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Resoired, That when the people act in
their original sovereign capacity in forming
new systems of government, they are not
bound Of conform to any rules or forms
Of proceeding not instituted by themselves"
The above revolution was introduced In
meeting in Concord, New Hampshire, In 1912.
by one Fmnklin Pierce, now President of
the United States. Ii had reference ut that
time, to the Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island.
II applies now with marked pertincncy TO
the abused citizens Of Kansas, whom the
President is endcayoring to crush because
they dare TO " act IN thar original sorereiyn
capacity IN forming neio system Of gopern.
ment." The President now thinks that
they I" are bound to conform TO rules and
forms Of proceeding not instituted by them
selves" He insists that they shall form a
STATE government, not rs they themselves
,rish and as they themselves hare done, but
according to an Admission programme
lately introduced in the U. 8. Senate by
Stephen Arnold Douglas. How long will
the American people coolly endure thcse
gcs?-Kn. Journal.
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From ii. c'"s''d R'r.,t., (E4~a.a Burke. ,s,oJ

From hs Coneord Reporter (Edmpnd Burke, pas,,,)
Ipril II.
Col. Fremont ~ NEw H,IPsuiRE. We
may rs well here state what we believe TO
be the intention Of those who are opposed
to the Administration, and what they will
endeayor to accomplish in the coming Pres
idcntial election. One thing is evident;
they viii support no man for President I'M
less he is an avowed supporter Of the prin-
ciples Of the non-extension Of slavery party.
No II" Union man" of the Southern inter
probation Of the phrase will receive their
votes. Thcyare united, determined and un-
changcable. 90 -
Whoever the candidate of the North
American Republicans may be, we can with
no degree Of certainty predict but We think
We can imagine, from the general feeling OF
favoritism expressed in the papers we have
read for tho last two months, that John T..
Fremont stands better chance of the nom
nation than any other man. Ills name is
familiar to every one-his indefatigablc ex-
ertlons over the mountains and the prairies
OF Oregon and California have been read
with interest everywhere. lie Is free ter
ritory man, In every sense of the word and
should he be elected TO that oifce-the high.
est in honor, the most responsible and the
most powerful known to man upon the sur
face OF the globe-hc will truly carry out
those principles. or untarnished rcputa.
ton, OF high order Of intellect and an er-
pansive mind, he has within him the very
elements Of success. l1..
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rule this Kansas 6ght 30 a. to give freedom
victory must eventually come, when thil
same court win decide that all State sover.
eighty Il annihilated when Q master In hi
sorereignfy sees ht to settle In free State
with his chattels around him.
II is understood that Judges Mclean,
Nelson and Curtis dissent from this decision.
If 30, then the United States Supreme Court
has also become sectional
Where and to what end as q nation arc
We drifting? Oh fora Moses to divide the
angry, turbulent waters, that the nation
might pass over in safety"
There are two remedies for such acts Of
Infamous usurpation. The first Is reform
in National politics, which shall drive the
slave power from its control over all the de-
partments Of the Government, and the sec
ond is State laws for the preservation of State
rights, and State Courts, like that in Wis
consin, which will zee that the State laws,
md the common law, senforced within their
jurisdiction.
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ARE THE PEOPLE LAwLEss. From jumb-
led mess Of Misrepresentation and NONSENSE
cal rhodomontade, covering column and q
half in the last Democrat, we pick out the
following, which has squirting towards
the " higher law"
"whatever is benefcent for the whole
community, is clothed with the authority OF
God himself. Ii is not our will that gives
the sanction to law; its rectitude, its utility
is its sanction this is made to be a sanction
to us by the very power that created u.s.
"The rectitudc of law is its sanction"
Pretty good higher law doctrine this. Upon
what principle does the Democrat support
the Fugitive Slave Law, laws passed by the
border rufian Legislature, Of Kansas, and
the Kansas Nebraska Act which proceeds
on the Internal dogma, that State may es-
tablish the diabolism Of slavery? As the editor
Of the Democrat is a great metaphysician,
perhaps he will explain the consistency Of
supporting such laws, and at the same time
putting forward the principle, that the rec
tittide Of law is its sanction.
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COMMERCE IN CooLiE.-Visitors to Cuba,
during the past winter, have had enlarged
opportunities of noting the condition Of
the Cody apprentices, Of whom thousands
swarm everywhere on that lovely island
On the plantation they have seen them driv-
en- to the field or the mill, like cattle, re
tanned at work with the lash, and whipped
cruelty for idlencss or insubordination. In
all particulars, they will have noted their
agrestic life suffers In comparison with that
OF the African who tolls at his side, for he
is spared, because owned, by his master,
while Cody servitude is restricted to Ger.
tain term Of years; and every interest OF
the sugar and tobacco cultivator lies in ex-
tracing the largest amount of service with
In that term. Those reserved for domestic
Offices far better. Yet, in the cities, the
comparison between the Afr can and Asiatic
Is always favorable to the former. The
Cody, though of much greater intelligence,
tact and industry, is more frequently whip
ped, more constantly oyerworked, more un-
sparingly abused. They arc bought and
sold precisely as the African. When, by
excessive cruelty, they are driven todcspair,
their refuge is suicide, opium supplying the
means, and the expectation Of immediate
translation after death to the celestial En-
pire, whence they came, the inducement.-
The number Of suicides is represented as
frightful. This scheme Of slavery. every fea-
ture Of which Is worse in all particulars than
negro servitude, sickens tho traveller in Gu
ba at every turn. Every domestic duty, in
GLIDING those ordinarily assigned to women,
he finds executed in the house where he
lodges by these oriental slaves. Slaves nom
inally, for seven years; bnt, substantially,
for life, since no provision is made for re-
storing them to their homes, and, while in
Cuba, their portion is the inevitable yoke.
IN. Y. Times.
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DorBrrL HoxAcE. The New York Mir.

TOR says - ..... 5000,
The anniversary Of the birthday Of Henry
Clay was celebrated at the Slashes of Han.
over, Virginia, (Air. Gays birth place. by
Caleb Cushing, Stephen A. Douglas, Sena.
tors Mason and Bigler, John ~. Bolts, and
Others. According to the reported speeches,
the four first named OF the above, exhausted
their powers Of eulogy over the memory Of
the /" Great Commoner." II Henry Clay
could have arisen in the midst of these Gu.
logists, who can doubt that whitening "
bukc would have flashed from his tongue,
making dumb tho mouths of men who,
while he was living, spared him no obloquy
that envy and malice could uttcr-who pur-
sued his fair name and fame, llike blood
hounds, TO the death, and when death had
laid him low land Webster had followed
him to the tomb) dared, with impious and
taitrous hands, to rend In twain one Of the
noblest works Of his life-the Missouri Com
promise. Alas that the purcst patriotism
and the trucst greatness can only triumph
when their illustrator has passed the portals
Of the grave. Stephen A. Douglas doing
homage TO the memory Of Horny Clay was
scene for the monilist-a spectacle OF men,
,nble repentance or more memorable hypoc-
-isy-the sincerity Of whose actions is known
,nly to the great Searchcr Of Hearts. Let
rs, difficult as il may be, have the charity
70 believe they were sincere.
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y Our northern non.resistant democmts
are much edited with a presentation of
Bibles to Major Buford's company Of Kan
sas emigrants, ut Montgomery, Ala. They
contrast 1t very ailectingly with the present.
alton of rifles by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
and other clergymen to the emigants from
New Haven. The force of the contrast il
somewhat weakened by the fact that Buford's
men ut the time Of the Bible presentation,
were fully armed with rifles, reyolven and
bowie kniyes-a fact which for the sake of
the argument the northern apologis,s for
border ruftanism find II convenient to over
look. When the " free-state rufians" Of
Massachusetts and Connecticut commence
the massacre of southerners in Kansas, IL IL
presumed that the only resistance made by
the latter will be the rehearsal of texts OF
scripture ut the top Of their voices, unless
in moment Of desperation some 20 far for
get their pacific principles as to fling their
Bibles ut the heads Of their sanguinary ~.
sailants.-Spring. Rep.
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The Day Book Again.


We have before US another, and later
number Of that delectable sheet, the New
York Day Book" I, is dated April 10.
The advantage of this paper is, that il states
the issues boldly. IL docs not dodge or
skulk, but comes squarely and fairly on to
the ground. There Isl refreshing frank
ness in the boldness Of its statements Of bad
principles, which we search for in vain in
other border rufhan prints. Knowing that
in the coming Presidential canvass, that de-
mocracy, as the supporters Of the National
Administration impiously style themselves,
will advocate and support the extension Of
human slavery, and concomitant wicked
ness,-it does not shirk the issue, but boldly
avows it, Us Ii will be seen from the follow
Ing extract we make from one Of its arti-
cles in this number.
In reply to the Boston Post. which ap-
pear" to be disturbed by its fankncss, /,
nys;-
Slavery extension " Is the sol. question
before the country, Cor know nothins,Sm 4
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y The Black Republicans Of this con-
gressional district have called a convention
to meet at the Town Hall in Saco on the
l4th Of May, to choose delegates to their
national convention, to be held at Philadel-
phia on the 18th of June.-Denocrdi.
This convention which the Border Rufiian
sheet in Saco, with its usual amenity Of
manners, says is called by the Black Re
publicans," is open to all the people of the
District, without regard to past political
differences or divisions, who are opposed to
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, to
the policy Of the present administration, to
the extension of Slavery into the territories
in favor Of the admission Of Kansas as a
Free State, and of restoring the action OF
the federal government to the principles Of
Washington and jefferson" This is a
broad platform inviting all, except the
abettors of Franklin Pierce, in his endeayor
TO sustain Border Rulfanism, and to make
Kansas Slave State. We hope that the
Convention will be well attended.
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= The Biddeford Union says it is "de-
ception" in us to speak Of the Cincinnati
Times, ga twelfth section Know Nothing
paper" as an opposition print.-Demoerdt
We said no such thing, and the border
ruifian print knows that we did not. All
twelfth section Know Nothings support
border rufhanism, and the policy Of the I'D.
ministation on the Kansas question as
heartily and unscrupulously as does the
Democrat itself. In this particular they
support the administration, and the "decep-
tom consists in bringing forward their
declarations, and calling them confessions
from opposition prints. What we said was
that. 1t is deception to put forward such
letters as appeared in the Times as I" confess
sions Of the opposition" Purblind as is
the Editor Of the Democrat, he knows better
than to parade the statements, Of twelfth
section know nothings, in regard to the
Kansas question as confessions of the oppo-
sition-for on this point there is no opposi-
ton between the administration and the
twelfth section X. Ms.
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Hos. n. p. Banks. Speaker Banks, hay
ing been invited 70 attend Mas Conven.
ton in New Jersey, in his letter stating his
inability to DO present, in consequence Of
his public duties, remarks as follows:
81 invoke for your convention the spirit
Of concession and union that concession
which l. made, as well as that which Is de-
handed land that union In action which
Distinguishes, in every ago Of the world,
men who arc CITED with capacity to partic-
ipate in the ailain Of government, and
which will never fail to give to any cause
that has o basis Of truth and eternal justice,
oil the success to which IL h entitled. Di-
versity Of opinion in non-esentials, when
suffered to control tho action Of men, viii
make success impossible, and defeat The bost
cause tho world has ever seen. Our friends
In Rhode Island, in Connecticut, and, above
all, in New Hampshire, have given M a
glorious lead, and won imperishable honor.
Let US profit BY their example," -
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AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. The Members of
the York County Agricultural Society will
perceive, by an advertisement in this paper,
that an important meeting Of the Society is
to be held in the Town Hall, in Saco, on
Wednesday, May I. The question of i'm
mediate interest to be considered is the fix
ing of place permanently for holding the
annual Cattle Show and Fair. In connec-
ton with this matter it would be right to
say, that at the annual meeting Of the town
Of Saco, it was voted to lease the Society the
Town Pasture, lot of some twenty acres,
for term not exceeding twenty years, for
the nominal sum Of one dollar. We pre-
sumo this vote had some connection with
the question of fixing permanent place for
the Society's Shows and Fairs. As this con-
templates change in the practice Of the
Society, the matter should call out full
meeting.
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Mn, sEwARD's srEroH. Col. Webb, IN
writing In the N v co,r;o- al

Mr.. SEwARD's SPEECH. Col. Webb. IN
writing to the N. Y. Courier aud Enquirer,
thus speaks of Mr.. Stewards great speech
Governor Seward has just finished a
speech upon the Kansas question, which. II
he had never spoken, and should never speak
again, would stamp him rs one Of tho clear
est thinkers and ablest statesmen Of our
country. In It's presentation of facts, Its
arraignmcnt Of the President, its inyectiye
and It's logical conclusions from premises
which were established 10 the satisfaction of
every hcarer, II was one Of the most trium.
plant arguments ever presented 10 tho
American People through the Senate Of tho
United States. Since the palmiest days Of
the immortal Webster, no such argument
has ever been listened to within the walls of
the Capitol and wero the Great Defender
Of the Constitution alive, and had no be~. ,
q listener 70 this great speech, no w,,uld
have been the FIRST TO have pronor neoJ h
alikeablc, Patriotic and Consrro,r s Ave.
as truly Conservative ~ an, speech ever
made by Daniel Webster himself" =, 80
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PANORAMA or INK LrFE OF CuRIsr. A PAN
Drama, representing some Of the most inter-
esting incidents in the life of our Saviour,
accompanied with painting from Vests
celebrated work, of the opening of four Of
the seven Seals, has been on exhibition in
this city and Saeo during the past week
The panorama is said to Represent the seem
cry Of Judca faithfully, and its representa-
tives cannot fail Of interesting all who like
to see, as il were, the touching events in the
life Of the Saviour OF mankind, mirrorcd be-
fore them. Its exhibition here has given
great satisfaction. We understand that il
Is to be exhibited in other places in the State.
IL Is unusually deserving Of public patron.
agc.
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Prxcr, DouoLAss AND Cas- on KAxsAs.
Col. Delahay, of Kansas, FREQ State member
of Congress furnishes correspondent Of
the Sc. Louis Democrat with some Interest,"
ing notes Of his interviews with leading I'D.
ministration politicians ut Washington, on
the subject Of Kansas Affairs. Col. Delahay,
Il will be remembered, Is an old Democrat,
a Southerner by birth and education, dis
ciplc and admirer of Douglas, and believer
in African Slavery ut the South, saying in
the Kansas free State convention, even, that
he had a. lief buy q negro rs q mule. But
he cannot stand border rufbianism, especially
as IL Destroyed his pres and types in expos
ing their rascalities. His first interview
was with the President. Pierce exceedingly
wroth at his conduct. Pierce was rampant,
Pierce was excited. Pierce spoke bullets.-
Pierce gave him q piece Of his mind. Pierce
called the Free State men rebels and traitors,
and several other hard names. I" These poo
ple," said Pierce, shave resolved to set the
territorial law at defiance, but II there 10
any law in the federal government TO COM
pei them, they shall su6mit-the laws must
be obeyed," quoth Pierce. And Pierce, a.
he said 30, looked fierce. "There will be
no difficulty, on that account, Mr.. Prcsi-
dent, said Col. Dalahay, "lalways advised
to tho territorial laws, infamous
though they are, until they could be repeal
ed all we ask Of you Is TO keep the Mis-
sourians out Of the territory, and we will
soon settle all difficulties Of that kind. VI
This cool and sarcastic reply rather took
the belligerent servant Of the people down
and then he began to talk like man, In
stead OF an anxious candidate for re-nomi-
nation. But in spite OF his recovered san
ity of mind, Pierce made II evident that
however low the nullifes wanted HIM to
link, he was q candidate for the degrading
positions willing and seryile candidate.
or Judge Douglas, Col. Dalahay now
'ays -. Douglas would sell his best friends
or the chance Of q nomination. IL Pierce
md he control the democratic convention,
We have no hope Of justice the nullifers
will be sustained, and the democratic party
If the North split into fragments"
General Cass Is favorably inclined to the
roe State men, but has not yet publicly de-
ined his position, either way. lie said to
col. Delahay :-"I expected that Judge
Douglas would touch some, at least, of the
questions at issue in his report; but he has
iot-he merely abused the Emignnt Aid
Societies and Recder. do mt see that they
,ave anything to do with the case" or
he doctrine underlying Douglas report. he
aid -" Berrien think) tried that doc
rine years ago !: 1t was laughed at; Il won't
TO-" Col. Delahay will take back into
Kansas steam printing press and a largo
,iicc, in place Of the large establishment
destroyed by the border ruiiians.
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clos, and in accommodations fos trade fully
By tic side Of any in the same business in
either Saco or Biddeford, and as to prices
for their goods, that precisely what Gus
toners win learn by visiting their store and
making the necessary inquiry. Our word
for it, they will make them as low as arti-
clcs of similar quality are sold elsewhere, for
1t is their interest to do 80. We invite at
tention to their advertisement, and they in
vite attention to their goods. Both invi-
tations are worth accepting. rv
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Tux MATTER PLAINLY rrr.-The Ralti.
more Clipper thus plainly puts the foreign
pauper and convict question:

"Snppose that we were to try the expert.
Eent VI sending our pauper to Europe; Is
there single European government which
would consent to receive them! Not one.
They would not DO permitted to land; and
the captains Of American vessels carrying
them would BIO compelled to bring them
back, II they were not punished for the act
of taking them there. But we have not
the courage to say to these powers that they
shall not send their paupers and conyicts
here. On the contrary, we have received
them with welcome that has no doubt i'm
pressed European powers with the conviction
that we rejoiccd at such an accession OF
their refuse population. So long as we
quietly submit to having our country con-
yerted into convict colony and great LAMAR
house for other nations, 40 long shall VIC DO
held In contempt by them, and DO consider
cd little better than Indians or mongrels.-
Have we no pride, no national character
which We desire to preserved" t-.il r
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Slavery and the o. s. Supreme Court.
The following is from the Washington
Of the New York Indepcnd.


correspondent Of the New York Indepcnd-
ent 49, .."
al am informed that the action of the
Supreme Court Is decided, and the disagree
ing judges arc writing out their decisions
upon the case noticed briefly by me last week.
The general features Of the case are briefly
these A slave In Missouri was taken by
his master to Rock Island, In the State Of
Illinois, and from thence to Council Bluffs,
In Iowa. The slave married slave woman.
A child was born to this couple while in
Council Bluffs, and one also upon the Mis-
souri,, while in transit, over the free waters
of tho country. When hack in Missouri,
tho Slaves claimed their freedom. Under
the former decisions of this court, tho vol.
untary taking Of slave to free State by
the master, q majority Of judges, has over
ruled all its previous decisions. and has de-
cided. that the persons are still shycs, l. e.,
the law OF slaye State holds slave in
bondage rhiie in free State. This Is tho
gist Of it. l contemplate this decision with
horror. II opens the door, lays the founda.
ton for the other decision (unlsss God over
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and arc turned worthless upon tho world
this law then comes In kindly to keep them
tempente II iss stringent law FOR the
poor inebriats who has passed all hope-
but II has no claim to being called law 10
check the evils Contemporaries. Il isnther
q law to encourage drinking by making II q
penal offence to manufacture bad liquor.
There IL one queer provision, that travel
ers and strangers only shall have the liberty
20 drink at hotels. The wise Legislators
probably intended itas all the law apparent.
ly Is, burlesque on the book which says-
g was stranger and ye took me an"
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BEToRE DAVID FALEs, ESQ.

BEFoRE DAVID fALEs, ESQ.
April 25. Matthew Brannan, assault and
battery, fined sl,0O and costs. u
April 25. James Dunn, drunkenness,
fined 81 90 and costs.
April Is. John Cavenah, drunkenness,
fined Sl,O and costs.
April %. Margaret Cavenah, assaultand
battery, fined 81 90 and costs.
April %. Ann Brady, assault and bat
terry, fined 100 and costs.
April 30. James Harvey, drunkenness,
fined Sl,OO and costs.
April 30. James Harvey, assault and bat
terry, fined Sl,00 and costs.
April 80. jeremiah Mead, drunkenness,
fined 81 90 and costs.
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n Mrssns. r,surn & s,m,,x h.,.

- - S.AAN, nave
long advertisement of the varions articles 70
be found in their extensive store in the
Calef Block in Saeo. We do not place this
firm either in the head or in the rear Of 9TH
er Dry Goods firms in the place, but We can
say, without being invidiOus, that they are
at least in extent Of stock, variety Of srti.
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Police Records.
srrOar $. ". Lr9rrs, ESQ.

April "a. John Mcguire, drunkenness,
fined $l,OO and costs.
April %. Isaac Pray, drunkenness, fined
sl,oo and costs. Appealed.
April "a. William Poor, assault and
battery, fined 81 90 and costs. vans