may I trust you with a secret, - on 'your . honor as a .sol dier?" " Yes, comrade." "Swear it." u I do." "Then tell no one yon have been the night-long companion of Giacomo Ran- ieri. " " Your' cried ,I, in amazement and alaim; you that dreaded captain of ban diti ?" .I.l,Even so, my friend; but I have the honor of a soldier, that-you will not be tray me. . • • "Listen You think this storm has been a misfortune to you; but, on the contrary, it has been your sclvUtion..„ I joined you to murder you, secure . , your dispatches, and take your place us a courier. The storm has foiled Inv design ; for' why murder . you When f needed your aid to save myself? lam not devoid of honor, and the man who has done me a service is secure of my protection. Accept, there. fore, this silver ring, and wear it ; and if you are ever assailed by any of my band, you have only, to show 'that to secure yourself a safe esccirt. - And now adieu- 7 we separate here—our ways are differ• - ent." _ Ile set off, walking rapidly,. and soon a b.Utock of snow_ concealed him from my vidon. I never saw him. again. Some time during - the 'following year, he, was killed by some 'Wagers, to whom ' by his murderous depredations, he had become an object of terror. - I Went fbrward That morning, thinking how . wonderful are the ways'of Prom dance; and many alime since, whensomo apparen6misfortune has overtaken me, I have secretly - wondered if it were not a part of some bidden design of the - ;mighty,- working for my good. - • PRESIDIUS • Fe llow-Citizeni of the Slate mat Rouse . Itepraentatives. Throughout the year since our last meeting, the countty has been eminently prosperous in all its material interests. The general health his been excellent, our harvests have been abundant; . and plenty'smilis throtighout the.land. Our commerce and manufacture's have been prosecuted with energy and industry, and have yielded ample returns. In short, no nation inthe tide of tfine has ever present ed a spectacle of greater material prosper ity than we have done iuntil a very recent period. Why is it, then; that diaiontent now so extensively prevails, and the Union of the States, which is the !Mtirce of all these blessingi, is threatened with destruction ? The long continued and intemperate inter-. ference of the Northern people with the question of slaveryin the Southern States has atiength produced its natural effects. The different sections! of the Union are now arrayed against each other, and the time has arrived, so inuch dreaded by - the Father of his Country; when hoitile Geo graphical parties have heen formed. I have long foreseen and often forewarned. my countrymen of the now; impending danger: This does not- proceed solely from the claim on the part of Congress or the Ter- . ritorial Legislatures ,to exclude slavery from the Territories, nor from the efforts ofdifferent States to defeat the execution of the Fugitive Slave law. All or any of these evils might' have been endured by . the South without danger to the Union; (as others bare been 4 m the hope that time and reflection might apply the: rem ed The immediate peril arises not so much from these causes as from the fact that the' - incessant and violent agitation of the slavery question throughout' the North for the last quarter of !a century; 'has at length produced its trialig,n influence on the slaves, and inspired - them with vague notions of Freedom. !Hence a sense of security no longer exists around the fam ily altar. This feeling of peace at home has given place to apprehensions ofservile insurrection. Many a Matron throughout the South retires at night in dread of what may befall herself and ,herchildren before the morning.. Shonldi this apprehension of domestic-danger,- Whether real or im aginary, extend and intensify itself until it shall.pervade the masses of the Southern people, then disunion will become inevit able. Self-preserVation is the first law of nature, and has been implanted in the heart of man by his Creator; for the wisest pur pose; and no politiCal union, however fraught Awn blessino and benefits in all other respects, can long continue, if the neees.s4ry congequence be to render the homes and the firesideS of nearly half the parties to it habitually :and hopelessly inse cure. Sooner or later the bonds of such a Union must be severed. • It is my con viction that thisfatal peridd has not vet; arrived ;• and my prayer to God is that Ile would preserve the Constitution and the Union. throughout all generations. But let us take warning in time, and re move the cause of danger.. It cannot be denied 'that,, for fire and twenty yearn, the agitation at the North against slavery in the South has • been incessant. •In 1835 pictorial handbills - aud inflammatory ap peals were -circulated extensively through. out the South, of a character to excite the passions of the slaves; and, in the language of Gen. Jackson, "to stimulate them to in surrection, and produce all the horrors of a servile war.' This - agitation has ever since been continued by the public Press, by theiproceedings of State and County Conventions, and by ; abolition sermons and lectures. The time of Congress has, been occupied in violent speeches on this never-ending subject ; and appeals in pam phlet rind other forms, indorsed by distin- guishe,d names, have been sent forth from this central point, and spread broadcast over the Union. How easy woild it he. for the Anierican people, to settle the slavery quest forev er, and to restore peace and harmony to this distracted country. • They, and they alone, 'tan do it. All that is necessary to aeccomplish the ob hect, and all for which the slave States ave ever - contended, is to be let alone, and perrhitted to manage their domestic institutions in their own way. As-sover eign States, they, and they alone, are re sponsible before God and the world for the slavery existing among them. For this, the people of the North are not more responsible, and have no more rig,htto in terfere, than with similar, institutions in Russia or in Brazil. -' Upon their good sense 4nil patriotic forbearance I confess I still greatly rely. Without their aid, it is beyond the power of any President, no matter what may be his own political pro ciiiiti4s, to restorepeace and harmony among the States. Wisely limited and re strained as js his power, under our . Con stitutiOn and laws, he alone 'can accom plish but little, for.gOod or for 'evil,. on this momentous question. And this - brings me to observe that the election of any-ouee of 'our fellow-citizens to theioffice of President "doe§ not' of it self afford just cause for dissolirieg the Un ion:. This is more especially true if his election has been effected by a mere plu rality, land not a majority, of The people, and has resulted from transient and tera porFy anuses, which may-probably never again occur. In order tojustify resort, to revelntionary resistance, the Federal government must be guilty of "a deliber ate, palpableand dangerous . exercise" of powers not granted by the Constitution. The late 'Presidential election,• however, has been held in strict conformity with: ts expresi; provisions. How, then, can the result justify-a revolution to destroy this very Constitution? Reason, jttstite,'s re; gard for the,Constitution, all require that we shall wait fei some overt- and danger-- oils act on the part of the president elect before resorting jo such a remedy. It is: said, however, that the antecedents of,the president elect' have been sufficient ' to justify the fears of the South that he attempt to invade their-constitutional rights.; Bat s re such apprehensions .of contingent danger in 'the feta . * Wildcat to justify the immediate d action of _the noblest system of goverment ever do. vised by mortale?-_ From the Very nature of his office audits high res les t he must necetentril yba The sterh . dety of administering 601 vast and complicated concerns of Ibis Governmenft .affords in itself a iparantect that he Will not attempt any violation of a clear con stitutional right. After-all, he is no more than the thief executive, officer of the . Government. His provineeis not to make, but to execute the laWs; and it is 'a re 'markable fact 'n our • history, 'that, not; withstanding The repeated efforts 'of the anti-slavery party, no single acts-has ever pissed Congress, unless we mai possibly except the. Missouri Compromise, Impair= ing; m the slightest degree, the right of the South to their property slaves.— And it May also be observed, judgingfreti present indicatioits, that no probability•ex fists of the passage of such- an I act, .by a majority of Ixoth Houses, either in the pres ent or the . next Congress. Surely, under these circumstances, we ought to be re strained from present action by the• pre ' eept of Wm- who spike as never man spoke, that "sufficient unto the ;day is the evil thereof." The day of evil may never come, - unless we shall rashly bfing it up-. I on ourselves. It is alleged as one cause for immediate' secession that the Southern States are de nied equal rights with the other States in the common territories. But by what au thority are , these denied? Not by Con gress,, which has never passed, Not ltbe lieve never will pass any, act to • exclude slavery from these Territories ;! and cer tainty not by the Supreme Court; which has solemnly decidedthat slaves are prop erty, and, like all other property, their owners have a right to take them into the col - ninon Territories, and hold them there under the protection of the Constitution. So far, then, as Congress is concerned, the object, is not to anything they have al ready done, but to what theymity-do here after. It will surely be admitted that this apprehension-Of future danger is no good reason for an immediate dissolutimi of the . Union. -It is true that the Territorial Leg islature of Kansas, on the 23d of Febru ary,-1860, passed in great haste .an act, over -- the veto of the Govertor,l declaring thatodaveryls "and shall be, forever pro hibited in.thiS Territory.''. Such an act, however, plainly violating the 3 rights of .property secured by the Constitution, will surely be declared void by .the j.ndi glary whenever it shall be preienteli.4li a legal firm. • Only three days after . my inauguration the Supretne.Court of the United States solemnly adjudged that this power did not exist in a Territorial Legislature. Yet, such has been itm factious temPer of the times that the !correctness of this'decision has been extensivelyimpuznedibefore the people, and the question has given rise 1 to angry political conflicts throughout the I country. ThoSe why; have appealed from this judgnient of our highest constitution al - tribunal to Popular assembliesiwould, if they could, invest a Territhrial Legisla ture With power to annul the saered nghts of property. This power Congress is ex pressly forbidden by-the Federal' Consti tution to exercise. Every- State Legisla ture in the Unio n. is .forbidden by its own Constitntion4,4 exercise it. , Iticannot be exereNed in ally State except by.. the peo ple in - their higheit sovereign capacity when framing or amending their State Constitution. In. like . manner, it can only be exereised.by the . peiipla of a Territory represented in la Convention of delegates for the purpoie of framing a Constitution preparatory teladmission as a State Into the Union. Then,.and not till, then, are, they invested ;with power to decide the question whether slavery shall Or shall not exist within their limiti. This is an act of sovereign authority, and not ilf snhordi. nate Territorial legislation. Vera it oth-' cruise, then indeed would' the.eqiudity , of the States in - the Territeries - be.destroyed, and the rights of property in slaves would depend, not on the .guarantees of the- Con,stitution, lint upon the shifting 'major ities of an irresponsible Territorial Legisla ture. Such a fromintrinsic' unsoundness; gannet its long infliience any ~ considerable plrtion of ourpeo le, much, less : can it afford a good reason . or a diss olution.ofthe Union. • - - The most palpable violations of consti tutional duty which-have yet - been com mitted consist in the acts ofdifferent State I.,eiislatnresto[defeixt the execution of the Fugitive - Slai-ellaw. It ought ito be..re membered,,hoWever, that for these acts; neither Congress nor any President can justly be held responsible. Hafing - been passed in Violalien of the Federal - Consti tution, they ar , ther'efore, null; and void. I All. the courts, both State. and', national, 1 before whom t e question has arisen, have from the begintting declared the Ffigitive SlaVe law to 11 'constitutional. The single exception is that of a State' court in Wis- . consin ; and OP '-has •not ouli,been re versed by the proper, appellate tribunal, but has met with such universal reproba tion that there! can he no danger from it as a precedent.l The validity of this laW has been established over and over by ,the Supreine .Court of the United States with perfect unanimity. It is _found ed upon .an an' express provision of the Constitution, requiring . that 1.. fugitive slaves who escaPe from service iii one State to another shill be "delivered up" to their masters, .Without this provision it'is a well known historical fact that the Con stitution itself could never have been adopted by thel Convention. In one form or other under the actseif 1793 Mad 1E150 2 both being aub4tantially the siune,the Fe gitiveSlaye lad has been'the low ' of the land frOnithe days of Washingtatinntil the present moment. - ... • Here, then, clear case is presented, in which it will b the duty of the next Pres ident, as it has: een my own, to, act. with , vigor in exectiting thin supreme law against, the conflicting 'enactMents ofStiite Lees- lat pros. ' Should befall in the perfOrenume . Of this high duty he will then hn 1X ve - ,taiii, Te s ted a-disregarii of, the Constitution and lawsio the grat injury of the Pail° of nearly one halflof the States of theUttion. But are we to Prestuise in advanni:t4f hit. Will thus violate his - duty 1 1 ,. ilthv would be St int with every principle, Otkletiee • . l I • • 1' . .1 I NO. 50. and of Christian charity. Lotus wait for the overt mt. The Fugitive Slave law has been carried into ekecuticei in every contested case since the commencement of the present Administration; 6001 1 often it is to be regretted, with great loss .altd inconvenience to the master, and with con siderable expense to _the Government.— Let us trust.that the. State Legishitonst will repeal their unconstitutional and oli-• noitious enactments. Unless thiS shall be done without unnecessary delay-it is inn= ppouu'ble for any human power to save the Union. • . The Southern States, standing on the basis of the COnstittitio . n, have a right to demand this act ofjustme from the States of the North. Skould it be refused, then the Constitution, to which all the States areparties; will have been wilfully viola= ted by one portion of them in - a provision essential to the domestic sedulity, and } eat. ha ' happiness of , the remainder. lathat event; th injured Stites, after having first used allpeaceful and constitutional means, to l ob ain redress, wotild be justified-in rev , lof ionary resistance to theGoveriment of 1 the Union. • I have purposely confined my remarkS to revolutionary resistance, beeauo jt has been claimed within the last few years that any State, whenever this shall be its sovereign will and pleasure, may secede from the Union, in accordance with the Constitution, and without 'any violatien of the constitutional -rights of the other' , members of. the Confederacy. That :is each became parties to the Union by the 'vote of its own people assembled in Con vention, so any . one of them may 'retire from the Union in a sirellitr manner by the vote of such Convention. In order to justify secession as a con stitutional remedy it must be on the p.rin eiple that the Federal Government is a mere voluntary association of States, to be dissolved at pleasure by any one of the contracting parties. If this be so the Confederacy is a rope of sand, to be pene trated and •dissolved by the first tuiverse wave'of public. opinion in any of the States. In this manner our. thirty-three States may resolve theradblves into as many petty, jarring and hostile Republics, each one retiring from the Union,without re. sponsibility, whenever any suden excite ment might impel them to such a conrse. By this_ process a Union " might be entire. ly broken into fragments in a few weekli, mhieh cost our forefathers many - years of toil, privation and blood to establish. Such a_prideiple is wholly inconsistent with thetory as well as the character of the federal Constitution. After it was framek% with the greatest deliberation and care it was submitted to conventions of peaple of the several States for ratifica tion. Its provisions ,were discussed at length in these bodies, composed of the first men of the country. Its opponents contended that it conferred powers upon the Federal Government dangerous to the rights of the. States, while its advocates maintained that under a fair construction of the instrument 'there was no founda tion for such apprehensions. In that struggle between the first' intellects of this or any other country, it never occur red to any individual either among its opponents or advocates, to assert, or even to intimate, that their efforts were all vain labor, because the moment that any State .felt herself agrieved' she might - secede from the Union. 'What a crushing argu ment would this • have proved against these who dreaded that'the rights of the States would be endangered by the Con stitution. The truth is, that it was not till many years alter the origin of the Fed eral Government that such a propositibn was first advanced. It was then met and refuted by the conchisive arguments Of General jackson, who, in hia'inessage of lath January, 1833; transmitting the nut: lifying ordinance of South earolinh to Congress, employs the following . languag "The right , of the people of a single State to absolve themselves at will,- and without the consent of the other States, from their most Solemn obligations, and hazard the liberty and happiness of the millions com posing this Union, cannot be acknowl.. edged. Such authority is believed= to -he utterly repugnant both to the principles upon whichthe General Government is constituted and to the objects which it was expressly formed to attain." It is not ,pretended that any clause iu the Constitution gives countenance s such. a theory. It is altogether founded upon inference, not from any language contained in the instrument itself, but from the sovereign character of the several' States by which it was ratified. But is it beyond the power of a State, like an indi vidual, to yield a.portion of its sovereign rights to .secure the remainder? In the language of Mr. Madison, who has been called the father of the Constitution : "It was formed by the States—that is, by the people of each of the States, acting in their highest sovereign capacity; and formed,consequently ley the same author ity which formed the State Constitutions. Nor is the Government of the United States, created by the Constitution, Iva a Government in the stria- sense of the term,wjthin the sphere of its powers,thde the Governments created by the-Consti talons of the States are, within their sev eral spherei. It. is; like them, organized into- Legislative executive . and judiciary departments. It operates, like them, di- rectly on persons and thins; and, like them, it has at command a physical forie for executing the 'powers committed to It was intended to be perpetual, aid not tckbe annulled at the Orsini an'y' - one of the contracting puttee. ,The old articles of confederation were .entitled, "Articles of. Confederation - sad Perpetual Union lietw_cen the States sad bi the isth article:it is expressly deelanod that "the articles of this Confederation shall" be iniiolably' observed by every State, and the Union: shall be'perpetutd." The Preandile to the Constitution of the United States, having express reference to the ertielesoMonfederation,recites that it was established "in order to *brat a more per. feet union." And yet it la contended tbat this "more perfect union" - does not in. clnde-the essentiatattribute of perpetuity: - - But that the anion wee designed to he perpetual smears _eonolush ,from 110 JOB FROMM of ALL DOiarAvisix onset a' 11LF • . I)3II MCOCa r tA*I - Minx viDiptixtizriz • - • • AND 4,T "LIVE AND L LIVE" manor Tea office .of the Montrolie Democrat Ira recently bon sapplied with a riew sad choke tl=eta, and we are sew peesemei . ec k paw ate4acc,, bate Ding ems, an sbarcuedee. litsndbills, Na. Programi NW Wok atm** to thi as, s It," doe..,pnithe to oar Ilinsiikeo, Wedding, and' ner, ._ . Ball Otani Ifiek,, eta, prided with mum and !lowa, V I 1 Imams' and Constables' BlinkkNetet De*, mad diode Maks; as Ikand. at WW2. UP oat. r.VPP 4 r!?7l" . !rlnns'rrirnrfr''''!.l nature and extent of- the pciwerasconTeri red by the Constitution on ;the Ewen!. Government. -These poweii embrace the very highest attributes of national Igor. adgnty. They place both the sword and purse under its control. Congress hal poirer to melte war, and to roa Pesee to raise and support armies and navies, and to conclude treaties wit;} foreign goc. , ernments. It is invested with the power, to coin money, and to regulate the value, thereof, and to regulate commerce. with foreign nations, and among the several States. It is not necessary . to enumerate the other high powers which have been , conferred upon the Federal Government. In order to-carry the enumerated powers into effect, Congress possess the exclusive right to lay and collect duties on imports; and in common with the States to lay and collect all other taxes. • Bat theiCowttituti on has not only con. ferred these high powers_ upon Congress, but it has adopted effectual mane to re strain the States from interfering with their exercise. For that purpose it lisi l / 4 in strong prohibitory language, expressly \ declared that "no State shall enter into/ any treaty, Mince or- confederation; grant letttevs of marque and reprisal; coin money;_ emit bah of credit; make any- , thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of at tainder, ex post, facto law, or law imparing the obligation of contracts." MoreoVer, • " Without the consent of. Congrea no State shall lay - any impost _or duties, on any imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for execu ting its inspection laws;"_and, if they exceed this amount, the excess shall be. long to the United States. ' • And "no State !ball, Without the con sent of Congress, lay any duty-of tonage,• keep troops, or ships of war,' in time of peace ; enter into any agreement or corn pal- with another State, ,or with a for erign power;- or engage in. war, unless -actually invaded, or in. such imminent , danger as Will not-admit of delay?! In order still- farther to secure the tin-, interupted exercise of these!, high pow. era agaitisState interposition; it is pro vided "t hibas this Constitution' and the laws of the United States ivhicir shall be made in purivance thereon and all trea- - • ties made; or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the _supreme law of the-land and the Jidges in every State shall ber bound thereby, anything in the Colatitudes!. or lairs of any State -to the contrary not.' withstanding." The solemn sanction ofragiOn has been superadded to .tho• obligation of official ditty, and •all Senators and Representa liveti of the United States, all Members of - State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial • officers, "both of -the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by oath or itftirmatibn to support this Constitution." „Li order toearry in to.effect these powers the Constitution has established a perfect Government in all its forms, Legislative, Executive and Judicial; and this Govern-, merit, to the extent of its powers, acts di rectly upon the individual citizen of every State, and executes its own decrees by • the ageney of its own officers. In. this re► spect it.dil ers entirely-from the Govern .ment under” he old Confederatian, which was confined to making requisitions on the States in their sovereign character: Tbis left it in the discretion of each whether to obey or refuse, and they often declined to . comply with such , requisitions- It -thus became necessary, for the purpose of re moving this barrier, and. 'in order to form a more pefect Union;' to establish a Government which-could. act directly_ upon the. people and execute its own laws without the - intermediate agencr of the States. This has been sccernplished by . the Constittition of the United States. . In F) holt, the Government created by ate Constitution, and deriving its author ity from the sovereign people of each of the sevoral.States, has preately the same right to ' exercise its power over the peo- ple of all these States; in the enumerated cases, that each one of them possesses over subjects not delegated to the United States, but " reserved_to the "States, re spectively, or-to the people.."_ To the extent -of the delegated_ powers . the Constitution of the United States is an much a part of the Constitution of each States, and is is binding upon its people, as though it had been textually inserted therein. _ This Govirnment, therefore, is a great and powerful Government, invcsted with • all the attributes of sovereignty over the. special subjects to whiebits authority ex. tends.. Its framers never intended to ha plant in its bosom the . seeds of its own de struction, nor were they at its creation guilty 'of the absurdity of providing for its own dissolution. It was not intended by its farmers to be tale baseless fabric of - a visiOnwhich, at the tench of the enchan ter, would vanish into thin air, but a substantial Sand mighty &brie, capable of resisting the slow decay of time and'of defybi,g thestorms of ages. . . Indeed, well may the jealous initriota of. that day have indulged fears that a gov,eriment of such high, powers might violate the reserved rights of_the States, and wisely did they adopt tho rule of a strict construction of - these powers to prevent 'dangq! But they did not fear, nor .bad they any reason to imagine, that the Constitution would ever be. -so interpreted as .to enable any State, by her own act, and without the - aid of her sister States, to.discharge her penile from all or any of her Federal ob. ligation,. - It may bo asked, then, are tbepeople of the States without redress against- _the tyranny and oppresidon of-the , Federal -Government? B y comment. The:right of resistance on the pert or the governed against the oppression " . - - of their' Govern meats Cannot be denied. It exists inde pendently of all Ponstitutions, 'and his been exercised at. allPeviods of the !solid's history. Under it old Governments have been destroyed, and new ones have taken their place. • It is embodied' in strong and expressive language in our own . Warn tion of Independence. Bat -the dlitkotions gnist ever be observed, that this histsvo.i' 111$4411gainst an established Goveintnentil 04 spot. ik voluntary seam* froviiVbr „ . .