Mt. Vernon Democratic banner (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1853), 1859-07-12

              . - t, K 'i !'-. h innrrrr VOLUME XXIII. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO : TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1859. NUMBER 12. M . V A A ifJ V"v; I.' iV''; si ' i 1 -J- -:n -Tn -. V. "' ; (( Cj.-ii : : ; ' -..;.---".' -.v . i. " DY L. IIAni'CR. Vfice ia Woodward's Block, Third Story TEBSf S Two DollaFt) par annum, payable in ad-ancf $2,W -irithin six montb: $3.00 after the ex-()iratiut of the year. Clubs of twenty, $1,50 eaoh. hmt :JC How blithe. are the following line?, fruui the author of tiie "Un.rp of a Thousand Strings." ' L. AL G IITER. , IV WX. P. BRAN NAN. - Lft me .-tall in a tumult of joy; : BUrae not my. i-piril fr ch:mting a tune, " WilJ j tho notus of m fi-o!icsoiue boy Sweet the musical mating of June! 2?othii in Nature ."ImuM mnke a man and,' 8he lxughs aloud in her thuuder and rititi; Eurthquikke ad tempest proclaim she ia jrlad 'i eihakiuj the cobwobi uf care from her braia. . Chirroping erickots that b mint the old beaftb Pewao nd sparrows that ne8t iu the eav) Bird, beaat and insect, all over the earth, .. Laugh at thelubbcrly fellow that grieves! : :. Sunsbioe Liubs out in the gay forest trees -- Shadows are taughing and dancing below- . ifeadowj are joyous with honey-fed boes : . Fools only whine at the phjutom of woe. Hail u hut laughter, that tickles the side Of old mother exjth-in her winter of sleep;.. Snow is a blanket of laughter, spread wide To cover earth's fun in u jollified hei,p.: ; Star-) luagh and wink at each other on high - Fun fiuda a place in those far-away cloda Thunder, that carols ull over the aky Nothing at All but the laughtor of gods! Interesting i)aric(i). Greeley amongst the Buffalos. llorte Grelev, of the Tribune, write from a point in Kansas about half way between Leaven wotth aud Piktt'a Peak soiwe - luterestiuir de-.taiU iu regard to the itnme-e herds of liutfalos yet occupyiii"; that region. The letter is dattd from the Pike's Peak Express waun,'May 31.--' - lie nays: - - .J- AH day yesterday the -BufFalos darkened the eurih nruuiid us, ofieu aeeuiin-e. lo be drawn u like an army m baitie array the ridfjes and down iheir sbipcs.a :mle i-r no euuih of .ua r-ofien on the north as well. Thev are rather shy of the - little atreena of otraj'r'rliiifr timber on the creek bottoms drtublles-i froui their sore exjjerience of I iidia.net lurking therein o discharge arrow at them as they went duwi 16 driuklf they teed in the j;ruis - of the narrow valleya and ravines, they are Careful to huve a part of thw Leid buthe ride3 which overlook them, and wiih then, : ihe surrounding country for miles. And, xxhen the alarm is i'ven, they all rush iuriuusly oil' in the direction wlucl the leaders presume that of ..: aalety. This is what gives us such excelleut opportunities fr rejiardin them to the best advantage,'. They are moving northward, and are still mainl) sniiib of our track. Whenever ulafmed, tney olF uii iheir akwurd but-eflVctiwe canter to the if tent hurdj still south, or to. haunts with which they arrt comparat ively familiar, and wheruiu ibey have hitherto found safety. Of course, this tiend those north of us across our way, ofiet: but u few rods iu trout tif us even wheu they had started miles away. Then a herd will commence runuiii across a hundred roLs ahead of us, and. llie whole blindly followihjr , their leader,we-T-would be el6e upon them before tho last will have cleared the track. Uf course, they sometimes stop and tack, or, seeing us, sheer off aud I cross further ahead, or. split into two lines, but the ifeneral impulse, wheii alarmed, is to follow blindly and at full speed, seeinii" not toetMiuire or consider from what quarter danger is to be Bpprliendpd. What rilrikes the strdnjer with the mo.st amaze- . rneut is their imiuense numbers, . I know a million is a great many, but l am confident we saw that number, yesterday Certaiuly all we saw, . could: not have stood on ten square miles of ground. Often, the country for miles on either hand seemed quite black with them. The soil is rich and well matted with their favorite grass. Yet it is all (except a. very little on the creek bottoms, near to timber) eaten down like an over- - taxed aheep pasture in a dry August. Consider ' that we have traversed more than one hundred , miles in width since we first struck them, aud chat for most of this distance the Buffalo have been constanly in eirht, and that they continue for some tweuty-Gve miles further ou this beiu the breadth of their present-range, which has a length'of perhaps a thousand miles- and you have some approach to au idea of their couut-less millions. Idoobt whether the domesticated horned cattle of the United States equal the numbers, while they must fall considerable short in weight, of these wild ones. LATER FROM PIKE'S PEAK, ': , . - BEST NEIVS YET!' ' . HIHEES JIAKINrj THEIR PILE ! $3 to $10 per Pan. From the Council Bluffs Eagle, Extra, June 22d. Throagb. thepolitenesi of ilr. Glenn, who is jast from the Mines, ve are enabled to lay be fore our readers, in au Extra, the following let tcr from Henry Allen, Esq., the much abused Correspondent of the Bugle. We have but few comments to make the letter speaks for itself. All former statements made by Mr. Allen through the Bugle, are fully conGrmed. He ays in a private note to as, accompanying the letter, which tu not intended for publication: "ParrxT Dbar Col. Babbitt: Yon may depend on the above being- true, and in fact, I have not told all, for fear that you might think that I had stretched it a little; bat the fact is, California never developed itself half as fast as ' this country. I haveseea two-men Cake out iwo hundred and fifty dollar $ in half a day, and we are now making OVER A HUNDRED POLLAR3 A DAY TO THE MAN what will Si when we get Machinery? . . Coo out, Col, U will not take yon over a tsoath ta raaka the trip here and back by the IJoetnn Express. I will pay "your expenses and pay you for your time if you do not make it pay." We have had the most unlimited confidence in what Mr. Allen has heretofore written us, and we fully believe what he writes us now. Let all read and judge Tor themselves. Our city is in a perfect blaze of excitement. . Ackaria, June 4, 1859. Dear Bugle: Since I last wrote to you, I have aain been in the Mountains, and to give you all the news of that trip, would probably subject you to' some considerable leisure, as you have some in Council Bluffs who have. been to the Gold Mines "seen the Elephant" and returned to tell all about the Rocky Mountain Gold Fields the burnt cities the man lynched Lc, ic, and are now telling yarns they do not believe themselves, I am very sorry for some of them, as I know they had made big- calculations from the report tbey have received here and woul 1 have done well if they could only have been prevailed upon to stay. No doubt I have received ray share of curses, from some," for they done it here before they leftl Well, here is the news oince f last wrote; and what I write you, you may depend upon, as I have been to the digiogs myself, and worked them, and have now three companies there at work. The Editor of the Rocky Mountains News, and myself, went prospecting, and for the result of the trip, I refer you to bis and Mr. Gibson's report iu the Rocky Mountain News. Since then I have been sick. Foster, Slaughter and Shanley, are in the mountains and are making . money .not by the dollar, but by the hundreds of dol)Ars! The di??in?s pav from THREE TO TEN DOIj- LARS TO THE P AN! this t certain ! It is qtiartz ditreinzs, and there is no knowing how extensive they are. One thing is certain, I have traced some of the leads nine miles and there is plenty of them. I have found them from. Twenty-five yards to thirty rods apart, and nin-ninjr parallel for miles, and alj pay about the sam.- . Now you can te'l whether there is any Gold in the : cbnntry or not, and how near th truth we have ben writing to the Bugle. I always told yoa that what I wrote , should be the truth, and I hav never j wrote you one word rpspeetinsr 'he gold mine,' that I have to take back! Mr. Kinesman. through whose kindneps yon will receive this, will give yon his experience in the minos and you may rely on what he says, for Tie was in the mines, and that, is more than a gr.eat many who have gone back with their big yarns, nbont there beinp nothing here. I ran hear notbin? of rpy family, I fear they have pone back with the stampede though I hon not. The Constitutional Convention for the f(rraa-tion of a new State, met on Monday. I will po?t you of its progress. . . - Heahh is verv pool. Provisions tolerably plen'v jtist now; dour, $15 per hundred. " Yours truly, . HENRY ALLEN. From tlio White "Clond (Kna) Chief. Juno 9. Horrible Tales of Suffering1 on the Plains Three Hundred Emigrants Starved to Death on th Smoky Hill Route Experience of two Younrj Men from Wayne County, Ind. Two youncr men named Erastns If. Griffin and aiid Preston Cates, of AVilliamsburgh, Wayne CountVtTiidians. have arrived herft direct from Denver City. They went out last October, and Ik ft Deliver on the fith ff May, A gentleman in this city was acquainted with them, and pronounces them perfectly reliable. They prospected two months and made $2 40, all told. They prospected up and down the Platte, and on the head waters of the Colorado. They think there may be some gold iu the mountains, but there is no chance to eret it, as there is snow all the year round, with the exception of about two mouths. The bes? day's digging they did paid them $1 06V This was on another man's claim, who wanted to sell it and come home. They asked-to try it first," when they worked one day at waahing dirt which the fellow had thrown up. I hey worked with a longtom and sluice, and washed out $1 06. They then worked four days longer, digging up the dirt for themselves, apd in the four days they took out fifteen cents! Afr ter that the pay was still smaller, when they gave it up. They are confident that the fellow had prepared his pile of dirt as a bait. They report horrible suffering? on the Smoky Hill route, which has been so be puffed in some of the papers. When they . left, but ten persons had reached the mines from that route-, who reported that three hundred had died on the way One of the men reported that he had seen six dead men lying withtn reach" of each other; and another said he had himself buried twelve men. These men came struggling in one by one. One of them had lived ten days on the flesh of his dog. They reported that some had lost their way. ' Scouts were immediately sent out, and some of the lost ones were found within ten miles of the camp, so weak that they had to be fed with spoons. . Iu Denver City, several months stnee, lots were selling as high as three hundred, and fifty dollars. When the young men left, donation shares, containing eight lots, could be bought for five dollars. Denver has several hundred small cabins, many of which have no roofs. They are occupied by any one who chooses to do so. The proprietors have made a poor speculation, as there is not money enough in the country to pay house-rent. Provisions were very scarce, and bread was selling at fifteen cents per pound. The baker is .the only person who has any golS dust, Tor those who get any were compelled to bay bread with it. One of our informants gave the baker a gnn, which cost him tweotysix dollars, for four pounds of bread. , These yonog men threw their tools into the Platte, and started home on foot, taking- only two blankets with them. ' For two hundred miles they lived on prickly-pears and wild potatoes. , They bailt bet two fire from Denver to. Fort Kearney. Once tbey . killed a prairie dog and roasted it. " Another ' time they came to where a man and his family were encamped, and asked for bread. . The aiaa at first refused it, bat at length agreed to let them have some, for which he took their blankets as pay! Tby then had to sleep on the bare prairie, and once the Cheyenne Indians came near taking their coats from theml A young man named Wm. H. Joslyn and an other person, from Monroe County New York, have since arrived, and report similar to the above, and much more which would be interesting had we room for it. They spent a greater part of their time in company of old mountain eers, who assured them that gold could not be found there irr any paying quantities. We bear enough every week to fill our paper, and are enabled to give but a few of the principal items; The Great Balloon Voyage A 900 Miles Trip The Atlantic Landed in Jefferson County, N. Y. Messrs. Wise, La Montaine, and Gager, ac-componied by Mr; Hyde, reporter of the St. Louis Republican, started from St. Louis on the 1st at 6 o'clock 40 minutes P. M., in the mam-mouth balloon Atlantic, oh the first grand experimental air voyage to the Eastern Cities. Prof. Wise occupied the willow car below the boat in wWich his companions were seated. Before starting, Prof. W. iutroduced bis associates to the people, and stated that, us they had already performed their part, he would now endeavor to do hi3, aud come in for a third of the glory. - .; : At 6 o'clock the next morning the Atlantic passed the vicinity of Fort Wayne,' Indiana, and at 7:30 it was seen from. Sandusky. The balloon struck out over the Lake at Port Clinton, where it passed but a short distance above the tree tops. A bulletin thrown out and intended for the vil lage was carried by the wind into the Lake. When over the water the balloon roseand float ing on quietly and gracefully as the thistledown before the breeze, passed near Kelly's Island. It was seen from Sandusky for nearly half an hour. . Two persons were distinctly visible, and some sharp optics thought there were three. ' We cannot learn that the . balloon was seen from Cleveland, though the Sea Bird bound in from Buff tlo reports a magnificent view of the air-ship. It was in sight Irom the boat for nearly an hour, and near the water, so near at one time that the aeronauts were seen to drop a buck-et into the Lake and draw up refreshments with a ropel It is quite probable the boat attached to the balloon was tested by sails ou the Lake, the voyage being one of experiment with a view-' to future voyages across the Atlantic. The balloon passed Fairport at half-past nine, and was seen to Tu early touch tue water; passed Niagara at 12:15, and Medina, in the viciui.ty.tif Rochester, at abowt half-past twelve. - The air ship lauded her passengers in safety at Adams, Jefferson county.'New York," a distance of about 900 miles from St. Louis. Professor Wise and associates have won the coveted honor. Cleveland Leader, July Ai Terrific Adventure Hons. Blondin Crosses Niagara Fall3 on a Tight Rope.' There, was a ltrge concourse of people ou both sides of the river yesterday, perhaps ten thousand, to wi.ttiet8 the daring feat of Mons. Blon' din. Ou this side the inclosure known as White's Pleasure "Ground was made the place of starting. Here was collected perhaps; one thousand persons. On the bank and below for half a mile there was a crowd, on the oppbsite shore There were stagings which accommodated a large number of spectators; and a large crowd, which extended along the bank above and below the rope. The British and American flags were near neighbors, and a band was playing God Save the Queen, Hail Columbia, and other national airs. At about four o'clock Mons. Blohdir. appeared in the pleasure grounds and performed some wonderful feata" on the tight rope, while a band of music was playing. At about five o'clock he was ready for his feat, and the sign! was given for his departure He stepped boldly and nimbly upon the rope, which extended , across the chasm, amid the most defeaning cheers from both sides of the river. He took with him balls of twine, with which to make his communication with the Maid of the Mist, which was playing around in the stream below. He then balanced his pole in his hands and started with the same confidence and careless indifference that he would perform an act upon the stage of a Theatre. The rope curves about fifty feet from a level line, and be stepped quickly down the slope. When about half way down he stopped and laid himself down flatly upon his back, and thus balanced himself over the abyss. He then passed on to the centre of the stream, and again rested by sitting up aud lying on his back for some ten minutes, until the Maid . of the Mist could gain a position beneath him. This done and he cast down one end of his twine, to which a bottle was attached from the steamer, and he drew it up and refreshed himself from its contents.- He was again greeted with cheers from both sides of the riverv when he proceeded on his journey without again stopping until he had reached the opposite banks, lie was about twenty minutes in crossing, including delays. After remaining some time among bis Canadian friends, he re-returned to this side, haying performed what be promised and what has been characterized as dangerous and foolhardy. It was an exciting seen to witness the crossing, but it was handsomely and successfully perlormed. It beats the world in point of darine. Buffalo Exprts. . V t An advertisement in a Limerick paper reads: "Whereas John Hall has fraudulently taken several articles of wearing apparel without my knowledge, this is therefore to inform him that if he does not forthwith return the same, his name shall be made public" tSTJRev. E. H. Chapio is a wit, as well as a divine and lecturer, Qn being asked what bis object was in lecturing so extensively, Le replied that he lectured for F-A-M-E, which is the ihort for Jifey and pit; expenses. ;' ." -t . '" i .XS?The N. Y. Times .says the statement that the ladies of the first families employ a cooper to hoop them on great occasions, proves unfound- CQBoje are like vinegaiwwhen there is much mother ia them they are always aharp.; '" - jfuitiingntpjrs. tQr The mother who saw a baby prettier than her own, has been sent to a lunatic establishment. . JSy Toast for the colored fair sex, given at a colored party not long since: "Here's to de col-lored far seek -dar color needs no paint dar inell no 'furaery." Sky The Mayor of an English city once put forth an advertisement previous to the racej: That no gentleman will be allowed to ride On the course txcept Hie horses that are to run." 5P I see the yillain iu your face,"; said a western judge; to a prisoner. "May it please your worship," replied the prisoner, ''that mast btf a personal reflection, sure." S& A p-intr, iu setting dp-'we are but parts of a stupendous whole," by misplacing a letter made it read, 'we are but parts of a stupeuJous whale." 1;.:. x . ; ; " S?" The word of debt is composed of the initials, "Dun Every Body Twice. Credit is formed of tho initial letters of 'Call Regularly Every Day I'll Trust." . ftaT" I thought yoa were borri on the first of April sail a Benedict to his lovely wife, who had mentioned the twenty-first as her birth day. "Most people would think so from my choice of a hushaud!" she replied. ' WEBSTER OX Til E -'.'.- Fugitive Slave Law. Extract from the Speech of Daniel Weh ster, delivered at Buffalo, N. Y., on the 221 May, 1851. Gentlemen, there is but one question in this couutryuw, or if there be others, the others aru but secontary, or so subordiuative, that they are all absorbed iu that great and leading question.; aud that is neither more nor less than "mis'; that cau we presferve the union of the States, not by quercioti nyjfc by military power, not by aii'Ty controversiis, but can we of this jjeneraiionyou and I, your friends and niv friends, can we so preserve the Uui ii . of the Uuited States by the administration of the powers of the conslitutiou as shajl give content and satisfactiou to ull who live under it, and draw us together, and by miti-tary power, cat by silken cords of mutual, fra-teruai, patriotic atfec tiou7 That is theques-iiou,-aud no other. Uuntlemeu I believe in pa-ty distinctions. lam a party man. There are q&es.iuiis belonging to a party iu whicli I am concerned, and there are opinions entertained by other parties, which I. repudiate; but what of luxu . It a hoeec be divided agaiust itself it will fall, and crush everyboiy in it. We must see thM. we "iDaintvui the goveruinent over us. We mudt aert that we uphold the constitution, aud we must do without regard to party. ' - ' It is oboxigus tp every one, and we all know it, that the ruiii of the great disturbance which agitates the t'tintry is the existence of slavery in some of tu States; but we must meet it; we must con8idett; we uiust deal with it; earnestly, honestly and jistly. ; ' - From the uuth of the St. Johns to the confines of Florla, there existed in the year of graee sevente)i hundred and seventy-five, thirteen co!onie8,if English origin, planted at dil-terent times, d coming from different parts of England, brinjng with thein various habits, and establishing eih. for "itself, iustitutjoiis entirely vaiient from fie institutions which they left. But they werebf-English origin. The E'Vlih language was theirs; Shakespeare aud Milton were theirs, an) the Christian religion was theirs; aud these thitfcs constituted thtn together. I bo aggressios of the parent State compelled them to set i for independence. They de. dared indepeilence, and that " immortal act, pronounced ol the Fourth of July, seventeen hundred and aventy-six. made theiu indepen dent. That WB an act of union by the Uuited Mates in Confess assembled. .But this act of itself did nothbg to establish over them a general government Tbey had articles of confederation before tarry on the war. They bad a Congress. The had articles of confederation afterwards to j'osecute the war. But thus far they were infependent, each of the other. They entered iio a confederacy, and nothing more. No Statiwas bound by what it did hot itself agree to.' This was the state of. things, gentlemen, at th time. The war went on- Victory perched on te American eagle our independence was a( nowledged. The States wel then united together under a confederacy ofiery limited powers. It could levy no taxes. Bcould not eufitrce its own de-ciees. It was a kufederacy .instead of being a united govern me. Experience showed that this was insufficier and inefficiunt. And therefore, beginning aalir back almost as the close of the war, measres were taken for the formation of the unibl government a goverutoeut iu the strict sent of the term a government that could pass 4ws bin ling to the citizens of all the States, anf which could enforce those laws by its executive jiwers, hiving theui mterpreied by a judicial po-- belonging to the government. Weil, gentlemen.his led t the formation of the constitution of tr United States, and that constitution was frtaed on the idea of a limited government. Itproposed to leave, ud did leave, the differit institutions of the several States to themselis. It did not propose consolidation. It diiiot nroDose that tha loa nf Virgiuia should H th laws of New York, or that the laws "of jw Yors should be tha laws of Massachusetts.- 1 proposed only that for certain purposes, an d to frtain extent, there should be a u n uea govern mni, an J mat that government should h ave tht iwer of executing its own laws. All the rest was u to the several States. : And we new jtne, gentlemen, to the Very point of the easel At that time slavery existed in the Southern files, entailed upon them in the time of the jpremacy of British laws over us. There it 4. - It was obnoxious to the Northern and Jdtdle States; and disliked, and honestly and serjusly disliked, as the records of; the country w show by the Southern States themselves. Noj how. were they to deal with it? Were the Mrthern and Middle State to exclude from tbebvernment those S'ates of the North which had Vocnred a Washinmon m. TM. -.j . ... rence and other djiiiguisbed patriou of that of iber eoontryr i W tbey to hn exeloded from the new .governmit because tbey tolerated the institution ot slslryT; Your father and my fathers did not th eov . They -did ot see that it would be. of tbeast advantsre t the slaves of the Southern Sbas, to rot off the South from all eonnotion wil the North,; Their views of humanity led to u each results,- and of co'urse when the eonstituja was framed and Mtabluh-ed, and adopted bVon here io Hew,Ydrk, and by'yoar aacestorsJt New England it contained an express provisp, of securifw t- f .., )oItttc;tL who lived, in the Southern States to fugitives who owed them that is to say, the fugitive from service or labor should be restored lo his master or owner.-';-. WmII, that hail been the history of the conutry from its first seltleineut. It was a matter of cotuiuoti practice to return fugitives before the constitution was formed. Fugitive slaves from Virginian to Massachusetts were restored, by the peopln oi Masia husitts. At thai day there was a great system of apprenticeship at the North, aud many appreutices at the North taking advantage tf circumstances, and of vessels tailing to the South, thereby escaped. That led to a clear, express, aud well defiued provisions in the coutiluiiou of the couutry on the subject. Now, I know that all these htngs arj comuiou that tbey have beeu stated a thousand times, but in these days of perpetual disconteut and misrepresentation, to stale things a thousand times is not euouh, fur there are more than a thousand per-sous whose consciences, one would think, led them, to make it a duty to deny, misrepresent, falsify and cover up truths. Now, here is the Constitution, fellow-citizens, and I have taken the pains to trrnscribe tberefroin these words, so that he who funs may read: "No person held to service or labor in one Stale under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be. dis charged from such servicfr-or labor, but shall be delivered upon claim of the narty to whom such service or labor may be due." :- Is there any mistake about that? . Is there any forty shilling attorney hurt? No. I will not disgr-c-j miv profession tvy supposing such a thing. There is not in or out of an attorney's ollice in the coiiniy of Eii, or elsewhere; one who could raise a doubt, or a prticle of a doubt, about the mfaiiing of this provision of the constitution. He may act ai witnesses do on the. stand. He may wrigglo and twist, and say he.can't tell. I have reeu manv such exhibitions in my time, on the j.rt of wit tesses, to falsify, and betray the faith, : But there is no man who can read these words of the constitution of the United States, and s y that they are not clear and imperative. "No person," the constitution Says, "held to ser-vice or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from any snch service or labor, but shall be delivered upon the claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due." Why, you. are tol i by firty conventions in Massachusetts, Ohio, in New York, in Syracuse and elsewhere, that if a clored man came here he came a$ a free man, that is a noti seque ter. If he came as a fugitive from labor, the constitutiou says he is not a free man, and that he shall be delivered up his owners who are entitled to his service. ; Now, genile men, that is the constitution of the United States. Gent'e men, do we. or do we not, mun to execute that part of the Constitution as well as the rest of it? I suppose there are before me hero members of Con?ress. I suppose there are here members of the State Legislature, or Lxeoutive officers, un der the Slate Government. I suppose there are judicial magistrates of New York, executive of ficers, assessors, supervisors, justices of peace, ana constables before me. - Alio.w me to say, gentleman, that there is not that there conuot be any of these officers in this assembly, or else where, who has not, according to the form of this obligation, bound himself by a solemn oath, before his God, to support the constitution. They hve taken their oaths on the . Holy Evangelists of Almighty Go J. or by uplifted hand, as the case may ; be, or by a solemn asseveration, es is the practice in some cases. But one aud all of them, there is not a man who holds, nor is there any man who can ho)d auy office in the gift of the Uuited States, or in this State, or in any other State, who does not become bound, by the solemn obligation of. an oath before Go ! that he will support the Consti-tutioii of the United States. Welt, is he to tamper, with thai? Is be to falter? Gentlemen, our political duties are as much matters of conscience as any other duties our sacred domestic ties, our most endearing several relations, are no mire the subject fr conscientious considera tion and conscientious discharge than the duties we enter into under the Constitution of the United States. The. bonds of political brother hood, are the bonds which bold us together from Maine to Georgia. Now, gentlemen, that is the main etory of the Constitution of the Uni ted States on the question of slavery. ' ' Well, gentlemen, we have a race of agitators all over the country some connected with the press; some. I am sorry to. say, connected with the learned professions. They ajitate their livelihood consists in agitating their freehold, their copyhold, their capital, their all and all, depends on the excitement of the public mind. Gentlemen,' these things went on at the commencement of the year 1850. Ther werft two great questions before the public. There was the question of the Texan boundary, and of a government for Utah and New Mexico, which I consider as one question; and there was the question of makifij a provisioa fjr the restoration of fugitive slaves. , . . . - Gentlemen that was the great question.' the Texan boundary, the leading question at the commencement of the year 1850. Then there was the other, anil that was the matter of the Fugitive Slave L vw. Let me siy a word about that tinder the provisions of the constitution. In :Gen. Washington's administrations in the year 1 733, there was passed a law for the restoration of fugitive slaves, by - general consent. No one opposed tt at that period it wasthougth to be necessary to carry the constitution into effect. The great men of New England and New York all concurred in it it passed, aud answered all the purposes txpected from it, till about the year 1841 or 1842, when the States interfered to make enactments in opposition to it. The law of Congress Said that State magistrates might execute the duties of the law.; Some of the Stales passed penal enactments involving a penalty on any who executed authority under the law- others of them denied the use of their jils to carry the I w into effect and generally at the commencement of the year 1850; it was absolutely I say it was absolutely indispensable that Congress ahou'd pass some Uawfor the execution of this provision of the consuuiion, or eiao givs up mat inalllUUOO en tirwly that was the question. ' I wa in Congress .whea the law was proposed I was ftir a proper law I had indeed proposed a different law I was of opinion that a summary trial by a jury might be had, which would satisfy the prejudices ot the people; but I left the Senate, and went to another staiion, before the law was passed. The law of 1850 was passed... NowjI undertake a lawyer, and on my professional character, , to say to yoa and to all that the law of 1850 is decidedly more favorable to the fugitive than - General Washington law of 1793; and "T tell ?oo why: In the first place, the present lew placed the power in much higher hands of independent judges of the Supreme Circuit Courts and District Corts, and Commissioners who are appointed to office for their law ' learning." Ever'y fugitive" is brought bafnr a tribunal of high character, of eminent abilitv. of resrPtbl atatirtn-i . s - - : . Well, thn, in th ; first . plac,- whn va clavm; antroTis from Virgnis, to 'New York to sav that one A or one B ha ran away, or is fugitive from rvice or labor, be brings with him a that recoVd must be sworn to before a magistrate and certified by the County Clerk as to its cor rectness the affidavit must state that A. or B. (as the case may be,) had departed under such circumstances, and had come here, and that re cord under seal, is by the Constitution of the United States, entitled to full credit in every other Slate. Well; the claimant or his agent comes here and he presents to you the seal of the Courts of Virginia, that A and B bad escaped from service; he must prove that be is here he bnngs a.wituess and asks if this is the. man, and he proves it, or in ten cases out of eleven, the answer would be "yes, tnassa, I am your slave I did escape from your service." Such is the present law and so much opposed and maligned as it is Mt is a more favorable law to the Fugitive Law of Washington's of 1703, which created no disturbance at the time it was passed and which was sanctified by the North as well as by the South. But this opposition is a sentiment of modern times. From whom does this clamor come? - Why, look at the proceedings nf the Anti Slavery Convention. Look at their resolutions. Doyou find among all those persons who or-pose this Fugitive Slave Ls,w any admission whatever, that any law ought to be passed to carry into effect the sole to stipulations of the constitution?. Tell me any such case! Tell me if any resoration was passed bv the Convention at Syracuse .favoring the carrying out of the constitution? Not one! The fact is, gentlemen, tbey oppose the whole they oppose the whole not a man of them admits thai there ought to be any law on the subject. They deny altogether, that the provisionr of the constitution ought to he carried into effect. Well, what : do they say? Lo-ik at the proceedings of the Anti-Slavery Conventions in Ohio. Massachusetts, and at Svracuse, in the State of New York. What do they say. that so help - them God, no:colored man shall bs sent back to his master in Virginia.; Don't they sav that? And for the fulfillment of that, they pledge their lives, thir fortunes and their sscrd honor, Lmghter Their sacred honors! Laughter. Tbey pledged their sacred honor to violate the lawn of their country; they pledged their sacred honor to resist their execution; they pledged their sacred honor to ; commit treason against the laws of theircotin--tryl God bless them and help them who pledged their sacred honor in such a cause! Ap-plausA.1I have already stated, eantlnmen, what your ' observation of this must have been. I will only; recur to it for a moment Cor the purpese of persuading you as public men and private men as good merrand patriotic men that you ought, to the extent of your ability and inflaencn, see to it that such laws are established and maintained as shall keep you and the South, and the West, and all the country together, as far as it is just and right, and as far as the Constitntion demands. I say that what is demanded of us is, to b pp to our constitutional duties to do for the South what the South have a right to demand. . - From the Portsmouth Times. HENRY CLAY, OK YIOLATJOJfJ or THE Fugitive Slave Law. Immediately after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act, and in the fall of the year 1850, some disturbances, growing out of an attempt to enforce that law, occurred in Boston. At the secood session of the Thirty First Congress, in answer to a specific resolution of the Senate, Mr. Fillmore sent a message to ttfat body, setting forth in detail the facts respecting the "forcible resistance to the execution of the laws of the United States in Boston. After it was read Mr. Clay rose in bis place and spoke as follows: (See Cotton's "Speeches ot Henry Clay, Vol. II, page COS, el sej. I have listened with great satisfaction to the reading of this message of the President. Its general tone and firm resolution announce that he will carry into execution the laws of the Uni ted States. It ought to be, and I trust will be satisfactory to every impartial and candid man in the whole community. There is only one re gret, if I were to express any, that I feel. t think the Marshal of Massachusetts ought to be dismissed, and I have very little doubt, thong. i not authorized to say anything npon the subject, that the President is subjecting his cou- auet to that scrutiny which will enable him to come to a satisfactory conclusion as to the point ot auty wnettier ne saoukl or should not dismiss him. ; -- I avail myselt to the occasion to express the high degree of satisfaction which I have felt in seeisg the general and faithful execution of this law.. It has been executed in Indiana under circumstances of really great embarrassment, doubt aatf diSiculty. It has been executed in Ohio in rape ated instances in Cincinnati. It has been executed in tie Stala of Pennsylvania at the seat of government of the State, and at the great commercial metropolis of the Slate. It bar been executed at the great metropolis -of tne union Ciew xork1 believe upon more than one occasion. It has been executed every where except in the citr of Bstoo. and there ha been a failure there, npon two occasions to execute the law. . : - I confess, ir, that toitn 1 heard of the first failure,-!', was most anxiops t dear oe thi CASB or ANOTHER ARRttiT OF A rCOITIVB SLAVE l.v Boston, that the experiment might be again made aivi that it might be satisfactorily aicer- tamed vshetier the law could or could not be ex ecute! in Boston. Therefore with profound surprise and regret I heard of the recent occurrence tn which the law h:d been again treated with contempt, and the Court House of the country violated by a lawless force. Sir, I stated upon a former occasion, that the mob consisted chiefly, as it is now stated by the President, of Blacks. But when I adverted to that fact, I had in my mind these, wherever they may be, in high or low places, who instigated, incited or stimula ted to these deeds of enormiiy, those poor black deluded mortals. TTbej are tho persons who ought to be reached; they are the persons who ought to be brought to condign pnnishtneot; aud I trust if there be any incompetency in existing laws to punish those who advisedand stimnlafd, and instigated those unfortunate blacks to these deeds of lawless enormity, that the detect will be supplied, and the REALLY GUILTY PARTY WHO LURKS BEHIND, patting forward these wretches, will be brought to justice. I believe at least I hope the existing laws will be found competent to reach their cas. - ..... . I The eoursw of . the Senator ; from New Uamo- shire, Mr. Hale doe not surprise me. It is perfectly in keeping' and congenial with bis general coarse upon subject of this kind. Hepro-nounces a deliberate act of the Executive of the couutry our common Chief Magistrate as ridiculous. . Now, sir, that is matter of opinion, it depend a poo, the opinion others may -enWtain of the person who expresses iu But the Sena, tor will allow me to say, that npon V subject of that kind, and upon rhetorical subjects to which he has alluded, there are two standards ofv opinion prevailing: one, th st of the member hitn-elf; and the other, that the body or which hm is member.- Aai if he. will allow mo. to fell him, the appreciation raade by amember f his own capacity for debate. and readiness in it, raay Ih tnuca hi-ber tLan w"M j t' - ' f-i Mx.TlALO-rAaf is mb alter of epioion," r Mr. Clat. And I put mg opinio againt yours, But I must take occasion to say that Ou . scarcely any occasion have J risen to speak m this body, when the Senator has not followed me, as if his great object, was to compete with me the palm-of elocution. I yield to the Senator. I know the self complacency with which he gen. erally rises, and I hope he will reoeive this ur. render on my part of any ambition between him and me to contend for the palm of oratory, with the complacency wita which he usually rises in this body and present himself before us. Laughter.') Now what is the aim of the Senator? To consider this mob this negro mob as au isolated affair, as au affair of the two or three hundred negroes only, who assembled on that occasion, and violated and oi'traged the laws' ot their country! Is there Tany ctber man ia the Senate who believes , that it originated amour these negroes? Do not we all k.pow the ramified means which are employed by the abolition., ists openly, by word and by print everywhere, to stimulate thase negroes to acts of violence, if-commending them to arm themselves, and K slay, murder and kill everybody in pursuit of them in order to recover and call them back U-the duty and service from which they hadescaped.- ; ' r Does not everybody know that it is not the work of the miserable wretches the black wh ate without the knowledge, aud without a perfect consciousness of what became them or was their duty? They are urged on and stimulated br . speeches, some of which are made on this floor and in the House of Representatives and by priuts which are scattered broadcast tbougbous the whole country. The proclamation, then, has higher and greater aims. It aims at the main tenance of the it aims at putfinr down all those who would duI down th LAW AilDTFl K CONSTITUTION, be THEY BLACK OR Sir, look at the manner in hich a foreign hireling has teen introduced into this countrv in order to.propagate his opinions and doctrioee with regard to the subversion of one of the instM - tutions of this coontry. I allude to a man who is said to be a member of the British parliament, by the name of Thompson. He has been receiv ed, not in one place only in Massechosetu, but in various places, and the police on one occasion assembled to protect him when they had not the heart to assemble around a tonrt of justice to maintain the laws of their couutrtl . Sir let me suppose, (if any member of Congress could be capable of doing such a thing. that a member of Congress should go to England to Manchester, or Birmingham, or any of the large provincial towns of England and there preach doctrines subversive ot the British government; should denounce their law of primogenituresdenounce the existence nf the nobilitr there, denounce the Crown itself how long; would a member of Congress be permitted to denounce this portion of the ancient constitution of Great Britain? He would be driven out by vio lence, and with the scorn, contempt and derision of every British subject who had the heart or-manliness of a British subject. And yet tbi daring, impudent, insoleut memker of the British ParlJament comes here from England, re pea's his visit, confining himself hitherto, as wel! ns at the present time unless he has recently h ft ""to the State of Masaacbuetu, and there b preaches his doctrines of sedition and disunion. And yet the member from New Hamphir, would have the Senate believe that it is nothing but a few negroes, collected together in a conrt house, of whom it is unbecoming the character and dignity of the goveruinent to lake any notice! VThen the whole northern country to art extent not alarmingly great, to be sure; is filled with the doctrines of abolition ; denouncing slaveholders as thieves and murderers and calling upon portions of the community to subvert and trample under foot the laws of the laud and th CONSTITUTION iuelf; when the Senator from New Hampshire has seen, as be ought W have seen, that these poor negroes were but the cats-paws of those who had not the courage to show their own faces, and the President has chosen to issue a proclamation, comprehending not only the blacks, but their aiders, abettors, and accessories who lam more anxious to see punished than the blacks themselves he rises here with his usual complacency, and says it ia childish and ridiculous. Sir, I call upon the Senate to stand by the President, and to stand by the Constitution ; to uphold their laws and to PROS TliATE ALL OPPOSlTIONyfrom what source oever it may emanate, whether from those who' put forward the -nohappy blacks, or those who stand back, and have not the courage to show their owo faces. - I owe an observation to the honorable Senator, from New Hampshire, Mr. HIe.J He seemed , to intimate that there was some purpose on taf part to suppress the freedom of debate in his ova practical case. I think I know tolerably well what I am capable of physically and intellectu ally. There are some works too gigantic for me to attempt, and one of them u to stop the Senator from debate in this body. It is utterly impossible, and I shall make no such vain endeav or. He must, as George Canning once said, come into the Senate every now and theu "to air his vocabulary." But the Senator made an ob servation with rospect to a high officer of thin government which I thought unbecoming tha dignity of the Senator. He spoke of the net-sage of the President as a contemptible and ri diculous message. ' Mr. Hale The Senator is mistaken. Ire- ferred to the proclamation. ; Mr. Clay. I thought the Senator allndeded to the, message; however I think the proclamation is one of the best psrtsof the message. Mr. -President, an old maid of my acquaintance the anecdote has been told before was run- ning on, upon one accasion, in the city of Baltimore, very usueh against Napoleon, speaking of his conduct very barshlv. oronouiic-in? him a despectand all that. A French officer, with tha politeness that usually characterises that nation being present, said "Madam, I am very sorry that you think proper to express these sediments of his Imperial Mniefty, and I have no doubt it wilt indict great pain on him when ba hears of it," f Laughter. The President will feel about as much pais when he hear tha opmion which has been pronounced by th' Senator from New Hampshire npon a solemn and deliberate act in the performance of a hizh daty. - . -. " It has been said that this is an isolated case. - Do yon ever, sir, see the papers from Boston, I mean tha abolition -papers fj-ora that citv and not only from that city., but from other parts of theTcoonirj? Da: joa cot sea thie Union de- Boonced? Do yoa , nnt see a dectarai ins that within the limits of Massachusetts, the Fugitiv Slave law never can be executed? Do yon not see advice given to the blacks to arm themselves and kill the first person that attempts to arrest them and take, them back to. the service front whence they fled? When yoa sea this, and when yoa hear of the blacks and whites mixic? together- in- public assemblies ia Boston, can yoa think that the blacks never heard the ai vica to arm themselves with revolvers and bowia knives and put down any attemf t to carry tlsia away? If yon have read it, can yoa fJ to be . Jieve that it mast hsvo eperafed cn tbe'r r-iads, and that they have tbongbt with wlist i -oitv they tniht ruh iuto ti&t rrcrt I.oc. a- 1 r -ra-' .j, ,t . . . - - ,--.--