WllllrT"""-p'''s, "'IIMBMmnmm-MminmMnwiBii . . : ffleuotcfc to politics, literature, agriculture, Science, iHoraliiij, emit encral intelligence VOL 20. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. FEBRUARY 7, isei. NO. 4, Published by Theodore Schoch. TERMS. Two dollars perannumin advance Two dollars and h quarter, half yearly and if not paid be- fore the end of the year, Two dollars simln hair. No p;icrsdNr.nniinucd until all arrearages aie paid, except at the option of the Ediioi. lE?AdertisemoiUs of onesnuare ften lines) or less- one or three insertions. 1 00 Each additional inscr. Xon.'SS cents. Longer ones in proportion. JOB t'KffiYTESG. liamcntal Typo, care prepared to execute every do taking sides against hit country. But, ecriptionof unfortunately for oil, it mattered not now OTCT SP&ESreSMT,, 'upon what side a man arrayed himsrlf, Cards, Circulars, Hill Heads, Notes. Blank Receipts, tUe crinP of treason wbm 4nri tn k Justices, Legal and other Blanks, Pamphlets. &c.,piln- lBe cnme ol Jreai,on W8S !ure to be char ted with neatness and despatch, on reasonable terms god against him. He would declare, nev al this olficc. j . . ' i Tinv nt n ppnnra aKsorirnpni. ni larne. m.im nno or- Dutv must be JUiscnarErcd. t Dauicl Webster, in the closing passage of his great argument, in 1H33. demon strating that the Constitution is not a compact between the States the same ppeech of which Mr. Madison wrote to him, "it crushes nullification, and mut hasten the abandoinent of secession" held tbis solemn, deliberate language: Disorder and confu-ion may indeed a rise; scenes of commotion and contest arc threatened, and perhaps may corno ,. , i 1 j t r 1 With my whole heart I pray for tbe con- tinuance of the domestic peace aud quitt of the couutry. I desiro most ardently uutry the restoration of affection harmony to all its parts. 1 dct-ire tbat every citi-: ; , u . ., J , , , . t . . , 1 . .. 'pending is.-ucs, be would -ubmit the whole zcu of the whole country may look to thisi . ln j , . , ,J J . ' cao to turm without one word of aru- govcrnment with no other seutiments but t j u ii 1 1 r w -fe, , . r 1 j - tueut, and be would have, he felt coovin- tho?e of crateiul repect and attaebmcnt. 1 1 j j- . T fr . 1 ced, a prompt and unanimous verdict on 3iut 1 cannot yield, even to kind feelings, ii ., .: i e . .1 1 f 1 - , " ' 1 ail the question1. But uofortuostt-ly, the cause ci the Constitution, the true 0 0-! ,t. ,1 . . . . . , . , , , , iiucr , they would not get a disinterested jury rv of the country, and the great trust : .1 . r j r : 1 J. . . , a , . , , ,N , , in that hou-e; and, more unfurtuoately, which we bold in our hands For succeed-; t 1 , mg age. If the Constitution cannot be . -s I .1 . W- . . w I welcome, itiey muM comu. nu cannot, wuica, iu our juugmcui, me uivy 01 lue i. l : : .j . . i. .. . .. r.. . i .1.1 Uuion requires. Not regardletB of con Bequences, we must yet meet eonsequen ee?; sceinc the hazirds which surround the discharge of public duty, it must yet J)e discharged. . The Inauguxation of Lincoln. The President elect will be e-corted to .'Washington by the StrinGeld (III ) 7ju ; aves. in spite of threats coming from avjy 'source. This coa csav is coujr.o-ed 01, 'source. J tits coa pany is coiur. young men who have for some TLontb past been under the instruction of Colo Del Ellsworth, and in drill they are said to be fully equal to the einumc original Zouaves. 1 Ley number sixty a.eu, and they have re.-olved to witnecs tbe inaugu ration of the Bail i-plitter at all hazards. We .have no iJea, however, tbat any at tempt will be made to prevent the inau guration of '0ld Abo" in the uua! man . .ncr. Chief Julicc Taney, who is as true as Ptecl totbe Uuion, ti prepared to do bis duty in any emergency, and hs- dc- elared that if his life is spared, he intend-j tiat these gentlemen whom he -aw around to administer tbe Prerideutial oath to'bioi could not meet the question in a spir Abraham Lincoln nt the Capital of the j it of patriotism ? If their con-tituent-Dotion; but should any interruption take could ee them, before they had thrown "place he will still administer to him the off their gowns of a aiornin, fr-sh from oatb,even if be should be required to go; to Illinois to do it. President Buchan an, in Jeply to the suggestion of appre bended difficulty at the inauguration of bis eucreseor, eniphatieally declared "Il I live till tbe 4tb of March I will ride to tbe Capitol with Old Abe, whether I am assassinated or not-" A Prayer for Major Anderson. An Indianapolis paper says that on last Sunday, iu that city, at the clo-iog exerci.-es of a meeting at one of the Meth odist Episcopal Churches, Bishop Ames, & man of Btrong Douglas Democratic sym pathies, though a patriot ftill, astonished and thril.ed the congregation by the fol- 1oh7.tht nraver: "We think thee, UI Uod, tbat wbile unu-uai counue nee, or ioiu uh jca.uua-trea-on stalks abroad in high placeB.jies. The fathers of tbo Republic knew there isouo aao who loves his country! I that men were wicked and corrupt, and one man wbo will defend his country ;that wa- the rea.-on they were sworu to fi.rl God bless and protect thr. gallant Ma ;otserve and uphold tbe ptinciples of the jor Anderson and his noble bandr I Conitution. Even the Father of his The "ameDj" which cauae up from the! Country was compelled to swear to sup brothern around, were loud and cutbusi-1 port the Con-titution which be bad help- t r j . . ... asttc, and when tno congregation I tl.n (.nn.rrptrntinn aro-fi from their knees, smiles and tears were seen Etruggliog in many a countenance. fxgrAn Englishman dining in a Chi nese village, was greatly enjoying a sa vory diab, nd would have expressed his pleasure iu . Oerstooa notn.ng ot ug.u - nr fpiond utter a word 01 uninese. 1 iiej put. roiutiug i iu juiiivju . 1..U... m f Ha ni irn nt frlOUI 1 rl the dtsb, and wnicu ne supposea 10 ue ; cock, tue ogiisumau, ..u ,u4"'' u" look, said "Quack, quack quack? Tbe waiter, gravely shaking h.; head, as 9 . t UK 1 r t . nvaot. nniiiMn . i much as to eay, "JNo, 'jepnea "iJow, wow, wowl" ftf7"The Cleveland Platndcakr, com- paring tbe staple products of tbe Soutb 'na:weM, say. . . "Cotton is a convenience, to be sure, -but Corn is a necessity. A man can live Without a shirt, but wbat can be do with- . out whiskey?" MiT A significant caricature is exbibi- ted iTtbo shop windows of Savannah, Ga I repreltr be Constitution as a cow w th South Carolina pulling at tbe taTthe animal threateningP to kick tbat fiUte in ocean if it does Sot meantime, is coolly cH'oJng to the udders, ' ..., of lip, iDdica,od 'M-t,'Zt" d ,d then ..me tbe que.tion. in(!ci.ioosly S.'V" "! T ,1? .. PATRIOTIC SPEECH OF THE Hon. W.T. JilHKIDGE, 01 Tennessee. ni;mH ;,. ,v. , IJ . i lelivered id tbe House ot Representa tivoa .Tam.,.rn )4 ou.j, nu. t Mr EtHERIDQB, (S. Am that in a contest like thia which now agi- tates fl, ,.ntr, h h f j tatea tno country, be a.uat not be found f h . . r . cnuvic?r, iu au unci.-, iuai m wnatover tie .1. I II -t niignt way, no would avoid no responsi bility of that sort. He would speak o penly and frankly, seeking neither to a- votd eensure or to elicit commendation. In whatever he said bo would be guided, ho hoped, by a strict regard to truth, and ouly utter such sentiments as were sanc tioned by his own judgment, aod approved by his on heart; aud as far as bo allu ded to facts, would adance nothing but what was ctrengthened by trath If a jury of twelve honest men, sworn to well I , 1.. ,l : j 1 . aud truly, try tbe msucsjniued between f n ti a i u u 1 , t0 no political partr liaviuo- no motives ln ,, 1 , ,t 1 av "S n5 .mo Ve9 nir v tf kllllNPrvn lull t ll o in(ari..t. nf tYta rtnim ,r.l.;f.i, ;., ... j i. , ttu;. .... -i ju.tice of tJjis tribunal for the settlement que.-tiou 01 tbe ratest importance , ,l , ,1 . , . , . . the would give repose to a di-traoted nnnnlo For tbe last sir weeks, ibe eves of every man, woman and child in the country had beeo renting upou this body, in hopes that something would be done. But if tbe people could only see them as they ere il they could uark their de liberations as they bad been, and what little hope there was of redte-s or setile aieiit at their band ihe knowledge thus 1 1 quired would have at once been used to arrect the tide of revolution, and would have been succesfull v directed to the snlvnlioo cf tbe couutry. Tbe interest o( thirty millions of people were involved iin this quarrel; aud here rhey had 2'.i6 meuibers, souie of whom bad reached their places on this floor by accident', but amoDi whom there nas not a man wbo did not represent an equal if not a -upe-lior body of states-men au.or.j ti-i corn-tit uent, nud yet they were told, m thi. pre precipitate age, tbat they could not or would not interfere to stay tbi.- tide of revolution aud that, therefore there was no hope 'or tbi- free people Hal it come to tli-. the in-pirattotis drawn Iroin a prru-al ot Tie i F Herald and The Tribune, and .iee them afterward come iuto that hall, with a stiffening of the backbone, ready to comprooii-c nothing or concili ate noltlun could they be seen with all their bopt-s and feara could their con stituents ee them then, they would ecoru tbe bazi'rd of intru-tin in such hands their glorious and pricele-s treures of liberty and peace They were told tbat they, forsooth, held the destinies of the country in their hands. As well might 3(J0 hackmen of New-York city, in Con vention a-euibltd, say that they held the deattnien of the country in their hands. Tbey were sworn to -upport tbe Con-ti tution, and yet they were upheld with an 1 hj :uii.. ca 10 raise, anu me reasou iuat uao iu duced the authors of tbe Constitution to make short the term of office was that people who elected men to rule over them might have an opportunity of removing them and electing better men in their pla- A. cc4, Aud it was said now tbat if iuw iuai 11 im-jr did not decide the issues the counfryf tbe country bio n,er(y would . . , - , . -1 . a. " 111 VJ1 lilt! IrUUUll f i U VWVM be jjcn rre) from i..lo. nnd n,.,.denBd noli- 1 tI0ias. If they did not adjourn the quar- Uq tbo , 00 tbal floor it could b e settled, and they would be re- sioIe for whatever e.ils might follow. spon." Wbat ritfht bad they to assume tbat tbey alone could settle the question of peace ? wot that alone, but the question involving be existence of the Government Tbey uaa not tnc r.gut iu u,,- forc be there announced in his place, lhat if ,be two bounce of Congress should ffl;i to come to a proper settlement of the question, before be .bouldeee them over- urn tbc temple of liberty, and crush out the last hopes of the people, and nurying them beneath the ruins, he would move an adjournment of the quarrel from tbem to tbe people of the country. But he would ddress-them on tho assumption tbat tbey were an honest Jury, and tbat they woild look on tbe question witb tbo eyeof reason, and deal with it by tbe light j of authority. Revolution was threatening t to subvert the institution of the country a revolution me niosD unattionzed, the mo-t unjustifiable and unpardonable that the world bad ever looked on a rev- nlllt.tnn O f iKa rr. r r fanrfiil Ann.Diniannau ... . . i . . . , . T . , -v-- . v. uuuuv. -wv. j, t, iuai, ueuiui biiuu 10 auoii'U siave mn,) Bald, f i, u i a .1 .. . . 1 1 .. ... , . . . . ! 7n u s V Z JJ looked on at the iropendnitr rum the nrnr.nutn,a tu--t.i u i.ui ouibubu. uuiu uuuiu nc yivcu iij b poiiiicai party, tlo meet the iue raised by these precip- a-aerted that no political party that had itaturs, fairly and frankly, and show ever risen in the country bad given euoh the madness -and folly of attempting to etroDg and solemn guarrantees to respect subvert tbis Government under which the slavery withiu the States. But this fact people of both sections had derived so was supres-ed by the politicians and many blessings. It was a reniarkable newspapers of tbo couutry, and the oppo fact that this revolution was not carried bite doctrine zealously inculcated into tho on with reference to anything in the past, public mind. What more bad the Re but waif solely carried on with reference publican party done? That what no to "ome dangers to be apprehended in the other party in the country bad formally future. 9 He would make one exception done thoy had denounced, in the sever the Personal Liberty bills which existed et and strongest term-., that such raids iu some of the Northern States; and in a8 ,Uat f John Brown into Virginia dealing with them he would challenge any wre tho gravest of all crimes. They man who was in favor of disunion to con- wnld not take the word of that party, trovert what he Baid. There was a Per- oud t0 appease them the Republicans ex- onal Liberty bill. That was one oaue of complaint. 1 here was opposition to ., r . r , . . ' v,, , the execution of tbe Fugitive Slave law. 8t was another. They charged that it was intended to exclude African Slavery from the Territories. Tbat was another, That the respective wectiona were not ho- mogeneous, aud hated one another, and and that some ot tbe Northern States were for negro equality. These charges constituted all the allegations in the bill of indictment which the had filled. As to the first.be confessed tbat Personal Liberty bills did nsiat. wifhnnt iTtiniin. , tion and without-excess. But it was due to truth to sav that these obnoxious bills would soon be swept off all tbe statute books of the Free States. Tbat was tbe eacn 0luer aIler eac0 succeeding political only charge that could be sustained. Tbe ,contest- ut wuld they love one anoth balance of tbe. allegation- they made out er moro after they were separated? That were all witb reference to thiugn which waH tbo question. They were going to never happened, and which never could .separate, were they! Aod where would have happened had the seceding States be the boundaries? The river Ohio, remained in the Union, and had their ! representatives not stayed at borne. Aod ! now as to the Personal Liberty bills, the 1 . 1 . n n n n . I, !,,., 1 11 l n f n ' He was asured tbat the Personal Liberty j other now, would they be found in fra bills had beeu Struck from tbe statute j ternal embrace when they had separated books ol ail border Free State from I- ioto rival and hostile confederacies? nwn Tn,iina Illinois Ohio. Ppi.nsvl ca. They hate each other? Not a bit of it. uiat and New-Jeney. To be sure, they ere still retained m Vermont, where, he j nsfi..r..d n fn.Mtiro slnr t.ad nnt h.pn! seen for fort) years, and which was as iu accesible to a slave as uros the kingdom of South Cilrohna to him at that moment Now, he lived within a day's ride of three Free States, and he-had uever known of a slave to have been stolen from his dis trict and retained. He bad knowu of one escaping and pasiug through the di-trict represented by his friend from Kentucky, Rho inad his way into Illinois, where he wa- arrested by the people and returned to bis owner. But. bad the South ever appealed to the North tm re necl their Per-onal Libertv bills? Tbev hd done no such thin.. But tbev said j tbat the North would not execute the Fu gitive Siave law But wbat was the fact? Tbe present Executive, in hi- late Mes sajfe. used this latiuac : "That the Fu gitive Slave law had been executed in ev ery conrested case that bad arisen." They knew it ai so Every attempted re-cue had become a matter of public no toriety; but it was not no sedulously made known that fugitivo slaves were arrested every day m tbe Free States, and carried back to their ma-ter. But the Harper's Ferry riot, and accounts of rescues of slaves, was tbe food which revolution riot- in and ktows fat upon. But if it was ever all true, would tbey be an excuse for dissolving the Uuion ? Would they have law and order, would they respect the Constitution, and live in feeling of brotherhood witb their fcllow-oountry-men ? Tbey would do nothing of the kind. Tennessee and Kentucky were border States, and they would bave to bear tbe burden of tbe battle and the beat' ue ueiter ao, 10 ProiBCt uorsen agmust of the day to protect to States all down lraidfl tben than sbe bad bcen in the Pa,t' to tbe Gulf, whence a slave in escaping 1 Now. wben everJ man wa8 true t0 tbo would have to travel over six hundred . Constitution, when every man was a judt.0 miles of slave territory before he could and executioner of the law, and every find ananctuary m the Free States. Pre- j convenient tree was a gallows upon which cipitate us. will you ? No; he would pre-, to hang every man who violated the Con- . . . y. . .. .. .L.. 1 - r .0, o " F H - - - Uf-" "- UVJ ou"' l" " . " " tho ffmMtiv Slave law. A United States . .. ... . which distracted vjomtnissioner, appomter to carry out tnai e- -- mu,t go to ruin, law., re-ident of tbe present Kingdom t could be made. It was a matter of his he overthrown, of South Carolina, had assured him that,"" that it wa, the men of Pennsylvania Aod .odd ,"... I.. to offer .upport and .... dis.ol.o tbe D,ioo for tb.t e.ua.! He or to V.rgm.o xmD.t the i atl.ok of JobD lnye- no.ed to tbe -lae trade. Tbev always1 . rr had been, and always would he. me Nortbem men. born and educated in tbo Free States, knew nothing whatever of Slavery except what they heard of it from Garrison and others. But tbe strongest Pro-Slavcry man Soutb was tbe Yankeo who went down there and married a wid- ow with a plantation well stocked with But they could no more hope us,u --r- to mate the ixorrnern peopie 1 ro oiavery than tbey could hope to make a hungry politician run away from a fat office.- Laughter. These precipitators say that the NortherB people, in some time to como, intend to aoousn slavery .u iuv States. He did not believe one word of it; and standing there in his place before that crowded audience, he avowed that there was not a man in the House who doires td abolish slavery in the State., or who imagines they have the right to at- tempt it. Crierfrom Republican bench,, es, "Not one, not one." If there was such a man he desired to see him. Such . a man would deserve the execration of hi- colleagues, and the execration of eve- ry man who respected the Constitution; Q f ,rl ,,, tt.,.. .1 1 .. . I. ir 1 . f ,k r . ' , P"'P"oni in the teeth of the most solemn assurance that m k . . Pre88 their readiness to vote for an amend- went in the Con-titution which would uj-j ,1, m . . t . D,nd tbem never to lotHrfere with slavery 10 tu States. It would, infact.be no amendment, but would merely declare what the Con-titution now was; and no man believed for a moment in their pow- er 10 interfere with Slavery under the Constitution aB it was. They declared , lat people in the respective sections j were Dot homogeneous, and that they ha- ; ted one mother. That might be so, but .1.1 . at mat wouia pass away ns tbey became bet tar KOOWO. But be asserted tbat they did not hato each other more than they had seen tho ol1 Whig and Democratic parties hate j which, it was said, was dry one-balf of the year and frozen over the other half, ! was the only barrier that would separate j tllfJdn firflltl L . 1 M A n Q T I f knn lintill amaI. ( If their constituents could see bow the Frce-Soilers of the North and the radi als of the South lived here together they would not believe a word of it. They bate each other! No, only when the t'ins'' had to give way to the ''outs" Laughter. Yes, when the army of of ficeholders were seen clearing out, bag aud bagjage, and making way for their in u aipba nt successors. For his own part, if any sacrifice be could make would save tbe country, be would be glad to tnake'it. But separation if they did separate, would breed that hate which would lead to fends and contests as bloody and protracted a was the wai be tween the bouses of York and Lancaster. Separate, break up the Government, and let the central States be precipitated into this reiolutiou against tbe wilfof the peo ple, and ten years would Cot yo by uutil the- two seotions would be harrassed by rivalries leading to hostilities aud finally to the subversion of the weaker party. If this would not prove so, then all bi-to-ry and it- teachings were a falsehood. With regard to the fear excited in tho Southern mind, witb regard to a deter mination on the part of the North toive equality in every respect to the negro, be proceeded to show how unfounded the charge wa-, and noticed that in the State of New York at the last election, that is sue bad been submitted to the people, who refused, by a majority of twenty to one, to extend universal suffrage to tbe ueyro, and continued: It was charged again-t tbe North that it was from their midst tbat the John Brown raid came; but be would ask bis seceding friends, tbat, in case of disunion, would South Carolina il. L.,1.. -li. i lr :.. utitnrinn in inn miinnnr .ionn nrnttn ami , bis foowera wbo 8hould toach e. . ., . i r , t, 7 man tbat tUeJ bad 8 oode for the PUD" uhmnnt nf trnitnra nu trinrrnf. n if wbo were the Grt to vindicate tbe out- m,n M """f6 from !'. " ou?h' r Ka n m a. m K a m 1 f hot t M t7 Wflf u O rritflf tfn ; ..-..-...-.-..-.j - Pennsylvania, brought back to Yir- g''a bJ heir captors, and handed over " uuu.oru.us wy ieu, a"u uu""g juugcu gu.ivy, Fu,u P" of their invasion by their own datb- The people of either sccticn bad -r , i 1 . j j i ii : j onBHr.6u auu F.rM , -.." resentations and calumnies, and thua per- -nnfl nml fftiSfihooda had done their -i.nrtrea in work, tie ia ""f1 nndvet ho would b agge ten bad said tbat be would make any saorifico iu j r James Buchanan for another term, and al ow the "old publto func Uonary" to ad- minister the Government for four years more. He hoped bis . .a. giving a suffi- cent evidence of his fidel it, . to. the Con- atltution. ready. tion to anything that wouU , bcal those dihiculties. Various propositions had been offered, let them accept the rest He would go for tbe report of the Com mittee of Thirty. Three rather than go out of the Union; hut, failing in all, ho would go home, and would there meet disunion with a torch in one band and a sword in tho other; and, so help him God, so Ion as the stars and stripes floated over him and his State, he would never yield to di suoion. General applause frota the densely crowded galJerie- He assorted, what was matter of history, that every solitary act of the Coustitution was or datned after public discussion, and was voted for by statesmen of the South, and either passed by them or received the sanction a:nd approval pf their States; and tbefrery policy under which Lincoln should be inaugurated was the very policy of the Democratic party of the South, and which, they gave to the country, and de manded and received their approval The House knew that when tho Govern ment was ordaiued. when the Declara tion of Independence was proclaimed, that our Western boundary was the Mis sissippi River, and he asserted that from that very day, at the instance of the South, at the instauce of slave-holders, tbe area of the Government had been enlarged and expanded. Every foot of soil that had been acquired at the in-tanco of the South, the North, with its numerical pow er and strength overshadowing tbe South, has willingly yielded Florida and Lou isiana had been thus purchased at tbe instance of the South Florida had been purchased at a cost of S5.000.000, and at a cost of $50,000,000 more to remove tho savages, millions more to build forti fications and towns along the deep to guard Southern commerce. And after all this, little Florida, nitb less than half the population he represented, goes out of the Union, with the fortifications, with the public. lands, with untold millions, and, worse than all, carries with her tho prestiye of the unity of those State. Little Florida secedes, which could not at this moment protect herself from tbo alligators without tho aid of the Federal troops Laughter tbis very Florida, purchased at tbe instance of tbe South, with Northern money and Northerb blood. He then noticed the annexation of Texa3, also at the instance of tbe South, aud paid a enlogy to Gov. Houston of that State. Iu 1S50 the Soutb demanded a Fugitive Slavo law. Tbey had got tbat. They first demanded the Missouri Com promise. Tbey got it. Tbey then de manded its repeal. They got that. They bad demanded nothiug which they bad not got. But now they demand that Slavery should be protected in every inch of the Territories of the United States. But that question was decided against them, in a most unmistakable manner, at the ballot box; and even the Southern States themselves had pronounced against that demand. The Government had been in operation nearly eighty years, and up to this time no Member of Congress had even so much as introduced a bill to pro tect Slnverv in tbe Territories. But now they proposed to dissolvo the Union be causo a vast majority of tho people had replied to their demand for protection of slaves in tho Territories that all they should ever have was non-intervention. And that was all they ever would obtain One diauuionist said that he wanted pro tection for Slavery for the purpo-e of rx-pan-ion, tbat Slavery was increasing, and that in fifty years tbey would bavp twen ty millions of negroes, and consequently tbey must have room to expand. But the truth was that they ueeded no expan sion, and if tbey did even, they could not get it. But, as be said before, Congress should adjourn the quarrel to the peoplo, and if tbey failed to do so, iu less than eighteeu mooths it will adjourn itself He, for one, was not afraid to tru-t the people, and that appeal must be made. In aniwer to Mr. Vallandigham, be said that, so perei-tent had been the inmeprc resentations and misapprehensions of men throughout tbe Union, witb regard to Northern men and the principles of the Republican party, that the people of the South were willing to believe a lio and be damned. It was a matter of history that a few weeks ago a gentleman (Col. Memmiuger) proclaimed from tbe steps of the Capitol of Milledgevillo to gentle men, lawyers, doctores, hortboy, and everybody that stood around, tbat Han nibal Hamlin, or, as bo is called there, 'Cannibal" Hamlin, wai a mulatto; tbat the North had eleoted an Abolitionist to be president, aud a Mulatto to be Vice President. Union Meeting at Alton, HI. S x huudred workingtucn of Alton held a Union mass meeting on Saturday night last. Tbe greatest enthusiasm prevailed, and tbe sentiment expressed wns that of entire and unconditional devotion to tho Union. The niottos were: "The Constitution as the fathers made it." "The Union must bo preserved." "Peaceably if we can; forcibly if wc must." "Enforce the laws." A "bumptious" traveller, overtak ing an old Presbyterian minister, whose nag was much fatigued, quizzed the old gentleman upon bis "turn out." "A nice borBe, yours, doctorl very valuable beast, that but wbat makes him wag bis tail so, doctor?" "Why, as you havo asked me, I will toll you. It is for tbo same reason that your tongue waga ao a sort of patural weakness," Hon. James Cooper. This gentleman, loraerly a citizen of Pennsylvania, for jenrsa prominout m'eni ber of the Lejrr-laturr, and subsequently United States Senator, elected by; the WhiiT party, is no a resident of Fre.der iek. Maryland, in th practice of the law. We ohserte iu a late uumhrr of tbe JEc amincr, of that city, a lettor from Mr. Cooper, apr-rovinu the course of the pa per in upholding the Uuion and censuring tbe t'ca-onalle course of a portiou.of,the Southern people. The letter breathes the true spirit of ptriotim. and will be read with pleasure by Mr Cooler's' for mer friends and admire in thi State. He conclude as follows : ,t r. 'In thi- conjuncture, whe.n treason has been hold enough toeize the property of the Union, to excu-e it is to ftbcfTitnnd become particeps criminis-xj fhoa trai tors. You have denounced its: Lthank you for it I thank you for it in tbe name of tbe past; I thank you for it. by our hopes of the future, which tuunt con sist in strangling the monster now, or yielding, at once and for all, to whim and caprice. whencer whim and caprice may lead disappointed and bd men to rai.-e their hands against our Union, and our liberties, for liberty- and Union T consider inseparat le. If all other jour nals, instead of equivocating or lending sid and comfort to treason, bad acted as The Examiner has done, treason would not dare, a it now does, to walk abroad, undi-guised in open day, flaunting the en-ign of its criuie and folly iu thefacea of gooil men and patriots. Aain I thank you for your bold, national aud conserv ative course, and subscribe myself, Sincerely aod truly yours, JAMES COOPER. F. Schley, Esq , Editor Examiner: What is Life. Tbo mere elapse of years is not life To eat, and drink, and sleep to be ex posed to darkness and the light to paco round in the mill of habit, and turn thought into an implement of trade this is not lifo. In this but a poor fraction of the consciousness of humanity is awaken ed, and the sanctities still slumber which make it wofth while to be. Knowledge, truth, love, beauty, goodness, faith alone can give vitality to the mechanism of ex istence. The laugh of mirth that vibrates through the heart the tear that-fre-hens the dry wastes within tbe music, that brings childhood back, the prayer that calls the future near, the 3oubt" which makes us meditate, the death which star tles us with ujy-tery, the hardship which force not to strode, the anxiety that ends in tru-t are the true nourishment of natural being. English Compliments to the Secessionists. As Georgia and South Carolina are to s nd Comui-'-ioucr to Great Hntam.it is interesting to consider tle provable re sult of their laborer-. In telntion to tbis matter, the fotioutn.' extract from a lato number of th London Attics h per fectly appropriate It is not eny for u to conceive of tho state of mind which grows up under such conditions a- those of sa veholdiuir lifo m a Reeublic iu the nineteenth ceutury, un- dcr a gauged pres, a corrupted pulpit, a soauty aod emasculated literature, tbe pressure of general poverty, and tbe per versenes which urows out of a seu-e of esciu-ion from the sympathies of general society. It the slaveholders were men of the world, and of cultivated rea-on, there would be no sush quarrel 03 i now rowing; but they are not; and hence tbe fluctuations which so embarrass the gen eral judgment. A greenhorn standing by a sewing ma chine at which a oung lady wa at work, broking alternately at tbe machine and at its fair operater, at leugtb gave vent to his admiration with "By golly, its purty, especially the part covered with caliker.'' The Bev. Dr. Mason stopped'to read a theatrical placard which attracted his at tention. Cooper., tbe tragedian, coming along aid to him : "Good morning, sir do ministers of the gospel read such things?'' ' "Why not, sir?" aaid the doctor: "ministers of the gopol have a right to know what tho devil is about as well as other folks." "Where are you going ?" asked a little boy of another, who slipped down on tho icy paiemeut. "Going to get up," was tbe blunt reply. AsriES. A gentleman writibir to tho Ohio Farmer, says : Some farmers have a very foolish habit of selliu;; their ashes for a dime or a shilling per bushel, when they aro worth more thftn"twioe that a mouot to spread on their land. It don't pay, he says tosoll ashes at this price, and they buy lime to manure our farms with. i nine raggeu oniia wasjiuaajMJ to eall from the window of a mean "flecking house -to her opposite neighbor- "Pl'oase, Mrs. Miller, mother's best compliojeuts, and if it is fine weather, will ' you -go a bcBg'DS ber to-morrow?" Tbe man that was stuok upwith prida has beeu taken down aod hangs on hi- own hook at present. In ca-e tbo hook should give way, let him HeAjpao hi w liabilities until ha is preparcdlo sleep ott a clear conscience. ,r. 11 i : E3
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