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Pas|iugtfla frntuul: 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. National Democratic Committee Rooms. July 5, 1856. State executive committee:*, county and city clubs and associations, organized to promote the election uf the Democratic nomiitees for the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States, will address their communica tions to Hon. Charles J. Faulkner, of Vir ginia, Chairman of the National Democratic Resident Committee, Washington city, D. C. Democratic papers throughout the United State* are requested to copy the above notice. By order of the Committee. TO OUK FRIENDS. 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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."