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Year: 1860

In 1851 Douglas Resolves Never to make


another Political Speech.


In the Senate December 23d, 1851, on q
resolution declaring the Compromise meas.
ures "fnality," Mr.. Douglas said:


SAT the close of the long session which
adOp pted those measures, l resolved NEVER
to make another speech upon the slavery
question in the halls of Congress.


Gn taking leave of this subject, 1 wish
to state that / have determined NEVER to
make another speech upon the slavery
question; and / will now add the hope
that the necessity for it will never exist. !
am heartily tired of the controversy, and
know that the country is disgusted with il
In regard to the resolutions of the Senator
from Mississippi, (Mr. Foote) 1 will be par
doned for saying that l much doubt the
wisdom and oxPssdienCy Of their int.oduo.


So long as our opponents do not agitate
for repeal or modification, why should we
agitate for any purposel We claim that
the Compromise is final settlement not
open to discussion, and agitation, and con.
troversy, by its friends9 What manner Of
settlement is that which does not settle the
difficulty and quiet the disputed Are not
the friends of the compromise becoming the
agitators, and will not the country hold us
responsible for that which we condemn and
denounce in the abolitionists and free soil
ersG These are matters worthy of consid-
Grafton. Those who preach peace should
not be the first to commence and reopen
Year: 1860

Senator Joonsbs tells hoW, 1ohen and Where


Douglas struck the submission clause


out oft 7oon,Js bill.


In the United States Senate on the 18th
day of March last, Senator Toombs made
a speech reported to the appendix to the
Congressional Globe of the last session,
and on page 127, he uses the following re-
markable language:


"The first twelve sections provided the
machinery for executing the (Toombs) bill
so that there should be no dispute as to its
fairness.


The other sections, containing only the
formal parts of the bill incident to every
enabling act, cut off with my scissors
from a printed bill before. The first twelve
sections are now in writing.


In the thirteenth section under the usual
clause stating that the following shall be
fundamental conditions of admission, there
were words requiring a submission Of the
constitution to the people. That l did
not observe.


When the bill came up for consideration
between some gentlemen of the committee
and myself, there being no safeguards for
such popular election; the bill being in
congruous as to that purpose, suggested
the striking out of this clause. 1t was
done, as the report shows. 1t having got
there by accident, it was stricken out as a
matter Of course. The principles upon
which that measure was based were these
First, that all the legal voters of the Terri
tory should have fair opportunity, free of
force or fraud, to elect convention and to
make constitution, and then that they
should come into tho Union, under that
constitution, without referring either the
constitution to the people, or the question
of admissisn again to Congress"
Year: 1860

March Sd, 1853. The Senate resumed
the consideration of the motion to take up
the bill to organize the territory of Ne
braska.


Mr.. Atchison-(Mr. Foote in the chair)
Il did not expect opposition to this meas
ure from Texas and from Mississippi. |
had thought that Arkansas, Missouri and
Iowa were moro particularly interested in
this question.


Mr.. President, l will now state to the
Senate the views which induced me to op-
pose this proposition in the early part of the
season.


l had two objections to it. One was that
the Indian title in that territory had not
been extinguished or at least very small
portion of it had been. Another was the
Compromise, or, as it is commonly called,
the slavery restriction. 1t was my opinion
at that time-and / am not now very clear
on that subject-that the law Of Congress,
when the State of Missouri was adopted in.
to the Union, excluding slavery from the
territory of Louisiana north SO deg. 80 min.
would be enforced in that territory unless
it was specially rescinded; and, whether
that law was in accordance with the consti-
tuition of the United States or not, it would
do its work, and that work would be to
preclude Shareholders from going into that
territery. But when l came to look into
that question, found that there was no pros
pect, no hope of a repeal of the Missouri
Compromise excluding slavery from that
territory. Now, sir, l am free to admit that
at this moment, at this hour, and for all
time to come, 1 should oppose the organiza-
ton or the settlement of that territory un-
less my constituents and the constituents OF
the whole south, of the slave states of the
Union, could go into it upon the same foot
ing, with equal rights and equal privileges,
carrying that species of property with them
as other people of this Union. Yes, sir, I
acknowledge that that would have governed
me, and l have no hope that the restriction
will ever be repealed.


have always been of tho opinion that
the first great error committed 10 the politi
cal history of this country was the Ordin.
ance of 1887 rendering the Northwest ter.
ritory free territory. The next great error
was the Missouri Compromise. But they
are both irremediable. There is no remedy
for them. We must submit to them. ]
am prepared to do it. 1t is evident that
the Missouri Compromise cannot be repeal
Cd So far as that question is concerned
we might as well agree 10 the admission o.
this territory now as next year, or five OIL
ten years hence."-Cong. Globe, session
1928, page 1113.
Year: 1860

DouysuS S"yS IOP"tdT COVSTetgnty IS q


Judicial QuestiOn.


"Ho (TrumbulD tried the other day, as
those associated with him on the stump
used to do two years ago last year, to ascer-
tain what were my opinions on this point
in the Nebraska bill. l TOLD THEM 1T
WAS A JUDICIAL QUESTION. = =
My answer then was and now is, that if the
Consultation carries slavery there, let it 90,
and no power on earth can take it away
but If tho Constitution does not carry it
there, no power but the people can carry it
there. What ever may be the true decis-
ion of that constitutional point, it would moi
have affected my vote for or against the
Nebraska bill. should have supported il
as readily il l thought the decision would
be one way as the other, If my colleague
Year: 1860

Wv G48-s -ElA-s - o--A-N-<A1
now receiving one of the Largest and most Splendid
Il Stocks of Merchandise,
ever brought to the Western Market,
wish to inform my customers and the public generally
that my present stock has been purchased with special
idea of


Introducing a


Better quality of Goods,


Than the people of Fremont


Have been in the habit of getting.


Having bought my Goods with CASH,


directly of the Importers and Manufacturers,
am enabled to sell as cheap as the cheapest
Farmers,
Mechanics,


Everybody
Wake up to pteress' Come to my Store and get
Dry Goods,


Groceries, Crockery,


Clothing, Hats and Caps,


Leather, Boots and Shoes,
And every thing you want in your houses or shops
or on your farms.
Ladies !!


Don't forget that generally keep the most
beautiful Dress Patterns My Spring and Summer Styles
have been most carefully selected very cheap, and will
please you better than ever
lam bound to keep up with the times ahead Of all
competitors.


l shall


Stick to the


Ready Pay System!
Being convinced that 1t is the best for all concerned
Owing to the great increase in business large Warehouse
is being built in the my store so that shall con-
tinue to be ready for


Every thing


The Farmer


Brings to town.
Bring your Wheat Corn Oats Rye and other Produce
shall also be in the marketfor the


Springs Clip of Wool,
Year: 1860

1.-THE above remarks are designed TO apply prin-
cipally to the case of such fugitves as have been
long resident of the North, and have families here
These the owners would probably be willing to
surrender on reasonable terms An indscriminate
offer to redeem all fugitives would not only be
misplaced generosity, but would actually hold out
an inducement to desertion.
Year: 1860

PLEA FOR DAINTY CHILDREy.-f Very little
mercy is usually shown to children who are
too dainty I'd cat, unquestioned, what Is Sc.
before them; but Miss Martneau thus speaks
a word for them:


"While a disposition to general daintine,.
Is to be dealt with as carefully as the fault
Of gormandizing, it i a. useless a. It Is cruel
10 contend with occasional cases ot cOnstlta
tional repugnance to some particular article
of diet Ii is as absurd a. making chltd
eat what disagrces with il merely because
other people do. We have seen q pale faced
little girl, with lcad-colored circles round her
eyes, compelled to take milk breakfasts till
she vas the proper age to have coffee, ami
enduring, in consequence, whole youth ~
Indigestion. She did not dislike milk, but She
could not digest ii; and during her entire
childhood, she went t. her lessons with
sufocatiug lump in her throat and 4 head
full Of pain or noise AT school she would have
eaten the bread and omitted the milk. We
have seen little boy actually unable like 9th
ers of the family to eatrice. Hisgorge rose
at it, This was Inconvenient; and the oppoE
tunity was taken, when he was seven years
old, to bribe him to get over the dislike
lie took fancy to book in a shop window


one Of those overwhelming desires which
throw child into fever. Ii was the Seven
Champions Of ChristendOm,' with gay
frontispiece. lie was promised the book il
he would eat Of the Saturday rice pudding,
By tremendous effort, with his eyes fixed
upon the opposite wall, ho got down and kept
down his small plate ofpudding. The boOs
was bought and read before tea-time; and all
was then a blank The child would never eat
rice again; he could not Do it, and his mind
was troubled For transient pleasure he
had bound himself by promise which hc
could not fulfil.


These are grave mistakes, however uid
ing each occasion may appear. The whole
subject Of eating i made Of far too much
Importance by thus connecting il with g
much thought and emotion Proper meals
properly cooked, would obyiate large class
oi such mistakes"
Year: 1860




In looking short time since in DR.. Ures
valuable Dictionary of Arts and Manufac-
lures, we noticed very singular error. He
states that tin, though much rarer than silver,
is yet very inferior in price to it. What was
probably meant is that tin is cheaper than
might be expected from its rarity, taking sill
yer as the standard of comparison. On ex-
amining the comparative productions of tho
two metals for the past few years, it would
appear that the annual produce of tin in the
world is about eighteen thousand tons, while
that of silver is twelve hundred tons. Thus
the annual product is as fifteen to one. The
value of ton Of silver is IN round numbers
thirty thousand dollars, of ton of tin five
hundred dollars ton of tin is, therefore,
sixty times cheaper than one of silver. If the
prices of tin and silver were regulated by
their comparative abundance, that of silver
remaining stationary, the price of tin should
be four times as great as ct present. The
chief cause of this difference is the compare
lively greater demand for silver in the arts.
More than half the tin annually produced in
the world comes from Cornwall and Devon
shire, England, the mines Of which have been
worked nearly three thousand years, without
exhibiting any signs of exhaustion or dimi-
mutton. The tin mines of Banca, east Of
Sumatra, furnish two-thirds Of the remain
der, nearly the entire balance being found in
Malacca, Bohemia, and Saxony. 1t has not
yet been found in this country, at least in
sufficient quantities to render it of any inn
pOrtauCe
Year: 1860

OF course it is, take it in its highest, and
broadest, and deepest meaning; butin mar
rover, more worldly schse, and we are not
, quite SO certain about it, and we do honestly
believe most unsafe, unsound, and dangerous
maxims ior The young.


Now isn't it so, dear reader? There will
certainly come crisises tn almost every busi-
ness mans life, when honesty will not be the
best policy; wlfcn lie will be much shrewder
and wiser according to tho wisdom of the
word-to take little advantage here, and
to sham little there, and make "a good
haul out of that other wind of good luck. -
Nay, more, we do believe that the wicked
may prosper for q season, that there are many
people who live. and flourish, and latten on
ill-gotton gains, and who perhaps die without
any especial judgement Detailing them for
!! their sins.


We believe too, in that good old-fashioned
book, the Bible that this life does have inti-
mate relations with the life that is to come
and that sooner or later Whatsoever a man
sows that shall he reap but not always in
this world.


Honesty is the best policy! Oh, fathers
and mothers Of children, you must lay the
foundation of their character deeper and
broader than this. They must be laid on
the eternal principles Of truth, and right, and


Justice; and they must be made to reason in
this wisc when the terrible temptations of
selfshncss and money getting, and the greed
of life beset them. Policy! what has that
to do with honesty ? | will be true to the
eternal right, let come what will God has
declared what my duty is, and will do it,


let the world stand or fall, and He must look
out for the rest


Such stand point as this will alone keep
the soul stout and strong, and any principle
weaker, and Trailer than this will be q fat
me.-T f. Ioynscad
Year: 1860

The news from Shanghae is to the 26th OF
May:


The trade Of that city was almost suspend
ed, and all the native merchants had fled
with their treasure to souchong, for fear the
rebels would attack the former place. The
Chinese up the Peiho were reported to be
making great preparations to defend themsel
YES against the anticipated INVASION of the
allies. The Chinese rebels hal recently been
very successful. They had taken the large
city of Loochow, AMI were holding poSsessio u
This gave them the control of the country in
that direction within a hunred miles of Slang
hae. They were reported to be advancing
toward Shanghae.


The American clipper ship Game Cock
had sailed from Shanghae for Japan, for a
cargo of horses for the army.
Year: 1860

We arc pleased to learn that, under tilr a3o'c
title, the musicians Of our city have organized
a society FOR the purpose Of giving concerts o!
classical music We have long regretted that
while almost every large city in the Union had
its orchestra, the metropolis Of the Old Domn-
ion should be deprived Of the enjoyment which
its resident professors were fully competent 10
give, and consequently that the works Oh the
great masters should remain sealed book 10
most Of our concert-going public


From all we have heard the society has be-
gun well; it already numbers some % or so Of
our best professors and the names Of DR.. Rcae
and DR.. Mills, as President and Vice President,
arc alone d sufficient guarantee that il will be
good thing, Their first concert will take
place on Thursday next, and the proceeds "i
it will pc appropriated to the orphans OF the
city We feel assured that their efforts in the
holy cause Of charity will be duly appreciated
and literally encouraged.
Year: 1860

from which mankind suffer over large part OF
the globe. Is the consequence OF diseased action
in the system. induced by the poisonous miasm Of
vegetable decay. This exhalation is evolved by
the action of solar heat on wet SOIL and rises with
the watery vapor from it. While the sun is below
the horizon this yapor fingers near the earths sur
face, and the virus Ia taken with it through the


lungs into the blood There ii acts a. an irritating
poison the internal viscera and excretng organs
OF the body. The liver becomes torpid and fails to
secrete not only this virus, but also the bile from
the blood. Both the virus and the bile accumulate
In the circulation, and produce violent eonstitu-
tional disorder. The spleen, the kidneys, and fae
stomach sympathize with the liver, and become
disordered also. Finally, the instinct OF our or
ganisn, as If in an attempt to expel the noxions
Infusion concentrates the whole blood Of the body
in the internal excreories to force them to cast ii
out. The blood leaves the surface, and rushes to
the central organs with eongestive vialence. This
is the CHILL. But In this effort 1t fails. Then the
FEvgR follows, In which the blood leaves the CEN
trail organs and rishes to the surface, as If in
another effort TO expel the irritating poison through
that ether great excretory The skia. In this
also it fails, and the system abandons the attempt
exhausted, and waits for the recovery of strength
to repeat the hopeless effort another day. These
are the fits or paroxysms of FEVER AND AGuE.
Such constitutional disorder viii of course Under
mine the health ii it is not removed.


We have labored to find, and have found, an
Year: 1860

DoMEsTIc TRAGEDY.-A man named Thos. Faulk-
ner OF Halifax county, Virginia, who, while intox-
leated, had habit of amusing himself by fright
ening his wife, carried his joke a little too far
few days since. The Halifax Echo says: On this,
as previous occasions, he declared his intention
of hanging himself. This he had bone BEFORE and
had tied the rope to the ioist and then around his
neck always taking care, however, to have it long
enough so that in stepping from the chair, box or
whatever he used on the occasion to elevate him
SELF he would easily reach the floor. On this occa-
sion he tied the rope too short and when he stepped
from his elevation, instead of reaching the floor,
broke his neck.
Year: 1860

The Continental Hotel building in Philadelphia,
on the corner Of Chestnut and Ninth streets, is
nearly completed. The cost of the ground and
structure, without regard to the furniture, &c.
involved bill of eight hundred thousand dollars.
Year: 1860

A German fell into the tank of boiling water in
brewery near Fox River Bridge, ILL.,. Wednesday
week, and although taken out Immediately, he lived
only few hours. He leaves wife and four small
Year: 1860

In another portion of this days paper we
give resume of the proceedings of the National
Democratic Convention held at Baltimore, and
also of the Meeting held by a portion of the
Convention, who deemed it their duty to with
draw from the regular organization and set up
for themselves.


Having been born and bred" in the Demo-
cratic faith-beleying in the fundamental prin-
ciple of the organization, that the voice of the
majority, when in council, shall rule-always
Eaving fought with all our might all boilers and
seceders-being fully impressed with the con-
viction that upon the preservation of the Dem
ocratic party depends the safety Of the Union
and it appearing fact beyond question that the
regular National Democratic Convention was
conducted in accordance with the time -honored
asages Of the party, we have no hesitation in
promptly ayowing ourselves ardent supporters
of its nominees, and fling to the breeze the old
fashioned Democratic flag, with the names OF
the regular nominees .hereon-DoUeLks and
JOHNSON ! {" Sink or swim, survive or perish,
we will remain upon the deck of the old time
honored Democratic ship, once commanded by
a Thomas Jefferson and an Andrew Jackson
As long as one plank remains so long will we.
When the party has sunk beneath the waves
forever, then will we look out for some other
boat, but not until then. If wa are to die now,
we prefer to- die inside of the portals of the
Church. Ifdefeat comes upon the party, as the
seceders appear determined it shall come, why,
for one, we prefer the calamity shall reach US
while proving our party fidelity, rather than
when in the very act of waging an unnatural
war upon our political alma mailer.


Douglas and johnson are, beyond all ques-
ton, the nominees of the Democratic National
Conv ention.. No fair man can really believe the
contrary. mere fraction of the entire Con-
vention-abort -third-ieft the regular Con-
rention, and assembled in another part of the
city, while two-thirds remained and performed
the work which they were elected to do. The
reports that the Democratic Convention had
bursted up were false. There was no burst up
about it. minority who could not rule the
majority, bolted seeded, withdrew from the
Convention, and then the Convention, when the
bubbub had subsided, proceeded quietly, regu-
arly and legitimstely to business. The result
was the nomination of Douglas and Johnson
Believing that every Democrat is in honor bound
to support this action and these nominees, we
purpose from now until the day of election, with
pen and with tongue, to advocate the cause of
the time -honored and glorious old Democratic
party. We would have done precisely the same
had jeff Davis and Yancey been nominated by
the National Democratic Convention. We never
did bolt, and we think we never will.
Year: 1860

Bah 1T makes one sick to read the stuff
with which the Bulletin, Aha and Times have
recently been reeking, relative to the failure of
the Courts to punish Judge Terry for killing
Senator Broderick in duel. These hypocrites
profess to deplore the result for the reason that
the law being left unexecuted, the judiciary
will thereby be lessened in the respect of the
people These same fellows and their friends
few years ago trampled on the law and the Con-
stitution, defed the entire Executive power of
the State, and, in violation of all lawful author
ity, deprived American citizens of their lives
in the eyes of the law and the Constitution
committed deliberate murder And yet we have
never heard them complain because the violated
and outraged laws had not been vindicated by
their execution upon the gallows or their incar-
ceration within the walls of the State Prison =
Oh, the hypocritesl
Year: 1860

ARRIVAL OF THE PoSY.-The Pony Express
arrived at Sacramento on Thursday. We have
been furnished copy fthe dispatch telegraph
ed over the Northern line, bat find it wholly
unimportant, and unworthy of the space which
it would occupy
Year: 1860

SHASTA UNION SEMINARY-In another column
will be found an advertisement of this deserv-
ing institution. We understand and are glad
to be 50 informed, that the prospects of the
a Union Seminary" are now very fattering. 1t
is thought that the scholars in attendance dur
ing the second term will number but little shoyt
of ffty
Year: 1860

BY MISS CARRY.
One sweetly solemn thought
Comes to me DER and Ger
I'm nearer home to-day


Than have ever been before.
Nearer my Fathers house


Where the many mansions be;
Nearer the great white throne,
Nearer the jasper sea;
Nearer the bound of lifc,
Where we lay our burdens down,
Nearer leaving the cross,


Nearer gaining the crown,
But lying darkly between,


Winding down through the night
Is the dim and unknown stream
That leads ut last to the light.
Closer and closer my steps


Come to the dark abysm
Closer death to my lips


Presses the awful chrysm.
Father perfect my trust;


Strengthen the might Of my faith
Let me feel as L would when l stand
On the rock of the shore of DEATH
Feel as would when my feet
Are slipping over the brink;
For it may be I'm nearer home,
Nearer now, than l think.
Year: 1860

WITNESSES IN THIS CITY,


Republicans as well as Democrats, who
heard him in speech delivered in front
Of the Court House in this city, admit and
defend the position assumed in the above
extract, claim to be the AUTHOR OF