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'HE DEMOCRAT & SENTINEL, is publish
ed every Wednesday morning, in Ebcnsburg,
Cambria Co., Pa;, at $1 50 per annum, if paid
is advance, if not $2 will be charged.
ADVERTISEMENTS will be conspicuously in
erted at the following rates, viz :
1 square 3 insertions, $1 00
Every subsequent insertion, 25
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1 year, 2 00
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US IIS! mi IKIM! C3,
OF LOCK H lVEX, lA.
NSUHES Detached Buildings, Stores, Mer
chandize, Farm Property, and other Buddings,
-and their contents.
5 ?
DIHECTOSS.
llox. .Joim J. rEAP.CE,
Jons n. Mali.,
Cn VPI.K5 A. Mater,
XJtlAr.t.KS C.HST.
Hos. Or C. II arve v,
T. T. AniAMs,
I). K. Jackman',
W. White.
Tiios. Kitcukx.
Peter Dickson.
Ho.v. G.
. HARVEY, Pres.
T. T. Abuams, ice 1 re.
Tiios. Hitches, Secy.
SEFE2ENCES.
Samuel II. Lloyd,
A. A. Winegardncr,
L. A. Mackoy,
A. White,
James Quirgle,
Tiios. Pxwnnn, M. D.
Wm. Vauderbclt,
Win. Fearon.
Dr. J. S. Crawford,
A. Updcgraff,
James Armstrong,
lion. Simon Cameron, ;IIon. Wm. Killer.
J.C. NOON, Agent.
Ebcnsburg, April 0, 1850.
Ho ! ttis Way for Bargains ! !
m mi m at ma prices.
THE undersigned would respectfully inform the
good citizens of Ebcnsburg and I ho surround
ing vicinity, that he has just received from the
East one of the most choice stock of gooes ever
brought to this place. The stock is varied, and
elected with an eve to the immediate wants of
the puUic. His stock consists of the following :
A general assortment of Xeie Styles of Spring
anrl Summer Goals, comprising a variety of La
dies' Drest Goods, among whici irill be found
Lawns,
Cassimers,
Delates,
Alapacas.
Black Silks,
Fancy do.
Bleached Muslins,
Unbleached do.
Calicoes,
Ginghams,
Fancy do.
Tweeds,
Kentucky Jeans,
Fancy Vesting!".
Shirts of all kinds
Cravat?.
I 'Iain Gloves,
Fancy do.
Cloths,
Together with an innumerable assortment of nr
clcs not mentioned, usually kept in a country
store. Those goods will be sold at lair prices.
C.ill ami examine, even if you do not wish to pur-
chate .
MiLtisKnt coons.
C10NNECTKD with the store s a largej-
J stock . f MILIXER Y G 0 ODS. Evtryg
Article in th'n lincwo have on hand, and
will be constantly in receipt of the latest styles
f LOSXETS, for old and younz niHKOXS
of every pattern and color pL ACES, El) GXG,
V A beautiful assortment of MO UJIXXG Goods
now on band, and at prices to suit the times.
Ladies are respectfully invited to call and ex
amine this stock which is far ahead of any goods
of a similar kind Lrought to this place.
GEORGE M'CANN.
Ebensburg, April 23, 1300.
Sew Firm.
TAYLORS JONES,
TJllIE subscribers would respectfully inform the
' .i. citiz.ns of Ilbensburg and the surrounding
vicinity, that they have entered into partnership
for the purpose of giving full satisfaction to all
manKind and in the way of giving lits, they may
be rrTuud at "the old establishment formerly occu
pied by Beynmi and Jones, immediately opposite
the store of Geo. McCann. The public may rest
assured, that all work cutrusted to their care will
be made in a workmanlike manner, and at the
time promised. Garments will be cut according
to the latest f.ishiou.
A. II. TAYLOR.
JOHN JONES.
Ebejisburg, March 5th 1850.
i""ariiicr?s IoK to Tour Interests!!
I come with Goodi to Clothe you!!
Tf HE undersigned would respecfuliy inform the
citizens of Ebcnsburg.-and farmers of the
nurrounding country that he has arrived with a
large STOCK OF 'DOMESTIC DRY GOODS,
-consisting of plain and fancy Casstnets a large
variety of Jeans, Linseys, Ikirr&i and J'btin
FUuuuls, lilanktts, Cotxrlids and Baize. 'Hie
Above g.KKls will bo exchanged for wool on low
terms, and if the goods are not desirable the mar
ket price will be paid in Cash.
April 23, 1356. JOS. GWINNER.
UI'.OUGU HliMLEV,
Wholesale and Retail,
Tin, Copper, and Sheet-Iroa Ware Manufacturer.
RESPECTFULLY informs the citizens of Eb
ensburg and the public generally, that he
has purchased the Tin Shop, formerly carried on
by Messrs. Davis, Evans & Co., and will contin
ue to carry on the business in all its various
branches, wholesale and retail. Ills wares will
Iks made of the very b.st material, and in tho
most workmanlike manner. Repairing of all
kinds done on the shortest notice, for canA.
ALSO, 2Iouse Spouting made and put up to
firder on the lowest terms, for cash.
A1&0 on hand and for sale, a large assortment
rf Cook and Parlor stoves, for coal or wood, Di
ning room stoves, Egg stoves, &c.
Also a large assortment of grates and fire
brick, for Cooking stoves, Coal buckets. Shovels
pokers, smithing irons, &z. &c, all of which
will be sold low for cash.
Tin-shop and wareroom in part of tho building
fonaferly occupied by Stephen Lloyd as a cabi
jpt wareroom, and opposite Geo. AFCann' 6tore.
C7All orders promptly attended ta.
-roi.Wiie;, May 7, lt6. SSIy-
10! LOOK HERE!!
miTK KiibscriWr has iust received a full??
3l supply of FAMILY PROVISIONS, M;'
... . . 1 c . i
at nis new store in me room iomivny oc
cupied as a Foundry ware-room, and is prepared
to furnish the same to customers at rates as low
as the lowest. His stock is of the very best, and
consists of every item in the provision line, viz:
Superior Cove Flour, Com Meal in harrel or
tn Sacks, Hams, Shoulders, and Sides ,
of Bacon, Suqctr Cured Hams, Fish
of all kinds Sidinon Shad
Maelccrel, Jlerrinq, Cod,
tC-c, Cheese, Ifried
APPLES,
Peaches. cts.
ALSO,
Confections
and varieties-,
such as Candies,
Xuts, Crackers, Toltaeco
and Ciyars. l7e has also, ad
ded to his business, and intends to
keep on hand for sale lliOX'tb JTAILS
of all sizes of the best quality ; and will tell at a
very low profit for cash or Country produce. Give
him a call. Persons that wish to buy any. thing
in his line, will find it to their advantage.
liOBERT DAVIS.
Ebcnsburg, April 2, 185G.
A Ilitmau I. He Saved.
Dowagiac, Mich., March 11, 185C.
J. A. RHODES, Eso,. : Doar Sir As I took
your medicine to sell on consignment, no cure
no pay," I take pleasure in stating its effects as
reported to me by three brothers who live in this
place, and their testimony is a fair specimen of
all I have received :
W. S. Coxklix told me " I had taken nine
bottles of Christie?s Ague Balsam, and continual
ly run down while using it until my lungs and
liver were Congested to that degree that blood
discharged from my mouth and bowels, so that
all thought it impossible for me to live through
another chill. The doctors to did all they could
for me, but thought I must die. Nothing did me
any good until I got Rhodes' Fever and Ague
Cure which at once relieved me of the distress
and nausea at my stomach and pain in my head
and bowels, and produced a permanent cure in a
short time."
II. ii. Coxklix says : " I had been been ta
king medicine of as good a doctor as we have in
our county, and taken any quantity of quinine
and specifics without any good result, from 25th
August to 17th December. But seeing how nice
ly it operated on my brother, I got a bottle of
RHODES' FEVER AND AGUE CURE, which
effected a permanent cure by using two thirds of
a bottle."
S. M. Coxkmx was not here, but both the other
brothers say his case was the same as II. M's. I
pold the medicine to both the Fame day, and the
cure was as speedy from the same small quantity
and I might so specifv, Yours with respect,
A. HUNTINGTON.
The above speaks for itself. Good proof as it
is, it is of no better tenor than the vast number
of like certificates I have already published, and
the still greater amount that is continually pour
ing in to me.
One thing more. Last year I had occasion to
Caution the Public in these words :
' notice one f rin ichn hare taken one of my
general circulars, suhstituitd the name of their
nostrum for vvj ntixlieine, and then icith brazen
impudnnce end their pamphlet with the exclamation,
Let the proprietor rf any other medicine say as
much if he dares."
Now I take pleasure in saying that the Cau
tion referred to the same " Dr. Christie's Ague
Balsam " that is mentioned in the above cer
tificate. There are several other inuustrious people who
are applying to their poisonous trash all that I
publish about my fever and Ague Cure, or Anti
dote to Malaria, except the Certificates of Cures,
and the Certificate of the celebrated Chemist Dr.
James R. Chilton of X. Y., in favor of its per
fectly HARMLESS CHARACTER, which is at
tached to every bottle. These will always serve
to distinguish inv medicine from imitations.
J AS. A. RHODES, Proprietor.
April 23, 1856. 3m. Providence, R. I.
For sale by Druggists generally.
IMPOKTaXT TO UVJEUYISOJBIT.
57JGR the last two or three years, I have been
. engaged in a business known only to myself,
and, comparatively, a few others, whom I bavc
instructed for the sum of $200 each, which has
averaged me at the rate of from $3,000 to 5000
per annum ; and having made arrangements to
go to Europe in the month of August next, to
engage in the same business, I am willing to give
full instructions in the art to any person in the
United States or Canadas, who will remit me the
sum of SI. I am induced, from the success I
have been favored with, and the many thankful
acknowledgments I have received from those
whom I have instructed, and who aro making
from $5 to $15 per day at it, to every person au
oppotunity to engage in this business, which w
eay, pleasant, ami very profitable, at a small cost.
There is positively No Humbug in the matter.
References of the best class can lie given as re
gards its character, and I can refer to persons
whom I have instructed, who will testify that
they are making from $5 to .15 per day at the
same. It is a business in which either LADIES
or GENTLEMEN can engage, and with perfect
ease make a very handsome income. Several la
dies in various parts of New York State, Pennsyl
vania, and Maryland, whom I have instructed,
arc now making from $3 to ( per day at it. It
is a GENTEEL BUSINESS, and but a FEW
SHILLINGS are required to start it. Upon re
ceipt of $1, 1 will immediately send to the appli
cant a printed circular containing full instructions
inthe art, which can bo perfectly understood at
once.
Address, A. T. PxVRSONS, Office, No. S35
Broadway New York.
April 23, 1850. 2 m.
XUW ULAI( .SMITH SiaOI.
fTTIE subscriber would respectfully inform the
X citizens of Ebcnsburg and the vicinity that
lie has reuted the SMITH SHOP formerly occu
pied by Michael McCague, where he iutends to
carry on the BLACKSMITH ING in all its branch
es. Persons entrusting work to his care can rest
assured that it will be promptly attended to and
at moderate rates. He would also, inform the
citizens that the business of HORSE SHOEING
will .be superintended by himself personally.
Owncr3 of valuable horses will not be under the
necessity of sending their stock to a neighboring
village, as his experience in this line is widely
known. ISAAC SINGER.
Ebcnsburg, April 9, 1856.
1BOCERIES, Caudks.. Nuts and Crackers
a
J. M'Dtrruit'e.
Tlic Cottage Lovers.
BT RICHAlID PENN SMITE.
The mist of the morn is still gray on the moun
tain, The heather bell blooms on the brink of the foun
tain ;
Soft murmurs the stream from the mossy rock
gushing,
But wildly and loud through the dark ravine
rushing.
The heath-cock is springing elate from his nest j4
Ihe pale moon is sinking m calnmess to rest;
The first streak of light is seen over the ocean ; I
The chorister's songs put the dull air in motion, i
The horn of the huntsman sounds o'er the hill ; j
The voice of the fleet hound is freqwent and shrill;
ll'l'l - . .. .1 - 1 1 - Lll -1.1 I
v nue panting ine cnaseu stag appears at luo .as.e;
He swims the dark stream and then bounds thro'
the brake. '
How sweet is the woodbine o'er yon lattice creep-
mg.
Which blushingly steals where the maiden is
-sleeping,
IIow 6oftly the breeze sounds that kisses the bil
low :
But softer by far is the sigh oii yon pillow !
The dash of the light oar is heard on the lake ;
The soft voice of love sings, " Awake, oh awake,
The first streak of morning is crav on the hill ;
The voice of the barn-cock is frequent and shrill.
" Then come, dearest come, where thy soul may
be free,
As the pure breeze that wafts o'er the marginless
sea :
We'll sport on life's stream as we gently pass
o'er it,
And feel cot the breeze as we're gliding before it."
The light form cf one at the lattice is seen.
And ruby lips glow through the foliage green,
Like a bud of the vine the fresh breezes perfuming,
Ere the breath of the morniDg has kissed it to
blooming.
" Oh come, dearest, come, to the cot of thy lover.
Where souls may be free as the wingj of the
plover,
And hearts be as pure as the vestal maid's shrine,
And the day-star c f true love shall never decline."
The maiden now stands on the brink of the stream,
And looks upon life as a fairy-like dream ;
For she hies to the spot where her soul may be
blest.
With a passion as mild as a dove in its neet.
On the stern of the skifl she is seated in haste ;
Her lover beside her, with arm round her waist;
He presses her lips as they float from the shore,
And they mingle their songs with the. dash of tL
oar.
With spirits as wild as the fawn at the fountain,
They glide er the lake and then stroll up the
mountain,
Where the day-star of true love in beauty is
shining,
Aud burns still more br!ghtly as life is declining.
SPEECH
Oflloti. Steplicn 4. IJougluss at tlic
Great liatiiicatioii Meeting
at ifiilale!iliia
Fellow-Democrats : I have before me a
sure guarantee of that triumph which certain
ly awaits us at the polls in this election.
When on any former occasion, was there ever
such a dense mass of Democratic voters as
sembled to ratify the nominations for the Pre
sidency and Vice Presidency? This vast as
semblage, which may be measured by the
acre, rather than counted by thousands ! It
shows the deep and heartfelt interest which
the people of this country feel in the uiomen
tuous contest in which we have just emerged.
Never since that memorable contest of 1800
which resulted in the election of the immortal
Jefferson, has there been a time when issues,
so pregnant with good or evil to our institu
tions, have been, presented as in the one which
is now before vs.' ' Great questions of foreign
policy, great questions of domestic policy ;
questions fraught with the most intense Im
port arc now before us.
In our foreign policy there is a question
which involves in its settlement the peace, the
perpetuity of this glorious llepublic. .It is
simply a question whether the principle of
self-government uponwhich all our institu
tions rest, shall be maintained in tho States
and Territories of this Union, subject on
ly to the limitations of the Constitution of
the United States. Cheers and loug ap
plause Hurrahs for Squatter Sovereignty.
The Cincinnati Convention has performed
its duty honorably, wisely, and patriotically,
upon all points presented to them. ' It has
presented to the country a platform which
commands the hearty approbation of everv
sound national man in the country ; and it has
presented candidates for the Presidency and
Vice- Presidency, worthy of the platform on
which they stand. Those nominations have
been made, and that platform has been adopt
ed by a unanimous vote receiving the vote
of every delegate from every' State of this
great aud glorious Republic.
Shall it be hereafter said that tho Demo
cratic party is not a National party? What
other party ever existed in this country vhich
could proclaim its creed by an unanimous
vote. A creed to be construed alike in Penn
sylvania and Virginia, in New York an'? Geor
gia, in Ilhuois and Louisiana, in the North
and the South, in the Hast and the West.
Wherever the Constitution reigns, there the
Democratic creed is one and theTsame. It is
a creed that can command the faith and sup
port of every Democrat aye, and of eveiy
old line Whig who is true to the principles of
Clay and Webster.
It is to be remarked, and never to be for
gotten, that in 1850 the leaders the cham
pions of the " true grit" political party
your Clays and your Webstcrs, your Casses
and your other patriots of tho Democratic
party united in 'agreeing upon a common
creed in respect to this vexed question of sla
very, which should becommoa alike to Whigs
and to Democrats.
Wc agreed theu, thai wo might quarrel and
differ as much as we pleased in respect to
banks and tariffs, and public lands, and other
questions of expediency ; but upon that great
vital question, upon those fundamental prin
ciples which involve the integrity of the Con
stitution, the stability of the Union, all pa
triots of all parties and all shades of opinion
would agree that the great principle of State
equality and self-government, under the Con
stitution were paramount to all party conflicts
land party differences. Hence, in 1852, when
the Whig party assembled in their national
convention, to present candidates to the coun
Vy for their suffrages, they resolved that the
principles of the compromise of 1850 should
be firmly, steadily and honestly carried out;
when the Democracy assembled at Baltimore
and presented our ticket for tho same offices,
we passed resolutions to the same effect.
Whigs and Democrats agreed on the great
platform involving the Slavery issue, the
question of State rights the question of the
right of self-government in the territories.
After the great triumph of 1S52, it became
my duty as the organ of the Senate upon that
question to report the Kansas-Nebraska Bill
Great cheering. The Cincinnati Conven
tion has said, by a unanimou3 vote, that the
great principles of State rights and popular
sovereignty, embraced in the compromise of
1850, endorsed by the Whigs in National
Convention of 1852, affirmed by the Democ
racy in the election of Gen Pierce of 1852,
were rightly applied in the organization of
Kansas and Nebraska in 1854
I ask, then, what Democrat can depnrt from
the faith of the party, as proclaimed at Cin
cinnati, without repudiating the long cherish
ed principles which he as a member of the
party, has advocated from the time that he
came on the stage ? And I ask further, with
emphasis, what Whig, what disciples of the
immortal Clay or the god-like Webster can de
part from the principles embraced in the com
promise measure of 1850, and re-asserted in
the Nebraska bill, without repudiating the
principles to which every Whig stood pledged
in the election of 1852 ?
If a man vas an honest Whig then, in or
der to be consistent, he must vote for James
Buchanan now; if a Whig believed that the
great Compromise measures of 1850 were
right then, he must carry out the platform of
the Cincinnati Convention now, in order to be
true to tha memory of the great Ctay, and
the great Webster, whose last great act was
to adopt those measures. Great cheering.
Yet you will find men who have proven
fu!v to Whig portv-, yth which they
once acted, and have gone into the secret
Lodges of Know-Nothingisra, taunting Whigs
for not following them into thess dark places.
I ask you, can a Whig join the Know-Nothing
Order or connect himself with the Black
Republican party, without repudiating all the
principles which the Whig party has advoca
ted for years? Hence the Cincinnati Con
vention acted wisely and properly when they
asked all men to co-operate with them in their
principles, and to unite in the election of their
nominees now, without reference to past po
litical differences.
We are told by the allied enemies, com
posed of Black Republicans, Know-Nothings
and '.he other affiliated evils, that the Demo
cratic party are to be condemned because of
our policy in regard to Kansas Territory. I
ask you to observe for one moment what has
happened in Kansas and Nebraska? Those
iwo territories were organized by the same
hw. In Nebraska, where there has been no
foreign interference, where Abolitionism has
not conducted its operations, to which the
Emigrant Aid Society did not extend its cO'ortr
there is nothing but peace and quite. Ou the
other hand, in Kansas, where Abolitionism
has appeared, where the Emigrant Aid Socie
ty attempted to control the people, you find
viobnee, and discord, and rebellion against
the laws of the land. Do not these two facts
sho that the principles of the Nebraska bill
was right ? The only difficulties that have
occurrcdj have arisen from the fact that the
opponents of the measure were determined to
not give the bill a fair chance.
If 3'ou will examine into these facts, you
wUl fiud that the allegations have not oue par
tide of ground on which to stand. Our prin
ciples are the principles of the Constitution;
tbey aro the principles of latr and order, of
peace and quiet. Our remedy for existing
eils in Kansas, is that the Constitution and
laws shall prevail. Wo are the advocates of
tie supremacy of the laws ; our opponents are
t',ie advocates of lawless violence aud rebellion
against the constituted authorities of the coun
try. One of the great questions now to bo
decided is whether the law shall prevail or
whether violence shall triumph ; and the deci
sion of that question is involved in the election
which is now to take place.
In regard to this present election, our ene
mies are in the habit of asking the question :
IIow can James Buchanan stand upon the
platform which has been made for Us at Cin
cinnati? I ask, and I do it with emphasis,
how can James Buchanan, with his autece
dents, stand on any other platform than the
one made at Cincinnati? Our opponents
have been in the habit of saying that they have
made a Douglas platform, and then put Bu
chanan on it. I ask you to examine this mat
ter for a moment, and you will find that James
Buchanan and mj-self occupy identically the
Fame position, and have done bo for years, on
this slavery question, in all its phases.
In 1840, when Mr. Wilmot, of Pennsyl
vania, proposed the Wilmot Proviso, I, then
inutile House of Representatives, proposed as
a substitute, to extend tho Missouri Line to
the Pacific Ocean. You all remember, that
in October, 1847, James Buchanan wrothis
celebrated "Harvest Home Letter," at Berks
county, and in that, proposed to extend that
lino to the Pacific ocean, as the dividing line
between slavery and freedom. He did not
Maintain then that the Missouri Compromise
fras founded on sound or wise principles, but
Ending it oa tho statute book, rather than
hazard the peace and harmony of the country,
he was . willing to close the controversy forever
by extending it to the Pacific, rather than to
raise sectional strife even to carry out a sound
priuciple. Acting on that same theory, in
August, 1848, I proposed in the Senate of
the United States, a law to extend the Mis
souri line to the Pacific ocean, in the earue
sense and with the same understanding, with
which it was originally adopted. That prop
osition passed the Senate and was voted down
in the House of Representatives. Had the
policy of Buchanan, as proposed in the "Har
vest Home letter," then prevailed the same
policy whioh I advocated in tho law of 1848
there would hve been an end of this sec
tional controversy forever. Who is responsi
ble for the defeat of the proposition to extend
that line to the Pacific ? Certainly not James
Buchanan certainly not myself certainly
not the Democratic party. The men who
were responsible for that were the Abolition
ists, the Free Soilers, the present anti-Nebraska
men of the country.
They then told us that the Missouri law
was an infamous measure; said that if slavery
was right cn the south side of the line, it was
right on the north side. They said if it was
right to leave the people to do as they pleased
on the south of J10.30, it was right to grant
them the same privilege north of G.30. They j
said they would agree to any measure but
that infamous measure, the Missouri Compro
mise. By the defeat of the expression of tho
Missouri Compromise line in 1S48, as propo
sed by Mr. Buchanan in his Harvest Home
letter as proposed by myself in the United
States Senate, the country was plunged into a
whirlpool of dangers of sectional agitation and
sectional controversy which lasted from 1848
to 1850. That controversy was the result of
the defeat of the proposition to extend the Mis
souri Compromise line as proposed by Mr.
Buchanan, and introduced by myself.
In 1850 the controversy had rsged to such
an extent that the best men in the land trem
bled for the fate of the Republic. Evcu the
immortal Clay, who, after a long life of patri
otic publie services, bad retired to the shades
of Ashland to prepare himself for another and
a happier existence. There in his retirement
he heard the mutterings of the approaching
storm hoard the angry voices of discord brea
thing sectional hatred and sectional strife, un
til he felt bound to come out of his retirement
into the Senate of the United States, the scene
of his greatest triumphs and proudest services,
to see if he, 1y his age, bis experience, hw
counsel, could not do something to calm the
troubled wrters, and restore peace aod quiet
to a disturbed community.
FYom the moment when Clay appeared in
the Senp.te, all party strife was hushed, patri
otic feelings subdued factious resistance ; Clay
became the leader of all the Union men of the
country. He had the great and immortal
Cass, whom you have heard to-night, for his
right hand man, and the god-like Webster
for the left, and there ranged around him all
the patriotic Union men, Whigs and Demo
crats united by a common object, animated
by a common spirit, and that was, to restore
peace to the country, to quell the sectional
strife that abolitionism and free soi!:.-:;n Lai
nroduced. in consequence of defeating the
proposition of Mr Buchanan to extend the j
Missouri line t the Pacific ocean. For live
long months we assembled in the Council room
each morning to plan the operations for that
day to head off faction to suppress combi
nation against the institutions of the country;
and there wo arranged steo by step the prop
ositions until thev resulted in the adoption of
'?e measures known as the Compromise Meas- ;
ures of 1850.
You all remember with what shouts and re
joicings the passage of those measures was re
ceived throughout the country. You all re
collect the groat meeting you then held here
in Philadelphia, composed of Whigs and Dem
ocratsUnion men of all parties who ap
proved of the settlement which was made by
those measures of that vexed question ; and
now lot me remind you, my friends, that among
the proudest productions of that meeting here
in fact the chief ornament of that meeting
;3 the letter of James Buchanan to that
meeting congratulating the country upon the
restoration of peace by the establishment of
the great principles of the Compromise meas
ures of 1850.
Thus we find that Mr. Bu' hanan was among
the first to approve of those measures. He
had been for the Missouri line so had I. We
tried to carry it out and were voted down.
Failing in that we took the nextbest measure,
and succeeded in that, and, fortunately for
the country, that measure was a return to the
true principles of the Constitution of the Uni
ted States, as the great Washington, Madison,
Hamilton and Franklin, and other sages for
med it in that Hall. From 1850, having re
turned to tho Constitution, having abandoned
all of these patchwork compromises, which
were outside of the Constitution. James Bu
chanan ha stood firm and immovable by those
principles.
In 1854. it became my duty to rcpoit bills
to organize Kansas and Nebraska, on the
principles laid down in 1850, endorsed by the
Whigs; endorsed by tho Democracy; sanc
tioned by Mr. Buchanan's letter to the Phila
delphia Ratification meeting ; and I brought
in tho Nebraska Bill in the form that it now
stands, from the statute, book. (Cheers )
That bill passed the Senate by a majority of
the Whig pirty then in the body, also by a
majority of the" Democratic Senators receiving
the votes of a majority of tho Southern Sena
tors, and a!so of a majority of all the Nor
thern senators ; and yet we are told tlie conn
senators ; and yet we are to;a tne conn
is betrayed in the passage of that bill,
ce, "no such thing.") betrayed by
? Betrayed by a majority of the North?
try was
(a voice
whom ?
Betrayed bv the whole South? Betrayed
by a majority of iho Democrats? Betrayed j
by a majority of tho Whigs and that t.w. in j
carrying out a principle to which every Whig j
and every Democrat iwo yearn previouf-lj had
pledged bis honor to carry out in good faith:
The fact is. that these Old Line Democrats
who stood immovable by tho principles of
that bill, were true to their pledges, true to
their instincts, true to those immortal Demo
cratic principles which we all love and cherish ;
and thoso Whigs too, then and now, stand
firmly and proudly by these same principles
embraced in the Nebraska bill, stand where
Clay stood, where Webster stood ; by the prin
ciples that were consecrated by the death of
Clay, and in the grave of Webster. Old
Line Whigs are now asked to abandon the
faith of their party; they are asked to repudi
ate the priuciples of Clay when yet the grass
is hardly grown over his grave ; they are as
ked to repudiate the great Constitutional
principles of Webster, while -et his family
are wearing the weeds of mourning, and they
are asked to do this in order to join with thosa
who cot only despise the Whig leaders, but
denounce a Washington, a Jefferson, and a
Madison, and all the great patriots, in conse
quence of their having lived in the Southern
instead of the Northern section of the coun-
tfy- . .
"It is simply a proposition to be decided
whether we shall be governed by sectional
lines or Constitutional principles. The poli
iey of the Abolitionists is to array the North
against the South section against section
State against State until civil war and disu
nion shall be the consequence. I ask, ara
you prepared to engage in such a controver
sy ? Are you prepared to imbrue your hands
in a brother's blood? Voices "never,
never." Did our Fathers of the Revolution
make any distinction between a Northern and
a Southern army? ("No, no.") When they
made a Constitution, was there any line drawu
between a Northern and a Southern Patriot ;
and are we now, when the Constitution is as
sailed, to enquire whether it has been assailed
on its Southern or its Northern border ? What
matters it to me if that great instrument is
assailed, whether it be upon a point that af
fects the rights of the South or the rights of
the North ? It is enough for me to know that
that great palladium of American Liberty has
been rudely touched by a sacrilegious hand.
I ask, if a foreign enemy should land au armv
here to invade our country, would you stop to
enquire whether the invasion was made upon
the line of the Northern Lakes, or upon the
Gulf of Mexico, or upon the Pacific const?
Would, it change your patriotism whether it
was a Northern or a Southern invasion ? (No,
no.) Then, why will you hesitate, when the
Constitution is infringed, to enquire whether
the infiingement is upou the Southern man's
rights, or the Northern nians rights? Our
motto is : " The Constitution as it is; the U
uion as it was made, as it is now. and as it
shall be in the future," and these are the
principles endorsed on the platform of the Cin
cinnati Convention.
All men who believe in the integrity of the
Constitution, and the perpetuity of the Union,
aro asked to rally under these principles which
are essential to the preservation of either.
Can any sectional party, animated with sec
tional prejudices, safely be entrusted with the
preservation of this Ujion ? Cries of "no.
no "
Has any other party sloughed offall its isms,
aud received the reformed, regenerated, puri
fied principles which ensures the preservation
of the Union, like the Democratic party ? Haa
any other party such claims to nationality.
What other party has assurance enough t
cross either the Potomac or the Ohio, and car
ry their principles foremost on their banners ?
Aud yet you are asked to trust a party whose?
sole aim is disscntion instead of combination,
hostility instead of fraternity, disunion instead
of UnioD.
Now, my friends, these principles, these is
sues are all involved in the present election.
Never had an American so much to animate
his soul and inspire his patriotism, as in this
contest. With a platform that is our our own,
expressing our principles, cherishing and sus
taining air our feelings and desires ; prinei
pies which ensure peace and domestic traquil
ity at home, and whose policy, if carried out
will command respect and honor abroad. With
a compact so formed, can even calumny itself,
with its thousand heads, dare to stain the pri
vate character of cither ?
With Buchanan as our leader, and gallant
young Breckinridge second in command, we
have a representation which commands tho
entire respect of the whole country. Let mo
say to you, believe uot that in supinencss wo
cau achieve an easy victory. Do not be lulled
into indifference aud lethargy ; but remenber
that our enemy is an arch fiend, who hus sown
hatred, discord, heresy pnd schisms among
men. Brethren, without the name, and dres
sed in different guises in each separate local
ity in one place a Native American uling
America by Americans in another, a Black
Republican in another an Abolitionist in
another, a Free Soiler, aud in another an Anti-Nebraska
man changing his name and his
colors wherever he goes but ha is the same
insidious enemy of Democracy wherever ho
may be found, and whatever his name. Ap
plause I have often said and now repeat, th.it all
of these uuTercRt factions and these factionista
are akin to each other. They will fuse and.
act together when the time of election comes.
That's so. Ilcnec we have to fight them as
an allied army, and when we get the Democ
racy in a line, with such an army to back us
as we have to-night, with the Know-Noth-ingsaud
Abolitionists.and all the other schisms
in front of us, I tll you rake them down.
I care not which of them you hit. (Ap
plause.) Oar object is not only to elect our
men but to bury Abolitionism, with all its
concomitant evils, so deep in the grave tht
there will be no resurrection for them.. Wa
ask you for a majority that will be recorded
upon the eternrl pagos of history. We wish
the Keystone State to pile up such a majority
on the top of the key of the arch as will for
ever keep it firm and irara e U it iif flare.
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