Register Is published. in the Borough of Allentown, Lehigh County, Pa., every Wednesday, by Haines & Diefenderfer, At $1 50 per annum, payable in advance, and $2 00 if not paid until the end of the year.— No paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid. [1:71:1FFION in Hamilton street, two doors wes of the German Reformed Church, directly oppo site Moser's Drug Store. n'Letters on business must be POST PAID otherwise they will not be attended to. - JOB. PRINTING. Having recently added a large assortment o fashionable and most modern styles of type, w are prepared to execute, at short notice, al kinds of Book, Job - and Fancy Printing. ortiraf. FOURTH OF JULY, 1855. Wo proudly hail the present morn, As sacred Freedom's day of birth ; And while the light yon skies adorn, Or man exists to till the earth, May we continue thus, to feel The flame of patriotic zeal. We'll cast aside each party end, And join as brothers round the shrine, Where peace, content and concord bend, To pay the homage, next divine ; Let union link each faithful heart To duty in this noble Part. Our spangled banner floats unfurled, In graceful waves of glorious pride, And beckons to the olden world, A spot where exiles may reside ; From all tyrannic bondage free, • Beneath its fold of Liberty ! Ro, let the bellowing cannon roar, And gladsome shouts each bosom cheer Repeat our feelings o'er and o'er, The altar of enjoyment rear : Let " peace on earth, good will to men," Be sung from every hill and glen. Beat loud the drum, blow shrill the fife, Exhibit all the pomp of arms ; Show ftirth a freeman's happy life, In all our Dative love and charms ; Devote this consecrated day, To memory and America. Thanks to those men n•ho Night and bled, On Bunker's height, and Mohmouth plain Who vowed to fall among the dead, But they this Freedom would obtain; Thanks to thee, God of earth and sky, 'Who gave them souls to do, or die. YANKEE DOODLE In the summer of 1775, the British army, under command of Abercrombie; lay encamped on the east side of the Hudson river, awaiting reinforcements of militia front the Eastern States previous to the marching Upon Ticonde roga. During the month of June these raw le vies poured into camp, company after company each man differently armed, equipped and ac coutred, from his neighbor, and the whole presenting such a spectacle as was never equal led, unless by; the celebrated regiment of the merry Jack Falstaff. Their mare appearance furnished great amusement for the British offi cers. ,One Dr. Shackburg, an English Surgeon composed the tune of Yankee Doodle and ar ranged it to words, which were gravely dedi :a ted to the new recruits. The joke took, and the tune haS conic down to this day. The mi.' ginal words, which we take from Farmer and Moore's Historical Collections, published in 18:11, we have not, however, met with before in many years : Father and I went down to camp, Along with Captain Good'in, Where we see the men and boys As thick as Ilasty-pudding. There was Captain Washington Upon a splendid stallion, A giving orders to his men— . I guess there was million. And then the feathers on his hat, They looked so tarnal I wanted perkily to get To give to my Jeminia. And there they had a strampift gun As large as a log o'inaple, And on a duced little cart—. A load for father's cattle. And every time they fired it oil, It took a horn of powder, It made a noise like father's gun, Only a nation louder. I went as near.to it myself As Jacob's underpinin, And father went as near again— I thought the deuce was in him And there I see a little keg, Its head was niade of leather— They knock% upon't with little sticks, To call the folks together. And there they'd fife away like fun, And played on cornstalk fiddles, And some had ribbons red as blood, All bound about their middles. The troopers, too, would gallop up And firo right in our faces ; It scared me almost half to death To see them run such races. Old Uncle Sam came there to change Some pancakes and some onions, The 'lasses cakes to carry home, . To give his wife and young ones. But I can't tell you half I see, They kept up such a smother ; So I took my hat off--made a bow, And scampered home to mother. "OIJ.R BOIS." Our Yankee Boys ! the world is wide, And search it as you will, Our Yankee Boys the noblest are, And best and bravest still ; The truest and the gallentest, For knowledge, fun or fray, And wide awake to beat the world, What o'er the world may say. • Our Yankee Boys, &c. Our Yankee Boys aro free and fair, And kind of heart as true, And stout of hand for peace or war As ever nation knew ; To scorn the wrong, defend the right, In truth and honor's name Our Yankee Boys contented are, And ask no prouder fame. • Our Yankee Boys, &c 112211 12G1 Ditioo fa 3:oral 10 6mirral blau, 51grirtiffarr, &minion, 311aralifq, ,cqin VOLUME IX. Declaration of Independence! Fourth of July, 1776 ! WINY, in the course of human events, it be comes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God enti- tie them, a decent respect to the 'opinions of mankind. requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these troths to be self-evident—that all men are created equal, that they are endow ed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among mit, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed ; that when any form of govern ment becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such forth, as to them shall seem most likely to elrect their safety and happiness Prudence, indeed, will dictate, that govern ments long established, should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accord ingly, all experience bath shown, that mankind are most disposed so suffer, while evils are suf ferable, than, to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are 'Accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same' object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despo tism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies ; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former system of government. The history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations all having in direct object the establishment o an absolute tyranny over these Staies. prove this, let facts be submitted to a eandh world : Ire has refused his assent to laws, the most vholesome and necessary fur the public good. Ile has forbidden his governors to pass laws if immediate and pressing importance, un- less suspended in then- operations till his assent should be obtained, and when so suspended lie has utterly neglected to attend to them. Ile has refused to pass other laws, flw the accomnuidation of large districts of people, un less those people would relinguish the right of representation in the legislature, a right ines timable to them, and formidable to tyrants • • He has called together legislative bodies a places unusual, uncomfortable, and distan from the depository' of their public Vecords, fo the sole purpose of fatiguing them into emu pliauce with his measures. He has dissolved representative houses re peatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused, for a long time, after such dissolution, to cause others to be elected ; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the danger of invasion front and coni•ulsions from within. - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States ; for that purpose obstructing the laws for the naturalikation of, foreigners ; refusing to pass others to encourage their mi gration hither, and raising the condition of new appropriations of lands. He has obstructed the administration of jus tice, by refusing his assent to laws for establish ing Judiciary Powers. He has made judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hitheV swarms of new officers, to liar rass our people, and cat out their substance. He has kept among us, .in. time of peace, standing armies without. the consent of our legislatures. lie has affected to render the military inde pendent of, and superior to, Of civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction, foreign to our constitution, and acknowledged by our'laws giving his. assent to their acts of pleteuded legislation. /,,12a..11-3 41242[11A11i For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us ; • For protetting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these States ; For cutting oft' our trade with all parts of the world ; For imposing taxes on us without our 'con EMI3I For depriving us, in many cases, of the ben efits of trail by jury ; For transporting us beyond seas, to be tried for pretended offences; For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitary government, and enlarging its boundaries, so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the form of our government ; For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated government here, by declar ing us out of his protection, and wage war against us. He has laundered our seas, rava!red our coasts, burnt our towns and (lest' eyed the lives of our people. lie is, at this time Iransporling large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the work of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun. with eircmnstmwes of cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy„ the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow-citizens taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms againAl their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has pnileavored to bring on the inhabi tants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian sav agis, whose Imowo rule of warfare is alt nod tinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, al conditions In every stage of these oppressions, we hay' petitioned for redress in the most humble terms ; our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince whose character is thus marked by every act Which may define a tyrants, is unlit to be the ruler of a rata: PEOVI.K. Nor have we been wanting in attention to our llritish Itrethren. We have warned them from time to time, of attempts made by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable .juris diet ion over us. We have reminded them of the circumstance of our emigration and settle ment here. We have•appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevi tably interrupt our connexion and correspond ence. They, too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, there fore, acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we we hold the rest of mankind—cncl n in war—in pewee, friends. WE, therefore, the represent ives of the 'United .s!tates of America, in general Congress assem bled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, Do, in the name, and by the aulluirity of the good People of these,Colonies, solemnly publish and declare,'that these United COlonies are and of right ought to be, free and Independent States:— That they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the State of 'Great Britain, is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude p6ace, con tract alliance, establish commerce; and to do all other acts and things, which Independent States may of right do. And for the suppOrt of this Declaration, with.a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our, secred honor. Signed] by the order and in behalf of Con gross. • JOHN HANCOCK, President CHARLES THOMPSON, Secretary. Thomas Jefferson Isis agency•in bringing about the revolution, and in guiding it, and in shaping our free insti• tutions, which have so blessed our country and benelitted the world, may be learned from this brief synopsis of his views and acts. Let them speak for themselves, and let him be judged by his works. c was 32 years old and a member of the Legislature, when in 1774 the news of the Bos ton Port-bill reached Virginia. In the even ing, be and a few kindred spirits, met in the Council chamber to consult on the proper course to be taken. Then' and there it was agreed to recommend a day of fasting and pray er thoughout the colony. The Legislature proved of the proposal, and he prty—ced • the ALLENTOWN, FELLER. CITIZENs.—This arc a day fur the poperlation o' Boonville, like a bob-tailed pul let on a rickety hen roost, to bo a lookin' up, up! A crisis has arriven—an'-- somethin's bust Whar are we ? all in a bunch. What am /? here, is, an' I'd stand here an' expiate from now till the day o' synagogues if you'd whoop for Daley. Feller Citizens—Jerusalem's to pay, au' we haint got no pitch. Our hyper bolical an' majestic' canal boat o' creation has onshipped hor rudder, an' the Captain's b ro k e his neck, an' the cook's div to the depths o' th e v.sty deep;" in search o' dimut Our wigwam's torn to pieces, like a s brush fence, an: the Istory of the A., JULY 4, 1865. proclamation. The day was the first of Juno —then the Port-bill took effect. Soon'after hi wrote the manifesto inviting the colonies t appoint deputies to meet in Congress. Tilt first Congress met in Philadelphia, Septembe 5, 1774. During 1775, he was a member o Congress, acting on the maxim, •" the God wh • gave us life, gave us liberty too." June 28, '76, the youngest member of Congress, he as chairman reported the Declaration of Indepen dence, which had been written by him at the unanimous request of the 'committee. The Declaration 'was adopted July the 4th ;—the debate was warm, and while going on, Dr. Franklin told Mr. Jefferson the famous story of "John Thompson the hatter." July 4th, '7l he was appointed on a committee to devise suitable " coat of arms" for the 'United States. The Declaration of Independence having gone forth, and Washington being at the head o the army, and fighting the battle manfully, Mr. Jelferson concluded to retire from Congress.— Still he was re-elected, but on the 2d of Sep tember he resigned. On the last day of Sep tember, Congress appointed' him ono of the commissioners to negotiate a treaty with France. But he declined the appointment. He though that the great moral revolution just begun, would be more aided by Li in in the Legislaturk of Virginia, than in ail other station. Ile wa.7- elected and took his seat in October. Ile wish ed to have his slate walk in the right path in passing from her monarchial to her republic condition; and he thought ; il all important to the great cause of liberty, to have a state govi eninent which should be a pattern for all the states which would compose this great con federaey. ''", l ,l•W bile a member of the Legislature front '76 to '7O, lie turned his great mind to the ae.,,tirlish ment of the following objects:- j o '''' Judiciary system ;to repeal t .r of Entails, which destroyed mistoeracy ; to abrogate the r i g ht o f promigennure ; anti thus prepare the way for an equal division of inheritance among all the children and other represintatives in equal degrek•s; the assertion of the right of ex- patriation ; the establishment of religious free dom upon the broadest foundation : the eman cipation of slaves born after a certain period; the abolition of capital punishment in all eases except for murder and treason ; the establish ment of a systematic plan of general 'education reaebing all classes of citizens, and adapted to every grade of capacity. Most of these objects were accomplished, and other kindred ones of great importance.- June, 1779, he wits elected Governor of Virginia. his first act was to ame liorate the sufferings of American prisoners,• who had been taken by the British. On the light of sulfraut: his maxim was, to allow those to vote who pay or fight for the support of gov ernment. .• In 1781 he vas appointed minister plenipo tentiary (w ith , thers) to negotiate a peace: but lu declined. fur 'B3 lie was again circled to Congress. In December, Washington deliver ed up his conuhission to Congress, and Mr. Jefferson prepart4 the noble reply to General \Washington. -•• In 'Bl ho replied to Congress the money system--consisti4 of the dollar unit. This year he was appointed minister plenipotentiary to negotiate treatios of commerce with foreign I nations. In 1785 was appointed embasSador to France, anti fremained there four years. In 1789 he was appointed Secretary of State by President Washington. Soon after he made . his !humus report on coins—weights and mea sures. While be was Secretary of State, Gen. Hamilton was Secretary of the Treasury, ..nd then it was that the questions sprung up, out of which grew the two parties—the Republican and Federal—which have substantially contin ued to the present. The former party by the lame name, the latter by various names—but always the same ends and aims in view. . In 'Ol he was chosen President A' the Amer ican Philosophical Society: In '97 he was clectc3Yhb Presith t of tho United States. • In 1801 ho was chosen President of # 0 Uni ted States by Congress, on the thirty-: ixth bal lot, and on the fifth day of voting. • • Dick Daley's Stump Speech DV NED 1411: .EE nigger camp-m crows, an' llustify hen-hawks. I'll have barn raisin' every day (Sundays excepted) an licker enough to swim a skunk. Yes, tenet citizens, ekct me to Congress, an' you shall b. led to exclaiin in the sublime—the terrific lan guage of Bonyparte, when a preachin' in the wild-rness— " Richard's himself again !" On, then, onward to the polls—" gallop apace, my fiery-footed steeds," an', make the welkin tremble with anti-spasmodic yells ! Daley ! Cock ycr comin'— " Ilene° ye, Brutus; broad-axe au' glory !" Let's lieker ! The Wife's Commandments. The Cincilinali Norpareil gives the following correct version for the use of all doubting hus bands: 1. Thou shalt have no other wife but me. 2. Thou shaft not take into the houe any beautiful brazen image of a servant girl, to bow down to her, and to servo her ; for 1 am 'a jealous wife, visiting, &e. 3. Thou sinilt not take the name of thy wife . in vain. 4. Remember thy wm: to keep her respec table. 5. Honor thy wife's father and mother. 6. Thou shalt not fret. 7. Thou shalt 1,4 t find fault with thy dinner. 8. Thou shall not chew tobacco, nor smoke 1231111 B. Thou Galt not be behind thy neighbor. ' 10. Thou shalt not, visit the tavern ;-thou shalt not covet the tavern keeper's ruin, nor his brandy, nor his gin, nor his. whiskey, nor his wino, nor anything thOt is behind the bar. 11. Thou shalt not visit the billiard halls ...Alter—nor Worshiping in the dance,nor heaps of money that lie on the table. And the 12th commandment is, that thou shalt not stay out later than 9 o'clock at night. GIRLS Holmes in ono of his poems, says in a paren thetical way, My . Grandpapa ,Jovcd the girls when he was,yeung.." lkto doubt of it, for Holmes was a sensible loan, and must have had a sensible grandfather. All sensible men love girls when they are youn
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