IN
GOB, BENTON'S
GRE-ILT SPSECIELI
TO. THE PEOPLE...OF MISSOURI:
DELIVERED AT TUE caprror. OF THE STATE.
IsTinsaso:ct Crrr, May 26,1849.
icolcrW irr- '"
This is ono Of my personal reasons for &Felling
cm ?dr:Calhoun ; Nit:l:have another, which I 'will
new state : In the leer -1844, as it , will e einem
,bered,Mhen mr.firth election.. was co mi ng round,
:there !nits an organization against' me the State,
eupported by . every Calhoun man, and every Calhoun
newspaperon :tha State,• end in the United. States.
There wee 'a coincidence in their. operations which
Showed ; that they worked`by a pattern.' I knew at,
the timelvhete hall came from ; and the soiree bar
since=been authentically revealed to me. There is
aI OW in Aim ;tibial world by which 4 , murder will
°CO , -Ity'virtue of 'that law one of those`•who were
employed to do the work upore - me, and Who was
then'a stranger to 1130; and afterwards repented, re ,
vented the plot to me, and placed in uay hands an
or letter oriel:true:lons, of which this is an ex
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-..4Srith'regand 10;the . courtionf, yeur paper, you
n take , the
wa tone of the Administration *
I think . however,: and would recommend
that you Would confine yourself to attacks upon
Dentonodieveing-that, ho has tillied_timself. with the
Whigs on llieTexas question: Quote 'Jackson's let
teir,oo Texas where he denounces all those an *nitwit
'to,thecountiywho,oppone the treaty.. Apply, it ,to
:Benton. :,Proclaitn that Benton; in attacking Mr.
Tyler TOW friends,-and driving them - from' the
party in aiding' theelection of Mr. Clay: and charge
hint , io doing this with defeatingXr- Polk, and in
sure himself the sue-cent - mien in-1848; and claim that.
full justice be done to.he acts and motives of:John
Tyler by the leaders. .H.arp upon these strings. `:Do
not pOrpose the Delon, w it is Ilk business of the
Democrats- to do this, and arrange it to our perfect
satisfaction: , I quote here from our leading friend
at the sauth.'Buch is:the course Which I recommend
add Which youcan pursue or-ot according to your
'real attachment to the administration.
Look ont.for hay leader of baquotrew as an indi
eator, end regard this letter as of the-raost etriet - and
inviolate confidence of character: l
read this extract , to Mr. Calhoun l in . the Senate
for Mo th :died States in February, .1847—psur days
after his fire-brand resolutions were introduced. lie
said lie did not writeit. • I know he did not.
- Bnirdid he write the papers ofthe - A B plot ngainst
':'-11.r.,Crawford, nor the resolutions of the lest Min
.. semi General Assembly. :Be is no such bungler as
-that. When a - paw is to go into the fire, he prefers
that of.any. cat or dog to his own. Bat he , was See
ef State under Tyler at the time, and had do
: minion over three- hundred newspapers, to:each
of which the same instructions were issued.--
- - They‘Wereinteiaded for their guidance during the
presidential election, and in the state .elections of
. 1844; and. especially for my own that was coming
/ only read the °street which is special to my
, self. Haiti well the instructions were obeyed was
seen in this state, and in otherstates, and in all the
• pressys and politicians which tolloWed.the lead of
"our leading friend at the south. Benton--Clapm .
Whigs--4'exas. liarp upon these strings, and harp
they did, until the strings Were worn ant; and then
theitiarps Were huog_upon the willows. `Now . a new
set °ravings are furnished, and from the same "lead
ingftiend at the south? and the music recommences
bathe old tune Set in - new worits. Benton—Whig--,
Abolitionism—Vi'llinotProvisb—are now the strings
and“,harp away is again the ward ! and harp away
- they will, the old performers-anti some new ones,
until the drooping willows shall again claim the ap
pendage of their tuneless instruments.
Lowe:an apology to Gen. Jackson's memory for
reading a letter in which be is quoted against me. Its
. ' Wasonjest to him and would have been mortifying
to see-hisname quoted against one °lbis best friends
byoneofhis greatest enemies. I never mortified
his feelings by letting him know that I had heani
hew tus name bad been used; but when near hisend
I sent him a kind message by Major Lewis, which
he returned in 'the most affectionate terms, and
which 1 think. it right here to repeat. After giving
an'account of his visit to him„ and how he found him
;;;ajar Lewis continues
“He enquired after a great many Oldfriends and
among them yourself, desiring to know when I had
seen you last and how you were. I told him I tied
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seen yon,but I few days before licit Washington and
that.you were well, and at the same time delivered
folim yoiir, message. He was evidently much ef
fected when 1 bad repeated what you had desired
me to say to him. Atter a short pause he Said—
thank the Colonel for his kind recolle ction' of me
in =veld age and sore afflictions; it would giro me
great pteasur , to See him once more but t/mt /fear is
impossible as mY life is rapidly drawing to a clase. l,
Itere,liengain paused, rind then added: The Colon
,. ilwai not only an alder and distinguithid statesman
but a Merman sincere patriot, and his eountryis
under great obligation to him. I feel grateful for
- the able and efficient support he gave me during the
whole of :my;clatinistration j and /beg you when next
you see himto rementherrne to him and thank him in
my name for kis kind and affectionate message.”—
„
These, I believe ;my dear BIT, are hisprecise words;
for, as they were spoken with much feeling and in a
deep , and solemn tone of voice, they made an
presaton on my mind that can never be, effaced?'
.
This is my second personal reason for dwelling on
Mr.: Calhoun. It iie-to repel! his attacks on me.-
- Public duty, in the Senate of the United States,
Would have required me to reply to his resolutions,
- - if he had ever called them up there. Their pee
sage Omagh the Missouri Legislature makes it still
more my duty to do so. These resolutions are his!
. copied from his, with such exactitude of ideas, that
some transposition of clauses, and some variation of
phrase, can deceive no one.. booty betrays a sign
to disguise, where disguise is impossible. I have
read the,original ; here is the copy
"RESOLS'TICNO ON TIM SOILIECT OF SLAYTAT.
Resolved,' -By the General Assembly of the Slate
of Missouri, That the Federal Constitution was the
result of compromkse between the conflicting inter
eats of the States which formed it, and in no part of
- that instrument is to he • found any delegation ..of
-
power. to Congresn to lemsl ate on the subject of
slavery, excepting some special provisions, having
-- ... in View the prospective abolition of the African
alive trade made for the securing the recovery of
fugitive slaves; any attempt, therefore, on the part
of.Coegress, - to legislate on:the subject, so as to ef.
feet the institution of slavery in the States, in the
. - District of Columbia, or in the territories , is, to say
the least a violation of, the principles upon which
institution was founded. .
2. That the territories acquired by the blood and
treasure of thewhole , nation, ought to be governed
for the " common.benefit of the people of all the
States, nnd any orgaorzation of the territorial govern
manta excluding the citizens of any part of the Un
ion from another, and tending ultimately to distill
- 3. That this General Assembly regard the conduct
ot the northern states, on the subject of slivery, us
. releasing the slave holding states from all further
adherence to the basis of compromise fixed on by
the act of Congress, March'-1820 --even if such act
• ever did impose any obligation on the'slave holding
States, and authorises them to insist upon their
rights under the constitution ; but for the sake nf
- harmony and for the preservation:of our federal Ira.
• ion, they.will still-sanction the application of the
principles of the Missouri Compromise to the re-.
cent territorial acquisitions, ir by such succession
future aggressions upon the equal rights of the
_States may be arrested, and the spirit of anti-slave.
ry fanatism be extinguished.
4. The right to prohibit slavery In any territory,
• belongs exclusively to the people thereof, and can
• -. only be exercised by them in forming their constitu
tion for a State governinent, or in their sovereign
capacity as an independent State.
S. That in the event or the passage of any act of
Congress conflicting with the principles herein
= expresaed, Missouri will be found in hearty co.oper
ation with the slave.holding states, in such mean
- • - v .- oral as may be deemed necesary for our mutual
protection against the encroachment of northern
fanaticism..
6. That our Seriaters in Congress be instructed,
. and our representatives by requested to act in con
- fora:lily to the foregoing resolutiens.”
• The Calhoun resolutions''were entitled, ;'The
-rights of Congress over , the territories of the Union
_ -
in relation to slavery,'' and were introduced into
• the Senate 'February, Those of the
Mie
souri Legislature Were entitled, ußesolutioni in
relation to:Slaery," and were introduced Decem
, lier,•l.B4B—the;object of both the same, to deny
the right of Congress to prevent, or prohibit slat
very tri terrtori es, and to denounce a dissolution of
. thee-Union i if it did. One was , parent to the other,
and I presume noman will deny it. And here I
. .
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make the exception which truth and • C
quires
front Me. ve
idea that the mass of
the , members who v oted forthe
resolutions in, the .
Getieral':Assembly hail 'any idea that th ey.'
_were- C boon s, or considered: the dissolution of . '
the Union, , which they : announced, as a:thing in:
actual contemplatiOn. But they - are not the less;
„
- -inturions_on that accriunt. They are the act of
thOgiteraVAssernbly, and stand for the act Of the
State, and hind it the cat *T.-Calhoun, and:
encourage - him more than any event that has tat'
- *en place.r. - But they are not the sense of , the State
' ifelf.theithine r .of • all the ,members who voted ' '
-- • The :tree'sense r'of 'the - State and r,
doubt not ;. of 'a large majoiitrof the mem bers; of
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the last Legiilatnre, was faithfully expressekin
the resoives andtriattnctions of the previous Leg : ,
I
islature, which had received and obeyed,not only.
in the letter, but in the spirit,, -These are they .:Xf.:l
- "Joint Resolution in relation to the liriSOUTI,eOIIII i
"Resolatl,Thnt the pe ace, pe rmariencfand welfare bf .
our national Union, depend upon it strict adherence to
the letter and spirit of the eth section of the act_of Con
gress of the United States, entitled, 'An act to author
ize the people of the Missouri Territory to form rt_Con
stitntion and State Government, - for the admission of
such State into the Union on an equal footing with the
original States, and to prohibit slavery in certain Territo
r in,' approved March ath,18:10.
" Resolved, That our Seniators in the Congress. of the
United States are hereby instructed and our Representa
tives requested to vote accordance with the provisions
and spirit of the said eighth section of the said act, in all
the . questions which may conic before them in relatiOn to
the organization of newTerritbries, or States'. out of the
Territory now belonging tcithe United 'States, or which
may hereafter liencquired, either by purchase, by treaty,,
-or by conquest."-,.. . , .-•
-The resolves passed the General Assembly of
Missouri,on the .15th day of - February; 1847 j—ust,
(Our days before _Colhoun brought before the Sen
ate of the United States his fire-brand resolutions;,
which I denounced upon the spob--which have
_been adopted by the Missouri Legislature at t
s the;
, lasession, and from I now appeal. to -the
State,-the whole State - . Ho* different-4ow or
reconcileably hostile to each- other—the, two sets.
of resolutions! one makes the:peace, permanency
and welfare of our national. Unton - tlependent up
`oil strictpdherence to the ankh add terms Of the
'Missouri Compromise, in 'its application to new
t rri ory,--that mto . say, upon the constitutional
.
right,tind the equitable exercise of that tight, to
legislate - upon slavery in the new Territory, and
to admit it in part, and prevent it in part; the
other makes the dissolution of the-Union depend
ent upon the same platform of fait and principle
denying the right of
. Congreis to.petinit, or pro
hibitislavery it a territOry--asserting its prohibl•
tion to 'be a virdation of the Constitution of the
United States—an insult to: the sovereigtify of the
States -and tending to -the dissolution- of the
Union. Sad contradiction this '
' when the same re
medy is both to cure and to kill! and although
the political-doctors may prescribe both, yet sure
ly, the political patient who has taken -one, 'has a
right to talk a little with the doctors before .he
stvallows the other. - - - •
Yes, citizens! Congress has the power to legis , •
late upon Slavery in Territoriese, and to admit, or
prohibit, its existence, intact, to compromise it.
She has the constitutional power, but can never
hereafter exercise it. The new dogma of no pow
er in Congress to legislate - --on the subject, has
killed all compromise. Those Wh o -deny the pow
er Cannot vote for it : it would he a - Breach of
their oath. Those who want- no slavery in The
new ; Territories, will not vote .for compromise;
and thus extremes meet—combine against the
middle—and defeat all compromise. The TeSOltl,
tions of Mr. Calhbun hive -done all this, and to
talk about compromise now, is to. propose to call
Metliusalem from his' tomb. The effect, if not
.
the design of - his near dogma, was to kill compro
rnise—and dead it is. The constitution *ill not
permit him andltis followers to vote:for anymore
promise line. .Opposition to the extension of sla
very Will not permit rick - them men to do it; and
thus there is no _chance for any line. Principle
cannot be compromised 'The Missouri Compro
mise was not of a principle, but - of interests after
the principle was established. The first question
put by Mr. Monroe to his Cabinet, was as to the
constitutional power of Qmgiessover illiat subject.
That being established in the affirmative, the ap
plication of- principle Was matter of ditail and of
expediency.
I have shown that Mr. Calhoun supported the
abolition of slavery in the territory of Louisiana;
I have now to show that he did the same thing in
a State—in the State of Tesaa. The ease lxs*
this: In the session of 1844"45 two resolutions
were adopted for the admission of the State 01 .
Texas—one, single and absolute, with the Mis
souri compromise in it : the other authorising;ne
gotiationy,with Texas-for her admission on an equal
footing with the original States, The Senator from
South Carolina was then Secretary of State, and
virtual President of the United States; and in that
capacity he seized upon the obsolute resolution,
selected it, and applied it to the State of Texas,
and thus-ran the Missouricomproruise line thrqugh
that State, thereby abolishing slavery in a State—
in a part of a State—making one part of the same
State free soil, and one pact slave soil, and so it
stands at this day! Before that act of Mr,Cal
boun, the, whole State of Texas was slave soil—
Made so by the laws and constitution of Texas.
The question with our Congress was, haw to admit
her consistently with her rights as a sovereign
State? The. House resolution imposed a restric
tion—an abolition, in fact, of slavery; in all her
territory above 36d. 30n0., and that was a great
deal; for she State extended in one part to 42 de
gives; the Senate's amendment imposed nothing,
but proposed to treat with Texas, and to admit
her upon agreed terms. Mr. Calhoun:seized upon
the House resolution, and adopted it,'and thereby
adopted the Missouri compromise, and imposed
it, not upon a territory, but upon a State. He
abolished slavery in a State! and in this he carri
ed abolitionism further than any Barnburner ever
proposed: for they limit, their abolitionism to ter
ritories. Tbia Mr. Calhoun did, and did as late as
March the 3d, MO.' There is no dispute about
it. Gen. Houston charged bim with it in his cir
cular address, to his constituents at the late ses
sion of Congress. Every body was struck with
the force of the accusation, and looked out anx
iously for Mr. Calhouifs reply. They looked in
vain. He did not reply, and could not. Confes
sion would do no, good, and, denial would make it
worse. The fact was notorious, and of public rec
ord. He could not throw the blame upon Tyler,
for he had often boasted in the Senate that he,
himself had selected that resolution.
I repeat : I do not cite this conduct of Mr. Cal
houn in abolishing slavery in a part of Texas as
authority, to justify abolishing slavery in States,
but to show thathe went further than any .siot-th
ern fanatic"‘Etas ever psotiosed to go; and further,
that up to that date,March 3d, 1845, he had not
, invented his new octrine of no power in Con
gress to legislate upon slavery in territories; mid
still further, to show that, up to the same period,
he had not felt the pricking of that point of honor
—the insult to the slave state, in being excluded
with their property from the soil which their.
common blood and treasure won. Texas was all
won, as well. north as south of 36 degrees - 30 min
utia, by the same blood and treasure—the taxes
of the people and the blood of Coiled. the Alamo.
and Sari Jacinto And yet there were citizens of
the same State excluded, by the act of Mr. Cal.
boon, from removing with their property from one
part of it to another!
And now .I have arrived at a point which claims
particular attention. It will be remembered by
all, that after .the rejection of the Texas treaty
in '44, various propositions were submitted in
Congress for her admission, and that every propo
sition contained Some plan for dividing her into
free and -slave territory. Every body will remem
ber this. Now, Ido not recollect a single instance
in which the constitutionality of such propositions
were. disputed, or a single instance in which it
Was deemed an insult to the slave bolding States
to see slavery excluded from - any part of it.—
These propositions were.particularly numerous in
the session of 1844-5, which ended with two prop
ositions enacted into tw-cialternatiSeresolutions—
one to run the compromise line through the State,
the other to negotiate with her upon the - subject.
Mr. Calhoun selected the foriner---a full proof that
neither himself, nor the majority of the two
Houses of Congress, nor the President of the Uni
ted States, who approved their resolutions, saw
any thing in them either unconstitutional or insult
'lug to the slave States, or tending to disunion: 1
myself made one of these propositions. , It was to
divide -by a parallel of longitude. It proposed to
Texas that she should, surrender to the United
Statea - all. the territory west of the 100th parallel
,:Of longiftide; , which was' to be .frep,soil—that ;on
, the east side to be slave soil. 1 proposed to limit
, slivery. liip - line north and souk and that - upon
negotiation with Texas; and;if any person wishes
tolrociat my' principles-about-the extension of ale
, very west into; New Mciica, they may see it in
, that proposition: •I thought it right then; and 1
do not change myopinions of right to suit- calcu•
lotions or Pirciirristances. - What is more, -I never
heard - of any'body.that tbutight I was wrong then;
and the only difference. between my proposition
and Mr. Calhoun'apct, was; than I was in favor
of limithigslavery by a line drawn north and 'south;
=and-that by negotiation with Hui State to be. of
fected. Mr. Calhoun divided the free and slave
soil on-/14_tate ftseliPy:tilinid4itirti east and,
wed, and accordingly did so divide it; andihsi
wilt evaporate. Thus, a citizen of Missouri can-
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not.gefatit of his own State, on anyone'of its:font
State so stands at this day. The rliffeteece between
us wasp the difference betikein-a longitudinal 'and:
latitudinal line, and between -taking the boUndarjt
of it State, upon negotiaticiti with her for the limn!.
dart' between: free and slave soil, ,„ anti pinning the
Hee - through the State itself. "
lit; is absurd to denito - , Con,gress the power to
legislate as , it pleases on file subject of slavery_in
territories; it= hafi eXercised the power, aid with
the sanction of all authorities,:state and federal,
froth the foundation to the present time, and never
had questioned until Mr. Calhoun put forth
those unfortUriate resolutions, -from which be bad
to back out under his own mortifying contradic
tions. It absurd to claim - it for the territories.
They hive no form of government :but that which
Congress-givei them, and no legislative power but
that Which Congress allows them. Congress gov
erns the. territory as it pleases,' and in a way in
compatible with the constitution, and of , this any
State - that hss been a territory is a complete ex
ample, and our own as much so as any. .
Congress has the power to prohibit, or admit
elavery, and no one else. It is not in the territo
ries; for their governments' are the creatures :of
Congress, and its deputies so far as any legislative
power is coneerned. It is not in the States separ
atelf; and this leads to.brie of the grossest‘delu
sions which haegiterVn . out.of the yolitical
physics' of Mr. Calhoun. He' claims aright-for
the citizens of the slain -Stritia-4 remove to New
Mexico and; California with their slave property.
This'is a profound error:, The property is
the law which creates it; end the law- cannot be
carried art inch beyond the Bolas of-Itie. State .
which enacts it. No citizen of any. State tancar,
ry, ',any property, derived from alawof thist State,
an inch beyond the boundary line'of the State.
which creates it. The instant he -passes that boun;,
ditty, to settle with his property, it becomes sub
ject to another law, if there is one, and is withont
law if there is not. This is the case with all—
with the northern man, with his carporations and
franchises—with the southern man and his slaves.
This is the law of the land, and let any one , try it
that disputes it. We, in Missouri, are well shee
ted to make the experiment conveniently, and in
all its forms. Let any one of. Mr. Calhoun's fol
lowers try it, and he wilt soon see what becomes
of his property, his slave property. Let him re
move to 'owe; be will meet there the Bth section
- of the act of Congress of hlarch Gth, 1820—the
Calhoun proviso; and will in vain invoke State
rights and Missouri statutes: Let him remote to
Illinois- ' he will fi nd there the Jefferson proviso,
in the f orm of the ordinance of 1787. Let him
remove to Kentucky; thelaw of Kentucky takes
bold of his slaves, and converts the chattel interest
of the lMissouri slave into real eetate; for in Ken
tacky, slaves are now made real estate, and tas
ted on the (eating of late!, as they are in' Loinsii
aria. - Let him move into Arkansas; his chattel
*Jove vikll.remain - thattel, but-by-Virtue of Arlana
vas Taw , and subject to its regulation. Finally, let
him remove west,.and settle to the territory ot
breaks, when it shalt be created; end the Calhoun
proviso. will beon . him again, and his property
"sidesy, with his slave proptriy, with Out having , its
character altered, or bidding it by another law;
and twice he will lose it—on two sides of his
State, on contiguous territory—he will lose it tin
der on act of Congress, which became:a law unit
er the advice and opinion of° Mr. Calhoun, in his
high character of cabinet minister, and assisting at
a council armed with the veto power. This is the
case ot the Missouri citizen, and has been ever
since Missouri was a . State; - and no one ever
thought the State sovereignty insulted, or felt
himself bound to dissolve the Union on account
of it.
Not the citizens of the States cannot carry. the
laws of their States with them to Oregon anti Cal•
iternia; and if they could, what a Baba of- slave
law would be there! Fourteen. States, each ear.
tying, a code different, in many respects, from
each other; and all to he exercised by the same
judges, in territories where there is no slave law.
What absurdity! No tech thing can be done.—
The °ell:effect of carrying slaves there would hi
to set them free. It ;could be in vain to invoke
the constitution, 'and say it acknowledges prop ,
erty in slaves. It does so. but that is confined to
States.
And now wrenire at substerice—at a practical
point; Coogress has the constitutional power to
abolish slavery in territories; but she has no slave
territory_ in which to exercise. the power. Wet
have tut territory but the remainder of Louisiana
north and west of Missouri.—that in California,
New Mexico and Oregon,—and that north of Wis.
currant, now Minesota. In Louisiana, north and
west of us. it was abolished by Congress in 1820.
In the territory north of Wisconsin, now Minetio
ta, it was abolished by the Jefferson proviso of
lISI. In Oregon it was abolished by Congress
in 1848, by what you may call the Benton provi
so, jd you please. In New Mexico and Califortda
i 4 was abolished by the Mexican government in
Is2O—confirmed in 1837, and again in 1b44,--
Here are thedecrees, the originals of Wbith I have
read in the authentic hound volumes of the Mexi.
can laws, and which were produced in the Senate
of the United• States by Mr. Dix of Neat York.
Dl ;ICED: OF IS+'9.
Abedielon de in Beclavitua.
F.l President° de los Estado*, 1 11:fts Mejleanos
los habitantes de la republica, sab 1.
tine tieseaodo scrialar en el sot; do 1829, el anni
sersarto do la independencia eon on zeta ile jestiCia
y de beneficienela naeional quo reflusia en beneficie
y cotton de- Bien tan,appreciable; que afi VlOO teas
y mat la tranquilidad publics; quo coololfe al et..
grandeemiento de la republica, y queleintegre a
ova parte despraciado do sue habitardes en lee de
rectum sagrados que les die naturalesta y proteie la
nacion porleyes sabias y justas, costume a to die
questo per el art. 30, de la actneonstititfiVa ; usando
de las fatnitades eztraordinarias qulele entail eon
cedidas; be tenido en dearest's: "
1. Queda abolida la esclavituken la republica.
2. Son por eotieiguiente lilt& los quo Ingo buy
se habian considerado comp Jr lavas.
3. Cuandol3o eirsurastanclas del erasie In permi
tao, sil indemnizara a los proprietaries de errelaqos
en los termieos quo dispusteren las loves. -
Mejico, 18 de Setiembre de 1829, A. D. Jos Maria
de Becanegra.
[Colleeeton do Levee y Decretoikete., en los antis
do 1829 y 1830, peg. 147.]
ABOLITION OF SLAVERY.
" The President of the United Mexican States to
the inhabitants of the Republic
" Desiring to signalize, in the year 1829, the an
niversary of independence by enact of national jus
tice and - beneficence, which may tend, to the benefit
and support of so important a good; which may
strengthen more and more the public tranquility ;
which may cooperate in the aggrandizement of the
Republic ; and which may restore to an qnfortunate
portion of its inhabitants the sacred rights which na
ture gave them, and the nation protected by wise
and just laws, in conformity to the provision of the
30th article of the constitutive act . ; exercising the
extraordinary powers which' are conceded to me, I
do decree : Me•
1. Slavery is abolished in the Republic.
2. Those who until to-day have been considered
slaves, arc consequently free.
3. When the condition of the treasury will permit,
the owners of the slaves wilt be indemnified in the
manner which shall he provided for by law.
Mexico, 15th September, 1829, A. D.
JOSE MARIA DE DOCANEGRA.
"Quetta abolida sin eecepcion alguna la esclavituil
en coda la Republica, April 5, de 1837. [Collection
de .Leyes y Decretos, etc., tome 8, page 201.]
[Translation.] —Slavery is forever abolisliedoviib
out any exception, in the whole republic: April 6,
1837.-[Collection-of Laws and Decrees of the Ge
neral Congress of the United Mexican States, vol. 8,
page 201.]
re Los decries de exclaves tninmnitidos por la pre
senteley per el deciato de 15 do Septiembre de
182 p, reran indernnizados, etc.. [Colleccion de
Leyes yDeeretos s 'etc., tome 0, page 201.]
[Translation:]—The masters of slaves manumit ,
ted by the prevent law or by the decree of the 15th
of SeptemberS;l B29 , shall be irideinified, Brc. [Col..
lection of Laws and Decrees, &c., volume 8, page
204
This is the decree, and this is the act of Congress
g
confirming it, 'abolishing slavery throughout the
Mexican Republic; The constitution of 1844, dims
not abolish slavery; for , that was done before, but
prohibits its future establishment. Thus, there is;
no Slavery now, in Mexico and. California; and eon
frequently eons in any tenitory belonging to the
nited States ; and Consequently, nothing 'piactical
or real, in the whole slavery - question, for the peo-z
pie of the United - Statei to quarrel about; , - ,There is
no, slavery now by,law io any territory; and if etin4
not-get there by.lawi except by , act of Congress, anti
no such act will be passed, or even asked for: The
dogma of, no power in Congress to legillate upon
•
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INN=I
igiaMa
set
slarery in terreenes, kills tiMtspretenition . -NO le- of slavery copied frtruf lice effemon previa° of
gat e atablishittent of slavery - in, Califortiaiand New:The-House: of IldPrOdentaiiveir had passiCahili;
Mesico is then-th be , looked for,. That is waddle. sesaiou ,tify,.46 , 7 l tel;io-establish a territorial govern.
EqUallY certain iiiirill limier be 'eettiliffehed in ;tlither , amen fertegon; sanctieuing their artideasef gni- ,
or them in point of - fact: - : The:people - rifi ; both ter- ernetent.OsthtiMptotidso iristunsi - slinery initii VIP
ritories---the_ nld -- iriliabitannarei onadmomily a. bill was ildilated irt:the Senate:ilea twelve - der oil]
'Saint it ' f - .- - 4. . ,: :.,. :
~,,, ,-:-.-, ~,' _ , -'.' -- , ter Mr. CathonObrotight in hie foe:breed reselutiono,
- or-the nevi . emigrant:4' all- these, from % -Europe,_ :and - in giving rin aecount .of that'defeat tisthe'Pent' '
Asia, exico, Central and South America, and all pie of ,Oregon;in a letter which was then published, j
„M
those trom the non.elavelilding. part of ; the United I said :, , l -,:::... , -'
-States, will beiorinnintonalss against it.: There re .. -ri Your: fundamental act , against that in:gib:lanes]
mains, then, to riverlaalancerill diiiiimanimous Maas", " copied from the ordinand Cof 1787—the work of the I
only, the emigrants frolic; fthe,alasehrildiug :ports of "path in the great &Tor the south, prohibiting sla
'Ail United Stateein itself thesamalleat branch ofvetyin is territory far less northern than yours—will
the emigmtionoind it divided en the question ma _ .not be- obrogated,
.nor -ie that, the intention, of the
ny going for the express .purpose of getting rid of prime mover of the amendment: Upon the reeord,
Slavery—and very. - feet so thr in love with it as to go the Judiciary contralttheof the:Senate is theiauthor
that distance for the , plantlike. of having a law suit of that amendment; but net so the fact. The corn
with his own negro, and with the certaiety of coming mikes: is :only Midwife to It; 'Li dutlioils thesinie
oat second best in the contest: There is then:no mind that generated the 4firebrand'resolutionsS. of
slavery, at this time, either in New Mexico or Calis which Legend you a copy; and the amendment is;its ,
fornia, in law or in fact ;, and will•riever be legitimate derivation. Oregon is not the object.
either, in leis or in fact. What then is all the pre- The most rapid prOPagandist of slavery cannot ex
sent uproar about t. Abstractionl the abstract right , poet tciplant it on the shores or the Pacific, in tho
of doing, what cannot be done I the insult to the latitude of Wisconsin and Lake of the Woods. A
sovereignty of the States, where there is no insult I home agitation, for election and disunion purposes,
all abstraction I' and no reality, eubstance, or prae- -is ell that is Intended by thrusting that lire-brand
tice in it. . ,' • question into your bills and, at the next session,
;The Romans had a dues of disputes which they when it is thrust in, agein, we will ,scourge it ont."
'called de Tana capirina, that is -to sa), about guava .., Abotno agitation for election and disunion pupa-
Weed ; and-as the-goat hoe no wool, the dispute was see, is what 1 told them"the object of thesexesolu
'about nothing. :So it - Is of this dispute ansong'sur 'dons tina.;Calis and Butler were defeated upon tests
-about eicluding Starers , foam New"Metieo and Cali; 'filleted out ati.these - ..resolutiOns ;.ttt, - the election
ferule ;.there is none there to exclude, and the ills. part of the object war agni - Mit all northern moo, and
pate now timing is about nothing - ' i - .tobring forward Mis'Uatheuri himself - as the smith.-
The Missouri resolutions were minded from, thew ern candidate. sYeilingin this object, to get himself
of Calhoun,and Ido OM believe there exceedesiliall nominated , the neitslevign ortbe,reaelutions came.
.edozon members in - " the - two Houses, all told,,•who 'int° play; - and this Gringo .me to the meeting 'of
Were in the secret either of th e origin, or design or
southern rnemberieCongrese,gotnp and conduct
ed by Mr. Calhoun.' :It was a meeting withnlbsed
that proe.eeding. They were•copied front Calhoun;.
and to -seo their design, you use he ,hia. im a -doors--every citizen, riot an acted -member froin a
the m em b ers _ f rom the nf Kentualty, a ford= Senator, and who eimiturned
were aimed at the iinioin--at the' harden and eta- slanholding State, 'wan excluded—even Mr: Bibb,
Ginty of the Union—and at,
ease holding states who and not follo w h i s l ea d out under the special decision of Mr. Calhoun' him
-myself especially. This makes it my duty to self Members came upon- invitation. I was not
apeak of him, and to show his design in bringing for. invited, and would riot' have , gone if I had been.—
Gen. Houton ens not invited, but went without in
ward the - resolutions from which he was eo suddenly
vitation ; and moved the opening of the doors to the
backed out in the Senate and which some bilidozen
public—which was voted down:.. l have heen told 1
members lave succeeded in passing througb i the
t a r that disunion was expresaly discussed; and that
Missouri Legislature % . This carries ,me lathe
would seem to flow, as a regular censequences froth
back, bite will make rapid work; and short work.
the fundamental proposition of thesanglual address,
Ma Calhoun came into public life to lie President
of too. United States. Th e . we i r d sisters, i n t h e drawn np by Mr. Calhoun, and .assimilating its ime
shape of the old man that taught him grommet . , had portarico to the declaration of wrongs which saner
ated the Atrierican colonies from Great Britain, and
whispered in his ear—rhow shalt be p r esident;
on teat oracelat revelation he commenced his pol t. giving a higher Importance to the present crisis, as
iee
career, and has toiled at its toinere.sar forty going beyond the former, and involving not merely
rights, but lire and property--every thing--the safe..
years —es first, openly, and it may be,fairly, by put •
ty of the - South and all. The paragraph which coo
ling himself at the bead of all the movements width
tented this declaration was this
promised advancement in the public faior. In 1816
rare, whose .. .names are herenntonneexed; address
protection of domestic industry was popular :'lle
you in discharge of wilat we believe to be asolemn
pet himself at the head of the protective policy, and
duty, on the most important subjeat ever presented
went for the minimum provition—the cotton mini
for - your condition, not excepting the declaration
mum—which as the father of all the rest, andithe
only real injury to the:cotton growers' by suppiesing which serrated you and the other united eolonles
for thirtyyears that dam or cotton goods vthich was ont the parent country, that invoked your ; indryert_i
dente} but this your-all, not excepting,. eiertieyr.
of mod universal use, and of this largest': cotton
sofety. We allude to the conflict between the two
consuraptioni—the cordnroyssand velvets, so univer
sally worn Wore 1816—eo totally suppressed during great sections or th e Thither growing mit or a direr
the Celhotin minimum of that year—and just begin- once of feeling and opinion in reference to the - rola=
lag to appear spin etiders h e tar iff e e me. A t t h e don existing between the two races, th e European
same rim , ono- a nat i on al han k_ t h e g ate ha u t e , and African, which inhabit • : the southern nectioni
having failed, and brought odium on the state insti- and the acts of aggression and encroachment .to
-
tutione—erasmuch called for ; Mr. Calhoun put him • which it has !ed.', . , i.,
self at the head of theca% and earried.threugh the Prom tkis strong language ' exhalting - the crisii
.t ,
above that o f t he, revolution,' it would naturally tie
bank charter. About, the same time • internal i re ...i
provement, by the federal government,bename pap- supposed that the remedy was to be the same
_t arm
sear; he seized upon the subject ; and, In 1813, us so it was- anderstend by many, and the words struck
Secretary of wars m ade so wi.the „ tere p o rt I n f oe , out. The same conclusion would seem naturally to
result from a concluding part of the , address, in
of itgeneral system of roads and tends - rierva - ding
all parts o r the v o w,. I n Ist e4o te -m om % which neanimity was invent!, consequences disre. -
'controversy raged, and the whole oortiastood up us glided , the Union treated as hypo th etically worse,
one man f„ eurtag the area of-store . soil ;h e than useless, called a sword to assault, and not cr,
Meld; to defend, acid, in which it wall left to the
took the free soil current—and Magid Idose- soil
from all the territories of the United Statrashy join. north to count its value. This is the paragraph
which contained these expressions : =
ing in the abolition of slavery Id Upper Louisiana,
giving Texas to the King. of Spain, and tieing the "As the aXsailed , you would stand justified by . all
rest of Louisiana to the Indians. At tbe tame time tower humane end divine, in repelling a blow so
Jackson became the favorite fur the recension ke dangerous, ,without looking to consequences and , re
withdrew, and postponed, his own pottesicions to sort to an means necessary for that purpose.. Your
the Presidency, because the a s eflactrion, .tthailants, and n o -you, would be responsible for'
went upon . his tieket, and was elected his s Yresi- tonseqUences. (it would be for them, and not for'
dent with hiot.. got th i s =s o u , en d o f hi s popu l ar feu, to eownt the value of the Union. . Without your
movements for the Presidency. Ile expected to Peke, it would be- worse than. "Metes ,ts...a sward to
succeed Jackson, and that be would eddy have to assault, and not a shield to , defend you.”) _
wait and serve eight years. That was only oneyear , ' .' lvo BC cormetre.o.l
longer this Jacob bad to wait end eerie 'Labatt for '
Bathed. But, oh:1 the: diaappetiatments to len and
polities 1 Like beetle, whim he'woliens. he found
hex Wes Leah! - a little magician of the sixth had got
into the bed, slid was to be Jacktion'a secteseor 1.... a
Unlike Jacob, . he 'could not wait 'and serve another
lung eight year', and determined to clutehthe prize
at once. Then earne nulification No.• 1, tpretexted
by that tariff ofethieb he himself vms the , mate an
ther,) sled that scheme for dissolving the tfolon which
Jackson's proclamation pat down. The tariff failed
to hear him through; a more inflammable anbject
was wanted—and was found in Geriseciirive qui-Akre
of iflitstre. Theo came that losg suce4noti isi'atto.•
lathe pia,* for blowing up slavery in tho-Uoiteif,
States,compared to which en the popish plots inEng
land for blowing up the protestaot religion—the gun
powder, ryeshoute, meal tub, and other plots so for
midable in their day—were tame and impotent in.
nations. First there was the Leedom Abolition
plot of Ashbel Smith, John Andrews and Lord Ab
criteria, for lighting the train otabolition in Texas,
and thence running it into the United States, where
it was to explode slid blow all up ! and te prevent '
which it became a case ofliself defence," admitting'
of no delay, to jerk Texas, instanter, by treaty,
out or their hancts, hereto the plot Wee rillesollee.
thing likejerkitig the fuse out of the loaded bomb be
fore It could esplode. The treaty did not stand the
jerk and it was broke; and the plot evaporated with
out harm. Darcireen WAS paid a thousand dollars'
by the Tyler Adrainistration,entorthoiUnomi States
treasury, rot bringiag that plot from London but i
was money lost. Then eillne the World's C onvert ` nation plot, also located in London, far the aboli
tion of slavery throughout the world—the U. S. in
clusively, bat it Conte up feebly, and had no run.
Then Caine the incendiary tranaportation mail mat
ter plot ; and that, for a while threatened to break
up the transportation of the Mails, and to leave
the two halves of the Union in it state of non
intercourse It ripened into 'a bill for search
ing the mails—and then expired. Then came
the incendiary petitions plot : that occupied the
time of Congress for several years, and considerably
alarmed the country, until everybody Saw that it was
a game, performed by two setts of players, playing ins
to each others hands, for their own benefit at home,
and getting up and agitation of which the public
peace and the public business, was the victim. It
then died out. Thus all the abolition plots--pretexts
for a second nullification—failed. They wore, what
the New York law reform statute abolishing law
latin, interprets the writ of et treat to be, no go!
In the mean Iliac there,was an episode which will
require a full history some slay, but which can only
be hinted at now, to complete the picture: It hap
pened that after Mr. Van Burro's election, Mr. Cal
houn became a sort of a supporter of his administra
tion; and, upon the principle that ens good turn de
serves another, expected tiis support for the succors.
sion. That involved a 'scheme for northern votes:'
There was a slave subject which presented it—the
liberation of American slaves by the British author
ities in the Bahama Islands who had revoked against
their owners, committed murder and piracy, and
carried their master's vessels ' into British ports.
Whenthese enormities occurred, Mri Calhoun took
up the cause of the South • with justice and vette.
mence, and I stood by him. When he took it into
his head to become Van Buren's successor, he aban
doned the South, and left me and a few others alone,
by the aide or the_ ill.fated owner of the Comet,
Encomium, Creole, Enterprize, and others. In his
new born zeal then to pleture the North he . shot a
head--he Must always be diced—beating Wood
bury, Buchanan and,other northern_ 'Senators in his
votes and speeches on the northern side of the clues=
ties: Soma view of this may be seen in my speech
on the Ashburton treaty: but the subject requires
a. separate,examinationaand shall receive it; bur not
now. It will be a curious episode, and will place
Mr. Calhoun a second time where he-wae in 1819
120—on the northern side of the slavery question
but only for a brief space. Mr. Van Buren prefer
red to try to be -his own successot; and the Texas
treaty having gone over without making ler anther
President, and the Mexican war promising a large
crop of popular presidential candulateet a new Po
litical test became necessary; and, the tariff ,ques.
thin being eettled by the act of 1846; a recourse to
slavery and abolition became indispensable. Hence
the firebrand resolutions of 1847-afire brand which
has had tho singular fate of dying but where it was
put, and or raising anonflagration a thousand miles
off.
The design of then resolutions' is now the qu
tion; and that design is apparent in the character d
words of the resolutions t hemselves - in the . prey,. us
ensue of n'', ' Mr. CalhouWhich I have just fetidly
sketched—and in his subsequent
' conduct, wllch is ,
yet to be eablbited.
. .
, ,
The resolutions then point directly'to thesubver-
Ilion of the-Union. Is is their language. :And for
what cause, For a cause so absurd, and eitibunded,
,ao . contradicted by his
. own conduct,,end b y
whole account' of the,goverament from..its founda
tion to the present day, that, being eoetrethed With
his own conduct, he has never. dared Aro ask ,, a vote,
, . , i
upon hisresolutions.
I have no new opinions to exPrtht fab° o u p t.t i ll 4 r t.:
sign of those resolutions. I gave , thy' in
them at the time they were introditcerl,andi rszian y
ways, and among the rest in a)etter to the petiole:
of Oregon, and another to , the peciiid of Howard! .
county. :The people-of,Oregornhad, fir-reed -..n,'Pre - -
visioual government, and insetted in theirartielersof
government, a hindamentd ant, tor , the prohibition
(Translcition.]
LAW OF 1837
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61-,,,wz , 1 , ,,,
From t&e Cinritrnati Cainmertial, June 11
norrtble t
Mr. Vanaken Vander Informed no in market, yes
terday, that, tram a source which he considered re
liable; ;ite learned a circutrirlatice which cannot but
*end a chill of horror to , the very heart. He does
Set doubt Hier/tory ; yet- we . (although we have
heard or the like beton) cannel give it full credit.
The facts are briefly these: The body of* victim
of cholera was placed in the vault of one of our
graveyards,
where ii.remained about 24 been, %rhea
in 'the preset:ice of friends and relatives, it was taken
out' far burial. floras's& the relatires;desirieg . to
look once mere upon the form of the, deteased, the
carol was opened by the tested - , and;awful to be
hold ! the features of the corpse were loin& to , be
hideously distorted, Ms shroud tern, and his fingers,
which were between his teeth, bitten and. gnawed to
the very bone !'-We say that we doubt this; but the
respectability of the source freer which' we derive riot
information is at least stufficient to give us fearful
reason to entertain a horrible yet doubtful suspicion,
We bare often beard of the - like-flare seen,disin
!erred bodies turned almost spite their aces- in the
cons—but we have never before had anything of
the kind come to us in a shape so apparently unquee
tionatile. It seems hiwilly probable, yet it is possi
ble, that the very possibility fills one with , a shudder
of honer, and should deter all front too hasty lariats.
We shall make inquiry into this matter, and endea
vor to get at the truth of it.
, Fire VWorke I Fire 'Work :W.
400,000 To,rpo does -
-
JOO boxes. Fire'Cractati;
10 eases, containing 6000 paciFsCracicen' •
:10 boxes Jackson evaakerai
eh) dos. 1,2, 3,.4 or-Rockets;
2 CLlSel.l. , Olit 11 100 Chinese Rostets ;
70 gross . Piu - Wheels;
60 . Serpents' .
4 " • Roman dandles, 4 balls;
10 - a " it "
10 ". FlOSver
" Obassra;
10 " 3 and 4 inch Triangles;' ; ,
Grass-hoppersi
Is "- Port rites.;
Woe Liable;
40 " BarPtle,oa 1; 2 unit 3.
Just teed 001 for sale by JOSHUA RHODES,
N 0.6 Wood insect..
•
MrMotor G --
oiteral:The Commissinuedofricers
of the ist rimule 1511 i Divit,lon Penes. Venturers will
meet at the New Cott thine, in the Cny intsburgh,
on the Ist Slomlny - nld day) of. July, at 11We trek, for the
pummel of cleating one 'Major General.
• ,ionzr LI. Illeratummts,
Britradentspector.
JolB.d&rc
HE subscriber-will take it ets t great kindness;Ter
Tany information which will gee her intelligence or,
her husband, PATRICKVALLA4III3II. Last heard of
him—he was in Cincinnati.-. Wm% in -the West and
South-west will do an act of °Witty by giving, this one
notice. - - Buircer•Geia.A•GßEß ,
• • Now orPittsburgh.
Any information giyoutothi-Rey. O , IIIY, Catholic
Priest,) will be gratefully oftembered. , ma(
S. 0.
IFITIVItt Hl:lnfra TiIISATRE. -
Losee and Manager --•C. S. PORTER.
Atting - and Stoge Aranctitt W. H. CRISP.
pm= OP annttnatort
Crept; Circle and Pargtette•..
Family Citclo or Seofttd Tier
fEr Cam night tithe . season, , Mr. , W. H. CRISP in.
MONIAV EVENING; JUNE 'tern;
To commence *tit ROBERT DIACAIRE.—Robert MP
calm, under de assumed name of Redmoniklitir..W.
H. c ris Kusplayed by him many . 'hundred tughts in
E uroß e un dAmerica ; Jacques Strop, Mr. Brown.
Dance, by Pinter Wood.- : ..- • ,_ . , ...
To be 'folloVed by Mr , Criip's popular Farce Of USED
t
up,_...si r Chas..: Coldstream, Mt Vi','• R. CrlspOron;
b ra e ° , ..- Roys Mteah' Mary Wheatiy, Mies Criti Se Dance .-
omer
To de - With the Scat Act of the OCEAN CHILD.—
Han • dint iirr; Prior Mary, Mrs. rrior.
tEy. ours open at half past 7i Curtain will:rise ni4.-`
' J. FL LAWMAN'S
SHIRT MANUFACTORY),
; veil semen's Furuishin mporium
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
#O. OS FOURTH STREET, APOLLO BC/LW - N0.5, -
tirrWrrit woob Arm stattlirr aurrrre,
errraunnon, re. '
fa' Always On hand, ;a large ruesortmen tof Shirts
Bosoms, Collars, Cravats, Gloves, Hosiery, Saspendora
'Clutter - Shine, Drawers, &0., &it. mural'
SCRIP! SCRIP t
reABBIAGEB, BAROUCHES, BUGGIES, &c., AT
kj PUBLIC AUCTION, OR - TUESDAY the 3d day of
JULY, at o'clock, a.m.. at the Carriege ' filanufaetoryof
the subscriber, iu Diainond alley, between Weekend
Smithfield streets, Pittsburgh.. -
Splendid Chance for a Bargtun, and to rids in pour own
•
Carriage.
In order tp olose up my *ringsides . , I will sell at the
time:mid place above stated, all sty finished stock *tile
which are done up lathe latest styles and the
best material. It cOnsista in part as follows:
it Fancy top. Buggies t
- 6. Common Buggies, without tops;
2 Handsome Barouches, suitable fort or 2 horses,
Splendid Dickey-scat Carriage;
1 do Family Carriage, wits 3 seats,
1 Standing top Sarouche, riple positive.
-Trams-4 months, with -approved-:endorsed paper, or
Pittsburgh, Allegheny. City or County Herm, in equal,
portions. • All accounts due by me, wl.l be taken inlay- ,
ment. E.hl. BIGLOW, riOt.boOlll, _
jelB:id•lOHN D4tAltict'r t _
EMON SYRUP —,so boxeiliiioangrapolerby
ie9 J BONNET;
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BARria, EDITOR AND, VROPIIIATOR,
FifTSßUAdi)le-CA
DIONPAT 'IOII.IIING , 'UNkg 6 IB, 184044;
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Seotitiyl : ed torials and nib eraitielett intended
, • •
For this day'spape r
shave been unavoidably do
WI" The news published under the Telegraphic
head - 1n tide morning's paper, will be foirclwausu
.,..
ally interesting, , :
• .
lair Col. Benton's great npeecb,.. czporking . the
4 f Goat's Wonl humbug,” CaltiorOC'tkrillification,&c.
Rill be concluded in tri.moirorirn Poit:
—•• • .
Exptosion..of the Embassy.
The Louisville Ceurier• of Monday, contains the
following particulars respecting the dreadful, acci
.
dent on board the Steamer Embassy ,
Dasexista. Srciareoix EXPLO3IOIS--LINTS tom
last Saturday morning, the steamer.Embtoray, Capt.
Bennett,.. collapae.d- both the flues. of her sitar
board bbilors,joet below Green Itiveri.ut three
mile
bar, by which.uccident a number of the crew and.
rioveral•deckpaasengers were killed and blown over
board, and twenty-eight Whore , sivelely.. scalded.
We did not learn the number killed and lost. They
-were chiefly - deck passenger°, however, and no one
was hurt in the cabin. They bad been - aonndiog,
and the boat was going , slowly alone through the
shoal places at the bar when the .flues collapsed.
She was very much shattered. The cook was blown
overboard and lost, and the' second engineer, who
was on watch, was Very . badly' scalded; A good
many of the wounded- are in critical conditions,
with but alight 'hopes of their recoVery.
The steamer Chancellor came . up shortlYafter, -
and took the Embaisy in tow - and towed her down to
Evansville, where every possible care and attention
was bestowed upon the sufferers. , ,
The Embassy was from Pittsburgh, bound_ for St.
Louis, and had. a large number of passengers on
board. She passed here last,Pridity.
A private telegraphic desiiintekin 'the Cincinnati
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EXPLOSION OP INX EILOAPPV=.-FURTItelt Pantie
otans.—By a private telegraphic . despatch from
Louisville; received at half past two o'clock yester
day, we have obtained a list of the killed and
wounded by the esplosiop of the steamer 'Embassy'
above Evansville, Ind.
The following is the list:
Jeremiah Miller, Of Wheeling Va. ,
Two firemen, Irishmen, names not known.
Mr. Watts, wife and two children of Baiabrook.
N.J. . .
Mr. Willer, a German emigrant.
John Myers, engineer, of Steubenville, O.
Mrs. bley and four children, of Tuscarawascoun
ty, O.
L. Merton, a lady, from England.
Thomas Brogan, fireman—family in Cincinnati.
Catherine Folly, of Ireland. '.
wormer..
50 cents
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Twelve persons, scalded, but• likely to recover,
len at Evanstille,—no Cincineatians among them.
'Wholesale Sednetton,..---Lynea Law.
A correspondent from Hatrisburgh,Penneilvattia,
June 8, of the Now York Herald, tolls a horrible
story, in effect as Collets's:
Of three sitters in ono family at that place, two
have been positively seduced (one having become a
mother, another being enciente) and a third is rumor
ed to have shared like fate, all being the unsuspect
ing victims, it is alleged, of one man, Jonathan Gib
bons Mills, a surgeon dentist, from Lancaster city.
While addressing the eldest sister, he had been for
bidden the house by the father; on account of anoth
er alleged offence of the kind which he compromised
with a poor girl; but be afterwards covertly gut the
artless sisters to meet him separately at his office,
and promising marriage to each, they so relied upon.
his.attachtnent that neither made a confident of 041
othet. , * Mills is a widower, but ho is suspected/oft
having made way with his wife by unfair meats: -
He. wag arrested and taken before Squire Snyder,
on aivarrant Sot fornication and bastardy. „Not be
able to procure bail, be offered to marry the mo
ther of the child ; but the rain of the nest youngest
daughter being now Inade known, the 'popular feel
ing savored strongly of the a pplication of Jodge
Lynch's code to the culprit, white the father, almost
distracted with sorrow, loadelibis musket, intending
to have summary vengeance on the despoiler of his
peace and of his family. 'Ve villain, to save him
self from being lynEtiod,triade a - speedy retreat to
jail, where he is now awaiting the various actions,
which ivill result in some seven to ten years in the
Nenitentiary. •
Deurana Cot:arr.—Thu Dornocracy of Dauphin
County met in Convention at Harrisborgh, on the
12th inst., and nominated the following ticket :
prothonotary—William D. Boas, Harrisburg.
Assam/Ay—Section Sall.ade, Washington; /Michael
DPFlarron, Lower Swataft. -
Treasurrr—Peter Hummel i Deffy. .
CammiasiosLer.—Jicols M. Awl, Harrisburg.
Director orthe Foci—David Cassell, South Han-
OTCIr.
Corourr-,--Gco.-,Shoomaker, Harrisburg.
Auditor-1124c Novinger, Halifax.
, 'New Publications.
" GILAINgii; or tkie Chevalier of Maisori Rouge
An Historical , Romance gf the French Revoln
Suehis the title of the last work of the relebra
ted Fyinch Novelist Alexander Dumas. It is a
thrilling romance of the ußeign . of Terror," andis
wrAten in the best style of its gifted author. For
sole at Miner's, on Smithfield street. '
GRACE' Dunt.rT; or Arnold. at Saratoga. By
Charles J. Peterson."
This is an historical novel of the. American
Revolution, and contains many handsome diners.:
tire engravings. For sale by M. A. Miner, Smith
field street.
Tuz ?Amur. Ton Awl-mons, as contained in
Autobiography of Eureka, a Manuscript Novel,
and discovered by J. E. Tun..."
We presume the author of this novel had "noth• '
ing else to , do,•' when it was written. It is a rath
er good natured attempt to portray in verse, the
peculiarities of certain novelists and poets, for
whom our author seems to have no partieufar love.
It is written somewhat in the style of Byron's
"English Bards and Scottish Reviewers," but
without the sarcasm and irony of that immortal
production. The hit at Edgar A. Poe, however, is
very good. For sale at J. D. Lockwood, 63,
Wood street.
Ma. Hartektt t—You will confer on many of your
subscribers a. favor, by giving the following ticket
publicity in your sterling Democratic paper. Now
is the time for the people of the County to select
good officers. Let none be placed in power but re
liable men—men who will not play "soft;" (an
other name for traitor;) such men as we had in
, g '40," by the title of" Straightoutt.” Let honesty,
integrity of purpose, and no affinity with those that
seek power to betray the Democracy, be the govern
ing action of the trusty sons of freedom, and all
will
yet be safe. • JammorrtAnr.%
Assernbiy---Daniel Weans, City.
".1. fl, .McClintock, Peebles..
- '.L. B.Patterson,
T, Mat t Allegheny.
Prothonotary—Maj. - B lack.
Treartorr--Thernas Blackmorm
Sheriff--J. D. Miller.
. , Conimissioner-74sa. Wallace, Baldwin.
For the Morning Post.
F.isrroa-7Point ma "to call the attention of
our party to the name and qualifications of Jartris
Currstraisass,'Esq., of Mifflin. Township, as a - can
didate for Commissioner. As a man, his heart is in
the.right placer As a Democrat, his sterling worth
is only fully appreciated by those who have watched
his previous official career, and 'conversed with him
on the policy our County should pursue. I can
.safely Say,. no one feels out wants rain can adminis
ter to them better than he. I would therefore urge ,
bielclaims upon the County Convention.most assidu
ously ; and every man, be he Whig or Detnor.rat,
.VOity has the "best interests of our CountiUt
-Vslist %husk with - to Sacrum Wmtn.,.!:
s*r:z. 44, ' • • • .. -, w-latfAltis4ir..lo. , - , 45:8".m "rV., 0, 4 6 ; •
• Carze.--Wo were shown' on Satonitiy, several
capes gotten e . p by the ladies of tho Mercy ttospitet
Fair, for members eftho different fire compinies of
the city,. Among them was one painted by .Wall;
it is for the Neptune. The painting represents old
Neptune, trident In band, seated in his chariot
Arawn through the ocean by-two.steedir. The'Eagle .
cape was painted by a young man namptiTticker,
and is very ably emitted. On the caperisa thinlite
igore, American Eagle, and a conflagration - la-1116'
distance. The Allegberik;, painted by Reinhart, is .
an Indiah standing at the Poiit, viiniing the Alle.•
gtienyltiieri Good Intetkr,. ahm painted.by ftlenbart,
Ma man receiving a child frown burning
Thu Niagara, by .Blytha,.is a reprpientatica of the
The Hope, by Rienbart,ehip-*reeked mari,
ner, making signals ofdistruss to eship in the die
'lance. The capes will be put, up at Lottery, in the --
Fair, and we would adviie the member-4;oe differ
ent fire companies to secure tickets immediately.
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4,IIOLEIId —We would Catl6oll 011 t
friends'againsiplacing any confidenc.e, or giving the
least atteriticato the circulars setting forth the Ar
ta:Ms of the many quack nostrums, now befoie the .
publiC 'fir the shape of Cholera,remedies. 'TIM dls:
ease May be in• this eityciinkerse hardly hou seitie;
and Opeison experiencing the slightest . .iryniptems,ot
it should at.once call in rho aid of a pbysiciatr,:ond , ':!
not with these patent remedieS, until the dis;'“:i.
I ease becornes , firmly seated. , The speculators who-..
Iget op these nostrums should .be pOnishecloopitally.
DEAD.--Ira B. Tibbets, the young man we notice.
last week as having, returned from cinclithati with , ;
the Cholera, died at the Rev. Pi:usual/fiat's Hospital,. - *
yesterday. morning. We understand that be was in' '
a state pf convalescence, and pronounced by the at-
tending physician as out of danger, when a friend of
the deceased, a Homeopathic physician, gained ad
mission to his bed-aide, and Prevailed upon him .to
take his medieine;—he did so, and the result watv—
death. He ' , Jai belied at sunset yesterday evening
by a co mmittee
m fr.infAlrgeroia Lodge, No. 2891In
"depenOent Order of Odd Fellows ; he being a mem
*her, of that Lodge'
,Tice lhlgnmiwt.rrWe uaderetand that this very
able arid efficient Fite Company is about petition.
ing to Council for the privilege of selling their pre*
ent house and lot, and erecting another en the site
of the Scotch Hill Market House, now vacant. The
'Change would place their apparatue inn more con.
'IMI position, and place it in their Power to render
• speedy assistance-in inf.s . a - filre in the Eighth
Waid. We hope their:pi:4llop will be; granted by,
WHICH FLUE.—We 500 by the Commercial Join..
nal, of,Saturday morning, that:a candle whfch.
imprudently been left near the. Rectifying Distillery
or Mr. Patton, on iiberty . sueet, on Thursday night,
act fire to the Distillery, irliith set die to the office,
•talrieli set fire to the bed certaine, which setiAre to
the bed, wiich occasioned the alarm of fire tehteh
occurred that evening. All or tehio le resiectfally:
submitted by Major Keine:
Ann Cluns..—Tbe prettiest article that we have
seen yet, intended for the Fair, was an - Arm Chair,
made by Woodwell. • The cushions on the back and
■eat were embroidered,by - MisiLizaio Scott; ..a are
the mospriquisitely beautifulapecimens of einbroid
ery that we. have ever seen. It would be a luxury
worth .enjoying, just to sit on that, chair.
Tnr. Nrw AIIESUC/118 Neill., by Cliarlei J. Pe
terson, Esq., entitled Grace Dudley, or Arnold at
Saratoga,” has met a ready sale throughent
United States. Being enttfely American in'its Char
acter, it is sought after by those who loVelo roach
everything Connected with the history of their , coun
try. It is for sale by Work Holmes, Third street - ,..
opposite the Post Office.
NotamccE.—The . 4 butcher block oratais,”.haie
commenced their nightly harraogues in theDittmon
market house. The city-authorities: should abate'
this noiranee at once, and- provide Straight jackets-
for come of the crazy blackguards who hold [Mild at
the meetinge:'.
Trestus Fr:mt.—Our compositor nntde ne say,on -
Saturday morning, that there had been thirty deaths ,
from typhus fever,within the past few weeks, in the
neighborhood of Freeport. It should have been ;
that number of cases. The number of deaths bare
been very few.
Pomec.—Seven offenders in the Tombs on Satur
day morning; they were'all charged with dranken
nese. Two Raid the usisal . Ane, and the balance
were sent up
Incactunts..—The , SciniriSiiitithiit'somo of the
artificial hoquets, manufactured by Capt. Pratt, aro
so very natural that it is necessary to water them at
least twice a day to keep tham from withering!
Go T —The members of the Allegheny PIM
Company start for Philadelphia on the 28th. They . :
intend taking they apparatus with thorn.
TrmFam.—The Mercy Hospital Fair commencs‘.
es at the Lafayette Assembly Booms to-day. All the .
Fair •sex of.lhe city will be there Ibis evening.
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VEGETATILS.3.—The market on Saturday was stock
ed with all kinds of vegetables, but they did not ap
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pear to be in much demand:
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Quevarus. Psurr.—Tho_ quadrille party at _the
Nigilint Boerne, on Friday night, passed
pleasantly. . • • •
CAVOE.-A real Indian Canoe, made of traillOVlte
exposed for sale at Davis' Auction Rooms, on Sa•
turday.
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THEATRE.—To-night is the last :night of the soa
eon. The bill is a good one. • • •
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Boot sod Shoe Warehouse. ', ~ ;
jl7 . HUGH - DI. ROBB having'retnoved to •
the spaclone building fonnerly occupied
by Wallace, Lyon & Co., No. 110 Wood timer,.
near Filth, would respectfully invite the attention'
of the public generally to the largo and fine assortment
of GOODS he ifi now offering Chsapjor Cash: ' • "
All v 3 sone wishing a durable and cheap article in the
SHOE itne, are invited to call and examine his stock. -
Also, a iot of fine Lorn end Palm Leaf HATS, and'
a good assortment o( TRUNKS ultra) , on hand. - ••
N. R—He also continues to manufaeture,ns formerly'
Far the •Morning Pas
Fine Shirts:. • E • -
SWARD TODD & CO., Iffarturscraustts or Fr=
Lass 7( star FAIWY Sunrrs, pave- received from their
Factory Bast a large and desirable stock of swims, -
which we propose to offer to dealers at the lowest New'
York prices, on satisfactory terms - • . •
Our stock consists in part of 3CO doz.,lnD qualities.
varying in style—wide.ann narrow plait, Byron and
standing collars, manufactured expressly for City trade;
and intended for this market. ,
By offering dealers our Goods at low 'prices: arid
allowingour Shirts to recommend themselves in style of
manufacture, we hope to be able to pleue, all:our,ausl•
tomer& •
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WaICTOOM, corner of Fifth and Market streets,ap
TIIE undersigned having, n appointed _Agent of the
DELawsint M 17111.111. Severs Insirasecar Costurt, in
the place of lobn Finney, Jr., resigned, respectfully. in
forms the public:and the friends and easterners of Atte
Comoany, that he is prepared to take Altiritte;•lnland
and Fire risks, on liberal terms, at their office, No. 3
Water stree.t. buylol P. A. MADEIRA;Agent.-
" for
iECEIVEI D M. A. MI NER'S.—Grutam's" - Mega!
vine for June: . • .
Godey's
Sartain'a
Lady's lltdon M
Boot agazine, for; T •
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Mardt,.and a Voyage Thither; by Benner Ilelvilid. , -'
My Uncle the Curate, a Novel; by the an • thOr; of the,-
Bachelor of Albany, &c., &o. • • • • -••
Memoirs of a Preacher; by GOOTge LipPaTa. ,
Ferntuidc or the Fallen Angel; a new Novel, by,
Alezandra •- - ... •
Family Failings; a new Novel, by the autiu)e,- of the
flea-pecked Hnsband,&c., &c. • • •
Georgina Habunond ; a Novel; by tho author of-MY
Poor Cousin, &c. . •
Kit Carsonolm Prince of Goldun ors; ar es
t by 6 -
LveriU•
No. I Chambirs' Infonnistini for the - PeoPlo; new
edition, to be completed in 10 numbers: s
mr . smithfiehist.,opposittillroviii's Hotel. jmnyQi
. - Iloy Chintzes.
CASES of 'above Goode, 34;44 and 9-8 wide, fancy
and 'double Pablo, forsale by ' . . -
mar2o:2sit ..• . • amerom ssurn &-CO:
All SACKS DRIED APPLE.S•
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5" .• • readied i for oal;by .•
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3 . ..ARMSTRONG RCROZER.
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