, .. [Prom the pewiebnrg Chronicle.] THE FOB PX.XJ3SDEH. To the Tax-Payers an d the Press. ! The honest and;|onfi4ing messes o£onr pe»- rarely anticipatss outrages upon their right?, ■ for they ere slow tp'beleivo in the existence of premediated wrongs. They rely.upontho4, • whom they f entrast|ijrith power, to protect them against the mensutSls of designing and corrupt men. Thai restipjj in security, at the preset t time, they qre, unprepared for tie schemas upon thjf’freasnry of the State,iwhich' the Pennsylvan'mSGentral, and the Sunb'ury & E.-iy Railrqad, tufts in view. ] 'Under the'cifct;ip»stances, therefore, we dee; h it pur datyj to 1 di^gpt'attention to propositions which these corporations contempts e springing pplin tlicdorgfiilatore at an early di y of the Session. They.arc," ' | •- First— the of .the Tonnage Tdx whidh the Pennsylvania- Central Railroad Coip ,pany is engaged to pay. This tax, os jlust :n itself as an imposed upon pny of t|e people for the supgort of government', arnounjts annually, if wo ajji) not Mistaken, to. upwards of -SS.OOfyOOO. IfjjWe say it ia a just tax ajrd should be paid without a murmur, because the Central Company'! n the grant of privileges c|b tained from the States became a competitor tbr the trade, which.fe-ould hpve otherwise befen obliged to find itoi’way to |lhe markets j of the East sifid TjVept oy|r the' Main Line of the Improveopcnts. Through the rivalry thus estab lished, in dpposiljbhjto its own works, (land by means, ap in.alleged of gross corruption.) the , State yank two-thirds of the cost of the Miin . Line in the,sale which was made to the Penn ey! vamaCentral.’- It is also a just tt.x, t|at should not 1 because it is levied (in aecordanpewitb CjmSprovisionsmf .the Charter, t Butfortha auq.uis»(fenoa in this, tonna ;a tix, andva belei£that.’|io;aUempt would be nadejto; deprive thaSiatejiof it, the Pennsylvania ■Cbn trtil Railroad Cunipany would probably havejno existence torday. j j And the Company i i abse il mtly able to-pa Vor even a greater ( ax. j With a knowledge of these facta, any inier ferencoVith of revenue can only! be regarded as a piust infamous and barefaj:ed : outrhgeuprm tWljrights of the people. With as muohf if not 'mote propriety, the.Lanki of the State can -expect to bo, relieved' from |he payment At dtidd'end tax; and ail othtr coiipo ratinns and who ‘are more largely' heftefitted by. tltiiprotacting care of government, than the miisseiUfipeople are, may also ifiok for exemption ftem taxation—and thus increase the burthens of]'those who are least abls to - bear them. "I ! The people reed only be. aroused jon ibis question, to put;|t at rest for ever; and we (ap peal to the Proe| of the State to “ cry alpud and spare not” ’lit this time. I-, { Sicoxn— t(io iyelease (by granting j a prior jnotteage or s«?ia other scheme,) of [the ■600,000 mortgage held by the State againstithe <S:Tiriaiii.ailroad Company. This fa a noiess unjust-anil obnoxious measure thnnitha ohe just'adverted to- What has the State to' show for the e^Hrmous -outlay of money injthe construction of‘ canals, in this mortgage of $3,500.000! ijhp Sunbury and Erie Cim piiny, . through .whose' igenry, and fur whose benefit, . the sale of thefh'ate Canals was brought abbut, should—*odnei(f ;fing the inode and manner of the sale—be tlj|ilast applicant for Legislative favors; and w-gisincerely trust there will be found' enoughjsjjonesty in our Legislature to give a quietus --ci Jbe plundering schemes of the ' controllers of fits corporation the coiling ses sion,; who bavin made themselves rich already out of the of this work, and any further aid would dou| jtless be squandered aft be ’ore. I If they can ml go on, let them make way for otliert. ' ! i | •vi.-- bo* The tax-payirs can justly realize jv already been c ine for the* Pennsylv? tail Railroad (lunpany and the Snnbi : Company, we tell them tliat corporations. gi|t the control of State which cost upwards of thibtt-five or DOLLARS, fo(;ELEVEN MILLIONS, and will' not only t J begging, but .will prol more neductivt jarts for the addition;.. . , •hms alluded tj. Let the People and the Press, by a united expression of Ysentimenb by petitions, letters, - remonstrances* and public meetings tut down these Tim i/|ouities. We append a |hort form of petitij b, which we recommend forjgen eral circulatio j. ’Let all the names possible be obtained, andj jent to Harrisburg as soon as tQc convenes, as.it is said the Sunbury & Edi scheme is to be tried, under / whip and spit, before Gov. Packer leaves the Executive,i:ha‘ •. There are prominent man, of alt parties and Iseotfuns, in both these) schemes —‘therefore wi.lwarh the (tax paters, that |dev themselves nt.ist work in this matter, orjFive to Ten Million i more of Taxes will be thrown upon them by jhese two Companies, this winter. To thi Hon', tfto oral Ancmhly of Pennm/lvan a: Your petiti j iters, Tax-payers of this Com non wealth, most e jtbestly retnonstrate againsl any Act or resolution, being passed releasing the Pennsylvania ;|liiilroad Company from the pay ' ment of the Tentage Tax whicb it is;bouud in , law and rtnd abundantly able. to pay. They also rphibnstrnte against granting any fnrthpr Legislt'iive aid to tie managers o ', the Sonhury&Ert{ißailroad, by a release or change of the.MoFtgai|eB the State holds against t icm, or in any otHed way. I - Your petitioners rest in hope, that the jink ing Fund how, pit operation may prove beneficial ip gradually ,’ipt l surely wiping out jour ptate • Debt,{but we ege resolutely hostile to ppyjnore, burdpns, being upon us to enrich.-Cor pq rations of gtly name or nature. : j -The jersey l|hore Vedelle, of the 6th Decem ber. says'a 0 of, Mr. Frederick Dewey, ofjthiat town gave, birth recently to- a calf, which j was apjjt npento njjthin a few Inches of the shoul ders, the hindeli partforming two distinct calves, having, four hfsd legs, whilst it bad! but; one head,.Ac, t.thjf; Vedettfi. thinks, if it had laved, it wnutd ,hav»;B)ade an invaluable cow, as fbere .would haye besn two cows to . milk and [only op# to feed. Qna M.iemMnis, wbo hails from the village offers the services of one thousand, men to Virginia, to .help Her ' wi»t.any atfbjik that may be made by a jforoe from the NoifSl, M. Macmannis is appear intly ' rather a fight. „J, ‘ • ' A promine(>| Democrat of Kentucky said the other day: . we of the South were, to, [read Hani'y.Clay'fUlfest speech at Lexington, jvith ojit knowing/author, it,would be very gene rally asoribei, Seward or Wilson.” } U- I 1 r* We. bayo bi ji|i ofa project among somo Gnron men, to bay !’|Vbe.it!an(l” from Mr. Bucbijpaq, faAr that bs npver return *k > THE AGITATO HUGH. AOTJNO,; EDITOR,, * PBOPRIET' WELLSBOEOOGH, . WEDNESDAY MORNING, DEG. 26, I^6o. BQi, “The. immediate . peril .arises, no.tiao much from these causes as from the fact that the incessant and viedentagitatibn of the slavery question throughput the North for the-last quar ter,of a centtfry, has at length produced its jitr lign influence on ):he slave’s, and' inspired them ■with-vagae notiens of freedom. - Hence a sense of security no kragsrexists around: the’ family altar. This feeling of peace at home has, given place to apprehensions of servile insurrection.” —The above-extract is cut from the last 3fes ssge of the “ Old :Pub. Fdnb."iat Washing ;on. And yet this is the state bf Society which he and bis party soigbt to inflet j upon the. 16W territores and fori failing in which they are iow dissolving the Union. O Slavery i your :ase mast indeed be desperate when the old driv iller J. B. acknowledges it. In view of the perilous condition of the country, the old hypocrite • who disgrace* the chair once occupied by Jackson has issiipd a proclamation recommending the fourth of uary nest as a day of fastings humiliation prayer. We do not object to this arranged hut trust that the day may be duly obse: We do not-believe, however, that this she piety on the part of the President will 1 any intelligent man to the fact that he is in the confidence of the treasonable cons tors'of the South, or that any-body will re his refusal to reinforce Fori; -Moultrie it other light than as act of Cowardly wii ness. “ The Devil- can cite ;seripture foj purpose,” and the imbecile old man is noi iug to cover his treason by a show of devo B©* The attention of bur readers is diri to an able article in another c >lumn whic clip from the Lewisburg Slav and Chrq in relation to'two giant schemes for pit now being concocted by corrupt politick both parties, and to be pressed throng Legislature about to assemble at Harris Judging from -the history of duch measu: the past, that mondy in large will be sought to be used upon the memb the Legislature and upon fhe corrupt shameless lobby borers which' infest the tals of every State in the! Union and curse by their presence. It will be no;use fur any! ber who may vote, for the measures spoljen of in that article to plead that he was employed as attorney (!) for the company. The people understand that dodge riow-a-days, and it, will not “go down” any mbre. We-hope much for the integrity of the Legislature about to assemble, and trust that a Kepublioai jority will not let our: State be disgracee the shameless legislation which has mai bany to stink in the .nostrils of all decent South Carolina has at last gone out Union into the cold, at least so far as tl luration of an organized mob of conn ists can take any State hut. The.Ordim Secession—not a very formidable dooun itself—may be found in 08: usual sumn the news of the week, ■nia Cen •y &|Erie hese| two property, MiLiiroxg yet jthey 1 cofiees- The question now | presents itself, will be the effect of this upon the ooi Will it be disastrous Oh otherwise? W. . shown in former issOesj of tills paper tl most prominent statesmen 'of the com all parlies deny, the right of secession, a gard such an act as disqnionand treason, even if it were othertrise-’-if a State right peaceably to secede—aside from tl barrassment consequent upon a brief susp of the workings of such !a ponderous mad the Union—the secession of such an ins cant State as South Carolina could not 1 astrous in any point of 1 view. Our inte correspondent Cato” shows ns some tics in another column) which corrubora view. And - we are of the opinion prett' gen erally entertained in Washington and else that South Carolina is more afraid of the, weak ness'which she exhibits by the late censu , than she is of the rule of President Lincoln. What does she do for the Union—What has sb s done to add to our national wealtjh and prosperity ? She raises a large cotton crop and sells i; to ns at the highest market price for cash just as she would b'e glad to do o\it of the Union She buys all her articles of domestic use fnm the North at the very lowest figure she aar them for, just asislie would be obliged tolc 1 of the Union. The highest revenue ev leeted in any one year at her ports was l 000. Out of this $BO,OOO were paid for ■ea of collection, &O.J leaving $70,00C profit to the United States. Her postal rj are.sloo,ooo a year; which is quite o| sum; but her postal expenses are s3| which is three times larger !, It will li therefore that the; Ndrth—the Tree' N| pays $200,000 a year to make up the defifc in her little postage acebunt.s , I Let Us see what else t)ie Union has paidlto this seceding State. There are, ns may bp seen by reference to the reoords at Washingt(|n, sev en hundred officers'of the Federal Grovefnment bailing from South Carolini—th‘e average sala ry of whom must.be at least $lOOO, making the nice little sum of $700;000., This;does|not in-, elude about $30,000 a year paid, to ben Mem bers of Congress for salary and mileage. On these and other subjects we-refer the reader to an article ort the outside of the Aqitatoh which we clip from the Independent. After th< - sion patriots of the i Palmetto State wil subsisted for a short time without these sums, wc think it is entirely safe to sq sfie will not liave ■' gqne, u hotyevec iqq< mev ha “ 'roin?. !) 1 i i ;|' -j., 'lli GOBTEP 1 msion statis -1 $ this .a get (do out ;r co!- sceipts large 10,000. seees . hare large y that [h pjjg THE T , ‘ FEOJi 'WASHINGTON'. 1 Summary of.tlio News of the Week. [Specially prepared for The Agitator.] -- | -fits ATOR - W ADE-’s GREAT SPEECH. ------ ‘Wjigfall, Iverson, arid other Secessionists had been telling the Senate and the country what the South,were going to do, and had been offer ing apologies, oFexcuses for' such action. Not one of them, had proposed, any ..-terms upon which' the seceding States Would remain.— Vague and indefinite charges of infidelity to the laws oh the p'art' ‘of. the 1 North" had" been iaade it is true’,' but these were not "sustained by facts. The whole scope of ; Secession argu ment was confined to empty threats and vin dictive and insulting vituperation, until the whale Southern- mind became inflamed with these versions of their wrongs. It was time that the North should. break the silence with which she hod hitherto listened to these ravings of disunion madness* and Senator Wade of all others on the Republican side was just the man to slate the Northern view of the case. This he did last Monday to a -very ‘ large audience. Since Senator Donglas made his great speech last Summer in reply to Davis, no such audi ence had assembled' in the Senate chamber, Evejry entrance was blocked up with anxious listeners, and even the cloak-reoms were filled with ladies. -l Benj. Wade is a scball sized man, with black eyes sunk deep into his head. His face is ex ceedingly expressivei of resolution, energy and firmness. His style Af ’oratory is peculiar to himself. Ilia language is always forcible, and he never hesitates for want of ideab. His ges ticulations are natural or seem ,to bo so, for "he always closes his sentences justasOne who feels ! what he says. -He states the premises calmly and dispassionably, yet boldly ; then goes into his argument with the earnestness of one who - believes.that what bo says is for the best inter ests of his country. , When he warms up with tlta.magnitude of his argument he,raises him self on his toes, and brings his left fist heavily down ,upon, the .open,palm of bis.right hand with terrible emphaiis. Ills voice has not the deep bass of Benjamin, nor the ringing tenor of Wendell Phillips, l but it is peculiarly sweet and pleasant fp listen to. I have seen the report of the speech in the New York dailies, bjut none of them do it jus tice. We hope to be able to present it to the readers of the Agitator, at an early, day, entire, as the best exposition of. the doctrine of the Republican party in the present crisis. The South, he saijl, had control of the Gov ernment for many years, and why should they now complain of n government which they have had so long, aad still have under their control? With the verdict of the people in [ their pockets, said Mr. Wade, the Republicans I have no compromises,'to offer or make—the, ! day of compromises] ceased when the Missouri i Compromise bill was repealed. He charged the South with entertaining a blind prejudice against the. North ;l that where the fugitive slave had been rescued by the Nortb. ten North erners had been tarred, feathered, scourged and murdered; under circumstances of cruelty that would disgrace a savage, by Southerners, for even daring to say they voted for Lincoln. The Republicans, he said, would administer the government as it was administered by Wash ington, Jefferson, Madison, Jackson and Polk, and in the spirit of Henry Clay of blessed I memory. Secessiouism wasMenounced as trea son, and it must inevitably result in bloodshed. Then the North would assume 'a protectorate oyer Mexico and Cejotral America, and colonize them with free blacks. Although this wa]a the line of argument, we can give no idea of the power of the speech. Many of the ablest men in the nation, of all, parties, Senators, representatives and others, ■ from the North and South, who listened to Senator Wade, agree that as a whole his speech | was eminently conservative, strictly within the j constitution, And exactly such a speech as the times demands. Wade represents the honest feeling of the North, The growing opinion'is that the North should speak out first what it I means—should withhold nothing, but present | boldly and manfully, yet kindly, the real posi tion they intend to assume in the event of se cession by one or more States from the Union. Senator Wade’s reference to the record of his 1 father, who gallantly fought the battles of the j country and sustained the flag ; and his splen- I did peroration and pledge, to follow the exam ] pie of his fifher in upholding that flag with his life,'not only Won applause from the galleries but drew tears from many eyes. In the House but little business of impor tance was transacted. True, the Republicans succeeded in passing a resolution that'there was no just cause for secession, and the Demo crats one that all Personal Liberty Bills are unconstitutional, but neither of those things are of the least importance to the country, es pecially at a time w aen South Carolina is taking active measujres to secede. ciITTENpEN’s COIirBOIItSE. I Tuesday, pec: 18.—The House of Represen tatives acted upon the resolution offered oia' Monday by Mr. Crawford of Georgia, declar ing that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves, an i approving l the opinions of the Judges in the , Drefl Scott case as authoritative and binding [expositions of the law. This reso lution was ikid upon the table, and then the House proceeded to consider the Pacific Rail road bill, an|l the I bill granting lands to Ne braska for railroad! purposes, but without com ing to any conclusion. A Compromise offered by Mr. Crittenden of Kentucky,.vyds tbej point of interest in the pro ceedings of the Senate. .As the proposed metb-- od of the mpro moderate of Southern men to settle the present controversy, it received and deserved, marked attention. Mr. Crittenden proposes, to ! renew the , Missouri Compromise Line; prohibiting slavery in the , Territory North ofi 36f 30', and protecting it South of that latitudii; and for the admission of new* States with &t without Slavery, as their Consti tutions shall provide; to prohibit the abolition of Siayefy by Congress in the States,;' to pro hibit its abolition : n tba District of Columbia so long ps itbxists cither in Virginia or Mary land; to permit the transportation of slaves in any of the Slates by land or water; to provide" for the payment of fugitive slaves, when res cued ; to repeal one obnoxious feature of the Fugitive, Slave Law—tfie inequality of tho fee to the Commissioner —and also to ask the re peal of all tine Personal. liberty bills in tba Northern States. These concessions are to be. submitted to. the .people in the form of amend ments. to .the’Constitution, and if they are car-, ried theyare-to be changed by no.futura amend ments. As |Mr. Crittenden is a. moderate man, ais be avows Jhis attachment to. the Union, and bis determination to stand .by 'it, it is fair to presume'tba|, fps tfie best the South is disjkisec} |tq offer. They hqrdly, how ever, deservfiifhe pairjQqf compromise, as tbiin term presurlppgesl tome wutnal concessions .’i Jai).- and tent, yed; jr of ilind • !cted ch we > dele, i nder l D 8 of ; i the jurg. es in sums irs of and capi them lem- ma with e Al oen. )f the le deo- ition ico of ;nt in iry of What ntry ? ■ have at the try of od re- But had a 16 em- me as ignifi e die- ligent ixpen* , clear 9 seen irth— sienoy OGA COUNTY AGITATOR. Sir. Crittenden’s plan grants to the South that freedom shall be the jnlft.Mhere nature itself prohibits Slavery, qpd agrees that Northern Commissioners shall -no the brib e d to decide in favor of'the claimants for fugitive slaves. On -the other-hand-it-pnmdes,-on-the -part of the- South, that the Republican party shall give up what itbfie contended for for years,'and at "last gained; it. limits the power of Con gress in the District of Columbia to suit, hot the people thereof, or of the - country os-large, but the people.of two. States^ it takes away from the non-slaveholdipg States their rights, under the common law, to prohib-- Ujhe-.. existence .of. Slavery, .therein otherwise, than in the caee of fugitives;' it recommends such States to repeal all laws to prevent the kidnapping of their most defenseless citizens ; and finally, it makes' these important conces sions to Slavery perpetual. We greatly mistake the temper of the House if such a compromise will meet with its approbation, arid we alto gether miscalculate the strength of the Repub ] licans of the North if there be any possibility I of their meeting with the assent of two-thirds of the people. got. Johnson’s speech; Wednesday, Dec: 19.—The speech of Gov. Johnson of Tenn. in the Senate, was a most happy and powerful effort, and is spoken of very highly by all parties. Republican and Democratic Senators listened •with marked at tention, and, at one time, quite a number of members of the House were on tbe floor. He utterly denied the constitutional fight of se cession, and desired that the ' President should firmly carry out the laws,‘regardless of conse quences. ‘ 1 1 Mr. Buchanan received a hard hit by being reminded of his celebrated-Ostend manifesto. He argued with him, that self-preservatiori is the law of nations. If the peculiarity of the geographical position of Cuba made her a ne cessity for us, bow muchmore so must that be the' case with South Carolina. If the Presi dent bad succeeded in buying Cuba for §200, : 000,000, as he at one time tried, and Cuba had become a state, she would' have just as much right as South Carolina to secede and to return to Spain. Mr. Lincoln having been elected, in accordance with the Constitution, bo should bo' inaugurated. All Conservative men agree' that it is the best speech which the Governor ever has made. A kind of disgust seemed to ( pervade the whole Senate Chamber when Senator Lane of Oregon, having nothing more to gain or to lose within the Union, made a violent Secession .speech, asserting that the people of South Caro lina were justified in going out, because bis State-equality doctrine had not been adopted. SOUTH CAROLINA SECEDES. Thursday, Dec. 20.—About three o’clock, a telegraphic dispatch was received announcing the fact that South Carolina had declared her self out of the Union by a unanimous vote of her Convention. The news created no excite ment whatever, as everybody expected such a step. The Republicans in the House quietly kept their seats and passed the Pacific Rail Road Bill by a large majority. Tbe Stars and Stripes waved over jh'e Capitol as if nothing had happened, and tho Potomao still continued to run down stream as usual. Boyce and Ash more—the only surviving members—left the Hall, very much surpris.ed no doubt, at the se-. renity of those they had left behind them. The following is the ORDINANCE OF SECESSION Ax Ordinance to dissolve the union between tho State of South Carolina and other States united with her under- the Compact entitled the Constitution of the United States of America. We, the people of the State of South Caro lina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that tbe ordinance adopted by us, in Conven tion, on the 23d day of May in the year of our {x)rd 1788, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of tho General As sembly of this State ratifying amendments of tho said Constitution, are hereby repealed, and that the’union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under tbe name of the United States of America, is hereby dis solved. The House adjourned over till Monday. Tn the Senate, Pugh of Ohio, made a speech against coercion, which even his friends con sider very wriak. WHAT OLD ABE WILL DO. The following item from the home of Presi dent Lincoln gives courage to the friends of the Union of all parties, and carries dismay into the disunion ranks. It looks very much like the bid Jackson spirit and no good Republican will feel disappointed by it: ’ i Springfield, 111., Dec. 20, 1800. The Springfield Journal of to-day has a start ling leader on secession, which, from the pecu liar relations of the paper to the President elect, has great significance. It says that South Carolina cannot dissolve the Union by the sim ple passage of resolutions or other passive demonstrations. Her federal officers may re sign, and she may close her courts' and post offices, but she cannot get out of this Unibn until she conquers this government. Wh'ila tfiis government endures there can be no dis union. If South Carolinli does not obstruct tbe collection of the revenues at her ports, nor vio late any other federal law, there will be no trouble, and she will not be out of the Union. If she violates the law then comes the tug of war.) The President of the United States, in 'such Ah emergency, has a’plain duty to perform. Mr. Buchanan may shirk if, or the emergency may not exist during his administration. If not then the Union will last through his tenn of of fice.! If the overt act on the part of South Carolina takes place on or after tbe Ist of March 18611 then the‘duty of executing the laws will devolve upon Mr. Lincoln. The laws of the United States' must be executed. The Presi (hjnt|has-rio discretionary powerAn the subject: His jduty is emphatically pronounced in the constitution. ; Mr. Lincoln will perform that duty. Disunion by armed force 1 is tretfson, and treason must and will be put down at all haz ards. ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC, SWINDLE. Monday, Dec. 24.—The Speaker, laid before the House a communication Jrom the Secretory of the Interior, stating that on Saturday last he was informed, by voluntary confession of an officer of an,officer of the Department ihatState funds, held-in trust by the" United States for the benefit of Indians, amounting to §870,000, have been abstracted from his custody and 9QU- private nse?. 1 The Secretary says thf) eporroity bftbe fraud demands full investiga teo by; Congress, in,prdep tp' yifyJippto his own tp expose .the. guilty ppd derelict.— He therefore appeals to the House for the ap- pbintment of a Committee, with' full power to send for persons and papers, and asks for inves tigation, with thoiview that full justice-may be done in the premises. ._. ~ i ~.. * Mr. Sherman said the Secretary off he Treas ury-al»o-de6ir6d-an-inTestigation, for the vindi cation of his character, and introduced a| reso lution, which Mr. Morris (111.) accepted for bis own, directing the appointment of a Seleot Com. mittee of five, to inquire into and roport the facts.in,relation to. said fraud, and that the Committee have full power.to _send for persons. and papers. The resolution' was passed. clip the following from; the, Slar and Chronicle: ; j -“The Banner CocntV.— Of Pennsylvania for largest Republican majority in proportion to the vote polled, is clearly Old Tioga.' She gave 2 to I'maj. againstHdrrispnin 1840, when Harrison carried the State, and in 1852 gave Pierce more than a thousand maj. over Soottj! Now, she gives almost four to one l against a professed but false Democracy, ilt will do all Republicans’ eyes good to look at the official figures of the late Presidential Election—see here I , i ■ [Here the Slar publishes the table heretofore published in the Agitator.] I | 1 Not one district Democratic, .though it waS formerly the pride of tha s t party, and would mob an Abolitionist as soos .as they Would in Virginia. But the attempt to return! a fugitive slave created a’-revulsion of feeling, which the repeal of the Missouri Compromise 1 inflamed. As the Republican Banner, County of tt|e State, let us all give Three Cheers “ and! a) T(ger” FOB THE IxVINCIBLES OF OID Tl-OO’ 1” j ] Although we have waited very patiently for the Basneh promised us by the State (Jommit tee, yet we have neither seen nor beard of it. Mr. A. K. McClure is perhaps like some other politicians we wot of; Very good at [making promiaes-=when he wants votes! j PKOli TUB 3PBOE>Ij3p.; For the Agitator. The Value of the South to the Union. The principal exportable commodities raised at the South are cotton, rice, tobacco and sugar. They are raised on lands and by labor, owned by the South and do not benefit the North ex cept indirectly, as they help carry on the'Gen eral Government, or as they add to thereputa tion, help the general progress, or conduce to the power of" the general Union. ! Let us see what the South has cost,’and in this we will put out of the question aH expen ditures of money and blood previous to the adoption of the present Constitution. | | (. The United States paid for Louisiana §15,- 000,000 and on the bonds issued for tjie! pay ment of the same 1 upwards of §8,00C.000 in interest ; for Florida §5,000,000 and in interest on the same §1,500,000. Texas cost §28,000,- 000 exclusive of the cosf of War with (Mexico in consequence. The Mexican War cosjfe§i2l7,- 000,000; the Florida War with the Indians §100,000,000; soldiers’ pensions and bounty lands in consequence of these , two wars §22,- 000,000; extinguishing Indian titles, iremqving Indians and paying Georgia claims §108,000,- 000—in all §506,500,000. , ; We (I mean the United States) pay out an nually for the transportation of mails in the Southern States upwards of 51,000,000 more than received, ke.ep up Forte in all her ports and pay all life revenue officers of Southern of entry, and yet all the revenue of all the Southern ports do not pay the coslj of col lecting. In a word the United States (have paid for the South in purchasing territory tp strengthen slavery more than $500,000,('00, and annually pay an excess of not less that $5,000,- 000 above all annual receipts from her, to | keep her up. , | ( To the Union, in a*pecuniary point of yiew, she is worse than useless. Does she strengthen the Union? Were it not for the elejment of weakness in the bosom of the South, w|e should be the strongest government in the'world—now onr enemies are of our own household, j Does she add honor to the Union? Let the {whole civilized world he the witness that “ the black spot” upon oqr other wise glorious escutcheon is her “peculiar institution." Iler sons have boasted of her “ chivalry” till the yoild hgs become nauseating to common sense,. that chivalry is the chivalry of cowardice, bu sied in snooping into men’s private bnjsiness, tarring and feathering defenceless travelers and trampling upon every principle )f {justice and manhood'. I | They are not all such at the South, I ftllow ; but when such men as AVigfall ant Tancey and Keitt and Rhett and Toombs and Iverson and, lower down than imaginable [dipths, the cowardly traitor Cobb bear rule, the} must be treated as the representative men of t lelSouth. For the sake Of the South, —her hlgi rbinded and honorable men, such as Botts and Stevens and detains and a long list of others —'f;or the sake of her utterly defenceless women and chil dren I would not see the Union dissolved.^— Helpless as is the South, I Vould [stilll throw the shield of protection before hef I ,'looking to a brighter future when the plague existence shall have been scared avyay, lint for the sake of the North I would let her go. she is,of age—pampered and wayward 'as she ssJ— she is of if she will leave j the'l house hold of the Union; let the Union do 1 ler! whcite duty to her wayward child, cost what u majy, and then, if she insists on going away 'into the embrace of her seducers, yield herl lipStoTher owii folly. " 1 ; cHto.l ■ Dec. 24, 1860 For this Agitator.; Woman a Physician. I ‘' Centuries had passed away ere it wai'tlioiugbt that Woman possessed mind more than sufficient to amuse the idle hours of Man, depending on' him as her “author and disposer,! 7 arid itjis but a short time comparatively, -since the opib ion of a consimilitude of nature in the sexes, or the mental endowments of females was consid ered as equaling in strength or vigof tliose of males. Notwithstanding this opinion isjiof ije cent.da'te, jt appears to be popular, knd!i be lieve 'is generally thought to be well .founded.' Whether the gallantry of our tnoderi literqtl and men of science impels therii to aj concession of'this kind, lam unable do determike,|nor is it to me a matter of ; any importapcri. ilt is sufficient that the doctrine is .every day pro mulgated and seldom', disputed; and it rimy bo deemed preaumptiori in’me to call in opinions so popular, and , winch are Sustained by such a weight of intellect, At' the samp time it would be upipaply to' yield thy,.tacit as sent te( this op qriy other doplrtne merely bri: cause individuals pf superior enduwipOpts haye ■giyep it lhri of their belief, j" rV A Il ls common foV-uVv' , heri tb'cHislThcatns'of 1 : i ! ■light strike our minds on a subject in j e] ■to which we have been in error, to imagii see more than is actoally to be discc i And'being convinced of a partial error, ten yield this point. and embrace the otht treme. It the case: under consideration, \ the subject was-first broached, and the fat) tablished that woman was not only eni t with mental powers,..but mental powers high order and susceptible of great'lap, ment, many, led by the Imagination, we; far, and at once embraced the erroneom trine, that the only cause preventing he tofbre from making as great advancenn the elevation of: her intellectual nature was solely the difference in their re modes of education and habits. They once stopped Ito enquire whether then difference in the arrangements of the qi of mind, a difference in the meqtal stroi and temperaments,' and whether a dif course of education,, a. difference of hai difference! in the sphere of action wo; would not better develop the facilities sex. I bkve no that could a poi the male sex be .educated mentally and cally as,itis common to educate female they bo trained from infancy to the same of life ; to walk in the same sphere; to in; in the same aspirations—instead of evil the same intelligence, spirit, brilliancy, ar ergy of character as woman, they would tame in spirit, dhll in intellect, devoid of gy, and much inferior to females in every bate of blind. 0 | ■ ri' An 4 set with woman. Vacate bet u are educated, in science, business intatw with tbq.moving world; bring her up same habits of life and business, and brighter facilities become blunted. Theft tor adapted them to different spheres, and > one acta by the cogency of intellectual si the other! acts, and ia designed to act, force of moral beauty and moral excel This plades woman in a position where el exert the! most chastened and beneficial ence, dispense the most good, and enjoi greatest .degree of happiness. The bet woman’s (province and her field of action; seizes upon it and-moulds its desires ere touch of the world has. corrupted its pr and while it is yet susceptible of any 1 impression, she builds the moral charaotei lays the foundation for the intellectual, one of the ordinated provinces of worm calm the tumults,,and suppress the turbi generated by uncontrolled passion, to alb storms of excitement and disap; ment that befall man in his active world! tercourse. For the purpose, a'being refined, more exalted in purity, and mor tie than!! himself is required, whose cha her gentleness, whose smile makes glad spirit, and whose delicate and graceful ' ness amply repay him for all the pains sacrifices he makes to invest his home wit comforts and luxuries of life. Did ' speculate as a philosopher, calculate ac chant, investigate as a lajvyer, or trei physicians rough and rugged road, her would diminish, her moral powers dei cultivation of the youthful mind be ne she herself would lose her “ soft attn grace" and home would be divested of, tractive charms. The spirit? of either si imperfect and but half a spirit. Man's t is harsh) stern and unyielding; wotnar merciful, gentle and good. The combir producesl a counterpoise to each: correct strains, bind makes all more perfect. In mi activity; ,ih rapidity of. thought, in vividr fancy—generally speaking—the falr r men. Their sensibilities are more vh poignant!, and their .passions, if not dee) absorbing. But they lack the rigor that fathom the depths of abstrt ence, and attains the farthermost limits search and discovery. ;, I compare the female - mind to the light graceful vessel, formed for speed and ict that seems almost to fly upon the water, the tossings of the tempest storm, dept for safety on the symmetry of its propoi and the lightness of its structure. .Asi mind of Man I compare to the huge wt that boldly and proudly cuts- the surge moved by tossing billows, violent or for measures are seldom resorted to where w sire to operate upon, direct) or control th of another. Were Ito attempt-the refoi of the iforld, I would not invoke the eh of war and;strife to assist me, but myii tion wquld be to a milder and more c spirit, one that would' gain more and less. How grateful the sensation at belt the modest queen of night, as she movesj course along the star lit vault emitting r: gentle light that daze not the eye, but: over the feelings with a powerful and t sacred influence. It is her mild lustui unpretending majesty, that gives her ar ence at once ,so powerful, serene, imp l and gentle. Ta extend the influence of 1 ehe should shine'with the mild lusti might’s 1 gracious Queen, rather than w ferver of the meridian sun; to teach I modest, beauty of character, and not I glare of dazzling qualities. Then mas woman would resemble .two luminous! lighting up the same system of physical c* each' reflecting lightr upon the other, It* shining with' a vigorous beam of light .other with a soft and mellow ray, the ect trating to the roots of the plants, giving tus to vegetation, the other softening and fying the atmosphere in which the plant and bloom, each moving with, benignant dor in their appointed course. There woman would riot deviate fro® path of nature, and-forsake'the correct! leading; to -useful eminence qnd- em> neD * fulness, 1 to 'wamjbr amid’ the mazy w* and intricate bj-palbs of bidtien nature, she will meet with naught buffieient tc sate fob the pnre delights she foregoes, tering her Bden innocence. , ! 1 t A.golden shower has begun to pout |D .! us. - - Lftst' Saturday California sent os oP 1 on Sunday the Europe' brought ns from England. Stna cameon *1 with $330,000, on Wednesday the A brought $850,000, aßd * yesterday .e 8 I‘ersia,; with $3,100,000, to which the 1 City, from Havana, added slo7,Tl^, 1 Borussiaf frorr) Hamburg, Slf.SOp, » 88 ' receipts fo yesterday $3,235,218, or $),• alnoe Saturday Comment may b*‘ with.-^TVihiinc, On Thursday the loth alt., ing to Mr. Moses, S. Miller,of Windsor ship, _serV» Cupp ty, gave birth so ' calves,, which weighed, together abeuy Two of;tjri| extraordinary little ji fe short‘.thner'lldfc'.the other two arfe J cl aud growing!? fine'y. i ' A HtDiCAt Sic*®
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