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BY S. B. BOW.
WISHING.
Of all amusements fur the mind,
From logic down to fishing.
There isn't one that you can find
So very cheap as "wishing '."
A very choice diversion, too,
If we but rightly use it,
And not as we are apt to do.
Pervert it. and abuse it.
I wish a common wish, indeed
. My purse was something fatter,
That I might cheer the child of need,
And not my pride to flatter:
That I might make oppression real,
A3 only gold can make it ;
And Dreak the tyrant's rod of steel,
As only gold can break it.
I wish that sympathy and lovo,
And every human passion
That has its origin above,
Would come, and keep in fashion ;
That Scorn, and Jealousy, and Hate,
A n J every base emotion.
Were hurled fifty fathoms deep
Beneath the waves of Ocean !
I wish that friends were always true,
And motives always pure ;
I wish the good were not so few,
I wish the bad were fewer ;
I wish that paisons ne"er forgot
To head their pious teaching ;
I wi-b that practicing was not
fc-o different from preaching.
I wlh that modest worth might be
Appraised with truth and candor;
I wih that innocence were free
Krnm treachery and slander;
I wi.-h that men their vows would mind,
That women ne'er were rovers;
I wish that wives were always kind.
And husbands always lovers.
I wish in fine that joy and mirth,
And every good ideal.
31 ay come, erewhile. throughout the earth
lo be the glorious ileal
Till tlod shall every creature bless
With his suprtmest blessing,
And hope be lost in happiness.
An I wishing in possessing !
fOPTKIfinT SECIKF.D.J
CLEAUFIELD COUNTY:
OS. REMINISCENCES OF THE PAST.
Dr. John P. Iloyt first saw the light in Cen
tral New-York. lie removed here early and
Laving married a daughter of Esquire M'Clure,
waa'induced to make this his permanent home.
In tU'i epidemic of 1821 he won for himself
gulden opinion!. lie was a faithful, diligent,
arid judicious practitioner of medicine. Un
pretending, he neither assumed airs nor neg
lected to acquire information from any source
wi.ich was open to him. The practice of med
icine was then slavish, and unproductive. It
required more the devotion of a zealot than
the ambition of a man of business to incite to
action. Dr Il03"t soon connected the mer
cantile business with the practice of medicine
nt.d the former in a few years engrossed his at
Ttiitiou. In . his new occupation he proved
himself conscientious, attentive and accom
modating, and through it increased his world
ly Mure. When he commenced store-keeping
s.t Cutwirisville a fine field was open before
iiim, but prudence, almost reaching timidity,
governed him and made his accumulations
!ow but sure. For some years he has resided
in Ferguson township managing his mill and
farm. Here, at his leisure, he has sought to
increase his scientific knowledge, and becom
ing enlisted in the agricultural advancement
of his adopted county, by word and by deed
he has endeavored to increase the products of
the earth, and direct the attention of ag
riculturists tc such articles as the soil de
mands. Jlis investigations have enabled him
to construct a water-wheel on a principle dif
ferent entirely from any in use, which has been
pronounced a success and for which a patent
has been secured. Mr. Iloyt has been a con
sistent and moderately active politician, and
having secured the nomination of his party he
svas elected Associate Judge of this county,
lie is a plain, modest man, whose practical
common sense views are entitled to respect.
Dr. A. T. Schryver is also a native of New
York. He is, we believe, a halt' brother to
Dr. Iloyt, and came to this county about the
same time he did. In many respects the two
rt-semble. Dr. Schryver did good service in
li2L Some years later he left this county
and practiced on the Juniata, but subsequently
retcrnedar.d located near Glen Hope where he
practiced his profession, and had the oversight
of the Beccaria mills and of a mercantile es
tablishment. In IS'A he was elected Superin
tendent of Common Schools for this county,
at the Crst election for that position. He serv
ed faithfully during the term for which he was
elected, notwithstanding the pittance which he
received was not more than sufficient to bear
his travelling expenses: He now resides on
Clearfield Creek handy to Clearfield Bridge.
x Daring the prevalence of the epidemic and
on other occasions Dr. Ingalls visited the
county. Shrewdness and tact in speculating
distinguished him from other men. He had
adopted the practice of medicine without at
tending lectures. His pretentions to medical
knowledge far exceeded his real attainments,
but his daring was often accompanied by hap
py results when a hesitating or timid course
Wight have proved disastrous.
The residence of Dr. Dewees at Philipsburg
and his connection with Mr. Philips in his
heavy land operation was the moving cause
which brought John Lorain, Esq., a native of
Maryland, to that place, where he engaged in
ttorc keeping. Dr. Dewees had married a
daughter of Mr. Lorain by bis first wife. Mr.
Lorain after being sometime in business, asso
ciated with Thomas Lever, who had united
himself in marriage to another daugbter,whilst
he resided in Philipsburg. II is only son, Hen
ry, wag a wilful, wayward child, who as he in
creased in years delighted more in backing a !
fleet horse, of which he was perfect master.
and scouring the country, than to apply him
self to business or books. Dr. Dewees had in
vested his all, the proceeds of a large lucra
tive practice, in the enterprize in which he
and Mr. Philips were engaged. It was a large
undertaking, in some respects premature. The
management of their vast body of lands ; con
ducting the extensive works which were con
templated and putjin opeiation,and introducing
the lands to those who might become settlers,
required much time and a deep purse. Phil
ips was rich, could stand the drain and bide
his time, awaiting the expected increase.
When the means of Dr. Dewees were exhaus
ted and the looked for returns were as distant
as ever, hed with his interest in the pro
perty and I 1 himself poor. In fact so
straightencv s he in circumstances that
when he wouTr up his affairs at Philipsburg
he had not suffigent funds to convey his fami
ly to Philadelphia, ne sold to Mr. Miles of
Centre county the balance of the time of a
servant to enable him to do so. When in Phil
adelphia, his old friends and associates Drs.
Chapnian and Physic assisted him in making
a start to regain practice, through which he
was soon in easy circumstances. Esquire Lo
rain became afflicted with paralysis, and Hen
ry, it now seemed, must become the stay of
the family. Through his brother-in-law he
was prevailed on to study medicine. Dr. Mc
Leod became his preceptor. He studied sev
eral years under him and then went to Phila
delphia where he received private instruction
from Dr. Dewees, attended lectures at the Uni
versity and received the degree of M. D. from
that institution. He first practiced regularly
in Franklin, Venango co. After a brief inter
val he succeeded Dr. M'Leod at Philipsburg.
In 1537 he made Clearfield town his home.
He at first had but little competition. His
range was extensive. Ilis receipts meagre in
comparison with the amount of business he
did and the labor and exposure incident to it.
He wore himself out in the service of the peo
ple, becoming old at the period when others
are in their prime. Some operations outside
of his practice, and increase in the value of
lands, realized to him a competency. When
Dr. Lorain had settled In lire and earnestly
followed his calling he showed himself posses
sed of more ability and perscverence than his
friends deemed he bad. With him the prac
tice of medicine became, a reality and to it he
devoted his energies and his time. It was the
object of his life. He was a physician of the
old school, attentive and methodical; never
leaving the beaten track to adopt new theories
or try experiments. lie acted promptly and
worked with a will. In that branch for which
his services were oftenest required he became
an adept. Nought provoked him more when
attending a c.nts than officious intermeddling
or a disobedience of his directions. He was
honest in expressing his views had no pa
tience with those who imagined themselves
sick or overrated their ailments. Success
crowned his efforts and he was known as a
prudent and skillful practitioner. When Dr.
Lorain took a position or adopled a view he
hewas unchangable. Should he listen to your
contrary opinions, they irritated him against
you but did not convince. His opinions were
radical and fixed. As lie neither compromised
nor conciliated he could not as a partisan be
come popular, yet through a circle of friends
who knew his honesty of purpose and respec
ted his opinions, he exercised an extensive in
fluence in moulding the views of his party and
managing public affairs. When acknowledged
to be the mst influential man in the Demo
cratic party, he was nominated for Congress,
but his ultra views on the tariff question and
the machinations of bitter rival leaders brought
about his defeat. In his dress, his speech and
manners he was plain ; in his habits abste
mious, frugal and regular. His iron constitu
tion yielded alter a painful and protracted ill
ness, and on his decease in March last, his
medical confreres and the masonic fraternity
with which he was connected, passed fitting
tributes to his memory.
" (TO BB COSTIXCED.)
A Remarkable Fact. Professor Mitchell,
in liis lectures on astronomy, related a very
remarkable fact. He said that he had not
long since met, in the city of St. Louis, a man
of great scientific attainments, who for forty
years had been engaged in Egypt in decypher
irT the hioroirvlDhics of the ancients. This
gentleman had stated to him that he had late
ly unravelled the inscriptions upon the coffin
J . f
of a mummy, now i n me Lonuun .uuaemu, anu
that by the aid of previous observations, he
had discovered the key to all the astronomical
t-n.nlfdrrf. of the Egyptians. The zodiac,
with the exact position of the planets, was de
lineated on the coflin, and the uaiciowmcu
they pointed was the autumnal equinox in the
year 1722 before Christ, or nearly thirty-six
hundred vears airo. Professor Mitchell em
ployed his assistants to ascertain the exact
position of the heavenly bodies belonging to
our solar system on the equinox oi mat year,
(1722 B.C.,) and sent him a correct diagram
of them,without having communicated his ob
ject in doingso. In compliance with this the cal
...i .tidwprft made, and to his astonishment,
on comparing the result with the statements
of his scientific friends already referred to it
was found that, on the an oi uciooe., l,
B C the moon and planets had occupied the
the exact position in the heavens marked upon
the coffin in the ionuon museum.
The Pennsylvania Central Railroad has car.
ried in the past 2 years, over two millions of
pasSeDgVr5, without the lo3s of a single life.
CLEARFIELD, PA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7,
BILLY FIELD'S CAMP-MEETING SCEAPE. !
"Boys," said Uncle Ben, "did you ever
hear of Billy Fields' scrane over here at Rock
Spring camp ground two or three years ago ?"
This question was addressed to a crowd of
youngsters, who were gathered around Uncle
uen, as ho was seated in the town of Clinton,
near sunset. It was of course answered in the
negative, with a request that he should tell
them of it. .
"Wall, you see I and Billy and Jim Llndsey .
'eluded we would go over to Rock Spring camp
meetin' three years ago- Jim and Billy were
young fellers and both were crazv on the sub
ject of gals-. As for myself, I went -there in a
religious pint, of view. . After we got thar, we
stopped at tiro; tent of one of our lriends, and
after supper tyo concluded we would go down
to the btand, and hear the sarmint. Billy got
hold of a little gal, and ott he went ; Jim hitch
ed to one as weighed nigh onto a hundred and
seventy, and folleied arter them, and I, not
withstandin I had come thar in religious'
pint of view, thought it wouldn't be hurtin'
anybody to sorter to mix the thing ; so I tuk
hold of a young, bouncin' bloomin' widder,
boys, that widder was about the puttiest piece
but never mind about that now, and away
we went arter the rest.
"Wall, the preachin' went on and closed
without anything happenin' ortul and sublime
as Stubbs says, 'cept Jim's jinin the church,
and me goin' to sleep and comin' back -without
the w idder. I was sorry for it, but it war
no use talkin'; I could'nt a toch her with a
ten foot pole. She was as mad as a hornet ;
Biily said I must 'pologise ; I mought a done
it if he hadn't a told me to. He's a nice thing
to teach mo perliteness, ain't he 1 He ain't
got sense enough to keep his mouth shet 'bout
nothin,' 'specially where I am consarned.
"Wall, I and Jim went to bed, and Billy got
a bed in the next room. Jim soon went to
sleep, and I war lyin' and thinkin' 'bout the
widder, when all at once the gals (the next
room was full of 'em) commenced er Iarfin'
and gigglin' in the next room at a terrible
rate. I know'd they were up to mischief, for
there war three or four in thar as wild as tur
keys, with that little gal that Billy went out to
the stand with, to head 'em, and she war all
sorts. I wanted to know what they were up
to, so I reaches over and shakes Jim. But
then I know'd as Jim wouldn't do, 'cause he
had just jined the church, and furthermore he
was the most shame-faced man I ever saw.
He and Billy were down on tho creek, a long
time ago, and they cum upon a whole pile of
gals in er swimmin,' and Jim like a fool, got
ashamed and hid behind a stump. Billy look
cd durn him ! keen him from lookin' he
done wns, too."
"What did he do ?" asked some one.
"He tied up their clothes and split, bnt tbe
schoolmaster round it out, and the way he wol-
loped Billy war a caution to young men as
walks on the creek when thar is gals in the
country as have a notion to larn how to swim
"Wall, arter thiukin' over these circumstan
ces, I concluded that Jim war not the man l
wanted. So I let him loose, and let him go to
sleep again, and then went into the room whar
Billy was and woke him up and explained to
him how matters stood in the next room. c
determined to see what was gwine on ; but how
to do it was the question. Thar war no cracks
to peep through, and there was no loot-hold
to peep over ye all know how tents are fixed.
Wall, arter studyin' awhile, Billy hit on a plan
It was this: One of us was to stand on the
shoulders of the other one and peep over.
This was a pretty good plan, but Billy couldn't
hold me up he being such a little teller, ana
I such an old gourd. Billy didn't like to
make the trial, but 'greed to on the consider
ation that I was not to stay up too long. I war
willin', cause I jes wanted to see ef 1 could
cotch a sight of the widder anyhow. Wall, I
mounted, and jes cotched a sight of the little
creeters, spread out in a row in the beds on
the floor, when Billy's wind guv out, and down
I cum on Jim's paunch, and he fetched a shout
and hollered 'glory !' Ihe cussed tool thought
the judgment day had . come. This sorter
stopped the gals for a while, but we lay as still
as sqirrcls, that is, 'cept Jim, who kept groan
in' and twistin' some. We sent word out to
the old folks that be had the colicky. Binie
by the gals commenced their frolicks again,
that is, 'cept that big fat gal, that war cryin'
'cause Jim war sick.
"Billy said it war his turn now, and so it
was. but fallen' down had like to broke my
leg. But I thought it would never do to cut
the feller out of his fun, so Billy got up and
commenced lookin'. I got mighty tired, but
I know'd it wouldn't do to say nothin,' 'cause
the gals would hear me, and there would be a
rumuus. But then my old leg commenced
hurtin' so I reached up and sorter pinched
Killv. as a siin for him to go down. But he
never moved a peg ; thar he stood, a stretch
in' his neck and gazin' over at them gals. A
thought just then struck me. Sez I to myself,
'didii't Billy let me fall on purpose jess now ?
By jingo I bMieve he did !' So I reached up
and got a good hold on him, ard when he
stretched a little further over I sent him whir-
lin' right amongst them gals. Did you ever
6perience an earthquake ? Did you ever dream
of kinsrdom come f You orter been thar when
Billy lit! Such a squallin' sich a crawlin
under beds sich a hidin' under straw, you
did see ! When Stubbs gets drunk
he talks about a young fellow as was namei
Don Juan, crawlin' under some bed fixins at
an old Snaniard's house, but his fix was nothin
to Billv Fields' scrape. The old folks all run
up, one old brother commenced prayin' loud
enough to be heard from Don to Bersheba
and the way them folks give it to that young
man!'
"Clear out from here, you nasty, imperdent
scoundrel!' said an old lady as had a daugh
ter in that room !
"We will prosecute him !' said a little jack
lee lawyer as never had prosecuted anybody
yet nor never will as long as people have as
much sense as they have got now.
"How could you do so Mr. Fields V said the
little gal as has been 'luded to.
"Thnr tliev stood, all around -him, givin' i
to him and not lettin' him say a word. 1 be
gun to git sorry for Billy, and I know d fie
didn't have sense enougn to gu out oi me
scrape, so I walks up to whar they were siana
h,,f T nnver let on for a while, but stood
-inri limned without they seein' me. Bimeby
.. i,i lurfr sided me out. and sez she :
k it vr shame. Mr. Johnson ? Aint it a
shame for honest folks to be 'posed on so by
this little sneaken', quiverlm ,
.Andmvzal takin' on so bout him too
I'll sllow her! said another old 'oman.
"And my Nancy givin' him a bunch
of
flowers this blessed evening, I'll be bound,
".Ladies!' said Billy..
"Shet up !' said one.
"Rest him !' said another.
"Sez I, 'Ladies and gentlemen !' They all
stopped to listart to what I had to say, 'cause
yer see I could land the tariff on Billy among
the old folks, if he could git me sorter 'mong
the young uns. Says I,Iadies and gentlemen,
I must think, afore I suffer myself to believe
tbe reports about Mr. Fields, that it ar all ow-
n to a mistake : as Mr. Fields no doubt would
have, showed if you had only given him time.
Ladies and gentlemen,' sez I,' Mr. Fields has
always been 'flicted with that distressin' evil
of.-walkiu in his sleep. And this arno doubt
the. cause of this unpleasant accident.
"ihats so,!' said Billy, as he slipped out to
put on his clothes. , .
'I know'd Mr. Fields would not hae done
so on purpose, said 6no little gal. .
f I knowd the jMeids family long ago said
.one old 'oman, 'and I know'd thar blood would
not be guilty of such a thing.'
'He's had better raisin,' said an old bow
egged brother.
.'Billy had now put on his clothes, he come
in whar we war, talkin' to the old folks and
'pologizin, to the gals for adventures as he
called snomtobolatic. It war now all right
and all of my own fixin'. ' Billy forgive mo
-for throwin' him over for gittin' him out an
other sich a scrape ! I d git him out when the
cows come home tail end foremost ! I aint
forgot his blabbin' out 'bout that Betsy Trol
lop scrape yit !'
A Good Answer. Some thirty years ago,
in Baltimore, a worthy Hibernian pedagogue,
named Cornelius Dwyer, kept a flourishing
school, or "academy," as he was pleased to
designate it, where many of the youthful Bal
timoreans of that day were instructed in the
three great arts of reading, writing and arith
metic. While, however, Mr. Dwyer was well
enough qualified for the routine of ordinary
school learning, he had an ambition that his
academv should be considered a school where
all the higher branches could be acquired, und
accord ingly kept in his advertisements and
circulars, as among the branches taught, "ge
ometry; trigonometry, as.ronomv, navigation,
the use of the globes," etc. ; feeling satisfied
that among his pupils none would be likely to
a3pire to the giddy heights of these abstruse
sciences. But it happened one of his patrons,
another Irishman, of not much learning, but
who had, in the grocery trade, acquired a
competence, was desirous of giving his only
son all the advantages of a liberal education ;
and accordingly, one day in January, when
the mercury was down to zero and below, and
the bay and river bad been closed by ice, he
dispatched the boy to Mr. Dwyer's institution
oriearrnnor with th f-lli-win rcijnol. .
"Please, sir, father says that I am to be
brought up to commercial pursuits, and he
wants you to teach me navigation."
Mr. Dwyer was somewhat astounded at this
request, and for a moment hesitated to reply,
but at length broke out with
"An' how does your father expect me to
tache ye navigation whin the navigation is
all closed np entirely ?"
Singular Freak. James Trnesdell, a gen
tleman of some seventy years, living in Lib
erty, Pennsylvania, has been for twelve years
past industriously engaged, when the weather
and his health would permit, in digging ov
a piece of ground near his dwelling, and car
rying the stone and dirt into a pile. Here he
has labored, taking one stone or shovel full of
dirt at a time, until the mound has reached
the height of thirty or forty feet, and is much
larger than his house. Jle said as a reason
for his labors that he lost a sixpense on his
garden. He soon after found several sixpen
ces, but continued to dig uutil his whole gar
den has been carried to increase the mound.
He is peaceful and industrious in his way, so
his family let him work. To their oners of
assistance he gives a decided negative, and
digs away alone. Mr. Truesdell is a well-informed
man, and talks rationally on every
subject but his lost sixpence.
A few days ago, in the Court at Hamilton,
C. W., while Mr. Freeman was addressing the
Jury, in oue of the most eloquent portions of
his speech, to his horror, ho saw a broad grin
on the faces of the Jury ; tlfen they seemed
hivoluntarily to burst out in a loud laugh
On turning to the Bench, however, the reason
was evident. The Chief Justice had retired
to his room for a moment, and there in the
judicial chair, in all his majestjT, sat no less a
personage than Mr. Robert Innes, an insane
man, well known there. Bob,as he is lamiliar
ly called, looked smilingly on the learned
counsel, and said. "Go on, it's all right; I'll
see justice done," am id roars of laughter. At
this moment his lordship returned, but the
would-be judge did not feel inclined to vacate
his prominent position, and it required three
constables to remove him.
A Quarter. A boy worked hard all day
for a quarter of a dollar. With the quarter he
bought apples, and took them to town and
sold them in the street for a dollar. With the
dollar ho bought a sheep. The sheep brought
him a lamb, and her fleece another dollar
With the dollar he bought him another sheep
Tbe next spring he had two sheep ; two lambs
and a yearling sheep. The three fleeces he
sold for three dollars, and bought three more
sheep. He now had six, with a fair prospect
He worked where he found an opportunity
for hay, corn and oats, and pasturing for his
sheep. lie took the best care of them and
soon had a flock. Their wool enabled him to
buv a pasture for them, and by the time he
was twenty-one he had a fair start in life, and
all from a quarter earned in one day.
A courtesan, named Mary Powers, or as she
has been called, "blue-eyed Mary," was buried
in St. Louis last week, only the driver of the
hearse and a regro sexton accompanying the
body to the grave. Five vears ago she was
the respected and beautiful daughter of a weal
thy merchant, with brilliant prospects; she
chose a life of infamy, and her poisoned body
is mouldering in the grave. "The wages of
sin is death."
An immense pigeon roost is now estabHsg
in Chenango swamp, Crawford county-.
The pigeons are numbered by mil''
hunters are slaying them by thocfl, gathered
- -of ground, two
A lady in Brewster, Mt's, for which sha
this fall from about tixfid dollars. ;
hundred barrels of r
received over.t""
1859.
WHO ABE THE DISUNIOMSTS!
The Demecratic papers are in the habit of
charging the Opposition with favoring a dis
solution of the Union. This cnarge iney ac
company with extracts from speeches, some of
which are garbled so as to treat me aumors
very unfairly, others are fabrications manufac
tured for. the occasion, and yet others are the
productions of men who have neither affinity
nor act with our party. J. he Washington .kc-
porter, in its last issue, takes the mailer in
hand, and shows that there is anotner sine io
the question, by quoting extracts from speech
es of prominent Democrats, which it says are
not the utterances of irresponsible persons out
of those w ho are high In the confidence of the
party, and tho genuineness ot which the eai
tor is prepared to substantiate. If, hereafter,
any one wishes to know who it is that favors a
dissolution of the Union, let him read the
Reparter's compilation of extracts, and decide
lor himself. We quote :
The Hon. Fayette M'Mullin late a member
of Congress lrom Yirginia, and now Governor
of Washington Territory a post which he
holds under appointment from President Bu
chanan in a speech delivered in the House
of Representatives, made use of the following
language : "Let me tell that member (Mr.
Giddings) and this House and the country,
that should this country ever arrw at that un
fortunate state of affairs that the Government
should pass iirfo the hands of the Korth of
such a Northern fanatical character over tne
way, ana that the uovernment snouia restore
the Missouri Compromise or repeal tne jugiute
slave law, then, in such a case, I would have
to endorse the declaration of the honorable
gentleman from Kentucky, (Mr. Campbell ;)
that is to say, that this Union must and will be
dissolved."
Again in the same speech, referring to the
people of the North, he says : "They suppose
that the southern disunionists are continea to
the Calhoun wing of the Democratic party.
This sir, is the g ealest error that the people
of the North have ever fallen into. And I tell
you sir, and I want the country to know it I
want the gentlemen from the free States, our
Republicans, our Seward Republicans, our ab
olitionists, or whatever else they may be call
ed, to know it that if yon restore the Missouri
Compromise or repeal the fugitive slave law, the
Union will be dissolved."
Mr. M'Mullin, having said that he made
these declarations in presence of the whole
Southern delegation in Congress, then added
the following : "I hope that if any gentleman
deems I do not properly represent the state of
public feeling at the South he will correct me.'
Although they were thus specially called
upon, not a man of the whole Southern dele
gation rose on that day or any other to dis
claim the sentiments impnted to that section
oi tho Union .
But let ns hear from Mr. Sandidge, another
Democratic Congressman lrom Louisiana :
"Should your Northern policy leave us no
other course to pursue, but submission to the
undepicted evils in the Union, we may be rea
dy with our brethren to go out oj it with the
sustaining power of a cause the world will jus
tify." Mr. Keitt, aDemocratic Representative from
South Carolina, declared : "The States Rights
party of the South are done with compromises :
they stand upon the Constitution, and there
they will continue to stand though imploring
Administrations should topple down and par
ties perish around them. They have yielded
the last "jot and tittle" that they mean to
yield, and if more be required they will light
Administrations and parties, and, if need be,
the Union itself."
Hear him on another occasion : "Let the
North refuse admission to a State because of
slavery in her constitution, and the history of
this Union is closed. We have reared this gov
ernment through trial and travail, through
blood and sacrifice; we have invested it with
authority, have enriched it with treasures and
fleets and armies, and have endowed it with
Senates and courts and judges; but if it be
comes the puppet of Abolitionism, if it be
comes in our very midst, to us a foreign gov
ernment, the South will tear it down from turret
to foundation stone. Abolish the internal Slave
trade and we will trample your usurpation un
der foot. Repeal the fnzitice slave law, and we
rvill meet you with gauntlets on."
Mr. Shorter, a Democratic Representative
from Alabama, said: "We tell you plairrly
that we take issue with you, and whenever
you repeal the fugitive slave law, or refuse to
admit a State on account of slavery in her con
stitution, or our equality in the Territories is
sacrificed by an act of Congress, then the star
of this Union will go down to rise no more
Should we be forced to dissolve the Union in
order to preserve Southern institutions and
Southern civilization, we will do it in peace if
we can. in war if ice must."
Mr. Brooks, Democratic member from South
Carolina, said : "The gentleman from Massa
chusetts has announced to the world, that in
certain contingencies he is willing to 'let the
Union slide.' Now, sir, let his contingencies
be reversed, and I am also willing to 'let the
Union slide' aye, sir, to aid in making it
slide. I hesitate not to say, that if his con
struction of the constitutional power of Con
gress over the Territories shall prevail in this
country, I, for one, heartily endorse the sen
timent." Mr. Seward, of Georgia, said : "If the
question is to be settled by Congress, and de
cided against the South by a majority from the
North, the Government will be endangered,
and the Union cannot be perpetuated."
Mr. Boyce, of South Carolina, said : "The
only question with me then, as to the continu
ance of the Union, is, whether that partv (the
Republicans) will take possession of the Nozf.
If they do, in my opinion, the Union is acea
Again, he says:-That party whr to the j
itself upon tho position of givina when that ,
North, will eventually succe ihe Union i
party 'does succeed, i - ' I
will be at an end." - Democratic member !
Mr. rw,lii n-abama, speaking of the !
of Congress fe floor of the House, says .
Republican 0-l-es of Northern majorities, ,
"If th-r , TV "c"u,;,, 1 unaerstana them to "
..-shall beeomp tho ctn r
anii,,- ...... "piLiuus 01 , -
.rolling majorities in the Northern States.
which conld be inflicted 'upon j
any people." u'uu I
Again, speaking of the Republican nartv. ha ? a.
Baja mreatens to do that tc,5.k "'Z
ailCuiuiuu 10 oe made law in this "c uoSs emed in Cleveland nh:
country, through tho forms of Federal 11. to a glove manufaotJ ,? r ?.d. 9h.'? a" 3?
tion. then t ho mniim. tt: a . . c?. : count ,.-,. . " "icnneia. Slew
-vu kuiuiiui mediates' ---jt "utiomc sKim rtn.,i. -
will be an impossibility, nr. if -,-ki? J? 1 and bncksbin ins are made np - y"
greatest curse
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be done without being followed by a speedy
dissolution of the Union.'7
Mr. Bocock, of Virginia, who is now talked
of as the Democratic candidate for Speaker of
the House, says: "When in your platform
you come forward and say that your institu
tions alone are entitled to the protection of
the government, and that ours are to be dis
countenanced and restricted by its action, then
you lay down a sectional platform and array
yourselves into a sectional party. You put us
beyond the pale of the Constitution, and you
force us to fight you by every, fair and honor
able means ; and ice shall do it. . ..
Judge Butler, late a United States Senator"
from South Carolina, said : "1 have such con
fidence in the good sense of the people of this
country, that 1 believe Republican institutions
might survive tbe present Union. Really it is
broiien already. I would rather it should be dis
solved fo-morroic I wish my words measured
in preference to living in a Union without the
protection of a Constitution which gives me an
equality. I should tell my people so to-morrow."
.
A. II. Stephens, of Georgia, said : We havo
got the great principle, established in 1850,
carried out in the Kansas-Nebraska bill, that
Congress, alter removing all obstructions, is
not to intervene against us. ... and I
say if Congress ever again exercises the power
to exclude the South liom an equal participa
tion in the common Territories, I, as a South
ern man, am for resisting it."
Mr. Jones, United States Senator rrom Ten
nessee : "It we are not to enjoy our rights
under the Constitution, tell us so ; and if we
may, and lei us separate peaceably aiul decently.
. . 1 tell you. in every hand there will le a knif e,
and there will be war to the knife, and the knife
to the kilt."
The Hon. John Letcher, a member of tho
last Congress, and now Governor elect of Vir
ginia.said : "If you (the Republicans) should
have tlio power here and undertake to pass -measures
to carry out the principles which you
profess, you would find that we had spirit e
nough to separate from you, and make the ef
fort, at least, to take care of ourselves."
Mr. Warner, a Democratic member of Con
gress from Georgia, says: "If the slavebold
mg States should ever be so regardless of
their rights, and their power, as co-equal
States, as to be willing to submit to this pro
posed restriction, they could not do it. They
ought not to submit to it upon principle,!! they
could and could not if they would."
"It is in view of these things, sir, that the
people of Georgia have assembled in conven
tion and solemnly resolved, that if Congress
shall pass a law excluding them from the com
mon property, with their slave property they '
will disrupt the ties that bind them to the Union.'
Mr- Smith of Tennessee : "Unless tho
South can unite and doend these men of the
.North who stand by the guarantees of tho
Constitution for the rights of the States, the
Union is gone."
Mr. Bowie of Maryland : "But let this Con
gress attempt to strike down the constitution
al rights of the South, then you and I, and all
oi us will strike, though bloody treason flourish
over us."
Mr. Clay, a United State Senator from Al
abama, said : "I trust sir, that whenever
Black Republicanism shall take possession of
the Government, and weigh in its balance, and
against its avarice and ambition, the honor and
the rights of the South, she will not stop to
impetrate justice, or pause to expostulate, but
will boldly throw her sword into the scale, and
assert her natural privileges in self-defence."
It will be seen f rom tlfe above extracts that
we have not quoted from obscure or irrespon
sible members of the party, but from its cho
sen representatives those upon whom it de
lights to bestow its honors and emoluments.
These men were all ardent and enthusiastic
supporters of Mr. Buchanan and stand forth
as the duly accredited exponents of modern
Democracy. These declarations were not
made in a corner but in the counsels -of tho
nation ; nor will it do to say that they aro
coupled with contingencies w hich relieve their
authors from the charge of disloyalty. Not
withstanding all their prating about the "c
quality of the States" and the "constitutional
rights of the South," their lauguage means
just this : that, if the policy of our revolution
ary fathers, which prevailed from the organi
zation of the Government down to the year
l&Hf, be re-instated, there is a settled determi
nation on the part of the South the only'
place where the Democratic party now flour
ishes to destroy the Union. Yet the organs
of the forlorn hope at the North, have tho
effrontery to read lectures to Republicans upon
the subject of disunion. To those w ho think -they
can make anything by this mode of war
fare, we have only to say, "Lay on Macduff."
Wiiat the West Waxts. The Rev. Peter
Cartwright, "the Pioneer Preacher of tho
West," recently addressed an audience in
Philadelphia, giving incidents of his life. He
discoursed as follows concerning the preachers
now sent to the West, iu contrast with thoso
of earlier days :
"Of late years, my friend, another breed of
preachers is transferred to ns ; these are hys
terical, dyspeptic, sore throat, blue ginger"
sort of preachers. They travel amo u
they are unacceptable ; they are i7"ess lum
ber ; and lo ! their zeal at onc -oves like a
seventy-four rigged for En,? S, to tho
West, and "help the Wi-- " "
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aL'J outu taiue. .iifrri.I, J
ty fifth year, I Sfd dyspeptic things
dozens of th fe
out-work
Th,. 'f"ei man in lhe wor,d the man
Titrate desires. Fealth is a desirable
of., also distinction, learning iS!0
-f so are a!' combined. But he who r.n."
ses eich or all of these, and still vainly desi
.ore t happy. ne is not contented I ?
J',0""4 infelicity. On the contrarv h
has little, yet desires even Ie tV- i.
pecause he has more than he needs ' JLiYT
lt .b ''O" or honors, public eclat 'or "ri?r
enjoyments, the result is still the san?I PTV
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