, , ror.thealontrose Dem ocrat. Latter . f aun - iiiTge Tyler. 1 , ,r, v i .:... , ... 0 :A. J. GERRlTpOlt,'.c.SQ.—iyrkry, 101R : ..-- '1 propose-to sayla feW things:thiciligh the • Medium of your paper, as a sert,of reply . tp the many enguirieS.:byletter t anitother; wise, for some tinin.lpast„.by.:: friends in this county; andout of it, as to My .onin ion in regard, to the. dark .cloudi which threatens to burst upon Mt. .i . . . I.am - not: vainleneughlto suppos e myself capable, hiimblindividual as I am;' to me- 1 thodicallygive to my friends, and .the .public,. the.cauS ' and cure for a ;disease which has for_ e a• ong time a ffl icted the Peo -4: ple of this Niticri. ..I havalorif, been sat tsfied that, the dishenest.liiibitionl of the' pi:aides] 'demegegiie, 'added` to the inquis itive and iititididprying profiensities of the Ad to SaxeivrAce, has had more to do, for thelest."twy-fiie years. ie. bring. about the teyri le'state' of . thingS-which al my-five existgAhlin albcither conies combined: The honest m ' es' are easily led,lby 'first ar.oesing the sympathy, of -their natures, ' --- by the eloquent" hypocrite, _ and - hue, am- . . - For thefiermerat. bitious man. !Tis not a trait to Study the' Sabbith School Conveption. , ' starting' point, er the end' of a' principle, , • The Sunday School Convention was covered as it may be, by. the grand 008 S• ' held at Great Bend;the fifth inst, pursu ;ry of eloquent display 'and rhetorical [ant to notice. The afternoon session was ; ourishes. Who - among the Moises. stopp. 1 occupied-in a temporary organization and i4..d e to look tiverithe - great - charter of our., the appointment of Committees on draft-- , glorious Unionil'or the dying : Words of our jug - a constitution and preparing questions , beloved WaShingtOn, When Arthur Tap- 1 for discussion at the evenieg session. .- S.. W ; . pan, of NeW York, first began to.. stir up 1. Chase esg., was elected chairman and sectional'hatoand strifel'• ho 'stopped I'D. .I..BaldWin secretory. The Rey. Mr. 1 or "run and "read" that "in order to .form' s ;' Bowers, of New Milford made, an appro. a more perfect Union" glorioes- - Con- ! oriate prayer, and a hymn was sung by the stitution was fipally made and . adopted? ' congregation. A committe -of nine; were Who took timid tiff' glance his eye over the elected to draft a .constitution, composed New TestameatlrOvain, to' fill(' I the Sa- of the following persons; .Judge - Burrows . vior of sinners eOndernifed shwerf as sin-. of Gibson, Wm. 11. J'essup, esg., of Moot: fill, or to note that hedid net hesitateinei- f rose, L. F.. Clark of Susgtiehanna, John - F. tiler himself nor his apostles, to attack 1 Deans of Bridgewater ' James Leighton of and denounce I idolatry, witchcraft; and . Franklin, and Messrs. Chase, Funnel, Ives man`• . ether sinS, by name, not even for- and Simons of Great!Bentl. This commit- getting that toi."hate ' one's brother .was , the are to meet at Montrose_ on the first to be a mnrderery", --- Nor did he forget . day of the January term of Court, 1861. to say to the Servant, (Slate) "be - 0 1 3 edi: 'Messre. Simons, Ives-and Funnel wereap ent to your m a ster , " and to. the. master, -pointed a committee to arrange a pro "treat ,your servatit- (Slave) with kind- g ramme for the evening session. Al ness," 'knowing. that "you have a master though the afternoon session was strictly 'in heaven." Oil, no, and that .steals 11 cloud a business meeting, there were a goodly: which thus.apPeared more than 't-tiventy- number of ladies and: ,Sabbath sehool years.ago, has . Spread itself like a Pall over , scholars in attendance and a marked inter nearly the entire- North, bringing under est was displayed. ;. - its influence very many who at !first de- The evening session was opened by .an nouneed it as both dangermis and tress- 'anthem from the choir, under the diree linable. .- , 1 ''. - . ~.tion of Prof. Fennel; and a prayer by the .The States all agreed in the ,compact. Rev.:Mr. Bush of Susgnehanna. The corn which bound them together, to deliver up mmittec reported the three following-sub , fu,gitives, and to ask nothing far -them- jests for discussion. Ist Duties of ;reach selves not readily accorded. to their sister era. 2d. The association. 3d,—Monthly States. -Forgetful in their greatizealpnotConcerts, Which were discussed in their aebording either to knowledge Cr ; 'solemn I order freely, fully , and ably by the Rev. . atzreement,' hare the) for many Years vio- Meisrs. Bush, Wheeler, and Bowers, and la - I ted, both by "word and deed," all these, Messrs. Clark-Cushman, Chase, MoKinu3, and howled their anathemas at the deco- I Funnel ; Simons, Ives; and Baldrltiii:- The ted beads of all who dared to Stand up Sabbath School children sang some of their for the rights ofthe Staticsond the Con- ! beautiful hymns daring the discussion and stitutional 'privileges Of their brethren of j the choir an :anthem at the .close; 'after the South. The -mildest -term generally : which the Rev. Mr. Wheel& pronounced used was, and' is, that - of "dough face" the benediction. The meeting . was a and "pro-slavery." But So it is, land here I pleasant and profitable rine,., and4was ac we are over - ati abyss that I fear ',very few ; knowledged a decided siiecesit-as= an ini properly appreciate. ,For myself, I truly tiatary step in the. good undertaking., and confess,, that 'there is but one step be- , it recoinended the enterprise to all present tween peace and war;.and' fro mthe un- ; as °tie which rna.O•ie highly beneficial to yielding and base: temper of many-.of th e !, the sunday. -school 'interests of our - coun leadirit Republieanscas well as from the try. It is hoped. that •at the next „ince= spirit of the meanest, yet the most infleen- ting of the convention all the sabbath teal of their presses demi to the I most pu- 1 schools in the county will be represented ny yelpers of ' its echoes, denOnciation, 1 and fin , association formed that may .ren 'falsehood, and insult' is still' continued in . der. our sabbath schools far more affective the most billingsgate style. Rule 'or ru- ~ as an institution of moral and religiou - s in is still the order o?the day with a large ~ traintng. portion-of 3lr.Lindoln's . supporters; the I more; conservative portion, of them are making some. feeble efforts to get party .back to firSt.pripciples and undo; wrongs; I but thuS far the, eulog i sts of old Brown, the murderer, held. th n embacik , and check mate their. efforts. The South' have no doubt:A:tee wrong, and been hasty ; but they have steadily, and for years', watched the cocroachnients upon their rights by their Northern brethren. They have been aware that most of the rising,- as well as,, many of the already risen generation, here at'tfie North, have, in violation I of every principle . of Christian charity and 'love been taught to intis their brethren and-- neigh- . born •over-the way ; and when the appa rent power to do more mischief and still I greater wroh,gs became consolidated in ; the election of Lincoln, their! alarm at once became unbounded. And ;what has been done by theLineolnites. te, calm the troubled. waters'? Next'to nothing., If the South ask 3 fish (Hon. A. H. Stephens) they give then" a scorpion—(Hale &- Wil-; son.) . What have we done in this section .I in former days to help fan the flame ? And can We not do something note, liy laying' aside party—let bygones be iby-gones, 1 and pour oil upon the troubled ; waters of` ; • strife. 'Why-Inot meet together as broth-; 1 ten, make some sacrifices for the satisfac-j tion of having contributed our mite in the , ! noble cause of at least trying toi save from, civil wg,anarchy, and - ruin, our beloved country.- Let those leaders of factions, whose ambition ought to be nearly antis-, fled, and who boldly started off a few year& ago (leaving old friends) with the North, "not that they cared a d—mforlthirtiegro, but that they, would punish the South," pause-and reflect hots innch their children or posterity Should cherish their memory, if now, in the most critical moment' in their - country's history they "hide their talent in the earth." For myself,'l...wbuld Intake any reasonable-sacrifice, and would, bad I the power, fly through. the laud North and South, with the .olive branch ,of peace in one hand, and-an eagle in the Other, and with stint and stripes waving beg my my brethren at - theSonthf to hold; and also the North, and get•to'gether and -count the cost, and try every:. expedient beforcstaking a hoitile attitude towards each other. , . , I love my country. My der dec'd Fa' therbelpidachieve its independence. Yon might have 'tracked 'him by i his blood from White Plains to West Point:m the "s4be of his ebunfi'ves Savionr,(Gen. ' Wash-. ington ) and -Impala count ruyitielf unwor, thy to .be a soldier's-son did! not now in the hou of peril 'warn my- fellOw citizens to teas for while all tanritii -and' jeers and ris above paityriiidpetity Cliques; and see whether the poor slave; in: case of servile war, will be better off;l._and who=' ther the poor laborer of the Nbrth, thous . ands of Whom are already thrown out of . employment at the approach of a rigorouS, winter 'will not curse the 'proznises made to their before ‘ the election, of the rain of giild.dollars,„ I would and Will do any, thing consistent withlonor arid right to better the condition ofmy fellow man. any where and every where, be he black, white, or mixed; . but in juistiee to all I would - say to the "North give 'up,"lor• pay; and to the " South -keep net. back;' - what ii:' due to . your servants; : or your brethren of •• . _ --. - • the North.' -Let all be . vielitlitit, and a, i,- . r4r A bill _is now before Congress-'more close and happy Uniorfinig Vl* the ' which prOvides for a daily Overland. Mail I result. • •.- - f rom d m aVrgketgrlle the Sacramento, at,a I •. To the tw enty -fivehuudred'Union loy,-. cost of not more:: emu • (60u,000 zer anH ing voters in 'this county, who, at thelate Pub-, . - .. 1 decticm testified their confidence in my THE- MONTROSE PEMOORAT. -TEELIM---$1:30 rrn. ANNUM, AP ADVANCE. •4116. J. CIMIELVILMer3OW,, EDITOR, PUBLI S HER, AND _PROPRIETOR. olive, e