‘ .'B l{ l} > Jr« '*■; Ci/K!?»<^
nr?
o rffi!riMp«TO
‘paHied declare that it )»,W
ugr Wii/iS'cfae, of negroes.'' "■ !, '., ■,'
"ff'itfe’H iir'Hiburg CooVenlifta Was ih"ftvor
af\W l t opr'se tiViVaUed by TtadHlto Pierce,
WM'did'ii not fbitnain ‘sjle'nl in tcipM* 16
t Cerminly h tfoe» noV
refined taste toseo itie ifi£6o'
gVtiltjrtir two ; principles which are dwrtWlW'
cAYfV opposed 16 each other. Or If Ihwedche
gHiWftrtn&tl.V belieVed irt the one, why did
tlfey'libt manfully denounceiho others Why
ndnfhdW'their whole fchataCter in the people f
Ituflfef 1 choose to "peep iheJf coWard swords
has olut their shells." r
**jfjSief6,«ffr but- very feW men Opposing the
ojfensaWr slavery , who ask anything more,
ign thaf men and conventions should imitate
Italgreii eiponent of Liberty—-Thomas Jeff
eSpnj or his' successor, who said that ii was,
‘•wrong to admit itr tqe Constitution the idea
iljaif there could be property in man." 1
i6Tpk it can be easily shown that many ‘of
the Old Congress «cn; more bitter in ppposi
tnjp'to slavery than the ratlical aliolfiioh.
iji' of the present. But I pass to another
[whit whfch is connected with the Harrisburg
Copve'nlion. That Convention clalrnedlo re
iterate and reassert the principles w hich gov
erned James Monroe?— let us see if they were
consistent with themselves in doing so. James
Monrpe went for the Missouri Compromise,
ond in doing so was supported by Waller
Lowrieand Jonathan Roberts —Senators from
Pennsylvania ; Franklin Pierce went for the
repeat of that compromise and in so doing
was supported by Senator Drodhend from this'
state— Cooper not voting. And yel lies lim
ber-jointed Convention sustained both of these
measures as just ind Democratic.
IJcnr their consistency. Monroe did right,
acted the part of a democrat and should be
honored and revered for establishing the Mis
souri Compromise; while Pierce made his
name immortal, proved his devotion to liberty,
and should be sustained and supported, for
repudiating that same Compromise. Thus
said the Harrisburg Convention.
I think the Eagle of your town would do
wpll to place these two .Resolutions under the
name of Plurner, with a hint to its readers,
to look over the Address of Jefferson, so that
al| the good people of this County, who ad
here, to the principles of our fathers, might
rp|ly around the true democra'ic banner.
The Eagle is a generous sheet; and of course
its Editor believes not only in the Inaugural
of Jefferson; but also those other immortal
words of the old apostle, where he said he
believed it to be a self-evident truth that nil
men were created free and equal.
APOLLO.
Correipondinee of the N. Y. Tribune.
A Visit to Passmore Williamson.
Phil a ncLPin a, Wednesday, Sept. I'd 1855.
I spent yesterday afternoon with our friend
Passmore Williamson in his cell in Moyamen
sing Prison, I found him engaged in reading ;
at his side was his silver-haired father. It
needs but t; glance at Pussin >re to assure you
that he is indeed a man, Noi withstanding his
delicate constitution., w.hich has thus far suf
fered but little from his incarceration, his coun
tenance gives assurance that he is possessed
of all that fortitude which his trying situation
demands. His body is confined within the
walls of his narrow cell, the companion of
criminals, but his soul is free—thank God ;
over that no tyrant Judge has power! The
proud conviction that he has acted in this
matter as becomes a man, that he is suffering
for the performance of a most high duly,
gives him courage to look whith cnlmnes on
Ihelnsuli’s which have been heaped upon his
fair fame. In the long conversation I had
with him in no instance did I find him give
way in the slightest degree When speaking of
the conduct of his oppressors. It is incredi
ble; to me how under such circumstances a
man can keep his temper. 1 found myself
eyer.nnd anon carried away with indignation,
and my friend was obliged to gently check
me test it should disturb his father. It has
been rumored (hat Passmore will shortly make
submission —“purge ■ himself,’’ and so on ;
but.you need not give a moment’s credit to jt.
lie is not the man to perjure himself. Be'llte
cppscqnences whit iltcy may, he will come
forth victorious, or if such be American law
he will leave ht.s cell only in death.
fits friends are very active throughout our
Slate, and teller* which 1 have seen from
prominent members of the Republican parly
apeak very sangunine manner of Ills suc
cess at the approaching election in the nor
thern nod western counties. We do not ex
pect to do bo much for him in this cilv, as the
Slavery spirit seems to rule here at present.
Bui we fuel assured thil if a proper effort be
made ip our eastern counties, Passmore will
be elected, and in such event he will have re
ceived his freedom from the sovereign power
itself. w. r. k.
A Remarkable Man,
, A correspondent of the Kentucky States*
man gives a sketch of an old citizen living in
Pulaski county, named Elija Denney, who is
perhaps the oldest man in Kentucky. He
will;hej-pne.;hundred and eighteen years .of
ago'on the 10th of September next, and is as
active OS many I( ai forty* He works
daily upon a iirm, and throughout his,,life
has been an early risen .He informed the
writer lhai hp hud,never drank but one cup
of coffee, and that was ip the year 1840.
He served seven years ip the., war of the rev
olution, and was wounded at the siege of
Qbnrlcston; was also at the, siege of Savan
nah apd in the battle of Eulaw Springs. —
Ho tya» also present at the battle.of Cqptden,
King’s .Mountain and Monk’s Corner. He,
served, under Colonels Horry and Morion,
and .an eyewitness of the sufferings and'dealV
of Col, Isaac Hayne,,of South Carolina, an
eariy victim of the Revolution, lie is sprigh-
Iji nnd uctiye, and would be supposed to be
njatj of middle age. He is d strict member
qt the. B iptist Church, and tides six miles to
every, meeting of the Church. He has four
sons,and, six daughters, all hying ; the eld-,
estis noty in his seventy-eighth year, .and
the youngest son fifty-one. Such is a brief
sketch of this. aged soldier and republican,
who is perhaps the only surviving soldier of
Francis; Marion, Sumpter, and Horfay.
4T'
I »,* K\\ oilier CsMlfunlctllont mail
to tddtMwdlaAlte Rdilorjo to«ttWikUentlon.
For Vloc-Preildint t ~.,,,
Hok .DJLVID WILH6T, 6f !!
F«rCnßitlC»MMliilimer:
PASSMORE WILLIAMSON. '
OF'FBltXmFHrAj'
Coiwtyi:liSPU)b>U«»9i i
Far Rrpreieniallie—Tnat.t,. lUuiwtit, ofTiofi.
F6r Shetif —John MiTHEis.of CliQflcit6h. r ' -• “
Fbr Treasurer—-0.-H. Blanchard, ofFai'mingtoa.
For F. CuLVKtt, - •,
S 3 of Gaines.' . it --
Huolted, ThatVo havp boon andstiU arc .opposed tp the re*
peal of the Missouri Compromise, by which <m<! No
brAska were opened to Slavery, rejflirdlng’ll as A wvhton’To*
paUutUoo.of a lolcmn coqjpacl, of thq,har
mony of thp Dutfoti. and AWstrom to fhd ciinw* of yfccuoni;
ami that wo un> In fanir of .ha relloiWlcm,—•lbtot doten <rt the
Hf lltioro' IMmoor.utfy 1585,. . , .
Eldxr Suitii of Tioga, will’ preach'in ihC'Pfesby.
lerinn Ohnrch on Sunday morhingal 10} o’clock.
growing to unavoidable absence fromJuune, we
caonot secure the usual variety In ihp editorial Col*
unms this week.' Next week we shall be at our post
refreshed ond ready for hard service*
Fir*.—The.alarm of Ore last Sunday night was
occasioned by the burning of a Shanty, occupied by
Mrs. Walker, a colored woman with her family, a
h'Ule way out of (ho village. Tho family were for
(unatcly not at home. It u supposed to have been
the work of an incendiary.
It is hoped Unit the report that has got in circula
tion in the easlean pari of the comity (o the effect
that Mr. Howland is in favor of a division of the
county, will be confirmed. The confirmation of that
report would doubtless increasebis rote in that part
or the county. His friends should be on the alert,, .
Read the advertisement of D. P. &, W. Roberta’
Stove & Tin Store. They have received a large as
sortment of the most approved Stoves, which wilt be
sold cheap fur the tin, also UiO best lin-Ware in ex
change for old itocei, copper, bris»,&c. Give them
a call,
Also J. R. Bowen’s new advertisements. He is
selling at a very low figure. Cull, in ladies and look
at those cheap prints, embroideries, and beautiful
Cl- changeable silks at s<t cts.
Stii.i. Tiiev Come! —A large and 'enthusiastic
Republican Mass Meeting was held
the 10th insl., composed of men without distinction
of party. Hon. D. Wihnot addressed ihe Meeting
opon the all aosorbing topic of (ho day, in his usual
eloquent manner. Backbone resolutions were adopt
ed, arid Passmore Williamson’s nomination heartily
endorsed. The following ticket was nominated:
Representatives— B. Laporte and J. tfdleomb.
Commissioner—Perlcy 11. Buck.
Treasurer—E. C. l Kellogg. •
Auditor—Christopher Child.
Success to the cause in Bradford,
Judge Knox’s Decision. —We find that our re
marks relative to Judge Knox’s decision last week,
arc by some, misunderstood. It was not intended
to question the integrity of Judge Knox by saying
sU-s U . ——w J r -—, «•&—- ■ .»■>
enquire into the motive. Wo had heard sqveml per
sons canvassing the motive, and apoko accordingly.
ll.ivihgTcad tlio Opinion attentively, we cannot bnl
do what wli are bound to do checrfblly, concede that
for clearness, decision and ability, it ranks with the
first legal papers of the limes.- Judge Knox has
made a great step toward regaining the ground lost
last fall, in working for Gov. Bigler.
It Concern* You.
The present is the trial hour of Freedom. Never
since Die glorious Declaration was given to an as*
lonishcd world, has there been an hour teeming with
such important events as this present hoar* ' There
is no false cry of 44 w01f* J, to alarm the' timid and
wavering. The danger is imminent. It U not the
Union that is In danger now, but the rock of our
hope and (lie object' and end of the dearest and no
lest of human aspirations—Fasebon.
Who! has the coming election to do with the pro*
gressof Liberty? . Let os look at it: . r
Notwithstanding the bugbear cry of uSccliunal
ism" raised by Doughfaces, the truth is, the Slave
Power in, always has been, and always must bo a.
sectional power. It commenced its foray upon Free*
dom ns early as the day of (he draft of (ho Declare*
lion of Independence. Jefferson foresaw the danger
that impended, and strove like a (rue patriot to avert
iU He laid tho traffic in human beluga as ono of
the principal grievances against which the infant col*
onics determined to make a stand. What became
of thpt manly protest against Slavery? It was
stricken out in deference to South Carolina and
Georgia. There was the first .triumph of sectional*
ism, freemen !
No general election ever has taken place in the
South in which the question of Slavery has been ig
nored. For the Presibentiul Chair they have uni.
family preferred Southern men. Indeed, no North,
ern itaan ever drew the strength of (he Southern vote.
Tho only issue (hat attracts and concentrates the
strength of the South is Slavery. Yet who ever
heard a doughface deprecate Sectionalism it ttio
Sooth ?
It is said that the candidates now before tbe peo
ple, if elected, have nothing to do with the question
of Slavery, This is a very strange argument, very'
strange indeed. Have those candidates anything to
do with Freedom 7 . Suopaso one, or all of them
were open and avowed, monarchists; would any pa
triot say, "it is all the same will, me—these men
have nothing to do with the question of Human
Rights." Tlte idea is preposterous. Every freeman
lias a voice in National affaire by. the Constitution.
We can protest against Ilia aggressions of Slavery
only at the ballot-hot nr by force tad arms. The
first is constitutional, bat the last is justifiable .only
when the first fails to convey, the.lrue expression of
popular sentiment. . Besides, how long have, dongh.
faces made use of this argument in political cam
paigns? Did the old whig and democratic parlies
nominate and elect men with, or. without reference
to,what were dubbed whig and democratic ptinci
plea ? Everybody knows that the roost insignificant
officc-in llio gift of the people has been and still is
clalmctffof men because they have always been true
to democratic principle s. Nqw what could i Coastal'
blo.or a Sheriff <\o to setlty the Tyiff or Bank ques
tion? Nothing,directly bul.ihp object would be
to obtain the ejepreition of fit popular mind upon
those questions. Jual jfie Slavcry question j
the popular voice cannot'bß.jieard unless freemen go
up to the polls, and declare thpre .their preferences—
whether tor freedom or Slavery.
As before stated, we have noqoarrel with the men
oaths honker ticket, but" with, th* principle* Ojoy
t,E Af,G IT A T Ofer
r ; jZ- ~ a- I ■—
lhb Wwibori' pUtSlrn,
do ire «rei|jWyef hope l||b at wtr. Tfho
monj**men, are JSBI-rbough, doanere; bat ijiiJbe
nornne* of a CmkoUvi which wred neltheflfli-
oroidennrFrantrftjiua, and-which
enjarted the Nebraika bill in falli we hold that for
The'time, they atand arrayed against Freedom and
to claim! aa many do, (hat some ot the-Jioijke.resiV
drdataara ' lriuty ftee-aoilcrwonld
permit himself lo'itandna a,- prn-sla.v'«y'plaUnmv -
.'Eboes.wtw roainta.w »«<J|
jpg. reasoned with. .As well might the banker of a,
prdfes»ito , ’be‘utterly append
bling. There would be an eqnal display of consist
ency, not to say common sense; in buth cases. ~
Suppose’/ iAijlH iho 1 bqgi»
.candidate far Canal Commissiimer be elected, - il is
•cknowledgediliatliß'iTtherioroinedofV Conven
tion which adapted la /rabiifiy -pto-ilavray piiiform,
ranking the prtsehl 1 Administration with 1 those of
Jefferson and. witlTa]! th? sum of its vilhjin
•taring ah iniigpant pea'pfe in tlid face. Suppose he
be'elected—Woiili it'not bo trumpeted throughout
the iand— hid fiepslone endorses Ifie Adhiitiis
tratiori!” Of a tralhj yei! Who doubts it 7
Suppose Messrs. Hbwlahd, Laibrop, Fox.Albeck
npd Denison bo elected. They ■ lira the niiminees
of-a Convention' which endorsed (he repeat^-of the
Missouri Compromise dnd the opening of Kansas
to the spread of Slaveryi Would hot the.hunkers of
this county and elsewhere claim il-aa an Administra
tion victory 7 Would it not be an Administration
triumph 7 Who doubts it ! '
On (he other hand, suppose . that .Passmore Wilb
iamson tie elected Canal Commissioner. He is the
nominee of the Repnblicaft Convention which adopt
ed a. platform nobly. disclaiming all sympathy with
Slavery and Oppression,.and denouncing (he wanton
violation of- a sacred compact, in the of the
Missouri Compromise, and censoring the National
Administration for its base betrayal of tbe.rights of
the North. Wopld not his election be deplored as a.
defeat'of the Administration and a stern rebuke of
the Slave Power 7
Suppose Messrs. Baldwin, Mathers, Blanchard
CulVer and Watrous be elected. Thoy'are the nom
inees of a Convention which also nobly disclaimed
any sympathy with-Slavery and Oppression, and
boldly denounced the repeal of the Missouri Com
promise, tile removal ot Gov. Reeder and the unjust
imprisonment of Passmore Williamson' by Judge
Kane. Would not their election be deplored as a de
feat of the Administration and a bold rebuke of the
Siaveocracy by the.freemen of this county 7
Who are the most earnest advocates of the so-called
democratic nominees? Administration men with,
out a prominent exception. Men who, in most cases
make no concealment of their friendship far the Ad
ministration and their endorsement of (he repeal of
the Missouri Compromise. And these men do not
wish to bb understood at claiming any political affin
ities with the Iree-soil party. We can respect the
man who is to bo found eamewkere, if wo cannot al
ways agree with him; but for the man who main
tains that he is a free-soiler, and still tacitly endors
es the Administration, he is worthy of no counten
ance, no respect. Sush a man is, to use the softest
term, a dissembler. The -editor ot the EagU has
lately gone over to the Hunkers “rescue or no res
cue,” even to the extent of justifying the removal of
Gov. Reeder. Ho is the champion of the Wellsbo
ro' ticket; and does anybody suppose that he would
advocate the election of a single man on that tie kel
if he did not consider him friendly to Pierce, Atchin
son, Stringfellow & Co. 7 We presume not. :
No matter what the proclivities of the Wulisboro'
candidates jnas have t»n heretofore; lhoy now o «re
ocnrro'iho pvupiouti ft pro<mm pmuui tu y «su uicy
deserve no-more sympathy than did' poor Tray, who
waa whipped for being in bad company.
Tliauk you, Sir S
As a friend of Mr. Matberv, Republican candidate
for Sheriff,we thank our neighbor for stating so frank
ly just what issue Mr. Lathrop it to bp advocated on.
In the last EagU the editor slates explicitly that the
question is merely one of “spoils." We call the pub.
lie to witness that the Republicans do not descend to
make tho issue on such unworthy grounds. We
advocate Mr. Mathers, as. we do bis associates pa tbs
ticket on the sole issue of Freedom— get,
a full and Iraak expression of the pablic of Tioga
County against the Nebraska infamy and the villain,
ics of the Administration. If Mr. Lathrop. as oar
neighbor states in effect, takes Hie field to wrangle
for the spoils of office, merely, we don’t envy him
the esteem he Will not fall to earn (over the left)
among tho masses. M/. Lathrbp stands before the
people now.'degraded to tiro 'level 'of a maie foed'br
at the public drib, and that too, by tho defdarit'fcxf-of
bis official organ in this county.
Our neighbor goes into a calculation by which'll
appears that Mr. Mathers has had his part of the
spoils, while Mr. Lathrop has not. He docs not in
clude Mr. Lathrop’s next year's salary as Commis
sioner, in the estimate, however, probably because
Mr. L,, does seem not a little greedy in asking for
the SheriSaUly a year before his present term of of
hue expires. We take'this occasion to express,”
wo did two weeks ago, our admiration .of his gener
ous, self-sacrificing nature in volunteering to take
the burden of-two offices upon bis shoulders at one
time—to say nothing of the spoilt! Generosity as
yet unparallelled, “feller citizens !”
But our Worthy neighbor has more than one string
that fits Mr. Lalhrop’s bow. He argues that Mr.
Mather* ought not to be elected because he had the
office six year* *go. It would be a bad precedent,
bint* our neighbor. Well, well, Colonel, Ilia) it a
slicker!, But how tho, deuce did yea happen to for
pi that argument when yon wore running for jleg.
isler and Recorder last fall 7 You had no-ghosts of
bid precedents to trouble you then, did yob 7 Yet
you were running for your second, term, were you
not? No pcruples about applying for a second in
stalmont of “spoils" before the first was all paid
down, had you 7 The people' did object to establish,
irtg that precedent it is true. Tlie' Convention put
our neighbor in the nontinatire ease, but the people
put him In the objective case; and the’people will
pat Mr .John Mathers in the possessive cose neStl
October, without tho- least doubt, worthy neighbor:
The Colonel does’nt figure well in the accusative
just at present) and We'll try to remember hi, ar{l)
menl about rotation in office when- he comes before
the people for his-seebnd term.
Wo ire right glad lolearn from Mr. LalhrdpVof.
6oial organ that the issue, so far as he | a concerned;
i» a more scramble for dollara and cent*. The pe»
pie know where to find him now. ' Perhapd the
gentlemen pa ' the ticket with' him> are ronnjng on
(ho sumo issue—three of item (For, Albeok and
Penison,) being merchant!. Shouldn't, wenderif it
w »» « dollar and cent top tobouoov •,.?
The.people know Mr> Mit there wilhonUanyuitio.'
duclioo., ~Wo know, hipp
bp ttl ( e, kindest of men Mt the dh*hargp£oC;UlB ofien,
diaagrecaUp dulieathal dcsohro upqn,a Sheriff., He
ia, we are informed, a man #ho- cannot be .made a',
tool to enrich, aome rascally speculating iandshark
at the expense of some poor man. in pecuniary dis.
Ireas j and whalia no less, lie ie a genuine fiepubli- ;
can of unimpeachabja backbone.
’tamer prominent memlterlof if
ChorwWJSyo EagU. jjfr>i, e FrnitM|-tbe Saioide of
Vtfie csfl-fhe illemairof our Methodist frieiidsjlo BlaVWf.- 1
f- Wfiwiern Missouri is of
wgioiHi" - Btifiering- from- mildew-nod
fort to attract itw Oetfaolio vote to their respective .. . ? . . j- “ , . . ,
may yet have a Methodist vote, a Baptist vote and a Mf«na w nopea looing.
W. IdoS out ror proscription. The emigration W Kansas has been almost.
■f n«n..n.ay:ba. Mcthodi.l em.rely checM. Enj|^an(sirom ; tte^h.
ibe a Christian, we deny. That Arnold Flamer may daSTWcatfse Ihey can find as good lands else
lb# butrthst hd dsn not ;curaeif by mob law. nor ruled by
Ito run on tlie Harrisbarg platform and yet be a con* non-resident bullies* Emigrants from the
iw~ lmpa«iblcr''lriiat any'memfor’ .Southern’ States' do hot'gd loKahsas, BecatisS'
oflhdSiUtliefe* Method istChurtli cdnlti consisted.' 1 ‘they will nbt pin their stave property in peril,
Iy V6U for'i‘ J thth/noßody doiibts ;'bai 1 iby taking it to a territory*’ where there is a
that aJtaemberofthß Methbdisi'dharch Nbrth-a»bf Istrongfree soil element,* threatening the ee
ddtheliko.'a jTeatminypedpiddeubli -HoW tiiany curity of sIaVOs. '■> 1 ■ 1 .-t. ’ 1 *'
will votefor ■ Plamot becaose*he*ts;a '-Methodist, w»- 'Any* mao’-of‘Sense might “have fotseen this
neither ‘it now. nor rare p bo vote 1 iresull. *-Alabama- and‘Georgia may -bold
neednevsrAty ih/tliiogtboat - public meetings, ahd' resol veto- sustain‘the
; Pasamata Williampon is ■ member of the Uoiver.
’salCharchofChrUt, inwhiqh Slavery does not end '
never can exist. He holds,:vitii' certain Scripture I
worthies, t(mt whosoever ojplleth himself shall i; be:
a baaed, end. that whosoever hninbletlti (jirnnejf, shall
be exalted*. Believing this, can.npy map uphold the
oppressor of Gpd’a intelligent 7 ; Believing
this, pan any pian wlnh at;ti)e pnslavipg of 4,000,000
of men.and womcn.andy el ioolf the ~world in .the
face, and say, “I am a man and a Christian !” It is
written—“ Behold I bring you glad tidings of groat
joy which shall be to ALL people I" ,Is the enslay.
ing of Tour millions of people glad tidings of great
joy 7 Can a man uphold Unman Slavery and yet
believe that Christianity Is t£e good tidings that
shall be to all people 7 Who asserts such a lie oa
that!
“Asouitoxism—Wo know not why tho FrimtCt Rrvinc. of
this city should continue to bo sent to,us with marked ortl
clos in relation 'to the notorious, or rather infamous, Pass
more WUUmuson. It cannot bosnppoScd that wo can feel the
least sympathy in his behalf, or do otherwise than heartily
approve thellrm.coarae and righteous decision of Judge Kano,
who wilt not fiUi, wo hope, to maintain .tho majesty of the
law in this knd uU similar cases." —Banner of the. Crvtl, Phil.
Ot course you have at) sympathy wiih Passmore
Williamson, 0 most self-righteous Pharisee !—no
more titan your proud brethren in Jerusalem had for
the Nazarehe who had the audacity to heal the sick
on tlie Sabbath day; or with those apostles who
were cast into prison for preaching tlie Gospel that
yea spit upon. Da you remember the'denunciation
—“For I was an hungered and ye gave me nomeat
nuked, and ye clothed me not, title, and in prison
and ye visited me not !“ And when they asked
how they hod fulled to do the things of wliioh he
had spoken, bo answered—“lnasmuch as ye have
not dene it unto bne of. these, the least uf my disci
ples ye have not done it onto ME!”
Do you remember the law which the Man of
Nazareth set at nought when he healed tlie impotent
man 7 la it not a pity that Cain the First did not
sit in judgment upon that audacious man fur—doing
his father's will 7 Or would it have suited your
fastidious piety better had that “righteous Judge,”
Kaoe the Second had jurisdiction m that case ! Du
you remember the case of one John the Baptist, who
was thrown into prison for preaching the Gospel, by
a very righteous man (according to your measure.)
and at last was beheaded to please one Miss Hetodi.
as? Is thereto delicate young Udy in Pluladcl
phia whom you, as spiritual adviser, could prevail
upon to ask of Kane, Passmore Williamson's head?
Only think how the South would laud yon, and what
is belter, perhaps the Banner of the Croet would in
time circulate exclusively south of Mason & Dixon’s
line !
The SrtRtTUiL Telegraph.— This paper is a reg.
ular visitant at our table, and is certainly an able
and candid advocate of (he too little understood ism
—Spiritualism, It is about the only really Indepen.
dent paper in America. Opinions and - theories are
given for wiiat they are worth and left, to stand or
fall upon their merits, Messrs. Partridge & Brittan
the proprietors, publi ah most of the various works
on Spiritualism, and will furnish to order all works
on that and kindred subjects. Their establishment
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Republican Nomination.
We extract the following friendly notices
of the Republican candidate*, from the Bal
ance, which speak* very justly and 'imparti
ally :
“Titos. L. Baldwin, the candidate of the
Republican parly, was as our readers know,
the member lasi year, is a merchant nnd foun
dry-man, of Tioga Village, a good business
man, honest and upright, and a Maine Law
man. He made a very respectable Represen
tative,
John Mathers, tho-Republican candidate
for Sheriff, held Ihe office, as our readers
know, immediately before the present incum
bent, is ‘-honest and capable,” and personally
very popular. He is a farmer in Charleston,
nnd was, in former times, a lumberman. If
elected he will make an excellent Sheriff.
Oliver H. Blanchard, the Republican
candidate for Treasurer, is a son of Charles
Blanchard, one of the early settlers upon the
CowanesqUe, and a very respectable farmer.
His son Oliver turns formerly a merchant at
LawreaCeville,‘ts now a farmer in Farming
ton township, and is said to bo a young man
of s'riel integrity and - good moral character.
If elected he would make a good officer.
C. F. Culver, the Republican candidate
-for Commissioner, is a farmed of Glkland, a
very fine man, has a great many friends—
and like his competitor AI beck, will run well
at home.
James M. Watrous, the Republican can
didate for Auditor, resides In Gaines (own
ship,'is represented to be a very fine man and
well qualified to fill the office.
An Important Measure.— The Govern
ment -'not 'seeming' disposed to improve the
navigation of .'Lake St. Clair. n company was
formed sometime sipce to do the necessary
work. The latest advices Inform us jhat tlie
dredging of the flats is going op .rapidly un
der the superintendence of Mr. Williams, the
engineer, ja cjjprga pi; ( the work., . A ohannel
Atyy, fef wide is dredged from twelve to four
teen feel deep. Until the channel is 200 fqet
.wide,no,,.vessel was lo be allowed to pass
c ;w. '■ 1 . ~
Depopulated.— Norfolk with a papula*
•lion of 10,000, is now nearly, deserted. There
are but fourteen hundred persons in the oiiy,
and those are leaving as fast, as they can get
■Way.
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slaveholders'of MlsSooriin making Kansas a
Slave State, but their resolutions comprise all
their aid —which is not “material” enough
for tho-crisis. When slaveholders of Ala
bama end Georgia emigrate, they go to Lou
isiana, Arkansas and Texas. < They do not
come, With' their- Slaves, to Missouri or- to
Kansas. Call they that backing their friends 1
Thus the matter stands. The northern
emigrnntsshun Missouri and Kansas as plague
sjtots of the nation. The southern emigrants
shun Missouri and Kansas, because here is
the battle ground between slavery and free
soil.
The result is, Kansos, the fairest land un
der the sun, is neglected and idle ; occupied
by a few honest and earnest, but dishearten
ed pioneers, and lorded over by a dozen or
two feudal tyrants of Missouri, who curse by
their presence the land they have desolated.
Such is Kansas—poor, neglected, and de
spised—and Western Missouri stands infect
ed by the horrible contagion of outlawry, and
dwindles away under the moral leprosy of
its mubocralic leaders. We are assured by
two gentlemen of high position in Western
Missouri, but totally differing in political sen
timent—one upholding the oligarchy that
controls the affairs and tramples upon the
people’s sovereignty in Kansas, the other de
ploring the accursed madness of the day—
that mailers are gloomy enough in Western
Missouri. Business is dull. Commerce is
stagnant, Money is exceedingly scarce, and
panic pervades the people. The fifty thou
sand emigrants that ought, this season, to
have poured over into Kansas, are not there!;
The prairie sod remains unbroken. - The
sound of the axe, and the. whoop of the hus
bandman is not heard. Western Missouri
towns are not thronged with settlers buying
their outfits nnd their o iUipmenls ol husband
ry. The farmers lind no market for their
horses, mules, oxen and cows, ■ There is no
new and large trade springing up in Kansas.
The much vaunted Kansas towns lie neglect
ed—a mockery to their owners and a laugh
ing stock lor all men. “Dead—dead—dead,”
may be written on all the country —so deep
and disastrous has been the fall from the high
hopes of the past year.
In May last, the editor of the Intelligencer
was in Kentucky, and he met numerous of
Ihp most res|UTtal>U> «n/l ufflnlUjji formers of
that Stale, such as form so large a portion of
the population of Missouri, who inquired
earnestly about the condidton of things in
Kansas and in Western Missouri. They
spoke of the intention they had of removing
to Kansas or Western Missouri; hut said
they had abandoned it utterly, for the reason
that they would never think of. taking their
families to a region where law was set aside,
presses mobbed, and men driven from the
country by irresponsible and unknown bands
of Regulators. They preferred the rule of
law to anarchy. In a recent trip through
several North-Western States we found that
(he same circumstances were most industri
ously and fatally used to divert emigration
to those States, and to prejudice Missouri and
Kansas with every class of people. The
most aggravating stories of insults and out
rages committed by Missourians on the per
sons of emigrants from the Old World or
, from the Free States, who are found ascend
ing the Missouri river, are circulated in the
newspapers nil through the Free Slates ; and
it is impossible to conceive of the deep haired
thus generated towards our whole Slate in
the Northern half_of the Union.
Botwecn these fires, Missouri is leading on
her languid existence.. S', Louis is retarded
in a most woful way. Our railroads creep
nt snail’s pace. We build ten miles while
other Western Slates build one hundred.—
In every department of life »e feel the para
lysis. Instead of boundthg forward, buoyant,
strong, and rejoicing, we sit with dull eyes
and heasy spirits, and listen to the tick of a
death-watch.
These are the bitter fruits of tho repeal of
the Missouri Compromise—a wicked and
wrongful deed, that will yet bring a hell of
bitter self-reproaches to its aqthora. Missou
ri did not demand that repeal. The South
never asked it. Atchison solicited it—and
in a moment of political insanity the South
consented to the wrongpand made the wrong
her own. This was thd'suicide of slavery.
Every step since taken has-deepened the
wrong nnd enhanced the danger. The Free
States organized Aid Societies, and sent their
mpn to make Kansas free. ~ll had been free
solt', .by solemn compact for thirty-five years,
and they naturally were incensed to see its
character changed, The South would have
Iteen far more indignant if a slave territory
had been thus, by unexpected act of Congress,
converted into Free Soil,
Tho Free Slates bad a right to be iadig
nanl, that a life-long compromise bad .been
repealed—apj they had a right, to try to keen
Kansas free ns it had been, by peaceable col
onization, They, attempted nothing else.—
But, a portion of the citizens pf Missouri '
headed by, and Slringfellqw, de
nounced tlto;nprlhern emigrants as Vpapppr?
apd hirelings,” because ,ihpy wpye sent, west
by the money of a sopiety jl apd so (hey had
county meeting?,jn Missouri and raised moh
ey, and sent Missourians to Kansas to make
Kansas a slave territory 1 Were these Mis
sourians ‘(hirelings” too t And did these
two wrongs make one right ?
Atchison and Slringfellow, with their Mis
souri followers, overwhelmed the, settlers in
Kansas, brow-heat sod bpliicd them, and took
"CD
the government fi’orii 'their ' Mods. Missouri
votes elected the .present, todyof men, who
insult public Vopular rjghis
by styling themselves : “the "Legislature of
Kansas.” This bodji of, men are helping
.themselves to speculations by locating
"the seat of government” ! and getting town
; lots for their votes;■ They are passing laws
disfranchising bli the citizens of Kansas Who
do not believe negro 1 slavery lb 1 be si Christian
| institul ioti and a national Wet Sing; They
'are proposing to punish with' imprisonment'
the utterance of views inconsistent with their'
own. Ahd (bey are trying to perpetuate
. their preposterous and infernal tyranny by
appointing for a lerm bf years creatures of
, their own, as Commissioners in every county,
|to Iny and collect tazes, and ace that the laws
they, passing are faithfully executed.—-
fttfrTtrirffge aoythitig totiomparr with these
]acts olsisdacity;tj I C
The Free State men of Kansas have re.
solved nottqsubmU to this daring usurpation
of a-nort-resident*. oligarchy.' They' bare
called a convention of the people of Kansas;
to meet in September next, and frame a Con
stitution for Government. ’ This move
ment will'be supported by thousands'in Kan
sas, nhd it will rally arid bring' io their aid
■the Northern Stoic's that have been' for ‘ the
lithe staggered and confused by the nntoW
ard events in Kansas. ' :
The next' Congress will' find, iheiv t’his
issue before them—a Free State' Constitution
presented by one portion of the ' people of
Kansas, and the pro-slavery territorial laws
of the present fraudulent Legislature. The
House of Representatives of the next Con
gress will be largely'Free Soil or Anti-Ne
brnska. The pro-slavery laws of the bogus
Legislature will be rejected, and, without
Congressional sanction, they are not valid—
and the contest will then'be oil accepting the
Constitution presented by the Free Slate peo
ple. This Free State Constitution may pass
the House, but not the Senate, But the effect
will be as disastrous to Missouri and the
Souths Kansas will be left ih»anarchy. The
slavery that is there will flee from it—and
perhaps even the slave property of Western
Missouri give way under the panic, and seek
safety in the cotton fields and sugar planta
tions of Texas.
It has been the common opinion of thought
less persons- and thick-headed bullies at the
West, that the Northern and Eastern men
will not fight. Never was a greater mistake.
The sons of New England and of the Middle
Stales do r.ol like to fight. They would
rather work, plough, build towns, railroads,
make money and raise families than fight.—
But fight thev will, if need be. Remember
the sons of New England shed the first blood
in the American Revolution; and they were
•the last to furl their flags in that terrible strug
gle. They have never disgraced their coun
try by cowardice, and they will not. They
are Americans, with spirit, courage, endu
rance, and deep love of liberty, to animate
them. The Free State men in Kansas will
fight before they will be disfranchised and
trampled on. Mark the word.
Here comes, then, the suicide of slavery.
The outrages commuted by Atchison and hn
fellows in the repeal of the Missouri Compro
mise, and by Slringfellow and his followers
in subjugating Kansas to non-resident rule,
will bring on a collision first in Congress,
and (Am in Kansas —and who shall tell the
end.
Slavery will never sustain itself in a bor
der Slate by the sword. It may conquer in
some respects; but it can never “conquer a
peace”—Never, never ( Once light the fires
of internecine war in defence of slavery, and
it will 'perish while you defend it. Slave
holders will not stay to meet (he fight.—
Properly is timid, and the slaves will be sent
to Texas, to be in a “safe place” while the
fight lasts; and as soon as the slaves are
gone it will be found that Missouri has nolhl
ing to fight about, and the fight will end be
fore it begins.”
Thus the slavery propagandists who re
pealed the Missouri Compromise to make Kan
sas a slave State, will make Missouri free;
and endeavoring to expel Abolitionism from
Kansas, they will find both Kansas and Mis
souri with an entire free while population—
worth more to the two States than all the ne
groes in America.
Is not die Kansas outrage the suicide of
slavery 7 Have not, the people of Missouri,
interested in the preservation of slavery in the
State, brought themselves into a desperate
predicament by following the insane counsels
of Atchison and Stringfellow ?
From Kansas.
RECEPTION OF GOVERNOR SHANNON.
Correspondence of the St, Louis Democrat • ,
Westpobt, Mo., Friday, Aug. 31,1855.
Governor Wilson Sharinon, Mr; Reeder’s
successor, arrived at Kansas City this morn
ing, in the steamer Martha Jewett. General
and Mr. Speaker Stringfellow, Messrs, Wat
terson, Weddle, Forman, Rees, Blair and
other Kansas legislators, entered her as she
reached the wharf, for the purpose of relum
ing home. They met and were introduced
ip the new Governor on board, who satisfied
them, ( believe, that he was likely to prove
as efficient and cordial a cooporalor With the
regulators as could have been selected from
the Free States; even if “Eh D.” Atchison
or his most devoted disciples had been the el
ector instead of the President of the United
States.
After dinner a Committee, residents of
Westport, accompanied by acting Governor
Woodsoh, and two or three members of the
Legislature, rode down to Kansas Ojty j visi
ted the Governor at the American Hotel, where
he put up, and ihviteddtim to'return with theql t
He rode With them to Westport.
In t|ie evening he was serenaded,'and called
out to address the audience, who had gather*)
Around the steps of the hotel. Ho appeared;
He stood on the very spot’ where a fiimily
nanpesake—-a demagogue divine —had stood
a few Weeks before,’and appealed to the low
est passions of the rabble tn order, albeit, that
Atchison might be elected, the Union' aavedy
and‘‘a' lost ’world convened to “God.”—
mi step, too, had siippprted Wft porlly form
(no vinous pm intended] ot P, p, A'obiadß-
Geni Whitfield trod it also.
Gov. Shannon began his remarks by thank
ing the audience for their courteous reception.
It gratified him, be said, not because it was