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JOHN S. MAIN,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW.
Coudersport, Pa., will attend the seVeral
Courts in Potter and 3PRean Counties. All
business entrusted in his care will receive
prompt attention. Office corner of West
and Third streets. 10.1
F. W. KNOX,
ATTORNEY AT -LAW, Coudersport, Pa., will
regularly attend the Courts in Potter and .
the adjoining Counties. 10:1
ARTHUR G. OL3ISTED,
ATTORNEY Sr COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
Coudersport, Pa., will attend to all business
entrusted to his care, with promptnes and
ISdeity. Office on Soth-west corner of Main
and Fourth streets, 12:1
ISAAC BENSON
ATTORNEY AT LAWi Coudersport, Pa., will
attend to all business entrusted to him, with
care and promptness. Of on Second
near the Allegheny Bridge. 12:1
CHARLES REISSMANN,
CABDIET MAKER, basing erected a new and
convenient Shop, on the South-east corner
of Third and West :streets, will be happy to
receive and fill all orders in his calling.
Repairing and re-fitting carefully and neatly
done on short notice.
Coudersport, Nov.-8, 1839.-11-Iy.
0. 'l'. ELLISON,
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, Coudersport, Pa.,
respectfully Informs the citizens of the vil
lage and vicinity that he will promply re
spond to all calls for professional services.
Office on Main st., in building formerly oc
cupied by C. W. Ellis, Esq. D:22
C. S. & E. A. JONES,
DEALERS IN DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS,
Oils,—Fancy Articles, Stationery, Dry Goods,
Groceries, &e., Main st., Coudersport, Pa..
D. Z. OpfBTED, B. S. COLWELL, A. C. TAGGART.
D. E. OLMSTED & CO.,
DEALERS IN DRY GOODS, READY-MADE
Clothing, Crockery, Groceries, &c., Main St.,
Coudersport, Pa. 10:1
M. W. MANN,
DEALER nr BOOKS & STATIONERY, MAG
AZINES and Music, N. W. corner of Main
and Third. sts., Coudersport, Pa. 10:1
11. J. OLMSTED S. D. KELLY.
OLMSTED & KELLY,
3 , EALER IN STOVES, TIN k SHEET IRON
WARE, Main st., nearly opposite•the Court
Rouse, Coudersport, Pa. Tin and Sheet
Iron Ware made to ordet, in good style, on
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COUDERSPORT HOTEL,
EL F. GLASSNIIRE, Proprietor, Corner of
Main and Second Streets, Coudersport, Pot
ter Co., Pa. • • 9:44
ALLEGANY HOUSE,
SAMUEL M. MILLS, Proprietor, Colesbnrg
Ptitier.Co., Pa., seven miles north of Cou
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CHARLES MANNING,
BLACKSMITH, Fourth street, between Main
and West Streets, Coudersport, Pa. is pre
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EZRA STARKWEATHER,
BLA.CKSIIITEL would inform his former cus
tomers and the public generally that he has
reestablished a shop in the building form
erly occupied by Benj. Kennels in Couders
port, , where he will be pleased to do all
kinds of Blacksmithing on the most reason
able
,terms. Lumber, Shihgles, and all
kinds of Produce taken in exchange for
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PAIRER, Coudersport, Potter Co., Pa., takes
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• THE DEAD MOTHER. •'
Why are you lying there, mother,
Under that cold, gray stone, • • .
Always out in the wind and rain, . - ,
Lying to still and lune? '
Little Minnie is very sick i
On her lip lies the gathering !bum:'
Why don't you comek'and mind bet. now?
O mother !•coine home! come home '
Harry aril I. ere we fell asleep
Last night in our little bed, 1
Were trying to think what they meant by it,
When they told us you were dead 1
When we asked our father, he answered,
The-knowledge would come with years,
But his hands were - clasped before his face,
. And under theni fell big tears!
lle said, too, 'twas because you we,e godd,
mother; _
That God took all who were such.
Barry thinks we might get you back again,
If we asked God very much I
But why don't you speak when I speak?
Why. don't you come to us now, - • .
To hear us say our prayers at night, -
And to kiss us upon the brow ?
Old nurse cries, and says to Minnie )
. That with you she soon will meet;
For night after night on The candle
Is a little winding sheet.
I'd rather that you came back to us
And hived us as you used to do:
But if Minnie is going to see yon,
0 mother! may I go too.?
The morning yon spoke to us all last. .
When you kissed us each and blessed, •
You Said, I was the eldest, - •
I should also be the best,
And indeed, I try to be - good, mother,
Since you went'neath that cold, gray stone,
Won't you come back and see how good I am?
O mother I come home, come home I .
EIJUCATIONAL..
Address of IL P. Shove, Deliv
ered before the Potter County
Teachers lost'lute, Thursday
•
Evening; Nov. 22, T.S6O.
PRINTED BY REQUEST OF THE INSTITUTE
Since you have conferred on me the
honor of an invitation to address your In
stituvg I am hdre on this occasion to com
ply with your request and give my mite
for the Idvaneemeut of the came in which
we are all so deeply interested. In this
lectuie I shall treat of a department - in
the Teacher's vocation, which some of
you may consider, if not entirely irrele- '
vant, at leastsomewhat toroote,:for
we have beeri plied with - abstractions. as.;
to his - duties-,responsibilities and relations;
we have heard little or nothing concern
ino• correct or incorrect personal habits,
which go far' to make up the character of
the man, and which, oftener than mere
want of qualifications,_ bring opprobrium
on the profession, and shorten - the days
of him who adopts it,—when the latter
prevail. Permit me to call your attention
to this,most neglected part of the ques
tion. In the. whole list of professions
there is no one - which calls for a more full
and perfect consecration of all the pow
ers of body and mind on the part of its .
chosen representatives ; than does the pro
fession of the
_teacher. lie not only
teaches principles and imparts instrne
tion, but he impresses his every peculiar
ity of thought, mind and action ; and for
this reason, if not for his own. sake, he
should be careful to preserve the original
type of character in all its freshness and
purity; and if while himself a child, be
fore he ever thought of becoming a teach
er, he acquired any habits which are odi
ous in themselves, or pernicious in final
affect, he is bound by every sentiment of
honor, and principle of integrity, as well
as by his love for human welfare, to.offer
it a willing sacrifice to the cause in which
he is engaged. Therefore lam particu
larly anxious that the teacher should_ be
not only temperate, but thoroughly cor
rect in all his 'habits; and there is one
which for its horrible filthiness, and' de
basing influences, stands preeminent
among the scourges of society.' To this
habit—to their everlasting shame and
disgrace be it said—not a few school
teachers are addicted; to wit: feeding on
tobacco.
It is of this that I propose to speak,
in hopes that there may be at least one
of my fellow students within the sound
of my voice, who will take .a firmer stand
and a bolder opposition to an evil which
every one of them must deplore. To a
man of acute sensibilities and refined hab
its, there is nothing more intensely dis
gusting than the practice of chewing to
bacco. It strongly offensive to his spec
ial senses, and equally .abhorrent to his
moral sense of decency and right. When
a man through an error in his education,
or hy — some strange boons pocus of the
imagination, comes to so monstrously in
vert the natural relations existingbetween
himself, society and his Creator, as to look
to such a foul and ungodly practice to fill
the source of his inspiration, he is no long
er fit to hold any position of trust or hon
or; much less to teach school; and he
should never attempt to sway the scepter
of his influence over a, school room until
he has learned to grasp it steadily with
the hand of a man, - and point to purer
sources of enjoyment, and healthier means
of keeping 'soul and body supplied with
the necessary amonnt of stimulation. I
am not one of thoso ultraists, who when
ebo . l,D fa fly, Ti'lfidiptas of Ike, DJilioapgey, qQO tip bisseNiqqiilog of Yohtlifp, .ff.ifehtqt.e Aga t(e El
POETRY.
00IIDPIISPO4T, POTTER COUNTY, PA., TITUB.SDAY, .TAATUARY 1,
. . .
a man deflects in the slightest degree from
their arbitrary standards Of virtue, are
ready to decry him as a. monster no long:
er worthy the title of a Man, for I believe
a man may displace - some few figures in
the great type of - his manhood, and still
retain the general semblance and Charac
ter of a man; but tvlicn ho. wantonly sul
lies the purity of his person, be has .wide
ly departed from the trusts which *his
Creator reposed in .him, and - clouded one
of the -brightest gems
s with which the
crown of his manhood was* first adorned.
Of all the glorious ideals of God*out of
which the reals have grown, there are .
in this World none more gloriously beau:
tiful than human beings. Man's peer is .
not upon the Earth ; in'his physical, per- -
fectien he towers erect and alone—the
finished monument of his Creator's in
ventive genius and 'architectural power;
and there is something within the monu
ment—a spirit which permeates every
grain and fibre, and forever swells it grand
ly tip to the appointed height and proper.
.tines, and on the fait front of this beau
.tiful monument - of material man, is en
graved
the throne of
Reason, where she
sits and holds her queenly sway over the
hordes of passions that closter at its bare.
.And there eyes that shine and tones that
speak, and faces lit up with the effulgence
of feeling mingled with the calmer shades
of thought - , in a word : it
-is man; arid all
these gifts and graces of person are trusts.
How sad a thing it is to once have been
a man and ever become less; to betray .
these trusts, to forM habits which tend to
erase these signs.of superiority, and leave
in their place the blank of inferiority.
Do you tell me, 0 trembling devotee at
this shrine of unholiness, that you are as
much a man as ever; that your shoulders
are as broad, your limbs as strong, and
that you can see and hear as well as the
temperate and righteous ? Then let me
tell you, that you are mistaken ; and even
if - you are not, I would add that an-eras
ure of the senses and diminutiori"ormus
cular power, are not the only means Na
ture has of expressing her indignation at
the insults you-have cast upon her; she
does not always write herself in capitals
to be seen, or speak in tones of thunder
to - be heard-; but her delicate inscriptions
are *itten on every feature of a perfect
manhood, and she breathes in the gen
tlest iotonations of the voice, ai well as
in the roar of the hurricane. She design.
ed you to be the-mirror of her freshness
and youth, longer than during the period
of merest infancy. She intended you
should remain the ombodicment of her!
beauty and power until thehonors, of long
continued strength and- maturity should
be gradually changed for the benignities
of a ripe and venerable old age. Let us
see how you have catered into her plans
—how you have .cherished the spirit of
her,' institutions. Lift your hat. Ah !
here 'are threads of silver among your
locks, and you are only twenty-five. Your
eyes that should beam with a joyance deep
and clear, are dim and weak ; the light of
trusting innocence which beamed from
their teansparent depths in childhood,
eclipsed by the fire of unholy. pas.ibus. 1
As Nature planned them, your teeth were 1
to be sound and even, clean and white";
but in that polluted chasni you call mouth,
there-is an assemblage of half decayed
instruments of mastication, black as Ere-
bus with smoke of unclean offerings you
have burned before your deity. But this
lis not enough; as though decaying at the
vitals, there comes an odor in your breath
sickening to inhale, and it makes the
frame shudder like a blast from the poi=
son Upas. Do you suppose that a being,
Iperfect iu all His attributes, and near
whom no unclean thing can approach,.
would acknowledge such a' wretched ear
rimature as the work .of His hand ?, No I
las at present, you are Satau's.representa-
1 tive ; nut the Almighty's.
Beside all that concerns yourself, you
have your relation to society, and here I
pronounce you a robber of the worst de
-seription ; for ',while thmbighway man
only takes my purse, you enter a room
where I have just. as good a right to re
main as you have, and, deliberately com
mence to rob me of my 'share of that
sweet and vital element which is of more
worth than money and essential to my
-very existence. The robber of the com
mon right to pure air, is no better than
the robber -of the public - pursa ; on the
contrary, he is just so much more an en
emy to community, as the furtner tran
scends the latter in importance; and .if
he who lightens the National Treasury is
made to feel the penalty of the law, so
aught he- who infringes on still more
inifelienable right, to be pnnished with a
corresponding severity; but as no legal
action is to. be bad on the question at
present, you chewers and smokers will be
. permitted to go on committing your
nuisances until society can tolerate them
no lon g er. In the menu time-you arc
indebted to thesuperiorcourtesy of those
with whom you associate for, preserving
your heads unbroken. But this is not
all you are guilty of.. Suicide' and sacri
lege are on your programine—under dif
ferent names perhaps, but virtually the
same. Your practices tend to kill and
they do kill; slowly h is out, but . not
the less sutelY; jand murder is murder,
whether it be 'committed in one day or
ten years; and I unless I misjudge that
good Being- who cursed the murderous
Cain; he • could not - have been more an
gry with hint, when He saw ;the the -white
face of the murdered - Abel upturned to,
Heaven, and his blood cryitig, from the
ground, than he is with the steeped and'
reeking tobacco-chewer ---a Moral and so
cial corpse- 7 -tarrying among men' end ;
poisoning the air they breathe 'with -the
exhalations of his . deeayin - e, yet living
carcass. True, you have riot driven the
assassin's 'dagger, nor stolen within sa
cred precincts; for unhallowed purposes;
but you are the selPimmolated victims to
your own base appetites, and you have
dedicated theyteinple of the immortal soul
to profane uses; you have defiled its in
ner sanctuaries, and set up within them.
foul deity of carnal lust; at whose tyran
nous behests you bow down and do horn
age. •
A young man may forget-his mother,
and foogct God ; may- become a de
baucher and a libertine; ajdrunkard and
despoiler of maiden innocence and beau
ty;-oaths may flow like rivers 'from his
lips; he may practice almost anyspecies of
vice in the whole black-catalogue of sin;
and he is not yet an utter apostate from
virtue, ho has not yet branded' himself
with a sign sufficiently palpable to ensile
world that he is a renegade from the
ranks of decericy and truth, until he has
so infused the subtile poison of tobacco
into his veins and- mudded over the port
als of his speech that his every impreca
tion may rush forth on a flood of its own
appropriate incense; here his degradaticin
is culminated.; even Satan , himself could
ask for no more,. now he is sure of his
victim; for he,himself has put on the
finishing stroke which shapes him to the
ideal (his, master, 'and completes the in
signe of the infernal order to -which he
henceforth belongs. And now if there
are any of my cherished companions hero
who are taking thefirst step toward such
an unnatural condition, I ask them. fur
their own sakejand for the sake of hu
manity to retrace those steps before en
tering on the occupation of training chil
dren "in the way they should go." There
is a delicate point in this question; and
that is where the sexes . meet. Were I a
young lady I would never,suffer the, ad
dresses of at tobacco user;, no matter what
his other qualifications might be. He
might be great in intellect as Napoleon,
rich as Crcesus, beautiful as Adonis, and
he might woo me with 'a voice whose
tones were-Softer than Apollo's lute, and
he should never get near
; enough to me
to. put an arm around my waist ; at least
not a cofijumal ;arm. Nay: rather' than
walk through life by the side of such an
incarnated pestilence, my feet should take
the solitary path of celibacy, and the ros
es on my cheeks should "Waste their
sweetness on the desert air" of
,the stir
rounding region. Ladies of Potter Coun
ty I call on ;you to exorcise this evil
spirit ! bring : against it yciur array.of pu
rity and loveliness. You can convert, a
dozen young' men • where I can convert
cue ; and if you can not do it by argu
ment, you can ;do it by , :showincr him in
unmistakable, terms that so dark a planet
as he, can neverglide lute the galaxy lel
your charms. Thus you will accil weieht
to the issues of decency and indecency,
and increase a thousand fu' ld the chances
of the former. j There is one other habit
to which school teachers in common with
other people are addieted,l viz : drinking
tea and coffee ;' or in other words : taking
stimulants. ! Every person who knows
the- difference between stiniu:ation and
nutrition, knows they are stimulants; and
proceed in effect on the same principle
of more powerful stimulants. The prin
ciple•differance between them is in de
gree, not iu kind. In view of • becoming,
a teacher I should not use diem; and for
two reasons; in the first place : he should
-adhere closely as possible, to the simplic
ities of nature; in the second place: they
are pernicious in consequence. To the
unperverted appetite, there is nothing so
- sweet as water; it is pure, it is beautiful
and free ; and one of the express uses to
which it was'Ordained from the-first, was
to be a beverage for man. To believe,
and act upon'the belief, that we can make
Ja better beverage than the Creator can
make, is a - burlesque on His wisdom and
an insult to His goodness.: Teachers, you
who are to be examples to your pupils,
should some inquisitive little fellow
among thenr,-:—in obedience to your in
structions to always find out the why ' of
everything=ituvire why you drank these
&cations, could you explain to him how
it Luproved the quality.of water as abei
erage to withdraw its-delicious copiness
and cloud its• beautiful transparency 't =
Now while they are forinitig ,habits for
life, your exeniple may do great; things
for their future welfare. pisecittiitenance
these . practiceS by every, effort in your
power; by ,Precept, by 'authority, and
above all by example. SO shell they )e..
come . ebildreu of Nature with hearts ever
open- .to or- beniza influences;. andin .
their. Oail: lives obe4ient to the teachings
of her.who "as a miStress is gentle titul
holy and boia to ohey is to . lire."
• - • POLITICAL.: - 4
GEN. OIIN TYLER, JR., son of 4-
Presiden'. Tyler . , is 'reported as hying
closed a ecession speech at Norfolk last
Saturda
. Iwith the cogent exclainiatibn,
"Let the . Uniongo to hell r We tire
sure there must be :some mistake tti
the remark or as tti ; the person. .Ir.
John Tyler, jr. - , liaci now been a public
cliaracter!for a period of very nearly twen
ty years, 'during all Which time no ob.sier
ration so, energetic and forcible was ever
till now even reported to have emanafed
from hind. This is :probably (deplorable
as is the ;supposition) another John Ty
ler, making thrce'of them. Happily for
the rest tns, Virginia Las to cud re
them Y. Tribune.
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The Union—ft P
Must be rei
,
served.
From The Springfield (111.) Journal of Dec. 11 .,0.
There arc not a few who seem to t4nk
that the Union will 'be dissolved whedv
er the Senth Carolina Secession Conven
tion posies a resolution to that elfecti—
The.Unien cannot be dissolved by tie
passage of resolutions. South Carolina
may -resolve that she is - no longer a part
of this Union. 'She may hold Secession
meetings mount
,Disunion cockadbs,
plant pal etto tree's ; make-palmetto flags,
trample • nder foot 'the glorious flag of
our coun ry, and proclaim from the ho4e
tops her reason and her shame, but ell
this will lot dissolve' the Union. iSjhe
may com 'el her citizens to resign official
place heti under the federal government,
she may - lose her courts and post offices,
and put er (Ain people to a great dealjof
inconven mice and; trouble, but she Will
still be iu the Union, unmolested. She
cannot g•t out of - the Union until she
conquers this Government. The reite
flues miss and willbe collected at
,er
ports and any resistance on her part:W i lli
lead to • r. At the close of that war
we can to 1 with certainty whether shells
in or out if the Union. While this gdv
ernment :ndures there can be no disin
ion. If 'Guth Carolina does not obsrt et
thdeollee ion of the revenue at her ports
nor violet • any other federal law, there
will be no trouble, and she -will not pe
out of the Union. lf she violates the',
laws, then comes the
. tue of war. The
President ,f the United States, in suplil
an emerge ey .has ,a plain duty to per
-1
form; Bu hanan May shirk it, or tile'
emergenc may not exist during his ail-1
ministratio i. If not, thed the UAn
will last through his term of office. 'f •
Ithe overt a ton the part of South Caio-
Aim takes lace on or after the 4th of
March, 18 1,-then The duty of executing
the laws w 11 devolve upon :IN Lincoln.'
' The laws o ' the United States must be ,
executed—the Preside,nt has ho discr'C•!
tionary povier on the subject—his dills i
is emphatic ily prdnounced in the Con
stitution: Mr. Lincoln will perform that
duty.' Dis ilia!), by armed force, is trea
son, and tr anon must and will be put
down at all hazards: This Union is ndt;
and will no r and cannot be dissolved un
til this Go ernment is overthrown by the
_traitors wit, have raised the disunion flag.
Can they o erthrow it ? We think not.
"They may disturb its peace; they may
innerrupt tin course of -its prosperity ;
they may e cud its - t roputation for stabil
ity ; but it tranquillity will be restored,
its prosperi -y will return, and the stale
upon its ns ionel character will be trans
ferred and emain an eternal blot on the
memory of hose who caused the disor,
der." Let the Secessionists understand
it, let the p ess problaim it, let it fly
. on
the wings o the lightning, and 'fall like
a thunierbilt among those now plotting
treason in c invention, that-the Republi
can party, t at the great North aided: by ,
hundreds oi thoniatids of patriotic men
in the Slav: States, have -determined to
preserve tie Union, -peaceably if they
can, foreibl • if they must.
The Shoe Pinches Atter it is On.
Special Cor espondencc of the Y. F. Tribune.
'FRO.I Saint CAROLINA.
CII RLESTON,Dee. 22, 1860.
Charlestd• is now ie scene of uncom
mon things.
,We have the Convention,
the Legislat i re, the Governor, and we are
the seat of overeitaent; in fact. As it
matter Of ciurse. ti greatmany leading
citizens ' frog all parts of. the State, and
from other S ates, are drawn hither. Gov.
Pickeni exe to a rithrked influence in giv,
ing dined°. to affairs.. lid is a favorite
with all 'sort • of people, and more than
anybody else is an, embodiment of the rev - ,
'
olution. Last evening, the Minute-Melt
of the city :ave ham a serenade at thd
Mills House. The object - ivas to get a
speech from him—Land they sneeeeded s d
The Govern() declared that his reliance
was on the ilitary, but said that, he was
in possession of information that induced
.'
'hint to belles. that there would be no ap
peal to force on the part of the Federal
authority. • t the same time ; should
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force be resorted to, he professed - 14m, aq
prepared to meet any and., etc/ -,isentri. - ; , :
Ile hoped that there at ottld pe n c i
to rash counsels; but
. that the people ot` ;
the State would prone that they areAmizi
only free, but that their virtues knit ebtiii ! . 4 ;;
Deter entitled them to he dies'
gard to the Forts, Gov. Pickens said.thik
South Corolina would not present tlitvicil , J
sue until the Commissioners sent toWits . lol
innton had formally demanded...the' fertita
and public plates in the possession '91,04
naval authority. In the meantime,sliertld -
there be any attempt to reinforce the
" it sheuld not be done withoutati appeat _
to arms," So far as lain Concerned - , said'
he, I desire to go. through the present
controversy without. an appeal to artns i or .
the issue of blood, but if it be netieseary
to vindicate the independeuee of the Court
trY, I wow to you that all the power,t have .
shall be exercised to maintain to the last
extremity, the independende ef, South
Carolina. She had. triumphed alone bet
fore—she fought the battluf Fort Motilz
trie on her own resources, and—her own
responsibility, and, if need be, can do it _
again. The Palmetto Iteeitnatit *On
Cherubusco, when the Newfkorkers apil
Pennsylvanians faltered; that regimens _
marched alone 'to victory ; and they cad'
stand and march alone again.
.The speech was belligerent throughout;
and was; received with tumultuous ap
plause by half the fightin g population of
Charleston. It would not have been dif
ficult for a "told, bad man " to ht ve -
wrought up the populace to en attack ea
Fort Moultrie within the same hour. • Tian
only, thing that saves the Fort from ad
attack, under such circumstances; hit the
military despotism that preteens. . •
The Cenventioti gets on slowly,in pro
viding for the exigencies of secession:
As yet, we are as we. were before the qr.
dinance passed, The ineonvenience, of
separation becomes more apparent as a
substitute for the Federal machinery is
sought after. Yesterday Mr: Cheeres
brotioht before the Convention the fol.:
loWing draft of an ordinance, whieh was
referred to the appropriate cerannitted
Ti'heres, The Federal Government of tbd
United States of America has, from time,tu
time, with the consent of this State, created
, certain offices of profit and trust, as well with
in as withoutlhe limits of this State. • And
Whereas divers persons, as well as citizens
of this State, as others ' have, with the con-•
sent of this State, and by the appointment of
the said Federal Government, undertaken the
execution of the function's of the said offices; -
and become bound by official oaths and heavy
penalties to the said Federal Govetnnierit fvt
the faithful performance of the same. And
Wh-reas, the sudden arrest of the functions
orthe said officers would work ghat incon : •:
venience to the citizens of this State, and
[ grievous hardship to the parties bound as
aforesaid,
Therefore, for the convenience of this State;
;band for the relief of said persons,
Be it ordained, and by -the people of the
State of South Carolina, In Convention as=
sembled, it is ordained, . ,•
That all persons who were in efecnpation of
any office of profit or trust under the Govern- '
meut of. the United States of. Anseriviimme
diately previous to,the 'adoption of the Ordi=
mince orSecession shall continue to exercise
the functions of the same in like tnaniser and
form as before the adoptiou of said Ordinance
• until otherwise ordered.
And that all laws Of the Federal Govern=
nient of the United States of America, which
I shall have been abrogated by virtue of said
;Ordinance, are hereby declared of fall' fored
and effect for the above recited purpoies, and
no other: . •
And be it further ordained, that the opera=
tion of this Ordinance may nt.any time ltd
suspended, in whole or in part; by the Gov
ernor of this State at his discretion.
And that the General Assembly of this
, State is hereby authorized and empowered td
repeal ire same whensoever it shall by tiled
be deemed espeibent:
Th:s comes as near, to all intents and
purposes, repealing the SeceSsion Ordi:
nonce as possible and not dolit in so many
words. If the State has gone out of the
Union, it still relies on the Uninu to do
its business. . •
The Legislature, having spent a good
' deal of time in undertaking to wipe out
the record so-tar as it refleeted l that the
adjournment from Columbia to Charles- -
ton was a stampede from the sinall.poxi
have gone into the consideration of meas.:
urea designed to secure internal security ;
in other words, to prOvide against incur:.
rection. It is proposed - to contract . the
intercourse of negroes from plantation td
plantation, and' to provide for a- patrol .
throughout the State. - It is not the least
remarkable feature of this Secession busi
ness, Oat measures initiated nearly it
month ago as fundamenral necessities to
Secession, have been suspended to allot ' those of the above character to be intro
duced and matured. Nothing could speak'
plainer,, that the first thing to be.ettend-
Cd to, as most likely to happen, is inst&-
rection'anil t irindredthingg. - -
A portiott. of the Convention must ad
journ Over to the sth of tTaitary, to aw:sit ,
the report'of the Commissioner's to trash
. ington and the action of tlic other Cotton
States, an an adjournment fora feiv days
may take place, though nothing but the
passage of the Secession Ordidande will
,have been aceempliiiihed. -
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