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ed by the prostituted power of two slavish
administrations.

From 1820 onward slavery waxed strong-
er and stronger, more and more domineering
until at the era of the anti-slaverymovemen ,
in 1835, it was found to have inf‘nsetbits virus
into all the veins and arteries of the body
politic, and all over the countr r, the Freedom
of Speech, the Liberty of the 1 less, the Right
of Petition and of Trial b J ilry, were forbid—
den on the subject. of s avcry; prozslavcry
mobs, instigated by the managers of public
sentiment, undertook to be its watch-dogs
and guard its interests here in Connecticut,
alld‘throughout the North. These great out-
posts and ancient bulwarks of freedom had
fallen before the advancing . pOWer of
slavery. About the same time, certain In-
dian tribes, whose fertile lands were gi‘cedily
coveted by the surrounding slave Aliahs,
were fraudulentlv and forcibly driven from
their homes to a wilderness beyond the Mis-
sissippi; and then followed two wars of con-
quest upon Mexico for the avowed purpose
of enlarging the area of slavery and extend-
ing‘the dominion of the whip and the chain.

his brings us to the last great Compromise
of 1850, memorable especially as the foul
source of the existing Fugitive Slave Achf
In this instance, as before, the lion took his
share, and left all the rest to liberty. The

latter gained no real advantage—nothing

' that would not have innred to her in the nat~
ural course of events,while slie humbled her-
selfto the dust by consenting to assume the
menial and odsous relation of slave catcher

for the South, in violation of the Constitution-

as of the Divine law, and that, too, under
pains and penalties, which would disgrace
the abjectest savage tribe. Tobe sure, slave-

promised to abolish his slave-auctions and
s ave-prisons in the National Capital, but
those auctions and prisons have ever since
been rife with their miserable victims. This
detestable compromise, so atheistic and dia-
bolical, suited none but. the champions of
slavery, who said it should be a final settle-
ment of the question, and the country should
have rest from its convulsions. But, alas l
how quickly “theipromise was broken to the
hope i" Hardly four years had passed before
the country was plunged into an other tem-
pest of agitation, by fierce clamors and impe-
rious demands for the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise. Repeal ! Repeal l was the ech-
oing war-cry. .The slave-lordliugs again tri-
umphed—the repeal was carried; and now
they demand tho total and unlimited national-
ization—the absolute enthronement of slavery
over the whole Republic; and, fearing that the
North will not bow down and serve them,
as it has hitherto done, and lay the last prec-

ious jewel of her birthright upon its altar, ,

the have madly undertaken to rush out of the
Union, and tear down the pillars of the Fed-
eral Government. They have waxed fml
compromises and concessions, and are -
ing at the Constitution and laws of the coun-
try. So great have they grown on this “dain-
ty meat,” that, like Cafsar, they have dashed
across the Rubicon in hot rebellion, and are
menacing the national citadel with destruc-
tion. '

And, once again certain patriotic gentle-
men in Congress and elsewherehregardless
of the mornful lessons of the past, and con-
nivent at the rebellious attitude of the insur
gents, are casting anxiously around to find
some new concession to offer them as a com
promise. ' They are intent on findin another
such cake to throw to the howling erberus,
which at Charleston, guards, the portals of

slavery, in the vain hope of appeasing his-

rage and savin the Union. “Crisis commit-
tees” in each ouse of Congress, are teeming
with plans of compromise to meet the em-
gency. This is patriotic, no doubt but as I
think, unwise and impracticable. It cannot
be done. Liberty has nothing more to offer
to slavery, having hitherto surrendered eve-
rything but her cap and trancheon, and
these :she will never surrender. The
countryhas already been well-nigh destroy-
ed and the nation bled to death by compro-
mises.

It is time to" deal honestly and frankly
With the South; to speak to her the exact
truth, kindly but fearlessly, and plumply tell
her, we can 0 no further in our concessions
to slavery. e have yielded, bowed down,
eapitulated, surrendered, submitted and re-
treated, until rebuking voices burst up from
our father’s graves, and chide us for our ser-
vility and shame. We cannot, we dare not
further yield to the.exactions of slavery.—
In a comparatively dark age, Galileo could
kneel under the bloody sword of the Inqui-
sition, and renounce and curse his doctrine
that the earth moves: but When slavery calls
upon us, at this day, under its lash, to bow
down and recant our opinions, that slavery
is a great wrong, an atrocious barbal‘ism; as
Clay declared, both a curse to the master and
the slave”; as Marshall said, “a cancer of
fire upon the bosom of a Republic”; an irre-
concilable foe to freedom, which has no
shield nor sanction in the constitution of the
country, we dissent, and refuse to submit to
the ignominious behest. . We will not bend
the knee and brand our foreheads with the-
hurning infamy. We have borne and fore-
bornc under the usurpation and insolence of

slavery, in the vain hope of promoting the '

peace and harmony of the country. We
have seen it striding on from conquest to
conquest; waging exterininaling war for its
aggrandizeinent; making and then unma-
king compacts, when some fancied advan-
tage could be gained; corrupting the ballot-
boxes and shooting down liberty-loving men
in Kansas, in the hope of driving out all each
and planting human bondage there; outra-
giug Northern citizens who might venture
in its dark_domain, heaping upon them sav-
age indignities, scourging, imprisoning, tor-
turing and murdering its innocent victims,
on the bare suspicion of their loving liberty
better than slavery, usurping the - power of
the Federal Government, and wielding them
to crush liberty and exalt slavery,’ and bring-
ing Presidents, Congressmen and judges, to
how their submissive necks beneath its lord-
ly feet; squandering the public revenues in
its wild and headlong crusades against free-
dom; demoralizing and debauchiug the na-
tion by the propagation of its detestable dog-
mas, and bringing upon it the odium and
contempt of all civilized and Christian na-
tions; making the northern states conquered
provinces, hunting-grounds, for recapturing
its flying victims, and northern citizens ac-
complices, under degrading penalties, in the
mini man and God-defyiiigwork of throwing
an innocent, liberty-loving child of His back
into chains and slavery. And now, it de-
mands the total surrender of freedom, and its
own coronation into absolute kingship over
the whole laud.

All these things we have endured as well
as we could, and, meanwhile, continued loy-
al to the Government. Nothing but a sincere
attachment to the Union, and an .undying
hope for its final deliverance from the power
of its relentless spoilers, have sustained us
under the sense of humiliation and wrong
We have suffered. But we can go no fur-
ther. We now tell the South plainly and
calmly, the day of comprOmise with slavery
has passed away, and, henceforth, we shall
not be bullied or menaccd into any more
concessions. Crack your slave whips over
us as lunch as you like, and hold up the Gor-
gon head of dissolution as high as you please
to frighten us into submission to your degra-
ding exactions, we are no longer your "white
slaves,” as you have so often stigmatized us,
and shall not do your bidding.* We intend,

God helping us, that henceforth and forever, .

the Federal government shall be on the side
of freedom, where thqfathers founded it, and
administered “to form a more perfect' union,
establish justice, insure domestic tranquility,
provide for the common defense, promote
the general Welfare, and secure the blessings
of liberty to ourselves and our posterity."+——
Its ea 1e shall no longer be a vulture dyeing
its bea in the het of humanity, but a bird of
. maternal gentleness, brooding liberty under
its Wings, and terrible only to liberty s foes,
Everywhere. under the national flag liberty
is to find shelter, man is to be recognized as
man, with all his God-given rights; and if
Slavery is to be upheld and perpetuated, it
must be, not as a national, but as a state in-
, stitution out of the jurisdiction of the Federal
. Government, and beyond the political inter-
' ference of the citizens of other states.

Nor do we wish to disguise our abhor-
rence of the institution, With all its brutality,
barbarism, lust and blood; and we will not
be implicated in its crimes, nor stained with
its guilt. While we shall scrupulously re-
train from trespassing upon any right of the
South, we must be exempted from any po-
litical responsibility for the continuance of
slavery, and have a full immunity from both

 

Ifauy one is doubtful concerning the real _ object
of the sccessionfsts, and thinks it is not a desperate
throw in the old game 'of bullying and ~blustering, in
order to drive the North. through fear and cupidity
into new concessions to slavery, let him mad the
speech of J adge Handy, the secession Commission-
er from Mississippi to Maryland, made at Baltimore,
the other day, in which he discloses the secret coun-
sels ofthe conspirators in the manner following:

“Secession is not intended to ‘break “P the gov-
ernment, but to per etuate it. We do not ,rolmfie
to go out by way of reaking up or destroy ng the
Ln on as our father‘s gave it. to us, but We 3° out
for the purpose of getting mrthcr guarantees and
securitiy for our ,Ir ghts, * 3' o I! Our plan 'is
for the southern states to withdraw from the Union
for the present, to allow amendments \to the cou-

stitution to bemadc, arantee‘n our ust ri hts.”
iPreamble of the Ctgiuhtnutiod ogf the ll. S. E. '

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its blessings audits bli his. If, as its advo- '

cates assert, it is a blessing for the states in
which it exists, and by whose laws it is up-

held, enjoy it all; but if, as others think, it is '

a curse—“the sum of all villainies"—-thcn
let them make the best of it, and put it away,
or be censuined by it, as they choose. 19
either case, we insist upon its being kept
within its state enclosures, and not permitted
to run at large across the province of the
General Government, and spread its dark
deluge. over the whole country.

Such all administration of the federal gov-
ernment, as has been above indicated, we pro-

osc to inaugurate on the coming 4th of"

arch, 1861—an administration that will be
characterized by wisdom, justice. patriotism,
fidelity to the constitution, vigilance in guard-
ing the ri hts of every state, and fearlcsness
in defen ing its own. In its executive
will be combined, in some good degree, the
patriotism and magnanimity of Washington
the philosophy and stem republicanism of
Jefferson, the self-reliance and inflexible pur-
poseof Jackson. In the prescribed mode,
and in strict couformity to the Constitution
and laws of the country,-the people, in their
sovereign capacity, have elected a man in
whom they repose this high confidence. He
is the man for the hour. His inauguration
will mark a new era in the history of the
government, bright and auspicious for the
whole country. In. answer to all reasonable
threats to the countrary, we say, if the Pres-
ident elect survives, that inauguration is as
sure to take place, at the appomted time, as
the sun is to rise on that day; and woe to
the man, woe to the faction,.that shall lift a
traitorous hand, to hinder or defeat its oc-
complishmentl It had been better for that
man, or that faction never to have been
born!

And may God defend the right i '

Reposing hi 11 confidence in your ability
and integrity, am gentlemen, with great
respect,

Yours very truly,
FRANCIS GILLETTE.

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‘ Major .1 col: Downing‘on Secession.

We reproduce, for the benefit of the pres-
ent day and generation, the following letter
on nullifieation, from the celebrated pen of
Major Jack Downing:

WxsmNo'ron Crivr, Jan. 7, 1833. .
To the editor of the Portland Courier, in the

Mariner’s Church Building, second story,

eastern end, Fore street, decay down East, in

the State of Maine. '

My kind and Dear Old Friend: The Presi-
dent’s message to Congress makes crackling
work here. Mr. Calhoun shows his iteeth
like a lion. Mr. McDufiie is cool as a cow-
cumbel', though they say he’s got a terrible
tempest inside of him that he’ll let out before
long. For my part I think the President’s
Message is about right. ijas setting with
the President in the East room last night,

 

 

chfittiug about one thing and another, and _

the President, Says he, “Major Downing,
have you read my message that I sent to
Congress to-day f” I told him' I hadn’t.—
"Well," says he, “I should like to have you
read it, and give me your opinion upon it.”
So he handed it to me, aiid I set down and
read it through.

And when I got through, “Now,” says I,
“Gineral, I’ll jist tell you what I think ofthis.
ere business. When I was a youngster,
some of us Downingville boys used to go
down to Sebago pond e'very Spring and hire
out a month or two carting logs across the
pond. It wps rather a windy day, and the
waves kept'the logs bobbing up and down
considerably bad, so we agreed to bring but
along side and side, and lash 'em together,
and drive some thole-pins in the outer logs;
and row ’em over together. We went along
two or three miles pretty well. But by and
by, Bill Johnson began to complain. He _
was always an uneasy, harum scarum sort of
a chap. Always thought everybody else
had an easier time than he had, and, when
he was aboy, always used to be complain-
ing that the other boys had more butter on
their bread than he had.‘ Well, Bill was
rowing on the leeward side, and he begun to
fret and said his side was the hardest, and he
wouldn‘t give us any peace till one of us
changed sides with him.

Well. Bill hadn’t rowed but a. little ways
on the windward side before he began to
fret again, and declared that his side went
harder than t’other, and he woiildn’t touch
to row on that side any longer. We told him
he had his choice alid he. sliould’t' keep
changing so. But he only fretted the more
and began to get mad. At lasthe declared
that if we didn’t change with him in five
minutes, he’d cut the lashings, and take his
log and paddle off alone. And before we
had hardly time to turn round, he declared
the five minutes were up, and up hatchet
and cut the lashings, and away went Bill on
his own log, bobbing and rolling about, and
dsncing like amonkey to try to keep on the
upper side. The refit of us scrabbled to as
well as we could, and fastened our logs to-
gether again. though we had a tough match
for it, the wind blew so hard. Bill had not
gone but a little ways before his log began
to roll more and more, and by-and-by he
went splash, head and ears. He came up
pulling and blowing, and got hold of the log
and tried to climb up on it, but the more he
tried the more the log rolled; and finding it
'would be gone goose with him pretty
soon if he stayed there, he began to sing
out like a icon for us to come and' take him.
We asked him on which side he would row
if we would take his log intothc raft again?
0, says Bill, I'll row on either side, or on
both sides, if you want me to, if you’ll only
come and help me before I sink. _ .

But, said the President, I hope you didn’t
help the raskel out until he got a pretty good
soaking. He got soaked enough before we
got to hilii,-said I, for he was just ready to,
sink for the last time, and our logs came
pesky near getting scattered, and if they
had, we should all have gone to the bottom
together. And, now, .Gineral, {this is just
what I think ; ifyou let Smith Carolina cut
the lashing, you'll see such a. x log-rolling in
this country as you never see yet. The old
Gineral started up and marched across the
floor like a boy. Says he, Major Downing,
she shan’t cut the lashiugs while my name
is Andrew Jackson. Tell Sargeant Noel to
have his company sleep on their arms every
night. I told him they should be ready at a
moment’s warning.

. I wish you would jest give. cousin
Ephraim up to Augusta a jog to know why
he don’t write to meaud letfme know how
the Legislator is getting along:
I remain your loving friend,
MAJOR J acx Dowxrxo.

. -<.>o .

W Alabama must be singularly well pre-
pared for a separate government supported
by direct taxation. The Mobile Register says:
“Great as the pinch is here among all classes.
of men who are engaged in business, and
who have. pecuniary engagements to meet,
and all of us, without exception, rich and
poor, strong and weak, feel it—‘it is nothing
to the actual suffering that is likely to over-
take the citizens of' small means in some por-
tions of the interior of Alabama. In these
localities it is not a question of temporary
inability to meet moneyed engagements, but
the pressure comes in the shape of actual
want to whole families. It is well known
that the last summer’s corn crop in inany of
the counties of middle and. south Alabama
was a disastrous failure, and serious fears
wereentcrtained of a scarcity of . meat and
bread, even- before political events came to
deepen the gloomy prospect.”

' «Owe——

Wit is said that the editor of the Charles-
ton Mercury, who 'writes its .fierce disunion
articles, is one Gordon, a native ofMassachu-

 

 

 

 

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Neither let us he slander-ed fronl our duty by false
accusations against lls, nor frightened from it by
meuaccs of destruction to the Government, nor of
dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that
incur MAKER menu, and in that faith, let us, to the
end, dare to do ollr duty as we understand it.

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POLITICAL PREACHING.

Probably, never ill the history of the Amer-
ican Government did the pulpit throughout
the lahd,so univesally respond to a great pop-’
ular cause, most deeply affecting the national
heart, as ou'Friday last. The New York pa-
pers come freighted with reports of the pol-
pit efforts of the most noted of the city di-
vines, representing all denominations and
shades of opinion. '

At the first'Congregational Church in this
place, the Pulpit was occupied by Rev. S. B.
S. Bissell, whorepeated a discourse prepared
during the, exciting crisis of 1850, andlwhich
the Speaker deemed specially applicable to
the present exigencies, although it is possible
that the total absorption of the Speaker's
time in another avocation, may have helped
this conclusion. His text was from 2d
Chronicles, vii, 14—“ If my people which are
called by my name, shall humble themselves,
and pray and seek my face, and turn from
their wicked, ways, then will I hear from
Heaven, audwill forgive their sin, and will
heal their land."

Rev. Mr. Pattison occupied the pulpit of
St. Paul’s Church in the morning. The gen- '
eral tone of his discourse was deprecatory of
thethreatening'dangers of the country, and
bi ief suggestions as to their causes, &c. .

Dr. Hill occupied the pulpit of the new 2d
M. E. Church, and based a discourse upon
the entire 58th chapter 'of Isaiah. In read-
ing the 4th, 5th, andmore p'articularly the
6th verse,'he paused and remarked, that were
not these words found in the Bible, he should
hardly dare give utterance to them, lest he
should fall under an evil imputation of read-
ing something to inflame the popular mind. ,

He remarked without any design to stir up a
'strife, that the position of our country was
most remarkable. And that we presented to
the world a most singular spectacle. That
of a nation whose prosperity and growth
were without a parallel. And yet, right in
the heighth of this success, and while at
peace with. the world, this great nation deliri-
ous and frantic had risen up to commit polit-
ical suicide. It seemed to him most aston-
ishing. ~ .

It was no time now .to handy epithets—we
had fallen upon evil times—civil war was ini-
miuent—it seems scarcely possible, that we
can now escape the terrible scourge of war.
What more is our duty? Let on stand to the
right! Yield in matters non-essential, but
never yield our principles if we felt they were
right, if they took us to the stake or {fillet—-
God is always withthe right—and it is al—
ways safe to do right. It is right to be patri-
otic, to;love our Country—to denounce (rea-
son. Ours is a government of Law, and the
Law should be maintained in its supremacy.
Let us stand to the right, and trust in God,
and we shall yet be delivered .

At South Norwalk, Rev. D. R. Austin gave
his people a clear and logical exposition of
our national difficulties, their causes and true
remedies. We unfortunately were unable to
have a reporter present, although several
who heard it pronounce it one of Mr. A’s
most happy. and successful pulpit efforts.

At New Canaan the Congregational cler-
gyman made a brief allusion to the all ab-
sorbing topic in the course of his regular
preparatoryLecture scrvfccs,assuining that the
North were largely responsible for the exis-
ting excitements in consequence oftheir con-
tinued agitation of the Slavery question; or
asone of his hearers expresses it, the N. Y.
Observer’s “south-side” view of the difiiclilty.

At the Greens Farms Church, we learn the
pastor reviewed the position of the nation in
an able and'earnest discourse from the North-
ern stand point.

At Darien Rev. Mr. Lovejoy of the Metho‘
dist Church delivered an eloquent discourse
in which it was very broadly hinted that our
Southern brethren were not wholly without
responsibility and blame in the present com-
plication of our political affairs. It is said to

'have been an elaborate vindication of right,

justice and humanity.

Rev. Mr. Bones of the Congregational
Church made incidental reference to nation-
al difficulties in the course of his preparatory
Lecture. He expressed a decided preference
for Freedom over Slavery.

At Wilton, Rev. Mr. Dimock preached an
elaborate discourse, reviewing at length and
with great fairness,as we think, the questions
at issue between the two beligerent sections
of our country. The services were opened
by the singing of that patriotic hymn—

_ “',My Country ,‘tis of thee,
Sweet land of Liberty,

' Of thee Icing," &c.

Followed by the reading of the 5811i chapter
of Isaiah, (a sermon of itself,) wherein the
tone and '.emphasis of the Speaker as he
passed‘thc 4th, 5th and 6th verses clearly be-
trayed the sympathies uppermost in his mind.
Before entering upon his discourse he pre-
faced it by a statement of the circumstances
under which ithad been prepared and why
it was.to be delivered. He said at a meeting
of' his people, the question was canvassed
whether the day should be observed by this
Church—that while he deemed such a so]-
emn fast andprayer as peculiarly appropri-
ate and proper, be deemed the (cl-ms in which
the President had seen fit to invite the same,
an insult to the‘ Christian sentiment of‘a very
large portion of the country, and as inter-
preted by the light of his two conduct, he
could readjt in no other sense than an ap-
peal to God. to thwart .and overthrow all
efforts in behalf 'of freedom and humanity,
and so believing,it would be hypocrisy in km
to comply, and as hypocrisy in religion was
mostabhorrent 'of all, he could not conscien-
tiously acquiesce,- in any seeming endorse-
ineut of. the President's course, and therefore
objected. It was, however agreed that he
should preach a sermon on the affairs of the
nation, to his people on the occasion, which
in acccrdancé with the wishes of his charge
thus expressed, he was about to do. His ser-
mon he said _ was to be moreover a ‘aiolz'li'i'al
sermon," though not PARTISAN. He re-
marked that lic was glad to see so many in
the houscfwhbin he knew diffcrqd with him
radically in their political opinions, [there
were a large number of democrats of the
town not belonging to his society present,]
and he had-no doubt he should say many
things which they might not approve, or
would disbelieve: He should utter,however,
his own convictions of truth, and feeling a
deep interest in the questions at issue in the
land, those convictions would necessarily be
earnestly stated: He desired all his hearers
however, to receive only such as should
prove to he, truth, and nothing would afford
him a‘grcater pleasure than to listen to any:
one who might differ from him, in the pres-
entation. of the strong points of their objec-
tion. ‘ ' ' '

His text was from Daniel 3, 18.—“Bc it '

known unto thee, 0 king, that we will now
serve thy Gods, nor worship the golden Im-
age which thou hast set up." By a perusal

 

of the chapter the reader will be able toform'

ing. “King Cotton” had raised up an -idol
and insists that itsliallbe worshipped. Years
ago he had decreed that all below a certain
line should fall down and worship, but. not
satisfied with this he breaks over his bounda-
ries and seized Kansas by the throat, dehum-
ding that she should bow to his idol. (Here
the speaker apostrophized—“Aud to-diiy,
starring though she is, thank God Kansas is
FREE l”—seuding an elect ric thrill all through
the house.) King Cotton had also obtained
most willing homage from our Chief Magis-
trate; in fact so supple had be shown himself

in bowing to the Image, that one would al; .

most believe his backbone had gone to 'ea'rtije
lege. Aiid now he joins in the mandate of
the king, and asks the people to how
their necks to the Image. "‘ Would to.
God that in our present perils, when trea-
son and revolt fills the land, and thosewsworn
to execute the laws are joined in the rebel-
lion—would that we had an Andrew ‘Jack-
son, or even a. spirited woman in our Presi-
dential chair to vindicate the national integ-
rity.” The speakerhere reviewed the animus
of the institution of slavery. It was con-
ceived in a spirit of “might makes. right,”
and is of necessity arbitrary and brutal in.its
operations, and like the horse-leech its maw
was insatiate. Carrying out the similitudes
of the narrative,‘the preacher closed with a
reference to the “ compromise” proposed by
king Nebuchadnezzar to Daniel. It was but
a reasonable demand. The king would ac-
cept a compliance with an outside semblance
of acquiescence. ‘If the Hebrewswould “go
through the motions," they might maintain
their own mental reservations. But did
Daniel compromise? Not at all. He resis-
ted and obeyed the mandates of God rather
than man, and God sustained him, and so he
will protect and sustain all who stand for the
Right. ' It Was, moreover, the only true way
of putting an end to our present troubles.
Hedeuounccd secession as Treason, and de-
clared the duty of preventing it by “the strong
hand of Power and the sword of Justice.”
The Union cost too much to be sacrificed in
this, way. He drew a lively picture of the
ruiu'likely to follow Disunion, and declared
it must be forcibly prevented. He could blit
pity that man who would not sink his party

. for his country ill such a crisis.

We have been enabled to give but the inc-
rest outline of the discourse, and have done
but poor justice to the earnest and eloqiicnt
speaker, writing as we do without notes and
from recollection of his leading points.-

The greatest interest hereabouts, however,
centered 'upon the discourse which it had
been previously announced would be preach-
ed' Friday evening by Rev. Dr. Mead, at St.
Paul’s Church. Long' before the hour of
service,crowds of citizens from this and the
adjoining towns crowded theChurch to over-
flowing. The well known position of the
Dr, as a “ conservative Union man”; his ven-
erable and kindly years; his undoubted love
of his people and of his country; together
with a much more thorough and. critical
knowledge of the commercial, financial and
political workings of the Government and
the world, than is usually possessed by cler-
gymeu, all conspired to draw our people to-
gether, regardless of sect or denomination,

and gave far more than ordinary significance-

to his views as to the causes of and remedies
for our existing national perils. After the
usual service and prayers for the nation, he
gaveout his text (1st Samuel l7th chap. 5th
and 6th verses, as it cagught our ear,) and

commenced his discourse with much appal‘é'

ent emotion. He reviewed our past and pres.-
cnt history, our wonderful growth in territo-
ry and population, the especial abundance
and prosperity of the country (lilting the
past year—when all at once, as suddenly as
thunder bursting from a cloudless sky, or a
tempest on the placid ocean, all this prosper-
ity and peace is dashed aWay‘ and ecufusion,
distress and panic reigns instead.
would briefly review some of the causes ofthis
fearful change. Since the reign of the earli-
er patriots corruption and pcculation had
preyed upon the public treasury. “ Gel mon-
ey,” had become the motto, “honestly if they
could, but get it." Greed of the “Almighty
Dollar" had been one great source of evil.—
It has become so that every man who darsn’t
thrust his hand into the public treasury, who,
has a chance, isn’t considered smart.

Our national sin of “Grab”—seiziug of new
territories—was another most fruitful source
of difficulty. We had purchased the Loui-
siauas of France, the Fioridas of Spain, and
stolen Texas from Mexico, and annexed it—
a measure most fatal to our national weal.
With Texas came a Mexican war, in which
tlielivcs ctreasure of the country were sacri-
ficed unsparing bringingly us a large accession
of new domain with its inevitable accession
of troubles. These sectional difficulties were
inevitably consequent upon every consum-
mation of our national covetousness. The
present frenzied excitement had also been
greatly intensified by the inflammatory tone
of the pulpit arid press. of the North and

j East. ~Perepotetic lecturers,prcachers and ed-

itors whose opinions would not weighs feath-
er in any private circle of their acquaintances,
had dipped their tongues and pens in gall,
and from a desire to utter smart things and
cutting squibs, Which reaching the ear and eye
of our Southern brethren, had greatly exas-
perated them as it necessarily must. The
medlllng in other people’s business; tile l‘..‘l-.
warranted interfering .w ith the institutions of
our sister States, had become so prevalent
among some portions of our people, that it
was no wonder the South was alarmed and
were in earnest in seeking out some means
of relief and safety. He was a Northern
man—his home, his friends, his life had ever.
been identified with the North, yet his sym-
pathies were with the South. He knew some,
thing of the perils of their situation, and the
terrors with which apprehensions of user-
vile insurrection weighed upon the mother’s
heart, ..":om pastoral correspondence with a
wife and mother, a native of our town hilt
now, at the South. Yet he loved the Union
and hoped to See it preserved. He closed by
a pathetic allusion to the fact of hav’zig pas-
sed a life reaching from the administration of
Washington to, that of the “ venerable who
now occupies the Presidential chair"——to his
having borne arms in defence of his country
in the war of 1812, and finishing with the
prayer of Hagar that in case God had or-
dained thrt the Statcssllould be rent asunder,
that he “might not live to see the death of
the child.” . - ~

Our review is necessarily brief and hurried
yet we believe gives his prominent positions
correctly. We hope to be able 'to obtain the
discor‘se and publish it entire in our next,
when we shall again refer to it in some kind-
ly criticisms. We went to hear the opinions
of another not (our own) cuunciaated, conse-
quently we came away satisfied, although we
should have carried the issues of his closing
point much further. In view of the misrep-
resentations With which the minds of our
Southern brethren have been poisoned, we
should have endeavored more clearly to have
pointed out the fact that the great body of
Northern people who have recently tri-'
nmphed in a Presidentialelection, were not
Abolitionists, and were not the enemies of the
South,- and that they are in no Wise responsi-
ble for “ J ohu Brown raids" or Northampton
Insurrections. But as we 'have all-ea dy
said, we were satisfied, .while we happen to
know of some who think differently from us,
who seemed to be disappointed in that their

a very correct idea of the course of reason- ‘ 01:"! extreme ,opinions were “0‘ fully met,

I

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'while'sonie of our Republican friends seem
disappointed that so much was said in couso-
uaucc with their views and of which they
could most. heartily approve, and so little
with which they could take exceptions. Are
we not a little given here at the free North to
that illiberality of sentiment which denies to
our neighbor the right and privilege of utter-
illg his own (not our own) thoughts and opin-
ions ? The critiques we have heard from
men of both parties on the above discourse,
lead us so to think. '

“ Joe Hawley" of the Hartford Press, who
never blows a trumpet of doubtful sound or
fioatsl'freedom‘s flag at half mast, preaches
his sermon to his readers as follows, which
‘we take it,is rather comprehensive, although

not occupying much time in its delivery: .2
.. “1 Kings, xvi, 38, and xviii, 17: ‘Ahab the
son of'Omri did more to provoke the Lord
Goddf Israel to anger than all the kings of
Israel that were before him.’ ,1 .-

‘And it came «to pass, when Ahab saw
Elijah-that Ahab said unto him, art thou he
that troubleth Israel?’

From which, and aconsideration of the
context, the following deductions might not
inaptly be drawn : ' '

1. God will not fail sooner or later to visit
upon a nation the sins of its rulers.

32. Wicked rulers and their followers are
prone to charge the evil consequences of their
otvn acts open the wise and good men who
have foreseen and foretold. them.

3. A'Ivi'niddle course'ot compromise is im-
possible when great principles are at stake.
Elijah tendered no divided sovereignty. He
said unto all the. people: “How long halt ye
between two opinions? If the Lord be God
follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.’ "

Hon. Francis Gillette.

In anolherpart. of to-days paper. will be
found a calm but patriotic letter addressed
.xto our Representatives in Congress on the
State hof our, public. affairs. Since his ser-
vice as U.- S. SenatOr, Mr. G. has taken little
active part in‘ the‘political movements of our
State, devoting histimc and talents rather
to the advancementof .the cause of educa-
tion and the development of a higher and
more intellig’eut‘agriculture. He speaks for
‘hiniself‘ and thereis no chance of his senti-
ments being '»‘m‘isunderstood, we refer the
reader, therefOre, With pleasure to his epis-
tle. , ‘

 

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. . _ Dating Rbbo ry. . '
One of thepanes of glass in the large front
windows of 'H'ubbell’s store in Lockwood's
building was broken in on Saturday night,
and a quantity of-poultry stolenftherefrom.—

A fowl as well as pane-fol operation.

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. We arc-informed that Rev. Mr. Booth,
0! Stamford, will? occupy the pulpit of the

First: Congregational Church in this town', on ‘
next'sSabbath, devoting-the afternoon to rem--

iniscenses connected witlnthe early labors of
its lamented Pastor, Rev. Wm. B. Weed.
, . -‘—-o<o
WRcv. 'Mr. Wooley delivered an elo-
quent and forcible Lecture against Intemper-
ance,',at the Congregational Church, South
Norwalk, on sunday evening. The church
was crowded to its utmost extent. Rev.

 

Haight were present and took part in the
exercises of the evening.

a.-.

I?” What a noble position is . that taken
by brave old Sam Houston of Texas and the
governor of Maryland. In the face and
teeth of an unreasoning mob of mad seces-
sionists they both dare oppose their own of-
ffcial and personal influence and power in fa-
vor of; the Union! If these men situated as
they are can sink party and go for the coun.
try—its peace imd its integrity, what must be
thought of those of .the north who still give
aid arid comfort to traitors.

 

 

 

 

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Nsw Cans tit—The Sons of . Temperance
held their Anniversary Festival on Saturday
night, at their hall. A large delegation from
:1his town went up to enjoy the “good time"
with them. .
W
'WILTO‘Nr—A very painful, if not serious
accident befel Mr. Arthur Barrows, the 0r

 

, ganist ofthe Wilton Congregational Church,

on Saturday evening last. He had climbed
into'a limb of‘a tree for the purpose of catch-
ing a chicken, whqi it broke off and fell with
him to the ground, a distance of some 15 feet,
breaking both - his knee pans on the frozen
ground. The accident is rendered peculiarly
painful from the fact that the young man is
fitting himself for College by his own unaid-
ed efforts“ and-this must prove a most serious
drawback,'if it does not render him a perma-
nent cripple. .‘ ‘

 

 

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j Beautiful Works of Art.

We feel that ‘we are hilt doing the reader a
kindness,.a:id more especially if he be a pal-
.ent,.when we; call their attention to Mr.
Whitney’s . Photographic establishment.—
Having had his rooms prepared especially
for himself, with every improvement which
science and the experiences of the past ten.
years have been able to suggest, together
with the fact, that as an artist, he has 109 supe-
r'. r ill the: country, likenesses more perfect
and lite-like can-lull be procured elsewhcl‘.—
It is only owi-igto impaired health,that New
York City "does not claim his entire time, as
it now docs‘for its most critical jobs. We
write "illS'lll no spirit of putfery. ludebted
to him for a chance shadow, instinct with life
and portraying every linea'mcnt of form and
feature, of the little one we so recently laid
away .to sleep, it is but the f'ceblest token of
our gratitude, to bespeak for a local artist, a'
universally, acknowledged fact. We saw
but it few weeks since, among many other
gems of cherub faces, a most exquisite pic~
tom of the little girl of our friend S. E. Olm-
stead, whose, tiny bark also “slipped tu'Heav~-
eu‘ ennui ebbing tide.” And we dare say that
no earthly consideration would weigh 'a
feather in comparison to the sweet. memories
which cluster around that little shadow-'—
Dmtllj is in the world, and how utterly insig-
nificant the cost'in time, trouble or money,of
a perfect, counterpart of‘tilosc you love!

. I ~--..——_‘..g.’.r....-..—.... .

’l‘uu ATLANTIC MONTHLY for J unul.‘ ry is a
most excellent ,iiumbeu It .opens with a
lively article on .Washington City-which is
rather sarcasticaliy'treated'. Miss Prescott's
brilliant story,'“Frolu Midsummer to May,"
is finished. Two .ortliree exciting chapters
of the “Professor'sStory” are given, lll‘VlllCll
Dick Venuer is disposed of. Lougfellow’s‘
Poem, "Paul Rel/era’s Ride" we publish on
our'outside. Holmes gives us a good thipg
in the shape of “A Visit to the Asylum for
Decaycd Painters,” Many other good
articles are embraced in its table of contents.
This Magazine promises to be unusually ill-
tcresting for the coming year. Now is the
time to subscribp.-

 

 

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{S'The old, funddmnwl Co'ihjant comes
tons aim, clothed in the habililnents of a
well earned prosperity. The: Hartford pa- '
pets seem foliave launched upon that “tide
in-thdhffl'aifl when, which taken at its fiood
washroom" '

4 >.. ._._-__ mu,”
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' Whecakttlébommissioners have voted
to remove the prohibition to the introduction
of Cattle. into this" State from Massachusetts

 

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Mr. Austin, Rev. Mr. Gowen and Rev. Mr. .

run 91106121133 or snowstorm
We deem Texas, under the Generalship of
Sam Houston, as lipw reliably for the Union.’
Maryland and Delaware, with all the efforts
of the traitors to poison the mindsbf the peo-
ple and excite the populace, are also for the
Union ;-—while the money panic, with forced
loans, it depreciated currency and enormous
taxation, and utter starvation staring the
South Ca'rolinians in the face, is doing lnore
than all the armies and navics of Christendom
to bring back that mad cap State to a sense
of its utt‘er helplessness out of the Union.—
The attitude of firmness just assumed by the
President, late though it be, and the unmis-
takable sentiment of determination on the
part of the Northern people, irrespective of
party, to enforce the laws and protect the
Union at all hazards, have very sensibly di-
minished the intensity of the secession epi-
demic, in all the remaining disaffected States.
It is true that the fo’rtsand arsenals have been
seized in Georgia and Alabama, but this had
to be urged on the unreasoning and irres-
ponsible mob, by the plotters of treason at
Washington, for the express purpose of pre-
cipitatiu g the more conservative masses into
such dire excitement and confusion as should
involve them in some way in a treasonable
implication. Monday’s dispatches from
Washington affirm that this maneuvre is on-
ly a part of the programme long since block-
ed out here, and with the connivance of
spies and traitors in the Cabinet. Secretary
Floyd ungarrisoned them purposely to aid
the conspiracy, and the Disunion Governors
were fully apprized of their intended condi-
tion. The plan was to make a simultaneous
movement through the South, but that has
failed. Every one of these forts will be reta-
ken in thirty days after the 4th of March, if
there be power enough in the Government or
people to protect the public property and
execute the laws. And so far as the revenue
is concerned, it will either-be collected, hr the
ports refusing will be blockaded. The time
for trifling has passed, and the traitors .who
are stimulating disunion may as well know
it now as hereafter. They begin to com-
prehend it. Moreover the Traitors have but
FIFTY-FOUR DAYI LIFT to manufacture trea-
son in.‘ . ’
There is much hope expressed on all hands
that some adjustment satisfactory to hll save
the avowed disunionists, will yet be settled
upon. '
There was a caucus of all th‘e border state
members held Friday night. This Commit-
tee by a majority-vote, agreed upon various
propositions covering the repeal of the Per-
sonal Liberty bills, an amendment to the
Constistitution to prohibit any interference
with slavery in the States, without the con-
sent ofevery State, a perpetual prohibition
of the African Slave-trade, a bill to repress
armed invasions of the States, and modifica-
tions of the Fugitive Slave law, so as to re-
movethe features obnoxious to the North,
and render it more efficient for the South.—
Mr. Hale. of Pennsylvania proposed the fol-
lowing basis for settling the Territorial
question. '

The line of 36° 30 to be run throu b all
the existing Territory of the United States,
and to all north of that line Slavery shall be
prohibited, south of that line neither Con-
gres nor Territorial Legislature shall hereaf-
ter pass any law for or against African Sla—
ver , and when any Territory, containing
an cient population for one member of Con-
gress, in an area of 60,000 square miles, shall
apply for admission as a State, it shall be ad-
mitted with or without Slavery as its Cou-
stitution may determine.

0f the five Republicans on the Committee
Messrs. Hale and Nixon- voted for it. Mr.
Petit did not vote. Mr. Sherman voted
against it, and Mr. Vandcver was necessarily
absent. .The Southern m‘en sustained it
unanimously. Mr. Ci'ittendcn waving his
own proposition, which covered the Yrecog-
nition and protection of slavery south of the
line in the present and future Territory, for
this substitute. It was asserted confidently
that the border States could be restrained
from joining the gsecession stampede upon
this proposition. .

All in all, the skies look a little brighter.—
The heroic action of Maj. Anderson seems
to have revived the patriotism of the coun-

try.
——-———oo<.>~.———
Aonicun'ruaxn—Dou’t forget the meet-
ing of the/State Society.

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, For the Gazette.
Report of Sunday School Work in Fair-

field 00., Ct ,' during December 1860.

Den District, Weston. Officers and Teach-
era 4, Children 14, adults 5. ' ,

Dec. 9th, re-organized Sunday School in
Foundry District, Rcdding'. Officers and
Teachers 9, Children 40, adults 20. I

Dec. 16, reorganized Sunday School in
Great Meadow District, New Fairfield. Ofil-
cers and Teachers 8, fillolars 40.

Dec. 23, re-organized Sunday School in
~Bcldens HilP District, Wilton. Officers and
Teachers 8, Children 30, Adults 13. ‘

Dec. 30, reorganized Sunday School in
Hattcrtown, N cwtown. Officers and Teach-
ers 7, Children 36, Adults 12.

Gathered 246 children and adults info Sun-
day Schools, traveled 368 miles, delivered 10
sermons and addresses, distributed 365 tracts,
'&’c., visited 7 Sunday Schools, wrote 46 Sun-.
day School letters, visited 127 families, and
distributed 10 garments..-

. R. K. DIOSSY,
County Sunday School See.

 

 

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M” Mr. Montague has sold the East Had-
dam Journal to Charles S. Hunt of Falls Vili

lagc.

 

 

.4...
The Glass Blowers.
. The Bohemian Troupe of Glass Bldivers
and Spinners, who have been performing at
Lockwoods Hall, during the past week have
concluded to stay and give exhibitions this
(l‘uesday) Evening and Wednesday after-
uoon and Evening-Wednesday Evening be-
ing announced as positively the last.
These exhibition are something new for this
place, and the operations of blowing parlor
ornaments. &c., out of glass, as shown here,
are exceedingly interesting. They have on
exhibition a Marine Steam Engine, made en-
(iroly of Glass, which is kept running during
each exhibition. This is the only one in the
world, and is really an exquisite specimen
of workmanship, and a great curiosity.—
Beantiful specimens of their work are given
out at each entertainment. We would ad-
vise all our readers who can make it conven-
ient, to visit them as this will probably be the'
last time they will ever exhibit in this vi-
cinity.
«.w.—-—— .
a?“ issue V. Fowler, the absconding Post
Office defaulter, is now a resident of the City
of Mexico. He-denies having reCeived any
aid from his former friends, and is sorry that
.he did notstay in New York to meet the
consequences of his impruc‘ cut actions
' "..."
Trut- Pocono Loan Symon—Southam-
-lina like Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Gunte-
mala,or the States of Mexico,is entering upon
the forced loan system. Public opinion coni-
pels a man to lend to the Stateas in Mexico,

 

 

 

a forced loan was levied by this “public
opinion”. of $8,000! The taxation upon ne-
groes is frightful, $16 per head. They that

 

dance must pay for the fiddler.

 

Dec. 9th, organized new Sunday School, in »

On one store of goods, worth about $40, , ,

Preamble and Resolutions on the Death
of Wm. 3. Wood.

Williams, It has pleased Almighty God,the
wise and good disposer of all events, to re,

~move by death; the Rev. William Benton
Weed,onr late pastor,and this Society being
desirous to place on their rccord,a memorial
of their deep sense of his personal’work,
and of their own sore bereavement, There-
fore be it Resolved,

1. That We recognize in this dispensation,
the holy severeignty of Him whose gift Pas-
tors and Teachers are, and humbly how our-
selves dowu under Ilis mighty hand.

2- That -we bear our earnest testimony to
.the Sign!“ ability and consicientious fidelity,
With W100“ this servant of God fulfilled the

Jesus, to testify the glorious Gospel of the
Grace of God.

8. That we treasure with peculiar sensibili-
ty and afi'ectlon, the precious bequest, of 09"
late pastor as set forth in his last Will and
Testament in the words following, viz:

“To the clear people to whom I have mini
istercd in the Gospel in this place, I bequegth
(the only legacy I can), my fervent prayers
that the Good Spirit of all grace and love
may abide with them forever ;—-inay speedi-
ly supply their pastoral vacancy; and multi-
ply to them all spiritual blessings, even as they
have, in- such a variety of ways, blest me):

4. That we. tender to his bereaved family
and friends, the assurance of our heartfelt
and respectful sympathy in this their great
affliction. '

5. That a copy of these resolutions with
the Preamble, signed by the Clerk of the 80--
ciety, be transmitted to Mrs. Weed, and also
to all pastors and suplfiies of-thc Churches in
Fairfield West Association. ,
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Wnsmnr, Coma, Jan I, 1861.

Mnssns. EDI'rons:—The members of
Christ’s Church, in this village have decided
to purchase a néw organ, and have contract-
ed with one of the first builders in the coun-
try to supply them with one to be placed in
the Church, about the first of April next.—
When complete, it will contain 32 stops of
the most select kind, viz: 13 in Great organ,
12 in the swell, 3 in Petal Organ, and 4 con-
plers and will be one of the largest and m’ost
' powerful instruments in the State of Con-
necticut. Mr. F.- H. Nash, our present or-
ganist, will superintend its construction,
and, as he has very extensive knowledge of
organs and music, 'we feel safe in saying that
the parish will realize their utmost expecta-
tions. *

 

 

 

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Musical Treat,

As will be seen by adv. a select entertain-
ment is’ to be given at Norwalk Hall by the
LMisses Millspaugh. Programme and partie-

ulars next week: ' '

 

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.13“ The N. Y. papers state that there is
reason to fear that the U. S. sailing sloop of
War Levant has gone down with all hands
on board. She had been cruising for some
time around the Sandwich Blonds, and hAd
sailed for the headquarters of the squadron
“Panama, to replenish her stores, when last
heard from.

 

 

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33‘ Huger, Postmaster at Charleston, in-
forms the Postmaster General that he holds
himself responsible to the Federal Govern-
ment for revenues accrueiug at his office for
the present, therefore postal arrangements
continue.

—-—-—-—~o‘.pyo-———-—
WOur dispatches inform us that Gov.
Pickens of South Carolina has divided the
duties-of the executive administration among
his council, pretty much after the manner of
the Washington Cdbinet. Considerable ex-
citement was caused at Norfolk by the re-
port that four companies, of soldiers at For-
tress Monroe had been ordered to Charles-
ton. The Brooklyn was -receiving coals and
getting ready for a cruise. It was supposed
that her destination was Charleston. The
report that the forts at Savannah had been
seized, is confirmed. The revenue cutter
Dobbin was also seized, but the Governor
ordered her to be returned to the Govern-
ment. The U. S. Arsenal at Mobile, contain-
ing large quantities of munitions, was taken
by the city troops at daylight yesterday. It
was said that Fort Morgan was alsofltzfien.
- ' ' no.

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WGov. Jackson of Missouri has opened
his administration by an inaugural address,
in which he justifies secession, and recom-
mends the suspension of specie payments.—
He has hopes of preserving the Un-
ion, however. not by Congressional compro«
mises, but by amending the Constitution so
as to protect Slavery. in the Territories.—
That being granted, and eve runaway
slave being calight and returned, eis willin
to stay in the nion. -

———ooa.

——The democratic members of the New
York legislature resolved to support the pro-
position, for settlin the agitation of the ad-
mission of the who e remaiuin territory, af-
ter Kansas shall come into the nion,as two
great states. .
—Gen. Dix writesto the government that;
Maj. Anderson’s‘conduct meets the entire ap-
Iiirrotgil of even extreme secessionists in New

or . .

——It is estimated that over half a million
stand of arms have been transferred from the
northern arsenals to those at the South,
since the John Brown raid. - This leaves
barely sufficient for the use of the northern
uniformed. companies, but supplies a weapon
for every man in the slaveholding states
capable of taking the field, when added to.
those already there. The greater portion of
these arms are of the latest patterns, and they
are accompanied by abundant supplies of
suitable aummunition. The recent contracts
with the Hazard and the Dupont mills pro-
vided for its delivery at Fortress Munroe.
—"—Two young men named Baker and Hen-
nison’ were arrested and bound over for trial
in Danbury on the 3lst.ult., for stealin dry
goods from the outside of Macdonald &_ ord‘s
stoi-e‘ ’ " .

—‘ The New Haven Bank offered bids for
$25,000 of the War Treasury loan at 8, 8 1-2
and 9 per cent, which as accepted.

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WThe Supreme Court of the State of
New York, have issued a pcrpetual injunc-
tion against Eaton and Jenkins for counter-
feiting A er’s Cathartic Pills, holding them
responsib e forthe cruel halosition in what
they have done and restraining them from
further like injury to the public. If any class
of our people more .than; another .needs the
interposition of law to shield them from im‘
posture, it is the sick and suffering who are
unable to protect themselves. A" remedy so
universally employed as Ayer’s Pills by all
'classes, both to cure and prevent disease,
should as it dons dave ever security the law
can afford it, from counter eit and imitation.

‘ Cabinet, Schmeclady.

 

 

 

 

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D.natlou Visit.
The Congregational Church of South Nor-
walk will make their Annual You to their
Pastor, Rev. D. R. Austin, at his resrdcnce,
Wednesday evening, Jan. 16th, 1861. Should
the weather prove stormy, the Visit will be
postponed till the next pleasant evening.—
h

e children of the Sabbath School will meet

on the afternoon following. 2t1

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Mr. Douglas made a speech in theSon-
ate, last week, charging the Republican
party with being the authors of the Sc-
cession. This is rather falscr and cleaner
than is usual for MnDouglas. He might
just as well charge the Republicans with
defeating him in the Charleston Conven-
tion. It is certain that the bien- who
there gave lllln‘ his quiotas, are new”
leading the great Cotton Revolution.—
Wouldn’t it be well for Mr. Douglas, con-
sidering how far he is advanced in life,
and how all his hopes in this world are
annihilated, to devote the rest of his ex-
.lsmww “. telling the truth? Besides,
what he now says is only plagiariud from
Mr. Buchanan. He certainly ought to
be ashamed of that-a TribW-

 

 

 

ministry which he had received of the'LDl‘d .

Becca-ion in Georgia. . . .

Retiirlisindicate that Georgia was carried
by the sceessiohists on Wednesday the 2d.

The State troops now occupy Forts Pu-
laaki and Jackson and the United States al‘-'
seuals in Savannah.

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Cheering from Maryland.

- Five thousand citizens of Baltimore have
signed a letter addressed to Gov. Hicks of
Maryland, approving his refusing to convene
the Legislature. The list is headed by John"
P. Kennedy, Mr. Fillmore’s Secretary of the

‘Navy, and comprises nine-tenths of the bli--

siness men of the city. Calls for public
meetings to sustain the Governor_ are now ,
being held all over the State. -

 

1‘.-.
Florida Convention.

. Taxman, Jan, 5.411636 accent;
was elected pormneut'PrcIidcnt. - ,
Resolutions were ofend declaring the
right of Florida to secede, declaring just cause .
for its exercise and the duty of the State to
prepare for it. Afterdisculsion as to policy,
the immediate passage was'postponed till

Monday.

The Convention adjourned to Monday-

. m..-

. Hope tenth. Country!

Surely the “0. P. F.” has been “stifi'ened -
up,” as the report hath it, if the follo’wing
telegram in Monday’s paper be correct, he
said recently, in reply to the suggestion of
apprehended difficulty in inaugurating ‘ Lin-
coln, “If I live till the 4th of March, I will
ride to the Capitol with old Abe, whether I ~
am assassinated or not." .

-<.>o
Gov. Rick- on Boos-ion,
Ban-rixonn, J an.8.—Gov.Hicks has publish-
ed-an address to the citizens ofMarylandgiv-
ing his reasons for refusing to convene the
Legislature. It abounds in emphatic Union
sentiment; ' He firmly believes a division
good cause for civil war. He says the'seces-
siou leaders in South Carolina are fanatical
demagognes. ' . ' . '

 

 

 

 

 

_—__‘o<.>- .
Capture of the Anon-1 at Ilobllo.
MOBILE, Jan. 4.--The U. 8. Arsenal was
taken at daylight this morning by the troops
of this city.. It contained six stand of arms,
1,500 barrels of powder, 300,000 rounds of
cartridges, and other munitions of war.—
There was no defence. Fort Morgan was
taken this morning and garrisonedv b16200.
Mobile troops. '

 

 

_ Mhe theme for the annual prize

in the University of , Gemini? mm
this year i “the Prince of ales at the
Tomb of ashington."

 

 

W The Emperor Napoleon’s long an-
nounced work, “ The Life of Caesar,” is said
to- be already in the press, and is expected to
be outby the middle of January.

«Q. .
Mom The Nam Republican.

1a. Admission of Nari-rice.

The N. Y. Wane, continues imper-
versions in reference to the propuiitiouto
admit New Mexico as I State. '

The Tribune speaks of it II um»
.n'on to pamfy the South,” and 1iys the
South will only “accept” it "with (8.1.1?
pectation of establishing slavery in N9!.
Mexico‘as'a State, Again,it spedklrof the.
possibility that {we South slay accept in
admission of New Mexicans. a State am -'
suflia'enl compromise” ‘ -- _ '

Now, this muscle is' not proposed as”
a "mueuion" .or "compromise,” and new
body expects that “the South,” if by‘that
is intended the Southern members of Com

 

 

South” are as bitterly hostile to MrlAd: '
ams’s proposition as Mr. Greeley is. . ,.,' '
It is not as a “maiden” to the South

but as in means. of depriving the southern
denlagogaes of - their stock in Wallaby loav-
ing them'no territory to clamor about,
that this proposition is made. It is no
compromise, but an sxrixomsnilsxr of tho_
Territorial slavery question, which this
proposition intends to accomplish, and--
does accomplish. The Southern politio:
ciaas dread such a'catsstrophe, ”_'Cll‘.
they may. They have talked of nothing .
but nigger: for twenty years, and it will:
be hard to be compelled to talk, about
something else. ' . - 7 A
Mr. Adams’s' proposition is open ~to. ob .
jcctious, but not to the obi'ectioutho't it
increases thochauce of getting slavery iu~ ..
to New Mexico. Slavery in there new“
so far as the DredScott decision goes, and '
everybody knows that the enactment of o~

expected. To make New Mexico a State, .
is, in fact, the only way in which the le-

 

gal existence of slavery there (it has no
practical existence) can be abolished.

New Mexico has neither the proper,
numbers nor population for a State.— :
This is an objection of undoubted lmpor- ' '
tauce,and it is not to be wondered at that
Opinions difl'er, whether the weight of this
objection does not exceed the political
advantages to accrue from admitting such
a State into the Union, or rather from
ofi'ering the admission, because it is by no. ‘
means certain that New Mexico would
accept the boon. ' '

Let us have the question discussed fair-
ly. There is no point of Republican pria- ,,
ciple involved in‘ it, and upon a bolouccd 4
iasue of expediency, it is the wantoaneu
of folly to divide and demoralize the tie?
public-u party, by charges against a large
portion of its representative men, 'of
“dodging" and "cheating” with “ragged
dice.” ' ~

 

0‘...

H‘Tbe Committee of Thirty-$1339.,

 

Thursday. adopted resolutions, cloned by” .

Mr. Bristow of Kentucky, declaring the ‘H "

. recognition of Siavary in the' States

where it. exists, and denying any authori-
ty, legally or otherwise, outside of such
States, to interfere with the slam}:
Slavery ; recognizing the justice and pro-
propriety of executing the Constitution
and all laws made in pursuance thereof.
including the Fugitive Slave law ; dis-
countenaucing mobs or hindrances wthe
execution of such laws ; granting to the
citizens of the several States, and nc08'
niziug no suficient cause, from any 800”?
for a dissolution of the. Government _ '

.Pnsnrics on Ksurucxv Sscssmong
“Oh how shall I get out of this 7" "kid
a horse drou ning ill the river.- "T3“

hold of my tail,” answered a mouaeapou
the shore; ' Perhaps South Carolina

 

‘thinks that Kentucky. involved in allvthe
horrors of revolution and border war,

 

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alight ljpd safety in taking hold other till.

green or the Southern politicians, will
“accept” it, as Such. In that 'WWri‘l’lé ' . .

Congressional Wilmot proviso is not to'be, " '