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BY S. B. ROAV.
CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1860.
YOL. 7.-JVO. 10.
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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
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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.
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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," - - - - .
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