SHE LOVED HIK
ST OKO. P. KOEEIft.
Shf lormlUmi lArt She kWW It not-
Jlor heart had only room for pride,
All other feelirigt *ero forgot.
When «he became another 5 * hrW®*
A$ frota a, dream she then stroke,
To mlfee her Wricly itate,
And own It as the vow she
That made her drear and desolate.
She toted him .* but the elimdcr came
With word* of bate that &H bolihred;
A stain thus rested on his name.
Bnfho Woe wronged and decehod,
Afa, rash the act that gave her bomb
That drove "her loved one from her side
Who bled him to a distant land,
Where battling for & name he diet.
Fhe loved him, and lus memory now
Was treoanred as a thing opart •
The shades of thought were on her brow,
’ The seeds of death were in her hearv
For an the world, that thing forlorn
1 woald not, conld not bo and live,
That casket, with its jewel gon»—-
A bride who boa no heart to gire.
Srlrct i^isicrnani).
An Accommodating Judge.
The following anecdotes ore told in Gov
ernor Ford’s Histofy of Illinois: “in those
davs /from 1818 Vo 1930,) justice was ad
ministered in the court without much show,
parade or ceremony. The judges were gen
tlemen oi sense and learning, who had
their courts mostly in tog- ty uses, or in the
bar rooms of taverns, fitted up fur that pur
pose with a tempoiiin bench for judge'
and chairs and benches for ihe lawyers and
jurors.
'■ At the first Circuit Court in Washing
tor county, by judge Jonn Reynolds, on
me opening of the court, the sheriff went
out into the court yard, and said to the peo
ple, “ Boys, come in—our John is going lo
bold court.’' in general, the judges were
averse to deciding questions of law, They
did not liKe the responsibility of offending
one or ihe other parties. They preferred lo
submit every thing they could lo be decided
by mejur^.
“ I Knew who, wnen asked for in
slruclions lo Ihe jury on, points of law,
would rub his head and inu sides of his face
wilh Ins nanus, and say 10 ihe lawyers.—
“■ Wny genlleman, the jury understand ii j
itiev need no instruction ; no doubt they will
do IUSMt„ '
" This same judge presided at a court in
whict a man named Green was convicted
to: murder, and it became ins unpleasant
duij to pronounce sentence upon the cul
pn.. He called ihe prisoners before him
and said lo him, “Mr. Green, the jury says
you are guilty of murder, and the law says
you arc to he hung. i want and all your
friends duwn on Indian creeK lo knoiy that
it is not I who condemn vou—n is the jury
and the law. Mr. G., what time would you
liKe to be hung 1 The law allows you lime
lo- preparation.’ - Mr. Green said, “ May
i please your honor, L am ready al any
lime . those yvho kill the body have no pow
er to Kill tne sou'.. My preparation is made,
and ; an-, ready al any time tne court pleas
ed ’ Tne judge replied, “Mr, Green uis a
very senons mailer to be nung , a can’t hap
pen to a man bu: once in ms life, and you
nao belie- lane all the time vou can get. —
M: Clem tool, a; tne almanac, and sec
yvnetner inis day lour yveeks comes on Sun-
OS" ’ Tne clerk looked as directed and
reported ilia;, I lint day lour weeks came on
Thursday. “ Then,’ said me judge, “ Mr.
breen, me court will give you only to ibis
Oav lour week.
11 Tne case was prosecuted by James Tur
nev me attorney genera,, wiio interposed i
ano sale, 11 May it please me court, on oc- i
cassions of this son it is usual for courts to ]
pronounce a formal sentence , to remind the
prisoner of bis perilous condition ; to reprove |
him ior ms guilt, and to warm him against I
me judgement in the world ic come. 1 ' Toj
which the judee replied G. Mr. Turney, [
Mr. Lireen understands me whole matter ; he 1
Knows he has got to be bung You under-1
sian: r., Mr. Green, don. yot. ‘'Yes,”'
said me prisoner. Then. Mr. let ihe
prisoner lie remanded, and adjourn court.’ 1
homi Journ
Legal Anecdou
Two o r Hie gren' cun' of Ihe New [lamp
shire bar. Jeremiah Mason and Ichabod Bart
lei', had been baltlmc all me week, and the
mos' impnrlant cases were disposed of The
June- was half asleep, Ihe pirv in senreeh a
bene' cnndilion. the cases were decided be
lore mose mierested hardlv knew which way
tc inn. Aboul four o’clock an old man was
placed at the bar accused of passing counler
ler monet There were bul few persons in
me court room —the lawyers who had finish
ed ther business, had gone home, and the
fellow seemed in a fair way lo be rapidly con
sicned to the slale prison. Mr. Bartlett Ihe
vnunger gun, sal with his arms folded, and ,
his feel upon the edge ofthe table, while the
attorney general examined two or three wit-,
nesses. Never was justice hurried through
in a more summary manne; The evidence,
was direct and conclusive, and ns witness nl. |
te- wnness left the stand, the old pn-nner’s ]
iace grew paler and paler, and he trembled ai
the certainty of his fate
Bv and by Mr. Bartlett opened his eyes,
cast a gmnee at the gray hairs of the old cul
prit, yawned gently, and turning to the attor
ney general, said audibly, “I’ll defend this
mar. r He asked no questions of Ihe witnes
ses and vqok no notes —but when the evidence
was through he rose and delivered one of the
mosi beautiful arguments ever heard. The
testimony which appeared as clear as noon
day, he pulled all to pieces—he made discord
ol narmony—nonsense of sense—discrepan
cy of the most exact arguments —and when
be touched on the old man’s unjust sufferings
be even drew tears.- Without leaving their
seats the Jury declared the prisoner “not guil.
The weeping man, with clasped hands,
leaned forward, seeming lo invoke a blessing
on the head of his defender. “Lei him oul
constable,” said Mr. Barilell, “and note, you
ola rascal, go about your business, and nee
er let me catch you passing counterfeit mon
ey again,'' The jury started in wonder,
and 1 left the Court House, laughing, yet
sorrowful.
Leap-Year Dialogue.— l,l Miss, will you
take my arml”
“Yes sir, and you 100.’ 1
“Cant spare but the arm, Miss,” replied
the old bachelor.
“ Then replied she, I shan’t take it, as my
motto is go (he whole hog or nothing,'’
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YOL. 2.
How Some Polks Marry and Live.'
, A young man meets a pretty face in the
ball-room, falls in love with it, courts it, mar
ries it, goes to house-keeping wilh it, and
boasts of having a home and a wife to grace
it. The chances are nine to ten he has nei
ther. Her pretty face gets to be an old story
—or becomes faded, or freckled, or fretted—
and as the face was all he wanted, all he
paid his attention 10, all that he sat up with,
all he ever bargained for, all he swore to
love, honor and protect, he gets sick of his
trade, knows a dozen faces which he likes
belter, gives up staying at home evenings,
consoles himself with cigars, oysters and poli
tics, and looks upon his home as a very in
different hoarding house. A family of chil
dren grow up about him; but neither he nor
his “face” knows anything about training
-them, so they come up helter-skelter; made
toys when babies, dolls when boys and girls,
drudges when young men and women; and
so piss year after tear, and not one, quiet,
happy hour is known throughout the whole
household. Another young man becomes
enamored of a “fortune.” He waits upon it
to parlies, dances the polka with it, exchan
ges billet-doux wilh it, pops the question to it,
gets “yes” from it, lakes it to the parson’s
weds it calls it “wife,” carries it home, seis
up an establishment wilh it, introduces it to
his friends, nnd says (poor fellow) that he,
100, is married nnd has got a home. It’s
false. He is not married ; he has no home,
and he soon finds it out. He’s in the wrong
box ; but it is 100 late lo get out of it. He
might as well hope lo escape from his coffin.
His friends congratulate him,,and he has to
grin and hear it. They praise the house, the
furniture, the cradle, the new Bible, the baby
—and then bid the “fortune,” and he who
husbands 'it, good-morning! As if he had
known a good morning since he ancl that gil
ded fortune were falsely declaied lo be one!
Take another case. A young woman is
smitten with a pair of whiskers. Curled
hair never before had such charms. She sets
her cap for them ; they take. The delighted
whiskers make an offer, proffering themselves
both in exchange for one heart. The dear
Miss is overcome with magnanimity, closes
the bargain, carries home the prize, shows it
to pa nnd ma, calls herself engaged lo it,
thinks ihere were never such a pair of whis
kers before, and in a few weeks they are
married. Married? Yes, ihe world calls ii
so, and we will. What is the result? A
short honey-moon, and the unlucky discovery
that Ihev are as unlike as chalk and cheese,
and not to he made one though all the priests
in Chiistendnm p-~ m— •*
East India Jugglers.
One of the old men came forwad upon 1 lie
gravelled and hard-trodden avenue, leading
will) him a woman. He made her kneel
down, lied her arms behind her, and blind
folded her eyes. Then bringing a greal bag
set made with open meshes of rope, lie put
ii over ihe woman, and laced up the mouth,
fastening it with knotted intertwining cords
m such a way lhal it seemed an impossibility
for her lo extricate herself from it.
The man then look a closely woven wick
er basket, narrowed toward the top, lif.ed the
woman in the net from tho ground, and
placed her in il, though it was not without
ihe exertion of some force lhat he could
crowd her through ihe narrow mouth. Hav
ing succeeded in gelling her into ihe basket,
in which, from ns small size, she was neces
sarily in a cramped posilion, he put the cov
er upon it, and threw over il a wide atrip of
cloth, hiding ii completely. In a moment,
placing iiis hand under the cloth, he drew out
the net quite united and disentangled
He then took a long, straight, sharp sword,
mnllored some words to himself while lie
sprinkled the dust upon the cloth, and pul
some upon his forehead, then pulled off and
put aside the covering, and plunged the sword
suddenly into the basket.
Prepared as we were, in some degree, for
this, and knowing lhal it was only it decep
tion, ii was yet impossible to see it without
a cold creeping of horror. The quiet and
energy with which he repeated his strokes,
i driving ihe sword through and through ihe
I baskei, while the other jugglers looked on,
1 apparently us much interested as ourselves,
I were very dramatic and effective. Stopping
after he had riddled the baskei, he again scat
tered dust upon iis lop, lifted the lid, look up
the baskei from the ground, showed it to us
empty, and threw it away. At the same
moment we saw the woman approaching us
from a clump of trees at the distance of at
least fifty or sixty feet.
Throughout ihe whole of this inexplicable
feal, the old man and woman were quite re
moved from the rest of their parly. The
baskei stood by itself on the hard earth, and
90 much beneath Ihe verandah on which we
were sitting,, lhal wo could easily see all
around it. By what trich our watchful eyes
were closed, or by what means the woman
invisibly escaped, was an, entire mystery,
and remains unsolved.
Frdit in the Wrong Peace.—The fash
ion of wearing vegetables upon the head has
been introduced the present year, and ladies
look as though they had been to market and
were just returning with their purchases
hanging down the back of their necks. The
favorite ornaments for bonnets and head
dresses, at present, are bunches ol fruits,
plums, oranges, lemons, penches, apples nnd
quinces Most Pomona like and tempting
do the spring bonnets look, with these fruity
decorations, and the normal fondness of the
mother of us all for apples, appears to have
broken out in the most astonishing form.
Life) In Africa.
Rev. Mr. Beachman, a minister of the
London Wesleyan Mission, recently returned
from a visit to Africa, and in a sketch of the
social condition of the negroes (inhabiting the
Gold Coast and its vicinity, he furnished a
truly awful picture, thus:
‘Scarcely had one of their barbarous cus
toms been abolished, from ihe earliest period
of which we knoty of them. They will ev
en pave their court-yard places, and even
the streets nr market places of their villages
or towns with the skulls of those butchered
in their wars or at feasts, funerals, or at sac
rifices to Bossom.
‘Still, their wives and slaves are buried
alive with their deceased husbands and males
When Apahanzon died, two hundred and
eighty of his wives were butchered before
the arrival of his successor, which put a slop
10 it only to increase the flow of blood and
number of deaths in other ways. The liv
ing wives were buried alive amid dancing,
singing, bewailing, the noise of muskets,
horns, drums, yells, groans and screeches :
the women marched by headless trunks, be
daubed themselves with blood and mud.—
Their victims marched along with large
knives passed through their cheeks. The
executioners struggled for the bloody office,
while the victims looked on and endured with
apathy. They were 100 familiar with the
horrid sacrifice lo show terror or to imagine
it was not as it should be. Their hands
were chopped, nnd then their legs were saw
ed off to prolong the amusement. Even
some who assisted lo fill tho grave, were then
hustled in alive, in order to add to the sport
or solemnity of the occasion. Upon the
death of the king’s brother, four thousand
victims were thus sacrificed. These ceremo
nies are often repeated,and a hundred slaugh
tered at every rehearsal massacre which oc
curs.
Can a man who sells tea urns, bo said to
urn his living.
At their Yarn customs, Mr. Bowdileh wit
nessed spectacles of ihe most appalling kind.
Every coborco or noble, sacrificed a slave as
he entered the gale. Heads qnd skulls form
the ornaments in their processions. Hund
reds were slain, and (he streaming and teem
ing blood of the victims was mingled in one
vast pan, with various vegetable matter, fresh
as well as putrid, lo compose a powerful Fet
rhie. At these customs, the same scene of
butchery occurs. The king’s executioners
traverse the city, killing all they meet. The
king, during the bloody saturnalia, looked on
eagerly and danced with delight in his chair.
The king of Dohaney paves the approach
es to his residence, and ornaments the battle-
*.i .1 _ II- f* • •
tims, and ihe great Felchie tree at Barbary
has its wide-spreading limbs laden with car
cases and limbs. The want of chastity is
no disgrace, and the priests are employed as
pimps. Murder, adultery and thievery are
no sins there.
The Mayor's Complaint Book. —lt is the
custom of some of the Mayor’s of the North
to keep complain books, in which the people
may enter their complaints of nuisance they
want abated. Apropos of one of these. The
Spirit of the Times gives the following amu
sing story :
(Scene, Mayor’s Office, 10 o’clock A. M.
Enter a bilious looking man, dressed in a
seedy coat and black whiskers.)
Saffron Gent.—ls the Mayor ini
Mayor VV.—Yes sir.
Gent—Are you the Mayor?
Mayor (looking dignified)—Sir, I have the
honor.
Btllious Citizens. —Have you a bonk in
which people can leave their complaints?
Attentive Dignitary.—Y’es sir | and at
once proceeded to open a volume large
enough for a country umbrella. The May
or having seized a pen and dipped it in the
ink, proceeded as follows : Will you pul
your complaint in the book, or do you wish
me io do so !
Gamboge Subscriber.—Well, as I am a
little burned you can pul it in the book.
Interested Functionary.—What is thecom
plarnl?
Sallow Individual.—lt is the liver com
plaint.
It is sufficient to say that the ponderous
voiupie was shut in a jiffy. The pen drop
ped, and when we caught a glimpse of His
Honor at Hank’s, a few moments after, he
“ conlessed ihe corn,” and put on his custo
mary “smile."
A Soldier’s Story. —During the Mexi
can war, the veteran General Riley, since
deceased was ordered to lead the storming
parly at Cerra Gorda. During the war of
1812-14 Gen. Riley had been shot in the
throat, and consequently had a peculiarly
strange intonation. He was ordered to storm
one of the batteries of Cerro Gorda, and
when his command was mustered, and was
thus addressed by his second in command:
“General, I do not think we can lake this
work.”
“Think! By you are not paid for think-
mg.
“But Sir,” said Col. 8., we can’t lake it?”
, “(jlan’i take it—you have got to take it."
The old General pul his hand to his belt, and
pulling out a paper, said. “Here tkir ilk
Gen. Scon’s orders in black and white to take
the-thing.”
And they did take it.
It is the law in France, that men drawn
for ihe military service must either serve
themselves, procure a substitute, or pay cer
tain amount to the government. The sum
paid into the treasury in this way amounted
during the continuance of the late war to
62,400,000 francs representing 82,385 sub
stitutes.
WELLSBOROUGH, TIOGA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 19, 1856.
A Scene in Church—Redemption of a
White Girl from Slavery.
In the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher’s
Church, yesterday, at the close of the ser
mon, a curious scene occurred. Mr. Beech
er staled that he was about to do something
which perhaps] would be misunderstood, and
subject him to considerable criticism and an
imadversion. He read the following, from
12th chapter o( Maithow,,to show that he
had a precedent in the conduct of Christ for
what he was about to do ;
9. And when he was departed thence, he
went iu'o their synagogue:
10. And behold, there was a man which
had his hand withered. And the asked him,
saying, is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath
day 1 that they might accuse him.
11. And he said unto thorn, What man is
there among you that shall have one sheep,
anil if it fall into a pit on the Sabbath day,
will noi lav hold on it and lift it out.
12. How much then is a "man better than
a sheep? Wherefore, it is lawful to do well
on Ihe Siibh,uti dnv.
13 Then satth he lo the man, Stretch
lorih ih'. h in.l And he slrelehed it forih;
anil K w-i- r,., mred whole, like n< the other.
After readmit tlie above, Mr. Beecher con
doned ;—Admit n week since I received n
letter fn>m the city of Washington which
contained what 1 conceive to be most ex
traordinary story. A certain young woman
nearly white was offered for sale in lhal city,
by her own father, for a purpos so infa
mous, that it is impossible for mo lo allude
toil here. Strange lo say,.a Slavedenler
who knew of the fads became interested in
the girl, and to his credit interposed in her
behalf, to save her from the fate that awai
ted her. The price o( the girl was fixed al
$1,200, He subscribed $lOO himself, and
actually induced another Slavedealer lo give
another 100 towards raising a fund for her
liberation. Application was made lo certain
eminent men of Baltimore, and $5OO more
were raised, leaving $5OO more to complete
the required sum. The girl was sent here
on her own personal security, and she must
go back next week unless the $5OO are sub
scribed before to-morrow. You, brethren,
are to say whether site will go back or not.
It is said lhal Abolitionists talk about tlie
freedom of the Slays, but do not act. It is
for you lo show that the statement is untrue.
I will show you the girl who is lo be con
demned lo a infamy unless this Christian con
gregation interposes to save her. Sarah,
come up here.
-l n who came forward Uriel uscemfed
the pulpit, Mr. Beecher handing her up the
steps and furnishing her with a seat, so that
the whole audience could see her. The ut
most curiosity and interest was mu infested
by the audience when the girl win in sight.
She was almost while, had straight hair,
ana might in a crowd have passed for a
while woman. She was about twenty years
of nge, was neatly dressed, and might be cul
led -handsome.
While the plates were passing around,
many of the women in the house were in
tears, and the contributions were most liber
al, the platbs being covered with gold coin
and bank bills.
Mr. Beecher continued addressing the
audience while the money was being collec
ted, and asked “was they willing that vast
territories should be thrown open for the en
slavement of women such as the one now
before them ?”
Here an old gentleman in the audience
rose and soiled that several persons in his
neighborhood had pledged themselves to
raise all that was necessary over Ihe collec
tion to free the woman. This announcement
caused loud applause, as the feelings of the
audience were aroused to the highest pitch.
The stamping of feet and the slapping of
hands continued for some minutes.
Several females in the vicinity of the wri
ter were applauding loudly, and waving
handkerchiefs were very generally used—
indeed, ihe utmost excitement prevailed.
Mr. Beecher said he did not approve of
an nngodlv ■■'a-.ping of hands in the Church
ol God, lint he could see no harm in doing
so on the present occasion. The hills of Ju
dea were wont to ring with the plaudits o(
the people and the sound of cymbals, when
any signal instance of God’s presence was
manifested, and ho could forgive that natu
ral outburst of enthusiasm on any occasion
like Ihe present. Let us now, he continued,
join the hymn—lhe first hymn of freedom
our sister has ever heard.
A hymn was then sung with great fervor,
when the audience slowly dispersed.
We learn that sBoo»were collected, $3OO
more lhaq was required. It is slated—
with what truth we know not—(hat this
girl is the daughter of one of the first gen
tlemen of Virginia, has been well educated,
and is accomplished and refined. She ran
away from her master last Christmas, and
was arrested and imprisoned in Baltimore.—
Her owner then sold her for $1,500. She
was purchased by a slave dealer, who know
ing her good character, and the odious rela
tion which she had been compelled to hold
in her master’s family, took compassion on
her, and purchased her in order to give her
freedom. For this purpose, ho and his
friends cort-ibutei $3OO. The sum of $450
was contributed for the same object by per
sons in Washington, through the agency of
Dr. Bailey, of the National Era. She was
then sent North to Mr. Beecher, on her pa
role of honor, to obtain the balance of $5OO
necessary for her redemption.
A primer never ought to back out from an
“afiair of'honor' 1 because he is skilled in the
ueffdf shooting-sticks.
m. 47.
Who are the Leaders in Kansas?
An impression seems to prevail extensively
throughout the country' at large that the lea
ders of the movement in favor of making a
free State out of this territory, have all been
strong anti-slavery men in former times, or,
in other words, Abolitionists. They have
been the very reverse of this. Not one of
them ever had any sympathy witluthe Free
Soil or Liberty party, nor ever acled'wah it,
so fur as we are informed. The" five most
prominent hien are Gov. Robinson, Lieut.
Gov.' Robertson, Senators Reeder and Lane,
and Mr. Deinhay, the member of Congress
elect under the new Constitution,
The first was born in Massachusetts, and
both there and iu California, where ho lived
for some years, actively supported one of
the great parlies which divided the nation up
until 1852. He never was either a liberty
man or a Free Soiler. In fact, thruughont
his whole life, until he emigrated to Kansas,
he look decided part against them and their
peculiar doctrines.
Lieut. Gov. Robertson ia a native of Fay.
ette county, and was a lending and active
member of the democialic Legislature which
assembled at Harrisburg in 1854. He was,
from the time of the introduction of the Ne
braska bill into the Senaie by Douglas until
its passage, a warm advocate and friend of
its principles.
Every one in this Slate knows Alexander
H. Reeder. All know ho is a Pennsylvani
an and a man of talents. His devotion to
the Democratic faith procured from Presi.
dent Pierce his appointment to the Governor
ship of the territory. His warm advocacy
of squatter sovereignly placed him in direct
contact with the Free Sutlers. Indeed, he
has been in collision with them throughout
his political career.
• Mr. Lane was elected Lieut. Governor of
Indiana by the Democratic party shortly af
tfcr his return from the bloody field of Buena
Vista, where he had won high renown. Sub
sequently, he was sent from the same State
by that party to Congress, and recorded his
vole in favor of the Nebraska bill.
Delahay is n native of Alabama. Some
years since he removed to Illinois and edited
a Democratic Douglas paper. When he re
moved to Kansas, he took his press with him
and established a squatter sovereignty organ
at Leavenworth. But because he dared to
deprecate the invasion of the Territory at
every election by the Missourians, the chtv
nlric citizens of that Stale threw his press
into the river. lie is now decidedly in fa
vdt-SLfrpfdom for Kansas.
OIILII IlrU MIC HR II r» jivj v*.w tnv
the Free Stale men in Kansas, and such are
their political antecedents. If Ihey are Abo
litionists-, then no man in the North can es
cape having that soubriquet affixed to him.
Original advocates of squatter sovereignly,
they will believe that the people of Kansas
-hnuld he permitted to govern themselves
without interference from Missouri.— Phila.
Times.
Eloquence,
The following passage is from the speech
of lion. John A. Bingham, of Ohio. It is
said to have produced a thrilling effect upon
the House. We can well conceive that it
would do this. The records o( Parliamen-1
inry eloquence in this country furnish few |
finer passages. Mr. Bingham, in speaking j
of the ‘bloody code, of Kansas, said : |
Ay, sir, Congress is to abide by those
statutes, which make it fulony for a citizen
to uuer or publish in that Territory any
thing calculated to induce slaves to escape
from ihe service of their masters.” Hence it
would be felony there to utter the strong
words of Algernon Sydney “Resistance to
tyrants is obedience 10 God;” a felony to
say will) Jefferson, “I have sworn upon the
altar of my God eternal hostility to tyranny
in every form over the mind and body of
man a felony to utter there in the hearing
of a slave upon American soil, beneath Ihe
American flag, the words of fame which
shook the stormy soul of Henry, “Give me
liberty, or give me death a felony to read
in the hearing of one of those fettered bonds
men the words of the Declaration, “All men
are born free and equal, and endowed by ihe
Creator with the inalienable rights of life
and liberty a felony to utter those other
words, blazing in letters of living light on
the great written charter of our National
Government, “We the people of the United
Stales, in order to establish justice ; the attri
bute of God, and “to secure liberty,” the im- (
perishable right of man, do “ordain this Con- j
slilulion a feloney to harbor or aid a slave
escaping from his lhaldrom ; a felony to
aid freedom in its flight ; a felony to shelter
the houseless, to clothe Ihe naked, to feed (he
hungry, and to help him that is ready to per
ish ; a felony to give to the famishing a cup
of water in the name of our Master. Oh,
then, before you hold this enaCmenl binding
on an American Congress, tear down ihe
banner of Freedom which floats above us,
for stirring reminiscences linger in its folds
O “
and the stars upon its fields of azure have
have gleaned upon its fold of “poised builo,”
where the earthquake and the fire led the
charge, and where American virtue and
.American valor maintained the unequal con
flict against the mighty power of British ty
-1 ranny and oppression. Before you hold this
enactment to be law, burn our immortal Dec
-1 laration and our free press, and finally pene
' irate the human soul, and pul out the light
1 of understanding which tho breath of the
Almighty hath kindled. ,
If you don't want corns on your feet, don’t
were tight bools. If your don’t want to be
corned all over, don’t get light yourself.
t» T ;
Choice Reading for Doughfaces.,
SUMNER SYMPATHIZERS.
Prom The Richmond Enquirer (Buchanan organ), Jane 9.
Ii is idle lo talk of union, or peace, or Irooa
with Sumner or Sumner’s friends. Catalina
was purity itself compared with the Massa
chusetts Senator, and his friends are no bet
ter than he. They are all (we mean tho
leading and conspicuous ones) avowed and
active traitors. The sending the Congress
ional Committee to Kansas was done withiha
treasonable purpose of aiding the rebellion ia
that Territory. The Black Republicans in
Congress are at open war with Government,
and, like their allies, tho Garrisonian Aboli
tionists, equally at war {with religion, female
virtue, private property and distinctions of
race. They all deserve the halter, and it ia
vain and idle lo indulge the expectation that
there can be union or peace with such men.
Sumner and Sumner’s friends must be pun
ished and silenced. Government, which can
not suppress such crimes as theirs, has failed
of its purpose. Either such wretches must
be hung-or pul in the penitentiary, or tha
South should prepare at once lo quit the Un
ion. We would not jeopard the religion and
morality of the South to save a Union that
had failed for every useful purpose. Lei ua
(ell the North at once, if you cannot sup
press the treasonable action, and silence tbu
foul, licentious and infidel propagandism of
suoh men as Stephen Pearl Andrews, Wen
dell Phillips, Beecher, Garrison, Sumner, and
their negro and female associates, let us part
io peace. We would like to see modesty,
female virtue, common morality and religion,
independent of Government. The experi
ment at the South, lo leave these matters to
the regulation of public opinion, works ad
mirably. We are the most moral, religious,
contented, and law-abiding people on earth,
and are daily becoming more so.
The reverse of all this is, for the lime, at
least, true at the North. If you cannot expel
the Black Republicans from power, punish
them and silence them for the future, you
are incapable of self government. You
should adopt a military despotism. We ad
here to our Republican institutions. Your
sympathy for Sumner has shaken our confi
dence in your capacity for self.government,
more than all your pasf history, lull of evil
poienls as that has been, lie had just avow,
ed his complicity in desigosTar more diabol
ical lhan ihoso 01 Caialino or Celhegus, nay
iranscending in iniquity all that the genius of
a Milion has attributed to his fallen angels.
We are not surprised that he should be hail
ed as hero and saint, for his proposed war on
everything sacred and divine, by that Pan
demonium, wliere Ihe blasphemous Garrison,
and Parker, and Andrews, with their runa
way negroes ana masculine women congre
gate. He belongs to that crew himself. He
is a proper saint fora Free-Love saloon or
an Infidel ’convention. But unless there be
enough of painoiism. religion ana moraiily
at the North, lo express general detestation
ol his crimes and congratulaiions at bis mer
ited casngation, we had belter part company.
No evil ihat can befall lhe South would be so
great ns association with Sumner and Sum
ner's sympathizers.
We give below an extract from his speech,
that is m iruth the programme of the Aboli
tionists. He threatens us with the sundering
RfsfiOT^dP^i^.'Wfln 1 TO
than war. Now this is just what Abolition
proposes North and South. And we are to
be subjected lo those unheard of ills, because
we assert our eoual right lo the common do
main of the Union. The North knows that
he and his compeers have already inflicted
on society there, many of these ver y ills with
which he darkly threatens the South. Bias
phemy m the Pulpit, such as Parker's and
Beecher’s, Infidel Conventions ; lectures, es.
savs and speeches against marriage, and
against female virtue, licentious philanslerie- 1 ,
Oneida lnunls of communism and incest,
Agrarian docirmes and Anti-Rent practices,
Free-Love saloons. Mormon States and Sha
ker villages, amt a thousand other vile isms,
are ihe fulfillment, the interpolation, and the
commentary of this fiendish orauon. These
constiiute a strife, “ more lhan foreign, more
“ 'han social, more lhan civil, but something
“ compounded of all these strifes, and in
“ itself more lhan war." He and his vile
associates have already stirred up at the
North the strifes with which he vamiy threat
ens the South. Sympathy with such a wretch
is a crime against morality, religion and
God.
The render will find that, although he at
tempts to involve and darken his meaning,
and his threat, his real intentions are those
which we have attributed to him. This is
whnl he says :
“ But this enormity, vast bcvond compar
ison, swells to dimensions of wickedness
which ihe imagination toils in vain to grasp,
when n is understood, lhat for this purpose
are hazarded the horrors of intestine feud,
not only in this disianl Territory, but every
where throughout the country. Already the
muster has begun. The strife is no longer
local, but national. Even now, while 1 speak
portents hang on all the arches of the hori
zon, threatening to darken the broad land,
which already yawns wuh the mullenngs of
civil war. The fury of the propagandists of
Slavery, and the calm determination if their
opponent, are now diffused from the distant
j Territory over wide spread communities,and
(he whole conpirv, in all its cxlent—marsh
aling hostile divisions, and foreshadowing a
strife, which, unless happily averted by the
triumph of freedom, will become war—fra-
Iricidal, parricidal war—with an accumula
ted wickedness beyond ihe wickedness of any
war in human annals ; justly provoking the
avenging judgment of Providence and the
avening pen of history, and constituting a
strife, in the language of the ancient writer,
more than foreign , more than social , more
than civil; but something compounded of all
these strifes, and in itself moie than war ;
sed potius commune quoddam ex omnibus, et
plus quam bellum.”
The spirit ol the People oi Kansas is not
subdued—the blood of the martyrs will en.
rich the soil of liberty, Irom which will rise
up a new life unci a new power that will over
come the brutal tyranny that now grind*
them into the earth, and restore them to the
enjoyment of that frefedom and independence
which was sanctified by the blood of their
fathers, and is now their own rightful inher
■lance. — Gcrmunloicn Integraph.