JE'FFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
-For Uie Joflbisuniau Republican.
J21 ilea lion.
We have said that the social and moral evils of
society grow out of a wrong system of education
otitoT an incomplete development of man's phys
icalfintellectual, and moral nature. We must
look to the cause of the evil for its remedy to a
right system of education to correct the evils of
the wrong., ..Men -often say.-4,-'rhevorld is full of
errors the foundation of society rests on an en
tirely wrong basisand needs reforming, but where
shall we begin our reformation 1" Nature teach
es us that the tender sapling can be easily trained
into a perfect tree; while the "auld gnarled oak"
that lifts its giant arms on high, and strikes its
roots deep into the heart of the earth, must wither
in its proud deformity, unless blasted at once by
LT'Mr. James Power, late banal Uommis- j uie lightnings of Heaven. Deeply rooted preju
sioner of this State, died at Allegheny Gity, on dices cannot be easily overcome, but one valiant
Thursday, May 23, 150.
ILT Among the recent confirmations at Wash
ing ton,' we notice that of Anthony E. Roberts.
Esq. Marshal of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Sunday, the 12ih inst.
For California.
Daniel Black, Thomas Wilson, Isaac Zane,
Levi Cfark and Charles -0 sterstock, left Easton on
Sunday, the 12th inst., for New York, ,lo take
passage for California.
5
The Legislature.
This body adjourned sine die on Wednesday last
at 12 o'clock, after one of the most protracted and
stormy sessions we have had for many years.
A large amount of legislation was done, upwards
of five hundred acts having been passed, most o
them private and unimportant bills, and amongst
them, no doubt, many of a very pernicious charac
ter. Amongst the public and most most important
acts, are the following :
The General Appropriation bill.
The Apportionment bill.
The Revenue bill.
The billl for the election of A nditor General,
Surveyor General and County Surveyors.
The bill for the election "of Duputy Prosecuting
Attorneys.
The General Bank bill a crude and ridiculous
humbug.
The bill relative to the amendment of the Con
stitution for the election of Judges by the peo
ple. These-are the most important laws passed.
The Apportionment Bill will be found in another
column.
Theiranolticr J have, for poor silly man,
Translates justice "an eye for an eye :M
But the spirit of justice their verdict o'erran
In dooming the culprit to die.
I have many co-workers-court, falchion, and slug,
Cause me coffins to order, and graves to be dug.
I noticed, Mr. Editor, in your paper of two
weeks since, the following apt hit, taken from the
Paterson Intelligencer, " A man will be chocked
to death in this town next Tuesday, by authority
of the communiiy ; and we see no special objec
tion against announcing a fact like this before its
actual occurrence."
Again, Corporeal punishment in our navy is an
other crying wrong to man. Brute force applied
to man, as a punishment, cultivates his animal, not
his moral nature. 1 see that in the statistics of one
of our best conducted naval shipsj during two years'
cruise, the number of lashes had increased, each
month, through the whole voyage, in a four-fold ra
tio !
Flogging men our noble, gallant Tars who
peril thir lives for the honor and glory of our coun
try and to supply us with the comforts, and lux
uries of life is too outrageously barbarous, to
monllnn tuitti tlo loct Aonroo n C nllnurnripo
For our benefit,
41 High on the slipp'ry bending mast
They wreathe the snow-white sail
They fear no angry, threat'ning blast
The lightning or the gale."
There are many other crying sins which must be
corrected before man's social and moral improve
ment will keep pace with his advancement in the
arts and sciences : but the progress of a new sys
tern must always be slow. Mind can not break
away at once from old associations. It is only by
acquiring confidence in the operation of new prin
ciples, that it will be prepared to take another step
forward in the noble cause of Human Improve
ment. Here, good and evil are never disjoined ;-old
views will mingle with the new ; old ideas, which
we wish to banish, will adhere to the old words to
which they were formelv attached ; and the sud
den and entire eradication of lo'ng-rooted errors
would be equivalent to the creation of a new in
tellect; but Truth is mighty and must ultimately
prevailed over Error; then, and not till then, will
the Love principle, instead of the Force principle,
stand acknowledged by, and govern all mankind.
" Quod scriptum, scriptum." (I have written,
what I have written.) To you, Mr. Editor, as the
Chinese say, " my thanks shall be immortal."
P. S. W.
The IVext Presidency.
There is no lack of aspirants on the Locofoco
side of the house for the Presidential honors.
Gen. Cass, though twice defeated onre at Balti
more and again all over is again an expectant ;
James Buchanan has his advocates ; General Jo
seph Lane is coming home from Oregon to be pla
ced upon ihe track; Gov. Marcy is by no means
averse to becoming a candidate ; Gen. Wool is
spoken of by some, and Levi Woodbury, though
not formally proposed, is earnestly thought of.
The South, as yet, have no candidate. The most
that any of them aspire to, is to " advance," as
Mr. Foote did recently, toward the Vice Presi
dent's chair.
The Florida Indians. The intelligence from
Tampa Bay, to the 2Gth ult., Gen. Twiggs and
staff were about to leave for summer quarters at
Pensacola. The troops were being gradually re
moved to more healthy points. Bowlegs and Sam
Jones with their bands had lied to the Big Cypress
Swamp. It was rurrured that Gen. Twiggs was
about to resign his command.
Afrs Frances Sergeant Osgood, well known
throuhout the country by her beauuful poetic
contributions io ihe various literary magazines,
died at her residence in New York last mon
day evening, at the age of 40 years. She was
ihe wife of Ar. S. S. Osgood, ihe portrait pain
ter who had recently returned from a visit io
California, and the daughter of Air. Locke, a
Boston merchant.
The Way Mayor Barker does it.
In Pittsburg, on Wednesday last, two sisters
were brought before Afayor Barker, in a beast
ly stale of intoxication. The xMayor sent for
the man who sold the liquor, and imposed up
on him two $5 flues.
Great Trout Fishing;.
The Sussex Herald stales that it has receiv
ed a despatch from "Squire Vandegroff," in
which he ays that "on the 17th of April, he
look off the Wawayanda Double Pond, in Ver
non, N. J. J4 trout of ihe following dimens-inn:
one of them measured 22 inches, weight 4 lb.
Oounces, one do. 18 inches, weight 3 pounds 1 1
ounces ; one do 2 pounds 10 ounces; jhe bal
ance none less ihan a foot,"
champion of Light, Truth, and Love, God aiding,
can vanquish a thousand Demons of Darkness,
Terror, and Force; tivo put ten thousand to flight;
and three drive a hundred thousand from the field
of battle.
"Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."
Of course then begin with the young, who are ca
pable of appreciating and practising the most ex
alted virtues.
Again, we cannot blame our Creator, for God
has pronounced all his works perfect : the fault
then must be in man.
Wo, in these United Slates, all know that the
governments of the earth are not suited to man's
nature, as a progressive, free agent. Monarchs
check freedom of speech, and the liberty of the
press: do all they can to keep their subjects in ig
norance; trammel them with a national religion,
which begets intolerance, superstition, bigotry, and
a long train of the greatest evils; and grind them
to dust with tithes and taxes to support the few
who live in luxury, idleness, and splendor. Of
course the force principle must keep such a peo
ple in subjection.
We all believe, at least the people of this coun
try, that a Republican form of government only is
adapted to man's nature, as a progressive, moral
being. Here, freedom of speech and the liberty
of the press the bulwarks of a Republic are en
joyed. Here, aer religions are tolerated now;
each person can worship God, as he thinks right.
He is not now obliged to make himself a hypocrite
to swear to what he believes a lie in order to
obtain civil or ecclesiastical preferment. Repub- j
lican governments contain the germ of universal
freedom. Their principles must overturn tyran
ny, superstition, intolerance, and bigotry, till the
whole world is entirely revolutionized, and man
kind learn to live and act as brethren.
"Freedom! Freedom! is the answering shout
of Nations, starting from the spell of years." And t
when this shall be realized, the miserable serf of Philadelphia City,
Kussia will become an equal with the present ,. 41 County
hanghtv lord of the soil : and then, in a word, will Montgomery, - t
all r.iml nnnmxim, rm.v . tester anu Delaware,
Berks,
Again, are the same civil and criminal laics suit- j )3ucj.s'
ed to governments so entirely antagoniMical in Lancaster and Lebanon,
their nature as Monarchies and Republics 1 : Dauphin and Northumberland,
Our glorious Republic has alreadv solved to the ' Northampton and Lehigh,
1 jj-- 11. l r Carbon, Monroe, ayne and Pike,
wondering and admiring world-to the terror of Adama 'ftnd Fran.,in
Monarchs, and to the joy of their subjects the , York,
great problem of self-government. Capital pun- . Cumberland and Perry,
ishment is no better adapted to our present ad
vanced state of society than Judaism it is a law
of force it had its origin in a barbarous condition
of society, and was the mode then best adapted to
the comprehension of an unenlightened neonle fnr
a , -ir , it-
redressing Wrong-as was the Religion of the , e.rcer I,an? " en'
, , T , . , , , , 6 , Erie and Crawford,
same people, of the kind they could appreciate, Butler, Beaver and Lawrence,
literal, but typical of a pure and spiritual worship. 1 Allegheny,
Centuries having rolled round, and men's minds I Washington and Greene,
having become better adapted to a higher, purer Bedford and Somerset,
u- .u o . it . l , t r . . Armstrong, Indiana and Clarion,
worshiD. the Creator, "spii iHp hmhinooa nf hi T - , . -,. . '
f- 1 J - vtititiOtJ s t 1 J i O
own glory, the express image of his person" to re
veal to man his increased moral obligations ; and
Christ's whole mission from the time when all
heaven rang with hallelujahs of " Glory to God
in the highest ," and the angelic hosts responded,
in a grand chorus, "Peace on earth ! good will to
men!" to the latest moment o! his agonizing death, j
Apportionment Bill.
The following is the Apportionment Bill, as
passed by both branches of the Legislature. We
annex to the Districts the number of taxables in
i each for future reference :
, Senators. T.ixablcs.
o
3
1
1
Lycoming, Sullivan, Centre & Clinton, 1
Blair, Cambria and Huntingdon, 1
Luzerne, Columbia and Montour, 1
Bradford, Susquehanna & Wyoming, 1
Tioga, Potter, McKean, Elk, Clear
field and Jefferson, 1.
Eleclioai of Officers.
A meeting of the Delaware arid Rariton Ca
nal Company was held on the JOih inat., at their
office at Princeton Baiin, when an election for
officers was held, w'nh ihe following result ;
Preideru, 11. F. Stockton; Treasurer, James
Neilsori ; Secretary, John R. Tompson ; Di
rectors, Robert F. Siockton, Richard Stockton,
Garriet D. Wall, James Parker, James Neileon,
Jas. S. Green, James Potter, John R. Thomp
son, John C. Stevens.
Juniata, Mifflin and Union,
Westmoreland and Fayette,
Schuylkill,
R EPRESENl AT1VES.
Adams, 1
Allegheny,
Bedford and Cambria,
Berks,
Bucks, .
wasamission-notofterrorand force-but of love Blair and Huntingdon, -
ana mercy, unnsi s aeain was tne grand climax ! Bradford,
not only of the sublime and eternal law of pro
gress, but also of the Love principle Love to God
and man." Is a Christian Community governed by
the Love principle when it requires "an eye for an
eye, a tooth for a tooth" and life for life ? No,
it overcomes evil with, the increased evil of mur
der and revenge ; and consequently presents fur
ther motive for the commission of crime. As the
punishment, in itself, is not adapted to the condi
tion of man as a moral being, it is a violation of a
moral law. Men conversant with the subject know
that crime has advanced in society in an increased
ratio with the number of victims. The reason
is obvious ; the remedy is not adapted to the dis
ease, and of course, the result must prove fatal.
Moral remedies, arid moral remedies alone, are
adapted to moral diseases. Should we not think
it a great absurdity, were a physician to try to cure
a fever by whipping his patient And is it not
equally absurd to think that moral evils can be
Chester,
Cumberland,
Centre,
Clearfield, Elk and McKean,
Clarion, Armstrong and Jefferson,
Columbia and Montour, r.
Dauphin,
i cured by physical punishment? Shall a Christian
I community, who profess to be governed by the
1 laws "That ve resist not evil: love vour enemies!
porung 10 be issued by the Farmers' Bank, at ! do sood t0 them that hale vou. bo not OTerf,nmR
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of evil, but overcome evil with good," go back to
Judaism for such laws as require "blood for blood."
j Let those who are everlastingly ringing in our ears
j Genesis 9th Chapter. Gth verse, to prove that it is
right to kill a man who has "shed man's blood,"
turn to Ezekiel, 20th chapter,, 25th verse. But
says one this refers to the ceremonial "statutes"
of the Jews only.
But we demand your authority for declaring
that this passage refers to the ceremonial law
that to the moral; that this "was given expressly
to the Jews, and that for the government of all
mankind in all future ages that this is abolished,
and that is binding on all mankind ; for without
such authority from the Book itself, we are willing
to be governed by the Laws of Christthat is,
the Love principle. " Old Death" in the song
says.
"And if J sometimes ct with such powerful sway,
Over man in his bad feeli ng mood,''
As to prompt him to murder, to takr lifo away,
'Tis because that mv trade's understood.
Look out.
We have been shown an altered note, pur-
Wantage, N. J. ihe execution is bad. The
word "Farmers" is evidently substituted, as
also ihe word " Wantage.' The fcignature, date,
&c , are clumsy, and stamp the writer as too
illiteiaie for his "profession."
XO3 Our opinion is that ihe .President s dai
ly gaining ground in the confidence and affec
lionaf ihe Whig Members of Congress,, ihe
Wjiig pany,.and the people generally. They
knew him boforc as brave and honest ,; ihy be
liero him now .10 be .capable and wise." No
matter what elections, may seem to indicate in
ihe present cfoss-sea of .slavery perplexity, we
belipo ;G,e,n. Taylor grows stronger uuhe pub-
oeupo Me.n. 1 ay 10 grows strong
Jj confidence daily. Tribuue.
A publication has been jnade, giving, as far
as,fcarrbe ascertained, .the .name, .residence and
postiiffice of.erery practising lawyer in the.Uni
ted SaitH. The cailic.M list shows that Uwrc
are mm cei hou-.tnd five bundled
Delaware,
Erie,
Washington,
Greene;
Franklin,
Indiana,
Lycoming, Clinton and -Potter"
Lancaster,
Lebanon,
Lehigh and Carbon,
Luzerne,
Monroe and Pike,
Mercer, Venango and Warren
Crawford, vf-gsn
Mifflin, !'; -i;
Montgomery,
Northampton,
Northumberland,
Perry, y
Philadelphia City, v
Philadelphia County,
Somerset,
Scuylkill,
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Susquehanna, Sullivan.&'yyomng,. 2
lloKa..
Wayne,
Westmoreland and Fayette,
Union and Juniata,
York,
1
1
4
o
3
20,730
51,551
13,516
20,030
10,262
13,151
28,552
12,338
16,191
12,102
14,00
13,060
12,009
13,449
13,408
17,619
17,827
13,934
14,099
16.564
17,658
28,547
14,476
11,210
16,703
11,634
19,229
12,867
5,619
28,547
9,928
16,262
13,151
17,658
9,766
8,569
14,769
7,551
4,946
4,729
13,795
6,721
7,683
5,267
8,434
10,029
4.44
8,386
5,530
9,080
22,844
5,708
11,028
10,898
3.985
14,199
8;130
3,172
13,516
8,908
4,655
4,455
22,730
54,554
4,924
12,867
9,027
5,237
4,385
19.229
8.462
13,060
INVASION OF CUBA.
Correspondence of the P;i. inquirer.
Washington, May 12, 1850.
The account in yesterday's New York Sun of
the departure of the expedition against Cuba from
New Orleans has caused a good deal of conversa
tion here. The Sun, however, does not state the
matter precisely as private letters received in this
city give it. From reliable authority I learn that
four vessels full of armed men have actually cleared
from New'' Orleans iheir destination being Cuba;
and that Gen. Quitman is the Commander in Chief
of the forces Gen. Lopez being second in command.
Of course this force is wholly inadequate to
make, by itself, any serious demonstration upon
Cuba, but General Lopez, when in this city, some
weeks ago, expressed the utmost confidence that
not only all the Creole population would immedi
ately rise, and join the " Patriots," but that four
fifths of the army would declare in favor of the
movement.
I am acquainted with the several gentlemen from
this city, who it is said, have sailed with the ex
pedition. Whether they have or have not, one
thing is certain, that they were connected with the
Round Island affair, and have left here for the
South within a few weeks.
The expedition has been conducted with the
greatest secresy. .Nearly all tne leaamg men 01
the South are more or less privy to it, and have
aided it pecuniarly. TJie great object of the South
is to try and have Cuba ready to enter the Union
at the same time California does, and thus keep
up the " balance of power."
ElTorst were made, when the expedition was
first thought of, to try and procure the services of
Senator Jefferson Davis, of Missippi, as comman
der in-chief. Mr. Davis is a graduate of West
Point, and is a hichly scientific military man. lie,
however, positively reiuseo. uen. worm was business, witmn nve days, to v:t, on the 9th of
then applied to, and the agreement concluded
not broken off for want of funds, as has been sta-
TlifcJ APFORTIOIVillEIVT BII.I,.
Message' of Gov. Johnston His ueil
sous for Approving If
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Gentlemen: The Kill entitled an "An Act
to fix the number of Senators and Representatives
and form the State into Districts in pursuance of
the provisions of the Constitution," has received
my approval, and, therewith, become a law.
I have signed this bill with great reluctance, and
feel that a brief statement of the peculiar circum
stances in which I have been placed will furnish
satisfactory reasons for my action thereon. "
The constitution requires the apportionment of
the State to be made by the present Legislature ;
that duty was the most important devolving upon
your honorable bodies, and its omission would
have been a gross wrong to the people whose con
fidence in your wisdom and patrioism had indu
ced them to invest you with the powers and trusts
of Representatives. A failure to perform this
oath-bounded obligation would have produced
'wide spread excitement and alarm, and would, if
the voice of passion and prejudice was heard and
obeyed, have resulted in great outrage to the peace
and prosperity of our beloved commonwealth.
It is fair to presume, that for some valid reason,
a bill for the purpose or districting the State was
delayed in its presentation to me until the 4th day
of April last, being a period of three months and
four days after the meeting of the Legislature.
This bill I could not approve, and to prevent any
unnecessary oeiay in rne transaction of the public
April. 1 returned the same to the House of Repre
sentatives, in which it originated, with mv obiec-
tea uen. vortn s aeam 01 course, upsei mis ar- 110ns oetanea, in as succinci a lorm as it was pos
rangement. When Gen. Worth died, Gen. Quit- sible for me to put them. From that time until
man was solicited to take the command, and I un- the Mth day of May, being a period of more than
(lerstana. ne nas aone so, ana saiieu wun me ex- one montn, no omer 0111 ior a similar purpose was
pedition. He is a brave man, out no Knowledge presented to the r.xi
of military science
The expedition is fraught with danger, and un
Tesss Gen. Lopez is correct as to the disaffection
of the troops, and in which I place but little faith,
must be regarded as Quixotic in the extreme.
The handful of men who have engaged in the en
terprise will, 1 am afraid, fall an easy prey to the
ferocity of the cruel Spaniards. Spain has now
congregated in Cuba the whole strength of her ar
my and navy, commanded by her ablest general.
What possible chance can a few hundred, or even
thousand, undisciplined men have in a conflict
with such a powerful and well organized force as
they will have to contend against. Add to this
the horrors which must ensue, even if the 'patriots'
are partially successful, from the arming of the ne
groes, as is contemplated by the Spanish Govern
ment in that case, and a scene of terror presents
itself-too frightful to contemplate. The horrors of
San Domingo would be re-enacted.
3Iorc of the Cuba Expedition.
OUR GOVERNMENT MOVING.
Letters from Washington states I hat ihe
Government have transmitted orders by tele
graph o New York, Mobile, and New Orleans,
to send expresses at once to the Gulf squadron.
directing these forces to capture the Lopez ex
pedition, which has sailed for Cuba.
A despatch to the New Yoik Express say:
"The Spanish Minister, Don Calderon do la
Barcaron, demanded the inteiference of ihe
ecutive department. At four
o'clock yesterday evening, within less than 24
hours of the time fixed by both branches of the Le
gislature for final adjournment, the act now under
consideration was presented to me, thus allowing
the Executive less than half a day for the consid
eration of a measure to the deliberation and con
struction whereof a co-ordinate branch of the gov
ernment had devoted, among other less important
measures, upwards of four months.
1 was thus suddenly called upon either to ap
prove the bill presented to me, or by refusal, per
mit the great constitutional injunction, requiring
the apportionment to be made at this session, to be
neglected and disregarded, or, as an extreme
measure, to call together the Assembly by Proc
lamation, to enable them to perform a constitu
tional duty, the obligation whereof they knew ex
isted at the time of their adjournment.
I believed that a refusal to sign the bill might
be productive of great injury to the Commonwealth,
disturb the peace of the communiiy, spread con
fusion and outrage over the land, and possibly do
violence to the great charter of our liberties. The
rc-assembling, by Proclamation, of the present
Legislature might, and most probably would, have
resulted in the adoption of no practical measures:
while the moneys of a tax-burthened people would
be unnecessarily consumed.
I had most distinctly informed the Legislature
of the inequalities of the former bill. I had sug
gested doubts of the constitutionality of its provi
sions, and had expressed a decided disapprobation
of the policy of connecting counties in forming Rep-
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rooantQliro rllctrirtc tliftn nL. -".. r .t .
Government to nrevent thfi arming nf mnn niul t : r ui: : .. 7
1 e ; u w
ihe fitting out of expeditions against Cuba
The Minister is convinced that the rumors in
the main are true, that vessels have been fit
ted out, and that five or six thousand men are
engaged in the expedition, rendezvousing at the
Island of Lobos. General Taylor has respon
ded to the call of ihe Ambassador, by forwar
ding despatches 10 the Culf Squadron, to see
that ihe flag of the country is not violated.
Many distinguished men of the South are char
ged with conniving at this expedition, but it seems
impossible thai neutrality should be thus viola
ted." A Washington correspondent of the same pa
per, wriies :
1 have seen a letter to-day from Bridgetown,
(Parbadoes,) from an official source, which
throws a flood of light on the myterioua manoeu
vres of ihe so colled Cuba expedition.
If the statement in this letter be true, this
affair will be more extensive and comprehen
sive than you are aware of, and no I think you
will be ready to acknowledge it before long.
1 he writer says:
"Cuba, Barbadoe8, Jamaica, and Hayii are,
beyond all manner of doubt, desiined 10 change
iheir rulers, and ere another letter from me may
reach you, ihe terrible work (for terrible it will
be) will have commenced."
in ii in tii ic.
The Boston papers announce thai Mr. Glid-
don is about 10 unwrap in lhai city the cejebrar
led Jgypuan mummy in his possession. lie
places lis commercial value at $1,500, and has
issued 300 tickets at $5 each, 10 remunerate
him for ihe mummy, as the unwrapping des
troys its principal value. The mummy is the
body of a high priest of Thebes, who lived
more trjan 3000 years ago, or about ihe lime of
Moses, iir. Gliddon expecis 10 find in ihe
Sarcophagus ihe funeral ring, and the papyri
.containing the hieroglyphical book of ihe dead.
The mummy is 10 be unwrapped in ihe pres
ence ot mo inosi distinguished Savans of Bos
ion
The Compromise.
The Report of ihe Committee of the U. S.
Senate, appointed to digest a plan for the setile
ment of the vexed question?, which is supposed
10 be alienating ihe feelings of ihe people of the
North and the South, and nourishing the seeds
of disunion, has been published, and ihe loa
ding points are just now attracting a consider
able degree of public aiteniion. For the bene
fit of our readers we subjoin a summary of the
Commitiee's scheme of Compromise. The
views and Recommendations contained in the
Report are briefly ihese
1 The admission of any new Slate or States
formed out of Texas to be postponed uniil they
shall hereafter present themselves to bo re
ceived into the Union, when it will bo the du
ty of Congress fairly and faithfully to execute
the compact with Texas by admitting such new
Stale or Slates.
2. The admission forthwith of California in
to the Union, with ihe boundaries which she
has proposed.
3. The establishment of terriiorial governments,
without the Wilmoi proviso, for New Mexico
and Utah, embracing all ihe territory recently
acquired by the United biaies from Mexico noi
contained hi ihe boundaries of California.
4. Ihe combination of these two last men
tioned measures in the same bill.
5. The establishment of the Western and
Norihern boundary of Texas, and ihe exclusion
from her jurisdiction of all New Mexico, with
ihe grant o Texas of a pecuniary equivalent.
And ihe section for thai purpose to be incor
porated the bill, admitting California, and
establishing Territorial governments for Utah
and New Mexico.
6. More effectual enaclmenis of Taw to secure
ihe prompt delivery of persons bound to service
or labor in one State, under ihe laws thereof
wno escane into another btate.
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as anti-Republican in its conception, and well
calculated to remove the just responsiblity of the
Representative, a fatal error in a Republican Gov
ernment. That these suggestions had no influence
upon the Legislature is apparent by the unneces
sary connection, by the present bill, of the coun
ties of Fayette and Westmoreland, of Armstrong,
Clarion and Jefferson, and many others that might
be enumerated. It is equally manifest that the re
marks in relation to counties created since 1790,
have produced no impression.
In that message, without the slightest wish to
regard the preponderance of political parties, my
views of a fair and equitable apportionment were
given to the Legislature, irom the apparantly
entire disregard of my suggestions in the construc
tion of the present bill. 1 could not expect to find,
from a continuation of your session, any change
in the opinions of members, and hence was forced
to believe that all efforts, on my part to carry into
effect the spirit of the constitution, as I understood
it, would prove abortive in reconciling the dissim
ilar sentiments entertained upon the subject.
Impressed with the conviction that it was unsafe
to have no legislation on the subject, and that ihe
continuation of your session or your re-assemblage
would result, for the seasons stated, in the enact
ment of no more equitable law than the present, 1
have felt it to be better, under the circumstances,
to give my assent thereto, and although it is far
from being such legislation as 1 could have desired,
it is infinitely preferable to the infliction of the
wrong upon popular institutions that might, and
most probably would, have resulted from your sep
aration without the passage of any law on the sub
ject.
In my humble judgment so gross an infractiurrof
the Constitution would leave the lives, reputation
and property of the citizen without the protection
and safety guarantied by a faithful observance of
the organic law.
This statement is submitted, that my fellow-citizens
may know the reasons, that have influenced
me to sign a bill which, I feel is not equitably just
to all sections of the State, and which does injus
tice to the great party with whom I have the hon
or to concur in political partialities.
Wm.F. Johnston.
Executive Chamber, ? .
Harrisburg, May 15, 1850. $
Hawkers ant Pedlars.
By a receni act of ihe Legislature, Hawkers
and Pedlars of any "article of merchandise, are
prohibited from making sales in ihe county of
Schuylkill, whother ihey have a licence or not,
under severe penalties. Persons offending
against this act, can be arrested at ihe instance
of any citizen, and must be committed, in de
fault of bail, 10 undtTgo a irial before CouM,
where, if found guilty, the penally cannot bo
less than fifty dollars for each offence. We
call the attention of ihe publtc 10 this act,' that
its features may be understood, and carriedout.
Miners Journal.
There is such an enormous amount of Legis
lative stupidity at the preheat lime, that itjs
really refreshing to meet with a specimen of
as good Legislative wit as ihe folio wing ,:lir
11 A wag in one -of our Sduiherri Legislatures,
percoiving a musquito alight on a neighqjnS
hand, immediately arose, and addressing ihe
chair, requested that said musquiiq have leave
to toithdraw his bill. "
XOA Lawyer on his death: bed, willed all his
nroneriv to (ho Lunaiic Asvlutn, saving as-a
And 7. Abstaining from abolishing Slarerv ; reason for so ddiuo-ihat he wished his property
but undor a heavy penally, prohibiting the slave 10 return to the bheral clans of people who pat
trado in ihe District of Columbia ronised him
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