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THE WINCHESTER WEEKLY APPEAL.
A FAMILY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO POLITICS, LOCAL INTERESTS, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC NEWS, AGRICULTURE, MECiTANISM, EDUCATION- INDEPENDENT ON ALL SUBJECTS
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Is it not Proved!
"Ten cent Jimmy," the Abolitionist
and Federalist, was once so much in
love with Democracy that he exclaim
ed: "If I thpvght I had a drop of Demo
cratic blood in my veins, I would open
them and let it out."
In June, 1837, the following letter
was publish in the Lancaster Union,
the Philadelphia Enquirer and other
papers; and in 1815 republished in the ,
Union. Nor was this all, the Ilart-j
ford Courant, to say nothing of a num-!
ber of papers in the same year, 1815, 1
published it. In adition we observe
that Peter Swindler, Esq., who heard
the declaration, has published a simi
lar letter. There are many living
who heard Buchanan utter the words.
The letter reads thus:
Lancaster, May 31 1837.
Dear Sib: Your favor of yesterday
was duly received by me this morning,
and in reply to the questions which
you here address to me, I hasten to
state that a number of years ago,
when the Federal and Democratic
parties were nearly equally balanced ,
in this country, I was passing the
Court House one evening and was in
formed by some persons that the Fed
eralists were holding a meeting in at
the time, and that the Hon. James
Buchanan was addressing it. Al
though I was a member of the Demo
cratic party, I went into hear what he
had to say, because I was always
pleased with his delivery and his man
ner of speaking. I had not been in the
Court House long before he elevated
his right hand above his head, and in
an emphatic manner exclaimed: "If
I thought I had a drop of Demo
cratic blood in my veins I would let
it out." I remember this distinctly,
because I turned to some person who
was standing near me at the time,
and observed: "What a rash and im
proper expression that is for any citi
izen to make on such an occasion."
I recalled it, too, because it was a
direct and unprovoked attack upon the
party to which I wawarmly and ar
dently attached. From that time I
ceased to entertain that respect for
Mr. Buchanan that I had formerly
done.
Very respectfully.
ANTHONY McGLINN.
New Anecdote op Burns. Being in
church one Sunday, and having some
difficulty in procuring a seat, a young
lady who perceived him, kindly made
way for him in her pew. The text
was upon the terrors of the Gospel, as
denounced against sinners, to prove
which, the preacher referred to sever
al passages of Scripture,to all of which
the lady seemed very attentive, but
somewhat agitated. Burns, on per
ceiving this, wrote with a pencil on
the blank leaf of her Bible the follow
ing lines:
"Fair maid, you need not take the hint,
Nor idle texts pursue;
'Twaa only ainners that he meant
Mot angels such as you!"
Nothing can constitute good breed
ing that has not good nature for its
foundation.
Mr. Fillmore iu Albany.
Below will be found Mr. Fillmore's
speech in Albany New York, when he
was received there by the Mayor and
other citizens of the City. We want
it to be read by every one into whose
hands this paper may fall. Hand
it round 'tis high-toned and can but
elicit the admiration even of his po
litical enemies:
Mr. Mayor, and Fellow Citizens:
This overwhelming demonstration of
congratulation and welcome almost
deprives me of the power of speech.
Here nearly thirty years ago I com
menced my political career. In this
building 1 first saw a Legislative body
in session, (cheers) but at that time it
never entered into the aspirations of
my heart that I should receive such a
welcome as this, in the Capital of my
native State. (Cheers )
You have been pleased, sir, to al
lude to rny former services and my
probable course, if I should be again
called to the position ot Chief Magis
trate of the nation, (Applause.) It
is not pleasant to speak of one's self,
yet I trust that the occasion will justi
fy me in brieflly alluding to one or two
events connected with my last admin
istration. (Cheers.) You all know
that when I was called to the execu
tive chair by a breavement which
overwhelmed the nation with grief,
thatthe country was unfortunately ag
itated from one end to the other upon
the all exciting subject of Slaver)-.
It was then, sir, that I felt it my duty
to rise above every sectional preju
dice and look to the welfare of the
whole nation. (Applause.) I was
compelled, to a certain extent, to
overcome long cherished prejudices,
and disregard party claims. (Great
andprolongedapplau.se.) Hut in do
ing this, sir, I did no more than was
done by many abler and bettor men
than myself. I was by no means the
sole instrument, under Providence, in
harmonizing those difficulties. (Ap
plause ) There were at that time no
ble, independent, high-souled men, iu
both Houses of Congress, belonging to
both the great political parties of the
country Whigs and Democrats,
who spurned the character of selfish
party leaders (cheers.) rallied around
my administration, in support of the
great measures which restored peace
to an agitated and di -traded country.
By the blessings of Divine Providence,
our .efforts were crowned with signal
success, (cheers) and when I left the
Presidential chair, the whole nation
was prosperous and contented, and
our relations with all foreign nations j
were of the most amicable kind.
(Cheers.) The cloud that hung upon
the horizon was dissipated but where
are we now? Alas! Threatened at
home with civil war, and from abroad
with a rupture of our peaceful rela
tions. 1 shall not seek to trace the
causes of this change, These are the
facts and it is for you to ponder upon
them. Of the present administration
I have nothing to say, and can appre
ciate the difficulties of administering
this government, and if the present ex
ecutive and his supporters have with
good intention and honest hearts,
made a mistake, I hope God may for
give them as I do. (Loud and prolong
ed applause.) But if there be those
who have brought these calamities
upon the country, for selfish or ambi
tious objects, it is your duty, fellow
citizens, to hold them to a strict re
sponsibility. (Cheers.)
The agitation which disturbed the
peace of the country in 1850 was una
voidable. It was brought upon us
by the acquisition of new territory,
for the govern of which it was necessa
ry to provide territorial adniinisitra
tion. But it is for you to say wheth
er the present agitation, which dis
tracts the country and threatens us
with civil war, has not been reckless
ly and wantonly produced by the adop
tion of a measure to aid in personal
advancement rather than in any pub
lic good. (Cheers.)
Sir, you have been pleased to say
that I have the union of these States
at heart. This, sir, is most true, for if
there be one object dearer to me than
any other, it is the unity, prosperity,
and glory ofthis great Republic; and
I confess frankly, sir, that 1 fear it is in
danger. I say nothing of any partic
ular section, much less of the several
candidates before the people. I prc
sumo they are all honorable men.
But, sir, what do we see? An exas
perated feeling between the North
and South, on the most exciting of all
topics, resulting in bloodshed and or
ganized military array.
But this is not all, sir. Ye see a
political party presenting candidates
for the Presidency and Vice Presiden
cy, selected for the first time from the
freo States alone, with the avowed
purpose of electing these candidates
by the suffrages of one part of the Un
ion only, to rule over the whole United
States. Can it be possible that those
who are engaged in such a measure
can have seriously reflected upon the
consequences which must inevitably
follow, in case of success? (Cheers.)
Can they have the madness, or the fol
ly to believe that our Southern breth
ren would submit to be governed by
such a Chief Magistrate? (Cheers.)
Would he be required Xo follow the
same rule prescribed by those who
elected him, in making his appoint
ments? If a man living South of Ma
son and Dixon's line be not worthy to
be President or Vice President, would
it be proper to select one from the
same quart er, as one of his Cabinet
Council, or to represent the nation in a
foreign country? Or, indeed, to col
lect tile revenue, or administer the
laws of the United States? If not,
what new rule is the President to
adopt in selecting men for oflice, that
the people themselves discard in se
lecting him?
These arc serious, but practical
questions, and in order to appreciate
them fully, it is only necessary to
turn the tables upon ourselves. Sup
pose that the South, having a majori
ty of the Electoral votes, should de
clare that they would only have slave
holders for President and Vice Prcsi
ident; and should elect such by their
exclusive suffrages to rule over us at
the North. Do you think we would
submit to it? No, not for a moment.
(Applause.) And do you believe that
your Southern brethren are less sensi
tive on this subject than you are, or less
jealous of their rights? (Tremendous
cheering.) If you do, let me tell you
that you are mistaken. And, there
fore, you see that if this sectional par
ty succeeds, it leads inevitably to the
destruction of this beautiful fabric
reared by our forefathers, cemented
by their blood, and bequeathed to us
as u priceless inheritance.
I tell you, my friends, that I speak
warmly on this subject, for I feel that
we arc in danger. I urn determined to
make a clean breast of it. I will wash
my hands of the consequences, what
ever they may br; and 1 tell you we
arc treading on the brink of a volca
no, that is liable at any moment to
burst forth and overwhelm the nation.
might by soft minis, hold out delusive
hopes, and thereby win votes. Hut 1
can never consent to be one thing to the
North and another to the South. I
should despise myself if I could be guil
ty of such evasion. ( I rcnienuous ap
plause.) for ?i)j conscience would lull
ask, with the dramatic poet
"la there not some secret curse
Some hidden thunder red with immortal
wrath
To blast the wretch who owes hid greatness
To his country's mini"
III the language of the lamented, im
mortal Clay kid rather be. right
than President." (Enthusiastic and
prolonged cheers.)
It seems to me impossible that those
engaged in this, can have contempla
ted the awful consequences of success.
If it breaks asunder the bonds of our
Union, and spreads anarchy and civil
war through the land, what is it less
than moral treason? Law and com
mon sense hold a man responsible for
the natural consequences of his act,
and must not those whose acts tend to
the destruction of the government, be
equally held responsible? (Applause.)
And let me also add, that when this
Union is dissolved, it will not be divi
ded into two Republics or two Monar
chies, but broken into fragments, and
at war with each other.
But, fellow-citizens, I have perhaps
said all that was necessary on this sub
ject, and I turn with pleasure to a less
important, but more agreeable topic.
(Cheers.) It has been my fortune du
ring my travels in Europe, to witness
once or twice the reception of Royalty,
in all the pomp and splendor ol milita
ry array, where the music was given
to order, and the cheers at word of
command. But, formyscll, 1 prize the
honest spontaneous throb of affection
with which you have wclcomctl me
back to my native State above all the
pageants which royalty can display.
-r-. . . ml i ...!,!. l. t
(uhecrs.J inereiorc, wnu u neun
overflowing with grateful emotion, I
return you a thousand thanks, and bid
you adieu, (l'rolongcd applause.;
Tasso being told that he had a fair
opportunity of taking advantage oi a
very bitter enemy;"! wish not to plun
der him," said he, "but there are things
I wish to take away from him not his
honor, his wealth, or his life but his
ill will."
Written for the Wlnclicstor Appeal
ril.LIUOKU AM DOXULSOIV.
BY LEWIS METCALFE.
A shout, a shout! tho cannon's roar
Is rolled ulong Atlantic's shore;
Hill-top and valley hoar it on,
And shout Fillmore and Doiiolson!
Then westward rolls the swelling tide,
Like waves that ocean's bosom ride,
And Appalachian forests join
To shout Fillmore and Donelson!
Tho mighty west lifts up its voice,
And all its woods andstrcatns rejoice,
And all the lund of Washington
Will bless Fillmore and Donelson!
Dissention hears the joyous song,
And quiet lulls the anjry tkrong
The North, tho South the twain are ono
To praise Fillinoro and Donelson.
A nation's hands are busy now,
Entwining cliaplels for their brows,
And vict'ry waits to place them on
Our own Fillmore and Donelson!
THE FI ICS'S1 AM) LAST ROICV.
My firsl-boni, my first-born! shall I e'er forget
tho charm
That filled with happiness my heart, when on
my clasping arm
Thy little head was pillowed, when I laid thee
on my breast,
And wept for very joy as I watched thy tran
quil rest?
Shall I e'er forget thy father's smile, and tho
beaming eye, that still
A glittering 'ear of joy and pride as ho looj.
ed on thee would fill?
The ccstacy of those dear hours can my spirit
e'er forget?
O no! they haunt my memory, like stars that
cannot set!
My gentle, helpless laat-born! how differently
I hailed
Thy coining, 'midst the clouds of care that my
life's full summer veiled!
My stars of hope and love wero gone my
mind was full of fears;
And the tears f shed on thy smooth face, O,
they were bitter tears!
Hushed was his voice that blessed my first
his lip no longer smiled,
There was no father's cyo togoze with rap
ture on my child;
And 0! how di flu rent from that first sweet sun
ny ecslacy,
Was the serious deep, and chastened buss,
my baae, I had in tlico!
My first-born, my first-born! how open was his
brow!
How like his father's was his eye, alas! 'tis
like it now!
How sweetly did the chestnut curls upon his
forehead wave!
And now they lie, unstirred, within tho dark
and voiceless grave:
Like some full-leaved yet fallen tree, with its
young and tender shoot
The sire and.son together rest, all motionless
and mute:
Tho first two treasures that I called mine own,
of all earth's store,
S'cep with death's curtains drawn around, to
greet thcsccycs no more.
My last-born, my last-born it cheers mo still
to trace
Thy father's lip, thy brother's eye, upon thy
lovely face;
Even now thy dear unconscious hand twines
sportive in my hair
Thy lip hath just as bright a smile as my lost
love used to wear:
I clnfp thee to my bosom, and I find a gentle
blis-
A comfort to my wounded heart, that nought
can give but this:
0 my first babe! thou wast a (lower to wreath
the brows of love;
But when love's light failed, this last was sent
a sweet star from above.
A lad on delivering milk a few mor
nings ago was asked why the milk
was so warm.
"I don't know," he replied with much
simplicity, "unless they put warm va
ter into it instead oi cold."
Wearyour learning like your watch,
in a private pocket, and don't pull it
out to show that you have one; but if
you are asked what o clock it is, tell
it.
The tongue is like a race-horse, it
runs the faster the less weight it car
ries.
A hypocrite is worse than an atheist
An atheist is but a ridiculous dcrider of
piety but a hypocrite makes a stand
mgjest of religion.
There is no policy like politeness
and a good manner is the best thing
in the world, either to get a good name
or to supply the want of it.
Little Kindnesses.
"Tis sweet to do something for thoso that we
love,
Though the favor bo ever so small. "
Brothers, sinters, did you ever try
the effect which little acts of kindness
produce upon that charmed circlo we
call home? Wo love to receive little
favors ourselves; and how pleasant
the reception of them makes the cir
cle! To draw up tho arm chair and
get the slippers for father, to watch if
any little service can be rendered to
mother, to help brother or assist sister,
how pleasant it makes home!
A little boy has a hard lesson given
him at school, and his teacher asks
himifhe thinks he can get it; for a mo
ment the little fellow hangs down his
head, but the next he looks brightly
up. ' I can get my sister to' help me,"
he says. That is right, sister, help lit
tle brother, and you are binding a tie
around his heart that may save him
in many an hour ol dark temptation.
"I don't know how to do this sum,
but brother will show me," says anoth
er little one.
"Sistci, I've dropped a stitch in my
knitting; I tried to pick it up, but it has
run down, and I can't fix it."
The little girl is flushed, and she watch
es her sister with a nervous anxiety,
while she replaces the "naughty
stitch."
"O, I am so glad," she says, as she
receives it again from the hands of
her sister, all nicely arranged; "you
are a good girl, Mary."
"Bring it to me sooner next time,
and then it won't get so bad," says the
gentle voice of Mary, as the little one
bounds away with a light heart to fin
ish her task.
If Mary had not helped her she
would have lost her walk in the gar
den. Surely, it is better to do as Ma
ry did, than to say, "O, go away and
don't trouble me," or to scold the little
one all the time you are performing
the trilling favor.
Little acts of kindness, gentle words,
loving smiles they strew the path of
lie with llowers; they make the sun
shine brighter, and the exeen earth
greener; and he who bade us 'love one
another Jooks with lavor upon tne
. i i '.if . t
gentle and kind-hearted, and he pro
nounccd the meek-blessed.
Brothers, sisteru, love one another,
fonc oll'cp.d, forgive and love him
still; and whatever may be the faults
of others, we must remember that, in
the sight of God, we have others as
great and perhaps greater than theirs.
Be kind to the little ones; they will
often be fretful and wayward. Be
patient with them, and amuse them.
How often a whole laniily ot little
. it i
ones are restored to poou numor oy
an elder member proposing some new
play, and perhaps joining in it, gath
ering them around her while she re
lates some pleasant story!
And brothers, do not think because
you are stronger, it is unmanly to be
grentle to your little brothers and sis
ters. True nobleness of heart, and
true manliness ol conduct, are never
coupled with pride and arrogance.
Nobility and gentleness go hand in
hand; and when I see a young gentle
man kind and respectful to his mother,
and gentle and forbearing to his
brothers and sisters, I think he has a
noble heart.
Ah! many a mother's and many a sis
ter's heart has been wrung by the cold
nrjrlect and stiff unkindness ot those
whom God has made their natural
protectors.
Brothers, sisters, never be unkind to
one another, never be ashamed to help
one another, never be ashamed to help
any one, and you will find that though
it id pleasant to receive favors, yet it
is more bless, d to give than to re
ceive. Sunday School Advocate.
Soi.iTi-nE. It has been said that he
who retires to solitude is either a beast
or an angel; the censure is too severe
and the praise unmerited; the discon
tented being, who retires lrnm society,
is generally some good-natured man
who has begun his life without expe
rience, and knows not how to gain it
in his intercourse with mankind.
Goldsmith.
Men arc more civilized ly their
pleasure than their occupations. This
dispenses not only with ceremony, but
often with common civ ility; and we
should become rude, repulsive and un
gracious, did wc not recover in our re
creations the urbanity which, in the
bustle of our labors, we disregard.
Piety which does not sweeten a
man's natural temper, may be compar
ed to fruit before it is ripe good in, its
kind, but not arrived at perfection.
Saturday Wight.
We have read nothing happier of
more beautifully expressed, for a long
time, than the following. There is po
etry and true genial feeling in it:
Saturday night! How the heart of
the weary man rejoices, as with lib;
week's wages in his pocket, ho hie.
him home to gather his little one
around him, and to draw consolation
from his hearthstone for the many
hard hours he has toiled to win his pit tance,
Saturday night! How thu
poor woman sighs for every relief a
she realizes that again God has sent
her time for rest; and though her re
wards have been small, yet she is con
tent to live on, for even her heart
builds in the future, a home where 'tis
always Saturday eve. How the carf
worn man of business relaxes his brow
and closing his shop, saunters delib
erately around to gather up a little
gossip ere he goes quickly home to
take a little rest. How softly the
young man pronounces the word, for n
bright-eyed maiden is in waiting, and
and this Saturday night! shall be a
blessed time for him. There will br
low words spoken at the garden gate,
and there will be a pressure of hands,
perhaps a presstue of lips blessed
Saturday night. To all Heaven has
given a little leaven which works in
the heart to stir up the gentle emo
tions, and Saturday night alone seems
the meet and luting time for dreaming
gentle dreams. Blessed Saturday
night, and we can but pray that
through life we may bear with us the
rememberance of its many holy hours,
now gone into the far Past; memories
which every Saturday eve but recalls
like a benediction pronounced by one
loved and gone.
How Scholars arc Made.
Costly apparatus and splendid cabi-
nets have no magical powers to make
scholars. In all circumstances, as a
man is, under God, tho maker of his
own fortune, so is he the maker of his
own mind. The Creator has so con
structed the human intellect that it
can grow only by its own action, and
by its own action it will most ccrtain-
y and necessarily grow. Every man
must, therefore, in an important sense,
educate himself. Ilis book and teach
er are but helps; the work is his. A
man is not educated until he has the
ability to summon, as an act of emer
gency, all his mental powers in vigor
ous exercise to effect his proposed obJ
ject. It is not the man that has seen
most, or has read most, who can do
this; such a one is in danger of being
borne down, like a beast of burden, b
an overloaded mass of other men's
thoughts. Nor is it the man who can
boast merely of native vigor and capac
ity; the greatest ot all the warriors that
went to the seige of Troy, had not the
1 i i
pre-eminence uecause nature nau giv
en him strength, and he carried the
largest bow, but because self-discipline
had taught him how to bend it.
Daniel Webster.
Dr. Dwight once closed a sermon
on "the happiness of heaven," with
the following beautiful smile:
"To the eye of man the sun appears
a pure light; a mass of unmingled glo
ry. Were we to sscend with a contin
ued flight towards this luminary, and
could, like the eagle, gaze directly on
its lustre, we should in our progress
behold its greatness continually en
large, and its splendor become every
moment more intense. As wc rose
through the heavens, we should see a
litttle orb, changing, gradually, into a
great world; and, as we advanced
nearer and nearer, should behold it.
expanding every way, until all tha!
was before us became an universe of
excessive and universal glory. Thus
the heavenly inhabitant will, at the
commencement of his happy existence,
see the divine system filled with mag
nificence and splendor, and arrayed iu
glory and beauty; and as he advancer
over and through the successive peri
ods of duration, will behold all things
more and more luminous, transporting
and sun-like forever."
The youth who can sneer at exalted
virtue, need not wait for ago and expe
rience, to commence a consumaU
knave.
All professions, it is said, have their
mysteries these are precisely V-.o
points in which consists their weak
ness or knavery.
As reasonably expect oaks from n
mushroom-bed. as great and durable
products from small and hasty efforts.
Experience U the fathrr. and mem
orv the mother of wisdom.