Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1861-07-11

was received and read, portions of it being
greeted with applauses from the floor and
galleries MFR. STEVENS, Of Pennsylvania,
gave notice of bill to repeal all laws Great
ing ports of entry in the rebellious States, and
bill providing Cor holding of a United States
Court in Wheeling. The House soon after
wards adjourned.
One Of the important documents accompany
ing the Presidents, the two of most imme-
date interest are the reports of the SecTeta-
ry Of War and the secretary of the Treasury.
The latter anticipates that it will be necessary
to provide for raising 500, 100000, and he
suggests that 5 $4,000, 900 Of this sum should
be raised by direct taxation, and the remain
ing $240 900, 900 by loans.
After the announcement of the ballot for
Speaker, Hon. G. A. Grow, made the follow
ing remarks
Gentlemen Of the House of Representatives.,
of the United States of Az0ericG
Words Of thanks for the honor conferred
by the vote just announced would but feebly
express the hearts gratitude. While appreci-
atiDg this distinguished mark of your conf
dence, ! am not unmindful of the trying duties
incident to the position to which you have as
signed me. Surrounded at all times by grave
responsibilities, it is doubly so in this hour of
national disaster, when every consideration Of
gratitude to the past and obligation to the fu-
ture tendrils around the present. Four-score
1,aors aUo 6fty-ciy hold
lawyers and mechanics, the representatives of
q few feeble Colonists, scattered along the
Atlantic seabord, met in Convention to found
new Empire, based on the inalenabe rights
of man. Seven years of bloody conflict ensued ,
and the Fourth of July, l776, is canoDzed in
the hearts of the great and good as the jubi-
lee of oppressed nationalities, and in the cal
endar of heroic deeds it marks a new era in
the history of the race. Three-quarters of
century have passed away, and the feeble Col
onists hemmed in by the ocean in front, and
the wilderness and the savage in the rear,
have spanned the whole continent with great
empire of free States, rearing throughout its
vast wilderness the temples of science and of
civilization on the ruins of savage life. Hap
piness, seldom, if ever, equaled, has surround.
ed the domestic fresde, and prosperity unsur-
passed has crowned the national energies, the
liberties of the people been secure at home
and abroad, while the National standard float
ed, honored and respected in every commercial
mart of the world. On the return of this glo-
rious anniversary after period but little ex-
ceediDg the allotted lifetime of man, the peo-
pies representatives are convened in the Coun-
Gil Chambers of the Republic to deliberate on
the means for preserving the Government un-
der whose benign influence these grand results
have been achieved A rebellion the most
causeess in the history of the race has devel-
oped conspiracy of long standing to destroy
the Constitution formed by the wisdom of our
fathers and the Union, cemented by their
blood. This conspiracy, nurtured for long
years in secret councils, first develops itself
openly in acts of spOilation and plunder of
public property, with the conniVance or under
the protection of treason, enthroned in all the
high places of the Government, and at last in
armed rebellion for the overthrow of the best
Government ever devised by man. Without
on effort in the mode prescribed in the organ
ic law for redress of all grievances, the NAL
contents appeal only to the arbtrament of the
sword, insult the nations honor, and trample
upon its flag; inaugurate O revolution which,
if successful, would end in establishing petty
jarring confederacies or anarchy upon the ru-
ins of the Republic and the destruction of its
liberties
The 10th of April, canonized in the first
struggle for American Nationality, consecra-
ted 10 the martyr blood of Warren, has its
counterpart in Ellsworth, and the heroic deeds
and patriotic sacrifices of the struggle for the
establishment of the Republic are being repro
duced upon the battle-6elds for its mainten-
ance. Every race and tongue of men almost
is represented in the grand legion of the Tn.
ion, their standards proclaiming in a language
more impressive than words ttat here indeed
is the home of the emigraut and the asylum
of the exile, no matter where was his birth
place, or in what cline bis infancy was cra-
died. He deyotes his life to the defence of
his adopted land, the yindcation of its honor,
and the protection of its flag, with the same
zeal with which be would guard his hearth
stone and freside. All parties, sects and con-
ditions of men, not corrupted by the institu.
tions of human bondage, forgetting bygone
rancors or prejudices, blend in one phalanx for
the integrity of the Union and the perpetuity
of the Republic. Long years of peace in tbs
pursuits of sordid gain, instead of bunting the
patriotic devotion of loyal citizens, seems but
to have Intensified its development, when the
existence of the Government is assailed. The
merchant, the banker, and the tradeSman, with
an alacrity unparalleled, proffer their all at
the altar of their country, while from the coun-
ter, the workshop, and the plow, brave hearts
and stout arms, leaving,ther tasks unfinished,
rush to the tented feld-the air vibrates with
martial strains, and the earth shakes with
armed men. In view of this grand demon
stration for self-preservation in the history of
nationalities, desponding patriotism may be
assured that the foundations of our national
| greatness still stands strong and the sentiment