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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1859-02-04
DAWN, NOON, TWILIGHT.

feI tue oslSiha4 hiG- Just 40 IL was Hfsh "iiteen
DAWN, NOON, TWILIGHT.
Imprisoned in living jail,
lusty kicking son Of earth,
Ready to wake, and weep, and vail,
My limbs are struggling to the birth,
Let me pass.
Now on my feet tottering stand,
Till by entcements boider grown,
quit the watehful mothers hand,
Aid 10 learn to go alone.
Let me pass.
Now, In youths buoyant merry round,
With quickened pulse my steps advance,
Where music, vine, and wit abound,
Aud blooming beauty leads the dance,
Let me pass
Now, blest With children, wife, and friends,
Ambition urging TO the van,
strive TO walk where duty tends,
With love of God, good will to man.
Let me pass.
And now my better home draws nigh,
Free from presumption and despair,
But weary, faint, wait to die,
And leave this world and all its care.
Let me pass.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1859-02-04
p O e T r Y /.

From the National Intelligencer.l
10 Our venerable friend, the Hon William C. Bradley,
of Vermont having his attention attracted in his study by
the pafnes of his little grandson took up lis pen and
struck of the annexed beautiful mpromptu verses which
neigbor coming in after, much pleased with
permission begged forward to the National IN
ieigeaeer the original MSS just it was written
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-04-28

IoosrisUsD o. si0Hrn rAos.l
The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1859-12-22

The 80 votes for Boteler were cast by 10 o f
his own South American friends. with George
Briggs and Is Southern Democrats. Mr.. Nc
Clernard's % votes included all the Illinois Dem
ocrats and some from the South and elsewhere
No other Democrat received more than votes.
place in the House. which was mostly participa-
ted in by the Southern Democrats and Americans
on the policy of uniting against the Republicans
in the election of Speaker. Mr. Boteler Amer
lean, withdrew his name as candidate for Speak
er, and nominated Mr. Millson, of Virginia, a
Democrat. Mr.. Boteler, counseled the Amer
leans to vote for.Mr Milson. Mr. Nc, Clerland
also withdrew his name as a candidate, and ex-
pressed his appreciation of the nomination of Mr.
MilIson,
The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1859-12-22
Union Saving.

The pro slavery cotton Democracy of Boston
New York and other cities, becoming alarmed
at the probable ascendancy of Republican prin-
ciples have resorted TO the old practice of get
ting up Union saving meetings. These meet
ings are gotten up for no other purpose.than to
frighten the north into submission to the de-
mands of the south. What great exigency now
calls for these demonstrations 1t is simply
this The car of the slave breeders is lust now
brought to a stand still: the niger drivers
crack the whip and swear Justify, because the
chariot of slavery extension, cannot move for.
ward. The slave power want to organize the
House by the election of pro slavery Speaker
but cannot command votes enough the people
having sent more Republican representatives to
Washington than Democratic, renders the pros.
pect of Democratic organization rather slim
The South has become boisterous and makes
terrible threats to rend the Union into frag
ments, unless it can have its accustomed way
Therefore these northern Union meetings are call
ed, the Democracy come together, not to rebukt
the South for its reasonable rantings /: but t.
put on sorrowful countenances and beseech the
freeman north for the sake of the Union te pc
out of the way of the slave drivets, and allcv
them to dash along wherever they WILL with
out let or hindrance'. Such is practically tn,
purpose of northern Union Saving meetings.
The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1859-12-22
DismmiOm Demsocracy.

Were all the disunol sentiments which have
been made in Congress stree the opening of the
present session, collected together, they would
form most disgraceful page in our history We
can hardly go amiss among the southern demo-
cratic members, to find the m ost t, easonable ut
terances. On Thursday oflast week, according
TO the reported proceedings, Mr.. Crawford, de-
inocratic member from Georgia, made rank dis
union speech declaring that slavery must inevi-
tably break up this Union, saying that it was
FOLLY TO talk of compromising this question.
He thought John Browns Virginia raid wod
prevent the election of Republican President
III lo90. lie said if Mr.. Beecher should 90 in
TO the South to preach, they would hang him
hilgher than Haman. He spoke the sentiments,
ne SAID, OF every Democratic member from
Georgia, when he declared that they would new
er submit to the Inauguration of Black Repub-
hcan President. For himself he was for Sc.
cession Immediately
These violent disunion sentiments of Mr..
Crawford, it appears from the reported proceed
lngs' were received with great applause by the
Democratic members.
In the meantime, it is fixed fact, which the
people OF the north will not fail to note, that not
single disunion sentiment has been uttered in
either the House or the Senate by a Republi.
can during the present session
The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1859-12-22
DIsUniORiSls.

The Democratic presses Of the north, with a
most astonishing effrontery, keep prating about
Republican disunion. The facts which have
tranSpired during the past three weeks are
enough to satisfy every man who has particle
of honesty, that there is not word of truth in
the charge that the Republican party entertain
disunion sentiments, but on the contrary the
Democratic party as now represented in Con-
gress is boldly and avowedly disunion party.
Every man who has read the debates in Congress
since the commencement of the present session,
knows full well, that almost every possible
phase of dsunion, has been uttered by the DEM
oeratic members. These reasonable express
ions have not been confined to few hot heads
in the Democratic party, but have been quite
general
Now let the fact be stated-Iet 1t challenge con-
tradictiOn, that not single Republican member
on the floor of Congress, has expressed any SEN
timents of disloyalty to the Union Let it also
be noted that the Democratic fire eaters in Con
gress,. while furiously denouncing the Union,
have boon loudly applauded by the Democrat
ic members; while Republican and anti Lecomp-
ton Democrats, who have avowed determine
ton to keep the Union together at all hazards,
have been Kissed on the Democratic side of the
House Such was the case when Hickman of
Pennsylvania few days SINCE declared the
South should not dissolve the Union. These are
facts which no honest man will pretend to deny.
Attention has been called to this condition of
things, by members of Congress, not only from
from the North, but by some of the more conser-
vatve members from the South. 1t is true that
these dsunion speeches como mostly from men,
bers of the Democratic party, EsOuth of Mason's
and Dixous line, but it is also true the northern
democracy look compIacently on,and dare not ut
ter word of rebuke-are body and soul 5Sunder
the control of the the Southern negro driving
oligarchY
The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1859-12-22
Comfort.

Among the great multitude of Religious news
papers, representing various denominations of
christians, published in the Northern States our
Democratic brethren have discovered one from
which they just now draw much consolation /:
that is an old fossil paper crlled the New York
Observer" The Observer once had large cir
culation in the North but several years ago it
ceased to retain the respect and confidence of
the christian community, and its subscription
list in the northern States, except among the cot
ton Democracy in the large cities, has fallen off
to mere corporaPs guard. 1t draws its sup
port chiefly from the South, to whose interests
it panders under the .sanctimonious garb of a
professedy religious paper.
Our orthern Democracy would do well to
give the old Observer helping hand, by way
OF increasing its circulation; there is especial
ly at the present time, rising sympathy-a
kindling of humanity even among the "unterri-
fed" Democratic masses, on account of the bar
barous treatment on old John Brown in Virgin
ia, which endangers the harmony of the Demo-
cratic party. The New York Observer can put
stop to this uprising feeling of sympathy and
humanity, by quoting an abundance of scripture,
to prove old Brown ought to be hung for the good
OF mankind and glory of the Lord
The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1859-12-22

.srty i'm Congress.

--,ay be noted as one of the significant
events of the times, that the great national Dem
ocratic party, represented by its members in
Congress, made an offer on the 10Th inst to the
know-nothings to go over in body, and vote
for Mr.. Boteler Of Virginia Gan American,) for
Speaker of the House This offer on the part
Of the Democrats, to elect Know nothing Speak
er, was made on the condition, that the Demo-
Gratis should be helped to elect the minor officers
ofthe House Now what say you, foreign born
citizens of Wisconsin, who .have been taught
that the Democratic party was proof against
Know-nothineism What say you, fellow Irish,
men, who have snuffed blood and thunder at the
very idea oftrusting Republican with your po-
litical rights What say you all, of this deber-
ate offer Of the national Democracy in Congress,
to transfer the Democratic Party ''body and
breeches," to the Know-nothings, by giving
them the Speaker Of the House. which is nearly
equivalent to throwing the power of Congress
into the hands of the American party
This proposal which was made by a committee
ofthe Democratic party in the House to the Amer.
lean members in Caucus, was rejected by the
latter by vote of 10 to 7. The proceedings
had on the occasion of considering the Demo.
cratic proposal, were decidedly rich Mr., Eth.
eredge of Tennessee, led off in opposition to q
fusion with the Democrats as follows:
Gentlemen" said he sit is impossible for me
to coalesce with the Democrats. | am a union
man. My constituents are Union people y tbev
are old Clay Wings, who love the Constitution
and the American Union. They are conserva.
tive men. But these Democrats with whom we
are invited to unite are diSunionists. They hate
the Union and seek pretexts to destroy it. For
the whole past week they have spouted treason
against the coufederacy; they have preached dis
union in almost every speech made on their side
Of the House. While on the side of the Repub.
| leans there has not proceeded disloyal senti-
ment. All the Republican speeches have been
on the side Ct the Union and the Constitution
The Republicans have shown themselves to be
conservative men, while the Democrats are the
ulraists and fanatics. Who have applauded
the dlsunion sentiments uttered in debate The
Democrats. Who have Kissed the Union sen.
tlments spoken in the Hall ? The Democrats
And, gentlemen, let me ask you who Kissed the
dlsunlon arguments? Was it not the Republi-
cans 7"
The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1859-12-22
Execution at HarDers Ferry.

Full and minute accounts are given in the pa
pers ofthe execution of the Harpers Ferry prs-
oners. In addition to what is found on the first
page of this paper, we extr act few particulars
from the N. Y. Tribune's correspondent -
HARPER's FERRY, Friday Dec 16, 1859
The prisoners Cook and Coppie were visited
by the Rev. Mes srs. North, Waugh, and Leech.
Previous to their departure for the scaffold the
prisoners1 were engaged in the entrance washing
their feet and putting on their under-clothing.
Capt. Avis said that if they had any thing to say
they could say it then, in the presence of fifteen
or twenty persons. Cook replied that he was
grateful, indeed, for the kindness shown him by
Sheriff Campbell, the ailer, and the guards.
The prisoners conversed on a variety of sub
jects this morning. Cook said to a gentleman
who addressed him. that they fully pelievd Slave
~ to be sin, and that it would be abolished in
Virginia in less than ten years and that by the
people of Virginia. He was prepared to die in
such a cause, and thought he had done nothing to
regret SO tar as.principle was concerned, Copp-
&c said he feared the affair was not ended vet |
that they had friends in the North who would not
rest satisfied, he feared, till they had been
avenged.
Cook then gave directions in regard to one or
two articles one breastpin, he did not wan.
taken off, then, nor, at the scaffold. He wishe
1t gwen to his wife, or to his boy if he lived
Within his shirt-bosom, on the left side, was
daguer-reotype and lock of his sons hair, which
he wished given to his wife. Both requisite
that their arms should not be pinioned tight
enough to stop the circulation of the blood, which
was complied with. A blue cloth Talma was
thrown over Coppic, and dark one over Cook.
On approaching the scaffold, Cook shook hands
with large number of persons, and bowed po-
litely to Mayor Green.
The Quaker gentleman remarked that sit was
hard to de- to which Coppic responded -
1t is the parting from friends, not the dread of
death, that moves u.s."
After the cap had been placed on their heads.
Coppic turned toward Cook, and stretched forth
his hand as far as possible At the same time
Cook said, Stop minute-where is Edwins
hand?" They then shook hands cordially, aud
Cock said, God bless you The calm and col
lected manner of both was very marked.
The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1859-12-22
HGNv Republicans Talk.

When in the Senate Mr.. Iverson, Clay,
Brown Mallory, johnson and Tyler, had been
utterlng volleys of disunion threats. Senator
Wade OF Ohio discoursed to the traitors as fol.
lows ;-'DontyOu know said he. that tbi, fahr;o
mas been Tor eighty years in buildinp, tbat - -
made OF granite and iron and is fire proof and q
10 you th;ah you can destroy it in day Can
all in the same ship Union" with the Cons+; aIe
ton for our heart. We are married to>ra.Lo-
Tor better or for worse, and there theirs ~ w.
court under heaven of competent jurisdictiop ~
grant you divorce. The property canno+ w
divided the family shall not be separated Rnt
gentlemen,H you are going to;dissolve the Union
Why don't you stop threatening and do it now
"hen you are IN power when the whole gov.
eminent IS in your hands. If you wait until
the 4th Of March, 1861, before attempting to to
execute your everlasting, neYer-ceasing threats
you WIN have waited day too long,, TbinI
you tnat with its President and Government of
the Cn mi States in the hands of the RepubIi-
cans on oda 'nSy would not have the ability cour
cal empire in its entirety 7" e'''' pOi''i-
The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1859-12-22
Congress-.

The matters which now FL the newspaper
columns, and chiefly absorb public attention, ARE
the election Of Speaker, and the most extraordin-
airy efforts which arc being made in Congress
and elsewhere, TO frighten the people into the
belief that the Union is in danger of being dis
solved, provided the power of the Democratic
party is not perpetuated. Every possible means
is resorted to in Congress, to prevent the cleo
ton of Republican Speaker. The open disun-
ion Democrats of the South, and the Democratic
mambers from the North, make overtures to the
KnoW-nothings, and all other factions to unite ;
thus far the fusion Of those political elements
does not promise to be sufficiently successful to
elect Speaker, either of the Democratic or the
Know-nothing stripe against Republican.
The Democratic party in Congress, seems to
have exhausted all its stock of argument-drop-
ped all political issues, and stubbornly insists
the Union must go overheard if the Republicans
triumph This is the chief excuse which is off
cred from day to day, for preventing the organ
ization of the House. The contest lis one dis
tinctly between freedom and slavery. And this
is now really the only question before the peO-
minion, be acknowledged every where, and be
allowed to go where itipleases, whether it shall
be restricted to certain limits and freedom held
to be national, This is the form the question
has assumed in Congress; the Democratic party
north, and the dis-union Democracy SOUTH have
thus far, during the present session stood should
er to shoulder, and have voted together for the
same end. Talk about the Democratic party
north being opposed to slavery extension Ev-
cry vote for Speaker since the meeting of Con
gress, shows the falsity of such pretensions The
speech Of Larabee Of this State, puts that matter
beyond controversy; he says he would hold
slaves in Wisconsin did not the law forbid it,
What Democrat who endorses the sentiments
and action Of the party in Congress, can hereaf-
ter deny that it is pro.slavery pa.ty--a slavery
extension party; that the Democracy north, are
as mnch the upholders and apologists of slavery
as the Democracy south
The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1859-12-22
EmterDrIsiahg Pnnnrs.

Our Democratic newspapers cannot keep their
readers posted in the current news of the day.
They do not seem to have heard, that score
or more, Of leading Democratic members Con-
gress have within the three past weeks, threat
ened to dissolve the Union, provided RepubE-
can President is elected in 1860 and that many
have declared the election of a Republican Spea-
ker will be sufficient cause for sundering the
Union. They have not heard that in nearly or
all the Southern Safes, Democratic presses are
clamorous for severing the Union in twain
They have not been informed that freedom Of
speech has been gagged in Washington, by seiz.
ing an old and respectable citizen, and binding
him over In the sum of $4,000, for expressing
sympathy for old Brown, and hostility to slavery
They don't know that Post Master General Holt
has decided to allow southern post masters to
search the mails, and determine what is sproper
for the people to read they have not heard the
news, that an agent of that carefully speaking
old paper, the National Era, has been arrested
in Maryland for trying to extend its circulation.
They don't seem to know, that chivalrous MEM
bers on the floor Of Congress, have avowed that
Virginia Will nang seward II they catch him
they have not heard yet that scores of mercantile
and other agents, travelling in the South for
Northern houses, have been driven home, simp-
ly because they were northerners that north
ern female music teachers, have been sent back
home, for expressing sympathy for John Brown
These together with many other like passing
events, the Democratic papers appear to be ut.
terly ignorant of, or else they are intent on keen
ing their readers in the dark.
The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1859-12-22
County Government.

We learn from some of the papers published
IN the western part of the State, that another
attempt will probably be made during the en-
suing session of the Legislature, to substitute
the Commissioner system of county government
for the present Supervisor system. The ques-
ton of this proposed change was fully discussed
at the last session and met with but little favor
We hope the coming Legislature, will waste no
time in considering this matter; there is no use
in attempting to force the old county Commits
sioner system on the people of this State.
The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1859-12-22

Our new member of Congress from Wiscon-
Hn-Larabee, has spoken-he took for his sub
Ject the Milwaukee Free Democrat, and essayed
to astonish the House with the disunion senti-
ments OF that Journal Can impudence further
60 than this spasm of affected regard for the
Union by Mr. Larabee Look at the facts Lar
abee had been voting steadily for Bocock for
speaker; Bocock was put forward for that post
by the Southern disunionists, and was voted +
by all the rabd dsorganizers in the House. Mr.
Bocock is himselfa disunionist, and for aught
that appears holds with other southern Demo-
Gratis, that the election of a Republican Presi-
dent in 1860, will be sufficient cause for dis
solving the Union. Mr. Bocock has been charg-
ed on the floor of the House, of being disunion-
list, and has never uttered word of denial, If
Larabee has any sclfrespect, or decent regard fer
the people of his district, he should first explain
why he has steadily voted for disunon candi-
date for Speaker.
The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1859-12-22
The Differences:

On wednesday evening, last week, a John
Brown indignation meeting was held at the Coo
per Institute New York CITY, and addressed bv
capt Pete, the leader of the Missouri Border
kuttans during the Kansas war. The meeting
passed without disturbance. On the following
evening, meeting of sympathy for John Brown
was held in the same Hall. when the efforts of
seventy five policemen We're inadequate to pre-
vent the disturbances from the outside moboc-
racy Take another case In the U. S. Senate,
Mr.Masons' resolution for committee to inves-
tgate the Harper's Ferry affair, was voted for
by every Republican member; but Senator
rumbulls amendment, to investigate the seiz-
ure of the U. S. Arsenal by the Border Rufians
of Missouri during the Kansas war was lost 1!
every democratic Senator voting against it
The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1859-12-22

NOUS ayowals he made, in the presence of the
whole House. 1t was most shameful speech,
ana MADE every true Western mans face burn
with indignation. The disclosure of such SEN
tlments on the part of a Wisconsin representa-
tive who boosted in his speech that he repre-
scented 800 900 intelligent constituents, brought
confusion to those who are here from the Badg-
er State Potter and the two Western Washburns
hid their faces behind their handkerchefs, while
Larabee brawled his pro.slavery harangue.-
What miserable fellow" aaid Western Re-
publican in the gallery. "What a confounded
ass" remarked a Democrat, sitting near him.
The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1859-12-22
Reducing Free Persons of color
to slavery

A bill to reduce the free negroes of Missouri
to slavery, has passed the Senate of that State by
a decided majority. This measure says the
Missouri Democrat, has been made the test of
Democracy in Missouri. 1t is supposed the bill
will pass the House and be approved by the
Governor. Similar bills are pending in Tennes-
see, Alabama and other southern States One
of the arguments in Tennessee in favor of the
measure, is, that inasmuch as the South are re-
solved on the policy of re-opening the foreign
slave trade, it will be cheaper, first to exhaust
the homo supply, by enslaving the free negroes
now on the soil, than to bring negroes from AZ
RIGA
The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1859-12-22

CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE.-The Republican
members of Congress were mostly content du-
ring the first two weeks of the session. to allow
the discussion to go between the administration
Democrats aud the anti Lecompton Democrats
The latter gave the former some extra failings
Haskin of New York and Hickman of Pensvl-
vania' both anti Lecompton, especially distin-
gulShed themselves. In answer to the charge of
having deserted the Democratic party, Mr.
Hickman said -
''He knew why he was prosecuted by the Al.
mmlstration TWAS because he defended the
nights and interests Of the North A man ,nigbt
support every measure of the Democratic narfrl
put still! be accounted heratic If he refused
single eXacton of the shareholders Rnt l."
might oppose all Democratic measures with IN,
pumty, and be considered first rate Democrat
provided he was subservient to slavery. The
Democratic party organization had become
mere machine to fetch and carry for few slave
holders. 1t no longer looked to the rights oftbe
masses 1t had become purely sectional organ
izahon, and that section the minority, and vet II
mas the eitrontery to call itselfaatioaaL!