Marshall County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 7, Plymouth, Marshall County, 13 January 1859 — Page 2

liI;u3lj;iiCouiiingnnomit OFFICIAL PAPER ÖF T HÜ COUNTY. D. & P. McDONALD,:::::::::: Editors. PtYMOUi'H, tiiuksdaV. JANUARY - ----13, 1859.

; Mattingly änd the 4Eaxs' - .Did Mattingly (wc say, old because there are two young Mattiglys who figure in the editorial columns of the Republican) seems to be dreadfully exercised about the editorials that appear in our columns. We have told him before and we tell him aain chat io editorials are published in our pa 'per except those written by D. or P. Mc Donald. We f.ither no man's 'bantling nor do we need or permit any man's services or suggestions, directly or indirectly in cur editorial articles. The article to which Mattingly refers was written by P. -McDonald, and seen bv no one but the m Compositors until published. There is no no of edilcrs simply tico, as appears at tho head of this column. Since Mr Packard had charge of the paper, we hare furnished all the editorials that have appeared in the Democrat, and Mattingly knows thi very well; but his food and drink is; falsehood and misrepresentation, and "what is "natural for a mau is hard to avoid. At no time has any one, nor hereafter will any ?ne be permitted to publish anything as vditoriiU and all our editorials have been, and will be, vritten by either D. or P. -McD., and no one else f.om our own ideas nnd matter and not from suggestions -of any one in Plymouth. Now he can utter the filly lb again if he chooses, that somebody else writes for ns and that we ""father the bantlings;" every time he does : it his father ( ) smiles on him and says "well done thou g odand faithful servant." "A skunk bv any other name would smell as sweet!" Hard Times. Speaking of hard times, tho traveling correspondent of the Madison, Wisconsin, Journal, gh'es a very gloomy picture jof hard times in the country as follows: To travel round among tho farmers as we have done for the last four weeks, and hear 'hard times' repeated forty time3 a day as excuse for not taking a paper, or paying up old scores; to see nen, women and children in threadbare and tattered garments; paper pasted, boards , promwes to pay, whether verbal or writ ten4 of-no account; men even denying their own notes; to see the closest economy practiced by all, those whose large houses and barns indicate considerable moans, as well as those living in cabins, to hear the dolorous complaints of taxes one realizes -the severity with which thefinanci.il pressure is folt.' ITTWe learn "that a son of Geo Grace, living nearPearsonvillein this Conntr, accidentally shot himself List Saturday morning, while attempting to load a pistol Hj died on Sunday. Xfe did not learn the particulars, in regard to tlie accident, and can only state the facts. He was about eiglitcer -rears old. CTRcv J. II. SrzLMA.x preached his farewell discourse at the Prebyt2rian Church last Sunday evening. He removes to another field of labor, where the we!l-wishes of ma jy friend will follow hiru. We acknowledje the receipt of an Ink Stand front our old and esteemed friend, Jons S. Scott. ' He will probably ca'l upon most of the citizens of the County, and wc be-jpeak for him a cordial reception. ITThe Legislature comcnccd its regular session last Thursday, and effected aa organization. Jn consequence of the absence of Lieut Got f Iamroond, Mr Cravexs, Rep., of Jefferson couny was elected President pro tern. The officers of the special session were elected. A resIutioa was passed to enlarge the 1111 of the Senate, and the Senate adjourned, till the first of this week. The House wa3 organized by re-electing all the officers of the special session. 1 aj iue uuhtuot urcsc auu uuht uiuuis i In type, compel us to omit the proceedings of the Agricultural meeting, a "poetical contribution," and several original articles. Douglas Elected. On the 5Ji inst.. Judge Douglas was re-elected United States Senator bv the Legislature of Illinois. The vote stood as' .follows; Douglas 54, Lincoln 46. JRT.Messrs Brooke & Bro. have &old their large sto:k of Drugs and Medicines to Mr Blaix, from Michigan, who will continue the busin ima in the room now occupied by Brooke & Bro. iCSTTbe new Roman Catholic Cathedral of St Jame3, at Montreal C E, wa3 destroyed by fire, January 3d. Lois over 8100,000. Tho Marioneck woolen mills, of Dedham Mass., were partially destroyed by fire on the 3d. Loss estimated at 70,000. A Firo tvhich broke out at Camden Ark. on Christraas day, destroyed the Ware house of Hill & Co., with 1,000 balas of cotton and other merchandize valued at 8100,000; no insurance. - 5Mether, Home, and Love are the trhee sweetest in the English language. . . 5rWlien you have lost money in the streets, every one is ready to help you look for.it; but when you have lost your char-

railed 'up, or old hats or clothe stuffed in-1 ötAte' . n lie 3 8,mI7 charged wuh fr wiJi,,fl .i,a,. ei,-vi t v i a c i tUat which was then n misdemeanor, altho to wiauows Tt here should be inass; to find f o, . i- i j i , , t ' a State ntakin-jj such demand, should, by country stores closed, or doing very little, ! her law, declare that what was then a mU-

acter, every one icarc j vwCi best you can.

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GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. Senators and Representatives c I At the special session of the General Assembly; I asked your consideration of those questions only which I thought demanded your immediate attention, and deferred, until the present, any recommendations except those which should be presented to yoa at the time when the Constitution of the Sta'e required that you should assemble as the Representatives of the people. On the Oth of March, 1C52. an act was approved, entitled "An Act to authorixe the formation of companies for the deletion and apprehension of horse lhives and other felons, and defining the?; powers." Under this law associations have been formed that have ni rested and punished individuals Without brino-inc thm fr ri.

al before the ordinary and legal tribunals oi tap otate. It is better that every per on charged with a violation of the law should bo arraigned before and tried by the courts oi justice. I recommend to you the repeal of that law. There would be no necessity at any time for honest men to lorm associations for the purpose of arrest ing aid punishing criminals, if the State ana counties made a sufficient allowance i to indemnify thoir police officers in areest ; ing and bringing to trial those who viola ted the law. You can not expect that the sneriiFs and othr police officers will de vote their time and expend their money to bring thos6 who violate the law before the tribunals of justice, unless they receive a reasonable compensation. While this class of officers are unpaid, we may ex pect that an indignant people, who have been outraged by criminals, will disregard the law, and punish without authority inoso wnora they believe have done wron Section 2 of Article 4 of the Constitu tion of the United States requires that "a person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime, who "shall flee from justice, and be found in another State from which he fled, be delivered up to be re moved to the Slate having jurisdiction o the crime." During mr terra of service I have de clined io surrender to the authorities of other State9 those persons who are char ged with offenses which, at the time of the establishment . of the Constitution of the United States, were misdemeanors. Since the adoption of thi3 section of the Constitution, several of States have so changed their laws that many offenses whicii were then misdemeanors are now declared felonies. The authors of this section, evidently, in providing for the sur render of fugitives from justice, intended to include those only who are charged with crime and not those who were charged with misdemeanors. It was not their intention to require of a State that one of her citi zens should be surrendered to another demeanor, is now a felony. For instance, when the constitution was adopted, an as sault and battery was a well known offense and legally defined a misdemeanor. No State bad a rii;ht to char r-o tho character of that offense from a misdemeanor to a felony, and upon a person being so charged with such alledged felony, escaping from the State of his residence to another State, require of the authorities of that State his return. Y ithout any uch provision in the Constitution, each btate would be at liberty to surrender or not any person with in her borders charged with an offense. I here being no act of the Legislature di recting that a person should be delivered up, I havo considered the Constitution of the United States as alone controlling the surrender of fugitives from justice. The citizens of tho State are deeply interested in the preservation of the public records. Hitherto there has been no safe depository for them. The officers of the State have been compelled to rent rooms in "which to place the records. It is im possible in this city to secure the use of rooms that are safe against accident or crime. If many of the counties are will ing to make large expenditures in the erec tion of buildings for the preservation of their records, I am satisfied that the State can, with far greater propriety, provide a building for a similar purpose. I he de structionof the records of the State wouli entail upon her citizens lasting conflicts concerning the rights of property. The expense of the litigation, which would arise from their destruction would for exceed any expense in the erection of a building sui'able to accommodate alj the officers of State. I suggest to you, therefore, the propriety of erecting at an early day, upon some ot tiie publio grounus, a ouiiaing therein the Judges of the Supreme Court an(j t1Q officers of State may be euabled to preserve the public records. The Trustees of tho Wabash ana rne Canal i sported to me, in Dec 1857, the conditk.n of that work. The report for tho jear 1C53 will be laid before you atan early day, which will inform you as to its present condition. I regretted to see, in their report of 1857, that its revenues were greatly diminished;and lam informed that iVtA pnim tVara V n a Kaan nt im. UvJlJQ Jil3k JMI tutu im VLk.il uv IUIprovement. It is, indeed, feared that tho ravetires will prove wholly inadequate to keep thti Canal in repair, and that by them -done it can i.T' b maintained. I am further informed tha the bondholders are unwilling to sustain tho work by any other means than these derived i-om its revenues, having already invested Cnehalf of the entire debt of the State in the work it self, besides advancing 8000,000 for completion. They have informed the Board of Trustees,-in the most formal manner, their determination to close the canal, and abandon the work, whenever its tolls and revenues shall be inadequate to its support. The report of 1853 will diseloso the extent and nature of the action of the bondholders. The abandonment of the work would seriously embarrass those vrho reside in the vicinity of the canal. If the work should be abandoned by the Trustees there ;s no law under which it could be maintained. , . Frequently the attention.of the Legislature has been called to the neeessitj of increasing the salaries of th judicial, administrative and executive officers of the State. Sec 12. of Art 1 of our. Constitution declares that "justice shall b administered freely and without purchase, completely and w ithout denial, ßpeedily and without

delay." ' Upon elimination I find . thM are more than nine hundred undecided ca ses in tho Supremo Court. The law rqttires the Judges of the Supreme Court to be present at tho Capitol but sixty days n each year. That is as much tin. as they can spend hero upon their present salary. If they receive a compensation sufficient to enable them to devote more of their time at the Capitol to the consideration of the judgments they are required to revise, ;he number of undecided causes would be much diminished. Thö citizens of the State must be greatly embarrassed for the want of decisions concerning their personal liberty and rights of property. Believing that the most ready mode of securing earlv decisions would be to enable the Judges of the Supreme Court to remain longer in consultation, I recommend to you such an increase in their sal

aries as will support them in the discharge of their duties, and afford them a reasonable corrpensation for their expense and labor. They would be greatly aided if they were supplied with a sufficient library. They should be authorized to purchase, for the use of the Con rt, a library over which they fchall have the entire control. While I have thus urred the necessity of the increase of the salaries of the Judges of the Supreme Court, I do not regard it as less your duty to provide for the Judges of the Circuit Courts. Many able and accomplished lawyers have accepted positions as Circuit Judges, entertaining the hope that the Legislature would be willing to pay them a reasonable compensation for their services. It would be difficult to select many among them who would not receive in the practice of their profession more than twice that wnich.they receive for their official services. The State has no right to require of one of her citizens that he should toil to see that crime is pun ished and justice administered, without giving that citizen a reasonable corapensa tion. No increase or diminution of the salary of the Governor of tho Stale can be made after his i :rm of service commences. Before the rif it regular session of the Gen eral assembly the people of the State will have elected a: Governor.- Inasmuch as there is but a short time intervening be tween the commencement of said session and tho inauguration of the Governor elect, I regard it your duty to take into consider ation the subject of his salary. I have no hesitation in recommending to you that you piovide for. him such a compensation as is worthy of the State of Indiana. The laws of the State in regard to the qualification of voters and the election of officers are inadequate to protect the suffra ges of honest men against fraud. On several occasions within the last few years, men have left the county of their residence, gone toothers, where they had no permanent homes, where they did not intend to remain longer than the day of election, have ther3 cast their votes and thus determined who should bo the officers and representatives of the counties they visited. The inspectors of elections, in some of the townships, have denied to legal voters the right of expressing their choice of officers. A government which depends entirely up on tKe action of a majority of her people can not be maintained for any length of time unless that people are permitted to determine, without violence or fraud, who shall be their officers and representatives. Every citizen who is desirous of maintain ing peace, every citizen who is attached to and willing to sustain our form of govern ment, should be anxious that no illegal vote should ever be cast, and that no legal voter should be deprived of the right to cast his vote. A law should be passed inflicting severe penalties upon the officers Vtho superintend elections, if they decline to receive a legal vote, or if they admit c ne which is illegal. Likewise provision sho'd be made to punish criminally any man who leaves the county of his residence, goes to another with the intention of there voting and then returning to his home. If an illegal voter could be punished by imprisonment in the Stale Prison, bad men would be deterred f;om wrongfully voting. I he General assembly of 1857 failed to make any appropriations for the benevolent institutions. The reason foi that failure was, I think, not to be found in any hostil ity entertained by the members of the Leg fslature to those institutions. Ihey knew that the Constitution of the State provided for their support, and that they were ob jects of charity around which the hearts of their constituency clustered with affection. No appropriation having been made for their support, tho question arose, whether they should be closed or the mon ey in the treasury paid out for their sup port. Believing that the Constitution of he State reflected the will of her people, and not being authorized by law to control he action of the Treasurer of State, I did not hesitate to advis him to advance any unappropriated funds in his possession to maintain every institution. lie doubted whether ho had power thus to act. By his failure to advance the necessary means the Hospital for the Insane was closed on the 3d day of April 1' 07, and the Institution for the education u the Deaf and Dumb, on the 10th of the same month, that for Education of the Blind not until the close of its, regular term. The Treasurer of State, upon more mature reflection, became satisfied that you would approve his conduct if he advanced tho means to sustain the institutions. He accordingly signified a willingness thus to act. Thereupon tho officers of State on the 16th of Sept 1857, by unanimous resolution, advised him to pay the money of the State in his possessto sustain those institutions, and they were opCneii. He ha3 paid from the treasury the money fc their support, and for this advance by him I recommend that an appropriation bo made. Whatever conflict of opinion may exist concerning national or State policy, on oth er subjects, I am unwilling to believe that it is essential to the success of those who entertain either tho one opinion or the other, that the most afflicted of our people should be deprived of the education and comforts which can alone make;life to them desirable, much less that those who have been dep.nred of. reason should be denied the best hope of restoration. If economy alone wi s consulted, these , Institutions would cost less than the counties would bo required to pay in sustaining their irtmates at home. In addition to that, there are secured' to the Deaf an4 Dumb and

Blind, far better opportunities for improvement, where they are gathered together in numbers, competent teachers secured, who dflVote the , service of a life time to their improvement. And as to the inmates of the Insane 'Hospital, every well advised physician will express his opinion that the best prospect for the restoration of their reason is tobe found o placing them in the asylum. The Institutions have been conducted with economy and skill. The reports of their offiors urge upon you that appropriations be made for the enlargement of the Hospital for the Insane, and the repair of the others. I most cheerfully join with them in their recomendation. I recall your attention to the condition of ti e Penitentiary. The number of convicts there confined is 454. The piison is crowded so that they cannot be employed with profit. When the warm season arrives there will be great danger of disease. Willi reference to the remedy which should be applied, I refer you to the message delivered at the special session. The report of the Directors and Warden will be laid before you. They exhibit the result of the system adopted for the government and management of the State Prison. So far as the health and discipline of the prisoners are concerned, the result of the neworganization ha3 been beneficial. Tho State ha3 pecuniarily suffered no loss. On the 28th of January, 1834, an act was approved establishing a State Bank. Said act, by its terms, ceased to be a law on the first of January, 1859. Under this law the Bank commenced and continued its operations as a corporation authorized to issue and circulate notes, discount paper, and transact all other other ordinary banking business until the 1st of January,

1857. At that time its outstanding circulation was 84,208,725, with a debt due to the institution, principally from citizens of this State, of 86,005,368 12. Between the 1st of January, 1857 and 1859, the Bank redeemed nearly all its entire circulation and provided amply for the redemption of that which had not been returned. She has collected from most of her debtors the money which they owed. The gentlemen who have conducted this institution are entitled to credit for the ability they have exhibited in the management of its affairs. The State was interested in the Bank. She invested in its stock 81,390,000. The money to make that investment was procured by the issuing of 5 percent bonds, the last of which will be payable July 1st, 1866. The President of the Bank and four Directors, all chosen by the Legislature, were constituted a Board of Commissioners of a sinking Fund. They were charged with the duty of receiving the dividends upon the Stale stock, paying the interest upon the bonds, and investing the surplus in mortgages upon real estate, for the benefit of the fund. The gentlemen who at various times have had charge of this fund have managed the same with care and fidelity. The report of the Commissioners shows that its nominal profits are 82,780,604 36. By tho law creating the Sinking Fund it was appropriated: First, to pay the principle and interest upon the bonds; second, the expenses of the Commissioners; and lastly, to the cause of Common School education. The faith of the State being thus solemnly pledged, enabled those who negotiated the bonds to sell them at a premium of 820,496 92. There is now due upon these bonds, 8979,000, payable between the 18lh of September, 1864, and July 1st, 18C6. Unless the fund should be diverted from its original purpose, those who control it will at all times be able to pay promptly this indebtedness. But had there been no interference on the part ot the Legislature with tho original act that fund would now amount to 3,000, 000, and by the time the interest can be drawn for common school purposes more than 84,000,000. Unfortunately, however, during the years l4i anu iüz, 5bo,3U8 04 were were applied to other purposes. True, the ötate engagea to return me amount with interest. This, however, has hot been done. But without reeortinjr to the collection ot the mortgages held by the ... . ..." Commissioners, there are 81,052,896 25 of ava ilable means. Thisjwill be sufficient to pay the bonded debt. i ininK tue ötaio snouia not divert any more of the fund to the ordinary expenses of tho Lrovernment. Justice to the hold ers of the bank bonds requires that the amount sufficient to meet them, when due, should always be at the command of the Commissioners. And the interest of education in this State requires not Only the preservation of what remains of the fund, but an early return of all that the State has drawn from it. Those who, twenty-four years ago, saw in the future the prospect of creating a common school tund, not by taxation, but by a faithful administration of the law, are worthy of our commendation. They believed that it was the duty of every citizen of the State to lend whatever ; influence he had to the education of the sons and daughters of Indiana. Shall we. at this day, when, from their action, a noble fund has been created, lay our hands upon and destroy it forever? Some there are who do not favor the education of the chil dren of the State. Great injustice is sometimes done in providing by taxation the means necessary to sustain the schools. ut nere is a iuna which never cost a citizen of the State one dollar, if left untouched, will, in 1866, amount to over 84,000,000. After that, its annual interest will be equal to one-half our present school tax. I hope, therefore, that thi3 fund may remain where it was originally placed. Tiie term of service of the Sinking Fund Commissioners having expired on the 1st of January, 1859, I recmmend that you establish by law a Board, conferring upon them full power to settle with the late Commissioners, and receive from them the funds and securities in their possession. ' ' At your last session a bill was passed continuing the lato Board until the first Monday in April, 1859. I withheld my approval of that bill for the' reasons presented-in my message. I entertain no doubt that the fund would be entirely safe in thd hands of . the late Commissioners, and that they would manage it with integrity and ability. The Constitution gave the Legislature the power of establishing two systems of banking in this State. The first Legiststure which assembled after tho adoption of

that Constitution passed a general banking law, under which ninety-one banks were organized. Before the meeting of the Legislature in 1855, experience showed that the law which authorized their establishment was insufficient. " Forty-one of them had failed to redeem their circulation. The friends of the general banking system seeing the deficiency in the law, urged the passage of the act of March 3, 1855. Since the passage of that law there has been but one bank, organized under it, that has failed to redeem its circulation. At the same session of the Legislature, an act was passed establishing the Bank of the Slate of Indiana. The full amount of stock required by law was subscribed, and the bank commenced its business. Its circulation is now 84.502.34G. Its notes and bills discounted, 85,154,54907. lis cash on hand in gold and silver, 81,685,894 93. From the time thai these laws were passed, the currency authorized by the Stale has been promptly redeemed, although in the intermediate time, the financial crisis of 1857 has been passed. When you consider that between the passage of these lats and the present time, the State Bank has withdrawn four millions of dollars of her circulation and called in six millions of dollars of indebtedness, in which the Siate was deeply interested, and without which laws the State Bank would have been unable in so short a period of time to collect the debts due her one-half of which belonged in reality to the Stale, you must regard the legislation of that session as highly beneficial to the financial interests of the people as any could have been that provided for the establishment of banks and the circulation of a paper currency. The Bank of the State has quietly acquired the position occupied by th old State Bank. Those who formerly directed the one now control the other. If the rule could be uniform throughout the United Slates, it would perhaps be better that no paper currency was circulated. But, inasmuch as that uniformity is practically impossible, I think Indiana has established as safe systems of banking as any other State in the Union, giving to her people as high security for the redemption of the notes of the banks as any other State: The. last Legislature levied no taxes for the years 1857 and 1858T. The .officers of State were therefore deprived of the ordinary revenue which should have been provided to sustain the various departments and institutions of the State- Believing that there was no reasonable prospect that

the members of that Legislature, if re-assembled, would change their policy or action, I did not call them together, chossing rather to wait till the people had elected other representatives. Notwithstanding the failure of the Legislature to levy the taxes, the officers of State have endeavored to carry on the government, and in so doing they present to you. as the result cf their action, that they have only beon required to borrow 8330,0008165,000 in June, and 8165,000 in December, 1858 which has been applied to the payment of the interest upon the public debt. They have paid from the General Fund to the Swamp Land Fund 883,000. They have drawn from the other Funds about 8200,000. If the revenue for those years had been collected, upon an assessment equal to that of 1856, it would have amounted, in the two yeais, to 81.200,000, which would have left in the treasury now, 8800,000 of a surplus. Siill, with all this failure to raise the revenue, there is yet in the treas ury sufhcient means to sustain the Govern ment until the first of next March; and if authority is given to negotiate a temporary loan for 825,000, the revenue which will be derived from the taxes of 1859 and 1860 levied at your last session, will pay every debt created, and sustain the government until the end of the year 1801 The taxes of the State must necessarily be collected by the county officers. Ilith erto they have had no direction by law, aa to the kind of money they should recieve; the result of which has been that the Treas urer of State in times of financial difficulty i 1 11. C t 1 - na3 Deen compeiea to exereise nrs aiscretion in receiving from the Trrasures tire money they had collected. Between tho" time of the reci jpt of such money by the County Treasurers and the paying of the same to the State, much of it has depreciated in value WThile tho County Treasurers acted in good faith, receiving for the State taxes the ordinary currency of the country, it would have been wrong for the State to decline accepting the same from them, and it would have been equally wrong to hold the Treasurer of State responsibio for any depreciation in such currency while in his possession. But in the receiving, holding and paying out of tho money thus collected the State has snstaineu many losses. The State has never yet provided a safe depository for her money. While the Treasuerer has been required to give a bond for the faithful return of all by him collected, he has been compelled to exercise his judgmnt in selecting the place where it should be deposited. The result of the exercise of this judgment has soratimei been unfotunate. r -t t 1 Vi Al. T ! IS it nos, mereiore, Deuer voai mo legislature should determine by law the kind of money which shall be recieved by the various County Ireasurers for etat taxes,aud provide a sutiable place of deposit in which the Treasurer of State shall retain it 'til the laws require its disbursement. In determining the kind'of money to ba receiv ed, is not the highest safety of the Stale secured in requiring it in the constitutional currency cf the government? If you pro vide that the taxes may be paid in the notes of banks, you simply loan to, those institution the taxes you have collected. You also confer upon tho : Treasurer the power to discriminate between the vari ous banks what bills he will first disburse. The effect of conferring upon the Treasurer this power to dicriminate as to what money ho will pay out endangers the pub ic funds. 1 therefore earnestly recom mend that a law be passed providing ,that the taxes of the State shall be oollected, in eiral currency, that , a safe building be erected, in which such money shall be placed: that the Treasurer of btate recieve a proper compensation for guarding and preserving the same, and he be required to pay, when legally demanded, tho same money he has recieved; and that if he deposits anyo(it in any.other place than tho

one established by law or loans and of It to any individual or corporation be shall be punished. I am desirous of co-operating with you in the enacting of any law' which inure to the welfare of the people we represent and the interest and honor of the State of Indiana. ASHBEL P. WILL ARD.

The Progress of the United States The Democracy. Our country began its career among the nations cf earth eighty-two years ago, with only thirteen States and a population of three millions. The original States, whose delegates signed the Declaration of Independence, were New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey. Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia. Since our Declaration of Independence, and the establishment of our present form of government, on the 4th of March, 1789, says the New York Evening Journal, we doubled our territory, and increased our population ten fold. Our domain has thus been increased by the purchase of Louisiana in 1803, of Florida in 1819, of Texas in 1846, by the conquest of California and New Mexico in 1848, and by the purchase of Northern Mexico in 1854. Our present area is estimated at 2,036,166 squate miles. Of this immense domain, 766,002 square miles belong to the Pacific slope, 1,217,862 to the Mississippi, 514,416 to the Atlantic slope, 212,649 to the Lake region, and 335,537 to the gulf region. Our population has kept pace with the increase of territory. The first census, in 1789, showed our population to consist of 2,929,872 souls; the second, in 1800, 5,305,862; in 1810, 7,226,814; in 1820, 9,937,131; in 1830, 12,861,920; in 1840, 17,063,358; in 1850, 23,192,877. In I860 another census will be taken, and it will then be seen that our population is not far from 50,000,000. In making our country thus mighty, it not be amiss to notice which of tho great political partus in existence from time to time has done the most. If, for the purpose of doing this, we begin with our country as it was left bv the revolution which severed us from England, we find that the democracy have done nearly all that has been accomplished in increasing the number of States and adding territories. Under President Washington, whom we shall not claim as a democrat, although it would be difficult for any other party to claim his administration, the Slates of Vermont and Kentucky in 1791, and Tennessee in 1796, were addftd to the Union. After this tho democracy have added all the new States, except California, in 1850, to , tt j i i it i the Union, and have acquired all the terrif.rrr J ' Under Tliornns Jefferson, Ohio came into the Union in 1802. and the Louisiana , , purchase was made in 1803. This purchase nearlv doubled the area of the Un- - . ion, and gave us control of the Mississippi as well as unmeasured miles upon the Pacific coast. The territory thus acquired is sufficient for half as many mors States as are now in the Union. tt j t r i- t Under James Madison, Louisiana came into the Union 1812; Indiana rnf816. Under Jame3 Monroe, Mississippi entered the Uunion in- 1814; Illinois in 1818. w. . w . j lit , Missouri, Maine and Alabama in 1820, and Florida was uurchased in 1 82 1 . Ty . . . t i ,. I U nder Andrew Jackson, Michigan entered the Union, in 1836, and Arkansas in I the Same year. Under James K. Polk, Texas, Iowa and Florida entered the Union in 1845, and Wisconsin in 184G. California was also purchased under his administration. Under Franklin Pierce, Arizonia was purchased. Under James Buchanan, Minnesota en tered tho Union. T. Ä.I P .1 : .1 At mereiore appears mat me aeraocracy have added all the States but one, that have come into the Union since the Ad ministration of Washington; that they have purchased all the additional territory lua uro? tuuva a( v wa avufiaw sks main; and, it might be added, that they organized all the territories, and set gov ernments to work in them. Such ih9 work of .he pay againS wti'cii tne ouas ana enas oi au political fanlinno in th fnvmtrtr ipa riArr frrinrr ti ..... . L. . . " 0 unite. ADOiuionisia, jaiacit ivepuuucans, i !i - m I 1 7i i u i FreeLover8, Free Niggers, Spiritualists, and Knotr Nothings, are aiming to form a fusion, that to wrest the scepter from the parly that hai dono all this, while not one of the component parts of the coalilion'can ehow aught of good to mitigate the rauch harm they have singly and combined done our common country. Only of a coalition of the odds and ends of all the factions under a common name, which should be the Free Nigger parly against the National Democracy 1 Can uch an taeronistic odds and ends unite? And if thay form a union won't their own inhe rent hostility and disorganizing nature dastroy so incomprehensible a coalition? Tho democracy are not thus to be destroyed. Such a combination against them cannot be effective. The mission of the democratic party is not yet completed; Cuba mut first be added to . this Union. And when the Key of the Gulf is thus se cured, new fields of diplomacy, and fame, and good, will be Opened to the party that has already" dono so much. ''- O.ir country

is not half so great ia3 the GHmoCracy intend to make it, it is rain fof the free nigger party to attempt to interfere wiih what is in the future. . Who ever heard of: an abolitionist, black republican, a free toiler, a free lover or free nigger adding a new State J,o tho Union, of increasing the area of our territory by conquest or purchase' Tjicr i? no such case, on record. . IpJJfLS-t into the Union ucler a Whig Administration; and by the death of Gen. Tayjör, Fillmore accidentally signed the act of admission, and the State, moreover, was acquired under a demo oratio admiuiitration,and only admitted under a whig administration. ;ti i.? M We,' therefore, icon lüde as we began with saying that - the' Democrat -Jiiir made our country what it is. ' They Lave enlarged our area over double what it was at the Declaration of Independence, and added nearly all the new States in the Union. There fs yet raore good for this noble party to do, and they will do it, in spite of the efforts of the free nigger party to do evil by preventing them from doing good.

New Advertisements. THE LA PORTE DAILY ÜNI0.N! rCBUSHED fcVERT MOKXING (EXCEPT Fl'NDAT,) And furnished to subscribers at the low rate of SIX DOLLARS PER YEAR, quarterly in advance. It will contain the latest Telegraphic News from all parts of the country, including the New York, .Chicago, aid other markets. Subscriptions received at the Dimociat office. ROOT k PACKARD, PoriuETow.' La Porte, Ind., Jan. 10, 1859. 7dlt wtf ! ' NOTICE OF SURVEY, v. ,- Notice is hereby given that the under3?gricd, with the County Surveyor will, on the 3 1st day of January, 1859, at 10 o'clock a. in. on saiJday'proceed t survey and locate the corners of their laud in sections 15, 22, 2G, 27, 31 and 35, township 22 north, of ringe 3 west, in Staik county, Indiana; to meet at the subscribers, aud continue from day to day until finished. Non-residents wh fail to meet thf Sirreyor at the time- and pface r.bove mentioned, and defray, or provide for defraying their portion of einca'e of said survey, win be re'umed to the County Auditor, mid eucfc delinquency placed upon tho tax-duplicate and collected nccordinjr to law. HENRY BENDER, 7(3 J. W. MOSIIER. SHERIFF'S SALE, By virtne of an execution to me directed from the Clerk of the Marshall Circuit Court, I will oflVr for sale, as the law directs, at the court house door in Plymouth, Marshall county, Ind;an.i, on the 5th day f February, IS59", between 'the hours of lOoVlock a. m. anil 4 o'clock p. m. of said day, the following described real estate, iu said Marshall countv, Indiana, to-wit: Commencing at the Muth-cagt corn tr of Pierce street, in Wheeler's addition to the town of Plymouth, running thence in a westerly direction? parallel with said Tierce street to a point opposite, thm southwest comer of lot number six (6) in raid Addition; thence in a southerly direction parallel with the Michigan Road sixty (60) feet; thence in a easterly direction parallel with said Pierce street to tue Michigan Koad; thence in a norther! t direc tion parallel with? the Michigan road sixty (CO) feet to the place of beginning. Taken as the propcrtT of Albertus C-Capron, at the. suit of Charles H. Reeve for the use of Fhllip II. Miller. 7ta n t ti.iT)Vii)n cn r , Taken up bv John T.Stnnzer living in Center Township Marshall County Ind., one cow, scren y1"0.118'80" A Red Cow wun wane spow on me rorvneaa on me Dcnr ana onth tail with small slit in the left oar, appraise I u'f.,, bjr e -V t anJj0hayI Clefl vplana before TT Smith JimtirA f 1 10 Pca?e. Attest NR PACKARD, Clerk, J13 n7 3r W MKmpAixPcp. STATE OF INDIANA, STARKE COUNTY, in ti,e starke Circuit Court. March Term, ino. Willoughby M McConuick 1 j0im A.Burbank. (. : mcn ' Thcpiainhfr m the abore entitled cwuse having meu niscompiaimm my omce,awo .nij auiuavit, from ich it appears that the defendant, John A. f Bwbaak, w a non-rcdet of the State of Indiana ire is tnercioie nereuy notinci or the niing and pendencv of said action, and that the same will b tn.od atb March term oi the. Circuit Court tt rhA haT.i at . t iiaits.nrt Virtu a a n Ka sv.i-r. of Knot, nn the 2nd Mon.lnT nf Msrrh. A. n 1 unle?s the said defendant John A Burbank, be to said complaint, the same will be heard acd detenmnedin bw Absence. . r ltnesi my nana and the seal of said Uourt, this 4th dv of January, 1 . . JOHN S. BENDFR, Clerk of S C C. O. Brian Atty for piff. 7t3 ESTRAY NOTICE. Taken up bv retcr Fraily, lmn in Center towanhip, Marshall county, Indiana, one Steer, two years eld past, and ursviwcuM described as follows: iJed sides, white back, white bellr. white on inside of lo-,- appraised at eleven dollars, by William Welch and Jaroc M. Mylcs, oeiore james u. iasc, justice oi me reace. . 5-3 Attest N. R. PACKARD, C. CM. ITi YT 1 ITJ A T TT Would respectfully announce, and inrit the at tention of the citizens of Uyj fl ifcjjfojjjj, fomfc. - . To the fact that he has nurchased of Mr.JAÜF.S MITCHELL his stock in the F0MDKOUSHESÜ And from his experience in the business, feels con fident he can give i " PERFECT miSBMIW ALL KINDS OF 3EtL ep iiri short notice. Having enmlored GOOD J ip - V mm A 4m9 WORKMEN, he will warrant au work that is done in the shop 1TTH7 ALL KINDS OP Produce and 'old Iron Taken in exchange for Caatings at iU Grooerf Plrrncmth, Jan. 6, 59 Gtf . ? O

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