Logansport Democratic Pharos (Newspaper) - October 3, 1860, Logansport, Indiana OCTOBER 3, 1860. 14846- FOOR dainty woe hand nestled in rich and And timid as a trembling It circled about jewel of light As she garnished our feast of the queenliest hand in all she was a poor man's little think how that wee white dare in the battle of was lowly as might bath climbed to heroic And hath burned like a in of the sorest fields of Ahd startling as bath oft flashed nor our bitterest cup And taught me bow to eyes that seemed with their smile to look me and light me to Have triumphed o'er bitter tears many a their love to my life was And the maiden meek voice of the womanly bringeth the heaven's For it rings like the voice of God o'er my bidding mo climb up hardly dared think it was human first looked into her yearning For it shone as the heavens had opened them with glory and But dearer its light of healing one dark and desolate As the rainbow when heaven bath no break of blue storm her shape was the lithest an armful of heaven to But the form that bends flower like in love's the victor's strength is Jn her worshipful presence transfigured 1 the poor man's English homo She lights with the beauty of Grece the the pride of our breakfast now those rascals may not give us a chance to get it at and to my after a good there's nothing like a good breakfast before going into a wish Mark was said but I've sent for Yon the half-witted lad that brought the says they were to start from the camp and if wo but keep the rascals at bay till they we may give them as good a peppering as they in but that dreadful The bouse was of and so strongly that it was doubtful if they could either raze or fire it. But who knew what else might How many of that fair family would gather around the board to-morrow it was dreadful but I think the hour before the attack was the worst of was not to be expected that wo could eat much but hurried as the when one of the whom Mr. Oakley had posted at the called out that they were and stealing along the woods at the as if they hoped to surprise once the men hurried with their rifles to the windows of the while Mrs. pale but still outwardly motioned to us to and hand out the Then came a dead said the in j alow tell us what the knaves are themselves around the but under They think to catch us There's a man coming in this way Walter Van all The meaning of this sudden attack was clear enough Cuyler had been a professed patriot aad a warm admirer of on his rejection by had gone vowing vengeance on the whole muttered Mr. is that has brought this swarm of What is he doing has been to see Now ho is at HOURS was past midnight of the thirteenth of commenced my but though the river was ia front of and the forest stretched for miles behind and away to the right and I could not catch even the sigh of a or the ripple the so sultry and heavy the darkness around not been in the best of spirits fornt was the time when we hour to hear of the bombardment w and though in the house of as first coubin to my nothing to there had hung over roe a terror and dread that that I could not help fearing lest some evil bad happened to my who were still in the usual with the all sorts of fancies teased my My like all the was and furnished iu the style that now seems as quaint to our young chimney piece was tiled with curiously wrought into illustration of The bed and that had all been brought from was stiff and while the walld were hung with sombre family And as I lay and wished for the tiled figures seemed to move and glare at me in the uncertain light that came through the loophole of a while I thought the eyes of the portraits one and fixed on me with a solemn and warning and so it that I had heard the old clock strike and and was just off into a when there came a light step along the and cousin Grace called in a scared outside the was up in a moment and out to where she looking like a with her ashy and fair hair all about and I ti e thrill of astonishment with spite of my I saw that sho was already and held in her hand a powder on your clothes as quick as you said in a voice trembled a though she was doing her best to men arc and father wants us all down is difficult to make 5-ou understand the horror with which that name was pronounced and or to express the terror with as I hurried on flay I thought of Grace and myself in the power of those merciless No wonder that I trembled in every or that Thomas Oakley and his stalwart not easily as they moved about in the dim morning don't know as I Have spoken to you before of Thomas a man over six feet in and of a noble with a grand that looked as if it might have been chiseled out of and hair as white as though he was scarcely past his We have no such now a I have his portrait in my little cabinet and you may see there that he looks as he kindly and noble for his they were like strong and devotedly attached to their stately who was preparing while they fastened the iron shutters of the lower and barred the heavy a shame to rout out so said Mr. as he noticed my pale frightened if vye they are words were drowned in a series of thundering Mr. Oakley went to Simeon's knocks below Van do you and Brant's men are close on my Let mo in sharp crack of the and the words liar and hypocrite were his A fierce yell arose from behind the haystacks and out as twenty dark forms rushed brandishing their weapons and firing at while as many more hovered on the outskirts of the the bouse was broken only by the low of Mr. and the roar of the six best rifles in the A man for each said the exulting voice of Mr. and we'll giv shower of that rattled like hailstones above the cut short his Mr. Oakley picked up some that fell harmless to the and serpents are kinder than I They are going to keep us in balls as well as So much the for we have none too flash and and again the voice of Mr. and lake good Don't waste A dead silence sneaking off to they're only contriving some new John and round with you to the back of the Grace whore did that shot come as with a sharp the leaped three feet up iu the and fell forward on his stone Oakley sprang and threw herself on his The fair haired eldest boy was her Another shot came crashing through the and bedding itself deep in the opposite at yonder shouted Mr. saw the gleam of a rifle stock among the third whizzing so close past us as to make us start and then our rifles and a dark body went and struck with a heavy against the exclaimed Mr. with a gleam of stern satisfaction shooting across his I see none of the Where are they called iu an agonized Oakley ran hastily into the back where sho A stalwart iu a hunting and so bronzed as to make it almost doubtful if he were white or had swung himself from an adjoining tree on to the and was trying to force himself through the little Mr. Oakley rushed he drew the hunting knife that he wore in his but seizing the sharp edge in his bare the infuriated father wrested it from his grasp by main and plunged it up to the hilt in his fierce and a harmless volley from those in received this new and then came another of those ominous can they be who was again at the look surely can't dream of firing the the gasped exclaimed her gill has more wit than us We must barricade the mind the said Mrs. who had regained ber marble will bar and she began to draw the Oakley the task was one of but there was no time to and and tables were piled up at a short distance from the what was really a formidable as it those unerring The smell of the burning and the smoke that filled the now grew almost Mr. Oakley placed us on the and exhorted bis sons to stand and take good A portion of the door fell in. Mr. Oakley raised his and Walter Van who was the first to spring staggered back with a The others swarmed in like a second and a third of those dreadful volleys brought them to a No man dared to expose himself to such certain Oakley turned impetuously to his 'em we 11 beat 'em off but a mute shake of the head was their only The powder was For a a deadly pallor overspread his the his voice rang clear and firm as Draw your We will sell our lives as dearly as their powder is shouted a with a half a dozen had succeeded in scrambling over the barricade and was making bis way toward the little better be Our women have their knitting needles retorted Mr. Oakley take care of you and the women returned the ruffian aiming a blow at that brought him to the spasm contorted Mr. Oakley's stern features for a and with a strangled be threw himself headlong on his him the devil shouted a dozen but at this moment arose another and far different are on the cowardly wretches down under the came Mark with his light horse In an all was No one thought of anything but and the enraged Americans mowed the flying down like burst forth all the emotions so long pent Father and sons threw themselves into one another's Grace and Mrs. Oakley's stone composure melted into a flood of hysterical was a and yet a sad house that though wo had been as it were from the jaws of yet the bodies of our dead were with those times were ead There was a wedding between Mark and and I danced as merrily as any of but poor Mrs. Oakley wore mourning to the end of her and the last words on her lips were the names of her murdered greatly took off her and wiped her JOHNSON ON Herschel V. JoassoN made a brilliant speech in Saturday The audience was immense and the most unbounded enthusiasm The following is what he said about what is this doctrine of Let us examine it and see whether it is so that anybody North or South can reasonably protest against it. What is Simply that the people of an organized Territory shall exercise the right of within the limitation of the Constitution of the United That is the sum and substance of doctrine of popular You have heard that he was in favor of squatter It is There is la this Republic sense enough to be the leader of a flock of who is in favor of squatter It is an but the principle of popular that the people of a Territory have the right to exercise the power of self government within the limitation of the Constitution of the United is built upon a and the winds of heaven can not shako anybody here object to any Breckinridge man object to are none Is there any and where slavery will whether it exists there or The true doctrine of is just the Upon that doctrine I I appeal to the people of and of the to stand upon it. When the people of a Territory do not desire because it is not suitable to their habits and so far as I am able to prevent it shall not directly or indirectly be forced upon them by Congressional the other if the people inhab iting a Territory adapted to slavery entertain sentiments favorable to the and desire to have so far as I can prevent it. Congress shall not interpose to preclude them from having it. The effect will bo If a people do not want they will not have and if they they and that is the sum and of the doctrine of popular We have no Territories now belonging to the United States which are to the of with the exception of the Territory of New All our Territories are situated in a far northern where the soil and climate are unpropitious to the production of slave slavery will never go into such Territories under the operation of the doctrine of and where slavery will not I think it a safe thing to say that it does not need Where the soil aad climate are adapted to the productions of slave on the other slavery will IDEAS ABOUT in is a singular 'Tis what everybody laughs and what everybody 'Tis what grave and people frown and shake the head and incontinently run behind the crying such hypocrites should ever get any body to love them well enough to hide away with the beginning of and the beginning of it is the means of all the trouble in this Don't It Think and see it it is not so. In a world peopled by human the element which lies at the foundation of life could perpetuate only but in a world like where to live is to and to love is to live and to cause what our proposition All young persons are eager to be mado acquainted with Many grosser minds care only for but generally there is a great deal of sentiment and refinement in the ove of It lacks the first love is rarely the best It is but the pretty so and that heralds the approach of the master passion of It to bo and and strengthen into the life's long but it is not often so. Sweet as are the songs of poets about there is but little truth in as the world can The swelling and overhasty heart of travelling with its desire to overflow into some other is touched but slightly by some chance and out goes its ready For a white for a pretty foot or for a sparkling a sweet a winning youth will go and do a thousand foolish the memory of which all haste is made to bury when middle-age is every one can know what are the motives and emotions which prompt him or her a union with a If to the inclination of and the fervor of be added a conviction that iu desires and sympathies they twain are if the love they feel for each other raises them nearer their if they feel that they can bear with each other's and love each other still when heart and flesh if their affections have folded about each other until they have clasped deeper than the mortal frame which their eyes and have fastened themselves firmly to the deathless there can be very danger that they are entering a path in which their bodies must march side by side until their hearts wider and wider God have mercy on all who are and give clear and a wise and pure heait to all who are yet to enter upon the conjugal is well enough to be in and to pay proper attention to social observances and but there is no reason why men and thrown should not treat each other like We may bo civil to a if we do not know whether ho is called Smith or We may he polito to a lady without or caring to whether she is wife or who to I want to see that white man claiming to be an American native born or who will stand up in the face of a free people and soy that free white men have not the right of self Yet the Secession party holds that the moment a man reaches the boundary of a and passes the limit of a principle of self government is stripped from as the black snake casts his skin in the spring of the and We contend that he can not shed that it is not an outside but something that is within and part of the essence of his It was purchased for us by the blood of our Revolutionary and there is no man so though he be as rich as and surrounded with every who can rise above and no man so though ho be clothed in like the Son of have not the wherewithal to shelter who can sink below it. follows him like his It throbs iu his heart and pulsates in every artery of bis It flashes in bis kindling eye and swells his beart as he looks up in the face of heaven and I am a free Who refuses the right of self Who wants to refuse it to any American citizens who choose from his native State to seek lifs that this is a principle that is subordinate to the Douglas does not hold that it is superior to the but that it is a right that must be exercised in subordination of the He places it where it must challenge the approval and sanction of everybody but the Even the if they were entitled to the name they would sanction it. They before all to be the Republican party of the United if I understand anything of the principle of self government underlies the whole who denies that utterly fails to be a The Republican is grieved by the misfortunes and wrongs of the what floods of tears they weep over and how they beseech that the the fullness of His will 6eU-intere.st, will protect their slave In neither is Congressional intervention worth a gentleman coming into tho room of the late Mr. toll him that Mr. Vowel was said Let be thankful it was neither or him the shackles of at the very same moment that they thus exercise they avow and hold on to the doctrine that the instant a free white man goes into a his wrists are and ho baa no r tho right of self I appeal to sound conservative whether he be a National Yancey Lincoln or Boll and Everett appeal to every man who luves his country better than its who reveres the Constitution more than anarchy and to come forward and stand upon the peaceful and conservative doctrine of that can never bo for the simple reason that it demands that we shall attend to our own and not that of other There are thousands all over the country who are exceedingly officious and and who always neglect their own to attend to the business of their Nonintervention is their It allows no It is the doctrine of It will conflicting sections upon a great agitation and delicate sectional If we are to have peace and to preserve the free institutions of this after all tho reflection I have given to the 1 can see no other plan than this of Let Congress attend to its the States to and the Territories to I have said I sometimes fear this doctrine of will never be popular and to tho American because I see evidences of restlessness and a disposition to try to introduce new experiments and innovations upon the established order of few upon tho practical operation of the principle of and I shall cease further to tax your is the operation of tho Simply if the people of a Territory want they can have and if they do not want they can refuse it. The Republican parly say to the people of a Territory that if they want slavery they shall not have it must be excluded by The Breckinridge parly say to the people of a Territory that if they do not want slavery they shall have or in. other that there shall bo a Congressional slave code for its protection in tho DOUGLAS telegraph gave us a and inaccurate account of Mr. remarks at and particularly those about the From a full report of bis as published in the Philadelphia we copy the being all he said on tho subject of the They accord in every sense and particular with the Democratic creed on that MR. can deny that for tho last four or five years Congress has utterly failed to perform the duties for which it was Any of you who feel an interest in any great measure of legislation may inquire of your Senators and your when they return what became of your and they will tell you it was lost for the want of and when you ask them why it was that Congress had not time to attend to that they are bound to tell you that the slavery question occupied the whole and so there was no time left for other Take the question of revenue as an For tho last four or five years the expenditures of this Government have averaged about a year over and iP brought into Congress to increase the tariff up to the grade of or to reduce the expenditure down to the rate of the you find the slavery question becomes the point of and the is lost at the end of the session for want of The consequence has been just as the session is about Congress has been compelled to pass a law borrowing more or issuing twenty millions more of Treasury to make up the deficiency in the lot mo ask the people of Pennsylvania if they expect to ever get the question of tho tariff revised and reconsidered unless they first drive this question out of Every interest you have connected with the revenue and with the tariff is by this eternal agitation of the negro undertake to say that no statesman can for a single the policy of spending twenty millions of dollars a year over and above the You must do one of two You must either increase tho revenue or diminish the The Democratic creed on this subject I understand to be that we must maintain a tariff which will raise revenue enough to defray the expenditures of the economically adminis and m that manner we must furnish all the protection to American industry that a revenue will and long continued we do not raise revenue to pay our expenses and keep down the public We must stop the increase of that we must pay the interest on we must extinguish the we must keep the expenses of tho Government within our of and But we will never have an opportunity to do this as long as this slavery question occupies the whole time of IN CARE WHETHER SLAVERY IS VOTED DOWN VOTED used by Judge has been torn from its and wholly and utterly The Republican with that inborn love of perversion and which characterises so many of have so emasculated the record as to make this expression indicate that Judge Douglas had no opinion upon the subject of and was perfectly Indifferent as to whether he should vote for slavery or against men who quote this remark miist know that Judge Douglas meant no such The expression occurs in Mr. speech on the President's message on the As is Mr. Douglas had pledged himself in every form to allow the people of Kansas to come inti the or aa they might It is known that a basL was on the deprived of a fair vote on In the speech referred Mr. Douglas was attacking the fraud upon the rights of the and the infamous evasion of tho Kansas and Nebraska He was urged to suspend his action until the vote of tho 2Iiit of was heard upon the ground that the slavery clause might be In reply to this Mr. Douglas showed that his ground of attack was not that slavery would or would not bo but that the people bad a right to a fair vote on that and that he was determined to vindicate that whether slavery was voted down or voted That the public may whether this construction is right or wo extract from the speech sufficient upon which to form an opinion of Mr. true He I am to wait till I hear from the election on the 2lat of I am told that perhaps that will put it all and will solvo tho whole How can Perhaps there may be a large There may be a large vote But I deny that it is possible to have a fair vote on the slavery and I say that it is not possible to have any vote on the Why wait for the mockery of an when it is that the people can not the majority are I am told all just the clause will be voted That does not obviate any of my it does not diminish any of You have no more right to force a freesoil constitution on Kansas than a slave State If Kansas wants a slave State she has a right to if sho wants a free State constitution sho has a right to it. It is nono of my business which way the slavo clause is I care not whether it is voted down or voted Do you after pledges of my that 1 would go for that and leave the to vote as they choo that I would degrade myself by voting one way if tho slavery clause be voted and another way if it be voted I care not how that vote may 1 take it for granted that it will be voted I think I have seen enough in tho last three days that it will matter how tho vote may am opposed to that because it looks to me like a system of trickery and jugglery to defeat tho fair expression of the will of the There is no necessity for crowding this so so unjust as it is in all its upon any sane man fail to perceive tho meaning of Judge Douglas in these He saya he that Kansas has the right to form her own institutions in her own and defend her lot her form them as thj they please ine or is tho the whole moan of Judge and any attempt to give them a different by garbling the is a mean Chicago CURTAIN energetic of the BuSala Republic overheard and has published fte following curtain which we mend as model to ladies whose troubled with A pretty time indeed for you to come Where have you been all You smell as if you had been in search of hole through a tar Talk of sulphuretted or They where have you Here I've been lying awake for tho last five waiting for you to Now I want to know where you have been all I bother me in the 1 want to know its near enough morning to where sneV been all and particularly if he comes home perfumed dear through as you You mustn't good wife me. That won't Suppose you were a and as you I wish you'd get up ihd lot Wb air into the or I shall certainly suffocate would you Don't you agine there would be a row in the Been with the I should think as You're a wide-awake that's what you I've always thought you had sense enough to parade the streets with those Why did I marry you? That's a pretty I take pity on you? I'm I didn't allow you to or or drown It would have been the best thing I ever did in my What is it smells Don't tell me it never smelled so in the Had to carry a That's a sweet business for a man who pretends to be the father of a largo Next thing I shall expect to hear of you that you've been splitting rails for general I know nothing about I don't want to know nothing about if I have to neglect my family and carry slinking torches for the benefit of a lazy man in Illinois who is trying to be to I thought you Were a I suppose you've kept awake to night on haven't Where have you been all this the town clock has just struck Been to Tonawanda to raise a liberty That's a sweet Why don't the wide awakes of raise their own Republicans are scarce in that and you've been trying to make a great you can't fool I believe I know something about politics and I know that you are that's what you Must go to must you? Why didn't you think of that I've bad no sleep to and you never once thought of You're an old and just such a man aa ought to vote for an old rail Vote for Douglas if I lot you Mr. Douglas don't want lie will bo elected without your But now that you show signs of returning I'll let you go to of Miami be at your posts and on your guard from this until tho Your opponents are beginning to cry out that wo are going to import but this make it j we have reason to ia nothing but their bo returned no i old to divert attention from their AND THE MEXICAN WAR THRILLING is a strong and deep meeting of Union held on Monday in and about Cooper was another of those marked demonstrations that are only witnessed when some great exigency arises that demands expression of tho will of the The gathering was not from the inspiration of or aspirants in either of the prominent political organizations of the In its progress and final was subordinated to In the list of its officers and among those who were may be found the of gentlemen who are as Doug las and Bell but who were present last night as Union animated by a common desire to give such an and so to concentrate the conservative sentiment and vote of the city and as to defeat of Abraham It was a glorious surpassing in numbers the late meeting of Black and only second to the monster assemblage at Jones Law was one of tho Vice Presidents at the wood Douglas in New York on Mr. Law was one of Fremont's mam supporters in 1856 and probably contributed mote than any other man to his success in New York Lincoln existing among tho viving Mexican War on account of his bitter hostility to the Lincoln was against bis country in that and for At a late Douglas meeting in Swede tho following incident occurred in the of Captain It is thus votes of Abe and his action on the Mexican War had adverted to by Messrs. au l when tho Captain was the the stump of his right which he had lost on the Mexican Sel he asked them if who was willing to lose the other in defense of his was a grave by or not he had fought in a war unnecessary and and whether or not they vote for a man who so Ihe that proceeded from that largo would shake stronger The democracy of Miami never committed a fraud upon the elective and wo any Republican to prove any thing of the but it is notorious that in 1856, and in 1858, strangers might be seen at work with Republican a few days before the in different parts of the and as soon as it was over suddenly We have been fold by persons who were then that systematic importing was and that in Washington a zen imported voles were cast for the Republican the Democrats want is a fair and if the Republicans are sincere in their professions of regard for preserving the purity of the ballot let them unite with the in an amicable and honest arrangement to insure that Let of honorable men bo appointed on both to challenge all votes of doubtful MORE SLAVE is one of tho points made by the ' I some of whom claim to stand * 1 by tho same principles as Jefferson and Let us signed tho for the admission of slavo Adams signed the for the admission of purchased Monroe signed the for the admission of Alabama Mississippi and signed the for tho admission of list of Presidents than IS Favor Gen. the Texas candidate for the has withdrawn in favor of Stephen A. In his letter of withdrawal ho is tho first abject of tho campaign to defeat the sectional candidate whose claim to success is based only upon opposition to the institution whose existence should never have been brought into move on the political checker board will give Texas to Douglas by au overwhelming Harrison said in 1821: believe that the Constitution has given no power to the General Government to interfere in this and that to have slaves or no slaves depends upon the in each State or Territory illustrious names among Ihe fathers of this and they all signed bills admitting slave were inaccessible to the sectional cry of more slave to tub of Massachusetts have enacted a law by which a run away vote aflur one years while a or an or any other must wait two years being making seven years in the Republican party demand the repeal of fugitive slavo in order to induce the runaway negroes of the South to settle in the instead of going to -as they now They also are endeavoring to elect a man Supreme whose past decisions as well as often pub. expressed show that he tho advocate of placing negroes on an equality with white W. at present Republican for Congress in the Fifth Indiana tell you we are a sectional It is not alone a between the North and the it is a fight between freedom and God and the between heaven and
