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BY S. RKOW.
VOL. Z.-KO. 3.
CLEARFIELD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1856.
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: EIGHTY YEARS AGO.
BV CHARLES 8PBAGCE.
Eighty years have rolled away,
Since that high, heroic day,
When our fathers, in the fray.
Struck the conquering blow !
Prawe to them the bold who spoke ;
Praise to them the brave who broke
w "Htern oppression's galling yoke,
Eighty years ago!
Poor the wine of sacrifice,
Let the grateful anthem rise,
hall wo eer resign the prize ?
Never never no !
ITcarta and hands shall guard thoso rights,
Bought on Freedom's battle heights,
Where he fixed his signal lights,
Eighry years ago !
Rwear it! by the mighty dead,
Those who counselled, those who led ;
Uy the blood your fathers shed,
By your mother's woe ;
Swear it! by the living few,
- Those whose breasts were scarred for yon,
When to freedom's ranks they flew,
Eighty years ago!
By the joys that cluster round,
Uy our va'les with plenty crowned,
. By our hill-tops holy ground,
Itcscued from the foe.
Where of old the Indian strayed,
, Whore of old the pilgrim prayed,
Where tbo patriot drew hid blade,
Eighty years ago !
Fhould again the war-trump pen,
There shall Indian firmness seal
Pilgrim faith and patriot zeal,
Prompt to strike the blow ;
There shall valor's work bo done;
Like the sire shall be tho son.
Where the fight was waged and won,
. Eighty years ago.
INTERESTING SKETCIT.
Tho Gipsies Characteristic! of the Eace-
-Sad
iiesuii oi a carriage.
In England there are at most 1 300 gipsies ;
In Franco, they are hardly to be found at all ;
in Spain, the last census put them at 30,000,
nearly all dwellers in cities and followers of
sedentary trades. Before the end of the pres
ent century, they will probably be extinct over
Western Europe.
The number of the Hungarian gipsies, ac
cording to the census of Maria Thciesa, is
53,000; in Transylvania, they -are reckoned
about 17,000 ; in Wallachia and Moldavia, ten
years ago, there were 37,000 families, which,
at fire to a family, would give 183,000 souls ;
bo that in the Principalities every eighteenth
person is a gipsy. In Southern Russia, theii
number is probably nearly as great j but no ac
curate computation can bo made, as they lead
an entirely wandering life, in summer grazing
their cattle on the plains, and in winter en
camping in the depths of the forest. Of the
gipsies of Hungary and the Principalities, a-
bout one fourth have partially settled down in
the towns and villages, and live, like their
Western brethren, by telling fortunes, cheat-
ing and pilfering, and ostensibly as buyers and
sellers of horses and mules, menders of ket-
ties, and street musicians. In tbo last capa-
city alone, they touch on any of the higher
attributes of humanity. Music is their gift,
as with the other wandering race, tho Jews;
and among the songlcss Hungarians, every
musician is a gipsy.
The first Eastern gipsies I met were at Brunu
in Moravia. It was fair-time, and the court
yard of the hotel was crowded with carts,
goods, horses and cattle, while their owners
were dozinz in the shade under a range of
shedding that ran round three-fourths of the
yard. On a heap of straw in the middle, in
tho full heat of the blazing sun, lay four gip
sies asleep. They were all four tall, powerful
men, with coal-black hair as coarse as rope,
treamin" over their dark faces ; and as they
lay relaxed in sleep, their figures seemed gi-
eantic. Their dress, so to call it, was a col-
lection of the vilest rags, strapped round the
waist with a rough Turkish shawl, and each
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had a large double-edged knife at his belt
Instruments lay beside them for they were
musicians ; and when the cool of the evening
catno on, they began to play. Two had vio
lins, ono a trumpet, tho fourth a Hungarian
cytnbal, which is something like a guitar,
vdaved not by hand, but with two small sticks
covctfcd with skin. Their music and mode of
nlavini were as wild as themselves. They
nlaved onlv tho old Hungarian tones, those
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sinanlar melancholy airs, in which tho genius
of the race and country is reflected, but with
a passion and a pathos that passes into the
ouls of tho listeners. Afterwards at Pesth,
those bands wc found at every dance and con
cert of the middle and lower classes. Their
music is always tho same, and to a stranger,
grows somewhat monotonous ; but the natives
seemed never tired of listening to it. With
them it is a point of honor to uphold the old
national tunes ; and while the gipsies are gen
erally looked upon as hardly possessing souls,
tho gipsy musician, if possessed of talent,
soon rises into consideration, andas often to
be met with in respectable society, and even
possessed of considerable property
Rascals as the Zigcuners (Hungarian "'1-
.-rr ;
eics) are, and living in the greatest misery and
filth in fact the dirtier their huts the better
hey like them they arc still a very handsome
race, the women especially. The burning sun
scorches their faces more, and they arc there-
fore darker in Hungary than in England ; but
the free life they lead gives them an uncon-
strained jind independent bearing, which tho
constables, the stocks and the prison Have
long taken from their island brcthern. These
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Krvlil lirnm lui:r..1 n-nnmn nnlr make OUO
astonished to thin ,ow ,h eves, teeth and
fignrcscan exist in tho stifling atmosphere of
their tents. But beautiful thov are. and their
beauty has sometimes led to unions which
have almost always resulted in misfortune.
Stefan B , a young and very rich proprie
tor of the Banat, having lost his way in the
chase, had to pass the night in a gipsy-tent
A young and beautiful girl was there, with the
deep, dark eyes and seductive smilo of her
race,' and her parents had the true gipsy guile
to fan the glowing passions of their guest,
lie was wealthy, passionate, an orphan, and
uncontrolled ; and within a week the gipsy was
his wife, and in a few days more installed in
full possession of his beautiful chateau on the
banks of the Temes. Within ten days, in
fact, the gitana had reached a fabulous for
tune. From the smoke-dried tent of her fath
er, she was transported, as if by magic, into a
noble domain, surrounded with luxuries, with
trains of servants, and a husband devoted to
her wishes. Notwithstanding this, she was
miserable. The fixed and quiet life, the very
comforts she enjoyed, seemed to press and
weign tier down, n uen licr husband ques
tioned her as to the cause of her wan and al
tered appearance, she looked on the country
and tried to smile, but the smile was full of
bitterness. Her only comfort seemed to be to
sit gazing for -hours upon tho distant wastes
she had so often traversed, bare-footed, and
rejoicing in the days of her poverty. Sho was
thus seated ono day, when her ear, ever on the
watch, caught the sound of a gipsy band.
Through the trees, sho could see the passing
forms of the men and women, the donkeys and
loaded carts, and then a joyous voice struck
up tho favorite gipsy-song
The wind is roaring through tho wood,
The moon is mounting higher,
The gipsy stops to cook his food,
And light his forest fire.
Free is the salmon in the sea,
The wild stag on the hill ;
Tho eagle in the sky is free,
The gipsy freer still
Hurrah !
The gipsy freer still !
Young girl, wilt fn my castle rest ?
I'll give thee rings of gold ;
In robes of silk thou shalt be dressed,
Thy hair with ducats rolled.
The vultnre scarce for golden cage
His nest on high will quit ;
The wild horse, free from youth to age,
Will spurn the golden bit.
So, free to rest or free to roam,
Or by the wood-fire laid,
The sky her roof, the world her home,
Will live the gipsy maid
Hurrah !
Will live the gipsy maid !
At the last note, the listener suddenly sprang
through the open casement, and vanished a-
mong the trees. When her husband came in,
no one had seen her, or could give any tidings
of her. For two days, he songht her in.vain ;
night closed upon the third, when the light of
a distant fire showed a gipsy encampment, and
his heart told him ho was near the object of
his search. Stealing through the bushes, he
approached unperceived within' a few feet of a
pair seated talking by tho firc- It was the
sing.:r and his own wife, who was telling the
former of tho weary hours in the splendid
niiscrv of her chateau.
Stefan B returned broken hearted to his
house, which he soon after quitted for ever.
The next year the Hungarian revolution broke
out, and ho found what he sought, an early
death beforo Temcsvar. Chamber's Journal.
L.vhge Investment. Hon. Wm. Spragua, of
Ithode Island, has purchased the water privi
lege on the Shetucket river, and a large tract
of land in the vicinity of the Lord's Bridge,
soma ten or twelve miles from Willimantie,
Connecticut, and has several hundred men at
work preparatory to putting up a cotton fac
tory of large size, which is to be completed
and put in operation as speedily as may be
Tho length of this structure will be 930 feet,
Virnnlfh 80 fort, four stories in height, intend-
cd to run 1,200 looms, with 50,000 spindles
For the accommodation oi me ope?ain es m
this immense establishment, Mr. S. i
building some two hundred dwelling-houses
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m tno adjoining town oi ranKiin, wnicn wm
afford homes for all in his employ.
A "Jimmv" per Quart. In the Lexington
market, a few days since, a gentleman ap
proached the stall of a fruit vender and asked
"what's the price of your strawberries V "A
Jimmv a nnart " was the response "A Jim-
my a quart !" reiterated the purchaser, why
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I never heard of a coin by that name of what
value, pray, is it?" "Why 'ten cents,' or,
other words, a dime just the amount that
Jimmy Buchanan wants poor men to work for
ncr dav. is the price that I charge for my
strawberries a quart !"
Hoors for Ladies dresses, we learn from a
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Baltimore exchange, Have been superseded
The sk-jrt Jg now Diade to "set-out" by mean
of a rrame worjj cf small stiffened hempen
rorcs and is called a skeleton skirt. When
jacc(i upright upon the floor, it resembles and
is maflo to ftn3Wer all the purposes ot a lien
coop jt j9 ais0 very convenient for a short
man witu a Tery tall wife, for by its aid he can
c-imD cp and kiss her, as a sailor climbs the
si,roujs 0f a vessel.
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m vw York 'Herald' says that half
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million of dollars "were oflered for that paper
I by the Democrats
READ! READ!!
Who Began the Aggressions in Kansas t
To form a proper idea where the responsi
bility rests for the present state of affairs in
Kansas, remarks the Philadelphia Sun of tho
2Cth Aug., it is necessary to trace the origin
of the disturbances. We can easily do it now,
though a few months ago it was covered by
such a multitude of inventions by Douglas,
Stringfellow and their numerous adherents,
that some good people may have had their
doubts and been not a little mystified. It is
on that supposition that we copy a plain state
ment, which subsequent investigations, espe
cially of the industrious and able Investigat
ing Committee of the House of Representa
tives, have enabled tho Newark Advertiser to
prepare. Previons to the enactment of the
law constituting Kansas a Territory, a power
ful society was formed in Missouri for the ex
press purpose of making Kansas a slave State.
How they proceeded to carry out their plan,
as soon as that act passed, was afterwards ful
ly made apparent by the warlike irruption of
its members and others into that Territory,
taking violent possession of the ballot boxes,
driving away the real inhabitants from the
polls and not allowing them to vote at all.
Thus were elected the members of their sham
Legislature and their delegate to Congress.
In consequence of these illegal and outrage
ous transactions, Whitfield lias been denied
admission as delegate to the House, and the
acts of the Legislature have been declared to
be a disgrace to any country, not only for
their base origin but for their unconstitutional
and tyrannical provisions. They have been
denounced and repudiated on all sides, and
no one, whatever his opinions on other mat
ters may be. has a word to utter in their de
fence. We shall not now recite them they
have been published in this paper and throngh
out the Union. Their object, however, was
professedly to make Kansas a slave State, by
first making it a slave Territory. The stave
laws of Missouri, in a body, were consequent
ly made at once the laws of the Territory,
and the flagitious acts referred to were subsi-
iary to this great design.
In furtherance of the same object, the ju-
iciary, under the Jennes oi Kansas, tiiici
nstice Le Comptc, was set into motion. Un
der his direction, some of the principal men
of the Free State party, who had been already
disfranchised, were indicted for treason for
peaceably meeting to deliberate on their grie
vances, and see what could be recommended
for a remedy, as they had a right to do by the
provisions of the constitution. These were
arrested, thrown into prison, where their per
secutors have confined them ever since. Not
content with this, the Kansas Jeffries sanc
tioned the indictment of some of the most
aluable buildings belonging to Free State
men in Lawrence, as nuisances, and had them
burnt, their contents pillaged, and tho w omen
found there, barbarously abused. These vil
lains, at the head of whom was Atchison, now
boast of their villainous exploits, and show in
triumph the arms, horses, cattle, furniture,
and other property, of which they robbed the
lawful owners. Then they prosecuted a set
tled plan to hunt Free State settlers, known
to be such, and drive them from the Territory
At the same time, associations were formed to
operate externally, in order to prevent the ar
rival of fresh emigrants from the Free States,
disarming some, turning back others, while
thoso from the Slave States were promptly
permitted to proceed, and encouraged to
come, me missouri river is a cioseu ni iu
rec emigrants, and obstructions arc thrown
in their way by land approach to Kansas in
every possible direction. In these high-hand
ed measures, troops have come in aid from
South Carolina. Georcia and Alabama. Not
content with these, Pierce ordered Col. Sum
ner to march against the inhabitants of Kansas
with a largo body of U. S. troops, of which
Gen. Smith has recently been sent to take the
command. The inhabitants of Kansas are,
therefore, subdued, or expelled, as Douglas
threatened, while tho trials for treason of the
friends in whom they reposed their confidence,
arc appointed to take place in September,
The condition of the country is as deplorable
as can be imagined, and the hopes of freedom
for its people at the lowest point. W e sin
ccrclv deplore their great sufferings ;hey do,
indeed, deserve the sympathy of their lellow-
citizens everywhere
And what can justify such foul, such cnor
mous oppression 1 Can such things happen in
America, the land of the happy and free, we
hear men exclaim ? Why, what a mockery
are our constitution, our boasts of security
and equality ! Worse things could not hap
pen in Austria or Turkey. Is there not some
ftnrlorv for these infernal outrages ? We have
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never heard but one, and that is a falsehood
.,. r wvr.-ir.ipnce
Tt u Raid liv wav of excuse for all this vioienco
that Massachusetts had incorporated an Emi
grant Aid Society, for the purpose of convert-
State, by force and
moner. This is now proved to be a shame
f:,l.hood. without the least foundation
That State did incorporate an Emigrant Aid
rLVanv in February, 1835, long after the
passaco of tho Kansas Territorial act, with a
nominal capital of one million, not ten, as as
serted ; but which capital never, in fact, cx
The ob
cccdcd a hundred thousand dollars
jtct stated was "for tho purpose of directing
emigration westward, and aiding in providing
accommodations for the emigrants after arriv
ing at their places of destination." . ",
This was the object of the Society, and the
sole one, and no other assistance wasevcr ren
dered them, as sworn by tho officers, except
in cheapening their tickets in consequence of
the discount procured of the transportation
companies. These officers also swore, that no
emigrant was asked his opinion respecting sla
very before he started, and that no abolitionist,
to their knowledge, was a member of the So
ciety. The president was a retired citizen.
Tho Society expected to make their profit in
land purchases, no doubt, and in raising up a
population to consume their manufactures.
Those who represented the design or the acts
of the Society as any way contrary to this
statement were base and malicious slanderers,
and this has at length been fixed upon them by
public opinion. Senator' Douglas was one of
the first to aid the Missouri rnflians in the cir
culation of the calumny from his place at
Washington, which he has more than onco
prostituted to ignominious uses. How little
reason was given for Missouri violence by any
thing the Massachusetts Emigrant Society
had done, is conclusively shown by the official
census ot the territory taken a month previ
ous to the invasion, whereby it appears, that
of all the adult freemen then in the territory,
amounting to near 8000, only 100 were lrom
the New England States !
Are have now given in few words the gist.
we believe, oi tno Kansas war. trom mis
truthful and plain statement, the answer can
readily bo given, to the question, with which
wa commenced, "Who began the aggressions
in Kansas ?" Atchison and the Missouri Ruf
fians began it for the slaveholders in tho field;
but he, Dixon, of Kentucky, and -others, made
use of Douglas to begin it previously in the
Senate Councils. , With these conspirators
Pierce was an accessory before the fad, and
Buchanan is on accessory after the fact.
THE SPANISH DIFFICULTIES.
The cause of the frequent recurring difficul
ties in Spain is mainly to be attributed to the
family quarrel which has so long divided the
reigning family. The Herald says, the present
Queen holds her sceptre illegally in the opin
ion of the Spanish absolutists. Until 1714
the Spaish crown descended to the next inher
itor, male or female, but the Salic law was in
troduced in the reign of Philip V., who was
of French descent, and the States of the king
dom settled the succession in his male descen
dants, in preference to the females, though
they might be nearer in blood. And this con
tinued to be the case until the reign of Ferdi
nand VIL, the father of the present Queen.
This monarch had four wives, the last being
Christina daughter of Francis I., King of Na
ples. By her, he had a daughter born in 18G0,
who received the name of Maria Isabella.
The same year he abolished the Salic law, and
in order to ensure the succession of his young
wife, ho named her as his successor in his will,
and appointed her mother as the regent in
case of her death, until Isabella arrived at the
age of 18 years. In 1833, however, when the
King was supposed to be at the point of death,
his Ministers, to gain tho favor of the heir-
presumptive, tho King's brother, Charles Ma
ria Isadore, better known as Don Carlos, ob
tained from the sick man, in a moment of un
consciousness, a restoration of tho Salic law.
Unfortunately for them he recovered, dismis
sed his ministry, and repudiated their mea
sures. He died in 1833. The Queen Dowa
ger assumed the regency, the Cortes unani
mously sided with her,and passed a bill exclu
ding Don Carlos from the throne. From that
moment a fierce civil war broke out, known as
the war of the Christinos and Carlists, ono of
the bloodiest and most cruel ever known in
Spain. It lasted many years, and so sadly bea
ten were the Queen's troops for a time, that a
legionary force of 8,000 men was raised in
England for her assistancc,and sent over under
the command of Gen. De Lacy Evans. It was
not until 1S39, by the wise and moderate poli
cy of Espartcro, as well as his good general
ship, that quiet was restored and the Queen's
authority established. Don Carlos retired to
France, subsequently to England, and is since
dead. As soon as the Queen Regent felt her
self secure, she began to discover her dislike
of liberalism, and having an accidental major
ity in the Cortes, she destroyed at a blow some
of the dearest and most ancient rights of
the municipal corporations. This led to
revolt, a declaration against the law by Espar
tcro, the dismissal of her ministry, and the
dissolution of the Cortes. She soon afterwards
resigned her authority and retired to MarseiL
les. In 1841 sho attempted to regain her po
sition, and the notorious O'Donnell seized on
rampcluna in her name. The insurrection
was put down, and the payment of her peusion
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suspended. Sho is now in Paris, and is said
to bo constantly intriguing to bring about her
return to Madrid. The Queen, a gay and dis
sipated woman, is led by her favorites of the
hour into all kinds of misconduct, and is once
more in tho midst of a revolution, and nnhap-
ry Spain, the victim of family quarrels, is a
gain in the hands of political matadois. . .
At latest accounts, Gov. Robinson, Brown
- I and other prisoners were still in custody of
jjho United States troops in Kansas.
Tho Persecution of Colonel Fremont.
SEN ATOlt WILSON'S SPEECH.
In the Senate, on the 11th, when the resolu
tion introduced by Mr. Biclkr, of Pennsylva
nia, calling upon the Treasury Department for
copies of the papers concerning the accounts
of John C.Fremont with the Government camo
up for consideration. Hon. Henry Wilson, of
Massachusetts, rose and said :
Mr. President The days of this session are
rapidly passing. Business of the highest im
portance presses upon our consideration.
Chairman of leading Committees, charged with
measures of great public concern, crowd for
ward to obtain the ear of the Senate.
While the Senate is thus engaged in the per
formancc of its high duties to the counrry,the
Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Biglcr) thrusts
before us this little, petty proposition a prop
osition unworthy a moment's attention of hon
orable men, in or out of the Senate. The Sen
ator from Pennsylvania, not content with laun
ching into the Senate this scheme which
must have originated with some mousing poli
tician, engaged in the pursuit of petty ends
by petty means but ho presses its considera
tion now, in spite of the earnest remonstran
ces of the Chairman of the Committee on Fi
nance (Mr. Hunter,) who is charged with the
care of the Civil and Diplomatic bill, and the
Chairman of the Committee on the Pacific
Railroad (Mr. Weller.) who wishes to call the
Senate to the consideration of that great mea
sure, to unite the Atlantic aud Pacific shores
of the Republic. But the Civil and Diploma
tic bill, and the Pacific Railroad bill, must be
thrust af ide, other measures must be thrust a-
idc. bv the Senator lrom Pennsylvania, mat
the Senate ruav consider this proposition by
which certain political schemers hope to elicit
something out of which they can manufacture
slanders against abiave man, who has served
is country with eminent ability in peace and
n war. XIic Senator trora Pennsylvania can
not suppose that this proposition w ill pass this
body without at least a passing notice. He
takes the responsibility, lie cnooses to press
it, and I shall take at least a lew momenws oi
the time of the Senate to characterize the pro
position as I think it deserves.
Does the Senator from rennsyivania expoct
to win laurels by thrusting this proposition in
to the Senate ? Docs ho think the generous
people of this country will applaud this at-
empt to wound the sensibilities and delaine
the character of one who has won a brilliant
name in tho history of the Republic one
whoso explorations and scientific lubois has
conferred npon our country honor and renown
among all civilized nations J Does be expect
to win support for his favorite candidate for
the Presidency by thrusting into the Senate
this wretched proposition J This is small game.
If that Senator hopes to win popular confi
dence and applause, if he hopes to turn back
the tide of popular favor that is bearing John
C. Fremont to the Executive Chair, by this
resolution,which I here prononncc,whic!i hon
orable men in and out of the Senate will pro
nounce,and which the country will pronounce,
small and mean, he will find himself sadly mis
taken. Wherever this proposition poos, high-
minded men will treat it with derision, scorn
and contempt ; and no little of derision, scorn
and contempt, will be visited upon inc me n
who resort to such devices to effect political
results. I would not stoop to snch a warfare
as this. If it was aimed at James Buchanan
I would spurn it from me.
This is not the first time, Mr.President, that
the shafts of political malignity have been
hurled at men who have served the Republic,
and it is not the first time that the Senate has
been called upon to grope among the archives
of the Government to discover some accounts,
or tho records of some account, between the
Government and men who have lcen lntrus.ed
with public funds, out of which something
would be distorted for partisan ends.
In 1828. Andrew Jackson was assailed lor
his military deeds. .The people, unmindful of
these assaults, bore nim proudly to tiie l resi
dential Chair over ono of the purest, ablest
and most incorruptible patriots that ever grac
ed the councils of the Republic.
In 1840, Gen. Harrison was assniled by tiie
envenomed tongue of slander'brandcd a cow
ard and denounced as a bad man, and tiie peo
ple took him in their arms and bore him to
the Executive Chair over his experienced and
accompli shed competitor.'
In 1818, Zachiy-y Taylor, was denounced in
the same manner his accounts with the Gov
ernment through long years of public service,
overhauled and audited over again by the po
litical accountants and auditors.
In 1832, General Scott a soldier who has.
served the Republic for more than forty years
in peace and war, with unsurpassed anility,
was arraigned in the same manner and for a
similar object. What was gained by those as
saults upon Jackson, Harrison, Taylor, Scott ?
1 venture to say here to-day, that an mese as
saults npon these distinguished men, concern
ins their monctarv transactions with the gov
ernment, never lost them tho confidence or
support of any portion oi me American peo
ple. Let the American people believe these
assaults to be unjust, mean, contemptible.
Pass this resolution, draff out ot the depart
ments the bills, vouchers, letters and papers
betwccnCol.Frcmont and theGovernment, gar
ble them, scatter them over the land, blast
their contents into the unwilling car of the
country, and the people, with that sense of
justice, that the practical judgment which dis
tinguishes them, will pronounce it alt politi
cal persecution. .
Yes, sir, this partisan scheme will bring up
on its authors upon the men engaged in its
execution no public confidence or regard,
but public censure and contempt, and it will
bring to Col. Fremont the sympathy which
honest men ever give to the persecuted. .
Col. Fremont was entrusted by his govern
ment with high and responsible duties. . These
duties were tar distant from the scat of gov
ernment beyond the borders of the States
in the Territory beyond tho Father of Waters
in tho Rocky Mountains in California.
Those high and responsible duties were per
formed in a manner that won the commenda
tion of the government, the approval of hon
orable Senators . upon this floor aud tho ap
plause and admiration of a grateful people.
His name is forever associated with the path
ways to the golden shores or the Pacific, thro'
the gorges of the Rocky Mountains with tho
conquest and acquisition of California.
Money was entrusted in his hands. In the
performance of duties assigned him, men, pro
perty, money, wero an tor months years en
trusted to his keeping. The pcoplo will t
mand whv John C. Fremont is arraigned nov
eight or ten years after his duties to his gov
ernment were performed. If his accounfe
were unsettled if he had failed to acconit
for money placed in his hands, if he was il
any sense a defaulter, why, the people will dei
mand, was he not reported as tho laws require
by the projior officers t Why was his nam
left out of the list of public officers whose ac
counts were reported as unsettled I
On the 10th of January, 1834, Hon. Elishs
Whittlesey, Controller of tho Treasury, made
a report to the House of Representatives, in
which he savs: "In conformity with the pro
visions of the act of Congress, approved March
8, 1800, entitled an act further to amend tho
several acts fr tho establishment and regula
tion of the Treasury, War, and Navy Depart-
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ments, and of me act passed iarcu o, ion,
entitled 'an act to provide for the prompt set
tlement of tl-.o public accounts,' 1 transmit
'herewith, statements of the accounts which re
mained due more than three years prior to the
1st day of July. 1833, on the books of the Re
gister" of the Trcasnrv, and on the books of
the 21, 3d and 4th Anditors of the Treasury."
This report, Mr. President, contains ninety
six (M) pages of names, reported in obedience
to the requirements ol the laws, by Mr. Big
pcr, Register of the Treasury ; Mr. Clayton,
Second Auditor ; Mr. Bnrt.Third Auditor, and
Mr. Dayton. Fourth Auditor. These reports
of tho "Auditors of the Treasury Department,
contain the names of persons whose "accounts
have remained unsettled, or on which balances
appear to have been due more than tbrc.e years
prior to July 1, 1833, furnished in pursuance,
of the 2d section of the act of Congress ap
proved March 8, 1800, entitled An act to a
tuond the seven 1 acts for tho establishment
and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Na
vy Departments,' and 'the names of officers
whose accounts for advances made, or balan
ces unaccounted lor, one year prior to July 1,
1833, have not been settled within the year;
prepared in pursuance of tho 13th section of
the act of March 3, 1817.' " '
In this long list of names I find the names
of some of the noblest sons of the Republic.
The names of Genera's Gaines, Worth, and
Harney are in this list, but the name of John
C. Fre'mont is not among them. If his ac
counts were unsettled if a balance were a
gainst lain why was not his name reported ?
This name is not in the list of persons wheso
accounts were unsettled, during the years pro
ceeding that date. On the first day of July,
ISO'S, no moneys were in his hands unaccount
ed lor. He owed the Government nothing.
At that very time he had a claim for supplies
furnished the Government as early as July,
1831. That claim was examined and reported
uxn by a committee of the House of Repre
sentatives, at the head of which was Colonel
Orr, ono of the leaders of the Administration
in the Honse.
That committee reported a hill allowing Col.
Fremont 183,823, and that bill received tho
unanimous vote of the House and Senate, and
the approval ot President Pierce, on the 20th
of July, 1834. If his accounts were unsettled,
if money was in his hands unaccounted for
if the Government had any balance against
him, why, Sir, why did not your Administra
tion coinpcl 3 settlement and secure any claims
of the Government when it held $ 183,823 of
John C. Fremont's in its coffers ? Will the
Senator from Pennsylvania, w ili any Senator
answer this question j
Some mousing politician in the departments,
or one who has access to the departments,soroe
little, soulless craaturc, ever ready to blast the
reputation of honorable men, has doubtless
found tapers bearing upon Col.Fremont's con
nections with the Government out of which ho
thinks extracts can le quoted, if pnblished.by
which veual politicians can blacken the repu
tation of one they fear aud hate, and the Sen
ator from Pennsylvania comes into this Cham
ber, with this resolution, to carry out this
small game.ol political malignity.
I shall vote, Sir, for this inquiry, but I wash
mv hands ot its meanness it abject bitterness.
If" it applied to anybody's candidate but tho
one which I support, I would vote against it.
I would never consent to resort to such petty
warfare. The Senator from Pennsylvania as
sumes to be Mr. Buchanan's fugleman here. I
have sometimes thought the Senator, in bis
deep anxiety, felt that he carried Mr. Buchan
an on hl shoulders. I hold James Buchanan
responsible for an attempted blow at his rival
struck by the. hand of theSonator fromPenn-
svlvania who professes to be his particular
friend, who is ever watchful of his interest and
fame. So prompt is the Senator from Penn
sylvania to rush to the defence of Mr. Buchan
an, that I have come to regard him as that gen
tleman's pTemonitary symptom" here. No
thing but that Senator's extreme desire to bet
ter the watiing fortunes of his chief,could havo
induced him to engage in this political device.
Mr. President The people will regard this
as persecution. It will bring odium not up
on Col. Fremont, but upon the men who orig
hited it and move in it. It will rather re
dound, as ail such attacks against candidates
for thePresidency have donc,to his advantage.
The issues are made up. They are the gravest
and most transcendent issues ever presented
to the people of the United States. All that
the Senator from Pennsylvania and his candi
date can trrnko out of this inquiry will not
weigh a feathcu- the coming contest, which
is to decide wheths- Freedom or Slavery shall
sway the policy ot the Republic.
Iowa vounjr Iowa has uttered her voice for
John C- Fremont by a majority of thousands. '
Maine will respond to Jowa lor tne tast in a
few weeks in a voice not to lc mistaken. Tho
Senator cannot break the mighty current that
is bearing the friends of free Kansas on to as
sured triumph by this petty political man.tar
vre which gentlemen should not stoop to en
gage in. Pennsylvania, on the 14th of Octo
ber may teach her Senator that she is not to
be won by any attempt to defame the Chief
tain, around whose banner the liberal, progres
sive, Democratic masses of the country are
rallying for the coming fight.
I have not spoken, Mr. President, of the mo
tives that have actuated theSenator fromPenn
sylvania in introducing this inquiry. I havo
nothing to do with raotives. I have spoken of
the act, and I have spoken of it as I think it
deserves. Perchance tho Seuator feels that
he has the good name and fame of Col. Fre
mont, as well as Mr. Buchanan, in his keeping.
Perhaps wc ought to feel grateful to hin for
his zeal for the regulation of our candidate,
but I cannot but feel that whatever tho effect
of this inquiry may be npon Col. Fremont.the
Senator will win no laurels by it, that any ono
will desire to pluck from his brow.
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