r A -4.3 1 ) ' • 1 , , a , W MM LL . I G A . M WHIT IME T W AKE SITR E: EDITORS. ( 4cpublicau Circular. PRESIDENTIAL CONVENTION Circular of National Committee. WE solicit your attention to the call pre. caling, this paper. It isnot only to recoils• mend to the people the immediate selection of delegates from the several States, qua' in number to three times the representation in Congress to which each State is entitled, to meet on the 17th of June at Philadel phia, to present such individua's as they may think best suited to uphold the cause to which they are devoted as candidates fur the Presidency and Vice Presidency ; but also to invite the members*of all par• ties who feel it to be the dominant issue which should control the election. to meet at the same time and place to confer with the Convention as to the best course to crown their common wishes with success. One of the parties which will be represen ted at Philadelphia has taken the name of Republican. because it was given to that foundeu by Mr. Jefferson, to embraco all who love the Republic. There is no Do mocrat who door not love the Republic.— There is no Whig who does not love the Republic. There is no American who does tivity—its laws introducing Slavery into fleece, iu the South. the monopolists cf not love the -Republic. And we fondly the Territory and protecting it from rover the land and black labor of the country, al_ hope there is no naturalized citizen whol though nulnlering but 317,000 out of a sal at the ballot-box, by rho disfranchise- does not love the Republic. meta of the settlers by test oaths, will be Pcpulation of 6,060,000, in virtue of their But it is not so important that the great ; enforced, and a Constitution, framed by de- power over near four millions of slaves are movement which we desire to see success. , (eating the suffrages of the Free State set- absolute in all tiro State Governments fully inaugurated shall be designated by tiers by disabilities, will be adopted and They are the Governors, the Legislators, Sa any particular name, as that it shall to it- the whole proceedings will be sustaitied by the Judges, Justices, herifrs :alto; re all nited, strong and effective.. Why may not the military force oldie United States, up• in all. allthese classes who are hostile to. the in- !on the principles and under the authority The power which combine d action gives troduction of Slavery into free territory ii. of the President's proclamation. to the elaveliulditrz class over the whole nite at this crisis of Itnpending danger, to ; Here we might close our Circular; but South IS equal effect to obtain vote far n common ticket, which will be ' may we not trespass upon the patience of eentiol over the North. 'fire =chute it nominated to assert the grand principle of those we address by exposing the workings moves there is on a large scale, and the in• of the institution which those who arrog..te strumentality of its n visible to the repressing the extension of Slave-holding to themselves the oharacter of Democrats least discerning eye. Every NortiatrSo monopoly, and to vindicate the rights of the people in all sections of the Union, who !ay laboring to impose upon our virgin Ter. aspirant for tire Pt esidevey ii: y he looked labor with their own bonds ? A ticket I ritories, arid upon the principles asserted upon as a power in the binds t,f the South which will not eieilate with view en do. t tie-thein, that it is a National Administru•' to nouve - ttieleachtue tor tile, Gov: a tract from the rights of the States to dis- tine ? The movement to open the Free I , erinnicat according to irs. will. We instance peso of the subject within their limits, uc.l Territories to Shivery. by repealing the i the experiment before our ri es. Ur cording, to their sovereign will ; yet its in-; compact open the subject, began with the Pierce is a candidate for le &vete-in to the fluence to destiny the freedom of whirr, k,. i nullifiers of South Carolina. We will be. Presidency; tlr Douglass, (I r Cass, \lr. borers is a fit subject of investigation, with gin with that State, to make an exhibition Buchanan are hopeful rivals ; each have a view to repress the aggressive power in of the sort of government it will enforce in their partisans in the d flerent sections of every Constitutional way. the West, from its results in the South. the North; some forty or fifty thousand of The rights of the laboring class involved Popular sovereignty in South Carolina lice holders and dependents on executive in this question have been betrayed by the ; thus ex hibit s itsel f Six districts in that favor rely upon one or the other of these to representatives from the North and South kitate, in the rice and long staple cotton re. make them secure in their posts. It is in the interests of the slaseholders, who' gion, where the slave population is most known to all these people. that not one of have voted to surrender the hinds to slava deny, containing a population of 49 503 the rivals can command a majority of the labor which were set apart to make freeliol• wllit. - ai elect a majority of the Senate, lea- Northern vote against the other ; nor, in ders, and enrich the workingmen of both ! ying in a minority those representing 209,• deed, ag..ninst an opponent of any e th er sections who own no slaves, who should t. 654 whites in the rest of the Suthe In 11 party. For either of their), the votes of migrree to thorn, cultivate aid ha t rove districts, 77,009 whites elect 28 Senators the South decide the question of nomina them with their own toil. [lure are two and 61 ltepresentativos while 18 districts, tire ; and then the poss , bili.y of election great principles blenhl in this cause, the , hav,n.; a 181,145 whites, are represented depends absolutely upon a united St Uthern 17 Senators end ( . 0 Representatives support. The Southern Masa-holders, j one impelling the vindication of the rights by of free labo--the other the chastisentent4 'rims less than one third of the Free popu- therefore, have the hate of all these s e e k ers of those misguided representetives who lotion in the negro quarter region have the of the Presidency of the so called Demerit. have violated the faith pledged between supreme control of the State. 'rho Legisla tic party, entirely in their hands. titre lected by this third appoints the J u- the two sections of the Union to each oth•And here we fuel in who consists that er in their compact, and their own faith as dietary-from the Supreme bench to corn- wlich is now vaunted to be to the Demo- representatives in misrepresenting the will "" justices of the peace; r feet Senators in erotic party par exec /env. It is composed Congress and the electors of President and of their constituents in the repealing acts, of the rase holders under the present Ad and disobeying their instructions in refer- ; Vice President of the United Stows ; fur , ministration, h titled by those chiefs who ence to them. the people are not allowed to vote at all fur are looked to, to continue them in office, Can there he any difhculty in uniting the electors of the President and Vice Pre- through the united vote , f the South, and the men of all parties who concur in the sitlent of the United States, this b e i ng done the chance vote of sonic northern State, ob great design of delivering the musses from by the rotten borough Legislature, in deli ; wined by plurality—the result of the diet the oppressions of the slave holders inn the lltwe of this spirit or thin Constitution stid .l Mon of their opponents, growin g out of ~r . new ten itories, and the fair, free, healthy the interpretution of every other State. sons! preference or party dissensions. The regions of the Far West from the blot of The Governor of the State is also elected Deinricratie party, which the Administra- Slavery. and the sterility that attends its by this body, which represents a minority tine calls its own, has no basis but the ohi• footsteps wherever it treads I There are of a Saute—turd negroev and Lund exclusive-' garehy of the South—we might call it the 347,0t0 slave-owners in the United States, ; ly—for no man is eligible to it unless he nt.notrumesneny, retureing to it the up they hold nearly four million of slaves ; I has real estate to the value of $7,001, clear pellation which it it is so willing to give there are six millions of free white popula. dull debt, or five hundred acres of land to others because it most appropriutely be lion in the Southern States who own no and ten negroes. Nor can this state of longs to itself. The leaders of this party . slaves, and there are twenty millions of things be changed unless two-thirds of this I in the North have proved themselves en free white population in the North (allow. land and negro qualified body consent to lively worthy of its confidence by abandon ing for the increase since the last census.) the alteration of the Constitution—a thing ing every principle of democracy once Are the interests of these twenty-six mil- never to be expected. their boast They have abandoned the lions of people in the vast regions of the in Virginia mid Alarylund the system of principles of the fathers of the Republic. West to be blasted, to administer to t' 'e minority government, to give the control to vino considered it us the first auritane of pride, to the ambition, to the false since of the slave section over the greater whin! ; the new order of things established by the interest in which 347,000 slave owners pal ulation in other portions of the state, Revolution, that it would urrest the spn.ud would indulge themselves? In their earn- prevails, but in a less degree; but in ull the 'of Slavery throughout the contineet. It gance they stigmatize as Black Repul.lic. Slave hunt's whether ccarived by constiiu- did lead to its inninodtate a xtinctien in mo ans those who would make a constellation mortal provision or not, the result is dm ny of the States, and the first act of the of free, bright republics , constituted of tine I theslavelioldiag class is sovereigu through• Constitution was to exclude it from the white race alone ; untarnished by a slave out the South. whole Territory of the Union. The Dein of any color; their history and their laws It results from the concert produced am- °erotic leaders of the new order, at the bud unblemished by that word. Are they cal- ong the masters by their common interests I ding of the Southern nullifiers, have bro. led black because they would redeem their in an institution which can only stand by t ken all the compacts and compromises de white brethren of the South, by reserving force of artificial means. The slaves them signed to establish Free Republics in the to them a refuge frets the thraldom impos- selves and alas non slave•holders are, as in- territories from which Slavery was exclu ed on them by the negro slavery there, dividuals, naturally against it; this makes ded. In doing this they have put under and which makes the master the oppressor it necessary that the slave owners should foot the representative principle ; defied of all beneath him, of whatever complex- become a phalanx—an educated, disciplins the will of their immediate constituents; ion T Are they called black because they ed army, to sustain by political intrigue on receiving instructions to repeal their would resist the slaveowner with his sword and united force, all attacks upon it '!'here acts have refused to obey; mid in this have in his attempts to expel from their hemee is nu ono all absorbing influence among its given the nest striking example of an 'li the sons of the Free States who have al- enemies to combine adversaries in oppesi- ter abandonment of the cardinal doctrine ready cut their lota in thu new lauds to which their fathom taught them to look for ward as their inheritance under a compro• mise of more than thirty years standing 1 This derogatory epithet is appropiittely applied to those who labor to build up Free States composed of white imp, to transfer the odium of the black instittoion from those who cling to it its r part of their re. publican system. It is not proposed to touch the subject of Slavery iu the States where it exists, but to shut the door upon it, and exclude it from Territories to which its approach has been forbidden. The attempt will be made to persude those who would identify themselves with this cause, that there is no necessity to make a sacrifice of minor differences to make Kansas a Pro , State—that the Proc. latnation of the Pres.dent has put doten all danger of invasions—that Gen Atchison and his banditti and armed allies from the South have given up all idea of forcible 'n terference —that they mean to acquiesce in the peaceable settlement of the question in favor of that section which has shown that it can furnish the greatest number of eini • grants, and this pacific attitude is to be held until after the Presidential election. If the Nullifiers of the South shall then triumph in the election of a President nominated by them at Cincinnati, the usurpation estab lished by Atchison will be lump' in full ac• tion, The cmsequence is that the 347,000 masters, forever animated by the same in• " LIBERTY AND UNION, NOW AND FOREVER, ONE AND INSEPARABLE. " HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1856. stiuct, can always vanquish partial and de. 1 They have shown that the will of 347: sultory opposition as standing armies in 1 000 slave owners in the South is more than al solute Governments keep millions of I that of twenty millions of freemen in the people in subjugation. The monopoly I North. '1 he leaders of this spurious De. which nearly .1,01:0,01'0 of black men give tuoeracy are but the satraps of Southern to the united authority which commands masters. • them, makes it impossible that any single- ! The fate which awai's a people afflicted handed competitor in the field of labor can, with a Democracy whbth grows up under in cultivating the products of the soil, en-' the government of blaveowners, truly be ter the market with the stnples oft he South seen in the testimony which we give in on equal footing with men who wield the the words of the me" distinguished men force of tcn, twenty and thirty, and hits. of that ;arty, which we find collated in a dreds of slaves in compani“s. he owners of slaves command the markets ; tiny jut down individual competitors; they huy out the little plantations which in the earlier settlements surround them and, in the end the rich lands all become the domains of rich planters. Hence we see in the older Southern States the poorer classes ore ei titer tenants at will, or, banished to the poor land of the hills, take the life of idlers, hunters or fibhertneri ; or, at best, the more mdmvions among them become day labor. era, living front hand to mouth; in a word they ure stripped by the oligarchy of slave owners, who command their wages, their tenements, and, of course everything, The class who holds a monopoly of the soil can command everything. "lle takes my life who takes the means whereby I live."— of democracy. the spread of liberty, not slavery, is its distinctive principle. pamphlet by . Mr. Weston. Mr. Sarve:, of Missouri, in a paper on "Domestic %lan ufactures in the South and West," published in 18 k 7, says : ' , The free population of the South may b, divided into two chases—the slavehol der and the non slaveholiler. lam not a- wore that the relatiVe numbers of these two classes have ever been ascertained in any of the Stoles, but I ate satisfied that the non...dove baldets far out.nunther the slave 11°16.18—perhaps by three to one. In the wore Southern potion of this region the non slaveholders -possess, generally, but very small means, mid the land they possess is almost universally poor, and so sterile that a scanty suttenanci• ! 3 all that can he derived trout its cultivatioa mid the more fertile-soil being in the po :sessi - n of the slaveholder, must ever rentant out of ! the pew, r of those who have none. I his state of thing; is a great draw back, and bears heavily e pin mid depresses the mural energies the pourer clusues. The acquisition of a r.,..pecttilile portion of the scale of w, alto app. ars so difficult, that they docliue the hopeless putsaiii, and ma ny of them settle demo jots habits ul nem and become the 011/o.ot passive sub its of all its consequeuttes. And I lemma to say that 1' have observed of late 3e ors that an evident deteilinitiun is taking place lit this Part of the populmion, the yobtiger portico of it being loss edgcated, fess ittiffis trious, and in every print el view less re spcitahle than their ancestors." In the January number, 1F.•50, of Do . 14azo's Revd, will Ull lirlirre on ••31anufbc• tures in South Carolina," toe have on ex of the fears eetertffiled of bring ing togeth or masses of noo•slaveholding Southern white population even fur manu facturing purposes. long us the poor but industrious peo ple could see no mode of living except by a degrading operation of work upon the plantation with the negro, they were con tent to endure life in its most discouraging forms, satisfied that they were above the slave, though faring often worse than he. I But the progress of the world is iunward,' l aud though in some sections it is slow, still it is •onward.' and the great mass of our pour while population l o gin to utiderstaml !allot they have rights, and that they, too, are entitled to scone of the symprt hy which j fails upon the suffering. They are fast j learning that there is almost MI 'Winne world of industry opening before them, by which they Coll devote themselves and their families front wretchedness and igno rance, to competence and affluence. It is thi.9 great uploating of our na,sses this we bate Nitta, sof ar as our institutioas or, concerned." Win. Gregg, Esq., in an address before the South Uurulina Inst.tate in 1851 upon in;in t t f e..t ires remarks : u Twin the heat estimates that I have been able to make, I l.nt down the white people .vho ought to work, and who du not, or who ore so employed as to Le wholly en productive to the State, at one hundred and twenty•tive thousand. • * • By this it ap• pars that Lot one fifth of the present poor whites of our States would he necessary to op, ra.e 1,01.10,000 spindles. The appro. • lunation annually made by our Legislature fur our School Fund, every 0110 must he smite, so far a:, the country is concerned, bus been little better than a waste of ins twy. While we are aware that the Nor thern and Eastern States find ito difficulty in educating the poor, we are ready to de -1 j spur of success in the 'nutter, for even pe uul laws against the negliot of education would fail to bring many of our country I, peopie to send their children to school. have lung been under this impression and every day's experience has strength• lcoed my convictions, that the evils exist in I the wholly neglected cunditien of this clues lof persons, Any man who is an observer of things could hardly pass though our country without beingstruck with the fact that all the capital, enterprise aria intelli genca is employad in directing slave labor I and the consequence is, that a large portion of our poor white pee, le are wholly ne olected mud are suffered to while away tot existence in a state but one step in advance of the Indian of the forest. It is an evil of least magi:4lld,, and nothing but a change in public sentiment will effect its cure.— Those people must be brought in daily contact with the rich and intelligent—they (oust be stimulated to mental action, and tanght to appreciate education and com forts of civilized life ; and this we believe may he effected only by the introduction of manufactures. My experience at Gra. niteville has satisfied Ine that, unless our poor people can be brought together in vil !ages, nod some means of employment a(- ; forded them. it will be an utterly hopeless effort to undertake to educate them " Here is the u•stimony of Governor Ham mond of South Carolina, the great leader of the nullifying party now a>ouming the titlo of Democracy. We en:tract it from an addreus before the South Carolina In stitute in Ibso. Ile is speaking of that class of people, estimated by Win. Gregg Esq., of Carolina, in his. arldri,s be fore the South Carolina Institute, 1851, to be 1.5,050--ene half of the white popula tion of the Bi,te "They obtain a preccriou4 zsubaiztenco by occasional jobs, by hunting, by &lung. by plundering fields or fo1.1:, and to, often by what in in effects far worse—trading with slaves, and seducing them to plunder for their benefit." Ilan. J. 11. Lurnpkin of Geortrin, spea king in upon the Industrial Regen eratina of Cie South says : rit is n jetted that these manufactu - ring eottLii.dtmenta will become the hot beds of crime. Bat I am by no menus ready to concede that our poor, degraded half fed, boll ignorant population— with out Sabbath Sclitto's any oilier kind of instruction. mental or moral, or without any just appreciation of charucter—will be injured by giving, them employment, vt.divit will bring them under the oversight or employers who will inspire them with coif-en pest by todzinz an itterea in their wet fare." We close ovr quotations by en extract from an address delivered n len , weeks ,ince by the Hon. C. C. Clay, jr., of 1- abnine ••1 slim you, with sorrow, in th 2 older portions of kbama, and in my na tive County of 3fachson, the sod m:ntori• als of the artless and exhausting culture of cotton. Our small planters, lifter ta.- Ling the cream off their lands, unable to restore them by rest, immures, or other wise, ore going further we-t and south in search of ether virgin lands, which they may and will despoil and impoverish in like manner. Our wealthier plasters, with greater means and no more skill, are buying out their poorer neighbors, extend ing, their plantations, and lidding, to their shire force. The wealthy few who are a• tile to live on smaller profits, and to give their blasted fields some rest, are thus pushing off the tnany who are indite!, dent. Of the $llO,OOO annually realised from the sales of the cotton crop of Ala bama, nearly all not expended in support ing the pn ducers is reihvezted to land and negroes. "Thus the wlfte papulutinn has decrees• ed, and tie slave increased almost pari pasm in several counties of our State.— lit 1525, Madison County cast about 8,000. In traversing that county, one will discov er numerous farm houses, once the abode of industrious and intelligent freemen, now occupied by slaves or tenantless, den erted and dilapidated ; he will observe fields, once fertile, now unfenced. abaa dosed, and covered with those evil harbin gers, fox tail and broomsdege; he will see the moss growing ou the moldering walls of once thrifty villages, and will bud 'one only master grasps the whole domain.'-- Indeed, a country in Ito infancy, where filly years ago scarce a forest•tree had been felled by the axe of the pioneer, is already exhibiting the painful signs of sea ility and decay, apparent in Virginia and the Carolinas." This gentleman is distinguished as a zealot for the extention tf the blessings of Slavery to the Free Torritoriov. The a hove extract from his eloquent speech is a picture drawn from life, and exhibiting to the eye the charms of Slavery, which the small freeholders of the North and West, who cultivate their farms with 'heir own hands, well know how to appreciate from contrast. We would not have adverted to the dis franchisement of the mass of the white population to South Carolina and other southern States, by property qualification fur office and the defeat of the right of suffrage by the rotten borough system. had we not seen with what contempt of every principle of free government the attempt is now made to carry Kansas for slavery. A usurpation, put up with force of arms by Gen, Atchison, has already established Slavery in that Territory, has guarded it with test oaths and denounced the death penalty against all who oppose it. The Provident of the United States by bin proclamation to maintain the usur- of the Confederacy, tc potion, and if he is re-elected, or any nib-' within them of systen er notninnted by the South to succeed him the pure and free, the j the army of the United States will be em- pies inaugurated by tl ployed to rivet Slavery on Konsas under NATIONAL .0 the laws passed by Gen. A tehison's fol- I 7. D. Morgan, N. York, Connecticut, lowers from Missouri. The North must unite to defeat this attempt by the election .1. Goodrich, Nissan., of apri-sident who will tnaintain the rights of the people of the North, or a Cordon of e,C a l if ornia, Cor. Cole, black republics will stretch from Alissouri.; k . .Ll . rakeg, o V n epoi . it, west to the Pacific. The consequences E. D. Williams, 11e1.,~ will be that no free white republic will be permitted to arise south of the tier of Slave I States. The free settlers of the North on their vrcy to Kane is are obliged to taw away front Missouri to reach their desti natioa with their property and moans of defending it. Whet will result from the creation of r. cord. of Slit re States across the continent. • It surrenders ad south of it to slavery —1 And what will be the condition of the' slaveless white population which must spring up in tit's vast region I We see in the fate of the poor free population of 'Mexico to "what complexion it must cools ' at last," whenever chive , monopoly has , once given its owners the mastery over the soil. Slavery nominally is abolised throughout t:ie Republic of Mexico, bet existc, in fact, under the name of peon.. age. The owners of the soil, feed and clo h those who work for them ; they charge their laborers more ter their sup. plies than they arree to pay them for wages, and the result is that the laborer in constantly felling more and more in debt, and the use subjects him t t his creditor until he works cut the indehted ne... 'I he effect of the system is to com pel a 'non to sell himself and his Wady. And thh oken in connection with the condition of the poor white populatiou in the south—as shown in the passages we 'nave taken from the addreas of Gov. Ham mond of South Carolina, the flou. C. C, Clay of A labama, and other leading South ern statesmen—explains a recent article in lye i?ieltneen,/ ingteiter, the o::irle of southern interests, which elabretory viva the right of subjecting whites, as well as blacks, to Slavery. Nay, it gots so far ns to insist that this right of multi:yr white slaves is '•inalienable." The arti cle thus presses this point : "They, (those holding Mr. Jeflerson'a doctrine) begin to reason, by assuming Slavery to be morally and religiously wrong : and the South hitherto has gran ted their premises and attempted to justify negro Slavery as an exception to a gene ral rule, or, if wrong. as a matter of bar gain between the North and the South.-- 7he Imes 4 God and nature are inimula lge and man cannot bargain them away. While it is far more obvious that negroes be cloves thou whiles—for they are 9143' fit to labor, not to direct- -yet the peineple of slavery is itself right, and does not de. pew, at diffirenc- of complexion' UnJer this doctrine it follows that more direct enslavement of the white race may be insisted upon than that obtained in Alex• ico under the contrivance of debtor vossal oge. The doctrine is a positive sanction to the bondage of the white race and asserts that the laws of God and nature are immutable," in its support "a man cannot bargain them away." It is panic ularly illustrated now in the Utah Terri tory, where a men holds a multitude of wo men as sluvi s calling them his wives --- What is there in Mr. Ritchie's principle to prevent Bringliam Young from holding ninety white men as slaves under bills of sale, as well as ninety white women under pretense of the bonds of matrimony ? Mr. Ititehie's explanation rif the South ern doctrine of Slavery together with Mr. Douglas' act for the 'forritoriec, which "leaves the people perfectly free to form "and regulate their dome,itic institutions their own way, subject only to the 'Constitution of the United States," cer tautly autliorizot the Mormon State to come imo the Union with the Turkish system full blown, which makes slaves of all colors and wives without number. It is a sad commentary on our progress, that at the moment when the news arrives of the Sultan's finnan putting an end to the traffic in slaves in his einpire•.•of the Czar stops for the liberation of the serfs in Rua. sin, and of their actual enfranchisement in the Danubian Principalities -••we should have negro slavery forced opon one Terri tory by on usurpation set up by the sword and the right of the Mormons recognized in another to hold a multitude of the gent- ler sex in servitude, under the unnatural la v of a plurality of wives ! We hold tint Congress is bound by the Constitution 'tto make all needful roles i.and regulations for the Territories of the "United States," and during their pupi• lar and preparation to become members VOL. XXI. NO. 19. prevent the growth 1s incongruous with just and safe princi. ie Revolution. ONIMITTEE. Fran. P. Blair, Mar., D. Wilmot, Pentea., W. M. Chace. R. Geo. Rye, Virgioia. E. S. Leland, Illinois, G. G. Foggy, N. H., A. J. Stevens lowa Wm. Grose, Indiana; N. Spooner, Wis., J. G. Fee, Kentnekr, Lew. Clephane, D. C. MA11.C11 . 26, 1856. r "Fortune Favors thoirave." A military officer with whom we have long been intimate, relates two incidents connected with Croghan , s gallant defence of Fort Stevenson : one of which affords a strong positive and the other a negativo proof of the above quoted adage. As the British and the Indiana. in their operations, had violated their pledge and ete usage of civilized warfare, by wanton ly murdering, their prisoners the members ! of Croghan's little band, only one hundred strong with a single six pounder, and sdr rounded by about six hundred British troop:: and thrice that number of Indians, had mutually agreed to stand their ground to the last, and sell their lives as dearly as possible. When all was ready the British com mander sent a messenger, under a flag of truce, to treat for a surrender or the fort Carlton] pointing to him as he approach. ed, exclaimed: 'lt will not do to let him enter ;Jere and see our weakness ; who will volunteer to meet him?' As it was pretty certain that whoever should leave the fort on such n mission would be murdered by the dastard foe, there was a brief pause, when Ensign Shipp replied. "I will upon one condi tion." '"What is it ?" asked the Captain. 'fledge me your word, as an officer and a man of honor, that you will keep that gun bearing directly upon me, and that you till fire it off the moment you see me raise my hand." The pledge was given, and Shipp went forth. To all the nrgtt tnents and persuasions of the enemy his unvarying reply wes: t , l ant instructed to say that we defend the fort." Soon the Indians began - in surround hint. One clutched his epaulette, another his sword. Shipp, who was a man of her• culean frame, released himself by a pow. erful effort, and turning to the convoy, cooly said : ' , Sir, I have not put myself under your truce without knowing your mode of %car fare. You see that gun," said he, point. 'ing to their six pounder, 'it is we l char f ed with grape, and I have the soletnn pled of my commander that it shall he fired t; n moment that I give him the signal. There • tore, restrain these men and respect the laws of war or you shall instantly accom pany me to the other world." This was enough. Shipp was no more molested, he returned to his comrades la safety, and obtained promotion for his bra. very. The counter instance referred to at ti•o head of our paragraph was told as follow. : After the British and Indians hod drawn Croghan missed one man—only or, --who had belonged to his little band, ac : all efforts for his discovery, were for son: time unsuccessful. At length his remains were discovered in the garret of one of tho old block houses, where he had crept for safety, and was cut in two by a canncr: bull. All the rest considering their chances of life not worth a thought, had only sought to do their duty, and escaped alive, front perhaps the most desperate fight on record. The only man that was killed, happened to be the only man who proved himself a coward. Frankness. Be frank with the world. Frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Sty/ just what you mean to do on every occa• sion, and take it for granted you mean to do what is right. If a friend asks a favor, you should grant it. if it is reasonable, if it Alm. tell him plainly why you canna.. Yeu will wrong him and wrong yoursdi by qui voca•ion of any kind. Never d, a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one ; the man who requires you to do so, is dearly purchased nt a sacrihce. Deal kindly and firmly with all men; you w:11 find it the policy which wears best Above all do not appear to others what you aro not. If you have any fault to find w.th any one, tell him, not others, of what 3ou complain. 'there is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to ho one thing to a face, and another be- hind his back. We should live, act. anLi speak out of doors as the phrase is, andssy and do what we are willing should be know and read by men. It is not only best as a matter of principle, but as a matter of pa,
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