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I have sworn upon the Alter of God, eternal hostility to every form of Tyranny ever the Mind of Man." Thomaa Joffertoo
n. WEBB, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
Volume X.
BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBLV COtNTY, PA. SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1847.
CWunber 46.
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DEMOCRATIC ADDRESS.
The following adihces was unanimously
adopted by the Democratic Delegates to
. tho 4 tli of March Convention;
Fellow Citizens of Pennsylvania:
Having fulfilled tho important irusis com
mitted bj you lo our charge, in nominating
Candidates to bo supported for Governor of
the Commonwealth, and Canal Commis
sioner, in October next, wo lespectfully
submit to your examination, tho considera
tions tint have guided us in our selection,
and which we respectfully apprehend, may
have some influenr.o in your decision. Wc
ate fully convinced that the essential wel
fare and liberty of the ponple of (hisRepub
lic aro in tho keeping of tho Democratic
Republican part of this Union and that
whenever tho day shall airivo that that par
ly is finally overthrown, and the power in
this country passes into the bauds of its an
tagonists, the cause of rational liberty will
bo oxtinct horo. Impressod with (his con
vict'un, wn consider it our duty, anJ the du
ly of every true Democrat and friend to
Jiherty, to devoie his best thoughts and his
. r ' . i r . I . : . I I,.,
roost faithful cxeniom to letain and contm
no power in the hands of the people, and
to make every reasonable sacrifice lo sup
port that ciuse, to establish and sustain
which our fathers periled 'iheir lives, their
fortunes, and then sacred honor.' If there
bo any truth that should be written in let
' Mors of burning light, and be kept alwaye
' before tho eyes of a peoplo dial would be
' free, it is this, 'that the price of liberty is
eternal vigilance' It is an important truth
verified too frequently in the short history
of this, yet favored, country, that whenever
the enemies of the Democratic cause have
succeeded to power, they have impressed
sorao palpable wrong upon our country
inflicted some violence upon popular rights
or loft some blot upon our institutions
that years of prudent and just administration
could not efface.
Tho cru?l wrong done to the soldfors and
jtatriols of our Revolution, by the iniquitous
funding system of 1789, the alien and sedi
ion law of 1708, and tho appointn.cnt of
ia midnight judges the establishment of
Vie United States Hank in 1810, which has
nlarded '.ho natural prosperity of our coun
ty, and partictilhrly that of Pennsylvania,
li'r at least fifty yoars; for it was upon her
-, hat the chief calamity fell, and spread a
jtioral blight over our counry, moro perni
cious in its consequences than the taste ol.
the forbidden manna and 'last nor least'
in the catalogue, passing over mtr.y other
instances of flagrant abuses which it would
be tedious and painful to recount, tho pas
sago of the nefarious Bankrupt act of 1812,
the moat stupendous fraud that was evor
solemnized by a legislative enactmout, and
which struck at the vitals ol morality and
good faith among men. These are some ol
the bitter consequences of the imprudence
of a free and rational peoplo, in permitting
iho rulo of their destiny to fall into the
J7-hands of thoso who hold in contempt the
7 J - . . f l! t.
jT iacred piincipies 01 equal rignis.
Pennsylvania has had a dear bought ex-
iorience in leisons of political prudence
folia to the lot or tho Democratic
party, and the present generation, lo ropali
the tavajres and wasle of many years of in
sine, wild, and prodigal rulo. In ordor to
1 it.,, ti will rcauire many yean of the
oil piien endurance of tho fcurdena of
taxrtion anil self-denial by the virtuous
yeomanry, ami many years of providont
and prudent administration, under llioguid
anco of the most rigid integrity, aided by
wise legislation, to redeem our great and
rmnd Slnto finm her embarrassments. Hut
discouraging as her condition may be, yei
.
by a steady persoveranco in tho policy a
Jopled under the present Governor, ui
Commonwealth can be redeomed, and re
stored to her former prosperity. Kigiu
prmience, sound judgment and unyielding
integrity, aro what are imperatively ue
manded in the guidance of our affairs, in
the atescnt condition of our Slato. Thest
qualities distinguish, in an eminent degree
the picsenl Chiof Magistrate of our Com
monwealthi The name of Fhancis R
Siiunk is intimately associated in the opin
ions of the neonlo of Pennsylvania, will
tho idea of lioral and political honesty
I'lie rudiments of hi3 poplical fail!) and
morals were acquired under the auspices of
ihe pumtninded and virtuous Simor. Sny
ler; and forty years of faithful public ser
vice havo proved I lie fidelity with which
ho has adhered lo the sound doctrines, pure
patrintis'n and Hgid integrity of that gri
and good man, In Francis It Siiunk we
see renewed ilie admirable virtues of thai
irnly excellent magistrate, 'vlio for nine
ycais, tnrougn a most stormy and trying
period of our history, wielded the Execu
live destinies of our Stale without giving
occasion to awaken the least suspicion ol
s integrity wounding in the slightest de
grco the prosperity of tho State, or sully
g tho luslio of hia own pure famo.
In these stormy days when the good
ship Pennsylvania is loaded down with a
debt of forty millions of dollars, und wliil
her people are embarrassed with a burden-
scmo system of taxation and while selfisf
interests are seeking lo embarrass her slil
more by eluding tho common burdens anil
casting them upon tho shoulders of ihe in
dustrious yeomanry, who already are iradi
to bear an unequal share of the public load,
it is the more necessary tnal we should
havo a steady and skilful hand at tho helm
to guide her safely through the breakers
Again, our couniry is at wai wiih a for
eign power, and hence il becomes necessa
ry that the combined energy of the whole
Union should bo exerted to sustain the hon
or and integrity of the Republic, anil briny
Ihe war, by a vigorous prosecution, to an
honorable and prosperous termination, Uu
sinco it is too apparent nut to admit, the
humiliating fact, that there is still an infat
uated patty who are willing Mo rise as oui
country sinks,' if they must aink as otn
couniry rises' and instead of that com
bined action of all hearts and all hands in
the common cause, faction has reaied its o
dious front, to cripple our energies, encour
age the foe, and paralyse the arm of gov
ernment, it becomes eminently nccessjry
that we should have ai the head of our Cum
monweallh that Commonwealth which
has been, is now, and ever will be, while
the Union shall lusl. the chief bulwark ol
the Republic, a man whose patriotism can
not be doubted a man whoso attachment
lo tho independence, security and glory of
tho Union, is loo strong lo be disturbed by
any calculations of political preferment by
the wanton sacrifice of the blood and treas
ure of tho American people, to pavp the
way to tho goal of any unworthy ambition
Such is Francis R, Shiiiik, whose conduct
in responding with alacrity to '.hi call of
the Exocutive of tho Union, and inking the
most vigorous measures '.o furnish the dou
ble quoia of troops requited of Pennsylva
nia is worthy of all commendation,
When the present Governor firs1
aasusied the Executive chair of Penn-
aylvania, her finances wr deiungen
and oil her fiscal families were diseased
and paralysed. Immediately her re
sources were examined her means e
sonomisen slate o encourage rn ni
and confidence was re-estahlioheil; and
credit restored, The public work'
have been kepi in Ihe mns i fiicienl con
dition lo facililsle Iranaporlatiun and a
waken the energies of trade- showing
a lively interest on Ihe pari of the pub
Ho egeotf impelled by lite example and
promptiludo of the Executive, lo BiJord
every aid to Iho peoplo in thoir exer
lions to rolriovo the wasto of former
years, and lo relieve themselves and the
Slate from the etnbarrasmenis that rest
d on both. The interest on (he public
debt, which had boon sufJVrod to accu
mulato for many years, rolling up by
compound ratio, and swelling the prin
ciple lo ll.e.cn jrmous amount 42,000,
000 of dollars, has been regularly paid
with a small deduction and this ton
accomplished through the most oxem-
nlaiy nromplittido and economy, aided
mainly by that healthy confidence ex
isline between ihe Executive and the
people.
In the meantime, the present Exeru
live has vigilantly watched over tin
riglrs of the people, resisting all 6ucl
measures, legislative or otherwise, at
ivcro calculated lo enroach upon llif
common welfare, and lo build up lb
inul and private iuierests of Iho man)
Pne wisdom, prudence and fidelity e-
ineed by the past acts oi our excelleni
Governor, are the t-uresls guarantee foi
ihe correctness of iiis future course. Be
sides, ihe people of Pennsylvania owe
lo themselves to Iheir character, foi
ju5 appreciation of merit, as well lo
what id due to a faithful public serva nl,
o manilesl their decided approbation by
re-elecl ing him lo the station he hai
lilled with so much honor lo himself ami
benefit to Ihe Commonwealth. This,
marx of. tho approbation of a virtuous
people for the faithful discharge of pub
ic dut eg, is Ihe richest and most de
ireable reward thai an honest man on
receive. Take away this impulse lo
viriuous aclion and you weaken nay,
lever, the strongest bond that binds man
to his duly, li is the province of free
men, it is the mission ol I belly, lo te
ward fidelity and rebuke the unfaithful.
The delegates to this Conversion
were deeply impressed wiih the impoi.
ance of tho responsible duty theyfhad lo
peilorm in Ihe froledlon of a Mii abl e
eandiihile for Iho office of Canal Conn."-
uoner. To this office is enlrusied the
ugh ami onerous charge of nunnginp
huI directing the public works of the
Commonwealth, connected with an ex
liosive official patronage, and the Irust
f disbursing a large amount of public
money. 'I be efficient and faithful man
geinenl of thW branch ol the public ad
ministration for the Its! Ihree or four
years, lias contributed in no small de
gree to susiain ihe public eredil and it is
duo lo ihe people that this important du
ty should be confided lo mon of capaci
ly and undoubted integrity.
1 he candidate selected by the Con
vention IS AlOHRIS LONOSTUETII, of
Montgomery counly.-Ho is well known
is an unwavering advocate and suppor
ter oi ihe principles of Democracy.
possesses Iho requisite experience and
capaciiy, and is recommended to youi
support by his acknowledged Srmnesf
of purposoand integrity. Wa liusl, there
fore, thai ihe candidates now presented
io Ihe Democracy oj Pennsylvania, will
receive, on Ihe second Tuesday of Oc
lober next, its undivided support. Par
lies must necessarily exists in a frei
government, and freedom cannot be
long sustained without Ihe effective or
gantzMiun of its supporleis. It hai-
Uen truly said )hat where there is ne
liberty ihey may be exempt from party
mile,' We conceive it lo be Ihe right
at will as the duly, of i very freeman,
to avow his sentiments as tojlhe distinc
tive princi) leg which guide Ine two
lireat parlies, into which he people ol
ihis couniry are divided. The Demo
e relic parly has im plicl confidence in Ihe
virtue and inlelligbncd of the people,
and in tho efficacy and security of the
popular power.
As you vtlua the grat truthi of Del
mocracy, as essential to the preservation
of our liberties, it io vour duty, fellow
citizens, lo oppose en u idivided front lo
your enemies in tho adproaching politic
cat contest, and to feel and exhibit that
Heady confidence and zoal that a just
cause cannot fail to inspire, lo ensure
the triumph of your candidates and your
principles
It is very apparent that the Federal
Whin parly are cxceedinily anxiour to
bring the Democratic parly of Pennsyl
vania in hostile collision with the De
mocracy of the Union, upon certain
points of policy, not yet pcrhat,j, well
understood by all, and the imprudent
imitation of which might 0e fatal to the
t.ieral harmony. Tho object of this-
exceeding anxiety to bring about the
collision, is too apparent lo need further
explanation. Puunsyivania has no true
interest inconsistent with (he genuine
nterests of her sister Slates.
Oar glorious old Commonwealth has
no legitimate interest which should plr.ee
lurin i host le attitude towards the
great Democratic family of the Union,
but on the coniraiy, il is lopeclfully
believed thai it is Ihe true p ihcy of the
Democracy of the whole Union, as a
measure of com nou prudence and com
mon salety; and we have a tight lo (lis
rust whoever would inculale a dtOerenl
policy.
Through some slight errors in policy
?ennylvania has not assumed the rank
in ihe confederacy that she deserves,
Yet her purposes have ever been patri
otic. By adapting a magnanimous and el-
Vdted code of politic in regard lo the
Union, she would occupy that high and
commanding position, to which hei
povvr, her population and her resources,
give her a title. She would sit as Ihe
great Arbitress among the Ameiican
sisteihood, poising aloft the scales ot
ju-tice, quieting their minds and calm
ing their passions supporting the hum
ble and humbling the proud, anil com
manding the homage ul all by her im
partiality.
EDUCATE TUlu PEOPLE.
Men of wenlih, men of lerninn,poui
instructions upon (he heads of the people
you owe them that baptism. Look
4t ihe gutter hatless, shoeless, and al-
naked, he is a pari of our king; a par!
of our soveiignly. Should he not re
ceive a sovereign's education.7 Should
ho not be prepared for the throne our
institutions have given him.? There is
a gem in overy human form; let the di
amond be polished, and il will shine in
truth and beauty. There is still in the
most debased 'a beam elhei ial, though
sullied and dishorned,siill divine.' And
our motto should be Teach and habit
ualo Ihe people to make a right use of
ihe faculties which God has given them
and then tiusl them foarlessly lo them
selves Give democracies education,
and freedom ol action, and then 'lol
them alont.'
'Uneducated mind, is- educated vice,'
for God made man lo know. He is
ihe creature of instruction; for in a right
education there in a di vino alchymy
tvhich lurni all the baser parts of mmi'
nature into gold. We aro told by the
indents that as soon as Ihe first rtys ol
tho morning sun fell upon the. Statues of
Memnon, it sent up music. It is after
the first rays of knowledge iall upon
man lhal his nature dueouises harmony
till before is Ihe darkness of barba
i ism.
i$il can see that wickedness leads lo
misery, yel very few find out that which
is equally certain that ignorance leads
o misery, and misery to wickidnos.
Dr. Johnson was once aked: " Who is
tho most miseiable man?' and the reply
of the sago was: 'that man who cannot
read on a rainy day. iho wrilor wa8
and saw
- . nailed lo one of
Ihe trees Ih s warning:
All dogs found in Ihis park will be
anoi. menu who w.s wiih us, re-
marking, 'unless dog. can read they are
pretty badly off here.' Now God his
not only written his laws upon the trees
uui in me stars ana me nowersjnis laws
are above us jand beneath us, on our
right and on our left, and if a man is not
ablo lo read, he is prolly badly off here
worseiff than the dog, for the dog has
a master to read for him; but man has
no master between him and his God.
A maxim, ot mora truth and force
ihan any I romember ever to have seen,
waB thrown off by a British statesman
by a man who was in learning vivid, va
ried and philosophical, and who in con
versation threw out more gems, spuk
ling and brilliant as theycome, than any
other man of his age. His profound
apothegm was that 'Education it the
cheap dfjtnce af nations.' And if I
mighi put a truism by the side of this,
would gay, it is cheaper to educate Ihe
infml mind, than to support aged crimi
nal. Yes, bestow the pemt on com
mon schools, and say pounds on pris
ons. Man was nol made to bo sent to
prison, but to bo educated: and Mhe
very worst use you can put a man lo ie
to hang him.' Neither is a manallu.
man Poor Box into whose moulh we art-
lo drop a few cents dsily. 'The igno
rant child left lo grow up darkening in
lo ihe deeper ignorance of manhood
with all its jealousies, and its nanovv
mindedness and its supertltions, and itt
penury of enjoyments.-poor amid Ihe in
lelleclual and moral riches of (ho uni
verse;, blind in this splended lemplt
which God has lighedt up, and famish
ing amid the profusions of omnipotence '
U, woe for those who trample on the mind
That fearful thing! thoy know not wha
they do
Nor what ihey deal with
io lay ruae nanus upon Uod a myatony
there.
Who knows anything ot the REruu
ua or Akdobue? There is such a re
puoiic, under the joint protection ol
France and Swn. li has laws by pre
scription, which aro adminisleaed by
two judges, one French and Ihe olhet
Spanish! This little republic comprise
Ally four vilages with a population ol
12,000 inhabitants, living on Ihe pro
duce of flocks and herds, iheir chief
wealth. When Napoleon crossed ihe
Pyrenees, on his way into Spain, he
stopped to 2ndorro the capital, and
promised to confer on tho republic a
writen code of laws. But this prom
ise concurrent political events prevented
him from performing the inhabitant
have at length formed a code for them
selves, and il was promulgated ,aM
mouth at the chief town. It is of iht
greatest simplicity, comprising all il,
euclmetitH, civil and criminal, in 100
r tides only. Murder is a crime ex
'rmely j'ate in this little slate, and, when
lenience of death is pronounced, it can
not be executed until it is comfirmed by
i general assembly of represenlives of
the villiges, convoked at Andorre. Tht
mode of execution is consistent with Ihe
nature of Ihe people. At a short dia
lunce from the road into Gaptalonia is s
tremendous precipice, the boiion ol
which no eye of man can discover. The
criminal, with his eyos bound, is led
lo Hie edge, and, in Ihe presence of
all who wish to attend, is thrown over
by lh execui ioner. Home Journal.
For Parents Pour waler haslily Into
a vessel of a narrow neek, little enters-
pour gradually, und by small quantities the
Vflinnl ill hllml ISnrh m Ilia aitnilo I
r, I... r.,ui:i:. .t. .u. rn J.
one passing through a park
,..UJ.vu u,iiiiaii iu ci,u uic mijy ciiior n0l without reason was
tuuuiiing vmiuieii tvo mucn m a lime,
A GREAT CLOCK.
nenrr c. Wfi.h. : . fBoan, I(!.,er ,
lh Liberator, thus describes the g re.t clock
, ,ne cslhedrsl of Slrssburt;.'
.Tho prieatJ anJ . fctT- reftJ
and t m now 3ilin4 in , char fe 9
gigantic clock-from the top nel les.ihsa
ono hundred feel, about thirty feet wide and
fifteen deep. Around rae are many strang
ers, wailing to see the working of this clock
as it strikes the hour of noon. Every eye
is upon Iho clockUt no'.v wants fire minutes,
of twelve The clock has struck, and, thi
people are gone, oxcept few whom thai
soxton or head man, with a wand andi
sword, is conducting round the building.-
I he clock is struck in this way ; The dial
is some twenty feet from the floor., on eack.
side of which is a cherub or little boy wiih.
a mallei, and over the dial is a email bell.
i no uuuiuu un mo ten airines tne nrt u
IH... l I. il .
quarter, that on the right the second qpao
ter. Some fifty feel over the dill, ins,
large niche, is a huge figure of Time, a bell
in his left, a scyiho in his right hand, Irts
from stands figure of a young mm wiih x
mallet, who strikes tho third quarter on the
ball in iho hand of Time, and then turns,
and glides with a slow step roond behind.
fime ; out comes an old man with a raal-.
lei, and places himself in front of him. As.
tho hour of twelve comes, ths old mau.de.
liberalcly raises his mallet and strikes
twelve limes on the boll, that eohosti
through the building and is hoard all round
the region of tho church. Then tha ot.t,
man glides slowly behind Father Time and.
die young man comes on teudy to perform,
his part as the time comes round again.-.
Soon as the old nun has struck twelve and!
disappeared, another set of machinery is.
put m roonon, some twenty feel h skerr
iiill. It is thus There 18 A lllflfi ninaa.
MlWUtf
with an image of Christ on it. Tha instant.
twelve has struck, one of lite apoUoa. walks,
ut uom bohina, oooie In front, turns
lacing ihe cross, bows and walks on round
to his place. As he does so, another cpmes
out in front, turns, bows and passes in, so
twelve apostles, figures large as life, walk.
ound, bow and pass on. As the last ap
pears, an enormous cock, perched on the
pinnaols of the clock, slowly fl,ps its
wings, stretches forth its neck and crows,
hree imes so loud as to be hoard outside
the church to some distance, and so naiur-
rally as lo bo mistaken for a real cock
I'hon all is as silent as dcalh. No wonder
this clock is the admiration of Europe. It
was made in 1571, and has pstforraed
llieoe mechanical wsndcrs erer- sinco, ex
cept aboul fifty years when il stood out ofi '
repair.
He thai putteih a Bible inlo the hands of
a child gives him mora than a kingdom
for it gives him a key to tha kini dom. of;
heaven.
Horc A mistrejs whom we still lora,
and still believe, though she has often ci-
ceivod us, bocaues we cannot hu f,.nn
i' f
without her.
In making some people Nature sDnaara,
to have made a mistake, tnstsid of tha-
heart being soft and tha bead hard, it is.
vice versa.
No man was erer cast down bv the 5.
justice of foilune, unless he had before suf-
iereu iiimsen to oe uaceiveU by her favors.
Kvery man naih his circles of possibili
ties both intellectually and morally, beyood
wnicn no may not easily go any more than
an animal which is tethered bat m him
tug hard and perseveringly at the rope,
unlike the animal's, it will lengiben for
ever.
He is a brave man who trembles .
when he walks at raidtuihl ibrourh ,
dark silent chamber of hia heart
Of all the tricks man's passions n!i,v I,:-
lhal is aboul the cunningesi, when he l
persuaded that ha is governing a,
ihe same lime he it gratifying ibero.
i.iiiiK iwico oeioro vou sneaV ..
or at least think once before .. ...A
. . " a vuvo"
IL... .Il ..I , .
. . UD" "'Oia
thv
named tho Father of Lies