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 <Vo). A lieut
enant and 71 men .urrendered taleneral Hob..
—A cavalry expedition went ur j the Chowan
river on the Ist, with the intentic i in of teaching
I'Veldon. if possible. l'helieaboard and Roanoke
Railroad 7.tias destroyed. Whitvein/aged in this
v.ork, 600 rebels made an attack, but but were re
pulsed. Among the captures were one hundred
bales of superior cotton, a large amount of tobae•
co and snuff, and about thirty prisoners. A cav
alry party learned that Weldon was strongly tim
tified, and garrisoned by 1000 rebels and several
batteries of artillery. The expedition returned
to Norfolk last Saturday night.
—The detailed accounts of the surrender of the
army of Northern Virginia, by Gen. Lee to Gen.
Grant, have at - length been received. The final
intehiew between the two generals took place at
the residence of Mr. McClain, iu Appomattox
Court House. The conditions ofsurrender were
prepared by an aid, and signed by the generals.
General Custer purchased a stria table on which
the agreement was prepared,' bad General Ord
bought a larger table on which they IA ere finally
signed. The only trophies left for Mr. 31cClahl,
,were the chairs on which the gelierals Fat, bu
these were finally stolen . by two cavalry officers
AN-soon as thearmy was surrendered, Gin. Gran
ordered twenty 'five thousand rations to he dis.
trihuted among the rebels.
SEWS ttom RICUMOND
—A7National Bank of the United States is to
he immediately established-in sichinefid, where
shares in United States stpeks will -he gold at the
rates established in Northern cities.
—Gov. Pierpont wit? remove his personal ef
fects to Richmond this week, Sind take posession
of the State Executive Mansion, so kindly vacated
on the Ist of April by its former tenant, Extra
Billy Smith.
—Rev. J. H. Vincent, of Chicago, General
Grant's former pastor, just from Richmond where
he preached iu Libby prison last Sunday, informs
us thht amongst the most respectable families
them the suffering is greater than among the.
lower classes. A considerable quantity of flour
and bacon was pillaged from the public stores,
before the occupancy of the city by our troops,
which applied the wants of the masses, while the
burning of the business part of the city left hun
dreds of wealthy families destitute. The farmers
will not accept Confederate money forma - dieting.
and they have nothing else. A family living in
almuse costing $150,000 was constrained to ask
'for food. The Christian Commission delegates,
unable to resist the tears of women and the cries
of hungry little children, distributed eve'!" thing
eatable in their possession. giving out 1.951 small
rations in a single day, and telegraphing for five
hundred barrels of flour. Announcement was
made in the churches of Richmond that the Com
mission w o uld distribute _rood to persona in actu
al necessity, and the hairt-softening influence of
the -announcement is indescribable. Strong men
wept at such treatment. by those whom they had
'considered their enemies. This is the proper way
to restore the Union. Treat those in arms as en
emies, and save the helpless women and starving
' children. -
EN3EI
.—Gerl. COllOl Li now in cotumand it corps
under Schofield.
—Parson iiiownlow has entered upon lii du
ties as Governor off' Tennessee. He was inaugu
rated into his new position on 'Wednesday week
and his first official document has 111.4`11 publisher
to the country-.
—Col. Thomas A. &Ott, Vice President of the
Pennsylvania Central Railroad Company., was
married yesterday in Pittsburg, to Miss Riddle,
of that city, daughter of the late Robert M.;Ria
die, Esq., who was conspicuous as a politician
and editor of the Cornmtrcinl Journal.
—A man named Mobley, a noted guerrilla, who
lived about fifteen miles below Williamsport, on
the Virginia side, was killed last week by xereral
Union scouts. He was waylaid by the scouts
and shot dead. He was one of the most desper
ate of } „the rebel thieving guerillas that inti , sted
that country.
—Gen. , S. W. Crawford, one of the heroes of
Fort Sumter in 1861, was present at the raising
of the old flag over Sumter on the 13th inst. He
has woni fresh laurels during the_ late battles fur
the capture of Richmond. His -command was
with Phil. Sheridan in all his terrilde lbrced
marches and conflicts to flank Lee.
—Despatches recehed is Harrighurg from the
PF.RBO\iAL
Armyof the Potomac, 7epresent ll'ezdth of his •
Excellency Gov. Curtin as much improved, and
that every- moment of hia time l4'4levotiul to the,
sick and wounded Pennsifinnia Rieh
mond and vicinity. Through his influence thuu
of the wounded who can hear the fatigae of the
travel are being forwiirtied .rapidly m ho,:pitak
within the State,Ao as to brit them within con
venient visitiog.distance of their friends: on ar
rangement which -seems to-give general Sati , ll3‘ . "
non. The Governor is not expected to return
before next week.
—A correspondent>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
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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. _