Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-03-07

humbugged by the position this Convention
assumed on the tariff question.
ANOTHER SPEECH FROM MR.. SEWARD.
Last Wednesday, Hon. VIM. II. Seward de-
livered speech in the q. S. Senate, which
will give the Democrats trouble again for at
least twelvemonth to come. Its main points
are as follows:
ssAfter reviewing the history of the question
of slavery as conflict between Southern cap
ital and Northern labor, he referred to the
coming Presidential campaign.and to the Re-
publicans holding to the principle of prevent
ing the Territories, by constitutional means,
from becoming houses for slavery and polyg-
amy. He said the policy of the Republican
party was to stand by the freedom of speech
aud of the press, the speedy Improvement of
the public domain by homestead laws, and to
encourage mining, manufactures and internal
commerce, with needful connections between
the Atlantic and Pacific States. He alluded
to the fact that many Southern men not
willing to see the Inauguration of Republi-
can President, because it is a sectional party,
and passed on to prove that the Republican is
not q sectional organization. He asked, is il
easier for US to bear your sway than for you to
bear ours? Is it unreasonable that for once
we should alternate? He said the real prnci-
pies of the Republican party were national.
He was no assalant of States. 1t was we'll
ereign the subject of slavery within their
own borders. He said John Brown and his as
sociates acted on earnest, though fatally erro-
neous convictions. He pronounced che act an
act of sedition and treason. and criminal to
just the extent that it affected the public
peace and was destructive of human life. He
did not think anything serious would grow out
of the oft-repeated threats to dissolve the u
nion.''
In every sense, the speech was conservative
and national, realizing the anticipations of his
friends and compelling the respect Of his ene-
mics. His designation of ssCapital States and
Labor StateS,' is not at all relished by the
Democracy. Mr.. Douglas attempted an
swer, in which he misrepresented the posi-
tions taken, by assuming that Mr.. Seward had
advocated an equality of the white and black
races-a falsehood that Mr.. Trumbull threw
back into the teeth of the sslttle giant in the
presence OF the Senate and the immense
crowd that had collected to hear Mr.. Seward.
is THE MILLENNIUM AT HAND.-The Rev. Or.
Cumming the noted London preacher, believes
that we the of the Millennium. In
discourses recently delivered in Leeds, he
gave interpretations of passages in the Book
of Daniel and the Apocalypse, which are nov
el if not convincing. We quote from brief
report in an English paper:-
He said the year 1867 seemed to end 6 1000
years of the worlds history, and from the ear
lieSt periods onward it had been the almost
universal belief that the six days of creation
were typical of these 6 1000 years and that sew
enth day of creation, or the Sabbath, was ty-
pical of the milennial rest of 1000 years.
But he would say that, supposing this were
so, they were at this moment 140 years short
of the 5000 years. 1t was remarkable fact,
however, that the ablest chronologists, irres-
pective of all phrophetic theories, had shown
that mistake of upwards of 100 years had
been made in calculating the chronology of
the world, and that the year 1860 of the
Christian era began not from the year 1904 of
the worlds history but in the year 413S, and
that the year of Christ's, birth was five years
before that, or in 4132. If his premises were
just then they were at that moment within
seven years of the exhaustion of the 6 ,00c
years; so that if 1867 was to be the termina-
tion of this economy, they had arrived at the
Saturday evening of the worlds long and drea-
ry week. If this were so, it was magnificent
thought that there were some in that assembly
who would never die. They were just plung
| ing into days such as they had never before
| seen an European war was looming, more
dreadful than that through which they had re-
| Gently passed, and when these things happen
ed it would be seen that the sentiments he had
uttered were not the dreams of tanaticism, but
! the words of soberness and truth. He was
convinced that England would emerge from
| the midst of these vialS of wrath she was
separated from the great apostacy at the era
of the Reformation, and had never again join
ed her; and he believed there was now more
| living vital evangelical Christianity in this
country than there had been 500 years before.
His study of prophecy did not make him a
gloomy, desponding, sad man; but
whilst Gods precepts taught him his duties,
His providence lighted up his heart with the
sunshine of Heaven, and gave him hope
that frightened more and more to the perfect
day.
| A PLUMBER SCHEME.-There is project on
foot at Harrisburg, says the Reading Press, to
release the Sunbury and Erie Railroad Com