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TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1864
Aar- THE UNION STATE CENTRAL 00.31-
=TITRE OP PENNSYLVANIA will meet at the
'1"-ng HOIIBE, in the Oily Of HARRISBURG, on
WEDNESDAY, April Bth, A. D. iuu-*, a 6 s Dialook
I'. M.
A. fall attendance is requested, se business of im
portance to to be transacted.
WAYNE IideVEAGH, Obairesen.
George ThOZZIpSOIO 9 Address.
Last night we beard a prophet—it would
be superfluous to say, an orator. The recep
tion given to Mr. Trtomrsort was worthy
of his great merits., and of the moral pro
gress of this community. The passages of
his speech most denunciatory of the crime
of slavery were those most vehemently
applauded, and the enthusiasm of the au
dience rose to climax when hlr. Ttromr-
EON urged again the immediate, total, and
utter wiping away of the curse of slavery.
When 31r. THOMPSON returns to his home
he Will bear back with him to his liberty
loving friends in England the brave good
cheer and hearty good-will, of the over
whelnaing majority of our people. For all
that such noble men as THOMPSON and
Enron-r have done for us, we could afford
to forgive all that Englishmen have done
-against us, trusting in the resurrection
of the general moral sense of England.
"Where liberty dwells there is my cortn.
try," Mr. THOMPSON might have de
clared. Can we not now claim him as an
American ?
European News.
There ie European news down to the
25 - th March, inclusive. Parliament was
not in session, having adjourned over the
Easter holidays, until the r 4th of April.
In the course of the present week, Mr.
614APETOX:in would probably open "the
Budget." He can show from $15,000,000
to $20,000,000 excess of revenue over ex
penditure. This will allow a large reduc
tion of taxation. Lords ABERDMEN and
Asr rnuirraa - are dead : the former was aged
48, and the latter Oa years. Lord Ali Fi
n roust not be confounded with the late
Earl, his father, (born in 1784, died in
18600 who was Prime Minister of England
- alien the War in the Crimea began, and re
signed office ere it was finished. GAME I.LDI
was about visiting England, where he would I
have a grand reception.
The Archduke MAxlmmtaisi would Certain
ly accept the crown of Mexico, and would
sail from Europe for Vera Cruz on the 13th
of April. It is said that he has refused to
confirm the privilege accorded to General
ALIIONTE to establish a Bank of Hexieo.
The Globe, which is more in Lord PALMERS
TON'S confidence than any other London
Journal, decidedly says that the policy of the
new Empire gill be strictly neutral. He
-a-ill not reeortniz.. the independence of the
southern Confederacy, nor maintain diplo
matic intercourse until France has done so.
The situation in Denmark continues mt
changed—if anything, the invaders have
sustained small repulses. The mission of
the Duke of SAXE Conuno to the Emperor
NArolmoic is said to have altogether failed.
The Emperor refuses to encourage the
claim of the Duke of AIIGI7STENDURG to the
Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. The
Duke of Corruno left Paris greatly disap
pointed. At their interview the Emperor
professed the most pacific intentions towards
Germany. & rumor, originating in II en.-
burg, that Prince FREDERICK, of Augusten
burg, bad been found dead in his bed at
Kiel, turns out to be untrue, as was expected.
The Conference proposed by England, on
Danish aflirirs, has been accepted by Austria
and Prussia, as well as by Denmark. It
will irenne;oely assemble, and England
will insist that the territorial integrity o!
Denmark, under King CHlneralt, shall be
preserved as it was under his predecessor.
We shall see.
Comiacricur is aloriously enrolled with
New Hampshire. The Union majority is
not only decisive, but the gains throughout
the State are greater than we had dared to
hope. They are new evidences of the in
creasing weakness of the Opposition, and
the certain triumph of the Union party in
November next.
LETTER FROM " OCCASIONAL."
WASHINGTON, April 4, 1804.
On Wednesday, the sixth of April, the
people of Maryland will vote for delegates
to a Convention to make a new Constitution
and frame of Government. They will at
the same time decide whether such a Con
vention shall be held or not. The canvass
preceding this election has been one of un
usual interest. The question of slavery, in
all its aspects, has largely, if not solely,
entered into it. The rebellion and its
guilty authors—the certain fate of Ma
ryland and the loss of the Federal capi
tal, had net the Government extended its
saving and protecting power over the people
of that State—have been the fruitful texts
of many irresistible arguments. The "un
conditional" friends of the Government are
for immediate emancipation without com
pensation. They insist that Maryland will
be more prosperous without slavery, and
they declare, that as the first proffer of the
President in his proclamation, allowing
compensation for all manumitted slaves, was
sternly and scornfully refused by the Mary
land slaveholders, it is now too late for them
to accept it, especially as ever since that time,
nearly three years gone, they have been
the active though secret enemies of the.
Government. The bold stand of the en
conditional party and the practical proofs
of the justice of their doctrines, since the
Govermnent has defeated treason in Mary
land, and secured the - Federal capital, have
brought the traitors to their senses. Under
the laws the State, and especially un
der the bill submitting the question of a
Convention to the popular vote, the most
stringent provisions against allowing dis
loyal men to vote, and the severest penalties
against all election officers who may take
the ballots of such persons, were enacted.
An oath must be administered to every
challenged person, to the effect that he has
not served in the rebel army, nor has be
either directly or indirectly given aid, coin-
fort, or encouragement to those in armed
rebellion against the Government of the
United States. This oath is a terrible ex
tinguisher of rebel intrigues ; for if taken by
a traitor he will of course be detected by those
w h o know his treason, and put to punish
ment, if not to shame. This oath, and the le
gislation in harmony with it, affect candi
dates as well as voters. No rebel can be a can
didate for office in Maryland under the sta
tutes of the last Legislature. Major Gene
va Lew Wallace, the new Military Go
vernor, already alluded to in this correspon
dence, came into his high office as governor
.of the great deeartinent of which nearly all
of Maryland, and all of Pennsylvania, are
subdivisions, at a most interesting juncture,
and had an early chance to show his deter.
-initiation on this momentous question. He
at once resolved that the laws of the
State, in preventing disloyal persons
from holding office, or running for
office, or voting at elections, should be
sternly enforced. In a late correspondence
with the Governor of Maryland, Mr. Brae
ford, he directs his attention to the laws re
felled to, and invokes his co-operation in
their faithful application on Wednesday.
The Governor—who, as you will recollect,
was as tender-footed after his election as
some other "loyal' men—thinks these laws
"entirely sufficient" "to exclude disloyal
voters from the polls." Gen. Wallace does
not intend rashly to use* his troops so that
the traitors rev not resume the control of
the state, but he will, undoubtedly, do his
Whole duty if the people are again sought to be
:betrayed, either by cheating election officers,
aimidLegislatures, or !Secession Councils and
Mayors. When General Wallace took his
position as Military Governor of the Depart
ment, he declared in his first address that
" rebels and traitors have no political
eights." And these brave and golden
words have been woven into the war cry of
the radical Union men of Maryland. I
have strong hopes that these men will
.triumph on Wednesday. If they do, ala.
Very Will be speedily and forever abolished
in Maryland. I could wish some of your
local party-leaders, who still call them
selves Democrats, could be in Mary
land at this writing, to see and hear
whet such Democrats as Frank Thomas,
Reverdy Johnson, and General Lew Wal
lace are doing on the right side. They
would be ashamed of the course pursued by
men who, in the safer and distant spheres
of action, do not hesitate to oppos6 and
ridicule the patriots I have named. And if
anything were needed to complete the
mortification of your local Democratic
leaders, it would be that their favorite argu
ments are daily repeated by the dieloyal
Copperheads who are now toiling to drag
Maryland out of the Union, and to transfer
Washington City from Lincoln to Davis..
OCCasIONAL.
WA.13313.11 4 47 - Gra'ON.
W.sornmprox, April 4, 1864.
Decision of the quicksilver Mining Case.
Charles Fomentt, appellant, vs. The United States.
The opinion of the court was delivered by Mr. Jus
tice NaLsorr toglay, establishing the southern and
eastern boundaries of FOSSATT'S grant as including
the mine. The southern boundary is the Great
Sierra, whist' defeats the pretensions of the United
*total. The eastern boundary le the straight line
by the eastern boundary of the low hill, thus throw.
ing the mine Berreyeas on FOSSATT'S ranch. The
court orders a decree condi ming the survey of De
cember, ISdO, and filed January following. There
uas a larger attendance than usual this morning to
lien' the above decision in the Qoickeitver ease,
and, even before the reading of the opinion was com
pleted, parties rushed to the telegraph office to ad
vise their distant friends, The excitement today
was equalled only by the whisky and gold bill (004-
th - or on former occasions.
Alsociate JUitiee NELsow, ins delivering his
opinion in favor of the Quicksilver Mules - Compa
ny, to day, ■aid if the court for theMorthern District
of California had conformed to the mandate of the
Supreme Court, in entering the survey, this contro
versy would have thus been closed. It appeared,
item the opinion, that the. California Court wag in
nueneed by the law of Congress, which allOws All
peals from surveys in private land claims. The al
teration of the line fixing the boundary in dispute
was wholly unsustaintd. If it was compr.tent to
change One line, it was competent to change all the
lines The merits of the ease, apart from the bound
ars; dicinot enter intothis opinion. The courtto-day
ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the decree of
the District Court of the United States, of the
Northern District of California, in the case of Pas-
SAT, appellant, vs. the 'United States, isireveraed,
and the cause remanded to the said District Court,
with instructions to enter a decree conformable to
the survey approved by the Surveyor General, De
cember 20, 1860,
Justice CLIFFORD, who alone dissented from the
above opinion, said the property was worth $20,-
010A0.
Gens. Smith and McDowell.
- - -
General Bar..nr SMITH will have command of the
troops and personally conduct military operations
in Genera BrrTLEH , S Department.
What Gen. idoDowat.r. is to command, or whet
operations he is to be permitted to influence, are ao
yet only subjects of cocjecture and apprehension.
His journey to Fortress Monroe with Gen. GRANT
has excited a great deal of speculation and cow•
meat.
Pay of Cadets.
It is now fixed by law that the pay of eadete at
the U. S. Military Academy shall be the came ae al
lowed to midshipmen at the Naval Academy.' Ca
lets found deficient at any examination shall not
be COntinued at the Military Academy, or be reap
pointed, except upon the recommendation of the
Academy Board. Students of the Naval Academy,
when examined for admission thereto, Mall be oe
tween the ages of 14 and 18 years.
The Danish Blockade.
Oftisial information has been received at the Stale
Department of the blockads of the porta of Contrail,
Swinemlinde, Nolgast, Osterstsaltte, Stralsund, and
Barth, in the Baltio, the blockade having been or
dered by the Daniah Government, which coMMMICed
March 15.
The United States Supreme Court.
Crtanvas FoSSATT, appellant, vs. The United
States, The opinion of the court was delivered by
31r. Justice Mason' to-day, establishing the south•
ern and eastern boundaries of FOSBaTT'S grant as
including the mine. The southern boundary is the.
Great Sierra, which defeats the pretensionS of the
United States. The eastern boundary is the straight
line by the eastern boundary of the low hill, thus
throwing the mine Berreyeaa ou Fo:SATT'e ranch.
The court orders a decree continuing the survey of
December, 1860, and filed January following.
There WAN A larger attendance than usual this
morning to hear the above decision in the quick
silver case, and even before the reading Of the
opinion was completed, parties rushed to the tele.
graph office to advise their distant friends. The
excitement today was equaled only by the whisky
and gold bill questions on former occasions.
The Naval Committee.
Nearly all of the House Naval Committee, with
Vice President lismaw and one or two members of
the Ways and Means Committee, numbering in all
twenty•five, including ladies, will start next Thurs
day for St. Louis and Cairo, to examine sites for a
Western navy yard at there two polnts and thence
will so to examine generally the leading Western
interests now applicants for Congressional bounty—
the Michigan and Illinois Canal, the improvement
of the navigation of the Dliztianippi.
Gen. Dix's Election Order.
The Senate having recently calkd ou the Secre
tary of War for the order of Major General Dt to
Provost Marshal DODGE, relative to the alsrytedad
election, the Secretary responds that no such clocti
meat is known to the officers of his department, or
is tope found in its archives.
The Sanitary Co7mmission Abroad
The United States minister at Ronie, General
ico, writes that the Americans in Rome have
made liberal contributions to the Metropolitan Fair
for the Sanitary Commission, about to be held in
New York, and that the Pope and Cardinal /INTO.
triu.,nr have joined in the contributions.
The Maryland Election.
A number of the Union memento of Congress are
speaking in Maryland in favor of emancipation,
taking an active part in .the Constitutional Conven
tion election, which is to take place on Wednesday
next. Mr. RASSON, of lowa, and Mr. BourwaLL,
of DignaChaiette, left for Frederick this morning.
_ _
Return of General Grant.
General GRANT has just arrived here from Fort
ress Monroe, and will leave for the front at three
o'clock this afternoon.
The Ten-Forty Loan.
The Secretary of the Treasury has determined to
issue to parties preferring them, ten. forty bonds.
bearing interest from date of subscription, thus
ayoiding the necessity of paying accrued interest
from March lat, as required under former instruc
tions. This arrangement extends to all the agen
cies for the sale of this loan.
The Monticello Estate.
From a letter of Attorney General BATES, and
legal and other papers accompanying it, which were
communicated to the Senate to•day, relative to the
bequest of Commander lrry of the homestead Of
Jgrintneorr to the United State', It appears that the
property includes Monticello, $200,000 in real estate
in New York, and $lOO,OOO in stooks. It is be
queathed in trust for an agricultural school, for the
support and education or the children of warrant
officers of the navy. The c sae having been taken to
the New York Court of Appeals, Attorney General
BATES suspends any recommendation at present,
but is disposed to look with little favor on the a..
sumption of swell fruits for merely charitable ob
,ic cis.
Wrecks ou 'Long Beach.
[Correspondence of The Press.]
TIICIMICTON, N. J., April 4, 1.664.
The past week has been very bard on the shipping
on this coast. On Wednesday night last the brigs
George, of New Haven, and Hunter, of Prince Ed
ward's Island, both loaded with sugar and molar-
OE., from West Indies to New York, came ashore on
Long Beach, near the Great
Swamp. A part Of the
cargo of the George has been landed on the beach,
and more of it, perhaps, will be saved. The Hunter
and cargo will be a total loss.
Op Friday night the following vessels came on in
the same vicinity, viz : Ship Sultana, Capt. Arch],
bed.), of Dublin, from Newport, England, 'WNW
Yoik, with a cargo of coal; brig Hannah, Captain
Wm. B. Grant, of New York, with a eitcus compa
ny, comprising sixteen horses and thirty-live per.
sons, with their equipments and neceuary appends
ges ; brig Lizzie Bell, Captain S. Pierson, of St.
Ctrorge, Maine, from iffalacxas, Cubs, for New
York, with a cargo of sugar and molasses.
The wreckers have succeeded in landing all of the
crews and passengers of all of the above vessels (in.
eiudiug the horses).
The eetsele, I think, will all prove total loaaca, am
the norm in Min boldics on. Some of the carnet
may be saved. Mr. Palmer, deputy collector of this
port, visited the wreck yesterday,
The Pirate Alabama at Cape of Good Hope
—Sicßheas of Her Crew.
New Yotirt, April 4 —The pirate Alabama Wita At
Cape of Good Hope on the 19th of February, with
thirty of her crew sick with the yellow fever.
Death of Judge Banks.
Iterainneo, Pa., Amll 4 —The Ron. John flank',
formerly a member of Congress, and more recently
President Judge of Barks county, died here yester.
day at 4 o'clock.
Death of a Press Agent.
New Yons, April 4.—Devid K. Seaman, for mp'
Sears a reporter of the Ammoniated Press, at Albany,
died this morning, et Brooklyn, N. Y.
Union Victory in Pennsylvania.
I.lr.wrivanom (Pa.), April 4.—.1t the charter elec
tion today the Union majority is seveotptive, alter
a warm contest.
The New Ten-Forty Loan.
P.xw Aptil 4.—The subscriptions to the
new 10-40 loin to.day, Amounted to $2.8.6,000.
Vic CONSULATR op PORTUGAL,
IOPPIOB, 201 SOUTH. FaOsT STRUET.
The undersigned feels constrained, by a sense of
duty, to make a further appeal to the sympathies of
our benevolent Citizens, In aid of the uefortunate
people of the Cape de Verde Islands.
By a vessel just arrived, it appear' that their con
dition is becoming daily more frightful. Fabling
and desolation reign throughout the land ; and, wi
lco speedy assistance should arrive, thousan ds of
those poor wretches will be swept away.
Donations most thankfully received either by the
undersigned or by ED W. S. SH.YRES,
Vice Consul of Portugal.
J. PgmlnraTON HUTCHINSON 304 Walnut street.
Ir. Wm. War.ee, 218 S . Delaware
S. MORRIS WALR & Co., 128 S. Delaware avenue.
Joint Deziarrx & Co, 128 Walnut street.
PATTI/HBO - a Or. BooLTorr, 120 Walnut street.
FIBLD et. HMEHISLE, 142 S. Front street.
F. FIOUBRA, 130 Walnut Street.
Tab EAUL Or Aninroustr.—By the European
news we leant the death or George Hamilton G3r
-0011, Ear/ of Aberdeen. This nobleman Mee born in
1784. and was created an English peer in 1814, h eying,
In 1804, graduated at St. John's College, Cambridge.
He early travelled In Greece, and joined a club,
every member of which must have visited the same
Oiaaeie ground. He silo contributed some articles to
the Editantrgh Review. and had the aatierastlon or
pain of Boeing himself attacked by Byron in the
"English Bards and Sootob Reviewers,"
In 1811 Lord Aberdeen made his maiden speech
in Parliament, and in 1813 he was sent as secret
envoy to the court of Vienna, to use his influence in
detaching that Power from her aliimme with Napo -
IrOD. Later, be was active in the diplomacy going
on in the European courts for the restoration of the
Bourbons to the throne of Naples. In 1828, after a
lriofneg,
Lordinteri A m b o e
rf
d comparative h r t e h t ir e e i : s e t
u t
tu t r e o n m t
s o i t i t t l y cl o a r l
the Luke of Wellington, was appointed Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs, and on the scansion of
George IV was replaced by Earl Grey. In 1811,
when Sir Robert Peel came into power, Aberdeen
was again made Premier. When the troubles with
Russia broke out in 18534, Lord Aberdeen hesitated
so much in deciding on a war, and even when he.
gan, furthered it with such lukewarniness, that pub
lie opinion was turned entirely against him, and he
waa forced to resign. Stripe then he has lived
Chiefly on his magnificent estates in Scotland.
There is very little in the *tweeter or career of
Lord Aberdeen to excite the special sympathy of
Americans. He was a consistent tory, a friend of
absolute governments, and in many respects the
type of an educated, intelligent aristocrat. As a
diolomatist be was shrewd and successful, but not
so absolutely great as to leave a name as such, or
be remembered as other than as auseful worker tmd
faithful servant to his Government. In literature
he is only known as the author of a work on Gre.
clan aichitecture, and as a contributor to the Min ,
burgh.
LORD ASRBIIRTON.--The foreign new, also in.
feline us of the death of WIMAM Bingham (Lord
Ashburton), the son of the distinguished Lord Ash.
bpitor,'who made, with Daniel Webster,ithe North
western Boundary treaty. The late Lord Ashbur•
ton was born in Philadeaphta, in 1799 . , hit mother
hark g been an American lady, the daughter of
William Bingham, a noted merchant of the last
century, and a tinned States Senator from Penn.
ey/vania. At an early age the late nobleman return
ed with hie father and mother to England, Where he
has since remained, taking an active though not
prominent part in polities. He was strongly liberal
in hie tendencies, and interested himself much In the
movements for the improvement of the lower
classes in England. On hie father', aide he was re.
lated to some of the most wealthy titled families of
England, and on his mother's to several American
families molding in rennaylvania.
LIBUT. J. 12. WILLUTT.—In a general order dated
at Headonirtme of the Nashville Dlstriet, March
30th, Major General Hossein has appointed .Lieut.
Jar. R. Willett iospeetor of all the fortitleatlone of
Nashville, in seuordarkee with instruatione from
Ueri. Sherman. The merited appointment of this
able engineer will be highly gratifying to his nu
merous friends in Philadelphia. Limit, Willett was
formerly adjutant Under General (Arlin in the Cam
pais/3s of Missouri and Tennessee, and has been in
active service throughout the war. He bore a gal
lant part in many of the Weetern battles, and is Un
doubtedly one of the best engineers in the servile.
THE ELECTIONS IN HANSI&
TRIUMPH OF THE RADICAL UNION
PARTY.
COPPERHEAD OUTRAGES IN LEAVENWORTH.
ST. LOUIS, April 4.—lncomplete returns indicate
the election of Joseph S. Thomas, the radical Saadi.
date for Mayor, by 2,500 majority. The new Council
Will have from 4 tO 6 radical majority.
At the election in Leavenworth, Joseph L, Ma
Dowell and his entire ticket are elected by 600 to
800 majority. At nOOll ittayor Anthony issued a
proclamation closing the polls, and calling on the
citizens to aid Min in preserving the peace, which
was disregarded, and the voting continued. Rioting
war indulaed in to a considerable extent, and several
persons, including Mayor Anthony, were beaten and
diiven from the polls.
The Democrat's Leavenworth special says: At the
election to day the polls were seized by are ob in the
interest of Mope veil, the Caney and Copperhead
candidate, ar,d Mayor Anthony and many of his
friends were knocked down and brutally beaten.
The city marshal was assaulted, and dangerously
wounded. Armed men look possession of the
polls early in the day, and defied the city autho"
rifles.
The military were Called for by the kinyor,to pre
serve order, but their assistance was refused. ae
neral Davis, the district commander, issued stria.
gent orders that the soldiers at the tort should not
visit the city, unless entitled to vote, but the order
was openly violated, General Curtis being absent.
Great excitement Exists, and the best citizens pro
nounce the election a farce and fraud. The Copper
heads are jubilant.
Other deapatchea say that Anthony !tied to quiet
a mob, and domed come of the polling places, but way
compelled to open them again.
THE CONNECTICUT ELECTION
.A_ G7.IEA_P iurixioN
HARTFORD . , April 4.—The irldiatitiOne at this time
(6 P. M.) ate that Buckingham has been elected by
ten thousand majority. The gains are very large
over last year.
NPAV HAVEN, April 4.—The following eight towns
in this county give Union majorities : Derby, East
Raven, Guilford, Meriden, North Branford, North
Haven, Orange, and Woodbridge. The following
give Democratic majorities : Branford, Ortestbire,
Naugatuck, Oxford, Seymour, Wallingford, and
Waterbury. All of the former give increased
anti all of the letter give reduced majoritiea.
- .
New Maven sleets two Union Representatives.
A Union senator from the Fourth district is elected.
DANEIIRS, April 4.—The following is the vote in
the Third district :
Union maj. Dem. mai
2a7
Dubin y
Beth .
New Fairfield"
Bieck fie1d.........
Newtown ............ 130
Ficgefiald .......... 93
Wettport Union gain of 2.5.
eenw icb 81 Union Kale of 6.
NEW HAvarr, April 4.—Morris Tyler (Tinton) is
lected Mayor by fifty majority, in a vote of 4,813.
The whole city ticket has been carried by the Union
men.
Nita , HAVIITT, to P. M.—The returns from this
county are complete, meant the town of Southburg,
Buckingham has 102 majority; a gain of 956 over
the vote of last year.
HARTSIOED, Conn., April 4 —Hartford county,
with the exception of three Towne. gives Hocking•
ham 7,323 And Seymour 6 3 501, A gain of nearly / 3 005
over left year.
Almost every town in the State yet heard from
gives Buckingham an increased majority over last
year.
BUCKINGHAM'S MAJORITY 7,000.
HARTFORD, Conn., April 4 .—TollareMoutity corn
plete gives. Buckingham 2,144, and Seymour 1,586
votes—a gain over last year of 172.
The Senate will probably !dead Union 18, and
Denaoerat a. The,Legialature will be about three
euartere Union,
Buckingham's majority will be not far from 1,000.
BAILTFOR.I3, Amil 5, 1 30 A, M.—The indications
now `sub that Buckingham will have a majority of
8,600 in the State.
McW' HAVRE; April 6, 1.30 A. N.—New Hiron
county chews a gain for Buckingham, over hM vote
or last sear, of over 900; Hartford county nearly
800; and Windham county about 200.
ronß.usT AT JACKSON. TENN.
ORIERSON'S CAVALRY ON HIS TRACK
Cairo and Memphis.
akin°, April 4.—Tbe steamer Constitution, from
New Orleans on the 26th, arrived here, toddy, with
a cargo of auger and molseses for Cincinnati and
St. Louis. She-also brought up 426 mules and 70
wagons belonging to the army.
The - fat Indian Artlnert (Veteran) Regiment,
1,600 strong, arrived here to-day en route for New
Orleatei A portion of the ad Winne/mote also ar•
rived, en route for Little Rock,
CAIRO, April 4.—The Memphis papers of the 24
Inst. contain no news.
The Bulletin contain■ no news of importance.
The market is firm but quiet. Thera is considera
ble inquiry, but little is offering. Rates have an
upward tendency. The market dozed on the Ist
with an upward tendency. All qualities have ad•
vanced from to 1 per cent., above the previous
quotation,. The eurplus, during the past twenty_
four hours, Was .300 bales from White rivet and
bales from the country. The shipments North since
the last report were 200 bales of middling , to strict
at 59@600 ; 61@620 for good) and 65c for fair.
Mesa PIUS, April 2.—Forrest, at the last accounts,
was at Jackson, Tennessee. Re was apparently
arranging to travel South.
Ottahner is reported to head $ considerable force
at Grand Junction and Bolivar.
Grlercon's cavalry are all out, and will give For
rest come trouble.
Iu
A HOS near Somerville, Tennessee, Colonel
Hart, of the 6th Tennessee Cavalry, reports a loss
of three officers and seventy-five men killed, wound•
ed, and mining.
Advice' from Vicksburg to the 26th report all
quiet at that point.
There is no news from the Red River expedition.
Lee and Witt Adams are reported to be near
Carlton, Missitstopi, with their commands.
Memorial of the Board of Trade.
We present a very important memorial to Con
gress from our Board of Trade, asking the con.
'Unction of a pier at Lewes, Delaware, for the be
milt of shipping to and from this port. A survey
made by order of the War Department shows that
this is easily practicable, and every shipper well
understands its necessity. For want of such a
pier, vessels have sought shelter at the Breakwater
in distress, and hive been unable, to communicate
with the shore to obtain needed supplies, in the ab
sence of which a total loss of vessels and cargoes
has frequently ensued
To the Honoroble the Senate and Houle of Representa
tives of the United Steles, in Congress anemteed
The memorial of the Philadelphia Board of Trade
That it a suitable pie r should be constructed at
in the State of Delaware, national vessels
would thereby be enabled to hold telegraphic com
munication with Washington, Philadelphia, New
Teat, and other points. In the absence of such a
pier, the attempt to land upon the beach, oath a
view to inch communication, is unsafe, and some
times impracticable
That the Breakwater, during easterly storms, fur
l:demo the only safe and easily accessible harbor
from Newport to Hampton Roa ds;
That 25 000 vessels annually find shelter at the
Breakwater ; and
That vessels needing supplies, such as provisions,
anchors, chains, &c., arc., will be able to obtain.
them at Lewis only by means of a suitable pier.
ads.
Quotememorialitts, therefore. MAY that pier a"'
'lncite to the needs abet , " fleseribed may Da eon
ruilied at Lewes.
THE PRESS. - PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1864:
UNION AND LIBERTY.
OBAND OVATION TO °NORIA THONIION
& Noble Vindication of American and English
Abolitionists,
Speeches also by Horace ilinney, dr., and
Hon. Vi r tu 1). Kelley.
Last evening the people of Philadelphia did honor
in no insignificant manner to the noble man George
Thompson, of Laster d, whose name has been no
long and so eminently connected with all acheines,
in his own an well as in thin country, having for
their object the alleviation of human misery and
the promulgation of universal emancipation. An
audience was assembled at the ileatierey of Music
Which, for numbers and respectability, has certainly
been equaled, but seldom surpassed, and the wel
come which hfi. Thompson received at the hands of
his American friends must certainly have been as
gratifying to himself as it was honorable to them.
On the platform were many of our most distin
guished citizens, whose presence added weight and
influence to the character of the demonstration.
With these and a large number of officers of the
colored regiments, every seat on the platform was
occupied.
Shoff's , before eight o'clock Mr, Horace Money,
Jr., stepped forward, and with the following re.
marks Introduced the distinguished orator of the
evening :
ADDRESS OF BOR'ACE ElfflaEY, JA.
Ladies and Gentlemen: We meet here tonight to
Welcome a distinguished eon or oar common mother.
courety ; a stranger. yet no stranger, WhOte tame
is associated with the history of the progress of
human freedom. The gentlemen who have invited
Son to meet him hoped to have given to this omis
sion the attractions of the presence of the Governor
of the Commonwealth ; but though hie heart is with
us here to-night, Governor Curtin fine/ it out of his
power to attend in person, and therefore, in place of
the form of a more Ceremonious reception, we give
our honored guest the substance of a homely, but
hearty, plain Pennsylvania greeting:
I wish that on *Ugh an ineossiOn we could give him
not me rel y e ~„ ~ r _vanian ,hut an Anterkan greet-
log, He willhave it hereafter, but the Woe is not
yet. I say that we should desire for him an Amer'.
can greeting, ~/cause those who have invi:Cd him '
while they are not wanting in due respeet for sta.
doctrine of State rights. as properly limited, pleas
their country—this Union of oars—above their
State, however near to the hearts of us all is dear
old Pennsylvania.
I hear sometimes among a few gentleman of. my
profession (a very kw, I hope), the strange doctrine
broached, that there is no slum person as a citiien
or the United States, that one is only a Matta of his
State, And that citizenship of the United States is a
mere theory. What would Washington have sail
to such a doctrine? Have you never noticed the
peculiarity which marks the close of that immortal
paper/ You have there the simple, untitled nams,
with no official appendago,lou have the date, Sep.
temtier 17th , 1'196, and what more Is there no
place of home given ? Not Philadelphia—although
there the address probably received its final forma
tion, and certainly was first printed and published
there. But it was not an official paper, it may be
said, but simply the paternal count/el of a good and
great citizen, already in anticipation retired to the
seclusion of private life. Does it, then, bear above
its date the hallowed name of Mount Vernon? No.
Is there nothing more? Yes, there are two words—
moat significant in their employment in that place.
Thus runs the close : "George Washington, Unfrrnin
STATES, September 17, 1798.' ,
We are content that the dying legacy of our great
father's love 'Mould not have been conic from a giant
in Pennsylvania, although, fram that hour to this
Pennsylvania, we trust, has never been false to his
counsels. We aregrateful that the address was not
dated from even the moat hallowed spot of Virginia,
became Virginia has shown herself unworthy of him.
We rejoice especially to remember that with his
dying hand he wrote himself as simply of the
'United States ; and we hold those words to be of
happiest augury ; for those whom Washington,
when he lett us, pronounced United, man shalt
never put asunder. What, then, is the Pennsylvania
greeting that we would give to our distinguished
guest to-night
Let me turn back the hand upon the dial plate of
time just eighty-four years, wanting a few months,
arid let us go with arm to a very modestroom, where
on the first day of September, 1780, the Legislature
of the State of Pennsylvania Sits to General Assem
bly. Tire war of the Revolution is still waging ; the
strife is maintained with vigor ; but the rays of hope
already light up the horizon, and the future is lull
of promise.
While vindicating our own rights, our lenslators
are not forgetful of the wrongs of others; and the
selleet which her just been debated is the abolition
of slavery in Pennsylvania. The act has just
paescd—passed in advance of any aimilar Action on
the part of any of the sister States.
The preamble it read
dig/ let me read it. We have
banished it from our sts, and it is only to be
found in the statute books themselves. Its author
ship has been matter of historical dispute, but there
is but one opinion as to its merit. Let me read it.
It will, I am sure, not weary our guest, and I think
will not be unwelcome to you .
CFACCED Malign 1, 1780 3
WI en We eOlateTs.plate one abhorrence of that condi
tion to which the urine and tyranny of Urea& Britain
were exerted to reduce us; when we look back on ttra
variety of dangers to which we have been exposed, and
how miraculously our wants in many Instances have
been supplied and oar deliverances wrought. maim even
Depe . and human fortitude have become unequal. to the
we are unavoidably led to a serious and gram
ful sense of the manifold blessings which we have
un
deservedly received from the hand of that Being from
Whom every good end perfect gift cometh. Impressed
With there ideas. we conceive that it is oar duty. and
we rein lee that it is in our power, to extend a por
tion of that freedom to others which bath been extend
ed to us, and relsame from that state of thraldom to
which we Ourselves were t, rennically doomed. and
from Which WO have now every prospect of being
delivered. It is not for as to inquire why, in the eras
tom of mankind, the inhabitants of the several parts of
the earth ware distinguished by difference in feature or
co mplexion. It is sufficient to know that all are the
Work or an Almighty hand We ttno, is the diatribation
of the human etecisa, that the most fertile es wall as the
most barren pails of the earth are inhabited by nun of
istroplexions d.ffe: tot from oar. and from each other.
whense vasonab 3'. an Welt as religbonsir,
later that Re who pieced them in their various idtus
thins bath extended 6110011 Y his care and protection to
all, for that It hecometh not rte to counteract tits mer
cies. We esteem it a peculiar blensino. granted .o ni
that we are enabled this day to add one more
step to nnivershl civilization by removing as much
as nos-lb:a the sorrows of those who have Its-ad in an
deserved bondsge, and from which. by the assumed
artiltotitY of the Kings of Great Britain, no effactaal,
lees: relief could he obtained. Weaneo by a lons
course of experiem e from those narrow prejacicon and
Partialities we had imbibed, we find our hearts en•
larged with 'kindness and benevolence towards tnea of
all cor.ditions and nations ; and we conceive ourselves
at this particular period extraordinarily cslied neon be
the blessings which ave have received. to man d'a.‘t the
sincerity of our nrofesnion, and to give a slthstantia/
proof of oar gratin ride_
11. And. Whereas. The condition of those persons
who Dave heretofore been denomtneted negro ty.d ma
laise slaves hash. en attended tvith circum.tances which
theyaly deprived them of the common blaming,' that
were by nature entitled to. but has cast them into
the .d....pent .1/notions. by an unnatural separation and
tale of bmband and wife from each Kher, and from their
children—an injury, the Greatness which Can Mill be
conceived try supposing that we wore in the same rin
harPi gene. In juntice.
having to parnons no unhap
pily circumstanced. and who no prospect tefore
th, m whereon they may rest tnelr sorrows and their
hopes, have no rearonanle induo-ment to render their
se,vice to tomety. watch they otherwise might aud,
also. in grateful commemoration of our own happy deli
verance from that state of unconditional anbati.sto n to
which we were domed by the tyranny of Britain.
111. Its it enaeted. and it is I,,reby enacted That at
per.ens, as well negroea and mulattoes as °there, who
shell be born within this State from and after the pass
ing of this act, shall no: be deemed and cnnsidered as
!.ervants for life, or elaVenl and that all servitude for
life. or slavery of cbildren, In conaequenca of the sla
very of th.ir mothers In case of ail ctutdren born wth
in this State, from an'd after the passing of this acc tsa
aforesaid, shall he and hereby is. atterly taken away,
extinguished. and forever abolished.
It is not to be supposed that this act secured the
Absolute obedience of every one to its enactments.
There were unquestionably then, as there are now,
persons who thought that the institution of slavery
stillhad " incalculable blessings " for somebody—and
who, therefore, endeavored to evade. But our
Legislature keptl its eye upon such men, and some
seven years afterwards, by the act of 29th March,
1718, which declared its purpose to be " the pre
venting of many evils and abuses arising from in
disposed persons availing themselves of cer
tain defects in the act for the gradual abolition of
slavery, passed March 1, 1180," passed a supple
mental act which contained, among other things,
the following provision :
Let of Idarch2.9tb, 17813. Sec, 3:
And if any person or parsons whatsoever shall sell
or dispose of any such slave or servant to any person
our of this State, or shall send or carry, or cause to be
sent or carried, any such slave or servant out of this
State. for any of the purposes aforesaid, whereby anon
elave or servant would lose these bettetits and privileges
which, by , the laws of this State, are secured to him or
her, and shall not have obta lied all such consent as by
this act is required, testified in the manner before men
tiened, every such person and persons. his and their eid
ers and abettor,, shall severally forfeit and pay. for
every such offence, the sum of seventy Jios 220:1,7148, to be
rem' voted in any smart of record. by action or debt, bal..
plaint, or infcrmation, at the clt of any parson who will
one for the runt.:. r•AO molter, u
thereof. when recovered,
for the use of the plaintiff, the oilier moiety for the nee of
the roor of the city. township, or place from which stick
slave or servant shall be taken and removed."
Seventy.tive pounds must have been at that time
no insignificant part of the value of a slave in Penn
sylvania at the date of the last enactment. Cotton,
which gave Inc poor slave his greater eammereial
value, did not begin to be cultivated in this country
to any consieerable extent, until lonic years after
the date of the last enactment. Thus, during the
last century we see that our Legislature imposed a
heavy penalty for selling a slave out of the State.
And, on the other hand, there was no motive for
such tale until, many years after, the demand for
cotton made the slave more valuable than at the
North. There was no motive for selling him ; and,
if sold, it was done in defiance of law.
Now,.when effercon DaMin penned his addr
knowing, as "that stern statesman" did, that "the
sympathies of the world were against the South"
(I use a phrase lately used in the address of a South•
ern orator, who urges his Southern friends to look
their situation lull in the face, and to borrow
courage from detpair),and writing, as Mr. Davis did,
always with an eye to England, whose instincts of
justice be strove to blind by ingenious sophistry, he
stated the ease of the South thus:
EXTRACT PROM TAE MESSAGE OF JEFFERSON DAVus TO
uotr. SOCTHERN CONORESA. LACED .11.0XTOWIART,
2.9 18td. Ap or.
• • When the several States delegated certain powers to
the 'United Slates Congress, a large portion of the labor
ing imputation were imported into the colonies by the
mother country. In twelve out of the diteen States .110.
trro slavery existed, and the right of property existing In
filiVe3 we printseted by law; this property was recos
nirtd in the Cone Radon. and Provision was made
against its lose by the serape of the slave The climate
and t oil of the Northern states soon proved unpropitious
to the continuance of slave labor, while the reverse being
the cat e et the South, made uarentricted free intercourse
between
nshue
t tw o
he ec ti
own unfr
r nd s y b y The s el li ng t
thern
Naves to the South, and prohibiting Memory between
their limits. The south were willing p_nrchasers of pro
perty suitable to their wants, and pars the price of the
aegratition. without harboring a suspicion that their
Cute! possession was to be disturbe authority hwho were
not only in want of -constitutional but pre
vented by good faith at VENDORI3 from disquieting a title
emanating from themselves."
Wow, the utter falsehood of these statements is
shown, first, by an appeal to the Legislature of
Pennsylvania, just read, and, secondly, by the date
of the introduction of the cultivation of cotton,
which any one can find given in Taylor's History of
Cotton.
It would not have been worth while to have dwelt
upon these mendacious words of Jefferson Davis, but
that they may perhaps have occasioned the mistake
upon this subject into which one of the best friends
of the Union and of human rights has fallen. I refer
to Par. Cairns, author of the admirable sketch of the
character, career, and probable designs of the alive
power, which has justly earned for him the gratitude
and admiration or the citizens of the United States.
The Northern Estee had in the markets of the South
a resdY means of ridding themaelves. at a trilling toes,
of a class which had become an encumbrance."
The effect. therefore, of the Northern measures of
abolition. was. for the most wart. simply to transfer
Northern mtervem to Southern markets. In this Way, by
an easy process Without Incurring any social danger.
and at sligh t
, pecuniary loss, the Northern States got rid
of slavery.'
The South le Wholly Without that easy means of
sltvliino off slavtry, which its own markets provided
for the Penh. "
. .
Such was the legislation of Pennsylvania eighty
years ago. How was her course regarded by the
great statesmen of the day—men of the slave States
themselves? Was the abolition wit of Pennsylvania
unnoticed by Washington? In the intetVal between
the passage of this net and of its supplement. on
September 9, 1786, Washington wrote to John Fen
ton Mercer as follows :
• • it is among my first wishes to see some plan adopted
by which slave, yln this connrs 2119.7 be COO hßri by
law." And again, • • / never Mean. unless; sore- particu
lar clrrumitarces should compel me to do IL to pOstlesil
r Doti er slave by
his
chats." And no the 10:11 of May,
1786. the lather of his country thus wrote to the illuetri
oct, Lafayette:
'The benevolence of your heart is so COnsiticnous
r POD all occasions. that I never wonder at any fresh
Proof. Cr it-, but your late purchase of an estate in the
colony of imure. with a view of emaneipating the
laves on it is a ; enerons and noble proof of your lin ma.
nity. Would to God o /Ike .pirwr s iyhe de, ossitsalf in
the m inds of eh, people of this country. But I despair
rf tI. "—{Spade' .61.10 end Writings of Wasbinstoo. vol.
Such were the words o' Washington, the A.bo.
'Monist, addressed to I,,staystle, the Emancipation
ist—What Jefferson thought and WU. Alexander H.
Stephens, Vice President or the Smithy:A Voafodo-
racy, in language of which it is emelt to say
whether its a ffrontery or Irreverence predominates,
declares that slavery is the natural and moral con
dition of the negro. Perhaps aware that Writhing
ton and Jefiersen discarded the monstrous theory,
he calmly declares "that the atone which Wal
rejected by the first builders is become the chief
atone of the corner in the new edifice."
Yes, that awful corner-stone was not onlyrejeeted
by the builders of our national fabrics, but our
Washington would not have allowed its tontine-
slice even as a miserable blemish upon its surface,
had he been able to remove it. You have heard his
ler guage of despair in his letter to Lafayette; yet
his love of justice survived hit despair, for in his
Farewell Andreae, given to the world ten years
later than bin letter to Lafayette, he uses language
which comprehends measures not leas wise or just
than a general emancipation.
"it will * PO W6tlh, of a fres, enlightened, and, et no
distant period, a peat nation, to give to ,unkind the
magnanimous and too . novel exempt-, of a people al wave
gelded by an exalted matiseand benevolence. Who can
d , ubt that. in the couree of time and things, the traits
Minch a plan Would trebly repay any tea pinery ailvan
vantage which might be loot by a steady adherence to
Y Oen it be that Providence has not connected the
psrmatent felicity of a nation with its vie no? The ex
perieksit. at tease la recommended by every sentiment
which ennobles human nature. Alas! is it rendered
impossible by its vices?"
It is as Pennsylvania Abolitionists , who have
never swerved from the principles of their fore
fathers, in eteo, that we greet to night the distinguish.
ad Atneitiooiat of England. In his letter of reply to
the gentlemen who have invited him here to-night,
Mr. Thompson says frankly that he tannins
among the signatures to our letter of invitation the
names of but few with whom he is peraonailly ac
quainted.
We were Pennsylvania Abolitionists, but true to
the compact of the Conatitution, and were willing
to titbit the extirpation of slavery io the Southern
State' to that Providence which was working out
the gi eat problems of free labor and elan labor side
by side.
The volution of the Providential problem wee
plain as the sunlight. The world saw numbers,
wealth, education, good morale, progress in arcs, and
in every breech of intelligent and skilful industry,
inching the wonderful growth of the free North.
and the South van , it, too, and Melted
its teeth in madness, and vowed to disregard a fair,
open, constitutional election, in which it had itself
taken part. The world knows the result. The first
caution shot which was fired against Fort Sumpter
shattered the only ramparts behind which slavery
had so long cowered from the scorn and iadignation
of the world.
The Penney Ivania Abolitionist now finds himself
On the same platform with the Abolitionist of Bag
teed, of Massachusetts, of Missouri, of Louisiana,
of Arkansas—we have only to read the speeches or
Winter Davis and Thomas Swann, delivered within
the last few days, to add—of Maryland.
As an Englishman, who, true to his own love of
;nine, has helped to breast theater= of stronge pre-
Judiet latch A.,. some high quarters
against us in our present struggle, wo owe Mr.
Thompton the sincerest gratitude, and here in this
house, where we lately listened with applause to
Henry Ward Beecher's account of bis own moat
kindly reception in England, we have double plea
sure in extending the welcome.
When Mr. Thompson ebail make hie next visit to
the United States, should he contemplate a return,
we trust that be will find this great nation united as
one man, and that man, like the restored demoniac
in the Gospel, sitting, with the demons of slavery
expelled, clothed, and in his right mind, at the feet
of the world's Great Master,
SPEECH OF ffiß. THOMPSON.
When the applause with which Mr. Thompson
had been received had somewhat subsided, he pro
ceeded to speak as follows :
Sir, I thank you, and the other signers of that in
vitation in consequence of which I occupy this posi
tion tonight, for the honor done me by inviting me
to this city, and I thank you, ladles and gentlemen,
for the very cordial and hearty reception with which
you have greeted me. Down to the period of the
breaking out of the present unhappy war between
the States North and South upon this continent, the
unexampled progress and oronerity of this comatry
was, in the estimation of 'all persons in Europe,
excepting the prejudiced and uncandid, one of the
wonders of modern civilization. As the great
Republic, this nation stood apart from all
the other Governments in Christendom. The
vastness of your territory, the freedom of your
laws, your most admirable system of education,
your general intelligence, the spirit of improvement
which animated the people, all vootributed to arrest
the world', attention, arid to 13011101 and the world's
respect. Guaranteeing, as it did, to every inan free.
dom Of conscience and speech, to every press the ut
most altitude of criticism and expression, to every
individual a perfect application of property, the
Constitution of the United States enlisted the ad.
miristion of every friend of liberty throughout tee
world. Whatever was their loyalty and attactiment
to the forms and government under which they
lived, these friends rejoiced in the maces' of the
great experiment of republican democratic govern.
meat on the Chores of North America. One worn
of poignant regret there Was, that under such a go.
vernment such an institution aill that of slavery
altered have had a tolerated existence. But even
that monstrous evil did not blind us of Eu
rope to the many excellences of a poilti.
cm system that for a period of upwards of no
years had otherwise worked so well, and had
wrought out such merveliously happy results. We
could els tinguiah between that wenn was the growth
and development of your glorious and free instate.
none or the natural ullispring upon which your inde
pendence and Government were founded, and that
which was the fruit of the hateful system which
you permitted to remain amongst you after you had
aszerted and triumphantly maintained your right to
govern youmelvea. For thirty years preceding this foul
rebellion, which now fills America with tne throes
of another, but, thank God, a better revolution than
that of '76—[,applause]—tor thirty years preceding
that act of assassination committed against the
Union and the Constitution of the country—the
henna of human freedom in other lanes marked to
their sorrow and dismay the rapid strides of the
slave power en this continent, and its su.
preme and universal dominative.. During these
years it seemed as though the mighty power
posserred by the sovereign white race could be
wielded only for the extension of slavery and the
perpetuation of the abasement of the colored race.
At length, however, the spirit of resistance was
sconi!ested by the people of the North to the en
efOachmente and arbitrary power of the einvehold
ing oligarchy of Inc South. That spirit was nobly
exhibited in the great partisan politioai struggle of
1866. It was again developed iu 1160, when the
efforts of those opposed to slavery were met with
meccas in the election of jilt, Abraham Li note.
[Uproar ions applause, and thiee cheers for Lincoln.]
The world is cognizant of toe events to which that
election hat led. All are aware that certain Wave
State e, long before any State openly revolted against
the Feder al Government, revered the bonds which
boned them to their sister Stales. They foriued a
Confederacy which had alavery for its corner -atone,
and repudiated toe Genet/intim' under which they
had lived, under which they had been fostered, reeler
which they had been petted and spoiled, [applause.]
Heybdiating this Constitution, they *dinged One
which gave to the stronger race the right of en
slaving the weaker race, and declared the normal
condition of the black man to he that of subordina
tion and subjection to the white man. By this event
your Union has been plunged into a cruel war, and
on this, my third visit to your shores, I find you in
the Ihinet of a second great revolutionary struggle—
a struggle at Mat for the restoration of political
Union, now a revolution for an impartial and uni
versal liberty, [Applause.] In this terrible and
sublime conflict between freedom end slavery—be
tween free institutions and oligarchical despotie
3 find the Keystone State of the Union occupying a
position worthy of her name—worthy of her past
history, worthy of the Mutinous men that
are to he found on the scroll of her citizens,
and worthy of the great cause of which Ame
rica has once again declared herself a champion—
the cause at human equality and universal hoerty.
Tbrice happy am I, therefore, under these circa:
n , andand after a lapse of th irty re
rty years, to be per.
ruitted in this magnificent building, and before this
still more magnificent euelence, to raise my feeble
and humble voice in advocacy of the can: e whin
that brought me to your mil, and which now
appeers so near its linal, glorious consummation.
On that my words, or any wards whin I have the
power to utter this night, might strengthen and
intensify, inflame and coluirmethe resolution you
have already formed, to purge your beloved country
from the last remaining stain brought upon it by
that accursed system wnien has been the cause of
all your past politioal disorders, as it is the cause of
your present calamities and the sanguinary war
still raging amongst you! Standing where Ido to
night, I cannot overlook the fact that it was in this
city, and not far from where we are now assembled,
that the doctrine was first promulgated, anti pro-
mulgated as the. basis of a new and Democratic
Government, "All men are created equate ,
and the political application of that great truth de
clared or old by an apostle of Christianity that
" God hath made of one blood all the families of
man to dwell on the face of the earth." eapplaule.]
I cannot forget that even before that cardinal prig
ciple of the immortal Declaration of independence
Was published to the world by the people of the
Thirteen Colonies, there were in this State those
who gave a special application to that great prim
Virile, and now this whole nation IS about to make,
the application of it to the circumstances of an ore
premed race on this continent. Herein the Academy
of us th ic, in the centre of the ci of ,
and M
in e presence of this Vast ty
auditory, I, onPhiladelphia the
4th of April, 1864, openly and learieasty declare
that I em the friend and advocate of the doctrine
of immediate, entire, and universal emancipation.
[Great applawe.] Here I call aloud and . say,
"Loose the bond of wickedness, undo the heavy
burdens, and lot the oppressed go free," But,
my friends, it was not always so. Oh : blessed
be the God and father of the human family that I
have lived to see this day, a day when not only in
your own beloved city of Philadelphia, but in How
ton, and in New York, and in Portland, in all of
which places I have been heard by attentive. kind,
aed approving &menace but lo Washington, within
the walls of your Capitol, aye, even in the hall of
your representative's, I may stand, I the once hated
and persecuted missionary of an unpopular and de
spised truth, I may stand even where your br ed aarem
representatives congregate, and say aloud,
Br every yoke, and let the oppressed go
free, for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken lett
[GteatllePlatme.] The beloved friends with whom
I kept Sweet centime' in the hours of darkness, doubt,
and peril, thirty years ago, saw you not the aloud
arising then I Little as a human nand, now
it spreads over al/ the land, and for that
let us give joy and thanks forevermore; the
weary_ night re well nigh passed, the slumbers of
the North are over, and the giant Maude crest at
last. [Cheers.] In this glad hour, when our Souls
are drawn out in thankfulness to God, whose hand
bath done it all—in this hour of hope and promise,
let me recall to your recollection the names and
labors of some of, your own citizens, and some of
their achievements in the cause Of human freedom
of your own honored State : On the letholApoll,l77s,
eighty nine years ago, within ten days, might have
been seen gathered together in a small room in an
obscure tavern, called the Sun Tavern, on Second
street, a few earnest and devoted friends of the
human race, friends of the human race without die
tineliOn Of color, who did not estimate humanity by
the texture or the resin or the ler gth of the heel, Or
the color of the skin—Who looked within, and re.
membered Him who said: "Render unto Caessr
the things that are Creases, and to God the
things that are God's"—who looked upon that ani
mated being, whom the planter calls 4 chattel per
sons!, as one having the impress of the Deity upon
Mtn, who deemed it their duty to render unto tend
the things which are God's. In that obscure tavern
might, on the 14th of April, MS, have been seen a
Jew such persons assembled for the purpose of form
ing an association under the modest name of " The
society of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage."
_ _
Oh, Troth ! Oh. Freedom ! how are ye still born
In the rude stable, in the chamber must !
What ugh which
unbar those of of
beret?
Thatr ugh which the blame dors o f the new day herd?
That little room in the Sun Tavern, held the Abo-
Unmade of Philadelphia. On the 14th of April,
1664, it would require many such buildings
as this to contain the Abolitionists that have
since grown up. [Great applause ] That lit.
tie band, we are told, was principally ocint
posed of the people called Quakers. All honor to
the Quaker,. [applause.] Africa and her children
owe a mighty debt to the followers of George Fox
and William Penn. They were the people called
gushers, who gave Thomas Clarkson, a stranger
in London, both sympathy and aid in the outset of
his career for the abolition of the slave trails. They
were the people called Quakers, as I can well tes
tify, who tio.operated with Wilberforoe and Buck
stone and Macauley, for the abolition of slavery in
the British colonies. They were the people called
Quakers who were among the first religious bodies
Of UhristendoM to make nomslavery4lo/diag a eon•
anti- of membership in their communion. The
slavery annals of this - deuntry are rich with in.
stances of self•devotion on the part of the Quaker..
Amongst those who have been the forerunners. of
emancipation on this continent, the names of Wool
man and Benezet stand conspicuous [Applause.] "
.
The association In 81)0000 Street, of which An
thony lienezet Was a member, was reorganized and
placed upon a broader basis, and became in 1752
" The Society for the Abolition of Slavery and the
Relict of Free Negroes unlawfully held In bondage,
and for the improvement of the condition of the
African NM." /inning the illustrious men who
became rilicers of that society were two Whine
names are totted among the signers of the Declara
tion of indeprndence—Benjamin Frankltri and Ben.
jamin litab. It was by thhisoclety .that a petition
was sent to Congress, whose words have frequently
been quoted by the frierds of emancipation since.
ru that petition to Congress they say that ' , Liberty
heir g originally the portion and still the birthright
ra ail men, your memorialists eonoeivo themselves
bound to use all justifiable measures to lessen the
bonds of slavery, and to promote the enjoyment of
the blessings ci freedom to all men in this land...
The petition urged votgream that it would extend its
sympathy to the num who wets Mottos tom:tails
subjection, and devise mean, to remove the stain of
ion Was signed by the Mira
race. This petition Was
of the Penn
the
[frau' Benjsmin Franklin, as p
andslaVedreymfrom
d e prompt °bara a j
u ke a r ti o i she the
ed
Americaner o the people,op
pressed
of your most
re Judea of the
t O he a n l a oo m k eg in o g ra in o t al o o therecords of
of the
e l lt al s ele a m i n id op te' cit r ci l t i l fl i t i ß e .d : v. Richard
oAn Andrews,
, provostsve r
met,
o U h n a i n o t e
amongst its hone
and the "Age of Reason ;" and
t r
University
Thomas f Paine, Pennsylvania; autho T o b f ° " n t a m s ei S mon ease':
racyy
the Marquis de Lafayette, Om [Applause
members,he Thomaseminent
Let us now turn from individuals and society to
the correspondent of
prise, the
of London ;
notice the action of your State on the question of
slavery. The public mind having been duly pre
pared by the labors of the friends of emanatmatioa,
on the of November. 1779—ten years before the
Coestitution of the United States came into opera•
lion—a
providing blllro
was 'n r t r i o ne
dn
abolitioneedltothoeflvemoeLv,
which General A.e e h e i .
by
bill was passed into law on the 15th of February,
1780. it WAS not a bill for immediate abolition; but
that great doctrine WAS not proclaimed, as the prin•
Mete of governmental elution, until nearly half a
century ry a a i n te d iev a a la rd n tan T d h e e ve g n oo t a na he a nproduced apple.
h
this State acted according to the li g g r h e t a t t h they p il o ° e f
messed at the time. That they were animated by a
spirit of justice and humanity, and under a solemn
sense or the duty they owed both to God and man,
will be seen by a reference to the preamble of the
act which they passed, which preamble WAN in the
following remarkable Word/
"We conceive it to be our duty, and rejoiee that
it is in our power, to extend a portion of the free
dom to ()there which bee been extended to us. • *
It is not for us to inquire why, in the creation of
mankind, the inhabitants of the earth were distin
guished by a difference of features and complexion,
It is auflitient to know that all are - the work of an
Almighty hand •
" We find in the dietribution of the human ,Denies,
that the meet fertile, as well as the most barren
parts of the earth, are inhabited by men of different
complexions ; from whence we may reasonably in.
fer, the Re who placed them in their various rata-
Mame bath extended equally His care and protea-
Hei le rn ie
n tO c a r ll o , o.w
and th b er
t it awm i
be . ,rom et trs a
h notu:urine;
blessing un t ra
His
granted to us,
that we a
re t
his d
ay enabled
to add
ono to universal civilization by re
moving the sorrows of those who have lived i:
undtservedbo:geandirewhichbythea
turned authority of the Ding of Great Britain, no
could
long collo* of experience from those narrow lime
dieei,,and partialities we had imbibed, We find our
beast' enlarged with kindness towards men of all
conditions and natures ; and we conceive ourselves,
at this particular period, extraordinarily called
upon, by the blessings Which we have received, to
manifest the sincerity of our professions, and give a
--esetantiat riroef of our gratitude."
sesee
Yolk tweet e‘ - 4 . 1 - A irmen has alitielne`end me in
a Of tee action of your own
what I intebded ee sae
and having
my thanks
great State on l e subject of,sl t a o tre h t i y m s
referred to lum let ice _ ewer
:, and let me tell him
s honored parent
for his presence here to-nra,,
that neither his name nor that Of . 1,1
is unknown to me, nor is the name of at; •.?! the no
ble cons of Pennsylvania who have tilled / uetre
her escutcheon. [Applause ] It is iratiefactory
to see so worthy a son of so noble a sire pre
siding over that meeting which afforded to me so
warm a welcome.
The public mind having been duly prepared by
the labors of that society to which I have referred,
the friends of emancipation, on the Bth of Novelle
her. 1119, the tenth year before the Constitution of
the alerted States came into operation, brought for
ward a bill into your General Assembly tor the
abolition of slavery in Pennsylvania. The pream
ble of that bill has already been read here by your
chairman.
such was the language of the people of Penneyi-
Mita, as expressed in legislative action, seventy
four years ago—more than forty years before the
Parliament of Great Britain proceeded to emanci
pate the WAVES of the British dependencies,
The effect of this beneficent act, on the part of
this State, allowed the truth of the Script:ire deals
esteem " Thy righteousness shall go before thee."
When, many years afterwards, the British teetora
an, Belaham, was compiling the memoirs of George
the Third, and reviewing the events of the reign of
that monarch, he said
"It aeons a grateful relief from the sensations
Which oppress the mind in listening to the tale of
human folly and wretchedness, to revert to an act of
the molt exalted philanthropy, pasted about this
petted by the Legislature of Pennsylvania."
The author then proceeds to give to his readers
an abridgment of your abolition act.
It was this act that enabled one of your Represen
tatives in Congress, in February, 1820, during a de
bate on the itlieeouti question, to :speak in terms of
high and deserved eulogy in reference to the pate-
Lion occupied by Pennsylvania on the aualeet of
slavery.
1 hat gentleman, Mr. Sergeaut, addressing he
House, in reply to Mr. Clay, represented the State
of Pennsylvania, in language which, I trust and be.
neve, aectuatey describes her position and purpose
AS the prevent time. Bo said :
"Penneyivanin has not been sextette fir what are
commonly deemed honors and reedit:Lc:lona, war
eager to display her weight and importance in the
affairs of the nation. She bass nevertheleas felt, and
does still feel, her responsibility to the Union, and
emcee a just senile of her duty has always been
faithful to its interests, under every vicissitude, and
in cysts , exigeneyel
" But Pennsylvania feels also a high responsibili
ty to a great moral principle, which she has long
ago adopted, with the most impressive solemnity,
for the rule of her own conduct, and which she
stands bound to assert and maintain, wherever her
influence and power can be applied without injury
to thejust rights of her sister Shama , ' •
" It is this principle, and this alone, which now
govern. her conduct. She beids it too snored to
culler it to be debased by association with any party
or factious views, and she will pursue it with the
singleness of heart, and with the firm but uriottereir
leg temper, which belong to a contelentioue dis•
charge of duty.;"
Pte principle alluded to ty Mr. Sargent was that
of the inalienable right of every human being, of
every complexion, to the posseseion of that liberty
which, in the Declarationlof Independence, your lie
volutionitry fathers claimed for thems:evea.
Not alone in the State of Pennsylvauis do I wit
ness a revival of the anti slavery feeling of other
date. The spirit of freedom is universal. This,
certainly, is - a strange spectacle for One who has
twice before visited your country, a scene Co very
different from what has been witnessed in previous
years History tells us of an firemen; army, that,
having penetrated into the ennmys coun - try and
blame its chief city. entered the central square of
that city, and saw elevated upon a lofty enema a
statue of a , Ivintty 3 a superstition p , ovs11(1 am oat
the people of that country that whenever any mo
lestation elicited be offered to that image, and still
more, if it ever should be deseroyed by insolent
hands, then the indignation of the gods would be
excited, and calamities would overtake the nation
A soldier belonging to that invading army, perhaps
the Fremont of that day [applause], scaled that
coluMet and reached that image, and with the battle
into he had used no well in the field, he smote
the goddess again, and rgain, and again, until
the fragments fell around the base of the co.
linen. The people stood aghast. They looked up,
expecting the heavens would open, and the thunder
bolts of vengeance descend upon thilin. They ex
pected the earth would rock and swallow tkiem up,
but they looked up and saw that the heavens re
mained as beautiful and serene as ever. Tney loultel
around, and all was as stable and verdant as ever.
They learned to despise the prophecy, and to laugh
at their own superstitions, and to believe in a better
end higher Divinity. From that day forward that
people arose to be great in infieeoee, in hotter, and
in civilization. I have seen in the central place of
th s great nation a c eumes, and a statue thereon. I
have leaf ned that there was a superstition universe'
in this country that he who offered violence to the
image of slavery would bring the glorious iestitutione
of the country to ruin. There have been those cou
rageous enough to assail that divinity, to strike her
again end again, and now, behold, she totters, a-id
totters to her fall. The freeman's yoke is falling
from the neck of your bondsmen, and America shall
now he free.
But n little while ago Washington Was the zest of
a slave trade, and was filled with slave anetione, and
slave prisons, and slave pens now you ma tea
+ verse the District of Columbia, and you shalt not
find through its whole length and breadth a single
Cleve auction, or slave raison, or slave pen ; and God
be thanks(' for that. Wicked hands, a few years ago,
threw down the only remaining barrier to the exten.
mon of slavery ; repealed the Missouri Compromise ;
obtained the Dred Scott decision from the lips of
slaveholding judges whom they themselves had ap.
pointed, and declared that slavery was constitutional
and universal, protected and sanctified everywhere
withln the jurisdiction of the United States of Ame
rica. Now, there is upon your statute book an art
according to which slavery is forever prohibited in
all those vast Northwestern territories; they are
saved, consecrated, and bequeathed te -liberty,. to
free men, andlto free labor. In Washington, a few
years ago, the most accomplished representative from
Liberia Was an outcast. Now, that Republic may send
to your capital city her darkest citizen at a represent.
alive, anti albeit he is allied by his color to the
African, he stands in the presence of the President,
on a footing of absolute equality with the palest
and the proudest of the representatives of the °bleat
monarchies in Europe.
When I was last in America the free States were
a hunting ground, in which two footed MOuritere
sought their human prey. There was not a city
of refuge for the fugitive slave in America;
no household in which he could be entertained, for
it was a misdemeanor punishable at law for a hos.
pliable cit o izen t teer a cup of cold water or a
ight's shelter to the fugitive. Aye, even front the
very halls of the altar lie might be dragged, and wax
dragged, in defiance of the divine law which said
"Thou shalt not return to his master the servant
that : has esmsped unto thee." The fugitiveslave
law, which atilt pollutes your statute book, is one
against which, as with one lance, you ought
to protest and have intently effaced. Yet,
of the millions who people these States of
America, I think there is not one who would
attempt, at thie hour, to execute that execra
ble law. [Applause ] hen I was lest in America
slavery was secured. Its tro seemed to b eta
blished. It appeared to be h
imm ne
ovable. The e
slave
power was dominant and universal. It was the
ruling power of your country, conducting your home
and foreign policy, appointing your ambassadore,
consuls, and judges, coming nearer and nearer
to your religious and ecclesiastical assemblies,
tyrannizing over your Bible Society, your
Missionary Society, and your Tract Society.
A little later the slaveholding aristocracy it no
longer acknowledged ; the spirit of 'IS is revived;
the people of America are themselves again, and
yet a little while and America shall place her heel
upon the neck of slavery, and say : "Babylon the
great has-fallen." [Applause.]
/n this great and good wook, some of us in Eng- ,
land endeavored to help you. It was said When I
came here that my pockets were lined with Brinell
gold ; that I was the friend of the despotsof Europe ; that I came to disturb your
Union, and to overthrow your institutions; and no
profession, of friendship I might have made, could
have materially altered that opinion. But I waited
for the time When, by something better than words,
I might testify how sincerely I loved this country
and its people. The hour came. It was the
hour of your trial and your agony; when you were
wounded in the house of your friends when
your Sisters, whom you had spoiled by kindness,
raised their heel against you ;then, when you wete
in conflict among yourselver, and when all that was
precious to you was endangered ; . when your nre ,
tional life was in jeopardy ; when you had onemlea
not only at home, but abroad, and even in the free
isles of Britain—that was the hour,l chose to demon
strate to you that when I spoke to you the truth, it
WA' not because I loved you less, but because I
hated slavery more. [Applause.] Would to God
I could defend you against the misrepresentation
and calumnies of your enemies. am nothere to
make any apology for such acts on the part of my
countrymen as have justly pained, you, PerkePs
deeply offended you. Forgive them for the sake of
those who have sought to aid you ;:but do .not hate
Beglaxid because in that country there have been
those who seek alike to clog the wheels • of-the car
of Liberty here and to deadlock them at home.
They are of the same party with Which. we have
been rrantendipg for thirty years. They opposed us
when we were laboring for Catholic emancipation ;
for representative reform for municipal reform ;
for the abolition of colonial slavery, and the taxes.
on bread.
For 3 years I have been going throngli the island,
of Great Britain, with a view to correcting_the
apprehensions of my countrymen on the American
efta q ,
,oin u rrwde e e
u n it t dlrl i adi C a smi n t
or " in f o
a a o
I h r y ctah m ne. a
working
or e
re a t n eui svgpe.
of
l a ,
i l . e os
top:
of
the
eidneentylanb
be
fore
ffrtomßoatthoen.seocnremtayrywoay
tthoepthilmaandeelippleimoal
Society of Manchester, from which. I learned , that
two ,hundred and fifty meetings have, within the
last six months, been held in Manctiestee, all of
which have been largely attended, and in only slx
of whiab has there been a vote adverse to, Walston
and emancipation. UfaeldaUle:ll
Tide society has, withle the same peelod,
ted no less than 449,t00 volumes, pamphlets and
tracts. I eay,Mr. President, ladies, and gentlemen,
that in the efforts towards the emancipation of the
West India, slaver, there wasr iot greeter zeal or
Entbushum manifested than is now ,shown by
the great mass of the middle and, workings elan
es of eaFeat Britain, in th,* cause of Union
&eel emancipetion in t his countr. (11.radratseeli
We have yet mach %a do ;we shall do y it. Trite yew
shouter, and it is dated the 2Sah of Februw.y east,
/Teaks of Lb, efforts Scoeasionieta are now reeking
ie 'England to nuttier the Cause of the r`AltlaiOrl ,
At assure" the most unserupuloua have, auei will be
adopted to this end, namely, t.the rem:Ammon by
Ecilland and France of the independesaa a 73. f the C se.
:federate States.. The utmost* visitant:el and
F - Aergy must be wereised
.sey our society
efeletabertwe these eleoets., Prompt SZISASISIVI
may enable Our felefe7 to fr ustrate this attempt to
further the uslavehol era' rebellinio
for We earl it
by ro other name. [Applause.] Of the Ministers
of England, and Wales, and of Scotland, there are
recorded the Darnel of five thousand ministers
of the religion of Jesus, protesting against
Maven', and encouraging the North in their
struggle. True, you may refer One to tle lan
guage of Brougham, Lindsay, Roebuck, ilsrlyle,
Spencer, end Gregory; butjure have better men than
those. We can refer you to a John Bright [great
applause], Cobden, Drill, Newman, G. Smith,
Calrnes, Nichols, Hughes', Ludlow, Rawlins . N.
Hall, Noel, Guthrie, Alexander Forster, Taylor,
Stananeld, and a boat of others; our best metropoli
tan and provincial newspapers, and the best of our
ministers of religion are with you. Be eneou
raged, then, and let you motto be,'Onward. The
reessege you have fro °gifted is this: That if
3ou will make short wr anNorough work of
you motto
institution of slavery, toe lerated amongst
you; if y oil will plough it p amide eave not a tiere
in the ground, then will you Mit only have the
blessing of England andftle worldtat large, but you
will give an impetus to the - calumet liberty wherever
that cause is acknowledged on the face of the earth.
Consign this, then, to remorseless fire ; watch till
the latest spark expires ; then strewn. atoms to the
wird, and leave no trace behind.
Ladies and genelemen, I will conclude in a few
wore', cot in my own language, but in that of the
venerable father ef the gentleman who presides over
Ibis RUE mbly 1 .. I devoutly pray God to consummate
the designs of those who are now nobly leagued to
gether for the purpose ofdelirering their country from
the curse of a slavehold trig conspiracy, to the eiVertorti
SUPPreerien Of rebellion and treason, and of trea•
sonable practices and confederacies, to the perpe
tuity of the Union, the maintenance of the Consti
tution, and the restoration of peace and unity to the
entire nation of people and States.',
Mr. Thompson emeluded amid prolonged ap•
plause. Brief addressee were then made by .Tudge
Kelley, Benjamin P. Brewster, Mr. Daubsr, and
Daniel Dougherty. We especially regret that the
great length of our report obliges us to exclude the
eloquent remarks of .Tudge Kelley.
i♦ir. Thompson retired amid great applause. The
Rev. T. Walker Jackson then offered the fello;vlag
resolutions: -
welcoming
That this meeting has goi. niennare in
welcoming to the pih,reß of America and to the eft*/ of
Philadelphia, Liberty's veteran champion. Groner
TA( treentr. of England
R....coked, That the lifelong and can,letrint devotion
of this ditlinsniehed friend of freedom, as seen in his
efforts for the"overthrow of British et every in the West
India Islands. his breve oopositton to Bri•i•l, atinAes of
poser in the Indies of the Batt, and in his earnest tabortt
for the deliverance of this country franl the flOl3
fume of slavery. demend, and ShOtilff gcce.: ve. froa i; l l
tokens of respset 1;1,a h ow: ,
Reso/ned, That the later/abort Dills . Th om D , o , h 0 to
I- PD A ' l ,Prr.4 by -It; ;it connection with Sohn Brig
John ttisrt Mill and other., In defence of
Amelleall nationality and
fo rtisdemocr fresdon—coll not
only for tokens of rat-pent. bur r espressiens of sin-
cores , graticnclA team every loyal man and true-hearted
American.
Rescolvcd. That wo have ligtened with the livolteA
plf mime to the ddrees with whicL Arr. Thompson
thid evenii.g favored ILA; thht wa accent gladly his
eeenratcer that the great heart of the working cleeaea of
FrOaad. in one time to be among the ruling Wa5S93,
:^Bts in 11.1:01,Z with thie country is her Prsent krag-
KIP, ann world falu 110P0 that , •re long. through
the power of irrita..' 9veremillu Du:indica
err-r. oil e'er Efli in t - hat entrain , will be bronchi to ex,
knowlmi go that the caws of that American Union in this
great couta.cti. the canes of justice, freelom. and well
ft landed government.
Each resolution as read occasioned great applause
and thry were unaniroolnly adopted.
LEINER. EBOM Mt. TORN W. FO3NEY.
Tte fallowing letter WAS seat to the chairman 0
the committee:
WAaniactlos April 24 P6l
Dea:rt Ftn. If I am In Phimdefpn la next Mond.o7 eve
ning i Will ondoubtedly join in your greeting of G •orgs
The to , peon hat as Monday Is aims is a working day in
Comets. I will prob.bly be constrained in etay at my
Post In the Ter.re when I holostted to what wag than
tie Democratic party, and (except on the slavery ones
n) wes, in fact, the ooav prove,ive party in the
nited States, I repeatedly denounoi d George Thompson
as an emissary of the foreiga enemies of toy c Atatry.
And this f did with pen and tongue, and under the honest
helirf that what i maid :was the Gospel troth. Bet, if f
could 'Teak at your 'meeting on Menday ovoning I
well d tang eseacion (neatly to HUY that I had unlearned
content - dot George Thoinn.on, and of all the sinc4re men
of him ecortol or clam. When slavery brae the covenant
with the old Democratic party (wh oh , ad so frequently
Yieleed to it that :t la-t the lientotr.ic organization be
came altnart the stave o f v ), by biting at, arra
nge-Imq the Olovarnnv-ntavhieh had forgiven its argoas
sitms4-Pa. and (tittered Its arrogance; ai,tl won, ad ye nc•
fog moon thin ItntiaTal, a'arory re:dvert do-droy tho
life of its own benefactor. I at ones took the pith trocidea
LY runt Democrats as Jed'or , ou iii One ge . terfitten. and
Legftett in anwhar. Them, oft telt Dem,nratic ape,tiey of
intetVg , t r--edom coul not rec. - dm:le to thir con-
Fr IL u
Zll f llll. g like harmonyd
between DOuloc ,e ncl" And
eh - eely end although thAir te,orbinga hferall.eglected in
lie loternnee of the ennui/on , p ttrer and profit reen.ting
from the modern work - runs of the tip-in:Wien Itself. yet IL
wan al *aye apparent teat tire time milt: :tome when the
ninwitect incongruity between tw, theories naturally
aid enternellynntagenjniln Ta.• 11141 he oleniOnetTatea by
en orer, explotion Between ths parted when Leggett
woe oetraciced ['rout the Domocratic party bee MRS he
rains, el to obey the slave edtets of Tartlet:tray Ball, and
when Silns Wright, Mnrtict Cat, Buret:, and Marcum
Minton wale di-car-red lizcanan they mar., , LoteetnlneA to
adhere In the Jelf. , moolari exaTun"-.. and tuts Onan an-an . t
of tho slave holders at ettarleAtou eat Baltimore
noon the educated anti Plavery Pediment in the
Democratic party, the effort': of the men hare
named served to keep alive the IT, me of ll'A.tred. to
reVressian In Many condo hero as well as in the
old world. Pur:ng that apace I was the editor for
nearly ten year,, of the leading Denies-ratio jmirnal
Penney ivenia, and for three On fens of the Nattoes,l De
mocrbtic.irornal in the oily of Washington; and at no
time did I hesitste to delimit:C2 and to oppose as well
ill, Thrippaon himself as the citizens of my own country
who agreed with him in regard to the peculiar loetlte.•
thin. Ent, as i have Raid, when slavery resolved to de
stroy the Demo , retie party, list:muse a portion Of its
!enders, and a great majority its meeena, had dei
terwined Co prevent the in iroduclionaf the (crag of hn
manity into one of the non , Statee of the haroh l ic, it
swore thee my lot ahould henceforth he ca ll with the
ultra anii•slavery party. And I trust tin event will
ever induce me to forget this solemn and consolention,
determination. It is right that frill credit should he award
ed to the pioneers who long ago, in toe rohlat of h'golry
and parry hatreit,arserted and maintained theism - in , ides
e Mistosee teeny and but I have always c)uteuded
that what they endured was nothicg in comparison with
the abuse, and the princription, and the tyia or , eamr
tired against the mocrats who, at the beginning or
James Bush anan'e AdminikintiOn. Taw tti , treasou aid
iseYered themeelveP, in COnnegnencr, from hill, and at•
tempted to rescue the Democratic organization trout the
dreadful fete which sohs.quently helell it and the corm
try• it Was at ti st moment that the dionnionista of the
St Jut h felt that they had recurctl a newer and a stronger
bold noon' the Federal Government., and that thee
might wield it for their own Pu - pnes, t., the d.,aritc
von of that Government; and, I h prefer'', they insisted
upon the ostracism or evory indepsndent mind loth,: free
Suites, wino .wood not consent to the exactions of their
instrument in the Execntive chair, or whnopenly do
corniced them as the willing %nth era of their country's
ruin. Thar, while William Lloyd Garr,,,,,, Worple I
. •111.1er McKim. and. or - comae, (Imre
Thom neon, 71113 , felicitate thinnselveg upon the raitiet
lion of their own prophecy, namely, twit ala.very con
ten.P!ated an attack upon the libartise of the free pa,,ple
of this caMtirent. let na not forget that intrepid and,
thank Cod, steadily and dally•increasing elan , of men.
once of the Democratic and now of the Cohn party or
mer - ca, acha, from the time when the slays owner,
sought to destroy this Republic added their great moral
ano unonerisel et , ensth to the Government natty. and
ale now hiding to fight Ito battles in th e field as
well r.. at the - balint.b , x. Bet I think Mr. Thozo
60n hinlSeir 011011 d be as candid in 'withdraw
ing his own distrust of the American people when
he visited this country neor/Y a generation ago. as
the independent Democrat. of the United titat, are in
recoiling their judgment of Pint. He sees to nation of
armed and resolute freemen voltintettly rushing Ii the
field to defend their inctitations against au oligarchy.
:Torre ~ nala any that has ever existed attire tb , IP.glu.
nitre or the world ; - wore., tenet se it Is aimaiPott the best
-of G4. , verna enter worse.. becanee it is Ansi, erlng Isni al
ee and pardon by inewilt and ingratitude; and worms,
he:tttl , e while taking itioneasdo of intim:eat livas,
it is fereing other thensendS, who ought to he near
and dear even to itself. open a fate mote dreadful
Gain any that hse been d , sortlisti in the hititory of
nonitind. What this nmericut people need. how
ever. tater unity atcon . g thinvolve,, after vigor and
determination in atoll. cOnveils after a stern and
rfrolute punishment of ere:) , one who, while ea
tn2 the protection of the Government refaces to
nus
tain i:, is a fair and genarolis audience fen those wt o
adYornie their Prinaints in the British 'domains. Our
people, have had much to Ptlltre'rrolll the Tirana' 00-
Veit - 401 , 1,C , Mee this rebellion broke oat. They have
simdcd tonsil, and they 132.,V13 suffered much, as web in
m
Prio
pla SR in pride. Their own divisions and di et
mune., have impelled 'them to acrptiesce in demand,
- ohich. in the boar of their unity and strength, would
have been rejected with La igbty scorn; and well and
keenly do they rfloaMbef these tblogi }levee, when
tiny hear the voice of friends like George Thompson,
Richard Cobden, an Jon , they at th
have tom:aware still d
left h in att ßright empire-whicleelh h th as bean
too long filled with their enemies; and in the glad wet I
come they wive to such champions they torget equally I
their recent humiliations and their former prejadines
V. ry truly your., J. W. FORNEY,
J. MILLER. Mahar, Zia/.
lIXI7IIIth CONGRESS=-lot SESSION.
WASHINGTON. April 9 1864.
SENATE.
Mr. TRUMBULL offered the following:
Revolved, Tha Bera t eecretary of the interior
wereirect ß e to Worm the what number of came Pend
ing in etch Circuit. and Blatt ict Court of the 'United Btatee
on the let of Jaunary. 1864, and the number of Ca43OBOOlX-
Men Ced in each of said Coons. daring the year ending
on that dar—whith was agreed to.
:Mr ANT BORT offeted the following:
ResolTed, That the Committee on Foreign Relations
be it:inn:teed to inquire into the expediency of so amend
ing the neutrality law as to make it r•ciprocel to each
Government. extending entire neutrality to those which
retain the name, and to other,, the exact measare of nen-
WhiCh Ihey extma to us—which was agreed to.
Mr. 'WRIGHT Dreeented a petition from eighty , ftra ,
merchants of Philadelphia, praying that a tax may be
imposed upon the circulation of state banks. which wag
referred.
-
Mr WILSON. from the Military Committee. reported
adversely on the House bill to regulate the dismissal of
tilleers in the military and naval service.
tar sitthisotv reported back from the Military Com
mittee the bill for the_better organization of the Q aarter
master's Department, with amendments.
Mr. hUldNint reported a bill to eat ablieh a baresn of
ernanclpetl..n which wee ordered to be printed.
The Vice President laid before the Senate a communi
cation front the Secretary of. Wards reply to a resolution
of the Senate, denying that any order had been given by
Oeneral Dix to the Provost Marshal of Baltimore. in
November. 1861, prior to the November. election.
Spoliation Claims. •
Mr. SUMNER reported abi Na tio ns adjustment and
eatisfaction of claims for sna committed by the
French prior to July 31st. 1871 This bill provides satis
faction to the amount of SS OM COO for claims and dam
ages through detentions. seizures. end captures made by
the French. It does not cover claims embraced in the
Cot 'tendon of 1803, nor those of the treaty of 1819 be
tween the United States and Sosin nor under the treats
of 1831 with France. The bill authorizes the entwine
ment of commissioners for throe years at 813.000. and
secretary ae $2, 000: the expenses of the oorandeeionars
not to exceed fifty thousand dollars
Entlistunimates.
Mr. WILSON called up the House bill to provide for
the voluntary emnerraemt of any persons residents of
certain State*. Into the regiments of other States.
Mr. GRIMES said he desired to put himself on the re.
cord *mated this bill, before the evils which are to doer
from it, should it pass, shall be realized. Under this
bill States which may not have been successful in INling
their emotes mould to into ntatee in rebellion and•enli.t
colored men, who had been slaves, to make up their de
ficiency. To this he had decided objections, and it
wculd render confusion worse confounded, and odemo
, rallze our army. Agents will he rushing into those
States, and their recruiting will not only be for the pre
sent, but for future drafts, and exorbitant prices will be
paid for these inert.
lie made the ebleetion. Wafture there wad no doubt
the effort would be made here eventually to have the
We to mime the burden of all these bountlea.
We have aeknowledged the belligerent rights, of the
rebe/s. eine if any of these eager agent., recruiling_with
in the enemy% lines, are caught and hung, is the• United
States tole held responsible? He went on to show how
the rich, btates would procure these recruits by. means of
their weal.h. while the ne and poorer States would
have DO. /inch oppottentty. If the trooperof Ma-sachet
%ea% Whose terms expire. do not re - enlist, ah.a, may go
on and fill their places with these colored men. through
her agents and moue,, and thus one State will - se repro
sentedlai the field solely by colored leen, bought up to
our disadvantage in the rebel States, hile we of lowa
and Aube'. States are fighting with the best. blood our
Statesman furnish.
M.r. &GERMAN said the Senate had failed tth draw the
distinction between. the negro and+ White tivtoPs. If
wbits men are enlisted they enlist into such Northern
r. Ain/auto as they may Individually select, There were
eoma , bjections to the bill even If confined alone to
white troops, It would allow agents to SO down South
to enlist black men as United States troolw, and credit
them to the deficieccy of quotas in s ti e States. He
thonght this would be thiamine to the IlAbl ii) service.
There Tres nO reepon in the world that northern Stets.
should be allowed to send agents to rebellions districts
to recruit negroes. Every State should- gL np its own
sputa
wouIdIO3.IIIBOLL thought that the adoption of this bill
have a very bad effect upon the organization of
the army. lie thought it was a great mistake, origin
ally. in giving the large bounties we bad to procure eel
there. We should have secured the soldlers, And Made
ample provision to provide for their families,. He
thought this eyetere bad gone very far to create the ne
cessity for another draft, besides anameating a great na
tional, State, and city debt, it listing the currency, sta l l
encitium-extravelance The hal would place not Only.,
the States In competition with, one an. thee. but with Mae'
General Government and. by the States paying lane
bt untlee, all recruiting by the United States itself wee.,nd
stop though; the lat would. have a bad effitie in
every may
Wilziarf said tha.bill cams from the House hay
i,g reee i T o . th e sineort of two to one in that body,
among thaaa. denerat Garfield. who declared it the beet
bill introduced since the we-r. Ile pointed out ilae dote
sully in the seaboard SAWS efiltingtheir qttotee ;seven
t; art.% with the rounger Weetern States, 'whose in
habit;nts were mostly Melee. He thought the (tricorn
mentsdbi not know how to enlist men. If res authorlgte
the States' to raise men they could raise One bundle*
thousand men snicker than the Government can Wee
ny e thousand. Me did net believe aiLT ett4ralllolll9.9lo-aa
PLA MI thereby. We are Supporting the fasitalitee of Mort
bands of men in the rebel States, audjh. , a; St ate nowt can
enlist these Wen' more rapidly than She Government.
When enlisted by the Government, they ate pat to now
rt mimerte„ which bad been tumble se far to /Make them
r fan, net. the Stwee would take arid scatter there into
tbill heir regiments. renderine them ea once eireonee. If the
ehould pass, not mane months wilt elapse before
thoneende of men will be net into the stervieL
The b.ll went over with theexptratiost,4 the morning.
Lott-.
'I he iota resolution to amend the Consaitntion so as
to abolish slavery came up in order, and Mrs 110W1
ptriroceedede genr to addreee the &sestet:o temp o , i; in favor , the
. • He eeil b. 4 bad welted for 4htil day. oral wee
glad to see It come. ft had been n gaol wy ,
but It is here. Re bad read history rather
be bad been under thelsopresaton that
bane been born by any difigence on tiro " 3 1
Castors under the era in which GoriAt
glad to have been born to this day 1-•,,
poee to ettrOMOU thirty-six mil!torta of
h
ourdomto four Militc•aa riot frozn L )
forefathers restated, but from a worao
they ever conceived of. He wag arabt- , ,,- • • '4'l',
name to this scheme of freedoln,
skozdt this proPOettlm to the nmorraa
though he might be disposed. wilier, he
vote against it himself, he thonnh;.
pie should be taker on the toIi.J.NA
to glance at the effects of slaver in ti,., i•
One-feurth of the whole properlv ;•,,
%vat, Yu nesraos, and Yet their profit ~.
av :-
those la he took this property NO rtront M.;
real owner. Without ref& ring t" Eh
of this act. the evetem of alavery
one-fourth of the annual profit, of t , ,
thenßht this wrong. es a victim Li vi
would think it wrong trandit e :
WrOng. Thronith ears Cala 'laver/ h,,
up to Him pho vied old tree centruri, •..
Of Men, to stow them over in hollin
heavenly inanition.
Mr. Rowe then proceethd. at groat i•
parison of the great States of the north 7r: :,h
Eonth, attributing the great provost of I. i,••
fact that eavety never e.ttiqzd th. 7,3 H. , •
,
to the various pretexts rower V i thtbil the rantt
this entity strife. Be denounced tile
paralleled in inlonity by nay revolatlon :2 .
Or the cc arid conchtei.,n. be .Hid it t- •
Riede apparent to tit to that the present
exercise of ens- rbitrery new..r, tad :it tom tr. t .
vent the wit , of the pe , .x, a at the ballot-bw:
Mr. FAD I EBCRT of Delaware, caned atteLlt— •
fact. as published in the paPars. that lien
tended to have voters end cazi.lidat•Pltirtii-tio.L.,)
.h
their loyalty, to the for :coming I
Idr. Fan sbury referred to o. recent pitt9ec q
in 'which he pnt vermin qatations t, air ]KID )
former trii.mber the 31. a "
err LANK. of Indiana. [l:fond-I
and said that no traitor would or tillitnt 1, 4,4
vote in the forthcwninit or harct other oi-c9 ,, a
Mr. Sarli.Sl3 IsT said nia Pict wa.y.h .1
officer was c pilled with no lawful atthont's t.:,
With electinte,
Mx. .14.1141:NuN bald that Oezeral Wenn, b„ f
Pr , pert written a Isltar to 13 , ireri..,- iitrAdF - •
wittier tilt, low authne, ,,, the indit - itii
recrei•eit
ci,eld he tamed ti,si necottat
verner Branford tent a yt , ri - ,peotfie aa • v... •.
time tin 0. , .a0 al, staling teat ti:a ~4 • ..
. 1 " d would to,:oer“ tee ptaul and
I,tonv. Itt, tienVre I ‘N r ,ll::l^ , •••
nee m i litary come ti,e I)4ils. unlearn in is
narV emeitteney
-
e, to pqß,ro •?1 , 1 al l n
Ban t , r ,, Ceed to tint.q,rlttyo 111! , ,
vi,o, nl,l neNs V. •dem:twit...l bat
voted ihr benatott,tiasrced, t-
111)r : S . ' OF i!..77..1:Ni F.i 2V T..1.71V
t.,tl
qMP )36114. C 08.51.4.11. 4 3lr
rego; uttrqt Ching en ~L• c.
Pntitile -. - rith the nt.n'i:
informail,n to :I,
thin tune kSivonunntv.',:,,n
n har he:4n
I , e.en hni charfAi f. r tLe dr
sr S:o-re ron,nr.t : Whx Cry,.
ti.tr 143 - were white o r 0
etch. - -
9lnti li'. STE : YENS, or : Peng,
•
eu the (able. carried—To:, a• -- •
motion- of Mr d.h.VOLo of 1 , 1 , •
lit' We.. I.IIS coled upon, if not totionitattil,
pnhlic futon - els, to In ruisli a At ItolOPllt.
Into. mint:try .amide oloco ••••-„a '
a.r, d the riiiota•• • teach Plato under etch c •
,T))1: proceeded tr , tto r• •"
Int:on of kl r it RoWri, of Wiscenain_ dirre:lh
melary or War to colomnnicate the c
rearmsota air,ady et,iAte , f, when orsonin,d
win)] er of Private,: the n ton ingt l "
or If
NMI. I trlt.•nikl:.t4. and‘l l. ll ,, T rxi 011,, .of to s
tior in - what lowish, Itheoa•co, .
gsgrd. and hew men , loilea ono ''6
-
nation( between the dilforott hat' eT
- Mr STEVENZ.r.oId ha trot cpc.0.06:2 to
for the earthy. and tlit , re are Z:l , )Vci t. ,
tinr an 11,, table. Ps:reed to-Seer (4, In.,
The bonne next took n 0 2,10.
gnettiog the Presidi lit. cr
of WAT TO flirt))Ali the It:inane( cat , ..1. 1 .4
airf.tod and I cid ter pollii , ll ,131,31.31, en}
',t offence nue - loot the
1b.., of either ef ti.- 'll.lil 11 - 1, 13 o
or rot. vieted bY llaT ci '1 or cr6rui:24./COoll,t
'with the charges or acrusco,, , ,
rt
o,r .'
prieonment ; and the bull,:••-, of ;.•••:•••,f.r.,
whether any p*rsous have nh , r.c.l from tbe'
States, etc
On motion of Mr. 1101-if,TDS, ai ':at{- flet3;,*"o
molt - Won FAN tftblsd—yo,, , , (2,
Mounvelly in 11 el i:/).
Mr. TiAVIS, of M arylebd,
rate. Pewit, repm-o.e :be holo(shon(shi t ., ,
till C, 7rs (hmfirepy, tha Dan 4rrv.
'Clotted Slates ale •-tiaoce . te
firms cf th e world Lrtier ;
nn
, 11.0e1R111e, ([lie
riri ate In the Pepnlilie or :oox,o411,1.1oTo!,,,,
It Lb t,. &elate that II doe* 3.t ore nol noti,
the Poi:,-(1 :• - ,110 or:loft go A
Melia ,211 010 11:110 of say keno Wien!)
rocri , , , L Coder Om oust - doer ef
Mr IfILOOICS, of Paw York, nth! if It
Pepe , fit:mine 11 on I do, not or.i ,f
011 v to barer in the flown, what
in hot I b ig with if
Irdr D.A VI v. of klat•yland. to plied thtt
Inert pap, r or not ;pan _
'0 eft rt•PF. Will e.01,t .•• .
repre(ent the or inion of the in .-,;
The resolution eclararlog eo: -
should he totiol.inx et, very non •,:•.
it IR DOE it Rallied flay one Yeieb''N
move the Inevioun
Mr. COX ()(Ohio, SA ,n 1,1 • ,
2 0 1.0410',11Ce in tie ('Omit-
tt , e. hot he or. :. , I-6: ••-•
viionld have Leen more 0 rhntic.
I:
boon pas. ed before It u A^. lor , r : "•• • -1
2, ere br ' , ism rollosn. lure hy.itrtn=
ready for that? More paper ;en - with:at (...• c: • '
siatenyytnehiphle failed In to, lilt)', Per hv e•
for neglecting 6ff.3.71C.,1 fittnehtli SO/1107711:', - , (01,
mjrniDjmratto. Llncb.Allls.--em.rlAinly 1/1
met,ape treaty rbould have linen pte.nsd.
pressed, when too late, hod beaten 7
sennitcr,•, aided by (anthem Soe-nsiocCnt.
heye ;Oyer! UP, not ar.nesati 01 , bat :1 llrTe ,:, 1:
Mexico, aiclina onr commerce. and In time. " oi,rt
scheme,: which Pr,tnce began lTtlo ut ..at c••• • .
Maxlco. The old Democratic policy of' de >t'::^ •
dictation War- the p 0110' emprogicy. VC;
',eared this ream (ohm.- Le only Wklicol, !•
sO framed :411E1 An backed !O precool Iv 0. . ,6 1
the A rch- dope of Mipoleort. 21at;itni,Ifln, frto t. 3:
meat on thin continent.
Mr. DAVIS, or Maryland. was very e, , rry
SOP from Ohio had thenxiit it bee ry :7
argoinsto , 011iit , Ft !be resolution.
Mr (.10:li replied Le did not ratan sn
It Be wenid rote for it, lint he wanted the
be more emphatic.
Mr. DAVIS, of Maryland, sate he did rot 'en o
the Is tool •Ate could be more emphatic for tie •
d, claret! that fl 1110DAreiliAl. 74f ,, 0r/lITIOnt 10(11 n
cognised bye-. Jim did not knew wlrolhot 1- -
eonOL x F-t' thi , + tint, to ,ty what, so, will do,
We mead.,( rein-. by fL , rcs, ore , oie,
R Itti pi; Coy In Mexico, What'
a. n Tr ' , lt'd To hit Dem.icratic miler in res, •
or, this continent tin hogged to rethi n 3) hiti, t• • •
Frabco and bat:laud tonre than once
,j0i13, - .IV
if, the affairs t f the Plinth AlPorican remit , ' •
etch 9.1>f,..1. , ht eel/ink it by the °overt/react : •
Stales he did no. ye:nem:ler OW, - seeing it, an
-,
OlcrA 1,43110 areies , I,lolo'l CM M , Mir pax '
crtt p: iicy Wit tt tekara to one
the temleccy ',thee that May leo nhoold tdrillien. •
eon, >too 1 ,
511'. bored the gentlemen would not for:-
the treery of Meta: ci or Marylftid. \VHS 11011 with a•
t to, bit 10 IranAtor of ,•
t naliv to our I n country That trot ty
hest:, ret:lied. It tray, he tepeateo, br o ken down :-
Ena:aud with Senthern lieCessiohists. '•
Of the oCrotiCP:lrtTittl,l.o,l,o 00,11 m-c
0: hor rice to versa that tro.tly, and le thin at •,•
credit ebonlo be nivec lei theta.
kir. 77_4V/7. , replied tbat he an opnited Mel:An •
Wee the precursor of tee prn , .ent r - 3hei it
trunnion arsß that wheo we perin't , :ei the.
it to mint , ram (bin Govern meat fro Men:fret, •66.. 1
expand their territory. 'The treaty pr,.,66,4•0f
the Plirilrge p( intertneddilu con ry t•-• ,
env tioveronfro; any :Jo, r.t.til II mil:1 lftet' T 1
secured to us If hie Irleutt had exoectoe.l
that the l'errwin tleaty Van cot stilled, It
keens di 11, rot t view of the line-1:1 , 1n
*Shut treaty grant,d wry
Would ividoahl y have prevented ketone: v. lc" , •.:-
The. time, however, like. pissed to 'precool •
goirg on. We now `ififh to 'to-tare "-
Powir plantin g be foot on American tad!. - •
ilia- at empire. el'hor tinder an -IV6 , prinv "
Ilepshurg • otne scion of rho "tally or
Be 'wished the vorld to hear ilia
that the erection of p foOrAiretil :
IsCCO9D'OPd by the people of the 1.706 ( 61 V•at.• 6.'"
censcosencen rest with the future. -
The resolution NV.l,ii 1.1:1.21.1 tiluion,ly 4 ,1 ,
10?. nays nouo
Mr.
910141:1;i, of Ohio, offered a revoint, - ...
forth that,
Wher•ovi, ‘ , Porite Tit:sr:re:ln of rntln,:. -• I L !
duo--areC that the diesolutioa of this ,
be bent steadily iu view; Coerefore
Ren,7••• (1, That the resolution lievatnfersr . h.::
Log the uss of thic hall to the said lieu, 'I
the eve - nine; of the ilth of April, is ItsrebY re - Tin '•
I)} , ,jectli n t eing made.
Mr. NORRIS moved a artspeosion of the .
I was decide° to the animate by 44 agai tot i..,
I solution was not, considered. -
The Procvional Bonk Bill.
The Ronne reeetlYed Itself into a Cetendiio
Whole on the State of the Union. Mr Belittle .;
Hampshire, in the chair, anct resumed cn.ele
of the National Bank bill.
Mr. 'MITA R WARD. of New York, offered ll'
merit, the object of which was that the nintie , .
when their organization under this act is cen;'
shall withdraw their State beak circulatien.
preened the hope that Congress would eVetbe tees
diminishing an already largely-tnflated cameo F,
were preparing a debt against which we mist
such a course as would prevent rePadisto , . '
course of his remarks he said the nation.l
nod been variously estimated at from M16 1 , - -
4779.000.0X1. but he pinned. it at 9626.0cgpti0,
the various evidences of debt ThaISSiIIR
adding to this the *117.060.1K0 of Slain beak we;
there was an aggregate of 6159G2,07,0.-0 b'11!
Inge. Ofo OCO under thie act. He iostitu ed erne
between the present bank clrculation.cspltsl,'; 2l ..
for the purpose of showing that the increl'eli , .-;
at least eleven hundred anti ninety-eevek on,
capital, end the hank circulation $467 PM,
alld 440414 te, at the present ratio, of two thco.f:
Ilona,
The amendment was rejected.
Mr. BLAINE, of Mains. offered a new sects`
seven per cent., as fixed under the Writ
this bill. *hall be deemed the lawful rate of
States where no rate is established. but each ic;
be governed 'icy the State law where it is In
- blade a few explanatory remarks, when the aia-
Was adopted. Ins 69 asalnet 21.
Mr. VAR ViLKENBURG offered att amen lox
nothing in this act shall prevent the States th,
the capitol stock of said banks the same at fa
lion, Sate, or municipal purposes,
Mr. HOLMAD adverted to thin as right, fa t.
eleould not be relieved from the tfine right,,
People of the United States. He impel -
would never consent tothe passage of this . 3 -
Mr STROP:Mg. of Pennsylvania, argued .
empting such large amounts from taxa:ton 33r3i
the modern Shylocks to go ' roe-
Mr.
that VA N n
o V S
A nil o ) B i
1 V i ß m ( p r olv e a any me a'. higher E
irernsod on the same --mount
of moneyed cal cc:
vidnel citizens of snoh Slate,
Mr. DAVIS, of Maryland, offered to furt l e7 i,
exempting money invested in Dulled State,
taxation
The question of the propriety and jesti.a .
or municipal taxation wee considered and
length.
Without concluding the subject, the
sad at 101 l plait four o'clock the HOW,
PANNSTIMLI EGIBUTr
MARRISEMW,
SENATE.
The Senate met el 75 o'clock. P. M.
he fo , lowing petitions were presented •
Mr. CONMSLL. from citizens residing on 10
favoritv a city railroad on that thorn/tea"'
Mr. KIMSKY. one of like import.
far. CO SZIALL. a petition from David Pi
and•othere. for restoring the arbitration la"
remonstrance against the Front-street Hallam
The 10110101:1Z tills were introctured:
Mr. ItiDG W• 3.. incorporating tn. rT --'
road. Also, supplement to the Pioneer Olt
CONMELL. incorporating Moshannon
Party.
Mr. WOUTEINGIVON, relative to the 1 ,0
wine Railroad.
Mr. weiLacit, for more firerlrli eziollo
Mr, ii.OPHOS•offered a resolution. r ,
Governor to inforryke Senate of the oti:da'i
in the Military Derprtment e.t Rartianntt.
compensation, end how many could be
Laid over.
Mr. CRAMPIiR7B offered resolutions
respect for the .1o:a librarian of the Fel,
Wm P. Brady, a zallant soldier th
Which was ustaa.l=euely adopted. t,
HOUSE.
The Roues rust 34 3 O'clock P M
31r. LJt offered a reeointion requestin.f 6 ,
General to furnilih the House
the constitutional right of the Lint's l3 °L'i
prior to the ado2tion of amendment , . to the
regulating the manner in whin, .00ld
cape isey are adopted. This ram:lloo.4 ,
Mr. SMAW3lUltir offered are,ol l l'
opening' of this Hones, the recent cooll a,
chusetts military officer, in, Philadatia , %„
at d producing the destructicn of the Pl' . `!
zen of Pennsylvania, and toe arrest „
of the.ownoo, was a yielatic.n of few. 4 .'. 7
the sovereignty of Penuaylvania, and 0
of the Gewsznor to demand ; an exr ,l33 ,
lien of .414 , injury.. • This nista:Won AP
noes 39.
The following bills wee introdue:',. l
Mr. tießGßli. a enpnlement tote
Franklin Railroad.
K T n2S I S w TH , p of lone Were
hiladelph
'A. •
SOH and L 168,, in favor, of the nray
hit. Main S against :Me same
Ns. LAB. a ',ethic* of oftir.o.a e. Fhil'''
and Montxgomery cemuttee, for rie ref:
ford and Sonthwarkilaii . oad charw
the use of steam co the northern end ,
The following hills were ictrEdace_
Mr McM incorporating ln”
taring nomoaij. lte „ ei.
Mr. MILL,, vieminr.l Mon'
Mr. incorporating t b e Os
Company, adjourned.
Lazio*, Roevrixtr &LLB or limo
. 9° O DP , , Cara, 4.0.-. The early atiou
rtq, - csattd ta the largo aud decirapl e
boots, shoes, alloy goods,
braabog sasovles of 1.100 Psekg"
fijilt 6114/good., (With a stook of A'
remPteogy mold by catalogue, or. fat
commencing this isioriarg, tea °'
saps, hold
by 4ohp Myers & C. 0,, e' otiot
Z34TsTket street.
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