'lEWISBUEG CHRONICLE BY 0. N. WORDEN & J. As IxDErEXDEXT Familt is IJ-'ff Ma tfi ucneiviis Knoosh of etMOTt. Let mj humble lays F.mpl'f one mmnt lo eonrenlal praise. I,t olhet Pens with P,ou' wdor paint Tbe selfish eirtoes of the c'.oijtered salut ; Id lettered marble let the itrmii;rr read ttf him who. djinj, did a worthy deed, And k ft to charity the cnerUlwl store, VUich to hi sorrow ho could hoard no more. I rent-rate the nobler man, who (tiref I ieneron Jollare white the donor lires ; dires with a heart as lilieral as the pains That, to the needy, spread hii honored alms; Oieea with a head whe yet nnrlonded light To worthy object rotate the aieer's sight; Giro with a hand eliU potent to enfuroe Hie well-aimed boonty, and direct its course: f.u -h i. the girer who mnit ttand eonfeased la cirinz clurions, and supremely hleeard! J.O. SAXK. IT1? cirooxici. J MOXOAY, J.tX. 2'Ji5J f Gov. Packer's Inaugural, jLike many other similar papers, contains much that all will approve, and yet we trill wait to see his acts; for it is by deeds, ot by professions, public men are judged. The labored Constitutional argument 4hit a Governor is bound either to approve lor to ceto every bill, ., brought before . Jiim, is overthrown by the simple fact that Ithe Constitution expressly provides that Julia may besome laws without the action f the Executive either pro or con, not on ly during sessions of Legislatures, but al . to after their adjournment. It is doubt less very desirable and proper that all icU requiring investigation should be pre sented in good season for thorough Exec--ftitive examination ; and it ia equally evi dent that the Constitution contemplates jcascs where this oan not be done. Nor is it in reason essential that an Executive Jehould alaays publicly give bis assent or dissent from Legislative acts. It may in I some measure concern himself, and deli l cacy may restrain him, or propriety may forbid his interference. II is own judg ment or prior committal may differ from the publio will, and yet he may gracefully yield, without compromising his reputa tion or his integrity, and permit the Leg islative Department to perform its peculi arly appropriate) functions unmolested. He may permit what be can not approve and yet what he does not think it proper to veto. We deem this a wise constitutio nal provision. Had Fillmore,deeming the Fugitive Slave Law under all the circum stances expedient, permitted it to pass without writing that word, so pregnant with meaning "appeovei" his fame would have been far greater ; his own conscience, we doubt not, much easier; and he might have been elected President Aa Executive may justly and constitu tionally approve, permit, or veto. The stereotyped party professions about banking are relieved by an original sugges tion that we ask our sister States, in a friendly spirit, to suppress the issue of small notes. We certainly now have suf ficient specie for ordinary circulation, and if England can get along with no notes less than JC5, (925,) we certainly may sup- presa all below 110. and we think in so doing would subserve the publio interests. These, with post-office orders for smaller amounts, would be sufficient and very con venient. The oft-recommended better se curity of Bank issues, we wish might make some headway, and that no more Banks be chartered at present Mr.Packer does not say whether he will be a candidate for re-election. The Governor's weak encomium npon the first Pennsylvania President, and his allusion to Kansas affairs, are said to be very unsatisfactory to the National Ad ministration ; but our advices from Har risburg agree that the Democraoy.as there represented, are with Douglas and against Buchanan on the Kansas question. We hope this may provo true, and that they will give expression to their views in an unmistakeable manner. The Governor's linking together Kan sas and Utah, is much like an attempt to blend light and darkness ; while bis inti mations that the majority in Kansas have manifested "insubordination to right ful authority," look like an endorsement of the Border Ruffian reign. All such censures, however, can rightfully fall on ly upon the usurpers, the ballot-stutTers, and the murderers, of the Blue Lodges, and not upon the bona fide settlers. On the other hand, his reference to the fact that all the people of a Territory should have what Gov. Walker, Stan ton, and others have conclusively proved the people of Kansas did not have " a JuU and fair opportunity to elect Dele gates," and that "the people should have an unqualified right to vote upon tho Con- Mttllfiftm ' lilifi , k n m Mnln if k'.nr. ,1 M no have under the Calhoun plot these i -- , - "'Kit UB V. UBHSWI V. 1 V . ceu.iuieuiu are just ana manly, ana ex press the true wishes of the people of Pennsylvania and of the North. But the people desire these correct principles ap plied to the present as well as to "the fu ture'sno shirking of right and duty by allowing Red Ruffianism to have its way for this time. They can no longer trust the faith of the perfidious violators of the Missouri Compromise and the engineers of the Lecompton fraud. Do right, now, and pot permit a hideous wrong by the Punio professors of doing justly some other time. "Xext day the fatal precedent via plead.- ''i i f S8TLVANIA EX GOVEENOBS, DOW 1 llTmi?. nd their politics: V. Vo l;ner'Ca,nberlnd Co.,Opposition J R Porter, Dauphin Co .Administ'n. i,.tJoos,(,D'AUganyCo.,Opposition J. iUimb Big!ei-,CleUd Co , AdaTinist'n. Jmcs rcl.c,k,.VKthum'd CoOrpOiiuen. E. CORNELIUS. News Jockxal. "Executive Mansion." The eighty years practice of our rcnnsylvania Gov ernors, stauding tlicir chance with others who may be called to resiJe in Ilarrisburg (with or without their families) as to a dwelling, wont do for modern Democracy. The first act of Packer' aibninittration in these crushing time is to buy a boue Ilarrisburg, at a cost of 510,000, for I the Governor to live in. All the local power in Ilarrisburg was of course brought to bear upon the matter, and L'uckalew and the other parti leaders hurried it on with the energy of partizan drill. Most of the Opposition Members voted against it. It was urged in favor of the measure, that "the honor and dignity" of this great State demanded it, and that all the Gov ernors had recommended it shame that the Governor should have to hunt up his own home, like a common man that his 'hospitality" required it, ic. &c. On the other hand it was argued that now was not the time if ever to increase the public bur thens in any particular, especially as Sj00 has just been added to the Governor's sal ary that this purchase would involve an annual outlay of thousands per year, for repairs, additions, ic, and really increase the Governor's annoyances and expenses, instead of reducing them that he was not obliged to keep open house any more than any other man holding office in nar risburg, &o. But to no avail : the party lash was applicd,and Ten Thousand Dolls, for a house for Gov. Packer is an ominous commencement of his administration on the score of economy. Messrs. Hayes and Witmer voted gs. & tcnemc. Good News from Kansas. St. Locis, Jan. 21. The Democrat has the Official Returns of the two Elections in Kansas, one called by the Lecompton Convention for tho 21st Dec, and the other by the Territorial Legislature for the 4th Jan., as published over the signatures of Gov. Denver and the presiding Officers of the Territorial Legislature. (Whether Calhoun signed, or has made a separate report, is not stated.) The result as thus announced including 3,500 fraudulent votes at Oxford, Shawnee and Kickapoo sums up as follows: Jan. 4. Agalnet Lemmpton Constitution 18,938 Dec -1, 'or Lecomp-n Const'n wirA slavery S,1 43 Kitaeat tow 6.71S Jfy. Apiiiut teemton OnutUulimt 10M The official returns of elections on the 4th show an average maj. of 415 for all the Republican State Officers. The Legislature stands Rep. Tcin. Senate It states IS 42 21 Two to one Republican in each House ! If these news provo correct, we hardly think Buchanan will any further dare to force the Lecompton Constitution through with the bayonets and balls of the Ameri can army 1 lMr. Ecnkle remarked in Congress the other day, that but for the extraordi- nary mild winter we have, thousands of able bodied men in Pennsylvania, with their families, would be now suffering the very extremes of cold and hunger. Mr. Kunkel, upon his urgent request, was ex cused from serving on the investigation in relation to the last change in Tariff. T f Ttr,..i.i;en. wni.,,1 , . , , , .p. 1 against mas cuaugc, auu uuiy tsu xsciuu- I crats. It is easily seen which party is re sponsible for it. First act of Pres. Buchanan's Ad ministration Twenty Millions of Dollars in government shin-plasters to pay expen ses and that, only the beginning, while millions of our specie goes to Europe yearly to pay for manufactures which should be made at home. First act of Gov. Packer's Administra tion Ten Thousand Dollars (with all the annual expenditures following) for a "man sion" suitable for his "Dcmocratio Ex cellency ! K&k correspondent of the Democrat of Tunkhannook, awards much credit to Messrs. Curtix and Sullivan, the reti ring Secretary of the Commonwealth and his Assistant, for their faithful and ablo discharge of their duties, and states that they, as well as Gov. Pollock, have won much personal popularity. This is a fair compliment from a paper of opposing politics. The same correspondent stated that it was uncertain whether Gen. rack- cr WOuld take bis family to Harrisburg. Changing. Wm.F. Packer takes Ja's Pollock's place as Governor; thereupon John C. Knox takes A. G. Curtin's place as Secretary of the Commonwealth ; where upon Wm. A. Porter takes J. C Knox's place as a Judge of the Supreme Court; ami Wm. L. Hirst takes W.A.Porter's place as Solicitor of Philadelphia. There's "bargain and salo" and 'rotation in office' with a vengeance ! SoTOne Southern paper says that Sen ator Douglas has sold his slaves and plan tation in Mississippi, and therefore takes sido against Slavery. Others say that be is only winning the freedom loving people of Illinois enough to be agaiu elected to tho U. S. Senate, cd then Lc will go niii the Scuih sain. LEWISBURG, UNION Congressmen and Newspapers. Mr. Davis, who holds a contested seat in Congress from the Plug Ugly district of Baltimore, has made a fierce attack on the newspaper press of the country. What Mr. Davis' private grievance may be, in connection with the press, we don't know; but we do know that better men than he naTC ietn maJc by the press, and, when deserted by that powerful engine, have dropped iuto obscurity. In the last Con gress, Campbell, of Ohio, made a similar assault on the press, and he, ton, now sits in a seat of Congress claimed by an other, and from which he is any day lia ble to be tbru?t out. Mr. Kuukel gave these gentlemen a pretty severe dig,when, in reply to Davis, he said, "You may put corrupt men in this House; you may put corrupt men in the Senato; corruption may crawl aud creep along all the avenues to this Capitol ; and yet, with a free, un shackled, faithful press, the interests, rights, and liberties of tho people will be preserved." This is true ; and never be fore was the free press more needed to ex pose tho accumulating corruption in offi cial stations, than now. Why, the very case iu which Davis was speaking, when he cave vent to bis spleen, was to appoint a Committee to investigate a charge of corruption in the passage of a tariff act in tho late Congress. The books of Law rence, Stone &, Co., (a firm in Massachu setts which has failed and thus brought their books before the public) show that that one firm subscribed 587,000 for the puij-uw! or naviog mat Tarilt act adopted. Gentlemen in Congress may very much dislike to have little matters of this kind inquired into, and may pour down their wrath npon the press; bnt the press is able to take care of itself, and will go on, as the true representative of the people, when its calumniators have sunk down to their original nothingness. Were it not for tho vigilance of the press, and the no toriety it gives to all transpiring of inter est to the people, our legislatures, State and National, would become so befouled with corruption that none but human bus zards and hyenas could find a place about the legislative halls. Heaven knows that there is corruption enough, as it is ; but if there where no newspaper press to ex pose it and to defend the people, it would be infinitely worse. Lebanon- Courier.' The Washington Correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer says : "Hon. John C. Kunkel. of vour State, in few brief sentences effectually rebuked the member from Maryland for his attack on the press, which institution be eloquently defended. He made a capital Pennsylvania speech, and, as usual, proved himself one of the State's most successful advocates." A Non-Committal Captain. The Salem Register tells the following of a citizen, Captain Wabd, who flourish ed in that municipality in days of yore. Capt. Ward was an eccentrio of the first water, and one of his peculiarities was that he never gavo the desired answer to a direct question. An amusing instance of this evasive habit is related. One morning, four of his friends, who were aware of this trait in his character, observ ed tho Captain going to market, and, af ter some bantering, entered into a bet as to the practicability oflcarning from him tho price he paid for his pureHe. They according! settled the preliminaries, and, stationing themselves at different points along Essex street, which he must pass on his way home, awaited bis coming, Very soon, the bluff old gentleman made his appearance with a bunch of pigeons in his band. As ho approached, the first questioner accosted him with : "Good morning Captain; what did yon give for pigeons, this morning? "Money !" said the Captain, bluntly, as he moved up the street The second gentleman, a little further on, addressed him, and asked : "How go pigeons this morning, Captain : "Tbey don't go at all I carry 'cm !" was the equally unsatisfactory reply. Shortly after, he met the third, who passed the time of day, and inquired: "How much are pigeons a dozen, Cap'anT" "Didn't get a dozen only bought half a dozen 1" said the old gentleman, gruffly, still plodding on his way. Finally, the fourth and last of the con spirators cottoned to the wary old salt by observing, in the blandest of tones : " A fine lot of pigeons you have there, Cap tain what did yon get them for V "To cat !" was the pertinent and em phatic rejoinder, and the Captain reached home without further molestation. If the pigeons did not "take wing," the joke did, and has been handed down by tradition to the r'jjJt--. Quarrel. There was quite contro versy in the Dein. Stato Committec.which met at Harrisburg last week. The Bu chanan men wanted the State Convention put off until the 4tk of July (to nvoid ex pressions of publio feeling relative to the Lecompton infamy, it is supposed;) but the Doughs men insisted npon the usual time Thursday, 4th March. Douglas carried the day (against Buch. in bis own State!) i CO., PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1858. From the Presbyterian Banner a Adenosis, riltsbnrg. GENERAL HAVELOCK. Be v. and Dear Sin : It was in the year icon .1 1. . .,;t ;h OUU. tiiO Winn uvvauiw viw.m-x'- T tanl TT n...l nf .h 13,1, .. A.ll. U J - . T IP. II. ,l. then mens j.uiuuuau muuui. s.c "--. , 7 r , . . i 1J ndnt ami atitinnerl at Rnrnnul. in ' Upper India. Dr. Campbell and myself, r l on our arrival in that country, were sta tioncd at Scharunpoor, thirty milts from Kurnaul. Shortly after, we received an invitation from Lieut Havelock to attend a temperance meeting he had got up in his regiment, to make addresses, and to remain with him a few days. We accord ingly went. He was then chiefly known at a distance as the author of " Burmah Campaign," and at home as a very prom, ising young officer. We found the hero that was to be a remarkably small man not able to awing his sword buckled by bis side with a large nose, a high, intel lectual forehead, and watched, on cither side, by small, grey, bright eyes. His countenance was far from prepossessing, but. when lichted up by vivid thoughts, the whole expression was pleasing. En- ercv was depicted in every movement of ... , Douy or niinu. were cons wakeful hours. ily worship, Mrs. Havelock is a daughter of the late venerable Dr. Marsbman, of the Seram pore Missions a worthy daughter of a worthy father. At the time of their mar riage, Havelock was not pious; but.tbrou.ih nis wite's and father-in-law's instrumental- ity he became a truly devoted Christian, and a Baptist There being no minister of that persuasion, in Kurnaul, he had a chapel erected, collected a large congrega tion of dissenters, and preached to them, both on the Sabbath and week days, ne also administered the Lord's supper to them, and, I believe, baptized those be admitted to his communion. This gave rise to the Commander in Chiefs saying, "As Havelock's men are the best in tbe army, I wish ho would bsptizo the whole army." I often preached for him in his chapel, in Kurnaul, and, for twenty years, whenever he wm within reach of our sta tion, he attended regularly all our relig ious services. Neither hot winds, a scor ching sun, nor torrents of rain, ever kept bim away. "This punctuality," he would ay "U uty proteu against the wurM." On one occasion, when he and I were go ing to prayer meeting, we met a young friend, Lieutenant, afterward General, Mayoe, of much notoriety. Havelock said to bim, "Come with us, Mayoe?" "No 1" said he, "only mad men go to prayer meeting." "Ah! Mayne, a very serviceable madness, that," was bis reply. In 1838 he went, with his regiment, to Afghanistan, and at the time of the aw ful massacre of the British forces there, in '42, fee, with about one hundred men, was surrounded in a small fort by three thou sand Affghans, and closely besieged for three months. Owing to want of provi sions, and constant fatigue, all hearts fail ed,exccpt that of Havelock. Everywhere, night and day, was the well-known little man present, to cheer his men, and to tirav ith them. The very elements ar-pmr.l to fiY'ht aeainst then- An earth' quake leveled tho walls of their fort, and oapased tbem to the balls of the enemy. But, nothing daunted, Havelock called for a council of war, to which the lion-hearted Sir Kobcrt Sale, who commanded, assent ed, and in the dead of night they issued from their fallen fortress, attacked the en emy with fixed bayonets,put him to flight, I and took bis whole camp. After Havel ock's return from this war, he was appoin ted Persian interpreter to the Command er in Chief, and took np his abode in Sim la. Being required by the Chief to be present, as interpreter, at his State balls, where native gentlemen sometimes atten ded, be deemed it bis duty to comply. But he confessed that he always felt out of his element in the ballroom. Several letters passed between us on this subject, and the correspondence was closed by his wife's sending me one hundred rupees for tho mission. Leaving Simla, he passed through the Pnojaub wars with great honor, and was afterwards appointed As sistant Adjutant General in the Bombay Presidency ; then, Quartermaster General of the Queen's troops in India; and, when I left, a year ago, be was Adjutant General of all ber forces in the conntry. Since that, he was appointed to command the Persian expedition, and, on bis return to India, got command of tbe Caw n pore division. His late exploits are before the world. With a handful of men be has defeated overwhelming numbers of well trained soldiers, under the it', Ncna Sa hib, some eight or ten times traveling fifty miles, and fighting three severe bat tles, the same day. He bas relieved Cawnpore and Lntknow, and destroyed Bithoor. The hero of upwards of thirty battles, be bas never been wounded. But what is most gratifying to every Christian heart, Havelock, with all bis promotion and suc cess, is still tbe same devoted Christian. While in Simla, two years ag, a Bjptist Eitsimary nl jcysc'f held iclignus nite t- iieau, uniivia, -"- i , ,,.. , riTO(.,1i to Fort Dttnncc. here to consider wnctner .'ir. aiKcr was .v.., - ...-v-, j .. r- s tantly in motion, during his j ncar Santa Fe, and from ! legally or illegally arrested, or whether ; over the Southern boundary of the Terri- . even while leading in fam-, ,nrnmeea the survev of tho ! Com. Paulding is to be censured cr ap-; t. ry of eLraska, on its way to its lutura I ioga twice a week, with a few of God's ;,nmU nonnle There the General, turn- : log aside from all the aristocracy and I lasoiou iu which he daily moved, was fr"011 re8uIr M v bis life 1 be P"ed for n,Uch ,m" fe,. ?d I - , ... - - , - may many more such Christians bo rais " J tin in Tnilin tn LleA.a her I v "r .... - -t T n.nV.IJ a man won nimilar i sketch of the lamented Sir Henry Law- trcnee.whom I also had the pleasure of j ' 1 knowing for some twenty years. Believe me, yours truly, J. M. Jamiesox Marengo, 111., Dec. 14, 1857. Narrative of Lieut. Beale. We present our readers with an outline narrative of Lieut. Beale's exploration of the southern wacon route, taken from tbe OUtUerU WB1.UU UIIG I ..V u ..um. .uv book of J. II. Porter, attached to the tific corps of the expedition. Lieut. note rioutific cores of the exped Beale arrived here on Thursday, from Los Anelos. The object of the expedition as specified in the written instructions of War. was to proceed i i.t,:,..!;, t Tn.Iiinol.. Texas. j baJ Uen liinJeil from j , . Snrin, T :.. iDrer. ,aA LUC a.ui-or' "vrvi ' erarrnn road inrouuu . - .1 f il.o Mnisw. ncar tne suPi.o u. - t: v V Roul nd his nartv left Lieut. E F. Beale and his party H San Antonio on the 25th of June the : . 6' lltn fit a.V r t t, -.m,l. r.t -hih thpr seven, are capable of carrying a load of one thousand pounds. They passed .h nhi .rK-on road, extendioe some seven hundred miles between San Antonio vi P.an and reached Alberaue on vm "-O ' " .UM . . - . tha 10th of August TV... .rriworl. on the 24th of Aasust. .. PI Mnro. or the Inscription Rook. This remarkable natural formation merits w .. T-i - a particular description. r.merg.Bg trotu tha forest which skirts the bases of the backbone of the Western Continent, with- t r;0n. indication of its exist- i r,. A. f .. almnat.roln. sively volcanic country,' a smooth wall of white sandstone rises from the grassy plain which spreads away from its base, to an altitude of 1000 feet. At its south- eastern base is the spring known as El Moro. It ia wedee-tbaned, and its sum- mit ia crowned br an ancient aboriginal fortress, evidently the work of tbe same j artisans whose tumuli are visiblo from Pern to Wisconsin. Tbe expedition reached the Colorado river on tbe 19th of October, having rid den over the country on either side of the j IV a MnnaitrarilA f3i.ttfl.neel- At i this place, tbe camels themselves refuted some uawrtions which have been confiden - tly made of them-th.t they are unable to swim. Lieut. Beale led one of the largo toulus to the bank of the river, and i had him driven into the water. As soon j as he found himself out of his depth, be , struck off without hesitation for the oppo- J ifn aftrt CVl tTimillfT hich and with per fect ease. The rest of tho train were crossed in batches of five and six; not one ofthem, apparently, had the slightest difficulty in the passage. ., , , , , ., , . Here the travelers found the first san- dy country on their route. The grass was 1 . . . , poor ana low, nua water as tuugec iuivi- vals than they had yet found it. Tbey were enabled, however, to procure a suf- ..... a . . feint supply, without any suffering, and continued their course due west, until they struck the Mojavc river a distance of about eighty miles that is, to where water appears flowing in tho bed of the river. This is a northern continuation of the great American Desert of New Mexico. The route now followed the Mojave on its eastern bank until tbe party reached tbe Mormon road, which they kept, cross ing tbe San Bernardino Mountains at tbe Cajon Pass, and continued the journey over the well known road from San Ber nardino to Los Angeles, where they ar rived on the 20th of November. The experiment of the camels and dromedaries has proved a triumphant sue - cess. In some instances these wonderful animals went a week, and in one, ten iliee without water not because it did not exist on the route, but from the lack of desire for it, and on the tenth day the animals drank with comparative indiffer- ence. incy eat, as tney progrcss,wDateT cr growl on the wayside, bending their long necks and thrusting their heads alike into the narrowest crevices for the cactus, or the stunted verdure, or cropping the leaves from tbe boughs of the trees, with out in the least retarding their speed. Truly they may be called the ships of the desert, and, when taken in comparison with mules, bones or cattle, which re quire food almost as regular as man, they teem adapted by nature to the novel ta&k to which our government has now devoted tbem. San, Francisco paper, Dec. 12. The coloring of candies has produced death in numerous instances known, and doubtless caused much sickness wbieh is j attntutei to other ct-sti. i .t.. i. . pir.l P.iwpr J nlanded for his action. I shall express . home in Kansas. It was a peaceful, quiet eiLuu iw ' . At $l.-r0 Pes colomzins: Central America : - TW "e to-day comme nee me .a , dis'.ineuishefj lTesidenl ui tate KaiiSis , 'D,1l5r'"11 Aia "ociriy, in t-oncrr-. wa Q,u. and his K.U.b.s.rr crew. .he . other Member greeted t with must prut.uad ; attention only iuterrupud by frequent siu.uts , ..,w lUi... ,,,;,,, fi, i,in the ' 1 riche..vei.. of ir.ny. it ha. mQch r.C ttrlty i and sennas arsam-nt is wmKit ivi-'v .tTil In Indcr.l.we see .hat it is positively stated that a Central American ! Emigration Society haJ been organ. ieJ. and attempt speedy and powerful remits. I: may be the South will fiud ilia: the R.'p:al of ' .. ihe Missouri Compromise was a great error as well a. a heinous wron. Put .he YWm ; and the Chivalry on an equal frotin; 10 any J honorable enterprise keep away .vjvernineni 1 money, officialism, army and nsvy and the Yankees will come out ahead But read the , . Speech of Hon. ELI THAYER, of PI ass. j the Ho. rf Pp , Jan. 1,1. , Mr. Chairman, it is my purpose to (Her an amendment to tbe resolution wLica is , now before the Committee, for the purpose ; of widenins the rroposed investi jatiou. ! I da not intend to discrtss tbe t..pics ' wli!cn the Committee has been consider- ;nr duricc the past three days. I am not - w . nn urmnathv with tho course pursued by i , - tDe l resident ia rciatioa to uu , lJJJl nlr. Willi lUU kt-UllVUIXU -"- ; U 1 M. i -w-i.sM we heroism of ' . ........ Walker a man. wco, claiming to De tne ! President of Nicaraugua, and to represent i in his own person the " sovereignty of j th Ot; surrcnuerea wimour. a protest, ...... . j an t o a power upon n I own soil, which he claimed to bo an mva- j .i . . . . 1 ? I I ,. .. ., . ... . ding lorce. it neioer tuts ue aeruum, s. stall not now inquire. I thrust aside, for the preent, all qus-1 tions of legal technicality in this matter ; : i all i Tit m vntprif nf the construction if ; , -. aa,it:01., -he neutrality laws , all these questions i concerning which everybody has been j speaking, and nobody caring ; and Ieome t to that ETeat, paramonnt, transcendent , ! : question, about which everybody is earing cd nobody b speaking : " lLw shall ire lm-r.cana:e Central America ?' j It may be a matter of surprise tbat I ' pass ovr two or three questions which in '1 d antecedent 1 to this one. And these questions are : First, Do we with to Americanize Central ' America? Secondly, Can we American' ize Central America? Thirdly, Shall we j Americanize Central America ? Now, Mr. Chairman, I say that whoev er has studied tbe history of this country, and whoever knows the character of this : tPl-. hoeTe.r wn inf" h"d i , "DJ " na le,r nls' j i0T7' kno-s thre9 T7 ; lotion. e already answered by the, . - X . , , .i . ' Americanize Central America: that we. moripin ninn wwessinai wria ii'i rii.a its . can Americanize Central America; and mat ytcsiuut Americanize i.entrai America, j And now, Mr. Chairman, in relation to the maDDer "J Srnc:f- " eln "e : Americanize Central America ? Shall we d it legally "d fairly, or illegally and unfairI ? Sha11 we do U bJ k"'g benefit on the people of Central America, i -. v i u i f 1 ' ' J land violence? Shall we do it without abandoning national laws, and without violation our treaty stipulations? Shall 0f wu uu IS IU BieKUiuauw WIIU UU WW VI J q( . we tlo it in accordance witn too ia or shall we do it by force, Mood, and fire ? , Sir, I did agree with tbe gentleman from New York, Mr. Hat-kin, when he told us,yestcrday, that be was nut in favor of petit larceny ; but I did not agree with bim when he said that he was "in favor of i,reeBT i recret that , Rel)re. sentativeof the people of the United States, ) na lcen ,B03C 01 ,aB a" in the Council Hall of the Nation, ahould j Th"8 -Varlbcrn gu,cs re " tk Sute of say to his constituents, to the nation, and Northern Europe were des.gnated by Tac to the world, that he and the Democratic i i'"" 3"tM, "the manufactory party were "rather in favor of grand lar- v . . , not say a meaner thing about it, than !o -.11 ;. k.ii.n I ,m r,,i,..l il,,t npnv " l.flripnv is Itircmcu 1 ami vou can ! this report bas gone forth ; that any party, ! or aDy individual in thij House, or con- i nected with this Government, is in favor VCaat sa WJ IVO vas uiv. J- vaaaa . t nf ran,l lnn-en v or Tietit larcecv. Ear- grand or petit, is not only disgrace- I fu but is absolutely and utterly contempt- j ;Lle. We do not go for the acquisition or Americanization of territory by larceny of any kind whatever, but fail I y, openly,and honorably. Then, sir, by what agency may wo thus Americanize Central America? I reply to the question, by the power of organized emigratk-n. That is abundantly able to' give us Central America as soon as we Committee oa lerruories to repors . uu. want it. We could have Americanized j organizing and opening for settlement tbe Central America half a d on limes by : Indian Territory. Mr. Chairman, I can:, this power within tho last three years, if to this conclusion with rcluctanee, Ik at we there bad been no danger or apprebenaion . mast have the Indian Territory. Bu: nc of meddlesome or vexatious -Executive : c;ssity knows no law. A e must go sme interference." But if we are to u this where. Something must be op.-u.-J to mighty power of organized emigration, we j the descendants of the pilgrims ' U by . . j.ff .. t;.l f rentralitv laws I air. tast look at it. He are crannu I s Villi umiicu. eii w. - from those which we now have ; aal there- f ,m ,l.".;r,-..ii that this Committee i JitiU rcc-EaJ iCB.tl.ic5 L:.t.i5j:i..;ii.-Me Yeah, ax-ttats iv Advance. not suljrct us to the misconstruction of the President of the United States, or to his ronstrw-tion at all. I want these Mu traiity laws so plain tbat every man may kikw naciacr ua is iu e 1M . ;'ol t!atiDe them. For, Mr Chair- new.fajhionf j kind of tai. ... - , Ei-it.cn, with onr organised en,lgraUon, which goes in colonics, an J therefore must, of necessity, to some extent resemble a military organization,there is great danger tjit a jr,.s;J.nt itt a dim intellect may sn4 sut.ject , birring . , , , and veiati'jus delay, and sometimes to ul - loss and icjury, a peaceful, quet elony, goicg out to settle in a nci-hboriug Stale, lr. Chairman. I can illustrate ibis f f;ii0n. You, sir, rtmcuibtr that in tbe is;,.: -hen it was bid tracelim across - the w, State of Missouri, on the way to Kan- tbat our colonies went through the State of Iowa, and through the Territory of Kanas, by that long and wearisome journey, because it was bad tratelinj through the State of Missouri. You re member that one of these colonies of or- j ganized emigrants, which went from Maine, '. Massachusetts, and various other Northern I colony.gcing out with its emigrant wag-ins, , therefore lookintrsome- . - a m organtzation-go.ng out with their women and their children. t-.-ll -1 T : and sub-soil plows with coulters a yard 1 i :.t, ;w ..... ;i. V.. :,fc i -o-y, - j shovels and with garden seeds This besrttiful colony was arrested by the official of the present Executive' predecessor. It was by some mistake, no doubt ! Perhaps he took the turnip-seed for powder ; and I doubt whether the case would have been better if the President had been there himself. This colony was attested within our own dominion. It was not an emi eration to a foreign country, and there ! was no danger of "intcrfcrer.ee with tbe e neutrality laws." These quiet, peaceful colonists, because their wagons went in a row for mutual defence, through tbe wild, uncultivated Territory of Nebraska,wbera there were Indians, were arrested as a military organization. We do not want hereafter, either within the limits of the United States or without tbem, any such meddlesome and vexatious interference by the Exocutive power of this Government. ! inereiore, 7, i 1 - - e . . Sim n ,n.l.A . If 111.. 1 am 1 . 1 1 1 1(Y uas kus. leu b uu'ioaiuvu. a Mew had been no apprehensions in the North about tbe neutrality laws, if we had not expected tbat whatever emigration we might have fitted out for Central America would have been arrested "within the ma rine league" of the harbor of Boston, why, we would have eolonized Central America years ago, and had it ready for "admission, into the Unioa" befura this time. We want a modification or elucidation cf tbe neutralirv laws, and I trust it will be the ' UlilJ VI fcli I., sU-UUI.Ijllt.V sV IVJlVfVH Before I proceed to consider the power , d bentfit of this 6tem of emigration, and tbe reason why it ought not to be rejected by this House, I will proceed, ss briefly as I can, to show tbe interest which tne Northern portion of this country has ii Americanizing Central America, as contrasted with the interest which the Southern portion has in doiog the same thing. I come, then, to speak of the immense interests which the Nor- ' them States have in this proposed enter- , ; ! am Mt0ajillhej lhat).0 far ia llU debate tbe advocates for Americaoizioir Central America seem to be mostly from. thoc States which border on the Gulf of Mexico. As yet, I have beard no man from the Northern States advocating tbe "" th'DS Ui ns look at lhe in,crcs, ' j of tho Northern States id this question, ... ... e . , r- . l .. . ot nations. vv e can ruase one state i ran, in in. i-ice innn vp.r. w t, Tonr In the last three vcars we have 1 jw - - ----- j - j colonized almost wholly the Territory of ! Kansas. We have ftirnisheo settlers to : Minnesota, and Nebraska, and the l.or knowi hre. but we haTe njt "hU6,01 one-half of our natural increase. We have received accessions to our numoers iu ma j timc fronl f(?r"S' countries, of mor j Be million of souls, and now we ha , relicf ' we are worse oS t!yd ,bl of more tbaa lave no no we were when we began to colonise Kansas. Wc Tit mf hive an outlet somewhere for cur surplus population ! ir, I have a resolution in my pocket, which I have been carrjingabout for day, waiting patiently for an opportunity t present it in this House, instructing the, .. - . . . l: r. 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