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" ISF tmcmkx pftprT' $2 P ER ANNUM Turn to the iMMiug Sheet* nurvcy, | \T A IW A I? 11 1 U1T1 Big with the wonder* of each pawinX day. 11\ A1J V AIM, Ij | 3 /amiig aab political J'iriuspaptc?Braattii to tjjt arts, smarts, Titrratnct, (Etiotation, agrirolturt, 3atrrual Sniprantuiriits, /ortign aub Touirstic drills, anil tljr Blarktts. VOLUME VII. LANCASTER. C. II., SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 17, 1858. N U M B E R 5. - ? tC | | ?* ( 1 $>mrt ^uetrq. John and Jonathan. 1 -^nul brother J<m:ith:m to John, "You ore tlx? older horn, And I cnn bear another's tmtc. Hut m/t your slightest acorn. Y ou've lived n life of noble strife, You've made a world your own, "tYliy, when I follow in your steps, Receive me with n groan ? *'1 feel the promptings of inv youth, That urge me evermore "To spread my fume, my rnce, my name, From shore to furthcrext shore. 1 feel the lightnings in my blood, The thunders in my hand, And I must work my destiny Whoever tnny withstand. "And if you'd give me brother John, The sympathy 1 crave, And stretch \our warm fraternal hand Across the Atlantic wave, I'd give it such a cordial grasp That earth should start to see. And ancient crowns and se? ptres shake That fear both yon and me." S..id brother John to Joiinttnui. You Ho my nature wrong; I i.?'\?r Ir.toil, ninnii.1, ISnt l>i\vH mhi woli ami long. It cilit.l I'll llf |||? M ll s:,mi- sin-, \Vv'\, ?{uaiu-i\l now ami tli, 11, "I'w iilv in our * r I y \ out It, Ami not Mi.ro tti-n- lii?u. "Ami if nitli ran'm .s cooKr lilooj, Ko- i.l <il' .nil', k.-.-ii, I oil,?*titii.'M tliii.k \,-n in,.\i- too r.x.t, Mi.l.ik- not wli I I in, a.,. I'm- f.-ll tin- Colli. ? ?.f III\ J olilli, t T. > , rrors ol" n,\ priino, A..,I -lr,vim Cor mm ? my fa h.-r'n sou? A tuturc iimri' h i'.it.inc. *An?l livrr\my In ml, *ti* Irerli gitrti, I ?11? toll it <>Vr tin* liririf, Ami ?i?t. \ <>u from nit lu*i?rt uf lir.nl* \ lii/'.i-r lit'- ili .11 initif. 'J nyi tin r '? t u? iii't* llt?* vtur.il, T't'i1 l? -r wink ..i? i lliri?r ; I'nr il' iiiu'ri1 milt t .v?.!ily*?nnf I'm M\.i?vly li.ifij li f. "A .<1 I l>;i\? -'r- ii^ti. f?.r i.olil. r work Ti.i.ti i 'i*r my li*inl lot* tloiic. Ami r?-.iIiti > lo iiilc .tii'i tr.atli* to |>l?nt tt.'.oi il liif ii* ii/ ?'in, T:.?v \ on tin- t\ ? *1 :tll?l L llif loaftt, o il i?|'fi't.l oiirt.-Uf* .tlifool. \\ it.i :r <li' <I 'I it*. Mini tt ll'i'.r v>;;ic law*. Ami I .nil in M <ii *<>?! (iml. r.k.. \<>m iIm* \Y,",t nml I tlai* Ki*l! \\ . *|'l\.k till- M'lf *111111' tllll^'lll* 'I'll ?l Millmi \\ iiiIi' ninl t * -jmki-. Ami llnri i si, il Mi.>k-|>rari- hiiij.' ; At ! l.i'.ii "in tnii|'ii?>.i,iir li:iml, 11r ;<rt, i i.in.il< *? liir^in^i 'i'li lij?lil Iivii liarki'lii'il lirini<j>!.< ri'k T.Ult kllllVV nut M lii fi' lltl\ ^'11, ' Our A*iu|,,-S.i*?>ii ii:iiiH' ninl faint*, i,iir Aiijfli?'Siixi,ii ?|i it'll, Ui-civ.il tl.tir ini'kiu i *tr.iirlil fVoui I li'iiii'ti Ti, rilili/t' uinl t.M'li. >'ii h.-ri'i in) li.mil, I Mn-ti'li it furtli; \ ? ini'.'ii.i r ImIkIm luuk mi! Front tl.i* d.?v hence Ihrrv'* friendship linn Twi&t Jonathan ami John!** Tin) ?Ihh<Ii their hnuda, thi? noble pairAnd o'er tliu 'eleelic chain" Came daily iiHiirioen of IW?> Alld love h.tuivt t it .'III twain. \\ lion other nation*, mre oppromed, l.ie il <rk in Sorrow'* ni^ht. They look to Jonathan and John And hope for roiniH^ li^ht. IIoviiuami.i:Coxiiitionm.? M iiiv year* hijii, in w hut i? iiu* h riouriMnng city in Now Hampshire, lived n stalwart blacksmith, fond of hi* |>i|>e am) of hi* joke.? lie una also fond of hi* blooming daughter, whoso ninny grace* nnd chnriu* had *ti?iiared the effect ion* of a young printer. The couple, after n *en*oii of inulu i?. lulling and cooing, "engaged" tliem*elwe?, ami nothing but the consent of (lie .\?.iu*g liulx's "partem" prevented their union. 'Jo obtain this, an interview w?? arranged, Mui T)'JiO prepared a little speech to antoniah end convince the ohl gentleman, who nat enjor'ng his pipe in (xvhici. eontunt. T) po diluted upon fact* of their long friendship, flour mutual at lacbinenl, their ho|?e* for the future, aud like topic*, and taking the daughter by th? ha/ul, *akl, "1 now. Mr. aalc your pacini?*ion to transplant thi* lovely flower from ita parent bed"?but hi* "phoelink*" overcame him, ha forgot tb* rautainder of hi* rhetorical flourish, blushed, Maui tnered, and finally wound up with?"'from ita parent bed into my own." 'lira falser keenly relished 'lie dineomfltura of tit* niter, onj oiler removing bio pipe find Allotting o cloud of amoke, replied : "Well, young ruoti, I don't know m I've any oljeoiion, provided you will morfry tbe gal Aral." ^ Wbai gentleman can, wilb ony mhm ^^>f propriety, o?k 9 fft wuiwan Jo Jv?n on WW. I ! Itlcrtcii ftnrij. Napoleons Meroy. Napoleon was conversing with Josephine, when one of his officers entered i and announced a young woman from Lyons. What is her business with met' I 'Some petition,' answered de Mtrville, the oflieer. | The officer soon re appeared, with a lady leaning upon his arm, whose face, I as much as could be scanned, through the i thick folds of a veil, was very beautiful. She trembled as she approached the door 'Mademoiselle,' whispered her guide * kindly, 'take coinage, but answ er nromnt ... i 1 I ly every question the emjieror proposes ; lie detests hesitation.' Then ushering her j ii?to thw spacious apartment, lie bowed | and retired. i The trembling girl, perceiving Napolej oil, on whom her fondest hopes depended , forget her timidity ; she thought only of another. Throw ing herself at the feel of Napoleon, she exclaimed in a voice clink iing with emotion: 'Mercy, sire ! 1 mio for Mercy and pardon.' She could artio ulate no more. Josephine stepped from her partial concealment, and then approaching, contributed more by her sympathising words i.f encouragements to restore the courage ' of the petitioner than even the Kmperor by his gracious manner, us he bade her ri e. - \i i - ? . , ...... |.,-n , .? aoeuioisciic,' shkI lie. I l.-nricttn Annelid (for that w?s Iior nam-) looked imploringly hI (lie Kinpe r?>r, and exclaimed ; 4All sire, 1 ask pai"loo for Louis I Mmarre, w ho is cotidetnn* 1 to he shut oh to-morrow. Oh, grant j him jour ro\ al pardon !' A cloud gathered on Napoleon's brow he interrupted her with, 4A deserter, Mademoiselle ; he has twice deserted.? N", h<- must ire tuioie an example for the remain !er of the regiment.' "Hiii the cause of his desertion !' cried !l.-nrii-'ta, in agony. *lle wuscompel'ed to join I he army against his will.' What ire the causes of Ins desertion?' lilerrupt ? 1 Napoleon. Two weeks since,' answered Henrietta, *he received news thai an only remaining part tit, a mother, sire, was on her deathbed, and longing day and night to be , iii iJ lo-r son. Louis knew that reliefer ri-le o?c to>iii bis post was impossible.? !!! mind was fi led with one thought? ihat she might close lier eyesforeter, ere *.li? \ rested op h son she hoed so fondly.' *1' ! -lie die I' asked iho Empress, with iiit< re*t. No, madam,' replied Henrietta, 'she si l:is| recovered. Hut hardly had Louis r. eive.l her h'.osin^, been folded in Iter ruts, ire be was torn from her grasp oy ihe olli.vr of justice, and dragged hither, i ?h ! must he die ? Mercv, sire, I beseech \oii !' M .demoiselle,' said Napoleon, apparent !\ softened, this is the second oltuiice \ ? iihiiim ih?* first ; vou omitted that,' 'It wiis,' said rsht, hesitating and color ing, 'it was?tliHt he heard 1 was to be married to Conrad Fvranl.wlioin 1 ?letest *? much as be does,' answered Henrietta, with naivete. 'An- y on hi? sifter, that lie feels so gr?-al hii interest ill yoiu late,' asked the 1 Kmpcror. 'Uli no, sin ,' said Henrietta, her lovely heck* a*.inning a still deeper hue of the J r.?.-, *1 ain onlv a cousin.' *.\h! only a cousin,' repeated Napo leon, glancing at Josephine with a sap1 press, d smile. Oh, siie,' said Henrietta, 'recollect the anguish ot his widowed mother when she recollects that the affection of her son for her :s the cause of his death. \\ hat,' she continued, 'can I do to save I.'ilit ?' and ' the poor girl forgetting the presence of ' royalty, hurst into tears. The kiiulheart ei Josephine glanced at the Kmperor wuh eyes expressive of pity and sympathy. She noticed the workings of his face, and felt at once that it was very uncertain whether (amis Uelmarre was to la* shot the next morning. Napoleon approached the weeping girl. She hastily looked up ainldticd her tears. M oleinoiselle,' sail! he, 'would you give your life fur his f Would you die, could Louis IMmarre he restored to liberty ami his mother!' Henrietta startled hack, deadly pale, looked fixedly at the Km|>eror for a mo. meiit, then turning away she buried her face iu Iter hands. After a silence of some minutes, Henrietta looked up: 'I am willing'said she, in a very low voice. Napoleon locked at I : i? ? :# l I J - nit in surprise, nil n lie uhu ilOl MlillClpaled so ready an answer to Iiih proposal.? 'I will see you again,' said lie, 'in the meantime accept such accommodation as I shall direct.' As soon as the door was closed upon the fair petitioner, Napoleon walked to the window against which Josephine was Lsaniog, and said, 'J see how it is : Louis Ifeluiarra is th? (over of this young girl. True lo woman's nature, she has braved difficulty and danger to beg his release.' 'How s'rong must he tits love she , bears for him,' said the Krnprea*. 'Ah ]' returned he, 'I have a mind to stilject this love to a severer test. IJucli I doubt whether she will give Iter life for him. Nevertheless 1 will see.' Surs,' c/ied Josephine, 'you are not serous?Louis can certainly l>e pardoned without the death of Henrietta.' Napoleon drew n*r.r the window, and they con ersed in a low voice. a a Henrietta stood alone iu a insgwiSesnt , apartment. Hours pawed uuohsarvad, so ! intensely was she absorbed in reverie ; a I small folded paper was tight'y grasped in her small hand. On it wero traced these ' ! words, 'A deserter is condemned by the ; laws of the army to softer death. If you | wish Dolmarre restored to liberty, the ' means are in your power. Ere day dawns ! he may he on his way to join his mother whom he so much loves.' 'Ah I' murmured Henrietta, 'do not I I love him too ?' l'ressing her hands upon her heart, as if to still its tumultuous j breathing, she paced the apartment. The door opened, and the Chevalier de Merville entered, lie paused ere he articulated 'Mademoiselle.' i 'I am /eadv.' renlie.l Henrietta ???.. decision is made.' l>e Merville appeared to comprehend the import of her words, lie looked up, on her with reverence as well as admira- i } tion, as she stood with the high resolve j impressed upon her hcaulifu! brow, 'Follow me, Mademoiselle,' said he. They traversed long corridors and numerous suits of superb apartments ; and descending a staircase, quickly reached an outer { comt communicating with the guard| house. Flittering this, Henrietta was ush- ; ered by her guide into a small apartment, I where she was soon left to herself, i tin a chair was thing a uniform of the 1 regiment to which Louis belonged. On a table lay a large plumed cap. Iienri- 1 ! etta comprehended all in a moment. Quickly habiting herself in tho uniform she stood before the mirror, and gathering I up her beautiful brown tresses into a 1 knot, placed the cap on her head. She j j almost uttered a cry of joy at the success | of her transfoiuialion. She knew that ] she was to be led to the fatal ground at i ' the morning's dawn. Tho bullet which I would have struck Louis to the heart was 1 i ? .i .i. ... I...- i ... i ? , iv/ 1/v iicmii lu nur U?U, UUl sue nuruiiK not hack. Love triumphed over the tiin* id woman's nature. 'Louis's mother will 1 bless me in her heart,' she whispered.? | 'Louis himself will rever forget ine. And | often has he sworn that he loved me better than all else beside.' Drawing a lock 1 >f raven hair from her bosom she piessed I it to her lips, and then breathed a prayer to heaven. Morning dawned. The sound of foot- 1 men aroused Henrietta. She started up, , grasped the Sand of hair, awaiting Ins summons. The door opened and two ' soldiers entered repeating the name of Louis Delmarre; they suddenly led her j forth to die. The soldier-> whose bullets were to pierce the heart of Louis had ta i ken their stanJ, Hint only awaited the j ! command from the Kill pel or, who was stationed at the window, commanding a view of the whole scene. 'Olt," cried Josephine, who stood by him, htil concealed by the window drapery from the view of those below, 'Oh, i ' sire, I can endure it no longer ; it seems { so much like a dreadful reality. Mark J the demoted girl ! No shrinking back ! i See, she seems calmly awai'ing the fatul moment !" | 'Stop !' cried the Emperor from the , i window' 'Louis Delniarre is pardoned.? ' I revoke his reuteuce' A loud hurst of applause from the lips ' of the soldiers followed this announcement. ( Not one of them hut loved and respec* j ; led their comrade. The next moment, . ' ere thev could press around to congratu ' late the supposed Louis, De Nlerville had ' eagerly drawn the bewildered Henrietta through the crowd, hack to the cell from which she had emerged but a few mo- j menus uetore. 'Resume j.our dress Again, Mademoi selle ; lose no time ; the Kmjieror wishes 1 j to see you. I will return soon.' \ Henrietta w hs like one in a dream, hut l a gleatn of delicious hope thrilled her soul; i she fell the dawning of happiness break I upon her heart. Soon again resuming i j her pretty rustic lineaments I>? Merville i re appeared, and once again she trod the I audience room of the Emperor. Lifting her eyes from the ground as '.he lofty door ' i swung open, she beheld Lou it. An ex- ! ; plantation of joy burst from the lips of ; both, as regardless of others, they ruthed ? !...*. ........ Napoleon stepped forward. 'Louis Del mar re,' said lie, 'you have i jnut heard from inv lips the tale of this lovely girl's devotion and courage. Do you love her as she deserves I' *1 could die for her,' answered Louis j proudly. 'Well, well,' cried the Kmperor, 'this test of one will suffice. So dutiful a son, 1 so faithful a lover, will make the best of . husbands. You, Lieutenant Louis Delmat re, are discharged from your regiment. Return to your native valley with Henrietta as your bride.' 'Here,' said the benevolent Josephine, emerging from the recessed window,'here are one hundred louia d'ors, as the marriage dowry, Henrietta.' A charming blush suffused the cheek ' of the beautiful girl as she received the purse from the hand of the Kmpres*. 'Long live Napoleon !' exclaimed Louis, as with a heart loo full of grateful emo lion for further utterance, he took the hand of Henrietta, and making a grace- j ful obeisance, ?juilted the apartment. V u i? f.. 11*.** IT.. ? W L.. it ? *? ' -1 * \?I?? vr. ?*umn JUU 1*11 in business I You ?till have life ami health. , itou't kit down and cry about mishaps, for that will never gut you out of debt, , nor buy your children frock*. Go to work at something, est sparingly, dress mode- j rately, drink nothing etching, and above all, keep a merry heart, aud you'll be up i? the world. The prettiest lining for bonnet is a smiling facp. Domestic Receipts. Fou uik Ccrk of Whooping Cocou.? A correspondent of tlio New York Keen iny Pout furnishes the following recipes for the cure of the whooping cough :? i The best kind of coffee prepared as for \ the table, and give as a common drink to the child as warm as can be drank ; and a piece of alum for the patient to lick as ! soon as it may wish. Most children are 1 fond of alum, and w ill get all they need > ??. :r ?>? ' u>g?>i, vui li IIJH UlitllKU it, they must, be made to taste of it eight or ten liiues in the course of a day. It will effectually break up the worst case of whooping cough in a very short time.? To adults and children in the habit of ta king coffee the remedy is good for noth- ) ing. Beep Tea.?Take a piece of lean but 1 jucy beef, wash it nicely and cut it up into pieces about an inch square put ! these into a wide mouth bottle and cork it up closelv ; then set the bottlo into a pan of water and boil it for an hour or more if you have time. In this way you will get the pure juice of the meat, undi- I luted by any water, and a smaller qua.iti- , tv will answer ibe purpose of nourish- ; ineut. To lvket' Sckt.?Suet may be kept a year, ?hus:?choose the firmest and most | free from skin or veins, remove all traces I of these, put the suet in a sauce pari at ! son:e distance from the fire, and let it I mell gradually ; when melted, pour it into a pan of cold, spring water; when hard, wipe it dry, fold it in white paper, put it in a linen bag, keep in a cool, dry place; when used, it must be scraped and will make an excel, int crust with or without butter. Fob Si'kains.?Said to be excellent.? i t)ue pint of soft soap, (country preferred.) one pint of whiskey ; tr.ix and boil them until the quantity is reduced to one pint. It will then be of the consistency of a 1 plaster-salve. Take a thick cloth, linen or cotton, solliciently large to cover the j parts injured, spread the mixture, and sprinkle the same with black pepper.? t ... I.. .1 - ? - mis, ana lei it remain tor fortyeight hours. A cure, iu nine cases oul of | ten will bo effected. Indian Huf.ad.?A lady contributor to the l'rairie Farmer, close* an article on ' various subjects with the following direc- j lions for Cooking bread :? '*Uo you know how to make good, old fashioned Indian bread I Yes! Well,) do you know how to cook it I 1 will give you my plan. When sufficiently light, place it iu a hot oven; put iiro i your tin or copper boiler a pail full of clean water ; place it over the fire ; have ( made a wooden frame, fitting snugly into t ll.. I '-I? ? ?i - I - i - 1 mu -oner, uu wiiicu 10 piace your bread pans. This must be high enough to pre vent the water tailing into the pans.? i When yotir bread has baked three fourths of an hour, place it in boiler, cover tight, and steam three hours. The water must [ not stop boiling until the bread is doue. > You will have a nice loaf without the hard crust formed by baking until done." How to Behave in Church. Fou tiENTLKMKN.? Kaucv, upon cpeu? . ing ibe door, every body will look at you and l>ear yourself bravely till you get to | your seat. Then pass your hand over your hair to see if the hour's labour that j )ou spent on it has not been in vain, then j take a good long stare over the congrega- , Lion to see who is there. If you chew tobacco, blaze away into the seat behind if unoccupied, or else let drive at your neighbor's patent leather. Scratch your i name on the back of the front seat, with the likeness of a one eyed hippogiitf",stare I frequently at the pretty looking girl behind you, and if possible send lier a note j assuring her that she has the nrettiest hand or tlie most exquisite eye of blue this side of Paradise. After having ex j haunted nil reasonable amusements you may shut your eyes, open your mouth, : and favor the congregation with an ex tempore snore. After the service is over do the agreeable to some divinity ; thereafter write yourself a brick. Koit Youso Ladiks.? Spend your hours in fixing out l?efore starting, for it is every youug lady's duly to iook pretty, bearing in mind that ladies were created for tlie especial purpose of being worship ped by gentlemen, and attracting their uuquallitied admiration. Step daintily up the aisle, seat yourself again, and re l?eat this six consecutive times. Pull the outer garment a little way over the left shoulder, tbeu hack on the right, and after doing this a few limes leave it where you found it. Straighten down draw it ' up pull out a highly perfumed pocket i ii l.: / ? lanuKvrviiKM, pass ii over your lips and return it, smooth down bolli sides of your dress, and thrust the toe ol your exquisite foot a little out, aud then af:?r raising up and setting down agniiayou will lie prepared for further developments. Heing properly fixed, you will rise up again and sit down, and then after rising up and sitting down once it would be well to repeat it. If the gentleman in front sends you a note, hide it under yoor prayer book or fan, and read it when he is not looking ; you need pay no particular attention to the preaching, that will be for the benefit of sinners. If you have blue eyes, turn them upward once in a while, if black cloee the lids and loo't dreamy.? If there is a gentleman at church you particularly fancy, don't accept a gentle man's company, unless he protiers it, and let y-our judgment guide you thereafter. Speech of Hon J. H Hammond, of j South Carolinalu the Senate of the United States, Thura* day, March 4, 1868, the hill for the adtuissiou ot Kansas into the Union being under consideration. Mr. Hammond addressed the Senate j as follows : Mr. President, in the debate which oc- ' curred here in the early part of last month, I I understood the Senator from Illinois | [Mr. Douglas] to say that the question of the reception of the Lecompton constitution was narrowed dowr. to a single point. That point was, whether that constitution embodied tho will of the people of Kansas. Ami correct ? Mr. Douglas. The Senator is correct, with this qualification : 1 could waive Ille irregularity and agree to the reception ot* Kansas into the Union under the Lecoinpton constitution, provided I was sat- j isfied that it was the act and deed of that ; people, and embodied their will. There i are other objections ; but the others I i could overcome, if this point were dispos- ! ed of. Mr. Hammond. I so understood the ; Senator. I understood that if he could be satisfied that this constitution embodied the will of the people of Kansas, all other defects and irregularities would be cured by the act of Congress, and that he himself would be willing to permit such an act to be passed. Now, sir, the only question with him ' is, how is that will to be ascertained I and ! upon that point, and thai alone, it is pro- ' bable wo shall differ. I think the Sena- j tor fell into a fundamental error in his re- | port dissenting from the report of the ma- ' jority of the territorial committee, in sav- ' tug that the convention which framed this 1 constitution was a creature of the territorial Legislature; and from that error has proahlv arisen all his subsequent errors on this subject. How can it Impossible that the convention should be the creature of a Territorial Legislature ? The convention was an assembly of the paople in their highest sovereign capacity, about to perform their highest possible act of sovereignty. 'Hie Territorial Legislature is n mere nrovis-ntml ft""" " l'?HJ I corporation, appointed and paid by ibe j Congress of the United States, without a J particle of sovereign power; and yet, shall that interfere with a sovereignty? inchoate, but still a sovereignly ] Why, j sir, Congress cannot interfere ; Congress cannot confer on the Territorial Legisla- j lure the power to interfere. Congress is not sovereign. Congress has sovereign ' powers, but no sovereignty. Congress j has no power to act outside of the limitations of the constitution ; no right to carry into effect the supreme will of any peo pie if it has not been expressed in their constitution; and, therefore, Congress is not sovereign. Nor does Congress hold the sovereignty of Kansas. The sovereignty of Kansas resides, if it resides any where, with the sovereign States of this Union. They have conferred upon Congress, among oilier powers, the authority of administer ing their sovereignly to their satisfaction. They hare given Congress the power to make needful rules and regulations re. I garding tlio Territory ; am? they have ijiven Congress power to admit a Slate. Under these two sovereign powers, Congress may first establish a provisional territorial government merely for municipal 1 purposes; and when a State has grown ' into sovereignty, when that sovereignty i w hich has been kept in abeyance demands I recognition, when a community is formed there, a social compact created, a sovereignty born as it were upon the soil, then Congress is gifted with the power to acknowledge that sovereignty; and the Legislature, only by mere usage, oftentimes neglected, assists at the birth of it by passiug a precedent resolution assembling a convention. Hut, sir, when that conventioh assem- j hies to form a constitution, it assembles { in the highest known capacity of a people and has no superior in this Government hut a State sovereignty ; or rather the State sovereignties of ail the States alone ! can do anything with the act of that convention. Then, if that convention was . i t..\ :r -t - 1 mmui, ii mere is no onjection lo the con- I vention itself, there can l>e no objection I to the action of the convention ; and there j is no power on earth that has a right lo j inquire whether the convention represen- | ted the will of the people of Kansas or ! not. I do not doubt that there might he 1 some cases of such gross and palpable 1 frauds committed in the formation of a convention, as might authorize Congress to investigate tliein, but I can scarcely conceive ot any; and I do not think that ! Congiess has any other power, when a 1 Stale knocks at the door for admission, but to inquire if her couslituliou is republican. If what I have aaid he correct, then the will of the people of Kansas is to he found in the action of her constitutional convention, and it is not safe to look for it any where else. It is immaterial whether ii is me win of a majority of the people of Kao*a4 now, or not. Tlie con- ; vention wm, or ought to have been, dec- ! ted by a majority of the people Kansas. A coo vention, elected in April, may well frame a constitution that would not ho agreeable to a majority of the people of a new iState, rapidly tilling up, in the succeeding January ; and if legislatures are to be allowed to nut to a vote the acts of a convention, ami havo tbeui beaten down by a subsequent influx of iuiigrants, there is no finality. If vou were to send back tire Lecoioption i Constitution, and another 1 was to be framed, in the slow way in which we do public business here, before it would reach Congress, in soother year, perhaps the majority would be turned tbe otber way. Sir, wbeuever you go outside of tbe regulAr forms of law and constitutions to 6eek for tbe will of tbe people, you are wandering in a wilderness?a wilderness of tborus. If ibis was p minority constitution I do not know tbal tbnt would be Rn objection to it. Constitutions are made for minorities. Perhaps minorities ought lo have the right to make constitutions, for they are administered by majorities. The constitution of this Union was j made hv a minority, and as late as 1840 a minority had it in their hands, and could have altered or abolished it; for, in 1840, six out ol the twenty six States of the Union held the numerical majority. The Senator from Illinois has, upou his view of the Lecomplon Constitution and the present situation of aflairs in Kansas, rai.-ed the cry of popular sovereignty. The Senator from New York [M r. Seward J yesterday made himself facetious about it, and called it "squatter sovereignty."? There is a popular sovereignty which is the basis of our Government, and I am unwilling that the Senator should have j the benefit of uniting squatter sovereignty with popular sovereignty. Sir, in all countries and in all time, it is well understood tliat the numerical majority of the people could, if they chose, exercise the sovereignty of the country ; but for want of intelligence, and lor want of leaders, they have never yet been able successfully to combine and form a popular government. They have often attempted it, but it has always turned out, instead of a pop ular sovereignty, a populous sovereignty : and demagogues, placing themselves upon the movement, have invariably led them into military despotism. 1 think that the popular sovereignty which the Senator from Illinois would dorive from the acts of his Territorial Legislature, and from the information received from partisans and partisan presses would lead us directly into populous sovereignty and uot popular sovereignty. The first oiganiaation of popular sovereignty on a proper basis, took place in this country.? The first iriiii ili<- li..v... O? ? ? ? .salute to a new organization of popular | sovereignty tiiat was embodied in tlie , ] Declaration ol Independence, developed, elaborated, and inaugurated forever in the Constitution of the United States; and the tine pillars of it were reprssentation and the ballot-box?the legal and consti tutional ballot-box ordained by the people. In the'division of power, in distributing the sovereign powers among the various depaitmenls of the Government, the people retained for themselves the single power of the ballot-hox; and a great power it was. Through that power they were able id* control all the department of the Government. It was not for the people to be exercising political power in detail ; it was not for them to be annoyed with the cares of government ; but, from time to time, through the hallot-hox, to exert their power to control the whole organization, and sovereignty remained with them. This is popular sovereignty iiiu |iuj>uinr sovereignty ol a legal, con stitutiuna' ballot-box , and when spoken through that box, the voice of the people, for all political purposes, is the voice of (>od ; but when it is outside of that, it is the voice of a demon, the doctrine of the . reign of terror. l'ermit me to say, that in passing 1 omitted to answer a question thatlhe Senator from Illinois has, I believe, repeatedly asked ; and that is, what were the legal powers of the Territorial Legislature after the formation and adoption of the Lecompion Constitution ? That had nothing to do with the Territorial Legislation. They moved in totally different spheres. The Territorial Legislature was a provisional government, almost without power, appointed and paid by this Gov... 'i-i _ i - ciuihcmi. jut: j^cuinpiou v_,ousUlUlloii was the act of a people, an>l thesover- ( eign act of a people. They moved in different spheres and oa different planes, and could not come in contact at all with out usurpation on the one part or the other. It was not competent for the Lecompton Constitution to overturn the Territorial government and set up a government in place of it, because that Constitution, until acklowledgment hy Congress, was nothing ; it was not in heing. It could well order the people of Kansas to pass upon it; itcould do whatever was n?;es*arv to perfect that constitution, hut nothing beyond that, until Congress had agreed to accept it. In the mean time the territorial government, a government atI interim, was entitled to exercise all the sway over the Territory that it ever had been entitled to. The error of assu tning, as the Senator did, that the con veution was the creaturo of the territorial government, has led hiin into the difficulty and confusion of uniting and disuniting these two governments according as it may suit his argument. There is no government in the convention until after the adoption by Congress of its constitution; and there is no inference ot any time with the Territorial Legislature, as there is no Actual power in the Territorial Legislature even to call a convention, hut what is derived from usage and permission, and by an enabling act sometimes ft Congress. If ilia Senator from Illinois, whom I regarJ as the Ajax Telemon of this debate does not press the question of frauds, 1 hall have little or nothing to say about that. The whole history ot Kansas is a disgusting one, from the beginning to the end. 1 have avoided reading it as much as I could. Had I been a Senator before 1 should have felt it my duty, perhaps, o have done so; hut not expecting to Iks one, I am ignorant, fbrturfately, in a great measure, of detail a nJ 1 was glad to hear the acknowledgment of the Senator from Illinois, since it excuses inc from the duty of examining it. 1 hear on the other side of the Chamber, a great deal said about gigantic and stupendous frauds; and the Senator from N. V. yesterday, in portraying the character of his party and the opposite one, laid the whole of those frauds upon the pro slavery party To listen to liiin, you would have supposed that the regiments of emigrants recru ted in the purlieus of the great cities ol llie North, and sent out, armed and equipped with Sharp's rifles, and how ie knives and revolvers,to conquer for free dotn i:i Kansas, stood by, meek saints, innocent as doves, and humhle as lambs brought, up to the sacrifice Think of them: General Lane's lambs'. They re mind one of Col. Kirk's lambs, to whom they have a family resemblance. 1 presume that there were frauds; and that it there were frauds, they were equally great on all sides; and that any investigation into '.hem on this floor, or bv a commission, would end in nothing but inflicting almost uuendurble disgrace 011 the United States. Hut, sir, the true object of (he discussion on the other side of the Chamber, is to agitate the question of slavery. I have very great doubts whether the leaders on the oilier side of the House really wish to defeat this bill. 1 thinL- il.?v 1.1 consider il h vastly greater victory to crush uut the Demon alio party in the North, and destroy the leaders of the Kansas Nebraska hill ; and 1 am not sure that they have not brought about this imbroglio for the very purpose. How strange is it that they tell us that, year after >ear, the majority in Kansas is beaten at the pedis I 'l'hey have always had a majority, but they always get beaten ! Jlow could that be ? It does secin, froin the most reliable sources ol information, that they have a majority, and have had a majority for some lime. Why has not this majoi'ty come forwaid and taken possession of the government, and made a free State constitution, and brought it here ! Wv should all have voted for its admission chcerlully. There can he but one reason : it they had brought, as was generally supposed at the time the Kansas Nebraska act was passed vwmld ho the case, a free State constitution hero, tin-re would have been noddVicully among the Northern Democrats ; they would have been sustained bv their people. The iUlmiinnt in" !.. I '' '1 * ..... .......... iiijiut u_\ miiiio 01 un-in, as l understood, thai that act was a good free Slate net, v\< 111 > 1 have been verified, aim tlio Northern l>oinocratic party would have heeu sustained ; hut its coming hero a slave State, it is said, will kill thai par. ly, and tiiat is the reason they have refrained from going to the polls; that is the reason they have refrained from making it a free Stat' when they had the power. They iutenu to make it a free Stale as soon as they have ell'eoted that purpose of destroying the hem leralic pinty at the Noith, and their true reason here is to agitate slavery. For one, I am not disposed to discuss that question here in any abstract form. I think the time lias gone by for that. Our minds are all made up. 1 tin willing to Hiatus* u?ami inai is lito way a should lie ami must be discussed?as a practical tiling, as a tiling tliat is, ami is to be ; ? ami to discuss its etfect upon our political institutions, and to ascertain how long those political n.t'.itulions wi.l hold together under its effects. The Senator from Now York entered very fairly into this field yesterday. L was surprised, the other day, when he so openly said the battle bad been fought and won. Although I kno.v, and had long known it to be true, I was surprised to hear him say so. I thought that ho had been entrapped into a hasty expression by the sharp rebukes of the Senator from New Hampshire ; ami 1 am glad to see that yesterday he has come out and shown that it is a matured project of his; that these woids mean all that 1 thought they meant ; that they mean that the South is a conquore 1 province, and that the North intends to rule it. He said that it was tl.eir intention to take thin Government from unjust and unfaithful hands; that it was their intention to consecta'ie all the Territories of the Union to free labor ; am] thai, to effect tbeir purposes, they intended to reconstruct the Supreme Court. Yesterday, the Senator said, 'Suppose we admit. Kansas with t!io l.^e >mpu?B constitution : what guarantees are there that Congress will n<>i again interfere with the affairs of Kansas?" meaning, I suppose, that it she abolished slavery, what guarantee there w as that Congress would not force it upon her again. Sir, so far as we of the South are concerned, you have, at least, the guarantee ol good faith thai never lias liAsn violatx-l * ?? what guarantee have we, when vou have this Government in your possession, in all its departments, even if we submit quietly to what the Senator exhorts us to submit to?the concentration of slavery in its present territory, and even to the reconstruction of the Supreme Court? that you will not plunder us witn tariffs ; that you will not bankrupt us with internal impiovements and bounties on fish ; that you will not restrain ns with navigation laws, and other laws impeding the facilities of transportation to Southern produce f What guarantee have we that you w ill not create a new bank, and concentrate all die finances of this country at the North, where nlffa iy, for the want of direct trade and a pioper *\stent of banking in the South, they are ruinously concentrated ! Nay, sir, what guarantee b ive we that you will 1jot emancipate out slaves, or, at least, inake the attempt? We'f-utnot Hdy on four A