4 BY S. B. ROAV. CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1860. YOL. 7.-JVO. 10. f i SENSIBLE WISHES. I'd kind o' like to haTe a cot, Fixed on some sunny slope or spot, . Five acres more or less, ... With maples, cedars, cherry trees, And poplars whitening in the breeic, Twould suit my tasto I guess, To have the porch with vine o'erhang, With bells of pendant woodbine swung, In every bell a bee, And round my lattice-window spread A clump of roses, white and red, - To solace mine and me. I kind o' think I should desire To hear around the lawns a choir O' wood Hirds singing sweet; And in a dell I'd have a brook, Where I could sit and read my book. Such should be my retreat, Far from the city's crowds and noise ; There would I fear the girls and boys, (I have some two or three.) And if kind Heaven should bless my store With five or six or seven more, . How happy I should be. , SCARING OFF A RIVAL. BT HELEN F. GRAVES. The bright November sunshine flowed like a golden Niagara into the pretty room, thro' a casement full of blossoming geraniums and purple-massed helliotropo and a very sensi ble piece of sunshine it was, for it might have sought long and far for another such a cozy a '"partnoent. There were pink glowing shells, ' brought from some tropic beach, on the man tel, and moss-baskets on the tables, and an o pen piano in the corner, and such a blue-eyed, coral-mouthed young damsel, sitting on the rug before the fire, arranging rose-buds and white verbenas in the smallest of all china va ses. And Mrs. Waters, sitting opposite in her large easy chair, with an array of work-baskets around her, looked down on the smooth brown ' curls and fair forehead of May's beauty. . "You. are looking very pretty, to-night, May," said she,approvingly,"I shouldn't won der if Mr. Moss were to call this evening." "I hope not," said May. twitching one pear ly shoulder half out its delicate little lace frill, and snapping off the head of an . unfortunate crimson rosebud. "Now, May, don't be silly, when you know how delighted your father is with his atten- , tions. Only think : you could keep your car riage, and live on Firth Avenne, my dear. ; I see how it is yon are thinking of Charley Copeland, but it's of no use. Charley did very well when yon had no other , string to your bow Jbut Mr. Moss has a thousand dollars where Charley has a cent.. Young, folks shouldn't - let romance stand in the way of solid common sense, my child.". - -;' ' - ' ' - - Mrs. Waters paused here, to concentrate her attention on thu threading of a needle, and May sweeping her. flowers into the fire, re placed the half arranged vase on the piano, and glided out of the room with a bright dew shining on ber blue lustrous eyes. She had a "real good cry," when she got to ber own room, with no witnesses but the red glowing fire and the golden winged canary bird, 'and - that certainly was a relief, to say nothing of ' the sly little note she wrote to Charley to tell him all her troubles. "You needn't put on any more coals, Bet ty," said Mr. Moss to his housekeeper, "it's only a waste of fuel. And Betty, don't light the gaa so high in the hall ; people must look after their pennies if they don't expect to go to the poor-house. Oh, dear," he muttered, as Betty flounced out of the room grumbling to herself, "what a wasteful race these ser vants are. She'll ruin me yet with her extrav agance, if I don't get a wife pretty soon. That bine-eyed little May she's the girl for my money, and I really ought to have a wife to help save. It can't be very expensive to get married, and we can live very cheaply after ward. Of course she'd mend all my old coats and stockings, and see that everything was e conomized, and 1 could do without that ex travagant Betty! As I live, if she hasn't lighted a candle down stairs already, and it isn't half dark euough ! Dear me, dear me and there 0 the coals, bang, on to the kitchen range and she has given the cat a piece of good meat, an inch square, when the cold potato-skins would have done just as well. I mv.1 have a wife and, besides little May is so pretty." The elderly lover chuckled within himself, as he took op his cane to go out to escape the awful witnessing of Betty's hourly wasteful ness. Ilis money could boy a lovely young wife, if people did call him a miser. -. lie had not proceeded far, however, in the gathering darkness, when it began to rain briskly, just as he was opposite the law office of Mr. Charles Copeland. Now, Mr. Moss had a chronic dislike to all yonng and good-looking men; but ho had once been introduced to Charley, and it was against his principles ei ther to buy an umbrella, or take refuge in a stage at the expense of a sixpence, so he dodg ed into the office with great precipitancy. "Good evening, Mr. Copeland I had not seen you for so lopg that I thought I must come in. Hope you're well ?" Charley looked comically into the old gen tleman's withered countenance as though he much doubted whether the rain hadn't as much to do with his affectionate solicitude as anything else ; but he politely pushed forward a chair, and slipped May's note, which he had just finished perusing, under a pile of law pa pers. "Sit down, Mr. Moss. I hear you are think ing of getting married," said he, good hu luoredly. "Well, yes;" said old Moss, spreading his lean fingers over the grate and secretly won dering at Charley's extravagance in keeping P sacb a roaring fire. "I was thinking a lit tle of offering myself to that pretty May Wa ters. You know her, don't you ?" Yes," said Charley, wincing. . "I don't suppose it will be any more expen ' ve toeep two than one, will it ?" observed the old gentleman a little uneasily, as though the question still bothered him. ' n" said Charley, in an off-hand way. Of course you'll have to take bei to Newport or Saratoga every year, but that vcon't be much a thousand or two dollars wi I cover jue annua expense entirely and she'll expect . f at the onera. and her carrla?A. nA er bail an Maimed Sl ' WMly afford Ul ha . "Tot sufelleXct il' will f8?& . "cs, Mr. Moss. You will oi ' 1 - ,: course dress your wife richly Miss Waters is accustomed to such thines." 'I suppose so," faltered the old gentle man. "Uoes it cost much to dress a wife ? "N ot a great deal. ' I believe their silk dres ses are only a hundred or two dollars each " "A hundred dollars each I" Mr. Moss grew livid as he thought of the number of times he had seen May clad in silken apparel And my sister's velvet cloak was only eighty dollars and every lady wears four bon nets a year, at sixteen or seventeen dollars each. As for jowelry, you are expected, as a matter of course, to give her diamonds for a bridal present. Diamonds are rather costly, but for such a pretty young wire " "Stop, stop," groaned the old gentleman "Is it really true ?" "True !" said Charley with an air of injured innocence. "Ask any lady if it isn't?" "I feel faint," said Ttfoss, starting up. "I flunk it's very hot here; the open air would do me good, especially as the rain is over. And, I say, Mr. Copeland Well," said Charley, with polite interest. You needn't spread abroad that foolish re port about my getting married; it is amis take ; there's nothing at all in it. -. I I have n't taken any decisive steps on the subject." And he shuffled out, muttering to himself, "My stars ! what an escape I've had !. A box at the opera four bonnets a year !" Charley smiled complacently as be shut the door after the oldOroesus "I believe the coast is clear in that quarter," xaid he to himself, "and my dear little May will be saved from a rich old miser of a hus band." , And he pht on his hat and went round to Mrs. Waters' house. The matron received him courteously, but coolly she was evident ly disappointed that it was not somebody else; but May blushed the sol test, .rosiest crimson. and gave his hand a tiny, encouraging squeeze. "Well, Mrs. .Waters," said he, in a few min utes, after one or two, preliminary topics had been duly discussed, "I bad a visit at my of fice, this evening, from your friend, Mr. Moss." . "Ah," quoth the lady, graciously, "did he fi.iv t -I f ha mail nnmincp rm rwl 1 1 r f tn-niffht "Not exactly he said something quite dif ferent ; that there was nothing at all in the re port of his marriage it was a mistake."; Mrs. Waters bridled up in the chair and turned an indignant scarlet. "Indeed ; we are very much obliged to him for his kind explanations. Pray who said there was anything in it ? My daughter isn't obliged to go begging for a husband, I hope." "Can I have . her, Mrs. Waters ?", asked Charley, sliding one arm around the taper waist, and attacking the citadel with bravery worthy of Garibaldi himself. "Can I have Charley, mamma?" murmured May, bringing up her troops to the rescue. It was a propitious moment for the young people. Mrs. Waters was determined that old Moss should see May could get married with out any of bis help. "You are both silly children,' said she, "but have it your own way." And when old Mr. Moss heard that Charles Copeland and May Waters were to be wedded soon, he thought with a sigh of the beautiful blue eyes, but straightway added in his own mind : - " A - "I'm glad I didn't make such a fool of my self! She would have been my ruin and dis traction in less than a momh ! Newport and Saratoga! Diamonds and velvet cloaks ! How lucky it is I remained a bachelor !" - . - .THE ISSUES. t The Republican party In its platform adopt ed at Chicago, explicitly laid down the issues upon which it expects the support of the A- merican pecplc in November. It arrays itself I in the first place against the frauds and cor ruptions wtncii have been practised by the De mocratic party for the past eight years. These frauds and corruptions are admitted by the De mocracy and the only way of relief from the charap for the two wings of tho Democratic party, is to condemn the , administration the party has elevated to power. But it matters not how severe ' the condemnation may be, if either Donglas or Breckinridge is elevated to the Presidential chair, the same class of men, who have rioted on spoils under Pierce and Bu chanan, will ask for a continuance of riot and reveliry in office, without having learned the lesson of economy and honesty, which a party out of power and fresh from the people is like ly to have learned. , The Republican party in its platform also placed itself on the record as in favor of Free Homesteads, a sale of the pub lic lands at low prices to actual settlers for the purpose of encouraging emigration to the ter ritories. , Democratic Senators and Represen tatives in Congress pretty generally have op posed tho Homestead measure. The Republi can party again has proclaimed itself in favor of. a protective tariff. Upon this subject the Democratic party by its past acts and record stands committed against the Republican par ty upon the question of protection to Ameri can Industry. Upon the question of slavery the Republican party stands committed to the doctrine ot opposition to slavery-extension. For this purpose Congress should prohibit slavery, where Congressional intervention is called for, and is necessary to accomplish tho end. A Republican Administration will lend all its influence and patronage in the territories in lavor of free labor, instead of being commit ted as the Administration of Pierce and Bu chanan have been committed, to the interests oi pro-slavery Uorder Ruthans. The influence of tho administration in this direction will bo felt in all its appointments from the Supreme Court down, in this light the doctrine of op position to slavery extension becomes not an abstraction.'but a practical question .which the American people have an interest in deciding, and which they will decide this fall in the o lection of "Abe Lincoln."- ZeAi'gA. Register. Progress of Light.- The Wide Awakes of Washington City turned out the other night 700 torches. A year ago the Republicans could not master fifty men at the Capital, and would not-have imperiled tneir neads by a turn-out. Now they march unmolested all owing to the result of the Pennsylvania elec tion. Success is all we need to make our par ty pppujat in the South. ; ; ' ' :Neat Retobt. An Israelite lady, sitting in the same-box at an opera with a French phy sr,;r' nd was much troubled with cnt, hap JcnSlT to caTe. "Excuse me, madam," sai4 Pepea W3Pe- . . vmifiid not swallow HAS A METHODIST A EIGHT TO LIVE I hat a southern planter, the owner of slaves, snouia desire, on imigrating to a territory of the united States, to be protected in what he claims as his property, is, we admit, a natural ieeung. ue has been accustomed to dominion over slaves all his lifetime, and it is not strange iuai ne snouid cling to an old habit But even a southern planter would admit that there are things of more importance than property in negroes. A white man's life, they must allow, Is of far greatur value than his right to have a black man whom he can sell to the highest bidder. We do not mean at present to say anything in disparagement of me prerogative of owning a fellow creatnre ; we simply wish to lay down the clear position that, valuable and desirable as it may be, life is a far greater blessing. All writers on pub lic law nave, therefore, very properly put the rigiu to ute before the right to property. iu me controversy wnicn is going on re specting the right to import slaves into the territories of our republic one side has.unhap pily, in its ueal for a certain species of proper ty, Wholly forgotten the respect which is due to human life. The owner of a slave iraigra tes with his bondman to one of the territories All the South is open-mouthed in maintaining his right to hold the man as his slave at his new residence. A Methodist of the northern church goes down to Texas. The people among whom he comes deprive him of his life with as littlo ceremony as the door-keeper ot a picture gallery takes away the walking stick or the umbrella of a visitor who is about to enter. The champions of southern rights assemble, and for no other reason than that the poor man is a member of that division of the Methodist denomination which calls itself the Methodist Episcopal Chnrch. thev hane him on the nearest tree. The victim is ortho doxbut hV belongs to a northern religious organization,, and is -therefore suspected of being an abolitionist.; In the catalogue of southern rights the right of a man to his life has no place. - That every man has a right to own a negro is an incontrovertible maxim of constitutional law; that every man has a right to live, though that be one of the principles laid down in our Declaration of Independence, they by no means admit. We are not at all surprised that tbgre should be men who think that those who go this length in their zeal for the Tights of property go a little too far. The Chicago papers publish a letter from the Rev. Dr. Eddy, the editor of the North-western Christian Advocate, toPresi dent Buchanan; in which, speaking in behalf of the northern branch of the Methodist Epis copal Church, he dwells upon tho murderous proceedings of which its members have been made the victims in Texas, and particularly on the banging of the Rev. Mr. Bewley, with whom he was personally acquainted After stating that the Methodist church is no politicalOTganization ; that its members are loyal, peaceable and obedient to the laws ; that m that character they have a right to enter in safety and inhabit without molestation any part of the domain of the United States ; that the chnrch formerly was remarkably snc cessful in the South as a decided and uncom promising anti-slavery church ; that there are many persons there now who prefer the Dis cipline and Ministry of the church North ; Dr Eddy, goes on to speak of the treatment his church has received, in tho following maimer "Sir," the civilized world has been shocked by the story of the abominations perpelrared by the Druses npon the nominal unristians in Syria, and by the cruel edicts which have dis graced the Government of Rome, with its clerical head. lam not sure but a chapter of history almost as shocking and barbarous must bo written by the historian of Methodism. Our people are under a reign of terror in some portions of the Southeast and Southwest. From different quarters in Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, they have received threats of violence to be inflicted unless there shall bo a withdrawal from our church. The mail matter- of our members is opened postmasters claim the authority to break the seals, and degrade themselves into Pro-Slavery spies! Mr. Bu chanan, have you or your Cabinet demanded or sanctioned this far reaching system of govern- ment espionage i Is your Postmaster General simply or principally the chief of a vast detec tive force t We of the North support the postal service, and we wish to know someting of its character. The most high handed outrages have been perpetrated in the Southwest. Their vioh nee has been repeatedly employed, and our l eo- ple basely murdered. ' In Missouri, band i of I ruffians have interfered with our sei vices, have committed outrages upon our ministers which hurried them to the grave, while the red ha;id of murder drenched with blood the gray locl s of a venerable man, loved by all who knew hirn, whose crime was a warm attachment to tho Methodist Episcopal Church. The high-handed cnorraitie3 inflicted upon the ministry and membership of our church in Kansas need not be restated they have passed into history. -' In Texas, Bishop Janes was holding a session of Conference. No man's rights had been in vaded ; no insurrection had been preached : ho slave had been incited to revolt. In that Conference there were, no doubt, some who voted for James Buchanan for President of the United States. Yes, Sir, those men. with thier wives and children and friends, were sur rounded on God's holy day; while in the house of worship, by an armed mob, which deman ded an instant and unconditional abandonment of their position! Mr. President, that out' rage was perpetrated since you have been our Chief Executive! What harm had they done ? Had they lost the character of American citi zens, oris the nation which can resent the outrages of Greytown or Paraguay, powerless before those of Pro-Slavery mobs ? Later still has come the word that in North ern Texas a panic similar to that of Harper's Ferry, has been created." Monocracy has tri umphed over law. Men suspected have been seized and executed; .. T t .i -. Among the victims of this reckless slaugh ter we read the name of A. Bewley . I knew that man. He was a cautious,' deliberate man, born, I believe,' in Tennessee; ' He was no Abolitionist, though an 'Anti-Slavery man of I the Washington and Jefferson school. Modest and peaceful, he never asserted all the rights mentioned.. by the author of the Dred Scott dccison,nor was he accustomed to speak such words as Mr'. Taney announced himself pre pared to utter in the old Court House in Fred erick. He 'was twice chosen a delegate to our highest ecclesiastical council, and was es teemed for his unobtrusive but genuine' piety. . i i i. - 1 i ' a large family, one of which was a blind daughter, was dependent upon him. Yet, without a fair trial, without a sworn Jury, without forms of law. this brave man. this good, gray haired man, is murdered by a mob ? Tell not this country that American citizenshin is a prouder boast than Roman? We of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who refuse a sectional affix, are almost compelled to say It is a cheat, a sham, something we pay dearly oui wnicn Dnng.s us no protection. Have we, the million of Methodists in this country, no rights which Southern slave breeders and slave-drivers ar bound to respect ? nai we demand of onr tounlrv 1. We insist upon protection in the exercisa oi our constitutional lights liberty of con science, speech, and press. . we insist upon it that our recorded sen iinients on the subject of Slavery shall not work a practical forfeiture of our citizenship. Why this singling out of the M. E Church t Others have borne a strong testimony against mo evn wny mis war upon ns ? o. VY e demand the protection of th nonrts If any of our people offend tho majesty of the law, there are courts of justice and officers of the law ; let there be a full, impartial, and fair inai, ana we win be content. We bow to the laws. If uniu8t and oppressive, we , will at tempt in all lawful ways to secure their repeal, It becomes, Sir, a question just now "of deep interest does membership in the Methodist E piscopal Church expose to death at the hands of an unlicensed moo 1 ' Are we to be hunted like wild beasts ? Is our blood to be shed like wa ter to appease the insatiable Moloch ofSlai very ? " ., I must add, sir, at this time, the question. Can our brethren be protected 1 Is assuming a grave importance- We are in the! midst, of tho excitement, preceding the .Presidential election, intensified by the character of the questions at issue. ' Heretofore we' have been divided in our votes. ; Our clergy have been of amerent parties, and ;SO have, been our laity; The church periodicals with a circulation told by hundreds of thousands, have, been 'silent when the questions of platforms and candi dates have been argued. Thus should, it be,' uod forbid that the. day. should .-come when our leading religious denominations shall stand as integers in the computation of political parties. ' " ;" t -- (' j But, sir, "Oppression maketu a wise man mad." The murder of Bewley; has startled us, and tho question begins to run through our million of membership, Canan Administration be found which will protect the rights of con science and the freedom of worship t I depre cate tne existence or such a state of things, but we are not responsible. We ' love our brethren, and cannot consent to see them slaughtered by gangs of desperadoes without feeling, without determining solemnly on our Knees, and at the holy communion, that thev shall be protected. A few more such murders as that of Bewley, and our people will ask who will give us an Administration strong enough to upnoid tne rights dearest of all others, and for that man, be be whom he may, they wilt cast their united suffrage. . . i Sir, I have written plainly and bonestlv: ana now close this letter, praying that the evening of your days may be calm, and cloud less, and when you go hence may it be io sure and certaian hope ot a blissful immortality. loursrespectlully, , t. m. edot, , YANCEY AND PARSON BE0WNL0W. 1 ancey spoke in Knoxville. Tenn.. on tho 22d Sept. Parson Brownlow was present and reports a part of his speech. Brownlow says : "xancey stated that the white women at the j orth stand over the wash-tnb, and cook that white men black boots and perform all other menial services; while at the South, where we were more elevated,' we make nerroes per- lunii iiiesu uegrauing aunt's; .xnis . was a most unfortunate hit for this latitude. 'It might do in South Alabama,' or the wealthy uuuon siaces. xsui every icnrn man tie was speaking to did not own a. negro : while the wives and daughters of all who heard him, wash, cook and milk cows,' withont ever sns pecting that they "were 'performing menial services! Even our enterprising townsmen, Luckey and Hanks, who drove their carriages out to the depot, and again to the speaking, never supposed they were less elevated than those who were riding in their carriages.' And verily, if this'aristocrutic southern party desire no totes from that class who black their own boots, and drive their own carriages and. wag ons, tneir. snare in Jast Tennessee will be small." . . . Brownlow asked Yancey if he thought the election of Lincoln would be a sufficient pre text for the dissolution of the Union. Instead of replying to the question, Yancey commenc ed catechising Brownlow, who answered by saying: . -i . . - . , ; ... "I am one of a numerous party at the South who will, if even Lincoln shall be elected un der the forms of our Constitution, and by the authority of law, without committing any other offence than being elected,' force tho vile disunionists and secessionists ot the South to pass over our dead bodies in their march to Washington to break up this government." The Alabama. Inscreection. We learn through a private source that the evidence of the insurrection plot jn Alabama, which we alluded to some days ago, was extorted from a slave by the application of eight hundred lashes to his back. - After this gentle manifes tation his memory was entirely restored and he was able to verily every suspicion of his tormentors. . It was evidence obtained by this process on which the preachers were hung in Texas, and on which most of the cruel punish ments inflicted on Northern travelers in the South are grounded. It is a well known fact, that the States in which these ingenious meth ods of acquiring knowledge are in vogue, are the most ardent in their devotion to the Dem ocratic Party ; and it is marvelous, if we re vert to the history of the late King Bombas,to witness the similarity of means and instru ments used in keeping up an intense-Doc- racy and an-intense Despotism. N. T. Times. All milk brought into Paris is tested at the barriers, to see if it has been diluted, and, if it has, the jvhole is thrown away. If a trades man adulterates any , article of food oflered for sale, he is fined, and then a large placard, recording the : exact1 nature ofLhis trick, is placed in his window. - . . . Artemus Ward, whoso . numerous writings are well known, is Mr. Brown, tho local editor ot the Clcaveland Plaindealer. ' " '. WHAT A SOUTHERN MAN SAYS. ; : Ex-Governor Francis Thomas, of Maryland, who in times gone by the democracy of that State delighted to honor, recently delivered a speecn at uagerstown, In which he handled the disunionists without gloves. He denounced in the severest language the conduct of those mischievous political agitators, who threate to break up the confederacy because the ma jonty of the people will not submit to thei dictation. Like Sam Houston, Governor Tho mas is in favor of the Union, and is willing to ngni ior it should the tolly of tho Seces sionists render such service necessary. In the course of his remarks, this old-fashioned democrat said : , "The principles of the Secession party ori ginated with John C. Calhoun, who was defeat ed for the Presidency, and then : resolved to break up the Union. They had now withdrawn under the lead of Yancey and Rhett, who boast that they are for dissolution, , There are many men of this character in the South,who desire the re-opening of the slave trade, which they know they can never obtain within the Union "The slaveholders have already more richts man any body else. . They are few in number and yet Congress wasted all the time in dis cussing their interests. He thought that the rest of us had some rights, too, and that it was 1 time to turn our attention to internal concerns It was ungenerous to cry disunion, when the oouth bad gotten all she could ask. Disunion was remedy for insurrection and abolition plots. ': If these could arise inside the Union Jthey would. happen tenfold more frequently without. Maryland had stood by Jackson in 1883, and she would declare against nullifica tion and disunion now. Our government is a consolidated government, and was intended to endure -forever. f Under, the Old Articles of Confederation, a State could, ratify or annul an xct' of Congress. ' "The ' new Constitution was framed to correct this defloiency "We have nothing to fear from the election of Mr.Lincola.- All formerly stood upon this "platform "None ever doubted the right of Congress to legislate Tor the Territories. "' He cared not hatanian'8 abstract opinions were ; we had roanrlree-soilers: in iho Presidential chaij, Jefferson was a rank free-soiler. , Mad-i ison and Monroe were both free-soilers. He knew" Mr; Fillmore well i and a better' Presi dent we never had.; Mb. Fillmore would have responded, Yes, to every, question put to Mr. Lincoln. Mr. Clay , was an out and out free soiler. " "So help me God."" said Mr. Clav. "so help me Uod, I will never vote for the admis sion of slavery into any Territory where it does not now exist."- ""- - This, it should be remembered, is the lan- gvage of a Maryland slaveholder..-How nobly it contrasts with that adopted by the two-pen ny panic mongers, who are now attempting to f righten the people into the-support of their lavorite candidates ! A' Sensible Slaveholder. A Maryland farmer, who owns fifty slaves ''writes to the Baltimore Patriot arguing against the profita bleness or slaveholding in- the State. He says : "Does the income we receive from our slaves repay us-for the depreciation of our property 1 The cash valne of the corn, wheat and tobacco-crops of-Maryland in 1850, at present prices, would be about $14,905,308 : the slaves on farms were 65,o09, or about one fifth and a fraction of .the agricultural popula tion ; their proportion of the crops made fs $3,726,326 ; set down their, expenses at $50 each, it comes to $3,475,450: almost as much as they make. The cash capital they repre sent, is $30,000,000 cr more. Who will call it capital well invested T ; This; calculation may appear exaggerated, yet it is" fairly drawn irom our state statistics, ana the experience ot very many of our own slaveholders will pronounce it rather under than over-stated. If then, I judge slavery by its impoverishing effect on my own Mate, I must look at it as inimical to the best interest of every civilized society. This might be construed into an Abolition sentiment by those who do not bear in mind that I apeak as a political economist, and not as a philanthropist. Taking the negro as we now nnd htm in America and - Africa. I think he has gained more by being a slave, than we by being- his master ; we have, in a measure, developed his moral qualities, where as he has served to- check education with us. Take, for example, the first State in the Cen sus Book that approaches Maryland in popula tion. New Hampshire, inI850, out of a pop ulation of 317,450, exactly 100,000 less than Maryland, had 83,148 attending school, and 2,958 adults who could not read ; Maryland, only 60,44 1 attending school, and 20,815 who could not read ! We know that the Colonies protested against the first introduction of sla very, and althongh we cannot pretend to fath om the designs of Providence, humanly speak ing, I cannt help thinking that, had we then been strong enough to resist it, as we did, at a later period, illegal taxation, our birth would have been more glorious, and we would now be more populous, more prosperous and more united.". : , : . ' - A Bap Prospect. In Racine, Wisconsin, the other day, a well known Emerald Islander who is always on band at Caucuses in the Fourth Ward, hailed an ex-mayor in this wise : "Arrah, George, we got 'era this time.". "Got who?" anxiously inquired his honor. "The Black 'Publicans, the nager worship pers, to be sure. Eight years ago we bate 'em wid Pierce, then- agin we bate 'em wid Ould Buck, both times single-handed; and now to-day haven't we got two of the strong est min in the party afther 'era ? . Och, shure we'll give 'em h this time, wid Douglas and Breckinridge." George looked disgusted. . - On an Irish trial the counsel was desired to Obtain an admission from a witness of the Crown that, having himself been one of rhe sworn members of the league,!) had been brib ed to become a spy on the others. -Having vainly labored for nearly an hour to get a re ply, he saids "Lome now, air ; aid you not come direct from these men to Dublin on Monday last ?". . "I did so," promptly answered the witness. - " Well; Sir, that is direct at all events. Now, Sir, will yon tell me, in as brief a way as pos sible, what motive brought you here ?" 'The loco-motive, to be sure." . . One Vote. The Democrats in Fulton coun ty elected their Commissioner this fall by a majority of 1. . .. . The Republicans in Indiana elect seven and the Democrats lour members of Congress. ABBAHAM LINCOLN. In Thomas Jefferson's celebrated letter to the New Haven merchants who had remon strated against the removal of Elizur Good rich from the Collectorshin ftf that rwt-t anA the appointing of a successor whose chief qualification was that he was a partisan of the President, a hope is expressed that a good time may come when the only questions about a candidate for office will be these three t "Is he honest? Is he capable ? Is he faithful to the Constitution ?" When Jefferson said a good thing, he said it well, and this is one of his good things. Those three questions are just the questions which the people of the United States ought to ask in regard to candidates for the Presi dency. Let Abraham Lincoln, for example, be subjected to the ordeal of these questions. Is he honest i. . Look upon his face. Is that an honest man ? Inquire among his neigh bors who honor hia guileless integrity by the familiar name which expresses their confidence and love, Honest Abraham Lincoln. Read his speeches. Hear him when he addresses a popular assembly. The first element of his power over his hearers is tho irresistible con victions which they have of his honesty. Is he capable 1 Let his whole history, from his early and unfriended struggles to his present high position among the acknowledg ed leaders of a learned profession in one of the . greatest States of the Union, give the answer. Let the people of his own State, who know him as thoroughly as they know any other public man, Say whether he "is capa ble. Let those who heard him, a few montl a ago, at the.Cooper.Institute, say whether he has Intelligence enough and talent enough to be the successor of iJames Buchanan, Frank lin Pierce, Millard Fillmore, Zachary Taylor, James K. Polk and John Tyler. . We happen ed to hear that speech. It was not as classical ly ornate as one of Edward Everett's orations, it was not" like one" of Thomas Jefferson's epis tles, put. in our-judgment, it was a. better ex hibition of that kind of ability which qualifi es a man for such an office as the. Presidency, than Everett's eulogy on Washington,' or 'Jeff erson's ley-cto, the New Haven Chamber of Commerct ioro thorough and exhaustive exposition j61the subject which he had in hand, no other man could jjive. There was not a word In it of -vulgar-speaking not a word of the "spread-eagle" style ef oratory not a word: of clap-trap j it was straight for ward argument on the great question of the times, and was as able as it was honest. Is he faithful to the Constitution? Those who believe that 'he Constitution is the charter and guarantee of slavery, and that by its own force it carries the institution of slaverv ntr all the territories, will, say No. Such an an swer from that quarter is reason enough for everybody else to answer F. - The views of Vebster, of Clay, of Marshall, of all ous em inent men who lived before the new school of Democracy was founded by Calhoun, aEe- his views on tne question now at issue. That la enough JT. V. Independent ; THE TWO DEM0C3ATIC CANDIDATES. . . There are two Democratic candidates befara the country for the Presidency, at least thev botb profess to be Democratic' candidates. The one is Stephen A. Douglas, the other John C. Breckinridge. Who are they, and what is their record ? The first has been the- arch- agitator of the country for years. . He is the man who led the assault upon the Missouri Compromise and opened the Territories to the aggressive march of Slavery. He is the man who boasted that be would .subdue the Free States men in Kansas, because they would not su.bniit to- border-ruffian rule.' ' He is the man who stood calmly by and witnessed the assault on Mr. Sumner, and .who would not interfere to stop the outrage because his motives might be misapprehended." He is the man who de clared that he did not care whether slifrery is voted np or. voted down. If he has really re pented of his sins, his condition is like that of the thief on the cross doomed to be jibbuted by his fellow men in this world, whatever glo ry may await oim in mo next. The other candidate, Mr. Breckinridce. Is the representative, or is made the standard- bearer rather of Toombs, Yancey, and the rest ot the Disnnlonists ; of the incendiaries who. mean to blow up the government i who. do- ro and the impossible concession of a Slave Code in the Territories as a condition of put ting out their felonious torches and subsiding into orderly citizens. Apd they both stand upon the Anti-Tarifl latform. They have both been opposed to and voted against Protection all their lives. The decree of fate has gone out against both of these sets of disturbers of the country; a- gainst botb these conspirators against the rights ot man. .Nothing can belp, or save them. Like a storm-mastered pirate ship, in mid o cean, with its crew in mutiny,-the sham De mocracy shall go down to the bottom, and all the people shall cry, Amen ! Columbia Rep. . An Anxiocs Wide-Awake.' -During a pro- cession of Wide-Awabes at Cohoes, N. Y., on Tuesday night a-week,one ot the number acci dentally fell into a well forty feet deep. His alarmed companions procured p rope and pull ed their comrade all dripping with water from his perilous position. They supposed him more dead than alive, and anxiously inquired as to the extent of his injuries. No sooner, however, was the Wide-Awake on terra firms, than, spitting out monthfulls of water, he en quired, "Have you heard anything from Penn-. sylvania during my absence t" , A Forcible Illustration. A friend retalcs a pretty good hit which a Teutonic citizen in advertently made the other day, in giving his reasons for voting the Republican ticket s "I tinks I leaves the Dimmicrats long time ago, but every year dey pulls de wool ober mine eyes, and so I goes mit dem again; but dis time dey pulls it so far dat I sees right ober de top! .Dat ish vy I votes de Republican, ticket." There is a good deal of condenced truth ia that observation. 1 i Abernethy once said to a rich but dirty pa tient, who consulted him about an eruption, Let your servant bring to yoa three or four pails of water, and put it into a wash-tub ; take off your clothes, get into it, and rub yonrselt well with soap and a rough towel, and you'll recover." "This advice seems very much like telling me to wash myself," said the patient. Well," said Abernethy, "It may be ppen. to uch a construction," - - - - . i n
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