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WILLIAM BREWSTER, ]. EDITORS.
SAM. G. WHITTAKER,
~~lit ca.C.
SPEECH OF JOHN J. FERRY.
(Concluded.)
Yes, Mr. Chairman, there has not been
•border ruffian" invasion into Kansas but
what is here indirectly indorsed by the Bu
chanan Democracy. The repeal of the
Missouri compromise has been the cause of
the horrible, revolting scenes witnessed in
Kansas. It has pointed the h;ghwayman's
rifle—whet the assassin's dagger—lighted i
the torch of the incendiary—invaded the
sanctity of the domestic fireside—made
wives told rtes, and children orphans—it
has sacked villages and burnt cities—it has
attended the tocsin of civil war, and bran
dished the fiery torch of disunion in every
direction, until its dismal glare threatens
the very existence of our Government.
And yet the Buchanan Democracy say
that the measures which caused all these
frightful evils contain "the only sound and
safe solution of the slavery question I"
The Cincinnati platform further declares
Congress has no power to prohibit slavery : 1
in the Territories, when it resolves in fa
vor of "noninterference by Congress with
slavery in the Territories."
This is a new plank. Formerly this
principle was applied only to the States ;
now It is extended to the Territories. Thus
the Democratic party have become wiser
than all the revolutionary fathers—wiser
than Washington, Adams. Jefferson, Mad
ison, Monroe, Jackson and Polk, who all
signed bills restricting or prohibiting slav
ery in the Territories; and gone over, soul
and hotly, to the doctrines of the slavery
propagantli.
But there is still another important mat
ter to which I will specially call the atten•
tion of the American people. The conven
tion which nominated Buchanan expressly
abandoned the doctrine of "squatter sover
eignty," the only reason that has ever been
urged by the Democrats of the free States
as n justification tor the repeal of the Mis•
seen compromise. The only resolution of
that convention which recognizes the right
of the people of a Territory to do anything
while in a territorial condition, is in the
following words :
“Raoteed, 1 hat we recognize the right of the
people of all the Territories, including Kansas
and Nebraska, acting through the Wily ea•
pressed will of the majority of actual residents,
and, whenever the number of their inhabitants
justifies it, to firm a constitution, with or with•
out domestic slavery, and lie admitted into the
Union upon terms of perfect equality with the
tither States.”
Is the right of the settlers in a Territory
to legislate either for or against slavery h"re
recognized T Does it give them a single
prerogative to "regulate their own affairs
in their own way?" Not one It simply
in a certain contingency, gives them the
right to perform a single act—to wit: •'form
a constitution;" and when this is done, this
the only act they are by the pro slavery
Democracy allowed to perform, is subject
to the will of Congress, which can admit
or reject them at pleasure. Thus has .
•squatter sovereignty," the great boasted
principle of the right of the people of the
Territories to self government, about which
there has been so much ado, been crucified
in the house of its friends.
The Richmond Enquirer, in a recont
number, niter reciting Mr. Buchanan's an
tecedents in favor of slavery, confirms this
view of the scion of the Cincinnati Con
vention. It says
“These considerations (iff which fnea of all
parties in . general will concur) utni,d a clue to
ascertain and determine his meaning and opin•
inns as to squattersovereiwnty. The Nebraska
bill has been charged with ambiguity ; yet it is
hard to suspect the majority in Congress, who
enacted it, with fraudulent intention. The
changed phrascoloFy employed on the same
subject in the Cincinnati platt'o•m, was adopted
in order more explicitly aid tally to repudiate
the elms of squatter sovereignty.”
Without word or comment, I place be-
fore the people of the country two resolu•
Lions upon this subject, passed at the con
vention
which nominated Colonel Frentont
with an extract of a letter front the Ilepub•
lican candidate to a meeting in the New
York Tabernacle, and written only a few
months since :
"Resolved, That Kansas should be immedi
ately admitted as a Stale of this Union, with
her r resent free constitution, mat once the most
effectual way of securing to her citizens the en
joyment of the rights and privileges to whidi
they aro entitled, and of endirg the civil strife
now raging in her Territory.
"Resolved, That the Constitution confers up
on Congress sovereign power over the 'ferrite
ries of the United States for heir Government;
and that in the exercise of this power, it is both
the right and the imperative duty of Congress
prohibfl in Am Taritorics those twin relies
pf barbarism, polygamy and slavery."
. ."I am opposed to slavery in the abstract and
upon principle, sustained and made habitual by
lot,settled convictions. W bile lam inflexible
in te belief t) :at it ought not to be interfered
.with, where it exists tinder the shield of State
sovereignty, I am inflexibly opposed to ilg ex
tension on this continent, beyond its present
limits."—Jobs C. Fremont.
I have only time to call your attention to
one more plank in the Buchanan platform:
"Fifthly—Resolved, That the Democratic par•
ty will expes•t front the next Administration QV
ery proper effort to be made to insure our as•
coadeney in tho Gulf .pf Mexico, amid notulniu
a pernianent protection of the great outlets
through which are emptied into its waters the
products raised ou the buil, and the commodi
ties created by the industry _of the, people of our
Western valleys, and the Union at large."
This is n bid for the votes 01 ..hllibu.st
crs"--a covert attempt to seize Cuba by
force—involve us in a war with Spate with
the view of the subsequent annexation.of
that island to the United States, to strength
en and perpetuate slavery. This doctrine,
if carried out, would be nothinG short pr
wholesale piracy.
This resolution only indorses the official
acts of Mr Buchanan while Minister to
Great Britain. In a conference he held
with the AMerican Ministers to France and
Spain, at Ostend, they offered Spain two
hundred millions of dollars for Cuba, which
she refused ; they then issued the famous
..Ostend manifesto," of which the follow.
ing is an extract.
"After we shall have offered Spain a pike
for Cuba far beyond its present value, and this
shall have been refused, it will then be time to
consider the question, does Cuba in the posses•
stint of Spain seriously endanger our internal
peace and existence of our cherished Union ?
Should this question be answered in the :thin
malice, then by every law, human and divine,
we shall he justified in wresting it from Spain,
if we possess the power.
"JAW:4 BMU NA
"Jon,: Y. MASON,
"Pinrt.
".fix La Chapelle, OdaLer 18, 1854."
As to what was Mr. Buchanan's motive
in this transaction, I will again call to the
stand one of his own confidential friends—
the Charleston Mercury. That paper says:
"But in order that the absurdity of the charge
of Mr. Buchanan's being a 'Free-Soifer' may,
if possible, become apparent, we need only cite
the titet, that, twoyears ago, ho signed the Os•
feud manifesto, a document whose sole object
was to acquire Cuba, out of which two or three
slave States could have beets formed!'
Here his sole object is declared to have
been to acquire territory out of which to
make "two or three slave States." In this
connection, I will read a resolution passed
at the Philadelphia convention, and an ex
tract of a letter from Colonel Fremont ac •
cepting his nomination, and invite the peo
ple ofthe country to read and cot - ailer for
themselves :
"Resolved, That the highwayman's plea that
'might makes right,' embodied in the Ostend
circular, was in every respect unworthy of Am•
orient' diplomacy, and would bring shame nod
dishonor upon any Government or people that
give it their sanction:' . _
"I concur in the views of the convention, de.
prorating the foreign policy to which it adverts.
The assumption that we have the right to take
from another nation its domains, because we
want them, to an abandonment of the honest
character which our country has acquired. To
provoke hostilities by unjust assumptions would
be to sacrifice the peace and character of tho
country, when all its interests might be more
certainly secured, and its objects obtained by
just and healing counsels, involving no loss tit
reputation."—Jobs C. Fremont in lii., !diem,
ceptinry the nominallyn for the Presidency, Jet.
/1/ 8, ittifi.
The more closely we examine the past
history and present position of Jlr, Buck
a,,an and the platform upon which he has
lost his personal identity, the more clearly
do we discern the fact that he is but the
representative of a single section of this
country. He is the southern candidate,
the special representative of three hundred
and fifty thousand slave:holders at the
South, and to carry out their schemes and
their policy he is a pledged man. If the
people of this country desire another four
years' '.reign of terror."' if they want civ
il
war and border ruffiantstn, instead of
peace and quiet, they have only to elect
James Buchanan, and they will have it all.
'invention which nominated Mr.
Buchanan, formally, by resolution, Tudors•
ed the administration of Franklin Pierce;
while "he former is publicly pledged to
carry out the policy of the latter.
But 1 turn away from this dark picture,
over which hangs the black pall of slave
ry, to the sunshine and cloudless sky. At
this trying crisis in the history of our Gov
ernment, it is with patriotic pride that the
friends of the Constitution and the Union,
point to a man, doubtless raised up by the
hand of Providence to load the legions of
freedom to victory. The nomination of
Colonel Fremont came directly trom the
people Appalled at the rising, overshad•
owing popularity of our gallant leader, the
cohorts of slavery are pouring out the pent
up vials of their wrath and fury in vitu
peration, slander, and falsehoud, upon his
devoted head. These defamers of the
mountain pathlioder, seem to hare forgot
ten that they themselves. only a few short
years or months ago, paid the most-exalted
tribute to his mighty genius, and hard ear
ned fame.
II 4 .
1 he Charleston Mercury of September
'4, 1847, bore the following testimony to
the chanter and ability of Col. Fremont :
"The marked and brilliant career of Colonel
Fremun t has arrested general attention and ad•
titivation, and has been watched with a lively
ittterest by his fellow-citizens of South Carolina.
Charlestolf, particularly, is proud of him ; and
in the reputation which he has nt so curly an
ago achieved for himself, she too has a share."
The Columbia South Carolinian says
"fit early life his talents were nurtured by
gentle hands; iu approaching manhood he was
upheld by generous and patriotic men —in the
development of his genius South Carolina ca•
couraged him by her support, and presented
him with a sword, in token of her appreciation
of the use ho had made - of his talents, nod the
energy and force of chariot& he had exhibited
in his during efforts to add to the suieuee Olds
country.'
In 18-IS, Ithri. John A. Dix, in a speech
in the Senate of the United States, in fav
or of ascertaining and paying certain claims
in California, delivered March 29, indors
ed Colonel Fremont as follows :
the execution of these objects, the young
and accomplished officer at the head of his
troops, Colonel Fremont, exhibited a combina
tion Of energy, promptitude, sagacity, and pro.
deuce, which indicated the highest capacity for
civil mid military command; and, in oottneetion
with what he haS done fur the mine of
once, it hris given him a reputation at home tind
abroad, of which men much Older and more cx•
periemed than himself might well be proud?'
Democratic papers in my own Siam, on
ly a few short months ago; were his great
est eulogizers. The Bangor Democraisaid:
"Fteramit's whole life has been TOM it; add•
k; to the ilury and renown of bis common
vuulary."
"LIBERTY AND UNION, NOW AND FOREVER, ONE AND INSEPARABLE."
HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1856.
The Augusta Age speaking of Colonel
Fremont, said :
"He is too much attached to the Union to join
any party which 'does not keepstep to its music.'
The Saco Democrat said :
"Colonel Fremont, by all his actions, has pro
ved himself one of the first men of the country.
His sympathies areal! with the Democracy; and
his attachment to the Union, without regard to
North or South, cannot be questioned for a mo
ment."
Now, these same journals are slander
ing Colonel Fremont.
Did they speak the truth then, or do
they speak it now? Let an intelligent
people judge. . .
Mr. ahalrinan, the hero who now leads
the columns of freedom's army is no ordi- j
nary personage. When a mere boy, be
side
his widowed mother, he stood over
the grave of a father, and with her was left
alone to travel the lone vale of penury and
want. With an enregy of character, which
has ever been his guiding star of genius,
he successfully grappled with every °lista-
de. Laughing at seeming impossibilities
he fearlessly braved every storm, and plod
ding his way alone, satiated his intellectu
al aspirations at the fountains of llinnan
science and learning.
Arriving at maturer years, in selecting
his profession he avoided the dull routine
and retired walks which are connected
with a life of ease, and comparative luxu
ry and indolence. In making out his way
he choose not an orbit which lies in circu
lar lines around a given point, hut, like
the blazing meteor, shot ofl into the track
less regions of unexplored space in search
of new worlds in the universe of God.—
When contemplating the vast domain of
a mighty Republic, his soaring genius teas
not content to sit down and idle away life
in airy dreams and theoretical speculations;
but, with a heroism and a bravery Ow.
challenged the admiration of the world,
he pointed his way through regions up
on ..vhich the light of civilization had nev
er thawed. With his hardy pioneers a
round him he plodded on through valleys
where no human voice had ever echoed
save the war-hoop of the wild native.—
lie scaled mountains where twee but the
footsteps of the savage had ever trod.—
Amid the scorching heat of summer and
the wild and furious blasts of winter, he
has opened to civilization and settlement
a vast empire hitherto unexplored and un
known.
"Countless as the stars of heaven, or
the sands upon the sea shore," nre the
myriads of human beings who, within the
centuries to come, shall follow in the way
which, with the celestial light and the tel
escopic glass, he first located and made
plain. With a few dauntless spirits around !'
him, he first unfurled the stars and stripes
upon the far oft' shOres of the western
ocean, and by his indomitable bravery and
heroism, gave to his country a FREE ein•
Aire upon the shores of the Pacific.
His career as a statesman, though brief
has been brilliant. His official record
contains no word or line the friends of
constitutional freedom would wish to blot.
With a Christian charactet and moral re
putation pure and spotless as the driven
snows which whistled around his trackless
path upon the bleak cliffs of the Rocky
Mountains, lie unites the integrity of an
honest man, blended with the pure light
of an exalted patriotism.
Fresh from their own ranks the people
have selected the young hero, n•hose bril
liant career I have briefly noticed, for their
sta-tdard bearer in 014... ensuing campaign.
Already is his nomination responded to
with an enthusiasm never before known.
Among the descendants of the Pilgrim
Fathers who landed upon Plymouth Hock,
and made our own New England the
Eden" of the world, there is a perfect
"(ground swell." The "Empire" State,
with her teeming millions, the Old ,Key
stone of the arch," and the smaller States
in the great centre of the Union, nre, in
unbroken columns, 'notching to the "mu
sic which keeps step with the Union," un
der the flag of the pathfinder ; and in the
great Northwest, "freedom and Fremont"
are sweeping in every direction, like au
tumnal fires over the boundless prairies.—
Sir, the people themselves have declared
war against this Administration, and the
party that are laboring to perpetuate it.—
They have themselves taken the field. In
every breeze that floats through the hea-
Yens, you hear the deep-toned rumblings
of freedom's artillery :
"Legions on legions brighten all the shores,
Then banners rise, and ensnon•sigual roau•s ;
Then peals the warlike thunder of the drum,
Thrills the loud fife, the trumpet flourish pours,
And patriot hopes awake, and doubts aro dumb,
Fur bold in freedom's cause, the bands of free•.
door come."
Another Voice for Freedom.
lion. James Myers. late Lieutenant Go
vernor of Ohio, has left the slaveocracy,
and come out on the side of Freedom and
Promont. A few more such defect ions a
mong the Democracy of the north west,
will leave Buck and Bred( without a cor
poral's guard.
Ruffianism.
Wo commend the following to the Border
Bullion South Americans of this place, who
endeavored to break up the Republican meet•
ing in this borough. It shows that they are
likely to be excelled by their brother Virginia
of gee.drivers:
The Milwatikie Delliwrat of lost week says
that the Burt aneers broke up a Fremont Club
meeting at Wheeling, Va., on Friday evening
of last week. The ruffians threatened to "tor
and leather" and "ride on a rail" one of the
Fremont speakers had hn not been got out of
the way by hie friends it is supposed they would
have carried their threat into execution. This
a fair exhibitidu of the into leiamy 01 slavery.
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
The Convention of Delegates, ass.em•
bled in pursuance of a call addressed to
the People of the United States, without
regard to past political differences or diets.
ions, who are opposed to the repeal of the
Missouri compromise; to the policy oft.he
present Administration; tm the extension
Of Slavery into Kansas ; and in favor of 1
the admission of Kansas as a Free State ;
of restoring the action of the Federal Gov
ernment to the principles of Washington
and Jefferson • and for the purpose of
presenting can didates for the oiiices of Pres
ident and Vice President, do resolve as
follows :
RESOLVEP, That the maintninance of
the principles promulgated in the Dec
laration of Independence, and embodied
in the Federal Constitution, are essential
to the preservation of our republican insti
tutions; and that the Federal Constitution
the rights of the States, and the union of
the States, shall be preserved,
linsoLvem, l'hat, with our Republican
Fathers, we hold it to be a sell-evident
truth that all men are endowed with inal
ienable right to ' , life, liberty and the pur
suit ofiiihappiness," and that the primary
object and ulterior designs of our' Federal
Government were to secure these rights
to all persons within its exclusive juris•
diction that as our Republican Fathers,
when they had aborshed Slavery in all our
national territory, ordained that no person
should be deprived of property," without
the process of law, it h _conies our duty to
maintain this provision of the Constitution ,
against all attempts to violtdo it, for the
purpose of estahlishinai Slavery in the ter
ritories of the Unitediitates; by positive
legislation prohibiting its existimee or ex
tension therein._ That we 'deity the au
thorny of Congress, of a Territorial Leg
islature, or any individual or association
of individuals as to give legal assistance to
Slavery is any territory of the United
States, while the present Constitution shall ;
he maintained.
„RESOLVED, 'that the CQUSIikUtiOD, CDD
fors upon . Congress sovereign power ovi.r
the 'Territories of the United States fur
their government, and that in the exercise
of this power, it is both the right and du
ty of Congress to prohibit in the Te-ritor
ies, those twin relics of barbarism, Poly
gamy and Slavery.
Itissorsze, That while the Constitution •
of the United States, was ordained and es
licit in order to fano a ii,urc perfect
establish justice, insure .domestic
tranquility, provide for the common de
fence, and secure the blessings of liberty,
and contains ample provisions for the pro•
tection of "life, liberty turd prosperity"
of every citizen, the dearest constitution
al rights of the people of Kansas have
been fraudulently and violently tukeu frets
them—their territory has beers invaded
by an armed force, spurious end pre
tended legislative, judicial, and executive
officers have been set over them, by
whose usurped authority, sustained by the
military power of the zuvernment ; tyrau
ical and unconstitutional laws have been
enacted and enforced ; the rights of the
Teeple to keep and bear anus have been
infringed; test oaths of an extraordinary
and entangling stature have been imposed
as a condition of exercising the right of
suffrage, and holding office ; the right of
an accused person to a speedy and public
trial, by an impartial jury, has been de
nied ; the right of the people to be secured
in their houses, papers and effects against
unreasonable sear•thes and seizures, has
been violated ; they have been deprived of
life, liberty, end property without due pro
cess of law; shut the freedom of speech and
of the press has been abridged; the right
to choose their representatives has been
made of no effect; murders, robberies and
arsons have been instigated and encoura
ged, and the offenders have beet( allow
ed to go unpunished; that - all these things
have been done with the knowledge, sanc
tion and procureMent of the present Ad.
mistration, and that for this high crime
against the Constitution, the Union and
humanity, we arrainge the Administration,
the President, his advisers, agents sup
porters apologists and accessories, either
before or slier the facts, before the country
and before the world; and that it is our fix
ed purpose to bring the actual perpetra
tors of these atrocious outrages and their
accomplices to a sure and condign punish
ment hereafter.
ltcsoLvers, That - Kstnsas shanld be lin
mediately admitted as a State of the Un
ion, with her. present free constitution, as
at once the most effectual way of seenring
to her citizens the enjoyment of the rights
and privileges to which they are entitled
and of ending the civil strife now raging
la her Terri tory.
lizsotven, That the highwayman's plea,
that “tnight makes right," as embodied
in the Ostend Circular, was in every res•
pect unworthy of American 'diploma
cy, and would bring shame and dishonor
upon any government or people that gave
it their sanction.
Ras°',vim, That n Railroad to the Pa
cific Ocean, by the most central and prac
tical route, is imperatively detuanded by
the interests of the country, and that the,
Federal Government ought to render nu,
mediate and efficient aid in its construction
and as an auxiliary thereto, the immediate
construction of an emigrant route on the
line of the railroad.
RtsoLyEn, That appropriations by Con
gress for the improvement of Rivers and
harbors, of a national character, arm de
manded for the accommodations of our
existing corn:lmre°, and Congress la . au
thorized by the Constitution, alidlitWfiCA
by the obligations of government, to pro
tect the Inc.,,laid property el its uiti.te 114.
to
llesoLvEn, That we invite the affilia
tins and co-operation of the men of all par.
ties however differing from us in other
respects, in support of the principles here
in declared : and believing that the spirit
of our institutions, as well as the constitu
tion of our country, guarantees' liberty of
conscience and equality of rights among
citizens, we oppose all legislation impai
ring their security.
Modern Democracy.
The Richmond Enquirer a Buchanan
paper in Virginia, discurses thus eloquent
ly on the new doctrine of the Buchanan
Federal party. It is the "popular sover
eignty!' doctrine of the Buchanan party.
Read, Read :
Make the laboring limn the slave of one
man, instead of the slave of society, and
he would be far better off.
Two hundred years of labor have wade
laborers a pnupei banditti, "Free society
has failed, and that which is not free must
be sustained."
" , Prue Society is a monstrous abortion,
and slavery the healthy, beautiful and nat
ural being which they are trying uncoil.
sciously to adopt." * * *
"The slaves sore governed far better than
the iron laborers of the North are 'govern
ed. Our neeroes arc not only better off
as to physical comfort than free laborers,
but their moral condition to better:"
"We do Oct adopt the theory that Ham
was the anceater of the negro rice. The
Jewi,ll slaves wore not neoroes ; and to
confine the jurisdiction of slavery to that
race would be to weaken its Spiriteal au
thority, and to loose the" Whole weight
of profane authority, for we read of no
rioro slavery in ancient time. "Slavery
bitch or white is necessary."
Nature . has made tie torah in mind or
body slaves." * * * "The
wise and virtuous, the biotic, the strong in
mind or body are born to command."
* "Meta are not born
entitl dln equal rights. It' would be far
nearer the truth to say that some were
horn with saddles on their backs nod oth
ers hooted and spurred to ride them—and
the riding does them good. They need
the reigns, the bit and the spur." *
* * "Life and liberty are not
inalienable." * * * “The
Declaration of Independence is exuberantly
false and fallacious."
A Good One.
Gen. Anthony of Springfield, 0., got
aboard the cars to go to Bellefontaine, to ad
dress the Republican mass meeting on the
dth of July last, when some of his• Dem
ocratic friends thought to joke hint One
enquired of hint if he wits fond of mule
steak. The General replied that ho did
not know, as he had never eaten any.
Well, chimed in a second, you should
eat some by all means, as your great lea
der, Col Fremont. cuts moles,• And, re
sumed the first, that was Considered his
principle qualification, that he could out
mules.
Yes, replied the General, he can eat
1.108, and that is not the worst of it for
Why so? cciu
friends.
Is r
Why snid the. General, he devour
all your Jackasses this fall !
This reminds us of the following story
we heard the other day, of Col Fremont,
when exploring the Rocky Mountains.—
is party . 1 name sepetated. One divis
ion being unable to find -the camp of the
other party, set about preparing for the
night, and looking around, they could find
nothing but some flour and sugar, but like
their ever efficient leader, they were ready
fur an emergency, They killed and dress
ed a jackass, chopped some into mince
meat, which they sweetened, made a crust
fur it, and calld it and called it pie. This
pie they rationed out among themselves.
One fellow took his rations, and put it ire
some snow. When asked what he was
doing, Ito replied that he was cooling
his Ass PIE-RATIONS, (aspirations ) Mar
ion Eagle.
A Word from the West.
A letter lots our correspondent in Doren.
port, lowa, contains the following:
We can hardly see, hear, smell, or taste :my
thieg but "Fremont and Freedom" iu this city.
We have three Fremont papers, including a
t ;Ninon daily—and our Buchanan, is Daven•
port. We have Fremont piemicsi Fremont ex
eursiors, Fremont music, Fremont ice•ereams,
Fremont wearing apparel, and ocettsioually a
little rECCIIIIIII 111 born to than nobler title than
King nj.4lgiers—“Fre taunt 1"
gr 'Old Dueh" should pick up a "Doe"
somewhee, immediately, or his neglect wilt
cost him deer.
Weights and bleastwes.
The following table of the number of
pounds, of various articles in a bushel we
publish us a guide to dealers, as titers
has bee one published containing errors.
ii;very dealer should have a copy conve
nient of accoss
Of Wheat, sixty pounds.
Of SholledCorn, fity-six pounds.
Of Corn on the cob, seventy pounds.
Of Rye, fifty-six pounds.
Of Outs, thirty-two pounds.
Of Barley, forty-eight pounds.
Of Bran, twenty pounds.
Of Cloversoed, sixty pounds.
Of Timothy seed, forty five pounds.
Of Plax.seod, fifty-six pounds.
Of Hempseedi forty-four pounds.
. .
Of Buckwheat, fifty-Iwo pounds.
0f"Blue - graSs seed, fourteen pounds,
of Caster Benno, forty-six pounds.
01 ' , Dried Peaeltes, thin y-three pounds
Of Mil: cl Apples, twenty- fonr pound,
(II Onions, fifty-seven p wind
It i t, fifty pound:,
Ircnint paßton.
AN ADDRE
Of the "Fremont Club" of Shirleysburg, Pa.,
to the Citizens of Huntingdon County.
Fellow-Citizens !—The time 16 fast ap
proaching when it will become necessary
for the sovereign people of the United
Statas, in the exercise of their highest vs
laical privilege to choose for themselves
the Chief Magistrate of this nation. The
exercise of this sower is at all times fraught
with a deep and solemn responsibility, but '
seldom, if ever, in the history of our coun
try, have the issues to be decided in a
Presidential contest been so pregnant with
vast consequences, so ifioinentous sod las- •
ting in their influences, as those you will
soon be called upon to decide. Mighty
causes have been at work in the upheaval
and disruption of the old political parties.
Causes no less efficient are no.v at work
in conciliating old enmities and drawing
closer the bonds of affiliation in new or
ganizations in view of the coining contest.
The trumpets call has rung out c.ear over
the length end breadth of the land, and the
masses are fast assembling beneath the'
banners on which are inscribed the princi
ples for which they fight. All other issues
are sunk as trifling and insignificant in the
minds of the ntasses, compared with the
great and absorbing question of the exten
sion of Slavery. None 01 us need hesitate
to fall in the ranks of the advancing hosts,
on the plea of indifference as to the deci-
Ision of this question, for it is one which
appeals loudly and earnestly to the interests
of each mid all of us, and our too which
will be deeply felt in its practical bearings
upon us whether we be indifferent to it or
not. It then becomes the duty of every
freeman of the laud, to look carefully and
to judge calmly and decide reasonably on
which aide in this issue he will cast his in-
flu nee. The members of this Club, or- ,
mnized without reference to previous par
ty distinctions, resolving as they do that
they owe no allegiance to party on high as
they owe to the sacred oause of freedom,
merging as they do their love of party in
their love of country, submit to you their
reasons which haste actuated theirs its fee
-1 ming this organization, and present to your
candid consideration the claims of the lie
-1 publican party, inviting . your affiliation
and co-operation in securing the establish
, 'arm of the great princiiiks it maintains.
Convinced as we are that the question
; of Slavery as now before the people out.
rides in importance, the peculiar doctrines
of the American party, wo cannot act with
that party because it offers us Avowed op
position to the determined purpose o f the
South combined with the Democracy of the
North, of extending Slavery over the
whole Free Territory of the Union. To
those who will attentively consider the
facts in the case there can be little doubt
on this subject. It is a matter of universal
notoriety, that Mr. Fillmore received his
!minimums at the Philadelphia Convention
lat the hands of the South. The Northern
support he received there was gained by
Idle assurance of his friends that he was
loyal to the Missouri Compromise and was
prepared to lend the weight of his name
and itifluence for its restoration. Thou
sands of cautious and reflecting men, who
tvere opposed to the desperate policy of
the present administration, satisfied that
the wily hope of obtaining peace and quiet
was re-erecting that time honored but now
prostrate landmark, fixed their eyes upon
Mr. Fillmore vs the exponent of their
views. lion gratuitous and ill founded
this interpretation of his sentiments, sub
sequent events have amply shown. Su far
from pledging himself to the restoration of
the Missouri Coinproutise, ho has openly
declared that such a candidate deserves to
be defeated. Ile has even distanced the
wildest secessionists of the South in his
crusade against this measure, and has led
the van in the wittiest fanaticism, in decla
ring that in the event of the election of
such a candidate the South would be justi
fied in refusing to submit. We look in
vain through the platform upon which ho
was nominated, and in his subsequent
speeches for a disclosure of the principles
of that party, an indicatinn of its future po
licy or any definition of his opinions. upon
any of the subjects which are of the sligh
test popular interest. It is all vague and
indefinite. It is Anti Slavery at the North
—it is Pro Slavery at the South. Ilere
inc are told that Mr. Fillmore condemns
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise—
there they have encouragement front him
to meet with decision any attempt to re
store it. The South is promised a jealous
care of its interests, and the North is pro•
mised peace—such peace doubtless as is
to be obtained by forcibly stifling Northern
indignation, and lavishly indulging South
ern cupidity and presumption. 'lle peo
ple of the North are virtually asked to elect
Mr. Fillmore first and learn his opinions
afterwards! In the resolutions adopted by
the Philadelphia Convention, there is not
intimated the right of Legislation in Con
gress over Slavery in the Territories; and
no word of disapproval of the Kansas-Ne
; braslca act, its fact or in consequence, In
I no speech or no occasion, since his nomi-
I nation, has Mr. F. declared against the
anal atimitilstration in ICIIII6aS, probably for
ifrar of oflint.ing his Southern 4ssociate,
the avowed owner o one hundred slaves !
We are sot thus indebted to Mr. Fillmore
lust the light we have as to the course he
may pursue if electvd, we hostess good es
' 'ileac, as any langeage of his Could afford
the action of hi, Lapporteto iii the house
of IZepresentatives, with reference to the
Lill adinittin Kates:. as n State. 'There,
:adding to they did, the. balance of power,
VOL. XXI. NO. 38.
with the ability to decide as far as the
popular branch of the Government could
decide, whether this agitation should be
stayed and quiet once more restored to the
country, untrammelled by the difficulties
which influenced the Democratic parqr •in
its opposition, they deliberately cast their
vote against Free Kansas, and substantial.
ly in favor of the continuation of the is
paints policy of the present Administre
lion. Such Americanism is certainly ric.:
indigenous to the North. but en (minic
reared and transplanted from the hot•beds
of the South.
Fellow citizens, we submit to you, that
in great contests like the present. opentiei.s
in a Presidential candidate, however bed
his cause, is a merit, while secrecy or era
sion, savors of guilt. We submit to you,
that have been induced to adhere to Mr.
Fillmore in the belief of the identity of his
views with your own upon the Missouri
Compromise, and have been deceived by
the misrepresentations of his friends, that
his supporters in Congress have spoken
for him, that now you are released from
all allegiance to that party and that our
own holm , . and consistency summon you to
enlist under other leaders—that your own
interest 110 less than a common humauity
demand that you refuse to become accom
plices is the high handed and outrageous
measures by which the champions of Sla
very are seeking to give it an ascendancy
in this country.
The history of the Democratic party and
its policy as manifested in the action of the
present administration, affords sufficient
ground for our conscientious refusal to act
with it. It has identified itself too unmis
takably with the cause of Slavery and has
labored too zealously in its promotion to
leave us any doubt no to its true character.
Any disguise it may previously have as
sumed, in order to carry nut its design. has
been cast oil sad like the Roman gladiator
flinging aside his cloak. it leaps into the
arena and throws down the gauntlet in de
fence of its favorite institution. The ac
tion of that party seems to arise out of con
ceived party necessity, rather than dicta
ted by the suggestions of reason, justice,
patriotic power. The Slave-holding South
in its omnipotence over it have led it thro'
all the gradations of subserviency to its in
terests. As to the manner and the degree
its which the Democracy has enlisted in
its service, attentive observer of the history
of Legislation and the course of events in
our country cannot have failed to observe.
We charge upon the Democratic party the
whole of the disturbed state of the country.
j We lay at their door the:blame of all our
misfortunes end commotions, and for the
cruel and unhappy agitation which is rock
ing our national edifice to its foundations.
Over the cold and lifeless forms of peace
and quiet we point the finger of condetn.
nation to it no their murderer. We charge
upon them the repeal of the Missouri Cow
promise—the fatal blow aimed at the litter.
ties of the North. We sorrow that they
did it, but we grow indignant when they
boast. We lay upon the Democratic par
ty, as embodied in the present Administra
tion, the great and sdiemn accountability
for the long and heavy train of disasters
that have befallen Kansas, We submit
to you that all the wanton violations of their
inalienable rights and the lawless aggres
sions upon their peace, have been done by
its contrivance. We submit to you that
the present Administration have stultified
themselves in declaiming that the citizens
of Kansas are left free to arrange their own
institutions, when it stands upon the page
of history that every possible exertion has
been made by the party in power to fasten
Slavery upon them in opposition to the
expressed wishes of the majority—while
the petitions and remonstrances and appeals
front that people to the Executive of the
nation, have been allowed to remain on.
heeded. At least, instead of interposing
his authority to secure Northern citizens
then in the enjoyment of their rights, he
has lent a helping hand to site invaders .
the South, in their wild crusade, by pla
cing those in authority who could blink at
and facilitate their designs. This all along
since the first settlement of Kansas, has
been the settled and deliberate policy of
the Administration=-that policy has been
vigorously curried by the man whe ifs his
inaugural address, solemnly pledged him
self to no further agitation of the Slavery
question.
All this and vastly more has been done
up to the time the Democratic Convention
assembled in Cincinnati . The Convention
while it rejected the men who had labored
so strenuously in the promulgation and
enforcement of their views and doctrines,
but upon whom they knew the public had
set its seal of condemnation, cordially en
dorsed without exception the course of the
present administration. Initead of rece
ding from the unwarrantable position it had
taken, they declared themselves willing
and ready to carry out and complete the
wash already begun. Their platform of
principles, as adopted by the Convention,
embraces the following resolutions :
Resolver?, That the Amdrican Democrcy re
cognise and adopt the principles contained in
organic laws, establishing the Territories or
Kansas and Nebraska, as embodying the only
sound autl safe solution ut the Slavery Tate.
tion, upon which the k;reat National idea of
the People
.ean repose in its determined con.
servatisinnon.interfarence by Congress with
Slavery in State and Terriory or in the District
of Columbia.
And again;
Resolved, That we recognize the right of the
Territories, including Kellam and Nebraska,
acting through the fairly expressed will of the
majority of actual residents and whenever the
number of their inhahilants justifius it, to form
a constitution, with or without Slavery, and he
admitted into the Union upon terms of perfect
equality with the other States."
to the previous platforms of the Demo.
craw: party, the phrase used to be, "that