11
Who have one semtillation of State pride
trust think hariiione too fiti. already. T But
the Senate has the impeaching power, 'lt
sums quite poetibleAey may soon be 0114
•
upon to exacted
Theßenate also Oresses the great power,
of epnfirming or rejecting nominations made
by. flae President, to ',office. '
• 1 Sitting in secret roeclave,,has it not berome
a power greatly to be dreaded 1 •
Is it not this eonclave, that the Slave inter
est calculates upon to awe—to - purchase;--to
influence political aspirants in the free States
and thmugh them
,t 4 shape the LegLslation
. and Polities of the eountrr, and thus to be ,
come, de lado,, niasters , of the Federal Gov
ernment and the iUtfi' On 1.
T-Billtwo - :northern gautdemea eandi
data! for &seat on the bench of the Supreme
— Coin; learned' "attd elperienced; one, some
iithat,eothingraritree ta a contest in Which all
ntedern,experieame, shows that the , meatiest
vim**. 4is syhisPered in the ear OfsOme
Soutbe4n Senator: "4 1 1, will be trtu;) to your
peculiar- _
interests; so pledge tnyielf—W.
eerteipiy. at one tynir either took ttart at a
;megt*Wlieri something , unfaiorable to the
furthw extension Of Slivery was talked ofor
at max ra6;he had a aecond cousin who was
reported, to' Wilmot
,Proviso man"—
" You dotA • . say so." i That 'settles the mat
; ter,, the 0014 that vibrates With. the Telicate
sensation Of the, 'spider's web reachts.with po
tential powli every stave-rypreseuting Sena
' tor, 'and the thing is done. %V, is' tut ostra
eised man'forever.
Indeed, a name, once whispered` with ad
riiiration and regard, in a high station,] is
stained (1 hOpe unjustly) with the infamy . of
,
eanalng one more nounination made for office
',;to be withdrawn on the imputation that tiny
ad expressed opinions favorable 'to Free-
Soil.
j One word more, of great import remains
- to be added.
The game of Political parties now will be
. tohave no'Rlection for President by the peo. I
. utito throw " ,
-, at i e oirow it into the House. B
I y
'this Samson ia shorn of his locks,—by this
1 -
:process New ',York and Pennsylvania, are
. iem -by this ' ! when the question; is_
taken,liot by numbers, but by states, chose
StEttpS above named, that gave less votes than
New , 'fork, Would have eleven times the
voice imdle-eight in declaring the President
,- of the Republic, and - le of course by political
-neeessity a slave holder, or far worse, a north
'', , • ern tuau.who had bartered hie independence
. andlenor -hi attain the station.• •
• ' Would I exClude slave holders'? Oht no
.--no--nO a full and &re share of the - honors
-and onoliiments of office, independence, S'e
earity, protection:in their domestic concerns
• and within their iegitimnte jurisdiction. •We
make no attack upon them.---)ve 'stand on the
• defensire... .t-ekr'iny
; single self, I wish -there
,-. wak.not an African, 4. the descendant of an
' African, this side 'of the Atlantic, the wish
amorrostated b:• the desire, that their places
here should
,be filled. With freemen, of course
by titiTilitelligent, induStrious ; white popula,
:,. tie:oil:4od that the Negro, loerieith the shade
of his own native Palm tree, civilized, iu
strneted, and Christianized, Should rear in
peseesind prospeiity their black eyed toddling
[ wooly heads, to usefulness and -honor, es l
2 _ .lam confident with Pro Per teaching and under
• I happier auspices, - they :are capable of being.
.. reared. '' i'•
- ,
- 1 - • - .Some think, or affect-to -think, they are
. .;tudf—unfieling brutea, others suppose the
;mother yearns over he l l- dying babe -with as
' t lmuch tendernesa as. the most refined white
ljparent. . Poor CreatUres, 'they, have had
':- enough, some 4 them at least, to render them
l icallous, to sear the ey4s, and make 'the heaq
'" , ),obdurate as,,, marble. - ;
- I It 'was told, me, in a way ' l • should not
-doubt its truth, that a Master owned a 'wo:.
.iman who was married to a free Negro. She,
7itirked and bred., and bred- and. worked. 7-.
Itier children were spa4ed to her till she had
.7 or 8, Wten the wolf came in the shape of a
_Negro trader and bolight the eldest. The
father had no husines.s to cry, they were le
, ly none oft's, but the poor-mother wept.
_ ,o years after the wolf came again. The
, r was not co mile to blame, he wanted
• inoney=he was poor, it was the custom, he
!icaild not eat the childi that was not fashion
..eble, but he could sell the little woolly head-•
ed girl or boy to the iolf, and buy a pow or
/our. It was the system. Well, time ran
. tm,.and is each successive two. years pease&
sway 8 or 9 or 10 had e been
; sold, _when the
Old woman, pretty much broken down by
*ease and usetthp, by, bearing, children for
i , the home market, her lis.efulness having ileas
- - ittlidied I] Would 'to'i;God it had been so:--° i
. 18 tlousand times worse than that, she and i
Oerinfantwere marched off together and sold,
the refuse and dregs, of life, to the negrd tray
• Om Ido not knew Whether she cried. I
, gaeashhe d id. - I am', sure we white folks
-,'
would save eried'like Poor " Rachael" if we
had beinaerved so. . ,
RLet us in oonclusion , of this letter, Cali..
ynders, relieve, the sombre picture by ,a
Story. .his a capita/ lone, and shows that
oar Georgia friends, 'r sharply as they taunt
*when they . get on track, of a. dollar:and
... scent a good job, are , as- fierce sportsmen as
the most ardent of onriNew York boys ; and
:*t tells as something •.else too.
• ' On the applicationof several, members of
• Congress some 2.5 0ri,30 years ago,. the See
-1
retary of War ordered. two oompaniesof Ar
tillery, to be stationed; at Savanna/1; but< a
piece of !endives required for barricks--40
awes was bought adjoining the city for 1809
tdollars,(pretty cheap Iceland adjoining egreat
City) fourteen thousand dollars were appro
' - Priated to begin, or bUild the barracks, Col.
-latnal promised to see that the title was
T` 041)4 he neglected it. It would seem that
the Georgians thoughtthey bad _Uncle Sam
in a dOt pike, where he would bear sique'es
rig. ' The title to the land could not be got,
on which Gen. 'Jessup, a Virginion wrote the
*Bowing business-like; pithy,, communicative
QUARTIMMASTERI GENERAL'S OFfICS,
Washington Chyilaurch 14th,
.1827.
- '1 Ste i.l lave received your letters, dated
;the 18th ultimo, and the 2d inst., An appro- I
oriatuin of about four* thpusand dollars
&as been made to complete the barracks at
-Savannah; but it is thought advisable not to
.4expetal anything more until the , title "of - the'
hindle place;l beyond a .doubt ; indeed, had
the difficulty on that sobjeet been report e d to
- Inc 11(0,_1 1 Pent should have been expended.—
~..' `:You will consult_ Colotael Fenwick, and the
Piatriet Lttoittey ' • arid, if a sale of the prop:
arty dm be obtained, Which will secure the
hide; you ,are.-,authorilted to make the pur
4thase; provided the arnoant shall not exceed
' , Oatstipulated to be paid. As th troops
: illren ?Wed at - Sayan* for, the protection
oft* city front a portion of its -ownl,popu
-Istioh, 24.
_Ser no other purpose whatsbever,
il consider the Corporation bound to aecure
las frouteuy intpositicin itt regard to thi. land,
which they are ;td-be stationed. More.
-..,
l ifiro
thao the stipulated price ;mama in any event,
'''Zike witbaklized ; andahottld the land not, - he
lobtiiiterfor that, and the - public loae the
4 : iwork aliiiedy done,l Ohall coosidep it my du
-4:.:'
-;ey to reCommend st ' the, troops fie. with=.
-;rdizwn. Let zrie
_bear-from you immediately
'.-- the subject.' -"` : - . • ' '
Slat sir, il i kytgo uhedtent.berv
stir,;,,, ; -, . .
_gnus. S. Jiseett,i , .
-. • 1- , - ~, . ' Quariermasar a .0=6 , 4L
pt. e. a... WAIT;
.4k
I * 1 41104. V. offes44 l Savannah •i -1
; ;
. .
'lt is instructive, • " Thetroomegere placed,
nt Savaanah"A. the "prOtectiontif that City
from a portion of its own populalion, and for
no -other/palms ,whatevee.'s.
‘l. Ant( yet how •Orended wOuld:. SOtitlien
sientlerhan be it Old tutd , been sajd to hip !).7
a Newlorker.
Die , 140ope,Oae,q1leptibilqii.
e: YHAZIER, EDITORS.
MONITROSE PA,
Thurs4alr, June ,Ip4h; Itp66.
" The Harmogiou Deumeraeyo
Judging from the proceedings of.,te Cin
cinnati ConVention, the so-called Dentocratie
party is a remarkably hatltt!unioui party.,—
Every thin ii seems to have been done unani
mously. The Baltimore platform, ork,which
Pierce was elected; and the new planks,corn
tnitting the Part r still more strongle i to Slave
ry:extension, were adopted unanimously.--
The - Candidates we're, nominated by a unani
mews vote. Of course4nobody believes that,
Of this whole party, extendinetbraugh thirty
: . one States., With all their different local inter
ests, the opinions of all the members are in
such harmony as the 'proceedings atCincinna
ti would seem to indicate.- •How, then, was
this harmony of action 'and apparent harnio
ny of Opiniott; brought about ? . It is evident
that seine had to sacriace *their opinionsiror •
the
~ h enefit of the party. By referenmto the
new resolutions, it is 'easy to discover who
made the, sac.riGee of principles. The plat
form 'is the embodiment eißorder Ruffianism
and Fillibuiterism. But the South had the
making, of the platform, it-was nu more than
fair that the North should have the ,selection
of the Candidate. The northern wing of the
party,,was willing, as- usual, tiFi sacrifice prin.
ciple for the sake of office, and the South was
perfectly willing
. to accept theSacrifiels. The
bargain was therefore soon Cmpleted. ,
ran soMething in this way : ' Says the North,.. ,
"Those violations uf all laws,humantaud di-
vine, committed by . Mis:souriins in Kansas,
*fit not tO ,be sanctioned—they , are really,
very undeMocratic." - " But," responds the
South, theyi are "absolutelynecessary for the
ac.cornplishment of our detetlinination to plant
Slavery in, that Territory,.and. therefore not
the Missourilns but 'the Free State settlers
must bi cotOemnej by thin Conventions"—
" Very welt'," says the North, "only give us
the offices, and we will condemn the . Free
State men,7-- - --and so the platform," adopted
lunanimously, contains . a 6tesolution accusing
the'Free State settlers of" treason and armed
1 resistance td law." . •
I
Again, says the North,-" A very large 'pro.
portion °tithe NOrthern Democracy have
most emphatically condemned ,the Nebiaska
bill, and repeatedly declared that they would.
never consent to sanction that act." " That . 1
will never d 0,!.; says the Smith ; " the liNfbras.
kalAll waSra great
, triumph, a long step to
ward the universal spread and nations lization
of Siavery,land the North-tn4t submit to it,
and it Musti be endorsed by thil , Canvention."
And the
,North makes haste to reply, '° Orly
give us of4e, and we will endorse the Ne
braska bill.t' So it is unanimously resolyed
that " the American Democracy ,recognize
and adopt the principles contained in the or
' genic laws establishitg the Territories of Kan
;s and lsf i cbraska, :as enibodying the only
' und and safe solution of the Slavery ques.
Lion."
Again say s the NOttlt, " We haveeyielded
eyerythhtgi with regahi to the spread ofSltte
ry in the, Territuriin now in our Posseision,
but the people of the North ; of all parties, are .
'opposed to the acqu'isition of Cuba, r or Cen
tral America, or. more of '‘Mexicofor the
forirtation of additional Slave States.r To
this the South replies,-" liaye you furget \ the
Ostend Conference ? //lave you forgot . what
Walkeris doing in Central America ? The,
object of these rngvements is to give us? more
Slave states. We must have Cuba—we
.
must ve Ce n tra l : Atherica, and as 'unch
•,
more S Territory as we can get, before,
,foury ears again mil around. NV hitte‘er the
people of the North may wish, the party must
be committed in favor of the acquisition. of
Cuba. and Central' America, and resolutions
to that effect trust„be adopted by--tbis Con-
• • •, i 44 - 'SI •• • 1.. l'
vention.' , ,
.oh -- yes, says the No rt h , only
give:u .. .offi,ce, and we will . go an for : , annexing_
Cuba with all her slaves; CentritrAtneriek
and whatever else you like." ' And iso resOlu
-4 tions are ' nanitnouily adopted which , though
blindly ressed, evidently pledge - the par r
ty to "secure " both.' Central America and
Cuba.`
. .
Again says the North, " Franklin Pierce
is very generally despised and repudiated
even by a large majority of our own party at
the NOrth, and we don't want' to endorse
him." "We despise him as much as you can,"
says the South, '" but he has been , a faithful
servant to us, and after 'having sacrificed eve
ry thing for, us, we must not refine him ' the
empty compliment ol an endors ement,, and
besides by endorsing his cou rse' we pre-.
'pare the way for a similar career under, the
next administby Convention." Again •n ; therefore he must be
endorsed the
1410
North makes haste to yield., and a resolutiO
is adopted endorsing - President Pierce. l i
Thus thi platform, with, only iSoutheri]
side, is completed, and .the North oily asks
leave to furnish a doughfacs to stand upon '4.
Pennsylvania presents Buchman. "h he
sound on the gobse question 1" isk : the Kis
bond. Border Bcffiaus. The answer is in the
affmnatiVe. Pennaylvanta will louch tor
him, and Virginia will vouch kw 'him— Vir
ginia has loug known his fidelity, and has pre.
,seated his name to two previous Conventions.
,Peinsylvania can vouch for his endorsing iite
Southern platform , :" without' : dotti ng : , an 'i
1 '
.
or crossizg a' t " So' anxious is he for the
I - 1 11, 1 (.._
. pnminattou, ~,e- r .eivse,.a •little toquettinf
with Pierce and Douglas, byway, of t
went for " eminent servieeetlp*Miteli
are concentrated on Buquumn, and he
iinnuely nominated: . I
he ibminee shows al . puce thathis Friends
diknok misrepresent hitn,:for on being natl.
tiatitittatis*-* , anaa'eirtkinjt ,
Man in the palitielen, he'' declares
,that- he ie
no longer simply - James Buchanan, but_the
representative of .itioparty. and therefore he
takes the platform the South has provided, as
expressing., his opinions,' and take no
Plank frcini. it, .nor add any to it. Could a'
man be more distinctly pledged - to sustain
'he Southern policy
Thus harmonized; by' the sacrifice of prin . .;
iple for office on . the part of the Northern
wing, the leaders of -the pro-Slavery -Democ
racy are prepared to enter Upon the vein
paign. of 1856. But , will the rank and file of
the party at the Norbh, .a great part of whom
have -col:idea:tined' the Nebraska bill, the out
rages in Kansas, and the administration of
President Pierce,. and who have no: offices at
_stake, follow the office-bought leaders in sane.
tinning all the recent aggressions of Slavery,
and paving the way for morel Th a t is yet
to be wen.
Butler and Wilsoi.
- Senator Butler, of South Carolina, closed,
on the 12th inst., one of his characteristic,
"dignified" speeches in the Senate. 'ln the
course of his remarks he insinuated that
Sumner was a coward, and said that perhaps
it was fortunate that ho was not present when
Sumner made hiaspeech. tone thing he had
no doubt of, namely, that if he were a young 7
er man he would have left Sumner in a worse
condition than he now is.
In answering the white-haired ruffian, Sen
ator Wilson spoke boldly and decidedly.
He reiterated the charge against South Car
olina of imbecility in the Revolution; he
did he could pttore it-by the correspondence.
of gentlemen of South Carolina, askin g ; that _
she might be relieved from bet potion of
ii.e
the burden of the war because it w news- .
sary for men to stay at home to kee thane
groes in order ; he characterized But.; r's as
sertion that South Carolina poured oUt hogs
heads of blood in the Revolution, .where Mas
sachusetts only shed gallons, as loose, absurd
and ridiculous, and a full justification of Mr.
Sumner's assertion that he (Butler) was
loose in his assertions; and liable to error;
[ he said that. instead of Mr. Sumner's :being
the aggressor, Butler was' himself the aggres
sor; in shorty he said'eriough to entitle . him
to a broken head, according to the min of
those who justify Brooks' attack on Senator
Sumner. - .I%.le;•Wilson closed by saying that
the South did not hold over him the planta
tion whip; that he should speak his senti
ments freely, and more freely because his
colleague had been stricken down for words
spoken in debate, and because there are those
who claim the right , to question Senators for
words spoken in debate.
Mr. Butler replied, and in romnienting- on
the RevolutiOnary services of South Catalina,
asked Mr. Wilson how Tany battles Massa
chusetts had fopg bt in evolution. aevolution..
Mr. Wilson replied that they were but
few, I::, i cause the enemy considered it Safer
to go to South Carolina. MassachusettS had
met them at COne‘:?rd, Lexington, Bunker
Hill, and on the' eights of Dorchester,. and
would have' met :them elsewhere, but - await.
erny took good caret() keep out of the State.
'''' Butler made no reply. .• ,
Or it is rumored that Col. Sumneris to
be superseded in the command of the United
States troops in Kansas, and General Harney
is to be appointed-in his place. Gen. Harney
is a'slaveholder, of woman-whipping notori
ety, and is expected to prove himself more
serviceable in expelling, the Free State Men
from the Territory 'than • CoL Sumner, who,
it is thought, would interfere . to protect them
from the attacks of the brigands who have
invaded their homes, did his orders permit.
Harney hasproved himself inhUman and
cruel in the Indian wars in which he has just
been engaged, murdering women. and child
ren in true barbarian style. Several hundred
U. S. 'soldiers have been sent on to Kansas
from the East, and-if they are all to be em
ployed under the cruel Harnq to dragoon
the Free State pc . °plc of Kansas into obedi
ence to the Border Ruffian laws, then a ter
rible tithe-4 drawing nigh, not only for that
Territory but for the whole Union.
.311 r. Crittenden has introduced into the U.
S. Senate, a propoSitibn to send Gen. Scott
to Ktu;Sas to take command of the forms
there arsi\preserve peace. If he should be
sent and should be invested with discretion
.ary powers, doubt' that h might
cosily restore wt to send him there
- with his ham t Col. Sumner's have
been, would mockery.
e
d T
• Noarn ArrimiCAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.
—This body conclud its fourth day's ries-
SiUl3 in New York on uesday last. The
Committee to whom. had\ been referred a
communication from the Ezrgive Commit
tee of the Republican party, `anmending
concerted -nation by all the elem'knts of
14oppo
sition to the present € A.dministrati , report
ed that they approved' of the sugg tioni of
that Committee , and in a set of r utions
ei%
which- were unanimously adopted, r‘ m
mended that the Convention indicate b a
series of ballotings its preference for can i
dates for President and Vice-President, and
that when such preference should be ascer
tained, a committee be appointed to confer
with the Republican Convention now in mss.
sign in Philadelphia. On the tenthand final
informal ballot, the'vote stood,ccir President.,
Banks bS, Fremont 18, McLean N. -The
vote_ for . yice-Piesident milted in indicating
the . Convhirtion',. preference for Ez-Governor
Johnston of this State. ' A platform was'
adopted taking strong ground in favor of
" freedom of tre balkiti-box 'from foreign in
fiuence, freedom of conscience, freedom of
speech, freedom of the press, free territory,
free Kansas, and no - advantage . to accrue 'to
Slavery from the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise." The Convention then adjourn.
e$ to Thursday noon to await the Analletioe .
Cif the Republican' Conventron, ' and to hear
the report of the Committee Of. Coefereneel
- _
• w ilierioni Ttsitors.". , The Philadiiiphis Convention. •
Under this head'we find in the :4exerne Up . to the latest moment of going to press
-
Union an ittiiele credited
,to the 21reut4 f 7bany this ( Wednesday ) . evenin g, our newtir - , - from
Ledger, the write?: , Of which` trtryitig to nakit the Republican *Coilvention OW .
Out his C 10 1 . 1 . 1 .1 agaWat the liercliern Clergirinen Philadelphia givesi)to preciseclue 14 - to What
who recoMmend:emigrants to Kansas to pro- :may be the. resultif Its ballotings ,
vide thettiaef4'with firma, and whom, be , dates forqresidet4.and .Vice-:President, al,
therefore denounces as " traitors to.' their though fur the foliaer:office the greater &-
country and their God," compares them to Gres of strength seitui.to concentrate around
thet, , ,,lergy,e(N ei . k.• England
_of the time-of Fremont. The friends of McLean, at first
the war of 1812, - who he says, "denounced somewhat
_defiant; seemed determined to
the war and President Madison's adminittra- crowd the - eiploreii off the track, but finally
lion." We cannot seethe analogy between began to groimd, and in pro Portion as
. the two cases, unless the Free State' settlers their , entbuilasto seemed tcrcool the mercy-,
of Kansas are -to be considered aslut enemy ry in the F-retno4t thermometer began to
against whom - the United Stateshavedeciar- ,rise. • "Straws,''. it is said, ."
tell which way
-id and are waging war: the wind blows," 4sut 'the straws must be
• -But if tito'Clergy 7 --owho, the Ledger sug- large and the winti' - beavy to indicate before
gests, sbould'be men of peace:ldeserve to be hand the final actlon of such ConVentions,
called traitors for opposing the - war of 1812, and the candidate Who seems most Certain of
I I
what exile -
shall,we give, to the statesman Who sucee'ss to-day, mai be far in the rear of his
Opposed itt 'Tarries Bue_banin was opposed 'competitor to-morrow. put, whether the
to that war. in a Fourth of July oration C. Convention presents for the suffrages of the
livered at - Lancaster in 1815, lie pronounced people!, one . or they other of the candidates
the war " tenneeessaiy in the extreme to the ;named, the freemeb of the North are pre
adntiniatration..".' Further, he say's, in the pared to rally to 144 support; and although
same speech, " After the administration had Free Kansas, Frre . e Speech, and Freniont"
entered upon the war, instead of coming for- 'would suit very well for a battle-eri:, we
ward with manly confidence and taxing the
.could do without. tlie latter part of the afliter
people for its support, they basely shrunk ation, and
, perlUips OippOrt enthw•iasticaily,
McLean or. Chase, Ifee ling assured ILA they
from their duty, in order to maintain'
popularity, and adopted the °aloes system of arc equally s"aud 4a( l t rue
orryiug on the coutest by borrowing money ;"
and he adds,k." Thanks to ITeaven that we
have obtained peace, bad and disgraceful as
it is, otherwise the beautiful. structure of the
Federal government, sustained by the
feeble hands, might' have sunk, like the Capi-
Vii; in ruins." . . * r
.
If the men of peace were traitors for op
posing' the war and the adthistration; as the
Ledger .says, what then
6.was James Buchan.-
an 7_ • - ; , .
,
atiebamm Endorsed-by the "Tribtme."
The Montroae Democrat goes into tentacles
over the - fact that the New-York Tribune 1
pronounces the man selected by the Border 1
Ruffians and their allies at Cincinnati as their
candidate for President, personally nspeeta
ble, and, in quoting some sentences from the
Tribune article, says. "Listen to what even
his political opponents say of him." Buchan
an's private character being thus dispose&of,
the Democrat should copy from the Tribune
of the -10th inst., to show.its readers what
. .
both friend and foe say of his political char
acter and position. But for.fear the Demo
crat may neglect to do so, we extract the fol
,
lowing from, a loni editorial in the number
of the Tribune referred to, as a set-off to that
paper's endorsment of old Buck's personal
respectability : •
Mr. Buchanan "was the candidate of Virgin.
is at. the two last Democratic National Con
ventions, and her- slare.breeding politicians
are hot often mistaken in.their took lbere
is not a man in the Union who, since he snuff
ed the Presidency afar off, as been • more
subservient to the Slave Power than. he.—
His distinguished friend and champion, the
Hon. J. Glancy Jones, in a .late triumphant
reply to his South American Colleague,, the
Hon. Henry M. Fuller, who • had vainly 'at
tempted to pick some flaws in .MY. Buchan
an's Pro.Slacery escutcheon, truly said--•
"All such emus:Lammas these against Mr. Buchan- I
an are answered— I .
"By the fact that, twenty years ago, in the,, Semite of
the United States, he -was among the first North
' ern men to mist the inroads or Abolitionism.
"By his opposition to the circulation of insurrection
ary documents through the meals of the United
' States among the slaves of the South. I
"By his determined support of the bill admitting AV
kansas into the American Polon. ' -
"By his early support of the Annexation of Texas. /
" By his persevering support of the Fugitive Slave
I •
"By his energetic effbrts to effect the repeal of the
law of the. State of Pennsylvani:N denying to the
1 Federal Authorities the use of the prisons for the
detention of fugitive slaves. • 1
"By his early and.unyielding opposition to . the Wil- I
toot Proviso. • 1
"By the fact that, while a member of Mr. Polk's
Cabinet, against the opposition of fanaticism, he ,
~, proposed, to extend the Missouri line to the Pacific•
amid the delight and gratitude of tational men bf
all parts of the Union. - I
"By every vote he gave in the American Congress
. on the-question of Slavery, and by the fact that of
'all Northern men he has been, among the itioSt
prominent in asserting and defending a strict con
struction of the Federal Constitution. I
"By the construction which he placed upon the com
promise' measures of 1850, hi the letter addressed
by him in November of the same year to the peo
' pie of Philadelphia, in which he declared that the
compromise measures bad superseded the Misson
ri line, or, to use his ow hinguage, that the line
had 'passed away,' which be truction led inevita
bly to the adoption of the p't pie of popular sov
ereignty, embodied in the • i -Nebraska bill.'
—From the day that he took a prominent
part in National Politics till the present, the
Slave Power-has never made a demand with
which he did not hasten to comply, nor com
mit an aggression which he did not promptly
justify atrd sustain. His name mid his dele
gation - *ere mainly instrumental in beating ,
Mr. Van-Buren in the Baltimore Convention
of 1844, at the dictation of the Slavery Prop.
aganda, thou that delegation was pledged
to suppoyt 3ir r y. 8., and ;did once o twice
pretend to vote for him. 1 And pow ex
pect to spell the Van Btirens and Vit lin
tp
reaites o that dardrunime into his s Tpport.
It.will be a bitter pill, but'the
. hunger for of
fice is insatiable, with .a class, and . prit ' hi,
pride, consistency, and even a sense of shaint,'
must bow before it.
Fifa:knee CELEBRATION. At a special
meeting of the "Rough and Ready " 'Fire
Company of this place, held at their Engine
House last evening, they decided to cele
brate the coming "Fourth" in an appropri
ate and patriotic .manner, which means, of
course, ibe usual pamdlnE, speech-making,
toast-drinking, big eating, and explosions of
"villainous saltpetre." his expected that
"Montnase Fire Company No. 2" will join
in the celebration but as a final vote has not
xet been taken by them, we are unable to
stile positively their determination in the
malt- isnies from
ny of la
copal I'
Tuned,.
ducted
and in
_ _
, edifice In -
the_ Getb
jo stye, 4o will be an \ ornament to th e
small
per
may be tarnixhed b
1 14.:.a br ea th. \
. . . .
, 42.
Indignation Xecting at Suaquehanna De
r, pot.
, ,=.
On Tuesday evelittig, May . 27th, ',the citi
zens, -
of SuNtiehatinh Depot .1114 to give:ex
'. ~
, pression, to their, iitdigniitiott at,,.the ;invasiiirt
of Kaitsas, aad the iiutrage.pfi S4.otitor
_Sum
ner. •• . .i 1 ' . . .
Stephen Fraziell was unanimously called
to the Chair. C. S Bennet and Sarnuel:Fal
lien burg, were ele4ked Viee-Prosidents, and
Geo. H. Curti l s4Seeretary..
A. Pomittee of-pree, viz: L. P : Binds,
E. O. 'Wilson, and a!: li. Skinner, Were ap- .
pointed to"-drait re4iutions expresiVe of the
'Sentiments of theaterubly, who after a slfort
4bsenee, returned, and reported the following
preamble resolutions, which were most
.4,
emphatically approved and adopted
Il'het4',l4, The. Senate - Chamber of the U.
•
S. has been ooti7.•erted. into the chamber of
the Assassin, bye the. brutal' outrage of the 1
Slave Power upon Charles &tuner, !Senator
from MassuchuSetts,and them tempted abridge.
ment of the freedoin of speech in thecounctls
of the Nation by the Black Oligarch;; ;
And, whereas. Kansas is conquered and
i
Subdued, tier citizens murdered, and her towns
and cities destroyed by the- ruthless' tnyrtui
dong of despotism,.
And whereas, The protection the Federal
Government now gives ha Weedil , Senator,
and her murdered citizens, is. the bleeding Senator,
that Austria gave to Hungary,—Rus
1.
sia to Poland,—Great Britain to her North
American Coionies,--the same protection the
WOW
gives to the lamb, therefore
1 Resolved,—That- we look Upon the ;power
i that proposed, and the man that executed the_
1 cowardly ..and beastly attack upon the- free
'dom of speech in the. person of Senator Surn- •
, n'er, us subversive of our republican forth of
i gfrerninetit, unU' l tv-thy the age in which we
live, and totally - v*ti i 1' precedent in coW
‘,•i lOU , a
ardiee ; meanness,!and brutality.
! Resolved; That! the murdering of the citi
zens of Kansas, and the burning of the houseS
of the Free State linen of the Territory •by a
•Missourimob, under color _of the authority
1 Of Government, is a higlyussumption of,pow
r- •
er—;-an attempt 'to. legalize Kidnapping, Ar
! Son,. and Murder, which, if persisted in by the
1 Executive, Franklin Pierce, and the party in
Power, will bring lupon the country civil war
With all its horrors,
1 I Resolved, That We tender to Senator kurn
tier, and the friends of the murdered Icigzehs
i of our warmest syrnpathies„pledging
into them,our countrymen, and our God,
•
1 Cred preservation of Life, Liberty, and . the
pursuit of Happiness, wherever. floats' the flag
Of our .country. •. _.- • . .
. I Resolved, That we -will use all honorable
Means, in the coming cane s, to hurl. from .
lipwet the tyrant Slavery, and bring lack the
government to., the ancient policy of W, ash
ington, JefferSon, Madison, and the Fathers
of the Republic., .
I. It was then resolred to perfect the organi
zation • of .a Republican Association ,by the
election of permanent officers, which resulted
as follows : President. C. S. Bennett ; Vice-
President, A: Bushnell ; Recording Se.cretii-.
ry, Geo. 11. N. Curtis;. corre:ponding Sec
retary, L.-P. Hinds; Treasurer,.E..o. 'Wil
son ; W. W. Skinner, S. Bryant; and L. 0.
Blandin, Directors. .
1 On motion, it ‘ias resolved, that Hon. Da
vid Wilmot be requested to address the citi
zens of this vicinity at his earliest conven-
ience.
On motiou, resolved, that, the. Editors of
the Susquehanna Gazette, and Independent
Republican,• be requested to ptibNh these
proceedings. Adjourned : - 1,
M - 1 - ' A large and
.enthusiastic Republican
meeting was held'at Carbondale"on Thursday;
last. Mayor Frothingham presided. T
M lB
~ .. ,
eeting was aliressed. by Hon. G. A. Gbw ,
and others ) . anAtrong resolutions co
lag the Kansas Outrages and the. Oinn
ait.iult on
Senator Sittnner, were adopted. ...... • 0 '
ed that our
in the ex-
The ceremo r
me of the new EptEi
irougb, took place
The services,•con.
, were impressive
Church. is_ to be a
Foi ! ti Repqblicim
ISM
SUICIDE.—Mrs. Mary Ann lewis, wife;..,..,
of
George W. Levris; of New Milford, commit
ted suicide by 'cutting her throat with a ra
zor, on the 11th instant The jury under
Coroner Dix' rendered a verdict of insanity.
NEW ADVERTISEMEST.--keeler and Stod
dard•aftertise their boot and shoe store.—
Their assortment is extensive, their prices
'reasonable, And those who call on them will
find them gentlemanly and attentive. Give
them a call. •
ANNEXATION or N writer_ in
the Mobile Daily 'Register argues at. much
length in favor Of the annexation of ,Nicara
gua to. the United States. This movement
seems to be a.fsvOrite one at the southwest,
and in. New Orleans especially
.the' greatest
interest is manifested in the fate of Walker
and his men. The: filibuster chief was for
merly a resident of Now Orleans and is 'a na
tive of Nashville, Tennessee. One Southern
Writer anticipates that,- when. the Mexicanand Central Americlin Statei 'are annexed to
the United States, - New Orleans will become
the' great commercial emporium of the
Western woildi and oVershadow . :entirely
New York,
.Philadelphia,- and other north
! ern marts! ' - -
'One bundred and fifty jlnited, Stow;
tioops - iiassid through -BufTakr, June stb, en
route for Kansas. . " •.. '
•
'•
112C1 1 11" ! A i. !A :: EILLIBMI ' 1
,"*--. i! • .''':. iviiii.ii r .PALA •
ITRA. • , ;:.;
••-'
Cc
~
irresporAitte•Vthe .Y. Tribune. • ,
''''• • 'll-11.*xi'itcz K. T . Jitiiik 5, 18400••
Through''oo,43lly- 'e leave *tied furtt
p
• _
ularf ,
artte-ALJ l 3,,h'ttle Of • Ptilp - 'ira:;""i • The,
:ProAlavery parry t, mbering \ fit;:',under the
:eonittiand p t. I. C. Pate, earrespOderit
of • The ..alispwil , epubliean, and anoiher
Southerner ofirufort's partly, wern'on , -.thitir
way from the °sit *tante neighborhood,'
where they had gone to fight, after the issue
Of the Westport ' W r' - extra, to the eathp
1.:, r
Ort:Billl Creek, where. some 0,
-00, Missohrians
an& Southerners are hoW assembled, waiting
tor further teenforcethents' prior - to :making
*other attack. The'iFreoState party wage
Ozed gherrilla one, , 'umbering, 25.. TheY
lAnithe aware of the presence of the Pro,-
Slavery men, and trid to slip oh :them uri-
Peiceigred, butthe •
idental discharge of one
of their guns put the nemy on their guard.
The Pro :Slavery- me' . -were in a
,hollow. Oil
al
ravine, where there " was seine timber, logs.
and'. stumps.. The Fre.e-Stite men were on
the hill faee find in the gras's of the bottom.'
Pate and the other captain drew up their men
in line, and placed th 9 prisOners they had ii',,,
the front rank=thesel Were unarmed. , This
latter exploit proveS that these, Southern her
roes really brought ,the Bibles with them,.as .
they doubtle..&s borrOwed this clever idea froth
,old King David tactics. • , .
The Free-State !hien firmed, advanced;
poured iii 'a volley, which 'was immediately
returned. One of th ' F ree-State prisoners
infront of Pate's in was wounded, and
wbeti the firing began the 1 tbree broke and
fled. The Free-State m en who did not knoW
t
who they were, fired r n them, and • the Pro
Men fired on them—their 'situation
being' most critical. . 'heY escaped, one of
them severely wounde ; •liis wound Was re
ported Mortal last nib t, but it is. now' sppr
posed will get - well. The I first few•% vollieS
did most Of the iniselii f. After that,the prii 7
Slavery men 10
of their ppon behind logs and stumps ante
trees,
and Aired frornth'ence. l l The Free-State
men lay dOwn in the ' rass and fired •as they
got a glimpse; ents. -This, fi ring.
g ,
'continued for two or three liours . when Pate
acid his company hoisted the white fiag and.
surre4dered„ .They;:w,re just in time, as_n
reinforcement of fifty 'ree-State men arrived
a few minutes after , 'nnfi ar6vals • kept, pou r
I, 1
incr •I
-in until after dark.l
r 'Twe or three Free-State men were slightlY
wounded, hot not diaated. Two ofi.the Pi.ot'
Slavery prisoners are ontided--.--one shot ini,
the mouth, the ball lodging iri the back of his'
jaw ; the other eras shut hi Ithe•back• part of
the neck, the bill mill i ng out at. his baek.,--
John
• Medee; (the W4 t port McGee) Was al
so wounded'and had' gre to ii house in the
neighborhOod..Ji Was reported that he died
this afterneon.Otherifive Pre•Slavery men
were said to be . wounded,l - bur. rode off hs
soon as they were hurt. - j .
. Capt. Pate *declares that he is still in the
posse Of the United States Marshal, and that
he, has 'been. advised hy, the" Deputy Sheriff
to.go dowh to the Potewaiiimie and punt up
those who , • had killed .Ith•e Pro-Slavery men
there.
A paper was drawn
tween - Capt. Brofn ant
it. was agreed that: sori l , ,
then who have beeirrtall
in a Pro-Slavery camp
be exchanged, and • tha
`sons,-who aro also pri
':ehanged for Capt. Patel
tain. -`• ,
While these negotiations were pending„ a,
messenger' was sent to them, telling them
that - the United Statespragoons were coin-.
ing down. ! Capt. Brown moved of his,coni
pany in small de.achnients, ,with • the prison=
ers distributed arming them. • The rest of
the Free-State men did er - seci, which is the
latest dates we have frokti that quarter. lt is
doubtful if they will lgi.able to retain their
prisoners. Pate expr sseci .himself highly,
Satisfied with the treatti mit lie had received.
_ -Col. Sumner rode thqiiigli town thismorn-
ing; two ether dragoon companies came af
ter him-One of 23, and the other' 27 men.
Tile Colonel gaiie somelof the citizens to un
derstand that he would ipreteet then). It. is
supposed that-he hay orders 'to act independ
ent of Gov. Shanon. , !the' Free-State people
are anxious to find out ii !wiier they only are
to be disatined and kept Trani, defending the
selves, or . whether the roving bands an
camps of Pro-Slavery Men, Missourians an
Southerner's, are air tol, be operated on. /
There was a • gri -- 1 of ex_citeinenti .
learn, at Leeomptoi , 1 The Pro-914-
ry men don't like i.e tif . Palmy/
'BANKLLV. i
1, 1 4une,A 856 *
In last I gay „1 8 „,,,it of an at
tack, made upon tilt. T o t 7ir anktin ; but
ma& no particulars , and the line w ; ',,, s r , ii n () , t ,
1!,
exact. It happened yestiZ ) : morn ''''''' ~..."
hour and-a half before d" k g",
Franklin - lies four an, " a i r miles sou'ill
.east of Lawrence, ill " , 'the Wakerusa. It
1 . 1 ,a. asion been ut•ed as
has on more tlnin o
,:-a camp by ;the Boy er uffinl'us' and is, the'
"gainst LaWrence by hds
base of operation
coming from w stport o Indtcpenderice, an Mo.
, During the sakerusa' . ar last . December.
, Franklin 1' in point f fact Pro -Slavery'
i head-qurr'' At the r cent , sack of Law
-1 reuce i s the:seat of a mischievous cantp;
whic p-ormed a rallying oint,for those who',
cal i from Missouri, an at that point the',
I ,,,:vrer.ce supplies were i tercepted,and arms
,rovisions and goods tak n. - '- Since the Pro-'1
slavery parties began to muster- during the',
past week on Wakernsa Bull Creek and oth- ,
er Toints.south, . Franklin has again been
made a military station. Some of Buford'S
men and some Missourians have beeit there
,for nearly a week in mar i tial array, and were
evidently In, full comuni tion with' the other .
partieS that were emit . )g into' the 'territory..
~
and forminglin it. They `ad a' brass= Six-poun-'
der and a large quantity of ammunition and
damp provisions. They ad been taking pris
oners, and had a Free State manj in their
posseslipn in the guard house - wh u the at
tack was made of Free-tate Rangers.
of•course; no one krie v anythin e ,criabout the
'design but those few wh contemplated it.—
1
The affair was badly 'pi nned, but was not
without efliv.t. A comptany was'to come up;,
from the Wakerusa, nutibering forty:And fit.
teen went from Lawrence and the vicinity.—
Ue recent battles and skirmishes had put the
Pro-Slavery men on their( guard. There
23 pro me ,partly. Missourians,
were
I t
partly Georgians and !Alabamians in Abe
guard-room I w / here they were pcsteil. . Sam
Salters was Iwith them. Besides these , there,
was a pretty fair sprin ing ', of !ro-Slavery .
residents ofthe town. . , • - 1 • - ~
It was daiirlis Erebu , and a little before
three in the ; morning of be 4th, when the lit
tle party ofrfteen defd 41 the ridge on',
which pie t wn standa a dentereil the streets'
of Frtinklin i Tlni °the compartY had got a i
guide and Were to be at he point at the same
hour, but diving to the arkness, had lost the
way and were stutubli in the rf.vines to the
south of town, down toard ; the W,akeruia.
The first-mentioned 44a, partyl p as gallant.
fellows as elver stood bei
bre a breach, calm—
ly walked tip the stnn to , t 4 spot where
they beard ' the cannon ' , as, 'for !the purpose
of taking tt. ;and . the an unitian without,' fir= !
ing, it msibla. .1n Ira tof the gustd7h9ase
'they were hailed l and - t e. leader of the rr_ee.
TIIE BATTLE
L
II
p alt noon today, be-
th4e men, by which_
he t4enty Free. Stat e.
,
en alio hrk prisoners.
on The Noeslia,4ould
t 'Clipt. Brown's two
should be ex
and the Southern cap-
)14tata Rangfrs demanded that they:suriend r ,
V%garlittfitiy, , were hailed-e-again the demand
- to istifrOder was made,. when the guard fired
on Claim: -.The Rangers poured in avolle y
, •
—it Wits t*.urned. At this stage (;) f the
genie eomething occured which, with ;heti&
gennhig, might bare been . serious ; that it
asked without killing several Free-State men
ii - rtheefet - tniraculous. These were just across
the street from the guard-house, and hut few
shots had been fired, when the six-pound
howitzer, the muzzle .of .which was pointed
out- of the guard-house, was discharged. It
was fired rather obliquely,; and missed the
party, being also a little too 'high. What it
was loaded with,. Heaven only knowei likely .
shingle Waits, horse-chains,nr the debt of a
blacksmith shop, for such an infernal 1 noise
has not' been hear}' - since the siege of Sevas
topol, as the missiles went - whistling by.-- -
This was the only discharge of the piece, as
they' dared ',hot come, out again to load it,
The firing from, both sides continued with
great rapidity, the bullets whistling 'alsoiit
File. hail. The Pro-Slavery men in the other
houses commenced firing, the, Free -Stat e
men, who had assailed or -wanted io jassail
nothing,. but-the guardhouse. The fifteen,
finding it, pretty hot, lay down flat in the •
streets;-and the fire eontinned for' nearly an
honr, they hoping their friends
. . would come
up, when they would Make an attack on the
guard-house. -
Guided by the firing, the Wakertisa men _
fowl the' way- to Franklin ; but . although
the vivid flashes lit - up the streets of Frank
lin, this latter company having' had ne prop
er understanding or concert of action, as the
balls were whistling in ,all -directions and a s -
they were as likely to be shot by'-their friends :„
as their enemies, they scarce, knew hoer t o
advance. One thing, however, , they ai d
know—the Buford men had most'. of their
stores in a place, near, sidtere they same
up. From this they obtained a large
tity of powder, shot and caps, a lot of provis.
ions and a few Sharp's rifles, and , some of the
old breech-loading alligator guns - that had
been taken at Franklin previous tdthebutte
ing of Laivrence. . A Wagon was loaded with`
these, and as • , day. -was approa,ching find 'the
United States dragoons might, possibly ,
fere, being within hearing, this company -
made-off toward the Wukerusa on the mad ,
to Palmyra. . 1
-
The firing in thestreets o t t Franklin ceased.
Day was- beginning to twinkle in and reveal
the shady outline of timber on the,
The Pro-Slavery men did nut surrender, but
dared not .to.
,return the fire, and the others
had ceased. - et , would have taken the
brass hoWitzer with them, but they had noth
ing to take it with.; besides, the dragoons
were camped close \ to the way they must •
turn, and they wished merely-to enter Law-c
renee as (pied v as they had -left it, and: tiad ;
no desire to take the - gun there. Under
circumstances they eradiated the
One Pro-Slavery Man
_died of
at Franklin yesterday. . Axe'
wOunded, and one or two
but not liadif. The Free-Stin
his escape from the guard-hf
Jug ; his clothes had been
of his`friends. No. Fre(
wounded, which, from the
ga,gement, is almost iner
The Pro-Slavery car
ceiving daily accessiol
to have come up- with
f Tom .Westport -.to
of this I doubt.
Bull Creek is; re
.hitfield is s;iid
spiny of seventy
the correctness
Westpo - rt ;Vete* has,
tra, giving 'a ridieu
. the battle ofPalmY.
numbers • of the Free
:rang all the facts, • cal
ms to, '.rally
_ that Gov. 'Shatition is
'cher proclamatfon ; it
row. It is, like all his doe,
• intelfgible, but it'iS a sort
•
He forbias all, armed partie's
into theaerritory. (wonder 'it
of .reinf(
issued. another
louslrinliated ak
ra; exagOating
State - meri t and
ling on the M
I have jtii'
about to - i
be issued
uments, I
of peace
from. cc
he ha:
Stat
ties
thei
also ol
Teiii tor;
1. Thai
The Fr
.t as soca as
t the disar
othei side,.
LATER
A. letter frqm.L
governortebiaf
Dei - t 4 iler.m
at Leconipt,M,gua.
,a.bous. Several
been permitted to
are not allowed_ .1
ed:thatlWo
the skirmish at FL
ed none. of the ,F
wounded.. At P'
were killed, and.
loss of the Pro-Si
and several worn.
on the way to: W\
robbed of their col
zeM.7. It is reppr
1 forcibly searched
ard, reported kii
worth of proper)
horses and mien,
by -the raee-State men.
Amon! the, speakers in the Natioeat.con,7
i-ention of North , Amerleanithat• met at•hlew
York,:auile 12th, was Col, Perry, of Kansas,
whose remarks are repOrted.a.s follows :
COl. PERRY - Of Ka&s next'took the ,floor
and was received with loud' appliuse. 'He
said he stood here as the delegate of Free,
Kansas, He said be carne here with a double
purpose--to‘4‘present 'her in this Council
.and to take back five hundred good men to
fight the battles of freedom in Kansas
[Cheers]. When be said that five sisths of
the inhabitants Of Kansas wereAmerieins
he did not exaggeiate the truth, [Applause].
It. was said that the Jaws of Kansas were be-,
ing enforced. True, they-were f against their
cattle, their horses, and what they could steal
'but nothing else [Cheers]. The destiny'
of Kansas was dependent upon the action of ,
this Convention. He had always beei l a
Democrat until Franklin Pierce , sold l out
their party to the 13Iack Power. :Then be
joined withthe Amerie4m . party; sind - had act
ed with that party ever sink*. •` lie had gone
to. Kansas with Native American views,-;He
bad stood on the hill at Lawrence 4iben thi
first cannon-tall .was fired at AI/4) Free State
Hetet. He was then a prisoner in the hinds
of the Ruffians, because he- bad been active
in drilling the companies., . And-among' the
men who were in the posse Ahem wining the
Slave ,rowur..tu. its tout ..,tressionst Were
men who vete loud in their ; uriabs, for Fill
more and . DettelsOn. The question (Oriketh,
Americanser AmAmericansShall America safik into
insignificance, comp4ed with the (itte4len of
WHAT KIND of, Amer..itans rule America
[Loud demi].
Aswan most prolllintat mon 0
Cincinnati Ccinivation was-the•notorional
Stringfellow,. .of 14to S.pinttAar
Douglas, it, la said, vas his first ch oice,;
ho ver y eor eltfisrs94:the risnl
of pueliallan. di#lll..
He -pledged the Uwe. ,
- soppOrt of, 04 - binder cutAltioati' for
notulaceS of tho'Couvention; •
woutids
is ba4ly
wounded,
•
SOti er math,
the niorn
the bullets
man was even.
e. 9f the en-
3. 1
the
Dr.
.but
tian
ous
11&