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BT-.S. B. ROW.
Tn E BLOODY LAWS OF KANSAS.
Freedom of speech and freedom of the Press
rc guaranteed by the Constitution. The Lo
cofoco leaders claim that they wish to sustain
the Constitution. Below we give one of the
acts of "the bloody code of Kansas." It in
fringes upon both the above constitutional
rights. And yet Mr. Buchanan and the De
mocracy are bound to uphold these laws, which
tho Aahonal Intelligencer says "are a disgrace
to the country and its free institntions, and a
greater invasion of public liberty than were
the acts which brought the head of Charles I.
to the block." The Administration have or
dered the entire disposable force of the Army
there, to aid "the Border Ruffians and Slaverv
propagandists to enforce these laws at the
point of the bayonet, and never to cease nntil
the Free State Settlers are exterminated by
the employment at once of all the power and
vigor of the military and the Southern marau
ders in that region.
The following law was passed by the Border
Ruffian Legislature, and is now being enforced
upon the doomed people of Kansas at the
' point of the bayonet by the United States
troops. Kead it thoroughly.
.In Act to punish Offences against Slave Property.
Sec. 1. Bo it enacted by the Governor and
Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kan
sas, That every person, bond or free, who shall
be convicted of actually raising a rebellion or
insurrection of slaves, free negroes or mulat
tos in this Territory Shall Suffer DEATH.
Sec. 2. Every free person who shall aid and
assist in any rebellion orinsurrcctior of slaves,
free negroes or mulattoes, or shall furnish
arms, or do any overt at:t in furtherance of
such rebellion or insurrection, Shall StrrtR
DEATH.
Sec. 3. If any free person shall, bv speak-
ino, writing or printing, advise, persuade or
induce any slaves to rebel or conspire against
any citizen oi mis Territory, or shall brins in
ii pnui, write, puunsn or circulate, or cause
to be brought into, printed, written, t.uhlished
or circulated, or saall knowingly aid or assist
in ine bringing iiito.pnnting, writing, pub-
iisumg or circulating in this territory, any
book, paper, Magazine, pamphlet or circular,
for the purpose of exciting insurrection on
me part ot the slaves, free negroes or mulat
tos, against the citizens of the Territory, or
ur.y pan oi mem, such person shall be cciltt
OF Ft-LONY AND SUFFER DEATII.
Sec. 4. If any person shall entice, decoy or
.carry away out oi tins lerntory, any slaves
belonging to another, with the intent to de
prive the owner thereof of the services of such
id ive, oi with intent to effect or procure the
oned at bard labor for not less than ten years.
Sec. 5. If any person aids or assists in enti
cing, deco3"ing, or persuading, or carrying a
w ay or sending out of this Territory any slave
belonging to another, with intent to procure or
rffeil the freedom of such slave, or with intent
to deprive the owner thereof of the services
of such slave, he shall be adjudged guilty of
grand larceny, and on conviction thereof shall
sitter DEATII, tr be imprisoned at hard la
bor for not less than ten years.
Sec. G. If any person shall entice, decoy, or
carry away out of any State or Territory of
the United Stotes, any slave belonging to an
other, with inttnt to procure or effect the freedom
of such slave, or to deprive the owner thereof
of the services of such slave, in this Territo
ry, he shall be adjudged guilty of grand l.ir
ceny, in the same manner as if such slave had
been enticed, decoyed or carried away out of
the Territory, and in such case the larceny
may La charged to have been committed in
any county f this Territory, into or through
wLick such slave shall have been brought by
Mich person, and on conviction thereof, the
person offending shall suffer DEATH, or be
imprisoned at hard labor for not less than ten
years.
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or induce any slave to escape from the ser- ,
vice of m f,r nnr i tl.U TVrrifnrv
Jl .All in. 1 3Uil SUdll VIllllV. ICIAUdUU '
er shall aid or assist any slave escaping from
the service of his master or owner, or shall a
sist, harbor or conceal any
escaped from the service
er, he shall be deemed
punished by imprifonme
less than five veais.
Sec. 8. It any person in this Territory shall
ftid or assist, harbor or conceal any slave who
has escaped from the service of bis master or
owner in another State or Territory, such per
son shall be punished in like manner as if such
slave had escaped from the service of his mas
ter or owner in this Territory.
Sec. 9. If any person shall resist any officer
whilst attempting to arrest any slavk that may
have escaped from tho service of his master
r owner, or shall rescue such slave when in
custody of such ollicer or other person w ho
may have such Slave in custody, whether.such
Slave has escaped trom the service of his mas
ter or owner in this territory or in any other
State or Territory, the person so oflending
shall be guilty of felony and punished by impris
onment at hard labor for a term not less than lico
years.
Sec. 10. If any marshal, sheriff, or consta
ble, or the deputy of any such officer, shall,
when required by any person, refuse to aid or
Rssist in the arrest and capture of any slave that
may have escaped from the service of his mas
ter or owner, whether such Slave shall have
escaped from his master or owner in this Ter
ritory or any other State or Territory, such of
ficer shall be fined in a sum of not less than
one hundred nor more than five hundred dol
lars. ,
Sec. 11. If any person print, write, introduce
into, publish or circulate, or cause to be brotight
into, printed, written, published or circulated, or
- shall knowingly aid or assist in bringing into,
printing, publishing or circulating within this
Territory, any dook, paper, paiiii"it., "o
zine. handbill or circular, containing any
STATEMENT, ARGUMENT, OPINIO, SENTIMENT,
doctrine, advice or inuendo, calculated to
produce a dissatisfaction among the slaves
in this Territory, or to induce sucn Slaves to
escape from the service of their masters, or
resist their authority, he shall be guilty of fel
ony, and be punished by imprisonment at hard
labor for a term not less than fire years.
Sec. 12. If any free person, by speaking
or writing, assert or maintain that persons
have sot the bigut to hold slaves in this
territory, or shall intioduce into this Terri
tory, rist, PURLISH, WRITE, CIRCULATE, OR
CACSE TO BE WRtTTEX, TRISTED, PUBLISHED OR
ciKcuiATi i- tr:s TrRBlTOUT, any dook, p
of his master or own- I ,. ' ,. r . , ' ",
. .1 hen some salt nrovismris .iml vi?ot:i!Iis i-ir
guilty of telony, ani ... I Ju i " ".7"" .""LT
per, magazine, pamphlet, or circular, contain- l
1EIHL OflHE BIGUT F PERSONS TO
IIOLD SLAVES IS TIIIS TERRITORY, such persons
shall be deemed guilty of felony, and punished
by IMPRISONMENT AT HARD LABOR or o crm nof
less than two years.
Sec. 13. No person who Is conscicntiously
opposed to holding of Slave:., or who does not
admit the right to hold Slaves in this territory,
shall sit as a Juror on the trial of any prosecu
tion for the violation of any of tho sections of
this act.
This act to take effect and be in force from
and after the 18th day of Sept. A. D. 1855.
S.gned J. II. Stringfellow, Speaker of the
nouse. Attest, J. 31. Lyle, Clerk. Thomas
-ounson. rresiuent of the Council.
J. A. Halderman, Clerk.
Attest,
B UCII AN AX AND LOW WAGES
On the 22nd January 1840, Mr. Buchanan
made a speech in the United States' Senate,
(viae Congressional Globe, for Jan. 1810, pp.
13-3-6, or Niles' Register vols. 07 and 68,) in
which the following passages occur:
"In Germany, where the currenov is nnreU-
iuc cost oi everything is reduc
ed to a hard money standard, a pieco of broad-
cioui can De manufactured for fifty dollars.the
manufacture of w hich, in our country from the
expansion of paper currency would cost one
hundred dollars. What is the consequence ?
The foreign French and German manufacturer
imports this cloth into our country and sells it
for a hundred. Does not every person per
ceive that the redundancy of our currency is
equal to a premium of one hundred per cent,
in layor of the manufacturer.
"No tariff of protection, unless it amounted
to prohibition, could counteract these advan
tages in favor of foreign manufactures. I
would to heaven that I could arouse the atten
tion of every manufacturer of tho nation to
this important subject.
What is the reason that, with all these ad
vantages and with tho protective duties which
our laws afford to tho domestic manufacture of
cotton, we cannot obtain exclusive possession
of the homo market, and successfully contend
for the markets of the world ? It is simply
because we nianufacture at the nominal prices
of our own inflated currency, and are compel
led to sell at the real. prices of other nations.
REDUCE OCR NOMINAL TO THE REAL STANDARD OF
PRICES THROIGUOIT THE WORLD, AND TOU COV
ER OI R COUNTRY WITH BLESSINGS AND BENEFITS.
"The comparative low prices of France
and Germany have afforded such a stimulous
to their mannfacturcs,that they are now rajml
TTiEiRpaoTECTivEltcriEsT Vhi Id Uritish Lian
tifactures arc now languishing, thoso of the
continent aro springing into a healthy and
Aigorous existence."
Having thus given Mr. Buchanan's own
smooth and polished language, let us see what
is the meaning of it in plain English, w hen be
says "reduce our nominal standard of prices
it . . . .
turougnom tne whoio world, and you cover
the country with blessings and benefits."
Now, what did Mr. Buchanan mean by this
language, if he meant anything, but that our
standard of prices should be reduced to that
of the hard money currency of Europe J And
what is the European standard then, to which
he desired our own to be reduced T Accord
ing to the best authorities on that subject,
Porter's Progress and Wade's History of the
Middle and Working Classes two recent pub
lication's, containing statistics collected by
the British Government, the standard of pri
ces for labor in Europe, is as follows :
Wages in France. Calais common laborers
t Jd, per day, with board, and without dwcl
, - . - .
"Vs 5 ,uloSne Per day, do. do. ; JN antes,
?d per day, with ut board ami without duel
Iin? ; f"sVlJCS, t0 7J.' Vr d.a"with bo?.rJ
and without dwelling. The food in some dis-
little gre.so or lard twice a-dav. potatoes, or
other vcgebles, but seldom butcher's meat."
Sweden. Tne daily wages of a skilled ag
riculturist arc-M. or . wi,ije the unskilled
obtain no uiore than 3d. or 4d. and board
themselves. Agrfy,itHrist3 ju tno southern
provinces live upon fish an(j potatoes ; in
me noriuern pro luccSkpoj-ndgc and rye bread
form their food."
Bavaria. "Laboreis n0 paid at the rate of
8d. per day, in tho coontrj," without board.
Belgium. "A skilled arUzan may earn, in
Summer, Is. 2. to Is. St. . -m Winter, from
lOd. to Is. 2d. ; unskiHed,aif as mlich,with
out board ; live upon rye bi.ajj potatoes, and
milk." Agricultural laborer ,ave jeS3.
Germany. "Dantzig, laborce 41 Q 74,
per aay, wunoui ooara ; :uuij,ur,, - j .,cr
day, wunoui ooara; uoisicm, per j.,
without board."
Netherlands. South Holland larcrs o,
to -Id. per day, with board; North tiolfand
20d. per day. without board ; Antwer.r)(i pcr
day, do. ; West Flanders, 06s, to lt por
per year, with board."
Italy. "Trieste laborers, 12d. per day",,,,
outboard; do. 6d. per day.with board ; Isl
8d. to lOd. pcr day, without board ; do. 4dJ
Sl nnr lav with lio.ml ; Lombard?. 4d. to a
a day, do ; Genoa, 5d. to 8d. per day, do, and
without lodgings ; Tuscany, Cd. per day ,with -
out either."
Saxony. "In 1837 a man employed in bis
own loom working very diligently from Mon
day morning to Saturday night, from 5 o'clock
in the morning until dusk, and even at times
with a lamp, his wife assisting him in finishing
and taking him the work, could not possibly
earn more than 20 groschen (about CO cents)
per week. Nor could one who had 3 children
aged 12 years and upwards, all working at the
loom as well as himself, with his wife employ
ed doing up the work, earn in the whole more
than $1 weekly."
These are facts which speak for themselves.
This is the doctrine of James Buchanan, in
1810. Ten cents is about the average stand
ard of European labor. And it is to this
...iiil ! wished ours to be reduced. How
vou like it, re honest laboring men of
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do
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slave who may hava " 'J "r"u oul' ' '
at hard labor for not J' "c;u-
I tn jreyi, soup made with vegetables, and a
CLEARFIELD, WEDNESDAY,' OCTOBER 8, 18-56.
THE LOVE THAT LASTS.
'Tis not a flower of instant growth ;
But from an unexpected germ,
That lay within the hearts of both,
Assumes its everlasting form.
As dainty buds among the grass,
With the satne green do silent grow,
or maids nor boys that laughing pass,
Can tell if they bo flowers or no
Till on some genial morn in May,
Their timid, modest leaflets rise,
Disclosing beauties to the day,
That strike tho gazer with surpriso
So soft, so sweet, so mild, so holy,
So cheerful in obscured shade.
So unpretending, meek and lowly,
And yet the pride of each green glade.
So love doth spring, go love doth grow,
If it be such as never dicn.
The bud just opens here below,
Tho flo wer blooms on in paradise.
IIARLTO.VS FIRST WIFE.
BT LINNA LINWOOD.
"I don't think Harlton and Alice Lee will
ever marry," said my friend to ma the other
day. "Harlton, so well educated, so refined
in his manners, so noble and generous, and so
handsome ! Can you believe he would think
of wedding a poor forlorn girl, a sewing girl
in his father's family 1 I tell you 'tis all
moonshine ; when Harlton marries, it will be
one with beauty and wealth, his equal," and
Kate's dark eyes flashed, and her check flush
ed as she spoke.
"A queenly beauty, a Clcopatrass beauty
you mean that dark flushing beauty which car
ries a heart by storm. Oh, Kate! because
Alice is not so sparklingly beautiful as your
own proud self, don't call her plain. Did you
ever see softer, brighter golden hair waving
over a faiTcr, burcr brow Did you ever see
eyes so clear, so' laughing, so loving in their
gaze; or a rouudor cheek, or a prettier rosy
mouth, or a more graceful form ? Did you
ever hear a laugh that was merrier, or a step
lighter than Alico Lee's ?
"Now," I continued mischievously, "do
you suppose Harry would rather win this little
sunbeam, or the flash of lightning. You say
'tis moon-shine, but I think it will be sunshine
if ever Harry and Alice wed."
"Well, perhaps so," said Kate with a sigh
iuy part 1 wouldn't exchange places with her."
"Do you know the reason, Kate ?" -
"There, don't trouble mo ; you are such a
quiz and Kate arose and took a seat at tho
opposite side of the room, and tve changed the
subject.
I think I never witnessed a more joyous
bridal than that of Harry Harlton and Alice
Lee. Sweet Alice ! how happy she was, with
her noblcfsouled, high minded husband how
she loved, yes, almost worshipped him. It
was, perhaps, wroug, yet that joyousness sub
sided to a calm and quiet peacefulness a
strong, firm and unshaken love and confidence
in the one of her choice.
11 was a pretty nu;e cottage, with vines
climbing over the lattico and over the win
dows. That was Alice's home after her mar
riage. Alice, as was before noticed, was pen
niless, and her husband was not wealthy ; so
with one servant to aid them in their garden,
Alice attended to the household duties, while
Harlton was away at his office ; and when night
came, there was always a bright happy face to
welcome him, and charming, loving words to
greet him. O ! those days ! they pasaed away.
"They parted as the waves glido on ; they died
as stars go down." There is a little grove,
with.a pretty white fence around it a plain,
white marble slab, with simply "Alico Harl
ton, aged nineteen," engraved thereon. She
died young. It is such the good Father calls
home, ever surrounded by love and tenderness
perhaps to show us how vain it is to place
our affections here.
Poor Harlton ! he wandered a broken spirit
ed man. There stood the little cottage. An
other summer had come on. Tho vines clam
bered again over the window where Alice a
year before would wait bis return. How lone
ly, how disconsolate ! Thcro was no joyous
face to smile a welcome ; there was no soft
melodious voice to beguile the evening hours
away. For a while be gave up to solitude and
sorrow ; then came forth into the world's gay
ities, as if to drown in mirth the deep heart
sorrows.
It was a beautiful evening. I sat alone in
my room, and I coniess my thoughts were sad
thoughts of the loved and lost came to miud,
and the pure sweet image of Alice was among
them. The- door was suddenly thrown open,
and the sparkling, beautiful. Kate entered.
She smiled gaily, yet came, I thought, more
iruntly than usual, and seated herself by my
Ic.
You will be surprised, Mary dear," she
saiv iwhen I tell you my errand. I wish you
to lRnv i,rjdesmaid."
v then are going to be married," I ex
claimcCjooking at her dark eycs
She ot answered by a langh, then replied
soberly, g0;ng to wed tho only man I
ever loved-.Tarrv Harlton."
I was strn. dumb with astonishment. I
had no answer gVC At iast i aid :
"And when ?
"In two weeks. you must be sure and. not
disappoint me. lme see tj,js j9 Thursday.
Come put on your et) and go with mo
shopping- We will soct our dresses n(i take
i them to the tnarjtua-tcrs that ther may be
I done in time. -
They were married, the stricken man and
the beautiful Kate, w hose father being wealthy
gavo them a handsome residence, and the cot
tago passed into other hands. The furniture
of the cot was sold, and only a few articles re
mained that spoke of Alice. Those the jeal
ous-hearted Kate put out of sight with great
care, and the loving, smiling faco of Alice's
picture was turned next to the wall in an un
occupied room, and the little gifts which she
had mado for Harry w ith her own hands, were
locked up tightly out of sight, as she said to
take good care of them.
Poor Harlton ! ho could not speak the name
of Alice, but the bitter, scornful voice of Kate
would reproach him and taunt him for bis
words ; he could not wander up stairs and look
at the little hidden picture, for the eagle eye
of Kato followed him. He could whisper of
her in his dreams, and smile as her image
came across his imagination, yet a week of
scornful displeasure from his wife was the pen
alty.
At this state of sadness and misery he
sought in the wine cup that forgetfulness he
could not obtain elsewhere, yet his memory
returued, and again he sought its sparkling
brim to drown his recollection.
And poverty came, slowly creeping on.
The splendid mansion was sold, drinking and
gambling did it ; and only until wretchedness
and bodily misery aroused him, did he awake
to his degraded situation. Kate's father had
refused to aid him, but urged his daughter to
leave her husband, and again return to her
childhood's home ; yet the proud woman who ,
bad been the means of all this misery, scorn-!
cd to leave her husband in the hour of his ad
versity. Watching over him tenderly by night,
working for his support by day, long weeks
and months passed on. Oh, Kate ! what had
jealousy to the loved and lost done for thee.
'What a pity! what a shame! That was
the husband of sweet Alico Lee !"
The remark reached his ear j it stung him
to the heart. He was on the way to cne of his
drunken revels, yet he paused and looked with
wonder and astonishment around him. And
th.it nnmn xvith it panielhc little cottage, and
ue cursca me spirit of intemperance, and in
his heart, by the name of his sainted wife, he
resolved to begin anew, and again be a man.
There is a little cottacre where the vinos
clambered, and the birds sung many years ago.
There is an old geutleman and lady, and they
are called grand-pa and grand-ma by many of
the little ones of the village. The old man,
with his thin, white locks, still bears the tra
ces of manly strength, and noble-beartedness ;
while his wife's eye is dark and lustrous, yet
softened by the trials of years, and with a
world of lovo and tenderness mirrored forth
in ner even now bcautilul face. It is Mr. and
Mrs. Harlton, treading happily the rough jou
ncy ot life, strewing their way with deeds of
lovo and kindness.
There arc two pictures hanging, side by side:
over the mantle-piece of the little old-fash
ioncd parlor ; beneath them is a gilded scroll
with the incription fancifully penned in Kate
own hand The Two Brides. One with the
soft loving blue eyes and sweet smile, will be
recognized as Alice, and the other, with its
dark, queenly beauty, is Kate.
"I have told the tale as it was told to me."
Perhaps there is a moral ; if so, ttie object o
tho writer is gained.
'It is not much the world can givo,
With nil its subtlo art;
And gold and gems are not the thing
To satisfy the heart.
But. oh ! if those who cluster round
The altar and the hearth,
Have loving words and happy smiles,
How beautiful is earth.
The Democract. A Buchanan Club has
been formed in oar Borough, and a gentleman
who attended one of their meetings informed
us that there were present 41 persons, 3 of
them boys, 8 native born Americans. SO for
clgners, 22 of those being Catholics. Now,
here we have an illustration right at home of
what the Democratic party is composed of, and
how the leaders manage tho foreign voters;
furnishing unmistakable evidence of the fact
there is a leage or understanding between them,
such as that of 1S-32, when James Campbell
was made Post-master General in considera
tion, as every body believes, ol the Catholic
vote then cast for Mr. Pierce. And yet in the
face of these facts, these same leaders, whilst
gathering iu one body the foreign Catholic vo
ters to secure their suffrages for Buchanan are
endeavoring to create the impression that Col.
Fremont is a Catholic, thinking thereby to
gain over Americans to their own candidate.
Indiana (Pa.) Ilegister.
Gen. John N. Pcrviance. This gentleman
who was the Democratic Auditor Geueral of
the State for six years under the administra
tion of Gov. Shunk, a member of the last 4th
of March Convention which nominated Mr.
Buchanan, and chairman of the committee
which reported the officers of the Convention,
has taken tlm stump in Northern Pennsylvania
for Fremont as the "Union candidate for Pres
ident," declaring "Mr. Buchanan the section
al candidate. Mr. Purviance is one of the
most popular men in tho Locofoco party in
the west, is favorably spoken of as a candidate
for Governor, and his' accession to our ranks
is a vry Valuable one. Telegraph.
COL. J. C. FREMONT.
James Buchanan testifying in hit favor
From the 2Ven? Fori- Tnhnne.
Wo have cansht the old rat at last ! AYc
have him secured in the square jaws of a steel
trap, with a firm, safe, stiff spring, so that he
cannot get away. He would gladly pull off his
tail, or gnaw off a paw even, as many of his
raco have done, to escape, if that was all that
held him. But, fortunately, the jaws are clos
ed fixedly around his neck, and the old rat
cannot get away.
in the irtbune of to-day our readers will
fiud James Eichanan squarely out in favor of
John C. Fremont ! They w ill read with deep
interest what the hoary-headed libeller of to
day said about the gallant and dashing young
hero who is now his antagonist, four years ago,
when he bad no motive to speak anything but
the bare, simple, naked truth.
In 18o2, Col. Fremont was arrested in Lon
don for debts which ho had contracted in his
official capacity as Governor of California in
the service of tho United States. The Court
of Exchequer appointed a Commission in tho
United States to take testimony in this case.
Tho first witness before that Commission was
James Buchanan.
Mr. Buchanan, at the time the services which
he testifies to were rendered to the country by
loi. r rcmont, was Secretary of State. Of
course ho occupied the very best position to
judge accurately of the value of CoI.Fremont's
services, and of the nature and character of
all his official transactions.
At the period when Mr. Buchanan's deosi-
tion was taken he had withdrawn from office,
and was living in retirement at Wheatland,
spending his time in a manner particularly ap
propriate to his advanced years, in meditation
upon his past sins, and in solemn reflection
npon his accountability to the higher tribunal.
He had no occupation, and his whole time was
given to repentance and self examination;
with the aid of the Presbyterian and Quaker
lights by which he was surrounded. Under
these circumstances, with tho oath of God up
on bis lips, James Buchanan then testified,
verbatim as follows :
" orexicoi'e-J.hc.dcn'lant, was in Cali-
" a battalion of California Volunteers," consis
" ting of about four hundred men; bis servi
" ces were valuable ; he bore a conspicuous part
" in the conquest of California, and, in tny opin
" ton, is better entitled to be called the 'Conquer
" or of California' than any other man."
It is well known and understood that Sena
tor Bigler of Pennsylvania has recently given
extensive circulation to low and grovelling
slanders about the forage and other necessaries
furnished to bis troops in California, by Col.
Fremont ; and it is believed that in this dirty
work he has been prompted by James Buchan
an himself. Now see what Mr. Buchanan, in
his deposition, swore to ;
"Idokno-c that inch supplies were necessary
-jut i.'je jorces unaer me command of the de
"fcndeut, and that no appropriation had been
made by Congress to pay for theie supplies.
" Congress could not have anticipated thatCol.
" Fremont would raise a California battalion
" by bis own personal exertions, and without
previous instructions."
Furthermore, such was bis confidence inCol.
Fremont, and so thorough was his knowledge
of the transactions in California, that he
would have paid the drafts himself had he had
any funds, notwithstanding they might more
properly have been drawn upon the Secretary
of War! Ihese are his own words :
"I should hare accepted and paid these bills,
"from my general knowledge of the transactions
tn California, had Congress appropriated any
" money, and placed it at my disposal, which
" cottf be applied to their payment, though it
" would have been more correct to have drawn
" these bills on the Secretary of War."
All, therefore, which for clectionacring pur
poses has been charged as wrong on the part
of Col.' Fremont, was sanctioned by Mr. Bu
chanan Thus it is, in the mysterious order
ings of Providence, and with the exercise of
judicious enterprise, that we are enabled to
blister with his own previous words, the tongue
of the sland -rer.
. ONE AND THE SAME.
Some Democrats say that they never again
would vote for Franklin Pierce ; but thoy hopo
better things of James Buchanan, because he
is a new man. Let them pause before they
come to such a conclusion. It is all one con
cern. Buchanan says he goes for the Cincin
nati Platform, which endorses Pierce and his
policy. Here is one of the resolutions adop
ted by that Convention :
'rtesoivea, that tho Administration of
t ranklin Pierce has been true to Democratic
principles, and therefore true to the great in
terest of the country ; in the faoe of violent
opposition he has maintained the Laws at
home, and vindicated the rights of American
citizens abroad; and therefore we proclaim
Co"orR unqualified admiration of his mea
sures and policy."
Franklin Pierce himself thus speaks of Bu
chanan's nomination, from which it appears
that the whole concern is all of one piece :
'I congratulate vou that voiir e hoica has
fallen on a man who stands on the identical
rLATFORM that I occcpr, and that he will take
the same with the standard lowered never an
nch!"
A vote for James Buchanan is, therefore, a
vote for the continuance of the policy of Fran,k
lln' Pierce. : How can any man conscieutious-
H- nnnnsod tn thxt d&nrnn l , t
I tho election of Jtmet Buchacan t
VOL. 3.-AT0. 8.
STILL COMING OVEE TO FBEMOKT.
The ranks of the "CONQUEROR OF CAL
IFORNIA" are rapidly increasing in all di
rections. The acquisitions are from the -humblest
to the highest in position and influence.
Amongst the thousands in this State who havo
joined the ranks of Freedom lately arc the
Hon John M. Read, District Attorney under
Gen. Jackson ; Hon. Wm. M. Meredith, Sec
retary of the Treasury under Gen. Taylor;
Hon. Wm. J. Duane, Secretary of the Treas
ury under Gen. Jackson ; and the Hon. Ed
ward Coles, the intimate friend and confidant
of Thomas Jefferson, of Philadelphia, and tho
Hon. Samuel D. Ingham, of Bucks county, a
Cabinet Officer of Gen. Jackson. These men
are neither abolitionists nor disunionists.
They entertain the most patriotic regard for
both the Union aud Freedom of this Confed
eracy ; but they despiso the vile threat of tho
Slaveocracy, to dissolve the Union in the e
vent of the election of Fremont; and they
place their condemnation upon it by openly
espousing tho cause of Freedom, and advocat
ing bis election. Of Ingham, Coles and Du
ane it may truly be said, "Thou shalt rise up
before the hoary headed and honor the face of
the old man." A cause ninst be sacred iu-
deed which induces such men to coice from
tho rctircmeirt of public life in old age and
condemn the course pursued by the present
leaders of tho party in which tliey have bceu
battling for nearly half a century.
Friends of . Clav! Remember I84I Ths
Bloody Hand. Who of you that. were active
in the ever memorable contest of J844, that
do not remember that when Mr. Clay was
candidate for tluj Presidency in 1844 James
Buchanan and Gov. Bigler stumped the Stato
of Pennsylvania in company, making Demo
cratic speeches. Wherever they spokc.'Big-
ler repeated the stale and oft refuted slander
which Mr. Buchanan had stated against Mr.
Clay, and Buchanan heard it and was silent.
They both stood uuder a banner with a bloody
hand painted upon it. Upon this banner were
inscribed the words : "Henry Clay, the mur
derer of the lamented Cilley !" And the Dem
ocratic party have bow iu unblushing inipu-
wMptJcvaiijjr nuuUjf-ttf ne nnDar-
who of all others should be the last tas&'&a4
thing at the hands of the friends-of Mr. Clay,
unless, indeed, it be that degree of supremo
contempt and loathing, which words are not
strong enough to define. Where is the old
Clay Whig who w ilt vote for James Buchanan,
the rilo traducer of the purest patriot who ev
er raised his voice in behalf of human free
dom for James Buchanan thu man who sat
quietly beueath the bloody hand and lying in
scription, "Henry Clay, the murderer of tho
lamented Cilley ." Phil'a Daily News.
Getting Alarmed. The editor of tho Car
olina 77ne.i,aDemocratic paper, says : "From
private information which we have received,
and in which we put great confidence, eman
ating as it does from a source unbiased by par
tizanship, we learn that the leaders of Democ
racy are even now greatly alarmed for 1 ho suc
cess of Buchanan and Breckinridge in Penn
sylvania." A Washington correspondent of
the South Carolinian, another Democratic pa
per, says : "The news recently from the Nor
thern States is very discouraging to the Dem
ocratic party. I bhould not bo surprised if
Fremont swept the North." They begin to.
hear the beatings of the Northern heart.
A crazy man was found riding on the cow
catcher of the locomotive- on the arrival of a
train of cars at Waukegan, Wis., on the 15tU
inst., but how or where he got into tho posb,
tion ho occupied was a mystery to every one.
On attempting to remove him it was found
that one of his legs was broken, but he mado
no complaint, and would answer no questions
maintaining complete silence, except when
any one offered to touch a small box in which
he had a small sum of money. Tho man was .
taken chargo of by the officers of tho poor,
and his wounds properly attended to.
"William Bigler. This individual failing
in his contemptiblo attempts to injnre Colonel
Fremont by raking up accounts long since
settled, is now bnsily engaged, it is said, in
franking and sending over the State a pamph
let containing a labored appeal for the election
of Fillmore, and at the end of it a bitter at
tack on the Union State Ticket. We think
this effort will have as mnch effect as the beef '.
story had in Iowa, Vermont and Maine Ex.
The following will give an idea of the war
in which Buchanan victories are gained on
passenger trains. This one was taken in a
railroad car, recently. A Bnohanan man arose
from bis seat and called on 11 who were in fa
vor of Fremont to "pull off their boots." No
one seemed to relish this novel manner of ex
hibiting their preference. He then requested
those who favored Buchanan to "keep their
boots on," which all forthwith proceeded to '
do. Unan
Good Reason. The Ohio Journal says tb
roason Rufus Choato camo to the support of
the Democrats, was bU lif-Iorar habit of de
fending criminals.
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