Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 33, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1861 — Page 1

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Select Miscellany From Du Couret's "Life in the Desert." An Unpleasant Adventure. I thought I caught a glimpse of a horned head. which showed itself but for a moment, and then disappeared behind a hillock. My companions, howeverer, did not believe it was an animal, and, as one of them cared to accompanv me, I set out in search of it alone. I made mv way straight toward the spot at which I had descried the object in question, which I at first calculated to be about a quarter of a league distant. It proved to be much further, however-for a phenomenon peculiar to these elevated regions that distances are much diminished to the eye, a fact to be attributed, doubtless, to the great rarefaction of the atmosphere. The hillock from behind which the horns allowed themselves ran from east to west, and a portion of the summit of it was fringed with a growth of cactus. The ground rose with a gentle ascent, up which I tlueaded my way cautiously among the bristling plants, keeping my course right for Lie place where I supposed mv game to be. Arrived at the top of the hillock I saw, with eager jov, two superb gazelles, a male and a female, browsing tranquilly, as if unconscious of the existence of danger; but, unfortunately, they were far beyond-the reach of my pun, and I waa puzzled how to stalk them, for thev were in the of a beautiful open plain, destitute ol beh ml which 1 could conceal mvself. I stopped for a moment, turning over in my mind the various stratagems employed by the Hadramites in hunting the gazelle. First I thought of imitating their cries; then of attemptirg to fascinate them by shaking aloft a piece of cloth Kit -uch ruses appeared to me unlikely to deceive gazelles so cautious as these seemed to be, for I remarked that every now and then they tossed up their beautiful heads and gazed around them with an air of suspicion. While I was thus doubtful what course to pursue, my eye fell upon a long, gray line, winding away beyond the plain on which the two animals were feeding. Whether this was a fissnre in the earth, the track made bv a troop of wild oxen, or the bed of a stream. I could not decide, but at any rate it was just the cover I wanted, for the gazelles were now hardly a hundred yards from it. and they appeared inclined to approach it yet more closely. Creeping out from the cactus thicket, I made my way for a point at which the hillock was nearly on a level with tbe flat, upon reaching which I : )und myself on the bank of a stream, the shallow, crystal water of which slid along over a bed of sand and clay. The banks of this rivulet were low hardly three feet above the level of the water, except at certain points where the hillock approached it. I descended into its bed, then, without difficulty, and set to work to wade it up stream. As I had foreseen, I soon arrived at a point where the stream, which ran parallel to the plain far so nie distance, formed a bend and changed its course suddenly. Here I stopped and reconoitered, taking care not to discover myself, however. The gazelles were now quite within range of the stream, though not of the part of it where I was resting. They still browsed quietly, in happy unconscious 1MB of the danger so near them. All was favorable for me, and I continued stalking up the Ilea in i mode of proceeding, however, which I found anything but pleasant, for I sank continu ally in the soft ooze, besides being obliged to creep in a stooping posture, and to guard carefully gainst making the least noise, lest my game should take the alarm. But all this was nothing to me, influenced as I not onlv bv respect for mv reputation as a r, but bv the desire to produce a good bit ot venisoa ior dinner. Having waded another hundred yards or so, I came to a little covert of worm wood, the brushy irrowth of which was high enough to conceal me without intercepting mv view. I raised mvself up gradually until I could see between the stems, and, finding I wasn the right place, sighted the female gazelle just between the horns and hred. The inimai bounded high into the air, and then fell heavily back upon the ground, dead. I was about to emerge from my ambush and take pot session of my game, when I remarked that die male gazelle, instead of taking to flight, an I exjiected, approached his companion where she lay upon the ground and snuffed around her many times. The poor animal was not more than a hundred yards distant from me, so that 1 could plainly distinguish the grief and astonishment expressed in his looks. But suddenly the sad truth seemed to dash upon him, nd throwing his head back, he began to utter piercing cries, as he wheeled around the dead body of his com panion. Uncertain what to do next, my first impulse was to shoot tbe male with my second barrel, but his plaintive cries touched me to the heart, and I renounced for the moment my murderous project. Had I dreamed of encountering a spectacle so sad as this, I certainly should not have left my com panion; for such an enterprise, and I now deeply regretel that I had undertaken it. But the harm was done, and 1 legan to think that it would now be a good deed to kill the male gazelle and put an end to his sorrows. Moved by this sentiment of compassion, then, I took aim at him and drew the trigger with a trembling finger, for I was deeply affected. When the smoke had cleared away I saw the poor little buck lying upon the ground, dead, with his head resting ou the body of Iiis dead com panion. Flinging my gun upon mv shoulder. I made a movement to ascend from the bed of the stream, but to my great surprise, I was held fast by the feet, my legs being clasped closely round as if by the jaws of a vice. I made a violent effort to free mvself from this singular restraint, but without success. A second and more powerful struggle was attended by no better result; and, in a third attemit I lost my balance and fell backward with mv head in the water, from which I raised myself with great difficulty, and not without a nar row escape from drowning. I now felt my feet locked down more closely than ever, while I continued to make frantic efforts to extricate myself, but all in vain, for I could neither move my legs backward nor for ward, to the right nor to the left, in addition to which I began to be aware that I was sensibly, though gradually, sinking. The fearful truth now dawned upon me. I was in a quick sand. A shudder of horror vibrated through my frame; but I continued my efforts to release myself with all the energy of desperation, dragging myself first to this side, then to the other, ami twisting my knees around in their sockets; but all o no purpose. My feet remained fixed to the soil, in which they had become firmly imbedded. The sand, as it heaped around me. seized hold upon mv leathern leggins. squeezing them so efofely that I found it impossible to withdraw mv legs from them, ami I now saw no other prospect before me than that of being engulphed, slowly but surely, as if sucked down into the vitals of the etrth by some invisible monster. This fearful idea smote me with a cold shiver, and I cried aloud with all the power of my lungs. But who was there to hear me? For n league around, probably, all was a savage solitude, untrodden by the foot of man. 1 now leaned forward as far as mv constrained posit on would permit, striving, with the nervous clutching of despair .to dig away the sand but I could do little more than -cratch the surface of it, and the little I was able to remove, beside.-, was ;mmediately replaced. At length it occurred to me that, by driving mt gun horizontally into the bank of the streim, I might obtain a resistance by which to wrench myself from destruction; but I h id droiped it in my fall, and it had already disappeared lieneath the and. Then I thought of throw ing myself on my hack, so as to retard the process of sinking, but the water around me was at leist two feet deep, so that I niul infallibly hat c lieen drowned had 1 lone so. All hope had now abandoned me I could de vine no means of escape, ml I was utterly incapable of m iking any further efforts Steps . r took complete possession of tue, my very thou In- ap pearing to have be .time por.dyjei. I on v k thtt I must die. and at otc moment, in fact, death had laid hw hand upon me. But J rero ered my

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VOL XX. NO. 33. sen-e- alter an interval, and m ule an effort to shake off the torpor by which I was weighed down, so a to meet my late manfully. As I raised my head my eves fell upon the two last victims of my cruelty lying dead upon the meadow, and my heart ran cold at the sight, for I felt that my mishap was a visitation from heaven. Contrite and repentint. 1 then turned my looks on high, trembling le-t I should behold there some token of the Divine anger which 1 had thus drawn upon my head; but the sun was shining out with his daily splendor, nor was there a single cloud visible upon the vaulted azure. And now, my eyes earnestly fixed upon heaven. I prayed with a humility and fervor hardly to be imagined unless by those who have, at some time or another, found themselves in a situation as hopeless as mine was at that moment While thus gazing upward, my thoughts were interrupted by an object that met my view. It was i large vulture, sailing in the upper air. From the hight where he soared, while yet far beyond the range of human eye. he had, doubt less, watched the fall of the two gazelles, and was no' stooping down to secure his share of the ban quet which deith had spread for him. Soon another of these birds sailed into the circle of my view, ami yet another, until the dark forms of a large flight of them stood out from the deep blue of the sky. Describing wide circles in their descent, they gradually approached the earth, until the foremost of them alighted at some distance from me, glanced around for a moment with inquiring eyes, ami then hastened eagerly toward the prey by which he was attracted. In a few nrrmTtes the meadow was literally black with these hideous birds, many of which crowded upon the bodies of the two gazelles, to tear out the eyes of which seemed to be the first object of one and all of them, while they manifested, by the flapping of their wings, the ravenous delight with which they gorged themselves at the banquet. Then came a pack of meagre, half starved jackals, sneaking with coward stealth among the spiky leaves of the cactus. Between them and the vultures a savage conflict now took place, which ended in the defeat of the latter, when the victors threw themselves greedily upon the prey, over which they fought and wrangled with bitter snarling and snapping of teeth. At length thev stole away. No, blessed be Allah ! at least 1 shall not perish by the cruel teeth and talons of such pestilent creatures! A feeling of comfort came over me w hen this disgusting scene was past. I cast a lingering look at the objects around me; the crystal water and the bright, beautiful glories of nature, from which I was about to sink forever. Then, once more turning my eyes and thoughts toward heaven, I awaited with calm resignation the mo ment when it should please the Almighty to release my spirit but, notwithstanding my ef forts to maintain this tranquil condition, the memories that crowded upon me again dragged me down to the depths of despair. I thought of the years that were gone; friends and relatives appeared to rise up before mc, and then my tears began to flow. At this moment a sound of human voices seemed to come to me from afar. A dash of hope lighted over me, and I called aloud with all my remaining strength, while my heart leaped with frantic joy. The voices came nearer and nearer, until they rang out loud and distinct, and theu 1 saw Akin-el-Chahin and Selim coming toward me over the meadow. They had heard my two shots, and, wondering at my long delay, had set out in search of me. Nor were they a moment too soon for 1 was sinking surely and steadily, the swallowing quicksands having already absorbed me to the hips. The moment Selim perceived my situation, he unrolled his turban ami threw one end of it to me. which I seized with eager grasp, and, twisting it into my girdle, fastened it with a triple knot. Then, with a trembling anxiety which 1 will not attempt to describe, I gave the signal to com mence pulling. The cord strained and tightened as my two followers drew me towards them w ith gentle but steady force. I felt myself moving gradually upward; and now Ojoy beyond expression I am drawn beyond the g-iasp of the devouring quicksand saved! Bending to and fro the joints of my stiffened limbs I shouted with joy; and then .bounding up from the bed of the rivulet, embraced my two rescuers in a wild transport of gratitude. We searched for my gun, which fortunately was as yet but partially imbedded in the sand, so that we recovered it without difficulty. As for my leggings, I left them behind, having no desire to tempt again the terrible grasp by which I had been deprived of them. Health Work Power. Emerson's "Conduct of Life," published by Ticknor k Fields, is rich in thought, angular. sharp, precise. Thus, of wealth: "The art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness in being in the right spot. One man has longer arms or longer leg-, another sees by the course of streams and growth of markets where land will be wanted, makes a clearing to the river, goes to sleep, and wakes up rich. Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use. A clever fellow was acquainted with the expansive force of steam; he also saw the wealth of wheat and grass rotting in Michigan. Then he cun ningly screws on the steam -pipe to the wheat crop. Puff now, 0 steam! The steam puffs and expands as before, but this time it is dragging all Michigan at its back to hungry New York and hungry England. "Wealth begins in a tight roof that keeps the rain and wind out; in a good pump that vieldsr you plenty of sweet water; in two suits of clothes so as to change your dress when you are wet; in dry sticks to bum; in a good double wick lamp; in three meals; in a horse or a locomotive to cross the land; in a boat to cross the sea; in tools to work with; in books to read; ami so in giving, on all sides, by tools and auxiliaries the greatest possible extension to our powers, as if it added feet and hands and eyes and blood, length to the day, ami knowledge ami good will. "Heistherich man who can avail himself of all men's facti' ies. He is the richest man who knows how to draw a benefit from the labors of the greatest number of men in distant countries, ! ami in past times. The same correspondence that is between thirst in the stomach and water in the sprinAexists lietwcen the whole of men ami the whole of nature." Nobody but Emerson, perha, would have thought of putting the case thus, and screwing on the steam pipes to the wheat crops of Michigan. Concentration and the virtue of work are sharply set forth: "The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation; and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property anil its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or mii-ic, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work. Friends, liooks, pictures, low er duties, talents, flatteries, hopes all are distractions which cause oscillations in our giddy balloons, and make a good ise and a straight course impossible. You must elect your work; you shall take what your brain can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing." Here is the philosophy of power: "In every company, there are not only the active and pas sive sex, but, in both men ami women, a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely: the in ventive or creative class of loth men and women, and the uiiinventive or accepting class. Each plus man represents his set, ami, if he have the accidental advantage of personal ascendency which implies neither more nor less talent, bjt merely the temperamental or taming eye of a soldier or a school master, (which tine has, ami one has not. as one has a black moustache ami one a blonde.) then quite easily , and without envy or resistance, all his coadjutors and feeders will admit his right to absorb them. The merchant works by book-keeper and cashier: the law yer's authorities aie hunted up by clerks; the geologist reports the surveys of his subalterns; Commander Wilkes appropriates the results of all I the naturalists attached t the expedition; Thor waldsen'- statue i- finished by -tone cutters; Du mas has journeymen : and Shaks) e ire w a- the iter manager, and used the labor of many young men, as well as the play Isook-. There is always room for a man of force, nnd, he makes room for manv. Society is a troop nr thinkers, and the best heads among them take tlie liest places. A feeble man can see the farms that are fence I and tilled, the house- that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as- fast as the sun breeds clouds. Success thus goe invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must bal ance an ounce of weight. Decidedly the liest thing of the seison, savs the New York World, is the publication in the Congressional proceedings by the Charleston M'rririf, under the he id of "Fore:gn News." We may s .ii -e- ami' um e ' in the Mercury (the coc.it j. mm i' the e- irtt;: e o. I. nl H iminond fir the (' .urt ot S JaastJ . . Sr l-awrc.ice Ke'tr for S- P..-e , .... I' n; e Klictt for the T'ii1!e-'e.

From tbe Sunday Mercury. The Prosrreaa off TI y ouave Practice. A fellow with a red bag having sleeves to it for a coat; with two red bags without sleeves to them for trowsers ; with an embroidered and braided bag for a vest; with a cap like a red woolen saucepan ; with yellow lioots like the fourth robber in a stage play; with a moustache like two half jiound paint bsushes, and with a sort of sword gun or gun sword for a weapo i, that looks like the result of a love affair between an amorous broadsword and a lonely musket, indiscreet and tender that's a Zouave. A fellow who can "put up" a hundred and ten pound dumb-liell; who can climb up an eightyfoot rope, hand over hand, with a barrel of flour hanging to his heels; who can do the "giant swing" on a horizontal bar with a fifty six tied to eich ankle; who can walk up four flights of stairs, holding a heavy man in each hand, at arms' length; and who can climb a greased pole feet first, carrying a barrel of pork in his teeth that is a Zouave.

A fellow who can jump seventeen feet four inches high without a springboard; who can tie his legs in a double bow knot round his neck, w ithout previously softening his shin bones in a steam bath; who can walk Blondin's out door tight rope with his stomach outside of nine brandy cocktails.a suit of chain armor outside his stomach.and a stiff north-east gale outside of that; who can set a forty foot ladder on end, balance himself on top of it, and shoot wild pigeons on the wing, one at a time, just behind the eye, with a single barreled Minie rifle, three hundred yards distance, and never miss a shot ; who can take a five shooting revolver in each hand and knock the spots out of the ten of diamonds at eighty paces, turning somer saultsall the time and firing every shot in the air that is a Zouave. am a Zouave. My musket education progresses I am getting on finely I can tell the muzzle from the stock at first sight, and shall soon be able to say which end of the ramrod to put down, and which side up the cartridge goes. But I am paying more attention to my gymnastics just at present than to my musket, for everybody knows that in a battle arms are not of nearly so much importance as legs it is a very good thing to know the use of your legs in case of war. I've got a practicing room, where I gymnastic every day. I've taken up the carpet a performance which my landlady entirely approves I've piled the chairs on top of the table in a corner, and have sold my bed at auction Zouaves sleep on the floor. Besides, it is a good thing to know how to sleep without a bed in case of war. Spinkey and his brother came to see my room after I had got it arranged for practice they did things they Zouaved a little, by way of setting me an example. I found out by the actions of the Spinkey brothers the exact dimensions of my room: it is three flip-flaps long, and a handspring and two back somersaults wide. By means of a flip-flap you disconcert your enemy's arm and draw his fire, then you kill him. A flip-flap is a good thing to do in case of war. By means ot a hand-spring, you reverse your position, and your bewildered enemy cuts offiour toot, instead of vour head. Then vou kill iiim; then you screw on a wooden leg ami do so again. When you've done it twice, you've killed two enemys and only lost two legs; and, after that you can only lose wooden legs, which are comparatively cheap, especially if the war is in a well tim bered country. A hand-spring is a splendid thing to do in case of war. By means af a forward somersault , you leap over your enemy, when hoch ages on you; then, by a back-somersault, you fall on his head from a great height ami stun him; theu you kill him. A somersault is an indespensable maneuver in case of war. Our company Spinkey commanding can ?o through the manual of arms complete, and only touch ground three times: they do all the loadings in a single somersault, springing into the air at the word "Up!" with their muskets empty, and loading exactly together at the word of command given by Spinkey with a speaking trumpet, and tiring by files as they come down. When Spinkey left my room I began to practice; for I am very anxious to progress. Our company has all been drafted into Kerrigan's Contingent, and we must all be ready . Tried a somersault first, as I thought it looked verv easy. All you have to do is to throw your heels up and your head down, and then bring your head up and your heels down; it's the easiest thing in the world apparently. When I came to try it, I thought that the floor looked unusually hard, so I put a pillow in the spot where I thought my feet would come down, as I didn't want to hurt my heels. Then I took off my coat, tied my suspenders tightly round my waist, took a short run from the corner of the room, shut my eyes, and mm When I recovered, which I should judge was in about three quarters of an hour, I had a bump on my forehead as it 1 d been hit there by a base ball, which, had stuck. It took me fifteen min utes t get up on my feet, for I felt as if my legs and arms had been distributed over the neighboring country by a gunpowder explosion; and it was some time before my mind was disabused of that impression. I judge that something interfered to prevent the artistic execution of my contemplated somersault, for my head evidently struck the ground as soon as my heels went up; my nose had received a severe contusion, and the results were, a map of some unknown country done in red on my shirt front, two vest Rickets full of blood, and my hair so stuck together with the same fluid that I had to get my head cropped like a prize fighter. Whether I broke the window with my head when it went down, or with my heels when they came up, is comparatively immaterial certain it is that there I was a hole in the sash big enough to throw a ) bushel basket through without touching the edge Aa to the nillou- it didn't seem to e . mv feet Into all; jierhaps it kjbecause neither of them aartwttria Mdfk,for I discovered that while' T broke mv onlv water nitcher with one bee! 1 l.n.l put the other through my picture of John C. Heenan, in his favorite character of Champion of the world I mustered up courage in three days to try a handspring, but the results were not satisfactory, being merely a new and extensive assortment of bumps ami bruises. Then 1 sent for Spinkey Spinkey taught me the art I can do it now I do it all the time I keep doing it; in fact, I don't do anything else. When I comedown to breakfast, I generally walk on my hands around the table, and give each one of the lioardcrs a patronizing shake of my slip per; then I turn a handspring over the table, and come dow ii easily in my chair, and read a column of thc.7Vi6tiHr, while the people are looking in the air for me to come down. I never sleep on a bed, now a days; sometimes I hang myself by the toes to the gas fixture-; sometimes I suspend myself bv my little finger to a staple in the wall; sometimes I balance myself on my trusty sword, or take a short napton the point of my bayonet; I've practice I thrusting w ith my bayonet and sword till there isn't a picture in my whole collec tion that ha- it- regular numlier of ft St III Ml Dolly Davenport has onlv one eve, and a frac tion of a nose; Edwin Forrest is plaving Hamlet w ithout anv top to his bead, and John Heenan m.m . . with one arm and a big hole in his ribs, is fighting Tom Savers, who has no legs and narv an eve in his head. I've put up a Larget on the brick par - i tition that separates me from the next house, and have fired so many balls into it, that the bricks are not now more than an inch and a half thick . and I expect every day to kill a baby or two in there; when I do I suppose I will have to apologize. I havn't killed anybody for a gmxl while, and I really ought to get my hand in again. If you shouldn't hear from me next week, you may conclude that I'm going through the farcical for niality of an examination for manslaughter, ami that I'll write as soon as I can get out on bail. Confidently. DOESTICKS, P. B. Nkorok.s. According to usage, the first of January is se:. apart as the occasion for hiring out slaves for the year. As lioth owner and hirer feel an interest in the matter, we have taken some pains to obtain information in reference to "the nigger." We are assured that numbers of n-groe from the adjoining counties of Shelby, Spencfr, Henry , Nelson, kv., have lieen called home, and that they will not lie thrown upon the market today for hire. Asa consequence, negroes will lie ingreiter demand to day than for several tears past. As n evidence of the rate of hire asked and obtainel, there was an instance yesterday in which a young woman, a good cook and washer, wan taken for the year nt $175; a numlier of men were hire I at from ttMitl ftlfft, and a sprightU Imiv, twelve yeirs of age, was taken at $-." for the rear Lsssiasaflh Journal ?T"A gentleman who attended the secret meet ing of the submissionist at Odd Fellows' Hall, night before last, we are informe I. has hid no peiceor quiet since the fact of his preenreat such a meeting got to the eirs of the ladie- of his turnily. He proniisc-i never to do so again; but Iiis ladie. who are like all tlie Udie-) in our c'tv ;rdent. einlest and t'e-ide! lor Southc.n right and incle wnde ice wi'.l not ;aie him. :ind he is verv wretche I on that acc .unt. Let his f ile bo i le-' son to other truiiit s ns of the S Matt JT, O. Dlto.

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For the Daily State Sentinel. Disunion. T HETTY A. IOHIIOÜ. Our Eagle's eye is dim, his wrtnjr is bowed, Jfo lonfrer soars he to the rising sun. But sit. all day beneath a dusky cloud For very shame, and broods as though undone ; For he hath heard the murmur of a sound, A word, that, surging from the lowest helt Vile man had caught, and echoed, till tbe gTound And air around, w ith trembling poison swells, Disunion! Tear down our flag! no longer let its stars Proclaim our shame to sisters in the heaven ; Let it be folded away 'neath prison br.rs If from tbe crown one burning gem is riven ; What matter if a myriad bleeding veins Their crimson poured to raise those stars on high ! We trample now upon the gory stains, Curse patriot groans, while louder still we cry, Disunion! "Let us divide!" oh God, forgive, if still There's mercy yet enough, the wretch who breathed The hateful words, who first had strength of will To be in such deep damning treason seethed ; "Let us divide!" let brothers' hand be raised To dash tbe sabre in each other's heart ! Let brother's eye be taught unmoved to gaze, And voice to louder cry at every smart, Disunion ! "Let us divide!" Each tyrant on his throne Loud laughs at us, the children of the free. And, jeering, says "Man govern; well himself; Behold these vaunted sons of Liberty I" And then they point to fetters and tbe rack. To dungeon wall.,where Freedom's bones are hong ; These, these, they say, will keep man on the 'rack Will crush him down, if through the air lie rung, Disunion ! "Let us divide!" and when our children ask In lisping tone?, the country of our birth, Let us seek out some lonely desert tele, Some pariah spot, alike scorned by all earth, Nor dare to name Columbia as tbe land Where Freedom' altar once burned sacred fires. Where reverenced once immortal Washington, Where fell, in glory bathed and blood, our sires, "Let us divide!" but think, Cains as we are, No Abel's blood will cry up from the ground, No heavens look down a curse from every star, No earth frown black, no vengeful God be found ? Not so, not so; accursed are we all hi sight of earth, the holy gaie of Heaven, The fratricide, the suicide, can find Alone in one dark world a welcome given! Political Our Country' Crlsla. Sprech of Senator Pugh at an Immense Union Mm tin i in Cincinnati, on Monday, Dectmber 31, lc60. Mr. President and Fellow Citizens: I am constrained by a sense of gratitude for the past md of duty in the present a duty both to myself and the large numlier of respectable constituents whicii 1 represent to deliver to you my senti incuts in regard to the present crisis of affairs. But first of all I must say that I did not come here to flatter. That were to avoid the rough and thorny path of duty to deceive you, and possibly to deceive your and my countrymen. We have been accustomed, all the years of my life, to regard the preservation of our present Union as the first and highest duty of every American citizen. Applause. We have even believed, until within a few years, that the disruption of this Confederacy was a thing impossible. But I should deceive you, my fellow citizens, if I were to tell you that 1 thought there w as no danger in the present crisis. On the contrary and I say it w ith a full sense of my responsibility to my coun try men there is no hope for the Union except in the exercise of the wisdom and the virtue of the people. Applause. When I went from this city to icsume my seat in the Senate of the United States, I discovered that the people of the Inirdcr slaveholding States, including North Carolina and Tennessee, felt ag grieved at what th-jy considered the rash and unjustifiable conduct of South Carolina and many of the Gull Stales. I found them ready and anxious to commune with their brethren of the border nonslaveholding States. There was much to be conceded on both sides, much to be forgiven on both sides but at last we concurred substantially on a compromise which we thought would be honorable and right on both sides. We concurred upon a general proposition, which w as afterwards reduced to writing and introduced in Congress by the most venerable and most eminent Senator in the whole Senate of the United States. Applause. A voice: "Hurrah for John Bell." A voice: "Hurrah for Crittenden." I say there was much to be forgiven. There w as much to be sacrificed; much of persona! pride, of personal consistency ; much, too, of partisan allegiance. But I did hope for one that my sac rifice individually was great enough to enable nie to call with confidence usn all men of all particto make an eiUal degree of sacrifice, to the end that, with Mr. ( ritendcn s resolutions, the peace and harmony of the country might be restored. I Applause. . .Mv ieiiow-citizens, mere was at onetime u strong probability that that projiosition would receive the requisite majorities in both Houses of Congress, and that being remanded to the seve ral States for ratification, it would have been in corporated into the Constitution of the United Utes. ami thus we wouKI Hat e been restored to that legree of friendship and qnict between the laveholduig and non slaveholding States for which we all long. Applause. But I am SOITV to say that within the last week belore I lett Washington all this had changed. I must be iermitted to say that the immediate cause of that ( hang- was the declaration in the New York Tribune, purporting to be made in the authority of the President elect, to the effect that he would not yield a single hair's breadth of the position which, as he understood, his party has taken in the last caiiNa-- A voice "Do you want to tight v" Laughter. I believe if the President and here let me lie understood as speaking of that gentleman in all personal respect applause I wish to speak of him as the Chief Magistrate of my country, with whom how much soever 1 may differ with him in questions of public policy, yet I shall treat him with that respect which I believe every citizen owes to his President. I believe if the President elect had been fjpere. (in Washington) his sense of patriotism would have led him to take a different course. But it is remarkable that, although Mr. Lincoln has declared it beneath his dignity to give any assurances that would quiet the alarm of the people of the Southern Slates, since his election he has not thought it beneath his dignity to authorize a declaration which brings to bear upon the more moderate men of his party in Congress i the whole Pwer tt,,d influence of his incoming It. .1 : a, a, I .1..I la. - f A Administration. I think it was an error. Ap plause.j I believe the President elect will live to Md it an error. Renewed applause. What the people have to say, what they must say, is whether or not they will insist upon compromise on all sides, or whether they will allow one party to remain unyielding and determined to give nothing, while all others are ready to sacrifice their particular creels. their positions, their consistent . run, Wfmw fcW altar ol our common country. Applause. 1 do not mean to say that the party with which I hae acted has not committed verv great faults. It has. Applause. How far the future historian will carry them, it is not for me to say. A voice "He'll carrv them a d I of a wavs, I guess." When we acquired that Territory from Mexico constituting the State of t'allifomia and the Territories of New Mexico and Utah, I was at that time of the same opinion as I am now, that the Missouri Compromise line should have been extended to the Pacific Cuast. If you will go back with me to the formation of our present government, to the year 1787 before the adoption of the present Constitution you will find that it had lieen sufficiently ascertained that from the States North of Mason and Dixon's Line, that slavery mu-t -ooi ir and henceforth le forever ex cluded. South of Mason and Dixon's Line it wasst t iit time an t mimical problem whether slavery should continue or whether it should lie aliolishcd. In dueling the concession made bv the original State-, the Ohio river was selecte I a- the line of division lie! ween the slaveholding mid nonsla eholding States thereafter to lie admitted It is also remarkable that not one of the nine slat eholding States had any territory to cede. Virginia had every thing that had not lieen Marred out of her; but the Xcw Kngland Stiles and the St ate of New York, when their line - were protracted, soon struck the laive- and the .re-ot the boumlarie-. The purchase ol Willi. ii. i IV in was of a fixed tract of land. The r uit ol the S'ate of Maryland was only that part of Virginia north east of the Potomac river, ex tending westward In the sources of that river. The territory i f S luth Carol na had been cut oil by the -uIhc jtient gr-nt of (Jergia, so that in point of

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fact, Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia were the only States which had any land to give. Yet the gift of Virginia was, with her own acquiesence, set apart for the colonization of the nonslaveholding Stttes, while Kentucky and territory of Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi was re served for the colonization of the slaveholding States. That settled the whole question for the first thirty years of the Confederation. Xew States were admitted with slavery and without slavery, and no controversy ensued. The acquisition of the Louisiana territory brought on the next con troversy. That, after great dispute, was settled on substantially the same principle. The State of Missouri was admitted as a slaveholding State.be c ui-e it- principal settlement had been -la . hold ing. But the line of 3I deg. 30 min. being the south boundary of Missouri, was extended westward to the territories! of the United States. Thus we see, in point of fact, that from the earliest period of the Confederation keeping in view the peculiar institutions of the two classes of labor, from the days of the Revolutionary fathers the common Territories have been partitioned, in pro portion to their numbers, between the slaveholding and non slaveholding States. I say, there fore, that, in If 4n, I was one of those who believed it would lie wise policy to continue that line to the Pacific. Everywhere then there was a sentiment raised in the Northern States, a hue and cry for the prohibition of slavery in all the Territories, whether the people themselves desired it or not. In the midst ofthat excitement the principle and policy of the continuation of the Missouri compromise line was trampled under foot. We lookel around for another leider. We found that, being unable to continue that policy, we must take whatever we could get. We adopted the doctrine of non intervention by Congres leaving every State, when she came into the Union, free to establish or abolish slavery, as she chose; that during the Territorial form of govern ment the state and condition of the people.whether slaveholding or non-slaveholding, should be a judicial question, to lie determined by the Supreme Court of the United States. That was the compromise of lr5!J. Applause. Four years afterward it liecamc necessary to organize the Terri tories of Kansas and Nebraska. To organize them upon the policy of the Missouri compromise line, would be to contradict the letter of the compro mise of 1K0, and to organize them upen the prin ciples of the compromise of 150, was to repeal the vestige of the famous policy of the Missouri compromise. In my judgment, the South did a fatal and an unwise thing when she raisei that question ; w hile Northern men who had supjiorted the compromise of lföO fei: that they were put to a question of personal consistency. I cm not but think that it would have been the highest exhibition of st ttesinanship in modem times for some man to have trampled the logic of the question under foot in order to have reiche 1 the practical effe.-t. Applause. Logic is a great science, but it is not always safety in jki litical affairs. Applause. The greatest wis dorn of the politicians is not to argue nnneees sarv questions not to raise unnecessary issues or unnecessary controversies; therefore, while I felt as one of the Democratic party, that if the South demanded from mc that non interven tion should be established in the Territorie-of Kansas and Nebraska, I could not consist eutly refuse it. I felt then, as I have ever since felt and said, and as I say now, that it was one of the most fatal demands ever made for the peace and quie: mt ihecour.'ry. Applause , Someof my Republican friends say the Democratic party did very wrong. Granting that it did : the Demo cratic party has been punished for it. Applause and laughter The have been swept from power in every Northern State. They formerly con trolled every Northern State. They had the power in Congress in c cry State. BSBSffll Ohio and one member from Indiana. There was not a single Representative in Congress who diil not be long to the Democratic party. Applause Worse than all that, we have iived to see our party in national Convention torn apart on abstract .pie-tions which we might have avoided. Cries of "good for you." If, therefore, the Democratic party be in fault, I am sure my friends of the Op-)M)-ition will admit that we have paid for it. Applause. The strength, and life, and vigor, of what is now known as the Republican party was based upon the sense of resentment in the minds of the people of the North at the abrogation of the Missouri Compromise. Applause and cries of "that's so." Was it not the cry every where, that the I emoeratic party had broken the peace of the country? Cries of "it was." Why. then, to-day, when the Democratic party, after the tribulation which it has suffered, comes forward o restore the Missouri compromise in thrice its original effect, why then, I say, do we not find the Republican- rising in a body to meet us'.' Hissing and applause I desire to speak frankly on the subject, gentlemen, for, as I said in (he start, I did not come here to flatter uny party. Applause. It is no use for us to go beyond the wisdom of our Fathers. The division of l7t-7, and the division of 11), indicate to us sufficiently, that w hich, so far as we can see. w ill probably be the line between the free or non-slaveholding States, ami the slaveholding States. Applause My friends, I have been accused of being a squatter sot creignty man laughter. not merely here in Cincinnati, but in the city of Charleston itself. Applause. This will give me squatter security as niu-ii as 1 want of it. Applause The Territorial Legislatures of Kansas ami Nebraska have excluded slavery ; but the Territorial Legislature ot New .Mexico, ii. eluding Arizona, has twice, by unanimous vote, established slaverysouth of the line of which 1 have spoken. It is the w ill of the people. The people regard that as the natural line of division. Applause. But, then, some gen'leinen will say, why not enact by law t The first answer is. that, in so doing, we encounter the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. Whether that decision be right or wrong, it is sufficient that no hing can give peace or harmony which is open to qu -tion from such high authority. In the next place, 1 assert that if it be donebv act of Con-gre-s, there will lie perpetual agitation both North ami South for the repeal of it. The fanatics on the Northern side of it will call it a covenant with death hihI an agreement with hell. The fanatics on the Southern side will stigmatize it as an insult to Southern insti tutions, and a war iqion their rights. I hope very little from the extremists of cither side. J hope the people of the bonier States, whose peace and interests and prosiierity are bound up in the continuance of the 1'nioii, 1 hope they will rise as one man to restore this line by an amendment to the Constitution, declaring it to be unalterable except by the toice of all the States, (ire it cheering That is the first chapter of the Crit tenden proposition. Applause. That the line of 36 deg. 30 min. shall lie re-established by con stitutional amendment throughout the present Territories of the United States that north of that line, during their Territorial condition, slavery shall not be admitted, and that south of that it shall not be excluded applause ; that when the people come to form the State governments, whether north or south of the line, the people of every State may retain slavery or refuse it, liring it in, or drive it out, as they see fit. Applause. Now, why should it not be so? Some gentleman will tell you that he considers slavery a very bad institution. Re it so. Another will tell me he considers it injurious to both the master and the slave. That is none of our business. Prolonged applause. ' When the ipie-tion comes for the establishment of slavery in Ohio, knowing as I do her soil and her climate and her productions, 1 shall le among the foremost to resist it. I will resist it while 1 can. Now, my fellow citizens, let us look at the question whether it is any part of our business, as citizens of Ohio, to engage in any enterprise for the aliolition of slavery within the States in which it now exists by law . What is the matter with the mercantile community of Cincinnati today '.' The only real ble.-sing of the Union w hich we feel, or can feel, is perfect, uninterrupted free trade applause w ith every other State of this Union. That is the principle blessing which we of Cincinnii i enjoy to day. We of the United States are si situated, covering as we do a coun try extending from the frigid to the torrid zone, ami from tlie Atlantic to the I'.tcitic ocean, with such varie ies of soil and productions, that the very inten hange of prtiductk..s between the different States not only contributes to the happi n 1 each, but employs our railroads ami our sleamlioats and gives activity to all our commercial ai:l manufacturing enterprises. Ore tt Britain has sought for two hundred year- to accomplish such a result by a colonial system. She has planted her colonies from Australia to China, and from the sea discovered by Dr. Kane to the ut termo-t points of the continent of Africa. The. have entailed upon her. in order that she maycommand this variety of production, numtierless wars they have lev its) heivy taxe-. We have accomplished it peacefully upon our own conti nent. by me ins of the vast extent of our present Union. Applause But now, to day , such is the alienation of nentiment such is the bitfr ness of feeling lietween the people of the extreme Southern Slates .-mil ..in State A voice "Not the people, but the jsilitici ans." My friend is wrong. I will show y ou that it is not the work of the politicians, but of the people. We have h nl a gie it many politic il e!e iions. We have hid more excitement than 1 saw at the last e'e.-tion. We hive seen nei-jhlior 'lined agaiii-i neichbor We hav - n the ordi nary courtesies of life and good W ghliorhood

violated; but all that was the excitement of the moment. The result was declared. It was un derstood that the victors would lie insolent for a little while. But soon good feeling and fellowship, with a sense of mutual dependence, returned, and the new President went into power, after all, with a desire that it should lie well. Ajplause. There is something that the politicians can not do. They have their brief hour on the stage, like so many actors; but when the play is over they are forgotten. It is a poor compliment to the intelligence of the American people to saythat two or three thousand politicans, or two or three hundred thousand even, by their squabbles, could bring upon the country the disasters which

it suffers at tins day. Applause. This is a year of plenty. For three preceding years we had short crops, hut this year God has opened the garners of Heaven, and given us blessings so large that we know not where to bestow them. On the other hand, he has been bountiful to our brethren in the Southern States. But the interchange of productions is interrupted. In their rich soil thev raise cotton, and rice, and sugar. We consume much of the rice, and, I lielieve, all of the sugar; we consume, also, a jiortion of the cotton. The residue of it is shipped to Great Britain, and France, and other jiortions of Continental Europe. While they devote their lands and their labor to the production of cotton and sugar, they must have bread and meat for themselves and for their slaves, and that bre-d and meat they get from us. Applause. Why is it that Ciircisnati and New Orleans, places that ought to lie on terms of the most intimate communication, stand to day toward each other like two hostile communities? If you saythat is the working of politicians, you pay these politicians a higher compliment than they ever deserved. I don't think any set of politicians can accomplish so much. I don't think any set of politicians e er accomplished so much. Applause. What is the matter? This controversy that might have lieen settled that ought never to have been the subject of partisan dispute, in relation to which all parties have erred both sections have erred has gone on from year to year, increasing in bitterness. Each party has demanded more every year than in the year before. The North has become aggressive, and the South has become aggressive. It must now be settled on the old foumlation, or it will go forwaixl until it consumes not merely the Union, but the prosperity both of the North and of the South. Applause l tu let us go back to the old example. I find that under that, nnd under that alone, we had nny pcace. Let us not merely restore the coinpromi-e, but let us, this time, fix it so fast that it will not lie disturlied during our lives at least. Great applause. Now . as I said, if -la ery be so wickt 1 as some men think it, le: them not have it; but the man who says that he can not allow other States to do what they please, and that we must be continually in terfering although we have no rightful power to do it does not expect the Union to continue. Applause. It was a union ot slaveholding and non slave holding States from the first; therefore those who formed our Government believed that those States could live in pc ice together. If they could live in unity andjieiee together then, part slave and part free, why not now? Applause. I say, let the South bear the sin, if slat ery be a sin. Applause Let them have this property and their rights. Let us take care of our affairs and redress our grievances at the billot box. Applause. That, fellow -citizens, is the substance of what I h iv e to stiv un the Territorial propositions. As to future ter-itorv, it can onl v be actiired bv treaty. The treaty for its ratification reiuires a vote of two thirls of the Senate. In the Senate all the States are equally represented. Among the Senators there will always ea minority either to defeat the whole acquisition or to coinjiel such an adjustment of the question as they may think proper. 1 do not expect to see any farther Terri tory added to the United States in my day, except it is the Island of Culia. Applause. The next subject 1 propose Is tie it is in regard to fugitive slaves and the fugitive slave law. That is a question which more particularly concents us. There is'certainly nothing more plainlywritten in the Constitution than the declaration that a slave escaping from his master from a slave holding State into a non-slaveholding State, shall not become free. Applause. But that he shall remain as much a slave as he was lieforc he fled. Applause. And the State in which he i.- found las pledged her honor and the honor of her people that she will give him up. Applause Now, mv fellow citizens, if the Constitution of the United States imposes too hard a condition in this respect, it is our duty either to amend the Cotisti tution, or to rssort to some method of getting rid of our obligations under it. Applause. Let us doit like men. Applause. This evading and slipping round; "paltering in a double sense;" enacting laws to get up a w ar of habeas corpus, of magistrates and constables, pursuing the claimant and hounding the marshals and deputies, I have nothing too unutterably contemptible for Mich OM duct. Applause. My fellow-citizens, are our hands clear? Great confusion, ami loud cries of "no, no Now, in 1 856 the Legislature of Ohio enacted that the Probate Judge should send his writ of habeas corpus throughout the State, and should take from the Marshal of the United States any fugitive whom he hid arrested under the law- of the United States. . What v as the con-c piencc? A fugitive was seized by a mob in the county of Qffvsene, an I taken from the Marshal. His ilejiu tic- were impri-oned. That fugitive never did return. On the contrary, all the Deputy Mar shals w ere put in jail in Springfield, and w : e never released until an order was issued by His Honor Judge l.eiv itt of the District Court of the S inthern District of Ohio. That law was re pe ile 1 by the next Legislature. Applause It was repetled by a wrty vote the Democrats voting for its repeal, and tlie Republicans voting against it. This same Legislature, in 1H;"i7, enacted that if any person should bring n slav e into this State for any time a minute say even were tbe slave to consent to be brought here, he or she should be punished by tine and imprisonment. Applause and hissing. How many thousand people pass through this city every summer, going to the springs either in the East or in our own State, liook at the effect- of this gracious legis lation. Suppose some poor lady from the S.iutli should come lure with a sick child, having no other nurse lur a slavt for there are but few other nurses in the South he was liable to be seized at the Spencer House, or Burnet House, or anyother place in the citv. and lodged in jail. Thank Clod, that has been repealed. I know the Legilature in lfi" intended to rub out all these, but they forgot some of them. That same Legislature provided that the jails of this State should not be used by the marshals or authorities of the United States to imprison a fugitive slave during ilie eriod of his examination. Why so? Our fathers passed a law which had ne er Keen repealed, tendering the u-c of our jails and prisons eqiu .lv to the government of the United States an-1 our own government, but this Legislature, in lt-57, forbade any jailor to MHh I a fugitive slave into his custody; the next Legis ture rejiealed that; but that is not the end of it, the next Legislatur- re -tore 1 it the Legislature that is to meet in Columbus next Monday I mean they did not do it openly, bnt by a Legilative trick. Thev went to work and re)e:iled all the former laws, including the one I have mentioned, ami undertook to legislate a new one tqion the whole subject, declaring that the jails of this State might lie used for the pri - .tie: - of the United 'ale- churned inlh crime. They -v tit a'l lb it w ay around, went to all that trouble to conic at a convenient way of forbidding the use ot jail- for the confinement of slaves. That law is on the statute books to (lav; it is the law of March ti, IMS. Another fugitive, indicted in Kentucky, fled to Ohio; a warrant was issued, and acquisition served upon the Governor of Ohio for the arrest of the fugitive, but he, the Governor, discovered that the fugitive had committed an offense against the laws of Ohio, rrwl consequently paid no attention to the demands of the Chief Kxecntiveof Ken tuck v. Governor Magoffin has gone to the Su preme Court, and -worn out n writ ol iiuindiimiw against the Governor of Ohio, but I .Miction much whether the Supreme Court has authority in the matter, i'.y this xery act do the people of Ohio evidence to those of Kentucky that they, the Ketiiuckiac.s. have no power in tlie Federal Gov eminent. This Legislature, atmut which I have spoken, and which c n em-; next Mondav at Columbus, h is passed a law repelling all provisions previously, and providing that where fugitives an- ar rested t'tey can be only confined in our jail-, ex csptwlc.re tiny have committed some crime against the laws of the State of Ohio. Thus, y ou -i-e. the Gov ernor of Ohio, in his act-, is sutained by the acts of the Legislature. I presume thai some of those who listen to me to day will say. "Why , Mr Pugb only savs these things because we have a Republican Governor." Not so. Th' si me h i- been done bv Democratic Governo- s and by Whig Governors. do not churge it as an act of it party, but as a gross dereliction ol duty in what we of the North owe to our comin i! brohe-s mi the South We hat e tu en too regardless of our duties under the Fed eral coiifet Now i -I .one t m ike the -li n; e; now i- the time to ;t ,( ut,: c -nciliatoi v de-te . Le u-.

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with honest hearts, pursue unwaveringly the duties specified in the Constitution. Punish by legal enactment the men of our State who will set on foot sen ile insurrections in Kentucky or Virginia. But, mv friends, some say still that the State of Ohio has not pursued other than an upright course toward th? South. Stop, while we consult the record. On the 17th of April, 1857. the Legislature of our State adopted a resolution in structing the Congressmen to vote against the admission of any State whose Constitution did not clearly prohibit slavery. Ami again, on the same day. resolutions denouncing Judge Taney and his associates for their decision in what is known as the Dred Scott case were passed. A resolution bringing into contempt ami derisi. n the highest official dignitaries of our Government. Before we charge tlie South with acting wrongfully we must take the beam out of our own eye. We must come with dean hands to the work of conciliation; we must call on the Legislature to expurgate from the statute-book every act which has in its provisions a tendency to raise s sister State against the Federal Union. Having done this, we shall havedeilt justly by the South, and we will then be in a position to admonish them se verely. Do you believe that the Southern States are possessed of the idea that they have not been wronged? Do you believe that South Carolina has now just cause to complain? I say she has; she has a right to complain that Ohio has not observed the Federal Constitution. In this connection I will use the wonls of Daniel Web ster, who, on one occasion, said a bargain broken on one side is a bargain broken on all sides. I am not regarding the issue from an abstract point of view. I am speaking facts. The people of South Carolina will, without any doubt, sever their connectkm with the Union. It ought not to be so; but it is so. Other States are preparing to follow, and, as sure as I stand here this day, most of them will go out of the Union. The onlyquestion is, how shall we win them back when they do go? If we resort to force, we will not only lose them entirely, but every slaveholding State. We speak about using coercion, and compel the seceding States to remain in the Union. W'here is our army ? It is on the Mississippi pro tecting the frontier from the incursions of the different tribes of Indians, and the mere cost of bringing it here will cost a sum of money that would astonish you. Where is our navy? It must be remembered that the Government can not afford to keep the ships of the line into service, save some few to give tbe officers and men an opportunity of per tecting practically their naval knowledge. Be sides n home squadron, wehavea few ships in the Mediterrane tit and other parts of the Western Continent, these foreign vessels being gone on cruises of four, five and six yeirs. To maintain a single vessel one year would cost, my friends, a sum e ual to the whole expense of your city government for the same time. Where is the money? The Treasury is ennty to-day. Shall we issue Treasury notes? Who will take them except at ruinous rites? Whit then: shall we have direct taxation by the Federal Government? that is tbe alternative; there fore, w hen it comes rememlier that I told y ou of it. All this for what? to set on foot a breach of the order of society; to coerce, by the sword, those whom a few wonls of kindness, a few acts of con cilia tion, a few measures of compromise, would bring back into the Union ami maintain them there It is the apprehension of war that now threatens the country. Political excitements there have lieen. but the works of trade and commerce would continue; it is the fetr of violence that drives coin from circulation, and makes every man unwilling to own anv property he can not immediately take charge ol. It prostrates tlie energy, tue capital anu mc intellect of this great city and the people of this great country. Those who preach war. preach that which is not merely fatal to the prosperity of our city , but they plunge us into an aby ss from which the Union will never lie relieved. Applause. If you step forward to South Carolina, and these other seceding States, with fair propositions of compromise, holding the olive branch in one hand, you might possibly carry tlie sword, but without the olive branch, the Ohio river will, in twelve months, be the boundary of two hostile empires. Applause. These are my opinions, according to my liest judgment. 1 have no purpose to serve in giving them to you, except that doty I owe to you both as your representative in Congress and as a citi zen of Cincinnati. W hat are we if this Union is dissolved? Cities further to the north ami f urther m . . . . . . ... to the south may flourish; they may attain some degree of prosperity ; but as for us. if dissolution comes, especially- if it fie accompanied by civil wai- whether vou call it coercion, or enforcing the laws, or collecting the revenue, or defemling the public proierty if disunion be followed bycivil war, the glory of this city is gone; the plow share will pass over its ruined foundations. I et us avert it. Be wise in time. Never in all my life did unv thing more inqces- me than a remark made by Henry Clay, in refcreucc to the Florida war. He said if you will convey yourself back to the day s of ancient Rome, if you will mingle in the throng, there meeting some proud citizen and tell him tliat imperial Rome will one day lie no more, he would say : Never, never! It is impossible." Rome stMnI as a Republic more than five hundred years. Yet we are not one hundred yeards old. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. Be warned in time. The people of the slavehclding States have their faults, but they are the faults of men who waged with our fathers the battles of the Rev o! tition. Applause. You must look at it as they look at it. They are the minority , the weaker ve-sel. If they gave all their votes united for one candidate, they could not elect either a President or a Vice Pres-ident. If they elected all their representatives, they could not jsrevent the pas sage of anv law in either House without assistance from the North. They are defenseless so far as numbers are con cerned, and their only safety under the Constitu tion is un upeal to our generosity to maintain the Constitution, and give them the full enjoy ment of their rights. They Imik upon it that their rights have lieen trampled upon, that their proiertv has lieen plundered, and their institu tions stigmatized; that they have lieen held unworthv to colonize nny further territory ; in short, that they are a disgrace to the family, ami at the same time they see powerful forces in the North unite together, ami choose a President ami Vice President for whom no Southern State gave a a single electoral vote. Is not that cause lor complaint? But it is one step against which, so far us I could, I warned the people. Not that I had ny hope of electing a Demo critic candidate, but I dkl hojie that either by the impular vote or the vote of the House of Representatives the choice would have fallen upon a man of known patriotism and conserv atism. in whose hands I knew the country would be safe. I mean John Bell. Applause. You may accept or reject these opinions, as you like. If you reject them, the consequences are w ith yon, not with me; charge ine with none of them: I wash mv hands of the whole affair. If you differ with me in many particulars, agree I with me in this proposition, tint there outfit to lie I an efficient method for the rendition of fugitive i slaves. If the present law lie not sufficient, let i us enact one more stringent. If constitutional requirements are necessary, let them lie given. Agree with me that it is our duty to expunge everv thing that is jtistlv offen-ive Ut the South; agree with me that this Territorial question ought to lie restored to the old foundation ujsm which it Mood lieforc tbe present Constitution. Agree with me in these particulars ami I will gO back to the Senate of the Unite! States with the full assurance that your endeavor is to perpet nate the Constitution and the Union as handed down by our fathers. After Mr Pugb had concluded, the Committee on Resolutions returned and reported tbe follow ing. whit h were receiv ed wiih long and continued cheering: ESOl.tTIONS. We. citiien of Cincinnati, without distinction of parly, how assembled for thr purpose of devising ways svA means to arrest tbe fearful advance of disunion and anarrhr. looking upon the preservation of the 1'ui.m uf Uee Statas paramount to all other consideration.- of a political nature ; holding with the (treat Webster. "Liberty and Tnion. one and inseparable, now and forever:" and with the her..c Jack -sm. that - Tlie t nion mut le prrwervt-d :" and tilled w ith apprehensions of alarm al I be present rri-i- l i our national affairs, and the nnsettleil and unsatisfactory 1 condition of our hitherto happy ronntry, hereby declare that we are nw willinK t sacriflee our peewliar rlaehlur j and cunnirliUK parti -an opinion upon the altar of the I t'uion, and to render up .sir hearts and our minds to ih i jrMl of our r.Rintry our whole country We believe j that the time hs- r.mie for the pe ple to sneak nut and ' demand af .sir National LeftislaU- that omethinff must I done o save the I'liion, and Ibej in Cotirrc- must do I It ! The time f.-r action i up. ii u-l Party -pint and raiiI cor niu-t -.irrender and urcutnl. to -inrere and true patrlotl-m in the hall of Coiitrre . an.1 it I- the daty of ' men of all parties to yield up something for the common

good of all: Therefiire, Krmdrnl, That it i the deliberate judrmeut .if tlrimeeting of citizens f Cincinnati, of all political enple-ion-. that the principle announced In ihe preamble and resolution ITered in tlie Senate of ihr I'tnted Stale bv the Hon. John J. Crittenden, of Kentucky, on tin- l-'h day if Heremtier. A. I. Isen, meet with our m-t eordi.il response and approval ; and we hereby re-pevtfiily r-.U' t of our tVaiirresssnieii In rnj National lTl-latnret adopt I hem al once as the pnnriide- i their arti.ai in the settlement of the unhappy awl di-tre m: .'ifl.-rrno-- winch n..w disturb and distract the -l.ter States of this Irpublu-; believing that if accepted by Cmrre. and ad.spted by the -everal State- a- amendments n tlie CiatatMntinn M the I nited S ates, they wilt not aily prrer e tbe I nt... nut will cement the wall. ( ihi trlorvu- Temple .sf Ijleny more stronprly. and perpetuate It. a- It naehl to I-. f.rever. I rmilrnl. That n the ent that UV tvpi ii the

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mt M Of sattlemem of the States of tbe Union, we berehr. hi the i in the name of oar acred Union, rali . rvl.w.rr. Vinjlm. tbe border sisters, to ha this irreat crii of nor affairs, and hv devotiuu to tbe Lnkai. devtse xk method by w! All IX ptTlJB M Several substitutes and amendment were of fered. but the original resolutions were adopted with the heartiest manifestations of applause, af ter which the meeting adjourned. Plana of Adjustment" The St. Louis Republic cordially approves the plan suggested by Mr. Dovolas for adjusting the differences between the different sections of the country and pacifying the South. We call attention to the comments of the Republican, ss they come from an influential paper, which represents the pro slavery interests of Missouri. If the border slave States are satisfied with the proposed compromise, the conservative men of the North should accept it as a peac. offering and urge its prompt adoption. After reciting tbe main fen lures of Mr. Doiglas' piupusiüuni, the RtpmUt can remarks: We have seen no better plan, and can not easily conceive of any belter one. Why should not this plan, or some one very like it, be adopted? That is a questioned to be answered. How will it be answered? Will it be answered by the exclamation: "O, the day for compromise has passed?" Ah, fatal speech, if listened to. The word compromise may have an ill sound just now; but never in a great crisis among a people who are not judicially blinded and abandoned of heaven, has the day of compromise passed by. Will it be answered by the objection that such a scheme will not pacify the South? We ask , how can this lie known until you try it? Sulsjeet the South to such a test. We yet firmly believe that the test w ould show that the South (South Car Una always now excepted) would be content with such a schasse. At any rate, we aar, try k. If it does not answer, what then? Why, then, the South will be put manifestly in the wrong before all the rest of the Union And the result will be that she will have against her the whole Union beside, in one undivided body and solid phalanx. Is this result not an important one? If or rather constraint (particularly for poses) is to be the order ol the day against some of the Atlantic and all the Gulf States, is it not verv important that all the border States should be in accord with the rest of the States that -tain the Union? Some such plan must be agreed on. if the Union would not risk the most direful consequences. If Abolitionist-. Seee--ini-ts and ultra RejHiblicans have their way, then look out for a not bet screw years or thirty years' war. Either is possible, and one of them highly probable. The people of these I'mited States are Union men. In our belief t-r srrrnth of them not only want Union, but are ierfectly w tiling and anxious that some conciliatory measures shall be adopted to that effect. These very provisions we have been reciting, if only properly understood by that vost majority of our people, would, we believe, be cordially assented to by them. If this be so. theu, is it not horrible that, when six sevenths of our people want to do so good and great a thing as to preserve this Union, and can. if leading mew will only ojien tlie way for it, agree on terms which will save it is it not, we re, "at, a most horrible thing to contemplate that mnr-srrmlk of them, in consequence of hav ing on its side a large number of uncompromising leaders, shell be able, upon a que-tion so immense as thia, to baffle the wishes of the other six sevenths? We have in Conjrress. from the North ami South, stubborn maligna nl They have at pre.1 ent too much influence and power over scheme, of conciliation. Let, then, if nothing else can be done.' the men there, who are really willing to accommodate differences, agree upon just plan. Let that plan lie sent out to the pmnU. North ami South. East and West. Let the r voice In- be ml upon it. If necessary, let polls h- opened ami the popular vote be taken on it; and let the majority deckle. Even the n'tra Republicans say they always abide the verdict of a majority. That verdict let us have, and have it without delay. When pronounced, let Congress members who now obstruct and oppose every scheme of concil iation abide by it or resign their places to others who will. Indiana ana Xnlllf iratlan. To the EniToa or thk Statis xsn Usios; The attention of the undersigned. Representative, in Congress from the Stwte of Indiana, has lieen called to the following paragraph of an address recently issued by the convention of the people of South Carolina "to the people of the Southern States: "The hostility of the Northern States to the institution of slavery had led them to disregard their constitutional obligations. The laws of tlie General Government have ceased to effect the oh jecta of tbe Constitution. Maine. New Hantp shire. Vermont. Msajtuchusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York. Pennsylvania. Illinois. Indiana, Ohio. Michigan and Iowa have enacted laws either nullifying the Constkatasa or to ren der useless sll sttempts to execute the sets of Congress. In many of tliose States fugitive 'held to service and to labor' have been claimed, but in none of them has the Slate Government complied with the stipulation on this subject made in the Constitution. The ends for which this Go vernnient was instituted have been defeated, and the Government itself made !etructive by the action of the mm slaveholding States." This charge, so far at least as the State of In diana is implicated, ia utterly unfounded. She has ever been faithful to the Constitution and de voted to the Union of the States, and justly proud of her history as a State of the Confederacy ; she will not consent, even by her silence, that an at tempt to dissolve the Union shall be palliated by the assumption that she has ever been false to any constitutional engagement. The State of Indiana has never attempted to nullify an act of Congress. While jealous of her rights, she has been equally jealous of her honor, and has never hesitated to perform, in let ter and spirit, her constitutional engagements. Her statute books contain no provision ktndermg or delaying the effective enforcement of any law of the Fe lend Government, or tending even re motely to destroy a just and liberal comity be I ween herself slid her sister States. And in the mill-' of tbe bitter sectional ammonifies which threaten the peace of the country, she can appeal to Iter pul.iic record, and to the great Stales upon her Ik inters , the domestic policy of one of which differs from her own, to vindicate the uniform fidelity of hei constituted authorities as well as of her citizens in the just and honorable fulfillment ot hei engagements as one of the States of the Union. She is toe devoted to the maintenance of tbe Union to le Hing to rest under the charge of anv complicitv in the events which mav lead to its destruction. " S HOLM A. W H. ENGLISH. JOHN G DAVI8, WM K N I BLACK Will There he a Inited orih' I he li iiltask Exmrtm, a prominent Republic paper, assumes that, in the event of a general secession of the Southern States, on the advent of Mr. Lincoln to the rVesidency, that the North will he almost entirely united (except a few Den ocratic politicians) in Manrsa for preventing disunion by force of anas. The Express takes the ground that the Democrats will as cordially support Mr. Lincoln in violent measures as the Republicans. Before admitting that such will be the case, we think, we must know what the poai tion of Mr. Lincoln and hispsrty will be. If they make honest and en roc t efforts to adjust the ea isting difficulties, and offer a just and fair compro mi-e to the South, guaranteeing the rights ofthat section ami its security in the Union, sad if these offers arc superciliously rejected by the Swuth in that event Mr. Lincoln may reasonably hope for the co operation of Northern Democrat But if Mr. Lincoln persue the coarse which he seems to have marked out for himself, nytnc that he has no terms to offer, and that he wai maintain the Chicago platform, which defiars the South from her just and equal right in the Ter ri tori lories belonging to tlie Union, then we think nothing is more certain than that Mr. Lincoln will receive no sympathy or support from North em Democrats in the difficulties which may tie set his path. While Northern Democrats will do what they can to preserve the Union, they do mit feel under any obligations to assist in deluging the land with blixxl merely to preserve the 'Tn cago platform, which has been condemned bv a majority of more tlnn a million of the people's votes. .Yew Albany Lodger. I . -li. am lea mm the rials. Gen. Lim it Comb in a letter to Hoaari (iirn.i t thus pre-ente his views upon tlie rntmm liefote the country: Fs ass-roar. Ky.. De -ember 23. 160 Mv D:ab Sin: I haxe mi time or in- t malum for an argument, much le for controvcr-v with you on know I am an Hottest esnaoa Ol U;e i iiited St.i'fM I -ivcd Kentucky last August from Ihe ..wer ot Sinthern Ccason . ami I now wi.-h Ut say a word to you w Inch aaauaf be brrJed The -lave and le.tr. ti.rial i(iic-ti..ti- nint now mntr Im- -e'lle I on i ,-r ami constitutional grounds. r Kentucky Old Kentucky, tlie laud of soldier and patriots will Ik- forced into revolution Nine:v nine out of ete.T hundred men in Ken tnckv demand th e-sy sobttVH; of otir i With th - are c n I ike care of tlie South. out it there xvill lie civil war trar and blood, and desolation Von mit tlruk I jet or am altrmed. but I know whvt 1 say is true. The coat -of arm- of Kentucky is. tw- men euaU-acing rich other, and her flig m itto. "Uute.l we s' ind divided wr fall" Ami such will be oar fate Throw awav all prejihliee--cv ervth-ng 1 prav von, but love of

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