' Cracking (he Whip.
‘■John Jolliffe, e lawyer ofrfncinnaii,
tbei colored pefVbhs 'recently claimed’
atii) surrendered in that city as fugitive slaved'
including the mother who, in her frenzy of
despair at finding himself pursued and Soon'
te jbe Captured,''tried to Will her own children,
and actually, took the life of one. A* the
Blacks had ho money, ahd Mr. Jolliffe defen
ded theni through an arduous legal struggle
without hope of reward; cerlaincitizensoiT'
Cincinnati contributed « moderate' sum' and'
presented'it'to him Asa leal imoblalof regard
fur bis humane efforts, with appropriate
ISt>er. Among the names of the Committee
signing this letter waS ibatof Samuel Straight,
n member of ihe house of Straight, Dem
ining & Co., wholesale grocers. Heieupon
some dear liiver of the Union (and of good
customers) marked the letter in The Cincin
ftitli Gazette, and sent it to sundry Southern
(inns dealing witff'C’incinnati, whence it elio
ited the following response:
Nashville, March 6, 1856.*
To Messrs. Straight, Demming lj Co., Cincinnati,'
Gentlemen : We notice in The Cincin
nati Gazette of the Ist inst. a letter addres
sed to Mr. John Jolliffe, tendering him sym
pathy, nnd remunerating him pecuniarily for
his defense of fugitive slaves and advocacy
of negro-thieving, 1 to which tve observe the
name of S. Straight attached. From our
former pleasant business correspondence
with you, we feel at liberty to ask you if this
Mr. S. Straight is a member of your firm,
pnd if his name was placed to that latter by
his own free will and accord, and if that lot.
ter expresses his views upon the subjects
therein discussed. A prompt reply is res
pectfully solicited.
Yours respectfully,
IT MIT. MACRAE * Co. 8. N, HOLT.INOSTVfrT.nI.
11. LA NIMH t Co.,
D. W. MACRAE i
MKRR3T 8. PITCHER.
LANIER & PHILLIPS.
KOliß A SMITH.
—To this inquiry. Mr. Straight very cour
teously replied, admitting Ibat he was a sign
er of ihe letter in question, but explaining
that its phraseology was nnl chosen by him,
and did not precisely express his views, and
frosting that “ the free expression of views
consciennnustv cherished” would not be
deemed offensive by his Southern customers.
But this “soft answer ” did not turn away
the wrath o I the Nashvillians, They re
turned to the charge in a letter of which the
following extract is a fair specimen ;.
Nashville, March'24 h, 1856.
* * 4-
S. Straight, Esq., Cincinnati
You say you are unable to divine the objects
of our favor of the 6ih inst. One of our
objects was to afford you a fair opportunity
to disclaim, excuse, or justify your parlic
i-pancy tn the presentation letter to Mr.
Jolliffe. Some of us have been in pleasant
.business correspondence with you for several
.years, in which posuion wo could not con
scientiously remain, provided you answered
our questions in the affirmative ; and as you
have done so. we here take occasion, to say
that though we grant you Ihe fullest privilege
,m regard to freedom of thought and expres
sion of cherished views, we, ns Southern
merchants, possessing the same free privileges
os yourself, cannot longer contribute to sus
tain by, our patronages merchant, however
correct as such he may be, who cnterlains
views so hosiile to institutions which we cher
ish, and have been reared up from childhood
to look- upon as one of the most sacred rights
guarnleed by our federal constitution.
Mt. Straight at length came to undertland
that he was allowed no choice but to surren
der bis own convictions or his correspond
ent’ custom ; so his second response was in
a higher key. Here is a sample of ii :
“ A few ideas in regard to starving men
to embrace one's views, or to resirain from
opposing them, and [ have done.
" lou offer an insult, to erery Cincinnati!
merchant to whom you render your patron- '
age on any such conditions as the tone of |
your letter indicates, and you may find, to
your surprise, that the large majority of them
arc holding themselves out of the market.—
Suppose we should propose any such condi
tions to a Southern merchant or planter, on
which to purchase his sugar, rice, colion,
frails, &c., what think you would be the re
sult 1 'Believing in Free Labor, and professing
to encourage it so far ns practicable, we
meekly receive and sell the products of slave
labor, proposing no degrading conditions to
others, and we will submit to none our
selves. ’•
—We wish our Southern brethren to un
derstand distinctly that we shall continue to
send them The Thibunb-so long as they
shall .-severally appear by our books to have
paid for it in advance, regardless of the mon
strous heresies and delusions under which
too many of them labor. Whenever the
pay shall have run out, the paper will be
stopped; but we beg leave to assure them
that this rigorous act is hut impelled by our
hostility to their mistaken views, but purely
by our deliberate preference of solid cash to
any manVi dubious promises. Mr. Straight,
we presume, will cheertolly cherish their,
physical powers with bacon and lard on the
same liberal and business-like terms that we
insist on in ministering to their spiritual and
intellectual nedds.— N. Y. Tribune.
Robberv *sd Assoit.—At Reumstown,
Perm-, a time since, a robber celled at
the house of a farmer, and demanded $5O,
threatening to burn the farmer’s barn if (be
money were not forthcoming immediately,
The farmer’s son attempted to shoot the ruf
fao, but was prevented from so doing by his
parent. In a few minutes, however, thg barn
was in a blaze, but the farmer and his son
were 100 frightened to go out, for feir the
man would murder them, and therefore three
valuable horses, 200 sheep, and 30 head of
fab cal tie were destroyed. On investigation
fho, body of a man was discovered In the ru
dirk.knife in his belt. .It is suppos
ed l hat there were three or four men, and while
ope went.for the money the others set the barn
on fire, and while in the act of setting the
btt|n one of them received a violent kick from
,« crqsa,old horse, and therefore ho could not
get.aWay, and.was burned to death.
On Thursday evening Idst, at Pittsburg,
an old women named Hughes, while drunk,
let' her Infant child fad from hot knee upon
a hoi stove. The feet Were the only part of
the body touching the stove, but they fertioed
■on St ami I they were : burnt nearly to a cindot.
she child was igketj off by the neighbors.
WELLSBOKOtHSH, BA.
Thursday* Mornlalyj' ■ May I, 1856.
The'following ntmed gentlemen are authorized
to collect dnes and receive subscriptions for the Ag
itator. Tbclr receipts will be regarded as pay
ments.
Wm. Garretbon Tioga.
> J. B. Potter Middlebnry Center.
G. W. Stanton Lawrenceville.
Dr. J. C. Whittaker ’.. .Elkland.
John Sebrino Liberty.
0. F. Taylor .Covington.
- Victor Case Knoxville.
W, W. McDoooall Shippon.
Isaac Plank Brookfield.
Jno. James Blossburg.
C. F. Culver Osceoio.
O. H. Blanchard Nelson,
E, A. Mainabarg.
Samuel Phillies Westfield.
Wu. M. Johnson Daggoll’s Mills.
A. Barker Ogdensbnrg.
O. M. Stebbinb Crooked Creek.
Isaac Spencer Maple Ridge.
!9, 1858,
Attention, Republicans!
A Meeting for the election of Delegates to attend
the REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION to
be held at Philadelphia on the 16lh day of June
next, will be held in the Court Honse, Wellsboro’,
Monday evening, June 2d; at wliich time and place
one Delegate to the National Republican Conven
tion and two delegates at large, are also to be elect
ed. A general attendance is requested. Per order.
Hon. S. A. Douglas has our thanks for sundry
documents.
itoih.
This somewhat dubious article is fast becomings
political staple under the patronage of conservative
politicians. There arc some Dial denounce boldly,
others that ‘-damn with faint praise.” In relation
to the anli-slavery movement, the former arc least
to be dredded and least to be despised, while the lat
ter are|Uie more dangerous inasmuch as while they
feign to kiss, they treacherously stab.
The cause of Freedom gains nothing in the timid
endorsement ot half-and-half people. They are the
“sunshine patriots and summer soldiers” spoken of
by that sturdy Democrat, Thomas Paine. If they
(fail to damn every cause In which they enlist, it is
not their fault. They declare their attachment to a
great principle so guardedly and cripple their decla
ration with so many qualifications, that one is left
in the dark as to their real position. If (hey sleep
. sweetly, R must be owing to tho lymphatic texture
1 of the moral organization.
The self-styled American papers ore proficient in
bosh. They ore as decidedly opposed to Slavery as
anybody ; that is, as much opposed to the curse as
Messrs. Fillmore &. Donclson are; that is, as much
opposed as those exemplary putriols can be while
one is the godfather of the Fugitive Slave Law, and
(he other the owner of 100 men and women. A
pretty pair of anti-slavery men, truly. Such may
well hunt in couples, they are cemented by affinity.
! There is a paper before as, devoted to the inter
esls of this lovely pair., It supports the Union,
State ticket—less the name of Mr. Laporte of Brad
ford, who is dropped, says the editor, because be is
a “woolly head. 0 u Wo admit that Slavery is an
; evil, a very great evil,*’ continues tho editor, ’but 1 —
ah, that “bin” ! Mr. Editor, that wan a daring ad
mission ! You admit that Slavery is a very great
evil I la it possible! In the evening of the 19lh
century, it is discovered that Slavery is a great evil
under the sun! Bat our political Columbus should
know that that discovery is of near a century's
standing. The signers of the Declaration so declar
ed it, without a solitary “but.” The war of the
Revolution was prosecuted in the spirit of that De
claration. Washington and Jefferson so declared it.
Every patriot in the early days of the Republic so
denounced It Reason and Common Sense so do.
nouocc it.
Wo bold that no honest man can endorse that
which be recognises in tbe light of a great evil.
Neither can he ignore principle in obedience to a
short-sighted policy. No! The honest, earnest
man recognises a wrong bat to combat it. He does
not stumble over qualifying "bats," In bis coarse.
"But” is a compromiser. It strangles a host of
good intentions. It damages more reforms than til.
tra opposition. It qualified every declaration of the
scholarly Erasmus; and had it formed any part of
the vocabularies of a Luther, or a Zwingie, the Re
formation had nottbeen.
The Constitution is sacred only insomuch as it
subserves the ends, Liberty and Equality. When it
proves subversory of those greet principles, it is a
league with the PoWere df Darkness, It is not a
thing to be worshipped; andwhen its aims are frus
trated, and it becomes a refage of Oppression, it-csils
for immediate and unsparing denunciation on the
knaves who trample on its spirit.
Tiie editor referred to is frightened at the bogbetr
—Disunion. He is troubled at the prevalence of
.disunion discussions all over the country. He may
as well bring out the. rack and heat the pincers—for
just so surely as the American parly, so called, gets
half the power of Romo in her darkest days, will it
prove thrice as intolerant. Were we to choose be
tween Mt|lard Fillmore and f John as Presidential
candidates, we could not draw.- the lino of choice.
Both believe in the orthodoxy of the greatest gopd
to the least, number; both believe the Bible and
Free Schools destructive to the Yell-being of a por
tion of the mosses. Where is the difference 7 ’
Hero we have the admission that Slavery |s an
evil, a very great evil, from a rrianwho heartily en
dorses and supportsFiUmore &i Donelson. One, the
sponbqr of the Fugitive Law, and theothqr the oivfl-
THE AGImW.
M. H. COBB, fe : : OED
* t * All Conirounication|inu«l
be addressed lo the Editor lb iosdre attention.
te.
Republican Nominations*
Tor. President In 1856 1
Ht?n, SALOONP. CHASE, of Ohio.
For Vice-President s
Hon. DAVID WIU9OT, of Penn’a.
To The People of the United
States.
The People of the Uoiled Stoles, without
regard to past political differences or divisions, who are op
po-tod to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, to the policy
of the present Administration, to the' extension of Slavery
Into the Territories, in favor of tho admission of Kansas ns
n free State, and of restoring the notion of tho Federal Gov
ernment to the principles of Washington and Jefferson, are
invited by the National Committee, appointed hy the Pitts
burgh Convention of tho 22d of February, 1860, to send from
eorb State throe Delegates from every Congrewdonal District,
and six Delegates at large, to meet in PHILADELPHIA, on
(Jte utrf utAOilh day of June Tier/, for tlie purpose of recom
mending candidates to be supported fur the offices of Presi
dent and Tice President of the United States
E. D. Morgan, N. Y.,
Francis P. Blair, Md.,
John M. Niles, Conn,
David Wilmot, Penn.
A. P. Stone, Ohio,
Wh. M. Chase, R. 1.,
J. Z. Goodrich, Mass.,
George Nve, Virginia,
A. R. Hallowell, Me,
E. S. I. ELAND, Illinois,
Ciias. Dickey, Mich.,
Geo. G. Fogg, N. 11.
A. J. Stevens, lowa,
Cornelius Cole, Cal.,
Jj. Bsainerd. Vl.,
Wn. Grose, Indiana,
W. Spooner, Wis,
CMlt Pauuson. N. J.
E. D. W'ieliaus, Del,
John G. Fee, Kpn.,
Jas. Redpatu, Mo.,
L. Clephane, D. C.\
National Coin.
Washington, March 2J
THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR.
t— —rr~ r • • —jrri — rn —
«r of/jOO slaves, aoct a boater (disgraedftil
fact: This man riSgsl, not say archer Word about
the (ml of Slavery j, iI all lip-*eryjcs. He cannot
rarvclicth God cannot deteire
There ii treaaon aomewhere—aiffier m to heart or
on the,lip. ~—i—-,
„ Tbia editpj |?Unna thjt lie:ii| for fniapil “W
4a. this j»flncfpfe#fll
not
diitilled bosh. ' If /, manlfftr fevor offleo' soil in
principle, be never wlilidkduwledge tbit hriy lerrl
tory la justly subject to Slavery,- ifone foot of Ibis
earth is subject to lbs corse; then is every fool.
Thqre ia neither sound nor sense in each Half-way
philanthropy. There is no heart in it. . .
Such politicians go for union lor union’s cake.
We go for Freedom; if the Union can exist amid
universal Freedom,let it; if not,let it perish, for
there can be no true Union built upon other founda
tion, Freedom is harmony, bat Slavery is discord.
Harmony and Discord cannot be yokefellows. AH
the union that is worth preserving is actual and im
perishable, and therefore self-preservative. The
organic compact is the merest shadow—nothing
but a name to which a few. timid men affect to ding
because the substance; has departed, Fillnporc, Bu
chanan, Pierce and Douglas—these men admire,
nay, worship the Union. Look ul them; is there
an honest face in the group 7 From the heartlessly
placid face of Fillmore down to the'vanily.puckered
;ips of Picr'ce and the low cunning ihat' disfigures
the brow of Douglas, there is the same hypocritical
amoolhness, on a sliding scale. None of those men
can be trusted. Trust them and you will complain
of having been bitten. Elect either of those men
and we dsre predict Ihnt this Union will dissolve in
name as it has already, in spirit, ere another nation
al campaign shall be planned j and we are not pre
pared to say whether the election of Mr. Pierce
would more benefit the cause of Freedom or Slavery.
It is not enough that men profess to be in favor
of Freedom. We have heard not a few hypocrites
wag their tongues in this county, oven. Not
a few of them still wait to devour the loaves and
fishes. They will not be sparing of smooth words
and devotion to—their own interests. Be vigilant,
be active.
Rifles and Bibles.— Our Wayne county friend
waxes wroth against Ward Beecher and Theodore
Porker, for recommending Sharp’s rifles as appro,
priate agents to Ihe Christianization of the Border
Ruffians. In order to show its readers how much
better Christians live in the benighted regions of
Slavery; he instances the presentation of blbles to a
company of Alabamians just on the evc-of starting
for Kansas.
He does not tell his readers that those men car
ried also, each a revolver and a bowie knifo, yet-he
knowa very well that no Southerner is ever without
them. He keeps back all that does not subserve his
purpose, hoodwinking such oi his renders as ore not
able lo poy Ibr any other poper.
Not did ho inform his readers of the nature and
object of the mission of those Alabamians. He
should have done that. He should have told them
how that they were a company of Evangelists, sol.
ting out hi hie in hand to enter upon the holy work
of planting Slavery upon God’s free soil, with the
ciders of professed Christian churches In bid them
God speed, flow those pious elders might have
said—“Go ye out in the name of Him who said
that he came lo set the bondman free, and help to
erect a Stale whose borders shall resound will* the
sound of the lash and the cry of the bond man and
bond woman ; whose laws shall claim to he based
upon the word 6f Him who commanded that the
Gospel should be preached to every creature, and
yet shall hold him or her a Colon, TT ho shall tcauh a
bond man or woman to read the Scriptures!”
Why did our friend forget lo inform his readers
of these facts 7 Simply, because he did not wish to
keep his readers informed ss to facts. He dare not
even publish'the facts of the Kahsas outrages. He
prefers lo feed bis readers on studied misrepresenta
tions. We are heartily sorry for it, while wo assure
our friend that truth will ultimately triumph over
every obstacle and Right be Might, as certainly ns
that some men shall lie down at the last ashamed of
the part they acted in the greatdrama of life. Con
science will not always be put off with a bribe.
And when wo behold some men yielding a sudden
reverence for the Bible, we seem lo hear the denim
elation of the Master;
“Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you,
saying, this people draweth nigh unto me with their
mouth, and honoreth me with their lips; but their
hearl is for from mo.”— Mat. xv 7—B.
A Natural Descent.— The Rev. J, C. Lovojoy
of Massachusetts, the distinguished clerical oppo
nent of the Liquor Law, has formally joined the ad
ministration party, in a public letter giving, his rea
sons.—Trihunt. 1
Tlio Rev. gentleman might have spaced the inflic,
lion o( his reasons for such a step, upon the public.
As friend G., would say—“lt was in obedience to
the law of gravitation.” The Lovajoys, Matthew
Hale Smiths and Brownsans, owe no apologies to
the public for turning summersets whenever they
ciiooso. It is tlie privilege of such men to obey
their instincts. They fail in love with and marry
every abomination, for
“ ’T is their nature to."
W e call tlio attention of our hunker exchangee,
whose editors boil with righteous indignation
against “political parsons,” to this fresh evidence
that the preaching is not all to be on one side here
after. And now let us see if they are honest in
their denunciation of political preaching. Let us
see if the Rev. Lovejoy’s example shall aot be ap'-i
plauded by these doughty protestants against mixing
religion and politics. To be consistent, Ujey must
visit upon the gravitating Lovcjoy’si hpad/coodign
punishment. Gentlemen, we wish yoo'milch joy of
your convert. Glory in yonr Levejny, y o ur Smith
and your Brownson. Be ours the pleasant duty to
labor in the same field with a Parker, a Beecher end
a Diilton.
CT Mr. Fillmore received the news of his nomi
nation withont emotion-Foreign Correspondent of
a Ne to York paper.
7%ere is another evidence that the human “heart
is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.”
We are surprised that Mr. Fillmore is so impertor
able. He, the unanimous choice of the great un
washed and unhung American parly, and the spon
sor of (ho Fugitive Slave Law, receive such an as
lounding announcement without’ emotion! He
should have gone down un his knees and offered
thanks, that though they mlghtTnisull him in con
vention, there could V,' no possible chance of his
being disgraced by an'fcleclion, ’ '
Some of the honker piper* are bewailing’ (be
possibility of a duel between Gen. Lane and Senator
Douglas. Calm yonr .fears,, gentlemen, Arnold
Douglas, is a skulking coward, os his violation of
tbo sacred laws of hospitality ip the pri
yatp conversation of an invited gucst, aliunda l nlly
proves. Sucfh a man may be kicked and cowhided,
hut he never will set himself op to be shot at. He
Us no pluck, and.jwhal is worse, no sense of honor.
And had he either or both of these, It is by no
4n T one Would neek to compass
ft'« death, feet cheer up, gentlemen,’yoar idol will
never be (brown down by an irrevetenl Corles.
“Cuatsmc; or lean’s Trial, and Triumph*!'
By? Lanai. J. Co»ti* (*1 25. Dewitt & Davenport,
puljliahervNew York. '• v
Tfcis wpitk is worthy-df the age. It ia the story
of a truo life of a; true yoman, and written by a
true Woman. It'fs a work of broad views and bn
unmistakable moral. Christine ia introduced as an
uncultivated country girl exiled in her father’s
,Sp(ise. ' Shell a'.talpe ofufldeveloped
and moral wealth. She is educated by ■ fashion
deferring aunt and as the myiteriea pf scfehce re
veal themselves i 10,, her r hungering mind, her soul
Strikes out into.wjiat the.. Jptler.worshipping world
has tabooed ay .“by and fprbiddep, paths," ' In brief,
/she became an apostle to the lately educated and'to
Ilia fallen of her sox. The style is more Jhan
charming; it is solid yet flexible, accommodating
itself lo the purely descriptive and to the portraying
of the silent emotions that sometimes chain the hu
man hearl to thqrack. It is such a book as the au
thor of Jane Eyro might have, written.
For sale by G, W. Tayior, Weilsboro’.
We are in receipt of the April numbers at tfio
Phtmlogioalj ahd Water-dure Journals, published
by Messrs. Fowler & Wells, 308 Broadway, New-
York. These truly valuable periodicals are as in
teresting ai)d useful as ever, and deserve the highest
meed of merit—success. Mrs.T. D. Richards is
an authorized agent Ibr these and all other publica
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ITlangfield Classical Seminary.
The building Committee have resumed the
work, upon the buildings of this institution,
and will prosecute.ihe same with energy, un
til they are completed, which it is expected
will be in lime for a fall term, A great
amount of labor is yet required lo complete
the building; and then to furnish it in all its
various-dcparlmeots, will require n very large
amount of money. Wo believe there lias
never been on object more deserving the earn
est solicitude, and ready support with both
influence and money, than this enterprise.— i
It is ihe intention of the trustees to have (bis
equal lo Ihe best institutions in the Stale, and
we cannot realize, or hardly anticipate,, the
great benefit which will accrue to this cohmy
by having an institution of this characiejr in
our midst. Same no doubt have felt that it
would be local io character and influence,
and therefore have pot identified Ihemselves
to lending material aid in its commencement,
but this feeling should hi once be abandon
ed ; the whole country is interested and deep
ly 100, and should unite at once divesting
themselves of every sectional feeling, and say
in good earnest, this is our inslilulion, and it
must and shall be nobly sustained.
It will .require d great deal of labor, nnd
money, to place thus institution ol once in ihe
list of first class Schools, but nothing less
than this will answer our purpose. Not only
the citizens, of this county, but friends of the
institution from all directions are anxiously
wailing, wishing lo send their children to
this institution lo be taught. The romantic
scenery of the Tioga Valley, the pure water,
the balmy and strengthening atmosphere, the
unsurpassed facilities for gaining access to
the school, all combine lo make this a very
desirable place for the education of youth
from all parts of, the country. The work
was advanced nobly the past summer, Inking
into consideration.the very inclement season,
and also the great-scarcity, and high price of
both labor and provisions. A great share of
the means at present available, has been con
sumed, up to this lime, and it is very import
ant that the friends of this cause lend n help,
ing hand lo forward this work. Shares of
slock are only 850 ; so Ihat a very small
sum will enable those not able lo do more to
identify themselves with the association, which
will not only be a profitable investment, finan
cially considered, but will be doing something
lo maintain the most noble and praiseworthy
. object ever entered upon by the citizens of
Tioga. Who can be denied the privilege of
aiding in establishing this school ? There
are many who would feel it a burthen lo give
large amounts, while others who have been
more liberally blessed with this world’s goods,
will feel it a privilege to invest hundreds and
perhaps ihousands of dollars in this direction,
and we are confident they will never regret
it. To be engaged in a work calculated to
advance the interest and welfare of the pres
ent and future generation of young Ladies and
Genilerpen, is certainly ennobling to every
faculty of our nature, and should make us
willing to make any sacrifice necessary lo
effect our noble object. —Mansfield Express.
Doubtful Homage.
The anniversary of the binh-day of Hen
ry Clay, was celebrated at the Slashes of
Hanover, Virginia, (Mr. Clay’s birth-place,)
by Caleb Cushing,Stephen A. Doqglas, Sen
ators Mason and Bigler, John M. Bolts, and
others. According to the reported speeches,
the four first-named of the above, exhausted
their powers of eulogy over the memory of
the “ Great Commoner.” If Henry Clay
could have arisen in tho midst of those eulo
gists, who can no doubt that a withering re
buke would have flashed from his longue,
malting dumb the mouths of men who, while
he was living, spared him no obloquy ihal
envy and malice could utter—who pursued
his fair name and fame, like blood-hounds,
to the death, and when death had laid him
low (and Webster had followed'him to the
tomb) dared, with.impious nod traitors handk,
to rend in twain, one ol the noblest works of
his life—the Missouri Compromise. Alas !
that the purest patriotism and the truest
greatness can only triumph when their illus
trator has passed the portals of the grave.—-
Stephen A. Douglas doing homage to the
memory of Henry Clay, was a scene for the
moralist—a spectacle of memorable repent
ance or piora memorable hypocrisy the
sincerity of whose actors is, known only to
the great Searcher of Hearts. Let us, diffi
cult as it may.be, havalhe charity to believe
they were sincere.—iV. Y. Mirror.
A Southern College. —ln a South Car
olinn paper, called the-“ Southern Enter
prise, ’’ appears a letter from Hon. J. B.
O’Neall, in which, speaking of South Caro
lina Colleges and the young men who are
educated there, he saysi' " 1 graduated in
the college lorly-lhcefe years ago last Decem
ber. I Have been a trustee for thirty-seven
years, t know that I have Vvatoh.ed over its
interests with all the' care of a deep and abi
ding love j and yet I know t from all the stu
dents graduating from 1606 to 1855, forty
nine years, one-fourth of the whole number
have died drunkards—a shame to themselves
ant) a bfUften t? their families.
[3 eontinun(ta<Confl,
rMxbbtEHufij' Centre, April 28, ’56.
..a Fbiehd Cthra, I herewith send you a copy
patted at a meeting of
jhe friends of Free Kansas at the Hammond
school" house, iii Middlehury, on Saturday
averting* 26tb,irtst.‘ ; \;; r -' r
' The meeting was organized by appointing
A. C. Coze, Esq., Chairman, and J. B. Pot
tbb, Secretary.'
The Rev. H.. - Teas addressed the.meeL
ipg aj considerable length, and ab(y disepssed
ihef mdral aspects of the slavery qwktion.
.The.speaker fully concluded. wiliiJHenry
Ward Beecher in that ,“be had great confi
dence jn Sharpe’s rifles as mqraZ agents’ ’
The following resolutions were unanimous
ly adopted—all the ladies voting (?) ia the
affirmative. Jr
Resolved, 1. (That ns democrats of the
Jeffersonian school, who believe with the
“great Apostle” that freedom’is national and
slavery sectional—that all freeiemtoty shoqld
forever remain [tee—fail to discover the re
lationship existing between ihe immortal
“founder of the faith,” and his professing
proselyles.
Resolved, 2. That as the modern defini
tion of Democracy is “Border Ruffianism”
or slavery extension, Ihat we most respect
fully decline acting with a party based upon
such “God-disbonoring, man-destroying prin
ciples I”
Resolved, 3. That in the platform of the
Republican organization we recognize the
great principle laid down by the founders of
ibis government —“resistance to tyrants, is
obedience to God”—that we can conceive of
no greater “lyrranny” than that which is
making a desperate effort to grasp that fair
country once consecrated to freedom, and pol
lute its virgin soil with American slavery.
Resolved, 4. That if the approaching cam
paign is to decide (he fate of Kansas, that it
behooves the friends of freedom to Tay off
their coals and go to work Now, agitating, or
ganizing and preparing forthe'great struggle.
Resolved, 5. That we, citizens of Middle
burv, do organize under the name of Re
publican Club, No. 1., and that the president
appoint a committee of three persons to draft
a constitution and bv laws to be reported and
acted tlp^i'at our next meeting.
On motion, Resolved, That the proceed
ings of this meeting be published in the
Agitator.
On motion, Resolved, That we adjourn
to meet at the Briggs school house, two weeks
from this evening.
Before October, Kansas will have the
number of inhabitants required ir> Air. Doug
las’s bill. Why noi let the inhabitants them
chooso delegates to a Convention, for the
formation of a Constitution, preparatory to
admission as a Stale 1 , Why not have a con
vention elected under the authority of law, j
and with proper regulations, as to the right |
of suffrage Ir—Jour. of Com.
Because it keeps the inhabitants until
“October” defenceless and subjugated, ex
posed to invasion from without and outrages
within. Because even in October it will not
be obligatory on the “Territorial Legislature ”
to order an election unless they choose. ■ Be
cause the election, whenever ordered, will be
conducted under the supervision of a preten
ded “Legislature” composed of Missourians.
Because, under the law already passed by
that “Legislature” any one who will pay a
dollar and swear to uphold the Fugative Slave
Law, can vote in Kansas, whether he is a
resident or not —Because under that law, the
Misourians can smuggle into the ballot-boxes
as many spurious voles ns they .are willing
to pay SI a piece for. Because ihe Conven
tion so elected would not be a Convention
of the People of Kansas, but of the Borderers
of Missouri. Because the Constitution!
framed by it would be those Borderers' work,
and would be made to suit their purposes, not
those of the inhabitants. These are the rea
sons why Ihe Postponement Bill should not
be adopted. —Albany Journal.
Tub Ruins of Sebastopol. —A corres
pondent of the London Times thus notices
•he present condition of thislill-faled city :
The stranger who halls to survey it from
the neighboring heights, deceived by the
whitewashed and plastered Vvallsof the houses,
might think that Sebastopol was still a city ;
but when he walks through its grass grown,
deserted streets, formed by endless rows of
walls alone, of roofless shells of bouses, in
which not one morsel of limber can be seen,
from threshold to eaves, when he beholds
great yawning craters, half filled with mounds
of cut stone, heaped together in irregular
masses, when he gazes on the tumult of dis - -
entegrated masonry, once formidable forts,
now shaken as it were into dust and powder ;
when he stumbles over the fragments of im
perial edifices, Mo peer dowft 1 into the great
gulfs choked with rubbish which now mark
the side of the grand docks of the Queen of
ihe ftuxine, and beholds the rotting masts and
hulls of the sunken navy which'was nurtured
there ; when he observes that what Ihe wrath
of the enemy has spared is'fast crumbling
away beneath Ihe fires of Us friends ; and
that the churches where they worshipped* the
theatres, the public monuments, are especial
ly selected for, the practice of Ihe Russian
gunners, as though they were emulous of
running a face in destruction with the Allied
armies—he will no doubt come to the conclu
sion that the history of the world affords no
such autneotic instance of the annihilation of
a great city.
Holloway’s Pills an unfailing Remedy for
all disorders of the Chest and Lungs.—Oliver
Thompson, of Little Falls, New York, was
certainly in a most deplorable slate of health
len weeks ago.; his lungs, so the doctors told
him, were completely gone, his chest, and in
fact his body generally, hadscarcely an at
torn of flesh on it, so thin had 'he become,
fn addition to this, he had a cough which
completely shook him to' pieces (these are'his
own words); he has jubt called on Professor
Holloway lo inform him, that all these com
plaints have'been removed by Holloway’s
Pills, aflelr. he had .used them for’seyen weeks
and iwo'dhyb, arid he now feels tetter than
ever he did in his life. The Pills will readily
remove all diseases of (he floujacb and
bowel?,
A Republican leader a DkaijbT
Slaves.— CaMios M. Clay is a model
of freedom," and the greatly admired o nu.
Evening Journal and the Republicans«.
ally. One would auppope that Caa,i ui
no more Slave .than be would aC "
while roan,.hut quite the reverse is il.. r 4
The Lexington Observer of the £ S'
contains the advertiscmnt of a nublic ’
bo held at the residence of Cassius n'°
in Madison county* Kentucky,
land, cattle, -furniture “also twenty i W
slaves, men, woman and children, which* n
be sold during said Clay's life !—[£ Be ~'
Statesman.
Those slaves were bequeathed fo r ||f e ,
Cassius M. Clay, remainder in fee l 0
children. By the will which conveyed them
Cassius was miide the guardian of the chif
dren in respect to its devises. In Kentucky"
ns in most of the Slave States, if not s \\
them, bequests of slaves have been placed (, Y
statute upon Ihe fooling of devises of real es.
late. Though chattels, their grant for life
does not pass a fee. As the guardian of the
children, who bad Ihe remainder interest m
them, hje was legally obliged to keep and
care for,those slaves. He had no power to
manumit them, as he did manumit all that he
owned himself. The sale which has made
occasion for ihe above fling at a generous,
brave, and conscientious man, was the act
of the law, and not of Clay, involved deeo.
ly in debt by an unfortunate speculation, his
technical properly in the slaves has been sold
under execution to satisfy creditors.— -4H
Eve. Jour.
Melancholy Thagedy at We LLS villb.
—On the 11th insl., a young man named
Marlin Van Buren.'of WellavjJJe.
county, was slabbed, felled wiih a club, and
killed in ihe midst of a violent affray, at the
Railroad Depot, between some friends of iha
rival hotels in that village. The affair has
created much excitement in WellsviUe.
P. S, Erastus Smith, the person who
struck Martin Van Buren on the head with
a club on the night of his death, was held in
ihe judgment of ihe Corner, ns subject 10 an
action of assault and battery wiih attempt to
kill, and is now lying in jail at Angelica,
The Rockpon Register relates that a child
in that place had to all opperances died, and
was laid out in its (title winding sheet noon a
board in an upper room. Some ume alter
the father went into the room where ihe child
was, and was astonished at its calling him hv
name, and complaining that :t aid not he
good. Of course the little sufferer was sun.
plied with a better bed at once.
A company of seventy New England etm.
grants passed through Buffalo on the second
for Kansas.
TO BUILDERS. —The School Directors of
1 Delmar District will meet al the School house
near E. P, Deane’s, on Saturday May 10th. alrais
o'clock, afternoon, for the purpose of receiving pro,
posais for the building of three School Homes in
said district. Further particulars made snown on
said day. By order of Ihe Board,
May 1 '56. DAVID HEISE.Ac'v.
NEW ESTABLISHMENT.
NEW BOOTS.
WM, RILEY would respectfully 43
infoyin the citizens of Weil*. rj
boro* and vicinity lhat be has com
menced the Boot & Shoe business in
the building in the rear of Bailey's Store’ He ii
uow ready 1o do all work in his line in the beet mir u
ncr—ind will make Fine Sewed and Pegged Boot*
and Shoes, iu the most approved style, as well as
Coarse Work. Repairing done in a superior man*
ner.
He would respectfully solicit the patronage of the
citizens of thin place, assuring them (hat he will en.
deavorto merit (heir favors by using me best slock,
by careful workmanship, and bv punctuality.
Wfcllsbore* May 1, 1856. 6m.
BROOKS IDE FAMILY SCHOOL.
BERKSHIRE, TIOGA CO.. N. Y. April J.
1856.—The serai.Annual term of this institution
will commence Tuesday, May 13, and continue *23
weeks. Vacancies for a few good boys under 15.
for whom on early application is desirable.
Situated in one of the most beautiful valleys oi
southern New York, 18 miles north of Owcgo, S%
Y. tSi'E, R.R., this Institution possesses more than
ordinary claims to heallhfulncss and freedom from
tho contaminating influences which are mseparaole
from the neighborhood of a large town—while ihor.
ough instruction and faithful core shall be guaran,
teed to all who shall be committed to our trusts.
\KEERKNCES
G. J. Sledman, Esq., 62 Libcrty-st., New. York;
M. M. Backus, esq. Mnidon Lane, New. York.
Edward Tompkins, Binghamton, •*
W, P. Pope, ■*
James Wright 1 Ovrcgo,
Hon. John Parker, “
Hon. J. J, Taylor, u “
Anson C. Ely Elmira^
S. B. Strang, "
James E. Smith, Corning,
Hon. James Faulkner, Dansville, *
C. H. h. Ford, Lawrenceville, Pa,
C. L. Ward, Towanda, “
J. W. Means, “ *
5w may 1. FREDERICK F. JUDD. A. M.
PORK t PORK I —2o bbls of Mess Pork,
just received and for sale by W. A. ROE.
Smoked hams & shoulders,
on hand at [April 24.] W, A. ROE'S.
Tj^l'OUß—best brand of Family Floor, for tala
J- by [Ap. 34,1856.1 W. A.
nfclED PEACHES A API’LES
JLS on hand at [Ap. 24, *56.] - ROE’S.
IVTACKEREL Sc WHITE FISH
i'JL hy the ] J and bbl., cheap at ROE’S. ■
GR a SS SEED— for sale at ROE’S,
Wellsboro’, A.pril 1856-
Attention all.'. 1 they say ;
They say that G. W. Taylor has Upi largest
and best assortment of WA LI, PAPER in
town. Drop in at the Book &-Jewelry Store (or
the proof. [April 17. |j
REMOVAL.— DR. B. BARR respectfully
announoea to the public that 1 ho has reraosed
his Office to the dwelling lately occupied by Jos. P.
(Morris, £sq., where he may be found at all hours
[when not professionally engaged.
Demands for his services promptly responded to
■ Wellsboro’, April 24, 1856,
T ETTERS OF ADMIBfISTRA-
I i XIOIV having been granted to the under
signed ah the estate of James 8. Brydeo, late of
Pelmar township, deceased, all persons indebted to
said estate are requested to make immediate pay
ment, and those having .claims against the same tq
present them for settlement lb
MARY C. BRYDBN.
Delmar, April 24,1856-61 Adm'r._
IMteW MILtINEBIf KfIODS
IT MRS. M. STEVENS has just received Iron
th’e OityiV splendid assortment of new goods. latest
styles and patterns, comprising every variety of »r
-tides in her lino of business. Ladies are solicited
to call and examine her stock before purchasing elie
whefe. Orders punctually ai«nd«d to.
Wellsboro’, April 17 1 181)6,
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