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A..W7., JOHNSTOWN, 1' A.
JT AS constantly on hand a large and well
Ii sheeted stock of seasonable
map swn pnpni'TiTFP
His stock couists of almost every article
anally kept in a retail store, all of which
' ive been selerte l with care and are offered
B' prices which cannot fail to prove sati.-fac-t
ry. Call and examine for yourselves-.
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UEXTISTKY.
' I VT. undersigned Gra.iaateof theBalti
,: i!t College (f Dental Surgery, respect
''V o:icr.s his professional services to the
C!t:':,'n-; "! Ehensburg. He has spared no
taens thoroughly to acquaint himself with
'(ry uiij.roveinent in Ids art. To many
v'Airs of per.-...nal experience he has thought
l'' the imparted experience of the high
1:1 :tutiiorities in Dental Science. Ho sfm
J' ' tlj-at an opportuity may be given
r work to sjieak its own praise.
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j Ooods, New Stylo Spring Shawls, New
i Traveling Dress Goods. Fine Stock of New
; Goods, Maguifieent FcuIards,Spleudid Black
; Silks. &c.
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Staple C ods. Also. CLOTHS, Cassimeres,
Yestings, &c,
P. S , Our prices are now arranged to
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j DAVID CRO XIX. In the Ojurt of
! vs Common l'leas of
i JOHN KIMMEI1LY, J Cambria county. Pa,
: of JIarch Term. 1SG0, No. CS. Ejectment
f.r a biHly of land situate in Blacklick tp.,
j Cambria county, atid l'iuc township, Inoi
I ana county, containing about forty-five
. acres, adjoining lands of Solders, Gunning
and Strong.
And now to wit, the 5th day of March,
, A. D., 1SC0. rule en the defendant to appear
and plead, on or before the first iljnday of
June ni:t.
Cambria County, s.t :
i Extract from the record of said
' Court. Certified, the 5th day of March, A.
, D., 1SC0.
! GEO. C. X. ZAIIM, Prothor.utary.
' Attest,
i James Mvk::s. Sheriff.
I Sheriff's (.ffice, Ebensburg, )
I March 20, lSliG.Ot. (
i Ait Imitteiise Kiiiit;ratloii,
; An immense emiratian will pour down
:: itit ) the Southern States with the rcstora
! tion of peace. Thousands of southern refu
: gees, from .ail the towns and cities of the
North, will return home : thousands of
I northern soldiers will move in the same
, liirecti n, and settle, in thu closet bonds of
j union, among their southern brethren ; and,
j in obedience to the laws of demand and
j supply, thoiisanJs of northern farmers, me
cnanica. lam lunorcrs. wiu swell me niignty
volume for the repeonlinir and rtbuildiin' the
j waste places of "the sunny South." In
anticipation of this grand diversion of the
: tide of emigration, and from the increasing
! demands upon them, the proprietors of
i IU iS'lE ITEU'S CELEBRATED STOM
! AC 11 BITTEMS are putting iq additional
't thousaiuls of boxes of their universally pop
ular tome and alterative.
We have the testimony of soldiers, sailors,
travelers, trappers, miners, emigrants, refu
gees, farmers and piauteis. North and South,
"a cloud of witnesses," that as a sale and
reliable remedial ager.t, and as a protection
Against nil the complaints incident to expo
sure, privations-, changes of climate, iu-t,
wat-r, and habits of life, IIOSTETTEIFS
I BITTEBS, used as directed, are worth their
weight in gold, North or South. Commu-
. nieatcd.
i It is also proper to state that the Bitt'. rs
J are Sold exclusively in glass, and nei er tin-
tier any circumstances by the gallon it the
barrel. Impostors and imitators arc abroad,
j ami the only safeguard the public has
; nzainst them is to see that the Bitters they
i buy have the engraved label and note of
j hand of Messrs. Hjsfetter & Smith, ami our
. proprietary stamp over the cork of the hot
, tie.
TO COXSUMLTIYES.
Tlie advertiser, having leen restored to
health in a few weeks by a very simple
remedy, after having suffered for several
years with a severe lung affection, and that
dread disease, Com umplion is anxious to
make known to his fellow-sufferers the
means of cure.
To ali who desire it, lie will send a copy
of t lie prescription u.-ed (free of charge)
with the oireettons for preparing and using
the same, which they will lind a sntij ci rk
for CoNsi.MniON. Asthma, Buonc.utis.
Coughs. Conns, and all Throat and Lung
Affections. The only object of the adverti
ser in sending the Prescription is to bent tit
the alllicted, and spread information which
he conceives to be invaluable, and he hopes
every siA'erer will try his remedy, as it will
cost them nothing, and may jirove a bless
ing. Parties wishing the prescription, kube,
by return mail, will please address
Bkv. EDWAKD A. WILSON,
Williamsburg, Kings Co , New York
Feb. 1, ISf.O.ly.
ERRORS OF YOUTH.
A Gent! eman who suffered for ears from
Nervous Debility, Premature Decay, and all
the affects of youthful indiscretion, will, for
the sake of suffering humanity, send free to
all who need it, the receipt and directions
for making the simple remedy by which he
was cured. Sufferers wishing to profit by
tiie advertiser's .experience, can do so by
addressing.
JOHN B. OG DEN
No. 13 Chambers St., New York.
Feb. 1st, 1806. ly.
First of Aimul Those of our suhscrib
ers who intend to "move" on or about the
1st of April, are requested to give us timely
notice thereof, stating as well the ace from
as the place to which they remove. This
will enable us to deliver their papers at
their new residences, o; forward them to the
nearest post tfficcs to them without mistake
or delay.
EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1866.
OF
SENATOR WM. A. "WALLACE,
OF C'1.EAUFIEI.I COl "NT Y.
On La)u7on,8 resolutions approving t7ie action
(if' Ihoxe iueiitbers of Coiujrcss J'rom l'cnn
syhimia who voted in J'acor of ' the District
of ColuTiibia Negro Suffrage Bill, and
instructing the Pennsylvania U. S. Sena
tors to sujomjH the same in ihe U. S. Sen
ate.
( Concluded.)
TIIE NLf-UO HAS NO CAPACITY l OU TKOGUESS.
AH, all speak of scope for tlevelope
ment ; of capacity for progress.
Let us turn to the home of the negro.
There land is most fertile, and food lor
man is produced with but trifling labor.
Its vegetable productions are almost spon
taneous, the domestic animals so essen
tial to the comfort and existence of man,
have always been possessed by them in
irreatcr numbers than in most other sec
tions of the world. For four hundred
years they have been in communication
with Christian nations of western Eu
rope, and from time immemorial with
the nations of western Asia, upon the
coast, and upon the Nile. With greater
opportunities for advancement and progress
than those possessed by the most favored,
they are yet sunk in the lowest depths of
barbarism. Licentiousness, brutality and
all the heathen rites of paganism, are the
distinguishing marks of the people. No
evidences exist that they have ever been
be tter. Implements of agriculture and for
manufacturing purposes are rare. In all
their broad land no hewn stone or sculp
tured tablet, no manufactured brick or
monumental structure appears. No arches,
bridges, tombs or pyramids speak of power
in the present or capacity in the past ; but
back through the vista of centuries their
land and people present a monotonous and
unbroken aspect of stupidity and barbar
ism. The evidences of capacity for pro
gress, apparent in all the world beside,
are here wanting.
Captain Burton, a recent English trav
eler in Central Africa, in his work thus
graphically portrays the character of the
people :
"The sfudy of psychology m Eastern
Africa is the study of man's rudimental
mind, when, subject to the agency of ma
terial nature, he neither progresses nor ret
rogrades, lie would appear rather-a de
generacy from the civilized man than a
savage rising to the first s:cp, were it not
for his apparent incapacity for improve
ment. He has not the ring of the true
metal ; there is no rich nature as in the
New Zealander for education to cultivate.
He seems to belong to one of those childish
races which, never rising to man's estate,
fall like worn out links from the great
chain of animated nature. He unites the
incapacity of infancy with the compliancy
of age ; the futility of childhood, and the
credulity of youth with the skepticism of
the adult and the stubbornness and bigotry
of the old. He lias 'beaten lands' and
seas. For centuries he lias been in di
rect intercourse with the more advanced
people of the eastern coast, and though
few have seen a European, there lire not
many who have not cast eyes upon the
Arab. Still he has stopped short at the
threshold of progress ; he shows no signs
of developement ; no higher and more va
ried orders of intellect are called into
being "
This is the evidence of a traveler of
undoubted authority, he too an English
man with anti-slavery proclivities and
desirous of elevating the race. And,
sirs, I affirm that whenever and where
ever, in all time past, it has been attemp
ted to arouse these people as a people to
developement and progress, the result has
but served to demonstrate the truth of
my position.
OUU OWN KXl'EIMEXCE.
I cite to you your own experience in
the North. I do not desire you to take
exceptional cases, either of low grade or
of high grade, but to look at them as a
rule. Deal with this question as states
men, as men who desire the benefit of
their race and of their country, looking at
the whole subject, not at exceptional ca
ses. As a rule, let me ask you, are they
not dependent upon the white man ? Are
they not servile? Can you ever get them
to work unless at the dictation and under
the control of the white man? Did you
ever learn that a negro had invented any
thing? Did you ever learn that he had
improved anything? I never have, nor
do I believe that any man ever has. They
are idle, improvident and licentious. Of
course, there are exceptions to this, but
the exceptions are rare.
THE Ml'EVTTO.
My friends, the Senator from Erie and
the Senator from Bradford, both talked
about the mulatto :n the South, and said
many of them were sons of Congressmen. 1
The Senator from Bradford Mr. Landon
dealt Jn generalities. I desire to refute
some of the general arguments that he ad
vanced, by special reference to facts and
statistics. The Senator from Erie Mr.
Lowry said that those colored people
should have the right to vote and that, if
allowed to have that right, some of them
would elect from their own class the sons
of Congressmen. The Senator from
Bradford (I cannot give his exact words)
said very nearly the same thing. Now,
let me show you from the pages of the
Compendium of your recorded census of
18.50 the last one I can get what is
the proportion of mulattoes, the men who
have partly white paternity, in the differ
ent states of the Union. Let us see
where the men of the colored race who
have blood in them, live, whether it is in
the South or in the North. Y'ou cannot
deny the evidence of your own census. I
refer you to page 83 of the Compendium,
showing the black and mulatto population
of the United States.
In 18.30, the proportion of mulattoes to
the whole number of blacks in the State
of South Carolina was that of four and a
half to one hundred.
In Alabama, the proportion is seven
and about one-fourth of muiattoes to ev
ery one hundred blacks.
In Connecticut, the proportion is thirty
and one-half mulattoes to every one hun
dred blacks.
In Georgia, the proportion is six and
nearly three-quarters mulattoes to every
aie hundred blacks.
In Massachusetts, the proportion is
thirty-four and a little more than three
quarters mulattoes to every one hundred
blacks.
In Michigan, the proportion of mulat
toes, to the whole number of blacks, is
seventy-six and a little better than one
fourth to every one hundred blacks.
In Ohio, it is one hundred and twenty
nine mulattoes to every one hundred
blacks.
These are the facts on the face of your
recorded census. I do not want to hear
Senators talking about mulattoes in the
South when they have an infinitely greater
number aye, twenty times the propor
tion of them in the North that is to be
found in the South. Even South Caro
lina, "that hot-bed of secession' has but
a little over tour mulattoes to every one
hundred blacks, while the State of Mas
sachusetts has about eight times that
number.
FKOFOKTION OK CKIME.
I have a few more statistics here. I
refer to the same book, page 1 05. I want
to show you something about the crimes
of these people who have such capacity
for progress (?) I want to demonstrate to
you the fact that wherever they have had
an opportunity to make the progress that
you desire they should make, that wher- '
ever the opportunity has been given them
to lit themselves for the right to vote, that
there the proportion of crime committed
by them is larger than in any other sec
tion of this continent. That is a fact
that this book demonstrates. Now, re
member that Massachusetts gave the ne
gro the right to vote when he was able to
read and write, and that in New York he
has the right to vote when he is possessed
of a certain amount of property. The sta
tistics of 1850 show that in the State of j
.Massachusetts there was one negro convict
to every two hundred nnd sixty-two. The
proportion in New York is about the
same. Bennsylvania has one black con
vict "to every five hundred black men
within her borders. This demonstrates
that under our policy, which makes them
not our equals, which does not vest them
with the power of sovereignty, much less
crime is committed than in those sections
in which they have greater privileges and
are permitted to vote.
I have more statistics. On page ICC
of the census of 1850, under the head of
Prisons and Penitentiaries for 1850, we
find that out of every ten thousand col
ored .people of the State of Maryland there
were seven and about a quarter in prison.
In every ten thousand colored people of
the Slate of Massachusetts there were forty-six
and more than a quarter of colored
people in prisons-six times as many col
ored convicts in the penitentiary in Massa
chusetts in 1S50 as there were in Mary
land. In New York, where they have the
property qualification, there were fifty-one
blacks in prison to every ten thousand col
ored people; and in Pennsylvania, there
were nineteen blacks in the penitentiary
to every ten thousand colored. These are
facts that cannot bo gain-said. They
are found upon your records, and you
must make the best of them. I affirm
that they are facts that speak louder than
declamation, louder than the ideas of gen
tleman here founded upon what they con
ceive to be "the will of God" aye these
are facts of the past. They are recorded I do not know why this h, perhaps the
evidences of the progress of this race ; aud ! gentlemen can explain it. The land is be
wi3e, liberal and sensible men will look j coming a waste the population is return
at them before they act upon this great ( ing to barbarism ; and liberty with them
issue. is wLat it alwavs has been and what von
Again, the proportion of colored convicts
in the prisons, jails and almshouses in the
several cities given here, as compared with j to be idle ; license not to work ; license to
the total population of those cities, is this : : be censual ; license to Lc sluggish ; license
In Boston there is one to every sixteen of ; to relapse into the habits of their ances
of the colored population and one to every I tors.
thirty-four of the white population. Iu
New York there is one to every twenty
four of the colored population and one to
every forty-five of the white population.
In Philadelphia there is one to every
twenty-nine of the colored and one to
every seventy-eight of the white. In
Richmond there is one to every forty -five
I of the colored anel one to every one hun
! died and twelve of the white,
j Sufficient from the census. I think I have
! maintained my position so far as our
country is concerned. Th;3 race, in their
own land, could have demonstrated no
capacity for progress that would not have
been transplanted here, where all the
facilities necessary for self-development are
given them.
THE EXPEUIENCE OF JAMAICA.
Now, let us visit Jamaica, the land
that was to be the elysium of the negro.
That island, in 1838, w hen the members
of our convention were inserting in the
Constitution of the State the word
"white," was e mancipated, universal free
dom proclaimed. Suffrage and political
rights were there given to all colors by the
government of G reat Britain, but property
qualification was uniform ; every voter
must have live acres of land. The island
of Jamaica possessed great natural advan
tages, its production was almost sponta
neous; it was the very garden of that sec
tion of the world. Its total population
was about four hundred and fifty thousand,
of which three hundred aud fifty thousand
were blacks, eighty thousand mulattoes
and fifteen thousand whites. From 1838
to 1853 these inhabitants were free, with
the right to make progress, encouraged
and upheld by the mother country, which
sent them money in immense amounts.
Y'et, in 1853, Earl Hussell, one of the
Secretaries of Great Britain, reports to
the home government that there were but
three thousand men there entitled to vote
three thousand (?) out of four hundred and
fifty thousand, four hundred and thirty
odd thousand of whom were colored.
Why is this ? Why did they not make
progress when placed upon an equality
with the most favored ? Why is it that
land does not become what gentlemen pro-
claim the South will become und
er the
beneficent rule of the negroes? It is be
cause inherent capacity for progress does
not exist in these people; that in their
natures, debased and sensual as they are,
that qualification which is essential for
progress in all races does not exist, and
never has existed.
The productive power of that island has
been decreasing ever since emancipation ;
vagrants and squatters people the whole
land. They are not intelligent and res
pectable, but they occupy the land, squat
here and there and move when it suits
their convenience. They live from hand i
mouth, on bread fruits and yams. In !
1850, Mr. Trollope, an English anti-sla- !
very traveler, said that one-half of the su
gar plantations, and more than one-half!
of the coffee plantations there had gone '
back to the bush. Look at the figures, j
From 1.8-29 to 1833 the yearly average of j
its productions was: j
Of sugar, TG,2S2 tons. Now, it is j
about 30,000 tons. Of rum, 35,505
puncheons ; now, it is 20,000 puncheons.
Of coffee, 17,015,000 lbs. ; now it is
about 7,000,000 lbs. "The great decay
in the material prosperity of Jamaica is
made more striking by the facts, that dur
ing the period between 1832 and 1847,
G05 sugar and coffee plantations, con
taining 350,132 acres of land, and alford
ing employment to 49,3S3 laborers, were
entirely abandoned; and from 1848 to
1S53, 573 other plantations, of 391,187
acres, were totally or partially turned to
waste, and this in an island of less than
7,000 square miles. These astounding
facts are verified by Carey, and a state
ment made by the West India Associa-
tion of Glasgow, and appendent docu-
ments. Bigelow, in his notes on Jamai
ca, says :"
"Shipping has deserted her ports; her
magnificent plantations of sugar and cof
fee are running to weeds ; her private
dwellings are falling to decay ; the com
forts and luxuries which belong to indus
trial prosperity have been cut off, one by
one, from her inhabitants ; and the day is
at hand when there will be no one left to
represent the wealth, intelligence, and
hospitality for.which the Jamaica planter
was once so distinguished."
VOL. 13-N0.4.
must admit it is now among these ieople
j
in the South. Liberty is license license
DEVELOP THE SOFTIt.
The Senator from Bradford says :
"The South is fertile," and lie wants to
develop it. Aye, it is a fertile land, the
very garden of the country ; but let him
be warned by the examples of men who
desired to accomplish thio object as ear-
j nestly and honestly as he does. Iet him
remember the example of Jamaica, and
;: let him remember that these people can
; not develop the land, that to enable them
to do so, there must be there an overru
ling race not men that will en.-lave them,
I look to nothing of the kind ; but thev
must have there a race whose intellect is
greater and better than theirs they mu?t
have somebody to depend ujkhi. These
people never can and never will, unaided
by the white race, develop that country.
True, they have muscle ; but muscle,
without brains, never did any tiling. They
have not the capacity, the intellect. You
must depend upon the superior race for
the brains, and use tie muscle of the ne
gro for the labor.
ELEVATE I50TII KAIT.S.
"It is necessary to develop the laborer,"'
the Senator says. I admit it is necessary
to develop the laborer, but you must nut
develop him to the injury of the race that
lives side by side with him. No, sir :
raise them from their degraded condition,
lift them up, but do not attempt to place
tliem on the same platform with the
whites. I accord to them all their nat
ural rights ; I am willing to raise them
from their degradation ; I am willing to iit
them to learn the great truths of the Gos
pel, to do business, to become intelligent,
6o that they may make contracts and pre
serve the fruits of their labor. I am wil
ling to do all this ; but I am unwilling to
bring them to an equality with the race
that is far above them, and thus aid in
lowering both. Y'our nicely rounded pe
riods of sympathetic and eloquent diction
about the improvement of races and the
triumphs of humanity, are but too palpa
bly proven to be myths idle as the vapor,
empty as the wind when you go to exam
ine the practical workings of your theory.
The spending of hundreds of millions of
dollars by the mother country in Jamaica
j to develop those people, to learn them how-
tt take care of themselves, you find has
demonstrated the truth I assert. The le
gitimate result of your humanitarian
ideas have there culminated in a most in
human and barbarous massacre within
the past year. This is but one instance
of the results of your "improvement of
races," one Illustration of your theory of
"capacity for progress" on the part of the
colored race.
n v n.
Let' us take another instance. llayti.
Her independence was declared in 1803 ;
and the negro was placed in the entire
control of the Government ; the reins of
government were fully committed to his
keeping. No white there to encumber
him, no white brain to direct him, the
negro not only had exclusive control of
that fertile island, but he alone managed
its ainiirs. The Government vested in
the people equal political rights such as
we enjoy. In 1790, the exports of the
United States in coffee, sugar and rum
amounted to a little over twenty and a
half millions of dollars worth, while
llayti exported twenty-eight millions of
dollars woi th of those commodities. Con
trast the relative situations of the to
countries and the facilities of each for de
veloping their respective capacities. 1 E re
is the negro in a fertile land ; he is blessed
with all the advantages that we possess,
and the inducements to excel which should
present themselves to him are tho same .
that are held out to the white man ; the
institutions under which he lives have
been modelled after our own : (the hu
manitarians of France having formed the
rvoi-ernment of St. DominfTo and nivcn to
J that government all needful political ad-
I
vantages ;) while the exports of that island
are several millions in excess of those of
our own country. On the other hand,
we are in a land that is sterile and pro
ductive and which requires labor and time
to be made of value. Such were the re
lative positions of llayti and tho United
States at that day. But where is that is
land to-day 1 and where are we ? While
we have ascended in the scale of progress
and humanity, they have rctrogaded.
Their institutions were founded upon our
maxims of political justice and of right,
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