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BEDFORD, Pa.
rrltlay April 1. I Soli
"Feirless and Free."
IUVIII OVKIt, EDITOR AND Ml Ol'Hit- TOR '
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FOR PRESIDENT:
MILLARD FILLMORE,
OF NEW YORK
FOR VICE PRESIDENT:
ANDREW JACKSON DONELSCN
OF TENNESSEE.
I MON TKKLi.
Canal Commissioner :
THOMAS K. COCHRAN,
Of York County.
.luditor General:
DARWIN PHELPS,
Of .Armstrong County.
Surveyor General ■
RARTHOLOMEW L A PORTE,
Of Bradford County.
The Late Spring Election.
WHO CARRIED BEDFORD COUNTY-
In iLe 1.181 Gazette appears an editorial j
article from the pen of Mr John Cessna, in j
which la pietendi to show that I.oeoi'oeo
ism carried Bedford Ouqty at lite la!e
Spring election. "We say here, without
the fear of successful contradiction, that
this calculation is unfair, partial and un
true—that it does not reflect the true politi
cal senthncuta as exhibited by the returns."
We copied the returns as >\a published
them a lew weeks ago from I lie records of
the Prothonotary's office, and we took the
rote for Judge as the test of party strength,
and that this is the true party test, no one j
will deny. We added their vote together
in Cumberland Valley, whore two candi
dates ran, both of the Lacofoco party, and
counted tuem lor that party. We did the j
same thing for ourselves in Last Provi
dence Township, where we know both can- I
didates belong to the American party. In j
this township they only allow us CI majori
ty. If the vote in this township forjudge
is not a fair criterion, why should they take .
our calculation in Cumberland \ alley; if |
one was unfair, so was the other. Ami fur
ther, how do they get for themselves 24 ,
, votes for Judge in East Providence, when
there, was no Locofoeo running for that of
tiee 1 Why did they not take the vote for '
Constable, where there were two candidates
running, a Loeofoco and an American—the
American received 104 votes and the Lo
eofoco C vote,-: this would have given u 'JB
of a majority, which, if they Would not al
low us the 105 on Judge, we were entitled
to 08 on (' instable where there was oppo- i
sit ion By this calculation uloue, we would j
onlv lose 7, but they take from us 41--a 1
difference of 34 in this one Township alone,
within 14 vou-s by their own calculation of;
a majority in the County. Why, we heard i
our friend John, directly after the election,
rhim that they had carried Erst Provi
dence, ami that Mr. Uifchcy, our Judge,
was a Loeofoco! In Londonderry friend
John claims that they carried tha' town
ship for Judge by a majority of 45 votes, i
Our candidate I:r Justice of the Peace was
elected there by 5*2 majority, and they
elected thoii Judge by 21. Vie gate them
20. when ihe fact is they only carried tha!
Township last fall by 4 majority, and we
carried it, if any one did, at the late ( lee- j
tion. We claimed 45 majority in Liberty i
Township on Judge which we received— j
we also had a majority for Constable in this i
Township <.f 19, and yet John claims 15—
only a slight difference between his calcu
lation and ours of 60! In support of this
position, John says, " The list of voters,
however. Sled in the office, shows that the |
Democrats had 15 majority," and con-c- ,
queutly he claims a majority of 15. How;
does fie know the political sentiments of ev- I
cry voter in Liberty Township.' John
should remember that "times ain't now as j
they used to was!" We would iike to
boor? who could not make out a calcula
tion to carry any County they pleased, if
they were so "unfair, partial and untrue'' j
in their calculations, as tutr fiiend. In
Hopewell our Judge had 42 votes, to no
opposition—we Lid the same numb'-r lor
Constable, and no opposition. VVe claimed
4'2 majority, which was cutout of the way,
for that T"wnship can give and is always ;
good for 60, but tnaguauinwits Joint again 1
allows "us just 12! We will not notice any j
more of Lis "unfair, partial and untrue"
statements at length. It will bo Seen tbut
hie "unfair and untrue'' statements in these
font- townships alone would give them the ,
County, and some simpletons might be
lieve him if uncontradicted.
VVe wish to state another fact. We took
the vote for Judge as our criterion, no mat
ter whether we lost by it or not. John !
fakes our calculation in all those townships
where hi- party gains bv our calculations'
but where ihey have a bearing the othet
way, he makes Ins own. VVe will now take
John's own onlvt! lii-m, •-.uiuir, partial awl
untrue" as it is, and show that oveu by it;
we have carried Bedford County. In Bed
ford Borough we set down onr majority as
30 on Judge—it averages at least 40—that
is a difference of 10 in our favor. In Ju
niata we gave them 12 on Judge, their av
: erage majority is about G,a difference of 0
j in our favor—Harrison we gave them 3 ma
jority on Judge—we hud an average major
i ity of about 10, a difference of 13 in our fa
! tor. Broadtop, we only claimed 2 majority
■ forjudge. Our friends there did not run
a candidate for this office till about the mid
dle of the day, when the LicoGocos com
menced boasting that they did not thank !
Americans for their votes, as they could ;
j elect their own candidate for that office
1 without their votes; our friends then took I
| up a candidate and elected hitu by 2 majors- l
tj. Our average majority thero is 12, a
i difference of 10 in our later. Napier we ■
put down a tie —our average majority there
is C—just Gin our favor. In Scheilsburg j
| we gave I hem 20, .vc run no candidates and !
the Loculocos admit that they could not j
; get over 16—a difference of 4 in our favor, j
I nion we had 38 majority on Judge—our •
average majority is 41 3 votes in our fa- j
vor. Aduiug these all together, and that j
j it is fair, we have our friend John's calcu
lation as-a criterion, there is just a differ-,
i'dco of FIFTY TWO V OTErf in our i'a
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vor in 'us own calculation. VVe only cor- 1
■ reetc-d the votes in these seven districts aud i
\ tiiis give" uss2 votes, carrying the County i
jon his calculation by 5 votes. VVe contend,
aud we know that we have given there last I
Townships correctly. We know that cur !
calculation of a majority of 127 in tiie coun
ty, taken from the official vote was correct, .
and it i- as plain as the nose on our friend ;
John's face, that these 52 votes should be 1
I
added to that majority, and ho will sec that ;
our majority in Bedford County at the bite
Spring election was ONE HUNDRED I
AND SEVENTY NINE VOTES!
This calculation our friends may rdy on- ■
and they may also rest assured that instead ]
of a majority of only 179 next fall, we will i
give at least 500! We have the material, j
and our friends iu the townships say they ;
will do it, John's "unfair, partial and un
true"' statements to the contrary iwitwith- ;
standing.
VVe are indebted to Sam'i. S. McGib- >
HONS, Esq., City Auditor of Cincinnati,
for copy of his report of the Receipts and j
Disbursements of thai city. Mr. McGih. '
bons served his time in this place to the j
tailoring trade, and we are pleased to see j
; his rapid advancement in the cfiv of his i
.. . i
adoption, lie is an uncompromising Dom
| ocrat. but a whole souled,clever fellow, and i
, wo expect to see him scut to Congress some .
day.
Road the remarks of Hon. Francis Jor-!
j dan in the State Senate, on his resolution
; in regard to the public defaulters in Penn
-1 svlvania. Mr. Jordan has the reputation of ■
Le'mi: one of the ablest men in the Pcnn- i
-ylvania Senate, am! one of the most watch
ful of the interests of the people.
Mr. A. J. Sansom is just receiving and i
j opening a new and splendid assortment, of ;
| Spring and Summer goods, in the building
on the east corner of Juliana and Pitt,
street, lately in the occupancy of Mr. Isaac
| Lippel. Give him a call.
VVe call the attention of onr readers to
: the speech of Ilou. D. F. Robisun, published |
on our fourth page, delivered in the House i
of Representatives, at Washington.
i See rlie advertisement of New Goods by
Messrs, J. J. &. J. M. Shontniker, atol
give them a call.
Cor. Inquirer en i ('hroiii- U.
llaHiusii tii(>, April 17, 185 G. ?
! .Mr. Editor: —ln my last I made raen
t tion of the appropriation bill. Since then
; it has been in the hands of a good demo
cratic committee of conference, and I un
derstand they have agreed and arc ready to I
report the bill to both houses m substan'i- j
ally the same share in which it passed the ;
Semite. It ruay therefore be considered a
, fixed fact that the Judges of the Supreme !
; Court have had their salaries increased
; §BOO,OO each, and the president judges of
the eouns of Common Pleas §400,00 each, j
The office of State Engineer is created on !
; the public works at an annual salary of
§3OOO, besides sundry other items evincing
equal economy. One morel will mention.
A portrait painter of Philadelphia brought'
here the pictures, or .vhat are said to be the
portrait of alt the governors of the Com- j
I monacal ill up to the preseut time, in all
i twenty-one pictures. A section has been
put in thus bill appropriating three thousand
dotlai* for the purchase of these pictures, j
i In this connection 1 may also say that
I the present legislature has signally failed to
i carry out its promises to repeal what is ca!-- j
led the compensation bill of last session,!
i which as your readers will know, changed j
the compensation of the members-of both
i Senate and House from three dollars per
; day, totive hundred dollars per se-.sk/ti.—
This enactment was denounced in most un
measured terms by what talis-, itself the
democratie press of the whole State; and
1 many an office seeking patriot when on the
stump bellowed himself hoarse on this sub
ject. and pledged himself to have the iaw
repealed. But like all other promises of
that party, they have tailed most woi'uily
1 ill the ft Pi 11 tiie nf. A few days since the
matter came up iu the House, aud was de
feated by the decided vote of more than
two to one—l think almost three to oue, but
I have not the vote by me. The same mat
ter came up in the Semite to day, and only
received seven votes , and of these seven only
two belong to the democratic party, the oth
er five being all Americans. "What a fall
was there my countrymen!"
j Some six weeks or more ago, a bill was ,
introluced by the Senator from your dn-i
trict to provide for the prepayment of the j
interest upen the State debt, in accordance I
with a plan recommended by the State j
Treasurer. It proposed to Lake the money j
; Ring dead in toe Treasury, and appropriate
jit to the payment of interest on the State j
debt before it fell due, and thus to improve ,
, the credit of the State, and at the same time
s-,ve to the State some thirty or forty thou- I
sand dollars annually. It met the united
opposition of all the opposition Senators.— :
I Thcv first staved it off on the ground llit
the bill was correct in principle but needed
i amendment. It was next urged that the
i proper place for these provisions was in the
j appropriation bill; and alien it was propo-
I sod to insert them there, every man of the
! opposition voted against them. It was not
desired that the thirty or forty thousand
i might be saved, but the objection was tha'
it in Lilt at the same time benefit the Bank -
, fc j
lof Pennsylvania. 1 more than suspect the :
• real cau.->e of opposition was an nppreben- .
•sion that if passed it would deprive the ;
State Treasurer elect of a surplus in the 1
Treasury.
' But -little legislation of importance has
been done this session. Uudera pretended
, hostility to corporations by the majority, :
j few bills have been passed, except to incor- ;
! porate companies for various purposes, and
; supplements to acts of incorporation here
tofore created.
| Both Houses have agreed to adjourn sine
! die on ttie 22 1 inst , and this is about six
teen days earlier than last year or the year :
! before.
Yours, truly,
SPECTATOR.
Henry Chy and Americanism.
The lion. George Robertson, of Ken- j
; tucky, who has occupied a high judicial i
position in that State, and who was iu Con- .
gress when the Compromise passed, in 1820, j
recently made a speech, from which we ex- !
, tract tiie following:
Having spoken of Mr. Clay for one inri- j
| denial purpose, I aui unwilling to close this 1
j address without alluding to close this ad- j
dress without alluding again to him for •
another. In his speech in this Hall, Tues- j
; day night, Mr. (Hoi.) Garret Davis thought i
proper to recite a private conversation to
| prove that Mr. lay was, in lii-ari ami .
I principle, a Native American. A- i w..s
i otic of the parties referred to. 1 may with
propriety now confirm the truth. A short
i time before the Preri lentl-il election in
' 1844, several gentleman, (with M. Davis
and myself,) dined at the house of Mr. Clay.
When the company was about to leave after
dinner, Mr. Clay requested Mr. Davis and |
myself to remain for a ciinftdnetial consul* :
ration. Having for that purpose, re'rred {'
to his parlor, we were informed that he had j
i received communications, urging him to let j
it be published that lie sympathised with
with the Native American movement: and j
lie indicated the opinion that he ought can- j
didly nr.d fearlessly to do so. Having asked j
our opinion as to what lie ought to do, we j
told him that the case was then hopeless j
and that his prospects as a candidate might ;
bo injured by such a new pout tion taken cs- |
peeiully at so late a stage. And he ac- ;
quiesced in our counsel. Knowing this ;
fact, and some others, I said in an address j
in Lexington, on the 21 of last August, in !
I the presence, and with the concurrence of
the son who closed hi* eyes in death, that
I had reason for believing, that, had lie sur
vived, we would have seen Henry Clay,
"with peerless crest," standing erect and
, majestic on the American Platform, and I
j now repeat the declaration.
We all know that, iu constitutional prin
ciples and devotion to the Union, as our
last and best hope, fie harmonised with our
party: wo may now know that he concur
red with the American party in its N uive
i Americanism, .hid I know that he as" I
\ crihett his defeat in 1844 to the vol sof
."Iboulioiiisls, Ham mists and Foreigners
in the Stale, of .Yew York —the voto of
which he lost by loss than 5,000. And I
' also know that lie dreaded the co*oquen
t ces of Papal influence over the minds of
American citizens, and wished to see that
influence checked. And nono of us have
forgotten that, in his last speech in this
Hall, expository of the coinprouii-es of 1850 i
j he intimated the opinion that a "TJnion ;
per/y," ought to he formed' on principles
. essential to the maintainanueof ibe supreiu- |
ney of the Constitution, and composed of |
- patriotic ciiijons of all parties, who prefer 1
| the* Union, to subordinate matters of purty
policy,-and that, he, here and then, declared
that he was ready to join suc'i a devoted
baud. ()ur"s is just such a party; and the
genius of Henry Ctav suggested its organi- 1
i . .
zatiou and that of "Washington pie.rides
over its counsels. Democracy, which de- 1
uouuped the living Washington, affects 'o j
. revere the dead Washington .is its oracle— |
and, though it proscribed ffio living Clay, it !
now talks of his life as a bright career of \
illustrious championship in the cause of
civil unit rc'igions liberty. Washington v
BEDFORD INQUIRER AND CHRONICLE.
principles are our principles, and CUj'f
on use is our cause. And those who assail
us as enemies of civil and religious liberty,
j covertly convict themselves of hypocrisy
by reflecting the charge on the memory of
Washington and Clay. * * *
The repeal of the Mission Compromise
destroyed a great breakwater, established
j for staying slave agitation South of 30 30—
| and pave the South nothing substantial,
i but agitation and insecurity as its substi"
I tute.
f * * Again by the influence of the
| Democratic President —{whose acts ha* been
j endorsed bv his party)—the South neithc r
asking nor expecting it—the Missouri Cotn
' promise was repealed and unnaturalized
| foreigners of all sorts, were authorized to
vote on the question of slavery in Kansas—
' whereby the south lest tiro best measure
ever adopied for it by Congress, and got in
j exchange the worst —the humbug of "Squat
ter Sovereignty.''
SEN AT K.
TBCHSDAY, April 10, 1850.
Mr. .JORDAN submitted a resolution i
that the vommuuication of the Auditor Gen" •
eral, of the 27th of March last, relative to j
the public defaulters of the State, with the j
accompanying tabular statement, he pub-j
lished in the Daily Legislative Record.
Mr. JORDAN" said.
Mr. SPEAKKH: —In Feb. last, the State >
' Treasurer, in compliance with an act of j
' Assembly, reported to the Senate the list •
of public defaulters to the State. As this
merely furni-hed the Senate with the names j
;of the defaulters, and the sums due from
! them respectively, it was unsatisfactory,
! atid for the purpose of getting fuller infor
! (nation upon this important subject, the
' Senate adopted a resolution calling upon j
■ the Auditor General for the desired partie- '
' ulars. That resolution was as follows.:
"Resolved, That the Auditor General be '
. recjuesied to infoitu the Senate of th> date ;
of defalcation of each public defaulter, j
: upon the list this (Jay communicated to the j
i Senate,- and the name of the surety nrsiir- i
ites of each; and in cases where suits have
j been brought, the date of sneh suits: with j
! the name or names of the attorney or attor- I
1 iu*ys employed by the Commonwealth, and ;
j with what success. fw din nil en sex where j
.mils have b>en brought, to state the reasons J
for such omission.'''
One month after the passage of this res- j
: olntion, the Auditor General communicated
i to the Seuato his reply, and it is this reply j
' winch is now proposed to be published for j
j the information of the tax payers of the i
State. I have examined this document j
! with some care, and in my judgement our i
constituents should know the important- '
j facts developed by this reply. Thee de- !
: fa lea! ions extend over a period of about
half a cent on, and amount in the aggro- !
gate to $397,399 18. No statute of lim
itations turn against the State, and yet it '
:is fair to presume that urany, if not- all, of i
1 the old case are entirely beyond ail hope j
I of collection. To my surprise, however,
this report of the Auditor General dcvci- j
■ opes the important fact that almost the one- j
| half of those defalcations, both m number
I and amount, have occurred within the last ,
; fine years, or between January 1851, and |
; January, 1850, and consequently during j
1 the official term of the present Auditor Gen- i
i oral. The number of these recent defaul
ters is 152, and the aggregate of their de- j
| faleatiotis is the roui <1 sum of $178,082- i
|BB 1 The report also exhibits the further i
' fact tint during these whole five )ears, only !
! six suits have been instituted against these '
i one hundred and fifty-two defaulters, fe r '
, the recovery of this large sum of one hun- 1
| tired and seventy-eight thousand six h/nr j
! dred and eighty-two dollars and eighty j
! eight cents. Nor has this almost total fail- '
t ure to bring suits been occasioned by the
; insolvency of the defaulters or their sure- j
ties, a> any ono at all familiar with their j
names can easily determine for himself upon j
an inspection of the items.
It would be invidious in tue to mention!
names, but I may say that on this formida- |
ble list.of sureties are found United States ;
Senat )i, Judges of the Supreme Court 1
president Judges, members of Congress, t
distinguished politician,; and lawyers, and |
among the defaulters and sureties not a few ■
of the wealthiest business men of this Com- i
monwealth. Not only have no suits been '
! instituted, except the six already mentioned t
1 but the report exhibits the further fact that j
j nothing has been done to collect these large
| sums of money now due tho State tor two,
; tiirec four and live years, except the send- j
: ing of a polite circular to these defaulting j
| gentlemen, politely requesting them to j
j square up the balances against them! I '
I know not how these developements may
■ strike the mindi of other Senators, but to
j my mind they exhibit the most shameful
dereliction of duty somewhere, and disrc
j gard of tho public interests by somebody,
j tshichhabe cotno under my observation dur
i ing my short experience iu this body. By j
1 the rigor of our tax laws, the most humble i
private citizen is compelled to contribute 1
his proportion to the support of government i
and if he fails to do it promptly, his goods '
and chatties are sold the last farthing, and i
i in addition to this he may be imprisoned,!
and yet after the money is thus rawed, and i
1 gets into the hands of thrne public office j
j.holders and defaulters, they are permitted ;
, to use it for years as their owa money, iu -
! utter disregard ot' duty, in palpable viola- ;
, tio of law,and to the great wrong and dam- j
1 age of tho State and her citizens, and yet j
: n' efforts are made to colleot the money i
jor to puuish the offenders. Tim Legislature t
from time to time has enacted, and rc-c*uac- .
ted the most stringent laws, not only for ;
| the prompt collection of the money due the
State and thus withheld, but for the ex. j
empUry punishment of all such offenders .
by indictment and imprisonment in the pen- !
ctcntiary. And yet, sir, these laws are a i
dead letter, the moneys are uncollected, !
and the defaulters unpunished, by reason '
j of tlie ueglect, supineness, and inefficiency j
j of those whose duty it is to enforce the !
! laws.
An important inquiry tbeu is, where docs ;
the blaiue lie* ()ue part of the resolu :
I lion referred to requests ihe Auditor Gen. '
! eral, "in all cases voheir suits have not been j
brought, to state the reasons for such omis-!
sion." Li reply to this Lis report speaks j
as follows : "I he acts of arseinbly are j
somewhat conflicting in reference t<> collect- j
ing money due to the Commonwealth from i
public officers: and the reasons for the
°fuisston to bring suits where suits have
not been brought may be understood from
what follows : The responsibility stems to
; b® w divided between the State Treasurer.
Attorney General and Auditor General, j
• that neither of the officers named have the i
, entire control. But while this is the case, '
j it is plemant to state that all, so far as 1 j
j know, are ready and willing to obtain for |
i the Commonwealth all that is due as speedi- <
,ly as practicable. ' A great consolation,
I truly ! Or to use the language of the re- j
j port, u it is a very pleasant"' condition oi
things. Very gratifying indeed, for the i
; tax-payers to be iitformcd by the Auditor |
General that the responsibility of enforcing j
collection from these defaulters is "so di- .
vided between the State Treasurer, the At- j
tornev General;" and himself, that they i
, nil three have agreed to stand still, and do j
; nothing, whilst the State is every year, in '
the nature of things, losing thousands of
! dollars by the operation 1 This mav all be*
very "pleasant" to the Auditor General:
i but 1 etn tell hiui it is not quite so "pleas
; ant" to tax-payers. It may be pleasant
: sport for the boys, but it is death to the
| frogs. At any rate. I desire the whole
matter published, so that we may ascertain
; how "pleasant" or how unpleasant it may
j appear foour constituents.
The Auditor General then proceeds in
j his report to cite sundry acts of Assembly.
evidently with the intent fo show the divid.
| responsibilty before referred to, and to con
vey the idea that iio was uncertain whethe r
1 or not. lie had authority to bingsuits against
( defaulters. I have examined the acts •
i referred to, and in my judgment they fur
nish TiO adequate reasons for his omission 'o
I bring the suits. The Twenty-third section
of the act of the 28th April, 1810, reads
1 as follows :
•'The Auditor G>'ne:al of this Common- j
wealth is hereby authorized and required to :
. take all such legul measures, as may he (
- by him deemed expedient, to recover all '
■ moneys due to the Commonwealth, from any :
j and every person or persons, or their sure- i
j ties or legal representatives, as may be ne
cessary, who shall or lii iy appear, on settle- i
; mcnt of their accounts, respectively to be j
! indebted to tho Commonwealth; and for 1
i this purpose, .• n 1 to enable him the better 1
j to cnfoice the collection of all or any of
such claims, is hereby authorized to employ
any attorney or counsel which lie may deem
j necessarv. "
Here I say is complete and ample authority:
• nor can I fiud, nor is it pretended, that this i
' law has ever been repealed. True, the act
; of sixteenth April, 1845, directs the State i
Treasurer and Auditor General to bring
j suits against defaulters; but. it does not re- .
j poal the act of 1840 before cited; and
| even if it did, under the "pleasant" state of
feeling and willingness existing between
j the State Treasurer and the Auditor Genc
| ral, no impediment to bringing the suit--
could have occurred under the aet of IS 10.
j None of the acts, however, authorize the ,
j State Treasurer to act alone; and T have
j the most reliable iu format toe that tho Au
j ditor General has given the State Treasurer
! and Attorney General the most uncquivo
| cal notieo that this matter was exclusively
! wiihiti his jurisdiction, and no part of their
; official duty. That such lias been bis an- i
: dertanding of the law may bo clearly in- j
1 ftrrrcd also, from the fact that he lies ac
tually instituted six suits; -and if ho had
I authority to bring six, it is hard to imagin c
; how he can consistently even insinuate,
much less assert, a want of autlioiby to
I bring as many as he pleases.
It further appears, sir, by this report, I
) that in this whole list of public defaulters, j
1 there arc seventy casus in which uo bonds !
can bo found, and ninety-nine cases in :
which the attorneys employed have made j
uo returns; and other cases in which the j
attorneys are stated to have the money. —
In addition to this the Auditor General
candidly admits that in this last there arc
; ninety two cases the condition of which he
j does not know. lie does not know whether
j the defaulter and his sureties are solvent or
insolvent, whether suits have been brought
i for the money collected and in the hands of
j the attorneys,—or whether or not any
reason exists why actions have not been
! instituted'
| But, Mr Speaker, why comment nnyion-
J ger.on the enormities of this report, or upon
! the condition of tilings i*i the department of
j -Lis government whence it emanates* Pub
! fish the documents and let the light o an
; enlightened public seutiment *hine upon
i these matters, and umoh will have been
done to bring about lint reform so liincli i
i needed. Some, I am aware, are of tie o.
; pinion that publication would do injwtice to
. some of tiie parties reported as defaulters
i but who in fact have Jong since paid the
1 money. I submit So the Senate whether we
J do not do them greater injustice by having
j theiu annually reported to the legislature
as defaulters; and publishing them in our
| proceedings, as such every year, than by
) publishing them it: the manner proposed by
1 the pending resolution. If published in ;
j this way once, it vrould give all an opportn
i ttity of knowing that tiny are reported x
defaulteis, and to have ail mistakes comic -
!
ted; whilst the mode heretofore acted upon ,
gives notice only to the members of the
Legislature, and perhaps a tew others who
i have euriwity enough to look over our pub
j lishcd proceedings.
MILLARD FILLMORE 05 AMERI
CANISM !
The New York Ha aid ha i g called for
the btter written bv Mr. FII.LMORK to;
Isaac Newton of Philadelphia, we have
procured the same, says the -Yews, und now
present it to our readers.
The letter, though private, contain;, senti
ments which every -hntrienn should desire
tj see published far and wide:
BUFFALO, New York, Jan. J,
| Respected Friend—
ISAAC NEWTON :
It would give nto great pleasure to aecep*
your kind invitation to visit Philadelphia, if j
it were possible to make my visit private) I
and limit to a a few personal friends whom
1 I should be most happy to see: but I know j
that this would be out of my power, and 1 I
am therefore reluctantly compelled to j
j decline your invitation, as I hive done
i others to Ntw York ami Hasten, for the
i same reason.
I return you many thanks for your iufor
mation on the subject of politics. lam al
ways hanpy to hear what is going forward I
but independent of the fact, that I feel my- !
self withdrawn from the political arena, li
have been too much depressed in spirit to j
take an active part in the late elections. I ,
; C m tented myself with giving asi lout vote :
| for Mr. I'iliuan for Governor.
White, however,! Un an . c:i\c obseiver of i
public events, lam by no means an imliflvr
cut one, and I may say to you in the frank- j
ness of private friendship that 1 have for a I
long time, looked with dread and appretien- I
sion at the corrupting influence which tin* [
contest for the foreign v..te is exerting upon j
our elections. This seems to result froiu '
its being banded together, ami subject to the
control of a few interested and selfish lea" j
ders. Hence, it has been a subject of bar- !
gain and sale; arid each of the great politi- j
cal parties of the country have been bid.
ding to obtain it, aud as usual in all such !
con'ests, the party which is most successful, j
j The c-onscquenee is, that it is fast demoral
izing the whole country; corrupting the |
| very fountains of political power, and con- ;
verting the ballot box, that great palladium
i ol our liberty— into an unmeaning mockery
: where the rights of native born citizens are j
i voted away by those who blindly follow their j
J mercenary and selfish leadeis. The ovi- J
deuce of tins is found not merely in the
shameless chaffering for the foreign vote a 1
every electi in, but iu the large disproportion
of offices which are now held by foreigners
at home and abroad, as Compared with ou r j
j native citizens. Where is the true hearted j
i American whose check does n it tingle with j
; shame and mortification to see our highest j
| and most coveted foreign ni'Siions, filled
: by men of foreign birth to the exclusion of
native born? Such appointments arc a hu-
I miliating coutessiou to the crowned heads of ,
Europe that a Republican soil does no' ,
produce sufficient talent to represent a lie- ,
publican nation at a monarchial Court. 11
: confess that it seems to me—with all due
respect to others, that, as a generel rule, j
our country should be governed by Auieri- j
can born citizens. Let us give to the or
pressed of every country an asylum and a
hotue in our happy laud, givo to all the ban-
I efits of equal laws, and equal protection but i
; let us at the same time cherish as the apple '
i of our eye the great principles t.f Coasti
: tution il liberty, which few who have not j
; had the good fortune to be reared in a free !
country, know how to appreciate and still i
]ess how to preserve.
Washington, in that inestimable legacy •
which he left to his country—his farewell
address—has wisely warned us to beware of i
foreign influence as the most baneful foe of.
: a government. He saw it to be sure in dif
, ferent light from that in which it now pre
sents itself: but he knew that it would ap- j
proaeh us in all forms and hence he caution
ed lis against the insidious vnles of ils in
fluence. Therefore us well for our own
sakes to whom this invaluble inheritance of
self-government has been left by our fore
fathers, as for the sake of unborn millions j
woo arc to inherit this land—foreign and
native —lot us take waning of the Father of
his Gauntry, and do what we can justly to
j preserve out institutions from corruption,
and our country from dishonor, but let this
be done by the people themselves in the'r
sovereign capacity by making a proper di
criininatipn in the selection of officers, and
1 not by depriving any individual—native or
! foreign born —of any constitutional or legal
| right to which he is now eutitied.
These aro my sentiments in brief, and
| ultbo' I have sometimes almost despair- \
j ed of my country when I have witnessed this
4 rapid slrid'-s of corruption, yet I think f
preceive a gleaui of hope in the future, and
I now feel confident, that when the grca.
mass of intelligence in this etiligtotl counts
is once fully arou-ed, ami the danger m.ro
! ifested, it will fearlessly apply the remedy,
and bring back the Government to the pme
days of Washington's administration. Fi-
I nally, let us adopt the old Roman motto,
".Wr r despair of the Republic Let u<
1 do our duty, and trust in that Providence
which ha< so signally watched over and
preserved us, for the result. Hut I !wyc
said more than I intended, and more than
I should have said to any one but. a trusted
frieud, as I have no desire to mingle in p.,-
iitical strife.
| lie member ;nc kindly to your family, and
' believe me yours,
MILLAR 1> FILLMORE.
PttOsVKCi-s OF XKNT lI.VRVKKT. — TI.E-
Alton (111.l Courier, on the 7th inst, ex
presses its opinion that we may cxnert
another very fine crop of wheat, and the
opinion is based upoujhe following rca
i sons :
"The early winter was very mild, so much
so that the late sown wheat. ~f which titer,,
is much, can.inu<>d to grow to a much later
date thin usual. Then the snow will have
protected it from injury by the frost.—
' Lastly, such uninterrupted euid weather fin
so long a period, and until so late a date,
align rs an uninterrupted springiiuie when it
comes. ii is iunliersaid that the uunibci
! of acrs put under wheat iri that part of the
country last fall was greater than ever be-*
fare known."
; The Chicago Journal says:—'-\Ve „ in> ,
' have large crops next tall. The snow which
j has fallen during the past sixty days is cqiu.l
to five inches of manure. People capable
, of estimating matter-, imagine iliat the
| wheat prop ciop of 1856 will be the Lrgc>t
e\er harvested iu this country. To estimate
tlie value of snow upon the ground at ten
J ftiiHiotti of dollars would be a Joiv figure.''
LAVE FROM KANSAS.
j Indict nun t of the Members of the FTP*
State Legislature—Their Flight
1 Correspondence of the St. Louis R-puh'i
ctn. — [Souf/itrh . 1 ccQunt
P.u.r.UMo, K. T., March " 18A6.
The Legislature of Topeka was a i;ser
able and ludicrous abortion,an 1 its members
j arc hiding themselves from judicial pro
cesses, like frightened ostriches. Some
i La'*e fled to lowa, some to Missouri, and the
rest are hiding themselves in bushes, in tin
i va;n hope of security. The grand Juries of
I the Circuit Court under the iiistiuetion of
; Judge Lecompio, have indicated not or.l •
i the members but all the judges of election.-
and it is the intentiou of his Honor, at lib
term in Douglas, which begins next week,
to have bills fonud against G ,v. Robinson.
Lieutcmmt Governor Roberts, and all th
; executive officers.
Jt is thought, by i,oiw, that when the
Sheriff enters Lijurt-nce to aires; the-:
functionaries-, there will be resistance and
bloodshed: bull apprehend nothing m the
kimi. The farcical attempt to hold a
' Legislature and the ridiculous pretension,,
i (bat have been mule to amend the laws of
the I'erritory and to set up an independent
government which should supersede the
pre scut, hive disgusted tniny of the'r
own party, who see the absurdity and uttci
. 'utility ot all such efforts, and arc determi
ned henceforth to recognize mc existing
authoraties.
Besides which, many of the people of the
North who came here with the strongest
prejudices against slavery, have seen the
: error into which a one-sided view of the
seject had led theui, and are now its w.
most advocates, not ouly on the ground of
profit and convenience, but of utility and
j humanity. They have ocular and experi
mental demonstration that it is better, both
for the white and blacks. Aud then, too,
the accession of population from the ifouth
is growing so large, is so constant, and o*
so high and controlling a character, that
j that question is definitely settled. The only
excitement we heat* of now i at the Krv
i We have none here.
j : - j; •
[From lis .ilhany Statesman.J .
AMERICAN'S DEMAND PROTECTION.
The American Mechanic demands pro
tection front the competition which every.
; year is growing sharper and strange
through foreign emigration. This compe
tition is felt in our workshops.and in almost
every field of 'abr. Scarcely a brunMt of
! mechanical employment that docs notfeel it-
It is a notorious fact that the cheap and
j generally second rate labor and skill, im
ported trunrftbe <>ld countries, has driven
1 thousands of inJustriouS and capable uit
, ttbaMcs, born on American soil,- from our
iron fnundaries, machine stips,- ami manu
facturing estaliiishmenia generally. The
competition is ruinous to the native cittkcii.
Let the foreign meeffianju manufacturo at
home, in bis own country, and American
skill and enterprise will nuUoh him in the
mtrkets of the world. But let hia come
litre, ami propose to work for two thirds the
wages of the American mechanic, and no
degree of iuveutivo genius will render the
competition an equal one so long as commu
nity is contented witli second rate result*.—
The American mechanic must first come
down to the standard of HU foreign compc
t'ttor in social condition, and therefore n