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CLEAREIEID; PA.,' WEDNESDAY; AUGUST 10, 1859.
VOL. 5. -NO. 50.
TEE ASUKES OF THOUGHT.
The mm who wrote the following verses had a
more kindly feeling than is usually displayed in
Ibis grasping and selfish age.
If thou hast thrown a glorious thought
Upon life's common ways,
Should other men the gain hare caught,
Fret not to lose the praise. ' "
Great thinker, often thou sbalt find,
While folly plunders fame,
To thy rich store the crowd is blind,
Nor knows thy very name.
"What matters that, if thou uncoil
The soul that God has given,
' Not in the world's mean eye to toil,
But in the sight of Heaven?
If thou art true, yet in thee lurks
For fame a human sigh ;
f To nature go. and see how works . ; .
That handmaid of the sVy.
JIrr own deep bounty the forgets
Is full of germs and seeds,
Nor glorifies herself, nor sets .
Iler flower! above her weeds.
Fhc bides, the modest leaves between.
She loves untrodden roads;
Her richest treasures are not seen '
By an'y eye hut God's. - -
Accept the les-son. Look not for.
Reward ; from out thee chase - ' -
.All selfish ends, and ask no more
Than to fulfil thy place.
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CLEARFIELD COUNTY:
OR, REMINISCENCES OF THE PAST.
We have now mentioned the principal set
tlements prior to 1804, when the county was
creeled. Its population was then sparse. The
whole county was known as one township
Chinchaclamoose that having been the name
which the township on the north side of the
river bore. The first enumeration of taxables
showed 101, of which 10 were returned as sin
gle freemen. The inhabitants returned for
taxation 21,716 Acres of land, 70 horses, 120
cows, 37 oxen, 2 grist and 2 saw.-mills the
lowest valuation being $7,00 and the highest
51258. In 1810. (that portion of the county
south of the river having been divided into
two new townships;) the taxables were : Chin
chaclamoose 111, 'Bradford 26., and Beccaria
118, making a total of 175. The population,
according to the U. S. census report, consisted
of 437 white males and 403 white females, and
37 negroes. There was then one slave return
ed for taxation, the property of Samuel Cole
man. .Beccaria township was named after a
celebrated Scotch philanthropist who had done
much towards reforming the criminal code,
and Bradford township was named in honor of
William Bradford, a gentleman of Philadel
phia, noted for his eminent attainments and
legal knowledge and who acted as Attorney
General of Pennsylvania from 1780 until 1791,
at which time he was appointed , one of the
Judges oi the Supreme Court, r Chinchacla
moose township w:is afterward subjected to
divisions, and now the name is lost. In 1814,
two townships Pike and Lawrence were
carved out of it. Their names indicate their
origin aud the feeling of regard, rife in the
community at the time of their formation, in
duced by the deaths of Gen. Pike and Commo
dore Lawrence.' The former had shortly pre
vious April 1813) fallen at the taking of
York, )ic capital of Upper Canada and great
depository of stores and ammunition of Great
Britain, in his dying moments urging his col
umns' to "move on ;" and the dying words of
Lawrence, "Don't give up the ship," uttered
as he was carried from the "deck of the Chesa
peake, to which vessel be had been promoted
- after the gallant contest between the Hornet
and the Peacock, were still ringing in the ears
of his compatriots. Some two years later, Cov
ington and Gibson townships were formed.
We know not the origin of the first name ; but
the latter township was named after John Ban
nister Gibson, an eminent lawyer and jurist,
who in 1S16 became one of the Justices of the
Supreme Court, and in 1827 was appointed
Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, which position
he held until a change in the constitution in
1850 made the Justices of the Supreme Court
elective. 'The people knowing his merit, e
lectcd him at the first election under the amc
Ued constitution, as a member of the Supreme
Court. He afterwards served as Chief Jus
tice. JGibson township now forms a pitt of
Elk county. In 1820 another subdivision was
called Fox. A small portion of Fox occupies
one corner of the county; tho body of It
forms rart of the territory of Elk count. It
was named after a wealthy gentleman of Phil
adelphia who owned many tracts in the nort
-western part of the county, "known as the Fox
& Roberta lands. Maj. Hugh II. Brady, now
a citizen of Brookvilla in Jefferson county,
and wbo had earned for himself a deathless
reputation in the struggles with the savages,
bad his name connected with the first subdi
vision after the copnty was organized for ju
dicial purposes. Brady township was formed
in 1825 out of Pike. (The next year a portion
of Beccaria was formed into a new township
called ChebtVrom the large tributary of the
- West Branch of that name which flows through
t. Bradford township'was divided in 1828
and a part named Decatur in commemoration of
Com. Stephen Decatut3'In'l832, township,
which is now in Elk county, was carved out of
old Chinchaclamoose and received a name hal
lowed by the recollection of our Revolutionary
struggle and the conference at Paris which
ended by the declaration of peace ; John Jay
baviog been one of the Commissioners on tba
part of the United Colonies. fCbest township
was divided in 1834, and the western part
named Burnside In honor of tho Hon. Thomas
Burnside, President Judge of this District.
The next year was prolific in new townships.
Girard, Penn, Jordan, Bell and Morris were
then created. Girard was called after the ec
centric and celebrated Stephen Girard, the
merchant prince, and banker of Philadelphia.
Penn vas so called because of a settlement of
Friends. Jordan was named after Hon. Hugh
Jordan, an Associate Judge of this county;
Bell after Arthur Bell, Esq. Thus two revo
lutionary heroes were honored, and in giving
a namo to the fifth township was shown an ap
preciation of the noble and disinterested con
duct of Robert Morris, the Philadelphia api
talist, who, when the paper money issued by
the continental Congress to meet the exigen
cies of the war had began to produce its legit
imate effects ruin and distress when even
the pay of officers was found insufficient to
purchase necessary clothing, from the money
being reduced to about the thirtieth part of its
nominal value, tepped forward and loaned his
money and his credit, and risked his princely
fortune, on the faith of the quasi government.
Boggs township was cut out of Bradford in
1838, and received the name of Hon. Moses
Boggs, one of the first Associate Judges of the
connty. Karthaus township was erected in
1842. Its name originated in a settlement
near the Moshannon creek, called after Pe
ter A. Karthaus, of Baltimore, one of tho
members of the Allegheny .Coal and Iron
Company, which owned a large body of land
in that vicinity. Goshen township was forma
ed in 1845. In 1847 a new township was cut
out of Beccaria and Decatur. It was named
after Hon. George W. Woodward, a more con
scientious, worthy and able Judge than whom
never added dignity and honor to the Bench.
He was for somo years President Judge of the
District, which post he resigned on being ap
pointed by Gov. Bigler a Judge of the Su
preme Court. Tlis appointment was shown to
be acceptable by his election the next fall.
Brady and Pike yielded up a part of their ter
ritory in 1848 to form the new township called
Union? J n 1854 some of the citizens of Jor
dan and Ferguson townships petitioned for
another, which was made that year. It was
called Knox alter lionJohn C. Knox, who had
been appointed President Judge to fill a va
cancy, lle presided only a few terms, but
made for himself the reputation of a model
Judge, by the rapidity with which he dispatch
ed business, bis prompt and correct manner of
deciding all questions which arose, and the
urbanity and kindness with which he treated
all wbo were interested in tho Court.An ap
pointment transferred him to theSupreme
Court, aid a subsequent election continued
him in that position until he resigned to take
upon himself the duties of Attorney General
under Gov.Packer. In 185C,parts of Bradlord
and Morris were united to form a new town
ship which on confirmation was "named Gra
ham, after James B. Graham, an enterpri
sing citizen of said township." Air. Gra
ham well deserved the compliment. He is
the son of an early settler in that sec
tion; had commenced life without any means
at his command ; engaged himself as a clerk
with Wm. Irvin of Curwensville, where he ac
quired a knowledge of the mercantile busi
ness, and having gained the confidence of his
employer, he was assisted by him in commen
cing operations at the place now called Gra
hamton. fHis business proved advantageous
to himself and beneficial to the neighborhood,
and his industry has secured him a competen
cy .J His lack of pretension, unassuming and
affable manners, would lead no one to believe
that be is one of the solid men of the county.
He served one term as County Commissioner,
and might have represented us worthily in the
Legislature had he not when a candidate a
greed with the minority in politics. The last
township formed was during this j-ear, out of
parts of Woodward and Beccaria. When con
firmed, the Court entered on the return of the
commissioners : "May 17, 1859 Confirmed
absolutely, new township erected, and named
Guelich in honor of G. Phillip Guelich, one
of the oldest citizens of the county; the
great apostle of temperance ; the main sup
port of the Bible Society ; the honest, upright
and conscientious man."
(TO BE COSTJSrSD.) f
Six different wool dealers in Adrian, Michi
gan, have purchased and shipped, within a few
weekh no less than 274,000 pounds of wool.
The average price paid was forty-two cents
per pound. Wouldn't it pay to raise wool in
Clearfield 7 The climate must be as favorable
to sheep as that of Michigan is.
Sidney Smith, passing through a by-street
behind St. Paul's, heard two women abusing
each other from opposite houses. "They will
never agree," said the wit ; "they argue from
different premises." ''
Black pepper dusted in encumber and other
vines, when the dew is on, is said to drive a
wav the strined bug, without the slightest in
jury to the plants.
A German writer observes that in the Uni
ted States there is such a scarcity of, thieves
that they are obliged to offer a reward lor
their discovery.
A small pinch of gunpowder given to a
chicken with the gaps will effect a sure and
complete fmxwnnxt time.
Rfl libers," said Pat.'the divil a show has
tba maVwbo waits till' ha is kilt before he
acts on the definsivc"
' ; A STKANOE BETBIBTJTI0H.
, -Henri Du Barre, a young French artist be
came enamored of the : only daughter of a
well-to-do aubergiste in the town of Circassone,
in the South of France. Lucille Montaigne
had beauty and money, and Henri Du Barre
had wit and. talent t,but' these latter were no
fair equivalent for the former in the eyes of
the purse'-proud father, who declared that no
daughter of his should marry a poor man,
though he were blessed with the wisdom of a
Solomon. - ' ' ' 7
Now Lucille loTed Henri at least she told
him so but she was too prudent to elope with
him and risk disinherritance ; for, after all
what was love without money ? poverty,
coming in at the door would send it flying
through tho window.
Poor Henri was in dispair. He really did
love Lucille, whether she did him or not
loved her madly ; and his was one of those
dark, fiery natures which makes love a wild,
terrible passion.
How much money was necessary to make
him her equal in the eyes of her worldly
father? The aubergist named the sum. It
was large, and Henri sighed, and felt more
despair at his heart than ever. Suddenly he
brightened up with the recollection that he
bad youth and genius, and that in some large
city, Paris, perhaps, where the latter would be
appreciated, he might acquire both fortune
and fame.
But would Lucille wait ? Well, Lucille
was willing to wait awhile for just then, as
she admitted to herself, she could think of no
one she liked better than the poor artist; but
everything earthly must have a limit, and the
fair coquette thought her patience ought not
to extend beyond a year.
A year ii a very short time for a man to ac
quire fame and fortune, with the latter de
pending on the former; but Henri was young,
and youth is sanguine, and at all events he
would make a trial, hoping great things, and
knowing he could do no worse than fail.
So he finished his engagements hurriedly,
declined any new ones, sold a few pictures on
hand, for a moderate sum, gathered together
his scanty effects, bade his friends and Lucille
adieu, and, with a hopeful but heavy heart,
set off for the great metropolis of France.
It was a long, long journey from Circassone
to Paris, in the slow conveyaiiccs of the peri
od when Henri Du Barre made it ; and it was
nearly two weeks before be reached the gay
capitol. And then began his struggles with
poverty; which clung to him, in spite of his
hopes, his exertions and his prayers, for six
weary months, when he gave up in dispair,
and secretly left the city, to beg his way back,
to Circassone, see his Lucille once more, lid
her eternal adieu, and end a life no longer of
any value to its possessor.
Henri Du Barre set out from Paris afoot and
alone, depending solely upon the charity, of
French peasants for food and lodging, lie
had six sous in his pocket when he started,
and these invested in a deadly poison, which
he carried as a dernier resort, determined not
to suffer beyond what nature might reasona
bly bear, but which it was his hope to retain
till he bad again seen Lucille.
In this manner he reached and passed thro'
Lyons, foot sore, ragged and disheartened
an object indeed for commisseration. Twenty
leagues beyond Lyons,' in passing through a
long, dark,- lonely wood, he met a Jew, carry
ing a heavy pack on his back. The poor ar
tist asked tho Israelite for charity ; his appeal
was answered with a few coins, for which he
thanked the giver, and then offered to carry
bis pack. . ' '
'Oh, 'no it is nothing it. is nothing a
few old clothes only !" returned the Jew, hur
riedly so hurriedly, and with , snch evident
uneasiness, in fact, as to awaken suspicion in
the mind of the young artist that it contained
something of great value.'-.
Then it was that a wild, vague, undefined
desire to possess it first took-possession of the
man who was going home to die wretchedly,
but whom two thousand francs might yet bless
with life and happiness. When the mind of
man takes a highly criminal bent, it seems as
if some evil demon whispers in his ear the
most plausible reason for a wicked course to
happiness.
Henri Du Barre, who had never before tho't
of harming a human being, now glanced fur
tively and atmost shudderingly around him,
with the dark and wicked thought in his brain
that if this old man were dead, and he the pos
sessor of his pack, he might yet have a bright
and glorious future. It was a dreary, dismal
spot in the thick wood where they both stood,
and no human eye save theirs was looking
upon the scene. Why should this old man be
cumbered with wealth, which could not bring
him one tithe of the joy that it might him who
coveted its possession ? He could not live
many years, that old man, at the most, and he
might die any minute, and his valuable effects
become tho inheritance of strangers ! What
mattered a few years, more or less, to him a
wandering and despised old Jew ? And why
should he, the poor miserable artist, hesitate
between the Jew's life and his own? Were
not all living creatures bound by the inner
laW of their being to act in self-defence, even
to the taking oi life when necessary to sustain
their own ? And would be not die should the
Jew live ? and would he not live should the
secret be discovered, would it be anything
worse than death at last? He had brought
poison for himself, and why should not anoth
er take it for his salvation ? in which event he
would have the means to procure more, nd
could always as now carry his life in his hands.
The Jew tad bidden him good day, and was
trudging onward at a slow, steady pace, while
these wild, wicked thoughts were coursing
through the brain of the latter, with all the
plausibility of truth.
Suddenly the Jew stopped, produced a little
flask,and raised it to bis lips. Ah ! that flask,
The devil was tempting young Dn Barre to
crime, and here was the opportunity.
"My good friend," called the artist to the
Jew, "I am very faint; will you give me a
few drops of that wine ?"
iI will give you half," said the Israelite,
h Thegartist advanced tremulously produced
the poison, and concealed it in his hand as he
annroached his victim, and, under pretence of
Snfng the mouth of the flask, dropped it in.
Then he Pretended to drink, and handed U
back wUh Ptbanks, begging the Jew to drink
bis health at their final parting. Isaac com
pifed and they separated, each goiHg differ-
"is soon as Henri was out of sight of the Is
raelitc, he entered tho wood, and teturned in
an oblique direction' until he came in sight of
his victim, who was now writhing in the ago
nies of death, ancLgroaning for mercy. . A few
minutes more and he was still the dread work
was done..
1 Dragging the body from the road, and con
cealing it, the murderer next carried the pack
far back into the forest, tore it open, and
found it did indeed contain old clothes. He
was nearly frantic. He bad murdered a harm
less old man, and got nothing for it. He threw
the garments from bim with f he wild action of
remorse and despair.
Suddenly he heard a clink as of money.
Then he began to examine the old garments,
and found, to his almost mad joy, that they
contained immense treasures in gold and jew
els, diamonds, sapphires, pearls and rubies,
to the value as he thought, of ten thousand
francs, but in reality more than a hundred
thousand.
Far in the depths of that dark wood, the
murderer hid the most precious stones, to bo
brought forth in after time. There were two
thousand five hundred francs in money ; and
with this amount ho started for home, no lon
ger a poor man, but alas! even further than
ever from being a happy one.
He travelled in his ragged clothes as far as
Nismes, -fearful of spending one of his ill-acquired
coins sooner; but at Nismes he ven
tured to purchase a new and genteel suit, and
in this shortly after appeared before Lucille,
showed her father the sum required, which he
represented as having been honestly obtained
in his profession, and claimed her hand.
In due time Henri Du Barre married Lucille
Montaigne, and happy were all at the wedding
but the guilty groom, who was never to know
happiness again. He kept his secret however,
and profited by it, making an occasional jour
ney to the dismal spot of his crime, under
pretence of travelling on business. - He took
away and disposed of the jewels one by one,
and gradually grew opulent, and was regarded
by all who knew him as an honest man of
mark.
But the remembrance of his crime had a
strange facination for him, and much of his
time was spent in brooding over it in secret.
Being an artist, he at length naturally con
ceived the idea of painting the scene of the
murder; and he finally drew it in a miniature
on ivory, picturing himself in the act of drag
ging the dead body of the Jew into the forest,
whose features, from memory only, he deline
ated with wonderful fidelity. And as if this
were not enough to satisfy his inoroid infatua
tion, he wrote underneath : "Isaac., a Jew,
murdered by Henri Du Barre, Artist, Septem
ber the tenth, in a dark wood, about twenty
leagues south from Lyons."
It was a strange, insane idea,that of preser-tl
ving a memor3' of the horrible deed in this
matter; but this, miniature of the scene he
had set in a neat little frame, and carried it in
a belt around his waist.
But the strangest part ot this horrible affair
is yet to be told. On his last visit to the for
est, for tlit last jewel that yet remained of the
proceeds of his awful crime, he was shot dead
by a highwayman, who on searching his per
son, found tho miniature, and recognized in
the features of the murdered Jew his own
father.
This produced so strange an impression up
on the second murderer, that ho carried it to
the authorities and made a full confession of
his own crime. A full and thorough investi
gation took place ; and among the papers of
Du Barre, was found one containing the state
ment of the whole i transaction, as we liavo
here recorded it.
The second murderer, the son of the Jew,
was subsequently executed, and so ended tbo
chain of dark and bloody events. -
Truly, the ways of Providence are wonder
ful and mysterious.
Use op Adversity. You wear out your
clothes. You are not troubled with many
visitors. You ore exonerated from making
calls. Bores do not bore you. Sponges do
not haunt your table. Tax-gatherers hurry
past your door. Itinerant bands do not play
opposite your window. You avoid the uui
sauce of serving on juries. You are not per
secuted to stand god father. No one thinks
of presenting you with a testimonial. No
tradesman irritates yon by asking, "Is there
any other little article to-day, sir 1" You
practice temperance. Yon swallow infinitely
less poison than others. Flatterers do not
shoot their rubbish into your ears. You are
saved many a debt, many a deception, many
a headache. And lastly, if you have a true
friend in the world, you are sure in a very
short space of time to learn it.
A Lake of Blood. Dr. Dick estimates the
number of those who have perished directly
or indirectly by war at 14,000,000,000. Elihu
Bnrrit,the learned blacksmith, having taken the
estimates of Dr. Dick, estimating the average
quantity of blood in a common sized person,
states that the blood in the veins of those four
teen thousand millions, would fill a circular
lake of more than seventeen miles in circum
ference, and ten feet deep, in which all the
navies of the world might float.
Old Sledge. J. E. Scraggs, of the Warren
ton (Va.) Whig writes to his paper from the
Red Sweet Springs : A few days ago a coup
le of Southern gentlemen here, rich planters
from Red River, played seven games of old
sledge.for $5,000 a game, and the winner took
every game $35,000 were lost and the money
paid, I hear, in a check on the Bank of Loui
siana. The morning after the French occupation
of Milan, severll journals that had been sup
pressed by the Austrian government re-appeared.
One had been suppressed five years,
and in the last number had premised the "con
clusion" of a story in the next. True to pro
mise, the next, at the end of five years, took
np the story where it had been left off, and
concluded it.
"That's a fine strain," said one gentleman
to another, alluding to the tones of a singer
at a concert, the other evening. "Yes," said
a countryman who sat near, "but if he strains
much more he'll bust."
A darkey's instructions for putting' on a
coat, were "Fust de right arm, den the lef,
and den gib one general conwulshun."' '
Fashionable circles were never so numerous
as now. Almost every lady that appears in
the streets is the centre of one.
WHO ABE THE AGITAT0ES 1
It has been the continual effort of the sub
servient tools in the North of the slavery-extending
policy of the South to cast odium up
on the opposition by charging them with con
stantly agitating the slavery question. The
chaige is without foundation. The position of
the North on this subject has been throughout
on the defensive ; the aggression has come
from the other quarter. It any, evidence was
needed to sustain this, it may be found to the
fullest extent in the speech lately delivered to
bis constituents by the llon.Alexander II. Ste
phens," of Georgia, one of the ablest represen
tatives in Congress from the South, on his dc
clining a re-election and retiring to private life.
He, to be sure, does not admit that the South
was the aggressor; but bo congratulates his
hearers on the successes achieved by it in all
agitations of the slavery question, commen
cing with the annexation of Texas, and sums
up its triumphs as follows :
"But so far from the institution of African
slavery in our section being weakened or ren
dered less secure by the discussion, my delib
erate judgment is that it has been greatly
strengthened and fortified strengthened aud
fortified not only in the opinions, convictions
and consciences of men, but by tho action of
the Government. Questions that were doubt
lnl and mooted before these agitations have
since been settled settled as I have stated,
settled by all tho departments of the Govern
ment, the legislative, executive, and judicial.
The old Missouri restriction of 1820 has been
taken from the statute-book. There is not
now a spot of the public territory of the Uni
ted States, over which the national flag floats,
where slavery is excluded by law of Congress ;
and the highest tribunal of the land has deci
ded that Congress has no power to pass such
a law, nor to grant such power to a Territo
rial Legislature. All this has been the result
of these agitations."
At the same time that Mr. Stephens boasts
of(these achicvcments,and that "African slave
ry with us rests upon principles that can never
be successfully assailed by reason and argu
ment,", he admits that at the organization of
our government even "the leading public men
of the South were almost all against it. Jef
ferson was against it ;" he says, "Madison was
against it ; nearly all of them were against it.
This I freely admit when the authority of their
names is cited." But Mr. Stephens says, "the
world is growing wiser, and upon no subject
more rapidly than that of the proper status of
the negro. In my judgment there are more
thinking men at the North now who look upon
our system of slavery as right, socially, mor
ally and politically, than there were even at
the South thirty years ago." This last sen
tence reads to us very much like a sarcasm at
the expense of the Northern doughfaces who
have assisted Mr. Stephens in achieving his
Doastea victories lor slavery. It sounds like
a perversion of all right reason to contend se
riously for the social, moral and political rec
titude of slavery, especially by Northern men,
when Jefferson, Madison and nearly all the
leading men of the South in our early history
were opposed to it. Mr. Stephens gets rid of
the weight of their authority, however, by
charging their, in his view, erroneous opinions
on their ignorance of the subject ! "It was a
question," says he, "which they did not, and
perhaps could not thoroughly understand at
that time. It was then a new question in the
construction of constitutional government."
It is thus that "Young America" coolly dis
poses of, and dispenses with the wisdom of the
lathers S Mr. Stephens goes lurther, and bold
ly places himself on the ground of "the high
er law." He says : "Many soem to be not
only astonished, but offended, at the "higher
law" doctrine of the Senator from New York,
(Mr. Seward.) I too believe in the higher law
the law of the Creator as manifested in His
works and revelations. Upon this our cause
eminently rests." lie takes the most ultra
ground on this point, fully up to the most ad
vanced position of Mr.Seward which has drawn
upon him such censure. Mr. Stephens says :
"I recognize to the fullest extent the doc
trine that all human laws and constitutions
must be founded upon the Divine law. And if
there is any right secured or any obligation
imposed in our Constitution inconsistent with
this law, underlieing and overruling all others,
such right and such obligation must be yield
ed. I would not swear to support any consti
tution, inconsistent with this higher law. Let
us not deceive oursehes ; this question has to
be grasped and comprehended in all its vast
dimensions; on it we need not orators so
much as thinkers, nor daclaiiners so m.uch as
reasoners. We must stand on the higher law,
as well as upon the Constitution. The latter
must be subordinate to the former."
Having thus proclaimed the subordination
of the Constitution to "the higher law" a doc
trine which, when first avowed by Mr. Seward,
struck all our Northern doughfaces with holy
horror, Mr. Stephens proceeded to justify sla
very by that "higher law." Of course, the at
tempt was abortive, and consisted in an effort
to sustain it by the analogies of creation, all
of which was very well as a mere fignre of
speech, but wholly defective as argument when
you would reason of a being endowed with an
immortal soul, as you would of the vegetable
kingdom, or of "the beasts that perish."
Mr. Stephens also indicated to his late con
stituents the further measures of agitation
which they must adopt in order to extend the
blessed institution of slavery and maintain
their own influence in the Union. Among
these was the acquisition of new territory, in
cluding parts of Mexico, but chiefly Cuba. He
is not much in favor of buying Cuba, as pro
posed by Mr. Buchanan. He would give Spain
a million or two to "obtain so great a resnlt
without difficulty, it Spain saw fit to receive
it;" but the right way is just to take it to
"repeal our own laws which make it penal and
criminal for our own citizens to go and help
the people of Cuba to achieve their- indepen
dence," and thus to gain the prize. Such an
idea is entirely consistent with the ethical prin
ciples on which Mr. Stephens justifies the so
cial, moral and political rectitude of slavery.
. His other scheme of agitation is.when plain
ly pronounced, to re-open the African slave
trade. . He tells his hearers that they canuot
have more slave States without more slave pop
ulation rthat they "may not expect to see ma
ny of the Territories come into tho Union as
stave States unless we have an iucrease of Af
rican stock." "It takes people to make States ;
and it requires people of the African race to
make slave States. This requires no argu--ment
; and I very much question whether,with
our present stock of that population, we can
famish the requisite number to secure more
than the four States to come out of Texas in
the present Territories of the Union." Wo
suppose that when Noithern men resist this
scheme of aggression, they will still be de-.
nounced as agitators!
In referring to Mr. Stephens, we have not
resorted to the frenzied follies of ultra South
ern fire-eaters. He is not of that school. He
has a "method iu his madness." He is com-,
paratively cool in his temperament, and con
servative in his views. He entered Congress
a Whig; but fell off to "the Democracy,"
when he fuuud' his old political associates un
willing to assist him in achieving those tri
umphs of slavery over which he exults. It was.
only among northern "Democrats" that ho
found the right kind of material, and with
their aid he succeeded. Still he is not satis-,
fied, and he "marshals them the way that they
shall go" hereafter, not only for the acquisU
tion of Cuba, but "tho increase of African
stock." This has served to arouse feelings of
resistance in the minds of many moderate men,
whose wish it has been to suppress tbp agitation
of the slavery question. They wisied to have
no more said about it to exclude it from pub
lic discussion, and from the regard of politi
cal parties. They were content to let it rest
just where it is. But Mr. Stephens breaks in,
upon their policy of rcpos J with new agitation.
Having arnged himself into a conviction, not
only of the social,moral and political rcctitudo
of slavery, but also that in all those respects,
it "promotes the welfare and happiness of the
African constituted as he is, as well as that of
his master," be is perfectly consistent in re-,
commending an increase of African stock by
re-opening the slave-trade, and thus, as he ex
presses it, "fulfilling a great mission in advan
cing a new order and a higher type of Chris
tian civilization." It were cruel, indeed, to
exclude the native African from the promotion,
of his wellare and happiness, by not bringing
him'under the benign influences of "slavery,
as it exists with us!" Still this is too hard a
strain upon the convictions and consciences of
our Northern conservatives, who are not whol
ly prepared to reject the authority and opin
ions of Jefferson, Madison and the leading men
of the South in our early history, noi; to admit
Mr. Stephens' doctrine of the "higher law"
or the analogical crgument which he bases up
on it. Thus the North American whose mod
eration on this. question is known by all read-,
ing men says: ;
"There was no necessity requiring Mr. Ste
phens to speak two hours upon slavery on the
occasion of bis withdrawal from the represent
tation of his district. He wholly mistakes tba
age ho lives in, and with a thousand more such
to aid him, he cannot cause civilization to re
turn along its track of a thousand years. We.
do not waut African stock" for the labor of
this continent, and we have no need ot slave
ry as a substructive for new free States. Tho.
statesmen of the revolutionary age were not
mistaken as to the right or propriety of slave
ry on the contrary, Mr. Rhett and Mr. Ste
phens are mad on the subject. A diseased ex
citement against advancing civilization moves,
them to do and to say, what they now do and.
say, and as certainly as time rolls on, this',
morbid slavery worship will die out, and ab
solutely disappear at the end of a brief peri-,
od of years."
We conclude this article with the following
remarks from the same paper, having, as wa
think, conclusively shown that aggression and
agitaiion on the slavery question have npt pro
ceeded from the political friends. w.ith whom
it is our pleasure to act, and t,hat. it is the
South which will not permit ifctft be ignored
In political issues :
"Much as the north may justly be held re
sponsible lor in this prominence of slavery for
ten years past, the south is responsible for
much more. They will never have done with
it, they cannot speak on the Fonrth of July
without talking ot it. and from November till
October, on no market day is a speaker or
writer there sober on this intoxicating point.
What do they suppose the ccnseqtience of this
course will be on the rest of the Union ? Who
can talk of a tariff" or a line of foreign policy,
without having the words caught out of his
mouth by some vociferous declaimer for more
"African stock," or for or against a slave codo.
in the territories. The case is in the hands
of the South, we repeat. Give us Isomething
else than this pet institution as the theme of
hope for the future, when you speak or write.
Slavery is not the corner stone of this, reppb
lie, nor the corner stone of a single State com
posing it. Slavery is not to be the goal; for
future advancement, and there is to be no hap
py future in which negroes shall be imported;
in countless numbers to supply the vacant
fields of the south. If southern leaders can,
see no other Elysium than this in looking for
ward, it is better to shut their eyes, and, to givo
up the world as lost. No accumulation, of
strength, no seperation of Southern States in
to a new confederation, can effect any such
change as that required to revive the slavo.
trade on a great scale, and to permit the south
to measure its prosperity by the multitude of
its fresh negroes. , -
"It is obvious that the desideratum w.e seek
is not to come by mincing phrases of careful
construction upon the slavery qnesiipn- To
ensure peace we must dcclar,e- ourselves ready
to fight for it, if need be, and; to.makc a slave
ry test, if we can obtain no eid to reasona
ble doctrines otherwise." '
John Adams being called rpon for a contri
bution to foreign missions, remarked: I
have nothing to give for that cause, but thero
are here is this vicinity six ministers, not one
of whom will preach in the?; other roan's pul
pit ; now, I will give as much and more than
any one else to civilize the clergyman,," We
are inclined to think that there "is yet at the
present day some civilization, of, that kind
needed in many places.
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"How is it," said a centlemnn to RhoV;.
"that your name hasn't O attached to it ?
iouriamuyisirisn,andnodoubtillu8tsious '
"No family has a better right to O than ours '
said Sheridan, "for we owe everybody." -
It is said that a cow in Yorkshire, England,
having had one of her fore legs amputated,
has been supplied with a wooden one, and
that she manages to live very comfortably up
on that. - - J r
We seen stated that there are thirty-two
hones, neither more nor less, in all the divi
sions of the hnman body.' Thus, there are 2
teeth, 32 spinal functions, and soon. A ?
Aicdness is the golden chain by which soci
ety bound together- -, t : . . , -
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