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THE REVIEW

tiitrtusvius,

SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4, 1855.

TBiajfTD AND PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING BY CHARLES II. BOWEN.

ESTThe Crawfordsrille Review, famished to Subscribers at (!,SO in advance, or 82, if not paid within the year.

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:w wc wish it distinctly understood, that we have now the best and the laugkst assortment of xkw and »anct Jon Tvrr.ever brought to this place. We insist on those wishing work done to call up. and we will show them our assortment of typs.eurs, •tj. Wo have got them and no mistake. Work done on short notice, and on reasonable terms.

democracy and tlie Usaioia!

RIGHT SIDE UP AND COMING!

Democratic

CONVENT

GRAND RALLY AT INDIANAPOLIS!!

OX WEDNESDAY.

August 29th, 1855.

THE WHOLE PEOPLE

:ARE COMING!!

DEMOCRATIC MEETING.

Tio National Democracy of Wayne township will meet at the usual place of holding elections on Saturday the ISth of August. Let every National man bo in attendance.

O DEMOCRATIC MEETING.

Thoro will be a nioftinj? of tii* Nati'nal Democracy of Montgomery county at llroivi-.'s Valley, r.n SATURDAY TIIE 1st OF SEPTEMI)EK.

Col. S. (1. Willson. Low Wallace. ,T. McDonald, Daniel W. Voovhces and M. D. Mr.nson. v.i!! be in attendance and address the people. Tlio ball Is started, come out and keep it moving. :-:i.:

Kv the T.Vtno,. ra's of BROWN TOWNSHIP.

J£5f The low scurrilous Attack upon the character of Mr. JOEL LUK, in the last number of that obscene sheet, the Montgomeiv Journal, is universally condemned as a

brutal and inhuman assault upon private character. The article we understand was written by that notorious bully and street

fighter, T. W. Fry, with the double purpose

of not only wounding the feelings of Mr.

LEE, but that of his family and friends who should have at least been spared from the

shafts of his envenomed hate and hellish

rcrenge. It is a wondt to us how the community basso long tolerated thispl.igue spot upon its peace and quiet. In sonic

countries he would have 1 ng since graced the pillory or the whipping post. Like the

hyena, gorged and surfeited with the car

cass OS into some

Molocl

his licurt

flames never

liquid alone can do it

jCF" The American party of Evar.sviilc

have passed resolutions fully endorsing the platform adopted by the National Conven

tion at Philadelphia. The resolutions are

published by order of the council.

BLACKWOOD FOR JVLT.— We have receiv

ed Scott .tt CoY re-publication of Blackwood's Magazine for July. It is the open

ing number of a new volume. Its contents •re: 1st, The Imperial Policy of Russia-

part I 2d, Zaidee, a Romance—part 3d, Notes on Canada and the North

Stales of America 4th, Letter to Eus —Once Upon a Time—part II 51 ern Light Literature—Theology 6th, Ver-

nier 7th, The Story of the Campaignpart VIII 8th, Two Years of the Con

demned Cabinet—(a terrible excoriation of

Lord John Russell & Co,) 9th, AdraTnis-

with any one of the four Reviews it is fur-

uuhed at 85, and with rd! fouMsf the Re-

riw« at ®10.. ... -.

On last Saturday we suppose the Hon. gen

ly dismounted and spiked last winter in the

hot contest of sectional preferences against popular sovereignty.

We want to review Mr. Campbell's speech

dispassionately and with reference to the truth involved in the issues between us.—

is very popular in these heated times to shoot blindly, but such is not our intention

and such shall not be our mistake. We will indulge in no blind abuses or unwar

rantable detractions. We accord him much merit as a high toned and finished or?itor,

but we do not like his principles, and upon

these we will take the liberty lo animadvert, with that freedom and candor, which it is our right ar.d duty to exercise, when

great questions effecting us both in our in

dividual and national capacity, are involved. In the first place, let us see what Mr.

Campbell as the exponent of his party wants to prove, and secondly what he did prove, and then make our deductions. The first

and great leading national issue between us is this: .shall the people in the Territories,

as in the States, be left free to vote and decide upon the question of slavery and

freedom, as applying to those Territories, or shall Congress interpose its authority,

and impose injunctions touching that question, contrary to the wishes and will of the

inhabitants thereof. There the whole issue is couched, and

there we are ready to fight the battle. The question is not whether slavery as an ab

stract principle be light or wrong. Throughout the north there is but one voice on that roint. Everywhere this side the Ohio river

and :n many parts south oi't, slavery is re-j

garded to bean institution unfortunate in

iU establishment, and unfortunate in its re-

suits. But that is not the question

thjl fusion convention. Gulf of Mexico on the Soul)),, and extended On Saturday last, the opposition party: as far as the Lake of the Woods at the

held their county meeting, and made their North. 'It included the present State of

appointments according to arrangements.— Louisiana, Arkansas, Misssouri, Kansas and Doubtless they think they nominated a very Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota and a large por-

telling ticket, and perhaps the assortment, tion of Wisconsin/ In the third clause of was about as good as could have been made the treaty by which it was conveyed, it was

from so bad a variety of long horns and stipulated, that "the inhabitants of the ced-

short horns, fat, middling and lean, in the ed Territory, shall be incorporated into the wild and untamable herd, of what graziers Union oi. the United States, and admitted

would denominate, graded slock. as soon as possible, according to the princi-

The convention was largely attended, pies of the Federal Constitution, to the enthough re all it was a very meager demon- jjoyment of fl.ll the rights, advantages, and stration for Montgomery county, in an event' immunities of citizens of the United States

so important, and so thoroughly heralded, and in the meantime, they shall be mam

as the announcement of the Hon. L. Detained and protected in the free enjoyment

Campbell, of Ohio, as the speaker of the, of their liberty, property, and the religion

day. This gentleman has been distinguish-j which they profess." ... ed for many years as a prominent rc-pre- Such was the treaty and any half-witted

sentative of his party, and particularly of man must see that by that instrument as

late as a member of Congress, in his earn- slavery was then in existence there, it was

est support of the angry and disorganizing ft solemn guarantee to all who saw fit to anti-slavery tendencies of his furiou9 and place themselves among the inhabitants of

union dissolving constituents. In view of that Territory, no matter in what part, for

the active part he took last winter in the there are no speci .cations,—lo hold Slaves. National Assembly, in the discussion upon

us S((:

if this

the Missouri Compromise, he is now re-j entertained botn by the people and bv

garded as a champion and a front leader. Congress.

tlemen fired this big gun, and now that the April 8th, 1812, there seemed to be no quessound thereof has died and the smoke has ti

con

annot- be forced into the

troversy, and it controversy. The whole on is as to

the :i'his of American ei izens, rights which

which are co-existent wiib the Constitution, tj

principle of nos-inU.rver.tion by Congress

in the

oroverr.m.nt

101

lhe

tr&liro Refomo—The Civil Service. BUek«O0d is published «t S3 year,' g«'« the Missouri Compromise?'

late out mestic msaui I'.ins own reasons, very same principles, wine

ould that

of the Territories.

repeal of the Missouri Compromise, on organization of Kansas and Nebraska, the the ground that i: was a breach of plighted repeal of the Missouri Compromise was

faith. The South be said bad spit upon its suggested, it was the first time they had honor. Let us look at this for a moment, ever had the opportunity to manifest their

and we will have to go tck a little in the wishes, and almost to a man did they say

history of the country. What was it that to the North, that the Missouri Compro-

Wf5S R0

the understanding

Louisiana was admitted as a Slave State,

been drifted away, we will look over thei^a slavery clause. Arkansas came in field for a little while, and if possible ascer-

as to her right to come into the Union

June ]5t]l) 1836 Wh it WRS ie

tain the actual amount of havoc produced,, raised upon her application? Her admisby this little grape-shot battery, so sudden-

on was

question

bitterly contested on the slavery

question. It was thought for sometime that she would be rejected as Missouri had been and for the same reason. But what were the arguments employed then, even by the

strongest and most punctilious members of the opposition? John Q. Adams we appre

hend has always been regarded orthodox in Northern preferences, and what did be

have to say. He made no allusions to the Missouri Compromise, as the basis of his

reasoning that Arkansas had the riq-ht to O O come in as a slave State, his data extended

further back, he went to the original guar

antees. "As Congress" said he, "lias not

power in time of peace to abolish Slavery in the original States of the Union, they are equally destitute of lite power in those parts of the territory ceded by France to the United States by the name of Louisiana, where slavery existed at the time of the acquisition. Arkansas, therefore, comca and has the right to come into the Union ivith her slaves and her slave laios. It is written in the bond, and however Imay lament that it ever teas so written, Invest faith fully perform its obligations-'"

Such was tie language of John Q. Ad

ams, a man who used to dwell in Massachusetts—a man who was universally re

garded the to be the very archetype of

all that was noble in his private relations,

and of the profoundest skill in the science of the law. He was born amidst the storms

of the Revolution—with his mother's milk

he imbibed the principles of a sound Nationality—he understood the force and effects of treaties as well as any man, and he

had the prescience to abide by them. Well

now us soc

j10W i}

iesc

views of this great

statesman and lawyer would affect the Mis-

£0Ur

Compromise. That State applied for

admission in the year 1 G20 and was reject-

account of the slave element in her

constitution. The whole country was thrown

1 1

have their origin the Cor.sUaUion, and threatened, ihe .North contended just as law nnd they quote Mr. Webster as their au-

out the limits of th^ go\o r.mer.t, to regii- t]!C application, and assigned as thr ir! vention principle is this day the ruling prin-'

Jo! Q. Adams proved were insufScient to

nor devoted to the justification of that which is.upon their r» presentatives in Congress andj has not been sustained in a single innow and always has been, almost univer- voted through without their consent.

m:se was always wrong.

In 1802, we purchased a large tr/ict of Let some one of these speakers go to the

land from Napoleon, which was styled the South and tell southern people that they |Louisiana purchase. It commenced at tho! haVc violated their piigh'ed faith, and in

slavery should De excluded—there is the to thai guesUon nr.u we can see no ueuer hi-

wno.e case Historically statec., and now let ternative loan ^his. V\ hen we speak of pop-

their very ihroat&,lhey will be rebuked for

preferring a charge so laughable on account of.its simplicity, and so disgusting from its

ignorance. Many persons deceived by misrepresen

tations believe, and believe honestly, that Mr. Clay of Kentucky was the author of

the Missouri Compromise. Mr. Clay in his celebrated speech delivered on the* 5th

and 6th of February 1850, occupied grounds exactly analogous to those we now

occupy. What was one of his resolutions

for the organization of the Territories, then

ought to he established by Congress in all of the said Territory, not assigned as„ the boundary of the proposed State of California, without the adoption of any restriction or it S a

There is the resolution, very much like

the principles we are contending for now.

But farther in regard to this Missouri Com

promise, in the samo Gth of February speech, Mr. Clay says, speaking with ref

erence to ihe resolution just cited: '"Sir, while I was engaged in anxious considera

tion upor. this subject, the idea of the Mis

souri Compromise, as it has been termed, cameunder my review, was considered by me, ani finally rejected, as in my judgment

less worthy of the common acceptance of both pirties of this Union, than the project

which I offer to your consideration." Well

what ?ras the project he bad offered to their consideration It was as we have just

shown the doctrine of non-intervention by

Congress on the Slavery question. Now it cannot be shown to the extent of a single

line or word that ever fell from Mr. Clay's pen or lips, that he regarded the Missouri

Compromise line a good measure, and that it was irrepealable, but it can be proved that

he thought his second resolution a good one, that he insisted upon its establishment to

the fullest extent of his forensic power, establishing the very samo settlement of this perplexing slavery question, which we are

now seeking to establish. The opposition party are unable to meet theso arguments, they may pick at them, but they can do them but little harm, for it is difficult to crumble adamant.

We now take the position that the Mis

souri Compromise was always wrong, and

that it ought to have been repealed long

since, nay more, that it ought never to have (j

r.. "11

into a stale 01 turbulence ana disunion was 1 t.ed States is covered by some irrepealable ,, ... ., ..

rights guarantied tous e\er) wheie tmougli- Arkansas, that Congress had the right to ed of Mexico, where Mr. Clay's non-inter-j On motion of Jim Harney the old liners

us see how it worked. The stump orators ular sovereignty then, this is the application iL}u.y would turn any institution or business

We don't take issue on that point, not one South as a people never did acquiesce in We invite the attention of those who are so That they* had every Doctor in the town- Vi.-it the G:ulcry." much our resolutions in any of our platforms, that measure, th.e question as every intelli- tenacious for lines and restrictions, to some ship as he believed, and he regretted mu orth or south in a single line or letter, is gent man must know, was suddenly sprung matters of record, to show that their theo- ^ut

stance

about to be thrust within the purview of practical. So we hold, and we hold firmly

fiie government? Here it is, and let every to the views, that our plan is the best one man read it and digest it. "Resolved, That, as Slavery does not ex

ist by law, and is not likely to be introduced because it is the most eflicientiv We feel into any of the Territory acquired by the assured that we are right and that we will

United States from the Republic of Mexico, eventually succeed. Survive or perish howit is inexpedient for Congress to provide by ever, so long as our convictions remain as

law, either for its introduction into or ex-, they now are, we will stand to them at all elusion from any part of the said Territory hazards and stand to them to the last, and that appropriate Territorialgovtrnvients

not Deen sustained in a single m-

How did the ordinance of 1787 work?

The provision was to exclude all the North-western Territory

are the facts in the case? Slavery

nois under the operations of that ordinance, in ten .years actually increased 4-15,83 per

cent. In 1810, they bad 168 slaves, in

1C20 they bad 917, and slavery did not ex

pire there, or begin to expire, until it was

introduced into the Union as a State, nnd

not then but by a very gradual process, for in 1340 the census tables show, there were -231 slaves in Illinois. -Ji rr\

The same is true with reference to Indi

ana-. In 1300 there were-135 slaves here.

In 1010 there were 237, an increase of a little more than 75,54 percent., and even

as late as 1820, there were 190 slaves in

Indiana. The same facts are presented with regard to all the territories covered bv

the ordinance of 1787. Then this proves

something it proves that no general injunctions imposed by Congress can be made

am] for two reasons first, because it is gen

eral and meets every case, and secondlr,

CJ.AHK township not^i)r.™ it 11 c"'S'.

SLEfiPETII—GL1 L5? K: S WAKIXG I P! ""LADOGA, July 28tb, 1C55. The largest* township meeting ever held in the township, was held on Saturday.—

remarks mainly in support ol the Demo-

things of being guilty of bringing about!

Slates

very applying to Ih. tornConc iJhosc remlU. were'to pull down il waij believe is the only peaceable settlement thaw 0mpliatically^ an elevating machine, to put can be made, other expedients may b° re- demagogues into power. sorted to, and perhaps such may be adopt- Hon. Swan Broolcshire refuted by a stateed as will work temporary good results, but I mmt of facts, the charge that has frequent77 lv br-cn madi^ air:t'i! the Senate, that the thev are only temporary. Jiverv tune a: old liners were the authors ol the Liquor new territory is orijanize^, Jie whole ground pj

Kansas outrage, in forcing upon the

been established. Non-intervention by people of that Territory votes from other String Hanging Ollt Cono-ress in regard to this question of sla- States that Know NoLhingi-m was

Joseph L. McDonald not being, present thoir successors aro elected. as he agreed, much to the disappointment EY-.LA"\VS. /. of his friends, who, perhaps, was induced I Pre. "1st.—Tho meetings of thin Association shall to believe that all the spirits willing to de-l!'°

was soon to be (ought in this country whe.ll-

lis fusion convention, was one of the principle actors in the Massachusetts nulliticationr Jim's speech did honor to himself and much satisfaction to his friends. ff,svs

...

that Know Nothingism was a con-

racy without r.nv avowed object, buti

S a cc

must be traveled over again. Some of the j= t,g was the bill got up and re ported to both opposition leaders take the ground that ev- houses of the Legislature, by the committee erv foot of territory belonging to the Uni- 1 empentnoe, Ilou^e and oenate cummib-

afterwards did upon the admission ol I tlioritv. How is it with the territory acquir- amended afti.-r the committee reported it.

par

tdiat the law as it now ex-j

tees meeting in conjunction, and that there

was not an obi liner in tnat committee, thev

were a51 as

ionists, and that the bill was not

v,nhn

'i' lesohed t!iemsei\es into

sucn was

nf ihf-m fillpd a. rlmiK'o hiKinpcc nf Pofblli

where the experiment has been peec})£.s they phvsiced tlie body and drill

was glad tbjRt the old. linera had acted with ff. more modesty having nt least shown a decent respect for the feelings and opinions of others, however much they might disagree. •^Ja?Tne44j?

meet

TIIE

vcr!,M:rd

vote one clay, tins busy season, to their or it may be thou slit for tho interest of the Associacouniry's interests, had rode up to town on

11'°?

Sanford's gravel train to see the "elephant," i^'lVoved bv°Zl

and hear "Bogus Corey burn brimstone members thereof. from the hole in an anvil on the point just beyond the depot in Crawfordsvillc. That was a sad mistake. yet and were on hand, and will redeem the time lost.

I he old liners are alive Dm?.- & Medicines.

David D. Nicholson was called to the chair, and Jim Ilarney being called on, made an excellent effort, showing very

forcably the £reat interests involved in the! -S. -Montgomery county. Indiana, until Wednea.,„,J .1,^ ,1 1..... .. 1 i:„„ dav. Au'.'tist 'J2d. ISoS, for tho Graduation. Masanpresent contest, and the moral degradation

ryWl

of the tendencies of the present secret ca- tie Danville Tl. K. This Division extends from hols in politics, and that the great battle Vinson, in Fountain eountv. to Crawfordsvillc, ,1 1

law that Wilson, the distinguished cham- i)KAKK & ASSOCIATES, pion, so much applauded at the Indianapo-! Co—n^w." Contractors.

a 11_ 1 1 L- cjbrtll uIwjits have a full assortment of Monts, Rucn

nope lie will repeat the Cio^-o for the benefit, Mutton,lVrk.Sausii^eandsomotirnesVeal, of some of our proscriptive K. N's. all of which we warrant not to be surpassed in D. C. Stover followed, and directed his 1 J.v:fkl"!,"s1,iP

soon and often. "AN OLD LINER."

NATIONAL MEN IN COUNCIL* The National Democrats of "Union township had glorious time on last Tnesday nijfht. Tho Court House iras filled to overflowing "rrith the Sons of Freedom—men that loro their country bettor than nijz^are. and who irlll preserve tho Union from tho rutulef3 hand of the Abft'itionits. A Democratic Club -vns formed^, nnd the following officers clectcd: Joel Leo, President, Joseph Or.Rki1.! ard TiL-ror Wint, Viec President?, James Tammnny, Secretary, wm. Lay ton, Treasurer- The foIlMSEiniy Constitution and by-laws for tlis jrovernnicnt of tl:o Club was unanimously adapted and signed by every Union man present:

... 'r t\ fuilv jnvite pour attention.

cratic resolution, that charges the Know frust, to the (.'roy buildimr. ojiposite Hughe's Bake-

an association, with the avov,-fd object of Ui-eases. It docs not merely break these diseases them, and never brim: but on the contrary helps

I .1 1 1. 1 fiirc« them, and never orirnr'' on Uheuiriati.sm, I giving the opposition no cause to complain .,jsv ^.

a it a a a S I I I E S a a a

jjsnn notions into a mans free, and V^f time a point lo.Hr desired. Likene^es taker

:i/cry

Bills, and circulating tracts and fusion IV .. ,„„

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preachers to use their respon- said ruitirner »»unace ana »11:1c. attor•11 .1 novp. filed his petition in the above entu!' '. cause, r'b'f positions society, to fillet upon lno-!C jn".j)C

CON.-TITUTION4.''

WE the undersigned members of tho National Democratic party, unbound by pcoret oaths, and unfettered by midnight Cabafs. to the end that sound National end Republican principles may be trinmphanf. over Sectionalism, Fanaticism and Keitelons Proscription, voluntarily unite in forming ourselves into a National Democratic Aesoeiation by the adoption of the following Constitution::

Atitici.i 1st.— This association shall bo known by the rrnreo and style, of the National Democratic

,i0

l'""in

nihi

P-

.AitTior.E 2d. The member*

(hie hundred and ten Voters, present, met: one Secretary and Treasurer nnd nhr.ll per^m tho without the aid of post-bills, public notice, respectively, usually performed by similar Lp.floors in 1 •!ir*or!» *.vfi bodies, and Fbull hold their secret wigwams or sworn conspiracy.,. ,,

this Association

shall consist of nil true National men. who mny. yoluntnrily rriite with the Association. by §ubs rib-V inrr to this Con.-ti'urion. "3f*

AiiTirrE 5d.—The ofRcors of tbi* ^^s.oeiil^^ shr.il consist of a President,-two Tico I'lcaident

f„r lll0 tcrm nf thrce monlhs

Satnrduy evening, but the President

or any three members may call a ineetmsr vhcncv-

penscs of tho Association shall oluntarv contributions from tho

von want a pood article of tobacco. 170 to Oct's DrmrStore. lie has received a irosh supply of

Newcastle and Danville Railroad.

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

-pPOPO«.\T.s will bo received at Crawfordsville,

j,rid£n„./of the .!th Division of the Neweas-

1 .1 a distance of 2S miles, and embraces a large am't

of Fv(.avi,Uon. ml»ankment.

er the present form of government shall Plans, Specifications and Profiles will bo exhibstand or the Union be dissolved that Mas- 1 afcer the ISth of Au^ust^ 1 1 1 1 a a I a a E a and sachusetts had nullified the fug-itive slave stock, or

fir

nnd Masonry.

nli CnsJi.

E8.I3W

George Jeffries was then called on, and the way old "General Buncomb" made 2d, we will sell meats at a ''fusion" squirm and twist was astonishing 1 f^rr^r^.n 1,^F?FnA riD^ri/^r^

he spoke about one hour, was hard to beat, —J U""^LJ\sUvi^jL^3^ and no man has a sounder heart and few) Best of Stake at seven ets., all other Cuts in prohave a clearer head than old George we I I\orHon,

"V\T"7^ take pleasure in announcing to our friends and customers, that on and after August

r:1,1£jn?

up to seven cts. Wo

Manliness, to which we respect-

Market will be. removed 011 the 7th of Au-

from twelve o'clock at nifrht until all is sold. AUSTIN A COUPS AN.. Au:»ust -!th. 1 Sc.". r-nOtf.

HE KOBOJIAJVTIA

a safe and thorough ctire for Fever and Affile, KVmUlant Fever. Y.M Chills and all P.illioua

""in'tllc we'--!! My pict'nn-s far^rVrpBsi

Aucrn?t 2d. 1 i.V.

case that soi

of them filled a double business of Peddlinajj.^^Tn INDIANA, Montgomery county,)

t.]erji*s,

cendency It was a shame that men would defendants in the above pnit. Rre r.on-residerlu of the State of Indiana. Tnercfore, said non-resident prostitute every position in society to enect are hereby notified of tho pendency of party success—and did hope that these 1 suid petition, and that tne ?ame is set for hearing mcn'would exercise a sounder discretion, so !r

as not to place themselves in at least a cen- on tho sccond Nfondav in September next, surable attitude, in the eyes of those who /\S55.) ANDREW V. LYNN, Clerk, honestly differ with them in politics. He

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oliiec of said court said petitioner,

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