BY S. B. ROW.
CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, I860.'
VOL. 7.-NO. 4.
" " TO-MOBBOW."
Did we but know what lies beyond
This varied, ehadowy vale we tread ;
Hew often would our souls despond.
Our eyes the tears of sorrow shed ! .
But God, who knows what's best to do,
Who sees ns from his starry throne,
lias wisoly bidden from our view
That which bad best remain unknown.
We walk to day in consoious pride.
And hang the flag of hope on high ;
But ah, to-morrow, by our side, .
. Somo friend may lay him down and die ;
Some early flower that won our praise,
Some altar where we laid our trust,
Stich flower, e'er dies the evening rays,
May trampled be, and laid in dust.
Youth dreams of many glorious things,
A a on he hies in pleasure's track ;
Each day some new-born promise brings,
He turns no eye of sorrow back :
The flowery fields are all before,
His eyes on some bright star are set ; .
Life is to him a sunny shore,
He'll learn it has its shadows yet.
To-morrow ! In its secret shade,
I little know what is for me ;
I may be with my fathers laid,
Or wrecked on dire misfortune's sea;
But far beyond life's boundary lives
The everlasting army bright;
And He alone, who takes or gives, "
Can guide, my wandering feet aright.
A YANKEE'S COURTING EXPEEIENCE.
A New Yorker and a New Englander while
traveling in a stage together near the Connect
icut, after a short silence found the conversa
tion opeoed in the following manner, as rela
ted by the New Yorker : 1 i
The stage was running slowly along when
the New Englander drew forth from the mys
terious depth of his inexpressible pocket a
huge chunk of tobacco and sliced off a luscious
morsel, with the father of all jack-knives.
Placing the inorceau in one corner of bis
tread-chopping machine he was about to place
the original package in his unfathomable abyss
ot pocket.wben he noticed my quizzical glance,
and at once oflered the tropical luxury to me :
Have a chaw, stranger "
"Xo offense," re tinned I, taking the brown
lump and tearing off a bit.
"Dull eliding, .this," said ho, as he received
back the weed ; "and most as lonely as hunt
in' rjecoons by moonlight and not a chaw in
j our pouch. Powerful I Them's my feelings."
-"Yes," returned I, "if we only hud some
.ladies along now."
r'Darn the she-critters !" exclaimed the Yan
kee shutting his jack-knife with a clash. I'd
rather be as lonesome as a burrowed pup, than
sue a piece of caliker as big as a paucake.
What's wimnien but a tarnation bundle of
gammon and petticoats. Powerful! Be you
married folks stranger ?"
1 tearfully answered in the negative. '
"Don't never be then," he said, "my name's
Smith oue of the Smithses down to Salsbury,
that guaranteed to eat as much provender and
carry as big a turkey as ever set on critters
down in that deestrict. And whilst my name's
Smith, there'll never bo a younker to call me
daddy, ef a gal was to have Jerusalem"- tan
trums after me. You're a stranger and ain't
married folks ; but I don't mind telling ye
about a gol.ired rumpus I got into down in
Salsbury. T lit-re I took a gal that stuck out
all around like a bay stack, au' was a screamer
it choir meetin' and such tike. Her name was
Sal Green one of-(be Greenses down in Peg
town and the first time I took a notion to her
was down to tho old shingle .meetin' house,
uhen Spooner had a burying.
"When the parson gave out a hymn, she
straightened up like a rooster at six o'clock of
liy-break, and let out a string of screams that
set all the babies to yelping as though big pins
was goin' through their insides. Geewillkins,
how the critter did squeal and turn up her
eyes like a sick duck in a shower. I was jest
fool enough to think itpoorty ; and when my
old man says he, "Jed you're took all of a
heap with that poorty crceter," I felt as if
chills and fever was giving me pertikiler ag
ony. Says I, "She's an armful fur the princo
of Wales and ef that Bob Thompkins don't
stop making eyes at her over there, I'll give
him such a lacing that he won't comb his
hair for six weeks."
'The old man put a chaw into his meat safe,
aud shut one eye, and, sez he : 'Jed, you're a
fool f you don't hook that girl's dress fur her
before next harvesting She's a mighty
scrumptious creetur aud jest about ripe for the
alter. Just tell her trier's more Smithses
wanting an she'il leave the Greenses without a
snicker! I rather liked the idea; I told the
old man that bis punkin-pie was all squash ;
because it wouldn't do to let on too soon.
When the folks was starting from the church,
I went up to Sal, and sez I 'Miss I suppose
yon wouldn't mind letting me see you tu hum.'
She blushed like a biled lobster, and sez she,
I don't know your folks.' 1 felt sorter streak
ed; but I give my collar a hitch, and sez I,
'I'm Mister Smith ; one of the Smithses of
this deestrict, and always willing for a female
in distress. Then she made a courtesy, an'
was going to say somethin' when Bob Thomp
kins steps np, and sez he, "There's agoin' to
be another burying in this settlement, ef some
folks don't mind their own chores and quit
f'jolin' with other folkses company! This
riled me rito up, and sez I, ."There's a feller
in this deestrict tbat hain't had a spell of lay
in' on his back for some time : but he's in im-
rnediat danger of ketching the disease bad.'
J3ob took a squint at the width of my chest,
&nd then turned to Sal, who was shaking like
a cabbage leaf in a summer gale, and sez he,
Sal, let's marvel out of bad company before it
spiles our morals." With, that he crooked
one of bis smashing machines, and Sal was
jest hook in' on, when I put the . weight of a
.bout a hundred pound under his ear and sez I,
J est lay there Bob Thompkins until your pari
ents comes out to look fur your body.' lie
went down as er he'd been took with a sudden
desire toexamino the roots ot tho grass and
rSal creamed out that I had murdered tho ran
tankerous critter. Sez I, Tbe tomsnn that's
fur bis head ain't out yet; but calkilate it'll
be took out of the qaerry ef he comes omellin
round my heel agin. Jest as I made this reel
Jo remark, the varmant begin to scratch earth
s if be had a mind to see how it would feel
to be on his pins agin, and I crooked my elbow
lo Sal and thought it was about time to mar
s V 9 ,aved up to me like a pig to a rough
post, and we peregrinated along for some dis
wce until we were pretty nigb home. :l was
u "King her if ithert her much when she snog,
: ! was saying not pertikeler when all of
iWMint somsthin' knocked fourth oJnly
reworks cut of my eyes, and I went to the 1
grass with my heels up. It was BobThomp
kins, and sez he, 'Lay there Mr. Smith and
let us hear from you by the next mail.. For
minute I thought I was bound for glory, but
pooty soon l come to my oats, and then I roll
ed over and seen Bob a squeezing Sal's hand
All right, my prooshlan blue, says I, there'll
be a pothecary's bill for some family in this
beere destnet 5 but I won t say who's to pay
it at present. I jest waited to see the feller
try to put his noso into Sal's face, and then I
stretched to my feet, and sez I, 'This here pas
turo wants a little mashing down to make it
fruitful, aud it's my impreshun that I can do
It.' Sal seed that I was bound to make some
body smell agony; so she jest ripped awav
from Bob, and marveled for the house, scream
ing 'fire' like a scrumptious fire department
Bob looked after her fur a minit, and then he
turned to me, and sez he, I hope your folks
have got sum crape to bum, because there's
going to be a job for our wirtuous sexton.
kinder smiled outer one eye and sez I, 'When
Sal and I is married, we'll drop a tear fur tho
early decease of nu individual who would
never have been born ef it hadn't been, for
your parients."
This riled Bob up awful, and he came right
at me like xtnad hull at a red shirt. I felt
something drop on the bridge of my nose, and
scea a null nest ot suy rockets, all to once:
but I only kneeled for the shake of a tail, and
then I piled in like a mad Buffalo with the dys
entery. It was give and take for about five
minutes; and I tell you Bob played away on
my nose like a Trojan. The blood flew some,
and i was sorry 1 hadn't said good-bve to the
folks before I left them; but I gave Bob some
nappy evidences of youthlul Christianity a-
round his goggles, and pooty soon he looked
as if he had been brought up to the charcoal
business. We was making pooty good time
around the lot, when all of a suddent, Sal cum
running with her father and mother; and says
me old feller, fcf you two nie rubers of the
church don't stop your religious exercises,
there'll be some preacbin from the . book of
John !
' With that Bob took his paw out of my hair,
and sez he, Smithses son hit me the first
whack.' I jest promenaded up to the old man,
and sez I, If you'll jest show me a good bury-
in' place, I'll take pleasure in making a tuner
al lor the Tompkinses.' The old man kinder
looked querious at Sally, and she commenced
to snicker, and sez she, 'What are you two
fellers rumpussing about V 'It's to see who
shall hev the pootiest gal of all the Greenses.'
hen 1 said this, tbe old man bust into a loud
lari nice a wild nyenar, and the old woman,
she put her hands across her stummick and
begin to larf like mad, and Sal she snickered
right out in my countenance, and sez she,
Why I'm engaged to Sam Slocum!'
'Stranger there's no nse talking. My hair
nz right tip like a blacking brush, and Bob's
eyes- stuck out like, peas out ot a yaller pod
There was a speechless silence for about two
minits, and then sez Bob, 'There's a couple of
golhred fools in this country somewhere, and
it's a pity their dads ever seen their mothers.'
I seed he felt powerful mean, so I walked up
to nim, and sez I, 'Suppose we go and look
for the new Jerusalem !' He jest hooked to
my elbow, and without saying another word,
we marvelled for hum."
"bence .mat, i hain't held no communion
with petticoats, and ef ever I get married, you
shall have an invite to the funeral. Have
another chaw stranger ?"
I politely refused the delicacy ; but compli
mented tho Yankee on his excellent resolve,
and invited him to look through the bottom of
a tumbler ot my expense when we reached the
next stopping place.
The Boston papers narrate a strange inci
dent.. A young girl, of pleasing face and a
greeable manners, only sixteen years of age,
was, with two companions, arrested for rob
bery, in one of the worst parts of the town.
She asked that a good lawyer might be engag
ed to defend her saying that she had sufficient
money for a large fee. The names of several
legal gentlemen were mentioned, and among
others that of an eminent criminal lawyer,
who resides in another county, but has an of
fice in Boston. She at once said she did not
want him. This attracted the curiosity of the
officer to whom she had made the request. He
instituted inquiries about her, and learned
that the girl was an orphan, and that the law
yer whom she did not want to see was her
guardian, having charge ot considerable prop
erty belonging to her in another city. She
ran away a few weeks ago, and came direct to
Boston. She was taken before the Police
Court, convicted of the robbery, and sentenc
ed to the House of Correction for six months.
Subsequently, upon learning something of her
history, the Court revised her sentence, and
the case was "continued in order that plans
may be adopted with a view of
from a life of vice.'
rescuing her
1 The police making their rounds in Brussels
at midnight, found an ordinary clothes lino
hanging near the door, several feet above the
ground, and tracing its history discovered tbaj
it came ont of a garret window above. They
entered the house, convinced tbat they were
on the track of some daring burglar, searched
all the premises, and at last on walking into
the garret were horrified to find themselves
confronted by a honsemaid, in a very easy
evening dress, who, with many tears, explain
ed mat the mysterious clothes line was at
tached to her left arm. in order that a young
waiter to whom sho was herself attached.com
ing early in the morning, might call ber with
a jeik to prayers at the Cathedral. As this
explained the clothes line, and there was not
much else in the line of clothes before them,
tho discomfitted and blushing police beat a
hasty retreat.
" Got Cheated The Aroostook Herald says :
We beard a conversation the other day be
tween a Breckinridge man and an old Demo
crat, who avowed his intention of voting for
Lincoln. "I've always been a Democrat, and
I've been reading and studying, and I have
come to the conclusion that the Democratic
party don't stand where it did in 1850, and I'm
going to vote for 'Honest Old Abe.':" ..
"Yes, and get cheated," says the Hunker.
"Well," coolly replied the other, 'I voted
for Pierce and for Bncbanan, and got cheated
both times, and I don't feel like being hum
bugged tbe third time. I bad as lief be cheat
ed once by the Repulbicans, as all the timt by
the Democrats." . ' .t,:: , r
A punster, passing by tbe shop of Mr. Tas-
weH, observed that bis oats weold, spell As-
well wltront tbe T. - - -
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A MODERN MOLOCH. ' -
A late discussion in the English Psrliament
on me contemplated "Grand Custom" about
to be made by the King of Dahomey, elicited
some iacts regarding the social condition of
Western Africa and the nolicv of England on
the Slave Coast that may be of importance at
ine present moment. It seems that Badahung,
in honor of his father, the late King Gezro,
has determined to surpass all former monarcbs
in me magnitude of the ceremonies to be pe:
lormed on the occasion of the "Grand Cus
tom." Two thousand persons will ba sacri fi-
cea, and a great pit has been dug, which is to
contain blood enough to float a canoe!
Lord Fermoy, who brought the matter be
fore the House, remarked that it might, in
deed, be already too late for the interference
or the British Government, but probably there
was yet time, as the ictims could not be col
lected very speedily. : No time, he urged,
snouia be lost in impressing upon the King ot
Uanomey the. propriety of abandoning that
frightful custom, and the King of that coun
try has always been inclined to listen to ad
vice from England.,
Mr. Fortescue communicated the fact that,
as soon as the contemplated massacre came to
the knowledge of Lord John Russell, he sent
a solemn message to the King of Dahomeyi
remonstrating with him, and warning him that
ir tie earned out his design Her Majesty's
Government would take hostile proceedings
against him in any part of his territory. .To
tbisLord Palmerston added that it was his
lot, when at the Foreign Offioe, to use great
endeavors to persuade the former King of Da
homey to abandon these abominable practices
" iv e sent," said ne, "two or turee missions
to the head quarters of the King. I am sorry
to say that those who went reported that when
they came to Ihe King's palace they saw,' a
round tbe wall which surrounded it, placed,
not the ornaments which are usual in civilized
countries, but human skulls skulls of the vic
tims sacrificed on those occasions, and osten
tatiously displayed on the walls of the palace
ine capital ot uanomey lAbomeyl is at a
considerable distance from the coast, and tho
roan 10 it, tnrougn jungles and marshes, is
so difficult to traverse, that it would be scarce
ly possible to take a European force there
10 exercise coersion. 11 any pressure can
be exerted with good effect, it will not fail
to be added." '
Into what a strange lurid world do f liese
facts introduce us, this nineteenth christian
century ! Geology has familiarized us with
the fact that there are on the earth's surface
rocks shooting up through the strata f the
planet, the bases of which stretch down to the
nether fires. Something analogous to this at
times shows it self in bumanitv oufcroppings,
on the surface of our modern civilization, of
those dark demoniac instincts that reach us
as in echoes from the bygone primeval epochs
History has made us acquainted with the Old
world atrocities the sacrifices to Moloch in
the vale of Tophet, mothers offering : their
own children while drums beat to drown their
cries the Druid with glave slaying the victim
at the sacrificial stone the Mexican priest
slitting the side of the devoted person and
tearing out the yet throbbing heart! -
But the demon of Dahomey exceeds all that
history records of the ferocions, and at the
picture presented in the announcement of the
details of the "Grand Custom," the immar-
ination swoons at the vision of horror. The
scene, too, takes on a kind of ghastly mirth'
a lake filled with human blood, amid which a
black Ghoul paddles his light canoe !
Uanomens nave always enjoyed ti bad pre
eminence, even in Alrica, for atrocious cruel
ties. Indeed, did we not have the testimony
of unimpeachable witnesses among them the
old English slave trader, Capt. Snelgrave, (17-
34,) and more recently Duncan and Forbes,
it would be impossible to regard the tales they
relate as other than the wild engenderings of
a brain encrazed by tropical fires: Pyramids
of dead men's heads, palaces built of skulls,
and walled around with skulls, are features in
tbe carnival of horrors which veracious , wit
nesses relate.
It is devoutly to bo hoped that the efforts of
England to put a final stop to these bloody
barbarities were in time and successful. And
with all respect to the great Washingtonian
doctrine of non-interference in the affairs of
other nations, might not some of our marines
on the African coast efficiently co-operate with
the British forces. A. 1. Times.
ARE THEY FOE DISUNION 1 '
The leaders ot the Breckinridge and Lane
movement, in spite of the strong testimony
against them, says the West Chester Republi
can, deny that their ulterior objects are dis
union. VI course tney dare not avow this o
penly in the free States, for they would not
have a corporal s guard of followers under
such a flag. But tbat such is their program
me there can be no doubt, and their own re-
cord.makes out the case against them. Listen
to the testimony. Yancy. their leader, said
n his speech at Baltimore, before the seueders
Convention :
(tHe begged them to accept these congratula-
lions at ine nanas oj a man who aaa some rep
a. mm I
utation as afacliomst and a disuniontsl. . He is
neither for or against the union."
The Camden (Alabama) Register, in hoist
ing the name of Bsockinridge and Lane, gives
its teasons thus frankly for so doing:
"We run up our nag to-day for Breckin
ridge and Lane, the Democratic nominees for
resident and V ice Fresident of these United
States. We have unwaveringly contended
for the last ten years that it would be better
for all concerned, to make ftro or more dis
tinct governments of the Territory comprising
the United states of America and that such will
ultimately be done, there can be no sort of
doubt; but it shall be done with fairness and
justice to every section of the Union, and be
lieving that the party to which we belong is the
only reliable one to carry out this measure, and
secure to our own section all her lights we
intend to battle for its principles to tbe fullest
extent of our ability. .
' A southern correspondent of the Richmond
Enquirer, who supports tho seceders ticket,
says : . . ' '
"I think the time has fully come for us to
set up tor ourselves, to . claim and bold our
part of the public domain, and to be forever
rid of the North, who have been continually
enriching themselves out of our hard earn
ings. What though thero be. civil war and
bloodshed MIf the North, do. not abandon
their fanatical oppression upon, us, all union
mast cease between tbe two sections, and I
choose It should ca?e sow, wblle 2 hop to be
mote ro uear some humble part in it, rather
man be delayed for-my grand-children." I
therefore declare most fullv. and frankly that
1 am heartily in support of the Breckinridge
ticket." ' - - - -
' In addition to tho above, listen to the treas
onable sentimeuts of the following leading
men belonging to the Breckinridge party,
which we copy from the Selma (Ala.) Sentinel,
who mus daguerreotypes the bolters, viz: :
What ark they after 7 No one can be de-i
CCived as to what Iheohiects of the Charleston
o . - . . . ....
ywuiemiou jjoiters are. Listen to what their
men say : , , , .
"I want the Cotton States precinitated into
a revolution." William L. Yancev.
"'If I had the Dower. I wonld dissolve this
Lrovernment. J. T. Morean.
. - j -.
"Let us break up this rotten, stinking, and
oppressive government in ten minutes."
ueorge Guyle. :.. . 7 :,; ;
"vesisiance 1 'Resistance.' to death a
gainst the government is what we want now."
David Hubbard.
"Break up and dissolve this rotten .Yankee
government." John D. F. Williams.
"Let the Union rip." R. D. Cavle. .
With this evidence before our eves, can we
disbelieve that the object of the seceders are
msr.viON and Civil. War ? The Democrats of
Clearfield County are asktd to vote this tick-
etl Will they do it.
PRACTICAL RESULTS OF AMALGAMATION
IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
"Observer" writes from Washington Citv to
me jsew xork 1 sines an interesting letter on
the relations of Slavery, from which we make
the following extract: ' : '- ' -
"Aside from the perpetual dancer and unea
siness which attends upon American Slavery,
tnere is another evil which besets those coun
tries which tolerate it, even more abhorrent to
the minds of the dominant race than the perils
01 bloody insurrectiou. ' I allude to the amal
gamauon 01 races., vine extent ot this danger
is not at all appreciated, for the reason tbat the
distinctive features of the African soon disap
pear, and then those of the corrupted blood
cease to be designated as colored. Some of
tbe most eminent families ot tbe South are
known to have African blood in their veins:
and the number of undistinguished whites who
are thus connected, could be counted by thou
sands. ' l he odium which attaches to the tairt
of African blood is so great that families shake
it ott as soon as possible" by a chance of rest
oence, ana prgoabiy ot name, in this way
hundreds of free colored people graduate year
ly, and pass themselves off as pure Anglo Sax
ons. 00 extensively is this system carrmd on,
that tbe impression has gained ground that the
mulatto race is incapable of propagating itself;
wpereas its ambition has promptea it to bleach
out and cease to carry tbe mark of Ham upon
its orow. , ine tact that persons having negro
uiood may wort out the stain and be admitted
into the upper tier of pure whites, rests not
merely upou observation and assertion, but it
s regulated by law, in several, if not in all tbe
Southern States. The laws of Virginia, of
North Carolina, of Alabama and Louisiana de
fine tbe term mulatto to be a person havinz a
negro ancestor in the third or fourth degree
for the State laws differ on this point. If I am
not mistaken, tbe v irginia definition confines
the term to those in the third degree. For in
stance a person whose father is white and his
mother black, is a mulatto ot the half blood
If a female child of this half blood bear a child
by a white man, it has only one-fourth neero.
and a .child of this quatroon by a whito man
would have but one-eighth negro blood. Af
ter this degree, if no further admixture of col
ored blood takes place, the laws of .Virginia
;ard tho issue as white, if the mother is
free. How many white people there are in
Virginia, who, if the fact were as honorable as
it is degrading, could trace their lineage up to
the purest Congo or Dahomey, it would be dif
ficult to ascertain. But if we recur to the laws
of population, and remember that there were
free negroes and mnlattoes in Virginia almost
from the year that Slavery was introduced, the
result will bo anything but flattering to the
vanity ot the second, third and even fourth
families. Blackstone says : 'If we only sup
pose each couple of our ancestors to have left,
oue with another, two children, and each of
these children, on an average, to have left two
more, (and without such a supposition the hu
man species must be daily diminishing.) we
shall-find that all of us have now subsisting
near two .hundred and seventy millions of kin
dred in the fifteenth degree, at the same dis
tance , frcm the several common ancestors as
ourselves are, besides those that are one or
t wo descents nearer to or further from the com
mon stock, who may aiuoui.t to as many more.'
intermarriages among the descendants of com
mon ancestors would reduce these figures a
hundred or a thousand times, as Blackstone
admits, but there would still remain a formi
dable host of cousins. In the case of persons
of negro descent, emerging into Anglo-Saxon-hood,
their ambition would prompt them to
seek alliances with the purest blood, lest, un
happily, tho mark of Ham should re-appear in
a luxurient crop of wool, a cwarthy skin, or a
flat nose. It may be hoped that this process
of amalgamation has not gone so far as to be
ineradicable ; but nothing future may be coun
ted on with more certainty than that the con
tinuance of Slavery will, in a century or two
more, utterly destroy the purity of the Anglo
Saxon sanguine current in the Southern States.
The presence of the negro, whether slave or
free, must be attended with the same result,
and there is no escape but in the confining of
the whole colored race to tbe tropics. ; The
supposition of Blackstone as to the rate of in
crease of population is not more than half e
qual to the fact as it exists in this country ;
and bis table of . collateral degree, with which
every Southern law student is familiar, should
be studied in the light of this fact. Accord
ing to that table, one black propositus would
have 16,384 descendants in the eighteenth gen
eration ! and fully that number of generations
have elapsed since the introduction of Slavery
into Virginia. Well may the Virginians all
claim to be of 'the first families.' " ,
Great as are the dangers of amalgamation
where the white and negro races exist togeth
er, as they do in the Southern States, the .Dem
ocratic leaders aro advocating a pplicy which,
if carried out, will increase those dangers, by
bringing negro slaves among the white people
of tbe Territories! Every man whose mind
revolts at tbe idea of amalgamation, should
exert himself to check this evil ; .and tbe way
to do that is, to check the sm tading, or "diffu
sion" .of Slavery, as the Propagandists term It.
m ....... v t
Self-denial If always jraiieworby. ;
A SCENE IN CONGEESS IN 1826.
. Tbirtv-three vears affo. a New EnfflandRep
resentative made his first essay in the halls of
Congress. And what think you, was the first
suDject or nis euloev ? Was u Liberty 1
" Most surely a son of the Pilgrims one who,
wimm a stone's throw or Bunker 111 II, nad
seen, for years, tbe" morning and the evening
sunshine resting upon its green summit a
representative of "the old Bay State," before
whose free and glorious charter Slavery was
cast down, like Dagon before the Ark of Is
rael must have offered his earliest gift upon
the altar of Human Freedom. He laid it on
the altar of slatert !
"Sir' said he, addressing the speaker, "I
am no soldier. My habits and education are
very unmilitary .but there is no cause in which
I would sooner buckle a knapsack on my back
and put a musket on my shoulder, than that of
putting down a servile insurrection at the
South." "The great relation of servitude,
n one form or othei, with greater or less de
parture from theoretic equality of men, ts xnsep
arable from our nature.". "Domestic slavery
is not, in my judgment, to be set down as an
Immoral or irreligious relation." "Tbe slaves
of this country are better clothed and fed than
the peasantry of some of the most prosperous
states or turope."
He was followed by the non. Mr. Mitchell.
of Tennessee the representative of a slave-
holding State, who said: "Sir, I do not go
tho length of the gentleman from Massachu
setts, and hold that the existence of slavery,
In this conntry, is almost a blessing. On the
contrary, I am firmly settled in. the opinion
that it is a great curse one of the greatest
evils that could have been interwoven into our
system. I, Mr. Chairman, am one of those
whom these poor wretches call master ; I feed
and clothe them well; but. yet. alas! thev
are slaves, and slavery 1s a curse in any shape.
It is no doubt true that there are persons in
Europe far more degraded than our slaves.
worse fed, worse clothed, &c. but sir, this
far from proving that negroes ought to be
slaves."
John Randolph, a Virginian and a slave
holder, fastened his keen eye upon the recre
ant New Englander, and exclaimed in tones of
bitter scorn and contempt : "Sir, I nvy
neither the head nor the heart of that man
from the North who rises here to defend sla
very upon principle." .
The guilty apologist for slavery, rebuked
thus by the very men - whose favors be had
courted, endured all this in silence, without a
word in explanation or defence. '
istung to . the quick by the ignominy aud
disgrace thus brought upon the representatives
of the North by one of their own members,
Churchill C. Carabreling, of New. York, now
arose
'The gentleman from , Massachusetts," he
said, "has gone too far. ne has expressed
opinions which ought not to escape without
animadversion. I heard them with surprise
and regret. I was astonished to bear him de
clare that slavery 'domestic slavery, say what
men will, is a condition of life as well as anv
other, to be justified by morality, religion, and
international law; and when, at the close of
his opinions, be solemnly declared that this
was his confession of faith, I lamented, sin
cerely lamented, that
"Star eyed Science should have wandered there,
10 bring us back the message of despair.
"If, sir, amid the wild visions of German
philosophy, I had ever reached conclusions
like this; if in the A 11 lee of Gottingen I had
ever persuaded myself to adopt a political
maxim so hostile to liberal institutions and
the rights ot all mankind, I would have locked
it up in the darkest chambers of my mind.
Or, if mv zeal had been too ardent for my
discretion, this place, at least, should never
have been the theatre of my eloquence. No,
sir; if such had been my doctrines, I wonld
turn my back forever on my native land. Fol
lowing the course of the dark rolling Danube,
and cutting my way across the Luxine,! would
have visited a well known slave market of
Constantinople, and there preach my doctrines
amidst tbe rattling chains of the wretched
captives. Nay, sir, I would have gone from
thence, and laid my forehead upon tbe foot
stool of the Sultan, and besought him to set
his foot upon my neck, as the lecrcant citizen
of a recreant republic !"
The scorching words of Cambrehng fell like
a rain of fire upon tbe northern advocate of
slaverv ; but he cowered under the rebuke.
and remained silent.
Who was that degenerate son of the Pil
grims 7 Who was it that thus heaped imfamy
upon his birthplace ? W ho was it that thus
bowed himself to . the "strange gods" of the
south the Baal and tbe Moloch, of slavery ?
That man was Edward Everett.
A STRIKING CONTRAST.
We call the attention of our readers to the
following very striking contrast. Bead and
ponder over tho opinion of a Madisox and a
Clay, and then compare them with the decla
rations of a Douglas. .
"It is wrong to admit into the Constitution the
idea lhat there can be . property in man. James
Madison.
"Slaves are regarded as property and placed 1
on equal fooling with all other property. Hence
the owner ot b laves the same as the owner
of any other species ot property has a right
to remove into any J erruory and carry his prop- j
erty wun him. Stephen A. Douglas.
"Slavery is a social and political evil,
and no earthly power shall make me vote to plant
it where it does not exist." Henry Clat.
'I don't care whether slavery is voted up or
down, in Kansas.' Senator Douglas.
And yet tbe former was Southern by birth, j
while the latter was nurtured in free ew
England! So true is it that the "renegade
Christian makes the worst Turk." . ,
The Napoleon Northwest a few days since
characterized Mr. S.J. Bowker, a Democrat
of that vicinity who has just joined the Re- !
publican ranks, with being a "bogus Demo
crat." Mr. Bowker retorts by proving that
Mr. Miller, editor of the North west, was a
few years ago the publisher or tho Anti Slave
ry Bugle,a Garrisoniad organ issued at Salem.
A friend, visiting Atlantic .city, was asked
how be spent Sunday'."" "WeJ;l,"' said he "a
mong the Sabbab-'breakers., ' - - i ' l
1 wenty-three bundred barrels of oh were
received at Erie, In August,' from
1 the Fenn-1
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syivania oil region. " ; .',;
KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE !
- I That a Democratic Senate of th TTnited
States, defeated the Tariff act, which a Repab-
lican House of Representatives passed.
That Henry D. Foster was in Washington
city when tbe Tariff bill was before the. Senate,
and tbat instead of usim? his efforts and reou-
ted eloquence to secure the passage of an act
to protect the interests and. the industry of
Pennsylvania, he was in secret conference
with the administration, arranging plans to
carry this State for Breckinridge, free trado
and slavery.
lhat a Democratic Senate defeated the
Homestead bill, because it proposed to appor
tion the public domain among Ibefree whito
laborers of tho nation, whd would become ac
tual settlers on and cultivators of such land.
It was opposed by Democratic Senators with"
whom Henry D. Foster sympatbises.be cause it
threatened and would have curtailed the spread
ot slavery. It was thus opposed by an admin
istration which now supports and advocates.
Henry D. Foster, because it promiaed to brine
free States into tho confederacy, and thus
change the slave ruling influence of tho Uni
ted States" Senate. It was opposed bv the
friends of Henry D, Foster, and that opposi
tion seconded and approved bv his silence'
because it tended to advance f ree Instead of
slave labor to bring capital within the reach
and control of honest industry, and to place
that industry, beyond the influence of specu
lation. , .
That in a crisis of great danger, to everv In
terest of this conntry, involving the welfare of
labor, the progress of civil and religious liber
ty, the perpetuity of the Union, as well as the
sacred rights and liberties of the North, Hen
ry D. Foster is silenced by his personal fears
He sees the South striking down the industry
of his native State, and he applauds the mo
tive which nerves the arm to inflict the ruth
less blow, lie sees the South" pushine for
ward institutions that are disgracing, degra
ding and damning tho noble aspirations and
achievements of a free people,and he lends bis
influence to the work by an ambiguous silence
which his friends call "independence," and
which Stephen A. Douglas claims as tbe great;
principle-of non-intervention."
- KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE 1
That Andrew G. Curtin is in favor of a pro
tective Tariff as passed by the House, of Rep
resentatives while Henry V. r oster's party
is in favor of "Progressive Free Trade."
That Andrew G. Curtin is in favor of free
homes for free white men, to be apportioned
out of the public domain, while Henry D.
Foster is in favor of devoting that domain e-
tcrnally to the uses of slavery. - ?
Ihat Andrew G. Curtin is in fayor of free
speech, free schools and a free press while
Henry D. Foster refuses to acknowledge ei
ther tho freedom of speech, schools or press,
by bis silence in the present campaign, his
sympathy with an institution, that banishes
freedom of speech from the halls of its local
legislature, muzzles Its press, exercises ah es,T
poinage in the post-offices in its localities
and with the 'whip and the thong seeks to
crush eyery man and every organization that
upholds the sacred right of life, liberty and the
franchise. -
W ill the people of Pennsvlvania ponder
these truths? Tbe comparison that we here
make between the two candidates for Govern
or is true and just. The Republican candi
date, Andrew G. Curtin, has no concealments
to make. He is daily before the people advo
cating the immutable principles of justice to
all interests ; and equal and exact laws for all
men.-, He does not falter when freedom is nr
for discussion. He does not shrink when the
Homestead bill is broached. His lips aro not
sealed or his hands idle when the rights of la
bor becomes the issue.- lie is square and fair
on all these great questions. How is it with
his opponent, Henry D. Foster f Let his op
ponent's own position be taken in anssreri
Let Henry D. Foster'? silence illustrate, if it
can, the plans of chicanery and deceit by
which he hopes to be elected to the chief exe
cutive control of the interests, industry and
prospects of Pennsylvania. The distinction
between such men is easily drawn. The dif
ference is easily defined. The people wilt,
have no trouble in discovering in Andrew G.
Curtin a man for the crisis and the Common
wealth. ' ' ' . : ;
A Fair Understanding. Some years ago,
a young man from just across the Connecticut,
who was attending our village academy, bo-
came sadly infected with the notion fhat all
our maidens were in love with him. While
in this state of mind it fell to his lot one even
ing to see Miss II- - safely to her fathers
domicil. On arriving at the door, the lady
invited him to enter. He did so. After a
few moments conversation be arose to leave.
aud as Miss II was showing him the door
she innocently enough remarked that she
would bo pleased to see him again. Here was
an occasion for the exercise of Jonathan s
courage and moral principle. Expanding him
Belf to his fallest height, with a graceful but
determined inclination of tbe head, he replied:
"I should h hantitr. Miaa. in rail flt nrrtn.
tri'J J - J
but pot as a feller !" '
A Young man lately yolunteered his sejrric-
es to conduct a lady home from a party. On
the way he becudgled his brains for some in
teresting topic ,of conversation to amuse her
with ; he could bit upon nothing 'until they
met several cows. Here was a topic which
the swain immediately laid hold of; and with
much simplicity remarked : "Now aint't it
strange what a motherly appearance a cow
hag?" To which the lady replied: 'I do
not think it strange at all, sir, that a ,cow
fcholud have a motherly appearance to a calf."
A' Centennarian. The census laker hns
found a colored man in Washington county,
Ohio, one hundred and fifteen years old. Ke
was purchased at Richmond, Va., in li 0, by
Blannerhassett's aeent, and by him conveyed
to Blannerhassett's Island, where he remained
until misfortune overwhelmed bis master.
The old fellow says he recollects that he "had
bin gwine lo see de gals long time 'jt,ore de
resolution war hroke out." ..
In boring an artesian well at Provlncetown,
a short time ago, clam shells were foutd one
hundred and thirty feet below the surface of
the ground." . .. . '.',, ..
Mr. Gowan, writing from : Sebastopol, says
tbat the graves of tbose who fell at tbe Crimea
aa war ocenpy twenty aquare mllaa Of.
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