P 11 M - I ; .11 I ' El R 1 I 1 • a &OM:ILES READ &H. H. FRAZIEri EDITORS. t -1 eOkketSPOli I eqe6.%-. I I. A -"I • , I I' .For_the Republica& ti Freedom's lartyrs. tilrn--and the just-risen sun ' in might yls disO•iled the di Ihades that 'had shr Ide is It ...IC deep shades , irouded ithelight; ~, . 'And tinged with a purple andrieb golden hue • 4 light fleecy clouds sailing in thaolear Ade, 2 i i nlV , minis that hung lightly o'er Wyoming,iale, - *eilth his warm rays swift vanished, while' borme 11 . ion pie gale • . , ranle tub breath- of perfume, from the rarest of 1 .;• 1 . .! limfers jthai,bkibm in the.wild•wood,the fields, or th e bow ! .1 ' r ~i! .. . . • - . ' \The; iny*ds of dew4r6ps all sparkled , as bright I,,ks ;Pratte the stars In a mid-winter's night; ' An 4 itai4tunaged warblers,' so Willem:oe and i free, . ' ' i • -.., . • !Made oar loved ale all vocal with soil melody,: I Co4ld aUght 'mid ''a scene of - such beauty as this, . ITiie.re all things spoke peace and unmixed happi -1 acne:, . .; A BidsthiaP i harmony reigning in Nature supreme, To "Vanish away as a summer night's dream 1' ' i ~., I • • , l t._ I h, yei ! In the distance, -where: rolls in its 1 p . pride- • e. The brdad Susquehanna, attirdas a biide,',. { A steac,is transpiring that curdles the bisod, And seilds to hs fountain the dark, crimsed flood: l in , r the , of the waves see yon noii strle, forni . . m A ~ L • , i'., 1 While l ti..k'e life-current flows from his manacled ,• • !.1 . hand, - - And glides with the stream to the isles of ithe sea, Extolling‘tis martyr to fair Liberty. - r t . -a And see on the river's green,banky: yonder band, . (The !Ouse of earth and the scum of the land,) Who wOnld - rob of those rights that Almighty God ° gate " Thjs champion of FreedomAy! would - make a Slave... - •. • Tikv speak of leis home in a warm sunny clime, master s great kindness—in strains so sub, • I lime, • . • Add with accents ,so i tender make promises rife, Tien—with pistols and bowie knives' menace his - life. . , shout of '.defiance rings out on the air, • :Ville stands like a lion disturbed in his lair; iii bread chest upheavin, his eye from beneath • Hip ,massive brow "flashing, as , sword from its sheath ; • 'Ne cowardly shririkiag, thoUali a, , ,patly wrings Pep groans from his bosom thatTiend.the' heart- While'his.lip curls in scorn As his toes he surveys,. And with pencil of truth his deep wrongs thuspor.: trays : t , •• , tell of my home in a clime far away, -WhertikiU mocking-!wirtnt noter Cheer the hypo: the day Ye .speik of my master—.7e say that he's come • To Welcome me back to that &vit . •stinny home ; To feed me wheii hungry—when tired to give .T;) cheer rue An, trouble—to aid" when-cipprest--: Ye call me his Slave, and ye bid me return `-.•. , Tp his arms of protectiort 7 -Your offer I spurn."- inade me a slave? the Father above, those works ye declare are till labors of lOve, we toil on in bOndage—drag life out in chains, 7 1 t) swell , by . my labor the slave-breeder's gains? Did lie, in . his wisdom surpaising, all thought, • Make na , a mere cluittel accounted 'as naught l!tit a:bearer of burdens? Did Ile give the - right To you to enslave me„ bec6'use you are white `f : liot so. The Creater of all things gave me Tbe , right to be , hapOyi—the Sight to be free. These blessings I prize, and until life dhull end tilite God-given rights I will ever defend •'' , 4u,qquellanna's cool waters may roll o'er me—dead, • .4.M1 chant a low requiem over illy head; I rniy find 'neath ite rippling bosom a grave ; te ' S! 'Fes' I may die but, 11l ne'e rbe ti slave." " t " if ;se think I Base erred—hate done, Ty:nig •to . . complain, . , iti Place is yet vacant, go wear Ye the chain ;'• Yetlnever again shall the slave-drivefs lash - • :.Inflict on my person tlle cruel, ied . gash.` . : yhe whiz of your bullets is mu* to me •' - For it tells of a land Where there's no Slavery ,Let the winged - Message come that shall , itifle my ' breath, it zny last dying shout shall4e,• "Freedom or Death !" . . . gassas. EnrroaE:—The above stanzas for sunary reasons were not published at the time Whim. the .occutTence referred to - took place, lintis an . ciutn'ige similar in nature, though less diabo* in is details, has recently been perpetrated iA the Senate Chamber; perhaps tbeir publication in connection wlth thefe:Tu gitive ttioughtsmay give a slig4 impetus to Liberty pill." I - The person whom'. reference is made, as a noble specimen of disi's handiwork, "farniliiirly known as Bill ThogdaS, employed but the Phceitix Hotel, in Wilkes-Barre, dur. Ing the Fall of 1853. , While engaged at his :duties (he Wai - a waiter,) on the , morning, of Sept. 3d of tlaiit_year,! - he was suddenly at aelted by - a:ruffianly crew, --- who,.with their 'eaden 4' billys ' felled hien to the floor and fast kned a handeiiffon one wrist,'but partly recov ering from the ,stunning effee is of the Coward ly assimit and being a powerful man, Thom- ,Ls 4. hook, off his assailants before tivy had t „ vacua tnemanaele on both hands, and used ' , the manacle still - confined to his wrist to such ;r: good advantage as to 'obtain. a momentary suspension of hostilities; but, bis enemies en- • manned by their numbers and knnwing that unarmed save with the handeuff they had so kindly furnished Min, and a ease knife be had stitched from a table standing by, re newed ir assaiilt, when ThOmus finding his F fitten st failing and fearing he would soon unable to use those superhuinan ex ertions necessary to keep his pursieri at bay, , rushed fur the Busliyehanna, a few rods dis tint, slid althongh unable to siim4lunged into the strewn, fully:deterrainlid t o carry in.. to effect the •t6ory of a certain Orator of, 44,Folutietiary timee i l." Give me Liberty or Des*" There he stood with the purling waters epOreling his - *shrift.limbs and heaving chest, witb the Eloquence " . , . . , . . 1 . . . 1 - . . . . , . . .. , . . -.,.. . - • . - . , , ~ . 4 . x - ' . . - - - - lt i • I • . • ,- i . , . , , . • . . , , < I . • • ~ . ~.. , : .- 1 7 (ILI '-. . . . .. - . . . - . . , . . , . . . ~„ , • • .• - . , ' • . .' . .... <' . ' . • ,- " .. -I . - ~. . . • I - . . . • . . ! , . . . „ . .. . . ... . ' -, '- ; - •• 1 . It ~. ..„. , ~,, tptlat-.." .„ .:. . . . ......_.,.. • ----H-t ,- f. -1. ...,.:.__. •t„ ;,..,i_.:_.,.... ~. ......i : .: .,-.- - -.11 . , f ,,,',..'..•„..-, ...... : ,. , :.,,,...:1 01 ,,,......,",...,..,.......4.: : :‘,.. ... 4 .., . ... .._ riY . . .... ... ..,.•... ~ ~ 40, ... • t. . . • • '1 1 , s - , . . . . . . . ' • . . . - . ' . • . . . .• ... . . , . . . - - . , . ' II . G . •-; ' ......-. . . . ... I - . . . s . . . . . .. . • . • . . . ' I . . . . . I . . it 1 . . I I t - i)f!lesperation'he gave h i s puisuers to under stand what they' might expect from him, if they atteMpted to 6apttOe his limbs, or con• sign him to the tender mettles of a SoUthern taskmaster. ' Ilia assailants, knowing the strength of his sinewy:arn, dared not approach him, but stood at .the water's - edge and deliberately discharged their revolver - s at him, facetiously observing that be should have the benefit of the latter part of the ibore theory, thns giving to the spectators:who thronged the shore, an exposition of the practical workings of the Fugitive Slave Law. After firing their last ...round and perceiving its effect upon the fugi tive,who fainting from loss of blood,staggered to the shore and fell down apparently lifeless, and disliking the looks of the surrounding Multitude who *ere so destitute of all patriot ism as to express their disapprobation of this constitutional (?) pfoceeding, they immedi lady seated themselves in their carriage, (pre viously brdere.4 for the fugitive's - express ben efit,-) and drove off at a furibus rate, remark ing that "a dead nigger wouldn't suit their purpo" Thomas though horribly wound- ed, even t ually '' recovered and was duly pro-', vided for. , A 'few remarks as to the effect's 'produced by the perpetratioir this outrage and of the sensation created - ' by the late attempted as sassination in the Senate Chamber. William Thomas was a man in * hose breast the fires ' , opLiberty hurtles] as brightly as did they on the hearts of one Revolutionary fathers, and obeying the impulses obis noble nature, he battled manfully for theame rights for which they 'spilled their - blood. Charles Sumner has also been one of Lilierty's noblest cham pions, and has long fouht her battles in the Senate Ch amber. Both were attacked while defenceless; the one - Ilia cowardly scion of the pseudo Southern chivalry ; the other bps band 4 of ruffians hired for the occasion. Wm. Thomas Wilt; as:. black as the ace of spades, and consequently the murderous up ; btit Yan kee blood-Coiresed throngh the veins of Chas. Sumnetopd the result Will. be 'a gain to Free dom of ten thousand vbtes .for. every , blow inflicted upon'; his peepon by the dastard. BroOks. .!• • • I • :The North have 169; succumbed to the rule of their S6inhern tria4 - ers,•that it Seem ed necessary' that sonref still more glaring act of tyranny shbuld . be : perpetrated by these, "ownershunian thattels,to arouse them from. that lethargy that - seemed to benumb their patriotism and lOve..of l justice., The passage of the Fugitive Sin ve L!ill - whieh Makes every Northern freenint6t, b r und to bunt his fel loWLman at the Deck ot - the Slas e.breeder, -- seemed . to arouse the intent feeling of nide : pendynce slunibet in the breasts of the great North, I,but tbesel mulatto propagand• ists whipped them to the music of " SaVe the Union,"; 'and .their] faithful subjects gave up the contest. The IKAnsas-liebmsika Bill • was passed, by •whieb proceeding a compact made by the South,'for their interests when made,. _ was by them [abrogated, Ostensibly that the doctrine of " Popular Sovereignty' might 'prevail, but really-4nd. as the event I,has since prOved--Lthak: they ,might steal (in a legal way)' 'moreterrtory fur slave-breed ing purpoSeS; and although .when. the Bill was first passed., obj4etions were raiz•ed by the." Abolitionists" and other " tiirce. CIO r-stet& . ers," (see Urtion-Savers'. Lexicon.) yet the lash being. applied' to that same old tune," the Cotton inerchants snd other conservatives. became meek as doves.. Tube mire, the doe trine of "Popular Sovereignty," as applied to the Terr i tories of the United States, has been shown to be fallacious. a those Who were foglish enough tci beJ l ieve - it, and emigrated to Kansas With the dOlg,n of mating-it a Free 'State, bavtibeen metleilessly.butchered, their property siluanderedl and their families driv en—homeless wanderers—over the beautiful prairies of f that-geOgrapliicat centre of the Un-- ion. To Cap the .climax, .a Senator of the United States hati been smitten down while at 'his poit, •by a Southern disperado, and this act Luis been applauded by the whole South (with a 'very few exceptions) and the murderer , in i heart is now a inernbei of the Rouse Of . Representatives.. But this - effort to abridge freedbin tof speech hai been pro ductiVe of much and, if every Northern Congress nuts shoul4 be served in the same manner,.(the puttyheads receiving a double portion,ythere might be some reason to hope that Amdrican' s coilld ere long assert With " The Star Opangle;itßamier Aall evermore wave." O'er she:land of the' free.and lome of the brave.'! ITERMON. tar In a certain town in Maine, says the Independent, the POstmaster was so much alarmed at the tuniber of "Campaign Tri bunes" that pew" through his hands, that he fOrtned a club of twenty to subscribe for Democratic news Papers. He. inquired of . a D,emoCiatic friend; which was, the 3estilltfm ocratie paper . in New Yotic, and was very• correctly told the t'Evenivig Post." - After a few days- reaAiing of that excellent journal the postmaster discovered that its Democracy was of the 'lei:million school, and he imme diately 'advised the club Ao discontinue it; but 10, the, whole twenty had' become so fur enlightened that 'hey -had already' resolved to vote ',for Freed*. • • arf We charge, says the N. that Fretuo kis Roma Now if', he, is . no sh come out; over his inint signature.. the fad Wheteupotithe gS'yt'ae retorts : " Wietlidirge at the editor of Ass oomMunate NOWilf 114 ;why dantlsoecanornot over bia • ture= and deny the fact;" ''. 6 :[pit;2*Et - ,j . c)Da A,!oiOrmi - a-a11y4,0 7 u go'LLOPI:./4[:).1:•..ew06.,H(61!•9 EEO EMI= 3jicseell4Qco Appeal of Kansas to thedors'. of the Free States. - •. The following appeal. has' en issued from. :offi thece - of the Kansas Trap tne, - for circula . lion in the Free States: - Believini, that there is a continual endeay. or on the part of Administrat t iOn•Jouritals to sup‘ptes the facts, and misrekiresent'the con dition of Kansas, and to throw .a cruel dis. credit upoti the complaints. df an oppressed and outraged,..people : the - following brief summary s of the triie state of • the Kansas qu - '6stion;• is. earnest ly 'eon: m ended . to candid men of all parties, add we entreat and :,confi dently hope that you Will do s justice. . 1. The Free State Imp o tote a very large majority of and we are ready and have al to 'prove this by 'any test wh 1 to require with any show of 2... We-were not only willi l desirous to organize a territo: in accordance With the provt . sac act, bat were forcibly•pr.l ing so. :. - • 3.. Put:. -polls were violent overwhelming force of arm. dents of an adjoining State, : to the great majority of the 'Kansas, and hostile to .their eliosen to •constitute the Kan: 4. This prowided legisla er been invested• with any whom they attempted to gov been and 'lard 'Still regarded l jority. of the people of Kans. , whom they owe no obedien4 l 5. Having been prevent; from carrying out the provi! ganie actiithe people of Kan alternatife but to submit_ and be ruled by their enemi) .peoPle, or to assert their rig a'gfwernment for themselv , -I ti. They chose the latter, example of California, fram I merit, and are now asking f the Union. • - '': This was nut the moy party. The Calk Was-addr ' residentof the Territory, voter had full opportunity • in the movement or to exprz to it. . , 1 POSITION OF TIIE.ADNIA 1. TheOrganicact contain; anti" to the people of Kansini -decide the question of sf, selves" ; 'yet when . a body o notoriously usurper's assum , question tOr us, the Admin regardless of this guaranty,, its power, direct and tN to Auit_to and :Libido by To 2. liiff end the •Pre* "the bogus LegislaftVre in has caused the State office people to be arrestcd charge of high tre:►Non-, and crowned his tyranny by s( force on the fourth of Jill people's ,represenfatives,'w sentbled 'at Topeka accord i 3. To be' compelled to just code, dictated by imposed without /Jur cons degrAding--hut "to hare th institutions and the most t .forced upon us by \ :t roof of our enemies, "backed' by the very E . xeet tive whose sworn duty it - as 'to protect us, .is a -thing. unpreee• dented in American historV, and appears to us intolerable. ... - 4. The code to whicht 14 . Administration is pl e dged to - compel us to Lulunit, establishes Slavery—al3Olishes Freedom of Speech and Freed gm of the Press---afnxes the penalty of MATH: to sundry offences against Slave prop i erty, and provi - deS ag,:tins the possibility of ! repe,sling any of these 'enz et molts, by an act I,whitli; distr.:in - CW.44 all who, wili not swear to: I support the Fugitive Slave Law,. and at the same-time enables non-residents to vote, on the payment of one dollar 5. .the ,President has p i sustains . as Governor, a r i iia l l if e ,l4 : (l the slightest People of Kansas,. nor . ~ quaint anee, hat when , int4 - tool of the rulli tns.of the cordial accomplice when sober. ' - 6. The much.talked.of , enforcement of the 1 laws,has nut consisted inthe - impartial pun. L iishincut of murder, robbe y, arson, theft, etc., , by whomsoever _commit ed, but solely and exclusively in endeavorii g to compel citizens to acknowledge the auttrity of the bogus officers, and particularly . f the Sheriffs whom I the usurpers have appoazted over us. As for 1 administration of justice—there is none here, ii 'mayis no crime whi cha ProSlayer ir il man may not commit with impunity , so, ar as 1 Territorial authorities are concerned, and no injury, for which a Free State man can ob. 1 thin any. legal redress. Dow was murdered in cold blood, and his murderer is still at large. Barber was. murdered on 'the high -way, more than six months ago. The, rnur -1 derer, as we are credibly informed, was an Indian Agent, holding his office , by appoint ment of the. President, Yet he is at large i and still in office. ,Th murderers of Brown, Jones, r Stewart and may others, are still at l large and unquestion . A Grand •Jury, l packed by a territorial f officer and Charged by , • a Territorial Judge, ha l ve indicted, hotels and printing,presses as aids aceg,and recmmend, cd their' removal, and ',tilted , States .Mirsh- Ms' f have .accordingly d stroyed theinlYithout trial, while no notice.has been talcen of such crimes as murder, robbery and arson. ' The Free-State Menl though largely in the majority; have,neyer. dried 'to iiia.rfere with' the Tights of those of 'ntrary sebtimente. , When Major Bufor and his froweis ar rived, there was nothi g to hinde their sett ling quietly among us, attending o their own business and enjoying' their °Wu opinions. But, it was very, sonn:anifest that this was no t) rt of the purpo for which they were Grp t here. Abous the middle of May, they, 1 in connection w ith , .two or three hurl. Missourians, Oommenced a series of ttions in, thia' erritory. For, weeks .e subjected to a reign of terror. "Men iarbarously m ,rdered, as well in cold as in the heat of pinion: Towns were , housei _buried, . property stolen or tly destroyed,., sanctity of the do hearth. invad , and women subjected. lisp outrage. Our highways ha ve been iith banditti, at whose entwine out cit. going - peaceably about their. business M . ONTTI,QSE;'THURSPAY,,. sg•Trit...4, 1856 ' , .'1 Kansas eonsti the - population •ays been ready rch it is,possible airness. = j, g but earnestly Itgc.t erninent : icns the - Iran-. rented from do- . . v seized by an . . . • invaders , rest . " 1 d meti.offensive legal voters of • r, interests, were, ens Legislature. t ure,having nev ower by those .' rn, have always y the great ma s- as usurpers ,to d by violence :ions of the oi ,.zas had then no to enslavement, s as a conquered its and organiie ad following the Is a State govern- . 'r - adrnission into 'ent of ,a mere sed to the actual and every legal o either concur ss his opposition . 6d a distinct guar• that they should avery fur them men . who we're 1 to decide the stration, utterly has employed all •t, to compel us lint decision. dent :has - upheld their usurpation, ,s elected by the imprisoned on a has appropriately nding a military 'v to disperse the tett they had as to adjournment. lutnnit - to even a re . poiver and I nt, is sufficiently most odious of arbacous of codes, aced ,over us, and an who has .neverl -y nipathy with the •ultivated . their ae xicated is the fuelle border, and their, have been arrested and detained; or .plunder eci, abused and insulted. W hen asked by what right they did: these things, the ruffians were wont to show their/revolvers as their sole and. sufficient. authority. • Citi zens h ave been reduced tolhehumiliation of traveling - the highways under protection of a pais from some Border Ruffian magnate. Many of these passes are extot, signed by Wilson Shannon.' A few only of the 'Outrages committed can mentioned here.. At Blandon Bridge, four miles from Lawrence, a young man named Jones, g quiet, inoffensive, settler,' was beset by an armed banditti,who,demanded his arms, and, after 'taking them, deliberately shot him &id. Two days afterwards, a young man named Stewart was murdered in a similar manner, near the same place: . . . A man; named Cantwell,' a Miisburian,- of Free• State sentiments, residing at Palmyra, was seized a few weeks since, at a short dis. tance from his own house, by a guerrilla par ty, who took hint with them towards Missouri —his family - not knowing what had become of /lint. When they reached Cedar Creek tWo or,three cif the party took him into the woods and shot.him repeatedly till lie was dead. The Shwanee Agent, named Gay, was stop. vd near Westport, and -asked if he was a Free-St4te man. On his answering that ho .Was, he was shot dead onn - the spot. Some desperadoes on the . border_have been known to boast of murders of which we have no knowledge. in any other way. Whether these boasts were mere lie 4 yr whether their victims really lie in somevbscure 'ravine, • a prey to wolves and buzitirds; can only ,be conjectured. The boast is at least illustra• live of bolder morals. The full detailS of all these outrages wOuld fill volumes ; and a large portion of them have been already published in the Northern and. Eastern journals. These_papers are' ex-- tensively read here, and: it irpa matter of 'Common reinark, that the :_reports . of occur rences in this Territory—though sometimes inaccurate,--pre; seldom exaggerated. The reports Which we have_Aeen of the more im-• portrurt events, as the sacking- of Lawrence, &e., have been neither inaccurate . .or exag gerated. The conflict here is not between adverse parties within the Territory, fur the Pro-Sla., very residents are too few to engage. in. such a conflict, and many, of them are peaceable. men, willing to abide the.deeision of the ma jority. Our enemies are withoat. Their at 'tacks upon us have been • undisguised quasi= sions." The piracies; lately commjtted • at Lexington and other Missouri _towns show. sufficient :clearness it/we - our enemies' .They also show __,N6t: they intend— , which indeed they*cipenly : to forcibly preveq-sny more' Eree,State etni ,grants-fr4infrOttering ' the Territory. and to drive out~or exteriikitinie those who Are. bete. W-hiii - shall be the . end of these .things •It . seems to . us not very difficult to predict. - , If another Pro -Slavery President: be elected, our enemies will either accomplish theirpur poseof expelling or exterminating us, or con twice the nation with Civil War in the at- . tempt to do If the North does her duty Kansas will be saved :and the Nation" saved %ith - her. • . We shall - read our doom or deliverance in the result of the Presidential election. Pierce had nu personal reason for oppressing us. He has only served*the 'power which gave him. his seat, and. Buchanan; if elected, will do the same—with more decency, and fewer .blun ders, but not less effectually. If we had'tio. other criterion ; the knowledge that our •ene mies trust him, would be sufficient. The hope of Kansas lies in the success of Freincint and the Republicans. We appeal to the voters of the Free-States to forget party 'at: taehmcnts and' animosities for the time, and unite as one man, for the defense of Our rights and their own. If but one or two large Northern States vote with the Smith fur But* chanan, Kansas is lost. . . We appeal to:the tens of thousand's of can did men - who acquiesced in the repeal of the. Miss&Uri Compromise, believing, that the Ad ministration and the' South were sincere tfn 'proposing to-leave tlici Salvery question to the free--action . of the people of &Territory. You can no longer doubt that you have been betrayed. We appeal to -you as you love fair play and detest oppressiOn, to unite in the only course which can save us from ruin 'and the _nation from disaster and disgrace. We cannot without. referring to an inquiry Which'for months, past has recurred continually to every thinking mind in Kansas. That inquiry 'is, "What can the Slaie Power mean.?" We are amazed and 'confOunded: by its audacity. We have said of this and of that step—" They will not dare to do it!', yet they have done those very things, one. ' after another, _done The inquiry. has become— " What. will they not dare do r Their seem ing utter recklessness - of the effect which their' doings must have on the Presidential elec tion, has continually forced on our minds the Suspicion of some deep-laid treason by which they mean to hold on to power, even though the election should go against them. This apprehension -may be unfounded, but. we have well learned this ,truth,. that . the Slave 'Power scruples at noting. • . "-. Topeka, July 4, 1846., _ .„ Mr An important political demonstration took place in Concord, N.- H.; the home of President Pierce, on Friday evening last.-4- Agreeably to a call signed by 'one' hundred and sixty-two of. those Democrats of Concord. who voted for Franklin Pierce at the last • PreSidential election, interspersed with not a few of-those who wiled at the last State elec tion for John S. Wells for Governor, a meet ing was held at Rumford Hall, at which the " Concord Democratic Fremont Club, No. 1, was organized. FOR. BUCHANAN.-- Messrs. Pratt and Pearce, old line . Whigs, and U. S. Senators from Maryland, have come out for Buchanan. They regard Millard Fillmore as entirellotit of the question, and look upon the Presiden• tial question as laying between Fremont'and Buchanan.. True to their pro-ilavery ante cedents they support Buchanan. NEWSPAPER the city of Chi cago, there are published fivec:-. daily , newspa pers which support Fremont, with a total cir culation of 11,195. Two of them were-for merly. Whig, and three Democratic. For .Buchanan there are two -daily mere, with a total circulation of 3,800; both small, cheap, and supported by partisan ecattlbutiotie. . 1 il . Itron!- the Oaity4taratplient. .• . Letteir. Of Chelinee* . irbaffee, .Zea., of Iterw , ./oek ! ' Contr.adielint a Pillmfre 'Libel. . . ~ Below will be found a sharp and racy let ter, iritten by Caatracay Suess, Essq., of NeW :kYork who is now here, vindicating him: self frotti the charge of having "gone hack" to the support . of Fillmore: Mr. Shaffer niadaare eloquent and telling speech at a largaand enthusiastic. Famtorrr - meeting held in this village on Tuesday evening last ; . and we or - therefore add our testimony to 'his ovrntliat he is still on the right track,, and going - ahead. Let his libellers, and also .all "Americans" who love Freedom, mark,read, and inwardly digest., his pungent epistla:-.- I e • Saaarooa Sintaos, Aug. 14, 1856. U. Dens, Esq.-:-MY! Dear Sir :—I have jttav , reeeiyed, by way Of N. Y. City, your note of the 9th inst., enclosing the following. 'extract from the Itaca! citizen, to 'alt.:. . .. " Comfim BAcs.—Channeey:Shaffer, who . was One, of the most prominent bolters from the Philadelphia *A:tiler/can Convention, and -who has been siumpingin the river Counties • ja this State at the Fremont meetings, has returned to the AmeriOn party,'-and to the hearty support of Fillmore and Donelion.— Mr. haffer Nan eloq*nt apeaktr, and win; District attorney in New York _City.: He belongs to the Metlxidist Church, and his: reeent conviction that Mr. FreMont is a Ro plea Catholic, Is the reason why he with draws his support from the -Republicans, -:- He has candidly . examined all the evidence for and against, which-Itas appeared, and has looked closely into thelstatetnents of Fuhner, and the opposition against thern,.and declares that the. evidence in faVor 'of his being a Pa pist, is conclusive, for,which reason he can ,not support him." - _ Yon' assure me thatl i thaabove is produc ing an impression in your region, and desire me to inforni you whether it is • true or not. I answer ,that . it 'is a 'Sheer. .fabrication7--a " Roorback." • That nO furthefinisehief may occur from_the circulation of that article,: I will set the Matter of my preference of can didates right at -once, „ • ,--."' ;In the first place, I was not a Rrothinent or. other " bolter from . the Philadelphia -A merican Convention." I was tiOt a delegate to that Convention. 1 There -*ere reasons . why I should not be. iviletegate.• . I had had. 'too much to dovvith Undoing the work of a previous Council in. Philadelphia assembled ; too much--to do againSt the slave propagan dists-at Binghamton lit - Augast ; and -was _to little inclined to _s'ee Americanism . sold oht, , to be considere d ; a - safe Man to "go to Philadelphia.. - 1 - - • I staid at home against my will,, I , admit. Moreover, that Convention was not an "A merican convention."i ,- • . As far as the North was concerned it was i a Silver Grey Whig Convention 4 as far as the South was concerned, it-was a Conven tion for the propagation lit human alarery, and the .result was • the non!itmtion of two men, "one of whom glories in being the owner of a hundred slaves, and . the other,.(Mr.• Fill- I -More) in . being - a _ most subservient instru meat of the slat=e pewer, as is manifestly I proved by his coursewhie acting as Presi dentof the tithed States; also, by his speeches made diiring his Southern Tour, in pursuit of a re-nomination, as well as by hiS nullifiention speeches at Albany and seise- where, on his return from his - visit to. the Pope. •., - 1 • , -, Hence,, the leading • Silver-Gray newspa i pers of the North (including the NeW York I Express) claim Mr; Fillmore as the regular Whig nominee for the Presidency, whilethe Soilth claim hiin as -the, Champion of-South , ern Rights (meaning tlie_extension olhutnan slavery, by the action of the General Govern ment) while Mr. Fillmore, to justify the _claims of the Smith, i hi e ff ect says, "Elect me, or the South that loves me so well, shall I not remain in the UniOn." As an American,i . am not bound by the action ofthat Convention ; rather, let me say, I cannot submit to be bound by its action, any more than can My brethren of -Massa chusetts, of Connecticut, and of every . New- England. State. The American party of - Massachusetts, in soleirm Council assembled,. has declared fir 114.. Fremont, and •übmina ted• electors favorable .to his • election . ; and so has the State of Connecticut, and i,o'.wilt all New England de ;. (for New Englittd, , has a history) and so will the American - party of this State act ; excepting always a portion of the Silver Grey Portion of that party.— The latter portion Will :stand by_ Mr. Fill more; notwithstanding ,he "has adopted the leadifig prineiplei of that platform?! the sev enth section of which, commits the AmeriTui party to Slavery extension under the . guise Squatter. Sovereignty; because this- " pore • lion of a porliOn" came into the order with• the design of retrieVing the fallen fortunes of Mr, Fillniore„ as isl proved by the attempt •ed ostracism of the liberal-minded men of-the order, and by the threats preceding, and ae 'company ing the -Philadelphia Convention, that in the event of George Law's 'receiving the nomination for the Presidency, they,with the Whig party, proper, would nominate an out and out Anieriean Whig, (meaning Mr. Fillmore, I presunte) and also by lettersnoW in existence, and which, I hope, will yet he published: • I have not " returned to the hearty'„ sup port of,Fillmore and toonelson," -nor will I do any act or thing tending to sanction • the outrages of•pro-slavery, nullification, border ruffians, who,gin addition to their outrages in Missouri and Kansas, of themselves suffic ient to turn the cheek of difrknew pale, have, from the year 185, 'until. now, wrested the high powers of the nation - front - their legiti mate purpose, to the strengthening , of the . slave oligarchy. i. , .. ' - There are •otherlobjeetions. to •rny Support ing Mr. Fillmore,l founded upon the: fact sta ted bythe Citizen, that I belong tothe Meth odist Church. . H : That Church - ovies Slavery no particular. good Will ; for Slavery hai rent that Church in twain;. has . imprisoned-wOmen fbr teach ing the • Slave to; read the: , Bible, and has , sought in every vya,y to- destroy. that Church, as being\the opponent ofShivery most to be feared.' . Let -facts speak; , Ust`winter, n minister of the Methodist Church, in Missou ri, was arr ' While.iif the pulpitby agent of men, (who, y ive, Will probably Note for Mr. Fillmore,) who wantonly .and false ly charged. liim.l with horse, stealing; .and without allowing him: tithe •to put on his ,oVer , coat, - MOunted'• hint On a' - home; drove hini some seventeen miles, (the weetheirlrd;: ing istensely.ookl):throw hint into - - SAO* less rota, with,* fire, At:6llqt hiin to• dte, i gad lie died! • 1 iER & PUBLISHES --VOA:: -,N0:'34. ) FRA My info st Chtt at is a Bishop of the Method and spoke of his own knowl- Another instance :—The R. Mr. Wile), and about ' tit other ministers of the Meth odist Chu have been assaulted .m their churches, , driven froth plane to place,litte beasts of p y ; their lives being every day in immine t . .peril. Anothe instance:—l sas, a Metho dist minis r was whip , tarred, and feath ered, tied o a log and set afloat on the souri Another instance. Very recently a Meth.. odist miniter - ht, Missouri while preaching, waidragg from his pulpit and. tarred and t d featheredi i while an old Methodist layman, for the cry ,_ e of expostulation against- such conduct,: a.s shoe; and it isa torious tact, and one W ieh will•notadniit 0 ontroversy, that ami ister;of my church net preach .N n the Gos in th State of Nilsson i i, or the territory, ' nsas, but at the. peiils , of his life! and -et I find no re p roof of these . out ' rages eith r in the Philadelphia Plattbrm or . in any Of he.speeches of 14r.. Fillmore. • . AstO, y . having examined " alr - the ,evi deuce"' in relation to Mr . Fremont's religioils Creed, I;h - ve to say, that I have examined. all the c idenee, including Alderman , M- I aer's stet ment,and hare exhausted‘theinesns of infor, tion within my reach, and have ar rived at t e following conclusions ; - • . trl Ist. , jat Mr. Fremont's !father was a French!' uguenot, and his mother an Amer -,,, iean Protestant lady. • ' • d. . .- • 2d: Mitt Col. Fremont was born a_,Prot estant, 1 aptised tyProtestant, married a Protetta t lady, has had - his children Ibaptised1 bap tised bi Protestant clergyman ;. • educates them in t e Protestant faith; while he ,is a Protests t in practice in all the - relations of life. J .:, I -..• I admit thatlie was married by 'a Catholic clergym4n"Under circumstances peculiar to himself; nd with which the public is already ia ' ' 661 cquaint.— 3d. I , i o nclude that AAldermanFulmer's stateme t t is altogether untrue. COL Fre mont w not in Washixigton at the time. Fulmer within; WB3 Darien.' Aspinw. fixed b says he , - conversed - N;fith nor . , severat months of that time. He he Pacific Ocean, or the Isthinus of or on the Steamer George rdiN*v,from ill to .NeNi YOrk city, at the - time :Fulmer: • • . . I shb ld add that upon Cul, Fremont's ar rival h New York (it e h e sailed to Europe withou visiting W ashington at all,-and thai he rein inNi_in Europe more than a year. : I sh uld further add, that. the consietionin my nfi id that Alderman ) Fulmer has' bbrne false w tness against hisUerihbor,is strength ened b • the coutradietury statements that .I. dibly informed hc-has made concern - pretended conversation, and by the feet that amongst, his immediate ~tinc th: furthe neigh mont, Vie, the r ns his statement i; not • be/laved. if I„,sihould. refamo tea vota ,for.. Afr. Fre •beeanse of his being a ,Ronain uld not vote for ,Fillmorei and for. son, that the convention 'ivhich nomi- !r. Fillmore was controlled be nate& 'lrian 'ltholies as well 1 - as by, Slavery prop ag°and sts. This is the proof. Tw sets of delegates appeared from the State of Louisiana, one Protestant and the other Ilotniui Catholic, both i demanded ,ad.; - missi n. The Roman Catholic delegation was'rlaceived, and' the: Protestant &legation was injected. . . . Th • reason, I understand, assigned for this SITIO ar admission and rejection was, that the °man Catholic delegatiOd - did" not -ad kno i ledge the temporal. supremacy of the Po 1 Tir . . ere are other objections to my support- - ing :Ir. Fillmore, and as an Americanonid a nil n who at the commencement of his po= liti , . life resolutely set his face against the further aggressions of the Slave power, lean notc induced by any speCial pleading or bv any ‘. l .Rxxsibacks" that,may he hatched.in. the hot bed of political zeal, to fur any otlu4r man for the President than Col. Fre-... ino4t, .hi as.mich us I see no other .way of. putting an end to the terrible aggressions .of the lave n power. - - - ; LbelieVe upon the 'election or defeat ..of Coll Fremont, will depend. the .questions, wh4ther.or not the black column of Slavery will be pushed to the Pacific - Ocean ; wheth er or not the African Slave Trade, the sum of Pll wickedness, will lie revived • and' whither or not practical slavery sha ' ll be for Ced urn the free States .under the deeis ioni Of 1 ederal judges, appointed asMr.-Fill!• more sought to appoint and did appoint some of his judges ; and,in short,whether this min.' try ; shall have a constitutional goVernMent f0t4,1 the whole country or.an unconstitutional g4erinent for the Slave oligarchy; . whetlt• cr Or not we'shall recover our lost . national holler, and go on in peaceful progress to the cliMax of human Itireatness . ; or whether We i shall be destroyed by the aggressive system - offthe.Slaye Power. ; Very truly yonrs,, c lIALTI4CEi SHAFFER, .. ramaKomrs REcon. . _ 1813--Jarr. 21. 13orn in Savannah, Georgia. ISlB—His father dies and leaves, him at five years of age with his mother, a brother and a sister.. 020—At school in Virginia. - 1823--At school in Charleston. 1826—Taken in charge for better education by John W. Mitchell, Esq., a South Carolina - lawyer. . 1827—Dr. Robertson, now a clasqical teach er in. Philadelphia, takes great interest in his genius. 111:l2X--Enters Junioir Class; Charleston Col -1 lege. 1 1 829—Graduates and leiVes College. li€l3o= ---Is confirmed in Protestant Episcopal Church at Charleston. .•- ASV—Teaches at Charleston. _ , • 1&3.1--Labors as private surveyor. 11832—Surveys one of the first railroads in Ithe United States, from Charleston to Hanitarg. " - 1833--Firit public service under daeltitim's . administration, in_ sloop-of-war'.Natch i. ez,' sent to Charleston to put dovrta.nul ' Nation. 7 ,1 • • 835--,Couimissioned as Professar of Math ` emetics in the Navy. 1835—Msde Master of Arts by. Charleston '; College, without hi. solicitation. - 836—aelngns his commission in the Navy, ' And .elected b Jackson to serve. under ENO. lAN't.fliftrispltiounukin rogis ofeiratlis totell'ennesece. mm!mm=m Ff 4 MEI 1838— Serve''co` 1858--Surveys Cherokee nutty rem ry. map. July -1- 7"!. Commissioned la Second LeutenantiTopcgraphiesl EEO. - deers. Administration of Mr. Van Buren terminus on on axplonitiorkot region northwest of Missouri, and are asked by Mr. Nicojet, wbf k ie had of It, "for att assistant possessing science, enerygy f courage add enterprise," and Limit. Fre `mont selected hy 11ir. Poinsett, Secreta ry of War. 1838-1839.-Engaged in the Explorations. 1840-4d:ekes maps of surveys and envy ys Des Moines river, 10wa... 1841— Oct. 19. Marries Joule, second daugh. ter of penatot Benton, who was in her 17th year. 1842.—Firist exploration to the Rocky Mount. - sins.. MakesAris celebrated speech to the Indian Council at Fort Laramie. August. Stands on the highest peak or the. Rocky Mountainsl3,s7o feet above) the \ Gulf of !desk*, and unfurls the Star- Spangled Banner. October. Reports , at , Washington for - further duties. ' 1843—Starts on his second expedition. Discovers central plate or basin of the ...'4orth American Continent, and corrects • previousinrips showing that no streams flow from - Balt Lake. 1845—Jan. 29. Made First-Lieutenant and Brevet-Captain of Topographical Elie seers by President Tyler, under the commendation of General Scott. Oct 27. Appointed Lieutenant : Colo lie!' of Rifles by President Polk. November. Starts on a third expedl. tion to California:- 1845—Arrives in 1846—Gen. Castro, Mexican, in command. , has orders to drive him out of,California. 1846--Entrenches himself on g awk's Peak . • to resist. Not being. attiteked Ingrates towards ` Oregon. Lieut. Gillespie encounters him with a message from James Buchanan, Secretary of State, to .Captain Fremont, authorizing him to do what ha could to 0 prevent California from falling into the hands of Great Britain." - - Fremont retraces his stepi to Califor, nia. In pursuance of direction'from Mr. 13uchanan, takes California with sixty men. and proclaims it indepandatit. Appointed Military Governor of Cal -- ifornia by , Commodore Stoekton. Buys Mariposas for $3,000, end in tenOs to become a citizen of California. 1847—Oen. Kearney arrives to take Califor nia and finds it.iilready taken! and is greatly vexed. Commodore Stockton and Geti. Kees. ney dispute as to chief mimosa. mont supports Stockton, who was his superior before Kearney arrived. Noy. the orders of two commanders.— Makes a brilliant defeoce, showing that if guilty, he is only, teelinically ao. His mother. dies; and.he is an om b lum and the last of his 1848—President Polk tenders him his sword and rank, which he refuses because its acceptance would 'aeknowledge the jus tice of the Court-Martial. 1848—Preparce to emigrate to California, to reside as a private citizen. Great sym pathizing meeting with' him in Cluirles. ton, S. C., by citizens, and -a sword pre sented to him by them, with eulogy on his character and executive services by Charleston Mercury. Feb. 23.20,000 copies of his report of explorations ordered be printed by Senate. July 17. James Buchanan, in a letter to the President, indorses Fremont "as entitled to - the highest consideration from his well-known ability and auPeri _ or means of information.' Oct. 19; Goes out on fourth expedo tion at Ins own expense, aided by Citi zens of St. Louis. 4849—Appointed by President Taylor Conr missioner for running boundary between Mexico and California. - His influence vAtlethe members of the Cc.nstitutional Conventuin makesCalifor nin a Free State. - Is elected a Senator in United States. 1850—Sept. 10. Takes his seat asUnifed- States Senator, and the next day . liubmits 17 post routes and 18 bills for relief of . California. Sept, 12. Introduces bili for & Pacific wagon road. Opposes taxation of ning in California, and speaks for free The Royal deographical Society, Lon. don, award him the founder's medal., 'R eceive.; from the King of Prussia. accompaniedo by a letter from Baron Humboldt, gold medal; commemora tive of those who have made progress in science. 1851-Jan. 3. Col. Benton, at request, of Mr. • Fremont, introduces a hilt to settle land claims in California, and, lest he should, he accused of selfish ends excepts Col, Fremont's claim from the, bilk - Is detained in California underAlnelee of Panama fever. Is supported for new term by the Prot State Party, but, after 140 ballots, de feated; every native Calif4rnian in , the Legislature voting for him: 1852-1853.—Travels in Eerope, (the time heats said by Alderman Fulmer tote at a Catholic Cathet3ral in Washington,) and is everywhere received with Harts _ r ing attention. , 1853—Makes a fift h expedition, at joint .ex • , pense with Col ; Benton, to test the Fie ticability of , railroad route for Wbtar . Suffers incredible hardships from hun ger, and is supposed to be lost for fire months. 1854=-His Mariposa title confirmed by iba . December Term United States &prime Court,, after strermoue srOttilente hy4t. ' torney General Caleb COBbintell lB6 _ ref Sustiee Taney giving Wa 9 O to —chir t. ion, and l indotsing Ids wind**, itt sooty - respect. Reported 17 BMW p;5412. 1855--Ikiinunber. Talked of tbr Puddle* by Speelser 1856-41ey IheVolkis lo . 44lll ` ~Tuna.. ix Two .t=e_ nou t tiatiou-::iwitet,ol4 or the Battio or 't vitals ecerini :tlie , d • or Napoleon, ties fortirnei itl n: o bsuuurte. plundering& IA Clet‘iid.\ El ENE FOE • 4 `..t, EL II
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