Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1860-07-19

              Vol VI MOTJJSTT VEXUSJOJXr, . , OHIO, TIXXJIXaiDA.-, tfTTIaY IO, IOOO JNfa. 07 i I. k it r '1 '3- 71 "TlIIllTY YKAltS AGO. BT TinaiNU . TOWNSfiND. "Oil, Undo Nat, it'i just the nicest placo right under that great tulip-troel Do lot's eit dowa thore and rest a little whilu." "You do look kindor tuckerod out, child, that's a faot. City gals ain't used to elirabin' and hozin' round like country ones." And tho broad chestod, sunburnt farmor looked down into my faoo with his koen, kindly eyes, sot under great shaggy eyebrows. "Now, there's Melissy, she was a little, delicate -lookin', springy sort of body at your age, and yot I'll be bound she wouldn't though! of restin' short of a five mile tramp.''' He mado this &pooch just as wo entered tho shadow oftho great tulip-tree, and I preadfroy light blue shawl on the grass, and wo sat 'down together and looked out on the afternoon. Uncle if at; named so of oourtosy by me, was my mother's cousin's hajf brother. He was a plain; honest, hard-working farmer, with Wge, awkward limbs, a face and hand's browned and- scarred by hard labor, and his Iron-gray hair fell coarso and stiff over bis wrinkled fore-head, for Unclo Nat Palmer's life had now turned the corner of his fifty-second year; but underneath that hard, old fashioned exterior beat a heart furnished with such pleasant and goodly chambors, such broad passages "turned to the light," as tho; angels lovo to walk in with their hushed tread, and still, serene faces. I was fifteen at this time, my mother's only dauglitor, and she was a widow. My life had blossomed up so far in the midst of great love and much luxury; but in the early summer a fever had stricken mo, and for weeks I had lain within the sound of tho waves of the river of death; but I was given back to life, and then tho doo-tors said that nothing would recuperate me but draughts of country air; so they brought me, with my jarred nerves and languid frame, to Unclo Nat Palmor's. My mother did not accompany me. Long nnxioty had worn very heavily on a natu-rully delicate constitution, and the doctors prescribed a voyage for her. Uncle Nat Palmer had tro sons on earth, and five daughters he humbly trusted, In heaven. The former were, like himself, honest, stalwart, hard-working farmers. The homestead was three-quarters of a century old, a farm-house large and rambling, with a stoop mossy jbqf and all sorts of supplements and addenda in tho way of kitchens and pantries, which had been supplied as circumstancesrequircd them. I was very happy here. The mountain winds brought back tho last roses to my cheeks, tho young vigor to my blood; and that summer nature and I stood for the lirst time face to face and we knew each Other. There was a long silence betwixt Uncle "Nat and me, as we sat under the tulip-tree that afternoon. It was tho time of the Indian summer, and the earth lay in serene, saintly beauty before us; soft winds stirred lier forest pulses. We heard the nuts -dropping in tho woods; we looked off to the meadows, with tho littlo brooks tangling themselves in crystal skeins through the grass, and far off were the grgnt solemn hills, and they seemed, with tho silver mists that hovered across them, like . great eraorald gates, with gray bars, locking in the little valley about us. 'Oh, isn't it beautiful. Uncle Nat?" 'breaking the silence at last. "It always 'seems to me as though the Indian summer rwas a kind of reflection of heaven, and those words of Paul's seem to set them-"Selves to a solemn chant, wandering up 'and down my soul: "Now we see through 'a glass dniily, but then face to face." , "Ah, child, those old Bible words have wondrous way of settin' themselves, like -a verso to an old tuno, to all tho picters which theyear paints forjis." "Why, Uncle Nat, that's a real poetical fancy I" turning round suddenly to Lim. "I do believe you've got a fountain -of living poetry away down somewhere in your heart." . "I guess not, child, for I nover made two lines rhyme in my life; but yourhoad fluttered round to me, when you said them words, just as Melissy's usod to." "Uncle Nat, I wish you'd tell mo something about those old times." And I slid 'my hand into his hard palm.j "What times, Una?" " "Oh tho times when you went courting Aunt Melissy. How long ago was it?" "Thirty years, child, though it don't ' soem as many days, as I sit here and look over to it, 'specially with such a light, -springy, sunshiny creetur around me as you are, jest as Melissy was then." I should never have identified this de- t vcription with the kind, trrave. matronly face, with the faded eyes and lips, and the ' hair sifted with gray, which made np the portrait of Mrs. Melissa Palmer. "Sho was prolty, then, Unclo Nat?" 1 - "'Sho had hair of tho color of tho spring dandelions and checks that wore painto after the apple-blossoms; and hor head had the strangest knack of bobbin' round, as if the littlo wlnto nock wasn't big enough to hold it, just like a wator-lilly that rocks all night on tho waves ." "And how old was she whon you proposed to her?" I was bold enough to ask this question now, fur I saw, by tho light in tho old man's eyes, that the years of his youth had come up, and stood with unoovercd faces boforo him. A quaint sm ilo lighted nlong the rugged faco, "Just nineteen, Una." "And what kind of a night was it?" "A bright, bitter cold one, in January. You see, Melissy Treat and I had always known each olhor, for she livod on the old turnpike road, half a mile from our farm, and we'd been to tho district school through all our childhood togother, and she was next to me in spellin', and wo'd been on berryin's, and moelin's; and, somehow, I'd al'ays kindor took to Melissy's golden head and sunshiny smile from the time when I used to take my sled and go over to Widow Treat's afore tho roads was broke arter a hard snow, to carry Melissy over the hill to school. It's moro'n twenty years since Farmer Blake bought out the old placo, and tore down the little brown house with tho gabloends and the two windows in front, but I can see it now jest as plain as I could when I turned round tho corner of the lane in the days that I went courtin' Melissa Treat." "You see I'd waited on hor pretty steady to singin'-school, and apple -bees and meetin's and frolics for about two year, and long afore this I'd come to the conclusion there was no gal in all West Farm that I'd soon jine hand and fortin' with, as Melissa Treat; but when I tho't of asking her, my heart would set thump-in' louder than a drum on 'lection day, and all the blood would tingle right up into my chocks, and so I al'ays put tho tho't away from mo, hopin' tho time would como, sooner or later, when I could muster courage to tell tho gal of my choice that I loved her. I knew, too, that sho had a li-kin' for me though sho tried hard enough to concoal it; but thcre'd bo a sudden catch of her breath in the midst of a laugh, when I came along; and though she had a faco bright and open as the day, ' them blue eyes, of her.i never could look right into, mine without a sudden down flutter of the lids; and when a man sees these things, he's got to be a duller man than Nat Palmer ever was, if he don't understand 'em. But tho time caino at last. You seo, wo young folks had got up a sleigh-ride, and was to havo a supper at Pike's Tavern, up to Four Corners, about six miles from West Farm. Well, I'd en gaged Melissy's company, and I was on hand at seven o'clock, with the neatest littlo ono seat cutter and a pair of dun col ored horses that couldn't be beat in all the country 'round, archin' their handsome necks, and flashin their great brown eyes in impatience to be on. Melissy came down stairs arter I'd chatted a few minutes with Widdur Treat afore the great blaxin' fire in tho kitchen, and she did look as though she'd stept right out of a picter. Sho woro a brown merino dress, with littlo plaited ruffles runnin' round the neck and sleeves, and she'd twisted a sprig of somo evergreen danglin' with red ber ries in her hair, and it was so wonderful becomin' I couldn't keep my eyes off from her, nor her mother either, for sho did doat the wholo world on Melissy, as she was her only daughter." "Now, do be careful, and don t tire yourself out with the frolickin, Melissy," she said, as she pinned her cloak round her; "you know you ain't strong enough for these scrapes any way." . Melissy clapped hor hands, and laughed a laugh that went away down into the cor ners of one's heart, like an outburst of a dozen robin on a summer's morning. "Mother al'ays is making herself unoasy about me, Nat," she said, "and ittsistin' I'm dslioate, when I'd like to see who'd boat me at spinnin' or a cheese-prcssin." "Well, it won't do you any harm to have a mother to look out for you, any way, Melissa," I answered. "But I felt a crank that night, as I handed her into the sleigh. It was as light as day, and the sky was covered thick .with stars as a May field with dande lions, and the moon sat in the midst of 'em like a solitary sun-flower. There wasn't a single twig or bough but was covered and clitterin' with ioe, and the road and the fields slrctchin' miles away was like one great sheet of shinin' marble. ' I tucked Mulissy up tight in the buffalo robe, and the bells that covered 'em clashed out like a band of music. I was jest goin' to crack my whip when Mrs. Treat, who was at the door to see us off, screamed out:" "0 laws, Nat, do wait a minute: I'd forgot the foot-stone." And she hurried right off into the kitchen, and was back agin in a breath." "Sho wouldn't hear a word, when I objected to her coming out into tho celJ, but threw bur apron over hor hood, and ran down to tho sleigh, and sot tho stono un dor Melissy's foot, doclarin' the gal would a' got hor death cold if sho hadn't thought on t. A minute arter we started, tho hor sos sprang liko lightnin', and we whirled away ' over tho white, shinin' road, past the foncos, and tho furm-housos, and the groat black barn-gato, and up tho turnpiko that led to tho woods; and there by my sido, chattin', and laughin', sat tho girl that I'd a' laid down my lifo for. Oh, it nrikes the oold blood dance in my reins to think of that time." And Undo Nat's rugged face kindled itself into a light that seemed to set it back into tho lost freshness of its youth once more. "Go on, go on," I whispered. "Well, it must a' boon wearin' towards eight o'clock when wa got to Pike's Tav ern, for the horses didn't let the ground stand still under thoir foot. There was about forty couple on hand, as full of life and fun a. tho night of frost, and we had fiddliu', and plays, and a high time gorier-orally, and, to crown all, a Buppor, tho very sight of which was enough to make one's mouth water. But, arter all, I didn' t enjoy that erenin' as I'd oountcd on." "Why, what happenod, Uncle Nat?" "Well, among tho company was a young follow from the south part of the village whoso nama was Daniel Slade, the son of old Deacon Slade, and he'd had the reputation of bein' awful wild in his youth, when he was at home on the farm; but he finally went to New York, and the neighbors said his father was glad to get him off his hands, as ho was more'n ho could manage at home. But, arter throe yoars absence, Dan had come back, and he was greatly improved. lie was good looking naterally, with a figure as straight as an oak, and a jaunty air that al'ays takes among gals. There was something in his faco that I didn't liko, though, and he wasn't any great favorite among the village boys that night, 'cos he outshone 'em all; but his attentions to Molissy Trout was aggraratin' enough to me. Is'poso ho selected her becauso sho was about tho handsomest of the lot; and he talked with her, and danced with hor, and hung round her a great share of the evenin'. Then, he contrived to get opposite to her at sup per, and was so perlite and sociable that I didn't get a chanco to put in a word odge-wiso, if I'd been disposed, for I thought Molissy was mightily pleased with his attentions, as I s'pose a'most any gal would have been; but when I saw her checks kindle and her eyes brighten at his jokes, I jest wished Daniel Slade was a thousand miles off from Pike's Tavern, and I was half-scared at the feelin's of hatred that flashed out of my heart; and, take it all in all, I wasn't sorry when the evenin was over." "Oh, haven't we had a glorious time?" said Melissy, as she snuggled down in the sleigh about two o'clock. "Wall, I think I've seen hotter ones. I was glad, though, you seemed to enjoy it so," which wasn't exactly tho truth; as I gavo the loft horse a crack with my whip that made him rear and prance until Melissy fairly screamed with terror. We whirled over the road and team after toam of ringin voices shouted out in its goodbye to us; until, at last, there was no sound but the clashin' of our own sloigh bells to broak the still frosty air. We had sot thus for about ton minutes; when at last Molissy's littlo hand stole out from her cloak; and rested softly on my arm. (concluded in oub next.) A large number ol tho conservative Democratic and Opposition manufacturers of Newark, N. J., it ia said, whose trado with tho South amounts to not less than fifteen millions a year, disgusted with the c irruption of Democratic rule, havo reoontly taken pains to ascertain Mr, Lincoln's views of public policy, by direct personal communication with him through one of thoir number, and they are so well satisfied of hii conservatism and uprightness, that they have determined to support him for Presidont. A circular has been published by tho "Na-ional Democratio Exocutive Coram ittoe," at Washington, in which that body utterly repudiate any idea of fusion with the seccdors, that has been or may be entertained. Thoy say: "So fares is known to ths mombera of the resident Executive Committee, no porson who supports the action of tbo National Demo. cratic Convention at Baltimore no porson who desires the election of Stephen A. Douglas to the Prcsidoncy, and of llershel V, Johneon to the Vice Presidoncy, has ever ex- oressod a wish for any such arrangement, or entertained, or even countenanced, for a singl moment, any suggostion or proposition tend Inz toward it. Nor docs the committee be Here that any such arrangement can with propriety be made at any time, in any place, or nndor any circumstances, with those who havo placed Breckenridgo and Lane in nomi nation, and are now their avowed supporters, in oppositiont othe regular nominees of the Democratic parjy." 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Lane & Co., prihters and binders, bal Oatt Demoorecy and ia going 6t;ong for Lincoln. The Republican Electoral ticket of Mary land has been authoritatively announced. The Vexed Quostion Settled. The Hon. David Todd has settled it I Tho Douglasites held a ratification moot' ing to tho number of 100 or so at Warren a few days ago, at which tho residuary Prosidont of tho Baltimoro Rump Convon rontion wns the principal orator. He pitched into Mr. Buchanan, Mr, Brocket ridge, Judges Burchard and Fultcr, and editor Ritczel of tho Trumbull County Democrat, one of tho cnusos of tho on slaught being that they olaimed that Mr. Douglas was not the regular nominee of the Democratio party. The Chronicle re ports Mr. Todd as clinching down the "bolters" thus: "Did not I, as President of the National Democratio Convention, declare him to bo the regular nominee of the Democratio party, and ask God to have mercy upon him and tho Union, which he represented?" , The Daily Southern Confederacy is one of the rampant Douglas and Johnson or gans of the Slave Slates. It thus frees its mind on tho subject of disunion: But if the worst does come; if Linooln is elected, let us with one heart and mind forget the past, AND GO OUT OF THE UJNiUN XUOETHEK. If we permit the blacks to come into powor, and allow them to govern us, tbey will; in four snort years; inflict a mortal sting upon slavery, irom wmcn it will never recover. We must not permit it. Douglas charges the Breckenridge men of the South with being disunionists, and presents non-intervention as the grand healing salve. But he has neglected to clap a plaster over the mouth of the Con federacy, and it mutters treason as offen sively as before raising the Douglas and Johnson flag. The first threat of disunion since the Baltimore nominations comes from Popular Sovereignty advocates, a fact worth remembering. If the Douglas traitors down Sooth covet twisted hemp, "Honest Old Abe" is just the man to follow the example of "Old Hiokory," and provide cravats for the disunion crowd. When they go out of tho Union thoy will be certain to "drop out," as they doservo, with a six foot fall 1 TO THE V0TER3 OF OHIO. The undersigned were appointed by a meeting held at Columbus, on the Fourth of July, of whioh Hon. A. II. Byers, of Wayne county, was Chairman, and W. J. Gordon, of Cuyahoga county, Secretory, and at whioh all the Congressional Dis tricts were represented by sonnd and re liable Democrats in good standing with the party, as a committee to prepare an address to the people of Ohio, setting forth the reasons why the support of that people should be withheld from the elec toral ticket pledged to the election of Stephen A. Douglas and Horschel V. Johnson for President and Vice President of the United States, and accorded to the electoral ticket to be put in nomination at the Convention to be hold at Columbus, on the 7th day of August, pledged to the election of. John C. Breckenridge and Gen. Joseph Lane. In approaching this subject, the 00m- mitteo; would premise by saying that neither of the two tickets above named should be regarded as of binding force upon the Demooracy, as being a ticket nominated by the original National Convention of the party. A Convention ia an assembly convened for the purpose of consultation among those interested in the common cause. So long as it adheres together in its integrity, its nominations should be binding upon those who remain in it until these nominations are made. But if, previous to its definite and final action, a rup-turo of the Convention takes place, the Convention as a Convention is no longer in existence, and neither those who secede nor those who remain can claim to repre sent it. Those who remain and those who may secede may alike nominate, but their nominations represent only the the parties which mako them. .Thus, while presenting our ticket before the people, we expressly disclaim arrogating that to ourselves which we deny to others, and expressly assert that neither the ticket bearing the names of Brecken ridge and Lane; nor that bearing the names of Douglas and Johnson, is of bind' ing force upon the Democratic party as the nomination of its original National Conven tion, but that both tickets stand upon theii merits; and that every voter is at perfect liberty to support either, as his judgment and his conscience may dicate. Passing, therefore, to the merits of the two tickets, we assert that the Douglas and Johnson party, (properly so-called, since they rely sololy upon the personal merits of their candidates,) are now stand ing in direct opposition to the cardinal and time-tried principles of the Democratio party. That party has alwaya deolared that the Territories of the United States are the Common property of all the States Northern and Southern; that the eltlieni of all the States have an equal right to go there and to remain thore with their prop irlj-, under the same conditions and with the same guarantees of thoir rights; that this right is a bona Gdo right, and not to be denied or impaired, either directly or indirectly, noither by open interference nor by technical quibble. In regard to the slavery question it has bgen a cardinal principle with tho Democratio party that Congress hne no power over the peoplo of the Territories, that they only could determine it; that their determination should be fairly and equitably ascertained, and that for this roason ' the peoplo of the Territories themselves could determine the question only when they should assemble, with the population required by law, for the pur pose of forming and adopting a State Constitution, and demanding admission as a State. It was supposod that this princi pie was fully and plainly indicated in our Cincinnati Platform. But, unhappily, portion of our party in the North, who sought power through an unholy allianoe with tho abolition element of the Repub ican party, and consisting mainly of the chief of the Douglas party and his follow ers, hare asserted that this right of immi gration of all our people into the Territo ries with their property, though it could not be denied, conld be practically refused; that a right guaranteed by the Constitution to North and South alike, conld be annulled to the South by unfriendly legislation; that Congress oould confer upon a Territorial Legislature powers which it did not possess itself; that, in a word, a Territorial Legislature, the creature of Congress (if indood Congress can create it,) is more powerful than its creator. It is hardly uecossary to speculate upon the miseries and strife which such a doctrine would inflict upon the Territories; it is hardly necessary to remind the people that this is the identical d octrlne sought to be enforced by the Republican party in the Territory of Kansas, and of the orimea and frauds which arose therefrom. The bare statement to a thinking people, of such a proposition; stripped of its sophistries, should carry with it its own refuta tion. Whon the Convention met at Charleston, the South claimed, and all right thinking Democrats desired, that this point in our Cincinnati Platform should be made plain. They justly contended that Democracy at the North and the South is the same, and that the fundamental faith of the party should be set forth in such simple garb that no bargaining politician or ambitious trickster should again pin a heresy to its skirts. T hey demanded that the cardinal principle of the party above referred to, should be boldly asserted in a simple res olutionthat the property of all citizens should be equally protocted by tho General Government. This equitable demand, coming from true Demoorats of all sootions, has been charactorizod by the Douglas party, as a demand of the South for a Slave Code, meaning thereby a code for the enoournge-mont and establishment of slavery. It is a slang phrase, worthy of a party whose whnle political capital consists of partisan j cries, counterfeit patriotism, and clap-trap appeals to popular passion. This demand was made. It was refused. Availing themselves of a control obtained over that Convention by a fraudulent application of the Unit Rule, sprung upon it through trickery, casting aside at once the usages and principles of the Democracy, forgeting the life-long and time-tried devotion of our faithful Southern brethren, turning a deaf ear to the dictates alike of justice and policy closing their eyes to the certainty of defeat to that party and those principles which we hold dear, and to which their faith was plighted-"pro- claiming with a madness akin to that whioh is said to precede destruction, that they would accept no candidate but their candidate, no platform but their platform, and as construed by him, the Douglas Party pushed their fanatic and mob like violence farther and farther, until the last chord of Union was snapped, and the Dem ocratio party and Convention were alike and at onoe sundered in twain. These things are matters of history .. Wo appeal to the record and the testimony. Here. then, are two tickets. That of Breckenridge and Lane, based upon the compacts of the constitution, the doctrine of equal rights to all the people and States, the decis iona of the courts, the power of the people exercised under such guarantees as shall secure a just and legal exeroise of that power a ticket nominated without fraud, standing upon no personal merits of its candidates, great aa they are, but upon a fair appeal to to the history of the Dem ocratic party, and to the justice and rea son of the people of the United States.' The other tlcket-that of Douglas and Johnson-conoeived in treachery, pushed to its consummation by fraud, stained with the odium of the disruption of the party which has given to those names all the honors they have had, trampfing npoi the principles whose former advocacy first gave them the confidence of th people, without a solitary principle tare the one ' we have alluded to, and that borrowed from the Republican part,' whoi cause it1 is destined to strengthen. " " ,' , Where shall we look for the prinoipts'-of the "Douglas Party?" la it in thoir' first nomination for the Vioe Presidency of Gov. Filzpatrick, who had jait prevkms-ly voted for the "Davis Resolutions" in' the 8enato, in' which a doctrine was laid1 down diametrically opposed to their mon! grel theory of Territorial Sotreignty?' Of In their second extraordinary nomination,'' of Horschel V. Johnson, a man well known' through bis whole record as a Southern" Disunionist of the most violent tamp,' wh6 was sent to the Baltimore Convention as a Secession Delegate; under instructions' in whioh their principles were denounced-and who Was refused admission by tils'' very "Douglas Party," whose nomtnei ha now is? ' Shall we find them' in that has tard and mlshappen resolution' smuggfe'd' through at the determination of that die-graceful "Rump Parliament" which nom ihated the ticket? ; . , . . That resolution submits. In '' hufflip: form; the quostion of Territorial Sover eignty to the decision of the Supreme" Court, to whioh it evaaifety promises' tb) submit. . But that decision has been made long ago in express terms, at follows, (iff Howard, p. 395): "Art. III. Seo. 4. During" the tlmW it remains a territory, Congress m4y'k islate over It within the scope of ita con stitutional powers, in relation to'erttieouf ' of the United States,- and1 may establish a Territorial Government, and the foftri' of its local government must be regulated by ; the discretion of Congress, bat with pt' . ers not exceeding those which Oongreew itself, by the Constitution; is authorised to ' exercise over the citizens' of the United States in respect to their rights of persons' j or rights of property. .' j "Art. IV. Seo. 2. Congress" has dd right to prohibit the citisens of any par ticular State or States from taking up their home there while it permits oltiseml other States to do so. Neither has it a right to give privileges to ona class of oftf- : zone whioh it refuses to another. "Art. IV. Sec. 3. Every1 chiaea has w ;. right to take with him into the territory ; any article of property which the Gonstf' ! tution recognises as property'. ' ; "Art. IV. See. 4. The Constitution' of j the United States recognises slaves aa j property, and pledges the Federal G6rr- j ment to proteot It. And Congress eanfiof exercise any more authority ever' property of that d 'soription than it may eoh'i stitutionally exorcise over propeeCyjfaay ' other kind." . . And in the face of this decision we hate the head of this party, the leading- name' ! on their ticket Stephen Jt. Douglas ' who had pledged himself to abide By the : deoisiona of that court, openly proclaiming that, "no matter what the decisions Of the'. Supreme Court maybe on that abstract question," (as to whether slavery may or , may not go into a Unitary under the CoH-1 stitution,) still the people may, by."uh friendly legislation," (through the Terri' torial Legislature,) "effectually prevent' the introduction of it into their midst." ' Shall we find their principles in thepo' litical history of their candidates? Art' they to be found hi the record of their ohief. who in 1849' ( see ConnVessibiiaf Globe, vol. 14,) proclaimed the power" of . Congress over the Territories in the folio W . ing words "that the father may bind' the1' ? son during his minority, but that the mo' i ment that he (the son) attains his majority ' his fetters are severed, and be a fret to, regulate his own conduct. . 8o( lif,- with1 the Territories, they are subject to the Ju ; risdiction and eontrol of Congress during ' infancy; their minority; but when they at'-'ji tain their majority and obtain. admirtWtf v into the Union, they are free, from all .;, strain ts and restrictions except saoh as thy Constitution of the United 8tates has iro- imposed upon eaoh and all of the. States?: 'J Are they to be foq nd in the xample ofV the man who In, 18 64, when his party a:'',, in the flush and pride of that victory wbichV always crowns a just cause faithfully foorghtrf; j to further his own selfish purposes-,'' and as a mercenary bid to the South, by means e( the power and position whioh tbet-prtV . had oonferred upon him, forced upon, th, unwilling South, who did aot ash lt and upon the protesting North whom It doomed to defeat, a bill founded or not upon right principle) bat Uncalled for, uselen, ill-timed, and. whose sole" effiCt has. beet to re opejn ,the festering sor of the sfey' ry question,' :avrd tc heap pohls betrayed ; party difficulties ah 4 dlsaepsions, aniooel' , tiesandwpea, without numherf i 1 j' ( Are they to be found in ih faith $ f tha! man who pledged, himself to abide by tie decisions of the Supreme Courtj mni im mediately afUrwardto jseetjre Aboidoe votes . to return hint to tha , Senetey stultl fied himself by that speech wbioh we taV' quoted? , 1 ? ..1 i b u tl ' Are they to be fbuod In the ftWetiy ti? the man n when after the ,fDrowi raid,' If 't k ,t -. 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