Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-07-27
Lincoln on Snakes.

J I0e foli0VlOg ls one OF WI Liccoin
illustrations, made in a speech at Ne'
Haven, Conu. Speaking of the right au
wrong Of slavery, he said j
"The other policy is one tha. square
with the idea that slavery is wrong, an
i, consists in doing everything that "
ought to do if it is wrong. Now l don
Wish to be misunderstood, nor to leave
gap down to be misrepresen,ed, even.
don't say that We ought to attack it wher
it exists. To NE, it seems that If "
were TO form a government Anew, in vieV
Of the actual presence Of slavery, We nigh
fnd i, necessary to frame jus, such gov
erbmen, as our fathers did, giving to th'
slaveh olders the entire coutrol where th,
system is established, while We Possessed
the limits. [Applause.] From the ne
cessities Of the case, We should be compel!
ed to form just such a government as oul
blessed fathers gave Us; and, surely, II
they have so made it, that adds another
reason why We should let slavery alou,
where it exists.
off saw venonous snake crawling u
the road, any man would say, l might
seize the nearest stick aud kill il; but, il
| found ,ha, snake in bed with my chill
dreo, it would be another question.
[Laughter.] l might hurt the children
more than the snake, and the snake nigh,
bite them. [App!ause.] Much more, if l
found i, in bed with my neishbcr's chill
dren, and l had bound myself BY solemn
compac, not to meddle with his children
under any circumstances, it would become
me to let that particular mode Of killing
the gentleman alone. [Greas laug hter.j
But if there is bed newly made up, to
which the children are to be taken, and it
was proposed to take batch Of young
snakes and put them in with them, l take
it, no man would say there was question
how l ought to decide. Prolonged ap-
plause and cheers.
That is Just the case. The new Terri
tories are the newly made bed to which
our children are to 90, and it lies with tie
nation to say whether they shall have the
snakes mixed up with them or not. 1t
does not seem as if there could be much
hesitation what our policy should be. lAp-
plause.
FosTER's ORGAN REPUDIATEs THE Co.
ALlTIoN MovEMENr.-The attempt to
cOerce the Democracy Of the State into the
support of .'double headed" electoral
ticket, will not take in old Wes,moreland.
The Greensburg Aryas calls it an ''infa-
nous proposition," and says:
"Tbis can not be entertained for one
moment. Ii is too infamous to be named. !
Thanks to an overruiing Providence, and /
he frmness Of the Baltimore Convention,
The question Of who Is the Democratic can
iida,e, Is not an open one. That question
1as been irresocably settled. There is
but one Democratic candidate 10 the field,
nd that is Stephen A. Douglas. The
,eople had long siuee nominated him, and
be Baltimore Convention ouiy ratified it,
II, in legal phrase, recorded the verdict"
The CoNFLIcT.-The editor Of the
lexington (MO.) Citizsns' Aarertiser bois-
ed the Republican flag last week. The
iti.ens, the same day, "repressed" the
publication Of his paper, and ordered him
o leave at his peril and loss, and forcibly
xecuted their evil wills. He can obtain
10 redress for this Wanton violation of bis
aered constitutional rights. This is what
oue Of our politicians and UDion-savers,
o the stump and in the pulpit, facetiously
oil "the land Of the free and the home Of
be BRAVE" "a laPsus lingue for SLAVE. ,
Charles Goodyear, the inventor of the
r. Of vulcanizing Iudia-rubber, died in
lew York on the lst instant, after an i'll
ess of four weeks Mr.. Goodyear was
orn in New Haven, Dec. 20, 1900. The
isea which Terminated his life had Its
rigin in the iOug-conunued prlvatlOns
ID. abxietIes which be suffered, aud slrug
les which be made IN order to perfect sEd
'troduce into public Use tie great iDVeI-
%, vuIcaDizatIOp, to which bis whole
fe since 1889, the date Of the discovery, /
IS been devoted.
The Breckinriige ratification meeting !
I'D at Charleston, South Carolina, was =
idressed by Hon. X. b. Rhett, who, ac- e
riding to the Charleston News, striking
enforced the proprie,y Of the SOuth's
eparing to take her destiny into her own
.nds-in the Caion II possible; u not,
Il ofi" The resolutions Of the meeting
coguize Breckinridge and Lane as the ?
,ninees Of the Richmond convention,
ID do nos recognize their nomination BY d
e convention held at the Maryla H. S.
ltute, in Baltimore. c
Nor ONE TO BE FoUND.-We are in
rmed that in the tosn Of Cedar Falls,
w., containing about ], 500 inhabitants, u
ere are not over twelve or fifteen Dem u
rats, and among this number, not one =
IS competent to manage the post office d
the town. A Democrat was therefore