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POLITICAL.
ADDRESS OF
Vie Democratic Republican members of
the Legislature, to the People of Penn.
sylvania:
[CONCLUDED.]
The undersigned are very far from believ
ing that such doctrines have ever had the
approbation of a majority or even of any
considerable portion of the people of Penn
sylvania, who have ever been distinguished
for that high morality which was so emi
nently characteristic of their illustrious foun
der; but the fact itself is unquestionable.
that such a report has been permitted to go
abroad without contradiction, and has obtai
ned a very general currency throughout the
world. it is perhaps to the unceasing and
unmeaning clamor of a few reckless and
windy demagogues, who have stolen into
their confidence under hypocritical profes
sions ofa superior regard for their interests,
and have abused that confidence for reasons
perhaps better understood at Washington
than here, that they are Indebted for the
prostration of their State credit, and the
deep stain which has been inflicted upon
their private faith as well as upon their
public honor—that they haVe come, in a
word, to be regarded as a community of
robbers, little better than the Malays, and
almost an outcast from the Commonwealth
of nations. To remove this disreputable
imputation, and to take all proper measures
for the restoration as well as the continued
maintenance of the public credit, were ob•
jects in regard to the propriety of which
the undersigned were entirely united in
opinion. To effect these objects there were
but two expedients within their reach, one
of which was an authoritative application
to the Congress ache United States for a
distribution of the public lands among their
rightful proprietors, tire States, and the other
the imposition of a tax, which should be
religiously pledged to the payment of the
interest on the public debt. The times were
notoriously inauspicious to the latter, and
the Republican members of the Legislature
wore unwilling to aggravate
, the distresses
of a most calamitous era, by lidding to the
burdens of an already oppressed and suffer
ing people. They knew that in the immense
domain which had been either purchased by
the treasutp, or won by the good swords of
their fathers, there was a fund which was
their own proper inheritance, and a resource
which was far more than sufficient to dis
charge even the enormous debt which they
had incurred. They were moreover advi
sed that a bill was then pending in the
Senate of the United States, which proposed
to rob them of a large and certainly the
most valuable portion of that magnificent
patrimony, by its surrender to the States in
which it was situated, and they felt that it
was their duty to protest against such whole
sale spoliation, end to demand, in the name
and by the authority of the people of Penn
sylvania, the restoration of their rightful
inheritance, which, being now discharged
from the debt of the Revolution for which
it stood pledged, was no longer fairly appli•
cable to the uses of the General Govern
ment. The great State of New York as
well as Whets of her confederate sisters,
had already spoken on this question; it was
only necessary for the equally great State
of Pennsylvania to respond to the declara
tion, and the united voices of those two giant
members of our Republic,• always potential
in the counsels of the Union,and never heard
there without respect, would not have been
tittered in vain. They accordingly introdu
ced iiite We Senate a series of resolutions
expressive of their opinions; and enjoining
111,011 our Senators and Representatives in
Congres., the introduction and support ofa
bill providing for the distribution of that
immense fund among the States in the ratio
or their representative population. The
wishes and opinions however of the atirnirr
istration of the General Government on this
subject, which have always been well under
stood, and have been since more formally
and authoritatively announced in the revo
lutions of the convention recently WO at .
13altimore for the purpose of re.notninating
Mr. Van Buren, wore as usual' considered
to be entitled to more respect than the
wishes and interests of the people of this
State. The Federal majority in the House
of Repreaentativer. true to their natural in
stincts, and willing tti administer still further
to the unexampled extravagance of the Fed•
ural . Government even at• the expense of
(heir own ennstituentrr; reftli.ed to consider
sn reasonable a proposition, which - had'com•
inanded the unanimous assent of former
Legislatures, and promised to throw into
the Treasury of their owe State a sum little
short of one hundred and twenty five mil
lions of dollars—more than enough to pay
off our whole State debt, perfect our great
system of improvement, and constitute a
fund lot the education of every child with
in this State for every generation to come.
They preferred the imposition of a tax upon
the people to the cheap declaration of an
opinion which might bo considered offensive
at Washington, and to that result did their
deliberations at last arrive, most of the un
dersigned refusing to support it for the rea
sons already suggested, as well as others '
having relation to the particular bill itself,
while a few of their number wore constrain
ed to yield it their assent on the ground of
imperious State necessity. It will now be
for the people to choose whether they will
perpetuate this burthen by a passive aban
donment of their rights in the national do
main, or whether they will re-assert those
rights by taking the government of the na
tion from the hands ofthose who would make
spoil of their heritage and "give the chi!.
dren's bread to dogs," and placing it in the
charge of those who will administer that
high trust for the good of the whole, and
not for the advancement of the interests of a
party.
Connected with this subject was another
which touched deeply the prosperity of this
great State, and with it the ability of her
citizens to meet those demands upon their
industry which were rendered necessary
by the magnitude of her debt, and the refu
sal of her Legislature to exert its influence
in securing the means which had been so
liberally provided by those who had gone
before us. That subject was a Tariff of du.
ties on foreign goods, for the protection of
the industry and enterprize of our own citi
zens against the unequal competition of for
eign labor and foreign capital, and the crea
tion of a domestic market for the products
of our own sod, which under the jealous
regulations of other countries were denied
admittance into their ports, while the pro
ducts of their manufactures were sent here
for consumption amongst our own citizens.
The system had always been a favorite one
in this State, and had moreover been triode
the occasion of frequent appeals to Congress
on the part of her own Legislature. It had
been recently abandoned in deference to
the wishes of a very inconsiderable portion
of the States, and it was thought by *he um
dersigned to be their duty as Pennsylvanians
to invite to it anew the consideration of the
American Congress, and to urge its revival
as a measure of sound policy us welt as of
the most urgent necessity. The recent
disclosure of a design on the part of the Fed.
oral administration, to supercede the neces
sity of all commercial restrictions, by cheap
ening the elements of production, of which
labor and bread-stuffs coil - yodel so large a
portion—the depressed condition of our
manufactures and the consequent decline in
the value of labor and the prices of the most
important of the staples of our agriculture
—all conspired to urge upon the undersign
ed the propriety of some expression of opin
ion on theft:, important questions, and they
accordingly introduced into the Senate an
other series of resolutions, so framed as to
embody what they supposed to be the views
and wishes of their constituents. They
were equally unfortunate however in this
attempt as in that which related to the pub
lic lands. The policy of the administration
of the General Government on this point,
which has since also received the like sol
emn ratification from the National Conven
tion of that party, was equally well under
stood, and the Federal majority, the friends
and supporters of him who has been donom
mated "a Northern man with Southern
principles," equally true to their party alle
giance in this instance, declined the expres
sion of any opinion which might be constru
ed into an act of rebellion against their
Federal head. They refused, as before,
even to consider the question, and again
testified their inflexible devotion and loyalty
to power, by the strongest of all evidences,
a complete abandonment of the interests of
the people whom they professed to represent.
It would consume much more time than
the undersigned are in a condition to bestow
amidst the hurry and confusion of an abrupt
adjournment, and extend their address which
has already sufficiently taxed your patience
beyond all reasonable limits, if they were
to undertake to follow the majority in all
their devious wanderings over the wilder
ness of Legislation and expose the inconsis
tencies and enormities which throng upon
their recollections ns they run back over
the events of this extraordinary session.--
The invasion of our judicial tribunals, in the
- deposal of the associate judges of the State
by classifying them anew under the pretence
of correcting a supposed error, which, if' it
had existed, they had no shadow ofconsti
tutional authority to rectify—the equally un
constitutional attempt in the house of Rep•
resentatives to apportion the representation
anew for the notorious purpose of securing a
party majority in the next Legislature—the
unceremonious ejection of more than one
hundred notaries, with no other design than
to create vacancies for a few hungry parti
zans—the restoration of the appOinting pow
er Co the hands of the Executive from which
it bad just been withdrawn, instead of leav
ing it with the people themselves—and the
refusal to take from the same hands the ap
pointment of the Canal Commissioriers to
conformity with the very decided opinion of
the Senate, and no doubt ofthe constituents
of both—these and many other topics which
might be referred to are all pregnant with
instruction, and all worthy of the serious
and attentive consideration• of those who
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" liberty to know, to utter; and to argue, freely, is above an other
orenpyireszurate. zpcitho etineamcalr o 4r/wax asme.
have been in the habit of regarding that ma
jority as the representatives and exponents
of the true republican faith. They are all
recorded onyour journals, and now form a
part of your ti - gislative history. Examine
them for yourselves, and you will discover
that we run uo risk in affirming that if there
be any one principle which can bo extract
ed from those volumes, or any one feature
which stands out in bolder relief than an.
other upon their pages, it consists in an un
scrupulous and unwavering devotion to Ex
ecutive authority, whether State or Fede
ral, a loyalty to power, overruling and
trampling down all constitutional limita
tions, and a habitual distrust of the integrity
and intelligence of the people.
Hating thus essayed to perform the task
which they proposed, the undersigned would
feel that a portion of their duty still remain
ed unperformed, if they should take leave of
the subject without subjoining a few reflec
tions of a practical character, which are
naturally suggested by the recital to which
they have invited your intention. It is im
possible for any man to contemplate the
picture which they beim presented without
being struck with the potential and alarming
influence of the Federal GoYernment in the
counsels of this State. That influence may
be distinctly traced in every important in
cident of the session. It is the same which
was dreaded by the anti federalists and their
republican successors of '9B, when they de
clare'&that they saw larking amid the power
and the splendor of the federal government
the serpent which was to swallow up the
rights and sovereignty of the States. Their
fears of consolidation were then ridiculed as
idle and imaginary; the reality of the pres
ent day has far outstripped even the gloom
iest imaginings in which they ever ventured
to indulge. The influence which they fore
saw is above us and around us. It broods
like an unclean spirit over the face of our
whole land; it is branded in letters of fire
upon all the great leading interests of the
country; it poisons'our political aliment,and
taints the very atmosphere of our legislative
halls. The States have almost ceased to
perform the functions which were allotted
to them in the great social system of the
Union. No longer poised upon their own
centres, and accomplishing their own dis
tinct revolution!) with their original tendon.
cies to break loose from the system of which
they formed a part, they have become the
mere attendant satellites of the General
Government, without any independent mo
tion of their own, borrowing their light en
tirely from,instead of reflecting it upon their
common centre, and threatening momenta
rily, under the influence of that attraction
which was intended merely as a counteract
ing and conservative force, to rush into the
embraces of that central power whose in
tensity will soon fuse them into ono undis
tinguishable mass. Consolidation is no
longer a chimera. The harmony, of the
parts, and with it tho whole equilibrium of
the system is entirely gone. The central
attraction has become already too strong for
the independence of the States. They are
now little better than subject Provinces.—
Your representatives no longer look to you
for instruction. Their regards are turned
in the direction of the imperial city, which
is the Mecca of their idolatry, and theif
knees are bent, not on the tomb of a dead
prophet but at the gorgeous footstool of a
living potentate who wields a broader scep
tre than did ever "the commander of the
faithful" himself—not towards the source
at which their own existence is fed, but at
that perennial fountain of honors and reward
which sends out its countless rills over the
whole land. They are indeed no longer
even known by any other name than that of
their party chief. They are "Ma men,"
according to the feudal notion of homage,
and not yours., How many of your rights
and interests have they not already abandon
ed? What is there left to you in the gene
ral wreck of those interests, which they
would not willingly surrender as a propitia
tory offering on that gilded shrineT Think
you that they would have dared to act or
vote, as we have shown you, on the subject
of the public lands, if they had been consult.
ing for your interests, or if you had been so
fortunate as to occupy the first place in their
affections' No; they would not have thus
ventured to brave your displeasure. Your
wishes and interests are no longer regarded.
Your representatives no longer represent
you. Your independence—the independ
ence of the States has withered away under
the breath of the Federal Executive until it
has shrunk into a mere by-word and a mock
ery. What has become of the blustering
champions of State sovereignty, the indom- ,
itable chivalry of the South, who were so
ready but a few years since to "go to the
death for their sugar" and cotton? Alas!
even those Hyrcanian tigers have been tam
ed into submission under the gentle but
persuasive influence of Federal power, and
are now quietly harnessed to the Executive
car ! The sword of rebellion which was so
fiercely aimed at the very vitals of the Fed
eral Government has sunk into the deferen
tial posture of salutation, aye, even been en
listed against the righti of the States under
the bland but irresistible influence of an Ex
ecutive smile, and the proud Palmetto, the
lofty and imposing emblem of State rights'
and State sovereignty now humbly flatters
under the protecTlng shadow of the black
banner of consolidation/ ' Already the
President of the United States has only to
put forth his hand, and whether it be MS de
sire to move the legislative councils of New
mpshi re, •or to bring up instructions from
the law-makers of Tennessee, his electric
touch is at once felt at the remotest extre
mities of the Union, and his high behests
are instantaneously obeyed. But his influ
ence does not end there. It is not confined
to State authorities or to the States alone in
their characters of distinct and independent
communities. It reaches far beyond that
point—down even to the minutest subdivi
sions and ramifications of political power.—
It travels on thd wings of every post; it pen
etrates our most remote and sequestered
hamlets. It presides at the election of our
State and National Representatives; it is
seen in the choice of our township officers.
No station is so high as to be above its roach;
none so :ow as to be unworthy of its notice.
It is all pervading, universal, omnipotent.
He has only to touch the master key, the
grand %moil= of public intelligence, the
Post Office Department, with his little fin
ger, and the sensation thrills through every
nerve of the body politic, and speeds the
winged messengers of his will—the fiery
cross of the party—through every nook and
corner of the Union. He has but to speak,
and his vassals are every where in arms.—
His hundred thousand stipendiaries, his le
gions of Postmasters, Custom House Offi
cers, Land Office Receivers, and other func
tionaries—an untold and innumerable host,
who are fed out of his hand and know no law
but his will—his countless mercenaries who
are encamped like a 'rartar horde upon the
land, and never sleep but upon their arms,
are ever ready to start to their feet at the
first summons of their powerful Khan. Hold
ing by no other tenure than his pleasure and
bound to the performance of such services
as he may think proper to require, they are
at all times the active and unscrupulous
ministers of his will. Whether he choose
to proclaim a crusade against a co-ordinate
department of the General Government, or
to turn their arms either in favor of, or
against the institutions of the States, is Mike
indifferent to them. He has only to signify
his wishes and they are accomplished.
With the public hinds at his disposal, the
offices arid honors of the government at his
command, and a subservient Congress ever
ready to register his edicts, ho is not with
out ample means to secure the fidelity of all
his numberless retainers. He has magnifi
cent bribes to purchase the allegiance of the
States, and petty plunder to stimulate the
avarice and reward the activity of his mean
est followers. The public lands ;ire but an
appanage of the crown to be parcelled out
amongst his great feudatories in the propor
tion of their respective services,' and the
offices of the government are but the "spoils"
of a conquered country which has been sur
rendered by the victor to uulicenced pillage.
Not content however with the exercise of a
vast prerogative—far exceeding the most
extravagant designs ever imputed to Alex
ander Hamilton or the boldest of his co
adjutors—which has growri up within a few
years and is now completely engrafted upon
the text of the Constitution, he seeks to ex
tend it for the purpose of enabling him to
perpetuate the power which he already en
rip. Already invested with the supreme
command of the armies and navies of the
United States, he has ruthlessly seized upon
the public treasure in violation of the law,
and now endeavors to procure a ratification
of the unholy union of the purse and the
sword in his own hands in defiance of - the
thrice repeated interdict of the people; and
by way of climax to his towering ambition,
he demands a standing army of two hundred
thousand soldiers—a species of conscription
from the yeomanry of the country which
shall enable him to combine valor with cun
ning, and to recruit the ranks of the office
holders with a powerful reserve of fighting
men. In the pursuit of his gigantic schemes
of aggrandizement he has already visited
you with multiplied calamities. He has
destroyed your currency under the pretext
of improving it when it was sound, and then
abandoned you in your extremity under the
plea of a constitutional inability to' rectify
the very disorders which he had himself
occasioned. He has taken your monied
institutions to his arms, and after soliciting
them into excesses and multiplying their
numbers over the whole land, has flung them
from his embrace, and endeavored to take
advantage of the very helplessness which
he had produced for the purpose of strang
ling them and the vThole offspring of the
incestuous connection. He has prostrated
your private business and assailed and dis
honored your public credit. In his unlaw
ful seizure and detention of the public money,
and his uhhallowed attempt to separate the
government from the people, he has shatter
ed the whole frame work of your social edi
flee, and inflicted a wound which is now felt
through every limb . and member of this
mighty republic, and through all the vast
and varied interests which have grown up
under the shadow of its protecting wings.—
The signs of woe are every where apparent.
The influence of that separation is already
witnessed in the desolation which reigns in
your streets, and the wrecks of private en
terprise which overspread your land. It
has descended like an incubus upon the bo
som of your Commonwealth, stagnated the
healthful tides which bounded - through her
veins and hushed her pulses almcist into the
repose of death. It has withered the winds
which filled the canvass of a prosperous and
gainful commerce; and the sail is now droop
tng idly along the mast. - it has walked into
youtimanufactories,and rte pestiferous breath
has extinguished their fires, stilled the clang
of the hemmer and the engine, and arrested
the revolutions of the busy wheel. It has
accompanied the farmer into his field, blast
ed as with a mildew the rich promise of an
abundant harvest, and neutralized to him
the unmeasured bounties of an overruling
Providence. It has even seated itself at the
frugal board -of- the-laborer, -and endeavored
to snatch the half of the last remaining.crust
from the mouths of his children. All this
and more too has it effected, without even
the poor apology of a prospective indemnity
to the people. but on the avowed principle
that the Government has no other duties
than to take care of itself, and with the ob
vious purpose of levelling the last remaining
bulwarks against the encroachment of Fed
eral power, and establishing that power on
a foundation which shall never be disturbed.
The evils from which you suffer are all dis
tinctly traceable to the over action of that
central government, which in its gigantic
struggles to accumulate new power is so
fast abrorbing the rights and independence
of the States. The disease is in the head;
the life blood of the system is collecting and
coagulating there, instead of sending out its
currents and imparting warmth and vigor
to the extremities. it may be resisted per
haps to a certain extent by the fidelity, as it
may be aggravated by the treachery of
your representatives at Harrisburg, but it
does not originate there, and is not therefore
to be removed iy any appliances at that
point. It must be met at the metropolis of
our mighty empire, and met too by the peo
ple of the States with the same spirit and
determination with which their ancestors
resisted the encroachments of royal author
ity upon the freedom of the Colonies.
The remedy however in the present in
stance is a peaceful one. It does not in
volve even a change of the government it
self. The natural operation of that govern
ment is healthful; the vice is not in its or•
ganisation, but in its administration. It
has been driven from the ,old republican
track through the recklessness and imbecili
ty of those who have been entrusted with
its management. It is only necessary to
bring it back again by placing it in the hands
of others who will so administer it as to pre
serve the appropriate relations of the parts,
and instead of augmenting its pavvers at the
expense of the States, will recognize its true
beauty in the harmony of its proportions,
and its true grandeur in the strength and
solidity of that matchless cluster of stately,
and magnificent columns by which it is sur
rounded and sustained. For this purpose
you require only at the head of your national
affairs an honest and right minded man who
has been educated in the old republican faith,
and understands well the structure of your
governmeut—who has no ambition to rule
and knows therefore how to exercise power
without abusing it, and who has already fur
nished in the history ofa long and well Spent
life a sufficient pledge for his Continued de
votion to the interests of his country. That
man is now before you in the person of the
illustrionseoldier and statesman of the West,
whom the united voice of a suffering people
is about to summon from his quiet retreat
on the Ohio to lead them through the diffi
culties and dangers with' which they are
surrounded, and to relish' the manifold dis
asters which have been brought upon them
by the wantonness and fricompetenci , of their
rulers The scion of a revolutionary stock,
trained amid the scenes and deeply im,bued
with the feelings and principles of that.glo
rious era, as they were gathered from the
lips of its most distinguished actors and suf
ferers, his very name and origin might be
considered an ample guaranty for the sound
new of his political' opinions . . That name
is in itself a tower of defende; and a pillar
of light in the globm which overhangs our
land. It is already covered with imperish
able renown. It is intimately associated
with the proudest recollections of your co•
lunial struggle; it is inscribed on the death
less charter of your independence; it is iden
tified with the unfading glories of your coun
try; it is enrolled in the chronicles of your
revolution, and it illuminates the same pages
of your history which record the triumphs
of your arms on the Maumee and the delis
ere.nce of your frontier from the merciless
fomahawk by the chastisement of the savage
on the field of Tippecanoe, and the over
throw of the confederate hosts of Proctor
and Tecumseh on the banks of the Thames.
It has directed and 'accompanied' Your flag
through many a scene of peril and alarm,
and that flag has never flamed in the van of
your armies or floated over your entrench
ments in firmer or more auspicious hands.
That honored name has no where been con
nected with disaster or disgrace; it has never
been associated with dishonesty or dishonor.
Its possessor may indeed be poor in worldly
goods, and compelled to inhabit even the
humblest tenement, but he enjoys in that
name a treasure of renown which would not
permit him to use his high trust for his own
benefit, and to profit by those golden oppor
tunities which would have made his calum
niator rich. like is poor, he is on the other
hand without the desire to be rich. Hie
habits are simple and unostentatious; bis
wants therefore are few ,and easily supplied.
Ambition he has none to gratify; all that he
may have felt in the heyday of hie blood has
been abundantly gratified already. He
seeks not even the dazzling eminence to
which hie fellow citizens are about to raise
him. He has never howover,either in peace
or war, whether the exigencies of civil life
'required the sacrifice of his ease, or the
storm of hostile invasion blew its . trumpet
note in his ear, and bade him gird on hiS
harness
. anew, refused Co respond to' the
sumirione of his country, and he Will not de
cline that sun-ims now. The honor of the .
Chief Magistracy orthis great nation, great
though they certainly be, have rio tempta
tions for one who has sought repose after a
long life of toil, and has withal so many
other titles to future remembrance. He;
will-be content to lay them down and retire'
again to the quiet and privacy of his rustic
abode• whenever he shalt have performed
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(that great service upon wh;ch be has been
called. He will surrender them too withcht
, any of that reluctance which always charsC
l ieriied those who, owing their elevation to
accident or intrigue, were nothing before
and will be nothing after4.7ards.
Magnanimous and patriotic as he dis
interested and brave, lie will have no ene
mies to punish, and no injuries to avenge.
He never know any enemies but those et
his country, and even they have been sub
dued again by his generosity aPer they had
been conquered by his arms. Neither
will he have any other friends than those of
his country. He will administer the gov
ernment and bestow away its offices for the
good of the country only, and not for the
advancement of the interests of a party.—
He ha's devoted to that country the service
of a lOng life, and it is not to be believed
that he will abandon her now and reckless
ly throw away that reputation Which he has
built up by the labor of more than forty
years, and which will constitute the best as
it may be perhaps the only inheritance of
his children. The glory and the interests
of his native land have been long identified
with all his relation, parental as well as
personsl,—his name is already embalmed
in her history; its proudest mausoleum wilt
be that history, and its most enduring mon
ument the perpetuation of that independence
which the father solemnly pledged his every
thing to establish, and the son has so often
perilled hie life to defend. He has studied
the theory of your government, and is pro
foundly versed in the spirit and genius - of
your free institutions. He understands the'
rights of the States and will respect them.
As the commander of yoiir armies and the
Governor of your immense Territories - he
has exercised discretionary power, larger
perhaps than have ever been Confided to
any min Within this republic, and in no in
stance has he ever been known to abuse
them. He has always been distinguished
for his moderation, his humanity, his respect
for the rights and feelings of others, and
his habitual rovereneefor the laws and in
stitutions of hie country.
Such is the titan whoin you now require
to restore this government to its primitive
simplicity, and to re-instate those ancient
laud marks, those republican maxims and
Practices which have been of late years so
entirely obliterated and forgotten. With
such a pilot at the helm, the gallant bark
which' has been freighted with the hopes
and destinies of so many living and unborn
millions of freemen, and is now driving with
such fearful impetuosity among the Shoals
and breakers of experiment, will soon wear
round upon the old republican track, and
under the fresh breezes of reviving confi
dence parade her voyage as prosperously
as before; The harmony of our social sys
tem will tie again reatored—awakening in
dustry will once more gladden the face of
our oppressed and impoverished land—our
glorious Union will acknowledge the im
pulse, and again bound forward with great
'strides towards the accomplishment of its.
high destinies—the sovereign members of
which it is composed, relieved from the
heaiy pressure of the General Government,
.will begin to breathe more freely as they
feel their giant frames quickening with the
returning circulation—.and the powerful
;State of Pennsylvania, will leap from her
recumbent posture, and her sons instead of
upholding on beaded knee tho throne 01l Fed
oral power; or crouching like trembling vas
sals at its feet, will once more stand erect
in the dignity of their native manhood;en
circling the ark of the Constitution, with
their arms, and compose the proudest of its
ornaments, and the stoutest of itidefenders.,
Siertvrons.—Thos. Williams,Alleghenv;
C. B. Penrose, Cumberland;', R. P. Maclay,
Union; S. M. Barclay,. Bedfork . Nat. W.
Brooke, Cheiteri Tho's E. Cochran, York;
John Killinger,, Lebanon; W. Purviance,
Butler; J. M. Bell,, Huntingdon.
Reeens,insTATrvis.—Jno. K. Zeilin,Del
aware; Dan'l M. Smyser, Adams; Win.
Albright, do.; Geo. Ford, Jr. Lancaster;'
A. N. Cassell, do.; B. G. Herr, do.; Benj.
Kauffman, do.; Jos. Higgins, Huntingdon;
George Darsie, Allegheny; G. R. Smith,'
Philadelphia; Jonas Keim, Somerset; D.
Washabaugh, Bedford,
Harrisburg, June 27,1840.
A SOUTHERN FecTonv.—The Balti
more American states that Laurel Factory.
tn Prince George's county,- Maryland, con
tains about 4500 spindles, working up about
2200 bales of cotton per year, and turning
out doily upwards' of 700( yards of heavy
sheetings. Connected with the works is it
large machine shop, saw mill, grist mill,
and a store extensively supplied, which does
a large business. The hands employed aro
regularly paid off once in two weeks, and'
the imount thus disbursed is $45,000 per
annum. There is a school maintained at
the expense of the proprietors, where the
children of the village are gratuitously
taught; and a suitable building for Divine
worship is also provided.
AnsENCF: OF MIND.-- The latest case.—
The New York JOurnal of Commerce felts
of a down east cooper, who, experiencing a
difficulty in keeping one of the heads of a
cask he was finishing, in its place, put his
son inside to hold it'ep, but was much aston
ished.' on completing his task, to find no
aperture for the boy to escape, except
THBOHOU THE BEINGHOL.E..
VERY SHARP. — We find in an Eastern
paper an advertisement of viaegar:—Vine
gar. sharp enough to make a boy strike his
father.