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    BY D. A. BUEHLER
VOLUME XXVII
( Milmorleto.
• s'y J. 13; WHITTIER.
A beautiful and happy girl, •
With step as light as summer air,
" And fresh young lips acid brow of pearl,
Shadowed by many a careless curl
Of unconfined and flowing heir;
A seeming child iu everything
Save thoughtful brow and ripening charms,
As nature wears the smile of spring,
When sinking into summer's arms.
mind rejoicing in the light
Which melted through its graceful bowers,
Leaf after leaf serenely bright
And stainless in its holy whim •••
• — Unfolding like a morning flower;
.& heart, which like a fine toned lute • •
With every breath of feeling wbke, •
And even when the tongue was mtite,
'From eye and lip in music spoke. •
I • Ho*thrills once more the lengthning'clutin
Of memory at the thought of thee!
Old hopes which Long in duit have !sip,
Old dreams come thronging back again,
And boyhood lives again m me;
/'feel itd glow upon my cheek,,
Its fullness of the heart is mine,. .
, As when I leaned 10 hear thee speak,
Or raised my doubtful eye to thine.
I hear again thy low replies,
'I feel thy arm within'bryoWn,,
And timidly again upraise
The fringodlids of hazel eyes,. ,
With soft brown tresses overblown ;
Ah niercloyiett of sweet Surnmer - eVes, • .
Of moonlit wave and willowy way,.
Of
•
Of Stars and flowers and dewy leaves,
And smiles and tones moredear than they.
• ' •
.Ere this, thy quiet eye bath smiled,
My picture of thy youth to see,
When half a woman, half a child,
Thy v artlessness beguiled; • , •
An folly's self seemed wise in thee;
I inomuismile, when o'er that hour
The lights of memoty backward stream,
Yet feel the while that manhood's polder
Is vainer than my boyish drown.
Years have passed on, and left their trace
• Of, graver care and deeper' thought, •
And unto me the rmlaccold face
,Or manhood t. and to, thee the grace
Of woman a pensive'beauty brought..
• Onslife's rough blast .for blame or praise
• The schoolboy's name has widely.own;
Thine in the green and quiekways
• Of unobtrusive goodtirss known.
And wider yet in thought and deed
Onr still diverging paths incline;
Thine the (Roman's sternest creed, • '
While answers to my spirit's need
The Yorkshire peasant's simple line y,
For thee the priestly rite and prhyer,
And holy-day and solemn • psalm ; '
For use the silent reverence where:
,
' My' brethren gather slow and calm.
Yet bath thy spirit loft on me
An•impress time bath iverrenot out,
A:something of myself , iit r theei
.A iliadow fromtho t see,
Lingeillig , ,eyen yet thy way shoat ;
• 2 Not-wholly can the heart unlearn .
That lesson of its better-hours;
Not Tel hastime'a , dull footstep worn
To commOn•dust'ame path of flowers.
a *Thus while at times before our oye
The clouds about the present part,
And smiling through them, round us lie
Soft hues of Memory's morning sky ;
The Indian summer of theheart,
In'seeret sympathies 'of mind, 0
In fount's of feeliug , which retain
'Their pure fresh ,flow,- we yet may
. find
Our early dreams not wholly vain.
exchange says that "God
intended all memo , to be beautiful as Mu'oh
•as ho did the roses and morning glories;
arid that he intended they should obey
and out indolence and 'corset'
airings, and indulge in.freedom and, fresh
, For a, girl. to , expect to be hancisotne
With he ,action of her hings dependent
upon the expansive nature of a emirs
worth•of tape, is as absurd, as to look for
tulips in a snow bank, or a fill grown
oak in It :little:flotter pot."
To hear's' death watordenotos 'there is
little insect near:ou. A ringing'in
;your ear denotes•that you have taken a lit.
ttle,cold, • To, see strange ,sights or hear'
4lisintit sounds, is a sign there is something
to oeustrthem, or that your head or tier
mus system is disordered. To have fright
'drerier Its .8 sign you hive inien too
muchiupper. To see an apparition or to
be-bowirched, inontestibiesevidenco
that you are lacking common sense.
'Ddionay is a matter 'of latitude. In
'Turk,y a man with tight pants- on is eon
,sideped so gmt.t a'bulgarian that he is not
Aolirtol . is respectable society. To spit
dupresience of an Arab is to make the az
. ainhusre di his cheese-knife. In Rua
,'a that,man is considered low who refuses
ja warm bieakfast of fried dandles. In this
,eutintry vulgar 'people are such as koep
good hours and live within their in-
The Bishop of Oxford has. sent round
the eburch-wrrdens in his diocese a Mr
:vane making certain bagairies, among
which :was, “Does the officiatingelorgyman
•,,preach.the Gospel, and are his (mamma.
,tipti and carriage , consistent therewitM"
A church-warden near Wallingford, replied,
- ' 4 l:te'preachee the Gospel, but only keeps a
Itet..B.ll.'Cbapin, in a speech made at
:Universalist festival of Boston, on
Titursday,..said that "the best piece of
spring work that could be done, would be
• to take SOW° of our living politicians and
4 plnugh, them in, and, then take the ashes
• ,pt the glorions;detd ones and scatter them
aliroadas guano, in the hope of. a better
-'. crop. , .
farnfor, to g ot ma .grist ground at a
.null, borrowed, a hap of one of big neigh
bors. Tho poor man wa a knocked under
the; water wheel, and the bag with him.—
,Ifis was druwoed ; and when the rep l an .
news was brought to his wife, she
Ateliutioed : All gracious 1 what a fuss
.: there'll be about that bag."
- Women ate called the '.softer 'sex," be.
.51tittse they are so easily humbugged. Out
L or
one hundred girls, ninety.five would
iiititer °animation to
,happineas—a•dandy
,husband to a mechauic‘
One knight as well be out of the World
as beloved Ly nobody in it. •
A fitilbilde rtsa QUAILT. WO wore
somewhat amused in passing through the
Lexington market a day or two since, at
the rattly of a fruit vender to an interroga
tory put to him. A gent leman approach
ed his stall and asked—" What's the price
of your• strawberries ?" "A Jimmy a
quart," was the response. "A Jimmy a
quart," reiterated thwurebasor, "why I
never heard of a coin by that name—of
what value, pray, is it?" "Why gen cents,'
or in other words, a dime f 7 -just the a
mount ,that Buchanan wants poor
men to work for per day, is the price that
I charge for my strawberries a quart. At
that rate I guess poor men would not be
able to eat many—"do you thank they
would I" retorted the seller. "I am deci
dedly of your opinion," rejoined the gen
tleman, "and will take three Jimmy's
worth." eAb,°' said he, as be measured
out the berries "it will take the worth of a
dozen Jimmy's to beat—" "Stop l atop I
my friend, your measure is,not full. Fill
more," "Fillniore is exactly what I intend
ed _to say . 41 — Clipper.
TIM GROWING WEST,—Sebreeka city,
two years ago, was a wild waste, ,where
night was.pude hideous by ,the dismal
howl of the wolf, and the Indian lodge
ts
* Might occasionally beeen dotting thin un
trodden' grass 'of the Fillies: On two
days recently the'sales of lots by the or
ganized town proprietors atacmoted to
$lO,OOO. So mays the Connell BlutFa Bu l
gle.
One year age the town of Clinton, in
loWa, mi the Mississippi, was not known
cm any map or lowa, To-day it contains
a population 0f,1,000 twills,. and has three
hotels, seven dry goods stores, three gro.
eery stores, two-hardwire, one furniture,
one clothing, and - one'boot atiti shoe store,.
one bank, (and another orgardzing,)• one
'church, one • warehOnse. two dootor's offi-,
°es, four lawyer's. offices,- one brick
lime-kilus, two eats-mills, one lumber
yard, and two stone quarries. 'There' and
over lope horkdred buildings that have
been erected during the past nine months,
and in,every direction the eye turns the
frump" of ker edifices may be seen ri
sing.
A`RAILROAD: FOUNDLINO.—The George
Law brought home on Friday s from As
pinwall, a very extraortlinary. passenger,
about fifteen months old, found amid the
wreck.aoct ruins created by;the late rail
road palsMity there. Father and. Mother
and relativeo were all killed, 'and no one
knows the little foundling'. -
_name or na.
don, which. howsverOF,.,soPOsed' to be,
French., Thii'lmuicent.: WAS , picked . up
, , d
unhurt amid the shaft ma imed,'adJO un.
conscious ignorancti of the awful, disaster.
Col.' Totten sent it to New York, in
care of the etewardnees of the George
Law, and it becomes, we , suppose, an un
known, object of charity here.—N. York
Times.
AMBRIOAN 00$8TITUTION.—That is a
beautiful figure of Winthrop's in reference
to our Constitution, where he says:
"Like one of those wondrous reeking
stones raised" bp the Druid's, which the
finger of a child might vibmte to its centre,
yet the might of an army could not ,move
from its 'place , ; our Constitution is so
nicely poised, that it seemei to. sway with
every breath of passion, yet so firmly bats
ed the . hearts and affections of the, peo
ple, that the wildest Storms of treason and
fanaticism bMak over it in vain.
. A. modern traveler in'Germany gives a
description of , one of the iminense rafts
which, occasionally descend the Rhine.--
He says:-"Tr was nine hundred feet
long and two hundrtd wide, on which was
built a village tor the accommodation of
the boatmen, and the, passengers, consist
ing of about one thousand persons. There
were cattle;' bogs and other ariithaleon
board--arid slaws shoii where the" passen
gers could be , suppled with every necessary
article." ,
. -
Queen Victoria's eldest daughter—aged
fourteen—is soon . te be married to a prince
of Prussia—heir to the throne, aged twen
ty-five. The British Parliament are about
to bestow on the young princess a lifo
dowry, 'of no less than 41100,000 sterling
per annum ; which, if she lives to the age
of fifty, will amount to the small , sum of
only fifty millions of dollars, altmoet us
muoh as it takes to support the govern
ment of the United States, with our twen
ty-five millions of people, fors year.
•
On one of the moist conspicuous corners
in Chicago is' a Jorge six story building,
builtly a elerk in that city. with funds
purloined front his employer. When de
tection became unavoidable he loft town,
and sent back an a&elit to negotiate. The
matter was finally 'arranged by the em
ployer taking the building and paying the
thief ten thousand dollars ; and it was
remarked, so great had been the rise in
the value of the property, that the pm
ployer made his fortune by being rob-
A Slm11114?.
ET H. W. LONGFELLOW.
Slowly, slowly, up the wall
Steals the sunshine, steabuthe shade,
Evening' damps begin to fall,
Evdning shadows are displayed.
. . ,
Round me, o'er Inc, everywhere,
All thirsky 18 grand with clouds,
And athwart the evening air:
Wheel the swallows home in crowds.
Shafts of sunshine from the West
Paint the dusky windows red
Darker shadows deeper rest •
Underneath and overhead.
•
Milker, darker, and more wan
In in breast the shadows lash
Upward steals the life of man,
As the sunshine from the wall.
From the wall into the sky,
From the roof along the spire,
Ah the souls of saints that dio
Are but sunheams liftedligher.
A bleeding finger ie more noticed than
a bleeding heath
GETTYSBURG, PA., FRIBA
[Prom the Pr:t*riCk Examiner
Henry Clay and James Bachanan.
In giving place to the subjojned, article
from the Louisville Journal, we think it
proper to, preface It with a narrative given
us by a - venerable citizen of this place. ivho
at the Limo alluded to, was an active and
earnest friend of Gnu. Jackson, and a resi
dent of Baltimore city. He says, dint
when a iory of Mr. Buchanau's letter it'
reply to Gen. Jackson's reference to him,
as the witness to prove the ohargo of "Bar
gain and Intrigue" against Henry Clay,
was received in Baltimore, !i coterie of the
leading men, of the Jackson party had as
sembled at the office of the Republican, of
which Dabney S. Carr was editor, to hoar
the letter read. Mr. Carr read it. A.
moment's pause ensued, which was inter
rupted by the remark from William Frick,
Esq., that "Buchanan's letter don't, sus.
tain Gen:Jackson." Mr. Carr immediate
ly rejoined: "By G—! gentlemen, we mast
say it does sustain . Gen, Jackson. Our
success depends upon saying so., The
Wallington globe will be here to.rnorrovv,
.(this war before the railroisd was oonatruo
ted,) containing an editorial, in which ,it
will be insisted that the letter fully. sus
, tainshim,in every particular. and we must
say so too, I shall say so, in my leader in
to-morrow's . Republican, simultaneously
with the Globe." Our informant says,
that after some further explanation, it was
agreed to put the construction. on Buchan
an'a letter, whiCh the whole Democratic
party afterwards, Pat on it, and which Mr.
Buchanan suffered it to beer, to the politi
cal ruin of Henry a Clap, for such along se
ries of years. ' , * '
It will be observed that in Mr. Buchan
sh's letter to Mr—Weber in 1844, he die.
6.1°4 intimates that he did rdr,,'Olay "am
ple justice," in his '•letter in answer to
Gen: Jackson," meaning; that that ; letter
did not sustain Gen. Jackson'i charge, tri
yes by, his, silence for, a quarter of a centu
ry, he perMitted the injuriOns conatruc
tion to opperate against Mr. , Clay. Out
upon such hypocrisy, and meanness.l
[Frani ibe Louisville .Touriusl.
• li!enry.Clay Una Janie*
We hope that what we are now about to
write, Will commend the attention of all
honest and honorable Men and especially
of old-line Whigs, thelortner supporters of
Henry Clay and the preseut reverent of hit.
memory. ,The boast has been made that
the old line Whigs will support., Mr. Bu
chanan for the Presidency. We shall see.
All of our old politicians ' hive ti vivid
reeollection of the leading events of the e
ilootion of ,President by the House of Rep
resentatives in the early part of .1§25.
Mr. Clay was then a member of the House
, and he cast his'voie and iniluentio idfavor
lof John Qciiney'Adatus; who was • eke tnd
over Gen. Jackson and Mr._Crawford.---
blr.,Claywas subsequently selected by Mr.
Adams. as his . Secretary of State.. At a
later period M r: Clay 'wee 011ayged by' his
political enemies , with having. sold his vote
to Mr. Adams' for the Secretaryship, and
we all know that this monstrous and cruel
charge, though abundantly refuted eve
ry form in which refutation was possible or
conceiveable, involved to a grCat extent the
rain of Mr... Clay's political fortunes. But
for that charge, he would afterwards have
been elected President of the Unite States
almost by neclamation. ° , • ,
Foremost amongst those who chargod
that Mr. Clay's vote eras , given to Mr. Ad
ams on account of a promise of the • Score
taryship of. State was Geu. Jackson. The .
General gave the name of of Mr. Buchan
an as his anthority for the 'rah of the
charge. Mr. Buchanan hail field a'private
conversation with him Upon the subjeot,
making such statements as left no doubt
upon tho sohject is the'llentiral's
In fact, the General did not hesitate to , say,
after that interview, that Mr. Buchanan
had come to him with full authority front
Mr. Clay or his friends, to propose terms
to him in relation to their.votes ; that . is,
to promo to vote , for him for the. Presi
decay, if ho' would promise office to Mr.
Clay. Of'course Mr. Buchanan was call
ed own) put into the form of a letter what
he knew upon the subject,and what he had
stated to Gen, Jackson. He accordingly
wrote the letter which afterwards became
famous in the controversy. This letter
was most adroitly written, with a view to
relieve the author from the excessively
painful position in witieb ... ho stood. He
dared not say that he ever bad any author
ity from Mr. Clay or hit friends to pro
pose terms to Gen. Jackson, yet he care
fully so 'shaPed his language as to afford
Mr. Clay's political enemies a pretext for
repeating the attrooious calumny against
him. Ho expressed his own belief of the
bargain and corruption story. ,He said :
"The facts are before the world that Mr. Clay
and his particular friends made Mr. Adams
President, and Clay Secretary of &ale. The
people will draw their own inference from
such conduct and the circumstances connected
With it. They will judge of the cause from the
effect." . • ,
Mr.• Clay and hie friends regarded Mr.
Buchanan'.o letter as exculpating him and
then% from the charge of having authorised
Mr. B. to propose terms to . Gen. Jnokson
in relation to their votes, and so indeed it
did. And yet it was so cunningly written
that'the whole of Mr. Clay's political tine.
miee throughout the nation considered it
and treated it,not as a vindication of the
Kentucky statesman, but as hconfirmation
strong" of the truth of the accusation a
.gainst him. Thus the whole calumny or
aste
wd in Mr. Buobanau's atateinent tO
'General ireokaon, and, Cum the author of
the Itinerant wee requited by Jackson yr
lELILLES' AND FriEE."
EVENING, JULY 4, /856,,
his,organ' to write but in'the shape of a
letter, he so perfor,.ed the appointed task,
as while shrinking rein any direct confir
mation of the impre :ion ho bad previously
given to Gen. Jack on. to afford a pretext
to the whole Jackson party to assail Mr.
Clay as a traitor to his country, and them
was not a Jacksontowspaper or aJackson
politician in the nation that did not treat
Mr. Buchanan's letter as evidence of bar
gain, intrigue, and corruption between Mr.
Adams and Mr. Clay.
The specific) charge, as already stated,
which was made against Mr. Clay, and
I • which Mr. Buchanan was cited as a wil
lows to prove. was that
,Mr. C. bad propos
ed to make• Gen. Jackson President if he
blinself cody be Secretary of State. This
charge invo ving 'the inference that Mr.
Clay did, vote fur Mr. Adams for the prom
ise of the Secretaryship, was the charge
by moans of
~ ..which the party, that Mr. Bu
chanan then acted with and overaftervrards
acted with, broke down the greatest and
best man of his age. And now, fellow
countrymen, we ask you to mark the final
development of facts. The real truth is,
that, instead of Mr. Clay's suggesting to
Mr. Buchanan during the pendency of the
:Presidential election in the House of Rep
resentatives in 1896 that ho and his friends
would support General Jackson if he could
have the Secretaryship of State nutier
Mr. Buchanan himself actually sought Mr.
Clay, iiud, in the presence of a third gen
tleman, explicitly declared to him; that in
the event of his voting for Gen. Jackson
and, the election of the, latter, ho would
have the Secretaryship. Mr. Clay's Mil
mate personal friends often heard him
Make this statement hi the after years of
his life, and we, with hulf a dozen.others,
healdhito say in the Presidential eampalgo
01844 that ho would pot be willing to dia
without leaving it on record. And he did
not die without, leaving 'it on 'record. A
rew years agn Mr. Calvin Colton published
the Life of Hoary Clay; in' the preparation'
of which ho visited AshlutuLaud bad ; free
access to many bf Mr,i Clay's private pa.
pers. He devoted a . con.iidereble portion
of his book to . the' ofd hargain, intrigue
an&corraption Story, and Mr. Clay wrote
out one passage of it with his own hand. -
That passage passage was inenporated im the vol
ume, word . for word ea . It elute from the
venerable statesman's pen. Let the Aindr
icon People road it and ponder upon It.—
Hero it : • ' '
,'Some time in Januttry 4 eighteen bun
drethuld twenty-five, end not long before the
election of President the .United States
se
by the Hou,ofßop y resfhtalives the flou.
434 1 2- 1 .:i.L..14.41c.,114;,..mb0r of the
House, and aftdrivards many years-a=&,:bs= ,
tor front Penusylvaiiia, who had been
zealous and influential supporter
,of Gen.
Jackson in the preceediug canvas, and was
supposed 'to enjoy his unbounded
der.ce; called at the lodgings ut' Mt: . Clay,
in the city of Washington. Mr. Clay was
at,the time in the roam of his only mess•
mate in the House, his intimate and COna
dentiul friend, the lion. E. P. Luteher,
sinced'oi r ernor oft Kentuoky, then arse a
metnbeebf the 11)ede.. Shortly , alter Mr.
Buchanan's atm jute the . room :he intro
duced,the subjeutlof the apprnaching Pres•
ideu dal election, and spoke ijf the tiertain.
ty, of the election of. his favorite, adding
that he would (Orin the-misst'splemlid cab•
inet that.`the country had "ever
• Hr. Lumber asked,- how , could he have
one wore distinguished than that. of Mr.
Jefferson, in which were both Madison
and Gallatin.? Whorl would fie be able
to find , . equally Mnineht tutu ? Mr. Pa
chlmait,replied, "ho' irould not go out the I
rbein for a Secretary StState,":.looking. at I,
Hr. Clay. Th gettl 0111111. (Mr, Clay)
,
playfully , remarked filet he , thought there'
was ii;!ititiiher for a eabinct oil I
cer, finless it 'were , Mr: Buchanan, himself.
. "Mr. Clay,.while he was so .hotly as
galled with the char m of bargain, intrigue
etiq corruption dit the
. admistrahon
of Mr. 'Marna; dond Mi. Buchanan of
his, intention to publish the above' occur-.I
reuce ; but by the earnest entreatieiof
, that gentleman r he eias induced to forbear
doing so,"
' . This passage, We epeat, was written
by Clay's own hati ; we learned thelact l
front Air. Clay him If, train Mr. Colten, I
and from an emineti
c
ly :respected ed relative
of 'Mr. Clay. The rent Kentuckian, who
had born the weigh of bitter calumny for
more tban twenty y ars, and seen his high
*eat Polities l hopes rushed and blasted,
by it, did um chop to Suhmit to it longer
out of tendenteas s the reputation of an
iti
old political cumin ; and the deepeet re
gret felt by his Erie cls is, that he submit
ted to it so long. r. Buchanan. it ap
pears, might, whencalled on for histesti
mony in 1825. hive testified that Mr.
Clay, fir from hating signified .that he
would support Gen. Jackson for the Pratt-
dency in consideration of the Secretary.
ship of State, had positively rejected such
a bargain, proffered to hint by_lVli. 'Bitch.
anan himself. Whatever 'of dishonor,
whatever of infamy, there could be in bar
gain, intrigue, and corruption, attached to
Mr. Buchanan. We do not believe he i
bad any authority from General Jackson
to say what he said to Mr. Clay, yet be
professed to utter fact and not opinion.—
He undertook to assert, as from authority,
that Gen. Jackson would loan the most
splendid cabinet the country ever had,
and that Mr. Clay, if he a bould support
bun, would be his secretary of State . ,
Mr. Clay stated in the passage he wrote
out for Cohon'a biography of him ' while
he was so hotly assailed with the charge of
'bargain and corruption durinc the Ad•
wine administration, he notified Mr. Buch
anan of his intention to publish the occur
,renee in question but was induced by that
gentlemen's entreaties to forbear doing so.
Mr. Colton: said in his biography, that
he had understood that Several times in la
ter years Mr. Clay had intimated to Mr.
Buchanan that it:might be his duly. to
.publish, the facts, and that he , was dined
eii from it by Mr, Buchanan. We also
1 kilo* that Mr. Clay often between' .1825
.lend '1845; -contemplited'imbliihing The
.„. ....
facts and was vehemently wired by - hii
political friends to' do' so as matter of
Justice not ,merely to his iiivra fame but
to his party, and that, he, was prevented
only by Mr. Buchanan'a entreaties. Pow
Leicher, who was present at the inter
view, in January; 1825, and heard all'
that passed, was aliiays 'of opinion }hat
Mr. Clay.• ought to, make the, publication, -
and told him so, but Mr. Clay was long
suffering ; and carried his generosity too
far.
Mr. ',etcher, it seems, after the inter
view of Jannery.lB2s, relieved Mr. Bush-
anan'i apprehensione by the assurance
that he would not publish the facts of the'
interview without Mr. Buchimon's, con
sent. But so' strong and deep was Mr •
Letcher's conviction that the facts ought
to be published that he wrote .to Mr.
Buchanan upon the subject, during the
great Presidential conflict of 184401N:4er
in, however, in his letter . that he' would
violate the pledge he had originally
given:: Mr. Buchanan replied, -deprecat
ing the publication and requiring the ob
servance of the pledge. The reply was
made with Mr. Buchanan's characteristic
cunning, and, we givelt belmi, entire.
One" might think, from the language of
his letter, that he -had no: distinct, recmol-,
leetion of the conversation with Mr. C.
in Mi. Leteher's room, in January, 1825,
and yet that very . conversation, exceeding
ly emphatical as it was, had been from the
veryArst -and through all , the ensuing
years, a matter, of , the deepest auxiety.autl
even agitation to Mr. Buchanan, who, as
Mr,. Clay has testified ''under hie own
hand,had earnestlyentreated that it might,
not be given- to tits world. Here is Mr.
Buchanan's letter to Mr. Lektliec,;; ,
• Mr. Buchanaq to - R. Loicherd
LimoAaTEK, Jove 27 ; 1814.
moment ,receiv
ed y our, very , kind, letter: and Mimeo to'
give it 'an tinstyci., I cannot
'good' purpose it Woad' itthiertiti l'Ar: C.
to publish, the private and' unreserved
verantion to .tvhich you refer.' I wita.then,
Ids ardent friend and admiMr i and much
of this ancient-
witlishinding /Mr political difierenees
I did' WM' ample justice . . hut ty more than •
Justite, both in my ape"ech on Ghiltoteir.
?ea - Minions aid in my , lettOr in answer hi !
Gen. Jackson. , •
I have not rnyielt.anrvery (11604i:64,p;
Collection' •of what, transpired. in ' your
room nearly twenty year§ ago, hut dotiht.'
lean I expressed it strong wish to, himself..
;14 I had done a !Mildred tinier, to others,
that he might,vote Yor Ciao lackson~ and
l rt T•ii
ter -
le tiat,cdi biltnel Sdretaryof,
tit
rase of his electionfl should'inoirt cartaln'-
IV have exercised. any -influence, I, might'
have po.otesseil to accomplish this result:;
and this i should.have done from the.most
disiniereated, friendly, and patriotic 'me.
tives. • '
This conversation of millet , whatevPr it
may Itsve been, can never he brought
;mine to Gun. ; Jackson. ; .1. never. had but
one conversation with him on the,stibjett
or the Weil pendiOg vlee.tion; and thal op
on iltd'etreet; and the whole of it ver6itt
im et literaturn, when crunpitratively fresh
upon my amatory, w • as given to the pu,b.
lie in my letter of August, 1827. The
publicatioli then. of this private convcraa•'
lion could serve tin 'other purpose tban'to
embaraae"me and force 'me pronlinently
in Ito. pedding contest—which I desire ta
' You are Certainly cortvet in' your rec.
collection ..You told me explieity that'
you did not .feel at liberty to give the 'eon.
, vereation alluded to, and would not do
under any eiscumitances, without my ex
press permission." this'youeeted,! as
you:have ever dune, like a main of honor
and principle. r
fro; show how, the terrible exposition
made by Mr. Clay in Oelton's biography,
of ;him was.regarded at the tim e - , wa . u py
mentinq the -fact, that - Aviles' it eppeured
all the Democratic organs were startled by
it: • Mr. Btiobanan 'wee then no candidate
for office, and on that account it create) a
less powerful . impression than it • would
otherwise . bave done. but we vividly re
member the. sensation manifested by the
Democratic fryers, especially those •of
Pennsylvania. We copied into the Journ-
al an. article from the most prominent and
influential of them all; declaring, as eev
eral of t he
, rest did. that Mr. Bu ch a na n
must respond to refute the charge made a.
gainst him, or.expect to be, dispensed with
by his, party. And we and hundreds of 1
other Whig edflorevalled upon him and
defied him to respond while yet Henry
Clay and B. P. lonelier were both living
to meet any denial or 'equivocation that
he might put forth. But he replied not.
He uttered no word. He• could:' not be
induced either by the warning threats of
his political friends or the. loud defiance
and demands of political opponents to op.
en his mouth. Humbly he bore froM the
greatest Man,then living upon earth a pub.
'jelled charge. which. if true, exhited the
mostsirredeemable infamy on bis part.
,And, now ,we ask - the old friends of
Henry Clay, we ask the old-hoes *big,
we ask all honorable men; We ask the
whole Atnerican peoOle, what they think
of James 13uchatian, and how they, mean
to act toward him I 0, what a, ahame,
what a burning shame, what an everlast
ing shame it would be if the American na
tion, after having thrice rejected. Henry
Clay from the Presidency on account
of a charge of bargain and corruption rest
ing on the alleged authority, of James
Buchanan, and all because M r. Clai listen
ed to, the prayers of Mr. Buchanan, the
real proposer of bargain and corruption,
end spared him for nearly the life.time of
a generation, were now to elect that same
Mr. Buchanan to the Presidency. 'truly
it would be almost enough to make a man
sick of his species.
Battey°lancet to our race, awl want of
. ,
sympathy for each one of the sPeouta mark
rhe.oharaotor of many besidianottel.;oadom
awl novel•wriiont.
Information Wanted.,
• What really are the opiniens.ofJamel
Buchanan on the eleven , muustitin ? Has
he any opinionti that may be tutialdered
'diettled," or dot ? Yesterday, he held
one set of opinions,-to.day, another set—
to-morrow, something else. The Cincin
nati platform, ,upon which he :Minds, at
any rate exhibits him in a far different
light in this rtispeot than that in which his
own words presented him to the pulic, in
former times. For example:—
AND - ON TULL
Bachanan in -1856.
Resolved, That claim
ing fellowship with and
believing the co-ope-:
ration of all who re-
Igard the preservation
'o( 'the Union, under
theCnnklitution, es the
paramoutit: issue, and
repudiating all section
al parties- and.
forms 'concerning do
mestic slavery, which •
seek to embroil the
States and - incite to
treason and armed re
siitance to law in the
territoriesi and whose
] avowed purposes, if
communicated,. • must
end in civil war and
disunion, the - American
Democracy recognize
and adopt the piaci
ples contained tn the
organic laws establiih
ing the territories. of
Kansas and Nebraska,
as embodying the on,
ly sound and safe ,so.
lution of the slavery
question 'upon' -• which
the people of this whole
country can repose in
'tic determined cornier , '
valism of the Ugion
non interference
.COngress with Itlave&
in-Stetes
lies. . •- •
LOOK OH THIS PICTUKLI
Buchanan in 1819.
On the 23d day of
November, 1819, Jas.l
Buchanan, in a Lan-
I
caster county Conven-1
Eon, presented the fol.l
' !awing reeolutions : '
"Resolfed, That the
representatives in Con
gressfrom this dAtriet
be, apd they' are here
by most earnestly re
quested to use their tit;
most endeavors, as
members of • the_ No
tiqual Legislatt,re, to
pFevent the existence of
slavery in any ofthe
territories or) Stat
which may be creek(
by Congress.
"Resolved,. That in
; the opinion' of this
meeting, the members
of Congress who, u
the last session, , sus
tained the cause o
justice, humanity and
patriotism, in opposing
- the-introduction of sla
very into the State
thou endeavored to be
formed out of the
• Mis•
Souri Territory, are en•
titled-to the warmest
"thanks of every friend
of humanity."'
.
Bere,,then, is a ma n ,. who reanlyed ono
day,' to “Orevent 'the - extsienil of 'ileirery,
in any of the territories or States,,' and
on.twoher, occasion, adopting the' •prinoi-;
ploi of, the,Donglas Nebraska,bill--the in
tended. effeo!, of whioh waa, and, is !Only
to be; the estahlishtnent of tho, pecuthir in
tititntion there; ' "
~1u 1819, sibs eameinf justice , and hu..
wauity and putriottetn," watt .(opposition
to slnvery.” In 1856„it Inuits very . mueh
tte' "Penusylvoniesinvoriteou!',thought
the same cause ':vas but secured in ciprinei
tion ,tti: freedom !—New • fork Ea.
UChanan •
• lfibtqinnevimedintuitinfed
Presideitay; nehanatt 'ditelated
General Clinch' thai he would ~e arr3,
Pennsylvania.; foe s said. he, "we
make those Pennsylvania.
,Germans be
lieve that Polk is at better tariff man than
Clay." The event preyed that .1)1r. Bu
chanan villein earnist: He took'the gold
for. Polk in Pennsylvania, and'avorredi on
his honor as a gentlemen, that Pktiew Mr.
Palk to be a bettor, tariff Mau thou iir.
Clay » So the Pen'ttaylvania Ger4us
voted fel. Polk as MK Bile/111114a 1111idiney
would, and Polk 'was eleeted.
We have the , highest authority for a. -
.sertiog that aeury Clay neyor forgavelgt.
)3ot:bailee for, this lastoutrage. For his
complicity in the "bargain and corrup-
OM swindle," be had 'provimit , ly forgiven
hint ; but the "Pennsylvania swindle he
could not forgive,.und never spoke to him
froM that time to the 'day Of hte "detith,
thiMgh thrown frequently lb Contact with
hirst is the society •of Washington, '
The friends of Henry Clay would do
well, to , romembcr, this„and ask
,them-,
selves what must be the extent of 13uchau
lIVOS unwOrtlittiess, when Henry ' Cl 4, the
'most magnanimous
. of men, regaided the
treatment he had experienced at his hands
a.s.unpardonable,—Waxhington.Orgara.
Tan FREMONT 'BANNER.,•;-"I: see,"
says a correspondent of the. Boston Atlas,
"that is Peunsylvauia the Buchanan men
are forming. : 6 W heatland Clubs,' (Wheat
land is the name , of Buchanan's may with
humeri bearing as it device a /leaf of
wheat. 'I beg to sukgest that the banner
inscribed with the name of John Charier
Fremont ahould have for itsdevice a thresh
ing machine. That sheaf of wheat is des
tined to c be threshed, and , the wheat to bo
gathered into another garner than that of
boider rui n's." "
ONE OF FANNY FF$N'B.• LEAVES.
"The: men have all bad a time over it, the
women's fashion& All right. They are
rirlicutous--but how is it with the men's.
They don't approve of hoops. .t Every,
mother's son often wears a strip of moroc•.
co, or scone other stiffening in the hem of
his trowsers to make• 'em stand out.--
Don't I, know ?" Of ;course:: yeti do,
Fanny. ' •
• "What do you know of. the defendant,
Mr. Thompson ? ' Do you consider Win
good OWBIOI,IIII r •
"On that point j wish •to speak with
great care. u t wish to insinuate that
Mr. Vau Slope is not a goOd
Not at all. All, I wish to say . is this—
the day after he began playing on the elar
ionet, a saw filer who lived , nest door left
home, and ha never sino n been heard of.'
"That will do, Mr. Thompson. Call
the next witness."
Tux Two F's, THE TWO 8 . 15 AND TEE
zwo D's.—There is a curious alliteration
in the names of the prominent candidates
for the Presidency and Vice Presidency.
Frarnont and Fillmore, Buchanan and
Ifrockinridge, and Donelson and Dayton,
form a strange combination of initials.
A gentleman of West Hartford, C
having sent to a printing office a hen's egg
measuring 81 by 7} inches, and weighing
4 ounces, the question was asked. on puff
ing it, "Who c‘n,beat this ?", to which a
young lady . replied, "—Any of us hand
some young damsel' with en egi beat
er." - • •
TWO DOLLARS: PIM
: • . A..- 2 •
INUMBEi
Gov. Iteedei: at , the ICansas'eawmatkua
The following remarks were madn . lof Gov.
Andiew Reeder, after his being 'dhoseo
President of 'the Kansas ' Convention in
Cleveland. A large crowd , istened to, -
his
address.
The Governor referred to the feet that
Kansas is at the very centre of oar conti
nent, that stretching westward is an empire.
the inheritance of freedom or 'slavery. If
we cannot save this one State, what hope
have we for the States that are to be beyond T
If Kansas is lost, all is lest to' the Pstoigo.
He said that Kansas alone was of vast
importance to the Union. But it •was not
only for KaUBaB that ibis war was being
waged. 'There is beyond that territoryive
gion enough for six States as large as Penn
sylvania. As one goes, so all will . go., •it
is a contest for 411 of these Statetapfor twelvik,
Senators in Congress who will oitiiride .111e'
North, and usurp; the freedom 'of 'every
State in the Union. But this, is not
Further South is New Mexico, Web, ;will
by these proceedings boNisolated ;from'. the
North, and , come iuto the .Union under ale
very auspices, and the North will tuna* el f
lowed to put hand upon tho first foal of that
territory as it twines into • the Union: Her
said it was, then, a contest for empire ital.
most a continent.
The great contest was not to. be 'looked
upon alone iu Ito aspect sf political prepon.
derance,but in • a far more important relation.
Thu laborer was interested id the Issu e =
Kansas. is a rich country, swell adapted to
the purpose of the farmer; intended by - God
to bo sue home of tho free white man, who
lives by the sweat of his brow. A land
whore, when our Northern country'becomes
tilled with emigration and increase, they
01111 go and - lay the foundation of their fu.
lure homes. The laboring 'olasses, of the
South can't use it. No slave State is full
or eve; will be. They: do not want dt for
the glory of our government, but forlsoliti.
cal power. They seek. to destroy its nacifiil.
nous„ and wrest it from the Nbrth, by which
the true laborer of 410 North will be boned.
down. Every laborer is interested, beans°
heu oa r States oldie North beemumerowded,
these. whoL,etnigrate to now lands - benefit
thamest**While they bouOlit ' these ' lands
they leoe, I „ .
The Position of thdlreett. ;' '
Tho St.• Louis 'Anzeiger des - Vireafebs a
daily, (Iceman 'paper of gnat circUlattoki ' lll
;be West., repudiates both thiL ?WWl:wind
candidates of the Demooratio , party. Anne,
half dozen German papers in
the two moat influential Doulooratio, papers
'
of the Stato; the Chicago' Denioetit* T and
Chicago Prose,' repinliato the DetiabOtitlii
owiliutianx, aud.ga for the Itepublioine...?...
Tyrge neutral papers of Illinois' ttig . UKbAtui
Union Canton ,Press, and Lusatia' 4urtila;
have I:ciated the Republiinin ticket.
In Cincinnati, four German Papieri;
dailies and two sieekties, op`pote tbn bon&
nation of Buchanan:
The New York Evening Post•and Pugs.
lo Daily Republic, two of thy Most talented
and widely circulated Democratic paPerii
New YerkAtrougly Bppese the Bachaunto
ticket. Several German Demoted° papers
of tho< State alartsko the same course.—
And the. New. York Herald, having the isr
p,pet circulation of any paper in New York,
and formerly an advocate of the Haas and
. the Nebraska bill, now opposes Iluohazisa
and declares for Fremont. ~•
Pennsylvanians in ltansu.
The Pittsburg Chronicle of Saturday sayii
When the calm and dispassionate historian,.
at sonic future day, shall write the history
of Kansas, he will find it his duty to pcant
to Pennsylvania—the old Keystone—as,ha
ving furnished most of the leading spirits
in 'the great contest for freedom. Re Will
first record the name of. Gov. Andrew/1.
Reeder, a Pennsylvanian. Then the name
of Lieut., Gov. Win. Y. Roberts, Alio from
this State. G. P. Lowry, Reeder's Score
tary, likewise emigrated from the East side
of the mountains. ' - '
• • To these must be added the names of four
of the five individuals now in prison- on a
charge of high treason ; via W. Daits
ler, from Schuylkill county, Geo. W. Brown,
(Editor of the Herald of Freedom ' ) from
Crawford county, Caine. Jenkirus, from
Wayne county, and Judge Smith, frora Buts ,
ler county. Mr. Hugh• Young, one of the
editors of the Herald of Freedom, is from
Coudersport, Potter county.
in addition to these more proinizient
names, there are hundreds of stout, hardy
Pennsylvanians now onbat
tling for a common end. i
• Fremones aingressional Record.---Fro
moat and Dayton botfi voted for the abolition
of the slave trade in the District of Cohun
bia., Fremont also voted ag ainst a prot
,
tion to restore flogging in t e navy.'
mont voted against a proposition for an gib
solute unconditional abolition' of Shisiry in
the District, which was overwhelmingly re
jected, and the success of which was mspected
by no one. But during the pendency of
the bill suppressing the District Slave trade,
'several votes wore taken which proved
.plainly enough wherd‘ho young Californi
an's heart was, and to which, side of the
Senate Chamber his principles othrunsmity
led him. On the 14th of September,,en
amendment'was pending providing„that,lf
a free person should entice or iridiaoe a sla6
to run away, or should harbor any auels„ he
should be immured in the District rettiten
tiary five. yeatm The vote was a elm, cc*
—Yeas 22, Na i ls 26.. Rut Frernorit s Z
,
Dayton voted o, and turned the
against it
A Merman Sket.--Jamea G, sl*g e gto
Mormon loader at Beaver lelaod 4 lll.4Wp f ,_
waa shot on the 19th by ttro,u( - biefirilati
folleFers. At latest ataMintirieritia
alive, but in a critical cioaditicau Ski 4110
easeins are under arrest.. • • v..A. •.
•
A Youthful Housicide.—A„ fewds' ,
iltaice
Daniel Linden, eked 18, elieeendifititakit
wounded boy of the sasmisp,4oo44l44.
Boyle, lAquarret . Atoob44l. - ,Opit
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