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I "IDEA. IS A SHADOW ' VOL. 1. W. L T. PHI NCR. J. n. MALI.OY. PRIIVCE & ill A liKOV, EDITORS AND PROPRIETOR8 r. n ? nru* Tat Fm Pl* Itk*au> l*|mbibbed ecwry Tiranit, it ftii |MC Jtvt, ITMCTtT tN AUTAXI-C. j AlTSBTIMEnEMTH Of MUca l)u"s or l?M, wbtrh 1? i? ? H) br tocrrtil i ot om dollar, tor ilntf. Imortl;#; on. square root In ord, MtcntylTi rente f?r tb? tint, and My cont* (w each J niTa^uflnt l>u*rtk>r Renewal or cbanq. t.enty i.nU . y?r unite. AdrcrtWur nU In monthly ?r quarterly, otiadoUar I peroqosrv; #?uit tuuntM/, iMriiljrin .wnU.'|?r rquarw. | Thafbllow|nK<Mnctl9n* will h* made iofefur of tandinx . drertbwro'i U: Out ?|iun. fr>r thrra mouth*. % I 6t> i d<> for alx immthi. 7 jO ' do ft>ro??o rrar, 10 (M> ! Two nmm, Ihr thro* mouth#, 7 50 do f? ?U do I a OO do for on<> Tear. 18 OO Thrro aquare*. fhr thrro tnnoU.*, 11 OO h do for atx do 10 OO j A. ?V> fhr on year. 11& (HI A Ti>U? mjuiiw, fer thren month#, 1 4 OO r * ?io aw ?i* do a oo 1 . do 1* ono for. S.l OO wmdPyQr Fir* #quarr#, Ihr on# roar, . 40 OO Pr< fmdon*! and b?t>M '"nhl/s 8 OO per annum. All adrrrttwrnnnta Ihr le?? than mm VoTTH, GASII, other# tretr be r\'T. no* woarmr. If rna irriMcfc of InwrUona U nut opeoHlal. tn wnrr.MO, kdirrdaaturnta will b? ooxtixci? till ordorwl out. an.l j titunto icooaMHotv. No adroHlwrn?nU, mwrrrtr nuu. will be r. n#id<-r,*l j If-W '.HA?# I. *l?IUX. PARTING WORDS. The farewell lionrs of life arc sad, ! 7 j even though they may bo hopeful, j Parents and children sepovato in the ! vicissitudes of life, friends exchange ' the cordial pressure of hands in part ing for a season, lovers seperatc with, fond adieus, renewed vows, and happy hopes of future. There is much for memory in the geutle prossuro of the hand, in the soul touching glance of 1 tho eye, in the soft tone of the voice, i but words which fall upon the car nr.d r?u'li it,#* lioarf uitli Ilia flidrniflrnt.i'a of love and frieudahip give memory its r richest, sweetest, dearest treasures. The son leaves his parental roof to seek his fortune in the wide world. lie leaves behind him the past, filled as it is, with the ninny happy recollections of his joyous boyhood Huys," before ' tho cares, perplexities and responsibilities of manhood have been stamped ( unon his brow. Go where he may, ' these recollections will follow him, and lie will often muse on his youthful, halcyon days* At times ho may forzet those, but the last words uttered by hid lovintr aarenta are n?vi>r fnrrmtfnn i - ?m. If ho is disposed to depart from tho path >f duty, and ontor into tho vor* tex of vice and dissipation, the la?t prayer uttered by his kind and loring mother will chide him for his conduct. The last anxious Jook, the tear drops apon motherly chcok will thrill htm anew, and strengthen him to resist the insidious wilee of the tempterThe daughter may Wive her homo to make the home of biu>, whom she has chosen for a life companion, happy. Through all the changes of life, oven in her deepest troubles or in hor happiest moments, she is blessed by the 1^ sad, sweet memory of tbe long fond 1 % etnbraoo, the whispering spirit of hor | parents love? The soldier, too, when amid tho roar of cannon, the rattle of musketry, and the cries and "roans of tho wounded, when shot fly a* thick as hail, will think of the last parting \ words of Iff* kindred, at home, and it j witystimul&to and renew hu hand to] wia honors that may be heralded back to his frionda at homo.' In all the different characters of life we may assume, sti.ll the last fond words of those we Worried with, fall like gentle murmur* upon the ear of memory- Wo will turn away, and muse m we pee* akmg life'* nij.-ged journey over the pavtinscene. Tho last word* *iok deep into our f iamoet soul, and especially to, if much t time and distance intervene between the hour of eeperetioo And hope of meet- I i?? ftinia. The brief future m?? be! big with fete, tod it ie this then, why parting word* beootne bnptwd i? iedeliMy on the luiod. Dot it is the dc&j <* wortele \p r?rt, not ft* * few d*y?, Or * w#ok, or ? month, -of e yetr, hot for el) forthij tinw, I theepirittekbt He #lght to eternity?to wether end e wsyoteriocur worM We pen theoto aueel ?? more on eertli. We joey eling to th? dear eoalawr.ior,, or (bet Mend m the i?ght end j<w bv* death wUi 6*p bw Mu;il I&kSI**V.v? ?? only the vatmerfy of the peet , and si oil, the aarting wo?b of% in* s- ^ lie 1 THAT DKPARTKTH, SPEECH J CII I THE GAMBLER'S ALARMED. The following narrative, a true one?d<* cribcs aacenethat actually took place nc many years since in a country village i the Statu of Maiue. One evening in the month of December 1844, a number of townsmen had asscivb led at the store of Mr. Pntnam to talk ov"matters undtbiogs/' smoke, drink, aud i short do anything to "kill time." Three hours had thua passed away.? They had laughed, and talked, and drank aud chatted, and a good time generally ao that at about the usual hour of ahuttinj up shop, ccch of tho party felt partioula first rato. "Come." said Charle* Hatch, one of th AA?itMan?f -.11 1! 1 *1 * ? uipiiji , "ivi n on ii^uor, ana tnon DAT n game of high low Jack !" "So I say," exclaimed another, '?who* got tho cards ?" "Fetch on your kecrds," drawled out third, his eyes half closed, through the cl feet of the liquor he had drank. After drinking uli arortnd.s** old pioo U hie was drawn before tho tiro place wber burncd^rigbtly a large Arc of hemlook log* which would snap uod craokle, throw in] largo coals oat upon the boarth. All drew up around tho table, boatitif themselves on whatever came handiest.? Four of them had rolled up to the tab!, so rue kegs, which from their weight wen suppored contain nail*. ? Now." said Hatch, " how shall wo play every one for himself ?" Mr. Putnam was not in tho store tha ovening, and the clerk, who was tuny be hindtho counter, had taken very little no tice of the proceedings. About half pas ten, Mr. Putnam thought he would st?] over to the store, and see that everything was safe As ho went in he walked up u the fire. When within a f?? ? _ w where the iucn v jre sitting, ho starlet in horror. Before him sat- seven men; hsl crnry with drink and the oxoitcmoot o cifio. Thirc thsj were, a few feet of the firo just described, anc four of thom seated ou ktyt of po\e< itr. Barcely, who was a very heavy inati,hac pressed i n the head of the keg on which 1? o?t, uuiutin^ the top hvvp, wTiw prcCuit; the powder out through the chinks. Bj Klo continued motion of their feet, th< powder had beoome spread about the floor and now coverod a space of about two fee all around them. Mr. Putnam's first movement was to wards the door, but recovering himself h< walked up towards the fire. Should eith or 01 100m attempt to nee, lia though! i would aoattara few grain* a little furthe into the 6ra place where lay a large quantit; of lire coal. At that moment Hatch looked up, ant acoing Mr Putnam with hi* faoe doedl; pale,gazing into the fire, exclaimed, nam, what aila you V and at the earn tune made a motion to rite. "Gentlemen, do not rise," said Mr. Put nam j four of you ait on kegs of powderit is scattered all around you?one more meat might send you all to etermtv. Ther are two bucket* of water behind the bar.? Hut keep your acate for one minute, am you ate eared?move and you are dew men !" In an instant every man was perfect!; sobered?not a limb taorad?each seem* paralyzed. * In leas time than we bare taken to dea oribe this thrtlliag sccao, Mr. ihitnatn ha< pouted the water and completely saturate the' powder on the ftoor, and extinguish* the fire, so that the explosion was impose Me. Thau, and not till then, was tharo word spcUn. Before those wren man left the store that rery night, they pledged them solve nerer to taste another'glees of liquor c piny another'game of onrda. "No, hare partners/ growled one mac ?? handed if I'll play so/' shonte the former; bringing his fist down upo the table, knocking one candle out bf th Htiok, and another upon the floor.. )?? :, *Come.eoteo," said Hatob, "no guaa telling, all who . Say f* baring partner, rt*r,rl i>a> " f jSt" 2JL- I ' " '-.'i /' j'''"(Si ero??. <i *?t>, BtroU >, * {% '' *t>~ ,v * -' . iV',?W:-,.%\g-\ * IS FLEETING AS THE WINP--R ERA W , S. C., O MaMMHaMnnMMaMnlMMaiSSijitSSaaaBfiHiiSSiriASai .ICSTICE TO THE SOUTH. y. We ottntci tho following noblo ecatiit stent* from "an Address by James A. n Dorr, a member of the Now York bar," wbioh *g 9rd in tho S. Y. Daily News, ?, endorsed too by that journal. We wish i- w? could publish it in full: ^P. D. Herald.) *' The country is now called upon to n decide the momentuous question, What are the respective rights of the North and ~ the South in the territories belonging to the United States? The main issue in vol-* ?J cd in tbo ponding Presidential election W, ? Arc tlio territories of the United States, r according to oquity and of right, free soil, from whioh slavery may ho jually and proporlv wholly exoladed by a majority of 6 Congress? Upon this question the oountry is divided into two great parties?on 8 the one side, th* "Ropublioan" party, so called, represented by John 0. Fremont, a affirming the doctrine, and 'on iho other side, tl?o Democratic party, represented by James JJnohanon, and the "American t " party, represented by Millard Fillmore, denying the doctrine. ' The ^Kopublican" or Free Soil party, s by tbrir platform,' or declaration of principles adopted in Convention, announco as 1 part of their oreed: <*Tt>at the Conatitua tion eonfers upon Congress sovereign power over the territories of the United States; 0 for their government, and that, in. the exercise of this power, it is both the right ' and the duty of Congress to prohibit in tbo territories those twin relies of barbst . ? , I nn nam -"-1 ...?i auu. Bimery. JTCSO #W the words of the third r?**>lution of the ^ platform of tLc ''Republican," or Free Soil Convention; and Colonel Fremont, > tbo Free Soil candidate for the Presidency, '' in his letter of aecoptanco ofthat platform, ) dated July 8, 1856, aeys: The doclaraj tion of principles embodied in tho resolves ^ of your Convention expresses the sent*men tain which I have been educated, and which have been ripened into couvic-1 tiona by personal observatjon and expe? | ' rienco. "Nothiog is clearer in the history 1 of onr institutions than the design of the 1 , ^ ^ ? ; nation in asserting Us own independence ' | and freedom to avoid giving countenance * to the extension or slavery.". "The great r body of noo-alavebolding free men, includ5 ing tboee of the South, upon whose welfare > slavery is an opprcsaion, will dieoover that 1 the power of the General Government over j at. tf * ' vu? puDiio isnos may bo benefieiaUy " | exerted to advanoo tboir interest, end I secure their independence." These are ' , the word* of John* (X Fremont, the 1 "Republican," or Free Soil candidate for r tli?: Preaideney. Here, then, we hare the W|ldbrm and the future policy of the ''"Republican'.'' ^ party clearly and distinctly arnouneod, ? namely; ?'To prohibit slavery in the 0 territories of the United States," nud I "to exert the power of the General Go-! " Tenement to advance tho interests of the nou-alavcboldiag; free men, including : n these of the South, upon, whose welfare * slavery is aw oppression,'* ,1 cap hardly 1 believe my eyes when I reed these words; i * but thsy are the precise words of the1 platform and of Col, Fremont' I f I would now ask yen, oitfopos of the North, hove yon gWea to the consider* | j tipn 6f this platform and this announced ]! poliey, the serious aad patient aUeuuco i Which their importance merit? Have t- you reflected upon thsnt with due regard * to the rights of tko South, and whet m / perhaps more ieppertent, the duties of the jj North? Have you fully and fcithfaUy t studied and reflected tfpon the su'ujeat, and are yoh prepared & atf ^tn .. that the mOtW ? " w-' SSt. ^ ) < *Cr KL. M^y' 'jr. - :3E JBPSJ ^ mmmmBSm m i ." IJ.JL2. -1.. - . J-.'. -MIL.-J..L J..JI JJADrNG IS AN UNREMKMBKI CTOBER 2 8, 1 ~T TTT- " - ?1? rrr?r~ obcosoit? Have yoa forgotten that the time was when the whole region tic* i occupied and owned by the United State* was subject to slavery? Have you for. gotten that twelve of the thirteen oripinu States were sieve Stairs? Do you denj | that, if slavery be en evil, a wrong, an<i I a sin, it is a national evil, a national wrong a national sin? Doe* the fact. that w< ' of the North, favored by olimeto sod b< t fchn #?.- 12- ..fci. V. 1 v> U' UV4IU) UKfV UUOI able to rid ourselves of the btaok raco and no to abolish slavery, justify iuj ir requiring of the South that they, undo very different- circumstances, shall follow lour example? And if it were jvwt t< 110 ]uire them to follow our example, woulc it not be our bounden duty to aid them and plnoo them, so far as wc could, ir oircura.itanccs similar to our ow n? , ? Do you suppose that the Northern State) which have abolished slavery, would 01 oould have dono so if the numbe r of slave had been three millions, or in that pro portion, in their midst? And do yoi suppose that they would have done i| if there had been no outlet or vent for tin black raoc to the South or the "West" Havo you forgotten that our bUvcs won transported to the South? That tfc? South reootvod them? And that th' South is now boaring our burden as wel ai their own? And now it is proposed bj the ?'Kopublican" party, led by John C Fremont, to exclude slavery fVoux al present and future Territories of thi United States, and to dam it op forever without any posriblo outlet or vent, in tbi regiou in whieb it exists. 1 would as! ! every intelligent and honest citizen of tlx* i North, Freo Soilcr though he may be iwro you prepared to advocate this poliey i 3 * I iu uam up n:av?ry torcrer in the Southen \ SUtee, by prohibiting its natural progress ! toward th? South? And further, are ym . prepared to advocate another riwilu measure supposed to bo favored by th< 11 f i it , in.. i_:v: xvojinum;?i? party, ?i*. a?s pivmvi tion of the inter-State alavo trade? 1> you not nee that the tendency of tho* uicMures U directly oontrary to praatiea free soiir That they w >uid fix and faciei ?? if-?V:?! XVI WOK upuii i/Cicivvitav, a*%iac jr I au??, r , n'u, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee perhaps several other States, the iustitutioi of slavery, which Lb declared to be ar oppression? I would aak any Intelligent and honed advocate of free soil, is not the freedon ' of the noil of Maryland, Virginia, Kea tueky,1 and Missouri, abstractly a* impor taat an, and to uaof the North incalculably mora important than, the freedom of tin apt! of aoy other region of equal eaten whateoeter? We know not what Southern territory may hereafter become the torn ; tory of the United State*, whether by honorable purchase or jtut conquest, 01 voluntary annexation. If we can Uok together a little . Iongor, it 2* probabh that i? the natural course of create, wi shall make ibrge acquisitions of gontherr ievritory better suited than any wc poaaes' to the comfortable cxist. iu o of the blacl race: and I mint ati- tH?t n? ? frnm/t a ?1. t ?7?J - - V, frcaaoit, ilit was understood by Wash ingUm, by Jefferson, by Franklin, am other wise nud good wen, 1 thai! hail th< 4ay of anoh acquisitions honorably made for I doubt not, that wero the Sooth ant bkT^ry Ijjft to thetnaelrca, oeery acre o land a^elrwl at the farther South vroalt libwetu an -ere in Maryland, Kmtaoky *Virfi'nia, a'hi Mimwsri, i&'thf freedom O ' ' n '' i f '} V J \ ~ '' 'S i;f:> : ".$8 knit t 1- ".m 1 JJL' . .1. UL1 - L..I..J. IL11 : IED PASTIME; BUT A WRITING l 856. i I vested right of property in tho Territoriea r of tha United States? Avo not the i present Territories of tho United States . the joint acquisition!) of the United States, I purchased or conquered by tho oouunon r treasure* and . common forces of the I Urntad States?ell of them?Northern . and Southern, slave holding and free ; alike? Have wo been partners to acquire, r and are wo not partners to enjoy? Is it i ju?t or honorable for tho North to aay , to tho South, you may pay for and ennquor i the lands, hut you shall not settle upon r' them? Your institution# are ?<v>tl eno?ir?li I . 0 r to aid in acquiring, but not good enough > to participate in the be'.ufitu of t*he no* i quisitiods? What sort of justice or honor , ia that? Why, if the North had joined i the South in a aoheuie of rapine ami' plunder, eVon honor among thieves would , require a fair division of the spoils; and r "a fortiorie," should we he just, honora, bio, and even generous, when it is a case . of honest purchase, as of tho Louisiana t Territory, and of <>vr friends and brethren t of the South. I do not see how any just , or honorable mac can deny that the South p have a lusted right of property in the , Territories of the United States?-W* right ? of property specifically recognised iu the s article of tho Constitution quoted, which I says, "respecting the Territory and other r property Lclcngihg to the United Stales." Now, what is this jiro^orty pertaining j t<r the Territories, if it be not the right , to settle and occupy? And if you exclude the South from settlement and oocupation, B j what remains to them of their property? II A great oauso of the present agitation 3 | and excitement at the North, is the belief that the laws of the United States f have not hoen faithfully and fairly obssrv, ed and cxeouted in Kansas, and that the s opinion and decision of the majority of | 1 settles hove not been fairly ascertained, j w i* ~ ju una do so, and so Tar us 1 can judge from the evidence made public in this rccion. the fact appears to be so, their should be an entirely now ascertainment of the wtil,of iho majority of tbo buna fidr. settler* in Kun^s. Nothing short of this will jtJ'dv or .imrfitso MtiftfV the ? TL. . . ' 1 North. 7bl jrorio will cetiuimj ijiiiii ! upon fair play in Kansas, the North lias Tester! rights pndor the laws in the oouamon lands of^Kansa*, and duty and honor, as woll m good policy, require that the South shall fully sod fairly recognise and respect those rights. .Wo have no reason to doubt, and I do not loubt, that tha )K. rltll ' i A3 > ? ?* J *" ' I WfWf WKiNUWl m* ? umi?| m diapvsog tQ i [ reoognizo and reapoet thara.^ Hie South ia not responsible far the acts of pro. x' sU/ttj fmiaties toy more than (be North [ is responsible for tbe words and tela of anti-elarorj fanatics Let tho patriotU . and honest men of both North and South r unite against tho fhnatic* of both aides, I and of all aides. It is not wy place to i adrUo the "Republican" party m to their ^ political creed or their platform, aud if it ( new, it ia now too late to do so; hut t. t think that their ehaneca of succctn would hare been very juuek incroaeed if they; : j had United thonwelrcs, to simply demand. ing folr play in Ktuisaa. They made a I great roLsteke when tbey united (tb?a?ol^ i rea with theanti Slavery party, undv laid as the oorne* stone |?d foundation of thefc | o?W the. duotrinb that it ia the duty ?T r Congress to prohibit abwiy in the f rtcmto^|l da dot see how any patriot!* L foc htpwet ?nd*rst?;iJiog the aub/eefc, a can go wiiH.tbem iu thfc *c: gx*-;r>o. t To pojpoep tw ^chid? the South ftorn all partieipatio^ m. ?he bewrftU of the \ |<w?floo fym I* I py '1,1 |?4?.riw^ V4 >MT mm*' ii "V.Vi <>\ I itmsnrrf** S > O ^*"1 I that I have fear* that the SbuthiW' nolonget; butthftV, deeming the -'A|f,, . of Frenu nt a decisive and (MUtn t t;<??-? ; tioo of the intentiou of the North to .nut' yj^v.^I into execution tho political emeu which will then be ratified by a majority of iho voters of the country, the South wit, .... ,, w. And my fears are increased, ' heo*Mt Ootn history v hare learned, thaf'iu tl'trv of civil oommotioa and revolution, in "/Vfa general tho - .dacioua and tha m mMam tho moderate and prudent, bocansr thm & Souther* oharaotoi is ardent and;. > uoua, and becaune it is a point of horMM . ,. itnong the Southern States and Souli^rtajjBljM uore that ^;!1 et&ed by ?woh olhjdS u^BxfSp in defense of their form pf eocUiy wtt9mjj^jn^SK^( cr attacked. Seppyoc that Vir^i. :a/5 j ' w'Jl or South Carolina, 01 kotfcia should J code from the t)nion im the Fwnoiit's .taction;- it tfooH bo ? ptnBS^^SKii of honor of Ml tho Southern States protect thesccediuK State against epejrioao^ \[, and from all hanu \nd damage beoaeed of her secession It Is tho sett) I opiniott T^BfeaB at the South, very gonerally and almost .1 unanimously held, that lho eleotbn 0$*$ Fremont ou tbo "Republican0 plvUortn ' * would juatify each and every Southern State in seceding, and arouid tender to Ij each and overy Southern Stutc the option - 'mj to rtioBaia to it. - Ui.iv?<? iugoout of it. Tho great danger it in the point of hoftorgfi|^|Br| if one State .should go, will not all the Q Soutbori Smtca go with her* It is difficult to conceive orwhat ^ IB grounds tho "Republican" or BVee Soil party rely, whoa thejr expect tho I South to sab mi t to be excluded from ail participation in the Territories. The inhabitants are of our own stock, l'pyet#^. -1 of land, and animntedr.by the wwu6 inftinot which we havp'to occupy dnd fffixEffi 'y settle new Territories, Hiftonr? not back to the time when owf rliitnat *ndMrirm fro Ainind ": "1' t.Mfl; two IF into ueff Urritortoe. ^Itftfesnv ^wrflnc &e Goth iu Italy and in Itothe, ./he Jlfl Norman in France, and afterward inr (Ire.tt Britain; tht Anglo Sasoa >u Kupland, the , English in AlJ#? : I Australia, Asia; tho N?FRnghtndef'iftfJriPNt Iowa; the Virginian in Mfesourf; and both tho New EngJandet , aUdfj the 'iSE?$' .. Virginian in Kansaf There is a family likcpobs among all those, atuj a serttWanco ij* their deeds. It in in the blood. tm wiaf^vmudAdo tho "ttcpobllt an' ' party *|ly when they oxpeci thei '.}%?> Soutu to qniotlyiarreader their righto in the common lands. I cannot imagine; f -?5i? ? ?? JmtmM good ?nd Mfe ground for *ucli %?* in his letter of oeceptenco, of Juij8,'i* 1836, tti?t tt*-gonial region-of dm middle lotitudoo left to tke aaigmnW of Ike NtrtWn. ^Mtea for komoo,oat opart for U.em m our u?li?<Uu?, ryp 1 j'-* ' (i i.s 1 vlfiT ?r aftLpi * "V/. *,?'