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Whore in his Sonnets does he more than hint at his lame ness P" The idea of Shakspearo's lameness has al ways been impressed upon our mind—as dofini. tively as that Homer was blind, that Alexander ofltfacedola carried his head awry, that Socra-' tea had a nett; retrousse, that Pope was a lit tle hunchbacked, that Sir Joshua Reynolds used an ear-trumpet, that Sir Thomas Law rence marvellously resembled George Can. ning in the face, that Murat was a military, fop, that John Wilkes squinted, (a lady who admired his politics said ' 4 not more than a gentleman ought to squint "), that Dr. John son had a defect of vision, that Queen Char lotte was dreadfully addicted to snuff; in fact, as much a matter of conviction as any other belief which had grown into our mind without any distinct proof of its reality being re quired. This tho more, seeieg ,that "Kenilworth" was published in our School-days, and, in one passage of that, Sir Walter Scott indicates his belief in the lameness of William Shakepoare. In the first velum of "Kenilworth," (pp. 801-2, in Ticknor & Field's Household Edi tion,) Queen Elizabeth is represented as taking a pleasure-trip on the Thames, during which she commits the Earls of Leicester and Sussex upon a petition from one Orson Pin nit, bear-keeper, in which, she says, '6' Ho complains, that amidst the extreme delight with which men haunt the playhouses, and in especial their eager desire for seeing the ex hibitions of one Will Shakspearo, (whom I think, my lords, we have all heard something of,) the manly amusement of bear-baiting is falling into comparative neglect; since men will rather throng to see these roguish players kill each other in jest, than to see our royal dogs and bears worry each other in bloody , earnest." The Earl of Sussex, who favors the bear-fighting, qualifies his opinion by adding, "and yet, bymy faith, I wish Will Shakspeare no harm. He is a stout man at quarter-staff; and single falchion, though, as I am told, a halting fellow; and ho stood, they, say, a tough fight with the rangers of old Sir Thomas Chariecot, when ho broke his deer- Park and kissed the keeper's daughter." In the words which we have here italicized, we have Sir Walter Scott expressing the popular, traditionary belief; in Shakspearo's lameness. John Aubrey, the Antiquarian, whose ma nnscripts, the property of the Ashnaolean So ciety at Oxford, are in its library, has left more distinct notices of Shakspeare, scanty though they be, than any other person nearly his con temporary. Sir William Davenant, who was Shakspearo's godson, and was suspected of standing in much nearer relationship, was eleven'years old when Shakspeare died, and seems to have recollected, at any event to have recorded, very little about him. John Aubrey was born nine years :After Shakapeare's death, a n d_ th ere f ore . c ome gam his 1010 - WiDueo.7 44.1. t second-hand. ' But, in his case, this made very little difference. Davenant certainly had seen Shakspeare—bnt it was as a mere child. It was the business of Aubrey's life to collect information, and he questioned divers persons about Shakspeare, repeatedly travelling from Wiltshire to Strafford-npon-Avon, at a period when travelling was difficult if not dangerous, to obtain the required information. Davenant died in 1668; Aubrey in 1700. Independent of the portraits of Shakspeare and the bust in the Church of Stratford-upon- Avon, John Aubrey alone presents us with any realization of the Poet's personal appear ance. Aubrey says "He was a handsome, well-shaped man, very good company, and pleasant and smooth wit.", fir. Collier, in his Life of Shakspeare, says, "We have every reason to suppose that this is a correct description of his personal appearance, but we are unable to add to it from any other source, unless, indeed, we were to rely upon a few equivocal passages in the Sonnets.' Upon this authority it has been supposed by some that ho was lame, and certainly the thirty.seventh and eighty-ninth Sonnets, with out allowing for a figurative mode of expres sion, might be taken to import as much. If we were to consider the words literally, we should imagine that some accident had be fallen him, which rendered it impossible that he should continue on the stage, and hence we could easily account for his early retire ment from it. We know that such was the case with ene of his most famous predeces. sors, Christopher Marlowe." Shaltspeare thirty-seventh Sonnet, referred to in the above extract, runs thus: As a deorepit father tskos delight To see his aotive child do deeds of youth. I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, • Take all my comfort of tby worth and truth For whether beauty, birth, or wealth or wit, Or any of these all, or all, or more, Entitled to thy parts do crowned in t. I make my love engrafted to this etoro : So then I am not lame, poor, nor dospis% Whilst that this shadow doth such anal' substance give, That / in thy abundance ant euffio'd, AO by seal t of all thy glory live. Look what Is best, that best I wish in thee This wish I have ; than, ten %Imes happy me ! To supply the other link, we also subjoin the eighty-ninth Sonnet: Bay that thou Wet forsake me for some fault, And I will oomment upon that offenoe Biwa' al my lamenent and I straight will halt, Against thy reasons making no defense. Thou canal not, love. disgrace me half so ill, ' To sat a form upon desired change, As myself disgrace; knowing thy will, I will acquaintanoe strangle, and look strange ; Be absent from thy walks ; and in My tongue Thy sweet beloved marmoo more .ball dwell, Lest I (too much profane) should do it wrong. And haply of our old acquaiuttmoe tall. For thee, against myself I'll vow debate. For Imust ne'er love him whom thou dolt hate. It is difficult to determine whether the words lame and lameness in the above poems are to be accepted as alluding to a fact, or must be taken as metaphorically employed. Yet, it is chiefly upon these—with oral tradi tion, repeated to this day in Warwickshlre, as we can testify from having frequently heard it there—that Shakspeare, like Scott and Byron, is recored as tc a lamester." Had he lived In onr day, ho might have read, in the Sunday papers, and eke in the dailies, that ho had I a compound fracture of the knee," (instead of a simple bruise), from a fall on the Iced pavement at his own door! Scott's desire to introduce Shalopeare into the historical novel of w Elenilwerth" caused him to commit several anachronisms. We shall take leave to point them out. Tho story of itKenilworth " opens, very effectively, at the village of Oumnor, four miles from the city of Oxford, "daring the eighteenth year of Queen Elizabeth "—that is of her reign. In other words, as her reign commenced in 1568, in the year 1576. As William &Worst° was born on April 286, 1565, ho was eleven years of age at the time of the story, the whole action of which occurs in 1676. In the sixteenth chapter of (( Kenilworth," we have Queen Elizabeth endeavoring to con sole Tresslllan, after her own fashion, for having lost Amy Robsart, his betrothed, in these words, (‘ Think what that arch-knave Shakepeare says—a plague on him, his toys come into my head. when I should think of other matter—Stay, how goes it? Creseid wee yours, tied with the bonds of heaven ; These bonds of heaven are shpt, dileolved, and loosed. And with another knot five Angers tied. The fratments of her faith are bouhd to Monied.' Here' Queen Elizabeth quotes from a play not written by Shakspefiro until four years after her death! (( Troilus and Cressida" was first performed, it is believed, in 1608, and was first published in 1609, Elizabeth died in 1608. Shakespeare, at the time she is made PJIILADELPIIIA, WEDNAS to quote, was a little boy crawling, "like a snail, unwillingly to school," to use his own words. In the seventeenth chapter of cc Kenn worth," Lord Leicester is made to turn away from Edmund Spencer, the poet, with the Words, "Hai Will Shakepeare! wild Will! thou hut given my nephew, Philip Sidney, love powder; he cannot sleep without thy Venus and Adonis under his pillow V' And it is added, "The player bowed, and the Earl nodded and passed on—so that age would have told the tale; In ours, perhaps, we might say the immortal had done homage to the mortal." At that time (1575) Sir Philip Sidney, who had just attained his majority, had returned from his foreign tour, and we might say, al-; most to a certainty, had never exchanged a word with little Willy Sbakspeare, the school boy. "Venus and Adonis," without which under his pillow, in 1575, Sidney could not sleep, was not published until 1693, seven yearq atter Sidney's death, on the battle-field of Zutphen; and Shalcapeare did not go upon the stage until 1580, eleven years after Scott shows him as a well-kqown man, whose writings wore familiar to and prized by Queen Elizabeth and her courtiers. The Scene on the Queen's barge, already mentioned, where she speaks of Will Shak speare, and where Sussex calls him w a stout man at quarter•stud and single falehion, though a halting fellow," is equally out of date. And so, especially, a few pages farther on, when at the Queen's command, young Walter Raleigh repeats w with accent and' manner, when even added to their exquisite delicacy of tact and beauty of description, the celebrated vision of Oberon " That very time I saw, (but thou oouldst not,) Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid, all arni'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the West ; And loosed his love shaft smartly from hie bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand haute But I might see young Cupid's fiery abaft Quench' d in the ohaste beams'of the watery moon, , And the imperial vot'ress passed on. In maiden meditation, fano , free i" Unfortunately, not only was Shakspeare only, eleven years old, at the time these lines of his were so admirably repeated, but he did not write them until twenty-three years' later, —namely, in 1698, when he was 84 years of age. These anachronisms, by Sir Walter Scott, are curious, as showing bow much he would sacrifice to produce such a brilliant effect as bringing in Sbakspeare in an .Elizabothan ro mance. Curious, too, that—as far as onr knowledge goes—no critic, in noticing "Ken ilworth," took the least notice of them. It was taken for granted that Scott could not err in a date 1 We notice the matter hero, chiefly because Scott was rather intolerant of such lapses in other writers of fiction, and held firmly to the principle—which he himself vio-' lated with such graceful and successful auda-1 city—that novelists ought to bo particular as' to dates when introducing historical per-1 sonages and events. Moro than once, in the. ] prefaces and notes to other novels of • his ; Scott apologized for smalleranabtiroitisras thai ho committed in "Kenilworth." flu Wa y + candor itself, in this respect. But hi the fnl stance before us, ho appears unconscious of forgetful of his errors Letter from. Centre County. Bauseeetre (Pa.), Jan 1, 1551 To the Editor of the Philadelphia Press: The suggestion lately contained in your paper, that there ought to be free coraree.,. ft e nabe nli g the people, relative to the present one le_e ane worthy of followers. The,< raeler - "Xvi .. i,nnumerably - ivattered- over mad , country, affords very superior advantages for the ti Anterlean people to arrive at a common under. standing with reference to the disease &fleeting - the body politic—its nature, extent, and remedy—and eine° the letter of our eminent friend, Daniel Dougherty, Esq., was given to the public, I have carefully observed the columns of your paper, ex pecting others to follow hiseornmendatie example. I shall not trespass very lengthily upon your Tandem These are net the times for rhetoric or resolutione, but prat:tint auggestions and effective action alone beeome as. While yet the tottering forms of revolutionary patriots linger on the shores of time, the sacrilegious hand of fanatical and cor rupt men and traitors is raised to destroy the mag nifieent edifice of human freedom, reared at the cost of so mush treasure, atillation, and blood. The heart of the patriot is chilled by the vivid appre hension that the muttering thunders of diuunion, which have - so long alarmed us, aro about to shako the Government to pieces. South. Carolina has at tempted to constitute herself a separate and inde pendent nation and the first prudent question' which suggests itself, la the one which, in my hum ble judgment, furniehee the key for the solution of the entire difficulty (diplomatically at least) : What relation does a btato thus aotinl occupy toward the Federal Government? The Sovereignty Con vention of the seceding State proceeds upon the as sumption that the United Staten is a more league between equal, sovereign, and independent States; that °Rob member of the Confederacy shall be the sole arbiter of her own wrongs, decide her own oomplaints, and when dissatisfied determine and execute the manner of redress in other words, they assume that so feeble and inadequate for the " formation of a more perfect Union," are the means provided by the Federal Constitution, that if one State deems Itself burdened by a duty upon imports, another regards a law granting free home steads injurious to her loos) interests, and anothor is dissatisfied with something else, they may each, by means of an ordinance, deolare themselves at.- aolved from the compact, violate Federal laws, and proceed in total disregard of the Federal Constitu tion. _ _ This doctrine renders an unauthorized State Convention superior to the Congress of the United States; and, while it requires three-fourth's of the States to amend the Constitution, admits the right and power of one to subvert it entirely. But the error of their position must be apparent to the most casual student of our governmental struc ture. That the Republio is a Confederacy of what were sovereign States cannot be denied ; but it is signally true that in the aot of thus confederating, these sovereignties parted with and delegated to the Federal Government a sufficient portion of their original sovereignty to constitute a power paramount, for all the purposes of the oonfedera. don, to that retained by the States or the people thereof. The objects of the confederation are clearly enumerated in the preamble to the Con stitution, while the powers delegated are speoffi °ally defined in the body of that instrument. The Constitution and the laws passed in pursuance thereof are declared to be the supreme taw of the land, and every naturalized eitizen—every muni cipal, county, State, and Federal officer—la sworn to support them. "We, the people of the United &eta" when they adopted the Constitution and formed the Federal Union, created a Government, and invested it with all necessary powers for sill (Abney and self-preservation. The objections to the old Confederacy were its want of vitality—its failure to confer power on the Central Govern ment to enforce its enactments; and to remedy this grand defect the present Constitution was framed and adopted, placing both the sword and the purse at the command of the Federal Govern ment. From this hasty and neoesearily imperfect re view of the organization of our Government, it be comes apparent that all Conventions, resolutions, an-I ordinances of the people of any State decla ring themselves ont of the Union are simply harm less, so long as no phyeloal interference is offered to the execution of Federal laws The moment this latter contingency occurs, it is the undoubted duty of the &oolitice sufrolently to fortify all officers to enable them fully and completely to perform their respective duties. So long as the laws are executed the Union is maintained, and it can be destroyed only when resistance to Federal autho rity becomes so formidable, in pointer numbers or strength, as to prevent those who are devoted to the Constitution and the laws from executing them. Then we have revolution, the participants in which are rebels and traitors. If they succeed in throwing off the existing form of Government and substituting a new, they become heroes, and their treason goes unpunished—otherwise they are amenable to violated laws. Thera can be no eon• stitutional right of secession or nullifioation. Fx toting forms of government oan only be changed by revolution; and revolution, in opposition to subsisting authority, can only be accomplished by rebellion. There must be coercion on one side or the other. Either the ' Federal authorities must coerce the people of a State to obey the laws, or be themselves ooeroed to permit their violation. I have faith that there are still on the side of the Union enough patriotio hearts to rally around the standard of the ears and stripes, and vigorously enforoe In every State and Territory obedience to the laws ; and, at the time of writing, the indica tions are that the patriotio hosts of America will not be in want of a leader; but that the venerable military chieftain, Winfield Scott, will make the preservation of the Union the crowning glory of his life. It is highly gratifying and auspicious that at this perilous oriels, political leaders of all parties, with singular unanimity, join in recommending tho repeal of all laws which antagonise, in any man ner, the fugltive.slave law. The North owes this act of patriotism, not alone to the South, but to her own honor. Doubts have been entertained in various quarters relative to the enactments of Pennsylvania on this subject, and many have ea. pressed the opinion that we have no law in ()enfant with the constitutional rights of our Southern brethren. In my humble judgment, the ninety, fifth 'motion of the revised penal code does, in effect, completely nullify the fugitivoldave law. In addition to its provider's against kidnapping, it provides as follows, viz "If any person or persons claiming any negro or mulatto as a fugitive from seevitude or labor shall, under any pretence of authority whatsoever, violently and tumultuously seize upon and carry away to any plate, or at tempt to seize' nd carry away in to rlotonti, violent, tumultuous, and unreasonable manner, and Bo re to disturb and endanger the public pew, any negro or mulatto within this OenunOnwealth, either with JANUARY 9,, 1861. the intention or taking. ouch negro or are any,itistrie% or admit judge, the arsons so offendinig against tho pesos of onwealth - shill be guilty of a Wade'. clear that the officer, in the exeontion • ant for the arrest of a fugitive slave, ‘ t f../ess interferm with, be guilty of the the Then, if a riot ocours,At 'mthe attempts of those who sympti-• the higitive to prevent his arrest. They, R. as the original violators of law and die the public pease, are the proper persons lard, instead of the owner or officer who, 4_ nee of law, Is proceeding to arrest the `!• In almost every section of our Common he of•• a slave would be made us and violent by anti. slavery individuals t black or white) in the vicinity. Yet, by ?a of this statute, it matters not who creates baste or tumult, those who,'by authority k' -maiming the clove must suffer the the enactment EOTVOO as a terror to t o might have occasion to avail themselves , °notational provision for the return 'of 'Without comment on the other provi- I the atatuto, it is quite, apparent that the alluded. to ,is the fruit of antl-slavery i, and that its author, whoever he may be, • I to ingeniously interfere with the emu he fugitive-slave low Let it be at once or, rather, let it be reversed, and a po-, !ovided against those who "violently and ousty" interfere with any person who, by legal authority. " elaims any mulatto," sly conservative Pennevlvrinia will not be ido her part toward reconciliation and tt , Iwit to ho regretted that, when ' s "esp-glort-. On is rocking to and fro, Shaktin by ses-' issonsions; when the notes of intestine war y Sounding la our oafs, when the peace ty of the family Brooklet are .endankered, h in position and in the estimation •of, untryskon should forget that our fathers din forming the Union only by oompro ' d concessions It is lamentable to hear t ) . - t - they are opposed to compromises—that nism b,otweert freedom and slavery may as taught out now as at any other time. They n different example in the recorded lives di Whose names are written in litters of light, aJpages of their country's hiatory—Wash efferson, Madison, Jackson, Clay, Web -514 their compatriots We should ever bear io that the fundamental ides; of our complex ~il p f Gevernmeut is the diversity of local in ;aging within our boundaries, and endea ,, aecommodatp our legislation as muds as ;•!. to this diversity For what would we ox .: oar blessod'aovernment ? What political ;a will weigh against the Union ? Who can o the horrors of division, dostruation, anti r ? History tolls us of the carnage and de on whioh ensued in the disruption of mighty in the past, and it becomes us, pre-emi [ in view of the exalted civilization and re nt, of whioh wo boost, to bo guided by the • f wisdom, and escape, if possible, the doom F will inevitably fall upon us if treason is , tied to go unpunished, and rebellion to rule t or. true basis of adjustment is contained in the i 1 1 I tint' to the Constitution, proposed in the ~ by Judge Douglas When the people of 'P ortlon of the Confederacy can be brought ; pi "to mind their own business," and lot ; , ple of every othor mind theirs, flout barn- 1 osilousi.ls, and conflict of interests Will cease. I 1111 i animosity will die and be heard of no . A vast empire like ours can only be pre. I ed in harmony by (awaiting upon our funds tal Jaw the great doctrine of non-intervention be General Government with the local and ' wile affairs of State or Territory. We must lab forever from the halls of Congress the irri• 'g question of slavery, and submit it in good to the people ditrotly interested in it. Then, ' not. till then, will distraction and dimension ' a, and the links which unite us be burnished ; e and bright When politicians and demagogues longer have a motive for pilamlng the public d with regard to slavery, it will not be agitated, rejoicing in the blessings of perpetual union, people of each munioipality wilt peacefully t, their officers and enact their laws for the pro [ , government of their own people and the rogue len of:their own interests. Northern fanatics II owe their tirade of persecution against the inth, apd we will dwell together as in the past, a thsporetts, happy, and united people. Oh, let a apt+ of compromise go forth and' nt,imate i ray heart! Lot the preservation of the Union a the supreme desire of every patriet,and soon ea dark clouds whioh lower over us will be die• itited by the Sun of Peace. 2 :. fr. Dougherty's suggestion that the Legislature p(tild provide for a State Convention, for the w oe of rooming cmoperatiou and an expression of la sentiments of the people of Pennsylvania, rts with-very general' favor in this locality. ;merely- hoping- that - the American iretaxy, naV-UPI: AilbilittiWirgirtif tr=3rirtigli 1 ,,,,i, 1 3, till the latest generations, I am, Your fellow•oltisen, nta G. liftrontm, From York, PA. bespondenee of The Preso.l Yortm, Jan. 5, 1861 r. EDITOR: The day appointed by the Pres!. for , fasting and prayer tons generally ob• aid herb. Several of the churches had services, hogs wag suspended, and the town presented q a holiday appearance. The people in this etn think it well enough that the President eld have appointed a day for prayer, yet they etre him for hearkening to the Secessionists and tug a deaf ear to the suggestions of patriots; far nipping secession in the bud, and for not sending adornment to Fort sfoultrie. Ills conduct is seoly commented upon, and unsparingly, but not tmervedly censured. AU seem to be surprised themes Buchanan should have allowed him se', be so pliant a tool in the hande of the ene tabf his oountry—that he should have been gu of such poltroonery—and that ho hadn't mosourogo enough to not as a patriot The ' goal inquiry now seems to be, what is the mat torth Mr. Buchanan ? Does ho not possess out do' patriotism to strike a blow for his country —t act independently—and to out loose frothe Dieunionists, who have so long con trol him? Will ho not toy to mover from thergrace which already attaches to hie name, by 'orts to preserve this glorious Confede roe; Oh ! were he infused with but some of the irit that animated Jackson, how Diann ion won:ewer and shrink before him ; how rebels woutromblo and bide themoolves; and how light and securely would the public breathe! Eveames Buchanan's friends—those who were dispd to pass by And forgive his Lecompton cent-these who hitherto wore willing to forget his ors (believing them to bo snob) and extol end agility his good deeds (if, indeed, ho has everimusitted any)—now stand appalled and disheened They review his whole Ad minfttion, and, at the conclusion, with heart overflowing with sorrow and regret, turn 'way, grieved to think that ho hoe', not 7 betrayed their confidence, hat also eurroted our country with threatening, impend ing dger, Well might wo blush before the eyes of a illized world at the corrupt Administration of Nish lef ruler. In York county, where, in 185 6,'• Buchanan reoeived from six to seven thoos4 votes, he could not now get five hundred, But, 1 the midst of these troublous times, we keenl3pproolate any good act, came from what sonnet may ; and when we see the President puttin,forth an effort in the right direction, howev. slight, we are disposed to praise it thonore, because we construe it to indi cate treturning to a patriotic and proper amuse! action. The refusal of Mr.. Buohanan to comtnd the brave, noble Anderson back to Fort Ittltrie, and his appointment of a collector of the remit, at the Charleston port, were hailed with antler delight. Mr. Matyre, the appointed collector, is a reel. dent of to place. He is an Irishman by birth, and mono this country at the age of about 12 years. 1 first carried on shoemaking. Always ambition hence restive. and impatient, he gave up the. trade and engaged in the con fectioner business, which ho carried on for several ;ears. De then wont into the whip manufaoring business, at which ho is yet en gaged. dr. Mclntyre was formerly a Whig, being at ardent supporter of Henry Clay. When thitmerloan patty sprang into existence, he booama Democrat. He has held several email offices. 11857 he was elected chief burgess of the town,nd would have boon re•olooted had ho not had .r. Abr. Forty for an opponent, who is an extraelypopular and influential man. Mr. Mclntyre, about fifty-three years old, and is 11 man of fir, determined will. Hence I think he will make good officer. It i 8 reap amusing, as well as gratifying, to see how anew the people are to see Forney's Press. It is regaled as one of the hest papers now printed. ;is not only replete with news, but the tenor of iteditorialo are for conciliation and con cession, heerable and Mr. Those who are no ouatomed tread it would not be without it for doable its trim What hotter proof of the fact that it MOO the public approbation could be de sired, that its. present groat demand and the avidity wit which its teeming oolumns are de• Toured ;ah its increasing circulation ? J. W. UTAIt titibeginDiDg to contributo to anti quarian solcoe—of course altogether in favor of the Book °Mormon. One of the Utah legislators —George Bacock, of 'Monti, San Pote Valley— produces a old copper coin, with hieroglyphics, Hebrew altimeters, and Arablo numerals stamped thereon, eat to have boon stumbled upon by some hunter or tavollor on the far•off Colorado. The precious role to submitted to the judgment of "Professor ?helps," ono of the wise men of Igor mondom, wlo, never at a loss in such profound matters, retinas the following. On one side ap• pears, whet translated : "The Kitg, liagagadonihah., over the Kingdom near the soi vest, sends to all greeting: ono so nine." On tho otter aide : " In the Kt year of the Kingdom of Christ, 9th year of my rdgn : Peaoa ant MOTTOZIEL—" Weapon Pr weapon, Life for life." " The coin I; 1765 years old, and is evidently a Nephite enloe, or farthing, as mentioned in the fifth ohapter of mond Nephi, in the book of Mor mon, English edition, page 617. It Is about the size of an English farthing. The numerals are plain MOW --gorse," To the People of Maryland. The Subjoined address by the Governor of Mary land will naturally poseese a special interest at this time, when he is so faithfully resisting the de mands of the Disunionists EXEOUTIVB OnAltuEn, ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 1,1861. The exalting character of the events now trans piring in our country naturally agitates and fills with earn the minds of the ettkons of this State. There naturally exists among the people an anx toils desire to learn what course will be pursued by those whom they have placed hit positions of trust, and I know that my own course is watched by them with deep Interest. They have a right to be informed on the subject, and, although I have In several published letters indicated my views, I yield now to the requests of many of my fellow °Memos, and address you this frank statement, calmly and truthfully, in my plain way, repro- I sonting the settled condition of the question as I believe it to tie, and giviiig my own convictions of what-is requited of me in this crisis. • From the hicatien of the National Capital with in our limite, and our needier geograpbieal po- Bitten, Maryland would inevitably become the °boson battle-ground of the sootione in the event', of civil joar tier long line of exposed frontier would boospen to attack from every quarter, apd' her peaceful 'Waters would soon become the thea •tre of this horrid contest Its needs no argument :to convince a relleoting mind that mobs& war, would bring upon us more than the usual worn.; panimonts of war—lose of life, destruction Of all domestie peace, oppreseive taxation, - ruinous de-, predation of properly, and almost universal bank-, ruptoy.' , Aa a :der davehelding State She weal tape-m:l4 'Offer in the 'Pater deetthation of a eke.' I rishett - dotoestie Wititutien with which all .our 1 sympathies are firmly united.' A brave people, forted into a mousers, war, would-partially esti mate oven thine great evils, and Maryland never hag' bean and never will be found backward Ind .such a contest ; but no man who hea a real stake` in the community would consent to embark iro such a future if it could bo avoided with honor. I firmly believe that the division of this Govern-' must would inevitably produce civil war. The Sc. ()cesium boilers in South Carolina, and fanatical demagogues of the North, have alike proclaimed that such would be the result,jand no man of sense,' in my opinion, can question it. Is it not, then, the bounden duty of all of us, arid especially of these placed In authority, to endeavor to prevent the oe cerrenee of such a catastrophe by opposing any thing even tending to produce it? fervently hope and firmly believe that the Union may ho preserved. Our forefathers would not have admitted that the Government was ut terly dissolved if the Dartford Convention had re solved the Vow England States out of the Union; nor can we agree that similar resolves, passed by the Conventions of one, or two, or half a dozen of the Cotton States, should be considered as working its dissolution at this time. It is yet, thank God ! in full exietenoo, recognized by every Government on the globe, and prepared and willing to redress, with the whole power of the nation, any indignity or injury inflicted by the prettiest Power on earth upon the humblest oitizen of South Carolina or any other State Dow shall we preserve this Union, founded by the labors and prayers of our ancestors, and ce mented wish their precious blood? soh one of us has hie part to perform in this la bor of love, and each of you has responsibilities connected with it, as I myself have. Upon each private citizen devolves that duty, so earnestly pointed out by the Father of his Country, of che rishing, by every word and deed, an unchangeable devotion to it, and frowning indignantly upon every attempt to destroy it Upon those in official position is imposed the responsible task of so exor cising the power committed to them that those who would drive us headlong into war end misery shall derive no assistance in their mistaken and crimi nal course from those who ought to oppose them. It is unnecessary for me to make extravagant professions of devotion to the South. Such pretties tallons may be necessary from imported Northern politicians, who, by indirect abuse of their awn Northern brethren and truckling flattery of the Southern people. have worked themselves, and aro hoping still further to work themselves, into power at the South. lem a Marylander by birth and descent, and. by a Tesidenoe Of more than sixty years. Every dollar of property I own is invested in-this State. lam a slavehelder, not by accident, but by purobase, out of the hard earnings of along life of Min I have not a conviction or pre udice I which is not in favor of my native State have never lived, and should be sorry to bo obliged to live, in a State where slivery does not exist, and I never will do eo if I can avoid it. Whatever would impair the ideas of • elavehelders in Mary land would equally injure rue, and ,the instinct of selfsinterest, ff no higher motive, would impel mo to stand by the South while life shalt last. With, those feelings, and under a couschintlone sense of my obligations before God and man, I have meow., .......te...soso ee t o -to in s litte smornoney. ........arn iltiOrol3lo. xna one was - LU SUL for myself to be hurriedly borne along into the turmoil of the political movements of the day, without any effort to subdue its violence, and, join ing in the cry of disunion, to allow Maryland to slide into the ranks of the seceding States. This course would have been by far the easier, the most , certain to find favor with the floating mass of noisy politicians, who can only hrenthe with comfort in an atmosphere heavy with discord and excite ment. It would hove secured me the ephemeral outward popularity of the day, and might have spared my humble name many en execration and slander which the advocates of this policy hove heaped upon it Buff most solemnly believe that it would have brought ruin upon my country, and I would rather die a thousand deaths than be instru mental in accomplishing such a reeult. I there , fore adopted the other course, to await with calm ness the progress of events, to remember my joint obligation to the Constitution of tho United States and of Maryland, both of which I have repeatedly , sworn to support; and I must try to allay that ' fearful excitement which wae threatening to under mine and destroy that snored palladium of our li berties committed to us by the Great Father of the Republic, who has raised us to be a Power among the nations, and which is eo ardently cherished by the people of Maryland. I knew that the adop t tion of this oenrse would bring upon me violent , abuse, subject me to slanderous reverts from those whose particular schemes it might frustrate, and, what I moat of all regretted, would subject me to the censure of good men whose convictions on tbo eubject might be different from my own. I Believing that the interests of Maryland were bound up with those of the border slaveholding States, I have been engaged, for months past, in a full interchange of views with the Governors of Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri, with a view to concerted action upon our part. These consultations, which ate still in progress, I fool justified in saying, have resulted in good ; so that, when tho proper time for action arrives, these sister States, bound up in a common destiny, will, I trust, be prepared to act together. I have been urged by a oonsiderable number of I citizens to convene the Legislature, in spacial see sioo, as the proper meatier° to bo adopted at this time. After a most anxious and conscientious ex amination of the question, I have failed to be con vinced of the necessity or propriety of such a course. The Constitution, in entrusting a disore tionary power to the Governor of calling such ass- Bien, never designed that he should act in so seri ous a matter upon the judgment or convictions of other men, and in opposition to the olear and un biased dictates of his own conscience. lie was not intended to be a mere machine to act in this plat ter, when others should deem it necessary, although he himself might feel morally certain that it would bo unwise and dangerous. .1 have, therefore, felt obliged to decide this question for myself, subject to the dread responsibilake which attach to those who corruptly, or against their judgments, violate , an official oath. I have been forcibly impressed with the feet, its considering this question, that everyDisunionist in Maryland, (and, to opt shame be it spoken, there aro some such among us,) is an earneet advocate for the Immediate call of the Legislature. One of the papers of to-day contains a report of the pro ceedings at a meeting whieb adopted a resolution in favor of immediate secession, which was warm ly advocated by the present Speaker of the House of Delegates, and the last of the series of resolu tions directs the appointment of a committee to urge upon me to convene that House of Delegates forthwith. It seam to me that a measure thus earnestly advocated by those who are bent upon the destruction at once of the Union, and the hap. pintas of our State, can hardly be the proper means of preserving both. I have hitherto forborne to dwell particularly upon an objection to this measure which deceives to be maturely 'weighed in a oriels like this, when the people are ill prepared to bear increased bur dens. It is nevertheless proper that you should be informed that on the first of Ootober there was a deficit in the State treasury of at least fifty thou. eand dollars, and that the treasury offuoire have , repeatedly been without the means of paying drafts upon it, in consequence of the appropriations made by the last Legislature. Nothing but the most rigid economy and careful management can I enable the treasury to pay the April interest upon the State debt. Maryland knows something of heavy taxation, for she has borne it heroically, until she ie just beginning to relieve herself from I its crushing weight. That her people would bear' it again without a murmur, if they were oonvineed I of ite necessity, I well know ; but should not our I past experience warn us against incurring further' burdens, nnleea they are positively required by I our honor? Especially, should we not avoid it, if it be probable that the consequence of this re newed taxation should be to secure woes and suf foringe for the people of the State? What could the Legislature do in this crisis, if convened, to remove the present troubles which beset the Union? We are told by the leading spirits in the South Carolina Convention that neither the election of Mr. Lincoln nor the non execution of the fugitive-slave law, nor both com bined, constitute their grievance. They declare that the real cause of their discontent dates as far beak aa 1833. Maryland, and every other State In the Union, with united voice then declared that cause insuffi cient to justify the course of South Carolina. Can it be expected that this people, who then unani mously supported the course of General Jackson, will now , yield their opinions at the bidding of modern Secessionlets? I have been told that the position of Maryland should be defined, so that both sections can under stand it. Do any really misunderstand her posi tion? Who that wishes to understand it can fail to do so? If the notion of the Legislature would be simply to declare that Maryland is with the South in sympathy and feeling ; that she demands from the North a repeal of offensive and unconstitutional' statutes, and appeals to 1t for new guarantees; that oho will wait a reasonable time for the North to purge her statute-books and do justice to her Southern brethren, and, if her appeals are vain, will make common cause with her sister Border States in resietanoo to tyranny, if need be, they would be only saying what the whole country well knows, and what may be said mush mere effes tually by her people themselves, in their meetings, than by a Legislature. chosen eighteen months ducat when none of these questions were raised before them, That Maryland is a conservative Southern state all know who know anything of her people or her history. But, my fellow-citizens, it is my duty to toll you that the reassembling of the Legislature is wished TWO CENTS. for by many who urge it with a view to no such Our New York Letter. specification. I have been repeatedly Warned, by Am or outer 31 :maitENTE DOCKETED IN NNW rosette persons having the opportunity to know, and who are entitled to the highest confidence, that the Se- 1880—emorreinnor re WELL STREET ABOUT TEN cession leaders in Washington have resolved that ETOLEN BO N DS—POSITIVELY TUE tens OF TUB B_lTlEBECDREBLEL,CoActifflin—anc__Nuner, HALE OF Paws IN WARD the Border States, and especially Maryland, shall be precipitated Into secession with the Cotton States " u alanD TAYLOR, before the 4th of Marsh. Worrespondenee of The teens] They have resolved to seize the Federal capital, NEW You; Jan. 7,1801, and the pubis archives, to that they may be in a In glancing at a summary of the proceedings of position to be acknowledged by foreign Govern monts as the "United States," and the assent of the Superior Court of this city, during the year of Maryland is net:meaty, as the Mettle, of Co- 1860, I was struck with the aggregate of jadgmenta Jumble would :evert to her in ease of a dissolution entered up Amnia branch of our city jaeletatm. of the Union. It la contemplated to retain It only Seventeen hundred and ninety-atne different judg for a few years, as the wants of the Southern Mills mots wore docketed, amounting , , . to $2 617 380 tare , Confederacy will cause its removal farther Meath. The plan contemplates forcible opposition Mentioning this foot to a legal acquaintano, he to Mr. Lincoln's inauguration, and consequently remarked that the total amount of judgments en civil war, upon Maryland soil, and a transfer Of its tared up annually in the different courts of New horrors from the States will are to provoke It, York would average at least seven millions Of ,del- The voices of those who favor this scheme are unanimously for a Speeinl Session, and every effort Mrs. In the SlipTeMo Court a new calendar for lies been made, and will be made henceforth, to the year 1881 has been made up. It con manufacture publlo opinion in this State to forme tains nearly thir y-three hundred causes, being me to convene that body, an inerease of five hundred over the calendar you b y th ou ese soon tos reports ha try ve b to eendestroy dissemiw hatever in- nated among •o , mo up at the commencement of last year. This, lino I may be supposed to possess. It bas been bear in mind, is in the Circuit Court only, The falsely reported that I would be an applioant for , Special and General Terms, and at Chambers, have office under Air. Lincoln, and this rumor had been, calendars not quite es large, but heavy enough to long in circulation before It reached ray ears, and crush out the patience of those having oases they I thus had the opportunity to denounce it aa an in famous, unfounded shoider. It has been publicly are anximit tobeve decided. " Justice irrNeer York reported that I had Written a very objectionable -realizes at lien ode-half of the old e mailm : it is letter to Mr. Crittenden upon the present condi- e mow ;ie the other part, about itz being "sure," teen of affaire. As son as I heard it I read sooy is a legend that bes not yet secured palmier belief. of the letter to th e gentleman who repeated t he Tad . e _ remorse the new eta ge on prose I the Su rumor, and he at onto signified his approval of its , a contents; but I have since directed it to be pub- Bench (the youngestjudge in the country), takes his lished, and you can read It for yourselves. The' seat at Chambers. spirit of defamation has gone so far that anonymous There is not a little - excitement in town to-day letters have been ohordated in Anne Arundel oonn- . . . ty stating teat I had invited the aloes to a public at the special telegram from ffashingtOn t o the dinner on Christmas e day near this city. You will Times, that the Attorney General will to-day offer doubtless hoar many similar falsehoods, circulated an opinion that neither Bailey nor Russell can be with this same deafen of weakeningyonroonfidence m e ll o ws for a ny one", as Bailey hasleen guilty in the Executive of the State by attempting to work only of .a breach of trust—the bonds not being upon your fears. For myself, I have lived long 1 enough to know how to devise false reports. A money belonging to the Government, and 'Bailey man need only fear unfavorable reports when they; not being their custodian by virtue of any law, al are true, • ‘ would ,Ip necessary • before the aub-trestrary law The men who have embarked in this scheme 'oonid be made to apply: In Wall street th s view will spare no pains to carry their point. The whole ,of t h e Case is allowed to be =co l h rful plan of operations, in the event of the assemblingmmon y o ee of the Legislature, is, as I have boon informed, I and satisfactory. already marked out; the list of ambassadors who The "lest scene of all" in the Burdelltragedy are to visit other States agreed on; a nd the roes' , • will be enacted on the 15th inst. Ever since the tattoo, which they hope will be passed by the Legislature, fully committing thls State to noes- , murder, the property of th e e defend has been in sloe, are said to be already prepared. , litigation, and " injuneted to an, extent tinaux- Is it your will, my countrymen, that the State'; passed in the annals of New York courts. OnSa ehould he exposed to the perils of adopting exich a , turdey, however, the court gave a final decision In course? Are you, who aro to bear the' briant of i the ease, ordering the- property to be sold at this fearful contest; who are to be forced to Ilan- r _. . . don year ploughs , and forges, and loom, to dght 1 auction on the 15th. dirs. Cunningham is counted the battles of the Cotton eitates, who must leave ; out. That faeCineting female is now in California, behind your families, unprovided, with the dally having assuaged her griefs byebeeoming Mrs. support which is only afforded teem by your dell) . Somebody or other. Widows always' get happy labors—are you desirous to be. engulphed ia this when tau go to California — especially if they go whirlpool of strife before you have had time to breathe, and before every honorable plan has been by steamer. tried to avert the necessity of was? If the people ' Ward Beecher's church, in Brooklyn, is always 'of the North ware a foreign nation, we would first I the scene of a sensation. The half theological, retort to negotiation, and, in the failure of that, to t half political SOMMs and harangues that he de reprisals,, before openly • declaring war (millet them. Shall we be less forbearing to our breth- ! livers every Sunday morning are as mush a part ren? If men alone were to be the sufferers in such lof the intellectual amusement of a large portion contests, the consequences, would be lees deplores of those who are his regular hearers MI is the opera ble • but think of the helpless, timid women and ' or the theatre to the frequenters of the latter places children who are to be the chief sufferers To you ' ;of diversion. One of the stated seasons of fun at the workingmen of Maryland, who bust starry the musket and endure the real hardships of the war, Plymouth Church is en the second Tuesday they look for protection. in January, (totmorrow evening), when the The people of Maryland, if loft to themselves, pews are put up at option and let to the high would decide, with scarcely an exception, that est bidder. Idat year the financial statement of there is nothing in the present causes of complaint I ..... to justify immediate secession; and yet, against ; the Oriel stood as follows : Received from pew our judgments and solemn' convictions of duty, • rents, $11,820; premiums on the seats, $16,219 75; we are to bo precipitated into this revelation be- I aisle chairs, $706.50; rent for lectures and COD osnse South Carolina thinks differently. Are we carte $1,500. Total, $30,306 25, all of which has not equals? Or shall her opinions control our ac tions T After we have solemnly decided for our- bean paid, except $43.50. Brother Beecher sheds selves, as every man of you must do, are we to be the lustre of his presence and wit at these annual forced to yield our opinions to there of another religious austione, and causes much White by the State, and thus, in effect, obey her mandates? fanniments he gets off during the sale. It's as ehe refines to wait for our counsels ; are we I goo dand favoritework for th e re- My; as a play , a boned to obey he'r commands 7 countrymen, if reuse the true descendants 1 porters. of than who have rendered glorious the annals of I Bayard Taylor ventilates his new lecture, "Man our early history, is it not en insult to you to inti- I and Climate," at the Broadway Tabernacle. mate that you cannot be trusted with time for de- I I - liberation ? or that your courage would -ooze out I and be exhausted unless you are forced to act in ' GENERAL NEWS. this matter without time for inflection? Ara you , to be rammed withthe argument that inlets you I &men Down Ftese.—A correspondent, at join in this secession at once you may be discarded 1 Calais, says of business : " Calais is, next to Ban by your southern sisters? They would always be ' or, the finest lumbering town in Maine. The river glad enough to have with them our noOlo State, is navigable nine months in the year, and, during with its commercial, agrioaltural, and mineral the past season, fire or six hundred vessels, laden wealth, with its hardy, brave people. The lan- with Isobar of all desorietions, have cleared from fitottutfmonaoe and throats is no argument to ; this port. Moro busi ness was done lh e e ve pr ee r rie r I firmly believe that the ea - Wition of thilaniceit — Oaeratal u o l sVa c , e (eNrg, e iturr, sr the El overnment depends upon the Border slave States. Without I continues, there is no reason why next year may their aid the Cotton States ottld never command i not be as profitable as the last. Teams were sup the influence, and 'nadir, and mete essential to i plied for the winter; and many of them had left their existence as a nation. Without them the 'for the woods' when the pantostruck. Onto- Northern half of the Republic, would be shorn of euently, as mush lumbering will be done as ever its power and influence. Within the Union I Before; and the music of the saw mill, and the firmly believe we can secure guarantees for our ship-builder's mallet, will be heard as soon as the protection which will remove these distressing spring opens," causes of irritation. We append the latest item of New Orleans If wo and hereafter that the North shall, after fashionable intelligence, viz , that John O. Noonan, duo deliberetien, refuse to give them, ana will, in Aaron Jones, and Ned Price, who some recent a united body, demand and receive a fair division English writer denominates disciples of Muscular of the national domain. We claim an equal share Christianity, have arrived in Pew Orleans, and for in the Territories ; let us not abandon the whole some nights past have been the cynosure of all of them by seceding. We claim the fall a nnul eyes that congregate about the bar-rooms of St, tit "' of the fugitive slave law; let us not annul Charles and Greeter streets , and that, in word that law entire l y by leaving the Union, and thus anoe with their calling, their' presence was nearly virtually bringing Canada down to our borders being the cause of a bloody row, but fortunately We oleim the protection of our institutions, as Ino be was done. The difficulty grew ont of guarantied by the Constitution ; let ns not render Price expressing a desire to whip a man named this protection Impossible by tearing the Constita- I Jennings at some future day. Jennings pitohed in lion to fragments. t immediately and a general muss was the result. I have extensive means of Information as to the . , , No one was hurt badly, nor was any one arrested. wishes of the people, not possessed by those who urge this measure upon me; and I am fatly con. ITern annuity fund collected for Tom Sayers vlneed that =immense majority of these, through- at a single newspaper office in London, and which out the whole State, are firmly opposed to suoh I amounts to too extraordinary sum of £2,814 will action, be so secured that it cannot be toothed by Tom's Tho business and agricultural classes, the plant- creditors, should he be so imprudent as to gat ere, merchants, mealumics, and laboring men, those himself involved ; neither will Tom himself be who have a real stake in the community, who would able to assign away or anticipate his income. be forced to pay the taxes and do the fighting, are It is moreover expronly provided that in the the persons who should he heard in preference to ex- event of his again entering the ring, the Ira& cited politicians, many of whom, having nothing to tees shall at once devote the whole amount to lose from the destruction of the Government, the interest of his children, so that it will be may hope to derive some gain from the ruin of seen that all future challenges will be utterly tee State. Soh men will naturally urge you useless. to pull down the pillars of this • a0011110d" TEE Federal Government have taken the Union ' al " their allies at the North have necessary stops to have a reuisite number of termed "a covenant with hell." - United States troops to protect toe public property These extremists, North and South, agree in in the District of Columbia Mayor Barret will their hatred to the Constitution, which condemns the fanaticism of both. And leaders in South Ca- organize a competent police force to repel the ie. vasion of any irresponeible bodies of men, come rollna and Massachusetts agree in denouncing the from what quarter thevemay. He will alto not he fugitive-slave law as unconstitutional, in the fate sttate to all upon the President for the use of the of repeated decisions of the courts of the country. Federal troops to suppress any mob that is Rotten I know that the masses of the people are op posed to the assembling of the Legislature at this up, and to maintain the peace and order of Wash. ington city as usual. He does not, however, are time, and approve of my course ; and it is a prebend any danger. source of gratification to me to know that many of Tof Beaufort,Si C .,have erected HE citizens i the most distinguished citizens of Maryland and other Border slave States, without distinction of a redoubt upon the outskirts of their town t , to pro perty, have endorsed it tent lam from attack. It consists of abet -sunken 1 have, tbroughout this matter, conscientiously battery, with a moat ten feet wide, pierced for and honestly endeavored to perform my duty, and three eighteen-pounders, now in possession of the I solemnly protest that all other considerations but town authorities. The ramparts are compactly those of duty have been banisked from my mind. sodde d . with turf cut from the neighborhood, at BR The men who have ascribed lower motives to use elevation of about thirty-five feet above high-water have done me great iejnetioe, and have shown that mark. It commands Port Royal river towar ds the they coot rise to the comprehention that en southeast, the front, and also the rear of the town. honest man feels compelled to discord all party THE Mobile Wine Company report that, ties when he is placed in a position where he must should the season be favorable, they expect to account at each moment to his eensesence for any make this year 10,000 gallons, or 500 gallons to the departure tram duty. I, your fellow-citizen, ea- acre. The actual (topical stook of the company is +temerity injure myself by every set or omission now $20,000. It is now proposed to add to this which can Were you, and without a single $lO,OOO. During the two years which the company motive of pommel ambition to lead me aside has been in extetenee the stockholders have paid from the plain path of my duty. In the course in forty per sent . on Um capital subscribed. of nature I cannot have long to live, and I SOWN CAROLINA SEEKING RECRUITS IN fervently trust to be allowed to end my days a citizen of this glorious t h e;n but should New Yona.—A short time since Mr. blither, Son I be compelled to witness te downfall of of Polio Sergeant Milber, of the Seventh weed, that Government inherited from our fathers, ea- waa approached by a man in Broadway, and, after tome preliminary conversation, was offered a new tablished, re it were, by the especial favor of God, I will, at least, have the consolation at my dying snit of clothes, $25 a month, and his expenses de frayed to Charleston, if he would accompany the hour that I never, by word or deed, assisted In unknown inailSouth. It is said that similar pro hotel:ling its disruption. Tomes H. Mcßae positions have been made to others. Pies IX has received as Peter's Pence, 10,752,000 francs, which, though large in itself, is but little for the working of an expensive Govern ment. The Pope however, notwithstanding the harmony of the H oly See, w ill not listen to any cession of its provinces. To a person who dated in his promote to make an allusion to the peon niary propositions whit* may be proposed, be said : p ropositions term (emrt sit ia perditionem." Wilma the gallant Southern man, Major Anderson, is ' receiving the deserved homage of the nation for a piece of war strategy, lot tie place on record the name of another Southerner who has distinguished himself in the cause of charity. Dr. J. K. Timberlake, of Louisville, Ky., who has charge of the Louisville Medical and burgioal Dis pensary, offers his services and medielne to the poor, free of oharge. GENERAL SCOTT is the largest -Man In the American service. Ile is six feet silt inches tall, and weighs two hundred and sixty pounds. He is seventy-four years old, yet his health is good, and his whole system is apparently vigorous—mash of which is owing, doubtless, to his very temperate habits. __ _ The Phoenixville Meeting The following resolutions were adopted at the meeting held in Phoenixville on Saturday eve ning : Whereas, The enemies of the Union are plotting its destruction, and secession is openly and vio lently advocated; and whereas wo, the working men of Phconlxville and vloinity, actuated by a sense of patriotic devotion to the interests and per petuity of our present form of Government and the 11111013 of the Statue, cannot but view our present political troubles as the cause of the dosnolal am barrassatents which have overtaken us, and to which are directly due the destruction of confi dence, of trade, and of commerce throughout our country, and through which we are deprived of employment : therefore— Resolved, That no right of peaCeable secession exists; that secession is In direct antagonism to the Constitution of the United States is rebel lion ; and that the laws must be promptly and strictly enforced. Resolved, secondly, That the Constitution of the United States, is the supreme law of the land, and that the Union, like the Constitution, was intended to be perpetual, because it asserts no power of self destruction, and provides for its alteration by a certain, explicit mode. 3. That we will cheerfully sustain the Federal Government in all honorable efforts to maintain the Constitution and enforce the laws; but that any refusal to do so ought to be punished by the impeachment of all the guilty parties. 4 That we heartily approve the conduct of Major Anderson, the gallant commander of the United States Fort Sumpter, in Charleston bay, and we thus express the unanimous feeling of our great State, and that we mill upon the Federal.authozi tio to forward him such relnforcententa as will convince him and the enemies of the Republic that the laws are to be enforced at all hazards, and that resistance to those laws is treason, and will be punished as such. 5. That whilst we deeplydeplore the present dis tracted elate of the country, and contemplate with horror the impending danger, we are unflinchingly opposed to the adoption of any course which may be at variance with the principles of the Govern ment framed by our fathers, or subversive of the best interests of the whole country. 8. Ghat we heartily second the efforts now being made by the ignion•loving citizens of the country, -without distinction of party, to produce that unity and eenoert of action neemeary to meet any emer-. genet'; and that no recognize Pennsylvania as standing, es she always has stood, for the Union and the whole Union, "now and forever, one and inse parable; that wo renew our vows of allegiance to the Constitution 85 it is; and that we tender te the distinguished statesmen from the North and the South who have stood up manfully for the Union, the Constitution, and the enforcement of the laws," our warmest thanks, for their fearless and patriotio 0011189. 7. That a copy of the above resolutions be trans. , pitted to our Representatives in Congress, arid be published in the various papers of the district. - THE liiirgEßl.X PRESS. TEM Wsunny Pima will be sent to entworibars by mail (per annum, in ad►anoo,) at --AMAX , Three Copies, " 6.00 Five " " tit op Ten ----la.° " " " (to one address)3o.oo Twenty Copies, or over (to address of eaoh subsoriber,) LAW For a Club of Twenty-one or over, we will land an extra copy to the getter-np of the Club. __ Postmasters are reunested to eat as Agents for Tun WZIIKLY Dun. -CALIFORNIA PRESS. leaned three times a Month. in lime for the California Steamers. Smanwat.—A few mornings since, Air- Hi ram 4. /Toward, of this place, oat open a squash, and foand in the centre of it a perfectly-formed flower, In color, shape, and in every respect simi lar to flowers whtoh grow on squash vines. The flower ' , wilted soon after being exposed to the air.— Patotiecket Chronscle. TIM Rev. Tames Barnaby, of Deerfield, - N. R., has accepted an invitation to the pastorate of the Baptist Chnroh in Campton, N. B. Be is soventy-three years of age, moot, nimble, and vi gorous, hie " eye not dun, nor his natural force abated." SHIPBUILDING ON L THE lIIEHR/H40.-7 4 / 1 0 Newburyport Herald states that six ships, three barks, and six rohooners, measuring in the ag gregate 7,548 tons, were built on the Merriman daring the last year. There are now two ships, six barks, and two schooners in course of con struction—tonnage, 5,110 tons. FIVE THOUSAND SLAVES were sent South from Richmond, Va., over the Petersburg' road, 5,000 over the Tennessee road, and 2,000 by other chan nels, during the year 1880. Valued atsl,ooo eaoh, $12,000;000 have been reeelvea in sash by the State. TEE Waterboro' (S. 0.) Sun states that• a white man was hung at Ridgeville, week before last, for expressing abolition sentiments. Another at George's Station received 120 lashes and was -ordered to quit the State. A nr,oos of copper ore has been sent to Qtteheo, 0. 8., from the reeently.diseovered et. Flavien mine, which indioates great fiobasay. - The placer is a mile long, and the supply is saidAO be inexhaustible: A nntrninurrorr of 7,000 franca not baying been medeLttooording to a decree of Garibaldi, among the hi eapolltass, they have petitioned Vlo tor Emmanuel that it be immediately divided.
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