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"‘ one month.. 300 " one mouth.. 600
" three months 501 " three months 10 00
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" one year .. 12 00 " one year 20 00
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or beLsee marriages and deaths, TEN CENTS PER LINE fg
each i.isertion. To merchants and others advertising
by the year, liberal terms will be offered.
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he adverSieement.
to- Marriages and Deaths will be inserted at the Name
aLteii as regular advertisements.
Saginaw dards.
R OBERT SNODG.RASS:
ATTORNEY AP LAW,
o,ifice North Third street, thard door above Mar-
•
ket, Harrisburg, Pa.
N. g,--Penaloo, Bounty and Military dating or 8 . 11
kinds ploseent dind collected_
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Refer to Hone doha 0. Kunkel, David Mumma, jr,
and R. A. Lamberton. myll-d&w6m
WM. H. HILLER 4
AND
It. E. FERGUSON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
OFFICE IL*
SHOEMAKER'S BUILDINGS
SECOND STREET,
BETWEEN WALNUT and MARKET SQUARE,
arAt-dhw Nearly opposite the Buehler House.
THOS. O. MAaDOWELL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MILITARY CLAIM AND PATENT AGRIVT.
O f fice in the gze„hange, Walnut at" (Up Stairs.)
Haring formrti a connection lath parties in Wash
ington City, wno are reliable business men, any busi
ness connected with any of the Departments will meet
with immediate and careful attention. mB-y
DR. C. WEICHEL,
SURGEON AND OCULIST,
ERSIDRNOR THIRD NAAR. NORTH STRUT.
de la now fully prepared to attend promptly to ths
do.t.lea of profectdon in all itil branclim
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justi.les trim in promising full and ample satterfaction to
all who may favor kim with a eel, be thedisesseehronit
or any other nature.
SILAS WARD.
NO. 11, NORTH THIRD ST., HARRISBURG.
STEINWAY'S PIANOS,
MELODEONS, VIOLINS, OLT/LIES,
Banjos, Flutes, Fifes, Drum*, decanted**,
STRINGS, SNERT AND ROOK YUQIO , &C., &0.,
PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES. ALBUMS,
Large Pier and Mantle Mirrors, Square and Oval Frame
of every description nude to order. Rewinding done.
Agency ler Houre , s Sewing Machines.
117 ' Sheet Miele eent by Man. octl-1
JOE - INT W. GLOVER,
MERCHANT TAILOR!
Has just received from New York, an assort.
moot of
SEASONABLE GOODS,
which he offers to his customers end the public as
nov22) MODERATE PRIORS- dtt
W*HARRY WILLIAMS , -
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CIALALICAX
402 WA.. iTT 8111.16.61`,
PH rz, A DE LP MIA.
General Claims for Holders prOmptly collected, State
Claims adjusted, Zee., Ise: inar2o-41.110 •
SMITH. it
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
THIRD STREET, Harrisburg,
Prftetiee In the several Courts of Dauphin county. Col
lections made promptly. A. C. SMITH,
J. B. EWING.
T - COOK, Merchant Tailor,
t o
• 27 cazawur ST., between Second and Front,
gas just returned from the city with an assortment of
CLOVECS, CASSEMERES A_ND rEsrmus,
Whisk will be sold at mederate prim cud assOO op to
order; And. also, tin - Assortment of 831ADF MAIM
CLOthillg sad Gentians...a..
DENTISTRY.
B. L GILDER, D. D.
744 4444= N . 119 MARKET STREET,
Rim & guNirws itumblNG 4 UP STAIRS
_ Janseit
R ELIGIOUS BOOK STORE,
TRACT AHD SUNDAY SCHOOL DEPOSITORY,
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E.
S. GERMAN.
ST SOUTH BROOM) STRXIIIT, ABOVIOII3I3NUT,
REAAAnnuse, PA.
Depot for the sale of Stereosoopes,Stereosoopio Views,
iinedo and Musical Instrumental. - illint,,sabfariptions
taken for:religions publications.noBo-dy
JOHN 431 . . W. MARTIN,
FAIIHIOICABLD
CAED WRITER,
MIRII , B HOTWL, HARRISBURG, PA.
Allmanner of VISITING, WEDDING AND D un-
NESS CARDS execrated in the most artistic styles and
most =amenable terms. deel4-dtt
N 1.0 N 110 TEL,
Ridge inane, corner of Broad street,
HARRISBURG, PA.
The undersigned informs the public that he has re
cently renovated and refitted his well-known " 'Onion
Hotel , ' on Ridge avenue, near the Round House, and is
prepared to accommodate citizens, strangers and travel
ars in the best style, at moderate rites
His table will be supplied with the best the maskets
afford, and at his bar wi.l be found superior brands of
ligaors and mast beverages. The very best accommo
dations for railroaders employed at the ehope in this
trieutilar- WA an HENRY 1306Talrg.
FRANKLIN HOUSE ;
BALTIMOILM, MD.
This pleasant and commodious Hotel has been the
roughly re-fitted and re-furnished. It is pleasantly
situated on North-West corner of Howard and Franklin
streets. a few doors west of the Northern Central Rail
way Depot. Allay attentio n paid to the comfort of his
A - 1;6 , 544- LN lUNSING, PrOPrOtor,
ju72-tr iLate of Wiwi (Gove. Fa.)
THEO. F. SCHEFFER,
BOOK, CARD AND JOB PRINTER
NO. 18 MARKET STREET, HARRISBURG.
Er" Particular attention paid to printing, ruling and
binding of Railroad Blanks, Manifests, Insurance Poll
utes, Checks, Bill-Heads, &c.
Wedding, Visiting and Business Oardsprintedat very
and in the best style_ jan2l
mESSRS. CHICKERING & CO.
HATS AGAIN OBTAINND TEE
GOLD Mk DAL!
AT THE
MECHANICS' FAIL BOSTON,
OVER rill , co l irPi g Piro.asi
wararoook for the OBIONWiIIt PIANOB, &I
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)1 16 Market
VeiNOOHX , B MUSIC STORE.
ADIb.IB ! YOU KNOW WERE YOU
4 A can get fine Note Paper, Envelopes, Visiting and
Wedding Cards At BOHNITER 3 B BOOKSTORE.
:.„, I UPERIOII , STOCK 01? LIQUORS.-
.., wm. DOCK, 7z., ha CO., are now able to offer to
their custaalcrs and the public at large, a stock of the
-5.• livers ewer imported into this market, compile
sing in part the follo : iting varieties
WHISK -IRISH, SCOTCH,OLD BOURBON.
WINE_PORT, SHERRY; OLD MADEIRA.
OTARD, DUPE! & CO. PALE BRANDY.
JAMICA 'SPIRITS.
PRIME NEW ENGLAND RUM.
DRAKE'S PLANTATION BITTERS.
These liquors can all be warranted ; and in addition to
these, Dock & Co. have on hand a large variety of
Wines, Whisky and Brandy, to which they invite the
particular attention of the public.
MOtIONS.--Quite a variety of useful
IA wad tatertainicg articles—chesp—at
"f Staluusswo aecticsro-lul.
VOL. 5.-NO. 259.
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ness of Dr. Stephen Sweet on every label, and also
" Stephen Sweet's Infallible Liniment " blown in the
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Sole Proprietors, Norwich , , Ct.
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WHIT -E SULPHUR
AND
CHALYSEATE SPRINGS,
At Doubling Gap, Penn.,
JAMES D. HENDLEY, PROPRIBTOP.,
Late of Kirkwood House, Washington.
SEASON OPENS 15th JUNE, 1863
These''Springs are in Onnilherland county Por-- " Nr
miler west of II arrldw..=
the principal - ottleo by railroad to Harrigan g, ta0..00
by the etunborland Talky railroad: to Newvllle i from
mring B_idleg_ggplataring_toto - o *prUqp, Tho
stage afwaga in waiting upon the arrival of the cars
at Newviile.
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Passengers leaving Philadelphia, Baltimore or Wash
ington in the morning can arrive at the Springs the
same evening at jive o'clock.
The Hotel is commodious and comfortable, with Hot
and Oold Baths attached, and extensive grounds for
walks and amusement.
The long experience of the present Proprietor (for
many years past at the Eirkwoo i House in Washington,
C 7 ) enables him to say, that it will be conducted in
manner to please all Viei' ors
T 0311(131—$2 flat illy; .112 pOrT s Areek 1 - 4 wssAa
Children and servants half price. j e9-d2e2
H AMS!!
20,000, lbs. Composed of the following Brands
just received:
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NEW JERSEY—SeIect.
EVANS do SWlFT'S—Superior.
MICHINER'S EXCELSlOR—Canvassed.
lIIIMINER'S EXCELSIOR—Not canvassed.
IRON ClTY—Canvassed.
• IRON CITY—Not canvassed.
. PLAIN HAMS—Strictly prime.
ORDINARY HAMS—Very good.
xvurp Ram sold will be guareatced as represen
ted. WM. DOCK. jr., eo_
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MORTON'S UNRIVALLED GOLD
PEN.-FIRST QUALITY WARRANTED.
NONE BETTER IN THE WHOLE WORLD.
A 4DEAT LUXURY!
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MN will find with me a large assortment to select from,
and have the privilege to exchange the Pens until their
hand is perfectly suited. And if by fair means the Dia
mond points break off during twelve months, the pur
slower Mill have the privilege fv seitlit 4 new ens,
without any charge.'
I have very good Gold Peas, made by Mr. Morton, not
warranted, in strong silver-plated eases, for $l , $ 1.25,
$1.50, $2.00
For eels at SCHIFFER'S BOORSTORI,
No. 18 Market Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
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• of
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Pearl:num.—A very superior article, (strictly
pi re i ) just received aud'for sale by
July]. WM. DOOR, Jr.. & Co.
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expenses paid, to sell my new cheep Family Sewing
MaeDinea. Address, S. MADISON,
m5-d3m Alfred, Maine.
W.ANTED.—S6 . O A MONTH ! We
want Agents at $6O a month, expenses paid, to
sell our Naerlasting Pencils, Oriental Burners, and
thirteen other new, useful and curious articles. Fifteen
circulars sent free. Address,
m5-d3m BEAN & CLARK, Biddefoirl, Maine.
uTAR I I WAR I—BRADY, No. 62
VV r Market 'street, below Third, has received a largo
assortment of Wean, BAiinn and /311141, which he
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HARRISBURG, PA:, TIIMDAY, JULY 2, 1863
Cke Ottrint tt- Ruin.
THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 2 1863
SPEECH.
OP
GEORGE W. WOODWARD,
AT THE
Great Union Meeting, held Becember 13, 1860,
in Independence Square, Philadelphia.
[The meeting was called by the Mayor of the city, at
the request of the Select and Common ()OUIICIIB, and
wee held et noon, ThadldaVA.iih 1,666455.1161', 1560, in
Independence Square Mayor Henry was called to pre
side, and a large number of gentlemen onic , ated as Vice
Presidents and Secretari• a, The meeting wan opened
with prayer by Bishop Potter. The address of the
Mayor followed: The resolutions were read by John B.
Myers. The speakers selected by-a Committee of Conn•
cats, then addressed the vast concourse assembled in the
Square in the following order : Hon. Joseph It Inger
-3.11, George W. Woodward, Charles E. lea, Theodore
Cuyler and Isaac liszlehurst.)
We have assembled, fellow citizens, in pur
suance of the proclamation of the Mayor, that
we may " oottasel together to avert the danger
which threatens our country." That danger
is not reoent or new. It has a history. And
we must glance at that; we must obtain a
clear view of the actual state of the crisis,
before we can give or receive intelligent coun
sel.
It was announced a few years ago that the
conflict which had sprung up in this country
between free and slave labor was irrepressible;
that a house divided against itself could not
stand ; that all the States of this Union must
become free or slave States.
The meaning of this was, and is, that all
were to become free States, for the soil and
climate of a majority of 'the States are such
that it never can become the interest of the
superior race to maintain slavery in theme
Everybody knows this, and therefore the alter
native form of the proposition was only to give
it an appearance of fairness and a little more
rhetorical effect.
The full scope and meaning of the announce
ment are, then, that citizens of the United
States are to be totally divested of the property
they now hold in four or five millions of
slaves, of the aggregate value of many hun
dred millions of dollars, and that the habits
and domestic condition of the people—their,
commercial relations and their political rights,
in so far as these interests are connected with
the institution of slavery, are to undergo a
revolution.
Nor was-this prediction the voice of an ob
scure and unhonored prophet, but of a citizen
whom the people of the free States have just
distinguished, in a signal manner, by confer
ring on him the highhest office they had to
give. In so far as their voters are to be con
sidered as responsive to his announcement,
they are a loud amen—a solemn answer, so let
it be.
Whilst t ..t t= be doubted t. at multitudes
voted for the President elect with other views,
and did not intend a distinct endorsement of
his fa\rorite proposition, yet, as the record is
made up, the prophecy and the prophet stand
approved by a majority of the people of the
free States. The inexorable excluden4 •.• • •
WC government holds in trust for the people
of ail the States, is a natural and direct step
towards the grand result of extinguishing slave
property altogether, and was one of the record
issues of the late election. This policy must
be consideied as approved also. Not that every
man who voted for the successful nominees
meant to affirm, that a trustee for several co
equal partiei has a right, in law or reason, to
exclude the property of some and admit that
of others of the parties for whom he holds—
but so is the record. And whilst it is not to
be taken as expressing the wziversal sense of
the voters, it does, undoubtedly, imply that
vast masses of Northern people do heartily ap
prove, both of the proposition to make all the
States free, and of beginning by excluding
slavery from the territories. •
The South seems inclined so to accept the
judgment. She holds the property that is to
be shut out of the territories, that is to be
restticted, cribbed, and confined, more and
more, until it is finally extinguished. Every
where in the South the people are beginning
to look out for the means of self defence.—
Could it be expected that they would be in
different to such events as have cteeurred ?
That they would stand idle and see measures
concerted and carried forward for the annihila
tion, sooner or later, of her property in slaves ?
Such expectations, if indulged, were not rea
sonable. The law of self-defence includes
right of property as well as of person; and it
appears to mc, that there must be a time, in
the progress of this conflict, if it be indeed ir
repressible, when slaveholders may lawfully
fall back on their natural rights, and employ,
in defence of their property, whatever means
of protection they possess or can command.
I de not agree with them that the time has ar
rived yet; but it would be well for those
who push on this conflict, in whatever form,
to consider that they are hastening on that
tire, and that they have convinced one or
more Southern States that it has already
come.
Several States propose to retire -from the
Confederacy, and that justly alarms us. We
come together to consider what may be done
to prevent it, and we are bound, in fidelity to
ourselves and others, to take thwmeasure of
the whole magnitude of the danger,
this irrepressible conflict has grown out of
the Anglo-Saxon love of freedom What that
passion is, and how it was offended by the in
troduction of negro slaves, may be read in the
chronicles of the American Provinces, and
especially in the earnest, the eloquent, and
repeated remonstrances addressed by the
Colony of Virginia to the Crown and Parlia
ment of Great Britian against their introduc
don..
But it the Anglo Saxon loves liberty above
all other men, he is not indifferent to gain and
thrift, and is remarkable for his capacity of
adaptation, whereby he takes advantage of any
circumstances in which he finds himself placed.
And, accordingly, by the time the colonies were
prepared to throw off the British yoke, and to
assume among the powers of the earth the sep
arate and equal station to which the laws of
nature and of 1/eitur6'is (il-44 Ohtitie Own, it had
been discovered that the unwelcome workers,
against whose introduction such earnest pro
tPsts had been made, could be turned to profita
ble account in the Southern States ; that the
African constitution was well adapted to labor
in latitudes which alone could produce some of
the great staples of life ; and that the North,
which could not employ them profitably, would
be bene - fitted by such employment as the South
could afford. Considerations of humanity, also,
as well as the rights of private property, en
tered into the discussions of that day. What
was best for an inferior race thrust unwillingly
upon a superior? That both should be free,
or that the inferior should serve the superior,
and the superior be bound by the law of the
relation to protect the infbrior ?
If best for both races that the existing sla
very should continue, then what was to be its
relalon to the general gouernment? HOW
sho, it be represented in the councils of the
Nat? How far protected or discouraged by
the wer of the nett government?.Should
juristion to abolish it be granted to the
govehent, or reserved to the States and the
peoplt' the States ?. These were great ques
tionainl, like all the questions of that day,
were lely settled.
Therrhern States abolished their slavery,
and sitatifisd their innate love of freedom
but thidid it gradually, and so did not wound
their of gain. 'They sold out slavery to
the Sot, and they received a full equivalent,
not lin the pribe paid down, but in the
manuf ring and commercial prosperity
which iw up from the productions of slave
labor-
WbolOwe Constitution mama to be formed '
some ofie northern States still held slaves,
but sev 1 had abolished the institution, and
it must ye been apparent that natural causes
would f e it ultimately altogether upon the
South. e love of liberty was as intense as
ever, an s strong at the South as at the North,
1
and the ' e of gain was common also to both
section Here were two master passions to be
adjuste nder circumstances of the greatest
delieuoy i They were adjusted and the great
queetto f the time were settled, in the only
manner. ssible. Concession and compromise
—consi stion for each other's leelings and
interestz•aciifices of prejudices, forbearance
and MO ation—these were the means by
which t " more perfect Union" was formed.
And ;t a work it was! If the Union had
never b. ght us a single blessing, the Con
stitutio . f the United States would still have
been a gnifieent monument to the unselfish
patrioti: of its founders. Not an alliance
merely, it; a close and perfect union between
peoples natty ambitious, equally devoted to
freedomqually bent on bettering their con
dition; t separated by State lines, and jeal
i
ous ofte rights—one section seeking its
prosperi under institutions which were to
ma k e o f - Tann a free 1011111 the other under
institutio which tolerated negro slavery.
Had tlitt Constitution failed' to work out the
benefice n results intended, here was ,an in
stance of human effort to do good—an effort
to restr. and regulate two natural passions,
and to mpel.them to co-operate in blessing
tit
c f .
ankin WIACh would forever have chal
lenged tie admiration of all good and thought.
ful mar But it did not fail, thank God ; it
has mad us a great and prosperous nation
and .thei.dmiration of the world, for the mo
tives of lie founders is swallowed up in wonder
at the s coils of this work.
But, 11 this the "irrepressible conflict" le
ig
nores. The passion for liberty, spurning the
restrairite imposed, has burned out all memo
ries of the l compromise and the compact in
those Northern communities, which, under
the raise name of Liberty Bills, obstruct
the execution of the bargain. What part of
the purposes of the founders are the under
ground railroads intended to promote ?
Whence come these excessive sensibilities
that cannot bear a few slaves in a remote ter
ritory until the white people establish a con
stitution ? What does that editor or preacher
know of the Union, and of the men who made
it, who habitually reviles and misrepresents
the Southern people, and excites the ignorant
. „ , , .oEiese in our midst to hate and
S'l ad' - nstr:tillittg_ .Ab a drautte .. .A , • ' u pre me
Coat as the• final expositor of the compact ?
Be not deceived. Let me not prophesy
smooth things, and cry peace when there is
no peace. Let the truth be spoken, be beard,
be pondered, if we mean to save the Union.
The conflict boasts that it is irrepressible. It
allies itself with equal readiness to religion
and infidelity. It -enlists all our passions,
good and bad. It makes common cause with
the champions of freedom the world over, and
with the promoters of insurrection, riot and
discord at home. With Freedom inscribed on
th e banner it bears, it tramples under foot the
guarantees of freedom Contained In the Con.
stitution and laws.
How is it to be repressed ? Governmental
administration cannot subdue it. That has
been tried for several successive periods, and
the conflict has waxed hotter and hotter. Will
the next administration be more successful?
Hving for the best it can do, what right have
you or I to anticipate that the honest man who
has been elected will prove recreant to the
maxims that made him President? Can' trade
and commerce subdue it ? Look at the votes
of Boston, Philadelphia and Pittsburg. The
manufacturers and merchant@ are the govern
ing olasseh in these cities. They are intelli
gent and quick to discoier their interests.
They have weighed and measured the Southern
trade, and then have voted against the South
ern people. But what if they had not—what
if, like the city of New York, they had voted
against the conflict, only to be overruled by
the country counties ? Commercial cities can
not repress the conflict, if thee people of the
interior lend it their sympathies. No, no,
there is reason in the boast that the States
shall all become free. There ie good ground
to apprehend the extinction of property in
slaves. All New England has decreed it. The
great States of New York and Ohio have re
peated, again and again, the decree. Penn
sylvania seems to have earietiened it. The
Northwestern States stand for the present
committed to it.
What hope is left for the Union? Is there a
man in this assembly who deems that this con
flict can go on and the Union last ? If there be,
that man is beside himself ; he has lost his
wits. i. will reason with no such man. But,
though few may believe that the Union can
long endure the shook of the conflict, yet many
people think that freedom—absolute, uncon
ditional, universal freedom—is so great a boon,
and negro slavery so great a reproach and evil,
that the whole influence of a good man's life
and conduct should be directed to promote the
one and suppress the other—even though, as a
consequence, the slave States should be driven
ont, of the Union. This is the prevalent dis
temper of the public mind.
" Who can minister to a mind diseased ?"
Fellow-citizens, I profess no ability in this
regard, but my mouth is open, and I will utter
some of the thoughts that press up from the
heart to the lips.
When, under-the articles of confederation,
which carried us through our Revolutionary
d w i a s r,
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proved itself too weak to suppress conflicts
that were arising, the people took the remedy
into their own hands, called &Conveni ion, and
formed a stronger government. The call of the
Convention, the election of deputies, the State
Conventions which followed, all served to en
gage the public mind, and to direct it to the
common danger, and the possible remedy. Thus
the popular mind prepared itself to receive with
approbation the Coristitation that was formed,
and
d a ai in s gd d t dangers were averted.
example. Let us philosophy be be instructd
e by teachin g
thiexam
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As we, Pennsylvanians, were the first to
abolish slavery, let us be the first to move for
the salvation of the Union. Under the amenda
tory clause of the Constitution, Congress is
bound to. call a general convention on the ap
plication of the Legislatures of two-thirds of
the States. Our Legislature will assemble neat
PRICE TWO CENTS.
month. Let us petition them to demand the
convention. Good examples, like bad ones,
are contagious. Perhaps one and another of
the Northern and Southern States may do the
like until the requisite number have concurred,
and then we will hate a National Convention
to consider the evils and dangers of the day,
and to devise remedies which, it may be hoped,
shall prove as salutary as those of 1787. And
DOW, as then, the progress of these measures
will awaken inquiry anti thoughtfulness in
the masses, will.oall off their minds from the
petty polities of the day, and from the mis
chievous agitation of slavery questions, to the
grand problem of how we can render this glo
rious Union perpetual.
In what form and to what extent the power
of the general government should be increased
is not for me to indicate, but with the confes
sions of President Buchanan and Attorney-
General Black before us, that the government,
as now , constituted, is tumble to prevent or
punish secession, or to suppress the proud
conflict that disturbs our peace and boasts it
self irrepressible, have I not a right to assume
that the government needs to be strengthened ?
Have 1 not a right to say that a government
which was all sufficient for the country fifty
'years ago, when !soil and climate and State
sovereignty could be trusted to regulate the
sprend of slavery, is insufficient to-day, when
every upstart politician can stir the people to
mutiny against the domestic institutions of our
Southern neighbors—when the ribald jests of
seditious editors, like Greeley and Beecher,
can sway legislatures and popular votes against
the handiwork et' Wathington and Madison—
when the searrillous hbvls of such a book as
Helper's become a favorite campaign docu
ment, and are accepted by thousands as law and
gospel both--when jealousy and hate have killed
out all our fraternal feelings for those who were
born our brethren, and who have done us no
harm ? Tile traditions of the elders lingered in
the generations which immediately succeeded
the adoption 4f the Constitution, and their pas
sion for freedom, just as strong as ours, was
chastened into loyalty to the Union, and vene
ration for the rights of the States. The Consti
tution, which was strong enough to govern
such men, is too weak to restrain us who have
outgrown the grave and moderate wisdom that
excited no irrepressible conflict between breth
ren, but taught them to dwell together in unity.
I would make it strong enough to restrain the
madness of our day.
And let the people consider the motives for
preserving the Union. They would be brought
directly to these by the debates of the Con
vention, and by the antecedent and subse
quent debates. I can suggest only some of
them.
First, our name, and place, and power, an
one of the nations of the earth. Are not these
worth preserving ? In eighty years we have
matched the greatness that Rome and England
were centuries in attaining. What may be
done in the next eighty ?
I heard a sagacious statesman say, about
three years ago, that' in twenty years from
that time, if we kept together, we would drive
England from all the markets of the world as a
first-class trader. They were word's of cheer,
but there was the inevitable if. In what mar
ket we should rival England, or even the pet
tiest kingdom of the earth, after dissolution of
fetraiiiare.p — " •
See what prosperity would come to us of the
North in the process of the grand rivalry pre
dicted by that statesman. Manufactures and
navigation have built up the greatness of En
gland, and they would do the same for us as a
nation, and for our section of the nation. Man
lecturing has already made us great. In no
one respect are the rise and progress of our
country so remarkable as in its manufactures.
The narrow minded English statesman, who
would -not have us manufacture even a "hob
nail," could he be carried alive. through the
factories of Philadelphia, Pittsburg or Lowell,
would, to he consistent with himself, curse the
false gods who had inspired his unreasonable
wish, and hasten to die again. We shalt never
need to depend again on any foreign nation for a
fabric that can be made of cotton, iron or wood.
Thus far, at least, we have come. And what
cities, and towns, and railroads, and canals
have we built up in our progress! How much
personal wealth and social happiness have we
created—what additions to our population—
what accretions in the value of our farms and
minerals—what industry have we stimulated
gad rewarded—what commerce have we won!
Think of these things, fellow yountrymen=.-
con them over, one by one—dissect and ana
lyze each fact—trace its connections and con
sequences ; and then, when yon combine them
all in one glowing picture of national prosper
ity, remember that COTTON, the produce of slave
labor, has been one of the indispensable ele
ments of all this prosperity. More, it must be
an indispensable element of all our future
prosperity. I say it must be. The world can
not and will not live without cotton. There is
not a matron in all the Union that can clothe
her family or herself without it. Nor can En
gland do without our cotton. Her mills and
ours would rot, and her operatives atd ours
would starve, if the negroes did not raise cot
ton. Manumit them and they will never raise
another crop. They need the authority of a
master and the eye of an overseer to compel
and direct them to the duties to the cotton
plant which must be rendered at the right sea
son precisely, or the crop is lost. •
An thus it happens that the Providence of
that Good Being who has watched over us
from the beginning, and saved us from exter
nal foes, has eo ordered our internal relations
as to make negro slavery an incalculable blase
ing to us and to the people of Great Britain.
I say to us; for I do not enter into, the ques
tion whether the institution be an evil to the
people of the southern States. That is their
concern, not ours. We have nothing to do
; with it. And to obtrude our opinions upon
the people of "sovereign States, concerning
their domestic institutions, would be sheer im
pertinence, Bat do you not see and feel how
good it was for us to hand over our slaves to
our friends of the South—how good it was for
us that they have employed them in raising a
staple for our manufacturers—how wise it was
to so adjust the compromises of the Constitu
tion that we could live in union with them and
reap the signal advantages to which I have
adverted ? We consign them to no heathen
thrall, but to Christian men, professing the
mime faith with us—speaking the same lan
guage—reading the golden rule, in no One
sided and distorted shape, but as it is recorded,
a rule to slaves as well as masters.
This allusion to the golden rule reminds me
of an objection which will be urged to much
that I have advanced. It will be said that
slavery is a sin against God, and, therefore,
that all reasons drawn from our matdrial in
terests, for levering or abetting it, mast go
for nothing.
If it be a sin, I agree there is an end to my
argument, but what right has the Abolitionist
to pronounce it a sin ? I say Abolitionist, be
cause the pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church of Brooklyn, in a sermon preached
within a week, defined an Abolitionist to be
one 'rho holds thai slavery is a sin. I accept
the definition, bad accordingto it many of our
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litionists; for it is astonishing how extensively
the religions mind of the North has admitted
into itself the Suspicion, not to say conviction,
that slaveholding is mein. If a sin, then it is a
violation of some Divine law, for sin is the
transgression of the is:W. .
Now,l deny that any such law his ever been
reveald. The burden of showing it is on him
who alleges, and when it is shown, I agree it
shall rule out all that has been said or can be
said for a Union founded on !Way. I bind
myself never to raise my voice again in behait
of such a Union. But, so far from any such
law being found plainly written for our irt ,
struction, whoever will study the Patriarchal
and Levitical institutions, will see the prinoi
ple of human bondage, and of property in man,
divinely sanctioned:if not divinely ordained;
en d in ail the sayings of our Saviour we hew
no injunction for the suppression of a slavery
which existed under his eyes, while he deliv
ered many maxims and principles, which, like
the golden rule, enter right into and regulate
the relation. So do the writings of Paul abound
with regulations of the relation, but not with
injunctions for its suppression. If we go to
the most accredited commentators, or consult
divines really wise and good in our midst ; or
what is better, study and search the Scriptures
for ourselves, we shall fail to find a lair which,
fairly interpreted and applied, justifies any
man in asserting, in or out of the pulpit, that
the negro slavery of the United States is sin
ful. What right, then, I ask again, has the
Abolitionist to cheat tender consciences into
hostility to an institution on which our Union
is founded in part. Good people say we do
not wish to disturb slavery where it exists by
local law, but believing it to be sinful and in
expedient, we will not submit to its extension,
nor assist to restore the fugitive to his master.
Such people soon come to conceive that the
more unfriendly they can feel towards slavery,
the more harsh speeches they make about
slaveholdere, the more they help on the irre
pressible conflict, the better will they recom
mend themselves to God. In BOW Churches
anti-slavery sentiments have become Essential
to good standing. According to• some ecclesi
astical councils, it would seem that the great
duty of the American Christian is to war with
his neighbor's property, and, if opportunity
presents, to help steal and bide it.
Alas I else I for the times upon which we have
fallen.
We must arouse ourselves and re -assert the
rights of the slaveholder and add such guaran
tees .to our Constitution as will protect his
property from the spoliation of religious big
otry and persecution, or else we must give up
our Constitution and Union. Events are pla
cing the alternative plainly before 1113—Consti
tutional Union aftd MeV according to American
law; or else ' extinction of slave property, negro
freedom, dissolution of the Union, and anarchy and
confusion.
Can any man, even though his mindhas been
poisoned by the sophisms of infidels and Abo
litionists, seriously contemplate the alternative
with composure and indifference ? We hear it
said, let South Caroliga go out of the Union
peaceably. I say let her go peaceably, if she
go at all, out why should South Carolina be
driven ont of the 'Union by an irrepressible con
flict about slavery I' Other States will be sure
to follow, sooner or later. The work of diem--
- ce fairly established, will not end
States. • Already we see it announced, on the
floor of Congress. that the city of New York,
tired of her connections with Puritan New Eng
land, and the fanatical interior of her own
State, will improve the opportunity to set up
for herself, and throw open her magnificent
port to the unrestricted commerce of the world.
Let us be wise in time. Our resolutions are
soothing and encouraging in their tone. and
this vast assemblage is symptomatic of return
ing health in the public mind; but popular
meetings and fair-spoken resolutions are not
going to save the Union from destruction. The
people must set, and act promptly and eili
oiently. Let theta show the South that the
heart of the great State of Pennsylvania is
sound still. It is said that the late elections
do not commit Pennsylvania, unalterably, to
the mischievous conflict. lam willing to be
lieve it. I hope it is so. I hope the events of
the winter and our future elections will prove
it. Then let Pennsylvania appeal to the South
to stand by us a little longer, till we have
proved, not by fair words, but by deeds, that
we will arrest the - irrepressible conflict; that
we are not ready to give up constitutional li
berty for tieentiona liberty that we will not
sacrifice all the memories of the past. and all
the hopeLof the future, for negro freedom;
no, not for negro freedom even; for though
we tear down this fair fabric, we make no ne
gro free, but for a vain and mad attempt at
negro freedom. Thetis the poor, the abortive,
the absurd, the wicked purpose for which we
arc capeutod to neorifice our Otorod inherit.
once. God forbid it.
Here on this consecrated spot of earth.
where the foundations were laid of the best
government the world ever saw, let us renew
our vows to the Union and send salutations to
our brethern. Talk not of secession—go not
rashly out of the Union—dim no star of our
glorious flag—give us time to place ourselves
right in respect to your " peculiar institution,"
and to roll back the aloud that now obscures,
for the moment, our devotion to the Union as
it is. Speak thus to-the Southern States, and
follow our words by fitting deeds, and Penn
sylvania can stop secession or care it if it Am
our& We can win back any State that may
stray off, if only we can prove our own loyalty
to the Constitution and Union as our fathers
formed them.
And would t inot be a proud page in the his
tory of Pennsylvania that should reoord the
rescue of the American Union from impending
ruin, by prompt, generous, united action of the
people of Pennsylvania? That great glory
may be ours. Let us grasp it ere it be forever
too late.
THE WOMEN or PARIE.—I do not agree with
my friend Belle Britten that "the women . of
Paris ate not handsome." I think, as a gen
eral rule, that they are. But I do agree with
him that there is something indescribably neat,
trim, and fascinating about them; and that
they take much more pains to please, in little
things, than either the American or English
women ; and to me there is a certain indiscrib
able witchery of manner about them wonder
fully irresistible and a style perfectly enchan
ting, Comparison, I know, are "odorous,"
but give me a French woman before any other!
Gad, it's muff to drive any nervous man into
1853 fits a minute to look at 'em For 'take
the veriest and most ordinary waiting maid,
and even if not pretty, she will have a deli
ciously fitting dress, with suck a pretty little
waist, and look so trim, clean, and neat, with
l a y! little
that w i "capi r t e e iro a a p d u es t
lonotenoireoked
con-
sideration," as John Brougham gays, to pass
'sin by, without wishing there a happy New Year I
--ifaasett
MODE CONPABA AND Lass Cnsig.—A piano
four feet long, nineteen inches deep,, and three
feet four inches high, with a compass of seven
octaves and a full rich tone, has been intro
dnoed into London, and is sold, at less than a
hundred dollars.