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OLD ¿tres AND THE PENNSYLVANIA DE-
MOCRACY.
We would call the attention of our read-
ers to the following extracts from the speech
of the Hon. Henry M. Fuller, of Pennsyl-
vania, delivered in the House of Representa-
tives of the United States, on the 10th cf
May.
It will be seen from his full and able ex
pose of his own. as well as the anticedcnts
of some occupying high places under the
Administration, that he is not only a sound
conservative, and friend of the Union and
Compromise, but that notwithstanding the
evil and contaminating influences under
which he has acted, lie is nevertheless a firm
and devoted friend to the South and South-
ern interests.
"As that canvass has been referred to and
made the snbjcct of so much epistolary pro-
duction, it may be refreshing to our democ-
ratic friends briefly to review the past his-
tory of Pennsylvania politics. Let us in-
quire who are without sin, and therefore
permitted to cast the first stone. As gen-
tlemen interested in my anticedents have
only gone back to 1819,1 will refer them
tó an earlier pericd. I would have been
willing, as remarked early in the session, to
let the dead past bury its own dead ; but as
members have indulged themselves in anti-
quarian researches, I will read a few tomb-
stone inscriptions also. Passing along the
political graveyaTd of burled opinions, 1 find
it recorded that oh the 23d day of Novem-
ber, A.D. 1819, no Jess distinguished a per-
sonage than James Buchanan, in Lancaster
county convention-, presented the following
resolut'ons:
Jiesolved, That the Representatives in
Congress from this district be, and they are
hereby most earnestly requested to use their
utmost endeavors, "as members of the Na-
tional Legislature, to prevent the exist-
ence of slavery in any of the Territories
or States which may be erected by Con-
gress.
liesolved, That in the opinion of this
meeting, the members of Congress, who, at
the last session, sustained the cause of jus-
tice, humanity and patriotism in opposing
the introduction of slavery inj.0 the State
then endeavored to be formed out of the Mis-
siouri Territory, are entitled to the warmest
thanks of every friend of humanity."
From this little memento of the past, it
would seem that the returned Minister, Mr.
Buchanan, was, as far back as 1819, a little
tainted with abolitionism. Yet Mr. Buch-
anan has succeeded in humbuging the dem-
ocratic public South as regards his position
upon the slavery question, through áll the
ed one of the Judges of the Supreme Court
upon the Democratic ticket; Timothy Ives
now' the Democrat c candidate for Surveyor
General. In 1819, when my sinning com-
menced. and those terrible enormities were
Committed by me, similar rj^Qjutioijs wwe
offered ih Í6e, State Senate, and supported
by J, Porter Brfewléy. who has been since
twice ejected Surveyor General by thq De
mocracv and by Col. Maxwell MeCaslin,
now holding aq appointment under, the pre-
sent Administration, as well as certaji) other
gentlemen, who, doubtless, would now pre-
fer their names should not be mentioned in
this connection." .
The Democratic organs South, arc wont
to proclaim "from the house-top," that
Americanism North of the Potomac, consists
of an amalgamation of all the l>isms"and
factions that have plotted treason against
the Republic since its organization, yet we
find from positive records, that as far back
as 1819, and all along up to 1847. that the
chief man of their tribe, squinted awfully
towards abolition and freesoilism. These
references to the memorials of the buried
past, must te gratifying indeed to the De-
mocracy. They teach us at least that "there
are more things in heaven and earth than
are dreamed of in philosophy." IIow Mr.
Buchanan can possibly reconcile his course
to the Democracy of the country, in the
event of his getting the nomination, we are
at a loss to conceive. Against the Missouri
restrictions in 1819; clamorous in their
favor in 1847, and urging upon the people
in 1856, by their love of country, by their
hopes for the.future, and their regard for
posterity, to sustain its repeal, he presents
such a strange anomaly of inconsistency,
that we are staggered with tha conscious-
ness that such monstrous extremes should
meet.
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political changes have become matters of
history, and his heresies recorded in the
black-book of fate, are held u^> to.'the virtu
pus and just, as objects of execration, so
completely blinded and infatuated seems
the democratic party South, that in spite of
their experience in Northern treachery, and
with all of Mr. Buchanan's ánticidents be-
fore them, we verily believe they would
support him or any other nominee of the
Cincinnati Convention, against the true and
tried of any political creed, upon no ether
grounds than their fundamental rule of ac-
tion—the doctrine of availibility. Let us,
however, examine a little farther into the
evidences of Mr. Buchanan's insincerity,
alike to principles and party.
Mr. Fuller proceeds thus:
'• I am charged here, and by some of the
Buchanan organs in my State, with being
an Abolitionist, because of my alleged anti-
cedcnts. Surely, in this respect, in view of
the resolutions just read, I may yield with
respectful deference to " Pennsylvania's
Favorite Son.". ; ;; •
In 1819 he declared against the Missouri
line. In 1847, in his celebrated Berk's co.
letter, he declared ih favor of the extension
of that line to the Pacific, and his solemn
belief -that the stability of the Union itself
depended, upon the passage of such a mea-
sure. Ih .lb last bulletin, recently issued,
he declares tfcj repeal of that compromise
must be sustained, in defiance of any and
of every storm that may be raised against it.
The political, a^ well as the physical
world, has undergone many extraordinary
changes. Here are three revolutions in a
short half century. Has not his * backbone
been wonderfully stiffened?'' Has not he.
too. like, the blind man in Scripture, been
staggering about these many years, waiting
for that, miraculous vision when, he should
no longer see men a? trees walking ?. Hoping
that the scales of error may all .fall from his
eyes—that be may no longer look through
a glass darkly—and recommending him
kindly to the generous consideration of the
Cincinnati Convention. I pass to another
i. SubsciVberrsFwhoUd"o not give ex- ch;P^ «f Pennsylvania Democratic¡history.
in 1819, Mr. Buchanan was dead against
the Missouri line. In 1847, under the firm
and solemn conviction that the Union itself
demanded its extension—nothing short of
s>ng. ... /
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¡welfare of the States; and now, with an
eye single to the Cincinnatti nomination, he
performs another political somerset, and
stands confessed the champion of its repeal-
" In 1847,1 find, by reference to the pub-
lic journals, that on the 13th of January,
resolutions were introduced in our State
Legislature, instructing the Senators from
Pennsylvania to vote in favor of the Wil-
mot proviso, by a gentleman who is now
a delegate to the C.incinnatti Convention.
Among the names of gentlemen who sup-
ported the resolution, I find that of Sehator
Bigler; of Thomas II. Forsyth, now Presi-
dent of the Democratic Board of Canal Com-
missioners; John C.Knoij since then elect-
PRIVATEERING.
Some of our «distant cotemporaries are
finding many objections to the action, at the
recent meeting at Paris, of the Plenipoten-
tiaries of Great Britain, Austria, France.
Prussia. Russia, Sardinia, and Turkey, in
regard to certain principles of maritime law.
especially to privateering.
This is regarded as an attempt to deprive
the United States of one of lier main ele-
ments of strength upon the ocean, in case of
a war with any maritim2 power ; and niany
newspapers look upon it as an evidence of
the mutual design of Great Britain and
Franci to'cripple the United States. What-
ever the motive may be, we can see no very
positive objection to the action referred to.
The declarations signed by the powers
named, at Paris, are . . _ (
1. Privateering is. and remains atolished.
2. The neutral ffag covers enemy's goods,
with the exception of contraband of war.
3. Neutral goods, with the exception of
contraband of war, are not liable tó capture
under enemy's flag.
4. Blockades, in order tó be binding, must
be effective—that is to say, maintained by a
force suffic ent really to prevent access to
the coast of the enemy.
Now, it happens that the United States
Government was among the first to discour-
age the system of privateering. As early
as 1794, a law was adopted by Congress to
prevent citizens of the United States from
taking commissions from foreign powers to
act as privateers gainst countries, at peace
with the United States. In the treaty be-
tween Prussia and the JCnited States in
1785, it was stipulated that, in case of war.
neither party should grant commissions to
any private, armed vessels to attack the com-
merce of the ojher. The same proposition
was made by our country to other nations,
and Dr. Franklin was a strong, advocate for
its adoption in the negotiations which re-
sulted in the peace which followed the revo
liition. líe wished to .incorporate into tjie
laW of nations the broad principle that ¿11
privateering should be. illegal, just ás it is
now a principle that the slave trade iá pira
cy. England and France •however, did not
subscribe to thjs principle; and during the
late war with Russia, as. has been observed,
American steamers or clippers, owned by
American citizens, manned by American
sailors, might have sailed from any Ameri-
can port under privateering commissions
from Russia, taken any number of English
and French prises and brought them back
to American ports for sale after adjudica-
tion by a Russian prize court, and yet leave
the allies no just cause of complaint against
our Government. As the New York Cou
rier sáys, had our Government choosen to al
low its citizens to avail themselves of the
powers and privileges, which the law of na-
tions, as it now stands, gave them, and ac-
cept letters of marque from Russia, England
would have come out ol her late conflict in a
very different plight. ,
Seeing her own vulnerability in this res
pect. England naturally wishes to guard
moré, effectually against future danger, and
would now doubtless subscribe to a stipula-
tion on the subject similar to that between
the United States and Prussia. In case of
a war with her, our main strength upon the
ocean would be in our privateers. Hers
would be her, navy. Under the present as-
pect pf affairs, the United States would prob-
ably refuse to enter into the negotiation ex-
cept on the^final settlement of all existing
questions between the two nations.
The late treaty at Paris ends with the
decl&ration that it "is not and shall not be
binding, except between those powers who
have acceded, or shall accede to it."—Gal.
Civilian.
COL, H. L. KINNEY
This gentleman seems to hold his own at
San Juan Del Norte. He is unquestionably
one of the most remarkable men of the age
and has lived a life a romance and adven
lure, compared to which tales of fiqtion be-
come uninteresting and tasteless. Possess-
ed of but a very meagre education, ,nature
h^s lavished upon him unlimited natural re-
sources. His knowledge of mankind is un-
bounded. Elegant in his personal appear-
ance, courteous and affable ih his manners,
with an energy that knows no such woid
as fail, he has made some of the most stu^
pendous moves upon the chess-board of life
that ever adventurer attempted, and always
with suqeess, His first vocation in lifet af-
ter leaving his home in Pennsylvania, (as
.we have often heard him. say) was at 17
years of age, as a mule-driver on the Penn-
sylvania Canal. ; 1 • : i
, He afterwards settled in Illinois, end with-
out capital or friends, rapidly rose to afflu-
ence, and became a contractor for nearly all
the Internal Improvements at that time
progressing in that State. . Crushed out at
length by the non-fulfillment on the part of
the State, cf .the agreement between him
and Illinois, he;.sought a home in Texas,
again penniless, but not disheartened. He
settled at Corpus Christi an, the sea coast,
and very soon became possessed of an im-
mense tract of land in thit beautifil region.
Surrounded by Indians and semi-cjvilizgd
Mexicans, lie conciliated both, until the war
with Mexico broke out. Here, in conse
qucnce of his knowledge of the country and
language of the people, ho was of incalcula-
ble benefit to Taylor and Scott, in furnish-
ing transports, and in various ether ways,
lie made, it is said, three or four hundred
thousand dollars during the continuance of
the war. He traversed the country alone
and in safety as a courier, and performed
prodigies as an expressman. He was al-
ways true to his country, but at the same
time never failed to inspire the confidence of
the army and people of Mexico. His wealth
with which he returned to the United States,
has slipped through his fingers, together
with his immense landed estate at Corpus
Christi, owing to a reckless liberality, and
his princely extravagance.. He sets no value
upon money, seemingly trusting to chance
to replenish his purse, as it always has done,
when exhausted.
Col. Kinney was actively engaged in the
Cuban Revolution, when Lopez was garro-
ted. Vv hen the news of the fate of that
gallant but unfortunate General, was ro-
ccivcd. 200 of afi tia« fts ever wore &
sabre, were encamped1 oiiflfusfang Island,
under the patronage of Kinney. In the Car-
avajay movements in Tamaulipas, he was a
secret but effective agent. He never stopped
to inquire whether a man or a cause was
worthy of his assistance. He gave lavishly,
indiscriminately, frequently unwisely. >
He is now in Central America,, report
says, dispensing his hospitality in (he fame
generous manner that characterised him in
Corpus Christi. That he will ultimately
succeed, \vc haVe but little doubt.,. Like the
fabled Midas, everything that he has hither-
to touched has turned to gold, and we do not
see that he has lost any portion of his in-
domitable will.
From the Picayune.
YOU AND L
BY u STRA FFORn."
How shall we name the tie
By which both yoi and I
Are bound together?
We have been fond and true,
All the fair summer through, Vr"-<
And winter weather.
Friendship's too cold a word—
Our hearts too deep are stirre d—
For that calm feeling!
Too full of fire are we,
Too fond and full and free,
Our hearts revealing!
Friends we can neyer be,
But, between you and me,
Something much dearer!
Friends can exist apart. .
We two have but one heart,
We must be nearer.
Friendsliip is very well—
But we— ah, we can tell
Of something rarer!
We know of sweeter blisses—
Clasped hands and loving kisses—
There's nothing fairer 1
v , t ••*. ■' I
Since friendship's not allowed,
And since a tiny cloud
. Our bliss still covers—
Let us enjoy its charm—
Let us—and what's the harm ?—
Let us be lovers!
, RULES OP ETIQETTE.
FOR GENTLEMEN AT PARTIES.
Act very brazingly,
Stare round amazingly,
Strut in stuck upish-ly,
Bow very puppish-ly.
First to the ladjr who
Sent round her card to you,
Then you may condescend >t
Three or four words to spend,
On some notoriety,
Who glides the society,
Or whispers quite killingly
To some belle who willingly,
Passes time flirtingly,
Laughing—oh, certainly !
Whispering blushingly,
Checkingly j'ou hushingly;
Whispering till ringlets fail
Over your neck and all,
Until distressingly
Thrilling, caressingly, *
Off in a waltz you go
Spinning half-crazy oh!
This is propriety
Out in society!
" Tom, you sot," said a temperance man
to a tippling friend, " what make you drink
such stuff as you do? Why the very hogs
would'nt touch that brandy?" "That's
cause they is brutes," said Tom. " Poor
creatures! they don't know what's good!"
The Ohio Republican State Convention
was held at Columbus on Thursday last.
INFIRMITIES OF GENIUS.
Moore says " thj five most remarkable in
stances of early authorship are those of Pope,
Congrevc, Churchill. Chateion and Byron."
The first ot these died in his fifty-sixth
year ; the second in his fifty-eight year ; the
third in his thirty-fourth, " the sleepless
boy" committed suicide in his eighteenth;
and Byron died in his thirty-seventh year.
Mozart, at the age of three years, began
to display astonishing abilities for music,
and in the two following years composed
some trifling pieces which his father pre-
served. and like all prodiges. his career was
á short one—he died at twenty-six.
Tasso, from infaucy, exhibited such quick
ness of understanding, that at the age of five
he was sent toa Jesuit academy, and two
years afterwards recited verses and orations
of his own composition. He died at fifty-
one, Dermondy was employed by his fa-
ther, who was a school-master, as assistant
in teaching Latin and Greek languages iü
his ninth year. He died at. twenth-seven.
The American prodigy, Lucretia Davidson
was another melancholly instance of preco-
cious genius and early death. Keats wrote
severel pieces before he was fifteen, and only
reached his twenty-tifih year. The ardor
of Dante's temperament, we are told, was
manifested in his childhood. The lady he
celebrated in his poems, under the name of
Baatrice, he fell in love with her at the age
often. Schiller at the age loui teen, was the
author of an epic poem.. He died at l'orty-
six. Cowley published a collection of his
juvenile poems. •' poetical blossoms," at six-
teen. and died at ¿sixty-nine. Wordsworth
was nineteen years completing, " Peter
Bell."—Exchange.
rzhtz. YOU.
What music is there in these words, when
uttered by a pretty woman, lhey touch a
man's heart-strings, as the fingers of some
fairy musician touch the string upon his
harp. •' Thank you !" she says and you are
happy! Perhaps the favor extended hits
been only slight—no inconvenience—no
trouble to you, a mere exhibitions óf polite-
ness on your part. You look up; a radiant
smile beams upon you—a bright twinkle of
the eye, and the lips open like the unfold-
ing of a rose, and the words '"Thank vqu,"
drop from their pearly recesses. Those
words are more sweet to you than honey
more precious than all the wealth of Iu-
dia. „ j
Reader—should you ever see a lady in
need of your courtesy, extend it to her—be
kind and good to her as you would to a sis-
ter—and if you look for your reward, you
will find it in her "i.lhank you."
The Brownsville Flag says that Gen. Le
Vega has been sentenced to three months
imprisonment in the Castle fff Perote for
disrespect to superiors. • It never occured to
us that the gallant Le Vega had a superior
in Mexico.
The ambitious often fall into the ditch
while gazing at the stars.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, May 21. 1856.
The President has not issued the order
for Mr. Crampton's dismissal, and so there
is really no absolute certainly w.hat lie wjll
do the promisee, notwithstanding it was
several days ago considered a settled thing
in Cabinet that the cartel of dismissal
should be issued as soon as all the matSHals
for its preparation had been received and
properly worked up. I think I have al-
ready notified you that the British Blue
Book containing Crampton's letter on the
enlistment question has not yet been re-
ceived. It is deemed not improbable that
this will disclose some more..epistles from
that functionary to his Government, need-
ing to be exposed and disproven j and so it
is considered best to examine them before
Mr. Crampton's re'ations with our Govern-
ment are finally closed. This was the rea-
son for delaying his dismissal two daj&
ago. To day wo have a rumor that ne#
negotiations upon the question have been
opened with h m. I doubt the story, but
will will inform you by telegraph within a
few hours, if the statement is true,
The President,.to-áay, sent in .to Con-
gress the .remainder of the enlistment cor-
respondence on oúr side, consisting chiefly
of Mr. Buchanan's letter to Lord Claren-
don and Palmerston, and to Mr. Marcy.—
In these letters Mr. Buchanan flatly denies
that he eyer closed the correspondence on
the enlistment question, or expressed entire
satisfaction with the. explanations which the
British Government had offered. He did
express the satisfaction with which he com-
municated Clarendon's original explanation
to Mr. Marcy; but even this was before
Mr. Buchanan had> received the first hint
that the British Minister at Washington
was implicated in..the illegal enlistments,
and. that the case-had thus assumed a most
grave and important character. The publi-
cation of this correspondence-would seem to
indicate the purpose of the President tore-
main firm in the determination to dismiss
Mr, Cramp ton. .: • .*
i But there is no certainty in the matter.
It is beyond all question that in the matter
of the Iowa Land bill the President changed
his mind at least twice in twenty-four hours.
He had less difficulty in regard, to the River
Improvement bills, which he vetoed appar-
ently wrthout remorse, , . . ; ...
- Mr. Douglas, met Mr. Buchanan at the
National Hotel the other day, when the for-
mer stated that he had called on the distin-
guished Pennsylvanian at a certain hour on
the preceding day, but found him out. •' Ah!
yes,'.' said Buck, '■ I was on my to the White
House when you called. u Indeed!" res-
ponded Douglas,I knew you proposed to
get en the road to the White House, but
didn't suppose you would Etart quite so
soon." v •
I understand that Mr. Crampton endeav-
ors to explain the recent misunderstanding
between himself and Mr. Clayton, on the
Central American question, by saying that
the conversation which he had with Mr.
Clayton, to which Mr. Crittenden testifies,
and the conversations cited by Mr. Fish, re-
ferred to the Belite and not to Huat&n. it
is impos ible that such a mistake could oc-
cur, and remain so-long undiscovered, not-
withstanding it was in relation to a ques-
tion so freely and publicly discussed.
Picayune. ♦ SIGMA.
RANDOLPH ON NATTVEISM IN 1818
At various times, distinguished states-
men, since the daya when Washington and
Jefferson had. respectively, unbounded in-
fluence in the nation, have portrayed the
evils of immigration and sought to mitigate
them. A friend has recently referred us to
a speech made in the House of Representa-
tives by that distinguished man and pure
patriot, John Randolph of Roanoke, who,
though eccentric in his political course in
several respects, was nevertheless a man of
far-reaching sagacity and unquestioned pa-
triotism. The speech referred to was made
in March, 1818, when the question of char-
tering a National Bank was before the
House. In Committee of the whole. Mr.
Randolph moved to insert the word native
in the clause which limited the choice of the
parent bánk "to citizens of the United
States," and the motion was agreed to with
out any debate. When the committee
reached the clause providing for the appoint
ment of directors for the branch banks, Mr.
Jewitt moved that the word native be also
inserted m that clause
A debate ensued upon this proposition of
Mr. Jewitt, and it was lost. It was upon
this proposition that (Mr. Randolph made a
speech, from whicb we quote as follows, viz:
■' How long the country would endure
this foreign yoke in its most odious and dis-
gusting form, he could not tell, but this he
would say. that if we were to be dictated to,
and ruled by foreigners, he would much
rather be ruled by a British Parliament
than by British subjects here; .Should he
be tóld that those men fought in the war of
the Revolutj^n^ he would answer, that those
who did so, were not included by him in the
class he adverted to. That was a civil war,
and they and we were at its commencement
alike British subjects Native Britons there-
fore. then taking arms on our side, gave
them the same rights as those who were
born in this country, and his motion could
be easily modified so as to provide for any
that might be of this description, but no
such modification, he was sure, would be
found necessary, for this plain reason, (to-
wit:) . ' . . ,
•' W here were the soldiers of the Revolu-
tion who were not natives 1 They were
eitheAlready retired or else retiring to that
great reckoning where disccunts were not
allowed. If the honorable gentleman (op-
posing the proposition) would point his fin-
ger to any such kind of person now living
he would agree to his being made an excep-
tion to the amendment. It was time that
the American people should have a charac-
ter of their own, aud where would they find
it ? In New England and in Virginia only,
because they were a homogeneous race—a
peculiar people. They never yet appointed
foreigners to sit in that house (of Congress)
for them, or to fill their high offices. In
both States this was their policy: it was
not found in, nor was it owing to their paper
Constitutions, but what was better, it was
interwoven jn the frame of their thoughts
and sentiments, in their steady habits, in
their principles from the cradle—a much
more solid security than could be found in
any abracadabra, which constitution-mon-
gers could scrawl upon paper, m
'■ It might, be indiscreet in him to say it,
for jto say the truth,-he had as little of that
rascally-virtue.' prudence, he apprehended,
as any mr.n. and could as little conceal what
he felt, as eflect what he did not feel. He
knew it was not the way for him to concili-
ate the manufacturing body, yet he would
say that he wished, with all hi ¡ heart, that
his boot-maker,, his hatter, and other manu-
facturers, would rathel' stay fff Great Brit-
ain. under, their own laws, than come here
to inake laws for us, and leave ua to iinport
our covering. We must have our clothing
home-made (said he), but I would múch
rather have my work home-made, and im-
port my clothing. Was it best to have our
own unpolliited Republic peopled with its
own pure native Republicans, and erect
FALSE ISSUE.
The Courier says: " They (tha
party,) insist on a distinction between
American and foreign-born citizens."
Utterly at fault, Mr. Courier, we insist
on no such distinction, the Complaint has
been and row is, that the foiwmAoiu keep
up this distinction themselves, and foroe
this issue opon the oountry.
It is because they will not rectigaise them-
selves as American citizens, but insist in
keeping up their destructive nationalities
that any objections are made to theM. It is
amiss to state that the Amerksan party ti
not opposed ti immigration. Let the hol-
es t, intelligent, industrious foieignei, who
desires to better his oondition come, and we
will extend to him a welcome to cultivate
our virgin soil—to push his fortunes in this
land of freedom, tendering to him protection,
and encouragement and hospitality. We
only say to the criminal and pauper—pol-
lute not the soil: bring not younelf as a
burden upon our country. To all wo add,
enter not the sphere of politics: ask not to
control the destiny of the people among
whom you seek refuge. Leave to your sons
who will have imbibed the American spirit
and may thoroughly understand American
policy, and fully appreciate the: genios of
American institutions, the higher duty of
the political franchise. ' '
We would diminish no right Of those who
have already become citiiens asking only
that they shall prove their right to citizen-
ship by becoming Americans in fact, as well
as by residence, and no longer acting as the
mere tools of profligate native-born politi-
cians, giving power to fraud, and turning
our freedoni into a despicable tyranny.—
Crióle.
THE LOSS OF A WIFE. <
No man but one who has been called up-
on to mourn the loss of a dear and beloved
companion, can appreciate the beauty and
truthfulness of the following article, which
we copy from an exchange :
" In comparison with the loss of a wife,
all other bereavements are trifling: The
wife! she vrho fills so large a space in the
domestic heaven; she who busied herself só
un wearily for the precious Ones around her;
bitter, bitter is the tear that falls upon her
cold clay! You stand beside her coffin and
think of the past. It seems an amber color-
ed pathway where the sun shone on beauti-
ful flowers, ánd the stirs hung glittering
overhead, Fain would the aoul Jffiger there
—no thorns are remembered save those
your hands may unwillingly have planted.
Her noble, tender heart lies oped 'to your
inmost sight. Ton think of her how as all
gentleness, all beauty, all purity. Bat she
is dead! The dear head that has lain upon
your bosomi, rests in the stiil darknes upon
a pillow of clay. The hands that have min-
istered so untiringly, are folded, white and
cold, beneath the gloomy ' pórtaJS. The
heart whose every beat measured an eter-
nity of love, lies under your feet. The flow-
ers she bent over in smiles, bend now above
her in tears, shaking the dew from their pe-
tals. that the vendure around her may be
green and beautiful.
^, *
TRIBUTE TO PRINTER*.
. The . Chaplain of the New Hampshire
Penitentiary, in reviewing the events of his
life since his connection with that institu-
tion. pays the following compliment to jour
printers:.. " y'
■" I have the happiness to number among
my friends many printers, but though it
may seem to imply either to a lack of ability
on the part of the minister, or the want of
the qualities that are necessary in order to
appreciate good preaching on the other
part, yet I will reveal the fact that I have
never succeeded well with' that class. For
these nine long years, and with all the in-
ducements offered, not one Of thit trade has
connected himself with my congregation—
and I do not think a man could be round, of
another Sheffield, another Manchester, and' all who tenanted our prison, who Could set
another Birmingham, upon the banks of the
Schuylkill, the Delaware, and the Brandy-
wine, or have a host of Luddites amongst us
-¡-wretches from whom every vestige of the
human creation seemed to be effaced?—
Would they wish to have their elections on
that floor decided by a rabble? What was
the ruin of old Rome ? Why' their opening
their gates and letting in the rabble of the
whole world to be their legislators 1
•' If (said he) you wish to preserve among
your fellow-citizens that exalted sense of
freedom which gave birth to the Revolution
—if you wish to keep alive among them the
spirit of '76, you must endeavor to stop this
flood of immigrátion! You must teach the
people of Europe that if they do come here,
all they must expect to receive is protection
—but they must'have no share in the Gov-
ernment. From such men a temporary
party may receive precarious aid, but the
country cannot be safe nor the people happy
where they are introduced into goveromint.
or meddle with public concerns in any great
degree.
* • j* ♦ , * *
This (said Mr. Randolph) is a favorable
time to make a stand against this evil, (im-
migration,) and if not this session, he hoped
that in the next there would be a revisal of
thonaturalisation laws." -
Forty years - have elapsed since the above
warning was given to our countrymen, and
no change^et—no revision yet—of our laws
of naturalization ; no check, but rather an
impetus given to immigration!—Ñew Or~
lians Creole.
Sir William Hamilton, the great Scotch
metaphysician died at Edinburgh on the 6th
ult. «He had long suffered from paralysis
of his right side.
HOW THE DEMOCRACY SO.
When the men of the United States inva-
ded Cuba, a portion of them were taken
prisoners, and shot by the Spaniards. Then
the locofoco presses of the United States
called for vengence^ and abused President
Fillmore: for not inflicting it*.- The rumor
now .is that the Costa Ricans made priso-
ners of-twenty or thirty of General Wal-
ker's men, citizens of the United States, aod
shot them in cold blood. This rumor,
whether falsear true, seems to excite little
or no emotion in the minds of the Demo-
cratic editors. Democracy in power, and
accountable for its uses, is an immensely
different thing from democracy out of pow-
er, and at liberty to carp and croak—Lynch-
burg Virginian.
up a column of type* I leavo the raider to
make his own comments; only remarking,
that they cannot be accidental, nor can tha
explanation be that the employment keepé
them ignorant of the prevailing vioes and
immoralities, nor yet that'young printers
are removed from the large masses where
corruption engender and spread.% In all
these respects this class is much exposed.—
It is evident, wé think, that the employ-
ment has an elevating tendency, and is fa-
vorable to intellectual and moral improve-
ment." " 1 .
We never see a compliment to journey-
man printers without feelings of melanchol-
ly pride—melancholly, because we know
that they toil more assidioudy for the pnb-.
lie good and for less pay, than aay othsr
class,—pride,because they are-cT us—a class
from which most of our publishers and edi-
tors sprang, generally, too. from youthful
poverty; a class in Whose sympathies and
trials, we ever haVe and ever shall feel a
deep interest. - Asa class, printers are dis-
tinguished for intelligence, practicability,
and benevolence; their hearts are ever open-
ed to the demands of charity; their minds
are well! stored with useful knowledge of
men and things, and they we perhaps freer
from the weaknesses of pride ana glorious
pretence than almost any other sat of man.
—Civilian.
i — _ t
Spain and thx Nicaragua Qpestion.-A
private letter from Madrid apeaks of a da-
sire existing on the part of thie Government
for making an expedition*gaitiat Nicaragua!
combined with Frailee attd England, under
the apprehension that if the Americans soe-
ceeeds there, the same filibusters may pass
on next to iGuba.' There are persons, howw
ever, who are of opinion that Spain had bet
ter keep her flag out of any collision with
the u stripes and stara" of tlM United States
would in all likelihood, make ca mighty
pretty quarrel" out of ¡anything of the sort?
and that neither England nor Franoe might
think it expedients «trícate S^in from
hor embarrassment.—bnerpoal Timet.
The Little Rock Gazette says that Qea*
James Yell has accepted the American noo.
Governor of Arkansas, and will
ination for
in due time enter upon
State.
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