Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-12-11

with the NJ. II. Cnufcn III later years was
a proof of his preparation for the great
change.
nA.A friend in Nashville states that
Gen. Haskel's mental and bodily health
has been restored and he is again at large.
Also that his mental arrangement ives
not caused by intemrerance, as stated in
the Chronicle, but was hereditary disease,
developed by too much headwork.
LEwIsRuR6 CHRONICLE.
4lS DhD AND YlA NSWs
In reading Mr.. HELPERS Book, "The
Crisis OF the South," one is forcibly i'm
pressed with the high-toned views and pa
triotic principles of those noble men Of
Virginia, whose families now boast the
/ title of "F. +. va title which has be-
come rather a sarcasm than an honor.
| Fresh from the contest of the Revolution,
and believing in the existence and the
justice Of Father in Heaven, the Sages
and Heroes of '76 religiously and honora-
bly, labored to promote, as far as they
could see the way clear, the natural equal
ity of rights of all of Gods children.
Look, for example, at the records left by
! the
Randolphs of the Old School
PeytOn Randolph.
On the Goth of October, IVA, while
Congress was in session in Philadelphia,
Peyton Randolph, President, the following
resolution, among the others, was uuani-
mously adopted:
"That we will neither import nor pur-
chase any slave imported after the first
day of December next; after which time
We will wholly discontinue the slave'trade,
and will neither be concerned in it our
selves, nor will we hire our vessels, nor
sell our commodities or manufactures, to
those who are concerned in it.
Edmund Randolph.
The Constitution of the United States
contains the following provision:
"No person held to service or labor in one
State, under the laws thereof, escaping to
another, shall, in consequence of any law
or regulation therein, be discharged from
such service or labor, but shall be deliver
ed up on claim of the party to whom such
service or labor may be due"
To the studious attention of those Van
dals who contend that the above provision
only requires the rendition of fugitive
1aues, We respectfully commend the fol-
lowing, which, it will be observed, was
unanimously adopted:
"On motion of Mr.. Randolph, the word
'seruitude' was struck out, and 'serrice'
unanimously inserted-the former being
thought to express the condition of siares,
and the latter the obligation of free per-
sons.-Aiadison Papers, uol. Ill, p. 1869.
John Randolph.
That eccentric genius, Randolph of Ro-
anoke, in letter to William Gibbons, in
1920, says:
"Wi.h unfeigned respect and regard,
and as sincere depreciation of the exten.
sion of slavery and its horrors as any 9th;
er man, be him whom he may, am your
friend, in the literal sense of that much
abused, because it is applied to the leagues
of vice and avarice and ambition, instead
of good will toward man from love Of him
who is the Prince of Peace"
While in Congress he said:
"Sir, envy neither the heart nor the
head of that man from the North, who ri
ses here to defend slavery on principle"
1t is we'll known that he emaucipated
all his negroes. The following lines from
his will are we'll worth persuing and pre-
serving:
81 give to my slaves their freedom, to
which my conscience tells me they are justly
entitled 1t has long since been matter
of the deepest regret to me that the cir
cumstance under which I inherited them,
and the obstacles thrown in the way by |
the laws of the land, have prevented my
cmancipating them in my lifetime, which |
it is my full intention to do in case can
accomplish it."
[John Randolph, it should also be re.
membered, was the author of the Report
in Congress, against the petition Of the
people of Southern Indiana to have the
Slavery restored which had been abolished
by the Jefferson Proviso Of 17S7-thus
denying the right of any people to have
Slavery, even if they might desire it,
Thomas M. Randolph.
In an address to the Virginia Legisla.
ture. in 1890, Gov Randolph said: