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Towanda, Wednesday, July 5, 1848.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION&
FOR PRESIDF-NT,
Gen. LEWIS , CASS, of Michigan.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
Gen. W. 0. BUTLER, of . Kentucky.
MR CANAL COMMIIONER,
ISRAEL PAINTER.
JDY WErrIkoRELAND COUNTY.
bettp' Man to POnodelpina.
The loni desired and much needed Daily Mail
from this place 'to Philadelphia commenced its
trips on the Ist iRPt. This supplies a want under
which our citizens have labored for some time. It
places ps within two days of Philadelphia, and in .
daily cbmmunicatien with that city. We trust that
the Department wia -take measures to see that this
route is not merely an aggravation, but require of
Contractors and others a due regard to the wishes
and wants of the citizens of the North. The por
tion of the line &cop Athens to Tunkhannock, is
run by MANNING, of Owegai who intends, we un
derstand, to have it well stocked, and to make it a
comfortable line for travelling.
Mr In another column, may: be found an ad.
vert*ment of the" New York Barnbumer," a
paper published in the city of New York, whose
name is a sufficient indication of its character. It
will be furnished on very reasonable terms.
We commend.the speech - of Mr. Niles, wh'i•h is
on our outside, to our 'readers. It is a plain and
logical argument in favor of the power of Congress
to legislate for the Territories.
ncruati or VoLurrEgas.—Groat preparations are
making at Danville for the reception• of the Colom
bia Guards, who are soon expected to return frtr
Dleaico. ,
Foreign News.
The Steamer Cambria arrived at New Yodt on
the' lit Inst., with highly important intelligence from
France, a synnpsls of which we give, our rcadeis.
The hopes of the moderate party, were likely to
be defeated. The favoring, the Empire of Louis
Napoleon had re-kindled the old Bonaparte enthu
siasm: Soon as the Covemment perceived the
symptoms, one hundred thousand troops concentrat
ted at Paris.
Oa The 10th 2 'OOO rioters were hemmed in and
made'priso . Among thi!m were Englishmen,
American an I distinguished citizens.
The Assembly at first displayed a noble lactic&
eloquently denouncing tyrants and dictators.
The popular feeling divided—litic La Republique,
drowned by Vice la Bonaparte.
On Monday when it was announced- that Louis
had arrived, more than one Regiment .of the Na
tional Guard shouted Pre la Empercur.
I.Amartine mounted the Tribune pale as ashes
demanding the enforcement of the decree of Nov.
22d, against Louis, and while he was speaking,
shots were fired outside mingled with shouts of
lire la Empereter. • .
Lamartine sat down overwhelmed.
One national guard was shot.
Lamartino was skillful to turn the advantage, and
said this is the first blood shed cf despotism.—
France is not 'a Republic.
The decree was then safietioned by acclamatior.
' The people discussed the decree; and declared
that Louis should take his seat.
On the 13th, excitement increased. Barricades
Were attempted, but the overwhelming military
force . prevailed over them.
In the evening, the Assembly by a large majority
reversed the decision of the previous day and de;
dared Louis admitted to membership.
Ledru Rollin-opposed the motion, but the map
rity prevailed.
Ledru Rollin immediately resigned and it was
rumored that Lamartine would follow.
A proclamation was•issued calling the peopte to
arms to place Louis on the throne.
On Wednesday Paris was quiet—Louis hourly
expected.
Several commercial houses had failed in Paris.
The Bonaparte Leader arrived.
Irelnd more tranquil since Mitchell's conviction
Letter from Gov. Mink.
Iltaaissese, June sth. NIS
R. M. Lee, Lsq., Chairman qj Committee of Be.
erptims :
Dclu Sie—l sincerely regret that the state of my
health does not enable me to accept your polite in
vitation to join the Democracy of the city and coon
ty of Philadelphia, to-morrow afternoon, in the re
ception of the Hon. Lewis Cass, "the Democratic
standard-bearer of our country."
Sound in his political faith, firm in his morals,
and distinguished for attachment to the interests and
Armor of his country—from the day he entered her
service as a youthful volunteer, to the present mo
ment—the Democratic Convention, in presenting
the name of Lewis Cass to the American people,
as a candidate for the highest office in their gift,
e have inspired our friends with entire confidence in
success and complete tripmph of the great Demo.
erotic principles of government, which hare ad
vanced ourtountry to itsl elevated rank, and
, which, by their great inti: r ire, are guiding other
nations to the establishment of free institutions, and
securing map in his inalienable right to self-govern
inenL
Lewis Cass has kited many of the mast distin
guished places connected with the government,
with pre-eminent ability, and whether we view him
in the second war of mdependence with our an
cient enemy, Great Britian, contending for free
trade and sailors' rights—as our Minister at the
Court of France, resisting the insiduous schemes of
use allied powers to destroy our independence and
nationality en the high seas-or his recent conduct
as a Senator, 'we find him always sensitive to the
rights and honor of his country, and ever prompt
to maintain and defend them.
wac AS• and the chivalric and patriotic Bu - nzs,
at the Ilead of our ticket, the Democrats of Penn
sylvania reel the assurance of success at the next
election by a triumphant majority, and confiding in
the co-operation of the Democracy of other states,
they have entire confidence that their cherished
prinektles will be maintained. 4.
j have the honor to be, yours, very wevisetfellif,
FRS It ;MUNK,:
New Post CHlke&
A Post Office has been established in Athens
toirnshipcidled "Oreutt's Cteelt,7 and Rain Gens•
Nun apxpktled Poet Maurer.
A new' office has dm been established on the
Rome and ShesheqUin root, celled "!Ghent" IL
N. Homes, is appointed Post Master. -
These offices will accommodate a !ergs number
cif citizens who have heretofore labored under great
difficulties in the reception of their mail matter.
Erns Oa ilon. Martin Van Nara.
LINDKNWALD, June 20, 1848.
GENTLEMEN.-4 have received your kind letter
with feelings of no ordinary _character. it comes
from the representatives of a body of men who
possessansurpassed claims upon my respect and
gratitude. My reception by the lion-hearted dem
&racy of your great city, after my defeat in 1840,
was marked by circumstances, and displayed a
depth of friendshi? which I can never forp,et. It
matte Impressions upon. my heart which are as vivid
now as they were then, and which will never lose
their hold upon my affections until that heart, cea
ses to beat. It is not in my nature to decline a com
pliance with. any request which such men are ca
pable of tanking except, for reasons of the strongest
character, and which they themselves, Will on fur
ther consideration, approve. The determination an.
nounced in 1844, in my letter to the Nen. YorirCom
mince advising my trends to unite in the support
of Mr. Polk ) to regard- my public life as forever
closed, was made upon the most mature reflection,
and with en inflexible determir.ation to adhere to
it to the end. I beg of you to do me the justice to
believe, that it was in no degree influenced by that
spirit of resentment which political disappointments
are so apt to engender in the best regulated minds.
Having been defeated during a highly excited, and
as the result has shown, an unsound state of the
public mind for adhering to a financial policy which
I believed to be right, the democratic masses every
where. as soon as it became evident that the coun
try had recovered from the delusions of the day,
resolved, with extraordinary unanimity, that the
policy which had been so successfully decried
should be vindicated, and the justice of the people
illustrated by my re-election.
This decision of the masses was reversed bytheir
representatives in the Convention. More than com
pensated for any mortification which my discern
beim in 1840 had occasioned, by these expressions
of confidence and regard proceeding directly from
the people themselves, and above all things
for the success of the measures for which I have
been so unsparingly arraigned, 1 forbore to scan
either the motives by which my opponents in the
Convention of '44 were actuated or the means they
resorted to for the accomplishment of their object,
and united with zeal and alacrity in support of the
democratic candidate. •
But while thus in good faith discharging what I
regarded to be my duty, it did not fail to occur to
me that the circumstances by which I was surroun
ded, presented the occasion I had long desired,
when I could retire from public lite consistently
with what was due to the country, to my friends
and to my Own self, respect. I embraced it with my
whole heart. From that day to the present, my
mind has not for a moment wavered in regard to
the determination then announced. At an early period
in the present canvass, and before the democratic
mind could be regarded as having taken anything
like a distinct direction in reference to its candidate
I affirmed my resolution in this regard in a letter
to a worthy citizen of Pennsylvania, which has been
extensively published, and in many others with
which it was not deemed necessary to trouble the
public. A' friendly application from our delegates
to the last National Convention, for authority to use
my name as a candidate if they could do so under
proper circumstances, made it as you appear to be
informed my unpleasant duty to refuse my consent
to their doing so under any circumstances whatev
er. Having thus assumed and so long occupied
this position,l trust to your friendship and past in
dulgence to 3e excused for repeating my unchange
able determination never again to be a candidate
for Public Office. The tact of my having long since
retired from public life with the tacit approbation of
my friends gi ves me a right to saps°. If whilst in
the political field willing to receive honour and ad
vancement at the hands of my political friends, I
did not show myself at all times ready to obey, with
out tegard to personal consequences, their calls to
posts of difficulty, I failed to make myself under
stood by those whom 1 was most anxious to serve.
The considerations to which I have adverted are
not entitled to the same controlling influence in re
gard to the remaining subject of your letter. What
ever would be my preferences in such matters on
ordinary occasions, I feel that I could not under ex
istiug circumstances, refuse to comply with your
request without doi n g injustice to my democratic'
friends in this State. i shall therefore give you my
unreserved opinions upon the questions to which,
you have called my attention, and in doing so X
shall endeavor to observe that respect and courteiy
towards the conflicting views of others, whi it
has always* been my desire to practice, and hich
is now more than ever appropriate to my ition.
To give the doings of a Democratic Nati al Con
vention a claim upon the support of the democracy
of any State, it is indispensably nfy that the
democracy
,of that State should be fi ec itTrepresented
in such Conventiop, and allowed equal rights and
privileges with their political brethren from other
States to regulatir , its proceedings. Neither of these
althoughperseverlngly demanded, was conceded
by the recent Convention to the democracy of New
York, and they aremf course in no degree conclu
ded by its decision. But although their rights end
their duties are thus clear, it is notwithstanding
material to the fraternal relations which have here
tofore'existed between them and those who com
posed the Convention, that it should be distinctly
shown at whose door lies the wrong of theirexclu
sion ; whether at that of our own delegation or of
the Convention. Upon this point both sets of dele
gates claiming, to reps it New York, although
diffetino itt almost everything else appear to have
concurred in the opinion, that the action of the Con
vention bad been such as to put it out of their power
to participate in itsproceedings without a total die
regard of what wa d due as well to their own honor
as to the honor and just rights of their State. it was
therefore but reasonaole to expect that here, at least
the opinion agiinst the slightest obligations on the
democracy of New York to sustain the doings of
the Convention, would be universal. To find ei
ther set,o: f the delegates who claimed to represent
N. Volic id that Convention, or their friends who
approved of their conduct, casting reproach upon
their opponents for not sustaining the decision of a
body, - of whose action in regard to their own State,
they had respectively formed and expressed the
opinion to which I have adverted, must, it seeing
to me, be regarded as a very extraordinary occur
rence in politics.
It was plainly the iluty cif the committee on cre
dentials, to examine into the facts and report their
opinion upon the conflating claims refined to them.
It is an indisputable fact that instead of doing so
they required an unqualified pledge from both sets
of the delegates from New York, that they would
support the nominee of the Convention., whoever
he might be, and resolved that without a compli
ance with this arbitrary exaction, they would not
eyen look into the merits of their respective claims.
Now when it is considered that no such pledge
was required at any previous National Democratic
Convention f em any person—that at one of them
the Delegates from au entire State (Virginia) were
permitted to announce their determination in ad
vance not to support a certain nomination, if it
should be made, without causing a question to be
raised in regard to their seats in the Convention,
and that they carried such refusal into full effect,
without - subjecting themselves or their State to the
reproaches of their associates in other States—that
this very convention contained, without dispute as
to their eligibility, delegates from several States who
could not enter into such pledge, without violating
the instructions of their constituents, and whose in
tentions not to enter into it were not conrealed—
that the convention itself had pm/lowly and ex
pressly refused to impose such a ' , fete upon its
. - .. _
members and that eilthe velYcommineei which 80
imperiously detnanded it from the New York do
lepers, there were members trim openly denounc
ed its maction as an outrage s•-.1/1101 , lared their utter
unwillingness to tske it themselves, and who, also,
were nmr
atheists recogniied as eligible nod fit
members of the Conventien-- when diens things
are considered, is it possible that any tight Winded
citizen &meets us, Can fail to regard this treatment
of the New York delegates, as au indignity to them.
and to their State, of the rankest, character 1 If it is
our misfortune to live in a community with whom
it is necessary to resort to argument to prove this,
whose minds do not rush to that conclusion at the
mere presentation of the !Object, it is of very little
impatience to us what is said or done in a demo-
MUM Convention. Others may think differently,
and I have neither the iit, nor the disposition, to
become their accusers. But speaking for myself,
and myself only, I do not hesitate to say, that the
representatives of the radical democracy of this
State, were entirely right in their appreciation oldie
treatment they received, and in the course they
adopted. Were Ito advise them or those whom
they represented to any step which would indicate
the slightestinsensibility en their part to the degra
ding distinction, that was Implied to them, I should,
in my best judgment be counselling them to an act
of political dishonor by which they would justly for
feit the respect of all upright minds. God forbid
that I should be induced, by any considerations, to
leave my memory
. exposed to the imputation of
having made so poor a return for a whole life of
public favors received at heir hands.
The crimtniffee 'carried out their designs to the
extent of their power, and the qtlesdon rimers, did
the Convention itself relieve your delegates tw your
selves from the injustice of their committee ? Most
sincerely do I wish that I could think so. But is
that possible? That the differences between the
two deleations were irreconcilable, was apparent
to that b ody, nor was there room for a moment's
doubt that at least one of the delegation would not
attempt to represent the State, unless their right to
do so exclusively was examined and decided by
the Convention and it bad not yet become too late
for the Convention to do its duty in the matter, when
it appeared that the resolution not to take their seats
was common to both delegations. There was then
no other way in which the difficulty could be prop
erly disposed of, than by examining into and deci
ding upon the conflictingclaims before them. The
unavoidable result of failing to do so, was to cause
the proceedings of the Convention to be regarded
as without authority in New York. The expedi
ent of admitting both delegations might do well
enough in a case where the difference between
them was not one of principle, and where both
parties finally assented to the arrangement, but was
wholly inapplicable to the one under consideration.
The matter was nevertheless so disposed of New
York was allowed a double representation with the
inevitable and well understood consequence, that
she should not have a single effective vote upon the
proceedings of a convention whose decision She is
now called upon to sustain. Your - delegates claim
-1 the exclusive right to represent the democracy of
this state in the Convention, and offered to maintain
their title thereto before that body. by documentary
proof. Their claim was rejected, and on what
ground ! Not certainly on the ground, that they
I were unable to Sustain it, for their credentials and
proofs were returned to them unopened, and the
Convention itself did not profess to put the rejection
of their demand on any such ground; and yet that
was the only ground on which, if well founded,
their claim could be properly overruled. It is not
to be disguised, that the belief that your delegates
were refused admission on the ground of the opin
ions entertained by their constituents upon the ques
tion of the prohibition of slavery in the territories,
is very general in this State. The course of 'pro
ceeding adopted by the Convention, renders it not
a little difficult to define with precision for what
particular reason the rejection of both sets of dela
gates by the nominal admision of both, was order
ed. That many members were not influenced by
the consideration referred to, I am well satisfied,
whilst it is equally clear, that the number of three
who were, was neither small nor unimportant in
character. Those who feel themselves constrained
to believe, that their delegates were rejected for
that cause, cannot indeed but regard it as an extra
ordinary s pectacle in the political field, to find their
votes demanded for the nominee of a convention,
in the deliberations and discussions of which they
were not deemed worthy of participation. .
I cannot, under such circumstances, refrain from
concurring with you in the opinion, that the deci
sions of that Coesention are in no degree binding
upon the Dem ' yof this State, or entitled to any
/ sac
other wei ght . their estimation, than as an expres
sion of the es and opinions of respectable por
tions of theft political associates and friends in oth
er States qnalified as their expression is, by the
acts by which hich it has been accompanied.
yeu desire also my views in regard to the pro
hibition by Congress ' of slavery in territories where
Udoes not now exist, and they shall be given in a
/manner, which will not, I tilp pe, increase, if it does
not diminish the existing excitement in the public
mind.
The illustrious founders of our government were
not insensible to the apparent inconsistency between
the perpetuation of slavery in the United States and
the principles of the Revolution, as delineated in
the Declaration of Independence; and they were
too ingenuous in their dispositions to attempt town -
ceal the impressions byWhich they were embarrass
ed. But they knew also, that its speedy abolition
in several of the States, was impossible, and its
existence- in all, without fault on the part of the
present generation. They were also too upright
and the fraternal feelings which had carried ihnn
through the stru i ule for independence were too
strong to permit them to deal with such a matter
urea any other principles than those of liberality
and justice. The policy they adopted, was to gua
rantee to the States in which slavery existed, an ex
clusive control over the subject within their re
poetise jurisdiction, but to prevent, by united of
forts, its extension to territories of the U. States, iq
which it did not in fact exist.
On all sides the most expedient means to early
out this policy were adopted with alacrity and good
feeling. Their first_step waste interdict the intro
duction of slavery intethe North Western Territory,
now covered by the State of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Michigan, Wisconsin. This may justly be regarded
as being in the main. a southern measure. The
subject was fi rst bro't forwent is Congress by Mr
Jefferson. Virginia made the cession of Territory
upon which the ordinance was intended to operate,
and the representatives from all the slave holding
states gave it a unanimous support. Doubts have
arisen in tine minds of some whether the ordinance of
1787 was authorized by the articles of Confedera
tion. A bill was intmducted in the new Congress
at its first session under the Constitution, recogniz
ing and adapting it to the new organization, and it
has ever since been treated and regarded ass valid
act. This bill received the Constitutional approba
tion of President Washington, whose highest and
sworn duty it was to support the Constitution Under
which it enacted. Nor was the North backward in
doing its part to sustain the policy which had been
wisely . adopted. They assented to the insertion ef
provisions in the Constitution necessary . and su
cient to protect that interest in the States, and-thee
did more.
The trouble apprehended 'tithe commencement
of the government from this source, began to show
itself as early as the yea} 179 in the form of Pe
titions presented to Congress pon the subject r f
sin
slavery and the slave trade by the Quakers of Phil
adelpfdad New York, an by Dr. Franklin as
i i .o
President of a Society for the motion of abolition.
These petitions, were, in the ouse of Represents
ties referred to acommittee seven, all but one of
whom were Northern members, Whose tepee as
amended'in committee of the whole affirmed "that
Congress have no power to interfere in the eman
cipation of slaves or iu the treatment cf them with
in any of the States, it remaining with the several
States alone to provide any,nsgulation therein which
humanity and true policy might esquire."
The perseverancemulgood faith with which both
branches of policy thus at4W. , have until very re
cently, been recognized and carried out, are highly
honorable to the whole country. The peculiar r.
Wily of the subject to be converted into an element
of politiMl as w ell ns vet
iai r ti
in the-slameolfliag
dates may have led to se
miens! Mentes so to employ it but these, efforts
-have temp streeMblly treaded by good
sense and feeling of the people in ev quar
tet of the nem . A detailed aocount of the n roue
of the WederalOrreettmeent,snotainiig and Minting
into fall effect the pores', of its extension to flieTer-
Mertes, and the stele Mken, in the ncM-stilheehold:
ing Stales, to taproot; or neutralize. undue . 'agitation
in regard to it, would be alike instructive and hon
orable to the actonein them. But it will bereadily
perceived, that this cannot be given within the ire
cautery limits of a communication like the present.
It must therefore suffice to say, that, from 1787, the
date of the ordinance for the prevention of slave
ry in the North western Territory, down to ,and in
cluding 1838, at least eleven acts of Congress have
been , organizing Territories which hive
since States, in all of which the Constitu
tional power of Congress to interdict the iterodoc
tion of slavery into the Territories of the U. States.
is either directly exercised, or dearly asserted by
enactments, which, as •matters of authority, are
tantamount to its exercise; and that the only'period
when the peeved the slaveholding States was sup
posed to be seriously endangered by abolition agi
tation II ere was a spontaneous uprising ot the peo
ple of the North of both parties, by which agitation
Was paralyzed, and the South reassured of our
Fidelity to the compromises of the Constitution.
In the laws for the organization of the territories
which now constitute the States of Ohio, Incliania,
Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and lowa, Slavery
was expresslyprohibited. The laws for the 'organi
zation of the Territories of Mississippi, Weans, Ar
rkansas' Alabama and Florida, contained enact
ments fully equivalent in regard to the extent of
power in Congress over the subject of slavery in
the Territories to the express exercise of it in other
eases. These acts were approved by Presidents
Washiugton, the elder Adams, Jefferson, Madison,
Monroe,Jackson, and myself, al bound by our
oaths ooffice to withhold our respective approvals
from laws which we believed unconstitutional. if
in the passage ofthese laws during a period of half
a century, and under the administration of so many
Presidents, there was any less particpation in their
enactment on the part of the• representatives ot the
slave-holding or of the non slaveholding States,l
am not apprised of it. I believe the plan devi sed
by the founders of the Government, including the
Fathers of our political Church, for the treatment
of this great subject, and which bar hitherto been so
faithfully sustained. and which has proved so suc
cessful in preserving the Union of these States, to
be not only the wisest which the wit of man could
have devised, but the only one consistent with the
safety and prosperity of the whole' country. I do
therefore desire to see it continued so long as sliv
ery exists in the United States. The extent to which
T have sustained it in the various public stations I
have occupied is known to the country. I was at
the time well aware that I went farther hi this re
spect than many of my best friends could approve.
But deeply penetrated by the conviction that slave
ry was the only subject that could endanger our
blessed Union, I was determined that no efforts on
my pan, within the pale of the Constitution, should
be wanting to sustain its compromises as they wens
then understood, and it is now a source of consolation
to me that I pursued the course I then adopted.
The doctrine which the late Baltimore Convention
has presented for the sanction of the nation, is, in
substance, that the laws I have referred to were
but so many violatiens of the constitutionthat this
instrument confers no power on Congress to ex
clude slavery from the territories, as has so often
been done with assent of all. This doctrine is set
forth in the published opinion of the highly respec
table nominee of that Convention. who it is so well
known received that distinction, because he avow
ed that opinion, and who it is equally certain would
not have received it. if he had not done so. It is
proposed to give this doctrine the meet solemn
sanction known to our political system, by the elec
tion of its declared advocate and supporter to the
Presidency. If it receives the proposed sanction of
the people' of the United States, the result cannot
be doubtful. The policy in regard to the extension
or slavery to the territories of the United States into
which it has not yet been introduced, which has
existed - since the commencement of the government
and the consequences of which have been so saluta
ry, must cease, and every act of Congress designed
to carry it into effect- defeated by the veto of the
Executive
The territories now owned by the United States
and every acquisition of territory that may hereafter
be made by the United States, whether obtained by
annexation, by cession for a valuable consideration
or by conquest, must as long as this opinion is held,
and as far as the action of the National Legislature
is concerned, be subject to the inroads of slavery.
And this consequence is to be submitted to on the
assumption that the framers of the Constitution, with
their attention directed to the subject, and with a
well understood desire to do so, have failed to clothe
Congress with the necessary powers to prevent it.
I can not with my vote contribute to this sanction.
I can not do so, because I can not concur in the
opinion which we are called upon to sustain.
Entertaining these views of the constitution,
could not by my vote contribute to the proposed
sanction of this new principle in the administration
of the Federal Government ' without, at the same
time, avowing meself to be in tavor of the extension
of Slavery in the abstract, and this I can never do.
Those who 'wee with me in regard to the exist
ence of the power and the expediency of our exor- I
rising it, and can still brine s their minds to dissent
from this conclusion, must have . more light upon the
subject or have greater power of discriminating than
I possess. I do therefore unhestitatingly approve
of the course you propose to pursue:lh withholding
your votes from Governor Cass, and shall do so
myself. If no other candidates than those now be
fore the country are presented, I shall not vote for
President. The manner in which our political bre
thren in other non slaveholding States shall dispose
of their 'suffrages, it is for them to determine and 1
with it we have nothing to 'do. But that they ac
cent with us in the opinion as to the existence of
the power in question, aqd the expediency of exer
cising
it whenever the aftsion for so doing arrives
we have the best reason to knot..
The power, the existence of which is, at this late
day, denied, is ,
_in my opinidn, fully granted to Con
gress by the Constitution. Its langeagri, the cir
cumstances under which it was adopted, the recor
ded explanations which accompanied is formation
—the construction it has received from our highest
judicial tribunals, and the very solemn and repeat
ed confirmations it has derived from the measures
of the government—leave not the shadow of a detest
in my mind in regard to the authority of Congress
to exercise the power in question .
. This is riot a
new opinion on my part, nor the first •ocertsicie on
which it has been avowed. Whilst the candidate
of my friends for the Presidency, I distinctly an
nounced my opinion in favor of the power of Con
gress to abolish slavery in the Districtscif Columbia,
although I was, for reasons which were then, and
are still satisfisetoty to toy mind, vary decidedly op
posed to its exertior theni. The qttestion of power
ts certainly as clew in respect to the Territories as
it is in regard to that Distnct ; and as tothe Territo
ries my opinion was also made known in a still
more solemn form by giving the executive appro
val required by the Constitution,
in, the bill for the
Insanitation of the Territorial Goveminent of lowa,
which prohibited the introducticn of Slavery into
that Territory.
The opinion from which we dissent was given
in the face of, and directly contrary to views ex
pressed, in forms the most solemn and explicit, by
all or nearly all the non-slaveholding States, and we
are not at liberty to suspect the sincerity of these
expressions. Honest and well meaning men, as
we know the manes of our political friends in those
Stateri to be are incapable of trifling with so grave
a subject.
Our ancestors 'signalized the commencement of
this glorious government of ours, by *cuing from
galactic"' to slavery, a territory which is now cov
er:mid by five great States and pied by more
than four Marmot freemen, in the faliirment
of every blessing which industry and , institu
tions can confer . They did this when t opinions
andcoohnot of the world in iegard to the institution
of slavery were very different from what it is now.
.
They did so before Gteat &kW, had even coin
menced those gigantic efforts for the suppression
of slavery, by which she his so greatly distinguish.
ed herself. ...OW , severity four yekis enjoyment of
the meted arid ittealeable right of leggovernotent,
bbtained for as by the valor and A*lll6on of our
sheestairs, we, their descendants, are idled upon to
doom, or if that is too strong a werd, to expose 10
the inroad of slavery a territory capable of anstaio
ing an equal number of new states to be added to
our oonfederacs—a territory in a great part of which
slavery has never existed in fact, and from the re
sidue of which it has been expressly abolished by
the existing government. We are called upon to
do this at a period when the minds of nearly all
mankind have been penetrated by a conviction of
the evils of slavery, and are united in efforts far its
suppression—at a moment too, when the spirit of
freedom and reform is everywherejar more preva
lent than it has ever been ,. and wittn our republic
stand proudly forth as the great exemplar of the
world in the science of free-government.
Who can believe that a population like that which
inhabits the non-slaveholding Stares probably
to twelve millions, who byi their own ,
acts, or by the foresight of others, have been ex
empted from the evils of slait.ery, can, at such a mo
ment, be induced, by considerations of any des ,
cription, to make a retrogade movement of a char
acter so extraordiniry and so painful! Such a move
ment would, in my view of the matter, and I say
it with unfeigned deference:to the conflicting opine
ions of others, bring reproswh upon the influence of
free institutions, which would delight the hearts and
excite the hopes bf the advocates of arbitrary pow
er throughout the world.
Holding dime opinions, you have duties to per
form as important as they are delicate." In the first
place you should adhere inflexibly to your opin
ions as long as you believe them to be right, and
no longer. This you will do. In the next place
yuu should present your views in regard to them
calmly and distinctly but firmly to your political
brethren of the staveholding States, ;rith a full state
ment of -- the masons on which they are founded,
that these reasons may be controverted if they are
not sound. This you have done In other impor
tant respects your positions are unassailable. The
movement to advance the principle you desire to
promote, was commencedin the tight place, though,
perhaps, not at the most desirable moment, and
was nor accompanied by partizan measures or
Founded on political designs of any description, as
far as I know or have reason to believe. If I un-
derstand your course, your delegates went to the
Convention piepared to accept the nomination of
any sound Democrat, who had not actually submit
ted to a test which implicated the well known and
repeatedly expressed opinion of your State, without
interrogating him in regard to his opinion on this
particular question. In taking this ground, yon par.
sued the only course by which the Democratic par
ty of the Union as hitherto organized, can be per
petuated ; and the just and fair minded men of the
party' every where, will, when the present excite
ment has passed away, approve your conduct—
One thing more, and your whole action will, in the
end, attract the attention and enlist the good feel
ing of all just and generous minds. Let- your far-,
their proceedings in this whole matter, be distinguish
ed fill. moderation and forbearance.
Injustice must be resisted—indignities repelled ;
and all this can be, done, with decency and without
impeachment of t e motives of whole communi
ties, on account of the conduct of individuals. • The
situation of
. your p liticalbrethren in the slavehold
ing:States, is not favqrabile to calm disCussion
and dispassionate usideralion as yours, and more
will therefore, in t is respect, be expected at your
hands. If your dilflerences must continue, do you
at least sustain your viers,- without vituperation or
unnecessary excitements of any description. Ex•
emplify your firmness and your confidence in the
justice of year cause, by the best of all tests—the
dignity and moderation with which you uphold it.
When the election is over, and reason resumes her
empire, the ground which has been taken b -our
Southern brethren, will be reviewed with ca mrie-ss •
and if found to be untenable, you are braind.to be
lieve that it will be abandoned. If in this you are
disappointed, it- will still be a consolation' to know,
that you have done nothing unnecessarily, which
could serve to exasperate alienations which may
then become incurable.
Accept, Gentlemen, my warmest acknowledge
ments for the obliging 4,expressions contained in
your letter, and believe me to be .
•
Your friend,
- MARTIN VAN BUREN.
To Messrs. Samuel Waterbury, David Dudley
-Field, and others, New York.
Beware et Coantertetts.
The public are cautioned spinet purchasing 'parkins Pacific
Balm, as I understand that pedlars are circulating a medi
cine which they have called Sovereign Balm, and which they
represent to be the same as Dr. Farwell's Pacific Balm. The
public will therefore will be on thCir guard,.. as there is no oth
er authorised agent in this county, for • the sale orDoct. Louis
Farvrell's Pacific Balm. .1. MSC:SM.:It R Y Jr.
Towanda, May t.. 1), lE4S.
nalsaas of Wild Cherry.
This one of the very few patent medicines of the day wh.ch
we can recommend whit confidence to all those who are affec
ted with Coughs. Colds. or Consumption. or who are predispos
ed to the litter COmplaint. It has been used With corrsiderable
"advantage by many familiea. in town. and in • few stuhborn
cases. has produced highly beneficial effeetl.—lttoCh. Ada.
Cstriori.—ln setting fdrth the virtuesof Dr tiVirtar's BaltMen
we have no desire to deceive those who are Inboring under af
fliction, nor do we desire to eulogize it more than it justly de
serves Yet when we look around and see the vast amount of
suffering and distress occasioned by many of the diseases iii
which this medicine has proved so highly succestifol, we he!
that we cannot urge its claims too strongly, or *ay too much in
its favor.
Let the public be on their guard. other Balsams and mit
t urea are somenties imposed on the unsuspecting. fbr the genu
ine Dr. '.V sitar's Balsam of • Wild Cherry. Some. 6:ir the par
pose of succeeding better in their scheines, have used a part o
the name of the etenuitie, at Phoemx Balsam of Wild Clietry,
Balsam of W lid Cherry, Contftey. de.. Syrup of Wild Cherry.
The genuine slgned I. BUTTS on the wrapper ; Sold by
CRAM BEBLINIk PORTER, Tbwarida.
M=ll
E. W CARR, jo. 410 North Fourth st.: and * Sun building
N. E. corner nr Third and Dock 61., Philadelphia :
V R. PALMER, N. W. corner of Third and Chesnut streets,
Philadelphia ;Mid 109 Nassau at.. (Tribute bmidingit.) N.V.:
GEORGE PRATT, 161 Naasau at., (hert door to Tammany
Hall) New York. •
THE NEW YORK BARNBURNER,
1440 Labor and No Blarety.
A CAMPAIGN PAPER of this title will be issued
weekly in tnis city during the Presidential canvass,
commencing on the first Saturday in July, and ending
on lilt second Saturday after the election. It will be
printed with neat type, on fine paper, each mimber con
taining at least twenty columns of reading matter.
"The Bamberner is designed Vibe a powerful aux
liary to the nen organiiation in this state and elsewhere
—and it will advocate. with the titincist Mar and ability,
the glorious muse of rats mix, vase Lanus,
TEAM sale arascu. It will strive to secure, the elec
tion of MARTIN VAX ti 171111 1 ,1 and Haira! f,. DODOZ, to
the high offices fur which they *ere nominated at Utica
And It will present the condition and ;progress of the
pubis sentiment in twiny part of the state and coontr
upon the great issues put forth by the Utica convention,
" The New York Bambumer ' will be mailed to sub.
- soribers, or sent in packages by express, attemboat, rail
road, or in any way it maybe ordered, to agents or clubs,
for distribution, on the following .terms-apayable in all
cases in advance :
Single copies to one address,....so eta. each.
Five •• 45 "
Ten " 40 "
Twenty " 35 "
Fifty.' ~.....30
One hundred 25 ..
Orderttine rearrested immediately, from dubs, agents,
and individuals, in every part of this and other mates:—
They must be addressed in all caws, to Win. J. Tenny,
No. 18, Nassau street, assisted by an
association of gendemen,the • Ramburner' will be edited.
Any paper which will announce the publication of
••• Barnbunaer " stating the terms, shall receivea copy
I during the winds campaign.
New York, June 28, 1848.
• THEY HAVE COME! !
DR. JAYNE'S MEDICINES. at CHAMBERLIN
At PORTER'S Drug Store, No. 1 1 . Brick Row.
Also, Scorpio Compound •Acoultic Oil, a sure cure
fix deafness. July 4, ISIS.
IirATIM ' .I : - ti. of
llit'A .. - "' - 13 -
O. P., 411 bit hifill at A Ns, as two- .;
12th day of JULY aext, it to ors,
_fii...pir, A. M. The
membeni of the Order 'ad Ilia PiiShepaerally, are :::
invited to' attend. ' - 111r.' IWO lit s Prerraaera, of l i - i=
Philadelphia, will deliver am fiddlier the rateaahis. ft,.,
~
En
GROCERY AND
VARIETY - STORE.
tiAYFtE & WPODWORTH,
Arroyo respectfully inform the inhibit's"; *IV&
Vl' wands and vicinity. that they liimiAPSPli„
GROCERY & VARIETY STORE, in . 41Wiliessi ,
building north of the public square, on MainmOilinit
may be. found all kinds of
Gristerfts, Preserves, Pickles,
Tobacco, Snuff, Cigars, Can* Cratkffs and Toy at
every . description, Biskds, Brooms, Willow ware,
;_ Sperm and Tallow Candles, Bar ary l
Vinegar, Flour, Pork, Hants,! 4C-jr:lc
all of which will be sold cheap for eint4
Towanda, July 3, 3648.
st. IS 10 ULM 'Valls gy
Situated near the Rail=road and Canal, Water street,'
ELMIRA, N. Y:
E subscriber has leased the stand formerly bannsl-
•
1-es the " Elmira Houk' and has mused the ewe
to be thoroughly REPAIRED. RENOVATED end
RE-FURNISHED, and is, now reedy to marramodme
his friends, and the traveling public. His room i er*
tastefully arranged and newly furnished ; his Tiblesod
Bushell yield all the necessary. comforts required by
the. traveler or men of leisure, and in ell respecter, oaks
and quiet in his house will be strictly observed, sad ses..
ty attention will be given to render the stay comfortable
and agreeable, to those who choose to make his, brews
their home during a visit to this pleasant village, at ,
charges the Meet reasonable.
WHITTINGTON SATRLP.
Elmira. June 31, 1848.
SHERIFF'S SALE.
B y
virtue, of suodry writs of vend. expo. Wed ant
B
of the court of Common Pleas of Bredbedl County.
to me directed, I shall expose to public sole atthelbmse
of T. P. Woodruff, in the borough of Tomah, es Maw
day the 4th di of SERTEMBER next, at also &Week
P. M., the following pieces or parcel of land-ba the
township of llidgebery. and bounded as' the am* by
lands of Perrin, Burnham, on the mast by Waal Bust.,
and sobtb-west by Howard Burt, Contain*" area
acres all improved; with one framed house.,
Seized and taken in execution at the bait et Cad
bough and McAlpine is. War. Johnsen.
. ALSO—The .definadants interest in the (enemies
piece or parcel of hind - situated is Springfield uniambip' ,
and bounded north bZ lands of Charles L. Wills, oat
by Alvin Parmenter, south by Woodard Hem, and
west by lands of Corbel and Seth Sherman. Casimir
big about uric hundred and thirty acresoifia shoat thir
ty screw improved, one log house, one framed - barn end
an apple orchard thereon.
Seized and taken in execution at the suit of Edwin
Dyer vs. John q'. Page.
ALSO—The following - piece or parcel of land *sat
ed in Monroe township, and bounded as follows, to wit :
• north by the Towanda Creek,. and east by the Aaylein
company lands, south by land of C. L. Ward, and
west by the Schrader Branch, containing three hundred
acres, with fifty acres improved, with one framed horse,
one framed barn and shed, a small orchard therein.
Seized and taken in execution to the suit of Wm.
Watkins to use of Frederick Watts vs. T. H. Lewis.
ALSO—By Sundry mils of Levari tart
of land situated in Granville township, beginning of a
dead pine tree south west corner of lot no. 199 oel War
rant lot no. 1537, thence earth one hundred end fifty
two perches to a dead maple, thence west two hundred
and sixteed and 8-10 perches to • eliestent oak for a
corner, southeast corner of lot no., 181, thence nos*
one hundred and forty-two perches to • post, thesta•enst
v turo hundred and sixteen and 8-10 perches to the begin-
Lng. Containing one hundred and ninety-two acres
•
• sixty-six perches strict measure. -
• • and taken in execution at the suit of R. 11.
Davidson administra or of Wm. Davidson deed., who
ant vivid Timothy Paxson vs. Joseph Cann Simpson
administrator of John Taylor.
ALSO—Another piece or parcel of land situated in
Burlington township, .beginning at s pat south...nest
corner of lot rid: 43 on warrant lot no. 1477, theorised
one hundred Ittdi one perches to • post, thence month
one hundred and fitly-two perches and 7.10 th to spat;
thence west one hundred and one perches to a poll.
thence north one hundred and fifty-ton snit 7 7 10th
perches to the beginning. Containing ithieljt.six acres
and sixtpthree perches arid measure
Sorted and taken in eseeutionst the snit of R. B.
Davidson administrator of Wm. Davidson deed., who
outlived Timothy Paxson vs. Joseph C. Simpson of
ministrator of R. Swenej dee?:
ALSO—AII that certain piece or parcel of land whit
the ;111proveruents thereon erected situated on Bentley
creek in the township of Ridgebery, bounded se follows:
Beginnin g at the seventieth Wile stone, and runs theme
along thePennsylvdnia line, 43 chinos 50 lints to •
sapling, thence southerly three chains to a stake, thence
thence westerly 45 chains 50 links to a stake, thence
northerly 33 chains to the beginning... Containing 150 -
acres of land, be the same mine or less, it being put of
a lot of land of 200 acres, originally conveyed by Fran
cis W Johnson and others, to Elijah Depuy. on which
said lot Thos. flahlwin and Elijah Depuy erlctdd mills t
excepting. liostever out of the said lot one acre, havelb
fore odd; lying on the south side of the same.
Seized and taken in execution at the suit of Seam!
Rexford and A. 16,1. watid use ; vs. David Ihewer.ad:
of Arsine Clark 2d:, with Hepsey Clark, widow of said
Arline Clark; 2.1.; and Sutphen Haratan and Gawp
Fishlerj terre tenants
JOHN F. MEANS; Stoma
Sheriffs Ciftee„ Towanda, July 5,184 S.
T IST Or LETTERS remaining in the Port OS*
14 at TOWARIDA, June 31, 1848.
•
Arnot M E
Alexander !ease
Blackman F
Byne $ K
Bowers Miss L
Barnes George
Basset A'
Barber M
Bowmap D
Bennet Chester
Bailey N
Bennet E
Bancroft L
Botiren Mt* ft
Barret James Morrie Joint
Bowman Geo. W
Cotter Thee Minier Miss li - : 1 ,
Cook Miss Mary Marshal Mdse d .
Cirmen Mr. Martin
Car Man John Myers J I V! , .
Covecey M . Morgue 01, ,
Cross A Mrs. • Mc Carty Jame.
Congble 8 C . • Mason If •
Clencey M • - Owen P
Case T B Platt C
Dewitt Miss E Fetcher Min M•J • . .
Dramas Geo Post I
Dodge E Mrs Post A
Doherty M ... - Platt mi.. r
Dunlap Chas Powell J
Dorgan fi - Record J. A
Eastabrook Wan . R.illinlido D .
Evans S A Wheeler Mies E
Einstein S Warne U NV 3
Fairchild F F Watts J M
Falk David Willcox B ' . •
Griffis Byron Woodward R •
Goodell Miss A Wheeler Chas
Gibbs L E . Wilcox Mica .
Crrandin jr L 8 Ward J -
-Hurley Mrs. E Willard Wm.
Heigler A Wattles J M
Hall C M . Whipple Jno
• Heisly John Warner Miss A•D
Hinoin R E.W . B MAD, P.' M. '
DR. JACKSON'S PILE EMBROCATION.—
Thiss is no disgusting, nauseating pill, patios, or
mixture nothing that produces pain or irritation; but
• medicine that is at ones pleasant and Event& in its
application, affording immediate relief, and win =re the
very worskeasea of painful, itching or *alias Blois
■ vet* few days. Call at CaANatituar & Perrot%
Drug Store, No, I. Brick Row, Tomo*, luldsrlPLwil
not gu home without a butt's., .
lio . wb Misslit /2
Hall D C
Ingham J
Johnson Ellen
Johnson *gym
Johnson CAA
Jennings C 0
Kelly. Thos
Kipp Miss M t
Kennedy John
Litt: James
- Lester B N
Laughlin Mi.. M
Lewis Miss E
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