New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-29
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7wApE-PArYR FROM SORGHUM.
S,o,,,o.r oup Correspondent.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. %, 1853.
Pubic opinion hereahout is beginning to take
'Je6ESte shape. The Pennsylvauis Anti-slaVery 30
.siety, james Mott President, have passed reeo'u-
tons to observe with suitable soiemnioes The u@y
on which John Brown ia executed; ths' meeuSg'
hall he ed in churches and other PLACES, and ser
mana and addresses suitable to the occasion deiV-
cred. that places Of business shall be closed on
that DIV. windows bowed, bells to'sed, WIN such
:. Other demonstI atoms az are customary when
q. r.cple would express bdOre the public sense o.
:. he,,tCslt sorrow" They furthermore bear unre-
..rv.d testimony Ito the purity Of motqe and DIS
t" ;steresteduess of purpose 10 which originated the
% ,ttemut at Harpers Ferry, and to TIE lofty bero-
,@sm and generous EAgnanirity which have char
., acterized the leader Of that daring enterprise
from the time OF HIS capture till the present mo
.o ,nent These resolutions have been widely err
,ulated in our newspapers and radical az they are
doobtess deemed by some, they have 80 lar escaped
ali publc denuDciation. Perhaps no single circun-
.tance shows more clearly the set OF pubic opinion
here than this. Our journals never create puohc
continent but are content TO follow sVch as they
NAV aiseoyer 10 exist II calls for 20 crusade
aga;nst moor Brown Sane or insane; AID when his
fatal dav arrives doubt not there will be develop
meuts OF sympathy that viii surprise even ourselves
All this argues an immense revoiuaen IN me CON
seiepce of Philadelphia since the night winch VIII
messed the expulsion Of the Anti-Shvery Society
from Pennsylvania Ball, and the burning OF that
noble building by Pro-Slayery mob On that occa-
s;on thonoh the streets both far and near we're
crowded with people, yet no citizen dared 10 raise
bis voice or his hand TO stay the work OF destruc
ton. Not drop of water was permitted to be
araahQ HAaE
window. slJsrtter to be saved The very authorities
were either participants in the yillainy, or were
rowed by the popuace, for they looked on without
lifting a finger 10 arrest the cOnfagrahOn. But as
no great principle in human affairs has ever yet been
made triumphant but at the cost OF some correspond
ing sacrifice; as Christianity itself has been con-
sodated only after the shedding OF seas OF blood 80
has the e,fuse of human freedom been doomed TO
nass through an ordeal almost as sanguinary But
r. dax Of trinmph is yisibly AT hand No Pennsy-
vaua Hall w00ld be destroyed by Pro-Slavery
mob now. because such mObs no longer exist. The
nress having become emancipated from the dominion
Of the plantation LASH the public sentiment has
been ootenporaneously enlightened, and nowhere
does the true light shine out more goriously than
large gathering of the friends Of the Hon. Will
liam L. DAYTON was held in this city on "Wednesday
last. 10 consult on the best means of advancing his
claims TO a nomination for the Presidency. The
meeting was strictly private one, and was com.
posed principally OF prominent JerseymeD from all
sections of the State The conclusion arrived at
was that New Jersey should and would do her ut
mOst in Convention, TO secure his nomination. But
while up 10 this period OF time, the indications have
been decided that with the right man. come from
where be may, we succeed next year, there are
foolish men in this community who are seeking, with
superseIYiceable zeal, h. break away from that
People's party organization under which our State
has been twice carried against the Democracy and
set up a purely Republican party. Such folly can
not be !eo severely reprebated. New-YOrk may
win battle after battle under the Republican ban
ner and we glory in seeing her do so; but IN Penn
sylyania and New-Jersey the present compact or
sanitation of the Peoples party IN one, and the OPP
positiou in the other must be- preserved unbroken.
Whoever seeks TO break It up by side organizations
of any kind no. matter under what name, Is an en-
emy Ia dseuse. He is sowing tares that will spoil
Great fields now whitening for the harvest. The
position on this vital question which The TRIBUNE
fakes-the sinking OF minor issues for the security
of that which is permanent-is wholly and heartily
indorsed in Pennsylvania and utter ruin will be the
penalty for abandoning IT,
A novelty " American, Historical and Literary
Curisties 7" has lust been published by Mr.. John j.
smith. librarian of the Philadelphia Library Ii
ia crowded with facsmiles Of ancient and curious
documents printed, and IN manuscript, from the
DAYS of Columbus down to those of John Quincy
Adams All the celebrated collectors OF autographs
stores for Mr Smith TO select from, and he has pro-
dueed the rarest volume of the kind ever issued IN
this country The manuscripts OF Columbus are es-
pecially curious. Then there are the old handouts
which used to be posted at our street corners dur
ino the Resolution both by British and Americans
the original lampheht portrait of Washington; re-
marka6le letters from him and his wife; certificate
of membership, of the Cincinnat; letters from John
Hancock: Revolutionary Journal by Miss sally
Wister; drawings and letters BY Major Andre, when
a prisoner at Lancaster; the songs of Home,
and the " Star SSpanged Banner" in the hand
writing OF the authors with portraits and auto
graphs Of celebrated characters To those who are
interested in historical subjects this volume viii be
found almost invaluable.
The proprietor of The Pennsylvania IsqEiTcT, Mr..
Harding has been forced into assignment III Is
understood 10 be the fruit of outside operations,
paper-mis and passenger railways, neither OF
which have turned up what they were expected to
be. The iReaireT is understood to be very
profitable concern, as well as the immense Bible
factory, which Mr. Harding has carried on for
many wears, whose products have figured so con-
spieuously in the trade-sale catalogues. But their
profits were unable - supply the draw of heavy
outside operations. 5Ir Harding is now long past
the meridian of lie but he has been of the most
active and enterp-sing men our city ever bad.
Two New-Jersey tnsn.ths, who went down to
Virginia TO put roofi on a house now being built
there, were ordered of, and compelled 70 quit and
return home. The chIyslry had no idea OF permit
ting Northern mechanics 10 do their WORK. suspect
ing soldering-irOns to be Abolition weapons. There
being no other tin-vsxkers within many miles, the
owner has been put to great Inconvenience, and Is
told that his house SHAH remain without roof, un
lsss nut on by SOugherx wOrkmen Letters received
here from Richmond add the vicinity speak OF nu-
merous families who Intend 10 close up and gut