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The House has b -en thorough!v t imrc I. an i the c<uui',..:s and acianreidations of a •vi !-•> win f,uc 1 t"V all who iniv favor • -b ,e.,.n, c„T,,..wt,a II fa<ti j M. -r .vO-s CENTI3T, . .rV-^ V T..' f - \ <V, T a? \ T ti11..31 "X has fe-muineni ly lovoted in T'" n 'a- I'lsliaiUK !'.,r..-.igh, n l re"! • et: •' y tenders his ! P'"'..ssi,,i,:|i w .. t ; s tli- citizcus oi ibis place and urnun .iug -i>i:llli v , Aid. WuKK AA dp ANT UP, TO GIVE SATIS i ' TIOV. . ' v OS'/e uvvr LUllo-a's Law 03ic near tie Po- Jffiee 6e.-. 11. IBCI Blank*: 1 Blanks!!! BLANK DEEDS SUMMONSES bI'EFCUN AF.3 EXECUTIONS CONSTABLE'S SALES <ustive'g, Cor.gte.bli.'s, an'l legal Blanks of .-. l •'oh. Neatly and Correctly printed en pood Payer % aid for sale at ihe Office of the " N'trih Branch "•aloe rat." [ IMI FOB FARMERS, A3 A for sale at VEBNO Y'g Meshoppen, Sept. 19,1841, SPEECH OF EX-RESIDENT—PIERCE The following speec i was de livered bv ex I ieiueiit Frank in Puree, on the occasion of his presiding a' the gteat Democratic mass meeting at Concord, N 11., on the Fourth : Ml FRIENDS AND I'ELLOW COUNTRYMEN T while I have come to preside at th s meeting, at your bidding, premit me 'o say that no command I -sa imperative than -your wish on such ao occasion w mid h ve brought me heie: and I trust that in view of the great aggrega tion of personal relations which thirty years of manhood life have formed bet wen us, you will recognize in ttiis fact a wtr a reciproca tion, on n.v part, of the respect and affection whi ill, in all that time, I have never failed to find on yours. \\ e meet on the anniver sary o! a day halo,red by solemn memories, an ! sand iti d as that of the birth of the American Union. The Declaration of Inde pendence Iml the foundation of our political greatness in the two fu >l.uncut 1 i leis of the ab.-o uie ii.de. e uienc-of tiie Americ n people, and of the M veie'guiy of their respective sta'es. I oder that standard our wise and iu roe forefathers b.uglit the battle of the Revolution ; under that they conquered. iti this ,-prrit the}' established the Union, having the conservative thought ever pres entto their moids, of the origul sovereig.itv and indepeiideuce of the several S'atcS, all !i <e.*s institutions, interist, opinions and halitts, to he maintaiue i intact and secure, by the reciprocal stipulations and mutual cotnpromi-es of tie constituiion. They were master builders, who reared up the grand ruciur# of the Union, that august temple oei.eatli w !io?e do no th ee generations have i : j wed such blessings of civil liberty as were never before vouchsafed by Providence to man that ten pie hi ( re whose altars you til l I have not only bowed wnh devout and grateful hearts, but were, with pan-tie vow> i"d s-icr.ii -e, we have *o quni ly consecra id < urwiVi'B to the j roiection and lnairte u oiccof those 1 fty c ifumos of the Constitu tion by which t was nel I. N > visionary en t iii siast wore they, d;earning va'tily of the itn p-- l- un f 'no tv of sme wild Umpiaufrhe 4 ' •.vii un g n iti-cis. N • I'spTit" reformers wore tiioy, madly hint n; on schemes which i! c msiiui • I, c -li i only res tilt in gone raj c .iiiu-:on , :.i otrl-y, and cha s Ob, no ! high hear'e I, but vagaci >us an I practical stae-mion -11. \ wer.-, who saw society as a iivu g fact not as a trouble I vision; who knew that national p- wir consists ir the reconcilement of Vet si sties . I in-' itn' ions and interests n t .iir eonti ct an 1 obliteration : and who a v th.it varietv an 1 a lijitmn of parts are i lie i:e-- irv elements of all there is sub lime <-r beautiful in ihe works of art or of na 'ore M j-'stic were the sohd foundation ß , the m:is>ive masonry, the columned loftiness o' that magnificent structure of the Union. G!o t-ions was the career of prosperity and p ace to 1 power t-pon which, fr m its very birth ■ lav, the American Union entered, as with -hea-s tre l march of the c-msious off-pring f tli -se giants ot the i! ;v lutiou. Such was ii • L" i " i, -is c m -j vi 1 i i 1 a 1 n'-oistore I b y Washington an 1 A lams by Jefferson and II i li- .a in I i icks >•!. Snob, 1 say, was the Union, ere the evil time- Befell us ; ere the madness of sec'ional hatreds anrn MMes pos s--se ! ii-. ; ere the third generation, the all comprehensive pitriiß's nof Fathers had died tut and givui place to the passionate emotions of narrow an I agtrcssive sec ioii.il sin. Tue Eastern States covered the s i with their ships, the land with the r farms and manufactures ; s did tio m IDo At in tic States with albfin of their mineral wealth of c->al and iron ; while the S- uth err States, with heir tich, sift ch mite an I fion genial mih rai-cd up those great staples o' cotton, t "hacco. sugar, rice and corn, which are the life of commerce and manufactures, and the vast regions of ihe West grew to he the granaries of Eur qoe and Americi ; and siiD fnrta-r on was revealed the land . f gold and silver, on the tctii"te shore of the Pacific , hese were tlie material elements of our na'ional power—each state with i-s difference of intercuts, cooperating with the others to constiti'e one hartno nious whole. And so ihe various European races cm xisting here, thou '.i differing in blood, religion, temper, the Protestant and the CVliwlic, the Puritan and the Cavalier, yet, bv their very d.ffer enccs of chiracter a.f-rhl the un it al and moral e'ement s of the power of the Union Glorious, sublime above all that history rec ords of national greatness. was the sjieCai'le which the Union exhibited to the world, so lung as the true spirit < f the Constitution lived in the hearts of ihe pe >p'e, and the goverumen' was a government of men recip roc ally respecting one an other's rights, and of sta'es, each moving, plant-like, in the or bit of its proper place in the firmament of the Union. Then we were the model repndfic of the tyorhj, honored, loved, or feared where we were not loved, respected abroad, peaceful and happy at home. N<> American citizen was then subject to be driven into exile for opinions sake, or arbitrarily arrested and in carcerated in military bastiles—even as he may now be—not for acts or words of impu ted treason but if lie do but tnotinr in silent sorrow over the dessolat ion of his country ; no embattle d b"Stsof Americans were then wasting their lives and resources in sangui j nary civil strife ; no suicidal and parricidal "TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S fIIGIIT/'-Thomas Jefferson. TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1863. civil war then swept, like a racing tempest of deith over the stricken hoij)e*teads ( nnd wail ing cities nf the Union. Oh, a change should have come over our country in a day, as it were—as if all men in every state of the Union, North and South, East and West, were suddenly smitten with hom icidal madness, and "the custom of tell deeds " rendered as familiar as if it were a part of our inborn nature ;as if an avenging angel had been suffered by Providenc s to wave a sword of flaming fire above our heads, to convert so many million of good men, living togethr in brotherly love;into insenate be ings, savagely bent on the destruction of themselves and of each other, and leaving but a smouldering ruin of conflagration and of blood in the place of our once blessed Un ion. I endeavor sometimes to close my ears to the sounds, and my eyes to the sight of w.x>, and to ask myself whether all this can he—to inquire which is true, whether the past happiness an 1 prosperity of my Coun try are but the flattering visn n of a happy edeep, or its preseut misery and dessolation hi'ppi'y the delu-i n of s< m • disturbed dr. an. One or the other sees incredible and impossi ble ; hut ala. ! the stern truth cannot thus be dispelled Iroin our minds. Can you* for get, ought I especially to be expected to for get, those not r> mi te days in the history of our country, when its greatness and glory >hed in rtthclionat least of their rays up on all our lives, and thus enabled us to read the lessons of the fathers, and of their Constitution in the light of their principles and tl e r deeds ? Then war was conducted only against ihe foreign enemy, and not in the spirt and purpose of persecuting non combatant populations nor of burning unde fended towns or private dwellings, and was 'ing the li. Ids of the husbandmen, of the workshops of the artisan, but of subduing armed hosts in the Held. Then the Congress oftheUiftid Sinus was the great coun nl of ihe whole Union and all its parts, fhen the executive administration looked vith on a till eye ovr the whole domain our the Un itoi, at xiotis to j u mote ihe in terests and c insult the tion or an 1 ju-t pride of all the s ales, se.-ing no power beyond t lie law. and devoutly obedient to the de mauds "f tlie Constitution. IE wis all this changed ! And why ? Have we not been mid, in this very place, not two weeks ago, by the voice of a i authoritative ex postor j d< we not ail kn nv th it the ciu eof our ca I unities ts the Vicious iiitermeddlciilg of too many of the citizens of the Northern States with tlie c institutional rights of the South ern States. cooperating wnh the discon tents of the people states ? Do we not know i hat the disregur 1 of the Constitution, and of the security it affords to the rights of states and of individuals, lias been the ciuseof the calain tv which our con ntrv is calkd to un dergo ? and no-v, war! war, in its direst shape— war such a it makes the blood run o Id to read of in tiie history of other nations and of otlie" times—war, on the scale of a million of men in arms—war, horrid as that ••{ barbaric ages rages in several of the states nf the Union, as its more immediate fit-Id to 1 ci-ts the lurid shadow of its death and> lamentation athwart the whole expanse, and i nto every nook and corner of our vast do main. Nor is that all ; for in those of the >tates which are exempt from the actual rav ages of war, in whic.it the roar of the cannon, and the rattle of the musketry, and the groins of the dying, are heard but as a faint i coo of terr >r from other lands, even here in ihe loal states, the model hand of military usurpation strikes down the liberties of tin; people, and it foot tramples on a desecrated Constitution. Aye, in this land of free thought, free speech and free writing—in tnis republic of free suffrage, with liberty of thought, and expression as tin very es -ence of republican institutions—even here, in these free states it it is made criminal for a citizen soldier, like gallant Edgcrly of New Hampshire, to vote according to his con science, or, like that noble martyr of free speech, Mr. Vallantlingham, to discuss pub lic aliairs in Ohio, aye, even here, the tem porary agents of tlie sovereign people, the transitory administrators of the government tell us that in time of war the mere arbitrary will of the President takes the place of the Constitution, and the President himself an ounoes to us that it is treasnable to speak or to write otherwise than as he may prescribe: nay, that il is tr asonable even to be silent, though we be struck dumb by the shock of the calamities with which evil counsels, in competency and corruption have overwhelmed our country ! I will not say this without re ferring t > the authority upon which I rely. In his letter of June 12. 18G3, a dressed to j E.'istns Corning and other citizens of the | State of New-yolk, the President makes use i oi the following extraordinary language: " In j deed, arrests by process of courts and arrests | in cases of rebellion, do not proceedaltogeth- ! er upon the same basis, the former is direct ed at the small percentage of ordinary and continuous perpetration of crime, while the latter is directed at sudden and extensive uprisings against the government, which, at most, will succeed or fail in no great length of time. In the latter ease arrests are made, not so much for what has been done, as for what probably would be done. The latter is more for the preventive and loss for the vindictive then the former. In such cases the purposes of men are much more easily understood than in cases of ordinary crime. The man who stands by and says nothing when the peril of his government is discuss ed, cannot be misunderstood. If not hinder ed, he is sure to help the enemy; much raore> if I e talks ambiguously— talks for his coun try with " buis and " ifs " and " ands." it is seen by this letter, at least, that there is no longer donbt as to where the responsi bility for those unconstitutional acts of the last two years, perpetrated by subdornate officers of the federal government, both civil and military, properly attaches ; but who I ask, has clothed the President with power to dictate to any one of us when we must or we may speak, or be silent upon any subject, and especially in relation to the conduct of any public servant ? By that right does he, presume to prescribe a formula of language for your lips or mine ? It seems incredible even wiih this authenticated paper before us is amazing, that any such sentiment should have found utterance from the elected repre sentative of a free government like that of the Liiiicl States. My friends, let those obey such honest who will; yuu and I have been nurtured here the granite hills and undtr the clear skies of New Hampshire into no such servile temperament. True it is, that any of v<>u, that I my sely, may be the next victim of unconstitiuonal, arbitrary, irresponsible power. But we, nevertheless, are freemen, and we resolve to live, or if it must be to die, such- Falter who may, we will never cease to hold up on high tiie Constitution of the Union, though torn to shreds bj' the sacnligeous hands of its enemies. llow strikingly sig nificant, how suggestive to us. on this occa. sion, is the contemplation of that august spec tacle of the recent convention at Indianapolis, of seventy-five thousand citizens calmly and bravely participating in the discussion of the great principles underlying their sacred rights as freemen—neither awed by cannon frown ing upon their liberties nor provoked bv threats into retaliatory violence. I would sav to you fellow-citizens, emulate that exhibition of wisdom and patriotism. Be patient, but resolute. Yield nothing of your rights, but hear and forbea t. Let your action show to the wot Id that with courage to confront des potism you have also the discretion to avoid hiconsiderate action in resi.-ting its advances. George Washington and Samuel Adams., Matliew Thornton and Charles Carroll George R- ed and Roger Sherman, PhilUp Liv ingston and William II oper, Benjamin Frank li ii and Edward Rutlege, George Walton and Richard Stockton, with their associates of all the thirteen then Independent sovereign states, stood eighty-seven years ago to-day, in that simple hut most memorable room' where the Declaration was signed, like the people of the states whom they represented , with the solemn grandeur of high resolve, if pparer-tly weak, yet with their armor on and heir hearts strung fur the great contest of l-.tcir. I. we cannot be joyous and ex ultant on thi* anniversary of that day, it may do us good to remember that j >y and exulta tion were far from the hearts of the hrave m n who sanctioned the Doclara'io.i of Inde pendence, anl then fought, .-even years to maintain it. No ! they were not joyous, but determined. They felt the inspiration of a great object; and they sought its accomplish ment with a stern, devote!, self-sacrificing spirit. They were animated by that deter- , inination which in a righteous cause of self vindication is invincible. They knew the condition of the provinces in point of men and munitions, and they had a clear percep tion of the colossal power which they were to confront. But neither one nor the other consideration, nor both combined, shook ei ther their faith or their courage. They com pensated for the want of numbers, arms, and all which u ider ordinary circa nuances goes to constitute the sinews of war, by the glow of their patriotism anil the strength of then purpose. T<r be sure they fought for their rights, but their endurance and energy were quickened by an incalculable power; they fought for their homes, their hearthstones, their wives and children behind them. I trust it may be profitable on this occasion, as the call of your meeting suggests, to revive the memories of that heroic epoch of the re public, even though they come laden with re grets. and hold up that period of our history in contrast with the present. Though they come to remind us of what were our relations during the Revolution, and in later years, prior to 1801, to that great commonwealth which we were accustomed to refer to by the name of ,k the Mother of Statesmen and ol States and of what those relations now are. Can it be that we are never to think again of the land where the dust of Washington and Patrick of Jefferson and Maddison I repose, w<tn emotions of gratitude, admua i tion and fillial regard? Is hate for all that i Virginia ha* taught, all tiiat Virginia has ! done, rdl that Virginia now is, to take the ! place of sentiments which we have cherished j all our lives ? Other men may be asked to \do this, but it is in v?.in to appeal to me, So far as my beart is concerned it is uot a sub ject of volition. While there tnay be those in whose breasts such sentiments as these awaken no responsive feeling. I feel assured as I look over this vast assemblage, that the grateful emotions which have sigualized this ~ ir* 'l nnr TJ*'' '- >r n less yours than they are mine to-day. Let us be thankful, at least, that we li ive ever enjoyed them : that nothing can take from us the pride and exultation we have felt as we saw the old flag unfold over us, and realized its glorious accretion of stars from the origi nal thirteen to thirty-four; that wc say much when we say, in the language of New Hamp shire's greatest son. If we can with assur ance say no more, The past at least is se cure." But if we cannot be joyous, my friends, as we have been on this anniversary 5 let us show that it is our privlege, with the blessing of God, to be considerate, brave, and wise. If there be anything of the great in heritance, tinder existing circumstances, to save, may we not in ar humble, earnest way contribute to that salvation ! If we cannot do all for which our hearts 3*earn, may we not at leat approach its consummation in that spirit of devoted loyalty to the Consti tution and the Union which we feel ? Let the disregard of others for what the Revolu tionary fathers achieved, and for the compact which they made, subdued as they were in all things bu* a sense of honor and right by tin stiff -rings of seven year's war. now st'iid out before us. Let the people realize what this constant ringing in their ears of the charge that "the Constitution is a covenant with Death and a League with hell" has brought about. And then let them see and feel what we had in eighty years of unexam pled prosperity and happiness under that Con" stitutioti. Let them look back upon those eighty years of civil liberty, of the reign ot constitutional law ; eight}' years of security to our homes, of living in our castles, humble though they may have been, with no power to invade them by night or by day, except under the well-defined and exhibited authori ty of law,—a written, published, law enacted by themselves for the of crime and for their own protection,—eighty years of the great experiment which astonished the world. If the people will do this, I cannot, I will not believe, that we are so smitten bv judicial blindness that the great mass of our population, North and South, will not some day resolve that we coma together agm u i der the old Constitution with the d.i flig. I will not b-dieve that this experiin nit of man's capacity for self g ivernment, which was so successfully illustrated until all the Revolu tionary men had pa*se<l to their final reward, is to prove a humHiaring failure. Whatever others may do, we will never abandon the hope that the Union is to be restored. Whatever others may do. wc will cl.ng r 0 it " as the mariner clings to the last plank when night and the tempest close around lnm." No matter what may have ueen done. North or South, .to produce it, this terrible ordeal t f blood which has been visited upon us, ought to be sufficient to bring us all back to con sciousness of responsibilities and duties. L'iie emotions of all good men aie those of soirow and shame and sadness, now, over the condition of their country, when they retire at night, and when tliep open their eyes up on the dawning day, struggle against them though they may. Why should they attempt to disguise it ? Solicitu lo which hinges upon apprehension of personal d mger or pers mil loss, and that alone, is contemptible, tri fling men may indulge in trifling word and thought, while the foundations laid by the fathers are crumbling beneath their feet ; but the artificers who laid those foundation found no time for trifling while engaged in their grand and serious wotk ; nor can you. They could lift up their souls in prayer; hut they had no heart for levity and mirth. My friends, you have had, most of you have had, great sorrows, overwhelming personal sor rows, it may be ; but none like these, none like these which come welling up, day by day, from the great fountain of national dis aster, red with tbe best and bravest blood of the country, North and S mth—red with the blood of those in both sections of the Union whose fathers fought the common buttle of independence. Nor have these sorrows brought with tliem any compensation, wheth er of national pride or of victorious anus.— For is it not vain to appeal to you to raise a shout of joy because the men from tiie land of Washington, Marion, and Suinpter are baring their breasts to the steel of the men from the land of Warren, Stark, and Stockton; or because, if this war is to continue to be wag ed,one or the other must go to the wall— must be con igned to humiliating subjugation? This learfnl, fruitless, fatal civil war has ex hibited our amazing resources and va-t milt tary power. It has shown that united, even ii cirrying out, in its widest interpretation! the M inroe doctrine, on this continent, we could, with such protection as 'he broad ocean whith flows between ourselves and Eu ropean powers affords, have stood against the world in arms. I speak of the war as fruit less y for it is clear that, prosecuted upon the basis of the proclamations of September 22 I and September 24th, 1862, prosecuted as I must nnderstand tho-e proclamations, to say nothing of the kindred brood which has fol lowed, upon the theory of emancipation, de vastation, srhjitgation, it cannot fail to be fruitless in everything except the harvest of woe which it is ripening for what was once the peerless republic. Now, fellow-citizens after having 6aid thus much, it is right that you should ask me, what would you do in this fearful extremity ? I reply, from the bcrinninc of this struggle to the preseat mo I TEriMS s SI.GO rEll -A.3STISJTJ3VI: merit, my hope his been in moral power- There it reposes still. When, in the spring of 18G1, I had occasion to address my fellow citizens of this city, from the balcony of the hotel before us, I then said I had not blicved; and did not then believe aggiession by arms was either a suitable or possible retnedv for existing evils. All that has occurred since then, has but strengthened and confirmed my convictions in this regard. I repeat, then, my judgment impels tne to rely upon moral force and not upon any of the coercive instru mentalities of military power. We have seen in the experience of the last two years, how to' ile are all our efforts to maintain the L nion by force of arms; but even had war been car ried on by n> successfully, the ruinous result would exhibit its utter impracticability for the attainment of the desired end. Through peaceful agencies alone, can we hope to " form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and se cure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and posterity," the great object for which alone the Constitution was formed. If you turn round an 1 a-k me, what if these agencies fail ; what if the passionate anger of both sections forbids; what if the ballot b>x 13 sealed ? I hen, ail efforts, whether of war or peace, having I.died, my reply is, you will take euro of yourselves ; wita or without arms, with or without leaders, we will, at least, in the effort t our rights as a free people, build up a great mm-oieam of hearts to which men who yearn fur liberty will in after years, with bowed heads and reverently, resort, as Christian pilgrims to the sacred shrines of the Iluly Land. SPARKLIXC GE3IS. Repentance hith a purifying power, and every tear is of cleansing virtue but these penitential clouds must be still kept dropping; one shower will uot suffice, for repentance is not single action but a course. Genius lays if 3 eggs with ostrich-like care lessness in the san Is of the world, most of t.icm to be crushed under the feet of men and beasts, and some to hatch and furnish leathers for the cap of mediocrity or dullness, to plume the shafts aimed at the parent heart. The man who needs a law to keep from abusing an inferior animal' needs a prison to prevent his violating the law. It ought to be enough to deter any man from cruelty that the olj cr.sof it cannot speak for them selves, cannot bear witness aguust him, aro dumb. We have politics and trade, and the daily dust of life rises with the morning mist and settles with the dew ; but over all things, serene and silent and starry, rises she heav en of a nation's soul its—literature. There is a class o! people who think that to he grim-isto be goo 1 ; that piety is a sort of fa cia! and that a thought to be realv whole some must be shaped like a coffin. Many persons think themselves perfectly virtuous because, being well fed, they have no temptation to vice. They don 4 t distin guish between virtue and victuals. Those nervous folks who are annoyed by everything that approaches them, annoy everybody they apprutch. Every good doctrine leaves behind it an external furrow ready for planting of seeds which shall spring up an abundant harvest. We are to'd to " take care." but it comes soon enough whether we take it or not. To lead the forlorn hope on the field of carnage requires less nerve than to fight no bly and unshrinkingly the bloodless battle of life. We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emits breath every moment. The way to be accounted learned is not to know everything, but to be able to marshal up what you do know, be it much or little 3 and tell it. Kinder is the looking glass than the wine glass, fr the former reveals our defects to ourselves only, the latter to our friends. A HOME FOR SALE. How much we dislike to read so sad an announcement in the advertising department of a paper ! Not a house and grounds only, but along all the cherished memories and tender associations of the place, th.it that enrich it with a weath beyond the com putation of business men, the traders in home-steads and other classes of real estate. It is a sorry day for a man—and more so for a family, when he is obliged to give up his home and go drifting again over the world. No experience like this shocks the sensitive heart. All gone—all deserted ! The lights shinning no more in the window. The famil iar faces pressed no longer against the pains. The lire gone out. The smoke no more curl ing from the chimneys. The dear voice will not he heard there again, though the men piss and repass the h >use daily. Ah, there is needed no desolation of a sort like this.— He must he a hard and undeveloped nature that can contemplate such a scene witout the I deepest emotion. To lose one's home is to lose nearly all that eaith has to ctter of Lap- J piness to man. VOL. 2, NO. 4.8.
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