•IMMIMIM••••••= 1 . ,11 • 1 • f f .rt Tril rM ° A. J :' ` C r , FOR iiEmbatter. ot . the Gieni-000ict between . • Demooracy and-Abolitieniine t ending in au War apon'4 , Andfeiv'36linedn. ' • . ~ • . In Oct ober, 1665, ;Johe,lN. .Forney, one of the foremost leadecu of the.R,epub!, h e an party wrote as follows; ",The decision of a majority of the pets pie of Connecticut against, negro suffl•agee is : a newt evf4ence that President John• son'*fixample. , and counsel on this, and the entire question of reconstruction, can net:kg .1,00-Artleatly:eustained , by_-thet , Ust• ion party. We cannot force this great innovation npon the South by Congres sional in;eiferefidei' ir( t vitius 6.004 that deep seate&prejudice conferring the right of suffrage, even up on the intelligent of the colored race, and while I believe itr the-mission of the Un ion party to labor to remove that preju dice, there are other duties more import ant to the , freeelinen theitiielvis, which c annot be postponed by the effort to die sipate, ,a feeling t hat ;hal eiitt d ft?r ) lett! turietk' ' "The Convention that nominated Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Johnson, refused to make a national teseof the question, and noth- ing but disaster has befallen our friends, whenever th,ey b ye epar t-ed4l:),, it II the States:* Letr'ifs dad attempting to force upon the Southern States what we are now once more taught we cannot, ev en with our better - tifOrmed colored peo ple, do ourselves at our oct n homes. A part from tye clear, itulitsrtittie proof that Cotritrttseh'as'no right to legislate up on the subject, is the proof that lite man-, emitted millions - of the South are totally unprepared for this'gretit TrancLise. - It is fur the good as well as for the interests of the whole country, that the Union par ty should stand &tally by -President John son in his policy of reconstruction." Such were the counsels of le-Yorney to the 13411441.1ati ftarty:rSde3i--4ere his confessions of the injustice, the wrong fuhtessoire utieenstitutiOnaiity of the at tempt of The North to force negro suf frage on the South. " Congress has no right to legislate upon the subject." No right according to the Constitution ; no legal, lawful right to meddle with the subject. Then what is the following c um-3.401n th4r.colkiieLcif. three months after the above admissions, Forney rays ,; • Tile passage of Judge Kelly's bill, striking out the word white from all laws !•-re•ieribint7 the qualifieationq of voters in the Distrie• ,of Columbia, devolves a sol emn duty upori every loyal citizen. I do not know a better time to meet thi.: issue than theept:eserit:ally to suppose that we could stave it off. He was a. otat4nait who. supposed that the great Union party voulthibt be'cAlled at last to meet the question of conferring civil rights upon the four million of slaves Te.seued by the rebellitart from their for mer masters. Are you ready for the is sue, my countrymen lie {Q 4 9 1 , 111 Thlittk stares:min 'the' face that John W. Forney, as wt 11 as ev ery other man who gives p the same coun sel, is teachiri,g 'the people'of the North that it is their solemn duty to uphold inemkterso) , Perigress„-bi conpmitthrg-per jury. dlbiela meArTher &eke§ idl diith that he will obey the Constitution of his eouilfry,'and Mr. Forney declares that " tit elittnif IS'ereat 'ard indisPutable ( - hat C u i;gress has no right to legislate ;trial the subject of negro suffrage." That "we cannot force this great innovation upon the South by Congressionaliuterfercrigq.", n 1 y' '<nettle St °rill' ate warupon the South= but to coal t peoplp Vitty, obey thelesilistitution tt*Ote lavas: r Oki I.76ite9'WaWs? Aifd *- Wiltd,vel.Vey Veen called traitor bittofor reftising Obedience. to the Constitution? And ya - the great " Union party" ignore the,yery Constitu tion which they Lave shiArivers of blood under the pretense of m,nintainingl, . Mr. Forney says, in October :„ " The Union party should- stand firmly by the President. in his policy of reconstruction. We cannotTorce negro suffrage upOa.the Seuth." A few weeksyass away, And this great ]eider' oT his party, 'after telling the Northern people how calmly and care 7 fully the Southern States were prepring to come back to the Union, by Conform'. tug to, all the requirements imposed, by the Adtnittistration, turns around ;and .says: '" The Whole - plan Of President John son has 761.ww , n - Itself to be a al~mal ;tail= tire; Con eess 'bas laid down- a substan tial basis for reconstruction. The South ern States must, see how vain it is to con tinue a fatal disaffection and will submit to what" ...will ,ineviiike, ;and /give up the arrogant claim to control the destin ies of those who are their 'equals before God and man ; "rho dowtifalba the re bellion dechizenizing the traitors- sandhi they are fit to resume theirdutia; 'anti el - ' evating the negroes to ,civil and' lineal; rights, confers: upitia the Xepublicans almost holy mission. Who scretatripptvrit' to care .-fdr and citizenize the.negrOes las ; they ? All who attempt - to - aet - upen 'toy other elan, whether it beit ten' thousand' . dines Preside*, or '.i;l7 other men or par-, ty, will ton't ; The holy mission,of the Republican party is..to disfranythise- the people of the South and give them into the hands of the negrees, who are to be ,invested with political eoWei to rale Over them:— The holy mission of this "great party of progress ' is to redlibe their whke'brotii ers and sisters in 'Abu:Smith to . a slate df slavery, and place'thni Under 'the geir ernment of their'-fernier; idaves.' That: their conditiod WoUld be that,9f slavery is "ackhowleilired by Thaddeus SteVena.— He says: • ' „ . " When men take no voice to malting the laws and choosing the rulers by whom, bey are governed, wheyein does this dif-, 1 fee fi.om slaverY, eicept in name?" This he applied tothe negroes who are net perniitted to choose their rulers, and this is the condition to which the yecon-, struction committee in Ctiagress propose to 'reduce the white people of the South. They are Made to change, places with their negro slaves by , the Abolitionists of the North, wile hdve proclaimed the sin fu'nees 'of slavery for thirty-five years.— And John W. Forney and his followers think " the Sc•uthertt people Must see how ;min it is to; resist, and will tamely sub mit, to.what will be inevitable:" • Submit to eee " the negroes•elevated to civil 'arid political rights"--.and- their 'own civil and political rights takeh away by' arbitrary and unceustitutionar power: A party .claiming to have %holy commission to deprive their white brothers of rights which they tell.theregroes' 'they have a holy commission to ightibt, uritirevery • man is exterminated who deprives them of this; . right. - •Have• not white' men as, good-aright to fight foittivil and' politi; oal priiiieges as black men.• And 'do these Republimos'believe their white brothers more abject...than their black brothers, that they *odd tainely submit 'to be de prived of the rights which their English ancestors bequeathed them,. and see thein bestotted•••en their •Airinan- servatits?.;-- Wisely 'and : , prophetically , the President declares.that Weise Abolitionism will pro duce a war of races. They are for ping slavery liven their white brothers, idle, in turn; will 'be forced to fight for - their freedom., , - • ' This scheme of the Republicans 18 but the , colusittation of -the conspiracy erg n-' ized in the days of Andrew Jackson by the anti-slavery" society mideethe lead of 1V m. Lloyd Garrison. The ' , rebellion has nothipg to do with it except to give an opportunity, under the..color a punish- . went. of 'treason, to accomplish - their scheme. The same laws made to pet tic grow% .over ,white men were enacted in Massachusett two years .. .before the South seceded, and it was bca - use she gain the' whole schema of the conspiratbrs, find. her fate foreshadow 4 -that ;she was driven into secusioo. and rebellion, the Vale hope of.,gaining -ber independence' of the Abolitionists, and escaping the doom' of negro equality which they. Were 'prepar ing for ha. • In April, 1859, Mr. Forney, editor of the Pccse i days : I' was "last win Ar law passe in Mas sachnsetbd,, subniitting to the. popular vote a'Constitutiohaf siiieildment, which pro •c vide that no adopted citizen can vote in. that State , antiFtWo yearil after his nab ; tiralization.. if this amehditient shonld'he I adopted, a , seve6 years residence, and the ability, to read-and Write the - English Jan: gnagoi Will , be retinired ss indispensfhle conditions for the exercise of the'right of suire4feloy adopted citizeni, While t fuii• ! live slaves are 'allegied 10" exercise the jsamo privilege tifter a re'sidence or one year in the `Seite. A" distinctiori of so i.odious a cbaracter"iiaterally excites pinch feeliiitin the breaStsor•thenutuer:Ous.,oer mao rnerriF i erie'irif the - B,:eptibliCap - Party . thrbithofit"the Union. Many of the, hest, most patriiilic, 'useful andluteliident, eihi zens that•have - evei Pennaylvan , is would not•have i'cited it the absuid Massachusetts 16;tv 'pad Peen, enforced here." _ . Mr. Foimei says further : fi Massachu setts -ha's long been under the &introl of politicians thoroughly opposed to the Democratic party, and Democrats are in abbui as hopeless a- minority in that State as the Abolitionist's are in Virginia." Efere is a plain exposition of the great coiiflict between. Democracy and Aboli-, Democratstionism. DeoCrats 'believe ,the white rade as, good as the n'egr . o race.. Abol itionists make an,'" odious 'distinction" be tween thein,.giving, supremacy to the ne grons. They, have passed a law. in Con gress that the white people of the South shall make no discrptunation on accotuit 'of raCe nr;coier, hut shitllgiiethetrgroes equal rights befOrp the law," 1,0)p:a these very . Massachtiantis",Abolitienifte Fake a law in their. own Stated dtscrimmating he tWeen the renes:—littl,discriaattated.m , far... vor of the negro : rice.,o - A runaway nfrgre froth the P9Pik*as alloweffthOyriviltge of ticsikog six years, before a White Mai:a:rout:across the qe,eah was allowed the 1 44 18 Foipey 'decLarnd;_makifig„tadious,3l.lnc tio:ns between, the' negfonif`,aull,wlo? 'tnen— . - placiOfi he white men beneath the, , negoo. Ntr,,hat da w het' placed iterkeith i negrcieti is paltti* privileges? +Hearing the ilaixie of Atbra . TUEgDA:V, , MAY 22 i 1866, hain Lincoln spoken in relation to t next Presidency., Iliey , end their friends wrote to him to ascertain whether he wiA in favor of elevating negroes above white men. tip replied to ono of. thesp letters as follows SPRINCIFIELb, ILL, May 1?, 1859. Dr. Tirsononi Cittistus': •• Dear Sir: Your •letter, in 'RIBA you inquire; on your own •neeouilyand in 'tiehait of th cer-, taro outer German citizens; whether ap prove or oppese the Constittitional •pro vision in relation to-ntituitiliked citizens, which was lately enacted in Massachu settti, has been' received. " Massachusetts is a sovereign and in dependent State, and' I have no right to advise her in her policy. Yet if any one is desirous to draw a .conelpsion as to what she has done, I may speak without impropriety. I say then, that So far as I understand the Massachusetts provision, I am against its adoption, not only in Il linois, but in every other place in which I have a right to oppose it. As I under stand-the spirit of our•institutions; it is designed-to proniote the elevation of man; I am therefore hostile to anything that tends to their debaSement. It' is well known that Ideplore-the oppressed con dition of the blacks, and it would there fore be very inconsistent for me to look with approval upon any measure that in fringes upon the inalienable rights ofinetf, whether or not- they ate born in another land, or speak a different lanknaage from my own." ; Abraham Lincoln hors distinctly advo cates State rights.; declares that he, and of course no other man, .or set of men, have . VI TO to, advise - a sovereign and,. in dependent State its her policy ; but in his own State be haa , a right to : oppose 'such rueasiirea as *ere, Adopted in, Massachu setts. He interprets the laws as oppres sive of the white race, -contrary ,to the spirit of Our institntions, which were de signed to promote their elevation,and.de dares his hostility to the provision of the Massachusetts,; Legislature, because, it tended to the debasement of white men. While deploring the' Condition of the blacks, ,he• Convicts the Alkolitionlits of Massachusetts of infringing Jupon the in alienable rights of 'white ,111.a.n: What would - he say then to the attempti OfCon gre4S to debase and degr.lnie the white race orate South below theirformer negro slaves ? He Said in 1559: "I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political, equality of the white and black races,.. I am not, nor ever have beminfavor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white peo pie; and 1 will say in addition to thisi that there iaa physivaldifference between the two races, which .1 believe will forever forbid them living together on terms of equality, and inasmuch as they cannot so live, whilerlhey dozen - lain together, there must, r be„the position of superior and in ferjor, and I, as much as any. other man, am ill - favor ,of having 4he superior posi flit assigned to the white :race. I will add; tiot4l'never i•aw„to my knowledge, a meri t Taman or chdd, who ; was in favor • of perfect equality, social and political,be tween.negrues and whites. I will add•one word :further which ,is this : That I do not nede:rstand :that there is any place 'where an.ateration of the and po litical, relations of the negro and the white man canhe made except in the State Legislature. Not in the Congress of the United States :" I. Here is President Lincoln'i veto on the ' schemesnf the AbOlitioniata in Congress, six years in advance of that: of President Johnson:. Ile therefore , * conviets hat, of treason and usurpation l and would join , with President Johnson in declaring them traitors to their country. He says, "no .alteration in'the social'and . political rela tions of the negro and the white min can be made in the Congress of the United States." • . , Let those who profess to revere the memory of. Abraham Lincoln, show their reverence for his opinions of the Consti tution and the Laws, by refusing to tram ple them under their feet with a revolu tionary congress ! ta - The Rump Senate has rdected the President's nomination, of General Frank P. Blair,for Collector of Internal Reven ue, at St.. Louis, Missouri. The self-elec ted " soldier's friends" are cooling off amazingly. A man can no longer estab lish his loyalty by the fact of having fought bravely for the Union. All that goes.for nothing, if he refuses to worship the negro.. . llar Josh. Billings says': " !could nev er find the Meaning of the word collide' in Worcester or' Webster; bat riding the other day on the' New York .Pen t Rail 'saw it .ali. It is the attempt of two trains to pass each other on a single track: If I remember correctly, it was a signal' failure." WA:tuari who bad beep fined several Wete ea:cession for getting drunk ? jot:prink "Forted to the Judge thitt, be gibOdd take b by U 1474104 iixedlicod. ,rot‘. e,Vapent Seals in Congress. On the Bth of February, 1869, Presi dent Lincoln authorized Secretary Sew ard to• make the following important avowal, among other things, in rely to an offer of mediation between the United States and the Confederate States made by the French Government : ," We have here; in the political sense, no North and South, no' Northern 'and Senthern States. * * The COngress of the United States tarnishes a Constitu tional forum for debate between' aliena ted parties.' Senators and Representa tives front the loyal portion of the people are there already, freely empdwered to confer ' - and seats-are also vacant, and in viting Senators and Representatives of this disconteuted party, who may be Con stitutionally sent there from the States in volved in the insurrection." Throughout the whole war the admin-, istratlon of kr. Lincoln embraced, every opportunity of declaring to the country, and assuring foreign nations, that the va cant seats of Southern members of Con grees Were waiting for, them. Yet, now that` tliey are willing and desirous to re turn, these seats are denied to them ! Andrew Johnson, who was, elected with Abraham Lincoln, wishes to carry out in good faith. the professed intentions of the Republican patty . as declared through him three years ago; and for this he is denounced by the whole Radical element as a "traitor !" • Nobility of Labor. The noblest mien I know on earth Are , men men whose hands aro brown with toil ; . Who backed by no ancestral graves, Hew down the woods and till the soil, And thereby win a prouder fame Thanallows king or warrior's name. The workingmen I whate'er the task, To carve the atone, or bear the hod ; They ,wear upon their honest brows The royal stamp and seal of God ! And brighter are the drops of sweat, Than, diamonds in a coronet. God bless the noble working men, Who rear the cities on , the plain ;. Who dig the mines and build the ship, And drive the commetee of the main. God bless them ! for their swarthy bands Have wrought, the glory otall lands ! Secretary Stanton's Position. The Roditals are much, perplexed in regard to the opinioni of the Secretary of War, and still express dopbts as to,his advocacy of i h 3 restoration policy of the President. For their comfort we extract the following frorn a special despatch to a New York paper : ".I learn from a source entitled to en tire credit, that when Mr, Johnson re- ceived the report of the Reconstruction Committee and expressed his own views, Mr. Stanton was the first to break the si lence, and said lie thanked the President for bringing thc . inatter before-the Cabin et; _that he heartily indorsed.:his which was the policy of Mr. Lincoln, and his whole. Cabinet, and that he should stand bihim to the very end. He fur • tbier said that the party which dared to stand in the way, of an absolute and im mediate Pnion, in all its integrity, would be ground to powder.", 0:::"La Crosse, Wisconsin, which has for years given a strong. Republican ma jority, has just elected the entirnDemo ocratio ticket by nearly three hundred majority. . Brick: Pornercy".must , have been jolly when .the returns came in. ilggrA colored firan - ati ein6innati snetl the judge at an electiOn fob 'refining 'hig vow He'elaimed ten thousiend dolldrit damages, and the jury gave him one cent. 14 Poor" Ben Butler. General Butler, in his recent speech. be fore the LegiAature at Harrisburg, utter. ed the following declaration : ". We had conquered the South--con quered them of ad their rights, except one—the right to be -hanged. He had impoverished himself, and shed the blood of a brother and son in defence of the great principles for which they had fought, and he for one would never yield unless some of the leaders in the rebelliOn were hung." Butler's brother entered the service re puted poor. He speculated, under.the di rection of the. Brute, at New Orleans, and died, it , was, generally supposed; a natural death, reported to be,worth two millions of dollars, and leaving Ben. his ekecutor..l Instaneesfare nail" df men being put out of the way, after writing their wills. Was it to get hold of his money that Bnt,-, ler " shed the blood fof his brother ?" But why he should shed the blood , of his Ben, ' is a mystery. If he is now " impoverish , ed" it may be' accounted .for, in a meas ure, from his baying to refundfan immedse .amount of gold which he stole from a pri. , vale banker in New Orleans, together with interest and. costs. Then , there may be other suits threatening which , Ben. may 4;lesire to &tavola , by his. speibt) *s+ f A'imforerishistent." An Important Decision. A most important case 'has jtiet, been decided in our County-Court; now itises sion in. , this borough. Previous to the State electiOn last October, it having-been' announced in the Re publican papers that , Boards of Election throughout , the Cow mon wealth.would reject the votes of all persons who, bad., failed ~to respoud-to respond to dratts 'during the war, theAs*, tricti Atte:pay of this ,county. prepared,a f paper, in response to inquiries addressed hun on the , subject in which be set forth •the duties of . Election: boards as clearly defined by the laws of PetinsylVania, and gave due notice that all. violations ,of said' laws would be' prosecuted. This paper was forwarded to the several election dis tricts of the county, but it appears failed to reach some of the more remote town ships. In Manchester and Sterling the votes of "so called" deserters were rejec ted by the Boards of Election, and the parties thus deprived of their rights insti= tuted suite against the' offending officials. The cases were brought before the Grand' Jury at December sessions, but I did not reach trial hefqe i the present term. .1 The evideuce. having been taken, •and the arguments of the counsel on both side's concluded, .Itidge Barrett charged, the jpry in the most emphatic and untnis takable language as to the, law .bearing upon the point at issue. He pronounced the act of Congress disfranchising so call ed deserters null and void, and distinctly gaVe it ea his opinion, that the parties.so. designated were att inueli entitled; to a vote as the judge and . Inspectors of elec-. thins theniselves,,, . This he declared toile the lasi of the land, he gave notice that any violations , of it hereafter would be,re garded as willful' misdemeanor and pun ished accordingly. The case haying been submitted to the jury,. the only qnestion being upon' the" intention-of the Election Boards to com mit an offence against the lawi, that' body, was unable to agree—ten ,standing for con: viction and two for acquittal,—all 'agree ing,. however, at, to -the unconstitutional-" ity of the act of Congress, under 'which the defendants professed to have acted, and consequently to have acted, and con sequently as to the right of the prosecutors to participate in the election. The costs were pat upon the county.— Wayne Co. Heralt4 Honesthite Po. . Moses. The'Columbus Statesman hits t 4 the Moses question, as (dews : The - Radical press have fallen into the habit Of speaking of President Johnson„ by way of derision as Moses. There is more pertinence in• this-designation than most people, at•first glance wilt 'imagine. After . .Moses had delivered the Children of Israel from the clutches of the Egyp tians, under the guidance of God," they become' dissatisfied with him—thought him a slow coach--Lfalse ,te his pledges and promises—thereupon ", the people gathered themselves unto Aaron, anil said unto him, " Up, make us Gods which l shall:go before us as for this Mosel, the man that bro't us out of Egypt, We' wot not what become'of ;hi& ' Aaron , took , their jewelry and 'Made' them a molten Calf, whieh they fell "to worshipping. Thu Almighty becaineLsii' sorely displeased with- tilts conduct that He would : havg,visited.- &Ulu destiictiou upon the whole of them had it not been for th j einiercesSion of Moses; and he ery, countered 'great; dittillty, in unlucing the petiple to return to the worship of the. true God. I';ike,bSosee, Presldent John son, in 'the ' estimation of the Radicals, was a slow coach, ,as false, to , profes sions and promises, and they, turned to Stevens and caged: to 'blip I ‘.,l;p 2 titati,ita, gods Wlitch . 'shall`', hvifrct, ,Us." X4e; Aaron, tie Intati,,taile ; diem, F9olterh,ol,4: which they; re !lOW, ; wnrshippin ,, ,inStead of the COtistittitin. Joses lifik,Presi detit'JohnSon ,the people, to abaadon' this falde Con; stittition; lest they ' shall tie , vibited, as a, punisbnient With'•politieal death, ag,the Children of Israer'wotild bays ; been ted with — 'phygleal and 'moral cleath, had they persisted in the,worship or the mid, ten calf that Aaron had' made fer.them, Prompting ,4sspoination. Among the flock .who " sit under" the reverend and bleed thirsty.Checver in N. York, it is pleasant.to record that. there were many who Would not endure a dec. laration which he made recently from. the pulpit, but, left the church as soon as it passed his lips. Speaking .of .'President Johnson the gowned blasphemer said 'You have power with God that may sweep' him from the place of power.' -If Booth lived to day and proposed another Presi' dentin' Assassination .clerical benediotiona on the work of.bloo d would not beilack' Or The Tribune chargee, the , Evening Post With " conacionell working,toward alliance with and, alto spate absorptiim into theformideble Party; Which lives by empty .professiOns of De neocraoy/1 • • • , Ah, Horace I your own bedfellope yew volt.againtit letting too many •niggers in., t h e b e d. do. they..? And .that:;!' Aqrpgal.ta,Abe Democratic; party is ota 44 formidable,," is it P • IVOLUNEBIIII NinitiEßM, , 1 The Free Railroad 'Que.atiqm - aTittl 'R&M MR. bLYMER. The following letter was addressed by, Mr. Clymer to a committee 4 it,izet?s, appoluted by a meeting held in Sharon, piercer county.. It is so distinct' thatit eannOt' be misinterpreted — or misimdei; stood. It lain striking contrast to Gan Geary% quibbling; and evasive reply tar the inquiries of the people ..of Alleglopy, county, on the same subject. , itEADING, April 12, 1663. GENTLEMEN :-I havejust received your letter, of the 9th inst., asking . tlie tion a whether I am or am not in favorlof making a general railroad law bythe Legi islature of this Commonwealth, somewhat similar to that existing in the neighbor; ing State of Ohio ?" If after' the repeated • and persistent if; forts made , by me during a long• servied in the Senate, to.secure the, passage ofa general railroad law, my position on that, question is pot, understood, . r fear tlitt nothing I may now say will more telly de., , monstrate it. ' I have been 4 am now, and WilVeontions tube in favor of a general, free,“railroad. system for this State, F!ituilar „to, tba,t of the State of Ohio and - New bellev-, ing that ba pi ta I should ever'be permittea; under proper restraints fur the proteetion' of private •property and the Tights ofirt-+ dividaals, to develop, any and every sea; Lion of this State willoutlet or hindrance. UntiLthe pFcgolo of this Commenty . ealth establiShcihis system, many 'of therichest and fairest portions thereof; will,ifor half a century to come, be deprived of those means of development. and inter cornmuf• nication to which at all times the,y are,ea titled, and without which 'their store's of" iron; bf ee l s!, of lurnbr, and of bit, will be' useless and unprofitable, not atone totheir owners, but as-well also to the. whole peal ple who are, ougaestlonably most deeply , interested in their prompt developmiTt i , and Production. Very respectfully '`and tnily' yours, Cmtra.. A' work has just:been given to the pub. . lie by tbe•librtujan of i the now York, WV: torical Society, ,proving, from exibti,ng : doe,ntnetyli that lilltssacliu•letts wa, origmatoi. and mbst strdntibris • delenaer • of American slaviry, • l• • That Massachusetts was.tbe originatan and defender 'of American flaveLy its.* di vine institution was well known. Zii4. has never before. been so plainas nowthit havtng established sla,very 1))' sta,tuteJawd before any Other 4mxricau upheld it , even after her coustii : ttt&on . of,, 1780, and the. strange, truth is : ppy.m t k, diSpntably by Mr. Alogre f .tliat stavgy„was never abitlfshed by, law in that . , only ceased by the dying eft, one by one,„ of the old slaves i. the ft,titure.of the peop)e to supply their places, {probably fOf nomie reaaon 4,)- and' the' consetpient,• vi• 1 tiuntion of the institution. • • ! • The Somerset Ampigamation last.wealuwe,odtieed dexter fatperthel elopement of a white girl, nameitGriti'tb,, ofS:trenict county ; with, a , who hadlieeii" emPloyed her - iiither,,,„. We stated' that' he had said' that tie rather that,:his daiighter iittruidotrUiri'fit'" negrothan s: copperhead: The. ;name , of! the father • Griffith, bet gts:there,,, 'ere four Billy Gri ffi ths, ,we beg. 1e0,919., 1 'state that it ti ant 'trick 'lleuse. nor 'Tove•Heed Isreo • Yeitrd .- Billi, 'biit-Baptist BMA' as he • i& ealledt 'dlitt•fore a ,crasy, and,, Wall; a :grati 'friend .ofj.:ineele, anal is ,a great oppopeuti r t lot President Johnson. He called ; his 11/0, ch Rd Pe he' beine'6ritib'ilegeollifiiilj- -1 'said, but as a preacher came arbh4tiBonn I-after wards 4. 2m,9 toifSea, name 'for said proldhet'i l lind name itsis. in membry l -of the buck 'tii ger, leaving the last name Griffith: to rtpy'r' resent himself, : The wbOle .panle-is CO" dren,POPis.Ociffith? alittinordinate,lomet for the nigger had '4' : qlilP.ai is-the elope--10 meet it?(.4l „daughter. . • . 4 , 1) . 8 That their attaclimek and love for each other was intense we have no doubt ,'lii the nikget . with' whtmi ; Phillips stopifttil 'when in. town'',• told one ot 'our pollee tfl"' ficers that he ought`to'be ashanied Ofhitri;_"' •fielf to part-this couple, that their' hearts twined round caul' other' alike the tendrils of a vine, that "'She loved - him - and he lovedlitir;lind thatiiihtit :•J"litiitord 'had jived togedder man -, Ashotildl . not, pad 'asunder." , From a letter o leritten brit. :n1 'gentlemen. at Jeuner X.Roadal.,toia!gen.r.r tlemanin this place,• werunderstand that , the.whole . community up , there , : blame• Baptist Billy. with: the committed , bt his daughter., zsit'Arss :bit" cteichinge that -, led her to, the' desperate , sot: ' 3 We are al. l . ' so informedithat hothr.the.girl and thi}nlg ger-declare that they will yet be marriett , it 'and lea&a:blessed- Lltredded life , - ia) , kslose.)•}.i 'amalgamation 0.-Johnsio urn Pa.; Democrat , I I ar " -6ltiapeeita teleirank tliePrOst the following harrowing ''angoatt&inienti ` 4 ( A. .''v t It is generall , belietteC lir A e that , them is,Rhottly to •bo-a Jorge ilenapi tatitin, pingtmmtilrii NllO.lllOl .10iminal Prog4Pat'a,P2 ll oY. .YetarStateowiltitait zero dais. 11'.tatigiachnsetls and Slave Ty.
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