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The annscribsr is ready at nO. 91, DIABICIT four doors below fourth street, to make MEN'S AND BOY'd CLOTHING In any desired style, ud with skill and promptness. Persons wishing matting done can have it done at the shortest mirk* ap27-dly Cit,iftLES F..VOLLHEB, TJPITOLSTEPRER _ Chestnut street. four doors above &send, (Ormuz Irmo/solos Boss House.) Is prepared to tarnish to otter, in the very best style cc workmanship, Spring and Hair Mattresses, Window Oar tains, Loans% and allotiner artistes of furniture in bli line, on short notice and moderate terms. Having ex patience in the business, be feels warranted an sodding* sham of public patronage, confident of hisablitty to give satisfaction. Aar/4M SILAS WARD. NO. 11, NORTH THIRD ST., RASMUS'S°. STRiiiWATIS PIANOS. MILODRONS, VIOLINS, GUITARS, Am.*, Notes, Fifes, Drums, decordeess, crams, war ♦ID DOOM NOSIO, Ae., &11. 7 PALO T 0 GRAPH FRAMES. ALBUMS, Lane Pier awl Ilsatle Mirrors, Spare and Oval trams of everydeserlptionmade teenier. Regailding done Agency for Meares Sewing Machines. ID"' Sheet Music mat by Mail. oetl-1 JOHN W. GLOVER, I►JER#tJANT TAILOR! Has just received from New York, in 1111110 n. meat of SEASONABLE GOODS, which he otters to his customers and the labile el uovIZO MODERATI3 PRICES. at* AIT VV HARRY WILLI& vi 8, . IDIAALIBC ALGIaIErWM, 4Q WALNUT smuts._ P F1T1.11.1111 LP MI at. General Matins for Soldiers promo* dallasinsi, State Maine adjusted, &e., &e. nvirSo4lllo SMITH & EWING, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, THIRD STREET, Harrisbung, Practice in the severalSlourte of Dauphin county. Col lections wads promitly. A. o.swert, • 3. B. BIWING. T COOK, Merchant Taylor, , e ff 0111181fUT ST., between Second end Wont, Mae kart returned from the city with an seeortment of morierircrAntorgium AND YREITA T O#I Willa will be odd at moderato prises alit Wall aP to order; and, also, en areortareat of SZADY Yams Clothing ant Eileartleaienia Fundsldes Geode. sor2l.lyd ENTISTR Y. B. IL GILDEA, D. D. fk, 1( 0. 119 MARKIir ISTRE T, BST & EUMIBILIB BUILDING, UP BTAlBB jaall-tt ELIGIOUS•BOOK STORE, ff:ACT AND SUNDAY SCHOOL Dzroanvity, E. S. GERMAN. I 1 Vi :g • +slii,4 fartheialwontereoseepaihetersaieopleTlewis, ludo and ltudial Instramests. Also, imlbsertitions I Oft for seligiolut paidieihtlems. no d 7 JOHN Q. W. MARTIN, VABIIIONARLI CARD WRITER. HOTTL,_ _EAltitlBBl7Bo, PA. All manes of VlB/11fililF, WEDDINO AND BUS,- NESS CARDS executed la the meet artistic styles sad most reasonable terms. deel44ltf UNIO,N HOTEL, Ridge Avenue, eerier_ of *old street, ILULRISBIJAG, PA. The undersigned informs the public that, he has re cently reneraud and refitted his well-known a Union Hotel" on Ridge avenue, near the Round Bone% and is prepared to accommodate citizens, strangers and travel era in the beet style, at moderate rtes iftis raids will be supplied with the beet tae tiWirets aff o rd, eitil at his oar wi I be reread superior brands of Bytom and malt beverages. The very beat accommo dations for railroaders employed at Urn &hops in this fait 4114] MINRY BOriTGEN. FRANKLIN ROUSE, BILLNINORN, lib. This pleasant and sommodions Hotel has heirs the wesittly re-stied and re-furnished. It is pleasantly situated on Borth West corner of Howard and Tranlilin streets, a few doors west of the Northern Oentral Rail way Dilow. srskia9 ,,, pad. ta the eon:effort of I. _ Liuskitingek, Proprietor, Jellt-tf Mate ef - Sellnit Grove. THTO. F. SCHEFFER, 000 L CARD AND JOB PRINTER, NO. 111 MARKET STREET. EIALBILIBBORG. Er . Particular attention paid to printing, ruling and of o d or Blanks, Manifests, Insimuroe Pail , Bill-lieade, &a. l Vgdding, Visiting and BUflin.3ll Cards printed at very low 'does and in the boa: style. . jandl mmsBlol CHICKERING & 00. HAVE AGAIN OBTAINZD TIM GOLD WED AL: 431 1 ,1:1111 MECHANICS' Ali. BosTon, smut so isainuonto VIM OVER SIXI'Y COMP.grITOII3I Wareroom forth' 01110)1131111INSPIWK at Harris buLat 92 Market atm& • W. lEWOCILIPII 11172/0 ROM. , . . 4 t • t 1111 Z• -7 Union. VOL. 5 -NO. 241. 1- ,;: atrial It anion. THURSDAY MORNING. JUNE 11. 1868 SPEECH 0 F THOMAS JEFFERSON BOYER, REPRESENTATIVE !ROM CLNARETELD, /EPPERSON. ItUREAN AND ELK, Delivered In the House of Representatives, April 2, 1863, on the Joint Resolutions on tie state of the country. Mr. BOYER said : Mr. SPEAKER : When I came into this hall thief afternoon I did not think that it would become necessary for me to claim the attention of the House and occupy any part of the time which should, perhaps, be devoted to the use of gentlemen here who have legislation of a different character to attend to. lint the in temperate, ill-timed and fanatical eperch of the gentleman from Huntingdon (Mr. Benedict) makes it necessary for ate to depart from my usually silent course here this sessiolf, and ask the indulgence of the House while I attempt to extricate this subject from the chaos into which my amiable friend from Huntingdon has in volved it. If in doing this I shall, after the manner of men, be compelled to fight with beasts It Ephesus, with dogs'at Constantinople and pure John Browniam in the hall, let not the scratches, the mud, the slime and the saliva which is brought up from the conflict, be otherwise regarded than as the insignia of ser vice in a holy cause. Like Cervantes with his crippled hand, made sacred by the glorious victors of Lepanto, I shall, though maimed and disfigured by the attack of the gentleman, force my unwilling tongue to talk the quackery of politics, as he did the quackery of chivalry, out of the world ; and while I cheerfully ac cept the plan of the fight of the gentleman from Huntingdon, we have resolved here that if we fall it must be with our faces to the ene my. The gentleman from Huntingdon, if he "has not misapprehended the question, has at least rgrottsg in a great measure the courtesy duo to 00-membera of a deliberative body in a dis cussion of this kiwi; and he has espeoitilly misapprehended, either by design or ignorance, the meaning of the eighth resolution, which is the only one that appears to claim his atten tion, and over which he mourns in a most woe ful strain. Sir, I will not be ao unkind as to believe that the gentlema‘does not understand the purport.of this eighth resolution; but the resolutions in themselves are so unobjection able that it became necessary for him to tar- Lure them into a wrong application in order to give him something to grieve over in true whang doodle" style. No, sir, he well knew that the resolution has no reference to the wicked outrages of the rebels, but it refers to the intolerable and Cruel encroachments of the National administration upon the rights and privileges of citizens of this Government—its villainous efforts to suppress every right so dear to American cit4zens. What is the sim ple language of this resolution ? ds That Pennsylvania will adhere to the Con emotion and the Union as the best, it may be the last hope of popular freedom; and for all wrongs which may have been committed, or evils which may exist, will seek redress under the Constitution and within the Union by the peaceful but powerful agency of the suffrages of a free people." Mr. Speaker, when the gentleman mode his attack upon the potent influence.of the ballot box, he did it with increased bitterness no doubt in anticipation of the damaging effect Whit* that peaceful, silent and oonetitutionel monitor would so soon have upon those who now are growing fat and sleek on the public pap. It is no wonder, therefore, that he should torture this resolution into an improper inter pretation for the purpose of giving vent, as he otherwise dared not do, to his hatred for that peaceful agent of the people. His reference to votes and ballot boxes was certainly very un fortunate ; and when he exultingly exclaimed, "When the administration elks for men, you offer them votes—when it asks for iron- clads, you send it ballot boxes," I could namely con gestive anything AO ridloulousl It strikes me that even ballot boxes, light as they are, could be put to better use towards crushing the rebel lion, than mere paper proclamations, which are considered so potent by the gentleman and those whose bidding he indoing. Ballot boxes could at least be Bung at a rebel, while the only use to whioh a paper proclamation could be put would be to cover a bullet; and it would be scarcely hi; enough for that purpose. But, Mr. Speaker, I will not tionatinie the time of the House by giving further notice to a subject which is so well understood, I think, even by the obtuse mind of the gentleman from Hunt ingdon, notwithstanding his dishonest effort to give it a different application from that which it properly has. In dismissing this subject for the present I have no desire to diguise my contempt for the man Who resorts to such silly subterfuge for the purpose of making oat a case. But, Mr. Speaker, I come to that part of ihe gentleman's lamentations wherein the entire burden of his. Hong is that the hammy mad Meads of these resolutions balm not one word of cheer for the administration—not one pledge of support—Rot one alga of approval of his pets in their war and political policy. Now, Mr. Speaker, I profess not to speak for, the Democ racy of this House ; I am not their exponent. I speak , for myself and my emistituents, to whom alone I am responsible for toy ants and sentiments. I have no desire to disguise the fact that for at least eight months I have had no sympathy with the administration at Wash ington. I have condemned in foto all the im portant measures of that administration. They have generally been unwise, unjust, wicked, cruel nod unconstitutional, tending to a Cen tralization of power and looking toward deep:A lma. They have had for their object the de struction of every right which the Constitution guarantees to every citizen, and are no doubt intended to dissolve this Union and erect on its ruins a military despotism under the influence of Northern Abolitionists. The gentleman in his zeal to traduce the De mocraue party,appeare to forget that when this leer commenced the Democratic party with signal unanimity, rushed to the standard of the government, and although they knew that this war was the direct result of the pernicious doctrines of the party in power, yet with more forbearance and magnanimity than was ever before shown by any political party towards its opponents—forgetting all :party—they rushed to the support of the old flag, and resolved with their lives to defend it to the last, no matter whose folly brought it into danger, and invited the insult to it; nor did they relax in their de trrmination to preserve it or regret their pa triotic action, when in July following they re ceived from the administration the assurance embodied in the following resolution •' That the present deplorableAdell war has beert„ . forced upon the country by the disunion i4e of the Southern States, now in arms against the Constitntional government, and in .arms around the Capit• 1; that in this national liner gene:, Congress, banishing all feelintof mere FIARUISBURG, PA.., THURSDAY, JUNE 11., 1863. passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country; that this war is not waged on their part in any spirit of oppresion, or for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, or purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supre macy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality and rights of the several States unimpaired ; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease." Thie resolutien was then the standard of the Union ; the purposes here avowed were the commendable objects of the war ; and every patriot heart in the North responded to that declaration. But behold the change! Con gress, at the regular session, which opened in December following, refused to reaffirm this wise resolution ; and subsequent events have shown that it was at the dictation of the ad ministration. Aad now what do we find ? A war for the Union to subdue a causeless rebel lion ? No, sir, no; we have, instead, a war for the abolition of slavery, and (I hesitate not to say it) a war to establish the heresies of the Republican party, and to afford an opportunity for a general system of wholesale plundering of the government, thereby forcing upon the people an increase of taxation, already enor mous, and far beyond the abilities of many to pay. • Now, sir, how does the gentleman from Hun tingdon, or the party of which he is so faith ful a member, propose to abolish slavery ? In a legal way by amendment to the Constitn etitution ? No. By emancipation proclama tions.? No, sir, no. They know full well that proclamations avail nothing but to prove the imbecility and ignorance of their authors, and they know full well that an amendment to the Constittition, to be itself eonstitational, re quires the ratification of three-fourths of the States, and is therefore in this case unattain able. What other mode then, had they, but an unconstitutional interference, either forci bly or fraudulently, in the domestic concerns of sixteen States of this Union. Of course this unconstitutional intervention had to be an armed one ; of course we mast ha%e a dissolu tion of the Union ; of course we must have war between the North and the South for ef fecting the 4nie4te of Abolitionism; while at the same time profeseing to uphold the Union. Now, suppose this scheme of armed law making and law-breitking is carried out, who will venture, even after our bitter experience, to foretell the issue ? Who will say that lava sion, and disasters' in its train, will be confined to the South L By what means will the Union, or any of its fragMents, carry on this war ? I oenfeea I know of but one, and in that we are anticipated by the last Congress—the substitu don of a military monarchy for a republican form of government-6 scheme that must re sult in the loss of the liberties of the whole people of these United States. But if we are to believe the gentleman from Huntingdon, we must plunge•into all these horrors and crimes against free government, forfeit each man's plighted faith, resist the peaceful execution of the civil lawn of, the land, engage in riot and outrage, break the •Constitution, dissolve the Union, and embark still further in servile and civil war, in obedience to "a law higher titan the Conetitution l" Now, sir, will the gentleman from Hunting. don, or any other gentleman on the other side, tell me where we can find a record of this gitigher law?" We are told that it is found in each man's own conscience. If this be true, then every member of this house or of this community, or of any other community, how ever perverted his judgment, however limited his knowledge and experience, however flighty and unbalanced and vindiouive his general character may be, is to set up the absurd eon elusions of his own weak mind—nay, the cor rupt impulses of his own bad passions—against the laws-of the land, the older of society and the good of the public. If this he true, then all engagements and obligations between man and matt, or man and woman—all that is dear in rights or valuable in possession will become the sport of chance in the universal lawless neuter society, until the sword of .some un daunted and determined soldier shall have in terposed to redeem our country from anarchy and confusion. The gentleman has feelingly appealed to God, and before him he arraigns tie, 10 sem mends us to obey his earthly master. What does such obedience dem and ? To harass, to obstruct,. to wound, to murder civil officers while in the discharge of their bounden duty— to provoke assaseination=to encourage the massacre of one race of men by another—to fill society with mutual rage, resentment and all fearful and violent etnetiens—to substitute wrath for lovevv•to maga, friottd6 into enemies —to place arms ht men's hands, after having inflamed their passions and filled their hearts with deadly hate—to plunge the country still further into war—to heap scorn and contempt on the name of Washington and ether honored men of the RevOlotion—to depreciate, to villi fy,and labor to unloose the bonds of mutual interest and common duty which should hold together the States of, this Union—to despoil us of our common heritage of historical tradi tions, of respect for our fathers, of glorious re collections of the past, of pride in the fame of Amerios—to'tnake of this once great, happy United States a Golgotha—a thing to,shudder at and despise, like that awful beacon in the pathway of nations, the wretched negro empire in the island of St. Domingo., Are tit* the commands of "patriotism ? I say, away with them ! Away with this, insane, self-conceited, presumptons impiety and impolicy, which cloaks its ignorance and folly under the ions pretence of being the holy command of pure patriotism. The position of the learned gentleman from Huntingdon is utte) ly Mae. I deny that any 'of his propositions will lead to the proposed good end. I deny that the value of the'end in question is such as to jus tify the final dissolution of this Union and the deluging of our fair country in blood for its at tainment. He, sir, has not suggested a single proposition, nor made a single remark that could be construed into a proposition, that is not fraught with evil and the final destruction of this country. The gentleman appears to think that we have more anxiety for the success of the Dem ocratic party than we have for the success of the administration. If by the administration, he means their foolish and illegal acts, the fact is as he states ; nor have I any desire to disguise the fact that I prefer, as every true and loyal man must do, the success of the Dem ocratic party to the success of Abolitionism, with all its kindred horrors. The success of the Democratic party is the only salvation for the country; upon its success and the conse quent defeat of the Abolitionists, depend the future peace, safety, and stability of our free institutions. Mr. Speaker, I would greatly prefer to stop here, did not my friend's indictment contain the very serious chor that we do tiot.love hie "old father Abraham , "nor give hini any word of comfort. Now, sir, Ido not wislito speak unkindly of any, man ;_ but I cannot help,re garding the prese nt administration and the last Congress as one of the Worst conducted, most incoaalatentwand aotithied" de signs that this world las ever- seen: iTheir system of doing things is a most villainous, systematic cheat, for which every men who is concerned in it deserves to be recorded in a register of infamy. Imposture never ran snob an un interrupted career sa u kt has for one year past in the National &titian' ation and in Con gress. 'This roOde pf ,speaking will donbtledie be ob jected' to by - our friends on the Other side ; but, sir, there is no language too strong for the ex posure and execration of subh conduct as has distinguished the party in power. By holding them up to merited.contempt before the public, a due corrective will, I trust, be administered. If there is a sense of real religion in my friend, or among those of his party who are making such loud professions, then I would say that the law of God calls for "sack-cloth and ashes." Let such penitents as my friend from Hunting don ithitate Zaccheus of old, who said, "Be hold, Lord, the half of my goods I give unto the poor, and if I have taken anything from any man by folic! accusation, I restore him four-fold." Let the gentleman from Hunting. don do this, and I will have some faith in his professions of piety, Christianity, etc. Mr, Speaker, it ie the traditionary belief among the Scots, that at a certain time in the year all the adders of their moors assemble to form from their slime an incrustation called the " adder's stone," which receives its crowning beauty by the king of the adders passing through and leaving upon it traces of all its shining beauty. .Happy is the shepherd who at a safe distance beholds the operation, and then with great courage steps in and secures the prize. He is henceforth held in the high est estimation as possessing an antidote against deadly poison. But, sir, he does not obtain hie treasure without some risk of being pur sued by the whole venomous brood, in which mite he is oompelled to seek safety in flight, and if he does not throw some of his garments to the enraged adders to divert their attention, they cease not their pursuit till they have ob tained their lost treasure or the body of their plunderer. The Democratic party, with its zeal for the Welfare of the country, and for the preservation of the Government in its original purity and dignity, was compelled to yield to fanaticism the administration of the government which it had for nearly three quarters of a century kept steadily in the path of iifotiperit, and greatness. But, sir, the Democratic party has to-day no true member who, however much he deplores and laments the suffering condition of the country under its present false rule, would not rather suffer adversity than wear the unenviable loner wbieh these traitors to the Constitution, to law, to liberty and to God may now be wearing. It was expected, sir, that when these resolutions should be brought in here and offered as an an tidote against the deadly poison of the opposi tion, the whole brood would hiss and rage as they have not hissed and raged for many day before, but I had no idea that we should be attacked by all the slimy brothers of the blacksnake tribe, threatening us with the fate of another Laocoon, who was strangled before the altar while warning the Trojans against the wiles of the Greeks. Mr. Speaker, and members of the Pennsyl vania Legislature, (which, thank God, is yet free,) whet an important trust is that committed to you! That our rulers have become wickedly Corrupt—that a reform is needed—nob, dare deny. Judging from the signs of the times as exhibited for months, it is my deliberate opin. ion that the structure of our government is be ing undermined; that justice, law, order and religion are being booted at. Is it not time, then, that scenes like these, discreditable to the age, and to our free institutions, should cease ? Is there not honesty, and decency, and power enough to stop it? If there is not, then, in deed, henceforth our much boasted free insti tot.iens will exist only as an idle dream. It is a long time since Jefferson wrote, The times will alter ; the people will become careless ; our rulers corrupt. The time for fiximrevery es sential element on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and we ourselves united.— From the close of this (the old) war, we shall be going down hill. It will not be deemed necessary to resort every moment to the people for support; they will, therefore, be forgotten and their rights disregarded." Is not this prediction already realized ? The woe, the want, the wretchedness, the misery, the insolvency, the poverty and the anguish of htitideeds and thousands of the human family, whom the gambling spirit of this age has ruined, constitute a warning voice calling on the Democracy to oome to the rescue, with just such resolutions as these, of all that is valuable in their loved institutions. Far spread indeed must be that demoralization which in a land of abundant natural resources like ours could ex hibit in one year so many thousand virtues blotted out, as with a eponge, But, Mr. Speaker, my heart sickens at the recital of the deeds of this most foul and un natural administration. I desire not to pursue it any further. Ido not wish to exaggerate ; I simply appeal to facts—facts which the past unveils. •It is to the wisdom and unanimity of this body that the generous, the just and suf fering people must look for a remedy in the adoption of wise and conciliatory resolutions, such as these before ns. . I adjure you to weigh well the consequences —consider the import of the question, and I fain syeald -hope that these resolutions may prove en —adder's stone" among the people, and prevent the baneful influence of Abolition ism from continuing to overshadow the State and the nation, Through its Special organiza tions of all that is cunning, gteedy, heartless and pharisaical in this Republic. Mr. Speaker, I fear I am occupying too much of the time of this House ; but I feel that to retire without making a parting bow to my classical friend from Huntingdon would be un kind, espeeially in view of that pt i of his speech which abounded in such gross personal abuse of my friend from Wayne, (Mr. Nelson,) who is not in his seat to defend himself. What shall I say to him that would be feit ? I know nothing that could penetrate his cantata heart. It is related by natural historians, that there is an animal (a sort of prototype of those beings who wallow in the mire of political corruption) that has become so insensible in its fatness, that the mice have been allowed to burrow and nestle in its back. But here, though learning, in the language of Burke, may be oast into the streets and trodden under the hoofs of a swi eish multitude, yet with alt the ignorance and disregard of the propriety of speech and decency of manners; be can do nought but interpret the clamor with which we are assailed, as the grunt ing of the herd in anticipation of their well fil led trough being emptied and themselves sent as commoners at large, instead of being fat tened in the well filled pens of the public* pro viding In such frequent cases of moral dis ease in the body politic, when just retribution shall overtake the workers of evil, pity may perhaps relent and hearken to the cry, aud_glve a cent to the modern representatives of fallen greatness, as one of -old begged, saying, while exhibiting hie torn purple, 440601 um pauperi Beiisariol" And here perhaps I ought to stop; yeti can not forbear to expose the toiserable inconsis tency of one who will abuse an humble.servant of 4he Lord, because forsooth he Will . not be lieve with him in his political creed.' The PRICE TWO CENTS gentleman from Huntingdon belongs to a party which was made by fiends incarnate, who pre tended to preach the gospel in. New York and New England, and who believe that the Consti. Wien is "a covenant with death and an agree ment with bell," and who, more than all others, are responsible for this cruel and unholy war. They have for years descended to make common cause with those who have published the gospel ministry of the country as a brotherhood of thieves, by whom the corn. munity have been urged to trample on the laws and to crush the Constitution of their country under foot. Need I say that I allude to the Beeehere, the Cheevere, the Chaplin, and the whole rascally brood of those who, Sunday after Sunday, preach nothing but insubordina tion to law and disobedience to God? Yes, Mr. Speaker, they are the founders of Abo litionism and the beings from whom the gentleman from Huntingdon' has learned his creed. . We should look at this subject as stewards of the great gifts bequeathed to ns by our fore fathers. If there are dangers abroad, they threaten the whole community alike. That there is an evil in our borders, a great and perhaps an increasing evil one which we must unite in checking or removing, if removal or check be possible—is well known to us all. I mean the Pandora's box of Northern fanati cism, uncovered by the gentleman who prece ded me. It is impossible that we can be deceived on this subject. The signs of the times are too portentous to be misconstrued or unheeded. Already we bear the 'muttering tbueder coming from the cloud which is stretching far and wide above our moral hori zon, speaking a tone too deep to be unheard— a language too plain to be misunderstood. It tells us we are called on to defend from profa nation the ark of political and religious liber ty—to preserve from encroachment that Con stitution which has poured upon our land the abundance of prosperity. "A power subtler than brute force, and mightier than armed man is at work"—the power of Abolitionism— the omnipotence of religious fanaticism. Let the people slumber on—let them sit with ate dal apathy beneath the wide spreading branches of this balm upas —let them fold their arms in quiet—and ere long a voice will break upon the ear in a storm of ruin. Mr, Speaker, lam no alarmist, but it is right that we should know our friends and watch our enemies. Who, then, are they who scatter ruin end desolation, mildew and blight, havoc and death in the Eden bowers of our once happy land 't I answer, fearless of contradiction, (and I can speak plainly in this House,) the leaders are the ministers of the gospel of the Beecher stamp. They are those who for years have been aiming at supremacy in church and state—they are those who have been turning the world upside down by their unholy schemes of personal aggrandizement. All other plans having been bla.ted in the very bud of iniquity, they ate now-endeavoring to gain power and wealth by keeping up this un godly war, and keeping their hands in the plundering business. For proof of my asser tion, look to the list of officers and members of the Abolition loyal Union (heaven save the mark !) leagues. In nine cases out of ten, they have "Reverend" prefixed to their names. Look at their - Ohne lecturers and preachers. To a man, one lifteirltuother of the New En gland clergy is leas ' , aka prey to the devouring wolf, to en •-• • . 1 , 'o' treasonable oonspiraoy against the .te South-- Many instances could 'bh — 'df men who have abandoned the people of their Charge for the purpose of exciting the most unholy pas sions of the buinan heart to deeds of madness and murder. Well may it be asked, " blessed Jesus ! Whither are thy followers straying ?" Yet my friend complains because a minister dames to be honest and to do a noble net-- What has the ge*sC from Wayne done that so offends thotWeistian feelings of the gentleman from Hun don ? He voted fikr a law to prevent the imibigration of negroes and mulattoes into this State! This is the "head and front of his offending ;'" and for this of fence this miserable apologist of John Brown declares him an outcast from grace and mercy forever. Will charity never begin at home ? Are there not enough slaves north of the Po 'tome° ? Are there no white laborers at the North, bending under the load of poverty and the fetters of ignorance, toiling on, in sun and storm, for a miserable pittance--their master's will their supreme law, their children growing up in some instances in thoughtless, unprovi ded ignorance ? Look at the cotton mills of New England, where we see half a million of females, most of them of young and tender years, growing to womanhood, away from the fostering care of their parents, almost as igno-'' rant of the world and of the great duties that wa y dovoiyo upon them, as the machinery which they attend. Yet the people here cry out, because the Southern slaves are unedu cated ! I will venture to affirm that there are more slaves in' Lowell and Nashua alone than could at any time be found south of the Poto mac; or west of the Alleghenies. At the South there is between themaster and slave a mutual dependence and a mutual interest. At the North the interest is all on one side, and all the dependence on the other. While the white slave is profitable to the master, he is em ployed ; but let sickness or old age lay upon him a Wearing hand and he is kicked into the gutter to starve, or is sent to the almshouse to die. Can our friends on the other eine paint to a single case of this sort among the blacks at the South ? Do you not know as well as you know any fact. that the master protects and provides for those who cannot provide for themselves, in sickness and in health, in in fancy and in old age? What would our friends have us to do to get rid of this thing which they regard as so great an evil ? How are these ministers of grace, these angels of mercy, to cure this heinous abomination ? Immediate abolition, according to "Uncle Abe," is the sovereign remedy for all evils, past, preient and to come—immediate abolition and that by compensation, TO turn an indolent horde of lazy drones loose .upon the community would be a "cure-all" with a vengeance! We should have to build an almshouse at every cross-road, and a penitentiary or gallows on every corner. Our lands would be covered with ruin and our altar stones with blood and desolation. The hawk, when be pounces upon the trembling dove has as much genuine phitanthrophy in his heart as the gentleman from Huntingdon. I oppose hie unhallowed schemes because they are equally unjust to the master, eruel to the slave, and hypocritical in themselves. There is not an Abolitionist in America but would hold slaves to-morrow if he could buy them with wooden nutmegs. For yeare we have had this class of men at the North witoss meat and drink it has been to keep up a continued agi tation. First, the war ory was, " Lo, the poor heathen ;" next, " Lo, the poor Indian ;" and now it is, "Lo, the poor negro." We. an see some of the fruits . of their torsevolent doings among the "poor:negroes ; " by looking at the smoking ruins ILL Virgin - IA, and all along the border Staten; and it, will not be their fault if similar scenes are not - -witneeveil in Pennsyl vania. , • . , , Shall we. then, /R t ,Spfalter,eltimber,npon the foamingbataraoite brink ii of Actiolition ? 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The frozen viper must not be warmed in our bosoms •,..its fangs are the en gines of death. Would you see an 'Widens foe in the garb of a epiritnel friend steal upon the unwary and confiding, wind the, serpent coil around the human heart, entwining its deadly fetters, its chain of palsy with the very fibres of life ? it not, land God forbid) let not those who axe the heirs of men who-in an• age of glory resisted insolence and oppression. even unto death, fold their arise in valor indif-4 ference, when the angel of desolation is sweep ing over the land upon the wings of a whirl wind. It will be no time to- cry peace and safety when the shriek' of the maiden is ring ing in our ears and the soil of our proud State is reeking with human gore. I am aware, Mr. Speaker, that I have spoken in plain language, that I have expressed my opinion in strong terms ; but P did it, not be cause to me it was a pleasant teak; but because I believe before God that-I have-spoken truly. The signs of the times are to me more ominous than mere language can portray. Shill their auguries may be deceptive. The course of the administration, of which I have spoken ad versely, may torn out to be the bright and shi ning way. Heaven grant that it may prove so ! If an incubus has settled on my' brain, and I have 'supped full of horrors" never to be real ized, most happy shall I be to know that I have only dreamed. But seeing as I have seen here to-day, and feeling as I have - felt, I have deemed it my duty thus to speak with the deep conviction that if I shrank from.duty merely because the course of my remerhe must con travene the words of others, the very stones upon which I tread would murmur "shame !" I am sick and tired of these hypocritical pro fessions of love for the Union, made by its bit ter enemiee, the Abolitionist*. Hew can they love the Union •when their first professions of love for it were made long after they had bit terly cursed it and inaugurated the process for its destruction ? Too well have they succeeded in their schemes. But it shall net be; "the Union must and shall be preserved," and the Democratic party must do it by just tech moo-- Wiens as these under discussion, inviting the calm and sober patriotism of the- nation to unite for its salvation. Look for owe moment at the huge heap of trophies piled upon the tombs of our glorious dead—our peatrefal re cords of greatness and majesty—oursoil mois tened with the patriot's blood—our atmosphere electric with patriotism—our name refulgent with glory throughout the world, missy have we no trust to. guard, no bequest to defend? Shall the dawn of some future day lad our' watch towers abandoned, our altars over thrown, our banners forsaken, our broiling land, once the home of the brave and the free, down trodden by foreign hirelings, or desolated by internal strife. Look through the world and show me a clime so proudly matured in the days of its youth. Shall the freedom won from tee mightiest of nations in. ear days of feebleness be lost in our hour of might ? Shall our onward course be checked.? Shall our high fortune be forever marred, simply be cause we have a poor, weak, wicked and mise rable pilot at the helm of Stotot No; peril* the thought forever ! Mr. Speaker, dark days are bsfore us, when those who are in the possession of the immense power of a government like ours can be found to use it so cruelly and recklesslAss they are doing. When I look forward to the certain consequences of this mad course of action, my mind is filled with the greatest alarm for the result—not because that I believe that the A me ri c a n people will not, 'should° the dire ne cessity arise, defend the inestimable boon of civil and riligious liberty almost the petty ty rants at Washington, who are now threatening the people, but because I wish to preserve this Union—to save this grand scheme of human happiness. Go back, Mr. Speaker a fee years, to a time when this demon of Abolitionism did not infest every avenue to the capital of the na tion, and when it reared its hydra head in these halls only in occasional and feeble in stances. What did we then beheld? The sun of heaved rising en thirty millions of free people, who united within themselves more of .the elements of social strength 'and happiness than ever blesied the same number of people before. The land smiled with happy homesteads, which sent up as incense to Heaven the smoke of millions of household fires kindled on as many altars consecrated to peace and all the domestic virtues: The hus bandman went forth to sow his seed and to plant his tree in perfect security, that he or his descendants would gether the mate- The mariner ploughed the seas add-looked prbadly aloft to the "stars and stripes," -the emblem of his country's greatness, and knew that its ample folds would guard and protect him in the most distant olimes. The young modrer re joiced when her male child was born into the werld, feeling that when he' should arrive at the age of maturity, he could take tiny one of the thousand roads that lead to *math and honor in this happy land ' The. old. Mat de soended willingly to theltbniti, 'Audi closed 'his eyes in peace, with a calm oonfbleitste: that he was leaving this fair scene as perpetual in heritaiee to his children and thein descendants. Sir, upon what rested all this confideate and happiness ? It rested in' the faith felt by our people in the Constitution and,the equal laws which it enjoined for the mutuaLpyotectiou and defence of the interests of all. Instead of all the blessingatvhioh.the Cow stitution guarantees, what do we now beholds?- War—stern, cruel and devastating tkar-,-a land, desolated and drenched in, fesdatmel households desolate—widows, in Ettourniag— orpbins weeping—mothers, deters, fathers and brothers almost frantic at, the lowan the wool. field of battle of a son, or a brother—while night, morning and noon the ansiousl4lo- and mother kneels in, the drain of her : Iw►pliiB ones, and while she teaches, them to lisp their infant prayers; she pours out her bleeding soul to Heaven for the safe return of her protector and their father: Go, sir, to the bumble cot tages of your rural districts, and while you contemplate the auzions, care-worn wife and her lovely group of innocent but halF-starving children, representing pities°e in despair and industry in rags; look at your streets and high ways darkened with With Wilkie!, In mourning weeds—listen to the rattle of the omen over your streets by those who have lost a leg or are otherwise maimed for life by this 'inhuman war; and then tell me, is it treason to vote, to speak, to wish, to resolve for peace? I tell you, sir, whatever may be the opinion of oth. era—however blood-thirsty they may be—l am sick of war, and I do moat solemnly protest against the gentleman on the _other, side stig matizing as "traitors" those whose tender feel ings are outraged at the !natz,y.cruelties wpe_ trated by a war which its . loadora declare is ni only to abolish au stitutten eri4oh d oes not concern uB--a war which Lbere,pronounce to be the,direct result, of,JhotAinprtillent, if not fanatiotein which in 4856 displayed its ; epteenetarred anner throu,,suout the en tire N'orth, and which has singe with steady
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