Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1860 — Page 1

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BUSINESS CARDS. PIIRDGE, BROWN Ac CO., wholesale dealers in Dry Goods, Fancy Goods. NOTIONS, HATS, BONNETS, &C. ; No. 10 Purdue’s Block, Lafayette, Indiana. attention to their New Stock. Wit. S. HOPKINS, [attorney AT LAW, Rensselaer, Ind. Will promptly attend to collections, payment of taxes, sale of real estate, and other business entrusted to hU care, with promptness and dispatch. 512 JOSEPH O. CRANE, ..Attorney at Law, RENSSELAER, 48-1 y Jasper County, Ind W. D. LEE. O- W. SriTLER. LEE A SPITLER, Attorneys at Law. OFFICE, NEXT DOOR TO LA ROE*S STONE BUILDING, RENSSELAER. IND. W ill practice in the Clrcultand Inferior Courts of thin Twellth Judicial District. Also, in the Supreme and District Courts oflndiana. ap29 ft. 11. MlL&er. L. A. COLE. r LHOY A COLE, Attorneys at Law, X OTAR IE S PUBLIC, And Agents for the Sale of Real Estate, Payment of Taxes, dec., >r °9 RENSSELAER. IND. serosa. *• V. HAMMONd S.H V DElt A HIMJIOTB, Attorneys at Law, RENSSELAER, IND. Having formed a copa tuership in the practice ©f the law, pledge themselves to gave their undivided attention to all business j. trusted to their care, in Jasper or any of the adjoining counties. Office in Laltue’s Stone Building, up stairs, where they may at all times be found. fHOS.a’COV. ALFRED m’COY. ALEIUCt) THOMPSON. i THUS. NIcCOY & to., Bankers and Exchange Brokers, # BUY AND SELL COIN AND EXCHANGE. ColUrtiens Itlado on all Available Points, WILL TAT INTEREST ON SPECIFIED TIME DEPOSITS. Negotiate Loans, and do a General Ranking Business. Office hours, from 9A.M.t04 P. M. ep29

H. C. KIRK, (Successor to Reich fit. C 0.,) DEALER IN dTT ALIaN AND AMERICAN 14! il H B L I! i MONt'MENTS AMD HEAD STONES. r’JYIIE proprietor ia determined not to be surl . passed by any shop in the State, cither as to quality of Marble or the execution of work, and will WARRANT SATISFACTION To all who favor him with a call. Shop on Main street, opposite the Monticello House, Monticello, Ind. a RicrKßEvcx.—Messrs. Geo. W. Spitler, L. A. •Cole, Jacob Merkle. 35-ts INDIANA HOUSE, J. w. AS. o. DUVALL, Proprietors, , Bradford, ind. Tho table will be supplied with the best the market affords. A good Stable and Wagon Yard attached to the Hotel. Tho Messrs. Duvalls are also proprietors of the RENSSELAER AND BRADFORD DAILY HACK LINF,. hack leaves Rensselaer every morning, fStindays excepted,) at 7 o’clock, connecting at Bradford with the trains north nud south, and returns same dayO'Entras can also be procured at either end of the route, on reasonable terms. 7-ly Cash for Grain. f 1 'HE undersigned will pay the HIGHEST JL m arket price in cash for Wheat. Cbm, Rye, Barley, Oats, fitc., at tho old stand of ffaddlx fit Son, in Glllam township. IS-ts C. G. HARTMAN. / PALMER HOUSE, Corner of Washington and Illinois Streets INDIA NAPOLI 8, IND. Am D. OABIVIOHAEL, Proprietor, AD VERTIsf OH THE RENSSELAER GAZT TE ‘

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|loCtl£. SOFT AND SOFTEII, One eve, In velvet bravely arrayed. As Ed. sat toying with his darling maid, Her liftle buxom waist’s bewitching charm The while half folded in his furtive arm He took her (dimpled hand, and with a smile, Stealing It gently o’er the silken pile. Asked, in a tender silence of love-chat, If palm e’er foi lied aught so soft as that! She archly answered—“ Might f venture, pet. I could press yours on something softer yet.” With sidelong glance of amorous distrust, Adowu the gracefu’ neck and swelling bust, Whose ermine cape, his darling fancy taught Was the coy "something” of the maiden's tho’t; He fondly sighed, to fingers’ ends a thrill, “Ah! dearhst, do! my hand is at your will.” But, oh! lost rapture—for no sooner said, She gaily clapped it pat on his own head!

pliscdfanrous. | From the Cincinnati Gazette. IMPORTANT FUESIDENTUL UOCEWENT. Letter from Hon. Edward Bates of Nlissouri. Vines on the Leading Questions of the Day. St. Louis, March 20. The following will appear in to-morrow's Democrat: Below is reply of the Hon Edward Bates to certain interrogatories pronounced by Missouri delegates to the Chicago Convention: -» Gentlemen: I hare received your letter propounding to me certain questions, even in number; which you suppose will cover most, if not all the grounds of controversy in the approaching Presidential election. PRELIMINARY EXPLANATION. With pleasure I will answer your questions. Before doing so, allow me to glance at the peculiar circumstances in which I ain placed, and the strangeness oi the tact that f, a mere private man, am called upon to make avowals and explanations with any view to take me from the shades of private Ilf.?, and place me at the head of the Nation. I came to this frontier in my youth and settled in St. Louis when it was a mere village. All my manhood has been spent in Missouri, and during uli this time, 1 have followed a profession which left my character and conduct open to the observation of society, and while it lias been my constant habit freely to express my opinion of public measures and public men, the people of Missouri, of all parties, will bear inj witness that I have never obtrusively thrust myself forward in pursuit of offici il honors. I have lie Id no political office, and sought none for more than tv, enty-five years. Under these circumstances, I confess the gratification vhich I feel in receiving the recent manifestation* f of the respect and confidence of my ;ellowcitizens. First, the Opposition members of the Missouri Legislature declared their preference for me es a candidate. Then followed my nomination by a Convention composed ol all the elements of th ■ Opposition in this State. And now, the' Republicans ol Missouri, have reaffirm: d. the nomination, and proposed, by their delegates, to preset;* me to the National Convention, soon to he held at Chicago, us a candidate tor the first office in the nation.

These various demonstrations in niy own State are doublv gratifying to ine, because they afford the strongest proof that my name has been put forward only in a spirit of harmony and peace, and with a hope of preventing all division and controversy among those who, for their own safety and tho public good, ought to be united in their action. For all this lam deeply grate ul; ami re far as concerns me personally, I must d(clare, in simple truth, th it it the movement go no farther, and produce no person it results, still I am paid and overpaid lor a life of labor, and for whatever of zealous effort and patient watching I have been able to bestow in support of a line of governmental policy which 1 believe to be for the present and permanent good ot the country. Now, gentlemen, I proceed to answer your questions, briefly indeed, but fully, plainly, and with all > ossible frankness; and I do this the more willingly, because I have received from individuals many letters—too many to be separately answered—and have seen in many public journals articles making urgent calls upon me for such a statement of my views. IST— SLAVERY AND ITS EXTENSION IX THE territories. On this subject, in the State and in the Territories, I have no new opinions—no opinions formed in relation to the present array of parties. lam coeval with tho Missouri question of 1819-20, having begun my political liS® in the of that struggle.

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INI)., WEDNESDAY, MARCH is. f-00,

At that time my position required me to seek all the means of knowledge within tny reach, and to study the principles involved with all flip powers of my mind, and I arrived at the conclusions which no subsequent events have induced me to change. The existence of negro slavery in our country had its beirinning in the early time of »he colony, end was imposed by the mother country, against the will of most of the colonists. At the time of the Revolution, and long alter, it were commonly regarded as an 4vii, temporary in its nature, and likely to disap pear in the course of time; yet while it continued, a misfortune to the country, socially and politically. Thus was I taught W those who made our Government, and neither the new light of civilization nor the discovery of a new system of constitutional law and social philosophy has enabled me to detect the error of their teaching. Slavery is a social relation, a domestic institution. Within the State it exists by the local law, and the Federal Government has no control over it there. The Territories, whether acquired by conquest or peaceable purchase, are subject and subordinate, and not sovereign like the States. The nalion is supreme oyer them, and the National G •vernment has the power to permit or forbid Slavery within them. Entertaining these views, I am opposed to the extension of Slave-y, and in my opinion the spirit and the policy of the Government ought to C* against i*s extension.

2 DOES THE CONSTITUTION CARRY SLAVERY INTO THE TERRITORIES! I answer no! The (Constitution of the United States does not carry S.every into the Territori< * With much imm show ot reason, may it be said that it carries Slavery into the States. But, it does not carry Slavery anywhere. It only acts upon it it finds it established bv the local law. Iri connection with this point, I an) asked to state my vi 'vvs of the Dred ScottKca.se, and Adiat was really determined by the Supreme Court in that case. Jt is my opinion, carefully considered, that/he Court determined on - single point of Ww oni>. That is, tout Scott, tire plaintiff, /t ing a negro, of African descent, not necesdirily a slave, could not e a citizen of Missouri, and therefore couid not sue in the F \k rjl Court, ar.d that tor this reason and ihis'aluuo, the Circuit Court had no jurisdiction oi lire cause and no power to give judgment between the parties. The only jurisdiction which the Supreme Court had of the cause was for ihe purpose of correcting the error of the Circuit Court in assuming the power to decide on the merits of tire case. This power the Supreme Court did exercise in setting aside the judgment of the Circuit Court upon the merits, and by dismissing the suit without »ny judgment tor or against either party. Tnia is all that the S ipreme Court did, und all that lit had lawful power to do I consider it a J great public misfortune that several of the I learned Judges : should have thought that I their dii-ty*required them to discuss aid give opinions upon various questions outs.de of jibe- cast, as the case was actually disposed jot by the Court. Aii such opinions are exi t.ra judicial and of no authority. But, beI side this, it appears to me that several of the I questions eo discussed by the Judges are political questions, and thereiore beyond the jurisdiction of the judiciary, ami proper only to be considered and disposed of by the poj lineal departments. I’ 1 ain right in this. | and it seems to are plain, tire precedent is | most unfortunate, because it may read to a ; dangerous conflict of authority among tire coordinate branches oi the Government. 3 —AS TO THE COLONIZATION- OF THE TREE BLACKS. For many years I have been connected with the American Colonization Society, of which the rising yrung State of Liberia is the first fruit. I consider the object both humane and wise, beneficial alike to the free blacks who emigrate, and to lire whites whom they leave behind. But Africa is distant, and presents so many obstacles to rapid settlement that we cannot indulge the hope of drawing ff in tfiat direction the growing numbers of our free black population. The tropical regions o< America, I think, offer a far better prospect both for us and for them.. 4. AS TO ANY INEQUALITY OF RIGHTS AMONG AMERICAN CITIZENS. I recognize no distinctions among American citizens, but such as are expressly laid down in the Constitution; and I hold that our Government is bound to protect all the citizens in the enjoyment of all their rights everywhere, and against all assailants; and as to these rights there is no difference between citizens born, sad citizen# made such by law

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5. — A M I IN FAVOR OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF • A RAILROAD FROM THE VALLEY OF THE , To the pacific ocean, under | THE AUSPICES OF THE GEKERAL GOVERN- . MENTI Yes, thoroughly. ! do hot only believe j such a fottd to be of Vest importance as the ! means of increasing the population, wealth I and power of this great valley, but necessary as the means of national defence and of preserving the integrity of the Union. 6. —AM I IN FAVOR OF THE MEASURE CALLED THE HOMESTEAD BILL! Yes. lam for guarding the public lands as well as possible from the danger of becoming the subject of common trade and speculation; for keeping them for the actual use of the people, and for granting tracts of suitable size to those who will actually inhabit and impro've them. 7. I IN FAVOR OF THE IMMEDIATE ADMISSION uF KANSAS UNDER TAE WYANDOTTE CONSTITUTION ! I think that Kansas ought to be admitted without delay, leaving her, like all the other States, the sole judge of her own Consti'utren. Thus, genilemf n. I believe I have answered all your inquiries in a plain, intelligible manner, and I hope to your satisfaction. I have not attempted to support my answers by argument, for that could not be done in a short letter; and restraining myself from <.ointo general politics, I have confined mv remarks to the particular subjects upon which you requested me to write. Your obliged fellow-c : tizen. Edward Bates.

[From the New York Indep»ndent.

H. W. Beecher on the Presidential Canvass.

Duty tor TnE Day.—We are not disposed to undervalue political machinery, any more than the machinery of government, states, or churches But if there be nothing but machinery, government will soon fail of the very ends for which it was instituted. There must be wisdom, reflection, und right feeling, and machinery is only a means of e - citing or of exercising them. There could be no flour if there were no mill. But what is a mill worth without wheat to grind? No political results can be of any permanent value which are gained by mere management—whicn represent, not the sober thoughts and moral convictions of the citizen. but the dext rity and trick of the adroit party-master. Every great political campaign, like that now advancing upon us. should begin and proceed upon sobriety of judgment and convictions based .upon intelligence. It is the duty of every Chrretian, citizen to see to it that every voter in the land has the materials of truth before him; and now is the time to act for the spread of that information which i* indispensib’e to stable political advance. Victories gained by mere excitement are like the bon-fres that celebrate them—mere transient, flashes of light, making haste again to darkness. But the advance of a community in sound political principles; in a sentiment of justice and a feeling of real sober regard for the public good, is like the advance of summer, which, when it once touches our hemisphere, never leaves it until its harvests are ripened, its fruits matured, and its whole munificence perfected and gam-red. Let every Christian citizen consider whether he is doing his part in the great struggle that has now begun, for the unity of States and the stability ot’ the Federal Government on the b sis of Justice and Liberty. God has blessed him in no ordinary degree vrho is pe mitted t<» -ngnge in the evolution of principles and the settlement of n policy which is not second in importance to the very inauguration of the Government. In such a period, political indifference is an immorality! No man can be guiltless who lends himseh to wrong, or who neglects to give his whole influence to the right. We make these suggestions just now because this is the seed-time not only of the year, but of <>ur political harvest. We must aim at a political harvest by the sowing of right aerd, in right places, rightly piepared. Where are the seed-sowers! Where are the men who hare been for years groaning at the corruption of public affairs! Are you doing anything to remedy it! * Are you reasoning, circulating fuc'sand nrgum nfs addressed to men’s sober judgment! Where are the men who have, in public and secret, lamented before God the wicked ness of the times! Now that the Providence of God haa brought around the day and the means for the correction of euch evils, are you securing the answer to your prayers by appropriate activity! What must ba thought of men who are hot in the closet, but cold at the bellot-bo»—rwbo tro bold In lamenta-

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tions over evil, but shy in practical reformations! Now is tire time for work. The grass is springing under your f eet; the leaves are Coming forth over your head. Let there be a printed line circulated tor every blade o grass, und a page for every leaf ! This is work for everybody, it' >r men, for workmen, for women, for youths! The diffusion ot knowledge b everybody’s business. God has plowed the times in which we live, that men might cast good seed in**, tire furrows, and in due season public order, regulated liberty, and impartial justice ehall reward your labor a hundred-told. We shall h ;>ve reeling enough by-and-by. We shall have ze>! mi over measure. W>> shall have too much work then, when work yields but little—a'ter men’s pr< judices hiexcited, their pride committed, end tbei. passions inflamed. We must anticipate and appeal to their reason before it is clou ieJ and to their conscience be'ore i'. i». com mined.

There ha; never been nnv difficulty in rou sing up the whole commit rty in past :.,v« where parties were array- d ngninrt e ich other op hi questions of fiscal refor.u, i financial schemas, banks, tariffs, und such like questions o! mere policy. But no? tire questions before us are those of fundamental political principles. We are called again to discuss and to vote upon tire very principles for which our fathers endured war and g ined victories. We are to gr e validity and autho-ity to moral prin-ip're which underlie all equ'tmle socie ics; or to see th°m dele.i’ed through our neglect. There is a siient corruption going on which threaten? to change the very blood of our Government. Another ten years like the last ten, and our Courts will Ireve silertly revolutionized our Constitution. Judicial Construction is purg ing our law of liberty, and putting an iroi. rod into the hand of our Constitution, with which to crush that very sanctity of human right for whose protection it was ordained The Supreme Court of the United States is an enemy oi hherty, and the friend of bondage. And. like a grest heart, it is sending out despotiq blood through every artery of the Government. Our evil is desperate; cur danger critical. If taker, now' it may be overcome If deterred, it will, by-and-oy. demand a h Indred-f >ld exertion, or els - defy ail effort. Tue slave-trade is opened, and volcanic Africa again streams lavs upon our shores. Tire Court is preparing the way. step by step, for the supremacy o! slavery in every part of this continent. Already shameless merchants and renegade Christie #ns, in New York, are petitioning tire Legislature to make this State a highway tor slaves to travel. Men are found at th : s late day deliberately asking that it may be legal and safe for masters to bring their staves here! This is hut a gigantic shadow of advancing evils. There is no time to be lost. By one vi otous campaign we may put these recreant men to shame, turn back ihe tide of evil, inaugurate justice again at the capital, give air to the flame of liberty, and re-illume the Constitution with its original fires. Christian men! God speaks to you by his* providence in words as solemn as those of Sinai, as sacred as those in Gethsemane! •Will ye m-t watch for one hour! "

[Prom the New York Sun—-Democratic.

The New Hampshire Election.

Nfw Hampshire h°ld her State election on Tuesday, <nd the result was. aa everybody anticipated* another triumph of the Republicans. But, wtiut whs not anticipated by many oVer-s.inouine Den in the success of the Republican* thi3 year by an increased majority. New [lamps' ire, which some years ago was sound’y Democratic, has, like our own Empire State, experienced a political revoluti n. In 1852 Ne W Hampshire had the honor of furnishing a candidate for the Presiden y, jn the person of Mr. Pierce, i e was rioted by such sweeping rrojorities that the old whig party was almost literally swept out of existence. It was then supposed that the Democracy had secured an unlimited lease of power throughout the Union. But, in the intoxication of victory, they forgot those principles upon which their party was founded. They grasped eagerly at “the spoils,” and the «olt. ish rivalry of their lenders and the utter micompetency f the man whom they hadplaced in the Presidential chair, to direct the puitr cy of a great nation, soar introduttyd demoralization ami broke them up Into Nfaotions. Upon the ruins of the Whig party t>c>v the Republican or Northern party, ami taking advantage of every blunder of Mr. Pierce’s Administration, and exposing tho disgrace* ful sycophancy of Its satellites, the Republicans soon won to their support a majority of the people of the Northern States.

Mr. Pierce’s election was indeed the culmination of the glory and the power of the Democratic party. Within a year from bis inauguration, his acts, his appointments,and his policy— if policy he could be aaid to hav* had—caused a complete revulsion in the popular mind. When he entered upon the Presidency, he was sustained by an overwhelming majority in Congress. Before bis term closed the Republicans had gained a majority in the popular branch of the Federal Legislature. Tfre misconduct and meannes displayed by the Administration Dem- : oci acy. and the arrogance and violence of j ire Southern friends during the Kansas-Ne-braska agitation, completely cisgusted the Northern people. They had not only been deceived by the men whom they placed in power, but the attempt was made to trail pie upon them as the spiritless slaves of a Southern ohg rchy.

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So strong was Northern feeling and Northern resentment in 1856 that the Democratic Convention, which assembled at Cincinnati, found it necessary to put aside all the promin ret actors in the Kansas Nebraska contest, and to adopt a platform which recogni7. -d the righ of the people of the Territories to fashion their own domestic institutions, .-object only to the Constitution of the United States. Upon this platform Mr. Buchanan, who, by his absence frera this country, escaped beirre involved in the controversies wiii. b bad so much agitated the Fre« States, was nominated for the Presidency, snd by tue votes of citizens, who confided in bia cau> on mid expetience, he was elected. But all the high hopes which were entertained ot Mr. Buchanan's administration were speedily extinguished. Instead of reviving and elevating the Democratic party from the j regrace into which it find fallen under hie predecessor, he has sunk It into a lower degredation, and made its success In the next Presidential election almost hopeleea. He 'res n •» only violated the principles of the .platform upon which he was nominated aud eiewteJ, but has been false to the territorial policy which he him-elf enunciated in his ifcugurai. He has best »W3d his patronage in a manner that has disgusted and divided the party, and bus succeeded In giving the control of every Northern State to Lh9 Opposition. Such are the reflections which naturally ariae out of the result of the New Hampshire election. It is but an augury of wlit iis to happen in all the Northern States next November.

A Glimpse of Pandemonium.

An individual who is in tHe habit of visiting the different saloons in the city, and, whenever he can sponge a drink, or has wherewith to buy it, imbibing freely, went into one a few nights since, and aking a seat bv tne stove, was soon fast asleep. All effbr a to awake him proved ineffectual, until a gentleman, who had some experience aa a pyrotechnist, suggested that a small display oi Sre-.vork3 would not only arouse th® sleeper but afford some amusement for the company. Accordingly, a wheel was procured, which, when lighted, revolves with great rapidity and throws out fire and brimstone in n manner truiy astonishing. Attaching this to the wall, the gas was turned down and the wheel set on fire. Th® individual tor whose benefit the exhibition was given, jumped from his chair as though shot Torn a gun, but looking around could not realize where he was. The wheel kept spitting fire, the individual making every effort to find his way out, when to his utter consternation, huge balls of fire—appearing, as he atterward asserted, as large aa a rainbarrel—from the Roman candle, completed his fr ght. He fell on his bands and knees at once and begged for mercy from the gentleman in black, in whose dominions he supposed he was. This was too much for the crowd, the gas was turned on and a party of six or eight discovered,almost in convulsions o, laughter. Tfie victim broke for the door nnd haa not been seen in that section Zince. Lafayette Journal.

Another fact for Mud-Sills.

A fact has cotne to light, in connection with the Territorial Since Code of Mexico, which may well astonish any one but a be* liover in latter-uay Democracy, of the "mud* sill" species. It is asserted that the slave* drivers in that quarter, to satisfy their Bogging propensities, have turned their hands to the enslavement of white men. They hav - enacted that any citizen employing other citizens in '.he capacity of laborer# shall have the privilege ot beating, thra b» ing or caning them to his heart’s co ntent, provided he does not break their bones, and that the parties so thrashed shall have no redress at the law 1 They have taken a prac* tical mud-sill view of the mission of \P* Democratic party. They interpret the po* sition ol the pro-slavery leaders in Congresi with the native candor and simplicity which might be expected from the honest and cop* per-colored den tens oi Santa Fe. The-Re* publican members of Cot press propose to repeal this unsightly si ve-codp on the Ijj* atant. Let us see whether the Democracy will dare to offend slavery by joipipg in sa just a movement. A CflAXOt TO% Tltt work i-fn view of the lo d ot wrongs our political rulers have saddleJ us with, we propose that, henceforth wo drop the title, “Sovereign People,” a&l adopt the obviously more appropriate ytdHsf '•Suffering People.”