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JESSE G. HAWLEY,
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lIAS REMOVED HIS OFFICE TO NORTH
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April 11, 1863-tt
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REMOVAL.
WILLIAM H. LIVINGOOD, ATTORNEY AT
Tr V LAW, has removed hi. ogles to the north aide of
Cann strait Arse door below Sixth. [dee 22-1 f
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BMW ta.pril 14
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A TTORNEY AT LAW—OFFICE IN NORTH
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Nan street, Reading, Pa. IMarch 10,1860.
LEBANON VALLEY INSTITUTE,
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ma- Orders respectfully solicited.
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Eclectic Ehysician and •nrgeon,
AGRADUATE OF THE ECLECTIC MEDl
esi College Philadelphia, otters his proles tonal ser
vices to the oldie= of Hamburg and vicinity. Painful
Susical operations, and ne betting Binken and Dialocated
Limbs, Amputations, Cutting Cancers, Tumors, fa., wilt
be performed ander the Influence of Ether, at the COIIIIIIM
of the patient.
0.7 Office at ids residence in Main street, Hamburg, Pa.
slay 9, 1963-tf
DR: T. Y.A.R.DDM r tatolirrt,
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- improvement. With this ssallied teeth are
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January 24,11834 f
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air Beer, article warranted to be what it is sold for
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attentios, and guaranteed. [feb 1-U
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v Trot BRINE RIND, IP PROPERLY FITTED AND
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returned. It challenges comparison with anytruse known.
Dr. RIGGS' 011 ice, No. 2 BARCLAY ST., New-YOrk.
Nov. 15-11
VOR SALE AT THE OLD JAIL, 1000 SETS
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orriPli St WILLIAH RHOADS, Jr.
BALTIMORE LOCK HOSPITAL,
AISS-ESTABLISHSD AS A P.EFUGS FROM QUACKERY.
The Only Place Obtain Where
ed a Cure Can be
I '.
PR. R. JOHNSTON HAS DISCOVERED THE
most Certain. Speedy and only liffactual Remedy in
e World for all Private Discuss, Weakness of the Back
or Limbs, Stricture% difeetione of the Ifidaeys and Bled
der, involuntary Discharges, Impotency, Oeneral Debility,
Nervoususas, Dyspepsia, Languor, Low Spirits, Conta
gion, of Ideas, Palpitation of the Heart, Timidity, Tremb
ling. Dimness of Sight or Giddiness, Digest* of the Head,
Throat, ROW or Skin Affection's of the Liver, Lange,
Stomach or Bowels—ttlON Terrible Disorder. arising from
the Solitary Habits of Youth—thoso soon= and solitary
practices more fatal to their victims than the song of Sprees
to the Mariners of Ulyeus, blighting their moat brilliant
hopes or anticipations, rendering marriage, in t, Impossible.
YOUNG =CON
IfeMAAR?. Who have become the victims of Solitary Vice,
that dreadful and destructive habit which annually sweeps
to an untimely grave thousands of Young Men of the most
exalted talents and brilliant intellect, who might other
wire have entranced lietening Relates, with the thunders
of eloquence or waked to ecstasy the living lyre, may call
with fall confidence.
MILARRZAGX.
Married Persona, or Young Men contemplating mar
riage. being aware of physical weakness, organic debility,
deformities epeedily cured.
Ha who places himself under the care of Dr. L may
religiously confide in his honor as a gentleman, and con
fidently rely upon his skill as a physician.
ORGANIC TATEANNMOO
Immediately Cured and Fall Vigor Restored.
This Distressing Affection—which renders Life and Mar
riage impossible—is !be penalty paid by the victims of im•
proper indulgences. Yonne persons are too apt to commit
excesses from not being aware of the dreadful oonse
quencee that may ensue. Now, who that understand the
subject will pretend to deny that the power of procrea
tion is lost sooner by those falling into Improper habits
tlasa by the prudent? Besides being deprived of the pleas
ure of healthy offspring, the most serious and destructive
symptoms to both body and mind arise. The system be
comes Deranged, the Physical and Mental Functions
Weakened, Loss of Procreative Power, Nervous Irritabil
ity, Dyspepsia, Palpitation of the Heart, Indigestion, Con
stitutional Debility, a westing of the Frame, Cough, Con•
sum piton, Decay and Death.
OtSee, No. 7 South Frederick Street.
Left hand side going from Baltimore street, a few doors
from the corner. Fall not to observe name and number.
Letters must be paid and contain a stamp. The Doctor's
Diploma bangs In his ollice.
A. 0173111 WASUILAINTIN
TWO DAMS.
No Mercury or Nauseous Drugs.
MIL 101111111 TON,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, Grad.
nate from one of the most eminent Colleges in the United
States, and the greater part of whose life has been spent
in the hospitals of London, Paris, Philadelphia and else
where, has effected some of the moat astonishing cares
that were ever known; many troubled with ringing in
the head and aura when asleep. great nervenenese, being
alarmed at sudden sounds, bashfulness, with frequent
blushing, attended sometime with derangement of mind,
were cured immediately.
TAILS PAW/I=MA* NOVICE.
Dr. J. addresses all those who have injured themeelvee
by improper Indulgence and solitary bald% which rola
both body and Mind, unfitting them for either business,
study, society or marriage.
Times are some of the cad and melancholy effects pro
duced by :early habits of youth, vim: Weakness of the
Back and Limbs, Pains in the Heed, Dimness of Sight,
Leos of Pltuanniar Power, Palpitation of the• Heart, Dye
pepsia, Nervous Irritability, Derangement of the Digestive
Functions, 0 eneral Debility,Symptems of Ccumumption,dm.
lifitarram.T.—The fearful effects on the mind are much to
be dreaded—Loss of Memory, Confusion of Ideas, Depres
sions of Spirits,. Evil Forbodings, Aversion to Society, Self-
Dktenst, logo of SoMade, Timidity, &a, are some of the
evils produced.
THOUSANDS of persons of all ages can now judge what
is the ranee of their declining health, losing their vigor,
becoming weak, pale, nervous and emaciated, having a
singular appearance about the eyes, cough and symptoms
of eausemption.
rating Nigailif
Who have Inf tired themselves by a certain practice indul
ged in when alone, a habit frequently learned from evil
companions, or at school, the effects of which are nightly
felt, even when asleep, and if not cured renders marriage
Impossible, and destroys both mind and body, should ap
ply Immediately.
What a pity that a young man, the hope of his country,
the darling of his parents, should be snatched from all
proapteste and enjoyments of life, by the consequence of
deviating from the path of nature and indulging in a cer
tain secret habit. finch persons nose, before doliffenfdae
tu.
MAARTACLIII,
reflect that a sorted mind and body are the most necessary
requisites to promote connubial happiness. Indeed, with
out these the journey through life becomes a weary pil
grimage; the prospect hourly darkens to the view; the
mind becomes shadowed with despair and. Oiled with the
melancholy reflection that the happinese of another be
comes blighted with our own.
111121111.821 Or Enceaunsuroli.
When the misguided and ;imprudent vainy of pleasure
Ands that he has imbibed the seeds of this painful disease,
it too often happens that an ;111-timed sense of shame, or
dread of discovery, deters Dim from applying to those who,
from education and respectability, can alone befriend him,
delaying till the constitutional symptoms of this horrid
disease make their apperannen, Mich an ttlearated sore
throat, diseased nose, nocturnal pains In the bead and
limbs, dimness of sight, deafness. nodes on the shin-bones
and arms, blotches on the head, face and extremities, pro.
greening with frightful rapidity, till at last the palate of
an month oc the bones of the none fall in, and the victim
of this awful disease becomes a horrid object of derange
eration, till death puts a period. to his dreadful sufferings,
by sending him to "that Undteeovered Country from
whence no traveller returns."
It is a melancholy fact that thousands fall victims to
this terrible aware, owing to the unskillfulness of ignor
ant pretenders, who, by the use of that Deadly Pasch,
Mercury, ruin the constitution and make the residue o
life miserable.
SMLI/MMERS
[much 12
Trait not your lives, or health, to the care of many Un
learned and worthless Pretender*, destitute of knowledge,
name or character, who dopy Dr. Johnston's advertise.
manta, or style themselves, in the newspapers, regularly
!idly:sited Physicians, incapable of Curing, they keep you
trifling month after month taking their filthy and poison
ous compounds, or as long as the smallest fee Call be ob
tained, and in deepalr, leave you with mined health to
sigh ever your own galling disappointment.
Dr. Johnston is the only Physician advertising.
His credentials or diplomas always hang In his office
His remedies or treatment are unknown to all others,
prepared from a life spent in the great hospitals of Europe,
the grid In the country and a more exteartee Prreate
Prudes than any ether PhCelan in the world.
IMMIX or =MU
The many thousands cured at this institution year after
year, and the numerous important Surgical Operations
performed by Dr. Johnston, witnessed by the reporters of
ilellppee and many other papers, notices of
which have appeared again and again before the public,
beeldea hie standing as a gentleman of character and re
sponsibility, Is a eufflcient guarantee to the afflicted.
akin diseases Speedily Oared.
SW- :No letters received unless post-paid and containing
S stamp to by assil og tits reply. Persons writing should
etas age, and send portion of sarortieement deeeribittg
symptoms.
3011 N M.. ZIDENDITON, 3T. D.,
Of the Baltimore Lock Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
May 23—ly
Desirable City Lots For Sale.
E UNDERSIGNED OFFERS AT PRIVATE
Sete et moderate rate.,
lisle mow yon, on North Ninth street.
Flea Building Lots on the west vide of Moss allot, Ned
of Ninth ',treat.
. . .
Three Building Lots on the west side of North Tenth
street, and Fourteen Building Lots on the east aide of Moss
alley.
The conditions will be made easy to purchasers, the pro
prietor being Willing to leave tl4O-thirde Of the Purcha e e,
money stand on the premines, if secured by Bond an d
Mortgage, and allow payment to be made in installments
of 70. 20 and 00 Dollar., until the whole debt Is paid,
provided that one-third of the purchase money Is paid on
delivery of the Deed.
This is a we chance for Laborers and Mechanics to se•
cure heroes, as Owlets ate In the neighberitUsl of the gi4lol
Forge and Industrial Works; and as it to nuderetood that
all the Depots of the Tunetioil Itailreade will be put up
near the property.
' Plans of the Lote may be seen at my office, or that
of G. Oocar Wagner, Erg., Court arrest.
Jan Meta VIVE.DARI94
PHILOMATHEAN INSTITUTE,
Near Birdsboro, Barks County, Penna.
rim:lE ELEVENTH TERM OF THIS INSTITII.
TION commesse on Monday, August 10th 1863.
The Principal is prepared to accommodate in hie own
family from sixteen to twentyboarders of both sexes. An
early application is advised to secure a place.
In addition to the usual thorough course of instruction
given here, a NORMAL DEPARTMENT will be opened for
those preparing to teach, during the Bret and last quarter
of each term.
The especial care and attention of the Principal will be
constantly devoted to the health, safety, habits and man
ners of those placed under his charge.
Day scholars received as usual.
For full particulars apply for a Catalogue.
HIiBMAfi SMITH, A. B.
Birdsboro, Pa, July 35,1863.
Commercial Broker.
THE UNDERSIGNED HAVING TAKEN
out a License ao a COMMERCIAL BROKER, is pro.
pared to negotiate for the purehaee and sale of
REAL BBTA.TB,
COIN,
BONDS.
MORTGAGES,
and other Securities, Goode In unbroken Packages, Collet
tion of Rents, and any other business of a Commiesion
Broker or Agent.
Parties having business to do in his line are request
ed to give him a call.
JACOB C. SCHOMER,
°MCI In Court Street, next door shore Alderman
Schooner. LFeb SS
rams&
Dailies:E.
MR, CLAY'S SPEECH,
And Occurrences on the Delivery of an
Abolition Petition to him at Richmond,
Indiana.
On the first of October, 1842, Mr. Clay being
on his way from Dayton, in Ohio, to Indianapo
lis. the seat of Government of the State of Indi
ana, to which he had been previously invited,
stopped at Richmond, a flourishing town in that
State, where a vast multitude, amounting to fif
teen or twenty thousand, had assembled to meet
him, and greet and welcome his arrival among
them. After taking some refreshments, be re
paired to a stand provided for the occasion, from
which he addressed the immense assemblage, in
his accustomed manner, on the public topics of
the day. It is not intended to report any part
of that speeeh, which was received with enthu
siastic applause. After its close, Mr. Clay was
informed that a Mr. Mendenhall was present and
desirous of presenting a petition to him, and he
was requested for that purpose to ascend the
stand. He did so,
and delivered the petition to
Henry Clay. He handed it to a friend, who read
it aloud to Mr. Clay and to the assembly. The
petition prayed or requested that Mr. Clay would
forthwith liberate all his slaves, unjustly, as it
alleged, held in bondage, and placed the appli.
cation principally on the ground that by the De
olaration of American Independence, it is de
aired ti that all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain un
alienable rights," &c. &a.
After the reading of the petition the assembly
manifested great sensation, some cried pull him
(Mr. Mendenhall) down, and a high degree of
excitement, of anger, and of indignation were
kindled against him. The slightest manifesta
tion of displeasure on the part of Mr. Clay might
have exposed Mr. Mendenhall to great personal
Elsner. But Mr. Clay rose, with perfect calm
ness and composure, and first addressed the
multitude in a strain of persuasion and entreaty.
He hoped that Mr. M. might be treated with the
greatest forbearance and respect. He assured
his fellow citizens there collected, that the pre
sentation of the petition had not occasioned him
the slightest pain, nor excited one solitary dis
agreeable emotion. If it were to be presented to
him, he preferred that it should be done in the face
of this assemblage. Ile thought he could give it
such an answer as became him and the subject of
which it treated. At all events, he entreated and
beseeched his fellow citizens for their own, for
the country's sake, for his sake, to Offer no die.
respect, no indignity, no violence, in word or
deed, to Mr. Mendenhall.
This appearing to compose the assembly, Mr.
Clay bowed to Mr. Mendenhall, and addressing
him, said :
I will now, Sir, make to you and to this peti
tion, such a response as becomes me. Allow me
to say, that I think you have not conformed to
the independent character of an American eiti
zen, in presenting a petition to me. I am, like
yourself, but a private citizen. A petition, as
the term implies, generally proceeds from an
inferior in power, or Station, to a superior; but
between us, there is entire equality. And what
are the circumstances under which you have
chosen to offer it ? I am a total stranger,
passing through your State, on my way to its
capitol, in consequence of an invitation with
which I have been honored to visit, to exchange
friendly salutations with such of my fellow citi
sena of Indiana as think proper to meet me, and
to accept of their hospitality. AnXitMe Eta lam
to see them, and to view part of this State which
I had never seen, I came here with hesitation
and reluctance, because I apprehended that the
motives of my journey might be misconceived
and perverted. But when the fulfillment of an
old promise to visit Indianapolis was insisted
upon, I yielded to the solicitations of my friends
and have presented myself among you.
Such is the occasion which hoe been deliber
ately chosen for handing this petition to me. I
am advanced in years, and neither myself nor
the place of my residence is altogether unknown
to the world. Yon at any time - within these last
20 or 30 years, might have presented your peti
lion to me at Ashland. If you had gone there
for that purpose, you should have been received
and treated with perfect respect and liberal
hospitality.
Now, Mr, Mendenhall, let us reverse condi
tions, and suppose you had been invited to Ken
tucky to partake of this hospitality ; and that,
previous to your arrival, I had employed such
means as I understand have been used to get tip
this petition, to obtain the signatures of citizens
of that State to a petition, to present to you to
relinquish your farm and other property, what
would you have thought of such a proceeding?
Would you have deemed it courteous and accord
ing to the rites of hospitality ?
I know well that you, and those who think
with you, controvert the legitimacy of slavery,
and deny the right of property in Slaves. /kit
the law in my State and other States bee other
wise determined. The law may be wrong, in
your opinion, and ought to be repealed ; but
then you and your associates are not the law
makers for us, and unless you can chew some
authority to nullify our laws, we must continue
to respect them. Until the law is repealed, we
must be excused for asserting the rights—aye,
the property in slaves—which it sanctions, au
thorizes, and vindicates.
And who are the petitioners whose organ you
assume to be? I have no doubt that many of
them are worthy, amiable and humane persons,
who by erroneous representations, have been in
duced ineonsiderately to affix their signatures to
this petition, and that they will deeply regret it.
Other., and not a few I am told, are free blacks,
men, women and children, who have been artful
ly deceived and imposed upon. A very large
portion, I have been informed, are the political
opponents of the party to which I belong—
Democrats, as they moat underservedly call
themselves, who have eagerly seized this oppor
tunity to wound, as they imagined, my feelings,
and to aid the cause to which they are attached.
In other quarters of the Union, Derain:rats claim
to be the exclusive champhns of the Southern
interests, the only safe defenders of the rights
in slave property, and unjustly accuse us Whigs
with abolition designs, wholly incompatible with
its security. What ought these distant demo.
crate to think of the course of their friends here
who have united in this petition ?
And what is the foundation of thie appeal to
me in Indiana to liberate the slaves under my
care in Kentucky? It is a general declaration
in the act announcing to the world the Indepen—
dence of the Thirteen American Colonies, that all
men tir.s created equal. Now, as an abstraot
principle, there is no doubt of the truth of that
declaration ; and it is desirable in the original
constitution of society, and in organized socie
ties, to keep it in view as a great fundamental
principle. But, then, I apprehend that in no
society that ever did exist, or ever shall be found,
was or can the equality asserted among the
members of the human race, be practically en
forced and carried out. There are portions of
it, large portions, women, minors, insane, cul—
prits, transient sojourners, that will always
probably remain subjects to the government of
another portion of the community.
That declaration, whatever may be the extent
of its import, was made by the delegations the
Thirteen States. In the most of them slavery ,
existed, and was established by law. It was in—
troduced and forced upon the Colonies by para
mount law of England. Do you believe, that in
making that declaration, the States that concur
red in it intended that it should be tortured into
a virtual emancipation of all the slaves within
their limits? Would Virginia and the other
Southern States have ever united in a declara—
tion which was to be interpreted into an abolition
of slavery among them? Did any one of the
Thirteen Slates entertain such a design or ex
pectation ? To impute such a secret and un
avowed purpose, would be to charge a political
fraud upon the noblest band of Patriots that ever
SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1868.
assembled in council, a fraud upon the confed
eracy of the Revolution, a fraud upon the Union
of these States, whose Constitution not only recog
nised the lawfulness of slavery, but permitted the
importation of slaves from Africa, until the year
1808. And lam bold to say that if the doctrines
of modern ultra political abolitionists had been
seriously promulgated at the epoch of our Revolu
tion, our glorious independence Would never
have been achieved. Never! Never! I
(Great applause; and many voices echoing
Never.']
I know the predominant sentiment In the free
States is adverse to Mowery, but happy in their
own exemption from whatever evils may attend
it, the great mass of our fellow citizens there do
not, aeek to violate the Constitution or to disturb
the harmony of these States. I desire no con
cealment of my opinions in regard to the insti—
tution of slavery. I look upon it as a great evil,
and deeply lament that we have derived it from
the parent Government and from our ancestors.
I wish every slave in the United States was in
the country of his ancestors. But here they are,
and the question is, how can they be beat dealt
with ? If a elate of nature existed, and we were
about to lay the foundations of society, no man
would be more strongly opposed than I should
be to incorporate the Institution of slavery among
its elements. But there is an incalculable dif
ference between the original formation of society,
with a long existing organized society, With its
ancient laws, institutions and establishments.
Now great as I acknowledge, in my opinion the
evils of slavery are, they are nothing, absolutely
nothing, in comparison with the for greater
evils which would inevitably flow from a sudden,
general and indiscriminate emancipation. In
some States the number of slaves approximate
towards an equality with that of the whites; in
one or two they surpass them. Whet would be
the condition of the two races in those States
upon the supposition of en immediate emancipa
tion? Does any man suppose that they would
become blended into one homogeneous mass ?
Does any man recommend amalgamation—that
revolting admixture, alike offensive to God and
man ? For those whom Re, by their physical
properties, has made unlike and put asunder, we
may without presumptuousness, suppose were
never intended to bejoined together in one of
the holiest rites. And let me tell you, if you
do not already know it, that such are the feel
ings—prejudices, if you please, (and what man
claiming to be a Statesman will overlook, or
disregard the deep seated and unconquerable
prejudices of the people) in the slave States, that
no human law could enforce a union between the
two races.
What then would certainly happen? A ding*
gle for political ascendency? the blacks seeking
to acquire, and the whites to maintain possession
of the government. Upon the supposition of a
general immediate emancipation, in those States
where the blacks outnumber the whites, they
would have nothing to do but to insist upon
another part of the same Declaration of Indepen
dence, as Dorr and his deluded Democratic fol
lowers recently did in Rhode Island, according
to which an undefined majority have the right at
their pleasure to subvert an existing government
and institute a new one in its place, and then the
whites would be brought in complete subjection
to the blacks! A contest would inevitably ensue
between the two races, civil war, carnage, pillage,
conflagration, deiastation and the ultimate ex
termination or expulsion of the black. And are
not these evils far greater than the mild and
continually improving state of slavery which
exists in this country? I say continually im
proving; for if this gratifying progress in the
amelioration of the condition of the slaves has
been checked in some of the State., the respon
sibility must attach to the unfortunate agitatioft
of the subject of abolition. consequence of
it, increased rigor in the police and further re
straints have been imposed; and I do believe
that gradual emancipation (the only method of
liberation that has ever been thought safe or
wise by any body in any of the slave States) has
been postponed half a century.
Without any knowledge of the relations in
which I stand to my slaves, or their individual
condition, you, Mr. Mendenhall, and your as
tic:dates who have been active in getting up this
petition, call upon me forthwith to liberate the
whole of them. Now let me tell you that half a
dozen of them, from age, decrepitude, or infirmi
ty, are wholly unable to gain a livelihood for
themselves, and are a heavy charge upon me.
Do you think that I should conform to the dic
tates of humanity, by ridding myself of that
charge, and sending them forth into the world,
with the boon of liberty, to end a wretched ex
istence in starvation Another class is compos
ed of helpless infants with or without improvi
dent mothers. Do yon believe that as a christian
I should perform my duty towards them, by
abandoning them to their fate ? Then there is
another class who would not accept their free
dom, if I should give it to them. I have for
many years owned a slave that I wished would
leave me, but he will not. What shall Ido with
that class ?
What my treatment of my slaves is, you may
learn from Charles, who accompanies me on this
journey, and who has travelled with me over the
greater part of the United States and in both the
Canada', and has had a thoneand 9ppertunities,
if he had chosen to embrace them, to leave me.
Excuse me, Mr. Mendenhall, for saying that my
slaves are as well fed and clad, look as slick and
hearty, and are quite as civil and respectful in
their demeanor, and tut little disposed to wound
the feelings of any one, as you are.
(Great and continued laughter and applause.)
Let me recommend you, sir, to imitate tly
benevolent example of the society of Friends in
the midst of which NZ reside. Meek, gentle, em.
bued with the genuine spirit of our benign re
ligion, whilst in principle they are firmly op.
posed to slavery, they do not seek to aooomplieh
its extinction by foul epithets, coarse and vulgar
abuse and groat{ calumny. Their ways do not
lead through blood, revolution and disunion.
Their broad and comprehensive philanthropy
embraces, as they believe, the good and the hap
piness of the white as well as the black race;
giving to one their commiseration, to the other
their kindest sympathy. Their instruments are
not those of destruction and of war, but of peace,
persuasion and earnest appeals to the charities
of the human heart. unambitious, they have no
political objects or purposei to Mammy.). My
intercourse with them through life has been
considerable, interesting and agreeable . ; and I
venture to say nothing could have induced them,
AO fi 6494ty, whatever a few individuals might
.have been tempted to do, to seize the occasion
in my casual passage through this State, to offer
me a personal indignity.
[This part of Mr. Clay's speech was listened
to with deep and absorbing attention, and was
followed by loud burets of applause.]
I respect the motives of rational abolitionists,
who are actuated by a sentiment of devotion to
human liberty, although I deplore and deprecate
the consequences of the agitation of the question.
I have even my friends among them. But they
are not monomaniacs, who surrendering them
selves to a single ides, look altogether to the
black side of human life. They do'not believe
that the sum total of nll our efforts and all our
solicitude should be abolition. They believe that
there are duties to perform to the white man,
as well as the blank. They wa . nt good govern
ment, good administration and pneral prosperi
ty of their country.
I shall, Mr. Mendenhall, take your petition
into respectful and deliberate consideration; but
befcce I come to a final decision, I should like
to know what you and your associates are wil
ling to do for the slaves in my possession, if I
should think it proper to liberate them. I own
about fifty, who are probably worth 16,000 dol
lars. To turn them loose upon 'misty, without
any means of subsistence or support, would be
an act of cruelty. Are you willing to raise and
secure the payment of $15,000 for their benefit,
if I should be induced to free them? The se
curity of the payment of that sum would mate
rially lessen the obstacles in the way of their
emancipation.
And now, Mr. Mendenhall; I must take re
spectful leave of you. We separate as we met,
with no unkind feelings nor excited anger or dis
satisfaction on my part, whatever may have been
your motives, and these I refer to our common
Judge above to whom we are both responsible.
Go home and mind your own business and leave
other people to care for theirs. Limit your be
nevolent exertions to your own neighborhood.
Within that circle you will find ample scope for
the exercise of all your charities. Dry up the
tears of the afflicted widows around you, con
sole and comfort the helpless orphan, clothe the
naked, and feed and help the poor, black and
white, who need succour. And you will be a
better and wiser man, than you have this day
shown yourself.
[Rapturous applause followed the oonclueion
of the speech.]
HON. S. A. PURVIANCE AND
GOV. CURTIN.
We give below the letter of resignation of
General Purvianoe,ex-member of Congress, who
has always been esteemed a gentleman of strict
integrity and honor, and who has always been a
leading Republican. We are informed that he
will not support the re-election of Curtin. We
publish also an extract from the Harrisburg
Telegraph and the Pittsburgh Dispatch, in rela
tion to Governor Curtin at the time General
Purviance resigned.. The Harrisburg Telegraph
now advocates the re-election of Curtin. We
are not advised as to what course the Dispatch
takes. Voters ! read, and judge for yourselves :
" GOVERNOR CURTIN
"Governor Andrew G. Curtin's Administra
tion is rapidly exhibiting its worthlessness, and
sinking to infamy. We are glad to see by the
following that the worthy State Attorney General,
Hon. S. A. Purviance, late of the Twenty-second
Congressional District, is determined not to share
in the dishonor and disgrace. We copy from the
Harrisburg Telegraph of May 24 :
" RIGSIGNATION or
The following letter of resignation was handed
to Goy. Curtin today:
ATTORNKY GINERAL'S OFFION,
Hattangstrno, May 24, 1861. f
"
To Andrew G. Curtin,. Goy. of Peon.v2pania
For reasons which appeal to my self-re
spect, I cannot consent to continue any longer
in connection with your Administration.
,6 'I therefore tender you my resignation of
the Moe of Attorney General of the State.
'• 'SAMUEL A. PIIIIVIANCE.
"That is'short, sharp and pithy enough to
bring a blush to the Governor's cheek if he is
not insensible to shame ; and this is but the be
ginning. We warn every scoundrel concerned
in the plunder-jobbing and degrading of our
State and its troops, that they may look for
no mercy unless the villainy be Stopped at once,
We shall not at present make use of certain
knowledge in our possession, but it may be well
enough to caution the go-betweens, attorneys and
contractors, that no trickery or lying will serve
their purposes, but will make things worse. If
they speak at all, let them tell the whole truth.
" It is proper that the people should uow know,
however, that the swindling is being systematized,
and that it is intended to continue it in all con
tracts, it' possible. We were shown on Monday
a sample of the material out of which the uni
forms of our State troops is to be made. The
Governor's go betweens, who have large con
tracts yet to fill, have made them with man who
are now having the material made by one or more
manufactories in the East. These goods are to
be trash—as the others were. They will be manu
factured of the following materials, in the pro
portion named: Fifty pounds shoddy—old rags
and old clothes, picked to pieces and re-manu
factured—thirty pounds wool ; and twenty
pounds cotton in each hundred pounds.
" The sample of A shoddy' shown tie, and pro
cured from the manufactory, contains a small
proportion of cotton, but it is rotten trash any
how, and will constitute one half the cloth. We
leave merebante to judge of it* wear."—Pittaburgli
Dispatch, May, 1861.
QUESTIONS FOR THE PEOPLE.
What infernal influence is at work among the
people, inciting hatred, strife, violence, and per
sonal feuds f
But a few months ago, and men tolerated dif
ferences of opinion, each allowed the other to be
honest, even if mistaken, and each allowed the
other to entertain and express his own views.
Then Democratic And Republican neighbors
lived side by side, visited each other, neighbor.
ed with each other, and were in the constant in
terchange of kind and friendly orteee.
What a sad change the last few months have
produced ! The friendly visits have ceased, the
kind act is withheld. Hatred has usurped the
place of friendship.
The Democrat all at once finds that old friends
have become hie deadly foes. The Democrat is
taunted and insulted at every' step, his wife and
ehildren are abused, hie life is threatened,
Mobs convene, angry and threatening, and
are only held at bay by revolvers, in the hands
of determined men, while even Republican wo
men so far forget their sex, as to Ory to the
angry and brutal mob : "-Go on I kill them ;
burn their houses—if YOU don't we will."
Of course, inevitably, as sure as Qod lives these
persecuted, outraged people, wile um TUN Zak
JORITY, will soon reach a point where endurance
abruptly ceases, and the defence of home, wife
and children begins.
This Is the reign of anarchy; it is the begin-
Wing of lawlessness and violence ; it is whetting
the pike and lighting the brand ; it ie inciting
an internecine conflict, too big, too wide-spread,
too devilish for soldiers to quell. May Heaven,
in mercy, avert the horrors which'impeud.
The cause, of all this is to be found in the
loyal leagues. :The mass of the members mean
well ; but they are incited to madness by false
hood, they are made devilish by appeals to their
passions. It is here that bad men make their
influence supreme.
And who is it controls these Loyal Leagues 7
It is that infernal nest of office•beggers, some
of whom were paupers, and have grown rich
without a day of toil.
These are the responsible men. These are
the men who manage the hellish enginery whioh
begets hatred and animosity, and violence, which,
before long, must end in assassinations, confla
grations, anarchy.
Kohl them to their responsibility. Don't for
get it for a moment. To secure office, they are
employing instrumentalities which put in jeop
ardy the lives and property of every human
being in the country.
We implore the hundreds of good and well
meaning men in this country, who have been in
veigled into these santanie dens, to leave them.
Don't quarrel with your neighbors and true
friends, don't endanger the peace of the com
munity, don't bring danger to your own fireside
merely to keep in office a worthless set of free
booters, who care nothing for you, and wouldn't
stop to speak to you, if it wasn't for your vote.—
Weet Chute JeArsoniats.
[VOL. XXIV-NO. 23.-WHOLE NO. 1987.
[.Fora the Gettysburg star and Banner, (Bepublican.)
May 314, 1161.
Curtin% Picture as Drawu by a
Political Friend.
"Pennsylvania h:s long been called the Key
stone State, and she has deserved the name. Any
one not blinded by prejudice mutt have accorded
this to her, in the late unhappy scenes through
which our country has been called to go. The
resolutions of our Representatives, pledging the
support and credit of the State to the Fedora
Government, together with the simultaneous up
rising of the people to furnish an army to assert
its commands, did more to re-establish confid
ence in the Union and the inherent stability of
our political system than the action of any State
or people. Pennsylvania hie earned anew the
right to her proud title. Whilst all this is so,
and more—whilst aides, counties, boroughs,
volunteer organizations and private individuals
have pledged their credit, and contributed moat
liberally to furnish our brave volunteers with a
complete equipment, and place them in a posi
tion ready to vindicate alike the State and
National Government, we are pained by the
report of official neglect and peculation. More
than this, we have seen our noble. comrades
miserably clothed, and both badly and scantily
provisioned by those paid, and well paid, to see
to these important considerations. We held our
peace when, recently, we were cognizant of the
fact that the Quartermaster of our own company
was under the necessity of providing himself
with a pair of scales to protect the company
against the rapacity of an officer, and when we
heard the loud complaints of the " /Nektons"
on account of outrageous treatment, because, in
the one ease, we thought it the villainy of a
minor officer, and the necessary delay, in the
other, of an overtaxed Administration. All this,
it seems, was bat the beginning of gigantic
fraud, as though the nation and the State had
not been so disgusted by the perfidy of recent
Administrations that it hurled them from power
more for that cause than any other. The man
who makes the present effort of the people to preserve
the liberties fought for and achieved by our fathers an
occasion to rob our soldiers and enrich himself, IS
AN ENEMY WHOM IT WOULD BE CHARITY
TO .HANG. We oare not who is the guilty party.
He who defrauds our brave soldiers is worse
than a traitor. We do not know who is imme
diately to blame, but this we know, THAT GOV
ERNOR CURTIN CANNOT ESCAPE CEN
SURE. Either he is implicated with them pubic
thieves, and receives part of the plunder, or he is
guilty of appointing men to office who deserve the
execration of all good citizens. He may take which
horn of the dilemma he may please.. The posi
tion of affairs renders official peculation doubly
monstrous. Have we just fled from corruption
to Corruption—from one vile Administration to
another viler? Many voted for Gov. Curtin to
avoid corruption, AND HAVE THEY LINKED
THEMSELVES TO ROTTENNESS? If the in
terests of this country are bound up with the
success of Republican principles, as enunciated
in the Chicago platform, as we believe they are,
it becomes the party to purge its ranks of
THESE VILE MEN, and let the STIGMA OF
THEIR VILLAINY rest on4hem alone, and not
on the party. AWAY WITH TRAITORS AND
MEN WHO SPECULATE ON PATRIOTISM."
THE ABOLITION PLATFORM.
"It is better to lose a battle in the field than
the election in Pennsylvania."
Thus spoke an Abolition orator at the Tenth
Ward League House, in this city, on Friday
evening last, as reported in the Philadelphia
Press. The gentleman who made this startling
announcement was William H. Armstrong, Esq.,
of Lycoming county, who was expressly import
ed from the West Branch to enlighten our citi
zens in reference to the honesty and patriotism
of Andrew Curtin. His utterance was the
simple expression of the Abolition doctrine, of
which Andrew.e. Curtin is now the chief ex
ponent in Pennsylvania. This is Curtin's plat
form. Neither he, nor any of his partisans,
would hesitate an instant to bring ruin and dis
grace upon the Union armies to secure their own
success at the polls. They profess to be " no
piny" patriots, and yet they are willing to sac
rifice thousands of precious lives and millions of
hard earned treasures to accomplish their wick
ed and treasonable designs. We ask the free
men of this Commonwealth, who are daily pray
ing for the triumph of our gallant army, to pon
der well upon the words uttered at the Curtin
meeting on Friday night. Which of the men
are most guilty 4 Those who are in arms against
the constituted authorities of the land, or those
who boldly and infamously assert that it is bet
ter to have a Federal defeat in the field than an
Abolition discomfiture at the polls ? Let the
people of Pennsylvania answer this question at
the ballot-box on the second Tuesday of next
October I—The Age.
THE SOLDIERS' VOTE
In 1861, John Thompson, Abolitionist, receiv
ed a majority of the votes of the citizens of
Philadelphia, at home, for the office of Sheriff.
Mr. Ewing, Democrat, his opponent, with the
vote of the citizens at home and in the amny, had
a majority over Thompson, and received the cer
tificate of election and entered upon the duties
of the office. Thompson, contested the right of
Ewing to hold the poeition, in the Common Pleas
of that city, on the ground of the unconstitution
ality of the Soldiers'
. Vote! The court decided in
favor of Thompson. The matter was carried up
to the Supreme Court, and Judges Woodward,
Strong and Lowrie, Democrats, and Read, Aboli
tionist, affirmed the decision of the court below.
Judge Woodward, then, must have been governed
wholly by legal considerations in his decision,
and not by party motives, for if the latter had
had any oontrolling influence with him, he would
not have sustained the inferior Court, and Ewing,
Democrat, would have retained the office of
Sheriff—the emoluments of which are nearly
equal, if not altogether, to the salary of the
President of the United States. It was the
cupidity of an Abolitionist that forced such a
decision, and hence cast aside the soldiers' vote
and thus disfranchised them. Will the Abolition
Ivurnals, in their ravings, tell us whether legal
and Constitutional motives governed Judge Wood
ward and a majority of the Bench, in the matter
of Thompson vs. Ewing, or political considera
tions and prejudices ? Which!
IS CURTIN TO BE WITHDRAWN?
There is a rumor in ciroulation that Governor
Curtin will be forced to withdraw from the poli
tical track, and "a new man" put before the
Abolitionists as a candidate for Governor. We
hope not. We hope to see Governor Curtin re
main before the people, for we desire to record
the verdict they will render against him on the
second Tuesday of October. He received a ma
jority of the votes of the members of the late
Abolition State Convention at Pittsburg, and is
therefore the candidate of this hell•born party,
and we enter our protest against the effort that
is making to force him to decline the nomina
tion. True it is, many of the most distinguish
ed men of his own party have denounced him
as a." plunderer," a " speculator," a . 4 robber
of the soldiers," a " shoddy contractor," whose
agents, with his knowledge and with hie consent,
clothed our soldiers in 44 shoddy vestments," and
furnished them shoes "whose soles were stuffed
with shavings, and blankets as thin and trans
parent as a window pane." Ah, this war has
been a rich harvest for Curtin and the infamous
scoundrels associated with him in schemes of
robbery and speculation. They have been well
paid for their monk patriotism, and can now take
their pla,pes in that new class of society so pre
valent at all fashionable watering places, known
as " the shoddy aristocracy."
•We repeat, then, we would be sorry to see
Curtin forced from the political track, not be
cause we believe the result of the election would
be changed, but because we desire to see the
people pass judgment upon Ida public acts. We
want especially to see the verdict of the
people of this valley, who were robbed of tens
of thousands of dollars by the hordes of Jeff.
Davis, who were invited by coward Abolitionists
to make the invasion. Curtin and hie party had
been, for weeks previous to the invasion, engaged
in publishing to the world the devilish lie that a
majority of the people of this State were favor
able to the rebels, and would "receive them
with open arms " as soon as they entered upon
Pennsylvania soil. The Rebels took the Aboli
tionists at their word, and did enter our State,
and rob our people of their substance, Had
Curtin wanted, he could, with all ease, have
prevented the rebels gaining a foothold in Penn
sylvania. He had ample warning of their ap
proach, but instead of going to work to prevent
their ingress, he occupied some six or eight days
in pleading with the Washington corruptionists
to llama him to use the power of the State
against the devastating foe. Had we had a man
instead of an imbecile in the Governor's chair,
no rebel would have dared to enter our valley
and rob our people.
Let Curtin remain on the track, then—do,
Messrs. Republican Blacksnakes, oblige us—so
that the people may have an opportunity to put
him upon his trial and render their verdict.
That verdict will be "guilty, anurv, GUILTY.—
Carlisle Volunteer.
REPEAL OF THE TONNAGE TAX.
THE GIGANTIC SWINDLE,
Tax-payers of Berke County ! you have an
account to settle with Gov. Curtin. The Legis
lature of this State, in 1861, released by law, the
Penneylvania Rail Road Company from the pay
ment of Tonnage Tax, which deprived the State
of a just revenue to the amount of some three
hundred thousand dollars a year! Nay more, at
that time the Rail Road owed the State seven
hundred thousand dollars for the two previous
years tax. The Legislature, in a section of the
same bill repealing the Tonnage Tax, wiped out
this debt! So by this one act of the Legisla
ture—which was then composed of a two-thirds
Republican majority in both Houses—the State
sustained a loss of the Tonnage Tax, then
amounting to $200,000 a year (it would be a mil
lion a year by this time,) and also the $700,000
that was due her!
Gov. Curtin engineered this plundering Bill
through the Legislature and placed his signa
ture to it. Remember these feats, people of
Barks, when you go to vote in (Weber.
CRIMINAL WASTE.
Our telegretphio dispatches from Washington
gave ue, a day or two ago, the following inter
esting information to tax-payers;
WAISHENGETON, Sept. U.—During the present
week a visit to Alexandria has brought to light
some facts showing the negligence in the Quar
termaster's Department at that point. There
are now in the Government storehouses over two
hundred and fifty thanes/Rd bushels of grain,
which has been allowed to remain there for so
long a time, through the negligence of those in
authority, that it has become entirely unit for
use, and is to be sold for what it may bring.
There are also hundreds of tons of hay in the
same condition."
Thus we go. Waste! waste! waste! With an
enormous public debt, on which the interest
alone will be more than a hundred millions a
year, and to the principal of which we add two
millions a day, one would suppose that our public
servants (or masters as they now rate them
selves) would be quite content with the pace at
which we are traveling the downward road, with*
out accelerating our progress by such enormous
waste as is recorded in the above dispatch. Think
of it, tax-payers ! Two hundred and fifty thous
and bushels of grain and hundreds of tons of
hay rendered unfit. for use at dm 00Yernment ,
depot by the neglect of officials to whom you
pay high salaries ! Is it surprising that under
such management we should behold, as we do
daily, signs of an approaching general and aw
ful uprising of a betrayed, outraged, plundered
people I'
The Administration Not the Nov-
ernmenL
Judge Pearson (Republican) of Dauphin coun
ty, in a recent Charge said:
Nor " Do not misunderstand me on this sub
ject. Men have the most unlimited right to con
demn, and if you please, rail at the National
Adminiatration, and object to the manner in
which it conducts public affairs, but not to decry
the government under which we live, or express
hopes or wishes for a dissolution of the Pinion,
the destruction or defeat of our armies, the suc
cess of the rebels or of the rebellion. * * The
Administration he may entirely condemn ; the
Government he is bound to support. Parties will
always exist in every free country,and the question
whether men will sustain or oppose a particular
administration, is one in which there should ever
be the most perfect freedom of opinion, but no
man or set of men has any right, natural or
political, to overturn the government itself. He
is bound to support and sustain it, let who will
administer its affairs, until the ruler can be
changed under the provisions of the Constitn
don. There certainly can be no difficulty with
persons of ordinary intelligence drawing the
distinction between sustaining the government
itself, and sustaining or opposing • those who
temporarily administer its affairs. The latter is a
question of party, the former of pabwilim."-Sli