filuthlik Ittpazitoxt; Wednesday, Apr 19. 1865. THE MARTYR PRESIDE-NT. Ht who a few days since was the hon ored President of the Republic, now lies cold' and silent in death. AVRAIIAM LIN COLN is dead; foully murdered by the, hand of a villainous assassin, whose arm was nerved and whose heart was steeled for his hellish work bi the foul fiend of human slavery, which is now writhing in its death agony. The heart of the nation but lately gladdened to intoxication by the splendid triumph of our armies, is now pierced with the keenest grief,4ind the shouts of rejoicing are drowned by the voice of lamentation. Never was such profound sorrow occasioned by the loss of any public maul So indentified was Mr. Lincoln with our struggle fOr na tionality from the beginning, he had be come the representative man of the ,na tion, around whom clustered the affections' of the people and to whom all looked for _ a safe and speedy deliverance from the dangers that beset us. During four long years of dreadful war he had been our 'f. leader and though tried as never man was tried, yet. so clear was he in t his great of lice, so faithful to the Nation andits cause that slander was rebuked. envy was silencedland his services again demanded by a gratefur and confiding people as their civil 'chieftain. Gratefully let this people recogniib the favor of HIM who rules - nations As well as individuals, in raising up for them such a leader at such a time. Endowed with exalted wisdom, - sublime patriotism and_noble courage, he was especially fitted for the great work assigned " Ins rifi3 , ivas gentle ; and the elethenbl„ So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up : And say to all the world, This was a man."' To ABIULLM Lrs - coLx, more than-to any other man, are we indebted for a re stored Union.. Chosen by the people to be their chief magistrate, he entered upon his office at a time when organized treason was defiant, and every loyal heart was saddened with fears of impending ruin. He took upon himself a' solemn vow to support the constitution and the laws, and gave, to his countrymen a pledge that trea son shoultl=be rebuked and the unity of the nation maintained. ElOw nobly,he re deemed his-solemn pledge let the national banner 'to-day floating at half-mast from every fort and citadel make answer! We may regret that he was not spared to en joy the ripe fruits of his labors, but we should remember that the continuity of life E. is never broken. The stream rushes on under its new horizon and it there carries forward the same waters it gathered here, white its banks are gladdened with flow ers the seeds Of which were planted' n earth. The name and fgtne of ABRAHAM LINCOLN are immortal. They ar.e laths olubly linked with the eternal.principles of justice and liberty,, and with them must survive. He died for Their supremacy and has joined that noble :irmy of martyrs who have sealed their devotion to Princi ple with their blood. Eternal honor to his name. Even now there are none in this bread land so base as toiefase him their homage, but all Pay willitt tribute .to the memory of the noblest son of the Republic. " Lethis great example stand Colossal, seen of every land, • And keep the Edgier firm, the statesman pure Till in all lands and thro' all human story' The path of duty be the way to glory!" WHAT OF PFAFF? We give in to-day's paper the address of President Lincoln, delivered in Wash ington on Thursday evening last, on the almlibing question of re-establishing the authottity of the government in the revolt ed States. It will be seen that he folly appreciates the delicate questions about to be pressed upon him, and he has ex pressed his views with a degree of caution becoming the position of one Who is charg ed with the most solemn responsibilities, and with the determinatian of issues fraught with weal .or woe to the trans quility and power of a continent. ManY have doubtless risen from the perusal of Mr. Lincoln's address with disappoint ment. War has aroused the fiercest pas sions of the nation. and there wete many thousands who felt chagrined to' find no. promise of vengeance in, the well chosen words of the President. Others, ivho have looked ththe political equality of all races as one of,-the necessary fruits of the war. have bedisappointed that he has not demanded that condition to, peace ; and• others still lament the want 'of the assu rance of wholesale confiscation of insur gent property to extinguish our oppFessive debt. Citizens charged with no responsibility in the great struggle for a Nationality, may with safety obey the behests of pas= sion ; but not so with the President whci must answer to posterity and to God for the liberties, the peace ,and prosperity -of thirty inilhons of people. Impressed with the grave duties imposed upon him, Mr. Lincoln has ignored the rancor of revenge; has turned from the altar of partizandic tation; has bid the play of faction cease, until time and experience shall solve, the great problems presented for solution. He is not insensible of the terrible conflict of interest, of prejudice and ofpassion that confronts the adjustment of the questions now rising up as the .legacy of fraternal war.• He forescees 'the peril, and turns frogabstractions to deal with the higher Ilerevt thunderbolts against any measure of adjustment. One would 1)14 from ex istence the last restage of State authority: seize the States as conquered provinces. and' dictate the qualifications of citizen ship so as cot confer suffrage upon the lib erated slave. Another would demand the guillotine. and stay not' the hand of vengeance until the bloody-days of the French:reOlittion should be forgotten in the:history of the appalling atonement of treason ; and still Others would declare their liberal or radicariersuasions, as thy may happen to entertain them, as the onty means of safety to our free institutions. All these points have been well consid ered by the : President, and he treats of r them with the utmost caution. wh a t ap _ Pears as indecision, is but the dispssionate postponement d i etith queStion until its consideration and determination become 'a necessity, and then he means to meet it with his proverbial fidelity as. the sur rounding circumstances may dictate. If the already organized free goverittents of Arkansas, Lonikana,. Tenne4en - and Virginia shall prove the best means of re storing the States to the folds of the Union - , they will be sustained; and until some better method of attaining the end desired by all is devised, or until they shall prove dunequal to the purpcise for which they have been created, they will be encouraged. To reject them would leave those States in utter anarchy, and 'what would be the traits of a new and different - effort t at or ganization ? If only loyal inen shotild be allowed to participate in creating them over, they would be substantially re-pro duced. If loyal and dislo k yal.alite should participate; the Angular s pectacle might be presented of unfaithful State govern ments dealing with the parent government in the restoration of th'e States. We are not unmindful that the Baltimore Con vention pointedly. ignored the organiza tions in these -States, and" that Congress with uncommon'tmanimity declared them' not to be such State governments as en - 6 titled them to representation in the elec toral college. In,the action of both bo dies, we then heartily acquiesced, and we Would be -glad to-day to see some more acceptable -method of restoring these. States. But we share the conviction of - thee - Prfsident that, objectionable as they are. they may still,be the best, and we are willing to accept the :experiment. The administration - that is charged with the grave duty of restoration, and In whose fidelity and enlightened statesmanship we have abiding -- faith, has nokv authorita tively declared that at present there Rems to be no better mode Of seci r ning the unity of the government. and we must see some 'clear way to better results before we shall decline to sustain it. The severest ordeal of Mr. Lincoln's ad. , 'ministration is ;Mgt about to be entered upon. The peril to our institutions uni ted all classes in - support of war ; lint that - , peril once past., the great bond of unity s broken, and faction will play with tire less energy against any policy oicpeace. Most earnest and formidable will be thoc Who will deuuind an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Rfiegetful of the exam ple of the great warrior, who crowned his unparalled 'achievements bY receiving the surrendered sword of Lee at Appomattox Court House;and who bid Ids - foe go home and obey the laws, without fear of yen gance, they Willresist any adjustment that is not baptised in the blood of traitors. How well they merit the direst vengeance is patent to all : but Grant deemed the life-of a single soldier of his brave. com mand:of more value than the blood of Lee and his entire army and he taught his ,discomlit ted thes how magillinimous and beneficent • was the Government they 'sought to destroy. In harmony with the action of the Lieut. General. is the action 'of the administration and the military au- tharities in Richmond. There the retie legislature is iuvited to return to their State capital, assured of safety, and undo their work of attempted disintegration, and brim• Viiginia back into the Union the same-power that hurled her into the cruel arms of treason. This maguanimitY has disaitued the masses, and aroused the latent love for our conunon Nationality, and it has made the arch eouspiraters im- potent for evil henceforth. It promises to induce the deluded people of the South to throw off the yoke of treason, and return to their allegiance to the best of civil governments. To this end weshall heat sustain the efforts of the administration to restore the South tq fidelity ; and if thereby peace and tranquility shall be re stored, and traitors still livev'to see--how treason is scorned by a Nation that has drank itslatterest dregs, we shall not envy them the clemency, that has denied them the refugeet the grave ! —SineWtlV foregoing article was writ-, ten, the Nation has been bowed in deep est sorrow by thq assassination of Presi dent Lincoln ; and his last words of calm, patriotic counsel to his countrymen will _be prizeas - the guiding star; as the silver lining to the cloud that has been deepened and \ made terribly - portentious by his u timely death 4 'IIE Greensburg Argus thus announ ces the brilliant triumphs of our heroic armies which resulted in the capture: of Petersburg and Richmond. The i rArgas may be safety termed the last of the cop perheads, for certainly no other term could he applied to sucha treacherous reptile. The Democracy of Westmore land! will doubtless blush for the.oPen. in solent, cowardly treason their organ has manifested. We quote : " The scrape of war news which we publish to-day; will carry sorrow and bereavement to thousands of families. The slaughter on both sides has been terrific. The bungling butcher Grant, the marauder Sherman, and the incendia ry Sheridan, bare ifo doubt, at an immense sac rifice of life, obtained a decided advantage over the Confederate forces. Every battle Inflicts fresh infamy on our rulers, who have persistently refused all terms of reconciliation that did not in flict a death blow on the CoTirititution, and be the winding sheet of our free institutions. WE give in to-days paper the remarks delivered by Mr. McClure in the House of Representatives, on the bill to provide for the adjudication of military damages on the border. as takthi down by the phew- Ise. His ter date, ' appear (TIN franklin tlepositorn, it 13ambirsburg, pa. THE NATIONAL BEREAVEWENT. Moral Correowndence of & Franklin Ropmitory. PIIILIDELPIII • , April 15, 1%5 ARRARAn LINCOLN DEAD! and by an assassin's hand has the idol. the hope of the Nation fallen, just as rejoicing was swelling every heart, and party lines 'were fading into a common sentiment in sup port of the patriotic_and generous policy Of the President—juseas the terrible pall ot war seemed about to be lifted from us to Usher in the angel of Peace, our joy is turned into mourning; and as *e bow to the inscrutable wisdom of Him who,num hers the very hairs of our' heads, and who holds the destinies of Nations subject to His will, there is not a hope beaming through the dark horizon • that does not come mingled with agonizing fears for the safety of the Republic. I grieve not for Abraham Lincoln. He has tilled the measure ofOhuman fame. There is no fresh honor he could have won. - There was no day in ;the past ; no day could have belonged to the'fitture, in which he - could have died more tenderly beloved, more profoundly lamented. His appointed time came l when - pasSion had bowed to his calm, unfaltering wisdom; when a rescued Nation poured out to him its fondeCi : devotion. just when most deeply enshrined in the confidence and love of his countrymen, the sad summons came,. in circumstance tragic as appalling, and fixed that love, that confidence,That veneration to endure until grateful tuem mies shall cease; and patriotiSm belong to the past. But I cannot but be oppress ed with the fear that he'had not yet fill ed the high measure of his possible useful ness jn an imperiled government. Heav en grant that in this universal apprehen sion, human judgment may err. It, way be that it was best for Abraham Lincoln so to die. In the crushing sorrow that envelopes the Republicrthere is the silver; lining to the cloud; :the hope that lumines the darkest hours of life, that the God who has given victory to Human ity and Justice ; broken the power of cruel bondage and scattered the legions of the 'wanton usurper, still 4 , dovtit all things well !" To .what end, in the overruling wisdom of the God of Nations, this terrible be reayement h:is come, the fulness of His purposes alone can tell. I rush not where angels dare not tread to fathom the infi nite : but with the living, the pregnant present, there is no uncertain purpose—Po doubtful judgment in the acceptance of the new duties the blood of a murdered ruler has inscribed hi our laws. There must be atonement. However guiltless of the immediate act of the assassin that in vaded the Nation's sacred sanctuary of power. may be those who have given us - causeless, wicked war. and brought mourn ing to every circle in the land, still the murder that crimsoned our capitaLwith the blood of - our comiuon ruler, is the act of those who bowed at the savage altar of treason, and drenched this fair laud in fra ternal blood. They ,polluted the heart ; nerved the arm. and gave directiOn to, the bullet and steel which have written this terrible page in our history : -, and justice, not vengeance. is inexorablein its demand that the long imperiled but now rescued Republic shall vindicate its might and magesty ; assure its future safety, and deal mercy to mankind. by dooming to ig i nominious death the chief conspirators of crone. • I. hope and pray that the new adminis tration will not depart from the establish ed and accepted nolic, of Mr. Lincoln. lo it is as the Nation's hope. It promised and enduring peace. It maintained our common brotherhood. It looked to a future with North and South as'one peo ple, cemented rather than estranged by onr matchless heroism alike in behalf of wrong- and right. It justly forgave the. deluded ; generously invited the fealty of the erring; and, save the arch-fiends of - death. all seemed to be gathering to the folds of our proud inheritance again. Peace would have come unmarked by ret ribution ; but while it must still come, and come I earnestly trust as the martyred Lincoln bid it come, it must now bring with it the atonement that a bereaved Nation demands for this crowning crime. There must - be other monnniunts to mark the chequered path-way of the Republic ; to teach its pOwer, its love, its juStice. We worship the shrine of Washing ton as the Father of our country—hence forth all hearts shall bow over the grave of Lincoln as its Savior. From there the Nation shall turn to the grave of the felon, the resting place of Davis, when its justice shall have been fulfilled ;,aud there will be taught how the Republic is'as terrible fu retribution as it is generous in pardon. There will °the hopeful living learn the crime and the penalty of murderous trea son;' there will the memory of our mar tyred dead be renewed in sanctity and freshnem as we read the story- of our coun try's woes. There will be monuments of justice now. as well as of generosity, and with them ever tsaching the priceless bles sings at virtue. - fillerty and law. I hope for the perpetuity of our regenerated Nation ality WE have received a "History of the Penney+ , vania Reserve Corps," by J. R. Sypher, Esq. and published by Elias Barr and Co., Lancaster, Pa. It is a neatly printed volume of over 700 pages, and is illustrated with steel portraitsof Gov. Cur tinand Gene. McCall, Reynolds and Meade, who were intimately identified with the organization and heroism of this celebrated corps. The work gives a careful and minute account of the active operations of the Reserves ; of their many brill iant conflicts ; their triumphs and sacrifices, and the various changes in division, brigade, regimen tal and company commands, together with a complete list of the - enlisted men and their faie in war. It is a most r valuable contributioti to the history of the war, and will he peculiarly prized by Pennsylvanians. 'lt was published for subscri bers, and will, we presume, be delivered very -soon. • Gov, CUIVrIN has appointed Hon. H. W. Wil liams, Tioga, Associate Law Judge for that dis trict, in accordance with a late act of asSetabli. authorizing such an appointment.- Judge - White, the President Judge of the l district, has become so infirm as to be unequal to the discharge of all the duties, and Williams joins hull as assistant. The principle is not the most commendable; but th` people of the district were unwilling to dis place Judge White, and an additional Judge tl7. 011110 a neeemity. Judge is a young member of the Wellsboro bar, of-high legal at tainments, and in all respects eminently qualified for the position to which he has been called. He was prominently spolien of .for Senator' prior to his appointment as Judge; but Potter. will doubt less he conceded that nomination now. Mr. James C. Reed. 108 South 4th, Street. Philadelphia, proposes to publish shortly by sub scription. a large quarto volume of 1.000 pages. entitled, " The Oil companies of the United. States." It will embrace the numeeapital, prop erty of each corporation, with its lo . datiou, extent; tenure, relative position, present de'Veropinent and facilities for future development, transportation &c. It will MN be a complete di*to6- of hou ses devoted t 9 the Oil interest. , Suchla work honestly compiled, as we doubt not thi4 one will he. must prove invaluable, and commanil a wide sale. The price of the book- will he 4+,1. ' SUMMARY OF WAR VERA --Gen. HaHeck and SeeretarytStanton - both express the opinion that there wit? he no more heavy fighting. ij —Lynchburg, Va., was surrendi:red on Tue.- day to a-scouting party. McKenziks brigade of cavalry has been sent to garrison lie tow 11. —Silma, Alabama, was capturett by Gen. Wil son's cavalry on the 2d inst. Forri!st and Roddy, with their entire commands, wire captured. MOntgomery is also reported to liii r ve been cap tired. —The Government has receiviitl information that five thousand of our prisonerol*rom Ander sonville and other Southern priskns are ready for delivery at Darien, Georgia. rSteps will be immediately taken for their removal North. —Three companies 6ot Mosby's Iguerrillois din banded_thOiselves on Wedne,daylat Culpepper add dispersed for their homes. 9tichy has now less than lMoi men, mostly °pet-Milli on the neck of land running down to; Amnia Crioek and Fred ericksburg. —Colonel Gamble, onntuarodinglhe Union for ces at Fairtitx station, yirginiallas received a message from the guerilla leader lloVreby, in which be states that he does not care a stulp for the sur render of Lee. and That he is detetluined to tight 'as lolog as he has a man left. I'? • • —Three rebel armies hare surrendered io Gen. Grant—that undtrituckner at Foit Donelson, on the .16th ofFebruary, lEltl2; that unkr Pemberton at Vicksburg, on the 4th of -July, OW; and that under General Lee, on the 9th of rApril. 160. He is the only one of our generals AY ho has ever in duced a rebel arms to surrender. Ijind he hoe in duced three of them. ; • —The Gazette's Lexington, Xy.Ogiiptiteli Ray s but General Palmerie nt EnlineliCe, - Kentucky, for 2 the purpose of receiving the fultirender of all the Confederate forces in SOAP, including Col. Jetsie's command. Those whit wilt not ear. render will bertleelared outlaws. Oid the people will be called upon to hunt them of the Times ut Point writes from there on No , JIM and says ar rived iiere from Richmond this morning. in order to wittiega the arrival her• of Gen. Grant and staff, who will bring with them General Lee and staff. and ore expeeted this afternoon. A special train left here at midnight-last evening for Barker , - tills to bring them in. Gen. Lee will proceed to Richinond from this point', and I am informed on good authority that he has expril.,,ed it desire to depart for Europe with the rc;sti:4l his tinuily at as early day. He is much affected by late c% eats. and wt.e leaving ketersburg.l4 said to h ave been deeply moved at the calamity which had overta ken his army. Davis-11m deserted him and is re treating on big own account. 4'4tilisrat Lee, how ever. fought as long us there was the least chance, and surrendered only when be could -.40 nothitip --------- INTELLIIVENCE —'I'II e Vaian Cont , ratcon of IVashingtnn 'Terri tory- nominated A. A. IreNvoya, CongregYioir al Itelegate. 'rennessee. kgislattire but ratified the atnoadnwat to tiwNatioaal Caustitation abolishing Itllanilllollp. 111 tootil'i'Sflebeii.. I...o,iBlati'ireot *Pilo has rentav‘ii the,labt lestrietioa- upon black to that, m.,tte.— eiwe'fortlr flu. negro 01 Ohio will'go to the pag uu t ~:aine term:; adi tile white man. We Ilia teed a fel% daya sitiee, the ,ihailar a.fiha taken ti) the I.eandature :NtirtaeAata. —The MisKonri State Convention hu.. adjourn 1:111- pew Constitution y,as inti.wd Monday LS- a-Not<• 3?' to 13. It is to 1), , , voted upon -14 the pmiple im the litlt oti.ittue, and it ratilit , tl will go into on Ow 4th of Thi• - will cote upon it in milli. the tivit tit vt• Nt.4-I . c threi , cu lt i c members from NI.W litigland—WW Truth 3hille. Nett' /I,lllllmhite and Con . rivetient. lm the next Congrogs More will not be one. 'lto- Congressional delegation- limn New Eti• gland %to will be a unit on the side 'id' triii.duiti. RINARKS UN ALENANDEIt H. n'tLlitt, Delirfr , d in tlol !louse of Reprwino)iris, Thurs dn9 Ereiling Mardi 11, - 1,H.05, op Prori ding for tic :Idjudientio4 .11dilo rq r ho wogs ilt the Border Counties. 'lie bill hat ing been considered and the first section' voted down in committee of the a :klr.,MOlurti addressed the Ifia, - e Apposition to coneurrenit inthe report of she Cimindttee. lie said: 11 . 18: SPEAhen—lf I bud hear here p hen the session opened, I should Irate moved to dilngoe 'With going into committee-of the whole, Mr the reason that to unnindments it Mimi offered to this bill which do not go directly to its vital.. To details there will, I feel {assured, be tin Ohjecilon wade. It ha' already ma the apprio id of two preceding legislatures—has stood the teat of prac tical operations, and when objection or amend ments come, they will cLuien'thew ork of death. I am not insensible, Mr. Speaket • of the cariliqt zeal with which au apparent majoiity of the Howie rushed to the defeat of triig bill in committee of 'the whole. It was overwhelmed is jib no earn estness and eonfnlene that.starup.d it as ht•ythinc else than the child of favor among myagsociates, "and they erowded upon what time ozppo9eti io tie its early and' inexorable dom, teethe, ze=.4 and pride which would have sank deeply mid keenfr into the suffering people of the border, could the have witnessed it. It wr'olld h'avc been . ~11 , a most painful spectacle' could the 2000 i at people who inhabit the couitties desolated by the tread of the invader, line seen the malignant manifes tations oh' triumph shown by the foie 14 the bill when they supposed it rionkiernedlo Mat. These people are no Unimportant piirt of this great Commonwealth. In point of urine, intelli- Ono , , fidelity to the laws, and all that Wimps to taithfid citizenship, they are equalled by tee, coin : . Inanities in . the State—surpassed by none. They have readiluielded every tribute the government has demanded: hate ctintributed largely for halt a century to the weaker and - lees fortunate sec tions ; they have been most sparing in their ex avtious. and benefieent in their gitis ; and TILL} have ever felt that unequal as, ass their tribute,- still it was the just eonsiderifitarthr a prieeless government that exacted from all so that the hum blest of its subjects could be protected. They have-felt war in its most terrible, and_ searching reality. They have fitlt it in eve burin. in every guise that liar could counts. Their - bottles hale been destroyed by the torch of the barbarian. They huve been pillaged by the rebel free-hooter.. Thar blooming fields have been devastated alike by friend anti foe. They have ,suffered in every possible way lons of property'; by all We sad sacrifices IA hieh gtim4 isnot' war, thugs ninun ppople ui IneaNurd,2 bounds. And vt how they have borne all this, let it not be locgotteit that you have not relaxed in deinanding the same hilude from these people that hos been rettnired tram other citizens of the Connutumeulth. who have known nought but tranquility and plenty during the progress of this unhappy wins. And yet, sir, this House would seem to glory iU snrning these sufferers and their valise from these halls withotit .so much as a fair hearing or candid consideration. and bid them continue to sacrifice and stiffer while oUters reap, in their pearefid homes and enhaneell profits of business, the wealth. that war' has brought to theit doors. The people of the" border counties have claimed no exemption front the burdyns and bereavements of war. To every call of the government t h e have promptly and patriotically responded by till ing their 'quotas of troops. -ThQ hon e shared. with you and all the citizens of the Stato the common saerifiees that murderous treason has demanded of all. They ask no immunity trout broken circles and shadmied homes; from the tax-gatherer visits • their: degolation - nor do the} eotatiblin that ulcer the fearful sur ges or war , come upon our borders. they slid not your constitnents -lime ti ham e heir beasts to its appalling sweep. Thw, tok- not 11) thiv bill that you shall restore their widen fields or rebuild their blackened )Nalls. 1 . 15 . 1 ask Only that losses and sacrifices 11 itich ituye-fitllen to their lot, and which othe:rs hare escaped b the Carbine of ittealit y shall be reckoned impartially—shall beconte a part of thti authenticated history of the sacrifices and sufforings of a faithful people, to present , their liberties, so that a just government nut), in its own goOd time, uithout peril to thecoturnon Meal, restore to theta that which the) have lost. , . For thrde consecutive years the border counties of Pennsylvania baCti felt the ravages of invasion. '['hey hove 4 lost in proptirty and in every possible way by military occupation bf their lands, lucre than can now be calculated' or presented to any tribunal thatican be established. • They' do not by this bill `demand remuneration. While the country is involved in a war that exhausts its best energies and demands its utmost resources, they are content ti l l wait until better days shall dawn ; until our government, our credit shall war rant the exercise of the just principle of restitu tion ; but they do ask that the evidence of their sacrifices may he perpetuated. It is perishable. A few years hence and none - but the dishimest, could perfect the legal evidence of the existence of these claims, and to delay the adjudication We ask now, is to invite the unscrupulous to perjury and expose the government hereafter to,bound less imposition. There is nut a dishonestittali in the border counties who has suffered by invasion, who will not rejoice if this bill , fails. All feel that the time must come sooner or later when these claims will be - ascertamed,and paid; and delay is all the corrupt would ask. Lot the evi dence of these losses he obliterated, as it must be measurably or wholly in p few years, and, they will hate a boundless field for villainy and fraud, and the history of the past shows how well they will avail themselves of it. 'But now the ecidetice is in exist e nce. The loss of each citizen is fresh in the memory of his neighbors, and no inan'can with milky attempt to magnify his sacrifices with the view of wronging the treasury: The border people therefore come to this legis lature through their representatiles and ask notb hip hut w list es cry dictate of justice alike to them and the gioernmeid demands They rrnunri you _ that they have horne unequal burdens in this war They have stood as a wall between more raver seetioni or the State and a barbarous foe. Their Mises; 66.1.13105 t their eropS:theirstoek; their ro , ,,arei.4 and possessions of every kind base been made to pay tribute to friend and ene my : mid - neither State or National Government has relaved iii its demands upon them fur rum and means to sustain our einntrion institutions, As tholitethrim - of soar Ponstititents!-s-members of an organized Ouninunwealth, fodudtxl for ma tind protection to pert-oh told property. have they not suave ehnnoi upon th • great State to which they yield obedieree ,llare - they not at least a nght to dl maid t iat th ese siwrifices shall 'be perpetuated and lowonie a part of the history alt the mateliless fidelity and heroism with which a free peopie-have sustained their - Repuldie! Sir, the tulle must come when this State and Nation will hi just to Have upon whom have fal len do• terrible de‘astation of this sear. States %% tacit by their reeogoized authorities, hurled their people into the sortex of treason ; may have to tie barVe,t of fire, whirlwii d. for' they wr eau their seed. and the appallineretribution is but the stork of their mAii inadneiss. Their un thll,l3 liereavi , d hullos; desolated field : wide-spread wait and etinsaining sorrow, are but the natural flits wideh crowd upon their chosen path. 13ut not se %%int Peausylrauht. «Irile hi dis hinais 1111[3 have b e en faithless; may have their countil and . its holy tame: may hart sympathized nitti or PV , II aided its lllllrderOlin fees: still they sere but impotent before the re sistle., tide of fidelity that mkept over every Lill and through every valley of our noble State. here vc as, in our authorities and in the tII:I , WC4 of the people, patriotism that never ['altered in the ! darkest hours of this rearliil struggle. The timid may lane trembled at titles; _the venal bowed to the temporary U . 1;1111140 of wrong; bit as u State •aud as a people we have losk faithful since trea son appealed to the sword, and we shall remain laithiM until this erunsoued dranin shall cliise by the evoz j ilitll.;! victoryml Gigot. - No pot or sett of 41:4•11 a VI/pie rllll Petal ifylsauia said t;i wrung. The s.igrifievs math. 11y' thy r.•;+.l of I nivadvr, must the POOIMOO uurrifir,• , d “11. iojilly to IL.• littinbt,., rit iz,•u 1.0,111404 ,•.15 1.1". s:u.te A., .111VIO 101 l Of lIOr t , t riit,r jr, 10,1111 to ~ v ery Mir %%lin ;OM, to !we witip,rity . _ uud o• 111 7, 14 ut tu•r tam° ; to ri dry.. the us ,.l> nt•li If, tO it/.ll'l. rtw.ittl.l l l ,4- duty I/I gtu eriuhrtet.l and ts leer tu:n out !tout 1..• it_i+ 11, t;tlit , it tittiz.t, :llta it In Vtit•tt ft/ pr p,uu , • 01,11 If Lai_ catinut hue eVaileir. IT in igiphl:r4l -1 / 4 ?di the ate' .I.l.ltrir, fix t te. whale it rumen 14.-"ln . Hia'd sloo! ,, ialtd ; Cunt: drat ear Ti, it It/tal.i: ,it WI:I 1 , 1,1111 lllttli It ern 1,1 ;AA, The i n. 1 41,iltia Wt.\ b, Lo h :51.• Inoue • 1,, tth•. JOeinhel , date ni.k,e(i 17?”Ortli :rtUAe• hoOk , ;teiX-rttitittitOilt; t/Ot to re,l . !tfitiOji, a1...1 1 Itztly if litt , 11,1Ilt."80 itc.e,,ly, ‘Aitt•ther, tf th coutt intent,. mule set-re v.eie but Atiittletwd Ott:4r 1:1,d ItNtlc4i't tLanld tile) not plead t ier cttut, plead i a day I •Wtoutd the nut uetuaud that nut ou!y.i.juilli•Attoli hut etiiiipli-to IreiilU nts , Lt. the Comultume.thia ;tom,/ are. aft. r.limttih ut S\ lIT.. boartii, 1, at; !Wier been poiiitod by the ti ead Tiwir tiotvor, will bloaiti ;did eat‘cith• t 4J:et wi.eu hpring Ftmll rothru to re% lie_ d- earth. Their (bitty ccili brig VA frUil, ar tin noirler ip iaLS btllNtr, nureatheti by •,t battahoia :Itat not with tro-, 11»t ,1 , 11'.1 to-tligat. ,Whou ints.d itl lay humble way. tie' duties enj,`}hiod ii4out we it , re fn a StiPlrilig jtetapit., InU4t jefid n to deal with iii , olatiou. Whore I lia e 114 bo t , r day gathered toy.owu liottee-hoi'd utitught but tbi• erw. , l traek of Th.. For Lu other mritao than earzo,tuest, dr.4116411 Ti. the eatow of aii itupi•iiled govern- uuud: manhilid i ter-iug alike to dep,al. r raid defender in sielnoi,g nnd death. 1 have Inid home i+ith itF eountlesF eodjannentt , :nol ,nnettiries.. Mott+•d fl 011) the earth 11e1. who that .. oe mindltil of the goltieo rule. to do moo others as we w ould have them do auto us. can /..0 , load big judginent and so disregard Abe foie,- of duty. as to turn these suffering people 10-4.. e Fran this hall with wanton eunteuipt ' What "att;ver would ouch have me make to tie istr-avesi and henteles when I return r .to readeron :1,C03,aL ot the trost cenfided to me :' I Shall I 'tel. them that alat,ong.ll I asked no charity Jat the 101110 , 0 1. tho Con:mono ealth--ao part of her itht - rannut.. otit.simplt for an impartial record of I their saitrinotts, 1 . 1 INTAS t:TICII)Pri)11. rotliSed 7 1 • ilk gmc,tioll appO:11, toast searchingly to the 1 AOIOZO Orjll,tire. to It , tidehr), and to the patri otism of even member of the Honse. :Members 1 on this floor }tree appealed to preitliee. - It in the }efts -ton ot a day. and j.i.tiee eier survives it. Th e , h a tr apret t l e d to the tl'.ars of the timid; hut they forget that great franiamental principles live Nyien the tears ve let, little minds ere ate and their authors are forgotten :." When their hrief-tnission 1 is fulfilled am' efnigemal T/OthitlgtiO,S lantlig its ref uge. the it.ght lives on: and trampl• in the end. •• It rep shall n 0 ,... Actingieate "Kip: one." tintse c lai m s vi ili . orw dit.y heeome a charge upon the State:: I'.litpE. they may. and legislators of thi- day rasa, into the future to fling their inmeu. late eel int- nail spotless into my to er . those lvite shah eilme. , after them. They will notdo right now lest others ma, do wrong hereafter. They w 111 not adjudic.te,tlest another legislature might pay. Commendable an is the profound torethouiht that thus dictates the,defeat of the pending hill. I must eonfess to tears that neither the present age nor posterity will yield great deflutenee to the far-reaching sagueity of these - gitanbans of fittnir legislatures. There may be qoine vii tiire !eft in the great State of Pennsylva . nia where the present legislature shall have made, its revorti sad faded from existence: and the peo ple will hope, notoithylanding the fearfulforeno ding.- of -nine of the present member' of tine !louse ilho g,, , fri to hare }teen eharged as p.rpet- iml ourniialit , 01 the treaqtr3. that them ..uutt hi le...!isintors+Pronfter %vilent tli? entrrOted tiith OP Van' 11f the honhr and the credit of the Com- monwealth Nor will 'they inov• •i% ith each prO.. lomat deierelice to the action of the present leg islature an io destroy the eredit of the State mere ly bee:lune w e may appoint a connniqnion to an murrain the exteid`of certain claitun.. I be my a,.noeiatei. not to surrender their judgment wholly - to the tear that our snceessorn will no how to our indom tes to pm whatever we may ascertain to have been lost hr eitizenn of the border. They =I.:A hum the finance* of the Statenhall-war runt it, pm 'these claimer: but the balance will not he borne jown by the example of thin Ronne in merely providing for adjudication. Thee not be disturbed in their dream; hr this " en tetinp, w edne-rto pm mod," V6bieb n. ems to hailla member , . around me alike in their ftlecidnz end akinc.- hour* The will determilM the mien loM 1 bone and Believe, Num its merit*. fo rge t., tuul that thejr predeces•uors trembled Mud then Gould 1,0 lean wiht• or hu.uul kittens than thrwo who would nun wadi them their duties Mr year* to come ; The argument that liffludiention is bitt.the fore runner fit pat moot. is bid counseling tk3fit rinwor thy t e ar s , or h. a discreditable erasion Of the pen ding question, I :111.1 tint 11181'114W that .onie members of this !louse have erected their own altars-141 this .1111.0 lon tinning their Own people. They shudder and tremble under the very scales of justice beefing.• they hate. appealed to selfish 11.or1 111111 111'1'.11111iP,' 11.1 home to give them guovess; mid now they .flare not he just. lest their own struggles of ambition may destroy .theist. There ma) be those it Ito are glad tints to live and plinth to honors; bat I envy less their triumphs than the temporary discomfiture of right by their weak ness: Sir. Ido 11,4 err to stating that there wall he man) votes east against this emifessedly just bill by men who IMP IlgitnllNl the .question at home. and feel themselves unequal' to act upon their convictions of right.. Pray, who; sir, can justify, or who lies attempted to:justify, the refu sal of this ]Today to make the Imams 01 the border counties n part of the archives of the State t The justice of the proposition line been admitted on every hand, 111111 each has been eiinipelled to find, his favorite pretext lilt denying it. 9562 the legislatiire adopted a bill substan tial]) the siiMeits the 0110 1111 W I/I'lllllllg. It passed, if I mistake not, w Minot it dissenting voice. No one then had fears to counsel with-none had learned that the question opened any chan nels through which ambition might crawl to un merited honors. With one voice the legislature declared that the losses slosh( be ascertain-41 and made part of the record-historY of the State. so that in the hiltless of time a rescued governmentmight be just to ibrfillithful peimle. The sacrifices sustained in l>;fl were ascertained: they were tiled with tau, archives of the State, and there they foil/ remain. The State has not paid them, nor has any one ever pressed it bill upon the legisla ture for their payment. Hundreds of the l le peo ple were reditesd from affluence to beggary and bankruptcy, and many. of them are now struggling on hoping that the day may come when a just and generous government will he mindful of their sa crifices : but this legislature has not been asked to restore their losses. Again in 1562 the march of armies came. Our border and capital were threat ened, and in addition of the - losses ever conse quent upon military occupation of a conatry. April 19, 1565. enemy: under the ;nsargetit Gen- Stuart swept through three mainties of the State and despoiled hundreds of one people. Again the,legislature, if not with entire unanimity. certainly without any serious (f.versity of opinion. re-,cnacted the the law of the- preceding 64 ,, ,i1411, and' directed 4", that the hots , : of that ye:it - 911(mM be ascertained and filed of record. ;Alen: did not theft Pommel with their fears, rev did they hesitate lest some fature legislature- might he filly of the ,justice' paying these el:titre?: hid they discharged their duty to directing that they should he examined and the etidenee preserved: so that the Viwerr anent ucight be able to remunerate its people in --it 6. '"wn g o od time. The , :laims were ascertained,. confirmed Wyllie of the most intelligent , and np right conrts of the State, :loather now rent Aniet ly in our archives, as part o f. the ..„. ier ifie e s our people have suffered in behalf of their Nationality.' ' They have not been here for payment—mo one, ',• has been asked to appropriate of the resources of the treasury for th.lir liquidat on. Again M lit the destro3 cr. came. Fre trav ersed our State from the sonlien ?me within sight of the spires of our capitol, and our soil was madelfistorie in the war by the bloody but ifeell silo. victory of Gettysburg. But as sir shattered hattalioni reeled back upon the Potomac!, he left' our blOmoing land a barren waste., Again thin • Howie, alnmst without division...re . ..enacted fite`' lun initv pending, and declared; that men should ,• 0 be clothed with power to make an authoritativ , e appraisement of the losses. ' Finally in iem the kirbarian and free...banter' came, with torch and sword, and a soldiery skilled only to destroy and phonier. and from their vandal hands was saved unmarred only our village cities of the dead, I ask now that the sacrifices of 11%fit1-1 =Mall ho . ply•ral side by side with those of lis•6l-1: and that the legislature of the State *ill but pursue Onto • the eat the policy it has inaugurated of presems hia an unbroken record of loyal suffering in oily desperate struggle with treason. In this tin Task toe much when 1 ask that you re-enact the- hews, and place all the aufferem MT the bor der on equal footing t Sir, if there was no power nois or hereafter tonpai these claims—if the , thin and State hail been utterly bankrupted in the holt effort to maintain our National life, I W(Pliti, ask irr tit- name of the fuithfui people I have . the honor to represent, that therecoril of their spoliation should ht• made part of the history of the roil. ordeal through which 'our people had • to preserve their liberties- It sh o uld be et p. ror histiLirt of thi; State, to v., hich all should L ora pride, and a proud piete in the hi•roistii of the titres of southern Pennsylvania. •, -eam well aware that thireorrupt havecharged ti;ai Chin is the nwastire of speculators. No non.- cot, intelligclffi.anditi man could AO assail it, for - upon it , then it }warn the most Conclusiv e e••. of the- integrity of its - friends. Pint ' th. ,-- etd•ropt all measures are corrupt. and to ' cuspid otiedienee to their exaetions- they have .ought to intlaine the popular mind against the • pi.tidiiv, bill. Because it is not a spernlatitin they are its nairtal foes. and they sought to grapple it with their festering fangs. Sir. the bill bensre us is roost guarded to prevent the possibility, of spec olat:"li at any time. The claims are still in the ,hands of the original aufthrers., havenotbeen able to learn of one that has been assiviiid orsohir: 'but to quietall - apprehensions on this point. a see- thin lion been added to the bill providing that as sigra.d can he adjudicated only at the mit ait cost to the assiiinee. If therethreany man - has sairght to wrong his fellows, by speculation in .• their - claims, this-id! expressly deteam it. It manes beftwe this House so dear in its proviSions, so lair in its purposes. that-no man ran raise the . finger of suspicion against it_ Every section is tree from ambiguity. Its aim is concisely tivimfas ed, and its results, if enacted into a law, are well' •. understood, alike by the history of sinidar suit inu,. and hi' the plain sections before es, which must at otice satisfy the candid and. upright and defy the malignity of those who seem to hate- the •: border people for their sacrifice's. Sir, I appeal to the representatives liftla-peio ph- of thin Commonwealth. to be just in their cousideratiowand action on this question_ Their „.• constituents hav•e homes: have propertyl have ti every interest in- the protecting power of govern- ruent as well as those I represent.. They too ' have felt some of the terrible ,'xis- ions of this unnatural war..and they are not insensible to the sufferings et those who have heed more cruelly taxed than themselves. If von shad return - to them and be able to say that their despodediireth. ren of the border. beggared as hundreds id them are. asked at - your hands a reL-ore of.their wrung's. I and that you gave it them, pray who of those You r are proud of as our e.orotritnents would not g yon with appocal .? I cannot believe Gnu repte- t sentatives will return to their people and retofee that they have denied this simple. evidimeeof Me consideration of the government If so. they may be _reminded by a thoughtful and just con- stitueney that war may not ever surge against the border people, and that other sect=ions of theStam: now deemed secure from, the desolation of eon-- tending armies, may in the - unseen mutations of ' 'the future, feel the torch of the vandal and the grasp of the free-booter. which have smitten our . people to the dust. - The , time may mine when war will spread its dark pall over other portiona of our Commonwealth with its fearful track of des. truetion. And-remembering these things—that - , the safe of this yeat may be the'sufferers of the next; that we are a common people , : bound' to- get her as a Commonwealth ; by common fawn. ; common interests, and COMlnall protection-and defence, it will hill harshly upon the intelligent and faithful people . of every part of the State when told that this hill has been bitterly resisted or defeated.' Sir, the State has never turned a deaf ear to „those who auffered. She has not only been just, but she has been generous. When the homes et the people have been striker/ dawn elsewhere, - she - has been lavish in her beneficence. She has been bountiful to the suffering, and ever will be if her . untarnished fame would be preserved proud_ and blameless as in the pant. When the second eity of the State wasvisited by a great conflagration, although destroying the homes of but a fraction of the levitation compared with Chambersluirg, the legislature promptly proffered aid from the com mon treasury. nntl who did nor rejoice that the State was thus generous to the bereaved and guff. tering? Yet Pittsburg had recourse to insuran ces tier lost property.-chile our homes in Chain= hers:burg were dbro. commasenemy: and insurances the forfeited. But still the evtrl i td State was bountiful, and ho one feit‘himeelf the poorer because sorrow had been solaced by the gen enmity of the Commonwealth. Pennsylvania has yet the first time to blot her fair escutcheon by - ungenerous, much less unjust, conduct to her own people : but with Chambe.riburg nimostblot tell from your map , by a ruthless foe, would it not. lie a blistering stain: an indellible . Stialna: an, eterupi reproach ; one'for which its own authors must blush when they eotne to reaThavrir in its , ' length and breadth, to deny even an official record of the loses of the border! It would ben. cause less, wanton ;tennis. Causeless because we seek in no oar to impair the credit of the State. 'Wanton Because it in-a needless insult tea people who have patiently and heroically home all things that . savage warfare could inflict upon them, and ever maintained the sacred cause of their govern ment o nth unfaltering fidelity. - I ask that the florae" will give this bill a fair,. candid and firli consideration, and that the report of the committee of the whole shall be disagreed to. If it be wrong in any of its details, let it he amended. If in aught it seeks fiTwrimg any one, let that wrong be effaced from it: but let-not it be denied to 'AMMO people of this State to pre serve us a legacy for their children, and as a eon-, • tribution to our heroic history, the spoliation Of the border. -If it shall never he - re-paid, they and theirmoderily elm ever point- to it with just pride as evidencing their tireless devotion to the Re public or our fathers. Let it not be a part of the history of the legislature that it has wantonly in flicted a cruel wrong upon these - peoplei-i that it has (aridly, heartlessly refused - to the sutPrers of" 1563-1 what it- freely g av e to those.of lefil-2. Let it show them that :f it cannot now Core their loveaf homes or make their fields t blooni again, it is at least not unmindfulef themland of their sacrifices id behalf of - our coraramitause.: that it will not turn from them listlessly and without sympathy, and bid them go their wiry: until the tax gatherer shall visit them to re mind them that they have a government. En couraged by the consideration and sympathy of the government they will be content to await its own good time for justice. They will sow their seed and wait for harvest, - whether they or the foe shall reap ; and they will feel that, come weal Or woe, they still have in government a priceless blessing, with protecting power, and not forgetful of theirwrougs and sacrifice*- - - If there outlet,. now be payment shall there alit be thissimphi act ofjustiee to the suffer ing people? If it tie refused, you fetich the people that our -boasted Common. wealth is a fiction and a fraud. The prerogative of protection is as imperative as the mandate that. exacts tribute from the citizen. It is this amyl* , lion that a:shell-every citizen of the State, how- - ever humble, or eipulent,feel that under its broad shield his uer,, o n, his faith, his property are ea erred, and that a foe eau inflict /intone injury, and that to the entire State, however lowly the citi zen on whose person it is suffered. Thus assured we dwell in cur homes and gather about our hearth-stones, proud of our inheritance, and unite - all in bonds of brotherhood by the common pro. , teethe) we afford, and the common sacrifices we ,Seeept, an the history of a great, united. benefi cent ciarnoonwealth. _