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JfAS. LOWREY Sc S. jP. WttSOB,
' A TJOROTYSS: COUNSELLORS atTAW,
■eCX. will attend the, Courts" of Tioga, Potter and
JUeKoan counties. ■ / ■ [lyellaboro, Jan. 1, 1863.]
JTOHIV S. jOL&VJf,
TTORNEY COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
Tfi. Coudefsport,. Pa., will attend the several Courts
'in 'Potter and HcEoan counties’. , All business en
trusted to his Care will receive prompt attention. He
!has the of large tracts of goiod settling land
■and will attend to the payment of taxes on any lands
tin said counties: Jon. 28, 1863 W
DICKINhOX HOUSE,
■ V 'COR^iNGV-N.-.Y - :-'-'
Maj.‘ A. PIEED,... - . ..Proprietor.
GUESTS, taken to and from the .Depot free
of charge. * ‘ '[Jan. 1.1863!]
iP'jpifiVsYitVAlblA HOUSE," •
CORNER OP. WAIN. STREET, AND ‘ THE'AVENUE,
■' WfcUahorbi Pi
J. W. -BIGON Y,.~. ■ •.:. Proprietor.
THIS popular Hotel, having been re-fitted,
and re-furnished throughout, is now open to the
public as a first-class house. [Jan. 1, 1863.]
IZAAK WALTOS HOUSE,
Gaines, Tioga County, Pa.
11. C, YERMILYEA,,..,.... .Proprietor.
THIS is.a new hotel located within easy ac
cess of the best fishing and banting grounds in
Northern Pennsylvania. No pains will, be spared for
the accommodation of pleasure seekers and the trav
elling public. , . [Jan.l, 1863.]
-5? WATCHES, CLOCKS ASD
Wfa JKWELBY!
Haired at BULLARD'S & CO'S. STORE, by the
subscriber,’in the best manner, nnd'atos low prices as
the samij work can Be done (or, by any first rate prac
tical workman in the State.
IVellaborp, July 15; 1863, •
WELLSBORO HOTEL.
B. B. HOLIDAY,. ..Proprietor.
THE again taken possession of
(he above Hotel K WiU spare no pains to insure
the comfort of guests and the* traveling public. At
tentive waiters always ready. Terms reasonable.
Welisboroj
_A. ro'tEl,
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, &c., &c.,
REPAIRED AT OLD PRICES.
POST OFFICE BUILDING,
NO. 5, UNION BLOCK.
Weljsboro., May 20,1363. - \ j
BLACK,
BARBER & HAIR-DRESSER,
SHOP OYER ,0. L,•'WILCOX’S STORE,
N'O. 4, UNION BLOCK.
Wellsboro, June 24* 1863.
FLOUR AND FBE9RTOBE.
WRiGhT - & Hailey
HAVE had. thaw' mill thoroughly repaired
and are recli-'lng .fresh ground flour, feed,
meal, Ac., every (iky at their store in town.
Cash paid foe all hinds of grain.
WRIGHT i BAILEY.
Wellsboro, April. 29, IS6,i. ■
Wool Carding and Cloth Dressing.
THE subscriber informs bia old customers
and J the public? generally that he ia prepared to
.card weoband dresscloth at the old stand, tfatreoming
-season, having secured the services of Mr. Jr'JJJSET,
a competent and experienced workman, and alao-hs*.
tending to give Ms personal attention to the business,
he will warrant all work done atizis shop.
Wool carded ,cent£ per pound, and Cloth
dressed at from ten to twenty cents per yard as per
color’ find finish. , J. I. JACKSON..
Wellstforo, May 6, 1863-tf.
SHOP.
T AM Dour recei*ip& ft STOCK of ITALIAN
X and with each)
-and am prepared to •niaDafactore all kinds of
T OM fir ST ON E S
end SfOJfCMENTS-it the lowest prices. ,
HARVEY ADAMSir my authorised -agent and
will sell Stone atlboidame prices osattbe shop.
ITS MAYS BUT ONE PRICE.
Tioga, May 20; 1863 r 1y. A. B. COLE.
JOHX A. KOY,
T\EALERIND&DGS AND MEDICINES,
U Chemicals, Varnish, Paints, Dyes, Soaps, Per
fumery, Broshes, Qla tf Butty, Toys, FancyGoode,
.Pure Wines, Brandis ('Glps, and, other Liquors for
medical use.- Agent Or the Sale of ail the best Pat
ent Medicines of the day.' Medicines warranted gen
uine and of the V
ALITY-
BEST QU •,
■- Physician'® Prescriptions accurately compounded.
The best Petroleam (Ml Which is superior to any other
for bari ingin Kerositye Lamps. Also, alt other kinds
of Oils usually kejrt Itia first class Drugstore.
I>YH COLOBg in packages all ready
'eompenoded, for th? tofle of ppvato Tacfijlics. Also,
‘Pure Loaf .Stogaffor fscdical compounds, j .
wellshoro, June .24,-1863-1 y,
o. w, WELLINGTON & GO'S. BANE,
<GORNinSGv jsr. Y„
(Located ju ■ tde Btosrssos House.)
American Gold ,and flilvdr-Coin bought and sold.
New York Exchange, do.
Uncarrent-Mouey, . do.
United States DemaßdJtotcs “old issue” bought.
Collections m»d«ifa,sll patts-of the Union at Cnr-
Tent fates »f Exchange. ,
Particular pains will jbo taken to accommodate on»
■natrons from'the'Y'ioea'-Valley. Oar Office will be
■open A. ST., and close at 7 P. 111., giving, parties,
passing over the'Tiogp Bail-Bead .ample time to*
transact their •business’before the departure of the
train in the -morning, and after its / 'arrival in the
mvenieg. Q. President.
Cenupg, K. Y., Nov. 12, ISB2.
HOMESTEAD.
NEW STOVE AND TIN SHOP HAS
"f 5- }nit teen opened In Tioga, Penna.,’whore may
ibo fonnd a -good assortment of Cooking, Parlor and
■Bo* Stovee, of tho moat approved patterns, and from
the boat mmjnfantorkts, HOMESTEAD is ad
•mitted to be the best Elevated Oven Stove in tho
market. The
T
“ GOLDEN AGE” d: GOOD HOPE,”
are square, flat top air tight itnves.-wllhUrgs ovens,
with many ever ; ny other stove before
<m«de. Parlor Stoves, Tie Signet and Caepion are
'both very neat and abparior'etorep.
Also Tin, Copper, and Sheet Tron ware, kept con
stantly on hand and made to order of the best mate
rial and workmanship, all of which trill be acid at
the lowest figure.for cash or rekdr pay.
Job work of all kind* attended tewm call.
Tioga, Jan. U, Idga.. GtJBRNSEr * SMBA®.
EXECUTOR'S hoticc.
T ETXBRS Testamentary having been grtra
„ the subscriber on the estate of Thomas J.
late of Tioga, dec’d., those indebted to the laid
estate arc requested to mate inunediate payment, and
thoie having claims' the. same, will present
tnem duly anthentloated. to the undersigned for set
aoment. . , B. C. WICKHAM. 1
Tioga, July 2», 1333. 6t JOS. iIKEH, } Ezn -
THE AGITATOR:
VOL- X.
> ftoumgj-.
A’ Copperhead Scotched by a Democrat.
The following correspondence between Mr.
Browne and Mr. Biddle will explain itself.
Mr Browne Is one of the most conscientious
and respectable citizens of Philadelphia, a.
Democrat heretofore, bat who caYne into the
loyal party with Dickinson, Butler and Brews
ter. He made a 'speech, in the course of which
he Justly spoke of Mr. Justice Woodward as
an enemy of the country, and a follower of the
.doctrines of the late Mr.-Calhoun. This state
ment he' strengtbend by asserting, 'a former
political friendship" for Mr. Woodward, and a
knowledge of his views, which every other
Democrat in the State abnndantly possessed.
' Hence the correspondence : t . ■
Sooth Sixth Street, August 27, 1g63.
N. B. Browne, Esq.,—: You are reported
io the Press of this morning aa slating to a
public meeting jour personal knowledge of the
opinions of Hon. G. W. Woodward, the Demo
cratic candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania.
You say of him: “Ho is, if possible, a con
scientious Secessionist. No man in the South
carries the doctrine -of Secession further than
be, &e.” Force is given, to this statement by
the claim that it ie made upon intimate ac
quaintance with Judge Woodward.. You in
troduce your version of his opinion with the
declaration: “ The speaker was intimately ac
quainted with that gentleman, and he would
say that ff it were possible to call from his
grave that arch traitor, John C.'Calhoun, and
place him in the gubernatorial chair ofTPenn
sylvania, be would not he of more service to
the Southern cause than Judge Woodward will
be, if elected."
a. r; hasct.
Will yon inform me whether you are correctly
reported in the newspaper in which these re
marks appear ? If you are, will you please to
say when and where yon have had the intimate
acquaintance with Judge Woodward upon
which you impute to him opinions which he
has never uttered to his friends or the public?
Very respectfully yours, Cbas. J. Bhjdle, _
Chairman Democratic State Central Committee.
113 Softs Fifth Street, Aug. 28, 1863,
Mon. Charles J. Biddle, Chairman of the Dem
ocratic Slate Central Committee:
Sir ; I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of yonrs of the 27th Inst, in regard to
my remarks concerning Judge Woodward, on
taking the chair at the meeting of the National
Union Party on Wednesday evening last. Yhe
published reports of the speeches delivered on
that occasion are obviously incomplete, and not
intended to be full or literal, 1 certainly did
not undertake to represent Judge Woodward’s
(Opinions on the issues now pending from mj
own persona) knowledge ; for I am not aware
of having exchanged words with him since the
outbreak of the present rebellion. On the con
trary, in commenting upon the opinions which
I attributed to him, 1 expressly stated either
my authority, or the nature of it quoting partly
from his speech of December 13, 1860, and
.partly from cdftent reports of his opinions,
nhifeservedly given £nd made public by their
frequent repetition; and, in reference to these
latter, stating that I bad them from undoubted
sources, and coilld therefore speak of them as
confidently, as if 1 bad them from personal
knowledge.
~ But, as my. remarks hare been thought
worth; of your 'attention, and that there may
be no room for misapprehension in regard to
them, it is but fair (0 myself as well as Judge
Woodward that •1 should repeat them for you*
information. I do so from a written draft.OT
them.;
In speaking of tho remark recently made by
a leading Southern journal that since the de
feat at Gettysburg and the surrender of Vicks
burg, the only hope of the South was in French
intervention or Democrat successes at the
North. I said “ that foreign intervention was
too remote a probability for. them to depend
npon; bnt os to the Jatterpsrt of the pro
gramme, the Southern rebels themselves could
not well have chosen more fitting instruments
than the principal Democratic nominees at the
North. To say nothing of the candidate for
Governorship of Ohio, it might be affirmed of
Judge Woodward, the nominee in this State,
that if John C. Calhoun himself—that arch
traitor—could be raised from his dishonored
grave and placed in the gubernatorial chair of
Pennsylvania ho conld not serve the interests
of the rebellion better, I say this without ftny
want of respect to Judge tWtrodward ; for his
ability, high character, and sincerity, are un
doubted. But these very qualities, in the pres
ent cose, make such opinions the more danger
ous, and lend them an influence more potent
for evil. i
“To prove this I have only to ask your at
tention briefly to his views on the three issues,
at this time transcending -all.,others to import
ance 'I mean slavery, secession and the war
for the Union. On each of these Judge Wood
ward entertains the views, of the moat extreme
Southern radicalism.
“First, as to' Slavery.- He is not content to
stand 1 - with, the Stale Rights' Democracy of
other days, and leave slaveholders in the pos
session of,such rights; and protection as they
hod under theConSlifhtion; botin his speech
of December, 1860,* fie bhldly. proclaims that
“ human bondage and property in man is di
vinely sanctioned, if not ordained r" and that
“negro slavery 1 is an Incalculable blessing,’’
These opinions, thus littered, have lost nothing
by tho lapse of time; for, on another occasion,
he declared,'' unreservedly and emphatically,
that “ totbink against slavery is a sin, to talk
against it a crime.!" - And more lately be has
■finned that “agitation on tbs subject of sla
very is infidelity, and comes, from the instiga
tion of aatan."
“But, aa to .Secession, Judge Woodward-ap
proves of the coarse, - and justifies the act of
Secesa'on, if be appears to' hesitate/as'to the
-absolute right of it Although looking in the
opposite direction, he yet sustains and encour
ages Secession, and no man need go further.
Practically, the people of the Sooth bate
reached -Secession by the eamsjtaO. Jle may
BefcoftU to t&e 32vttmion of tfyt Mvw of ifmOom t&e Ssrea9 of itef otrm*
—J WHILE THEBE SHALL BE a WRONG UNSIGHTED, AND UNTIL "MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN” SHALL CEASE, AGITATION MUST CONTINUE.
WELLSBOEOj TIOGA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER -30, 1863.
be sincere and conscientious in his views, but
he must hear the responsibility of having
given the sanction of his name and high posi
tion to their rebellious course.' For if his
speech of 1860 left any doubt on that point, the
recent approval and endorsement of it, on his
behalf, by the Chairman of the Democratic
State Central Committee, removes that doubt.
To republish such sentiments, after the fact of
Secession) is an', aggrivation .of the original
offence hard to reconcile with loyalty.
'"Thirdly, Judge Woodward is opposed to
the war, and in favor of peace on any terms;
fta much soas Vallandigham or Fernando Wood.
I have heard it stated that, on former occasions
be rebuked the earlier concessions of bis own.
party, in tb.e patriotic weir spirit of the country.
But we have no. need to place this upon any'
uncertain authority; we have bis language in
1860, in advance of secession : “Wo hear it"
said, let South Carolina go out of the Union
peaceably ; I say, let her go peaceably if she
go at all.” And in 1863, after South Carolina
bad gone oat, and ten other rebellious States
with her, to repeat such language is to any,
” let them all go peaceably.” Truly, with the
success of such a candidate and such princi
ples. Gettysburg will have been fought in vain,
the battle for the defence of our own soil against
the rebellion is still to be fought.”
These were my remarks so far as they re
lated especially to Judge Woodward, somewhat
fuller than the report, but substantially ns de
livered. They are at your service.
You will perceive that no statement is made,
upon my personal knowledge as derived from
him, but the sources of my information are in-,
dicated in every case. I may add, sir that the |
most material part of the language above
quoted, apart from the speech of 1860, was de
rived by me from a public address delivered in
this city, by a gentleman of the highest char
acter, several months before Judge Woodward
was nominated. The sentiment then attributed |
was regarded by the speaker, and I believe by j
most of the hearers, as presenting the rare
moral of a cultivated and Chris
tian mind under the dominion of each an idea,
as that “to think against slavery is a sin and
how little protection against the lowest form of
prejudice a high judecial training and position
afforded when, a judge could descend from a
supreme tribunal of the State to define it to be
“ a crime to talk against slavery.”
These sentiments, thus attributed to Judge
Woodward, 1 fear, neither he nor you can es
cape. That speech, which must have sounded
like a new and strange Declaration in Indepen
dence Square, contains them in express terms,
or by necessary implication. The identical
thoughts, indeed, the same peculiar torn And
force of expression, are there. No candid man-;
will deny it. And whatever of error that
speech contained originally, has acquired start- !
ling emphasis of late, repeated and approved
as .it has been 'hy yo'u on his behalf. Eleven f
of the States have seceded, as he invited them 1
to do; slavery ha.s solemnly challenged the
world as to her right to be the corner stone of
society and government, claiming, as he did
for it, a Divine ordination ; and the rebellion, j
in arms for more than half a Presidential |
term, has resisted the power and resources of!
the Government, enoourhged to do so by just t
such advocacy of peace on any terms. And
yet at a time when the fairest portion of pur ,
State was desolate in the track of the Southern,;
invader, and its soil was red with the blood of |
so many thousands' of loyail soldiers who fell
in its defence, yon rise in your chair and pro
nounce such sentiments as a signal exhibition
of and join with its
author in re-affirming in a speech, the wbole ar
gdment of which was to prove that, in this con
troversy with rebellion, the-South was right
! and the North was wrpng!
In years past, when the defence of Southern
rights and institutions was made under the
Constitution, and by legitimate agitation, I
stood in the front rank of their friends; but
from tbe hour that violent bands have been
laid on the Constitution and tbe Union, and an
impious attempt bas been made to overturn
both, I have not hesitated as to my duty as a
loyal citizen. Tbe example of such loyal Dem
ocrats as Cass and Dickinson, Butler and Dix,
Holt and Andrew Johnson, and a host of oth
ers, is sufficient for me. I have with them
faithfully upheld Ithe Government, with what
ever influence I possessed.
Impressed with the transcendent importance
of the issue now befpre the people of Pennsyl
vania, I spoke at the meeting on Wednesday
evening of the' opinions of Judge Woodward
with plainness, and, I hope, with courtesy and
fairness. If in my remarks either sentiment
or language was’attributed to ; him which he
disavows, Ij stand ready to makq the correction.
But if, on the contrary, they are substantially
accurate, yon must agree with me that it would
be difficult |to find a better living representative
of the principles of JobhC, .Calhoun than your
candidate, i lam sir, very respectfully,
All SoßTB.gr Minds.—There is a-strongdis
position ,in men.of opposite minds to despise
eachj-Oiher. A grave man canno't conceive
whpt-is-the hse of wit in society; a person who
takes a strong common sense view of the sub
ject, is for poshing but by the bead and shoul
ders an ingenious theorist, who catches at the
slightest' fthd faintest analogies, and another
man, who scents the ridiculous from, ofar, will
bold no commerce with him who tests exquis
itely the fine feeling of the heart, and is alive
to nothing else; whereas talent is talent, and
mind is mind, in all its branches! Wit gives
to life one of its best flavors, common seme
leads to immediate* and gives so
ciety its daily motion, large and comprehensive
views its annual rotation; ridicule chastises
folly and imprudence, and keeps men in their
proper sphere; subtlety seizes hold of the fine
threads of troth ; analogy, darts, away in the
most sublime discoveries; feeling paints all the
exquisite passions of man’s soul, and rewards
him by a' thousand inward visitations, for the
sorrow? that'Coma from without. God mode it
aU gopdi We must despise no aort of talent ;
they nit have their separate duties and «ies;
allihah appinbss of man for their object-; they
alJamjHtove; exalt, andglactdaoji/a. '
Your obedient servant,
N. 8.-Browne.
Tho Record of Mr. Justice Woodward.
■ When this campaign opened, we, took occa
sion, in speaking to the people of-the nomina
tion of Mr. Justice Woodward, to show the na
ture of hie record as a jurist of Pennsylvania,
atd a leader of the Democratic patty. We
met * difficulty that was peculiar to his position
as a member of the S.upreme Court, for he bad
been a silent man in times of .excitement, and
instead of answering’his voice to the cause, he
contented himself with saying nothing, or, if
be spoke at all,, in terms of scorn and disloy
alty. There was but one speech on record in
which anything inkrelation to the country ap
peared, and, as beciime public journalists with
a principle to defend, we quoted liberally from
that speech, and'prdved to the conclusion af nil
just men that it contained words that no pa-
I triot would have uttered. We at least sup
i posed, when it was printed, that tbe friends of
I the speaker would have explained or defended
it, for the sentiments it contained required ex
planation. Among them, as our readers will
remember, were the following t
“ And thus it has ever happened, that the
providence of that good Being -who has ever
watched over ns from the beginning, and saved
us from external foes, bas so ordained our in
ternal relations as to make negro,slavery an
incalculable blessing to us, and to the people,
of Great Britain. Do you not see and feel how
good it was for us to hand over our slaves to
our friends at tbe South V
“ It seems to me there must be a time when
slaveholders may fall back on their natural
rights, and employ in defence; of their slave’
property whatever means of protection they
possess or can command.”
“It is .said, let the South go peaceably. I
say let her go peaceably.”
Now. here are certain statements, plainly
printed.* There is no mistaking their meaning
In the first place, we have slavery published as
an “ incalculable blessing.” It is so much of
a blessing that the speaker cannot repress a
certain feeling of exaltation, for be piously
makes it a special providence, and ascribes it
to “ that good Being who has watched over us
from tbe beginning.” Having thus exulted,
Mr. Justice Wood ward, proceeds to inform his
friends at the South that, in defence of slavery,
and of “the incalculable blessing” it convoys,
they would be justified in going to or to
use his own more stately language, they should
“employ, in defence of their slave property,
whatever means of protection they possess or
can command.” This is in itself very plain ;
but, as if to make no doubt on tbo subject, he
tells the South to go Union, and “go
peaceably.” All of which is explicit enough,
and not liable to bo misunderstood by any per
son accustomed to reading the English lan
guage. . • - - •
■'Mr. Charles J. Biddle, however, is of a dif
( fetem opinion. As iho keeper of Mr. Justice
1 Woodward’s political conscience he comes for
ward and writes an address in reply to the
speech of his candidate. We should have pre
ferred to have heard from that candidate him
! self, but silence is his part. So instead of ox
| plaining, or repeating these obnoxious phrases,
l Mr. Biddle, writing under the immediate in
, spiration of his chief, frankly defends them,
and speaks of the speech being “ appropriate
,to the occasion and the purpose of its deliv
; ery.” The “ occasion,” be it remembered, was
) a meeting to pacify the South by assuring the
Southern people that they would not be harmed.
The “ purpose” it is difficult to explain in any
other theory than a desire to inflame and en
courage the rebels in the seceding States.
Having done this, however, Mr. Biddle pro
ceeds to make this charge directly against the
Press, for tbo Frees was tho newspaper that
first made the charge;—“Passages and sen
tences, garbled, distorted, and mutilated, are
daily offered to the public, to countenance the
imputation of opinions to Judge Woodward
which were never entertained by him, nor, by
the Democracy of Pennsylvania, of whom he
is now a candidate.” Now this in itself is as
plain as Mr. Justice Woodward’s speech, and
may be anwered as easily. We deny that any
phrase or opinion Of that gentleman has been
distorted by this newspaper ; for tho phrases
we have quoted were written, spoken, and
printed by him. If Mr. Biddle will show us in
what way, we shall make the correction. Wo
do not accept bis challenge- to publish it, as it
has been printed -in this newspaper, and our
space is too valuable to justify a republication,
merely to gratify a spirit of empty vaunting.
Nor do we see any good to be done. Tbe issue’
is a mere question of fact. Mr. Justice Wood
ward either wrote these words or did not write
them, and the only evidence we desire is asira
pla affirmation or denial, Mr. Biddle evades
this by a general charge of fraud against what
hs is pleased to call “ partisan writers.” He
may rail in this way as long as he pleaees, but
tbe seal still remains upon the.bond. Mr. Jus
tice Woodward is now before the people as a
worshipper of slavery—an advocate of a slave
bolding war, and the friend of a dissolution of
the Union,. And Mr. Biddle might as well ad
mit tbe fact and' end the controversy, for the
people will pass upon ft in October.—Philadel
phia Press.
It appears that, in Northumberland county,
a lady, may not only be kicked with impunity,
for uttering Union sentiments, but the sex is
also liable to excommunication from the Church
for the exercise of “ free speech." This re
mark is suggested by ioformation we have re
ceived, that on last Sunday - a young lady of
Milton was.publicly “ read out" of church, fur
calling the preacher a Copperhead. The bull
cx-communieating the offending lady, was fu’-
minated from the pulpit by the. exasperated
shepherd. Wo don’t know which most to ad
mire in this reverend gentleman—bis- clerical
dignity, or his Christian charily. - In the mat
ter of gallantry, be might , answer a model.
— SarrUburgjilegraph. - >
Da. J. M. Cdssieb, of. Newport, st. has
Java . Coffee growing in ,bis, garden, and da
dues; that itialess susceptible to frost than
heaps, tomatoes yp corn. _.i . - £ h
i. Who Got nr» jtho. Rebellion?
From Richmond pikers iof the 14th, 15th,
njjd 16th, wo learn j i j
WHO ORIGINATED ;THE IrEYOLCTION.
The Montgomery Mail contains some rem
iniscences in relation to this subject, in which
it corrects the statement usually made that the
infamous Yancey set the bpll of revolution in
motion. The Mail nffirtns, ho donbt with truth,
that the individual to whom this “honor” is
due, is Barnwell Khett, of South Carolina. A
worthy parent of a mad scheme-of ambition,
treason, and fraud 1 ;The following account
agrees with the recollections, doubtless, of
many persons beside the Editor of the Mail.
“ In the year 1830, a young lawyer who was
attending court at Colleton, S. 0., drew, up a
string of resolutions denouncing the Federal
Government, and embodied tbe remedy for
these usurpations, in subsequently
known as the Carolina Doctrines. The reso
lutions were submitted to' the people of Beau
fort .ond Colleton districts, were adopted by
them, and sent to the Senate of the United
States, where they were.i denounced by Mr.
Webster, in bis celebrated debate with Hayne
on the Foote resolutions. I The young lawyer
who drew, up'theae resolutions anj put the bail
of revolution in motion, was Bohert Barnwell
Rhett.” ,■[
Your correspondent believes the. subjoined
account to bo accurate as it is ipteresting:
“In 1832 the nullification ■ controversy took
place. Mr. Calhoun had resigned tbe Tice
Presidency, and, going into the Senate, became
one of the most eminbnt of all the champions
of State rigts. At that tinie Mr. Yancey was
a boy; but ha was old. enough to take sides,
and did so by joining l the!. Union party. He
made a statement to tbi&ieflcct in tbe House of
Representatives, during the session of 1844 or
1845, in reply to Mr. Levin, of Pennsylvania,
who had accused him of being a nullifies We
can very readily account for Mr. Yancey's po
litical opinions at that period, from the fact
that his father, who removed to Charleston for
the purpose of practising law in partnership
with Judge Daniel Elliott Huger, died in a
short time of yellow fever, paving transmitted
to his sons a high regard for the person 'and
principles of Judge Huger. In the nullifica
tion controversy Jodgo linger was a violent ad
herent and leader, along witl* Joel R. Poinsett,
James L. Peligru, and Judgt. Thomas Lee; of
the Union party, or submission party, as it was
then called.”
“ At the time of Mr. Yancey’s election to
Congress in 1843 and ’44v he was a zealous, ar
dent, active, and; able member of the Demo
cratic party. 1 In a little time, however, he
threw off party trammels, ;and became the bold
and defiant champion of Soiitftfirn rights; but
ha was not regarded, as ithe leader of that
party.”
The remarks which follow, divested of rebel
coloring, are no less conformable to the history
of the times. 1
But if Mr. Rhett gave the first impulse to
the revolution, and Mri Yancey was its most
eloquent champion, it was te John C. Calboun
that we are indebted for the secession of tbe
South from tbe Union. From the first hour pf
bis entrance into the Senate of the United
States, in 1832, down to the period of bis death
in 1850, Mr. Calhoun was 'the firm, unyielding,
and ablest advocate of the rights'of the States
which the South ever bad; It is to Mr. Cal
houn that the-chief merit is due for the inde
pendence of the South. H? did more to ac
complish this result than, any man, than any
five thousand
deem it, therefore, a matter of simple justice,
that, in speaking l of the superb man who inau
gurated the ‘present revolution, the name of
John C. Calhdna should bb placed first on the
bright roll of honor.”
Two years from the present day these same
men will strive to cast tipon each other the
eternal infamy of being foremost to betray their
country and plunge it into tbe horrible abyss
of civil war.
Roll on the Ball.
Tho satisfactory progress which the cam
paign in Pennsylvania is making, as evidenced
in the political indications pf the past week, has
doubtless been observed by very many, oven of
those who are unaccustomed to noting closely
the signs of the times, while it htfs served still
further to encourage and 'unite the friends of
the Union for the task'which lies before them.
If it had been possible for us to doubt before
that Pennsylvania would be true in this strug
gle, as she has been true in all other struggles,
all doubt upon tho subject would have been
removed by the very cheering aspect which the
political field has recently assumed. Within a
few days past; several sigpifieant events'have
occurcd, which, so far as they go to prove that
the loyal men of Commonwealth tye dis
posed to sink til minbr issues in the grand ques
tion of the nation’resistenoe, must be regarded
as of the highest consequence. The first of the
events referred to is thej announcement that
General Cameron has expressed himself desi
rous that Governor Curtin.should be re-cleqted,
thus silensing the stale and baseless charge that
the two gentlemen did not entertain friendly
feelings towards each other, and disappointing
the hops of the disloyalists that this supposed
antipathy could be turned to the, benefit of Mr.
Justice Woodward; Another noteworthy event
is the fact that General Butler -is canvassing
the State fer Curtin and Agnew, and is now
employing the same talents which he bo suc
cessfully directed against : lhe Secessionists of
Louisiana, againat their sympathizers in Penn
sylvania. That his success will bs as marked
here, in oor home campaign, as it was in more
distant fields, none who rightly appreciate the
character of the man can entertain a doubt.rv
Wc-might recite other occurrences tending to
show that the friends of the Union everywhere’
look upon Pennsylvania as the decisive battle
ground, and Are coming forward, with the ea
gerness of volunteers, to [consolidate their for
-oesferthe mighty contest so close at band;
but the facts adverted to. are sufficiently sug
gestive of the splrit whijClf animates our loyal
men, ajjd sufficiently[ indicative of" the gloripns
vie torJ wkwfl Vai t b to crown their labors in
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Facta and. Arguments for tbo Readers of
Bishop Kopltiu’a Pamphlet.
The Bible has "befcn compared to a trailed
town which may beAntefed, in torn, by either
party, and held against the other.
Bishop Hopkins, of Vermont, finds authority
in it to enslave the negro, nhd having once been
a lawyer, he still understands how to mbits the
worse appear the better reason. His pamphlet
is in circulation here.
He begins his argument with the curse of
Noah, in the 9th chapter of Genesis. Ko men
tion is made of slaves before the deluge, ,I'ho
curse of Canaan has boon- fulfilled. His race
is extinct, and' “vengeance is mine saith iho
Lord.’ 1 It is not for man to extend his do- ,
crees. The negro is defended- from, oilier sons
of Ham. The curso was confined, in tbo terms
of it, to Canaan alone. '
The Bishop next cites the case of Abraham,
but Abraham did not always dpfight. lie pre
varicated with Pharaoh and Abimelech, on’ao
count of Sarah, and though he it
was from the practice of the age, and not by
command of God. Abraham, nor hie era, is
any standard for us in the matter in question ;
nor is the positive law in Leviticus, chapter 25tb,
any law for us, thaV the Israelites should' buy
the children of the heathen ‘Uhat were round
about them.” They could make slaves nf none
other. “The heathen round about,’* were
Qanaanites, of whom do I a remnant - remain*
upon the earth. Neither is it hocossaiy to a
breach of the tenth commandment, that our .
neighbor should have u slave; though such aaa
undoubtedly the relation between the .Jew aod_
the Canaanite. It would be an equal Solution
of the commandment now to envy our neighbor
the services of his freedman, as of his shiv*.
The Bishop sees in the direction of too angel
to Ilagar, to return and submit herseil to her
mistress, a lesson for the return of a _fugitive
slave. But the angel said to Hagar, also, that
God had “heard her in her affliction,’’ and
would make of her posterity’a wonderful peo
ple. In the 4.ih chapter of Galatians, St. Paul
says that thcotory of Hagar was a VDivine Al
legory.
Tu Ganesie, 17ih, 13th and 23d, All that,were
born in Abraham’s house, were to ehsie with
him the rite of circumcision, and Job, in chap
ter 31st and I3tb, seems to consider his slaves,
iu the sight o,f God, aa good as himself.
In-Dcut. 15th, and 16th, if a heathen slave
escaped from his heathen master, into Judea,
ha was not to be returned.
On'the whole, then, it appears that though
there is authority in the Old Testament for en
slaving Canaan, w ho was the son of/Sam, there
is no authority for enslaving the negro, descen
ded also from Ham, but not descended from
Canaan. And (his is all that (he correggon
dants of Bishop Hopkins, anxious for Scripture
and the negro, seem, as yet, to have obtained
from their ghostly adviser, whose pamphlet they
have put in circulation.
Let us how s6a what Christianity says about
slavery. The Bishop thinks it says nothing,
and that it therefore consents to it. For the
same reason he might make it consent to war,
and every other existing jevil, that it does not
expressly disapprove. But ts Christianity silent
upon the subject of slavery? In thedtb chap
ter of Luke, our Savior says that be was. sent
to preach deliverance to the captive, and to--Set
at liberty tbose that are bruised. He said, too,
that fulfilling the law, meant love to Cud atd
man. Attempts were-, made in the Apostle’s
time to mingle Judaism with Christianity,
which gave to the Apostolic council,
mentioned in the°lsth chapter of Acts, when
Judaism was obliged to give way. Judaism
was exclusive. Christianity takes in all, even
the negro, whom the Bishop, too, calls his broth
er ; and though he argues him into bondage,
would have bim oat of it, which goes to. show
that men are not necessarily as bad asftheir
opinions. But this half way buaines would
not suit the Sooth. They consider slavery the
corner-stone of civilization, and all'who do not
agree with them, are against them. They
would oven spurn the Bishop,
The Bishop displays a good deal of fine wri
ting in unfriendly criticism on the Declaration
of Independence, that “all men are born free
and equalwhen the very same words, almost,
arc used in the Constitutions, old and new, of
Penna., where the Bishop once lived; and the
constitution nf Vermont, where ho now resides.
Indeed, the idea, if not the language, is con
tained in almost all the State Constitutions. It
is the basis of English liberty itself, with but
little exception, and that exception, not on ac
.count of the abstract right, but from aoiuo fao
*cied or real conveniencein Government. Under
the first constitution of Peuneylvania. the negro
voted. By .the second constitution, he is ex
pressly prevented ; although there i& the sumo
general recital in the second, as in the first, 't
“that all men are born e<lfe»lly free hod ifide- ,
pendent.” , .
As the law considers a bastard a ,nu'U»x >
yJJiuj, the son of nobody, it is.not unlikely, ns
tbeißishop supposes, that'tlve negro was consid
ered nobody, or not thought of .at all in- the
Declaration of Independence.
But that ail white men are not born equally
free and independent, eeema uot the doctrine of
a democratic correspondence, but if the Bishop
can give his friends scripture for it, as ft Was
bis scripture they wanted in the case of the
negro,-perhaps they will abide by it. It is tot
oolikely that he could accommodate them. The
Scripture says "the powers that be, are or
dained of God.” Now it so happens thkt tdl
civil authority, at that time-, was despotic, and
to go by scripture, the Bishop and his friends
might have us tp go hack to despotism.
■ . w. r.
Tbs -American people will pardonrnuch in
any poblio mac if he is only candid, Me. Juu
tice Woodward, doubtless, trusted to tbfe for- j
bearacce when he'made hie bold speech io de
fence of the Sooth, 'December'l3th, 1860.
Dare he trust Ik now t' Will the.'disloyal words
then uitofej hs repeated by him during this
campaign ?' Is? enough to iky again,
" Let {be Sooth go peaceably ; ’*■ -