m 7 ST". oma - ? 5 The whole art of Government consists in the art of beino'honest. Jefferson. :VOL. 11 STRO UDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1850. No. 6' 1W )F -....I. I n Published ly Theodore Schoch. TFRMS-Two dollars per annum in advance Two dollars .n.ri n miartcr. half yearly and if not paid before the end of Z vciW dollars and a half. Those who receive their timers b'v a carrier or stage drivers employed by the proprie tor will charged 37 1-2 cents, per year, extra. Kn nanere discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except at the opiion oi me nuuor. Constitution prevail. 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ADDRESS Of Hie Lancaster county Wilis Com mittee, to tlieir Brother Whigs of Lancater and oilier Counties of Peunsylva uia. Ffllow Citizens : Our republican government is founded upon popular opinion. To ascertain that opinion, the Constitution and laws have provided annual elections. The freeman expresses his o piriion ; and the officer of his choice moulds that opinion into law. Hence the strength and beauty of our institutions rest upon the expression of pop ular will ; and any neglect to give utterance to it at the ballot-box may weaken, perhaps destroy lzens. 4. The proposed amendments to the Constitu tion will be submitted to you at the next election. It is a question of vital importance. No true Whig whether he opposes or favors the change, will neglect or refuse to vote at such a time. Every good citizen should vote, in order that the decis ion when ascertained, be it for or against their adoption, shall be the judgment of the whole peo ple. 5. Members of Congress are to be elected. By negligence now Pennsylvania may lose the sinews of her strength. For years a majority of her Congressmen have been instructed by the votes of her people to stand firmly by a protective Tar iff, and thus secure the means of employment to her willing and industrious sous. By low cunning and bold falsehood our opponents have cheated and deceived our people, and a free trade tariff has silenced the busy hum of our workshops. If Pennsylvania lends her aid to this odious policy, her prosperity and the hopes of her industrious and enterprising citizens have fallen, it may be to rise no more. 6. An Auditor General and Canal Commis sioner are to be elected. For years a member of one party has paid out the money of the people to its own partizans, and another member of the same party has settled the accounts. The common sense of every careful man teaches how unwise it is to allow, in the every day business of private them. All elections are important. The one now at hand is especially so ; and every citizen should' Jhe same agenl tQ pay Qut moneyj contract debts, and settle, audit and adjust his own ac reflect upon the issues involved, and duly consid er the duly which he owes to his own best inter- i eits and to his country, before he ventures to neg lect the exercise of the elective franchise. To exhort every citizen to that consideration of! his duty in the coming contest is our present? purpose. We wish to excite every honest man i to a proper fulfilment of his high trust. In seek ing for motives of action, we shall endeavor brief ly to show the importance of this election, the great interests and results at stake; and to demon strate that a full vote secures a Whiff triumph. 1st. Whig succes secures to the National Ad ministration (placed in power by Whig votes) the moral force which a knowledge of the possession of popular confidence inspires, and endorses and sustains its measures ; among which are embraced the restoration of the government to the republican purity and simplicity of its better days ; a just and pacific system of intercourse with foreign States; a sound domestic policy which shall protect and support our home industry, improve our rivers and harbors, circumscribe the limits of human bon dage, and invite into our cherished Union the res idents of the mighty West, with Constitutions un stained by the curse of slavery. 2d. Whig success this fall expresses approba tion of the course and policy of the State Admin istration. Thus far it has proved itself eminently deserving of our confidence and support. It has been efficient, honest and economical ; it has de devised and put in execution a plan for the pay- counts. Prudence would suggest some check, or safeguard, in public as in private affairs. Should the Whigs succeed in electing their candidates, the people's interests will be watched and guard ed in the Canal board, and the accounting officers will detect the unfair results of party bias, should party favoritism in the canal board perpetrate in justice. Each party will guard the other, and thus the money of the tax payer will be saved, and the treasures of the State be secured from favoritism and consequent waste. For Auditor General the candidate of the Whigs is HENRY W. SNYDER, of Union county, than whom a more pure, upright and capable man can not be found. A son of Simon Snyder, reared un der the teachings of that honest and faithful and patriotic Chief Magistrate of Pennsylvania, he has all his father's integrity of purpose and pure dem ocratic love of the people's rights and interests. The plain republicanism of the father has taught the son that extravagance and profligacy in af fairs of State are as ruinous as in private life. JOSHUA DUNGAN, of Bucks county, is our candidate for Canal Commissioner. Educated on the farm and bred to toil, he is a noble speci men of a Pennsylvania Farmer, and knows the wants and feels the burthens of the tillers of the bad citizenship no more marked example of moral treason to his country to his fellow-men, to himself and to his posterity than the culpa ble laziness and lisilessness that keeps a voter from the polls. Neglect of a known duty is evidence of infidelity to every obligation. He that neglects to vote ceases to be a republican ceases to be a part of the people's govern ment, and is a recreant 10 the hallowed trust which his fathers committed to his guardian ship. If one man may neglect this duty, all have the right to do so, and the vigilant and scheming would soon subvert the Republic, and the active and tricky politician would di rect tho destinies of the country. It is mani fest that here it must be feared the first fatal injury will be done to those institutions which give glory and power to us as a nation. How can he who fails to exercise this important duty claim the protection of a government, in his person or properly, which he by his negligence so materially aids to subvert and destroy ? Lel every man resolve to vote, whether it be sunshine or storm, permitting neither bus iness nor pleasure to prevent him. A day giv en to your country is not lost. To perform this duty once only in three or four years is a shameful discharge of so priceless a privilege so sacred an obligation. A full vote is a Whig triumph, because the Whig party is in a majority in this State, as is efidenced by the following statistics, which show that the Whigs have the strength of number, and need but the will to secure success. Election Results from 1840 to 1849 : 1840. For President: Harison, 144,010 Van Buren, 143,374 1841. For Governor: D. R. Porter, 136,335 John Banks, 113,374 1842. No election showing the popular vote. 1843. For Canal Commissioner : Miller, 110,290 Guilford, 96,317 1844. For .Governor: Markle, 156,120 Shunk,' , 160,403 For President : 161,203 167,535 For Canal Commissioner : 119,510 89,118 For Canal Commissioner : 89,084 Clay, Polk, 1845. Burns, Kama, 1846, Foster, Powers, 1847. Shunk, Irvin, 1848. Johnston, Longstreth, For Governor : For -Governor 97,913 146,115 128,138 168,525 168,220 185,513 171,976 For President : Taylor Cass, t 1849. For Canal' Commissioner : Gamble, 144,840 Fuller, 133,111 These statisiics show that if all the Whigs who voted in 1840 for Harrison had performed their dutv. the Whip candidate for Governor in M A .l V i -t . . 1 J ' o sou. Aimougn unassuming, nis worm, nonesty 1S41 wou!d nave been eecl by 7,678, and the and Intelligence have secured the friendship and Whin P.nnnl nnmmieoinnar nf 1R13 hv nnnrltr respect of all who know him, and the farmers 34,000 majority; and had all the Whigs who of his native countv have placed him in the hon-' voted for Clav in 1844 hfipn at the noils. Mar. ment of the State Debt; it has preserved the rights , orable pns5lion of presidentrof the Agricultural . kle would have been elected Governor in that oi me citizen ana savea mvioiaie me oonsmuuon Society of that county as a mark of their esteem year-Karns would have been elected Canal by a judicious exercise oi the veto power in the for hi3 virlues and abnity His sound and unbias-i Commissioner in 1845 by 40,000 majority case of the apportionment bill ; it has remodelled . ed judgement his stern integrity and his more j Irvin elecied Governor in 1847 by 15,000 a wretched militia system: it has, without addi- , tuan Mrfi:nor ar,,;r aa.-., c. u;m ,u ! and Fuller elected Canal Cammiasioner in 1849 tional taxation or increase of debt, in making pro visions for the completion of the North Branch Canal, rescued from abandonment a valuable part of the public works in which millions of the peo ples' money has been permitted to remain unpro ductive and valueless ; it has sustained the time- nidu urumary capacity, especially nt mm lor me important office to which he has been nominated. The nominee of the Whigs for Surveyor Gen eral is JOSEPH HENDERSON, of Washington county. To many of our citizens he is well known. For several years in the Land office, he not only fitted himself to ably fulfil the duties of to protect the labor of our citizens from the op pressive influence of foreign competition, and has largely extended the benefit of education to the in dustrious poor. Moreover the State Government is entitled to popular support in view of the admi istrative talents and virtues of Governor WIL- honored piinciples of our beloved Commonwealth lhis resp0nsible station, but his accomdating spir- oy its opposition to tne extension oi slavery over . u and purjty of purpQse ag a pubHc officerhis now iree; 11 nas S'ven is am to every enort snperjof business capacity and untarnished integ rity were made apparent and acknowledged. No belter man could have been selected. The results of a Whig victory are many and important, and should excite all to energy and action. With the election of a Whig Senator, Pennsylvania's voire for the net five venrs is nn- ' JOHNSTON, whose official services j divided for pENNSVLVANhl PoucY in the NaUonal have redounded to the honor and credit of thejSenale. In the halls of Congress, Pennsylvania btate,-Biven a fresh impulse to its prosperity, and woul(J stm bf Qn the side of American industry. by a w,se system of financial economy and reform, Qur Stale would for len yearg escape from an largely contributed to improve and render more unjugt and op ive apportionment As a Whig perfect and profitable our system of public ira- j Statej she-WOuld be recognized as worthy of reward provements, without an increase of debt or taxa- f her fideli t0 republican faith. And all this lion; There are many other acts of the National and J State Administrations which commend them to the ' continued confidence and regard of the people ! But if the imDortant measures already referred to I fail to convirtce the honest mind, it would be use less to enumerate others. 3d. The next election decides the character of a Legislature upon whom will devolve among oth er things the performance of the following du ties: I. The election of a . United .States Senator. The choice of a Whig Senator this fall will give Pennsylvania a force and power in the National Councils which must command for her neglected and oppressed iron and coal and industrial inter ests attention and respect. 2- The apportionment of the State for mm bere of Congress. The past has taught us how unscrupulous are our opponents in this respect, and how unwise it is ,to ieave in hands already polluted a trust which they have heretofore so basely abused. 3. The districting of the State for, the election of &Jdges, should the proposed amendments to .the for her fidelity to republican faith. would give strength and vigor to our State Admin istration, and increased confidence and new hope to its labors and measures, to remove the burthens from her citizens. Tiiumph now would bring zeal and nerve into the subsequent contest for Governor, and secure an easy victory. Our pa triotic Governor will .have so proven the merits of Whig measures and Whig men, that the people will demand their continuance in official position, and a crowning victory in the Presidential carn paign of 1852 would be but the " beginning of the end" of good results. A FULL VOTE SECURES A WHIG TRIUMPH. We gie the figures why we say so. We must, however, be permitted to say that the Whig party is peculiary liable to the charge of criminally omitting to vote ; and this has pro duced more injury more permanent wrong to our institutions than any other cause. We would prevent a recurrence of this evil by im pressing on the minds of our citizens the im portance of the duty. The obligation to defend our country at the expense of life and property is not more binding than is the duty to exercise the elective franchise. To vole is as obligato ry on tho good man as is the performance of any duty. There is no stronger evidence of by a 16,000 maiority. Thus we have been de feated by our own criminal indolence and apa thy. Our victories show an increased vote, in dependent of any corresponding decrease of the vole of our opponents. This forcibly illustrates the imperative duty, the solemn obligation by which every Whig voter in the State ih bound to exercise his high and responsible right of suffrage at every election. Fellow Citizens To you personally are addressed the foregoing incentives to activity and zeal. 1 hey are not merely to be read, but pondered deeply to be incorporated with your political morals as a motive principle to be borne with you and impel action in your walks and labors of every day, until their vital strength and influence shall make each regard his right as a voter, not in the light of a privilege to be used or neglected at pleasure ; but as a sacred, responsible, imperative obligation, enjoined by the love we bear to, and the interest we have in, the honor and welfare of the great Common wealth to which we belong. Geo. W. Hamersly, Henty Stoufler, Joseph McClure, John B. Good, Hiram Evens; John Schlott, M. H. Shirk, Samuel Shoch, Huge Andrews, Morris Hoopes, Christian Neflf, Geo. R. Hendricksbn, P. R. Shutter, S. J. Hamilton, David Shultz, John K. Reedj Elias Eby, George Byrode, Christian Smith, Stephen W. Boyd, Christian Hiestand, Henry Brnckhart, Lancaster, Sept. 13, 1850. Jacob Bausman, David W. pattorson, A. M. Frantz, ChristianHeer, Jr., E. Kinzer, Isaac Buhhpng, John K. White S. P. Lindemuth, James Mehaffey, Jr Samuel A. Worth, D- Bard Rock, Benjamin Hear, Jacob Souders, A. L. Witmer, Benjamin Stouffer, S. P. Lytle, Philip Hathaway, Martin Oberholzer, Samuel Spiehlman, DanielHeer(Pequea), Francis W. Christ, Benjamin Kaufliuan. The New York Tribune says that the mouthy of Jehhy Lind is " moulded on a large Swedish type." The Boston Yankee Blade wonders " if it is not often closed on a large Swedish tut nip." From the Boston Atlas. Tho North and the South. The series of measures which have passed Con gress within the last few weeks are too important in themselves, and will have too great an influence upon the country and upon parties, to be passed over without mature consideration. The times have been "out Of joint' for months. Angry dis cussion has prevailed in both houses of Congress. Party lines have, in a good degree, been oblitera ted. Disunion has been openly threatened in the halls of Congress, and still more unblushingly and boldly taught in Carolina and at Nashville.- What is it that has occasioned this state of things? The complaints have come from the South, not from the Norih. " Northern aggression" has been the theme of Souihern declamation, and the cause of their threats and fears. But we are told the storm has allayed, the winds have ceased, and the waves of the sea slumber in their caves, not breaking their heads upon the rocky shores. What is it that has produced this dear, delightful stale of things ? that has given birth to "The hour when thrilling joy repays A long, long course of darkness, doubts and fearsV In order to answer these questions, it will be necessary to enquire what it was that gave rise to the storm what it was that " set the heather on fire." Think not, dear reader, that we are about to cioss that Sahara Desert of Southern locality, to gather therefrom all the real or imaginary "pale lilies of despair" which have filled their vision from time to time, and which, bound up in bou quets, are styled " Northern Aggressions,'' and then thrown, not at our feet, but in our teeth. We shall sum up the whole controversy in the briefest space possible. There are two classes of human beings on this continent, or rather in the United States ; the one white and the other black. In a portion of these states, say 15, of them, the black race are the slaves of the white race. They are bought and sold, as we in New England buy and sell our horses, sheep and cows. They are driv en from State to State for sale, as cattle are driv en from Vermont to Brighton or Cambridge mar kets. Like cattle, the parent is divided from the offspring. The slave owns no property, not even his own body. There is a very respectable por tion of the people living in the fifteen free States who think that this system of slavery is a mon strous wrong, and they have tried, in a peaceful, constitutional and legal manner, not to eradicate it, but to prevent its spread. These men, although they compose a vast majority of the people of the free States, are called by our Southern brethren "fanatics," "abolitionists," "disturbers of the pub lic peace." They are the aggressors upon South ern rights, and ihe men who have made all the "disturbances" and all the " excitement,'.' and put the " Union in jeopardy." As a guarantee for our Southern brethern to re main in the Union, these persons must, as far as practicable, be silenced and punished. Our South ern brethren say, "give us all that we want, and we will ask for no more." Forever close your mouths in regard to slavery, and what you canting ly term its evils. Leave the public domain open to us for the further extension of our "institutions." Give us full scope to catch our runaways. Abo lish trial by jury and the habeas corpus in their case. Give us the right by law, to go to your Free Slates and carryoff any colored man we may see there, upon our bare word that he is our slave. Let us appoint Commissioners to carry our de mands and claims into execution, and we will be content to remain in the Union with you, and sup ply your army and navy with officers, the public departments in Washington with scions of our first families, while you of the North may furnish the common soldiers, and now and then an officer, and a respectable executive appointee. If you are quite submissive, we may throw you a small tariff bone. Job Pippins, when temptations were removed from his five senses, was a model of self government. So with our Southern brethren.- When they have got all they want, they pretend liberality, because they don't ask for more. These seemingly extravagant demands of our Southern brethren were, at first, resisted by the people who live in the North; but soon there were symptoms of giving way. There was a gentle-, man by the name of Winthrop, who the North de sired to have elected Speaker ; but our Southern brethren said that should not be, and he was de feated. Georgia supplied the House with a speak er. Many Northern men helped to do it Then the North asked for a tariff to protect their labor from European competition, but Mr. Badger, of North Carolina, said no. We quote his words : " Yes, sir. Though every manufactory in the North should be stopped, though her whole indus trial pursuits should be withered, though her streets should be rilled with sturdy beggars, and asylums and her poorhouses should everywhere be crowded, her public and private charities op pressed and overburdened, and though the reme dy lay in my single vote, that vote, should not be given." And what was Mr. Badger's reason for the ter rible malediction upon the workingmen of the North t Simply because those very workingmen would not become parties to the extension of sla very ! That is all, and yet Mr. Badger would see poverty and wretchedness cover our land, as the water covers the seaour smiling villages turned into loathsome habitations of disease and death, our industry palsied, our charities wasted, our en terprise crippled, our Commonwealth a valley of dry bones. And if the power lay with him, to breath upon them thbreath of life, and bid these dry bones live, he says he would not do it. We Bhall not quarrel with Mr. Badger. We simply pity the man who can give utterance to such a sentiment Tho United States Senate was no place for it. There are , v ,K " Words o That should be howled out in the desert airf; Where hearirig.should not latch them.'' It is not for us, however, to complain; we should be thtfnkful that it is no worse. Mr. Winthrop, tho other day in the Senate, read a letter from Captairf Ranlett, of Boston, in reply to a statement made by Jefferson Davis, thai very few free colored men have been imprisoned under the laws of Southern States. Captain Ranlett 3tates that not less than; twelve hundred have been so imprisoned, and de clares that he was, on one occasion, wrecked at sea, when himself, and his colored cojk, and his steward, came across a Charleston vessel which had been abandoned. They went on board this vessel and carried it into Charleston, where, in re turn for their services, seized and imprisoned, since which time he has heard nothing from them, hav ing been told, when he applied for Iheir release, that he could hav6Mhem when his vessel was ready to sail, and that it would be dangerous to re lease them earlier. Having no vessel, of course he could not comply with the conditions. We read the next day that Mr. Butler of South Carolina, ridiculed the statements read by Mr. Winthrop, and was so witty and humorous that he kept the Senate in a roar for a considerable time I and this is all the satisfaction the North will re ceive in regard to these laws. We should be glad to have even the honor of their ridicule. In conclusion, we will say, that with ihe excep tion of the admission of California into the Union, the North has gained nothing, while the South has carried every point for which it contended. No one will be more rejoiced than we shall be if ihe adjustment of these various measures give peace to the country and stability to the Union. We however are without faith. The snake is scotch ed, not killed. The Fugitive Slave Bill is a mon ster, loo hideous for the people of ihe Free Stales to quietly and lovingly embrace. The territorial question is by no means dead. Among the people the principle of freedom is as storng as it ever was. We know that politicians in Washington can, by their position and influence, accomplish much, and the cry of " Peace," and of " Union," and of " Brotherhood," can accomplish much more. But after all, permanent peace. 'real union, and true brotherhood, have their basis upon the rock of justice, and receive their life and beauty from the warm gushing affections of the manly heart ; and we contend that of these peace " measures" recently passed by Congress, a portion of them have been in direct opposition to the best senti ments and the best feelings of the vast majority of ihe people of the free States. The day will come when northern rights will be regarded, and tho northern people make themselves felt in the coun cils of the nation not to oppress, not to assume undelegated powers, not to interfere with the rights of property of the South, bin felt in the mainten ance of their proper position, and in doing some thing for the glorious cause of human liberty and ok rightful progress in the Western world. A Chip from A Sailor's .og. It was a dead calm not a breath of air the sails flapped idly against the masts ; the helm had lost its power, and the ship turned her head how and where she liked. The heat was intense, so much so, thai the chief mate had told the boatswain to keep the watch out of the sun ; but the watch below found it too warm to sleep, and were tormented with thirst which they could not gratify nil the water wa served out. They had drunk all the previous day's allowance ; and now that their scuule-butt was dry, there was nothing left but endurance. Some of the seamen had congregated on the top-gallant forecastle and gazed on the clear blue water with longing eyes. How cool and clear it looks," said a tall, powerful young seamen ; " I don't think there are many sharks about ; whai do you say for a bath, lads 1 " That for the shaiks !" burst almost simul taneously from the parched lips of the group; " We'll have a jolly bath when tho second mate goes to dinner." In about half an hour the dinner-bell rang. The boatswain took charge of the deck ; some twenty sailors were now stripped, except a pair of light duck trowsers ; among the rest was a tall, powerful, coast-of-Africa negro of ihe name of Leigh ; we used io joke him and call him Sambo. " You no swim to-day, Ned ? said he, ad dressing me. " Feard of sharks, eh 1 Shark nebber bite me. Suppose 1 meet shark in water, I swim after him him run like do debill." I was tempted, and like the rest was soon ready. In quick succession we jumped off the spirtsail yard, the black leading. We had scarcely been in the water five minutes, when some voice aboard cried out, 44 A shark ! a shark !" In an intant every one of the swim mers came tumbling up the ship's sides, half mad with fright, the gallant black among the rest. It was a false alarm. We felt angry with ourselves for being frightened, angry with those who had fright ned us, and furious with those who had laughed at us. In another mo- ment we were all again in me water, tne blacK and myself swimming some distance from the ship. For two successive voyages there had been a sort of rivalry between us ; each fancy ing that he was the best swimmer, and we wefe now lesting our speed. " Well done, Ned," cried some of the sailors from the forecastle. " Go itj Sambo !" cried some others. We were both straining our ut most, exeued by the cheers of our respective partisans. Suddenly the voice of the boatswain was heard shouting, " A shark ! a shark! Come back, quick, for God's sake !" " Lay aft, and lower the cutter,'. then came faintly on our ears. The race instantly ceas ed. A yet, we only half believed what we heard, our recent fright being still fresh in our memories. " Swim, for God's sake !" cried the captain, who was now on deck " ho has not yet seen, you. The boat, if possible, will get between him and you. Strike out lads, for God's sake!" My heart stood still ; I felt weaker than a child as 1 gazed with horror at the dorsal fin of ajarge shaik on the starboard quarter. Though in the water, the perspiration dropped from me like rain : the black was striking out like mad from the ship.
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