||: TBLB AMERICAN, VOLUNTEER, ■Sit® la published every Thursday, at Carlisle, Pa., by JOHN ® ’&sl tiEATTON, upon the following conditions, which Will b - ; s|s rigidly adhered to; • r . , TERMS OF SUBfIpBIPTION. s Q Ym '■ Porono ycar-.m arfcanes,.. , . • • *? « 0 -.•fw For4ixmonths,inudoonea, • .'v< i No subscription taken (br a less term than six tj,. •■.>,80 discontinuance permitted until all arrearnges arep . Twonly.fi vo per cent, additional on the price ofeubswipwotf 1 will be required ofull those who do notpay In advance. BY 1 JOHN B. BRATTON. m. 35. BATBB or ADVBBTIBIMO. 1 One square, ono insertion, . ' , i one square, two insertions, . one square, three Insertions, . > jjJ< ‘Bvuryßubsoqucntinßertion.persquaro, f A 'libernt discount will be made to those who advertlseby .1* the year, or for three or six monllts. Omca.—Tho office of the American Folunteer is in the spc. and story of James H. Graham’s new stone building, in South Hanover street, a (bw doors from Burkholder’# - hotel, and di rcctly opposite the Post-office, where those having business will please call. SPEECH or THE HON. ¥M. ALLEN. OF OHIO, At the great and enthasiantic Cats and Butler Ratifi cation Meeting of the Democracy of Albany. . Reported Tor tho Albany Argus.. Mr. Allen said—My follow Democrats, lam hero in obedience to an invitation .addressed to me, by those who have a right to apeak In your behalf. 1 am here to toll you nothing that is new, but as one ,of your fellow democrats from a distant part of the Union to commune with you, to balance sentiments with you, and to prevail upon yoa, if that bo possible, to unite with your follow Democrats tbroughou I tho Union. (Hero there was a tremendous outcry from tho crowd outside the hall for an adjournment to the park—Mr. A. preferring to speak in the hall, owing to, tho state of his health, but after a short- pause, yielded to necessity and to.tho prevalent wish, say ing,] I will speak outside if 1 can, fellow-citizens— and if I do not, it will be because I die trying.— (Cheers.) , - [Thu meeting then adjourned to the park, and Mr. A. taking his positlbn within the portico, at (he head of (ho flight of steps at (he main entrance to the Cap. itol, and addressing the assemblage, extending down the wide avenue to tho groat gale, and on either side over tho park grounds, resumed:] I would that I could address you in such * manner as to bo ho.ard by tho whole of this iminetiso nssem binge, but I am ftilly aWare that that is utterly-im possible, 'l' Will, however, do ail that 1 can, if you will ail make (his one promise, that at the polls you twill do all you can, (Cheers.) If 1 tvero lo name in your presence (he thing'’that has most omated me in all my reading or observation,it would bo the fact that whilst mankind have been able to accomplish, ; < through tho Instrumentality of science and learning I such wonders as to make man seem almost a god in his own estimation^—whtjsthe has been able to m*oa. . siiro the burning disk of the siin, ato’d to analyse the eniiUlcst particlo of (ho air—yet notwithstanding all this, it was not until sixty years ago that they had Tuund out how to govern themselves. (Cheers.) Our globe has existed by traditionary account Tor 6000 yents—iln inhabitants ate hew not less than 600,000,-, 000 in number, and yet the 20,000,000 who comprise the great family of America, ore the only portion of tho human race who, after a struggle of 0000 years',; find themstdyefl’ in the (tadscstjtm of civil'liberty, or*- gnirizcd aha secured by free written constitutions.—l (Cheers.) You will thus behold, at a sfnglp glance, tho uduso of (hat deep solicitude which every friend I . of civil liberty in this land feels for its preservation 1 I against the dangers which threaten .Hence if Is that you may roadity account hvyotorsclves for tho avidity with which the mechanic lays down his tools; i the •merchant Ills ledger, and tho farmer lets go the I ha ml tvs ufhis plough, to together,,io court-1 eel with oath other,%s to the bo*t moans of guarding I tho liberties of their country against the secret dan gers which threaten them. Would you estimate lhe< Value of your own government? If so, contrast ill with llio governments of the balance of (he World. | Would you estimate tho value of tho Democratic i party? If so, count over the almost innumerable! Messing* which Democratic laws, administered by Democratic hands, have imparted to tho great people «f America. (Cheers.) Whepep arises (h? 4 Wotd Do* hioorat? It means the government of'lho people.i Who is its antagonist in tills country, end. whence! arose that antagonist 7 Its antagonist is Federalism, ■ audit arose in the very birth of Wio government—| ■ x 4 Whilst il was yet struggling fur life, it arose in the | ■, '-It convention that framed the constitution under which i iwe.livo, and il sprang foHli from the genius <if man j Whoso name you will nil comprehend in tho words Alexander Hamilton. (Cheers.) That statesman was « reader of history, and he hud seen, through the Medium of history, tho human race struggling Tor century after century to obtain oud enjoy civil free* tlom recognized by law. These stales had lately achieved (heir independence. Gen. Hamilton did toot believe that tho poopto could be rendered sufli toiently intelligent, sufficiently thoughtful, and suffi- wise, to bo entrusted with thosolo and Unbrl ffl* died power of luw-moking. Ho therefore suggested gf in that convention (lint tho powers of government jjr ■ should bo nssimitatod as closely 'ns pracllonblo In its E. : organization to those of Grout Drltain. Ho openly 5. ■ declared—for ho was a bold man—that the rich and ty: the well-born had (he right to make law, and enforce too, upon tho mass of (ho poor and needy; That the prime foundation of tho divisions whiph now ijihold good in this Union, and which keep a largo •yf portion of your fellow townsmen from this meeting to-night. Mr. Jefferson, and the other illustrious !(• men of that convention, held different opinions.— They thought that llio people, having no inducement to da wrong; having so groat an Inducement to do tight; and having so largo a mass of intelligence, acquired In the discussion of the principles of tho revolution; having so vast a gaino to play fur; that they had acquired, and did possess, and had (he wis dom to retain, intelligence end virtue sufficient to govern themselves. (Cheers.) Those lost Ideas pre vailed, and tho fudorul constitution, starting out with maintaining tho sovereignly of tho Slates as essential to tho civil liberty of tho citizen—assuming to itself by delegation from the States, a few limited and ex- enumerated powers—-the government went into under tho lead of Washington, who for bight years conducted the government. Tho nation f ieinainud one undivided mass; tho popular confidence In that groat man was such, that us to him there was I ho division of sentiment among the'Amerioan people. ! Jiul towards the close of his administration, the ideas which Gun. Hamilton sought to incorporate in the tonslilulion of tho United Slates, were revived and sought to bo covertly introduced through the medium ; 6f insidious legislation. In llio contest of 1796, Mr. Adams, the older, was elected President; and now, my follow citizens, I have coino to llio point whore It is important that you fix your eyes steadily, to un derstand much that 1 have to say,)f 1 shall have ' atrongth to say it before I close. Tho democratic and fedornl panics wero formed I (awards tho oloso of Gpn. Washington’s admlnistru . tlon, and in (ho first struggle before tho democratic parly had got fairly organized, Mr; Adams tho older Was elected that tho present whig party, d part of whom are of tho'old federal stock and who Imvo inherited old.federal principles, took duto from that administration. [Hero in response to a voice in Die crowd, which tho roportdr did not dis llnclly hear, Mr. A. said; Tlioro i aro IWo divisions in the whig party, which I shall riotldo in order that all may fully comprehend the difference when 1 namo | (horn.] • Adams was tho first w.hig president,because if our present wliiga have a right to retain his prin- 1 rtiplcs and oall thenißolvcj whig# lie Would have a j fight retaining llio same principles to oallTilmsolfa iVhig. And now wc will got a taste of whig doctrine from his administration. There wore two laws Which became particularly conspicuous during ilmi Administration. The ono was u law designed in act tAjono- upon foreigners, tho Irish, tho Gormans, tho |Fronoh,tho Scotch—all pooplo pot born within tho I limits of (ho Union.—That law enabled (he Pro. sidentloarrost* man not only without trial* not only without..conviction, not only without certain infer matioo/but upon mere suspicion, and when arrested to incarcerate him ih a 1 prison or to exile him ftom the country!* The other was a law which designed to close thd mouths of the people and to prevent thorn from a full and free discussion of public measures.— If that law were'now jn force, instead of addressing yOuhore, I should bo in k penitentiary with a fine of 92000 hanging over my bead. (Cries of “we*d bring you out;")Furthermore, if that law were now in force. If tho humblest mechanic in this crowd should $ 50 75 1 00 put an article irva.newspaper saying a word ogainst tho President, or even that Mr. Allen was not a clev- er fellow, ho belonging to-the Senate, or that thb‘ Senate was not the point-wheroipublio liberty was best protected, or that tho House of Representatives, or any other high authorities, were making laws manifestly prejudicial to tho Interests.of the people —such mechanic, for such 'publication, would be led from* his workshop, to a prison. Every single, soul within (he compass of the Union, foreign or native born, great er small, poor or rich, who uttered, whis kered or declared any thing , containing a charge against the President, was subject to bo incarcerated in a prison and fined 92000. And men .wore put in prison, and fined under that Jaw;—Out-now that Iflw has ceased to exist. Like the alien law it had be come odious, and {(vanished from our,statue books. It passed both brunches, of the Federal Congress, was decided to be constitutional by,the federal tribu nals, find (he sanction oftlid President of the United Stales, had % all the elements Of nationality upon* it | and yet at the end of fifty years that law—both these laws—have become so odious’ that there is not a man in (he United States, who dure rise up In tho pres ence of the people and say he is in favor of them. (Cheers.) ■ Well now, I have got through with that whig ad ministration—they wore turned out of office, and Mr. Jefferson put fn office, forty eight years ago. He was put in office as aw enOmy to these laws, us bos tile to all the measures of the then existing adminis tration. He was put in upon principles which were expounded by himself,'and whldfi now. farm; the foundation of (ho Democratic parly. He was pat In office by a close vote! It wasbeforo I was born, but still I have read the.history ofthose days,and I have learned from Unit history what power it was that pul him in office. I have learned too, that when the die waS' cast and the vote given, with what breathless anxiety the whole notion looked to hear the result of thot election. Stale after Slalo cast its vote, the election Was close, the scales stood equ<y poised upon the beam—New York had- not yet spoken. Hero sho l.»y in her full length of five hundred miles from the Atlantic to Uie Lake of the North, The eyes of all America were turned to the empire Slate. The nation looked to her to.say by her vole in that contest, whether Federalism or Democracy-should prevail in our land. The vote won close here, for federalism datedtfs origin in your own capital—fed eralism found a father in Gen. Hamilton—and it re mained fyr Now . York to say whether ahe would repudiate the doctrines of her own son, and stand by the Union—or whelhersho would adhere to him, and lot liberty drift for ilself. The Empire Slate at last spoke! She withdrew her hapd from Gen. Hamilton her back upon the gag law—she turned her back o{>on the alien and'sedition law—she repu diated, Vicr oWn son—she expujed by her veto a fed eral administration, and taking Thomas Jefferson by the hand*, Conducted him to the executive chair.— (Cheers.) And what hna been the result ? You see the result in (ho mighty progress which society has made through the whole length and breadth of this lai\d.. Sinco (hat time the number of (he States has doubled. Since that (hno our people have been mul tiplied thrieo over. Since that time tho wealth of thin people has increased an hundred fold. Sinco that lime Iho glorious example of a free people, presented under our constitution, has Commenced and is rapid* ly advancing, a free revolution in kuropc. (Cheers.) What did Federalism do after it was expelled from power? I want to show.you how exactly the fea tures of the federal party nro perpetuated In a part of the present Whig parly, and thtf chief of those features are. a contempt for and a disregard of the rights of the people. Under the then existing con stitution, tho people voting for electors of president and vice president, did not designate the oho pf those officers from the other. For instance, In voting for Jefferson, every man in tho Union voted for him ns . president; jn voting for Col. Burr, every vote given i for him wuo /or Vice president—the niifrbcr of votes , was equal. By an accidental omission in the federal • constitution,it wasin thepower offraud and perjury f 1° lhwurt lho will of the people, and by ao doing, to i produce civil wat anti a resort to arms to settle the", differences between the parties.. How \yas U? Thai i voles bulng counted out, the election being transfer, i rod to tho House of Representatives, tho federal par* i ly dropped their candidates, and applied to Col. Burr, also from the State of Now York, and-who hod been run us vice president on tho Jefferson ticket, to allow thoin to use him (b commit a fraud on tho people, by electing him president through tho votes oftho House of Representatives. Now mark, (and I narpo this in order to caution you in this present contest,) (he Constitution provides that If ho one ofthe’candidates before the people shall receive more llitin qne half of ail (ho votes given, tho election passes from (ho peo* pto to the Housu of Representatives in Congress.- And when it gqefe there tho president Is elected by Stales , anti h6l by individuals. For instance each Stale gives one vole—no more. Delaware, little Delaware, with a population smaller, perhaps, than this county, less, I believe, than 10U,U0U people gives ono veto. I‘he grout State ofNew York, with two amj a half or thice millions, gives but ono vuto. You will observe that tho size of the Stale, or its population, counts nothing when tho election of pro. sident is lost to the People and transferred to the House of Representatives—each Stale giving but ono vote. Sixteen votes in the next House of Uoprescn tativea may elect the president; and sixteen of the smallest States may give those' voles and elect the president, although those Stales may contain lees than ono twentieth part of the population of tho Union; Such was the state of things when tho elec* lion went to the House in 1800, in consequence of no one of »tho candidates' gelling a majority of thb whole number. The House of Representatives wtfe a place Ibr intrigue, There were two or three moh who had it in ihoir power to make the president.— Tho federal parly hud boon beaten before (ho people. Mr. Joflorson had beaten Mr. Adams—ho running as-president. Burr had booton his .competitor—ho running os vico president on tho Jefferson ticket. But tho election, as I stated, in consequence of tho omission in (ho constitution, Wae lost to (ha people and wont to (ho House. What did tho federal party do then? They had boon Jalrly beaten before the people, utterly repudiated. They appealed to Col. Burr to allowMhom to make use of him, and to elect I him by tho House, although not a man InAme/lotkl had voted for him as president. Theysotday In end day out. Niftirtin and night out. did the? t/nffle, bargain and intrigue, and manage to palm off Burr upon the people, as tholr president, and to exclude Mr. Jcfforson, although tho people hod voted for him and no one man alive had voted for Colonel Duri*. They camo within ono man of accomplishing Umi/ object, and had they accomplished It, the people of the United States would have been put either to the necessity of yielding to the most damnable usurpation of tho supreme executive dower of tho country, or re. sorting as tho people of Franco have most rightfully resorted of Into, to arms, in order to redeem the Con stitution. When llml act Was dune, when that effort was made, 1 should have said whan It was attempted, Democracy in many parts of tho Union, antioi. paling what Was going on’, began, notwithstanding gffg laws, to assemble fiV masses, as you oro now hero assembled. Tho history'of those times informs us thol they not only begun to assemble, but began to think of tho only ferhuining moans of arresting the usurpation and sustaining tho constitution—a re sort to arms. When the federalists heard that, not being much of a war party, they quit tho game.— (Cheers.) Here, then, fay fellow citizens, was an effort by insidious usurpation to obtain the power of the government, not only without (ho will, bql “OUR COUNTIIV —MAV IT ALWAy’bqK RIGHT —BUT RIGHT OR I^EONG,. OUR COUNTRY." CARLISLE* THURSDAY, J® - 27, 1848, against the will of (ho people, OTiby failed. . with unbrqk<p£pnanlmUy, sustained him ftortr Jefferson came in on the vote of the Democracy, of beginning lo end., the Union. He administered the government in such Well, Allen,) the old man died. Ho a'manner 1 as to'Obtain the approbation of |tls conn- went down tahjs'|Bralvo—arid scarcely was ho but of trymen. He'Was re-elected. Ho. was succeeded by their way, bofarot|}e4eyery same men.cricd out that Mr. Madison* also a Democratic president. Ho was {they syera the friends of Jackson, and called on the rc*ele6ted, and was succeeded by Mr. Monroe, also j old Jackson men Harrison, on tho express a Democratic president, and ho too was rc-elccled.* ground that ho wal friend of Gen. Jackson, (huugfT Here, the*), from 1800 up to 1823, tho government S knov ? Buch thing. They succeeded, was administered exclusively by Democratic Presi.! however, In electingJlarrlsbn, by such moans oa you dents—tho nation in every instance declaring they .{hflow and ys yoU n q&p all appreciate. But they put approved of and sanctioned the measures and the js n «»;**• ticket a toan by the, name of John Tyler, principles ofthose Democratic administrations. And l? on V V * r s' ,?la U J^ n T * ,er »»“ consequence of tho One of'Ufa reasons why Mr. Monroo wu8;oleclod by 45??® of Gen. Harrison, succeeded to the presidential .licli on ovorwhalming majority tho first tiraa-llio °® c ?- J Crmgrc. had been called together previous reason why Mr, Madison was so powerfully sustain* *° ki* deaths by Gehr Harrison; but had not convent cd in his second eleetion-ardsa from tho fact that “Mho lime of thu.old General's death. When Con war with Great Britain intervened, and a large part, 6 rCBB “id convene,;£lbnry Clay,then in tho U.S.Sen. —the Federal.part of the old Federal party*—(l will. ®t® ««*«« forward, tho groat ombpdienl. of Whig not assimilate It.(o any recent case,) look sides with • principles, and lald'down m tho form of five rcifalb the British. They got up the Hurllbrd Convention, lable.of tho Senate, the general doctrines! declared that it wus infamous, wicked and unholy for, °» Iho.Whig party,-and the measures for which they the government of llie United States to defbnd itself contended. He W« a bold man—Henry Clay—and against Great-Bntaln. When British troops were | h J d lko honesty to tell what he want on American soil, they employed means holy *nd ®"*' ”* principles.,, fie had well do. means, unholy, to paralyze the arm of government. fincd . politicalprinciples They carried on their mechinations at Hartford, | upon Whibh ho clearly, deflnodyuh* They carried on their imposition in Congress. They ( equ.voca pohlicaX|eaßurcB. Say wlmt foa will of, thundered forth frbm the puipifa of tho Union Their i “ old Hul ” ko "f*# skulked a question. Thq old denunciations .against the war—against the parly I"?“ n , noVcr got behind the buSh-r(Hcrp which administered the government, and denounced i Whigs—outsiders—Called for three cheers for Clay; Mr. Madison as tho vilest of all vllJianous offenders.', a . nd «?mc Taylor Whigs end barnburners cnl/cd.fara Tho same menaro now ready to worship Mr. Modi- counlecr cheer fftCMyh,erai»Taylor.) Old Kentucky son as a saint. (Laughter.) If they can only prevail 1 \ ,ovd r * Clay or thlily years on the Democracy to forget that they joined the : *th° had been dared not tell what lie wan» British in the late war. (Laughter and cheers*) But, *® d J w,,a ;- lver ° hUfoolilicul principles and measures, there is a part of that party who did not do so, Tho : •\ c J ir y , a J Ci, u?9‘% rl h on the occasioned named; he i war with Great Britain resulted iii the triumph ofi l « ld , on the tnblo qgfibnnto his five resolutions, do. our arms, and in the redemption of the country for* j Glaring what businqfo Congress had been called to ever and ever from the danger of a Brllish nolghbor. gather spccially/.tomierforni. He openly and like a I Federalism sunk crushed under the blow, and there J ,nan fl ,“ ld J «f?K du *y ** to repeal the subtrees it lay dead, and inanimate. (Cries of good, and “ r y— lf th ? B ® DeWraU will lot you. -(Laughtcr.) cheers.) When that party had rendered themselves l£ u [ «cco„d duly i«p provide a Bank of the United utterly infamous by their opposition to tho country and w, th his five measures, em« during the war, io much so that they daro riot look bodyinglhcsumaigWbßianeoorthoprinciplesoflho the . nation in the face, tho leaders gave the word— Whig parly. Ho nq&nly proposed them, but ho had j 4l to your tents, oh.lsrael!" and every mamrushed. Jhccouragoand carry them through both (Laughter.) They disbanded—they hid themselves. »‘ OU8 « 8 b J tho voitiOThis partisans. As Whig mens- Dissolved as a party; they declared that wo will now y r ® -b ® submitted jM|n to the nation. John Tyler have halcyon days—(hat there Is no more parly, and “ ad bccn taken by4|r-Wliig party on trust. Ho wus that Federalism had been .mistake*, though *nno- m fact a. part.of‘credit system,’ (laugh, conlly mistaken. (Lauglrfcr and cheers.) They had jW ® n f <in lk ® 9«W»f yon. Harrison, John Tyler, opposed tho war, but they thought war was wrong. . J lOl . ■ •og % qu»tc > sq|Wd, » man aa Henry Clay—not They had joined the British, but they thought tho having any proper to British were right! (Laughter.) 'They had voted, rev , oll i ,n «n evil against his party, as some oflhelr leaders now often'vote, as tho Great ond Vetoed the mpwhrej ' Dunlet ofthe East voted, against ah appropriation of Tho came on again in due money to rebuild the Capitol of the Union, after it lime, and again was pul forward by that had been consumed -by British fire. But notwilh* port oT tbo whig pwiy that claimed to have some of standing all this, being brought to’lheir knees, find- the leaven of in them. For hero you will ing themselves branded by the bended brow of their observe, there ai*o IgO division of this parly. They country—throwing.down their arms, uplifting ihoir put forward Mr. and Mr. Cl»y, running with hands, rolling back their eyes, (hoy implored mercy with mnpores in a manly manner dcclar* at the hands of their country, and their country was od and made Unowjpo tha country, was by hiscoun generous enough to mete mercy out to them. ; They trynicn defeated election. Where is the old lay. howeve'r, concealed like so many Indians in (ha man now? Has hi;Cpased to live? Has he become boshes. They lay in wait—they dared not come for- a dotard 7 Arc bis faculties paralyzed ? Hus he com. ward and ask tho nation to pul them in power, be,, milled any sin agaibftt his country 7 Has ho perpe cause they know full well (hat the memory of the traled any the whig party? Has he nation was not soshortbul U would reach back at least ceased to merit tho approbation of the Whig party 7 to tho scenes of (he late war, if not to tho days of the fCrics of no, no, fro|n tho outsiders.) Where then is alien and sedition laws. They lay quietly stowed ho 7(A voice, ort ihb shelf.) I have felt regret, be away behind countersand under bank-books, chuck- cause, as an individual—-though I have opposed Olay ed into hiding places with their heads covered upf politically and always shall,'on tho ground that his afraid to come out, like SanUAmtirwburi Iw gut in- I do not like and to Houston’s lent. (Laughter.) There they lay—not cun never ap{)rrtvo~>BiijJ ns a man I otn compelled to dead, but sleeping—(Laughter und chccrs.J Nolal. respect him/'Tho'high qualities of his heart sno together asleep cither, but possuniing. ■ (Laughter.) head command the ,respect of every man (hat has There they lay until they should find (he same stolo heart and head, lo appreciate either. (Cheers from of things which occurred in 1800, when the people (he outside Clay vvhigs.) Where is he? Two years failed to elect a President and the election went la ago and a little bettor, a gentleman and a very wor the House ofßcprceenlulivcs. Then they saw auotli. thy mao —was unknown to tho two groat parlies of cr chance lor on insiduous usurpation of power, and this country. The name of Zachary Taylor had then it was that Federalism showed its front again, then nothing political associated with it. It was un- Then it was that although tho nation had manifest, known lo the people. Tho great whig parly thol hud ed tho trinel Unequivocal tokens of approbation in been exerting itself fur half a century to establish favor of Gen. Jackson, yot because the nation had its principles, to keep Up its organization, to convince not succeeded in producing (hat unanimity which the American people that their principles were the the constitution required in the expression of the na- IrUo principles of Government—that party which Uonal voice, and the election went to tlie liouse of numbers within its ranks so many great Statesmen, Representatives, whore, Delaware voted down Now men of honor, virtue and political experience—that Vprk, whore Rhode. Island countervailed Pcnnsylva. party knew not Gen. Taylor. (A voice “ two years nia, whore one man from Delaware hud as, much ago.'*') Two short years ago. 1 ask—inhere be ony power in tho election as thirty-sir from New York such here—l-ask (hose claiming to belong to the —where there was a chance for fraud, bargaining Democratic portion uftlio whig parly. (Here a voice and intrigue.—it was tiled that it ogaip made an on, tho outside called “for throe cheers for John-Van fart lo rebuke tho people for having votbd Ibr Genoral Boren.") Steady gentlemen,continued Mr. Allen,you Jacksun, hy tho cholco of Mr. Adams. They succeed- will got enough of him before the campaign is over, rd that time. They hud not Violated the conatilu* At that time two years ago, this gentleman was on iion in its letter* but only in its spirit. They had know. At that time Henry C|ay was better known rebuked and insulted tho people. They bud eatab- than any other man (hat treads tho earth, to (ho whig fished a principle which. If true, (his government is party. And now. one of these men Is forgotten, and false. They hud declared that the minority had the other one adopted! It was a melancholy ccenc at decided right, and the majority had decided wrong. Philadelphia (he other day. It was a melancholy •They carried out the will of (lie smaller number of scene lo see .the hands of the whig lenders in (fist J (he people, against (ho. greater will of the people.— convention, grasping Ihjq gray hairs of Henry Clay, They inverted otir system—they elected a man far and dragging him to the.door, lo be kicked out ss h President who had the Smaller number of votes vagrant, rather than ft chosen lender and head ! And Compared .with General Jackson. When (hat wat why waslt? Was Uto reward military gallantry 7 done It was necessary to sustain It. A bad act was If so, whore was Winfield Scott 7 Waslt lore* done, und no bad uot was to he omitted which was ward military merit 7 . . Where was (ho hero of the necessary lo puitaln the first.. A system of udmlnis- late war 7’ Where, was (he conquerorof Mexico 7 (ration was commenced .which threatened by its Whore was- Winfield Scott, if the whig party hud insidiious Influencc/excrted quietly but potentially honors to bestow upon a military General, husk over tho country, to subvert the liberties ofUifc people again whore was that distinguished captain, if the 1 [und convert the government Into a mere arbitrary dhjdet oftbe whir party was to reward military mcr. organization—an organization which could sustain It 7 No sir, (continued Mr. Allen turning to the Pres* itself against tho will of (ho nation. But tho prime idcht of (he meeting.) Gen. Scott had been known lo sin that party committed, wak tiib fact that they hud (he nation long before 11.0 name of Gen. Taylor was diaregordod the voice of the people and put a minori. hoard of. Ho wus known from the of day Lundy's ly President in. This Was chough. Tho Dcmocra. Lano to this day, from one end of the continent lo oy then saw that Federalism, which had pretended tho other, as the victor over tho British in 1814, sod to disnorso and ,ib diHbnhd under Mr. Monroe's tho conoucror of Mokioo in '4B. Why not then lake adtnininlralion, find tibi In fact dispersed or disbanded him up r Because Gon.Scott was known aa a whig, itself, Tho nation saw that they muat onco more " You ask us." say the whig Convention to General arouse—once more draw the party lines—once more Scott, os ho presents himself, as it wore, at the door separate the friends oflhe country from thd country’s of the convention : enemies. They did so, In the second election which He comet brow.bound with hurels won .in the brought-Gen. Jackson Into the Presidency, not by Halls of the Monlezumas jho presents himselflo the 1 the vole of the House of Representatives, but by the convention of his party. He says tojhom. •• Ifit be voice ol the people. I .eorcely need go over that yOUI . ol.Jeot to dlacnrd Mr, Clay-ld put aaido an old wonderful men o wonderful ndmlnistration, It U on£ j n well tried and faithful statesman of (he party enough to suy that ho like Mr. Jefferson, Mr. .Modi. —.(f nbe yonr intention to. rebuke his grey hairs knd son, ond Mr. Monroe, during his first term, incurred pronounce a decree of banishment on his dbcHpod the unmitigated curses of the Federal party. No farm—lT It be your Intention lo coiVsfgh (he name of epithet was, ao h{irih but (hut it was meted out to Clay lo the inlamy ofa party condemnation—if It bo him. No .onuie was so great that ho was innocent jour intention to do that, and you desire In reward ofi;.. No danger could bp imagined that did not ,„ilU or y merit in a whig General, hero I stand, the threaten (ho country in his person* The Doroocrnllc || er p of Bridgeiratqr. Lmidy’s Lane and Mexibo. J party.,wero denounced us fools and Idiots, qb drunken «m known as a devoted, uniform sntf if fed whig. I vagabonds, as men scarcely entitled to (he protection claim the suffrages of this convention.” But what of the law,.much less lo the decencies of social sooi. My n JO convention lo.all this 7 “tfo Gonefa! i Stan# ety. because they came forward and pul Jackdon In naldo slr« with your British and’ Mexican conquest 1 office. Wo gave them a statesman—a man whp.hsd You ore 100 well known 1 You area Whig! The been a senator before he wus forty—who had been iamb rooSon that makes us throw Mr.ChuimUof a judge of a law court before lie was thirty—who had ono window, compels us throw you out of tho other." been the governor of one of the most Important lerrl- (Cheers and laughter.) Tho whig parly—the parly lories of all our acquisitions—a man who Was out of 0 f principles—the parly that claims to stand on con office, and who hud not been a soldier for fifteen stiimlonnl ground—tho parly that claims the suffra* years, and who then wasoqjoying the peaceful life gea of twenty, milUopp of freemen on the score that of nn independent fafmdr/ Yol huoauio the Dcmq. i|, B y have political! principle* and that those prinol. I oruoy took ftp such tf man,'and* made Min'their pfes conduce to public happiness aqd prosperity, that i presidential candidate, they cried out nfilllury chief. |mt ty banl'ahes two well known fnd triedleoders, the 'lain! war; pea'trfofiue and faniin'a In preference ton mnbodlment and exponent of.its prinqiples, and go , military chieftain! They declared that Jackson and seleol a man who never did apolitical act hi his was a man who hud learned in tho onmp the despotic )|f Q| w ho at the very moment declared that ho knew principles' which prevail In tho camp; that ho would nothing about polities,and hns nopojilioalprinciples, rule the nation with nn iron hand—that he would (A voice on the outside— Three cheers,for TnyJor.') oppress tho poof, the rich, and every body else—that Gentlemen over there oan give three nhoers farTsy ho would retain none hul rogues in office—ln other far'now, but they cunt give Mm‘ one in November. 1 word* that ho would inflict on (he nation every dan- (Cheering, long snd loud.) When 1 ask lliia question, ger llmlthe must notlvu iinaginnlfun cofiltf picture to continued .Mr* Alien, why it was that Gen. Taylor the review of the people. All these tilings were tin. was selected, tnere is no man hero that dare rise up availing; Tjib Domoorulio parly, by increased and QM d suy what Goq. Taylor’s principles are. (A voice conalanlly increasing majorities, pot only siistalpod u| lß fa a whig.**) Somebody cries out (hat he is a the administration of Jackson, hul sustained it from whig, but all of you know,,that is all of you who one your to another against all the giant powers of know anything about it—you know that he nominal the Bunk of the United Stptes,'and .the mercenary ted for the sole reason that his principles wero not, millions that stood upon (heir knees around Us vaults, known, and that there, was once more a chance for, T)io Bunk spent its whole capital of thirty-five mil* ihojbdcrel.whiga of the whig party lions in tryitig to oonvinbe the peqplo of tbo United man into power, whose principle* wars.' unknown.— Stales that Gen*. Jackson was a tyrabt—and yal, jf yoit do If ha will Tyfarlxe you. this notwithstanding eubh efforts, the people uniformly, ( my fellow citizens 7fa it fal’r iis it jun; is it gen- 1 eroiis] ia it republican; is it Honest, to ask, a great people cpmpused of mechanics, laborers, farmers law* yers, doctors, merchants—all working men in their various ways, then who w6rk for their daily broad at (he counter, the anvil, in the field or iu4he workshop, a voting people, a wifco people, a political agitated people, men who are raising.families, and who have an immense stake in the preservation of public liber* ly for themselves end their posterity; is it .right and just to ask.such u popple to place the .political destl* ny of this great country Into Ihe hands of a wan Who says, I will not tell you whal'l will do with it until 1 gel possession of.il! Would any man here employ another to work for him—would any man here put the .most .trivial trust into the custody of another— would any man here give to another a power of at. torney to dp anything in his name, however unim portant, if tliO'porson to whom lie was about to give jt should say ;**• I will tell you what uao t will mako of. thla.tcuat.aftpr I’have got my fingers on U.” And yet it is thought that sUch p pboplo aq. this .cun be humbugged out of their Votes, (he Cool, deliberate Wprkingman, the mechanic,the merchant, the labor er, the professional laborer, ail this description of people, is it possible, In God’s name, that they cull themselves men of sense and worthy citizens of a free country; and yet say to any body and every bo ay whb.tnay present hjmself-r” give une.tho drum and fife, and wo will give ypti, the liberties of the country?" ! ( No, my fellow-citizens, tho Democratic party huye presented loiyour aheeptanee, amanwhu has been a.soldier too. Ho has fought Great Britain, when many.of-those men now recommending Gen, Taylor to you wore on (beside of Great Britain. He too, has seen service in the field, but It is hot for that that tve ask yoc to. vote fur him. tVb speak of this service as one among many evidences of the man’s heart. The reasons why we ask you to vote for him are greater. The reasons aro to be found not only In the purity of ins private character and the unifor mity of his patriotism from his'boyhood upwards— but in his merits founded on’ the depth and strength of his mind—in his past experience in public affairs —as governor of Michigan in the tnosl perilous times of the Republic, at the close of the war—us governor, as Secretary of war under Gen. Jackson, as minister to France, as senator in Congress—in all these vari ous departments ho has fulfilled the duties of a frith, ful citizens, uf an ardent lover of; his country, of an able legislator, of un able governor-and above all, of an honest man. , . These arc iho reason* why the oUenljon.of lliii Democracy of iho Union wo* turned towards Mm when it became necessary to moke choice of its can didate for President. They could not choose-every | body. There was but one office to fill—they coilld choose but one man as a candidate* 'Tiro Democra cy had mdny wbilhy men among whom to choose. 'There are a number that 1 could name,'whoso fame .and greatness are familiar all. Bill one ofthem [could bo chosen, and in sifting and ousting about for a man who would, under all circumstances, best suit (ho Democracy of the Union, Lewis C*si«-ibf JUichl. gan, was adopted os the Domocrutio candidate. The West—the great North west—which is rising with (ho strength of .a giant, brought forward Lewis Cass —not with arrogance—not on (he ground of exclu sive right, but as one of her earliest friends, os one who had gone there when nobody but Indians inhab- Ued (he country, a man who abandoned all (he com forts and privileges of the earlier settled country, braved dll the perils of a frontier settlement, and the scarcely- less formidable dangers of sn unhealthy climate, a man who fur 49 years has been identified • with the- NortMweetfU waasueh a man that .(he North west thought proper (or tender la (heir brethren ‘ ofthe Union as a oadldate for the Presidency., (Cheer* ing.) We ask you, my Democratic fellow citizens of Now York, to accept this candidate of ours. We entreat yon to reflect on (his one fact, that the Dem ocracy of this state constitute one sixth part of (he Democracy of the Union. We ask you to deeply ponder and'considor what will be terrible consequen ces not to the Democratic party alone, but to civil lib* erty In this country, If by your division, by your lo cal bickerings, between a few on one side and anoth er. few on the other, if from (his cause, tins ticket of our should bo defeated I beg you to,reflect upon (he consequences which may follow. This election may go la (ho House of Representatives, and in that etent your half million of voters ore put on a par with the ten thousand voters of Delaware. Will you suffer 1 (his election to go to (he House of Representatives 7 Will you (has paralyse tbe energies of New York t Will you reduce yourselves In point of political in fluence to one fimeth part of your just weight? (cries I of, 'never. 1 If not struggle then to sustain Iho named j of Csss and Duller. [Cries' *wo will.*] 1 could desire I my friends, to say much more more on this subject. 1 Could desire to oallyourattentlun—not speaking as , one who Iras a right to say more than friends mny say when communing with friends, but speaking as a Democrat) and I speak therefore as a Democrat,! I speak in the nsnio and on behalf of your Demo cratic brethren elsewhere, and I appeal to you, Dem ocrats of Now York 1 ,fn remember the day when the Democracy of New York placed (he Democrat-' 1c party of the Union In power, by deciding the elec, (ion In favor oT Jefforson. I appeal (o you whether or not this {(self does nol impose on you (he obliga tion (o avoid, so fitr as lies in you* putting In power I (ho Whig parry, by the defeat of of Gen. Cass,— ' There are no other parlies in this country, them cun ho no other. You may have segments and semi cir cle* cut off from the great body of the two parties. Hut the mass of the nation ore and forever must be, until nature shall change the heart of man, until It shall please God to expel the present passions of the heart, and friendship from the bosom of mankind— until that comes, it is morally impossibly that (here can be but two great parties in the U. States, Those parlies are founded on opposite viewsofgovornment. One Of them believes most 'solemnly and sincerely I that on nil political questions the masses of tho pen-* pla are (lie infest judges, and they believe so on the ground (hat (he masses have nol only no Inducement to judge wrong, bat every incentive (o jtfdge right, that with the means of knowing the truth; and inter estod in the promotion bf truth, they ere for that rea son (he fittest trjb'u'nal to whom the greatquestfon of what ahull bo the fuW should bo submfttrcf. On the other hand, there is a portion of our countrymen who doubt this. They may be honest as men, as public men,' but (ho fact cannot be concealed, that there is a /urge portion of our countrymen who doubt the ca pacity bribe people for self government, ,whlch the Democrats claim for (hem. These parties are (he onlv ones that ban $o formed under tho constitution, both of government and human nature. All other organizations are but outside ones, They cannot | subsist except as more' factious. You might ae well I undertake to make a third distinction between right and wrong, as to mbke'a third parly between the Democratic and Whig parlibs. Hence the old Scrip ture law la a good law—good, not only because it isj in the Bibio—for it would have been true without j being In the Bible, and it is true with the Democrat-1 io,party, that all who are . not for us urp against us. (Cries of 'good, good.’) . Who ah 4 Gen. TatloAM RrriLina?—Lot not the Whig press dare accuse the Democrats of abusing Gen. Tailor. No Democrat hoe over withheld tho honor end praise (hot rightly belong to him. But how is it with ,(ho Whigs, hie now professed friends slid admirers? 7’Aey have boon his only rbvilers, as wo hayo proof abhnaaM to produce. The charge is fastened upon them to completely;that no shallow artifice can shako it off. Witness.the following from some of their most distinguished loaders s , W?B»tSR, who said “that all laurels won in this war were soiled and dishonored Corwin, who wished “tho Mexicans tb'give Taylor and his troops .HOSPITABLE GRAVES WITH BLOODY hands ~. CiiANpi/BR, who said “ Taylor ought to have bean cashiered fbr the capitulation Moptero?.** 'psRXLCir, who shouted “accursed be this itfdmout uon” ' PaSMTtdt, who calls k u & war sc&lnstCSed'" , Abhmuh, whoso amendment to thevciteof thanks to General Taylor still festers upon the Congressional •record. ' . • AT UOd PEBASMB. .CiBS&R’S wipe. t _ . Most of our readers have heard the siylhg *'i eoldieia wile should bo be* yond suspicion,” i.Tha following, which we lake, from the life .of that gfieat itonian, recently pub* lished. will explain the allusion: CJodllis Wait brie of the men whose name* oc* cur most frequently in the histories of those times* a ina.o p;ho. degraded hia talents by the lo West per* sonar vices iand. by, the prostitution of bis great wealth and eloquence to the Worst purposes of sc* dition. # -> . Tins Clodlus had a pasiipn foj Pompeii* C•*»?*» wife, Poiapelu. was closely watched by Char's moth* «r, Aurtlia. In the year whenCssar was praetor, * favorable occasion fur their meeting seemed tooffkr, in (he of the mysteries of the Good Odd dess, which was held utCtpsar'-s andiUundW only by women, The Romans allowed no man* (m even the master of tiie house—to be present at these mysteries; even the pictures and Images of man with covered. The abiceuoo of men the music and dan cing, and ulher.entertainments, afforded an opportut nity ibr a young female slave of Pumpela to admit Clodlus, a beardless yooth disguised as a female inev slcian. ■: The slave left him to inform her misUete of lior arrival, ; v , As he was affrald of etching suspicion by tewaln-. Ing a loner he wandered through the dark purls of tbs apartment*, where he was met by one of Aurella'f slaves, who putsome questions to him taking him lot a women. His voice betrayed him { and the affright* ed slave rsn to the Company, crying that there was a man In the house. Immediately AttreU* pul 4 •lop to (he mystujios, veiled (ho statues s d Symbols of tlie .divinities, closed the gates, and searched eve ry part of the mansion with torches. Glcdios was found in tho chamber of the slave that admitted hlnj» All the women gathered around him and drove bloi from the house. Ctcm Immediately divorced Pom pci*- Both Aurelia, Cesar's mother and sikleri related (lie slorv. When Obsarwaa called upon for his testimony, lio replied with hi* characteristic osq* Uon, that ho know nothing abbot, it. . Being asked* “ why then have you divorced Pompela I*’ ha replied; t* Because Cesser’s wifo should not only bs Tree from crime, but boytinUvmspicldn, I *- A detatUol Thoaght* ' Life isbeautifully compared to a fountain fed by-a thousand streams, that perishes if one-be dried* • i» a elltar cord twisted with a thousand slnngs,thst part asunder If oho bo broken- derail and thought, : less mortals are surrounded by Innumerable dangers* ! wljiolj make it much more strangely escape so long, that they all perish suddenly «t]ai(. We ar* surrounded by accidents every day. to crash the mouldering tenements that wo Inhabit.. The teed* of disease ere planted in our constitutions by nstqre* Thu earth and the atmosphere, wjience ( we drawtu* breath of.Jife, is pregnant 1 Will) la made to operate its own destruction. The food that nourishes contains tbu elements of its decay } the aouV that animates it by a vivifying'fire, tends lo wear it out by its own action; death lurks in sthbath along our paths. Notwithstanding this is the troths 8o pjh ,ubl /< confirmed by the daily erfamplee before ohr eyes, how little do we lay It to heart. Weaee our friends and neighbors perish among ns, bnl howi seldom does it occur to our thoughts, that our kdgU shall, perhaps, give the noil fruitless warning to th 4 world 1 , .VhurA Wiomooxif i» Good for.— , since tlio Penobscot Indian*, were quite* different • race of bolnge ftdm the, rfru’nkon sot thvtnow !i) claim to that namei A few, however; had already* become regu/arBoahers,iind continued (he war iiga Inal u tho Musquash,* 1 only thot they uiighfoonvert their skin* into (ha ardent. A dime was enough to reialut them perfect demon*. . . , . ; Joe Parties,-or “old Joe/' ae he was alwa/fccalled, was about the worst of the lot, and when he ‘bid % fair head on, which wae nearly three»fooribi oftb# lime, was such a perfect terror to the women and children, that ft became necessary to do sorpethlpg, and it was very evident that nothing but legal elation would convince hint of tho,benefits of temperance. Bo one morning be waa told that the njsxl .lime be was found drunk, he muit pay a viill to bU honor, Judge Wyman* . It so happened (hat Joe had quite a pile of at the time, and waa bound 10 have • time of it* jog or no Jug. Before night ho wae caught aa orasyra# a loon, and in this condition was looked up to sober, off—but most unfortunately, this humauo,intention was frustrated by his having hlb bottlo well Charged concealed under his blanket. >, . . j ; Id the morning ho was brought before the Judge, about aßptepy as ever, wbo.afler hearing his defence.. ami previous conduct, thus questioned him-; ■ ' ••Well, Jo, you was told that If you got drunkagaln, lyou must bo punished by the law PJ. . .The way, 4n> which the ** Yea." ws* granted out would have dose honor to a first class Porker. •• Waa yjp drunk yesterday ?” w u “ Vci, mo drunk now,” in the urns kind or % grunt. It' I let you go IUU Umt will yoa got. drunk again V* ■ > Yea, me get drunk like a fool,” M .WuU, lliun, I shall fine you five dollar*, and next tlmo that you gut drunk, I *haU ImprUop you lor ten diya,” (1 Ju walied « minute after hoarWgUUeeritancb/and then granted uni again t “ Well, mo pay ft’ you giro fcighigglnt (meaning a receipt.” •> “You do not need a wighigg)n,”aAid tlie Judge, “ Mual have wighlgglu," grunted Joe again. “ Well, I tell you thal-ynu do not need it, and you can't have it, replied the Judge a little vexed* ■ “Well grunted Jo,” in a njnaHooldedf nitons:, you no give wighiggln, mo no poy f ” ~ ‘ ri I Tills settled the qhe»tinn-~it was, “no wlgblgfln, no, pay J” Accordingly a receipt iVas made out,Tnd after, Joe had forked over a .V, the Judge asked h)th« why he would’nt pay without the wighlggln f •/. » * “ Well, mo tell you, said Joe. >By and by,you and. mo die, and when rno go to good place, they soyi Jp* you been drunk 1 Me any yea, but me pay.-. Well, thrn abow wighiggln. Well, a'poao J, hare.no wig. biggin, must go ail orer hell to Arid Judge Wy« man.** . • • i. 7’he .o*proaalon»>of)«,ugbtßr that followed the cop. duojon of thin explanation ebowed that (he court wge , perfectly anHaficd. ‘ -■ ' ’ t t<i. ’ j.’ „ . hla way out, and long before night,' ffll ” dumk like fool” again. % •• [ promiae your honor If you will pau e tlgVi, aenlanoo on mo I vylll reform end become eo liofiryf. man,” raid a criminal, who had been convicted, pt theft. Thu promiae made hn inipmhlon on the JodjMj end he paned qb light a aonlonco *• poaalble. “May, the hang man choke me, hut that Judge la a fine old' fellow I I muei eetid him eomelhing," exelpimed (he criminal, hr ho kf\ the court; and Uhold the nut day (he Judge received Iron) an unknown hand a valuable gold watch, of wlitoh ho had boon tabbed two yeare before, . t ” An extraordinary eurgical operation wae lately \ performed, which wue the complete removal of the ~ patient to ah another world. The phyclcian ii doihg : woll. : ■■ . ' T ' "I joked my wife at firat,” paid* w«g.”and for the rnpnthai fell aa If ,V could out her Up. X£vet eindo X have been eory I didn't.” ! ■' • saya he once iaw a ,fi»thrfr knock down' bie boy, and thought,)! the uioet Unking picture of a cun down he ever beheld. », •* How I* your wife 10-du'y ?” tald k Mend Of fin to * FreoCh gentleman. V; r< “Oh! inoohodo *©jn,” Mid hej; M ahe and I am *fi»id verMiiU* w»*«; .JC»h*.la£pi*tbdii, I wi*h ehe would <jo It aoonrl ftcl go vASSraffift ' V oiind iekh thoph opeettlo. Wen iho dW/I enallhol ■he lo’m'cdhe dimilaffefi ■ ' n ISO. 7.
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