Plymouth Weekly Banner, Volume 5, Number 15, Plymouth, Marshall County, 3 July 1856 — Page 1

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The following sketch of the life and public services of Mr. Buchas an, the j Democratic nominee for President of the : Dorn ,n ir,e county ui rrauKiin, in tre State of Pennsylvania, of poor and indua , trious parents, and may truly be called the architect of his own fortunes. Harin g received a good education, he studied the profession of the law, in the county of Lancaster, in the same State, which i has ever been his home. In 1614 & 1815, j he was elected to the Legislature whete he distinguished himself by those, exhibi tions of intellect which gave promise of future eminence. In his profession, during many succeeding years, he rose to the highest diss of legal minds, and at a period when Pennsylvania could boast of her Balduins, her Gibsons, her Rosses, her. Duncans, her Breckeuridges, her Tilghmatis, her Hupkinses, her Jenkinse?, her Dtlliscs. and hor Semples, he was prepared for the struggle of the future, and soon became conspicious among those who had but few equals in their own times, and whose fame is still widely cherished. In 1S20. James Buchanan, was elected to the House of Representatives, and retained his position in that body for ten years, voluntarily retiring after the first Congress under the administration of Andrew Jackson. Ha was the crtrm and ardent defender of the admninistration of T f Vit t 1 k a m r t s r r t t 9 ft f ll A administration of John Quincv Adnms. and the consistent and trusted friend of Andrew Jackson. The proceedings show that while he retained a seat in the popular brauch of Congress, he took a prominent part in oil the debates upon great public questions. As early as 1515, he eulrred opinions hostile la the constitutionality uf the Bink of the United Slates, and in the fierce struggles which ensued upon the election of the hero of New Qr-lt-ens, he wus a distinguished champion of the Democratic paity. Probably the mist interesting part of Mr. D'ichaiian'a history was his early and effective support of General Jackson for the Presidency. He was one of the fiiat advocates of the hero of New Orleans. Mre than thirty years ago, as a member of the House of Representatives of the United -Stales, he was recognized, as among the most active and devoted friends of Jackson. Distinguished for his eloquence and his judgment, even in that period of his life, he contributed greatly to produce the state of feeling which afterward put General Jackson forward as the democratic candidate. Pennsylvania taking the lead. Before the House of Rep esentatives of the United States procerded to elect a President (the people hiving failed in 1824, to make a choice,) Mr. Buchanan opposed, with indignant eloquence, the motion to sit with closed d.iors while that duty was being discharged by the representatives of the American people. When the memorable struggle of 1823 came on, Mr, Buctunin was prominent in the contest. Indeed he was so conspicuous that the opponents of Jackson brstowed a full 6hare of the bitterness reserved for the old hero upon his efficient and faithful friend. Mr. Buchanan came into the House of Representatives for the last time in 1S2Q. It was during this session that he displayed those eminent qualities which proved him to be one the abltst constitutional lawyers in the country; and in a body of which such atmen es MiDuffie, Wickiiffe. and others were members, Mr. Buchanan was selected os chairman of the Judiciary, a duty for which he bjd xbeea well prepared in the debates which hud taken place in former sessions, btwvn Mr. Clay. Mr. Calhoun, Mr. Loundes, Mr. Randolph, Mr. Buchanan himself, and others equally eminent. When the celebrated case of Judge Peck, of Missouri, came up before the House, Mr. Buchanan was the leading spirit in conducting tho impeachment of that functionary. The House ot Representatives, having heard the able arguments on both sides, decided' to present to the Senate articles of impeachment against Ju.ge Peck, and they elected by b-jllot. May 30, 1530, five : managers to conduct the impeachment on the part of the House. Thvy were, James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, Henry R. Storr?, of N. York. Geo. McDufüe, of S uth Carolina. Ambrose Sjencer, of New York, and Charles WicktifTe, of Kentucky. The display before tho Senate on that celebra ted trial forms a most instructive page in history. Messrs Wm. Wirt and Jona than Meredith appeared ' for Judge Peck, and, on the part of the managers, Mr. Buchanan closed the argument in a speech of great length and profound ability and research. It is Htill quoted as one of the most masterly expositions of constitu tional law on the public records. After retiring from Congress in 1831. he received from Gen, Jackson, unsolicited, the tender of the mission to Russia. He accepted that mission. How ho dis charged its grave duties, the archives of the legation and of the State Department will show. Among other acts, he rendered the country important and valuable services, by negotiating the first commercial treaty between the United States and Russia, which secured to, our commerce the ports of the .Baltic and Black Sea, and insured to us a valuable and continually increasing trade. What reputation he left behind him, those who suc

ceeded him are willing to attest. The chisk-yand manly tribute to his splendid abilities at St. Petersburgh, paid, during the proceedings of the Pennsylvania democratic State convention which assembled on the 4th of March, 1856, by his im mediate successor in the American legation at that court, the Hon. WUlitm Wilkins, shows something of the habits and capacities of Mr. Buchanan. Shortly after Mr. Buchanan's return from the Russian Mission the democrats in the Legislature of Pennsylvania made him their candidate for the United States Senate, and elected him. He remained in the Senate from the 6th of December, 1S34, until his resignation, March 3rd, 1845, having been twice re elected during that period of time. It is not necessary to recapitulate the distinguished services rendered by the great statesman in the highest legislative body on earth, ao well and so widely are they remembered. In the dehnte on the admission of Arkansas end Michigan; in his opposi tiOn to the designs of the abolitionists; in his resistance & exposure of the schemes of the Bink of the United States, after it had been transfered to Pennsylvania, as a vast politcal moneyed monopoly; in his opposition to a profuse expenditure

of tho public revenue, for tho creation of nn unnecessary public debt; a government bank of discount, circulation and deposit, under the British name of Ex chequer; a substitution of paper money for the constitutional currency of silver and gold, the surrender of M'Leod upon the insulting demand of England; the unjust distributi hi of the p iblic revenue to the States oT his Confederation; in his courageous hostility to special legislation, no matter how concealed; he co-operated with Wright, Woodbury, Benton, King. Linn, aud other leading democrats of that dy. As chairman of the Committee on Foreign Regulations, during a series of three years, in the Senate of the United Slates, he sustained the honor of the nation, by his unanswerable demonstration of the right of each State to punish a foreign murderer, who. in tho lime of peace, kills an American citizen upon its own soil. (lis masterly expositions of our unquestionable title to the Northeast boundary line wero upheld by the dicisions of Congress, aud he won high honor for his opposition to a treaty which gave a large portion of the American territory to a foreign government. He was the advocate of a liberal and enlighteued policy in regard to the public lands. Duiiig the memorable extra eession of one hundred days, when the opponents of the democracy, in the Secate of the United States, had resolved to push through a series of high federal measures, beginning with the Bank of the United States, And ending with the Bankrupt law, Mr. Buchanan was constantly in his seat, and was frequently put forward as the leader of his party, in certain trying emergencies. An early and a fervent advocate of the annexation of Texas, he signalized his career in that body by giving his views on that important question to his countrymen, io a speech of unsurpassed ability and power. It is hardly necessary to go over Mr. Buchanan's record to show how true he has been on all those, great questions in volving the rights of the States and th rights of the citizens of the State. On thoso delicate questions which tried so many Northern men, and which lost to the democratic party or the country some of ita most prominent leaders, who would not follow thtj doctrine of State rights to its just and logical conclusion, Mr. Buc hanan was found unwavering and decided. In the exciting debate during the Congress of 1S3G, on the subject of circulating incendiary documents through the malls 6T the United States, Mr. Buchanan spoke repeatedly in support of the mes ange of Mr. Vaa Buren, demanding the interference of the national legislature to prevent the dissemination of appeals among the slaves of the South to rise in aorvilo insurrection against the people of that quarter of the country; - and on the question of the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, Mr. Buchanan used the following emphatic language: hat is now asked by these memo rialists? That is 'this District of ten miles square a District curved out of two slaveholding Stales, and surrounded by them on all sides slavery shall be abolished! What would be the effect of granting their request? You would then erect a citidel in the very hearts of these States, upon a territory which they have ceded to you for a far different purpose. from which abolitionists and incendiaries could securely attack the peace arid safety of their citizens. You establish a spot within the slaveholding States which would be a city of refuge for runaway slaves'. You create by la w a central Doint from which trains of gunpowder .may be securely laid, extending into the surrounding Stales, which may at any moment produce a fearful and destructive explosion. By passing such a law you intro duce the enemy into the very bosom of these two States,' and afford him every opportunity to produce a servile insurrection. Is there any reasonable man who can for metnent suppose ihit Virginia and Maryland would have ceded the District of Columbia to the United States, if they had entertained -the slightest idea 'that Congress would ever use it for any such purpose? They ceded it for your use, for your convein.nce, and not for their own destruction. ' When slavery ceases to exist' under the laws of Virginia and Maryland, then, and not till then, ought it to be abolished ia the District of Columbia.' - When, at the same session of Congress', the two bills were reported, admitting

the Territory of Michigan anfl Arkansas as States into the American Union, Mr. Buchanan was selected as the Northern Senator who should present the bill admitting Arkansas, and advocate it before the Setiite, which he did with signal ability, and Mr. B'ntoa was chosen as the Southern Senator, who was to present and advocate the bill admitting Michigan into the Union. During the exciting debates on these issues, Mr. Buchanan spoke repeatedly. He took ihn broad ground that ihe people of the Territory, having formed a Republican constitution, nfter the model of the other States, could be and should bo admitted into the Union irrespective of slavery, and that Congress should not interfere to prevent their admission for any such reason as is now urged against the admission of Kansas It was during the debate on the admission of Michigan that he used these memorable words, on the first of April. 1830. in his place as a Senator from Pennsylvania; " Thr. older I grow, the more I an inclined to be what is called a State rights man. The peace and security of this Union depend upon giving to the Constitution a literal and fair construction, such as would be placed upon it by a plain, intelligent man, and not by ingenious contractions to increase the powers of this government, and thereby diminish those of the Stales. The rights of the States, reserved to them by that instrument, ought ever to be held sacred. If, then, the Constitution leaves to them to decide according to their own discretion, unrestricted and unlimited, who shall be electors, it follows as a necessary consequence that they may, if they think proper, confer upon resident aliens the right of voting," &c, &c. And at the same time, in the very same speech from which the above is copied, he made the foll'iwinj; eloqueot allusion to the adopted citizens: The territory ceded by Virginia to the United States was sufficiently extensive for an immense empire. The parlies to this compact of cession contemplated that it would form five sovereign States of this Union. At that early period, we had just emerged from our revolutionary struggle, and uone of the jealousy was then felt against foreigners, and particularly against Irish foreigners, which now appears to haunt some gentlemen. There j had been no attempts nude to get up d native American party in this country. The blood of the gallant Irish had (lowed fr.ee ly upon every battle-field, in defense of the liberties which we now enjoy. Besides, the Senate will recollect that the ordinance was passed before th& adoption of our present Constitution, and whilst the power of naturalizition remained with the several States. In some, and perhaps in oil of them, it required so short a residence, and so little trouble, to be changed from an alien to a citizen, that the process could be performed without the least difficulty. 1 repeat that no jenlousy whatever then existed against foreigners.'' After the splendid campaign of 1814. which resulted in tho election of Mr. Polk, to which result, Pennsy Ivania, led by Jame3 Buchanan, contributed her electoral vote, the President einet, casting his eye over the long roll of democratic statesmen then living, weighing the

claims and qualifications of each and all, profoundedly sensible of the exciting questious which must come up for adjust ment during his administration, and after consulting the venerable sage then in the sunset ol life in the shades of the Hermitngo, invited Mr. Buchanan to accept the portfolio of the State Department. the head of his Cabinet; and in 1845, Mr. Buchanan resigned his seat in the Senate (to which he had only lately been re-elected.) and became Secretary of State under President Polk.- Nor is it neces sary that we should recapitulate his ser vices in that department. They are fresh and familiar in all minds. II is argument in fa?or of the clear and unquestionable title of the American people to all of Oregon won for him the applause of the whole liberal world, and was published in several lnngunges in Europe. The State papers on all other great questions proceeding from his pen during the four years he remained in the Department of State, were so many contributions to the column which celebrates his eminent fitness and unsullied integrity. .When the Wilmot Proviso was introduced into Congress, it was James Buchanan who at once denounced, and exposed, and rallied the democracy against it. It was during the administration of Mr. Polk, that Mr. Buchanan, ia his letter tu . the democracy, . of Berks county. Pa., first recommended to the North and the South, that the Missouri line should be extended to the' Pacific, and that this should be made the basis of a final settleraens of the slavery question in the Territories. . The war with Mexico, consequent on the annexation of Texas, gave us a vast empire In addition to the area which constitutes our beloved Union, and in the arguments growing outof the acquisition of California,. Mr. Buchanan labored earnestly r and, effectively on the side of progress. Mr. Buchanan's letter on this subject is on record, and speaks for itself I: is easy to recall the vituperation which his proposition to extend the Missouri line called forth from the fanatic of the North, from those who now clamor for its restoration, and who.-in insana forgetfulaess of their hostility to it a few years ago; set themselves up . as its peculiar champions. The Pennsylvania Committee's memoir remarks: Mr. Buchanan's recommendation of an extension of the Missouri line was far in advance of public sentiment? It was halted in the South by all parties as an

exhibition of firmness only too rare among northern men, and it was appreciated by the truly national men of the free Slates. Would it not be strangely unjust if this proposal of Mr. Buchanan should now be cited to prove him unsound upon existing issuest Thn spirit which actuated Mr. Buchanan in 1847, when he wrote his letter recommending the extension of the Missouri line, was to promote harmony among the States of this Union, by recognizing the principle of equality among the States, in regard to the common territories of the people; and now, when the Missouri line has been superceded by another plan of settlement, the Nebraska-Kanpas act. based upon the came sentiment of State equality, all patriotic men will cheerfully abide by and vigilantly maintain it against the inroads of that abolition-fusion which once more threatens to assail the constitutional rights of the South. The country will find, among its public men, no truer or firmer advocate and defender of that great principle of popular sovereignty, as embodied in the Nebraska bill, than James Buchanan. Mr. Buchanan remained in connection with Mr. Polk's administration until March 4. 1849; when he onco more returned to Pennsylvania, and from that period up to the election of the present Chief Magistrate, he engaged himself in pursuits congenial to a Statesman bf large and extended experience. The conflict between the enemies of the Constitution and the democracy, did not find him an idle spectator. Ho was in the fore front of the democratic party, demanding for the South no hallow and hypocritical platform, but a broad, radical, distinct recognition of those rights', which cannot be equal, unless they are shared honestly and fairly betweeu the people of all sections

of the Union. Everywhere, tho democracy of his State felt and followed his wise and patriotic counsels. When he emerged from hi quiet hom it was to demand the recognition of all lire guarantees of the Constitution in all the Stales. His letters and speeches in favor of the enforcement of the fugitive slave laws of Pennsylvania enacted for the purpose of depriving the southern citizen tho use of our jails for the safe-keeping of his fugitives and his appeals to the democracy of the State never to yield to sectional ism, conclusively show that he had not forgotten his duty to great principles and that his attention was constantly fixed upon the importance of discharging that obligation. He was as vigilant in his duties as a private in the ranks of the people, as he was prominent as a counsellor in tho Cabinet, and as a Representative and a Senator in Congress. Duiing the Presidential contest in 1852 Mr. Buchanan stood in the van of the democratic ranks. The following remarkable passages from his speech delivered toa mass meeting of Pennsylvania, on the 7th of October. 1852. at Greensburg Westmoreland county, are so character istic of the rnau aud his opinions, that we do not hesitate to copy them. Remem ber that at t o time did he ever yield a jot or tittle to sectionalism. He was against it instinctively, and from the startHe eatdl From my soul, I abhor the practice of mingling up religion with politics. The doctrine ol all our constitutions, both Federal and State, is, that every man has an indefeasable right to worship his God according to the dictates of his own conscience. He is both a bigot and a tyrant who would interfere with the sacred riaht. When a candidate is before the people for office, the inquiry ought never to be made, what form of relious laith he possesses; but only, in the language o Mr. Jefferson. "Is he honest, is he cap Die?" 'Democratic Americans?' What t name for a native American party! When all the records of our past history prove thnt American democrats have ev er opened wide their rm3 to receive for signers flying from oppression in their native land, and, have always bestowed upon lhem the r'ghts of American citi zens, after a brief period of residence in this country. The democratic party have always gloried in this policy, & its fruits have been to increase our power with un exampled rapidity, and to furnish our country with vast numbers of industri ous. patriotic and useful citizens. Sure ly the name of democratic Amerieans was an unfortunate designatiou for the native American party. The native American party an 'Ameri can excellence,' and the glory of its foun dership belongs to Geoeoe Washinotos! No, fellow-citizenk! the American peo pie will rise up with one accord to vindi cate the memory of that illustrious man from such an imputation. As long as re cent memory of our revolutionary struggle remained vividly impressed on the hearts of our countrymen, no such party could have ever existed. The recollection of Montgomery. LaFayelte, DeKnlb, Kosciusco, and a long list of foreigners, both officers and soldiers, who freely shed their blood to secure our liberties, would have rendeied such ingratitude impossible. Our revolutionary army was filled with the brave and patriotic natives of their lands; and George Washington was their commander-in-chief. Would be have ever closed the door against the ad mission of foreigners to the rights of A merican citizens? Let his acts speak for themselves. So early as the 20th of March. 1790, Gen. Washington, as Pres ident of the United States, approved the first law that ever passed Congress on the subject of naturalization; and this only required a residence of two years previ ous to the adoption of a foreigner aa an American citizen. On the 29lh of Janu ary, 1795, the term of residence was tx

tendedby Congress to five years, aud thus it remained throughout Gen. Washington's administration, and until the accession of John Adams to the Presidency. In his administration, which will ever be known in history as the reign of terror as the era of alien and sedition laws an act was passed on the 16th of June, 1798, which prohibited any foreigner hom, becoming a citizen until after a tesidence of fourteen years; and this is the law, or ele9 perpetual exclusion; which General Scott preferred, and which the native American party now desire to restore. The Presidential election of 1S00 secured the ascendency of the democrntic pnrty, and. under the administration of Thomas Jefferson, its great apostle, on the 11th of April, 1S02. the term of residence previous to naturalizition was restored to five years, what it had been under General Washington, and where it has ever since remained. No, fellow, citizens, the Father of his Country never was a native American. This 'American excellence' never belonged to him. The fugitive slave law is all the South has obtained in this compromise of 1S50. It is a law founded both upon the letter and the spirit of the Constitution, and a similar law has existed on our statute books ever since the administration of Gen. Washington. History teaches us that but for the provision in favor of fugitive 6laves our present Constitution never would have existed. Think ye that the South will ever tamely surren der tho fugitive 6levo law to norihern fanatics and abolitionists? And now my fellow-citizens, what a glorious party tho democratic party has ever been! Man is but the being of a summer's day, whilst principles are eternal. The generations of mortals, one after thother, rise and sink, and are forgotten, but the principles of democracy which we have inherited from our. Revolutionary fathers, will endure to bless mankind throughout all generations. Is there any democrat w ithin the sound of my voice, is there any democrat throughout the broad limits of good and great old democratic Pennsylvania, who will abandon

these sacred principles for the sake of following in the train of n military conqueror, and shouting for the hero of Lundys Lane, Cerro Gordo, ani Chnpultepec?" And when the campaign resulted in triumph, President Pieece tendered to Mr. Buchanan the leading foreign mission which was accepted. Circumstances have transpired within the last few yea-s to make the American mission at the Court of St James singularly important, end it has happened thai during Mr. Buchanan's stay in London, several great questions of a vexatious and complicated character havn disturbed the intercourse between the Jwo countries.It has become proverbial that the selection of a wise, able and experienced man to represent the United States at the British Court is one of the fiist duties of the Executive, hardly secondary to the selection of his own chief cabinet ministers, because the English mission is always intensely important to the immediate inerests of the people. During the trying time of Mr. Buchanan's mission, the whole nation seem to have become impressed with the importance and justice of these observations. They felt that in the American Minister they had a man upon whose safe character and wise counsels they could confidently lean. Their eyes were constantly fixed upon him. Every steamer brought news occasioning the greatest anxiety to the commercial and other classes. On more than one occasion collision saemed to be inevitable, but evert panic passed off. The correspondence of Mr. Buchanan, such of it as has been published, exhibits on his part, a vigilance, a discretion, an industry, and at the same time a dignity of charter, that have madft his name a favorito name in every section of our beloved Un ion. In the later troubles which have given rise to so much excitement and discussion in Congress and in the country, Mr. Buchanan has towered in all the dignity of his high character and iutellpctuat superiority. He left his post to give way to his successor, having fixed upon the hearts of the English people the impress of republican character, which has never, for a single moment, yielded its simplicity arid ita truth to aristocratic blandishments.. Courted and flattered during his stay, he studiously abstained from pay ing tribute to English vanitv. In all cir cles and on all occasions, he displayed his American dignity and his American patriotism. Never gratuitously obtrud ing his beloved country or her adranta ges, he never hesitated to speak of her as one speaking of his parent; nor was he ever actuated by any spirit of offensive partisanship. As he came so he goes, the same plain, untitled, unpretending Amer ican citizen,; The highest classes vied with each other to do him, honor; and, on a recent occasion, when the news of threatened collision, between the two countries alarmed the people of both, his presence among the populace of - London was greeted with cheers, an evidence that however parties may intrigue, one hon est, straightforward patriot; is sure to hold a high place, in the affections 'of the masses. , The Pennsylvania Committee's docu ment concludes as follows: "During Mr. Buchanan's, absejice of nearly three years, while , politics raged at home, he proudly abstained from inter fering with the struggle for the Presiden tial succession.1 "From thä tiaae he ! set foot pa English soil, he wrote back to his friends that in no contingency .would, he place himself in the field ns a . candidate or the Presidency.- There was' nothing

of grief in this resolvenothing of disappointed ambition. It was the calm and deliberate Judgment of a mind which, having looked carefully over the political past and future. I. ad come to the conclusion that the day for the scramble for Piesidential honors hadj past away, at least with him, and that he was determined to apply himself to other pursuits. We assert that, if every private letter written from Londoii since his absence bv Janes Bucha nan, iu the unsuspecting confidericc of his heart, thould now he published, and laid before tho American people, there would not be found ono line, no, not one syllnblo, manifesting a desire for the nonv ination of the Democratic Convention. Cr suggesting any way by which it might obtained for himself. Even since he has become formidablo as a candidate his letters are animated by ihe snmo generous spirit. And the very fact that he has taken his course, from a conscientious belief that it would be out of place for him to struggle for the nomination, has made him acceptable to the masses in every part of the country. The people will judge of him by record, by the ev:n tenor of bis life, by the spotless purity of his character, by his undaunted patriotism, and !y the trophies with which he returned to his native shores, to 1 e crowned, ns we confidently hope, with the highest honors of the republic.

Old line Whigs for Bcchanan. There was a large and enthusiastic ratification meeting nt Erie. Pa., last Tuesday evening, composed exclusively of 'old lino whigs,' all going for -Old Burk.' They allowed no others to participate in their meeting, and resolved for the first time ia their lives to support the. democratic nomines3 for President and Vise President. Some eight hundred of the neighbors of 'Old Buch,' cf the same stamp, called on him in procesien the day he was nominated and pledge him their support. The same feeling exists, and similar demonstrations made are over all the old commonwealth. Pennsylvania is good for forty thousand majority for "OLD BUCK." ICieveland PUindialcr. The bosom of America is open not only to receive the opulent and respectable stranger, but the oppressed and peisecut. ed of all nations and religions, whom we shall welcome lo our righs and ileges. George Washington. priv FILIAL REGARD. A school teacher in a town in New Hampshire, seeing one morning a new pnpil in her school rocm, asked the'young hope in eccordar.ee with the requirement of the Superintending committee his father's name? Hays,' enswered the boy promptly. What is bife given name? asked the teacher. 'Hays, I tell you,' replied the promising youth. . , Well., inquired the instructor determined to know if Mr. llayg had any christian name 'what does your mother call him?' Mother. She calls him old HajF, responded the boy, as if destiny depended on the reply. AUTUMN. A cottage nestled down among the wildwood flowers, end on the woodbine'd proch a Father, Mother sat! About their feet three btoomingchildren playing with lettered roseleavesl A sturdy lad leened manfully upon his father's chair, whilo by her mother's side sat a maiden faires than the morn, reading from the Book Divir.e, which rested on her knee. The shades of twilight came tnd the rustic porch was tenantless. 'Twas zrz. Cattle and horses are said to be dying by hundreds on the American bottom in lllions, either from some virulent disease which has become epidemic, or from some poisonous herbs growing there. The symptoms in all cases have been similar. There is a Yankee down east who has invented a jack-plane to do th shaving ia a barber shop. He is a brother of the individual who uses a fiat iron to smooth the ru filed temper of his wife. Tribute to Printers. The Chaplain of the New Hampshire Penitentiary, la reviewing the events of his life since his connection with that institution, pays the following compli.' ment to journeymen printers. . I have the happiness to number among my friends many printers; but though it may seem to imply either a leek of ability oa the part of the minister, or the' want of the qualities that are necessary in' order to appreciate good preaching on the other part, yet I will reveal the fact that; I have never succeeded well with that class., For the nine long years, and wjih. all the inducements offered, not one of that trade has connected himself with my" congregation; and I do hot think a man5 could be found, of all who ever tenanted' our prison, who could ret up a column of type. 1 leave the reader to make his own comments; only remarking that this cannot bi accidental, nor can the explanation be that the employment keeps ' thern -; ignorant of the prevailing vices and immoralities, nor yet that young , printer! are removed from, the large' masses where corruptions engender and spread." In nil' these respects this class is much exposed; ' It ia evident, I think, that the -'molarl' ment has an elevating tendency md "fa fatprable to Sntellectual and morol . im-, provement

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