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Just as the morning sun arising, Drifes the shades of night away, So, to him the word surprising, Turned his darkness into day ; He that power unseen adorning, Though his faith and hope are faint, Thus he prayed, his gins deploring, "Turn the Savage to a saint." God who sees the heart's contrition, Regarding not the outward hue, Heard the Indian chiefs petition, Made his heart entirely new. In vain the ''medicine" enchanted, Although in myterics deeply skilled, Such doubtful helps he no more wanted, The spirit's light his mind had filled. No more he viewed the future rudely, As the Indian's hunting ground, Wherebraves their ponies rode so proudly, Or hunter's dogs and rifles found. But with the light that God had given, He calmly looked beyond the grave, And hoped to see the Lord in Heaven, Who died a wicked world to save, And now while homeward he was tending, I'm at my journey's end he cried, To friends, who o'erhi pillow bending, He whispered Jcsu3 and he died. "SENT BY EXPRESS." - BY AMY RANDOLPH. Marian Harlan was alone ia the world her mother just buried. She was a beautiful, brown haired girl, with soft ehy eyes of violet gray, and rosy lips compressed to a firmness far beyond her years, lor alter all she was scarcely seven teen, and so Beacon Gray was telling her, as he sat by the fire spreading his huge hands over the tardy blaze and asked : ''But what are you going to do to 'arn your bread and butter, child ?" "I don't know I haven't thought Mam ma had an uncle in New York who " "Yes, yes I've hern tell about him he was mad 'cause your mother did not marry to suit him,, wasn't he ?" Marian was silent Deacon Gray waited a few minutes, hoping she would admit hini into her secret meditations ; but she did not, and the Deacon went home, to tell his wife that ''that Harlan gal was the very queerest creature he had ever come across. " In the meanwhile Marian wa3 packing her few scanty things into a little carpet bag, by the weired flickering light of the dying wood fira. . 'I will go to New York," ehesaid to her- Bolf, setting her small pearlt teeth firmly to gether ' , ' ' ' - "My mother's uncle shall hear her cause pleaded through my own lips. Oh, I wish my heart would not throb so wildly 1 I am no longer meek, .Minnie Harian ; 1 am an orphan all alone in the world who must fight life's battle with her own single bands !" Lower Broadway at seven o'clock P. M. What a babel of crashing wheels, hurrying humanity and conglomerate noise it was ! Minnie Harlan sat in the corner of an ex press office, under the flare of gaslights, sur rounded by boxes, and wondering whether the people ever went crazed in this perpet ual din and tumult. Her dress was plain poplin, with a shabby old-fashioned little straw bonnet tied with black ribbons, and a blue veil, while her articles of baggage, the carpet bag, lay in her lap. She had sat there two hours, and was very, very tired. "Poor little thing," thought the dark hair ed young clerk nearest her, who inhabited a sort of wire cage under a circlet of gaslights. And then he took up hia pen and plunged into a perfect Atlantic Ocean of- accounts. "Mr. Evans T' . -"Sir!" . ; .. . ..The dark haired clerk emerged from hia cage with his pen behind his ear in obedi ence to the beckoning finger of his superior. 'I have noticed lhat young woman sitting "Exprerssd on, sir, from Millington, Iowa; arrived this afternoon." As though Minnie Harlan were a box or a paper parcel. "Who for?" "Consigned to Walter Harrington, Esq. "And why has't she been called for ?" "I sent up to Mr. Harrington's address to notify him some time ago ; I-expect an an swer every moment" "Very odd," said the gray haired gentle man, taking up his newspaper. . "Yes, sir, rather. I' Some three-quarters of an hour afterwards, Frank Evans came to the pala girl's side with an indescribable pity in his hazle eyes. "Miss Harlan, we have sent to Mr. Har rington's residence " Minnie looked up with a feverish red upon her cheek, and her hands clasped tightly on the handle of the faded carpet bag. " And we regret to inform you that he sailed for Europe at twelve o'clock this day, A sudden blur came over . M i n n ie' s e3es- she trembled like a leaf. In all her calcula tions, she made no allowance for an exigency like this. "Can we do anything further for you ?' questioned the young clerk politely. "Nothing no one can do anything now.' Frank Evans had been turning away, but EOmethmg in the piteous tones of her voice appealed to every manly instinct within him Shall I send you to any other of your friends? "I have no friends !" "Perhaps I can have your things sent to some quiet family hotel I" Minnie opened the little leather purse and showed him two cent pieces, with a smile that was almost a tear. . 'This i3 all the money I have in the world. ur i i ' So young, so beautiful, and so desolate Frank Evans had been a New Yorker all his life, but he had never met with an exactly parallel case to this. He bit the end of his pen in dire perplexity. "But what are you going to do ?" I don t know, sir. Isu't there a work house or some such place, I could go to, un- tu I could find something to do ?" "Hardly." Frank Evans could scarcely help smiling as poor Minnie's simplicity. "They are putting out the lights, and pre paring to close the office," said Minnie start ing to her feet "I must go somewhere.' tff TT 1 tt " 1- ... it iUiss iianan, saiu frans, quietly, my home is a very poor one I am only a five nunureu aouar cierk but l am sure my mother will receive you under her roof a day or two, if you can trust me." Trust you?" Minnio looked at him through violet eyes obscured in tears. "Oh, sir, I should be so thankful !" "How late you arc, Frank ! Here, give me your overcoat it is all powdered with snow and " But Frank interrupted his bus tling cherry- cheeked mother, as the stood on tip-toe to take off hb outer wrappings. Hush mother 1 there is a young lady down stairs." "A young lady, Frank?" "Yes mother ; expressed on from Iowa to old Harrington, the rich merchant He sail ed for Europe this morning, and she is en tirely alone. Mother, she looks like poor Blanche, and I knew you wouldn't refuse her a corner here until she could find something to do." Mrs. Evans went to the door and called her cheerily out. "Come up stair, my dear you're as wel come as flowers in May I Frank you did quite right ; you always do." The days and weeks passed on, and still Minnie Harlan remained an inmate of Mrs. Evans' humble dwelling. 'It seems just as though she had taken our dead Blanche's place," said the cozy lit tle widow ; "and she is so useful about the house. I don't know how I managed with out her." "Now 3Iinnie you are not in earnest about leaving us to-morrow ?" 'I must, dear Mrs. Evans. Only think I have been here two months to-morrow ; and the situation as governess is very advan tageous." , ; "Very well, I shall tell Frank how yery obstinate you are." . "Dearest Mrs. Evans, please don't 1 Please keep my secret" "What secret is it that is to be so relig iously kept ?" asked Mr. Frank Evans, cool ly walking into the midst of the discussion, with hia dark hair tossed about by the wind, and his hazel brown eyes sparkling archly. "Secret 1" repeated Mrs. Evans, energet ically wiping her dim spectacle glasses. "Why, Minnie is determined to leave us tc- morrow. . "Minnie!" "I must, Frank, I have no right further to trespass on your kindness." No right, eh ? Minnie, do you know that the house has been a different house since you came into it ? Do you suppose we want to lose our little sunbeam ?" Minnie smiled sadly, but her hand felt very cold and passive in Frank's warm grasp. "You'll stay, Minnie ?" "No." She shook her head determinedly. "Then you must be made to stay," said Frank. "I've missed something of great value lately, and I hereby arrest you on sus picion of the theft I" "Missed something 1" Minnie rose, turn ed red and white, f 'Ob, Frank, you can nev er suspect me !" - "But I do suspect you. In fact I am quite sure the article is in your possession." "The article!" I love you, Minnie Harlan, and I will be good and true husband to you. Stay, be my little wife!" So Minnie Harlan, instead of going out as a governess, according to the programme. married the dark haired clerk in Ellison' Express Office. They were very quietly married, early in the morning, and Frank took Minnie home to his mother, and then went calmly about his business in the wire cage, under the circlet o: gaslight ' "Evans!" "Yes sir." Frank, with his pen behind his ear aa o yore, quietly obeyed the behest of the gray headed official. "Do you remember the young wjrnan who was expressed on from Milliugton, Iowa two months since ?" "Ye3 sir I remember her." A tall silver haired gentleman here inter posed with eager quickness : "Where is she ? I am her uncle Walter Harrington. I have just returned from Paris when the, news of her arrival reached me ! I want her ; she is the only living rel ativeleft me !" "Ah 1 but sir," said Frank, "you can't s have her," "Can't have her ? what do you mean ?"' "Has anything happened ?" "Yes, sir, something has happened ; Miss Harlan was married to me this morning." Walter Harrington started. "Take me to her." he said hoarsely. 1 can't be parted from my only relative for such a mere whim." "I wonder if he calls the marriage service and wedding ring mere whims," thought honest Frank ; but he obeyed in silence. "Minnie," said the old man, in faltering accents, you will come to me and be the daughter of my old age? I am rich, Min nie, and you are all I have in the world." But Minnie stole her hand through her husband's arm. "Dearest uncle, he was kind to mc when L was most desolate and alone. I cannot cave my husband, uncle Walter I love him!" "Then you must both of you come and be my children," said the old man, doggedly, And you must come now, for the great house is as lonely as a tombf" Frank Evans is no longer an express clerk, and pretty Minnie moves in velvet and dia monds ; but they are quite as happy as they were in the old days, and that is saying enough."" Uncle Walter Harrington grows older and feebler every day, and his too children are the sunshine of his declining ife. Tl . rri a i owir of v omen in I UP.KEY. A man meeting a woman in the ttreet, turns his head from her, as if it were forbidden to bok on her ; they seem to detet an impu dent woman, to shun and avoid her. Any one, tncrelore, among the (JhriJiians, who may have discussions or altercations with Turks, if ho has a woman of spirit or a virago for hi.s wife, sets her to revile and browbeat them, and by these means not un- re'juently gains his point The highest dis grace and shame would attend a Turk who should rashly lift his hand against a woman ; all he can venture to do, is to treat her with harsh and contemptuous words, or-to march off. The sex lay such stress on this rrivi- ilege, that they are frequently apt to indulge their passion to excess, to be most unreason able in their claims, and violent and irregu- ar in the pursuit of them. They will im portune, tease, and insult a judge on the bench, or even the vizier at his divan ; the officers of justice do not know how to resent their turbulence ; and it is a general obser vation that, to get rid of them, they often et them gain their cause. Sir George Lar- pent's Turkey. mm Parents and tiieir Children. There is nothing better, nothing safer, nothing so sure of bringing forth the right fmit in the end, than truth. Tell your child the truth. Tell him that obedience requires unpaid sacrifices. Tell him that he need not expect purse of gold will drop into his hand the moment he denies Inmsell ot a coveted pleasure. Tell him that the path of duty is often terribly hard, and seldom leads to an oil well, or a seat in Congress, or to a brown stone front house. Tell him that virtue sometimes brings thorns, enmities, neglect But tell him that it is virtue, nevertheless ; the brightest the noblest, and the best of ifts, and whatever comes of goodness it is the one thing desirable, itseli above all price. Make him feel that obedience is pleasure,' that goodness is delight, that love is altogether lovely, and he will not expect to be paid for the smallest service and be tempted to withhold a kindness when he is not sure of a reward. Parents must cease appealing to the appetites and the avarice of their chileren if they would have them any thing but selfish -and sensuaL WTnAT we Love. The "local" of the Owen county, (Ia.) Journal is responsible for the following : We love to see the bloom ing rose, in all its beauty drest; Me love to have our friends disclose the emotions of the breast We love to see the cars arrive well laden at our door ; we love to see our neighbors thrive, and love to bless the poor. We love to see domestic life with uninter rupted joys ; we love to see a happy wife with lota of girls and boys. ' We love all three yet far above all we have said, we love what every printer loves to Jiave sub scriptions puid. WaAT is the relation of the door-mat to From the N. Y. Freeman's Journal. The Capture of John H. Surratt. We have, heretofore, mentioned the fact that this uahappy man has been arrested in the Turkish dominions. They say a vessel of war has been specially ordered to bring him to the United States. If newspaper accounts can, by possibility. tell the truth, it is moderately probable that one Wilkes Booth mortally shot Lincoln in a cowardly manner, in the back of his head, while the latter was making merry at a low theatre on tho solemn night of a Good Fn day. And it is farther probable that this John Surratt was one of the silly and un principled tools that the said Booth invei gled into his plot for the unlawful killing of the aforesaid Lincoln. Supposing these data to be true which we think probable, but do not believe to have been proven it would follow that this John II. Surratt, brought Wilkes Booth, and various other loose characters to his mother's boarding house in Washington Citj Mrs. Surratt, a Southern woman, sympathized with the South. No question of that A kind hearted woman, she was easily imposed on. Booth playing theatrical mystery, imposed on her for his purposes. He made her do things she supposing it was to benefit some poor escaping prisoner, perhaps. Certainly she knew, or comprehended, nothing of the tragedy that followed. But it happened ! Probably John Surratt was as much in tho dark about it as she was. But John Surratt was what is called a man. By the loose as sociations he had brought around "Lis moth er's house, he had caused her to be impli cated in the plot When his mother was cruelly, and wickedly condemned John Surratt, instead of telegraphing from Can ada that he was coming, and then coming on, to say that his mother was innocent and to die in her place, or else with her, made himself scarce! We own, if called to sit on a jury to decide on his life, while we could say wo had a mind open to evidence, we would feel bound to say that we enter tained a strong prejudice against the prison" er ! They talk of taking his testimony in regard to the plot There is but one way that tes timony could be received, according to law. It is not that he would be pardoned on con dition of his telling tJte truth ! Now, if he were thus unconditionally pardoned, we could not believe a word he said. The male human being that deserted the mother he had implicated, we could not trust in any case. As a juryman we would be a mdire of testimony, and wc would judge his testi mony as worth nothing. We may do him a great wrong. It may be that the foolish boy who fell into Wilkes Booth's pnare that is supposing it was Wilkes Booth that shot Lincoln in the low theatre on a Good Friday night of which there is no legal evidence this foolish boy, we say, on these suppositious, may have ripened into' a man. He may come forward and testify truth. If he did so, there would be a verisimilitude about it ! There would be something that would commend itself to calm reason as probable. If ho and a thou sand like him, were to testify that, of his knowledge, Mn Jefferson Davis approvedi or countenanced or tolerated, the assassina tion or the abduction of poor Abe Lincoln we would say the evidence of character, and of known sentiments, to say nothing of the political ability of Mr. Jefferson Davis who would know how futile such a move would be give the lie to the testimony of a thou sand hired and perjured miscreants ! Their testimony would be no evidence ! Just as we disdain insulting our readers with any proof that Mr. Davis neither cnew anything, or connived at anything against the honorable rules of war at any thing like the hotel burnings in New York, or the murder of Lincoln ; so we despise and condemn any testimony that is to be wrung 'rom a poor, half-witted fool, as Surratt must be, if the crazy Wilkes Booth con trolled him, in regard to any facts, not in themselves probabla. But, if Surratt's testimony, in a plain and straight-forward manner, could help to set tle public opinion, there art parties it might benefit. They are not Jcffreson Davis, nor any respectable adherents of the late Con federacy. These had all to lose, and noth ing to gain, by Lincoln's assassination. But the Northern Radicals ! When we heard of the assassination of Lincoln, our first thought was that it was the contrivance of such men as Stanton, Holt, Butler, and the like. We quickly abandoned that supposition, and put it down to the freak of a madman, and his tools. But there are intelligent men in these States who have still their suspicions. Then, again, we never for one moment be- ieved Andrew Johnson had anything to do with it Yet we have talked with intelli gent men, versed in the affairs of the coun try, who entertain, what we hold to be an absurd opinion, that a terrible revelation is possible in that direction. And it is a curious fact that, while it is nown that Stanton and Holt are deadly en emies of President Johnson, the latter bitter as he has shown himself towards other opponents, still keeps these in high laces ! Gossipers assert that Stanton and Iolt have some mysterious power over resident Johnson by which they can shake their fingers in his face, and dare him to remove them. Some of the premises on which these things are said are of startling brce, but, that it goes past the murder of Mrs. Surratt, and oth like horrors of hb administration, we never have believed, nor can we believe. Still, Stanton sits firm in his seat, a bitter enemy of the President did not nctS a court of inquiry in regard to the procured perjuries thatjought to impli cate Jefferson Davis and others in the Lin coln assassination has giv.en just reason to the suspicion that were Holt to be found guilty, higher officials would be found to have been his accomplices ! It is, altogether, a very dirty business, and, if Surratt is openly tried before a civil court, it will take a great deal of hard swear ing to make it look white-washed I We don't believe in this hard swearing. A Hoosier in the Engine Room. A specimen of the genius "Hoosier" was found by Captain , of the steamer in the engine room of his boat, while lying at Louisville one fine morning. The Cap tain inquired. "Whatwashe doingthere?" "Have j'ou seen Captain Perry?" was the interrogative response. "Don't know him ; and can't tell what that has to do with your being in my engine room," replied the Cap tain, angrily. "Hold on ; that's just what I was getting at You see, Captain Perry asked tue to drink, and so I did ; I knew that I wanted to drink, or I wouldn't have been so very dry. So Captain Perry and I went to the ball ; Captain Perry was putting on some extras on one toe. I sung out, 'Go it, Captain Perry, if you bust your bilcr!' With that a man steps up to me, says he, 'fee here, stranger, you must leave.' Says I, 'What must I leave fur?' Says he, 'You ara making too much noise. Says I, 'I've been in bigger crowds than this and made more noise, and didn't leave, nuther.' With this he took me by the nape of the neck and the seat of the breeches and I left As I was shoven down street I met a lady. I knew she was a lady by a remark she made. Says she, 'Young man, I reckon you'llgohomewithme?' Politeness wouldn't let me refuse, and so I went I'd been in the house but a minute" when I heard considerable knocking at tho door. I know'd the chap wanted to get in, who ever he was, or he wouldn't have kept up such a tremendous racket Byand-by says a voice, 'Ef you don't open, I'll burst in the door.' And so he did. I put on a bold face, and says I 'Stranger, does thiswoman belong to you?' Says he, 'She does.' 'Then,' says I, 'She's a lady, I think, from all that I have seen of her.' With that he came at me with a pistol in one hand and a bowie knife in the other, and being a little pressed for room, I jumped through the window, leaving the bigger portion of my coat tail. As I was streaking it down street, with a fragment fluttering in tho breeze, I met a friend. I knew he was a friend by a remark he made. Says he, 'Go it, bob tail, he's gaiuin' on you.' An, that's the way I got into your engine room. I'm a good ' swim mer, Captain, but do excuse me, if you please, from taking tha water." On Skating and Winter. "Gris," who is evidently a brick, writes as follows to the Cincinnati Time wa com mend the item to all skaters and everybody, -1-1 eise wno can enjoy a langu : "Winter is the coldest season of the year because it comes in the winter, mostly.. In some countries whiter comes in the summer, and then it is very pleasant I wish winter came in summer ia this country, which is the best Government that the sun ever shown upon. Then we could go skating barefoot and slido down hill in linen trow sers. We could snowball wi'.hout our fingers getting cold and men who go out sleigh-riding wouldn't have to stop at every tavern, to warm, as they do now. It snows more in the winter than it does at any other season of the j-ear. This is because so many cut ters and sleighs are made then. "Ice grows much better in winter than in summer, which was an inconvenience before the discovery of ice houses. Water that is left out of doors is apt to freeze at this sea sou. Some folks take in their wells and cis terns on a cold night and keep them by the fire, so they don't freeze. "Skating is great fun in the winter. The boys get their skates on when the river is frozen over and race, play tag, brealr through tho ice and got well all over (they get drown ed sometimes and are brought home all drip ping, which makes their mothers scold, get ting water all over the carpet in the front room,) fall and break their heads and enjoy themselves in many other ways. A wicked boy once stole my skates and ran off with them, and I couldn't catch him. Mother said, 'never mind, judgment will overtake him.' "Well, if judgment docs, judgment will have to be pretty lively on his legs, for that boy runs bully. "There ain't much sleigh-riding except in the winter. Folks don't seem to care about it in warm weather. Grown-up boys and girls like to go sleigh-riding. The boys gen erally drive with one hand and help the girls to hold their muffs with the other. Brother Bob let me go along a little way once when he took Celia Ann Crane out sleigh-riding, aiid I thought he paid more attention to holding the muff than he did to holding the horses. "Snow-ballijg is another winter sport. I have snow-balled in the summer, but we used stones and hard apples. It Isn't so amusing as it is in the winter, somehow." EST I say friend, your horse ia a little con trary, is it not ?" "No, Sir." "What makes him stop then?" "Oh, he's afraid somebody '11 say whoa and he shant hear it 1" x , , , . " I : Tot art of book-keeping taught io one GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : We have reason to be thankful to God for the blessings of peace, abundant crops, that industry has been rewarded, and that thus the Commonwealth has been able to do her full duty to herself, to the country and pos terity. ; The condition of our finances is as foilows : Balance in Treasury, Novem ber 30, 1865, - - - -$2,373,668 14 Receipts during fiscal year ending Nov. 30, 1866, - - 5,829,668 54 Total in Treasury for fiscal year ending Nov. 30, 18C6. 8,203,336 68 Payments for same perioa have been - - - - - 6,462,303 41 Balance in Treasury, Decem ber 1,1866, - - - - . 1,741,033 27 Amount of the public debt as it stood on the first day of December, 1865, - - -$38,476,258 05 Amount reduced at the State Trea pury. during tha fiscal year end- - 1 ing Nov. 30,1865, 5 per cent loan,$l,S28,553 25 4 J per cent loan, 25,000 00 -Relief notes, - - 626 00 Domestic creditors' certificates, - 26 65 1,854,205 90 Public debt Dec. 1, 1866, 835,622,052 15 To wit, funded debt : 6 percent loan, - - $400,630 00 5 per cent loan, . - - - 32,073,192 59 4 i percent loan, - - - 213,200 00 6 percent loan, military, per act May 15, 1861, - - 2,820,740 00 Unfunded debt,relief notes in circulation, ... $96,925 05 Interest certificates outstand ing, 13,086 52 Interest certificates unclaimed 4,458 38 Domestic creditors' certificates 119 67 .$35,612,052 16 Assets in Treasury : Bonds Pennsylvania Railroad Comnany, - - Bonds Philadelphia and Erie Railroad Company, - Intereston bonds of Philadel phia Si Erie Railroad Com pany, - - - Cash in Treasury, $6,600,000 00 3,500,00 00 1,225,000 00 1,741,033 27 13,086,033 27 Liabilities in excess of assets, 22,536,018 89 - 35,622,052 16 - Liabilities in excess of assets, November 30, 1861, - -$23,148,060 36 Liabilities in excess of assets, November 30, 1866. 22,536,018 89 Improvement in Treasury since 1861, - - - 5,612,041 4T The extraordinary expenditures, during the war and since its close, in payments growing out of it by authority of acts of As sembly, have amounted to upwards of fiva millions of dollars, which, added to the ac tual payment of the indebtedness ef the State, and money in the Treasury for that purpose, shows the revenues, above the ordinary ex penditures, to have amounted to $10,612, 200, which would all have been applied to the payment of the debt of the Common wealth in the last six years. A careful at tention to the revenues of the Common wealth, with such lust and prudent charges as may be required in the future, and a wise economy in expenditures will, in my judg mcnt, insure the entire payment of the pub lic debt within the period of fifteen years. . The time fixed forthe redemption of $23, 108,026,24 of tho indebtedness of the Com monwealth having expired, I recommend that provision be made for its redemption, by making a new loan for that purpose,pay able at such periods as the prospective rev enues will justify. I recur, with niuoh satisfaction, to tha wisdom, prudence, and economy of the rep-' resentatives of the people, in the manage ment of the finances of the Commonwealth) during a period of much embarrassment, uncertainty and distress, and uongratulat you and them on the near approach of the entire liquidation of the puUic debt Since my last Annual Message, I haver drawn from the Treasury, two thousand dol lars of the fund placed in the hr.nds of tho Govrenor for secret service and other extra ordinary expenses, which I have expended in payment of my personal staff, and for other purposes, as heretofore, except five hundred and sixty-three dollars and forty eight cents, which I have returned into ibe Treasury. I present for your consideration, tho amendments to the Constitution of tho United States, proposed to the Legislatures of the several btates by a resolution of both Houses of Congress, passed on the 16th day of June last 1 was glad that it wa3 possi ble, without delaying the final adoption " of these amendments, to ascertain the opinion of our people upon them, at the general election, in October last By the election of a large majority of members openly favoring' and advocating the amendments, that opin ion seems to me to have been abundantly expressed. Indeed, the amendments are so moderate and reasonable in their character, that it would have been astonishing if the people had failed to approve them. That ever- person, born in the United States, and free, whether by birth or manumission, b a citizen of the "United States, and that no. State has a right to abridge the privileges of citizens of the United States these ara principles which were never seriously doubt ed anvwhere, until after the insane crusado in favor of slavery had been for some time in progress. What is called tha decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, ia the Dred Scott case, has made it eipedieot and proper to re-assert these vital principles in an authoritative manner, and this is dono in the first clause of the prposed amend ments. The right of prescribing the qualifications of voters is exercised by the respectivo States, under the Constitution of 1789; three-fifth of the slaves were counted in as certaining the representative population off the several States. The amendment of tha constitution abolished slavery in all tha States and Territories. Though it was for merly otherwise in most, if not aU, of tha old Southern States, yet for many veapa past the Negroes have not, in any of these, been permitted to vate. At present, "there fore, the late slave States would ba entitled to count the whole of their former slava juo.
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