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NEUTRAL IN POLITICS' , Elcuoteb,,t i ii Nem, Literature, path)), Science, iliect)anics, a g riculture, the Miffitoion of Useful Jam:motion, Otneral 3ntelligenrc, 'Amusement, AllarKets, VOLUME V. THE LEHIGH REGISTER, Is published in'the Borough of Allentown, Lehigh . , Count y;Pa.,every Thursday BY A.UGUSTUS L. ItIIIIE, At $1 50 per annum, payable in advance, and $2 60 if not paid until the end of the year. No paper discontinued, until all arrearages are paid except at the option of the proprietor. Anvcwrissmerers, making not more than one square, will be inserted three times for one dollar and for every subsequent insertion t menty.five cents. Larger advertisements charged in the same proportion. Those not exceeding ten lines, will be charged seventy-five cents, and those making six lines or less, three insertions for 50 cents. WA liberal deduction will be made to those who advertise by the year. rir Office in Hamilton SI., nne door East o/ the German. Reformed Church, nearly opposite the "FriedensbOthe Office." To the Members of the Mutual-Fire Insuranc Comp. OF SINKING SPRING,_BERKS COUNTY. The Board of Managers of the Mutual Fire Insurance. Company of Sinking Spring Dellis County, herewith respectfully sub mit the Bth annual Report and Statetaent of the affairs of the Company, agreeably to the provisions of the charter. During the past year six hundred new members were admitted in the Company, about two hundred transfers and alterations of Policies effected, and 50 Policies renew ed. The gross receipts from these sources were St 140,49. The amount paid in,. on the assessment $5,500, and the balance in the Treasury as per last statement, with in terest $2061,4:3, mahin , a sum total of Sd, '701,92, out of which the Hoard appmpret 7 led the sum of $6,257 00 towards damages and expenses incurred during the past year, leaving a balance of $3,113 02 in the Trea sure at interest. Thu Comm! any now numbers full four thousand members, forming a capital of nine millions of dollars to levy upon in case of necessity. The Board have the gratification to say, that the members of the Company met the first assessment with alacrity and prompt ness. giving ample assurance that Mutual Insurance Companies, with sufficient capi tal and prudent management are by far thy• safest and cheapest in a country community. The Damages were awarded as follows : To Levi Kramlich, Lehigh coun ty, stone smoke house, $ll3 00 F. A. Wallace, Lehigh county, frame store house, John Bloss, Lehigh county, bake louse, - • - - .1 John B. Loos, in Berks county Currier Shop, 300,00 George Weser, in Berks county Stone Barn and contents. - 900,00 Daniel Dundore, in Berlis-co., Stono Dwelling & contents,' - 1.123,00 Samuel Betz, in Befits count}, Frame Barn and contents, Widow Drexel, in Berks county damage. to Furniture, &c., - 10,00 John B. Smith, Lebanon county Frame Barn & contents, - 333,34 Samuel Addams, Berks county Stone Barn and contents, - 700,00 Jared Epler, Berk's county Stone Bain and contents, Whole amount during the year.Ss,4s-1,34 p- The three last named cases of Loss were caused by lightning,the buildings.hav ing not been protected by rods as required, and consequently only two-thirds of the loss was paid in each case, agreeably to a provi sion of the By-Laws of the Company. It is worthy of remark to state that during the seven years of the Company's existence, no case of Fire, by lightning, did occur. to a single building that was protected by light ning conductors, the cost of which is at pre sent so trifling that it is hoped no member of the Company will incur the risk in future. tar The Board have resolved, hereafter not to insure Barns, Hay and Grain Sheds, Store [-louses, Mills and Factories of any 'kind with their .7ontents from loss caused by lightning. unless the same be sufficient by protected by conductors as prescribed in the By-Laws of the Colnpany. . By order of the Board of Managers. AARON MULL, Sec'y. Sinking Springs, Nov. 4. SINKING SPRINGS, Nov. 4, 1850. The following members were duly f led= ted Mtenemers for the ensuing year :—Jadob' Bright,- Penn; Dr. Wm. Palm, Sinkilig: Springs ;John L. Fisher, Up. Heidelberg; Geo. K. Haag, Esq., Centre; John R. Van' Reed,.odtaft; John B. Reber, Penn •'S'lo: mon Keay,- Maidencreek ; David 11. tenstein,Es4l,-11lairatawny; Daniel Ilbtisiiin,. Reading; haYdrt Mull, Sinking Springs, Isaac M.4pihrOV,Lebanon co.; Johrl'Weidci. Esq., arid e llok Cp: M oser, I. l ;6lii4Votinty ; lAottedieldi . vt% Eldd4' sum'itikn. Hotel, ditV dr Rktidtnii cif) tl;d first dndaY Jon 1851 1 .1it'itl'o'clag" A. 1 4.1Worgetniiit Qtll6,ers:' iSlibM, MOLL; wet:- Sinking' Spring ; 11 . 4 % • 11-3 w '" • • Take Malice t Surveyor and Scrivener. The undersigned begs leave to announce to his large circle of friends and the public in general, that he still continues the Sur veying and Scrivening business, in its vari ous branches, at his office, near Coopers burg, in Upper Saucon township, Lehigh county. He has lately purchased at a very great expence, a number of the newest and most im proved Mathematical Instruments, which will enable him, with a practice of 20 years standing, to give general satisfaction. His experience as a Scrivener is undoubt ed, as he has also followed the business for many years. Terms moderate. relic will always be 'ready to serve his friends, at any reasonable distance from home, when called upon. ANDREW IC. WITTMAN. Oct. 31. ¶-3m INDEMNITY. THE_ FRANKLIN _ FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY of Philadelphia. OFFICE, No. 1633 CHESNUT STREET near Fifth'strcet. Charles N. Bancker, Geo. W. Richarus Thomas Hart, Mord. D. Lewis. Tobias Wagner, Adolp. E Borie, Samuel Grant, )avid S. Brown, Jacob R. Smith, Morris Patterson, CONTINUE .to make Insurance, permanent and limited, on every description of property, in town and country, at rates as low as are consis• tant with security. The Company have reserved a large Contin gent Fund, which with - their Capital awl Premi• tuns, safely invested, aliord . ample prvteetion to the assured. The assets of ilte commute, on January Ist, 11448, as published agreeably to an Act of At sembly, were as Inflows, viz: Mortgages, $890,558 65 Real Estate, 728,358 90 Temporary Loans, 205,469 00 Stocks, 15,563 15 Cash, 6cc., 46,581 87 Since their incorporation, a period of eighteen years, they hnve paid upwards of one million Iwo hundred thousand dullars, losses by fire, there by aliiirding evidence of the advantages of insu ranee, as well as the abilitpand disposition to meet with prompt ess, all liabilities.; CHARLES N. BANCKER, Presi den CHARLES G. BANc.aER, Scc'y. The Subscribers are the appointed Agents of the above mentioned Institution, and are now prepared to make insurances on everydescrip• Lion of property, at the lowest. rates. AUGUSTUS L. RUBE, Allentown C. F. BLECK, Bethlehem. Allentown, June 13,1848. I—ly - 112 00 10,00 Mit 111:3111Y112 The•Girard Life Insurance Annuity and Trust Company of Philadelphia, Office No. lOU Chestnut Street, Charter Perpetual, CAPITAL 300,000. Continue to make Insurances on Lives on the most•favorable terms. 328,00 The capital being paid up and invested, together with the accumulated premium fund affords a perfect security to the insured. The premium may be paid in yearly, half yearly, or quarterly payments. The company add . a BONUS at stated pe riods to the insurance for life. The first bonus was appropriated in Decerriber, 1844, amounting to 10 per cent. on the sum in sured under the oldest policies, to 81 per cant, 71 per cent, &c. ; on others in propor tion to the time of standing making an addi tion of $lOO, $87,50, $75, &c., on every $lOOO originally insured, which is an aver age of more than 50 per cent on the premi ums, paid, and without increasing the annual payment to the company. 1217,00 Bonus ' Amount of policy and Su ni or bonus payable at the Insured • • I Ad timon, ' party's decease. No. of Policy ,--- $ 1000 i $ 100 -1 $ 1100 3500 i 250•- I 2760 4000 900 - i 4400 2000 124 - I 2175 5000 437 50 I 5437 No. 5- .. 88 208, 275 336 Pamphlet's containing tables of rates, and explanations of the subject; forms of appli cation ; and further information can be had at the office in Philadelphia, or on applica tion to A. L. Roth:, Agent in Allentown. B. W. RICHARDS, President. bro. V. JAMEB. 6 , 71:41Ury. Dbeetnber 13. . 11-1 y . IiCO i:P a CV LU 0 Notice is hereby given, that the under sighed has telkerr out letters of Administra thiii.,•of the Estate of Daniel Ludwig, de deAerl',•late of the Borough of Allentown, county of Lehigh. l'herefore, all persons who' are yet indebted to the estate of said dederthed, be it in Noter, Bonds, or oth erefrise Will please make settlement within 0 wteeks from the date hereof. Also those, legal claims against said estate, Will'prilsent them well authenticated with ribose specified time: SOLOWN W A 'PA • ofc t iiiij,tidrAilnistildloi.. - N0v.•14,- • • 51-6 w ALLENTOWN, LEHIGH COUNTY, PA., DECEMBER 12, 1850. - Diieclors : $1,220,097 67 Facts for the. People ! A Jenny Lind Seng. By Samson, Wagner Co. TUNE -- "SHE HAS COME." 1. An appeal to the judgement, A candid appeal ; With facts on our side, An assurance we feel. Fact, Fact, is our maxim, On facts we rely, And to facts we appeal, In the Goons we supply. 2. In this town our Store, Is seen to attract, A triumph in trade, And in truth a great Fact ! u►And still it.shall stand As it ever has done, A glorious fact For the name it has won. Readers ! We are not about to carry you away with any false or unfounded asser tionsi---We--inteudi-in—appealing-to-your judgment to state facts and facts only with out the slightest fear of contradiction. One prominent fact is, that the articles of Samson, Wagner & Co. are distinguished by unequalled style, in proof of which we would call your attention to our second purchase of Fall and Winter Goods, which we have just recieved and unpacking. And the prominent fact is, that at our store you will find nn extensive assortment of ev ery thing which is usually kept in a coun try store. But the fact of all facts is, that Samson, Wagner 4- Co. sell pods cheeper than any other Store in Lehigh county, but dont take our word for it, but come and see. Come men of all stations, • Each rank and degree, Come old maids and young maids, Who yet are so free, Come Jews and come Christian, Come Gentiles'and all, Come each and - cotne every one And give us a CALL. SAMSON, WAGNER & Co. November 14. I,'-4w Loclunan Ilkother, 111.12NUFsIGTUI?ERS DEJILERS -IN Boots, Shoes, Hats & Caps. The nineteenth century being the age of Magnetic Telegraphs. Steamships, Locomo tives, &c., and in which all kinds of busi ness is done in the very quickest and most expert manner, it likewie becomes neces sary for the trading public, to take small profits and make quick sales, in order to keep up with the improvements of the times. Upon this principle we have determined to act. We will sell our Goods at such prices as will astonish the buyer. The following are some of our prices, to Men's Ciilf-skin Boots from $2,50 to $-1,40 do courso do 1,50 to 3,00 do ~ '2,00 to 2,75 do kip do Gaiter do 1,50 to 3,00 Ladies' Gaitters " 1,00 to 1,87 do Slippers and Welts Buskins 31 to 1,25 . 1 - Besides a very large and exten sive assortment of ia si.. ready-made ~.-. Boots & Shoes, ,;-.7-,... cheap for cash. They also keep for sale, a splendid as sortment of Moleskin, Silk and Slouch s II A T S. ,-' 7llll r o t ,— Cloth ; glazed, fancy end military ( C A P S, Trunks,. Umbrellas, Camphine, Lard and Fluid Lam'ps, eandelt,bratF, &c., &c. IN - Recollect the plate, ctie dOOr west of 0. & J. Sager's Ffardware Store, in the building formerly ocelipiged by L. Smith's Apothecary store, in Hamilton street, Allen town.. • Nay 23. • 411-3 m, WILLIAM S. MARX, ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW. Office in the western front room of the building of John D. Liman, formerly Horn beck's, west of the Courthouse. Allentown April 4, 1850. 'll—tf • WVEY2LECOMb The members of the old "Northampton Blues" yet living, or the Widows of those deceased, or therr Minor children, can ap ply at Captain John F. Ruhe's office, were they can get their application for their Bounty land. And all•others having stood a tour of duty in the Militiw t in the war of 1812; can also be supplied With the neces sary papers, to proctire their bounty lands, under the act of Congress, passed Septtitti• her 28,1850. Charges reantlible. , H Itt,bg,.. the "Nbrthltrelltojtßroes." November 21, Grand lugliest of Lehigh County. Rholued That this Grand Inquest coming from all parts of the county of Lehigh, and knowing and representing the feelings and 'wishes of the people of the county, and duly appreciate the value of the Union of the States, have heard with pleasure the Charge of his Honor, the President Judge of this District, in relation to the "Fugitive Slave Law,'' and the "Small Note Law" and respectfully solicit a copy thereof for publication, as we believe that the publication of the correct, stalesman•fike and patriotic views which it contains, cannot fail to produce the happiest effects, in cement ing the Union—it, encouraging proper feelings of brotherhood, and staying the action of mis guided and fanatic men, who in pursuit of a mistaken philanthropy, would jeopard the peace and harmony of this blessed Union, and in volve it in all the horrors of civil discord and strife. 1 Willinm Fry, 12 Georg° Schaffer, 2 Isaac Breinig, 13 John Smith, 3 George Desh, 14 Joshua Stabler, 4 Charles Hisky, 15 Stephen Schmidt, 5 Jos. Hunsicker, 16 Benjamin Jarrett, 6 Christ. Elellener, 17 Jacob Keiper, 7 D. Nunnemacher, 18 David Burner, 8 Christian Kistler, 19 Joshua Schtneier, 9 Benj. S. Levan, 20 Jonathan Trexler, 21 Joel Wertz, 10 Philip Person, 11 Michael Reichert,,22 Peter Wint Charge oPJudge J. Pringle Jones, To the Grapd Inquest of Lehigh count 3%, expininitil.T, the Fugitive Slave Bill, the Small Note Law, etc. The regular session of our Court commen ced on Monday, the 2d instant. The Grand Inquest were called, and the Judge proceed ed to charge them as follows : By Section 49, of an. Act regulating Banks, passed at the Session of 1850, and to be fouhd on page 494 of the Pamphlet Laws of this year, it is made the duty of the Court of Quarter Sessions to call the attention of the Grand Jury to the provisions of that Act, prohibiting the circulation of Foreign Notes of a less denomination then five dollars, within this State. The sections of the act in which these provisions are contained, are the forty-eighth and forty-ninth. Though the di.scussion of the policy of this legisla tion by the press and among the people, has doubtless made every man in your body fa miliar with the principles, and indeed with the very letter of the law, still I will beg your indulgence for a few moments while I read to you those two Sections. In Sec. 48, it is enacted that from and af ter August 21, 1850, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons, corporation or bo dy corporate, d irectly or indirectly, to issue, pay out, ;foss, exchange, put in circulation, transfer, or cause to be issued, paid out, pas• sed, exchanged, circulated or transferred, any bank note, note, bill, certificate, or any acknowledgement of indebtedness whatso ever, purporting to be a banknote, or of the nature, character or appearance of a bank note, or calculated for circulation as a bank note, issued or purporting to be issued by any bank, or incorporated Company, or as sociation of persons, not located in Uennsyl vania, of a less denomination thanTive dol lars ; every violation of the firovillion of this -Section by'any corporation or body corpor ate, shall subject such corporation' or body corporate, to the payment of five hundred dollars ; and any violation of the provisions of this Section by any public officer, hold ing any dike or appointment of honor or of profit unde; the . Constitution and laths of this State, Moll subject such officer to the payment of one hundred dollars ;• any viola tion of this Section by any other person, not being a public officer, shall subject such person to the payment of twenty-five dollars, one half of which in each case above men tioned shall go to the informer, and the other half to'the county in which suit is brought, a'nd be sued for and recovered as debts of like amount are now by law. recovered in any action of debt, in the name of the Coin 7 monwealth of Pennsylvania, as well as for the use of the person suing. Section 49, provides that in addition to the civil penalties imposed for violation of the provisions of Section 48, every person who shall violate the provisions of that sec tion, shall be taken and deemed to have committed a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof in any criminal Court of this Commonwealth, be fined in any.sum not less than one dollar, and not more than 100 dollars ; and the several Courts of Quar ter Sessions shall in their charges to the, Grand Jury, call their attention to this sub ject, and it shall be the duty of the several grand juries to make, presentment of any persons ulithin their resPeitive l comities, who .may: be guilty of a violation of the provisious',cir Sietithi Oil,: and it sban be the duty : 6l'ole eeVeritenitable's, and other peace offlOrk within . this Commonwealth CO' make information against any' perion guilty of euo,ylolaiiori,.and the,, shall be adorn do. Provided that at itholl'n . ot be ne ceseary, in Ay, 64'344 or criminal; prose- . mit* tinder' diesel sectiOns [4B aticr , ift ] t iff elite in evidimii the charter of tidy batik,. or articles of association of any Company not in this State. You will-observe that the Legislature im poses upon you, under the sanction of your oaths, the duty of making presentment of any person. within this County who may..be . directly or indirectly, of issuing . , pay ing out, passing, exchanging putting in cir culation or transferring, or of causing it so to be done, any banknote, note, bill, certifi cate, or any acknowledgement of indebted ness whatsoever, purporting to be a bank note, or of the nature, character or appear ance of a banknote, or calculated fur circu lation as a banknote, issued .or purporting to to be issued by any bank or incorporated Company, or association of persons, not lo cated in Pennsylvania, of a less denomina tion than five dollars. The making of a presentment, strictly speaking, is the origination of a criminal .proceeding by the grand jury, upon their own, direct, personal knowledge or observa tion, without any bill of indictment being laid before them. You have no power to ..institute_ prosecution by way of present ment in any other way than upon your own knowledge—you cannot call witnesses be fore you, from beyond the limits of your bo dy, to aid your own information. Any facts constituting any offence, as well within this act, or any other, as at common law, being known to twelve of you, would warrant a presentment of such facts to the Court in writing, upon which it would, be our duty to direct a bill to belratned by the District Attorney.—That is what is meant by a pre sentment, and that is the course of proceed ing upon it.—Drawn however, as you are from the body of the county, living remote from each other, it is most improbable that you will be called upon to make a present ment of nn of of any kind. Should any bill of indictment be laid be fore you, charging the commission of any offence under this act regulating banks, you will proceed with it as with any other bill ; and, if the evidence sustains the charge, you will of course find the bill a true bill. WhateVer may be your private individual notion of the policy oOmpolicy of the law, you will not, as good and liege citizens, we are absolutely confident, permit these notions to interfere with the discharge of your duty. You cannot do so, without taking upon yourselves a responsibility, from which, as honest men and lovers of your country, you would 'recoil in horror, upon giving the sub ject a moment's reflection. If that grand jury is at liberty to set at naught this law, each traverse jury mny find it agreeable to some prejudice or passion to disregard some prejudice or passion to disregard some other law. Courts may take the infection.—Ex amples of this kind, once set, operate with fearful potency, striking in every direction.' —Disregard of a law,. publicly proclaimed by a body like a grand inquest, weakens the regard of men for all laws. Society is not like the fabled hero, whom death could only reach by striking him upon the heel—it is vulnerable over all its body, and wherever it may be wounded, death may enter'. 1 knovJ Gentlemen ! that in this part of the state, this law regulating banks,eipleast so far as regards these two sections, meets with little. popular favor. The business re-, lations of the larger towns with NeW fers4 and New York in %Oink the paper curren cy is, fur the most part of denominations smaller than. five dollars, and in which coo seenently by an irreversible law of currency, the precious treetals are banished from cir culation,to any extent greater than the de mand fur mere change—the business rela tions of these towns with those States I have no doubt, are seriously affected. The de rangement of these relations, hoWeVer, will be but temporary. The elastic, buoyant spirit of trade and commerce may sometimes receive a check in a country like .this, but it seems to gather only nett strength from an occasional restraint—,if one of its accus tomed channels is obstructed, the genius of the American merchant and trader will:forth with find or make a new one. He will not set the example of disobeying a law, merely because it conflicts with his private interest, when he reflects that obedience to the law is the single absolute condition of govern ment in this country. While addressing yori upon this subject, recoired to do by the law, it has occur red to me that it might not be inappropriate to the place or to the occasion, to say a few words to yoir relative to another subject, which is largely engrossing,the popular at tention and feeling all over the country, and, in regard to which the most .infamous and flagitious appeals are made to the people, urging them ifi),the name of God, of Religion and of litimanity to disregard a solemn su preme law of the land. The Small Note Law is supposed to Conflict with your inte rests-4Eu Fagitive Slave Law, we are told by those hostile to it, conflicts vYith the rig,htd: and duties of conscience. Thue the lowest an 4 bileeSt,' di Well as the highest and holi-. eat inclinations of the human heart may be used to lend men astray front the plain. straigh-forward, Hea'ven.appointed" pall' of legal du(y. The fugitive slave gentlemen, is ono, 'of that ,eerjes Of sii . Ottauree, .by the wildetil Of COfigiese; at ita rite:session, tb NUMBER 10i restore that harmony and good feeling which ought to subsist between the several states of the Union, but which unhappily had been disturbed. \V tether that disturbance was upon grounds of real or fancied wrongs , is immaterial. Ct is enough to knob that h threatened the peace if not the very contin uance, of the Union, and that . this law was passed as one of the great remedial measu res, required by the exigency of the times, no less than by the very terms of the con stitution itself. You know that the Constitution alloWs . the owner of a, fugitive slave to recapture him in any State of the Union. Without, that constitutional guaranty the owner Would have no such right ; without it, the states would stand upon their sovereignty and nei ther comity nor the law of nations would re quire them, and Congress could not require them to allow such captures. The states; are sovereign in every particular, save those . in which they have parted with their sever- . eighty to the general government, • The Union has no inherent sovereign power; its only sovereignty is . that conferred . upon by the states and limited and defined in the Constitution. If the federal or general government had_ never been created, and . the states had re mained as sovereign as they were whpn theY renounced colonial dependence upon' i preat 'Mittel!), there would have been ricr.right ; existing among the citizens of the several, states to follow their fugitive slaves beyond the borders of the state whence they fled. The moment the bondman cre2sed, the bor der he would have been free. his recap ture would not have been allowed by any-, municipal law,—and could not have , been, claimed upon any recognized prinaprif or internation-al law. Ile would have stood,. for the purpose of illustration, on the foot ing ofa fugitive from justice who,can only be reclaimed on the basiaftrenty stipulations, or may be surrendered inthe mere exercise of sovereign discretion. In countries gO.if,, erned by the common law that sovereign , discretion can only be evinced by way or legislation. Thug the matter' stands in thii" eye of the laW of nations. . . Tha federal Constitution is to n certain - ' extent n modification of the law of natitins; in its application to the states. These. two , very matters of the extradition of titliiVes from justice, and from labor, are as-you per ceive, modifications of that law. If &Edit' had been said in the Constitutio about' . them, no demhnd for either Itind.ol; gitiver could haVe been maintained upon any known, and recognized principle of law. ne right to make it a right created of the Constitu tion., It was one of the compromises upon which that instrument was founded, and' without which it might moll' hove been that the jarring and clashing interests of so ni..l:;- ny states, differing from.etteh other so,great ly in climate, soil, position'Crid productions, tut] in the various physical and moral no- cesities. resulting from these, could never have been reconciled. Those compromises are the Very Consideration, if I may so ex press myself, of the Constitution : they are the price, so to say, which one grate inter est paid to another for its assent to the.Con atittnion as a whole. , ~ . . Aotyard le, to be told at this time of day after experiencing the blessings conferred upon ts• by thiS sacred bond of our national unity, after enjiving an internal petrce among ourselves, and an external respect' from the nations of the earth. such as is en joyed by no other nation, and for which, un der Heaven, we are indebted solely to that matchless instrument are we to, ho told' that thoSe com'promises of the Constitution are, of no atithority--tbal laws p'assed in the regular Way, to enforce them'. OTC nnconati tutional and void—that there jb,a higher law behind these solemn national acts, greater and more binding than they, and which ab solves • men from their obedience to the Con stitution and the laws ? Gentlemen If this; pernicious and accursed senthOnt should tette pils.*siol of the popUlar min 4 we would have reached the last hours of the Republic. There are traitorous miscreants' among the people in certain sections, %vim' in the face of God and man, take upon themselves to teach these abominable doc trines—and there are hottest thousands, nay,, perhaps tens of thousands, of misguided mL.n,Who'have given to them air almost' fan:- aticat reception. Scarcely a month has pas-. sed since upon the soil ,of Pennsylvania, and in the presence of hundreds of her citi- . zens, it has been . proclaimed without re buke, that the Constitution was, on instru rnetiCof bell,rtnd the Union tit compact with the devil—it has heedresolycd to repudiate. and resist, by what these wrote:hed mon call' all eghteons means, the FugitiVe Slave law, While this' spirit is, develOPing itself the North',there are not' wanting at thei.op posite extremity of tho Unjon, leaders who' are Precisely as wicked, followers who ard: as desperately fanatical, as those; I have, mentioned.—The perverted conscience of, the NorThern traitorthe frantic ambition of the Southern traitor, are directed witlOille rent objects to the same end. Boni are rea dy ta raise parriCidid lids against. their cotintry. Between these extremes of sentiment s hoo,7e:r 4 ' tirt# thank Gad that. the Mininv, olferwhelining a:4 - z 9 f .ot puonc