smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1860

At the opening of the District Court on
Wednesday, His Honor Judge Magrath
presiding, after announcing DEGREES, asked
if there were any motions to be made or or
ders to be taken by the gentlemen of the
Bar present. His Honor then asked if the
Grand Jury had any prescntment to make,
whereupon R. n. Gourdn, Esq, Foreman,
said:


May 1t please your Honor 1T is under
stood to be one of the functions of the
Grand Jury to make preseutments of nui,
sances, and to suggest to the Court and to
the country such reforms in law, or in its
administration, as may to them seem prop
er, These preseDtments are predicated up
on the stability of the Government, and are
designed to promote its gradual and steady
progress to the highest civilization. Hence
it was the purpose of this Jury to lay be-
fore the Court some matters suggested by
the indictments submitted to them but the
events of yesterday seem to render this un-
necessary now. The verdict of the North
ern section of the Coufederacy, solemnly
announced to the country through the bal
lot.box on yesterday, has swept away the
last hope for the permanence-for the sta
bility of the Federal Government of these
sovereign States; and the public mind is
constrained to lift itself above the consider
alton of detailsin the administration of Law
and Justice, up to the vast and solemn issues
which have been forced upon us. These
issues involve the existence of the Govern
meut of which this Court is the organ and
minister. In these extraordinary circum-
stances, the Grand Jury respectfully de-
cline to proceed with their presentments.
They deem this explanation due to the
Court and to themselves.


Thereupon His Honor addressed the
Grand Jury as follows:


The business of the Term has been dis
posed of. And, under ordinary circum-
stances, it would be my duty to dismiss you
to your several vocations, with my thanks
for your presence and aid But now have
something more to do, the omission of
which would not be consistent with proprie-
ty. In the political history of the United
States an event has happened of ominous
import to fifteen slaveholding States. The
State of which We are citizens has been al.
ways understood to have deliberately ly fixed
its purpose, whenever that event should
happen. Feeling an assurance of what will
be the action of the State, consider it my
duty, without delay, to prepare to obey its
wishes That preparation is made by the
resignation of the Office | have held For
the last time I have, as Judge of the Uni
ted States, administered the laws of the
United States within the limits of the State
of South Carolina.


While thus acting in obedience to sense
of duty, l cannot be indifferent to the emo.
tions it must produce. The Department Of
of Government which, l believe, has best
maintained its integrity and preserved its
purity, has been suspended. So far as l
am concerned, the Temple of Justice, rails
ed under the Constitution of the United
States, is now closed. If it shall be never
again opened, l thank God that its doors
have been closed before its altar has been
desecrated with sacrifices to tyranny.
Year: 1860

FLAG FOR THE SOUTHERN REPUBLIC.
One of our most wealthy and influential
merchants, who has given the subject much
consideration, suggests the following as a
suitable and appropriate national banner
for the Southern Confederacy:


Tue ground entirely blue, with golden
Palmetto in the centre a golden rattlesnake
twining round the stem Of the palmetto,
Year: 1860

THE ANTI-SLAvERY PRESS. s.-Wben we
look over the North, and especially when
we notice the press of this city, we are
sometimes astounded that all the people do
not vote the Black Republican ticket to a
man. There are in this city eleven daily
papers published in the English language;
two in the German, and one in the French.
The Courier and Enquirer Commercial Ad-
vertiser, Post, Times, Tribune, World and
Sun and Abend Zeitung are openly and
distinctly abolition, or autislavery. The
Herald, Express, Journal of Commerce,
News, the Stats >Zeitung and the French
Courier may be set down as tacitly anti
slavery-that is, We understand that they
admit that negro "slavery," as it exists at
the South, is absolutely wrong, while they
seek to repel attacks upon it, holding that,
for the present at least, nothing better can
be done with the negroes. This is, as We
understand, the present attitude of all these
journals. If we are wrong, we shall be
glad to be corrected. For the purpose of
our present argument, then, it may be set
down that every newspaper in New York,
excepting only this journal. either directly
OF indirectly admits that the fundamental
doctrine upon which Southern society is
fouuded-viz: the abstract right of the
white race to hold the negro race in subjec-
tion-is acrong. We only hold that it is
right. We set up no claim on this point,
we suppose, which will not be cheerfully
accorded US. In fact no one seems anxious
to enjoy what is regarded as the unpopu-
larity of our position.-Meao York Day
Book
Year: 1860




Mr.. Boyce, in responce to the call made
upon him by the citizens who serenaded
him Tuesday night at Columbia


Mr.. Boyce said thank you for this
manifestation of kindness, and attribute it
to the deep interest which you take in the
present condition of affairs; indeed, the
condition of our country is such as demands
the earnest consideration of every lover of
his country. In all human probability,
the nominee Of the Black Republican par
ty is now, at this moment, elected President
of the United States From this fact a.
rises the greatest question which we, the
people of South Carolina, can possibly be
called upon to decide-one which 1 hope
we will consider and determine among our
selves in spirit Of fraternal kindness, with
allowances for the opinions of all, whatever
those opinions may be. In my opinion,
the South cannot submit to the election Of
Lincoln, because he is the nominee of q
sectional party-a party confined altogeth-
er to the Northern States It was not into
such a union our ancestors entered. 1t
was not Union of one section, dominant
over another, that Washington, Madison,
Rutledge and other great ,nen entered and
if there is no other objection, this alone
would be sufficient Why continue in
Union where We are to be subject to anoth-
er section? This is not the only objection
to this party. Besides being sectional, it
is party filled with animosity to the South; ;
it is party which hates us, which would
delight in our ruin-a party which would
rejoice to see the torch applied to our dwell
ling. To such party, why should we sub
nit? If we submit to this, we will sub
init to even greater evils 1t is party
founded upon system destructive to our
whole social fabric, and which would re-
duce the beautiful South to bowling vii.
derness. Can we submit to such party
[n my opinion, we should not. You ask
me if that party hates US? I tell you, yes.
For proof of this, refer to their societies !;
look to their press and their public speak
ers; look to their sympathy, expressed not
only by mobs, but by representative bodies
in their courts. AS evidence of this, John
Brown bells toll with all the pomp and cir
cumstances Of pageantry as if great mar
tyr had suffered. When we remember
what Brown intended, we understand their
sympathy towards US. The question, then,
is, what are we to do


In my opinion, the South ought not to
submit. If you intend to resist, the way
to resist in earnest, is to act. The way to
create revolution, is to start it yourselves.
l think the only policy for US is, as soon
as we receive authentic intelligence of the
election of Lincoln, for South Carolina, in
the quickest manner, and by the most d.
rect means, to withdraw from this Union.
Then we will submit to ten millions of
Southern men whether they will take sides
with US. They cannot take sides with our
enemies, they must take sides with u.s.
When an ancient philosopher wished to in.
augurate great revolution, his motto was
"to dare, to dare, to dare" My advice
then is as our best policy to dare, to dare,
to dare. To submit to the election of Lin.
coin, is to consent to lingering DEATH
For my part, l will never consent to that
Year: 1860

Although the above complaints differ widely
in their origin and nature, yet they NIL require
local treatment. Many of the worst cases of
such diseases, will yield in comparatively
short space of time when this Ointment is dill
gently rubbed into the parts affected, even after
every other means have failed. In all serious
maladics the Pills should be taken according to
the printed directions accompanying each hox.
Year: 1860

his father applied for permission to 60 to see
another blother living in Turin. THIS point
was not decided without formal reference
to the central government at Rome; whence
came an order, signed by the most reverend
and terrible name of Mstteucci, giving per-
mission for Hannibal and his father to re-
eeive passports, but on the condition that if
he once left the State he was not to return.
This was inserted with the threat that, in
case Of his re-entering bis native country, he
should undergo year of Imprisonment


Five months afteTward we end another letter
from the same Matteucci, directed to the
apostolic delegate of Ferrara, and telling
him that, as Hannibal had returned to his
native town, he must suffer the penalty with
which he had been menaced, He was again
thrown into prison, and treated worse than
a tnalefactor. In few months more W % ind
another letter from Doctor Dino Pesci also
to the apostolic delegate, telling him that
from childhood he had been the friend of
Hannibal, and that he now had one favor to
ask. His old companion was all but dying
and suffering terribly he entreated permits
sion to go to him, that he might pass the
nights with him, and some hours of the day,
to nurse him in his sickness. But no such
comfort was to be allowed to the unfortunate
prisoner. All that could be obtained was,
that when his twelve-month of impris )nment'
expired he should be again set at liberty,
being subjected to that rigorous political
restraint sanctioned by the fact Of his having
been imprisoned for year" But shortly
after the hand of Matteucci wrote this
gracious permission, another letter was
written to tell him that Hannibal Bonaccioli
was dead-kiled slowly for the crime of
having told his comrades to weep for the
three men of Ferrara. 3 ai7
Year: 1860

SUIT AGAMsr RAmwAY.-T The Value Of
WIFE etermined-Thomas w. Field, Of
New York, has recovered from the Hudson
River Railroad Company, for the death Of
his wife, by a collision on that road, the sum
wife. We know many men who would give
as much as that to have their wives meet
with similar accident. % Pa
Year: 1860

FELIcITous SMILE OF A POLITICAL 0PPo-
NENT.-Judge NJ was a candidate for
the Senate, and had made speech in which
he had borne very hard upon his opponent,
Colonel D, who was very fiery and inn
pulsive. The Colonel, in eply, became very
angry, and said, among other things, that he
could whip the Judge before forty men could
that, "when he was boy his father had
very large bull that could whip any bull in
the neighborhood, far or near, Butt said
he, with sort of depreeating tone, "my
fathers bull could not legisldfe," and then
quietly took his seat. The audience were
perfectly satisfied that fighting. was not the
best qualification for Senator.
Year: 1860

| Which the trading politicians of New Yorl
and Washington have been trying to get w
in the North, to defeat Mr.. Lincoln, has no
had the effect intended. Like an old blum
derbuSs it has kicked back. Or, in the
words of Hudibras:


"The gun that's charged for duck or plover,
Recos and kicks the owner over


The real panic is-not in the North, but
in the South. The Northern people,
especially the Lincoln men, are perfectly
calm, cool, and determined to do their duty
to their party, their principles. and their
country. They feel no fear and anticipate
no serious trouble. They see that noD is
the time to ascertain whether a majority of
the people of this country shall be allowed
constitutiOnally to elect a President or
whether the control and destiny of The
country is in the hands of 35o, 900 slave
holders, and the interests of white men sub
Servient to the now omnipoteat nigger.


The real panic is in the South. That is
the section that would suffer worst in the
event Of q dissolution of the Union, and the
mass of the Southern people Lno,e and
feel it. II is entirely against all their best in-
terests to have this Union broken up. and
when they see the hot heads of their section
threatening to resist constitutional act of
a majority of the people of the country, and
witness the determined bearing of the North,
they are frightened for the Consequences
Hence we see ALL true Union men in the
Southland their name is legion-extreme-
ly solicitous for the result of the election,
and fearing evil consequences from the
madness of their own fire-eaters


After the election there will be only two
parties in this country, viz: the Republican
or Union party, and the Disunion party.
Lincoln will be at the head of the former.
and will be supported, as against the latter,
by all true friends of the Union as our
fathers made it. Yancey, Keitt Toombs,
Wise, Brown, or some other mailman will
be the leader of the Disunionists, and in
his wake will follow a mere corporal
guard of the South, ami perhaps u few
filibusters from the North. Thousands OF
Douglas, Bell, and even Breckinridge men
will stand at Old Abe's back and support
him in carrying out the prov sions of the
Constitution and enforcing the laws.


Men of all parties will he called on TO
take sides with the Republicans or Union
lists, or Disunionists. Few will have the
hardihood to commit the reasonable act Of
aiding or countenancing secession or dis
union. Accordingly, many who are now
against US will be for US in less than six
months.
Year: 1860

HELLIsH OUTRAGE.-We were reliably in
formed last night that a man named Robert
Burns was shot dead by lawyer named
Kinkead in Paducah, last week, for hur-
raining for Lincoln in front of the St. Fran
els Hotel This fact was told to our iu-
formant by a man who saw the murder
committed.


Burns was poor man, and the man who
shot him was rich; consequently the muir
derer was not punished. Let every man
who reads this, just consider what this
country is coming to under the influence Of
slavery. A man is shot dead in his tracks
in Kentucky for speaking his honest senti-
ments. Let Free State men think of this
when going to the polls to vote for or
against the extension of such an institu-
ton.
Year: 1860

Examine your tickets carefully before
voting. See that the names of the Electors
are all right. That is the essential point
You vote for the Electors and they vote for
President and Vice President in the Elec-
toral College. Be sure and get your tickets
from reliable Republicans, and compare
them with the ticket ut the head of our pa
per and see whether they correspond with
that. If so, they are right; if not, they are
bogus. You can't be too careful in this
matter of tickets
Year: 1860

gGs~ The Douglas men met at the Court
House last night, where they had some
speeches. We say-not in an exultant spirit,
but as a matter of news-that the meeting
was very spiritless-the exact opposite Of
the Lincoln meeting at Mozart Hall


We believe that numbers of Douglas men,
satisfied of the utter downfall of their party
in this county and elsewhere, viii to-day
vote for Lincoln. How fallen are the once
proud Democracy
Year: 1860

In pursuance of an order of the County
Commissioners, the place of voting for the
Upper Precinct of Pigeon Township has
been removed to the Neptune Engine House
on Second street, between Main and Locust
streets. Persons living in said Precinct
(above Main street and the Plank Road J
will therefore vote at said place.
Year: 1860

Remember that every person who was
entitled to vote at the late State and
County election, will be entitled to vote at
the Presidential election to-day. No other
qualification is required of voters to-day
than at the October election.
Year: 1860

H@ Voters not heretofore acting Win
the republican party; many If you have been
prevented from doing so only by an un-
manly prejudice, unworthy of reasoning
beings.


Lay that aside, and vote for the party
that you feel in your heart of hearts Is
right. The Republican party is the party
of the future. 1t will be the strong party
here as well as throughout the country. You
had better be with the Republican party than
any other. This many of our opponents
know to be true if they would only confess
it. Act like men to-day.
Year: 1860

Say Business Men, vote for Lincoln and
avoid thereby long and bitter contestnext
winter, in Congress. You know it is much
better for the people to elect, than for venaI
politicians,
Year: 1860

Lincoln men: The time for argn-
ment by the Press and by speakers is over.
The time for decisive fiction has come. On
ly one day is left for that Now give one
day TO hard work, and the victory is ours.
Year: 1860

E.H' OFPERz.N'g OUR GOODs .R.N-A
II asking the patronage of this community, we
have only to say that We come amongst you as per-
manent citizens, and promise that in all things our
word shall be made good.


Our purchases lave been made under the most
favorable circumstances i'll New Yerk and other
Eastern citios long residence and intimate
business connections with the best mercantile
houses there, gives advantages to buy goods
cheaper than can be done under any other circum-
stances.


We have adopted system that is somewhat new
here, but it is the only one which will enable a
merchant to sell goods at low prices throughout
entire stock
Year: 1860

A HEROIC RESCUE AND EXTRAORDINARY
PRESERVATION OF LIFE.-.A boy at Leeds,
England, was emptying bucket at well,
thifty-six feet deep, to the surface of the
water, and, while so doing, fell backward
down the well. A man ran the bucket down
for the boy to catch hold of but before it
reached the water young man named Kill
lingbeck ran down the chain. When he got
to the water he called the boy by name, who
had got his head out of the water and
grasped the chain in state Of great ex;
the chain by the other, Killingbeck called
those above to draw up. Having got about
half way to the top, the chain broke, and
both were precipitated to the bottom. Kill
lingbeck Immediately rose to the surface,
threw himself on his back in the water aud,
es the boy came up, caught hold Of him.
Both were eventually rescued.
Year: 1860

A FARMER OPPOSED TO GROWING HEN.-
There was an old farmer who had one hen
that, not content with her proper sphere Of
action, was continually endeavoring to crow.
At last, after repeated attempts, she sue
ceeded in making some thing like crow
The farmer was taking his breakfast at the
time, and hearing the noise went out, but
soon returned, bearing in his hand the crow
ing hen minus her head. "There," he said,
sim willing hens should do most any thing
but / amt willing they should crow; it's
setting bad example" a.
Year: 1860

NEW York, December ia rumor was
prevalent yesterday that mob would attack
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, in the evening,
when it was expected that Henry Ward
Beecher would preach another violent anti
slavery sermon. A posse of 200 Metropolitan
Police was detailed in and about the build
ing, but, Notwithstanding the immense
crowd in attendance, their services were not
called into requisition.


A subscription for the relief of Kansas
was taken up in the morning
Year: 1860

las could be elected that to elect Breckurdge, if i
could be doue would be to continue in Office the greedy
yultures who have already nearly davoured the counr
sketcbed with the skill OF master the dangerous cond
ton 10 which Democratic mimanagement hal brought
our beloved Constitution and Uuion and literally Aaved
those OF the party WHO wish 70 DIVIDE the country that
they may again rule the Southern portion of it. His eulc
Nv of Bell and Everett and thir platform grand aud
lis appeal to all good Of al parties behalf of the
Union, the Constitution and the Enforcement OF tbs Laws
will never be forgotten by any who heard bin.


Mr. Dauie ought to be pressed into service oitener
there Is no in Virginia who can exceed him 10 all
that is needed on the husngs. IN behalf OF old Essex
he has the sincere thanks Of the Union party for his spen
did address on the 25th.


We are TO have grand mass meeting OF all parties at
same place on the lZ.h aud 18th of October Some OF
the big guns are invited By the Breekuige and Doug
as men of the county Can't you get Johnson and Crane
of your city to come down? learn that johnson has
already taken Extra Bllys measure Send him down to
ct a suit on him on the l2.h Of October.


UNION
Year: 1860

An ESrERpRisiNG PEOPLE.-The san Diego
Herald OF late date, says:


People here are so Internal lazy that no one
has ever had the enterprise TO explore the coast,
and we doubt if the surety of independent
fortune would induce the fitting out of party
to do so. A people in climate like this, with
a soil not excelled for productiveness on the
globe. who send to San Francisco for their -four,
potatoes onions, beans, barley, ETC., would not
move from the plaza for all the guano in the
Pacific, unless there were the additional induce.
ments of fandaugo or q horse race"
Year: 1860

and Abohtlonlsps wish TO keep the
question agitated in Congress,
whether it ruin the country or not.
Remember that the struggle now is
to keep the power in the hands of
the people, and that the opponents
of Democracy wish to take from
the people thatSHght, and thus per-
vert the objectiof our Republic
Remember that the eyes Of the
world ate upSR Eou, in this strug-
gle-that foreign monarchies are
rejoicing to see our party assailed,
and hoping to see it fall. '


DEMOCRATS! Rally together!-
Stand in a solid phalanx, and de-
termine to conquer, and we are safe.
If you do not, by inaction we fall,
and the fairest country God ever
smiled upon will go down into the
darkness of disunion and civil war.


OLD LINE WINGS! You too can
not remain idle in the coming con-
test. Though you have once
fought against the Democratic BAN
ners, yet you always loved the
country too well to imperil it by ia.
naticism and sectionalism. Remem.
Der the rally of your glorious lead
ers, the noble Clay and the giant
Webster, when the country was i'm
periled. Remember how thy were
then upbraided and assailed by the
small faction of Abolitionists, who
have now grown into great power
and who now villify the memory
of your great leaders. Remember
that Stephen A. Douglas was CO.
temporary with your chiefs, and
that the loved Clay, on the borders
of eternity, his mental faculties in
tensifed to such degree that he
saw through the veil which OBJ
scures the future, which his dying
breath laid down principles for the
good of the country, which stepher
A. Douglas has ever sought to car
ry out. In this vital struggle we
appeal to you, Old Line Wings, by
the memory of your great leaders
to stand by us and save the nation
And we appeal to you as one, who
for many years rallied in ouI
ranks.


CONSERVATIVE MEN EVERYWHERE


We ask you to pause and reflect
and we have implicit faith thai
your judgment will prompt you tc
battle with us against the fanatics
who will lead our country to ruin
Help us to save our glorious con
federacy, our national honor, ant
to keep the flag of our country
pure and unsullied.
Year: 1860

pn-T The nomination of Judge
Brinkerhoff affords proof that the
Giddings wing of the party has the
complete ascendency in the State.
He went against Judge Swan last
year in the celebrated hdbeds corpus
case, which would have embroiled
the State in a conflict with the
General Government, ifhis policy
had been carried out. Swan was
decapitated for being national,
while Brinkerhof is rewarded for
being sectional. .....
Year: 1860

"A Republican friend OF ours
suggests that the reason old Abe
don't 90 around making speeches,
is because he can't afford to make
a speech for less than two hundred
dollars, and that the party don't
think it will pay to invest money in
that way.-NorodM Experiment.