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BY S. E. HOW.
CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1858.
VOL. 4.-N0. 41.
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TO AX ABSENT SISTER.
; - .. BY CLARE.
Sjstor dear, we miss thee s.vlly,
In thy olden homo,
Where in happy childhood.
Thou wast wont to roam. -
And ire miss theo, dearest sister,
When wo kneel to pray,
'Anil onr words falter.
: - In the evening lay.
When tho stars come out, lore,
In th3 ether blue.
Memory whispers softly
Sweetest thoughts of yon.
Then I kneel and pray, love,
, . That God will guide theo right.
-And that o'er thy youn glad spirit,
Xo'er luay come a blight.
For there come, my sister, griefs
O'er spirits glad.
Turning light to darknes.
Making gay hearts sad.
CUPID IX A QUA'DAKYi
BT TUE COLOX EL.
I was In lovo, once' - Of courso she was
charming creature that had won my sudden af
fections. I never knew a lady to be any thing
else in the eyes of lier lover. For my own
part, I thought Angelina was an angel. I have
crown older since, and have discovered exact
ly the dillerence between a woman and one of
those atrial indcscribables. At that time 1 was
too impressible and impulsive to bo obser
vant.
I originally saw Angelina in Union park.
and my heart, inflammable as tinder, was in a
blazo in an instant. My earnest gaze attract
ed her attention. Finally it confused her. In
her confusion she ran against the end of one
the benches, and fell upon the walk. I flew to
her rescue, and lifted her to her feet. She
was not much hurt, though much mortified.
I soothed and consoled her. In doing this I
called her Miss Julia, when she corrected me
by stating that her name was Angelina. That
was tho mode I adopted to ascertain the name
of my inamorata.
Two days after that I met Angelina in the
park again. It was not exactly by appoint
ment. Of course she would have been shock
ed at such a thing, and I almost a stranger to
her. But, as I left her before, I had said that
I always took a tour of the Union park at such
n hour every afternoon, and I could not hold
adding how delighted I should bo were acci
dent at any time to bring her steps in that di
rection about that period of the day. Acci
dent did do it. When we parted at that time
I was silly enough to think that I had created
tender feeling in her bosom and that acci
dent might favor another interview.
Two days more elapsed and I fell sure that
she would come. But she did not. I remain
ed in the park until night set in, I then des
paired. Just as I was departing, and in a
very melancholy mood of mind, vexed st tho
Inconstancy of . woman-kind in general, and
Angelina in'particnlar. 1 paused. There was
a cloak entering one of the gates that struck
nio as familiar. I watched it I followed it.
It was Angelina's height jnst her figure just
her walk. But the lady, although sho observ
ed n;o ct her side was silent. Her face was
Enveloped in a thick veil. No hope of grati
fying my curiosity in that particular I
What shall I do. I never had remarkable
confidence; so I easily convinced myself that
it was Angelina, and stepping up to her, ad
dressed her by that name. Sho made no re
ply, except by a slight laugh. This assured
me sho was indulging in a coquettish trick.
1 was not to bo deceived in that manner. I
perceived, therefore rattling away ail sorts ot
pretty nonsense and telling her in every pos
sible manner how much I idolized her. Good
ness gracious ! how eloquent I felt, and how
happy. '
In this manner wo proceeded up one street
and down another, until we reached the Sec
ond Avenue and Nineteenth street. I did not
know whero Angelina lived. She had never
told me. She had forbidden mo to see her
nil the way home. Bull knew she lived in
Second Avenuo. On this occasion I implored
my silent companion since it was alter night
to permit mc to escort her to the door. Si
lence gives consent you know, and I did it.
She paused in front of a large uoblo dwel
ling. Good ! thought I ; my sagacity was not
at fault; she is aristocratically connected.
She placed one little foot on the brown door
step then, as if she had changed her mind
and did not care to ring the bell in my compa
ny, she proceeded to the area gate, opened it
entered I followed of course Perhaps it
was a little impudent on my part, but she turn
ed her head towards me as sho passed in, and
I could have sworn I saw or heard a token
of invitation. That was enough for an impas
sive lover. She opened the area-door. I s M
pursued her. She passed in-so did I, .closing
the door after me. Sho entered the front
basement-a species ot sitting room-ami
thence glided through into the rear basement,
which was a kitchen. I was close at her heels.
The gas was burning brightly in the kitchen;
but I never stopped to think of my dilemma,
and siezing her by tho hand, I murmured:
"Oh! Angelina, how delighted you make me!
She threw off her bonnet and veil, and by Jove !
hewasa total stranger! I had never seen
bor before! I felt at that moment the full
force of my ridiculous position. I did not
lose m v seir possession however. On the con
trary, 'I threw myself ioto a chair and laughed
heartily, although my heart was rapidly mak
ing an exploration away down into my boots
My companion happened to be a good look
ing young woman ; evidently a domestic, in
thohouseln question. My assurance aston
ished her at first, but recovering herself, sho
naked if sho could call for ""rta7. .P"cth
mc out into the street. In the most insinuat
ing terms possible, 1 foMed to her my mis
take, implored her to forgive me, and Protes
ted I had the remotest idea of insulting one
whom I was convinced was as pure as she waJ
lautiful. That little piece of flattery secur
ed my favor. She forgave me, pointed to the
loor, and, desired me to go, as she Pte
-very moment a message from the parlor above
in regard to lunch. .
I thanked her and turned to depart. J ust as
I stepped towards the kitchen door, I heard
tho sound of feet decending the stairs. How
should I escape? Where should I fly to f
Quick as thought I darted into a tell closet
that stood in the corner of the room. The tip
per part contained three shelves bnt the lower
part afforded me space enough to crowd into,
doubled up. The girl immediately closed the
'lioron roe ind buttoned it. I did not feel
very comfortable, fastened np in that box
Suppose I should not be let out ! But all fear
ot this was lost in a still greater apprehension,
when I heard the voice of a male individual
who had entered the kitchen. I concluded to
remain quietly where I was.
As soon as ho had departed, the girl camo
to mc, and unbuttoning the. rlnnr tr.i.i m t
had made a fortunate escape, and added that
w ui.i i.ui wish lo compromise both her and
myself, I had better conic out of that dumb-
nauer aim DCgone.
unmo-waiter !" I exclaimed. "Am I In
a dumb-waiter, and liable to be hoisted up in
a twinkling to the pMrlor."
Here was affright. I uncoiled myself to es-
cape ; out just as l rose, away went tho dnmb
waitcr np towards the coiling with myself in
side. The jar of the first movement threw me
back. I had no time to recover my feet and
lean. I COUld but till II tho rlnnr tn am iUn iwv
ascended, while the paroxysm of laughter
nuncieu mo giri in the kitchen went to
my heart, ar.d smote me with a feeling akin to
madness. I would have sold mvselt at that
moment for three cents of any decent man's
You may guess exactly how I looked when
mo uinuu-waiier naving reached the dining
room floor above, I heard the sound of half
dozen voices. Amongst them my heart re
cognized that of Angelina herself, as she ex
claimed :
, x- 1 . .
-o, pa, uo ici us nave a lunch. I am so
hungry."
" I'm, yon will," I thought, "when yon see
use com meat mat's ready for yon?" for an
icy perspiration was dropping from every
pore.
The door of tho dumb-waiter was opened,
and I walked out.
There was a table set and aronnd it I beheld
Angelina, her father and mother, (as I pre
sumed,) two brothers and two sisters. Ange
lina shrieked and feinted. I darted towards
the parlor door, but not quite in time to e
scape'a How from the back of a chair aimed at
me by one of the young gentlemen. I scrim
bled to my feet, and then you should have seen
the race. Fortunately tho waiter was jnst ad
mitting a gentleman at 1 1 o on hnll ,tnr,r- ,
I leached it. Deli?htd t tho rh
aea past the visitor, and made one leap to the
pavement. Three more placed mo on the plat
form of a Second Avenue car jnst passing.
Need I say I have not entered Union paik
since! I detest the spot. As to Angelina, the
very thought of her makes my blood run cold!
and if yon want to create beligerant feelings in
my bosom at anv time, iust s.iv dnmb-n.iiror"
to mo, and look out. That's all.
Look Befoe c you Kick A minister recent
ly, while on his nay to preach a funeral ser
mon in the country, called to see one of his
members, on old widow lady, who lived near
tho road he was traveling. The old lady had
just been making sausages, and she ielt proud
of them they were so plump, round and sweet.
Of course she insisted on her minister taking
some of the links homo to his family. Ho ob
jected on account of not having his portman
teau aiong. I his objection was soon overrul
ed and the old lady, after wrapping them in a
rag, carefu.ly placed a bundle in either pocket
ot the preacher's capacious coat. Thusequip
ed, he started for the funeral. .
While attending to the solemn ceremonies
of the grave, some hungry dogs scented the
sansnges, and were not long in tracking them
to the pocket of the good man's overcoat. Of
course this was a great annoyance, and he was
several times under the necessity of kicking
those whelps awaj-. The obsequies at the grave
completed, the minister and congregation re
paired to the church whero the funeral dis
course was to be preached.
After tho sermon was finished tho minister
halted to make some remarks to his cogrega-
tion, when a brother, who wished to have an
nppoinf ment given out, ascended the steps of
the pulpit and gave the minister's coat a hitch
to get his attention. The divine, thinking it
a dog having a design upon Ins pocket, rais
ed Ins foot, gave a sudden kick, and sent the
brother sprawling down the steps.
"You will excuse me, brethcfn and sisters!"
said the minister, confusedly and without look
ing at the work ho had just done, "lor I could
not avoid it. I have sausages In my pocket,
and that dog has been trying to grab them e-
versince I came upon tho premises!"
Our readers may judge of the effect such an
announcement wonld have at a funeral.
TirTTTiTf AiiFin. Trouble, it seems, has al
ready commenced in reference to the re-sale
t the State canals by the ftunonry ana j-.rie
Railroad company. On Tuesday the 2oth,
says the Philadelphia Ledger, it is understood,
the Railroad Company sold the North Branch
Division to an association of gentlemen, some
of whom reside on the lino of the canal, and
nihnrs in Philadelphia and at New York, for
one million and a half dollars ! the payment be
ing secured, as o aro informed, by a lien on
the works themselves. This sale is contested
iv another association of capitalists, who have
been in treaty for the same works, and who al
lege that they offered the Sunbury and Erie
i?.;i.nil rnmmnv half a million mora than
the sum for which they have been sold, name-
two millions oi aoiiars ; ono nunareu
nnsnnd dollars in cash, ono hundred thous
and dollars annually for five years, and four
teen hundred thousand dollars secured by lien
on the line of the works. Tho result of this
disappointment by the two million party, has
boon an annlication to the Courts for an in
junction restraining any further action in the
premises until the parties can oe nearu in open
Court on the merits of the complaint. On the
application of Wni. M. Meredith and St. Geo.
Tucker Campbell, Esqrs., Judges Sharswood
and Hare have granted the applicatidre, and
fi3
xed the 8th of June for argument on tho va-
111
ity of the alleged sale. e have not the
of the Legislature authorizing u:u cou
vevance of the canals to tho Sunbury & Erie
Railroad Company now before us, out, n we
remember rightly, it stipulates that if a great
er sum than $3,500,000 is realized by the com
pany for all the canals, 75 per cent., or some
specified proportion of the excess, shall go to
tho State. To prevent there being any ex
cess, collusion is alleged between the buyers
and the sellers, hence this application for an
injunction. . . - . '
An entire Chinese regiment, for having a
bandoned an untenable fort, during the recent
attack on Canton by the French and English
Srccs.bas been sentenced to wear women-a
clothes for fivo years. Rather unusual pun
ishment, wc should think.
AN APPEAL TO PATRIOTS.
SPEECH OF HON. A. BURLINGAME,
OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Delivered in the U. S. House of Representatives,
March 31, 18-58.
Me. Cn.UBMAN : It has been shown, in the
great rtebate which we have had, that the peo
ple of Kansas never authorized the Lecorapton
Constitution ; that they never made it; that
they never ratified it ; that it does not reflect
their will. It has been shown that tho first
Legislature was a fraud ; that the second was
a irauu ; that test oaths and gag laws were put
upon tne people, so that they conld not vote ;
that then they were held responsible lor tho
crimes of Ihoso who did ; that when they were
persuaded to vote, they were cheated ; that
when nobody voted, returns wero mado as
if from populous regions. It has been shown
that the honesty of the officers of the Govern
ment, who tried to stay the hand of theso
frauds, was considered an offence by tho Gov
ernment. It has been shown that the people
have been menaced in their property and their
lives; tnat armies were sent there to vote
them down, or shoot them down, and without
aiunoruy ot law. it has appeared, that the
men who did these things wero held dear by
the Government, and they are its officers to
day. It has been shown that, through all this
time, that devoted people has held itself in
such an attitude as to win not only tho respect
of the people of tho United States, but the
respect of the officers of the Government who
had been sent, from time to time, to persuade
or to subdue them to tho policy of tho Gov
ernment. But, Mr. Chairman, it is not my purpose
hero to-day to go over tho history of Kansas
affairs ; that has been done, as the gentleman
from South Carolina (Mr. Miles) has just now
well said, sufficiently. Every fact has been
stated ; every principle has been argued. Day
by day, we have urged our cause with all the
zeal of men who know they are right. ' Every
fact has been met on the other sido, by some
daring and insolent assumption ; every argu
ment, with scornful sneers, which no man can
answer. U hen we have oflered to irove facts.
the will of tho people of the United States, as
reflected by the Representatives upon this
floor, has been baffled by parliamentary tactics.
Yes, you who belong to the party that went
behind the great seal of New Jersey, as mv
eloquent friend from Indiana (Mr. Coltax) very
truly said, you who go behind the certificates
of thQ Governors of Ohio and Maryland, when
the interests of a whole people aro at stake,
and fraud is charged, you say you cannot go
behind the record ; you say that you are estop
ped ; yon say "it is so nominated in the bond;"
you refuse to investigate, and propose speedily
to force upon the peoplo of Kansas a Constitu
tion never mado by them. Yes, you who say,
with us, that tho people aro the source of
power; you, who say that power should flow
forth from the peoplo into practical govern
ment on the line of their desires; you, who
shouted your great radical rule of Democracy
in the cars of the country Buchanan at your
head to be this, that Inasmuch as the people
are sovereign, inasmuch as that sovereignty
cannot be alienated by them in such a manner
that it cannot be resumed when tho safety ot
the people shall require it, therefore it is for
them to determine at what time and in what
manner they will change their fundamental
law ; that was your radical rule of Democracy.
It is now pronounced Dorrism by the Democ
racy on this floor. You planted your rule in
opposition to the rule of the other great school
of the country, which rule was stated most
clearly by Mr. Webster, in tho great Rhode
Island case, to be this : lie said that the will
of tho majority must govern ; that it was as
potent as the will of the Czar of Muscovy,
when it was legally, ascertained. But how
will you ascertain it, said he ; it must be as
certained by sonic rule prescribed by previous
law. That rule, the fierce Democracy denoun
ced as the rule of tvrannv.
Well, sir, here we have a case whero even
the requirements of that rule have been met
by the people of Kansas. Their will was col
lected legally, by a legal Legislature ; and it
appears that their will, by 10,000 majority, is
against your Lecompton Constitution ; and
yet, in the face of that declaration, you come
forward as a party ; and propose to force that
Constitution, in defiance of your own rule of
Democracy, in defiance of the Federal rule,
upon that people ; aye, sir, worse than that
you declare, through tho lips of j-our boldest
and ablest leader, through the lips of the dis
tinguishedSenator fromGeorgia,(Mr.Toombs,)
through the lips of men upon this floor,through
the lips of the gentleman who has but just
taken his scat, if I understood him. that it in
volves a question of union or diisunion. I ,
agree with the gentleman from South Caroli
na, (Mr. Miles,) who said that wo might as
well meet this question. I, for my part, am
ready to meet it now. I accept the issue
which is tendered. I accept the more eagerly,
in the presence of this menace. A represen
tative of the peoplo would be craven, did he
shrink from his duty in the prcseuce of such a
threat as that. What, you dissolve this Union
because j-ou cannot have your own wild will !
lou dissolve this Union because the Lecomp
ton Constitution, born of fraud and violence,
legally voted down m this House ! Has
your nationality no belter quality than that?
How will yon do it J Who is to do it 1 Whose
hand is ready to strike the first blow 7 AVhere
is your army chest f Where j-our battalions,
to cope with the people of this country You
cannot do it. It would be wrong to do it. .It
would not be legal. It would not be safe to
doit. I tell you, that on the. banks of the
Santee it would require no Federal army to
subdue rebellion.
The descendants of Sumter and of Marion,
as their lathers struck down the Tory spirit in
tho brave days of old, would quell the spirit
of rebellion to-day. We have heard this
threat before. We havodeemed it but the idle
vaunt of idle men ; but it comes now with an
emphasis and an authority that it never had
before. We find tho fire-eater giving his will
as tho law of the great Democratic party.
He has the right to rule it,roni his courage
and his activity.
I say it conies with new empnasis ucu me
lonrlor of tho Democratic party gets up in the
Senate of the United States, and with deliber
ation not acting on an impulse declares, and
I-heard him, that this Union is a mith ; that ho
has calculated its value ; that the people of
Kentucky love it "not wisely, but too well ;"
and that this Lecompton Constitution involves
tho satetv of the union; and when ttie ganani
Senator "from Tennessee Mr. Bell accepted
tho issue, and when ho rc-5tated theso points'
the distinguished Senator from Georgia bowed
Ins assent, and I saw him ; and no member of
the Democratic party in the Senate protested
against that doctrine. I say, when such men
express such sentiments, the time has arrived
when the national men of the country should
unite to rebuke such sentiments, and vote them
down here, and vote them down, elsewhere.
These are the men, are they, to taunt the loyal
old State of Massachusetts with having legis
latcd herself out of the Union, because she has
declared, that of two given offices, it is incom
batiblo lor one of her citizens to hold both of
them 1 She had a right to pass such a law
No court has decided it to be unconstitutional
When the Court shall so decide,Massachusctts
with her accustomed obedience to law, will sub
mit. She simply says this: If you desire to
carry men "back to old Virginia to old Vir
ginia's shore" you must do it with your olh-
cers. and not with hers, lhatisall. But I am
not here to-day to defend her ; I am not hero.
to plead for her. She denies the jurisdiction
of this House. Sho is not responsible to it for
her local legislation. I stand hero npon the
great doctrine, which I believe In, that tho will
of the majority, constitutionally expressed
most stand until it shall be constitutionally re
versed ; and so far as the threat which has been
made is coucerned, I disdaining to argue in
its presence stand here, before tho people of
this great country, and trample that threat of
disunion scornfully under my feet.
' Why have you brought this sectional ques
tion here ? Why do yon seek to force a Con
stitution upon a people whom you know abhor
it 7 What are you to gam by it 7 Did not the
gentleman from SouthCarolina rMr.Mileslverv
truly say that it would Iks a barren victory
that it would wither in vour grasp 7 Anil he
said, speaking more fully in the interests of
tho South lhan most of you, that he did not
caro now much about the passage of the Le
compton Constitution. What are you to gain 7
Is your dogma that there can bo propeity in
man, borne in tho bosom of that Constitution,
recommended by such a courso" more warmly
to the hearts of the American people 7 Will
you more easily persuade them, at some future
time, to be more willing to admit States from
other Territories, where tho system may be
more congenial to the climate 7 Will not the
people say, and with truth, that this system,
which requires snch means as these to strength
en and sustain itself, is dangerous to the peace
and prosperity of the Republic?' Will they
not hate your system, because of your conduct
in this case 7 .What ! will two Senators from
that State.who must be fugitives from theState
that they will pretend to represent will that
State, held down, as tho gentleman from South
Carolina said he would hold it until 18G1
compensate you for tho illfeeling you have cre
ated 1 Will they compensate you for tho alien
ation of the people which will take place 7 Will
thev compensate yon for your party dismem
bered, broken, and lost 7 Tho gentleman from
SouthCarolina Mr. Miles gave us statistics
of the last election. It is true, that with the
suspicion that you would do this thing, we
swept the North, and the East, and tho West,
with, as he says, more than 1,300,000 votes.
We swept the great and populous States of the
country with tho mighty ten-wave of tho peo
ple's enthusiasm. We bronght down the vic
tory Into the very shadow ot your malign sys
tem. If we did it then, what will now bo your
fat at the polls, when yon go back to an in
dignant and betrayed constituency 7 You can
no longer say you are for r ree Kansas ; ire will
nail you to the record. You cannot say any lon
ger that you are in favor of the great doctrine
of popular sovereignty ; we trill nail you to the
record, i ou ctnnot say any longer that we
are mere Freedom shriekers, because there
shall stand side by sido with us the great chief
ot Democracy, the distinguished author of the
Kansas-Nebraska bill, and ho will tell you that
you have betrayed your constituents.
e will summon clouds of witnesses from
all tho winds of heaven. We will summon them
from the South, the East, and the West. Wc
shall summon the gallantWise of Virginia who
desires that the State shall be slave, but who
is too honest to cheat the people. M c shall
summon Walker, who has added a now empire
to strengthen tho South. We shall summon
Stanton, and Forney, and Bancroft, and a host
of others; and above all, we shall summon
those gallant Senators fromKentucky and Ten
nesse, the acts of whose live9 for a quarter of a
century shino along the annals of their country
We will call upon them, and they will tell you
you have betrayed the people; that your are
forcing upon tho peoplo of Kansas a Consti
tution conceived in fraud and violence. And
how are you to meet those charges? How are
yon to answer to a great and indignant people
for they will question you with a toungeof hre.
They will go back beyond your proceedings
here; they will question you as to tho doings
and purposes of the Administration; they will
ask you why you did not adhere to the doc
trine of popular sovercigenty? why, after you
had maintained that the people of a Territory
could exclude slavery you changed around,
and said they could do it when they formed a
State; and why it is that your popular sover
ignty has vanished away into the Hibernian
suggestion of the President that the quickest
way to make Kansas a free State is first to
mako it a slave State. Tbeyjwill ask you why
you have substituted the dogmas of Calhoun
for the doctrines of Jefferson. They will ask
you how it is that the President of the United
States, after having, in 1819 and 1841, held
that Congress had power over the Territories,
in 1857 expressed his amazing surprise that
anybody should have ever held that doctrine.
They will desire to know why it is that there
was a complicity between him and theSupreme
Court of tho United States, by which, under
yonlor steps of the Capitol, he was enabled to
foreshadow what they alterwards announced as
an opinion. They will ask you why it was that
that Court, wearing the ermine of a Jay, a
Marshall, and a Story, when there was no case
before the court calling for it, went beyond tho
line of their duty, and published political o
pmions. They will ask you why the army of
the United States have shot down American
citizens in the streets of Washington, and why
it was held is terrorem over the people of Kan
sayso long. And they will ask you, doughla
ces of tho North, why you sat still in your
seats, and allowed men to call your constitu
ents, because they toiled, mud-sills and slaves.
You will have to answer all theso things. You
cannot do it, and we shall beat you like a
threshing floor. We shall hereafter hare a
majority in this House. We shall strengthen
ourselves in the Senate, and we are to day fil
ling all tho land with tho portents of your gen
eral doom in 1860. And I say in tha presence
of this stato of thiDgs, that our first duty to
God and our country is to devoto ourselves to
the political destruction of doughfaces, who
say one thing at home and come here to vote
another ; and who fawn and tremble, and fall
down, in tho rosencc of the Administration.
No wonder that you, Southern men, call us
slaves, judging us from these specimens of tho
people. But I tell you they do not represent
the fire and flint of the grim and grizzlyNorth.
They are but our waiters on Providence, our
Mac sychophants; they aro our Helps; they
belong to Dante's selfish men, whom he said,
heaven would not have them, and hell rejected
them. I tell you. Southern men, I am ready
to strike hands with fire-eaters, and extermi
nate the race. It is becoming extinct: Look
in their faces for tho last time, they aro fading
away fading away. Oh ! for an artist to take
their features, to transmit them to a curious
and scornful posterity. Do it quickly, for tho
places which now know them shall soon know
them no more forever.
. I think it is the first duty of Republicans to
extinguish the doughfaces, but I hold it also
their duty to bear testimony as to tho manner
in which tho Douglas men and they will par
don me for giving them tho namo ot their gal
lant and gifted leader to bear testimony to
the manner in which they have borne themsel
ves. They have kept the faith ; they have ad
hered to the doctrine of popular sovereignty ;
they have voted it in this House, and they
have not fawned aud trembled in the presence
of a dominating Administration in the pres
ence of that great tyranny which holds the
Government in its thrall at Washington.
They have given flash lor flash to every indig
nant look ; and when a gentleman from Vir
ginia, tho other day, tauntingly told them that
certain language which they used upon the
floor of this House was the language of rebel
lion, they shouted out, through the lips of the
gentleman from Indiana, (Mr. Davis,) 'itwas
the language of freemen." I say that it is
duo to them that we should say that they
have borne 1 tho brunt of the battle and that
they, whether from New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana, or Illinois, have kept the white
ness of their souls, and have made a record
which has lain in light ; and if my voice can
have any weight with the yonng men of the
country where those men dwell, I should say
to them, stand by theso men with all your
young enthusiasm, stand by them without dis
tinction of party ; they may not agree exactly
with you, but they havo stood tho test here,
where brave men falter and fall. Let them
teach this tyrannical Administration, that if
it is strong, that the people aro stronger be
hind it. Thus I would speak to the young
men of the country. I differ in some points
with those men, and I do not wish to compli
cate them. I pay also the high tribute of my
admiration to that band of men who have
been reposing outside of tho boundaries of the
great parties of tho country as a patriotic
corps of reserve, for the purpose, I suppose,
of saving the Union when it is endangered.
When they saw this sectional issue made,
standing as they did in a position to look fair
ly on between the parties, they saw who made
it, and they instantly took sides ; and in the
language of Mr. Bell, in his reply to Mr.
Toombs, they accepted the issue of disunion.
They accept it ; and when, sir, they saw that
Lecompton was synonymous with "fraud, with
forgery, with perjury, with ballot-box stuff
ing," then they trampled it with their high
manly honesty under their feet. They have
taken it in charge to preserve the ballot-box
pure and open to American citizens. Sir, it
was a proud day to me, when I heard tho
speech of tho venerable Senator from Ken
tucky, (Mr. Crittenden.) The melody of his
voice, and his patriotic accent, still sound in
my ears. I was glad to hear mm denounce
fraud ; I was clad to hear him stand for the
truth. As I listened, it seemed to mo that
the spirit of the Kentucky Commoner had
come back again to visit his old place in the
Senate. It seemed to mo as if his spirit was
hovering there, looking, as in days of old, af
ter the interests of tho Union. At that mo
ment, the heart of Massachusetts leat respon
sivconce again to that of grand old Kentucky ;
and I longed to have tho day coma again,
when there should be such feelings as in the
olden time, when the Bay State boro the
name of Henry Clay on her banners over her
hills and through her valleys, everywhere to
victory, and with an affection equal to the af
fection of Kentucky herself.
I also felt proud to hear tho spcach of the
distinguished Senator from Tennessee." Mr.
Bell. I was glad to hear their confreres on
this floor, Messrs. Underwood, of Kentucky,
Gilmore, of .North Carolina, Ricand and Har
ris of Marylaud, and Davis, with his surpass
ing eloouence, worthy of the best days of
Pinkney and of Wirt; and I also express my
gratitude to Mr. Marshall of Kentuckev, who
has labored so long to secure this union of
patriotic men. I owe it to these men, and to
mvself to sav that 1 do not agreo with them
on the subject of slavery, and I know that they
do not with me. Neither do I agreo with the
Douglas men ; I take what I think is a higher
position. I hold to tho power or Uongress
over tho Territories; they do not. But while
I oppose tho Lecompton Constitution for one
reason, and while tuo uougias democrats op
pose it for another, the South Americans may
opposo it for still another, iroa Knows we
have all cause of war against it, and against
the Administration. And we have come to
gether here as a unit, not by liny preconcert,
not by any trade among leaders, but by tho
spontaneous convictions of our own honest
minds. I trust that this may be an omen of
what may happen in the future. As to what
may happen, it is not for mo to prophesy.
Let time and chance determine. .We come
together, not in a spirit of compromise, be
cause we compromise - nothing, but in a spirit
of patriotism ; and in that spirit I for one,
am "prepared to sustain the substitute offered
by the distinguished Senator from Kentucky.
After first voting to reject the bill, I will vote
for that substitute, not becauso I would vote
for it as an original measure ; I will vote for
t because I think that it win mono abuw -
free State. The Administration says n is a
slava Territory to-day tho Lecompton Con
stitution makes II a slave State. I feel that
the Lecompton Constitution, without this sub
stitute, would pass in its naked form, and that
Kansas would be a slave State under it; and
it I foreeo this opportunity to make itafiee
State, the opportunity will be lost forever.
And how could 1 meet my constituents, and
say that, because I desired to appear consis
tent, I would not voto for that substitute, and
give the people of Kansas ono mora-chance
for freedom. If there were only one in a hun
dred, I would do it. But it is not a chance ;
it is a certainty. Doughfaces will undoubted
ly feel very sad about my vote, and complain
that I am not consistent. That word consis
tency" is a coward's word. It is tho refuge
of selfishness and timidity. I will do right
to-day and let j-esterday take care ot itself.
That word "consistency" is
what has lured
many a noble roan to ruin, jinas sioppeu.
all generous rclotm. When I am ready to
adopt it, and to depart from practicability, I
will join tho immovable cvilization of China,
and take the false doctrines of Confucius for
my guide, with their backward looking thought.
These are my reasons, these are tho reasons
that animate my associates among the Repub
licans. And I tell yon, the common enemy,
fairly and openly, that our cause is jnst ami
our union is ierfect. We Repnblicaos will
place to-morrow our united vote npon tho
record in favor of the substitute. Our great
chieftain here, (Mr. Giddings,) with his whito
hairs, who has stood for twenty-years thrt
great champion of Liberty, we will bear with
affection to the record to this determination
he has come, after much thought. At last,
ho felt that his principles required him so to
vote, and, obeying the impulses of an honest
and patriotic and not fanatical heart, lie points
the way of duty and victory. Tho member
from South Carolina, (Mr. Miles,) if he knew
him better, would find his heart to be a loving
one ; and I will tell t!.at member that his in
terests and the interests ot South Carolina
are saler to-dy in the hands of that good old
man, than they are in tho hands of the most
malignant of doughfaces. I say our union is
perfect. We w ill put our votes on record to
morrow in favor of tho substitute, not as a
choice of evils, but because it is tho good
thing to do; it is tho only thing lor honest
men to do, if we wish to have Kansas a freo
State. - -
Mr. Chairman, a great many thoughts sug
gest themselves to my mind, to which 1 would
like to give utterance. I am told that "my
time is about to expire, and therefore wiH not
prolong my remarks to greater leHgth. I say,
lor our party, that wo are ready. We seek no
postponement of the quest ie. All that men
could do, wo have done. We havo argued
the question ; wo have implored ; we have
voted ; we have done everything to secure our
triumph ; wo have been baffled by parliamen
tary tactics ; we have been sometimes betray
ed. The President has given way ; the Sen
ate has given way ; but, thank God, the tri
bunes of the people, standing here in this
House, have not yet betrayed their trnst.
They stand firm, and my high hope ts I do
not know why, looking to oar past conflicts
here, I should have it that on the great to
morrow, when the sun shall sink behind the
hills of your own Joved Virginia, this Lecomp
ton Constitution will be defeated ; Kansas will
bo saved, and the whole country rejwse in
good will, and peace dwell in all our borders.
McCracken says that a woman may be known
by the color of her xetticoat. A black petti
coat indicates low spirits and a taste for books
and quietude. A blue petticoat proclaims
the unsettled mind an uneven temper and an
attachment for romance. The red petticoat
belongs to a termagant, and is always found
on strong-minded females women who cut
their too nails with their husband's razors, and
girls who talk back to their mothers, and get
off to balls by jumping out of the back win
dows into the arms of butchers boys. Young
men before making their choice will take ob
servations accordingly.
Noble Sfutimext. Condemn no man for
not thinking as you think. Let every one en
joy tho full and free liberty of thinking for
himself. Let every man use his own judg--ment,
since every man must give an accouut
of himself to God. Abhor every approach,
in any kind of degree, on the spirit ol perse
cution. If you cannot reason or persuade a
man into the truth, never attempt to force him
into it. If love will not compel him, Ieavu
him to God, the Judge of all. John Wesley.
A chimney bnilt in 1793, In an old house on -King
street, Northampton, on being taken
down, a few weeks since, furnished brickae
nough to build three modern chimneys, an un-.
derpinning to the house, a cistern, eight piers
in the cellar, and a drain three hundred feet'
long, besides a wagon load sold and a lot on
hand.
Sulky females generally dio old maids. If.
a girl wishes, therefore, to tasto the sweets
which spring from love and cordnroy, let her
go In training for good nature, and becomo
mnsical with gladness, like June crowded with
many bobolinks. ,
Spurgeon, the celebrated English preacher,
sometimes comes out with a good thing.
"Brethren," said he, "if God had referred
tho Ark to a committee on naval affairs, it's
my opinion it wouldn't bo built yet."
Liquor merchants who pretend to sell "pnro
liquors' now-a-days, are a good deal like tho
fellow who thought ho was drinking pure wa
ter out ol a puddle in which swine had been
wallowing.
A wag observing on the door of a house tho
name of two physicians, said that it put him in
mind of a double-barreled gun, for if ono of
them missed the other was sure to kill.
"I don't believe it's any use this vaccina
tion," said a Yankee. "I had a child vacci
nated, and ho fell out of the winder a week
arter, and got killed I"
"Mister, I say, I suppose yon don't know
of nobody who don't want to hire nobody to
do nothing, don't you 7" The answer was,
" Yes, 1 don't."
When thou art buying a horse, or choosing
a wife, says the Tuscan proverb, shot thine ;
eyes and commend thyself to God. .
Twelve thousand persons have joined the "
Methodist churches, in New Jersey, within
the last six months. .
"What is the, best line to lead s man with T '
crino-fia. And the Lest Hue to lead a woman
with is Mascu-ltnc. -.
The Lebanon Valley Bank, chartered by the
Legislature ol 1857, is about to go Into ope
ration. The speaker who was "drawn out" measur
ed eighteen inches mare than before. '
1 j ,
; "A coffin," said an Irishman, is the house
a man lives in when he is dead."
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