Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 22 June 1854 — Page 2
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The County Temperance Convention. The temperance County Convention held in this place on Saturday last, was one long to he remembered in the history of our county. 'Twas no ordinary political gathering, and had in view the accomplishment of no ordinary purpose. No aspiring politician or selfish demagogues governed its action. It was a moving, an ingathering of the people for the people's good, for the good of our common country order, sobriety, harmony and unanimity pervaded all its deliberations. Previous to the organization, the meeting was addressed by Rev. JOHN B. AUSTIN on the evils of the liquor traffic and the necessity of a prohibitory law. The strong Scriptural arguments4 of Father Austin, his burning zeal in the good cause, his high moral and religious character, his earnest appeals in behalf of suffering humanity, told with great power on the judgment and feelings of the audience.— JAMES WILSON followed Mr. Austin in a strain of fervid eloquence, which for forty minutes held the crowd in breathless silence. E.ver and anon would burst forth a biting sarcasm or flashing wit which failed not of 'the mark at which it was aimed. ... Afte the organization, reading of resolutions and nominating candidates, all of which passed off without the slightest jar,
Dr. JACKSON, of Indianapolis, took the stand and presented an argument strong, convincing, incontrovertable, eloquent.— He read the resolution of the Continental Congress of 1777, which recommended to the several State Legislatures, in the strongest language the passage of a prohibitory liquor law. This was followed up with the decisions of the U. S. Supreme Court, pronouncing a prohibitory law constitutional, and dram shops as nuisances. These decisions were held up side by side with the resolution of the so-called democratic convention, which was ruled and dictated to by Jesse D. Bright and John L. Robinson.— Upon the organization and proceedings of that convention, the Doctor, although a democrat, commented with overpowering severity, and challenged the delegates to that convention, them present, to deny a solitary thing he uttered. He stated that many of the delegates were self constituted, and were not appointed by the democratic party of their respective counties that in some counties many of the leading democrats knew nothing of the appointment of those delegates. lie slated, and boldly challenged contradiction, that of the sixty eight Grand Jurymen, summoned from all parts of the State, there was but one Whig that these jurymen were there as delegates to that convention, and paid with Federal money. These statements were not denied, and Ave doubt not the truth of every word uttered by the Doctor. That was a packed convention, packed by men who would extend the curse of Slavery and give free reign to Whiskey. Will the democracy allow themselves thus to be insulted and traduced and then whipped into the traces? No, thank heaven, thousands have already broken asunder party ties, and now stand forth in all the glorious attributes of freemen indeed. We would that every voter in the county had heard the Doctor's speech, and we say without the fear of successful contradiction, that no man in the State can refute his arguments nay Beebe himself, with all his boasting, would be as chaff before the storm.
Having adjourned to the court yard, Col. LANE took the stand, and for half an hour Richard seemed himself again. yivid, fervid, impassioned as in times of yore, when he moved and spoke amid the stirring times of past political conflicts. Then followed "Dr. CUNNINGHAM, of Illinois, who spoke during the progress of the meeting at great length on the physiological effects of alcohol on the human system. This part of the subject, though familiar to most of the old temperance men, yet the Doctor presented many new, striking and appalling facts to all who had not given the subject close attention. He lectures with great ease, flueacy and power.
Saturday was an auspicious day for the Temperance organization- Good omens gathered and hovered about us. Not cloud appeared to obscure or darken our prospects. The cause- commends itself to the conscience and judgment of almost every, thinking man. Then courage, friends, and forth tor the battle good men life with us and the heavens smile propitiously on our coarse, Union, harmony and zeal mil carry ns on-to a noble and glorious triumpl
jJgTTheAvarm sunshine of the past wceli as produced a magio#l effect upon the Coi A -f^Tjls are now generally clear of weeds d,the crops grow with great rapidity.— hould.it be seasonable from this on, there et be nearly or quite an average crop
People's Convention.
On the 13TH OF JULY next, there is to be a People's Convention at Indianapolis, for the purpose of opposing the platform recently erected by the so-called democratic convention.
This Convention is to be constituted irrespective of party. ^Hundreds and thousands of honest democrats who have constituted the main pillars in that party, feel that the resolutions of that convention form no part of what tliey have been taught to be the democratic creed hence they repudiate and reject it. Free Whiskey and Negro Slavery they cannot, nay they will not tolerate, and they now stand ready to cooperate with others in securing its overthrow.
It is proposed that this county send up to that Convention a delegation of some two hundred. The townships should at once organize, ascertain who will go, send up their names to a Central Committee, so that every necessary arrangement may be made with Rail Roads for their accommodation. Send in your names, friends, let us go up to the Capital with stem and unflinching resolutions never to submit to the outrage recently imposed upon us by Congress, and to hurl the thunders of our indignation against those of our own State who seek to sustain and perpetuate this unnecessary, uncalled for and unholy measure.
Let the voice of Old Montgomery peal out in loud and deafening tones a stern rebuke to the authors and abettors of this National outrage.
AN UNENVIABLE POSITION.—Prof. Larabee, in coining forward to accept the nomination for re-election, said that he was willing to be placed wherever the Democracy saw proper to place him.
By the adoption of a resolution against a Prohibitory Law, they placed him on the Whiskey platform, and there he stands.— Look at him !—Ind. Jour.
It is never in accordance with our feelings to utter a word against anv minister of the
Gospel, who faithfully and conscientiously
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upon linn. His trials are generally great,!
and many are the difficulties with which he has to contend. But when a minister of the Gospel in high standing in a great, good and influential Church, will suffer himself, his church and his religion to be villified and abused by political demagogues, and then take a stand as a candidate on a Slavery extending and Free Whiskey platform, side by side with his traducers—when he does this in opposition to all his previous teaching and preaching, in opposition to the avowed and oft expressed views of lii*. churcli, then is our confidence lost in the max\, and we are forced to the conclusion that his love of office is greater than his love of Christ, that he makes his religion bow and yield to his politics, and that lie should therefore lay aside his ministerial gown and disrobe himself of the mantle which has hitherto covered a multitude of sins.
Had Prof. Larabee acted as becomcs a Christian Minister and Scholar, he would have risen from his seat, denounced the platform, and forever have dissolved his connection with a body of men who would ask him to sanction, with the baptism of his holy calling, the extension of Slavery and the unrestrained horrors of the Liquor Traffic. But no, "he was willing to be placed wherever the democracy saw fit to place him." ere he to look more closely to the teaching of the great head of the Church, whose follower and minister lie professes to be, and listen to the instructions of his brethren in the ministry and the Fathers in the church, he would find that the democracy have placed him upon a platform which they cannot sanction. If he would retain, or rather regain the confidcncc of the people, he can do so only by stepping off the platform on which he now stands, confessing his error and letting the world see that his religious principles are not to be bartered off for the spoils of office.
Dr. Berry.
During the progress of the Convention on Saturday, Dr. BERRY, now a candidate before the people for the Legislature, addressed the people and produced an impression in favor of himself and his course which will not soon be forgotten. Earnest, clear, forcible, he seized upon the strong points and presented them in a bold and fearless style. He will canvass the county, and wc trust his opponents will accompany him. We fear not to commit the cause to his hands. Let every voter seek to hcai him. Though a Democrat we shall give him an earnest and cordial support.
How great is the Fall.
A few days ago the Hon. Thomas F. Marshall, of Ky., was kicked out of a doggevy in Louisville, while in a very drunken condition. Thus has liquor dragged down one of the loftiest minds of our country to the deepest degradation. And what a glorious comment on the traffic Suffer him to drink until drunk and senseless, and then kick him out upon the streets! Is that carrying the traffic too far Is that any worse than the abuse heaped on rumsellcrs by temperance lecturers Decide, ye pillars and supporters of the traffic from which such effects result.
JST"James Heaton, Agent for the Charter Oak Life Insurance Company, I^rotec tion Insurance Company rind the American Express Company, has removed his office to the room formerly occupied by John Robinson.
Compromises.
The day of Compromise between the North and South, between Slavery and Freedom, has passed by forever. Henceforward the conflict will be directly between the slave power of the South and the free pojver of the North. The contest may be severe and protracted, the storm may rage and howl with terrific fury dark and lowering clouds may gather about us, threatening dissolution, but there will be no Clay to come forward with peaceful measures of compromise to lull the troubled waters and hush the thnnders of the storm. The voice of Webster will not again rise above the clamoring elements saying "Peace, be still." The great Pacificators have passed away and now sleep with their Fathers, and those who fill (nay those who occupy) their seats are destroying their noble and time honored works without the power or wisdom to reconstruct. They have proclaimed to the world that compromises a little less sacred than the Constitution, the plighted faith of the Nation, the admitted policy of the Fathers of the Republic arc not to be cherished, not to be regarded. They would sink the gallant old Ship of State as rigged and manned and launched by the great spirits of the Revolution, and freight a rickety but tinselled schooner with the rich and valuable wealth of a nation's best and noblest interests.
Henceforth the watchword will be Freedopx or Slavery the rallying ciy has gone forth and the battle commenced.
jCgrThe U. S. Steamer Michigan came into this port last evening. This is her first visit this season, and she looks as warlike as ever. There is not a more efficient vessel in the service of the country, and a more gallant or gentlemanly set of officers never walked the deck of any vessel. We have been kindly furnished with a list of her officers.— Chicago Dem. List of Officers cn board U. S. Steamer
Michigan, Cleveland, Jane 7, 1854. Captain John S. Nicholas, Commanding. Lieut. Gustavus II. Scott, 1st Lieutenant. Surgeon "Win. F. McClelland. Lieut. M. Kansom.
1,^crGeo. E(hvard Rcv))0kls.
discharges the responsible duties devolving Acting Muster J. C. P. de Kraft.
l?t Ass't Engineer J. S. Rutherford, Acting Chief. 2d James M. Hobby. 3d Columbus W. Lee. 3d "William B. Brooks. 3d Henry "W. Spooner. Carpenter Geo. "W. Elliott. Pilot "Wm. Henton. Captain's Clerk, John Shaw. Purser's Clerk, Nathaniel Thorne.
ii Brevet Cant. "Wm. A. T. Maddox, Marine Corps.
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We have the pleasure of knowing Lieut. SCOTT, one of the officers of the Michigan, and if the other officers are equal to him in all the elements of the gentleman, it must be a noble and gallant crew.
jJSTProf. Ilovey has laid on our table the Annual Catalogue of Wabash College, from which we learn the number of students in attendance during the present Academic Year is 197. The College is yearly becoming more popular, with a gradual and steady increase of students.
Four permanent scholarships (funds invested) have recently been established, "By a Friend of Wabash College," in favor of students from Lawrence Academy, Massachusetts.
The Chapel building, now in process of erection, standing on a line with the present
long, 50 feet wide and three stories high, with two winces each 50 feet long, 34 feet
wide and two stories high, Ihis building
will furnish ample accommodations for a Chapel, College Library, Society Halls, Chemical and Philosophical Lecture Rooms, Laboratory, Cabinet, Reading Room and Recitation. Rooms.
The Lafayette Murder.
We learn that a stranger came to Lafayette a few days since, visited one of the dram shops and drank enough liquor to make him drunk. Becoming somewhat noi.)Y under the influence of the good creature, he demanded more of it, whereupon he was shot down, thus having an end put to his existence in a more summary and quicker style thun by the gradual process of liquor drinking. Is that carrying the liquor traffic too far? He was shot by the rumseller.
Soda Fountain.
D. BROWN has provided himself with new Soda Fount, from which the sparkling and exkilerating waters come gushing and foaming, and after mingling with the icli and delicious Syrups, constitute a most delightful drink, which neither injures the honUli nor robs a man of his brains. D- knows how to fix up such things.
Dr. Holston's Letter.
We have received a letter from Doctor HOLSTON, of Zanesville, Ohio, relative to the adulteration of Whiskey with Strychnine. The notice going the rounds of the papers headed 'Exploded Humbug, would lead to the belief that the Doctor was an advocate of the liquor traffic. This is a mistake, as will be seen from his letter which will appear in full next week.
^-We understand that John L. Robinson was once a preacher of the Gospel, and upon close examination ascertained that he was a consummate hypocrite, laid aside his ministerial gowns, and regarded eveiy other minister as bad as himself. We wonder not that he should so bitterly denounce ministers and so earnestly advocate Slavery and Free Whiskey.
jJSrA. fortune-hunter being in a ballroom, heard a gentleman giving an account of the death of a rich old widow. 'Died yesterday, in her ,89th year,' said the narrator. 'What a pity exclaimed the for-tune-hunter, 'what a fine match she would have made two days ago
Another Kentucky Murder* A young man by the name of Harlan, living in Boyle county, near Danville, Ky., shot a Mr. Pittman a few days since, killing him instantly. Harlan went to Danville, gave himself up, stated that he committed the fatal deed in self-defence, as the witnesses would testify. But to the astonishment of all, the evidence was so strong against him, proving the murder to have been so wilful and unprovoked that lie was committed to jail to await farther trial, and the Judge refused him bail.
Madison Democracy.
The Anti-Nebraska and Anti-Bright Democrats of Madison have held a very enthusiastic meeting, and passed a series of bold and spirited resolutions denouncing the principle of the Nebraska bill, and expressing their 'determination not to rest until that odious and iniquitous measure is repealed. Among others they passed a resolution declaring that the Nebraska bill is in direct violation of the democratic- platform of 1852, and also in opposition to the principles of the Fathers of the Republic.
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College edifice, on the north, will be 70 feet philanthropists and christians to put forth
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For the Joiirnal.
Proceedings of the Montgomery County Temperance Convention. Pursuant to previous notice, a large number of the "Freemen of Montgomery" met at the Court House, in Crawfordsville, on Saturday, June 17.
The Convention was called to order and Rev. JOHN B. AUSTIN appointed President. The following gentlemen were appointed Vice Presidents Washington Holloway, Wm. Bratton, Ambrose Armstrong, W. Mullikin,
Gordon, of Franklin tp., Berry Ellis, John Aydelott, Jos. Mitchell, Hiram Powell, of Ripley tp., W. Bromley.*
Jas. Wilson, Esq., Dr. W. L. May and T. D. Brown were appointed Secretaries. A committee consisting of Eld. Palmer, John Harrison and Dr. T. W. Fry, were appointed to draft resolutions expressive of the sentiments of the Convention.
A committee of two from each Township was appointed to select Candidates for the consideration of the Convention.
After speeches by Rev. J. B. Austin, Jas. Wilson and Dr. Berry, the Convention adjourned to meet at 1 o'clock, P. M.
Afternoon Session. ONE O'CLOCK, P. M.
Convention was called to order. The committee on resolutions reported the following, which were unanimously adopted
Resolved, That the fundamental principle of Republican Institutions—that government should be so framed and administered as to secure the greatest good to the greatest number, constitutes a cardinal doctrine of the temperance organization.
Resolved, That our unly liupc in ilic permanency, purity and perpetuity of our free institutions, is in the virttie and intelligence of the American people.
Resolved, That inasmuch as the liquor traffic promotes neither virtue nor intelligence, but on the contrary is a prolific source of vice and immorality, it therefore becomes
lovers of our country, as patriots,
all houorable means to destroy its power. Resolved, That the seizure, confiscation
aU(j
destruction of property kept for illegal
purposes, is a law sanctioned by the people and pronounced constitutional by the highest judiciary tribunals of our country.-,
Resolved, That private and public morals, the good of community, the highest and best interests of our common country, demand that a law should be enacted making intoxicating drinks kept and sold as a beverage illegal, and subject to the law (already in existence) of seizure, confiscation and destruction.
Resolved, That we desire the passage of a prohibitory liquor law, which will be constitutional in all its parts, and which will not interfere with the natural, constitutional or conscientious rights of any true republican or devoted christian.
Resolvedt That we earnestly and cordially invite every lover of sobriety, good order and good government, every patriot, philanthropist and christian, to unite with us in pushing on the glorious reformation fraught with innumerable blessings to our whole country, and checking as it will the progress of that deadly curse which now sweeps wildly through the length and breadth of our land, leaving in its pathway naught but a wide waste of moral and physical desolation.
Resolved, That we enter upon this canvass with an abiding faith and confident hopes of an ultimate and glorious triumph.
Resolved, That
Ave
witnessed with deep
regret and unaffected indignation the position taken by the late Democratic Convention at Indianapolis, on the subject of Temperance—and that we utterly repudiate and contemn the sentiments contained in the resolutions of the convention on that subject, and shall honestly and earnestly oppose them as long as free thought, free speech and free suffrage are guarantied to us.
Resolved, That although we are attached to the leading principles of our respective parties, and have no desire to interfere with their distinct organizations still for the present we are determined to forego and relinquish all personal and political preferences and predilections, and to unite our efforts for the advancement of the great •moral reform in which we are engaged.
Resolved, That we will use all honorable means to secure the election of the nominees of this convention.
The committee on nominations reported
the following for the consideration of the Convention: For RepresentatiW,
W. E. BERRY, of Wayne Township. For County Commissioner, W. MULLIKIN, of Brown Township.
For Treasurer,
JOHN R. COONS, of Union Township. For Sheriff, W. II. SCHOOLER, of Union Township.
Which nominations were adopted by acclamation. Speeches were then made bv Messrs. Jackson, Lane, Cunningham, Sfftvart and Whitten, whereupon the Convention adjourned. J. B. AUSTIN, President.
JAS. WILSON, T. D. BROWN, Secretaries. W. L. MAY,
Progress of Disunion,
LETTER FROM CASSIUS M. CLAY.
WHAT SHALL THE FRIENDS OF REFUCLICANis5i ro To THE EDITORS OP THE N. YTRIBUNE-
SIR—When some years ago I had the honor of replying to an invitation of a portion oi the members of the New York Legislature to address tlienv upon the Slavery question, I was thought by many a fanatic, because I avowed that it was net a question about the African, but whether we ourselves should be freemen or slaves#" Since then, what is there sacred in the constitution, in treaties, in laws, in guarantees of liberty, which has not been desecrated
And now at last those "compromises" by which so many of us were humbugged— which were exalted above the "higher laws" of revelation and conscience, are themselves trampled under foot—and by the repeal of the Missouri restriction—by revolutionary means—a continent lies in dust at the feet of the slaveocrats.
clothe'ourselves once more in the
cast"|
existence For my part, though sad I am not despondent. Let us use the reason God has given us to remedy the past, and make secure the future. The violation of god's laws is always wo? We committed a national crime in joining hands with the slaveholders to commit a determined wrong against the rights of the African, and now in due season the poisoned chalice is returned to our own lips.
very^ sad—
I am not prepared to say with Garrisonians that wo are to break away at once-by revolution from the criminal alliance but I do say that our only salvation, because the only true repentance, is in making the overthrow of slavery our dominant idea.
The one idea of the slaveholders which overrides all principles and measures, is the rule of slavery. So it must be met, not incidentlv not occasionally not compromisingly, by the friends of liberty, but with a oneness of purpose and vivacity and fanaticism of will equal to theirs.
Does any man believe that in a lair contest between liberty and slavery the wrong will triumph? I do not.
What then shall be done 1. In the firot place, puiilnli tlie traitors, im os«m pie for all future times. I honestly believe that every man of the free States who voted for the repeal of the Missouri restriction deserves death. Rut there is no legal way of inflicting the penalty—the halter, then, tliey must
escape.
rJo
do
this, the free trader must give up his Iree trade—the tariff man his tariff-—mauulao-turers, shipping internal—improvements, temperance schools all must, for the piesent, be held in abeyance to the one great question Shall America be free or slave 3. Although 1 think tho free Democracy are best based to achieve the end, we must tolerate and reorganize all parties who will act as allies. In a congressional district where the free democrats have a supposed larger force, let the whigs and democrats re-nominate the free democratic ticket. And where the whigs or democrats have a supposed larger force, let the free democrats re-nominate the whig or democratic ticket, so as to defeat the serviles of all parties. In the Presidential NominatingConvention, let a delegate be sent from each Congressional district in tho Union, of that party which has the Congressman, and let them vote a common candidate. Such a candidate, thus nominated can, in my opinion, be elected triumphantly in 1856. Let that candidate—whether Benton, Seward, or Hale, or any other good citizen—be chosen without regard io bis locality in a free or slave State. For our party is truly national—theirs sectionah 4. Let us count the cost. All are, I imagine, now convinced that the extreme South is anticipating the dissolution of the American Union, and have been and are now using the nation all the time for then own ultimate aggrandizement. We must therefore calculate what is to be the result of our success. Suppose, then, a republican elected President, on the issue above stated, and that tlie ultras of tho South, in their madness, overawe the more thoughtful citizens, and secede from Congress, and declare the Union dissolved, llien, eithei we must whip them in, or allow a peaceable separation, as circumstances shall warrant, If we figh her, we have the advantage of being the government de facto. We have the organization—the treasury the navy and the army. If victorious', we could compel emancipation. If defeated, we would be abundantly able to maintain onr national existence against the world. And with Canada, Western Virginia, Keutucky and Mississippi (which would probably unite with us) annexed, we would form a more powerful people than even now.
In such event all the central portion oi North America would be ours and should Northern Mexico prefer our alliance, as she no doubt would, as cotton grows upon all sorts of soils in a given latitude, we would even be able to raise abundantly that plant, and the sugar cane, for which so many seem now willing to eell their liberties.
Under the railroad system, wc have less need to regard boundaries by mountains and water courses, and even in that respect the lakes, the St. Lawrence and the Columbia, to us would be what the mississippi is now. While the oceans would wash us on their northeast and west, we could well bide our time to expand our dominions over the feeble masters of the South to the Gulf of Mexico.
But the probabilities are that the South would see her only safety in the Union, and "acquiesce" in the "manifest destiny of the triumph of human ights, and begin in earnest to clear herself of slavery till at last we should become peaceably a homogeneous people, and "liberty and union be forever established.
But I have already made this letter too long. For myself I am ready to complete the sacrifice and triumph of our fathers of 1776 at all hazards. I am for no union without liberty—-if need be through dissolution and war. "I stand by the declaration," trusting ever till republicanism is vindicated and the liberties of mankind achieved,.
Very respectably, your friend, M, CLAY.
Slavery and Freedom.
There are several objects of reflection involved in these terms, it seems to us. But the chief idea of Jdemocratic freedom, according to Messrs. Pierce, Douglas & Co., seems to "be to cho/^e down and crush out" all sorts of discussion, except as they may prescribe to be orthodox, catholic and "legitimate." If any man dares exceed that, let him be denounced as an Abolitionist—that is quietus enough, especially for cowards aiid knaves on wages.
It may be lawful in partizfln parlance, this year to pass the Wilmot proviso, and stick to it Old Zack," and next year it may be quite in accordance with the spirit of progressive principles, for all the Dan Rices in politics to draw on along face and q]U1ll
Thus far our republicanism is a failure Shall we "give up the ship?" Shall without a text. All the Nebrascals we return as the dog to Ins vomit, and ^ouncl
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preach the "Divinity of Slavery," with or im'flinnf fnvt All flirt TtffihrASmls are so
in conscicnce
in0te it be
off rags of despotism, admitting omselves (jouiti there be anything more appropriincapabletf self-government and national
to yell Amen—
according to t]ie nijcs 0f
partisan good
taste and srawrfprinciples," than to main-
tajn t]iat evciy
marketable office-holder and
office-seeker should "undertake" to expound the "Divinity of Slavery," and at the same time to denounce overy student and preacher of the Divine law as an interloper, traitor, and scoundrel, who should be audacious enough to suggest a doubt or raise a question Yet if the slavery be a divine institution, who should have abettor right to petition about it or preach about it, than they who make the Divine Laws their study and their avocation? Can anybody answer the question
Slavery may be a relative necessity under certain circumstances, and yet not a divinity. So it may or may not be a moral
orsoeni comparative or rclahve good or
evil to all concerned. All these points will
be very apt of settlement, according to the
real or supposed interest predominant. This
fact is better known in the South, wbc:e
they consider Slavery in all its phases, than
in the North, where it is regarded from in-
solated positions, and where it is made the sport of knaves and fools and Nebrascals.
Mr. Cass started the doctrine of snifter sovereignty, as it is called, in the Nicholson letter and thus aided in destroying the Northern man
Avas
But one thing
can be done—r-break them on the wheel of public opinion. Let no man deal with them in business—-banish them from the social circle, and disfranchise them practically forever. This seems hard but the race of traitors-must die bet ore wo can live. 2. Let the elections, even for the most inferior officer turn upon the repeal of the Nebraska bill, or amendments so that the people of the Territory shall have tne unqualified right to vote slavery out,
meantime, Calhoon, Clay and Webster— the three great prophets of the three groat ideas which they at first had scA-erally espoused— pro-slavery compromise and anti-slavery—tempted momentarily by the golden apple
Avhieh
turned to ashes on their
iipS_lurclied to the Avail, and died, NOAY cometh the Era of False Prophets, with douglas, Pierce and Cashing at their head: men false to all previous pledges, false to principle and false to their country. They are soothsayers of evil destroyers of the poor, and violators of the houses of widoAvs and orphans. Yet shall they haA'e thior reAvard. Wo to them that go down to Egypt for help and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong. Both ho that helpeth shall fall, and he that is lielpen shall fall down, and they shall all fall together "•—Chapman's Chanticleer.
Later from Mexico.
NEW ORLEANS, June 12.—By the arrival of the Vera Cruz steamer,
Ave
Great preparations
Averc
to come off on the 13th, when it
rently reported he
Avith
commander
Dido
resigned,
point of death,
usual
attention. The British ship Challenge had arrived at Guyamas
380 Frenchmen, from
San Francisco, AVIIO had been enlisted there by the Mexican Consul, Much excitement existed at Gujanas, because the
of the English brig
released IIA-C
prisoners, part of Walk
er's expedition, who Avere on board the English ship Ethelbert, and being transported under a Mexican guard to Mazatlan for trial.
Destructive hurricanes had occurred at the City of Mexico and at San Louis Potosi, on the 14th of May, which proved very destructive.
Big. Panies,
the
Minister of Finance, had
oAving
to bad health, and Alcor-
ta, the Minister of War,
Avas
lying at the
Fugitive Slaves.
CINCINNATI, June 16.—Tlie fugitive slave case is continued until to-morrow. Tne probability is thev will be sent bade to Kentucky, ment.
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More Dissatifi&Ctioii.
The Whitley Pioneer, a sound Democratic paper," says the Lafayette Courier, expresses the following oppinions which, we are compelled to say, are becoming very general, of the resolutions of the Whisky. Convention:
With our present views, -we denounce it as one of the most damnable outrages ever* perpetrated upon I republican people, and
repudiate the action of the Indiana State Convention in endorsing the sentiments of that bill, and heralding it forth i© tho world as being the voice of the pgtfpl? »f the State, when a large majority are din* tinctly opposed to, it.
The Self-GoverniEnent/' which is beirtg sounded over the length and breadth of tho United States by the jfriends of the bill as being a characteristic belongingto republican institutions, none are more ready to ad* mitthau our humble self Jit ia & principle which we have ever regarded as belonging to the Democratic creed» But do0» thisbill recognize the right of the people ff .that Territory to govern themselves Wo answer in the negative. It repeals tho Missouri Compromise of 1820, restricting slavery north of 86 deg. 30 min., and for what The admission of slavery into a territory for thirty-ftftir years acknoweledg- 1\ ed free, and which compact was regarded as final during the Administration of Mon* *•.' roe, Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Polk and Taylor.
But let us follow on a little further. It does not allow the people tlie right to elect their own governors it does not allow them to determine what officers they shall have —it does not allow them to elect their own judges it does not allow them, to determine what salaries they shall alow their public servants it forbids them determining who shall be elligible, and for what length of time. Intervention is lettered upon its face in characters not to be mistaken. It determines tlie qualificationsof voters and prescribes the duties of Justices of the Peace, and takes from the sovereign people" tlie right of electing their own county clerks. O, "squatter sovereignty where is thy power Where is thy dignity? Stripped robbed—clothed without garments,
Is there a man in Whitley county, who cherishes the principles of self-government. but will spurn it, and unite with one voice and cry, "nab it cut, for it is "a foul Hot cast upon our republican institutions."
Mr. Cass.
At ten o'clock last evening, Gen. Cass arose and spoke about three-quarters of an hour in favor of the passage of the bill.— The usually grave and severe statesman— the votary to Clio, the muse of history—— on this occasion snatched a grace from Thalia, the comic of the Nine, and with .... inimitable wit, hi mor and satire, dissected &- Col. Benton's speech delivered in thoHouse against the bill. Though exhausted by a ten hour's session, Senators crowded round
t]w veteran statesJIiail
anJ cl a him the
iu thc
Avith
Southern
principles," and killed himself politically dead it the bargain. The Democratic party
floored at the same time. Then Mr. Fillmore tried to out-do Cass and he caved, and his party caved
Avith
him. In the
Missouri Compromise, And to whom was Mr. Cass replying upon Avhose head was he draAving 'doAvn peals of laughter?' Upon the head of
rlnoiAS
next
Avas
not
accepted, and Santa Anna had returned it, Avitli scA-eral amendments, to Washington.
be
making to cele
brate Santa Anna's birth-dav,
Avhieh Avas
Avas
cur
Avould
declare himself
Emperor. Nothing further from Ah-arez. Mr. Gadsden arrived at era Cruz on the olst ult., and
Avas
Avhieh
recei\-ed
Avith
4
and loudly cheered
ladies and gentlemen
in this scene was
joining chorus in this
of mi®h au(l rej0icing.
e!cctr:jge.j and peals
f^j0WCsl
jL
The Senate
of laughter were soon
tiic peais 0f
o{-
cannon at the pas-
The above is from the Washington letter in the Baltimore Sun. Ihe occasion Avas as Avell adopted to mirth, as Avas Nero's fidtiling AA-hen Rome Avas mirnt.- Consider I this case: Here Avas a Northern Senator, one born in NCAV England, Avhose youth and manhood A 'as naturediu the Free West, made free by tho Ordiuance ef 1787: who has received his highest honor from the people of the Freo W est, making a humorous speech, tickling his fat sides Avith glee oA-er the prospect of tho repeal of the
H. BENTON, a
man born in ths South reared amid a slave population and representing a slave-hold-ing constituency Avho spurned the meanness of the Northern dough-faces, and re-if fuscl the acceptance of a bribe for the betrayal of the North. This is.the man whose speech Ir. Cass tried to ridicule foi the reason that he could not ansAvcr it A\ lth argument, Is the degradation of the North not yet complete?—Cin. Gax,
jfSP'Mr. Pettit declared in the Senate, that, if Congress allowed the recent opportunity of repudiating the Missouri compromise to slip, the 3,000 preachers and their allies at the North Avould, at the next election, fill the loAver House with abolitionists and semi-abolitionists, Avho would A'ote and speak for the sancity of the compact.
This Avas neither
liaA-e dates
from the city of Mexico to the 5th inst. It is rumored that the Gadsden Treaty
more
nor less than a
confession, that, if the vote upon the Nebraska bill Avere to be postponed till after thc
Congressional election, it Avould
defeated by the people. It Avas an acknowledgment that the supporters of the bill were afraid to let it go before the people for the decision.
We A7ery much doubt Avhetlier the inends of the biiriiave, by their precipitate action in passing it, gained anything. The
is UOAV a laAv,
bill,
Avill
be as general a
test throughout the non-slaveholding States in the next elections to Congress as it would be if it had failed to pass during the present session. There will be a docided anti-iSe-
Doings in Congress.
WASHINGTON, June 15.—SENATF- 'Ihe private calender Avas taken up,
to
reneAV
anl
0,lifV
There is not much excite-
Maine Lav.
NEW HAVEN, June 16.—The Maine liquor law passed the House yesterday morning. It al£o
passed
4
braslca bill majority, in the next Congress, and that majority we apprehend, will take .. occasion to assert practically their opinions and painciples, but we cannot say what course they will adopt with a view to this •, end, Wc deprecate agitation, yet Ave re-o-ard fierce and disastrous agitation as almost inevitable,
a
Hiram Moor's and .^.hn Hascall
patents for a harvesting machine Avas read|
WVl arthorizi^' rte «m»go of ton and five eagle gold
take?1
BALTIMORE, June
0°The*
the Senate this evening
bv a vote of thirteen to one.
UP md-
^Four r»- Vate bills were passed. Tho Fenate adjourned till Monday. ^rse.—The 'House had up the bill to.
the rates of postage, and after a
short debate the House adjourned.
From Baltimore,
15,—.A destructive fire
occurred on Long Dock this morning, consuming nine warehouses. Loss 5DV,
schooner Kent which arrived this
morning from Rio Janeiro, reports seeing^ the wreSkofthe ship Delia. All on boa^ are supposed to have perished.