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VOL 19.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. JANUARY 10, 1861.
NO. 51.
Published hy TllCOdorC ' Sbhocht
terms. Two dollars per annum in ndvancc to
dollars and a quarter, half yearly-anil if not paid be-
orc inc cnu ql mc year, .Tio dollars andah.uf.
No pancrsdisnonunued until all arrearages are paid,
'"i&Adwtt
one or three insertions, $100. Each additional inscr,
- ' " cenls- h0clJLliu
JOB SH.f iTS$ G.
llaving a general assortment of large, plain and or
?criSn JiPC,lVC are prcp:ircd 10 cxccutiCreryde
IF3 5VWt3?? P"TilSSSfS,ICSS',Sfi
r-mi , cnKr nm Head!. Notes, oiank Receipts,
Justices, i.eg-.a ana oiner iiianivs, i anipinuu--. prin-
ted with neatness and despatch, on raasointolc tctins
at this office.
Pennsylvania Legislature.
Both branches of the General Assem
bly of this State were promptly organi-
zed, on Auesday tbe 1st mt , by tne elec-,of th(J orjnio of Kidnappin under tho great inconvenience, io him; but tho com- tertainedby me, and while I am sinccre
Xion of llcpublican officers throughout. 1 Pennsylvania statute of 1 826 was never plete and perfect remedy now provided ly. of the"opinion that their general adop
Robert M. Palmer, of Schuylkill, wa actually passed upon, either by tbe court by tho act of Congress of 1850 renders' tion, and faithful enforcement, would have
chosen Speaker of the Senate, having 26 or jury, in the ('ounty of York, or by tho him entirely independent of State officers, preserved, and may yet restore, peace
vote: (M'CIure, ab.-cnt) and Shiudcl 6. j Supremo Court of tho State. The jury And tho punishment of arrests without and bjarmouy to all sections of our coun-
Mr. Errett of Pittsburg was re elected
Clerk Mr. Ramsdell,
Vcuango,
Assis-
tant.
Transcribers G.
Berry, F. Hitchcock.
Scrgcaut nt-Aruis
and J. K. M'Afee.
W. Patton, G. S.!
!
Herman Ycrkcs'
Door Keepers John h. Martin, J. 15.
Heincs aud Georc liubt.
Messenccr W. H Huddleon and
Wilbur G. Bower (of Danville Alton
can )
Librarian Wm. P. B
rad y.
In thy llou.-e, EHr-ha W. Dvis, of section of the act of 1826, under which
Venango, (the candidate of the Railroad J tiJe indictment against Prigg was framed,
companies) was chosen Speaker, having ' Wns almo-t literally copied from the sev
71 votes to 27 for Dr. Hill of loutgome- Culh section of the act of 1788. to which
ry ! JJemocrats uDeut. j3 construction had already been gtven by
Clerk E II. Raucb, of Lehigh coon-j the highest judicial tribunal of the State
ty. Assistant E. W. Capcrou, of Ches-j of Pennsylvania, where it was held to
ter. jhaeno application whatever to the rc-
Trancribins Clerks C. W. Walker, ! taoral 0f
a lave by the master or his a
Philad.; W. II. Denoiton, Pittsburg; W-1 gent, with or without a warrant. Such
A. Ntchol", 31'Kcan; John R- Porter.
i
Schuylkill.
Post M aster II. A.
Wayao.
Serjeant at Arms J. R
Woodhousc,
Matthews, J
Philada. As-i-tntit James
Gubtrs.
Philada ; J. C. Sturdevant, Crawford;
Jno. Mccklin, Armstrong; Casper Gang,
AUegbcny.
Door-Kecpcr E. D. Picket; Erie.
Assistants Y. Gardy, Philad.; J. R
Miller, Lawrence; Wm. Lrwis, Bradford;
Henry Liough, Bucks.
Messenger II. G. Gibon, Mercer
Gov. Packer's Last Message is a mo
derate docurtnt, showing tho State Debt
reducod nearlv Two Millions of Dollar?
during his administration, and a cheering
prospect if our finances be properly man
aged. He oppose the Central Railroad's
cfaims for favors from the Legisluture,
but Brgues for the Sunbury & Erie. Se
cession ho holds to be really Nullification,
and both should be treated as rebellion
if attempted to be carried out by force.
Pennsylvania has given no just cbuso for
offence, in her Personal Liberty bills or
otherwise but would repeal almost any
guard against kidnapping, and allow
slaveholders to pass through Pennsylva
nia with their (-laves, or keep them on
our soil ms months at a time, to propitiate
tbe Slave Power. His remedy for the
elavcry agitation is popular sovereignty.
The free school system is highly prosper
ous, and the Farmers' High School also.
A reform in the custody of State, monies,
is aain urged. Not a word for Kansas
or tbe Tariff.
Below wo give the conclusion of the
Governor's Message :
The Srat act of Congress providing for
the rendition of fugitives from justice or
labor, was passed in 1793, and originated
from the refusal of the Governor of Vir
(ed
ginia to surrender and deliver up, on the
requisition of tbe Govornor of Penn.ylva-:
.u uA hnr indj-fo.i :
m,iu.Prr " Vn "J npJro
Pennsylvania for kidnapp ng a negro
and carrying b,m nto
when it was found that this Liougresston-,
, ' , . rr j nlo ananAr,
al statute did not afford a ftmple, speedy i
01 . r r r
and efficient remedy lor toe recovery oi
r,,;,; frn labor. the Ledslaturo of.waa uoue UJ lue aui
Prun vlrania at tbo request of the ad-!
f . ' A, III.:?. .ofl c.
loiumir State 01 .uarviauu, iu iw--,
" . . " .... - l ; : u
ed her act "to give cuect, io u.. F,u"'lwua1
tf the Constitution of the United States,
.
V4 kU V vvuuhm"-"
relative to fuaitiees from labor,
r a. I
ior ihu,
nrotectiori of free people of color, and to v j r
proitcuu u. t .iiannf1 tics, our judges and magistrates from ao
prcveBt kidnapping. ' 1 his excellent and '"i uu J s e
r ,, V,0 f 11 ,t,0 .:,,;, t n2 unJer any act of Coogres, or other
well considered law met ell the exiting , lu?? . ( (
t. j .t. t..- 1 wise takine luridiction of the cat-e of a
emergencies. ii qu.rBu - -vS...
Justices of tbe Peace and Aldermen oi
i.- Q- ,nn tho oath of the o a maut.
tUU mww ' '
tn iKmifi their warrant ior me arresu
. . , , , . - - A i.:
any fugitive irom iaoorap
Statq directing howerer, that juch war -
rants should be made rc
soever issued before a Judge ot the prop-
er county. It required suerms auu oou -
stables to execute such warrauts
thorized the commitment of tho f
4n lm nniinl.v lall. unii otberWISC Ul
ProviSions to secure '"""
and at tho same time to prevent its abuse
This law continued quietly in operation
until the decision ot tne M o
ofle Umted States, made in 1
the case of Prigg agt. The Commonwea tb
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owe m7 bo" bVi.il"stted : Ed ward
.HL Oort of Over
fl.y. hi.ilnrn nf thta
anu wiuti ji Aula u'iuui.j , -
j m F vnrk Mnnnttr tnp irirt-
i j 1 lt
Dapping a COIOreu peiauu, uauieu img-
Dippiug vwm.- r-"- o
ret Morgan. Upon the trial it appeared
xi.-. i IIri 14 11 awe in the atnte
3TKita.l. 3 tbat sbe escaped i.
'pointed, by tho owner of the slave tosciao
"" arrest her as a fugitive from labor.
In pursuauceof this .authority, and under
.. j . -r m
a warrant itsued by a Justice of the Face,
caf tbo negro woman to be ar-
rested, and without having obtained any
'warrant of removal, be delivered her to
'cr ov,rDer n tue State of Maryland.
These facts were found by a special ver-
, diet, and by the agreement of counsel, a
judgment was entered against Prigg.
Frota tbLa judgment a writ of error was
laKcn io me ouprerao Liouri or tne state,
where a proforma judgment of affirmanco found with its temper than its want of and a form of government; but to tho peo
!wan Bgain by agreement, entered, and the constitutionality. pie themselves belongs tho right to regu-
casc removed to the Supreme Court of
the United States.
It will be observed that the question,
trlmf hnr Tilflnrnril P r I r rr urn- rntill o miilrn
merely found the tacts, and the actiou of
both courts was but a matter of form.
In the argument and determination of
the case, in the Supreme Court of the U
nited States, it appears to have been ta
kru for granted that our aot of 1826
made it a criminal offense for a master to
take his .-lave out of this State without a
'warrant of removal; and, upon this con-
truction. tho act was declared unconsti-
tutiounl and void. This, I t-uhmit, was a
i clear misapprehension of the purport and
, meaning of our lecislatiou. The first
was the undoubted law of the State under
tho statute of 178, aud in re-tnacticling
jtbat statuie, in the act of 1826, with an
inoreaSed penalty, it is manifest that tho
iDtcntion and obiect of the Legislature
was to protect free persons of color, and
to punish those 'who, by fraud, force or
violence, were guilty of kidnapping, and
holding or selling free men as slaves.
This the Slate had a clear right to do;
and nothing but a miscon-truction of her
i act could nave mduccd tbe declaration
that it was forbidden by tbe Constitution
of the United State.-. It is perfectly clear
that Edward Prigg had committed no
crmie in removiujj Margaret Morgan from
the State of Pennsylvania to the State of
Maryland, and delivering her up to her
owner; and it h equally clear ttiat no at
tempt was made, by the statute of Penn
sylvania, to declare bis act a crime. He
should bave been dchared, not becau-o
the act of the State was unconstitutional,
but because he had not transgressed its
commands.
The SupremeCourt of the United States
not only pronounced the particular sec
tion of the aot of 1826, then before them
unconstitutional, but a majority of the
Court held that the whole act was void,
because tho power to provide for the ren
dition of fugitives from labor was vested
exclusively in Congress, and the several
States were, therefore, incompetent to
pass statutes either in aid of, or to hinder,
delay or prevent, the delivery of such fu
gitives. That this was the extent of the
deci.-ioo, as delivered by Jude Story,
not only appears from the opinions of tbe
majority, but also from the dissenting o
pinious deliverod by the minority of tbo
Court. By thi uufortunate decision, it
was authoritatively proclaimed that Pcnn-
jsylvania, in enacting her liberal statute
of 1S26, making it tbo duty of her own
officers to aid in arresting and delivering
P from labor, mistaken her
constitutional obligation, and that her aot
was in violation of, rather than obedience
Con,tilutio ' of thc UDited States.
SUcb circumstances, it was the
0 ' . ,
man fest dutr of tbo State to repeal her
"",u"c ,..
fhurt Act nrnd iincon.Htltutlonal. 1 hin
- u .
act had contained nothing more than a
repeal of tbe law of 1826. and the re-en-
( u
acuncui oi rue law. asainsi muuauuiuu, ii
fiA rirtt hnna Ka a n cnhinnt tn fl n 17 HIST
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. .LrT," ZZf J7un
' I'lllllll Hllll. 1 JUL L1I13 LIIIIU OTVLlUU KJ I bUU
r .
- .
r1 ' ':m..;MBM.nl
of the tumultuous and notour arrest of a fu-
"u FUU,!,UB uuu r
pitie slave, bv anv person or persons,
, tJcate a brcacb of tbe pttWio
Tho .J tbe
v for the detention of
, , renealed in 1852. and
aU- ' u& r f " " b a .
tiVe need only be referred to as showing the Bnrl make all needful rules and rcgula
a general spirit of tbe act. Tbo seventh tions respecting thc territory and other
lprl the nrovision-i of the act
of 17tj0. hieh authorized persons passing
fo
fa hn?nnrnfr- th.
WHU lueui, uu j
. tbe;r fi,3ves ioto tbe State,
any period not
and re
CiujuK
! The provisions of tbo .bird aod fourth
...U.P.f .be t ot .847 .0 have
r i . , - -
hAnii nrfliiictcu udou inu i"nuaKl-
Q.,,. ,m nnrf in Priira S Case.
It is
uujjii,uju uw-.v - --on
.... , f. f th- Beveral States
there ed fbtbe se eral t te
o.ber offieer., froB eSerei,ioK a-
mav Droniou lueir owu "J-
in virtac of the Constitution of the United
States, is clothed with power, in every
State of the Union, to seize and recap-
. l- i i it
ture bis slave, be must, nevertheless, do
so without using any illegal violence, or
committing a breech of the peaco. It ia
evident that the framer of the'aotof 1847
bad closely studied the case of Prigg agt.
Tbe Commonwealth of Pennsjlvania, and
bad kept bis Law strictly within its let-
ter. In many respects, the act is a cod-
iGcation of tbe principles enunciated by
tno uourt; anu more iauic may justly do
If fugitive slaves were still claimed un
' der the act of Congress of 1793, tbe de-
nial to tbe master of tbe aid of State jud-
no n nil mo ntatra too mintit nA n ennrnn nf
warrant, by a master, in tbe exeroise or
! his constitutional riyht of recapture; but
mado in a vio!ent,.tumultuous and unrea-
.. -
eonable manner aouountinc to a breach of
the peace, is but recognizing, by statute,
what was before the common law.
sections were
penal code of
re-enacted in the revi-ed
Pennsylvania at the last
session of the Legislature, and are still
tho law of tbe State; but they are not now
of any practical importance, and as their
retention ou our tatute book is calcula
ted to create the impression that the peo
ple of this Stato are unfavorable to the
execution of the Fugitive Slave law, and
the discharge of their confederate duties,
and with the view of removing this sub
ject of reproach. I earnestly recommend
their unconditional repeal.
While a niaiority of the Judges of tbe
Supreme Court of the United States, in
th'- Prigs case, held that a State had no
constitutional right to provide by legisla
tion for delivering up fugitives from labor,
a minority were then of tbe opinion
that State laws, consistent with, and in
aid of, the constitutional injunction, were
valid and proper And this minority o
pinioo is now the judgment of the pres
ent Court, as recently indicated in a case
which arose in the State of Illinois.
There is, therefore, nothing to prevent
tbo revival of the act, of 1826, and it
restoration to the place in our code to
which, by its merits-, it is so justly enti
tled. This would leave to ,he optiou of
tho claimant, whetber bo would seek his
remedy under State or iationai laws.
He had this right before the repeal of our
act of 1826, and, in my opinion, no good
reason can be assigned for refusing to
can ne assigned ior
place him again in the same position
I would also recommend that the con
sent of the State be given, that the mas
ter, while sojourning m our State, ior a
limited neriod. or nassins throueh it. may
be accompanied by his slave, without lo- ' round us, I am satisfied that it would be ducts to New Orleans and Mobile, has
sing bis right to his service. While such sanction by the people of Pennsylvania. been going on and gainiug strength these
legislation is due to the comity which ( At all events, they should bave an oppor- ten years, till even in tbe ordinary course
should ever -exist between the different tunity to acoept or reject it, if made as a 0f trade, the Cotton of Northern Missis
States of this Union, it would undoubted- peace-offering. I would, therefore, re- 8ippi and Alabama bas been finding it
ly tend greatly to restore that peace and commend tbe General Assembly to in- way to Northern shipping ports overland,
and harmony which are now so unwisely struct and request our Senators and Rep- The least additional obstruction at .those
periled. By it Pennsylvania would con- rosontatives in Congress to support a prop- ports will widen and increase that diver-
cede no principle we would simply be
fallin? back nnon our ancient Dolicv. a-
dopted at a timo when our people were , or rejection, to a Convention of delegates and eastward, to Baltimore, Philadelphia
themselves struggling for tbeir rights, and elected directly by tho people of the State. and New-York. Or, if Baltimore should
never departed from, until, by a miscon- 1 tho ovent of tho failure of Congress become a seceding port, then, of course,
ception of its meaning, one of our most 'to propose this, or a similar amendment, he must relinquish all her existing ad
important statutes was declared unconsti- 1 to the Constitution, the citizens of Penn- vantages of position,
tutional. isylvania should have an opportuny, by This whole Secession movement is thus
.- . j tho application of some peaceable reme- o onro moan3 of develonine and incroas-
r i i if t?
seven years, Pennsylvania, herself a fcree
o.i. 3 iu :.:o f
H'rnm i Mil to I Pl.l Jl TIRTIOU QI SIXLV-
v, ' -u: i:;fn nuu
?...W.!,ih."i'
. 1 , . 3 v ... Q.nf
niv tnnnlhc onrl tn nsiQR thrnilin the otatC.
; ,. ' - r rj.
in travelmc from one State to another,
r e ii i l w- ir,
free from all molestation. Wa? sho in-
, e , r Am
J . t, f - j, u;a
retarded, by the friendly grant of this
orivilcce ? Ihis question cannot bo
r , , , , . 1 a- . u..f
truthfully answered in the ffi ' f ut
,t may be safe y averred that by ol ang.ng
n.if nnlinn in fhirt rflanpef. Wft tiaVQ in SOmO
; , . . aiiented from us tho
uu. r,vj.u.u. . r
i j-b- . . .,nA
lee.ings o. iraierea Bm " '
togethcrso closely tne Hscerucuu , o.an.
T.-f ilr, rpn,.w th s n nde of amitv i
jj un, " . r-- B- rf
and friendship, and once more extend a
Uui v wn come to the citizens of oor com-
- L..L-. .:u;t; nnhni
j .
mOll COUIHrj, WUCIUCI ininuj uo
nens or. pleasure, uotwithi-tanding they
may be accompanied by those who, un
der the Constitution ond tho laws, are
held to service aud labor.
The Territories of tho United States
belong to the General Government, and
in thoso territories tbe people of tho 8ev-
Q efltioDab, bave equal
They were acquired by means
comnioIf expeuditure of blood and
treasure. Bv the Federal Constitution
r ! aiven to Coosress "to dispose of
rtv rieloiinrinff to the United States!
Whether under this, or any other power
conferrflll by the Constitution, Congress
i.:ksi r mtt Slavnrv in the tcr-
vbu uiuui"" t" " j
ritories, has been seriously que.tioned.-
Rut, if the power to legislate upon tbi.
, Unt aubjeot wero oear.
I .
1, ..atod ,. Coo.re.s i. mJ gd,y
0gb. o. o , -. Jo declare
To declare
j - . .
tories, is calculated to exclude trom tneir
occupancy tbo citizens ot the oouioeru ur
P y
. . . ' . . .... m ..
legal institution in all tbe Territories of tbe
Td f brou,bt o ligbi.
' during their entire territorial existence,
would be equally injurious to the people
of the Free States. The prinoiplc adoD-
ted in the Compromise measures of 1950
for disposing of the question Slavery in
Now Moxico and Utah, and reiterated in
, the Kansas and Nebraska bills of 1854,
of non-intervention by Congress with Sla-
very in the Territories, is the true rule.
It is the duty of Congress, when sufficient
numberof hardy and adventurouspioneers
find their way into our distant territories,
io iurnisn tnem a shield of protection
late their own domestic institutions in
their owu way, subject only to the Cousti-
tution of the United States.
1 Whi'ln tkon r,;.o I. 1 1
try, 1 am nevertheless not so wedded to
tbem as to reject, unceremoniously, all
. . ' ' i
other propositions for tho settlement of
the vexed questions which now threaten to
sunder tbe bonds which, for tbree-quar-
ters of a century, bavo made us one Deo-
! pie. Forty years ago, our fathers hettled
j an angry controversy growing out of a
similar question, by dividmg the Ternto-
ries purchased from France, and provi-
ding that slavery, or involuntary servi
tudo. should not exist north of a certain
line; and
the whole couutrv acauiesced
in that compromise.
In 1854, that re-
striction upon Slavery was removed, and
tbe people of all the Territories were left
free to decide the question for themselves.
Now the sectional issue is again present
ed, by the dominant party in the North,
claiming that Slavery cannot legally go
into the Territories, even if sanctioned by
Congress, or tbe Territorial Legislature;
and that it is the rig"bt. and duty of Con
gress to prohibit its existence
While the doctrine which obtains with
a majority of the people in most of the
Southern States is that, under the Consti
tution, the Territories are all open to Sla
very; that neither Congress nor the Terri
torial Legislature can lawfully prohibit
its existence, and that it is the duty of
Congress to provide for it all needful pro-
I taction: mav we not wisely follow the or-
ample of our fathers, by re-enacting the
old compromise line of 1820, aud exten- wj De thrown upon them. We look,
ding it to the boundary of California ? - therefore, for a decided advance in coast
Not by the means of legislation of doubt- w;se freight all through the coming Spring
j mi constitutionality, nut oy an amena-
ment to the Constitution it-elf, and thus
permanently fix the condition of the Ter-
j ritories, so that those who desire to occu-
py them may find a home, at their dis-
oretiou, either where slavery is tolerated
or where it is prohibited. Tf tho adop-
tion of such an amendment would peace-
hHj 8etlle the difficulties which now sur-
osition for such an amendment to the Con-
stitution, to be sobmittod for ratification
'. ...
dy, to prevent the dismemberment of this
T .
Uunion. 1 his can only be done by oall-
iK a Convention of delegates, to be olco-
ted b, th. people, with8. vi.w olel, to
tbo consideration of what measures should
....
be taken to meet tho present fearful exi-
T r , . ,
gencies. If Congress should propose no
o ..... b . e e .
remedy, let it emanate from the source or
all authority, tbe people themselves.
f rt of indi
i r K , .r . . , ,
i viduals or of oraanized sooieties to lead
the peoplo awafr0U1 their allegiance to
the FGoFcrnnjent to induoe them t0 vio-
. . ' . . .... .
lato any of the previsious of tbe Constitu-
tion, or to incite insurrections in auy of
. tho States of this Union, ought to be pro-
. .
nro r.Q nrimnf) nf a treasonable
hibited by law as crimos of a treasonable
. t. a- - : . . .
. u f tbjs Uni tbat
, ,f ; . J. ,B . . '
j nature. xi ia oi iuu urc t nupui iouuc iu
1 tne nearts oi tne people, anu me acuoo
of tbeir constiiuted authorities, should be
in unison in giving a faithful support to
the Constitution of tbe United States.
The people of Pennsylvania are devoted
mm
tn thn fTntnn Thv will follow its stars
and its stripes through every peril. But,
before assuming the Inch responsibilities
ninv llimln f n roall ! ll n VLU'A it 14 tllPIT Sfll-
nlainr, .iinint thomselves. so that thev
may stand before High Heaven and tbe
civilized world without fear and without
reproach, ready to devote their lives and
tbeir fortunes to the support of the best
form of government that baa ever been .
devised by tho wisdom of man.
Wm F. Packer.
Executive Department,
Harrisburg, Jan. 2, 1861.
fgyThore is good foundation for the
(opinion that tbo Administration, and ma-
ny connected with it, preter tue destruc
tion of the Government to an exposure
which a new Administration will gio to
tho country. Monstrous robberies, liko
tbat in which Seoretary Floyd is impli-
ated I, it is feared have been numerous,
rr, wVu..fiU .
ignominy.
Commereial Aspects of Secession.
Special Correspondent of The Tribune.
Washington, Dec. 29 i860.
Tho South Carolina movement and
tho execution of tbe designs of the other
seceding States is going to be of vast ad
vantage to Northern trade and commerce.
Tho secession ordinances will at ouce close
all their direct trade with foreign couo through the imbecility and cowardly con
tries, and their whole business must be duct of Pre.-ident Buchanan, has turned
transacted through tbe coastwise ehan- the eyes of tbe bole country towards
nels. New-York City will thus receive a him. It is natural to learn who he is
large accession to her coastwise and for- and what are hi antecedents. Major
eign shipments, and New-England ship- Anderson is a Kentuckian, and about fif
ping acquire an extraordinary stimulus, tj-'i years old. He U a Rraduate of
No cotton, rice, sugar, or tobacco, an go West Point. In 133 be wm promoted
direct to Europe from Southern ports, af- to a firt lieutenancy, nd in 138 a
tor s'ecession, but every bale, tierce, and niade captain by brevet for gall-airy a
bogsbcad, must find its way to'markut gainst the Florida Indian-.. Dunn tho
through the coasting trade, and be tran- Mexican war he endured many bar-Miips
shipped at Northern ports for its markets severely wounded io th assault on
abroad. Commerce is peace. No ship- the works at Molino del Riy, and was
owner bent on profitable buninesf., at all then made Major by brev&t tor bis gal
are, will take any risk of the detention, laut conduct. Whn the news o.f his
: c..t: r l: Tl movement from Fort Moultrie to Fort
;m i i, ; r
mil uui) ocuu ul VJ, nucio u io puiui
xr -oafli ;a t,OTnfnU mnt, fin.ifh tn pm.
i k.i. a u:i. iJ3 :iL,. k0tv..t...i
or dangerous. The foreign trade will be.
! 'pu i.. ;n t v,n Ti, in..
i cvitable consequence will bo a largely in-
orcaaed demand for coasting tunnage to
C0DVeJ Southern products North, and a
large and unwonted influx of foreign and
doaicsltjc shipping at the Northern ports,
:u ... xr. v.i, , ...,,-., ,i
.t, ti.;
Hn.,hlP fmrmnnrfation will rnnnirfl an in.
oreased number of vessels, ond thus it i -
inevitable that thee Southern Secession
movements should give a great impulse
to the shipping iuterest. If Maryland
should join tbo Seceders, Baltimore and
tho Chesapeake Bay would be thrown out
of all participation in these advantages,
and the New-York and New-England
harvest be all tbe greater.
ut. the im-;
pulse is going to be very sensibly felt by
American tunnaie, whether the Chesa
peake Bay shipping participates in it or
not. or an me cireci carrying iraue n ,
foreicn bottoms now conducted from the.
For all the direct onrrymg trade m
Southern shipping ports, will be ced faith in Buchanan or bis advisers. Tbey
into American coastwe vessels, Me ! deem him whofly inidcqatle to the exi
the foreien vessels cannot participate in . e.x i ..-.iu ,..ft,;n
the COMgnff lradc. and it w, hti jifficall
Z: J..D nf cin
under any circumstances, to get coasung,
m0nths.
Another mode. by which the Secession
movement is going to stimulate Northern
trado and industry, i by diverting an in-
creased quaotity of the produce of the
Misissippi Valley northward and east-
ward over the railroads. This reversal
nf the original mode of transacting the
business of that valley by eending its pro
8ion, until the main current of trade may
b0 i00n found to be oberland, northward
i o
jDC Northern tr
luj, uununu
remarkable dec
trade
and commerce, to a
And its oommer-
tree.
0jal aspeots are alone amply sufficient to
pot U Ldor eo-.rol. If M B.pUi..
stand firm, the whole movement is juit
.
as sure to collapse as time is to roll
a" r . . .
r0und. Tho pressure and ruin arising
' . v. j i n( tr?,
from the suspension and reversal ot trade
at the Gulf and other Southern ports, and
eheDs5on of ner0 insurrection
, . . . ci
and lawless invasion in tho border Slave
, States, will force overboard the leading
politioal revolutionists and cover them
wv....
with obloquy and disgrace. iJotter men
will ari-e to fill their places, aud patriot-
i3m will resume its sway oyer faction and
' tranunn
treason
The power of the Federal Government
. onjniJotent in tbis emergency, and it
v .... ,
can control events witn periect easu, uu"
without any application of force, except
that of a ncyatio aud defensive charac-
-
'See'how Executive imbecility abdicates
i -H fl'rk Mrwioomr t fit T. iT n T. II fi tz i MU. Irt LU
; i'n.1 fn notions, and allows itself to be
itself to be
, bluffed and dragooned by tbo bluster of
It is painful to be un-
tho revolutionists
I nlllinn nlinnog
And
that tho whole
! world n.ut look upon the men who havoltbey havo wronged
, been cho.-en to fill the chief placos of the
Republic, with contempt and uorision
Tbeso considerations increase tbe lm
with which the efforts of the
flomnromisers to break the Republican
lino and foroo tho Government to sue
dictation, are regarded.
c
The whole question involved is whether period of twentyfive years, 4,1 1,-tbi-Government
ehall control Slavery, or 709 hogsheads valued at 8243,1 ;39,260
whether Slavery shall control tbo tiov- and that ot ton quaniuy tne xvuani.o
ernment. One would think tho compro- ports took 2,4S0,6.,3 hotheads, and tho
misers might by this time -ee tho iasue. Weftorn States 2.314,454 hogsheads.'
Tho slaveholders assort thoir royal pro- It should be remembered that tho sugar
rocativo to govern thi country by de- crop of Louisiana is fully proteoted by a
olarinir that Cotton is King. This is on- duty on foroign sugars of twonty.four per
lv a modest way they have of assorting cent, and should she secede her grott erop
that tho Negro is King. It is now sim- would be brought into direct competition
nlv a question of whether be shall be do- with tho sugar orop of the West India Is
poed, and the White Man take bis place, slands, with which sho has.oever jattoen
Tho people having decreed tho chaogo,1 ablo to competo without such promotion.
our compromisers step in to prevent the
coronation. They had. much better step
' aside and let eventsprogrcss in their nat
ural order J. S. P.
Major 'Anderson.
The peculiar -and -trying situation in
which this gentleman has been placed
Sumcter was received at WaHhin.'ton. the
r .. . .
' whole community seemed relieved, be-
cause all felt that now the cesioniit3
were much hampered if not shut up.
All
dis-
over tbe country, except anions tbe
unionists, the amc feeling prevailed. In
' liule Delaware twenty-one uns ncre fired
n honor of the event. It h well known
that Gen. Scott approves of hi. couduct,
although it was not perhaps embraced in
his orders. But he was rdaeed there to
nroteot government property, the Presi-
dent would not give him men
enough to
; hold all, and by gout to Port Sumpter,
!he would be in ,lch a f'ilion a- to com -
mand all, and, therefore, wo think him
justified.
The Causo of Panics.
PaniC3 ordiuarily. not always, resutt
. . ... ,.,.. i,.f :a nnt
from a want of coufideno in the material
resourcesofthe country which were uev
er so abundant but from a want of con-
fidence !n tfce triotism anc, stauiiQa of
. rP,. i
' Iraf ec,,"J BB"'"'''r
affi,;fllioLl witb those wbo, by
disturb the commercial equanimity oi tbo
country. With an "I Id Hickory" in the
Executive Chair, there would be no Panic;
because, with saoh a man to hold trai
tors to their allegiance, and States to
their place in the Union, there would be
no fear ot a violent severance ot the noons
which bind the Confederacy together, nor
of an embargo upop the open channels of
trado and commerce.
S7Tho naturalized German and Irish
citizens who voted for Breckinrigdc and
Lane, tho disunion candidates at the lato
election, would perhaps like to know what
i? thought of thorn by the secessionists at
the South The extract from thc Helena
(Ark ) Shield, a Democratic paper, which
we publish below, might open their eye
a little, if such a thing wero po-sible. It
will bo noticed that the disunioniats go
flatly fora excluding foreigners entirely
from the right of suffrage. The Shield
remarks:
"It is a gratifying reflection to know
that tho great majority of tho Southern
Democracy favor the exclusion of for
eigners from the richt of suffrage in case
a Southern confederacy is formed. We
bave conversed with a great number of
sensible, influential Democrats, on tbis
subject, of late, and thry almost univer
sally concede the necessity of ueh retrie
tion, it being fO perfectly pipable tbat
the foreign element of the couutry,, com
bined with native antt -lavery votes, so
cured Lincoln' election."
jJReinerol)er that tho republicans
have never yet hid thc control of a sin
gle branch of the federal govern rueut.
Whatejer wroni; the South hsve fuffer
ed tho republicans are not responsible
for.
Remember that the locofoco havo had
(the general government in tbeir hand al
most steadily for aiort than thirty yoara.
Tbey bjive had the cnnineorinir of public
affairs, and are fully responsible for what
has been done.
Bemember, that the slaveholders havo
; comroiiea mo iucuiuuu paikj iui umiji
years
Tho very men who are loud tor
j Secession are the ono who bave really
, Qau lue loucrai goTerouicui.
, thumbs
If they bave been wronged
themselves.
Louisiana Sugar. Let Louisiana
look
Out for .tier sugar.
A compiled statement of Mr. R Chm-
nomior, of the 8U;cr orop
of Louisiana
shows "tbat tbe total prodmt ot that
Stnte, from 1334 to 195S inclusively, a