II
any oth.r person or persons, to any law/id
writ, Priress, order, rule, decree or command
of said courts.'
Ncii.Passmore Williamson was convicted
of a contempt for disobeying a writ of habe
as corpus commanding him to produce before
the District court certain persons claimed by'
Mr. Wheeler as slaves. Was it a lawful
writ! pearly not. if the court had no juris
diction to issue it ; and that it had not, Ithink
is very to -If it was unlawful, the person
to whom it was directed was not bound to
oneyiit; and, in.the 'very. words of the stat
ute, thopow'er to punish forcontempt 4 •14ha1l
not be construed to extend to it.'
BLit, says the opinion` - of the majority, hh
was cioniricted of a contempt of court, and we
will notllook into the record to see how the
contempt was committed: 1 answer this by
asserting that you cannot see the conviction
- withiut seeing the cause, for it is a part of
the same record which consists, Ist, of the pe
tition; 2d,' the writ and alias writ of haboa
corpus; ,pd, the return ; and 4th, the judg
ment! It is ordered and r adjudged by the
court) that the said PassmOre Williamsore-be
committed to the custody of the Marshal
without bail or mainprize, as for a contempt
in refusing to make return toile writ of ha
beas )corpus heretofore jutted against him at
the instance of Mr. John H. Wheeler.' As
.1 understand the opinion of a majority of my
brethren, as soon as we get to the word eon
tempi, the book must be closed, and it be
cOff ei; instantly sealed as to the residue of ,
the record. To sustain this commitment we
must; it, seems, first presume, in
.the very
teeth of the admitted fact, these were run
away slaves; and second, we must be careful
do read only portions of the record, lest we
should find that the-prisoner was' committed
for refusing to obey an unlawful.wrft, • 1.
I cannot forbear the expression of the opin•
ion thatllie rule laid down in this case, by
the majority, is fraught with great danger to
the most cherished rights of the eitizeus of
the State. Whilst in, contests involving
the right of property merely, I. presume we
ay still treat_ the judgetnnts of the United
States Courts in cases not within it juris
diction, as nullifes, yet, if' a e Judge
.thinks proper to determine that of our,,
citizens has been guilty of contempt; even it
such determination had its foundation in a
case upon which' the Judge had no power to
pronounce judgment. mind was most mani
festly, in direct violation of the very legisla
tiv_e authority that created. the court over
which the Judge piesides, it seems that such
determination is 'to have all the force and ef
fect of a , judgment pronounced by a Court
of competent inrisdiction, acting within the
admitted sphere of its corstitutional power.
Nay, more. We confess ourselves powerless
to protect our citizens from the aggressions
blit court, as foreign from our State govern- s
mint inkmatters not committed to, its juris
diction as the court of Queens Bench in Eng- _
land, arid this , upon the authority of decisions
prononnced in cases not at , all analogous to
the one now under consideration. I believe.
this to be the first recorded case where the
Supeeme Couit of a State has refused the
prayer:Of a citizen for-the writ of habeas cor
pus, to Inquire'. into the legality of an--im
prisonment by a Judge of a Federal COurts
for contempt, in refusing obedience to a Writ .
Avoid for want of jurisdiction.
,I will - conclude by recapitulating the end
upon 'welch I think thli writ should be award
:ed.
Ist! At common law. and by our statute
-of 1835; the writ of habeas corpus, acf-subjici
endurie, is a writ of right demandable when
,
•ever petition in due form asserts what l if
"true, would entitle the party to relief.
21 1 That analleption in a petition • that
- the petitioner is re st of his liberty by
-an order of a judge, or court without juris
diction, shows such probable cause as to leave
it no longer discretionary with the court or
judge to whom application is made, whether
the writ shall or shall not issue.
, 3d; That , where a person is imprisoned by
an order of a judge of the District Court -of
the United States, for refusing-to answer a
writ of habeas corpus,. be is entitled to dis- ;
.charge from such imprisonment, if the judge
of the District Court bad no authority to, is
sue the Ixrit,..‘
4tb. That.the power to issue writs of I#.•
bets 'corpus by the judges of the Tedeol
Courts is a mere auxiliary power, and tljut
no suchwrit can be issued by such judges
- where the cause of complaint,-intended to be
remedied by it is beyond their jurisdiction.
That the Count's, of the Federalpov
. ernment ere courts' of limited jurisdiction,
derivedfrom the COnstitution of the United
States and the acts of Congress under the
Constitution, and that, where the jurisdiction
is not given by the Constitution, or by Con:
gress I in pursuance of the Constitution, it: does
not exist. '
6th. That when it does not appear' by the
record that the Court had jurisdiction in a
proceeding under our habeas eiorpmemt to
relieve,from an illegal imprisonmentL**ant
of jui4sdiction may be shown by proving the
facts Of the case.
7th. That wheie the inquiry as to the ju-
•
risdietion of a Courcarises upon a rule for a
habeis corpus, all the facts set forth in the
petition tending to show the want of jurisdie
tkin are to be conskll , retl-aalrue, unless they
contradict the record.
Bth." That when the owner of a slave vol
untarily'bilngs his"slave from a slave, State
witlibut any intention of remaining therein,
the right of the, slave, to his freedom depends
,upon the laws of the State into .which he is
thusbrought.
• 9th.'. That if a slave so brought into a free
State escapes from-the custody of his master
svbile in said state, the right of the master to
reclaim him is no) a question arising under
the Constitutioanpf the Uuited States or the
• laws thereof and therefore a Judge of the
United States cannot issue a writ -of habeas
corptia directed to one who, it is ,alleged,
withheld the possession of the slave from the
master, commanding him - to produce the body
of the slave before the said Judge. "
10th. That the District Court of the U. S.
for the EasteT District, of Pennsylvanian has
no inrisdiction, because a. controversy is be=
tweet citizens of diffeient States, and that, a
proceeuing by habeas corpus is, in no legal
s4se, a. controtersy. between private parties:
'llth. That t e power of the several courts
to inflict summary punishment for contempt
of court in disobeying a writ of the eourt, is
exprJessly confined . to cases of disobedience
to ISwful writs. `
'That where it appears from the rec
ord that the conviction was for disobeying .
a writ of habeas corpus, which writ the court
—had he; jurisdiction to issue, the conviction is'
corain pen judice; and void. • <,
Fin. these reasons I do most respectfully
but Most earnestly dissent from the; judgment
of the majority of my brethren, -refusing the
writ applied for.
Chief Justice Lewis said— It may be prop
ex t 4 say, that all the other Judges concur . in
the Opinion delivered by Justice Black. '1
hava nothing to add to it, but the other .
Judegs' whoconcur - may hereafter have some.
thing to say in firrther explanation of their
views.'! • "
,Qtrinvrat Samosa—Judge - Kelly—The
Whider Skive Caire.—On Saturday, Coatis
and Ballard, the colored men 41Pho were, coo
vict‘d Ba llard ;
an assault end - battery upon Col.
Wheeler, were called up 6)r:sentence.
Atitr. Pierce, deft's mmeel;_ofrered evidence
.
in extendatiort of aliy pnnisluneOt 'the Court
might think proper to inflict.. It was the,
submittO. in evid42pee that these men‘when
arrested On 19th July, last, were taken to the
Cherry etreet &Alen house', Sixth Ward,
and locked -in a cell, with three others (at
rested foi. the same offence) and kept them'
twenty-fitur hours without food,the thermom
•eter standing at ninety-five. The heat in the.
eell was eo intense that the men had to. strip
off all their 'clothes. a They were thence taken
to prison', where they; were incarcerated ten
'days, an only rcleaeed ,by the interposition
of the Co, rt of Quarter Sessions. The count
sel called two of the former co.defendents cf
the prisoilers;und they both swore that Bal
. lard was not on the upper deck of the boat itt
all.
Judge' Kelly told the Men that they' had a
right to go to the boat iund tell the woman
Jape of ber right; but by their action they
bad injured the cause they no doubt at heart
wished tt serve. He reproved them for the
use of vi !cam, andl the threatening language
they had' used, he said t6t, is
,the sentence
he!Nei about to pass upon them, he hid in
view they eircumstances of' the ca.se—tho out
rageousjtolding.to bail by the Alderman in
an - eno mous sure—the sufferings they
had beeP subjecd to, and the fact that a
large witness bill ad beep presented against
them ; he would sentence them to pay a find
of $lO and tests each , and one week's im
prisonment.
.
De Witt Clinton on Judge Bate. '
, , .
The case of Prutsmore Williamson very
naturalli,recalls that of Yates v. the people
which w a s disposed of in the Court of Errors
of this State in 1810. The prisoner, having
been, coin mitted by the Court of Chancery to
the cust(!iy otthe 'Sheriff of 'AI bany . for mal
practice and contempt, was brought into the
Supreme Court on a writ of habeas corpui, and
after due 'examination there of the cause of
'commitment he was ordered to; be remitted,
to the eu, F stody. 'of the Sheriff, there to remain
in thcsanie conditiiin in which he was at the
time'of • the i swing of the writ of habeas cor
pus. Upon this a writ of error was brought,
returnable in the Court of Errors, and the
question I was whether a writ of error would•
lie in the case, and Whether that court could
revise a commitment for contempt by a judge
of an inferior court. As asmember of
_the.
court, De Witt Clinton gave his judgment
in favor pf the prisOner, and in `the course of
his remaks, among, many pOints that might
have a.-bearing en the case now exciting such
universal at ention,, he exclaimed; "Is the,
Gothic jargon of Nen-man - lawyers' and the ri
dieulons pec'zintry of schooloien still to per
vade
thetempleS ofiustice, and to prostate '
principle ;Ind right,tit the feet Of sophisticated
nonsense i?' JA pertinent question to ask in.
Pennsylvatuirat this moment. But the fol.
lowing etrdet.frorii.Gov. Clinton's opinion
is still more interesting in, its applicat'on to
the question now under discussion ;
"'lt is alleged that the pardoning 'power
may be extended 1.0 . the prisoner, which will
afford him complete relief: -The mercy of ,
the Executive is ohe thing and the justice of
the Courtl,another.l,-A pardon 14 not a rem
edy in the course of the law. It may or it
may not Abe afferded at pleasure ; and is en
tirely extrinsic froin judicial proceedings.—
The sum [of reasonihg is tliii: That a citizen
may be deprived, of his liberty without the
accusation of a grand or the interposition of a
petit jury, and on the mere fiat of a • single
judge ; that this judge shall be without con•
trol and the citizen without appeal ; that
ti he,
must co untie imprisoned for life, unless, the
judge sh II relent,w_ unless the Executive
1 -
shall pardon.; Thiel doctrine may suit the me
ridian bf'Coltstantinople, but is utterly repug.
nant to the ginius of a free government. If
the Govnoi. cannot or will not pardon. and ,
if the Legislature cannot or will not relieve,;
then a citizen may at any time, on the grounds I
contended for, be inearcerated tor life by. a;
court compose:l-of a single judge, and with-!
Out the'benefit of'a trial,by hi. peers, and the ,
judge aninot be called -to account for his con
duct. For,l if! rightly-understand the posi-,
tions whic are maintained ' throughout theyl
are these: A court. may commit for con-,
tempt whether perpetrated in court or not.-t
This commitment; Whether legal or illegal,
cannot lie exarnintsf or overhauled by any
other tribune, but it. is to be considered as
final and i ) conclusive, and it may condone du
ring the leasure of the court. If . the prisoner
is brought up 'on a :writ of habeas corpus, the
court is to remand lilm the momeut it is per
ceived, to be for a equtpmpt, and no writ of
error will lie on this l deciiion ; and although
this may bo wicked find oppressive, and may
operate is an impriaoment for life, yet the
court solacting is not liable. to punishment;
fora eortnnitrnent is a judicial act, and it is
contended that. no judge can be questioned
for judici4l acts as such. Her then is aease
(xcluding the favorable interposition of the
Executior Legislature,) where an unjust
or tyramiical judge may, at pleasure, impris
on an inabcent man for life, and yet place
punishin'tlnt at defiance A doctrine preg
nant vrith such horrible results, can never be
in- unison with the letter, or the spirit of a free
and enlightened system of jurisprudence.--
And,
_although I trust we have nothing to at).
prehend froiri such practices in the times in
which We live, yet re 'Ought to keep our eyes
on futurty. The ill per-vading force of cor
ruption and the all-grasping lust of power
may raise up for the destruction of unborn
generations, men who will
_devotethemselves
to oppresslon and to blOod. Why are we to
expect- an exemption from the common lot
of nations ? In the true course of events, we
must., indeed,_ travel the round. of human
calamity. P,estilenee and war, famine and
war, famine and oppression, will visit us
' and
we. must anticipate that. in some period the,
Tresilii tis and the. Jeffrieses of former times
will live again in our triunials - ----men who
will imprison under the formSofjustice, and
murder with - all the solemnities of law:—
And when such monsters arise to scourge the
[ human race, let me tell you they will besnp
ported, ii,,y the arm - Of power, and will be at
tended ,;bv their obsequions satelites and
• smooth-Ce4xl parasites, who Will deride the
Magna charta of your liberties and laugh at
the majesty of the people."
'The.large Heart and understanding of De
-Witt Clintori—the man- pot forth as the
Northern candidate for the - Presideriey,around
whom hose Weary of chivalric political mo
nopoly rallied—fully embraced the nature of
personal rights ; and with a generalizing spir
1, it which, applying ;his statements to the
I present day, • experience- - has . resolved into
I prophecy, he 'drew this picture of judicial ty
ranny and oppression. But what would he
I have said had he fOreseen the entire stretch
lof wickednesg to which a Kane can-be ledand
I a Black land consent I.—N. Y. Trib.
Lewisi
CausOtsci Our REPUEiLICANISII.—The fut=
lowing extract is contain'ed in the orders of
the Popp of tome to Arichbishop Hughes of
of New 'York, who has jest returned from a
pilgrimkige to the Holy rFather, whither he
went tAireport the progress of catho li cism in
America,. The cotranandlis ' crush out Repub.
licanism.' Readit,Amerfcans! ThePopesayi:
oir church is to 4e it must be in A-
Merles. Governments and States are totter
ing her 4, Every thing is uncertain.. An
other par and a revolution may have swept
all 'awajr.. My good Amlibishop, I look to you
for the future. Spread Rimtainit in America
crush oist Repuhtieaaisni. The choral may,
before a znonth,flee to . your shores,"
INDEPENDENT REPUBLICAN.
CHARM 4. !MAD AND 1.1. 71. 711.111210, zarroßs
MONTROSE, PA,
Septe,ber 90, !1119110.
II3MILICAN;'3101103A2101118.
earn[ Oostunissioner,
!ASSMORE ' : WILLIAMSON,
. • Of Phifede ' •
[Now in „Prison for Loving Liberty and 4ttaticis.]
For ,Rept7ratative.
ORLANDO 11 HEMPSTEAD.
,1 Of Si sgueftamui Comfy.
, • .
For Commisaioaser,
s WILLIAM , T. CASE,
Of gibsepa.
I .Fu 'r.4'reasurer.
!SELDEN .WOODFUFF
! 4fontrosc
For ;Na t i on
DAVID' •O. BROWN,
; Of Frfendnille.
11114etion—Ootaber 9th,
Republican Ticket.
- 1 The Clianty R40E13211 Convention which
met here on Monday last, nominated an ex
cellent Ticket, adopted the right sort of reso
lutions, ihd was characterized thrmighout by
groat harmony of action and by an earnest
enthusiasm in the cause of RepubliCan liber
ty. By the acti9n' of , that Convention the un-'
ion of PO great bpdy of Free-Soil men of
Susquehanna County was firmly 'cemented,
and we take the.fieht with the TiCket they
nominated, confideift of success:
It wilVbe seen by reference to the prOceed
ings else Where published, that on the assem
bling of Ire Delegratea, it was fOund that sev
eral Townships had !elected Delegates but
had not ',voted for the candidates as reeorn•
mended, :and itiordei not to
. deprive those
Townships of a voice in the selection of a Tick
et, it wa4 fonnd necessary . to nominate by a
vote of. the Delegates, those representing
Townships where - the candidates hid been
balloted fir to consider themselves instruct
ed, and the others to vote in accordance with
-what thei believed the preference of their re
spective Townshipi. By this means all the
Townships' that sent Delegates , were repre
sented, arid Still as:it resulted; the same can
4idates r4ceived the nomination that would
have doni sO if the other method had been
idOpted. 1 •
VC hay neither time nor space,! nor is it
necessary; to write an extended eulOgium on
the Republican nominees. It is well known
to the people of this County that 0. G. Hemp
stead was long one of the most zealous advocates
of the principles of the Wilmot Proviso, to
be found lin the ranks of the old peineeracy
in this section, that he openly advocated those
principieiat a time when they were by no
means•aspopular as now, especially With the
party to lehich he' then belonged ; and that
he wits atuong the first in this County to lay
aside old ilifferences and party- issues and in
vite, a union of. all the friends Of freedom un
der the mPue R,eptiblicains. The ninnination
tf
was unsought for by Mr. Hempstead, and it
was giiteri to him because it was thought he
would eriOectly. and ably represent ) the prin
ciples of tile Republicans in the Legislature.—
From tlivote he reoeived in the Convention,
and the txpresskni that reaches us in other
ways fro m
t the different Towrishils,. we be
lieve he will receive one of the largest. votes
ever polltd for any candidate in the County.
Of our other Candidates, we mil only shy,
briefly, at: this time, that William T. Case of
Gibson, lies acted, several years al a Justice
of the Piece in that township, to general ac
ceptance,;is a man of good business capacity
and training, well qualified for tliC office for
which net is named, and extensively and fa
,
vorably known in the eastern Fxkt of the
county; tB. A. Woodruff, of Jifontrose,
is an indirstrious mechanic, well worthy the,
suffrages erf his irrflow-citizens, for the office,,
of Treasii s rer, and - who bad the misfortune to
be "burned °int at 'the same time as his
worthy cOmpetitO, H. F. Turret); and that.
D. D. 131;own, oftriendsville, is also a good .
man,t whose neighbors speak well of him,
and who k abundantly qualified to discharge
the d'u4ei of the office of Auditor.]
Tliese.,:ourd Paisticore Williamson, are our
candidat* ; as them, staring on the
brimid platform, 4. Freedom, the united Re
publicansf of Susquehanna county, boldly and
-
confidently take. the field.
. .
! tar The opinion of Judge Knox in the
matter 'of the application of Passinore Wil
foralianson Writ of habeas corpus!, which we
publish I r is week, though long will repay, a
careTul p_ru s sal. The Judge does pot mince
matters stilth his associates, but says plainly:
"'The retinal of the mirk in a case like the
preeent, in without precedent, tali contrary
,
to the uniform practice of the beneh, and a
- f
gainst the universal understandingo the pro.
fession atid the people.; but • what is worse
appears to me to be in direct viola
tioof tie 'law itself." But it is refused,and
for ho Other reason than by making-an ex
oi r " : Passmore W il l iamson, t o tench the
people of Pennsylvania that their liberties
are las nothing compared with the interests
I
or eonvenience of the lords of the plantation.
We must learn meekness and submisaion ;
and if.shive traders choose to introduce the
traffic iai.human beings into Pennsylvania
we triisk,in no way interfere ; for;:. if 'we do,
- we may discover, as Passenore 7illiamson
has, thatin this country "'bite men as well
as blackl may be deprived of their liberty
without is crime. hereafter let no Pentisyl
simian df.re whisper the word Liherty,' oi he
may faTinto the clutches of Judge Kane and
our Supreme Court.
rms ix Hearoun.—On the evening of the
14th ins`, a dwelling house on the farm of
John T4er, and, occupied by Mr. Mowell was
consuree# by fire. Only a few articles of
furniture were eared; The house was new.
The fire: t eriginsted in an old building adjoin
ing the house. It was first discoiered in the'
vicinity Of a barrel of ashes. , The Occupant
hmrever; states that no ashes had been plain;
the banf l within nearly a tort:eight,'
IlEirsOressitations Corieoted. .
Now that Passmore Williamson has re
ceived thwßepubliclui nomination for Canal
Commission r, the Montrose Democrat l con
descends to!take notice of the tact of his ex
istence andi.imprisonment.: The list .Demo.
era: . has ani, -article that; either ignorantly
fir designedly, shamefully misrepresents the
whole case.;' After professing to have care
fully examined the facts, that paper.says:
"Judge Lille i e eied-the writ, and Williamson, In
itead of malting the lege return, so that the ques-
Sion of the fweaom oohe slave. could be bled, con'
tented himself with denying the jurisdiction of the
court to make him produce them, whereupon the
Judge committed him to jail for contempt of Court:"
And agaiii: 1 •
I •
" The major the Court reply, to this that the
question of judsdiction' was not one for Williamson
to decide, atut, that if parties may set themselves up
as judges of jurisdfction, there can be no power in
any Court to &force its process, and that witnesses,
jurors, or anybody, else may reruse to obey the sum
mons of our Courts by simply denying the right of
,the Judge to try the case." .
The readers' of the Democrat, who get their
ideas of the Ease from the article referrd- to,
may perhap4 think that Williarrison deserves
imprisoininent ; but what would they; think
if told that at, the hearing before Judge Kane,
Williamson ;Janet deny the jurisdiction of
• the Court atlallt Yet such - is the fact ! Al
though the Court clearly had not jurisdiction,
'it luippened that, through an unfortunate
omission on !the part of
; Williamson's !coun
sel, the question of juris diction was not.dhen
'raised; but" Williamson was committed to
prison, " without bail or mainprize," (that is,
,for life, if Jkge Kane so wills it,) beezurse,
as the Judg, alleges, - his return to
; the. writ
'which - tomnianded him to bring back Wheel- •
er's slaves, was
.!'evasive, if not false." ; Wil:
liamson stated in his return that the persons
referred to Were not then, nor had been itc, any
'time, in his possession. Judge Kane replies,
;that when the bolored melt carried oT Jane
Johnson anti her children, Williamson was
acting in concert,with them, that by' legal
constructionl their; possession was his possess
ion, and thetefore his return that the alleged
Slaves were never in his possession, is incor
rect. And this error, if it be an error, in not
not considering Jane and her children, ns' in
his pow.ssicin at the tlrne when he told , em
, they were fire, i made by Judge Kane t
ostensible, ground for imprisonment without
!Writ! a '
But it is further said in the Democrat:
"Mr. Willizimsoli Carries the key to hi pris
,
on, and will ioe released the moment he Obeys
the mandate of the law, and makes a legal
t
return to the writ.' • !
••, • •
What is the fad in relation to that'l l Im
mediately filter Judge Kane. had given his
decision thn.t, Williamson had been guilty of
contempti ofl Court by making an ir+rrect
return, anddirected him to be committed to
prison therhfor, !Mr. Gilpin, Williar'pson's
'oounsel &tied' leave to amend his return ,
which was refuied by Judge Sane! The al
leged error in his - return—which .waslirOba
hly the fault, of his counsel, if any, oneHwas
eagerly seized upon as an excuse 'for thrust
ing him into prison, where he is to be kept,
as Judge Black tells us, "until he shall make
proper submissicie—which means, till he•
brings backthreeHfree persons to be' delii•er
ed up to Wheeler, '
as slaves., It is believed
• •
.that Passniore Williamson is such a man
that, if he !canncit leave .his prison till he
makes suchisubmission, he 'will never leave
it till he lies it for his grave.. But he will
hardly be :rermitteti to remain in confine
ment many months longer; for the minions
of slavery must see that his imprisonment is
operating Powerfully against them among
the people of Pennsylvania, who con f ider it
an insult iitid disgrace to the oimmonWealth,
and who, ivill insist,upon the protection guar
anteed, thee) by the Constitution.
The .DemOcrat claims to have examined the
cast with.'great care. It certainly must have
required - ;ouch care and ingenuity to com
press so muck error and misrepresentation
into so scnall a space as that paper has done:
The Suslitiehamta Democracy's Platform
We ieani that some of the Sp ft Democrats,
'claim that their last county conventiouadopt,
• I ,
et! a resolution approving the course 0f Gov.
Reeder, and denouncing his removal, And an
other condemning the action of the late
liarrisburgiDemocratic Convention foi• not
endorsing, crovernor Reeder, and for' endors
ing the - national administration. - We sus
4-pected that ithe trick of publishing among the
,proceedingi of that Convention resolutions
that it did not adopt, would succeed• in de
ceiving sonie good simple people, and i for the
edification Of such we will endeavor to show
why and hdw it was done.
First, emit° 'the how. • We quote from the
Democrat, Sept 6th ; R. B. Little then
offered - t h e following resolution : Resolved,
-That the phitfOrm laid down bp-the Deinocrat
ic Conveati n last January, and re-a . tkrmid
by the Cos:lre:Won last week, embodies
. the
position of the ' Democratic party of this coun
ty on the gezeral political issues befOre the
county, and we therefore adopt that platform,
and pledpiourselves to abide by it in good
'faith and fidelity.'
It willbe r perceived that this resolution ap
plies only to the platform adopted la4t win
ter, for when; we 're - affirm ' any thi L ng we
say the unite thing over again, and not some
thing else :!and certainly neither the removal
of Gtiv: Reeder nor the action of 'the-IDemo
.cratic State Convention could have been de
nounced 1;4 winter,for neither had then taken
place.. But why then were such - resolutions ,
published tiniong the proceedings of the , nom
iriatineConvention 7 It was to give seope to
those looseipciliticians who desire to 'play, on
both aides of the question. For eSample,
?loch a. politician is - electioneering for •the
IDerriocratic' ticket. He approaches a Free
Soil Demos rat, and asks his support, but the
administration is pro ,slavery,
and the Fltirrisburg platform- Is pro-slavery,
and I am afraid that by supporting your tick
et I atudl lie voting pro.slavery—perhays to
sends pro,slavery man to the U. S. Senate.'
This is giving an ugly 'phase to the :matter
and looks like•losing a vote, and accordingly
the 'electioneerer' pulls %Democrat out of his
pocket, 'we him the proceedingsl of the
nominating convention, and.reads the resolu
tions condinuting the removal of Reec i ier,and
_the action the Harrisburg conventi on, acid
tbe honest! Free Soifer goes; away satisfied
,-that, the Dinnocratic party is a pretty' good
•
Free Soil party, after all, at least in this coun
tyl • : •
- .
. The next num - thepolitician meets claims
tolbe - a national Democrat, and easily swal
loWs Pierce and Douglas, Nahraska‘and Kan
sas!, Kane, Black, Lewis and all. alte na
thinal ' man 'finds fault with both the !condi
:
dates and the platform as squinting too much
towards Free Soilism—perhaps refers to the
!tame resolutions that satisfied the Free Seller,
as; particularly !obnoxious and undemocrit
ic; ' But, my dear sir,' says the politician,
those resolutions are no part of the' platform
of the Democracy of this county and never
have been adopted as such.' And. in proof
ofthis lie refers him to Mr., Little's resolu
tion quoted above; and he then roceeds to
convince hint that there is a greatdeal of na
tional Dembcracy in the resolutions that
were adopted, and especially thit ihcre is
nothing in them that • shows a dis`position to
oppose in agion any pro-slavery nieasure that.
itaa receivedor may receive the IsUpport . of
the national peinocraey,the party (hat the res
olutions declare is always right. And so the
Itunker is-satisfied that men who Will consent
'to run on such a platform must! be . sound .
Liemocrati, and is inclined to suPport them,
especially when the . other adds by :way of
clincher' that they are all going:to:support
Piumer, andi the Representatives arapled 4 ".aed
W•l i
against tnot
•
• 'Thr t.
Era .7ays! that " the
Democratic !party. has its head in; the 'South
,
and its taitiit the North." Very: true ; and
am incubus, Stilled the Black Power, rides on
its bai k, -gmierning and guiding the *hole an
imal.
° l e of the smallest fibres of its at
tehuated taili the part that extends into SUs
qnehantia cotinty, is dissatisfied with iits
ar.d in a! weak and softly sort' of Way- as
becomes its rtherent - feeblenes4and
proposes that the sable monarch should be .
unhorsed, an:d the goddess of Liberty placd
in his saddle. ThiS is rank rebellion, and
we expect nOthing else than to see t i .hiS pre.
sdtnptuous tail of the party cut off without
; .
mercy. -
,
• alt is a fact, although probably few else-
where conld!be.made to believe - it, ;that the
oracles of the. so-called Democracy,;. of Sus.
.; ,
county 1 - • . •
quenanna cou propose to adhere to they
, -
great Democratic party as' the most enee_to.
. ~ .
a; mode of Opposing. the aggretfsions of §laVe- I
.•
ry. They intend to put a• stop to slavery I
extension jti4t, as soon, as they can firing the I
rest of the party
: ,to their way of thiUkiiig on
the subject. 1 Ancrthey are willing to wait
till they can convert the South, where the
bUlk of theiti party lies, to. Free Soil priaci
pies, before anything is done tor the; cause. of 1
flieedow. Out - what if the tnischiefs'.-we ap.
prehend sho l tild all have occurred before they
succeed in making Free Soilers.of- the - slave,
holders'? 14ight there not be room for a
doubt abouti their having gone the right way
to work, •an 4 placed their reliance on The
right men, to avert the 'dangers that threat.
eitus 1 . . A .
1 i• . • *
The-Mail for the Plice:
'Alter failing with both Reeder 'and DilW; -
..s . pn, the PrOdent has at last found! just the
'titan the sla4-drivers went for Gio-ernor of
'Ennsiis—Wilson Shannon of Ohio. 1 The last
that was heard from - the new Govenor he had
got as. fur Westport, Missouri, where. he was
called out and made a public speech in which
he declared it as his judgment that the pres
ent spurious( mob-created Legislature of Kan
sas is legal,that its acts are binding, that he
will exert Ais authority to enforce them,
and that he is in favor of slavery in; Kansas,
In common ting on this indication that the
new 'Governor is willing and eager to becOme
the mean tool ofSlavery,and to aid' in tramp
ling the liberties of -white American Freon' en
tinder foot, !for the purpose of securing'the
United suppOrt of the South to Frank Pierce
Oor reefection, the Philadelphia Nor'th Amer-
(Can says :•
Yes, Governoft:Shannon, of Kansas ip need-.
eid and rtqufred to serve a purpose %of the
politicians at, the White House. He was se-,
tected for the 1 job just as a farmer would
choose one Of his meek aud-comPlasi ant don
keys to do 4 piece- of work which is rather to
hard - and igtioble to be put upon a more Val
ued and highspYrited beast,- and When the
task is pcifOrmed the poor creature_ will' be
turned into !the - fields to pick his chance and
scanty ; living with other vagabond cattle. In
the mrantitne the project of makinn. Kary,a4
4lave territOry will go on bravely. With the
Self-eleciedilLegislature declared legal, the,
public arin4 placed exobviitrely in the.. hand'
of the pro-Slavery settlers, arid. the prisons of
the Territory put. under. the , control of the
'l..eavenivorth Jail association,'. thti MisSouri
.;.
- "knvaders.will gain an e.asy .domination, and
have thingsall their own way. But . a ques
tion will retnain to be ,settled which a higher
tribunal than Mobs will have to consider and
detertainl., i The' ongretis of the; nation will
eventually be sked to admit Kansas into the
Confed `.ra i astli sovereign. State. :At should
Only h adMitted with a republican Constitu
•tiOn(a d we believe that no . State; can have
Such a constitution where a majority of ,he
'Citizen arel disfranchised . .-by violence - and
a il.
Usurp ion.l This is a consideration which it
May b well for celtain parties, who are ex
ercisin ul i e in Kansas by virtue of fraud and
Force, to ponder before they presuine to pe
tition (or the admission into the Union as a
State
i tif the domain they have subjected to
the in mods
; gO.vernment'of lawless ruffian:
ism: " ; It,
- ..
plib OCRICY IN LUZERNE.—A DemOcrat
ic Cou ty Convention met at Wilkesbarre,
Sept. lth, inominated , a County ticket and
resolv d, 'that we re-affirm the Democratic
platfo .s adopted by the National Conven
tions a Baltimore-in 1848 and 1852 ;' ' that
We full • apProve the Compromise hleasuies ;'
that he sovereign people. of the States and
E r erritiries I t have the unalienable ; right of
Maki thOr own laws ;' ' that we approve
the ac flthoGeneral _ administration, and
believe t a they have been conceived iu hon
estyni.,:ii
of purimeland carried out with a view.,
to the happiness and welfare of the nation ;'
and ' that vie heartily approve of all the 'acts
and votes cif our late Congressman, Hendrick
B. Wright.:. * . - .
. .
I- Can anybody doubt the genuineness. of the
lanzerne Dmocracy 1 -
f 1
The latelit news from Norfolk and Ports.
'mouth repi.esent the fever as decreasing: 7 -
;We trust the news is correct. A few more
yeeks of sUch a.pestilence would depopulate
-those doomed cities
,
1111
BRPUB.LICAN
. ____ .
/15 11 3• — tINT Y cpNv.tliVriatiT 1
c Republican County Conventioh: of
Susquehanna county' met at the old Court
House in Montrose, Monday the 17th day of I
Sc number, 1855 ,- arid the following named
petsons were 'chosen as officers of the Con-1
vebtien:—President; Hon. Charles Tingley,
of Irlarford ; Vice Presidents, David, Taylor,
of iirtnony, and Chauncey
_Wright, of For
es Lake.. Secretaries, Harry Barney, of
A r ' limn, and Geo. T. Frazier, of Oakland.
0: • motion, a committee of three were ap
po nted by the Chair to examine and decide
1,
of credentials, viz r Wm. Foster, of Mont
' rokSamuel Brush, of Oakland, and Dexter
Stley,,of Ilarford. Delegates
. from the fol.
, , •
lo ing electo districts appeared, presented
thi it `credentials , and took their :seats as mem
b sof the Convention (except in one or two
-
ca p
pes where some informality existed, and
1 w ierb the delegates were admitted on too
tiqn.)' ` ' . .
Apokuron.-=--Harry Barney, Jonathan
rne.s.
, .
At'arai.—Albert Bushnell,-JuliusTylef..
Kellog, R. B. Davis.
D. Warner, Perrin
Wells._
Bi!ooklyn..—H. W. Kent, R.S. Yeomans..
C49cOnut—S. F. Carmalt. Charles Nealti.
'Cliprd.-;-Not represented.
mock.—C. 111. Tingley, L 'J. Babcock.
Ditnday.—W .H. Sloctim. - - • .
Franklin.-S tillman Vuller,•W. W. Pier
(.) . •
H: . Pieree," J.‘,Hosford.
Fo,rest Luke,—C. Wright. A. Tilden.
Gieal Bend.—Nelsori Baker, Chii.'s atam
-. •
Gjbson.—W.' P.Gardner, Jacob, Denni.
'l4tford.—Dexter. Sibley, Char-le.&-Ting-
. . .
.Ifarmony.--Ilivid Taylor, P. L Norton.
1
!...li;ekson.—J. W. Cargill, Bronson.
IJe,ysup.—H. R;" Sherman, J. W. Smith. •
Lizthrop.—Noe reliresented. -
I .LOnoz.—S: T. Miller, H. N. Smith..
Liberty-L- 7 Albtirt Truesdell, D.;D. Brown.
Middletown,-7-11. F. Handriek, Norman
Montrose.—Win. Foster, El'. Langdon.
i'Vew B, B. Wade, J. W.
adford..
oifkland.--Siat - nuel Brush, Geo. T. Frazier. ,
W. .Granger, N. Shoemaker..
Sifringville.4, l i. P. Stevens, emus Will
;.
, ,
,Sl2 , er Lake,i—D. D. Gage, B. S. Gage:,
Stisquehandq" Abram Cuon,J. B. Scocil.l
'Thomson ; Collins Gelatt,L. 0. Banding.
Wappearingitha t in . several Townships no
•tedal been •talcen on the candidates, but
;1 •
("legates onhil had been' voted for, the
fol
ft viUg resolutiOn was adopted:
./W' saved;That all proceedings for the choice
e: ndidutes at tha : township' elections be dis
p used with, and•that the Convention.do now
'p tweed to nba*nate candidates for the differ
e t Offices.
00 motionjt Was resolved that a'majbri-
Iv Of all the 'VoteS'east shall be required to
eifeet'n nomination. • • $;.
41 The nominations for RePresentative Were
qten made as follows 0. G. Hempstead, •of
Brooklyn, L. Hinds of Susquehanna,. C.
4 Lathrop, of DiMock', D. D. Warner, of
(.:F; Read, of Montruse,jOtir.
of!';Grdat Bend. The names of
y i esSts. : Warner, Lathrop, and Read were
thdrawn, When the 'vote was- taken by
and, on first 'vote resulted as fol.
1 0.G.:• Hempstead. • 46
I-14 P. Hinds . 6 .
John, MeK inney'; ,
Perrin Wells •
O Hempstead was therefore declare('
Ole nominee Mr .13,eprelgentative. •
• •
The nominations.- ; for Treasurer - were, c.
Simmons, licintrose, S. A. Woodruff,
if - Montrose, E. W. Hawley,of Bridgewater,
nd the first vote -resulted as . follows :
M. Simmons • - 10
A. Woodruff .. . • -•:. 38
HaWley •• s • -•- 7 '
54 ,, A. Woodruff was therefore dePlared the
nominee for Treasurer. • • . •
For County CoriniSsiner, Perrin *ells,
of pridgewater, -Win. T. Cale,. of Gibson,
David Taylor, of Harmony, Denison Thom
as, of Springville; and' Benjamin Comfort, of
llarMony,were named as candidates,
.and
'; . vi:lttd for as follows: •
FIRST VOTE.
Prrrin
V r ir rn. T. Case:
Darid .Taylor.
Benjamin Ccinafort
Denison Thomas:, .
SECOND
Perrin' Wells..
Wm.- T. Case • •
• I)avid 'Taylor i
Benjamin Cointort.
• I:lenin Thomas.;,
• TRIED VOTE.
Perrin Wells
Wm.. T. Case
'David Taylor • .
And Wm: T. Cage was - therefore declared
the nominee for County Treasurer..
.For Auditor the: candidates named were
D. BroWn ofFriendsville, and-L. ILTur:
of Forest Lake, and the vote was as fol.'
lows: • •
D. D. Brown • 48.
Turrcl.,. 6.
• On motion l , the Convention 'proceeded to
elect COnfe'res to, meet Conferees of the 'Re
pit hlican party of 'Wyolning and Sullivan
cOunties, t 4. put in nomination candidates for
the !office Of RepreSentatrve ; and , J. W., H.
Bradford, I,f New Milford, R. S. Davis,' of
Auburn, John Young; of Ditnock,-and Amos
Williams, of SPtingville'were. elected 'such
Corifereet
On moti
t, the Chair appointed a -standing
retnittee 'for the ensuing year, as
tniOel F.Carrnalt,,J; W. .Cargill,
lliams,;l Stillman Fuller, D. • D.
'aae P.-Baker; G. B. R. Wade, P.-
Cotinty Co'
AinOs N . V
W4rner:,
MEM
The Pla forfn of the
.. Republican party of
oPerinsylvania, adoPted at the Pittsburg State
IConvention, Sept. sth, was then read and un
flinirpously I adopted. (The State platform,
Flaying been published in our paper last week,
is here omitted.) -
following.additional resolutions were
Piel read and enthusiastically approved and
thipted.
Resolved, That"thei imprisonment, . " with
nit., bail mainprize," of Passmore
pon; or the grounds alleged against him by
IJudge Kane, is an ,unwarrantable and), dant
• eons encroachment an State iinhts ail 1 per
.
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aortal liberty, and without pr,ecedent in 'the' -
judicial history of our conntryi; and that W a :, -,
hail, the nomination of Passmore Willirims cm ,
as the Republican candidate kir Canal Co.lOi
missionet, as affording the freemen of. Penn.
sylvaniii an opportunity to vindicate-his eon: ••
duct and to rehuke the tyranny of Kane and j•
hie accomplices of our Supreme Court, and
we pledge to Said nominee the supportofthw'
Republicans 'of Susquehanna County. 1 ~
Resolved, That. the candidates for Itepr e .
sentatives, who receive the Support Of the
RepublAms of - Susquebanna County will , •
be expected, if elected, to vote, onlyl for g
known-and consistent opponent 'of- Shivery- (.;
extension for United States Senator, and in 3;
no ease to give their. -support -`to a politi c i an p i
o f the school of Simon Cameron;
A bystander handed in thefolk•wintwhicii
-was adopted amid loud,cheers :
Resolved, That_ the voice of . Public &jai. , i
meat should be expressed throughout th e
Old Keystone State,-on the second Tuesd a y
of October next, in ton producing as po.
tent effect upon -the doors' of, a Philadelphia ,
prison', as did the blasts of the rams' horns
in daytvd old up9n the walls ofJerieho.
,
On motion of Stillman - Fuller, the follow.
lowing resolution was adopted . unanitton i .' 3..
ly : ' .
Rt:a."!reci, That we hereby Pledge!to 'the
candidates 'tn!: day nominated, our earn est -
and united support.
0. G. Ilempsted, the nominee for ;Itepre•
sentntive,.being -called for, responde4 - Iniefly„e
expressing his approval of the platform- a n d
resolUtions adopted, his thanks to _his fellow
citizens for the -Unsought honor conferred up
on him by the nomination= he had' , - , ceceived,
4lid his acceptance of the post assigned him
is a standard-bearer of the Republican, party
n the present campaign... He was warmly
kreetud on coming forward and on retiring.
lAnd thereupon the Convention, - haying
nvinced much harmony and enthusiasm thro
- adjourned sine die. -
I. • ' From the Carbondale
. Traneeript.. • '
'DESTRUCTIVE CONFLAGRATION.
Over Twenty Buildings Burned-;-The b'etir
1 . . part of our City in Ashes. ,Loot 00,000,
.Carbondale is again the Scene'of a"deetnc--
tive and desolatingfire At ahout 2' o'cloelt
Sunday .inorning; the flames were disbovered
bursting from the fourth
.Story
.of the laip , :
and commodious hotel on the eprner of Maio •
and Dmidatl streets known, as - the, Bronson
House,• which with - a portion of theilirniture, • •
the stables and out buildings attached, were'
speedily a mass of ruins. ' From :ttie Chotel.
the, fire spread south to the 'store owned encl..'
occupied by . Almond -Crocker,
Grocer, this..
and the adjoining stores,oWned . Gillispii . :
Love ' otupied, respectively. by - Miss .
P.:Perhare, Millinery and - fancy geOds, :Jos.
eph Alexander, merchant Tailor and IL
Freeman & Co., Merchants, were consumed. '
At thispoint,„ through the most strenuoils
exertions, the fire was arrested at the • sto l 'e
of ;Wm. R.. Baker - &.C0., though thestore is
soinevvhat damaged.: The Standard Pri t•
ing Office, in the upper part of Baker's sto
was removed, much of the type o'
we believe not much of the material will -
lost. The . fire crossing: Main street eiit
caught the large building owned •by Messrs.
Harrison; Scurry and Watt, known as Teinp.
erance the. first floor' occupied by ,
K. Morse, Merchant,' and the.upper3storyhy
the Olive Leaf Lodge of Qdd: FelleWS, and ";
• ••
the Good Tempfars. bOth lodges_ losing their
furniture and regalia:. The Wilding. owned
and, occupied by jAn Kase, , Cabinet :maker,
immediately south and adjoining was also -
consumed. Extending north, thebuilding Of,
N. Farnham, first flooroccupied by W. Burr,
jeweler, and the 'upper part by Mr. Farn
ham as a'stiddlery-7the store of Dick.'.
son (*Co q and the; large store :building - on
the corner of Main and Dundaft streets he:
longinn•" to the estate ,of Peter Campbell, de
ceased, oecupied bvlAndreWWatt, Merchant,' '
G. R. Crocker, drOcer,. and :Alfred Dart's..
Law offieo, - were in flames and reduced to . . '
ashes.; thence . thei flames • spread north on -
Dundaff street, b i nning some intervening
buildings of little value, to the store and the
adjoining dwelling of Stephen S. Clark, which
were burned,
,here] again . •by great exertion
the progress 01 .the fire was stayed by savinr. ,
the dwelling house [of Mr. Clark, which hoe-"
ever is very much damaged. Ttie fire crcra•
sing Dundiff street . from Campbell's building
next caught in the 's•tore of .Win. IL
mond which, with the row-of three buildings
adjoining on Diindliff . •street, Shoe" ShopOf
M. B. -Corby; aiid the, Law Office of Lathrop
& Jones on Main street, awned by Mr. Akit.',"
mond, and occupied respectively as'itCabibet
Shop by J. F. Kinback, a Marble and Tomb
stone Mantifactury by -Mr. Richmond and .
sadlery - by Mr. Shields, were all 'consumed,*
together with the Lackawanna House owned.
by Thotna - 4 Gillespie - and kept by' Peter
Foster, where 'the flaines were finally arrant- '
ed.
The fire . must have originated from thtsta
pidity, earelessuesS or drunkenness of some
of. Washburn's L'ireui- Company who
fOrined here on Oatiirday night; they occupy- .
ing the whole of the Upper story of the
tel where the fire was firstdisooVered.
The Bronson House, ovaloirned by Sam
uel R. Meredith , he having recently
purchased it at a cost of 000,00.- •
It is impossible for us in the hurry of the
moment to• ascertain the ,actual' amount of
the loss sustained by our . citizens by this,ca•
!amity.
rsi
MARRIED;
By Thomas Adams, Esq., at his residence in Au.
burn„ . on Sunday the lith inst., Sr. Jon?: Rims to
Miss EMILY Lour, both of Rush township.
Y At Harfm:d, on the 4ith inst., bi t Rey. A. MMtri
Mr. NOTSE E. NNIVTON to Miss SARAH CAMPMMIIIT
daughter of Mr. Ira Carpenter, all of Raiford.
By the same, on the 12th inst., at Gibson; Mr. Xa•
m J. EIIRGOOD, of Greene,'Pike CO. to Miss Lon.
N A M. PICKNRINO, daughter of Mr. Coitbet - Pickering,
of Gibson. , - •
' . .ff eh) '.itd.,b,etiiseigeqls,,
. .
had of J. LYONS kSON
Family -Bible's. : • ~
T .
beE at in town can be . ,
Any family needing can have them on trial; ; 1
they do not answer the purpose, Tio charge. ,
- Montrose, Sept.-18. - , - -.—
. FRUIT TREES:'
PERSON'S wishing an. Orchard, would do *ell ,to?
call at TURRELL'S
. NURSERIES,.°+ miles
south-east of Friendsyille, where Apple-trees, of the
most approved kinds, of good size and , quality; such
as are sold by agents for 25 cents, can be had for 12/.
cents eacb.. . • •
Also, a few Peach, Pear, Plum, Quince, and Moan ,
tain Ash trees, at reasonable prietv.•
Particular regard is had to accuracy of names, no
to making a good selection of fl-nit for the different_
seallons of the year, when desired. - •
• L - . Y. TIIRRELL'''
Friendsville, Sttsq'w: co., Pa., Sept. 20, 1855. flis
• • Fire Insurance. -
THE undersigned has, been duly appointed Agent,
' for the STATIC MUTUAL FIRZ INN/LA:cell COMPA.
PANT, at Harrisburg; Pa: Capital $500,000.
safe and cheap a company as any in the State andia
sure§ on the Stock or mitt ual plan.
- • BILLINGSSTROIJD.
Montrose, Sept. IS, 1855. 3.711
NElVlOVOteCerkesJus o frt i y b jws 4 sox