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BY S. J. now.
CLEARFIELD, PA.. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER -23 186-3.
VOL. 10 WO. 4.
rpHOMPSUN. WATSON. Dealers in Timber
I eaw Logs. Board and Shingles Marysville,
-Garfield county, Penn'a Auguet 11, 1S63.
"j w Thompson : : : : : Jas. e. watsos.
AIT.M. ALBERT A BRO'S, Dealers in Dry Goods,
V Groceries, Hardware. Qneensware, Flour,
i-fn etc.. Woodlanl. Clearfield county, Penn'a.
extensive dealer in all kinds of sawed lum
' It ihiniie' and square timber. Orders solici
.j s Woodland, Aug. 19th, 1363.
t i l"I ION All persons are hereby caution
j el I'jsirit purchasing or in any way med--l
ir,,w;t'h the following property, now in the
- ,ies?!onof James Evans, of Graham tw'p. viz:
rise nay mare- oce iron gray horse, one two year
Vj cou. and four cows, as the Batne was purchas
'j b uip at S-beriJ Sale, and have only been left
the said Evans on loan, and are subject to
JOS. C. BRENNER
Morri'dale, Aug. 19, 1863.
-Hf.Rlr'F'S SALES. By virtue of sundry
N Writs of Venditioni Exponas, issued out of the
1 0f Comaiun Pleas of Clearfield county, and
"uie dirtctcJ. there will be exposed to Publics
lif we Cjurt House, in the borough of Clear
fitli. oa :ie Fourth Monday of September next,
i V s.t 1 o'clock. P. M., the fallowing de
tcziool Keal Estate viz:
A certain tract of land situate in Chest town
.' :d. Clearfield county Ptnn'a, bounded as fol-
ijas: Beginning at a post corner, thence north
deg west one hundred and fifty perches to a
rot. thence by land of Anthony McUarvey ami
.iwrence Killiam two hundred and four perches
r, a Dost thence alon the line o: Aaron i letce to
i shire pine, thenco by land of Isaac Kirk to
r :nce of beginning, containing one hundred and
erenty-one acres more of less, being part of a
;rger survey in tne name ot ueorge Musserwitn
ucTsniall log houses, blacksmith shop and log
( -rii thereon erected and about seventy-five acres
;.?ired with a young bearing orchard. Seized.
. km in execution, and to be sold as the property
:i Kobtrt McPherran.
Also a certain tract of land, situate in West
liberty, in Clearfield county, Penn'a. and bound
ed nil the west by lot No. 19, on the north by the
l ri Turnpike, on the east by nn alley, and on
::e south by land:? of Jacob (leberJing. being each
f,L, ti-et in front and running back 120 feet, known
j:i pint of said town as No. 13 and 15 w:.fa two
torv frame house erected thereon Seiiej, ta
knin execution: and to be sold as the property
uf Joseph Kishell.
Also a certain tract of land situate in Fergu
son township. Clearfield county. Penn'a. bounded
fcy lands of Wm Heed. Joseph Moore. Win. Moore,
Alexander and John Ferguson and Thomas llen
:v ci.ii!aiiiiiig two hundred tunes more or leas a
t't.ut forty acres cleared thereon, and a large
i'.m.k Barn erected thereon. Seized, taken in ex-f-cuuuo.
and to be sold as the. property of Benj.
H:ir?-hr'rn and Thomas Henry, Administrator of
Thouia Mccracken, dec'd.
Also a certain tract of land situate in. Chest
tnwii.'hip. Clearfield county. Penn'a, bounded by
'sadaot simou Korabaugh. Andrew and Solomon
in:crnd lands late of Moees Pierce and others,
.training eighty-two acres, about an acre cleared
i.'.t'riin. Seized, taken in execution, and to bo
mid as the property of Aaron fierce and Austin
Curry.
Aio P.y virtu ot Sundry writs of Levari
i'jfiu.i. the follow ing described real estate:
All those three several tracts of land situate
jn:i!y in Liecatur township. Clearfield county,
f.i partly extending into Centre county, State
i.f lVnncylvani. originally surveyed upon wnr
ur.l dbtt-d July 1st I7a4 respectively granted to
) ii.HMiel Fletcher. Elizabeth Harrison ayd John
inrrU. n. adjoining lands conveyed to Joseph
liirrifyn. Thomas Billington. Francis Uat.orcpand
he's kikI Paid, ted April I860 to the said Hen
1 '.li:ug'n. cciitr.ii.ing in the aggregate eleven
h'.::.'ired ltd eightv-scven acres and twenty two
! .Trhei of bind with the aliowor.ee, excepting
en- i ut iir.d tlu refroui two lots, one of 200 acres
hi all 'Wam-e ared to be sold and conveyed to
hi. and Abruhfun Goss. their hirs and As-
'.. the other in the po-isession of the heirs
: i.--uni uf Abraham Goss now dee'd. and con
: u.'. oiic hut.drcd and fifty four acres and one
i.-hurc t ai.i fify-four perches Recording to a cer
inx, survey by Thftnai Uosa of Clearfield county
jtcit. bcirg together thre hundred and fifty
f it: aiMes and or.o hundred and twenty-four
;rol;ej. thus excepted from the original tracts
m.-I lciv:iig eight hundred and thirtv-two acres
i r.itv-f.nir perches with the allowance now cou-v-ye
i i v tht- sftine irore orles3. together with all
j.iJ -iiktniar ways. waer3. watercourses, righ's.
'..:.Tr:: privileges and improvements. Seized,
t-k ,-; i.i ixecufion. and to be sold aa the proper
u i- i'uvid I Pruner, A.G. Curtin, John M. Hall
!. i .!..i. LiLg'e.
Alo ail ttist cerUin two story housi? or build
.iC'iiuate in the township of Soodward and
: i.f Citaifiela or lot on south siJo of load
it .-i.tii.i; frcm Alexanders Fording to Philipaburg
it. the village of Pu.eyville. bounded on the west
ty lot fwncd by iienry Peters, east by land of
ioittrl A'exander. said hou-e being in size 9i.x
tirr. feet by tweiity feet, and the lot or piece of
zrmiid and curtilage appurtenent to said build--)
it i the sum ot tony dollars and fifty cents, bei'ig
s tirbi contracted for work and labor done by
"ii Constantine lionkinmyer. Seized, taken in
txecution, and iu be sold as the property of Geo.
Milea.
Ato Ey virtue of undry writs of Firri Facias,
the lo:iowir.g real estate, to-wit:
Two certain tracts of land situate In Brady tp ,
CtarS-ld county, Penn'a. one beginning at a Lin
corner, thecce extending by impiovement of Levi
L'aie jouth sixteen degrees west 86 perches to a
rost. thecce along the turnpike road soutn eighty
degrees west 1U0 perches to a post, thence
t- rth one degree west 72 7-tenth perches to a
ft. i thence north eighty nine degrees east
j-tenth perches to the Lin and place of be
KtWicg. coEtaining fifty-one acres and forty one
trche. being part of a larger tract of land sur
'evei t,D warrant to Henry WhyrofF, about forty
rej c!red w;ih a two atory frame dwelling
-ittst 32 V.y 32 feet a;id log stable erected thereon
Ail defendants interest in a certain tract of
:tu&ie township, county and state aforesaid.
'itg allottment No. 5 of tract No. 34. bounded
a the south by the above named tract. on the west
b7 lands of S.'r. Lobangb. on the north by Long.
Jtd on the east by Wm Garr'a heirs containing
'cres more or less, about 12 acres clearer with
JJo story plank frame house erected thereon.
rt taken in execution, aad to oe sold as the
FTOterty of Tolbert Dale.
Also all that certain tract of land situate in
WniHde township, Clearfield county, Penn'a be
K csicgatamaplecorner.thence by land of Wm.
"""tiers test One hllnHreJ nr) ai'rt. un nitrith.
- to maple, thence north fifty-five degrees west
i.r'5.v s; perches to a white oak, thence by land
i"""-n rVicbin north eixteen degrees east two
JMred and sixty-two perches to a post, thence
-i wild of Horace Patchin north forty-two de
Li"."1 on bund red and eighty perches to a
Mh Plre' tbence by lBntl of Jacob Yingling and
tat" Utl1 f0ur nnnd,'e1 n perches to
'brV0r?ean,, P,aoe of beginning, containing
n ,i anln.,lred and nine acres more or less survey
raV, ; 'i day of October, A. D. 1834. on war
Wl1 18th Deniber, A. D. 1793, granted to
ia I' m Banley tn log house, log barn, and
-a ec.ted thereon with about fity acres
o'd ,V geileJ taken in execution, and to be
me property of Benjamin Yingling, dec'd.
!- , EDWARD PERKS. Shff.
"MT. Office Clarf.eld, Aug. 19, 1S63.
CV t .. ow
SrViiHfiiiiflH mvuxmu
C0PPEEHEAD SCOTCHED BY A BEKOCSAT.
The following correspondence between Mr.
Browne and .Mr. BiddU; will explain itself.
Mr. Browne U one of the-most conscientious
8nd respectable citizens of Philadelphia, a
Democrat heretotore,and we believe Postmas
ter ia Philadelphia under Mr. Buchanan's Ad
ministration, bupwho came into the loyal par
ty with Dickinson, Butler and Brewster. He
made a speech, in the course of which he just
ly spoke of Mr. Justice Woodward as an ene
my oi the country, and a follower of the doc
trines of the late Mr. C;i!houn. This state
ment lie strengthened by asserting a former
political frieudsh ip for Mr. Woodward, aiI a
knowledge ol his views, which every other
Democrat in the St.ite abundantly possessed.
Hence the correspondence :
South Sixth Street, August 27, 1803.
A B. Bowne, Eng., Sir : You are report
ed in The Pi ess of tiiis morning as stating to
a public meeting your personal knowledge ol
the opinions of Hon. G. W. Woodward, the
Democratic candidate for Governor of Penn
sylvania You say of him: "He is, if possi
ble, a conscientious Secessionist. .Voman in
the Soi.th carries the doctrine of Secession
further than he, &c." Force is given to this
statement by the claim that it is made upon
intimate acquaintance with Judge Woodward.
You introduce your version of his opinion with
the declaration : "2'A speaker was intimately
acquainted with, the gentleman, and he would
say that if it wore possible' to call trom his
grave that arch traitor, John C. Calhoun, and
place him in the gubernatorial chair of Penn
sylvania, he would not be of more service to
the Southern cause than Judge Woo J ward will
be, it elected."
Will you inform me whether you are cor
rectly reported in the newspaper in which
these remarks appear? If you are, will yon
please to say when aud where you have had
the intimate acquaintance with Judge Wood
ward upon whicn you impute to nun opinions
which he has never uttersd to his friends or
the public Yerv respecttullv vours,
CHARLES J. B1DDLE,
Chairman Democratic State Cen. Committee.
113 South Fifth Strkes, Aug. 2S. 1863.
Hon. Charles J. BidJle, Chairman of the Demo-
ciatic State Central Committee :
Sir I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of yours of the 27th tr.st.. In regard to
my remarks concerning Judge Woodward, on
taking the chair at the meeting of the Xatiou
al Cuion Party on Wednesday evening last.
The published reports of the speeches deliv
ered on that occasion are obviously incom
plete, and not intended ta be lull or literal.
I certainly did not undertake to represent
Judge Woodward's opinionnon the issues now
pending, from my own personal knowledge;
for I am not a ware of having exchanged wordn
with hiru Miice the outbreak of the present re
Indlion. On the contrary, iu commenting up
on the opinions which I attributed to him, I
expressly stated either my authority, or the
nature ol it, quoting partly from his speech of
December 13, 18ti0. and partly from current
reports of his opinions, unreservedly given
and made public by thetr frequent repetition;
and, in reference to these latter, xla; ing that I
had them from undoubted sources, and could
therefore "peak of them as confi leutly as il I
hjd them Jrom personal knowledge.
Ent. as my remarks have been thought wor
thy of your attention, and that there may be
no room for misapprehension in regard to
them, it is but fair to myself as well as Judge
Woodward that I should repeat them tor your
information. 1 do so from a written draft of
the-u.
In speaking of the remark recently made bv
a leading Southern journal, that since the de-
feat at Gettysburg atld I he surrender of vicks
bnrg.the oniy hope of the 'outh was in French
intervention or Democratic successes at the
Noith. I said "that foreign intervention w is
too remote a probability for them to depend
upon; but as to the latter part of the program
me, the Southern rebels themselves could not
well have chosen more fitting iiiMruments thau
the principal Democratic nominees at the
North. To say nothing ol the candidate for
Governorship of Ohio, it might bo afQi uifd of
Judge Woodward, the nominee in this State,
that if John C. Calhoun himself that arch
traitor could be raised from his dishonored
grave and placed in the gubernatorial chair
of Pennsylvania, he could not serve the iu
terests of the rebellion better. I say this
without any want of respect to Judge Wood
ward ;for his ability, high character, and sin
cerity, are undoubted. But these very qual
ities, in the present case, make such opinions
the more dangerous, and lend them au influ
ence more potent for evil.
"To prove this have I only to ask your at
tention brieSyto bis views on the three issues,
at this time transcending all others in import
ance; I mean slavery, secession-, and the war
for the Union. On each ot these Judge Wood
ward entertains the views of the most extreme
Southern radicalism.
'First, as to slavery. He is not content to
stand with the State Kights Democracy of oth
er days, and leave slaveholders in the posses
sion of such rights and proteciion as they had
under the Constitution ; but in his speech of
December, 1860, he boldly proclaims that 'hu
man bondage and property in man is divinely
sanctioned, if not ordained;' and that 'negro
slavery is an incalculable blessing.' These o
pinions thus uttered, have lost nothing b) the
lapse ol time ; for,on another occasion, be de
clared, unreservedly and emphatically, that-to
think against slavery is a sin, to talk against
it a crime !' And more lately he has affirmed
that 'agitation on the subject of slavery is in
fidelity, and comes from the instigation ot sa
tan.' -
"But, as to Secession, Judge Woodward ap
proves of the course, aud justifies the act of
Secession, if be appears to hesitate as to the
absolute right of it. Although looking in the
opposite direction, he yet sustains and encour
ages Secession, and no man heed go further.
Practically, the people of the South have
reached Secession by the same road. Ue may
be sincere and conscientious in his views, bat
he must bear the responsibility ol having giv
en the sanction of his name and higb position
to tbeir rebellious coarse. For il his speech
ol I860 left any donbt on (bat point, the re
cent approval and endorsement of it, on his
behall, by the Chairmen of the Democratic
State Central Committee, removes that doubt.
To republish such sentiments, after the fact of
Secession, is an aggravation of tbe original
offence hard to reconcile with loyalty.
"Thirdly, Judge Woodward is opposed to
the war, and in favor of peace on any terms ;
as much so as Vallaudighm or Fernando
Wood. I have heard it staled that, on former
occasions he rebuked the earlier concessions
of his own party, in the patriotic war spirit of
the country. But we have no need to placi
this upou any uncertain authority; 'wo have
his langu ige in 1860, in advance of secession:
We hear it said, let South Carolina go out of
the Union peaceably ; I say. let her go peace
ably if she go at all. And in lS60,after South
Carolina had gone out'.and ten other rebellious
States -with her, to repeat such language is to
say, let them all go peaceably.' Truly with
the success of such a candidate and such prin
ciples.Gettysbnrg will have been fought in
vain, the battle for the defence of our own soil
against the rebellion is still to be fought."
'These were my remarks so far as they rela
ted especially to Judge Woodward, somewhat
luller than the report, but substantially as de
livered. Theyjare at your service.
You will perceive that no Matement is made
upon my personal knowledge as derived from
him. but thesonices of my information are in
dicated in every case. 1 may add, sir, that
the most material part of the language above
quoted, apart from the speech of 1800, was de
rived by me from a public address delivered
in this city, bv a gentleman of the highest
character, several months before Jtiiigo Wood
ward was nominated. The sentiment then at
tributed wag regarded by t-he spenker.and I be
lieve by most of the hearers, as presenting the
rare moral phenomenon of a cultivated and
Christian mind under the dominion of such an
idea, as that "to think against slavery is a
sia ;" and how little protection against the low
est form of prejudice a high judicial training
and position afforded, when a judge could de
scend from a supreme tribunal ot tbe State to
define it to be "a crime to talk against sla
very." These sentiments, thus attributed to Judge
Woodward, I fear, neither he nor you can es
cape. That speech, which must have sound
ed like a new and atrange Declaration ia In
dependence Square, contains them in express
terms, or by necexsary implication. The iden
tical thoughts, indeed, the same peculiar turn
ami force of expression, are there. So candid
man will deny it. And whatever of error that
speech contained originally, has acquired
startling emphasis of late, repected and ap
proved as it has been by you on his behalf.
Eleven of the States have seceded, as he invited
them to do; slavery has solemnly challenged
the world as to her right to be the cornerstone
nf society and government, claiming, as he
did fur it, a Divine ordination ; and the rebel
lion, to arms for more thau half a Presidential
term, has resisted the power and resources of
the Government, encouraged to do so by just
such advocacy of peace on any terms. And
yet at a time when the fairest portion of our
State was desolate in the track of the South,
ern invaders, and its soil wjs red with the
blood of so many thousands of loyal soldiers
who fell in its defence.-you rise in your chair
and pronounce such sentiments as a signal ex
hibition of statesmanlike sagacity, and join
with its author in re-aifirming a speech, the
whole argument of which was to prove that,
in this controversy with rebellion, the South
was right and the North was wro;ig !
In years pust, when the defence of Southern
rights and institutions was made under the
Constitution, and by legitimate agitation, I
stood lu the front rank of their friends ; but
from the hour that violent hands hive been
laid on the Constitution and the Union, and
an irnpioii-4 attempt has been made tooverturu
both, I have not hesitated a.s to my duty as a
loyal citizen. The example of such loyal
Democrats as Cass and Dickinson, Bullet and
Dix, Holt and Andiew Johnson, and a host of
others, is sufficient for me." I have with them
faithfully upheld the government, with what
ever influence I posess.
Impressed with the transcendent importance
of the issue now before the people of Pennsyl
vania. I spoke at the meeting on Wednesday
evening of the opinions of Judge Woodward
with plainnesa, and, I hope, with courtesy and
fairness. If in my remarks either sentiment
or language was attributed to linn which he
disavows. I stand ready to make the. correc
tion. But if, on the contrary, they are sub
stantially accurate, you must agree with me
that it would be difficult to find a better living
representative of the principles of John C.
Calhoun than your candidate. I am sir, very
respectfully, Yourobedient servant.
N. B. Brownk.
The famous Marsh Angel battery, whence
Charleston was bombarded, is in the midst of
a marsh, 2,G00 yards in advance of Morris Is
land. It was located at night, by the men
making their way to it on their stomachs.
Planks three inches thick were driven down
as the stub stratum ; on this was layed sever
al layers; on these logs, and on them boards.
In the meantime the ordnance was floated up
by night, and sand bags innumerable, from
every direction ; one night a large force piled
them up, and, to tbe surprise of the rebels, a
dangerous battery greeted their eyes next
morning.
. That the election of Mr. Justice Woodward
would greatly comfort and encourage the reb
els and their Northern sympathizers, no one
can doubt, and few would have tbe hardihood
.o deny. And yet wany of the supporters of
Mr. Justice Woodward profess to be friends
ol the Union, to be opposed to Secession, and
in favor of a vigorous prosecution of the war.
Is this isanity, or Is it hypocrisy.
Jewelry Store Robbed. The jewelry es
tablishment of Mr. Fred.Beck.in Tyrone city,
Blair county, was entered on Friday night a
week.and almost entirely despoiled of its .con
tents, valued by the proprietor at some seven
hundred dollars, most of the property beiDg
watches and other valuables left with him lor
repairs. -
Why is Greek fire good natured 7 Bccaue
yon can't put it out.
WOODWAKD ON SLAVERY.
READ! RE AD'l READ!:'
The Union State Central Committee in
their address to the people, have quoted sev
eral passages from Judge Woodward's speech
at Independence Square, in December, 1861,
wherein he declare l.fhat "Ac principal ohu
man bondage is divinely sanctioned, it not di
vinely ordained," aud that "the Providence
of the Good being who has watched over us
from the beginning, his so ordered our in
ternal relations as to make slavery an incalcu
lable blessing to us" and further foreshad
ows, and invites, and justifies a rebellion of
the Slave States, as an act authorized by the
law of self defence, which would entitle the
slave-holders "to fall back on their Saturat
rights, and employ iu defence of their proper
ty, whatever means of protection they pos
sess or can command."
Such blasphemy and treason against God,
and humanity, and the Government uuder
which we all live, are shocking enough with
out more. To complete the picture however
of the depravity of the man, who could in
dulge in such utterances, by showing that he
knew better, and was wilfully sinning against
light and knowledge, we wuu'.d have suggest
ed to the Committee if we had been at their
elbow the propriety of ro-pubtishmg his
thoughts upon the same question, at a time
when he esteemed no more of the negro, than
of the foreigner, and only proposed to deny
the right of voting and holding office to both,
on the ground that the Government was mere
ly intended for white men and natives.
We quote a lew detached passages from a
speech made by him in the Reform Conven
tion in 1838 vol. 10 Debates pp. 16 21.
WHAT HE SAID IN 1338.
"Whatever the sin of seizing the defence
less Ati icau, of tearing him from his home and
country, and carrying him into hopeless bon
dage in a distant land, lies at tbe door of En
gland. And whatevar evil has resulted, or is
to result to the colored people or the whites
of this country, from the institution ot domes
tic slavery, and the presence among us of
large masses of degraded and wretched blacks,
is also fairly chargeable to tbe inhuman poli
cy of Great Britain."
'If the colonies desired a participation, in
this nefarious traffic, they were excluded by
the monopolizing inhumanity ol the mother
country."
And this policy so disgraceful to Englaod,
and so injurious to the colonies so preserv
ingly adhered to by her, and so abundant in
bitter fruits to us, whs one of the causes which
finally impelled tbe colonies to throw off their
allegiance to Great Britain."
"The Revolution was aot yet fought their
independence was not yet established, when
the "Old Dominion" and the future 'Key
stone" of the Federal arch extinguished for
ever within their borders the nefarious traffic
in human fiefh." .
"Let England's patriots dwell on her own
guilty connexion witii slavery iu every part
of the world. Let them contemplate tho huge
sin, which rests upon her co:icieuce." . . . .
She must have torn from their homes, in Af
rica, six or seven millions of human beings,
and carried them away into hopeless slavery.
If the English .instead of srrerailling to their
guilt, by attempts to dissolve our Union, and
to sacrifice our liberties, were to enlighten,
civilize aud christianize the remaining mil
lions on the Continent t f Africa, they would
scarcely atone for the deep and unutterable
injuries inflicted on that race by the prosecu- i
tion of the slave trade." ' j
"They-(the negroes) were forced upon us.
They came not, as the primitive colonists came,
searching for liberty, but torn from their na
tive soil by English rapacity, they were
brought hertr slaves." j
"It is the great excellence and beauty of I
our syslem l hat it is fouuded on the consent
of the governed, so that allegiance and Hdeli- '
ty result 3 necessary consequences, and need
not be enforced by oaths and positive enaet
menu. But, sir, the negroes never assented,
and their presence here, since it was procured
by fraud and force, could not be construed in- :
to an adoption of the country, or an acquies
cence in its forms of government. They were
broujht here to be slavts and not freemen." !
"The act of 1780, which abolished slavery j
in Pennsylvania, was a proud monument to i
the humane policy ot the State. It wiped out J
the stain of slavery, which England had left
on or soil, aad conferred on the negro what j
he hid not before enjoyed ctri" freedom. II '
securid to him those ciril rights to which he in
comimn with all other human beings, of u-haec- i
er dine or complexion, had an infallible title
and oj which he never ought to have been depriv- j
ed." . '
"fir the manifold evils which connect;
themselves with the black population of this ;
country there is a remedy. It is colon iza- I
tion.j The negroes belong to Africa they !
werepruelly torn from that country, and it '
they ould now be returned to their fatherland, !
with the arts oi civilisation, and the lights of
education and religion, tbeir bondage might ;
provi a blessing to the benighted millions of;
that continent." j
'Ibelieve the negro race to be capable of
-elf government. Undoubtedly they deserve '
civil nd religious freedom, and with proper j
cultute, are capable of enjoying it. And, sir, j
veril do I believe that the much wronged !
peope of the South would add to tho tide ot '
emigation by gradually abolishing slavery, and
send tig their blacks to Africa, so that we '
miglt hope that our country would see tbe ;
day wen slavery on her soil would be extinct
j WHAT HE SAID 1ST 1860.
Think of these things, fellow-countrymen '
con Qem over, one by one dissect and ana- '
lyeetach fact trace its connections and con
serjuaices ; and then, when you combine them ,
all irone glowing picture of national prosper- j
ity, nmember that cotton, the produce of stare
labor has been one of the indispensable ele-
ruenl of all this prosperity. More, it must
be acindispensable element of all our future'
prosprity.. 1 say it must be. The world
cannt and will not live without cotton. ,
Thofj is oot a matron in all the Union that
i can clothe her family or herself wfthont it.
' Nor can England do without our cotton,
j Her mills and ours would rot. and her opera
j lives and ours would ssarve, if the negroesdid
nor raise cotton. Manumit them and they
j will never raise another crop. They need the
J outhority of a rnas'er and the eye ot an over-
seer to compel and direct them to the duties
j of the cotton plant which must be rendered at
j the right season precisely, or the crop is lost
j And thus it happens, that the Providence
j of that Good being who has watched over On
Ironi tho beginning, and saved us from exter
nal foes, has so ordered our internal relations
j as to make negro slavery an incalculable bies
i sing to us and to the people of Great Britain.
! 1 say to us ; for I do not enter into the queg
J tion whether the institution bo an evil to the
jjjeople of the Southern States. That is their
concern, not ours. We have nothing to do
with it. And to obtrude our opinions upon
tho people of sovereign States concerning
their domestic institutions, would ba sheer
impertinence. But do you not see and feel
how good it wa for us to hand over our slaves
to our friends of the South how good it wan
for us that they have employed them in rais
ing a staple for our manufacturers how wise
it was to so adjust the Compromises of the
Constitution that we could live in union with
them awl reap the signal advantages to which
I have adverted! We consign them tno
heathen thrall, hut to Christian men, profess
ing the same faith with ns speaking tbe
same language reading the golden rule, jn
no one-Hided and distorted shape, but an it is
recorded, rule to slaves, as well as masters.
This allusion to tho golden rule reminds me
of an objection which will be urged to much
that I have advanced. It will be said that
slavery :s a sin against God. and therefore,
that ail reasons drawn from our material in
terests, for favoring or abetting it must go for
nothing.
If it' be a sin. I agree there is an end to
my argument, but what right has the Aboli
tionists to pronounce it a sin 1 I say Aboli
tionist, because the pastor of the f'irM Pres
byteria-i Church of Brooklyn, in a sermon
preached within a wee, defined an Abolition
ist to be one uho holds that slavery is a sin.
I accept the definition, and according : to it
many of our best Christian people must be ac
counted Abolitonists ; for it is astonishing
how extetisively the religious mind ef the
North has admitted into itself tho suspicion,
not to say conviction, that slavebolding is a
sin. If a sir, then it is a violation of some
Divine law, for sin is the transgression of the
law.
Now, deny that any such law has ever been
revealed. Tbe burden of showing - it is on
him who alleges, and when it is shown, I -gree
H shall rale out all that has been said or
can be said for a Union founded on slavery.
I bind myself never to raise my voice again
in behalf of such a Union. But, so far from
any suet. law being found plainly written for
our instruction, whoever will study tbe Patri
archal and Levitical institutions, will see the
principle ol human bondage, and ot property
in man, divinely sanctioned, if not divinely .or
daiued ; and in all tbe sayiugs of our Saviour,
we hear of no injunction for the suppression of
a slavery which existed under his eyes, while
he delivered many maxims and principles,
which, like the golden rule, enter right into
and regulate the relation. So do the writings
of Paul abound with regulatonsof therelation,
but uot with injunctions for its suppression If
we go to the most accredited commentators,
or consult divines really wise and good in our
midst; or what is better, studv -and search
the Scriptures for ourselves, we shall fail to
find a law which, fairly interpreted and appli
ed, justifies any man in asserting, in or out ot
the pulpit, that the negro slavery of the Uni
ted States is sinful. What right, then, I ask
again, ha the Abolitionist to cheat tender
consciences Into hostility to an institution
on which our Union is founded in part?
Good people say we do not wish to disturb
slavery where it exists by local law, but be
lieving it to be sinful and inexpedient, we
will not submit to its extension, nor assist to
restore th fugitive to his master. Such peo
ple soou come to conceive that the more un
friendly they can feel towards slavery, the
more harsh speeches they make about slave
holders, the more they help on tho irrepressi
ble conflict, the better will they recommend
themselves to God. In some churches anti
slavery sentiments have become essential, to
good standing According to some ecclesias
tical councils, it would seem that the great
duty of tho American Christain is to war with
his neighbor's property ; and, if opportunity
presents, to help steal and hide it.
Alas ! alas ! for the time, upon which we
have fallen.
We must arouse ourselves and re-assert the
rights of the slaveholder, and add such guaran
tees to our Constitution as will protect bis
property from the spoliation of religious bigo
try and persecution, or else we must give up
our Constitution and Union. . Events are plac
ing the alternative plainly before us Consti
tutional Union and liberty according to jlmeri
can law : or else extinction of slave property,
negro freedom, disolution of the Uniou, anarchy
and confusion.
And now, turn back, ye friends ot humani
ty and progress, and look at that picture, and
then at this, and see the effects of unhallowed
ambition, and bad company , and unhappy as
sociations, upon a once ingenious youth, who
began the world with so lofty a promise, or
as Hervey would say "grew up like a well
watered plant, shot deep, rose high, and bade
'fair for manhood !" Alas but we prefer the
sorrowful exclamation of Eneas, as he de
scribes his vision of tbe dead body of Hector,
after it bad been dragged insultingly at tbe
heels of tbe coursers of the wrat'jful Achilles,
around the walls of Troy, and lay all over
soiled and begrimed with dust, and filth, and
gore.
- "How changed indeed, tho Democratic
George W. Woodward, wbo finds divine bles
sings and sanction for "the principle of hu
man bondage," and apologies for rebellion, in
tbe natural ' right of tbe slaveholder to tall
back upon the law of self defence, for tbe pro
tection of bis property and that George W.
Woodward, who, twenty-two years ago,-could
scarce find language ' strong enongh, to de
nounce the horrors sod iniquities ot that sys
tem "so abundant in bitter fruit to us," and.
flo-n proclaimed the right to freedom, of the
unhappy negro, of which be had ben robbed
by "fraud aud force," as one to which he, In
common with all ether human beings of what
ever choice or complexion, had an inalienable
title, and of which be ought never to have
been deprived! - - ' -;' '
WOODWARD'S COPPEHHEADIStt ESTAB
LISHED Before tbe war was openly began by the
Slave Drivers' rebellion, Jcdge Woodward,
the so-called Democratic candidate for Gover
nor, made a speech in Independence Square,
Philadelphia. That speech ho revised and
published in pamphlet form, as a deliberate
exposition of his views. On page II be says :
The world cannot live without co ton, and
cotton can only be raised under tbe eye ot a
master or overseer."
On page 12. he says:
".Vcgro slavery is an uncalculable blessing."
This terrible war ia oae ot tne blessings ne
gro slavery has brought upon us. It' is tor
slavery and its perpetuity ; for the establish
ment of an empire or monarchy, the chief cor
ner Mono of which shall be human bondage,
that rebelliou is carried on. Judge Woodward
directly approves, sanctions and advises thi
war tor slavery. On page 4 ot tbe pamphlet
speech, we find the following words :
'It seems that there must be a time wheu
slaveholders n.ay tall back upon their natural
rights and employ in defence of their slave
property - whatever means of protection they
may possess or can command."
None but an enemy to bis country and a .
traitor at heart, would thus, at tbe coaimence
mcnt of a rebellion, take sides against bis
country and in favor of rebels, giving them
reasons why they should continue in their re
bellion. But this was followed on page 13,
by still bolder treason when bo exhorts bU
hearers as follows :
Rise and reassert the right of the slavehold
ers," and adds 'tuman, bondage and property ,
in t;an is divinely sanctioned if not divinely or
dained." ,i.
In the same speech, he distinctly avows
himself in favor of a dissolution of the Union.
On page 14 he says: ' ,
"We bear it said, let the South go peacea
bly. say let her go peaceably." ' .
Hereyttin4 is Woodward's own record, da-
liberately made, hich is a mo6t emphatic an
swer to evere copperhead's claim, set np in
mockery, that he is a Union mn. Be dis
tinctly advises a Dissolu'ionof the Union. Ev
ery man therefore who votes for him, with a
knowlodge of these facts will fully vote for a
disloyal caudidate, placed upon a platform
that has not a word in favor of supporting the
Government, nor word of condemnation of the '
Southern rebellion. Greensburg Herald.
A BRAVE MAN'S ANSWER.,, .
Gen. Butler, 'Stopping over night in New
Hampshire, on his way to the White Moun
tains, was now and tbeu interrupted by Cop-perhead-.
He said : .. .
"In two years we have seen three quartern
of a million of men raised-''
Before the sentence was completed, one of .
the Pierce Democrats asked in a sneering air.
"Where Bre they now f".
"Some of them." replied General Butler
with his customary promptness, lie sleeping,
beneath tbe sod ; and others are still fighting
the battles of tbtir country, while you re
main here at borne aiding the cause of trai
tors." In another portion of his speech Geu. Bat
ler said :
Will you volunteer I" ,
A voice replied, "No"
You voted for Breckinridge," said a voice
to Gen. Botler, alluding to the last Democrat
ic National Convention.
Yes." said Butler, -nd it I were so cow- .
ardly as you, I might be tempted to deny It."
He then went on to show to these New .
Hampshire partisans that one might vote for
a man under certain circumstances and op. :
pose that man under c rtain other circumntan- -cos.
When Jndas Iscariot was a true follow. ,
er of his Master, he wa no donbt a worthy:
example to be followed ; but be was not aware
that a man to preserve his consistency muxt
continue to follow Judas after be betrayed-,
his lord. .
No Draft is Indiana. There will be no
draft iij Indiana under the present roll. She
has furnished 93,895 three years tro'-ps. Her
quota, tinder tbe call of tbe Goverment was'
62.932, making an excess in frvor of tbe State '
of 28, 501. The number enrolled in the - first
class, under tbe present draft, is 134,163.
One fifth of tbe number is tbe quota called for.
by the Government, namely, 26,832, which is
1,660 less tban the number furnished by tbe
State or three years men in 1861 and 1862.
Choose Ye If j ou were about selecting
a trustee to take charge of valuable estate, or
a guardian for your child, and were confined
in you choice to two-men, one true, tbe otber
false, your choice would be soon made. Will
you find any more difficulty in choosing next
October to whom you will confer tbe bonor.
and interests of Pennsylvania, Andrew G.
Curtin, the soldier's friend," the loyal pat
riot, or to George W. Woodward, the Copper
head. . . ,
. To Clean Casart Birds Tbcse pretty'
things are like meaner objects, often covered
with lice, and may bo effectually relieved of
them by placing a clean white cloth over tbeir
cage at night, in tbe morning it will rx cov
ered with small red spots, so small as hardly
to be seen, except by the aid ot a "glow;
these are tbe lice, a source of great annoyance
a the birds. . '
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