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Circulation---the largest in the County.
HUNTINGDON, PA.
Wednesday, May 21, 1856
Democratic State Nominations
CANAL COMMISSIONER,
GEORGE SCOTT, of Columbia county.
AUDITOR GENERAL,
JACOB FRY, Jr., of Montgomery county
SURVEYOR GENERAL,
TIMOTHY IVES, of Potter county.
ljj' A Committee of the State Council of
Know Nothings has prepared a new ritual,
which is to be, or already has been acted on
at the meeting of the State Council. It pro
poses to abolish the oath but not the signs,
grips, or pass-words of the Order—and the
midnight secrecy is to be continued even if
the new ritual has been adopted.
The whole proceedings of this secret com
mittee are a trick worthy of the character and
in perfect keeping with all other acts of the
oath-bound midnighters. Look at it for one
moment. The Hollidaysburg Standard says
that on the Ist inst. a secret committee, with
M. H. Jolly as its chairman, met in . secret, in
that place, and passed a resolution abolishing
all secrecy, obligations, signs, grips and pass
words of the American order in Blair county
—and yet, in the same paper in which this
resolution is published, are given the pro
teedings of a secret meeting, held in Altoona,
by council No. GO, on the 3d—two days after
at which this same M. H. Jolly presided •.
still they have the cool assurance to make
an effort to convince the people that secresy
Las been abolished !
The fact is, that in their dying struggle;
they grasp at straws to save themselves.—
They know, only too well, that the oaths and
secret meetings are objectionable to all outsi
ders, hence they probably obtained permis
sion to use this new dodge for the coming
election. It would be in perfect accordance
with the character of an order built upon de
ception—whose leading members would go
into courts of justice, and swear upon the
floly Evangalists less than a year ago that
there was no such order in existence !
Now, suppose that the Resolution spoken
of had actually been passed in good faith ; it
would only be another step toward its speedy
dissolution. The Know Nothing Yankee fan
atics permit English protestants to become
members of the order by abolishing the birth
teat—while in the South they permit Catho
lics to enter the fold, provided they were
born in this country. If we are to have the
oaths and se cresy abolished in the middle
States, what are the principles of this great
harmonious party? Fish in the South, flesh
in the North, fowl in the middle—everything
—swaing
- Let the honest voters beware of such tricks
to gull them into the support of the old office
hunters. Let them rest assured that the od
ium whisk attaches to the order alone has
driven its leaders to this last miserable and
despicable shift to get aid and comfort, and
be assured that whatever they may do openly,
is only a ratification of what they have al
ready accomplishdd in the secret oath bound
Council Chambers.
Unfortunate Discovery.
The discovery, after a long search, of the
dead bodies of the two children, who recent
ly strayed from home and got lost in the
woods, in Bedford county, has seriously dam
aged the capital of the "intense Americans"
in that locality. They had an excellent bug
bear story fixed up, on the strength of which
they expected to do a good business at the fall
election. The Bedford Gazette says :—"Cer
tain KNOW NOTHINGS had industriously
circulated a report ; which we have no doubt,
was believed by many of their deluded breth
ren, viz : that these children had been kid
napped by a Catholic institution in Cambria
county, with the view of converting the boys
into NUNS! ! ! The K. N. "High Priest"
who started that report should at once be re
warded with a leather medal as indicative of
his capacity to "rule America."
Still Deserting
We clip the following from the last Bed
ford Gaiette, by which it will be seen that
even the colportenrs of the "midnight order"
are leaving it in deep disgust. Bedford, and
,Blair counties have heretofore been considered
strongholds of the party that-wants to "rule
America," but from the number of renun
ciations lately pdblished in the Gazette, a
brighter day will soon break upon them.
MARTINSBURG, Blair Co. May 5, 1856.
To the Editor of the Bedford Gazette.
deem it a duty to state that I was
a member of the Know-Nothing party, of
Martinsburg, Blair county, and have been en
gaged in circulating, as a colporteur, Know
Nothing Books, which lam now convinced
are in violation of the principles of a TRUE
American. lam truly sorry that I ever al
lowed myself to engagein such a business, be
cause I.know it was wrong. In view of these
facts, and believing Know-Nothingism to be
a gross violation of our glorious Constitution,
I have renounced it forever, and have return
ed to my democratic principles which I love
better than I ever did before.
- JOHN A. YOUNT.
TYRONE AND CLEARFIELD RAILROAD COM
PANY.--This Company was organized on the
sth inst., by the Election of Hon. James T.
Hale, President ; James W. Smith, Treasurer;
Wm. Bagshaw, Secretary ; James E. Mont
gomery, Chief" Engineer, and a Board of
twelve Directors.
• For the Globe.
Glimpses of g , Sam," by the aid of his
Dark Lantern.
In taking a retrospective view of Sam's
past life till the present time, we can hardly
repress the feeling of pity and sotrow at the
mutability of human life. The early sung
gles for advancement—the difficulties to be
surmounted—the triumphs—the inconstancy
of fortune, and the various reverses which
may blast and wither all our bright and happy
visions of future success and enjoyment.—
Truly, none can enter into, or describe the
living reality of such feelings better than
Sam. Born, no doubt, in darkness—of doubt
ful parentage—perhaps in the secret haunts
where lurk the disappointed, revengeful and
ambitious ; he came into the world an ill
favored, but vigorous boy. Of his childhood,
and youth, it is unnecessary to say anything.
Of his manhood, his frailties, follies, errors,
and rancorous intolerance, have become a
part of his country's history. By the aid of
his dark lantern, we shall notice a few of his
traits. Sam always, even from his infancy,
had a peculiar idiosincracy which made him
" love darkness rather than light"—doubtless,
because he felt and knew that " his deeds
were evil." While he grew and waxed strong
under the favorable influences which nature's
"sable curtains" cast around him—conceal
ing his aggressive and proscriptive move-
ments ; he shunned the noon-day sun, as
something ungenial to his nature, and blight
ing to his schemes and prospects fur glace and
power. The same constitutional peculiarity
made him love secrecy. He instinctively
felt that it was necessary to his growth and
future advancement. He well knew that the
elements which he called to his aid and mar
shalled under his banner, the " black spirits
and white, the blue spirits and gray," requi
red the talismanic—or, rather, the superstiti
ous and interested influences of darkness and
secrecy to induce them to come forth and
swear allegiance to his secret organization.
He was well aware that his principles were
so intolerant and proscriptive, that they would
not bear the scrutiny of open and candid in
vestigation. Nor would they bear to be set
forth in public and advocated openly and
above board. He knew that—like mush
rooms—they would grow and-flourish but in
the dark—the honest and genial influence of
the noon-day sun having a deleterious effect
upon them.
Sam understood human nature well. He
knew that his dogmas were of such a charac
ter as to be always repugnant to the feelings
and judgment of honorable and patriotic
minds. He was convinced that he could
never enslave men's consciences, but by im
posing an obligation he could secure their ac
quiescence. Like his worthy predecessor
and antetype, Loyola, he knew very well,
that the obligation and the consequences of
its violation, were sufficient to render docile
and obedient the most stubborn and turbulent
subjects lie possessed. With these held in
" terrorum" over their heads he could safely
trust for their support in his wildest schemes
—most fanatical absurdities—even in disre
gard of all moral honesty or principle, in or
der to secure the " loaves and fishes" of l
office— Past events demonstrate most con
clusively,
that he did not reckon without his
host. His command was go ye out into all
the country and proselyte, and their commis
sion was to "Know Nothing," especially ill
questioned as to the object of their mission.
They did go. Not only did they go into all
the highways and byways, but they also
went into tenantless and dilapidated old build
ings, the "habitation of moles and bats,"
into cellars and garrets, and even penetrated
into the sacred precincts of worshipping as
semblies. Indeed, "the work went bravely
on." While his opponents in many places
dozed away in fancied security—saying, "to
morrow shall be as to-day," &c., and whilst
in others they made a show of resistance, it
is true, Sam quietly ordered his legions into
the contest, and with such success that the
defeat of his foes was almost the first intima
tion that he was in the field at all. Elated
with victory, he became more intolerant than
before. To the victor belong the spoils, was
an axiom in politics that contained_the " hid
den manna" for which he so ardently longed,
and for which no sacrifice was too great in
obtaining it. In enjoying this, to a certain
extent, he presented the rather curious anom
aly, viz : that repletion only sharpened his
appetite.
His ambition was thoroughly awakened.
He looked forward to the White House as the
haven of repose which must, be attained,
should he even have to plant his heel upon
the Constitution itself. Alas ! for the uncer
tainty of human hopes and expectations.—
The " rights of man" cannot he trampled un
der foot with 'impunity. The sacred preroga
tives of freemen cannot be invaded without
arousing a spirit of resistance and revenge.—
Freedom
of conscience—the most inestimable
boon ever conferred upon poor humanity, can-
net be abrogated even by the sword or the I
fagot. The villainous and despotic test which
disqualifies—and deprives a citizen of his
civil rights and immunities because he pre
sumesl4 under ord
s his
ad
fiatotrowe,orosrh'rn "according vn
e
other
to the dictates of his own conscience," at
once snaps the tenderest and the strongest !
cord that vibrates in his heart. That glorious
fabric—the Constitution—containing as :t. I
does, the essence and vitality of civil and re- I
ligious liberty—purchased by the blood of
our forefathers and matured by their wisdom
—contains and admits of no such test or
disfranchisement. In seeking to lay his pol
luted
hands on that instrument—the sacred
and revered palladium of equal rights, he
passed the Rubicon of his power and prosper
ity. The Gordion knot was cut. The oathes '
or obligations which he had imposed upon
many of his honest, but prejudiced and delu
ded followers, ceased to have any moral or
bindincr l' effect. Thousands deserted his stan
dard. The heterogeneous materials which
he had collected together began to crumble to
pieces in his hands. The White House be
(Tan to recede in the distance—and all his
cherished hopes and fond aspirations began
to fade—while defeat, disgrace and ignominy
loomed up before him with crushing weight
and fearful reality. Though angry strife and
extensive defection in his ranks caused by
the " black spirits and white" ceasing to har
monize, bad caused serious alarm and fearful
forebodings in the mind of Sam; he never
theless "cast about him" in order to alight,
if possible, upon some happy expedient to
retrieve his failing fortunes. Although in
the early part of his life—and during his
"pride of power" he had preached a zealous
crusade against the successor of Saint Peter
and his followers, he suddenly, and most
miraculously, became convinced of the fact
that the "Vicegerent upon Earth" and. the
agents and emissaries of Loyola to boot—es
pecially 'when of Galilean blood, were not
such dangerous foes to "the State" after all.
Thereupon, they were welcomed into'his se
cret and august council and enrolled amongst
the faithful. While he received the Gallican
members of the "Holy Mother Church" how
ever, it is but justice to Sam to say that ho
still retained his usual suspicion and strong
dislike to members of the same church from
the land of " Sweet Erin." Patrick and Din
nig always loved an open field and a fair
fight—therefore, the presumption is, they re
garded the act of skulking away in darkness
and secrecy to transact business, as something
derogatory to his courage, and a reproach to
" Ould Ireland," the land of his birth. Per
haps the honest, free-spoken, but eracible
Pat, glorying in the memory and achieve
ments of Donneybrook 'Fair, where
An Irishman in all his glory is there,
llc meets with a friend, and spends halfa crown,
Then with his shellaly—for love knocks him
down,
would not be a suitable candidate for admis
sion into the order. Or, whether from his
blundering propensity, Sam still feels afraid
to entrust him with a dark lantern, I am un
able to say. It is a fact, however, he still
retains his usual antipathy toward him as a
suitable subject for initiation into the Order.
The signs of the times seem to indicate—
looking to the troubles and dissentions in the
councils of Sam—that the olive branch may
be tendered even to Patrick, and that he may
yet become as.good an "American" as any
mother's son of them. His " rich Irish
brogue" is a virtue, perhaps, that Sam has
never yet fully discovered, and consequently
is unable to appreciate. It once possessed a
potent charm in the eyes of one at least, who
aspired to a seat in "high places." Why
may not Sam try to profit by its happy and
valuable influences also ?
have thus endeavored briefly to trace his
history up to this time, and as he now appears
to be in a strait in regard to his future opera
tions, I will take my leave of him for the
present. Meanwhile, should circumstances
prove favorable, I may again take a glimpse
at his sayings and doings both past and pres
ent by the aid of his dark lantern.
The Next Presidential Nominee.
[From the Richmond Enquirer.]
' As about only a month remains in which
to canvass the claims of the different com
petitors for the honors of the nomination at
Cincinnatti for the presidency, it will hardly
be deemed out of place to present a few re
flections upon the subject.
That the established usages of the patty
will prevail, and among them the two-third
rule, none can doubt, for none but a madman,
in view of its beneficial effects, so long dem
onstrated, would repeal it; as the only ob
jection to it, even by our opponents, that has
ever been alleged, is that it has sometimes
foisted upon the country a second-rate man.
Admit this, which we do not, it is evident, as
a matter of history that if the rule has occa
sionally given the Democratic party a second
rate man as President, it has always at the
same time insured afirst-rate President, cab
inet, and administration—those that have
' favorably compared with any chosen under
any other rule.
The three principal competitors before the
Convention will be Messrs. Pierce, Buchanan
and Douglas—all popular, unexceptionable,
and with hosts of ardent friends and admi
rers to press their respective claims and inter
ests in the Convention, and to the highest
honor on earth ; and that each will have a
strong and cordial support, none - can doubt;
but it is a fact beyond all dispute that they
cannot all be nominated. Then the question
arises, who of the three will be the lucky
victor ? Judging of the future by the past,
which is certainly a correct criterion, it is
not unreasonable to anticipate a result at
Cincinnati similar to what occurred at Balti
more—that the prominent gentlemen already
named will occupy a similar position to that
occupied at Baltimore by Messrs. Cass, Bu
chanan, and Douglas, and with like results
produced by similar causes, and all be thrown
aside, after a triangular struggle of many days,
and a new man be chosen as a compromise
candidate and nominee.
Should this be the result, and it is more
than probable, as they are all Northern men,
a.nd the present and last President also from
the North, the Convention will unquestion
ably look towards the South for the nominee;
and among the brilliant galaxy of Southern
Statesmen, none stand more conspicuously
than Hunter, of Virginia, and Rusk of Texas,
each of whom has been often spoken of fa
vorably in connection with the nomination ;
each of whom has his host of friends and
admirers, and either of whom would make
an admirable and unexceptionable PreSident.,
and is well -and favorably known to the
whole country as sound upon all national
questions. Then the question will be redu
ced to this : who is the stronger man, and
has the best prospect of success, not only be
fore the nomination, but in the subsequent
election ? That the Democratic nominee
will be elected, none can doubt, but it will, in
all probability, have to be done, principally,
by the South and West. In the selection,
therefore, of the nominee, the Old Dominion
will play the strongest card, and have the
most potent voice, and if not, like Warwick
of old, a maker of kings, certainly will be,
as she always has been since the formation of
our government, a maker of Presidents in
almost every contest.
Should her favorite son, Hunter, not be the
nominee, after a failure to nominate either of
the three principal competitor; the Conven
tion will look probably still further South,
and to that portion of our country, the extreme
South, which has never given a Democratic
President, and Rusk will be the man—as in
him are united all the sterling qualities, qual
ifications, and antecedents that adorn the
citizen', gentleman, statesman, patriot, and
hero. The ardent friend of " Old Hickory,"
the friend and pupil of Calhoun, having been
raised in his immediate vicinity, the confi
dential friend of Clay and Webster, and their
friendship cemented in the compromise strug
gle of 1850, and enjoying the confidence of
all the leading statesmen of both parties now
on the public stage, he must possess qualities
of no ordinary character, and he himself an
individual of no ordinary cast, fitted to fill
the Presidency or any other position to which
his fellow-citizens may call him; and among
his many gifts and qualifications, and by no
means the least, are his perfect indifference
to public station, and his extraordinary suc
cess, nay luck, in attaining any and every po
sition which his friends have sought for him.
A man who has always been successful must
possess and unite more of the true elements
of greatness, and the gifts that lead to dis
tinction, than usually fall to the lot of man . -
kind.
Raised and educated in South Carolina and
Georgia, he migrated to Texas at an early day,
and paaticipated in all the stirring scenes
preparatory to its revolution, as a principal
actor. Previous to the battle of San Jacinto,
as Secretary of War of the Republic, he w,as
not compelled to be in the tamp ;. but, he=
lieving he could more efrectUally serve his
country, he hastened to the field, joined the
troops. urged immediate battle, after helping
to make all proper arrangements, and, upon
the commander-in-chief being wounded and
taken to the rearohe command devolved
upon Rusk. With the issue of that battle,
and the result thereof, the world, through his
tory, is conversant.
The independence of his country establish
ed, being a distinguished lawyer and jurist,
he was made the first chief justice of the Re
public, and in that august position it was his
high prerogative to bring order out of chaos
and confusion; and in this position he re
mained, although often solicited to become a
candidate for the Presidency, until annexa
tion, and was then elected one of the two
first United States Senators from the " Lone
Star." He has been three times elected, and
the last time unanimously, which speaks vol
umes in his favor, especially when it is re
membered that previously to his recent re
election, he had led-the opposition to the
Know-Nothings, who were headed by the
hero of "San Jacinto." Gen. Rusk's puri
, ty, firmness, decision of character, and ex
cellent judgment, have been eminently dis
played in every position in which he has been
placed in his long and successful career.
It is a fact well known, he could have made
hundreds of thousands by the passage of the
Texas State bill by Congress, being the origi
nator, supporter, and Ajax of it ; but, true to
his incorruptible integrity, which had always
distinguished him through life, he would not
touch a dollar, preferring to remain in the
same moderate circumstances in which he
had always been, and enjoy the confidence of
mankind, as a perfect model of integrity and
statesmanship. In him are united all the
good and essential qualities and ability -from
which to command a President, who would
compare favorably with those who have pre
ceded, at any time or any party. With Gen.
Rusk, therefore. as the nominee for the Pres
idency, and Gov. Toucey of Connecticut, or
Gov. Dickinson, of New York, or Governor
Bigler of Pennsylvania, or Gov. Medill of
Ohio, as the nominee for the Vice Presidency,
who could for a moment doubt the result of
the next Presidential election? POTOMAC.
OLD BARREE.
The great war in Europe is ended, the
smoke of the conflict is rolling up from the
ghastly battle-fields, and the flowers of peace
are budding upon the grave of blood. The
Crimea, which has been the scene of so many
savage conflicts, never witnessed more re
volting spectacles, more horrid butcheries,
than those just terminated. It was a battle
of giants, all powerful, all revengeful, all am
bilious, all desperate. After long, long weary
months of slaughter, after the expenditure
of millions of money, after the funeral pall
has shrouded thousands of hearthstones, and
the wail of anguish has gone up from desolate
hearts, the war is ended, arid we may well
inquire "what has it accomplished?"
From the exultation of France and Eng
land at the conclusion of the Peace Congress,
some might infer that they gained all for
which they took up arms. In the commo
tion of the conflict, and in watching the
subtleties of diplomats, in endeavoring to ex
tricate themselves and their government from
the prosecution of a war that did not enlist
the sympathies of the people, our minds were
apt to be led away from the real object of the
war. But now, in the calmness of peace, we
can look back to the origin of the difficulties,
and in contemplating the whole scene, as it
passes in panoramic view before us, it be
comes a pertinent inquiry—for what was the
war undertaken What has been gained to
recompense for the immense sacrifice of trea
sure and of life?
It will be remembered that a contest was
going on between Russia and Turkey. The
nationality of the latter power was thought to I
be in danger, and to prevent the rapacious
Bear of the North from devouring poor Turk
ey without mercy or remorse; to preserve its
integrity as a nation, and also to preserve an
equalization of power in Europe, France and
England entered into an alliance, and took up
the cudgels for Turkey. This seemed gen
erous and commendable. But when it be
came apparent that these governments were
not actuated by such high and holy motives,
they ceased to have our sympathy. Of this
they complained. Let the sequel show
how much they have done for Turkey. Ev
ery restriction of Russia's power which they
have secured, was made desirable by their
own fears; they have done nothing, absolute
ly nothing to preserve the nationality of Tur
key, nothing to prevent fresh inroads by Rus
sia, nothing to guarantee her their protection.
So far as the interests of Turkey are concerned
the war has peen futile. She has gained
nothing, and lost enough. She has lost more
than Russia demanded, and which, had it been
granted, would have spared so many wails of
woe. More than ever heretofore, the Turks
have become familiar with the notions and
manners of more enlightened and civilized
nations, and it necessarily follows that their
customs, their religion, their government
must change. And this will be accomplished
without invasion by foreign nations, and
without the aid of foreign arms. Tha sure
and silent current of time will wash away
the foundation of established usages.
• It is to be hoped that the cause of freedom
and humanity throughout B Europe has gained
something by the war. And yet we very
much fear this has not been the case. We
had hoped that the groaning nations of Eu
rope would have taken advantage of the tur
moil in which their oppressors were involved,
and by a simultaneous effort shake off their
chains. These opportunities come but rare
ly, and can it be that they will still kiss the
rod that smites them, and. bow with meek
ness to the sway of despotism What will
be the next scheme to retrieve the lost re
nown of English arms, or maintain the sta
bility of NAPOLEON'S crown, remains to be
seen.--Union §- Patriot.
ABOLITION BLASPHEMY.—The following
infamous sentiments were vomited forth by
the negro worshipper, W. L. Garrison, at the
recent meeting of the anti-Slavery Society
in the city of New York :
"The religion of America was the religion
of the devil. The Christ of America is a
slave-holding, slave-trading, and slave bun
ting Christ; and if any man preaches up any
other christ, the American clergy will de
nounce him as infidel, and prove that Christ
waain favor of Slavery and that St. Paul
was a kidnapper, or, at least, set the example
by sending back Onesinnue."
The War and its Results
Negro Subordination Essential to White
Equality.
Democracy, in the true' Ametican sense, is
equality—equality of rights and equality of
duties for all' those Whom God has created
equal: All who' belong to the white speOies'
or race have common capacities, wants, in
stincts, tendencies, and it is, therefore, a self
evident truth, as propounded by Jefferson,
that they should have the same privileges
and be held to the same responsibilities. One
man may be born with more mental capacity
than another, as everybody sees they are in
their physical attributes and education—men
tal exercise or cultivation may produce or re
sult in wide and extreme variations, not only
in their intellectual powers, but in their mor
al habitudes, their sensibilities, their tastes,
manners, &c. But these things are all acci
dental, the fortune or misfortunes of the in
dividual, and with which governments or
men's political rights and duties have no con
nection. The great foundation of eternal
law, fixed by the hand of the Almighty—that
those created alike, arid therefore designed for
like purposes, shall enjoy the same 'rights
and fulfil the same duties, is all that comes
within its scope; thus a true Vitl legitimate
government, securing this natural equality to
all its citizens, leaves everything beyond to
the will of the individual, to ascend or de
scend in the social scale just as his industry,
talents or moral worth may be estimated by
his fellows.
Throughout the broad domain of animated
being each species has its specific uses—its
purpose, its design, and in the more elevated
—the human creation—its mission, written
in its structure by the finger of the Almighty,
and in a language too legible to be mistaken
a moment. Our experience, our common
sense, our reason, as well as our instincts,
impel us to treat woman as woman, having
with a different organism different wants,
tendencies, in short, a different nature, which,
for herlhappiness as well as our own, must be
recognized, and must be acted on in order to
preserve the moral health, indeed, the physi
cal health of society. So, too, in respect to
childhood—to force the infant to live out the
life of the half grown, or the latter to act as
if they had the capacities of the adult, would
not only be wrong, sinful, impious, but ab
surd, and utterly destructive of social order,
indeed, of very social existence. So, too, in
respect to the inferior creation—our domestic
animals—each species has its own specific
wants, specific purposes; and its well being as
well as our own: demand that they may be
treated accordingly. The natural relation ex
isting between individuals of the species is
equality, sameness—for though in our own
race we see great variations, these are all the
result of accident, of chance, of innumerable
contrivances, and which in Europe actually
transforms the only inferior element of the
population (royalty) into this bogus, bastard
or accidental superiority.
Now, were we to violate this great founda
tion law that underlies our institutions, our
social as well as our political edifice; were we
to force men and women and children, or try
to force them to vote—to have a voice in the
government of society—to manifest equal ca
pacities—to fulfil common duties, wheretvould
this end, this monstrous social contradiction
and absurdity, terminate ? Why, of course,
in the total destruction of the community—
the universal debauchment of all that is true
and good ; for the natural relation thus lost
sight of, there would follow, and only could
follow, a social chaos. We have now near
ly four millions of negroes in our midst, and
who must soon be tell or twenty millions.—
These negroes, except a mere handful whom
imposture or misguided philanthrophy has
transformed into social outcasts, are now in a
natural position—a normal condition,- their
true relation to the superior white man. If
they were not here, another inquiry might be
presented ; but they are, and always must re
main here, and are destined to rapidly multi
ply here, and these are the things we must
reason on. These negroes do not vary from
us—there is no variation in white and black
--they are specialities, and this same special
ities, and this same specialty prevades the
entire being, as wide apart in a single hair of
globule of blood or primordial atom, as in
the color of the skin; in short, this negro is a
widely differet and vastly inferior species,
and the existing relation, however defective
in particulars, is a natural relation which
springs spontaneously from the necessities of
human existence. A single fact is sufficient
to demonstrate beyond doubt, or even the af
fectation of doubt, the perfct truth of this as
sertion. In all human experience there is no
instance where white men have propagated
themselves, or in-other words, lived when in
this condition, and on the contrary, no single
instance wheie negroes have propagated when
out of this condition, or when thrust into the
position of white men, or so-called freedom.
Now, nothing is plainer or less mistakable
than that the perversion of this relation—the
violation of this natural law of white supre
macy and negro subordination, must demor
alize and destroy society, must debauch and
corrupt it a thousand times over more hope
lessly than even that following a perversion of
the true relations of the sexes, children, &c.
Or in other words, the existing relations of
the races—of the twenty millions of white
men and three millions of negroes—is
the basis, the corner stone of our Republican
edifice, which supports the whole fabric of
our civilization, and which, if perverted, and
these twenty millions of white citizens de
graded to a legal or forced level with these
subordinate negroes, then of courseAthat nat
ural equality among white men which con
stitutes American Democracy must, -
rupted, and lost sight of, and our Wel s e.....
tem. sink into utter ruin and descil;
True, the North, with no negroes among
them, may escape this distraction, but will
theyl Democrats must remember that they
got their Democracy from the South, that it
was the Jeffersons and Madisons who first
promulgated and established its glorious truth,
and in spite of the efforts of the Hamiltons
and Adams of the North—that it was the
Calhouns and Jacksons who sustained and de
fended these truths—that even in 1840, when
nearly the whole North lay postrate at the
feet of a paper aristocracy, five Southern
States were found faithful to the cause of Dem
ocratic equality ; in short, Northern Demo
crats should know that if "slavery" were
overthrown, the Greeleys and Sewards and
Weeds and Tom Corwins would be able to ac
complish the object for which their party has
labored for half a century—to impose upon
them a bogusor bastard Republicanism,
which, except, in name, is little, if any, bet
ter than monarchy itself.
Finally, if anything more were needed to
show the truth of Mr. McDaffie's declaration
that slavery was the corner stone of our re
publican edifice, or in other words, that the
natural relations of whites and negroes was
the basis on which rested the natural relation
of Democratic equality of white men them
selves, it is found in the fact that no where
on this earth, outside of our land. where ne
gioes are admitted to a legal equality, is there
legal equality among white men, or, in other
words, where neg roes are "free, l3 white men
are slaves.—New York Day 800/c.
TestintOttial of Respect.
At a meeting of the Washington Literary
Society of Lafayette College, of Friday, May
9th, 1856, the following preamble and reso
lutions were unanimously adopted :
WHEREAS, By an inscrutable dispensation
of Divine Providence, we have been again
visited with an affliction, in the removal
from our number of our much beloved and
respected fellow-member, John M. Sullivan,
of Huntingdon, Pa., therefore,
Resolved, That in his death the Washing
ton Literary Society has met with the irrepa
rable loss of one, who, by his strict integrity
of character, added dignity to her councils,.
and exerted an influence for good in all her
acts. By his sincere desire for our individual
good, and by his earnestness in advocating
the truth, and in sustaining the honor of the
Society, he gained, not only the respect, but
the love of all with whom he was thus con
nected. We therefore mourn his death as a
most grievous visitation.
Resolved, That in common with others
' who have been associated with the deceased,
either as Classmates or companions we have
been enabed to testily to his exemplary char
acter. A stranger in a strange land, he had,
from an humble station in life, arisen in in
tellectual attainments to an honorable posi
tion in the ranks of those. more favored, and
was preparing to labor in a more exalted
sphere for Him whose he was, and whom he
so dearly loved and faithfully served. The
spirit of true piety which
,pervaded every
thing he did and said, secured him friends
wherever he was known, and, we believe,
has now conferred upon him a crown of im
mortnlity above.
Resolved, That while still lamenting our
own loss, we do hereby most sincerely tender
our heartfelt sympathies to his numerous
friends; and that, whilst all should endeavor
to derive a profitable lesson from this dispen
sation, we, who have been his associates and
have known hi-n so well, are particularly
called upon to treasure up his example, and.
live as he lived, that we like him, may die
the death of the righteous.
Resolved, That every member of this Soci
ety wear crape upon the left arm, for the•
space of ten days, as a mark of respect to our
deceased brother.
Resolved, That copies of these resolutions
be transmitted to the friends of the deceased,
and be published in the Presbyterian, Pres
byterian Banner, and in the papers of his vi
cinity and Easton
H. D. T. KERR,
J. M. SALMON, FRANK KENNEDY.
Hon. William Bigler
This gentleman, as was anticipated by all
Pennsylvanians, has already taken a front
rank among the able and influential members.
of the United States Senate. His presence
in the Senate is a significant commentary
'upon that wild wave of fanaticism that swept
him down in 1854, when he was the firm and
gallant candidate of the democracy for Gov
ernor. As if by providential interference the
motley minded men who were carried into
the Legislature ;Ilion that wild wave, were
unable to elect Senator, and the question
was reserved for a more auspicious time,
when fanaticism had run its day and wise.
Democratic councils once more prevailed.
Then the true hearted Bigler was elected to
a seat in the United States Senate. The base
combinations that produced his defeat, when,
the reaction came, operated powerfully in,
promoting him to higher honors. Such is al
ways the eventuation of unholy schemes to.
subvert honest men; and it is a happy feature
in American character that such is the in
evitable end of all such schemes. The en
gines of malice and persecution started against
good men always recoil with double fury up
on the heads of their projectors. But sym
pathy was by no means the only motive that
secured the election of Wm. Bigler to the
United States Senate. He made a safe and
able Governor of our great State; and was
widely known as a true patriot and tried
statesman. It is well known to the De
mocracy of the State that the high duties
committed to a Senator could not be reposed.
in safer hands than those of William Bigler.
Hence he was chosen, and the people gratified.
The history of Senator Bigler is full of inter
est. Once a poor printer boy, afterwards ed
itor, then State Senator, then Governor, then.
defeated by the phrenzy of Know Nothing fa
naticism, and now an honored member of the-
United States Senate, and amongst the ablest.
men of that august body. Pennsylvanians.
have no fears that their interests will not be.
faithfully guarded when in the keeping of
such men-as William Bigler.
Dec OUT ALIVE .—The four men whom we
noticed a couple of weeks since as being im
prisoned in a coal bank near Zanesville, by
its caving in, we are glad to announce were
rescued on Friday night last, after being.
shut up for almost fifteen days. The follow
ing is the description given of the circum
stances:
"The meeting of the entombed men and
the excavators is described as a scene of si
lent joy—all so nearly overcome on once
more seeing each other, as to be able to
speak only in the eloquence of the eyes and
features. Such a remarkable preservation of
life, when we consider all the circumstances,
has scarcely a parallel on record. There,
nearly three hundred and sixty hours, almost
without food, drink or light, compelled to
breathe impure air, and use the bard damp
ground for their bed, they have lived, surely
with but faint hope of ever breathing again
the pure air of earth or seeing the bright
light of heaven!
All of them, are of course, about lire men
recovering from a bed of sickness, and will
find it necessary to be careful in eating and
exercising for some time.
At the time of the cave in, the four men
had about enough provisions with them to
make a moderate meal for one person. This
is all they have had in the way of food-,-none
of them drinking any oil except one, whose
throat had become sore in drinking sulphur
water. After they had found themselves
closed in from the world, they deliberately
went to work and shoveled up a bed of dry
dirt, and when they felt like .sleeping, pre,
pared three lamps with oil and laid themselves
on their hard earthen bed. When they next
awoke the lights had burned out, and they
had none afterward. They say that they
heard the diggers outside the whole time, and
for some days at first called and pounded to
make them hear.
The men when brought out were entirely
conscious of all around; and when asked if
they were hungry, replied that they were not
much, but two of thorn called for trAftec.lb
CHARLES CORSS,