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AUGUST 29, 1810.
MESSAGE OF TIIK PUKSIDKNT.
rncvni crni ! innvs
7b the Senate o the United Slates:
F 1 return to the Senate, in which it o-
Untied, the 11.11 entitled 'an act to nro-
vi.l, for ih. ..eerummenl .n,l ti,f.c.
J l I I Jff.? '.Ml'" J-" -.
COLUMBIA DEMOiiUT.
lion cf claims of American citizen. (or"ei,td wi,hin ,,,B fow We
.noli.tiona rommiue.l bv tl.e fnfh "e enged ir I foreign w.r, uncerUw
-I i
prior to tlie 31 st of July, 1801,' which
was presented to me on the C h i.istnt,
with my objections to its becoming a
law.
In attempting to give the bill the care-
ful examination it tenuires. difficulties,60""5 '"'.wouM hae n borrow mon
presented themselves in the outsct,from;e.v nJ i,icrf8se ,,e Publ,c ,lybt 10 l,a
the remoieneas of the period to which
the clams belonghe complicatednature
of the transaction in which theyorigina
ted, nd the protracted resolutions tojoney, but the eff ft upon IheTre.sury
which they led between France and the
United States. 1 he shot! time inter
veiling belween the passage of the bill
ty Congrpjsond the approaching close
of their session, si well as the pressute
of otl.;r tflicial duties, have not permit
ted me to extend my examination of the
eubject into its minute detail. Zul in
the consideration thai I have bren able
to give to it, I find objections of a grave
character to i , 'revisions.
For the sDlislaclion of the claims pro
vided lor it, is proposed lo appropriate
five millions of dollars. I can perceive
no legal or equitable ground upon which
this large eppropriatiou can rest. A por
tion of the chims have been more than
half a century before the government, in
its Executive or legislative department
and all of them had their origin in e
vents which occurred prior to 180O
Since 1800, they have been from time
to lime before Congress. No greater
necessity or propriety exists for provid
ing for the claims at this lime than has
-existed for near half i century; during
ell which period this questionable meas
ure has never until the present time re
ceivad the f'vorabte consideration of
Congress. It is scarcely probable,if the
claim had been regarded as obligatory
upon the Government, or constituting
an equitable demand upon the Treasury
'that those who were contemporaneous
with the events which gave rise to it,
should not long since have done justice
to the claimants. The Treasury has of
ten ben in a condition toenalle theGov
fn; mml lo do so without inconvenience
if the claims had been considered just,
Mn Jefferson who was fully cognizant
of the early dissention belween theGov
- trnment of the United Stales andFrance
out of which the claims arose, in his an
nual message in 1808 adverted lo the
large surplus then in the Treasury, and
its 'probable acumulalion,' and inquired
whether it should be 'unproductive in
the public vaults,' and yet these claims
though then before Congress were not
' recognized or jisid. Since that time
the public debt of the revolution and of
the war of 1812 has been extinguished,
and at several periods since, the Treasu
ry has been in possession ot large sur
passes over the demands upon it. 'In
1S3G, the surplus amounted to many
millions of dollars,and for want of prop
er objects to wnich to spp'y it,it was di
rected by Congress to be deposited with
' the Stales.
Dnring this extended course of time,
embracing periods eminently favorable
' lor satisfying all just demands upon the
government, the claims embraced in
' this bill met with no favor in Congress,
1 beyond the reports of commit'.ees, in
one or the other branch. These cir
- cumstances alone are calculated to raise
strong doubls in respect to these claims,
and especially, as all information neces
sary to a correct judgment cocerning
them, has been long before the public.
These doubts ere strengthened in my
mind by the examination I have been
enabled to nive to the transaction in
which they originated.
The bill assumes that theUniiedStales
have become liable in those sncioni
transactions to make reparation to the
claimants for injuries committed by
France. Nothing was obtained forrlai
rrtants by negoliticn; and the bill as
assumes thai the government has become
many ways responsible for Ine claims.
?rhe limited time allowed me, before
ymir idjnurmriil, maVril Impossible to
loileiste the fads it (J rgiimenl by
which, in iicceeiliitR Cunfctesses, these
claims have been successfully resisted
T,,e ,re,enl )t,,ioJ lr,iculiry u"
favorable for the samfacttun of claims
,of 10 Ure Imju"' ,n,, 10 "7
le,sl of 'hrm. of ,0 dou, f"'
Their ' no 'u,P,Ui ln ,he ' A
'i''C debt of several million, ha, been
ia to Ha duration, and involving heavy
expenditures; to piosecute which war
Congress has, at iia pitsrnt session, au
thotized fudliei loan; S, thai in cf
ft cl the government, should (his bill Op,
theie claims. L i UU. that by the
piovisions of the bill, p) merit is direc
tod to be made in Lmlseiipt inaiejd of
will be the same. The public lands con
s'itute one ol the sources of public of
revenue, and it the claima be naul n
landscrip', it will, from the daie of the
ieue, to a great extern, cut ofJ from the
Treasury the annuil income from thf
sale of public land;becaue the payment
for the lands sold by the government
may be expected to be md in script
until it is all redeemed. If those chime
be just they ought to be paid in monej
and nothing lets valuable. The bill pio
vides that they shall be paid in land
script , whereby they are in tflVcl to bi
mortgage upon the public lands in the
new Slates; a mortgage, too, held in
part, if not wholly, by non residents ot
the Stales in which the lands lie, who
may secure these lands to the amount of
several millions of acrf s, and then de
mand for them exM'biUnt prices from the
citizens of other Stales who may desire
lo pin chase (htm for settlement, or iht)
may ktep them out of the maiket, and
thus retard the prosperity and growth
of the States in which they are situa'ed
Why this unusual mode of eaiigfting
claimants upon the Tieasuiy has been
resorted to, docs not appear. It is not
consistent with a sound public policyll
it be done in this case it may be done
in all other. It will form a precrdi-nt
for the satisfaction cf all other side and
questionable claims,)nd would uiduubtw
edly be resorted lo by all claim ints,who
after successive trials, vhall fall to have
their claims recognised and paid in mon
ey by Congress.
The bill proposes to pay five million
of dollars, to be aid in land script, and
provides 'that no claim or memoiial
hill be received by the commissionr r.t"
uthorized by the eel, unless accompar.
;d by a release or discharge of the U
S. from all other and fun Iht compnn
salion (hat the claimant miy be entitled
to receive nnder the provisions of tl
act.' These claim are estimated to a
mount to a much Lrger cum than fivi
millions of dollars, an J yet the clainian'
is required to release to thiGovornmen1
all other compensation, and to acccp1
his share of a fund known to be inade
quate. If these claims be well luuuiled, it
would bs unjust to the cliiimauU to re
pudiate any portion of them, anJ tin
lemaining bum could hereafter heretic
ted. The bill pioposes :o p.iy ih'i
claims not ir. the cutrenry known to the
Constitution, end not to thrir full
mount.
'Passed, as this bill Inn been, near tlx
close of the session, and when nun)
measuies of iinpoi Uulanre iititftunlv
demand the attention ot Congrcc, am'
possibly without that full and delioerati
consideration which the large turn it a t
propriates and the existing stale of tlx
treasury and of Jt he cotiutiy demand 1
deem it my duty lo withhold my Hppi'i
val, thai il may hereof er unUerw ih
revision of Cut'gres. I have come it
thin conclusion w,ih regret. l.iler;o
sing my objections to its becoming a
law, 1 am truly n-nuMe ilml il slmnhj
an extreme rase with wool. I make ii
the duly of the Extru ive to withhold!
his approval of any bill pased by Con
gress upon Ihe ground of itsexpendenry
alone. Such a case I consider this to be.
JAMES K. POLK.
Washington, Aug. 8, 181C.
Owin? lo the sickness of die crew of tl.e
fii Me Raiiian, fche was not expected to co
io sea under a month,
'TROTH ITHIICT rA
h.trnuuv, jtiuvsr at), taw.
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOK
CdML C OMMISSIQNRR,
WILLIAM 11. FOSTER, jr.
Kcinovul.
The Office of the 'Coli'mma Prmocrat
tin a been Removed into tlio new Ruck
Building, South aide of Main street, a few
l,ioi9 below Maikel,
V. B. VALUER Esq. is authorized to art an
Aent for the '('om'miiu Dkmiiciut,' and re
ceipt (ill monies for Hubscrijit.iiii and Advertis
ing at las Aqeticira in
I'hilitdrlphia No. 69 I'inr-streit.
A'"w Yurk " I'iO Nassau-it rctt.
Boston " 1 6 Sttilc-slrrtt.
Baltimore S. E. cor. Halt, and Culverl-sts.
Mi-rcftunts-Ncchiinics and Tradesmen may find
it to their advantage In uilvertise in this puver,an
it is the only one jiuhlishe.d tit the Couuty eat
mid hits a greater circittiiHon in the county than
any uthtr paper jmblislud within utilimits.
Democratic Comity Convention,
The Democratic votcm of Columbia County arc
recommended to meet at tlie xtntuil places of hold'
mgtlio General Elections ill their respeclivo Elt'C'
tiou iitricti, on
Suturiliy the 5f ihnj of September
next, between tlie hours of two uml nix o'clock il
the. al'lurnoun,atid fleet two Delegates to repiesent
each townshii in a Democratic County Conven
tion to meet lit the liouxe of John Clayton in
Ulouinshurg, mi the Monday following, hicpteriiber
7tli, 1846, at 12 o'clock, noon, for the tiu rpceo of
nominating a ticket to be supported ut the next
October election.
CHARLES R, DUCKALEW,
Win. J. IKM.ER. V '
M, E. JACKSON,
TWOS. J. IIUI CIllSON,
M. R. IIOWER,
Standing Cum mil tee chosen ut the County
Lonvcntion, oejilcmuer 1840.
F. II, UALDY
GEO. W. HARDER
EN OS MILLER
JOHN YEAOER.
IAlii IN lilLM EYER
STEWART PEA ROE
A. M CAN (J EWER
SAMUEL CILt'ASY
JACOU 1). KLINE,
Standing Committee appointed by aCoun
vent ion held at Jtuoiimbttrg Srpl. lO.lbll
We are authorised lo sny that Pihis J.
Suekhon.se u i I not be a cinditlalo cither (or
no nin.iiion or eileetion lo the office of Slier
If at the ensuing i lrnion.
The Election lo Delegates of the Ditmo
ratic rnunly Convention cornea off one
wprk from to-day. Thitt t lections fclioultl
io well attended in otder It) svenre a full
mil fair expiession of the wishes of tlin peo
ple in regard to lint candidates to lie put in
noniitiation. We Irusi that a spirit of Inr
nony wi'l prevail in all ih steps taken lo
ic'.cci a ticket; and tl.at it will afterward rci.
eive a hearty and general suppoil.
run r.ittuF.
It is nude a matter for fierce accusation, thut
here are a great body of persons in Ibis State, and
i'Ikc where, who arc favorable lolowei rates of duly
ipon importations, than they were in 181-1.
There aro good reasons for advocating mlucrd
rates of duty, upon protect) d arlii li s, that did not
"xist two mid lb ree ycais I'nO j and there is there
lore no grounds for complaint i for a just ilurge
if inconsi iteury against such as may have bone.it
ly changed or modified iheir posilii.n, in n ganl In
iiiotctive duties kiiicc lint tictiml.
1 Tour years have now gone by, under the laic 1
protective duties of the act of IS 12; and this long
period has ullovved the prelected interests lo In .
runic establish d. Manufai toiiis have l:;nl ll,i
nursing of that act for lour years in all, and fin
twoyears since ISM ; uml will have il for months
to come ; as the new act does not go into nprra
liou until text inter. Mow, xuppn u il requires
sixinonlliH for a inai.ul ii ttiy to l e i st,il,i:.,i d.
md gel fully undei way in liisiniss. J'iqht limes
litis u ipiired period, has already rhipsi d, since the
pissni-e of I lie uel ol ImI2; and as protective du
ties arc said to aid infant iininiifactiiri s, nnd to be
so intended ; we think ll.at ihey ought now lobe
"alislied with lower rates of duty, and do soinc
'liiug at nursing theinselven,
2 The representatives of the nianiifartiirers, in
their eoiuiiiiiiiii atiou lo Mr. Wi hlcr, say that thev
ire willing to ha'e their duliet reduced one fourth,
or 2."i pi r i f nt. lower, than the rales of Ihr act ol
IH'12. Are we to c xtt nd lo thcin higher pn.li c-
tiull than tin y thtiiiecb es consider neeessary ?
Are we, in the 1'jcc of 1 1 i - dnlaiatioii, to ru.-li into
i panic and ihoul the O'Counel! ciy of 'repeal.' J
the whole rounli) lo le i ..in nl. ed and lioii.i
kept uusettli d f"T yens, to i all ha k In life mi art,
i Ij ill was maiiifitlly iirpr rlect, ami, n. (lie imiii.i
fdcturrrs now acknowledge, was uuiitvosarily
resliic'.ivc.
3 roreign rnuutiirs have gri ally icilured oi la-
ken ciraitoge.hrr,.!,, iitar.lT, upon our pr,,!,,, tio,.
since 1844. The nJiii'titm m our tariff aie not
half as great bs llio-c made ly England in lo'rs.
France has oho taducctl hcis of Lite yean; ami
Russia has mnde Ln ideas of f :it"f!::n :.:i.rl to the
I'liliulil'MicJ spoil if tlin age, fclii! Inn also cut
town her turilf on foreign prcdiiclious. I'rotec.
'ive Tarilli in this coimtiy h ivo hcrotiifom lieert
lefendeil, in a great menaurn on tint ground that
while other countries imposej heavy duties upon
mr productions it was just and ncccrfunry for us to
lay heavy duties upon theirs. It was saij with
some foieo uml plausibility ; shall we open out
ports to c imitrifh that keep thcim closed lo us 1
Thisstato of ulTairs has ciuscikd, mid wo now
xtsnd in now and improveJ relations toward for
eign countries. fSliitcfinen leginlating for the in
tercuts of the country, will nut close their eyes to
facts of such magnitude ; nor houlil they nnlesx
insensible altogether to the prompting's of iuleicst
and common sense.
4 By the passage of iho Independent Treasury
Law, wo have a guainnty that the cuirency if the
country is not to tie inflated ; that bank capital
and bank circulation me not to be incicascil. If
the same spiiit of legislation is adhered to by the
slilU i, as that which has prompted iho establish
ment of the Sub Treasury, by the General (Joveni-
ment; our currency will bo sound in future
throughout the Union Now, with the curren
cy of the country in such condition, moderate
rales of duty in our tariff laws, uro allowa
ble and proper. The spirit of speculation
which is the natural offspring of a blunted paper
currency, is iho deadliest enemy with which 'do.
mestic industry' can contend ; it II liters for a time,
but it prostrates in the end , it induces heavy pur
chases from abroad, and it I rings the fearful evil ot
nr.BT into the liosom nf the community. A limit
ed, a sound constitutional currency, is the hci-t
safeguard of the country against specuhilion and
its consequences j and it allows of ihe existence of
rates of duty that would be unwise under a differ
ent state of tlx currency.
We say then, that sinco ISM, two additional
years of high duties have elapsed, allowing the
proteetid interests to become established ; that
sine that time, ihe manufacturers have publicly ad
mitted, the feasibility of reducing prolectivu duties
25 per cent that since that timo, fo.cign coun-
tiies hiive very nulicully reduced, or entirely taken
off, their duties upon our pioductions; ond that
since that time, the principle of u limited and
sound currenc), (the bett possible aid to our in
dustrial interests,) has been asserted and establish
ed by Ihe passage of the Independent Treasury Law.
Facts like these are not lobe disregarded; and
their existence justifies a modification of the act
of IHi, and also justifies any one in advocating
lower rales of duty than were proper in 181 1 We
do not by this mean to say, that the act of .84G is
perfect. Wherever that law is wrong we shall join
heartily in asking its revision and amendment.
Wc shall j tin in no absurd cry of, "tlio tariff sis it
is," in order to shield its eriois from Iho pruning
hand of legislation hoieaflcr. But, this cry thut
the country will be ruined, by the modihVaiinn of
ihe act of 181'-', is as ridiculous us it is ful -c,- and
it deserves, as it will receive, the contempt t'f tl
people, and ihe condcmnatii n of experience.
THE RIGHT GROUND.
The following resolution passed at aDem
ocratie. county meeting held in Nonhamp
Ion, entirely rxprtsses our views in tela
tion to the Tan!!' of '42 and '40. If neigh
bor Cook ran make free Ira le out of tins
lie is welcome lo do so.
Resolved, That in levying our important
duties, for revenue, we arc in favor of ex
tending a f ur and even liberal piniccii in to
our nisiiiifjciuicrs, and whenever by unto
a ard legislation, they ate deprived cf that
pioltctioii, we stand ready to aid in icpair
in the error. That although we believe the
tariff ol 1812 lo be unjust a:id oppressive by
reason of it levying duties in nuny cases
unnecessarily high, yet we believe that the
-a 1 1 U' act of 1810 will need alteration and
correction 1 hat besides some minor tie
I l:tit4 fil uliirll u-n it nrr nln. lliu nru!il Irnn
, .
iiintiisiui uur oiiiie, in funic, u utii an in
its branches will not be sufficiently protect
ed. That the same is also Hue in regard
'i0 our anthracite coal, and that the iuteiesi
j lid wishes of Vims) lvania requne at die
liani.'s ol the iirxt Cimgriss, that this evil
shall bo remedied; and the Democracy ol
Northampton duchy plidgu Hit msilves
that their mtljcnie shall be honestly exert
ed to accomplish this (ml.
The panic uf the politicians is sulisiding,
and ihe very guud reason for it is, that iht
country reluscs to bo frighteiittl. Mean
time our neighbor of i lie Danville Democrat
appeals lo have lost Ins temper along with
lua am ii uniiion. Deplorable, vtr)!
tjiljA tamp meeting commences on ncxi
Moi.daj , at Town Hill, lluiiiini'iun town
ship Luzerne county. It is held by the
AU-iliotlisi pursuasion.
We exposed, last week, the attempt it,
inisrepitsenl thu Democracy in legard to
ihe volts in the senate on Mr. Evan's bill it
leruil the duties on reiUroad iron impurted
Our fiitr.ds may expect plenty of sueii
yarn" liom tl.e labaratory of panic. I: shall
however be our endeavor to correct those
ilui r.e in our hnmidum ncioliborhood.
We iilluiled to the lati, lusl week, ihat at
our 'utc courts fur liis rounly, Ihn jurymei
were only kept two days ami a hail. 'This
shows the great dearth of litigation am Drip
our riiizens and is a most encouraging f,lt.i
10 all who wish well til ihe ennmv 'I I... I .1.
u , lwf;R 01 of dl, ,,, )(J, f ,HW( if
0f Inre roll!ipnuec ,,B ,.,.. i
i,e people, than all the bank laws and larif!
law s passed since tllfl foui.datio.l cf tl.e
WOll j.
THE TRUE PRINCIPLE OF LEO
1SLAIION.
The rights of property ami the modes of
tiinsferring lliosn lights, me ihe priocip al
sulijucta treated of by our civil laws. 1 1
a indispensable that the law should define
and declare what are valid rights in lespeei
to dominion over external things; uinl Hint
it should guard those rights from forcible or
fraudulent infraction, both by pieveniaiivr
-iiid remedial enactments. O.herwise, die
peace of society could not he preserved, and
ihe weak would be subjected lo the cppits-
sion and injustice of Ihn powerful. Further,
tl is eminently convenient, at least, that thr
atv should prescribe rules f r the convey
ance of property, or isihei, of rights there
to. Rut there, il is conceivu j, as a general
rule, the law should slop: its prnpei office
is filled; and that when il transcends this
limit; whi n it gives privileges to some per
sons over others anil when il creates artifi
cial beings to own properly lo compete
with individuals in the acquisition of wealth;
K is treading on ground dangerous both to
individual and public welfare
Hut, ihe law hits been made to transcend
this its just limit-' it has given undue advan
tages to some prisons over ntl'fi': it has
granted privileges lo some tinenj iyed by
ollieis-'exemptiom from common liability:'
it has rreated monopolies in most of ihr
pursuits of life, agriculture cxneptnl; it lias
created artificial existences to compete with
natural ones in tlio acquisition of wealth
The injoiious consequences of this policy
are both clear and alarming; and ii becomes
us to open our eyes lo its irue character.
Equality of rights, and not equality ol
condition, constitutes republican libeity;
and whatsoever trenches upon this, is inim
ical lo our system, and is lobe contended a
gainst The conditions of men will be va
ried. No law ean equalize ihe intellects of
a people, any more than it can give lo all
die same physical strength. Uui it can givt
ibcm erjual rights; anil all legislation should
keep this object stra lily in view.
Upon Ihn piiuciple Democracy plants
itself; tqnal rights to all, special fsvors lo
none. Eedeialistn, on the other hand, has
continually sought lo draw off legislaiion
from this principle, mil mrke it conduce to
die interests of a class, or of a few. What
were the alien and sedition laws, but an un
just discrimination between different classes
of inhabitants? Federalism, by iheir enac
ment, prohibited a portion of the inhabitants
of the country, from enjoying political
rights. New England Federalism opposed
the war of 1812 because, although rendered
necessary lo vindicate the rights and honor
of the country, it affected injuriously the in
tcrrsts of a class, (lie commercial capitalists
It slopped iheir gains from commerce, and
they threatened lo cut loose from the union
raiher than submit to have iheir profits cur
tai'ed. This dollar patriotism, however
was made to bend lo Ihe inieresls and lion
or of llie union as a whole, & we came out
of thai war with vindicated righl3 and cstab
lished character. When we come down to
later times, we find federalism, under new
names, irue to its aneienl faith, and advoca
ting measures as unjust and dangerous as
those of'ftumer limes. What was the
I5ankruyl law, bin a sponging act for larg
speculator? It wb a law passed for the di
reel advantage of some thirty thousand im
prudent or fraudulent men, who had earned
its passage al ihe hands of Federalism, by
poliiieal services rendered in the various
panics from 'J2 lo IP 10. It was nnl a law
calculated for ihe unforttiale of all classes in
the country but for a class, and that one the
hail meritorious that could be selected
I'hc slate insolvent laws, were sufficient lor
die tradesman, the farmer and the mechanic
in slinrl, for the people generally: but Fed
eralism must legislate ftu a class, and it se
lected, ihe children of folly, and fraud, ant
riinu! A gain, in regird lo business Incor-
lorations, il is clear that they operate inju
riously upon private rights, and Ihat they
ire created expressly to benefit a few al thr
expense of ihe many. And yet, federalism
ts their fast advocate and friend! They are
in plain English, contrivances bv which
lew persons can make moie money thai
the rest of ihe community: contrivance bj
vliich, under the sanction of law, a mon-
yed arisiociacy may be built tip and per-
peluatrd. A hank is simply an incorpora
tion lo manufacture money; this is its ofiict
nd function. By ii3 operation, the cur
rency ol iho country is made to fluctuate
(instantly, both in volume and value, ant!
we are subjected to the delirium of sprctila-
iion one ytur, and the pains and penalties
I a crash ihe in xt. Ad this natura.ly re
nits, from tin; greeting of a few lo make
money by banking! other species of busi-
icss incorporations, spring into rxisiance,
likewise, from the greediness of a few men
to make more money than iheir neighbors.
Manfacturiug incorporations, have, of late,
became fahicuab.'e 'Tl.e Uw has been
busy where il had nol business,' ant! has
sought lo choke down individual eiiierptizo
by l!ie establishment of monopoly. The
community have been insitluonsly plunder
ed; nnd corporate exactions, by the way,
are none iho less mischievous and unjust
because ihey are indirect and unseen. Rot
furthei, legislative policy in regird lo cor
por.itinns has now assumed a new snd in
binning aspect. Not satisfied wjifi iho
charter advantages which they postess,
ihey have enleidl the field of politics, clam
oimis for additional favors from ihe general
Government. And Fulitralism, loud
mouthed and violent as of old, backs their
ipplic.ation with her whole power. Wo
ire called on for stale laws to cretle corpo
rations, and then for national taws to spe
cially favor them; Here is a double opera,
tion for mischief invited, creation from one
souice, fivor fiom anoihei; a conjunction
of effort in stale and national legislation Is
establish monopoly! Let us for moment
put away prejudice and passion, and inquire
is such a policy in cunformiiy with any
just principle nf legislation? Or rather,
does ii nol flagrantly violate natural juslke
and tee d to build up the pecuniary interests
of a portion of the community to the detri
ment of tlio resi? Can unv policy be sound
inJ wise ihat does nol look to the wholo
country, and to all i.s imeres's? 'Equal
tights lo all special favors lo none,' is the
just principle by which legislation can be
lireetcd; and nlier stumbling through tlio
lealm nf sophistry, we must come back lo
ibis, as our abiding position. Through
amor, and through opposition, t'le parly
of progress and principle, musi uphold with
unshaken firmness; the doctrine of equal
rights, the interests of ihe whole agninsl the
machinations nl the fuw. the principles nf
Democracy sgaitut Ihe assaults of Federal
ism. ( ommuniculion.
Col. Webb. I was much pleased to sco
dial the Democratic county Convention, in
Susqiiehaina county, which mel on the
I7di inst, al Montrose, adapted the vi vu
voce system of voting on nominations. I
hope Ihat our county Convention, which
meets on ihe 7ih of September, will adopt
ibis mode of voting, and that it will be rho
nile in Conventions hereafter. Let ihe vot
ing be above boaid, so that the people can
know about it, and so that there ean be no
opportunity of evading responsibility. I
attach hereto, the resolutions adoptot! by the
Susquehanna county Convention, upon this
subject. A VOTE It.
'Mr. G. A. Grow offered the following
Resolutions which were adopirdt
Resolved Thai each delegate shall voto
in this Convention, by calling aloud iho
name of the man for whom he votes, at
each lime of voting.
Resolved Thai the secretaries be re
quired to keep the proceedings of this Con
vention in smcIi way as In show for whom
each delegate vofs at each imn of voting '
ARMY OF OCCUPATION.
The latest news from the army gives us
nothing very important. Gen. Tayloi had
irriicd at Carmago, with his army on his
roule lo Monterey., where he mosi probably
is by this time. It was not expected that
lit would receive any oppoiiiion until his
irrival there.
Four spans ol the new bridge, being e
rencd over the North Branch of the Sus-
luehanna al Caiiawissa. fell last vre?k,
rushing several canal boats, bul injuring
no person. J us cause is altiibulsd io ihe
caiclessness of the contractors engaged in
steeling il.
The above we clip fn,m the Willimsport
Democrat, as news lo our Cattawissa friend-i
md lo show ihM a story loses nothing by
travelling.
J'o the facts. The bridge ensses the
it it not the canal, nor is ihe cannl within
llioii33iid feel of ihe portion ihat fell, and
nstead of four spans, only a patt of one
lell, as there was nothing raised above ihe
diords, Lnl the posts and plates, and llto
workmen had not time though actually en
gaged lo secure il, before ihe sudden and
unexpected squall blew it over. So there
were no boats injured nnr were the contac
tors in ihe least in fault. It was an occur
rence beyond the control of ihe workmen
is it could not be foreseen by them.
More 'Nuiii 'Si.r.'ij'tliree bp;t,ncini:
rosy-cheeked country git., reccKiy rngnged
l the north by an agcu ol ihe Cbboivi!Ie
Mills, Massachusetts passed through our eily
o i.oy on ihe way lo iheir homes. This
cr'.ainly docs not look much like ihe reali
zation of the predicted 'ruin' lo our manu
factories! Tory paper.
Governor Doer has lately had a return
f his malady. Ha is sill sojourning
wih he Honorable Olney Ballou of Cnm
terlinc!