anew
COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT.
i Onr OanaUfnUon cUArd It ever !
Our eloHoila Ttaltm hold II dear I
Our Starry Flag forsake It never!
The proud Can-cattUm 'Otir only pearl
EDITKD BY LKVI L. TATB, rnomlETOH.
BLOOMSBURG ;
Saturday Morning, July 1, 1065.
TERMS OF THIS PAPER:
( AFTfitt JANUARY Iit, 1B65. )
$3 00 per Year, or
2 50 if paid strictly in advance.
DtMocRAd, a sentiment not to do appalled, corrupt
d or compromised ttknowanobaaeaata.it cower,
to no danjer, It oppreaaca no weakliest. Destructive
only of dospotlun It la the aolo conservator of liberty.
labor and property. It la tho sentiment of freedom, of
equal rights, ofeiual obligation! the law of nature
pervading tho law of tho land-Aulh.-.
President Johnson vs John Brown
Wo ask our readers to peruse, as thoy
doubtless will with lively interest, the
Spcoch ofScnator Johnson now Prcsl
dent of tho United States delivered in
1850, in tho United States Fonato, as
printed in this 1 'Columbia Democrat." lie
ohows conclusively that kOldJohn Brown'
was a horse-thief, "a robber and a murder
er, and ho boldly charged home upon
Senator Doolittio, that he(Orown) was
the acknowledged head and leader of the
Abolition or Republican party. It is a
beautiful spectaole to contemplate, and a
fact which chalengcs contradiction, that
the John Brown Raid of 1859, in Virgin
ia, upon tho lives and libcrtios of the peo
ple, has been urhrld and carried on ever
since byjho abolition party, under the
Linooln dynasty and is now about to bo
squelched out by tho statesmanship, of
President Johnson.-
Celebration of the Eighty-Ninth
Anniversary.
The Eighty-Ninth Anniversary of our
National Independence will bo celebrated
on tho Fourth of July, in Jackson town
ship, near the residenoo of Iram Dorr,
Esq. Col. Est, Capt. Uhockway, E. R.
Ikbler, Esq. and Rev. J. J. Harvey,
will each address tho people, and from the
military, literary and raoia! oharnoter ol
tho respective speakers, the publio may
expect a rich entertainment, mingled 'with
the "wit of reason and the flow of eoul."
Let everybodj and everybody1!! wifo and
her relation!1, turn out, to greet tho brave
returned soldiers who have nobly defend
ed our Country's flag, and we will have a
grand old-fshionod Damooratt'o National
Colcbration.
Fouth of Juiy. This day of nation
al Jubilee is near at hand. On its an
nual return our people used to welcome
it-with booming cannon; ringing bells,and
all the paraphernalia of nation') joy. It
wns the people's gala day, when the citi
zens met to oelebratc a nation's glory ;
and in those festivals thoy were taught
lo admlro and love their' insti'utions.
Such loBBons should co revived, and tho
people again be taught tho value of the
priceless boon of constitutional liberty,
What occasion so appropriate to com
mence this work of love of oountry and
national prido as the coming fourth ?
Perhaps there has been no period of our
history when the people havo had greator
reason to rejoioe and be glad than the pres
ent. We have just emerged from tho most
gigantio war tho world over saw, and it is
to be hoped that we are about to oommcnoe
a new era of prosperity unprcoedentcd. It
will also bo a fitting season to pay tuita
bio honor to tho returning braves. Wo
trust that our citizens will move in the
matter, and see that wo have a general
and appropriate celebration of tho national
anniversary.
Widow's Appraisements.
In every Judicial District in the State,
the act applying to Widow's Appointments,
is regulated by Rulo of Court. In a re
vision latoly mado for this District, the
rule adopted reqiurostho Administrator to1
pay, at tho timo of taking out tho Letters,1
SI 50 to the Register, and to return to troublo in the future. Wc reoognize it in
tho Rogiater.the said Widdows appraise- rofcrenco to immigrants, and to Indians
ment within thirty days ; Tho Rogister to who aro native to tho soil. We rccognizo
advertise the same in two newspapers for it in relation lo women and minors, per
thirty days, and if exceptions bo not filed ( sons of weak intellect ann habitual drunk
within tho first three days of tho Court fol-' ards. It is nol surprising that those who
lowing tho advertisement, tho eame shall' refuso to rccognizo it should be doubting
be confirmed absolutely. In other coun-j whether wa aro a free peoplo" It is true
ties the fees aro 82 50. ; that in the broadest senso we aro not and
i never can bo a frco peoplo. The accom
The Fort M-ffltii victims, like the i Jew1 pHihnient 0f tho insane notions of thoso
in the "Merchant of Venice," could say . f . . . , .., ' " 1 " "
with truth, having their mind and eye on
lbs otar anu tjemocrat :
"The villainy they taught us
We tried to execute," '
Smut Machine.
Wo beg your pardon, Mr. ''.Thos Dunn."
It ii a largo falsehood. We again ehal-
cngo you, Mr. "Dunn'"
ti and all your
tho testimony of'
loyal Jaokies to procure
uuj aiugtu one oi tue "rort iuimtn vit-
timi," that the Columbia Dtmotrut, ever
"taught"' them villiany," or oaused their
imprisonment.
Death oj Judge Wilkins. Hon. Wit
liam Wilkins, died last week in Pitts
burg. Aged 80 years. Ho was a Chris
tan gentleman and National Demoorat,
- Death of Mrs. Seward. Mr', SocreU-
ry BBTfABUj tneu jai wecK, at YYaihing-
ton, and wai buried at Auburn, N, V. '
- 13 . I . I I . n I .
A Free People. j
It oannot esoape (he nottoe or the obser
vant mdt-r of newspapers anil iptcohon
that tbeis Is a great diffcrcnoc of opinion
!... n tV.t lnfiatlm-i uitinttin tli war
I-.. ..I n, , itnHnl.n . !' ,."
. - ......
For'oxampln, ono leading journal, belong-
Ing to the extreme radical party, says,
distinctly and emphatically, "our country
eradcolarn that until enual political rlfehts .
are guaranteed' to blacks as will aswbitos,
there is no proprioty in calling this a free
pcoplo ; and yet others, buoIi as tho editor
of tho Indeperulent, in a loiter sent by him
to a Boston meeting, insist that the princi
ples of liberty demand the extension oi tho
right of Buffrogo to a woman, and that
nothing short of that is consistent with
the idea of a frco ootintry.
It is manifestly a good timo to study the
question what is liberty, or what consti
tutes a frco peoplo. 1 horo was novor a
time when the question was moro impor
tant to our own nation. For tho lino bc
twoen oppression and freedom, and tho
other lino botween liberty and licentious
ness, have bcon dilligently sought by ma
ny nations, and have seldom been found,
or, if found, thoso lines havo been soonor
or later lost to tight ; now, by people who
lay Bupino whilo dosigning men destroyed
'hoir libcrtios, removing, ono by one, the
monumonts which marked tho division be
tween despotism and freedom ; now, by
people who foolishly neglected to rcoognue
the czistenco of ono line betweon the
guardod and cherished rights of freedom
and tho wild rage of absolute license. We
need more than ever to find thote lines
and establish tho monuments to prcservo
tbeni.
Thoy aro not neoeeearily permanent
lines. Circumstances may change tliom.
Perhaps it would bo more correct to say
that the lines aro permanent, but that the
advance of education, civilization, and
other ohaDgcs may transfer inditi duals
from ono tido to tho other of the Cita'b'.iah
cd lines. As long as human nature is just
what it is, there must bo a difference in
the amount of freedom accorded by law
to different men. Tho man of weak in
tellect is tho Fubjcct of guardianship.' Tho
man who, by misfortune and vico, is un
fitted to take propor care of his own prop
erty, must bo deprived of its oontrol. The
child-must bo tho scrrant, ward, and, in
many rospects, the property of his parents
until ho roaches years of discretion. Wbero
there are largo classes of' persons subject
to disabilities like those, the law must pro
vide for the entire class, Thero may be
many young persons who aro fully able to
govern their own affairs with discretion
beforo they reach the ago of twenty-one
... ... . - -- '
anu inero may do otners who tail to ao-
quire the necessary experionco until long
after that ago' It is not possible to judgo
in oaob oase and give to caoh ono the
stamp of freedom as bo seems fitted for it.
So the law has determined an ago at
whiob' all-shall havo the samo privilege.
It may be that some remain in servitudo
longer than is neoessrry ; it may be too
that others acquire freedom sooner than
they aro fit for it ; but the gcnotal result
is probably good. Such itr tho theory of
tho law. It would be a good plan for any
person really desirous of understanding
the subjeot of liberty, as regulated by law,
to study the cafe of a young man in his
twenty-first year, asking, first, what is the
reason why ho cannot vote, buy and sell
property, make contracts, earn money for
himself free from his father's control, go
and oome just as ho pleases, and when ho
is twenty years and six months old; and,
second, why six months later this should
be changed and his policy and individual
rights be suddenly his own. The study
will enow ono of the mouun ents which
mark the lino betweon liberty and servi
tude, and from this point the line may be
traced through many other olassej of so
ciety and life.
It is impossible to establish perfeot
liberty on earth.. Much moro it isimpos
siblo to raise all olassos of peoplo at onoe
to the 8atrTo degreo of liberty in any ooun-
try.
This truth, imnresscd on tho inimls
0f the American ncoole.mav avo us pront
" " " - - wiut.1 DUUlilU LU Ul
classes, and of those who would extend it
to all eczcs, wonld soon lead us to the ex-
tinotion of even the moasuro of liberty 1
that we now possess. For it is a remark-1
able truth that, though liberty eceins to
lie between despotism on ono sido and II i
oenttousness on tho other, yet in experi-
onco, it is proved that a despotism lies all)
around it,and whenever a freo peoplo cross
eithor line thoy fall into the hands of op
pression. Pardons by the President..
Ci.noinnatti, Juno 20, The Presi
dent has pardoned Charles WitUb, one of
wU.w5V uui.wjma.-..- u-ttiu iuu pen- ot this peculiar hallucination of mind un
itenliary at Columbus. The sentence of (der whioh they havo labored for four years
Thos. B. Payne, ordored by tho military ( for, I think tbey will hardly admit that
commission ro be shot, has bcon oommu- Booth kilM the Government and that ii.
ted to uvo years
Ohio penitentiary
imprisonment in Ibo
COIWiTlUIVIOATIONS.
Ftr fit. "OotHtttle'Dtnterat,"
Desultory Letter. No. 6.
Coii. Tatk :I ooutlnuo ml Historic
m.MiLPftlinnl ! Hfltmh irurill Tf1vfllflt nrt
J ni.pvu ..7111 i "J'
.7 J ' ,
Nation have had difficulties with foreign
vrcw. . m.,rallo ny .
and boldly announced to the world ttat
wo would not submit to any thing that was
wrong. This, as tho Is. V. Twks has
said, was our parly position in all our
national controversies with England.
..! t . !.t. 1
Franco, and Mexico; and I may add with
Spain and Naples and every othor power
that ever invaded our rights, or insulted
our Flag. But our party opponents, the
'ZoyittW or ''7orics,u of Revolution
ary memory tho "I'caco and submission
men," tho "Uluo lights" or "Federal
Hartford Convcntionists," of tbe'Madisou
war; the Anti Mexican war Whigs ol
1840-7, invariably took sides against our
I cauflo and country and in favor of our bit
Iter enemies.
I well remember that on tho 11th oi
May, 1840,Prcflidtnt Polk informed Con-
grcss by special message, that war existed
by the act of Mexico, and urged Congress
to authorize tho Exccutivo. to call into the
service of tho U. S. a foroo of Volunteer
troons. Abraham Liuooin was then
eV
member of tho House, and offered a Res
olution, asking the President in a sneering
way, on what particular ''.;oJ" tho war
began; and using ibo word "sW" srveial
times in his inquiry, ho wis in derision,
called "spotty Lincoln" beforo ho had
finished reading his resolution or resolu
tions, And in some parts of the country
this deiignation of "spotty Lincoln" ad
horod to him us long as ho livod. I3y o
refferonce to official documents I can prove
that we had amplo causo of war against
Alexioo before the bloody transactions up
on tho Rio del Notto, to whiiib Polk had
alluded in bis mos:gc. 1 recollect thai
during Gen. Jackson's second term, he
sent a special mctsagi to Congress in
which bo said, "The wonton character
of some of the outrages upon the persons
and property of our citizens, upon the offi
cers and Flag of the I). States, independ
ent of recent insults to this Government
and people by tho late extraordinary Mes
ioau minister, would justify, in the eye of
nations immediate ivar." 1 remember
loo that a committco of tbp U. S. Scnato
onco Baid, in a report on Foreign affairs ;
If the Government of the U. S- mean to
exact strict and prompt redress from Mex
ico, your committee might with justice re
commend an immediate t csoi t to tvir or
reprisal'" And in a report from a eimilar
committco on the part of the House near
tho samo lime, they said, "Tho merchant
vessels of tlm U. S. have been fired into, head for President the name of a Ropub
her citizens attacked and even put to death, lionn, Mr. Chase, of Ohio,anl Mr. Banks,
and her ships of war treated with disre- of Massachusetts, for Vice-Preident :
spect when paying a friendly visit to a port
of Mexico where tbey had a right to ex-
ped hospitality. Additional evidenco
might be given 'to show that the war with
Mcxioo was forcod and beganby their act
snd that tbercforo every Patriot in the Na
tion should havo sustained tho ProsideDt
in maintaining our honor and ncbls
against a foreign power. But instead of
this unanimity among our eitizens, after
war had began by tho act of Mexico, Mr.
Delana,a member of thu House from Ohio
denounced the oauso in which our country
was engaged, a- "unholy, unrighteous and
damyiabte." John Q. Adams, a member
from Masaacbusetts, "endorsed lhat de-
... , . . , ,
nUDCiatlOn ailU Said he approved every
m.,l r.,l oILt.l -p :. ii
Word and SyllablO Ol It.
Ml As hrr.nnd also from MafBanliiiinlfq
ill auu,uim niOO irom iUasaaotlUSOllS,
offered a resolution condemning tho Ad-1
c
ministration and polioy in proacouting tho
war against Mexieo, and Mr. Lincoln
supported that resolution. Thos. Cowin,
was then in tbo Senate, (subsequently
Lincoln's minister to Mcxio) and in bis
zoalous opposition to the war said, "he
hoped and wished the Mexican troop?
would welcomo American soldiers with
bloody bands to hospital gravee,''
Aeoording to tho abolition logio during
Mr. Lincoln's reign, every man who said
a word against the administration, "was
opposed to tho Government, therefore a
traitor and might to be shot." Will tLey
apply this doctrine to DelanOjAdams.Ash
mund, Corwin, Lincoln aud many iitberp
of their leaders I could name! Or will
they allow us to apply this view to the
radicals in thoir party who oppose Pres
ident Johnson's policy for tho peace aud
.nl. 1? XT SI 1 R . . -I- .
i.-3ioraiiou oi Vi. U., antl iMlSS a. It so
they should at onco arrest Senators Wil
son and Sumner of Msaehusetts, W
D i . ; i : i a ii n. ,
a limps auu o. v. tjuase, lor tuo con-
Dpireoy they have formed and the opposi-
lion tliey aro W0B'DK -gainst the ndtuinis
tratio" of worthy successor of Mr.
D0ln I eall on tho abolitionists to be
consistent, for onee and carry out their
Programtue,inar.o an example of thoso inon
ffb0 tllliir own lowing, aro "opposed
to tho Government," henco traitors in
high places and ought to ho shot. Will
they heed my cull I I fear nut, for they
are only consistent in their inconsistencies.
And it may bo that tho practical exem
plification WO' have had in the death of our
deceased President has cured the fanatics
friends buried it in Illinois 1
it... 1
WOrO anon. I
.IKRKF.KRnV
History of Old John Brown.
BY mEBIUENt JOHNSON.
ft. n..tn!U ,M,nll ntl,l ft mniOrltV
of Republican papers, riow boatttngly re
i uu i-uiui.c u. ..w-.. ii - 4 - -
,Li .(,,. AWtl, , vindicated the
bui.oo vj ..i-v.., u,.'. -i
vrry." Nor is ibis any foolish or un-
considered boast i it is strictly true. 1'ho
policy of the Republican' party, 6inoo it
i. tho place it u ill occupy in history.-
1'ho bloody business is done, and we do
" - . t
not write for tho purpose ofamrndiog the
great crime. We do not acck to raiso tuo
dead. We aocopt tho fuels as wo him
them; but it is or businofi to tell tho
truth obout theso faots, It is our business
to strip off .all these bandages of thams,
hypocrioics, and lies, aud lay bars to the
bone this monstrous caroasJ ol frauds and
despo.ism. Tho record of this party is
in revolution and blood; in tho revolution
and blood inaugurated by John Drown.
It has finished tho raid which that princo
of assassins and thieves, John Rrowu, be
gan. As a part of tho history of'theso
times, whiolt we wish to leavo in the col
umns of Tub Old Guard, wo copy be
low part of a speech delivered by Presi
dent Johnson, in tho Senato of tho United
State, December 12th, 1859. Il is a fair
and truthful history of the most important
period in tho histoiy of Brown, who was
one of the chief founders of the Republi
can parly, the iuaugurator of its policy.
Mr. Johnson was speaking in reply to
Senator Doolittio, who had offered, in th
Scna'r, an apology for Brown,'by declar
ing (hat his ton had been mudcrcd in
Kansas, and that lie acted in revenge foi
tho wroDgs ho had suffered. In a ns wet
to this excuse, Senator Johnson, the pres
ent President of tho United States, made
the following speech :
"Il seems that wc havo some new bun
Christians, who ore malting John Brown
their leader, who are trjing" to canoniz
him and make him a great apostle and
martyr. Were theso the elements of a
Christian and a Christian martyr I Hon
do the facts stand in this case ? Wlici
was old man Brown's son killed, and when
did he commit these utrocitieB ? Evci
admitting tho trutlt ol the statement ol
tho Senator from WbcoiiMii, the) aro nol
justifiable, but when we show that the factt
are different, they arc less eo. Tho cir
oumstanccs aro stated in tho evidenco ol
Mr Harris, which will bo found in a re
port mado by a committee of Congress
and republished in tho Herald of Frte-
dom, ot Kansas a paper that has at its
"The circumstance, attending Win. ShiTiimli's as
aaialnaiion aro testified to by James llnrri., id' Frank,
tin county, Knii.ng Mr. Iieruimi uus stnying over
night at the house (if llnrris, when, nn llm 4lti ol
,Mnv, at about to o'clock, ( aptaln jotin llrown uuU
party came tliere, und after taKlne gome nroiiorty. and
questioning Harris and others, Shennni ivas a.ko I lo
waiic uui. .11 r. Harris, in ins umiiavit says : "uiu
wan llrou n allied Air, BlieruiHii to go oat with him
nnd Sherman then went out with lironii. I heard
nothing moro for about fifteen minutes. Two of the
'northern army,' ns they btyled thuiusrlvet. stayed
with us until they heard n cap buri.t, nnd then these
two men left. Next iroruing, about ten u'clnek, 1 found
William Sherman dead, in tho creek near my hous.-.
1 was looking fur him: as lie had nut came hack 1
thought ho ti'd been murdered, 1 took Mr. William
Sherman (body) out of the creek und exuiiiined it.
Mrs, Whitiiman was with me. r'riorin.m-s skull was
spill open in two places, and some ol his brums were
waihrdoutby the water ; a large hole wuscutinhis
breast, and his K-fl hand was cut olf, except a little
piece of skiuun one side,"
'This was tho 24th ot May. I will
read from the samo paper another extract :
"When the news of the threatened t iege of Law
rence reached John llrown, Jr., who waa a member of
iuu i",ii3ia ucBisiutuic, iiu urKUIlltcu 11 company 1)1
about sixty men mid marched tuwurds Lawrence. Ar-
! riving at Inlmira, ho learned of tun Backing of tlie
town, and the position of thu people, lie rcconnoi-
tcrcu ror n .lino in tuo vicinity, out niijlly marched
bark towards Ossawatomio. Tim ninlit before reach.
," hjlV place, wiicn only n rcw mik-a away, timy
camned for the night. Old John llrown. who. wa b-
liove. was with tno party, singled out. with himself,
seven men. These he marihad to n point eight miles
above the mouth of rolluwatomie creek, and cai'cd
from their beds, at their several reside uces, at thu
hour of midnight, oa the 91th nf May, Alluu Wilkin
son, William Sherman, William t. Imyle, William
Doyle, and Drury Doyle. All were found the next
morni ig, by the road tide, or in tho hiiihivny, tome
with a cash in their heads and sides, nnd their llim.n.
cut : others with their skull split ojien in two places, I
with holes in thtiir lirc.'i.iit. mill limul. i'iiI ,,il H
"He seems to have had a great passion
for cutting off hands.
"No man in Kan,as has pretended tndeny that old
.win uiunu icmiiamiuriicrnus Mraywliicli massacred
those men. Up to that period not u hair of old John
tlrown'a head, orthat of liU son... h.,1 i.un i..t...A.i ....
the pro-slavery party.
"It was nut until the 30th of August, three months
after Ihe I'otiawatoinio inassacru, that the attach was
made on ilssawatomia by the pro slavery force., and
I rederlck Drown, n son of uJ John, was killed "
"To show nil tho faots in regard to the
massacre of the 2 lth of May, I will.reid
to the Senate tho affidavits of sutuo of th0
eye-witnesses of the transaction. Allen
Wilkinson was a member of the Kansas
Legislature a quiet, inoffensive man,
His widow, Louisa Jane Wilkinson, testi-
uctitnal ou tho n.gltt ol the 24lh of May.
185G, between tho hours of midnight and
uaj ma-, eU0 imuK8, a pany oi men
uamu io iuu nemo wuere tney woro resitl-
ing, and forcibly carried hor husband
away; that thoy took him in tho name of
t,n Inn-tlm... .U... 1
Miimn mm nnvnr. nn nnmi n i:uliiiui uii- worn
. i , - r-:.i.r..i r
WMUIW llll. ,IV., w wvh ' -
rvmc OUl 01 tuo woik ucg"" uJT appreciate my oitireia in aim ., ..... ; moro man iiiumwii , - i . . .. . ,
b .... , . 7i i ii,..im ! entered my iioute at midnight, and ",eW . four yoars of Republican rue have beu a
Brown. Tho administration of Abraham nu.i,,, nn.i two w and took tucin ont of the yard, and traitor. i ' . T , ,
i i i ..1,1 l,n anil In cold blood ihut them dend In my hear ng. k on . , BtUpOlldoUS John UrOWD raid. liOnicallV.
Mneoln was a Jjhn llronn raid on tuo cnlHlol,nyy0udidittofreeouraiavca-ehadnone. ti thiuk, Mr. President, tnat so inr a. v n
...-.I-. n,,i, , nn mom. That " .?'!" L?"5.!R!' ' blXb,", Ml ti. U rrnnd. the fact, whioh constitutionally, they have been ju.,t that,
. .1 1. L I... -1.1 Tnlin '"'T
v..- W.V..UW... -....j, au iuat iicii morn- mewa uuu ms comraucs were thero on screams of ohildren, the vain implorations
ing ho was found, about one hundred and the 21th, when ihoy took Wilkinson out ' of defensoless old men, and the humili t
fifty yards from tho home, dead. Mrs. and murdered him, just beforo they left' tion of manhood. Befora it, tho i0sano
Wilkinson was VOrV ill at tho limn, nf thnv tnolf hia nrnnnrln.nd'l.:. I., l I ,.:t.U-!..U 1 f... i
-I
measles. Shoaays further :
"i begged them to let Mr- Vitkinsou .tav with me,
onme: toid them lhat he would not ruu orr. bm hi
theUotd man who ."eemed ube0nWMiXa"d"oX50t
rv,.aX.:-74h.e.i'i1'hdarCvne:!b;1! t'h'aVr,
?ir,r.n.or-rto?a!.h.ur
?!$t"&ll'J!&MK
to be protected from the damp and night air, but they
wntilil nnl I-. hi... TL..u ik.n T l .
.. w.,-.. i ...iit. ..u; iihii ,w. hi umoana awoy,
"After they were gone, I thought I heard my hus
band's voice In complaint.
"Next morning Mr Wilkluion's body was found
una uuuuioii anu nny ysrus iroru the house, in
some d.ad brush. A lady who saw my busbsnd'V
j Othvis raid that hi wu iut in the btid twl.e "
"'".'"V'ZV":. a." ."
"MriMirnnd"'l1iiPona were murdered .
on the saio night with Sherman and
Wilkinson t and Mr.. DovIc'b deposition
0ivcs this account of It .
ill . I .1
i iinrn lOllorfCB aovirui uuuuainuu. i
,M ,e wrol0 ft ,0cr l0 J0hn,ifit is not string, robbery, Uiguvfay
I'm. t .imu-inrr 1
tuat SUO Ellll regoiucu mm " ii-.wi
Jcrar o h-band antl ohil(lrBn .
ivnn,.No.. m.
'Join, llaoivn-8lr! Although
,ough venjoanca la not
fltf V5.'r,ffi
mine, 1 confeti
I Minfcn tnat t da feel
ttoppe
.villi Hi
In your ncnui
S.Ke
yimj,j;ilo17';f1V:c;,i Vive, you yTonauuiTorT,
t. . I- M Ail A I. A l0 VI; K.
. "rr.Vn Dov.c. rK of
vou. 1. now
arow'nup, andle'very dciroue lobe at
in lh day of your execution: be would
there , If hi. me an. iwoulJ peiii.lt It. Iht
I'harleston on
VV..U.... ww ....... ... If n,lV.
nil.tnlu lw Itialn
lie-mi gut a'jusiine rope iiwiaa )m ,i "-
etnor tMse would permit. . I).
'Thrcn months after Wm. Doylo and
his two sons were murdered, threo months
after Sherman was murdered, his skull cut ijcen nj0pted without discusMon, and es
open in two places, and tho stream had pooiatly so if a referenoo had not been
waaiitu tuo uiooa out oi nis .ran.uui
threo months after that, John Brown's
son was killed at Oisawatomic. Then
what becomes of this excuse ! Why this
apology for a man liko this ? Threo
months after ho had committed this Hen-
diih act, his son loat his life at tho battle
of Ossawatomic. It was on that night,
about 11 o'clock, as testified oy Mrs.
Doyle, as testified by her eon, as testified
by Mr. Harris theso men, innocent, un
offending men were taken out, and in
the midnight hour, and in the forest, and
on the road-side, fell victims to the insa
tiate thirst of John Brown for blood.
Then it was that thoso murdors wero
committed, that hell entered hia heart, not
tho iron his soul. Then it was that ho
shrank from the dimensions of a human
being, into thoso ol a reptilo. Then it
was, if not before, that ho obanged bis
ubaraoler to a demon who had lost all the
virtues of a man. And you talk about
sympathy for John Brown !
"John Brown stands before tho ooun
try a murderer. Tho enormity, tho ex-
traordinary farociousncss of tl e father set
Ml,
the son mad. lnoDlooa ol tucse mur -
dered men not unltko that of sacrificed
Abi i-oncu even irom ino toogueiess cavijj of caching has been the result whiol
.i .l ... r..- .. , i .
erns oi iuo canu iu mm ,or pi., uuu -(;SB0 evident ; and 1 want to say now it.
Heaven for justice; but bis iron heart,! -it o boJStinK i0 my frienda Ktin
not soul, refused to yiold ; but Heaven,
in ihe process ol time, has metea out t"
him justice on the callows. Justice divine
to punish sin moves slow the slower its
pace, tbo surer is its blow. It will over
tako us if livinc it will overtake us if
dead. Justice has overtaken its victim,
and ho has gone to eternity with orimsoned
hands, with blood upon his head.
"But tho Senator talks about the school
in which John Brown was taught. Why,
sir, John Brown, according to his own
coufoesion, iiad entertained these ideas for
twenty years. John Brown did not go to
Kansas to go to school. He went there
as a teacher on the '.lth May. At the
inidhour of night, from the wifo and the
mother, he. dragged the husband and two
sons, aud imbrued his bands iu their blood.
'I bete were the doctiinea that he went
there to teach, lie did not go there to
be lattgbt ; but he went there aa a teach
er. These were hia teachings. Imagine
the cries and lamcutatious on the one
hand, and tho bhrieks of the dying and
mutilated on the other. I think some
times that I bear shrieks, so load, ao wild,
so clear, that even listening angels htoop
from heaveu to hear. This is tho man
for whom an apology is offered. I did the
Senator tho justice to Bay that ho disclaim
ed all sympathy wilb Brown, and yet I
read what, in faot, was an apology. What
furthermore did the Senator say ? We
havo shown, and ihe fact is not controver
ted, that he murdered five human beingi
on May 24th. They havo shown, in try
ing to answer this, that his son did not re-
'ccivc this ill-treatment from H intnin
until the last day of May. Wo have
shown that his other son was not killed
until August 30th. Let us rcmemi-
i ., , , .
I these facts, and come to the old' man n
'. wuU ua
. being a thief and murdorer- I want sl
thoso modern fanatics, who Have adopted
John Brown and his gallows as their
' CJirist and their cross, to soo who thoir
Christ is. The Senator says again :
I "I regret that gentleman, in speaking of this man
Urown, ;ihi'tili be pka.edto speak uf him js a robber
or a thief, or a vagabond, in the ordinary sense of Ilia
term, sir, .tie of tho essence of robbery nnd then,
that the robber or thief who robs or steals should act
from the desire of gain, Certainly no such charge can 1
be made against this man. ns that ho was actuated
.' 'i.i sum. iicatigu irom lar uuierent mo.
WfaXn'SUX
u","u-" '
"Tht is, you may eteal and commit'
t"cu ii you ao u to am in the causo of tho (
nooiitton oi slavery. Have wo any proof
that this is so ! What doos Mrs. Wilkin-
son say in her affidavit? When John
11 - I l ..
. r.wrv.., .uu uii vuiy uursc.
I suppose thoy needed tho horse to' aid in ,
luu "mancipation oi naves : ltorso steal-1
imcs 1,1 a '-foiticr country. Mrs. Dovlo
statcs lhat ,UPJ ,Dfluird where their horso
was.Dd werotold-it was out on the prairie. ,
What' took P at Harper's ffarry T-
Thoy tOOk Coloticl WashinptonV ailvnn
Thoy took Colonel Waaliinntnn'a D;t
and his watoli, What does ho admit in
his own oonfestion 1 That he, during the
last winter, had alolen, bad kidnapped,
and run off eleven elavei from the Stale
of MUiouri lo Kn. Tht W-oot steal,
- " - M M BIIIU1
ing, though I tupposo that U not theft,
that I. not robber ; and wo ought not to
talk aboul this old man as stealing in ho
"mmo acceptation of the term ( wuav,
la it I aik I id Country, I CktK tUO -senate,
i " .. -' . . . . i
.. ....
mUnrv ? And vet these things oro thrown'
,
" r- ' . ...
xiXi a3 ;,n apology aUd exouso m iue
minds of many, for tho infamy, me mur-
j f ,i,jetinKl tU8 trdaoheroos conduct
J 2i old Z 'Srow, who Was nothing
r have presented .land obcontroverted.-
The Senator has failed to touch thorn
a a . .1 till
He baa not removed them, but has added 1
.,pen.. aU1 BddUioUal' proof to what Ijllupllli
Birenglll ami nuui. . .
Bai(j jn refKrcDce to lllfctll'. It W8S not my it "
... , , t ,;,
intcutiori'to OOOSUtUO this WngtU 01 time,
j i 8i,oUa not havo said a single word
,ui,:eot if (he resolutions could havo
made to J ohn nrown nor. otiug u mm
anJ t tmCf( involving tho reputation and
oiinractcT of some of the oitizeui of my
own State.
"There docs seem to bo a providential
interposition in this affair. Brown mur
dered Doylo and his two sons, Dojle
left a widow and four helpless children.
Justice seemed to be a little tardy , but it
kept constantly in pursuit of its viotim,
and but a short time siuuo the man who
murdered Doylo and his two sons, fell a
viotim, with his two sous at Harper's Fcr
ry. I do not say that this was a Btroke
of Providence ; but it was a singular co
incideuce. He whose hands wero red,
orjm3():) with tbb blood of a f.tthor and
two sons, fell a victim at Harper's Ferry
with his own two tons. It seems thai
Divino Providence intended it as a re
buke, an illustration that ju.tice will not
only overtake it victim, but will ml'ie out
justice in a similar manner.
"1 think. Mr. President, that I have
shown the tendency of the policy to which
1 have called alteutiou. Whether it bat
' bpcn jcsiencd at all times by those who
I "
j cUe() ;t or not) I 3)a not undcitak
,Q but j wiu gay iuat the effect of thai
j atd West, North and South, that ihe time
bus arrived when encroachments ou th
institutions of the South should cease ; the
tiuie has arrived, when we have well nigh
done making appeals to you on tho subject;
hut all wo ask of you it, that, as broihcrr
of the samo great Confederacy, you will
understand and carry out the Con tttutiou
as it is, and let us oease ibis bickering.
Let us cease this agitation, and stan d upon
the Constitution as the common altar, at.d
maintain all its guarantee, and swear by
our fathers and the God who mado u. lhat
tbo Conststution and its guarantees sla
be preserved ; and, in doin io, wo shall
prcarrvo tho Union ; anil, in prccerviug
the Union, we shall havu peaee and har
mony, and the unexampled prospoiit)
which h ia vUitcd our country willcoutiuut
to go ou."
It is fortunate for the cause of truth
and justioe, and for tbo future historian
of this terrible civil war, that the correct
history of old John Brown's inauguration
of the policy of tbo Ropublioau, or Abo
lition party, wuj mado by co eminent an
authority as President .Johnson ; and it
is especially fortunato that thit record was
mado in the Senate of the Uui'ed Stairs.
It is a part of tbo debates of that body,
where it stand) uncontradicted and unre
futcd. It was the endorsement of the pal
! ..r-l.:. , , ..
iut ui iuu rmuuT uuu muruiTer, ny luc
North, that startled and aroused the
South, and finally drove it into secession;
for John Brown's raid was eudorscd b)
tho North. From almost every church
and aohool-bouso, tho voloe of prayer and
lamentation Wont up to Almighty God,
canonizing bis name, and ondomiHrs- his
infamy.
Tho wholo Republican press lent its
support to this amboininaiioi) ; and with
entire consistency, when the New Encland
soldiors marched through this oity, they
mado it hidooui as hell bj aiiiginc and
shouting "John Brown's soul is niurchiiig
on." So it is,we havo little doubt.wsnA'
ins on, through soas of fire, iu eompauy
with fiends, thieves aud as;assini, such as
wero his companions and abettors in this
life. So it is inurching on to tho music
despotism, ignorance, revenge and Just,
that swells un liko a fforBon from H,n h,
tomless pit, out of tbo brazen throats of
the negro-worshipping mobs I MUrchi,
, as a pestilenoo or contagion.or a thiol'
of horror and death marches ond Behind'
its raaroh are tho waila or widows thn
..... ' UU !
Jjiuu-iiaii auu lauiasiiu uauCO Ot IIC'TOOS
of both the white ond black complexion! .
majiing night and day hideous with infor-
country I alas, human nature ! Wl, ,t
wo writo thoso things now? Because wo'
lovo, antl would save our
cause Wo would bring our
thn North tnl..lr
.itr eoutitn-. H.
Bo-
Jw - w-
our oountrymen 0f
ilm m,ii, .i.: 1...
the John Drown raid as a glass for them
to see their faces in. Wo would remind
them that thero is both a God and history,
and thot juslico and truth, sooner or later,
" ill whip all of the sluma and lun oat of
.. .l-flkU IU tllUII DUUDU3. II V fin 11111.. (It.
the record, of human oventr, Iftho South
lus, to repent of, wo have cri.r.u,
crimes wh.flh w. rol out of their gf-rc
anu nun . ,, urmo s into, gu
wunn. aiuiy no we set. 10 aasuro our-
se.ves, ny enumng our cyrs anu aay.ng,
i . i . i ... . i ,
vmhjxvKuttisoodjetyUanwtl
Thero it
il... .... ... t .
. ,llU0 ,
-b- - - v ,
aud time wi 1 atrip us baro to tLo btofe,
-Loir .... of ffauds and
nJ nothing more. bat we Ih j, W
"i w
.ittnltAtl II Mil Intel Inf tjlint llll lllrl . iL
Ulatlo nnd lawyer w at ho , , M lb.
Rupuhlicati adminlntratinn hud for whiz,'
done This is what we say, aucf
no leaning iirpuuiioati aaro nttempt tu'
debate thu merits of the qut ctiot) Willi iu
before tho people, They dare call narnui;
but they dare riot debate. Wo lovo (ruth
and respect justice above all thing). We
hold no opinon whiuh wo will nut glidlf
submit to tho test of fair argument unJ
debate; but these tutilors of thu Johti
Brown sohool duro not argue. They ent
ry all poin-y by tinging, shouting, anj
mobbiug. Their throats a:o trumpet,,
and thuirbruiusgongiundsouoding boatdj
In n late speech, Senator Lowery, u
prominent man in the Republican pari,
of thu iState of PfiitHylvania, stiil ;
"lohn llrown was the first martyr of this rebiilj.,
Abraham Lincoln th.t I i.t. Thu nairis nf Ahr.ih. ..
Lincoln nnd John llrtmn will no down in hlsinn. ,
gether. as the first and lust martyr ol this ri b lliim
The war could nitt bo averted. Und t'mlghty m tii-hi
log this unr tur the riiilil. Ji.hn Umhii playud b i
pull, and Abraham Lincoln his."
Here the truth is owned. Tbo R pub-
publican administration is Mtnply a .Joliu
Brown raid, The name of John Brown
and of Abraham Lincoln will indeed g;i
down to prusyerity togfther : nnd 11 j
name of Seward, und Sumner, and Garri
son, and such as they, will go with them
go with them iuto the abyss of iniamy
and eternal fhame. Om-r the mo t pros
pcrous land, ovr the. fairest civilization
in the world, they have ruin, barbarism,
and woo. If the liaitor-t of this fohool
had never hern born, the peaoe of our
country had never b.-en brokeu. That u
a titith that will stund ,tis fir mly as
word of God, when tho subterfuge an !
ies of this mad hour arc swept nw.iy--The
record Prciidenl John-oii Las givcj
of Jehu Urow.i's fh iraoti r an,) (us rai,',
uill stand tho to.-t of lime. Tim his.
an will take it as the st;irlitiu point of iLj
policy whioh has titled us of the Nmt!i
eince the aeces.-ion of the Abolition patw
to power. 0, my countrymen ! have ji,
abandoned yourselves p riniitiotiily i,
ibo Bhatuc, to the cli-rtril iuliuny, Lf tl.n
policy! Tha policy of a tltic-f. a iubl.tr
aud atsai-siu ! Tho name J'iuskI'i,'
Johnson has iveu him is the ou lid mU s
wear in hi-tory ; and you who lullow Julm
Brown's policy shall wi at it nl.-o. duy
aud ahou', and danuu whiln you mayl
Tittic will fast longer than you lOtign, an'i
justicii will ono day ihrnw you under th
wheels of avenging rctributimi, If nil
history U not ;t liar, ibo day of joar
ahamo ia sure to come. 0, you t-ucu :
So have hundieds of ihou-uuds of looli
done bofore ! If you did not sitter tn,
bhould think wo hud done you it ju-tice.
Sneek ami motlt ua you will, for this t.
your day. God's day, the day of jiisittx,
cornea afterwards ! It lasts forever 1
Cy-Tlie 11- publican papors of thu Htalu
o Inr tii we havo ubsei ved,havctt'i a worl
'o s.iy on Mr, Johnson's diilatation that
to 1'ie Stt.tr hfloiia ihe right to 'prccctilm
the quiilificatioiiii uf chutors and tho eli
gibility of por-ous to hold office " Hi-i
dfotrtiun not to nmth'lc v.ith that rcservel
riyht of the States, puis an almo t insur
mountable baricr iu the way of Ibroing no
gro suffrage upon the ntuh. Speak up,
gcntlumi n, and let us know how you hka
Andy Johnson's State rights doctrines'
Heafthof Jeff. Eavl:.
FonxnuHs Monhoe, June 23 As in
cojrect statemrnts, not nnanating fiotn
this poiut,havc uppcared iu several journ
als rt'cardiua the hoalth and uondition nf
-It ff. Davis, wo would itform thu pui.lio
that bis health at the proscnt limo is nmcli
better than when he landed horn from off
tho nicatiicr Clyde. ThU morning he wu.
teen by our iuformaliT engaged in smok
ing, and apparoutly in a cooler atate cf
miud. He ta not in irons, and his aum
lers tiro very comfortable.
MARRIAGES.
At Easton. Pa on Tuesil.iw. l,
L aV,.o''- 0raV' 1SAAC X ORIER.Ksq .
of UUovillu,uud Miss Km MA, tluu-htor ot
the lato lion, James M. I'oiter. of Eaj
ton. '
In New York oitv. ou ilm iith nit.
, by Rev. J B. Hacauy, H. Bauer. Colh-
man, of Bloomsburg, Colutnb'u ommy,
Pa., to Miss ir.-iTTitJ lf. vounsost dauybt
cr of Silas Dodson, Esq' 0f New Vott
city.
Attiioinnoail SAMunr, A.
Co, G. 188th. P. V. to
Wood, of Hiobniond, Vu.
Piblui. ot
Miss An.np
On tho 20th ult., Fiunk, son of Mill
and 2 months.
na,'i?u James il. UrockwaV, soo
" "ooKway oi aeiem imzerne
CO..
was ktjiod on board Ihe U. S. Stealer
"Siigin.iw" Deoeinbtr7tli, 18IH.
Th'o deeeated has followed tho sea fat
the last 20 years, never onco in that time
visiting homo. He has visited all purl
of the world, but during ibo present wa
was outing ensign iu i)8 Fnoifio Siml-vmSltir
DEATHS.