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BY S. B. ROW.
CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1857.
VOL. 4.-JTO. 6.
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For tho Raitsman's Journal.
. THE SLAVE MOTHER'S SOLILOQUY.
"l'waa in bit rw.bles, at the closo of day,
I passed a cabin where a negro lay,
t;arj fin J fiint upon the heiten ground ;
Xo better ssat. no belter bed was found.
Hoi body bore tbe marks of cruel lash,
And dog had torn her flesh with many a gash;
Htr tattcrod garments, crimsoned with her blood,
Quenched not the flowing, sacguinifferous flood.
Her L--,bami. (if the law allows the name.)
A haggard corpse, lies stretched upon the plain ;
itilleucd each limb, his brawucy bosom bared.
And vultures feed on what the dnjjs have spared.
A weeping child besido the mother lay,
And Ui Us that mother said, or seemed to say :
Weep, baby, weep, this sorrow seems to be
Tho haplcis lot, my child, of you and 1110;
Slourn. ad forsaken enc, and curse the chain
'1 hat binds thy neck to penary nnd pain ;
For now we know not. nr yet can we know,
What yet may be thy founts of future wo ;
And tune slnnc thy "iiffcrintr can reveal.
Peihnps, uiorc cruel than thy parents feci.
Alas, poor woman, little knew she then
Her husband had by the do;;s been slain.)
Tt Yoruoa the cruel irhite oiati came.
Aui seized, and forced them to this land of shame;
Condemned, beneath the scorching sun to toil,
For others bread to force the stubborn soil ;
for ethers pride their low estate to feel,
To toil, and suffer still ftr otheis weal;
For their caprice feel pangs tue most acute ;
I!e bought, and sold, and traded like a bruto ;
For others wealth, the negro poor must be ;
J!:f-!f a slave for others liberty.
U I.nd of boasted liberty and power.
Wbcra slaves arc seen in almost every door ;
V. here rapine raes, virtue stands nff'rijrht.
And gondr.cs hides within the shades of night ;
WLere lore lies bleeding ?neath oppression's rod,
-Justice and raercy have returned to tJod.
Irs'ead of heaven, oppression here bears rule ;
let at our wroiigs "tia useless now to pule.
Come, hush my child, be still, why sho"d w; weep,
And murmur with the shepherd of the she- p '.
J rue. he has bound us here with earthly chains.
I'.ut freed our son Is to rove eclectial plains;
I'l ase n'.l s;vay. thy unavailing tears,
'.'. uii the cross the Sav iour God appears.
Vchuil he dies beneath our load of sin.
And by his righteousness we glory win;
Hcicased from sin, his servants now we bo ;
IV. .- ..re the freemen whom the truth makes freo.
In him we're nidc to share the better part
ilow precious is the Saviour to each heart!
C'.:r Tuel masters value not his blood.
ut curse the Saviour, and deny their Iod.
Alas! the hai Jcnii.g iiiliueucc of power.
It turns to stone the heart it would devour ;
I: shuts out tender pity from the eye.
And stops the ear to groans of agouy ;
I'nlsies the hand to charities, and alms ;
Yvt luve it substitutes its I'r.iyr.rs and I'nhns.
J;ut fo ine master Slavery's most unkind.
Vor we in bo.ly sutler, Le in mind;
It makes us Me the brntt to live and feed,
Hut then it makes the master Lrutc iwircJ.
The timer's rase deprives our souls of peace;
Tut from irs nature all their woes increa-e.
Our bodies th.y enslave with cruel smart,
But they tbmslvcs are slaves in mind and heart.
rV rre the sufferings they for 03 procure;
Bat greater torments they themselves endure.
'J'hey fret oar bodies with the bitter thong ;
Hut their own souls the more with cruel wrong.
V. 'e should with meekness learn this wrong to bear,
.nJ let our masters still our pity share :
As tve seek mercy from the sinner's friend,
AVe should like mercy to our foes extend.
A few more rolling years of grief and shame,
And Freedom will a jubilee proclaim ;
The craven spirits of the earth shall flee ;
The churl be liberal, and the slave be free ;
Our wrongs shall end, and horrid wars shall cease.
And earth be filled with universal pcaco.
From swords and spears, in all that age divine,
The ploughshare and th pruning hook shall shine ;
The proul.ng wolf shall cease to feed on blood ;
The lion with the ox shall seek his food;
TLc Leopard, then, no more the kid shall slay ;
The harmless asp shall with the infant play ;
The cow and bear together then shall feed.
Their voting ones be upon tho grassy mead.
The Rtubborn earth, producing briar and thorn,
Shuii teem with waving fields of yellow corn ;
ine barren desert, long of rain denied,
TVith pools and fountains shall be well supplied.
As the kind Shepherd gently leads the dams,
And in his bosom bears the tender lambs,
80 shall Messiah in his gentler reign,
tf-otL.e in his arma his little ones from pain.
I'he de-' shall hear, the dumb shall shout for joy ;
. The lame shall leap, aod all his powers employ ;
Those strifes that agitate the world shall cease ;
True light shall fhiue. k knowledge shall increase ;
Sorrow shall end, as folly disappears,
And tarth keep jubilee a thousand years
O. Pr'ucc of Salem, spread thy peaceful reign,
And sway thy sccpr o'er this wide domain ;
O bid thy children lift their joyful eyes,
And see anothorGrcecc to glery rise;
Aco'ner Zion raise her honored head;
And wake another nation from the dead.
O. Prince of t'alcm, spread thy peaceful reign
Wid o'er Columbia's desolated plain ;
Lei no putrescent demagogue come near,
Eut $iva us Jm to rule us in thy fear.
O, let thy truth with power and felory hurled.
Irive ignorance for the last time round the world.
Hera, by thjr Spirit, let whole hearted men
Shut up oppression in its putrid den.
Reveal thy truth and justice, we implore,
Till sin affrighted leaves onr peaceful shore;
And to thy people do thy grace disclose.
And cake this desert blossom as the rose ;
To it let Lebanon's greatness be revealed,
Carmol and Sharon all their glory yield.
O. Jet thy Zion now arise and shine.
Her glory and her brightness all Divine :
And all tho praise for ever shall be thine
Loaax.
A LEGESD OF KEW ESCLAXD.
BY JOBS O. WHITTIER. '
One hundred years ago ! tho iuntcr, who
ranged the hills and forests of New England,
fought against other enemies than the brown
Lear and the panther. The husbandman, as be
to-led in tho plain, or narrow clearing, kept
closely at his side a loaded weapon, and wro't
Jli'rcntly and firmly in the midst of peril.
The f.-;:iuect crack of the Indian's rifle was
heard in the still depth of the forest the
dwath-kacll of tho unwary hunter and ever
nd tnon the flame of some departed farm
house, whose dwellers had been slaughtered
hy some merciless foe, roso redly upon tbe
Urkno cf the night-time.' The wild and fi
ery eyes of tho heathen gleamed through the
thick tinder-wood of the forest, upon the pass
ing of the worshippers of the only true God ;
and the. war-whoop rang shrill and loud under
the very walls.of the sanctuary of prayer.
. Perhaps r.o part of New England -affords, a.
wider field for the researches of legendry than
that province of Massachusetts Bay, formerly
.known as tbe province of Maine. .There the
ferocious Norridgcwock held bis stern coun
cHa, acd there the tribes of the Penobscot
vent frrth with song and dance' to do battle
with the white man. There the romantic and
chivalrous Castine immured himself in the
forest solitudes, and there the higli-hcartcd
Ralk", gathered together the broken strength
of the Xorridgewock, and built up in the great
wilderness a temple to the true God. There,
too, he perished in the dark onslaught of the
Colonists perished with many wounds, at the
very foot of the Cross which his own hands
had planted. And there the Notridgcwocks
fell, one after another, in the stern and un
compromising pride, neither asking or giving
quarter, as they resisted the white spoiler up
on the threshold of their consecrated place of
worship, and in view of their wives and chil
dren. The following is one among many legends,
of the strange encounters of the 'White Man
and the Indian, which arc yet preserved in the
ancient records and traditions of Maine. The
simple and unvarnished narrative is only
given :
"It was a sultry evening toward the last of
June, 1722, that Captain Ilcrmon and the Eas
tern Hangers urged their canoes up the Ken
nebec river in pursuit of their enemies Four
hours they toiled diligently at the oar. The
last trace of civilization was left behind, and
the long shadows of tho skirting forests met
and blended in the middle of the broad stream,
which wound darkly through them. At every
sound from the adjacent shores the rustling
wing of some night bird, or the foot-steps of
some wild beast the dash of the oar was sus
pended, and the ranger's grasp was tightened
upon his rifle. All knew the peril of the en
terprise ; and that silence which is natural of
jeopardy, settled like a cloud upon the mid
night adventurers.
"Hush, so!tly men !" said the watchful Iler
tnon, in a voice which scarcely rose above a
hoarse whisper, as the canoe swept around a
rugged promontory, "there is light ahead !"
All eyes were bent towards the shore. A
tall Indian fire gleamed up amidst the great
oaks, casting a red and strong light upon the
dark waters. For a single and breathless mo
ment the operation of the oar was suspended,
and every ear listened with painful earnest
ness to catch the well known sounds, which
seldom failed to indicate the propinquity of
the savages. But all was now silent. With
slow and faint movement of the oar, the ca
noes gradually approached the suspected spot.
The landing was effected in silence. After
moving cautiously for a considerable distance
in tho dark shadow, the party at length ven
tured within the broad circle of the light,
which at first attracted their attention. Ilcr
mon was at their head, with an eye and a hand
quick as those of tho savage enemy whom hu
sought. The body of a fallen tree lay across
the path. As the rangers were on the point of
leaping over it, the coarse whisper of Ilcrmon j
again broke the silence:
"God of Heaven !" he exclaimed, pointing
to the fallen tree. "See here ! 'tis the work
of the cursed red skins !"
A smothered curse growled upon the lips of
the rangers, as they Lent grimly forward in the
direction pointed out by their commander.
Ulood was sprinkled on the rank grass and the
hand of a white man lay on the bloody log !
There was not a word spoken, but every coun
tenance worked with terrible emotion. Had
the rangers followed llit-ir own desperate in
clination, they would have hurried recklessly
onward to the work of vengeance ; but the ex
ample of the leader, who had regained his
usual calmness and self-comma nd, prepared
them for a less speedy, but a more certain tri
umph. Cautiously passing over the fearful
obstacle in the pathway, and closf ly followed
by his companions, he advanced stealthily and
cautiously upon the light, hiding himself and
his party as much as possible behind the thick
trees. In a few moments they obtained a full
view of the object of their search. Stretched
at their length around a huge fire, but at a
convenient distance from it, lay the painted
and half-naked forms of twenty savages ! It
was evident, from their appearance, that they
had passed the day in one of their lion id rev
els, and that they were now suffering under
the effects, of intoxication. Occasionally a
grim, warrior among them sfarted half upright,
grasping the tomahawk as if to combat some
vision of bis distorted brain, but unable to
shake off the stupor from his senses,- uniform
ly fell back into his former position.
The rangers crept nearer. As they bent
their keen eyes along their well tried rifles,
each felt perfectly sure ot his aim. They wait
ed for the signal of Ilermon who was" endeav
oring to bring bis musket to bear upon the
head of the most distant of the savages. -
'FireI" heat length exclaimed, as the sight
of his piece interposed f ull and distinct be
tween his eye and the wild scalp-lock of the
Indian. "Fire! and rush on !"
Tbe sharp voice of thirty rifles thrilled thro'
the heart of the forest. , There was a groan
a smothered cry a wild and convulsive move
ment among the sleeping Indians; and all
was again silent. ; . . '.
- Tbe rangers sprung forward with their club
bed muskets and hunting knives; but their
prk was done. - The Red Men had gone to
their last audit before tbe Great Spirit, and no
sound was heard among them save the gurg
ling of the hot blood from their lifeless bosoms.
They were left unburicd on the place cf rev
eling prey to the foul birds of tbe air, and.
the ravenous beasts of the wilderness. Their
scalps were borne homo-ward in triumph by
the successful rangers, whose children and
grand-children shuddered, long after, at the
thrilling narrative of the midnight adventure.
SPEECH OF HON. D. WILMOT,
AT PHILADELPHIA,
On Monday Evening, Jlugusl 21A, 1857.
Fellow Citizens, I appear before you to-night
under the conscious feeling that I will not be
able to meet the expectations of so large and
intelligent an audience. I therefore invoke
your indulgence and kindest charity while I
make a few remarks. In the first place there
should be a full and lrank understanding as to
the relations which exist between us.
There is not one in a thonsand of your citi
zens, I suppose, that I have the honor of a per
sonal acquaintance with. 1 have, therefore,
no cl ;ims upon you, and it would be presump
tuous on my part to appeal to j ou lor j our
vote.
I have been placed by a portion of the citi
zens ol this Commonwealth, as a representative
of principles, regarded by them as of vital in
fluence to our common country.
If, after a careful consideration of those prin
ciples, you find them to be essential, then I
have a right to invoke your aid and vote.
If these principles are vital to your own in
terests, upon tho ascendancy of which they
would prove vital to yourselves and children,
then I have a right to invoke your aid.
I invite no man's suffrage unless he believes,
by supporting me, he sujvports his own highest
interests.
We are told by the dominant party that we
have no right to discuss the question of Sla
very. In a pronunciamento recently put forth
by the self-styled Democracy, they assume tho.
right to arrogate what tho people should hear,
or should not hear; and by and bye, they will
assume the functions of saying what book a
person shall read or shall not read. I main
tain there is no question that can arise, but
what it is open for discussion; nor is any at
tempt made to close discussion on any other
question but Slavery.
Fellow citizens, it is impossible to stop the
discussion on slavery, for you might as well
attempt to arrest the sun in its course. We
read of a vaiu and presumptuous prince who
commanded the tides to go back. These
modern Democrats might as well attempt to
stay the tide of popular rights that affect the
rights of the whole people, ltis not an ab
stract question, but one of practical interest,
which comes home to every one ! It is one of
political power, which controls tho destinies
and shapes its policy !
Shall a few hundred men in the interest of
slaves, or millions of freemen decide it Are
not these practical questions ? Again, it'ns
sumes a position nearer to your own interests.
The question is whether labor shall maintain
an honorable position, or sink into degrada
tion ? Is that not a practical question ?
Fellow citizens, there is a question higher
still. It is a question of Civilization or Bar
barism whether Civilization, founded upon
principles of hotter and virtue, shall go over
tho country, or stop, and a species of Barbar
ism take possession of the land ? Whether
civilization or the bowie knife shall control.
Whether the great questions that are to be
discussed in our national halls shall be done so
on principles of reason and right, or with the
bludgeon. (Immense applause.)
Permit mo here to repel the slanderous as
saults thnt have been made upon me, through
a venal and subsidized press lor slave power
poisons all channels of public opinion a press
that, standing as the organ of Democratic o
pinion, has lost all its old principles, and there
is not one in ten but what is paid to advocate
Human Slavery and resist Free Labor.
That press charges me with advocating prin
ciples subversive to our government Miat I
am a rank Abolitionist. I pronounce it a gross
slander on my character and my principles, if
they say I wish to interfere with the institu
tions of my sister Slates. I am a State Rights
man up to the hub, one of the Jefferson school
on that subject. '
We have no power to interfere with slavery
as it exists in the States. No more right to
affect the institutions of Virginia than they
have to affect our Public School system by
Congressional enactments.
It is different, however, in the Territories,
where we have as much right to be heard as
they, for they must be governed by Congress,
and we have a right in determining the char
acter ot the government imposed on them.
Allow me a brief time to refer to the AVilmot
Proviso. (Applause.)' In 1846, it will be rec
ollected, we were engaged in a war with Mexi
co. The President sent in his message, ask
ing for an appropriation of three millions to
enable him to make peace. It was apparent to
every one that he wanted to purchase Terri
tory, for was not Mexico conquered and lying
dormant at our feet 1 It was therefore appa
rent that this money was to be the first instal
ment for the acquisition of Territory.
, When, the bill came up, which as on the
day prior to the adjournment of Congress, I
ollerod aa amendment which provided, as a fun
damental condition, that neither slavery or In
voluntary servitude should exist in any land
purchased in consideration of this appropria
tion, for d.oiD5 this shwld, aloiosA b$ afraid
to stand a trial in your city, for if constructive
treason can be made out of this, then treasDn
can be made out of anything. It has been
made in Lancaster, in Kansas, and would be
made to-day in Philadelphia if they had the
power.
At the time the Proviso was offered, all of
the members from the Free States but two
voted for it, and they- wero Messrs. Douglas
and M'Clelland, of Illinois. This it will be
recollected was on the day prececding the time
fixed' for-trrtrdjourWflcifil'l"Vrfiigress. All
of the Pennsylvania members present voted
for it, and I regret the absence of one gentle
man jvho was on a visit to his friends. j
At II J oclock the next day, this proiosition
was taken up in the Senate, and John Davis, of
Massachusetts, took the floor, and perhaps for j
the purpose of defeating the Appropriation bill
on political grounds, he talked to the hour of
adjournment. I have authority in saying that
Gen. Cass crossed the Senate Chamber, and
openly rebuked Mr. Davis for defeating the
most important bill ever brought before it. In
IS 17, considerable interest was excited in Penn
sylvania, and she was called upon to pronounce
her voice in Legislative Assembly. There
was not to be found then a politician to uphold
the spread of Slavery. The resolution was
substantially to stand by the Wilniot Proviso.
Where was the Democratic party then 1
The House of Representatives had a full
vote and over ninety in all voted in favor. The
Senate had an almost unanimous vote.
Gov. Bigler, who was then Senator, declared
that he wished to stand correct on the record,
and would, therefore, demand the ayes and
noes. lie (Bigler) voted aye.
At this time the Slave interest combined and
threatened destruction to any public man who
advocated the Proviso.
In 1840 a President was to elect and Gen.
Cass stood in a prominent position. It became
necessary to modify or forego the Proviso, in
order to expect any hope from the South.
General Cass preferred tho forego, and al
though he had been forty j'ears in the service
as a Statesman, yet lie at that late day sat him
self down to read the Constitution of his
country. Here stood the North, and there the
South.
After the General had finished reading the
Constitution, be suddenly iutroduced tho doc
trine of squatter sovereignty, notwithstanding
Territories and States had been admitted under
the old regime before the Constitution was
read.
I am a poor man, but I will pay $100 to any
one who will discover the existence of squatter
sovereignty previous to tho famons Nicholson
letter.
This doctrine of squatter sovereignty never
received the endorsement of the leading states
men of the South, for they denounced it as a
humbug, and preferred tho Proviso, before ad
mitting half breed Indians and negroes on a j
footing with citizens who understood the in
stitutions of their country.
Senator Brown, of Mississippi, said at one ,
time that Mr. Buchanan abhorred the question !
of squatter sovereignty.
Mark the downward progress of the Demo
cratic party, who were tho fust in supporting
the Proviso.
Who has abandoned principles, they or me ?
Loud cheers
Let me read an extract from a speech of
Ilicbard Broadhcad, the Prince of all Dough
Faccism laughter whose game is to get the
lowest in the dirt to obtain the highest claim.
In a speech, made February 9, 1847, on the
Proviso, Mr.Broadhead said, "if we had acquir
ed New Mexico or California, and the bill
before the house was for their admission as a
Territory, or even a State, I would vote for the
Proviso of my colleague (Wilmot) to exclude
slavery. Let us wait until the Territory was
acquired." This was dodge No. 1
The next dodge was, that it was unnecessary,
as the Territory came to us free, and the
moment a man brought his slaves there they
J-would be free.
The third dodge was that it was unconstitu
tional. All history taught us that whenever a base
purpose was to bo accomplished, there were
plenty of helpers to be found to aid. Look,
for instance, when James I, attempted to
build up the Catholic Church on the soil of
England, had he any trouble with his Judge ?
No, not a bit.
I bow to the decisions of the courts, and
would not ask any man to raise his arm against
them, but there is no tribunal under Heaven
I will submit my judgment or conscience to.
Take the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania,
and was it not an indisputable fact that they
had to reverse their decisions every five years
to make them be of any authoity ? Had not
the Supreme Conrt of the United States rever
sed itself on the Dred Scott decision ?
A labor question is involved in the slavery
controversy ; a question between the white and
black. I leave it to the Southern chivalry
and Democracy to traiuplo down the despised
race of the negro to strip a woman and sell
ber babe but may God parj lize my arm be
fore I descend to such an act. No man cau
descend to such m act without sinking
deeper and deeper in the scale infamy. I
leave that to the Democracy ; I deny that this
race is most interested ; it is the free white
laborer o thQ country. Cries, that's so. J
The proposition is so plain that be who
"runs may read." Which is the best system T
That with. or without compensation? This
question is that whicb most interests us.
There is no man connected with this country,
its early history and struggles, that ever raised
his vote in support of the institution of sla
very, not one who has not been altogether
such as I am upon this question. Jefferson
declared that God was just and justice would
would not sleep forever. This was an utter
ance of a sentimert in opposition to slavery,
and sustained by Washington, Monroe, Henry,
the Masons of Va., and others.
Slavery is the basis of a system of aristoc
racy the mightiest on the face of tho globe.
It lies in combining together, in the hands
of a few men, all the property of the
country, descending from generation to gen
eration an hereditary title to tho great bulk of
the property. The labor in it is in the South,
in the hands of the slave-holders, a few bun
dled thousand men. This is what degrades
the poor white man. Is that the case in the
North ? The great bulk of the property in
this city is in the hands of the laboring masses,
eminently so in the country. It is a doctrine
in the South that it is the policy to enslave
labor. The opposite in the North. No man
from the South can occupy a seat in Congress,
a Governor, or other high office that is taken
from the working classes of the people.
No poor man unless it bo some raro in
stance no non-slaveholder can be elected ,to
honorable positions. The condition that la
vcholders impose upon the poor white man of
the South is degrading; degraded by contact
with slavery ; degraded, because the arm of
the poor white man m paralyzed by slavery.
No Democratic paper here will publish these
sentiments the sentiments of Gov. Hammond,
of South Carolina but will uphold a system
opposed to her own people and her own labor.
3fr. Lumpkin said that he was by no means
willing to concede that the poor, degraded,
half-fed, half-clad, white population four
fifths of the whole population of Georgia,
would, by giving them employment, endanger
the institution of slavery ; but such sentiments
are rarely published.
Now what system of labor shall exist in our
Territory ? Shall Philadelphia be entitled to
a position in Kansas? Shall the freemen of
Philadelphia be entitled to their rights in Kan
sas, or shall that country be cursed with slave
ry, forced upon a reluctant people ? Shall the
poor white men of the North be there depriv
ed of the rights of freemen ? Had any press
of our city sent an intelligent correspondent
to Kansas, I affirm that Mr. Buchanan never
would have been President !
If the Ledger, which was amply able, nnd
which is read by most of the laboring men,
had dono so, Pennsylvania would have never
given her vote to Buchanan.
Why, 5000 armed men went to the Territo
ry ! drove the honest citizens from the polls!
and this is well known to the Democratic pa
pers, but they will never publish a word of it.
You talk about your frauds here. In the
name of heaven they are bad cnoughaud they
demand -our earnest opposition,or your rights
arc in jeopardy. But what is all this to the
system of frauds in Kansas, upheld by the ar
my of the United States; a usurpation which
is sustained by a sectional President who does
not dare rclusc the bidding of his Southern
masters !
The Hon. Speaker then described the con
dition of affairs touching the election ia Kan
sas, showing tho professions of the authorities
as compared with their acts, professing that
all shall have a fair shake, but taking very
good care that the Free State men shall have
only 3 out of 19 counties, and 14 counties con
trolled by the Slave power shall have 29 rep
resentatives. This usurpation, these outrages,
arc known to the authoiites and sustained by
them (by all the powers at 'Washington.) Is
this, then, an abstract or practical question ?
And we are to close our mouths on this ques
tion, are we ? Must we go down with our
mouths in the dust and refuse to biistain the
rights of the North? There white men de
sire to maintain themselves by their own hon
est industry.
My time is drawing to a close, and I have
barely time to refer to another question, the
question of Americanism. You have my let
ter upon that subject. I have well considered
that letter, and now avow and reiterato every
word of it. I feel that there is a maligning
foreign influence at war with all the best inter
ests of our country, which I am bound by all
the honesty of my principles to oppose.
have therefore a right a right that I shall cv
er exercise to oppose this influence an in
fluencc that is sustained by the Democratic
party as long as I live. Why, gentlemen,
do you suppose that I am not honestly oppos
ed to this influence 1 Do you think that I
cannot readily get back to the Democratic par
ty if I am not opposed to it? Why, gentle-
men, oiaer sinners than I have gone back, and
I got their reward. I should only have to coin-
mit some gross act of outrage "catch a nig
ger," or when he seeks a crust of bread, seize
him and put him in prison ; then would I have
atoned for all my past political errors in the
sight of tho Democratic party. But until this
party abandons tbe principles that govern it at
present, I never can, and never will, whilst
God gives me reason, unite with ouch a party.
That party must first sustain tho cauie of the
w Into man the poor white man, an i the in
dustry of the poor white man agtjnst the
slave-holding aristocracy of the South, befor
I can ever again ba a Democrat.
If tho principles to w hich I have refofaedV
the controlling, governing principles of our
country, then we will have a government of
wisdom and of freedom ; bnl if, ou tho othor
hand, these other principles shall rule, then
of despotism. Great applause.
STAUTLI.NO calctlatio.n.
Somebody with a strong antipathy to pigtail
and line-cut, has entered into an investigation,
which has resulted in this wise :
If a tobacco chewcr chews for fifty years and
consumes each day of that period two inches
of solid plug, he will consume C,47o feet, or
nearly a mile and a quarter in length of solid
tobacco, lull an inch thick and two Inches
broad, costing two thousand and ninety-four
dollars ! Plug Ugly, sure enough ! By the
same process of reasoning, if a man ejects one
pint of saliva per day lor filty years, the total
would swell iuto two thousand, three hundred
ga-lons ; quite a respectable lake, and almost
large enough to float the Great Eastern la I
Truly, there are several things we never dream
of in our philosophy. Whether these interest
ing statistics will diminish the sale of the juicy
weed we are net able to say. Philadelphia
Journal.
Wo aro sorry that "somebody" did not ex
tend his calculations a little further, and em
brace more than a single tobacco chewcr In his
estimate. There arc at least three million
very energetic chewcrs in the United StaUs.
If one tobacco chewcr consumes in fifty yeArs,
two thousand dollars worth of tobacco, then
the three million will use up in the same time,
the handy little sum of six thousand million
dollars, the annual interest of which would ba
four hundred and twenty millions, and tho in
terest each second would be thirteen dollars.
The number of rail-cars or ships that the to
bacco would load, we will leave to some of our
younger readers ; but will merely state that ao
cording to the estimated quantity of saliva o
jected by each tobacco chewcr,- the whole a
mount discharged by three million Americans,
would be a hundred million hogsheads. Thi
would be more than enongh to fill tho Erio
canal Its whole length, three times ; or a siml
ar canal more than a thousand miles lonj.
lEoginecrBurrett ascertained that about twenty
millions cubic feet of water poured over tho
great falls of Niagara every minuto ; yet enor
mous as is this amount, the estimated quantity
ot American tobacco saliva would keep this
great cataract in lull action for more than two
thirds of an hour.
If the Yankees were compelled to manufac
ture all this from their mouths by means of a
poisonous and bitter weed, it Would no doubt
be regarded as a tyrany infinitely worse than
any exercised by George J II., or any modem
European despot. Covnlry Gentleman.
A Sa'artas. Among the Europeans- who
were endeavoring to escape from Delhi, when
it was ravaged by the cruel East IndUns, wag
an English oflicer with his wife. As ha bora
her along amid the dead and dying, he was at
tacked by a party of mutineers. His fcood
sword was drawn, and sertu ruffians fell. Slow
ly retreating, while keeping them at bay, tho
fiends made a rush at his wile, but a shot from
her husband's arm saved her honor, though it
cost her life. Another shot, by his own band
too, and the husband rested beside the body
of his ow n wife.
Some idea of the extent of the great wall
ol China may be gathered from a remark of
Dr. Bowring, in a lecture on that country re
cently delivered in England. II said that if
all the bricks, stono and masonry in Great
Britain were gathered together, they would
not furnish materials enough for such a wall
as the wall of China, and that if all the mate
rials in the buildings of Loudon were put to
gether, they would not make the toweri aad
turrets that adorn it.
At a railroad station, an old lady said to a
very pompous-looking gentleman, who waa
talking about steam navigation. "Pray, sir,
what is steam ?r' '-Steam, ma'am, is ah!
steam is ch ! ah f steam is steam !" "I
knew the chap could'nt tell ye," said a rough
looking fellow standing by, "but steam is a
bucket of w ater in a tremeudous perspiration I
A man named Alexander Immol, fell dead
last week while engaged in a dance at tho
farm of Judge refers, near Philadelphia.
His hand was clasped within that of a fenralo
relative, and he was going through tho figure
when he fell.
Chime is New Orleans. There has been
fifty-two murders and homicides in New Or
leans during the past eighteen months. A
great many iersons have also disjppearared,
who are supposed to have been murdered.
Thirty of the number killed were foreigner
killed by foreigners. '
There are occasional showers of metooria
stones, which some philosophers think aro
sent off from the moon. "When wo seo and
hear the multitudes of dogs in some of ar
towns, we are tempted to wonder if tber baa.'
not Dcen a suower irom mo uvS-i-.-