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MUM. U 2 0 , 411 OUT shad , or roe
broad .all as baton,
Saff;rieg held to sway in that euessapment,
--- _ ; and although log bats werwesected to *teltabettertit&
G.LADSTON E. i nlet) from the great severity of winter, yet them
wa- another source of a;iffering that preyed heal
g • REVOLUTION. -4- sly Upon each one essemided therer---the ~tits;
1 •
..- pro visions. Although Gamut - Washington
rale village of Valley Forge, ! wee furnished lejth authority ta-obtsin the* by
building occupied as-a ovary meant', rot that great man totalled to
ntartteh
always such In days of use it oppressively. But there were some in that
of domestic life—with its I army who heeltated not to Rae any means to ob.
One evening about sun- Win food to 'satisfy the cravings of hutrrer—and
. aruuod the warm bluing many a beetle of violence, and sten Murder ems
or travelers with the host and perpetrated by the lawless ones on the neighbor.
alous kook was heard at the ing inhabitants—but these brutal Ws were-made
of "come in" was given, when known to thecommander in ebiefand the authors
rutetuogly opened, and at Its were severely punished.
old man, hatless and without One evening's' the sun-"lay cradled in a
with g l ar i ng e y es , a nd seeme d cloud," Lilly had just risen from her sweet um-
every part of the room. It inunication with Him, who was her stay and 1
sight—the snow was falling comfort, in ardent prayer for the safety of
kart ached to see Ito pitiful an her hushaed, and was gazing upon the bright
with one vo i ce bid bie r craw smile* that filled the beanies in the far west,
1, to her woolen's kindness, she was startled by hearing coarse and noisy
rte, an d gent ly l e d v im r e r Ab e voices, and the piteousloleating of her pet lamb.
t h e seat nea r e s t t o th e fire— She rushed out of her door and beheld two wee ' 1
theta occupying. Not a word struggling to seise the littley animal. Quickly
Token. but his keen eye trill she clasped her arms arounskits neck, and hn•
I l l s room, as it in intrust- i n s plored them for mercy! In an instant an arm
tel bi. gaze upon her face, as was raised and the demon plunged his bayonet
II was tu , t h at l oo k —,h oo k into her fair bosom, and as she lay weltering in
i deep sigh that told of di.- : her blood, they bore sway their tiniewliel prey
sack exhausted into his seat amid their blasphemies, jests and ribaldry.
;el of sleep spread herman• On that very night David Gladstone was '
it. careworn, desolat.• wan of posted as one of the sentinel.. David, - - in his
/ sweet forgetfulness loue.ome Cation, was beguiling the time by fond
of 1777, there stood in /tweet, ly thinking of his beloved wife, and imagined
,), not - far from the village, a ' binotelf again in his 'woe happy home. The
almost tildes' Iron view stilt, 1 5. , ti0,1, , f voices struck apes his ear and dispelled
sbrul'lr. , r ) .. 'flier warn ..wa l l t.... 1. oppy dream of thought a. He listened—they
, ut door —trod'. ~ 1 undr.lo.--I tial • .'.awe toter and nearer; two men met his eager
litment).r. et—the 'Jetty., eleutirli. vi..vr, line of 'shoed was carrying on his shoulder
,-
I. au] /wined i loiely 01.1.. r , tb.• dead lamb, whose fleecy wool was besprinkled
d tat! -ututner's sun Her.• lite., grub the blood ,f the murdered Lilyl He beard
~...n 1 hii. young britit.—lii• "LI N thi tr rude noise and vile oaths in dispntiug for
~... ea- iglu to call to•r --- t 11... prize, and then came distitietly the words
ii , •e , et etuit. to men , . title 1 . that e. or fie- to his brain—"she tried to thwart
... itc h se .old-'u) t l , am ii, no•—•tiot• fetol ILIA I killed her!" Mamas, itatia•
1. 1., . -it While b• rts doted ed hint—quick
as thought he leveled bus musket 1
't•i::. I, l'll. his lettailti t. tight ae-i 3 4 ,0 the mue,terer d 'en! There was a cud.
, .lil it was a t.lay..td) joy deli crouttowiou to the camre—alarrn acid eager
t yok e of l e lb l , ..' that he ' Inquiry, and anon the facts became known, and I
with its fruits Rh. tanatitta 11-..14 MIA placed under arrest and itat a sai in am
,to actiee an .ong with the user• guarti how...
/biers" in their songs of praise 'The next morning a court menial was assem•
sinus anthem : She loved tias it!, d; the brave men who sat there in its solemn
t. loved the bleseiogs of too au 1 1 dtgat , )—the brave and firm felt a sorrow in their
a. how dearly she loved tn.- we • heart.. that reflected its dark shadoirs urea their
atisbaud's gift 1 1 E was so grunt: f 'rater,. Not a word was spoken save to ar.
sod many an evening, as the sun rang- 'b.- court, sod to order the oner to be
ts
tosbilid the weatera hilts. 'all • brought in M. rim:- Was t "David Glad
!ittows 11.1. David'a return, it would some---. 0 worn—.e haggard? What havoc in
' gambols as it sooompented her one night! One night: nay one moment,, for
lei Arid it walla blessed si g ht arid/ the sudden crushing an I blastiog of allithat
meal was over to se.- D 11/14 us- d, ar to him on earth! the, deeolation that, in
the shelf in the corner of the 211 Itnatint, swept away forever, his happy home
mother's Bible, given to hits' by —lt ,e the devastation I a thunder bolt in its
h our , a nd with h o ve to G o d al , i destruction, made hie' a wreck—and be stood
irtroo of its blessed page'rt. au 1 before the assetubltd court a grief stricken man
kneel. ..ide by side, and offer From the ugliest his unerriug, ball pierced
, g r ayer. of praise and tbank.giv the heart of the murderer until he mould before
',kw 'ace them Elie richest bless tht- comet, he knew not that be hod vioisited the
,iuties of his post—he keel, minght but that his
Lily was deed—dun did not leave his crushed
and broke° heart. He stood there DOE
EL4 a conscious• criminal, but as 1/110 kit to him,
sell—.silent and motionless The endemic was
direct—he bean' nothing of it un ti Nees serrated
the murder of his wile, of the maddening cause of
his violation of duty, when suddenly his eyea flash
ed, his fists clinched, be spoke as though each
word wee living fire—"He killed my Lill and
I shot him down—down to earth!' la nd then
as suddenly, calmly looked around upon the
assembly; and in an instant realised his position.
Fur a few moments there true death like still
ness—then there was • abort oonsultatiou in
whispers among its officers--then the presiding
officer elbwly rose, as though his heart, was quin.
ering under the tightened chords of pity and
grief, yet with unfaltering voice be rielivered the
verdict guilty! The penalty deathl—Tbsre were
n o dry eyes among those brave and sorely tried
veterans. There-were hearse there whose pal.
sat ions came in stifling quieknese--there were
tongues there that could not speak, for their
words were choked in efforts of utterance! But
there was one there wiiii; though in his stricken
heart there was no hope, 'stood there firm and
erect. . • .
rudder that swims the t.. 1•
hot beam the shore.
with its balmy Mrs and blooming
brig sway, and autumn, with its
droorviog tree and shrub in
!ht sod glorious colon ! What
red, yekow, green, anuriet and
together ! Hither sod you
some beautiful object, wheth
?tips. But soon their beauty
+rioter, as if jealona of their
les its vengeful wrath ! It
forth—frost, with its blight.
bursas, with its blusjeOng
' u al!, tearing by piecemeal
tiful ornaments that adorn
when the destroying work is
old and young, extend their
;wring mercy Their piteous
are unheeded, as homes
tutly shakes them with bis boil•
404 hoary requiem over their
great struggle fur ourtiati.m's
{log peer the country, as yet
the valley region had not been
'ear s dire alarms," save but one?.
snob under the command of Sir
was etestripeutl at Germantown—
of 'tuck took post ession , of Phila.
tneral‘Raahivitton !woke tip bis en
B ACIP9sOk, and marched his army
Str Wiliam, Is.rniog his po
,eti eputt attacking him, and with his
tr4al Philadelphia lb Chestnut
intisa army, as it twitched along
1, treed e”estsruatioa sod dismay
and totio,tbte rescued the valley;
word supreme atatsag tta inha is
Lett it to known that the British
the enterpri•e, and returned to
4e 114U41 reposexas restored;
deter pour. d out its offerings tut
ter their ese.q).• frum, impending
ie, white—the lied
sdirued to crystal dia.
t e"Y plume•" of virgin SUOW—the
wit 6 purest talorlus, rr< thougL
S►•l'utoed their v..uprable looks
seip.s—the frail uu , ches bending
af 10 P , orritw t under the weight,
rota—all this ea. iutieed heauti
but terrible in the 15C1V..61 y of
rer
bahos val. agitated in the grouts&
irreduw The torch wan ligLied
r K'lvtli that it. Cole shuuld not
)nt ibe (therob of Liberty ebould
their belne,tl eotintry: One
u ". - ttlitt.r, the athrtit fife anti the
tipm the quietntqui of the vil
4 . 4 yinitig thronged the highwayv
loi...iiiegton and his anal, parsed
['lace encampment on the actg . !)
11..‘ the ire al heti in coo
Wail)
)1,11.41 arai) pworly clad, sod
for an. cap eture of dire wtut.r
O u r'• limn warmed theta in their
Lean told.thwt Hopei
" el likr 446 lu the air,
ialenag A.„ 'mug g y throng
OAP were Pu r red lb irrMalgti
tnc t,akt it eotkutry'e
4 ity Lett their peaceful abodes sod
with ()therein the groused 106
ous emus. Foreman Haag . thew win David
Gladstone, who with hhi Old wthilipiVaigt% . . •
undo knapsack, wait
it ready to degiiit 'it' ii=
mims anteing. xiii yea was givea....
him stood his wife--his ufailly•wf alle-lifelley.P
Pistil li
Not a ward was spokos. ' y 'etter"htesPil
him to her heart! Aed this ite i . ,ehigAsgi
ed is each other'earma, one laill* I , Wit
Wax given, sod thus he tire himself :Ina her
.iii brace, as he timed to givehts tacit leek et" hlit
bears's greiltag e tweisWW ' l O, earth,: his voice Milne
Booing back in some it anearthiy senderthili,
"Lilly, farewell!" Her heart reepoeded mfare
welt," but her lips moved net! l'hetW Or mo
menta is life when the liatt is too talttienttfor.,
auoe, and a word spokes would map meindelite
tender ear& So was it with Lilly. She gated
after her beloved our until 'be was lost to her
gight. Yet she did not wish him batik! God
only Irate bow dearly she loved bias, he* she ele
a., loved,, ardently love* her country; aid thotsgit
Atrieltes in grief, she felt Am ile was a champion
in the glorious cause.
FM
lie raised his eyes to heaven—a smile lit up s '
his haggard features---and reverentially bowed
his bead in obedience to gie justness and majesty,
of the law. That nitti , ethe general appointed,
the execution to take place oa the next morning
at sunrise. There was no time foidelay in tbou
momentous day.
The night is pest. The last night that was
to stop the hands on life's great dial ! Did
David pass this night alone in preparation for
the journey in eterniwy's mystenotte and bidden
world? Oh no : The God like man—be who,
when the camp lay boned in sleep, sought the
recess of the forest, And pn bedded knee ponied
out his soul in prayer -4c was with him, and
will, holy word and earnest prayer eided him in
seeking true repentance—to see thel 4 lht that
shone beyond the dark gloom that e rooded
him. And when the hour arrived that he was
to leave him, the parting words of that great
man fell like holy balm upon his misery—pand
David bowed himself in resignation to his
tile
The glicani of day wee beginoiog to tiny the
east with its faint glow, when the order woe 6140
to mower a Me of twelve private. and three.
Awl. Then wan beard the tap of the maid
drum—the doleful sound strikipg apes the bran
men, ea though their very heart volvista would
erect ssuuder! For $ few moinewts, stigma deep
and painful, reigned--rotarrapted by the Acmes
wi rd of command—the mew inevtul into ranks
of four abreast, mechenietily alit were, i k for none
d;i t
mewed oonscious of tadri they Were, av the
officers placed themselves in front, • d by a
~,,,ti,,w of the hand the order was gyve,
_.,0 i i tt re .
4 il
David. He came, and placed hiiiiilf, bet - . .
two of Atm officers—file' comniondinig'pllfeei: re
taining his place in front. !he rto smirch
was given. About aiiiiiti!,4,C4jlll . o),ll4l of
the camp was a snail . .61a - 4p ` or rill4Or ` open
space—this had been troloic.Cfar ilta iliatte of
elecutiou. At. tiso,lllr 1#44 u . a jar
Wei
the
its sprraditigiitiMAryanol d i le ilVir P
the route lry iu a strsiglitifie f'' • camp to
this erre Slowly and solemnly tha prhoesaion
moved in its • mrowion of dead! Not * weed
broke the stigmas of the early wont save the
tatemily tramp of feet, end the shie d soud of
that . muillee drae! Whigs a few paean soun d
the
new made grass the weed bait Iw itt,._ 3ivele—ebe
n ordered ate "lose double lie tit
aesemiumfing Winer oa the rig then the
twoollioareMoad to the righted left of David
—laying him Moue facing the double Ile.—
thiciatated be stood; not a muscle moved; ids
,fitoe bore the very impress of serenity. He
kneel*. The bandage is shoat 'Joelover
his eyes, when he seemed to be nerved 1 1" 4 :japer
kit:dian power, tore it away a nd with unfaltering
voice sulatme4, "Consradel, be steady! I fear
not depth " The word of comma was now
given by' the tap of the drum. It wie a terrible
thing to se: these muskets aimed at his heart I
Then when all was ready; the abler was about
raisin t his sward to give the signal to Ire, when
a Add or rather scream neat the aittm a horse.
'man lame galloping at utmost Speed 'froth the
camp, and "pardon!' pada!" resounded threfth
the air as though a thousand 'roam - Care herald
.ing the joyful tidings!
Time wore on with a heavy pace; theswissings
apd privations of that army daily increased la
severity. Men were tittle who had left oomfort
and even luxury, enduring most poignant hard
ships. Many of theni shoeless and almost at.
ed, compelled to buffet the cold blasts and maws
of that merciless winter! Many an imprint, soo
the white bosom of the snow was marked with
the blood from their laoerated feet, and many a
disabled limb told of their great offerings—David,
now so gentle, so self sactiffeiog in his kind in
tentions to the sufferers, became endeared to the
inmates of the emisp, and be had also won the
confidence of his greet and noble entamesider.
. One day, Jane, 1778, 'David was summoned
to his presence in private;—what the import of
that interview was, no °se else knew; bat in
about au hour afterwards be left the eamp with
important dipatebes for whom, none could tell.
Shortly after Lis departure, the army left the val.
ley bills, sod matched to ROOMS of action.—
Years of strife and battle and carnage passed
away—the little village resumed its seenskiated
quietness, and David Gladstone was seldom or
ever remembered by its remaining inhabitants.
At the close of a day in October, 1781, there
appeared in the distance a horseman bareheaded,
coming towards the village, and as he came nearer
be was discerned waving a white handkerchief
or cloth, ever and ono.. dashing his spars into
his horse, now covered with foam, Alarm sad
fear prevailed in the village; old men, women
and children were eagerly seeking to learn what
it meant. Neater and nearer he comes! Hark!
was its shout? Again, again, he is shoaling
with voice coarse and husky Coesterastioa
sieves upon them all. What a running too end
fro. Onward he dukes. Now maw vow be's
io their midst It is David Gladstone! His
horse drops dead I With a voice that shook his
whole frame be ezelainui—aCkrratealla is kik&
Liberty and Itivedows ! rectory ! Victory ir
Nebo joins in the hallelujah, and with her trum
pet of many voices rends the air with the glori
ous shout of "victory!" Loud and joyous it
reverberates Eros hill top to hilt cep; shwa &Wee
sod fainter is the fardistaeoe is /heard "victory!"
then still fainter and fainter, vie-to-ry!'
" Victory.'" shouted the old man as suddenly
be rose to his feat from-his old arm chair in the
tubiie,_
_how:. "1 am Da t tl aaittnni"
ave b e e n reaming over pa l , • ye
my youth. This was my ones happy home, and
here I bare come to die. Here did the gentle
spirit of tuy Lily soar away to realms of eternal
bl ism " '
Faint sod tremulous became the aged man's
voice And now he reems intensely listening,
his e)e- wandering es though seeking some one
-- , ow bere is she? Wily does she not come to
we? Hush! do you bear the sweet gentle while
rrings Ousting in our midst, filling the room
with heavenly 'whole? it is my Lily's voice! I
caueot nee tier! Oh, how dark it ia! She mils!
ly vow:" and heavily he sank 'atolls chair
--he ICOI dead.' And now, over the Hviag and
dead then' shone a bright light; sod at the win.
do. h wed the bright sagcl pointing to die—
SHADOW OP( IHZ WALL
An trial:wan'. °madonna in a Bank
We heard the following capital story yester
day, and only regret that we cannot tell it asit
was Rad us;
A basket in Dubuque, whoa we shall call
Mr. M—ly, for short, toned it seessaary a slime
roue ago to stipend bedpan, sad aseordisgly
closed his doors, and hunted a eard to his &pool.
tors, la which he stated that he hoped sons to be
able to resume again The day attar Mr. M.
had closed his door*, be was aset by a Hibernian
miner who bad 118,000 deposited with his, and
'Scooted thus:
" Good malting, Mr. M. Faith aa' it's well
you're looking this morning, considering the
weather. But, sure, it's sorry Ism, Mr. M., to
eee that owl of yours in th e ppm. Bat rove
do you : mind such trill's as that, othe—take
eourage End hoald up your heed as high IS int
—the throatels of the thief; willows Mow 011111 r.
And as for that $6OOO kisses of miss, just
tape it as long as you watt it—l ban ao ass
for dm lowly dollars -- and I Now yetis for as
honest mon, sad perfeetly good for the sass at
any time. kape it, sir, and pleasant drioms be
wid yo."
Mr. M. caressed his thanks, and the beaker
sad depositor /operate& Bat on the Mowing
day Mr. M. was startled frost hie apleassus
drowse by the presestatlos of a cheek for
$6OOO, bearing the saute of Ida Hibarataa friend.
Not kaowieg sassily how to watiarasaisd the
matter, Mr. M. seat for Petri* when the fell
haring explanation took plass:
" Will, you see, Mr. M.—Pegiry, that is, my
wife, fiat bees seising the very divil shoat the
money—and just to cosily the peer Irma{
crater that is was all safe, I thought, be dad,
that I'd fiat seed for it, and coma it all over be
fore her ugly face, sad then she'll *sweat so ley
!will it 'Wars, tetesitervid the otber 44000,
that is giving us so mash trouble to tape from
being stolen from us."
To such as iwplinatios, together with the sew
temptation ofcs , Woo • addielesei, the basher
coski take no ezealwioss—so be Donated out the
WOO In short. Sot that was the, ut of the
Itislussa.
The bealte 'waft his several Asp after
wards, desired another esplasstios.
“Deb, is, Mr. M. k's myself that
has been ashamed to in rms. Pew f ., that
dial' of a wife of ekes, you eas, has - bidNeita
loony, and dint *cif art lied it at all, sad
-that's jig tae timady in."
Tito baskets's& armsful leader of his has,
but Pit generously iissiised tie sweep* the Noe,
although justly entitled to it.—.llWriftwas
Mr A Flor,kia papa salla as of a aggro folio
dirours Irsa his balms, awl elms
ainzob the lag otttapt. Parkiiira bores as to-fill
awl brake it. ' TbaaampOtew siamadaad stook
a ergo os the Buie 0t . 44 roam Hie bark
OE form:l4W 'hot. Thaaogra was aligholy Ma
pilled for as iestant, but reseired so bier,. Ho
ouppooel:to4.*
us. It lit ipwartli a(iislitsaa akitaties aims
Obrietiaa .Rarity was fret priaabad, wed hie by
0 - ' l l ll4l / 4 44 1 1 .4 . :11r
oat ' Ilene UAW* hat
doe% believe awe iota of what the, pro.
$1 50 A YIAlt, IN ADVANCE.
ERIE, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 27,1858.
Speech of Bow John L. Dawson,
riaimen OF Tat 011310CILLTIC grail covorreTsom,
Mu DAWSON, on taking the chair, wl - irtwaid
tlts convention as follows :
Oo taking the seat, which your partiality has
assigned me, to preside over your delihorations,
I must return you my hearty acknowledgment§
for the honor done me by your selection The
negation is one of no ordinary importance ; and,
from the number of tried men from every part of
the Commonwealth whom I see around me, I
doubt not that your action will be fully up to the
lima of a common ditty.
It is also the occasion for mutenl oongratula
-1,11 this is the Ant cooventioo of decoersta
iskti:th has assembled at the capital sine.; tin
electinn of the protein chief magistrate of the
State. [Applause.] Elected by a majority ef
most flattering magnitude, he has, in that oleo
lion, the seal of approbation of his peat= ants, and
an earnest of t warm support in the meg Career
upon which he has just entered, simultaneously
with the inauguration of new constitutional re
forms. providing additional goarentses for the
rights of property and for the gradual and cer ,
tails reduction of the State debt, and effeetuat
sonority against a similar improvidence in the
future.
In addition to the regular nominati,ms, to
whieh, I trust all will be well and far the best
interests of the party, it is proper that we should
give some decided expression upon 'h. , rinP
glop which, more than any other, la now agrra•
tug the country. [Applause.)
This Kansas question—whicn event% have in
some degrb complicated, and which, for parti
san purposes, has become involved in perpl.'xtty
until, to the imaginatiors of many, it seems
fraught with portentous evils—is, in fact, a sim
ple and plain one
It is'to be remembered that this government
is not a pure democracy, each as existed in an.
cient times. It is a government of written law.
It is, In form and in fact, a representative re•
public. The popular wilt is ever aieertained :and
intbodied iota law through the legal action of the
representative. There can be no liberty without
law.
It leas iucontestably the principle of the act
of 1854, organizing the Territories of Kansan
and Nebraska, (for which I had the honor of
voting,) that the people of those Territories
should be at liberty to form their own iastitutions
in their owa way, subject only to the constitu
tion of the United State.. It is also a fact,
which nu one will venture to deny, that, to p sr.
stance of legitimate authority, a convention of
delegates was elected to frame" constiteti an for
Kansas, under which, by regular proceedingli oo
the jars of Congress, it was to be admitted tot a
sovereign State- into the national eonfederacy.
The members of that convention were eleeee I by
the people with a full keowledge of their senti,
manta upon this sod all public/ question.. involved
in the ease, and especially in reference to the
introdnetioe or exelusion of slavery as one (-gibe
dossessie institutions of .tbe.sew State Now,
does it at all affect the validity of these proece,t.
logs, that when the people were afforded ao
portenity, by the only authority legally compt•-•
tent to do so, of determining by their two v ors
the a p olitical aomplezioo of the etonventio4
146.1
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dOudutUOJU
formed by them, a portion oir people, from
whatever purpose, choose to absent themselves
from the polls, and allow to their adversaries the
victory ? The convention so elected was , 41.411 a
legal convention ; the constitution adopted by
that convention was a leg . al constuution ; and if,
potebsoce, it embodies the views of a Rif uarity.
it was the fault of the majority, who e,,lu c t arl i v
absented themselves from the poet of duty, .incl
by default allowed another sentiment to prevail.
Surely their negligence or wilful dereliction of
public duty is no reason why others t.hould fail
to meet the question instantly and derisively -
I:Gritat applause.]
Hut why should it be inst-ted .4) aa so esv,n,
dal in the ease of Kansas alone, that . the whole
constitution should have been submitted to ti
vote of the people, when the practice, as settled
by precedent, shows the point to be one wholly
of discretion There is nothing in the terms of
the Kansas and Nebraska law, not in the Cin
cinnati platform, nor in the set of the Kansas
kgialature, authorising the eleetfon of a conven.
tion, which exacta such submission 'file propo
sition is an after thought, and the test is a new
one. [Great applause r What is there in the
case of Kansas which requires a different rule
from that which was applied in the case of Ver
mont, of Kentucky, of Tennessee, of Missouri,
'of Indiana, of Arkansas, of Ohio' Is a puce •
tilioua compliance with her caprices due to the
rebellious attitude which sbe bas occupied t.
wards the federal government, from the forma
tion of the Territory down to tbepresent moment?
Although I—and I have no doubt, all of you—
would have preferred, wire the President, in his
annual message, that the whole 000stitution
should have been submitted to a popular vote,
we still must regard the action of the couventiou
as the legal expression of a sovereign people.—
Non•intereention--popular sovereignty—forbids
inquiring beyond that expression. Such
iu
pury would be a palpable usurpation of auth i g:
ity—sa virtual condemnation of the great prilki
pie *bleb the democracy have struggled to es
tablish.
As a practical question, then, what have the
People of Pennsylvania to do with it, except to
taut upon its speedy settlement—to uphold,
sustain, and approve the course of the national i
admini;tration in its patriotic determination to
swept the oonstitution, so as to entitle Kantut
to a preinpt admission into the family of States?
There is one other point which I will notice
in eonnewion with this subject, and that is that
the admission of Kansas, even with an objection.
Ole constitution - , by no rattans fixes permanently
the eharaener of her institutions; but, on the
contrary, it withdraws her from the national
areas, in which, as the President has said, mho
has occupied too mesh attention, to the preju.
dice of the beet interests of the country; and it
will give her the separate and independent exis
tesewsid orgalisation of a sovereign State It
it the beet enabling act that can be passed by
Leis be done, and let Kansas in her sov.
wigserhish lowest her with the right
at without delaying until 1864—t0
retain er abolish slavery—proceed to• strike
I out the abiessione revision. This will give
pewee and 'Density to Kansas, pesos to the whole
minatry, sad etability to the national adminis.
trains. Gitithimen, the integrity of the dew.
wrath party, the memory of its former triumphs
and glories, demised that we should staid, firm
and lashed in urging its speedy settlessetst
(ApPlauel
_There never vu a time, in my opinion, when
st was more the duty of the citizen to look be
fore Lis and around him, to cumin, the securi
ty of the ground upon which be stoutly, and
whither his petits/ay directs him. The occasion
teat' be monteatous. lt is cot to be disguised
that there is a party in the North, as well as
in tit" South, who consider the dissolution of the
Union. at the vote* remedy for every real or
imagiuery viewanes. Let us suppose for a mo
ment that tip Milos was dissolved, sail that an
wait and Wait fiat mad* the litiltt . of free litid
stave territory' frets the Alija&
sionstailts. By this anasiptincat the subject of
slavery south of the dividing lice foresee passes
11.411MIIMMG ‘ iILANCII 4* MIL
from ito c oa4ot of the N•prtli. In ft/I'i c 4 , tram the Itscisoslo W.W.11/I/pip WOW
41.,n thinir tho S yath trJuld .camatt I rally to thy, meow ancesaire enamels WPM with
laity •f int-rowt anich soald ren tAr her a unit ! kur [Great applause ]
u po n :eery chat C1e..1600, eta I hesitate got ts.
say shit slas null f..rtn a nose and stable gov.
trim, ist in a month's times' The ides so 101-
star in ills the North thst e Smith is de yodel t
- upon the North for the pr itesation of slavery
would (t o m be fottal to be a delosivo one
Whatever . tlo• evils of Ilia institution may he
withip her owe limits, a common interest would
nom every sedation. Growing almost ezclusivq.
ly the great staple which enters so largely iny
the equautnplion of every portion of the worli,
-.Me would then be sustained in the enjoyment
of her inatitutions by England and France, and
perhaps the other European powers. If cotton
id not iodispensible to the manufacturing pros
perity of New England, it certainly is so to that
of Great Britian; nay, it is indispensable to her
domestic tranquility Take away the cotton
manufactures of England, and her myriads of
operatives thrown out of employment and render
and destitute, at once threaten a social resolutioe
Eoglidh statesmen understand this well, and ate
ready to guard against it, when occasion require,
by giving protection to the cotton-growing inte
rest They would, in a moment, noire with the
;lave purer to protect this great interest
Thu only hostility which Eriglaoti has to Ame
rican pe.ople is to our republican example Our
close approximation to her soil by means of the
triumphs of steam upon the ucaau, with our %tat
commercial tutercourse, and intimate social relax
thous, spreading democratic , ideas, through the
mighty agency of the prase, excites throughout
her population acontioued inquiry and restless
anxiety for enlarged privileges sod republican
institutions. This disturbs -the quiet of tier
ministry and the security of the crown. She
struggles to ward off the blow, and.to stay the
great progressive movement by the dissolution
of the Union She hopes to see this effected
through the agitation art the slavery question
This arcomplisheil, a treattoof peace and alliance
would at ;men follow with the smsthern section
Thts would be fall to ns Young America
would no longer instruct by example Her
power raid glory would be gone forever, and the
patriot left to mourn over the mellanoholy cat
tastrophe.
NJf would the line of separation deprive the
South of any advantage of locomotion or trans
portation which she now enjoys. Cast your eye
over the map of the Stat. a, sad you see that ev
ery ri%er west. of the Hudsn to the Rio Grande
has its outlet, to the Atlantic and the Gulf of
Mexico through slave territory.
, Ou the other hand, in the event of the iiiitaii.
Won of the Union, whit would be the position
of the NurthT Could she aft readily unite in the
formation of a new government? There are
numerous ccnsolerations which forbid the idea.
An insuperable barrier to the formation of a cow.
m , ia goverument would present itself in the
wool of fellowship which would be found or ex
ist between the State., of New litiglAnd snit
those of the Ohio valley and of the upper ilia '
aisasippi The New Etiolaud character, Intel
li.i:•tual and ow, rprising a. it is ro n f• ss ed in 1,.•
by its constaut 'nelitiation in 1 , 01 ,, I t y in p 005,,,
morals, ,snit reiigi oi, awl its morbid love of rams
1,,,, ever since tit , landing of the Miya .we r,
alrts; a r .f it , ill s ida e l d 'i l i it Le ,. u_liarity reutleriug it
pn.F..sr o t t , h , e n ro t oeig i tibt,rs
Then what would be the
*'w Ragland in the new ir govel:
assigned to n
went? Would her six little States--eomprisiug
altogetoer a territory and aggregoe populatiuit
no great r than that of Penusylvania —le. allow
ed a repreasutatiou hr t welv, seu.sturs? 0:
won d not Pennsylvania rind .N , w York, and the
rest, iusist that two seuators shoehl lio tile I.
&lotto/ t for all New England?
Theta again, how will you reconcile the inte
rests of New Koglatod, which are manufacturing
with the e ,mtueretal interests of New York, and
the agricultural interests of the West? While
the former will be auxions for high du`ties for
prot.ction, the latter will he eager for free trade.
Before embarking on such a "sea of trouble," as
that proqi. ct di-elose., it may be the part of true
wiol o tlll t , • am,ertain whether the evils of the
prentut ,),:ein W ay not be tolerable, or whether
d
Inde ,
, they are aught tuorr than the the erea
turi.s of IWAgititiloil r ;Calle:J. /1 , .1111 the whole -
Boma r, strain's c,l r .ils , 'll; whether the ) are nut
toe offspriug of re:74le,, aintutiou . , or u ors ow
and hellish tuotives and c oitracted vi, ws, is.ike
unpairosic, and deatouto of every quility of
statematiship. [Applause ) ,
But :assume that the organizition could be
made complete, what o uriu of reflectiou will say
tout oily reevrity eau be found in au imaginary
bouudary, such as Mason and llizon's hu h ,?
Border conflicts would be iuovitable., tioally t tu•
broiling the stijoluing States in deadly strife,
teaching again the lesson so often taught by his
tory, that Or mve of hauls and of dum pi e st. wilt
prevail over civil organization The pursuits of
peatit, the aimplicitY of our republican habitoi
cud example, will then be at an end. Our coin•
tneroe, our umuufictures, the great line of o u r
public works, comprising the system of our
national improvements, and all the monuments
of our national glory, would decline and' perish
For our encouragement and guidance in refsr
enee to this Kansas subject, we arc not without
precedent The past ii fraught with instruction
It will be remem bered that when, a few years
was ago, the attempt made to attach the "Wit
mot Proviso" to all future territorial govern Itleti!!,
the t.ta hesitated, faltered, and many preeipi
tritely abandoned the national standard - they had
hitherto assisted to support. A. similar stampede
once oricaresi among the democratic members of
the legislature io regard to the renewal Of the
charter of the Bank of the United States Then
3 the timid and nerveless abandoned the pbst of
duty, and at once vanished from the places *hid.
Ithey held in public esteem.
Again, the same wavering occurred its the
loonveution which, in 1854, met here fur the
nomination of governor. That conveution failed
to endorse the principle of the Kansas-„Nebraska
bill, adjourned prematurely, and with a hirried
step to escape the imaginary danger. In all these
oases it bas been seen that the democnatic'party
sustained no permanent loss. Contending always
for principle and law, with a firm and date/mo
od step, is marched steadily forward, without a
stop or stagger, to the accomplishment .of its
+expose. [Great cheering.) It is the party of
freedom pod of progress. [Applause j . This
review may suggest to us the fugitive nature of
the excitement on the subject of Kansas. From
its very nature, having no true basis of principle,
it must be short-lived. The sober seconid thought
of the people will again owes to the ' rescue of
the country.'
Whatever the enemies of both may aver; there
is really no hostility between the people f of the
North and the South. Thom is no just, cause
for hostility. It is an error to say that the
lionth has been aggressive. True to Wei cause
of liberty in our revolutionary struggle, • and
sine. then true to the federal compact, sew that
shit is comparatively wean is political power, it
is natural 'b a t she should be jealous and teasel
one of her rights. Ttre North is strong,zi l umeri •
badly, and eau afford to be just, ir n A t g • ' row.
The daEtiridg demagogue works -Mailed ' plebe
add tit primer by addressing ihe worst p lona of
the otaiiiitinity. It has always been w, l m the
dap or batihoe' down to Robespierre ,34 the,
Bards. I say withoun hesitation tbatlin aby
serious difieulty in which the welfare; of the
South might be really hi peril, the Norili„ eer-
Whe that has read eolonial history will not re.
tn'ernbor with pride the generous beating of Vir
r vary when Maseachasetts was oppressed, and
harh , ir blockaded by the mother °country?
Virginia was at that time the favorite colony of
England. 'Her tobacco crop was nearly as great ,
then as now She was full 'of wealth, and on•
joyed a prosperous commerce, and her people
were generally communicants of the English
Church, which existed in every hamlet.. She
bad many ties to bled her to the crown. Still,
she made ammo° cause with the people of
MeAsachnfietta. [Great applause.) At a some.
what liter period' her Jefferson, aided by the
crmusels of Franklin, produced upon the soil of
Pennsylvania the Declaration of Independence,
for an permanent establishmeoi of which her
soldiers mot with our soldiers, and marobed hand
in baud to the hattle.fielde of Trenton and York•
town [Groat applause, 3
Notwithatandiog the importance, however,
which the queStiou bas &seemed io the politics
of the,day, it is evident that Kansas can never
be a slave State The character of ber pppula
tion un on•uperable barrier, as'well as her
climate, which is as cold as that of New England.
The eif.irt4 of some of the southern people to
establish slavery there is nowise as they are feeble
The; must look in another direction for southern
expansion Cuba, Mexico, andCentraiAmerica are
fttrly thepathway of our destiny. Their ac
quisition is but &question of time. The climate of
those - countries make them the natural abode of
the African race prior to its departure to its native
home The North is watching with an eagle
eye for those acquisitions, and would readily un
ite with the S , tuth in any honorable effort to
obtain them. We want extended markets for
,our manufactures We want our republic to be
cotermiuous with the Atlantic sod Paeifie oceans;
to plant our institutions throughout its vast els
tent; to bring the whole under the influence of
our National ,Egis, .and to make it prosperous
under the indomitable tread of the Anglo Saxon
rare [Great applause
We west be sstisfie..l that the administration
has met this question with the right views and
in the true and with a breadth of states
tuatuship which merits the approbation of the
whole country Pennsylvania at least cannot
hesitate True it) those anteeedents which hap,
made her name a terror to faastieism, and fixed
her position as the stronghold of the coast' twtic.b,
she will not falter in this danger with her chosen
son at the belie [Great applause
Relying upon your kindness, and with but
little experienee 7 , -n presiding over deliberative
ii ( ,di e r, I shall 4ndeatior to discharge the duties
f the e - hair to thr utmost of my ability andisith
the g rea•e4i impartiality
1-r• Daw.eu concluded amid great applause.
G. B. Cheever sad the Dred Beet! Decision.
It would h • as cosy fur the Supreme Court
&rid , !li.J , • i liucbto.a's term of oilme
1 , 11,46 T ' tor lit... aud to couatruut Li good an
argues. ~' 1 r di•eido that the colored
iu tto• C Litt, cauti.it tw eitiseug, and that
/do, k mem hoe C ta , ) 1' ightS, eleCOrdigig to the Cone
that While /4341 are bound to respect."
e B Cbticer en the Independent.
A/CCtiipirl4u, B lV l 4tA Sitt..Aks2Pl substantially,
decided, '•t hat negrees have no rights that white
nu n i,outid to reApeet " Now. Mr. Cheerer pro.
fe.oe•• t.. C. a religious man, in tact he seta him•
s-it up to Kr wuoh hailer than any one South of
Mien rind Dixou ' 4 line, a. well as the major
it) ~ f pe , p!.. Nt,rth of it Well, Mr. Cheerer
(lid V pirtten-larly if piety cnatrists in
I vi it;.!
ought not to use that last word so
;,. r .i.t % :41: to, and an decidedly blunt "to ears
poiite," but why navigate through a sea of Latin
civolnl.freution , tueroly to soften down a truth?
CfiP Supre•ne Court ur tit, tTuitPd States never
d , elded that '‘black men have no rights that
vibito wen an. leiuud to respect," and we hereby
13,112eotating!,,,, .li•nounee the Rev. George B.
Coe , v -r a.. a f4,1-ifier and, a deceiver If he does
air ico..w wicit Ow Supremo Court did decide, he
ough. 1 ,, •toi, talking, about it, but he does,.and
r..in itc, 1111 exe‘eding guilt sad sinfulness.
\V. ad%i.e huu to teed Revelations, 21 chap. 8
—N. Y. Day Book.
Shocking Termination of a Love Affair
S.ituidly list, R ,bcrt Schmidt, of Theresa,
to I) d k e eunty, Wisconsin, shot down, in the
att., et of th it plac.i, Harriet Seidler, a young
lady about twinitry yeirs of ago. The parties
1 , /,'re i g.e4l to ZO ma rried about one year ago,
and Svhinidt bud come front St. Paul, Vao Buren
county, Miebiglii, wilt.to he has resided about a
yur, to fulfil . th. , eugagetuvut; but the parents
"f ill • ) , .nu i .t la ly objected to the marriage, iu
c , n•cqu which it was arraugial between
the lov , -ra that Schmidt should first shoot the
youn g kdy sod thou about himself. He exeunt
ed pogo, •to far as the young lady was CORe
I. rntd, but tailed to scoot himiseif on Recount of
the the cap on his gun
Aff..r fet i ng in this, he ran and threw himself
into tb river, with the intention to drown him.
seil, but was rescued by persona who saw him.
Ile lb u w arreated, and awaits a trial.. The
charg,l (whieb was a flue shot) entered the left
hreast ci,the young lady, and inflicted a horrible
wo'iud, lif what'll she expired on Sunday morn
tug, about tw t o'clock Sbe had her senses up
to the last, sod charged her parents with being
bier for the awful deed, and acquitted ber
lover of all blame. The parties, we their names
indicate, were Germans
fig„ Don't bd ashamed, good lad, if you here
a patch, on your elbow. It is no mark of
grace. It spc.ilcs well for your industrious moth
er For our part, we would rather see a dozen
patches On your jacket than bear one profane or
vulgar word escape from your lips, or smell the
fumes of tobacco on your breath. No good boy
will shun you because you eannot dress as your
companions; and if a bad boy laughs at your ap
pearance, say nothing, my good lad, but walk on.
Wo know many a rich and good man who was
once poor as you. Fear God, my boy, and if
you are poor, but, honest, you will be respected a
great deal more (ban if you were the son of a
rich man, and addicted to bad habits.
A MISSOURI SPUROZOlL—Ditrirlate revi
val in the Baptist Church at La Grange, a lad
17 years old, who had acquired some notoriety
in the town as a theatrical performer, joined the
church and prepared himself for the ministry.....
He has recently been licensed, and bie entered
on his clerical duties, end so wonderful am his
powers that the whole eommitinity are in ecstasies
with his efforts. When he preaches. the church
is crowded; persons from all the country round
about Boa to'heer him, and the oldest veterans
declare thst they never before , listened to inch
thrilling eloquence. 'The name of the "boy
preacher" is J B Limit Newt
SW A Chios.° zits esys,-4-"We require
tour things of a Inman: that virture dwell is
her heart—that modesty play on her brow—
chat .sweetness flow from her lip, sod industry
weepy bar bends.7—Vire per JO4ll aklilll4lloll,
might with all attety . add to tlit **Ph 7440.
jisenoe, se eti fit' shit might,kooWpiOblag AQUA
'herself, and ber 'real line and purpose in Ai
world,"—a knowledge 'very mach needed about
these days!
B. F. SLOAN, EDITOR.
NUMBER 46.
OLD MI
A , TOVXCI , OWL
%woo .apos Lb" laivsis Writ :
Lo It wool" just or boor .
Ifs tooth hoe alms wig*, thee,
To omen; the Lot it too r
Coollti of tb smelts oploilos—
hie fey lops it rst • dos t
hU soottaitos filtooll bo•oalloat , --
...
Soll thy trati—lt troth Its ;
?toter wok to otos Ito =rest ;
Thionbts Ilbe rives Sod the or :
It will IS tho widgets, oink
Ot Itiorssi Verity. (Clualot Moolso)
DPIVT LI I[lll MX.
Se trio hoe WS Med t.... ao.
Aad Ise iambs° lessaitty,
1 bees to Walt the biodchool
Never Oust le go nay i
at imot 1 tounost to bobs Ida.
AAA 1 kosow I bat* Mai Min.
Tot be arm oto to Imo las,
Sot I hardly ibis! I will.—Mara
Pursuing a Widow Under Did Acuities.
The Hawn' (0.) Jearaal spins the follower g
yarn, which, however Gull in its fame, a read.
able as a romance The editor was prompted to
"perpetuate" it, by observing in a Pittsburgh
paper the marriage anounceineut oh couple wfie
formerly resided in Bueyrus Fee yarn is reeled
of in this fashion:
Twelve years ago the bride was a y wag lady
of twenty, the daughter of a wealthy merchant
in Wuhingtin, Pa. le her father's employ wan
a young man named Robert who, the young
i lady being bewitchingly beautiful, as in duty
bound, fell desperately in love with her She
reciprocated the attachment, sod they wore be
trothed Unfortunately, the young lady's rather
entered his pratest against Into pi ensue arrange.
meet, and accordingly the young people pet of
the happy day indefiniitely about a year after
wards she received a mist tempting proposal,
which, urged by tier father, she accepted, and to
the eternal despair of Robert, was married. •But
alas for the poor bridegroom! Scarcely three
months elapsed when • - kiek from a vicious horse
killed him. Robert consoled the widow, and de
termined at the end of a year or so to marry her.
He bad too much respect fur her to press his suit
immediately, and did not fur fifteut mouths, when
he propoad. To his horror, she informed him
that she was alreaday engaged, and that in three
months more the second marriage would be eon
summated. Two years passel. In the mesa
time the widow and her husband had removed to
Syracuse, N. Y , and Robert possessed by some
1 strange ballucitiation, followed them. That Na.
.on the cholera ewe pt that city, and atoong its
i victims was the second bustiaod. Robert allowed
a year to pass, and was on the poiut of urging Ida
claims, when be received an invitation to tier
wedding! She was to be married to her Inge
husband', partner. Robert remonstrated. The
lady assured him that bet present step was not
one of lore, but purely of orece*sity. The part.
nershipaaffaire of her late lamented, were in mush
a state that settlement. was impossible, and to
save immense losses she had determined upon
marrying the surviving partner She assured
I him, also, that her sentiments towards him were
i unchanged, and that should she ever beeotae *
1 widow again, she would give him the preference.
She was married, and in a short time removed
with her third husband to Detroit, Michigan.—
i But fatality seemed to pursue her. Herself end
1 imi itsairiillGUN 1611:10 , Ogler Min itts at area unman,
I perished, and she escaped only through the tn.
1 perhutnan exertions of a friend who happened to
be on board This friend was young, unmarried,
`and his gallantry icepirsd such sentim‘nts in the
breast of the widow, that she married him before
1 Robert bad time to claim her When be leant.
ed the state of affairs, he was somewhat indiga
nant, but she told him the circumstaoces and
I managed to satisfy him with the promise tbat if Abe
ever became widowed again she would mat poi.
' itively marry him The lady, with her fourth'
I husband, settled upon a farm near Bucyrus, white
' Robert removed to Mansfield, that be might be
near her. In the course of a year they removed
to Pittsburgh, where the husband went into the
mercantile bueinsas on Liberty street—residing.
however, in Allegheny city. Robert followed
them, and finding employment, determined to
watch the chance& closely. One day he was
passing the store of Mr.—, when be saw a ter
rible commotion . Rushing in he saw Mr.
a mangled corpse upon the floor. A cask of ties
which war being hoisted had fallen and killed
i him instantly. He inquired if any one. had been
: sent to acquaint his wife of the accident, Yes,
, 'the first clerk just started. looking ogee more
at poor Mr. ,to make sure that lie weeper,
firmly dead, Robert Matted for Allegheny as fast
l as his legs could carry him. The first clerk was
only a trifle ahead of him,•euil Robert. keen eke
I importance of being in time, from pot 0;500.
once, and fearing that the clerk had dasigus up.
'on the widow, ran like k° Indian Side try code
' they ran, until they reached the Hand serest
' bridge. The clerk was obliged to atop to make
' change, while Robert who paid tell by the year
passed without delay. He reached the bones,
told the heart•randiog news, and cbtained a sal,
; emo pledge from the widow *fens thesislerk ar
, rived. This time she was true to her promise,
i and after a.year had post they were married.
As all her husbands died wealthy, Robert ts Tory
I comfortably fixed. Hit history chows what per.
; severance wilt accomplish.
~.Somewhere over in Jersey, a month a turd
ago, the manager of it erimpany of itinerant an
tars was applied to by a lanky legged chap for
an engagement The fellow, - who b.oked lugu
brious enough to base been the shadow of a bad
ly acted Hamlet, stumbled across the stage, and
unjointiog himself, collapsed into a chair.
" 14eU, sir, whets your, line of business?"
queried the manager.
" Not partioular--most anything Lies pays."
" Ever been on the stage?'•
"Sarum— druv the teg'lar mail for sit month,"
replied the aipirant; throwing a quid of 4os leg
at the heed of the big fiddle, and hie left leg
over his"right knee at cue and the same time
" I think our company is--is full"
Yase—LthouSht they'd be full when I saw
swilling down Seth Smith's rum—yass very
full!"
MDP spa.. )ou eau do the landtoed in the
Lady of Lyour
" Yes, eir4e—l've done all the landlords ii
Caudal."
Aspireat weal engaged.
A Visenrza Pientat—lf the sem it she
following item, which we out from tbellfbeiding
Alfisagoo . ger, was legated nywbere samba Vie
siala, we should doubt its truth:—We saw yes.
lards', gqing ap lowan* the upper term a Wen
of fear alumake,--.. hem, a pony, amide, aid
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