BURG CLE BY 0. N. WORDEN & J. R. CORNELIUS. LEWISBDRG, UNION CO., PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 185G. At $1,50 Per Tear, always ix Adtaxck. CHBQN LEWIS (.oaTN IHCNalaB Oil TlaCIU. BT ClKUi WILTOX. God's blessing on them ! those old saiuts Who battled hard and long, Who cleft in twain a stabborn chain. And conquered Might and Wrong! O Time ! revere their sancity , Nor let their glory cease, Tor by moilal victory They sealed immortal peace. God's blessine on them those stouthcarts, In these advancing days. Who seek to guide the Progress' stride From Error's countless ways ! O be their track a track of light, The onward march of man. The wise to shape our steps aright The good to lead the van ! God's blessing on them one and all, Of every rank and clime, Who strive to aid the stern crnaile Against the growth of Crime ! O be their names a rallying cry For ages yet to come, A word whose echo shall not die Till nature's self be dumb! l)c gljroniclc. FBI DAI", ri'.ll. "29, 1 .". Reliable Data. To compare the heat, cold, A-c, of one year with another, accurately, is impossible, without the aid of instru ments, adjusted with scientific precis ion, and kept by competent persons. Such records are interesting for after reference, and for comparison by per Fons in different localities. Probably Prof. James of the University in this place, has the most correct materials for noting the degrees of heat, cold, the fall of rain, &c. He has kindly nffprpd to furnish for the ClIBOXICLE, a monthly statement of such memor-1 , ' . .1 i ,,c i onda as may be thought ucful. Eecokd of Indications of the Ther mometer in Lewislnirg, in the shade and open air, for January, 1850. .Ian. 18-'6. Time of observation. Kay of month. 7. A M. if. P.M. Iu, P.M. Pi!y mean. 1 4.7 19.3 2.3 5.63 3 3 4 5 7 S 10 11 13 13 It IS 1 17 18 19 30 31 23 33 34 25 36 27 34 29 30 31 0.7 25.8 68 13 13. 5.7 11.3 16.2 6.0 93 3.2 30.3 28.8 21.3 12.0 25 5 118 13 P.O 8 9 1 1.4 21.9 3.7 12.6 10.9 108 19.9 26.9 11.5 4.3 20.0 3S.3 18.3 14.0 25.3 21.5 12.3 0.3 10.3 23.3 1C6 33.3 31.3 29.3 2M 3 31.3 33.3 32.0 1G.4 21.3 28.9 26.7 27.8 16.5 17.5 21.4 32.3 31.3 21.1 21.9 23.8 2J-0 5.2 15.3 14.8 19.3 7.9 7.4 7.3 1 0 25.5 27.8 21.3 22.8 25.1 2s.fi 13.8 14.1 12.4 13 3 31.7 13.5 24.5 7.5 4 0 1M.6 29.6 24.5 12.5 13.2 14.37 10 -0 I 17J7 5 23 1 -7,1 7.77 3.87 11. 20 12 J7 : 27.57 16 03 11.13 . Means ter month 9.14 23.37 11.92 15.81 The numbers indicate the decrees ' and tenths of a degree of Fahrenheit's scale. When no sign is used, the ; mercury was above zero ; when below j zero, the sign i is Ujvd. 1 he great-; oil liourM at lhf tliorinniopti'p -n T I Iin d liptwern and '5 nVl'lr P.M. : the least was 1 .2 at f. o el k, A.M., Jan. 9th". C. S. J. uM, ..nier.nHDt. I Daxiel A AI.PO, a Congregational clergyman, of New York State, has 1 been elected Chaplain to the House ' at Washington, lie is 94 years old. lie fought in the American llevolu- tion to secure the liberties we now - enjoy as a nation, and for seventy i and that two-thirds of all the woman who years past has preached the Gospel of pine away or die of love, do so for the peace. In youthful vigor warm, he j want of something better to do. Evcry bared his breast to the weapons of thing calculated to make love-sickness a his country's foes ; in ripe old age, feminine acquirement is a great injury ; he tremblingly implores the guidance , I"1 to strew the path of the suicide with of Almighty God iu tho councils of ! tue flowers of poesy and romance, is in a the nation ! A venerable man indeed j n'Sn degree reprehensible. unhung me aays ot it witu jo uy . a living actor and a fit character to 1 inaugurate xnc ultubi.icax movement i with which he sympathizes and which selected him as Chaplain. Robeut L. Moititis, of Pottsville, the new Post-Master for Congress, is a grandson of Robert Morris, the Fi nancier of the Revolution. Robert Morris died insolvent, yet his services were as essential in his dpnarttiir-ntns vere those of Washington in the Held.;011 A praise-worthy choice. j , -- - I , ,.3h '""N ! A e see different accounts, and hear different opinions expressed, as to the I effect of the present extremely cold season upon fruit buds, and especially ! upon peaches. The n.o.t prevalent , opinion appears to bo that these arc killed : and if so, they are not to be vilra.wu uujwmrt: iu iuc uion, as , the following morning by vivid lightning the cold has been everywhere severe, 1 aud heavy tbuuder. The Observer quotes and as dangerous to the more tender ! ten verses from the 43d chapter of Eccle peach bud of the South as to the har- siaoticus, brgiuuiug at the 13th as being dicr of the North. If this prove to ' in pointy U true, "our folks" wiU all do well to j A young melM by Jeep their supplies of peaches-whe-1 . boring politician which party she was thcr m cans, preserved, or dried for i most in favor of, replied that she preferred nest year's use as well 3 this. " a wedding party. The "Laws" to be Enforced Entertaining these views, it will be my imperative duty to exert the whole power of the Federal Executive toaupport public order in the Territory of Kansas, to vin dicate its laws, whether Federal or local, against all attempts of organized rccLst auce. 1'icrce's l.-.irt 31snj?. It is proven, bejoud all possibility of successful denial, that the laws maJc for the Territory of Kansas, were made ly an armed mob from Missouri, under the name and title of a Legislature, in which the people of Kansas had no part or lot, and the acts of which have no binding force upon them. We have before published the infamous statutes in relation to Slave ry, as it came from the bands of the Bor der llufllaus ; but we can not resist the opportunity here offered,. to again reruiud our readers of the real character of the laws which the President will euforce with " the whole power of the country." We quote a few sections front ANA CT TO PUNISH. OWENCES AGAINST SLAVE 1'KOl'r.KTY. Sec. 4. If auy person shall entice, de coy or carry out of Kansas, auy slave be longing to another, with the inteut to deprive the owner ,l-r-f of ouiU b1v, he shall Buffer DEATH, or be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than ten years. Sec. b. If any person shall assist in eutiving, &c., as above shall suffer DEATH, or be imprisoned at bard labor for not less than ten years. Sec. 8. If any persou in the territory shall aid or harbor auy escaped slave from auother State, such person shall be punished in like manner as if such slave bad escaped from his master in the territory. Sec. 11. If anv person print, write, in- troduce itito, publish or circulate, or cause bo brought into printed, written, pub- mhed or circulated, or knowingly aid or jn ltiuging iut0) prilllin 'pub,isU. j ing or circulating within this territory, j ohtS- let 1 entered no disreputable as atiy book, paper, &c, containing any state- j seuibly, and in no case kept improper com ments, doetriucs, tic, calculated to produce ; pany. Nevertheless, dancing was to me a a uisallcction among the slaves of this territory, he shall ftr punished by imprison ment at hard labor Jcr not less than Jive years. Sec. 12. If any free person by speaking or a-1 rl or maintain, that arsons rijht to hold tlacei iu the ter-: riinrv nr hii:im iiiTrifiiin oiia iv ntiMc J ) ' " J tirilll. publish, write, circulate, or causn to be introduced into the territorv. rut honk. 1 paper, magazine, pamphlet or circular, I coutaiuiug any deuial of the rL'hts of per- :t( 47 I fons to hold slaves in this territory, Sl.YH become profligate, aud many daughters 2C80 ; I'E ItSON SHALL H E D K E M K D (i U 1 L-; have been ruined. Dr. A. Clarke. 24.47; tv (IF FELON" Y, AND Pl'XlSHEDj V BY IMPKISOX.MEXT AT HARD LA-1 TnE True Elements of a Reformer. 19:63: lu.11 ATEUM NOT LEriSTHAN j It becomes the Christian to cherish 15.80 T'W O YLA11S. J hopeful views of bis age aud race. If he 14 50 ' EUhnl'f 'aws 'e 'bese, enacted I desponds, he will become inactive; if he 20.67 under the circumstances that we have rc- j despairs, ho will become fauatical or in-2I1- latcd, are to be enforced by the Army and ' sane. No man can benefit bis cotempora 12.20 anJ VavJ of tno '-nioD tljat 'be efforts of ries by perpetual fault-finding. The world 3.53 the Nullifiers to overthrow the Govern- was never made better by railing at it. It 16.93. , P n t a ill I : i i f l.infT r. it ,nl in li n .1 I .. I .. f . 1. ,1 ....... : - j ..... - o . ...... . .uw North, where so much has been sacrificed ; that the Union niiirht hi preserved, . . Good Sense versos Sentimentalism. ' The Editress of the "Pittsbura Visitor." Mrs. Swisshelui, makes the following re- j marks on a rcceutly publLhed love story : 1 AU that stufT about woman's love has ' sa;j 0Ter anJ ovcr again a hundred ; th0USand times, to the great detriment of j tlie interests of Lumaaity. There is : j no kind of necessity for using the press to J man whose temper or theology has under i persuade silly girls that it is very roman- gone the acetous fermentation, will rather tic and womanly to lore a scoundrel to ; leave her affections ungarded by reason or - . . , f , , ... experience, and drift helplessly into sin, ! shame and despair, as an evidence of her ! unsuspecting womanhood. "It is not true that woman's affections are any stronger or more durable than roan's. We think the onnosile is the case. "va ' guaru young gins throufil1 tue u,!,1 of love is, 'Do right and trust in God.' A voune cirl who has 1. . - o o done no wrong, has little cause to mourn over the fickleness of a pretended lover. Better ho should change his mind before than after marriage." Mrs. Swisshelm writes like a clevcr,sen sible woman. The Machias (Me.) Union says : "An unusual number of deer have been killed ,our river ,nJ viciuit wi,hin a few 8 . DC comTJ of two or turcc - m uuu uay last wecK, and other companies and individuals have suc- ceeded in killing from C to 20 each. The deer generally have been fat and in good condition." 'Vl7.l77ZrTZZlZ Tbe Fayettevilb, X. C, OUrccr states ,hat tbe vicini.v wa, visited on Saturdav ImI by a 8torin of gnow and sleet auJ on l Popular Souir...selwtit fir the Cbrmurla. 1 Do llK'y 911mm me at Home I " Do tlKjr nris m mt huif, tlo t!iy miM me? 'Tivould ha an a.-suraiira most dt-ar. To know at thin moment swn liwil oue Waa saving, "1 wi.li he was here!" To f-el that the Kr"of- t Hie fire aid Were thinking of ine at I roam Oil. yea! 't would Is- j'ty beyond measure Tj know that tlh-v mi.ted me at liulnel Oli, ye ! t oul 1 lie joy heyoud measure, To know that they mi.0ej me at home I When twilight a;proa'he, the aaason Tluit ever was sitered to sou?, Hues some one repeat my name over, And si:h that 1 tnrrr so Imtg? And I. there chord iu the mu.ie That 's misled when my voirw Is away f Aud m chord in rai-h dear heart that makcta Regret at my Wearisome slay ? And a chord in each dear heart that maketh Keg-ret at tuy woarisoue way 1 I0 tliey place me m ehair at the table. When evening's home pleasurea are nigb, And lamps are lit bright in the parlor, And stars in the calm aaure sky t And when the "a-uod nights" are repeated, Aud each lays him down to sweet bleep, Vo tlu-y think of the absent, and waft me A whispered "good night" u'er the deep? Ilo they think of the absent, aud waft me A whispered "good n;gutn o'er the deep? Ho they miss me at home do they misa me, At tuoruinir. at noon, and at night ? And lingers one gloomy shaJe 'round then Thai only my presence can light? Are joys lens invitingly welcomed. Are pleasurea ley hailed than before, B.-cause one is iuied from the circle, Cecanse I am .I'D .Hum mm Because one is missed from the circle, llecaue I am with them no Biuret Danci.no. I long resisted all solicita tions to this enjoyment, but at last allow ed myself to be overcome. I grew pas sionately fond of it. And now I lost tho spirit of subordination, did not love work, imbibed a spirit of idleness, and in short drank in all the brain-sickening effluvia of pleasure. Dancing and company took the placo of reading and study ; the au thority of my parents was feared but not rcspi;Ct(.d aud fcW seri ,, ., . . ,. could prevail a mind n serious impressions imbued with friv- perverting influence, an unmixed moral evil. I consider it a branch of that world ly education which leads from heaven to earth, from things spiritual to things sen- sual, and from God to Satan. Let them plead for it who will, I know it to be evil and only evil. "No man in bis senses said Cicero, a heathen. rill dance,1 Sbamc, tllcDi on those Christians who ad- voeate a cause by which many sons have Dtiuviu jmna nin;i iium lucuuiuuuauaut'u of its errors. The wisdom of the serpent and the barmlcssncss of the dove are pre- stribcd true reformer. A Jew was never converted by forcing him t0 cat swine's flesh. The world cannot be reformed by denunciation. Some men think to break the hard hearts cf old transgressors, as Hannibal did tho rocky barriers of the Alps, by pouring vinegar I l J I a b on them ; but it is very certain that the rouse the indignation of his hearers than soften them to penitence by his preaching. A ReucT of the Past. Mishael M' Kinney, of Warren Co., Pa., aged 97 years, recently arrived at this cityjma raft, which he helped to work, pulling oc casionally at the oar. lie is still vigorous and active. G3 years ago he piloted the first log raft that ever descended the Alle gheny river to this city. Tho Journal thus coutiuues bis history : "He is un doubtedly the most 'ancient mariner' of the Allegheny alive. For a number of the early years of his residence in Warren county he was alone in the wilderness, with no companion more sociable or friend ly than the Indian, the wolf, bear, and "tamc - nr,.. . his nearest white neighbor be. . . rt ee rr , e. i ing ten miles off. He has a perfect recol lection of the incidents and prominent men connected with the history and early settlement of Western Pennsylvania." rittiburg dir. Adv. Dr. Alexander Jones states that there are fifty thousand Welehmen in the United States, and not an office bolder among them I Happy race. Of tbe descendants of tbe Welch, be says that seventeen of the signers of the Declaration of Indepen dence were of Welch origin, among whom Jefferson was ono. "The fire is going out, Miss Filkins." ' I know it, Mr. Green, and you would act wisely, to follow its example." It is unnecessary to add that Green nev er asked to sit up with tbat girl again. A celebrated portrait painter says the reason that tom-cats are so musical, is be cause they arc all fiJdlo strings inside. He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue it,will never have one of his own to show. Some flowers and herbs that grow very low arc of a very fragrant smell and health ful use. BROWSE'S LICEasjE BILI. Passed the Senate on the 1 tth inst., and in the House on the 23d was referred to a select committee of seven, consisting of Messrs. Wright, of Lucerne, Hill, Huuse kcr, Montgomery, McCarthy, OeU and Mugee. The bill is very stringent in iu provi sions, and we think if it becomes a law it will be more effectual iu correcting the evils of !iiUur selling than the law passed at the last sessiou of the legislature. The filh section of the bill provides that no licenses shall be granted except to citi zens of the United Suites, of temperate habits anil good moral character. Before any license for the side of liquor under this section shall he granted, the person applying for the same, shall give a bond to the Statts, with two sufficient sureties, in the sum of one thousand dollars, condi tioned for the faithful observance of tbe law. The 12lh and 13th sections classifies and rates the prices of license, as follows : Sec. 12 Tbe venders of wines, malt or distilled liquors, either with or without other pooiis, wares or commodities, shall he classified and rated as follows, viz: Those who are estimated anil taken to make andeffect annual sales to tbe amount of twenty thousand dollars and upwards, hall coustitate the lirst class aud pay tivo liumlioJ dollars. Those to an amount of tea thousand dollars, and less than twenty thousand the second class, and shall pay three hun dred and fifty dollars. Those to the amount of eight thousand dollars, and less than ten thousand, the third class, and shall pay two hundred aud filly dollars. Those to the amount of six thousand dollars, and less than eight thousand, the fourth class, aud shall pay two hundred dollars. Those to the amount of four, and less than six thousand dollars, shall form the filth class, and pay oue hundred aud fifty dollars. Those to the amount of two, and less thau tour thousand dollars, shall form the sixth class, aud shall pay one hundred dol lars. Those loss than two thousand dollars shall form the seventh class, and pay fifty dollars ; and no license, as aforesaid, shall be granted for any less sum. Sec. 13. That all hotels, inns and taverns shall be classified and rated according to the estimated yearly rental of the house and property intended to be occupied for said puriioses, as follows, to wit: All ca ses where the valuation of the yearly rental of the said house and property shall be ten thousand dollars, shall constitute tnn first class, and shall pay one thousaud dol lars. Where the valuation ef the yearly rental thill he eight thousand dollars, and not more than ten thousand dollars, the serond cluss, and shall pay eight hundred dollars. Where the valuation of rental shall be six thousand dollars, and not more than ci'ht thousand dollars, the third class, and ahull pay six hundred dollars. Where the valuation of rental shall be four thousand, and not more than six thou sand dollars, the fouth class, aiigl shall pay four hundred dollars. Where the valuation of the rental shall he two thousand dollars and not more than four thousaud dollars, the fifth class, and hall pay three hundred dollars. Where the valuation of rental shall he one thousand dollars, and not more than two thousand dollars, in the sixth class, and shall pay two hundred dollars. Where the valuation of rental shall be five hundred dollars, and not over a thou sand dollars, in the seventh class, aud shall pav one hundred dollars. Where the valuation of rental shall be three hundred aud not over five hundred dollars, in the eighth class, and shall pay seventy-five dollars. Where the valuation of rentid shall be under three hundred dollars, iu the ninth class, and shall pay fifty dollars ; I'rori'kJ, howrrr, That in the cities of Philadelphia nnd Pittsburg no license under the classi fication of the 12th and 13th sectiens of this act shall be for less than one hundred dollars, nor in County Towns and Bor oughs having more than 2000 toxablcs for less than seventy-five dollars. Licenses granted under the classification cf the above sections, shall not be transfer able, nor shall confer the right to sell li quors in any other house or building than the one mentioned and described in the license. It is made incumbent on every person licensed, according to the provisions of the act, to frame his license under a glass, and place the same so that it may at all times be conspicuous in his chief place of making sales ; and no license shall author ize sales by any person who shall neglect this requirement. Any person convicted of selling liquor contrary to the provisions of this law, shall pay a fine of not less thau ten nor more than one hundred dollars, and be impris oned nntil the sentence of the Conrt be complied with, not exceeding sixty days and upon a second or any subsequent con viction, the party so offending shall, in ad dition to the payment of a fine, as aforesaid, undergo an imprisonment in the county jan, of not less than one month, nor more than three months ) and if licensed, shall forfeit said license, and be incapacitated from receiving any license, for the period of five years. Any person found intoxicated shall be fined five dollars. If a constable will willfully fail to make return to the Court of Quarter Sessions of any place within his baliwick kept and maintained in violation of this act, he shall, upon conviction, pay a fine of fifty dollars, and be subject to imprisonment not less than ten nor more than thirty days. The bill repeals the act of 1355, com monly denominated the "Jog Law" but docs not impair the provisions of the Sun day Law, nor of the act of the Sth of May, 1854, entitled "an act to protect certain domestic and private rights, and prevent bases in the sale and Use of intoxicating drinks.'' Speech of Hon. David Taggart, Of Northumberland comity, in Senate, ICth Feb.lH5B. in favor of Mr. Bowit's amend ments to Mr.Wii.Ki!' nubstitute for House U: 11 to repeal the Restraining I.tqnnr Law. If I bad needed any proof of the feeble ness of tbe cause to which I am opposed, I have certainly had it, and to the fullest extent, in the utter inability of Senators on this floor, and especially of the venera ble and distiugusbed Senator from Alle gheny, (Mr. Wilkius,) to defend it. If he, sir, who fur fifty years hat been a man of note iu the land ; raised by bis talents to nearly every high post under the gov ernment ; a meiuler of the House of Rep resentatives before you and I were burn ; a member of Congress, and a Senator of tbe United States ; a Judge of two courts and one of them a Federal court; a Cabinet Minister, and a Minister Plenipo tentiary ; if he, sir, with all his brain-icon honors clustering thickly around him in the pride and power of his unclouded in tellect, and may I not add here, in all the skicning and scalping ferocity of his sar casm if bo, sir, can adduce no argument and raise no point, how ragged, wretched, helpless must be tbat cause 1 Nay, if be had the mental stature of a god, be could not defend it. The imperishable Truth comes across bis path, and tbe giant be comes a pigmy iu the hollow of its hand. Mr. Speaker, he has told us that drunk enness U "a limited evil." Great God 1 to it is t .limiUd by the bounds of tha earth, and the habitations of the human race, and limited by nothing else. For it has penetrated wherever men have made their homes, to desolate and destroy them. I appeal to history ; aud its voice, answer ing from the deep of ages, tells me it bas swept off wholo nations, and laid waste tbe proudest cities of the earth. It u a "lim ited evil," but there is scarce a fireside in the land it bas not clouded a heart that it has not saddened an eye' that it has not filled with tears. I ask bim, with bis four-score years of experience, if it is not so? Has he never known the happiness of a household blighted, the pride of a fa ther's soul humbled, or a mother's heart wrung with agony t If he has not, sir, you and I bave, in instances more than we would care to tell. Has he not seen it enter the domestic circle the hallowed sanctuary of home and scatter its dearest joys as leaves are scattered by the winds of winter? winds, alas I that in this case, no spriugtime ever comes to temper. Has be not seen it fall liko a blight upon those whom nature bad eudowed with every rare gift of body and mind, and sink them, de graded and brutalized, into drunkards' or felons' graves ? And yet all this is no thing to the filthy gold that commerce may wring from wretchedness I It is a "limited evil," but kiud Heaven protect us from such limitations ! He bas asserted, sir, that drunkenness conduces to no enormous crimes. Does that venerable Senator not know tbat our peniteutiaries scarcly contain an habitual ly sober man ? Does bo not know tbat our police reports are filled with the names of drunkards ? Does he not know that nine tenths of all crimes, and nine-tenths of all murders, are committed through intemper auce, and tbat the gallows creaks almost daily with the carcasses of druukards ? If he do not, sir, it is time be should, and, with all the profound deference that my irreverent nature is capable of, I proffer the information. I thiuk it was Diogenes who said, he bad often regretted speech, but never si lence. The ancient Cyuio should have made exceptions to this rule. There are times, sir, when it is not only stupid, but criminal, to be silent. As far as I am concerned, this is such a time. If I failed to be heard now, I should be false to the faith of my boyhood, and a traitor to my manhood's best and strongest convictions. My memory can not recall a time when these were not my principles. When I was a boy at school, I could seetbe slimy track of the serpent all around me, and I will tell you what my memory can recall the forms of those who fell before it, whom its poisonous breath struck down. I remember them too well. I sat with them on the same bench swam the same river, and scaled the same hi-h bill and now there is nothing left of them but a ghastly memory to bold me to my faith ! Ay, sir, it will hold me there not merely for my own selfish safety, but for the sake of two little children, whom it is natural I should sometimes think about, and who shall never become tbe serpent's prey while I bave a voice to warn or a strong arm to protect them. Whoever will take tbe trouble to con sult the record will find that, less than a year ago, I voted for tbe law, which whis key mongers and their rum-headed para sites have commonly denominated the "Jug Law." I did to, because I hoped thereby to promote the causo of temper ance, and the welfare of my fellow citizens. The popular vote forbade the enactment of a Prohibitory law, and, striving and hoping to be right, we enacted this. I am j compelled reluctantly to admit, it has not quite answered my expectations not on account of its own defects, but because a majority of the pcoplo aro opposed to it, and because in some sections it ia total! 3 disregarded, and by common acquiescence consigned to an untimely grave. I be-1 vert the error and mperxtittons ol tix lieve the majority of the people to be j thousand years. Progress w stumped oposi wrong in this instance; but it is useless ( everything that God has made, aad be ia to legislate in the face of publie opinion, j bnt a dullard and a sloth who bold back 1. h.t no matter , ward in tbe race. Uwa waaat-isi J" ' i bow isnorantlr thev hate them, will be- eome a dead letter, in spite of all that law makers and law interpreters may do to the contrary. Although I voted for the law of last session, I am now ready to vote for its re peal, but at no time and under no circum stances for its nuconditional repeal. In comins to this conclusion, I bave not founded my calculations upon the dollars and cents which tho owners of tavernn, ' makers of whiskey, and sellers of grog, j may gain or lose. There are eonsidera j tions, paramount to these, wbicb claim my thought and command my sympathies considerations tbat involve more vital in terests the degradation of men, the sor rows of women, and the tears of little children. And I trust in God I may ne ver be brought to disregard thce, for the sake of the gold that may be wrung from human misery. I will vote tor this repeal, not that tav ern keepers -may make mora money, but that our great cause may not be injured by forcing publio opinion. The popular voice is just as clamorous for a wholesome and vigorous substitute, and I am glad that it is go. In no nuarter of the State is anyining else expeciea or uemanaeu. .,- , , s . , Since the 14th of April, 1805, the very traffickers themselves have ceased their ia - discriminate bowlings at everything in tbe form of restrictions, and whimpered gently as tucking doves for any change we may be pleased to give thein. This is ' proudest privilege independence of tbVt one good result that has grown out of the I and aetion. Ha who comes hers to play enactment which Senators on this floor, in j the doughface or tbe demagogue, may win, tbe enthusiasm of their gratitude to the j the transitory applause of thoughtless combination tbat tent "them here, bave I men, but he will lose tbat which he should spoken of to contemptuously. And I, bold much mors highly, his own self-re-for one, sir, am anxious to take advautage j epect and tb permanent regard of that) of this salutary change in the sentiments of tbe advocates of whiskey. A bile it is unwise for law-makers to get too far ahead of public opinion, it ia senseless snd an patriotio to fall behind it Tbe legislator should not attempt to tteer his bark against both wind and tide, bat like a skilful pilot, should take advantage of ths current, guiding it carefully among rocks and quicksands. While he avoids the hurricane blasts, that only eease to blow when fhey bave destroyed their victims, be should not dread the transitory storms of mobbich clamor, for they will pass harmless away, and tbe snn will shine again, and the more brightly for tbe dark ness which his rays were able to dispel. Let Justice, Courage and Truth be stamped upon the flag tbat floats above him, and when his bark is safely moored and its the former kind put together. I mean tho cargo brought to shore, they who were one presented by the Senator from Pkila fiercest in their imprecations, will be fore- j delpbia, (Mr. Browne,) and signed by most and loudest iu their praises. Let us i 5100 women of that great eity. I mention. work upon this principle, and step by step we shall gain upon the giant evil that for centuries bas been desolating tbs world, and scattering crime, poverty, disease and death, with all their concomitant and in separable horrors aronnd it. Mr. Speaker, tbe day is not very far off when people will look back in astonish-' mcnt at the time when a trafSo in ardent Goose, and I can recall none of these that spirits was legalized, or even tolerated, ! fit tbe case. But I promise you, however among civilized men. And although, just much be may get ahead of ma ia words, now, the law of reaction seems to require j be shall not in feeling ; I can feel as deef a baikicard surge, tbe great tide will roll ! b' 13 be. There never wa a lima, and X on, till tbe foulest and most universal ; trust there never will be, tbat wosaaa, scourge tbat ever afflicted tbe world shall j with her high and generous heart, and her be obliterated from its face. It ia my bope : unerring love of Right and Truth, eooll and earnest belief tbat in tea years from j not command me aud my humble services, to-day, a licensed groggory, or a greggery If there is one thing which mors than aa of any sort, will be uukuowa among the other attaches me to this causa of Temps forty millions of this Kepublie ; aad - ia 1 ranee, it is that woman, ia every eoodi othcr tea years, unknown among all the tioa, and in every ago aad land, ha best, nations of the earth. it advocate and defender. Aad well sbs There was a time, sir, when to assert J may be, tir, for too often and too sadly tbat tbe globe moved around the sua was her withered hope aad broken heart attest punished with imprisonment aud threaten- J the power of ber great enemy, cd with torture, aad now it is aot only the : Surely, sir, thoughts like these should, creed of learned philosophers, but of boors . temper somewhat the enthusiastic gratitude, and school boys. Assure as tbe Almighty , of which I have spoken, and which so out bas gifted man with intellect to eompre- Senators manifest on all occasion towards hend the Truth, so sure will Truth ulti- i the interested League tbat elected, theau mately prevail. It needs only time, and ( Surely, sir, that gratitude should not mako its own inherent omnipotence, tj insure ! them entirely oblivious of earlier and bet its triumph; and its grandest triumph will j ter and kindlier sentiments it should not be to dethrone Intemperunce, and blot out make them entirely forget, that in days Rum from among the great powers of the j gone by they entertained a more eompre eartb. When this triumph comes, tir, ; bensive humanity a humanity tbat axs Beggary will be driven from the land ! teuded above and beyond the finipej! Crime will no longer stalk abroad prisons will be unpoopled tbe gallows robbed and Madness bowl ia vaiu for its victims. Tbat time will come, sir. Truth is to mighty, that if a siDgle ray of its light fall among men, it will grow wider and deeper and higher and brighter, till no vestige of Error remains. An apple fell from a tree ia tight of a man whom nature had an dowed with a masaivo brain, and from ' that little circumstance a theory was de- duced which explained the physical bar- inouy of tho Universe the motions of in numerable worlds. Tbat man, by the ex traordinary share of deity that he possess- ed, was able to comprcheud that the tame i (Mr. Laubacb) will explain to you, is lbs principle which brought the apple to the . Dutch for " fernenst the habit an I ens earth, held tho earth iu its orbit, and j lotus of our ancestors." Ordinary dgy. guided tho planets iu their illimitable , im hears thj saino relation lj t ilsJ, tiacki. So mighty is Tm'.h ; givo it but aw ii-l l'u. a foothold, and sooner or later it will tab- Uut, sir, this idea is to be takes ia con- ! nection with another. Under a popular government, the will of tbe people, from whom emanates all political power, most not be disregarded. If it is, our enact ments will be disregarded, and lawIettMM will bo adJed to evils already existing. This consideration, and this alone, impels me to the course I intend to pursue in vo- j ting for a license law. I do not cringe to ; popular clamor for any effect it nay have- upon mysen or my pouueai lorcunes ; ana although I do not claim to be entirety destitute of the sentiment which, the ven , i. . erable Senator tclla us, distinguishes i from tbe crawling worm, I do not valaa those fortune highly enough to sicrifi my manhood upon their shrino. I hav never cast a vote, a or ottered a word, ia this chamber merely to advance them, aad, so help me God ! I never wilL " If it de mands this sacrifice, my efforts moat Cad another channel, aad my ambition another career. While I am here, sir, bribes shall not swerve me, threats shall not appal sae, nor persecution drive me from my course. The tail is set, and my hand it upon tha helm. If I am wrecked, tbe waters that overwhelm mo tball be pure aad stainless. And when my political carcase it dashed , upon tbe shore, I trust no man will point 1 to it and tay behold tbe spots and blot- i cbes of corruption. Popularity is too of ten the boon of knaves and fools, to bs bought with the surrender of a free man's whose regard it worth the most. Mr. Speaker, two torts of petition kavo come here by hundreds ono sort mora numerous than tbs other; tome of these reeking with ths smell of rant ; marked with the ttaina of ram ; written on bar room counters, by hand made tremnloaa with rum ; and I dare tha assertioa that nearly all of these have origiaatsd in tho patriotism of traffickers in ram aasm whose sounder judgments ha to been warped and whose better feeling har been per verted by that too powerful incentive to human action tht love of gain. We bavo heard these, sir, and while we are giving proper heed to their demands, let us a4 be unmindful of another tort, quits as much entitled to our regard. Ia my ham bis opinion, ons of these is worth all of it particularly, tir, tbat I may not be snt- done in gallantry by the trim sad stately Senator from Allegheny (Mr. M'Clintoek). Ho bas alluded to them in ths beautiful language of poetry. I am sorry I can not emulate him in this line, for alas ! I bavo ' forgotten all my poetic lore, except tho sweet melodies of tbs venerable Mother prosperity of whiskey-mongers, and em braced witbia it the poor and helpless tbo vioiiia as well as the victimiscr. Mr. Speaker, I can not leave tbe subject without a few words ia reply to the vaga ries of the amiable but backsliding Senator from tbe county (Mr. Ingram). I would call them arguments, ia courtesy to tho Senator, if I could, for I have beea rather pleased with bis deportment tine he earn amongst us. Bur, sir, there can bo no argument in such a cause. II tslla u that any restriction ia tbe free flow of w hi -key is " contra more msjoram, which, as the Senator frojj Northampton. inr
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