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stealthy adroitness of wild animal. And, du-
ring the stir and commotion of the dispensing
audience, he had silently made his way from
tree to tree, over the very heads OF those who
were yet wondering at his strange, boding
words, till at last he descended in distant
part Of the forest.
After the service, as father Dickson was pre-
pairing to retire to his tent man pulled him
by the sleeve. 1t was the Georgia trader.
ave have had an awful time, tonight !"
said he, looking actually pale with terror. DO
you think the judgment day really is coming?"
My friend" said father Dickson, p" it surely
is Every step we take in life is leading US
directly to the judgment-seat of Christi"
"Well," said the trader, but do you think
that was from the Lord, the last one that spoke?
burned if he didn't say awful thingsl-'nough
to make the hair rise / tell you what, I've
often had doubts about my trade. The minis
tiers may prove it's all right out of the Old Test
ament; but I'm burned if / think they know
all the things that we dol But, then, ant
80 bad as some of 'em. But, now, I've got
gal out in my gang that's dreadful sick, and
partly promised her I'd bring minister to see
her."
"Tll go with you, friend" said father Dick.
son and forthwith he began following the ira
der to the racks where their horses were tied.
Selecting, out of some hundred which were tied
there, their own beasts, the two midnight
travellers soon found themselves trotting along
under the shadow Of the forests boughs.
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ity, and patriotism, in opposing the introdu'
tiOn Of Slavery into the State then endeavored
to be formed out Of the Missouri Territory, are
entitled to the warmest thanks of every friend
of humanity.
"Resoloed. That the proceedings of this
meeting be published in the newspapers in this
city. "JAMEs HOPKINS.
civilian JENKINS.
"JAMEs BUCHANAN.
"The foregoing resolutions, being read, were
unanimously adopted; after which, the meeting
adjourned. WALTER FRANKLIN, Chairman.
Attest: WILLIAM JENKINS, Secretary"
We commend these resolutions to the friends
and supporters of Mr.. Buchanan in PENNSYLVANIA
at the present day. They are the principles of
the trainers of the Constitutional the Frank
Inns, the Wilson's, and the Morrses, of that State,
and of the Washingtons, the Jeffersons, and the
Madisons, of Virginia. We call upon the peo-
pie of Pennsylvania to stand by the resolutions,
and repudiate their author, who has shameful
ly abandoned them.
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Mr.. BUCHANANs INcoNs1srENc1Es

Mr. Buchanan began life and Anti-Slavery
Federalist, denouncing the Democratic party in
the stereotyped phraseology of the times, which
were In use among the Blue Light haters of
Jefferson and Madison. We propose next week
to show him up fully on this head. At present,
our object is to introduce series of resolutions
drawn up and signed by Mr.. Buchanan and others,
and adopted by public meeting at Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, in 1919. They speak for them
selves. They are taken from the Lancaster In.
telligencer of 1919, No. 81, vol. 81. They are
as follows:
Whereas the people of this State, pursuing
the maxims and animated by the benefcence
OF the great founder of Pennsylvania, first gave
effect to the gradual abolition of Slavery BY q
national act, which has not only rescued the
unhappy and helpless African, within their ter
rltory, from the demoralizing influence of Sla.
very, out ameliorated his state and condition
throughout Europe and America and where.
as 1t would lilly comport with those humane and
Christian efforts to be silent spectators when this
great cause of humanity is about to be agitated
In Congress, by fixing the destiny of the United
States therefore,
Hesetoed, That the Representatives in Con.
eress from this district be, and they are hereby,
most earnestly requested to use their utmost
enoeavors, as members of the National Legis-
lature, 10 prerent the existence of Slaoery in anu
OF the Territories or near States which NAV be
created by Congress.
hesotved, las the opinion of this meeting, J
That, as the Legislature of this State will shortly
be In session, 1t will be highly deserving of their
wisdom and patriotism to take into their early
ano mos serious consideration the propriety OF
instructing our Representatives in the " t;ona
Legislature to use the most Jealous and siren.
uous exertions to inhi6a the existence of Sta.
gerry IA any Of the Territories or States which
may hereafter be created by Congress; and
that the members of the Assembly from this
county be requested to embrace the earliest CD.
portunity of bringing this subject before both
Houses Of the Legislature.
Resoired, That, in the opinion of this meet
ing, the members Of Congress who, at the las,
session, sustained the cause of justice, human
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at is very plain, if not indeed selfevident,
that the South, equally with the North, needs
room for expansion. Indeed, it needs it more,
infinitely more, than does the North. The negro
race is a tropical race, and the nearer he sp-
proximates to the tropics, why, the better for
himself as we'll as the master and as a very
large portion of our negro population is far,
very far, north of his true centre of existence,
the South needs expansion and freedom of de-
velopment-in fact, Slavery extension far
more than the North needs expansion for its
population. And this the Republican party
pledges itself to prevent-to pen up the negroes
within our present limits-to labor for the same
end, if not in concert with the external enemies
of the nation"
"But we need not repeat, this vilanous de-
struction of property, or this attempted destruc.
ton of property, is trihirg in comparison with
the terrible evils, the overwhelming desolation,
such party would bring upon their country,
could they ever accomplish their avowed de-
signs"
To speak of Slavery, or the social subor-
dnation of the negro, as an evil, is of course
an absurdity; indeed, it is more-it is impious.
God has made the negro subordinate All His
works are not only wise and good, but perfect.
BY HIS act, the negro is subordinate to the
white man, and the social regulations Of the
South merely embody this natural subordina.
ton. Kentucky is, in many respects, behind
Ohio, not because she has Slavery but be-
cause she has negroes; and negroes, where
white men can labor, are vastly inferior to the
latter. That is the simple truth of the matter;
yet, like the author of this letter, Washington,
and Jefferson, and Randolph, and all or near
ly all of the old school Of Southern statesmen,
made the same mistake, or labored under the
same miseonception, that the mere social rela-
ton between whites and negroes, and not a
negro population, was an evil"
The Day Book deserves some credit for the
frankness with which it admits that "Wash.
ington, Jefferson, Randolph, and all or nearly
all Of the old ,chool of Southern statesmen,
made the same mistake" with Republicans of
the present day, in regarding Slavery as
great evil. The editor should be equally can
did, and admit that those great and patriotic
men, the very founders of our Government and
the authors of our liberty, were unalterably op-
posed to the extension of the evil of Slavery,
and were anxious to see it abolished in Vir-
ginia. In word, they stood on platform
identical with that recently constructed at Phil
adephia. We thank the Day Book for its ad-
mission; and we are not particularly concern
ed that its editor dissents from the views of
Washington, Jefferson, and Randolph, whose
authority is virtually turned over to the Repub-
lican side.
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MR.. BUcHANAN's PROSPECTS.

1t might be regarded as over-sanguine to cal
culate with certainty upon the election of Col.
Fremont, though we confess to good deal of
inward satisfaction in matchmaking upon the re-
suit of the November election. But, enthusiasts
tic hopes and expectations aside, we think it
requires none of the vision of the seer, to pre-
dict who will not be elected by the people.
There are 296 electoral votes and to elect.
it is necessary to carry l49. The South has 100
votes; the North, or free States, l76. Mr.. Blu.
chanan's friends must therefore carry, not only
Pennsylvania, but the whole South, and also
California, or some other free State Can he
do that? We think that it will require an
over-sanguine temperament, or profound
depth of ignorance, to cherish even hope for
such result. 1t is now reduced to something
like certainty, that Mr.. Fillmore will carry Ken
lucky and Delaware, which will give him fifteen
votes; and the chances are decidedly in his
favor in Tennessee and Maryland. In Mis-
souri, also, owing to the disruption of the
" Democratic party, we regard the chances of
Fillmore the best. In North Carolina and
Louisiana, there is fair chance for victory,
and hard fight will be made. He will not
come within gun-shot of any free State but
his friends are greatly elated with the hope of
carrying the election to the House of Repre-
sentatives, and, stimulated with the bare posi-
bility of victory in that body, they are at work
like beavers, in the States above mentioned.
We regard it, therefore, as next to certain that
Mr.. Buchanan cannot be elected by the people.
His only chance will be in the House of Rep
resentstives, where he may be elected by the
aid of Southern Know Nothings, who will con-
troll the votes of Delaware, Maryland, Ken
lucky, Tennessee, and Missouri Each of these
States is now represented by a majority of
Know Nothings, who will infallibly cast their
votes for Fillmore, until they lose all hope of
his election, and their second choice would as
certainly be Buchanan. At least, such would
be the case with all of them, except Delaware.
If the member from that State truly reflects
the sentiments of his constituents, he would
undoubtedly prefer Fremont to Buchanan.
The others, true to the behests, if not to the
instincts, of Slavery, would prefer the candidate
of the Oligarchy to the candidate of the Peo-
pie.
In the House of Representatives, therefore,
the Peoples candidate, though sweeping the
country by immense popular majorities, and
carrying large plurality of electoral votes,
could hope for little. The Peoples candidate
must be elected by the people, or not at all.
The election in the House would result in favor
of one or the other of the Pro-Slavery, Union
threatening candidates and we are frank to
say that We regard the changes of Mr.. Buchan-
an the best. We come to this conclusion from
the following considerations:
In the first place, the friends of Col. FIRE.
mont, in the House, may as well be set aside,
as out OF the question. If they are unable 10
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for the purpose Of propagating or extending
Slavery"
A resolution framed in accordance with
these views found place with others reported
by Mr.. Clay, and read as follows:
ResOIUed, That we do positively and en-
phatically disclaim and disavow any wish or
desire, on our part, to acquire any foreign ter
ritory whatever, for the purpose of propagating
Slavery, or of introducing slaves from the Uni
Add to this his declaration in the Compro-
mise debate in 1850
81 have said that I never could vote for it
myself; and repeat that IneUer can and necer
,oiH rote, AND NO EARTHLY POWER erer aoiu make
me Uote, to spread Slaoery ocer territory achere
IL does not erist."
Thus spake the father of the Wing party.
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BUCHANAN AND THE BORDER RUFFIANs.

We copy the following from the Galesburg
Free Democrat of June &c:
Mr.. J. +. Bliss, who has Just returned from
Kansas, made the following statement to us.
which, at our request, he reduced to writing,
and testified to under oath:
Statement of. F. Bliss.-I was in Colonel
Rich's store, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas T&-
ritory, on Friday, June Is, 1885, and listened
to conversation between Judge Lecompte
and some other gentlemen, unknown to me,
relative to Governor Robinson and the other
prisoners, and likewise the policy of President
Pierce in regard to Kansas affairs. One of the
gentlemen expressed fears as to the orthodoxy
OF Mr.. Buchanan on the Slavery question. Lee
compte replied, that he had letters from some
of Buchanan's friends, and that he WAS all
right on the Goose" and that he would pur
sue the same policy that Pierce had-but that
it must be kept still, in order to carry Pennsyl.
vania and New York; and, said Lecompte.
he will fool old Reeder into supporting him,
too Old Buck is all right, boys; don't fear
him."
The above is, in substance, the conversation
that passed in my hearing, of which / made a
minute at the time. J.F. BLISS.
State Of Illinois, County of KNOB:
GALEsBURG, June %, 1856.
This day personally appeared before me, j.
f. Bliss, whose name is attached TO the above
statement, and testified under oath, that the
above is, in substance, and as near as he can
recollect, in words, the conversation which he
heard between Judge Lecompte, of Kansas
and others. CHAUNCEY Wits. J. p
hereby certify that have known Mr.. J. F.
Bliss for several years, and consider him an
honorable man in every sense of the word.
f. +. WICKER,
Commission Merchant.
Gdlesburg, Ill.,, June Is, 1856.
We see nothing incredible in all this.
Would such papers as the Washington Sentinel
and Richmond Enquirer support Mr.. Buchan-
an, if they did not believe him fully committed
to carry out the policy commenced by Presi.
dent Pierce? Do not the Cincinnati resolu.
lions completely pledge him to this policy
Do not the newspapers of the free States in
favor of Mr.. Buchanan sustain this policy ?
Where is the Buchanan press that demands
he removal of Governor Shannon, of Judge
Lecompte, of Marshal Donelsop, and their pun
shment according to law?
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elect him, as they probably will not be, there
will be no chance for him in that body, as they
can expect nothing like reciprocity at the hands
of either the Buchanan or Fillmore parties.
The friends of the latter gentleman, being
bound hand and foot to the slave Interest," dare
not vote for the Republican candidate; and
they cannot therefore, with any deeency, ask
Republicans to vote for their candidate. There
would be no reciprocity in such an arrange
ment. The friends of Slavery will be COM
PEELED to compromise the slight differences that
now divide them, and elect one Of the two rep
resentatives of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. or
Fillmore. The former would have the adyan-
tage of four to one against the latter, and we
see no way in the world how the Knew Moth
ing candidate can overcome such odds. After
threatening disunion as the just and necessary
consequence of Fremont's election, his friends
Fremont's friends for assistance and they
would therefore be turned over to the tender
mercies of their co-lsborers in the cause of Sla-
very Propagandism and, after batter whang-
ing for few days or weeks, we cannot doubt
that they will yield, with the best grace posi-
Bile, to the overwhelming pressure of Southern
opinion in favor of Buchanan.
Let the people, therefore, look to it. There
is no chance for their candidate, or but very
slight chance, in the House of Representatives.
Let every man who would deprecate the cleo
ton of Buchanan, on his Cincinnati platform
of Slavery extension, and his Ostend letter,
which declares war to the knife, to- prerent
emancipation in Cuba, flor that is what it
means,) let every such man throw to the winds
every minor issue, and declare for Fremont
and DAYTON.
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THE OLD LINE WINGS.

The cold Line Wings" of the South are
rallying to the support of Fillmore and Donel-
son, with few exceptions. They have recent
ly held meetings in Baltimore and Richmond,
(Va,) and have given in their adhesion to the
Know Nothing nominees. The Locofoco press
assert that these cold Line Wings" are only
Know Nothings, and that their object IS mere
ly to carry over the mass of old Wings to the
support of Fillmore, by getting up these bogus
Conventions.
There is no such thing, by the way, as
Wing party left. All of it. except few high
ly respectable 4" old foges," has been swallow
ed up by the Republicans, the Know Nothings,
or the Sham Democracy.
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COLONEL FREMONT AND HIS OPPONENTS.

add Colonel Fremont, while in the Senate
vote for the Fugitive Slave Act ?"-Inquirer.
MOI
The credentials of Messrs. Gwin and Ere
mont, Senators elect from California, were
presented in the Senate, Tuesday, September
10, 1850; they took the oath of Office the same
day, and Colonel Fremont was in the Senate
till the Sd day of March, lS5l.-Cong. Globe,
rot. ara, part II, PIP. 1871, 1892.
The Fugitive Slave Bill was ordered to be
engrossed in the Senate for a third reading,
August 23d, 1850, read third time, and pass
ed, Monday, August Goth, 1850, fifteen days
before Colonel Fremont entered the Senate
Cong. Globe, col. rri, part II, PIP. l647-l659.
The test vote was, on ordering it to be en-
crossed for third reading, and it stood
YEAs-Messrs, Atchison, Badger, Barnwell,
Bell, Berrien, Butler, Davis of Mississippi,
Dawson, Dodge of Iowa, Downs, Foote, Hous-
ton, Hunter, Jones, King, Mangum, Mason,
Pearce, Rusk, Sebastian, Soule, Spruance,
Sturgeon, Turney, Underwood, Wales, and
Yulee-27.
NAYs-Messrs. Baldwin, Bradbury, Chase,
Cooper, Davis of Massachusetts, DAYTON, Dodge
of Wisconsin, Green, Smith, Upham, Walker,
and Winthrop-l2.
Inquirer" asks US to send him the Con-
gressional Globe, for his Democratic friends
tell him Fremont voted for the Fugitive Slave
Act. We cannot break our file to satisfy such
men, but We have printed the facts as they
are in the Globe, having examined it carefully,
and given the volume and page. No man can
contradict them without classifying the official
record.
is Fremont STAKEHOLDER, or his wife2"
Inquirer.
Once for all, we say no, emphatically. He
is not and never was a stakeholder; she is not
and never was a STAKEHOLDER. We do not dis
cuss the question, whether the fact that q man
is STAKEHOLDER, although opposed to the sys-
tenn and against its extension, should ALLEVIATE
from him the SURFACES of voters, when a can.
didate for civil of6ce-but, zoe simply state a
fact, and noe state 1t positively.
7" Is Fremont Catholic Pr Inquirer.
He is not, and never was. We do not dis
cuss the question, whether the fact that a man
is Catholic, should exclude him from civil
ofice-our opinions on that point have been
before our readers for the last two years, during
which we have withstood every phase of Know
Nothingism-but we simply state .fact-and
we state it positively and ,oiaaort qualification.
Now, his opponents may turn and twist as
they please, make or adopt all sorts of oppo-
sing statements on these points, get up details
and minute incidents, to give an air of truth
fulness to them; all have to say is, our state
ments are true. Let no honest man be misled
by loose reports.
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Lawyers, Doctors, Merchants, Farmers. and
Mechanics, aud not single slave.
And IT Virginia not fully represented
there, II was not my fault nor the fault of that
Convention. / was appointed as one OF its Vice
Presidents; and the only advantage in that
was, that J could take back seat. They also
appointed n e one Of the Executive Committee ;
what advantage that will be, can't tell.
east one vote for John c. Fremont, to bear our
banner 10 victory through every field, from
Maine 10 California; and for William l.. Day
ioh 20 keep gutta perchss from disgracing the
SENATE Chamber of the United States Ii was
done all in peace. But there was noise-a
kind of noise that did the very soul good.
The Sunday after the Convention adjourned,
j sat under the preaching of the Rev. ID. G.
Mallory, IN the city of Norris.own. And from
this point came Monochrome to Virginia-to
her hills and her wales. Oh / love Virginia I
And though her wrongs be grieyous, may retrib-
u:Ive Justice never overtake her | have
played in her fields, and plunged in her streams
The days of my manhood are here, and all
the endearing recollection of boyhood and
home. Many, with whom / wrestled, have
fallen IN the combat of life, and now but a rem
liant stands with me, to garland their graves
And it is because / love Virginia, that bear
the reproach of holding up the very nantes
Of Washington and Jefferson. the nantes Of
their fame and their glory. This is the head
and front Of my offending. And, now, what
Law have l violated-who have injured, in
person, property, or reputation? What is there
10 justify your philippe? Do you wish to fan
flame, that you may enjoy the sight of discon-
ISOLATE families, of confusion and strife? An
swer TO your God and your country. wash
my hands of all responsibility.
Ny friend-for by that endearing name
greet you-if we are, as you say, so insight
cant in position" that our weakness is our
protection" and "thst, if let alone, we would
remain in obscurity, and that no one regarded
us with any degree of fear or apprehension"
why did you, then, take our good name out Of
that innocent obscurity, to GLdck-JdH il?
Now, neighbor, | want TO have a little close
talk with you. Did you intend to say that it
my object TO steal slaves? That it was
my object TO disturb the public peace? That
1t was my object to violate the laws? And
that was Fourrierite Infdel Answer me
plainly-no lawyering. And now, / had as
well put all / have to say in the same sack,
and cay TO those gentlemen at Piedmont Sta
uon-Eas- Shame! And history will so record
1T. God and Liberty GEO. RYE.
Ouisid- Of the paper without any rApanaion Of
lure IL wall be seen that MIR. Rye, native and one OF
the most respectable Citizens yrns has
rned with expulsion, for presunng the Phadel-
phia Republican Conven,ionl
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EXTRACT FROM wAsHINaT0N's WILL.

"Upon the decease of my wife, it is my will
and desire that all the slaves which hold, in
my own right, shall receive their freedom. To
emancipate them during her life, would, though
earnestly wished by me, be attended with such
insuperable difficulties, on account of their in
termixture by marriages with the dover negroes,
as to excite the most painful sensations, if not
disagreeable consequences, from the latter, while
both descriptions are in the occupancy of the
same proprietor, it not being in my power, under
the tenure by which the dover negroes are held,
to manumit them"
When Mrs. Washington learned, from the
will of her deceased husband, that the only OBJ
stacle to the perfection of her husbands benev-
client provision for his slaves was her right of
dover, she at once gave it up, and the slaves
were emancipated without further delay-show-
ing that that model Virginia Lady was in full
sympathy with her honored husband, in the
cause of Universal Freedom. Remember, that
Washington was an Emancipationist when the
slaves were far less prepared by oivilizasion
and intelligence to take care of themselves than
they are at present. Who so stupid as to doubt
that Washington, if now alive, would be in full
sympathy with the Republican party?
A number of leading mercantile firms in
Philadelphia presented Mr.. George B. Mathew,
late British Consul at that port, with compli-
mentary letter, previous to his departure for
England, in which they say;
They deeply regret the termination of your
official intercourse, and think it but right to
state that they have invariably found you cour-
teous, gentemanlike, active and vigilsnt, in the
discharge of your official duties. You have
blended the gentleman with the Consul, and
have never neglected an opportunity to
strengthen the bonds of kindness, anity, and
good will, between the two countries"
Mr. Mathew returned handsome reply, in
which he assured them that they were not mis-
taken in the idea that he had devoted his best
endeavors to the promotion of friendship and
good will between Great Britain and the United
States.