Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 19 July 1855 — Page 2

Ho paid an eloquent tribute to (lie Prohibitory law, wheh ho,said was another great result of the movement last year.— It was one laurel which could never be torn from the brow of the People's parly.— (Applause.) It had been in operation but a month to-day, yet the dockets of Mayors and Justices show how beneficicnt has been its influence. The doctTine of Prohibition is right, and that is the great (security that it will bo triumphant. It is right, and the mora people .understand it the more it will be approved and supported.

GENERAL' WILSON'S SPEECH. On the conclusion of Judge Morton's 'speech, General Wilson was called for.—

The President arose and said that General Wilson of Massachusetts was present, and as he desired to go away on the 3 o'clock .train, he would address the meeting now.— Sir. -sWiL'on came forward and was introducciLbv the President. Iiis appearance upon the stand was hailed with loud 'applause and three cheers for Gen. Wilson" and it was some time before quiet was •enough restored.to allow him to proceed, lie began:

Mr. President, and Fellow-Citizens of .Indiana: 1 need not tell you that it affords me profound gratification to meet with you to-day, and participate with you in the commemoration of this hallowed anniversary,—an anniversary hardly second to the great day of the Declaration of

Independence. It .is a glorious day for il^oso dwelling upon the soil consecrated forever to liberty by the law that makes this day memorable. All nature seems to participate in the joy of this occasion.— The trees have put on then- greenest robes, and the deep blue sky over our heads looks down benignly upon us.

As the distinguished gentleman who preceded me, (Judge Morton) who has made one of the clearest and most logical arguments I have ever heard, told you, wc stand upon the Constitution. We recognize its binding obligations upon us.. We stand bv the Union. "Ss respond to the .sentiment of Jackson: "The Union—it must be preserved." Slavery or'no Slavery, this Union lives in our hearts, and we will-maintain and defend it, if noed be with our blood. We respond to the sentiment of the great Statesman of Massachusetts and of the country, "Liberty and Union, now and forcve?, one ami inseparable."— We love the Union. American slavery, our relations and obligations to it, make up this day the grand and ovorwhcl tuning issues which are to be decided by the country. The transcendent importance of these issues now excite the attention of the East, North, and South. Learned men-who have laid all their treasures of knowledge under contribution, and great Statesman unon whose lips listening Senatesjmve hung in delight, are IJOW illustrating, with all the stores of genius, learning .ami eloquence, the vast consequences involved in a problem we arc now to ,v. ork

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Shivery was forced upon this country lv the selfishness and avarice of England.

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said, were favorers of emancipation then, because there was no contract for the labor of the bondsmen, and liberty was their principle. The first Congress that assembled in this country gave utterance to the sentiment of liberty. They declared that they would not import, or ^encourage the importation of slaves. Lmcouragod L\ this feeling in favor of freedom, the people of the Northern States began to abolish clayer- and in a few years seven of the thirteen United States had rid themselves of it. In Virginia even, emancipation was attempted. Jeilerson, VV as.nngton and others advocated it, but "Yiigima clnng to her idols, and the great work stopped with Virginia. This movement had ko sanction of the greatest names our

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'had just come out baptised in the blood of the Revolution, believed that slavery v. onki soon disappear under tho influence of the institutions tie had icr.nded. IVy stamped upon the only' territory the Repuohc then possessed, the principle of I'reedom and Free Institutions for all classes or men --{Applause.) Such were the sentiments 01 Ht'liose who inaugurated the great movement that separated this country from England.

But we of this have departed, and widely departed, from the policy of our fathers IIuw does it happen that we of the North with an uncounted-majority upon our side, l'ive so del arted from the wise and beneiicicnt counsels of the great, men who founded our institutions? I will tell you. It

lias been accomplished for personal and political ends, and nothing else. The Compromise of lt-20 was forced by the oouth upon the reluctant and unwilling North.—

history. petration of the wrong? But I tell yon and others, in the Nonh, the a*nm0ton., mid others, of the South, who

he extension of slavery enacted by it was resisted by the House, the immediate representatives of the people, but tho Senate as it has always been to the interests of slavery, as true as the House of Lords of Emdand to tho interests of the privileged

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chillim Men tint "wo-should transmit to posterity an abhorrence of slavery," and of Franklin, that "wc should march up to the very verge of the Constitution to destroy the traffic in human flc*h," in the days when tho'foundations of our Institutions were laid but the sentiment is changed now. I lie whole power of the government is wielded for its benefit. Why, the present Adnnnistralion never sends an appointment to the Senate for canfirmation, that thenuestion is not '"ivsked, "3s lie sound upon the slavery qucstioii*^'"'

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We do not desire to intefcre with the xTghts of the South. We will give them their rights, but at the same timegive thorn 'to-understand we will have our rights

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in the Senate last spring, a nomination was sent in for some office, and the n-omi--nee was dclcated-because his FA Tin-, it had otcd for Van Bnrcn in 1848. (Laughter.) But anew era has lately dawned. The day -wiil soon bo here, -when there will "be found "I in the Sfenale a dozen or fifteen stern and true men, who will raise the question upon such nominations, "Is ho sound upon FREE-

costs, personal or political. (Great applause.) I saw a letter in the New York Tribune t\iz oth.or d.cy, in which it was stated that the Southern members had resoivud to coma up to tho irexuf-CSoion ot Gon'*KU,and the Senate of the country, nr.w

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Mr. Mason of Virginia, who was exceedingly agitated at the prospect of the action of the House of Representatives.—he was troubled before his timo—(Laughter) had said during the last few days of the last session, that if the House repudiated the principles of the Nebraska bill, he would turn his back upon the Senate and walk out. Well, if he should walk out, it would hurt nobody badly. This great orb would still continue in revolutions, and tho affairs of the country would no doubt go on just as if nothing had happened.— (Laughter.) But Virginia has three hundred hostages in tho hands of the Union, in the persons of sons of the first families, who hold office in Washington. And-did anybody ever know of a Virginian leaving the public crib as long as he could stay at it?— (Laughter, Voice in the crowd—"Never, while there is any fodder in the rack.") ../There is 110 sectional feeling here. (Cries, No No Wc arc bound, national, and comprehensive in our ideas and interests.— We feel it to be our duty, as a great Democrat in his day, Lcggett, said, "to perform, to master and slave, the duties of common humanity." We arc not sectional. We stand upon the great platform that "all men are born free and equal." (Voice, "Pettit says that's a lie.") Yes, though a Senator from your own State declared it a "self-evident lie," we believe in that declaration. We support the Constitution.— We believe it was meant to extend freedom. Applause.). We want a platform within and upon that Constitution, and wc will stand upon it, let come what will.— (Applause.) Our principles are national, our aims are national. The Black Power, and not national doctrines, governs fifteen Stale*. That Black Power has captured the Democratic party, and taken Pierce and his Administration. That Administration is to-day the humble instrument, the tool, of the slave power, and nothing else.— (Cries of true true and applause.) 1^

The Kansas Nebraska act of which the gentleman who preceded me has already spoken most ably, was introduced into Congress eighteen months ago, by a rising young man of your neighboring State.— (Great laughter.) He was born in New England, and, I am sorry to say,, so was Benedict'Arnold. (Applause.) We have a great many men born in New England who come out to your country, whose births have done us 110 credit, and whose abandonment of their early principles have done you no credit. The speaker dwelt for a few minutes on the bad faith of that measure, and said, that in the National, Know Nothing Council, of which you may have heard, it was generally conceded that a great wroDg had been done us, but nobody had the courage to try and right it.— One distinguished Southern man had told him, that If New York and New England had stood up side to side, in that convention, and presented an unbroken front, our rights would have^hcen.conceded us. And if the North liad4tood up against the Nebraska measure, together as one man, tnerc were enough fair-minded men in Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Tennessee, to have secured our rights and prevented tho per

shall never have a divided South till we have a united North. (Applause.)— The Dough-faces are enemies not only of the North, but of the generous, liberal men of the South. Our mission is to exterminate the whole race. (Great applause.)— They have been false to freedom and not tree to slavery. They have betrayed the North and deceived the South. And the true men of the South will thank us, when wo throttle the rest of them expel them from public life, and send them to the ictiracy of their families. When we perform this work,—and wo arc now about it,— (applause) we can meet our Southern brethren, look them in the eye, take them by the hand, and say, "you shall haveyom rights, but no more, and wc will have our rights."

He then noticed the increase^ of antislavery sentiment in the country in twenty years. So long ago, he said, there was not a man who dared .assert what wc now declare to-day, that slavery is sectional, and Freedom national, and the Federab Government should have no responsibility for it. In New Hampshire in 1835, the Legislature declared by an overwhelming majority that the abolition of slavery in the istrict of Columbia would be a violation

of national fa,tl, Isaac HiU s.mUhat not

held to tlic doctrino of 1'atrisk Ilenry one man in five hundred lwd any synnjatny

with anti-slavery men. Mr. Pierce said that none but silly women had any sym-

pathy with the anti-slavery movement He has probably seen some cause since, to change his opinion. (Laughter.) In that State all parties had acted in beautiful and harmonious concert, and by a vust majority had put three true friends of freedom in Congress. Indiana may lay her hand upon the heart of New Hampshire, and she will find that heart beat responsive to her own. The speaker then alluded to the success of tho Republicans in Ohio and Indiana, and

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taincd by union. 1 I want to sec a tvnion of all the people on this question. There is 110 PARTY now existing that can carry ariy eloetioii against the Administration.' The Whigs- can't do it." "The: Whig party lives,"-as Webster said, "only in history." They could not do it, even if thoy made,. Pierce thencandidate. (Laughter.) ^But pierce will hot he the-candidate in 1856. The Domocratie party 1ia-vc tried him once and won take him up^again.'.. They made a "small ex pet in icn t' '-witU^h im (Laughter.) There was once a man in. New 1 ork who got one v.ots for Governor, in one of the elections. Some time after the occurrence lie met a negro, and accosted h:in

please. Applause.) We will meet them time ago "Oh says the darkey, 'you armed with Juslicc and Truth, and say to them* "You may coryo armed as you may, wo will meet the contest, let it come where and how it may. (Great applause.) .Tho South talks of Disunion. It is idle talk. (Voice in the crowd, "No they won't, they don't believe their own talk.") No,- said the speaker, tliey don't believe it themselves. They disolvo the Union! They constitute but one-third of the population, and onefifth of tho power of the country, and they have that element of destruction among them of which Jeiierson said, "No man could lay his head upon his pillow in safety in the midst of it." The South don't mean to disolvo tho Union. They knowthat it is their social, political, and, I had almost said their eternal salvation, to remain in the Union. (Applause and Laughter.)

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are the,man that tried a small \speriment." (Great laughter). Tho Democrats had tried "a small 'speriment" with General Pierce..

The question is, how are we to defeat the administration? The American party alone can't do it. The anti-slavery, party alone is too weak. They are few in numbers, though their policy I believe, will yet he impressed upon this country. Bu.t the time is not yet. How shall we keep the administration defeated It has been defeated. It went down last year under tho deluge of wrath of a betrayed people, and it now floats a shattered hulk upon the waters.— How can it be kept so The present success of its opponents has been attained by a union of all parties, and it can be again secured in the same way. Indiana can be carried by acting in concert aud harmony, and only that way. (Cries "That's the way we'll do it.") I bid you God speed, and charge you that you do it. ("Wo will.") I hope to see the day when we shall have a New England, and in all tho country, a common Union upon a common platform, of all the friends of Freedom.— And when the day shall come, as come it will, when the breed of dough-faces has been exterminated, when we present a united front to the South, upon a national and liberal basis, we^hall have noble and liberal men in the South, who will meet us fairly, and respect our rights, and give' a new impulse, to emancipation in tho South. Wc must not quarrel about nice shades of words. Wo want to defeat tho black power with a name and a man, and once dc^ fcated, the battle will be ended forever.— Establish the fact that the power is not invincible, and the Republic passes out of the hands of an oligarchy, and is safe.

I go further in this slavery matter than you may do. I say it frankly. Nineteen years ago I stood by William's slave-pen in Washington, and I saw children and women doomed to slavery collected there to be separated forever. I took my resolution then never to vote for or aid slavery whilo I had life, and I never will. (Applause.) I have never said or written a word in favor of slavery. The great principles laid down in the platforms of the Free Soil convention contain my views, but the country is not ripe enough for the constitutional interpretations there declared. Our duty is now to meet upon a common and moderate platform. If I were an anti-slavery man, I should feel that I deserved a curse to ths last day of my life, if I did not give my voice and aid to such a platform. If there was ever a time when anti-slavery men should lay aside their extreme and distinctive views, to limit the spread of slavery, it is now.

Gen. WILSON then alluded to the subject of Americanism. lie said he believed tho men who organized this movement, did it for wise and benitieent purposes. The sentiment of Americanism, rightly interpreted, is in accordance with the genius of our Free Institutions. I would say that I loathe the sentiment which makes distinctions on account of birth-place. The American sentiment does not that. It wants men from England, Scotland, Germany, to become imbued with the spirit of onr Government before they undertake to rule it. This is a good idea, a Christian idea. We do not oppose foreigners. We tako them by the hand, but say, "let them understand our Institutions, become familiar with our laws, before they exercise the rights of citizens." It is not our wish to degrade them. Another idea is, that wc want to preserve our Free Schools. We want no power enthroned in the scvcn-hillcd city or elsewhere, neither abroad nor at home, to interfere with our schools. We oppose no religion, but we arc opposed to a politico-religious sentiment and action.

Bui, sftki-Mr, -"Wilson, I have sjsbkcn longer than I intended, and will not detain you. It has given me great pleasure to visit your beautiful city. I love to see your rich country, to sec you cultivating your free acre?, and enjoying your own. I shall go home loving your country, and hope that the feeling of unity and brotherhood between you and us, will grow stronger and stronger. Let us work to hasten on the day, when, in the words of a distin-

guished son of Ohio, "we shall have a government without an oligarch}', an empire without a slave."

On the conclusion of his remarks, Mr. Wilson was greeted with loud cheers and hearty applause. As he retired Irom the stand, ho told Mr. Ellsworth that ho had never seen so fine a meeting in his life. He was earnestly solicited to remain, but could not. He regretted the necessity of leaving greatly, and said that nothing could give him more pleasure than to remain.

The meeting, it was then announced, would adjourn for an hour for dinner, and would reassemble on the firing of the cannon, when a speech would be delivered by Hon. G. G. Dunn, of Lawrence.

Mr. Meredith, of Wayne, moved that a committee be appoiutcd to nominate a State Central Committee, but the motion was amended so that tho Committee on Resolutions should make that nomination.

said that these glorious Jesuits had been ob- a common uovotloii our itcpuoiic, ana a common reverence for u£ ftranaors, have assembled ourselves together in commemoration of the passage of the Ordinance of

AFTERNOON SESSION.

The Committee again assembled, when Mr. WILLIAM McK. DUNN, 011 behalf of tho Committee on Resolutions, made the. following report:

The Committee to whom was rcferreu the duty of preparing resolutions for the consideration of the Convention, respectfully report tho following

Resolved, That we cordially re-affirm all the principles ret forth in the preamble and resolutions adopted by the Republican o'r People's Convention, held in this city one year ago, this day, and, as appropriate^ to this occasion, wo re-adopt the lollowing part thereof:

Whereas, Wc the freemen of Indiana, without respect to party, and actuated by

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July 13th, 17S7, consecrating the N. W. Territory to freedom and whereas, the Representatives of all the States in the Union. at that date, clearly evinces that opposition to the extension of Slavery to the extent of Constitutional power, was the fixed policy of our fathers, and, whereas, 'we regard the recent recent repeal of the 8tli section of tho "Missouri Compromise," as a gross and wanton violation of the faith of the Union, plighted to a solemn compact restricting the extension of slavery, —Therefore,,—• "Resolved, That we are uncompromisingly opposed to the extension..ot-Slavery ad further, that.we utterly repudiate

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styled Democratic Convention on the 24Vh day of May 1S55, endorsing and approving the Kansaj-Nebraska iniquitj'.^"Resolved, That wo wilf waive all former party predilections* and, in concert, by all lawful means seek to place evciy branch or the Fedefal Government in the hands of men who will assert the'rights .of freedom, restore the Missouri Compromise, and refuse under all circumstances to tolerate the extension of Slavery."

Resolved further, That our Revolutionary ancestors regarded freedom as national, and Slavery as sectional. That wo will steadfastly adhere to their policy and firmly resist every attempt to reverse it.

Resolved, That an admininistration that lacks tho courage, ability, and disposition to protect tho citizens of one State, or Territory, in tho free exercise of the elective franchiso, against tho assaults of armed mobs from other States,, or Territories, is undeserving the confidence of a free people and ought not to be- continued in power, longer than a constitutional opportunity is afforded to exchange it. for one that will betmtrammeled by the slave power, and that will havo moral courage and independence enough to raise itself above all party prejuudice one that will not in its zeal to support 'compromise measures,' lose sight of Freedom, Justice and the Constitution, but will administer the Government fearlessly, wisely, and for the good of the whole people.

Resolved. That intemperance is a great and intolerable evil, and imperiously demands tho earnest efforts of all good men for its total suppression, and to this end we solmcnly pledge ourselves to each other, and to all the people of the State, never to abate such efforts until our succcss shall be complete. That the results of the short trial made of the present prohibitory liquor law of this State have been even more beneficial than was anticipated by its friends, therefore ask for tho law a full and fair trial and pledgo ourselves if experience shall demonstrate that tho law is unnecessarily rigorous in any.respects or defective to any provisions nescssary to secure its benevolent objects, we will cheerfully assist in procuring all needful and proper amendments thereto.

Resolved, That both experience and the unmistakable manifestations of a just public sentiment demand a change of tho Constitution and laws of this State so as to limit the elective franchiso to such persons as are actual citizens of the United States, either by birth or by 0 full and final conformity with the laws on the subject of naturalization.

These resolutions were adopted unanimously, and received with continued cheers. HEURY S. LANE, having been called to the stand, said:

The manner in which tho resolutions have just been greeted, has forever given to the winds the charge so often made, that this day's deliberations would break up the People's organization. For twenty yrears he had attended Conventions here, but never before had he witnessed such earnestness and determination. We arc hero, differing iu many things—in cducationv in modes ol life, having different places of birth—some from the Rocky Mountains, others from the sound of the waves upon Plymouth Rock, some from the Alleghenics, and others from the generous South and the beneficial prairies of the Weat—all holding dear the recollections of ouif .birtTi-placc associations, but all a unit in our love for our Union. Wliat was our position cno year ago?— We then had arrayed against us the Administration with its office holders we were derided, but honest hearts and the God of Truth were with us. Wc appealed to the moral sense of the people, and fought the battle upon the highest moral principles. The historic associations of the loth of July, 1787, were yyithfcns thcn^ now, also, we can celebrate on account of its victories, this day one year ago..

The resolutions-denounce tlic Nebraska Bill. Let not our political opponents change the issues. They made them last year hostility to Temperance'reform and support to the extension of Slavery They charge us with being Abolitionists, but it was no matter for names. Every aspersion they may cast upon us wc can throw from us, as the lion shakes tlic dew-drops from his mane.

We cannot patch up a compromise on the subject of slavery. The South has always been united, whilst the North has been divided, and wo can learn a lesson from them. When the subject of slavery has been agitated, we have been told to touch lightly, lest tho Union should bo dissolved, and from our love to that Union we have yielded. But lately, at Philadelphia, an opposition has been made that has rejoiced him.

Up to 1820 the policy of our government had been to restrict slavery. Whatever its rights were under the Constitution, he would observe them, but outside of it, ho would destroy it as a beast broke loose from its cage. In the States we have nothing to do with slavery, but in the territories wc have.

The compromise of 1820 gave the slave power part of the Territories, and we submitted—in 1850 wo were driven to the verge of forbearance, but we submitted to the great man, now no more, who aided in tho passage of tho acts of that year. But now by the miserable catspaw of the South living in the North wo are forcod to resistance. The unholy ambition of Stephen A. Douglass has driven us to resistance, and until the Missouri line is restored we will not desist. Henceforth wo will resist the extension of slavery into tho Territories. That is an issue broad enough for our Old Line friends to understand and if Temperance is made another issue upon it wo will meet them with a war to the knife and the knife to the hilt.

Since coming hero lio had learned the fears entertained nf tha d.^'i'jioii tliat might be made by tho Supreme Court. But if that decision is against the law, it cannot arrest tho action of the people. A breath has made the Judges, and a breath can unmake them, Let the law be mado null, and old linerism will hear a howl it has not heard for twenty years.

Another i^suc the resolutions present, is tho repeal of that clause of the State Constitution, allowing foreigners to vote before they are naturalized citizens. It declares that the law of Congress must be adhered to. In this country, public opinion is omnipotent, and it spoaks through the ballotbox. The ballot-box must 'therefore be carefully guarded, for where there is freedom*, it is the basis of all government.

You havo heard for the last twelve months that the Fusion party was -dead. Do you see any evidence of this here—iu

the numbers gathered together, at this, too, the busiest season of tho yeai, in the very midst of harvest And over this great number the American flag waves—a flag, that on account of high party spirit, it is becoming unfashionable to carry, but which is tho hope of the Republicanism of the world—why should we not raise it?

The coming contest may bo a bitter one but with our old line opponents wo will not strive with indecorous-and bitter epithel3 as if it were a mere scramble for offiee, for tho hour is too solemn to conduct it iii any other manner than with the courtesy befiitting the character of the issues.

Ho loved the Union—his birth-place was in Kentucky—how could ho he separated from it Nor could his friends from Massachusetts be separated from Lexington and Bunker Hill No Tho Union cannot be broken up or be shaken. These associations alone will forever bind them together.

One of the resolutions adopted condemns tho administration. Since its advent into p.Qwer, it has been condemned by overwhelming majorities.- In tho coming contest cur political opponents hope for success in a united support of the Slave States, and in a diuisi'on of the Free.

They are encouraged by the position assumed by New York in tho recent convention at Philadelphia. But their hopes wtll be disappointed. As for himself, he never took a step backwards/nor will the people of Indiana. They were told that the bombshell of discord would this day fall among us* But how is it [Voices every where —united—united—united.] Wo belong to tho Army of Freemen and cannot quarrel about the color of buttons or the cut of the garments we wear. Our opponents had sought to sow dissension among us, as tho Devil had in Eden, but in the sacred book wc read the promise that tho seed of tho woman shall bruise the serpent's head. As one, he would do his part in that work.— But he must now stop, and all that he had said was but the prelude to the rich strains that would be heard by and by.

The Committee, for that purpose, here reported the following STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.

James Blake, Marion Co. J. S. Harvey, R. Vaile, L. Barbour, Wm. Wallace, Conrad Baker, Vanderburgh Co. Milton Gregg, Floyd Co. David 0. Branham, Jefferson Co. James P. Millikin, Dearborn Co. S.Meredith, Wayne Co. S. T. Ensy, Parke Co. O. L. Clark, Tippecano Co. D. M. Dunn, G'f-.ss Co. John W. Dawson Allen Co. Nathaniel Lindsey, Howard Co. The report was concurred in. Cries of "Colfax Colfax were everywhere heard, and to this call that gentleman responded. rUESENTATIOX OF THE FLAG.

The comity of Shelby, having about 1,40u c.eiegates, proved to be tho most numerously ^presented, and to that county the banner was, therefore, awarded.

Mr. Kilgorc moved tlmt the Ohio Convention of tho People's Party, now in session, be notified of onr proceedings, by sendindg the following telegraphic communication Indiana greets the Republicans of Ohio ten thousand freemen havo sot tlic seal of eternal condemnation on Dough Faces and Old Lincism platform adopted unanimously.

The resolution was adopted, and with three cheers for the Platform, the Convention adjourned sine die.

EVENING MEETING.

Not wearied by the speaking through tho (lax. tlic Republicans _u3iuainiug in the city to the number of two or three thousand, assembled last irght, in front of the Bates House, and were addressed by Messrs. James H. Cravens, P. Hackleman, and S. S. Harding. The meeting was characterised by the samo enthusiasm as during the day.

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T. W. FRY,

THURSDAY,

Editor*

JULY 10, 1855.

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RATIFICATION MEETING.

Bear in mind the Ratification Meeting on tho 3

Let us havo a glorious turn out. Onr cause is 'ust, let it bo manfully sustained. Tho lion. LEWIS D. CAIIPBELL, JUDGE MOHTON, DAN MACE, will bo in attenuance, besides our own orators, II. S. LANE and

JAMES WILSON. .. We may expect brilliant and cfteclivo specchos. Come out friends, and enter earnestly upon the contest.

Newcastle and Danville Railroad. The contract for this road from its intersection with tho Bellfontainc road to the Wabash river, ninety-four miles, has been awarded to Drake and Associates, at a price varying but littlo from the estimate of cost in the exhibit published Last winter. The contract embraces tlic entire construc-

^STThe Supreme Court has aujourncd without deciding upon the Liquor Law.—

The decision will not now be given until 1

Ih is, the kw will be sustained.

STATE CONVENTION

We have given up almost our entire paper this week to the-proceedings of the State Convention held at Indianapolis, on the 13th inst. The proceedings will he read with tliiilling interest by all who stand upon the national platform and whose hearts throb with tho nohlo impulses of national freedom. Our readers will rejoice to know that the North has at length taken a stand in favor of freemen's rights from which no power can drive them. Under the banner now given to tho breczo we marched to victory in tho election of '54 and will triumph under the samo glorious flag in '5G. The platform of the American party must commend itself to tho great majority of northern freemen and secure the support of the conservative, right thinking, soberminded patriots of the South.

The political conflict on which we are now entering will be one of 110 ordinary import. Tho struggle between slavery and freedom is then to be finally settled. For years past it has been a bone of contention, threatening the dissolution of the Union with all the horrors of a civil war and if suffered to extend and take root upon soil now free, the difficulties will continue to enlarge, the danger to the Union will become more and more threatening discussions between tho North and the South will become more and more angry, and at length the strongest pillars of our constitution will decay and crumble, and this great fabric of empire sink on their ruins. Then let us come up to the question with true hearts and strong nerves jet us stand firm and unmoved on the platform of national freedom let us settle tho qucslioji once and forever.

jgSTOiir town has been crowded during the present week with a large number of strangers drawn here by tho commencements of the Female Seminary and Wabash College. The exercises connected with both Institutions were of a deeply interesting charactcr and gave abundant proof that the minds of tho students had been stocked with knowledge and thoroughly.disciplined.

The graduates of the Female Seminary were four in number and of the College eight. Rev. Mr. Maxwell of Indianapolis, addressed the Young Ladies in a very excellent and appropriate manner. The Societies of College were addressed by the Rev. Thornton A. Mills, of Indianapolis, with his usual ability and power. Dr. Learning delivered a lecture to tho Academy of Science, on the eye, presenting a new and deeply interesting theory on vision, explaining how il is that with double organs we have single vision. Prof. Campbell presented an interesting paper on the Zodiacal lights. The Inaugural of" Prof. Butler was one of the most interesting addresses which we have had the pleasure of hearing.

Pres. While's closing Sermon to the Students on Sabbath morning and his Baccalaureate, on the Legal Profession, were compositions of that high order which has hitherto characterised his productions.

We have not space for a more extended notice.

j£5Tlt seems that tho Old Liners have snet out two kinds of hand-bills for their Convention one calling upon the "NATIONAL MEN" of Montgomery county, the other calling upon the "NATIONAL DEMOCRACY" ofMontgornery county, designed it is supposed for difiercnt parts of the county. On one of them the word Democracy is not to bo found, thus repudiating the name to which they have so long clung but to which they have no just claim

The hand-bill would be more appropiiate if headed "Grand Rally of Sectional Men," and stamped with the motto "Whiskey and Slavery."

j?sr01d Stocking, tlic man recently sentenced to be hung at Lafayette for the murder of Rose, has for years past been a retailer of liquors in that city. lie was the leader of that band of robbers and murderers, some of whom arc to be hung and others sent to the Penitentiary for life.— They attribute their ruin to the influence of .liquor. They loitered around the dramshops, quaffed the intoxicating bowl, reeled beneath its influence, enraged by its poison then listened to the murderous whisperings of him who presented the cup, embraced with him plots of assassination for illegal gains, imbrued their hands in their fellow's blood, were detected and condemned When such results flow from the dramshop, who can sustain them? Can such an institution be sustained by patriotism, philanthropy or Christianity? Let those respond who stand as pillars in support of the liquor traffic.

j5TTho State Sentinel's account of.the People's Convention is pOlTectly desiilui We are only surprised that a paper ocupying such a position could descend to such base and unjustifiable perversion.

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tion, ballasting included, the Company furnishing the iron for the track. The-work is to be commenced at Covington, between tho 1st and 15th of Septombor, and will bo steadily prosecutod to its completion. Nothing will bo done on the Divisions cast of Crawfordsville, until the cash subscription on those divisions is considerably increased, for which vigorous efforts will bo immediately made, along tho whole length of the lino. jj-'Wo understand a young man by. the name

^g^ The "soe nix" Count and Cannon Committee were so confounded by the immense Convention at Indianapolis 011 the 13th, that they almost forgot their mission.

The Governor intends that tho various companies shall

iLdraw

non..

Qn 1Gth inst Ho was the son 0fJames

ingham 0f

fall session. The general impression of things, it,is thought he had grae into the wat-

^cr for the purpose of

•RUIT CANS.—Xbose of our readers irhbl may comU»^.fall $|jsh toZ fireSetre fruits and I*°gH

}°nc1' *e ™«ld advise to call

ALL*v

Ho bas

Pained the right of this

ca* for the mnu&ctute an^ie of "Ludlow^ & Cos I^provea Au-t.ght Sel^g

Can/

which we thinJft $om aa. far eU ceed any tiling of the kind in use. They will bo kept at wholesale 01 retail and at the lowest possible price. Call at his Tin & Stove Store ih Commercial Block, and examine them—and while you are there, you will lose nothing by examining tho large lot of Cooking Stoves, Tin-ware, &c., and inquiring prices.

O'See the advertisement of Amos & Graham Their Ice Cream Saloon, over Wo". 3 Commercial Row, is handsoml-y arranged for the entertainment of the Ladies and Gents of the city. Call around' they will at all times be ^eased to sec and wait upon you.

Sec the card of Dr. James L. Lew

is, Oculist and Aurist, in to-day's paper.

To the Owners of Reaping Machines. .The Agricultural Committee have appointed Tuesday, the 24th of July the day on which to try the various Reaping Machines now in the county. The trial will be in an oats field near town. Those whof wish to compete will please be in town as early as possible on Tuesday next.

T. W. FRY, Pres.

S. W. AUSTIN, Sec'ry.

Arrival of the Steamer Pacific. Allies Active. Large Reinfoccemcnls—•* The Czar of Russia Reported Sick-audi the King of Prussia £11—Austria disarming, dec., d'c.

REPORTS. ":~K

The Pacific reached New York July 11th at 9 A. M. with Sevastopol dates to Jurnr 30th. Rumors abounded. One was of= further defeat of Allies, but these soon subsided, and-the public mind was calm.

ALLIED REVERSES.

The reverse of the Allies is not so bad in one sense as was reported, yet in regard to human butchery as bad as it well could be. They retained possession of the Mamel 011, captured 011 the 8tli of June, and of the Russian fort, in tho Cemctry, stormed 011 the 18th, Pellicser's dispatches are to 29th. lie reports that tho Allies were pushing their approaches against tho Molakofi^ and hastening the construction of an advance battery, which completed the investment of the fort.-

THE WOUXDED AID THE DEAD. The official list of the battle 011 the 18th atatos the numbers of the English killed, wounded and missing at 1,437, including 88 officers tho number of French 3,837 including 133 officers, among whom were Gen. Wcyman and Brant both severely wounded. Full particulars not yet received. It is asserted in Paris that the failure was owing partly to errors of the British commanding officers. The English 011 the contrary threw part of the blame on the French.

WAR PREPARATIONS.

France and Turkey are borrowing more money. The former will ask for five him-' died million francs the latter has obtained two millions of dollars. Napoleon has ordered one embarkation of 50,000 moro troops at Marseilles in the Crimea, and Russia is concentrating new forccs on tho Tiffiis. Indeed, a large increase of the army of Franco is determined upon. 'AUSTRIA.

Emperor Joseph continues to reducc his army. This is all very favorable to Russia. England and France consider themselves as free from all obligations to her.

Prussia is decidedly Russian. Hie king continues ill, and, it is thought is approaching his end.

RUSSIA.

-Ko-Wtaspajili reports of the reverses from. Gorsekakoft. lie simply says, that the fire of the enemy had weakened, and states that the expedition across tho Tehcrnia had returned. The Czar Alexander was seriously ill.

ASIA.

The Allies had given orders to complete the destruction of the fortification of Anapa. Two hundred pieces of cannon and two years provisions were found in tho. forts'. The Circassians had plundered the town. The Russian forccs am oonuentrT-T tod in the Tiffiis'for the opening campaign. The fortifications of Erozcrokon completed. Operations in the Sea of Azoff continue. The fleet had been sent to completo tho destruction of Ambat. There had becii an able rcconnoissanco at Taffa, and an expedition against Perckop was again, spoken of. ""T

A dispatch from the Baltic, dated 25th, states that Sweaborg has bocn bombarded and all the stores destroyed.

THB BAH AND EYE. Die. JAMES II. IiEWIS, O IS A N A I S WJOtXLD announce to the citizens of Craw-,,

VV fordsvillc and surrounding country, that life i? now stopping in this place, and h$s taken Room* at the •'Craue^House," on Ivm street, and tenders bis professionaL-se^vfccs to the citzens and public genurallyrfii full confidence of rendering satisfaction. l)r. Lewis' experience and universal silcccss as an Optician and Aural Surceon, has gained for him in other cities that public confidence and approbation which it will bo his con3tr«nt endeavor to merit in this. All he asks is a fair and impartial trial of his new aud painless reme -v dies. Dr. Lewis boldly asserts that there has been more blindness and deafness caused, by unskiljfill and improper treatment tlym b/ disease itself.^

IT. 13. All persons laboring under disease ot the Eye or Ear, would -do well t,o call soon, as ho wilt not remain long in the city.

July 19, 1855-47-tf

ICS CREAM

AMOS & GRAHAM,

HAVING

ally.

straws" for tho can

W'lsliin^on Cunningham, aired about ]G jours.

Cun-

putnam county. From appearance

fitted up Rooms for_ tho above busi

ness over ITo. 3 Commercial Block, would respectfully solicit a call from the citizens gener

Vvrc have a largo and commodious apartment neatly furnished expressly tor the mndation of the Ladies, and shall at alUi^ in&the sunupcr weather endeavor to supply of Ice Cream, gotten up in super101

calculated to suit the tasts of a'*'Crawfordsville, July 19

(,c

style

aild

N'OTieBOFMSTIttBIJTION. STATE OF INW^A, MONTGOMERY Co. TO TIC is hew-by given that at Hie July Iprm \j

the court of Gommon Pleas of Montgom.TT... county after 'final settlement of the estate of Ilenry Bowers, deceased about the sum 0 three hundred and thirty dollars wcic founfi rc, niaining for distribution among the heirs.

d^'of'thfnefrteml1^sdd court, and prove

July 12,1855—*] Montgociei-y county.