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A. J. Cover, •
ATTORNEY AT LAW, will promptly eAtend
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trusted to him. Office between Fahnestoeks'
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Gettysburg, Pa. [Sept. 5, 1859.
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Office at the Caine place, in South Baltimore
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Gettyshnrg, April 11, 1859. tf
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ATTOILNEY AT LAW.-4.lffiee in West Mid
die street, one dour west of the sew
Court House.
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utheran church in
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Gettysburg, April 11, '53.
The Old County
BriunNG, known by every man In the
county. cud no doubt many a one wished
there never had been such a place, as many
were broken up by permitting, or rather oblig
ed to hare their names entered upon the coun
ty dockets. But look at the change. It is a
pleasure now to call there and buy goods of
S itISON at such astonishingly reduced pricto—
lower than ever before offered In the county,-
He has just received from the cities a large
lot of new Beady-made CLOTHING, for men
and boys' wear: with Hats, Boots and Shoes,
Truukr, Valises, Carpet Bags, Clocks, Watches,
Jewelry, Violins, &gars, Tobacco. Jr.e., kc-, lc.
Call soon, and don't miss the great bargains
now had at the old County Building, corner of
the Diamon'd and York street, Gettysbrrg.-
11Awt's the spot ! •
Thankful to his old customers for their pa
tronage, be hopes by his change oflocation not
only to retain their custom, but secure a large
number of new buyers.
An entire summer suis---eostt, pasta and test—
for. $1,25! X. SAMSON.
April Id, 181.10
Just in Season!
GWE CS A CALL !—The undersigned bare
just received from the cities an immense
stock of CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, CASSINETS,
VESTING'S in all varieties, kc., suitable for the
season. which they offer to the public at unpre
cedentedly low rates.
'• They ask a call,
To convince all --
of the truth of his assertion. No trouble to
show goods and give prices. A, large tot o f
READY-MADE CLOTHING also selling cheaper
khan ever.
Garments made up for men and boys, as us
ual, in the very best manner, and according to
any style desired. The work being done in
their own establishment, they are always en
ablfd to warrant it. Remember, their place of
business is the large and commodious room ad
joining Cobean k Culp's on Chambersburg
street. JACOB 9b Jr BRO.,
Sept. 19, 1859. Merant Tailors.
Shawls ! Shawls !
AT SCHICK'S.
Broche, (long and square.)
Printed Cashmere Shawls,
Stella, Thibet, and De Leine do
April 16. 1860.
Removals.
jttindersi g ned.bein g the authorized person
o Snake removals into Ever Green Ceme
tery, hopes that each as contemplate the removal
of the remains of deceased relatives or friends,
will avail themselves of this season of the year to
hare it done. Removals made with promptness
—terms lair, and no effort spared to please.
PETER THORN,
March 12, '6O. Keeper of the Cemetery.
Removal
THT► subscriber has removed his Plough said
ji Mime Sue Shop from the Foundry building
to Railroad street, opposite Tote's Blacksmith
shop, hack of the Eagle Hotel, where he is bet
ter prepared than ever to attend to customers.
Ploughs always on hand and made to order at
the shortest notice, and Machines, Reapers, he.,
repaired. Also he will attend to cleaning and
repairing Clocks. DAVID WABRKM.
May 10.
Gas ! Gas ! Gaa !
rilrahecriber has laid ins large clock of
e Mendelian, Brackets, Burners, tc.,
t o i ipudi to ffirfiea sksatiossion of the ctuna nii
G i ampars. IBS price! ass at Iowa& they
lure la the eigiso. CO la sad see yowls's , es.
Ware Roontiii liirk street, irppoetta the Bank.
May 7, 1860. • WM. HELMS.
By H. k BTAHLB
4T.! YEAR.
X 2 4:3MlT'lli co
VIE WILL BOW.
Time will show what we lure done,
What has been ended, and what begun,
Time will show.
Who has been true to the dreg• of 'deposal,
Garnered a harvest of rich, ripe fruit,
Time will show.
Time will show a good deed has bees wrought,
Hewn from the heart of a noble thought,'
Time will show.
Time will show bow seen hare grown strong,
Chanting the burdens of eloquent song,
Time will show.
We are looking ahead with fearful eyes,
Watching the flush of our morning skies,
All aglow.
We smile as we think on our future years,
But our smiles are veiled with half shed teen
We never show.
But time will show the deeds of as aE,
As we tread the last arch of His mighty ball.
Time will show.
WWII FAMIDIetr urn or JAC ILION.
OEN. JACKSON AT NEW ORLEANS
JACKSON'S ARRIVAL.
Early on the morning of the second
of December, 1814, a party of gentle
men rode at a brisk trot from the lake
towards the city of Now Orleans. The
mist, which, during the night, broods
over the swamp, bad not cleared off.—
The air was chilly, damp and uncom
fortable. The travellers, however, were
v r
1
evidently_ h y men, accustomed to
exposure, d intent upon purposes too
absorbing o leave any consciousness of
external discomforts. Though devoid
of a:1 military display, and even of the
ordinary equipments of soldiers, the
bearing arid apivasiunee of these men
betokened their connection with the
profession of arms. Tho chief of the
party, which was composed of five or
six persons, was a tall, gaunt man, of
very erect carriage, with a countenance
full of stern decision and fearless energy,
but, furrowed with care and anxiety.—
Ins complexion was sallow and un
healthy; his hair was iron grey, and
1 his body thin and emaciated, like that
of One who had just recovered from a
lingering and painful sickness. But
the fierce glare of his bright and hawk
like eye betrayed a soul and spirit v. bleb
triumphed over all infirmites of the
body. Ills dress was simple and near
ly threadbare. A small leather cap
protected his head, and a short Spanish
blue cloak his body, while his feet and
legs were encased in high dragoon hoots,
long ignorant of polish or blacking,
which reached to the knees. In age he
appeared to have passed about forty
five winters—the season for which his
stern and hardy nature seemed peculiar
ly adapted.
EFFECT. Oli THE PEOPLE.
Jackson has come ! There was magic
in the news. Every witness, living
and dead, testifies to the electric effect
of the General's quiet and sudden ar
rival. There was a truce at once to
indecision, to indolence, to incredulity,
to factious debate, to'paltry contentions,
to wild alarm. Ile had come, so worn
with disease and the fatigue of his ton
days' ride on
the
that. he was
more fit for the hospital than the field.
But there was that in his manner and
aspect which revealed the master.—
That will of his triumphed over the
languor and anguish of disease, and
every one who approached him felt that
the man for the hour was there.
AT A MINIX PARTY.
The new aid-de-clamp, Mr. Livings
ton, as he rode from the parade ground
by the General's side, invited him home
to dinner. The General promptly ac
cepted the invitation. It chanced that
the beautiful and gay Mrs. Livingston,
the leader of society then at New Or.
leans, both Creole and American, had
a little dinner party that day, compos
ed only of ladies, most of whonk were
young and lively Creole belles. Mr.
Livingston had sent home word that
General Jackson had arrived, and that
he should ask him to dinner: a piece of
news that threw the hospitable lady
into consternation. " What shall we
do with this wild General from Tennes
see?" whispered the girls to ono another,
for they bad all conceived that General
Jackson, however becomingly ho might
comport himself in an Indian fight,
would be most distressingly out of place
at a fashionable dinner party in the first
drawing-room of the most pulite city
in America I Ile was announced. The
young ladies were seated about the
room. Mrs. Livingston sat upon a sofa
at the head of the ttpartment, anxious
ly-awaiting the inroad of the wild fighter
into the regions sacred hitherto to ele
rw.ce and grace. Ile entered. Erect,
composed, bronzed with long exposure
to the sun, his hair just beginning to
turn grey, clad in his uniform of coarse
blue cloth and yellow buckskin, his
high boots flapping loosely about his
slender legs, he looked, as he stood
near the door of the drawing-room, the
very picture of a war-worn noble war
rior and COMMANDBIL Ile bowed to
the ladies magnificently, who all rose
at his entrance, as much from amaze
ment as from politeness. Mrs. Liv
ingston advanced toward him. With a
dignity and grace seldom equalled,
never surpassed, he went forward to
meet her, he conducted her back to her
sofa, and sat by her side. The fair
Creoles were dumb with astonishment.
In a few minutes dinner was served,
and the General continued, during the
progress of the meal, to converse in an
easy, agreeable manner, in the tone of
society, of the sole topic of the time,
the soaking invasion. He assured the
Wing that be felt perfectly confident of
defending the city, and bogged that
they would give thamelves no unoma-
THE
ness with regard to that matter. He
rose soon from the table and left the
bone, with Lir. Livingston. In one
chorus, the young ladies exclaimed to
their hostess, "Is Uti's your backwoods
man ? Why, madam, he is a prince 1"
Two thousand Kentuckians, under
General Thomas and General Adair,
were also on their way down the Missis
sippi ; the wont provided body of men,
perhaps, that ever went fifteen hundred
miles from home to help to defend a
sister State. A few rifles they bad
among them, but no clothing suitable
for the season, no blankets, no tents, no
equipage. Besides food, they were
furnished with just one article of ne
cessity, namely, a cooking kettle for every
eight nieri / In a flotilla of boats, hasti
ly patched together on the banks of the
Ohio, they started on their voyage,
carrying provisions enough for exactly
half the distance. They were agreeably
disappointed, however, in their expec
tation of living a month on half rations,
by overtaking a boat loaded with flour;
and, thus supplied, they went on their
way, ragged, but rejoicing. Such was
General Jackson's situation—such the
posture of affairs in New Orleans—such
the means and prospects of defence—on
the fourteenth of December : two or
three thousand troops in the city ; four
thousand more within ten or fifteen
days' march ; six gun-boats on Lake
forgiri`ki 'two armed vessels on the
river • ( s. Imall garrison of regulars at
Portk Philip ; another at the tort be
tween le two lakes; the obstruction
it.,
of the bayous still in progress ; the
citizens hopeful and resolute, most of
them at work, every man where he
' could do most for the cause, the General
returning to his quarters from his tour
of inspection.
r:3:za
Major Latour gives us a lively French
picture of New Orleans, as it appeared
during the last few days of waiting fur
the enemy" Such was the universal
confidence inspired by the activity and
decision of the Commander-in-oml,
added to the detestation in which the
enemy was held, and the desire to pun
ish
his audacity„ should he presume to
land, that not a single warehouse or;
shop was shut, nor were any goods or
valuable effects removed from the city.
At that period, New Orleans presented
a very affecting picture to the eyes of
the patriot, and of all those who se
bosoms glow with the feelings of na
tional honor, which raise the mind far
above the vulgar apprehension of per
sonal danger. The citizens were pre
paring for battle as cheerfully as if it
had ken a party of pleasure, each in
his vernacular tongue singing songs of
victory. The streets resounded with
Yankee Doodle, the Marseilles hymn,
the Chant du Depart, and other martial
airs. while those who had been long un
accustomed to military duty were fur
bishing their arms and accoutreinents.
Beauty applauded valor, and promised
with her smiles to reward the toils of
the brave. Though inhabiting un open
town, not above ten leagues from the
enemy, and never till now exposed to
war's alarms, the fair sex of New Or
leans were animated with the ardor of
the defenders, and with cheerful sereni
ty at the sound of the drum presented
themselves at the windows and balconies
to applaud the troops going through
their evolutions, and to encourage their
husbands, sons, fathers and brothers, to
protect them from the insults of oar'
ferocious enemies, and prevent a repe
tition of the horrors of Hampton."
Wben, soon after dark, the noise of
preparation in the British camp grew
louder and came nearer, there could not
have been much doubt, in the lines that
another most unquiet Sunday was in
reserve for them: There was much
silent and rather grim preparation in
Jackson's camp; a cleaning of arms, a
ooanting out of cartridges and adjust
nient of dints, and a careful loading of
muskets and rides. Beside the thirty.
two pounder was heaped up a bushel or
two of musket balls and fragments of
iron, enough to fill the piece up to the
muzzle, and which will fill it up to the
muzzle if the enemy come to close quar
ters, and deal such wholesale death
among them as no thirty-two pounder
has ever dealt before. Yes, grimness
certainly prevails to a considerable ex
tent. We are in earnest. Jackson
walks slowly along the lines just before
dark. lie, too, is grim, but confident.
Ho wears the look of a man whose mind
is wholly made up, and who clearly
knows what he will do in any and every
eabst. He stops occasionally, to see that
the stacked muskets are all loaded, and
says to Blanche's men, as he goes along
their part of the line, "Don't fire till
you can see the whites of their eyes,
and if you want to sleep, sleep upon
your arms."
a Altmorratir, :,1 tiro and tamiig (faunal:
GETTYSBURG, PA.: MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1860.
HIS PROBPIMTS
Punta OP NEW WILE:ANS
YIN AL PIZPLINTION S.
LIGHTE Or JANUARY
At one o'clock on the morning of this
memorable day, on a.couch in a room
of the McCarty mansion-house, General
Jackson lay asleep, in his worn uni
form. Several of his aids slept upon
the floor in the same apartment, all
equipped for the field, except that their
sword-belts were unbuckled, and their
swords and pistols laid aside. A senti
nel paced the adjacent passage. Senti
nels moved noiselessly about the buil
ding, which loomed up large, dim, and
silent in the foggy night, among the
darkening trees. Most of those who
slept at all that night were still asleep,
and there was at yet little stir in either
camp to disturb their slumbers.
Dreaming of their Scottish hills and
boaies, their English fields and friends,
may bays been many brave Britons itt
tbeiT ClOild sad w$ Oiveacte.
CO VIPIL ER.
"TRUTH 18 MIGHTY, AND WILL PIZNATL."
THII RATTLE
Steadily and fast the column of Gene
ral Gibbs marched toward batteries
numbered six, seven, and eight., which
played upon it, at first with but occa
sional effect, often missing, sometimes
throwing a ball right into its midst., and
causing it to reel and pause for a mo
ment. Promptly were the gaps lilt
u¢; bravely the column came on.
they neared the lines the well-aimed
slwt made more dreadful havoc, ti cut
ting great lanes in the column from rear
to front," and tossing men and parts
of men aloft, or hurling them far on
one side. At length, 'still steady and
unbroken, they came within range of
the small-arms, the rifles of Carroll's
Tennesseans, the muskets of Adair's
Kentuckians, four lines of sharp-shoot
ers, one behind the other.. General
Carroll coolly waiting for the right
moment, held his fire till the enemy
were within two hundred yards, and
then gave the word—fire.
At first with a certain deliberation,
afterward in hottest haste, always
with' deadly effect, the riflemen plied
their terrible weapons. The summit
of the embankment was a line of spur
ting fire, except whore the great guns
showed their liquid, belching flash.—
The noise was peculiar, and altogether
i inleseribable ; a railing, bursting, echo
ing noise, never to be forgotten by a
man that beard it. Along the whole
lino it blazed and rolled; the British
batteries showering rockets over the
scone ; Patterson's batteries on the
other aide of the river joining in the
hellish concert. imagine it. Ask. no
one to describe it.. Oar words wore
mostly made before such a aceno had
become possible.
Thu column of General Gibbs, mowed
by the 6re of the riflemen, still advan
ced, Gibbs at its head. As they caught
sight of the ditch; some of the offiv4rs
cried out:
Whero arc the Forty-fourth! If
we get to the ditch, we have no means
of crossing and seahng the lines r
"Here tome the Forty-fourth! Here
come the Forty-fourth !" shouted the
General ; adding, in an under tone, for
his own private solace, " that Wile lived
till to-morrow he would hang Mullens
on the highest, tree in the cyprebs
wood."
Rengsired, these heroic men 'versed
on, in the face of that murderous,
slaughtering fire. But this could not
last. With half its number fallen, and
all its commanding utticers disabled,
except the general, its pathway strew.
ed wiih dead and wounded, and the
men falling over faster and faster, the
column wavered and reeled (so the
American riflemen thought) like a red
ship oil a tempestuous Sena. At about
a 'Mildred yards from the lines the
front ranks halted, and so threw the
column into disorder, Gibbs shouting iu
the madness of vexation for them to re
form and advance. There was no re
forming under such a tire. Once chock
ed, the column could tot bat break, and
retreat in contusion.
IliseraUe People.—Young ladies with
new boiiiicts on rainy Sundays, dresses
playing dip, dip, dip, at every step.
A witiiess in a bribery case.
A city stiortsman at the finish of one
day's shooting.
A printer who publishes a paper for
notlimg, and finds himself.
A smoking nephew . on a visit to an
antiemoking aunt.
A young doctor who has cured his
first patient and has no prospect of ano-
A star actress with her name In small
letters on the bills.
The Black Republicans since tte
nomination of Lincoln.
Apple Bread.--A French officer has
inventod, and practiced with groat sife
cess, a method of Mkking bread :with
common apples, very fkr superior to
potato bread. 'After having boiled one
third of peeks, apples, be bruised them
while quite warm into two-thirds of
dour, including the proper quantity of
yeast, and kneaded the whole without
water, the juice of the fruit being quite
sufficient. When the mixture had ac
quired the consistency of paste, lie put
it into a vessel, in which he allowed it
to rise for about twelve hours. By this
process he obtair.ed a very excellent
bread, full of eyes, and extremely pala
table and light. We have an idea that
apple bread wouldn't be hard to take.
Why _Heenan Didn't Beat Sayers Out
ht.—Goorge Wilkes, in a letter to his
per, the Spint of the Times, gives it
as his decided opinion, that Heenan
can whip two such men as Sayers in
one day, and that the fact would have
been unequivocally demonstrated, but
that Jack Macdonald bad bet two or
three hundred dollars that the fight
would last over an boar, and constant
ly checked the impetuosity of Heenan,
and that when finally, at the remon
strance of Mr. Wilkes himself, Heenan
did "let loose" upon him, his superiori
ty was at once but beyond all reasona
ble doubt.
sorA Yankee from Maine, being at,
Buena Vista the night before the bat
tle, and somewhat doubtful of the re
sult, wont out of hearing, as he suppo
sed, and made the following prayer :
" 0 Lord, hero we are, about four thou
sand of us, and twenty thousand Masi
cane--enough to swallow as without
greasing. Now if you oan help us, do
it--and if you cant, for heaven's sake
don't help the Mexicans- - -and just hold
on until to-morrow, and you'll see the
gaol darndest fight you ever saw in
your life. Yours, respectfully, amen."
-
M-All the Know Nothing in
New Jewery, we belioni, ba es
to support, lAnea Si* l'resident.
7j4Ti)
The following letter from Gov. Big
ler in explanation of his course at
Charleston was written in reply to a
hotter from 1). W. Moore, of Xhiladel
phia :
WASITINOTCM, D. C., May 26,1860.
Dear Sir: My attention has been so
frequently called to flagrant misrepre
sentationa of my actions and intentions
as a delegate in the Charleston Conven
tion, similar to those enclosed by you,
that I have reluctantly concluded, in
order to relieve myself of constant im-,
portunities, to meet all these charges
in reply to you, which yea may give to
the newspaper press, if you think it ,
necessary and proper. It is right to'
premise that, whilst I shall speak some
what freely of the majority of the Penn
sylvania delegation in that Convention,
I speak only for myself, not having bad
an opportunity of consulting with any
one, and must be alone responsible for
what I say.
The strictures which you inclose to
me on the course and purposes of the
majority of the Pennsylvania delega
tion, at Charleston, would be severe in
deed, if they werg founded in truth ;
but they are eith& totally unfounde d
or find their existence in a forced per
version of the filets. It is not true that
the majority of the Pennsylvania dele
gatioii sought to drive Mr. Douglas
from the field, by adopting a platform
of principles on which be could not
lionornbly stand. So far from this , we
voted to make the nominations ilefore
the platform, while'. the minority of
of our doltegation and all other friends
of 11r. Douglas voted to make the plat
form first. This was the fatal error of
the Convention, as all parties frankly
confessed at the subsequent stages of its
proceedings. Then, again, on this same
point, the wajority voted for a motion i
submitted by myself, to re-commit the
platform, hoping in that way to reach
the balloting fur candidates with a full
Convention ; but the effort. failed.
Equally untrue is the allegation that
we favored a platform of principles
committing the party to the policy of a
slave code in the Territories. It is true
that we sustained the series of resolu
tions last reported by the majority of
theccommitiee, or rather by the seven
teen Democratic States; but no fair
minded man will pretend to discover
the principles of a slave code or any
ti.ing like them in those resolutions.—
They vim ply forbade the conclusion
that the Territories are sovereignties;
and* declared it the duty of the Govern
ment to protect constitutional rights
by constitutional recalls, well in the
Territories as elsewhere. Surely no
government should do less than this.—
As I understood it, the friends of Mr.
Douglas took exception o t t art of
the resolutions that ex luded t idea,
of sovereign power in t re Territorial
government, or rather the right of the
Territorial Legislature to exclude slave
ry or slave property from a Territory;
but I do not think it was seriously pre
tended by any that the resolutions com- '
mated the party to a slave code; nor
did I meet any delegate who was seri
ously in favor of any inch speculative
legislation. No sensible man pretends
that Congress can ciente rigtits for
slavery, or slave property in the Terri
tories, Gr anywhere Vac. The only
question Is as to whether that, species
of property is to be maintained and
protected in the rights the Constitution
gives it. Nothing more is asked, and
nothing less will be acceptable to the
South. '
It is alen untrue that wo favored the
course of the seceding States, or at any
time manifeeted a determination to go
out withthem. Nobody of men in the
Coneenthin weld have witneered their
withdrawal with feelings of deeper ro
grot thaiilditi the majority of the Penn
sylvania relegation, for the direct ten
dency of that set waste favor the nom
ination offs candidate we were against;
and I do' not believe there were nny
men in Charleston who exerted them
selves more ardently than did a portWn
of the Pennsylvania delegation to in
duce the tieeeders to return to the Con-
vention, myself amongst the number.
It is true, that when it was generally
understood and believed that the re
mainder of the Southern States, failing
to have their ultimatum accepted by i
the Convention, would also secede, to
gether with the two Pacific States,
many of ns had determined, and had I
not hesitated to say, that on the hap.
pening of that contingency, we should
refuse to participate any longer in the
proceedings of the Convention. This
we should have done, because a nomi
nation made under such circumstance*
would have been an idle ceremony and
Would have foreclosed all chance of re
conciliation in the Convention or suc
cess for the party; bat no one, so far
as my knowledge goes, thought serious
ly of going out with the eight States
that had retired, or for the reasons
which they assigned.
The inquiry—pot in nogracions terms
—" whether the Cincinnati -platform
was good enough for the majority of
the Pennsylvania Delegation," is readi
ly answered. It was good enough for
us and we voted for it ; but we wen
vt tiling, in addition, in order to save the
party from disruption, and because we
believed it right in principle, to acknow
ledge that modification or definition of
the meaning of the Cincinnati platform
which the decision or opinion of the
Supreme Court, in tho case of Dred
Scott, had necessarily engrafted upon
it, to the effect, that the Territories are
not sovereignties; that a Territorial
Legislature cannot exclude slave prop
erty from the limits of its jurisdiction,
"and that within its• jurisdietkin it is
irtomi id to take as good WO Of that, spo
oks of property as it doss of say othsr.
TWO DOLTJAPS A-YEAR.
This concession would have preserved
the harmony of the Convention, and
then Mr. Douglas, if nominated, would '
have had a fair chance for an election.
I am willing to leave the public to de
cide between me and my assailants on
this point.
But the great complaint of all is, that
the majority of the delegation did not
vote for Mr. Douglas. This complaint
is as unreasonable as anything else that
has been said, and onlyi goes to prove
that in the ardor of their admiration for
Mr. 1). certain of his friends are utterly
incapable of looking at both sides of
' this question and judgiag impartially.
We certainly never pretended to be for
Mr: Doggies, and, therefore, no ono has
been deceived. It was perfectly well
known when we were elected delegates
that we preferred other candicates to
Mr. Douglas. But it is attempted to
find in the large vote received by him a
reason—to some a conclusive reason—
why wo should have abandoned our fa
vorites and gone for Mr. D. Under
ordinary circumstances there would be
great, if not conclusive, force in this
view of the case, and I,do not hebitate
to say to you, that with auspicious
surroundings, and where the al
ternatives involved only a choice of
men, with about equal chances of suc
cess at the polls, it would have influenc
ed my action to no considerable degree;
but to my mind the surroundings utter
ly forbade that we should go for Mr.
Douglas. As the case then stood, hie
nomination could haveiresulted only in
utter defeat to himseltand the party.
Yon - must keep in mind the fact that
we did not ballot for a candidate at all
i until the delegates from eight States
and the half of the delegation from
Delaware had retiret‘from the Conven
tion 'on the ground ar at they , could not
steed by the platform of principles as
then-adopted. Had the Pennsylvania
I and 'other delegations yielded at this
juncture and nominated Mr. Douglas,
everybody knows that the seceding
States would forthwith have nominated
a Southern candidate, and probably
called a Convention of all the Southern
States to have ratified that nomination;
and thus, sir, the Democratic party,
that glorious old organisation which
has done so much to advance the pros
perity of our great country, and vindi
cate the principles of our Republican
system of government, would have been
shattered into fragments and prostrat
ed probably forever. Whatever I migh t
' have done under other circumstances,
I thought it a duty, an imperative duty,
to the Democratic party and the coun
try, to stand out against the nomination
of Mr. Douglas as things then stood.—
' Surely the friends of Mr. D. do not seek
to nominate him for the glory of the
nomination alone. I take it they de
sire to see him made President; and in
my judgment no act could have more
completely foreclosed all his chances at
this time than to have nominated him
in a divided Convention. For myself
preferred to look rather to the harmony
and success of the party than to the
nomination of any favorite candidate.
Now, sir, it is no more than jest to
say that the aggregate vote as recorded
in the (knivention in faver of Mr. Doug
las did not truly reflect the individual
preferences of its members; nor did it
reflect the choice of the States, hid all
the delegations voted as a unit. Un
der neither rule could Mr. D. have re
oeived half the votes of the Convention.
His large vote was, therefore, in some
measure, fictitious. On the rule of vot
ing per capita, he would have received
from 125 to 128 votes, and by delega
tions from 180 to 140. This is the most
liberal count that can be truthfully
made for him. In the New York dele
gation 'alone, there were fifteen or six
teen delegates who preferred other can
didates, and so voted in' their caucus
meetings, and there were a number in
Ohio and Indiana whose individual
preferences were not for Mr. D. Yet
all of these votes were Arced to him by
the new gee adopted by the Conven
tion. Now, sir, 1 will be frank enough
to confess to you that had the larg e
vote for Mr. Boogies resii.lted to hiiti
under the old rule that prevailed at
Baltimore and Cincinnati,
'1 should not
think it generous to make this point;
but I mak. it because the rule was
changed; and it was the 'change of the
rule, and not the individual denre of the
delegates that gave Mr. D. a majority
of vows in the Convention. The Cin
cinnati rule allowed the majority of each
'delegation to determine how the vote of
the State should be cast—whether as a
unit or as the individual delegates pre
ferred. The Charleston rule so far
changed this law as to take the power
from the majority of the several dele
gations, if not instructed, and gives the
minority equal right with the majority.
fence where, as in Pennsylvania and
New Jersey, there was a large minori
ty for Mr. Douglas, they were permitted
to vote as they Individually preferred ;
but where required to vote us a unit, I
he received the entire number by
the force of a majority. Everybody
who was at Charlelliton knows that
the friends of Mr. 1). greatly rejoiced
at the adoptwu of this rule, and
regarded it as a strong point in his
favor, as I am sure I did. Lam not
mistaken about the two rules, for I have
read them both within an hour so that
I might state the difference correctly.
Nor will it do in presenting this case
fairly -and impartially to overlook the
fact that the fifteen Southern States and
the two Pacific States-all tat are count
ed certain for the Democratic nominee—
except a minority in Missouri and Mary
land, and two or three scattering dele
gates elsewhere in the South, were
against the nomination of Mr. Douglaii,
and differed with his friends as to the
,
platform of principles as did a majori
ty of the delegations in Pennsylvania
and New 'story, two of the hopeful
Northern States,leaving Mr.D.'m entire
vote in States admittedly Republioar,
with the exception of Indiana and Illi
nois. It is thus seen how necessary
was to keep the States intact that were
against Mr. 11., for without them, and
all of them, ear chances of *Wotan are
almost hopeless.
Under all the el reu met/wens we united
with the majority of the Convention in
favor of the adjournment to Baltimore,
hoping that better weasels saipee
viul ; that the party might become
united, and a nominee be selected with
whom we could defeat the Black Re
publican party.
I do not care to notice what hail been
said about misunderstandings in out
delegation. Those things are very
common on such occasions. Nor dol.
think we had more than the usual mani
festation of feeling. I must say, how
ever, that the allegation that the at
tfimpt of the majority to instruct Mr.
Wright as a member of the committee
on the platform was a" trick,' is utter
ly unwarranted. /tr. Wright had very
frankly and repeatedly declared that
he would obey the will of the majority
of the delegation on that subject; and
certainly no more formal or imposing
way of expressing that desire could be
devised than that of each delegate tiv , r
his proper signikture expressing th:.t
desire. That wan all that was done --
That mode was adopted because of t! -i
necessity for prompt action, and tip,
difficulty of getting the entire dele.l..i.
Ilion together: I certainly knew of co
other reason for that course or any in
, tended indignity to Mr. Wright. Bat
I this is of small moment.
NO. 34.
I am not for a slave code, and never
have been ; and nothing I have recent
ly said or done could warrant any such
conclusion. I have no patience with,
men who will not distinguish between
an attempt by Congress to establish and
maintain the institution of slavery in a
Territory, and the duty of saiatsiaing •
the constitutional rights of citizens and
roteoting property. The vote in ths
' , nate on Friday last ought to be oon
lusive on this point. The fifth resolu
tion in the series proposed by Mr. Davis,
in which some affect to find the princi
ples of a slave code, was adopted by a
vote of thirty-five yeas to two nap;
even the Republicans being unwilling
to vote against a declaration that it is
the duty of the government to maintain
the rights of property is the Tern
tories, whilst Mr. Brown's resolution,
which avowed the doctrine of a slave
code, received but three votes.
As for the - tariff, I know the wishes
of my constituents on that subject;
I shall labor diligently, in season and,
out of season, with every proper means
in my power to carry out their will;
and failing to get all they desire, I shall
endeavor to secure the best measure pos
sible. Very truly, your obed't serv't,
Wit.
D. W. Mooaz, Esq., Philit.
Captain Evans was an old naval vete
ran of sixty-sefen ; he had lost an arm
and an eye, years and years before, at
liavarino, which last action settled hie
understanding, both legs being carried
away by a chain shot. Cork legs were
cominginto fashion. Captain Evans
bad a pair of the first quality made for
himself; he bad also a false arm and
hand ; in the latter he could screw a
fork, as occasion required, and being
gloved, the deficiency was not easily
perceived. As increasing- years render
ed him in firm,
his valeta took advan
taC so he wrote to his brother,
a mersetahire Squire, to send him up
some tenant's son for a body servant—
"No matter bow stupid, if honest and
faithful," be wrote.
lie brother was absent, and sent ta,
his steward to select a lad. This the
steward did, but merely mentioned that
Captain Evans was infirm, not appri
slog the lumpkin of his new master's
deficiencies, and sent him to London at
once, where the Captain lived.
At ten at night he arrived, and was
immediately shown to Captain Evans'
sitting room.
" Well, John, my rascally valet is
absent again, without leave ; help me
to bed, as it is late, and then you can.go
down - to your sapper."
Adjourning to the bed room, the old
gentleman said :
"John, unscrew my , log."
Zur Tv' said John."
" Unscrew my leg, this way, see."
John did so, tremblingly.
"John, unscrew my other LiNg."
Zar ?" said John."
"Unscrew the other leg, sir."
John did so, now in a state of bewil
derment.
" John, unscrew this arm." •
Trembling still more, to the Captain's
great amusement, ho obeyed.
" John, put 4/is eye on the table."
John took it. as if it would have bitten
" No, John—no, I won't take the
other eye ont—lift me into bed."
This done, the waggish Captain con
tinued, "John, beat, up the pita°
not comfortable."
•
This was done.
" Beat it up again, air; it is Vt.
hard."
my
my
No, by thunder, I'll noaerew no
more," and John fled from the room to
the kitchen, swearing his master Inta
the devil, taking himself to pieces Mke
a clock.
Puritanical Political Piety.-0
Lord's Day week, the pastor of U.
Unitarian Church in Clbcord, Mass
announced from the pulpit, the nomin—
tion of Lincoln. In the evening, a Mac
Republican ratification meeting, wt...
held in the vestry of the church. San
born, the martyr of oneord, made an
Abolition . soh, and sundry other
brethren, prayers and made
speeches,—Phi/a. Argus.
TAe"Tail of Know NotAingism
Alive.—The American party in BlM
more, which is made up prineipsily of
"Plug trglir," " Blood Tuba" and
" Rosebuds,' has determined, as we
learn from an edict issued by the
" Superior Council," to maintain: is
political organization in the manidl
election next fall. •
The Ifidea o Age.--The univillhomma
.2r W el
of persons above- -to to tt ood o i r
facto. and podifill , l; width- iiist
whom A le ram AIM
boos bit 4
~.: stypW,Va.
darkswas at' lll4lollls Mitik . .
~ -v:svfri:
Taking a Ilia to Plasm
gain Jobn shook up the piligw.,•
That won't do, John • I olta't get
head comfortable. Jot% swore"'
head."
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