The Montrose Democrat. (Montrose, Pa.) 1849-1876, March 15, 1855, Image 2
Voutrost ginuntnt. ray. LARGEST CIRCVLATIOJ I PCiIiTREEIN E. B. CHASE J. 13. McCOLLUM, Eurrons Noutrese,Tintrsday; 114/6 Tkc News. Two ladies Were murdered at South Gard net, Mass. last Week, and the house in which they lived ransacked for valuables. There is a regular stampede of Know No .things in New Hampshite; and as the. Con cord. Patriot has it, . I ‘Satan's kingdom is tumbling .!own." =Over 100 have'whhdrawn from the order in Concord, and ;1500in the . State. Wu: have been informed that about recently withdrew. in a body from the at Great Bend, this county. 'Our latest teiws from Harrisburg states tat.the Llonset passed four Bank Bilis last Situnlay, and that. some ten or twelve. more ate •in prepatataot. Don't this look like \Vliiggery 1 • Advice:a front the city of Mexico, dated February l9th, reprent . Santa Anna as dai ly 'wing, and • Alvarez as g,aining ground. It is said that - Santa Anna has several steamers in readiness to twelve him on the apptoach of Alvarez, and•has sent alt that he could of the,seven millions received from the United States, and other viluables, out of the court- . . try. - lie is also! mid. to have sold the three millions yet to be paid to Mexico by tbe.Uni ted States. • , , . The notorious , Bill Poole.; whose death we chronicle today: was one of the foundersof the Know Nothings. He an i Ned Buntline were active Whig ward Bullies of N4w York. Our readers Will recollect that the know 1- Nothings burned Mr. Littlejohn, Speaker - of the New York 'Assembly, in etrmy, because like an honest Irian be renounced their Order and. voted for Seward. - List Week the,anti • 4now Nothint,prof Oswego nominated him for Mayor, and he was elected by - 500 major ity over Culver, the K. N. candidate, who was most officious in denouncing him for. what 'the K. es.icalleo , .Treason ! ',Honesty brings its-reivard: .• -• Not Tame. : ' • . The Ripubtin denies our 'atifithent in e reference to the] o I nt'woe edinms 'of the Know Nothings in Franklin, on the' day of the Ejection;and aars that Mi. •Warsoii ides its truth nisei.. Now we know..that kr. Watson has . taken. council of ati2Attorney,. and that he doesj not deny the truth at our statement substantially. We believe thuse sane -know Nothings; too, are - endeavoring to treat that election as though It never had been held, true to_. their Joe Ritner, Thad; Stephens, :Whig instincts. At the proper tine we shall expose the wicked plot to the public, that those engitesd in it may meet the reward of their condact-- public odium and everlasting infamy. P. S. • Since writing the above, one of the editors of the Pentocrat, has been informed by Mr. 'Watson that he never gave anybody any authority to contradict Our:stato'nent. Mwwlaciletisetts. , Yn the late township elections, in the Old. Bay State," the K. N's. were defeated in 28 towns: But a few-months ago they carried all but font' or fivee towns in the State: This indtcates a change. in the political atmos phereja the hilt-bed of the secret order. Horneltsvl Ile. - A.correspondent of the Tribune in referr ing to the .4efeat.of t.he Know Nothings. in that place `elores biti letter with this signifi canipaf , nge: " Hindooistn is dead in Thrn-, ellsville :" ' Auspleions - omeas cheer' us! "The Work Goes Bravely og." In Detroit the Know-INT - ogling candidate for Mayor is defited by . a majority of 600. In Oswego, the' anti's triumphed 'with a rnkj. of 500. In yracuse, a Deatiocratic,May- Or•hasibeen elected over a K. 'N., with .400 mnj. In Utica the K. N. were beaten by about 400. In tockport the anti's carried 4he entire ticket. The "Hindoos" are destined to an early political grave. Thus saith the people. -Mr. Setward's Speech. A short -extract from Mr. Seward's great speech in the Se.nate will be found in our pa per to day. *epad intended to publish the whole rpeech, but have lost the paper con. taming, it. If any of our readers have IL they will greatly. 'oblige us by forivarding it, 'as we are extremely anxiout to publish it en tire. It will be seen by this short extract that Mr.earard isnot afraid or ashamed to define his .'-position on know .- ICothirigs. In what bold contrast does his manly and statesman like position stand out by the side of David Wilmot's. Mr. Seward does not truckle-- does not ploy the ''etuagozue—at the foot stool of this erne], unchristian and intolerant power.. Ile winks not at this horrid wrong to obtain votes. He was.not found ,sneaking about their caucus to obtain a nomination for the U. S. Senate. Not he'; but he threw:, defiance in the face of this great wrong, 'showing to the world that be prerred to re tire to tbe deepest`obspurity of private lire, ra- ther than degrade his manhood by courting the favor of 'Oa' , . intolerant Order. But nal so did David :*l - itnot. Ambitious for a seat in the Senate; he scrupled not to turn his :back npon the well-tried friends of his. ' h o w life ( ---6?eiking a death blow at the deaus principles of ht+ity and right, and lend influence and active exertions to the propagaticin of religioulstrife and intolerance. s9r is this alllaying aside those great ideal of univenal freedom which he so long • hail advocated, C. he strikes lianas with the alareocracy of the South in their merciless ,attempts, through this order, to disfranchise hundreds of thousands of Northern Freemen, —to place the shachles of a most degrading servitude upon the manly limbs, as wtil as consciences; of the:white men of our North ern clime. • Magnet heart overflows with philapthrivy for, the - Idea *hie of the south, bat it has no word Of sympathy when thoie of his arre color et- the North, are threatened with infamous enactments spinet theirOoti -4iven rights of .Conscience and freedom 2-- Will the people sustain such hr ritical pro fmsions as these,—al! made to obtain a seat in tho U. S. Senate I G ls the man who aets thus worthy of they ou6derice from Ole hands of a people wlici lovU right and justice ! sir °lir:readers, will le.arn with lis issue of the Penwerat, that henceforth +Mother pen besides- ours will be weekly emplqyed for their benefit and interest: We lum'e made an . ....; arrangement wl l th atr. uocoui-pt to &mist us , in its editorial dbpartnienti. -We have taken 1 this step for several reastoni,proininent - among which may be enumerated the following.— There bakprobably never ;been* time in this county, when the rights and inlerest of the people were in such jeopady as 9ow'r Dem agogues' have - become bold •anrilacting, and the great hope ;tor the triumph of 'collect. Principles now ri:ate !tr. the, fea . rlesi boldness. of the preas-L'a if.,oldness= that shallunn' , i task; the designs of the venal and lay them open! to the light of i dity. Unleaa this shall :be' one, time Only can i develop the consequences.— Our civil and religious tights are' nsrailed with all the madn e ss that ambition lends the vile;--our political 1 iii titutions, and those great. fundamental .principlea oni which the . gvernment-was based, and. has 'n ad min ile ist o ered, are thre4ned with' subv ykion and destruction. ,An i ,able, bold; and incortupti- I press, only, can turn' back the tide - and bring repose to the districted st a te of our internal political relationsi i ' I 'ln the past welhive done - our bi6t to poini. out the dangers, 4nd the remedy. But there la enough .to employ the tir4eland, tibility of • more than 'one, especially ;when tha p one, as is the case Ivith; UN is' obliged to { att end much to-other duties, requiring attention ihroad.as 'well as at honie. The Democrat niinif speak. Tie people here must and; shall have' at least afradesif organ. *R. 1 1 l fePOLLVAI is a young w man of fine parts as.a riter,..of unblemished character / . and will, undoubtedly l ' add .largely to the inferes t muilability.:pf the 'paper. IVe Mean to make the /;ocrnociat cnte'of thelablest I • i ; . papers in Pennplvania •; and, it it shall not prove to be, it livillinot Wirer want of earnest and untiring effort ;on the Olt Of its- present Editors. - 'I 1 1. '; - . , Ileadeia co* the itemitperniti ' In appearing ibefore you; in ai editorial ca pacity I shall yield to an approved . and np- i propriate 'custom by giving a brief statement of the principles I\ shall laber to uaintinn . , It,is the duty of tl4 political journalist \to state facts and sustr.in• principles; to , shrink' from no responsibility that he intiy liaifir• in the support of a just .f aiise. : ,It isliis busi-, ness to vindicate and irstain7eternal truths ;• to combat corruption and lerror in high pla ces and low ; to festiosly discuss Measures , 1 1 , ,-, • of.governmefit rwd the qua i dificationti and the claims of the asifirant i for L publie honora, re cording correctly and„ faithfully his virtues and his vices. An uttsh4kled Press :is the the guardianof-a RepUblidtibold and decisive in Its defence of right,,,itiiii, to perceive and condemn every infrinlpirieht ofthe peoPle's liberties, its inflhence it fetrj and respected.— 'lt moulds public .opini 3 On; M a measure, and prepares the m. es to r ; act understandingly. Such being its office ; its independeice and purity are dear to' th 6 pOpular heart, and should be maintained. N4.ver `since this gov ernment was instituted hai the piibiiC stood in greater - need of afearlest ' , end untramme)- ed Press, than at the preient l , time. The avb7 nuei to distinction are'crnided with corrupt and unprincipled !aspirants; who resort to ar tifice and treacheiy, in he hope' iof . gaining positions of trust 'and profit, who, disrg,ard pledges and principles liii!,l the struggle for poWer. The designs of neh must be thwart ed; their doubleidealini !exposed 'land the 1.1 • • I rights of the maises,ctentlel. , T i o do this, is the appropriate ' k of ;the; ,Preits, which should ever be o , in unCompromising hos tility to every s pec 'es of deceptionn, and trawl. It should be ready , to' txl virtue and de iituncesice, tosu,stain, principles, in prefer ence to men, when the latter come in contact, with the father. ', 1 . ' di .. Within the past lyear RD , element has bcn, introduced into; political world, that is hostile to the mostprecious rightssecUred to: 1 i it. • ais by the constitutlon, and d • to`tb e', peade and _permane ` ncc.of the overnment.--- 1 It is the principle 13r fitoser ng a man for' his reli'gious - belief, which itv,it, itself wrong, i while the cleans employed to ustain and-ex ecute itore,suclu as lionest:m , ti',' inust repu . diate and condem n . It is the n n rural and in herent right of every Man to crihip his 34- ker in the manner his conscie ce dictates; it is a"right that 'hum* laws annul destrciy, and any etak to abridge it, ii: tyrannical and 'unjust. 11 affairs of thi t ;government are to bC controlled in the; lo.dgi of a secret order, "if the ambitiOus, designingland:Forrupt ones in our midst, are to creep iiqo high pla ces by virtue of midnight plotting and in de fiance of the popular will Constitittionall,ex pressed, the future career of this eountry ,will_ be a libel upon itsglorionS past -- ilOur prog ress as a people depends inl al great rnersiire, upon the open and fearlessi discussion of any principle proposed .to i‘be 4c , rporated 1 into governmental meastwett. '4.it I khis' Democra tic i t. government everyt Mall htui a', vel' em in thelen tieing of laws that are tO g' oiernihim. Itti l 'o'- licity.is an indei to viluntisjaCtion, the prop ; er symbol ofintegrity i>p the'pOliticu pf- l i ' l6 " public ; .secrecy inithe tninage4ent of :putt lic affairs is ominotis ofi cerruptton, tyranny and wrong. .1(. tie ret riolitimllerganizatiouil instituted for ambitiens ,and unholy purposes exists in our coutitiY today; its'scbetnes,coti- : coded at midni6t ere' , fraught with ruin, prejudicial to the rigts l of the adoPted 'citi r zen and colutequ en.t'i tly hostile to 66 1 1 progress li of the nation. , T combat an d defeat the plans of this consOrs4y tO unfold and expose its corruption rex!langernus tenderieies ii clearly the dui t:lfi an ind , ependent Presit.-- Snow-Nothingiseu ;,isid at present the'''para mount iviitical - q4s4on before. thepeople; it has obliterated other i issues, in itii, *tides towards mtionalityi tilreci ' , its ents and power with the party : tltf A very p iingod inn and'must be Min iithlbold and deter mined opposition, More it shall have crushed , the free-soil sentim4t of the North and im- Prx 4l " ned the spirit of reform. In making it i.. 1. , • . . , war , upon this secret party we are!fighting the f" battle of !freedom ;" Know-Noiliingit.m is the !right arm of the " slave'powdri" and until it is overthrown slavery has a ixtwetful ally 'Fully,persuaded that the power, of sla- Vecaw be mosteffectually crippled, )1 , the 1,3 defeat of this secret Party, no, effort pf 'mile wili be wanting-to Make the pensOwt its fea4ess, yet tempemt4 opponent. 4OA la; 1 bor an honest purpose, to sfmngdien and 1 support Northern free-soil sentime n t -shall ,f -not hesitate to criticise calmly attedispas . sio ateV the conduct of men in highli places wh the public good demands it., and, shall 1 11 not ndulge in personalities and partinan bit terness. I shall spare no pains to mako the .Detikocrat what it haS been, a paper of inde pendent and fearless. tone, the advo4te of sound morality, the organ of the people. 1 - C• J. B. McCotivst. • 1 Goodrich on the' Cnnni .OUr attention has recentlYibeen oille.d to an a r ticle in , the Bradford Reporter, britaiii in it vile personal assault urn rye , which tip:. peitred' - that paper_ while we werqahsent from home a few weeks ' The article in - 1- question seems to be a lahored effort of the. editor, E. 0. Goixlrieh,ito ,cast personal odi uni i t uid' spleen upon u! We are not sensi ble Of ever, by Word or deed, in our paper or out of it, having given Mr. Goodrich the slightest cause for a personal attack upon us. We have never aUtled., to our - recollection,. • either to himself or his paper, in any other ttaanE the most ,courteous and decent tOanner. rlo, l . tbis friendly bearing on.. our Out has been! reciprocated by him let the tileaof the ea . r.,. procated by mm 3..... ._ neporter for the past few weeks alum*. . 1 1 i Atriong other mean thrusts which the :mil elein question contains, is one in reference 1 • to tit l e canvass which resulted in our e,ection l ' as Speaker of the ,House of Represetita t tives at Harrisburg. The insinuation is. thrown our ,' , that we i obtained th e favor of the .pre4 of t h e ! State through begging lett&s, addre4ed tO saur brother editors, while they, amused. at oiu • `'t greenness, „, would give a puff editOrial,nev er • , o for a mment stispeking tilat thei wer v l thus ititaking.a great -- man out of a veri• stivilh patter]. At least he relates this as his own experience.. Looking over our file of !letters' we Itit've come across the following: I Tow.ANDA,'May 4, 1/343. Friend-Chase: -Ohase : .„ 1 . I -iitent.l to bid for A section, at the)etting at thi s place, on Saturday next, and'oCeourse don't, svant to bid in vain. Now whatl want o f yciti is, a letter to the C. C's., asking them tofirrar tue if _ possible, (and it is - poSi.ible.) If you can conscientiously -write • tok , la few line4-yoti will do Inc a 'great . faror, and the strotiger:.the more intense the obligalin. • Should you cone 1 ude to do so, send it 'to nie - 1 . as scio as possible. • r- 0 • . • . .* .1. • I • • ” ' ruly yours 7 . E: 0. GOODE:ik. IL 4 ,, Tie plain Entlish'of the above letter, as our readers will. see, is that Goodrich `Vanted ' a se<tion of work on the North l3rancicCanal, and to insure "favor" from *the Canal:dlloard he anted 4 letter from us to theta: We wrote -the iletter, but we were not mean - enow l D 7h,. as Mean its Mr. Wilmot and i ' i i is pro- I I tegeithink-", to drag the Matter befiire the Publte in an unptrokthlmanner, for - the par fioS.Cl9f bolsterit '' im a personal attack tiPbr t one `tyi • , i . po had thus shown himself our. friend. 1 • After having thus resilonded go Mri! flood richs.appea for aid, for thiS Ittter Was IFrit 7 ten, l as thelreader will see by the date,,lttlleast obi Month 1 . s I 'before w e were a candidate for . . Speaker, we may have presumed far en0m.7,11 upon Goodrich's Manliness to solicit his aid i ... 1 1 in o ur behil, and we leave thepti lir' t lc o place its.own estimate upon the hot* and char'xicter4the man who would aft4wards drag the matter before the public for the pup postl of 'n4lign ing one who had in the firs:t instanee prt4optly and -generously resbonded to Ina call k i r aid to secure his pecuniary ad vantage. .; : • . 1 i .. . . . P j /.. 5..-I( th e words"" old line Deinkrats", are imiitted in the above letter froMGooi' rie.l4 1%4 wiplpromptly.iwrt them on'potice. • " Thq. - . Legisiature. • Vre )tave l 'f . reciuently been_ asked wiv our paper does not.y.,n - tain some items of interest rpm 4airisburt,t. ~We answer, beekinse as nothing, of interest to anybody his been e by our Know Nothing Legisla i jure.— e from uniutere4ing local mattrs, no lotion has been- had save the passng,e of bills,ne to prohibit the sale of Liquor on the Sa ash, which Ts a.. already prollibi led,. and-4 Act to punish bribery in the Lcg ), itdatare. t is significant, too, that th 4 latter Billwent through hard! It pasxed ; with a sg ,--it passed much as though the mern-- 1r felt that. they were signing -their-death it i iik warrant ! • . ' - I , Nwcly three months of the session has 1 . pawed aivay, and our model, our ,reform Legislature, about whiC,ll we heard ad ; much `last (fall, has pasted tiSo Bills! The 'golden protises have tuened to ashes cirs - the lips4"f those who made them ; audi l to all 'pre nt appearances, the ordinary bb.ine,s tranlaeted in one hundred days by thv::Legis- 1 latnTe in past yearn, will not be got throng!' n-ith beforeriest September, or perhrips the firstiTuesday in October, to. Which tithe the -11orilses adjourned the•tlection of U. Si Sena-, ior.7‘,---The Appropriation Bill'', yet sleep ' un tonc led, and those great measures of i l teforrn T; abO t whit h Gov. Pollock talkedso !loudly •lasi fall,--such as the labolition of theiCanal ; , Boad sale of the Public Works,- &One Li ,- .qttoit Law. Zoc. dec..--all these great ptojects, so- tent in obtaining votes, are sleep in the mb of the Citpulets. The louse of Rep. Ito risertatiyes is composed almost entirely of new men,. brought to the surface by the Know Nothing earthquake.' They ma i mein well enou h, but they i ‘ iave no expen'enee, - . i ts' re in,- effi eat for any good. Add to, this the weak ; Wadi yisb Administration of Pollock, and our tpoo old Commonwealth is badly off (Weed. . 1 One fact we Wish to direct the-attention of' Free Sail , bemocrats" to, who were de- - a into the support of% Pollock sqld this ir Nothing, Legislature. The -reify firs of the mission, Resolutions were intro d instructing our Senators and fly:rear our Members in Cougress, to suport a prohibiting the- eitension of slavely.int) lee territories of the, Union. Tho l Know ; yet don Asi our tee gm! *I lug BM ihe Nothing organ in this piece noticed the !fact and said, ,this. Legislature would show i the. Country that there was a party . which, -in power, dare speak the voice of Pennsylvania on that question I Behold the result'! Con gress has adjourned, with Mr. Chase's Bill to that import on its fll&q, and where is the voice of Pennsylvania, which was to' be so poten tial in regulating the affairs of the nation 'On that question t - Where is all the bombaSt . of Mr. I'ollOck, and the declatuation of Wilmot against Bigler because the tegislature- not speak a' year ago ? " Echo ansivers where f"; Vanished like a mist,--gone like a day-dream! The Resolutions have slumber ed quietly upon the files oT , the Houle, with out even an attempt to act upon them, till Congress has adjourned, arid thus ended the whole affair. 0 Free . Soilers, were you; not nicely r sold, and for what? T.4,•-seeure ?dr. Wiltnot five 4tes for . the U. S. Senate, and the nomination of Cameo(' by the Know !No thing party ! Here. are_ yog;tr triumplts,-- 7 -look upon theta, glorious, magMficent as they are! The, mertfice of What, all admit to have been second to no Governor We have ever had; one of the safest and best Admittistration.s', the State Was ever blest with, and in return se cured all these! Are you n3t proud of such fruitful-achievements.? Such glorious reSults ais theelection of a Knoii Nothing Governor, weak, timid, -imbecile as he is,, and the ing ofan.)therissue thereby which has raked out the free soil sentiinent of . the State, and deptroyed the confidenc4 of the people it the.,, .sincerity of thixze, who were leaders in the principle! And -at whPse - door lies theires ponsfbility of thus mur4ring, your principles and organization ? At the door of. David IWiltnot, when he made a - corrupt ttlargain I with• Pollock at Towanda, as he .thought to secure his election .to the Senate. There is where it lies, and•it cannot be removed. Let those Democrats who, innocently no doubt, aided to carry-out ihathargain, ponder ;well upon 'these things,-;,upon these truths, titid take wanting for the future. That Judicial. Gem. We intimated last. week{ that we should continue our review'-of Mr. Wilniot's letter in the Republican - two weeks ago, n biclr we now proceed to do-in a more getfaitl manner. than we did then. It was evidently written in the-beat of - passion and is full iof dentinci :llion and abuse. The public w4juld ba•rdly. recognize it as the product of judicial calm ness, wisdoth, and learning, and yet it is putt] the peu of the man Who sit upoltt the Bench in this District, to ditpense jtistice. ILi i d it emanated from a lessdistinguished source we should' pass it by with the contempt it merits, leaving its author to regret the infamy, into which his unrestrained passions plunged him; but Corning :as it does roan( a inal i t in high official position it is entitled to w hore conilderation than weitsually bestow_ upon articles of like character, and shall recekl:. it. The, letter is a perfect gem—al. cut iositY in . mane rt.-Teets and furnishes the reader with : 1 c lear id ea of the nature and- strength of the .author's pa liens, .the vindieti ye and dbmi neering spirit that, controls him. h . -cannot be disputed that when Wilinot penneth s the lettei in question, his: temper was master of judgment ; hence his vain attempts t 9 be severe, his lug Nrsonalities and violent abase. Ilaving yielded to his . angry impulses he be mays his own weakness - and unmans, himself before the pUblic.for the obvious i,purpo!is of obtaining what' his pas.;`ions-have taught ;him' to reverence, to: wit, ref fugc. ,IVe can aO'ortl' to let his personalities p4ss without cointn i nt ;. we can pity the man std unhappily constttut as to submit to the dictation of a vititli6- tive and selfish tOper,lbut we have a rWit to protest againsti condact, which in a Judge, Aisgraees him and his position. It is imp Os - -. slide for the manlWho yields to-the base ; im pulses of hisnaturewhile battling in the: 141c:11: arena, to clothe himself ittl re spotless garments of impartialityy', wh e n he ascend 4 the . Bench. It is no part of the Jurist's duty, to fight thebittles'of party, but rather hiS ap prepriafe work to keep a vigilant eye' tipon the beautiful temPle.ofJustiee, whose eVery aisle is lir tqk with the effulgence of an.eter nal. truth, and polished by the accurate learn ing and profound wisdom ofthe -sages Who poured the fullness of their acquisitions 'into 'the treasury of legal knowledge; to adnunis ter with keen discernment and impartial hand the pure principles of right, and to guard the great structure. of human . govetninent- from the insidious attacks of corrupt -poli4ians and the unthinking rashness of blind bigots. He cannot prOperly perform these dutiO tf his office; in connection With the more naeni . al acts of the demag,oguel i - 11. Men cannot be political partizans anti. ith partial Judges at the'same time. The con duct of Wilmot shows tlal impropriety o f one appointed io dispense justice, mingling- in .the angry conflicts of political life. In-those'etn bittered conteSts,-theworst passions arc arous ed andiprejudics imbibed, that cling: 'to a man, and control him, in any position he Mar I' • be:called upon to assume: This fact, so hell understnod and appreciated is what proriipt; ed the party that put Wilmot in nomination to exact from 'Mtn a Written pledge, tot ab stain frOm 'political controversies. - To require such pletfge was an act of wisdom, and had it been kept in good faith by him, we should not have witnessed the humiliating spec tack. Of a Judge catering to party prejudices; and exhibiting passions, unbecoming a mat in pay situation. .There ate i few men govefned More by their prejudices and pariions than Judge Wilmot, and no man, should afroid more- than' he, mingling in the bitter eo4tro versies of political life. The party by whore he was nominated understOod this element of this nature and felt the importance of obtain . mg. w pledge from him, to the 'effect that he would attend faithfully td. the. duties ofd iris office and refrain from engaging in thebat -tles of political parties. ,: • On the strength of this pledge be :was clothed in judicial robes:, and appointed to live for a period in a kiad ormoral atmos phere; uncontaminated with loiv partisan bit terness and heated controversies. HOW well he has "kept the faith" let a betrayed and outraged constituency judge, This - last arti 7 ere. from the pen of 'Wilmot is a disgrace to . the position ' e ikceepi es,-and ice I pronouncmi the opinion of every honest and candid : ImM in this District When 'We - declare his late pone ' duct in the po itleal field, to be that of. the demagogue, histerwl• of a high minded and impartial ocenteint of the Bench. :Political . friend and foe alike look upon him. as the uni grateful recipieni' of. public boners, a mad wholly unworth}t of the o ffi cial garments in which he is clothed. We take no pleitsure in presenting thi s ' picture; het an 'imperative': duty - impels us t gii.e.toilie public a plain recital of facts, /rod the inferences which nut. urolly flow from !'them. •We have - said thuS much of the:gen . ral tone and spirit of the letf set t ter because it . med to us the public had t i right to expect tore cander, and less vitu 4 Aeration, from onb. in whom its confidence ha,S Ceti reposed, iinii . upon whom disiinguished honors have been 'lavished.• It is a sad spee t,,iele for thespe,of le of this district, to behold', th6ir judgetlivend•from,tbe - high , L • psition be fails to adorii,l;lragging;irito contempt the office with WhichAe is intrusted, bit. spreadL ib .4. • inaJ., a nauseous letter before the piddle, in eve cry sentence of which, the angel' of its author is depicted, piivaie character -attacked,. and flow, passionate abuse indlibred in. Its con ' Itents are sieleniit. , to the nestdepraved stp, l i petite, and the reflection that-it emanates 1 from. the pew of i Judge heightens the t hi s (gust with which it will .be read.. •Suel a tor t ' I rent of-passion atil abuse suggests the inqui•t. ry:•What inducement had be to manifest, hi,' weakness in such lan angry - manner: Wliati, {has stirred up the vindictive spirit of our poi I liti,qll judge? The answer is readily sug .1 1 gested. Thu pubhr laie , twen made :leen:dui i . ted with his diiplicity ; letters written Li dm, in which hel % cOurts and flatters "-pro slavery hacks" ha l .e been . dragged from their , , , ilnelNieu secrecy And spread before the. plit. lie; his . of Co defraud and betray .a con stitueney that' ha. liever been false to hini have been brought to light ; in short his entil ning and deceit sit 2 r had their day and the , , integrity ;Ind pat i riotism' of his motives are beifig impe . aehed by his - own . eonduk. The Man is enraged l i eeause: hts treachery. 80 lhase *cunning, his plaits and intrigues are.un; folded to the puhlje. lie dkeover's now, that it is too l: e, the handers he - -has - cominitted 1 through ram mess; the effect of which is t.( reveal his true. eh; raster and point him to ati i . . .- .: , • • I: ! triorriiiiious polim / ai grave as- the: ieward ►of I I - hii I kuble-deniih'g, 1 It is the -man's Own fault i that be ceases to oininand respect—he is ini• 'lidded - to his own rashness for the-odium that ."! 1 ; is settling upon hurt. A eonti•litig coir-itif 64 eney. ha; been sloW to acknowledge his errors', f I, , —ready to overdook hiS-faults and • -1 magair,i ! his virtues, but 114 6verr , ' roWri confidence in I I , corrupt bargaining and fraud hasrbred a rasbr ; I Ines in him, fatallO his plans arid Withering 10-his types. If his late eolith:et had :be.;t : i • marked by the caution that he has usuall,Y exhibited. in the Curse of his po iti l eal eareeic I lie might have, wot n the Mantletuf l id,iceptioQ . 1 for :i longerperiol. But his wrirth has mas t ( toed him and therproduet is Aril exposure of his trenehery and: Lthe ba , -ele.ss diameter* o i t his pretZons. , - B . . But the letter in question has an occasion' al - 0-em, and -we mean to -give its antliOr the ~ 1 • , benefit of ere leenung trait i i tt possesses. The Scripturalqu i dations evinceian irripr;ve'r / went in the author's taste. P assages or Scripture are decidedly More palatable to tried public, than &As! Those pas4ges, honer-• er, that are vindicive, and threaten - Punisirk harmony - I went are notitt very good r with tire' spirit of parechrisitiatiity and. brotherly loch.. The quotation, however is one of the gems tO which we havA referred, and were it not true', 'That the Devil elm quote Scripture to hi. 4 • purpose," 1. • _ I i we should beitullined to- think - -, that the I Judge had set about the work of dinproving his morals, in gold earnest. - . It is encouragt to see Scriptural passages appear i'n an artif cle, when an acqoaintance witlP 6 its authot Would have_ led u..to expect oathslas fi sub stitute. I . i - - • 'lt is a little bin s. ular that Judge Wilino (. should indirectli. 7 halloige a comparison of moral Character, o : denounce the 84s of any maw on the crtounil of immorality'. If we i mistake not, there are a few chapters in hif life yet. unwritten, ( that -would.soil our page} 0 1 if Suffered, to appedr in them. - :• The :►turd The New York apers for a few days past i haVe teemed with i;eounts of the - bloody af , . 1 fray which eccurr d o'n the 24th of Fehruary at Stnnwix Hall, :. o. 570 Broadway.• It api• pears that Win. Iloole, somewhat famous as' a. sporting cliaracfr e was prestnt, in compat ny with a number. of_ friend, aat -drinking saloon, called. Statiwix Hall, on . the evening in question, when )- that notorious pugilist John Morrisiey eluered with others of the, szituOtripe, and irtulted Poole with such ep!•- ithets As - "You itreln pretty : fighting son of a b,-=--11," I can lief you," and the like Poole replied, "Yon said thal once .before ni. the City hotel, and honey ,yOu tasted rue and didn't like rn . e.", 'lle controversy continued, MorriSstiy dcoottne'ng Poole as . 4 a coward," a onii Poole callimr I rrisSev ",a d--liar" _liar." r., , - Censiderable excitement' p r revailed, MorrisseY drawinkmpistel and his friends: interfering,. wheii-scveral.pelicinen having been sent rut by the . proprietors pf the esmldishment enter / 6 ed and arrested Morrissey, Poole, and other*._ TI4 occurred abotit 10 o'clock. In about ten, minutes after it cv . •is, Currently reported that. Morrissey had beet' released, and nt about 11 o'clock Poole - et4red, - expressed his regref that the atTray.int occurred, called for some wine 'and treated . ', number of his - friends who were present. 11- remained at the saloor sometime, and ab ,ut twelve the proprietor; who bad fallen asl p on a setteeln Ne room was aroused by a 1 . ud voice, and saw a nutn ber of persons in the Boom, who appeared ex; cited and angry r and manifested a dkposition to quarrel with I'Oele. One Jim Turner, a bully, drew his pis(ol and presented, as if in! L or tending to fire it Poole. Poo e. exclaimed. " Do you wish toiMurder me r urner fired his pistol, which tqok effect in his own arm, breaking it. Turn i fall i , to the floor , and in the act of falling red another shot which bit Poole in' the ILl; liring,ingrim down also. Lewis Baker fired , t Poole while he was on r %Ft Win., Poole. the 'finer, the ball entering near Turner writ' still on the flour,r , nnd ; kept firing indiserituinatelv among the crowd. The fir- kg attracted the attention of-the Police; and a number gathered at the spot,- Baket and hiS confederates escaping. PoOle has. .siinee died from the effects of the wound reeeied at the affray. llis funeral took • place, on S unday, and was attended 'by a large cotitotim of reipzens. It is said that the sporting fraterti-i its Was well represented in 'the 'proms:42U that folloWed 'his remains to Greenwood:oa key has not been 'arrested yet, but the police Amon the alert, and it is thourlat that he is skulking about 'Jersey. City. This is one Vf the frost brutal affrays on record. It is 'sup posed that_Baker and Taper were confeder ates of Morrissey, and came to , the'saloon at that hour of the night: with the determina lion to quarrel with Poole and seizatTOMthe• slightest •preteit to 'Order him. They were arMed, and the conSequenee is they .Lave branded themselves as murderers. ---f.~:.r~.-- t i tr- Kite Aylesford; a Story of the Ref ttgee,-by CifARLES nuth?r of Cruising in :the la-4 war, Publisheti of " Pete'rson's Ladie.l Nu tonal .21faijaziste:r— Complete in,one largo volutno, neatly hound in (-loth for $1,25; ()On two volumes, paper eover,4i 51 , 00. Address S. It Peterson, No 102 CliesnUt - St. Philad. : - This; is th e title of a new work about to bd issued. of which an exchange that'll:ls seen it, 'f.e:lks as follows:- Yrhm what is known of the authors -abil ity, and espeeialy his ::talents for presenting Revolutionary reminenees in the most inter; esting forum, we evecred a rich treat ,in thim; fiction, as, well as a faithful - embodiment of the history . of the refugivsof New Jerse,i. , ..-- Nor have we been . disap'pointed. 'The, 'he ine is sketched most artistically, and fair -- stands before the reader a thing of life. On e of the great", beauties of time story is, the char-. :meters are never unat oral, nor the incident:, itnkimbable ; . and yet; from the: minute'ldes criptions thrown around themohe most thril= ling interest is awakened. • The !narrative, grows more ammi More absorbing also aA,,it proceed:. It all-lianas pronounced time ablest original novel pit blished - and jti , tly plaCes its a.i . tMor at of tht4 . popalgz ronithacci writers' this country. Nlis 1,41 saying but .w .think . the public, on tk : stOry, will agree With. that tion i 6 not extig , ;eratetl" - Ttiwn M I I - The restilt of the New York , has sadly disappointed the K or Thotfoos,, ax G),Teley calls as heard front they arc' beaten in heady eye ry county. It, is evident that they are scan- hag fast,—are sinking into an ignoble grave, —there as well as herd. We suggest, with greati respect, that Mr.l Wilmot shoubl, hold: six or eight -e4urts titen cojning year in this county, in order that he may have more time to make speeches and attend to the affairs of the Order in geni•ral.. your Courts will not. give him,as much tittl'e and ,opportunity us he Outrlit, to have to rgulate our pelitical. matters - , tn.vien prospects next. winter fOr the Senate: Bess des this, if , lie should hold Court from now till next 'October, .he would no more than bring the busittess'of.the . county up to where he found it when he took ti; Bench , so badly Ita'sit rani behind in coa s:equence of na to. the affairs or his I ofu e e. Let, us have the extra - Conits,—Biat 1 the extra amount of i•tump speeches and intrigues. ,'• • 'New-York Town Itleetiogou ROchester Dem ocrat of 'the 6th says, of the res - Alt on .Bititi.rvisors: Whigs 15, - Iwo; 1.1 %, Anti-Kuow Nothings 20. Elected on Know Nothing ticket This result Andly disapridints the Ilindoos of, the city, ,whoi,hoasted and they Would• sweep the county. ;• •• Smi.vrooA Co.—A Tc - m . ra ft e -Board of Supervisors has been elected. COATLAND' Co.—The :"result of , the Town Meetings shows that the. Stipervis' ors stand 6 Whigs and 6 Democrats, with two towns to hear from. The Know Nothings claim si!ven of these as their choire. , Homer, that strong temperance town! through. the vote of the hies elected a ruin Supervisor. Curt land' has gone temperance. Ilindooism is one of the finest humbugs of the day; and has, for the time being, pulledllie eVotil'over the eyes of More honest men thin anything else could . . -But this must all pass away. The sophistry is so thin 'that covers . the real design, that it wi:l soon develop its freal:character. The Sutiervisora sit,ani. as fir -ns heard fro m , as follows : Little FM rfield, -Man beim, Danube, iltirkimer ; Ohio, A..Ahei;l; German Flatts, B. Carver. All Nothing except the last town, Where a Hun ker. ninth.° has been chosen. • MAutiox Nothing .ehos en in Cazenovia, Fenner and Nelson. 411 an ti-IlimiOos-as.far as heard from. IN'foxiso Co.—According to old party di; vihions the'Boarti of Stipervisorst consist 44 of eight Whip; and eiglit . l)eintx:rats s icii 10 day light Americans anti midnight limdoos. I)l:t.a.wittE Co.—Whig4 7, .11a rds and. Softs: • OotuitatA. Co.----The Whigs have 12, and the Donee' rats 8 SuperViSors. In :Input, a strong Locofoeo town, the'Levolovo was bad- Iv I,eaten because- he Was' a Klulw-Nothing. - flillsdule elects a WWI; for the. first tittle since .182.8, The Know Nothings carried twO towns by uniting with tile Demoarats, null one by the aid of the Whigs. . ...- • , ScurvAN Co.—The liiridoos are reported to Hulce carried the counts.. ' • .'- • OT. LAWRENCE CO.—Tfie Republican gives a list of the SuPervisors . elected at the late to •n meetings in that county. - It foots 111‘ precisely as it did last year-15 DiamNatti anil 13 Whigs—all anti-Anti Knott Sollt itigA. • , . , I:ArrAusuovs Co.—ln this county. which i• went strongly Wilde° at the last election; 13 out of the 31 a SUpervisot44.tireanti.Know No thing. -"It is noticeabie fa ct . ; that all the Himloos are eltteted by tte skin of their teeth while theanties :tire all •Itoftn by large and r‘ivetable majOrities. tight is breaking, in ; - old Cattaraugus; . . . . . . ONEIDA Co.-4-ReturnS from all-the towns . show the Board of Supervisors to stand Whigs 10; Demotratslo. • ALnAsy Co: .The Hintioris were routed in the West Troy village" election. The kr‘oe• was made . ‘distinct.- Martin Vitbeek, anti , ilii:doo, was eleeted by . 150 'majority. The Trustees are of the same stripe:. Ar jubilee followed' in . the evening. ' • • i ERIE Co.--Tlia chewing up" of the tlin doos was more effectual than at fintt announ ced. So far as heard from. 19 atiti-Know Nr4 thing Supervisors to 3 Hindoos. Tha towns carried by ihe latter are Collins, Cheektowa ga and Hainbarg—lone monuments of .I.lar kerisro in a -county wboee entire delegation enst,tl.44:ir rotes against GOY., Seward's melee; tion.tothe United State Senate. . . • ItisaimAitt Co;--=In 14 towns the_De erats hive 5 ;n. Whigs ;1; K.N. Democrat 2 ; K. IC::lWhigs, -2. Stellhentown. -Ar D. Platt . ill elected ttitervisor by 63 .majetity, in opposition Oil:. A. I..irOwn t I.temo u rsa r :and K. year itiown• Was eiect,.4l 4.40 ilia- The petiplc of 'Rensselaer, Co. have •tieetmiie utterly disgusted with the inquisiito rial prix:cedings ofilindociisn). . ' - • ' '.l.l.tairtsnetto, `Mare h 5. 1555. Dear. Demoaat--You will no doubt ere this have discovered that Cameron is getting hititself into. trouble by his late avcitval of •6 Free Soil princiir*" It has !wig been known in theft regioris that he entertained l it these senements,,but he did not like to let his "light pine" lest he might scare some of the "old liners 4 from biirsupport. He "is. an " old fox," and has a isle way of " ,covering 9 his track's':' As thC Legislature will irroli- -- ' ably adjourn to meet Co the Ist Tuesday Of Ip. - - ctorrer next, to carruut the views of those .voting for it in Convention on the 27th dila -vote iticludor. the . "bolters" who ought cer.. Nainly to , be gratified, for they •hav'e done their country a lasting benefit. by, breaking - , up an organized conspiracy ageinst the rightir . of conscience. The strife wilt be . between Cameron and Buckalev!, for the "Judge" may be considered - as:laid on the shelf. Ilia anti- Pe insvlvania' principles upo n the tariif while to liingress;•condelunS , him lid.* all the mart- ; trfai7turiug districts, which are generally- rep resented by protectionists.. . . . . There new seen:mph:a a dispositiOrt . Oa tie , part of . the.KMorwiNoOlings Co shake off. the bolters, coosid irlug ti ta as dm politica4 froth of, the-pa ty. To hom .will they go i 4 i Pi0:114 to the old tilt . e Whigs—let - them ilave'..ttieni:', Where i •Latitrop t m Poor fel howl. - ':lc - .- . • . I . '•• ' ' .. . - . Senator Seward oat *eerie . t Societies. ... l i , his gre4t spee c h in the Senate-a few -days since, on the bill to protect U.S. officers ". in the performance ortheir duty. Mr. SeW ard thiisinci&ntallv give his oath ion of se- . I cret societies: ' 1 - 1 I understand the Know Nothings to be 'a : secret Noe iei j , or order, ~ c onsiSting of two - or three gravies; colleagiied and mutually" sworn : to ele c t individuals of their own 'Order,. or at least person S i»ai il taipiiig the principles whit* that Order entertains, {to all offices of -trust and profit in thenited States:: Those . prin- - cii,les I understan d to be, in general, the same. .which; below the organization Of,the Know Nothings, passed under the name of NatiVe Americanism. I. Sir, , have - no _connection with that Order. lam under no resporisib andil itv for its doings, I have..-not the least • sympathy with its principles pr sentiments.' . Ilbelong to one voluntary Association of-, men, which has.to do with spiritual affairs. , It is the Christian Church-, , -that branch of it all imperfeet, though I think itlfi, Which; ac cording- to my, notions, most nearly retains, " in theirpurity," the instructions of the Gospel. .That ASsoCiation- is an Open one, . which per forins " all its4ites, and gives nll Its inStrucfions . -with publicity, and- iiivites..e!ve an, in the, language of its Divine . Founder, to' -come in and partake of the privikg4.With which - Ile invested it and of the : blessings whiCh Ile , pr'otnises. - - ` • • I '.lgAlong to ; one temporal" seeiety of men, and that is the political party', Which fully , and most trury, although,-I confeas,.asin the other Case, very inadequately, maintains the . - principles of . the Declaration of Indeperidnace and of the Constitution Of the United States. This Association also of which I have fast: spOken, is att r open one. All .its trimiactions. • are conductM in the broad day=light, and. it.: incites all citizens, and all men who become subjects of the power of this Government; of' whatever clime or race they may be, to enter into its ranks, to participate , in its labors,and to cooperate in maintaining good government and.advancing the clause of !nman Nature. .These two Associations; the one spiritual and the other temporal, are the ° only voluntary Associations to which I now belong or - ever have belonged • since I become a man ; and, unlessj am bereft of reason, they are -the on lv associations of.men to which I shall ever suffer myself to belOng. , . ..- Seciet.societi6- , , sir! Before I would place- - mv. right hand between the hands of other. men, tit a secret Lodge. Order , ci .4, or Coun cil, and bending - my Knee befor e hem, - en ter into-combination with them fo r - ny object, personal or political, good: Or •ba , - 1 would a pray to God that. that hand and hat_ knee., might he paralyied, and. that I mig, it, become • an objeia of the pity and ern ot.4e mocke ry of my fellow-men. • • -• ' ' Swear, Sir'.--I as man, an'Ameritiafieitiien," a Christian—swear to -submit niy4lf to the guidance and . diiection of othei men, iurren derinii tnv Own judgentetit to their juidgetned ts,, ' zt ) and my o wn conscience to.their *ping i No, neiSir.. I know quite well the; fallibility. of mylewn judgement, and 'my liability to felt into erior and temptation : But ,tnilife has been stin t in breakiii! , the _ bonds of the: sla very of 'pther. men. ftherefOre. Imo* tOciwell , the da*er, of confiding power to ii-rolionsi blci hall } ds to make myself a willing s lave . - . • ...._ _ ___ , or tria iiy years, the. i.ety head zi the day ! in deal, perusal ottlle ar coin rue uda- • etings. own meetings ►ow Nothings, hem. As far 7Sir • (mt. - that - Mr: Senator Wilson - will' be able t ifurnish some satisfactory explanation irr, of hiscourse in preventing the passage of the. preli 'nary act for •the admisston•of Oregon inio t ie Union, As the-faCts Staled; he ap peiits. to be leagued With the extreme slave driven to Lpospone the adinisSion: of a Free State,; until, •a Slave State Can begot Up to bal. aneelt. Such is Mr. Wilson'a position- ' in the • estimation of; Mr: Douglas, -as he - declara , , i in , moving to lay the bill on the table; add , On tit.'i;ly as such a policy May, agree with the . pdrpose of tho4e who are laboring:to build up • the Know-Niithings into tt.Nutional Pre-Sla very party, ice 'apprehend it cannot-satitife the pe•p l ite of Massachusetts or confer on.Mi.V.ll son a very enviable reputation.. It is nottoo much to say that the very weakest . dough fae., or \ theitnast Unprincipled . renegade 'who eve!' yet represented that State in Congress, wiipld not have ksen guilty of such an act:-;-• SO much the more astonishing and, grieiOus is it when performed by this Free Soil, Know- Nothing Senator.=--Tribene. ..--- . : -. - .- No one will pretend to deny; that .Massa ..t• 'cilusette. is Free-Soil all . o:ier—that thi'orp , - - - sitiolii - to ;slavery ,there is-general; ant.that no Man, stafids.theleasepossible . chance for po litical 'pliteferment whois - not out and out . hos tile to siaVery. liotoriou - -as these facts are; it, is indeed strangato' fin her reprissented•in the United StatO. Senate y one who is; to say the least,fistcy on thi qiieStion. , When Know-Nothingisip was rst organized, the -belief-that it waslintended mainly a ts sstreke at the . Catholic religion, t e exclusion Jrcan 1 civil office of all these who profesied that re ' ligion, - and the repeal of the present'- natural iFation laws—the people of 'Massachusetts by hundreds and 'thousands - *acne - initiated into - the mysteries - of the acretlproler,leaving K He that fights and runs away,• Dlaylii'e to fight muother. day." Yours, • AN 4DLD Ltsr.n. t ' Senates Wilson.