Huntingdon journal. (Huntingdon, Pa.) 1843-1859, July 16, 1856, Image 2
God. if respectable men, when they kept about from the selection of candidates for office, also threw away their allegiance to party, the evil would be less. But, by a strange confusion of moral sense, the obli gation to party is made unquestionable and supreme. No matter what may be the character of its efents—no matter what may be the evil principles or iniquitous measure incorporated in its action, how many good men there are for whom the single consideration, that, it is the action of their own party, is enough. They ask no questions, listen to no argument, recog nize no higher authority. How few Chris tian men ever think of taking counsel of God in questions of public affairs, and gi ving religion the control of their politics How few citizens recognize their respon sibility to God for their political influence. How few men of principle bring their po litical conduct to the same tests as their ordinary intercourse. Now, let it be re membered, that the ultimate responsibility of every measure rests with the people, and in this matter, as in all others, each ono must answer for himself. Caucuses of the idle and dissolute may nominate whom they please, leaders of political par ties may venture on what iniquities they will, but to the people belongs the respon sibility of their adoption. Without the sanction of the people they sink into the obscurity which they deserve. It is on this principle that God is dealing with us as a people. The American people have been characterized by a blind and unscru pulous adherence to party—the political morality of our country has become a by word and a hissing—the whole party, by negligence or Harty-spirit, have become partakers in the guilt of actions which t( they had not been in politics, would be a loathing to the moral sense of the commu nity. And, therefore, God has punished the nation with the legitimate results of their own misconduct. For these national offences God has just ly brought upon us disgrace and suffering and a discord which threatens the direst disasters in the future. IV. But let us inquire, fourthly, into the providential design of these afflictions. What lesson are they sent to teach, what practical end to secure ? Why have the truckling subserviency of the Northern politicians and the arrogant aggressions of the slave power been allowed to proceed so far unchecked, and to bring forth such disastrous fruits? It is not to bring back the public mind to the views of slavery which were entertatned at the formation of .Our government, and ee ie eren WM.- the way for its amelioration and ultimate re moval? A great change has come over the public sentiment in regard to slavery in the last twenty-five or thirty years.— Previous to that time it found its apologists neither North or South. It was lamented and deplored all over the country as a ne cessary evil. The most that could be said in regard to it was that living men were not responsible for its Introduction, and that it was not yet safe to attempt its abroga tion. All preferred to look forward to a time when it would cease td be. With this view all moderate men were satisfied. They blushed at it an anomaly in the land of freedom, and mourned over it before God as an evil they would not have laid to their charge. The strengthening of li berty, the growth of civilization, and the influence of Christianity. then held out the hope of approaching deliverance. And the feeling of many pious and excellent people is still the same. But the public aspect and expression of slavery is entire ly altered. It is now claimed on the one hand, and the doctrine is assented to on other, that it is a fundamental part of our national policy ; that our Constitution is designed for its protection ; and that it is to grow and extend itself without limit on the national territory. All hops and idea of its removal is discarded. It is trans formed into a permanent element of Amer ican society. The programmes of politi cal leaders now allow no hope.to the un fortunate slave and his no leas unfortunate master. 'Phe inherited evil is transformed into the wilful sin of the present genera tion. The original sin of slavery is fast becoming, through politicians, the free-will crime of the American people. This pre sents the matter in a very different aspect before God and the civilized world. What over may be said in the way of temporary extenuation, slavery and human right, slavery and the Christian law of love are in irreconcilable opposition. To do the best we can with an inherited evil, until Providence enables us to put it away, may receive blessing from the Lord. But be. cause of some incidental advantages to re solve on its permanence and extension, will surely receive his curse, and bring ruin to our country. So gradually has the change of temper and purpose been intro duoed, that, as a nation, we were hardly aware of the sin in which we were becom ing ensnared. But the recent events have given such a shock to the spirit of freedom as to arouse the nation to perceive the gulf before us. May it be made the means of a recoil of public sentiment which shall put the system of human bondage back where it was at the formation of our gov ernment. May this demonstration of its spirit and tendency prevent all tampering with it in future. Thus God will make the wrath of man to praise him; and then, doubtless, the remainder of wrath, will He restrain. V. It now remains that we should con sider the duties of the present crisis. The time will not allow more than a brief enu- meration. I. The first duty of the crisis is a right public sentiment. Ours is a government of opinion. To public opinion every party and every colition is compelled to bow. It is mightier than bayonets. The only dif ficulty is in bringing the national mind to a decision. There is freer circulation of news in this country than in any other, and yet there is surprising ignorance and un concern of what is taking place in the country. Many of our countrymen have no adequate idea of what has occurred in Kansas. They know that there has been trouble and fighting, but their information is most partial and incorrect. Very few of the political journals have presented a faithful report of facts. They have been advocates and not witnesses, catching up events for special pleading for party effect instead of relating the whole truth before the tribunal of the people. Now let every person seek to inform himself and his neighbors of events as they are, Put the facts before the people. Let them know the outrages which have been committed. Let them understand the spirit which has actuated them. and the end at which they aim. Let them be taught to view the facts and principles of the present crisis, irrespective of party affinities. And who can doubt that the American people will condemn this imbuing of hands in brother's blod, and tyrannizing over brethren in questions of right ; rebuke the aggressor and spread the mighty shield of public sympathy and favor over the persecuted. This cause is to ba tried, not by violence, but at the bar of public opinion. And wheneven. an intelligent decjs,on on full and impartial testimony shall be given by the tribunal, all the agitators will be pow erless. Violent men on all sides may threa ten what they please. They might as well threaten the Pacific Ocean as the re solved judgment anti conscience of the nation. Our first duty is, therefore, to enlighten the public mind. Make the daily journals feel that it is their interest to spread all the facts and the testimony of all sides before their readers. Make' use of the mail (or distribution of dots meats to your acquaintance. Organize a system of political colportage, which shall leave tracts at every man's door, and thro' the crowds at the markets send them eve. rywhere on the wings of the wind. This is the true system of republican govern ment, and the true way to correct a public tic evil. 2. A second duty of the crisis is the pecuni. ary relief of the sufferers in Kansas. The op erations of husbandry have been broken up by ruthless invaders. There will be no crops to nourish the inhabitants. Every department of trade and labor has been so paralyzed by fear and violence that industrious men are without the means of livelihood. Behind all the other enemies of Kansas stalks famine, threatening to complete the extermination. Families are compelled to leave their homes and farms for want of bread ; Besides which, insatiable rob. bery has plundered hundreds of everything that could be carried off. Horses, wagons, oxen, cows, sheep, provisions, clothing, money have been seized in broad daylight by roving ma. renders. The suffering inhabitants must re• turn penniless to their former homes, or they must die (nth° spot amidst their own fertile but desolated fields. Send them the relief which they need. Cheer their disconsolate spirits by the knowledge that their are thousands of their countrymen who sympathize with their misfor. tunes and condemn their wrongs. Give them food to eat and raiment to put on. Provide them with bread in the wilderness, and bid them remain and put their trust in the God of forces. The agencies of collection and distribution are already organized. Our brethren in other ci ties hire already begun to pour in their bone factions. Let the city of the peace and liberty loving Penn emulate their example. 3. The, third duty of the crisis is the re• inforcement of the pioneers in Kansas with free-state settlers. The organic law • of the territory has guarantoed to its nett'. al settlers the right of determining their I own institutions. The American people will see that that right is not defeated by force or fraud. Tho soil was once conse crated unto freedom. It is yet pledged to f r eedom, if free men have the enterprize to settle it. If four to one is not a suffi cient majority to secure the pledged result, then send ten to one. If 20,000 will not make it free, then pour in 100,000. The law of majorities is to settle it. Let it be so large that force and fraud will be una vailing. Even armed marauders will have to yield to public opinion. Let its expres sion in the multiplication of liberty-loving settlers be overwhelming. Send men who are industrious and will work; men who are intelligent and know their rights; bold, and will defend them. Send men who are peaceable and patient, who love law and order in its true sense, and have property dependent on its preservation; whose hands love the implements of labor,' but who will not hesitate to take down the implements of war to repel the invaders of their households. Bend them with their flocks and their herds. with their wives and their little ones, with their saw-mills and their schonl•masters and their minis ters, and let them go up into this land that floweth with milk and honey, and the God who guided Israel will give them an in. heritsnce. The question must be decided not by the rifle and the bowie knife, but by the axe and the ploughshare. There• fore, appeal to no warlike feeling to send counter bands of ruffians for counter out rage, but send settlers of the soil, strong in the conviction of right and resolute in the determination to maintain it. 4. The fourth duty of the crisis is the independent and conciontious use of the ballot•box. Let the fear of God and the love of man bring party predilections to an honest argument at the bar of con• science. Party will die, but the country will live. Party will die, but we shall live to answer at a higher tribunal respecting a freeman's privilege and a freeman's duty. We are the sovereigns of the republic.— We are to decide the issues of opinion and the choice of rulers for ourselves. It mat ters not what interested and designing men on the one side or on the other may agree upon for selfish ends; it is ours to review and decide the question for ourselves, for the benefit of our country. And it is God's to bring us and them into judgment, and to give sentence on our actions according to truth. 5. And finally and chiefly, the crisis calls us to general humiliation and prayer before God, The Lord's hand is to be seen in our afflictions as well as man's.— Vaninly would the enemies of the public peace have plotted mischief, If the Lord had not allowed them to bring it to pass in punishment of our sins. And vainly shall we endeavor to escape the punishment, unless we humble ourselves before Him who has inflicted it. Many and great have been our sins, individually and na tional. The Lord has been provoked ev ery dayhy ingratitude, irreligion and crime. In our prosperity. wo have forgotten Him who gave us our goodly heritage. We have said, "Who is the Lord, what profit , is there if we shall serve Him 1" We have been ungrateful for His favors. We have kicked at His judgments. We have gloried in our institutions and government, as though they were anything without the God who founded them. We have almost deemed it impogsible for public and politi cal iniquity to ruin us. And, therefore, we have seen all branches of government de filed by corruption with an apathy or indo lent acquiescence which has made the whole people partakers in the iniquity.— Never till we return unto the Lord, and make our supplication humbly before our Judge, will its remove His chastisements from off our country.• All means, all plans will fail without Him. But the Lord is gracious and merciful. He listened to the intercession of Moses for his people, and of Abraham for Sodom; and He will now lis ten to the prayers of His people. The ef fectual fervent prayer of the righteous a vaileth much. Let Christian men, then, humble theinselves before God. Let them confess the sins of their people and their own implication in them. Let them plead singly and unitedly with God for His over ruling Providence in protection of our country. Let them pray daily and earn estly for their rulers and for all in authority. Let them pray for the defeat of iniquity, and the suppression of violence, and the protection of the oppressed. Let their' pray for the right guidance of the popular mind in the issues before it. Let us all remember that promotion cometh not from the North or from the West, nor yet from the South, but that the Lord, He putteth down one, and raiseth up another, and be seech his intervention. Let us beseech Him to ameliorate sectional animosities, and to turn the hearts of the people like rivers of water to the common good. Let us thus remember God in our calamity. and the God that maketh men to be of one mind in an house will restore peace to our distracted country, snd establish our liber ties on an impregnable foundation. Hopewell. We call the attention of our readers to the advertised "Sale of Lots in . the town of Hopewell." A beautiful plan of the town, by our worthy County Surveyor J. S. Africa, can be seen at our office. OUR BOOK TABLE. Frank Leslie's Gazette of Fashions for July, is on our table. No lady or gentle man should be without it. Only $2 a year- Address Frank Leslie, New York. The August number of Peterson's Mag azine is already on our table, and it aflords us pleasure to be ablo to say, that its illus trations and literary matter will not fail in rendering it even more popular than it ov er was before. Address T. B. Peterson, Philadelphia; $2 per year. [A CARD.] To Teachers and all whom it may con• cern: The undersigned with competent assistants, will open a Normal School, for tho especial benefit of Teachers, somewhere in Huntingdon County, on the last Monday of July. We in tend to continue the School six or eight weeks. Two Professors will be engaged in the School, and the gratuitous services of the County Su perintendent will ho given to lessen the expen ses of the student teachers. All expends will be very moderate, and those who attend will not be required to purchase new books. Our advertisement in full will be given next week. Let the teachers turn out ; we have a full cam paign before us and they must not shrink from it. There is a necessity for improvement; and improvement will gain its full reward. Let every district sendlits representatives, and eve ry teacher make an exertion in the good cause. Teachers are requested to correspond with us and to distribute circulars. Teachers of Hun. tingdon County ; our educational interests rest in your hands. Let there be action! Neces sity requires it ; the voice of the people requires it. Action! Action! Al, BERT OWEN, Co. Superinfookni. ffiuntingbon Nunn'. WILLIAM BREWSTER, SAM. G. WHITTAKER. EDITORS. Wednesday Morning, Julylo, 1850, Forever float that standard sheet, Where breathes the foe but fallsbefore us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's bannerstreaming iierusl" FOR PRESIDENT, JOHN C. FREMONT, OP CALIFORNIA, FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER. TBOIV/AB E. COCHRAN, OF YORK COUNTY. FOR AUDITOR GENERAL DARWIN PIXELPS, OF ARMSTRONG COUNTY. POR SURVEYOR GENERAL. BARTHOLOMEW LAPORTE, OF BRADFORD COUNTY. Local Gossip. We had a very terrific thunder shower on Saturday last ; several buildings wore struck by lightning, and we are informed that our corpulent friend Ned Summers was knocked down by it, when passing down the street. . . . We bear frequent complaints of pains under the apron ; caused no doubt by politics, cher ries and milk. . . . Our farmers are busily en gaged in cutting their grain ; the crop in the county will be very large. . . Our citizens arc having their houses re-painted ; the "an• cient borough" is looking quite youthful. . . . We are informed that some twenty new houses are shortly to be erected in 'West Huntingdon; the majority of them will be built in the Goth ic style of architecture. . . . The new mill is going up rapidly ; several new brick and 'frame buildings are in course of construction. . . . We see our young friend Harry Wharton has retnrned from his tour through the West. He gives a doleful account of the condition of Kansas. . . . A very distressing accident oc cured on Thursday last. A little son of Jacoh Snyder, aged about one year and a-half, fell in to a tub filled with water, and was drowned. He was a bright, intelligent little fellow, and his loss is deeply felt by the bereaved parents. . . . The Borough Authorities are having a pair of Fairbank's Weighing Scales put up in place of our old affairs. . . . We made a visit to Cunningham .d Co's Foundry the other day, and Were delighted with its business-like prrogararwal‘na orrangerrren.. lav-erythlt% looks snug and trim, and the Foundry is doing an immense business. . . . We were the hap py recipients of a delightful serenade from the Huntingdon Brass Band, the other eve Ling— . was in "the woo sma' hours o' the night," .d was delicious as "flutes upon the waters." Our citizens should encourage the young men who compose the band, by substantial aid .d comfort, to enable them to proceed with their lessons. What say you, old fogies and young America; can you realize the truth of the saying that"Alusie bath power to tooth the sa rage, to rend a rock and—split a cabbage " . . . A couple of Locofoco darkeys have been entertaining our citizens in the evenings of the past week, by music on "der fiddle." . . . Old Alden, you hypocrite! How dare you attempt to prove that Lewis is not a Jesuit ? Bah you wilt paunch, you dog fennel, Son excres cence of double-jointed depravity, you lick spittle of damning deceit ; you writing the Je suit Lewis's editorials I and endeavoring to prove him no Catholic 1 See the last 'Globe.' . . . A poor devil of a woman lectured in the Town Hall the other evening ; on account of "accident of birth," (no editor born north of Kentucky being admitted) we were preserved from being bored by listening to her... . We notice several "city clerks" 'bobbin round' our village. . . . We received a very splendid boquet from a lady friend, on Saturday. Oh they were so beautiful, those "innocent offer ings of nature." We bless the glorious giver. • . . The population of Huntingdon is increas• ing very rapidly. TO BE CONTINUED, To• Day's Paper. We lay before our readers in this week's issUo of the Huntingdon Journal, two splendid articles—Fremont's letter of ac ceptance, and Dr. Tyng's sermon. On the former we shall make no com ment—it speaks for itself. But must not every one Rho reads it say, How grand. We have a word of explanation for Dr. Tyng's Sermon. The Dr. is pastor of the wealthiest Episcopalian Congregation in Pennsylvania ; some of the wealth iest of his congregation are natives of the slave states, and have been "rearers of hulnan souls for bondage," Dr: Tyng has here tofore scrupulously abstained from any thing of the'kind, but he was at length compelled by a sense of duty, to speak of the wrongs of Kansas ; and how magnifi cently he talks. We love such men, and esteem them more than ten thousand milk and water ministers, who fear to do their duty, on account of giving offence. We invite attention to it. THE NEWS, No change in the market since our last. Brooks was only fined $3OO for his base attack on Sumner ! Th. President has driven the Free State Legislature of Kansas out, at the point of the bayonet. Curses on hint. Mr. Dallas will not be dismissed by the English. The Jesuits of the Huntingdon Globe. The lick spittle of the own or of the Globe, (who is known to our readers) in a labored article attempts to prove Lewis no Catholic. To do this, he heaps upon us opprobrious epithets ; Unpacks his heart with words, And falls a cursing, like a very drab, A scullion." Wm. Lewis and his gang, are Jesuits ; dyed in the wool; bound by all the popish rites and ceremonies of the Homan Church, Chained to the car of the antt-Ch•ist of the seven.hilled city, by all the forms, oaths, and obligations required by that Pontiff. We say again to the Protestant Democrats of the county, beware of this Jesuit dog ; this kennel of Popish curs; this diabolical, contaminating litter of Jesuit hounds.— Jesuit Lewis has received six months in dulgence from t John, and this, combined with his bad character, will make his filthy little sheet, bad enough for the most vile. In regard to the assertions we made rel ative to the Jesuit Lewis owing his present freedom to executive clemency, all we can say is, it is the simple truth! It is in perfect keeping with the balance of the in dulgence receiver's acts, to deny it. For the Journal. MESSRS. EDITOItS.-I am gratified to find that by the late action of the American Execu tive Committee, there is some prospect of a u nion of Americans, Whigs nod Republicans, .of all the-, Enemies of Locofoce misrule, on a platform broad enough for all. To make this union effective it will of course be necessary to compose the county ticket of liberal men, who while they honestly differ in some minor mat term, are united on the great principles of A merican Republicanism. Such a man is Hon, Jonathan McWilliams, an American by birth. Protestant by education, a man of integrity and intelligence, conservative in his feelings, a gentleman and a Christian. Ills re-election to the office he now fills with so much credit to himself and his constituents is most earnest ly desired by many with whom I have conver sed on the subject. It is to be hoped, there fore, that his name will be associated with one of the very worthy and cornpetant men, already named by our American friends, for the office of Associate Judge, A WHIO. For the Journal. lifessns.lEntrotts.—Many opponents of the great Border-ruffian, Buchanan party are plea. sed to learn, by last week's papers, that the AMERICANS of this county have abolished the secret and restrictive features of their organi. zation. Had this been a month earlier it would perhaps have been still more gratifying, and more effective of geol. But if conceived in a spirit of patriotism, and carried out in good faith, it is not too late to unite by this menaurr all the enemies of political Romanistn, and Slave-breeding Democracy, on one common platform—free speck, free soil, free labor and a free Bible. There are in this county hundreds of voters not enrolled in the American party, but who cordially approve their leading principles, and will rally with them in solid column, a round the banner of freedom, if fairly and fra ternally treated at the proposed delegate elec• tion; fairly represented in the nominating con vention, and on the county ticket. The sth of July happily initiated measures of stolen; the 9th and 12th of August will either cement or m nr the noble work, so wisely, and so well begun. Americans, on you depends the issue. See to it that no action he hod, that no step be taken that might repel the honest voters, who though they wear not the badge of your Me* are, nevertheless, wills you in heart and senti• went—and the rout of the papal, pro•slavery party, will be as complete and overwhelming in this county and district, as it is certain to be throughout the State, and the entire free North and West. IRIS Col. Fremont's Acceptance. The following important correspondence ho. tween the Committee of the Republic. Na• tional Convention, appointed to inform Col. Fnos:osv of his nomination, and its candidate, will attract attention from every quarter, and deserves more than the ordinary consideration of the people of the United States: - LETTER TO COT. FRESIONT. Philadelphia, June 19, 1858.--Sir: A Con vention of Delegates, assembled at Philadel phia on 17th, 18th, and 19th days of June, 18- 58, under a call addressed to the people of the United States, without regard to past political differences or divisions, who are opposed to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, to the pol icy of the present Administration, to tho ea tension of Slavery into Free Territory, in favor of the admission of Kansas as a Free State, and of restoring the action of the Federal Govern ment to the principles of Washington and Jef ferson, adopted a declaration of principles and purposes for which they are united in political action—a copy of which we have the honor to inclose—and unanimously nominated you as their candidate for the office of President of the United States a the approaching election as the chosen representative of these principles its this important political contest, and with the assured conviction that you would give them full practical operation, should the suffrages of the Union place you at the head of the Nation al Government. The undersigned were directed by the Con• vention to communicate to you the tact of your nomination, and to request you in their name, and, as they believe, in the name of a large majority of the people of the country, to accept it. Offering you the assurance of our high per• sonal respect, we are your fellow citizens, H. S. LANE, President of the Convention, JAMES H. ASHLEY, ANTHONY J. BLEECKER, JOSEPH C. LIORNDLOWER, B. R. lIOAR, THADDEUS STEVENS, KINSLEY S. Emmen, JOHN A. Wti.t.s, C. F. CLEVELAND, ernes Almelo!. To JOHN C, FREMONT, of California. COI,FREMONT'S REPLY. Nem lark, July 8, 1856—Gentlemen:— You call me to a high responsibility by ph, clog me in the van of a great movement of the ;Triple of the United Steles, who, without re- gard to past differences, are uniting in a com mon effort to bring back the action of the Fed eral Government to the principles of Washing. ton and Jefferson. Comprehending the meg nitude of the trust which they have declared themselves willing to place in my hands, and deeply sensible of the honor which their unre served confidence, in this threatening position of the public affairs, implies, I feel that I can not better respond than by a sincere declaration that, in the event of my election to the Presi dency, I should cuter upon the execution of its duties with a single hearted determination to promote the good of the whole country, and to direct solely to this end all the power of the Government, irrespective of party issues, and regardless of sectional strifes. The declare- Lion of principles embodied in the resolves of your Convention expresses the sentiments in which I have been educated, and which have been ripened into convictions by personal ob servation and experience. With this declare• tion and avowal, I think it necessary to revert to only two of the subjects embraced in those resolutions, and to these only because events have surrounded them with grave and critical circumstances, and given to them especial im• portance. I concur in the views of the Convention de precating the Foreign policy to which it advers. Ile assumption that wo have the right to take from another nation its domains because we want them, is an abandonmen4 of the honest character which our country has acquired. To provoke hostilities by unjust assnmptions, would be to sacrifice the pea ce and character of the country, when all its interests might be more certainly secured and its objects attained by just an healing councils, involving no loss of reputation. International embarrassments are mainly the results of a secret diplomacy, whirls aims to keep from the knowledge of the people the operations of the Government. This sys• tem is inconsistent with the charatter of our institutions, and is itself yielding gradually to n snore enlightened public opinion, and to the power of a tree press, which, by its broad dis semiLation of political intelligence, secures in advance to the side of justice the judgment of the civilized world. An honest, firm and open policy in our foreign relations would command the united support of the nation, whose delibe. rate opinions it would necessarily reflect. Nothing is clearer in the history of our insti tutions than the design of the nation, in assert ing; its own independence and freedom, to a void giving countenance to the extension of Slavery. The influence of the small but con.' pact and powerful class of men interested its Slavery, who command one section of the eoun. try, and wield a vast political control as a con sequence in the other, is now directel to turn back tins impulse of the Revolution soil reverse its principles. The extension of Slavery across the continent is the object of the power which now rules the Government: and from this spir• it has sprung those kindred wrongs in Kansas, so truly portrayal in one of your resolutions, which prove that the elements of the most ar• bitrarygovernments have not been vanquished by the just theory of our own. It would be out of place here to pledge my self to any particular policy that has been seg. gated to terminate the sectional controversy engendered by political animosities, operating on a powerful class banded together by a eon, soon interest. A practical remedy is the ad mission of Kansas tnto the Union as a Free Sta.e. The South should, in my judgment earnestly desire such consummation. It would vindicate its good faith. It would correct the mistake of the repeal; and the North, having practically tha benefit of the agreement be tween the two seetiting, resit(' be satisfied and good fcc/ing tuNiuted. The measure Is per fectly consistent wills the honor . of the South and vital to its interest. That fatal act which gave birth to this l ur.ly sectional strife, origin. sting in the scheme to take from Free Labor the country secured to it by a solemn covenant, cannot be too soon disarmed of its pernicious force. The only genial region of the middle lati- ' tude left to the entigsant of the Northern Stoles for houses cannot be conquered from the free laborers wise have long considered it as set a part fiir them its our inheritance, without pro voking a desperate struggle. Whatever may be the persistence of the particular class which seems ready to hazard everything fur the suc cess of the unjust scheme it has partially effect ed, I fleetly believe that the great heart of the nation, which throbs with the patriotism of the freemen of both sections, will be able to ever come it. They will look to the rights secured to them by the Constitution of the Union as the best safeguard from the oppression of the class which, by a monopoly of the soil and of slave labor to till it, might in time reduce them to the extremity of laboring upon the same terms with the slaves. The great body of non-slaveholding freemen, including those of the South, upon whose welfare slavery is an oppression, will dis cover that thepower of the general government over the public lands may he beneficially exert ed to advance their interests and secure their independence: knowing this, their suffrages will not be wanted to maintain that authority in the Union which is absolutely essential to the main tenance of their own liberties, and which has snore than once indicated the purpose of dis posing of the public lands in such a way as would snake every settler upon them a free holder. If the people intrust to me the administra• tine or the government, the laws of Congress in relation to the Territories shall ho faithfully exeuted. All its authority shall be exerted in aid of the National will to re•establish the peace of the country on thejust principles which have heretofore re cieved the sanction of the Federal Government of the States, and of the people of both sections. Such a policy would leave no aliment to that sectional party which seeks its aggrandizement by appropria• ting the new Territory capitalin the form of slavery, but would inevitably result in the tri. utnph of free labor—the natural capital which constitutes the real wealth of this great country, and creates that intelligent power in the mas ses alone lobe relied on as the bulwark of free institutions. Trusting that I have a heart capable of com prehending our whole country, with its varied interests, and cool dent patriotism exists in all parts of the Union, I aci.ept the nomination of your Convention in hope that I may be enabled to serve usefully in its canoe, which I consider the cause of Constitutional Freedom, Very respectfully Your obedient servant J. C. FREMONT. To Messrs, 11. S. Lane; (President,) Jas. C. Ashley, Anthony J. Illeecker, Joseph C. Horublower, P. It. Hoar, Thaddeus Ste- vens, Kinsley S. Bingham, John A. Wills, C. Cleveland, Cyrus Aldrich, Com mittee, &e NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Conunissioners Sale. rruE following tracts of land will be exposed to public sale by the Commissioners of Huntingdon County on Thursday, the 21st day of Angust 1836, according to the several Acts of Assem bly in such case outdo and provided, viz ToD Towrisuir. George Knob laugh, 205 Acres. Walls. Tow NBIIIP. '' John Carson, 446 Acres. _ Fnatou;ng Townsnw. Mary Jordan, 66 Aara:. SPRINGILULD TOWNSHIP. Stacey Young, 414 Acres, 150 p:1 , By order of Conou'rs, /113.11 T IV. MILLER, Citric. July 16, '56. fit. COURT AFFAIRS.-AUGUST TERM. PRO( LAMATION. Wilma:as by a precept to me directed, dated at Huntingdon, the 25th day of April, A. D. 1856, under the bands and seals of the lion. George Taylor, President of the Court of Common Pleas, Oyer and Terminer, and goner al jail delivery of the 24th judicial district of Penn sylvania composed of Iluntingdon Blair and Cam bria, and the Hon. TllOlllllB F. Stuart and Jour than McWilliams, his associates, Judges of the county of Huntingdon, justices assigned, appoint ed, to hear, try and determine all .d every In dictments made or taken for or concerning all crimes, which by the laws of the State are made capital or felonies of death and other offences crimes and misdemeanors, which have been or Blinn hereafter bn committed or perpetrated for crimes aforesaid—l am commanded to make pub lic proclamation throughout my whole bailiwick that a Court of Oyer and Terminer, of Common Pleas and Quarter sessions, will be held at alto Court House in the Borough of Huntingdon, on the second Monday (and 11th day) of August, next, and those who will prosecute the said pri soners be then and there to prosecute them as it shall be just, and that all Justices of the Peace, Coroners and Constables within said county be then and there in their proper persons, at 10 o'clock, A. M. of said day, with their records, in quisitions, examinations and remembrances, to do those things which to their offices respectfully appertain. Dated at Huntingdon the 25th day of April, in theyear of our Lord 1856, and the 81st year of American Independence. JOSHUA GREENLAND, Sheriff'. PROCLAMATION. AXT lIER EA S, by a precept to toe directed 11 VV V the Judges of the Common Pleas of the county of Huntingdon, bearing test the 25th day of April, 1856, I out commanded to make Public Proclamation throughout my whole baili wick, that a Court of Common Pleas will be held in the Court House in the Borough of Hun tingdon, on the third Monday (and 18th day) of August, A. D., 1856, for the trial of all issues in said Court which remain undetermined before the said Judges, when and where olljurors, witnesses and suitors, in the trial of ell issues are required to appear. Dated at Huntingdon, the 25th day of April, in the year of our Lord 1856, and the 81st year of American Independence. JOSHUA GREENLAND, Sheriff: SHERIFF'S SALES. Y virtuo of sundry writs of Vonditioni Expo. _Dna s, issued out of the Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon County, and to me directed, I will soil by public outcry, at the Court !louse in time boro' of Huntingdon, on Tuesday ' tho 12th day of August, next, (1856) at 10 o'clock, A. M. the following described real estate, to wit : All the right, title and interest of John A.. Weaver, in and to a lot or parcel of ground, lying upon the north silo oldie Woodcock Val ley road in Hopewell township, Huntingdon co., containing three quarters of an acre of loon wore or less, upon which in erected a two story log dwelling house ; adjoining Janis of Leonard Weaver on the north, and John Hassell on the south, ix. Seized, taken in execution, and to lie sold WI t h e property of Jot, A. Wearer. ALSO All the right, title and interest of defendant. to property which was extended by the Inquest, as per inquisition, attached to Pi. Pa. N. 02, January Term, t 034, and the yearly rental of thirty dollars—which was accepted by the said defendant, at said yearly rental—with which, said terms, the defendant has foiled to comply, as appears by the affidavit of the Plaintiff, at memo to Precips tor tins writ, to wit : A log house below the borough of Huntingdon, adjoin ing Henry Sturtzman on the north, Jacob Fork ler on the east, Corbin on the south-cast, con taining about one acre of gtound, with brick basement. Seized, taken in execution, and to be sold as the property of David Sturtzman. ALSO All the right, title and interest of defendant , of, to nod to a lot of ground in the borough of Alexandria, fronting 90 feet on Market Street, and extending back to the Pennsylvania Canal, bounded un the west by land belonging to the Commonwealth, on the east by a lot of Hannah Albright, having thereon erected a two story leg weathor•boarded dwelling-house, with buck buildings and n well of water at the door. Al so, the interest of the defendant in five adjoining out-lute, bounded on the north by land of John Porter, Esq., on the west by bind of the heirs of Robert Lytle, deed., on the south by an alley, by land of the heirs of George Wilson, doe'd on the east, containing in the whole about one acre and a quarter more or less, with a large frame amble thereon. Seized, taken in execution, and to be sold as the property of Benjamin J. Williams, ALSO All the right, title and interest of the defen dants, Eben B. Pike and Janice Gardner, in and to a body of wood-land, extending from the Ruystown Branch on the west to Sideling Hill on the east, and lying on both sides of Terrace Mountain, mid in the heed of Trough Creek Valley, in Walker and Union townships, Hun engdon County, adjoining lands of Thomas Read, Daniel Africa, Jacob Breneman, and the Hcistor land on the East or Trough Creek side, lands el David Blair en the north-ivest, lands of David Corbin,. Rudolph Breneman, and John Shaver on the west, or Raystown Branch side and extending from the Juniata River below the State Dam to Shaver's Gap, on Terrace Moun tain us aforesaid, being composed ofse rend sur veys and parts of surveys in the names of Dr. John Henderson, George Fen, Willinm Fen, David Fun and Robert Feu, and containing in the whole between balsa and thirteen hundred acres, more or less, Seized, taken in execution, and to bo sold as the property of Eben B. Pike and Jas. Gardner. ALSO All the right title and interest of defendant in and to a lot of ground situated in the Borough of Birmingham, Huntingdon, fronting en feet on Tyrone Street, and extending hack at right angles 130 feet, to an alloy, bounded on the north by the public School !louse lot, with the following improvements thereon erected : A two story plastered house, and Tailor Shop, Stable and other out-buildings. Seized, taken in execution, and to be sold as the property of Wesley P. Green. ALSO: All the right, title and interest of tho defen dant 01, in nod to a tract of land, lying partly in Brady and partly in Henderson township, adjoi ning lands of Irvin, Green and Watson on the east, the Juniata river on the south, and lands of John BlcCultan on the west, and James Simp— son on the north ; containing about CO acres, more or less, most of which is cleared, with a large tavdrn house, stable, saw-mill, store house and ware-house, and three dwelling houses. Al so the interest of defendant In a treat of land in Ilender.son township, adjoining lands of Jane Armitage on the north, on the east lauds of Jas. Simpson, on the south by Alox. Simpson, on tiro west by Samuel Goodman, containing 114 acres more or less, about 130 acres cleared, with u house a barn and frame carpenter shop, and excellent orchard thereon. • Seised, Mien in execution, and to be sold as the property of James J. Goodman. JOSHUA GREENLAND, Sheriff's Office,-1 Sheri f. Hunt., July 16, 1856. j ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. ETTERS of Administration have been gran. ted to me upon the estate of Robert GM ham, late of Dublin township, dee'd. All per sons indebted to hint will make payment, and those having claims present them to .101114 APPLEBY Aden