Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1856-09-05


town. Tho friends Of the Sopth,ssre requested
to attend with their usual liberality. ssst !
"l, Apprentice Wanted.
A good intelligent boy, is years old, OF fair
English education, who will attend 20 his bust
ness, and is DESTROYS Of learning The printing
business, can have an opportunity by applying
at this office Immediately. =
AMBRorxrEs, DAsuERREo4YT1s, &C.--we
would recommend to those who desire good
picture of themselves or frienda,,to call at the
| rooms of Mr.. Richmond, opposite the Court
| House, in this place. His specimens embrace
some of tie finest we ever saw, indeed The seems
to be particularly fortunate in tracing lifelike
| representation of the person before him. This
is tho tirst time our citizens have had the oppor-
tunty Of securing ambrotypes, and We advise
them to take Advantage Of it. They are deci-
dodly superior to dagqlerreotypes.
Dem ocratic Mass-M Getting in Clarks-
burg.
The Democratic Mass. Meeting in Clarks-
burg on last Monday, was one oflhe lar
ges, we have ever seen in this. place
For some cause Messrs. Letcher and
Faulkner failed to visit us. although we
bad positive Information that one OF them
would be lscre. A- @.
The meeting assembled in the Court
House, at about half-past one o'clock, and
was organized By The appointment Of Hon.
Jos. JOHNSON president. and w. P. Coo
per, Secretary.
In taking bis seat Gov, johnson made
few remarks complimentary to the De-
mocrats Of the county of Harrison. and
the whole State, and expressed his plea
sure in meeting them again, as in former
times. He alluded to the geographical
line which now divided the country, and
the present canvass for President, and ex-
pressed confident expectation that Bu-
chanan and Brechinridge would be iris
umphantly elected blythe people. He
closed by Introducing B. w. jackson.
Esq, Of Parkersburg, the Assistant cleo
tor Tor this District.
Mr.. Jackson made an able but shor,
address. He said that he had not come
to speak, but to hear the eloquent gentle,
men who had been expected to address
the meeting. but that lie was always rea-
dy in an important canvass for the cleo,
ton. Of high officers to interchange opin
ions with his fellow citizens. He alluded
10 the previous issues between the parties
on the questions Of Banks. Tariffs. &c.,
and stated that thesissue before the coun
try at this time was one OF vastly more
importance. involving nothing less than
the perpetuity Of the Union itself. That
the formation Of sectional parties against
which Washington had warned his
countrymen, was now shaking the
foundations Of our government, and that
it was the duty Of all to rally for the rights
OF the States and compromises of the Con.
stitution and defeat the fanatical Repub>
licans, and that this could be best done
by uniting with, the Democrats, under
whose administration our country had
reached its present high position among
the nations Of the earth. He alluded to
the Missouri Compromise and The Com
promise Measures of 1850. and showed
their unequal bearing upon the two sec
tons OF the country the former in prohi-
biting slavery north Of certain line while
it did not establish it south of that line,
and the latter in only giving the South
the Fugitive Slave Law which was a clear
requirement Of the Constitution, while it
prohibited the slave trade in the District
Of Columbia, and admitted California as a
free State with boundaries extending
south of the line Of the Missouri Compro-
mise. He showed the Inconsistency Of
the opponents of the repeal OF the
Missouri Compromise, in their prac-
teal repeal Of that measure by the
admission of California, and that the
opponents OF the Kansas bill in Virginia
stood shoulder 10 shoulder With. and used
the same arguments against it. as do the
aboIitionists Of Massachusetts. In review
ing the public record of Mr.. Buchanan,
the speaker proved him entirely sound
upon allnational questions. as we'll as up
on those of minor Importance while the
only thing that was claimed for Mr.. Fill
more was his signature of the Fugitive
Slave Law. which he signed in accordance
with the position Of his party in opposition
to the veto power, after throwing the re-
sPonsibility upon his Attorney General.
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