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....s-- PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.
7, Sry,rE-TuesdaY, December i, 1888.
A, bo,f mast ten o'clock A. NJ Col Krebs, of Schuyl
kill called the Senate to ORDER ana ai'er stauhg I'M
was the day appointed by the Constitution ior that noa
to assemble recommended that hour should be de
sgnated for the meeting Of the members 1t was then
On motion of Mr. Read, Of Susquehanna, resolved
that three o'clock P NJ be the hour at which the mem
bers of the Senate will meet for the purpose OF entering
upon their duties. o. Ar
The Senate came to order After the credentials o.
members elected during the present year haa oee
the Senate proceeded to the eleclon "a "PS'' ~
resulted as follows: m
For Thomas S. Cunningham, ~
For Almond II. Read, TO-. ~
Mr. Cunningham voted tor george AZ oa>e'' -'i''
Read voted for Uza Hopkins. :,
So Thomas S. Cunningham was declared 10 be duly
elected. T.,
The Speaker was conducted to the chair by Mr. Full
,eron and returned bis thanks for the mark OF confidence
hos,o,yed upon him in and appropriate address
The necessary oaths of Office were afterwards
ed by Mr. Penrose. A.,
Senate adourns it will adjourn 10 meet again at CLOCK
tomorrow morning and that that be the standing hour
of meeting until otherwise ordered :.
Messrs. Storm and Dickey were appointed a commit
tee to inform the House of Representatives, that the Sc
nate is ORGANISED and ready to proceed to business
On motion of MIR. Newhard, Thursday next was as
stoned for the election Of Clerks, Sergeant-at-Arms,
Door-keeper, Printers, NC
tee in conjunction with similar committee OF the III.
Of Representatives to inform the Governor that the Ge,
neral Assembly duly organized and ready to proceed
to business.
After the adoption Of 4 resolution providing fer the
usral snnDly of newspapers and the payment Of the
postage thereon, the Senate cdjourned ,,o-
HousE OF REPRESENTATIVES,, Dec: l, iojo.
Al II o'clock the House convened, all the members
but two present. Ncr !ddleSWarsh was e!ecteo speaker
on the first ballot.
Extract from Cor. WoLfs Message:
The prosperity of our country throughout its whole
extent Is great beyond all former example; but it is to
be lanened that whilst hearts should be filled with
gratitude and humble devotion for the bountcs OF Fro
violence to Him who bestows them, there should have
been manifested in some portions Of the Union spirit
OF wautonness and INSTRUMENTATION, Which has set aside
the ordinary forms Of law and executed summary
geance upon the devoted heads of whatsoever might fall
within its power according to its own underlined, Illicit
code of criminal Justice Wherever .his spirit was . Co.
the victim should suffer the penalty, whether gully
or innocent the arber of his fate. Property, life
liberty reputation, every thing that 10 dear to man upon
earth was made to submit this relentless ordeal Men
become the voluntary cxccutoners OF their fellow
Thesmost nhuman atrocities and wanton, co!aolooaet
murders committed in the open iace OF day. ant
sanctioned by communities who would feel teniSeive:
greatly scandalsed by having it supposed that they were
no, models of refinement, intelligence, and respectable
-: nIobs are collected together under the pretence that
some act of immortality or dishonesty had Oeeh con.
ted which it their province TO punish or TO correct
The domestic sanctuary entered by VIOLENCE the
obnoxious individual sought for, and if found fell vic
tim to an infatuated mob; if not his property became
sacrifice 10 frenzicd popuace, and all this under the
iustiabe plea Of necessity, the hardness OF the forms
of trial IN the Of law It would be gratifying to
feel consciousness that had nothing OF this spirit to
reproach ourselves with in own State but the truth
will not am constrained to say, bear US ont in claim
ing entire exemption from its destructive influences
Such things must net be tolerated in country profess
ing 10 be governed by just and equal laws If the laws
are too weak 10 afford protection to the citizen in every
emergency it is time they should be made more efficient
the lives Of citizens must be secured against iawcs;
violence and might not be Improbable 10 inquire, how
far it would conducc 10 the suppression OF riots. If by lc
Gal enactment the obligation to make restitution Of pro-
perry destroyed by mobs was imposed upon the conmu
nifty within whose limits its destruction was Perperaed
For some time past, certain individuals under The cog
noen of Aboltonists, few i'll number, but nla!esling
zeal worthy of better cause, have been laborng most
assiduously to impress upon the public mind The ncccs
sty of an immediate patton of that portion OF cur
population now held III bondage by the people OF the
South. As might we'll be supposed, the PRONUNCIATION
Of such doctrines produced excitement OF ordinary
character in that portion of the Union here slav'ry
exists and it has excited feelings OF sympathy to very
great extent in other parts OF the United States which
have called forth expressions of public sentiment the
subject of most decided character. In pennsylvania
public meetings have been held which have responded III
emphatic language TO the sentiments
There is, believe, very little difference OF feeling IN
regard to the question OF slavery in the abstract among
u.s. we all deporc its existence; drprecac it as an evil
and it is presumed there but few of us who would
Ii there was not u ~
SOIL inhabiting Stale which was the first to abolish
.,uAry we cannot be affected by the existing excitement
otherwise THAN -r..~ --~-, con
fcderacy and as forming link in the great chain which
binds it together such deeply Interested in the
peace the unity and integrity of the whole. This most
de!ica,e, and may be permitted 10 say unfortunate sub
ect formed part Of the civil poty OF the South before
and at the time of our great political association
The sages Of the revolution to whom the arrangement
and detail of the political compact entrusted
oft existence in its fullest extent they no
strangers to the segve condition Of the slave the
burdens inflicted upon the MASTER they knew that the
evil existed but they the mpossbility of providing
IN adequate remedy. They were well convinced that
there existed rights and interests which could not he alb
rogated abridged without preventing, forever the
tablishment of that union which they were anxious 10
cement or producing consequences TO their counry of
fur more dangerous and disastrous character and tell
dency, than the existence Of the rights and interests
they were about to concede. The rights admit.
ted hoscercr, ad the interests conccdcd among the many
other concessions which it became necessary grant
before all the conflicting claims could be reconcicd,
the parties the great bond of union which was their
purpose to form and to perpetuae could be armonzed
and concliated. These rights remain sacred now
they them and these interests sacredy vest
ed IN the people Of the siavc-holdng communities
they considered and known to be then; and
soemnly bound by the obligations Of justice, humanity
and good faith to abstain from interfering any
with them The doctrines Of universal emancipation
doubt had their origin in motives of the purest humanity
and IN the most benevolent designs, and would if left
to themselves, BY their mild and bengnant influences
hive greatly ameorated the condition of both master
and slave indeed they had already contributed great.
" 70 that desirable end and might, eventually, have
produced the very object which is now professedy held
out as the one desired to be accomplished. But the
present crusade against slavery the offspring of ia
nacsm of the dangerous and alarming character
which if not speedily checked, may kinde fire which
1T may require the best blood the country quench
and engender feelings which may prove fatal the in.
teg.ty ofthe Union ITSELF 1t must however, be left TO
public opinion alone to check and to control the further