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BEVERLEY TUCKKK,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
StATUHDAV NOH MM;, AUG. 51, 185ti
DUNOl'KATIC NOMINATIONS.
F 0 K PRESIDENT,
JAMES BUCHAiN AN,
OF PENNSYLVANIA.
SOU VICE PUK1IOKNT,
JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE,
OF KENTUCKY.
NOTICE.
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July 5, 1856.
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BEVERLEY TUCKER.
HKNARKABLE?
Or, we should rather have said not Remarka
ble, that nearly all the infidels of the land are
in the ranks of the Black Republicans. All
the soi-disant reverends who renounce and de
nounce the God of the Bible are among the
most noisy, unscrupulous and habitual falsifiers
of that party. They are men who suck sub
stance from dupes all around, but who af
ford no wholesome nourishment for body or
soul to any one.
These reverends have abandoned the teaching
of their flocks, the holy precepts an& examples
of the Saviour; they have ceased to inculcate
} charity and brotherly kindness, the loving of
^ our neighbor as ourself; they hare ceased to
vara themselves and their people to cast out
the beam from their own eye before railing at
the mote in a brother's eye. The sermon on
the Mount is no longer heard in their churches?
But in their stead a fierce and unrelenting hate
towards unoffending brethren is daily preached
by those "dogs in foreheads but deer in heart,"
the Beechers, Sillimans, Parkers, Phillips's,
and et id omne genua. For Bibles, Sharpe's
rifles are substituted, and for psalms and
hymns,doggerel instigating sedition and discord
have been substituted.
What crimes or sins has the South com
mitted, and of which the North is innocent,
that a warfare should be carried on by the
North against the Sooth with such unsparing,
relentless malignity, villifying and slandering
the South, its people and all their institutions.
We placea truthful picture before our readers,
and leave them to judge how tar the South is
justly subject to censure and such virulent hos
tility from the North; of the propriety of the
Norvh passing sentence of unmitigated con
demnation, aad of wreaking its utmost ven
geance regardless even of the segis of the Con
stitution.
TUB CASK STATU).
During our aubjection to Great Britain aa
colonies, the South then, aa now, were without
shipping. Then, aa subaequently, up to the
period of the abolition of the slave trade with
Africa, the importation of slaves from Africa
wm made bj the English and the North.
Upon these, and theft alone, dots the whole
stigma of African slavery in this country rest.
The South is wholly exempt from reducing
freemen to slavery.
The North it steeped to the eyes, crimson
dyed with this enormous guilt.
The North haa received profile from this
guilty trade, which, being invested aa received,
now exceeds the enormous sum of two thou
sand millions of dollars.
With this enormous fruit of its guilt in ita
pocket, the North aita in judgment on the
South, making itself accuser, witness, judge,
and executioner.
The offence charged upon the South is thia:
that the North having violently and wickedly
reduced many hundred thouaand freemen to
slavery?having par ked tbem, like herring, in
helda of ahipa, where nearly one-fourth died
from Buffering, and having brought them to
thia country, offered them for sale to the South
aa slaves for life, they and their posterity, until
the will of their owners should emancipate
tbem. They furnished bills of sale guaran
teeing all this, and each northern man, with his
own sign mannual, gave receipt for the con
sideration. The South, finding the negroes in
acknowledged, perpetual slavery to these north
ern men, who gave guarantee that the right to
hold the negroes and their posterity in per
petual bondage was indisputable, purchased
and paid the price for the guarantee.
With this admitted state of the case, the
North not only refuses to restore these slaves
thus purchased when they escape to them, but
?eek by every thieving, sneaking and diahonor
able means to steal and to entice away the
people who they themaelvea first enslaved and
then sold into slavery, but also do this in de
fiance uf a solemn compact made by every
northern State, pledging itu sacred honor to
its fulfilment.
Not onlj this, but they protest against one
of these slaves going into any portion of the
common and immense federal domain, belong
ing equally to the holders of the slaves as to
the northern men.
The South is condemned by the North, (the
Black Republican North,) to lose their slaves
when they escape to the North, to have every
slave kidnapped, seduced, or stolen by the
North without reserve, hesitation or limit.
To have the slaves in the District of Columbia
forcibly manumitted; in addition to the full
price paid the North for these slaves, the
North uow requires, in addition, the abandon
ment by the South, with their slaves, of all
right or pretension to any portion of their own
domain, a domain in which they are with (he
North joint und equal tenants. This was cer
tainly no part of the original contract when
bills of sale were given for the slaves, nor is
there any trace of any such subsequent pro
vision. The North Mould also prohibit the
inter-State slave trade or commerce, and pro
hibit the passage of slaves from one State to
another.
The North itself held in slavery as many
negroes as it found profitable. How did the
Northern States get rid of slavery? By eman
cipation? No. They did not pass laws eman
cipating all who were their slaves, but they did
pass laws to the effect that, if the owners of
slaves did not by a certain time sell their slaves
out of the State, that then they should be free.
Under this law, of course, all were sold except
those whose owners were willing to set them
free, and needed no law to do so. Thus it
clearly appears no Northern Stale ever emanci
pated its slaves.
Having thus imported sliives and sold them
to the South as long as the law'allowed; hav
ing worked as many of them at the North as
were profitable, and as long as they were pro
fitable, they then emancipate them into slavery
at the South for a Jail consideration.
The laics were laws for emancipating the
Northern States from negroes, and nothing
else ; they were laws to relieve themselves from
burdens, not for the freedom or welfare of the
nejro; from no motive of philanthropy or mercy,
but a cold calculation of their own interests
and convenience; it was an emancipation for
which full value for the slaves wus received,
and by which the negroes were consigned into
a designed perpetual slavery for a full consid
eration received.
Without referring to the immense profit
which these same men have received for trans
porting the products of slave-labor, from the
manufacturing these products, from the sup
plies furnished to the slaves and their masters,
we will simply say?
That with this record before it the North sits
in judgment on the South and announces the
verdict:
It discards the old adage that " the receiver
is as bad as the thief," and its verdict stands?
" That the receiver is alone the guilty one."
The thief is not only guiltless in their esti
mation, but he is the very proper person to ac
cuse, prosecute, testify against, judge, condemn
and execute the receiver; the very thief who
assured the receiver that his title to the slave
was perfect and absolute and who had given a
guarantee of title to the receiver against every
such claimant.
The judge is the Northern thief, with the
consideration and guarantee money iu his
pocket, setting in judgment on the Southern
receiver, who holds the judge's own bill of sale,
receipts and guarantee of title in his hands.
Yet the honest thief judge, chinking his guilt
money, in his pocket, condemns bis Southern
receiver.
This is a plain unvarnished truthful state
ment in which scarce half the euormity of
Northern guilt is shown, and but a portion of
the monstrous injustice to the South appears.
We will exhibit this in a separate article.
Til K MISSOURI LINE OK OKK1CK.
In a late article upon the disasters that
would ensue from the election of J. C. Fremont
to the Presidency, we merely referred to tbe
oue of appointmeuta to office in the Southern
Statea. We are induced to preaent this view
again, because it ia in our memory that the
National Era aome year or more aiuce, rather
advocated the confinement of federal appoint
ments to tbe North, even when the duties of
those offices were to be performed within the
Soathern States. We regret we have Dot a
file of the Era that we might tbe better do
justice to it and tbe subject, by a transfer of
its article to our columns. In the discussion of
these subjects, we are aware that complaint
may be justly lodged against us, for repetition of
views previously presented ; but this should be
excused by the necessity of making the appro
priate application of the points, which we are
often induced to make. The true basis of the
Federal Union, and the considerations which
induced it, are familiar to all, and, yet, judg
ing from tbe present condition of parties, it
would seem not wholly a work of supereroga
tion to repeat them again, and again. We
shall not, therefore, fail in this reiteration, be
cause of the wilful deafness or hardened and
sinful nature of ouj adversaries.
When the Union of these States was consum
mated, the institution of slavery existed in all of
them but one. The causesof its non-existence in
that one were not based upon any repugnance
to slavery itself, or any sickly philanthropy
upon the subject whatever. Had this been the
case, the record would have shown it, and had
the question of the right of property in slaves
even been mooted, the conclusion is inevitable
that the Union would never have been accom j
plisbed. The recognition of tke institution of
slavery, then, was not only unanimotis by the
States, but in twelve oct or the thirteen,
it absolutely existed, and that, too, without
even a remonstrance from the one that formed
the exception I
But furthermore: Out of the thirteen States
there were seven Northern, and six Southern
States; the North thus having a majority at the
very first date of the confederacy. Of the seven
Northern States, six were slave Stale*, and
one free State. Considering that this free
State made no objection to the institution of
slavery in her sister States, we may justly as
sume (particularly when we remember that De
laware is merely in theory a slave State) that the
Northern States had a practical majority, and
hence, bavin# thin institution before, and at the
tiuie, and subsequent to their membership in
the Union, that they are responsible for its ex
istence in the Union. The South, if she had
so willed, had not the power to keep slavery
out of the Union, because a majority of the
whole number, and that majority made up of
Northern (and now free) States, recoguized
and enjoyed it I
Thus it will not be controverted, that the
right of property in slaves was a right anterior
to, co-?val with, and subsequent to the adop
tion of the Federal Constitution?that it was
not only an iuherentand undisputed right, but
was one of those rights that eutered into the
compact as clearly as any other right at all?
that it was a right guarded, guaranteed and
protected by the Constitution, and which can
not be abated, but by the nullification of that
instrument itself.
With this plain, but veritable statement of
the rights of the States in slave property at the
period of the compact between the Slates, and
the definition of those rights, under the Con
stitution, which pertain to them in the Terri
tories or common domain of all the States, Ve
come to consider the humiliating condition of
things in this connection at the present time.
It will be seen from what we have to say
further, that it is no longer an idle threat, if the
Abolitionists succeed in electing their ticket,
that the equality of the Southern States is to
be utterly destroyed, and all her rights, privi
leges, aud immunities under the Constitution
are to be shamelessly ignored and repudiated.
What is the state of the case? A Conven
tion of the Anti Slavery party of the country
is called, and assembles in a Northern city.
It is termed a national Convention. That this
is a misnomer may be inferred by the fact,
that there:* were but about half a dozen men
found who were base enough to claim that they
represented, in its deliberations?a Southern
constituency. Fifteen of the States thus were
unrepresented. A ticket was nominated by this
national Convention, presenting for the suf
frages of the American people two individuals,
both residing in free Slates and holding opin
ions not only foreign to, but in positive antag
onism with, the constitutional rights and inter
ests of one half of the States ot the Union.
Two individuals, who cannot obtain a single
score of voters throughout the whole extent of
this section of the Confederacy! The princi
ples enunciated by this national Convention
are at war with the Constitution and in auda
cious defiance of all moral and political rights.
No sooner is this initiative treason and treach
ery accomplished, than, emboldened by their
own achievement, they fling out their piratical
banners with fifteen of the States stricken
from the constellated gallaxy of the American
Union I Elected by a section of the Union,
without the aid of the other Bection on the one
hand, or the power successfully to resist this
evil ou the other, they come flushed with their
treasonable victory to take the reins of Gov
ernment. Discarding, in advance, the Consti
tution as the chart by which their administra
tion should be guided"?spurning as inferiors
fifteen of the sovereign members of the Union?
trampling under the despotic heel of hellish
power all of their rights aud privileges?shear
ing them of their proud dignity as equals?
levelling tbeui to the condition of hewers of
wood and drawers of water?constituting them
a serfdom to do the behests of their high will
and pleasure; and, as if these were not enough,
to sting them with the further humiliation of
having the Federal offices within their own
limits filled by the fiendish emissaries from
their own fool and corrupt dominions, that the
seed of domestic insurrection may be sown, or
the torch of the midnight inceudiary success
fully applied to their once happy and peaceful
homes. This is the character of the men, and
these the principles of the party, who have
come firth, like the great Philistine of Goth,
to defy the living armies of God aud Liberty,
of Right and Reason, of Justice and the Con
stitution! Is it an exaggerated picture? A
Missouri line of office is to be run! This is
their scheme; for, not content with bowing
you down, men of the South, in humiliation
and disgrace, their cormorant maws as insatia
ble as that of their great chief, demand even
the offices within your household. But, sup
pose there were bounds to their lust of power
and pelf, how could the Government be car
ried on under the rule of this black crew, who
set at naught every principle of common hon
esty and truth? Suppose, with a mockery of
favor to you, they were willing to fill the Fed
eral offices with men from your midst, where
are the cravens to be found to hold them under
such an administration ? Where are the col
lectors and surveyors of your ports, the post
masters of your citics, and the judges and the
marshals of your Federal districts? Even the
pure ermine of justice must draggle in the
mire of corruption and putrescence, and be
subservient to the destructive fiat of a central
power without scruple or principle.
From the election of Fremont, two proposi
tions must ensue?disunion, or a tame sub
mission to the most disgraceful bondage. We
will not depict the train of tragedies and the
frightful destruction that would follow the first.
But what Southern heart does not beat quickly
with offended and indignant pride at the con
templation of the only alternative of disunion?
! the most revolting form of political slavery.
: Fiftee* Soothers States stripped of their
power, dignity and equality! Fifteen SoCTfi
eri? States made the vassals of a horde of
1 corrnpt vandals, to whose natures virtue is a
stranger, and in whose conceptions honesty
has no pljice. We will not doubt, under such
circumstances, the patriot spirit of all true
| lovers of the Constitution will be aroused, and
that when the ides of November come they will
be mingling their gratulations over a victory
in which peace, order and equality are pre
served in every State of our glorious Union.
The issue is before you?Sectionalism and its
corollary, Disunion?or the Constitution and
the Union under the Constitution!. Choose y#
which you will have.
SOMKTHINO Nr.w.?There is * gathering of
deaf mutes at Concord, New IIamp*hire, on
the 3d of September next, when an oration it to
be delivered, in the sign language of course,
by Laurent Clerc, who has been chosen orator
of the day. The services of Rer. Tbomas
Gallaudet, of New York, had been secured as
interpreter for the benefit of the hearing por
tion of the assembly.
HOLD THKH HKHPUMH1UL.K.
The Black Republican majority in Congress
having charge of the entire business before it,
has allowed eight month* of the session to pass
in shameful an in designed disregard of the
public interests and the public business.
It has wasted the money of the public trea
sury with prodigality, and no bill of public in
terest has yet been passed. The Topeka Con
stitution, being a Peter Fuuk operation to
create excitement and to consume time. We
have already, early in the session, sounded the
alarm, that a settled purpose existed in the
Black Republican ranks to make this a session
of plunder; that to accomplish their purpose,
this party would deny the Senate the right to pass
the first appropriation bills, because they would
be brought forward early in the session, be
fully discussed and intelligently acted upon;
that this was precisely what this party did not
want, it designed neither itself to allow full op
portunity for discussion, nor to permit the
Senate to afford it, but by delaying all action
on money matters, to jam business into the
last few days, and then to rush through their
plundering schemes.
We again sound the alarm and earnestly
solicit the watchful attention of the public and
of good men in Congress of every party, to
vote down and throw out every item, which
bears not conclusive evidence of its propriety.
We are pained to learn that the Black Re
publicans boast .that there are Democrats
enough who have "axes of their own to grind "
which will enable these Republicans to log-roll
their plundering schemes through Congress.
These Democrats who have bills which are
deserving, and ought to pass, should not per
mit themselves to be ensnared by the Republi
cans. Let them frankly and boldly bring for
ward their measures, relying upon their in
trinsic merit. Their constituents will perceive,
and readily understand why they are defeated,
if they be defeated, and they will altogether
approve the course of their representatives
for prefering defeat to log-rolling with excep
tionable measures. Vengeance is specially de
nounced against this District, and threats held
out that no appropriations for it shall be made.
They may be able to accomplish their threats;
but if appropriations for the District are to be
had only in company with plundering bills as
a toll, better that the appropriations be lost.
These men are cunning, they walk with their
feet reversed, the heel being where the toes
should be, faintly and cunningly opposing a bill
they wish passed, and vehemently advocating,
upon objectionable grounds, bills they wish
defeated.
Again, we say, let members be on the alert,
conspiracies against the treasury are afloat.
Let Democrats be careful, be watchful.
FUKUIUN OKU AM UK KRKHOST-FOR
KION REASONS POR HIS ELECTION.
We take the following from the Pays, a
French journal, and commend to the attention
of our readers the reasons urged for the suc
cess of the Black Republican ticket. Our for
eign contemporary seems to hope that the
"moral senseP of the people ma; be aroused
in the United States by the election of the \
Glorious ExplorerI But it is a fact of much
significance that the Black Republican ticket
is recommended to the sympathies of the Pays
by a " loyal recognition" of precisely those
principles, which, to recognise here, is not only
disloyal, but treasonable, under our Constitu
tion. We had not expected so soon, from for
eign journals, who are at enmity with our
institutions, so thorough an understanding of
the principles and dark purposes of this treach
erous party in our country:
"Colonel Fremont, on the contrary, whom
the Convention of the Black Republican party
has just chosen for its candidate, is recom
mended to our sympathies by a loyal recogni
tion of all the principles of public right and of
internal morality which Europe ha9 proclaimed.
Declared adversary of slavery, and finding his
country large enough to satisfy all the desires
of Americans, Colonel Fremont would bring to
the United States peace with Europe, and
might, perhaps, raise them from the degrada
tion which they suffer by their position as
slave-producers. It is evidently between these
two candidates, that the election will fall, be
cause they alone personify two vital forces and
two opposite solutions. Even the Know-noth
ings have understood this. Composed, in part,
of Abolitionists of the North, they could not
vote for Mr. Fillmore, who has declared him
self in favor of the Clay Compromise. Thus,
a new Convention of their adherents has just
cast its vote for Colonel Fremont; and if a
moral sense should at last be aroused in the
United States, it would not be impossible that
the glorious explorer of the West, whose name
is very popular throughout America, may
become in four months the regenerator of his
country?the repairer of the faults committed
during six years past by a selfish Democracy."
THE WHIGS.
We quote the following extract from that
popular and influential paper, the Spectator, of
Erie, Pa.
It will be seen that the Spectator has always
been, and now is, an old line Whig. That in
the present campaign, " there being no Whig
candidate" in the field, it finds it?<)f impelled
by every feeling of patriotism to support Mr.
Buchanan, as a man alike worthy of the honor,
and the only one who can defeat the nominee
of the black conspirators. The Spectator
views Mr. Fillmore in the light in which he
views himself, as having abandoned the Whig
party, and having formally joined the Ameri
can party.
" The proprietor of the German Erie Spec
tator would respectfully announce to his pa
trons that for the past eighteen years be has
published a paper invariably devoted to the
promotion of Whig principles. That as to the
correctness of those principles his opinions re
main unchanged, but in the present preaiden
tial canvass (there being no Whig in the field)
his services shall be devoted to the success of
the most experienced statesman of this nation,
Pennsylvania's favorite son, James Buchanan.
Believing that sectionalism forms no part of
his political creed, and that all the diversified
interest# of this country woold be faithfully
protected under his administration, we cordi
ally invite the co-operation of our patrons
under his banner for the sake of the Union."
A Prcnaonter Suddenly Called Off.
On Saturday, one of that numerous gang of
Fremont politicians, who are hired to go from
place to place, blowing for the fusion nomi
nees, s'opped awhile in this city. He opened
in a public house with an offer to bet on Fre
mont, but on finding customers ready to plank
the dimes, be grew fidgety-?backed and filled,
and finally, as "a get off," proposed to stand
treat all around. A call on was accordingly
made, when the Fremonter, having swallowed
his portion, suddenly came np missing. He
forgot to pay.?Rochester Daily Advertiser.
THE CASIC KTATBD.
TU Democratic Creed.?That at the time
of forming a constitution, the people shall, for
themselves, form just such a constitution as is
agreeable to themselves, having no other re
striction than that placed by the Federal Con
( stitution, to wit: That the constitution shall
embrace a republican form of government.
Every one may ihus come in as a free State no
matter whether above or below 36? 30'.
: Tlie Black Republican Creed.?That no
State whatever, hereafter shall come in with
slavery, even though the people be unanimous
| in favor of it, and the State shall lie far below
: 36? 3CK, and the constitution be according to
I the Federal Constitution. Any constitution
1 not prohibiting slavery shall be sent back to
the people, no matter in what latitude and how
unanimous soever the people may be in its
favor. Which of these two issues show most
moderation, most justice?
GREAT MEETING IN PORTLAND, ME.
On Thursday, the 7th instant, at Portland,
Maine, a grand mass meeting of the Demo
cracy is to be held, at which, among other dis
tinguished speakers, the following are ex
pected :
Hon. Howell Cobb, of Georgia,
Hon. Isaac Toucey, of Connecticut,
John Van Buren, Esq.,
Hon. T. J. D. Fuller, of Maine, and
The Hon. John S. Wells.
Every mountain top, and every valley of tho
State will contribute their streams of Demo
cracy to make a flood tide at Portland.
We have reliable assurances that Maine will
give at least five thousand majority for Buch
anan.
Had we the leisure, we should not fail to be
present to witness this great demonstration,
and to exchange in person with our Northern
friends congratulations upon our bright pros
pects.
Puritan Origin or the Fugitive Slave
Law.
The Boston Courier gives the following bits
of history, from whiclf it appears that the
practice of restoring fugitives from service had
its origin among the old Puritans:
It may interest the readers of these papers,
as a piece of curious antiquarian history, to
know the origin of the practice of restoring
fugitives from service. In the articles of con
federation between the United Colonies of New
England, viz: Massachusetts, New Plymouth
Connecticut, New Haven, 4c., made in 1643*
and made, as the preamble declares, by those'
who all come into these parts of America
with one and the same end in aim, uamelv: to
advance the kingdom of our Lord Jesus
Christ, and to enjoy the liberties of the gospel
in purity and peace"?there is the following
provision: "It is also agreed that if any ser
vant runs away from his master into any con
federate jurisdiction, in such case, upon certi
ficate from one magistrate in the jurisdiction
out of which the servant fled, or upon other
due proof, the said servant shall be delivered
to Ins master, or any other that pursues and
brings such certificate or proof."
It thus appears, says the Courier, that the
rendition of fugitives from services in this
couutry commenced more than two hundred
years ago, and, what is remarkable, the mode
of proof required by ths agreement of the Colo
nies, is precisely analagous to one of the modes
prescribed by the act of 1850; the only diffe
rence between them being the more elevated
character of the tribunal "in the jurisdiction
out of which the servant fled," before which
the proof is now made, and the greater caution
in the proceedings. It is presumed that the
subjects of this compact between the Colonies
were rather white servants and apprentices
thin negro slaves, who, in 1643, were very few
in number. It was very common in those early
times, more than at present, for master me
chanics to take indentured apprentices, who if
ihey absconded, were (and note are) liable to
be arrested and returned to their masters, as
persons held to labor or service in the State
whence tbey fled.
The same rule prevails now in regard to white
fugitives which was adopted by the early Puri
tans, and is applied by the fugitive slave law to
fugitive slaves. Yet the Abolitionists would
see the Union dissolved rather than apply the
same rule to runaway blacks to which runaway
white men are subjected I
M irhlgan.
We quote from the Detroit Free Press:
"If bluff and brag and swagger were the chief
element* and evidences of popular strength in
this, contest, we should say that the electoral
vote of Michigan (6 in number) would be given
to Fremont But, thanks to theframersof our
system of government, all political contests
must be determined bj votes, and not by bluff
and brag and swagger. This being the fact,
the electoral vote of Michigan will, if the demo
cratic party do its whole duty, be cast for Mr.
Buchanan.
"The democracy will do its duty, and the
electoral vote of Michigan will be given to Mr.
Buchanan. Wayne county can, and the will
01VE SEVEN HUNDRED DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY.
The city of Detroit can, and it will, give
TWELVE HGNDRID DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY. We
are not over confident, and we do not exagge
rate. Never was the democratic party in this
city and county so well united and so strong as
il is at this present moment. Never was it so
determined to disperse and annihilate the op
posing bands. And this union and spirit of
determination is not confined to the city of
Detroit and county of Wayne. It prevail?
widely and is spreading, and it will not cease
to spread until the election day shall have
passed. _
About Miciiioan.?There has been ranch
brag and bluster among the fusionista over
their prospects in Michigan. They have claimed
the State by an imposing array of figures,
which certainly look formidable upon paper.
The amalgamationists certainly commenced
the campaign there upon a high key, and have
kept up the strain with considerable .zeal, hut
they have not fairly got into the fight yet. The
Free Press states that the Democrats are just
beginning to wake up to the work?that (bey
will go forward with an assured tread , will put
the coalition to flight, and give, beyond doubt
or peradventnre, the electoral vote of the State
to Buchanan and Breckinridge. It says'there
is no room for doubt in this matter. Th?
triumph of the Democracy is certain.
[ Rochester Daily Advertiser.
A Marrtino Man.?The, Newbury port Her
ald relates that a man who has been able to
live with a good degree of quiet in that city
while two women claimed him as husband, was
taken all aback on Wednesday evening by the
appearance-of a third lady in the name charac
ter, and " muzzled." The last claimant is
from New Orleans, and she says the man has
still another wife in Wales.
A correspondent of the Boston Tran
script says the Chinese linden, or lime, in addi
tion to its being the very best and most beauti
ful shade tree, is of great importance as a de
stroyer of the common house fly. In the
season of flies he had found that almost innu
merable quantities of dead-house flies were, in
the morning, under the branches of linden,
amounting to thousands upon thousand!, the
surface around being lite taly covered with
tiem.
t'ttUehoud trout the Pulpit.
Ihe following from Senator Douglas uot
on y exposed a shameful instance of partizan
alsehaod in the pulpit, but corrects misrepre
sentations which have been extensively circa
lated through the press:
sy. i ,r?
Sunday, the 1st day of June in* I.
preached by you in ?he Plymouth
dull t Ch,C**?> J?u deemed it y?ur
duty to assail me personally and by name.
and mTb!L? **** Mr- Sumner
and Mr. Brooks, you say: "Douglas, of .riant
infamy, stood by with his bauds in his pockets."
AUhough I have no personal acquaintance
with }ou, or knowledge of your character as
a citizen or a minister of the Gospel, my re
spect for your profession, and for those Chris
tian principles which it is your duty to pro
claim and observe, induce me to take it for
granted that you would not knowingly utter an
unmitigated falsehood in the pulpit onthe
Sabbath day, with the intent toinju* the
character of a fellow-citizen j and that, bavin*
fe?eTit both a"dhi aD ACt ?/ inJU8tice' y?u wil1
in?L! i. ,t y Un,d a PleaHur? to repair the
"2 ihl 8ame place, and before the same
dience, where the injury was done. With
??f e"abhnK/ou to do me and your
self and the cause of truth the act of justice
true? that' fT A*1*?* t0 >'ou?tl,at " is not
true that I stood by with my hands in my
pockets at the time?that I was not in the
iha'rTd I n ? WheD the affrfty ,ook place
ion tlliT WUne88 a"y Part ?f lhe transac
tion?that I was engaged in consultation on
public affairs with several Senators and Repre
Umeaand8hndaI!0ther Partof lbe CaPitol at the
lme, and had been so engaged for more than
an hour previous?that I had no knowledge
waa1tatt?ll' 0ri bel,ef' that any Buch tr&nsaction
n " h ja, e a* tJmt or ttnr other time?
that a M ?? ge 0r rett80n to believe
that either Mr. Sumner or Mr. Brooks was in
or near the Capitol at the time: and when I
h!ln l? !)Sena.te Cha'"ber the affray had
wZti?:. *?d qU'" h"d b,?" restored for
I |,hef,e <act8 are not only snsceptible of proof
by the Senators and Representatives referred to,
but are so well known to the Senate and to the
whole community here, that no gentleman
would hazard his character for truth and vera
city by intimating his belief in the truth of the
charge which you, under some strange misap
prehension, have made against me in the pul
pit of a Chr.stian Church, on the Sabbath (fay
?, IT *ru represented as having made
another charge against me, equally unfounded
and untrue, which I quote from the newspapers
C?Py ?f the Printed
in thl r Kansas cnme reveal a new step
in the policy of slavery ; that physical force
must and shall be used to carry out its mea
sures. Ihe instigator of all this crime (Dou?
las,) a short time since, ventured to divulge the
t!m ' P?llcM^n he declared to its first vie
t.m, We will subdue you, sir,' and no one
Uptime 8 Very g WaS hl hi8 mind at
In this passage you attribut to me language
wh.ch I never uttered, and a sentiment which I
never conceived or harbored. It is true that
the New York Tribune, and other unscrupulous
partizan sheets,attributed tome, several months
?am? se",iment; but it is also true,
Zt .*,* ??fC,a de?a?8 of t,,e St,na,e a^8t the
fact, that I promptly denied it in open Senate, in
he presence of Mr. Sumner, and all others to
whom it was alloged to have .been directed
and not one of them intimated or pretend that
?w? ?r5VM l[Ue\ Yet same charge,
which had been thus branded in open Senate
as a base calumny, and admitted to be such by
the silence of all the Senators to whom it was said
to have been directed, is now repeated, after the
lapse of several months, in the pulpit of thePlv
mouth Congregationa! Church of Chicago, and
r?n.nt jomdatiou of a series of inferences
equally unfounded and unjust. I have never ad
vised, or failed to rebuke, a resort to physical
force as a substitute for truth and reason in
tions decision of public ques
ri Jetrh!k the X,ebraska Bill?affirming the
right of the people to govern themselves ac
cording to the Constitution?was a crime, or a
wise and just measure, is a question which I
have always held myself ready to discuss calmly
and ffThvTTf 7 00 *" Pu0r"r occasions;
and ,f physical force or mob violence, or any
other improper means, have been used to destroy i
tha freedom of speeeh, either in Chicago or
elsewhere, it has uot been approved by me or
my i lends. I send this letter to you instead
o the newspapers, for the purpose of giving you
an opportunity of doing justice to me and?
the cause of truth, which I trust you will regard
a -Cbristain duty, in the same pulpit where
the injury was committed.
vn1 hkVj- lhe honor be, very respectfully,
your obedient servant,
r t p i? S- A- DOUGLAS.
Kev. J, E. Rot, Chicago, 111.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Order Rtlgni In K?Diu-Th( W?n are
over?The Border Rattans Gone.
Unless Lane with bis banditti can kick ap a
muss, Kansas will now remain quiet. What
new scheme the "screechers" will yet get up
to make blood-and-tbunder capital out of, re
mains to be seen. The New York Tribune's
special correspondent, July 6th, writing from
Lawrence, says:
"Never did the Free-State cause stand in
greater jeopardy. We have more peace now
than we have bad for many months, and the
lull witnesses an activity in agriculture, build
ing, and business affairs.
**?*?*?
"This morning the work began on the new
hotel. A considerable number of men went to
work removing the ruins to clear the site for
the new building. Three hearty cheers for the
work were given before they began. Taking
advantage of the peace for the last week or .two,
buildings have been going up very rapidly,
and Lawrence again preseuts a flourishing as
pect."
There's truth for you! There is peace in
Kansas! Think of it! And this puts the
Free-State cause in jeopardy??. the election
of Fremont. What will the sectionalists do?
Look out for some new card ? The only thing
that can minister to the diseased Free-soil
cause is a fresh batch of murders, burnings,
broils?a new rebellion?something to stir
with?anything horrible. Lookout!
The dreadful condition of the slavery agita
tors suggested to the Jersey Telegraph the fol
lowing mode of relief:
" Wanted.?Some half dozen smooth faced
Aminadab Sleeks to station themselves some
where on the Missouri line, to manufacture
' border-rnjfian outrages,' of the steepest kind,
for 'down east' consumption. Full employ
ment given until November 4th, 1856/
"For further information apply to Ward
Beecher, ?t. the Church of the Holy Rifles, or
of Horace Greeley, at the Tribune Office.
"P. S.?Political preachers preferred who
are accustomed to 'shrieking for freedom' and
I ' bleeding Kansas' in the sacred desk on the
Sabbath."
Saltino Hat.?Ttiis practice, we have rea
son to think, is greatly overdone. Two quarts
of fine salt to each ton of hay,scattered through
it is sufficient. It is a wasteful thing to get
hay in half made, and then attempt to save it
with salt. Two much salt is aa injurious to
cattle as for them to ffo without any.
ftfew England Farmer.
l?rNfM?MM of tte. s.?U||tL
WashiHotox, July 23, 1866.
On the 16th, 17tb, and 18th of April, 1848
great excitement prevailed in this District!
arising from the fact that a large numbT of
slave* had been stolen from the neighborhood
>yi certain white men in command of a pirati
eaUchooner, which had brought wood to tbii
On Sunday, April 16, the steamboat Salem
Captain Baker, and about thirty citizens started
n pursuit, and discovered the schooner Pearl
fcf m wld .b*rbor' at mouth of the
Potomac, ou Monday morning. The slaves
ssrrj- nur^ber' ^ ^ 2*5
Msh alldaDaH ? CaPtilin' Che?ter W
also below TheM .ra^lon> (w,lite men) were
the Pearl, >asll?^ rwnn,h hK8lde'
cured the fugitives and kidr/* .e8'Uar,d *e'
could resist, and returned wk?T' ,w?
jn*.o? on Tue.d.,, tb7l"^ The
fugitives consisted of thirty-eight men twenMr
six women, and thirteen children. Seventv
Virfrinla. ^ Di"trlct' and three from
rjvljo?thltene1- WaS 8?l *reat UP?" tb?
z::!r;r?,he culf,r"8 *"d
finia.tfe>|J7h,V>n of APriI 18> 1848, TOU Will
find a full statement of the above fact with
the names of the owners of most of the slaves
be. Allowing record shows the action of
the Criminal Court in the case:
Criminal Court of the District of Columbia
for the county of Washington. ^01umbia,
U MT?DaSkTATK3' V8' DauW^DrayUDn?' 1849'
May 8th. Convicted of transporting slaves
in 73 cases, and sentenced bv the Court :
Z) 7;p ????f ?i4o .?d c?,r.?
J. ?J t1ie fiue the owner of the slave ?n
i?iz, rfeAct of AsKmbi' ?r.
w?Kdere?d t0 be commi,ted to the Jail of
Washington county, till fines and costs are
?J*meAU,?er of cases vs. Edward Savers
Znl?" *?d C0" in ?""? '"d
Jest: JOHN A. SMITH, Clerk
Great efforts were made by the Aboli.ionist.
o procure the release of the prisoners through
the clemency of the President, Mr. Fillmore
but without success, uutil after General Scott
was nominated. Then, when Mr. Fillmore
had nothing more to expect from the South?
the Know-nothing party riot having been oriei
12th August 1852. Discharged from iail bv
more!*8* ? Stale8' Mi,,ard F'&
ItiH' r ? J0HN A- SMlTfl, Cl'k.
It becomes of importance next to know who
wa8 instrumental in procuring the relelseof
these wholesale robbers and pirates* ?? ?
If you will turn to page 48 of a book published
SnJ h ' Bo8ton> entitled "Recent
pardon of Drayton and Sayres, detained in
slaves. a"h,D*ton tor he,Pin^ ^e escape of
The argument occupies fourteen pages of
the book, and is introduced as follows:
"This case excited particular interest
Messrs. Drayton and Sayres had already been
in prison more than four years, when Mr. Sum
ner applied to President Fillmore for their par
? application, which was sustained
by petitions from other quarters, the President
interposed doubts of his right to exerdse th*
pardoning power in their case, but expressed a
desire, for light on this point.' Onhl^Zitl
D.Mr XiXrt? '*id b'"T Mn> ">? following
IZnUd. " a-ft'rv""rd' ">< Pardon Ji
The application was made on the 14th ot
fcdTSi l? the Whi^ Convention bj{
the pardon was not granted until the 12th of
Autjust, ichick teas after Mr. Fillmore had
Tw"i!h Wud Ge,,eral 8colt nominated.
I wish my Whig friends to note one other
fact in connexion with this case, m" ThS
there was a requisition in the hands of th?
B3W rued XOo??rlmUM.*
cr,?a?i;:?Derr:j,c,*dd "?
of Vi^nia U#t dema"d8 ?f ,he oulraff'edrTaws
Mr. Fillmore not onlyreleased the prisoner*
from the fings and costs due the United States
but also from that portion of the fines duo in
th. and for M
nghUm. claim vpon Ot GoJmmM.3
QUANTICO.
Astonishing KlTecli of Guano.
Although tome people may be inclined to '
donbt the truth of the following yarn, we can
brinp forward any number of vouchers:
" An old nalt of our acquaintance says that
when he was in the guano trade he sailed as
mate of an old brig which might have been a
tender to Noah's ark. On a return trip with
a load of guano, the batches were left open one
night, and a tremendous shower wet the guano
in the hold, and produced the most surprising
effects. The timbers of the vessel sprouted
and grew in all directions. Between decks
was a complete bower. The forcaslle became
an almost impenetrable thicket, and the cabin
a beautiful arbor. The ruddur post being
made of white oak, grew up into a " live oak "
tree, which afforded a grateful shade to the
man at the helm, though he was sometimes an
noyed by the acorns rattling upon his tarpau
lin but. The masts became very imposing
with their evergreen foliage, and, strange to
relate, the foretopmast which had been carried
away in a gale, grew out again, and the alti
tude of all the masts was so much increas
ed as to render the brig exceedingly crank.
The vessel had boughs on her stern, and the
figure head (speaking 6guratively) was as full
ot boughs as a dancing master. They were
obliged to prune the bowsprit and some of the
spars twice a week. The quarter deck was
covered with shrubbery, and the cock's caboose
resembled a rustic summer house. Crab ap
ples grew on the pump handle, and a cherry
table in the cabin bore fruit. Perhaps the
most remarkable circumstance occasioned by
the stimulating and fertilizing influences of the
guano, was that the cock-roaches on board be
came so large that they could get up the an
chors and make sail on the brig. One of the
owners of the craft facetiously remarked that
she went out a foil rigged brig, and catne home
half bark. There is nothing like guano to
make things grow, and for strict truth and
veracity, give us an old sailor when be lays
himself out for a big yarn."?Bottun Hrrald.
Good for the old Tar?when you tell one,
tell a good 'un.
The new Ministry of Spain is constitu
ted as follows:
" President and Minister of War, O'Donnel;
Minister of Justice, Luziago; of Finance, Can
tero; of Marine,, Bayarri; of Interior, Eios
Rosas; of Public Works, Collado; of Foreign
Affairs, Pastor Diaz/^
Thi Nkw Gov*rwor or Kansas.?It is on
derstood that the Senate, on Thursday, confirm
ed the nomination of J. W. Geary, esq., as
Governor of Kansas.
One of our most fashionable bakers, on
b<4ng shown a specimen of the Bread Tree,
rejected it with scorn, saying contemptuously,
"Call that bread! Pshat Why there's no
alum in it."